>I’m supposed to believe this dingy piece of shit is stronger than Sahelanthropus
It doesn't need a one of a kind psychic to kind of work
>Sahelanthropus
It's functional without magic.
>>729683002Sahelanthropus was a piece of shit prototype where the designers forgot to leave room inside for an actual pilot to sit. The only thing that saved it was having access to a psychic child that could telekinetically puppet it from outside.
Sahelanthropus is a giant pile of garbage that requires magic to even function. Its design is intended to be literal comedy.
>>729685451Yeah, you're supposed to look at the terrifying, unstoppable robot with a beam saber and laugh at it. It's supposed to be goofy and silly. You're supposed to know the background detail that it's actually being controlled by a dangerous psychic, which makes it like, not cool anymore.
>>729685451It's an Ork Stompa
>>729685451it could work with a finalized cockpit. it WAS going to work but huey sabotaged its development on purpose
>>729683002It's not supposed to be stronger. Metal Gears are just supposed to be small, mobile nuclear launch platforms. Their primary purpose is to launch nukes. Any personal combat capability beyond launching nukes is purely ancillary and the only reason it has those capabilities at all is because there's a long-running trend where a single infantryman has been able to take down every single Metal Gear or Metal Gear-adjacent vehicle ever created. In fact, as far as being a true "small, mobile nuclear launch platform" is concerned, the TX-55 surpasses Sahelanthropus. Because Sahelanthropus can't fucking launch nukes. It does have the ability to induce a nuclear explosion via self-destruction, but still.
>>729683002No way it would look like that if they updated the look
>>729686165>there's a long-running trend where a single infantryman has been able to take down every single Metal GearNote that these individual infantrymen have also wiped out entire advanced military bases, tanks, squads of elite super soldiers, the cutting edge of military technology of multiple eras, themselves, etc.It's like saying james bond always being able to sneak in means security is pointless. No nigga, it's james bond. He's just the best.
>>729685972Would a finalized cockpit solve its problems? I thought one major insurmountable issue was that it couldn't actually keep its balance and walk.
>>729686165What made metal gears so terrifying when a large truck launch nukes and be more mobile?
>>729686319Yeah, but still, like, they do need to have a way to defend themselves from those super infantryment. When Outer Heaven created Metal Gear TX-55, they didn't really expect for there to be a soldier actually capable of infiltrating them, taking out all their guys and blowing it the fuck up. At that point, there was only like one soldier alive who's ever been capable of doing that, and he was there leader. Also Venom Snake, but that's a later retcon. So only one or two guys. Bear in mind that Big Boss believed Solid Snake would die on that mission, so the fact that he succeeded completely took everyone by surprise. This is why the revision to Metal Gear TX-55, Metal Gear D, did have self-defense capabilities, although since it was still just a revision of TX-55, it wasn't that impressive.
I just fail to see how the Metal Gear would in any way be preferable over submarines or stealth fighters. Or simply regular trucks and long range equipment. And I don't know. Maybe Kojima could be excused for not knowing much about stealth fighters at the time of the original Metal Gear game since there wasn't too much known about them at the time. But the concept of them was still discussed heavily and the Metal Gear still falls terribly short of it. And there is no excuse for the other stuff that was still heavily in use at the time Metal Gear was made. Now. Robots and mechs are rad. So I get the desire to make a cool mech like it. But pretending it's so unique or special I don't get. If the claim had simply been of it being an exceptionally effective war machine, that would have been so much more easily believable than the idea of it actually in any way being an effective nuclear launch platform. Or am I misunderstanding something basic?
>>729686469They're small, can carry nukes all on their own, can launch from any terrain and require almost no real set-up. You could conceivably sneak a Metal Gear onto a nation, have it launch a nuke at someone, frame that nation for the nuke launch and erase all evidence that it was ever there. They're easier to store and hide than nuclear submarines and shit too. The final "true" Metal Gear, REX, also had anti-air capabilities, meaning that you had a comprehensive small mobile weapons system that could both launch nukes and also defend itself from ranged assaults, while also having the added advantage of being the sturdiest Metal Gear in history.
>>729686824It's a holdover from the 80s. Back then, no one really questioned shit like this. It was a video game, who cares? The premise of a bipedal mech that shot nukes was just a convenient premise for a video game. As the series continued into modern times while maintaining the continuity set by those early MSX games, and since the term "Metal Gear" is in the fucking title, they had to continue involving them while playing the concept completely straight.
I am a total loser NEET shut-in with no career or prospects. So I'm probably a nobody that no one should listen to. But if I was in charge I would simply separate "Metal Gear" into Metal and Gear where Metal are revolutionary bleeding edge mechs that simply out compete all known war drones and vehicles. But with no nuclear weapon capabilities. And then you'd have Gear which would be Satellite, orbital launch platforms platforms circling the globe that could nuke the shit out of anything at a moment's notice. And the Metals would would protect the Gears with the aim of achieving military dominance without the Gears, while the Gears would act as a threat and would come in decisively if the Metals were to ever fall short. You could establish a clear link and line of production having evolved from the original Metal Gears for all the continuity and fun fan service stuff. Simply being an evolved form of the original program. And fuck it. For sequels you could even combine them again. Like, having a cool and impressive space facility on the moon, mars, or some giant space station or something, where the program has evolved again and the production lines of the Metals and Gears once again merge into one, bringing back Metal Gear. Only this time it's some space-flight capable mech or something. Would it be dumb? Maybe. But I bet it'd be fun and it's the kind of thing I'd expect from Metal Gear.
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>>729687084>Back then, no one really questioned shit like thisAdded to the list of "everything used to be better".
>>729683002Sahelanthropus was more OP than most Metal Gears but it was impossible to operate without Mantis so it was kind of just a big hunk of junk at the end.
