CelticKnight
Member
Sweet Baby Jesus and the orphans... It's true!
I promised myself I wasn't going to pre-order any more games. I'm so glad I broke that promise with this one.
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Transformers: Devastation |OT| Rising in Disguise
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Sweet Baby Jesus and the orphans... It's true!
I promised myself I wasn't going to pre-order any more games. I'm so glad I broke that promise with this one.
lol they made sure nobody got a copy so there's no embaro.
Robot Pants
Member
Amazing OT title. Very clever
Corpsepyre
Banned
Hopefully this game is a hit and they can then work on a sequel with a bigger story and Hot Rod, Galvatron, Quintessons, Sharktacons and....UNICRON, with his animated movie design!
Fuck, that would be rad and a dream come true.
Fuck, that would be rad and a dream come true.
This might make me sound like a nerd, but I kinda want to play as Perceptor. and of course Hot Rod and Kup.
Oh, they can just rename the planet of Junk to _____ nevermind, lol...
CelticKnight
Member
According to YouTube, this is the "Main Theme"...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfayCUpn4Oc#t=1m22s
...and it does sound like something from the animated movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfayCUpn4Oc#t=1m22s
...and it does sound like something from the animated movie.
Karak
Member
Lots of it does maybe 3/4ths. Like I said in my review there is also a lot of more classical stuff during story moments. Its a great soundtrack and a unique one.
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
Corpsepyre
Banned
Imagine playing through that sequence where Hot Rod and Kup battle out the Decepticreeps after they eject from the Autobot ship at the start of the animated movie, with big budget set-pieces while you've transformed into a car and then some.
Does it have the real 80s Transformers TV soundtrack? The trailer had some sort of generic music.
Me Grimlock fool?
Corpsepyre
Banned
The 'Main Theme' sounds a little underwhelming. The boss music someone linked earlier in the other thread was dope though.
The Xtortionist
Member
TheBlueBomber
Member
God DAMN i wish i could afford this! 
it looks so good and Transformers is my jam
it looks so good and Transformers is my jamTake the Transformers '86 movie with original soundtrack intact...and then let me play it. Yeah I like where your head's at.
Unfortunately I'm gonna be slammed with work for the foreseeable future so I'm going to have to pick this up further down the road.
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
Sales predictions? I'm going with about 3-5 more people than posts in this OT
Yeah.
A dream come true would be more combiners. (Autobot & Decepticon teams) - Aerialbots / Superion, Protectobots / Defensor, Stunticons / Menasor, Combaticons/ Bruticus.
And Metroplex & Trypticon!.
The season 2 & 3 stuff.
Fall of Cybertron was amazing. More should've bought it.
A bit, especially given that Activision tried to bury Tony Hawk 5, but the gifs I'm seeing and the general chatter is a lot more positive, and also - it's Platinum, not Robomodo or whatever
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
If there are some amazing Dicoloa tracks in this game I might just fucking lose it start a Saito religion.
Corpsepyre
Banned
Please don't play with my heart.
50-100k though I think it would have done more if a lot of positive reviews had already been out, but most people see a review delay as a bad sign.
Why boy kiss nose!?!?
There's like full playthroughs of the game on Youtube, by now. Granted, it's not high level play at all, but you won't get a better showcase of if this game is really something "for you" or not.
Monocle
Member
Reviews for action games should be taken with a grain of salt. If the game doesn't have accessible elements that even bad players can appreciate, like Bayonetta 2's vivid graphics and dynamic presentation, then you can be sure the scores won't reflect its quality, as only a small fraction of reviewers will be skilled enough to accurately judge the gameplay mechanics. See: The Wonderful 101's critical reception.
Don't forget how the second worst game in the Devil May Cry series, DmC, was widely lauded as a vast improvement on the earlier games just because its graphics were shinier and its combat was much much easier to get into.
TheDinoman
Member
Watched a bit of gameplay, I'm very sad it doesn't feature the original American G1 Transformers TV soundtrack by Johnny Douglas & Robert J. Walsh.
For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du9Yna_yyRQ&list=PL-yWf5qwQPdZ6xK6IzMQq7wNqs9C_4Uap
For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du9Yna_yyRQ&list=PL-yWf5qwQPdZ6xK6IzMQq7wNqs9C_4Uap
Corpsepyre
Banned
Some of those full playthroughs are about four and a half hours long. This is going to be a short game.
That doesn't sound like a real problem though, just as long as the gameplay is worth it.
Monocle
Member
It's a Platinum game though. All that really matters is replayability, which is mostly determined by gameplay quality.
People in the previous TD thread who played the game confirmed that the main story indeed is 4-5 hours long, but the game has a challenge mode and random loot, so at least there's that.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I fully expect this to be a solid but ultimately unexceptional brawler. Which is about as much as you can expect from type of thing, honestly.
TheBlueBomber
Member
That sounds about the normal length of a platinum game lol
I was about to preorder it just now (I hardly ever preorder), but it not having the G1 soundtrack made me reconsider. Sad.
Dragonslayer_023
Banned
I have a bad feeling about this game. I wouldn't go anywhere near it without seeing reviews. Activision has already tried the "sell crappy game on Platinum's good name" trick once.
cj_iwakura
Member
Omg thank you based cross-gen. Never leave. Gimme that PS3 version.
(OT title is amazing.)
And Starscream? This is bad comedy.
(OT title is amazing.)
And Starscream? This is bad comedy.
Boogalogist
Member
5-6 hours per playthrough x 5 characters = 25-30 hours of gameplay, not counting the challenges. Not bad.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Forgive me father for I have taken a peek at the soundtrack and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxf2EJXD1Ns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxf2EJXD1Ns
Monocle
Member
The gameplay videos look so much better though.
The Xtortionist
Member
Forgive me father for I have taken a peek at the soundtrack and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxf2EJXD1Ns
Corpsepyre
Banned
Not that there's anything wrong with the OST (I love what I heard), but I hope there's some way we can add our music to the game on the PC version. I'd love playing the game with the classic tracks from the 86' movie.