Because they're fucking awesome and people tend to love em'
May as well ask why sugar and fat are so popular in food
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Because they're fucking awesome and people tend to love em'
May as well ask why porn and cat videos are so popular online
Because they're fucking awesome and people tend to love em'
Might as well ask why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Because it's GRRRRRRREAT!
wait...shit...
There's truth to this. I recall an old saying, went something like "Chicks dig giant robots."
Because mech has rigid body and gamedev likes controlling rigid body
Because human combatants means blood and gore and censorship or brutality.
Robots allow extreme violence, without the moral issues.
I personally prefer big, clunky, stompy mechs (ala mechwarrior) over the super nimble ones (Armored Core, Gundam), but they're all great nonetheless.
Because they increase the scale of combat to allow for michael bay like moments without having to write a character with nuclear weapon power levels
sexual perversion i assume