Twisted Metal: The Complete History | The Golden Bolt
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- You can't tell the story of the PlayStation without telling the story of Twisted Metal, and yet Twisted Metal's history has rarely been told in full.
A franchise pioneered by a team of mostly engineers who had never before made a video game - led by a Sony employee who after only about a year of employment was on the last straw - and a game that was ruthlessly mocked both by Sony's higher brass and play testers ahead of launch...which immediately won game of the year, became the system's first true blockbuster exclusive, and helped kickstart the era of the PlayStation. This is the complete story behind the underdog series, ahead of its television revival.
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"Good luck drivers, Welcome...To Twisted Metal!"
-Calypso, Twisted Metal 2
Can you do a video on Drawn to death and the lore it had?
Twisted Metal cannot have started on Playstation I know i played it on Nintendo Entertainment System am 50/50 that i also played twisted metal 2 on SNES I have to restart this video now I think I missed some part. Well it turns out I remembered wrong it was definitely a PlayStation title only I know that too but somehow probably from me not having glasses I seen him put twisted metal in an NES long story short he had both consoles and one ran on discs i remember that I saw twisted metal and asked about it he said it's the best game ever ( we were) 5 or maybe 6 years old mind you. Yeah my combination of being young af and blind as hell back then makes sense why I remember this so strongly wrong this video really helped me remember correctly twisted metal was the first game i ever played on disc on any console and the second game on disc I ever even seen. Age of empires 1 being the first disc game i ever seen and pga tour 97 being the third yeah it's all flooding back to me now man if the video wasn't an hour you couldn't have nailed it so well but I gotta pass out for now im gonna finish this tomorrow.
My only experience with Twisted Metal is when I tried to buy a complete in box black label copy of Twisted Metal Black from a local used game shop and when I got home I opened the case and discovered it was only the 2nd disc of the Greatest Hits version of Twisted Metal Black Online and it was so scratched it wouldn't even boot on my PS2
I weep for you.
I won’t lie as somebody that loves TM 2, Black and Small Brawl, I actually really liked how over the top the show was. It’s so campy, it borders on cheap but it was so damn fun. That underdog scrappiness somehow got into the show and it works so damn well for me at least imo.
I agree with you!!!
Hope there green light the season 2!!
It was a huge success
yeah, a lot of fun, it was in 90s, all Russia played to this... so many years ago, lol
I mean the fact they took Harold which was just a throw away little thing in TM1 while they were still figuring out so many of the series character's. And over 20 years later reapplied it to the more modern finished version of Sweet Tooth and made it work so damn good. That alone is brilliance.
For me the humor gets in the way too much. All of it falls flat for me and it's just not funny at all to me but the humor is so prominent.
“You don’t care about Jumping Flash!”
But… I do…
Jumping Flash slander will not go unpunished
We need a Jumping Flash reboot
I want a vr jumping flash game
Right? Jumping Flash is one of my favorite early PS1 games!
@@tvirus9369 jumping flash vr would be insane
As a lifelong Twisted Metal fan, who was born in 1995, who's taste in art, action, and music was heavily shaped by the series. Thank you for covering this.
It's often a forgotten series.
As a fan I hope to someday make my own car combat game, because nobody else will make what I want, even Twisted Metal.
The show ended up being much better than expected and im really looking forward to a season 2 announcement soon.
If it weren't for the writers strike I'd have expected a season 2 announcement by now.
Well The season 2 announcement came through. I love the show and there are so many references to all the cars throughout the games
@@Bahkieh I saw that & I'm so excited. Can't wait for what they do in season 2. Still really hoping this show doing well will lead to at least 1 new game. I never got to play the 2012 game so I haven't played a Twisted Metal game since Head On ps2 version lol
My sister and I were just playing Twisted Metal Black the other day and cant beat the NPCs in the 3rd level. No idea how we did it as kids lol. I also remember playing the PS3 one with my friend in highschool and loved it, we Platinumed it together. Always loved the edgy whacky destruction this series had.
What a great game. You ever get to try 4 player split screen with the multi tap?
Black suck, all the AI basically track and seek you out instead of you know fight each other?
@@zZiL341yRj736 Right?! It is ridiculous! But the challenge is somehow addicting lol.
Only thing that makes Black playable is that your lives are per level, so you can just retry the level. If not, I wouldn't have kept playing.
@@zZiL341yRj736 nah brah, that happens in 2. I've been playing all last week. I hate Sweettooth always singling me out with that spam special.
Damn, this retrospective really makes Jaffe out to be a more visionary-yet-incapable games producer than I had realized. Very interesting.
Seems like a George Lucas/Kojima type that needs to have someone listen to his wild ideas then actually funnel them into something playable and enjoyable.
I loved TM2 as a kid. Felt very counter culture at the time, grungey and unpolished but a blast. The rest were solid too, Black being the other major highlight. Thanks for the trip down memory lane and the back story!
Dude I cannot express how much I'm excited for the show. Love that they're going full blown camp.
Lol I’m glad it’s campy too but I can’t imagine they were ever considering a 100 percent serious drama where we get to witness Axel’s whole character arc
I’m watching it right now. I’m on episode 6. I don’t like it, blood drive is a much better show.
@@jamesalexhowlett Regardless of quality, I think this show is a sign of the type of game we're getting. Like Sony has gone full cinematic recently with all their other games. Would be interesting to see them go full grind house b-movie with this one.
@@christophercarrasco154 has a new game been confirmed?
@@jamesalexhowlett No, but it has been heavily rumored.
Twisted metal is the ultimate example of the monkey paw
What is the monkey paw
@gene052286 the monkey paw is a short story based off a cursed relic that would grant you as many wishes as the paw has fingers. The catch is every wish it grants comes with a catch. For example if you wished for a million dollars it would give you the money but the catch would be you inherited it because a family member died or you got into a bad wreck and was given it from insurance.
Well said. This game in the series is its’ own blessing and curse. I compare the run of the series like letting an absentee parent raise a child while running around naked and being neglected. And I like how Campbell said that he would hope it would become a movie, well We got a crazy off-the-wall TV series that nobody expected.
@MrDark086 damn that's a ill example...rt
I was thinking the same thing
Twisted metal is my everything. Especially growing up.
When I first got a PS1, the first game I got was twisted metal 1
I was 5 years old.
Now I’m 31.
Watching the show of peacock, I was like a kid in a candy store haha😂
Hoping Peacock makes a season 2 of the show, & hope there will be a new Twisted Metal game!
Hopefully the release of the new show can give people interests in playing the series
I literally burst out laughing when, out of nowhere, you said "subscribe, this is all I have".
Subscribed.
I bought the first TM for PS4 and enjoyed it (can be bought PS Store with 10 bucks, so non-PS Plus Premium-people can get it too)
And by the way, Gravity Rush 2 was on sale there. And TM2 with the same price as TM1. But I bought TM1. I won't regret it.
Now hunting trophies.
I have previously played Black (it was the PAL censored version that actually isn't too bad because UA-cam exists) and unlocked everything except Minion.
Honestly it's not that surprising that Twisted Metal beat Chrono Trigger for Game of the Year, RPGs didn't get much mainstream attention until FF7.
Twisted Metal 4 being called the WWF New Generation of Twisted Metal, is actually very perfect
Hearing Twisted Metal 4 compared to the WWF New Generation era was not something I expected to hear today but its a perfect comparison. Was quite surprised though that you didn't talk about the various Twisted Metal clones that are out there, in particular WWE Crush Hour and Star Wars Demolition. Some are pretty decent, others not so much.
Wow I'm a wrestling fan and a Twisted fan, how did I never make that connection? I guess because the New Generation at least had Bret and Shawn. There really wasn't a standout character (in a good way story-wise, anyway) in TM4.
I know it sounds silly, but don't forget the Battle mode from Muppet Race Mania. It was my first introduction to the car combat sub-genre and takes obvious inspiration from TM.
Ive been playing Twisted Metal 2 all last week. But geez the game can be so unfair. Spammed specials and then getting spam frozen, so I'm glad there's a rewind function when I'm spammed frozen special to death.
Playing as Twister for the first time seriously i never knew how broken her special was 😳
The show made me go back and play TMBlack again! My Fiancee never heard of the game and her kids never played it either. She felt the show was very easy to follow and fun. I loved all the easter eggs they threw in. I think this revitalized my loved for TM.
I'm glad I went back to watch this before checking out your GoW retrospective, amazing work! As always I'm glad to see you really analyze the human element of game development, which a lot of long-form video game analysis writers leave out.
I grew up with the Twisted Metal series, but did stop after the 3rd game (watched a family member play 4) and didn't play again until Black. Kevin comparing TM 3 and 4 to the New Generation era of WWF/WWE is a VERY good comparison in terms of Sony thinking that changing things in those games was going to resolve all their issues.
Small Brawl didn't deserve the hate
i’ve learned that i don’t actually like twisted metal, i just really like the atmosphere of tm black
Hey! You should do the history of War of the Monsters that was a great game!
I love the video man, you should do War of the Monsters next!
Lol wow, combing the drivers lesson song from Parappa with footage from TW, that was genius and hilarious!
I didn't knew fans didn't like that much Black considering it seems to be the most talked about game of the series.
Wow, they are WAY more Twisted Metal games than I thought. I loved the first two and heard good things about Black when it came out, but the rest were basically news to me. Might be worth it to try and go back to one or two of the older titles, and I've thought about giving the show a shot, too.
Great work as always!
Love Twisted Metal! Been a fan of the series since the first game. I think Head On might be my favorite.
As far as Rogue Trip, i remember really enjoying that game as well. I didn't hate 3 and 4, but i was disappointed with them. So i was definitely ready to put some time into a game made by the original team.
Oh, and it sent a shiver down my spine every time you said nine eighty-nine. Nine eight nine!
Finally, and perhaps most importantly. I adore Jumping Flash!
The Twisted Metal show on Peacock is awesome and every bit of what it was supposed to be, CRAZY! LOL I can't wait for season 2
When PS was released here in New Zealand it didn't have many games... Mostly demo discs but Twisted Metal 1 totally blew up over here.
I really enjoyed it and spent many hours zoned in
Literally just discovered your channel, like... today. WTF. How'd I miss this?
Twisted Metal 1 must have been released well before 1995 because I recall playing it when I was "little". I definitely wasn't 17 years old (I was born in '78). My older cousin and brother rented it, probably from Hollywood Video (they didn't take me along). I do remember getting to play some parts of the game, and I was absolutely blown away by the split-screen gameplay and everything about it.
If you do a google search it also has a release for the game for 2012. The game might have been available to rent before the unleash, but thinking now my older cousin had game consoles before the playstation came out, so IDK. It's no biggie - it was 'way before' 1995 when I played some of the original TM tho.
I love it when people give me information that I did not know, you earned yourself a sub!
It's hilarious to hear someones opinion that doesn't like it.. Twisted metal 3 was what introduced me to Rob Zombie, and it was quite the experience... Twisted metal 4 was released and I made a custom named car named Yauker. I've been using this name for 21 years now!
All from twisted metal.
Whoa hold on. I loved both Jumping Flash games. They were my first games I ever had on my own
Great video on the series! I hope Jaffe has seen this, I like his UA-cam channel a lot but I hope Sony let’s him make one more twisted
I'm a lifelong Twisted Metal Fan (born in the 80's and grew up in the 90's) I had no clue the game never sold well. The show is PHENOMICAL so hopefully we get a new game/series based off the show. Maybe then it'll have legs and AT LEAST do as well as the show has.
The numbers that flash on screen at 2:05 are 16 19 20 08 18 05 05; that's a simple cipher that decodes to 'PSTHREE'. Pretty neat!
Small Brawl is amazing and I will die on this hill
It is the most fun ! And you can play with anyone
That reverb fart 😂
Good god im old. Did time really go by so quick? Feels like yesterday when david jaffe looked like some college nerd and not old and moldy like he does now. Also sony had an impressive studio lineup back then, insomniac, naughty dog, sucker punch studios, zipper interactive, and more. They still have alot across the pacific states.
Jumping flash is so fun
i've been back into twisted metal recently, what timing. my favorite is head on
Black, head on and the 20s reboot were all just the Best small brawl ain't bad either.
I had Jumping Flash (and/or Jumping Flash 2) on my mind since its print advertisements, and if memory serves, picked it up on PS3, which provided me the free download for PS4, which...I tried once, didn't get that much of a hang for the controls, and it's been on my "Future Me will surely some day feel ready to sit down for that" backlog.
It feels like every now and then, someone once again makes this video about the timeline and story of TM, with varying titles and detail. From the countless "remember Twisted metal?" Or "what happened to twisted metal?" To retrospectives with or without Jaffe. A part of me thinks that people find the legacy of the games more interesting than the actual games sometimes. A bit of a pity.
Good video, two things:
1. Heck you for the fart sound
2. Why he shit so loud it broke the cabinet
I am one of the handful that does care about jumping flash, and I didn't even grow up with it
I think I played all of the TM games but 2 will always be my favorite, followed by Head-On. It felt like TM2 had the most effort and love put into it overall. I've always gone back and played 2 more than any other. Actually, I think Black and Head-On are the only others I've played in the last 10+ years. I remember Vigilante 8 and it's sequel and played them some, back when they released. They were never as fun as the TM series tho.
With the success that the show was hopefully we'll be getting more games
Until today I had no idea that Rogue Trip and Critical Depth even existed 😂 but I gotta say I’m sad about all the hate that TM4 gets. That’s my favorite game in the series and one of my all time favorite games as well. If you put me behind the wheel of Orbital I am unstoppable 😎 that game rules!!!!
When the series was announced to be a action comedy i was upset. Mainly cause Black was my favorite and the one i played the most and that one was more dark. So i wanted a horror themed show that fit Black or the ps3 game not one themed around 1-4. However I watched the series and loved every moment of it. Especially the portrayal of sweet tooth and John Doe. I really hope the series gets a another season and we get another video game
I enjoyed the series, and it gives me hope a decent game will be made. Can't imagine people getting mad at the story, there really wasn't much to go on in this series besides, Killer Clown, Cars, explosions.
Believe it or not, the series was very popular here in Chile (southamerica) back in the day, specially twisted metal 2 and 3 alongside vigilante 8 and carmaggeddon. Although they never saw the numbers because official playstation support wasn't a thing till 2003, the popular way to play ps1 games in the 90s here was through modchips and piracy (only the most wealthy families could permit themselves legit imports, it was just too expensive), and since we shared the same tv norm, NTSC, we got all the US releases. So yeah, twisted metal did click outside northamerica just not how you thought, crazy stuff here was more popular than in europe.
I must admit I never got into the twisted metal series but I do remember playing the demo disk that came with my Playstation because one of the demos was twisted metal .
Just letting people know that want details on lore and endings of the Twisted Metal franchise to check out Tactical Bacon Productions.
I grew up playing these games and I loved them, today I play Rocket League which I consider to be vastly superior. I always wanted these games to come back but lost hope, Rocket League fills that void for me. I was always amazed that I was ever actually allowed to play Twisted Metal, I don't think my parents really knew what was going on, they were dark.
My Sister and I used to play multiplayer and try to drive like normal citizens in the more suburb based levels, we battled it out too though. We only ever had the first two games then that we bought from a pawn shop, I never did get Black but borrowed it from somebody and did not get to experience it long before they needed it back. I did play the Ps3 game though, and it was pretty good but I have mostly lost interest in seeing the series truly brought back to life. Like I mentioned previously Rocket League filled those voids and mechanics, I never really liked Sweet Tooth, never used him in game, he is the stuff of nightmares. The games were truly a part of my childhood, they really did have a psychological impact on me, I remember my sister and I initially thinking it was based on a real tournament, I don't know why, just kids with no real perception, we just liked to drive in games.
Small Brawl is a conflicting entity in the series. If you strip away the themes and look at the game from a purely mechanical perspective, there is a very solid game here. It’s just too bad that the wrapper doesn’t inspire you to eat the candy, if you will pardon the metaphor.
Apparently, the show is really good!
Ok but how come Japan had exclusive stuff if the game was never popular outside the US...?!
What is this question?
@@MixerRenegade95
The question is very easy to understand
@@steelbear2063 And it still dumbfounds Me, How could Japan have exclusive Twisted Metals at all?
And btw jumping flash was awesome for its time lol
27:00 as someone who has just now been going back to play the entire series in release order and has been falling in love with these classic games… I’m very interested in your reasons for not vibing with them as much.
This day in age... I really do believe if they took the IP and found the right studio... that had passion and care for the series... they could make something the fans would truly like. Especially after seeing the show.. and seeing remakes now days.. like the RE remakes and such. It could be done..
Thank you for not calling Big The Cat Daddy. That took a lot of restraint from you.
Loved the vid men thank you for all the amazing work you put into this ❤️
16:36 JET MOTO MENTIONED AHHHHHHHH
24:40 Thanks to streams I've seen with him and Chris Mykonosfan, when he said King of the Hill I could only think of the show and not the game mode (unless Hank Hill mode was actually a thing at some point in a game. Idk, games are weird).
I absolutely love the show, it totally surprised me
I got the Twisted metal 2012 as a present at release. I remember the disappointment of online not working for MONTHS after I bought the game and it that made me put the game up forever. They really botched the online servers
2 and Black are the only games in the series that anyone talks about, and I loved them, but Head On and PS3 play by far the best IMO, and I desperately want another game that builds on those and has a strong online element.
Yeah PS3's twisted metal online didn't work. I barely ever got to play games. And it never got fixed, contrary to what many people say. On my PS3(s), in my house's internet connection, on my PSN account: I could not quick join any matches, and would fail to manually join via the match browser 90% of the time. Resulting in me trying and retrying to join games and getting an error message for 45 minutes. Until eventually getting into one match, with very few players.
Let that be on the record, it never actually got fixed. Maybe for some connections on some PS3s it was fixed. But never really fixed, properly. I never had an issues with any other PS3 titles either (or any titles on any device since actually).
I'd love to blame Jaffe for that but Sony had no interest in supporting the fixes needed, so I blame Sony just as much as the development, to this day.
amaz work, thx for all of this
Great video!
The PSP one had a ending scene involving one character's sister that scared me so much I have yet to even replay that story.
Granted, I haven't played the game since I've first beaten every character's campaign almost 2 decades ago(I'm only 34 but I'm old), but still.
I'm still so pissed we haven't gotten a new twisted metal game. Now that sony doesn't even own crash anymore all they got is Kratos, Sackboy, Rachet and Clank, and Twisted metal as they iconics.
Sony doesn't even owned Crash to begin with
@@KaminoKatie Yea but it was the most popular series that was associated with sony and that ppl thought they owned.
I played the shit out of Twisted Metal 4 as a kid.
you don't know why rogue trip had a ska sound track in the midst of a huge 3rd wave ska boom?
also it was just a great sound track on it's own
if entry level controls are something you think is 'hard core' maybe just watch others play games
it absolutely does not need a tutorial, even in 2 it gave a few commands in the instructions and in less than 20 min you could learn them all
I went into the show expecting to hate it and thought it was actually pretty rad. Fingers crossed for a new game now
Twisted Metal Black was the first ever game I’ve ever saw on ps2 back when i was a kid and because of this if i ever gonna stop buying physical ps2 games this will be my last ever ps2 game i ever gonna own physical on my collection.
I only played the ps3 game (I’ve played black as well but on ps3 and that’s because it’s came with my copy of the ps3 game and nobody used the digital code) and i think the game released way too late on the ps3 lifespan, if it’s was released around 2009 i think people would play it much more at least in north america and maybe japan.
Didn’t watch the tv show yet (busy with cyberpunk 2077 right now and watching disenchantment again because the futurama revival) but i think a modern twisted metal can work but… really need a long story mode and a lot of content if sony want to sell it for 70 usd.
I think the campaign need to be balanced between the psp game for story and vibe but making the gameplay and controls similar to the ps3 game. it’s ok to keeping it dark but not “twisted metal black” dark, just making it rated t/pegi 16 it’s the safest way to revive the game. A battle royal twisted metal can really work but because “destruction all stars” they can’t sell the game for 70 usd they need to have a huge single player content if they want to sell copies or just making it a f2p live service game and that’s the worst option.
Small Brawl was great. You are trippin
I thought the TV show was great. Can't wait for season 2
Sweet tooth really is just the scorpion of twisted metal huh
so much marketing potential
Twisted metal 4 was like the best one they ever made lol
The ice creamer
The show is good, doesn't take it self to seriously but also honors the show. Hopefully we get a new game
Looking forward to a god of war retrospective. I enjoy these critical analysis videos.
i put alot of hours on tm2. me and my friends play split and even quad screen..... how did the ps1 do 4 way screen anyway lol.
It's took me far too long to realize that you're not talking about the show, King of the Hill.
I hate Jaffee so much nowadays
1:15 It's Warhawk, not WipeOut
In that very timestamp, you can hear me say Warhawk out loud! If you've got captions on, there's a chance I just never went in to fix it in the subtitle file when I caught that.
I watch this without audio because it is night at the moment.
I love your videos.
I was a big fan of the series, still am. TM3&4 sucked but I loved the games after them. I want a new TM game as bad as anyone does.
To be fair TM3's saving grace was Rob zombie's hellbilly deluxe soundtrack. Without that it was a huge step backwards.
TM1 and 2 are still my personal favorites
Head on should be on ps5 with trophys 😢
I'm sorry but no twisted metal 1234 black and for ps3 are sick and some of the greatest games and rob zombie being injected into the brand was awesome. I think u r forgetting how well loved certain music genres were back then. Other than that u did a great job with the vid. O and to be fair tm4's story did blow. And twisted metal 3 didn't have just 1 rob zombie song. There was basically 3
Vigilante 8 is a WAY BETTER Car Combat Game
Sorry Not Sorry
Very. Very. Well done video man. Information and presentation. I can’t stand TBP he doesn’t realize that bitching doesn’t make up for his total lack of charisma. 👍
There was a promo, live stream shooting sweet tooths ice cream truck.
If you didnt like the TV show you need to go touch grass cause it was funny af