>>5775486Whilst playing through random retro dos games like Mechwarrior 2 (which annoyed me, because I was planning on doing some SPACE MONGOLIAN worldbuilding, except it seems like FASA battletech rpg lore already has extensively done this with mechwarrior argh argh) I noticed a few things lol: in the 90s it was perfectly acceptable for a mainstream ATVI videogame to advocate a disturbing eugenics narrative (the Mechwarrior games have extensive details and pages of descriptive lore concerning eugenics breeding and caste stratification) but also, the FASA rpg mech games had an interesting adaptation of rpg systems I have not seen before.
Basically, when you customise your mech, you have to assign critical points to the torso (divided into right centre left portions) legs and arms and cockpit/head etc. So every weapon, ammunition, heatsink or jumpjet has a critical point that must be allocated; if your mech suffers a critical hit at that location, the ammunition or weapon at that point explodes which is pretty severe. I thought this was a good balancing tactic, it restricts the mounting of weapons and ammunition somewhat and requires careful consideration; also, you cannot build unbalanced designs like just 1 long range missile with huge amounts of ammunition because you run out of critical point slots in the torso and limbs.
Incidentally if you are going to play a retro dos mech game I recommend Metaltech: Earthsiege instead, this older videogame actually has better graphics and more intense combat sound effects than Mechwarrior (the laser and missile sounds are terrible in the ATVI games, the graphics have not aged well). The Mechwarrior games do have a good story and space opera level of worldbuilding though, inherited from the FASA rpg setting, though I am not too familiar with it
I also read all of Persuasion by Jane Austen, hmmm it was not that great. A synopsis of the narrative
>a girl falls over and hurts her head>she does not die>that is it, that is the entire novelI had the sense that Jane Austen really wanted to write Master and Commander or Pirates Of The Caribbean you can just see Russell Crowe and wafting cinders of broadside cannonfire in the background, all the captains and admirals and frigates and man'o war... but it was not to be.
hmmm I wonder if having failed to create Tom Clancy Jane Austen in the past (it exists, it was Demi Moore being waterboarded in GI JANE) can I create the even more bizarre MECHA JANE AUSTEN hmmm, the two genres of fiction that are the most divergent... can they be united?
