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<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="558">9:18</a> - "It was as if switch to Unreal was going to solve everything." How many potential episodes of Wha Happun could basically be summed up with this one line?!

I feel like a common lesson that can be learned from most episodes of Wha Happun is to not change engines

"Overstar Killbreeze" sounds like the name of some kind of crazy sci-fi villian.

The real reason Ulf left was because Bo was the main driving force behind microtransactions being added to payday 2. The breakup was so drastic that no new voice lines for Ulf's character were ever added again, even in the final secret live action cutscene.

Good god, having to go through crunch THAT brutal just for a guaranteed failure... I hope to heck we see some serious game dev unions in our lifetime.

Only thing going for it was those CG promo trailers, which you could tell, that's where a good chunk of the money went.

The most painful part of this is when you look through the game files, and see level after level that was never released, content developers poured their heart and soul into that will never see the light of day.

Haha, it's kinda freaky to be looking at this video a few years after working for Starbreeze and realizing you can see yourself sitting in the background in one of the shots... Takes me back.

I literally had no idea this game even existed until now

Lawbreakers/Radical Heights and the complete destruction of Boss Key Studios and Cliffy B for a wha happun?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="342">5:42</a> love how Colonial Marines stood up for a second there 😂

How about Mighty No. 9 as a future episode?

A half dead company working a walking dead game seem like a match made in heaven

You know what the real gut punch of this story is? After everything that happened with this game, Bo was quick to blame the developers for everything. SCREW. OFF.

I think it’s appropriate to visit the great granddaddy of all Wha Happun: the game that epitomized the foolish downfall of an entire industry: ET for the Atari 2600

When's the What Happened on my social life?

"I don't have a crystal ball, but I do have the balls to announce a ten year plan for my unfinished mess of a video game because that worked out so well for Anthem and Destiny."

I’d be interested in a Wha Happun on Brink. That game looked so good from the trailers, but was so lackluster on release. It’s sad how often that is the case these days :/

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="340">5:40</a> Matt you cheeky bastard, dropping hints of the next Wha Happun

As someone who put 300 hours into Payday 2, I'm both sad and kind of relieved. Overkill and Starbreeze were vultures. I'm just glad they were able to wrap up Payday 2 before this shit hit the fan. Edit: Also us Payday people could kinda see the writing on the wall. The 4chan /vg/ Payday 2 general threads kept getting some anonymous poster who kept using a Wolf image for their posts and we kind of figured out they were Ulf because they leaked certain things and they were also the VA and face model for Wolf since Payday 1 (and when they left, Wolf had none of his lines updated. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/idCceNNh1KjIpZc.html

the donkey picture might not be harsh enough to describe that memo

And despite this utter mess, both overkill and starbreeze just announced Payday 3

i love that you use the violin music from Castlevania 64.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="368">6:08</a> And thats when Wolf stopped getting additional voicelines Q_Q

You ever notice how popular “10 year plans” were back around this time?

I find it amazing they are STILL making DLC for Payday 2. I played that a ton but seriously it just keeps going.

In a life surrounded by illness, senility, death, economic crises, heartbreak etc; This light hearted gaming content from a familiar voice is like a nice cup of tea when you have a cold.

The violin bit from Castlevania 64 took me right out of the video and sent me into flashbacks of my childhood

Okay, as always a great video, but I just want to send a bit of praise for always crediting the footage you use so prominently. I have friends who are minor league content creators, and they've gotten fucked so many times by bigger names straight up using their stuff uncredited. It really does make a lot of difference, and I just think it's worth pointing out.

Wha Happun has quickly become something I look forward to on KZfaq. I always love hearing post mortems on disaster projects that are more substantial than just saying "lol they suk". gg bud, keep up the good work!

Sad part of this is that staff kept working on the game despite the disaster at launch and had ready a season 2 worth of free content but the ip holders wouldnt let them update the game. I believe if the game had more development time and under different management it could have been a real banger

I like how that "skeleton dead at a computer" picture at like <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="161">2:41</a> or so has a real mouse to contrast with the computer mouse haha, like how in old South Park episodes this whole swarm of mice would come and nibble on Kenny when he died

Since I made the same post two videos in a row, I'll go with a new suggestion: How about Haze, a PS3 game (also planned for the 360 before being scrapped) that was supposed to put a deconstructive twist on then-current FPS trends, but encountered so many issues in development that it devolved into a derivative and buggy shooter? I recall there being at least one developer interview that equated his part of the work like "Putting up a nice wallpaper when the rest of the house is burning down". If not that, there's also Lair, another PS3 flop that would become Factor 5's last game before closing down. There's history to talk about there at least, especially making the Star Wars: Rogue Squadron titles for Nintendo systems

The writing was on the wall for anyone who played Payday 2 during it's closing years. Overkill was struggling to end the game with any sort of satisfaction. Shitty updates that had people very "meh" on the game until Overkill finally made a good decision and got a hold of someone called "Wordsmith"; They pretty much wrote Overkill out of the hole they dug themselves and ended the game with a kickass White House heist with some satisfying sequel potential. However, while this was going on a little game called Raid: WW2 came out, made by Starbreeze. A game even more buggy than PD2 and even less satisfying to play. You probably never heard about it cause it died in less than a year after it's release. This failure meant that, with Payday 2 being finished off, Starbreeze and Overkill had no constant revenue stream to keep them going through the development of O:TWD in it's last few months. Oopsy daisy.

TBH, my biggest disappointment was that the trailers felt deceiving in what the game was going to be since you had the character backstories teasers and gameplays with barely any explanation to what the genre of game it is. At first, I thought it would be an open world game similar to Fallout 3, Dead Island, or Far Cry, which would’ve been great considering there isn’t a lot of open world Walking Dead titles, tho not counting Survival Instinct since it’s a level/area select genre like Pokemon Arceus and How To Survive 2. But nope, it’s just a Left 4 Dead clone with Payday 2 and Survival Instinct elements. Honestly, that is an utter disappointment I’ll never forget, but NGL, after hearing behind the scenes, I’ll never forget those moments, too, since things like crunch is a big no-no.

This is an excellent series, thank you, Matt!

and so overkill returned back to the payday mines, where they would remain until the lights of the stars went out

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="111">1:51</a> I actually really really love the 2012 syndicate game. We all have a mediocre game we really enjoy, and that game is my bread and butter

Should have waited a bit before making to video to say how the devs were not even allowed to fix the game post release since the game was taken out of the store.

Skybound: Here’s The Walking Dead IP, now go make a kickass game out of it. A few years later. Skybound: Now let’s see the- OH GOOD LORD, kill it… kill it quickly.

I know someone who worked on this game and he made it very much clear that it was not a fun experience. He's a UI designer, and apparently they were asking for random, pointless tweaks to his designs basically up until the eleventh hour, which is all pretty normal, but they also asked for very major, fundamental changes very very close to release.

What I learned from this is never work with your brother.

I was not expecting to hear "Nightmare" from Alundra's OST, but it fits really well! Good music choices!

If this series doesn't convince you that all game designers/developers are working in that field out of _pure love of the craft,_ I don't know what will. I always feel so bad for the poor game devs who get shat on because of executive bullshit decisions that are completely out of their control. I went to art school for illustration (where one of the other majors was game design because game development IS art). In high school my art teacher told me _"In order to make a living as an artist, you have to be OBSESSED with art. You have to eat, sleep, and breathe art; otherwise you'll get burned out."_ And my _god_ is that ever true.

Just to keep it up to date, the game now hardly breaks 200 players a day, it's sitting at 97 atm. For about the first week this game held a bit over 10k viewers, 13k for a day during that week, but by the end of the first month it was down to 2500 players, and now 250 is considered big.

Um actually, a building seconds away from being demolished likely wouldn't have running water required to flush the ashes of burned cash.

Damn, time does fly by. Can't believe it's been already 4ish years since I saw the black dude's trailer for this game.

Payday is one of my favorite games...i dont do many shooters but this is the one for me

Persona 3 music in the background banging tho

Uh oh overkill might go under well that sucks I’ve banned hundreds of hours into payday 2

Hearing that Alundra music makes we wanna play that game again!

I love the Chronicles of Riddick’s games. They are vastly underrated games and still hold up to this day, especially on pc running at 4K and above 60fps! 😚

Wha Happun with Battleborn? The current PC Playerbase is in the 100 on the best of days, and while PS4 still has...well, a functional matchmaker, it's small. I enjoy my time with a group of friends in private, but I can acknowledge that it's got its issues...I mean, in its current state. I hear it was a lot worse early on, and hearing how it came to be and how it went from Painted On Stairs at a Big Gameshow to Randy "Why am I not fired already" Pitchford blasting the game with the "Free Trial" Nail in the Already Nail Covered Coffin. AND TO BE CLEAR, Free Trial does NOT mean it is TIME LIMITED, it's JUST FREE MULTIPLAYER with a bit of restriction. Why yes I am a bit miffed that the game did a huge bellyflop and may never get a sequel that properly markets itself, fixes issues, has somewhat better writing tho I am fine with what's presented, or even have proper aknowledgement. It could've been so much more, but the marketing, imbalance and ignorance on display dashed those hopes.

I would love another first person Riddick game. The stealth and melee attacks were exhilarating. Love the music too

My favorite part about this specific episode is that it's how I learned that this game came out at all.

When’s that Sonic ‘06 coming? Considering how much research you do I feel like we’d still learn something new.

so many Persona 3 songs in the BG. who knew they were that fitting contextually xD

Early...I thought this was still in development still?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="328">5:28</a> that super quick Alien's CM dis haha

Just sat here thinking ''should of just made payday 3... wankers.'' Why take a risk on the back end of a trend when you have the ability to make a third entry in your golden goose franchise?

You’d think that after all the games that come out on unreal there would be some sort of industry standard for having some knowledge on how to work on the engine

Aw heck ye, the Snatcher OST near the end there made me want to go re-watch Slowbeef's playthrough again.

The best thing about this video is the SMT:Imagine music in the background. Its a good video on its own but that music was always the best

I can't believe you did a whole video on Starbreeze without mentioning one of the greatest games ever made, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons! That came directly before OTWD so it truly is staggering how far they fell. :(

Is that... is that Persona 3 music I hear?! Matt, I didn't think your content could get any better, and yet here we are! Keep up the awesome work - I love your videos!

Love the persona music

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="66">1:06</a> in irony, some of the upgrades forced by the y2k commission helped made online commerce a reality, rather than end currency.

Loved the creepy nightmarish Alundra music. Cheers mate :D

Came here from Bionic Commando video to see "What Happun?"

I have binged all of these episodes now. I enjoyed them greatly. You have a new subscriber

That Syndicate section was just proof that there isn’t anything Bullfrog could make successful that EA couldn’t just take and destroy. Back then, we had no idea what they were about to do to Dungeon Keeper.

I will say that I enjoy me some payday, but most people in the community hated bo Andersson and ulfs departure was a major blow considering he was one of the playable characters in payday.

Loving that Alundra BGM in the background. Top Notch!

I played Syndicate for the first time a couple months ago. While it for sure isn’t anything special, I had a lot of fun with it.

Crazy. Just 3 days after this video was released Skybound had the game delisted from Steam.

Really informative Matt! Im really digging these vids

I... completely forgot there was a third Walking Dead game. Who knew the story surrounding its failure was far more interesting than the actual game? XD

Wow, I knew about a few of the goings-on behind this game, but there really was a lot of issues playing factors. I feel really bad for the developers that poured their soul into trying to make the game good and the crippling crunch they were put through, but such shortsightedness on the part of higher-ups and some bad design choices (lobbies and hallway-like gameplay in a zombie apocalypse...?) kind of make it seem like it not only was destined to fail, but also in a sense that it needed to.

If by some horrible nightmare Bo was still around, guarantee he'd try to get the company forcing Payday NFTs. Probably his next big techbro "get rich quick" scheme, from whatever crevice he's in.

It says a lot about this game that i have never heard it was a thing until now When do we get Wha Happun Sonic '06?

Listen to all that beautiful Persona 3 music

i love the persona 3 music in this

Ayyy my fav shows back! Thanks Matt!

Yo sweet episode as always but this one is extra special for using the Alundra OST. Fantastic taste Matt 👌

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="606">10:06</a> I hear some YGO GX spirit caller sounds here, nice touch matt, such a good game.

One Night in Neo Kobe? Matt, your music choice yet again makes me happy.

In about a year or so I will be entering the video game industry as an artist with my fresh degree and stories like that scare me. I've been on school projects that weren't working and it's just so soul crushing to see all your hard work amount to nothing when the core just isn't there. This project lasted for 3-4 months and it was seriously a tough time to do what I love most in the world, really blew my morale. Now scale that up 10 percents and you get a tiny glimpse of what the developers went through. I don't know how you can wake up in the morning and still sport a smile knowing everything you'll do will amount to a 50% score on MetaCritics and a mob of people shitting on the thing you worked so hard for. I'm scared one day I'll be stuck on such a shitty project with shitty management, and I hope my judgement will be sharp enough to be able to spot these sinking ships before boarding. Huge love to the devs, you did what you could and it's a fucking miracle that you were able to ship this product considering everything. I hope y'all will be able to work on something you can be passionate and proud about.

Great video, Matt! I lots of editing treats and loads of info

This was my version of cyberpunk and it was so sad

Last place I expected to hear any of the Persona 3 OST

Anyone remember the first announcement trailer for this game? The trailer with the little girl begging for help but then getting attacked and the person taking their own life after the attack. That trailer isn't anywhere close to what was released.

That Snatcher music at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="894">14:54</a> though...

yo real talk was real sad whe the best friends crew had split (i watched it from time to time but was a huge fans a few years back) but i understood. This vid came in my recomended n im glad it did had no idea matt did vids like these n i love it. Keep it up mate this was great

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="555">9:15</a> this is music from Alundra on the PS1 in the background, klines nightmare i think, dope.

I started geeking out when i recognised matt using the Alundra sound track!

Is that SMT 2 music I hear? Man I feel that SMT 2 soundtrack have been slept on for a while.

> Buys a Engine for $3.3M > Engine is incomplete > Goes for UR4 > Broke as hell *Why didn't they just use UR4 at first?!*

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="62">1:02</a> persona 3 music. Nice choice

Great video man!