Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27144409-20160125035940/@comment-28345522-20161127161449

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: 1-The 8th MS........you mean the one without any White Devils or Newtypes, and where most Gundams used were made in an Used Future style instead of being radiant Super Prototypes or at least average army quality? The, if not one of, the most hard in the sci-fy scale of hardness, and most Real Robot work, in the franchise?

That's like Judging all the Pokemon Franchise for one of the Mistery Dungeon games.

2-Depends on the Mobile Suit. Besides, when everything is big, big becomes small.

3-Meh, Titanfall's titans themselves could still wreck a city. The only reason they don't is because it would demand far more budget and effort put into the game than necesary.

Besides, I'm pretty sure when you say "most cities", you are thinking of real life cities, not any fictional ones.

4-When X nation uses Nukes, Y nation must use Nukes to stand a chance. But whether Mechas could be considered WMDs like Nukes, depends on the work. In Metal Gear, they are. In Gundam, they are not, instead they are the average soldiers. In Titanfall they are more-or-less in between.

They wouldn't necesarily be like WMDs, basically. 1- Yes, if we're talking about mechs actually phasing out tanks then I'm gonna use an example that tried to do it believably. Gundams, in their universe, are always better than tanks. But I'm talking about applying them to our universe.

2- Again, in real life, they're gonna be the only big things on the battlefield. Even in the future, they would still be highly complex, high-maintenance, high-budget machines that would be difficult to deploy in large numbers,

3- Without any opposition, the same could be said for a tank. Even though they have some pretty destructive weapons, they aren't the only ones wrecking a city. There are still bombers and orbital bombardments doing most of the leg work in their universe.

And if you mean fictional mega-cities then that's a bigger problem. That means they're creating even more collateral damage.

4- Metal Gears don't have a good reason to exist. They can launch an ICBM and then move, which the US and Russia already have covered so there's no point to building a Metal Gear. Gundams could be banned, or extremely umpopular because of how much damage it causes to human life. Weapons like hollowpoints are banned in warfare, but not police use, because it guarantees that that person will die. In a world where you're trying to prevent that, Gundams are kinda useless.