Reality Check - Titans in Real Life? The Science of Titanfall

wow, Gamespot really is putting it's time into keeping titanfall on people's minds this last couple of weeks.

I understand it's the biggest Microsoft title for the year, but why so much hype?

is it really that important?

So what does it say about us gamers when we like to play Skyrim or GTA, but are upset seeing a deer getting a shot?

titanfall? figures

Fallout power armor! :D

Get in the robot Shinji.

5:12. That sounds dangerously close to how Otacon (from MGS) got started in science. Next thing you know it's gonna be stolen by terrorists and be loaded with missiles.

Also... 3:55. Try telling that to Metal Gear RAY. XD

OK I'm done.

Kevin Van Nord doesn't need a stinkin' Raytheon XOS2. He can curl a 200kg dumbell with his grimacing chin.

Always thought mechs were not practical for war. Instead of war it should be a sport. It'd be a good replacement to football.

I was waiting for him to mention the robot that he did at the end. Techniquely speaking that would be a viable titanfal mech in terms of in casing the pilot. Plus if something like that were deployed in like say a war zone it could work as type mobile weapons platform/support/front line unit where it could be utilized. However it reminds me more of Steel Lancer Arena International the old PS2 game.

A bit off topic but also cool is the fact that there is already a working lazer weapon that the US army though not mass produced at the moment and more in the prototype faze. I dont remember the exact name of it but it is basically a giant disc on wheels which can fire a big lazer beam the problem here is the fact that it needs to be focused on it's target for sevral minutes after which it basically destroys anything electrical. So it's not really like the lazer shown in movies in the video they basically showed how it could be used to easily take down planes and tanks in the future if they could get the lazer to be more effective. Since it shoots so fast if I remember correctly it was easy to hit with but having to focus on a target on sevral minutes before it doing anything is to unrealiable in actual combat and they will most likely be targeted and destroyed before doing anything. This kinda makes me think these kind of things from movies and games are not impossible to make.

Also on this episode, while it would be cool and awesome with giants robotsuits or mechsoldiers. I do believe that for now atleast the issue is cost and our technology for a long time working mobile suit of this kind is not possible. Still if in the future a giant mech with the mobility shown in games and movies was possible a single mech unit could most likely alone devastate a whole armored divizion that is being used today on it's own.

Am I disappointed by not having giant mechs walking around no the battlefield? No. Unfortunately, there are much cheaper and more terrifying ways for humans to kill each other. Why is man so innovative when it comes to finding new and exciting ways to destroy life?

Can y'all say police state 2020?

This episode reminded me of a classic Onion News video in which a military representative was talking about why he thought that Obama's cancellation of the army's gigantic invincible dragon tank project was a poor idea. He declared that it was necessary at times to terrify your enemies with a deafening a roar and destroy them with an all-consuming flame.

So yes, we need Titans. Because...reasons.

im sorry to say but i dont want no cheap ass easy to kills titan, i want a gundam. made from gundanium alloy which can only be created in zero G, powerd by a nuke generator. specifically i would want the all powerful gundam winged 0 from gundam wing with an advanced AI battle system that expands the mind of the user allowing them to not just become smarter but even see what's to come. along with a beam saber, 2 shoulder mounted gatling guns, a super thick gundanium shield and a twin blaster rifle powerful enough to destroy space colonies in one shot. titan, ha you may as well be in a suit made of paper against a gundam.

good

... and as Cam you said: Let me shooooowww you the power of T.A.L.O.S.

I'm honestly not that interested personally in military applications of stuff. For me the military is the way the human race settles its "playground" disputes in an adult way, only innocent people get killed in the process, rather than a couple of kids rolling around on the floor.

It may always be necessary to have military and it is sad to think that many of the best advances we've made have come from the military's need to kill people and some of the worst.

Just look at the Haber Process, the German scientist behind it created it when their supply of nitrogen compounds was cut off from places like South America.

Their need for explosives is the reason we can now sustain 7 billion people on the planet by creating fertilisers.

Science should be in my opinion used for the betterment of the human race and the other organisms on the planet, not for destruction of those same organisms whether on purpose or otherwise.

Space travel is fun to think about but honestly we are so far from such a reality it is hard to get worked up over right now. And the same goes for robots really. They are great things yet so limited at the same time.

Personally I think genetic and actual human advancement is much more interesting. Why rely on robots that need a backpack to use when we can cut out the middle man all together? Biological/electronic interfaces might always be a thing but there is no reason we can't better ourselves at a molecular level at the same time.

i dont know a forklift is pretty damn close lol, weve had that for ages. Just put a gatling gun on a more mobile forklift, theres your mech.

Yeah, what IS with that guy's hair? ;)

so i really should be feeling sorry for anyone having to fight this sht in 10-100 yrs from now.

Exciting maybe, but its not cool, the countries that dont have this tech are going to be stupidly exploited by the very few people that run the American military.

People like Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld and bush etc (who uses the military as a business oppurtunity) with this friggin technology is not even something id like to think about.

Great episode as always Cam - Gamespot wouldn't be the same without you!

Really good ep. nicely answered all the usual questions that come to my head when the idea of giant mech killing machines come to mind.

Anybody else think of the Aliens mech when they saw that Raytheon exoskeleton? Its like an uncanny miniature.

I love this show and thanks for the apology Cam :)

Can't wait for this game