What Killed the Angry Birds Franchise?

[@KylerBLOX]

I think rovio can redeem themselves, especially some of the projects there working on like “bad piggies 2”, but right now they are in serious hot water with the fans!

[@Pēm̐cā]

I think rn they're trying to bring back 2012 a bit and plus a a piggies sequal shows they sort of care.

[@lebollsong]

They need to focus on their og fanbase, their modern fanbase and the lawsuit. They're clearly in a huge dilemma

[@Someguy-ze7kp]

Bad piggies 2 is in a weird state right now. I think it got canceled this year but nothing no new news. Rovio might still be working on it but I don’t know

[@screemuproductions8924]

@@Someguy-ze7kp Nah, we have no news about bad piggies 2, it can be either that they are developing bad piggies 2 very slowly or they just recanceled it without telling it to the ab community so they wouldn't be mad.

[@GoogalyB]

@@Someguy-ze7kp the early version of the game was scrapped back in 2020. The game itself is still happening.

[@oznelnavnaekal6679]

No matter how Angry Birds has gone downhill, I will always remember the times between 2009 and 2016 (that was the year when Seasons ended) as being one of the most popular games on mobile and computer.☺️

[@bencecoconutcreeper8830]

true

[@bluehorizon9490]

angry birds space 😢

[@Zooasaurus]

Definitely

[@lemonboy21]

@@bluehorizon9490 yeah my favourite was AB Space

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

I remember early 2010s when plants vs zombies,angry birds and pocket tank deluxe were popular. Afterwards everyone started making mobile gaming and added ads in them

[@historygaming3765]

let's remind ourselves that in the first Angry Birds movie, there was a copyright-free version of Never gonna give you up, meaning that anyone who watched the movie has been rickrolled.

[@PhantomOfficial07]

copyright free version?

[@historygaming3765]

@@PhantomOfficial07 yes

[@humanbeing3551]

@@PhantomOfficial07 If I am correct, it is the moment when Mighty Eagle flies off his mountain.

[@justcometingidearshi3636]

Link pls?

[@underthestory396]

Fun fact: that's the first time i ever got rickrolled.

[@kylejohnson268]

I REALLY miss Angry Birds seasons. Those environments got me in the mood for those times of year so perfectly. I wish they'd just keep making those forever.

[@phaserunner1984]

The background music for some of the world's were just pure nostalgia

[@phaserunner1984]

Especially Ham o ween

[@Green_Pix-L]

The current seasons of the game just suck.

[@royerthedestroyer7]

Yeah, I miss it so much too, it was so nostalgic 😢

[@WhiteStripesStripiestFan]

The Chinese New Year one is unreal!

[@logandearborn1478]

Just a small addition to your list of the birds' abilities: the Blues are strong vs ice/glass (however you look at it), Chuck is strong vs wood, and Bomb is strong vs stone

[@kindofanmol]

ah man the good old days

[@VishnuPandey93]

And bubbles is strong against woods

[@dontopen_txt]

Transluscent sugar blocks

[@Nickel0101]

Then there's Terrence Nothing can stop him

[@get-memed]

@@Nickel0101 only his own mind can stop him.

[@juliamavroidi8601]

Say about the movies what you want, they really did a great job with the designs: Making them look appealing in 3D while keeping them recognizable. As for Rovio thenselves, I really hope they'll continue putting out remakes if the old games. But they also shouldn't be afraid of branching out like tgey did with Angry Birds Epic. Would be sad to see such a pioneer of mobile gaming go.

[@joostine3720]

Not only were the designs well done but the way they added depth to the characters and plot made it such an enjoyable surprise to come out of a mobile game movie, i had low hopes going into it but not even gonna lie they’re among my favorite animated kids movies

[@horizqn4976]

@@joostine3720 child animations for chads😎

[@bahhumbug5467]

@@BriFiConnections really? Do it then I wanna see cuphead in 3d lemme know when it’s done ☺️

[@conic2721]

@@bahhumbug5467 Smash Ultimate's Mii skin is a pretty good version (as far as a Mii can go) of Cuphead.

[@joostine3720]

@@BriFiConnections you missed what they’re saying, the point is that the animation team _didn’t_ simply slap on a z axis. look at the movie compared to the games, the characters aren’t just 3d versions of themselves they’re new designs that are _based_ on the 2d characters

[@k17317-m]

Angry Birds is so unbelievably nostalgic. Wish it could make a HUGE comeback in modern times like this; imagine everyone talking about and playing an Angry Birds game(s) in 2023. Wild.

[@jaxzonpfile-blakely6370]

We gonna ignore the fact Angry Bird Transformers wasnt mentioned??

[@SFAGYT]

idek how it wasn't even mentioned, like one of the most fun and interesting ones out there

[@luisevanperezbasanez944]

Its so death 💀 and it gets boring after like a Day and gets fun again after like a week and then it becomes a cycle

[@shiningstone6771]

Why it should be mentioned when it's still available in PlayStore?

[@SebastianRangel-j8k]

@@shiningstone6771 Yes we are

[@spaghettiisyummy.3623]

​@@luisevanperezbasanez944TRUE.

[@WanderfromSOTC]

This series is what got me into gaming,my first game

[@GiNgertheman]

same

[@notarandomuser5800]

Same i was like 5 year old when i first played it

[@ThunderingEagleJediBob51]

Same

[@cocaine7371]

Angry man plays angry game

[@slypenir]

Idk what my first game was, but my dad always downloaded games on his phone and they always went onto my tablet, and angry birds was the first downloaded so probably angry birds

[@deedgemaster]

The fact that bad piggies survived the purge and is still going strong after 10 whole years is absolutely insane Bad piggies built my childhood and I wouldn’t be anything without it and the community around it

[@MateoC812]

Angry birds transformers exists

[@MateoC812]

Tbh its a good game, just not really angry birds or transfotmers

[@DaddyDellConagher]

Bad piggies isn’t really talked about as much as it did in the past. It’s just something that happened in the back of your mind and you never really acknowledge it until you do

[@4SiblingStudios]

AB Star Wars 2 literally was one of the games I NEVER got bored of Rovio: TOO BAD! IM DELETING IT!

[@radiokunio3738]

@Anonymous 2918 Argeed, like if any game deserved a console port it was bad piggies, like imagine playing it on the 3ds or Wii back in the 2010's it whould have been great. Heck it could work on switch now.

[@mykeyboardismelting6856]

Angry Birds Epic shocked me as a kid. It was... it was just so good, like holy hell, it had double the amount of content than most angry birds game s I had played combined. It took me as much time as it did to beat Angry Birds Star Wars w DLC than to reach the midpoint of Epic, and I still haven't finished it. I'm really disappointed that it never got the sales it deserved.

[@probablyanon]

When i was younger and watched it first time i was looking for hours for the name of the game...

[@travelguide4102]

I miss that game soooo much

[@sedeen5322]

@Keaton Richards too bad, niether I or my friends knew about it its like it just went under the radar of most people in our time

[@davidt8087]

I remember thinking when angry birds came out how sad it is that kids are obsessed with a terrible game and no longer go outside alone from age 7 to 18, staying out till night abd making friends double or three times our age, instead of sitting home watching a screen like your generation. Yuck what a pathetic, sad generation

[@majikss]

@David T if you hate kids why are you even watching a video about angry birds, you're a loser

[@ZZ-qy5mv]

I’ll tell you this, behind every cash grab movie, there’s always a bunch of artists trying to make the most out of the script and material and inject as much heart and artistry as they can. If they’re lucky, it might actually show.

[@JerrybearTV]

I thought the movies were good tbh

[@xx_n00bk1ll3rZ_xx]

Have you ever seen the designs of the movies? I would say the animation is the best part of the movie the designs are great and looks very expressive, Disney like

[@supremeseregios6810]

I really do miss this series. Going into more recent games during 2018 basically made me realise that all those whimsical memories and fantasies of fun I had were basically gone. And seriously, if Rovio wants to say to their fans that they're trying to make things better for them, best to just do it, since actions always speak louder than words.

[@text-6338]

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[@michaelmccoubrey4211]

This is not the only occurrence of a major mobile game being abandoned. The same happened to infinity blade, which was probably my favourite mobile game. I just wish that if companies want to abandon the maintenance of their games, they simply make the code and assets open source so that it community can maintain it.

[@dav1d9]

Infinity blade from fortnite???

[@michaelmccoubrey4211]

@@dav1d9 infinity blade had three games and was made by epic (creators of Fortnite) and yes recently I think they added the infinity blade from the game series.

[@perspectiveflip]

NEW BLOODLINE.... awesome game!!

[@gajelasdah1109]

The only reason why I wanted to buy iPhone, sad it's discontinued and now I wish there is a rip-off version on android. It would be much better than having none at all.

[@lukelader]

Well, Epic Games did that. They uploaded the game's content to the Unreal marketplace and it's now available for free for anyone.

[@speedentron]

You forgot to mention how they massacred angry birds go afterwards. It probably was my favorite game in series and what is happening to it now just makes me want to cry.

[@eliahaj2233]

It was also my favorite angry birds game but I am in the dark here what happened to the game after I stopped playing it?

[@speedentron]

@@eliahaj2233, now you have to collect (or buy for real money) cars. Previously there were 4 locations and you had to use certain cars on each. Now you have to own all types of cars for each location... You better try it yourself. I'm just furious qbout it.

[@stancer25]

@@eliahaj2233 iiiiii88uu7

[@jimmywatson9571]

@@speedentron I stopped playing a while ago when they first introduced the energy bar which limited the playing time in one go significantly, not sure how long ago that was though

[@LOLzum101]

@@jimmywatson9571 no way they made an energy bar wtfffffff

[@timedanimates8026]

It sucks that the power of a movie got to their head and they thought it would be better to remove everything. Angry birds epic was by far one of the best games i ever played

[@the_supern0va238]

This was the first game my grandpa ever got into and he was the one who introduced me to it in 2011 when I was 5 or 6 years old with the original on his old, tiny, outdated phone. I've played every single game since then, I genuinely grew up with this franchise. I really hope it can come back someday.

[@cabronineedtoseeurballs]

Same but he showed me it on our old family computer

[@TheFallenDemon]

Very wholesome. Hope he's doin' good! 💜

[@the_supern0va238]

@@TheFallenDemon Unfortunately no, has passed away about 4 and a half years ago of cancer.

[@realperson9951]

@@the_supern0va238 hope hes doing good in heaven then, feeding birds and protecting eggs from heavenly pigs

[@annexamv2776]

That's.... Actually cute!

[@parthamete821]

I was searching for angry birds Rio and seasons a few months ago on play store but i couldn't find them and that really surprised me as they were highly popular game when i was a teenager. Now i got to know what really happened. Ravio should have never deleted their classic games, they were so fun to all age groups😔

[@aldoseitlli6034]

@@themonlight13 Holy shit i downloaded them from history all except angry birds space, i remember playing it.

[@uku4171]

They didn't have the resources to keep them afloat

[@fricki1997]

You should still be able to find their APK files online

[@bleghcat]

Are the mobile game companies declared bankruptcy because of their government money lossing controversy? Is rovio Mocking at Starwars? Nintendo took lawsuit at rovio for over coping Mario kart?

[@Ducky5981]

It's strange I was looking for angry birds epic which wasn't available on my new phone but I went to previously downloaded games and I managed to get it on my new phone

[@frederickapodaca578]

It's a shame that you can't play the old games anymore as I really loved the star wars ones since those were what got me in both franchises

[@danimatronix]

Fr like that was my favorite 💀

[@SunbrokenHunter]

Angry Birds Star Wars 2 was fucking lit bro

[@thealmightymoron7237]

Yeah that was my favorite

[@PhantomOfficial07]

I just pirated the ones they took down and it works

[@hishamrashid5293]

As a kid a thought angry birds star wars 2 was cool as hell. Soo many new characters and u can switch into the pigs. It was chefs kiss.👌

[@andyblargextra]

I'm honestly so happy you mentioned Crush the Castle. I played that game WAY before Angry Birds.

[@warframehunter7298]

Holy shit yeah, waaaay back in the day

[@the_jingo]

Same it was a great game

[@oscarpiquet620]

omggg i played it too

[@shercrox8650]

Me tooo. Thats game was great.

[@donflamingo795]

Android version exists

[@darkfoxxy88]

I still miss Angry Birds Seasons man Seeing that show up made me sad because it was my first angry birds aside from the OG and AB Rio. It was and still is by far my favorite too

[@nickk3077]

Do you guys remember some other amazing games published by Rovio that no one cared about? Y'know games like Retry, Amazing Alex, and especially Tiny Thief! The latter was so good that Nintendo even published it on Wii U in Japan! Too bad all of these games are forgotten, among probably many others!

[@r0sylem0nss0da]

YES, THESE THREE!!! But I do only know Amazing Alex and Tiny Thief! Also, had played one of them, hehe!

[@LordBackuro]

Yeah i absolutely remember These games i played them all.

[@snapcountersteer]

Retry was the first game that I noticed had been removed. Too bad, it was dripping with charm.

[@mc_woj_dripin]

Tiny thief was amazing

[@MasterNabber]

I ALWAYS wished they made a squeal to tiny thief, the gameplay was so simple but beautiful and the art was awesome too. So glad to see yall remember it

[@Duckyplayz-cm1ur]

Short answer: Rovio's stupidity for removing literally almost all of their good games

[@vwlz8637]

fr i miss angry birds star wars

[@tomou_]

@@vwlz8637you can still buy the game on 3ds if you have one

[@kossibwaya]

​@@vwlz8637 And star Wars 2, Rio , Space , Go and Épic. I just Wanna cry now😢😢😢😢

[@jackbauer408]

I feel angry birds didn’t just fall and die. I think trends just changed. I don’t think anyone would ever argue it’s not a bad game. It was just a matter of taste in trends

[@SnaksiXD]

You mentioned the part where Rovio was a publisher, and the first thing I thought of was Rovio Stars. They published Fathom Interactive's Sky Punks, an "endless" runner-game with a world and characters with depth and richness I haven't seen from a game like it. It's been long discontinued but i'm still hoping for a return to the game by Rovio.

[@screemuproductions8924]

AND little thief.

[@kalenhixson]

Also Tiny Thief!

[@spaghettiisyummy.3623]

Don't forget about amazing Alex!

[@spaghettiisyummy.3623]

​@@kalenhixsonI LOVED THAT ONE SO MUCH. :(

[@theriddled214]

What makes me excited for angry birds now is that they are starting to bring back the old games. Just letting you all know that the classic game that started it all is back on the app store but it costs 99 cents! It's worth it though, because there are no ads, no in app purchases, and everything has stayed the same. They are planning to add even more, I think starting with angry birds space.

[@entimoreng]

all i need is angry birds epic its all i need 😭

[@pmchad]

ok, making angry birds classic one dollar is one thing, but if they dare touch my angry birds star wars, me and the entirety of finland is gonna have some problems

[@kingdogethell6774]

@@pmchad I doubt they are gonna bring back AB Star Wars, copyright problems are why it is now gone in the first place.

[@entrialof]

@@entimoreng it's actually still available on the play store, although its hidden. I have it installed.

[@entimoreng]

@@entrialof How do they even hide apps on play store

[@CodeNamePlaylistYT]

The Duolingo Crossover is insane Also the first time I found Angry Birds was through the Bomb Survival Levels in Little Big Planet Also Ari Pulkinnen is an amazing composer and he worked on Super Stardust, Resogun, Dead Nation with banging tracks.

[@lebollsong]

Edit: hello everyone, yiu saw my comment on angry birds epic and how its new community should be talked about. Well I edited the comment to tell everyone how to download Epic and apparently youtube just deleted my comment. I think because I used the word "wire us" which I was talking about an apk scanning website called "WireusTotal" I so hate youtube.... I will paste my other comment way below down. Angry Birds Epic was genuinely the best angry birds game ever. I'm sad it's discontinued, it was such a masterpiece. And wanna know why Rovio removed the arena, events and replaced the daily calender with just snoutlings in Angry Birds Epic? They admitted that apparently, if you had all the class upgrades, and opened a class upgrade chest, the game would give this black screen which softlocks you. Now the thing is this problem was there since 2020. So the thing is, they had 2 YEARS to fix this and yet, someone fixed this in less than a week using the help of game guardian. I don't know much about coding, but I do know it shouldn't take 2 years to fix a simple bug. Rovio could've replaced the class upgrade chest with some other chest instead, it shouldn't take that much time Speaking of Angry Birds Epic, the ABE community has really grown. From beating the game with no hacks in its current state without soending a single penny, to finding game breaking and benefiting glitches, and having events and arena back, including playing as the pigs. The community has ironically grown more after Epic's discontinuation. I would really love to see you talk about it now, you can ask me for all the things this community has accomplished so far.

[@DOGEreal]

I just read the first sentence, I absolutely agree.

[@m1ntygames]

i used to play Angry Birds Epic and Angry Birds Go all the time when i was younger

[@daboy261]

Nice pfp

[@lebollsong]

@@daboy261 thx, noseless pig forever 😂

[@loui2bolus265]

Tbh abe stopped working on my iPhone ios 16 since u get soft locked in the first castle but it still works on iPad and android

[@nojustaveryverytallboi3657]

Dude, the nostalgia from this video is hitting me so hard. Angry Birds Epic was truly amazing.

[@2pacisAkiltheMC]

IKR. Angry birds is to mobile gaming what sonic the hedgehog and super mario bros was to console gaming back in the 90s

[@doctorsketch7476]

Epic was an absolute masterpiece

[@Magnifico49]

Change your country on the App Store to Zimbabwe bcus they still have it up, I don’t know if you can do it on android tho

[@matthewgleeson4352]

Super fire game

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

As someone who never really played Angry Birds, but played TONS of Crush the Castle 2, I have to say that you've undersold the series. Crush the Castle 2, though utilizing the same engine as the first game, has 16 different projectiles. And though many people weren't too bothered about the similarities between Crush the Castle and Angry Birds, the developers of Crush the Castle were. The Crush the Castle 2 Players Pack contains the "Irritated Fowl", a chicken with a redraw of Red's face that you only get once beating the game, where the Redvonian king refers to them as a plague and asks you to be rid of them. The chickens are the worst weapon in the game.

[@perspectiveflip]

Bro crush the castle was totally suspended from my memory. That game was epic.

[@cabezadepija7318]

crush the castle was 10x better than angry birds, just not as sellable as angry birds because it has realistic world models and characters and was not cartoonish and sfw, like, for kids and younger teenagers which always makes more money nowadays... not to mention the fact that it was originally a flash game on a format from the old days which doesn't translate well to mobile devices and their small screens and its aging fanbase (and that was years ago; now flash game fans are in their mid to late 20s and 30s...)

[@Canadian_Ice]

@@cabezadepija7318 my brother in christ im 16 and i loved flash games, shit was dope

[@martinsitepu7659]

@@cabezadepija7318 damn u right.. i didnt realized im almost mid 20s now. I remembered browsing a lot of flash games back then; so much excitement over low graphics. But it all starting to winds down from 2013 and on as mobile games become better and better; hence the younger generation prefers game with better graphic and easier access. I was about to complain about the age range but yeah ur basically right. Only kids that are now under 20s are just anti mainstream kids; or theyre just broke

[@cabezadepija7318]

@@martinsitepu7659 i think that the best platform now for simple, fresh new games is steam with all of the small (usually free to play) titles it releases that resemble flash games because they're usually developed by just one or a few people and with a college student budget so they rely on simple fun gameplay and ideas... hopefully those kids will do some research and find out about these games instead of playing that fortnite or overwatch crap or those extremely sfw repetitive mobile games or even gta online which has been boring and dried up because of the milking for like over 5 years now

[@SKB-and-PlasticFred]

I wasn't an Angry Birds Epic kid. There, I said it. Playing it back then was too complicated for me, since I was a dumb kid. I wish I could play it today so that I would know why everyone loves it so much. Unfortunately, that may not ever be possible, unless there's a fan remake or until Rovio finally re-releases it.

[@robbiecuff3238]

blue stacks emulator on pc. I discovered it a few days ago and I have been playing angry birds epic on it. It is amazing and I just hope other people can get a chance to experience the greatness of that game

[@suakeli]

At the height of Angry Birds mania in Finland (the home country of AB), their brand was everywhere. My regular supermarket had AB posters, AB pens, AB backpacks, AB soda, AB shirts, AB birthday cake decorations etc. There was much more AB merchandise than all Disney+Nintendo merch combined. Angry Birds was so ubiquitous that I heard of a a kid whose first words were Angry Birds. Nothing in her native Finnish language, but a crude "anp perts"

[@MrOceMcCool]

I remember eating Angry Birds yoghurt when I was in Finland many years ago. I don't remember much from my time in Finland (I've only been there a few times) except the fact that I loved eating Angry Birds yoghurt. Sadly I don't think it's around anymore.

[@noidonyt1240]

Go (way before the modern update) and epic were my favourite out of the angry birds series but the original has a close meaning to me because it was one of the first games I have ever played.

[@SKCro.]

I remember playing AB Go on a massive display tablet in an AT&T store somewhere. (Although it probably only _seemed_ massive to then-10-year-old me)

[@unl3ash3d95]

I REMEMBER NOW Go was my favorite of the series and then as time went on and I got new devices I randomly remembered angry birds go. So I download it and its completely changed and i stopped playing it after like a week

[@noidonyt1240]

@@unl3ash3d95 i had 110% completed the game before that massive update, and when it did update, ALL of my progress vanished I was like 8-10 and i got upset. i tried to beat it but the new energy system just made it enjoyable for me. I much prefer the old mechanic where each character had 5 energies or "cupcakes" at some point. man i miss the older angry birds titles... another good one was angry birds star wars but just like the video said, licencing issues.

[@spaghetti5914]

THEY WERE MY FAVORITE TOO

[@TheFatestPat]

I remember seeing people wearing Angry Bird T-shirts pretty often back in 2010-2011. Amazing how popular a little mobile game can become, even if only for a short while.

[@IncognitoBBQ]

Ahaha I got an angry bird shirt around that time and would wear it to college. I never questioned why I wore it

[@supermudkipz]

Theory: the reason Bad Piggies came back was cause they knew it was too perfect to keep from the public

[@ItsTempoYT]

8:06 I love how you made Bad Piggies re-appear a second later like how Rovio re-listed it in early 2020. 😆

[@text-6338]

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[@Man_Aslume]

How cut the rope died: Growing up players: Thanks for the fun Cut the rope: so long partner How PVZ died Popcap: now what? How angry birds died: ROVIO: time to remove our games from the store

[@BallerinaPocket]

Fun Fact: Before December 2010 Angry Birds Seasons Was Originally Called Angry Birds Halloween When Rovio Releases Second Angry Birds Game.

[@PneumatinisPlaktukas15]

It’s so sad that this iconic game got abandoned. A lot of the sequels (which are probably gone from the App Store by now) like Angry Birds Epic and Angry Birds Go were totally awesome.

[@heppuplays9125]

Angry birds has always been an important series to my childhood. My mom actually used to work in the same building as the Rovio HQ we even held my little sisters Birthday party at the Venue the building had. The HQ building had this Huge Gift Shop. and i remember getting this Huge encyclopedia book of what (at the time) was the entire series. and just a Plushie of chuck. The book is currently on my shelf. and the Chuck plush is currently serving as my 2 year old little sisters Favorite Pillow.

[@yeeternoob2010]

I wonder: "What would Rovio look like now in an alternate universe where there 2015 games (Go and Epic) got almost a big as a success as the OG Angry birds" or "What if Rovio just made a new game with a new IP that got very popular and the game was actually good" But unless we have the technology to warp to other timelines, the world may never know

[@sirrandolph7857]

I remember Angry Birds being very popular back in the day. It's unfortunate to see the decline of these old games.

[@maharghjoshi228]

Its still is for the fans, people still play the games that were delisted many people never deleted the games and even downloaded them when they first announced they would be removing them, for other lets just say they found some other means to play them 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@podled942]

i got an angry birds 2 ad around a minute into the video. It was my first ever angry birds ad too.

[@VUVUZELA521]

Damn angry birds is my childhood and seeing it decline Makes me sad

[@martonkovacs8176]

The amount of nostalgia I got from watching this video is indescribable

[@oxicleanlaundrystainremove1370]

Angry Birds has been a really big part of my childhood, as it was literally the first online game i have ever played, and it's sad seeing Rovio capitalize on the franchise, there were some older games that weren't in the traditional style, but atleast they tried being creative with Go and Epic, when i play Angry Birds, i don't want to play a bubble shooter, i don't want to play match three, i want to see avians destroying buildings and killing suines, after the dumpster fire Rovio became, i appreciate them putting the original games back up again *also the movie art style sucks, give me my round birds back*

[@IzzyCrafted]

I really hate the fact that Rovio gave them arms and legs. Like, what was the point? I don't understand. The Toons series worked very well without the limbs and could've been easily translated to a film.

[@ChristineWasHere]

*it was literally my entire childhood too :,)* *(I still play it lol)*

[@hafizrazali5180]

Do u all want the whole angry bird movie with no talking?

[@oxicleanlaundrystainremove1370]

@@hafizrazali5180 i said i hated the limbs not the voices

[@PeruvianPotato]

@@hafizrazali5180 Apparently silent films just ceased to exist now

[@Aakxsh_18]

I still remember , when i was a kid me and my friends were so hyped about angry birds star wars and we were like let's see who finishes it first or who was at higher level, literally every kid in my society loved angry birds star wars at that time. Rovio was a nostalgia let's see what happens next for them.

[@SebastianRangel-j8k]

Not only should they bring back 2012 they should bring back ab star wars. Who cares about the licensing If they can steal data they can most certainty call disney I feel like one of the reasons no one likes the newer stuff is because there wasn't something basic to accompany it with

[@prajawalgurung6121]

Honestly as a child, bad piggies was so cool to 8 year old me. The idea that you play as the villain and have them as the main focus was so cool to me back then.

[@brawlstarssponsorships]

Bequiet,

[@HydaGaeming]

4:08 i have a massive red plush in the corner of my room near a shelf. he's cool, he just chills there.

[@blueraptorgaming064]

YES I HAVE MINE TOO🗣️

[@HydaGaeming]

@@blueraptorgaming064 my parents threw away my red plushie ):

[@inesnobre2703]

Yeah i think mine is possessed by someones soul I showed them mario kart and now we play it all the time

[@lemonadesnake]

Another thing i noticed is they kept the games unlisted on android due to android devices having way better compatibility, while iOS had them completely unavailable outside of Zimbabwe due to iOS not supporting many older versions of apps.

[@Hwje1111]

Why does Zimbabwe of all places still have Angry Birds?

[@sygneg7348]

@@Hwje1111 Top 10 mysteries scientists still can't explain

[@lichylickyrick8864]

Lol

[@somethingidk2345]

Rovio killed the franchise, as far as I know too little people were actually playing the new games, so instead of making the newer games more interesting, they decided to delete the old games

[@pseudoforceyt]

"They put all their eggs in one nest and after a while, the pigs were there to steal them" Best. Ending. Ever.

[@parasgupta1343]

4:30 the amount of nostalgia this game gives me oh my lord, I literally forgot this game existed before this part of the video, ah man, I loved playing this game so fucking much😭

[@Lucha045]

Dude same! I miss angry birds go.

[@NyanMart]

2:08literally spit out my drink and choked

[@MikeRogers-ig9bu]

You forgot angry birds transformers

[@shitasslmao]

Everyone does, and did.

[@hadi48930]

They Didn't Deleted It

[@shiningstone6771]

It's still available on PlayStore.

[@galacta-knight3012]

One of my favorite games was angry birds Stella. It's a game that got discontinued in 2015, but was a good game with unique characters.

[@text-6338]

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[@maximkuro]

I Miss them so much. I remember that im confused for trying to find them on play store that day. Like where the heck-

[@FairPlay137]

One thing I think got left out: Angry Birds Fight, which was a partnership between Rovio and Kiteretsu. It was a competitive match 3 puzzle RPG launched in 2015, but ended service in 2017. It had a similar theme to Angry Birds Epic. It was honestly a pretty good spinoff despite it being an always-online game.

[@QingChina1]

It was one of my favourite Angry Birds games

[@hkleo8314]

They also left out Angry Birds Transformers. Which is honestly a great game also.

[@jkliao6486]

There's also AB Stella that got forgotten because it's a 32-bit game that was axed when ios 11 rolled out. I think it was the first game to introduce Stella and her friends on the island even before the Stella cartoons. I'm still in regret that I never used 200 in-game coins to activate Gale for once when the game was still available.

[@cherryxfanta]

Angry Birds Epic was one of my favourite games I've played, it's sad to see that it's gone

[@AG7-MTM]

You ABSOLUTELY need to a video on "What Killed The Rollercoaster Tycoon Franchise" if possible

[@BrendanP]

I thought this video was most excellent! I remember downloading ALL the Angry Bird games on my Mom's phone during this time period. I wish Rovio would put those games like Star Wars, Space, Rio, etc back on the Play Store. I don't think license is the issue, as you said they are don't want to maintain old games anymore which is quite sad. But I thought this video essay was most informative! Great work!

[@elius8000]

Same

[@Schody_lol]

Back in 2019, I had to delete Angrybirds from my phone due to lack of space. When I cleared out pictures off of my phone, I went to redownload Angrybirds. When I discovered that it was gone, I broke down crying.

[@Sasha-zw9ss]

Well, at least it's still fine on forums like 4pda.

[@adamharries610]

lol apk exist

[@Schody_lol]

@@adamharries610 I didn’t know it until now, thanks

[@ProPPlayer]

@@Schody_lol or you can find the app in the section of previously installed games

[@Schody_lol]

@@ProPPlayer I’m using diffirent phone now.

[@Nottu]

2:50 omg ive been looking for the "crush the castle" game for ages, thanks so much

[@Venom-Boiii]

Red’s First Flight doesn’t have all the worlds, like the one where Bomb gets a shockwave ability, the candy one with Bubbles, and they removed by absolute favorite, Red’s Mighty Feathers. Rest in Peace, RMF. You will be greatly missed.

[@comradecatbug5289]

Fun fact: Rovio means "pyre" (like a big fire to burn witches etc.) in Finnish.

[@rooknizan2923]

I really like the use of the 60 Seconds! "Wasteland" OST Track for the "uh oh" segment. It's actually a really good track to illustrate a dramatic downfall.

[@blackdragon7341]

Do You Know the song from 2:42 ? It sounds very familiar

[@rooknizan2923]

@@blackdragon7341 It's "mellohi" by C418, and was used in Minecraft as a playable Jukebox CD by the same name.

[@blackdragon7341]

Thank you.

[@kip8018]

Im glad I grew up with the classic games. I loved playing the seasons, space, and star wars versions of the angry bird games. I miss these games

[@raymarkcapua7276]

I miss the angry birds epic but my fave was space

[@lirikgjikolli4183]

Get a 3DS and angry birds star wars and angry birds trilogy. they are real games.

[@chillvibed]

Those are the only ones I played. 2010's was a good decade

[@kip8018]

@@lirikgjikolli4183 what only games on the 3DS are considered "Real" games?

[@kip8018]

@@chillvibed agreed. Angry birds, crazy frog, the gummy bear song. There's so many things that happened around that time

[@ownsundae]

3:05 why did i laugh at when he said "enemies"

[@TheSaltyPirateBrawlStars]

And now they unlisted the remake 💀💀💀

[@Justinya0]

Angry birds 2? It's still available, I have it downloaded

[@MysteryMusic512]

Angry Birds Star Wars was the backbone of childhood video games for me. Luckily, I can still redownload both 1 and 2 since the App Store has a page for previously downloaded games. Oh and don’t get me started on the masterpiece that is Angry Birds Epic. I remember my naive kiddo self trying to convince Rovio that ABSW 3 was a great idea and that they should make BB-Egg or some crap like that. It hurts to see my childhood crash and burn bro.

[@joaovictornogueira323]

You here?

[@harshbarj]

For me it was the number of ads and the "pay to win" aspect of the later games. The first two games were great with minimal ads and you could not just pay more to win a level.

[@epiccal21]

Damn that last quote was a really great way to describe what happened. Hats off to you

[@Woopor]

What killed the angry birds franchise was Rovio completely changing what Angry Birds was. In the “golden age” angry birds, yes, there were some changes to the formula like angry birds epic and transformers, but they still felt and played very much still like angry birds. Once the angry birds movie came out, all the games made were either candy crush ripoffs or baby looking versions of the original game

[@MrOceMcCool]

Yep. Also the games are just unplayable nowadays. I remember back when Angry Birds was still relatively new. There were barely any ads and they were NOT intrusive or distracting, and the game was genuinely fun and exciting. Then mobile gaming degenerated into barely playable pieces of garbage that spammed ads all the time and crammed them everywhere. Rovio probaly saw how successful and profitable that strategy was and now here we are.

[@Clayinator]

We Can All Say Rovio Was our Childhoods “ Thanks for 40 likes guys :)

[@djalexander7723]

Agree

[@SKCro.]

This. I remember playing endless Angry Birds on the family iPad.

[@thealmightymoron7237]

Agreed

[@applesaretasty2.099]

I remember playing the Angrybirds a long time ago Also the bad piggies theme tune actually slaps

[@FinalMiro]

2:45 The guy just injected a dose of nostalgia in my blood in milliseconds of footage from Crush The Castle... I miss flash games

[@minifrost.y1207]

For some reasons there are still a millions of angry birds roller coaster park

[@Obi-Wan_Kenobi]

A huge factor in Angry Birds' decline that I'm surprised this video didn't mention was Rovio's increasingly annoying and downright greedy monetization scheme. When Angry Birds was first released, it had no monetization outside of the initial price of the game and even then, it was free on Android. And this followed for the first few games in the series. It was extremely fun and refreshing to get whole games with hundreds of levels with no annoying microtransaction. For those reasons, Angry Birds stand out against its mobile game contemporaries. Angry Birds did have some pop up ads but they were never intrusive, they would just occasionally show up in the corner of the screen and never obscured interrupted gameplay. But then, bit by bit, Rovio began introducing more and more microtransactions into the game. It started with the Mighty Eagle ability which was harmless but it ballooned into other special abilities and constant pop-up prompts to use those abilities. You want from being able to endlessly restart a level you were having trouble with to being interrupted by these prompts encouraging you to use power-ups you have to pay for. It sounds like a small thing, but having these pop-up constantly interrupt your gameplay made Angry Birds much less enjoyable than it used to be. And as Angry Birds branched out into different spinoffs, they increasingly introduced even more microstransactions. Take Angry Birds Star Wars which was a good game but one that constantly incentivized you to spend real money to buy better birds beat the levels. Rovio even released physical toys that had QR codes which could be used in the game in a toys-to-life system similar to Skylanders. I never played it, but I believe Rovio had similar monetization methods in their Transformers and and racing spin-offs. And then we have Angry Birds Epic which is a phenomenal game, it really is amazing. But it also introduced an in-game currency and loot box system which *heavily* incentivized you to pay real money to buy more loot boxes so you could get better gear. It was exhausting to play without spending any money because you had to grind so hard to get look boxes without spending real money and even then, odds were slim that you'd get anything really useful in those loot boxes. It was also exhausting to resist the temptation to spend real money, and game developers know this, that's they they are constantly tantalizing you with epic gear that is only a 5 dollar purchase away. And then we have the breaking point: Angry Birds 2. Angry Birds 2 amped up monetization to the max by introducing a life system as well have having numerous pop-ups. I didn't even bother trying to play Angry Birds 2 since I knew I would have no fun and I could see that a great game franchise had been ruined by greed. I'm sure that all these increasingly blatant monetization schemes turned off a lot of fans as the series continued. It because more and more frustrating to play these game and the constant barrage of purchasable power-ups sucked all the fun out of the game. We all have different tolerance levels for how much nonsense we are willing to put up with in our game and as Rovio added more and more monetization schemes, they turned off more and more people from Angry Birds as that tolerate threshold was passed. I'm sure that many of things you mentioned above contributed to Angry Birds' decline. The new spin-off games, removing the games from the App Store, more competition, even just people moving one. But I promise you, the absurd monetization Rovio foolishly implemented was certainly a contributing factor as well. We went from a game with no in-game purchases and microscopic ads to a game hounded by game interrupting pop-ups, unwanted microtransactions, loot boxes, and a life system. They took a solid franchise and ruined it with their greed. And suffice to say, players like me were not having it which is why we stopped playing.

[@Zwodder-]

I wonder what went into their heads like ''ahaha yes lets make birds fight pigs what a great game idea''

[@SimpleManJohn]

i'd guess they were drunk as fuck during the point of getting the idea. Just like any other finnish person would be

[@lebollsong]

@@SimpleManJohn this is a weird thing to say, but it's good they were drunk then. We would've never gotten such an amazing game.

[@leoneljimenez7529]

Bruh fight was good

[@lebollsong]

@@leoneljimenez7529 yes, especially epic

[@wojerd]

im pretty sure there was something along the lines of that the designers made pigs look silly and one guy decided to show off these strange images of bird stats and some circular birds being next to a wall of bricks and stuff so they just kinda combined that with some other stuff and the game was made

[@asianapex_9946]

Angry Birds epic is the backbone of my childhood. I had soooo much fun with it. It absolutely shattered my heart the moment I found out that the game was removed.

[@SenpaiDeoxys]

Same. RIP Angry birds epic

[@CaptainCat101]

With Sega acquiring Rovio, I hope this means the original games will come back. After all, Sega LOVES re-releasing old "junk"

[@fluffcake]

Angry Birds Star Wars was me and my brother's favorite game because we used to be big star wars fans. I spend a lot of fond times with him wasting hours just on Angry Birds Star Wars, Go, and Bad Piggies. I wish that when they re-release Star Wars, they add the old ones back and god forbid they only bring back the sequels.

[@PuneetMhajan]

You forgot about Angry Birds Transformers, still a fun game to this day. At least props to Rovio for not going the predatory monetization or pay2win route. And another online game BattleBay, even though my phone becomes a burning hot mess while playing it, it's another great game and a multiplayer one.

[@mooncakev1689]

I really enjoyed the first movie. I found it stuck to it's roots and had a pretty fair share of humor that the kids would overlook. Had a similar experience with the sonic movie.

[@maxqill1435]

Same. But I hate that Rovio milked the movie designs for the birds and pigs.

[@kamakazeyt]

To be fair, you can’t blame Rovio from stopping all the future updates on their past games, and laying staff off. Just recall the amount of games they released. Continuously updating the ever increasing amount of games would’ve been heavily expensive, only getting more and more as time went on. So that cost combined with depleting sales and income, it meant that continuing to spend millions updating old games would’ve been unsustainable. Laying staff off as well, although not fair to the staff, they had zero choice. What else could they do? Destroy a multi billionaire dollar business, ruining more lives as every single employee and worker lost their jobs? It’s ridiculous and I suppose only time will tell.

[@_JustAnotherKid__]

Ah this game, I remember downloading it and scrolling to the far right of the level selection page just to see if there were hidden eggs. That and the little series they had. And lastly, never completing angry birds epic.

[@j0lian142]

4:03 WHOA I REMEMBER HAVING THOSE PLUSHIE

[@SparkyCas]

I think the only reason they hadn't re-listed rio and star wars specifically, is probably because of partnership that they made and it might've expired but yeah, it's kind of a sad sight to see with the angry birds series so far, besides bad piggies and alike.

[@CyrusShameliOfficial]

This was my childhood, I was so obsessed with this game loved it

[@homelessY4m3z]

Rovio removing all of those games was not the play in my opinion. I like Angry Birds 2 and Bad Piggies fine, but I really miss the older ones. Anyway, amazing job T3rr0r!

[@AlecLund]

This really got to me - Angry Birds Seasons on pc was like my holy game. Feel like it peaked in 2013 and is where i kinda stopped playing. I still remember some of the soundtracks, i would open the game and just let it run to listen to some of the songs. Remember seasons in 2011 with the halloween levels, damn me and my friends loved that. Good times :')

[@serily4524]

Rovio is just another example of what happens when someone falls to the sin of greed, you never focus on making money, making money is not eveeything, quality is above

[@madekillasam1553]

i had an angry birds keychain plush showing red in his space design

[@RickTheChampionPiggy]

Angry Birds Pop was originally released as Stella Pop in 2014 (I think) and then rereleased as Angry Pop in 2015.

[@taraktaras7327]

4:43 i remeber beating the secret hard ghost pig boss but my brothers who went for school didn't believe me,like 5 years later they realized that i actually beat him which is why the eagle food's are like empty.

[@text-6338]

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[@wantsomecoffe]

I was in tears when i noticed the OG angry birds back on the app store. Bought it immediately. Now all we need is seasons and the cartoons they released within the app itself, those where hilarious😂

[@irneh_]

Bro that crush the castle clip just unlocked a core memory

[@vizthex]

I feel like Star Wars and Rio would be the most annoying to remake simply due to licensing bs, but I do hope both can come back. Wasn't really into either franchise, but the games were solid.

[@galaxielTheGreat]

I noticed you now have 200k subs, congrats on reaching that

[@eliassar1012]

Wow, really cool video and it looks like it took time to make. Keep up the good work. Also the nostalgia 😔

[@theus5723]

omg you just unlocked SO MANY MEMORIES with crush the castle game.......