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I think it shows that you don't do a ton of scripted stuff, sounding a little stiff, but it's because just that; you don't do a lot of scripted stuff. But, you still sounded professional, no words being slurred or difficult to hear, while still adding your own flair to reading the script. Overall, it was a fine job.
3:15 I actually like the idea of Justin Bailey being a canonical character in the Metroid universe. Being a Federation member fits his name really well.
@@silvermoon2608 Being "in bailey" is a non-American way of saying "in bikini", hence why Samus without her armor on was "just in bailey". He thought it was a stupid name because he knew that the name was more a pun on the fact that she was basically wearing a bikini.
@@jessicastoker8932 No, it's a random string of characters, like they said in the video. If you look up "in bailey" you only get results for the town in Colorado LMAO.
This transformation of DYKG from "cool trivia facts" to serious Investigative Archaeology is something I didn't expect but I am 100% on board for. Very very good stuff here keep it up!
They get way less views though. They still have over 2 millions subs, but they’re probably mostly inactive accounts or people that didn’t bother to unsubscribe from back when they were big in the early 2010’s.
It sort of makes sense. Interviews about Federation Force mentioned that the game started on development on the DSi. I originally figured Project Valkyrie was originally a 3DS pitch after Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon before Tanabe asked them revive the DSi idea (which became Federation Force) but, I was expecting Project Valkyrie to be an action platformer. Once they mentioned it was a shooter at first, I realized they were one in the same. The phase 2 lines up with so LinkedIn profiles listing Wii U Online project I recall seeing after Luigi's Mansion (though at the time, I figured it was for a Wii U Strikers or Luigi's Mansion 3)
i kinda figured it out after it was said they wanted a gfs story and _then_ mentioned the 3ds combined with the fact it was a 4 player multiplayer deathmatch game
@@GabePuratekuta You like old games and Star Trek? Vinny also likes those things and never stops talking about them even if I'd like him too. You should watch more of him.
You guys are knocking these videos out of the park. I am so happy with the new form you guys have taken. When I first started following you guys (back when most of your content were images) I was delighted to have a source of mostly inconsequential game trivia I could spout to my friends. But as time has gone on, and especially in the last year or so, I have been absolutely floored by the amount of journalism and research you guys are putting in. I never thought we would be getting any more info about half the topics you guys have been covering, but you keep bringing us amazing answers to mysteries I have been following my whole life! Keep up the fantastic work guys! also, hi vinny! big fan.
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Man, that's gutting to hear that the Super Metroid dev team ended up being shunted over to Virtual Boy and Gameboy titles. Imagine what they could have accomplished!
Classical cheeky management trying their best doing bussiness at games without knowing anything at all about gaming. Lol a shame.. imagine if they went and made something like super Metroid 2.. or Metroid fps rail shooter that used the superR scope
They said gameboy titles were more safe and profitable at the time, and just like Sakamoto said they didn't had the confidence of doing something as good on the 64.
@@H4rdlex I meant mostly how they focused on virtual boy Technically knowing it had flaws but management still wanted to try to see if they got a way to get some profits, they literally knew VB was not going very good, I do understand the fact of sales in GB were good, but still. Amazes me how they didn't got anyone to work on stuff so simple like a spin off super scope Metroid, Metroid 1 style a la Castlevania 4 (like it was a remake of cv1, imagine if they went and made zero mission there lol)
@@H4rdlex yeah buy miyamoto said that they could also just do better 2d games on the n64. Could have just done a traditional Metroid 2d game but with better graphics
@@redditor7548 damn I imagine a kind of 3d pre rendered sprites Metroid II or 1 remake on the 64… and it having like the lighting and actual 3d world looking like the Samus stage on smash 64
To be fair, he's said on many occasions that Metroid is his favorite game series, so I'm happy to see him talking about something he's so passionate about!
@@HogartHughes Yeah I have a lot of those when I spend 3 hours on the Super Ultra Mega deep web in the bathroom while people are banging on the door and I just want to be left alone but I'm screaming while doing my thing and then yeah
In every major franchise there's at least a dozen pitches for every game that actually releases. Only question is how far they got before being canned.
I really love these new vids where you actually do some detective work and chase down devs to get new information, rather then just repeating already known info from the cutting room floor or old magazine interviews. Keep up the great work!
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I couldn't even tell it was Vinny for the first few seconds, his cadence when reading off of a script is way different compared to his streams. He did a good job though!
As cool as it is seeing Justin Bailey be referenced in what would have been a modern metroid at the time, I think it would have been cooler if the player character for Tactics was Adam. Had Other M not happened and this game came out instead, we could have even had the final level be some kind of sacrifice mission where we have to move all of our units + Samus to an extraction point while the stage is gradually being destroyed more and more each turn. Kinda like a fire emblem style twist on the Escape Sequences in Metroid
For some reason I never truly understood just how valuable Rare was to Nintendo. It makes me wonder why they just didn't buy them first :( It makes me really sad to see how much Miyamoto respected and cared ab the Rare games and I bet he was sad to see them go
some of the big devs just left the company even before being bought by MS and Nintendo probably knew RareWare has lost it steams, so they just let them go.
The whole story of Project Valkyrie was kinda heartbreaking - imagine working on a project for THAT long, having it reformed, restarted, and when it finally comes out everyone hates it just because it's not a main-series title.
Blame the marketing. Marketing is the absolute worst aspect of the video game industry. They can't let things stand on their own merit, they can't allow niche games to appeal to a niche market. They just siphon off of creative and original works and demand that a million numbered sequels are made until the IP is milked dry like a dairy cow, and dies. If a game is good, advertising it should be easy. Just shout to the high heavens that the game is great and everyone should play it. Instead, these absolute dirtbags want to coast on an already known name and go to lunch early. It also doesn't help that they mostly advertised the Rocket League ripoff mode back when Rocket League was most popular. Making people think it's just a hasty clone trying to ride off a trend.
Interesting how one of the most recognizable and important game series has struggled so much in terms of sales. Also, thanks for the narration from the funny Vine Guy
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It's a shame we didn't get these games, but Metroid Tactics especially. It would have been different, of course, but the XCOM style of gameplay would have been perfect for the setting. Hell, I reckon it'd be a perfect fit for the Switch. Also, I remember that Axiom Verge had a Justin Bailey "cheat code" that put Trace in a similar swimsuit. Except I think it was yellow, making it kind of a banana hammock. (sans Princess Consuela)
As a kid, I spent so many hours searching the internet for information about Metroid 64 and Dread, so unreleased Metroid games are kind of an obsession for me. You probably can imagine what I felt like when Dread got revealed. Thanks for doing all this research guys!
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Great job, Vin. You did a great job, I could tell you were reading from a script but it's just because you were a little monotone. Easy to work on, you're very expressive otherwise. Proud of you.
I’ll admit I stoped watching DYKG around the time they put out the video basically saying “guys somethings wrong you didn’t watch this video as much as you were supposed to”, but I’m so happy to see you guys bringing this in-depth stuff with interviews and things I’ve never heard anywhere else. Hope you guys keep at it, feels like your finally back!
Yet another interesting video. And wow! I cannot believe that what me and my childhood friends discussed back then; a Metroid game that's like X-COM Enemy Unknown (the OG, not the new age crap) would've been very interesting and cool to see, was actually discussed with the game studio itself! That's awesome to see. I must also say that I follow a couple of hundred retro-focused channels, but you lot are -very- thorough with things, and I particularly like the depth of your researches when gathering facts and uncovering "rumors". Props for adding text in addition to the narrating. I know there are some deaf retro-fans out there who greatly appreciates that. But yeah, another awesomely done video!
The fact I fangirl screamed when the narrator mentioned, "Justin Bailey", for me anyway that was a great name and Easter egg. Not my game genre but if a Tactics Metroid game occured, I would've loved to watch from the sidelines as my husband played it. That's one of his favorite gaming genres aside from RPG games.
There was another proposed game with the placeholder title Metroid 1.5, I believe meant to take place directly after Prime (so a Gamecube game that never happened), that had a personality shifting insane AI as the primary villain, lots of robot enemies, and humanoid Metroids running around. It's possible some of these ideas were retooled and used for Dread, like the EMMI drones and Samus' Metroid Suit in the endgame.
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The only other studio that comes to my mind with the whole Metroid 64 situation is Treasure. I can imagine a experimental Metroid done in the style of Sin and Punishment but then again that would have been a major shift in tone
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What's interesting is that there was a old (2008) Half Life 2 mod called "Project Valkyrie" that too was a multiplayer FPS game inspired by Metroid. Wonder if there's a connection there that didn't get mentioned.
I wasn’t sure how much I’d enjoy the longer form content when you guys did the switch, but after all this time now I can confidently say you guys made the right move doing long form videos! I watch em all the way through as soon as I can and all the digging you guys do is amazing so just incredible stuff team DYKG!!! Keep it up! 😁😁😁 I’m not one for Tactics games usually, but man, I’d be trying everything to get my hands on a Metroid tactics game if it existed
I think Splatoon may have had something to do with the way Valkyrie was handled, the timing seems appropriate, and having 2 big multiplayer competitive games, both published by Nintendo, both shooters of a sense, and given where we are today with Splatoon, it just seems like Nintendo didn't want their franchises competing in that space. What gives it even more credence is the fact that they shifted it to a co-op based game.
Wouldn't surprise me if the devs that were asked to make Metroid 64 has some connection to Iguana Entertainment & Acclaim Entertainment, the studio & publisher of the Turok games on the N64.
There’s ID software and 3D Realms too, I guess. But I could see Nintendo around that time being more open with the idea of a Quake-styled Metroid game.
It’s fascinating to think that franchises that you love and grew up with coul’ve been completely different, if some of these canceled games had actually been made.
Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven, you must become a new creation and be born again by responding to the Holy Spirit. - Matthew 7:21-23, Revelation 3:15-16 cf. Hebrews 10:26-29. Pay close attention to your thoughts and how you respond to your inner monologue because it has a greater impact than you think. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life, and do all that you can to follow His ways.
I don't press the like button on most videos I watch the way other RUclips users do. In fact, it's practically once in a blue moon that I hit like on a video. But I had to like this one, both for the great content and to support Vinny.
You guys are so next level. The depth of research and just how many video you guys are able to pump out is truly astounding. We live in a very special time where this type of information is readily available to regular people like me
So some small chance at some incredible coincidence. If Metroid 64 was pitched to somebody, then it was probably to one of those Dream Team studios. One of the Dream Team studios was Acclaim Entertainment. Acclaim Entertainment published the Iguana Studios Turok games. A good amount of the Turok guys left Acclaim to follow Jeff Spangenberg in a new startup studio of his called Retro Studios. DYKG already talked to quite a few people from Retro, but it would be some incredible fate to find out the proposal back then was to the same guys that ended up making Metroid Prime.
Hey Ultimate, I'm the guy who wrote this video. Every time I talked to a Retro dev over the past couple years (maybe about 10 total), I asked about Metroid 64. No one knew anything unfortunately. John Whitmore who's quoted in this video was the only one who said anything substantial. The quote was cut short because I didn't wanna spend like 2 minutes on kind of a nothing burger, but basically he said Retro wasn't asked to do Metroid 64, and Nintendo of America kept them in the loop on what Rare was up to, and he didn't think it was Rare either. Unfortunately.
Wow. Such a surprise and a shame to see just how badly Metroid has performed across the years. Paul Tozour clearly has some immense passion for the franchise and I can hope that he is involved in the (forever upcoming) Prime 4. Amazing research done by everyone involved in the making of this video and the great love for the series is very apparent.
Today I learned: How Xcom works Justin Bailey is basically canon There WERE plans for Metroid 64 How cool Metroid Tactics would be How cool Valkyrie would be I would be interested in that Heroes of Hyrule game How interesting it is that Valkyrie became Federation Force Metroid 64 could've been 2D! Miyamoto was definitely supportive of M64 They didn't know what to do for story, until Prime and Fusion Vinny is quickly globetrotting his online presence and it's cool
I didn't even notice until more than halfway through the episode that vinny was the one reading the script. It surprises me how natural he sounds for this type of content.
As a huge fan of Metroid, this was awesome to watch. Out of all the games, Metroid Tactics looked the coolest. I'm not into tactics style games and bringing in Samus would have been the hook to at least get me to try it.
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thanks for the hard work and for inviting Vinny, great video
Great video, hope you don't mind a friendly spelling correction - in the video description it's 'elusive'', not 'illusice'. 🙂
why did you opt to use feminine instead of female when talking about valkyries?
Probably my favorite video from your channel so far ❤
I always thought valkyrie was metroid dread. Hearing that its basically the DSI pitch tanabe had In 2008 is very interesting
I'm not really used to doing scripted stuff, but I did my best! Thank you for having me DYKG. As a huge metroid fan, this was really cool to do.
You did great, man, don't worry 💖
I think it shows that you don't do a ton of scripted stuff, sounding a little stiff, but it's because just that; you don't do a lot of scripted stuff. But, you still sounded professional, no words being slurred or difficult to hear, while still adding your own flair to reading the script. Overall, it was a fine job.
very cool!
The sauce is spreading
You did amazing Vinny I loved the video.
3:15 I actually like the idea of Justin Bailey being a canonical character in the Metroid universe. Being a Federation member fits his name really well.
Yeah, me too. I don’t understand why he thought it was a dumb idea
Same, I thought it was a pretty good throwback.
I agree it's a neat idea, but it would have been terrible as the main playable character. Should have been used for a supporting character instead.
@@silvermoon2608 Being "in bailey" is a non-American way of saying "in bikini", hence why Samus without her armor on was "just in bailey". He thought it was a stupid name because he knew that the name was more a pun on the fact that she was basically wearing a bikini.
@@jessicastoker8932 No, it's a random string of characters, like they said in the video. If you look up "in bailey" you only get results for the town in Colorado LMAO.
00:00 - Metroid Tactics
08:34 - Project Valkyrie
16:58 - Metroid 64
Ok
@@Tanian1230 ok
This transformation of DYKG from "cool trivia facts" to serious Investigative Archaeology is something I didn't expect but I am 100% on board for. Very very good stuff here keep it up!
they've been doing this for years y'know...
@@Simon-xi7lb yeah but before it was “did you know Mario brothers 2 was originally doki doki panic” and now it’s stuff that nobody has known before
They get way less views though. They still have over 2 millions subs, but they’re probably mostly inactive accounts or people that didn’t bother to unsubscribe from back when they were big in the early 2010’s.
@@thedapperdolphin1590 They were getting horrible views for years and now are recovering very well, because everyone was sick of DYKG content
It’s so weird hearing Vinny talk from a script it’s like hes being held a gunpoint
Cause the script is holding him hostage
Scoot is holding a gun to his head
I wonder if there was a take where he was a lot more energetic that had to be rejected.
This comment is hilarious
they sucked the new york right out of him
I can't believe DYKG managed to get the Vincent Sauceman to take time out of his busy schedule between TV news segments.
Vinny Pizza Pasta Man 😂
@@Problematic_Scorpio AKA - Parking lot
I unironically love the Commander being called Justin Bailey for the strategy game. Fucking rad throwback.
Holy crap. Project Valkyrie becoming Federation Force is a legit mind boggling plot twist.
twist villain
It sort of makes sense. Interviews about Federation Force mentioned that the game started on development on the DSi. I originally figured Project Valkyrie was originally a 3DS pitch after Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon before Tanabe asked them revive the DSi idea (which became Federation Force) but, I was expecting Project Valkyrie to be an action platformer. Once they mentioned it was a shooter at first, I realized they were one in the same. The phase 2 lines up with so LinkedIn profiles listing Wii U Online project I recall seeing after Luigi's Mansion (though at the time, I figured it was for a Wii U Strikers or Luigi's Mansion 3)
Before Valkyrie become more known during the hot tub meta
Had a feeling
i kinda figured it out after it was said they wanted a gfs story and _then_ mentioned the 3ds combined with the fact it was a 4 player multiplayer deathmatch game
he feels so out of his element at first but then he starts sounding really comfortable and brought an added charm to this video. Good job vin
first Vinny is on the news and now he’s on Did You Know Gaming
2022 is the year of Vinesauce
DYKG Rubber Duck Simulator feat Vinesauce
"2018 is the YEAR of the Vinesauce!"
we have come full circle first vinesauce does a parody Did You Know Gaming video and now he is fully doing a real DYKG video
year of vinny on desktop
It's funny because they actually tried to get him before but it was gonna be for a sonic episode so he said no
First thumb Joel being featured, now Vinny narrating a whole episode.
What a time to be alive.
Vinny gets a well written script, Joel gets thumbskelethor
These guys said 2 years of digging just for this one video.
Mad respect to DYKG for bringing the highest quality content and always raising the bar.
Not as big as the Game Historian.
Oh my goodness I remember loving your let's plays years and years ago lmao. Good to see you around!
@@Deadflower20xx thanks for the kind words♡
Could not have chosen anyone better to narrate this episode, definetely. After all he has a legit alien living on his couch right now.
You show Gnorts some respect 😂 You say his name 😂😂😂😂
It is nice they gave someone no one knows a chance to crawl from obscurity.
@@GabePuratekuta Nice bait.
@@reesette7912 Bait? It was more of a little joke because it's the first, and most likely the only, piece I've ever watched with the guy in it.
@@GabePuratekuta You like old games and Star Trek? Vinny also likes those things and never stops talking about them even if I'd like him too. You should watch more of him.
You guys are knocking these videos out of the park. I am so happy with the new form you guys have taken. When I first started following you guys (back when most of your content were images) I was delighted to have a source of mostly inconsequential game trivia I could spout to my friends. But as time has gone on, and especially in the last year or so, I have been absolutely floored by the amount of journalism and research you guys are putting in. I never thought we would be getting any more info about half the topics you guys have been covering, but you keep bringing us amazing answers to mysteries I have been following my whole life! Keep up the fantastic work guys!
also, hi vinny! big fan.
Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven, you must become a new creation and be born again by responding to the Holy Spirit. - Matthew 7:21-23, Revelation 3:15-16 cf. Hebrews 10:26-29. Pay close attention to your thoughts and how you respond to your inner monologue because it has a greater impact than you think. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life, and do all that you can to follow His ways.
I like how DYKG has gotten to the point where they can just directly reach out to game producers and developers to uncover new information
Man, that's gutting to hear that the Super Metroid dev team ended up being shunted over to Virtual Boy and Gameboy titles. Imagine what they could have accomplished!
Classical cheeky management trying their best doing bussiness at games without knowing anything at all about gaming. Lol a shame.. imagine if they went and made something like super Metroid 2.. or Metroid fps rail shooter that used the superR scope
They said gameboy titles were more safe and profitable at the time, and just like Sakamoto said they didn't had the confidence of doing something as good on the 64.
@@H4rdlex I meant mostly how they focused on virtual boy Technically knowing it had flaws but management still wanted to try to see if they got a way to get some profits, they literally knew VB was not going very good, I do understand the fact of sales in GB were good, but still. Amazes me how they didn't got anyone to work on stuff so simple like a spin off super scope Metroid, Metroid 1 style a la Castlevania 4 (like it was a remake of cv1, imagine if they went and made zero mission there lol)
@@H4rdlex yeah buy miyamoto said that they could also just do better 2d games on the n64. Could have just done a traditional Metroid 2d game but with better graphics
@@redditor7548 damn I imagine a kind of 3d pre rendered sprites Metroid II or 1 remake on the 64… and it having like the lighting and actual 3d world looking like the Samus stage on smash 64
The man known for Mario is voicing Metroid facts, happy Vinny is doing this though!
He’s very relaxing to listen to, I would love if he voiced any future episodes, if he accepts it.
To be fair, he's said on many occasions that Metroid is his favorite game series, so I'm happy to see him talking about something he's so passionate about!
Fun Fact: When Samus goes into her Morph Ball to unlock a gate, she shouts in her mind “SPEEN”!
It's crazy how much development lore you guys have dug up on Metroid over the years. Big props
I have this clear memory of me playing a whole weekend of a Metroid 64 game.
Turn out it was Body Harvest.
it’s a sticky situation.
@@HogartHughes
Yeah I have a lot of those when I spend 3 hours on the Super Ultra Mega deep web in the bathroom while people are banging on the door and I just want to be left alone but I'm screaming while doing my thing and then yeah
@@HogartHughes But we don’t have to swallow it.
Lost Metroid games with the plus of Vinny for the narration? This is a must watch for the likes of me.
Same, bro. Same.
It's not a must watch for me because I am the one of the very few smart super smart people that know that Metroid is dumb it's gaffed bologna
@@Training_Wheels fart noises
This is like seeing an alternate universe where binny became a gaming commentary RUclips channel instead of a funny Twitch streamer
All the research in this is amazing. Thank you DYK Gaming for doing what you do.
In every major franchise there's at least a dozen pitches for every game that actually releases.
Only question is how far they got before being canned.
Nice seeing you here.
You did well here Vin. Sucks we didn't get these concepts as they all look fun, especially the Metroid arena shooter.
I’m loving these more “Long-form” investigative DYKG videos
Vinny is such a talented, blessed and multi-faceted man.
I know right all of his personalities are so cool I especially like when his Joel personality escapes his body and starts streaming independently
I really love these new vids where you actually do some detective work and chase down devs to get new information, rather then just repeating already known info from the cutting room floor or old magazine interviews.
Keep up the great work!
Thanks so much for featuring my Kraid’s lair cover in this video!
Thanks for letting us use it Emily :)
hearing vinny like this is so oddly comforting
Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven, you must become a new creation and be born again by responding to the Holy Spirit. - Matthew 7:21-23, Revelation 3:15-16 cf. Hebrews 10:26-29. Pay close attention to your thoughts and how you respond to your inner monologue because it has a greater impact than you think. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life, and do all that you can to follow His ways.
@@FreightmareFTW nah
yeah for real like?
@@FreightmareFTW hello
Yes mister furry i agree stay yiffing I’m not sorry heh.
Twice on the news, and now once more on DYKG. Year of the Vin Terror, I tell ya.
We need a Gnorts narration
He was on the news?
I remember trombone hero, what was the other instance of being on the news?
@@lpnp9477 it was like last week or something where he was talking about placcid duck sim look at the clip channel
@@stormiestcampfire of course it would be duck game haha
I couldn't even tell it was Vinny for the first few seconds, his cadence when reading off of a script is way different compared to his streams. He did a good job though!
As cool as it is seeing Justin Bailey be referenced in what would have been a modern metroid at the time, I think it would have been cooler if the player character for Tactics was Adam. Had Other M not happened and this game came out instead, we could have even had the final level be some kind of sacrifice mission where we have to move all of our units + Samus to an extraction point while the stage is gradually being destroyed more and more each turn. Kinda like a fire emblem style twist on the Escape Sequences in Metroid
For some reason I never truly understood just how valuable Rare was to Nintendo. It makes me wonder why they just didn't buy them first :( It makes me really sad to see how much Miyamoto respected and cared ab the Rare games and I bet he was sad to see them go
some of the big devs just left the company even before being bought by MS and Nintendo probably knew RareWare has lost it steams, so they just let them go.
@@doburu4835 Yeah you can tell they lost some of that steam after the 64 era, their games were becoming more hit or miss after that.
They probably tried but price negotiations failed
@@bm001 Well it's because a lot of people left when they were bought, that includes the people that left before the deal as well which didn't help.
Rare was probably the biggest third party dev the N64 had, after all the other big names jumped ship to the PlayStation.
The whole story of Project Valkyrie was kinda heartbreaking - imagine working on a project for THAT long, having it reformed, restarted, and when it finally comes out everyone hates it just because it's not a main-series title.
FOR REAL it makes me feel bad for disliking it as a kid 😭
Blame the marketing. Marketing is the absolute worst aspect of the video game industry. They can't let things stand on their own merit, they can't allow niche games to appeal to a niche market. They just siphon off of creative and original works and demand that a million numbered sequels are made until the IP is milked dry like a dairy cow, and dies. If a game is good, advertising it should be easy. Just shout to the high heavens that the game is great and everyone should play it. Instead, these absolute dirtbags want to coast on an already known name and go to lunch early. It also doesn't help that they mostly advertised the Rocket League ripoff mode back when Rocket League was most popular. Making people think it's just a hasty clone trying to ride off a trend.
Holy moly. A strategic game based on the Metroid lore. WE NEED THIS!!!
Interesting how one of the most recognizable and important game series has struggled so much in terms of sales.
Also, thanks for the narration from the funny Vine Guy
It's surreal hearing Vinny read something that is scripted
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@@FreightmareFTW no
@@FreightmareFTWno
It's a shame we didn't get these games, but Metroid Tactics especially. It would have been different, of course, but the XCOM style of gameplay would have been perfect for the setting. Hell, I reckon it'd be a perfect fit for the Switch.
Also, I remember that Axiom Verge had a Justin Bailey "cheat code" that put Trace in a similar swimsuit. Except I think it was yellow, making it kind of a banana hammock. (sans Princess Consuela)
imagine Tactics but no Mario + Rabbids today
As a kid, I spent so many hours searching the internet for information about Metroid 64 and Dread, so unreleased Metroid games are kind of an obsession for me.
You probably can imagine what I felt like when Dread got revealed. Thanks for doing all this research guys!
DYGK has been on a roll with bang after bang, uncovering mysteries and lost media. Congrats to all of the DYGK team for making this possible!
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I WANT METROID TACTICS! God... Had I known this was something for consideration, I would have begged for it harder. Sounds so damn cool!
Great job, Vin. You did a great job, I could tell you were reading from a script but it's just because you were a little monotone. Easy to work on, you're very expressive otherwise. Proud of you.
I love hearing binny talking seriously about his favorite game series.
Metroid Tactics actually sounded really cool, and it could have been repurposed for the 3DS pretty well I think. A shame it never came to pass
It could work now on switch since every Nintendo IP has a tactics game now smh idk why they wouldn’t
I’ll admit I stoped watching DYKG around the time they put out the video basically saying “guys somethings wrong you didn’t watch this video as much as you were supposed to”, but I’m so happy to see you guys bringing this in-depth stuff with interviews and things I’ve never heard anywhere else. Hope you guys keep at it, feels like your finally back!
Yet another interesting video. And wow! I cannot believe that what me and my childhood friends discussed back then; a Metroid game that's like X-COM Enemy Unknown (the OG, not the new age crap) would've been very interesting and cool to see, was actually discussed with the game studio itself! That's awesome to see. I must also say that I follow a couple of hundred retro-focused channels, but you lot are -very- thorough with things, and I particularly like the depth of your researches when gathering facts and uncovering "rumors". Props for adding text in addition to the narrating. I know there are some deaf retro-fans out there who greatly appreciates that. But yeah, another awesomely done video!
Guys, this was an amazing video, I sincerely thank you for that.
Man that's awesome never knew about any of this stuff. Great video man!
The fact I fangirl screamed when the narrator mentioned, "Justin Bailey", for me anyway that was a great name and Easter egg.
Not my game genre but if a Tactics Metroid game occured, I would've loved to watch from the sidelines as my husband played it. That's one of his favorite gaming genres aside from RPG games.
Really hoping someone takes you up on the bounty. You really did a crazy amount of research and we appreciate it!
There was another proposed game with the placeholder title Metroid 1.5, I believe meant to take place directly after Prime (so a Gamecube game that never happened), that had a personality shifting insane AI as the primary villain, lots of robot enemies, and humanoid Metroids running around. It's possible some of these ideas were retooled and used for Dread, like the EMMI drones and Samus' Metroid Suit in the endgame.
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12:29 Well that's one way of ruining my entire week with a soul crushing piece of info
Vinny when episode with sonic facts: "I sleep"
Vinny when episode with pepe sylvia level of digging for cancelled metroid games: "real shit?!"
What a great Video, thanks a lot to all DYKG team. really appreciate your hardwork.
The only other studio that comes to my mind with the whole Metroid 64 situation is Treasure. I can imagine a experimental Metroid done in the style of Sin and Punishment but then again that would have been a major shift in tone
Intelligent Systems, maybe?
thanks so much for your insane amounts of effort in making and researching this stuff.
What a bizarre coincidence for Vinny to narrate a DYKG video on Metroid!
DYKG asked on Twitter for recommendations on content creators who would be a good fit for a Metroid video, and a lot of people recommended Vinny
Right? It's Binny's favorite game, after all
I have a better idea how about we all get together and never play Metroid games and get rid of all of them because they're all dumb
@@Training_Wheels this is certainly an additive comment to the topic being discussed
Damn Vinny, you did good!
The coverage on this video was awesome stuff dykg!
You sound great Vinny! It's your first time, and you get better throughout the video, and none of it's bad! Great job!
Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven, you must become a new creation and be born again by responding to the Holy Spirit. - Matthew 7:21-23, Revelation 3:15-16 cf. Hebrews 10:26-29. Pay close attention to your thoughts and how you respond to your inner monologue because it has a greater impact than you think. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life, and do all that you can to follow His ways.
Those were Blizzard/Warcraft Ability buttons from that Metoid Tactics screenshot at 5:18
can we just appreciate the extremely high level of content dykg has been bringing us? Great work and keep it coming!
Some pretty incredible journalism went into making this video, huge props to the team that made this
I was not ready to hear Vinny with a script
hey bro
@@IanTho1 you weren't ready either
@@gatst7680 nobody was
What's interesting is that there was a old (2008) Half Life 2 mod called "Project Valkyrie" that too was a multiplayer FPS game inspired by Metroid. Wonder if there's a connection there that didn't get mentioned.
Thank you DidYouKnowGaming for once again giving Metroid some time in the spotlight!
I wasn’t sure how much I’d enjoy the longer form content when you guys did the switch, but after all this time now I can confidently say you guys made the right move doing long form videos! I watch em all the way through as soon as I can and all the digging you guys do is amazing so just incredible stuff team DYKG!!! Keep it up! 😁😁😁 I’m not one for Tactics games usually, but man, I’d be trying everything to get my hands on a Metroid tactics game if it existed
Can't believe they got News celebrity Vinny Vinesauce to host an episode of DYKG
New subscriber here. I heard about your old zelda tactics video getting pulled. That sucks but it made me aware of your channel.
Thanks man (I'm the guy from DYKG who wrote both videos)
I think Splatoon may have had something to do with the way Valkyrie was handled, the timing seems appropriate, and having 2 big multiplayer competitive games, both published by Nintendo, both shooters of a sense, and given where we are today with Splatoon, it just seems like Nintendo didn't want their franchises competing in that space. What gives it even more credence is the fact that they shifted it to a co-op based game.
I was planning on watching DYKG and Vinny anyway, you just saved my time by combining the two
Wouldn't surprise me if the devs that were asked to make Metroid 64 has some connection to Iguana Entertainment & Acclaim Entertainment, the studio & publisher of the Turok games on the N64.
There’s ID software and 3D Realms too, I guess. But I could see Nintendo around that time being more open with the idea of a Quake-styled Metroid game.
Impressive how this channel has evolved from random game trivia to full-on journalism.
It’s fascinating to think that franchises that you love and grew up with coul’ve been completely different, if some of these canceled games had actually been made.
Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven, you must become a new creation and be born again by responding to the Holy Spirit. - Matthew 7:21-23, Revelation 3:15-16 cf. Hebrews 10:26-29. Pay close attention to your thoughts and how you respond to your inner monologue because it has a greater impact than you think. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life, and do all that you can to follow His ways.
"You're out, I'm in. The people want more Vin."
We did get more Vin and I highly approve of him to talk about more stuff on DYKG.
I don't press the like button on most videos I watch the way other RUclips users do. In fact, it's practically once in a blue moon that I hit like on a video. But I had to like this one, both for the great content and to support Vinny.
You guys are so next level. The depth of research and just how many video you guys are able to pump out is truly astounding. We live in a very special time where this type of information is readily available to regular people like me
So some small chance at some incredible coincidence. If Metroid 64 was pitched to somebody, then it was probably to one of those Dream Team studios. One of the Dream Team studios was Acclaim Entertainment. Acclaim Entertainment published the Iguana Studios Turok games. A good amount of the Turok guys left Acclaim to follow Jeff Spangenberg in a new startup studio of his called Retro Studios. DYKG already talked to quite a few people from Retro, but it would be some incredible fate to find out the proposal back then was to the same guys that ended up making Metroid Prime.
Hey Ultimate, I'm the guy who wrote this video. Every time I talked to a Retro dev over the past couple years (maybe about 10 total), I asked about Metroid 64. No one knew anything unfortunately. John Whitmore who's quoted in this video was the only one who said anything substantial. The quote was cut short because I didn't wanna spend like 2 minutes on kind of a nothing burger, but basically he said Retro wasn't asked to do Metroid 64, and Nintendo of America kept them in the loop on what Rare was up to, and he didn't think it was Rare either. Unfortunately.
@@DJIVision Ah. Well damn. Thanks for the informed comment though. Good luck with the search!
@@killsmaster7 Cheers mate :)
Wow. Such a surprise and a shame to see just how badly Metroid has performed across the years. Paul Tozour clearly has some immense passion for the franchise and I can hope that he is involved in the (forever upcoming) Prime 4.
Amazing research done by everyone involved in the making of this video and the great love for the series is very apparent.
He's so professional 😭
12:26 wow, that is an insane chart
A Metroid Tactics would be great on switch
DYKG and Supper Mario Broth always amaze with the crazy niche things you learn and can share with us. Love y'all so much!
5:20 I like how the icons they used in this are WoW ability icons
Oh man... _'Metroid: Tactics'_ would have been something I would have been all over...
Today I learned:
How Xcom works
Justin Bailey is basically canon
There WERE plans for Metroid 64
How cool Metroid Tactics would be
How cool Valkyrie would be
I would be interested in that Heroes of Hyrule game
How interesting it is that Valkyrie became Federation Force
Metroid 64 could've been 2D!
Miyamoto was definitely supportive of M64
They didn't know what to do for story, until Prime and Fusion
Vinny is quickly globetrotting his online presence and it's cool
I didn't even notice until more than halfway through the episode that vinny was the one reading the script. It surprises me how natural he sounds for this type of content.
He got from Did You Know Vinesauce about Sponge to the real thing! Now we need for him to narrate a Tomodachi life episode here too
That tactics game had me drooling, super sick concept
So weird hearing Vinny in a video like this.
It's crazy how much work and love go into these videos
Never thought I’d see Binyot on a DYKG video
As a huge fan of Metroid, this was awesome to watch. Out of all the games, Metroid Tactics looked the coolest. I'm not into tactics style games and bringing in Samus would have been the hook to at least get me to try it.
Man Gnorts is hitting it out of the park with this collab
Vinny is ok too I guess
A Metroid XCOM game that makes Justin Bailey canon would have been awesome now that I think about it.
We need Joel next
I lol'd at the Warcraft icons for the x-com style game screenshot.
Vinny vinesauce from CNN and CBS news???
DefunctLand: "Who wrote the Disney Channel theme?"
DYKG: "Who didn't want to make Metroid 64?"