The Mighty Has Fallen (The Jimquisition)

[@DarthJoshReturns]

The final insult was that Capcom was able to make Mega Man 11, and that made MN9 look even more like a chump.

[@mb2001]

Ouch.

[@JillLulamoon]

For a little over 50k Toby Fox made Undertale. For 300k Yacht Club Games made Shovel Knight, plus three extra campaigns and modes to come for free as DLC. And for 4 million Comcept made shit. And has the fucking nerve to charge for its crappy DLC.

[@meleemastermaa1449]

And now they are even selling backer's "exclusive" rewards as DLC.

[@Zwiki22]

And for NOTHING (as far as crowdfunding goes), ConcernedApe made Stardew Valley.

[@KaiserAfini]

Also Size Five games made The Swindle with no Kickstarter funding, and that game is amazingly fun.

[@NathanCassidy721]

And Dodgeroll (studio) made Enter the Gungeon with their own money.

[@Whitecroc]

Comcept consists of AAA devs, though. Undertale was made while Toby was studying at college and did not have high quality requirements for most of its parts. Shovel Knight ran out of money and the devs spent something like six months in crunch. All that said, MN9 sounds like it was badly mismanaged. Was it 10 simultaneous platform releases? Madness for such a small studio. Did online coop make it in? Another huge headache. Net code requires a lot of effort to figure out. Doing it with little hassle probably requires an expensive programmer, and skimping on talent in this area usually ends up being very expensive in terms of delays and knock-on effects from what I understand.

[@PurpleHurrple]

"make you cry like an anime-fan on a prom night" Good marketing choice, alienating your target audience before the game is out yet. 10/10 Would make fun of again.

[@makotoyagami9458]

Sonny the mega man fans are weebs?

[@bigtiddymoth4853]

Absolutely

[@gokuxsephiroth4505]

From the people funding an anime as well! Unbelievable. Even if it was the marketing department and not the team itself, couldn't one have said to the other: "You know we're funding an anime from those fans, right?"

[@dustinrausch5008]

@@makotoyagami9458 Not all of them of course, but the two fandoms have significant overlap.

[@mryan89]

It’s kinda true though too which makes it even more funny

[@tychoazrephet3794]

I hated it so much, I paid someone else to review it for me. That has to be one of the funniest sentences I've ever heard.

[@michaelbreen7865]

"And SHE HATED the piece of shit."

[@lingars001]

Guess it made the backers cry like an anime fan on prom night!

[@captainkg5910]

TOO SOON D':

[@Pol74698]

Never heard that one before... It's always funny, though

[@Psychotyzm]

As a fucking parasite i can say i genuinely burst into laughing when you called me a parasite :D Keep up the great work, and thank god for you...

[@Psychotyzm]

Well, i am not monetizing my videos yet, but when i begin to, i may come out of the parasitic lifestyle and actually support many people. Like JFSS...

[@uniquehandleohsocool]

+Psycho Gaming i dont think i my 24 subs could help me pay rent, let alone fund Jim.

[@Psychotyzm]

Sir Musty My point exactly... I got 5...

[@uniquehandleohsocool]

Thomas Davis Its all jelousy, really, i mean who wouldnt be? He makes all his detractors cry like...like...

[@Rapture141]

+Thomas Davis Somebody get this child crayons..

[@codec6979]

When he said David Cameron and did the "holding the fingers up bit", i opened a new tab, wrote "david cameron", saw the pics, realized it's the prime minister of England and switched back to this tab without pausing the video...and Jim's hands were still up in the air. That was a long bit there.

[@mryan89]

codec69 a bit late but, FYI, there is no such thing as the “Prime Minister of England”

[@technopoptart]

@@mryan89 yeah, he's actually the main lad of the uk

[@mryan89]

@@technopoptart < this guy gets it

[@StandardGoose]

@@technopoptart Actually the official title is First Lad Of The Treasury.

[@VampiresCrypt]

LMAO this game reminds me of Daikatana and "John Romero's About to Make You His Bitch"

[@lolrus5555]

Keiji Inafune's about to make you cry like an anime fan on prom night.

[@Arcangel2992]

+lolrus555 I'm already crying, and it's not even prom night.

[@ferdinand12390]

that was almost the demise of fps as i can remember

[@VampiresCrypt]

lmfao you guys are funny =))))

[@paulrippcord506]

Except it isn't the 90's anymore and the game tones are completely different. You have a high profile shooter that was in development hell, that made big promises, and turned out to be an ultimately disappointing wreck. With Mighty No. 9, you have a high profile crowd funded game that was in constant delay, that made big promises, and turned out to be an ultimately disappointing wreck.

[@sillyskeleton]

Damn, Sonic wrecked this game. Never thought I'd say that.

[@CNWhatImSaiyan]

Twice over ;)

[@AnimeFanFTW25]

To be fair, the person who runs the Sonic twitter page is legit a goddamn legend.

[@kcdodger]

The best part is, the Twitter guy's got the personality down-pat.

[@stevebl9265]

Sanic Sez Mighty no. 9 is NOT COOL

[@CNWhatImSaiyan]

+Steve Blanc It's no good

[@ManlyBeed]

wait, so they started a funding for an anime series, then made fun of anime fans. ok

[@Blurns]

Ironically, out of both the anime & game adaptations of Red Ash, only the anime met its goal.

[@cryptusmaximus8699]

The developers of Mighty No. 9 aren't responsible for the "Prom Night" trailer. That was Deep Silver.

[@somed214]

I am shocked to learn that the publishers of Ride To Hell: Retribution are bad at marketing with good taste.

[@ezekielrose5173]

So YOU'RE the one who took my first choice of name!

[@Duskool]

get it? because it's hip to make fun of anime these days

[@MaJuV]

Well, it appears Capcom already has a tagline if a new Megaman game ever gets released: "At least it's better than Mighty Number 9"

[@doomzillaX25]

I don't know, what if it turns out to be another X7?

[@elinfini]

Or even: a) "it'll make Keiji Inafune cry like a Mighty No.9 developer on release date" b) "It's better than nothing"

[@Launchpad05]

That is if Capcom ever decides to bring back Mega Man.

[@sugarfrosted2005]

The only silver lining to the kickstarter is that they know interest exists... that being said :(

[@Launchpad05]

sugarfrosted Because not everyone likes 'Call Of Duty', 'Assassins Creed', or 'Madden', right?

[@mjc0961]

Funny to hear Jim's comments about Yooka Laylee in this video now that he's given it a 2/10 in his review.

[@aojpictures]

Mighty No.9 is a Mighty No.2

[@elinfini]

Or a Mighty No. 5.6

[@crowofrevelry]

How about just a Mighty No.

[@aojpictures]

+Spectre Walkthroughs Once I did I knew I had to share it with the world. Don't know who said it though, otherwise I would have given credit.

[@HighTi3rMortal101]

thank you for that original joke

[@lavacomic-geek3346]

I would like this comment, but it's at 69 likes, I'm not gonna change that.

[@templar_1138]

Watching this again in 2020. You bet your ass that - if it had been around - MN9 definitely would have gone Epic Store exclusive.

[@richardpreston7333]

Watching in 2024, I can confirm that Britain is indeed fucked

[@jesusojeda7850]

So, this is the legendary episode where Jim says "thank god for you (all)". Wholesome.

[@MrJechgo]

Weird that you didn't bring up *Skullgirls* when talking about indie games that used crowdfunding... 1) It's an indie title that was made by a team of 10 or 12, it wasn't a solo effort. 2) It got into a crowdfunding campaign (Indiegogo) to expand the roster and get better versions 3) It took the time it needed to release the next characters 4) They ported the game to multiple platforms 5) They had issues with publishers... including Konami... 6) On Steam, they asked the people' help using betas to balance the characters IMO, that's how an indie team should handle crownfunding stuff...

[@sonicbhoc]

Mike Z is a hero. Just saying.

[@CNWhatImSaiyan]

+Charles Christie And yet, he still backed this game lol

[@MrJechgo]

He was indeed very close to the community during betas.

[@CodecrafterArtemis]

IIRC they also explain, in detail, where the money went.

[@sonicbhoc]

Artemiy Solopov Were you expecting a single character to be that expensive though? I mean, I was thinking about making a fighting game eventually myself... until I saw that and wondered if I could ever self-fund a project like that.

[@Zeph101theoriginal]

Keiji Inafune was basically the Megaman artist, he was never really the game's designer, Akira Kitamura was. Keiji Inafune even said so much himself on several occasions. The fanbase only has itself to blame for perpetuating this misconception that Keiji Inafune was the guy who made and designed the games.

[@CNWhatImSaiyan]

At the very least, he created Zero

[@Irokful]

apparently it got to his head cause he sure came out and made a game like he was the game's designer

[@sparxtheknight]

He smeared his name all over this so if anything should've been right it should've been the art and style direction of the game...hell, what interested me initially was the amazing art style but somewhere that was tossed out. Idk this whole thing reeks of a "scam"

[@Zeph101theoriginal]

I wouldn't go so far as calling it a scam but it was definitely overreach and perhaps delusions of skill and competence. I have no doubt that the team including Inafune genuinely believed they could do it.

[@Zeph101theoriginal]

Ha, yeah but I'm betting he didn't design Zero's gameplay when he was playable in X3.

[@LockeRobsta]

*Yooka Laylee:* "I'm gonna save crowd funding!" *A Hat In Time:* "Hold my beer."

[@Alice89chan]

I agree Yooka Laylee is not exactly a good game, yet it was able to create a game too big for its own good and at the same time pleasing to look at, doing exactly what it promised (a Banjo game). MN9 wasn't capable of even being a Megaman clone, not even of infamously bad Megaman games.

[@peekay120]

make the bad guys cry like an anime fan on prom night huh, whoever looked at the game and decided that was a good idea is a fricking genius, well done, you only made an enemy of and personally insulted like 80% of your potential playerbase. i give that a perfect 5/7

[@leon4000]

Deep Silvers is to blame with this one.

[@DjAirsurfer]

the game itself is a bigger insult to fans than the "anime fan on prom night" joke, the fact so many people lost their shit over it is even more ridiculous

[@Renegade322]

Mighty No. 9 would be considered great if it was made by 1 dude, and it was like a passion project that he worked for a while on. Not made by a team of people with 4 million dollars of kickstarter money

[@RuffWarl0ck]

Mighty No 9 in it's current state would only be considered ok if it was done by one person. Merely a decent first effort. Still mediocre and amateur. There have been better looking/functioning games that have been done by a single person (hell, we saw them in the video).

[@uniquehandleohsocool]

When Dust: An Elysian Tail is better than your reletively big budget game, you dun goofed.

[@ngmajora6986]

It's better than nothing Jim.

[@razriri1467]

id rather have nothing

[@ngmajora6986]

+CasaBlacka I'd rather be an anime fan on prom night

[@uniquehandleohsocool]

+Logan “NGMajora” Smith this game makes me feel like an anime fan on prom night

[@jrpgnation6375]

I am pretty sure most people who supported this game, want their fucking money back. -.-

[@TrogdortheAnimator]

I'd rather be promised nothing and receive nothing than pay for empty promises.

[@TheSlammurai]

Sonic's official Twitter is a national treasure that must be protected.

[@CNWhatImSaiyan]

mobile.twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/849778711817666560

[@hazukichanx408]

When your platformer is being dumped on by Sonic, you may as well just sign up for the retiree olympics in the hope of bringing home at least a participation prize. ...The retiree game developer olympics. This metaphor is groaning, I admit. >.>;

[@KairosObj]

Let's not forget Wendy's lol.

[@AniGaAG]

@Makuta S-V You may have misunderstood or been out of the loop - the Sonic Twitter account is _(in)famous_ for some of the silliest, funniest shitposting and professional major league meming, doesn't even stop before its own damn franchise with it. It's just a good ol' bucket of... internet. xD

[@AniGaAG]

@Makuta S-V Not really sure what yer trying to tell me at all. That it's wrong to think something is funny when you don't? That it's wrong to be a fan of something when you aren't? And that all those horribly wrong people should all just totally go away and be elsewhere? : P

[@Then00bhunt3r]

I think Daikatana is the perfect parallel to Mighty No 9. They were both ugly, delayed, glitch riddled messes plagued with obnoxious and repulsive marketing campaigns. John Romero is still awesome though.

[@CNWhatImSaiyan]

I'll never be anyone's bitch, though

[@ThierryRocksTV]

+CN what I'm Saiyan? Tell that to your girlfriend XD

[@CNWhatImSaiyan]

+Demon Rantz NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@JustAndre92]

*+Gebel Hayter* Um, yes, actually, it is. Do a bit of research and see for yourself.

[@Then00bhunt3r]

Gebel Hayter The Wii U version crashes on a regular basis

[@Nikke-nn5mn]

the last time i came this early was when i googled jim sterling rule 34

[@isaacargesmith8217]

That actually does exist.

[@tgsachris]

Why do you know that?

[@Lyubimov89]

+tgsachris thing about r34 is that there ain't no exceptions

[@Hero_Puddle]

Roadhog pounding it... pounding it

[@jadeb9871]

+tgsachris that's the rule. even í could tell you that.

[@Montesama314]

Is that what "Dust: An Elysian Tail" looks like at 9:20? Because wow, that really DOES look better than Mighty No. 9. That minute of gameplay interested me in "Dust" more than the last month of publicity about MN9 put together.

[@sonicbhoc]

Dude, you need to play it. The game is solid. And you might want to check out Axiom Verge, Rabi-Ribi, and the Momodora series if you like metroidvanias.

[@Javetts]

I hate furry stuff, but it's just too good not to get.

[@chloecade9360]

I wouldn't really call it furry stuff. Few anthropomorphised works actually are made just to appeal to furries, I don't think Dust is one that was.

[@HighEvolutionary175]

That game was so damn good. All the time I played it I didn't know it was made by one person - Dean Dodrill. You should read his story too if you like this kind of thing. It's a truly inspiring story of persevering through the lowest lows for your passion, and coming out on top in the end (Since the game is so amazing and he's deservedly made a lot of money selling it). He even put A TON of effort on the PC Port because he takes pride in his work. If more devs were like this guy gaming would be 20 years ahead

[@makomk]

I think that's been through several rounds of video compression. Dust: An Elysian Tail actually looks even better in reality, especially the fighting which is too fast-paced and effects heavy to show up well on here. (Also on sale cheap on Steam.)

[@neroangelus469]

To this date I still have not received my copy of might no. 9 from the company, nor a refund. They basically stole my money. But I got a tee shirt so.. hey? its better than nothing -_-

[@elephystry]

Nero Angelus "I paid for a shitty game and all i got was this t shirt and wasted money"

[@neroangelus469]

Hey, at least the shirt will keep me warm? No idea might just huck it for a few bucks. The Yooka-Laylee people were nice enough to refund me for the game since I originally backed it for the Wii u but if you heard about that fiasco they had to move it to the switch. So since I was not going to buy an all new system for one game they were respectful and showed great customer service and refunded me. Funny that you mention it like that Conduit when I told the story to another individual punctuated it with the same joke.

[@elephystry]

;)

[@neroangelus469]

My favorite part is that customer support has just negligently ignored me by this point.

[@shelfdefence1112]

Did you ever manage to get a refund? Just curious

[@randomness928]

This is by far my favorite episode of the gospel bill show

[@Mesterick]

In all fairness, the game *did* make people cry like anime fans on prom night. Of course it was the funders and people who were fans of the game concept that did most of the crying, but hey, it succeeded in that goal at least!

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

There was probably at least one truly heartbroken fan of both MN9 and Anime who happened to discover how bad it all had gotten on what just happened to be their prom night.

[@SharpieSkunk]

What if Capcom has actually been developing a fully original Mega Man game for all this time, and is just waiting for the sour taste Mighty No. 9 left in our mouths to go away before revealing it? Just as a whole "Yeah, here's a game we'll actually deliver on!"

[@Duothimir]

MrQuirkyKirk And now we have Mega Man 11.

[@100billionsubscriberswithn4]

You are psychic, apparently.

[@ArioDragon]

Yep. Megaman 11 And Megaman X Legacy Collection.

[@OsirisLord]

And the legend of MN9's failure continues as this week, a year and a month later, physical boxes were finally shipped and not only do you have to manually assemble your box, but the instruction manual for the game doesn't fit in it.

[@mb2001]

Yeah, that's…that was a level of incompetence that I haven't seen surpassed (unless we're talking about Digital Homicide).

[@JustAndre92]

12:53 "But now the pressure is on _Bloodstained_ and _Yooka-Laylee_ to really knock it out of the park." Aaand then _Yooka-Laylee_ released to generally middling reviews (when they weren't just outright negative, like Jim's 2/10 score). For the first time, I'm genuinely worried about the future of crowdfunding.

[@Echomemes]

Sun Guy bloodstained is set to release in 2018

[@coreylineberry8557]

That, and a Hat in Time.

[@apurpledragon]

A Hat in Time where do I even begin, SUCH A FANTASTIC GAME WITH GREAT CONTROLS, COLORFUL ENVIRONMENTS, AND GOOD STORY/VOICE ACTING. (and no, that was not meant to be taken sarcastically it's actually pretty fun)

[@IWTBASSIFAT]

And don't forget 20XX, which Kickstarted as Echoes of Eridu, launched into early access, and just recently saw its 1.0 release. It's quite a nice little roguelike Megaman-y thing. Deep Silver could learn a thing or two about how to make trailers from them.

[@themangastand8475]

Yooka laylee was actually really good

[@ExodusCore]

"It's better than nothing" could be a nice forced meme.

[@duncanc3753]

Well, as far as memes go... it's better than nothing.

[@BoboMagroto26]

That would sound like what EA and Ubisoft would be saying....

[@HandmadeGoose97]

I hope this game doesn't hurt future Kickstarter projects, where this game has failed there are many good games waiting to get developed. Look at Undertale, that was a success

[@HandmadeGoose97]

Its called watch the video until the end, I should have done that

[@WhaleMayCry]

Even the best of us make mistakes

[@ZlatkoTheGod]

Don't forget Yuka Laylee or however the fuck it's written...

[@Eon2641]

I mean... the thing is, it already has hurt them. People are going to remember this one for quite a while every time they hear the word "kickstarter", and they're going to hesitate to put money down. Even if they end up doing it it's going to add a whole lot of anxiety and paranoia to the mix that isn't going to help anyone. But I think we all knew that was going to happen with the age of crowdfunding still in its infancy, and tbh having a little paranoia to spare is probably going to be a good thing in the long run.

[@theblocksays]

Uh, hello? Indivisible is also shaping up to be another big hit from Lab Zero after Skullgirls!

[@timbonetonight.4416]

Dude, I freaking love what you say in your show. I like that you just say what you want without worry about what other companies will say and think.

[@DeMoraJS]

Leave it to Jim Sterling to thoroughly explain this whole debacle. Keep at it son, but DON'T slack off!

[@binaryp69]

What about that crazy chick who became the community manager, banned any backers from the forum who disagreed with her, told the art team that fans wanted Beck to be a transgender, and pretty much shitted up the relationship between the backers and the developers. Why does no one ever talk about her? She messed shit up as well.

[@ghostfear2011]

Jim has a bias in that particular issue.

[@binaryp69]

+ghostfear2011 still, while you can argue for or against her political views, no one can agree with her decision to ban backers from the forums, and refuse to give them their refunds. Even if you agree with her views, a community manager is supposed to create harmony between the community and the developers, not hostility. I remember she even told backers to not buy the game when it came out, she's terrible at her job.

[@hauptmannspadio]

+Michael Prymula Non-constructive much?

[@ghostfear2011]

+Michael Prymula Actively destroying the MN9 community BEFORE ANYTHING WAS REVEALED is a bad PR manager.

[@meleemastermaa1449]

I heard that the backers that were banned didn't even had their names displayed in the credits, they were just referenced as a "Generous Backer".

[@theskarzznetwork]

Jim, I am currently being restrained by some chains of love, any advice?

[@JimSterling]

In Case of Love Emergency, Break Chains.

[@hellomynametoby]

ooh, breaking those chains left a tingly feeling on my willy Jim... good tip.

[@kuddlykennen2893]

That's not the only good tip , hue hue.

[@pantsinorbit4387]

Don't give up.

[@theskarzznetwork]

Jim Sterling I may have to watch the end of your Link Jimquisiton for instruction. Appreciated x

[@jben10000]

What a high-quality piece of audio-visual content! That definitely did/did not show a lot of memes and/or effort! Well done content creator! He/she did some things that elicited certain emotions from my person, that made me react in a certain way that may, or may not align with that of the rest of the viewing audience. Truly a meretricious piece of content!

[@GalanDun]

Funny how Yooka Laylee came out, screwed up, and put all of the weight on Bloodstained's shoulders.

[@ootdega]

>Hope potentially millions of people are screwed over to spite a single man on the Internet who will never know you exist, because of his opinion of an alpha build of a video game. I didn't expect an 8-year-old to know who Jim Sterling is. Do you have your parents' permission to be here?

[@ootdega]

I'm not sure how people would be expected to know these things beforehand. Especially the Japanese big-names, who are almost always an enigma to begin with. Not to mention I don't see what's wrong with people having scorn against the big studios who screwed things up to the point that they sought them elsewhere. It's not a "fuck you," it's a "fuck you too." I mean, with Bloodstained, the "fuck you" would be to Konami. Konami is Konami, and Konami is the worst. Fuck Konami.

[@ootdega]

I was calling what you said immature, because without context, it was. There was no strawman at any point, nor was there really any attack. Plenty of sarcasm, but no attack. Still kinda is immature, to be honest. Shitting on people for what someone else did with the money they gave them in exchange for the reward they wanted. Might as well mock people for getting bad drops from a lootbox. You do not make sense.

[@AngryNerdBird]

It weirds me out that people say Yooka Laylee was a screw-up, when that game is EXACTLY what was promised. Way too many of us forgot about all the annoying bullshit that came with those older games, because we were too busy being hype over some nostalgia.

[@mitchellbaran7917]

+Angry Nerd Bird - "It weirds me out that people say Yooka Laylee was a screw-up, when that game is EXACTLY what was promised" - I'd argue that's a very subjective statement, though; the recent release of Dead Cells shows how you can have a game be a return to nostalgic formula and yet make allowances for modern innovations or developments. What was promised with Yooka-Laylee was a spiritual successor. But what nobody expected was for that game to effectively be a step backwards into an older style rather then a *continuation* of the series' legacy.

[@RothurThePaladin]

You are gonna get a lot of mileage out of that Conan meme.

[@TotemSP2]

and now that you've said that, the meme is now dead.

[@uniquehandleohsocool]

+Totem RIP MEME

[@RothurThePaladin]

like Jim it will never die.

[@RAFMnBgaming]

#ThankGodForMeme

[@marshallperry2446]

Jim will die, soon, i think, muhahahahahahahahhahjahahahahhjduhfgrgrgrrggg.

[@mojoforthewin3069]

8:37 damn sonic is a savage

[@CNWhatImSaiyan]

He also did one on the "anime fan on prom night" "joke" where he sympathized that at least they'll be with with them...and the image they used was the box art image of Sonic 06 behind explosions of pepperoni pizza! Then the unthinkable happened: Digiorno's pizza respond saying Sonic was "the fresh baked pizza of gaming while the other side (MN9) was a delayed mess."

[@Chadius]

Also look for Sonic running past a Pizza Explosion pic.

[@Gormathius]

"I've been goof-bushed by myself" It took a lot of watching random old videos KZbin suggests for me, but I think I may have found the quote of the decade.

[@DigitalMonsters]

14:10 "Watching for free you fucking parasites!" made me laugh way more than it should have xD

[@CornishCreamtea07]

That comment at the end. mark my words Jim, I will find you, I will send you a STRONGLY worded letter and it WILL make you cry.

[@sevionus80]

like a anime fa... STOP! I will NOT! ...n on prom night. SHIT!

[@jomeoperkins9333]

But life's good when you're an anime fan on prom night! Because instead of wearing uncomfortable clothes, hanging around with people I hate and mock-dancing to shit-awful music, I'm at home watching Assassination Classroom with a cup of tea and a toasted cheese sandwich.

[@DonPancho1]

hey that sounds nice

[@RuSosan]

... What if he doesn't read it? Oh wait, did you mean you're gonna hide some cut onions in the envelope?

[@CornishCreamtea07]

+RuSosan I will seal it with an Iconic wax seal.

[@TraustiGeir]

14:14 This is why I love your stuff, Mr. Sterling. Yes, I am one of those parasites.

[@chloraloner7]

One day you're going to use the entirety of Frontier Psychiatrist as a cold open, aren't you?

[@JustAndre92]

God, I hope so.

[@dextrodemon]

kiss boy needs therapy?

[@chloraloner7]

Lie down on the couch!

[@tokega]

What does that mean?

[@spacemanbassman1608]

YOU'RE A NUT. YOU CRAZY IN THE COCONUT.

[@TimToborne]

Dust was made by one dude and was still really good, the voice acting wasn't great, but it was better than m9. xD

[@phinweewee]

Dust's voice acting still sounded better than M9 imo lol.

[@ZoddGuts]

He also needs to hire an actual character artist next time as well.

[@kalo47powercore]

That game looks amazing! I might actually get that game

[@TimToborne]

***** I can't watch english dubs of animes anymore. ;-; I just wish Japanese dubs of women weren't always so loud. Why do they always make them shatter my eardrums? ;-;

[@RealBigDeal22]

I didn't enjoy anything about dust.

[@LS-Lizzy]

I feel sorry for all the Mega Man fans who were let down by this, I have a friend I remember being so excited about it when it got announced, it sucks that it turned out this way. I was never really interested in Mighty No.9, never played a Mega Man game, I have backed Bloodstained though and stuff like this about Kickstarter projects does come off as worrisome! I played the Backer Demo though the other day and enjoyed what was there, so I'm still pretty optimistic!

[@lordxtheth2634]

Before today I was just too broke... Now I'm a parasite. I think I'm going to find a corner and cry.

[@Romanticoutlaw]

hope you didn't actually take his goof seriously, friend

[@lordxtheth2634]

not even a little bit

[@Timesmanify]

Are you an anime fan? Was it prom night?

[@lordxtheth2634]

Srcasm... yes.

[@BobLogical]

"Yooka-Laylee still looks excellent." - Jim Sterling, 2016

[@DynaDere]

I wasn't involved in this mess at all myself, but from an outside view I would just like to point out that it seems like a damn shame that Red Ash failed, because that art at 5:38 is fucking beautiful

[@OldyAlbert]

Well - kickstarter is exacly that - you put not your money, but your reputation on the line. If you create a bad game for your or your publisher's money - you still can get a second chance. If you so spectaculary fail a kickstarter succsess - it's almost impossible to get you reputation back from that. Espesially not with "it's better then nothing" attitude.

[@Knights_of_the_Nine]

I agree. The system is working as intended.

[@bryanmoberg8408]

Three years later....Bloodstained is FINALLY out, and it rules. Yooka-Laylee was fine, not great, but I liked it.

[@BearAnkles]

Shutup Bryan

[@engineergaming1537]

Behave Yourself, Behave yourself.

[@BearAnkles]

@@engineergaming1537 I'm trying. We all have our faults.

[@zachruhl6008]

Darkest Dungeon is a amazing kick starter game

[@OrangeyChocolate]

Funny how Jim talks about Yooka-Laylee in this video, considering how that particular venture turned out.

[@gabelouis]

Hindsight am I right?

[@OrangeyChocolate]

We'd better call Captain Hindsight! He'll know what to point out and tell us we should have done instead!

[@ShootingStarNeo]

>Delayed for a year. As someone who backed the Hiveswap Kickstarter in 2012, looking forward to the Summer 2014 release date, all I can say is "cute".

[@phoenixlich]

aint never heard of that, is it a game?

[@olbluehat]

Well there's your problem: You had ANYTHING TO DO WITH HOMESTUCK. >Has been reading since before Problem Sleuth started >Crying bloody tears over how much of a shit show Homestuck turned into

[@jjmara01]

pretty much a homestuck game thing if i remember, i never really liked it or know anything on homestuck but i had friends who were fans of it

[@umbra1091]

+Cooltrainer Ian it was supposed to be an adventure game based on the webcomic Homestuck i think and it got fully funded and the developers the HS team hired kinda.. stole all the money for that new king's quest

[@UltimaKeyMaster]

Why the fuck are we actually blaming Homestuck when the game's dev team BETRAYED Hussie in the first place?

[@meatmachine144]

"When Sonic can dunk on you, you dun' truly fucked up." This is the whole video, abridged in a single quote.

[@CNWhatImSaiyan]

"And don't get me started on Digiorno's!"

[@TheTheDontae]

Anybody remember those GameBoy advance MegaMan zero games. where you're lives depended on the left and right trigger?

[@ChubbsRN]

those games were great. hard as hell, but they had great art style, music, and the RPG elements were fantastic. Kinda felt like a metroidvamia.

[@SilverNightbane]

To be fair, the guys who made those games are making the Gunvolt series now.

[@blackstarfreeman34]

those where great games

[@yobin3711]

I fucking love those games.

[@WesleyWashington]

Ya mean Azure Striker Gunvolt?

[@GregHuffman1987]

"The pressure is on Yookalalee to knock it out of the park" uhh ohh

[@lagartijamuerta]

watching after Mega Man 11 announcement

[@thefastestlink5637]

Dude, bloodstained is looking pretty cool! Go watch QG's play through of the demo!

[@Spaced92]

It's honestly pretty impressive and fun for how early the build is. Shame it caused a fatal system error on my PC. I think they wanted to show it because they knew Mighty No 9 would raise questions lol, and it did make me feel good about the progress.

[@sosasees]

Mighty Number 9 is a Kickstarter case study of what NOT to do: 1. Don't increase ambitions when you unexpectedly get much more money than you asked for. Just do what you promised and don't add anything new to the todo list, unless you're ABSOLUTELY sure what you're doing (Maybe add one or two things you want to do extra, but don't do them & don't promise them unless you've done all the other things you've promised) 2. Don't run multiple simultaneous Kickstarters for different projects. Finish one project and then start the next. 3. Don't make unexpected overhauls. Since you've already spent much of your limited Kickstarter time on the thing you've done before the overhaul, your overhauled thing is likely bound to be worse than the thing that you did before the overhaul. 4. Don't make stretch goals for porting your game to every single system under the sun. Instead, wait until it sold well enough to get ported to the other systems. Focussing on less game systems will drastically improve the quality of your game.

[@RubianGaming]

Jim you didn't also mention the scandal a few years ago when Comcept hired a community manager who is her own words "had never played Mega Man and wasn't really a fan". Then people found out she got the job purely because she was dating one of the higher ups. then when people started to criticize MN9 on the fan forums she deleted those posts as the community manager and never reported the criticism to her superiors. The she was promoted to an extra artist and started pitching concept art with self insert art of herself into the game. People were pissed.

[@MinecraftxFan1995]

I was thinking about that through half the video, actually, I'm glad someone else remembers.

[@slayertakim1]

I never heard of this o.o

[@MinecraftxFan1995]

slayertakim1 encyclopediadramatica.se/Mighty_Number_9#Feminists_Take_Over here ya go

[@LieseFury]

Yep, I was hoping Jim would directly mention her, but since he decided to pick sides in the events coinciding with the MN9 fiasco, that didn't happen.

[@IyatehLolita]

The 'only got a job because she was dating someone' was admitted to be untrue and retracted (the internet detective admitted he couldn't even find evidence she was dating either), EncyclopediaDramatica keeps it up for the lulz though. The alleged mass bannings were not Dina's choice alone (they had to be approved by someone else), they had to be approved by others. And she left in 2015.

[@ricardodevilee5078]

Make the badguys cry like Keiji Inafune reading Metacritic reviews

[@MilanousMedia]

The irony is if Jim had said "that's enough about UK's Prime Minister" this would still be relevant

[@laurenbastin8849]

My god, watching this now the resemblance is uncanny to Shenmue 3, they even got deep silver as a publisher!

[@zerovolt1406]

I must confess, I was initially expecting something much less fair. I am pleasantly surprised by the quality and humor of your channel!

[@BenWillock]

It looks like a bad Unity game.

[@meleemastermaa1449]

The characters looks like they were bought straight from Unity asset store.

[@KaiserAfini]

True, but its supposed to be Unreal engine. However, Unity is not a bad engine, Dan Marshall made The Swindle in Unity, and that game is amazing.

[@BenWillock]

KaiserAfini Very true, I probably should have said "it looks like a bad amateurish Unity game".

[@eirational6153]

+Ben Willock That's an insult to shitty unity games. I would rather play a UnitZ clone than this piece of shit game. At least they aren't insulting anime fans and ruining crowdfunding.

[@Nicoarielpkr]

Let's not forget Hearthstone for example

[@ChristianNeihart]

I hope to god Yooka Laylee, Bloodstained, and Indivisible turn out all right.

[@scroomshake]

I got the demo, and it made me want more, and thats the best that a demo can do, make the consumer want more of what was presented, so ya, I have too much faith in them

[@jamzilla960]

+David Reding They did make skullgirls,so I think they should be fine

[@dstarr3]

We Happy Few, as well.

[@isaacargesmith8217]

Well the indivisible creators have done kickstarted stuff before while also having experience making games. It'll probably be pretty good.

[@JustAndre92]

*+MetalShadowChaos* Heck, you can play all of them; backers of _Bloodstained_ and _Yooka-Laylee_ now have playable demos, and _Indivisible_ had one from the very beginning that anyone with a Steam account can go and download to this day. That's the kind of display of confidence and transparency that causes me not to be worried about any of those projects, despite having immersed myself in the _Mighty No. 9_ debacle over the past week.

[@cyanmanta]

We already have a spiritual successor to Mega Man. It's called Shovel Knight.

[@easyvnie6496]

These 2 games have nothing in common despite being sidescrollers. Stupid comment.

[@iamabrawler92]

"On the plus side, Yooka-Laylee is still excellent"... Oh, Jim, Jim, Jim...

[@LambastMercy]

But we're happy parasite for the 15 minutes or so we listen to the righteous tirade of creative explicatives you level at worthy targets.

[@TerribleShoes]

I sadly backed this so I know the feeling of never wanting to crowdfund again

[@johndecapio9725]

""capcom didnt give a shit about megaman" -Jim Sterling campcom announced megaman 11

[@Sergeantmajormario]

Dust was also made by a guy who didn't even know how to Code, he was just an Animator at first

[@zaphod888]

"Yooka-Laylee should come out and restore faith in crowd funding". Yep. That worked out...

[@dr6559]

A majority of people who backed it seem happy with it. In that sense, it didn't fail.

[@stwbmc98]

I knew you were going to make a Jimquisition about this.

[@JimSterling]

Who couldn't have guessed it? It was a pretty obvs pick. :-)

[@uniquehandleohsocool]

+Jim Sterling Such a huge surprise! I mean, you only mentioned it on Podquisition!

[@mikkmakk901]

And on his twitter

[@maxbauman2898]

Well, as bad as sonic colors was, at least it was more honest and vibrant than this shit. (Also I'm over that, so an unblocking from ask.fm would be nice.)

[@slendy9600]

+Jim Sterling fine work as always jim

[@jamaneee]

ohh to watch this from the future

[@AshMcFarlane]

what was that at the beginning?

[@liampendergast8670]

Why it's the Gospel Bill show! Have you been living under a rock?

[@iblobtouch]

Featuring Gospel Bill!

[@dragon8tor442]

+L Pendergast Yeah because everyone knows an old show.

[@JimSterling]

It was fairly self explanatory. The Dry Gulch remembers.

[@lupianwolf]

From a squirty play Jim did of the game 'Age of Barbarian'

[@cherminatorDR]

"But that's enough about David Cameron" - lol, that cracked me up.

[@Cantimule]

Now we just need Bloodstained to fail to complete the disappointment.

[@BoboMagroto26]

Still interested in it, I can't have nostalgia for it's SS because there isn't any, I haven't played Castlevania and seeing some play the game like Jim, it's interesting at most

[@2la84me]

Nah. Iga sipped the wine glass, tossed it, and screamed "HAVE AT YOU."

[@bagandtag4391]

Can someone explain me the "Anime fan on prom night"? Dafuq is prom night?

[@hongmeiling6065]

anime fan detected

[@markuswiezorrek7490]

Prom Night: The final party at the end of High School in the USA. It is tradition that the students come as a couple. Add to that the stereotype that Anime fans have no Real Life girlfriends, so they do not have anybody to go with on this important night. The result is that they cry. I suggest you take a look at some teenage comedy movies from the 1980s. It seems that most of them have the plot "how the protagonist gets a girl for Prom Night".

[@surlyandroid]

Prom is a popular school dance in the U.S.

[@OriginalPiMan]

It's a semiformal social event held by many American high schools involving dancing and music. The general expectation on students is that they bring a date, a feat that stereotypical anime fans are not capable of. Watch almost any sitcom set in an American high school and there will be an episode with prom night or a similar event; even many movies with American high schools have it.

[@bagandtag4391]

lol

[@leahl5007]

I really really liked when Jim made himself laugh at the end of the video 😋 It was very cute and endearing lol

[@admiralbananas]

3:14 "On the plus side, Yooka-Laylee still looks excellent" *heart breaks*

[@finnwilliams8404]

And then Yooka-Laylee happened. Oh dear.

[@chrisrpg2038]

2:47 My god, how does the prototype look better than the final product itself?

[@losnfjslefn8857]

That's what I'm trying to figure out. Maybe because they decided to make the game for practically every gaming platform, instead of just focusing on a few, it had a negative impact on the graphics.

[@chrisrpg2038]

Yeah it did. Maybe it would of been better if the graphics look like that on the main consoles ,while it would look similar to Gunvolt on handhelds.

[@AngryShooter]

Shhhh, it's better than nothing. Now give us some more several million moneys.

[@cococolonel]

"Shortchange" - THAT's the word I was looking for once I saw the disappointment bleed all over the Internet, and finally it hit me. No four hour half-assed "thank you" crawl in the credits is going to fix that. Backers were shortchanged because they didn't get their money's worth; that's the core of the drama. If a sequel of better quality squeezes out of Comcept in the future it'd be no more than what Blackwell said: Inafune cleaning up his own mess doesn't make him a visionary.

[@haha-pw7nv]

ah the age old question: where tf all that money go

[@TrevorZero]

I guess you could say we are all crying....like anime fans....

[@DragoonBB]

...on prom night?

[@TrevorZero]

indeed

[@uniquehandleohsocool]

Its not prom night and im not into anime but im still crying

[@cool66677]

#Replacethepoundwithdankmemes

[@uniquehandleohsocool]

"That will be 3 Doges and 1 troll face" "Do you accept meme cards?"

[@cool66677]

I accept, kind, sir.

[@oreo507]

Don't forget Bitcoin

[@hyperdude144]

What's the exchange rate?

[@cool66677]

hyperdude144 Hard to say. Would depend on the dankness of the meme. Depending on its worth. I am just with the movement not with the technicality's.

[@Dungeon00X]

Looking back at this 7 years later, this is still one of the great episodes. In the time between the upload of this video and now; Capcom has made a huge comeback and made a brand new Mega Man game and a few collections of the big titles. Playtonic made a Donkey Kong Country like game out of partially failed Yooka-Laylee game. And Chinese developer Fuze went under being absorbed back into it's parent company and were about to acquire the entirety of Comcept until Level-5 bought them out making them a mobile gaming subsidiary of their company. Personally, I feel pretty good knowing Inafune almost got what was coming to him (fuck around and find out, amirite?). What I feel even better about is that Capcom is now free from the person who was ruining the company from the inside and restoring faith in it's playerbase.

[@Andri474]

You know what, it's not better than nothing. It should have stayed nothing. Megaman was better off dead. It's not technically Megaman, but it's a damn shame.

[@uniquehandleohsocool]

Oh well, i guess i'll just enjoy the Legacy Collection

[@Andri474]

Sir Musty I see people posting on Steam that the Legacy Collection is just a bad emulation and not a proper port. Seems like there's really no hope for Megaman.

[@uniquehandleohsocool]

+Andri474 Yeah its pretty shit m8 but i wanna jump and shoot lemons

[@Andri474]

Sir Musty Fair enough.

[@EmilyRose900]

LC works fine on console, not great, but not bad. Sad the PC version is bad. The Aniversary edition is the best with 1-8 on 1 disc. LC was a ripoff imo.

[@joshuaoriley6795]

"Some of you are just watching for free you fucking parasite!" That made me laugh. Aaaand subscribe.

[@thomasalvarenga2839]

Mighty No.9 goes to show how money, time and team don't make a good game, it is effort that makes a good game. Just look at Scott Cawthon and what he has done, he made a great game franchise for zero dollars. You are better off paying $4.99 for FNAF 1 than anything for MN9.

[@leon4000]

And if you check out Scott Cawthon's background his games were a bit friendly, he changed his tune with what he created, made it full of suspense, scares, and such, and bam, he has a popular franchise.

[@tiacat11]

I'm not a huge fan of FNAF, but I admire Scott Cawthon a LOT. He is exactly the kind of man creators should strive to be.

[@Mephaistus]

So get this! I heard of Mighty no9. So i didnt care for looking up about it. KZbin went ahead and filled my recommended with videos about it. From people i never watched no less. No matter what i watched, how long i ignored, even months later i still get those videos in my recommended list.... Well least it introduced me to Jim.

[@armornick]

You call me a parasite?! You hurt my feeling! I will now sue you for 100 MILLION DOLLARS! -insert Dr Evil wink-

[@YouDonkeyfu]

3 years later, jim was right about UK being fucked.

[@akhannar9368]

13:15 "On the plus side Yooka-LayLee still looks excellent" - anybody here watching this in 2018?

[@jonknight4616]

Wasteland 3, from the makers of the successfully funded 2, is also now being crowdfunded on the new platform, fig. You also forgot to mention the successful crowdfunding of Shadowrun and its second game, Shadowrun: Hong Kong.