The Marine Shield

Barret Wallace-arm from FF7, anyone?

 

that is my other favorite PC game. (i have FF7 on comp)
Barret's gun-arm owns

 

Their hands are big robotic things that they control with their real hands. Didn't you see the marine being made?

 

yeah thats pretty sweet that their hands are in thier wrists.

 

Gief. I've been looking for a PC version of FF7 for like... ages.

 

Kinda weird though. You'd think there would be a learning curve to controlling it cause it looked like it was just a bar with buttons on it. But, maybe its intuitive.

FF7 at Amazon

 

Maybe it is.

 

Hm, on a side note, their bayonets are gone. I'm sort of glad about this. Practicality aside, I don't think any new look beats the classic image of a space marine in a thick power suit holding a rifle half his size. It is just a timeless and simplistic image that can work.

 

bayonetts are gonna be an upgrade like the shields....

 

not bayonettes, what would you use them for? i don't like the image of shield, but it's a useful upgrade, to make the already versatile marine even more!

 

zerglings. bayonetts are for zerglings in melee

 

how can bayonets and shields it be an ''upgrade'' ,its like 29 century there.

 

marines aren't for melee though.

24th century unless Tychus Findlay is 500 years old

 

Hand held shields and bayonets are just silly. Terran are much more advanced than we are so why would they be using ancient technology to fight for their survival? Imagine a soldier today running into battle with a bronze shield and a sickle sword. It just doesn't make sense and seems impractical compared to all of the other technologies that they have.

I think the shield is a good idea, but a good idea in the sense that marines need melee defense. A riot shield is technically a form of defense but it just doesn't fit on a mass scale in the SC universe. At this point I would expect Terran to have worked on energy based technologies and would have made a very primitive form of the Protoss shield.

And as for the bayonets, I don't think they fit in either practicality or image conveyance. The marines are clad in thick metal from head to toe and have a rifle almost as tall as they are that has bullet shells just the size of coke cans. In the wake of a thousand zerglings bearing down upon you what is a six inch piece of metal on the end of your rifle going to do?

 

great summary mage.

elementt- umm...in the UED victory report video is says the year is 2874 or something, look at it.

 

it looks ... SUCKY ... the NEW marines in the COLOSSUS pics ... now ... those are marines :X:X

 

And StarCraft began in 2499 with most of the stuff you do in the original campaign occuring in 2500.

 

the 'they are so advanced argument' doesn't mean anything when talking about hand held sheilds, before the events of sc1 all the marines were fighting against was other humans in gun battles, then suddenly they are facing off against 2 races with staple units that are mellee fighters.
If you look at our military today there is absolutely no need for sheilds in gun battles, but as soon as armed forces find themselves in mellee situations the first thing they are equiped with is a sheild. There isnt a crowd controll force on the planet that doesnt have riot sheilds.
As for bayonets, why not be able to smash a zergling in the face with your bayonet, while constantly firing!

 

And also, for your arguement that a bayonet is ancient technololgy...a knife is ancient technology as well, yet soldiers are still armed with a knife in battle, hell, soldiers are starting to be armed with bayonets as well....hell, having a bayonet just means another way to kill someone when you're out of bullets instead of being boned on the spot.

 

i realize that, but read what Gui said. why not put blades on your gun so when something tries to eat you you can stab them AND shoot them? Marines arent melee units, and get tore up when something gets in melee with them, so a bit of defence to that is a very good idea.