Bomberman Act: Zero - What Happened? 

@@ezg8448 Ha, "sequel"

Lucas Cyr The end credits clearly said to be continued so they intended to make one.

Bio-Organic Mega Blast-Explosive Reconnaissance Military Android, Ninja... because why not

They probably would've if Codename: Kids Next Door hadn't existed.

Damn, that's good.

A nice touch, to be sure.

There's super Bomberman Bomberman b damen Bomberman jetterz Bomberman land And now R

@@Ryda124 Honestly, i agree. Had they been used in a different, original franchise, I doubt many would have complained.

@@Ryda124 I think it's a design that would've worked better if the color/lighting perhaps tried to imitate the more colorful look of something like Halo as an example.

OG Bomberboi's here to talk about his heroin-addict little brother's descent into madness

Literally.

And then they’ll kick you in the ass.

Facts

Fucking words of wisdom right here

This how the corporate world works

Seriously

He’s fine now tho

@@snoopsq.527 "I got better!"

ah he's fine nowadays in Super Bomberman R.

Bomber man had a hard tradition to 3D....and he's sexy and he knowns it.

Its as if the EXTREEEME of the 90s had its personality and fun ripped out just keeping the violence and edgyness.

Yeah, everything seemed to just have this gritty attitude to it. Either it altered its artsyle to look closer to something like Halo, or everyone was donning black and sunglasses all Matrix-style.

At least hindsight gives us the opportunity to appreciate how No More Heroes lampooned the whole idea so effectively

Bionicle 06 in a nutshell

Animal Crossing Wild Word, Rated M for mature.

It looks like a third party bomberman knockoff

@@its_uh_bella No joke, the first time I saw the game I thought it was a knockoff.

What would that flying Gundam-looking guy from Bomberman 64 look like in this art style?

I said can say the same for shadow the hedgehog

Those Strippers , whores and cocaine aren't cheap you know!

@@Cooldrew100 You mean heavily corporate-focused capitalism. Pleasing shareholders is not really in the purview of mom and pop shops and indie developers.

@@Temporal94 Mom and pop shops and indie developers aren't the point of capitalism either.

Shareholders: "What the fuck is this!?"

@@DinnerForkTongue That's actually the literal point of capitalism. You exchange goods and/or services for currency. Corporations are better examples of how capitalism can be exploited; by overwhelming people with money and taking advantage of them.

You know... they could really up the sales of hello kitty games with a gritty realistic cybernetic killer cat facelift. That’s what the kids will want from hello kitty. This I know for a fact.

@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley It's quite funny how Retsuko came about entirely because the Sanrio company realised that Hello Kitty wasn't trending among older adults due to the disillusionment in the workforce and seeing it as 'somewhat hollow'. So they went on to make Aggretsuko and actually kind of hit that market hard with a semi-realistic take on the average life of a Salaryperson whilst also being funny. So yeah Aggretsuko could technically be a 'grim and gritty' reboot of Hello Kitty.

Lol , well , now I kinda want a Hello Kitty / "edgy" BM inspired mash up type game. For 💩 and giggles

Still think he should've been a playable character outright, but eh.

couldn't agree more :(

4-player local multiplayer sessions of Bomberman 2 on the Super Famicom were among the most fun experiences I've had with any game ever. They could have violated the Bomberman characters any way they wanted, if the gameplay had been fun, it might have been alright. But alas, no local multiplayer?

I never expected to see you if all people here lol.

Go back and play with your hello kitty toys

Not exactly a Bomberman fan, but this....is not the edgy upgrades he got. It feels more like shallow pandering

The 2000's entirely was the "edgy" decade.

That needs fo bw the next Wha Happun

@@dereknight861 Agreed, and because of that, Shadow the Hedgehog is looked at FAR more fondly despite its flaws. In fact, some people, including myself, would still like to see a sequel with better game design, keeping everything it got right like the multiple paths. Maybe it could be open world like a darker Sonic Adventure 1 and include dialogue options similar to Mass Effect and Telltale Games while simultaneously keeping the charm of the mainline Sonic games. Also, Jason Griffith needs to come back as Shadow, and we need to get back to the old Shadow character, ditching his bullshit Vegeta personality. Say what you want about the Griffith era, but regardless of how much better Humphrey was, Griffith was still really good for the character regardless, as his voice was more soothing than Silver's, at least.

LMAO

@@blaacksugar7714 Not just for video games - some movies also went a somewhat edgier route, like Grinch and Scooby-Doo.

That'd probably have more appeal than Bomberman: Act Zero.

Brawl Nintendo Switch BETTER THAN THAT...THING

>This game looks like a Bomberman game Not really.

Captain Blopsi Bombdere Simulator

Digital Homicide presents: Bomberman

Bombergirl has those ;)

EatWave they were trying to warn us. We should have listened

How little time has changed.

EatWave That last bit made me think of Halo 5. Who tf thought it was a good idea to remove splitscreen from Halo?

@@glitchman1272 and make Cortana evil

@@joehayes9933 I hope they kind of soft retcon that by saying that is somehow a corrupt copy of Cortana and that the original one either is really dead or MIA. Though I think it just would've been better to have had the Didact somehow survive in Halo 4 and have him be the villain in 5 again, or or have the plot be closer to some of the advertisements (like the ones with Masterchief/Locke pointing guns at each other). Halo 5 as far as I'm concerned was only worth it for the multiplayer (the regular 4v4 stuff, warzone might as well be another dumpster fire in that game)

bomberman 64 was so much better than this shit lol

What's the ending?

@@cdru515 Basically an image of the cover art with "you're winner!" on the front if I remember correctly

Why are you wasting your time on RU-vid? You are alive! get to the next stage!

Truly, words to live by.

Except nobody’s doing huge reboots of old IPs and adding realism that nobody wanted like back then

Games, besides the REmakes that work because of care, movies and TV on the other hand still do it.

@@KryptKicker5 It dropped the moths as well. Honestly though it was pretty faithful and actually really good. Very classic RE "I have to find x item to get y location." 3? Yeah, 3 was disappointing.

@@GenerationWest ugh...

@@its_uh_bella Umm DCEU?

There are rumors that TEAM NINJA, you know, the auteurs of Dead or Alive in all it's fetish fueled branches thought some decisions by Sakamoto were too much when making Samus into a girly girl. I doubt that's the case, but if it was...let that sink in.

@@scissorman44 Yeah and Samus' voice performance was so dull in that game was also criticized was more a result of Executive Meddling on Sakamoto's part, as a poor attempt to make her sound like a stoic character (which is considered badass in Japan, but comes off more like a veteran with PSTD to the West).

Yoshio Sakamoto wrote the story so it would be the best title in the franchise from the narrative perspective and to make Samus a truly developed, rounded and sympathetic character. The result was the most vilified entry in the entire series. Reviews were very mixed and the game became an outright flop in the West. And although the sale numbers amongst the intended Japanese audience certainly was better, they ultimately fell short of Nintendo's expectations. But the icing on the cake is the fact that in many places it has even become an illustrative example of how NOT to write a story and female characters in a video game...

@@scissorman44 No, that was completely the case. It was well known that Sakamoto didn't like Primes take on his character even though it sold well and he felt it was too westernized so he made it so Other M appealed to a more Japanese audience who preferred the kind of female character that was presented in Other M. It only came at the cost of alienating the majority of the people who buy Metroid.

@@fieryrebirth It wasn't just because Samus was written like a baby-obsessed lobotomy victim. There was also Adam, "the perfect military mind" and "the closest thing [Samus] had to a father" who would lock every door she went through, not authorize the Varia Suit the moment it would've been crucial and effectively tazed Samus when she came across a metroid hatchling because... we needed yet another cutscene about how perfect and right he was and Samus was in the perfect prone position to elevate him. Adam was the worst.

Oh fuck, how did I forget about Ninja Gaiden 3? I feel like I blocked that game out of my memory and now I regret remembering it

And what do you think of Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z whatever the heck it's called?

@@battlion507 oh man. The follow up after Ninja Gaiden 3 which it was a spinoff but it didn't do any justice after the backlash of NG3 it just made it seem more dark that they even cared anymore about Ryu Hayabusa but him appearing only in Dead or Alive games now. 😑

@@rudeboyspodcast I wanted to also. I actually have a statue figure of Ryu Hayabusa and than I do a really big sigh of sadness after listening to the great soundtracks of NG reboot 1 and 2. Now just a old memory of when Ninja Gaiden was the hardest game before Dark Souls is all people talk about. 😴

And Razor's Edge was _also_ mess but in different ways. See: Alchemists (the guys in the robes that threw LEGO bricks at you).

Bomberman 2 on DS was edgy too, but still somewhat cute.

Yeah true, everytime a company takes advice from it's shareholders or investors it always seems to go downhill....

Duke Nukem Forever shows the kind of thing that can happen if you don't have any shareholders you need to please.

As if we needed _more_ confirmation that rentism isn't a plague on our civilization.

If someone actually showed _this_ to shareholders, who I'm assuming as Hudson Soft shareholders would probably have at least a passing familiarity with Bomberman, how in Hell was this supposed to _please_ them? People got pissed off at Miyamoto for giving Mario _a water jetpack,_ how do you think fundamentally transforming Mario into a malformed idiot like the Bombers in Act: Zero would have gone over!?

I for one advocate for more games to take this route. If the women get sexualized, so do the men. That way, everyone has something to hate and/or ogle!

Fascist Shrimp Redesigns

Birds.

6 foot distanced gameplay

What do you mean by "socially aware redesigns"?

@@spike1000 Redsigns with a focus on inclusivity. Basically, I wanted to say woke without giving the impression that I see it as a negative.

I think at the ending of the game they actually say the name of the unreleased sequel. Edit: Yeah, it was called "Bomberman: The Genesis".

@@ShayminPunk64 It's literally what it says at the end of the credits.

@@TheAmazingSpiderPunk "Bomberman: Delta force VII - Redemption" "Bomberman: Delta Forces (2019)"

Bomberman Act: Zero 2 Chapter 2.7 Part One Part Two Finale Full HD Remixed Remastered.

Bomberman Act Two: Dystopian Boogaloo

YOU ARE ALIVE. GET TO THE NEXT STAGE.

@The Accidental Hipster What? I thought Maverick Hunter got released and they just didn't move on to remake the other X games like they were planning.

@The Accidental Hipster They looked so similar, I really couldnt tell the difference. But you are right, that one edgy Megaman game was the one i was thinking of. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

@@MusicoftheDamned I looked it up and realized there are two games that have "Maverick Hunter" in the name. I was thinking of "Mega Man Maverick Hunter X" which is the PSP remake of MMX and has a bonus mode where you play as Vile. I'd completely forgotten about the concept codenamed just "Maverick Hunter" which was a FPS with that Ultron-looking redesign of X.

@Robin Robin Well that's a yikes

@@sgatcha1443 Well, they're making a Bomber Girl now, so...

Because some thought the Japanese market was dead. Inafune was infamous(beside mighty no. 9) for saying stuff like Japanese gaming is dead.

There was a major turning point were western developers started making games just a well reserved as games from Japan. So, like anyone in a entertainment business, tried to jump in that money-train only to fall.

Metal Wolf Chaos tho but that game never made it outside of Japan despite being Murica af and having full English voice acting.

Because they didn’t see us as the audience they wanted anymore. They wanted to attract the enormous amount of new American gamers that had sprung up in the sixth generation. For the first time there were more Americans gamers buying video games than Japanese gamers so typical business logic states that you should try and profit off of this new audience. Companies like Capcom and Hudson obviously looked at the top selling Xbox games (which only sold well in the west) they saw games like Halo, Grand Theft Auto, Call of a Duty, Splinter Cell and thought they could appeal to their demographic by taking already successful IPs and altering them to be more in line with what they thought American tastes were (dark and gritty military themed dark sci-fi) but all they really managed to do was alienate both their old fans and the potential new ones. Old fans would be upset because it’s not the series they fell in love with and new customers would be unwilling to buy these products because they looked soulless and bland.

Because Grand Theft Auto showed that you can make mad cash appealing to western gamers and everyone wanted some. It was pretty much the gold rush

Shrapnel maybe?

colBoh Isn't it what most companies do nowadays? Headphone jack removal, built-in batteries, one-two USB ports on laptops, Star Farce Episode 9, Star Dreck Discovery? They don't listen to what their customers want. At all.

​@@shadowflash705 When you're making art for a living, there is a fundamental balance you have to strike: Do you aim to make art that offers something for everybody, or do you aim to make art that offers everything to somebody. If you focus too much on pleasing everybody, you risk making something that's bland and uninteresting, but if you make something too strange or interesting, you might REALLY resonate with a small group of fans, but alienate everyone else. Unfortunately, when you're making things with $100mil. budgets, the only fiscally responsible option is to err on the side of blandness. Giant projects like this have investors who all expect a return on investment. They have hundreds or thousands of people who work on them who need to be paid. Giant mega-corporations can't afford to rely on their small niche fan bases to support them. They need a huge turnout from general audiences. That means watering down the property so that it is as inoffensive as possible to the most amount of people. It means taking away anything interesting or challenging that might alienate some people. It means playing it safe. It means market research, and focus groups. It means eliminating any risks. It means investors, and shareholders, and board members, and bean counters, and advertisers are making CREATIVE decisions about the product. It means committee thinking. It means hedging your bets. It means too many cooks in the kitchen. like, did you know that Star Trek Discovery has 23 FREAKING PRODUCERS?! There's too much money riding on that show for CBS to trust a single person (With a singular artistic vision) with it. As a result, it's a tonal mess with a million and one plot holes. Media companies aren't too dumb, or too stubborn, or too hubristic to make the art that their fans want - They're too risk averse. They're too hamstrung by the realities mega-market entertainment to actually be free to do it. The problem is that modern capitalism incentivizes efficiency and blandness over quality every time. Giving diehard fans what they want just isn't profitable enough to keep their shareholders satisfied.

@@johnnykavooras2954 See what happened to Okami. That could be a Wha Happun but also a very sad one. Okami was a huge commercial failure when it came out. As in it killed the studio levels of failure. Thankfully, the game was re-released on PS3 and Steam. And yes, you can use a drawing tablet as a controller. Anyway, SoberDwarf has a good video on Wha Happun to Okami ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7ntekyOAiVM.html

Okay but what does the west like? That's the issue

Okay but what does the west like? That's the issue

I thought Overkill was actually good.

@@mariic2 Remember, the show is about troubled development, not bad games. A game could be downright godly, but if it had a troubled development cycle, it's getting dragged onto the stage. Just look at Doom 2016.

Late post, but Konami, as problematic as they are, long since abandoned that "reboot" after buying out Hudson and as shown at the end of the video, return to using traditional Bomberman.

Damn, that sucks to hear how you guys got left high and dry like that. :(

Why not Metal Gear Survive?

@@Just_Matty why not both?

@@Just_Matty We know what happened with that.

Well, Konami. Konami happened. It’s clear that, as good as parts of MGSV were, Kojima was stymied by Konami, and he was unable to complete the game to his satisfaction. I suspect he got 50% of the way there before Konami told him “wrap this up with what you’ve got, we’re denying you almost any further resources and we are going to make your life a living hell until you finish the game and then drive you out!”.

Konami pachinko machines PULL THAT LEVER!!!

This really was one of the funnest streams he ever did. Hell he made a tournament out of this some how and it was wonderful.

Jon is the only reason why this dumpster fire had any commercial circulation after its year of launch.

Esports lol

Still the champ.

Jon's BAZ streams were literally the only time I played on XBL. All thanks to a trial code I'd kept from a bag of skittles.

megaman legends 3 hurts too much :(

That would probably be a flophouse files episode

@@majortom331 Probably. It doesn't have to be a Wha Happun.

Considering we're still getting "gurrrrl powa" remakes of movies... No. No media company does.

I know Hudson soft didn’t make atomic bomberman but couldn’t Hudson see that westernization wasnt the best idea

xd

Bombergirl looks like the sort of thing that will never be ported to the west because Japan (Rightfully) believes that Americans hate cute women.

All I remember about that was seeing that there was an article about it titled "What if Bomberman but sexy?"

I love the implication that is some Japanese executives' sincere perception of American tastes 😂😂😂

It was not their fault that they made those choices and assuming they are the ones that killed Hudson because Hudson send itself to it's grave

Or ANY nation for that matter, i mean Marvel wanted to win the Japan and weeb audience by releasing Mangaverse......and it was and went as good as it sounds

@@ironmaster6496 I agree. Trying to appeal to the East would be uneffective too, because of the rising of portable gaming. Even though the PS4 today is selling better than the Xbox One on the West, the numbers against portables like Nintendo Switch, 3DS and even Vita surpassed easily any home console. That is why today the console division of Sony is very "American" compared to before.

If they pandered to their audience they would have made a cutesy cartoony Bomberman game with local multiplayer up to 69 players. This is them trying to pander to an audience that would call Bomberman gay because it has colors and stuff.