Rise Of the Robots AI begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to contact Brian May.
@@AtomicWandMassager Don't worry, I'm sure Flanders will die to hentai 😁, also pretend like I posted some generic inspirational quote about getting back up when life puts you down or whatever.
I actually bought the Rise of the Robots novel back when I was in Secondary school, but it was so damn boring and took so long to get to the actual robots, I quickly lost interest and never got through. I can only remember there being a character who was only ever referred to as 'The Thin Man'. Everyone called him that, even when it wouldn't make sense to refer to him like that.
I figured that would be the case. They only had a few iconic characters, so I'm sure the novel would feature a mediocre story of a handful of human characters, with the Robots' appearances spread sparingly throughout.
I bought this piece of garbage on SNES with hard earned lawn mowing money back when it came out. I don't remember what lies I must have told at the store I bought it at, but was able to get a refund on it.
According to Kim Justice, this game caused a video game magazine crash in Europe. Probably because quite a number of magazines give it a high score. Computer and Video Game Magazine gave it a 91 I think. Moreover, Doom 2 in the same issue was given a 86.
Yup, UK bloke here. In response, Amiga Power gave Rise of the Robots 5%, in what may be the greatest, most scathing video game review ever written, calling it "an astonishing waste of time", saying "because the graphics are so good you can't actually do anything with them", and completely shitting on all the mags that gave it guaranteed high scores in exchange for better access. The last line of the FOLLOW-UP letter(yes, really) is "Mirage and Time Warner, I sincerely and truly hope you all die."
The Brian May OST did in fact see inclusion in later ports of Rise, namely the 3DO version, which allowed you to select from three OSTs (the original, May's work, & the Japanese OST [yeah, the Japanese release had a couple of unique songs!]). Also, while it's understandable that Matt focuses on the American side of things, there's word that Rise effectively destroyed the credibility of numerous UK gaming mags of the time, proving that a bunch of them would literally just take payolas & give positive reviews for underwhelming games. This was apparently a common complaint at the time, but none of the arguments were for absolutely indefensible games... Until Rise. Early UK magazine reviews apparently praised Rise like crazy, and it quickly was found out that those magazines were the ones that got "exclusive" early coverage for reviews, so when Rise came out & was shown to be undeniably bad those magazines looked really bad.
The kit games magazine I used to read growing up was Games Master. I wonder if they praised it. U remember playing the game and hating it though, it was so boring! 😂
the same happened with a lot of spanish magazines I read on that time, I remember one giving this piece of shit something like 95 out 99 points or something like that. Embarrassing.
My favorite thing about Rise Of The Robots, at least of the SNES version I played as a kid: You can play two player mode as mentioned. However the first player was forced to be Babby Blue Bot Cyborg. Second player could choose any of the remaining bots including the penultimate opponent. The way progressive difficulty worked in ROTR wasn't by having AI become more advanced or computer opponents using more advanced combos: It was done by having the later enemies do more damage. This carried over to two player. The second player could choose said penultimate bot and kill the first player in as few as four hits. This game is REALLY bad.
Yie Ar Kung Fu 2 on MSX had multiplayer like that and that was in like 1986. Made after a year after Yie Ar Kung Fu in Arcade and MSX which was the first fighting game with multiple oppenents folowed up by a Arcade Mecha game called Galatic Warriors which first fighting game with special moves same year both by Konami. Both are milles better than Rise of the Robots to in everyway.
@@johnsimon8457 To be fair things like that then was rare 95% of games then was major bug free and had all content built into them. They had to be they was noi way to patch games and it would cost alot of money to resell them with fixed copys.
so, I finally got around to finishing up the Novel. it was honestly pretty interesting at parts. it definitely takes it's time building up character and world building, which is welcome, though unfortunately it definitely was written before they decided to nix the massive plans they had for the franchise, as it sets up more than one branch to go off of in later pieces in the franchise timeline, which Rise 2 did not use at all, unfortunately (spoilers below) also, the Novel only had two fights, one against two loader droids at once, which was well enough written to give me hope for the rest of it, until there was no more fights until the Supervisor, who didn't have a real fight at all (Coton used Tackle, it failed) . oh and Coton (the robot) had a sister that was stuck in the building, and she defeats the supervisor, by using a lighter to trigger the sprinkler system, which melts her. then they both escaped successfully.
Unreal is very atmospheric game. Level design is also great. Not to mention online part. People are still playing it. Even if UT improved on pretty much everything when it comes to the multiplayer. Rise of the Robots though was CGI the game. Yet another trash fighting game made by people who knew nothing about how fighting games work.
@@alos6378 I'm assuming you meant to reply to sikly, but he isn't exactly wrong. Cyberpunk, if playable for you, is a decent game. It's kinda a generic FPS RPG with cybernetics and a unique setting. I wouldn't give it an 8/10 though I would give it a 7 or 7.5.
Guys, this series is not strictly for *bad* games, but those with troubled development worthy of a story. Even if CP2077 redeemed itself in the future, it still has story worthy of this series. Reminder: there is episode of Doom 2016 in this series
If we’re talking more about bad fighting games, it would be interesting if you did a whole episode on Kasumi Ninja since you mentioned it. Essentially a part of the Mortal Kombat: Attack of the Clones games. Otherwise, I really enjoy this video & your other ones!
13:35 Seriously, OMF 2097 is one of the all-time best PC fighters ever, even today. Good on Matt to mention it because it really did blow ROTR out of the water in every possible way.
So, funny story about the whole music by Brian May. My dad actually bought the whole game because of the "Music by Brian May" as he was a huge fan at the time. Then we found out it was a trash game but a great memory we share.
Starting to feel like the rush to make a multimedia franchise out of a yet-to-be-made video game is a theme that keeps popping up on this show. Seriously, has that strategy ever actually worked?
No, because a franchise is spawned by people liking something and finding it unique. When they try that strategy, they take a look at what's popular and try to copy that. This leads to consumers instead just going back to the thing that they like.
Sonic the Hedgehog wasn't quite at that levels but it was designed as a "Mario killer" with full media support, and whilst Mario is doing pretty well these days (or so I hear), Sonic isn't exactly doing badly either
There was a "Director's Cut" for MS-DOS that was really just the regular game with some bonus material. It included some kind of 100 page journal by one of the heads of the team. It was this very weird mix of enthusiasm and just adding too much detail to document the game's incompetent production. My favourite part was when he described how he peed in a vase so he didn't have to interrupt a call with a publisher.
@@TacomaStreetcarDisaster I just personally think it would be interesting only because it was so bad that it was the final nail in Jak and Daxter's coffin
It is really impressive how fast he's been getting these out. We love you, Matt. I think we can all agree from recent big name games that this series will never run out of material. In case it does, though, I submit a suggestion of: Donkey Kong home versions (coleco, atari, PC). It's been done before but it's a classic tale of miscommunucation and intrigue with drunk American businessmen clashing against repressed Japanese businessmen...it killed Atari and ultimately infulenced the creation of Nintendo of America.
That Astar reference gave me some awful flashbacks from those ads. Scared the living crap out of me as a kid! "Je suis Astar le robot je peux remettre mon bras vous pas" Those War Amps ads were something else
I owned and probably still have Rise 2: Resurrection. I was still young and inexperienced enough with games that quality barely influenced whether I could have fun. I'm pretty sure there's a piece of paper in the spot where the manual should be with the codes for unlocking the boss characters to this day
I had Rise 2 as a kid. It was one of those games that always kinda just showed up at my house. It always kinda creeped me out with how weird and broken it was. But changing the color of your robot during the loading screen sold me. Like who else was doing that?
I recall that my brother rented this for the SNES and we tried playing it and it was BORING. It's amazing how a company took an interesting idea and sucked the interest out of it. Plus, the Amiga info is hilarious. 13 disks?! Nothing scream fun like swapping disks every few minutes. 5/100.
I dunno, I enjoyed the game, it was a simple, good looking fighter, I remember it was my ritual to finish it once every Saturday morning before I started my weekend. It was relaxing.
This gives me the closure I needed. I Had this garbage for the 3DO. Living in a 3rd world country where the consoles were (and are) too expensive, my father busted his ass to buy me the 3DO, for which there were very few games and also very expensive. This game crushed my soul, thinking how much of an effort it was to get me the system and games. Thankfully I had Gex and Theme Park to soothe my soul.
I am so glad someone remembered One Must Fall. The intro music is still in my music rotation 28 years later! Being a DOS exclusive was such a weird move.
Any mags who gave the game glowing reviews were then after never bought again, seem to recall in the uk a multiformat mag gave all the versions glowing reviews cannot remember what mag though.
I had the shareware One Must Fall 2097 for quite a while, and eventually dropped the full price for all the content. I agree, it was definitely far and away better than Rise of the Robots.
I don't know how I managed to live my entire life without this, considering I read all the game magazines, ads, and every bit of nonsensical media as a kid inside the Toys R Us game section. Video games are weird.
Man, the hype for this thing was intense. You couldn't look over your shoulder without "3D GRAFFIX/BRIAN FRICKIN MAY/ADVANCED AI/ERMAGERD" slapping you in the face. It was going to be the fighting game to end all fighting games, 4314/10. Ended up the wet fart to end all wet farts.
This was the first thing that disappointed me and sadly not the last. One Must Fall was excellent though, always pissed me off that Epic went on to just doing Unreal and Gears rather than continue with their greats beforehand and I suppose now they just have tha Fortnite money to prevent them improving themselves.
Can remember being hyped to the gills for this then playing it on an Amiga coverdisk and taking about an hour's worth of repeated plays to realise just how bad it was. Couldn't believe it was so awful and thought there must be something I wasn't getting.
The thing I remember most about this was that the first guitar magazine I ever bought featured Bryan May and had Cyborg tabbed with a backing track. It also featured tabs for Back in Black by ACDC and the riff from Cowboys from Hell as riff of the month.
There was a time I thought he would eventually run out of clusterfuck media to make episodes about then cyberpunk 2077 the best out of all of us was a clusterfuck then...then I realized that it’s the human condition to make clusterfucks and Matt’s job to make videos online for our entertainment
As I was watching this (indeed very good) video, I remembered playing a demo of a PC fighting game called "Theatre of Pain", and it was made by Mirage! There's not much information about it online, but it says that it was the second last game of Mirage, after "Rise 2" and "Bedlam". I have to revisit it: I remember being amused by it because one of the character's shouts sounded like and Italian swear word, me and my friends chuckled at that a the time xD
My parents gave me a choice to either go to the mall and buy some comics and action figures at kaybee and waldenbooks or rent Rise of the Robots ,what a horrible weekend that was.
I know how that feels too. I learned my lesson from Fighting Force 2, & my brother followed next with Tomb Raider: Angel Of Darkness. And people who are believing & spouting the mass hype for the upcoming Saints Row reboot need to learn the lessons from ROTR. It can go either way, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it failed.
It's so great to see new cool videos about Rise of the Robots! I love the game for what it is. It's such a special snowflake. Spectecular graphics, unique techno music, interesting characters, awesome designs and creative ideas. I wish the game was actually good...
I do actually think the graphics for this game are really very refined and smooth for the time, say what you will about this game but I think the visuals are pretty damn impressive.
Man I loved One Must Fall. I remember playing the hell out of the demo as a teenager and then ordering the full version over the goddamn telephone, as was the style at the time.
I've played the prototype of the arcade version.Fastest framerate but not better at anything else.Still got a pass with a C-. Well here matt and merry xmas!!! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tG3-aASglRk.html P.S Snes still holds the best soundtrack,but not "The Dark" & "Resurrection". Try cramming a street fighter ll cartoon gif on that!
This takes me back. It was great to learn what happened behind the robot curtain. Thanks for the great video. Speaking of fighting games from the 90s, anybody else remember Battle Beast for the PC? Very cartoony visuals and jokey humor.
I had this game as a kid, initially I was blown away by the graphics! I didn’t take long though for me to realise it was really boring, I’ve still got it now mind you.
god the amount of hype this game had was immense, This game was everywhere in the games media. I remember when Bad Influence (A UK games based show) changed it entire opening to hype this game.
I remember owning this on the Amiga 600. The opponent never fought back, it was really boring and slow to kick. I suppose I had the wrong disk in and was actually in 2 player mode by mistske 🤣
I have the CD-I version and I can report that the music is rather amazing and I'd love to hear the full music. It really takes advantage of the CD music. However the gameplay is slower than anything in this video, like fighting in a vat of molasses, and that's on one of the better Magnavox CD-I consoles, which I own.
When I was a child I was really good at trading and borrowing SNES games in my neighbourhood, only had 7 of my own but played dozens. RoTR was the first time I honestly had a "WTF" moment and beagan to realize that a company could publish and sell garbage products.
