How would a Mechpunk setting work?

How would a Mechpunk setting work?

Street mech pilots fighting against the man's mechs who are trying to keep them down.

Like battletech or any mecha anime setting.

This thread is dumb.

Use your imagination, user

There are literally hundreds of existing settings where mechs are the primary focus with almost as many variations on that theme ranging from literal cyberpunk with mechs to fantasy settings with mechs with even more permutations of that specific theme.

You've asked this question like a mechpunk setting is a hypothetical thing with a single solution. This is demonstrably not the case.

The answer to "how would a mechpunk setting work" is that there's a near infinite number of ways for it to work and that you should go and look at some examples you dumb shit.

Not every aesthetic has to be *punk you fucking tool

Stealth dragonmech thread ?
Hopeful dragonstar thread ?

I know fuck all about first all but it is about BOLO built by dorfs so what could go wrong ?

If you payed any attention to the series properly, Gundam series is largely about undercity punks trying to overthrow corrupt governments.

First off, you kill yourself for sticking to a bastardized shorthand that's long since lost its meaning.

Secondly, kindly stab yourself in the balls so you don't spread yout 'tisms.

Third, Gurren Lagann

Medabots with a dash of Blassriter and Bokaruno.

>a bunch of scrappy-do teenagers are blessed by a secret robot god and receive super svelt mech suits
>but, secretly, other robot gods have blessed other members of society, and now the teenagers have to sabotage the infernal capitalist machine
>as the teenagers beat more battles, they steal parts from their defeated foes, and gain all sorts of new powers
>until the mech gods get pissed off and show up, blessing various mech suits with super duper extra powers
>and all the mechs need to unite to defeat the new scourge of half-robot, half-people mechs unleashed as an alien virus
>in the end, everyone dies. Particularly the cute girl who overcomes her struggle with something or other, and the spikey haired bandana'd protagonist sacrifices himself to stop the scourge, and will inevitably come back as a villain, until he gets his memories back so he can team up with the second wave of protags to fight an even bigger bad guy

How did I do? I think I killed it.

I'm fucking loving the replies to this thread holy shit

>getting Gundam this fucking wrong

Yup, you pretty much nailed it. Throw in a part about the protagonists best friend that can never beat him betraying him so that he can get ultimate power and you'd make a lot of money.

Robots fight to achieve world peace by killing all humans.

everyone and their mum as some kind of mech
entertainment, warfare, politics, are all dominated by mechs
everyones lives are dominated by the literal and figurative shadow cast by mechs
central conflicts arise from the logical problems of having hundreds of mechs on the road at once

Megaman Legends meets Steambot Chronicles.

Exactly the same as cyberpunk?

Define your fucking terms don't just put -punk onto every fucking thing and act like it's a genre.

I would watch this.

Mech... punk? A setting where everything is a mech? Man you need to explain what is in your head.

Would you watch a prank show where a human celebrity tricks AI into thinking the Robot Revolution is already happening?

/thread

You're being impolite.
Is this a rudepunk setting?

Fuck yes. But only if you get to see the pain on the AI's face after they reveal their true intentions and get terminated.

>You're being impolite.
>Is this a rudepunk setting?
No, but it's a fist-deep-in-your-mom-punk setting.

I would argue that in the RPG-style shorthand form, the essence of cyberpunk is that cyber is democratized but it doesn't make the world any better, whereas in transhuman SF it does make the world better.

So in a mechpunk setting, mechs are accessible to the lower classes, but just like how having an awesome gun or tons of cybermods doesn't make you rich or happy, neither does having a mech capable of destroying a city neighborhood.

Hell, that line of thought makes me want to play in a technothriller game where instead of Clancy's elite specops you are a bunch of Tarantino esque lowlives who have pornographically advanced, expensive ass cutting edge real life firearms but are still living in squalor.

That's not a punk setting. If everyone's moms were getting it good and deep on the reg, the whole world would be a happier better adjusted place.

>Hell, that line of thought makes me want to play in a technothriller game where instead of Clancy's elite specops you are a bunch of Tarantino esque lowlives who have pornographically advanced, expensive ass cutting edge real life firearms but are still living in squalor.

Oh, I got you senpai.

>Tom felt the weight of the weapon in his hands; firing it didn't even feel like killing. The bullets adjusted their trajectory, it automatically compensated for recoil, and the video replay showed everything in 4k resolution. He could even export the video to his Hitman Media account to book better gigs. Tom was just an ordinary guy with a sink full of dishes and a bald spot, but the power he held in his hands was undeniable. He took a deep drag from his cigarette, and thought about his next actions as a god.

>"Bitches. I'm going to get Frank, and we're going to get some bitches."

Murderpunk, ho!

Tell you what, I'll scribble out some more and post it in the story thread later tonight.

No user, that's biopunk.

knight-like mechwarriors piloting mechs being the equivalent of a main battletank to fight over planetary colonies the size of a small city, feared by the footsoldiers and regular combat vehicles, meanwhile the supplies of mech parts run ever shorter due to manufacturing slowing down and the new thread apperas from unknown star sectors

oh wait that's the end of succession wars era and beginning of clan invasion of Battletech universe