Things are coming up mecha! It's funny: until Hawken went into open beta roughly a year ago, I never was interested in the sci-fi concept of 'mecha'. It just always seemed really silly to me for an armored vehicle to drop the inherent stability of treads for balance-heavy legs! In retrospect, maybe it never was a silly as I once thought it was as legged machines seem to be all the rage lately in the world of robotics research. Go figure. Be that as it may, once the mecha bug bit me, it bit deep. Those main battle tanks that had somehow managed to grow a pair of legs can be quite addictive! I have found that there is a thoroughly unique feeling of power that comes with the ability to stride across a battlefield rather than ride across it like some peasant on a donkey. What is more, I quickly learned to appreciate the distinctiveness of the combat that surrounds bipedal tanks. Because something with legs is always going to be more elegant in ...
Because Edmund Burke would have been a gamer....