“Sadly, apparently Activision’s not sure what hard drives they’re on in their building,” Hasbro told TFW2005. “When a company eats a company that eats a company things get lost, and that’s very frustrating.”

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    Big corporation: Whoops, we lost this game so we can’t re-release it. Sorry. Even if we found it, it’s not worth our time/money porting it.

    Meanwhile, random person on the internet: I’ve updated this emulator so you can play old games at 4k 60fps for free. The weird bug that was never fixed at launch is now gone too.

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        “We have too because it’s just SO expensive to make video games and we’re just struggling companies.” Nintendo said while lighting a cigar with another $100 bill.

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      Companies do things for money, people do things they’re passionate about

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    I remember buying War For Cybertron for the PS3 off of a 9/10 review on IGN. This was back when I could only afford to get one or two games a year so it’s mediocrity stung so bad. Was one of my first experiences with buyer’s remorse.

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    That make sense. I was wondering about this just the other week. I would absolutely pay for and play both the Cybertron games and Devastation again.

    Thanks for the share.

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      They could press a button and make the Steam versions available again, but they obviously also want to port it to the new consoles, and there lies the issue.

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    I remember playing the one based on the first Michael Bay film when I was really little, I remember the vibe being almost like a Just Cause game in how it was the best destruction sandbox I’d ever played (at that point in time).

    I still remember those exploding white ‘power cells’ (?) From the power plant area of the first map.

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    God I loved Fall of Cybertron as a kid and I even recently snatched up a PS3 copy as I had sold it along with my Xbox 360 way back in the day. It would be amazing to play modern ports of this game (with multiplayer!!!), I hope Activision can find the files again