New Transformers: Battlegrounds Game Trailer Released

It looks like a mobile game, this is not a compliment. That city environment is so generic it looks like it could be from anything else, ever.

Why couldn't y'all buy more copies and DLC of Devastation a few years back?

ScottyP wrote:It looks like a mobile game, this is not a compliment. That city environment is so generic it looks like it could be from anything else, ever.

Why couldn't y'all buy more copies and DLC of Devastation a few years back?

I actually did get 2 copies of Devastation, because Zi was unaware that my 1st one was a Euro region one, so I could play it on my PS4, but not get any DLC...heh...

Anyway, yeah, looks disappointing. For all of us that wanted a Devastation Sequel, they took it and made it look like Animal Crossing, hard pass for sure.

Probably going to buy it though it does look like mobile game.
Devastation was one of the last games I bought new from a store for the xbox 360.

Burn wrote:...so still not an Age of Empires/Command Conquer style game.

Bugger.

I would play the heck out of that game, especially of you could skin the game to match what ever era you wanted from G1 to Cyberverse.

So far I'm not seeing a great deal of hope with this game but there's still a few months left to go before it launches. Could get better...

It looks simple,but I feel it has the potential of being fun.

Day 164 of waiting for Transformers Armada Masterpiece news.

To be honest their probably starting off small and safe like how the franchise has sorta been doing that in general for awhile now.

Tranformers [Armada] on PS2 still looks a very pretty game. The WFC games and Devastation likewise hold up. This, as many have said, looks like a mobile game. As much as I'm normally against it, they should have at least done the classic slight of hand CG trailer instead of the actual graphics. I doubt this would impress anyone, in particular stating it is on PS4, too.

Deadput wrote:Should at least be grateful we are getting anything period

That's both asinine and overly dismissive. Transformers isn't some indie franchise barely getting by. One that should count its blessings anyone other than the die hard fanbase are even aware of its existence.
It is a global brand that brings in the big bucks.
The issue is entirely down to the platform they are touting this release on. If they honestly said it was a mobile game, it wouldn't have created more than the occasional groan. For release on a modern games console, it needs to look the part.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:That's both asinine and overly dismissive. Transformers isn't some indie franchise barely getting by. One that should count its blessings anyone other than the die hard fanbase are even aware of its existence.
It is a global brand that brings in the big bucks.
The issue is entirely down to the platform they are touting this release on. If they honestly said it was a mobile game, it wouldn't have created more than the occasional groan. For release on a modern games console, it needs to look the part.

Transformers is a niche franchise period especially at this time, there have been great games yeah but not even the Cybertron games would be in most top 100 game lists.

The overall franchise itself is fine but video game development takes a lot of investment to create, which is most certainly something that is being limited with the franchise right now. More then a tv show (usually) and can be on par with a movie.

Not to mention it's a kid's toy franchise at core so obviously their going to be safe with the first game after awhile, test the waters to see if it's even worth investing into bigger projects.

It's a similar reason for going with the almost brand wide Evergreen approach where most things are branded into one cohesive vision that stays relatively safe.

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