How well is your stock doing?....

[A Black Falcon]

Mech Assault style mechs never sat well with me. What's so great about the human form, in terms of battle I mean? There are far more efficient designs than a walking humanoid robot. Also, it just seems really stupid if the robot is just going to shoot people to actually give it a hand for the sole purpose of putting a really big gun IN that hand. There's also the issue of scale. Since 2D forces in construction vs 3D forces don't scale at the same rate, it takes a lot to get that working. Blowing up a gun just wouldn't do the job. The bullet would never leave the chamber! Look at cannons and the difficulty, historically, of increasing their size (these days scaling down is important though).

Never played MechAssualt, but MechWarrior and MechCommander on PC were awesome... (those would be a mech sim and strategy game, not an action game like MechAssault on Xbox) Mechs are cool. Are there more efficient forms of vehicles? Yes, sure. I don't think that's really the point though, the fact that they look cool is. :)

As for guns... why must you question these things? It just works, darnit! :D