I think an important thing to note about Hamill's Trickster is that it came BEFORE he played the Joker, so it's pretty likely they cast him and said "hey do the Trickster thing"
@@Dire_Pants I thought it was bc he liked the Flash he even still has parts of the Flash costume from that show (edit) you're half right, but he didn't join on bc he wanted to be Joker, he just really liked the Trickster "Bilson and De Meo were talking about doing the Trickster episode when casting director April Webster says she got a call from Mark Hamill. He said if they ever want to do the Trickster, he wanted to play him."
Adding onto what TheMadmanZero said, there's a podcast interview with Mark Hamill and Kevin Smith where Hamill recounts how he was hired as the Joker. The way he tells it, he was going up against Tim Curry - an absolute behemoth in VA at the time - and because he figured he was never gonna get the role, he might as well go full ham with it and leave the audition with no regrets - really give something for the producers to chew on. Then the producers called back and told him he got the job, and he realised he had no goddamn idea what he'd even done during the audition. He'd squared it away and come to terms with not getting the part, and when they called him back, he totally blanked. But being VA work, it had been recorded, so he was able to listen back to it and develop the role from there. I probably didn't do the story justice - if you want to hear it coming from Mark Hamill, the interview is an episode of a Smodcast show called Fatman on Batman. It should be the first Mark Hamill episode, so you'll want to sort from oldest to newest and scroll down until you see the Mark Hamill episode.
22:35 one interesting thing about how ambitious Batman & Robin was: it actually came BEFORE Driver and even Body Harvest...so they weren't just ripping off the modern open world concept, they were actually implementing a fresh(-ish) idea at the time.
Using licensed shovelware money to swing and miss in the process of creating innovation rather than just phoning in shovelware is morbid genius. Batman & Robin may have been shovelware merchandise for a shovelware movie, but it stumbled so 3D open worlds could run.
I mean it was definitely more ambitious than say Batman forever the arcade game but I know which one of those two I would want to play and it ain't B&R.
Best part of that Young Justice game, its canonical to the series as several plot points in it play into the 2nd season of the show including a MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH.
GH's dodge mechanic made tank controls fun! That and the quick turn, if done well, makes you feel like you mastered both the game and the control scheme!
@@JohnDoe-wq5euanother good one from that era was Batman vengeance or atleast I think it was good. Maybe I’m misremembering cus I was super forgiving of certain games as a kid
I can honestly say that while Superman games suck, generally speaking, I actually was impressed with Superman Shadow of Apokalypse for the GameCube back in the day.... Based on the animated series, cel shaded graphics, and flying controls that didn't involve ridiculous time limits and rings... Kind of like comparing the early Harry Potter quidditch levels with Quidditch World Cup.
Well yeah it makes sense for RE4 and only for RE4, the game had a rocky development, and even one build of the game eventually turned into Devil May Cry
@Ik The game had multiple versions that were scrapped, that is what I meant, with one version, again, being turned into Devil May Cry, which is a badass game
A few things: 1) The Flash used in that series was Barry Allen, not Wally West. Which is weird, since Barry was dead in the comics at the time. 2) What makes the Young Justice game hurt even more is that it's the gap between Season One and Season Two and supposed to explain what happened between the two seasons!
And didn't it also come out either shortly before or shortly after the show was officially canceled, just to add insult to injury. I may be confusing it with the non-go version of teen Titans that also got a game right before or right after the show was canceled.
@@ihavenonamestilldonthaveon8970 Yeah that's what I thought I remembered. Nothing sadder than promoting something that no longer exists. It happened surprisingly often actually or at least it did.
@@ihavenonamestilldonthaveon8970 Apologies in advance for getting a little dark but it's like life no matter how much we love something it can die and there's nothing we can do about it. It's truly a depressing yet beautiful reality that always drives home how much you have to enjoy something while you can.
Batman and Robin on PS1 fascinates me. When I first heard about it I didn't believe it ever existed. It's really interesting that a comic book licensed game is bad bc it was way too ambitious not bc it was phoned in. But there's little info on the development. I really want to know the behind the scenes. It was so ambitious it got delayed and released a year after the movie and was way too big for the hardware's capabilities. The extent of the game's world and mechanics was clearly purposeful and this is prior to GTA 3 so open world games like this weren't in vogue. There was passion to this! And its story is lost to time. How did the devs get DC to fund this? Why even take this direction for a movie tie in game back then? And Acclaim of all publishers was cool with this and not demand a quick cash grab? So many questions, so little answers...
❤️ your work! Also, to clarify, NO ONE bought toys for Young Justice leading to Mattel to cancel the toys and cause WB to not renew it for another season (according to Greg Weisman on a podcast in January 2016) until it came back on DC Universe and HBO Max.
Yep, it's a shame too because it was during a time when Cartoon Network was losing a lot shows that way. This was the same era that saw them cancel the 2011 thundercats and a ton of other DC based shows. The action era on cartoon Network I think officially ended like 12 or 13 years ago and it's never come back.
I hear you using Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championships 2011: Over the Nexus music. And I wanna say I appreciate the heck outta that. The World Championship games OSTs slap, super underappreciated.
As a MASSIVE fan of the live action Superboy tv series, you can't imagine how huge a smile i had on my face at 3:51 when i saw Gerard Christopher. He's forgotten 99% of the time, and even if it's just a brief moment, it's great to see. So thank you for that.
Batman & Robin, I remember that I never could leave the "Batman cave", and when I did I turned it off and gave it back to boy I borrowed from, until now I'm really glad I didn't bought it.
Mark Hamill had Star Wars money at that point, and yet he agreed to be the Trickster, cavorting around in tights and an old car with crap glued to it... What a hero. :')
There were 2 batman games on the genesis (I think) and the game gear that I played as a kid. They were based on Batman Returns I think. They were side scrolling fighters and they both had combos you had to input to use gadgets, but nowhere told you the combos and the internet didn't exist. You'd get like 3 rooms in and not be able to go forward because you didn't know how to use the grappling hook.
If you make a video about good superhero games, I highly recommend Batman Begins (GCN, PS2, Xbox). It's a good game imo. Kind of like a proto-Arkham Asylum. It has many fun sections where you're Batman trying to sneak on people from behind to scare them. The batmobile levels are fun too. I'd also like it if you talked maybe about the Teen Titans game that came out during the 2000s. It got good reviews back in the day, but I haven't had the ability to play it for myself.
I feel like Batman begins really got lost in the shuffle as it really got overshadowed by asylum. Teen Titans was one of those games that unfortunately got put out either right before or right after the show had been officially canceled which I feel like did it no favors. That said I think the overwhelming amount of bad/mediocre games really overshadowed the ones that were good.
I got more enjoyment from the Batman Begins game than I did from the Arkham games. Maybe just cos I really enjoy the movies and also cos I find the Arkham games to be a slog. I know the Arkham games are technically the better product in many ways but I just never found them fun. I completed Asylum. though it was ok. City came with my PS3 Slim I was upgrading to from the PS3. I got about halfway before being bored with it. Arkham Knight came with my PS4 and I absolutely hated it and sold it within a week (the Batman branded PS4 was pretty nice though so obviously I kept that... until I upgraded to a PS4 Pro :P )
Seems to me that if you want an authentic Superman game, keep Superman nigh-invincible, but give everything and everyone else around him a HP bar or the ability to be destroyed. Thus the challenge of the game is not surviving as Superman, it’s learning how to use your awesome powers in the least destructive way possible. I don’t know if a game like that would be fun, but it would certainly be interesting.
I personally always thought that the best way to do a Superman game would actually be to make something akin to Telltale's stuff, something more story-driven than action-driven. The best Superman stories (All-Star Superman comes to mind) have never been about how hard Superman can punch a badguy. After all, remember that as a superhero created by Jewish creators in the friggin' late 1930s, there's always this subtext (and text) about how The Man of Steel has trouble relating to humanity and vice versa, where his superpowers become an active hindrance to him.
It was great to see a DC breakdown. I feel like there’s enough terrible games from them to cover a lot of content, with the arrival of Rocksteady shifting the way we viewed their content immensely. As for the endcard request, I would be very interested in a FF6 video. It’s such an engaging game, but also one that I feel doesn’t get genuinely discussed as much for how influential and supposedly popular it is among western FF fans.
mark hamill play his role as a trickster again in justice league action, especially known in the episode of "missing the mark" when trickster, and joker, abducts mark hamill.. lmao. he also play again as live action trickster in CW's the flash
Always was really interested in that Batman and Robin game ever since I saw screenshots of it in magazines back in the day. Didn't know there was actually so much going on. Might have to play it now.
its one of the games which compared to other licenced games is kinda interesting since its an ambitous idea, i could see a future game use it as a base and do the idea better
The Cartoon Network Super Friends commercial is a deep cut. “Solomon Grundy want pants too!” Made me go as him for a Halloween dance in high school. Keep up the good work man!
Fortress of Solitude is legit one of the best Superman video games bc it’s just a damn good puzzle game. To be fair, they do have another puzzle mode that isn’t sudoku. Which is the better one.
Batman Dark Tomorrow was actually so bad that it forced Kemco to make nothing but crappy mobile games just to recoup the money lost from development that they are still recouping to this day.
You forgot the best/worst part of the young justice game's boxart: The back is just one huge column for all the licensing bs. There's no screenshot, nor even a description, just... Licensing. Laughed my ass off first time I saw it.
I dont really comment on much forms of content on any platform but iv been subd to you for many years. Dabbled in ur videos here and there but lately i went through alot and have gone through binges of your videos and i just want to thank you for the entertainment. Theres plenty of creators of this kind of content (like connor the waffle, scott the woz, and others) which i also watch but something about ur topics and charecter had me watch when i was down. And didint feel like enjoying anything (only one other content maker that had a similar impact at the same time was Alex webb)........good looking out for that my dawg.
Spoilers for Young Justice season 2 and Young Justice Legacy In Young Justice season 2 its mentioned that Tula/aquagirl died, the only way you can see her death is by playing the terrible tie-in game. This is extremely annoying for YJ fans
Obscure-ish comic book games I wanna hear about: Marvel Nemesis, the Catwoman tie-in, that awful Justice League arcade game from the late 2000s, Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu?
growing up my uncle would always tell me about how he went to high school with joel shoemaker anytime we'd watch the movie or something but i looked it up as an adult after years of hearing about it and dudes like not from around where we lived and he is like 30 years older it was a fucking different joel shoemaker
I really dig this video. Small thing, however, I would either lower your voiceover volume or raise the on-camera section's volume. I feel like occasionally I have to turn up and back down as you switch. Great work on the vid though
I pre-oredered YJ Legacy because the showrunners said the plot was canon and would take place between seasons 1 and 2. It was true... but boy, oh boy, was it a drag. I took advantage of the multiplayer and begged my brother and sister to help me play it so I could get through it as quickly as possible. It ended up being a smart choice because there's at least one part of the game where you need to rely on your teammates to work some switches in order to progress while enemies spawn near endlessly, and I later found out that the AI is so crappy that the single players' teammates would always prioritize enemies over puzzles, lol. Edit: FFVI, you say?
More DC Comics games, possibly the good kind? Maybe Good and Bad TMNT games? Either way I really had a fun time with this one and I'm looking forward to what Austin makes next. 😀
Man, Superman: The Man of Steel on Xbox looks bad. But I still remember some of Supes PS2 games like Shadow of Apokolips. Heard that was pretty bad, despite some neat cel-shaded art.
I played the Young Justice game last year and it wasn't horrible, but it definitely felt unfinished, especially with the empty treasure chests. The official website was still active until last year and the devs had a free download of the game, but it unfortunately went down before I could download it.
I WAIT UNTIL THE ENDCARD yeah I'd love an ff6 video, especially if it covered all the weird various versions of that game because there's some with subtle differences and then there's that... mobile thing? That game's fun as hell to me but also I don't know a lot about the differences
The mobile version is actually lost media now. It was taken down from both mobile and PC when Pixel Remaster was announced. Luckily I still have the older versions of both FF5 and FF6 on PC. Even though both kinda suck graphicly, at least with the player sprites, the new enemy sprites are gorgeous. The stupid thing however about all of this is that pixel remaster is based on the original NES/SNES releases so you're missing out on a TON of bonus content for 4, 5, and 6 that was in the GBA, PSP, DS, and Old Mobile/PC releases. This list of removed content includes: FF4 -Switchable party members (GBA/PSP) -Lunar Ruins (GBA/PSP) -Character trials (GBA/PSP) -Ancient Cave bonus dungeon (GBA/PSP) -Extra equipment (GBA/PSP) -Zeromus EG, Omega Dragon, and Lunar Summon superbosses (GBA/PSP) -Augment Abilities (DS) -Voice acting (DS) -Remixed and more challenging boss fights (DS) -Proto-Babil Superboss (DS) -Whyt Summon (DS) FF5 -Omega MKII, Neo Shinryu, and Enuo superbosses -Lost Tower bonus dungeon. -4 additional jobs including necromancer. -Multiple additional weapons. FF6 -6 additional espers+bosses including Cactuar, Leviathan, and Titan. -Dragon's Den bonus dungeon. -Kaiser Dragon Superboss. Really the biggest loss in all of this is FF4. SO MANY FEATURES were cut unessessarily from pixel remaster and there's still no legal way to play the GBA or PSP versions on modern platforms. (the PSP version for the record is identical to the GBA version except with way better music and very pretty graphics) They're still no definitive edition of FF4 with all content from both the PSP and DS releases combined even with pixel remaster, and that seriously sucks. At least the losses for FF5 and FF6 aren't as bad, though they still suck and they'res no reason why they couldn't have included them especially since they took down the mobile versions which in spite of their bad graphics had all the GBA-exclusive content. 1 and 2 as well as missing major content, 1 missing the earth, fire, water, and wind temples each with special cameo bosses from other FFs and the secret final dungeon and it's superboss Chronodia and FF2 missing it's entire second campaign soul of rebirth. FF3 pixel remaster is the only one that's the true "definitive edition" since the 2D version of FF3 was never re-released and the 3D version sucks in general and changes too much from the original, plus QoL added in PR that wasn't in either the NES or DS versions.
Hey, as someone who played the Superman game on Xbox, it was way too hard to even play as a kid. I remember the game came as an extra for another, but this game was soooo hard
Kemco, famous known for mobile JRPGs with ads, the same publisher of Daikatana for GBC (GameBoy Color) and N64. Fun fact: Probe Interactive was merged into HotGen, the developers of another Batman licensed game: Batman: Dark Tommorrow.
I haven't seen anyone talk about the elephant in the room teen titans already did serious subjects from identity crisis's to understanding that we are all alone in this world and how to deal with our emotions and cope with friends (ravens mirror episode) to even psychological mental issues all the way to PTSD and how to deal with those issues even a characters death (terra) but I understand if you thought that they weren't as serious especially if you are coming from teen titans GO (to hell) 😂 it really put a stink on one of the greatest superhero shows of all time. Not being mean just wanted to point out the way you said that. great video by the way!
When it comes to 90's superhero shows, You had the Powerpuff Girls, Spider-Man had a good animated series, Freakazoid was cool, Batman Beyond was around in '99 and I like a little Street Sharks myself.
I was born in the really late 80s and I grew up all through the 90s reading comics and honestly I never got picked on for that. I do remember Pokémon and Power Rangers being the things kids got bullied for though which is why I never got into them.
Me and my friend were just talking about how 90s kids like anime(books and shows) more than superheroes. I think like you said is because of Toonami. That introduction made so many of us explore more as we got older. I still love my DC and Marvel but funny enough as an American I discovered anime before classic American superheros
Batman and Robin was always a good movie, it was just ment to be a comedy cartoony version of batman while most reviewers and audience was expecting a serious serious dark batman movie, how on earth they thought that when Jim Carrey was the Joker in the previous movie is beyond me
At this point, it's impossible for me to tell whether Austin being "filled with dread" is honest, genuine apprehension, or if it's just foreshadowing for a Metroid retrospective.
I remember playing Justice League Heroes from a rental and the levels not spawning in so I had to fight throw a black screen and guess where I was supposed to go
It’s very amusing to me that you talk about Batman and Robin on the PS1 cause I used to play Batman Forever on the PS1 and LOVED IT. I haven’t played it since I was a kid so not sure if it holds up, but man that was some good beat em up action!
11:41 did they call him “Wally” in the game? Cause he’s Barry in the show. Very strange, but honestly not surprised with how much adaptations just swap their names around😂
Batman and Robin on PS1 was so bad but so ambitious and thats ultimately where Batman games went with the open world Arkham series. Batman Dark Tomorrow shows another way it couldve went. I still like to imagine an awesome action survival Batman game that's more like Resident Evil 4 than Assassins Creed.
That'd be cool. The only video game appearance (that I know of) from The Batman Who Laughs is in Mortal Kombat 11. You can change Noob Saibot's skin in the game and he looks like Batman Who Laughs. Although it kinda sucks that he doesn't have his own fighting style, or voice intros - just borrows the ones from Noob Saibot.
COMIC BOOKS!
For real though I'm reading dawn of x and it rules
Ye
The maurauders series in the new Hickman X-men world is also a great title
I just read through the king in black arc and that was pretty dope!!! Now im reading x-men gold
Almost everything from House of X on is pretty great.
Hell yeah!
I think an important thing to note about Hamill's Trickster is that it came BEFORE he played the Joker, so it's pretty likely they cast him and said "hey do the Trickster thing"
If I remember right, Hamill has mentioned the only reason he took the Trickster role was because he really wanted to be the Joker.
@@Dire_Pants I thought it was bc he liked the Flash
he even still has parts of the Flash costume from that show
(edit) you're half right, but he didn't join on bc he wanted to be Joker, he just really liked the Trickster
"Bilson and De Meo were talking about doing the Trickster episode when casting director April Webster says she got a call from Mark Hamill. He said if they ever want to do the Trickster, he wanted to play him."
@@daranyillh6446 Oh. Okay. It was second hand info I had heard years ago. So I'm not surprised it wasn't totally factual.
Adding onto what TheMadmanZero said, there's a podcast interview with Mark Hamill and Kevin Smith where Hamill recounts how he was hired as the Joker. The way he tells it, he was going up against Tim Curry - an absolute behemoth in VA at the time - and because he figured he was never gonna get the role, he might as well go full ham with it and leave the audition with no regrets - really give something for the producers to chew on.
Then the producers called back and told him he got the job, and he realised he had no goddamn idea what he'd even done during the audition. He'd squared it away and come to terms with not getting the part, and when they called him back, he totally blanked. But being VA work, it had been recorded, so he was able to listen back to it and develop the role from there.
I probably didn't do the story justice - if you want to hear it coming from Mark Hamill, the interview is an episode of a Smodcast show called Fatman on Batman. It should be the first Mark Hamill episode, so you'll want to sort from oldest to newest and scroll down until you see the Mark Hamill episode.
@@MrMallard19 they didn't hire Tim Curry because he was too scary to be the Joker.
22:35 one interesting thing about how ambitious Batman & Robin was: it actually came BEFORE Driver and even Body Harvest...so they weren't just ripping off the modern open world concept, they were actually implementing a fresh(-ish) idea at the time.
That's nuts dude
in concept it sounds like a PS1 demake of arkham city
Using licensed shovelware money to swing and miss in the process of creating innovation rather than just phoning in shovelware is morbid genius.
Batman & Robin may have been shovelware merchandise for a shovelware movie, but it stumbled so 3D open worlds could run.
I mean it was definitely more ambitious than say Batman forever the arcade game but I know which one of those two I would want to play and it ain't B&R.
If it was made today, it would be a better version of Arkham Knight.
Best part of that Young Justice game, its canonical to the series as several plot points in it play into the 2nd season of the show including a MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH.
I love how you have to play the young justice video game to understand what happened to aqua girl in between seasons one and two.
Oh yeah, that's right. The game is actually canon to the Young Justice world. That's so wild lol
"I gave it a shot even though I think tank controls in a third-person action games are a crime against humanity."
-Austin, liker of God Hand
GH ain't THAT tanky.
God Hand's tank control was acceptable because it's the background that rotating, not the player character.
GH's dodge mechanic made tank controls fun! That and the quick turn, if done well, makes you feel like you mastered both the game and the control scheme!
Those aren't tank controls, they're PANZER controls.
Batman: Rise of Sun Tzu was a really fun game. Played it a lot back then on the gamecube, multiplayer is insane fun
Yep, it was one of the few good games that come out of that era for Batman. And it gets lost in the shuffle a lot.
@@JohnDoe-wq5euanother good one from that era was Batman vengeance or atleast I think it was good. Maybe I’m misremembering cus I was super forgiving of certain games as a kid
Alright but whens the hidden gems of superhero games video though?
This looks like a job for Gravity Rush, and especially Gravity Rush 2 (AKA, Spider-Sonic ga Gotoku: Odyssey of the Wild).
Batman Vengence was good!
Batman forever on the PS1!
Infinite Crisis MOBA
Did somebody say... Hidden gems ?
You had better hide them before you summon Metal Jesus.
I can honestly say that while Superman games suck, generally speaking, I actually was impressed with Superman Shadow of Apokalypse for the GameCube back in the day.... Based on the animated series, cel shaded graphics, and flying controls that didn't involve ridiculous time limits and rings... Kind of like comparing the early Harry Potter quidditch levels with Quidditch World Cup.
And also...
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"Tank controls in a 3rd person action game are a sin against humanity"
I mean... it worked for RE4.
Well yeah it makes sense for RE4 and only for RE4, the game had a rocky development, and even one build of the game eventually turned into Devil May Cry
@Ik
The game had multiple versions that were scrapped, that is what I meant, with one version, again, being turned into Devil May Cry, which is a badass game
@@ChaseMC215 he was joking
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It doesn't look like a joke
Austin is the same guy who constantly brings up how Godhand is underrated too
A few things:
1) The Flash used in that series was Barry Allen, not Wally West. Which is weird, since Barry was dead in the comics at the time.
2) What makes the Young Justice game hurt even more is that it's the gap between Season One and Season Two and supposed to explain what happened between the two seasons!
And didn't it also come out either shortly before or shortly after the show was officially canceled, just to add insult to injury. I may be confusing it with the non-go version of teen Titans that also got a game right before or right after the show was canceled.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu The teen titans game was released right before it was officially cancelled. Sad.
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Yeah that's what I thought I remembered. Nothing sadder than promoting something that no longer exists. It happened surprisingly often actually or at least it did.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu yeah, it really sucks when shows are cancelled despite people's love for it.
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Apologies in advance for getting a little dark but it's like life no matter how much we love something it can die and there's nothing we can do about it. It's truly a depressing yet beautiful reality that always drives home how much you have to enjoy something while you can.
I would've been so confused as a kid getting Fortress of Solitude and getting a Sudoku game.
Batman and Robin on PS1 fascinates me. When I first heard about it I didn't believe it ever existed. It's really interesting that a comic book licensed game is bad bc it was way too ambitious not bc it was phoned in. But there's little info on the development.
I really want to know the behind the scenes. It was so ambitious it got delayed and released a year after the movie and was way too big for the hardware's capabilities.
The extent of the game's world and mechanics was clearly purposeful and this is prior to GTA 3 so open world games like this weren't in vogue. There was passion to this! And its story is lost to time.
How did the devs get DC to fund this? Why even take this direction for a movie tie in game back then? And Acclaim of all publishers was cool with this and not demand a quick cash grab? So many questions, so little answers...
There was a cancelled Avengers game for PS3 that met the same fate. ua-cam.com/video/wq5cEN1pjMA/v-deo.html
❤️ your work!
Also, to clarify, NO ONE bought toys for Young Justice leading to Mattel to cancel the toys and cause WB to not renew it for another season (according to Greg Weisman on a podcast in January 2016) until it came back on DC Universe and HBO Max.
Yep, it's a shame too because it was during a time when Cartoon Network was losing a lot shows that way.
This was the same era that saw them cancel the 2011 thundercats and a ton of other DC based shows.
The action era on cartoon Network I think officially ended like 12 or 13 years ago and it's never come back.
I hear you using Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championships 2011: Over the Nexus music. And I wanna say I appreciate the heck outta that. The World Championship games OSTs slap, super underappreciated.
As a MASSIVE fan of the live action Superboy tv series, you can't imagine how huge a smile i had on my face at 3:51 when i saw Gerard Christopher. He's forgotten 99% of the time, and even if it's just a brief moment, it's great to see. So thank you for that.
Batman beyond on the n64 was the shit when i was a kid played it so many times with my brothers and friends, never realized how unfair it is lol
Austin: The dude who palys all these crappy licensed games so you don’t have to.
I'm old enough that I already did.
Batman & Robin, I remember that I never could leave the "Batman cave", and when I did I turned it off and gave it back to boy I borrowed from, until now I'm really glad I didn't bought it.
Mark Hamill had Star Wars money at that point, and yet he agreed to be the Trickster, cavorting around in tights and an old car with crap glued to it...
What a hero. :')
There were 2 batman games on the genesis (I think) and the game gear that I played as a kid. They were based on Batman Returns I think. They were side scrolling fighters and they both had combos you had to input to use gadgets, but nowhere told you the combos and the internet didn't exist. You'd get like 3 rooms in and not be able to go forward because you didn't know how to use the grappling hook.
always great when someone opens a video where he talks about bad games with a sponsorship for a gatcha game
11:36 I'm being that guy but in the 90s Flash show it was also Barry Allen
I am 10,000% on board for the secret end card thing, just make sure to look at both the IOS and Steam remakes as well.
I second this opinion.
i love how in every tank control games, the only character that uses tank control is you, all the enemies uses the good stuff lmao
If you make a video about good superhero games, I highly recommend Batman Begins (GCN, PS2, Xbox). It's a good game imo. Kind of like a proto-Arkham Asylum. It has many fun sections where you're Batman trying to sneak on people from behind to scare them. The batmobile levels are fun too.
I'd also like it if you talked maybe about the Teen Titans game that came out during the 2000s. It got good reviews back in the day, but I haven't had the ability to play it for myself.
I feel like Batman begins really got lost in the shuffle as it really got overshadowed by asylum.
Teen Titans was one of those games that unfortunately got put out either right before or right after the show had been officially canceled which I feel like did it no favors. That said I think the overwhelming amount of bad/mediocre games really overshadowed the ones that were good.
I remember playing the Teen Titans game on the GameCube. It was a fun beat em up. I remember the versus mode having a decent variety of characters too
Batman Begins was my Batman Arkham until the real Arkham came out
I got more enjoyment from the Batman Begins game than I did from the Arkham games. Maybe just cos I really enjoy the movies and also cos I find the Arkham games to be a slog. I know the Arkham games are technically the better product in many ways but I just never found them fun. I completed Asylum. though it was ok. City came with my PS3 Slim I was upgrading to from the PS3. I got about halfway before being bored with it. Arkham Knight came with my PS4 and I absolutely hated it and sold it within a week (the Batman branded PS4 was pretty nice though so obviously I kept that... until I upgraded to a PS4 Pro :P )
Batman vengeance was pretty cool too.
Seems to me that if you want an authentic Superman game, keep Superman nigh-invincible, but give everything and everyone else around him a HP bar or the ability to be destroyed. Thus the challenge of the game is not surviving as Superman, it’s learning how to use your awesome powers in the least destructive way possible.
I don’t know if a game like that would be fun, but it would certainly be interesting.
That's basically Superman Returns: the game.
That actually reminds me a lot about Megaton Rainfall, the whole idea is to fight alien invasions and stop any damage to the city.
@@Invidente7 Loved that game. Though l do wish Lex was a secret boss
I personally always thought that the best way to do a Superman game would actually be to make something akin to Telltale's stuff, something more story-driven than action-driven. The best Superman stories (All-Star Superman comes to mind) have never been about how hard Superman can punch a badguy. After all, remember that as a superhero created by Jewish creators in the friggin' late 1930s, there's always this subtext (and text) about how The Man of Steel has trouble relating to humanity and vice versa, where his superpowers become an active hindrance to him.
18:49 That aged like a milk
A remastered Batman and Robin with better controls would be awesome.
3:48
Superman has been around since 1938 while Batman has been around since 1939
It was great to see a DC breakdown. I feel like there’s enough terrible games from them to cover a lot of content, with the arrival of Rocksteady shifting the way we viewed their content immensely.
As for the endcard request, I would be very interested in a FF6 video. It’s such an engaging game, but also one that I feel doesn’t get genuinely discussed as much for how influential and supposedly popular it is among western FF fans.
I was today years old when I learned what the DC in DC comics stood for
mark hamill play his role as a trickster again in justice league action, especially known in the episode of "missing the mark" when trickster, and joker, abducts mark hamill.. lmao.
he also play again as live action trickster in CW's the flash
interesting..
Always was really interested in that Batman and Robin game ever since I saw screenshots of it in magazines back in the day. Didn't know there was actually so much going on. Might have to play it now.
its one of the games which compared to other licenced games is kinda interesting since its an ambitous idea, i could see a future game use it as a base and do the idea better
Mark Hamill’s laugh sounded more like Mel Blanc’s Daffy Duck laugh and it made me question why he didn’t do Daffy Duck.
What
"Solomon Grundy want pants too!"
The whacky part is that Young Justice Legacy is cannon(?) and bridges the gap between the 1st 2 seasons
The Cartoon Network Super Friends commercial is a deep cut. “Solomon Grundy want pants too!” Made me go as him for a Halloween dance in high school. Keep up the good work man!
Does Catwoman’s game get brought up often? I barely remember it.
Fortress of Solitude is legit one of the best Superman video games bc it’s just a damn good puzzle game. To be fair, they do have another puzzle mode that isn’t sudoku. Which is the better one.
Superman is my favorite superhero, and it is so painful that his presence in video games boils down to this and Injustice.
Batman Dark Tomorrow was actually so bad that it forced Kemco to make nothing but crappy mobile games just to recoup the money lost from development that they are still recouping to this day.
That alarm sound triggered memory of summer vacation.
1:34 that's the lowest, most guttural "but" I've ever heard
You forgot the best/worst part of the young justice game's boxart: The back is just one huge column for all the licensing bs.
There's no screenshot, nor even a description, just... Licensing.
Laughed my ass off first time I saw it.
Final Fantasy 6? Yes, DO IT!
I dont really comment on much forms of content on any platform but iv been subd to you for many years. Dabbled in ur videos here and there but lately i went through alot and have gone through binges of your videos and i just want to thank you for the entertainment. Theres plenty of creators of this kind of content (like connor the waffle, scott the woz, and others) which i also watch but something about ur topics and charecter had me watch when i was down. And didint feel like enjoying anything (only one other content maker that had a similar impact at the same time was Alex webb)........good looking out for that my dawg.
Spoilers for Young Justice season 2 and Young Justice Legacy
In Young Justice season 2 its mentioned that Tula/aquagirl died, the only way you can see her death is by playing the terrible tie-in game. This is extremely annoying for YJ fans
11:40 Actually since the Flash game was based on the 90s TV show, it’s Barry Allen as The Flash, not Wally West
Okay, that last game sounds like it could have been amazing. Shame.
Obscure-ish comic book games I wanna hear about: Marvel Nemesis, the Catwoman tie-in, that awful Justice League arcade game from the late 2000s, Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu?
growing up my uncle would always tell me about how he went to high school with joel shoemaker anytime we'd watch the movie or something but i looked it up as an adult after years of hearing about it and dudes like not from around where we lived and he is like 30 years older it was a fucking different joel shoemaker
*Schuhmacher
Final Fantasy VI? Yes please! It's nice to hear you talk about good games too!
15:02 "360 version"
Of course. I remember when 360 games supports keyboard and mouse controls.
I love the background music you have used for Batman from NES version level 1.
Superman license is about to be on the public domain and there’s nothing DC can do about it and so is Batman
I really dig this video. Small thing, however, I would either lower your voiceover volume or raise the on-camera section's volume. I feel like occasionally I have to turn up and back down as you switch. Great work on the vid though
Would love a video on Final Fantasy 6, haven't seen a bad video yet.
I pre-oredered YJ Legacy because the showrunners said the plot was canon and would take place between seasons 1 and 2. It was true... but boy, oh boy, was it a drag.
I took advantage of the multiplayer and begged my brother and sister to help me play it so I could get through it as quickly as possible.
It ended up being a smart choice because there's at least one part of the game where you need to rely on your teammates to work some switches in order to progress while enemies spawn near endlessly, and I later found out that the AI is so crappy that the single players' teammates would always prioritize enemies over puzzles, lol.
Edit: FFVI, you say?
Liked the video! Would love to see one where you go over the mid-tier games like Shadow of Apokolips and Batman Vengeance
The Trickster and The Joker exist in the same universe??
"Good old Wally West wins"
Not to be that guy, but the 90s Flash show was about Barry Allen 😅
Heh heh-
Sorry I was just thinking to myself how funny Superman 64 is
It brings me so much joy to see another Austin video so shortly after the other one. Keep up the good work!
More DC Comics games, possibly the good kind? Maybe Good and Bad TMNT games? Either way I really had a fun time with this one and I'm looking forward to what Austin makes next. 😀
A Neir sponsor, that’s pretty neat.
How I wish that Final Fantasy VI got the DS remake treatment!
Man, Superman: The Man of Steel on Xbox looks bad. But I still remember some of Supes PS2 games like Shadow of Apokolips. Heard that was pretty bad, despite some neat cel-shaded art.
FFVI video! We wants it! The statute of limitations on spoilers has expired imo.
Did you know that the HD versions of the Green Lantern movie game actually started development as an unrelated Justice League game?
I played the Young Justice game last year and it wasn't horrible, but it definitely felt unfinished, especially with the empty treasure chests. The official website was still active until last year and the devs had a free download of the game, but it unfortunately went down before I could download it.
The Green Lantern animated show wasnt bad and the "The Batman" 2004 show was great
I WAIT UNTIL THE ENDCARD yeah I'd love an ff6 video, especially if it covered all the weird various versions of that game because there's some with subtle differences and then there's that... mobile thing? That game's fun as hell to me but also I don't know a lot about the differences
The mobile version is actually lost media now. It was taken down from both mobile and PC when Pixel Remaster was announced. Luckily I still have the older versions of both FF5 and FF6 on PC. Even though both kinda suck graphicly, at least with the player sprites, the new enemy sprites are gorgeous.
The stupid thing however about all of this is that pixel remaster is based on the original NES/SNES releases so you're missing out on a TON of bonus content for 4, 5, and 6 that was in the GBA, PSP, DS, and Old Mobile/PC releases. This list of removed content includes:
FF4
-Switchable party members (GBA/PSP)
-Lunar Ruins (GBA/PSP)
-Character trials (GBA/PSP)
-Ancient Cave bonus dungeon (GBA/PSP)
-Extra equipment (GBA/PSP)
-Zeromus EG, Omega Dragon, and Lunar Summon superbosses (GBA/PSP)
-Augment Abilities (DS)
-Voice acting (DS)
-Remixed and more challenging boss fights (DS)
-Proto-Babil Superboss (DS)
-Whyt Summon (DS)
FF5
-Omega MKII, Neo Shinryu, and Enuo superbosses
-Lost Tower bonus dungeon.
-4 additional jobs including necromancer.
-Multiple additional weapons.
FF6
-6 additional espers+bosses including Cactuar, Leviathan, and Titan.
-Dragon's Den bonus dungeon.
-Kaiser Dragon Superboss.
Really the biggest loss in all of this is FF4. SO MANY FEATURES were cut unessessarily from pixel remaster and there's still no legal way to play the GBA or PSP versions on modern platforms. (the PSP version for the record is identical to the GBA version except with way better music and very pretty graphics) They're still no definitive edition of FF4 with all content from both the PSP and DS releases combined even with pixel remaster, and that seriously sucks.
At least the losses for FF5 and FF6 aren't as bad, though they still suck and they'res no reason why they couldn't have included them especially since they took down the mobile versions which in spite of their bad graphics had all the GBA-exclusive content.
1 and 2 as well as missing major content, 1 missing the earth, fire, water, and wind temples each with special cameo bosses from other FFs and the secret final dungeon and it's superboss Chronodia and FF2 missing it's entire second campaign soul of rebirth.
FF3 pixel remaster is the only one that's the true "definitive edition" since the 2D version of FF3 was never re-released and the 3D version sucks in general and changes too much from the original, plus QoL added in PR that wasn't in either the NES or DS versions.
Hey, as someone who played the Superman game on Xbox, it was way too hard to even play as a kid. I remember the game came as an extra for another, but this game was soooo hard
In regards to the endcard secret: yes.
Oh Kemco. I still wonder how they made a banger like Raging Loop when they pretty much specialize in craptastic games otherwise
Kemco, famous known for mobile JRPGs with ads, the same publisher of Daikatana for GBC (GameBoy Color) and N64.
Fun fact: Probe Interactive was merged into HotGen, the developers of another Batman licensed game: Batman: Dark Tommorrow.
I haven't seen anyone talk about the elephant in the room teen titans already did serious subjects from identity crisis's to understanding that we are all alone in this world and how to deal with our emotions and cope with friends (ravens mirror episode) to even psychological mental issues all the way to PTSD and how to deal with those issues even a characters death (terra) but I understand if you thought that they weren't as serious especially if you are coming from teen titans GO (to hell) 😂 it really put a stink on one of the greatest superhero shows of all time. Not being mean just wanted to point out the way you said that. great video by the way!
When it comes to 90's superhero shows, You had the Powerpuff Girls, Spider-Man had a good animated series, Freakazoid was cool, Batman Beyond was around in '99 and I like a little Street Sharks myself.
I just started ffiv because of you and it's my first jrpg. I'd love to watch your video about vi!
I was born in the really late 80s and I grew up all through the 90s reading comics and honestly I never got picked on for that. I do remember Pokémon and Power Rangers being the things kids got bullied for though which is why I never got into them.
Me and my friend were just talking about how 90s kids like anime(books and shows) more than superheroes. I think like you said is because of Toonami. That introduction made so many of us explore more as we got older. I still love my DC and Marvel but funny enough as an American I discovered anime before classic American superheros
How does movie flop get freaking videogame adaptations?!
BRUH that “decent pair of pants” cut unlocked a core memory. Omg.
Batman and Robin was always a good movie, it was just ment to be a comedy cartoony version of batman while most reviewers and audience was expecting a serious serious dark batman movie, how on earth they thought that when Jim Carrey was the Joker in the previous movie is beyond me
2 austin eruption videos in the same month!? so epic 😎
Genuinely excited every time I see a new video from Austin
I thought you would talk about Batman: Vengeance as well. Honorable mention?
At this point, it's impossible for me to tell whether Austin being "filled with dread" is honest, genuine apprehension, or if it's just foreshadowing for a Metroid retrospective.
I remember playing Justice League Heroes from a rental and the levels not spawning in so I had to fight throw a black screen and guess where I was supposed to go
If nothing else, now I wanna see that 90s flash show
Only the Flash from the 1990 series was Barry Allen... not Wally West.
I'm all for a Final Fantasy 6 video. Nice palette cleanser after some of these.
Not enough people gush about ff6. It's such a beautiful game, the true highlight of the 16 bit era
It’s very amusing to me that you talk about Batman and Robin on the PS1 cause I used to play Batman Forever on the PS1 and LOVED IT. I haven’t played it since I was a kid so not sure if it holds up, but man that was some good beat em up action!
Robin didn't even pull both of the rubber lip covers off! Oh, why did they use that particular take? It confuses & disappoints me to this day.
11:41 did they call him “Wally” in the game? Cause he’s Barry in the show. Very strange, but honestly not surprised with how much adaptations just swap their names around😂
The thing you said in the end card? Yes please
Batman and Robin on PS1 was so bad but so ambitious and thats ultimately where Batman games went with the open world Arkham series. Batman Dark Tomorrow shows another way it couldve went. I still like to imagine an awesome action survival Batman game that's more like Resident Evil 4 than Assassins Creed.
How do you have the blade UI still
You know what I want a game about? The Batman Who Laughs
There is one, but he was only there for, like, 3 weeks.
That'd be cool. The only video game appearance (that I know of) from The Batman Who Laughs is in Mortal Kombat 11. You can change Noob Saibot's skin in the game and he looks like Batman Who Laughs. Although it kinda sucks that he doesn't have his own fighting style, or voice intros - just borrows the ones from Noob Saibot.