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how come the gundams never got good at close combat?
- Thread starter bangai-o
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I don't think German Suplex's and leg sweeps are a good idea when both you and your opponent are walking nuclear bombs
also when like half your combat takes place in zero g
like "oh no, you moved my leg, now i'm floating slightly weird"
Outside of G-Gundam, you don't want to get close in a mobile suit fight unless you have to. I learned that the hard way in Gundam Versus.
Y'know, G-Reco wasn't on my radar but after these gifs...G Gundam is the easiest answer, but G-Reco has loads of it, including German (Gundam) Suplex!
That's like attempting close combat with a dude who is holding a gun...and has two more built into his chest. What kind of results do you expect from that?
It's definitely something, but when it's good, it's really good.
Considering almost every gundam under the sun has a beam saber, I'd say they have always been pretty good at close combat.
Yeah but just swinging swords and punching each other. The ground combat was pretty fast in that series though. The suits would skid along the ground to make it faster but in the end they're mostly just smacking and ramming into each other. It's nothing sophisticated like those G-Reco gifs and I feel like it all comes down to the controls. How do you even do all that stuff in the G-Reco gifs?
That's why the G Gundam piloting system is the best and I'm surprised no later series has ripped that element off.
Giant mecha controls doesn't make a lot of sense with traditional cockpit design anyway. There's so many articulating parts to control, and not just limbs/fingers. Not to mention the extreme weights that ankle and knee joints have to bear in order to move this giant thing. G gundam's cockpit is pretty advanced that I'm not even gonna question how fantastical it is, or every outrageous thing in that show.
Most of the time they get close to each other, they kill each other with melee weapons, which is arguably more effective than wrestling moves.
Two episodes into the original series, the named antagonist character realizes his weapons are ineffective and has the idea of killing/disabling the protagonist by just kicking his cockpit repeatedly (since the pilot inside the impenetrable cockpit is still squishy and vulnerable to shock)
The very first Gundam had a sword, a spear, and a huge fuckoff ball and chain
I think they got it
The very first Gundam had a sword, a spear, and a huge fuckoff ball and chain
I think they got it
