Official fan title for 'War for Cybertron'

Discussion in 'Transformers Video Game Discussion' started by Moroni Prime, Jan 18, 2010.

  1. Moroni Prime

    Moroni Prime #TFYLP Podcast

    Joined:
    Aug 1, 2004
    Posts:
    4,104
    News Credits:
    30
    Trophy Points:
    267
    Likes:
    +40
    I can foresee confusion in the future regarding the new War for Cybertron. I've seen people already calling characters in this series "Cybertron Prime", "Cybertron Ironhide", etc... To me this is just unacceptable, and will no doubt become quite the headache in years to come, as it is too easily confused with "Transformers:Cybertron" (2005).

    We already know that fan titles are nothing new. For example:

    Beast Wars = BW
    Robots in Disguise = RiD
    Titanium = Tit (snickers childishly)
    The War Within = WW or TWW

    Now I pose a question to you all. How should we resolve this potentially confusing situation?

    What should be the official fan title for "War for Cybertron"?



    I for one recommend the method of simply entitling everything from this line 'War...', for example:

    War Prime
    War Starscream
    War Magnus
    War Trypticon



    discuss.
     
  2. Murasame

    Murasame 村雨

    Joined:
    Oct 9, 2008
    Posts:
    25,362
    News Credits:
    4
    Trophy Points:
    412
    Location:
    The Lost Light
    Likes:
    +13,349
    WC :D 

    No, I am for WfC or just War.
     
  3. Xaddion

    Xaddion ...

    Joined:
    May 1, 2009
    Posts:
    1,586
    News Credits:
    8
    Trophy Points:
    126
    Likes:
    +12
    That's not much of a problem seeing how people are already saying WFC.
     
  4. Transformed

    Transformed 神戸 Member

    Joined:
    May 23, 2006
    Posts:
    12,471
    News Credits:
    16
    Trophy Points:
    317
    Likes:
    +37
    Ebay:
    What's wrong with WFC?
     
  5. Blitz.

    Blitz. Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 22, 2009
    Posts:
    8,490
    News Credits:
    11
    Trophy Points:
    337
    Likes:
    +5,195
    WFC seems fine
     
  6. SPLIT LIP

    SPLIT LIP Be strong enough to be gentle

    Joined:
    Oct 22, 2005
    Posts:
    97,679
    News Credits:
    6
    Trophy Points:
    462
    Location:
    agile house
    Likes:
    +98,699
    Instagram:
    Dude, WFC is about as "official" as you get. Plus, when someone makes up an official title, nobody really uses it.
     
  7. guard convoy

    guard convoy The Big Daddy

    Joined:
    Mar 19, 2009
    Posts:
    14,203
    News Credits:
    17
    Trophy Points:
    312
    Likes:
    +429
    i thought it was already WFC, that is what everyone calls it
     
  8. blackjkb

    blackjkb Banned

    Joined:
    Sep 27, 2009
    Posts:
    590
    Trophy Points:
    101
    Likes:
    +0
    WFC sounds better than just plain war...
     
  9. Haloid1177

    Haloid1177 Hey, That's Pretty Good

    Joined:
    Jun 5, 2009
    Posts:
    30,190
    News Credits:
    5
    Trophy Points:
    392
    Location:
    Salt Mounds
    Likes:
    +1,037
    Ebay:
    Twitter:
    Hasn't everybody been using WFC for a while now?
     
  10. Kaymac

    Kaymac I'M REALLY FEELIN' IT!

    Joined:
    Apr 28, 2009
    Posts:
    6,335
    Trophy Points:
    227
    Likes:
    +12
    WFC is fine and we have been using it since the reveal.
     
  11. Ravenxl7

    Ravenxl7 W.A.F.F.L.E.O.

    Joined:
    Jun 7, 2006
    Posts:
    22,556
    News Credits:
    20
    Trophy Points:
    337
    Likes:
    +164
    WfC has been working out quite fine, and most, if not all, people on here seem to understand what it stands for. No need for an "official fan title", when we've already got something that works, and coincides with all previous TF series (G1, G2, BW, BM, RID, Ar, En, Cy, An). If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
     
  12. Mechafire

    Mechafire Shadow Broker Moderator News Staff

    Joined:
    May 9, 2008
    Posts:
    26,210
    News Credits:
    33
    Trophy Points:
    452
    Likes:
    +2,318
    WFC is fine.
     
  13. Digilaut

    Digilaut Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Aug 29, 2008
    Posts:
    11,511
    News Credits:
    15
    Trophy Points:
    362
    Likes:
    +1,633
    WFC, as everybody has been calling it. What's wrong with that?
     
  14. Moroni Prime

    Moroni Prime #TFYLP Podcast

    Joined:
    Aug 1, 2004
    Posts:
    4,104
    News Credits:
    30
    Trophy Points:
    267
    Likes:
    +40
    just for the sake of argument, suppose one is speaking verbally about the line. It would take a little less time to say 'wfc' instead of 'war'. 5 syllables instead of 1. du-bul-yu-eph-see. plus war sounds a tad cooler.
     
  15. Sso02V

    Sso02V Injector Has a Posse

    Joined:
    Aug 20, 2006
    Posts:
    8,608
    News Credits:
    10
    Trophy Points:
    302
    Likes:
    +80
    Is it really official if it's a fan term? Is it a fan term if it's official? They call them fingers, but have you ever seen them fing?
     
  16. Digilaut

    Digilaut Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Aug 29, 2008
    Posts:
    11,511
    News Credits:
    15
    Trophy Points:
    362
    Likes:
    +1,633
    *doublepost*
     
  17. Digilaut

    Digilaut Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Aug 29, 2008
    Posts:
    11,511
    News Credits:
    15
    Trophy Points:
    362
    Likes:
    +1,633
    :crazy: 

    1. 99% of your WFC discussions will be written. Online. I hope you don't expect discussing this game with your group of friends for all eternity..but go ahead, call it 'War'. :) 
    2. It's not that hard to spell out three letters. Really. And when you're already on the subject of 'WFC', why would you have to keep adding a prefix to characters when naming them?
    3. War doesn't sound cool, and if you want it to sound cool I think you picked the wrong hobby.

    If you want to call it War, or whatever..feel free to do so, of course. :)  But what the hell are we talking about again?...
     
  18. ANDROID PRIME

    ANDROID PRIME Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 5, 2003
    Posts:
    768
    News Credits:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    136
    Likes:
    +7
    when we first heard about this game I wanted people to call it TFW:FC then just TFW for TransFormers War. they could have used it for every following series too. for example if they remade BW in this inverse it could be called TFW:BW. TransFormers War : Beast Wars.

    It makes the TFW site that much more official. and it would provide a decent way keep this new universe connected and separated form every other TF universe.
     
  19. grimlock1972

    grimlock1972 Optimus, serving up the primest of ribs since 1984

    Joined:
    Apr 20, 2009
    Posts:
    20,361
    News Credits:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    362
    Likes:
    +2,406
    WFC works for me
     
  20. Paxtin

    Paxtin ...

    Joined:
    Oct 5, 2008
    Posts:
    10,507
    Trophy Points:
    357
    Likes:
    +8,024
    I call it steve.