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Hello and welcome to... All Things Transformers,

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I'm your host, Steve Megatron, and joining me

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on this adventure into the Transformers fandom

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is TFG1 Mike. We got 55 episodes to go, folks,

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to 500. The countdown to 500. That's right. It's

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going to be a Velocitron 500. No, no. Oh, come

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on. We don't need the Velocitrons here. Oh, come

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on. No, you're... No. We'll dupe it out in the

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comments section. Uh -huh. If you can find the

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comments section. I know where it's at. Yeah,

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sure you do. No, I do. Uh -huh. I've been messing

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with the comments section. Uh -huh. Yep. So.

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Yep, yep, yep. But we are here. So as we enter

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this new episode of All Things Transformers,

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we're going to be discussing. the Transformers

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video games and our favorites among them. Yes.

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What were some of the things, some of the themes

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you kind of noticed throughout the different

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game options? I noticed that there were a lot

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of repetition when it came to the Bavers. Yeah.

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I mean, most of the live -action film games,

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they're trying to do a game version of the film.

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It's a game adaptation of the film kind of sort

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of thing. That's what the adaptations have always

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been for. You see... The original Spider -Man

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game from 2002 they tried to adapt from the 2002

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movie, etc., etc., etc. The Batman 89 NES game

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kind of thing. Not NES. Not 89. But you get my

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point. Where the Transformers video games, to

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me, come into being interesting is things that

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I didn't even know existed, like Mystery of Convoy.

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had no i like honestly transformers video games

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and me didn't really start up until honestly

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probably now that i'm looking down this list

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where it really started was in this is so sad

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because i hate this generation of transformers

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because it's not my generation and that is what

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it is First Transformers video game I ever played.

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2004 PS2 Transformers Armada. I hated that fucking

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game. I was like, really? This isn't Optimus

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Prime. This isn't like because it had been so

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long since I had done anything with the Transformers.

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And I'm like, this is just weird to me. I mean,

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the game itself is OK, but like it wasn't. It

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wasn't generation one. It wasn't beast wars.

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It wasn't beast machines. Obviously we didn't

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even know what the hell animated was. Cause this

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was three years, four years before animated.

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But like when I found that game, I was like,

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what the hell is that? Like literally 2004 was

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at a time where I thought transformers, it was

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nothing like it was gone. Interesting. Yeah.

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So, Just kind of a brief rundown of Transformers

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games. There's been a lot of iterations over

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the years. Yep. Some in better capacity than

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others. Majority of them are G1 inspired. Yep.

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Thankfully. But they started around the Commodore

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64 and the Nintendo Famicom. Yep. And then it

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skipped a while and we got Beast Wars in the

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90s and then it skipped again. And then we started

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getting things with like the PS2 or, you know,

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more or less. Then the then all of the Activision

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stuff with the live action films and animated

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and Transformers Armada and War for Cybertron

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and. The list goes on and on. Although the newer

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stuff seems to have a worse track record of getting

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released than anything in the past. What do you

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mean? Well, I mean, we've had more cancellations

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of Transformers stuff. Yeah, that's true. In

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recent times, but I think it's also because,

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like, one, they're trying to shoehorn these into

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being online only. Mm hmm. And I think that they

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would do better if they were single player. Yeah,

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that's the thing. They have to be. Yeah. Like

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because Beast Wars was the first online Transformers

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game. Mm hmm. It had a multiplayer. You could

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play a four person deathmatch online on the on

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the Microsoft Gaming Zone. Mm hmm. Which when

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I wasn't playing that, I was playing chess against

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people online and like kicking their butt. But

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no, I mean, that was the first rendition. And

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then the next one that I could recall was one

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of the War for Cybertron games. They had like

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a kind of a free for all deathmatch thing online,

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too. And then they've had a few other ones since

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then. I mean, outside of the mobile games. Yeah.

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So since we're getting into it, what are your

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favorite personal games on here? And then we

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can kind of rotate back and forth. And I mean,

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obviously, my list is much larger. Yeah, Steve's

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list is Steve has played way more of these games

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than I have, folks, because as gaming has progressed

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over the last, I'm just going to say 40 years.

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Because. 85 to 25 or if you take last year 84

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to 24 when i was five years old in 1985 and i

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wanted a nintendo i didn't get a nintendo i ended

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up with a sega genesis and because of this cerebral

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palsy i play video games one -handed on console

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same thing with with pc So I'm going back, like

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when I play Grand Theft Auto four or whatever,

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I go back and forth between the mouse and the

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keyboard. That's the way I've always done it

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because I can't use my right hand to do anything

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else with stuff. So I needed a controller that

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could fit in my hand because the way I hold the

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controller is I cradle it in the palm of my hand.

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I use my thumb for like. Take the NES controller,

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the A, B buttons. I use my thumb for those. Or

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if you take the Super Nintendo controller, A,

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B, X, Y, same thing. I use my index and middle

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finger for the D -pad. So I'm basically cradling

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this thing in my hand and using my fingers that

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way. So as video games has progressed over the

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last 40 years and the controllers have gotten

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to be like these. rocks of Gibraltar -sized things,

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I can't use them anymore on consoles. So I've

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pretty much gotten out of the console gaming

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thing, regardless of price or any of that kind

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of stuff as far as the cost of an actual game

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console today. It's just the controllers for

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me are just too dang... I just can't do it. But

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back then... when it was more simple i didn't

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even know there were transformer i wasn't even

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looking at transformers games i was more into

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the turtles games the tmnt games back in the

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in the mid 80s and stuff like that i didn't even

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know there were transformers game like when beast

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wars came out i no idea had absolutely no idea

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what in the hell it was i I've told this story

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before. I know you know this because I know I've

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told this to you because you looked at me shocked

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when I said this. I thought Reboot was the new

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Transformers and I thought Beast Wars was something

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totally, completely different. I didn't know

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what in the hell was going on in 1996 when I

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was 16 years old because I didn't know what the

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hell those cartoons were until I finally... We

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had War Planets and Reboot and Beast Wars and

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Action Man, G .I. Joe Extreme. Yeah, I finally

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figured it out. But for me, the Transformers

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games, I like the ones that I have played, and

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I've only played a few of them. I only have three

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on my list. You have like 10 or 12, maybe. My

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list is basically, I played a little bit of War

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for Cybertron. I didn't play it too much. I think

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I played like the first part of the campaign

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on War for Cybertron. I liked the game. For me,

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it's more about like watch, like video games

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to me now for me are, it's kind of like watching

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a TV show. Like I'll watch a playthrough of somebody

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playing a video game these days, more so than

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me actually needing the experience of playing

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the game myself. Kind of a thing. And sometimes

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I'll watch playthroughs where people actually

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do commentary on it. And sometimes I'll watch

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no commentaries. But the one thing I was absolutely

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like, I can't believe they did this. I really

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can't. And I know a lot of people don't like

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Angry Birds. i'm fairly certain steve is one

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of those people that just doesn't care it's i

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mean no i don't hate it right right but i mean

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i don't care yeah yeah yeah yeah exactly but

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like yeah so i remember when the news stories

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popped up about this you just rolled your eyes

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and i'm like no dude this is gonna be awesome

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this is gonna be exciting because not only is

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this gonna be cool You have the Angry Birds characters

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and the Transformers characters mixed together.

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You got Vince DeCola and Kenny Meredith doing

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the soundtrack to Transformers Angry Birds. That's

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amazing. They very much G1'd it up. It was very

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cool. It was very fun. It was silly as all hell.

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And it was just, again, it was one of those things

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where you could... I like to shut my brain off

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because my brain is damaged, and sometimes I

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would rather shut it off than have to use it

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because I use it too much anyway. So Angry Birds

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Transformers was one of those games where it

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showed me the objective that I had to achieve,

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and I'm like, okay, fine. Press screen, press

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screen, however you had to do it on your mobile

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phone, whatever it was. Just do the thing, do

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the thing, do the thing, and Bob's your uncle.

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There you go. Level's complete. You win. You

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win. Kind of a thing. So, yeah. And then, like

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I said, my last game on my list that I've actually

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played was Transformers Armada. And Armada just

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isn't my... It's not my generation. I just couldn't

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get into that game. What about you? What's on

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your list, sir? Well, my list is much larger.

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obviously obviously um so mine kind of begins

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in a weird place around around the i mean the

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first game i ever played was beast wars i still

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have the disc i have the iso file i can play

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it on the computer if i wanted to i don't want

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to um and then we have You know, the fact that

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I played it on MSN Gaming Zone, hopped up on,

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you know, two liters of Coke at, you know, very

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little sleep and. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, that

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was the first Transformers game I ever played.

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One, it was Beast Wars 2. I really enjoyed it.

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The only thing I mean. The main thing I didn't

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like is. The graphics kind of sucked. The voice

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acting was not there. Right. We had. A lot of

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weird stuff in the game that I mean, I just come

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fresh off of watching Beast Wars. There was a

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lot of crap not in it. And. I mean, you had the

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microchip thing you had. The only way you could

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get the flyers was. If you. If you manage to

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lose a character, basically die in the level,

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then you get to have like Airazor or Inferno.

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Yeah, to revive. The characters or. Waspinator,

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Terrasaur, I don't know, but I pretty much played

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with Primal or Cheetor or Megatron. You could

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play as like Tarantulas, Scorponok, Megatron,

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Rhinox, Cheetor, and Primal. And then they had

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these really weird levels. There was another

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level that you would open a stasis pod and rat

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trap would come out like you got rat trap. Yeah.

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And then you could play from both maximal and

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Predacon sides. They had rescue missions. They

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had these bosses, the Skrillex or Skricks that

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had nothing to do with Beast Wars. And I don't

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know. I mean, you could get Blackarachnia. You

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could kill Dinobot. You could... There was just

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all kinds of stuff you could do. I never beat

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the game back in the day. Still to this day.

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Haven't beaten it. But it wasn't a very good

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game. It was just one that I enjoyed because

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it was Beast Wars. Right, yeah. But it was very...

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haphazard like I've actually gone through it

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in the last year I tried to play it and I beat

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through sections that I'd never gotten to when

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I was younger just because I've played more games

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and I understand it better now but yeah I mean

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it meant a lot to me because of what it was but

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I played it on a keyboard and mouse like there

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wasn't I didn't have a gamepad yeah and There's.

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There's cheat codes for it. They didn't really

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work because I tried it. But yeah. I I liked

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the website they had built for it, which was

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on like Beast Wars dot com or Beast Wars Transformers

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or whatever. They had. The graphics on the website.

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And on the case were far better than the graphics

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in the game. But yeah. Then I started playing

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emulators and ROMs and like games that weren't

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here. And I was downloading anything Transformers.

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Yeah. And I came across the Famicom game Transformers

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Mystery of Convoy. Yes. And you're basically

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Ultra Magnus fighting against the Decepticons

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and the Seekers and different bots. I mean, it

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kind of followed Headmasters, but you got hit,

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you died. It was kind of like the old way of

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doing stuff. They released it on the virtual

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console in 2008 in Japan, but not here. I never

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got past the first level, or maybe the second.

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I think I got to the second level and then I

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never made it past. It was very hard to play.

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That sucks. It was very hard to play, but I enjoyed

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it for what it was. It was fun just because it

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was odd, but I think I put up with it because

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it was a Transformers game. Right. So, again,

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I liked it, but it wasn't one I enjoyed. It's

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just kind of one I played. Yeah. And then I'd

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get frustrated and then rage quit. Yep. Then

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there was Beast Wars Transmetals. I remember

00:18:39.519 --> 00:18:43.680
seeing the trailer for that because I like the

00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:50.099
Transmetal 1 Beast Wars characters. But yeah,

00:18:50.539 --> 00:18:54.440
what was that like? So this was one I hadn't

00:18:54.440 --> 00:18:59.900
played until probably five years ago. Because

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I didn't own a game console when this was out.

00:19:06.799 --> 00:19:08.880
I didn't own a place. I've never owned a PlayStation

00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:14.930
or a Nintendo 64. OK. I owned a PS2. I owned

00:19:14.930 --> 00:19:18.029
a Super Nintendo. I owned a GameCube. I owned

00:19:18.029 --> 00:19:21.930
a Wii. I owned a Sega Genesis, an Xbox 360 and

00:19:21.930 --> 00:19:25.250
an Xbox One. Outside of that, I've owned like

00:19:25.250 --> 00:19:28.549
Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Advance. And then that's

00:19:28.549 --> 00:19:30.869
it. Like I haven't owned any other game console.

00:19:31.789 --> 00:19:36.970
And so when this came out, I was like, there's

00:19:36.970 --> 00:19:41.720
got to be a way to emulate it. And. I found a

00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:44.400
PlayStation emulator, and it did work, but you

00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:47.579
had to have a special disk drive to read it in

00:19:47.579 --> 00:19:50.200
the computer. And this was back before people

00:19:50.200 --> 00:19:54.099
figured out how to rip them off the disk. Then

00:19:54.099 --> 00:19:57.420
I learned of a website that archives everything,

00:19:57.660 --> 00:20:01.299
so to speak, and I found the ISO file, downloaded

00:20:01.299 --> 00:20:02.960
it, and played it. Because, I mean, again, they're

00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:04.640
never going to re -release this, so I didn't

00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:11.119
really feel bad, per se. If they were to... you

00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:15.140
know, remaster it with better graphics. I would

00:20:15.140 --> 00:20:19.140
buy it in heartbeat, but they won't. But this

00:20:19.140 --> 00:20:24.400
one actually more closely followed Beast Wars.

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Look at that. Look at that. They had the Axalon.

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They had, you know, the Predacons. They had the

00:20:33.259 --> 00:20:40.650
voice actors. Nice. And then you have. you know,

00:20:40.650 --> 00:20:44.670
the dark side, you have the, them flaunting the

00:20:44.670 --> 00:20:47.829
golden disc. You have, you know, just all of

00:20:47.829 --> 00:20:49.670
that. It felt very much like it was from season

00:20:49.670 --> 00:20:55.849
two. Yeah. Of beast wars and all the actors kind

00:20:55.849 --> 00:21:02.190
of, uh, Tigertron and was not voiced by the original

00:21:02.190 --> 00:21:08.029
actor. I blew. Yeah. Yeah. Um, Rhinox was actually

00:21:08.029 --> 00:21:13.480
played by, uh, Alec Willows. Okay. Tarantulas.

00:21:13.940 --> 00:21:19.220
Yep. And then Ian James Corlett played Quickstrike.

00:21:20.960 --> 00:21:23.960
And Blackarachnia was voiced by somebody else.

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And then Ravage voiced by somebody else who also

00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:30.460
voiced Tigatron. And then they had Windrazor

00:21:30.460 --> 00:21:34.839
instead of Airrazor, which was like the Transmetal

00:21:34.839 --> 00:21:39.809
Airrazor, more or less. Interesting. So yeah,

00:21:39.869 --> 00:21:43.769
they had Quickstrike, and they had Rampage, and

00:21:43.769 --> 00:21:45.410
they had Tarantulas. They didn't have Inferno.

00:21:46.069 --> 00:21:48.809
Basically, if they weren't Transmetal... Right,

00:21:48.910 --> 00:21:53.170
yeah, yeah. They weren't there. They had Waspinator.

00:21:54.569 --> 00:21:58.109
But Waspinator wasn't Transmetal. He had a toy.

00:21:59.109 --> 00:22:03.789
Oh, okay. And that same thing with Rhinox. So

00:22:03.789 --> 00:22:06.849
anyways, yeah, they had secret levels. It was

00:22:06.849 --> 00:22:12.039
very much... you know, shoot them up one on one

00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:16.920
3D arena fighting game. Yeah. And you would just

00:22:16.920 --> 00:22:18.599
kind of battle them until they went into stasis

00:22:18.599 --> 00:22:24.400
lock. Megatron had a like transmetal version

00:22:24.400 --> 00:22:31.019
of himself that. Also became like kind of a golden

00:22:31.019 --> 00:22:37.700
dragon purple dinosaur. Like literally. That's

00:22:37.700 --> 00:22:41.539
what it turned into. The sad thing is all I can

00:22:41.539 --> 00:22:44.599
think of is, oh, I love you. Shut up. I'm not

00:22:44.599 --> 00:22:50.380
done. But, yeah, I mean, I wish I'd had more

00:22:50.380 --> 00:22:55.940
time to play it. Yeah. Because I have, again,

00:22:56.200 --> 00:22:59.079
I've played it, but I have not to the level I

00:22:59.079 --> 00:23:02.559
would have liked. But the graphics make it difficult

00:23:02.559 --> 00:23:08.890
to control. Like, it's very... choppy almost

00:23:08.890 --> 00:23:13.210
almost worse than the first beast wars game oh

00:23:13.210 --> 00:23:19.130
that's not good yeah it's it's not good um but

00:23:19.130 --> 00:23:23.029
yeah that's why i say like i i wanted to enjoy

00:23:23.029 --> 00:23:28.470
it yeah but and other than that it was enjoyable

00:23:28.470 --> 00:23:31.589
but i i i wish they would have done more with

00:23:31.589 --> 00:23:33.970
it i wish they'd honestly revisit beast wars

00:23:33.970 --> 00:23:38.859
but in in this capacity but in today's age it'd

00:23:38.859 --> 00:23:44.019
probably get screwed up like kingdom um but yeah

00:23:44.019 --> 00:23:46.359
and then we get to transformers armada which

00:23:46.359 --> 00:23:51.000
was dubbed transformers just on the the ps2 like

00:23:51.000 --> 00:23:53.980
it didn't have armada on it just says transformers

00:23:53.980 --> 00:23:57.539
and it's got armada prime came out in 2004 i

00:23:57.539 --> 00:24:01.950
had a ps2 shortly thereafter and uh Yeah, you

00:24:01.950 --> 00:24:03.630
get to play as three of the Autobots traveling

00:24:03.630 --> 00:24:06.589
around the Earth retrieving minicons. And they

00:24:06.589 --> 00:24:10.490
had the voice actors in it, and it was great.

00:24:11.609 --> 00:24:14.509
You get to play as Prime, Hotshot, and Red Alert.

00:24:15.269 --> 00:24:19.869
And each had their benefits. But the game was

00:24:19.869 --> 00:24:22.970
very difficult to play. Like, but in a good way.

00:24:23.630 --> 00:24:26.970
It was actually very intuitive, a lot of fun.

00:24:27.029 --> 00:24:29.599
Like, you could hang glide, you could... transform

00:24:29.599 --> 00:24:34.400
and just barrel through stuff. You get to fight

00:24:34.400 --> 00:24:41.180
Starscream, Cyclonus, Tidal Wave. There was all

00:24:41.180 --> 00:24:43.099
kinds of awesomeness to it. And then you get

00:24:43.099 --> 00:24:48.779
to fight Megatron towards the end. He was actually

00:24:48.779 --> 00:24:53.400
pretty hard. Megatron was hard. Starscream kind

00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:58.950
of was because he was hard to hit. And then The

00:24:58.950 --> 00:25:02.369
very end of the game, you fight Unicron. Of course.

00:25:03.609 --> 00:25:07.470
But you're Optimus Prime. Yeah. With a jetpack

00:25:07.470 --> 00:25:13.869
flying to defeat Unicron. And you had to, while

00:25:13.869 --> 00:25:16.509
he's shooting Cybertron with his mouth cannon,

00:25:16.789 --> 00:25:21.049
you fly down his throat and shoot him in the

00:25:21.049 --> 00:25:23.309
mouth. Like, shoot him in the back of the throat,

00:25:23.450 --> 00:25:26.799
and then you fly out of his mouth. And you had

00:25:26.799 --> 00:25:29.099
to do it. Well, if that isn't suggestive, folks.

00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:34.779
Yeah, whatever. But yeah. But yeah, they had

00:25:34.779 --> 00:25:37.339
Gary Chalk and they had David Kaye. And then

00:25:37.339 --> 00:25:40.240
everybody else was kind of, as far as I know,

00:25:40.299 --> 00:25:42.779
a different voice actor. But again, I don't know.

00:25:42.940 --> 00:25:48.180
I didn't pay that close of attention to Armada

00:25:48.180 --> 00:25:52.160
to know if they actually played the character.

00:25:54.079 --> 00:25:57.220
in the other show, but I don't believe any of

00:25:57.220 --> 00:26:04.019
them did. Uh, now a few of them have played in

00:26:04.019 --> 00:26:07.700
other transformers material, uh, later down the

00:26:07.700 --> 00:26:11.519
line, but, uh, but yeah, it was, it was, it was

00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:14.700
a lot of fun to play. I enjoyed it graphically.

00:26:14.779 --> 00:26:19.900
I enjoyed it just being able to move and the

00:26:19.900 --> 00:26:25.029
music was good. Um, There was there was a lot

00:26:25.029 --> 00:26:26.650
of different Transformers themes by different

00:26:26.650 --> 00:26:32.990
groups. One of them was like Dropbox. Nice. And.

00:26:34.690 --> 00:26:39.450
Yeah, I I felt like to date to that point in

00:26:39.450 --> 00:26:43.990
time, that was the best Transformers game. Not

00:26:43.990 --> 00:26:48.170
to be. Removed from it, like say what you will

00:26:48.170 --> 00:26:53.960
of Armada, but. I enjoyed it for the transformers

00:26:53.960 --> 00:26:58.240
game. It was cool. And it would be years before

00:26:58.240 --> 00:27:01.880
we got another good one. Yeah. It would be exactly

00:27:01.880 --> 00:27:04.759
eight years before we got another good one. Yeah.

00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:08.359
No, not eight years. 2004 was, was our model.

00:27:08.359 --> 00:27:19.549
So it would be six years. math is not mathing

00:27:19.549 --> 00:27:22.430
tonight it was six years yeah that's what i said

00:27:22.430 --> 00:27:27.210
yeah but uh then the next one i had on my list

00:27:27.210 --> 00:27:31.650
was the transformers the game and revenge of

00:27:31.650 --> 00:27:33.569
the fallen and i'm just again i'm listing games

00:27:33.569 --> 00:27:37.509
that i played yeah um and then i'll get like

00:27:37.509 --> 00:27:39.390
as i'm mentioning them i'll mention you know

00:27:39.390 --> 00:27:42.789
the fact that whether i had them as my you know

00:27:42.789 --> 00:27:45.690
enjoyed armada i enjoyed beast wars i enjoyed

00:27:46.410 --> 00:27:48.950
The rest of them so far. Other than that, I have

00:27:48.950 --> 00:27:51.369
not. But I'll get into some more that I have

00:27:51.369 --> 00:27:57.049
later. But Transformers, the game. I didn't enjoy

00:27:57.049 --> 00:28:02.569
this game. It was just it was difficult to maneuver

00:28:02.569 --> 00:28:08.650
and kind of control. And I hated like graphically.

00:28:08.750 --> 00:28:12.750
It was one. I hated the graphics of the Bayverse.

00:28:13.769 --> 00:28:18.519
I just I did. I never did get to the point where

00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:24.279
I never got past the first or second level. Just

00:28:24.279 --> 00:28:26.539
because I hated it. I liked the fact that you

00:28:26.539 --> 00:28:29.220
could grab onto the buildings and climb up them.

00:28:30.099 --> 00:28:33.000
But the Decepticons, I felt like I was just spinning

00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:37.119
my wheels and there was no direction while I

00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:39.460
was playing the game. To me, it was just miserable

00:28:39.460 --> 00:28:42.720
to play. I think I rented it. I didn't buy it.

00:28:43.279 --> 00:28:46.099
I rented it because at that time, you know, Blockbuster

00:28:46.099 --> 00:28:49.319
was a thing still. Yeah. And Mary worked there

00:28:49.319 --> 00:28:52.380
for Blockbuster. And so I rented games and I

00:28:52.380 --> 00:28:54.140
would play them and I just play the crap out

00:28:54.140 --> 00:28:56.539
of them until we had to return them. She got

00:28:56.539 --> 00:29:00.380
like seven days or something. And yeah, I played

00:29:00.380 --> 00:29:05.619
this and I absolutely hated it. I remember this

00:29:05.619 --> 00:29:07.500
game. I remember when it came out. I'm like,

00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:14.009
oh, gosh, I like the idea of having like. A game

00:29:14.009 --> 00:29:16.589
where you can play both sides. I think that's

00:29:16.589 --> 00:29:18.849
super cool. You got Autobot levels and Decepticon

00:29:18.849 --> 00:29:26.269
levels. Yeah. That is very cool. And they had,

00:29:26.269 --> 00:29:28.650
you know, Peter Cullen playing Prime, Mark Ryan

00:29:28.650 --> 00:29:32.710
playing Ironhide, Fred Tatasciore playing Ratchet,

00:29:32.930 --> 00:29:37.250
Welker played Megatron, Daniel Ross played Starscream,

00:29:37.410 --> 00:29:43.950
Keith David played Barricade. David Soboloff

00:29:43.950 --> 00:29:49.329
played Brawl and then you had Shia LaBeouf and

00:29:49.329 --> 00:29:52.009
Megan Fox as the humans but yeah it was kind

00:29:52.009 --> 00:29:54.670
of cool that they brought in Daniel Ross as Starscream

00:29:54.670 --> 00:29:59.130
and Walker as Megatron yeah that was cool which

00:29:59.130 --> 00:30:02.589
was the draw for this like I did like it for

00:30:02.589 --> 00:30:05.369
both of those because like this was at the time

00:30:05.369 --> 00:30:08.210
like Daniel Ross like this was like huge because

00:30:08.210 --> 00:30:14.089
he was on Transfandom uh at the time and i think

00:30:14.089 --> 00:30:16.450
like the all spark and stuff and like i knew

00:30:16.450 --> 00:30:17.950
him from that but i also knew him from the fan

00:30:17.950 --> 00:30:21.970
dub community for a couple of years by that point

00:30:21.970 --> 00:30:25.470
and uh in dark glass he plays like star scream

00:30:25.470 --> 00:30:27.710
or not star scream uh waspinator and ratchet

00:30:27.710 --> 00:30:31.690
rat trap um which i still have yet to release

00:30:31.690 --> 00:30:35.170
which shouldn't be that hard considering what

00:30:35.170 --> 00:30:39.509
i had to do earlier this year um as far as like

00:30:39.509 --> 00:30:44.859
audio dramas but yeah this is like his big breakout

00:30:44.859 --> 00:30:50.259
Transformers role and then we got like the Revenge

00:30:50.259 --> 00:30:55.480
of the Fallen thereafter which came out for PS3

00:30:55.480 --> 00:30:58.220
and Xbox 360 which I played it on the Xbox 360

00:30:58.220 --> 00:31:02.619
because I had that around that time but I don't

00:31:02.619 --> 00:31:06.859
remember enough about this game to make any kind

00:31:06.859 --> 00:31:10.720
of Like they did have Peter Cullen back. They

00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:13.579
had Frank Walker back. They brought Charlie Adler

00:31:13.579 --> 00:31:15.920
in as Starscream this time. They had Neil Kaplan

00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:19.059
as Long Haul, Fred Tatasciore as Grinder, John

00:31:19.059 --> 00:31:22.920
DiMaggio sideways. Then they had G1 Megatron,

00:31:23.059 --> 00:31:26.259
G1 Starscream, and G1 Sunstorm, like skins that

00:31:26.259 --> 00:31:28.940
you could unlock. Right. And so they had Walker

00:31:28.940 --> 00:31:31.200
playing Megatron, of course, and Charlie Adler

00:31:31.200 --> 00:31:34.880
playing Starscream and Sunstorm. uh james arnold

00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:37.920
taylor played the fallen fred tattershores demolisher

00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:41.140
then you had peter cullen as g1 and movie prime

00:31:41.140 --> 00:31:45.579
mark ryan is bumblebee jess harnell ironhide

00:31:45.579 --> 00:31:50.019
um you know and then kind of the list goes on

00:31:50.019 --> 00:31:53.420
and on there but i don't remember much about

00:31:53.420 --> 00:31:55.460
this game i remember that the big draw was that

00:31:55.460 --> 00:31:59.019
you could get the skins yeah i think that's what

00:31:59.019 --> 00:32:01.500
this one was it was like skins for everybody

00:32:02.250 --> 00:32:06.569
Because the way that this game's story evolves

00:32:06.569 --> 00:32:13.250
is it evolves over 15 chapters versus the first

00:32:13.250 --> 00:32:16.509
movie game where it's like the first half of

00:32:16.509 --> 00:32:18.230
the game is the Autobots missions. The second

00:32:18.230 --> 00:32:20.309
half of the game is the Decepticons side of the

00:32:20.309 --> 00:32:24.029
fight. Whereas this is just like first mission

00:32:24.029 --> 00:32:26.650
is Optimus' mission. Second mission is Ironhide

00:32:26.650 --> 00:32:29.750
versus Demolisher. Third mission is the pursuit

00:32:29.750 --> 00:32:34.599
over Shanghai. sideways goes to ground on chapter

00:32:34.599 --> 00:32:37.420
four. You know, you have all the, it's more of

00:32:37.420 --> 00:32:40.940
a, here's a storytelling video game where it's

00:32:40.940 --> 00:32:44.079
like a chapter book kind of thing. Whereas the

00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:47.019
first game was more of at least the way I see

00:32:47.019 --> 00:32:51.359
how they, how they laid out the story of here's

00:32:51.359 --> 00:32:53.680
the Autobot side of the fight. Here's the Decepticon

00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:56.180
side of the fight. Like I said earlier, and this

00:32:56.180 --> 00:32:58.839
is not that this is more like, here's an entire

00:32:58.839 --> 00:33:03.250
story. wrapped up into one for you with this

00:33:03.250 --> 00:33:06.990
revenge of the fallen game yeah i never played

00:33:06.990 --> 00:33:09.609
that one i've seen people play it looks cool

00:33:09.609 --> 00:33:13.390
i mean i remember playing it i just i didn't

00:33:13.390 --> 00:33:17.009
get into it yeah like didn't really enjoy it

00:33:17.009 --> 00:33:21.730
i mean this was came out in 2009 and i remember

00:33:21.730 --> 00:33:24.529
playing this as well but again didn't really

00:33:24.529 --> 00:33:29.180
enjoy it now The next two games, actually the

00:33:29.180 --> 00:33:32.720
next three that I talk about, I did highly enjoy.

00:33:35.019 --> 00:33:43.440
And these were. I had them on the Xbox 360. All

00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:49.680
three of them. I have them all on PC now. And

00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:54.759
I've beat them all again. This is the war for

00:33:54.759 --> 00:34:00.230
Cybertron. by high moon studios and uh only two

00:34:00.230 --> 00:34:04.170
of these are high moon um but this is certainly

00:34:04.170 --> 00:34:06.269
a line continuity whatever that means for the

00:34:06.269 --> 00:34:09.849
you know timeline because they they didn't know

00:34:09.849 --> 00:34:15.610
they still don't know uh but um but yeah i remember

00:34:15.610 --> 00:34:20.349
playing this and the for the first time and yeah

00:34:20.349 --> 00:34:22.750
you were you were getting all of their cybertronian

00:34:22.750 --> 00:34:28.300
uh bodies but this was this was one of the coolest

00:34:28.300 --> 00:34:35.139
games ever yeah and uh it's it's funny because

00:34:35.139 --> 00:34:39.019
the uh the tf wiki uh under the uh image of optimus

00:34:39.019 --> 00:34:42.719
prime it says prime auditions for unreal tournament

00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:47.460
there were no survivors no that's right and that's

00:34:47.460 --> 00:34:50.059
i mean that's how i felt like i really did like

00:34:50.059 --> 00:34:52.800
this game and it was done by activision yeah

00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:55.659
um but it was slick. Like it was really well

00:34:55.659 --> 00:34:58.699
done. The story was awesome. The voice acting

00:34:58.699 --> 00:35:03.619
was great. This, the, uh, graphically and then

00:35:03.619 --> 00:35:05.960
like aesthetically how it played was really fun.

00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:11.199
Um, you know, it was the tail end of the, the

00:35:11.199 --> 00:35:15.500
great war on Cybertron type of thing. Yep. You

00:35:15.500 --> 00:35:17.199
know, before the transformers come to earth and

00:35:17.199 --> 00:35:21.579
you know, Megatron is battling and trying to,

00:35:21.949 --> 00:35:25.610
use the power source of the dark energon and

00:35:25.610 --> 00:35:30.070
you get you get a little bit of back and forth

00:35:30.070 --> 00:35:32.929
like the the the first chapter you get brawl

00:35:32.929 --> 00:35:36.590
barricade or megatron as options and then you

00:35:36.590 --> 00:35:38.909
get to play as starscream thundercracker skywarp

00:35:38.909 --> 00:35:44.070
for the second mission and then you destroy iacon

00:35:44.070 --> 00:35:46.829
as either megatron sound wave or breakdown and

00:35:46.829 --> 00:35:50.829
your last boss is zeta prime there for that part

00:35:51.309 --> 00:35:56.090
And then you kind of finish out these last two

00:35:56.090 --> 00:36:00.309
chapters as the Decepticons of Megatron's sound

00:36:00.309 --> 00:36:02.489
wave breakdown for the next two. And you fight

00:36:02.489 --> 00:36:05.730
Omega Supreme. And then again, Omega Supreme.

00:36:06.090 --> 00:36:10.309
Like one's vehicle mode, one's robot. And then

00:36:10.309 --> 00:36:16.230
it switches to the Autobot campaign. And you

00:36:16.230 --> 00:36:18.690
start out as Optimus, Bumblebee, or Ratchet.

00:36:18.889 --> 00:36:21.710
And then it goes to... Optimus Sideswipe or Bumblebee.

00:36:22.409 --> 00:36:25.210
And you fight Starscream, Soundwave, and then

00:36:25.210 --> 00:36:28.190
you fight some kind of corrupted worm. That's

00:36:28.190 --> 00:36:31.449
like Prime, Ironhide, or Warpath. And again,

00:36:31.690 --> 00:36:33.670
these were all fun. It didn't matter who you

00:36:33.670 --> 00:36:35.829
chose. I mean, I typically chose Prime if he

00:36:35.829 --> 00:36:39.670
was an option. Or Megatron if he was an option.

00:36:39.869 --> 00:36:42.849
But if they weren't, I went for my next favorite

00:36:42.849 --> 00:36:45.570
character of whatever it was. And then you could

00:36:45.570 --> 00:36:49.840
fight Trypticon. as silver bolt air raid or jet

00:36:49.840 --> 00:36:53.340
fire and in that i kind of rotated because in

00:36:53.340 --> 00:36:59.360
the fan dubs i played i played air raid uh in

00:36:59.360 --> 00:37:03.739
the fan dub and then jet fire is just fun in

00:37:03.739 --> 00:37:06.039
general and so silver bolt so i i kind of rotate

00:37:06.039 --> 00:37:08.440
between the three when i play that mission um

00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:11.420
and then you get the the final mission in the

00:37:11.420 --> 00:37:13.840
game there and it's prime bubble beer ironhide

00:37:13.840 --> 00:37:18.170
against trypticon and uh And then it finishes

00:37:18.170 --> 00:37:20.809
out this game and then kind of continues in Fall

00:37:20.809 --> 00:37:25.469
of Cybertron. And the casting for these were

00:37:25.469 --> 00:37:27.469
all great. I mean, you had Fred Tatasciore's

00:37:27.469 --> 00:37:31.329
Ratchet and Megatron. You had Steve Bloom as

00:37:31.329 --> 00:37:42.329
Barricade. You had Prime as Peter Cullen. Fred

00:37:42.329 --> 00:37:44.170
Tatasciore played a lot of characters. He also

00:37:44.170 --> 00:37:46.789
played Omega Supreme in Trypticon. Dee Bloom

00:37:46.789 --> 00:37:49.889
was the narrator. Felt like watching Toonami.

00:37:50.469 --> 00:37:57.090
Yep. Which was great. And yeah, I mean, you had

00:37:57.090 --> 00:38:00.489
a lot of great characters or a lot of actors

00:38:00.489 --> 00:38:03.510
that were great in this and then downloadable

00:38:03.510 --> 00:38:08.010
content characters and it was just fun overall.

00:38:08.730 --> 00:38:14.349
This is one of my favorites. However, I almost

00:38:14.349 --> 00:38:18.170
prefer the sequel better. Fall of Cybertron?

00:38:18.329 --> 00:38:24.309
Yes. It's like they took what was in the first

00:38:24.309 --> 00:38:27.230
game and they ramped it up. And it's a direct

00:38:27.230 --> 00:38:28.809
sequel, obviously, and it came out two years

00:38:28.809 --> 00:38:35.510
later and I bought this one new. It continued.

00:38:35.730 --> 00:38:39.070
You had the deterioration. Then you get the side

00:38:39.070 --> 00:38:42.099
story focusing on the Dinobots. you begin the

00:38:42.099 --> 00:38:46.320
story with prime defeating the, you know, conceding

00:38:46.320 --> 00:38:48.739
defeat to the Decepticons. And then, you know,

00:38:48.760 --> 00:38:55.780
Grimlock is captured. And, um, this one, it was

00:38:55.780 --> 00:38:58.139
a little bit more difficult because they forced

00:38:58.139 --> 00:39:04.340
you to use a select character. Yeah. You didn't

00:39:04.340 --> 00:39:06.400
get a choice. Like you, the first mission was

00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:11.469
bumblebee. Yep. And You're kind of starting the

00:39:11.469 --> 00:39:17.969
end of the game at the beginning with Bumblebee,

00:39:18.050 --> 00:39:20.269
and then you go on to the next part, which is

00:39:20.269 --> 00:39:22.429
defending the Ark, and you have Prime, and you're

00:39:22.429 --> 00:39:27.510
unlocking Metroplex and activating him, which

00:39:27.510 --> 00:39:29.550
is awesome, because you see this little itty

00:39:29.550 --> 00:39:31.849
-bitty Optimus Prime the size of an ant, and

00:39:31.849 --> 00:39:38.070
then Metroplex is like, yup. And then later you

00:39:38.070 --> 00:39:40.590
get you get Cliffjumper who's helping Jazz and

00:39:40.590 --> 00:39:42.369
then the next level you get Jazz and then you

00:39:42.369 --> 00:39:45.949
get Vortex, which for the Decepticons, I hated

00:39:45.949 --> 00:39:49.769
playing as any of the individual parts of the

00:39:49.769 --> 00:39:53.269
Combaticons. I hated playing those, which is

00:39:53.269 --> 00:39:55.150
funny that I'm like, I like this game better.

00:39:57.429 --> 00:39:59.610
Because they had a lot of stuff where you had

00:39:59.610 --> 00:40:02.409
to be methodical in how you played the characters

00:40:02.409 --> 00:40:07.289
of like Cliffjumper, Jazz. Vortex, Swindle. I

00:40:07.289 --> 00:40:09.289
enjoyed Bruticus because you get to destroy stuff

00:40:09.289 --> 00:40:17.349
on the Ark. Right. And then you play Soundwave

00:40:17.349 --> 00:40:21.469
at least until he revives the smashed Megatron

00:40:21.469 --> 00:40:24.269
from the previous game. And they're just randomly

00:40:24.269 --> 00:40:28.150
rebuilding him in his shop. He has a body already

00:40:28.150 --> 00:40:31.409
there. There's just a tin can head laying around

00:40:31.409 --> 00:40:35.659
somewhere and they plug it in. then they get

00:40:35.659 --> 00:40:38.860
a cannon and you know infuse it with dark energon

00:40:38.860 --> 00:40:45.579
and uh megatron's back and more powerful uh and

00:40:45.579 --> 00:40:48.280
then you do another confrontation as megatron

00:40:48.280 --> 00:40:53.380
fighting through all different kinds of forces

00:40:53.380 --> 00:40:59.860
uh starscream of course betrays and uh you play

00:40:59.860 --> 00:41:03.019
as a decepticon trooper and then starscream who

00:41:03.449 --> 00:41:06.130
kills the Decepticon trooper as he's invisible.

00:41:06.409 --> 00:41:13.130
Right. And then you inadvertently tease Grimlock

00:41:13.130 --> 00:41:20.630
and become Grimlock for the game. And then you

00:41:20.630 --> 00:41:25.309
play as Grimlock and Swoop and honestly it was

00:41:25.309 --> 00:41:28.050
cool trying to play his character and transform.

00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:31.940
Grimlock could only transform, though, if you

00:41:31.940 --> 00:41:37.099
filled up his anger meter. Yep. Which was interesting,

00:41:37.239 --> 00:41:41.880
but I loved the character playing him. And then

00:41:41.880 --> 00:41:44.539
you get to play, they did a sequential storyline

00:41:44.539 --> 00:41:47.599
progression where you start out as Soundwave

00:41:47.599 --> 00:41:49.719
infiltrating the Ark, then you're Jetfire trying

00:41:49.719 --> 00:41:52.659
to blow away the connection between the Nemesis

00:41:52.659 --> 00:41:56.840
and the Ark, which the Nemesis is a transformed

00:41:56.840 --> 00:42:01.039
Trypticon. For failing Megatron, he is like the

00:42:01.039 --> 00:42:04.559
lifeless shell. Right. And then he plays Verticus,

00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:07.440
destroying part of the Ark, and then Jazz taking

00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:10.159
down Verticus, and then Optimus fighting Megatron,

00:42:10.219 --> 00:42:14.820
and then kind of back and forth. Until, you know,

00:42:14.820 --> 00:42:18.480
finally the ship crashes and they fall through

00:42:18.480 --> 00:42:23.199
the portal and game over. And I was dying. I

00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:26.519
was like, no, not another, you know. two years

00:42:26.519 --> 00:42:27.960
and then they're like yeah we're not making anymore

00:42:27.960 --> 00:42:32.300
yeah that was the bad thing about high moon is

00:42:32.300 --> 00:42:35.260
they kind of went under it was like damn no more

00:42:35.260 --> 00:42:37.460
they didn't really go under it was kind of like

00:42:37.460 --> 00:42:40.340
a hasbro decision to be like yeah okay yeah okay

00:42:40.340 --> 00:42:44.159
high moon themselves did not go under but the

00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:48.440
transformers games from high moon basically like

00:42:48.440 --> 00:42:54.219
you just said hasbro kind of stopped the um whatever

00:42:55.849 --> 00:43:00.630
Stupid Hasbro. So what's funny is the PC version

00:43:00.630 --> 00:43:10.050
was kind of a redeveloped. They were a development

00:43:10.050 --> 00:43:14.389
company founded in 2010 by video game industry

00:43:14.389 --> 00:43:20.070
veterans. This company helped develop Guitar

00:43:20.070 --> 00:43:25.369
Hero, Van Halen, Madagascar, Escape. to africa

00:43:25.369 --> 00:43:32.010
like tiger woods the godfather game uh they ported

00:43:32.010 --> 00:43:38.710
fall of cybertron to the pc and improved upon

00:43:38.710 --> 00:43:41.130
it by featuring higher quality graphics higher

00:43:41.130 --> 00:43:44.769
resolution textures it can run at 1080p and 60

00:43:44.769 --> 00:43:51.199
frames per second But some of the graphical settings

00:43:51.199 --> 00:43:53.780
were lacking and the controls couldn't be reset

00:43:53.780 --> 00:43:57.500
because it's a port. But I play with a gamepad

00:43:57.500 --> 00:44:05.880
when I play it. I don't know. This was by far

00:44:05.880 --> 00:44:14.559
one of my favorite games. And then we got almost

00:44:14.559 --> 00:44:18.039
like, it was like three years later, Transformers

00:44:18.039 --> 00:44:21.190
Devastation. Yes, Devastation was good. Which

00:44:21.190 --> 00:44:26.449
was straight up G1. Yep. It's funny because they

00:44:26.449 --> 00:44:28.809
say it's billed as a tie -in to Combiner Wars,

00:44:29.010 --> 00:44:35.429
but I don't see it. It can't be. It just can't

00:44:35.429 --> 00:44:39.530
be. I think that was their way of trying to legitimize

00:44:39.530 --> 00:44:43.070
selling this. I think, maybe. Because there's

00:44:43.070 --> 00:44:46.269
no way. There's no way. But you did get Vince

00:44:46.269 --> 00:44:50.539
DeCola music in this. Mm hmm. Yeah. Kenny Meredith.

00:44:50.679 --> 00:44:57.320
Absolutely awesome. Yeah. So this one was was

00:44:57.320 --> 00:44:59.500
fun. Again, this is another Activision. Activision

00:44:59.500 --> 00:45:05.159
kind of did all these games from the movie onward.

00:45:05.159 --> 00:45:10.480
Well, actually from Armada onward. But you get

00:45:10.480 --> 00:45:14.280
to play as different Autobots and Decepticons

00:45:14.280 --> 00:45:19.420
throughout this game. Or at least no, I think

00:45:19.420 --> 00:45:27.500
it's just Autobots. I can't remember. I have

00:45:27.500 --> 00:45:30.119
beat the game once, but it was when I was on

00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:35.760
console. But on the PC, like I'm like, I don't

00:45:35.760 --> 00:45:38.099
remember how to play this. I play it out of enjoyment

00:45:38.099 --> 00:45:40.639
and then I totally bomb and forget where I'm

00:45:40.639 --> 00:45:47.320
supposed to go. But. Yeah, I enjoyed it because

00:45:47.320 --> 00:45:49.260
you got the cel -shaded kind of coolness. You

00:45:49.260 --> 00:45:53.179
got the G1 aesthetic. Yep. You got to upgrade

00:45:53.179 --> 00:45:59.579
your characters, which was cool. Yep. Got Greg

00:45:59.579 --> 00:46:03.139
Berger back as Grimlock. Greg Berger's back.

00:46:03.320 --> 00:46:06.340
Michael Bell is back. Dan Gil was in. Peter Cullen.

00:46:06.460 --> 00:46:16.000
Frank Welker. That's pretty much everybody. Yeah,

00:46:16.820 --> 00:46:20.920
that's pretty much everybody that's back. Steve

00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:32.519
Bloom is in it. Hello? Yeah, that's kind of it

00:46:32.519 --> 00:46:39.559
there. They added some other characters into

00:46:39.559 --> 00:46:44.880
it, but they didn't really talk per se. Then

00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:49.860
they had Nova Prime Awaken in the game. But I

00:46:49.860 --> 00:46:53.519
don't think that went anywhere. It's one of those

00:46:53.519 --> 00:46:59.420
kind of weird situations. Because we had Teletraan

00:46:59.420 --> 00:47:07.679
1 and then Teletraan Alpha as well. But yeah,

00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:12.760
I don't know. It was fun for what it was and

00:47:12.760 --> 00:47:21.099
while it lasted. Um, but yeah, I, I, I liked

00:47:21.099 --> 00:47:24.340
a lot of aspects of it. It was very fast paced

00:47:24.340 --> 00:47:28.380
and fun to do, uh, the, the actions and destroy

00:47:28.380 --> 00:47:30.800
stuff and kind of upgrades weapons. Like I would

00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:34.460
upgrade pretty much everything by massacring

00:47:34.460 --> 00:47:38.619
things and giving fusion power, fusion cannon

00:47:38.619 --> 00:47:41.900
power to whomever like Grimlock had this nice

00:47:41.900 --> 00:47:46.059
energy sword. And Prime had the Energy Axe that

00:47:46.059 --> 00:47:50.460
I upgraded massively. And his Ion Blaster I upgraded

00:47:50.460 --> 00:47:57.260
massively. Nice. But, yeah, I mean, what's sad

00:47:57.260 --> 00:48:04.960
about this and Activision's expiration of their

00:48:04.960 --> 00:48:09.099
licensing agreement with Hasbro after this game

00:48:09.099 --> 00:48:16.139
in 2017 at the end of the year. This. Again,

00:48:16.280 --> 00:48:18.579
this was the final Transformers game by Activision.

00:48:19.000 --> 00:48:21.699
All of the Transformers games were delisted from

00:48:21.699 --> 00:48:29.860
digital platforms. Yeah. Which means that Captain

00:48:29.860 --> 00:48:35.280
Jack Sparrow has to come to play. Yeah. Yep.

00:48:35.880 --> 00:48:41.360
So. So, yeah, that. That takes me through the.

00:48:41.929 --> 00:48:48.650
Activision stuff. There's some other games that

00:48:48.650 --> 00:48:53.610
we're getting into mobile territory or handheld

00:48:53.610 --> 00:48:57.849
territory. One of the games that I haven't played

00:48:57.849 --> 00:48:59.889
that came out tail end of last year that I'd

00:48:59.889 --> 00:49:04.090
like to check out is Transformers Galactic Trials.

00:49:04.269 --> 00:49:08.789
Yeah, that's the new one. Yeah, and what's funny

00:49:08.789 --> 00:49:11.679
is John Bailey plays Megatron in Soundwave. and

00:49:11.679 --> 00:49:16.219
shockwave i mean it's a mobile game so i mean

00:49:16.219 --> 00:49:19.460
go figure but uh but i still think that's cool

00:49:19.460 --> 00:49:22.019
because again like i knew him from fan dubbing

00:49:22.019 --> 00:49:28.199
days back in the day um and uh yeah he does all

00:49:28.199 --> 00:49:32.800
kinds of all kinds of work but uh he's kind of

00:49:32.800 --> 00:49:35.760
the de facto optimus prime for hasbro when peter

00:49:35.760 --> 00:49:39.059
cullen's unavailable due to scheduling or budget

00:49:39.059 --> 00:49:47.210
reasons yep But no, I mean, he's pretty much

00:49:47.210 --> 00:49:50.210
played Shockwave or Optimus Prime or Soundwave

00:49:50.210 --> 00:49:58.070
a good 50 % of the time. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah,

00:49:58.110 --> 00:50:02.710
John's awesome. And he mostly is in the mostly

00:50:02.710 --> 00:50:07.389
in the video game stuff, but he's done like Combiner

00:50:07.389 --> 00:50:12.179
Wars and something in Animated. um well at least

00:50:12.179 --> 00:50:16.300
at botcon uh but yeah he's played he's played

00:50:16.300 --> 00:50:22.119
in various games but um yeah i i'd like to check

00:50:22.119 --> 00:50:24.559
this game out just to see what it's like i know

00:50:24.559 --> 00:50:30.019
it's kind of a all -star racing and it almost

00:50:30.019 --> 00:50:34.420
looks like it takes place in uh the earth spark

00:50:34.420 --> 00:50:38.960
kind of aesthetic or maybe not earth spark but

00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:47.110
the uh What's the previous show? Not RID. Cyberverse.

00:50:47.570 --> 00:50:49.150
Cyberverse, yeah. It almost kind of looks like

00:50:49.150 --> 00:50:53.010
that to me. Yeah. But, yeah, I mean, that looks

00:50:53.010 --> 00:50:57.130
like it could be fun. Here's the, I'm on the

00:50:57.130 --> 00:51:01.170
Galactic Trials page on TFWiki. Here's the synopsis

00:51:01.170 --> 00:51:04.210
of the game for those that don't know. Nemesis

00:51:04.210 --> 00:51:06.969
Prime steals the artifacts of the Primes, hoping

00:51:06.969 --> 00:51:09.929
to claim the power for his own as he prepares

00:51:09.929 --> 00:51:13.300
to exit Cybertron's orbit. However, his ship

00:51:13.300 --> 00:51:16.019
is shot down by the planet's defenses and its

00:51:16.019 --> 00:51:20.440
contents spilled out into space, scattering the

00:51:20.440 --> 00:51:24.079
artifacts across the cosmos. While Nemesis retreats

00:51:24.079 --> 00:51:28.119
to recover his strength, the Autobots and Decepticons

00:51:28.119 --> 00:51:32.699
begin competing to reclaim the relics for themselves

00:51:32.699 --> 00:51:36.420
before the other faction, with their campaign

00:51:36.420 --> 00:51:40.199
coming to be known on Cybertron as the Galactic

00:51:40.199 --> 00:51:43.860
Trials. Playable characters include Autobots

00:51:43.860 --> 00:51:46.460
and Decepticons, Optimus Prime, voiced by Bill

00:51:46.460 --> 00:51:50.340
Rogers, whoever that person is. Bumblebee, John...

00:51:50.340 --> 00:51:55.679
Zeejus? No clue. Wheeljack, Jordan Reynolds,

00:51:55.900 --> 00:52:00.420
Alita One, Leah Knauer. RC is done by Don M.

00:52:00.460 --> 00:52:03.400
Bennett. Yeah, Don M. Bennett. I said that right.

00:52:04.320 --> 00:52:08.079
Like you mentioned, John Bailey is doing Megatron,

00:52:08.159 --> 00:52:13.000
Soundwave, and Laserbeam. Because Laserbeak is

00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:16.360
under Soundwave, Shockwave. Flame War is done

00:52:16.360 --> 00:52:18.800
by Don M. Bennett. Nightbird is done by Leonari.

00:52:19.460 --> 00:52:22.780
Nemesis Prime is done by Jordan Reynolds. And

00:52:22.780 --> 00:52:25.340
the non -playable character is the narrator,

00:52:25.500 --> 00:52:29.940
who is Bill Millsap. I think I saw the trailer

00:52:29.940 --> 00:52:34.139
for this, and I was like, huh, interesting. It

00:52:34.139 --> 00:52:40.099
looks cool. Who knows? Yeah. Again, this is going

00:52:40.099 --> 00:52:42.679
to be one of those ones I check out at my leisure

00:52:42.679 --> 00:52:45.920
in the future. I know they sell it on Steam,

00:52:46.179 --> 00:52:48.420
which would be how I'd have to get it nowadays.

00:52:48.780 --> 00:52:52.019
I mean, it's on the Switch, PlayStation 4 and

00:52:52.019 --> 00:52:58.059
5, Xbox One, the Xbox Series X, S, or X slash

00:52:58.059 --> 00:53:03.739
S, and then the PC. I'm interested to check it

00:53:03.739 --> 00:53:07.500
out, so I'll probably watch some videos on it

00:53:07.500 --> 00:53:09.780
before I pull the trigger, wait for it to go

00:53:09.780 --> 00:53:11.760
on sale, and then I'll pull the trigger because

00:53:11.760 --> 00:53:17.199
I never buy anything when it's brand new. Yeah,

00:53:17.260 --> 00:53:19.719
you never want to buy brand new, folks. Oh, no.

00:53:20.480 --> 00:53:29.239
No. Then you get the DLC for free. But... So,

00:53:30.099 --> 00:53:35.619
anyways, the other thing that I've got is from

00:53:35.619 --> 00:53:39.909
the Game Boy Color. And this was released only

00:53:39.909 --> 00:53:44.449
in Japan. 1999. This was one of the emulator

00:53:44.449 --> 00:53:47.750
ones I played. Okay. It's a stupid long title,

00:53:47.829 --> 00:53:52.829
but they're like chibi Transformers. Yep. Dual

00:53:52.829 --> 00:53:54.849
fight Transformers, Beast Wars, Beast Warriors,

00:53:55.050 --> 00:54:00.690
strongest decisive battle. I just call it Beast

00:54:00.690 --> 00:54:02.909
Wars, Beast Warriors, or just Beast Warriors.

00:54:04.670 --> 00:54:07.110
It basically you get combatants from Beast Wars,

00:54:07.210 --> 00:54:11.650
Beast Wars 2 and Beast Wars Neo. Majority of

00:54:11.650 --> 00:54:15.809
them are the leaders like you get. I mean, just

00:54:15.809 --> 00:54:18.789
forgetting the plot completely because this is

00:54:18.789 --> 00:54:23.829
all over the place. But the plot is technically

00:54:23.829 --> 00:54:28.130
the planet Gaia, Leo Convoys, Maximals and Galvatron's

00:54:28.130 --> 00:54:33.769
Predacons detect an abnormal form of angle. Engelmas

00:54:33.769 --> 00:54:36.969
energy investigating the source they find themselves

00:54:36.969 --> 00:54:39.789
in a mysterious ruin in another dimension as

00:54:39.789 --> 00:54:41.989
do the time displaced Optimus Primal and Cheetor

00:54:41.989 --> 00:54:45.150
who arrive while pursuing Megatron Galvatron

00:54:45.150 --> 00:54:47.570
discovers a strange energon quartz in the ruin

00:54:47.570 --> 00:54:50.869
and attempts to abscond with it and finds it

00:54:50.869 --> 00:54:54.590
protected by a barrier An ethereal voice proclaims

00:54:54.590 --> 00:54:56.329
the courts can only be claimed by one who proves

00:54:56.329 --> 00:54:58.550
themselves the strongest, promising great power

00:54:58.550 --> 00:55:01.050
to whoever possesses it. With the challenge issued,

00:55:01.210 --> 00:55:03.429
the Maximals and Predacons prepare for battle,

00:55:03.630 --> 00:55:06.030
each one seeking to claim the courts for their

00:55:06.030 --> 00:55:13.190
own. And in this you get, it says after Megatron,

00:55:13.289 --> 00:55:17.090
who is always the final enemy, even if you're

00:55:17.090 --> 00:55:19.489
playing as him, is defeated in the chamber of

00:55:19.489 --> 00:55:21.900
the courts. The Beast Warrior who has proven

00:55:21.900 --> 00:55:23.820
themselves the strongest obtains the Quartz and

00:55:23.820 --> 00:55:25.599
is given the choice of what to do with its power.

00:55:28.199 --> 00:55:34.260
Leo Convoy is the maximal one from Beast Wars

00:55:34.260 --> 00:55:39.039
2. He seals it away forever. Galvatron absorbs

00:55:39.039 --> 00:55:41.880
it and grows mad with power and destroys its

00:55:41.880 --> 00:55:48.550
own base. Scuba, who's the octopus or the squid,

00:55:48.769 --> 00:55:50.909
he uses the Quartz's power to repair the environmental

00:55:50.909 --> 00:55:54.010
damage caused by the Predacon's megastorm, which

00:55:54.010 --> 00:55:57.309
is basically G2 Megatron, glows to himself that

00:55:57.309 --> 00:55:58.690
with the power of the Quartz, he will finally

00:55:58.690 --> 00:56:01.449
overcome Galvatron, only for his brother to steal

00:56:01.449 --> 00:56:04.570
the Quartz right from under his nose. Cheetor,

00:56:04.710 --> 00:56:06.389
having the Quartz to become the most powerful

00:56:06.389 --> 00:56:08.889
of all Maximals, he's promoted to Supreme Commander.

00:56:09.289 --> 00:56:11.550
However, he can't handle the responsibility required

00:56:11.550 --> 00:56:13.590
for the post, and he runs away after only three

00:56:13.590 --> 00:56:21.340
days. um gildart which is a rhinoceros character

00:56:21.340 --> 00:56:25.219
uh decides not to use the courts right away believing

00:56:25.219 --> 00:56:28.019
there's still a long line uh before the war ends

00:56:28.019 --> 00:56:31.880
and keeps it around as a trump card and then

00:56:31.880 --> 00:56:34.500
primal uses it to defeat the predacons once and

00:56:34.500 --> 00:56:37.559
for all megatron takes the courts and sets out

00:56:37.559 --> 00:56:39.800
to defeat his eternal nemesis optimus primal

00:56:39.800 --> 00:56:46.719
uh star upper is a uh A weird character almost

00:56:46.719 --> 00:56:52.300
looks like a. Like a. Wallaby or something like

00:56:52.300 --> 00:56:56.139
I'm not exactly sure, but he wants to become

00:56:56.139 --> 00:56:58.159
strong under his own power, doesn't use it for

00:56:58.159 --> 00:57:02.900
anything. Artemis doesn't realize that this is

00:57:02.900 --> 00:57:04.860
like the humanoid one that turns into like the

00:57:04.860 --> 00:57:10.320
bunny or whatever. Finds it pretty and takes

00:57:10.320 --> 00:57:15.380
it home to decorate. So it's kind of dumb. but,

00:57:15.380 --> 00:57:20.860
but yeah, um, it was an entertaining game. Uh,

00:57:21.119 --> 00:57:23.420
you could play as like other characters, like

00:57:23.420 --> 00:57:29.219
they had a star scream, uh, in it. And, um, they

00:57:29.219 --> 00:57:33.099
had, uh, a DJ who was basically cicada con from

00:57:33.099 --> 00:57:37.579
the tri predacus toy. Um, it occurred, which

00:57:37.579 --> 00:57:41.659
is again, another of the tri predacus, uh, characters.

00:57:41.880 --> 00:57:46.920
And then they had, Starscream who was he was

00:57:46.920 --> 00:57:52.579
like the hell screamer BB character and the other

00:57:52.579 --> 00:57:58.599
Beast Wars Beast Wars 2 continuity and then you

00:57:58.599 --> 00:58:03.239
had a couple other characters but overall I enjoyed

00:58:03.239 --> 00:58:06.239
it because it was just a goofy like side scrolling

00:58:06.239 --> 00:58:10.980
beat him up almost like a street fighter yeah

00:58:11.420 --> 00:58:13.179
You could transform and you could shoot them.

00:58:13.340 --> 00:58:16.780
It was entertaining in its own right, but it

00:58:16.780 --> 00:58:26.860
had a very short lifespan. Cool. So that one,

00:58:26.880 --> 00:58:29.199
I genuinely enjoyed that just because it was

00:58:29.199 --> 00:58:31.880
just something fun to play for, you know, oh,

00:58:31.900 --> 00:58:35.460
I've got 15, 20 minutes to kill. Let's play this.

00:58:38.670 --> 00:58:40.769
And then there was Transformers Legends. I mostly

00:58:40.769 --> 00:58:42.849
liked it because the artwork that came out of

00:58:42.849 --> 00:58:46.449
it, but it was a multiplayer card based battle

00:58:46.449 --> 00:58:54.750
game that came out for mobile. Yep. And yeah,

00:58:54.849 --> 00:58:59.989
I mean. Kind of all I liked it for was was the

00:58:59.989 --> 00:59:02.550
artwork like it was kind of like it was one of

00:59:02.550 --> 00:59:06.110
those games I just didn't really care. Yeah.

00:59:06.559 --> 00:59:09.619
And it didn't last very long. They shut it down

00:59:09.619 --> 00:59:13.980
two years after kicking things off with it. Yeah.

00:59:16.139 --> 00:59:19.780
It seems like they do that a lot, though. I feel

00:59:19.780 --> 00:59:23.760
like this is a mistake to make online games for

00:59:23.760 --> 00:59:26.619
Transformers. They need to just have offline.

00:59:27.599 --> 00:59:30.400
Because even War for Cybertron, Fallout Cybertron

00:59:30.400 --> 00:59:34.630
had an online component. it did did anybody use

00:59:34.630 --> 00:59:36.989
it i don't remember anyone talking about it but

00:59:36.989 --> 00:59:38.610
that was because i was like i just want to see

00:59:38.610 --> 00:59:41.969
how it works yeah the war for cybertron one kind

00:59:41.969 --> 00:59:43.909
of sucked and then the fall of cybertron one

00:59:43.909 --> 00:59:47.769
was better um now i could be mistaken like it

00:59:47.769 --> 00:59:50.670
may have been the same game and i just i'm misremembering

00:59:50.670 --> 00:59:57.269
it but um but yeah it was just kind of meh yeah

00:59:57.269 --> 01:00:03.440
the only and then i played forged to fight which

01:00:03.440 --> 01:00:07.019
had like the universe collision, you know, G1,

01:00:07.199 --> 01:00:10.699
Bayformer, Beast War, you know, all of them were

01:00:10.699 --> 01:00:18.039
running together. It wasn't very good, but it

01:00:18.039 --> 01:00:22.920
wasn't bad either. It came out in 2017. It was

01:00:22.920 --> 01:00:27.340
on Android and iOS. The game originally shut

01:00:27.340 --> 01:00:33.340
down in 2023. And then a new version of the game

01:00:33.340 --> 01:00:36.360
was announced and relaunched exclusively for

01:00:36.360 --> 01:00:40.179
Netflix subscribers. Like four months later.

01:00:41.840 --> 01:00:44.380
And then the new version removed all in -app

01:00:44.380 --> 01:00:47.280
purchases and ads, as well as characters from

01:00:47.280 --> 01:00:49.159
the live -action film series, while adding new

01:00:49.159 --> 01:00:50.940
characters not present in the original release.

01:00:51.900 --> 01:00:55.599
So I forgot about that, so I might actually have

01:00:55.599 --> 01:00:58.119
to try and play that again, but I don't remember

01:00:58.119 --> 01:01:04.960
really enjoying it. Yeah. It was it was interesting

01:01:04.960 --> 01:01:07.940
and I wanted like the beast characters, but ultimately

01:01:07.940 --> 01:01:15.440
like I didn't I didn't love it. Yeah, this is

01:01:15.440 --> 01:01:24.460
this game was weird. Very weird. Yeah. But yeah,

01:01:24.559 --> 01:01:26.679
it was kind of a mixture of everything. And then

01:01:26.679 --> 01:01:30.550
I mean, I have Eternal War on there. on my list

01:01:30.550 --> 01:01:33.010
is like a want to play but there's not like enough

01:01:33.010 --> 01:01:37.269
there's no information really on it is that the

01:01:37.269 --> 01:01:39.909
newest newest one yeah yeah it's supposed to

01:01:39.909 --> 01:01:42.969
be the newest one that's it's out in like a beta

01:01:42.969 --> 01:01:44.690
but it's on the other side of the world it's

01:01:44.690 --> 01:01:49.030
not here but it interests me enough that when

01:01:49.030 --> 01:01:52.309
it does come here i want to check it out um i

01:01:52.309 --> 01:01:55.769
have played earth wars since it came out in 2016

01:01:55.769 --> 01:02:00.489
right And it's passed through multiple studios.

01:02:04.230 --> 01:02:08.789
It was like with a couple of different studios

01:02:08.789 --> 01:02:12.030
to begin with, and then it's changed and changed

01:02:12.030 --> 01:02:17.690
again, I guess, in 2025 to another studio. And

01:02:17.690 --> 01:02:20.630
yeah, it's still going since 2016. I think it's

01:02:20.630 --> 01:02:24.489
the longest running online Transformers game.

01:02:25.519 --> 01:02:27.519
But it covers different generations. You get

01:02:27.519 --> 01:02:30.760
your G1s, you get your Unicron Trilogy, your

01:02:30.760 --> 01:02:33.320
Beast Era, your Shattered Glass, your G .I. Joe,

01:02:33.519 --> 01:02:38.880
your Transformers Prime. Nice. I've gotten quite

01:02:38.880 --> 01:02:42.260
a bit with it. What I don't love about it is

01:02:42.260 --> 01:02:46.840
it's very microtransactional. Yep. So it makes

01:02:46.840 --> 01:02:48.619
it almost impossible to play, but they've got

01:02:48.619 --> 01:02:54.119
a huge lineup of characters. I mean, you've got

01:02:54.119 --> 01:02:56.760
every rendition. You've got Optimus Primal. You

01:02:56.760 --> 01:03:01.039
got Optimal Optimus. You got Transmetals, Transmetal

01:03:01.039 --> 01:03:04.519
2s, Transmetal Chips that you can add to people.

01:03:04.920 --> 01:03:10.840
You get Minicons, Mini Cassettes, like Rattrap

01:03:10.840 --> 01:03:15.320
is kind of one of those minis. You get Combiners.

01:03:15.320 --> 01:03:21.039
You get the Titans. You get... You know, all

01:03:21.039 --> 01:03:23.900
different kind of combat characters that are

01:03:23.900 --> 01:03:28.780
in it. It's it was a lot of fun. I just I got

01:03:28.780 --> 01:03:31.440
tired of the microtransactional thing. Yeah,

01:03:31.519 --> 01:03:34.639
that can be tiring after a while. So I just ultimately

01:03:34.639 --> 01:03:38.739
stopped playing. But. And it takes forever to

01:03:38.739 --> 01:03:44.159
build a base. Like forever. especially trying

01:03:44.159 --> 01:03:46.980
to defend it and build it up so like that was

01:03:46.980 --> 01:03:48.679
the other thing that I just kind of was like

01:03:48.679 --> 01:03:52.260
I don't care anymore like I dumped a little bit

01:03:52.260 --> 01:03:54.199
of money into it originally when it came out

01:03:54.199 --> 01:03:56.420
because I was like I want this character and

01:03:56.420 --> 01:03:58.760
I want this one and then when I got him I was

01:03:58.760 --> 01:04:05.239
like why did I do that it kind of sucks so but

01:04:05.239 --> 01:04:08.219
I did enjoy this one for the longest time so

01:04:08.219 --> 01:04:10.139
this is like kind of the last one that I had

01:04:10.139 --> 01:04:13.969
is my you know enjoyed Because I did enjoy it

01:04:13.969 --> 01:04:17.510
for a time. I don't enjoy it anymore. More so

01:04:17.510 --> 01:04:24.269
because I just stopped playing it. And I think

01:04:24.269 --> 01:04:29.210
it just got kind of bland. But it is the longest

01:04:29.210 --> 01:04:33.630
living video game in the history of the Transformers

01:04:33.630 --> 01:04:40.130
brand. So I got to give it kudos for that. It

01:04:40.130 --> 01:04:42.880
does work. It does seem to. keep people involved

01:04:42.880 --> 01:04:47.179
so but yeah that's that's kind of my lineup of

01:04:47.179 --> 01:04:50.260
the transformers games like i i wish we could

01:04:50.260 --> 01:04:57.179
get some updates of some old ones but or pc access

01:04:57.179 --> 01:05:01.559
to them yeah i would love for someone like that's

01:05:01.559 --> 01:05:04.599
why i love the war and fall for cybertron games

01:05:04.599 --> 01:05:08.000
is that even though they were dark and gritty

01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:13.179
games they were G1 accurate to the point of,

01:05:13.280 --> 01:05:15.920
hey, this is kind of like the G1 cartoon, but

01:05:15.920 --> 01:05:19.199
in video game form. Even though the story wasn't

01:05:19.199 --> 01:05:23.400
a G1 episode kind of thing, it was very G1 feeling.

01:05:23.500 --> 01:05:26.840
I would love to see that. I wish they would have

01:05:26.840 --> 01:05:29.940
worked more with High Moon Studios because those

01:05:29.940 --> 01:05:33.039
people that worked on those games were amazing.

01:05:33.780 --> 01:05:37.000
Can you imagine a High Moon Studios Beast Wars

01:05:37.000 --> 01:05:39.739
or Beast Machine game? That would be awesome.

01:05:40.519 --> 01:05:42.679
That would be great. I don't know what studio

01:05:42.679 --> 01:05:46.039
nowadays Hasbro would work with to make a game

01:05:46.039 --> 01:05:50.840
like that. And yeah, you have many different

01:05:50.840 --> 01:05:55.400
markets for gaming now where it's like arcade

01:05:55.400 --> 01:05:58.300
or mobile or console or this or that. And yes,

01:05:58.360 --> 01:06:01.820
console and PC can basically be interchangeable

01:06:01.820 --> 01:06:04.719
now because you can have the game on all of it.

01:06:04.800 --> 01:06:09.650
But man, I would... hell for a transformers game

01:06:09.650 --> 01:06:13.650
series where basically transformers generations

01:06:13.650 --> 01:06:18.570
you start at g1 you release a fully faithful

01:06:18.570 --> 01:06:21.449
game to g1 it doesn't have to be retelling the

01:06:21.449 --> 01:06:24.349
g1 story but the designs have to be fully g1

01:06:24.349 --> 01:06:27.130
and then you go to beast wars beast machines

01:06:27.130 --> 01:06:31.110
animated whatever else you want to do but it

01:06:31.110 --> 01:06:34.570
could just be a series you know it could be transformers

01:06:34.570 --> 01:06:38.150
generations and you just do all the all the franchises

01:06:38.150 --> 01:06:40.590
within that one thing and have really awesome

01:06:40.590 --> 01:06:43.730
looking show accurate, whatever toy, well, what

01:06:43.730 --> 01:06:46.510
are you going to say? You know, but I don't think

01:06:46.510 --> 01:06:48.630
they're going to do that. I don't know what they're

01:06:48.630 --> 01:06:52.449
going to do because as much as Chris Cox says,

01:06:52.570 --> 01:06:56.010
I'm a gamer. I want, I want the games. I want

01:06:56.010 --> 01:06:58.610
this. No more toys. We got to get the kids focused

01:06:58.610 --> 01:07:00.989
on the games and the whatever. Cause he's got

01:07:00.989 --> 01:07:04.739
whatever background in gaming. I don't know,

01:07:04.760 --> 01:07:08.239
man. But what we have to this point in Transformers

01:07:08.239 --> 01:07:11.119
games, some of it is absolutely amazing, awesome,

01:07:11.199 --> 01:07:14.659
and fun. And we're going to continue to look

01:07:14.659 --> 01:07:20.039
for more fun in Transformers gaming. Yeah, and

01:07:20.039 --> 01:07:26.239
I hope that, with time anyway, we get kind of

01:07:26.239 --> 01:07:34.750
the whole... gamut of options of of some good

01:07:34.750 --> 01:07:37.730
stuff in the vein of what high moon was putting

01:07:37.730 --> 01:07:45.690
out it would be nice just saying just saying

01:07:45.690 --> 01:07:48.929
yeah oh absolutely it would be amazing that's

01:07:48.929 --> 01:07:52.489
why i said you know something similar to that

01:07:52.489 --> 01:07:56.809
design or something similar to basically take

01:07:56.809 --> 01:07:59.369
look at the g1 cartoon or look at beast wars

01:08:00.039 --> 01:08:03.320
And make it video game style and kind of thing.

01:08:04.360 --> 01:08:11.599
I don't know, dude. Yeah, but no. It's always

01:08:11.599 --> 01:08:15.300
so fun looking at this part of the Transformers

01:08:15.300 --> 01:08:20.579
brand because. I don't like every Transformers

01:08:20.579 --> 01:08:23.819
fan I've talked to in the last 17 years or 16

01:08:23.819 --> 01:08:25.859
years or however the hell long it's been since

01:08:25.859 --> 01:08:29.380
we've been doing this. Not a lot of them talk

01:08:29.380 --> 01:08:32.319
about the video games with us. We barely bring

01:08:32.319 --> 01:08:36.319
up the video games. Oh, no. Yeah, we really don't.

01:08:36.319 --> 01:08:40.439
I mean, it's a niche area of the fandom. And

01:08:40.439 --> 01:08:42.560
I'm sure there are. I'm not saying there aren't

01:08:42.560 --> 01:08:44.880
Transformers gamers out there. I'm sure there

01:08:44.880 --> 01:08:47.119
absolutely are. Like I said, when that Angry

01:08:47.119 --> 01:08:50.220
Birds game came out, I went nuts for it because

01:08:50.220 --> 01:08:52.640
it was Transformers, Angry Birds and whatever.

01:08:52.880 --> 01:08:57.130
But it's one of those things where. I think if

01:08:57.130 --> 01:09:01.770
Hasbro did do something really, really well done

01:09:01.770 --> 01:09:06.029
to the point of getting every part of the fandom

01:09:06.029 --> 01:09:10.329
in on it, it would be awesome. And it would bring

01:09:10.329 --> 01:09:12.930
a lot of us together and it would get a lot of

01:09:12.930 --> 01:09:16.149
us talking. But I don't know what they're going

01:09:16.149 --> 01:09:18.989
to do. Well, you would think with his gaming

01:09:18.989 --> 01:09:22.210
background or interest that he would get like

01:09:22.210 --> 01:09:28.430
another high moon. Something. There's a, oh,

01:09:28.689 --> 01:09:32.810
is it Hazel Light? Okay, so there's a studio.

01:09:32.949 --> 01:09:35.670
I think it's called Hazel Light. I could be wrong.

01:09:36.350 --> 01:09:42.449
They're doing very interesting things with games,

01:09:42.590 --> 01:09:44.789
but they're doing unique and original games.

01:09:44.970 --> 01:09:47.430
They did the It Takes Two game. They did the

01:09:47.430 --> 01:09:52.529
Split Fiction game. Split Fiction is about these

01:09:52.529 --> 01:09:55.489
two authors or these two writers who are trying

01:09:55.489 --> 01:09:58.869
to write for this game company or something.

01:09:59.029 --> 01:10:02.770
I forget what the whole thing is. But the point

01:10:02.770 --> 01:10:07.350
of it is he's the corporate guy, the supposed

01:10:07.350 --> 01:10:10.949
villain of the game, has this machine that's

01:10:10.949 --> 01:10:13.090
stealing everybody's ideas kind of thing, and

01:10:13.090 --> 01:10:14.609
the machine's getting overloaded and whatever

01:10:14.609 --> 01:10:17.649
else. And part of the game, I've never seen this

01:10:17.649 --> 01:10:23.819
in gaming. It's a split screen, but it crosses

01:10:23.819 --> 01:10:27.840
over in one of the end levels as you're playing

01:10:27.840 --> 01:10:30.460
the game. So the two characters basically envelope

01:10:30.460 --> 01:10:33.899
each other in the environment. It's so friggin'

01:10:33.899 --> 01:10:36.979
cool. I don't think Hazel Light is going to do

01:10:36.979 --> 01:10:38.840
anything with Transformers. I think they're going

01:10:38.840 --> 01:10:41.239
to do their own thing and keep making their own

01:10:41.239 --> 01:10:44.359
specific games, but we need a studio like them.

01:10:45.680 --> 01:10:48.619
To do something with the transform. We need Hasbro

01:10:48.619 --> 01:10:51.880
to have something like that in their pocket to

01:10:51.880 --> 01:10:57.079
do something with a Transformers game. I don't

01:10:57.079 --> 01:11:01.539
know. I agree with you. I would love to see.

01:11:02.439 --> 01:11:08.600
Kind of revisiting to the to the franchise. Yeah,

01:11:08.619 --> 01:11:12.640
it'd be fun. Like in having good games like not.

01:11:13.199 --> 01:11:15.939
And I'm saying this objectively. I want kind

01:11:15.939 --> 01:11:18.880
of like the third person running around the map.

01:11:19.159 --> 01:11:23.500
Yeah. Yeah, because that's when we had the fun

01:11:23.500 --> 01:11:27.500
stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I don't mind first. Like,

01:11:27.500 --> 01:11:34.039
OK, so here's what you need to do, folks. Basically,

01:11:34.140 --> 01:11:38.300
you take the mechanics of Metal Gear, Metal Gear

01:11:38.300 --> 01:11:43.659
Solid. And apply it to Transformers. So like

01:11:43.659 --> 01:11:46.199
you're saying, third -person walk -around type

01:11:46.199 --> 01:11:49.699
stuff, but at one point or another, you can have

01:11:49.699 --> 01:11:55.520
a first -person view from a certain button press

01:11:55.520 --> 01:11:57.560
or whatever kind of thing. That would be cool.

01:11:58.180 --> 01:12:01.520
I don't know. We need something in the video

01:12:01.520 --> 01:12:05.180
game thing for Transformers, folks, and something

01:12:05.180 --> 01:12:08.560
that isn't always microtransactional because

01:12:08.560 --> 01:12:16.399
that gets old after a while. Yep, yep, yep. So

01:12:16.399 --> 01:12:19.439
I think that wraps this episode up. Yeah, pretty

01:12:19.439 --> 01:12:22.000
much. The games that are out there, the games

01:12:22.000 --> 01:12:23.960
that we've played, for the most part, we've had

01:12:23.960 --> 01:12:28.939
fun with them. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So there are games

01:12:28.939 --> 01:12:32.640
we would go back and play. So, you know. There

01:12:32.640 --> 01:12:37.140
is that. Absolutely. So thank you, everyone,

01:12:37.319 --> 01:12:40.159
as always, for listening to all things Transformers.

01:12:40.159 --> 01:12:42.479
I've been your host, Steve Megatron with TFG1

01:12:42.479 --> 01:12:46.140
Mike. You can, of course, interact with us on

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01:13:03.680 --> 01:13:05.739
am at TF2 and Mike, and before I forget, we do

01:13:05.739 --> 01:13:09.819
have feedback. Yes, we do. I forgot we had that,

01:13:09.899 --> 01:13:17.090
so really briefly. This is from DLL Lorenzo,

01:13:17.109 --> 01:13:20.989
and he says, Just wanted to say thanks to all

01:13:20.989 --> 01:13:23.729
things Transformers team. I've been listening

01:13:23.729 --> 01:13:26.489
over the last few months and really enjoy the

01:13:26.489 --> 01:13:30.310
content. I'm not an avid collector of the Transformers

01:13:30.310 --> 01:13:33.470
figures, and I may get one or two depending on

01:13:33.470 --> 01:13:38.449
the, how does that say, rule of cool. So it's...

01:13:38.680 --> 01:13:41.600
Awesome listening to your advice on figures and

01:13:41.600 --> 01:13:45.319
models. I listened to one where it was overloaded

01:13:45.319 --> 01:13:49.039
in the toys and the specific codes in which which

01:13:49.039 --> 01:13:53.039
lost me. Currently a regular player on Transformers

01:13:53.039 --> 01:13:55.399
Earth Wars. There you go. Video games, folks.

01:13:55.500 --> 01:13:58.720
See, Earth Wars is addicting. Like I didn't play

01:13:58.720 --> 01:14:01.479
it for the longest time. Yeah, you did. I remember

01:14:01.479 --> 01:14:03.859
you were playing it a few times when we started

01:14:03.859 --> 01:14:06.960
a couple of the news episodes. I'm like. Stop

01:14:06.960 --> 01:14:09.439
playing the game. Put the game down. Yeah, I

01:14:09.439 --> 01:14:12.460
was doing that or playing Star Trek Online. Uh

01:14:12.460 --> 01:14:16.619
-huh. Coming up to a year and painting up these

01:14:16.619 --> 01:14:20.640
Transformers miniatures for a take on a Transformers

01:14:20.640 --> 01:14:23.380
tabletop game that he's doing. And then he says,

01:14:23.439 --> 01:14:26.220
4 ,000 episodes and going. You should be proud.

01:14:26.319 --> 01:14:29.720
And here's one listener in the UK who enjoys

01:14:29.720 --> 01:14:33.970
the shows. Thank you so much, D .L. Lorenzo.

01:14:34.029 --> 01:14:36.250
Thank you for listening. Thank you for writing

01:14:36.250 --> 01:14:41.750
in. It's always great to get feedback. Thanks

01:14:41.750 --> 01:14:44.989
for listening. We're glad that we can provide

01:14:44.989 --> 01:14:48.270
you some awesomeness in the world of Transformers.

01:14:48.989 --> 01:14:53.010
Maybe this gave you some inspiration for some

01:14:53.010 --> 01:15:00.199
older Transformers games to visit. Absolutely,

01:15:00.319 --> 01:15:07.199
absolutely. So, as always, until next time, transform

01:15:07.199 --> 01:15:08.600
and transcend.