I need you to do a what happened for maverick hunter (the fps mega man game) I think it'd be a great video

I legit played this on Gamecube. In terms of the presentation, yeah it was really good, but the washed out colors just didn't ring well with me. Character models were on point for the Marvel characters at least. The Imperfects were really unbalanced, packing the higher levels of strength, and felt like if you weren't skilled enough to beat ass with the Marvel team, the Imperfects would be grossly too powerful. Very few Marvel characters could lift the heaviest things by comparison. EA didn't get a chance to utilize the Imperfects, nor did they get the chance to balance them out, and the ad campaign being all about Paragon was... Shallow at best... Honestly, they should have just focused on more content. Adding more characters to the roster, and more stages, and let the players duke it out in ALL the stages in ALL their glory like a backroom brawl at a WWE event at the time. If the entire stage was more a split screen affair where you met up in the middle of a large stage with an arena in the middle, it could have been a lot better. But in terms of controls, EA really fucked up and got it backwards with B being to jump, and A used to attack. I get the A button on the Gamecube controller was the biggest button of all, but it was no excuse to reject the control tradition of "B = Attack, & A = Jump"!. they made a terrible mistake on that control setup. Also, the whole "Sacrifice" bullshit where you were FORCED to sacrifice a Marvel hero for an Imperfect's story was just absolute BULLSHIT! ESPECIALLY with the story ending with the Imperfects taking the helm, when we know a hero like Wolverine would just come back angrier than before and unleash his rage on whoever tried to bring him down in the first place! AND if he found out anyone he was friends with was killed, then a quick death from Wolverine was the smallest gesture of mercy, compared to him eviscerating you like a group of inmates in prison would to a pedophile! It felt WRONG to sacrifice the Marvel heroes, including beloved heroes like Wolverine and Spider-man for characters like Johnny Ohm, Brigade, Faultzone, and eventually Paragon and Van Rokel.It felt more like blasphemy to be forced to end the story of a Marvel hero for one of the EA Mary Sues.

@@calvanothomas07 I feel like that video should be in a Triple pack discussing it, MegaMan Universe and MegaMan Online since all 3 were scrapped in around the same timeframe.

Do crackdown 3!!😡

That's like burning your whole house down because your shower doesn't get warm fast enough and you don't want to call a plumber to fix it.

Modern problems require modern solutions

Smokes and mirrors fam, smokes and mirrors. That's what game design is all about 😂

​@@viscountrainbows2857you clearly have no idea what game coding in company time is, since your example is waaaaaay off. Let me tell you why. They designed a camera system. That camera system, because of not concrete evidence and experience, was acknowledged as a working system. That camera system works with a third party renderer. Let's say during alpha testing, they didn't find the bug, because maybe the bug didn't occur in the first place, because probably they hadn't put everything yet (it's still alpha). Let's go to pre beta time. During testing, the renderer is overlapping some whatever code and causes the game to crash, as it stops the game's frame update. Now, the debugging comes to place. You run diagnostics, you run safety checks, and after days (which are days without progress, so losing-money days) you find that the renderer is causing it. There you have to face the reality of the situation: a) spend human resources and lots of labour hours on a THIRD PARTY RENDERER (meaning not company's renderer) to debug, diagnose and the recoding b) limit a bit the gameplay and save tons of work on a THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE. The sane choice is to go with b, since the third party renderer might not be used in a future project, so fixing that bug, would classify it as totally useless, since there is already a b option.

Doc, it hurts when I go like this...

Dude the story was terrifying because of the difficulty lol

I remember my dad getting the furthest into the story mode, it took him until after beating that mission where you had to beat Johnny Ohm as Daredevil to give up.

I use to sneak and play my dads copy I loved playing this game

i played this years later, finally got spider-man, then stopped again bc i didn't wanna kill him 😂

i remember giving up on the story completely because there was a mission as iron man where you literally had like 10 seconds to destroy multiple objects

That man is an absolute trooper 🫡 That story campaign and some of the entirely unfair fights/mission objectives break many lesser men. I don't remember if I 100%ed it but, I had nothing better to do except homework at the time so, I honestly don't doubt I did.

Wait, Ryan?

damn i remember doing something like that, i used to keep exchanging games with one kid in the apartment complex, good times

​@@viscountrainbows2857human torch level made me so mad

I guess it makes you go back in time and say "oh sweet, sweet summer child..."

At that time EA was HUGE and was cranking some absurd numbers: Need for speed, lord of the rings, FIFA, 007, def jam, burnout, 007... They had an absurd number of big seller franchieses and licensed games and as much as I love MvC it did not sell as well, it wasn't mainstream enough.

it gets to the heart of the problem with Matt's overview here: Marvel in 2005 absolutely thought a fighting game deal with EA would mean The Thing and Spider Man VS Barry Bonds and Busta Rhymes. Marvel as a "serious" company that guarded its IP didnt happen until the Iron Man/Avengers movies became a hit. Also: a "sports celebs" vs Marvel heroes game... definitely woulda made more money than this shit. I am guessing the road block was in portraying the athletes' likenesses

OK ARE THAT DUMB MARVEL NEMESIS WAS DONE BY EA NOT CAPCOM YOU TWEET!

They really should have just did a Def Jam vendetta style game with marvel characters. I actually remember enjoying this game, particularly the psp version. But a good game it was not

Because 2000's super heroes were all about that Edge

Edge bs that's about it

Look at what they did with the Ultimate Universe shortly after lol. Murdering tons of Marvel chars was just the fashion at the time

I mean, "shock value" is pretty much the only reason that I can think of.

To show how much of a threat/powerful they were. Worked for Goldberg.

that soundtrack is super underrated

Or the fact that human torch and Wolverine straight up murdered opponents😂

​​@@jestaalchaosborneWolverine's finisher was so brutal, the only thing saving this game from an M rating was the lack of blood/dismemberment. HT's was just hilarious; looked like some "FROM OFF THE TOP ROPE! Bawgawd... that man was not just broken in half but ENTIRELY ATOMIZED."

@@viscountrainbows2857 those cutaways tho😂

The soundtrack really is amazing, top notch level job. Gives the whole vibe the game needs and wants the player to feel while playing. Just the menu screen is enough to set the tone that you're not in a regular superhero adventure.

Right just picked someone with a ranged throw and you already had a strong advantage. If I remember venom was ridiculously better than most characters

Well that's all fighters including high end being counter picks.

@@oknodiangames6 I remember human torch and venom having almost zero counters like venoms biggest weakness was speed but he was still pretty fast himself and only had a hard time against Spider-Man. Meanwhile human torches biggest weakness was meter management so as long as you were being smart, torch was godlike. He even had the longest (that I can remember) combo string that almost resembled a bnb from umvc3

@@oknodiangames6three things I recall strongly from my experience. Venom was busted. Ranged throw, projectile and super strength. Also his air movement was goofy. Always gave me a hard time. Brigade was more busted. Though he ate energy like a termite eats real estate, he was able to kill in only three moves, had super strength by default and could tank anything that wasn’t the existential crisis he suffered when his energy bar got too low. Iron Man was the GOAT. He could fly, had THREE projectiles, super strength, was exceptionally sturdy and could just set up a wall of pain that lasted for days without ever having to worry about recharging. Worse yet on some consoles his rockets had homing capability. Which was great. One of the easiest ways to shut him down was to use the Glass Cannon Magneto and lock him in the wall throw glitch. But in order for that to work you’d need to ensure he never got a shot off once. Why even bother adding Human Torch or Spider-Man at all when Venom and Solara were far superior alternatives? It’s been nearly 20 years and all I have are more questions.

Legit this is how I won some of the harder fights. I would spend about 75% of them running around like an idiot looking for a throwable while they Benny Hill chased me or fired projectiles like they were at the Dunk Tank and I was the clown.

I bet it felt like it was YOUR thing. You were part of it since the beginning. You owned it all and read and played everything. It is a cool feeling, as it would be difficult to have the same thing with the X-Men, for example, as they were created on 1963. I felt the same for Generation X, which was MY new team on 1994. I saw the cast appear on an X-Men event, then get their own comic, I had the whole series (except for one issue) and the annuals and specials. I am happy to say that, for the most part, Generation X was a better product than the Imperfects.

At least it's better than Shadow The Hedgehog. I played that game again and it absolutely does not hold up.

We call that a web-slingin ass kickin.

Hey, I liked The Wink myself.

I remember all these fuckers, they are burned into my mind it's insane

My takeaway was it randomly having one of the better Venom designs, and a seriously underrated voice for them. The various random enemies and Solara also looked great.

Johnny Ohm is a really cool name... i forgot everything about this Game but him.

I could've sworn I was the only person who liked this game.

Games always more with people. Me playing this alone vs something like Xmen legends. Well let's just say I did not like imperfects

Yall had games in daycare and this was the game?

@@vincentpistoia9034some daycare that was

"Mind over matter baby. I don't mind and you don't matter."

I loved it, but I was also 10

Midnight Suns I guess is comparable.

I actually want the Imperfects and Destiny crew from XMAN Destiny to return in an Xman game

Yeah, it was very janky and unbalanced but that was part of the fun

Same, I enjoyed playing it with one of my friends as a kid. I still think about the Frankenstein guy who is made up of a bunch of dead soldiers from time to time. Really disturbing yet cool concept, lol.

I also could have sworn I watched this already. Why did I think he did one for this already? Maybe he did a gameplay or something.

Actually you don’t, a new character will unlock for every 10 versus matches you complete. You don’t even need to win them either, you can just start a match, quit and repeat ad nauseum until everyone is unlocked.

​@@ElSandwich777I wonder if this is more design oversight, or the devs taking pity on people who quit the story mode and just wanted to box for free in versus without an arm and a leg tied behind their back for more of the Nintendo Hard mission objectives and decidedly unfair boss fights.

Just love the idea of a more grounded, technically powerless (unless we consider his super hearing/echolocation as such) hero like Daredevil being able to square up with a man with the ability to fly who can become literally engulfed in an entire aura of flame... just by throwing trash cans at him repeatedly.

Fun is all that matters.

Paper Mario Sticker Star what happened. The game that started the new worse era of the franchise.

Maybe Matt could make a What Happened on Alphadream, as they closed down less than a year after BISDX was released.

I always thought Johnny ohm was sick af

Ya vi a Mrlordikira (o como se escriba) viendo este video y pensando "a huevo videito nuevo" para luego traducirlo. Al menos da créditos, no como el CarlosRevolution.

@@user-de2hh6bt5i De un futuro incierto