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I know I am dreaming here but what would you all think of a transformers game starting from G1 through to power masters?

There was a G1 game released only in Japan and should still been available to the rest of the world regardless of its quality! The current Movie game was very disappointing, especially the fact that you could not play any character from start to finish. There was not enough content in it and had potential to be 100 times better.

I know this has been discussed far to many times but considering what the first movie game was like, will the second game be an improvement?

I really hope the second one is better, but would really love to be able to play a genuine G1 transformers game and be able to play all characters from the series. The combiners like devastator or city's like Metroplex doing battle rampage style ( something to this effect).

What are people's thoughts?
What would it take to convince gaming developers to take the gamble and develop a genuine transformers game? Developers have created many fun TMNT games so why has no one ever created a genuine transformers game for the entire fans of transformers and non transformers gamers to enjoy.

It is 2008 now and still no decent transformers game!Why? Please tell me why?

Bungie wrote:What are people's thoughts?
What would it take to convince gaming developers to take the gamble and develop a genuine transformers game? Developers have created many fun TMNT games so why has no one ever created a genuine transformers game for the entire fans of transformers and non transformers gamers to enjoy.

It is 2008 now and still no decent transformers game!Why? Please tell me why?

But you forget, there is a difference between "Fun" and "Good." The TMNT games, aside from the new movie game, have had the exact style of video game for at least 15 years. Ever since TMNT 2: The Arcade Game on the NES and, arcade, Ninja Turtle games haven't changed, giving us the exact same game since 1989. Meaning, fans of Ninja Turtles, while we love them and love the games, have been playing the exact same thing since 1989(when Konami released the Arcade game.)

When the did take a different route with the new TMNT movie game, while it was a nice change, they failed miserably at a few key aspects, namely CO-OP, in a game based on teamwork, you can't team up with a buddy and go through. Not to mention they essentially took Prince of Persia, and dumbed it down a lot.

Now, Transformers suffers from this same problem. Some people loved the movie game, for whatever inconceivable reason. But through the years we have only gotten one true Transformers game, and I'm fairly certain people will agree when I say it's the Transformers Armada game.

The movie game failed partly due to the fact that Traveller's Tales and not Atari made the game. Traveller's Tales whipped up gems like Crash Bandicoot and Lego Star Wars. So with the movie game, they did something completely different, a beatem-up/driver in a sandbox environment.

It also failed partly, I would assume, because they had a strict deadline in which to release the game in time with the movie. The game may have been a bit better if it had a few extra months in the oven before it was released.

But for a sequel game, since Traveller's Tales already has the legwork done, all the game would need is tweaking in large parts to make the game actually fun instead of "drive here, no, here, no, here, wait back there" and give us more to a game than "OMG destructible environments!" that force us to use the environment to beat opponents. Palm Tree is not > Advanced Alien Weaponry.

So yeah, so long as they keep the sandbox the same, tweek the driving missions to not suck, totally revamp the combat to something worthwhile, and make playing the game more interesting than it was. They should be good for a sequel game.

This is, of course, with how much the first one sucked, if they even get to do the second one.

I think a solid G1 game, with good driving missions, good flying missions, good crashes, good destruction, and good combat/sneaking around on Cybertron adventure structure, would be really, really cool.

And you could choose from just about any of the G1 characters to play as. They're all playable, with different abilities. You could also choose to be a Decepticon or an Autobot, which would basically be two games in one, story-wise.

The only problem is, base it on the cartoon or the comics? Of course people would want it to be based on the cartoons, so which cartoons? The Japanese versions, or the American versions.

And why stop at Powermasters? Why not Brainmasters? Breastforce? Hell, Micromasters.


If they were to have Powermasters or Headmasters in the game, I would be pissed if it was the American way. Where you're just a guy with a partner. BORING! The Japanese way is much, much better for a video game. You're a little human-sized guy who plugs into a large robot. You could plug into different robots for different things, even Fort Max, Scorponok, Powermaster Prime/Ginrai, Star Saber.

That **** would be awesome.