Western mecha thread.

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>>13630401

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>>13630401

Counts?

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WATCH THE SKIES, COMING AT YOU!

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>>13630472
My man.

Robot Bil(l?) is cool.

>>13630479
It's Big Guy and Rusty the Robot, by the same guy who wrote Captain Underpants

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>>13630502
I already know that, you, I was posting Robot Bill from the Neverhood and talking about him.
I'm also pretty sure Dav Pilkey doesn't have anything to do with The Big Guy and Rusty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14xcsz43Kuw

>>13630507
>>13630502
Dav Pilkey did Ricky Ricotta while Frank Miller was the original creator of the Big Guy

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Wake is pretty great.

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>>13630528
All's well, then.

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>>13630532
Yup yup. Also, wow, I didn't know they updated the design. I guess a long hiatus will do that to you.

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JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO FLUSH

There's also the two goon robots from the first book, everything Melvin Sneedly made, Tinkletrousers' suit, Robo-George and Robo-Harold, etc.

>>13630525

I came

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A true hero.

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>>13630525

I appreciate the way that they've shown the suit getting more sophisticated over time, but god damn I miss that gantry.

Pic unrelated.

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>>13630564
Move over, wimp

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>>13630482
>>13630564
Is non-humanoid "walker" type mecha even a thing in Japan, outside of Metal Gear and Macross?

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>>13630579
Yes.

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Not Western but I fucking love Crab Gunners and all their variants.

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>>13630585
Oh wait, I just remembered that Maschinen Krieger is a thing.

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Not even justice, I want to get truth!

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I've never been able to decide if DUST's "just stick a WWII tank turret on some legs, and you've got a mech" approach to mecha design is cool or unimaginative.

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>>13630579

Orguss has them. Orguss and Nikick have modes that make them that style, and the Ishkick is always one. That's tangentially related to Macross, though, since it's another Super Dimension series.

It's possible to build them in Armored Core, but, again, that's the same mechanical designer as Macross.

There was a PS2 Strategy RPG called Ring of Red that had walking tank-style mechs. Phantom Crash on the X-Box and its sequel Steel Lancer Arena International, too. Chromehounds and Steel Batallion are Japanese, too, and they have walking-tank style mechs.

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>>13630598
Too bad the lore was complete garbage, and they decided on the worst possible way to make and sell the models.

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>>13630401
Is this obscure enough?

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>>13630598

What about its sister-series, AT-43?

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>Bring the pain!

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>Crush 'em!

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>>13630619
Much, much better quality in models (for starters, the pre-painted models are actually painted), and the lore wasn't just softcore porn.
Still dead, though.
Mech and faction designs are fairly generic (with the possible exception of the albino zen gorillas with the 1950's car theme), but usually solid.

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Who remembers Xyber 9?

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>>13630638
Always had a soft sport of power armor without any visible face or even head.

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>>13630656
*soft spot for
Goddammit.

>>13630656

Can he even draw that holstered pistol?

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>>13630667
Absolutely not.

>>13630667
Maybe if he opened his suit and used his real arm. At least it looks cool anyway.

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>>13630751

NUMBER

FIVE

IS

A L I V E

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Are the Phillipines western?

>>13630861
>dat mirrored CAUTION

QUALITY

>>13630870

In all of the times that I've posted this image, you're the first person to notice that before noticing Dingdong Dantes and Bong Revilla.

This is a real movie, I swear.

>>13630882
It was the second thing I noticed. The first thing was how goofy that thing to the left looks. Are those fleshy Mickey Mouse gloves or something?

>>13630887

I think those are just his hands. It's been a while since I've watched this movie, so I might just be forgetting stuff, but I don't think they ever explain where these giant alien guys come from or what they are. They're just there at the end so that the robots have something to punch. The rest of the movie is spent fighting remarkably human, conveniently budget-saving aliens.

It's the Phillipines, man. Budget is not a thing that they do.

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>>13630901
>Budget is not a thing that they do.
budgets are for the weak

>>13630901
Even if the budget had been gigantic and the CGI masterfully done, nothing can save a design that stupid.
The other mech is okay. Very generic, but okay. At least the cockpit has metal bars over it to protect the pilot, unlike most Hollywood mechs.

>>13630901
>It's the Phillipines, man. Budget is not a thing that they do.
Having seen the Killing of Satan, I'm inclined to believe this.

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>>13631013

>>13630861
At first I thought this was a shoop, but then I looked up "dingdong dantes" on a whim and he really does exist. What the fuck, Philippines? What the fuck?

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>>13630758 I wished they kept this design for the Cybran ACU in Supcom2.

>>13631055
I wish supcom2 was good

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Do you guys feel like we're missing something really obvious?

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>>13630589
>Super Electromagnetic Shrapnel Cannon... fire!

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>>13631148
Oops, forgot this was a Western thread.

Anyway, Star Wars had plenty of walkers, but did the EU ever have straight up mechs? It'd be tacky (well, this is Star Wars) but I'd love to see some kind of Jedi mech suit with an enhanced lightsaber beam sword weapon capable of shredding enemy vehicles and ships in one blow. Basically a Jedi Gundam blasting through space tearing shit up.

>>13630579
I now the villains in Ideon had walkers that weren't humanoid.

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>>13631139
Yup.

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>>13631160
>but did the EU ever have straight up mechs?

You mean besides the entire CIS droid army? Otherwise much of the EU is made up of humanoid mechs like the SD-9s and 10s, or the Dark trooper project. As for mech suits not so much.

What I am taking away from this thread is that in East vs West conflict the West would have a combined arms approach using power armor and bulky walker mecha, with a few Kaiju scale flagship super robots that look equally bulky and have enormous payloads of ordinance. East would be all Gundam scale super reals with their own flagship Kailua scale supers and a handful of advanced flying battleships to be their mobile base.

Canada would be Scopedog knock offs, only cheaper, even more out of date, achieve phenomenal battlefield success in spite of it, and rack up a terrifying kill count.

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>>13631265
>Canada would be Scopedog knock offs, only cheaper, even more out of date, achieve phenomenal battlefield success in spite of it, and rack up a terrifying kill count.

>>13630482
Canceled too soon.

>>13630870
You should see the film itself. It's cheap as hell.

>>13630525
is this from an old movie in the series? For one thing the CG is kind a iffy IMO, for another thing I find it weird that you need all of this shit to put your suit on you when in another movie, it's just slapped onto you in the time it takes you to fall out of a big-ass skyscraper.

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>>13630861
>Ramon "BONG" Revilla Jr.
>DingDong Dantes

Jesus Christ

>>13631694
It looks cool, that's the only reason needed.

>>13631694

How have you not seen the first Iron Man movie?

Technological advancement is a thing after all.

>>13630567
CAIN?

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>>13631836
I've never understand why people call RoboCain proto-bayformers. Aesthetically the builds are the only thing the two seem to really share.

>>13631694
That's because Tony's constantly improving the design of the suit. In IM3 they just fly up to him and open from the back so he can just step right into them.

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>>13631865
what i'm wondering is how they can up the ante after age of ultron. are they going to have him be half robot, like in the comics? whats next marvel.

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>>13631836
KANE LIVES

>>13631860
I think it's because it's hideous and weird and kinda annoying to look at, like a bayformer.

>>13631689

You see!? I didn't make it up! It's not a shop or a prank. (Actually it could be a prank, but if so I'm not in on it) This movie exists! Somebody else watched it!

Look at this highly artistic cinema:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKUvvKK-kkU

It even won awards in its home country...for some reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resiklo

>>13631694

Is this for serious? 2008 wasn't that long ago.

>>13631860

I can kind of see it. It's got some of that overdesigned, random-details-everywhere look that defines Bayformers. It doesn't really look like anything, it's just a pile of details that moves. Robocop 2 isn't as bad a Bayformers, but I can see the comparison.

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Obscure enough?

>>13632111
Not obscure at all. If haven't played Futurecop then you don't belong on /m/

>>13632111

Future Cop LAPD's Precinct Assault mode basically invented the MOBA years before DOTA came out, but nobody's ever heard of it.

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>>13630598
some of the designs were killer

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>not macross
>certainly not robotech no sireee...

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>clearly not Roiquonmi Glaug
>clearly not ripped off some anime...

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>Clearly not a Destroid
>nope

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>Clearly not from Macross
>Honest

>>13632063
Damn that looks just like those cheap 1980's Italian Horror/Post Apocalypse movies

African movies take the top place though, this one is kinda sorta vaguely /m/ related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFqYiKDwt0I

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Have some miniatures as well

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oft forgotten western mech

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I am contractually obligated to bring this up.

>>13632391
The fucking Devil May Cry one is golden.

>>13632956
Good taste.

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>>13632981
I do try.

>>13631254

Fuck me, Dark Empire was good.

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Weird artsy french film from the 50s that ends with a giant robot destroying everything.
Was a apparently a big influence on anime directors back then, Castle of Cagliostro has a lot of references to it.

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The Marauders from Roughnecks were pretty cool.

>>13630482
Now that takes me back.

>>13630667
I'm going to guess that the big weapons hanging on the forearms are able to tossed off when out of ammo or damaged. Then it can reach for the backup pistol.

>>13633076
Man, I fucking loved that show

>>13632391
Getting a lot of use out of that stool model.

>>13632990
Post the flying ones, I forget their names.

>>13632391
there's a series of movies about cyborgs of some sort iirc, 12:01 or something
I'll have to dig it up. It's on par with Who Killed Captain Alex

>>13632391
You know, I honestly admire these people. As super cheesy as these movies are, they're doing something creative using what few resources they have.

>>13632348
At least the rip-offs aren't as hideously ugly as every single Battletech/mechwarrior design where they try to make something up from scratch.

>>13631188
There's an adventure in the Wh40k RPG Dark Heresy that takes place in an old cathedral, which at the end turns out to have been the top part of a mostly buried Titan all along. Then mech battle ensues.

Does anyone remember a 3d show with battle mechs that had a blue one that had a fuckton of missiles on top of his head? I remember watching it in cartoon network when I was a kid, they fought in like arenas or some sort

>>13633150
That's pretty cool.

>>13633158
If they fought in arenas...I remember the Heavy Gear show was about mech fighting in arenas.

>>13633162
>I remember the Heavy Gear show

Dude, thank you so much, could never remember anything but vague memories, but that's exactly it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KQdl5k3y0E

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>>13633176
Glad to help brother.

>>13633176
Those are some pretty cool mechs. Looks more "Japanese" (with the heads and the katanas and stuff) than what's common for western mechs.

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>>13633180
Heavy Gear was very much inspired by VOTOMs, IIRC.

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Shame it was killed for Tribes.

What's the name of that old Canadian FPS that tried so hard to be anime that it even had slightly edited Evangelion posters in-game, and the robots you could pilot were very clearly just slightly altered Gundams and stuff?

I wish people would stop forcing heavy gear. Dead game, dead franchise. And thankfully so, since it was garbage in every way.

Can't find any pics of them on google, but the old 80's comic Scout was set in a dystopian future (aka the 1990's) where the USA had turned into a third world country, and both the Russians and Israel had giant mecha (of the humanoid kind). I don't think we ever saw them fight, though, they were just there to look cool and show how much more advanced those countries were.

>>13633213
Shago?

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>>13633187
Shame 2845 died. Tribes is not bad, but again, all mecha games on PC died a quiet death. Image just because.

>>13633233
Maybe, google just shows me a bunch of dudes when I searched for Shago.

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Mechadeka

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>>13633235
My bad, I meant Shogo.

>>13633213
>>13633233
>>13633235
Probably Shogo. It also had a Not Lyn Minmei poster.

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>>13633242
Yup, that's the one. It's probably the most weeaboo game I've ever played, and I find that oddly charming. It's the badly drawn but sincere 90's anime fanart of first person shooters.

>>13633250
I always felt like it was more of a "Haha we get anime." kind of deal. Like they understood what they were making was pretty silly and rolled with it.

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>>13633257
To me it felt more like "Woah, anime is totally awesome! Let's make out own anime, and it will be like Robotech and EVA and Gundam in one! I know this guy who bought one of those How To Draw Manga books and watched Appleseed on VHS five times, he can do the character design."

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Kinda surprised nobody's mentioned this one yet.

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Ronin, a Swedish miniature game that nobody bought, and that's impossible to find photos of. The idea was that each player only had one or a couple of robots, but the weapons and limbs were interchangeable and sold in boosters. It flopped.

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Well, if we're talking about western /m/, anyone here like Warmachine? I don't really play the game, but I gotta admit the steampunk mechs look pretty boss.

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>>13633446
They take the whole "huge torso and arms, tiny waist" thing too far, in my opinion. Both because it looks pretty goofy, and because the models are notoriously annoying to assemble, at least back when it was all metal. They're prone to tipping over and falling apart.
Also Privateer Press hate it when people call their steampunk game steampunk, for some reason. It's "fullmetal fantasy", apparently.

Some of the mercenaries are cool though.

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>>13633459
Ah, the point about the models is well-taken. I hadn't tried to assemble one, but I imagine it's extremely annoying to put them together if they're not stable. That said, a lot of people seem to be shying away from the 'steampunk' term...Girl Genius, which is another western webcomic with a lot of steampunk /m/, is called "gaslamp fantasy" by its creators.

>>13633495
I kinda don't blame folks... Now days if you put on some goggles and wear layers you count as steampunk

>>13633612
The clockwork on the clothing is what gets me.
>He guys, I'm steampunk! Let me show it by putting non-steam components on my top hat!

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>>13633619
"Cogs don't need to be placed next to other cogs to make sense, right?"
Also every fucking steampunk character has goggles on their hats that they never ever use. And when they do wear goggles, they still have a spare pair on their hat.

>>13633619
>only things directly, literaly related to steam is steampunk.

This is just as dumb, though. This is why we have assholes trying to push words like clockpunk, rustpunk and atomicpunk.

>>13633631
Clockpunk is an informal term used for specifying the technology is clockwork, to be used in a sentence such as "so it's more clockpunk than steampunk".

The rest however are dumb.

>>13633631
Not quite what the other guy is trying to say. Personally I think when your hat is covered in cogs and sprocktes you kinda look like an asshole...

Personally I like for everything to at least look like it serves a purpose

Possibly unrelated are the Steamworld games /m/

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>>13633619
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCuE5rHbPA

Scud's pretty great, steam business aside.

>>13633626
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCuE5rHbPA

i´m kinda sick how the crappy steampunk is permeating most con´s near my town.

>>13633688
Yeah I know that feeling. I love steampunk when it's done right, but a lot of people just don't try..

I personally won't do it until I can do it right

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It's a real shame that it's nigh-impossible to get this game to work these days.

I've never seen another RTS try to do the 'spanning all history' thing since.

Probably because it's hilariously unbalanced when you can have a swarm of flying death robots raining laser beams on Victorian riflemen, but that was part of the charm.

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>>13633099
Trooper.

The other thing I posted was the Guard, found that while looking this up.=(FUCKING ZOMBIEBOTS)

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>>13633789
...Not sure what happened at the end of that post, I think some of my internal resentment against a different enemy type caused it.

Screw these things. Seriously.

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>>13633626
>>13633612
>>13633495
I am a guy who educat...annoyed everybody with a corrected classification of Mech vs Power-Armor.
... yet I call Steampunk everything that has both a Victorian style & Old(overpowered) technology.

That say, there will probably be a nickname for technology of our current era , or the 70s/80s
http://www.bouletcorp.com/2011/07/07/formicapunk/

btw, how would you call our era-punk and what would define it ?
To me it's the Internet and our fascination for tablet everything-connected
Artist from the future will make up story where the Internet is like another world/beast literally overflowing in our world, everybody trying to control it.
Power-level would be based on tablet quality, able to control everything, computer, car. With awesome spy-camera and super-micro, able to dethrone politic and dictator through memetic

> picture unrelated

>>13633942
You're the guy that makes Dieselpunks pop a blood vessel eh?

Our era punk?.... So like hipsterpunk or something..? Bad coffee, ironic spellcraft, and stupid fake glasses

>>13633942
I think the issue a lot of people have with 'x-punk' is that the original 'cyberpunk' term, specifically the 'punk' part of it, carries a lot of ideological connotations not necessary present in everything we apply the 'punk' label too. William Gibson's original cyberpunk novels were laden with distrust of authority, especially that of large, multinational corporations, and cast a jaundiced eye on the effects technological progress had on the quality of human life. That's why they were 'punk' stories, because the protagonists were 'punks' whose defiance of corporate authority was portrayed as heroic or at least sympathetic (heroism being in short supply in a cyberpunk world). A lot of stuff labeled "steampunk," however (such as Girl Genius) doesn't really have the criticism of industrialization or Victorian society that would merit the 'punk' moniker. The writer for Girl Genius, Kaja Foglio (her husband Phil does the art) made this point in an LJ entry:

http://kajafoglio.livejournal.com/60562.html

> I've never liked the term Steampunk much for our work, it's derived from Cyberpunk (a term which I think actually fits its genre well) but we have no punk, and we have more than just steam, and using a different name seemed appropriate.

>>13633942
>btw, how would you call our era-punk and what would define it ?
Sadly there is a name for it, I'm afraid.
"Grunge-punk."

>>13634019 #

Yeah that's a good point, quite a good number of steampunks have very little "Punk" in them... Unless they're some flavor of Pirate(and sometimes they're not as slung together as they could be)

>>13634021

That sounds like the 90's more than now to me.

>>13633942
Our era?

Cyberpunk.

I shit you not.

Gibson was right.

>>13634062

Agreed,all that's missing is proper augs and its classical cyberpunk

>>13634185
I think we're a bit of a ways from classic cyberpunk yet. While we've got the Internet down pat, we haven't quite got the merging of man and machine seen in cyberpunk media like Gibson's novels (or Ghost in the Shell). In those settings, stuff like artificial arms are readily available (though the better stuff is very expensive, of course) and people can hook into the net directly with their brains. Right now prosthetics are still expensive and underpowered (though improving rapidly) and neuroscientists still haven't figured out how graft stuff onto the brain physically, though they've also made strides on that front. In a few years, though, I think we really will be living in a world worthy of Gibson's novels.

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>>13634003
> You're the guy that makes Dieselpunks pop a blood vessel eh?
Sorry, I don't know what you refer to.
> Dieselpunk
But I'm wondering if we are going wrong on this.
Maybe Steam, Cyber-, Diesel-, Gasolepunk (Madmax), are centered more around the technologies expectation, with the Era as a byproduct.

You can have Cyberpunk as soon as there is a network, or steampunk even in the future. As long as the point of view come from someone in the past overly focusing on what he know.

Like "Rocketpunk" (google that and "Atomic Rocket"). Apollo Era + Space Race + Nuclear Race = A future where Nuclear-spaceship carry American or Communist to the NEW FRONTIER !

>>13634019
>A lot of stuff labeled "steampunk," however (such as Girl Genius) doesn't really have the criticism of industrialization or Victorian society that would merit the 'punk' moniker.
I find your arguments interesting, but Girl Genius make a very big deal of technology being Self-Empowering but also factor for massive political enslavement, that's really punk
If it doesn't fit as much as it could it's only because it shift easily toward Alchemy and Fantasy with power-source not very steam-like

>>13634062
> Our era?
> Cyberpunk.
I guess, at least we don't have to live in Dome-city and fear SNATCHER (yet).

>>13634212
I think it might fit if the day we do get all of those tech, the way we displayed them in GitS, Matrix....etc, end up looking Retro. (the interfaces of both can count already)

>>13634212
I think smart devices have become pseudo-organs for the modern civilized being. We're so tethered to them they might as well be a part of the human physiology, even if they're not yet part of the actual anatomy.

In a way it's better this way, cyberbrains by virtue of design have nightmarish security risks to contend with. Smartphones have security by way of isolation.

We're totally cyberpunk. We don't have much for implants, but one time I'm at work at media outlet...

Media Outlet had billboards along the major highway that we could update for breaking news events.
Bad Guy is on the run from the cops, headed up the major highway.
I flip the switch to make our billboards live, and update them about COPS AFTER BAD GUY ON THE RUN IN BLACK SEDAN HEADED UP THE ROAD TUNE IN NOW OR YOU MIGHT DIE or whatever.
So then we watch from the live chopper feed how he's on the run driving past the lightup signs reading about how he's a wanted fugitive just like in all the cyberpunk stories.

>>13634300
>If it doesn't fit as much as it could it's only because it shift easily toward Alchemy and Fantasy with power-source not very steam-like

Yeah, that's what Kaja Foglio said ("we have more than steam").

>>13634320
Oh, now that's a really interesting way of thinking about it. Not even Gibson foresaw the rise of smartphones and other such devices. And yeah, as SaC pointed out, cyberbrains have terrible security risks, though IMO it's very likely we'll see some form of them eventually. Maybe not with networking features for the reasons you describe, but damage to the brain--whether from accidents, diseases like alzheimers, or just old age--is so crippling I imagine a technological repair--and then by extension enhancement--will be in really heavy demand.

>>13634335
Damn, that is cyberpunk! Wow, pretty cool.

>>13630502
I thought Big Guy was initially written by the guy who wrote the Deceleration of Independence

>>13630529
>robots caring for tiny hoomans
Daaaaahhhh

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Cyber is roughly about informatic/communication
Steam, Diesel are source of energy.
If someone invented a machine to make people PSYCHIC, would it be Psycho-punk ?

Wikipedia list a lot of more or less obvious derivatives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_derivatives
I discover I wrote an Elfpunk story
What would be Tesla-Era made punk ? Tesla coil used everywhere, free-energy and anti-gravity for everyone !

> picture is from "The Five Fists of Science" and you should read it.

>>13634391

>What would be Tesla-Era made punk ?

Mad science in general? I mean the dude dabbled in a little bit of everything

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>>13634408 >>13634391
> Tesla
I would say Radiopunk

Anyway, a lot of things that must have looked utterly ridiculous in their time happened, or close.
ht_tp://paleo-future.blo_gspot.fr/2007/04/postcards-showing-year-2000-circa-1900.html

hard time posting this, the board think it's spam (remove _ )

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Am I the only one who remembers this movie

>>13634509
Sometimes future predictions from the past are hilariously off-base, but other times they're right on. We don't have personal airships yet and likely will never have "ocean trains" (lol) but we certainly do have TV, police X-ray scanners, and are getting closer to roofed cities. I love how we were all supposed to still dress like they did at the turn of the century, though.

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>>13634695
>Sometimes future predictions from the past are hilariously off-base, but other times they're right on.

>tfw every single design in this thread is shit except the anime ones and pacrim

>>13634707
>that image
And sometimes they're simultaneously hilariously off-base while still being strikingly accurate.

>>13634763
that's your stupid weeb mouth talking

I'm asian and I dig both

>>13634634

I think the scriptwriter forgot about that film midway through writing the screenplay. It wasn't bad, but man you could feel the plot dissappearing through the directors fingers like sand as the film went on.

>>13634785
>I'm asian
No one cares about your race, you still have shit taste you gook

>>13634796
being a gook is better than being white nowadays
I pity your race killing yourselves
your last hope is trump but looking at UK and France you'll end up rejecting your last salvation

>>13633339

I remember them, they are pretty pricey and I almost thought about buying them.

But I'm quit surprised that it was made by swedish company. Thought it was made by american company.

>>13634634
I remember the gundam in front of the stadium.

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>>13630401
So while we're on the subject of western /m/, can I post some Western space games? I heard of some cool updates recently. First, there's a new Homeworld game coming out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7beE0NgnmU

Also, there's a new update for the Battlefleet Gothic game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfBjZTm8IV4

>WARP ME RIGHT NEXT TO HIM SO I CAN RAM INTO HIS FACE

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>>13632342
>>13632348
>>13632372
>>13632377

FASA did actually license those from a company that believed they had distribution rights and stopped using them of their own volition after lawsuits about Robotech that Battletech had nothing to do with. The Reseen came from fans wanting them to still be in the game while Catalyst didn't want to dive into the shitpit that is the Macross rights. It's disingenuous to call them ripoffs, despite them being redesigned Macross mechs. They became part of the game when they were (as far as FASA knew) legitimately paid for.

That said, I actually like most of the Reseen. Except the Reseen Battlemaster. What the fuck and why, Catalyst?

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>>13630627
>>13630637
>>13631915
>>13631927
Good taste detected.

>>13635233
the Nue redesigns were cool

>>13635094
>So while we're on the subject of western /m/, can I post some Western space games
I say do it.

>>13635233
Hey newsflash.

Sony got the rights to Battletech and Harmony Gold got fucked in the butt when HG attempted to sue Sony and lost.

It means all reseen can be used now. Regardless of who owns who.

>>13635984
FUCK

I mean to say, Sony got the rights to Robotech and any Macross derived designs.

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Its a shame most of the new Star Wars designs are awful

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>>13636163

>>13635094
There's also Rebel Galaxy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFxjbu2SYjI

>>13631265
Probably because you would have to be an "abnormal survivor" to live through your first Canadian winter.

>>13637100
10/10 game, I threw a goddamn fit when EA made it so you couldn't play anymore.

>>13636150
Gross

>>13637100
>the last good Battlefield
feels bad

>>13633263
That sounds pretty spot on. But did how to draw manga books exploded yet?

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Kids Next Door was pretty damn /m/

>>13637289
I never really watched that show, but I was quite surprised to hear they parodied the Second Renaissance from the Animatrix. Not the sort of thing I'd expect a kid's show to riff off of for a whole episode.

>>13638241
KND had some pretty creepy stuff throughout its run, honestly.

They also had a Battle of Hoth once.

>>13635984
They won't though.
Even going to court would scare the licence owners and shut down all new product. Probably kill the entire IP.
So it won't happen.

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>>13635549
The best jap battlemechs were the IICs.

Why are western mech designs so obsessed with tiny feet, or nonexistent supporting feet but just a bunch of stubby toes?

>>13639585
Reelism usually. Same reason you get bevels for no reason, loads of greebles, etc.
A lot of this thread doesn't have that though, so that's nice.

>>13639585
Tiny feet show up in tons of jap designs though.

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>>13639658

Or, increasingly, no feet at all.

>>13639658
West nofeets are more like weird interpretations of hooves. Eastern ones are more like high heels, boots, or standing on tiptoe.

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>>13639671
Truly a lovely redesign

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>>13639710

Because the same hoof-footed designs appear in Battletech and Robotech, and those are the things that popularized the "western-style" design aesthetic. The thing is, they're originally Japanese designs.

>>13639739
I already know this. This is also why I despise BT and RT. Dougram didn't deserve the bastard mutant child it had which somehow lives to today/

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>>13636051

Speaking of Star Wars and terrible decisions, can we talk about how Joe Johnston's AT-ST is way cooler than the one that actually went into the movie?

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>>13639833
>>13639710
>>13639585

Well fuck all of us falling for bait. Here we are trying to explain shit and this weeb's just been SUPERIOR NIPPON BANZAI-ing in the whole time.

>>13639866
What?
The guy asked a question, I said, "oh, it's usually reelism", then "it's in Jap stuff too", I say "yeah, it's kinda different in Jap stuff IMO", other guys says, "It's really something that came from Japanese designs in the first place", I say, "Yeah, but I hate RT and BT."

I still think what I said is somewhat true, but I guess it does look like some kinda ruse cruise or something. I think pin feet and the like in Western stuff often seems to be different in purpose than Jap stuff. Is this still trolling? Am I being dense? I've been quoted twice.

>>13639890
Who knows and who really cares to be honest

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>>13639929
Seems like the best way to look at it.

>>13639630
Isn't that an early ZOID model?

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>>13640688

That's from Robot Wars, the direct-to-video fake sequel to Robot Jox.

>>13640906
Thanks, I never saw that one.

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>>13640975
Anon, I hope you are not serious. Daizyuzin is Japanese.

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Oh, Canada!

>>13640987
No that's the megazord

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>>13641017

>>13641051
https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=es-419&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=631&q=power+rangers+megazords&oq=power+rangers+megazords&gs_l=img.3..0j0i30l5j0i5i30l4.3410.9005.0.9155.23.14.0.9.9.0.113.1166.13j1.14.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..0.23.1242.oV502Qtor2Q#hl=es-419&tbm=isch&q=power+rangers+megazord

BTFO

>>13641072
I hope you are trolling, http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Daizyuzin.

>>13633007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR7ktkOEeFw

Was going to post this

>Netflix revival never.

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>>13641078

Don't forget Season 2 DVD never.

I hate owning half of a show.

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>>13641087
that reminds me, I saw these guys at WalMart recently

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Do cars that transform to artillery count?

>>13641075
>http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Daizyuzin.
>Article Daizyuzin. was not found. What do you want to do?

I think you meant to post this:
http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Megazord

You're officially REKT son

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>>13639739
But BattleTech is all about the clownshoes.
The franchise has ugly fucking designs in a lot of other ways, but they don't skimp on the feet in the slightest.

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>>13641696
HONK

>>13639852
This design was used in some games

>>13641791
Like Battletech. That's clearly a Locust. The machineguns are just folded in.

>>13641800
The Locust was from Japan yo.

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>>13643402


>forgetting the time when lego went full /m/

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>>13643429
It goes back further dude.
Way further.

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>>13643429
>>13643443

Crucify me if you must, but I actually liked the MegaBloks Block Bots more than the LEGO Exo Force.

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I come to /m/ every few weeks. And I find this thread? You guys never fail to disappoint.

>>13643456
I had one of those that turned into a spaceship.

>>13641107
Getting a movie soon. Supposedly.

>>13643648
But Gipsy Danger has already posted.

PSA that Battletech is cheating because it's a blatant Macross ripoff,

>>13632159
>Future Cop MOBA 5 vs 5
would play it

>>13646826
Everybody really wants to copy the success of Bayformers, huh?

>>13633748
>It's a real shame that it's nigh-impossible to get this game to work these days
>implying
i have W7, and runs fine.

besides, the source code never went public, and trying to mod this game was a PAIN IN THE ASS!.

>>13643648
God, there's an obvious perfectionism that went in the effects and designs. You know it's time to stop listening if any "serious" discussion does not appreciate that.

>>13630861
Dong images when?

>>13647915
Even better, they are trying to copy the success of the success of Marvel Cinematic Universe.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/paramount-hasbro-gi-joe-universe-848920

>>13652211
Good Lord, that's dumb.

>G.I. Joe
>MASK
>Micronauts
>ROM
>TOGETHER AT LAST

>>13652211
there trying to even more transformers spin offs

>>13630413
CRASH AND BURN!

>>13631139
Nobody posted anything Terminator related in this thread...

>>13652732
see >>13634300

>western mech
>tube robot with ball joints or greebled box on legs

>>13633789
fuck yeah, loved those guys
>flying in the air
>get the drop on some mills
>slice and dice while blowing them apart with my plasma cannons.

>>13633795
I always liked how you can find some in cages, and if you free them, they fight for you.

>>13654741
>Implying thats a bad thing

>>13630642
loosely; maybe caught 3 episodes of it on random sunday mornings
is it worth actually watching?

>>13655451
First one is okay
Second is way, way worse.

>>13655555
You did it Yugi!