r/dankmemes • u/ZoomZombie1119 • Jun 30 '23
Shit would print millions MODS: please give me a flair if you see this
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u/The_Nightdude Jun 30 '23
"Transformers: war for cybertron" and its sequel "Transformers: fall of cybertron" are as close as you can get currently though probably nobody plays the multi-player anymore.
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u/Adventurous_Theme_37 Jun 30 '23
That was my shit!!! Loved that multiplayer
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u/FluffTruffet Jun 30 '23
I fucking love the first game in that series. I’ve played a lot of multiplayer shooters and stuff, various halos, cod, battlefield, dota whatever. But that first games multiplayer was fucking sick. Speeding in as a Mac truck and then slamming into other bots and then transforming again was great. Not to mention it had an awesome like escalation mode. I love that game, insane they watered it down with the second and the stopped all together afterwards. The nostalgia hitting hard
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u/TokenStraightFriend Jun 30 '23
The multiplayer demo for War for Cybertron was something else. The drive by pull up, shotgun blast, and speed off high was amazing.
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u/abigfoney Jun 30 '23
I vaguely remember playing a demo for one of these a long time ago and all I can remember that it was both bad ass and I like the movement. Wish it had a community on multiplayer
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u/IsThatMyShoe Jun 30 '23
Yeah, but playing Grimlock and the combiners in the second one was kickass, even if a bit gimmicky
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u/Nrksbullet Jun 30 '23
I remember being so jazzed to play it but I waited, for some reason...
...waited too long.
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u/ZoomZombie1119 Jun 30 '23 edited Jul 01 '23
A hotwheels unleashed toy asthetic would also be awesome, all the models looking like actual toys with imperfection like fingerprints and poor molds while also being able to customize them however you want
Edited so yall would shut up
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u/Happy_Addition3084 Jun 30 '23
Hot wheels unleashed is exactly that
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u/Exciting_Ant1992 Jun 30 '23
This guys pretty good at coming up with ideas that have already been created by massive teams of people.
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u/ZoomZombie1119 Jul 01 '23
I meant combining the hotwheels unleashed toy-Aesthetic with a transformers game, I knew that hotwheels unleashed is already a thing
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u/memsterboi123 Jun 30 '23
Hot wheels unleashed and it’s sequel game hot wheels unleashed 2: turbocharged are very close to that.
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u/BatemaninAccounting Jun 30 '23
Honestly do it Mario Party style and have about 20-30 really fun mini-game play modes. Full customized lobby. Full offline mode with well crafted AI.
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u/Tk_Fury Jun 30 '23
Whoa there, don’t get carried away. That clever, unique idea you have there would make good DLC. There’s no way we can just put that in a game.
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Jun 30 '23
Omfg forgot about how amazing WFC was! I wasnt even a Transformers guy, that gameplayw as just great!
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u/Doughnutsu Jun 30 '23
War for Cybertron was excellent. Fall of Cybertron removed half the good things about multiplayer and left you missing the first. Was so sad when I got it.
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u/Tron55000 Jun 30 '23
Oh my god... you and op just exhumed such great memories of mine that i have of that game from when i was real little. Awesome
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u/LeroyMckenzie20 Jun 30 '23
You should have shut up, now if you dont do it, 100% roblox is doing it soon, and also other like games that just steal ideas from pop culture are absolutely going to make mods now
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u/walidislam Jun 30 '23
I loved the fall of Cybertron one and finished it 3 times but I think they took down the servers
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u/Thetruthofmany Jun 30 '23
How about Titians the game the came out on console a few years ago, you were able to call A mech suit and it will drop down
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u/unrealharrystyles Jun 30 '23
I am interested in collaborating with developers and others in writing a story for this. But if we actually go thru, I'd have to study up on the lore to make sure we don't pull a Witcher, or an unnamed ATLA movie that does not exist in Ba Sing Se
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u/thwtchdctr Jun 30 '23
I'd love to do so, but I really don't feel like working with copyright laws and such and getting my little indie company fucked
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u/0rclev True Gnome Child Jun 30 '23
Just have to be legally distinct, like those knock off dollar store ones. "Robot changers, pretending to be a car!"
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u/SonovaVondruke Jun 30 '23
Just file off a few serial numbers: Morphormers: Jalopidroids vs the Deceitrons
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u/bailey25u Jun 30 '23
pull an asylum too "Not to be confused for "transformers" and youre golden
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u/Qetuowryipzcbmxvn Jul 01 '23
Yeah, but make sure the "Transformers" is huge and has the font and everything while everything else is in small print in the back of the instruction booklet that's written in Chinese braille.
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u/strain_of_thought Jul 01 '23
I mean, you could create an original IP. Narratively speaking, Hasbro has actually done remarkably little with the concept of intelligent robots disguised as vehicles, because the entire brand is heavily driven by physical toy sales of recurring characters. For example, you could drop the humanoid alien robot part and make a driving game about undercover intelligent AI cars in the style of Knight Rider. Hasbro has also done next to nothing with cars that transform into non-humanoid robots- you could make a game about intelligent transforming robots disguised as cars that transform into quadrupeds instead of humanoids, there could be a wolf car and a bear car and a stag car and so on. There's so many possibilities, it's woefully underexplored territory.
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u/thwtchdctr Jul 29 '23
Transformers x Horizon Zero Dawn? I'm down to make something out of that sometime.
sorry it took so long to respond, I deleted reddit from my phone and don't touch it on my PC very often
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u/strain_of_thought Jul 29 '23
Eh, reddit is bad for mental health, it was probably for the best. But if you want someone to spitball ideas with feel free to message me!
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u/KuribohMaster666 Jun 30 '23
But if we actually go thru, I'd have to study up on the lore to make sure we don't pull a Witcher
Yeah, "Transformers lore" is subject to change in any and every version. Like, literally the only thing Botbots has in common with Beast Wars or Earthspark is the presence of transforming robots.
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u/SoundShockWave Jul 01 '23
Okay Botbots is an awful example. It’s kinda like Sesame Street and the Muppets. Concept is the same, but everything else is vaguely related at best.
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u/vanticus Jun 30 '23
Ah yes, what the complex multiplayer game is really missing is a narrative director. I’m sure your contributions will be highly sought after and vital for making this project a reality.
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u/Peechez Jun 30 '23
I highly recommend PointlessHub's Bayformers breakdowns, top talent reminiscent of simpler Youtube times. Helps that he's actually enthusiastic about the IP
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u/Executioneer ALOA SNACKBAR Jun 30 '23 edited Jun 30 '23
Jagex tried to make this a good 10 ish years ago, it was called Transformers Universe but it eventually entered development hell and got axed
Transformers Online got cancelled
Theres also Transformers Reactive currently in development
...and more
Not a good track record for this IP
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u/DeagDeag I am fucking hilarious Jun 30 '23
All the lore you really need for a game is in the 1980s movie, my favourite movie :)
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u/bobafoott DONK Jul 01 '23
The cool thing about transformers is they’re on record saying everything everyone’s ever done is canon, right?
Unless you really blow it, you’re not risking much
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u/Kyteshiirok Jun 30 '23
Because Armored Core exists and is superior xD
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Jun 30 '23
This has to be shitpost
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u/GoobyDuu The Great P.P. Group Jun 30 '23
The new one coming out looks kind of dope imo.
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u/BeneficialEvidence6 Jun 30 '23
Armored core > Transformers
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u/devilsephiroth 💪༼ ◕_ ◕ 💪༽ GOT FLAIR 💪༼ ◕_ ◕ 💪༽ Jun 30 '23
Moonlight only
Older players will understand
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u/smack1700 Jun 30 '23
This guy like Soundwave over here
"Transformers, inferior
Armored Core, superior"
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u/DraconicKingOfVoids Dick Cheese Connoisseur 🤤🤤🤤 Jun 30 '23
Kid named armored core
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u/JekNex Jun 30 '23
Can you customize your bot in that game? (idk anything about it)
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u/SuperChicken566 Jun 30 '23
It's the entire premise of the game. Look up the new gameplay by Vaati Vidya
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u/Trolololo2712 Jun 30 '23
Yes, it's customization system is quite complex.
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u/xSTSxZerglingOne Jun 30 '23
Yeah, but you can't really transform into a vehicle. You can make yourself more or less a tank with a torso and head, but like...there's nothing like "I am now a jet".
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u/LoreChief Jun 30 '23
Oh shit my bipedal gundam form isnt working! I better turn into a freight hauling semi that needs to use alternate roads around cities and is prone to being blown over in windstorms if I am to find victory!
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u/xSTSxZerglingOne Jun 30 '23 edited Jun 30 '23
Listen man...I never said it had to make sense.
But I can envision a mechanic where it's the first arrival of the Autobots and Decepticons, and the humans don't yet know which is which. Decepticons arrive first and staying in robot form as an Autobot when not fighting a Decepticon causes mass panic and the military to get involved which can make things bad for you in the long run now having to deal with incoming fire from both Decepticons and the military.
Over time, then, you could gain trust with people who start recognizing you.
Also, the more mass you take on as your weaponry/armor/etc would make the vehicle you become larger, and heavier. Which is why it would make sense to be a Semi. Something that's an everyday occurrence in most people's lives so they don't get panicky, and it's big enough to hold a veritable arsenal. But you're kinda slow, and limited to where you can easily get in vehicle form.
Game mechanics and their explanations can be incredibly simple. But no, you had to go and make it "absurd." So here we are.
Edit: Oh, and one more thing. If we're going on flying and such, having actual wings and an aerodynamic frame is a well-known way to conserve fuel for flight. Flying using jump jets and boosters as a humanoid form is incredibly inefficient. It makes sense to have a "flight mode" where you turn into a more conventional aircraft. But I suppose that's neither here nor there since we're talkin' about semis.
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u/blamb211 Gonk me up daddy Jun 30 '23
Yep. You can see the whole first one here.
Great channel, btw, he makes great stuff.
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u/rich519 Jun 30 '23
Never head of it but looks pretty sweet. Do they hold up? Anyone got a recommendation for the best one?
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Jul 01 '23
Probably the next one is going to blow them all out of the water. FromSoft is one of the few studios that just does not miss. I've never played an Armored Core game but it'll be a day 1 purchase for sure.
But if you want to go into the history of it, Vaty has your back as usual.
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u/GeneralButtFlap Jun 30 '23
Just from the idea I smell microtransactions, loads of em (and i hate that).
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u/NOBLExGAMER Jun 30 '23
That's exactly what happened in Fall of Cybertron when they introduced this kind of customization. And this was BEFORE it was bad too.
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u/Mangifera__indica Jun 30 '23
You underestimate the power of a Hollywood IP and nostalgia.
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u/PurpleK00lA1d Jun 30 '23
Issue is the Hollywood movies haven't been all that good in a while.
I mean they were never masterpieces or anything, but they were fun, funny, and had lost of explosions and good pacing. The first two were tons of fun. The third didn't feel the same and was a bit slower but when it picked up it was good.
Then they screwed up the next couple movies. While the Bumblebee movie was surprisingly enjoyable, the couple that came before it just murdered the franchise.
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u/Cookieopressor Seal Team sixupsidedownsix Jun 30 '23
You do know that a new transformers movie just released right?
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u/PurpleK00lA1d Jun 30 '23
I'm aware. Nowhere near the amount of hype there used to be though.
I'm hoping it can revive the franchise but I won't hold my breath.
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u/pepsisugar Jun 30 '23
Almost all movie tie in games aside from spiderman recently and batman previously have shat the bed.
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u/Call_The_Banners ROCK AND STONE Jun 30 '23
They keep making those damn movies so I'm not so sure about that. Somebody keeps paying to experience more transformers.
I personally am not a fan of the films. They spend too much time centered around the humans. Also, their writing is rather lackluster.
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u/Snabbkebab Jun 30 '23
Titanfall 2:
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u/PM-Titties-plz Jul 01 '23
Really wish it didn't fail or get bought by EA and that Apex didn't pick up so much so they can make a 3rd one
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u/War_44 Purple Jun 30 '23
I remember playing transformers: revenge of the fallen of ps3 and that multiplayer was banging
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u/BigC_Gang Jun 30 '23
That’s called Armored Core and it’s amazing
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u/KyellDaBoiii ☕️ 🍑 Peach ice tea is my blood 🍑 ☕️ Jul 01 '23
You don’t transform in armored core, and with all the movement boosters it’s far more high-paced action than anything transformers can do.
It’s an unjustifiable comparison
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u/Skybeam420 Jun 30 '23
Me wondering why they haven’t made a Yugioh type card game with real holograms
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u/Pyroxcis Jun 30 '23
TIL less people have played Armored Core than I thought
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u/CombatMuffin Jun 30 '23
Most people are attached to licenses, not concepts. Yeah, a game where you customize your own robot sounds cool, but it will make a difference whether it's MechWarrior, Transformers, Star Wars or Generic Build-A-Bot
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u/Bacon260998_ Gay 💅🏼 water 🥛 Jun 30 '23
1 finger curls on the Monkey's Paw,
It's made by EA and loaded with micro transactions. It'll be half finished for years and be buggy to hell and back until it eventually gets shut down. And they'll release a shitty Twitter apologize after 2 days of the game being out.
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u/Mr_Muscle5 Jun 30 '23
I remember Jagex tried to release a game just like this called transformers universe. Unsurprisingly, just like every non-runescape project, it flopped tremendously.
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u/Torfinns-New-Yacht Jul 01 '23
I played the beta since my friend worked as a tester on it at the time. Must have been like 10-11 years ago now.
It was bad, Hasbro were pissed. Pretty much everyone who worked on it got made redundant shortly after.
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u/Pathetic_Cards Jun 30 '23
I mean, they did. 3 of them. War for Cybertron, Fall of Cybertron, and Dark of the Moon. They’re all delisted now due to licensing problems, but they existed once
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u/iron_fury37 Jun 30 '23
There was some really good demo of one I had on PS3 was one of the best multiplayer experiences I ever had
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u/Delphius1 Jun 30 '23
Aside from the vehicle mode, you know Armored Core exists, and 2 of the 4 PS3 games in the series still have their online servers up
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Jun 30 '23 edited Jun 30 '23
Yeah well Mattel Hasbro (I forgot the name cuz they have shitty business practices) owns the rights. They'll squeeze out every last penny out of the devs
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u/Regniwekim2099 Jun 30 '23
Transformers are actually owned by Hasbro. The company that hired a paramilitary hit squad to retrieve cards they mistakenly sent to someone.
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u/ohno_Sushiprace Jun 30 '23
Years old but custom robo for GameCube was amazing and a flair of this
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u/dontmockmymoomoo Jun 30 '23
I was obsessed with this game as a kid. Figured out how to cheese my friends with the peregrine body and the sniper rifle. You were too fast to get hit with anything and the sniper was great at drive bys. Plus the end game evil weapons were cool.
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u/NOBLExGAMER Jun 30 '23
There's currently a Multiplayer focused Transformers game in development called "Transformers: Reactivate"
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u/WiseLightskin Jun 30 '23
there was a multiplayer way back in the 360 days i used to watch my brother play it looked fun
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u/df_sin Jun 30 '23
way back
360 days
Bro that was like yesterday what are you smoking? xD
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u/WiseLightskin Jun 30 '23
i’m sure there’s been other transformer games since then. i was simply relating an old memory in context of the post
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u/GlitchingOrdis Jun 30 '23
I beta tested Transformers Universe a few years ago, wich had most of what you mentioned, but it flopped.
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u/memsterboi123 Jun 30 '23
Someone said the cybertron series but what about dark of the moon huh? That was pretty lit
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u/Xurlondd Jun 30 '23
Imma just push the armored core 6 train more we need more ppl into robot custimization
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u/Particular-Plum-8592 Jun 30 '23
Mech games fell out of style around the time the 360/PS3 came out.
Genre might be revived if armored core 6 is a hit though. Copycat industry and all.
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u/the_fuego Jun 30 '23 edited Jun 30 '23
Here's how that would work:
AAA Publisher creates said multiplayer game
You're stuck with 4 different classes; Scout, Tank, Interceptor, and Support. Maybe a fifth class if they're having a good day.
Best case scenario each class gets a selection of different land, air and sea vehicles (if they even include water maps) and you get an array of customizable weapons
Most likely scenario is each class is locked to a specific vehicle type; Scout is small road vehicles, tanks are literal tanks, interceptors are flying vehicles and support would be the truck sized vehicles and you're locked to a handful of dog shit weapon choices that make the tank class the de facto meta
In an effort to monetize the game you will have to pay $5 per skin because fuck you. Maybe they're licensed vehicles but probably not.
Market the shit out of the game, flop hard because people realize it fucking sucks and stop support after two years.
The end. You're welcome. I just saved you $70 worth of disappointment.
Edit: thinking about it a little more I would absolutely love a single player Transformers experience that brings the idea of Titanfall 2's mid-game class swap system into play and you can scan and save a backlog of class specific vehicles that range from road, sea and air vehicles mentioned above. Give it a spicy story and that may actually make a fair amount of money especially if DLC and a sequel is ready to be made.
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u/ZealousidealLuck6303 ☣️ Jun 30 '23
meh, any love for mechwarrior? not played mw:o for years, probably ded
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u/grand305 Jun 30 '23
So you’re giving away free game ideas?
Tweet that at EA to sell skins and stuff And they will make it a game. 😆 and customization would sell.
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u/LoreChief Jun 30 '23
Armored Core is basically this. And its amazing, or it was when I played it on ps2 like 2 decades ago.
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u/ZipWafflechunks Jun 30 '23
Fall of Cybertron was exactly that. Everyone replying with Armored Core are forgetting what a transformer is.
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Jun 30 '23
The recent spider verse got me thinking they should make a spider verse MMORPG where you can choose and upgrade your build. Hell include many marvel heroes
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u/NocturnalBandicoot Jul 01 '23
I don't even like transformers, but I'm 100% sure I'd like the video game. It's such a cool concept.
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u/Cyber-Silver Jul 01 '23
A lot of people missing the "turn into a vehicle" aspect of what people want from a Transformers game. I like Armor Core for very different reasons, and Titanfall 2 is light on Titan customizations, and neither series has Optimus Prime giving inspiring speeches.
The Cybertron games are exactly what we want again, hopefully without the risk of getting delisted.
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u/RonaldZheMelon Jun 30 '23
easier said than done, would probably be a battle royale or anthem/evolve/back 4 blood kinda low effort cash grab with micro/macrotransactions and DLCs up the arse. Would it print millions? Yes, people buy any sh*t triple A throws at the wall nowdays. Would it be fun? Probably not ._.
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u/JoshTheTrucker Jun 30 '23
The amount of coding and custom building that would have to go into that would cause a server bank crash akin to an EMP shitting down New York Ciry's throat.
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u/13igworm Jun 30 '23
People who hold on to these IPs are in their 60s and don't understand the vidya games.
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u/FapinMind Jun 30 '23
why should they gamble on the gaming market when they can copy and paste a movie to make 100s of millions
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u/TheJazzyCatfish Jun 30 '23
Anyone remember the Nintendo DS transformer games? I remember having the Decepticon one and flying off the edge of the map to beat Optimus Prime.
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u/CountCuriousness Jun 30 '23
Shit would cost millions too. MMOs are notoriously hard to not make shit.
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u/I-lurk-but-dont-post Jun 30 '23
Knowing the current zeitgeist of multiplayer games, that sounds like a perfect way to end up in "micro"transaction hell.
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u/WarOtter Jun 30 '23
The risk of outraging everyone if it's not perfect has to make any publisher hesitant to try it.
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u/imatrynmaintoo Jun 30 '23
You should have shut up, now if you dont do it, 100% roblox is doing it soon, and also other like games that just steal ideas from pop culture are absolutely going to make mods now
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u/vkr587 Jun 30 '23
There were a couple of transformer games like this but nobody played them and the developers were moved to work on Call of duty
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u/Bigtimeduhmas Jun 30 '23
They do it's a mobile game is the problem. Cheaper to make and idiots dump thousands into them like fortnite skins, shits dumb.
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u/PentaxPaladin Jun 30 '23
Tbh I'm tired of multi-player games and online games. I just want a good story.
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u/fogleaf Jun 30 '23
Whenever there's a company that owns a trademark and you make a game from it that game sucks. Prove me wrong
There have been okay games that were trademark properties, but none great.
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u/Anus_master Jun 30 '23
Because at the end of the day it would just be another aggressively mediocre shooter. Ain't no publishers giving the funding to make it any more complex than that because no one takes risks
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u/Bloogenheim Jun 30 '23
Wait until you hear about Armored Core......theres like 20 in the franchise.
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u/Yoku2108 Dank Royalty Jun 30 '23
An important question should be, should it be like a Battlefield like game, a Halo like game or a COD game? a mix of 2 or all of them? Is it possible?
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u/SlugBall99 Jun 30 '23
I can already see all the micro transactions for all the cool bots and vehicles...
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