Shadow! TM2 lol my personal fav overall anyways. these lists will always be contested by people, because of how they feel about the levels, & their play styles.
I would love to see a vehicle ranking, basing it on their stats, specials, and how well their characters fit their vehicles and the game they're in. Always great to see new content from you though, I'd be happy with anything!
This franchise has such a niche audience nowadays, given that we haven't gotten a new entry in over a decade, so thanks a bunch for giving this series the attention it deserves.
It's sad to read this. The first game was seen as something of a Playstation system-seller and everyone was talking about the sequel, it was the hottest thing around for a while. With Small Brawl, the PSP game (and the PS2 port of it) it seemed like the series was thriving with all kinds of side games and system releases. I guess the ill-advised PS3 game sort of killed everything.
@@MiketheratguyMultimedia The PS3 game seemed fine, but the servers for multi-player were a joke. I've had better luck at slot machines than I ever did trying to find a match. The few I got into were great, especially since I had a friend to coordinate with. It was just that >90% of the time I'd just get a connection error whenever I tried to play.
@@Mirthful_Midori Was it always like that even right after launch? I never played the PS3 game because everyone was saying that it just didn't feel like Twisted Metal. I know that I was really taken aback by the fact that they removed most of the characters.
@@MiketheratguyMultimedia The single player was weird, since you only had three characters. It's been too long since I played, but I would've sworn you could at least change vehicles. The multiplayer was the best part, when it worked. Unfortunately, that was virtually never. Multiplayer had a really good selection of vehicles.
@@Mirthful_Midori I think you're right, my memory is reading that you could switch vehicles. In that way I suppose gameplay diversity was addressed, which to be fair IS more important than having many unique characters behind the wheel. I just remember wondering why they got rid of what was, to me at least, one of the most compelling aspects of any Twisted Metal games - the crazy characters and their lore.
Good video, happily surprised to see Small Brawl levels making it to #3. Piecemeal was an incomplete boss, we ran out of time to finish him or the level as designed. This is evident by the fact he can't use Sweet tooth's special.
To add a cherry on top of Paris in TM2, I always liked the addition of the emergency siren to the soundtrack. It conjures images to my mind of somewhere in the distance, another group of Twisted Metal contestants just caused a horrendous accident of some kind. The only indication on your end being the distant, echoing sirens of the Paris police and EMTs rushing to the scene. Honestly, gives me chills as much as it rocks my socks.
I will never get tired of hearing about Twisted Metal. I grew up with it. It was part of my childhood and it's something I hold very near and dear to me. To hear it still gets talked about makes me smile. I miss Twisted metal so much. I didn't know this but the creator of Twisted Metal, David Jaffe is the creator of God of War. I wish Sony would bring back twisted metal.
An hour long TBP video is one of the best ways to end a week, for sure. I don't really agree with you on some TM4 levels, but I understand where you're coming from. I enjoy TM4 a lot, it's my guilty pleasure and one of my favorite TM games, because it gives you more of a methodical and tactical approach to the gameplay, which a lot of people don't like (but I do), and the variety of weapons makes it feel really confusing and bloated at first, but it gets more enjoyable when you figure it out. I never made an assumption of TM4 big levels feeling empty, mostly because they give you needed space to run away to when you are out of health, energy, turbo and/or ammo. What makes it feel even emptier though is the fact that AI drivers come in waves, when you are competing against only 3 players at the time (I guess it's a PS1 limitation). The Sweet Tooth boss fight can get very frustrating, because you have to keep a lot of energy with you to teleport away (Up, Up, Down, Down) when he uses his Special attack: "Henchmen", or just drive away as fast as you can in general, while making sure you keep him away from any health and/or weapon pickups, basically scorched earth AF. For me specifically, I absolutely hate levels that are either small, too open or a lot of enemies crammed into it, because I usually pick vehicles with less armor and more speed, and I get easily killed by enemies who either are just too close to me or happen to have a bunch of homing rockets on board. Great video, as always!
Agree completely, TM4 is different enough from the other games that a lot of folks just can’t play it without feeling frustrated. It also lends itself to split screen play with friends
FYI you left out or missed a lot of secrets from TM3 levels... On the L.A. level you can blow up the Hollywood sign in the background and get a voice line from Calypso You can also blow up Big Ben in London for another line from Calypso You can also blow up the Sphinx face in the Egypt level, there is also a secret teleporter that will take you from the big wall tomb area to the pyramid On the hanger level after you go inside the UFO and get teleported you can land on the UFO and blow up glass dome to get a lightning powerup On the Tokyo level you can blow up the grate over the fan making it an instant kill or death if you aren't careful
Agree. Or a sequel to Small Brawl with all the original cut content that was intended. A sequel to Head On would be nice too. Have Roadkill win the tournament and escape from the nightmare, back into a normal life. It'd be a great way to end off the franchise. Then they can focus on doing remasters or something.
@@wallaceshawn-zk8iw Dave's too woke for me. I respect you're preference if you truly like him, but I feel Scott Campbell's team (the guys behind Head On, Small Brawl and Cars vs. Bosses) would do a better job of handling a new TM game. Still at this point, I'm desperate to see some new Twisted Metal content so it'll be interesting to see what Firesprite comes up with.
DON'T THINK THAT I DIDN'T CATCH THAT IRON MAIDEN REFERENCE!🤘! Describing Drive In I'm pretty sure you quoting The Mercenary (a great song on my personal fav album): "No where to run, no where to hide, you've got to kill to stay alive." I know it's a common saying but I ALSO know you're a huge Maiden fan, so that's my guess. Great vid dude as always and thanks for sharing the TM love!
Every time you upload a twisted metal video I get so fucking excited. I love this series and I can't get enough of it! Idk how long it'll take but hopefully we get a new twisted metal in the near future, I miss this series too much. Thanks for the awesome content as always :)
Thank you so much for what you do! Twisted Metal is a very old series and there's not much content on youtube about it and every video is of great value especially such long and interesitng like yours. There's so much love behind this videos. I think that's the true value of a game and what really makes people fans. P.S. Best characters and strongest characters next pls =)
Always loved Thrills and Spills in Twisted Metal 2012, so much to explore and destroy!! You can wreck the Ferris wheel much like the suburbs in Twisted Metal Black
I was listening to this while working and as you were talking about #2 I thought, "Did I miss him talking about [the level that ended up being #1]?" Probably a good sign that it was ranked well considering I haven't played the games for at least 15 years.
Man the only game I had was twisted metal 4 and I have such fond memories of the maps, especially construction yard, it was fun to watch you tear them apart 😂
Wonderful video as always, your Twisted Metal content is always a joy to watch. As for a video suggestion I wouldn't mind a special weapons ranking from best to worst, kind of thing that you can judge not just from the weapon's damage or utility but also it's theming, how well it suits its vehicle/driver.
This video is amazing, the effort you put into Twisted Metal content is really appeciated. Note: in Twisted Metal Head-On, you can play in the multi-player levels (or death matches as they were called in the game) in single player mode, and with 5 opponents instead of 1 expect a lot of fun chaos.
I think what made Amazon Fire Walk a perfect level was that it had all the elements of what a good twisted metal level and blended it in a way that feels like the benchmark of what twisted metal levels should do. Space that isn't too big, the right amount of weapon drops and opponents, good secrets sprinkled around, a gimmick that enhances the level, and, if you want to put a boss in it, a boss that puts your skills to the test without it being frustrating.
But it's horrible! The lava part giving damage over time, the overexposed colors burning your eyes out, the horrible OP boss fight where you run out of lives, it's easily the absolutely most hated level to play by anyone I know... what's wrong with you people? XD
This is the quality content I come here for! Twisted Metal was a huge part of my formative years so I love everything you make to cover it. I don't know where else there is to go from here, but I hope you continue finding new ways and different topics to keep on talking about one of my all time favorite gaming series. For future ranked list ideas, the obvious suggestion is for every vehicle from every game, but maybe also every Special weapon from every game too?
Incredible work and greatly appreciated! I would love to see the same type of video for other car combat games like Vigilante 8 and Rogue Trip :D Don't want you to get burned out on making videos about car combat games, but I could watch these all day :D
(finally got to watch the video) Hmmm... My favorite TM maps? TM2: Amazonia TM3: Calypso's Blimp TM4: Amazonia - 3000 TMBlack: Snowy Pass & Drive-in Theater TMHead-On: Greece DeathMatch (is just the cruise ship as you would like) TMBLACK 2: Carnival ... I think you should review the DM maps from TM Head-on; they're dynamically different from their standard counterparts. (yes it means that you have to complete the respective bonus areas)
Thanks again for the awesome TW content! We definitely have waaaaaaay different opinions on the levels but it was great hearing your thoughts! Prison objectively being #1!
Twisted metal and jet moto were two of my most played games as a kid! I definitely remember that level on jet Moto but never knew it was on twisted metal
The dislike for TM4 is pain, it's easily my second favorite in the series. Also if you hyperspace from Sweet Tooth's special it mostly negates it since it has to seek you out. Still love your videos tho
I actually have a bunch of good memories of playing Tic tac toast in TM 4 and Octa-gone is actually hilarious to watch the CPU get trapped between two of the pushers and just take potshots at them
The Hyperspace is a band-aid on a bulletwound sometimes. I've had the hyperspace just teleport me right next to Sweet Tooth during the boss fight a few times.
If you do more long ranking videos, the obvious choice is the vehicles (and/or bosses), you could do the drivers as a separate list too, but there might be a little overlap with the endings video or a possible vehicle video on that one
13:38 - The only thing I can think of that gets you out of Sweet Tooth's special from Twisted Metal 4 is the Hyperspace code. If you don't know what it does or didn't know it existed, that's fair. Because it's new in Twisted Metal 4, and is only really useful to get out of specials that grab you like Moon Buggy and Sweet Tooth, or save yourself from falling off the map in stages like Oil Rig. Basically, its a button combo that teleports you to a random part of the map that isn't over a pit, iirc. Either way, I guess you could use your energy to use the shield, but the game is pretty tough when it expects you to know all of the codes for special attacks, that are only shown in the manual, to get out of a single special attack. Either way, it drains a good portion of your energy, which could have been used with other useful codes, particularly freeze and rear attack, which are broken for their own separate reasons in TM4.
@@InfiniteTranscendence Not really. The shield is just something you can use to help take potshots, and the freeze is just there to help you line up a shot. The hyperspace only exists for Sweet Tooth's special as it's otherwise a OHKO.
@@DrEarthwormRobotnik Or falling off of edges, or getting trapped by multiple opponents, etc. That said Sweet Tooth's special is absurdly strong. He is the final boss though so it's not too surprising.
@@InfiniteTranscendence Yeah, but Sweet Tooth's just flat out overkill. There's a difference between a hard final boss, and a final boss that's just frustrating to fight.
Having played Twisted Metal games since late 1995 when I was a kid I have to say I really really appreciate the depth of knowledge and amount of effort needed to make a video such as this. I totally agree with you on your rankings and also am pleasantly surprised that your ranking for small brawl levels are as high as they are. For me Twisted Metal 2 will always be the best game in the series and I have played them all except the Online versions. I have many fun and fond memories of playing TM2 with my cousins, friends and my brother growing up, sometimes in large groups sharing the controllers and something in small groups just hanging out. I still remember who was each persons favorite player, where they liked to hide and how they fought and it will always be a fond memory. I will also always remember the first time I beat the game and was awed by the hilarious and rather dark humor that was captured so well in a very 90s look animated comic book style. I still have many of the games and play them from time to time almost 30 years later. TM2 will always be the greatest one to me and I wish 3 and 4 hadn't been made the way they were but have them as well sadly.
Love this. The TM series growing up was the most fun I ever had playing a video game. Im sure you made the connection between Amazonia 3000 BC in TM4 and TM2. The platform you teleport to has the same sweet tooth head carved into the stone… thats an interesting easter egg that I think strengthens the argument of calypso being an inter dimensional being. Cant wait to see more!
I swear for TM3 they had a list of levels thet committed to that sounded good on paper but then they had to find ways to half ass some of them because of time restraints or something.
Keep em coming man! lovin all these Twisted Metal videos. Introducing my boy to the game now that he's old enouf. Not Twisted Metal Black yet though, or Twisted Metal 2012.
After hearing TBP go off on Iron Maiden and TM4 Sweet Tooth, I would honestly love if TBP made a "Every Twisted Metal Boss Ranked From Worst To Best" video
I feel like knocking the carnival and mountain road levels down so much for having terrible bosses is unfair to them, since both of those tracks have standard death match fights in the main game so it feels like they aren't just boss arenas as opposed to the boss arenas in Black
Amazing list! I dissagre with some of the choices (mostly the TM3 ones) but fully understand on why you choose them! Do one for specials next!! Some are cool, some are wack, and some are... nothing ''special" xD Good stuff!
this is the first time ive seen that Jet Moto map my mind is blown and i know my kid self would have had told just about everybody because i had the first game and had so much fun playing Jet Moto great contentas always im always keeping an eye on that bell and you community posts for the next upload
I just found your channel and I gotta say, apart from your insightful inspection on the TM series, I absolutely love and appreciate your connection with Iron Maiden (the band). They're also my favorite group of all time, seen them 4x. Love to see them mentioned multiple times on your channel!
Heyyyyyy TB!!!! I love you're content so much, ur one of the only youtubers I currently click immediately no matter the upload because ik ur commentary is always a banger 😁 keep up the good work my guy, 60k is not a milestone to sleep on n I feel like soon ur effort will pay off with u sitting on a comfy 100k 👍 Great video btw n P.S can you please consider doing a ranking video on every single mortal kombat tower ending, I'd def watch that baby no matter the run time ♥ P.P.S if you can network to 4thSnake I'm sure you two would make banger MK collabs
Always interesting to see how someone else sees the levels. I do remember, one time while playing Twisted Metal 3, during Calypso's Blimp, I managed to get every enemy killed without destroying the generators, which I think was managed to mostly make them fall into the pit in rapid succession, causing me to have to deal with EVERY ENEMY including Primeval, and it was just the most chaotic experience I had on that level.
55:19 ... what. No. No, there isn't. No, I didn't fucking struggle with that boss having only three lives and fucking fighting like the entirety of the cast for no reason. That didn't happen. No fucking way, I'm a goddamn dumbass.
Dropping cars from the crane onto the conveyer belts so they'd get pulled into the flamethrowers, or dropping onto the exploding barrels is peak childhood memories.
1:21:01 ABANDONED SKYSCRAPERS (TM:B): This level is a nice callback to TM1 and TM2's rooftop levels and it's hard for me to place which one I like the best. 1:22:40 (AMAZONIA, TM2): Is it the best level in the series? Ehh...no. I think I'd still place TM2's Hong Kong Crunch at the top followed by TM:B's Suburbia, TM4's Neon City, TM:Lost's Dark Carnival and Minion's Maze above it for various reasons. That said, it's a toss-up between whether Antarctica or New York makes my #2 spot for TM2's levels with Hong Kong Crunch at the top. Similar to Antarctica, TM2 Amazonia is a level where you can win without firing a single shot just by driving around long enough and avoiding combat as the A.I. will slowly melt itself to death in the lava chasing after you. This is good because it offers the faster vehicles in the game an out against Minion, who, as mentioned, is not messing around. He will spam his OP-AF Special attack at you constantly and usually follow up with his tank's unique crushing-ram attack. An utter menace and a worthy opponent; Minion absolutely was at the top of his game in TM2. My final "hot take" (puns, hurr) on Amazonia: Fire Walk I think Amazonia 3000 BC in TM4 is a narrowly better level, but for one peculiar reason: the movement tech potential. See, TM4 has this thing where you can move forward horizontally in the air while turbo-boosting, and you can change which way your car is pointing while airborne IF you initiate a jump via the ability, a jump pad, or a steep enough incline to bypass the momentum check. This gives the player a TREMENDOUS degree of control over their vehicle that even TM2 doesn't offer, and one reason among many why I find TM4 to be wrongly maligned, at least from a gameplay mechanics standpoint. (the aethetics and awful character design on the whole? Yeah, no argument there. Trash Man, Goggle Eyes, Pizza Boy and Drag Queen made me lose brain cells playing their endings.)
I enjoyed the video, I hope you do one God of War weapons; Like how fun they are to use, implication the story how goofy or cool they look. I think it be a fun little video
Something I realized is twisted metal 2012 is a good game but only because it was the newest one and it had good controls. Also playing it recently I realized that the bike chainsaw special can 1-shot the twin reinforced dark sides in story mode by pulling a wheelie, charging the chainsaw to red and jousting towards them as you throw it. Disclaimer you will also be 1-shot if you mess it up!
I guess the next ranking video would be best drivers. Of course, Needles would probably be number one, but it would be interesting to hear your takes on all the one-off characters and what could be done to improve them
I loved the reference to "The Mercenary" during the Drive-in Movie segment. Well done, and now I need to re-watch the video to catch any more Iron Maiden references.
Love all these twisted metal videos,you could try making some content on vigilante 8 maybe,for me these 2 series always go together(i played these 2 A LOT on my old ps1 lol)
I remember being terrified of Dark tooth and Tower tooth when i was younger, Tower tooth used to look as big as a skyscraper, after replaying the game recently, Dark tooth is kinda scary still
I have a lot of fun memories of me and my brother playing co-op small brawl and just spending way too long having one of us serve as bait while the other would force the toaster oven shut whenever possible.
I was watching this video again and a memory came flashing back at me. I thought that i played Twisted Metal when i was younger on the N64 but it turns out it was a game called Vigilante 8, this means that the first Twisted Metal game i played was Twisted Metal Black.
So, on the Sweet Tooth boss fight from Twisted Metal 4- what killed him was actually two of Sweet Tooth’s Special attack. The blue clown face has that tether that hold you in place while the green one hits you with power or fire rockets and the red flamethrowers you. Then in the order they show up, they explode. You can see in the footage, the blue face blows up first. But less than a second later Sweet Tooth releases a second special. Finishing the player. But you can counter it some what with two moves. The less recommended is throwing up your shield. The special attack last long than the shield does but I believe you can wait out the blue face tether and boost away once it blows. The second and preferred method is to teleport away. The location you teleport to is random but it’s always a good distance away from where you were. The special attack will still follow you so you’ll need to drive away but you shouldn’t be caught by the same special attack twice. But I believe Sweet Tooth spawns in with two ready to go. My person strategy for beating him- I like to toy with by boss kills when I can. Using remote bomb on Neon City after the helicopter ride. So when Moon Buggy (boss name I believe) takes the same ride, I blow him up just as he lands and knocks him down to the street before I set up a second and do it again. For Sweet Tooth, in the haunted mansion part, there a long tunnel the leads to the roller coaster. With proximity mine you can lay two right on top of each other and safely drive before they arm and blow you up instead (I believe you can lay three and teleport away as well but the timing is much tighter). But in that hall way I lay three groups of two mines each, each far enough away so the first group can chain explode the next in line. At the end of the hall way before the coaster tracks, I lay a remote bomb and a freezing bomb. Then I pull off to the side and wait. The path finding will drive him straight into the proximity mine one right after the other, when he gets to the remote mine I detonate sending him back into the hallway a bit, and then once in range, I trigger the freezing bomb. From the I unload with the machine gun, what ever weapon I think might hurt him the most at the time, and just before he un freezes, I use the heavy turbo attack.
Small brawl was, and still is my favorite twisted metal game. Many hours spent around the ps1 with my brother and cousin. Days i would give anything to go back to
I remember playing Twisted Metal on a sample disc when I first got my PS1 as a kid along with Warhawk. Which not coincidentally was meant to be an aspect of Twisted Metal, but they decided to make it their own game. Twisted Metal 2 will always be my favorite of all time, as jenky as it can be. So many good memories. See you in Paris on the battlefield.
Haven't played TMB in about fifteen years and recently had the chance to play it again!! Of course I started off playing and finishing Mr Grimm's story remembering all the button combination like I never stopped playing!! Love that game!!
Might as well rank every twisted metal character/vehicle from worst to best
Maybe focus on the vehicles
More content do both people then cars
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Shadow! TM2 lol
my personal fav overall anyways.
these lists will always be contested by people, because of how they feel about the levels, & their play styles.
As 2 separate vids... yes lol
I would love to see a vehicle ranking, basing it on their stats, specials, and how well their characters fit their vehicles and the game they're in. Always great to see new content from you though, I'd be happy with anything!
This franchise has such a niche audience nowadays, given that we haven't gotten a new entry in over a decade, so thanks a bunch for giving this series the attention it deserves.
It's sad to read this. The first game was seen as something of a Playstation system-seller and everyone was talking about the sequel, it was the hottest thing around for a while. With Small Brawl, the PSP game (and the PS2 port of it) it seemed like the series was thriving with all kinds of side games and system releases. I guess the ill-advised PS3 game sort of killed everything.
@@MiketheratguyMultimedia The PS3 game seemed fine, but the servers for multi-player were a joke. I've had better luck at slot machines than I ever did trying to find a match. The few I got into were great, especially since I had a friend to coordinate with. It was just that >90% of the time I'd just get a connection error whenever I tried to play.
@@Mirthful_Midori Was it always like that even right after launch? I never played the PS3 game because everyone was saying that it just didn't feel like Twisted Metal. I know that I was really taken aback by the fact that they removed most of the characters.
@@MiketheratguyMultimedia The single player was weird, since you only had three characters. It's been too long since I played, but I would've sworn you could at least change vehicles.
The multiplayer was the best part, when it worked. Unfortunately, that was virtually never. Multiplayer had a really good selection of vehicles.
@@Mirthful_Midori I think you're right, my memory is reading that you could switch vehicles. In that way I suppose gameplay diversity was addressed, which to be fair IS more important than having many unique characters behind the wheel. I just remember wondering why they got rid of what was, to me at least, one of the most compelling aspects of any Twisted Metal games - the crazy characters and their lore.
I think the “Zorko Bros Scrap and Salvage” name is a reference to Randy Zorko who was a prominent member of the development team
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Good video, happily surprised to see Small Brawl levels making it to #3. Piecemeal was an incomplete boss, we ran out of time to finish him or the level as designed. This is evident by the fact he can't use Sweet tooth's special.
Wait, you developed Small Brawl? That’s cool!
@@noahgrant-mo4zi Indeed. A very rushed project, but it holds a special place for me.
@@goodrichgames1308 were there any cut content? Like Mr. Ash’s Ending?
@@noahgrant-mo4zi Axels ending, minion as a boss and several gameplay features and specials.
@@goodrichgames1308 cool :)
Hey TBP, just wanted to say I appreciate the work you put into these videos. This is such a niche corner of RUclips I’m so grateful for finding.
Amen
To add a cherry on top of Paris in TM2, I always liked the addition of the emergency siren to the soundtrack. It conjures images to my mind of somewhere in the distance, another group of Twisted Metal contestants just caused a horrendous accident of some kind. The only indication on your end being the distant, echoing sirens of the Paris police and EMTs rushing to the scene.
Honestly, gives me chills as much as it rocks my socks.
I will never get tired of hearing about Twisted Metal. I grew up with it. It was part of my childhood and it's something I hold very near and dear to me. To hear it still gets talked about makes me smile. I miss Twisted metal so much. I didn't know this but the creator of Twisted Metal, David Jaffe is the creator of God of War. I wish Sony would bring back twisted metal.
2:54: Every Multiplayer Level (#88)
4:13: Suicide Swamp (#87)
5:28: Washington DC (#86)
6:35: Minion's Maze (#85)
7:59: Road Rage (#84)
9:00: Diablo Pass (#83)
So sad people have to censor suicide now because people might get triggered lol!
More?
So that's why TBP couldn't say the name of the Jetmoto level
I was trying to guess the level he couldn't name, and he didn't even give a hint. So thank you.
I'm so happy to see that people are still talking about this franchise to this day
Part of the reason for the resurgence is mainly because of the tv series they're making.
Car Combat will never truly die out... It just won't be at the top of the lists anymore...
Everyone but Sony it seems.
With the series distributed by Paramount+ it's gonna be a hit again!!!
I don't even care about this series that much, nor have I played any of them, but I am addicted to these ranking videos
Another hour plus Twisted Metal video from TBP??? absolutely wonderful 🙏
An hour long TBP video is one of the best ways to end a week, for sure.
I don't really agree with you on some TM4 levels, but I understand where you're coming from. I enjoy TM4 a lot, it's my guilty pleasure and one of my favorite TM games, because it gives you more of a methodical and tactical approach to the gameplay, which a lot of people don't like (but I do), and the variety of weapons makes it feel really confusing and bloated at first, but it gets more enjoyable when you figure it out.
I never made an assumption of TM4 big levels feeling empty, mostly because they give you needed space to run away to when you are out of health, energy, turbo and/or ammo. What makes it feel even emptier though is the fact that AI drivers come in waves, when you are competing against only 3 players at the time (I guess it's a PS1 limitation).
The Sweet Tooth boss fight can get very frustrating, because you have to keep a lot of energy with you to teleport away (Up, Up, Down, Down) when he uses his Special attack: "Henchmen", or just drive away as fast as you can in general, while making sure you keep him away from any health and/or weapon pickups, basically scorched earth AF.
For me specifically, I absolutely hate levels that are either small, too open or a lot of enemies crammed into it, because I usually pick vehicles with less armor and more speed, and I get easily killed by enemies who either are just too close to me or happen to have a bunch of homing rockets on board.
Great video, as always!
Agree completely, TM4 is different enough from the other games that a lot of folks just can’t play it without feeling frustrated. It also lends itself to split screen play with friends
FYI you left out or missed a lot of secrets from TM3 levels...
On the L.A. level you can blow up the Hollywood sign in the background and get a voice line from Calypso
You can also blow up Big Ben in London for another line from Calypso
You can also blow up the Sphinx face in the Egypt level, there is also a secret teleporter that will take you from the big wall tomb area to the pyramid
On the hanger level after you go inside the UFO and get teleported you can land on the UFO and blow up glass dome to get a lightning powerup
On the Tokyo level you can blow up the grate over the fan making it an instant kill or death if you aren't careful
Wish they’d make Twisted Metal: Black 2… I really do love the grisly, grimdark, macabre aesthetic.
Agree. Or a sequel to Small Brawl with all the original cut content that was intended. A sequel to Head On would be nice too. Have Roadkill win the tournament and escape from the nightmare, back into a normal life. It'd be a great way to end off the franchise. Then they can focus on doing remasters or something.
@@dr.pepperphdindeliciousnes1396 We should ask Dave! Lol
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@@wallaceshawn-zk8iw Dave's too woke for me. I respect you're preference if you truly like him, but I feel Scott Campbell's team (the guys behind Head On, Small Brawl and Cars vs. Bosses) would do a better job of handling a new TM game. Still at this point, I'm desperate to see some new Twisted Metal content so it'll be interesting to see what Firesprite comes up with.
he’s too woke? elaborate what you mean please@@dr.pepperphdindeliciousnes1396
DON'T THINK THAT I DIDN'T CATCH THAT IRON MAIDEN REFERENCE!🤘!
Describing Drive In I'm pretty sure you quoting The Mercenary (a great song on my personal fav album): "No where to run, no where to hide, you've got to kill to stay alive."
I know it's a common saying but I ALSO know you're a huge Maiden fan, so that's my guess. Great vid dude as always and thanks for sharing the TM love!
i like how you came up with a different summary for every level respect for that g
Every time you upload a twisted metal video I get so fucking excited. I love this series and I can't get enough of it! Idk how long it'll take but hopefully we get a new twisted metal in the near future, I miss this series too much. Thanks for the awesome content as always :)
Same here!
Thank you so much for what you do! Twisted Metal is a very old series and there's not much content on youtube about it and every video is of great value especially such long and interesitng like yours. There's so much love behind this videos. I think that's the true value of a game and what really makes people fans.
P.S. Best characters and strongest characters next pls =)
Always loved Thrills and Spills in Twisted Metal 2012, so much to explore and destroy!! You can wreck the Ferris wheel much like the suburbs in Twisted Metal Black
I was listening to this while working and as you were talking about #2 I thought, "Did I miss him talking about [the level that ended up being #1]?" Probably a good sign that it was ranked well considering I haven't played the games for at least 15 years.
26:05 i acutally liked the idea behind SB. it was cute yet dark in the right ways. it was an interesting one-off treated too harshley.
Man the only game I had was twisted metal 4 and I have such fond memories of the maps, especially construction yard, it was fun to watch you tear them apart 😂
Oh helll yea!!! I’m
So happy to see any twisted metal content and I know this is gonna be a good one.
Love the Tribal Chief reference in regards to the Roman Ruins!
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Wonderful video as always, your Twisted Metal content is always a joy to watch. As for a video suggestion I wouldn't mind a special weapons ranking from best to worst, kind of thing that you can judge not just from the weapon's damage or utility but also it's theming, how well it suits its vehicle/driver.
This video is amazing, the effort you put into Twisted Metal content is really appeciated.
Note: in Twisted Metal Head-On, you can play in the multi-player levels (or death matches as they were called in the game) in single player mode, and with 5 opponents instead of 1 expect a lot of fun chaos.
Our boy! Love these Twisted Metal videos 🤘🏼
Small Brawl had so many banger levels, that's probably why I go back to it so much
Thank you for preaching truth on the problems of Diablo Pass.
This was a reminder of not only wanting a new TM, but I would love another Small Brawl
"We would literally be here for five minutes..."
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Small Brawl could have worked out just fine if Billy Calypso was just hosting a tournament after school instead of putting people up to it.
I think what made Amazon Fire Walk a perfect level was that it had all the elements of what a good twisted metal level and blended it in a way that feels like the benchmark of what twisted metal levels should do. Space that isn't too big, the right amount of weapon drops and opponents, good secrets sprinkled around, a gimmick that enhances the level, and, if you want to put a boss in it, a boss that puts your skills to the test without it being frustrating.
But it's horrible! The lava part giving damage over time, the overexposed colors burning your eyes out, the horrible OP boss fight where you run out of lives, it's easily the absolutely most hated level to play by anyone I know... what's wrong with you people? XD
This is the quality content I come here for! Twisted Metal was a huge part of my formative years so I love everything you make to cover it. I don't know where else there is to go from here, but I hope you continue finding new ways and different topics to keep on talking about one of my all time favorite gaming series.
For future ranked list ideas, the obvious suggestion is for every vehicle from every game, but maybe also every Special weapon from every game too?
Incredible work and greatly appreciated! I would love to see the same type of video for other car combat games like Vigilante 8 and Rogue Trip :D
Don't want you to get burned out on making videos about car combat games, but I could watch these all day :D
(finally got to watch the video)
Hmmm...
My favorite TM maps?
TM2: Amazonia
TM3: Calypso's Blimp
TM4: Amazonia - 3000
TMBlack: Snowy Pass & Drive-in Theater
TMHead-On: Greece DeathMatch (is just the cruise ship as you would like)
TMBLACK 2: Carnival
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I think you should review the DM maps from TM Head-on; they're dynamically different from their standard counterparts. (yes it means that you have to complete the respective bonus areas)
Thanks again for the awesome TW content! We definitely have waaaaaaay different opinions on the levels but it was great hearing your thoughts! Prison objectively being #1!
Twisted metal and jet moto were two of my most played games as a kid! I definitely remember that level on jet Moto but never knew it was on twisted metal
The dislike for TM4 is pain, it's easily my second favorite in the series. Also if you hyperspace from Sweet Tooth's special it mostly negates it since it has to seek you out. Still love your videos tho
How? 989 studios games suck 😂
I actually have a bunch of good memories of playing Tic tac toast in TM 4 and Octa-gone is actually hilarious to watch the CPU get trapped between two of the pushers and just take potshots at them
It has some good ideas, but like Jaffe said "They r good games in of themselves, but they r not good Twisted Metal games"
The Hyperspace is a band-aid on a bulletwound sometimes. I've had the hyperspace just teleport me right next to Sweet Tooth during the boss fight a few times.
Teleport if it’s closing in on you, shield if it’s already on you. You absolutely need to know the special moves to beat sweet tooth
as someone who still plays black online at times, i think making the multiplayer only maps last kinda sucks to here but also understandable.
I know absolutely nothing about the series but I've been bingeing all these ranking videos. You make me really want to play these games
I think a video ranking all the vehicles would be very interesting. Especially if you separate each version of each vehicle.
I've literally been searching RUclips for this exact video topic for months now... you're my hero ❤😢
TM 2 is my favorite game of all tine, love this channel!
If you do more long ranking videos, the obvious choice is the vehicles (and/or bosses), you could do the drivers as a separate list too, but there might be a little overlap with the endings video or a possible vehicle video on that one
fun fact: in the Junkyard level in Black, you can damage, possibly kill, opponents with the plane crash. i learned this trick on pure accident
Never played twisted metal, yet I have and will continue to watch videos about it
13:38 - The only thing I can think of that gets you out of Sweet Tooth's special from Twisted Metal 4 is the Hyperspace code. If you don't know what it does or didn't know it existed, that's fair. Because it's new in Twisted Metal 4, and is only really useful to get out of specials that grab you like Moon Buggy and Sweet Tooth, or save yourself from falling off the map in stages like Oil Rig. Basically, its a button combo that teleports you to a random part of the map that isn't over a pit, iirc. Either way, I guess you could use your energy to use the shield, but the game is pretty tough when it expects you to know all of the codes for special attacks, that are only shown in the manual, to get out of a single special attack. Either way, it drains a good portion of your energy, which could have been used with other useful codes, particularly freeze and rear attack, which are broken for their own separate reasons in TM4.
Correct it's up, up, down, down. A lifesaver!
@@Gojiro7 Honestly it's no different than using shield or freeze spam.
However Sweet Tooth is most definitely cheap.
@@InfiniteTranscendence Not really. The shield is just something you can use to help take potshots, and the freeze is just there to help you line up a shot. The hyperspace only exists for Sweet Tooth's special as it's otherwise a OHKO.
@@DrEarthwormRobotnik Or falling off of edges, or getting trapped by multiple opponents, etc.
That said Sweet Tooth's special is absurdly strong. He is the final boss though so it's not too surprising.
@@InfiniteTranscendence Yeah, but Sweet Tooth's just flat out overkill. There's a difference between a hard final boss, and a final boss that's just frustrating to fight.
Having played Twisted Metal games since late 1995 when I was a kid I have to say I really really appreciate the depth of knowledge and amount of effort needed to make a video such as this. I totally agree with you on your rankings and also am pleasantly surprised that your ranking for small brawl levels are as high as they are. For me Twisted Metal 2 will always be the best game in the series and I have played them all except the Online versions. I have many fun and fond memories of playing TM2 with my cousins, friends and my brother growing up, sometimes in large groups sharing the controllers and something in small groups just hanging out. I still remember who was each persons favorite player, where they liked to hide and how they fought and it will always be a fond memory. I will also always remember the first time I beat the game and was awed by the hilarious and rather dark humor that was captured so well in a very 90s look animated comic book style. I still have many of the games and play them from time to time almost 30 years later. TM2 will always be the greatest one to me and I wish 3 and 4 hadn't been made the way they were but have them as well sadly.
I love TM4 levels but my love comes from a very nostalgic place.
Love this. The TM series growing up was the most fun I ever had playing a video game. Im sure you made the connection between Amazonia 3000 BC in TM4 and TM2. The platform you teleport to has the same sweet tooth head carved into the stone… thats an interesting easter egg that I think strengthens the argument of calypso being an inter dimensional being. Cant wait to see more!
Great vid, this must have taken forever to make but it brought back so many great memories. Please keep ‘em coming!
I swear for TM3 they had a list of levels thet committed to that sounded good on paper but then they had to find ways to half ass some of them because of time restraints or something.
Keep em coming man!
lovin all these Twisted Metal videos.
Introducing my boy to the game now that he's old enouf. Not Twisted Metal Black yet though, or Twisted Metal 2012.
After hearing TBP go off on Iron Maiden and TM4 Sweet Tooth, I would honestly love if TBP made a "Every Twisted Metal Boss Ranked From Worst To Best" video
It's something that in the preliminary stages
I feel like knocking the carnival and mountain road levels down so much for having terrible bosses is unfair to them, since both of those tracks have standard death match fights in the main game so it feels like they aren't just boss arenas as opposed to the boss arenas in Black
Yes! Bring on more! I enjoy these TM rankings of yours!
Amazing list! I dissagre with some of the choices (mostly the TM3 ones) but fully understand on why you choose them!
Do one for specials next!! Some are cool, some are wack, and some are... nothing ''special" xD
Good stuff!
Rank all characters, all vehicles, all sound tracks, all voice acting, all art design lol these videos are entertaining, keep up the great work 🎉
Thanks for this! I've got such great memories of a lot of these levels.
I have never played a Twist Metal game and yet I'm watching a over hour long video on all the maps just because I enjoy the dedication to do so.
Maybe that's the best moment to start? =)
Keep up the amazing content, man. Your work is always entertaining to watch!!
this is the first time ive seen that Jet Moto map my mind is blown and i know my kid self would have had told just about everybody because i had the first game and had so much fun playing Jet Moto great contentas always im always keeping an eye on that bell and you community posts for the next upload
I just found your channel and I gotta say, apart from your insightful inspection on the TM series, I absolutely love and appreciate your connection with Iron Maiden (the band). They're also my favorite group of all time, seen them 4x. Love to see them mentioned multiple times on your channel!
Heyyyyyy TB!!!! I love you're content so much, ur one of the only youtubers I currently click immediately no matter the upload because ik ur commentary is always a banger 😁 keep up the good work my guy, 60k is not a milestone to sleep on n I feel like soon ur effort will pay off with u sitting on a comfy 100k 👍
Great video btw n P.S can you please consider doing a ranking video on every single mortal kombat tower ending, I'd def watch that baby no matter the run time ♥
P.P.S if you can network to 4thSnake I'm sure you two would make banger MK collabs
Always interesting to see how someone else sees the levels.
I do remember, one time while playing Twisted Metal 3, during Calypso's Blimp, I managed to get every enemy killed without destroying the generators, which I think was managed to mostly make them fall into the pit in rapid succession, causing me to have to deal with EVERY ENEMY including Primeval, and it was just the most chaotic experience I had on that level.
I needed something good to watch today. TBP has provided.
55:19
... what. No. No, there isn't. No, I didn't fucking struggle with that boss having only three lives and fucking fighting like the entirety of the cast for no reason. That didn't happen. No fucking way, I'm a goddamn dumbass.
Dropping cars from the crane onto the conveyer belts so they'd get pulled into the flamethrowers, or dropping onto the exploding barrels is peak childhood memories.
1:21:01 ABANDONED SKYSCRAPERS (TM:B): This level is a nice callback to TM1 and TM2's rooftop levels and it's hard for me to place which one I like the best.
1:22:40 (AMAZONIA, TM2): Is it the best level in the series? Ehh...no. I think I'd still place TM2's Hong Kong Crunch at the top followed by TM:B's Suburbia, TM4's Neon City, TM:Lost's Dark Carnival and Minion's Maze above it for various reasons.
That said, it's a toss-up between whether Antarctica or New York makes my #2 spot for TM2's levels with Hong Kong Crunch at the top. Similar to Antarctica, TM2 Amazonia is a level where you can win without firing a single shot just by driving around long enough and avoiding combat as the A.I. will slowly melt itself to death in the lava chasing after you.
This is good because it offers the faster vehicles in the game an out against Minion, who, as mentioned, is not messing around. He will spam his OP-AF Special attack at you constantly and usually follow up with his tank's unique crushing-ram attack. An utter menace and a worthy opponent; Minion absolutely was at the top of his game in TM2.
My final "hot take" (puns, hurr) on Amazonia: Fire Walk
I think Amazonia 3000 BC in TM4 is a narrowly better level, but for one peculiar reason: the movement tech potential.
See, TM4 has this thing where you can move forward horizontally in the air while turbo-boosting, and you can change which way your car is pointing while airborne IF you initiate a jump via the ability, a jump pad, or a steep enough incline to bypass the momentum check.
This gives the player a TREMENDOUS degree of control over their vehicle that even TM2 doesn't offer, and one reason among many why I find TM4 to be wrongly maligned, at least from a gameplay mechanics standpoint. (the aethetics and awful character design on the whole? Yeah, no argument there. Trash Man, Goggle Eyes, Pizza Boy and Drag Queen made me lose brain cells playing their endings.)
I enjoyed the video, I hope you do one God of War weapons; Like how fun they are to use, implication the story how goofy or cool they look. I think it be a fun little video
Something I realized is twisted metal 2012 is a good game but only because it was the newest one and it had good controls.
Also playing it recently I realized that the bike chainsaw special can 1-shot the twin reinforced dark sides in story mode by pulling a wheelie, charging the chainsaw to red and jousting towards them as you throw it.
Disclaimer you will also be 1-shot if you mess it up!
A Twisted Metal wish list! What to add, characters, level designs, endings. Basically what do you want if you could do whatever you like!
I remember putting in a code for unlimited ricochets as a kid. That made DC a very funny level.
Great job! I can tell that a TON of work went into this video.
I guess the next ranking video would be best drivers. Of course, Needles would probably be number one, but it would be interesting to hear your takes on all the one-off characters and what could be done to improve them
Why doesn't Markus wish that him and needles were 2 different people so he would be free of charge
Then needles doesn't need him and would kill Marcus on the spot
I'm so glad someone is giving small brawl it's due. Game has amazing game play and levels and just constantly gets shat upon.
I loved the reference to "The Mercenary" during the Drive-in Movie segment. Well done, and now I need to re-watch the video to catch any more Iron Maiden references.
Love all these twisted metal videos,you could try making some content on vigilante 8 maybe,for me these 2 series always go together(i played these 2 A LOT on my old ps1 lol)
Check Real Down Under for lots of V8 content!
Awesome job! Amazonia and the rooftops are definitely in my top few favs of all time
I remember being terrified of Dark tooth and Tower tooth when i was younger, Tower tooth used to look as big as a skyscraper, after replaying the game recently, Dark tooth is kinda scary still
"the only place i hate is " *mentions montreal* me, who lives in the area. ; "Yeah fair enought"
I have a lot of fun memories of me and my brother playing co-op small brawl and just spending way too long having one of us serve as bait while the other would force the toaster oven shut whenever possible.
I was watching this video again and a memory came flashing back at me. I thought that i played Twisted Metal when i was younger on the N64 but it turns out it was a game called Vigilante 8, this means that the first Twisted Metal game i played was Twisted Metal Black.
This was thorough ranking video. I prefer Snowy Roads over Drive-In, but I love both.
TM Community, please find an action replay code for the multiplayer levels asap!
Great video, by the way!
When you fight sweet tooth at the end of 4 and he hits you with his ult activate jump or invulnerable if I remember right jump gets you out of it
Your next video could be about which TM has the best music!
These are just great to let play. I'd love to see more rankings. Bosses, characters/vehicles, special weapons? A decent amount to be reveiwed
Perhaps rank the designs of all of the cars?
I disrespected to TM4 is unreal I will love that game cuz it's the first Twisted Metal game I play and it's the reason why I got into Twisted Metal
So, on the Sweet Tooth boss fight from Twisted Metal 4- what killed him was actually two of Sweet Tooth’s Special attack. The blue clown face has that tether that hold you in place while the green one hits you with power or fire rockets and the red flamethrowers you. Then in the order they show up, they explode. You can see in the footage, the blue face blows up first. But less than a second later Sweet Tooth releases a second special. Finishing the player.
But you can counter it some what with two moves. The less recommended is throwing up your shield. The special attack last long than the shield does but I believe you can wait out the blue face tether and boost away once it blows. The second and preferred method is to teleport away. The location you teleport to is random but it’s always a good distance away from where you were. The special attack will still follow you so you’ll need to drive away but you shouldn’t be caught by the same special attack twice. But I believe Sweet Tooth spawns in with two ready to go.
My person strategy for beating him- I like to toy with by boss kills when I can. Using remote bomb on Neon City after the helicopter ride. So when Moon Buggy (boss name I believe) takes the same ride, I blow him up just as he lands and knocks him down to the street before I set up a second and do it again.
For Sweet Tooth, in the haunted mansion part, there a long tunnel the leads to the roller coaster. With proximity mine you can lay two right on top of each other and safely drive before they arm and blow you up instead (I believe you can lay three and teleport away as well but the timing is much tighter). But in that hall way I lay three groups of two mines each, each far enough away so the first group can chain explode the next in line. At the end of the hall way before the coaster tracks, I lay a remote bomb and a freezing bomb. Then I pull off to the side and wait. The path finding will drive him straight into the proximity mine one right after the other, when he gets to the remote mine I detonate sending him back into the hallway a bit, and then once in range, I trigger the freezing bomb. From the I unload with the machine gun, what ever weapon I think might hurt him the most at the time, and just before he un freezes, I use the heavy turbo attack.
Awesome video, I love Twisted Metal content. Great channel.
Small brawl was, and still is my favorite twisted metal game. Many hours spent around the ps1 with my brother and cousin. Days i would give anything to go back to
Suggestion, best looking/most badass vehicles
I remember playing Twisted Metal on a sample disc when I first got my PS1 as a kid along with Warhawk. Which not coincidentally was meant to be an aspect of Twisted Metal, but they decided to make it their own game. Twisted Metal 2 will always be my favorite of all time, as jenky as it can be. So many good memories. See you in Paris on the battlefield.
Haven't played TMB in about fifteen years and recently had the chance to play it again!! Of course I started off playing and finishing Mr Grimm's story remembering all the button combination like I never stopped playing!! Love that game!!
I appreciate that quote from Iron Maiden's "The Mercenary," which fittingly is one of my favorite albums by them!
please keep putting out more long twisted metal videos i love these so much
1:13:49 :) Nice "The Mercenary" reference. Good to see lesser-known Maiden songs getting some love!