Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[piecewise]

This is a poll about mechs/Mecha.  For reasons. Feel free to expound upon answers.

1.When it comes to mechs, what kind of tone do you like?

A. Something that tries to takes the mechs as realistically as they can. Like Voltoms, Blue Gender, or 8th MS Team.  Mechs are usually treated like tanks or similar weapons.

B. Something that doesn't take things very seriously or realistically, but still has limitations and internal consistencies. Along the lines of Armored Core, some gundam, etc. They are generally treated like high tech fighters with a lot of maneuverability and destructive ability but not able to just make shit up as they go.

C. The "Standard" mech level in which no attention is really paid to mechanics or how anything works, the mechs are just cool things that fight other mechs or giant monsters.  Like Pacific rim, Eureka seven, Macross.

D. The "Fuck it" level. The level where anything can happen because its cool or weird or whatever. Evangelion, Gurren Lagann, Gunbuster, G Gundam, etc. Mechs are god machines that can do anything if their pilots have enough determination/ believe in the heart of the cards or whatever.


2. Is the division between Mech and Pilot important to you in a game?  As in a mechanical division where the stats of one are not the stats of another?

A. Yes, I want both mech and pilot to be distinct entities with different capacities. Just because a guy pilots a big muscle mech doesn't mean he has to be muscley. Plus it gives room for adventures outside the cockpit.

B. Nah. Pilots and mechs should basically be the same thing. Why would I want to run around as a person when I could instead be fighting in a mech? Also, keeps players and mechs in theme with each other.

3. What Size of mech do you like?

A. Small. Like 5-10 meters or so tall. Effectively a cockpit with arms and legs.
B.  Medium. 20 meters. Metal gear rex and The Iron Giant. Several stories tall. 
C. Big. 30-50 meters. Big O, Megas XLR
D. Really big. 70-100 meters. Gypsy Danger, Eva.
E. Fuck off Huge. FLCL Hand Robot,  Fortress Maximus.

4.What sort of Tech/Time period do you like it to be in?
A. Anachronistic. 80's. Cathode tubes, blinky buttons, industrial grunge spaceships, and so on.
B. Modern. Self explanatory.
C. Near Future. Maybe 10-50 years in the future. Still similar to modern but with some changes and advancements.
D. Far future. Effectively unrecognizable and potentially weird.

5. What do you want to fight?

A. Other mechs and people. Human wars.
B. Aliens or some sort of external force.
C. Giant monsters of various origins.
D. Threat of the week: Just about anything from giant space monsters to human doomsday weapons.


Optional: What things are important to you in a mech setting/mech game? What do you want to see and be able to do?

[Dustan Hache]

1: A, leaning on the edge of B. Increased mobility over conventional vehicles, but they are mainly treated as special artillery or tanks. Maybe some C type AI for that feeling that the Mechs are characters in and of themselves.

2:A, because it allows for the mechs to have a separate and distinct personality from their pilot with the above.

3: once again,A leaning on the edge of B. Some of the more tank-like Mechs should fall into B, while most others should fall into A.

4: C, slightly leaning on B, but not by much. Mechs should be common and have their own unique niches without entirely phasing out more conventional vehicles quite yet.

5: A as main preference, with the occasional D type encounter.

[Puppyguard]

1: B, leaning towards A. While similar to tanks, what offsets them is their mobility.
2: A. If your mech gets destroyed, you could survive and scamper around to cover. Odds are you might get blown up pretty quick, but you could land a lucky sniper shot.
3: A. Mechs would be seriously expensive if they were as massive as buildings.
4: C. Near future, lasers and such, but not so far that you have cloaking.
5: A. It would be more fun to fight in world wars as opposed to space wars.

[Screech9791]

A A A C D

[Yoink]

1: B or D - whichever category kung fu-fuelled tokusatsu-style shenanigans fit under.
2: A.
3: A or D. Or better yet, both depending on the situation.
4: A. There is no other correct answer.
5: D.   

[Hawk132]

B, though A is also nice

A

B, though I also like A

C

A, though I do not mind B, C or D appearing at some point

[randomgenericusername]

D, because weird sounds interesting.

A, maybe even give the mech it's own personality.

B to D, anything between too.

C

B and/or C

[Iris]

A A A C (although A is cool too) A or B

[FallacyofUrist]

C, A, B, D, D...
~~~
What I want is a mech game I can actually play because the rules aren't too complex.

[Rethi-Eli]

A, A, B, B, A.

3 was a tough choice for me, since I'd like to see a mix of categories A and B: stealth, recon, etc. type mechs being of the smaller category, and full frontal assault types being distinctively larger.

[King Zultan]

1. A, Kind of leaning towards D because that sound cool to.
2. A, Just because the mech is destroyed doesn't mean you die.
3. A, But kind of leaning towards B.
4. A, This sound cooler then the future.
5. D, I would rather fight random thing then the same thing over and over again.

[Coolrune206]

D

A

D

C

D

[Devastator]

B
B
B
A
B

But the anacronistic stuff wouldn't be retro-anacronistic, but future-anacronistic, where everything looks 80s style not 50s style or 20s style.

[Radio Controlled]

What's that?

It's a v-v-vote tally!

(Note, only counted 1 vote per category per person when possible and went with what seemed to be the main preference, unless no preference whatsoever between two options was given at all in which case I went with fractions. For easier tracking and such).

A: 5
B: 3.5
C: 1
D: 2.5

A: 11
B: 1

A: 5.5
B: 4.3
C: 0.3
D: 1.8
E:

A: 3
B: 1
C: 7
D: 1

A: 4.5
B: 2
C: 0.5
D: 5

[Yoink]

But the anacronistic stuff wouldn't be retro-anacronistic, but future-anacronistic, where everything looks 80s style not 50s style or 20s style.

Yes.