• The Bard in GreenAEnglish
    8•1 day ago

    A really dumb mecha book is NecroTek by Jonathan Maberry. Because we needed undead giant robot pilots fighting the elder gods of the Cthulu mythos. Ok, that actually sounds awesome, but the writing is fun but meh. The elder gods don’t actually show up, they just send armies of shoggoths piloting transforming combiner mechs.

    • ඞmir
      2•1 day ago

      Titanfall 3 was definitely my favourite game of 2023, it should’ve gotten GOTY.

  • @GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
    16•2 days ago

    Quick rec for an amazingly good book I read recently. ‘Moonstorm’ by Yoon Ha Lee. It’s a futuristic sci-fantasy where young ‘Lancer pilots’ fight on behalf of a paternistic empire, in a setting where the gravity of colonized worlds and the very laws of physics are governed by the laws of society and the people that comprise them. This phenomenon is so prevalent that rebel factions live out in a segment of space called ‘the Moonstorm’, where anarchistic and communal values lead to an erratic and unpredictable (but undeniably beautiful and free) cosmos. In the Empire, authoritative dogma and rigid social hierarchy leads to ‘normal’ (to us) gravity and ‘predictable’ (to us) celestial body movements. Gravity is a very heavy-handed metaphor for unity and national identity in the story, and it’s brilliant in exploring the divide between an oppressive imperial autocracy and an anarchistic society with just the raw backdrop.

    Also, techno-psychic sapient mechs and massive freaking gravity-powered railguns.

    • The Bard in GreenA
      4•1 day ago

      where the gravity of colonized worlds and the very laws of physics are governed by the laws of society and the people that comprise them.

      Yoon Ha Lee really likes this sort of thing. Is this set in the same universe as the Machineries of Empire books?

  • @Cascio@lemmy.world
    17•2 days ago

    An Eva is not a mech unfortunately…

    Spoiler

    They are giant beings restrained by the armor they are inside of and mentally synchronized with their pilot. Edit: Finally figured out how to use the spoiler tagging system…

  • @Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9•2 days ago

    I think people’s favorite is whatever they grew up with.

    I played a lot of MechWarrior 2 as a kid. Give me the stompybois.

    • @RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
      3•1 day ago

      I grew up with Robotech, which was just a 4chan Memelord’s reinterpretation of various low budget animes.

      Why yes, I am a Horus fan, why do you ask?

      • @shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•23 hours ago

        We 80s kids called Robotech “japanimation”, which I suppose sounds racist today. But we were enchanted! A science fiction cartoon soap opera? And it wasn’t for little kids?!

    • @cannedtuna@lemmy.world
      5•2 days ago

      MechAssault and especially MechAssault 2 hold a special place in my heart and I’m sad there hasn’t been a remake of either. Nothing like fighting giant mechs in power armor while Getting Away With Murder by Papa Roach or Right Now by Korn play. So much hype.

      • @Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5•2 days ago

        Mine was…

        “There’s still room in hell for your sorry carcass”

        “Look on the bright side kid… You get to keep all the money.”