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I just couldn't finish watching that. I appreciate the devotion to the lore, but once it gets around to ' Mechwarriors gotta be nekkid' and 'weeaboo' this and 'catgirls in the Matistracy' that.... I tried for a little bit longer, but just couldn't.
Canon or not, there's a certain obligation to adhere to an aesthetic that's 'up to date,' per se. Like MWO, there's a reason we're getting to use 'LosTech' cooling suits, it keeps the pilot gender neutral without a complicated RPG-esque character creation system (MWO is all about giant stompy robit combat). HBS's game only shows the occasional Mechwarrior on comm, and those occasions, I'm pretty confident we can give them a pass that the pilots depicted would likely have access to a more advanced cooling suit, and even some of the rarer neurohelmets. It's the Head of a Royal family, and the commanders/subcommanders of these forces that we're generally dealing with, not the common rabble that tend to actually be in the fight.
Anyway, like I said, I appreciate these videos for the devotion to the details in the books, and tabletop, and whatever, but all I could picture is a near-frothing neckbeard blatantly telling a company headed by the 'ORIGINAL CREATOR' of the game that he was 'wrong' for the choices he made in yet another creative rendition of HIS game's universe.
Best of luck to them, there are plenty of people that will find that entertaining.
Canon or not, there's a certain obligation to adhere to an aesthetic that's 'up to date,' per se. Like MWO, there's a reason we're getting to use 'LosTech' cooling suits, it keeps the pilot gender neutral without a complicated RPG-esque character creation system (MWO is all about giant stompy robit combat). HBS's game only shows the occasional Mechwarrior on comm, and those occasions, I'm pretty confident we can give them a pass that the pilots depicted would likely have access to a more advanced cooling suit, and even some of the rarer neurohelmets. It's the Head of a Royal family, and the commanders/subcommanders of these forces that we're generally dealing with, not the common rabble that tend to actually be in the fight.
Anyway, like I said, I appreciate these videos for the devotion to the details in the books, and tabletop, and whatever, but all I could picture is a near-frothing neckbeard blatantly telling a company headed by the 'ORIGINAL CREATOR' of the game that he was 'wrong' for the choices he made in yet another creative rendition of HIS game's universe.
Best of luck to them, there are plenty of people that will find that entertaining.
Yes, you can't get away with the sort of things we had in the '80's and '90's.
Everybody in the gaming business back then (Palladium, Games Workshop, Steve Jackson, White Wolf, TSR) had to put in some gratuitous cheesecake to stand out and draw attention in the hobby store. Some did this worse than others.
FASA (the original publisher of Battletech) was no exception.
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Some may call this tasteless, and it probably was. But it was, in my opinion, less tasteless than what Palladium was doing with Rifts, going full John Norman. Or what GW was doing in Realms of Chaos at about the same time.
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Greetings Mechwarriors,
Please note while the old art is what it is, before someone goes a step further and starts posting in the pinup vein: out of respect to our fellow Lady Mechwarriors we do usually avoid fan service type imagery here
Thank you.
Please note while the old art is what it is, before someone goes a step further and starts posting in the pinup vein: out of respect to our fellow Lady Mechwarriors we do usually avoid fan service type imagery here
Thank you.