Nice

I ordered mine. My 9 yr old saw it and may be even more excited than I am.

A game that I don't think will ever have the behind the scenes explained but would make a great What happened if it could, Kingdom Under Fire 2

But Wha Happun'd to Valkarie Studios?? I must KNOOoooooow!

I specifically searched to see what happened to this game. it was so wonderful and had dual rocket launchers, and yet seems to have been completely forgotten.

Yeah, Dragon Age: Origins makes no sense as a title, why are they so eager to inform people of the origins?!! It's like they planned on making a great game or something! Disgusting!

@@CornBreadtm1 Random trivia: they went Dragon Age: Origins to put emphasis on the six origin stories you could choose from.

Success achieved. Confusion presently prevailing.

Throw that up there with “subverting expectations”.

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@@XanthinZarda SwordQuest for Atari 2600. The first two parts of the contest were indeed won by people, but Atari fell fast and hard in the mid 80s so the rest of the games and contest were never done. Either way, this sort of thing would be near impossible to do in 2005 I'd think, when access to the internet is more widespread and people could cheat much easier.

What 😲😲

@@rcmero Wich ironically also tried to be the next multimedia empire but failed.

Welcome to the 00's.

And their names would be Dijon and Honey.

hahahaha

@@ironmaster6496 Callate tu.

@@XanthinZarda Yep. Toriyama and his thing for pun names strike again.

Someone make that into a game XD

He was also the guy, that got us to the Marvel MCU in a way, for better or for worst.

@@SuperTed641 I thought that was Avi Arid? Cuz I recall someone else thought that it was Joe Quesada that gave us the MCU... and were corrected.

@@battlion507 okay, to be more specific, he was more like a step, I guess, to getting us to the MCU. He came in after Marvel declared bankruptcy in the '90s (yep, believe it or not, Marvel at one time was bankrupt). When he came in, he kinda helped get Marvel back on it's feet, business wise, and helped it wrangle back media rights to a lot of it characters after a lot of them we're caught in legal limbo due to various reasons, and helped them sell off those rights, to help get us to the pre-MCU wave if Marvel films in the early 2000's.

Advent Rising is the Bubsy 3D to Mass Effect's Mario 64

@@thecunninlynguist fack!!

"Hey, it's this generation's Star Wars, suck it Halo!" Then, "DANG IT!"

@@mrjameshendry Mass Effect Andromeda is the Advent Rising of the M.Effect series.

Probably. "Wow and I thought my game sucked."

There's still time

You son of a b*tch, I'm in!

Lets fuckin GOOOOOOOOOOO

LETS GO! WOOOOO

Alright fellas, when do we start?

I mean, he wasn't wrong.

@@saintrocketIX Ironically from his least ambitious projects too. funny how that works out.

@@MetalGearRAY675 Extra funny when you realize that Infinity Blade managed to do exactly what he was aiming for here Genre revolutionizing gameplay Trilogy with solid plot and world Multimedia franchise Big name author doing the tie in material I guess he just needed a trial run first

i know he is boasting but...why start with the least good of your ideas? it's dumb and risky

@@ironmaster6496 You answered your own question.

Yes, that's such an idiotic idea. We shouldn't be forced to read/watch other medias in other to understand the story of one single video game ; these creators lose their shits and start to believe their works are gonna make people fascinated with it like Star Wars or Star Trek level 🤦‍♂️

@@HelghastStalker yes, it's so fucking annoying wanting to relate to the characters but there's so little to work with since a lot of important informations are in books/comics/etc.

fuck it, EVERY media creator should abide by this. Im looking at you Star Wars since the prequels

​@@joeyjojoshabadoo2508that brief moment in time when the force unleashed was cannon was pretty cool though

It's funny that he did it again with Fortnite.

Just tell them to primarily focus on one kind of storytelling in this case the comics. Then pursue the games only if the comics are well received and get enough notoriety to be able to partner with people who could make those games possible.

The only thing I could think while watching this video is that if they actually made the comic first and kept the games/movies only as a vague concept for the unforeseeable future, there’s a good chance it’d have worked out. Maybe Advent Rising would be coming out this year for the PS5 and Xbox Series X to fan acclaim.

Okay that MMO idea is the worst out of all. MMOs are fucking huge massive talent, money, and time sinks than all the others in video games.

Your friend has a big dream, and that is awesome! To mamy people let theirs die and become bitter. You can support and guide him to help avoid the "Advent Pitfall". Assist in maintaing quality and integrity. If he fails at any one thing...that is a leveling up learning experience. Good Luck to your friend.

He could do Thomas and the Magic Railroad.

You Karen! Rise of Skywalker was good!

​@@PixarandDreamWorksFan1994 When I watched Rise of Skywalker with a friend, I remember the conversation afterwards being like: "This was a pretty fun mindless blockbuster. But man, this sucked as the end of a trilogy." I really liked the Last Jedi. Even if you don't like it, you have to admire some of the new developments it added to the Star Wars universe: Rey came to terms with her past and can focus on the future with building a new Jedi Order (with ghost Luke providing frequent counsel), Poe learned how to be a leader instead of just a fighter and Leia can pass the torch to him to rally the Galaxy to the Resistance, Finn conquered his demons and can now focus on freeing other Stormtroopers from their indoctrination... All while Kylo Ren, too far gone, sets the Galaxy on fire with the First Order because he has nothing left. Maybe you would have wanted the story to go in a different direction than that, and that's cool too. The Last Jedi provided a bunch of options for something new. And instead... We got Return of the Jedi but worse. :( Retconning Rey to be a Palpatine, having Rey struggle with the exact same conflicts Luke did, and bringing back Palpatine in the same role he had before speak to a lack of confidence. The worst is Luke catching the lightsaber, even though him throwing away his lightsaber and refusing to strike down Vader was his triumph in Return of the Jedi.

well psychonauts 2 is already getting glowing reviews so i feel like he's probably having the last laugh now

Did you ever play it? I doubt it. It was gold for its time. stop blindly hating it moron

@@ninab.4540 Bruh, I'm more of a Sony fan than a Microsoft one, and I'm so here for Psychonauts 2

Is it an Xbox exclusive or something?

first time.........don't worry you'll get used to it.

I can't explain why I love it, I've been brainwashed

Yeah, pick a medium to start your franchise with and make a good story in that medium. Then you can try to start expanding into other forms of media.

His fellow G4 reviewers hated it. XPlay gave it a Golden Mullet as one of the year's worst for being a glitchy, bland Halo ripoff. Adam Sessler gave a special shout-out to the score as being a blatant knockoff of Halo's with some random guitar riffs (gee, I wonder what non-music reading/writing self-promoting publicity clown did those?) thrown on top for no reason.

@@MrTBoneSF can’t wait until Intellivision Amico gets torn apart in one of these retrospectives

And Bill believes it's all true. He's a Harvard graduate!

I honestly didn't believe you so I went and looked it up just now, and I have to say: I'm sorry for doubting you.

That's what I thought too when I saw pics in magazines.

Idk. The story was really original. The twist with the humans being the exterminators of races (with the invading aliens being the ones who were trying to prevent the rise of another human empire civilization) was cool

@@Imghey123lol That's basically Enders Game. Which Orson Scott Card wrote lol

Isn't Will Friedle the guy who played Terry McGinnis in Batman Beyond?

@@TheEmperorHyperion yes. hes also the older brother in Boy Meets World.

@@lordxmugen and ron stoppable!

Honestly every indication I get is that the game isn't bad, it's just agonizingly overambitious.

@@lordxmugen Oh jeez, the lot of you just blew my mind!

🎶Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything teeheehee!🎶

You have to remember they also helped Nintendo with GBA Video, TV shows on the go. You could watch Sonic X and Rugrats All Grown Up in quality worse than early ScrewAttack videos. They even had Shrek 1 & 2[the best Shrek films] and Oscar winning director/Marvel hater Martin Scorsese in his greatest film role ever in SharkTale.

Another B player publisher that would probably make a nice Wha Happun episode is MiDAS Entertainment/Phoenix Games, the only problem here being that the amount of public information about the company is close to nil. They used to publish budget PlayStation games from tiny, usually passionate Japanese developers in Europe, presumably paying tuppence in licensing fees as these games would otherwise never have a chance of leaving Japanese shores. I dare to say that most of their early library is composed of hidden gems, like _RoX_ and _Sanvein._ They even occasionally published some games from big developers that didn’t think they had a chance on the Western market, such as Taito’s _Cleopatra Fortune._ Unfortunately, at some point they realised that they could make money quicker if they bought the license for similarly unhopeful animated movies and stuck them in PlayStation disks together with a cookie-cutter colouring and jigsaw puzzle sub-activity book “game”. If zero-budget Japanese PSX games were brimming with originality and passion, zero-budget European children’s movies were the exact opposite. Unfortunately, the infamy of MiDAS/Phoenix’s throughput on this era - things like _Dalmatians 3_ and _Dinosaurs_ - is their claim to dubious fame these days, and many people don’t even know that they used to be an actual legitimate publisher.

Given that these guys grew out of a studio dedicated to box art and FMVs, it's actually pretty cool. Unfortunately, it's tied to the marketing, so instead of Flawed and Impressive Given Its Origins, well...

yeah their only crime were just bein overly ambitious with a clear lack of focus

@@Sea-Salt I mean I would argue that a shit on of gaming failures are due to soulless money grabs with no creative vision or care. Just AAA companies that want to line their pockets.

Theres a first time for everything

Yeah it's a very dumb move. If they always planned for there to be things like comics, might have been best to start with that, then plan more things after you get your audience.

It is all Executive BS after all courtesy of Fox. They should have let actors reprise their roles instead of dragging Kanan from Star Wars Rebels and one of the killers from Scream 1 into this mess.

@@jakey14344 That explains the actors, but that doesn't explain the script, which digs into supernatural nonsense, something the games went out of their way to avoid relying on.

@@jakey14344 don't Diss my boy Freddie Prince Jr. he was great as Fred from Scooby Doo

shoutout to Caddicarus for teaching us that invaluable piece of gaming history

Wait what the fuck Mars Needs Moms was REAL!? Ive spent 11 years now genuinely believing that was just a dream/nightmare I had when I was four

@@nightmare_creature3757 it is real and was a huge disaster. It cost them over 130 million on budget alone, not even accounting the marketing costs, and closed the studio behind it despite only being their 2nd movie.

I’m still sad John Carter did so badly.

They have a KZfaq channel now, and yes, they still talk about games.

G4 was great before they decided reruns of COPS and Cheaters should be the channels main programming.

g4 was amazing.

@@onigames7309 If it doesn't have episodes of Web Soup, I'm not interested

@@jimmyv3170 Web Soup was a childhood memory

It really adds a new dimension to the Palpatine reveal for episode IX in Fortnite. Was that Mustard's idea??

I’m just waiting for Advent Rising to get referenced in the lore(I could see it as a “Nothing-Class Reality” that got decimated by Cube Queen)

As someone whose awareness of Fortnite is limited to its cultural presence, I didn’t even know it had a storyline

It still shows up in Video Games Lives performances by Tallerico, which at this point is starting to get dated in spite of the quality of its music. And no, not because of Advent Children- one of the songs they perform is for Halo 3 >_>

Unless it's 90s games or Video Games Live, he's on full shill mode.

There is a reason why Victor is the one who still has a platform.

Shame he let Card stick around.

I can answer PopCap games right now: EA. Also, somehow EA was the less evil of the two company's trying to buy them (the other being Zyngia (the Farmville guys)).

Victor is a legend (and active to this day on EP).

He'll need help from the King of Limbo to not lose his sanity making that video

I'm not an expert by any means, but at least to my knowledge, it isn't considered illegal if you or someone you're working closely with isn't profiting from the additional purchase. In this case, the Xbox Live bit is a purchase, yes, but the money for it goes to Microsoft, and they're not about to cut Majesco a check for having advertised a sweepstakes any time soon. Like I said, though, I'm not an expert, so take it with a large grain of salt.

What are they apologizing for

"Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything, tee hee hee."

I have a massive list, but I do have plans in the future to slow down just a bit

@@MattMcMuscles Slowing things down a bit is very much a good thing, take care of yourself!

"Aren't you worried you'll run out of content one day? :) " *puts up the phone, then hands it to you* EA would like to have a word with you =P

when your source of content is poorly-planned media, trust me when I say that running out of things to talk about should be the least of your worries

Me, too. One of the few games I beat, let alone twice, when I was a teenager.

Awesome to see you here Karak! congrats on on the podcast return and new channel content!

Same

That's totally fair, many people do. I didn't have an Xbox at the time, so I never would up playing this till like almost 10 years later. I do remember the contest being cancelled though.

@@MattMcMuscles I genuinely loved this game as a teenager, through its faults. The contest failing is what got me turned on to Psychonauts AND Guilty Gear which both have excellent new entries this year. I already had Phantom Dust, an absolute favorite hidden gem of mine. I'd love a Wha Happun for the sequel to that but I'd love more if everyone who reads this comment just went back and played the first one. It's free on XB and PC! There's been nothing like it, before or since.

He hasn’t done TV shows yet, but if he does, that’s a top pick.

@@GamerSlyRatchet1 It was originally was gonna be a movie and the first 2 episodes did premiere on IMAX screens so technically I think it should count as a special case.