Did you like the new Red Vs Blue?

[Soviet Heavy]

Specifically, seasons 9 and 10, which split the show between the regular cast and the Freelancer animated segments. Personally, I'm a big fan that they've somewhat returned to form for Season 11. I think that my dislike for 9 and 10 stemmed from Monty Oum's animation direction outside of fight scenes. With the fully animated scenes, it feels like they had to cut corners in order to keep things from going overboard on their budget. So a lot of the scenes lack the charm of the ingame rendering, and replace it with dead eyed uncanny valley faces.

That and the needless Evangelion references with the director, Carolina and Tex.

Did you guys enjoy these seasons?

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

To be honest, I enjoyed 9 and 10 a hell of a lot more than I've enjoyed 11 so far. At least stuff HAPPENED in 9 and 10. I'm 7 episodes into season 11, and nothing of note has happened other than the building of a killer robot that has yet to do anything. This will be the slowest season of Red vs. Blue so far if it doesn't pick up later (I'm not caught up yet so I don't know if it does). Honestly, I think I have to put some of the blame on Miles as the new writer, I don't like the writing in RWBY at all, and I'm lukewarm to the writing in season 11 of RvB so far.

As far as the animated segments went in seasons 9 and 10, yeah, I really wish all of them had left their helmets on. The fight scenes were very well done though, and were at least somewhat more grounded compared to a lot of Monty's earlier work.

Season 9 had probably the best RvB soundtrack though.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

I like the return to the nonsense and mutual hatred in season 11. That's what the first 3 seasons were, just endless bullshitting and dick waving competitions.

My favorite season was reconstruction, but i like the more oldschool format of this season so far.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

The parts where the freelancers had their helmets on were some of the best parts of those Red vs Blue seasons. I wouldn't mind a return to the Blood Gulch style of things but they would have some sort of plot advancement, Plain humor for no reason tends to get boring after a few episodes.

 

[Anachronism]

I still think the Recollection Trilogy (seasons 6, 7 and 8) is the highlight of Red vs. Blue, even if basically nothing actually happened in season 7. It seems to be a recurring problem for the show since the Blood Gulch Chronicles ended, alternating seasons between plot and faffing about.

That's the biggest problem I have with season 11 so far, that nothing has really happened. I'm still enjoying it though: it's still funny, and I'm glad that they've gone back to straight machinima rather than CGI animation. Don't get me wrong, Monty Oum's stuff is extremely impressive, especially when it first appeared in the Recollection, but it got overblown pretty quickly and just doesn't have the charm of machinima.

I didn't mind seasons 9 and 10, but frankly, I don't find the Freelancers nearly as entertaining as the Reds and Blues. Especially after how glorious Revelation was, the story of the Freelancers was a bit of a let-down. I also think it's weird how Washington is a stone-cold professional in the parts set in the present, but in the flashbacks is a bumbling doofus.

 

[Shocksplicer]

I gave up on RVB after season 10, just realized that I didn't like how far it had strayed from its roots with the constant, out of place CGI fights and the awful attempts at storytelling. Might watch 11 at a later point if it's less like 9 and 10.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

I also think it's weird how Washington is a stone-cold professional in the parts set in the present, but in the flashbacks is a bumbling doofus.

Having an AI run rampant can have it's effects, look at what happened to Caboose after Omega.

Historically, if you look at all the other seasons of RvB, they too were also slow to build momentum. The Reds and Blues are more or less content to stand around and ***** at each other rather than doing stuff. It's only when someone comes along do they seem to do anything.

But I am liking it so far. Caboose being made Captain of the Blue Team was hilarious.

 

[The Funslinger]

I also think it's weird how Washington is a stone-cold professional in the parts set in the present, but in the flashbacks is a bumbling doofus.

Well, I think that his personality shift is because A) there's a large amount of years between the Freelancer and RvB scenes, and B) What he saw when they implanted Epsilon in him had a massively traumatic effect on him, causing the shift in his personality.

OT: I'm enjoying it, but it took a bit of adjusting to after the fast paced, action heavy seasons of 6 to 10. That said, the aesthetic shift that comes with Halo 4 was a bit jarring. Not sure I like the new graphics.

 

[The Funslinger]

I also think it's weird how Washington is a stone-cold professional in the parts set in the present, but in the flashbacks is a bumbling doofus.

Having an AI run rampant can have it's effects, look at what happened to Caboose after Omega.

Oh yeah! I forgot, he wasn't entirely retarded before that happened!

 

[BoredAussieGamer]

I like it. It's a bit of a return to form.

That, and Freckles. What a good boy.

 

[Lil_Rimmy]

Yeah, I agree with most in this thread. Just have a look at the seasons. They had about 20 episodes each, yeah?

Season 11 is THIRTEEN! episodes in! I understand some of the seasons are slow, but here is what we have learnt so far:

They crashed. Donut was an idiot. There is some guy called Locus who is interested in them. And in the latest episode, some guy approaches, says he is there to help and disappears.

That's 13 episodes! I mean, hell, the most reason one was 50% jokes about Simmons and Facebook, and the other half a discussion between Lopez and Lopez the Second. There's a difference between slow, and someone trying to push a train-wreck through the ocean. Sure, it's funny, but dear lawd, it's not the kind of funny that keeps on staying engaging or hilarious, especially when everything just kind of grinds to a halt.

 

[Absimilliard]

I agree with the sentiment that it's paced way too slow this season. The last seasons may have been a few steps away from the series' roots, but at least stuff happened (plot-wise as well as action-wise). It was also fairly slow in the first few seasons, but the plot was at least moved along quicker than this. As it is, I'm considering just not watching until the last week, and then watch the entire thing. I probably won't, because I spend to much time on the internet to ignore anything I'm interested in, but the thought is still there, which I can't imagine Rooster Teeth would take as a positive result...

 

[Batou667]

I think that RvB, Monty Oum, and Rooster Teeth as a whole, collectively jumped the shark some years ago.

That's right, I said it.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

Ever since they started to take a more serious turn with it in Seasons 6-8 (Recollection) and upward, I just stopped watching. Halo humor is what made RvB for me. If there's none of that, well, too bad then.

 

[V8 Ninja]

While I haven't watched season 11 yet, I never really enjoyed RvB after Season 6 or so. The story became less about giving excuses for particular jokes and more about trying to create a machinama drama that just didn't work or fit with the established characters.

 

[Omegie]

Not particularly, no.

The most recent episode (Season 11, Ep. 13) featured enough pop culture references and self referential jokes to fill an entire season, and it still feels like nothing of note has been achieved this season. I swear that Caboose has become even harder to understand this season too! The computer-rendered fight scenes are kinda cool, but the animation is a little janky for my taste (same goes for RWBY).

captcha: 'which one is red?' Donut. Well, he's more of a lightish red.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I liked it.

You have to understand that they had to taken some steps to make the series somewhat fresh again otherwise it would of been the same old wisecrack show.

Sure there is nothing wrong with that but if they had carry on the same old formula it would of gotten repetitive and bland. By all means I would still like it but it would of shown they weren't really wanted to expand if there were able to in the first place.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I like it so far, it's nice - if a bit odd - to return to the usual humor formula. Yes, seasons 6-1o were pretty heavy, but at least they had plenty of funny moments and awesome scenes to keep it stabilized. Though I kinda feel like I'm in the minority here...

 

[Erttheking]

To be perfectly honest I haven't been watching the newer episodes, stopped at around season 9, just didn't get around to it. I really should get back into watching that. I liked the Monty scenes yet at the same time I felt like the went a little too far. Then again maybe it's my inner Halo fan bitching "THE FLAME THROWER DOES NOT WORK LIKE THAT" maybe it's why I'm watching RWBY now.

 

[Hero of Lime]

I was just considering making this thread. For seasons 9, 10, and 11, I have mixed opinions. I absolutely loved every other season in the series, 9 is where things started to get iffy.

In season 9, I feel like the Freelancer parts, specifically the combat is just too over the top and despite trying to be the opposite, incredibly boring. The scenes with the regular guys in season 9 are still fun, so the season isn't that bad.

Season 10 was pretty bad for me. Nothing happened with the regular characters, and their segments in the episodes were a lot shorter than the freelancer parts. Sorry, but once you see one of those cg fight scenes, you've seen them all. I almost hate them now.

Season 11, they've gone back to the original formula, but NOTHING has happened this season. I know in earlier seasons, the characters would still stand around doing nothing, but at least it was still funny. We are 13 episodes in for this season, and the only real story development so far was that the guy watching them just warned Lopez that they are in danger.

I love the RoosterTeeth guys, but I feel like they are just putting out all these padding episodes just to keep the dying series going as long as it can. These new seasons make me wish the show ended at the end of season 8.