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pandering to "hardcore" gamers is almost always a bad idea, imo. I am concerned about end of game play though... one criticism I have of nearly every bioware game I've ever played is that by the end, the main character is so powerful that the end battles are just one sided slaughter fests. On the other hand, I don't want to see FF style boss battles that take hours and hours and hours and take hundreds of people working together to complete.

wow! Awesome news.

uhm, looks exactly the same to me.

hopefully that means they'll make the legs sit flush with the body in fighter mode. I can live with the other compromises as long as fighter mode doesn't look broken. And I don't care about the landing gear as I always pose my fighters on a stand of some sort.

I still think it's a piece of crap

agreed! I was hoping for at least another DLC by now...

awesome as usual!

that crap should come free with a McDonalds McCrappy Meal ®

aw, now you made me miss the late, great, mitch hedberg.

No no... I get that.. I'm just saying, for me, personally... I understand that there's no need unless they radically changed the dino design to something more modern. I can only hold out hope that the dino mode is incredibly articulated and that the tail and neck have some posability.

agreed, chewitel would have been a perfect replacement!

I dunno, tough to say. The story is pretty generic and the various town folk and other NPCs are pretty shallow. It's definitely not like a bioware game where you have a few well developed companion characters to grow attached to. I haven't found myself emotionally involved with any of the characters, well, except for the dog. The dog is cool. There's a lot of stuff to do... but most of it is pretty shallow. Fun, but shallow.

Well, there's talk that the studio had wanted Don Cheadle from the get go and that Howard was their B choice. From the NPR interview, Terrence sounded hurt and confused over being dropped.

Howard gave an interview on NPR where he says this wasn't the case and that he doesn't know why he was fired.

anyone else playing fable2?

sure you would, MP Convoy's chest looks nothing like the the cab, so it's pretty obvious something's going on there. Grimmy looks straight forward. I would have liked if the dino mode was more articulated. Like if the head could swing side to side.

True, but I was really only speaking for myself. I don't have a dedicated gaming rig, the only computers we have are laptops... so not only would I need to justify the extra monthly subscription costs and find time to play but also buy or build a rig. Having it on a console would really help and since I would only be a casual player, I wouldn't need all the UI mods and tools. Though, maybe the PS3 (or 4, whatever) would be open to such user generated content seeing how they've opened the door for that with Unreal Tournament and LBP

MP convoy may have been easy to transform but the actual mechanics in the chest were pretty clever, there's some real ingenuity in that part. And I like the complex transformation of MP starscream. There's just little to the transformation of grimlock, I'm glad it's going to be loaded with gimmicks but I get a lot of my satisfaction with transforming toys out of the actual transformation.

the sith stalker costume with the black saber... a badass combo.

I get that... It's just after the engineering feats in the past releases just upscaling the original mold just feels underwhelming.

Well, it's EA saying that they want a console release: Electronic Arts exec Frank Gibeau said, "We're definitely looking at the opportunity to bring the MMO experience to console, without question." http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/22/console-...ing-considered/ I think TOR is a good candidate since KOTOR was conceived as a console game. So we know that at least the control scheme should be compatible.

This talk of making SW:TOR console friendly has me thinking I may have to give it a try...

It just looks like an upscaled version of the original G1 toy. I was hoping for some of complex transformation sequences found in the other MP releases.

MP Grimlock is disappointing.

maybe the powdered milk and the melamine and the powdered milk shipments got switched around? melamine in baby formula and powdered milk at the ABS factory that Yamato orders plastic from? Would explain why yamato has such problems with the quality of their plastic...