So when we unleashed the new combat system, we had a Love Poem Contest (it was around Valentine's day). And now, finally... the winner!
First Prize[]
- Oh!
- Fair Legacy your charms untold
- Your numerous abilities
- Simple to use and yet so bold
- For years our all, totality
- Tho other games were more complex
- Oft quoted the upstart M3
- Effects and types on its attacks
- Your Punch and Crush - enough for me!
- Yet change must come to all it seems
- Even the aged 2k5
- Beauty faded, your eyes lost gleam
- A mess of code barely alive
- All players shall remember you
- Long after you are dead and gone
- The sacred code, the system true
- 'Twas not in vain, your service long
- Think not of this as a defeat
- The following would better suit;
- Legacy has begun +retreat
- Outdistancing every pursuit
by Fulcrum
1st Runner Up[]
- A HAIKU
- +attack Blueshift=crush.
- This is what me Grimlock do.
- +attack Blueshift=crush.
by (you guessed it) Grimlock
2nd Runner Up[]
- You bore the title of a fallen Prime,
- But, like him, you were redeemed over time.
- Your virtues were many if oft forgot.
- Your faults, we adored, believe it or not,
- How a punch might smite a jet from the sky.
- Fire burned Hot Spot and we never asked why.
- Blows thrown in anger could not be recalled.
- Scrambling to find syntax, combat was stalled.
- Warriors stood, as if on a flat plain.
- Efforts to hide or chase were made in vain.
- Ammunition flowed like water and wine,
- Yet halted by the 'low energon' chime,
- Once winded, no recovery in sight.
- No speech could rescue a coward from fright.
- Enough of flaws, prompting etiquette laws,
- Battle was simple, the snap of lions' jaws.
- Epic poses blossomed to life like spring.
- Flights of Seekers and Aerialbots took wing.
- The sky was no limit to fancy free.
- Imagination loved dear Legacy.
by Catechism
Honorable Mention[]
- A battle rages on
- I scramble for energon
- Everything changes
by Bandit
Honorable Mention[]
- legacy system
- evil truce with HHH
- no valid target?
- yet it served us well
- despite occasional quirks
- no level seven?
- TACS: its successor
- RIP legacy code
- up next: the time orb?
by Excise
- [editor's note: yes]
Honorable Mention[]
- Repeating and drain
- and special is too,
- some of the silly
- things we can do
- lasers and tasers
- disruptors and fists,
- this is the way we
- attack and then miss
- Rockets and gauss
- and energy_axe,
- this is the way we
- use our attacks
- Missile and crush,
- and compressed_air, too
- time to upgrade
- is now overdue!
- Plasma and cannon
- and area_ranged,
- once, they did hurt
- but now we're all changed!
- we loved it all
- though it was askew,
- our old combat system,
- we sure will miss you!
- <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
by Redshift
Honorable Mention[]
- System of old school
- I have warm love for you but
- The new code awaits
by Noah Wolfe