|
Steelpudding posted:So.. Does this game actually have a plot or is it just history? Someone doesn't care about Feng or why his old best friend Glenn straight up murdered his other best friend while piloting an elite wanzer way above his previously demonstrated skill level, even though he should have been in a pow camp for most of the war, if not all of it. That's OK though; I'm sure Feng has absolutely no interest in what the hell just happened either, and will spend the rest of the game blindly following orders instead of investigating what actually happened as soon as he gets his first real clue.
|
#
¿
Apr 15, 2015 17:42
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 27, 2024 10:20 |
|
|
It really was an amazingly stupid idea: either the living pilot would screw up, overriding the brain and thus rendering it useless, or the brains would be in full control, which means that the pilot is just wasted space. Even better, both the brain AND the living pilot would need to be equipped with the same kinds of weapons that they were used to: a soldier brain that used missiles would be worthless when paired with a strike pilot/wanzer. And the attrition! Each disabled Wanzer would need to be utterly destroyed in order to hide the brains from the public and the pilots, which would be terribly expensive, as it would deny parts to reuse; better yet, if even ONE such machine remained intact, the brains would be discovered, and the entire program would come crashing down. It's some kind of evil-conspiracy Ponzi scheme, where each person down the org chart has to be just as evil as the person on top, or the whole thing comes crashing down. Even as a last ditch attempt to prevent bankruptcy, this was a bad idea.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 21, 2015 19:30
|
|
|
SIGSEGV posted:Pickled brains and giant robots are perfectly okay but I'm offended at the waste of flight deck real estate on that carrier. It's probably not wasted space; weaponry (probably missiles) should be located in the areas where the flight deck would otherwise be, and the deck itself is smaller because of the increase in VTOL capable aircraft and the cost of stealth materials makes a large deck inefficient (a smaller deck also reduces air drag, making the ship faster). The size of the tower/bridge is odd considering its supposed to be a stealth ship, but it was probably made that way to facilitate electronic warfare/targeting, as radar is probably just a minor part of joint targeting by this point, meaning that shooting missiles down is probably more important than trying to evade detection at all but the farthest ranges. Unless, of course, the carrier is submersible; that would answer/bring up all kinds of design questions. Also, the idea of airdropping a Wanzer is hilarious: it's bad enough that wanzers somehow only weigh a third of a modern main battle tank's tonnage (in fact, wanzers would classify as a light tank), but the size of the transports and the wanzers themselves should make them almost impossible to miss; the base defenses must have been bought from Bob's Discount Base Defense Emporium.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 27, 2015 21:07
|
|
|
Oh my god, she actually shot at it him. Aiming a gun at people is totally an anime response to sexual harassment, but this is the first time I've seen someone actually shot at. And in Front Mission, the orphan powered brain bomb series. There...aren't even words.
|
|
#
¿
May 16, 2015 04:25
|
|
|
Time to bring up the elephant in the room about Lynn: she doesn't seem to remember Randy at all, even though we know from Ed that it was the both of them that helped her, not just Walter. The logical conclusion is that the book she's talking about came from Randy, since it's the kind of book an idiot would prefer, as opposed to what Lynn (at the time) would have actually liked. In other words, Walter gave Lynn an intellectual book he thought she would like, while Randy gave her a normal book that he himself liked (I'm almost certain Randy also brought up that description about the dog and the child in one of his dialogs as well, but I can't remember. Fun times, considering the topic!) If Lynn lost Walter's book before or during her operation, but still had Randy's somewhere in her belongings, then she must have assumed that the book she still had was given to her by Walter; for someone trying to rebuild her memories without letting anyone onto the fact that she lost them, this is a very bad discrepancy. It also brings up another problem: how much does Ed actually know about Lynn's condition? Is he changing the topic each time she hits a mental rut because he's worried about her, or because he knows that her brain may literally be damaged, and could be deteriorating even now? Was he passed up for promotion just to keep an eye on her, and possibly Walter? And was this whole incident just a setup to test the EMP's effect on pilots who underwent the brain surgery?
|
|
#
¿
Jun 5, 2015 18:28
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 27, 2024 10:20 |
|
|
Green Intern posted:I'm a little sad that the helicopter didn't subsequently drop a regular wanzer. This is obviously the reason the OCU lost; either they didn't have enough in the budget for one final transformation, or they should have hired you to help them design the experimental weapons. Unfortunately your employment wouldn't last long, because... Green Intern posted:Lynn's situation is really tragic, and I don't like seeing her suffer like that! People with even the smallest hint of ethical thought fare terribly in the Front Mission universe; especially if their jobs involve science in any way, shape, or form. Also, try not to get too attached to Lynn: female love interests in Front Mission don't have a very good track record of surviving their games. In fact, Lynn will be lucky if her confession of love doesn't involve bleeding out on the ground.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 5, 2015 21:26
|
|