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As a Transformers nerd, this thread has my full attention. Not so big on the G1 stuff, more of a Beast Wars or Prime guy myself, but love the game.
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chiasaur11 posted:To be fair, in some continuities (like modern IDW), so was the government he wanted to overthrow. He just took things a bit too far. Coolguye posted:In Aligned, which incorporated the other two transformers games we've done, the cybertronian status quo before megatron was a really rigid and brutal caste system, which is likely where you're remembering the "megatron was right" stuff. The only reason megatron could rise was because there was an entire hemisphere of Cybertron that was living in more or less abject poverty and brutality to make a decent mode of living for the other half. That's about the size of it. Megatron was a gladiator that lead a revolution of lower class bots with some genuine gripes, but he quickly devolves into a brutal tyrant as the power goes to his head. He demands to become Prime, which is essentially a divinely granted post, and spread his vision of domination and extermination across the galaxy. He and Orion Pax start out as friends, but fall out when his power lust grows to great. Orion is chosen and upgraded into Optimus Prime for peace and goodness and all, and the Autobot/Decepticon factions form to begin their all out war that basically kills their entire planet/god. They escape and much marketable fighting ensues.
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Nov 3, 2016 20:23
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Is this kind of discussion of more than thirty years of lore is why I like Transformers threads so much. The setting has developed into something surprisingly rich for mostly selling toys.
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Nov 4, 2016 08:30
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Rabidredneck posted:One problem with combiners that the IDW comics like to focus on is the fact that you have multiple personalities trying to co-exist in a single body. Devastator for example acts slow and stupid because his component parts are always arguing over the best course of action, even later combiners tend to have the same problem. One series had them being treated as weapons of mass destruction, and for good reason. When they start fighting each other they can lose focus on their surroundings, and suddenly a major cybertronian city or industrial area is now in ruins while two giants are still duking it out. Devastator was one of the better results. Bruticus ended up dumber than a box of rocks, but willing to take orders while Menasor and Abominus are just rampaging monsters because their components are all screwed up and hate each other. Autobot combiners fare a better on that front with relatively few of their teams absolutely despising each other, but they still end up either hyperfocused on the current tasks or take so long to debate an action as to be a hindrance in a fight. VolticSurge posted:Yeah,I liked the series a lot. Even if the finale did leave several plot points unaddressed,I would say it had a satisfactory run. As opposed to the new RiD. *shudder* OK,I'll do my best to explain why RiD is inferior in every way. Or rather I would,if that didn't require watching the entire thing. So I'll just tell you some of the stuff I told Coolguye on Steam this one time. I haven't been able to bother watching an episode all the way through thanks to Cartoon Network doing everything in their power to sabotage series that aren't Teen Titans Go, but what I have seen has looked pretty bad. Like the usual attempts to make a good series fit the definition of some corporate stuffed suit's idea of "child friendly."
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Nov 4, 2016 22:05
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Kurui Reiten posted:gently caress you. What is this "Kiss Players" of which you speak? It sounds like a horribly disturbing, basically pedophillic bit of insanity that absolutely did not exist in any way shape or form.
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Nov 8, 2016 16:32
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Kurui Reiten posted:You don't reach nearly Wonderful 101 levels of escalation, but poo poo will get much more extreme, yes. There isn't much way to top Wonderful 101 (until Wonderful 102 comes out), but it should get pretty absurd given what we have to work with here.
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Nov 10, 2016 05:01
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Polaron posted:Ratchet's not really a science-y dude, he's just a really old, tired doctor. Perceptor is literally Wheeljack's replacement after the massacre that was the cartoon movie. Ratchet's pretty science-y in Prime, but scientist/medic/engineer/weaponsmith all kind of blend together when your patients are Transformers, after all.
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Nov 10, 2016 05:18
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Kurui Reiten posted:Of course, half of the reason for all that is that Bayformers tend to look like random masses of scrap metal with a little paint and almost no loving armor. Seriously, it looks like if you jammed a stick into one of them somewhere, all their gears and poo poo would seize. No wonder they die so easily. If they were just designed to look simpler in robot form, a lot of rendering power could be shifted. Prime seemed to refine the basic Bayformers style into something that actually looked decent. Parts slid together to form mostly solid coverings with reasonable colors leaving characters looking distinct rather than jumbled masses of metal. Sure, they cheated with size changing parts and faces moving as if they were liquid metal, but that looked so much better than any of the films' crap. Geostomp fucked around with this message at 10:35 on Nov 11, 2016 |
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Nov 11, 2016 10:32
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TheDarkFlame posted:A medic robot that can only transform into a leg being called Ambulon is kinda great. Welcome to Transformers.
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Nov 12, 2016 15:47
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Orv posted:Are you all on drugs? Platinum games do weird things to your brain.
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Nov 30, 2016 03:10
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VolticSurge posted:OK,I can get behind Evil Optimus Prime. Considering how evil he was already acting in the other movies,I'm sure that one "the Bay films are actually brilliant" guy's probably high-fiving himself as we speak I'd' almost forgive Bay for everything if he could do this right. Since he's Michael Bay and incapable of making a story work, I'm not holding my breath.
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Dec 11, 2016 06:04
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VolticSurge posted:Well yeah. I mean,I can get behind the idea of Prime snapping due to...space madness? Overwhelming rage at humanity for repeatedly loving everything up? Just a general love of spines? Millions of years of war would crack anyone. Bay Optimus doesn't have too far to fall.
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Dec 12, 2016 03:28
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I'm still amazed how Platinum got this game so right, but the Ninja Turtles so wrong, but that's irrelevant. Either way, great playthrough.
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Feb 24, 2017 15:11
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