Bad Video Games in Good Franchises - Austin Eruption 

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Now I want to see a video about GOOD games on BAD franchises

There is a huge reason why Phantasy Star 3 is a black sheep. It was developed by an entirely different team of devs just brought in to quickly hammer out the project in 6 months, with just the same producer/director as before. It was originally a bunch of mini stories that they strung together into a narrative..

Supposidely, Pokemon Battle Revolution was going to have a single player portion like Colosseum and Gale of Darkness and much more content, as well as a full rentable roster of the 493 critters just like Stadium 1 & 2 did, but were told to scrap most of those features to reach somewhere close to the launch window of the Diamond and Pearl games. Such is life. The Pokewheel keeps on turning, even at the detriment to some of its other properties.

Rieko Kodama who directed Phantasy Star IV has said she has a story treatment written for Phantasy Star V. Yet Sega won't give her a team to make it happen.

In my opinion, Nintendo’s spin off games got worse after they took single player story modes out of them. Golf, Tennis, Pokémon apparently, they all got worse after they scrapped it.

If I had to guess what you meant by LP3 lacking the "YEEHAW" of the first game: I distinctly remember LP2's grappling hook letting me get all over the map quick and easy while shooting wildly in the air like I was a Spider-man with a gun

11:04 Haha no, I recognize that Palkia render anywhere. I do like how they got the Pokemon narrator to do the commentary. Very charming.

i think the craziest thing about Death By Degrees is if you only saw gameplay snippets you would think its a slightly globe trotty game. only to see that the whole game takes place on a ridiculously furnished cruise ship.

I have _never_ seen that Honchkrow animation before. That's absolutely delightful.

So Death by Degrees DID have a very early example of x-ray attacks in games, but there's one that came earlier, one that people forget, largely because everyone forgets about the game Fight Club on the PS2, which came out a scant 3 months earlier

I loved Battle Revolution as a kid but I can attribute that to already owning the required DS counterpart and the fact that I hadn’t played either Stadium or Colosseum so I had a fun time with it. I totally get why it’s considered a disappointment though

Obligatory "Phantasy Star was the first woke game ! They force you to play as a girl !" Yes, that was a real comment I have seen before. Also I don't think Super Mario Special is that bad, sure it is when you compare it to the NES original but for a computer at the time, it did It's best. Mario's Time Machine might be my pick for a bad Mario game.

" gently slides Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes into view so fellow suikoden fans can feel a tinge of hope " Also 4 was, okay.

Did this man just shit talk Till the End of Time!!?!? GET HIM!!!

Oh boy, a new Austin Eruption video!Proceeds to remind me that Zone of the Enders, Bloody Roar, and Lost Planet are all dead. Austin why must you do this to me, I came here to laugh, not feel pain.

Austin: I'd be here for five hours if I talked about Till the End of Time Me pulling up a chair: Go on....

Honestly, I'd love to see lost planet come back. Maybe if they went full-on monster hunter in space?

I'll fight you Austin, Til the end of time is genuinely a great star ocean game and the last good one, hilariously goofy voice acting included It kept to the spirit of the first two games

"I play Tekken" Nice "I play Alisa Bosconovitch" Oh.

As a fellow Digimon fan, I can't even describe how exciting Digimon Survive is! Really hope you end up covering it, especially since it will be completely looked over thanks to Xenoblade Chronicles 3 releasing the same day.

Honchrow death animation is amazing thanks for showing me that

17:45 man it feels so weird to finally having one of these obscure games that appear on these kind of videos, I always feel like creators just made the up or sum, but I got that game just because of its double disc case, I bought DMC 2 in a store but it didn't had its case so the owner took this game of a pile labeled "bad games" and I asked him, "bad because the discs are broken, or they're just terrible?" And he replied, "yes". Took it home got happy happy when both the game and demo worked, then got disappointed when I realized of the quality of their respective contents, eventually got an old beaten up double disc case for it and have in the colllection, well, since I really dig characters like Samus, Sarah Bryant and Rachel from NG/DOA, guess I have a thing for tall, blonde and gorgeous kickass women, just saying.

Every Madden game since 2008. Madden between 2003-2007 had a deep franchise mode. Not only could you recruit and draft players from the NCAA mode, there was create a team, NFL camps and pricing parking and hot dogs. Hell, even create a fan. Now, it's all about microtransactions. The game glitches and show Quarterbacks listed as corner backs or linebackers.

Maybe not the biggest franchise, but Left Alive has to be the worst game in the Front Mission franchise.

Seeing someone bring up Phantasy Star and Shining Force is great, both series do not get enough love online and I blame Sega for that.

I actually had the full suite required for Battle Revolution and was still disappointed lol. I did play a lot of it but mostly because all the bells and whistles are just oh so nice. The graphics were rather nice, having gen 4 mons in 3D was cool, but my god how did you not mention the announcer?!? He went way hard as he was essentially Stadium’s announcer turned up to 11. VGC would be a lot more fun with him around. Would even fit SwSh’s whole deal too! Also My Pokemon Ranch was fun to just have running in the background while doing other things. It was cute seeing the Pokemon interact. That’s really it. Honestly having that while slapping on a custom room and social media aspects would have made Home worth $5 but apparently even that is too much for GF these days

Once a month I need to take my immunsopresants for my arthritis. The needle for it is suuuper painful so I usually just sit with it by my leg for like 25 minutes anticipating the pain. So I usually look for a video around that length that’s chill so I can try to distract myself from it. Has nothing to do with video games, but this came right place at the right time. Thanks, Austin. Merci, Toda, Shookran, gracias.

Well, glad you like Strider. That was a labor of love on my part and I had to fight executive-fuckery on all sides to get it where it got to, with 24 people over 14 months. I think had I done a sequel and said executives were locked completely out, that would've been even better, but alas...

Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero comes to mind as a bad spin-off/sequel. Chibi-Robo Ziplash is an abomination with one of the best licenses slapped on it. Ecco Jr. is a game I ironically enjoy, but a children's game, some of the missions taking less then 30 seconds, was a weird direction to take the series. Also the Phantasy Star 3 Rom Hack "General Improvement" made me like the game more.

I actually liked death by degrees growing up. I just dont understand why tekken didnt follow up on their adventure modes they had in a couple of their titles you ran around in and still had tekken combat

Diamond & Pearl were the first Pokemon games to have Nintendo Wi-Fi connection actually, and they were also one of the first ever games to implement working voice chat, so no PBR wasn't the first Pokemon game with internet connectivity.

The coincidence of the Scott The Woz new video and this Barrel Blast video is overloading me xD

When you mentioned the Pokemon franchise, for a hot bit there I thought that you might talk about Pokemon Dash. Because that certainly is a game... That exists... And is not particularly good. But I never realized that Battle Revolution was as THAT much of a disappointment! Shame, really. Colosseum and XD are a lot of fun! If incredibly edgy. Also that pre-battle music from Phantasy Star 3... I owned the GBA port as a kid, and even though I never got very far in any of those game, that song just reactivated some kind of deep-seated and forgotten emotion within me. What that emotion is on the other hand is not known even to me. O.O

Small correction that changes nothing: you could also get all the Pokemon Battle Revolution content access with Platinum, HeartGold, and SouldSilver, not just Pearl and Diamond. Alright, that's all I wanted to say, all other points you made about the game are spot on.

"Pokemon Animation Simulator" Oh, you mean the "Pokedex 3D"

Philips made those Nintendo games because Nintendo was desperate to make a CD based console but no longer wanted to work with Sony due to the fact that they would own all the CD based games. I guess Philips required Nintendo to license their characters in order for them to work with them.

18:35 Wowww, the only other game I knew where they went with the idea of flicking the control stick for attacks (well just the right control stick) was one of my favorite PS2 games, Jet LI Rise to Honor. Funny enough also had camera problems.. but at least it stayed a beat-em-up from start to finish xd

I would like to see a review of the other phantasy star games

You had to pay to save in Phantasy Star 3. Early on I would forget this, spend all my money, go back outside to earn five Meseta so I could save. And that dungeon music, the repetitive dungeon music, gives me nightmares to this day

I don't think I will ever fully understand why some people don't like Star Ocean: Till the End of Time. Yes, I get the big twist isn't for everyone, but I think it is a neat and thought-provoking idea that is executed pretty well. Meanwhile, the art design (especially on the final dungeon) is some of the most beautiful I've ever seen in a game. It is, unironically, my favorite game in the franchise.

Everyone heard it, right? Austin totally promised a full video on bad Capcom games

I love Pokemon Battle Revolution to death but I can't imagine playing it without using my mons from dp

nice job I didn't even know about most of these and I would like to see a full video about capcom's bad games since I was a capcom fanboy that snapped out of it during that era

How did the quality drop so damn much between Alundra and Alundra 2? Matt McMuscles should really make a "Wha Happun?" on that...

Mega Man X7 deserved an honorable mention BURN

I miss Lost Planet 2, it had one of (if not the best) Turret Levels, the Giant Sandworm fight on the Dreadnought cannon Train. Loading Ammo (and empowering if you took a extra second) Aiming the Cannon Repairing Able to use the Mini-Helicopters to fly around and unload bullets onto the weak points. So playing it in co-op was great, the AI will sometimes load the cannon but not reliably.

OMG, you showed the still of Ruin meeting the group in Phantasy Star IV, and I could hear his theme immediately. Thank you for this nostalgia beat in my head

10:04 - Did he just "M'Lady" me?

You should try that romhack that ports special's levels, enemies and power ups to a proper nes rom. It ends up being a pretty good time.

You thought I'd fall for the remake bait? Ha! I knew that Palkia render too well to fall for your silly games!

"Ponita". Hm. I've always said "Pony-tah"

Underrated channel, it should have 1 million by now. I think that Austin is an excellent youtuber.

Growing up, the only Phantasy Star I had was III (and that was from a used game store my brother and I would frequent in the 90s) until I picked up the GBA collection and grew to love 1 and 2 (especially 2). I still honestly don't mind 3, but it is a huge departure from the others and I can't get myself to play through a whole generation anymore. Still need to find time/drive to play IV at some point...

i wanna know the inverse of this like series notable for being ok or worse having an entry thats far more liked than the rest

I played so much battle revolution. We had a nice little community of competitive DP players. I have so many great memories seeing fights playing out on a giant projector screen. It turned Pokemon into a spectator sport and It felt epic.

thanks, now the cleffairy song is stuck in my head too

I don't care if it's wrong or socially unacceptable, I really liked Death By Degrees. 🥴 The jank and stupid story were part of its charm.

-> claims Mario games made by Nintendo aren't bad -> shows the logo for 3D All-Stars

Love the insert of the Lunar tune in the last part.

I've been watching your videos on the way to work evetoday for a little while now really enjoy the content thank you

Hearing about JRPG's and Capcom gave me hope you'd talk about Breath of Fire. That series isn't talked about anymore and more people need to know about 3 and 4

Cause we all mistakes sometimes

Bro Lost Planet 3 made me dread getting into a giant robot. I would never have considered that POSSIBLE.

RAID SHADOW LEGENDS IN THE HOUSE! Glad to see another video of yours once again, always love to see your perspectives on things since we come from a similar time so a lot of relateable stuff. I was definitely expecting Capcom at the top of the list, since the first thing that came to mind for me was Breath of Fire personally. I wonder, if you do enjoy the Phantasy Star games, if you would ever consider doing like a deeper retrospective? the older games I guess were more direct but after PSO1 there were all the offshoots and spinoffs, between consoles and hand helds.

Star Ocean: Till The End of Time was a masterpiece compared to Integrity and Faithlessness

Since you mentioned SoulCalibur in the lead up to Death by Degrees, there is actually one soulcalibur I can say is actually bad. SoulCalibur Legends. It was a Wii game that was a 3D beat 'em up that used the wii's motion controls to execute combos. It was very awkward and wasn't great to play. There was only one reason I even tried playing the game. It's surprise guest character. Lloyd freakin Irving. As in Tales of Symphonia Lloyd. They even had 2 soulcalibur themed remixes of Like a Glint of Light and Fatalize. I was excited to play as Lloyd in a soulcalibur game...but then I actually played the game. I beat it but...I don't think it was worth it.

Since you mentioned the Sonic Cycle and the Pokemon Cycle, I feel I should mention there's a Zelda Cycle too: 3-4 games ago: "The peak of the franchise." 1 game ago: "Underrated gem." Current game: "The worst one so far." Also, as a Digimon fan, I feel you.

I’m glad he sayed he loved RE 5. RE 5 is actually awesome and it’s also one of the great co op games ever made. I beat it with my 13 year old nephew a few months back and he loved it so much he wanted to play the rest of the franchise with me. Unfortunately 5 is the only co op but man did they nail. Also mercenary more was fantastic

To be fair pokemon has absolutely never ever ever been hard. The GC ones had some difficulty spike. And yes DPP had Cynthia but wow if you had basic knowledge of a rpg pokemon has never been difficult. Why else would there be so many fan rom hacks to increase difficulty of every single Gen of pokemon? The truth is we're all older and have tons more rpgs under are belt

_Batman: Arkham Knight_ isn't a bad game but with the weak story and heavy emphasis on tank gameplay makes it a poor finale to an amazing series.

Eyyyyy Danhausen! Super solid vid as usual 👍🏻👍🏻

Omg, a new Austin video!

Another problem with Battle Revolution is that they still had some N64 models in it, Venonat for example. Ninetales also seemed to still have the N64 model. They did touch them up a lot but for a 2006 game, that was still pathetic.

i played a lot of Battle Revolution back in the day... and i still play a lot after TwitchPlaysPokemon reworked it into it's own thing.

Yooooo!!!! I also have a huge amount of nostalgia for lost planet. I feel like the second game got judged for bugs if I remember right. Still one of the most satisfying third person shooters I've played.

It's funny that you mentioned 007 Legends at the end of your THPS5 segment, because that's one of the first things that came to my mind.

Before I became a big fan of Dead Space I would see copies of Lost Planet 3 in gamestop and get confused over how similar it looked to Dead Space 3 in they few screenshots I had seen online. So Lost Planet is like a bug hunting game where you hunt down multiple hivemind like creatures but only difference is it's not a giant Tentacle monster made out of human flesh, it's like Earth Defense Force meets Monster Hunter or is that incorrect assessment?

I would love a take down of Alundra 2, I once spent my very meager allowance on it, and I've been bitter for like 20 years lol

As someone who played it when it came out and admittedly a lot of nostalgia for it, I will always go to bat for Battle Revolution. It is still fun to playthrough and the battle simulation is great. Yeah there really is a dearth of content but man I still love it.

15:30 "Someone clicking a pen as fast as they can" bwhahaha

Sucks to see Pokemon Battle Revolution on this list because for what it was designed for, it did really well. As a way to take your guys from Pokemon Diamond/Pearl and then battle online and make a custom avatar, complete with fashion, it was fantastic. Also it was great for training and making legal competitive Pokemon because you could earn items and TMs that were unobtainable via the DS games alone. Battle Revolution's online battles were also much smoother than the DS online connections, and it looked great, sounded great, ran great, and had a catchy soundtrack that I still use for some ringtones. I never liked the Gamecube Pokemon RPGs because of their characters and world I didn't care for/slow pacing and slow battling/everything taking forever because every battle being a double battle, so when it was cut out and condensed back into just battling in Battle Revolution, I was more than happy. Plus they sped the animations up in battles and made it all have a sleek presentation that worked really well with the Wiimote and interface. Also I'm pretty sure the game retailed for less than a regular MSRP Wii game? I mean, the game's title is "Battle Revolution" - it's exactly what it set out to do. If you're judging it based on other titles, might as well include the Gamecube Pokemon Box Ruby & Sapphire in this list for just being a glorified Pokemon storage system that requires both a GBA and an expensive Gamecube/GBA Link Cable 🤷‍♀🤷‍♀🤷‍♀

man! Double Helix's Strider is so good!! is an absolute shame we will never get a second game in that style I'm not saying the Sonic Cycle is a lie... but honestly most people who swear by it happen to be the same people who hate on the games before they are even announced, so yeah is kinda disingenuous to call it disappointing, if anything that's very appointing

That sharp X1 version of SMB Special looked kinda cool with its blacklight colors. Whenever I played SMB Crossover (or when I could I mean) I always used the SMB Special levels, with the Probotector Robots.

I've never played Phantasy Star games outside of the PSO games. This video, despite its topic, makes me want to track down the other games in the franchise and give them a try.

Honestly, they should give Battle Revolution another shot, and since the Switch is a hybrid, maybe they could allow players who own the mainline games the ability to unlock late game items early. And by items, I mean clothing items for your trainer and pokemon. Like if you could unlock classic Diamond and Pearl outfits if you have BDSP or maybe even Legends outfits if you have that game.

The problem with Pokémon is they have the money and man power to do better but they don’t that’s why the fans me included are acting like spoiled brats and don’t like what garbage the Pokémon company and gamefreak is giving us

Im only subing ro this channel because of Alundra 2. Ive been looking for that game and the bame of it for yrs thank u Austin!

This is an insanely fun video topic. Would love to see a sequel.

I don’t know why Death Degrees get so much hate, it’s a good game. Was it something new? Yes, was it a weird fighting system? Yes the analog to be used to do combos was odd but manageable. At the time of launch it wasn’t worth it, but these days it a unique beat em up with weird controls that’s still decent. At least it’s better final fight street wise lol.

I had Star Ocean: Till the End of Time when I was younger, but I was never able to get very far in the game. If anything, would you be willing to release a future video on that game? I'd like to hear your thoughts on it.

Ah, Paper Mario Sticker Star

"The clefairy song is still stuck in my head" For Me, it's the Lickitung game. EDISHAH AIIIIIIEEEEEEH

Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness was one of the worst JRPGs I've ever had the displeasure of playing.

12:24, Being from argentina it always surprises me how similar our likes were just by living in the nineties(Rika, Rina, Order of Eclessia, seiken densetsu3, and many many others that I've seen from your videos). It does make me feel nostalgic for something I hadn't realized I missed. Like knowing there where many other people with the same interests when I was a child, but there was no way to connect with them.

17:40 - ha, Akiko's Frying Pan sound effect from PSO :P

Regarding Super Mario Bros Special. The best way to play it would be the remake in Super Mario Bros Crossover (End of Flash notwithstanding) and also a hack of Super Mario Bros that ports the game to SMB's engine.

i remember i bought Pokemon Battle Revolution with my very limited birthday money as a child thinking it was like Pokemon Colosseum/Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness but with character customization and a part of that series, only to be disappointed and incredibly upset. i was so confused why there was no story, why there was no overworld and places to explore, no characters. only battling. shit upset me so much i never bought another spinoff game again until legends arceus came out lmao

- I - knew it was the Battle Revolution Palkia on the video pic because I LOVED that game 😭 between my brother & I, we had all the requirements to transfer Pokémon over, it truly did make the game a whole new experience. fun fact: the leaders have unique “outfits” that you can wear after defeating them. it’s in the theme of a Pokémon. anyway, those outfits have a chance to roll SHINY like a Pokémon encounter!! I think the shiny Groudon outfit is the rarest event / item across the *entire* Pokémon game series. the character customization had so much depth as well, being able to choose from Cool/Young/Little/Muscle & further equipping them with different aesthetic choices like hats, gloves, backpack, hair/eye colors.. this was honestly so nostalgic to watch lol.

I love this channel so I will overlook the battle revolution part of this video