The most memorable vehicle in a video game, to me, is Axel from Twisted Metal. You're not likely to forget a vehicle that's literally just a dude holding wheels.
They also list the Fenrir motorcycle and cite the movie Advent Children instead of the one game it appeared in, which is Dirge of Cerberus, even though they cited the X-Wing as being from Battlefront.
I twigged to that immediately, also. Canonically according to the Internet the Arwing is supposed to be 28 "sm" long in its SNES incarnation and 18.5 of them thereafter, only raising the question of what the hell the "sm" is as a unit and how that translates to real world ones. But assuming that Fox and his furry pals are roughly the same proportions as humans, the way the Arwing is consistently depicted is with a single seater cockpit that one of them fits in to handily, roughly analogous to a real world fighter jet. Thus we can assume they're about the same proportions. So, like 18 to 20 meters long, which makes Star Fox's units (maybe they're "space meters") seem pretty comparable.
It felt wrong to me too, but the thing is they've chosen to put it on page 2 which is a bit confusing.
Compare its size with the X-wing on page 1 (using the Metal Gear as a reference), taking into account the different orientation. They look pretty similar (which is obviously what people who designed the Arwing were going for).
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Kolanaki@pawb.social · 18 pts · 67d
The most memorable vehicle in a video game, to me, is Axel from Twisted Metal. You're not likely to forget a vehicle that's literally just a dude holding wheels.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 68d
The Silt Strider is not a vehicle, it is an animal. Actually, there are a lot of animals in this.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 68d
They also list the Fenrir motorcycle and cite the movie Advent Children instead of the one game it appeared in, which is Dirge of Cerberus, even though they cited the X-Wing as being from Battlefront.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 68d
Roach is powered by "Horse Heart" but Epona isn't even powered by carrots. Whoever made this knows nothing.
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz · 2 pts · 67d
Why can't it be both?
nailbar@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 68d
The Wathog from Halo series
The X-Wing from Star Wars Battlefront
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I guess the X-Wings from the rest of the series are inferior to this one?
Thatuserguy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 68d
The arwing is that big? That can't be right
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 68d
I twigged to that immediately, also. Canonically according to the Internet the Arwing is supposed to be 28 "sm" long in its SNES incarnation and 18.5 of them thereafter, only raising the question of what the hell the "sm" is as a unit and how that translates to real world ones. But assuming that Fox and his furry pals are roughly the same proportions as humans, the way the Arwing is consistently depicted is with a single seater cockpit that one of them fits in to handily, roughly analogous to a real world fighter jet. Thus we can assume they're about the same proportions. So, like 18 to 20 meters long, which makes Star Fox's units (maybe they're "space meters") seem pretty comparable.
I think the Arwing's on the wrong page, here.
Where's MatPat when you need him?
EarMaster@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 68d
It is depicted as a little bit shy of 100ft here, so this checks roughly out. If it is too large it's only by a fraction…
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 68d
SM is obviously Square Miles.
Though more likely, "Standard Meter" was the intention, after the SM^3, Standard Cubic Meter.
brsrklf@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 67d
It felt wrong to me too, but the thing is they've chosen to put it on page 2 which is a bit confusing.
Compare its size with the X-wing on page 1 (using the Metal Gear as a reference), taking into account the different orientation. They look pretty similar (which is obviously what people who designed the Arwing were going for).
FatVegan@leminal.space · 6 pts · 68d
Lol the GTA 5 vehicle does a whooping 105 mph. No wonder these games don't have speedometers
brsrklf@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 67d
Even if there were, you don't have to make those accurate.
F-Zero GX is quite fast, but I really don't think it's 2,000 km/h fast.
toddestan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 67d
One of the tricks GTA V uses to make the world seem bigger is they slow down the vehicles so that it takes longer to travel.
And actually most of the vehicles do have working speedometers if you drive them in first person view.
radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 68d
Strange that the Prawn Suit from Subnautica is there, but the SeaMoth or Cyclops aren't.
EarMaster@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 68d
Atlas from Titanfall 2 is the only one I care about… sniff
WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 66d
It is a silt strider haiii haiiii hiiii :D
tio_bira@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 65d
You n'wahs think the greatest taxi service on history of the videogames would be left out of a topic like this...
WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 63d
Mages guild transportation> (rage bait) seeth s'wit
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 66d
No Yggdrasil from Xenogears?
pasdechance@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 68d
I thought there might be at least one shmup. The R9 from R-Type? The Vic Viper? Silver Hawk? Fighting Thunder?
Still really cool though!
Smoogs@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 68d
chocobo is basically icarus as well
taiyang@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 68d
Quite a few FF airships, but I'm more a Blackjack person (but than again you get Falcon later on so that's two vehicles I guess).
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 67d
I have not seen anything of Eve Online.
The boat from The Last Caretaker would be an interesting addition, too.