Images of Transformers: Prime characters

[5FDP]

There are still people who refuse to watch Beast Wars despite the fact it's the only Transformers TV series to win an Emmy Award and was extremely popular with fans and is widely considered by fans to be one of the best stories ever written for Transformers. Some people just can't get past the fact the organic alt mode thing.

[FFN]

Now that that is more or less resolved, what about my pointing out that High Moon Studios and Activision didn't know what the hell they were talking about/lying when they were hyping up War for Cybertron? The game is not a prequel to the Sunbow cartoon.


With that in mind, I don't see how there's an assertion that they are more trust worthy about WFC's intended continuity than Hasbro.

I've seen some people on other forums propose that Hasbro is merely doing this to have TF Prime feed off of WFC's popularity. The problem with this theory is that Hasbro doesn't need to connect the game to the new cartoon for the purposes of hype, because the majority of the game's customers will not care about Transformers cartoons beyond the Sunbow cartoon (and to a lesser extent, whatever series they grew up with), and the primary target market of TF Prime will not care about the complex intricacies of series continuity.

Basically, Hasbro's statement about continuity is for their internal universe-building and for those of us on the internet who care.

[GoktimusPrime]

Wow, I never new that WFC was meant to be a direct prequel to anything -- I thought it was like a prequel to "generic G1" (as opposed to any specific G1 continuity)... so that's how I view WFC, as existing in a 'generic' continuity of G1. Having said that, my exposure to WFC has been purely through the toys -- I haven't touched the game yet.

[Deceptic_Optic]

Its look cool in IMHO... might watch this and dfinitely get the toys if it does come out

[kup]

Wow, I never new that WFC was meant to be a direct prequel to anything -- I thought it was like a prequel to "generic G1" (as opposed to any specific G1 continuity)... so that's how I view WFC, as existing in a 'generic' continuity of G1. Having said that, my exposure to WFC has been purely through the toys -- I haven't touched the game yet.

That's how I understood it. I have played the game from start to finish and the game itself tells me so.

With that in mind, I don't see how there's an assertion that they are more trust worthy about WFC's intended continuity than Hasbro.

They made the game

Hasbro is just adding their own spin after it has already been created.

[Gutsman Heavy]

I'd argue artisitic intent RE: WFC. The developers have stated that its a prequel to the G1 toon many times, it makes numerous references to the G1 toon, and Rumble is blue!

[5FDP]

...and Rumble is blue!

Here we go again

[kup]

I'd argue artisitic intent RE: WFC. The developers have stated that its a prequel to the G1 toon many times, it makes numerous references to the G1 toon, and Rumble is blue!

I'll agree that the artistic intend is indeed for the game to be a prequel to cartoon G1. However during development there has been some artistic liberties taken with the story and characters that somewhat changes the story from being a straight prequel to the cartoon to more of being a unique story based on it. This pretty much creates another new G1 continuity such as DW or IDW G1.

Spoilerish:

For example: Having the core of Cybertron being a Primus like entity (or Primus himself since some Autobots shout "By Primus!") or having characters such as Jetfire present during the war when he should have been frozen in ice on Earth. Having Silverbolt and Air Raid present when they shouldn't have been created yet (according to cartoon). These story discrepancies to the cartoon make War for Cybertron stand more in a G1 continuity of its own. However the cartoon wasn't exactly super consistent with itself but one would surmise that a story made 25+ years after the cartoon would at least try to maintain some level of story consistency with it (such as Jetfire's or the Aerialbot origin episodes). Unless they made a conscious decision to branch out into a story of their own which I believe they have.

[Doubledealer]

There are still people who refuse to watch Beast Wars despite the fact it's the only Transformers TV series to win an Emmy Award and was extremely popular with fans and is widely considered by fans to be one of the best stories ever written for Transformers. Some people just can't get past the fact the organic alt mode thing.

The other thing about Beast Wars is that, by todays standards, the 3D animation is limited and ugly eg. Sega Saturn CG quality. The organic alt mode thing was definitely hard to stomache (for me at least) but I just found it a real chore to watch this series beyond a few episodes because of the basic, ugly animation and (to me) childish presentation. If they could do some kind of Evangelion-esque 4-part movie remake I'd be all for it.

[5FDP]

I honestly believe that people are reading too much into this 'continuity' thing when comparing character whereabouts in WFC and the Sunbow cartoon.

Remember how Megatron created the Constructicons in a cave on Earth in the episode Heavy Metal War which conflicts with the episode The Secret of Omega Supreme as they were present on Cybertron during the great war. This is suppose to be the same continuity

Oh... and everyone knows that Rumble is red

EDIT: I typed the above while kup edited his post to include...

However the cartoon wasn't exactly super consistent with itself...

Couldn't agree more mate