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@SinaelDOverom 4 года назад

They renamed first Harry Potter book into "Sorcerer's Stone" because they thought "Philosopher's Stone" sounded "too intellectual" for American audience.

@pita4525 4 года назад

I thought you were joking but no, that's real... Fucking real...

@VanTheDestroyerer 4 года назад

@@AlexEinherjar ^^ were* (we're, with the apostrophe that you used, is to state "we are" in shorthand, such as "we're going there" as opposed to "we are going there.")

@goon11789 4 года назад

AlexEinherjar damn you guys for real still salty about that war? bro is was 400 years ago let it go.

@michaelmartin9022 4 года назад

I thought everyone knew that. Now, dubbing Bob The Builder, that was beyond the pale.

@AlexEinherjar 4 года назад

@@VanTheDestroyerer You're right. I fucked up. Felt like an Ameritard now.

@ferraridav 4 года назад

The irony is here in the US, I've met 100s of Laura and not a single Lara

@crazyeyes8962 4 года назад

There's also other variations of names that begin with "Laur-". Laurel and Lauren, for example. The only names I can think of that begin with "Lar-" are masculine, like Larry and Lars.

@JunkyardBashSteve 4 года назад

And I don't know any kid from my time that *didn't* call her Laura Croft

@explosionsandstuff7787 4 года назад

I've met two people in my life named Lara and everyone mispronounces their name as Laura.

@SavageGreywolf 4 года назад

My cousin is a Lara and she gets called 'Laura' mistakenly all the time

@emperortrevornorton3119 4 года назад

I only once have the people named there daughter after tomb raider protagonist but they felt odd about it

@BlaineEvans 4 года назад

That MIDI version of "American Idiot" in the intro was a stroke of genius.

@KnakuanaRka 3 года назад

Blaine Evans I k ow that song, but I didn’t put 2 and 2 together until you said that. xD

@samclark379 3 года назад

I just reached this video today, and caught that myself.

@alanducks6842 3 года назад

It's amazing what some people can do with old school tech!

@Mirandorl 3 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2tis13wyU1c.html&ab_channel=8BitUniverse :D

@hanakowolf578 3 года назад

I heard the opening few times and started to sing along! 😂

@AustinArtypants 4 года назад

Romans: "Wait, Wipeout XL? You mean there's 40 of these games?"

@autismandgaming4532 3 года назад

More people need to like this

@kennylauderdale_en 4 года назад

Nintendo 64 Owners: What happened to The Nintendo 63?

@benjaminolson7206 4 года назад

Japan only release.

@diamondsmasher 4 года назад

And while we’re at it, where were the Wii R, Wii S, and Wii T??

@CapQuacer 4 года назад

Also they are missing some 50+ Mario games.

@troywright359 4 года назад

@@diamondsmasher Not to mention we had the 3DS, the 2DS....but no 1DS?

@Loveistheirwholehapp 4 года назад

@@troywright359 Nintendo DS is the 1DS

@jasonglebe3235 4 года назад

Wipeout 3? Like in the year 3? Were wheels even invented yet?!?

@TheDeeplyCynical 4 года назад

Obviously not, that's why they're flying

@Ave_Echidna 4 года назад

I'm confused by Wipeout 2048. How can it come after 2097, 64 AND 3? I'm American and don't understand numbers or time.

@sarina1234ful 4 года назад

Lol well, Trump did need to go outside and look at cars to make sure they had wheels in one of his speeches. It was hilarious

@NinJestre 4 года назад

@@Ave_Echidna Time is the measure of how many apples you can accrue. Clearly there was a drought & they ate the apples

@yoymate6316 4 года назад

@@Ave_Echidna They asked Bill Gates to number them

@fishpop 4 года назад

Eidos: "Americans may not be able to pronounce Laura so we'll rename her Lara" Americans: *mispronounces Lara as Laura anyway*

@EbonMaster 3 года назад

I literally thought it was Laura for a long time as a kid till I saw it in a magazine and realized I was wrong lol

@timmarsden429 2 года назад

@@EbonMaster you're not alone I've been spelling it wrong for ever

@buckrodgers1162 2 года назад

@@EbonMaster, Hell, I still to this day, and will continue to do so, even though I know the "truth", call her Laura. Why? Because if I started to call her "Lara", no one would know who the hell I was talking about, and/or, they would go out of their way to correct me.

@upyoursassmonkey 2 года назад

I used to think Lara was just some British way of spelling Laura.

@user-tr3wv7wk4m 4 года назад

When the play The Madness of George III was adapted for the big screen, it got renamed to The Madness of King George because they thought Americans would think it was a sequel

@vivisect53 4 года назад

That's the fault of the movie industry...they didn't want us bitching about them making another shitty sequel instead of something new and dismissing the movie right away.

@thiccodatchi3020 4 года назад

@@vivisect53 Yeah, typical American blaming their idiocy on others. It's your problem if you can't even do the tiniest bit of research.

@Hyper_Drud 3 года назад

@Mr. TAD I knew a guy whose full name was David J. III

@augustjay6436 3 года назад

@@thiccodatchi3020 I wonder how much energy it takes to be this hateful to people from other cultures all the time. You are the type that allows for genocides to happen and not care.

@mikeoxlong1395 3 года назад

@@augustjay6436 Bitches about somebody being hateful... Proceeds to dehumanize and vilify them without knowing the first thing about them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@wotwott2319 4 года назад

Sofel: "we cant use this name because it refers to a very specific strain of drugs that 90% of the entire world doesn't even know about. But casino games for kids are totally fine, yes."

@autobotstarscream765 4 года назад

Unless they're virtual slots in Pokémon games.

@SteveBrandon 4 года назад

Personally, at the time, I assumed the name change was because there was already a then new-ish Marvel Comics character called Speedball who was a lighthearted 1960s throwback character drawn by Steve Ditko. (The same character would eventually get a grimdark makeover as Penance some two decades later.) I was a young teenager in the late 1980s and didn't really know about the other meaning of "speedball".

@cpufreak101 4 года назад

western ratings boards in a nutshell

@CandyHatsuneWolff 4 года назад

@@autobotstarscream765 I came here to mention Pokémon. Well done.

@electricdreams8237 4 года назад

I wonder at the corporate culture in that company...

@H0n3yMonstah 4 года назад

The Peter Molyneax appearance caught me off guard, hilarious.

@2007Shockwave 4 года назад

Even Larry sounds surprised!

@elcapitansgamecorner1338 4 года назад

I swear peter molyneax always finds a way in larrys videos.😂😂😂

@quazarKiragon 4 года назад

if he isn't taking a stick and poking peter molly chops at least every few episodes, you know there is something wrong ;p

@spacemanmonster23 4 года назад

Moar ugly daurhhuurr stares from that bald fuck tosser.... Sick of it...

@TheJackal917 4 года назад

Larry has him in almost evry video. As if he wages war against Peter or something like that.

@DavidTimmonsEsq 4 года назад

Unfortunately, Weird Al Yankovic has permanently reprogrammed my brain, and I'm compelled to ask what a song called "Canadian Idiot" has to do with Americans.

@ThunderFlarz 4 года назад

David Timmons The tune was familiar and I was trying to piece together random lyrics from Weird Al’s version before I realised what song it was meant to be. Whoops.

@Liggliluff 4 года назад

For some reason I thought of The Sounds - Living in America first, which doesn't really fit.

@SavageGreywolf 4 года назад

in fairness, Canadian Idiot is genuinely better than American Idiot.

@DavidTimmonsEsq 4 года назад

@@SavageGreywolf By quite a wide margin, agreed.

@sassytroy8282 3 года назад

@@nathanmoore3866 in the same way that Argentina is part of America....or Peru.....

@blacksunshine7485 4 года назад

To be honest, my favourite entry in the series is Wipeout 997. You know, the one where they replaced the futuristic craft with cardboard boxes.

@loopymind 4 года назад

Let's not forget Wipeout 666 where you ride different Doom badguys

@argentsoul_ 4 года назад

What about Wipeout 420?

@blacksunshine7485 4 года назад

@@argentsoul_ We dont talk about that one..

@vivisect53 4 года назад

It sounds like there's a Wipeout multiverse...lol

@MewtwoMaster 4 года назад

Wipeout 1425 is honestly very underrated; yes, I know that going from a racing game to a side-scrolling collectathon doesn't make sense; but on its own, it is a very solid game with a ton of content

@honotron 4 года назад

I'm pretty sure there was 5.7 versions of street fighter 2 released every day in the 90's

@leroyvisiongames2294 4 года назад

Because capcom wanted people to forget that Street fighter 1 existed, but not too much because the story/events of SF1 are official series head-canon and SFII takes place following the events of SFI (that’s why Sagat has a scar on his chest, because he’s the final boss in SF1)

@Bubbabyte99 4 года назад

Underrated comment.

@TheInkPitOx 4 года назад

@@leroyvisiongames2294 Street Fighter has a story?

@Play-On7 4 года назад

@@leroyvisiongames2294 Actually II takes place after Alpha. Which one is up to interpretation. Timeline is SF I SF Alpha series SF II SF IV SF V SF III series And final fight is somewhere between alpha and II.

@After4th 4 года назад

And what about all the Street Fighters before 2010?

@CryptoJordanVR 4 года назад

As an American I can really appreciate this British man sticking up for us. You have my respect sir!

@ShadowDurza 4 года назад

@Milkshake Of Death We have a lot of things we shouldn't be proud of, but we can still be proud of some things and be offended by people who think we're the scum of the Earth.

@VGamingJunkieVT 4 года назад

Let's be real, the world as a whole has gone pretty crazy right now. The US doesn't have a Monopoly on that, we're just the biggest target.

@ShadowDurza 4 года назад

@Milkshake Of Death Boy have you got me backwards. I hate Fox news, I hate political correctness (Which Republi$%&#ts can be more guilty of than Liberals) and I believe that the reason America is so sucky is because it hasn't gone Left enough. I'm man enough to admit to three reasons why I haven't moved to the Netherlands or Denmark: 1. I still believe in this country. 2. I can't learn the languages necessary to make the transition (couldn't even learn Spanish lol) and I don't have the money. It might be a dump, but it's my dump, and I believe with a little time and elbow grease, this dump can sparkle like a diamond in the rough.

@nessamillikan6247 4 года назад

@ShadowDurza Very bold, very bold comment. You’ll have people on your back about that one in no time. 😂

@xlavenderskies 4 года назад

Milkshake Of Death your comment was so uncalled for lol

@tehteh9893 4 года назад

What Larry talked about was just minor changes that weren't really disastrous. Have you ever heard about 2004 Russian RTS game Perimeter? It has a psychedelic sci-fi story which Codemasters considered to be too complicated and weird, so English version of this game has *90% OF STORY AND LORE CUT OUT.*

@aionarkhe5260 2 года назад

This sounds interesting, a quick look on Google makes it hard to find references to the strip down. Is there a restored version or an otherwise definitive version that never got cut to look for, assuming the player isn't multi-lingual?

@tehteh9893 2 года назад

@@aionarkhe5260 I don't know, but youtuber DrrZed has a full walkthrough of Russian version with English subtitles.

@aionarkhe5260 2 года назад

Thanks for that, I'll have to give it a look.

@adrianaslund8605 Год назад

I vaguely remember that game. It had weird defense mechanics based on..well perimeters and power grids. It was also the first time I was introduced to the term Terraforming. I had no idea.

@tehteh9893 Год назад

@@adrianaslund8605 By the way... The developer died in a car accident two months ago.

@HORRIOR1 4 года назад

I thought this would have been a list of games that had their gameplay and levels dumbed down for US audiences.

@otaking3582 3 года назад

No, they usually do the exact opposite here in America and games more difficult

@otaking3582 3 года назад

@the hevy No, they make games more difficult when released in America compared to the original Japanese. Streets of Rage 3 forced players to play on Hard or else you don't get the last two levels, Dynamite Heady had a worse HUD and less forgiving overall, Viewtiful Joe and Resident Evil 4 both had their Easy difficulties removed, the list goes on and on. Just go to TV Tropes under the "Difficulty by Region" page.

@Eevee860 3 года назад

@@otaking3582 also the bosses of mario and luigi partnersbin time have multiple times the health of the Japanese version

@pyramidofmoos2 3 года назад

@@Eevee860 not to mention how the original Crash Bandicoot had every Aku Aku crate give advice to the player in the Japanese version.

@SirZanZa 3 года назад

@@otaking3582 that isn't true what so ever, US versions are known and are famous in Europe for being easier ( for the vast majority of cases obviously there are exceptions) Final Fantasy X USA version didn't even have Dark Aeons Nemesis or Penance and has more Tutorials

@Hokinar 4 года назад

Eidos: change "Laura" to "Lara" bcs americans can't pronounce "Laura" Americans: mispronounce it as "Laura" Eidos: **surprised pikachu face**

@kalebparham 4 года назад

Laura, laura Tomato, tomato lol

@OmniscientWarrior 4 года назад

I think it is more that Americans refuse to change how to say her name as it has been Laura for over a decade... we even made a freaking movie for her.

@CardboardSliver 4 года назад

I know quite a few Americans I talk to on Discord. They always, ALWAYS say "Laura".

@Nightmare-kn6ee 4 года назад

@@OmniscientWarrior movies there has been more than just one movie for Laura Croft and I think people don't change her name from Laura to Lara they probably kept it Laura because it actually sounds like a real name and it's easier to say kind of like how the US version of Msrio Kart which has a track named DK Summit instead of its name from other places around the world where it's called DK snow board Cross

@ChaosoneX 4 года назад

I seriously thought that was her name until I either The Last Revelation or Chronicles. Lara Croft is just weird, but I just assumed it was because she's British and needed a British sounding name.

@Dreadjaws 4 года назад

Ha, ha, why do these publishers still think that gamers are idiots? Gamers: _still support Fallout 76_ Oh.

@weirdotzero7065 4 года назад

Hey, if they supported the last 75 Fallout games, I don't see how one more makes a difference.

@Digitalhdwmn 4 года назад

@@weirdotzero7065 there's only 7? Fallout games or 8 if you count mobile ._.

@DrachenYT 4 года назад

Stockholm Syndrome is a bitch.

@IAmPez 4 года назад

@@Digitalhdwmn >>>>>>>>>The joke Your head.

@Rick586 4 года назад

Saint10 WOOSH

@stwenty5758 2 года назад

The whole Laura-Lara thing is utterly silly for another reason: Little House on the Prairie. Laura Ingalls is a huge character in classic American youth literature and television. It's mind blowing to me that they thought we couldn't pronounce the name of one of the main characters of a TV show that ran for 9 years.

@zciliyafilms5508 9 месяцев назад

Or how about Luke and Laura from General Hospital?

@stwenty5758 9 месяцев назад

@@zciliyafilms5508 True. Also, statistically, the spelling Laura is more than 2x as common worldwide. A world that, despite what some folks both in and outside of it seem to think, does acutally contain the U.S. FTR, I've met four or five Lauras in my life, and not a single Lara. The name change wasn't insulting, it was asinine.

@akhannar9368 4 года назад

That graphic using Mona Lisa to depict how selling videogames changed over the years is depressingly on point...

@no.xivxion4352 4 года назад

"they can't say Laura, make it Lara!" AND IN IRONY EVERYONE KEEPS SAYING LAURA NOT LARA. Jokes on them.

@beatrixthegreat1138 4 года назад

No. XIV Xion and I hear girls named Laura in the US more than Lara... Lara is more exotic I think. I like it but the whole naming of her is racist and infuriating.

@rashidisw 4 года назад

Well.. probably one of those spill-off thoughts on why Americans said color instead of colour.

@beatrixthegreat1138 4 года назад

rashidisw yeah why do we spell things differently? Was it to save money on ink?

@LordsofMedia 4 года назад

@@beatrixthegreat1138 People would not have liked Laura Cruz as much as Lara Croft.

@LordsofMedia 4 года назад

@@beatrixthegreat1138 Cutting out unnecessary letters and words is indeed to make communicating more efficient.

@Drinkabeerandplayagameofficial 4 года назад

I can confirm that no one in the US called Lara Croft “La-Ra” and everyone has always called her “Laura”...at least when it came out

@helterskelly1893 4 года назад

I always said Laura Croft until the reboots came out and I saw it was spelt “Lara”

@bland9876 4 года назад

LORE AH

@jasonfayers6146 4 года назад

People in the UK called her Laura too.

@QJ89 4 года назад

Clara, Kara, Tara, Laura... Must be be an American English thing.

@voidofspaceandtime4684 4 года назад

didn't even know the name was lara.

@Woodie-xq1ew 2 месяца назад

“At an anti-brexit rally with Peter Molyneux” no wonder we left the EU 😂

@sozaj 4 года назад

As an American, I am greatly honored for all of us that you referred to us as "[England's] friends across the pond". Thank you.

@Jomali 4 года назад

Eidos: Americans can't pronounce Laura Americans: call her Laura anyway

@LordsofMedia 4 года назад

No one can pronounce Lara. Is it like Larry?

@MMitochondria 4 года назад

It's like supercalifrigicexpialidoses

@kenh3757 3 года назад

@@MMitochondria I don't know what point you were trying to make here but you left out the whole middle of the word

@redleader7988 3 года назад

@@kenh3757 I get it. Look again.

@stevenwhuntva 3 года назад

I think it's regional.

@yostoyou 4 года назад

Ironically, I can't tell you how many times I've heard people mispronounce Lara as Laura. Great thinking there.

@dooplon5083 4 года назад

Hell, I find laura so much easier to pronounce I sometimes don't even bother trying to figure out how to say Lara to make it sound different. Nice going there, Eidos.

@AlexanderTheGrey 4 года назад

Lol even fuckin Grandma's Boy does it

@xYamakaze 4 года назад

Doesn't help that in modern Tomb Raider it really does sound like some of the characters are saying "Laura".

@davidlevy706 4 года назад

As an American, I assumed that _Lara_ was a chiefly British name. It's relatively uncommon in the US, and this was a British character created by UK developer. I never would have guessed that it was for the benefit of Americans, to whom _Laura_ is much more familiar.

@Sweetestsadist 4 года назад

Even a commercial for one of the sequels pronounces the name "Laura".

@mostar1219 4 года назад

“Land of the rising apple pie” ha ha Ha

@bar-1studios 4 года назад

"They assumed Americans didn't grow up with the name Laura! Because the TV show Little House on the Prarie tragically never existed."

@MrTheMighty 4 года назад

Funnily enough, when Mega Man X came out I remember thinking it was the Roman Numeral "10." But then, there were a ton of Mega Man games already, so it wasn't too hard to believe I'd simply missed a few.

@LeSarthois 4 года назад

I assumed that for a long time, especially since it wasn't rare in Europe to only get a few episodes of a successful series (like Final Fantasy) in addition to NES release being easily 2 to 3 years late (for example, you might have heard of that rather niche game, Super Mario Bros 3? Released in 1988 in Japan. In Europe? 1991) and it was then easy to assume that Nintendo decided to drop Megaman 7 to 9 to directly go on 10 on the SNES since they sped up the European release to squash Sega ; inceidentally, this is why Europe (thankfully! ;3 ) got the Super Famicom shell, since Nintendo could barely cope with the demand for US SNES, but had extra production available on the SuFami lines, so they used that extra capacity for European SNES.

@DarkPuIse 4 года назад

"It was also extremely progressive for its time, by having the first-ever videogame protagonist that was ginger." *Character immediately gets shot*

@johnyshadow 4 года назад

He´s fine, he doesn´t have a soul anyway...

@TacDyne 4 года назад

@@johnyshadow Can confirm. I'm ginger.

@mikeFolco 4 года назад

Thanks for narrating what I just watched.

@DarkPuIse 4 года назад

@@mikeFolco Think of it as closed captioning for the visually impaired.

@Terabit3 4 года назад

@@TacDyne can also confirm. Also a ginger

@henrysokol3466 Год назад

The MIDI 'American Idiot' at the end was a cute touch, Larry. Ironically, 'Tomb Raider' was the first time I encountered the name *Lara* as an American although Laura was common enough. And the game exec really thought we'd misinterpret the last game's title so badly, yet trusted us to keep the order of franchise games straight with semi-random words to designate them instead of numbers? What a class act.

@GardevoirBoy1991 2 года назад

Seeing all the changes when things were localized in English from Japan at first, and all the censorship that happened in the process, no wonder we were so gullible. Thanks for standing up for us. It makes me understand that localization wasn't easy back then for American audiences just because were weren't used to handling weird things from Japan as were are now.

@Frellyouall 4 года назад

That teenage boy's eyes never left that Lara cosplayer.

@Peannlui 4 года назад

Thank the Late Late Toy Show for that clip.

@MarilynMonRover 4 года назад

To be fair, neither did mine. :)

@troywright359 4 года назад

Lol, he literally never takes his eyes off her. Something new for gamers at that time

@thelonemusician5023 4 года назад

He's a man of culture.

@thatguy3718 4 года назад

Her name is Nell McAndrew she was a popular model here in the UK back in the 90s and 2000s

@AltimaNEO 4 года назад

The irony of the "Out of this World" name change was that they named it like the TV show "Out of this World", which was a sitcom starting a girl with time freezing powers that she got from her alien dad.

@renatamikucewicz8716 4 года назад

is that the show where she put her two index fingers together to freeze time? holy shit, ive been trying to remember what that shows called for prob 15 years.

@AltimaNEO 4 года назад

@@renatamikucewicz8716 Yeah! Her name was Evie. I loved that show.

@peetopato7813 4 года назад

Yeah, I bought "Out of this World" hoping that me and Uncle Beano would be freezing time and gleeping cool stuff up. Opened it up and I got this game with no candy-dish dad. I was a disappointed 9 year old.

@tehteh9893 4 года назад

Also an irony: there is a Marvel character named Speedball and he was introduced in 1988.

@Matt-md5yt Год назад

@@tehteh9893 yeah he did Coke

@MikeOShay 4 года назад

I am shocked whenever I hear someone actually properly pronounce her name as "Lara".

@Pensive_Scarlet 3 года назад

I want to know more about that promo footage with the intensely in-character Lara Croft model and the awkward confused kids who keep getting distracted from the game by her posing antics.

@jean-lucpicard5510 3 года назад

Who is going to tell him that she is out of his league and she wouldn't look at him twice?

@TempestTemple 4 года назад

As an American, I always thought Lara was really weird, as I've known several Lauras, but I've never met a Lara.

@FindecanorNotGmail 4 года назад

I've never met Guru Lara either, but one day ...

@The_Call_Up 4 года назад

Exactly, I've known like 5 Laura's, never met one Lara.

@OfficialDJSoru 4 года назад

Honestly once I got used to speaking english without a portuguese accent for once, I had trouble pronouncing the U in Laura and Lara became an easier contraction of the name. Strangely enough it only happens to me speaking in american accents, not british ones

@theodorelehman 4 года назад

I assumed Lara was a mispelling of Laura that they kept because they didn't want to retcon her name. I've been calling her Laura Croft all these years.

@PureSniperWolf 4 года назад

Also we do have plenty of "Lauren"s. So...you know...Guess we should just refer to them as "Laran"s.

@robertcop9889 4 года назад

That long pause before saying "Peter Molyneux" made me choke on my soup a little bit. Good laugh, haven't heard his name here in a while.

@Monody512 4 года назад

"…named the fourth one Fusion…" So just like Metroid? On a somewhat related note, I still wish they'd name the upcoming System Shock remake "System Shock 2072", to avoid confusion between the remake and the original.

@ExtremeWreck 3 года назад

Surprised nobody else noticed that lol.

@TheHouseOfWaffles 4 года назад

"American's can't pronounce 'Laura'"??? My entire youth there was a girl in my neighborhood named Laura. We were the same age and attended the same school and church, so there were several opportunities for her name to be mentioned. I think there were a few other Lauras at school too. If that wasn't enough exposure to "how to pronounce Laura," Laura Ingalls was essentially the main character on "Little House on the Prairie" which ran from 1974 to 1983 then re-ran extensively throughout the '80s and maybe even into the early '90s. When Tomb Raider first came out, I at first thought it was "Laura Croft," then when I realized there was no U in her name, I somehow knew it didn't rhyme with Sarah and wondered where the hell "Lah-ruh" came from.

@meowistforlife 4 года назад

He found a way to put in peter Molyneaux

@invock 4 года назад

I don't see it that way. I think it's actually Molyneux who always finds a way to appear in any of Larry's videos.

@winterbreezesrule9583 4 года назад

@@invock Molyneaux is a phantom that constantly haunts Larry, and will always haunt Larry,

@jeffcox6539 4 года назад

I was paying attention elsewhere. Didn't see him.

@Cyberwolfman 4 года назад

"He did it, the sonofa bitch did it!" Love you Larry!

@AltimaNEO 4 года назад

Molyneax Hunt

@Igorcastrochucre 4 года назад

Atlus worker: I don't think Revelations: Persona will sell well in the west, what do we do? Atlus worker #2: Let's cut the game in half, making it end way before it's supposed to. Atlus worker: Almost, but not quite there. Atlus worker #2: Let's also make one of the asian characters black to make him relatable to the youth. Atlus worker: You're a genius.

@JohnFuklaw 4 года назад

When you said Wip3out, all I could think of was the "WOP IT OUT" part from loadsamoney

@nidhoggstrike 4 года назад

-1) If I was the executive, I would have done that. -3) If I was the executive, I would have done that. Larry forgets that these games were soldf in toy stores, and were often ordered out of catalogues without pictures or explanations for what they contained. If I owned a toy store in the US in the nineties, and I had to restock the shelves for video games, I would NOT have picked up these games with their original names. First of all, 1 I would not order because of the general "think of the children" attitude. You can argue that the whole attitude was stupid, but it WAS prevalent, and any store owner would have to keep it in mind. 3, it seems silly to assume it's based on the show...when you have box art to look at. But if you are picking it from a list in a catalogue, and it says "Another World - Platformer" and that is ALL, and it is released at a time when EVERYTHING gets a platforming game; you're damn right I'll be assuming it is a spin-off an avoiding it. In short, 1 and 3 were not stupid moves at all, but looks stupid because we have the wrong perspective.

@charlesalexander560 4 года назад

Conversely it can be said just because something is done en masse doesn't make it the right move, and in fact the largest selling chains and franchises of video games have tended to be the ones thinking specifically outside of the frame of mind your argument presents. For instance Grand Theft Auto, Street Fighter, Dead or Alive, when you think about it even games that seem child friendly and have sold well have overt adult themes and undertones to them, and in a world where the most popular game type is based on shooting someone in the face, I think your argument here is sort of a fallacy in that it excuses poorly made decisions because "everyone was doing it" and that basic concept itself has been proven flawed already to the point that it is often used as a negative and not a positive. IE. "If all your friends were jumping off a bridge". You can't build a solid argument on flawed foundations.

@nidhoggstrike 4 года назад

Like I said, moral panic was a big thing when it came to video games. Even if you thought it was stupid, you had to account for it. You did not want Joe Lieberman to show your game to a shocked audience. Of course, in hindsight, you really DID want that. As Mortal Kombat and Night Trap can both testify, the moral panic really did them a lot of good. Buuuut...most economic actors will always do a version of "everyone was doing it". The guy who game up with Klash Ball probably got a good bonus that year. Just as much as you can't build a solid argument on flawed foundations, you can't assume that business men in the early nineties didn't follow the conventional wisdom of the time. Because you are looking at it from the hindsight of today. From our vantage point it sure looks like taking risks was a brilliant move, but there was no way they could have known.

@charlesalexander560 4 года назад

@@nidhoggstrike except the ones who took risks did know, due to marketing, ad research, demographic studying, and most inportant understanding that innovation defines technology for its abilities not it's uses. By putting out games that set against those norms based on marketing and ad research they had done, they came to the conclusion that puahing the system to it's limits to make it do rhinga never before done was more marketable than a 50th cookie monster amiiga game. I was alive during the back end of these times so yes, i actually do know first hand and not just from speculation of how their perspective was, i actively watched what I am describing happen. As much as you think I am assuming their perspective I am not, I am informing you of what it really was, as I was there.

@Berny23 4 года назад

Timestamps: 1:40 - Speedball 4:06 - Lara Croft 6:23 - Another World 8:56 - Wipeout 2097

@Terabit3 4 года назад

You're doing God's work, son

@MrDarylPhoenix 4 года назад

"Seen here at an anti-Brexit protest with............Peter Molyneux" And that's when we know that even the site of Ol' Pete breaks The Guru

@Ravenite456 4 года назад

He was only there because he was mad that all the lies from the Brexit Party were stealing his thunder.

@imrustyokay 2 года назад

I called that "Wipeout 2097" reason instantly. Like, I know there are people who actually believe we are that stupid, but still, it feels like a slap in the face.

@kait2972 4 года назад

"Highest rated game ever" - Computer Game Review Has gotta be a place holder, right?

@DaMainman2 4 года назад

This episode will eventually be featured in "5 Guru Larry Videos with unexpected Molyneux cameos"

@Ghost_Of_SAS 4 года назад

I often hear Americans saying "Laura Croft", so that's how wrong Eidos was.

@greventlv 4 года назад

I played the game as a boy in the States, all my friends and I still to this day say "Laura Croft"

@PiousMoltar 4 года назад

@@greventlv Y THO

@PongoXBongo 4 года назад

@@PiousMoltar/videos Because Lara isn't a proper name that actual people have, whereas Laura is.

@superscatboy 4 года назад

@@PongoXBongo Not true. I went to school with a Lara.

@superscatboy 4 года назад

@Jeffrey Foster I'm sorry you find it so hard to believe that there are names out there besides the ones you know.

@midwestmonster9886 4 года назад

They could spell it "Larr-ah" and I'd still pronounce it Lora.

@THEGRUMPTRUCK 3 года назад

They could spell it "Lor-ah" and I'd still pronounce it *INCOHERENT LOVECRAFTIAN SCREECHING!*

@suziwolf4830 4 года назад

Regarding Wipeout 2097, as much as I... and most of my fellow Americans... wish I was making this up: "... it's COVID-19, not COVID-1..." - Rush Limbaugh

@rassilontdavros3004 4 года назад

American here- I can guarantee that “Laura” isn’t a mysterious unknown quantity to us.

@VGamingJunkieVT 4 года назад

The irony is that I have to remind myself it's actually Lara, I want to default to calling her Laura.

@thatguy3718 4 года назад

I hate the way you yanks pronounce Craig and twat

@pixifee5008 4 года назад

I guess, there are also people who confuse Laurel with Yanny, but that is another topic.

@sneakymcsqueaks8128 4 года назад

@@paxhumana2015 Oh, jeez, someone here is projecting. Guess the word "yank" tipped you off. Speaking of yanking, as far as I recall, some 300+ years ago, US was still in Britains balls. Most Europeans find that hilarious. That and the term "American history".

@DaraGaming42 4 года назад

when i was a kid , i used to pronounce it as Laura for so long. and its funny cause . assumed Laura was an american name because of Laura in the simpsons, and also Laura Lumpkin also in the simpsons

@johnplayer420 4 года назад

Love the 8-Bit cover of "American Idiot" in the soundtrack

@Lierofox 4 года назад

I was a few seconds in before realizing what the song was, and then a few seconds later I realized why he picked the song. I was hoping someone else noticed!

@orcatwar9810 4 года назад

thought it was 16 bit

@Karmy. 4 года назад

@@Lierofox same

@andysatterthwaite7237 4 года назад

So, I was the producer on Wipeout2097 (featured in video) ... most of the comments below show that "renaming for Americans" was/is a thing. At the time we were making this game the film "The Madness of King George" had just come out (being based on the play "The Madness of King George III" ... but it was renamed to avoid the confusion of it being the 3rd film in the series. With hindsight, I wish we'd called the European version Wipeout XL too ... it was a much better name than 2097 (for those who care, the reason it wasn't called Wipeout 2 was because it was intended to just be a "tracks disk" style update rather than a full sequel ... it was just we managed to squeeze in a shed load of other features too that most people consider it a sequel)

@Larry 4 года назад

Hey Andy, How on Earth did you find this video? But it's great to see you Sir!!! I personally hate the concept of giving a non-annual releases a year in the title, as it immeaditly makes them irrelevant after twelve months. Look at all those Simulator games on steam. Can I ask was it always going to be a standalone release? it wasn't going to be an add-on disc like Grand Theft Auto London, where you need the original to play, even if it's just checking the game for ownership than using the code. But would love a chinwag sometime if you're ever up for it :)

@andysatterthwaite7237 4 года назад

@@Larry Was linked to it by a colleague (I now work at PikPok in New Zealand ... still making games). With you about the annual naming thing ... benefits of hindsight etc.

@andysatterthwaite7237 4 года назад

@@Larry Didn't spot the second two parts of your question then. It was always going to be a "standalone" release. (How I remember it is ...) the success of Wipeout 1 was a bit of a surprise to Psygnosis as such there was no immediate plan for a sequel. In addition, 90% of the Wipeout 1 development team left after the game released, meaning that Psygnosis didn't have a team ready and able to go to make a sequel even if they had it planned. As such, when it was apparent they needed one, they decided to keep it simple - just make new tracks, shove it in the old game, release it as an "extension" rather than a sequel. But as well as the artists, we had 3 programmers and 6 months ... you can do a lot with 3 programmers in 6 months (particularly when one of them is the unfeasibly talented Chris Roberts (not the Wing Commander guy, but ...) who went on to do amazing work on Colony Wars and others) . So by the time we had the 8 new tracks, we'd also added new weapons, upped the max number of vehicles from 8 to 15, added a new speed class and a bunch of other stuff. Hence it being regarded as a sequel ... it was an almost an accidental sequel if you like. Happy to have a chat ... hit me up on linked in (there aren't many with my name!)

@keshundavis7382 4 года назад

@@Larry Cancelled PS2 games Upload

@keshundavis7382 4 года назад

@@Larry Get Money Video game on Xbox one Collection Upload

@LootandScoot 3 года назад

Oh god I started to take a sip of my drink right when you did that pause for Peter molyneux and choked so hard from laughing

@Mihaugoku 4 года назад

meanwhile i'm still waiting for mario 65

@snbeast9545 4 года назад

frick someone beat me to it

@adamphillip5305 4 года назад

Mario 51 was the best

@Karameleon 4 года назад

do you eat glue?

@snbeast9545 4 года назад

@@Karameleon instant like for you sir

@Soda_Drunka 4 года назад

I'm waiting for Call of Duty: 19

@SomeHarbourBastard 4 года назад

*Sees Peter Molyneux is a Remain supporter Larry: "That settles it, we're leaving!"

@johnny2demax 4 года назад

Brexit joke ha ha ha.

@BeardFaceSuper 4 года назад

He would be a remainer.

@Tolwrath 4 года назад

Just take it as "Even Peter Molyneux isn't dumb or corrupt enough to be a brexit supporter" and it'll work fine as hyperbole about brexit supporters.

@user-pr1dh2bw6k 4 года назад

@@Tolwrath It wouldn't quite work for that though. I mean... you still have Peter's past talking.

@Werewolf_Korra 4 года назад

@@Tolwrath it's also true. Fuck brexit.

@volundrfrey896 Год назад

With another world it may not really be that they thought Americans would confuse them but rather that American lawyers might. Another world would have been a registered trademark in the US thus not something you want to use unless you're certain you can successfully argue that no reasonable person will ever confuse the two.

@FlareonGames 2 года назад

I named a character Laura for a project I’m working on… mainly because I hate the fact Croft had the dumb first name spelling… and I noticed her name was Laura in UK… also, your pause before mentioning Peter was impeccable

@BaronofBeardUK 4 года назад

"It's the video game equivalent of going on holiday in Great Yarmouth." Can attest. I live there. My daily routine involves putting on my stab proof vest.

@NirvanaPhoenix 4 года назад

Best quote of the video, and there are some absolute zingers!

@gregoriocruz4530 4 года назад

It ironic that they changed Another World to Out of this World due to it having the same name as a soap opera, but there was a sitcom named Out of this World, too.

@SlapstickGenius23 3 года назад

Confusing!

@dublev78 3 года назад

Being an American, I thought it was a video game for the Cosby spinoff “A Different World”. I was confused when I couldn’t play as Dwayne Wayne with the power of flip-up glasses.

@maxisalamone 3 года назад

Developer: You think American can grasp the concept of "future"? Publisher: Of course they can't

@ChescoYT 4 года назад

*Another World had a trademark already for the soap-opera.*

@superscatboy 4 года назад

Yeah, I was thinking this would be a much more obvious reason for the change.

@JohnWilliamNowak 4 года назад

Yeah, the "Another World" and "Speedball" changes are debatable but I wouldn't call them stupid, really. Heck, the Japanese character "Captain Harlock" was renamed in France because they were concerned people would confuse a space pirate with Tintin's drunk sailor buddy.

@ExtremeWreck 3 года назад

@@JohnWilliamNowak To be fair, Tintin IS very popular in France.

@ZBR_ProXP 3 года назад

But Out if this World was also an American tv show

@ExtremeWreck 3 года назад

@@ZBR_ProXP *O O F*

@JohnSmith-qy1wm 4 года назад

Wow on the Lara Croft thing. "Laura" is a pretty damn common name here. I've never actually known anyone named "Lara."

@glenngriffon8032 4 года назад

6:00 those guys stasring at the model playing Lara XD The little kid is staring like "I'm not sure why but I get really happy when I see her."

@DaWrecka 4 года назад

And thus was born another latex fetishist.

@lucasgartley9603 4 года назад

What is that clip from?

@tgarvis7120 2 года назад

Fun fact: A similar thing almost happened with Pokemon Red and Blue. Nintendo of America tried to make the game edgier and have a graffiti art style, even trying to make Pikachu look like a tiger hooker. Thankfully, it didn't happen.

@BeAGoodDoga 4 года назад

I’m Australian, and I didn’t even know Neighbours even had a video game... Must’ve been a UK exclusive...

@nigralurker 4 года назад

I'm from the US and I never met a girl named Lara, but I've met plenty of Laura's and Lauren's.

@CommodoreFan64 4 года назад

Same here, I've never met anyone named Lara, but use to work with a lady named Laura at an old job.

@r0bw00d 4 года назад

Oh dear, those apostrophes...

@mickles1975 4 года назад

"Land of the rising apple pie" Nice. I like that.

@AgentTasmania 4 года назад

Diseasel Suppose ‘Land of the Rising Gun’ wouldn’t have been up Larry’s tonal alley

@CasaiAgicap 4 года назад

@@AgentTasmania i'm stealing that

@AltimaNEO 4 года назад

I mean the Brits seem to love pie more than we do

@mikespearwood3914 4 года назад

@@AltimaNEO I think Americans use apple pie as a metaphor for something that's supposedly considered quintessentially American though, so it's kind of appropriate.

@autobotstarscream765 4 года назад

@@AltimaNEO Appleton says hi, representing the UKGB's apple pie industry.

@PhirePhlame 4 года назад

To be fair about #2, some US companies have been really selfish about their copyrights. Remember how game developer King tried to monopolize the word "Saga" using copyright law, by claiming that anything else which used the word was attempting to "create confusion"?

@sirgouki6207 4 года назад

Remember how the European owned Bethesda did the same with Scrolls?

@Dynam1cDr3w 4 года назад

What a brilliant choice playing the 8-bit version of "American Idiot" for the intro & outro.

@crass340 4 года назад

"Mixture of american football and basketball" aren't they just playing future handball?

@shaginus 4 года назад

I think you mean Handegg

@vincentmuyo 4 года назад

That's like... American football but with no kicking at all right? So superfootball?

@TheDevilHydraProdsXXII 4 года назад

@@shaginus when you realize a rugby ball has more in common with an egg than an american football does

@Liggliluff 4 года назад

@@somescrub885 Like how he says soccer instead of football? ;)

@otaking3582 3 года назад

I thought it was more like Future Pock-to-Pock (aka the Aztec sport that served as the basis for Thrill Kill)

@BakerGlare 4 года назад

24 seconds into the video and I now need more chip-tune Green Day in my life

@dragonmaster613 4 года назад

That exists. Just YT search "8-Bit [name of song]". Username 8 Bit Universe is best.

@Carbon8tion 4 года назад

Not gonna lie, I thought it was ths Johnny Test opening and was really confused as to why it was playing. Then I remember that it was a straight up rip-off of American Idiot...

@dragonmaster613 4 года назад

@@Carbon8tion not a rip-off, a cover! Rhianna's SOS is a rip-off!

@SgvSth 4 года назад

Per the updated description, here is a line to the video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WsY7R2t4U2w.html

@Liggliluff 4 года назад

Nintendo of America makes small changes to the Nintendo Direct that are not present in the European version. Such as adding "not in game footage" to cinematic clips, that isn't present in the European version. Then in one direct when "The end" was added in the middle as a joke, the American version added "just kidding" to it. There are more of these changes in the American version that I can't remember right now.

@egfelixdcg 2 года назад

That Wipeout 2097 anecdote reminded me that around the time Super Mario 64 was released (I was 9 at the time) I thought there were actually 64 Mario platformer games. However though, this was helpled by the fact that I live in a NES pirate releases country (Argentina) and there were multiple hacks featuring Mario, pretending to be sequels and I knew they got to at least the 14th sequel. I thought these sequels were real, even though in some cases I knew which games were they hacking. And after seeing Mario 64 I thought there were actually many more Mario games I didn't know of. In fact in that same year (1996) is when my mom brought me "Mario 14" (a hack of Japanese Famicom's "Kid Niki 3") from a trip to Poland (seems that country is a NES pirtate territory too). Up to that point that was the higher Mario number I knew on the NES. Later with the internet I learned it stopped at "Mario 16" (A Joe and Mack hack) Anyway, 64 games still seems more feasible than 2097, heh heh

@TheAmazingSpiderPunk 4 года назад

I love how ironic it is they named her Lara when literally everyone seems to mispronounce it as Laura, the very name they thought we yanks were too dumb to pronounce. Turns out Eidos was right: We are dumb, just in the exact opposite way they expected.

@akeminakajima449 4 года назад

Kekkerino

@charlisebar-shai2613 4 года назад

Feels nice knowing that developers think so highly of my people

@banaroklionrage9536 4 года назад

this just makes me think of Harry potter and the philosophers stone, since Americans are clearly too uneducated to get the alchemy reference we rebrand it as the sorcerers stone, Brilliant! i just hate that name change so much.

@kateycatmetal2181 3 года назад

lol had a good chuckle at your "speedball" intro there- very amused, much much delighted-

@stuffedsomething1699 3 года назад

10:40 You forget that this is the same country that thinks a 1/3 of a pound is smaller than a 1/4... (Look up the 1/3 pounder debacle that A&W and McDonald's went through)

@metropod 4 года назад

Two points: I wonder how whom ever decided to rename Lara Croft felt when they first heard of Laura Bush, wife of George W. Bush... Second: where can we find that 8 bit American Idiot cover?

@bboyhanvzla 4 года назад

Wait! Are you really talking about Lara Bush???

@sopcannon 4 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WsY7R2t4U2w.html

@Zackasaurusify 4 года назад

If you like the 8-bit stuff, you should check out 8-Bit Universe here on RU-vid!!!

@LuckyPunkProd 4 года назад

"Oh sure. I've played the other 2096 Wipeout games." Said no one ever.

@thebluespider8545 3 года назад

Completed them mate

@Protomorfid 3 года назад

The funniest part about the name change to me is I'm in the US and I've never heard anyone pronounce her name as Lara. Only as Laura. And I didn't even know it was supposed to be Lara until the first time Larry brought up that piece of trivia lol

@Fender178 2 года назад

Also a US TV Show from the 1960s The Dick Van Dyke Show had a character named Laura. I had a few classmates in Elementary School named Laura. The Name Laura is a very common name in the US unlike Lara.

@DinosaurBytes 4 года назад

Ironic really, that quite a number of Americans falsely refer to "Lara" as "Laura", even to this day!

@rho-starmkl4483 4 года назад

And in Wreck-it Ralph, Ralph says "Larra Croft".

@captainandrew45 4 года назад

Doubly ironic, Laura's a more common spelling in the states, I've met tons of Laura's, never a Lara

@Roadent1241 4 года назад

Dinosaur Bytes I'm not American and I thought it was Laura since I was little.

@FindecanorNotGmail 4 года назад

I hate it that I get a lot of game and film-related images when I search for "Laura Croft" ...

@thehoodybadger3402 4 года назад

Ah yes, my favorite British boi. HELLO YOU.

@Larry 4 года назад

Bless you Sir :)

@thehoodybadger3402 4 года назад

@@Angel_Bird Ironically stupid comment.

@TayoEXE 4 года назад

@@thehoodybadger3402 Uh, no?

@Yusuke_Denton 4 года назад

@@TayoEXE Uh, yes?

@troywright359 4 года назад

@@Larry Wait a sec Larry! You're Larry Bundy Jr! Where's Larry Bundy Sr, and Larry Bundy Ar, Br, Cr, Dr, Er, Fr, Gr, Hr, and Ir?

@otaking3582 3 года назад

The irony with Wipeout XL is that "XL" is also the Roman numeral for 40.

@F40PH-2CAT 3 года назад

Where were the XXXIX other version of this game?

@c128stuff 4 года назад

Curiously, something I encounter a lot is people from the USA trying to reduce any kind of discussion into a simple choice between 2 options, even when it is blatantly obvious that is going to ignore multiple very valid alternatives, and much more so than people from many other countries. Simplifying to the point of stupidity, and consequently giving the impression of 'stupid' ? Yes absolutely.

@mathieuleader8601 4 года назад

I thought Larry was going to swap out his catchphrase Hello you to Howdy Y'all as a gag

@Larry 4 года назад

I totally should have done that.

@ApemanMonkey 4 года назад

The Lara-Laura story sounds like a big misunderstanding. I find it much more plausible if an American had said: "can't we call her Laura?", and that story got picked up incorrectly. That country is filled with Laura's!

@Superstar5_ 4 года назад

I'm American and I hate the fact that publishers think we're stupid.

@marscaleb 4 года назад

The idea that they didn't want it confused with a TV show named "Another World" is exceptionally idiotic considering that they changed it to have the same name as another popular show, one that would be more recognized by their target demographic than "Another World." In fact, when I was a kid and first heard about "Out of This World" I genuinely first thought it was based off of the show of the same name. Of course, seeing any image of the game or its box art instantly told me that it wasn't tied in with the show, but still, it is rather absurd that they created the very same issue they thought they were avoiding.

@NanaKyoto 4 года назад

"Laura" will always have a better ring than "Lara" in my eyes, so I feel insulted that they went and did that.

@dentistguba 4 года назад

Laura is too much of a 'normal person' name, posh english people have to have uncommon names.

@giga9955 4 года назад

Lara is edgy and unique; laura is a bland librarian name

@thedude5295 4 года назад

@@giga9955 Leave Laura alone. She's stunning and brave.

@disturbedpyro4511 4 года назад

"They thought Americans wouldn't be able to pronounce Laura" ! Turns out we can't agree on how to pronounce Lara either. How ironic!!

@OmniscientWarrior 4 года назад

Because Lara is such an uncommon named that people reflexively say Laura instead, that and her name has been Laura for 10 years. Hard to understand a established character is the exact same person but just a slightly different name.

@thegardenofeatin5965 3 года назад

@@OmniscientWarrior In most American accents they're going to sound fairly similar unless you're trying to differentiate them. "Laura" is somewhere between "lora" and "lara" I would say.

@Alloveck 3 года назад

I never even realized that Lara and Laura are supposed to have dedicated different pronunciations until watching this video. At most I just vaguely chalked it up to different people sounding different, to the extent I consciously acknowledged the slight difference at all. With that being said, apparently, I've been calling her Laura all along now that I think about it.

@toddnolastname4485 3 года назад

I don't think I've ever met a Lara, but I've known plenty of Lauras. It's possible the studio behind the soap Another World thought (or at least claimed) that people would buy the game thinking it was tied to the soap, but they wouldn't get any of the money. As if anyone in America would buy a game tied to a soap opera. And there are actually Americans who think Trump is the bad guy. They think Trump is more racist than Biden, who actually spoke at the funeral of the leader of the clan. So, yeah, some of us over here are kind of stupid.

@Antithigram 4 года назад

Welp, I guess I better go tell my Aunt Laura that we're supposed to be unable to pronounce her name that she's had for almost 60 years.

@BoomBoomBrucey 4 года назад

TBF, this is a nation that didn’t buy the 1/3 pounder burger that was marketed at the same price of the 1/4 pounder because they thought 1/3 was less than 1/4... so perhaps these publishers were onto something?

@pajamas720 4 года назад

*EA would like to know your location* but really though, are you really just gonna assume people in america are just too dumb to comprehend fractions?

@Kresh42 4 года назад

Going off that logic, what happened to Mario Kart 2 through 63?

@SSJasonX 4 года назад

I'm still waiting for Mario Kart 69😁

@Graknorke 4 года назад

They're underneath the ET landfill.

@IronCurtaiNYC 4 года назад

@@SSJasonX Nice.

@SgvSth 4 года назад

What about all the sports games in the 90s? Where was NHL 72 and MLB 55?

@Kresh42 4 года назад

@@SSJasonX nice.

@christophernugent8492 4 года назад

Just wanted to say, your music choice at the beginning did not go unnoticed. Good job. I laughed after thinking about it a bit.

@nai3346 2 года назад

The Wipeout legitimately makes sense. I hear nobody bought Faceball 2000 because they hadn't played the first 1,999 games.

@Larry 2 года назад

The movie, "The Madness of King George III" they removed the "Third" part from the title for the US release as they thought Americans might assume it's the third movie.