Why THQ Failed

[@APoeticProblem]

Who remembers those Spongebob games? Those were awesome.

[@mosark6554]

Yep greatist games ever

[@matthewmclane619]

Spongbob the movie video game was my favorite

[@HideNZeke]

Matthew McLane I lost my copy and I was gonna go back and actually beat it a little bit ago. made me cry

[@orangy57]

There was this one for the Gameboy Advance. Spongebob had to drive a kart through a super difficult lavel and his stretching face as he drove scared me.

[@EsmeMarion]

orangy57 I think it was Creature from the Krusty Krab. I gave up on the first level, but I was dumb little kid XD

[@jamesharper2823]

I want to thank THQ for providing me with my childhood.

[@giorgibujiashvili3942]

James Harper same here man... S.T.A.L.K.E.R Trilogy was my childhood.....damn i wanted to play "stalker 2"....too bad it got cancelled but at least survarium open world mode is on the way....

[@apugalypse_now]

giorgi bujiashvili STALKER was released in 2007. How young are you?

[@giorgibujiashvili3942]

Ezra Silvershekelstein 16...i got my first PC (well my dad) when i was 5 though i didn't have alot to do so i started gaming after learning how to use the PC/internet and i downloaded the first stalker when i was just turning 8. i beat it in a month an replayed it a LOT of times then the clear sky came with the same process, and then call of priyat had the same process and i played the trilogy every now and then....waiting for the new stalker......damn when i heard that it was canceled i was really sad...when i heard that the company was disbanded for unknown reasons i was really sad.....the most played games in my life are stalker,counter strike 1.6 and tekken roughly in that order

[@ethericboy]

James Harper You have my sympathy

[@zidans4956]

yh

[@philipquaglino]

I worked there in around 2007, it was upper management that killed it, they treated lower level people like garbage reminding them almost daily they do not work there. The testers? I felt so bad for them. They were always reminded they are not official employees, constantly moving their parking further and further away, no parking in company lot was allowed. Once we had a satellite building, there was a fire (as happens in California) coming toward the building, all management left and until the fire department orders to leave, you had to stay...it was THAT BAD. All publishers I assume are this bad, I hear horror stories on EA, and Activisions CEO is one of the greediest to ever live. Thankfully Blizzard exists, and Valve. We need new major publishers with competence, vision, and a soul. We had executives that could not identify Mario from Sonic...but they were friends with the higher ups! THQ also had a department dedicated to ripping off other games, the room was littered with EA and Activision games they play all day, their job was to take the hits and make a similar game they can re brand and sell. Testers would routinely say how the controls were an issue or voice that the game from way early on was bad...their motto was literally to ship numerous bad titles and hope enough volumes hits to make profit. They should have kept the kids games, but throttle back on them in quantity, I agree, they needed real core games. South Park was perfect but to little to late. They should have fought for buying and hiring top studios and talent. Build up solid IPs, lose the WWE stuff, I never in my life knew anyone who even owned a copy of one. Pretty office, was interesting and learn a lot about game design, but that industry is a nightmare to work in, you literally need to give your soul unless you go to a reputable place like Valve, Epic and Blizzard or ArenaNet. But those people hire the best of the best because the best of the best go after them.

[@raaaaaaaaaam496]

Wow that's really intriguing.

[@1000rogueleader]

***** Because the publishers are major corporations, who, for some reason, can never seem to get the good management, probably because the good managers seek work elsewhere. I also have never heard any complaints from anyone working at Nintendo.

[@stevekovoc3939]

1000rogueleader Yeah, me neither. Nintendo is better in that aspect, I guess.

[@Sassy_Witch]

Actually Nintendo treats their foreign employers pretty bad aswell. Not as bad as THQ as I've just read here

[@Sbrff]

+Philip Quaglino I don`t know if you have done it allready, but would you be willing to do an AMA on reddit? I find this stuff really interessting and i guess many other people do too.

[@x33]

THQ will never be forgotten. 😢😢 R.I.P SR2 THE PUNISHER SHREK 2

[@titanspirit7238]

THWho?

[@x33]

TITANSPIRIT What the vid is about....

[@skerbl]

Titan Quest?

[@ThierryRocksTV]

Red Faction Guerrilla?

[@nostalgiaworks5999]

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS: BATTLE FOR BIKINI BOTTOM THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE GAME RUGRATS: SEARCH FOR REPTAR RUGRATS: STUDIO TOUR RUGRATS: ROYAL RANSOM SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS: REVENGE OF THE FLYING DUTCHMAN FAIRLY ODDPARENTS: BREAKING DA RULEZ FAIRLY ODDPARENTS: SHADOW SHOWDOWN

[@MoreImbaThanYou]

5:20 Spending money for marketing on crappy games does not work? Destiny my friend.

[@aznboy1109]

Marketing, False-advertising, and customer expectations. Not just marketing.

[@bazzy5644]

+MoreImbaThanYou Btw i really can't help myself but think on activision being the next in line the similarities to thq are staggering.

[@Utheree]

+Hans Peter Go sleep son, Activision got Blizzard to support them ...

[@willferrous8677]

+MoreImbaThanYou Except Destiny isn't crappy... it's... MEDIOCRE!!!

[@wendellsawyer4386]

I'm calling Ubisoft will be next.

[@Havzul]

Saints Row 2 was fucking good, underrated AF!

[@DownClownTownFrown]

Havzul one of my top 5 favorite games

[@mikeyprocter6381]

Havzul It was fucking amazing one of my favorite games

[@lilgemini4032]

Bro SR2 is FAR from underrated, it’s the best

[@Havzul]

@@lilgemini4032 1.underrated doesn't mean it's not good 2. I posted it 7 years ago and there has been a (small) resurgence of SR2 3. I NEED an SR2 remaster

[@TehBranMuffin]

Played THQ Nickelodeon games as a kid, Warhammer 40k games as a teenager, and now they're gone. Still pretty sad to see what's happened to 40k, both in video games and in general.

[@emperorstevee]

I went into Games Workshop several years ago and was disappointed that they downgraded the rules for 40k :( As a major nerd, I loved how complex the rules were. And hey, we don't agree that Warhammer 40000 Space Marine was fun?

[@Shajirr_]

Well if a company can lay off a 600 workers while producing subpar games when studios of less than 10 people produce games that top the sales charts on Steam you know that something is wrong

[@Exigentable]

***** publishers today want to bet big and win big, every time. instead of saving the company, THQ execs decided to bet big, and hopefully win big on a shitty peripheral. or the company would fail. when that failed, not even games that sold reasonably could save them because they were also betting big and hoping to win big on games that were never going to sell millions of copies to begin with.

[@pionelpessi1022]

I remember the old Spongebob games. They were awesome

[@Jaxv3r]

yeah

[@belstar1128]

No they where lame.

[@slowho5489]

betarage nah

[@atarice]

Employee of the Month, man. Played that game millions of times and could never finish it.

[@RitzyYeti]

Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom, The Movie game, and Creature from the Kristy Krab will always be some of my favorite games that I had for PS2

[@LE0NSKA]

THERE WAS A RED FACTION TV SERIES?!??! LOL

[@FreyjaTheWarrior]

It was terrible by the way.

[@LE0NSKA]

FreyjaTheWarrior I guessed that much :D

[@thema1998]

+FreyjaTheWarrior What's the name of it so I can look it up? I wanna see how bad it is!

[@LE0NSKA]

Andrew Del Pilar .... red faction I'd guess ..................

[@ep-arrow6499]

It was pretty bad they tried to run with the game storyline to an extent at the same time throw curve balls. Bad cgi horrid voice acting.

[@24karatHAMSTER]

MX vs. ATV, man, those were some fucking days. So sad to see THQ go.

[@mythicshadow4207]

Yeah atv off road fury 2 and 3 were some of the first ps2 games I played rip thq...

[@Jackson-ez8xr]

I love mx vs atv

[@CsquidyC]

+Squiddy Hey! Who the fuck are you?

[@TheNexDude]

I LOVE Off Road Fury I use to mess around in its track editor a lot.

[@eric6rock]

packsy yup 😔

[@mosark6554]

Thq was my childhood i will always miss them.

[@kyagnynjamodego4934]

The Shocking Mosark That and Rare

[@Vivinonimous]

when the wwe games were actually fun :"(

[@supersamples1718]

Vivinonimous I find them more fun nowadays since 2K added the downloading of player made wrestlers, titles, arenas and logos I played WWE 13 recently and I felt like I had such limited creative power

[@an.s.7930]

WWE V RAW 2007... the best

[@stevenlochrie3951]

@@supersamples1718 the download creations for the new wwe games are absolute pish you can't even play 2 player when you download a creation least with the old games you can

[@1Zymir]

Steven Lochrie rite

[@stevenlochrie3951]

@@1Zymir took u two months to reply with only saying rite what do u mean with that dude

[@Vindicator12Music]

Ubisoft is slowly headed down the same bleak, dark road as THQ, but at the same time they have some pretty popular franchises under their belt to keep afloat, namely Assassin's Creed and Far Cry. but Ubisoft has a history of putting out rushed, unfinished, highly bugged and glitchy garbage too, on top of the terrible and pointless DLC content, and more and more people are starting to notice this practice and are fighting back. people can see that it's just lazy and a quick cash grab, and it wont go over so well.

[@stevenbills4106]

RW : V they are making ridiculous money on rainbow six siege

[@AubreyGal]

Ubisoft needs to make more Rayman games, since that’s their best franchise.

[@andrewn.caldwell6218]

Holy shit this comment is insanely prophetic

[@vin4679]

@@andrewn.caldwell6218 What is going on in UBI?

[@andrewn.caldwell6218]

@@vin4679 have you played their latest games? They're awful and shoehorned with a looter-shooter gameplay model, not to mention the amount of microtransactions, and all of their games being open world..

[@Dcook85]

Damn shame, Warhammer had some awesome moments and was a true powerhouse RTS in it's heyday. Too bad the only iteration we see now is..... *sigh* Warhammer Storm of Vengence......made by the creator of Big Mutha Truckers and Ride to Hell Retribution....... It's like growing up knowing this really awesome kid that every one wanted to hang out with, who is now a boozing drifter who doesn't remember you. :(

[@Utubesuxmycock]

Tregeta only good game they had their grimy fingers on i fucking love Warhammer 40k. still waiting for a movie. or a fucking HBO series

[@Thalanox]

+RAPEE APE Don't they still have the plans for the intended character arc of the Space Marine trilogy? The first game was surprisingly awesome, and did 3rd person action with an element of originality and flavour that you just don't see elsewhere.

[@ThunderPsyker]

+Thalanox Yeah, Titus was going to go renegade (not necessarily Chaos, mind you) and form is own Chapter, with the Inquisition on his tail. Still, since Sega have Relic and the license now, if they turned Space Marine into an overblown grimdark parody of Sonic Adventure 2, I'd eat it up. Imagine Escape From The City but with a fucking baneblade going after him.

[@iXephyr]

+ThunderPsyker "Escape From The City but with a fucking baneblade going after him." Jesus christ that's one image I'd pay to see.

[@STDRACO777]

+Tregeta I cant believe nobody baught warhammer. They spent so much time and money on the MMO.

[@zidans4956]

Thanks to THQ for making all those awesome games from my childhood cars bratz forever diamonds (Dont ask) shrek 2 ps2

[@brandonreina1080]

+Zidan S THQ didn't release Shrek 2. Activision did. There are several more of them including everGirl, SpongeBob SquarePants, Disney Princess, American Girl, Danny Phantom and Britney Spears.

[@clivewinston6386]

why bratz forever diomands?

[@brandonreina1080]

Cyrus Kapeller The game's name is "BRATZ FOREVER DIAMONDZ", not "BRATZ FOREVER DIOMANDS" or BRATZ FOREVER DIAMONDS". I own this game for PLAYSTATION 2.

[@clivewinston6386]

Brandon Reina okay.......

[@pheoms0763]

They also made a Scooby doo game (I think). Man I loved that game

[@Pazuzu4All]

12:36 Hey man, Nightfire was awesome.

[@xMTxcameron]

Pazuzu4All I enjoyed EA's James Bond games, Activision's... Not so much

[@patches2221]

Ian Magnuson well I beat it when I was 12 sooooo

[@RoyFizzle]

Trrrruuuueee

[@NicholasKaighen]

whoa whoa whoa, From Russia with Love was not a crappy license game. Its pretty top notch with large level of detail.

[@UncannyXander]

Nicholas Kaighen Okay Nic, whatever you say.

[@solarstrike33]

That's EA's...

[@shaneohara201]

The Uncanny One how old are you kid?. I bet you came out when it did. In 2005.....

[@charlescampuz5812]

The Uncanny One There was a point in time where EA Games were actually good. It was within the 6th and early 7th generations where their games blossomed.

[@thegodofalldragons]

Everything or Nothing is pretty good too. I mean, neither are amazing, but they're both good! A solid 7/10.

[@ThePapazero]

Nightfire,from russia with love and everything or nothing were awesome.

[@ThePapazero]

IRocaNox Right,espacily the bikechase with jaws.

[@kirbyza]

Was just going to post this

[@p4n1k49]

nightfire was the shit. Nothing beats pissing off your friends with guided missiles from across the map on snowblind.

[@p4n1k49]

***** You are correct. Neither was agent under fire apparently. Seems anyone who said so including myself thought the 007 games were published by thq but it seems they had no part in both of them.

[@EldritchAugur]

Nightfire is my favorite 007 game, the Ski Resort is still one of my favorite multiplayer maps of all time.

[@Calvert212]

Saints row 2 is amazing

[@billystrife7049]

Agreed, I played it not too long ago and it's still fun to dick around in.

[@Treetops27]

It's pretty lazy

[@ryan20028]

Treetops97 what are you talking about compared to the other games in the series its easily the best even though 3 used to be my favorite I can say 2 was bad

[@Treetops27]

Choppy framerate, and pretty run-of-the-mill as far as urban open-world games go.

[@macgyvermankirk572]

Saint's Row 2 is the shit. People who say it's standard fare open world BS clearly only judge it at face value.

[@Dangansona]

I loved THQ they were my childhood.. you will be missed.

[@pedronied]

12:35 FUCK OFF, 007 EVERYTHING OR NOTHING WAS AAAAAAWESOME

[@jbradberry86]

Facts!!!!

[@sambeezy007]

smackdown vs raw... Those days man

[@snaggletooth5844]

I was 10 when I used to play svr 2007 send 2008 those games were friggin awesome

[@TEZIO0]

Sammy0071993 u aint lying had it on the psp and ps2

[@nevermindgaming6848]

It was the same thing every year

[@bxms1783]

@@nevermindgaming6848your probs like 6 the games were so much better than crappy 2k20 lol it actually had nostalgia good gameplay and not as glitchy as 2k20 2k made wwe games crap

[@lilgemini4032]

@@nevermindgaming6848 You sound like a 10 year old fanboy

[@CasaiAgicap]

10:50 Obviously this video was released before its release, but I find it funny you used Dead Island and Prison Break as examples of bad games released by the company, when Ride to Freakin' Hell is right on that list itself. You know, the game that, despite being out for only two years now, is already considered one of the worst games of all time?

[@ZobmieRules]

CasaiAgicap (I'm not really arguing, just trying to start a conversation.) It's hard to qualify for "worst", because there are MUCH shittier, broken free Flash games that I'd rather play Ride to Hell than. If you're looking at RETAIL game, then what about broken, shitty kid's games? I'm sure some Barbie game for the Game Boy is worse than RtH.

[@CasaiAgicap]

ZobmieRules To be fair, you're not wrong. I guess I'm using common opinion for this sort of thing. There's plenty of broken flash games and sponsor games, but most people have never played those (and, for the former, didn't lose anything from playing it). Obviously, there's personal opinion to deal with--for a random example, I hated Assassin's Creed 3, but I know plenty of people who love it. Turns out, everyone's got their own opinion, and no one is TECHNICALLY wrong. So, sure, there are plenty of worse games out there. I think when I say RtH is one of the worst of all time, I'm saying "given common critical consensus that this game is, among other problems. buggy, uninspired and poorly designed, and that the average person who's played the game disliked it, this game is among the worst." Which, when I put it like that, it's not that really strong of an argument.

[@ZobmieRules]

CasaiAgicap I agree with you pretty consistently. Well, how specific are you willing to get in terms of possible candidates? Any retail game?

[@CasaiAgicap]

ZobmieRules As a former owner of Taz Wanted and Monopoly Party, both for the Nintendo Gamecube (I was a very stupid child) I'll admit that "any retail game" is an extremely broad and, well, not easily tracked criterion. By which I mean, shovelware makes that much harder to deal with, since there's seemingly limitless amounts of examples there. That said, I suppose it's the best one to use for this, considering "major release" massively reduces the pool (and actually leaves out the game that started this) and "any game" straight up makes things impossible (do we include specific sports games? Because I remember Superbowl 2014 being a disaster, so is that one of the worst games of all time?). So, I guess simply out of lack of a better option, any retail game seems to be it.

[@PatrickSamp]

CasaiAgicap I know it's a bit late, but he says "ranging in quality from Dead Island to Prison Break", meaning Dead Island is one of the better ones, Prison Break one of the worse ones.

[@Tarekamt]

"No one wanted to by Warhammer (40,000)". Bad move companies, bad move...

[@GreenShark4]

I think now with the absolute shitload of awful OFFICIALLY licensed 40k games it's evident to see why. Games Workshop is handing the rights to the franchise around like a cheap blunt.

[@yofoot]

wtf is a udraw

[@isaacargesmith8217]

Pen Island HD wtf is a Sonic.

[@AUniqueBot]

wtf is

[@blackwaltz463]

+Pen Island HD now you understand how bad it was maketed.

[@a.j8307]

Hello my name is TotalBiscuit, and I am here to ask and answer one simple question: WTF is The uDraw Tablet?

[@Ed-tg2sp]

Isaac Argesmith The fuck is a Sanik

[@Kascaded]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R Series :(

[@ThatSpecificIndividual]

cheeki breeki in peace S.T.A.L.K.E.R

[@rongusta11]

Kascaded I pour vodka on S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s grave as a sign of respect.

[@element1111]

Honestly, anyone can come in and pick up the pieces. THQ doesn't hold the rights to Roadside Picnic.

[@NickHunter]

GSC is now Vostok games (mostly) and just released Survarium

[@Mr3D10]

I want another Darksiders :(

[@solar464]

same here cookie, i cant believe it did so poorly. i fuckin love darksiders 2....

[@mutedknght]

solar464 Well minus that third person shooter section on earth. Which was god awful and slow.

[@solar464]

what part are you talking about? i dont even remember death going to earth....

[@mutedknght]

This is like a "There was no avatar the last airbender movie" joke right? Sorry Im dense and can never tell.

[@Nidhiphulera]

solar464 I think he means the demon lord Belial DLC

[@Yoshi278]

THQ has been revived (kinda)

[@quadraforest]

yeah, thanks, nordic games

[@carrillo100100]

Florinel787 yeah.. but i have no Interest on their recent projects tho :/

[@act22034]

carrillo100100

[@adamfreeksack0314]

carrillo100100 like DarkSiders III?

[@BlackFlightNY]

Yoshi278 THQ didn't have the balls...nor dic (See what I did there?)

[@brigadier-tc8565]

Hey, What happened to Destroy All Humans! ? I was near addicted to that series.

[@mrxkp]

i like it to.But i think it got cancelled :'(

[@brigadier-tc8565]

Insert Darth Vader "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Here.

[@BasilBonehead]

brigadier-tc that was made by pandemic who made the original Star Wars battlefront games and were shut down in 2008

[@Electro21964]

brigadier-tc It'd be cool to see the developers of Saints Row make a reboot. Set it in modern day and make the graphics more gritty and realistic rather than the cartoony graphics from Path of the Furon.

[@Electro21964]

Except it never had cartoony graphics minus Path of the Furon.

[@justinbrown8214]

This guy was easily one of those kids who wore a suit to school every day to look more sophisticated.

[@RKNELIAS]

Warhammer is property of Sega? FUCKING NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@fonkyman]

i agree houston we have a problem :(

[@Poctyk]

Libe Jenkins U W0T m8? WH is property of Games Workshop

[@SimonRousseau1]

Libe Jenkins only "the rights to" a Warhammer branded Videogame.. Don't worry...

[@AnthroTsuneon]

Libe Jenkins Warhammer Total War

[@inlaricrontherooster5070]

sanic: warhamer of enerbeam

[@danoV1c]

WWE game were good to 2011 after that everything went shit

[@CherryPauper]

I thought it went to shit after SvR 2007 :/

[@TheLiquidNewt]

Probably because THQ suffered huge losses in 2010 and 2011 so THQ had to cut Yukes budget to make the WWE games. .

[@danoV1c]

TheLiquidNewt Well 2010 was nice one pretty soundtrack

[@nodoutcoward]

wwe games went to shit after 2007....

[@danoV1c]

nodoutcoward Well its your taste not mine well for me like i said after 2011 (Maybe even after 2010)

[@jdh21403]

And now, years later, Darksiders 3 is finally on the way

[@filenotfound_2416]

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom was the shit. It was up there with Super Mario 64 and Banjo Kazooie.

[@charliehertz4847]

I knew THQ had to have made one of the shitty licensed games from my childhoods! Battle of Bikini Bottom was my favorite when I was six

[@year99tokyo]

+Charlie Hertz my fav was the spongebob movie game

[@animesekai7288]

I usually hate companies like EA & Konami. But i can't help but feel sorry for THQ. I'd be willing to donate some money to them.

[@randomstranger_3]

But they're gone. Too late now, amigo

[@f2biscuit543]

Its sad to see good companies go. and not shit companies that dont care lik EA and Activision

[@ilijacvjetkovic7343]

F2 Biscuit EA is Company who would sell they mothers for money but activision i like it they had good games. Hey Call of Duty 1/2 was my childhood game

[@UncannyXander]

F2 Biscuit I have no sympathy considering the whole Saints Row fiasco and THQ pretty much starting the trend of "season pass" gaming.

[@belstar1128]

Don't feel sorry they where just as bad as those 2

[@CRRPGMykael]

"10 years ago, EA was going the same route, and almost exclusively produced crappy licensed movie games". This quote, accompanied by pictures of 007 Nightfire, 007 From Russia With Love AND ESPECIALLY Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (PS2 version), a universally acclaimed game. Damn it, George, I think you're one of the most interesting KZbinrs right now and I love your MGS videos, but you're so polarizing sometimes. It feels like you don't always do your research on some topics before talking about them.

[@horricule451]

MICHAEL LEON I know that From Russia with Love and Nightfire were well received, but I just looked up the reviews of prisoner of azkaban and the were very mixed. Doesn't mean the game is bad, but not what I would call critically acclaimed

[@loganthompson7821]

MICHAEL LEON From Russia With Love was one of my favorite PS2 games growing up.

[@jordangordon2350]

kingdoms of amalur is an amazing game, shame it didn't sell all that well

[@DaBoweh]

It did sell okay, actually. The problem is that the game was developed by people who borrowed waay too much money and had far more of a budget than they ever needed. The game sold well enough 1.22m in the first quarter, but to break even, the company needed it to sell three million units in that time and that's just an insane expectation for a new studio and new brand. EA went on record saying that the units sold beat EA's expectations, meaning that the fault lies on 38 studios for rampant overspending. Also, you can tell they cared to much about visuals and style and too little about actual game design, as your first few fights with wolves in the forest or whatever are quite dangerous and threatening and then after a very short amount of time your numbers are permanently higher than that of every enemy to the point where death is next to impossible. As much as I enjoyed the game to the end when I played it, you can tell they were focused more on presentation than actual quality of the product. If the numbers were better refined to maintain the same level of challenge throughout, the studio might honestly still have had a chance.I don't know if they could reach the full three million, but it certainly would have helped.

[@ENTERPLAYSTUDIO]

I never even knew about the U-draw until this video. Way to go THQ marketing team!

[@octavius9685]

The first WWF Smackdown was their best game...

[@videogamemessiah4988]

Nah HCTP

[@ElijahKMcCoy]

Big Chapp I loved all the WWF/E THQ games until it got to SvR 2008. That's when the games went downhill imo. SvR 2007 was the last great one they had. Although I'll give '13 a pass since I enjoyed it (still do!).

[@videogamemessiah4988]

No No No, 2008 career mode was the shit. WWE12 and it's monstrosity of a control scheme and wonky ass gameplay killed it, though they did improve it by WWE16(That's when I came back to them)

[@ElijahKMcCoy]

VideoGameMessiah Well I never played '12. Only '13 so I can't say much about that and I've never played the 2K games. I still stand by what I said though. I hated '08 it was boring to me honestly. I didn't enjoy it at the time and haven't played it in years.

[@Oldschool1943]

Edmond Chapple true but smackdown vs raw was thq prime especially n64 era

[@HEADSHOTPROLOL]

First video I saw of you. So glad I did, as you have become my favorite KZbinr and entertainer as a whole, ever.

[@halffox102]

kinda sad darksiders is gone :(

[@halffox102]

René Juren i dont want a remake

[@zaneseibert]

René Juren The actual developers of Darksiders, Vigil Games, disbanded when THQ broke up and most of the developers got hired by Crytek. The Darksiders license ended up with Nordic Games who are just a publisher, not developers. So yeeeeaaah....don't get your hopes up :(

[@hellishcyberdemon7112]

halffox102 it's not gone Darksiders 3 is on the way

[@TigrrGoesOHAI]

I honestly had no idea they made a tablet for the wii, lmao.

[@The_Blog]

I really liked Darksiders 1 and I think Darksiders 2 was a good sequel with more expanded dungeons, a bigger world and a more expanded RPG system. The only downside in my opinion was that the story wasn't as good as the first one. But it was still good. It's not like it was a bad game or anything. A shame it sold so poorly.

[@iftekharahmed6799]

The THQ copyright has been revived by THQ Nordic.

[@MichaelShulski]

My first experience with seeing the THQ brand was when my brother rented "Tom and Jerry" for the SNES. My next memory of the brand was playing pro wrestling on the N64. I mainly associated quality video games with brands like Capcom and Konami, along with Nintendo, etc. I find it so amusing to watch businesses make mistakes and fail. It's so fascinating. Look at how many fails Microsoft has had. I could talk about this stuff forever. Also, I'm pretty sure that Koch is pronounced like Coke. I could be wrong though.

[@lucaswvargas3826]

Hahaha. Homefront didn't appeal to the haters or the fans of CoD. True.

[@ZILOGz80VIDEOS]

I picked up the entire saints row franchise for a few bucks on steam a few months ago and quite frankly damn near all the DLC for saints row 3 feels like it was put together in about half an hour by the temp. Especially most of the Genki stuff was on the level of a Gary's mod addon.

[@noobartist6009]

Isn't obvious? Reptar destroyed THQ at the end of 'the search for Reptar'

[@cordia96]

I like their Wii Games. deBlob and Deadly Creatures entertained me with big ideas and as the last games of the middle market / second tier Titels. Not AAA, not Indi. Not successful either, but I'm glad they were there.

[@MacNille]

Everything or Nothing and Nightfire was good games.

[@Lugbzurg]

+MacNille The 007 games published by EA were easily some of the greatest licensed games I've ever played, right up there with Rocksteady's Batman games. I just love how dedicated they were with From Russia With Love, making a videogame based on such an old film and even hiring Sean Conrey for the role, when they got Pierce Brosnan in all their other games. Yet Activision got Daniel Craig for the GoldenEye reimagining. It's a shame, really... 007: NightFire was the first FPS I ever played.

[@lyonsrawrs]

+Lugbzurg Mine as well. Playing against bots with friends was always a blast.

[@Nimbereth]

+Lugbzurg I have only gold memories playing this 007 in my psone back then.

[@Lugbzurg]

NandimFilho Hmmm... would that have been Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is not Enough... or 007 Racing?

[@DanielLearmouth]

13:25 Booty had me like.

[@EthanRobertson]

I loved that Rugrats game.

[@realtec4632]

I belive thq did the best wwf/wwe games then 2K stole it all

[@NathanWindsor89]

MoTaRaShiMaSu and shat it out of a cannon. I played the hell out of thq wrestling games, hate 2k's titles. Stupid submission minigames, dumb controls, and every entry has the same "relive the attitude era" feature that gets really old.

[@billywelker5245]

I mean I loved the WWE THQ series but...... 2K18 And 2K17 they were pretty good.

[@jdh21403]

Heavy Iron made games that I loved when I was little

[@SilentDeathByNINJA]

It is too bad, 2k has obliterated the Wrestling series(the new controlls are awful) and EAs UFC just does not seem as smooth

[@itsX2024]

Lol, those "awful" controls were introduced during THQ's reign with the WWE series. 2K hasn't done much with the series but the 2K15 release is there first go.

[@SilentDeathByNINJA]

I had not played wee since 2010 and loved the right stick grapple button attack . It was so smooth. After that I rented 2k14 and it sucked so glad I didn't buy it not to mention the character models all look way to buff and shiny it take away from the game for sure

[@thehorror2]

Agreed 100%. There hasn't been a mechanically great wrestling game since Day of Reckoning, on the GAMECUBE. I can't even muster the energy to play a season of the newer stuff, but I still go back to DoR every so often, because it's FUN.

[@kannabiswithjaydos9917]

ea ufc sucks compared to undisputed controlls

[@RGR490G]

Yeah, I don't like them either. The games have devolved into just picking ur favorite attacks until ur enemy reverses u, then ur stuck in a loop of their attacks until u press R2 at the right time, then repeat.

[@Pioxys]

I always hated the fact that the company behind Saints Row decided "Hey we don't want to be like GTA. So lets make it like GTA only wackier!" That third game single handedly destroyed a golden legacy Saints Row 1 & 2 built. From what I saw, it was the fact that it was trying to compete with GTA with street gangs that made the story & game fun. First one reminded you how the thug era started to get it's boom in the 1990s (and even before that), Saints Row 2 took it at a age to modern times, where even tho it push the bar just a tiny bit, the world still felt realistic in this modern age. The secret bonus ending was a massive fantastic touch too, and the reasons behind it actually made sense. The Saints lost their way, and became no better than other gangs. Saints Row 3 & 4 just decided to throw all that out the window and turn into Saints Row: Advance Warfare. Wacky shit story, wacky weird weapons, and very futuristic dramatic gangs. The only thing I found funny was in Saints Row 3, I was running around as a toilet in the digital world. That and the dildo weapon, but it's nothing compared to the Saints Row 2 "Pimp Slap" foam finger.Really wished Saints Row just stuck to it's original routes, than forcefully trying to branch out.

[@EVA_TESTT]

Pioxys I don't know man, The third is one of my favorite games of all time. I think it was original to be wacky as fuck and funny while being sorta serious with some missions. But with 4, i totally feel you. They went full self-joke and turned everything sci-fi while giving you Powers. I mean, why do you want vehicles for? Aside from that. You can totally tell 2 from 3, there was a change, there were modifications. 4 feels just so cheap and rushed it hurts.

[@brrreeeeeeehhlol5769]

I enjoyed all of the games besides Gat outta hell, it’s not fun at all.

[@xkinsey3831]

As much as it pains me to say, saints row 4 is fun though. It's just a shame they recognise it as an official SR title. I mean it started as a dlc for SR3, and that dlc was originally an April fools joke.

[@youtuber58643]

SR3 was the first one I played and probably my favorite one.

[@isabellajustice2910]

Personally I think they're all great

[@djtoxicdhg]

This is absolutely insane I had no idea that THQ was going bankrupt just goes to show your even the most popular companies out there can have it happen to them

[@RinoaL]

i only liked their kids games, i think they should have stuck with those since it was the only thing they did well.

[@therealdavidcage4761]

We may never see another Shrek or Bratz game again. Truly dark times we live in.

[@dannydk6]

Dude, you are brilliant! Your commentary is clever, thought-out, and spot-on. When I listen to your descriptions on video games, it takes what we were thinking already and mixes it with a rationale and clarity I couldn't have created myself. Thank you Sir Bunnyhop, for your brilliance!

[@thomaslocke5626]

But when the licensed games were good they were GOOD. Battle for Bikini Bottom is still one of my favorite Collect-a-Thons to date

[@tristenwoodruff6438]

I can't find anyone else but Ratatouille on the PS3 was awesome from THQ. So was Creature from the Krusty Krab. They were genuinely great games, but the market took a shift in what's popular.

[@Lightscribe225]

It really sucks that Space Marine got cut down before a sequel could be made. Now who knows where the 40k license is. If Relic still has it, then I really hope they make a new one now that they're with Sega.

[@Salazar-rw1kd]

The smack down vs raw were the best wwe games

[@coreylineberry8557]

What about No Mercy, also a THQ game?

[@TalentlessHumor]

2010 was their last good game tbh

[@venousbirch2186]

Talentless Humor 2011 was fun too

[@lilgemini4032]

WWE All Stars, 13 and 14

[@jeff3076]

THQ offered me the best moments of my childhood. I remember playing those wwe games with my friends for 10+ hours in one sitting. They truly deserve some respect

[@ElleRoni]

Are those pissjugs on the bottom shelf??

[@elitekjms]

ElleRoni Looks like containers for chlorine. He probably has a pool.

[@actionvolcano]

You look just like phelous, im so happy i figured out where i recognized you from, watched the TGWTG movies when i was like 10

[@spiderjerusalem100]

These big publishers spend so much on their games that they have to sell a ridiculous amount of copies to make a profit let alone break even. They need to look at how successful some indie devs have been in the last few years. Games like Terraria, Super Meat Boy, Shovel Knight, Minecraft and Garry's Mod cost a fraction of the amount to make as something like COD and they're all huge successes. Not everyone cares about photo realistic graphics and Hollywood actors doing voice acting.

[@epikster4518]

Isn't Garry's Mod a mod for a game with a over boaloted budget?

[@KuroShiiiiro]

Classic WWE SVR and Saints Row II were rather fun. I loved, still do, the SVR games. 2007, 2010, 2011...

[@Unexpectedstuff]

You don't even know, how much lyrics of this Russian lullaby fits in the end of this video.

[@Gamebit257]

Watching this now, 2020, feels like a time capsule.

[@InsanityPlusOne]

Kingdoms of Amalur was a fail of the largest kind but at the same time it was a rather fun fail, Deak Kel had some pretty well done characters too so I kinda wish the company coulda survived.

[@SWIFTzTrigger]

SketchSlayer had such a weak story and immersion though, the world was very very boring too. Its a shame because it had fantastic gameplay, if only it was more creative and had a fair bit more polish and care it could have been one of the greatest rpgs of all time.

[@0096luke]

SketchSlayer I had a wonderful time with KoA. The story had tons of wasted potential and its atmosphere was bland and lacking. However, the combat was the most fun I'd had in a while. Responsive controls, flashy combos, the sheer destruction that could be done by the mage and the mother.fucking.awesome. reckoning mode made me play for hours. With proper combat balancing, deeper characters and a more involving story, it could've been great. Their biggest mistake was releasing it around the same time as Skyrim. Skyrim left it not only biting, but choking on the dust.

[@deadeye770]

Really sad, i liked THQ for most of their games like Company of Heroes (all of them), Metro, Saints Row, Homefront and so on... loved alot of them... :/

[@masterbedivere5563]

dont forget dawn of war!

[@esf1934]

Cars: maternational is one of my favorites

[@awesomeguy2009]

Well, Nordic Games revived THQ! My favourite childhood publisher has risen from the dead!

[@thebowz6525]

Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated would like a word with you

[@Melvinshermen]

The Bowz and also destory all human too

[@Empty00Eyes]

That music was used by the Mindcrack ultrahardcore games!

[@darcgibson5099]

lol, Sega totally destroyed the Company of Heroes franchise; it's basically a fee-2-pay game. Grinding with the micropurchases always shoved in your face when you've already paid full price. To get all the "generals" you have to pay for EACH ONE!

[@carrillo100100]

Darc Gibson yeah true.. COH 1 is been the best

[@quadraforest]

THQ will still live in my heart through Juiced[Eliminator and (not that much) 2]

[@TheFilipFonky]

Saints Row 2 was good, though.

[@TheFilipFonky]

ryan bennett If your point is that SR3 and SR4 suck then I agree.

[@TheFilipFonky]

황원 If you've never played Prototype, sure

[@grandheresiarchdave3262]

TheFilipFonky Yeah, it was a lot like the Prototypes. Still, at least they copied a good game for once!

[@TheFilipFonky]

The Barkspawn They failed though because no wall run and the weapons sucked hard.

[@StuUngar]

And btw...games are NOT expensive. Theyre cheaper than ever. I remember buying A Link to the Past for $70 in 1992. Now you guys have steam sales, PSN sales, GameStop and all sorts of access to $10-15 games that we didn’t have. In my undergrad capstone class, my professor assigned my group EA for us to do a market analysis and video games far and away beats other forms of traditional entertainment on an hour per hour cost basis, with network television being one of the few exceptions.

[@StuUngar]

Speaking of that analysis of EA...I remember talking about the MMO market because World of Warcraft was huge at the time and I seem to remember Warhammer being something that EA was developing.

[@jcrebel18]

OMFG...I remember playing MX Unleashed a loooooong time ago. I think it's like one of the first games we got for that console. Seeing them go has kind of left a hole that I don't think will be fixed, as I've already been disappointed by game companies like EA multiple times (with a few of those times not being much of a surprise honestly). While THQ was not perfect, and admittedly made a really bad Saints Row 2 port (which I didn't bother running for very long), there was some immaturity to the last game...and it didn't really seem that well production wise from what little I saw. Still, you can't exactly expect maturity from their sequels either when you have things like a dildo as a melee weapon. :S

[@TrlllyComicBookNews]

This should be revisited. Seeing the wins and fails of some of these ips over the past few years would be neat.

[@BlargleWargle]

007 Nightfire was fantastic and I won't hear you insult it

[@unnamed715]

WWF Smackdown 1 and 2 were my favorite PS1 games by THQ.

[@lilgemini4032]

2K is overhyped, 2K22 is ass especially NBA 2K22 THQ games including Saints Row 2 and 50 Cent Blood on The Sand and SVR for life until THQ Nordic is out But calling EA’s crappy licensed games like 007? You’re delusional

[@leondelirious2973]

I have played all wwe games from thq They are awesome from here comes the pain to wwe 2007-2011

[@TheGrimlean]

maaan now whos gonna make destroy all humans 5

[@Melvinshermen]

Bongwater Well not really but a remasterd we be come

[@UltimatePerfection]

Watched few vids of yours and this is *the* great channel. Subbed.

[@RenegadeZ]

I miss the WWE THQ games...

[@mfsalatino]

at less we have thq nordic

[@mattoXexe]

i hate they failed they literally had my childhood the best wwe games every dude they should come back and do those bro

[@tremiller8017]

thq made some of my favorite wwe games .

[@grimflame3998]

Hearing Kingdom of Amalur and failure at the same sentence got me mad. I loved that game.

[@XBlazePS3]

Atleast thq didn't shut down any studios they left then be independent

[@broachthejuggalo7906]

I've had every WWE games from THQ with my favorites being SVR 2006 2007 2009 2011 HCTP and WWE 13

[@satanismybud]

so sad...

[@blendernoob64]

I actually owned a UDraw Tablet for my Wii. It was fun to play Pictionary with my cousins and my friends back in elementary school with it, but it kept crashing, typical of Wii ports of THQ games.

[@delukard07]

I know my favorite shooter is was not made by THQ but it was published by them. And that's why i'm sad this company is no more. S.T.A.L.K.E.R

[@DouchebagDex]

+delukard07 I'd hardly label S.T.A.L.K.E.R a shooter but, you know, whatever. I'd say it's more of a survival horror. (ish)

[@vinnisvidya]

i'd say it's more of a CHEEKI BREEKI

[@DouchebagDex]

Vinnis Vidya ayylmao

[@fellower]

+Emper It's definitely more of a shooter than a survival horror game. The labs are scary at first, but the scare factor is mostly eliminated by the ability to gun everything down.

[@DouchebagDex]

Maximus Yeah i know, that's why i put horror(ish) however it still kept it's survival feel for me. Well, there are a lot of Stalker games.

[@neddles33]

When this happened all my concentration was fixed on where Freespace went, because I still have hope. A tiny tiny little sample of hope. And if that fails, I have a lot of mods.

[@깨달음-w8r]

THEY’RE BRINGING BACK BATTLE FOR BIKINI BOTTOM AND DESTROY ALL HUMANS LET’S GO