What are the criteria for a machine to be classified as "Metal Gear"?

What are the criteria for a machine to be classified as "Metal Gear"?
They're not all nuclear and they're not all bipedal.

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snake has to refer to it as a METAL GEAR.

That's it.

They DO have to be bipedal though, don't they?

I mean, the only non-bypedal metal-gear that I can think of is Shagohod, and that was never referred to as a Metal Gear. And it STILL had a kinda-sorta-almost-not-really bipedal mode

OPs image is not bipedal dumbass
Bi means two and it clearly has four limbs. Wings count for limbs as well not just arms and legs or did you gloss over that in biology?

Biped is a descriptive term for movement you ignorant savage.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1571302/

They have to be a giant robot with legs.

>arms are legs too!

Yh but ARSENAL was a fucking boat.

Arsenal was a metal gear but it wasn't bipedal.

I don't remember them calling Arsenal a Metal Gear though.

its basically was tho

>tfw mankind isn't bipedal anymore thanks to user
What sort of animals are bipedal then? I can't think of anything that has only 2 legs and no other limbs.

bipedal doesn't mean it only has two limbs you fucking retard

It wasn't. It was an Arsenal Gear.

>American education

Bipedal means it walks with two legs, dumbass.

You're right, it was Arsenal Gear, not Metal Gear Arsenal.

it was called arsenal gear for a reason fuckface

ur an arsenal gear faggot

>he still got this many replies with this obvious bait

eh, 5/7 i guess.

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This user is correct. I just checked.

Interesting that there are multiple types of Gear though.

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>"Arsenal Gear, the codename for the new Metal Gear"

The president says this

I think I remember them referring to it as a "metal gear" early on

He did? Well fuck this is going all over the place.

>"the new Metal Gear"
a figurative comparison, not a literal one.

Wait this is important. Is Arsenal Gear a Metal Gear or a different classification of Gear?

Excelsus had six legs an no nuclear capabilities as we saw it. It could be modified to launch nukes though. As it was, it could be used for tunnelling and raze city.

It has to be bipedal and capable of launching nukes, I think.
Hence why EXCELSUS isn't a Metal Gear.

Arguably seeing as the Peace Walker prototypes all had Metal Gear systems in them...

its just a name man, this stuff isn't thought out

Arsenal Gear was the latest Metal Gear at the time

Negative. The Earliest Metal Gears were not bipedal. Hell one of them was mounted on a space rocket.

Maybe being launch-capable though.

Next generation mobile artillery and weapons platform evolved from tanks.

see

It needs to be able to roar or screech intimidatingly

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Undetectable nuclear capable mech
RAY is an anti-metal gear

if the president says it, its probably a goddamn metal gear

They also had the Excelsius in MGR, I don't remember but the AI weapons in Peace Walker were not refered to as Metal Gears until the Peace Walker itself right?

The AI weapons were just AI weapons. Only ZEKE and Peace Walker are actual Metal Gears.

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>The Earliest Metal Gears were not bipedal.
Shagohod wasn't a Metal Gear.

I would argue this point considering the AIs were basically parts of Metal Gear.

If I cut my hand off is my hand no longer human?

most of them are bipedal and nuclear but what classified them as Metal gear is their cuteness.

excelsius is not a true metal gear, it was simply given the name 'metal gear excelsius' to try and cash in a buyer, which it did.

Bi means you're into both genders though

metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/ICBMG

Metal Gear Ray is so sexy, I wanna fuck that bipedal cutie

Excelsus is explicitly said to NOT be a Metal Gear, it was just branded as one because Desperado knew it would sell more if they marketed it as a Metal Gear.

Just like Metal Gear Rising

>drumpfkins

Your hand isn't a human, its part of a human though, that really wasn't a good analogy but at least you didn't use food as usual

Except we have no actual anything to use as a way to say something is or isn't a Metal Gear

Why are you using the misinformation debunked later in the game? Y-you're not shitposting, are you user?

Implying a human fetus is only part of a human ohshitherewegoagain jk prochoice for life.

>Some of Raiden's support team mentions that it was given the title of Metal Gear as part of promotional elements as calling it a Metal Gear would have it sell better. This is an unsubtle reference to complaints about how Metal Gear Rising was not a true Metal Gear due to the more action-oriented gameplay being emphasized over the stealth of prior games.

Fucking quality bait.

>Portable Ops
Not canon.

The President is just a figurehead.

Right below its tail.

Portable Ops isnt canon.

>REX
>Dinosaur with a sword and shield
>RAY
>Amphibious Lizard
>Arsenal
>Manta ray
>Shagohod
>Frog

Just because Kojima couldn't handle people writing Metal Gear better than he could.

Its only a Metal Gear if it was designed by Granin. All other ones are just wannabes.

>Following an encounter with a Gekko in 2014, Otacon explained to Old Snake that what made a "Metal Gear" was specifically its nuclear launch capability.
>Otacon noted that RAY was an exception to the definition, as it was overall created under the premise of nuclear strategy (it targeting nuclear warhead-equipped Metal Gears).

>Nuclear Equipped Walking Battle Tank

>Bi means two and it clearly has four limbs. Wings count for limbs as well not just arms and legs or did you gloss over that in biology?

Bi means two but "pedal" comes from the Latin word for foot, "pes", of which the alternate form "pedis" is used in declining nouns. My Latin grammar is far worse than my Classical Greek, but I know that bipedal means two feet. Feet are things you stand on, so arms and wings don't count.

All of the Metal Gear games are terribly written except for the second, Portable Ops isn't any better.

>>Nuclear Equipped Walking Battle Tank

Also known as a:

NEWBT

That metal gear is by far my favourite.

why is its design so fucking good?

do they have to roar?

>we will never see the awesome might of CHAIOTH HA QADESH again

For some reason bullying Ray always gives me a hard on.

REX had to roar because Otacon is a weeb and thought it would be fucking cool

Same reason it has a laser

>shoot RAY in the knees
>it screams
Oh yes

Is this THE shittiest Metal Gear?
It can't even stand without a psychic boosting it, and a literally who managed to bring it down.

what was it even supposed to be used for? I forgot

can never post again please

WORDS

CAN

NUKE

Combat in mountainous regions (like Afghanistan)

It had deplated uranium armor that the metallic archae could metabolize into weapon grade nuclear material. Guess it could launch nuclear missiles too.

sugg my pedis :---D

This guy gets it

why are its legs so cute?

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Needs one in doggystyle.

>It can't even stand without a psychic boosting it
But it can? Cuckman makes it stand when they do recover it, the problem, as said by the game itself, is that Skull Face was a screaming retard, instead of making it being AI controlled as Cuckman said, he wanted to make it pilotable by human, even though there was no fucking space in it, being barely able to house a fucking child in it.

And even then it never got finished when Mantis started using it as a puppet, stupidly, Sally is the most advanced MG outside of the Ray because of the retarded weapons it uses

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It has to be made of metal. All metal gear have this so far. It also has to be part of a larger arsenal of weaponry, so that it might be looked at like wargear.

Good, now one focused on it's rear and I'll be a happy man. I wonder if /d/ will be ok with a request like that.

They could've removed the already superfluous "Battle" (Seriously what the fuck else is a Nuclear Equipped Walking Tank going to be for? Doing the laundry?) and would've had the awesome acronym "NEWT"

Interesting. Keep going.

I think it's a bastardization of Main Battle Tank

That would be wrong

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Not bad but Ray looks better being the bitch in my opinion.

ok but MG RAY vs MG RAY Mod

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