No.4478[View All]
Let's talk about mecha here anons
The 2026 Ghost in the Shell Show Teaser:
https://youtu.be/rk27MbUoBQ8?si=mgKmuI7bG4A4M3DMAnilist mecha 2025 Category:
https://anilist.co/search/anime?genres=Mecha&year=2025 No.5328
>>5325>Dolls NestNo, but
¥https://store.steampowered.com/app/1839430/Dolls_Nest/¥Souls-like¥Mecha¥Nitro PlusI will tomorrow, or after Grand Theft Touhou
No.5445
>>4478I have been hunting this game in flea-markets for a while now and it really hasn't shown it's face, I got to buy the encounters in space ps2 game, but zeonic front is definitely one my physical media grails right now.
No.5447
>>5325I played demo and seemed pretty fun. I liked how you can give the player character a nice belly (and made a thread for that reason here when demo came out hehehe)
It came out then? I might look into it, but the combat seemed pretty weak to me. I did like the exploration, but I'm not sure how big the world would be.
No.5458
>>5447damnit, I wish I knew about this game while the demo was up, I want to try it out
No.5574
>>5572it's old men who like 0079
No.5575
>>5572You didn’t like the initial VOTOMs setup? Well, you should watch episode 2 since that one was pretty good and gave context to what the series is about.
No.5576
>>5575I haven't watched VOTOMs, so I can't compare. But after checking the synopsis, I think I'm going to start watching it.
Episode 01 has been a combination of everything I don't like: music, character design, the look of the mechas... This is the first time I can't enjoy a Gundam production. Not even G-Saviour gave me this reaction.
No.5583
>>5574I like 0079 and I think GQuuuuuuX sucks so far
No.5585
>>5583you're not 70 years old
No.5593
Gkwcks is mecha fan disservice.
You can't see anything in space battles due to pseudorealistic CGI where G-Reco had the balls to fix that with stylization. Battle sakuga is absent and sensibility of fight movements is worse than in 0079. The sense of weight and momentum are underwhelming. The Gundams are just too unsightly so that you want to rub your eyes on any keyframe or closeup shot involving them.
The pacing, cam view changes, scene shifts are too hamfisted and forced for the presented subject matter: as typical of "post-gainax," you can take the characters and the plot neither seriously nor carefree (still not as bad as Diebuster). That's what defining of hack works where the direction is aiming for impressionism while being afraid of self-commitment.
No.5716
Another mech shooter for SEGA CD if you like MUSHA/Aleste or other Compile shmups
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOa8m2zOtBs>>5711If you like video games, there's always PSO2 New Genesis
No.5718
>>5716Recovering MMORPG addict. Thanks, but no thanks.
No.5719
>>5593I agree with this. I enjoy the non-mecha visuals, but I can't tell what the hell is going on in the battles. Episode 3's battle was in the black absolute darkness of space which made it very confusing. When the backdrop isn't literally pure black they're surrounded by glowing auras and there's a lot of static poses being drawn out like clip related. It's just not pleasing to watch.
>pseudorealistic CGIYeah. It's a very physics-based rendering way of doing the visuals. I guess they're taking influence from the 3D software. Something can't be visible without a light source. It's weird to see alongside characters with faces that can't exist in 3D space.
No.5760
>>5759>all the big mecha anime series>started with Gundam?
No.5762
>>5760to be honest I originally wanted to just watch Gundam and VOTOMs because i'm a milshit autist and I heard Gundam was the start of the "real robot" genre but everyone I talked to for Gundam watch orders also suggested I try watching X series and Y series too
No.5764
>>5760Is there something wrong with this? Gundam is probably one of the most recognizable, and the original UC trilogy is a good starting point I'd think.
No.5767
>>5759during episode 27 I could sense they were going to have a massive fight sequence and frankly I was sick of Minmay's singing so I just played Stan Bush music in another tab and man. It rocked
No.5768
>>5767I should have done that. I had already heard My Boyfriend Is A Pilot enough for one lifetime by that point. Such an obnoxious song.
No.5769
>>5768Exactly. Plus honestly I was pretty soured on her as a character at this point, I personally do not like love stories at all, especially not love triangles but this isn't exactly a good one either...
C'mon Hikaru remember. "We like older women" that's the key Hikaru, forget about that china girl and go for it!!
No.5771
>>5764As long as your first Gundam is not Wing... I still get a bit annoyed at americans insisting that it is the best gundam ever and everything else sucks. It's like the Final Fantasy VII effect all over again.
Btw, my first mecha series was Tetsujin 28-GO. I was so confused when years later I saw the original barrel shaped design.
No.5780
>>5759You're skipping over some great shows like Daitarn, Dougram, Ideon to mention a few.
>>5762If you're interested in real robot and want military realism, you should most definitely check out Dougram.
>>5771Do Wingfags still exist?
No.5781
>Do Wingfags still exist?
I think it's still the same crowd who watched it on TV when they were 12 years old and never rewatched it as an adult. Can't imagine there are many new wingfags being made.
No.6599
>>6597Ohh I completely forgot about this game. I liked the exploration in the demo well enough, although the combat was kind of meh.
How is it?
No.6604
>>6599It's sweet. Compared to the demo, SFX got boosted (including melee, so it's now satisfying), and biped robot mobs overheat quicker, so it plays a bit different.
The story and plot feel like PSP Rengoku games and the environment feels like AC1's abandoned H+ lab mission, but at AC4 scenery scale. There's a lot of intricate work to it despite it feeling like a doujin game, sometimes you wonder if some rooftop generator must be tied to a quest because there's a whole infrastructure of sounds and lights implemented around it with other devices, but no, it's just attention to detail and a contrast to the bigger scenery of architecture you can see from the same spot.
It has Gothic-tier reachability of shortcutting - if your mobility unit jumps high enough and is of aerial type, you can circumvent dozens of enemies abd unlock shortcuts to the respawn tree easy in some places.
It's also full of biped leg
subtypes with own subtype type animations each, which is rather a rarity.
My only gripes are that enemy mecha musume are almost pushovers (mediocre AI) and some weapons are too good and universal (the BP-efficient AK-74) while some are too bad and very situational (pentuple spread missiles). Also uhhh melee-only is tough against flyers, suicide bombers, and small speedy bugs.
No.6606
>>5780since this thread got bumped anyways, gave Dougram a peak and then had a flashback to that one Battletech gif so I am adding it to my list and also Ideon, skeptical on Daitarn
Well good thing I didn't make it that far down my list so I can correct this mistake without breaking my watch order plan too bad
No.6613
I still haven't watched Nadesico because I think there's still much more I need to get through before I'll be able to fully appreciate it.
No.6615
>>6613Supah robo and Eva TV anime are enough. It's not deep.
No.6645
>>6615Yeah, but I need to get with finishing Mazinger still.
No.6671
>>6606Daitarn is pretty different from the other two, it's a super robot show but the robots are really not such a huge focus. It's like a Lupin-style episodic adventure show with robots. Really fun and consistently high quality imo. I understand skipping it if you're only interested in real robot, though.
>>6613Do you think the people who watched it in the early 00s in English had an encyclopedic knowledge of robot shows? They were still able to enjoy it just fine. As always, getting the references is just something that might enhance your enjoyment, not a hard prerequisite. And you can always just rewatch it somewhere down the line if you want.
No.6673
>>6671I think I do want to go on a separate super robot show watch at some point so I'll keep that in mind
I'm still in VOTOMs at the moment and while I'm enjoying it I'm starting to wonder if I should change my watch method from just watching the same series until its done and moving onto the next to watch 3-5 episodes from one series and another to alternate (either the same day or alternate each day) just so I don't have slowdowns like I had with Macross and now with VOTOMs. That's been my biggest problem with trying to catch up with anime is me slowing down my watch momentum on series that are long
No.6726
I've been having a good time with Dolls Nest. Gameplay isn't particularly deep but it's fun to just zoom around blasting stuff and collecting parts to make my mech cool and my shab cute.
No.10472
I've been really in the mood to play random crap. Some of the newer mecha stuff I played lately:
DxM2 demo - not good. Like a mindless mix of Mad Max and Xenoblade Chronicles X, except that Mad Max melee combat felt satisfying to perform well in. Or it's like what if you combined Prototype 1 and Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, but made it feel like an MMORPG. I'm not buying it without a huge discount. PSO2:NG felt more fun to play, honestly.
Armed Frame demo - AC clone with War Thunder aiming and ability to ride on vertical surfaces. Looking forward to more development.
Granvir demo - maybe I played the demos for way too long, it it doesn't feel replayable at this point. Because I just choose from OP parts to start with and there are no new cool parts that are as good. I preferred when the demo offered longer campaigns. It's still good tho.
Eternal Circus - good concept but didn't support my DS4 properly. I should try again with DS4Windows.
Custom Mech Wars - abhorrent and depressing would be an understatement.
XOL demo - maybe I'll get it on a big discount. Good enough to remind me of Heavy Gear's space combat.
Death Ring: Second Impact - not bas, but I feel like I had enough of it from completing the demo campaigns. Definitely not worth it without a discount.
No.10761
I just realized Front Mission 1 Wanzers might be really cheaply made.
The main antagonist smugly comments around how MC's partner was pretty good for a novice to move own Wanzer's arm to protect the cockpit area from an attack rather than protecting the head, which indicates the camera view for the cockpit is head PoV. As pointed out, that's counter-intuitive and unwieldy. Would there be always a head PoV if there was an integrated camera view with the cockpit area as the PoV? Doubt it. FM1 technology is definitely complex enough to afford it, they had huge autonomous robot spiders, among other things.
So basically FM1 Wanzers only have the cameras where their glowy bits are.
Dog Life Dog Style manga, iirc, suggested there might be more cameras around a typical Wanzer, during the same time of FM history as FM1, but it's as canon as Thunderbolt manga to Gundam, either are from the same author and show technology inconsistency compared to canon series.
No.13180
>>13171I binged them as a kid when I did my transformers binge and I remember finding them to be some of the best entries
No.13192
>>13180Back then they aired them in the wrong order, with Headmasters following Victory. Headmasters felt so different to Victory that I could not maintain the interest and never watched it in its entirety.
And speaking of weird stuff, renaming Ginrai (the human) to Optimus Prime in the dub was confusing as heck.
No.13193
>>13181Forgot to quote.
>And the uncaring execs wiping the toyline clean was really a great move in retrospectGets even worse when in the post-movie season you have a sparkless zombie Optimus getting up from his coffin in a cemetery spaceship. Then getting resurrected at the end of the season, just to get killed again in the japanese continuty (and get resurrected again when they had a new toy).
No.13393
>>13194Last weekend I rewatched the movie with the japanese dub, and man, some voices change the characters for the better. Starscream being dubbed by the same actor as Bright Noa makes me think that if Megatron had a girlfriend, he would also have attempted to appropriate her after dropping him in space.
Currently Watching The Headmasters anime, and reading IDW Transformers Phase III