Comments on: Tranformers: Thing Of The Thingy Footage

By: Dominic White

Dominic White — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:14:30 +0000

N’thing the sentiment that the Transformers Armada game was shockingly great. Apparently the studio behind it wanted to do a sequel, too, but the publisher took the lisence from them, for some insane and retarded reason.

Sometimes, it seems like the games industry punishes talent and rewards mediocrity.

Still, the Armada game is worth the occasional replay even now. It had amazingly weighty movement physics, fun combat (and multiplied enemy counts to ridiculous numbers on higher difficulties), some very cool bosses, and managed to even make the Armada lisence interesting, but removing every human characters altogether, and relegating the minicons to a clever collectable powerup system, leaving just a bunch of G1 Autobots/Decepticons to beat seven shades of steel out of each other.

By: TCM

TCM — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:14:04 +0000

In a no-holds barred deathmatch between Transformers and Zoids…Ideon would win. Even though it’s not in any way involved, it still wins.

By: Nallen

Nallen — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:11:48 +0000

Who would win in a no holds barred deathmatch between the Transformers and Zoids?

Also, no Unicron – Orson Wells is OP tbh

By: Sajmn

Sajmn — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:49:12 +0000

Since God created man, and man created transformers, transformers are a gift from God.

By: MonkeyMonster

MonkeyMonster — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:04:33 +0000

Bang Crash Wallop Crash Bang BANG BANG
*sits grinning like village idiot*
won’t ever play it (probably) but am looking forward to the film.

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:34:07 +0000

Yes, Dr. Nerfball (it’s reassuring to know you have a doctorate), that would be Transformers: Armada, a surprisingly good game based off an unsurprisingly awful toy line, which tried to marry Transformers and Pokemon.

And to top it off, everyone KNOWS that Transformers would make an awesome game. But it’s very unlikely that this will be it.

EDIT: Oh, and Frank Welker has essentially voiced everything in every cartoon ever. And he’s fucking awesome.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:18:33 +0000

If there was a Transformers game by Blurst it’d be called “Giant Space Robots Punching Each Other In The Face.”

Or something to that effect.

By: Dr. Nerfball

Dr. Nerfball — Fri, 29 May 2009 07:58:00 +0000

Wasn’t there a Transformers game before the movie tie-in which was, y’know, actaully half decent? I think it was soemthing like a free-roaming thing on the PS2 which had you running around trying to find a bunch of mimbots so you can upgrade yourself… Or was it all a dream?

EDIT: Ooooh, turns out there was quite a few, 11 all told, it’s the 2004 version I’m talking about though.

By: Catastrophe

Catastrophe — Fri, 29 May 2009 07:20:03 +0000

@ The Hammer

War of the Monsters rocked. I love smashing your enemy through several buildings.

@ Transformers the game 2

No Soundwave?! My fave transformer of all time. One of the best voices/look + mini robots coming from his chest… yes.. MINI ROBOTS!

By: Simon Jones

Simon Jones — Fri, 29 May 2009 07:15:36 +0000

Hm, despite knowing what a pointless waste of time the project would be, I can’t help but keep coming back to the idea of doing a comic series with how the movies SHOULD have been.

Bit foamy and fannish of me, but Transformers is the only cartoon/toy thing from my childhood that isn’t retrospectively complete arse, and thusly holds a revered position.

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:04:32 +0000

First film was ok, though I wanted the robot forms to reflect the vehicle forms G1 style. Bay’s fast cut directing is really the antithesis od good action directing, I want to see the cool action contextually, not see almost random jumpcuts of moving metal, eplosions etc… However this game looks promising for a licensed title. I will only do a small wee if the Predacons or Metroplex got into the fight though.

By: PC Monster

PC Monster — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:28:24 +0000

Not in this film, Optimaximal. Or the last one. These are BayFormers.

Alec, have some geek points from me for being a Transfan. Oh, and owning a Masterpiece Prime. I’m thi….in my early thirties and still count myself a fan too.