Wow. This is quite a thing you've made here, Scuttlest. Thanks.

Well, those images are certainly enough to scare me for awhile. I mean, the monsters close to the bottom, like the weird bloody white birdman. Is it's own blood dripping from the neck?

Apparently it is an action adventure game, similar in style to Monster Hunter. When I can, I'll see what Google translates the site as.

Apparently Nintendo will be at E3 on June 5th, at around 9. Random, but there may just be something  amazing.

So a question that I thought of. If some company were to produce robots for general consumption, why would they?  Would the company sell them as toys, caretakers, or etc? There should also be a sustainable market, i.e, new models, upgrades, and accessories.

If robots were to be made by the government, and for some reason given to the people, what reason would the Government have had to produce them for us? An alien threat? Testing military technology?  I'm just throwing out potential reasons.

Haha, I seem to have unwittingly created a place where the tech can be discussed.

May 9, 2012 -- 8:09PM, Sanjiv wrote:

I've still got tech on my mind.  If we're ever going to actually have robots prevalent in our real world, either

1) They'd have to be mass produced, large scale (economies of scale, and what not, and this is what the current education system normally prepares us for.)

or 

2) Be produced on a small scale. THIS is what I'm expecting and looking forward to.  But this won't happen unless it's cheap and inexpensive.  The good news is that tech is getting cheap and inexpensive, which means that more an dmore people can play with it.

But of course this comes with problems too...

Whether they're produced on a large or small scale will really depend upon resources and how much money it takes to create them. And how many jobs they're really applicable in. I don't think the fantasy depection of all/nearly all hard and manual jobs being handled by robots is ever really going to happen.

Of course, I can also see the outcry of people getting laid off because machines can do their jobs more efficently. Though that would be more of a reflection of how cultural systems haven't really been able to keep up with the incredible advance in technology in the last decades.

I just hope no one's genius enough to mass-produce fully sentinent robots as a labor force. That's actually a headdesk worthy moment about Mega Man X. "Oh, yes, you are a fully sentinent robot who can think, feel, and make his own moral judgements. Now, here's your pick-axe, get into that mine and dig for minerals for the rest of your life." You can smell the illogic.

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I have slaughtered Asura's Wrath. Now every trophy is mine, except for... some final one that I probably can't get until the Asura vs. Akuma DLC comes.

@ Ant: You pointing out the lack of Capocm?

@ robots as labor force: They'll probably start off being created as nurses and care takers for elder folk. The ability for compassion and empathy would be very useful there.  

Then, as the manufacturers look for more markets for their products, the robots will likely be used for disaster relief. Robots hardier than humans are obviously a better choice to send into harms way, and again the strong ability for compassion and empathy might be exactly what vicitms need. This also nicely builds on the previous medical care-taker functionality.

Once the robots have been developed for going into disaster zones, that makes them prime candidates for peace-keeping misisons, or border patrols, or any armed police or millitary action where the situation is rough, but the law enforcers need to avoid losing their cool, and resist actually hurting people. Again it's the compassion. And in this manner the use for robots may continue to expand.

As situations get more and more complicated, and robots have to act more and more indepently of human field agents, their intelligence and awareness will have to be stepped up.  As they develope a sense of self...From here things get trickier than I'd get into in an 'off topic' thread.  

The end result is that robots become a relatively autonomus social class with limited rights. If they're expected to work for their upkeep, and are allowed to choose whatever profession they want, then it's forseeable that industry can manipulate economic and political circumstances to basically force robots into labor jobs no one else is willing to fullfill in the way robots are.