Whats the point of metal gears apart from looking good? Nuke subs with ICBMs are alot more effective

Realism fags must fucking hang

Is it just me or is porn boring these days? It's always interracial shit or futa

Metal Gears take on mecha is perhaps the absolute worst there's ever been in any form of media ever. And boy howdy have there been some shit takes.

Pic related was probably the only moderately interesting implementation and only from an auditory standpoint.

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So why the hell does the railgun have to be attached to a mech? Literally any other platform would be better, up to and including a 495 metre long submarine.

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Yeah but they are easily detected the second they launch
The idea behind Rex especially was that not only could it be maneuvered and deployed literally anywhere on earth due to its bipedal nature allowing it to navigate harsh terrain, but its railgun-launched 'stealth nukes' could be launched without a single soul being able to track it. The only reason we can reliably track ICBMs is because of their emissions and heat signature, Rex's stealth nukes had neither, and good luck tracking a nuke that is basically just the warhead and equipment it needs to detonate.

So the villain has a machine to monologue in before he tries to stamp on Snake.

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very good user, you're starting to realize metal gear is a parody

>due to its bipedal nature allowing it to navigate harsh terrain
LOL
>swamp nope
>mountains nope
>heavily forested areas nope
>cities nope

Submarine can't park itself in a remote area in the mountains in rocky terrain and then rapidly relocate

or, you could use a truck

This feels like a thinly-veiled 'MECH BAD' autism thread

Submarine wouldn't need to when it can easily hit fucking anywhere inland from the ocean.

autonomous, stealth weapons are not entirely a stupid premise, a self sufficient weapon of mass destruction is desirable. the design itself isn't completely retarded either, a tank that is able to quickly stop and perhaps bend out of the way of a fast traveling projectile from a distance would make sense too. obviously it can't go matrix neo once a column of armor starts shooting at it, but it could evade a tank on its tail by its physical counter measures and traversing terrain which cannot be driven over.

Rule number 1 of mecha: don't think too hard about it. Logically mecha makes absolutely zero sense compared to a million other more practical machines that could be designed for the same purpose. You go into the mecha genre knowing this and accepting the giant impractical robots, and then moving on from there. The genre needs you to accept the robots as a given and then start worrying about plot and practicality from that point onwards, but not before. If you can't do that then you just have to stay away from mecha

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The railgun ICBM replacement idea is already fundamentally unrealistic for a lot of reasons, so just roll with it.

Not nearly as mobile as Rex, Ray or Gekko.

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but ten thousand times cheaper
i think the truck is competitive

Mechs are great, but Metal Gears implementation of them has never been great. They're there for the drama and shock value, no real thought has ever been given to their impact or place in the worlds they inhabit.

They're little more than a plot device that randomly appears and vanishes when the script requires them.

Shits lazy as fuck.

Metal Gear, aside from the obvious use as a weapon used to launch nuclear weapons, seems gradually through later and later installments to become a more sentient sort of warmachine. I'm not sure precisely what the commentary is supposed to mean, but starting with the Rex displaying some predatory behavior and the Ray showing fluid movement and behavior akin to an aquatic creature, we even see the Gekko "bleed" and moo as though real creatures.

Part of what makes Metal Gear what it is, is the decidedly "alieveness" of the machine

MGS universe had better anti-air and anti-ICBM technology than real life, thanks to the explosion in AI technology.

>"alieveness"
Come again?

Imagine MGS5 that wasn't shit and that took place in 80s eastern germany, in urban environments instead of that god awful desert.

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The very basic TX-55s would be a much cheaper alternative for launching nukes from plausibly deniable directions. It was just a two-tube IRBM attached to a pair of legs. Rex can launch them silently for total deniability and low risk of counterattack (assuming you could hide the damned thing in the age of satellite imagery) at the cost of it being still relatively short ranged compared to a big old ICBM.

Both of them are all terrain vehicles for conventional warfare so there's that. Rex without its stabilizing heels deployed was extremely agile for its size in MGS4.

Why do tanks exist? Trucks can do everything a Tank can do at a fraction the price.

>took place in 80s eastern germany
Why would it? Eastern Germany didn't have armed conflict

They can't though.