>[extremely bitcrushed gull sounds]
>>739397576genuinely amazing how expansive this game was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cr5xPfhQ40
>>739397576For me, it's Ga-Koro.
What the fuck was his problem?
>>739399031sovl
>>739397576I worry that if I go back to this game I'll find it boring and childish. Not voluntarily, I still love the game as I remember it. I worry I am too jaded now and wouldn't enjoy it. I hate that feeling.
>>739401085Makuta Teridax took his memories and then trained him to be more evil.
>>739401085He caught a fish thiiiiiiiis big!
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>>739403650
We didn’t know how good we had it during the 2000s. Idk how THEY did it, but all of the soul has been sucked out of this world.https://imgur.com/gallery/bogdananonicle-probably-complete-this-time-RoS7nY6
>>739397576
you still have your bionicles right anon?
>the reboot was already 10+ years ago
>>739401085Cursed with blackmask. Even has an open ring-shaped mouth and everything.
>>739407982And it fucking sucked, too. Everything is such a letdown.
>>739410019It’s crazy how all the old “legacy franchises” fell apart all at the same time basically around 2010-2014
>>739406865I have the original Toa and a few Matoran on my shelf, everything afterwards somehow got incorporated into the LEGO bucket.
>>739410420The thing that makes it the most fucking insane to me is that a post-G1 Bionicle project should have been mind-numbingly easy because there are already so many beloved properties from around the same time period as G1 that totally could have re-inspired a potential G2. Just drop a trailer animated in UE5 with Switchback by Celldweller or The Tempest by Pendulum with mostly new characters and fans will fucking lose it. Instead, you get jambalaya character design and a bad CG cartoon.
>>739401085he was inherently a shitheadeven before colluding with makuta he had a penchant for fucking around
>>739410632I grew up watching starwars and playing those games, reading the books, moved on to bionicle for a while and collected them all, read the books, played the games etc, then moved on to halo, where it was the same thing of buying everythinf and reading everythinf and being obsessed with it.like all 3 of those franchises abruptly self destructed around the same general time if you ask me and it demoralized the shit out of me because I know it was more than just that stuff.
>>739410019ccbs is an inherently shitty and limiting system, but bionicle g2's failure is entirely on lego deliberately sandbagging it at every opportunity and letting disney walk all over them to the point of cancelling it outright for their shitty nuwars ccbs figures t. actually likes the 2015 sets
>>739410567well, at least they're still there in some form
>>739406865Yep. Bought some display cases for them. They’re all there.Objectively ranking the years barring bullshit like shitty mold joints:01=02=03>08>07>04>09>05>06
>>739411221>08 over 04most of the toa nuva barely look like they character they're supposed to be and 4/6 don't even have a weapon that isn't their blaster
>>73941136908 is the single coolest year outside of the originals and outside of Gali, the redesigns are great. The Nuva didn’t look like the originals either no matter what cope you want to bring.04 was just a meh year. At least it didn’t have rubber masks, glatorians, or werewolves. Likahn and Rhino were great.
>>739411221>State-mandated 1 in first place>04 that lowYAAAAWN
>>739411557Was 4 your first year or something? If you don’t place 1 and 2 at the top, I am guessing you didn’t obsessively buy those mask packs and trade with your friends to get all the ones for your favorite Toa. I am guessing you also didn’t play MNOG as it came out over months unlocking new chapters.
>>739411541biggest flaw with '04 is that nobody cared about the vahki and the emphasis on dark bluish grey being the accent colour the only redeeming thing about '08 were the makuta sets and maybe the big jet ride boxes, all the other sets were pretty mediocre if not outright bad
>>739411702Tahu Mistika is one of my favorite small sets period. The two big ass vehicles from 08 are great (the green aircraft sucks and so does the turret, and I nearly forgot about the weird black thing with the matoran). Takanuva from 08 is also a great set. There were a lot of great ones. The only really bad one (other than the three vehicles I mentioned) from 08 that I can think of is Gali.
>>739411557>>739411645i think an argument could be made that '02 was better than '01, but every other year fumbled in some way where as the first two were about almost as perfect as they could have beenthe only real flaw i can think of is that getting the tohunga was a pain and that you couldn't make all the matoran in mnog due to some parts never being released in certain colours
>Plays in your head
>>739411645My first year was ‘05. I only owned a couple ‘04 sets (specifically Iruini and Matau), but it’s still my favorite. ‘01 and ‘02 are great, but I’m a little exhausted by the social compulsion that’s been placed on the fandom to glorify the Toa Mata above all others. I would go so far as to say the Piraka are better than the Toa Mata. This is getting into issues I have with Matoran ideology and believing the Three Virtues to be flawed, though.
for me, it's backlot
>>739411875The Exo Toa+with a toa+Bahrag is one of the coolest display combos you can have. 01 and 02 largely feel like two parts of the same wave, though I would lump the Nuva with 03 if I had my way.
>>739411917>rubber masksNope. The canister sets is why 05 sucks dick. The matoran designs and the big sets (its worth having two sets so you can have them all plus the big ass dragon dude) are great but holy fuck, the rubber masks ruin it.
>>739411992yeah, i think the reason why the two of them mesh so well together is that there were already some bohrok teases in '01, so them appearing felt like a natural next stepi wish we got the bahrag spiders though, the dinosaurs are neat but don't really fit with the bohrok outside of some part sharing
>>739411924You did find his hat, right?
>>739411924I remember being really impressed that I could play that on the internet without installing anything to my computer
>>739411048>un-hunchbacking pohatuhow does he kick? kicking is literally his thing
>>739411221Was 06 really that bad? Zaktan (the green piraka) was the first bionicle I ever had as a kid and from that point I pretty much only ever collected the 06 line of toa, the titans, matoran and so on. I was aware of but never actually got into the 01-02 era until years later. There was also Bionicle Heroes that had the 04-05 bionicles as enemies and bosses.The commercials were kino too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeP2_M2rVGI
>>739397576My family was poor and the computer was genuinely too slow to run this so I never got to play it until years later.
>>73941224006 was great. The only Bionicle year that has any offensively bad qualities is 08 or whatever year Mistika was.
>>73941224006 was so bad, it made the “aging out” of Bionicle process a no brainer, especially after the awful 05 line. I later went back as an adult and completed my collection so I had an objective opinion on pretty much everything 06-10 (I actually forgot 10 existed when I did my ranking earlier, it would be at the bottom by the way). Unburdened by nostalgia for the last half, I can honestly say that 06 is really that bad because of the canister sets. They might as well be galador its so far removed from Bionicle with those weird heads and masks. Plus that year had all those gimmicky light up pieces.
>>739412240i liked it at the time, but looking back at it the building system '06 introduced became the default for all sets going forwards until '10 and they lost whatever remaining vestigial technic influence the theme hadit also continued the '05 trend of not introducing any proper new masks, and the inika ones are flat out incompatible with any other head for some godforsaken reason
>>739412408>Stop putting camp in your toy series about bio-bots that fight a giant shadow man, you freak
>>739412457Irrelevant argument? Or are you arguing with the voices in your head?
>>739412503>Brings up voices in head out of nowhereI’ll pray for you, Shitload.
>>739412240Obligatory.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgABRKLlvgg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECDJvpnR5Z4
>the templar animations depict metru nui as this cyberpunk police state>no other '04 media does this because all of them have to be centred around a g rated movie that doesn't go into that at allhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt5hMKGOV00
>>739411924I prefered junkbot, i wonder if i can find a way to play it
>>739413463>Every time we depict Metru Nui, it immediately needs to be followed by a fucking 1984 joke or the universe will implode, apparentlyI’m going to say it: George Orwell was a fucking hack and 1984 is a shitty book. Makuta was actually hells of based for disguising himself as Dume and trying to usurp the state.
>>739414214https://flashpointarchive.org/
>>739414214nvm on the flashpoint link, you can just download it off internet archivehttps://archive.org/details/legojunkbot
>>739414308there's no reason why makuta couldn't be behind the police state hell, he could've used the morbuzakh as the reason to have so many vahki patrolling around to begin withas it stands '04 is weirdly disjointed in what happened during it, the morbuzakh and the great disks, makuta's take over, and the immediate fallout of that all feel very disjointed and not really related'03 has a similar problem where the bohrok kal arc has fuck all do do with the rahkshi and the mask of lightsomehow '05 did it the best where the rest of the year was more or less a subplot to web of shadows, but that year has the issue of being almost completely pointless
>>739413463The movies were so infantile i was embarrassed to watch them as a kidWhat a tremendous letdown after the cgi trailers, MNOG and the comics led me to believe bionicle was turbokino
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>>739415925The second movie and the Glatorian one are actually kinda kino desu
>>739415925mol is just bad, it started the analogy of matoran being kids when before they were just the little dudes, takua and jaller act wildly out of character as well just so the plot can happenmovie 2 had way too much going on for how short of a run time it hadmovie 3 is entirely pointless, the whole thing happens in between two scenes at the end of the previous movie and just retreads old ground with vakama and the other toa i've only seen the glatorian movie the one time and don't remember it very well, iirc it's the only one to end on a sequel hook and never get one lol
>>739410420#metoo was a culling of the old>>739410632 guard.
>>739401085this a sick battletech
>>739416887Whatever it was it doesn’t seem organic and seemed like some kind of coordinated multipronged attack. I really can’t think of any franchise that’s better and has as much or more soul in it after 2014 than before like 2010. Even for franchises I don’t even give a fuck about at all. Videogame or otherwise.
>>739406959oh hello my wing'ed friend
what does /v/ think of maze of shadows? i've only played a bit of it and thought it was oki had matoran adventures as a kid, the game is total shovelware but i still beat it, it was pretty mid
>>739419052Never played it, but I've kinda been in the mood for GBA kusoge. Currently playing Star Wars: The New Droid Army. Is Maze of Shadows good?
>>739419312from what i played it seemed like a pretty bog standard rpg with a bionicle flare, maybe the exploration was a tad confusing since the tileset makes everywhere look pretty similar
>>739419052I only played the first GBA game where you play as Takua and adventure out to summon the Toa, though I forget what actually happens since it's mostly a trek through the different regions with the odd minigame between villages.
