snavej wrote:Gun Megatron can be very effective in battle but fundamentally he is a Transformer and can change his body into many forms, given time to reformat himself. The most important things are his plans and ambitions. If a gun form is needed, he will use that. Otherwise, he will switch to something else.
He could fly in G1 in robot mode right? It's a good balanced trade off, being incapacitated yet wielding ultimate death. Even though you're right, I'm inclined to think that everyone else is a jet or tank or car, but not everyone is a pistol. That honor was reserved for megs. Shockwave was a gun too but didn't mass displace. I just think it's boring if he's anything else other than a gun. Sure he's cool and all, ,but he's just like any other Decepticon. His plans and ambitions are what make him who is , but "world domination" can only go so far. Every Decepticon wants world domination. Or beats his soldiers. Or yells at them. If Motormaster was leader of the Decepticons, we'd have the same plans and ambitions. Gun mode made him stand out. Gun mode was his last resort. His Trump card if you will. I know it's heavy to bear all weight of the character on his vehicle mode. But that's what Transformers is about. If the alt mode and robot mode are indistinguishable functionally, then why Transform? Why not just watch Spider-man. The transition from robot mode to vehicle mode has to serve a purpose. Either strategically, or for transportation , or for merging. Also even if that mode doesn't make sense in our world. Look at Fall of Cybertron, Grimlock's beast mode was far more powerful, it offered his flame, he transformed out of rage. It vented that rage. So as the player you felt change and purpose to transform. It's sort of like swearing. If someone continually swears, when he or she really wants to get a point across it's not very credible if they swear. Because they always do that. But if someone who doesn't swear often, when they swear out of anger, it has more impact. Sure there is the presentation of the swear that matters, but I hope you get my point. Transformation should be treated as an event. Something to look forward to. When Megatron was in G1, we were waiting for him to turn into gun mode. We wait for the moment Constructicons merge. We waited in Energon to see Unicron Transform. Not much for Optimus Prime for example. It doesn't have the same anticipation. That's simply the law of diminishing returns. The good stuff was the withheld stuff. Predaking in TF Prime. He was in beast mode for a long time and we all wanted to see his robot mode. But if Megs was a tank... Brawl is a tank, Shockwave is a tank, Blitzwing is a tank. Or "oh yay he turned into a jet". Big whoop, Optimus can do that too, he just merged with Jetfire or whatever. It's just much harder for them to make a generic character believable.
ScoutBumblebee wrote:You can post the text if you want, but the link is fine. That's a pretty long blog entry so I would tend to advise just leaving the link up.
Some might find that tl;dr for a forum entry.
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leakin' lubricant wrote:
Could'nt agree more, I just can't wrap my head around Megatron being anything other than a gun, dispite him having a plethora of different alt modes for me if he's not a gun he's not Megatron.
It's sad to see them beat around the bush.
snavej wrote:It all depends on power. If real people want Megatron to be a gun, he will be a gun. If we grant him our 'permission' to change, he may change. A Walther pistol cannot move very well on its own. It requires assistance to get from A to B, especially if it wants to remain small and undetected.
I see your point, I wish they want to see a darker Megatron, makes for more entertainment. See stealth is for Soundwave not megs. And if Megatron does want to move from A to B he can transform. I liked that in the 2007 movie, Megs spoke in Cybertronian more because he is disgusted by English.I can't remember if it's in TFP or movies, but Megatron's vehicle mode wasn't intended to blend in because he was making a statement "I am above disguises" . While Starscream and the other Decepticons chose real human Alt modes.