Thursday, August 23, 2012

An open letter to High Moon Studios



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.

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