New FoC Screenshots on FoC Site?

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by UndeadMonkeyGuy, Jul 16, 2012.

  1. SPLIT LIP

    SPLIT LIP Be strong enough to be gentle

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    For some reason the characters never look as good as their concept art.
     
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    I just never thought I would see the day somebody made robots uglier and sillier than Dreamwave.

    I mean I'm still going to mock Dreamwave since Pat Lee was more than a iffy artist he was a legit scumbag thief but that Onslaught right there bothers me visually something real I think I'll go stare at a white all for some time.
     
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    Oh shit, I think you just hit upon why I don't like the game models.

    It has nothing to do with the concept art or the designs themselves. They're all modeled like Dreamwave robots. The rounded proportions, giant, puffy hands and the pose like they're too fat for their own skeleton. But the concept art and toylines have them sleek, angular and reasonably proportioned.

    My God.
     
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    I've been thinking they looked like Dreamwave from the first pic of WFC Optimus we got where his head was so small he looked like a tiny guy in a big robo suit Megaman X style, but WFC never quite reached such.... extreme shit as FoC is doing. That Megatron up there is simply ridiculous I cannot imagine him ever walking around without tripping and rolling down the battlefield like a barrel.
     
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    No, like a snowball. He starts hitting Decepticons and eventually is just a big fat Decepti-ball.

    I'm pretty sure that's how Grand Galvatron came into being.

    Like, they literally can't move without clipping through themselves. wat
     
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    Save for the stupid Autobot symbol worked into his back and red cheeks, Bumblebee looks pretty good.

    At least Starscream looks better than this:

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    I hope HMS will some stop building their characters with western superhero frames, as the overly muscular looks usually results in very bloated Cybertronians.
     
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    The Grimlock level would be much more fun if the dinosaur mode was used to roll the decepti-ball around like a Katamari collecting more and more enemies, yes.
     
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    Except that's not at all western superhero. Western superheroes are typically muscular yet athletic and, well, heroic in proportions.

    Unless DC's new flagship character is the StayPuft Marshmellow Man...
     
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    New Optimus and Megatron aside, several of the new characters draw up in concept art look very much like superheros, especially the Dinobots.

    These designs wouldn't bother me so much if HMS added a bit more variety.

    What I liked about G1 designs has been overlooked and redesigned into cooler and sleeker robotic designs:(  Whatever happened to chubby Bumblebee? I know he always succeeded in the end, but this Bumblebee is much like the live action one: total bad ass. I miss the-little-engine-that-could-Bumblebee that stumbled along the way.

    the Autobots had a few plump mainstays. I liked that. We all can't be Mr. Universe. ...FOC Optimus and Megatron are a bit extreme. They remind me a little too much of Dragon Ball Z's Saiya-jin's "Super" transformations: too big to be effective.

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    I don't dislike the bulk. I just think there's too much of it.
    There needs to be more guys like WFC Jazz or WFC Breakdown.
    Oh well, it doesn't bother me that much anyway.
    It DOES bother me that they clip themselves though. They should have found a way to avoid clipping at least in the VGA Trailer since it's supposed to be a show of amazing graphics and animation, yet Megatron's shoulder completely phases through his neck bone.

    To me, they're not huge and hulking save for Grimlock and Sludge, but they have one body part that's FREAKING ENORMOUS. For Optimus, it's his chest. For Megatron, it's his forelegs.