I'd like to pitch an idea to you; DLC, or
preferably stand-alone tie-in games made up of entire open world
campaigns for characters with potentially intriguing side stories within
the Transformers: WFC/FOC universe
.
These side stories would not necessarily require the player to be overly
familiar with either of the fathering games as while they would add to
the world, their stories would be for the most part, self-contained.
Amongst many of the more obvious choices, a less appreciated character
I've given much thought to is Wheelie. The setting would be [The Sea of
Rust] Rust Sea. Thanks to two notable comic book story lines,
Wheelie has established himself as a post-apocalyptic
survivor of the sort. The Sea of Rust would prove a great map for a
survival
based campaign in which, as Wheelie, one takes on
various missions and whatever
threats may loom throughout the rust storms caverns, and the, by now,
mostly abandoned Hydrax Plateau while working towards
his main objective; collecting enough parts to build a
properly functioning ship to get him off of Cybertron.
There are so many possibilities here! Imagine test
piloting several
variations of vehicles you've built for space travel while scavenging for
resources and fuel, and then finally escaping to some other planet! Perhaps
"Jungle
Planet"
(which could use a better official name, in my opinion, unless it is left
unnamed) where perhaps he'll get help from the locals
after attempting to
earn
their trust, thus getting them to help fix his crashed ship with whatever
limited resources he may not be aware exist on the planet,
and eventually land on what he believes to be the remains of Cybertron
but
turns out to be Quintessa! Honestly; Wheelie has a
necklace of Sharkticon teeth. He didn't buy that. He
made it.
I say
let's give this bot the recognition he deserves. There is potential for a
large overall story here. In concept art for Transformers: Fall of
Cybertron, several larger ancient bots are seen protruding from the
ground. If the route is taken, it could be stated that while on
Quintessa, Wheelie discovers that the Quintessons, at some point
in Cybertron's early history invaded and
built
the giant bots as guardians (see season 3 of G1) to watch over the
newly
birthed Cybertronians whom they have at this point in
history enslaved. Of course, the Quintessons would still lie and
insist that they created the transformers themselves,
when even the transformers (or just Wheelie, in this case) finds this
lie to be contradictory to what he knows, despite no
new bots having been spawned from the "Well of Allsparks" in the past
few hundred years. This idea can be extended, allowing any bot
his/her/it's own moment in the spotlight.
I'd like to pitch an idea to you; DLC, or
preferably stand-alone tie-in games made up of entire open world
campaigns for characters with potentially intriguing side stories within
the Transformers: WFC/FOC universe.
These side stories would not necessarily require the player to be overly
familiar with either of the fathering games as while they would add to
the world, their stories would be for the most part, self-contained.
Amongst many of the more obvious choices, a less appreciated character
I've given much thought to is Wheelie. The setting would be [The Sea of
Rust] Rust Sea. Thanks to two notable comic book story lines,
Wheelie has established himself as a post-apocalyptic
survivor of the sort. The Sea of Rust would prove a great map for a
survival
based campaign in which, as Wheelie, one takes on
various missions and whatever
threats may loom throughout the rust storms caverns, and the, by now,
mostly abandoned Hydrax Plateau while working towards
his main objective; collecting enough parts to build a
properly functioning ship to get him off of Cybertron.
There are so many possibilities here! Imagine test
piloting several
variations of vehicles you've built for space travel while scavenging for
resources and fuel, and then finally escaping to some other planet! Perhaps
"Jungle
Planet"
(which could use a better official name, in my opinion, unless it is left
unnamed) where perhaps he'll get help from the locals
after attempting to earn
their trust, thus getting them to help fix his crashed ship with whatever
limited resources he may not be aware exist on the planet,
and eventually land on what he believes to be the remains of Cybertron
but
turns out to be Quintessa! Honestly; Wheelie has a
necklace of Sharkticon teeth. He didn't buy that. He made it.
I say
let's give this bot the recognition he deserves. There is potential for a
large overall story here. In concept art for Transformers: Fall of
Cybertron, several larger ancient bots are seen protruding from the
ground. If the route is taken, it could be stated that while on
Quintessa, Wheelie discovers that the Quintessons, at some point
in Cybertron's early history invaded and built
the giant bots as guardians (see season 3 of G1) to watch over the
newly
birthed Cybertronians whom they have at this point in
history enslaved. Of course, the Quintessons would still lie and
insist that they created the transformers themselves,
when even the transformers (or just Wheelie, in this case) finds this
lie to be contradictory to what he knows, despite no
new bots having been spawned from the "Well of Allsparks" in the past
few hundred years. This idea can be extended, allowing any bot
his/her/it's own moment in the spotlight.
