User blog comment:Theworldismine/How awesome is omniverse now?/@comment-121.73.78.31-20130327093202/@comment-71.55.210.41-20130525155942

Honestly, I missed the Omnitrix misfiring and turning him into the wrong alien. It adds hilarity to situations, as well as forcing him to get creative when he has to come up with a new plan to deal with a problem. The complete lack of misfires in Alien Force honestly bothered me, especially at the beginning. All through the original series, Ben had problems getting the watch to turn him into what he wanted. Then you have Alien Force, which starts after a time skip during which Ben hasn't used the Omnitrix in like, at least a year. And suddenly, he can just use it perfect without a problem? The loss of that running gag honestly made things a little bit more boring for me, and I was glad to see it had been brought back in Ultimate Alien.

I don't miss the Ultimatrix at all though. I mean, seriously, turning into the ULTIMATE EVOLUTIONS of different aliens? Why did he even use the original forms of his aliens at all, why not just use the ULTIMATE EVOLUTIONS all the time? It made me feel like I was watching Digimon or Pokemon or something, I kept waiting for Ben to yell out HUMONGOSAUR EVOLVES TO, ULTIMATE HUMONGOSAUR! ....MON!

I will agree that I miss the full-body display of the aliens, but I don't miss the hologram display from Alien Force. Seriously, that only helps the bad guys, cuz then they could see what Ben was picking before he actually transformed. I think the face-only display is due to the increasingly small size of the watch though, which is also why I wish they'd've gone back to a more "retro" design, as Ben called it, and make it look more like an alien device like in the original series instead of an actual Earthling watch.