I kind of want to do a Gundam game and someone suggested Mekton Zeta, but then

I kind of want to do a Gundam game and someone suggested Mekton Zeta, but then

>anime RPG
>from the 90s
>The Cyberpunk 2020 guy

How bad is this gonna be, and in what way? I'm afraid to read it now.

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You'll find comparable systems with less of an anime focus, but if you're planning on running a game based on Gundam, an anime, you'll be hard pressed to find one that does a better job.

The rules are pretty straightforward, and it's easy to learn how to play. The complexity comes into play during combat (but especially mecha-combat), and the only major learning curve or difficulty comes from building mecha; it's something you have to learn to do properly, and you'll only get the hang of it through practice.

All in all? A really solid game for its time, and even today. There's not many alternatives either as far as your prospective game goes.

Make sure you've got the core book, and Mekton Zeta +, it's pretty much essential if you want more than the basic mecha construction stuff.

An user helpfully uploaded a bunch of the books here: mediafire.com/file/xi1lrrcziwrcm3z/Mekton Zeta Complete Pack.zip

That's about as good an endorsement as I hoped for.

I was hoping I could find a copy to read before I bought it.

Thank you, both of you.

It depends on how much time your characters are going to spend in their mechs imo. Cause if you're gonna have them spend a lot of time in their mechs, you might just not want to bother with it, since mech battles largely depend on one thing, and thats what level your Skill stat is at.

>There's not many alternatives either as far as your prospective game goes.

We have a list of literally more than 50 mecha games in a googledoc, to say nothing about generic systems that are capable of pulling off a mech game (and the assholes who'd rather run it in refluffed 4e such as myself).

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A list of 50 mecha games including Mekton, a handful of good but less suitable for his purposes systems, and a bunch of trash.

it's pretty much trash
the rulebook is a completely disorganised mess so during combat you're going to be either looking through shit for hours or making on-the-spot judgements all the time, mech vs mech combat is a crapshoot because it quickly becomes pure (and literal) rocket tag, human vs human combat is also rocket tag but can be mitigated with armour, character creation is broken, the dice system is the swingiest garbage i've ever seen with exploding criticals on 10s and semi-exploding crit fails on 1s leading to it being pretty much impossible to give a sensible difficulty for most checks and giving infinite burst lasers infinitely broken potential, as well as making the luck stat completely fucking useless in any capacity.
the only remotely decent part about it is advanced mecha creation being kind of fun, although you'll want a spreadsheet for that shit and half the shit you make won't actually be viable and if you hand that shit to the players expect to see mistakes and miscalculations abound.

it's one of those games that is potentially workable, but you have to do a shitload of work building premade shit on your own and have to memorise the entire ruleset cover-to-cover or else you're going to have a bad time.

if you're going to run it, good luck

I've been running it for a long time, with multiple games under my belt, and I've yet to experience most of those problems. The one I can't disagree with is the book being disorganized though, there's so much stuff you'd miss just by not reading the entirety of every single page.

It is like everything that was made in the 90's :P But it still works if you read it through.