the vynsane asylum

Diabolical wrote:

anarky wrote:Go watch Blues Brothers already.

Never!

But it has James Brown as a preacher and Ray Charles with a hand gun. There are also a couple car chase scenes with some pretty good destruction.

How cool would one of those Massive Online Roleplay games set in the G.I. Joe Universe be? You can start out as a grunt, then go on missions, get promoted, learn new skills, tactics, weapons, etc. Eventually you can go train with Snake-Eyes to be a ninja.

Or you can start out as a lowly Viper, and through treachery, guile, syncophanticity, duplicity etc, you can get to the head of the COBRA organization.

Imagine a G1-based game (either cartoon, Marvel comic, or IDW continuity, or some hybrid version) that used every character in some capacity.

That would be fucking wild.

Imagine playing as Grimlock, and having to defeat the Constructicons as six separate entities, then they combine into Devastator. Some cool shit like having more armor and power in dino-mode, but range and speed are limited; vs more speed and ranged weapons in robot mode, but limited armor. Maybe throw in a bitchin' War Within level with the old tank mode.

Hell, imagine if someone took the script for TF:TM, threw in the cut scenes and the new sequences Budiansky wrote for the new graphic novel adaptation, added a few more gratuitous sequences (fight the Combaticons or Shockwave, anyone?), and treated it like it's a new movie tie-in videogame. Play as Hot Rod for most of the game, with levels thrown in where you play as Grimlock, Kup, Optimus Prime, and Ultra Magnus. Some cool shit where you see the scene where Rod becomes Rodimus, then it seamlessly cuts to a level where you actually have to fight Galvatron, then it cuts back to the shot of Rodimus tossing him into space when you beat him.

How incredibly fucking cool would that be?

Shit, play off the design of the new game, and give you the ability to play the Decepticon/Unicron storyline as Megatron/Galvatron, Starscream, Devastator, Cyclonus, Scourge, Gnaw, and Shockwave--with Starscream's ghost being an unlockable character, of course.

As weak carbon-based fleshlings say, "OYES!"

And Mike Bay thinks Dinobots are stupid. What a douche. If they got Gregg Berger to do the voice I'll squeee like a little girl.

It's not like Grimlock has never ever been a tank, or a Mustang, or anything else non-saurian. Bay didn't even have to use anyone else, just slap the name "Grimlock" on some character with nothing to do with Grimlock, just like he did with Frenzy, Scorponok, Bumblebee, Jetfire, Sideswipe, Arcee, Ironhide, Ratchet, Jazz, Shockwave, Sentinel Prime, Megatron, Starscream, Optimus Prime, and Spike Witwicky. It's not like Grimlock is one of the ten most popular Transformers or anything.

they made movies based on 'the transformers'? i knew they made a movie (maybe two?) with robots that turned into things, but i didn't recognize any of the characters i knew from the cartoon, so i didn't pay much attention.

vynsane wrote:they made movies based on 'the transformers'? i knew they made a movie (maybe two?) with robots that turned into things, but i didn't recognize any of the characters i knew from the cartoon, so i didn't pay much attention.

They made an animated film in the 80s. Maybe that's what you're thinking of. Nothing since then, though.

Did anyone play Transformers: War for Cybertron? Target has it on clearance for $12.