This is a perfect example of something I was thinking about just yesterday. I was admiring the cover art of a dvd and rolled my eyes at the censorship rating being plastered all over it and wondered if this sort of thing would ever happen to books or other printed publications. It's a wonder there isn't a rating in the sense that I, like you, consider comics to some extent targeted at an older demographic than animation. However I wonder how many fans would really be missing out if the cartoons were rated high enough for Slag to be permissable.
FOC is rated T for Teens. I hear a lot worse than "slag," though I don't see how this is a bad word, on other T rated games.
Exactly...it's a poor version of Comixology's. I couldn't see words even when I expanded it. But on the flip side being able to actually see the Dinobots was no joy neither. Slag's head looked more like it was surrounded with sunflower petals. And Sludge's face was more "My little Pony-esk" than anything menacing. So yeah they really should've used FOC's style.
Sweet! Looking forward to this one, looks pretty promising actually. Can't wait to see the Dinobots in action, when I was a kid I was a total Dinosaur nerd so they've been favourites of mine since I got into Transformers, and Sky Lynx is doing stuff as well! Awesome. "Slag" is British slang for "Slut", I don't know if it's really used anywhere else in the world, but like Ra88 said it's probably because the comics are generally aimed at an older audience, so it's changed to Slug or whatever just to avoid any issues with overseas audiences who might for some reason think they're calling a cartoon character "Slut" rather than "Waste-Material-From-Smelting-Metal/Cybertronian-Swear-Word".
In animated he was called Snarl, Scrapper named him it and even says in the episode he almost called him "Slag" but for some reason he took offence to it. He was also called Snarl in the Robot Heroes toyline. He's called Slug in Fall of Cybertron. I think those are his only other appearances outside of the G1 cartoon and comics, at least that I'm aware of.
I thought you guys re-dubbed everything into British English to prevent children from picking up American English, undoing the work of your schools and what not. Slag isn't the only word we disagree with meaning/usage. I can't wait until one of the human cast members introduces their Grandmother Fanny Anyway, going back to the name and game, I still don't get it if the game is intended for a mature, teens, anyway.
I like how, given how often we have had to get accustomed to character designs changing at the drop of a hat, the Dinobot designs have remained consistent. I'm not the greatest fan of Sludge in dinosaur mode, but the others look great. Weren't these meant to be a one mission alt mode anyway - their metal bodies shielded in an approximation of flesh to protect them from the effects of the exposed Ore 13 on prehistoric Earth?
My only guess as to why they kept their earth modes is the dinobots have always been outcasts, so by having a strange appearance to boot, they can walk around as the anti-social crowd they've always been and other bots will cross the street to avoid them.
This is looking great, im not sure why people dont like the designs.. they are robot dinosaurs and thats what they look like. I am pretty sure it will be explained why they decided to keep their modes considering how prowl is questioning it. One thing that i found odd was how prowl seems to support democracy for a leader. I would think he would be against the sort of thing considering how he cant accept the fact that the war is over.
I reeeeeeaaaalllly hope they aren't planning on taking Bumblebee down a "power corrupts" character arc.
