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Mobile suits could all be replaced with fighter jets, and nothing about the story would change. But you're not ready to have that conversation.
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But robots are cooler.
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didn't ask faggot
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>>287515647
I mean, they're really not.
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That's already acknowledged in most Gundam series. In UC its explicit that if minovsky particles (a material that disrupts long range radio waves) didn't exist then mobile suits would be unnecessary and humanity would revert back to guided missile spam.
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>>287515622
jets suck at melee combat
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Even the realest of real robots can be obari as fuck,
and yet as a fighter jet lover, I cannot say that any fighter jet can embody obari as fuck at all.

Fighter jets exude a different form of the spirit of the pilot. This leads to a difference in the way the themes of a narrative are delivered, in that when two mobile suits clash, it is a clash of all aspects of a character at once, whereas when fighter jets dance in the sky, there is an overt feeling of 'resignation from the pilots' over the fact that all that they can do is inflict absolute destruction in order to further their will. In Gundam and other mecha franchises, this resignation often shows up early, but is then is eliminated mid-series due to a realization by the protagonist that they do not, in fact, 'need' to inflict absolute destruction.
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>>287515877
what are your thoughts on Argento Soma?
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One of the problematic elements of mecha that people don't talk about is how they make infantry narratively pointless. Titanfall is one of the few settings that strike the balance of makings useful without making ground troops pointless.

>>287515877
>Obari as fuck
That could mean a lot of things. You're gonna need to clarify.
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>>287515622
There would a lot more singing and one of the jets would become a transformers character
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>>287516063
Infantry is for killing infantry cause mechs are expensive and hard to make
Tanks exist to kill mechs cheaply,kill other tanks,buildings,convoys etc
Most op implement of war we have is a big drone with a big bomb piloted by a guy two countries away
Even then its a matter of time and gear until drone meta stops being op and becomes another tool
Nothing is ever obsolete,just unfit for particular setting and task
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>>287516063
>That could mean a lot of things. You're gonna need to clarify.
If you need clarity you don't understand
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>>287517808
>tanks
Mechs have the ability to dodge tank rounds.
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>>287515786
This is why Tomino said he regrets creating funnels, they're just tiny jets which makes them infinitely better than any other weapon besides Moonlight Butterfly or similar bullshit like the black hole beam cannon from G-Reco.
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>>287518977
Nothing stops you from buying a t34 and giving it armored core style dodge boosters
I would go with JATO rockets
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>>287517730
But would we remember love?
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>>287519621
>Nothing stops you from buying a t34 and giving it armored core style dodge boosters
Except, y'know, PHYSICS.

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