From Developer to Defunct - Scott The Woz

With Scott's nine step plan to bankruptcy, you too can THQ.
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Music Used:
"Track 1" from Sounds for the Supermarket
"Waves Theme" from Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2
"Mind's Eye" from Tempest 2000
"Milky" from Bomberman Hero
"Tarrey Twon (Married)" from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
"Character Select" from Super Mario Bros. 2
"Mount Vesuvius" from DuckTales Remastered
"Round 6-1" from Super Back to the Future Part II
"Aquatic Race" from Super Mario Galaxy
"Main Theme" from Mario Paint
"Hydrocity Zone Act 2" from Sonic Mania
"Breakout" from 3D Dot Game Heroes

[@zurcasi]

Getting bought by EA is like being spawn killed.

[@Adam-cq2yo]

More like being low on gold and going up to an endgame-looking player to ask for a trade only to be brutally slaughtered.

[@SuperLenny1975]

Zoo wee mama it's just be a pebble

[@milesleblanc164]

It's being teabagged as well

[@expendableround6186]

I bet if EA was car bombed ala the Oklahoma Bombing, everyone would laugh hysterically.

[@zach3861]

I really hope they don't mess with Respawn Entertainment...

[@0_Cardboard_0]

Remember when Nintendo was declining during the Wii U era and instead of laying off employees Iwata gave half of his revenue to his workers? We need more examples of this Also RIP Iwata

[@TheGamingTeam101Tgt101]

Cardboard yea a true good soul

[@goldensun2787]

He wasn't the only employee to cut their revenue, many like Miyamoto did 20%, but he did it by a whopping 50%

[@generalolive9197]

another aspect nintendo prevails at

[@gigabitgamer5710]

After the Virtual Boy and the console that shall not be named, I thought Nintendo was dead. Then I heard a finger snap

[@MutchGames]

Amen to that

[@JustinLeeper]

Hi. Former THQ designer here. Maybe you weren’t a fan, but WWE and UFC games kept the lights on for many years and sold really well. U-Draw sold great on Wii, too, but THQ stupidly thought it would work on PS3 and 360. Also, THQ funded both South Park and Devil’s Third for years with nothing to show for it. It was a B-level publisher trying to be A-level, and that didn’t work out.

[@jakethreesixty]

THQs old Smackdown vs. Raw games are still a high water mark for me

[@JustinLeeper]

@@jakethreesixty As writer and designer of SVR’s Road to WrestleMania mode in 2009-2011, I’m glad to hear that!

[@datdudecritical_5070]

Was surprised Scott didn't mention it as much but yeah all of my friends including me largely remember THQ for the SvR games and those to this day are still held in high regard

[@bobfranklin2572]

UFC was and still is the greatest mma game ever made.

[@vivian-sasha-taylor]

Did you leave the company before the bankruptcy and acquisition?

[@MintyDragonVidz]

6:40 one of the original devs on Disney infinity actually became a computer and technology teacher at my high school after Disney Infinity ended. It’s pretty cool having a AAA game dev teaching you programming, so he’s not doing terribly.

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

Good for him! Glad to see he's still doing something cool.

[@SomeoneIDKK]

Nice!

[@Portalcrafter]

WHAT

[@tuckergardner4212]

How long did you guys talk about Disney infinity in class

[@Popthebop]

that's nice to hear

[@zabivaka2954]

Life span of a game company: Make some games Get bought by EA Go bankrupt

[@Sunny-jv7yt]

Or activision

[@arealcookingchannel5134]

Or Microsoft

[@CharlesVDoktaur]

Or Disney

[@transgwender]

Also the life span of a human: Exist Get bought by EA Cease

[@adeeta5701]

potatoduck052 I wanna sue Disney!

[@itsvxnishlol]

Don’t forget that Mr.Krabs sold Spongebob’s soul for 62 cents

[@bignigga2073]

EA is the real life version of mr krabs

[@MrRooke]

I heard that Mr. Krabs is EA's new Chief Financial Officer

[@RefinedSkye]

@Cinnabar Volcano*crabitalism

[@Quartzer.]

that soul must have gone to activision who made crappy games but gave spongebob's soul back and now is with THQ Nordic

[@dontcheckmychanel]

SPONGEBOY ME BOB. I haven't payed me part of a contract, and the bank is auctioning me employees' souls to cover the difference. Ark ark ark ark ark ark.

[@pudindipreda3049]

And now, THQNordic just announced a remake of Battle for Bikini Bottom and the first Destroy All Humans game

[@-weegeeman]

I'm so excited from them.

[@vladimiradidas1945]

Damn, two birds with one stone? Talk about a comeback.

[@honeygdballs]

and now Black Box's original team comes back with SKATE FUCKING 4

[@pearspeedruns]

B4BB is out now

[@HelixAdamOxford]

Christian Aliferis it’s great

[@mewgiah8057]

Telltale was actually grossly mis-managed and I’m shocked so many people didn’t see it. I remember years back thinking: wow they just announced another game!? Aren’t they already working on 5 others? So I wasn’t shocked at all when they announced bankruptcy. If you read the reports it pretty much says the same. The company was taking on too many projects at once. They didn’t have enough employees to make that many titles. And the company was taking on new projects to secure cash to keep the company afloat and it eventually caught up with them. They were supposed to make a Stranger Things game but when Netflix caught wind of the state of their company they pulled the deal and they literally needed that contract. So once the streaming giant was out, the company was over. Basically Telltale was kind of a scam in a way.

[@SleepyTaafey]

I hate that the only game I played from them is Minecraft Story mode

[@umamifan]

First TWD, MCSM, Sam&Max, TWAU, and TFTB were the only ones worth paying attention to. Oh, and their Batman series.

[@sweetypuss]

​@@umamifanstrong bad's cool game for attractive people too, even though that only got one season

[@liammcnicholas918]

Telltale failed because they stuck to a formula and didn’t try anything new

[@ryelo5448]

Too bad soujagames died, it was my favorite developer making games like lawsuits.

[@dbkwk9]

I prefer lawsuits: the prequel

[@dededetheking5094]

I am pretty disapointed Lawsuit 3 was cancelled .

[@Jof-]

Lawsuit three is coming Soulja Newell is just denying it

[@DumDoDoor]

I loved Lawsuit 2. It's hilarious and if that game dev is still around, Lawsuit 3 could be a masterpiece.

[@starpetalarts6668]

Should of sold soup. Call it Soulja and Soupdogg

[@kcgeil]

Step 1: Dress up as a sexy indie game dev studio. Step 2:Wait for EA to kidnap you and drop you down a well.

[@that_deadeyegamer7920]

Step 3: ... Step 4: Bankruptcy!

[@MrGamelover23]

But they actually take a very small profit, u unless Angry Joe's research is outdated.

[@dylfrog8984]

Scott threw a soccer ball, a basketball went in the net, a soccer ball is now bouncing in the net, and now he’s holding a football... That is comedy genius!

[@tadghflowerfangibsonplayzz896]

ITS CALLED FOOTBALL

[@abbycollins]

I didn't notice that! That's interesting

[@demonicloaf2100]

@play gray I know it's 4 months old, but you went on a bit of a tirade just because someone didn't add the "American" part to (American) football.

[@underlinedcg1574]

how did I not notice this

[@WH250398]

Oh my god. For years I thought the company was called "Aklaim" instead of Accliam...

[@sunfl0wer_988]

Well I thought it was akklaim or something like that

[@informalnarwhals]

I still thought that's what it was until reading this comment lol

[@AverageSynth]

Akllaim is something I'll always call it.

[@MrMoasn]

@@sunfl0wer_988 me too

[@deathgame8786]

I thought it was akklaim

[@BugsyFoga]

If your gaming studio gets bought out by E.A , it's basically dead already.

[@NoahDaArk]

Nathaniel Foga Unless your Respawn, you can firmly grab EA by the balls and force them to submit

[@jowysw]

@@NoahDaArk (for now...)

[@BloodRedFox2008]

@@NoahDaArk I'm still a bit worried about Respawn. My biggest hope for them is their Star Wars game ends up being the first really good SW in a long while and it manages to do well both critically and commercially. Stuff like Titanfall and Apex Legends show they can make some incredibly fun first person shooters so a Star Wars action game from them that uses some elements from their prior work sounds awesome to me.

[@eveliarodriguez8829]

PopCap

[@gabrielbennett9376]

Stop hogging all the top comments :(

[@chaotixthefox]

Can't spell dead without E.A

[@potatodude2804]

Chaotix Fox GET THIS MAN TO THE TOP

[@brainfuckcode4990]

*H i l a r i o u s a n d o r i g i n a l*

[@chaotixthefox]

@@brainfuckcode4990 Only the most original.

[@sullivans2004]

Ha!

[@PipeRetrogamer]

It all fits. From now on I'll write dEAd

[@dussaal]

Most depressing time for me when EA bought popcap, they ruined the mobile versions of their games with micro transactions

[@ItsPForPea]

Is having microtransactions that bad when it’s essentially unnecessary?

[@Extra47]

ItsPForPea While you don’t NEED to pay to beat the games they do really try to force you with bullshit game design, unfair difficulty, limited lives that can only be replenished by waiting or spending money, and so on. It’s not completely terrible in PvZ 2 but Peggle Blast and Bejeweled Stars and recently, PvZ 3 show how unfun the games have become.

[@dead-aaa623]

So in conclusion, Pvz 1 was a legendary classic Pvz 2 was great at the start, but ruined by EA, but alright Pvz 3 is, just bad Oh, IPFP commented here, quite unexpected

[@droofinsmirts]

I agree. It feels like EA just buys as many companies as possible and uses there IP to make a quick buck and then shut it down

[@scull0234]

My partner works on mobile game localization, and EA did the same shit with a bunch of board games like scrabble

[@emperormegaman3856]

In French-speaking countries Infogrames is quite well known as "This company that used to make visually beautiful but anoyingly hard licensed games based on franco-belgians comics." They have done other stuff (some good, some bad) but that's what is most remembered.

[@Popthebop]

that's a cool fun fact! thanks for sharing! :D hope you have a nice day! :D

[@jopado]

game studio: *exists* EA: wait. thats illegal.

[@porkermurns7590]

EA: STOP! You violated the law!

[@MegaAnimazing]

​@Wrecking Games That means, THEY violated the law as well, and yet they're still around, I wonder why?

[@tsusksatheanimator8220]

Atari:exists Sega:that's illegal

[@expendableround6186]

I bet if EA was car bombed ala the Oklahoma Bombing, everyone would laugh hysterically.

[@bamos1092]

me: thats a lame joke

[@Cyranek]

we're selling soup now

[@mergieismoronic]

+Cyranek 13:40

[@DickfaceMcGhee]

Why are you selling soup in the video game store

[@fazejubjub2743]

@@DickfaceMcGhee Why are you buying clothes at the soup store

[@Terratype]

it always works

[@whatever63644]

why are you everywhere now

[@sor3999]

And there's Konami which is in zombie status.

[@InhabitantOfOddworld]

That's self-inflicted, burning bridges with Kojima and banking their business model on f-ing pachincko machines...

[@jeremiahhester6408]

Poor Hudson.

[@spoopuhpoopdumb7350]

I miss good silent hill games

[@JohnDoe-kh3ti]

How so? They're bringing out multiple games now

[@Cal.F]

@@JohnDoe-kh3ti that was 10 months ago

[@michalander2131]

"Oh, I'm just dying to shut that studio down today..." *That would definitely be something that the CEOs of EA would say.*

[@shawnfields2369]

CEOs of EA, Bethesda, Konami, Activision, maybe Microsoft... basically every North American game company or North American branch of some Japanese studios, who knows? I hope that doesn't keep happening, but don't quote me on this if it does happen. It was supposed to be a joke, nothing to take seriously, but if it does, and I accidentally called it, I'll take responsibility for it, and gladly eat my own words. I mean, I was wrong on the whole ProJared thing, and was one of the bandwagoning idiots who believed one side of the story instead of doing my own research first and listening to both sides of said story. I mean, I was ready to listen and be on the same damn side as DSP! DSPIGROACH! The absolute WORST gamer ever! And I was about to take the side of an idiot like that. So, I'm not against taking responsibility for my actions. I can man up and admit when I'm wrong about something or someone. I'll gladly do it, I'll even get down on my hands and knees and apologize for being wrong. I do hate being wrong, but I can admit when I'm wrong. I'm not a prideful man. I do hope these things DON'T happen and that I'm not right about more CEOs laying off more people at fast rates. But I do hope the CEOs of Konami, Ea, and Bethesda get fired though, along with at least, one or 2 of the awful people who keep making the stupid decisions, so that MAYBE someday, those companies won't be known as the 3 worst gaming companies ever, but for now, that's just wishful thinking... but then again, Capcom redeemed themselves, with the RE2 Remake and DMC5... and Sega's doing great with the Yakuza series and the Sonic The Hedgehog movie. So, maybe there's hope for them? I can't say, as I don't know the future. But I do hope it ends well, at least for us gamers.

[@xaviery268]

Todd Rodgers, While most of their games are still good. It’s the way Bethesda pushes Fallout 76, and the way they treat their fans now, that have lead them to be hated by the gaming community.

[@illegalmobster4847]

@@xaviery268 plus they don't seem to care as they push out games with minimal play testing, Skyrim and fallout 3 come to mind, and yea sure it's not awful but it does not give me hope on future games.

[@Mii.2.0]

@@shawnfields2369 I nearly died while reading your comment. Thanks.

[@sashapaleologue1234]

@@glub1381 completely bugged games that rely on community support to fix, transactions in Skyrim, Skyrim being resold 6 times everywhere, Fallout 76, Fallout 76, again, Fallout 76. Todd Howard is an arrogant asshole, seriously fallout 76 and EVERYTHING related to it.

[@ChristopherMoom]

0:36 Whoa, Scott, that's quite -a claim- *Akklaim* you're making.

[@CardiacYew]

Hi chris

[@sonicnerd21]

Any one remember jimmy neutron attack of the twonkies

[@TheMarioManiac]

Christopher Moon can’t wait till your popularity dies

[@TheMarioManiac]

MMZXA 23 not pointless. Fed up of the same person being near the top with such a generic unfunny comment.

[@yeetyboigottem]

Oh god oh fuck its fucking chara im fucked

[@robby_zhang]

Thanks EA for making this video possible!

[@PanicDr]

I guess they challenge everything

[@mbrillon765]

You know how one of the Wii U's reasons for failing was that people thought it was just an accessory for the Wii? Well for the longest time I thought that the U Draw and the Wii U were the same thing... Nintendo really picked a good title for that console

[@shahtayyib]

They might honestly have sold a few tens of millions more units just by calling it the Wii 2.

[@p1nkfreud]

Everyone else: Discussing the video Me, an intellectual: I see Scott is a 70's grocery store connoisseur too

[@Chusterkuun]

Yeah, I recognized the track from one of those Muzak mixes. Very cool music.

[@sentientarugula2884]

I recongnized it from "Grocery Store Music No. 1", but only after your comment. Thanks Pink Droid for bringing back old KZbin memories!

[@Heebie-Deebies]

My simple plan to go from developer to defunct: Get bought by EA

[@thesamuraispirit7686]

Or Microsoft lol

[@hamiamsandwitch6571]

@@thesamuraispirit7686 what do you mean

[@thesamuraispirit7686]

@@hamiamsandwitch6571 crackdown 3, pirate game i forgot what its called, etc

[@benholt4463]

Goodbye, bioware and pandemic

[@N_o196]

@@thesamuraispirit7686 man, I too hate it when a company tries to bulster it's 1st party lineup by buying studios that it increases.

[@wh0adj]

Scott I never knew that you were a 1960 advertisment

[@etmooreca9612]

Honestly at this point, what isn’t he?

[@katchereye]

DJ Drawz He was in the episode "The Guy Game"

[@gabrielbennett9376]

@@etmooreca9612 mentally stable

[@MrGuy__]

I guess we'll add AlphaDream to that list... :(

[@autismandgaming4532]

now we'll never get a mario & luigi partners in time remake

[@theutubepower1243]

Autism And Gaming eh the remakes were kind of the main reason they went bankrupt, their sales were pretty low

[@luigissidekick861]

Okay who the hell brought onions!

[@tomhill3248]

Bring out your dead

[@eeli8295]

@@theutubepower1243 I think a new entry with a new engine and designs on the Switch would have helped them tremendously, or even having one of the remakes being on the switch

[@redcenteno7150]

Scott has the best ad placements. When he was about to start talking about THQ, it went: TH- *Ad* -Q. I don't know if its on purpose but it got a chuckle out of me!

[@BugsyFoga]

E.A : Closing down great game studios since 1997

[@prowlingtiger2226]

*how many fucking comments do you need to make to be satisfied*

[@MastarCheef1337]

Damn thats before I was I born. I'm 10 btw.

[@Happymonday2015]

Actually they weren't always as horrible as they are today also stop spamming comments for likes.

[@hankhill242productions6]

Budget Justin Y

[@slyceth]

You stink

[@skylinefever]

I like that the AVGN named one dead game company "Laughing Joking Numbnuts."

[@yiwoon_cr8s]

Or in Caddicarus' case, "Lumpy Jiggly Nutcases"

[@Tini-Stic]

4:18 Fitting how this part of the video starts with Xbox

[@scarffoxandfriends9401]

I remember when right before TellTale went bankrupt i was arguing with someone that TellTale's games became too cookie cutter and the studdered release for them causes people to wait to play and some times forget about the game by the time it's complete. They argued that if it wasn't working for them then they wouldn't keep doing it and it's clearly making them millions Didn't take too long before who's argument was proven correct.

[@musicdude1540]

You actually weren't correct. They had overspent and dug themselves into a hole long before they even did decent games. Their demise was written on the wall the moment they had any success. They barely made anything the contract they started using with BTTF. You were wrong. In fact, you were double wrong because their success shouldn't have happened in the first place. Just bad mismanagement of funding.

[@scarffoxandfriends9401]

@@musicdude1540 How was I not correct? What you just said isn't mutual exclusive to what I said. My point was that releasing a bunch of undeveloped games all at the same time and all felt the same wasn't making them enough money to make up for all their spending and contracts.

[@musicdude1540]

@@scarffoxandfriends9401 that is incorrect. See my last comment. You were more wrong than your friend.

[@scarffoxandfriends9401]

@@musicdude1540 again, how does your last comment prove it incorrect. The contacts where unprofitable due to low sales of games not being able to make up for the expensice IPs and the inflated employee count. They where expecting every game they released to be another The Walking Dead, but the games didn't sell well due to reasons I gave. Which some of those reasons only existed because of them desperately trying to make back all the money they where spending. Your comment would make more sense if you where saying the poor sales of their games wasn't the sole reason of their closure, but that isn't your argument.

[@Jschad]

Well if the company that made Chibi Robo: Zip Lash hasn’t gone under yet I guess anything is possible.

[@andychen8664]

well

[@g-forcefgt323]

Yeah this didnt age well, R.I.P. Skip

[@Niom_Music]

Telltate Games: A great example why "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is kinda bullshit. They should've expanded on their formula, made it more interesting. I don't know how, just _something!_

[@tomhill3248]

Or just not made so many games. The problem was they scaled it up too hard. Games like those need time to reset.

[@fluffyssj2693]

You said tale Tate

[@Majinhero]

The problem was not that it was not broken, but that it made no money. If it makes no money then it needs to be changed.

[@fluidthought42]

@@tomhill3248 Same thing happened with the Guitar Hero games. I realized the franchise was dead when Lego Guitar Hero came out, so when I audibly grunted with disgust at Guitar Hero Green Day coming out my ex snapped at me (I actually liked Green Day, but even if the company had released a Buckethead Guitar Hero I wouldn't had faith in it being worth buying).

[@Ninjimdo]

I read a story from one of the workers of Telltale Games. The upper management was convinced if they kept repeating 2012 they will keep having success. Employees wanted to expand but were always internally shutdown

[@Esitaro3670]

This video ages well with every passing year and that's incredibly depressing

[@stupidgenius42]

10:07 finally! Someone recognizes De Blob and credits it as a good game! It really was splatoon’s grandfather, too bad THQ abruptly shut BlueTongue down.

[@jen1447]

Telltale has a big tale to tell you about

[@legendairenic6247]

God, that shutdown is still sad. They revived their Walking dead franchise by fixing the many faults of "A new Frontier" but then spread too thin by buying licenses.

[@frak4981]

And they told that same tale a dozen times

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

Jen Also destroyed by the Indian Mafia invasion.

[@arbiter-]

I never heard of that udraw tablet until now. No wonder THQ crashed so hard, who thought that was a good idea?

[@ThatNormalBunny]

Someone at THQ obviously

[@starpetalarts6668]

IF you're a third party developer, do not make a first party peripheral unless its for backwards compatibility.

[@liammunley2102]

I actually own the udraw tablet it was a great thing to have for someone who was young and really lived to draw (provided you only used the drawing software) because it was like a cheap and not as good drawing tablet but outside of that no one else would have really bought it

[@HeyChat27]

Apparently Nintendo because the Wii U is a thing

[@RECTANGLESWITHEYES]

I have that Udraw tablet and 3 games made for it. I found all of them for 10$ last year. Its really fun at parties!

[@NeoN-PeoN]

TellTale games has more to its story than just "too many projects, saturated market". There was actually a lot of internal strife in-house that I don't know if anyone (other than the employees) truly knows the whole story. I haven't tried to Google it so it may be out there. But I remember there being something big in the news about the studio.

[@smashbreault4051]

Can we get an F in the chat for alphadream? They were the Mario and Luigi game devs. WOW I havent checked in a while when did this comment get so popular!?

[@someidiotontheinternet1955]

f

[@GabiShy]

F

[@coolhatkid]

F

[@skillyoshi]

F

[@assassin4714]

F

[@r1mscar]

A friend of mine spoke with Telltale's CEO a few weeks before they started laying off people: dude had no business in his position, saying "There's no future in video games."

[@negevsareforpros9250]

@Manek Iridius *ESL has entered the chat* *IEM has entered the chat*

[@CrasherX2000]

*SEVERAL PEOPLE ARE TYPING*

[@megamage911]

Ah yes, that multi billion $ industry that just keeps growing, has no future, obviously.

[@autismandgaming4532]

what the THQ (i had to make the joke)

[@ABCEasyas--]

But UrinatingTree said that gaming is doomed for another crash.

[@akwardturtleee]

The golden Wii for the queen also might have been a reason to THQ bankruptcy.

[@davidrossington9756]

Wait, what?

[@spooderman6312]

Golden queen for wii?

[@teathesilkwing7616]

@@spooderman6312 no they made a gold wii for the queen of England

[@ArdentsTheory]

Rip Hudson. Made some of the best Mario Partys. Now we have Mario Party 10 and Super Mario Party

[@Chugway1138]

I think Super Mario Party is pretty decent.

[@Frog101_Real]

Super Mario Partys good but Mario party 10 and 9 are ass

[@PaperMario]

wasnt mario party 9 also made by the people who made 10 and super?

[@Vessick]

​@@PaperMarioIf I recall correctly, they were the ones that made WiiParty and Wii Party U

[@jimjam4487]

can't wait for Campbell's Soup: A TellTale Product

[@GeorgTheGr8]

Step 1: Add microtransactions Step 2: Add more microtransactions Step 3: Add more microtransactions Step 4: Add more microtransactions Step 5: Add more microtransactions Step 6: Add more microtransactions Step 7: Add more microtransactions Step 8: Add more microtransactions Step 9: Finally, name your company "EA"

[@lightningbolt4419]

Step 10: shut down every company you know

[@cresoma]

FireBolt Kill off the quality creators and add them to your mass*

[@Nico-uy2so]

Step 11: terminate all

[@GuyThatLikesYohane]

So this is how EA runs a company

[@TheBlackAbyss1]

Step 11. Announce that your not including microtransactions in your next game at E3 as if it's a revival for the company that will instantly fix it's bad reputation. Which it didn't. AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED WITH WHAT THEY DID TO POPCAP!

[@sillygooseygirl]

I mean if you make a Last Airbender game based on the movie I’ll happily sit back and watch your slow, painful demise

[@hitmontopguy621]

Thank you very cool

[@sillygooseygirl]

Hitmontop Guy woah how did you find this

[@hitmontopguy621]

By watching this video again

[@Kingdom850]

They technically had no idea it was going to suck since licensed games are released the same year the movie comes out.

[@charleslindeman2169]

@@Kingdom850 I think that's the problem with tie-in games. They're dependent on the quality and success of something outside their control. If the movie sucks, then no matter how good the game is, it will struggle.

[@LezbeOswald]

therapist: "the new "modern" THQ logo can't hurt you" the new "modern" THQ logo: 9:55

[@WolfyPlays07]

10:27 is why they shut down

[@mariajimenafigueroa233]

THA-KR

[@psloh5758]

Idk if you like thqnordic

[@zepic3895]

1:06 this unfortunately aged well

[@jimmysjoman]

@@dominickcruz128 how’s that fortunate?

[@betchaos7383]

Thq Nordic said they had like 70 games in development right now That has nothing to do with the video but that's pretty crazy

[@kylesoler4139]

They have Bugbear games under their wing, the same guys who used to make the Flatout games and currently Wreckfest.

[@criandmon0523]

Also let's not forget that they are making Spongebob: Battle for Bikini Bottom and Destroy all Humans remakes

[@supersamples1718]

I wish they could get Saints Row back or at least remaster 1 and 2

[@TekkitForTheFunOfIt]

@@supersamples1718 Saints Row V is in development

[@supersamples1718]

@@TekkitForTheFunOfIt yeah I heard I'm stoked

[@brentgranger7856]

I really loved the different development teams that Sega used to have like Smilebit (Jet Set Radio, Panzer Dragoon Orta), Sonic Team (Nights Into Dreams, Sonic Adventure), AM2 (Shenmue, Virtua Fighter), and Overworks (Skies of Arcadia, Shinobi). I miss the days game developers were not afraid to innovate.

[@Nottheoutline420]

Sonic Team still exists and am2 were combined iirc

[@DrMatrix1231]

10:24 fun fact, did you now that the main composer for the the last Airbender videogame was none other than Mick Gordon. Yes really, look it up.

[@imraanakollo-arenz1449]

He also did Nicktoons attack of the toybots.

[@DrMatrix1231]

@@imraanakollo-arenz1449 very bizzare, much like the games under beenox's and vicarious visions belt. One of those "how the hell did they get to this point?"

[@imraanakollo-arenz1449]

@@DrMatrix1231 We need to get Scott or Matt McMuscles to analyze the man's career

[@TotallyLazlo]

*The Only Thing They Fear Is* -YOU-

[@Tonjit41]

AlphaDream's bankruptcy really made me sad. Their games always had so much personality and creativity.

[@Turbulation1]

I think the main issue for the downfall was remaking two of their older titles on a console that was dying. Paper Jam only getting 1 million sales was a sign that the 3DS was starting to become irrelevant, and Alpha Dream, instead of taking the time to perhaps develop a more refined Mario and Luigi game for a newer upcoming Nintendo console, maybe the switch, did a remake of Superstar Saga on the 3DS with an extra small side mode for new content, and it didn't pay off unfortunately because that game almost got half the sales as Paper Jam, even if some fans were happy and nostalgic for it, most people just weren't too interested in it by 2017. By this point Alpha Dream really should have known they were screwing up, but then they made the exact same mistake again for remaking Bowser's Inside Story for the 3DS in 2018, and the game became the second worst selling mario game in the whole franchise, at 20K sales. They gave a pretty stupid response to not making the game for the switch which was to keep the dual screens intact on the 3DS, which is an awful excuse because they could have easily reworked it for the switch and the game needed to be on the switch to even have a chance of getting good sales. The extra side mode wasn't gonna reel people in either since it was nearly identical in gameplay structure to it's previous extra side mode game.

[@Tonjit41]

@@Turbulation1 Their last games reeked of desperation.

[@liammcnicholas918]

@@Tonjit41Why remake the third game and skip the second? Not only that, Bowser’s Inside Story was already playable on 3DS.

[@thebigdawgj]

THQ is pronounced "THICC", thank you very much.

[@TwighlightLugia]

thique

[@JessieJamesPlays]

this comment lookin kinda THQ

[@GumSkyloard]

We all love Thicc Nordics.

[@sinistrality7883]

so THQNORDIC is just THICC NORDIC. Ah yes Me Too want some Thicc Nordics

[@originalpixel7432]

Ah Hudson, when Mario Party was good... oh the memories l

[@greatcanadianmoose3965]

Super mario party looks good tho

[@jsc315]

Lies! Mario party was never good!

[@CitrusRev]

@@jsc315 You must not have friends then.

[@_simon.s_]

@@jsc315 With that kind of attitude, it's impossible for you to play Mario Party!

[@Ckoz2829]

Great Canadian Moose MooseMan It’s alright. Scott breaks down what he likes and dislikes about the game in his Switch Year 2 Review video and I’m pretty much on the same page with him. But despite all that, it’s still a fun party game.

[@alek7243]

1:07 The Activision joke hits a little different now.

[@Appleboy78165]

Fun Fact: THQ was founded by the same guy who founded LJN

[@somemadman262]

Laughin Joking Numbnuts?

[@burger_011]

WHAT FR?

[@richardadamson1438]

Did not know that.

[@asura_aaron6960]

I was that kid that was disappointed that I need the u draw to play Kung fu panda 2

[@zangoon4546]

Arcade Aaron Lol I didn’t even know that thing existed until now and I had a wii as a kid

[@dave-grohl]

@@zangoon4546 I saw commercials for it but it looked rather dumb.

[@bubby-fi9mc]

"THQNordic will probably acquire the state of Nevada soon"

[@wesleyscott1633]

I think Nebraska would have been more accurate

[@linguicaguy]

@referral madness r

[@linguicaguy]

@referral madness I was pointing out the thing that's on your profile pic just like you did with that other guy lol

[@matthewpalafox9268]

A B-tier company acquiring a B-tier state. Nice

[@gr33nzz]

I live in Nevada

[@PhriekshoTV]

Hudson, Midway, and Acclaim gave me some of my fondest childhood memories. I still miss them

[@mannofsociety31]

Rest in peace, Tango Gameworks…

[@butt317]

I've legitimately never heard of this uDraw tablet. Can't believe they actually tried to make games for it, simply selling a tablet and drawing software sounds like a solid idea but I can't imagine anybody playing games with the damn thing. I haven't seen any comments here mention Free Radical! Weird, as people have been begging for Timesplitters sequels/remasters and they were making Star Wars Battlefront 3 before shutting down.

[@Chaos.A]

Also it's sad that it wasn't compatible with Drawn to Life Wii, seeing how the game suffered from trying to translate a drawing game from the DS to a Wii It was even published by THQ so like

[@TwoToRule]

I actually have a uDraw. I guess it's a neat little thing. My dad actually drew a decent teapot with it once.

[@nobodybutgeorgetpg2765]

Spongebob squiglypants was good. It was on the udraw pad.

[@mbrillon765]

I remember some commercials for it

[@elevenmink3851]

Dude I honestly learn so much about the gaming industry every time I watch a new video of yours, these are like TED Talks for Video Game/Media Class

[@doordieace5high]

I found your channel a few days ago, but I'm surprised I hadn't found it sooner. You got some really original and awesome videos.

[@MrBoomblaster]

I still sometimes wake up, all sweaty and screaming: "NOOO, MY DEAR WESTWOOD, NOOOOO!"

[@jesse406]

EA ruined my dreams for skate 4😢 Rip black box

[@Ckoz2829]

Jade There’s a spiritual successor coming out called Session.

[@ChapSnat752]

@@Ckoz2829 well at least theres some hope

[@SkittLP]

@@Ckoz2829 Too bad Session is going to play nothing like Skate.

[@gunman8452]

And good need for speed games

[@jesse406]

Charlie Koszulinski I tried a demo and it was alright I just couldn’t stand the controls

[@CultivatingLemon]

Great plan, 10/10 will fail again Nice soup

[@waka3897]

Lol I wouldnt want to be Activision either

[@Jonathanest90s]

Don’t be a Activision, be like Bruno.

[@M3rtyville]

I used to think the logo of INFOGRAMES is a skeleton of a rat

[@_mango_]

I hate Sundays because Chick-Fil-A is closed, but honestly, Scott is a pretty close replacement to that fried goodness.

[@NimhLabs]

I dunno... Scott lacks the homophobia that makes for a delicious Chick-Fil-A sandwich! The taste is the disdain for people doing things you personally do not like in places you won't know about and yet them still asking to be treated like humans for it! It is delicious!

[@AnthonyDavis-kh7zd]

Katrina Payne lmao what

[@jamesloving1576]

the leaders of chick-fil-A are known to be extremely Homophobic and spend millions lobbying against LGBT rights

[@kamay7021]

James Loving who cares. The food is good, I have gay friends that hold chic fil a as the best for service, best food

[@connorgingg6103]

James Loving I know it's lit.

[@therealkzero]

Disney Infinity had a ton of potential. Toys to life weren't dying, they were just being slammed to store shelves every 5 nano seconds, so you almost had to become a rocket scientist to keep up with all the sets, characters, bases, games, etc. If Disney had just been smart about how they were developing the series, they would be making BANK right now. All they needed to do was have all the characters, figures, playsets, accessories and games compatible with each other and stop releasing them so frequently. It's a shame. I really loved Infinity.

[@QGonline]

Pretty sure Lego Dimmensions tried that and failed. Surprising, since that one technically should've been the most successful

[@therealkzero]

@@QGonline That's because they came a little late to the party. By the time Lego Dimensions came out, fatigue had already set in with Skylanders and Infinity. So they were just another proprietary toys to life experience no one had the money or patience for. I really wish all of them survived. Some great ideas, characters, and sets left off the experience :(

[@charlescampuz5812]

Sorry man, but the fatigue was too obvious by the time Infinity 3.0 came out. You see how Activision ditched Skylanders? You see how many toys to life bundles appear in the clearance section of Bargain Hunt? It was pretty clear this fad wasn’t going to rake in cash for long & Disney knew that.

[@AngelJD]

I was sad it shut down. Two reasons: they were planning a story mode for 4.0 and I was very curious about that plus having a offline function helps as in the end all games will have discontinued servers at some point so having anything offline play and fun I feel helps. 2nd: I wanted that Spider-Gwen figure they had planned (and I don't own the game I just wanted that figure) among the upcoming bunch plus rumors for Darkwing and Gravity Falls figures.

[@upice6863]

I think ditching the toys in general might've worked out, just make an in game menu for switching and use figures to carry stuff over

[@sirsawtooth4044]

12:58 Correction, only Vegas is for sale, and THQnordic can have it at a discount.

[@OriginalStachuJones]

Scott is the only KZbinr I watch movies of to the very end - outro song blasts

[@thefoxoverlord]

Scott recounts the TellTale signs of bankruptcy

[@engineerheavy1344]

The Fox Overlord But Totally Not A Furry brutal

[@awesomefeeling38983]

While we sit here and comment about a claim.

[@turniue]

The "telltale" signs. I hate you

[@Yapmanpac]

Homefront, the Thq killer, is still one of my favorite games.

[@LUNCHMONEY4numbers]

How?!

[@Chaos89P]

Well, everyone's entitled to their own opinions. Back when Homefront was in development, I thought the idea had promise. A LOT of promise. I still do, but I think it could be executed better.

[@blaiiiine5594]

I pre-ordered that game, loved it until the end which felt anticlimatic and a footnote compared to everything that had happened before in the campaign.

[@rhapsody2612]

This is probably the first and only time Scott mentions South Park

[@ariefleopane]

9:56 it reminds me of the old MotoGP game on PC and XBOX, it's a decent game for me, the MotoGP 2 & URT 3 has a special place on my heart, as these 2 games is the part of my childhood and my love to MotoGP is started and grow

[@hacer_kun]

Instead of going to church. I go watch scott the Woz

[@kenpierce1464]

Aren't they the same thing?

[@hacer_kun]

@@kenpierce1464 amen

[@vvsvlogsYT]

I = Acclaim And that concludes Scott’s English Language Lesson, stay tuned for the next episode where we complain about RPGs

[@llawliet419]

Part 999

[@ryjelsum]

THQNordic is really working on rejuvenating the old THQ properties.. THQ published a mildly popular blatantly Diablo inspired hack-n-slash called Titan Quest back in 2006. THQNordic has picked up that torch again and has started releasing DLC for the game again, all the way in 2019. That was probably inspired by the team behind Titan Quest, Iron Lore, making a new company under the name Crate Entertainment after they went defunct and licensing their old engine and developing a spiritual successor to Titan Quest (Grim Dawn) to pretty good success. They're both great games if you are into the Diablo rip-off genre, and I say that with great love for all of them.

[@vhsorion]

my buddy's father worked for THQ, when i met the kid's dad, we had a conversation about the DS and stuff, he let me play an unreleased game (De Blob 1) and he gave me a DS lite and an original model DS

[@slowpokefriedrice]

Holy shit I had that uDraw tablet back then. I had so much fun playing on that with my grandparents. Thanks for the memories Scott

[@cyanide3263]

Rest in peace good WWE games Rest in peace Skate games Rest in peace Dead Rising games Man, now I'm sad. Edit: EA has confirmed they’re working on a new Skate game, there is hope!

[@nootarchive6958]

Rest in peace thq spongebob games

[@denisezeidler4892]

So sad most company’s these days are just greedy and only want quick cash grabs shows how much technology has done to humans.

[@RedColdRitsu]

GeekyShrooms 2K fucking killed the WWE games because of the new direction they took Yukes in. Graphics over Gameplay, absolute horseshit!

[@w0rldw1dew3b]

maybe it's just me, but i enjoy the newer WWE games quite a bit. they're definitely different than the old ones, but i think they're a good time if you can catch them on sale or something.

[@denisezeidler4892]

It’s the gameplay of the 2K WWE games it is perfect gameplay in my opinion but the charm of the old WWE games and presentation each of the old WWE games were different while 2K is recycled and makes the same game but with improved graphics and updated roster.

[@OriginalGameteer]

De Blob was and always will be a big player in my childhood I freaking love that series

[@Sund00d]

8 seconds into this video and I’m just trying to wrap my head around the transition from soccer ball to Basketball to football and also back to soccer ball bouncing in the background

[@p1nkfreud]

Hey man, great vid as always. I HAD THAT "GROCERY STORE MUSIC" FROM YOUR OPENING CLIP IN MY "RECOMMENDED" TAB THIS WEEK

[@PixelBytesPixelArtist]

Never forget Maxis and my murdered sims 😔

[@vanzzzfan6623]

you realize they merged right? maxis is part of EA now

[@fabriziocossio3336]

@@vanzzzfan6623 yes but not entirely The maxims making the sims nkw is a reorganized branched of ea under the name maxis if I'm not mistaken The og maxis is dead if I'm not mistaken

[@snintendog]

maxis is dead the sims 3 cost $300+ to by complete digitally sim city 5 is a garbage heap of forced multiplayer and bad servers and Sims 4 looks to go beyond the 300 of sims 3 in DLC of textures.

[@vanzzzfan6623]

OG maxis is dead. Thats why we have so much DLC... also why i loved sims 1

[@pastarhythm2762]

And Spore.

[@me0262]

Loved this one. Makes me think of Psygnosis (Wipeout, Colony Wars, Killing Game Show, Lemmings), bought by Sony, closed by Sony, now the studio remnants are making some Star Citizen module, so you know, they're not going to be releasing anything for the next 7 years.

[@Coolman13355]

I have to add that using a track from DuckTales Remastered while talking about Disney Interactive was genius.

[@_simon.s_]

All of these gaming studios are nothing compared to Soulja Games.

[@fish7306]

Facts

[@jake_a.lien_]

Classic.

[@imdontaisbrokeheadphones6741]

The try and fail

[@amirgarcia547]

EA: The killer of once beloved and promising studios, unfortunately...

[@squirrelguy2195]

Including themselves.

[@nicholasscratch9781]

Best part about these is no ads. Thank goodness.

[@lucegibbs6044]

Tales from the borderlands was great actually thanks for coming

[@benholt4463]

Lucasarts and telltale's death makes me cry

[@86Rikki]

Add Rare to that list. Shadow of its former self. From donkey Kong, goldeneye and banjo kazooie to... Kinect sports. 🤮🤮🤮

[@expansionpackdeluxe636]

Rare was about to go bankrupt, that’s why they needed someone to buy them to protect them from going down. Microsoft saved Rare, but the gaming scene was different back them. Xbox was known as the "adult" console and Nintendo was known as a "kids" console. A former Nintendo development studio just didn’t fit with the Xbox crowd, they didn’t care about Rare. Rare was trying to continue make games like they would have always done, Microsoft wanted to promote their games, but since the audience wasn’t the same, they instead promoted games like Gears of War because it was more profitable for them and most Rare games didn’t sell well because of that and the bad rep they got from the angry Nintendo fans who were still bitter about the buyout.

[@vcom741]

@@expansionpackdeluxe636 "looks at Conker" Hmmmm...

[@Waff1e_]

Kinect Sports, 1 and 2 are both extremely good. CHANGE MY MIND.

[@jeffschleg9665]

Rare also made Sea of Theives though! That is a game that you either like it or hate it.

[@hellothere5437]

Rare is more like Nintendo R&D (Not E&D) now, except that they didn't release fun titles like Metroid Fusion. Rare now usually does some stuff that is more like a demonstration of hardware, like how UWP games from the Windows store could viably work. Stuff like the new G-rated Conker is so bad though. BTW Nintendo R&D made pretty much only focused consoles ever since their last ever game before their merge, Metroid: Zero Mission. They revived series like Fire Emblem with The Binding Blade, made IPs like Sin & Punishment, and were the sole developers of Metroid before Metroid Prime.

[@jss4726]

“Maxis made The Sims and Simcity” Spore: Am I a joke to you?

[@rigistroni]

I mean kinda it wasn't really that good

[@mihailomarkovic6285]

@@rigistroni first half of the game war really good

[@SirGsusFreak]

Woah! Someone else mentioned The Game of Life for PC from 1998! I thought I was the only one to play that!

[@nthgth]

That game was awesome! Great music too

[@BugsyFoga]

Who else here is still pissed about E.A closing down Pandemic ?😡

[@xenobestx8423]

EA= Evil Assholes.

[@Phoney_]

@@xenobestx8423 XD

[@tuxedobird]

Nathaniel Foga I’m still mad they shut down maxis

[@jamstarr]

can you stop being everywhere

[@Azathoth23]

Same

[@SGNRyan]

At least THQ made some surprisingly good Cars tie-in games

[@theskyrax670]

And Sonic Advance, Battle For Bikini Bottom/The Spongebob Movie game, and mamy others

[@denisezeidler4892]

And great WWE games like WWF Smackdown 1 and 2 And the SvR series and Here Comes The Pain.

[@RabnawazReviews]

Cars Race O Rama was amazing.

[@mbdg6810]

they published those games , not developed but yeah

[@feralcyborggaming1531]

At least Hershey's makes chocolate.

[@Doctorwhofan451]

At least when Microsoft bought Obsidian it was to keep them alive. A first for Microsoft, I know.

[@LoganoPiano]

There’s a way 1) make an amazing game franchise 2)Get bought out by ea