No, it would be too complex too programm such feature that you could a create a character that can transform. Or you would have not much features in it, which would suck.

So leave it out.

 

As cool of an idea such a feature may seem, it'll only be a let down, as we would never really be able to design the character we want: robot design alone or alternate mode as well. It's a doomed idea. Doomed by limitations in one form or another.

 

To be honest I don't think it would be a let down so long as the vehicle or object one transforms into incorporates aspects of the robot. Like for example you make a decepticon who has a crazy amount of spikes. The transformation aka alt mode should be spikey. You know and you give people the option of how they want to transform using the known robots as archetypes. One it will allow all the crazy seekers people have drawn to be in it as well as some of the weirdo bots and cons in the fanfic section on this site.

Basically Smackdown for the playstation except with giant robots.

 

I don't really care. It should only be in multiplayer though, which I probably won't be playing anyway.

 

I don't think so, you could simply repaint the original bodies and change heads and colors, add accessories to both modes, quite simple actually.

 

I think it should definitely be a feature in the game. I'd be happy if all you could do was change the color, faction, head design, and weapons, with the body design always being the generic bot design in the game. Maybe even be able to customize your own faction logo, sorta like how you can customize your own logo in Halo 2.

 

I don't really care if the game included such a feature (which it doesn't, as someone pointed out they would have advertised such a feature by now).

It would be feasible to implement though, you just wouldn't be able to make a Transformer from scratch. You would have to work off of generic robot molds with built in alternate modes. They could design them in such a way that each bot has a couple parts that could be swapped out for similarly sized parts and not effect the transformation. You could also "paint" on them like you can on cars in most NASCAR games.

 

I'd love it, but it seems a little impossible. What about a make-your-own-Seeker?

 

This sort of thing, make-your-own-whatever, seems more likely as the modes will be pre-set modes. Once you lock those sort of things down, the finer points, all the user's really doing is switching out types of limbs, faces and colors.

 

So sorry to bump like this, but I find it funny that no one is mentioning this discussion now that FOC is going to have the exact thing everyone here is saying wouldn't work.

 

Well actually...

This guy was mostly on the money.

 

Yeah, but still. Most people said it's impossible.

 

They'll figure out how to do complex mix and match transformation options one day i'm sure. Maybe in the next one. The character creator we have now is already a leap forward.

Patience young grasshopper.

 

Are you referring to an above post or did you just not read the date of the thread?

 

I guess I missed the date. I thought the thread was about more complex customization than we already have.