Favorite Mech designs

[blind_dead_mcjones]

Tough question...
I like a lot of the battletech designs, but it's hard to pin down exactly what is my favorite...
Hmmm.

I've always liked the good ol' Warhammer and Marauder designs from Battletech.
[sub]No, Harmony Gold, I don't care what you call them, they'll always be Battlemechs to me.[/sub]

You are the person I agree with most on the internet so far. Congrats.
You know the new Mechwarrior is already in a legal hellhole because they violated that thing again?
Harmony Gold is evil with their licensing, they haven't used the frikkin designs for DECADES, and they still complain whenever anyone lets them see the light of day!
It just frustrates me that they get such a hissy fit over a rarely-shown design whenever someone decides to give it a proper role!
Anyways, I think these are my favorites, along with the Rifleman.
Pics:

Spoiler: Warhammer and Marauder, side by side

Spoiler: and the Rifleman (IIC clan refit)

wait what? you blame harmony gold for exercising their legal right to defend their copyrighted material yet overlook the fact that if the people behind mechwarrior had not illegally used designs that never belonged to them to begin with then they wouldn't be in this position now?

you do realise that the reason harmony gold haven't used the designs is because they haven't been able to thanks in part to said legal battle that started 20 years ago and hasn't been resolved yet

and you know maybe they have a right to be angry about people using their copyrighted property without their permission considering that is what started the whole legal mess in the first place, i don't know about you i would be rather angry too if people took my stuff and used it without asking.

 

[Tonythion]

I give you, Anubis from ZOE2, Jehuty is cool and all but Anubis just takes the crown

Spoiler

ninja'd

AND AGAIN WITH JEHUTY damnnnnnn

I guess if those two are taken I will say....

Spoiler

LAZENGANN AHHHHH...if I was ninja'd again DAMN

 

[FalloutJack]

There's alot of kick-ass designs out there, I'm afraid. I find it hard to play any favorites.

 

[Asmundr]

Armored Core 4 and 4A's Global Armaments America GAN01-SUNSHINE model, with a few changes to suit my play style. Absolutely loved tuning it though ^^

Link to its page:

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Armored Core Wiki: GAN01-SUNSHINE [http://armoredcore.wikia.com/wiki/GAN01-SUNSHINE]

and image (from the same site anywyas :/)

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[http://armoredcore.wikia.com/index.php?title=GAN01-SUNSHINE&image=x243469_full-jpg]

It took a lot of work so I could down Shinkai...fast little bastard.

 

[Demonicdan]

The ED-209 from robocop.

You have 20 seconds to comply...
I love that film.

 

[kouriichi]

Hands down min has to be the Gouf Custom from 08th MS team.

Zeon has some of the most awesome mech designs.

Spoiler

The three main Units (Left to Right:02, 01, 00)

Gah, ninja'd again!
Its the best shade of blue ive ever seen, and the electrowhip on the arm makes him all the more amazing.

 

[Wicky_42]

I honestly don't get what people love about Anime Mecha designs - the majority of them all look the same, just like a person wearing armour covered in little pointy bits. I mean, most anime mecha battles could be comfortably substituted by dudes with jetpacks and guns, and all you'd have to do is scale the terrain they're bashing into - and most of the time even then they seem to be fighting in space, which makes their bi-pedal form COMPLETELY USELESS XD

I'm the first to admit that Battletech mechs can be clunky and un-attractive - Atlas, anyone? - but at least there's a serious degree of variation, and they look like serious hardware at the end of the day. And they aren't powered purely by magic, which kinda helps a bit.

Honestly, I think some of my favourite mechs are from Phantom Crash - each of the three companies' designs were distinctive and indicated a possible speciality of the mech but the modular design and extensive tweaking allowed for generous variation without shitting all over the aesthetic, like I felt AV4 ended up doing. Phantom Crash seemed to be riding the wave between the human-with-pointy-armour of your general anime and the gribblie-boxes-stuck-together of Armoured Core 4, just a shame it was a small, niche game, really.

Hawken looks to continue it's tradition, however - very excited for that game!

Spoiler: phantom crash pics

 

[Zykon TheLich]

My favourite has to be the

 

[shedra]

Escaflowne mechs.

Spoiler

Powerful, regal, destructive, looks like there is force behind them.

Beast Wars Megatron.

Spoiler

He's a robot dinosaur.

 

[Raso719]

I honestly don't get what people love about Anime Mecha designs - the majority of them all look the same, just like a person wearing armour covered in little pointy bits. I mean, most anime mecha battles could be comfortably substituted by dudes with jetpacks and guns, and all you'd have to do is scale the terrain they're bashing into - and most of the time even then they seem to be fighting in space, which makes their bi-pedal form COMPLETELY USELESS XD

I'm the first to admit that Battletech mechs can be clunky and un-attractive - Atlas, anyone? - but at least there's a serious degree of variation, and they look like serious hardware at the end of the day. And they aren't powered purely by magic, which kinda helps a bit.

Honestly, I think some of my favourite mechs are from Phantom Crash - each of the three companies' designs were distinctive and indicated a possible speciality of the mech but the modular design and extensive tweaking allowed for generous variation without shitting all over the aesthetic, like I felt AV4 ended up doing. Phantom Crash seemed to be riding the wave between the human-with-pointy-armour of your general anime and the gribblie-boxes-stuck-together of Armoured Core 4, just a shame it was a small, niche game, really.

Hawken looks to continue it's tradition, however - very excited for that game!

Spoiler: phantom crash pics

Right, because it's not like every other American mech design is a set of reverse jointed legs leading to a cock pit and missile racks or a an Exo-Squad or Alien's Load Lifter rip off.

America has their deign philosophies and Japan has theirs. We draw from and rip off our own source material and they draw from and rip off their own.

 

[Garrsus]

dont read this its a miss post.

 

[Garrsus]

ttgl has to be
i mean it stands on godamn galaxy's how can you beat it?

Spoiler: tengen toppa gurren lagann (translation= heaven piercing crimson face)

or maybe the spirit version of spiral energy thing at the bottom.

the mech controlls it from the head.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

It's called a Daishi, also known as a Timber Wolf. As far as I can remember, no mech can outshoot this monstrous fucker in the BattleTech universe.
Your God. He's nowhere to be found.

My other favorite is from Supreme Commander, called the Monkeylord Spiderbot. One shot, hundreds of confirmed kills.

 

[Saelune]

Despite being the generic peon of the series, I always liked the Zaku.
Also I like the bulky Chromehound mechs.

 

[aei_haruko]

lancelot, destroys everything, and with fleigha, everything as we know it is dead

 

[Nouw]

I prefer a mech that helped start the whole thing up.

They're called Starship Troopers and so far no one has gotten close to drawing an accurate picture of them. Just picture a steel gorilla but don't let that fool you, these bad-boys are absolute powerhouses. And if we want to go even earlier then the Tri-Pods from War of the Worlds take the cake.

 

[Galaxy Roll]

Spoiler: Hello Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann

If I had to say (and I am,) I'd say that Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann is my favorite mech of all time. It can teleport, transform into a battleship, shoot at things that aren't in the same time, wears giant drills for shoulders, and has two giant pairs of sunglasses. Oh, it was the moon for a while. There's that, too.

 

[Syntax Man]

Anyone who can see my avatar can see this one coming

Spoiler: GN008 Seravee

Also

Spoiler: ZGMF-X10A Freedom

as well as:

Spoiler: Type-0/0A Shinkiro

also

Spoiler: ZGMF-X23S Savior

 

[SketchyFK]

Im kinda aware that it doesn't count as a mech, but I gotta say Megas XLR. It broke my heart when they stopped doing the tv series. any1 who doesn't know what it is, Megas XLR is also the name of the show.

It is awesome in every sense of the word.

 

[Wicky_42]

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Right, because it's not like every other American mech design is a set of reverse jointed legs leading to a cock pit and missile racks or a an Exo-Squad or Alien's Load Lifter rip off.

America has their deign philosophies and Japan has theirs. We draw from and rip off our own source material and they draw from and rip off their own.[/quote]

Sounding a little defensive

I'm not advocating 'American' mech designs - bearing in mind, of course, that Battletech was Japanese - I'm (quite clearly) saying that I like mechs that look like hardware, not a guy in a suit. If there's some reason that the mech looks and moves like a man then fine, like in the case of Evangelion where they are basically cybernetic creatures (or something), cool, whatever. But in so much anime (and yes, in some Battletech designs) there's so much superfluous crap, like fully articulated hands to hold the single rifle that the mech is equipped with - any idea how much of a handicap that would be over a built-in weapon? How much additional maintenance each of those unnecessary articulated fingers would need? The risk of simply dropping the gun? Don't get me started on mech weapons with magazines - it's a friggin machine - integrate the damn ammo feed!

It's silly things like that that begin to irk me as a start, but things get more insane and worse. Code Gease started out fantastic - stompy mechs boosted by what amount to rollerskates, interesting tactics and strategies, consistent internal logic and technological limits. By the end of it, everything could fly indefinitely, a single mech could wipe out an entire army in one shot, and there was no logic as to what the next super-mega-ultra cannon would be mounted on or what would defend against it, or even what tech level it was meant to be at. Of course, Gundam starts off at that point and just runs with it - fuck any semblance of tactics or anything, just flash the pretty lights and turn battles into a teen's coming-of-age analogue.

So, perhaps my dislike for Gundam style design is that what you can see means fuck all. All that need to happen is for the teen pilot to whine at the camera and the chest will shoot a super lazor or something and vaporise thousands of enemies instantly. There's no substance, only style, and I reject that in something that's meant, fundamentally, to be a machine.

So yeah, that was fun to work out