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Karak
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This is correct. The main game is stunningly short.
Monocle
Member
Good point about the transforming. There's no reason why this shouldn't be Platinum's most cohesive game yet, in terms of the alternate gameplay segments making sense for the playable characters.
I don't know about those Cybertron games. While I enjoyed the first game at the time I was bored out of my mind with the second and had to drop it. Multi was a lot of fun but I don't think it's active now.
Do some deep looking into them and don't buy them together.
Thanks for the response. I won't lie, everything you typed above just makes it more appealing to me. I reaaaaaaaaaally can't wait to dig into this.
Karak
Member
Did you mean to respond to this post?
Really? Controls so unresponsive people thought the controller was dying sounds appealing?
I agree with what he said. Grimlock sounds like a really interesting character and I'm excited to get hands on with him. Being "off" compared to the other characters makes him even more interesting because that's definitely intentional. The director mentioned before that Grimlock is his favorite playable character because they went out of their way to make him feel totally different and unique. Lol.
It's all perspective.
Karak
Member
Bad game design is bad game design. Regardless.
I don't think they meant to. That doesn't make much sense. If it was a design strata across various levels of the game it might be something like I said about say VF. but its not. then again its not horrible but it is a gameplay change that isn't reflected accurately in anyway elsewhere.
As a stream said a bit ago. He isn't broken, he is just cumbersome and unwieldy in a completely none fun way LOL
Ah sorry I guess I should clarify. I just mean Grimlock having different timing appeals to me greatly to me, making him a different character from the others to learn.
It's obviously a conscientious design choice and when Karak says 'Controls so unresponsive people thought the controller was dying sounds appealing' that may not be my actual experience when playing it in comparison to his or maybe it will! Afterall you've played it Karak and I haven't but I wouldn't call it automatically bad design just because you didn't enjoy how he played. I'm looking forward to finding out for myself and digging into it, hell I could end up agreeing with you, not counting anything out.
I agree with what he said. Grimlock sounds like a really interesting character and I'm excited to get hands on with him. Being "off" compared to the other characters makes him even more interesting because that's definitely intentional. The director mentioned before that Grimlock is his favorite playable character because they went out of their way to make him feel totally different and unique. Lol.
It's all perspective.
Basically this yeah
If it's bad I think we'll find out for ourselves. When it comes to playable characters, I find divisive opinions more interesting than if every character was just a little bit different.
Karak
Member
Well I wrote it as a warning because I have found that forewarning can help.
Without the bump in logic we all felt, you should at the very least not have that surprise. And as I said its easily playable but the complexity I think your assuming isn't there. What I mean is, it isn't a complexity that adds, that would be good design. This is quite literally that sad middleground of something adding nothing. So i probably messed up with the VF mention.
Edit:
LOL I should have just wrote what was said to me, "Tell them it fucking sucks a big cankor sore"
I find fun more important.
Karak
Member
Let me rephrase my original post then on Grimlock then.
It adds nothing but an extra button to cause the character to move forward faster. Everyone else needs a push on the joystick, for reasons without explanation Grimlock needs you to hammer the b button like an arm wresting game lol. And his timing is lagging and unresponsive compared to every other characters in the game combined.
Is it noticeable yep. Destructive...no. Just there.
It adds nothing but an extra button to cause the character to move forward faster. Everyone else needs a push on the joystick, for reasons without explanation Grimlock needs you to hammer the b button like an arm wresting game lol. And his timing is lagging and unresponsive compared to every other characters in the game combined.
Is it noticeable yep. Destructive...no. Just there.
I don't think you understand what we're saying. If it was poorly implemented, sure it sucks. But just hearing someone complain about how he controls totally differently from anything else in the game and does not feel intuitive, does not automatically make it bad. I'm still very much looking forward to trying him out and learning the quirks. Arguing otherwise seems pointless.
Karak
Member
Oh I do. And ya its bad but doable. I agree though. Strange with the arguing that started.
2 more days!
Less in some areas!
Also many stores already have a ton of copies.
I appreciate you talking about the differences, not meaning to sound like I'm having a go as I'm genuinely not
Ah fuck, I wish it was next week already.
Karak
Member
Not a problem. I probably shouldn't have tried to even defend it at the start as there isn't really a factual defense for it. So I sort of left it open when I should have posted the clarification as the original post.
But I absolutely meant what I wrote about a warning. I myself have been warned about stuff in games and then played them and felt them far less than the original person.
Back on to subject for a second. I wasn't aware of all the damn backstory for Grimlock. Just checked out the transformers wiki thing. Damn. He is like King Conan lol
Agreed, that music is amazing.
The callback to Autobot/Decepticon Battle from the movie
Karak
Member
Absolutely. Did you see the option to re-watch it without the credits! That was a fantastic bonus.
I love how this sounds (re. Grimlock). Makes me all the more excited. Being a bit obtuse, playing with player expectations -- These things add a lot of flavor to the right game.
I'm a little disappointed none of the Z cars are playable, since I love those (Prowl, Smokescreen, Bluestreak). Maybe next time..
DLC playable characters would be great.
You should also read the story of how High Moon Studios saved Grimlock/the Dinobots, it's a great read
(and god bless them)
digoutyoursoul
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2 more days!
One shall stand, one shall fall
PartTimeWarrior
Banned
Oh is this game unlocking at midnight EST?
DustyVonEric
Member
2 more days!
You've got the Touch! You've got the poweeeerrr.... Yeah!
Game looks so good, man
Spinosaurus
Member
Gonna try my luck today. These impressions sound so good.
Rising parry..I'm in.
Rising parry..I'm in.
Got my xbox 360 copy yesterday, forgot that i had pre-ordered it and was going to get if for the XB1 but im really impressed with the 360 version i might just not bother with the XB1 version. Game seems to be really good so far and anyone who is a G1 fan will love it i think. Was going to post a YT video of it but not sure if it will get pulled as its not out yet
Gutted that Sidewipe is in but no Hotrod.....wtf!!!!
Gutted that Sidewipe is in but no Hotrod.....wtf!!!!
Tizoc
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Sideswipe is one of the characters in the current TF cartoon (S1 finished months ago) That's prob. why he's in there.
digoutyoursoul
Member
Might be some DLC further down the line mate. Mirage would of been a good fit for this imo.
Karak
Member
You should also read the story of how High Moon Studios saved Grimlock/the Dinobots, it's a great read
I did when it came out.
I beat it on next gen and am now halfway through the 360 version and there is only a couple little differences. Anyone with a past gen isn't missing a ton in the GFX section due to the aim in animation.
DreamedLint
Member
Any idea what the fps or resolution is on 360?
Seven Force
Banned
Hopefully it's like Korra where it's 720p/60fps on 360/PS3, and 1080p/60 everywhere else.
Dangerous1992
Member
how many difficulty settings are there?
Easy/Normal/Hard when you first boot it up then two extra unlockable difficulty levels. It seems to be set up similarly to Rising in that Hard is probably the best way to play the first time for action game fans.
He's always been difficult; but this third party version is the best I've seen so far: looks good in gun and robot mode. Still fiddly though.
Looking forward to how this game turns out before I jump on board. I like Transformers but I am crap at beat em ups.
Karak
Member
720p
Monocle
Member
It seems like the tap b stuff with Grimlock allows him to do his power charge WAY quicker than the rest of the cast. Literally, just tap b once, while at the start his walk animation, then press x to do his power charge. Way better than having to do a complete U turn while driving away, to break through shields.
I've avoided watching anything other than bits and pieces, but from what I could tell some bosses actually seem to have relatively fully fledged movesets. I wonder if Hasbro cockblocked them as playable characters because Platinum wouldn't have time to rework the story with Autobots and they didn't want to have stuff like Megatron vs Megatron or whatever.
I say the idea that we get a DLC campaign for the Decepticons sometime later is our best bet.
Or at least, that's what I'd hope.
it wouldn't surprise me if the intent was to create DLC later, like Metal Gear Rising's Sam and Blade Wolf DLC.
2 more days!
Yeaaaaa ^
Karak
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Ya actually all characters get burnout from the skill list whenever you want to buy it. Its the same thing roughly. I wish there were more skills though. That would really be cool. and it felt like a waster oppertunity that you couldn't have some kind of true tagteam move. Especially as the Decepticons use it constantly.
Some are completely full movesets also since the AI is good their relentless and handle battle fairly well compared to recent other games with multi-opponent battles going on.
Aside from the change in resolution that could be any of the versions. Its nicely, or almost always nicely running at 60fps on everything.
Just beat this a second time. Playing only as Grimlock once unlocked, Opt prior to that. I love Opt's wide ass trailer swing special move.
Corpsepyre
Banned
Hmm, Megatron doesn't sound right. Who's voicing him?
Tizoc
Member
Franke Welker himself, however, he's older now than when he voiced him during the 80s so he may not sound the same. In the TF Prime cartoon where Welker voiced Megs you can hear that his voice is much softer than the G1 cartoon, at least for me.