Rise of the Robots - What Happened?
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This game looks like something you'd see characters in a TV show play.
Like Reboot
Ever saw the cartoon Widget? The alien played this video game and it was all 3D, but the cartoon was 2D lol
I want to give this comment a like but it has 666 and I don’t want to ruin that
Like NCIS or some shit lol
@@oharehatmancaleb7 go for it now
Rise Of the Robots AI begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to contact Brian May.
LOL
Why are we not finding this!?!?
Someone should warn Linda Hamilton.
how fucked are we?
@@metafish2428 very fucked.
"The hentai was canceled" FUCK. Now what do we do?!
We make it happen, obviously. We have the technology.
I've learned that life is one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead.
@@AtomicWandMassager Don't worry, I'm sure Flanders will die to hentai 😁, also pretend like I posted some generic inspirational quote about getting back up when life puts you down or whatever.
I've seen RotR r34. To be fair, though, the artist did it explicitly because nobody else had ever even thought of it.
@@GaldirEonai ok, i gotta see this
According to Kim Justice, this game caused a video game magazine crash in Europe. Probably because quite a number of magazines give it a high score. Computer and Video Game Magazine gave it a 91 I think. Moreover, Doom 2 in the same issue was given a 86.
I see game journalism hasn't changed much over the years.
You mean to tell me they are more into hiping mediocre or bad games instead of helping the consumer make an educated purchase.
Yup, UK bloke here. In response, Amiga Power gave Rise of the Robots 5%, in what may be the greatest, most scathing video game review ever written, calling it "an astonishing waste of time", saying "because the graphics are so good you can't actually do anything with them", and completely shitting on all the mags that gave it guaranteed high scores in exchange for better access. The last line of the FOLLOW-UP letter(yes, really) is "Mirage and Time Warner, I sincerely and truly hope you all die."
History repeats itself
Yeah I cringe when people shit on modern gaming journalism for not being "like in the good old days". Gaming journos were always a bunch of sell outs.
My favorite thing about Rise Of The Robots, at least of the SNES version I played as a kid:
You can play two player mode as mentioned. However the first player was forced to be Babby Blue Bot Cyborg. Second player could choose any of the remaining bots including the penultimate opponent.
The way progressive difficulty worked in ROTR wasn't by having AI become more advanced or computer opponents using more advanced combos: It was done by having the later enemies do more damage. This carried over to two player. The second player could choose said penultimate bot and kill the first player in as few as four hits.
This game is REALLY bad.
Yie Ar Kung Fu 2 on MSX had multiplayer like that and that was in like 1986. Made after a year after Yie Ar Kung Fu in Arcade and MSX which was the first fighting game with multiple oppenents folowed up by a Arcade Mecha game called Galatic Warriors which first fighting game with special moves same year both by Konami. Both are milles better than Rise of the Robots to in everyway.
@@johnsimon8457 To be fair things like that then was rare 95% of games then was major bug free and had all content built into them. They had to be they was noi way to patch games and it would cost alot of money to resell them with fixed copys.
Future What Happened. Kentucky Fried Console.
Is it fair to call it a(n eventual) failure if it was only ever made for publicity/as a big joke?
And yes I know this comment was also a joke
Waiting for chicken oil related hardware fires
More like Cyberpunk 2077
@@impalas1966 I was not aware that Cyberpunk77 was released by Kentucky Fried Chicken.
How about an episode of What Happened? on Jump Force? That was the biggest disappointment in my life!
"Opponents actually learn from their mistakes and read your moves" bullshit!
my favorite is when the cyborg and the sentry fight like at 2:30, because it's basically Red Bionicle vs. Big Dick Pepsiman
That’s exactly what I thought. “Is that Pepsi-man?”
@@stefanfilipovits21 They... they actually do look alike. And the Supervisor Robot looks rather a lot like Pepsi-Girl
That shit's not even Bionicle level, it's more like a fuckin Hero Factory character
The background really sells the aesthetic the best though. Like some weird dystopian hallway or something.
Didn't realize Toa Tahu was a DLC character for this game.
Small error: Brian May is still very much Queen's guitarist, although at this point it's basically become its own cover band.
The Brian May OST did in fact see inclusion in later ports of Rise, namely the 3DO version, which allowed you to select from three OSTs (the original, May's work, & the Japanese OST [yeah, the Japanese release had a couple of unique songs!]). Also, while it's understandable that Matt focuses on the American side of things, there's word that Rise effectively destroyed the credibility of numerous UK gaming mags of the time, proving that a bunch of them would literally just take payolas & give positive reviews for underwhelming games. This was apparently a common complaint at the time, but none of the arguments were for absolutely indefensible games... Until Rise. Early UK magazine reviews apparently praised Rise like crazy, and it quickly was found out that those magazines were the ones that got "exclusive" early coverage for reviews, so when Rise came out & was shown to be undeniably bad those magazines looked really bad.
The more things change, the more they stay the same
Should have been obvious when they deemed anything on the ZX Spectrum playable
The kit games magazine I used to read growing up was Games Master. I wonder if they praised it. U remember playing the game and hating it though, it was so boring! 😂
the same happened with a lot of spanish magazines I read on that time, I remember one giving this piece of shit something like 95 out 99 points or something like that. Embarrassing.
so, I finally got around to finishing up the Novel. it was honestly pretty interesting at parts. it definitely takes it's time building up character and world building, which is welcome, though unfortunately it definitely was written before they decided to nix the massive plans they had for the franchise, as it sets up more than one branch to go off of in later pieces in the franchise timeline, which Rise 2 did not use at all, unfortunately (spoilers below)
also, the Novel only had two fights, one against two loader droids at once, which was well enough written to give me hope for the rest of it, until there was no more fights until the Supervisor, who didn't have a real fight at all (Coton used Tackle, it failed) . oh and Coton (the robot) had a sister that was stuck in the building, and she defeats the supervisor, by using a lighter to trigger the sprinkler system, which melts her. then they both escaped successfully.
13:35 Seriously, OMF 2097 is one of the all-time best PC fighters ever, even today. Good on Matt to mention it because it really did blow ROTR out of the water in every possible way.
And to really make it particularly embarrassing, OMF 2097 was mostly created by only two people (with assistance on sound and music.)
So, funny story about the whole music by Brian May. My dad actually bought the whole game because of the "Music by Brian May" as he was a huge fan at the time. Then we found out it was a trash game but a great memory we share.
Now let's wait for WHA HAPPUN to Cyberpunk 2077! :D
Oh I’m looking forward to it
Turns out making a game for 8 different platforms at the same time is hard.
@@milkweedreflections Yeah right, keep defending them, CD projekt fanboy
@@alos6378 I'm assuming you meant to reply to sikly, but he isn't exactly wrong. Cyberpunk, if playable for you, is a decent game. It's kinda a generic FPS RPG with cybernetics and a unique setting. I wouldn't give it an 8/10 though I would give it a 7 or 7.5.
Guys, this series is not strictly for *bad* games, but those with troubled development worthy of a story. Even if CP2077 redeemed itself in the future, it still has story worthy of this series.
Reminder: there is episode of Doom 2016 in this series
I'm just glad people remember One Must Fall. That game was badass!
I had Rise 2 as a kid. It was one of those games that always kinda just showed up at my house. It always kinda creeped me out with how weird and broken it was. But changing the color of your robot during the loading screen sold me. Like who else was doing that?
Damn, Matt wasn't kidding when he said the hentia was canceled. Literally only one picture on rule 34.
the only thing i know about 'one must fall' is that freeman's mind used a song from it in order to make a joke about programmers
Turn down the music, you friggin bassheads!
Step 1: Design a blue guy to put in magazines for hype.
Step 2:
Step 3: lots of money
The story of No Man's Sky's rise, fall and rerise deserves its own episode.
i remember being about 8 years old, hanging with the neighbors kid trying to play this game on his snes but its just so hard
This gives me the closure I needed. I Had this garbage for the 3DO. Living in a 3rd world country where the consoles were (and are) too expensive, my father busted his ass to buy me the 3DO, for which there were very few games and also very expensive. This game crushed my soul, thinking how much of an effort it was to get me the system and games. Thankfully I had Gex and Theme Park to soothe my soul.
The Spiderman Turn off the Dark episode of Wha Happun will be a masterpiece
He's already done it bro
@@porassrivastava8242 I don’t recall that episode. Link please?
@@borby4584 I just checked, was wrong he hasn't
Astar, the robot from Planet Danger! There's a deep cut from my Canadian childhood.
Cant wait for the CP77 'wha happun' episode.
OMF 2097 was epic for its day. I was a SF2 and Mortal Kombat 1 & 2 nut and OMF immediately captured me with its single player, upgrade-centered campaign mode. It's a shame it never got any console ports. Fantastic game!
god i miss One Must Fall, and by spiritual extension, Rising Thunder.
I spent 4 minutes of this video trying to decode what NRG stood for.
It's Energy.
I hate it, A+
I don't know how I managed to live my entire life without this, considering I read all the game magazines, ads, and every bit of nonsensical media as a kid inside the Toys R Us game section. Video games are weird.
Any chance you can do Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier?
Oof.
He only takes request from patreon. You want it, you pay for it.
It was definitely disappointing but I dunno if I would call it "Whu Happun" levels of bad. Just kinda lame.
@ProtoSnake I hope that happens. He should really do one on the Gizmondo and True Crime: New York City.
@@TacomaStreetcarDisaster I just personally think it would be interesting only because it was so bad that it was the final nail in Jak and Daxter's coffin
Rise of the Robots?
More like Rise of the Jump Kicks.
There was also a CD version of this game for the Amiga CD32 as well, and I got this game for it as soon as it was released. It was a short and clunky game, but the graphics weren't too bad for the time. One thing to notice is that one big plus on the Amiga CD32 was that you had a gamepad with multiple buttons, while most people used an 8-way joystick with one button (with some exceptions) on most other Amiga's making fighting games a lot harder to play on them. I don't know have any experience with the floppy disk version of Rise of the Robots, but many of those larger games would have some form of hard disk installation but most people that I knew didn't have a hard disk installed.
I desperately want a mash up of "Everything is Lies" with "Everything is Awesome."
Everything is lies
Everything is part of a sinister scheme
Everything is lies
So I'll run away and scream!
@@MolecularMachine Gracias!
13:17 Yo, SICK NOKIA RINGTONE
It was actually a small miracle that the original arcade game was rescued and added to MAME. IIRC, the only surviving prototype PCB no longer worked but, despite being rusty, the ROMs were still good and able to be dumped cleanly.
I had the SNES version as a kid. The lose screen traumitized me. That eye.... the music... ahhh
The cancelled arcade port had the cyborg's eye looking around in a panic while the opponent you lost to slowly crushed its head. Creepy shit.
@@THENAMEISQUICKMAN yes! That was bad too!
I recall that my brother rented this for the SNES and we tried playing it and it was BORING. It's amazing how a company took an interesting idea and sucked the interest out of it. Plus, the Amiga info is hilarious. 13 disks?! Nothing scream fun like swapping disks every few minutes. 5/100.
1:19 some foreshadowing for What Happened?
Now I want to see one for Criticom.
I just wanted to find a way to message you man, I used to watch two best friends since I was like 15 n I’m 20 now n wanted to just like thank you and the other guys because honestly your shit got me through some of the toughest times in my life and it was like the building of my sense of humor so just like thank you man it makes me happy you’re still making videos :)
To be fair, Rise of the Robots didn't soak up Millions in Pre Orders. They just made a Shitty Game.
As I was watching this (indeed very good) video, I remembered playing a demo of a PC fighting game called "Theatre of Pain", and it was made by Mirage! There's not much information about it online, but it says that it was the second last game of Mirage, after "Rise 2" and "Bedlam".
I have to revisit it: I remember being amused by it because one of the character's shouts sounded like and Italian swear word, me and my friends chuckled at that a the time xD
Can remember being hyped to the gills for this then playing it on an Amiga coverdisk and taking about an hour's worth of repeated plays to realise just how bad it was. Couldn't believe it was so awful and thought there must be something I wasn't getting.
I dunno, I enjoyed the game, it was a simple, good looking fighter, I remember it was my ritual to finish it once every Saturday morning before I started my weekend.
It was relaxing.
Ugh.
Twelve year old me got this for Christmas. My 386SX couldn't run it, so I had to cart all 13 floppies to my uncle's house and play them on his 486. And... this is what I got for my efforts.
I did not expect to be reminded of Bedlam. Way back when, my mom bought Bedlam from our local dollar store. I was genuinely curious about it and tried to install it. It sadly (or happily?) could not install into the family computer. I completely forgot about Bedlam until seeing this video. Thank you Matt!
Any mags who gave the game glowing reviews were then after never bought again, seem to recall in the uk a multiformat mag gave all the versions glowing reviews cannot remember what mag though.
That One Must Fall 2097 music at the beginning makes me nostalgic.
One of the guys that work on the programing on Rise of the Robots , ended up teaching Computer Programing at the High School , I use to teach History at.
My parents gave me a choice to either go to the mall and buy some comics and action figures at kaybee and waldenbooks or rent Rise of the Robots ,what a horrible weekend that was.
I wasn't expecting that robot giving the bird at the game over screen.
I had the shareware One Must Fall 2097 for quite a while, and eventually dropped the full price for all the content. I agree, it was definitely far and away better than Rise of the Robots.
I'm sorry, but UA-cam is saying your comment is from 2 days ago.
Yes, that is correct.
@@thecunninlynguist Oh, okay.
2:00 RISING TACO!
You added Toshinden music here, nice. That's another game that needs a what happened, well, series.
I hear that if you visit Terry Bogard's restaurant in Southtown, you can get a Rising Taco, a medium Kick Frappe, and a side of Burn Nachos for $8.99
OMG i completely forgot about this game. My friend and I rented it from the local video store for a few nights and it sucked pretty bad. So we popped in TMNT: Turtles in Time and had waaaaaay more fun
Hey man,
Seeing that Next Generation cover reminded me of two things.
1. That cover blew my fucking mind when it came in the mail. The graphics were nuts.
2. Next Generation's matte finish was so pleasant to touch.
3. Do a what happened on Next Generation matte finish.
Cyborgs face is literally the predator's mask.
He didn't even show the sad game over screen where his mask is broken and you can see one eye.
15:22 Ur welcome ladies and gentlemen! This NEVER gets old!
CD drives and games were a thing by 1993. I can't imagine what idiots would force you to use floppys that needed constant swapping when CDs were an option!
One Must Fall was so cool! If your computer was as bad as mine, it ran slow enough to feel like true ponderous mech combat!
I have a serious suggestion. Paragon. Was one of my favorite games on PS4 for the couple years it was available. Then Fortnite came out and killed it, but it had a long history of controversy within the community that I think some people would like to know about. Obviously the Fortnite thing is a great talking point considering how it murdered this game with an across the map Murdoc snipe.
The military robot’s design is awesome 15:15
Dat One Must Fall music right off the bat. This is gonna be good
I confused this What Happened with covering One Must Fall: 2097, initially. Awesome that you brought that game up during this episode. One Must Fall was my shit, back in the 90s!
Holy shit, rise of the robots? Nice. I remember derping around with pov-ray back in the day, seeing pre-release screen shots and thinking "Daammmnn, that looks so cool!"
And then I played it :l
I used to go over to my friend's place when I was a kid and play One Must Fall. That game was rad as hell
The swerve that the guy who directed motherfucking god damn Rogue fucking Warrior also directed Rise of the Robots was the best thing about RotR's legacy.
Oh hey! Its the game that featured in the opening of Bad Influence for the first few seasons!
A lot of genres come to mind when someone tells you a game is called Rise of the Robots, a 1v1 fighting game isn't one of them
Sentry’s ‘movement’ is my favorite
Oh, Benny's Gonna be Pissed seeing this Video 😂
Cannot unsee the Cyborg now being officially named Brian May.
This game is shit covered in gold
Where Cyberpunk is gold covered in shit.
Good choice on the One Must Fall soundtrack for this! The superior robot-based fighting game, whose sequel probably deserves it's own episode of What Happened in the future.
Don't think I didn't notice that One must Fall 2097 music in the backround!
Holy moly is that original One Must Fall music I hear??? Heck yeah
I still remember and am angry about the weekend that I chose Rise of the Robots on SNES as my weekend rental when I was a kid. The fact that you could only play as Brian May in single-player was a slap in the face. Weekend ruined.
@@plawson8577 Omg, favorite reply I have read in a while!
matt, this is something that you do that is unique. im a programmer, and i see in my real life (20 years working as programmer, not video games, but software for different companies) as well as in your analysis THAT ALL, ALL NO MATTER WHAT bad decisions are made by managers. no fucking exception. i would love with all my hear seeing you with a side channel analysing software industrie but i know that must be quite a challenge since you have to deal with another knowlesge bade. nonetheless, i already share your videos with my colleagues to prove some points for software development. brilliant work and keep working hard.
Derek Alexander's stream introduced me to this game.
That blue robot has some giant yabbos in that magazine ad.
I had those issues of Wizard and EGM back in the day, and I’m 99% sure they both had Rise of the Robots ads. I don’t recall ever seeing coverage of the game itself anywhere, though.
Awesome video!!! Maybe take a look a ( Run Like Hell) They started out with the idea of Resident Evil in space, but this was changed abruptly by upper management from survival horror to an action game. ... In the end, the game was scrapped by management again and development restarted less than a year before the release date.
6:55 that music reminds me the Ps1 into
Cheeky move using the "One Must Fall 2097" music in the beginning. I must not be the only one that weirdly confuses these too games with each other.
I actually owned this game as a kid and remember think, "am I doing something wrong. The ai seems really hard and why cant I figure out combos." I stopped playing in about 2 hours.
wow thanks matt ... i had totally forgotten about this 'gem'. now you brought it up from the depths of a subconcious mind well... i played it as a kid on the mega drive i think, but i can not remember if i owned it myself or if it just were from a friend.
I had this on the Amiga-1200 and it had a separate disc just to load the robots entrance cinematic
I use to love this game for PC back in the days!
AYYYYY THE ONE MUST FALL SHOUT OUT! One Must Fall was my first fighting game and the main song works its way into my consciousness the time. Also do Megaman Legends 3.
DUDE HOLY SHIT!!! I used to play One Must Fall all the time when I was a kid. I fuckin hated how hard that game was, but it was still so fun. I had no idea what it was called for many years so thank you so much!!!
I've never seen a failed project with all the mistakes of it's era.
Fighting game trend hopping, relying on 3D graphics, terrible console ports.
This is an accomplishment.
The only Games that had graphics to die for during that Time were Killer Instinct and Donkey Kong Country 2 and Alien Storm by Treasure.
15:26 BLACK RAZOR
damn if only this came out today, would be a funny robot fighter thing.
Can we get a video on One Must Fall? I forgot that game existed but I remembered it being fun as hell.
Wow! Old school! I picked this up for a few dollars, and still felt scammed.
I went on a journey through the rabbit hole of Canadian PSAs from this
I remember that this came with my cousins computer as one of the software plus packages. The story felt like a robot became aware and then was attacked by the other robots. No boss.... and I remember the controls not working well and it being very difficult to get past the 3-4 person.
Wha Happun? has done movies, but how about other media? Specifically musical theatre, as Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark is one of the most notorious Broadway flops. It’s rife with a lot of What Happened trademarks: different artistic teams, going over-budget, etc.