william-james88 wrote:Fires_Of_Inferno wrote: If they give us Animated again, I'll be very disappointed.
If they give us the inventiveness of the animated toy line again, I would jump for joy. We already know that isnt happening, but I just wanted to write this after seeing that line, which gives a good sense of where most of your mindset when approaching this series.
Well, Animated did good things in terms of story telling. It's more the constant little things I hated, like the endless G1 references, and the super villain badguys (they had a little girl with a wand for f***'s sake). Just the overly silly little things like that. I don't know why stuff like that worked for me in Beast Wars, but it's like it hit all my "irritate" buttons with Animated.
Sabrblade wrote:Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:Sideswipe, I don't like the "hair" design of his head. I don't see why he needs a katana sword. If they wanted to put Wheeljack in this, they should have just put Wheeljack in it. If they wanted to make Wheeljack into Drift, they should have just put Drift in it. If they wanted to put Drift in it they should BURN!
How does wielding a katana sudden make someone like Drift? Drift never even had a katana.
I dunno, I never liked ninjas in my transformers I guess.
Sabrblade wrote: Sideswipe's sword isn't even a katana, anyway.
"I wasn't listening. I was thinking of something else..."
Sabrblade wrote:Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:Does no one want to talk about how this Grimlock is supposed to be the same Grimlock in Fall of Cybertron? Or is that not cannon now? Because last I heard was that WfC/FoC were retconned into prequel games for TF: Prime. If so, then it seems RiD is doing to Grimlock what G1 Season 3 did to Grimlock and lobotomized the awesome out of the character.
It's been mentioned, and it's a can of worms to try to figure it out now when we've so little info. We're currently at a "wait and see" point at this time.
That's kinda why it's an issue with me that I hate this character so much already. Though, how much of a brilliant twist would it be if it turns that this guy just heard of Grimlock and started using his name. Then the REAL Grimlock shows up because he heard that some one was claiming to be him?
Sabrblade wrote:Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:The character design. It's like they tried to mash TF:P with Animated and got this crap. If they give us Animated again, I'll be very disappointed.
It's very much just the Prime art style done in cel-shaded CGI rather than pure CGI. Even Prime had hand-painted backgrounds.
True, but it doesn't work for me. I guess to me it's the difference between ROTF Leader Class Optimus, and AoE Leader Class Optimus. You have one, and it's SO good in the way it works, the way it feels, and the way it looks. Then you have the updated version and... it just doesn't deliver.
And the hand-painted background were excellent!