Solution 9 - Unfounded Speculation!

[Iscah]

Well there's the practicality aspect of things. Our real world militaries have tanks and helicopters yet I don't commute to work in a killdozer and I don't think the average family has access to a private helicopter.

It's more the... silhouette? The vibe? A military truck or tank isn't a car but is built along the same general philosophy – it's a roughly rectangular vehicle with wheels on the long sides. It's a practical design.

If Garlean civilians have cars, why is the Garlean military not using cars? Who decided "let's build an ornate gilded mecha instead"?

[kaynide]

It's more the... silhouette? The vibe? A military truck or tank isn't a car but is built along the same general philosophy – it's a roughly rectangular vehicle with wheels on the long sides. It's a practical design.

If Garlean civilians have cars, why is the Garlean military not using cars? Who decided "let's build an ornate gilded mecha instead"?

Kinda this for me as well. Like they have massive flying death ships, but the population is just hanging in there with old timey radios and space heaters?

I had expected closer to what Cid puts out, but maybe a little lower tech (hoversleds, monorails, something like a contained shopping mall). I get not having mecha-leg-vehicles, but at the very least they have to match the chocobo carriage with air bladders.

I guess I was expecting something closer to Fallout tech, but we got some kinda pseudo Soviet 1940s vibe.