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by **Graviton** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 11:07 am

It is nice to hear they followed up on some of the critiques on CW

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 11:21 am

More Murderblade! Yaaaay!

... I miss TAAO already.

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 11:24 am

Kurona wrote:More Murderblade! Yaaaay!

... I miss TAAO already.

There is one upside, at least. More of Freddery's wonderful spoofs, and thus more HI I'M WINDBLADE

News Credits: 171 · by **notsoalex** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 11:32 am

All I ask is for it to not suck.

by **Budder Prime** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 11:53 am

Graviton wrote:It is nice to hear they followed up on some of the critiques on CW

Yeah, but It seems that the only one they've followed up on(as far as we know) Is the episode length.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 12:24 pm

Budder Prime wrote:
Graviton wrote:It is nice to hear they followed up on some of the critiques on CW

Yeah, but It seems that the only one they've followed up on(as far as we know) Is the episode length.

It seems to me that they mostly listened to the critiques that were given on Facebook and YouTube, which primarily focused on the episodes being "too short" and the voice cast being "not the G1 actors" or "not *REAL* actors".

As such, we're getting a few more episodes of a slightly longer length, and a voice cast that includes the likes of Peter Cullen and, of all people, Michael Dorn, Wil Wheaton, and Jason David Frank.

Whereas any and all complaints about things like the writing or the animation rendering have yet to be publicly acknowledged in any official capacity, when those were among the more severe problems of the CW cartoon.

News Credits: 1 · by **Prime Target** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 9:11 pm

I'm actually hyped for this! Overlord will get his second ever cartoon appearance and We'll get some Trypticon on Metroplex action!!! It has previously been revealed that Menasor is returning which is great because he was my favourite from my first watch of Combiner Wars

Victorion, Computron and Devestator returning

hopefully they'll get more screentime as individuals and Combined

I actually watch Rob Dyke so it'll be interesting to see him in an actual role

The biggest Draw for me has gotta be Fort Max as he might get some actual character outside of IDW :-D

and let's not forget the excellent Parody Freddery is sure to do :-D

by **noctorro** » Mon Sep 11, 2017 6:43 am

Haven't read the article on a CW follow up in this (impossibly) long thread.

But I hope they improve, like 500% or more.

Combiner Wars by Machinima was terrible.
- Combiners are killed easily
- Combiners don't combine, they're just bigger robots
- Combiners are no Transformers because they don't Transform (looking at you The Last Knight)
- Framerate is terrible, looks like a powerpoint slideshow
- Can't remember the voice acting so no opinion
- The 3d models are weak and simple
- The effects are worse than cheap, they're for free
- Fight animations are what I make in 3d by rotating some bones (aka terrible)
- They don't capture the feel of Combiners at all, the team should go watch a G1 episode with Devasator in it, build on that

My short opinion there.

I hope they improve atleast all those points.
Just finished watching Transformers Prime incl. Predacons Rising.
Excellent series, they're really creative and innovative with the action scenes, the fight choreography, the camera angels.
Choice of characters, story events.

Practically all fans love Combiners, so messing that up should be really hard work, but they succeeded, it sucks.

I would've given them props if Hasbro made a voyager sized Optimus Prime version of the one in this cartoon.

Anyway hopefully Titans Return (which is to late, the line almost ended) will be longer, have better models, effects and more than 1 frame per 3 seconds. That would be nice.

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Mon Sep 11, 2017 11:12 pm

Courtesy of Den of Geek, we have the official poster for the upcoming Titans return webseries from Machinima. This is the sequel to the Combiner Wars series that got multitudes of hits across the internet and it comes just in time before the end of the Titans Return toyline. As you can see, Trypticon is front and centre along with returning favourites Optimus and Megatron. We also have a few screenshots showing the the style will remain similar to the previous Combiner Wars series.

Enjoy!

News Credits: 419 · by **Bronzewolf** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 12:26 am

*grits teeth and puts out cigarette* Well, I guess it's time to go to work...

News Credits: 54 · by **Deadput** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 4:30 am

I love how if you read the names from left to right it starts professional with Peter Cullen and then it ends with friggen Dashie Games instead of a real name lol.

I do enjoy Mat Pat but why is he Computron instead of someone more suited to his voice like Wheeljack or something?

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 6:30 am

Considering how much of a role he had last time and that this is no longer centred around Combiners (... not like it was before), I doubt Computron will get that many lines or much more than a cameo. And that's all they could afford to get Matpat in for but they're still posting his name everywhere because marketing.

News Credits: 3 · by **Randomhero** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 6:34 am

Kurona wrote:Considering how much of a role he had last time and that this is no longer centred around Combiners (... not like it was before), I doubt Computron will get that many lines or much more than a cameo. And that's all they could afford to get Matpat in for but they're still posting his name everywhere because marketing.

Are you being serious? "How much of a role"? He had like two or three lines and got killed and then called a nerd in 2 minutes and DIED and stood in the background in the final 60 seconds of the finale.

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 6:41 am

Exactly; he had little to no role at all. Hence why I doubt he's going to have much of a role this time either.

News Credits: 79 · by **Sigma Magnus** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 6:51 am

I hope they defeat Trypticon by attacking his hips.

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 6:52 am

Sigma Magnus wrote:I hope they defeat Trypticon by attacking his hips.

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 8:02 am

Sigma Magnus wrote:I hope they defeat Trypticon by attacking his hips.

Oh god I can see it now.
>"I am Trypticon! Tremble before my-"
>*CRACK*
>"What was that?"
>Trypticon's hips give way and he tumbles to the floor
>His tail falls off
>His chest falls open with a groaning metal sound and his vital components all fall out
>"...I hate this cartoon."

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 8:28 am

Kurona wrote:Considering how much of a role he had last time and that this is no longer centred around Combiners (... not like it was before), I doubt Computron will get that many lines or much more than a cameo. And that's all they could afford to get Matpat in for but they're still posting his name everywhere because marketing.

Which I also find odd. Since when is Matpat a draw?

Sigma Magnus wrote:I hope they defeat Trypticon by attacking his hips.

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 8:35 am

william-james88 wrote:
Kurona wrote:Considering how much of a role he had last time and that this is no longer centred around Combiners (... not like it was before), I doubt Computron will get that many lines or much more than a cameo. And that's all they could afford to get Matpat in for but they're still posting his name everywhere because marketing.

Which I also find odd. Since when is Matpat a draw?

Still popular on Youtube.
It's a big subject, but Youtube is growing more and more each day and it's in a very odd gray spot between casual homemade videos and an official platform like Television or movies. Where that'll head in the future is unclear, but one of the inevitably big parts of it is that right now there's a lot of Youtubers who are very, very, very popular. Matpat is at least on the cusp of that, love him or hate him.

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 8:38 am

Kurona wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Kurona wrote:Considering how much of a role he had last time and that this is no longer centred around Combiners (... not like it was before), I doubt Computron will get that many lines or much more than a cameo. And that's all they could afford to get Matpat in for but they're still posting his name everywhere because marketing.

Which I also find odd. Since when is Matpat a draw?

Still popular on Youtube.
It's a big subject, but Youtube is growing more and more each day and it's in a very odd gray spot between casual homemade videos and an official platform like Television or movies. Where that'll head in the future is unclear, but one of the inevitably big parts of it is that right now there's a lot of Youtubers who are very, very, very popular. Matpat is at least on the cusp of that, love him or hate him.

I wonder if, in keeping with MatPat's videos, Computron will make colossally complex calculations and botch them because he got his basic data wrong? And then shoot anyone that tries to point it out?

My god I hate MatPat so much.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 8:53 am

No credit for Jason Marnocha? As in the best thing about the first cartoon? Lame.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 11:01 am

At least the poster looks pretty rad, better than the Combiner wars one

News Credits: 10 · by **JazZeke** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 12:39 pm

Kurona wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Kurona wrote:Considering how much of a role he had last time and that this is no longer centred around Combiners (... not like it was before), I doubt Computron will get that many lines or much more than a cameo. And that's all they could afford to get Matpat in for but they're still posting his name everywhere because marketing.

Which I also find odd. Since when is Matpat a draw?

Still popular on Youtube.
It's a big subject, but Youtube is growing more and more each day and it's in a very odd gray spot between casual homemade videos and an official platform like Television or movies. Where that'll head in the future is unclear, but one of the inevitably big parts of it is that right now there's a lot of Youtubers who are very, very, very popular. Matpat is at least on the cusp of that, love him or hate him.

What the hell does he do? I never heard of him before.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 12:44 pm

JazZeke wrote:
Kurona wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Kurona wrote:Considering how much of a role he had last time and that this is no longer centred around Combiners (... not like it was before), I doubt Computron will get that many lines or much more than a cameo. And that's all they could afford to get Matpat in for but they're still posting his name everywhere because marketing.

Which I also find odd. Since when is Matpat a draw?

Still popular on Youtube.
It's a big subject, but Youtube is growing more and more each day and it's in a very odd gray spot between casual homemade videos and an official platform like Television or movies. Where that'll head in the future is unclear, but one of the inevitably big parts of it is that right now there's a lot of Youtubers who are very, very, very popular. Matpat is at least on the cusp of that, love him or hate him.

What the hell does he do? I never heard of him before.

Game Theory and Film Theory

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 6:16 am

JazZeke wrote:
Kurona wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Kurona wrote:Considering how much of a role he had last time and that this is no longer centred around Combiners (... not like it was before), I doubt Computron will get that many lines or much more than a cameo. And that's all they could afford to get Matpat in for but they're still posting his name everywhere because marketing.

Which I also find odd. Since when is Matpat a draw?

Still popular on Youtube.
It's a big subject, but Youtube is growing more and more each day and it's in a very odd gray spot between casual homemade videos and an official platform like Television or movies. Where that'll head in the future is unclear, but one of the inevitably big parts of it is that right now there's a lot of Youtubers who are very, very, very popular. Matpat is at least on the cusp of that, love him or hate him.

What the hell does he do? I never heard of him before.

Meme-filled poorly researched clickbait "theories" on video games and TV/film. Massive bandwagon rider, makes nothing but Undertale and FNAF vids these days. Tried to seriously claim that the G-man from Half-Life is actually Sans from Undertale.