Good lord, this is a great idea! I know you've mentioned gaming specifically, but I seriously hope you write something in this; I will read the hell out of it if you do!
Hmm. Armored Core, huh? Drawing influence from those games? Which ones? Are Murokumo Millenium or Chrome or ChemicalDyne present in this world? Taking inspiration mainly from the later Armored Cores? Plenty of megacorps to mine from there, given how they seemed to introduce new ones with every new sequel cluster.
Not that you're hurting for megacorps to draw from. There's plenty in many, many sources. GENOM, obviously, but how about http://redfaction.wikia.com/wiki/Ultor_Corporation]Ultor? OCP? Wayland-Yutani? Umbrella? http://fallout.gamepedia.com/Pre-war_companies]WestTek, RoboCo, Vault-Tec, Poseidon Energy?
I imagine you'll probably go with largely Gundam-y tech given how there's a lot of Rule of Fun and A Wizard Did It in Armored Core, whereas Gundam goes to great lengths to describe/document its (admittedly ridiculous) technology--maybe crib some stuff from AC4, though? Great themes of technology destroying the environment/world in the game (also, Primal Armor was pretty cool). Of course, there's always http://armoredcore.wikia.com/wiki/Destroy_%22Justice%22]Giant Space Gun "Justice". And http://armoredcore.wikia.com/wiki/Human_PLUS]Human PLUS, which would be way appropriate--can't have Shadowrun without street samurai, after all.
Where does Zeon sit in this? Are they fueled by a long-overdue reaction against dystopian corporate rule? The manifestation of a UC-esc space freedom movement? Just Zabi Corporation's hijacking of some movement? Against Shadowrun-y megacorps, a UC-ish Zeon could look almost heroic.
Are you considering an outright war and chaos/things fall apart arc in world progression? It'd thematically appropriate with Armored Core, but might not fit with what you want (depending on what you want), I'd guess.
And so many characters to choose from and play with! Planning on doing anything with those loads and loads of UC characters? Who's on the wrong side of the law? Who's with the corps? Like, does this mean Emma Sheen is working for a megacorp? Or, did her personal honor take her down a different path? Bright Noa? What places are there for idealistic young chaps like Amuro and Kamille? Obviously, in such a universe, Judeau would be on the wrongest side of the law he could possibly be on that still afforded him a good night's sleep and mirror privileges. http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Paptimus_Scirocco]Dear ol' Pappy? Hell, Char--we know where he'd be, but if the Zabi's are opposing the megacorps, can he really put giving the megacorps a bloody nose aside to get revenge for his father? Or is Char a sellout? (Or the Zeons corporate puppets/a megacorp themselves.)
Pardon me if I'm a bit overenthusiastic, but I'm just about dyin' for some good cyberpunk. And I'm a huge fan of (at least the older interations of) Armored Core.
Hmm. Armored Core, huh? Drawing influence from those games? Which ones? Are Murokumo Millenium or Chrome or ChemicalDyne present in this world? Taking inspiration mainly from the later Armored Cores? Plenty of megacorps to mine from there, given how they seemed to introduce new ones with every new sequel cluster.
Not that you're hurting for megacorps to draw from. There's plenty in many, many sources. GENOM, obviously, but how about http://redfaction.wikia.com/wiki/Ultor_Corporation]Ultor? OCP? Wayland-Yutani? Umbrella? http://fallout.gamepedia.com/Pre-war_companies]WestTek, RoboCo, Vault-Tec, Poseidon Energy?
I imagine you'll probably go with largely Gundam-y tech given how there's a lot of Rule of Fun and A Wizard Did It in Armored Core, whereas Gundam goes to great lengths to describe/document its (admittedly ridiculous) technology--maybe crib some stuff from AC4, though? Great themes of technology destroying the environment/world in the game (also, Primal Armor was pretty cool). Of course, there's always http://armoredcore.wikia.com/wiki/Destroy_%22Justice%22]Giant Space Gun "Justice". And http://armoredcore.wikia.com/wiki/Human_PLUS]Human PLUS, which would be way appropriate--can't have Shadowrun without street samurai, after all.
Where does Zeon sit in this? Are they fueled by a long-overdue reaction against dystopian corporate rule? The manifestation of a UC-esc space freedom movement? Just Zabi Corporation's hijacking of some movement? Against Shadowrun-y megacorps, a UC-ish Zeon could look almost heroic.
Are you considering an outright war and chaos/things fall apart arc in world progression? It'd thematically appropriate with Armored Core, but might not fit with what you want (depending on what you want), I'd guess.
And so many characters to choose from and play with! Planning on doing anything with those loads and loads of UC characters? Who's on the wrong side of the law? Who's with the corps? Like, does this mean Emma Sheen is working for a megacorp? Or, did her personal honor take her down a different path? Bright Noa? What places are there for idealistic young chaps like Amuro and Kamille? Obviously, in such a universe, Judeau would be on the wrongest side of the law he could possibly be on that still afforded him a good night's sleep and mirror privileges. http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Paptimus_Scirocco]Dear ol' Pappy? Hell, Char--we know where he'd be, but if the Zabi's are opposing the megacorps, can he really put giving the megacorps a bloody nose aside to get revenge for his father? Or is Char a sellout? (Or the Zeons corporate puppets/a megacorp themselves.)
Pardon me if I'm a bit overenthusiastic, but I'm just about dyin' for some good cyberpunk. And I'm a huge fan of (at least the older interations of) Armored Core.
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