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Soundwave04 — The Combaticons - Then and Now

Published: 2012-09-25 13:12:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 1571; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 3
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Description Just something random I came up. :/

Don't get me wrong, I loved Fall of Cybertron, it and War for Cybertron were great! This is just poking fun at one thing I found slightly disappointing... The Combaticons.

I don't know, they just felt rather flat to me. Maybe it's because Onslaught and Blast off were missing their British accents. - They just all sounded the same to me.

By no means am I dissing the voice actors, I think they are all fantastic.

Swindle didn't really have his con-man/dealer side to him. Apart from when he transforms, he makes a comment about "where's the deal?" or "the money machine is on the move!" other than that, no mention of it.

Blast Off was INVISIBLE. The only reason he was there was so that Bruticus wouldn't be an arm short. Were in not for Bruticus, you could have put a generic seeker in Blast Off's role and the story would go on without a hitch.

Brawl puzzles me, I know Nolan North reprisied his role as Brawl from War for Cybertron, but why the change? In War: he had a deep snarling voice and was smart enough to be a Commander in the Decepticon ranks. In fall: he sounded like a muscular Nathan Drake and was demoted back to a dumb thug.

Vortex wasn't too bad, but it would have been nice to bring up his role as the Decepticon interrogator. Maybe they could have had a level where you capture an Autobot, go into Helicopter mode and do all kinds of crazy stunts to scare the Autobot into telling you information?

Onslaught - well, he was still the brilliant tactican, but again, British accent needed.

Forgive me if that sounded all GEEWUN purist, but it was something I needed to get out of my imagination and onto paper.
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Comments: 10

WolfWhiskers [2013-05-15 08:10:22 +0000 UTC]

I agree- I miss the British-sounding accents for Onslaught and Blast Off, and more characterization is always good. I am happy they're playable characters in the game though.

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Soundwave04 In reply to WolfWhiskers [2013-05-15 08:58:27 +0000 UTC]

Pretty much what you've said, yeah. It was great playing as the Combaticons (especially Bruticus!) but I felt they needed a little more variety in voice and style. (I mean Swindle's Con man/Businessman side is barely bought up.)

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WolfWhiskers In reply to Soundwave04 [2013-05-22 21:17:49 +0000 UTC]

They should have a level where you play Swindle and most of the challenge consists of making elaborate deals and persuading others to do what you want, using your gift of gab! XD (And whenever that fails, you can fall back onto Swindle's "munitions" expertise and use all kinds of weapons to blast your way out of trouble. )

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Brawl-WFC [2012-12-22 05:40:48 +0000 UTC]

I do like blastin stuff!

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OutcastClankzilla [2012-10-29 21:20:34 +0000 UTC]

And here's a point FOR the Combaticons in FOC:

:iconOnslaughtplz: Are you KIDDING me, Starscream!?! The Autobots would've taken it all! My team salvaged an operation that YOU screwed up from the get-go!!!

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Soundwave04 In reply to OutcastClankzilla [2012-10-29 21:27:41 +0000 UTC]

True, that line was badass, but it would have been even more badass in a British accent. xD

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OutcastClankzilla In reply to Soundwave04 [2012-10-30 20:20:53 +0000 UTC]

I doubt that anybody could've made Onslaught more badass than TRAVIS WILLINGHAM, aka ROY MUSTANG of Fullmetal Alchemist fame! Did you NOT hear that oh-so-manly tenor of his?!?

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Soundwave04 In reply to OutcastClankzilla [2012-10-30 22:05:56 +0000 UTC]

Don't get me wrong, I think all the voice actors are fantastic (I personally loved Travis as Dan in Binary Domain ) but I guess I would have preferred some variety for the Combaticon voices.

Just as example:

Onslaught - Travis Willingham (Or Troy Baker doing a British accent, if Troy can do a near perfect impression of Scatman Crothers... )
Blast Off - Upper Class, snobbish show off, British Accent.
Swindle - A voice similar to Swindle from Transformers Animated
Brawl - His War for Cybertron voice
Vortex - Unhinged, crazy, sadistic voice. Russian accent maybe? xD

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OutcastClankzilla In reply to Soundwave04 [2012-10-30 22:39:33 +0000 UTC]

Hmm...whatever works!

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Decepticon-Overlord [2012-10-02 02:41:26 +0000 UTC]

They had voices that were badass

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