The person Rong is talking to will not remember that.
Transformers: One - New Animated Prequel coming September 20th, 2024 - New Toy Official Images!
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What's funny to me is that there was already a retro, vintage series of G.I. Joe games upon which they could have built new games...
Not to mention the actual Konami arcade game, which was not a belt scroller...
Seems to me that GI Joe I.P. would make for a good Call of Duty type game. All the playable characters would have a weapons loadout and special ability or two based on the character. You could do a single player story mode based on old episodes/comics from either a Joe or Cobra perspective, or a multiplayer Joes vs. Cobras.
My world for a metroidvania GI Joe game made by WayForward (see their Aliens DS game and The Mummy Demastered)
I’ve long argued that a tactical RPG like X-Com would be an ideal choice. And Mario+Rabbids showed you could “simplify” the concept without removing key fundamentals of the genre. You are able to keep the “main characters” as recruitable, but also allow for potential “green shirts” you could upgrade into your own custom “code named” specialists. Points and resources gathered on missions would allow you to upgrade your own Pit (to various game play effects). Maybe even do a mix of vehicle “special attacks” and some missions where you would control a squad of vehicles instead of the individual characters.
And it would probably be cheaper to make than trying to make a game that would, invariably, end up competing against hero shooters and/or Call of Duty.
I never really got into G.I. Joe much. Didn't watch the show much, no comics, almost none of the toys. The only exception was this game. Never owned it, but rented it and really enjoyed it. I even ended up buying a bunch of the toys that were featured in the game. I remember loving playing as and with Hawk in particular with his jetpack.
It gets funnier. Just a few short years after the VCR console debacle they did it again. Their next attempt was a VR console. They were willing to try anything but just making a normal console, apparently. When that didn't work out either they bought Atari.
The funny thing about Atari (or the company that bought the rights and then rebranded to Atari) is that they floundered around with not-great retro consoles and dumb stuff like speaker hats and then at some point they decided to become the defacto retro-gaming house and acquired Digitial Eclipse (who make excellent remasters/documentary on various games, as well as new games in retro style like that recent RIta's Rewind MMPR game) and Night Dive Studios (kings of the FPS remaster, among other things)
And now they own Intellivision.
It would be funny if Hasbro bought Atari again and thereby finally owned Mattel's baby. Hasbro envied that thing despite the damage it ended up doing.
It would be funny if Hasbro bought Atari again and thereby finally owned Mattel's baby. Hasbro envied that thing despite the damage it ended up doing.
Watched TFO again with my fiancé after Thanksgiving.
He knows broad stroke stuff about Transformers but not much else. Anyway when D-16 goes "I! AM! MEGATRON!" my better half goes "wait HE'S Megatron?"
And it was so hard not to laugh
But it's fun to see how people not neck deep in this stuff react to it.
It tells me though that TFO really is that good, if a non-fan could watch it and stay engaged and even be pleasantly surprised.
He knows broad stroke stuff about Transformers but not much else. Anyway when D-16 goes "I! AM! MEGATRON!" my better half goes "wait HE'S Megatron?"
And it was so hard not to laugh
But it's fun to see how people not neck deep in this stuff react to it. It tells me though that TFO really is that good, if a non-fan could watch it and stay engaged and even be pleasantly surprised.
Nice to have confirmation of this.
Like, I said the biggest problem I had with the movie was me, because I was already familiar with most of the main story beats. I can only imagine it would work better for someone unfamiliar with the past 40 years' worth of lore.
Yeah, a buddy of mine in the fandom said he found it kind of boring because it told a story he's seen already.
Which is fair but it's not necessarily for us. It's for general audience sorts who aren't familiar with all of this stuff.
If only more of them saw it
I still maintain that, aside from maybe a too late release date, the movie itself did nothing wrong.
It’s just that, maybe, people are a little tired of the franchise. Beetlejuice rode that Burton-resurgence and nostalgia for the first to big bucks, and while Wild Robot had a soft opening, it found its legs as a unique animated feature with strong family vibes.
One, again, just couldn’t seem to find its footing. The purely animated approach likely impacted the “action seekers” that bothered to turn out for the prior films, but its action oriented approach likely turned off some families as being a “glorified cartoon that they can watch on TV”. And more than a little of that is the bias the franchise itself cultivated in the mainstream audiences.
But at least it made more than Joker 2
. And there has been some legit Awards buzz which will hopefully bring some more, positive, attention to the film.
It’s just that, maybe, people are a little tired of the franchise. Beetlejuice rode that Burton-resurgence and nostalgia for the first to big bucks, and while Wild Robot had a soft opening, it found its legs as a unique animated feature with strong family vibes.
One, again, just couldn’t seem to find its footing. The purely animated approach likely impacted the “action seekers” that bothered to turn out for the prior films, but its action oriented approach likely turned off some families as being a “glorified cartoon that they can watch on TV”. And more than a little of that is the bias the franchise itself cultivated in the mainstream audiences.
But at least it made more than Joker 2
. And there has been some legit Awards buzz which will hopefully bring some more, positive, attention to the film.
Yeah, even if I knew a lot of the beats, the execution was still excellent. Some of the best we've ever had.
And make more people lift up their heads and go "...There was another Transformers movie?"
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The movie? No, but the marketing was bad. Almost no buzz, and the first trailer made the movie look horrid. The second trailer was better, but with a non-existent advertising campaign that first trailer is going to set the tone among general audience sorts, and it was a terrible first impression.
I swear, Mark Maher is worth more than the entire Marketing department.
But dude! They paid to play that first trailer in space! How can you call that a waste of marketing!
That was probably an order of magnitude cheaper than you think it is. I've seen an independent game studio do a similar thing for their first game.
This is the kind of crap that gets Hasbro on Elon's radar!
Also good job! They played a bad trailer full of cringe MCU humour in space, meaning the broadcast will get picked up by the aliens just a little bit sooner. No wonder they never stop to say hi.