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Edited by The First Aifos: 3/3/2025 9:09:10 PM
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A hypothetical video game/tabletop game question about big robots

I wanna drive the mech!

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Support the mech from the ground!

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Good evening everybody! This is Aifos coming to you alive from the Twilight City, and I've got a question to pose to you! Let's say you're playing a video game, or a tabletop game, or an RP. For most of this game, you're a regular dude on the ground, with maybe a gun and a sword or two, maybe a few fireball spells or something. At one point in the story, however, you have to fight a giant building sized monster, and to do that your allies role out a giant building sized mech suit to fight it. Your character isn't able to drive the mech suit because of some convoluted lore thing, but rather the character who usually takes the role of your sidekick is the one canonically driving. The mech suit also doesn't belong to you, so you can't customize it at all, but you are allowed to choose what weapons it has. In this situation, would your rather the game let you control the big honking mech suit directly, for a big kaiju fight, or would you rather the game has you remain as your regular non-mech suit self, and the fight is instead about you doing something to support the mech suit from the ground? [b]Tl;dr? Here's my point![/b] -You play as person on ground for most of game. -Big building sized monster fight, allies role out big building sized mech suit. -You are not canonically driving the mech, nor does it belong to you, but you can sit passenger while your sidekick takes the wheel. -Would you rather the game let you control the mech directly, or do something to support it from the ground with no change in your moveset? I'm interested in hearing the reasoning behind your answers, so please explain if you can! :D

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  • I prefer to be ground support for a big mech dude. It feels like having a big strong friend to help! Maybe he lets me ride on his shoulder to cover a distance quicker. And maybe we have special little names to call each other. It’s kinda comforting, especially in a single player game, to have a big guy friend. Or even a little guy pal. That’s the reason I’ve always loved Ghost in Destiny. I generally play alone but I can make silly comments to my Ghostie(as I call him). I guess I just enjoy the kind of false companionship it gives. The feeling of having a buddy but not the drainage of socializing. I loved BD-1 in Star Wars:Jedi Fallen Order for the same reasons. Maybe that’s just me tho [spoiler]sorry for rambling but you made the mistake of asking for my thoughts :p[/spoiler]

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