He's hoping that by holding Superman hostage, he can ransom the rest of the world to universally improve ISP connection speed in order to suit the needs of the Luthorcorp Stadia.
@@msphxc The first generation Chromebook would have 15 years of tech refinement, 14 times the processing power and 100 times as much available RAM. It's like you're in 3rd grade and you tried to insult the short kid by saying that your dad was taller than him. It's technically true, but your insult game is lacking something.
So WB deliberately sabotaged Titus cause they weren’t the people they wanted to make the game. How petty can you get? Just wait for the license expire if you want someone else to work on it.
Wasn't there a prototype cart discovered relatively recently that actually had many more features than the final release? I'm surprised that wasn't covered at all.
There’s something cathartic about this small studio’s game being roadblocked and stalled at every turn by WB to make sure it failed selling more and having a lasting legacy in the gaming world, (despite its... shall we say lacking quality) Then when WB got their way to make their own version with EA, nobody talks about or remembers it. The underdogs will always win, even if it’s kinda a pyrrhic victory.
@@thepassingstatic6268 My cousin has that game, and yes, it's pretty meh. It looks pretty good for the time it was released, plus the music is decent and the story, at first, is pretty good. However, the combat kind of wonky, the level design is pretty generic and the story loses focus a third of the way through. I haven't seen how it ends, but I've heard it's pretty unsatisfying. Better to be remembered for being bad than forgotten for being mediocre.
WB: Are you crazy? Superman doesn’t punch people! He scolds them from a respectable distance! DC: Yep! Absolutely right! As the creators of Superman, we would know!
@@matthewbraith0411 So WB wasn't being a massive prick for making a difficult project even harder? Titus only probably would made a "meh" game. But WB made it, literally, the WORST VIDEO GAME EVER!
@@matthewbraith0411 What part of "impeded them from developing controls, fights, and environment" do you not get? They couldn't work on many of those until WB okayed it. "We wanted him to fly around in a open world and have superman adventures" became "We have no time just throw rings to fly through."
@@GrimmShadowsII No one was saying that Titus was going to make Batman: Arkham City. But in game development, the less time you waste in the planning and paperwork, the more time you have to test out your ideas and make improvements. And the whole flying through rings was WB's idea (sort of).
It still kinda of sound a little of both, but more on the WB side. Anytime I hear WB handling of DC or movies that are accessible for a general audience I always hear stories of executives coming in ruining a good movie, show, or game.
@@DeathToDrugUsers21 blame gaming becoming more stagnant. you either go back to older stuff you never played before, play indies. or watch youtubers praise or bitch about games.
These videos always give an eye-opening perspective on prolific failures. It's easy to think that games like this were just a matter incompetent developers, but the truth is often more complicated.
@@yeahgirl11 Applies to a lot of games actually. Companies dish out a game barely finished with as basic a template as possible for an absolutely ludicrous price (most triple-A title today), and let the community and modders stand for molding the game into what they should have done in the first place. It's so incredibly sad.
@@jeremiahowens9999 All that meddling led to the game being as bad as it was. If WB didn't waste so much of Titus' time, maybe they could've at least put out a decent game.
Superman Returns almost got around that, but it had mixed reactions. The idea was that Superman was mechanically unbeatable, but Metropolis had a health bar, and you had to effectively stop crimes and defeat bad guys before it got to a state where it fell to ruin.
WB constantly interfered ending in the eventual sabotage of the entire game, so it's the DCEU all over again. Hell, the DCEU is an entire Wha' Happened? episode in itself.
Also I find it ironic that WB would be this touchy about Superman doing bad things... Then Injustice happened, y'know that fighting game where Superman goes insane over weird plot contrivance shennanigans involving Mr. We Live In A Society himself, and fucking melts a kid's brain off for refusing to murder people with him.
I know bringing this comparison might be a bad idea and it might stir up some trouble but I got no choice: the difference between the Evil Superman from Injustice and edgy Superman from the DCEU is that the former has a well written and established storyline and character development, the other is just a mess, edgy for the sake of it. Injustice Superman believed what he was doing was for the greater good and best thing for mankind but he was completely proven wrong by that other guy who also believed no matter what you do, society and mankind would always stab your back and devolve into anarchy and evil deeds. That other guy I'm talking about wears a batsuit though. 😅
imp360 - That doesn’t mean much. Nobody expected Sony Pictures Animations to make a good Spiderman Movie because all of their previous movies were terrible. Then Spiderverse happened. You know, arguably the best Spiderman movie? If not the best, at least one of the best? Titus had the chance to make an honestly amazing, ground-breaking game and it was robbed from them.
"Superman can't act as a bad person" If you have a character that can't do anything wrong for any reason, you may have fucked your character up irreparably.
WB licensing team: You can't have Superman swim underwater, that's not faithful to the character! Also WB licensing team: You should make Superman be the mayor of metropolis and deal with urban planning and construction!
I saw it being up for sale at a game market over the weekend and it's amazing on how anyone would have own it by now. I felt the controller for a bit and my god, the triggers felt awful.
So, I work for a small graphic design company that, once upon a time, had to deal with Warner Brothers for an event being held by our biggest client, who shall remain nameless as we're still on good terms... This was in 2018 and WB have not changed one tiny bit. We needed assets to make Harry Potter posters for an event (a special screening) but the management at WB were terrifically incompetent. To make posters, we just needed a high-resolution vector image without the text on it, their official font bank, and that sort of industry standard stuff - you know; the original files, so we can make a new thing. You know what they sent us? A fucking JPEG. From a Google search. No InDesign or Illustrator file, not a photoshop file, not even something with transparency or layers. A **JPEG**. It wasn't even full-sized. After some back-and-forth we got a blank PNG out of them, but the resolution was still terrible considering we were supposed to expand it to fit on banners, bus ads, and a billboard. The emails were slow - despite us being in the same timezone - and there was a constant aura of distain to them. Like you were taking up valuable seconds of their day that they could be spending making money. This went on for a month. Every time we needed even a wee little thing from them, it was a whole new game of email tag. Eventually, we just gave up talking to them. It was faster to source or even make the assets from scratch using publicly available content than it was to get it from WB themselves. The person we were given to contact wasn't even knowledgeable about some of the basic things we were asking for - like region-specific poster variants, design guidelines, and other really basic aspects of an IP's branding image. I wasn't personally involved in the approval process for the final product, but I don't recall much stink being raised over it. I suspect WB was happy to forget about us, honestly. As long as what we submitted passed at a glance, they seemed to be happy. Thank fuck for that. We go paid, and have thus never had to work with them again. It would not surprise me to find every single management-level person at WB had their job because of nepotism or they got promoted because they made money on something else, despite having absolutely no skill for the new position they were promoted into. Avoid working with them at all costs. For your own mental health.
Wow, that's an awesome story and a terrible experience. 😂 It does give me kind of a refresher to know that sometimes working with the big leagues or working with a huge company that you dreamed of might not turn out to be what you exactly envisioned it to be.
The worst part is battleborne wasn't a bad game. It was actually damned good, but it had terrible release timing, randy pitchford hounding over it and dogshit marketing. It could have been so good if not for all the bad release decisions
Thing is, Battleborn is a good game with some really great and funny writting but it had to be released near Overwatch so people started comparing even though BB is more of a first person MOBA then a hero shooter
Okay, I haven't actually played it so I don't have an opinion on battleborn, but my fiance bought the collectors edition at launch so I am sympathetic to it's fan base, however, let's keep in mind that "what happened" isn't just for bad games, it's also for games with disastrous development cycles, and receptions, clearly there are people who were ready to love that game, so it's sad that it turned out this way, but I'm morbidly curious as to what went on behind the scenes; and I bet it's all Randy's fault.
Super weird. I could have sworn the ads were placed in specific spots when this was originally uploaded. I shifted them back to where they SHOULD be. Lemme know if that worked!
The game or the movie? I think the game would potentially be a lot more interesting, considering it was trying to be an open world action and detective game on PS1.
On the topic of comic book games, let's see episodes on: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Movie and Game) Deadpool video game Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects (A EA licensed Marvel game) Sega's Marvel games The canceled 2012 Avengers game by THQ, that became Avengers: Battle for Earth Edit: Batman: Dark Tomarrow
Well...to make it simple....the directors knew jack shit about dragon ball z, and they even had the creator of DBZ with them and treated him as an obstacle and ignored him. Like...completely ignored him. Which the creator left and made DBZ battle of gods for a certain "fuck you" to the directors of dragonball evolution.
I held off on watching Wha Happun for a long time but I've been missing out! Going through the series now and really like Matt's approach to how he handles the videos. He still has that fun and humor we expect from him but has a great journalistic approach to the research and content. Thanks again, Mr. McMuscles!
ProtonJon was doing a let’s play on this game and he discussed some of the crap that went on with it. He also was contacted by someone who worked on it if I remember correctly. It has been a bit since I watched that. He also showed all of the game breaking glitches in the game which was quite entertaining.
i let this video auto play and didn’t realize what game it was on till i heard the words “superman” and “nintendo 64” in the same sentence. It was like getting jump scared
So I just came to a shocking revelation: The only thing holding back Superman 64 was actually those who licensed the game. I had no idea just how much sabotage was actually in play before the game came out and for it to reach this level only blows the mind. Mind you we could draw parallels to how things work nowadays with say... what happened with Fantastic Four and Xmen, but it wasn't like Marvel had (too much) of a hand in those films eventually going belly up and Marvel eventually getting those movie rights back.
Jeez, the whole reason Superman 64 er-Superman: The New Superman Adventure was so bad was because WB kept screwing over the game developers? Damn, Titus needs more appreciation than flack for this game. They managed to do comic proof to WB to let them keep some of their idea for the game. WB deserves all the flack it can get.
nah, Anthem was: EA: "hey, bioware, we've been paying you to develop your space game for like seven years now, is it ready to come out?" Bioware, hurriedly rushign to make somethign playable from the dozens of half-backed, built then scrapped then built againd then scrapped again idea: Yes, boss!
Warner Bros: Are you sure you wanna make this game? Titus: Yes. WB: Are you REALLY sure? Titus: YES. WB: Last chance... Titus: YES ALREADY, ITS NOT LIKE ANYONE ELSE WILL DO IT!! WB: *Okay because I'm about to do what's called a SEGA move*
The way I've always considered you'd need to make a Superman game is to model it somewhat on Spider-Man PS4 open world formula. But since Superman is nearly invincible, the fail states you have to worry about are mission based. I'm not saying give the city itself a health meter like that one game did from the '00s. But if bad guys, rob a bank, the challenge has to be about stopping them from getting away and making sure to avoid a certain threshold of casualties, as you would if you were Superman. Maybe in the late game, things escalate, and you start dealing with enemies with magic, or kryptonite, or who are just strong enough to actually damage Superman, adding the extra challenge that you can now die in combat, rather than just be stalled
WB really acted like a bunch of babies on this. They led to the downfall of a company for crying out loud, just because they thought they deserved more money. Babies
Back in 99/2000, the game store I hung out at would always have games you could play inside. However, sometimes they would need to clear it out for customers so they would put this game on……it surprisingly didn’t work. 🧐
I know I’m late to this video, but it would have been pretty awesome to collab with Protonjon for this video. I know he would have rolled his eyes at being the “guy who played SM64” for the millionth time, but with how his videos/style goes with being informative, this show seems like a great place for him to collab.
My friend got an N64 back in the day. He bought one game. ONE GAME. It was this one, imagine having but one game for new, at the time state of the art console, and it’s THIS ONE
A fully functioning Superman game, particularly with modern technology, really shouldn't be hard to do. *Points at Kakarot* Like... one of those, please.
Also another thing, considering that in the early comics, Superman could shoot MINI VERSIONS OF HIMSELF OUT OF HIS HANDS, I think Warner Bros didn't really know what they were talking about.
I'd love to see a Whut Happun for Bioshock: Infinite. Not because it's a bad game, but because the final product is a game stitched together by a thousand little compromises.
The problem that I think a lot of publishers don't understand when dealing with Superman is that he needs to be a story driven character. His entire character is based around being a god among men, and existing between the worlds of Kryptonian and Kansas. While you can make compelling boss battles, Superman has equals in power and massive threats he faces, they need to still incorporate who he is as a character. By implementing things like limited time to save metropolis from those threats, or protecting those that can't protect themselves, you can add that stress that Superman would feel despite his powers. His games should not be played in the same way a Batman game would be played because they are fundamentally different.
Sonic X-treme would make for an interesting video, though it may have been done to death. I would be curious about the people involved and where they are now.
I remember seeing a bunch of copies of this game used at a gaming store and i was wondering why soo many used copies when it was just a new game oh boy i found out real quick after reading the reviews why this game was a travesty.
This might be a longshot, but could you do a What Happened on the anime Wolf's Rain? It had a ton of great talent behind and it was totally squandered on a dull, meandering story and production issues that caused 4 consecutive recap episodes.
Wow. Did NOT expect you to be sympathetic to Titus of all publishers. You took a Totally new angle on the whole thing, which is doubly impressive when one considers just how many videos there are dissecting this particular video game disaster.
LOL after the part at 5:20 you should have inserted a clip of Suicide Silence playing You Can't Stop Me (preferably from the music video for it) i would've lol'd
This is a long list but here are some suggestions for future What Happened? episodes and reasons why. Feel free to add stuff if I missed some things (it does not have to be an awful game or a movie. It could also be a game or a movie with a troubling production or development.): Star Wars Battlefront 2 (EA) - Broken promises and microtransactions. Better save this before Rise of Skywalker releases. And speaking of Star Wars... The Star Wars Holiday Special, Phantom Menance, The Last Jedi and Solo: A Star Wars Story - Other contenders for a Star Wars tie-in episode Netflix's Death Note - it destroyed my sanity... Lula 3D - I think the gameplay explains it all. Shadows of the Damned - Before anyone says anything, this is not really an awful game considering that it's good and gained a cult following. I liked this game IMO. But if you look behind the scenes this was not the game that Suda51 and Shinji Mikami were most proud of, mostly because of one publisher. Then again, the cult following prompted the return of Garcia Hotspur in some way or form (hint on another GHM game) so it doesn't count..? Maybe save that for Halloween...? Silent Hills - What could have been a potential reboot to the franchise now gone from existence by Konami. Also another Halloween special? Batman and Robin - A movie that was made to sell toys. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace - A shameful movie Mars Needs Moms - An animated film that not only was the biggest animated box office bomb but also killed off Imagemovers. Justice Leauge - Not a bad film IMO, but it was not only a bomb but also ruined the DC Cinematic Universe (and lost its two key actors). E.T. The Game - One of the games responsible for the Video Game Crash of 1983 CDI Mario and Zelda games - Need to say more? Bomberman: Act Zero - One word... Why? Space Invaders remake - Again, why...? The Room - Considered the WORST movie ever made by critics, it gained a cult following. I recommend you watch the movie first and then read/watch The Disaster Artist which takes a behind the scenes look of the film. Others included: Star Trek (2013), Agony, Alone in the Dark (2009), The Quiet Man, No Man's Sky, Ride to Hell: Retribution, Metal Gear Survive, The Wicker Man (2006), Monkeybone, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Howard the Duck, Battlefield Earth, Ghostbusters 2016, Pixels (2015), The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, Catwoman, Final Fantasy XIV (Pre-Legend Reborn) and The Last Airbender movie.
I get the feeling Protonjon will never come back to finish his let’s play of this game. Even some episodes had a bit of “wha happun’d” research like emailed responses from devs and web sources.
@Finalhunter then play Titus The Fox or Super Cauldron (best played on Amiga, but PC version is good too), Titus was good on computers. Or if you're a console guy, maybe Incantation which looks to be a port of Super Cauldron.
I feel like that should be illegal to force a company into a strangle hold to make crap game. It's like false imprisonment of the digital kind. And I thought my child and all his friends threw stupid fits over something they didn't like. This is just sad..
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maybe the green fog was canonically in the virtual metropolis because lex luthor didn't have a powerful enough virtual reality setup
All these millions of dollars and he still can't overcome the lag.
He's hoping that by holding Superman hostage, he can ransom the rest of the world to universally improve ISP connection speed in order to suit the needs of the Luthorcorp Stadia.
i could get better draw distance on my dad's 2011 chromebook
Listen man WB was rushing Lex to make the vr so this was the best he could reasonably do in the timeframe.
@@msphxc The first generation Chromebook would have 15 years of tech refinement, 14 times the processing power and 100 times as much available RAM.
It's like you're in 3rd grade and you tried to insult the short kid by saying that your dad was taller than him.
It's technically true, but your insult game is lacking something.
So WB deliberately sabotaged Titus cause they weren’t the people they wanted to make the game. How petty can you get? Just wait for the license expire if you want someone else to work on it.
Remember, this is WB. The people that allowed the tone-deaf Man of Steel; then farted out a DCEU to catch-up with Marvel.
Only they would be dumb enough to fuck over their own game.
I mean, Titus weren't exactly good game devs either...
It’s a miracle the Arkham games even exist if WB was like this
@@bluedestiny88 Well, the Arkham games were published by WB themselves.
I feel like Titus reached a point where they were finishing the game purely out of spite... I respect that.
The Story of this game Is just depressing, JUST...... depressing
Tragic
Super depressing?
Wasn't there a prototype cart discovered relatively recently that actually had many more features than the final release? I'm surprised that wasn't covered at all.
Really, most of the What Happeneds are. LA Noire for example.
There’s something cathartic about this small studio’s game being roadblocked and stalled at every turn by WB to make sure it failed selling more and having a lasting legacy in the gaming world, (despite its... shall we say lacking quality)
Then when WB got their way to make their own version with EA, nobody talks about or remembers it. The underdogs will always win, even if it’s kinda a pyrrhic victory.
I didn't even know there was another Superman game until I read your post so you speak truth to me!
@@thepassingstatic6268 My cousin has that game, and yes, it's pretty meh. It looks pretty good for the time it was released, plus the music is decent and the story, at first, is pretty good. However, the combat kind of wonky, the level design is pretty generic and the story loses focus a third of the way through. I haven't seen how it ends, but I've heard it's pretty unsatisfying.
Better to be remembered for being bad than forgotten for being mediocre.
EA's Superman Returns is baaaaaaaaaaaad!
@@russellbrown6888 Whoa. Those last words are real deep, man.
Honestly that game was actually pretty good if I remember
WB: Are you crazy? Superman doesn’t punch people! He scolds them from a respectable distance!
DC: Yep! Absolutely right! As the creators of Superman, we would know!
"Over there has to learn how to deal with its own problems"- Superman
"Kill them all, Peter. Kill them all, just like I taught you." -Uncle Ben's floating head in the sky
shadow of apokolips had this same limitation. know what they did? every enemy is a robot. plain, simple, took 5 seconds to establish.
@@Iamafishproductions Uncle Ben just wasn't the same when he got home from Korea.
*Siegel and Shuster would like to know your location*
It's amazing how the actual animated series got away with so much more violence and adult themes compared to the video game.
Titus: We want Superman to be awesome.
WB: Superman would never do that.
Superman:..................
WB: No, Superman can’t be ‘awesome’, he has to be ‘super’
Titus: Just let us make the fucking game
Perhaps Titus did not have food when making decisions regarding Superman?
@@matthewbraith0411 So WB wasn't being a massive prick for making a difficult project even harder?
Titus only probably would made a "meh" game. But WB made it, literally, the WORST VIDEO GAME EVER!
@@matthewbraith0411 What part of "impeded them from developing controls, fights, and environment" do you not get? They couldn't work on many of those until WB okayed it. "We wanted him to fly around in a open world and have superman adventures" became "We have no time just throw rings to fly through."
@@matthewbraith0411 Bruh you be acting Titus raped your childhood.
Jesus Christ, so... We can blame WB on this?
If it makes you feel better, they own rooster teeth now 😈
@@prouddegenerates9056
That doesn't make me feel better at all
@@GrimmShadowsII No one was saying that Titus was going to make Batman: Arkham City. But in game development, the less time you waste in the planning and paperwork, the more time you have to test out your ideas and make improvements.
And the whole flying through rings was WB's idea (sort of).
It still kinda of sound a little of both, but more on the WB side. Anytime I hear WB handling of DC or movies that are accessible for a general audience I always hear stories of executives coming in ruining a good movie, show, or game.
When has they ever not get blame for crap? Justice league. BvS. Green lantern. Suicide squad.
Games I can't wait for:
Brink
Drake of the 99 Dragons
Mass Effect Andromeda
And Advent Rising.
postal 3.
Every one of those games will dissapoint you time traveler.
Lmao. Back in my day it used to be games I can't wait to play. In 2019 its games I can't wait for some youtuber to make a scathing video about.
@@DeathToDrugUsers21 blame gaming becoming more stagnant. you either go back to older stuff you never played before, play indies. or watch youtubers praise or bitch about games.
These videos always give an eye-opening perspective on prolific failures. It's easy to think that games like this were just a matter incompetent developers, but the truth is often more complicated.
"They believed EA games would have created a better title"
lol
That was 90's EA not modern EA. They were more competent back then.
Yeah like Flrs91 said
@@zangetsu9196 they made a superman return game ...and it wasn't good
@@yeahgirl11 Applies to a lot of games actually. Companies dish out a game barely finished with as basic a template as possible for an absolutely ludicrous price (most triple-A title today), and let the community and modders stand for molding the game into what they should have done in the first place.
It's so incredibly sad.
Ooh how they'll regret that.
Usually this sort of thing happens by accident, but this is a rare case of WB forcing a Wha Happun out of spite.
WB and DC: We know comics
Also WB and DC: Our heroes would never do the things they always do
So, like now: the worst enemy of Superman is WB.
Honestly I thought they were the hero they're trying to make the game not exist
@@jeremiahowens9999 All that meddling led to the game being as bad as it was. If WB didn't waste so much of Titus' time, maybe they could've at least put out a decent game.
@@jeremiahowens9999 but they the reason the game become this trash,right?
@@chem9773 but yea but i dont think they had the experience in the first place
Purefoldnz ....what?
Ok, so the game was screwed over by corporate meddling out of sheer pettiness? Seems about right
And Time Warner is still run by a-holes.
Fun fact: DC stands for Detective Comics. So, whenever you see DC comics, it’s literally saying Detective Comics Comics.
@@thepassingstatic6268 or RIP in peace
Fun fact : The word FUN in Fun Fact actually stand in for F.U.N : Fucking useless 'nformation
so if im reading detective comics im reading detective comics detective comics?
The department of redundancy department.
Sahara Desert meaning Great Desert Desert: "Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!"
I mean, to be honest...
Superman's cape flapping in the wind was pretty decent looking?
Lol it's more cape animation than Dark Souls
@@nitroturbo7869 I loved the soundtrack, too.
@@nitroturbo7869 Dark Souls have cloth physics?
I’m pretty sure the entire DCEU needs a Wha Happun episode. Even if it was split up into different parts
I warn you, that is a can of worms you don't want to open sir.
I think the biggest challenge to making a Superman game is how to get around how OP he is. The dude can level a building with his eyes.
my question is why not make it a power fantasy game? where you can do shit like that?
@@shadowpeople2645 WB_SUPERMAN_WOULDN'T_DO_THAT.exe
Superman Returns almost got around that, but it had mixed reactions. The idea was that Superman was mechanically unbeatable, but Metropolis had a health bar, and you had to effectively stop crimes and defeat bad guys before it got to a state where it fell to ruin.
Look up the game "Undefeated". It's free and the best superman game ever.
@@mfchimichanga lmao(injustice saga ) yeahh lol
"If you thought I was gonna say something positive, well then you're probably running for office on Planet Wrong."
...I want this on a t-shirt.
WB constantly interfered ending in the eventual sabotage of the entire game, so it's the DCEU all over again.
Hell, the DCEU is an entire Wha' Happened? episode in itself.
Also I find it ironic that WB would be this touchy about Superman doing bad things...
Then Injustice happened, y'know that fighting game where Superman goes insane over weird plot contrivance shennanigans involving Mr. We Live In A Society himself, and fucking melts a kid's brain off for refusing to murder people with him.
I know bringing this comparison might be a bad idea and it might stir up some trouble but I got no choice: the difference between the Evil Superman from Injustice and edgy Superman from the DCEU is that the former has a well written and established storyline and character development, the other is just a mess, edgy for the sake of it.
Injustice Superman believed what he was doing was for the greater good and best thing for mankind but he was completely proven wrong by that other guy who also believed no matter what you do, society and mankind would always stab your back and devolve into anarchy and evil deeds. That other guy I'm talking about wears a batsuit though. 😅
@@Gideon13397 I mean, you’re right but I wouldn’t go so far as to call injustice well written.
Another potentially good and interesting piece of gaming that was ruined by the arbitrary decisions and stupidity of a big corporation
no I've seen titus's. other games they where a terrible game dev that always produced shit
@@imp360 Could be worse. Could be Capstone, the pinnacle of entertainment software.
2 sides to every story, and tidus never made good games
imp360 - That doesn’t mean much. Nobody expected Sony Pictures Animations to make a good Spiderman Movie because all of their previous movies were terrible. Then Spiderverse happened. You know, arguably the best Spiderman movie? If not the best, at least one of the best?
Titus had the chance to make an honestly amazing, ground-breaking game and it was robbed from them.
@@jerryborjon I think the original Spider-Man film is the best but to each their own.
"Superman can't act as a bad person"
If you have a character that can't do anything wrong for any reason, you may have fucked your character up irreparably.
WB licensing team: You can't have Superman swim underwater, that's not faithful to the character!
Also WB licensing team: You should make Superman be the mayor of metropolis and deal with urban planning and construction!
Hope to see a What Happun on the Ouya soon. That console is already 6 years old and is still just as much of a joke as it’s ever been.
kiloken96 hopefully Google Stadia doesn't suffer the same fate... 👀
+Taiyah
"hopefully"
nah it's Google.
I saw it being up for sale at a game market over the weekend and it's amazing on how anyone would have own it by now. I felt the controller for a bit and my god, the triggers felt awful.
At least they managed to salvage everything even remotely good from Ouya...
The Amazing Frog is on Steam.
@@hhtptai That abomination better crash and burn. I like actually having some degree of ownership over the games I buy, thank you very much.
So, I work for a small graphic design company that, once upon a time, had to deal with Warner Brothers for an event being held by our biggest client, who shall remain nameless as we're still on good terms...
This was in 2018 and WB have not changed one tiny bit.
We needed assets to make Harry Potter posters for an event (a special screening) but the management at WB were terrifically incompetent.
To make posters, we just needed a high-resolution vector image without the text on it, their official font bank, and that sort of industry standard stuff - you know; the original files, so we can make a new thing.
You know what they sent us?
A fucking JPEG. From a Google search.
No InDesign or Illustrator file, not a photoshop file, not even something with transparency or layers. A **JPEG**. It wasn't even full-sized.
After some back-and-forth we got a blank PNG out of them, but the resolution was still terrible considering we were supposed to expand it to fit on banners, bus ads, and a billboard. The emails were slow - despite us being in the same timezone - and there was a constant aura of distain to them. Like you were taking up valuable seconds of their day that they could be spending making money.
This went on for a month. Every time we needed even a wee little thing from them, it was a whole new game of email tag.
Eventually, we just gave up talking to them. It was faster to source or even make the assets from scratch using publicly available content than it was to get it from WB themselves.
The person we were given to contact wasn't even knowledgeable about some of the basic things we were asking for - like region-specific poster variants, design guidelines, and other really basic aspects of an IP's branding image.
I wasn't personally involved in the approval process for the final product, but I don't recall much stink being raised over it. I suspect WB was happy to forget about us, honestly. As long as what we submitted passed at a glance, they seemed to be happy.
Thank fuck for that.
We go paid, and have thus never had to work with them again.
It would not surprise me to find every single management-level person at WB had their job because of nepotism or they got promoted because they made money on something else, despite having absolutely no skill for the new position they were promoted into.
Avoid working with them at all costs. For your own mental health.
Wow, that's an awesome story and a terrible experience. 😂 It does give me kind of a refresher to know that sometimes working with the big leagues or working with a huge company that you dreamed of might not turn out to be what you exactly envisioned it to be.
I'm surprised this wasn't the first episode!
Same. ET and Superman64 are the most known
I thought this video had already been made lmao
Matt uploaded a Wha Happun on Superman 64? Then there's no time to waste!
1:40 OMG that's a cape, i was wondering why Spider-Man was jumping without falling and why his arm was a wet noodle.
The first time I played Superman 64, was on a N64 emulator. I honestly thought the rom was corrupted in some way
Games I can't wait for
Battleborn
Dmc2
Spyro enter the dragonfly
The worst part is battleborne wasn't a bad game. It was actually damned good, but it had terrible release timing, randy pitchford hounding over it and dogshit marketing. It could have been so good if not for all the bad release decisions
Thing is, Battleborn is a good game with some really great and funny writting but it had to be released near Overwatch so people started comparing even though BB is more of a first person MOBA then a hero shooter
Okay, I haven't actually played it so I don't have an opinion on battleborn, but my fiance bought the collectors edition at launch so I am sympathetic to it's fan base, however, let's keep in mind that "what happened" isn't just for bad games, it's also for games with disastrous development cycles, and receptions, clearly there are people who were ready to love that game, so it's sad that it turned out this way, but I'm morbidly curious as to what went on behind the scenes; and I bet it's all Randy's fault.
@@N3rv3d4m4g3 he publicly linked to a battleborn r34 subreddit and went "oh dont click on it". So yeah, that should let you know
Why spyro?!
"Superman 64 was then kneecapped by-"
*Wine commercial plays*
Super weird. I could have sworn the ads were placed in specific spots when this was originally uploaded. I shifted them back to where they SHOULD be. Lemme know if that worked!
In honor of Batman’s 80th Anniversary, Batman & Robin: Wha Happun?
Batman forever on SNES.
The game or the movie? I think the game would potentially be a lot more interesting, considering it was trying to be an open world action and detective game on PS1.
I'm wondering this as well.
I think they mean the movie specifically, but both would be interesting.
@@wchan39 I want a nostalgia critic / what happened crossover!
On the topic of comic book games, let's see episodes on:
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Movie and Game)
Deadpool video game
Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects (A EA licensed Marvel game)
Sega's Marvel games
The canceled 2012 Avengers game by THQ, that became Avengers: Battle for Earth
Edit: Batman: Dark Tomarrow
@@SomeRandomJackAss the Ang Lee Hulk games is cool, but the Iron Man game deserves to be covered.
Marvel Nemesis would be an interesting one.
Most of Sega's marvel games were good, at least to me
What Happun - Dragonball: Evolution
Ooooo that would be interesting
That might actually be too painful to even watch.
What Happun: The directors nor the actors actually watched the show🤦🏽♂️ the end
Well...to make it simple....the directors knew jack shit about dragon ball z, and they even had the creator of DBZ with them and treated him as an obstacle and ignored him. Like...completely ignored him. Which the creator left and made DBZ battle of gods for a certain "fuck you" to the directors of dragonball evolution.
Live action anime movies will always be bad
I held off on watching Wha Happun for a long time but I've been missing out! Going through the series now and really like Matt's approach to how he handles the videos. He still has that fun and humor we expect from him but has a great journalistic approach to the research and content. Thanks again, Mr. McMuscles!
ProtonJon was doing a let’s play on this game and he discussed some of the crap that went on with it. He also was contacted by someone who worked on it if I remember correctly. It has been a bit since I watched that. He also showed all of the game breaking glitches in the game which was quite entertaining.
i let this video auto play and didn’t realize what game it was on till i heard the words “superman” and “nintendo 64” in the same sentence.
It was like getting jump scared
Stop teasing me with those Transformers Rise of the Dark Spark bits!
"Running for office on Planet Wrong"...
I am SO using that in every day speech. That is brilliant
Games you want to cover:
C&C4: Tiberian Twilight
Empire Earth 3
Simcity 2013
Yes please do simcity
What happun? Is one of my favorite shows. Excellent stuff with awesome research. Keep it up dude!
So I just came to a shocking revelation: The only thing holding back Superman 64 was actually those who licensed the game. I had no idea just how much sabotage was actually in play before the game came out and for it to reach this level only blows the mind. Mind you we could draw parallels to how things work nowadays with say... what happened with Fantastic Four and Xmen, but it wasn't like Marvel had (too much) of a hand in those films eventually going belly up and Marvel eventually getting those movie rights back.
Jeez, the whole reason Superman 64 er-Superman: The New Superman Adventure was so bad was because WB kept screwing over the game developers? Damn, Titus needs more appreciation than flack for this game. They managed to do comic proof to WB to let them keep some of their idea for the game. WB deserves all the flack it can get.
Damn imagine paying someone just to tell them not to do their job. So this game is Anthem but for the N64
nah, Anthem was:
EA: "hey, bioware, we've been paying you to develop your space game for like seven years now, is it ready to come out?"
Bioware, hurriedly rushign to make somethign playable from the dozens of half-backed, built then scrapped then built againd then scrapped again idea: Yes, boss!
Wha Happun?: Shadow the Hedgehog ...MAKE IT HAPPUN!
This one has long been coming. Funny thing I remember when this came out on 64 and lol I didnt mind it. Looking back..i was a foolish child.
Just ask Protonjon when he finishes his LP of this game.
So, never?
ProtonJon makes Superman episodes about as often as Tool makes albums.
Oooooh yeah! That guy! I been following that series for almost 10 years!
*cough* WatchProtonjonOnTwitch *cough cough*
Well this one was just depressing.
Warner Bros: Are you sure you wanna make this game?
Titus: Yes.
WB: Are you REALLY sure?
Titus: YES.
WB: Last chance...
Titus: YES ALREADY, ITS NOT LIKE ANYONE ELSE WILL DO IT!!
WB: *Okay because I'm about to do what's called a SEGA move*
11:47 *Young Angry Joe would have no doubt been heartbroken to have heard of this news way back then in the late 90's and all. :'(*
"We never got around to suing them." God damn, they really weren't a US company eh?
One of the best and most highly underrated games of all time...if you havnt played it, dont hesitate to pick up this masterpiece
I remember I rented a n64 from blockbuster just to play this game! I was never so pissed in my life! I wasted all that money I saved at age 10 !
The way I've always considered you'd need to make a Superman game is to model it somewhat on Spider-Man PS4 open world formula. But since Superman is nearly invincible, the fail states you have to worry about are mission based. I'm not saying give the city itself a health meter like that one game did from the '00s. But if bad guys, rob a bank, the challenge has to be about stopping them from getting away and making sure to avoid a certain threshold of casualties, as you would if you were Superman. Maybe in the late game, things escalate, and you start dealing with enemies with magic, or kryptonite, or who are just strong enough to actually damage Superman, adding the extra challenge that you can now die in combat, rather than just be stalled
WB really acted like a bunch of babies on this. They led to the downfall of a company for crying out loud, just because they thought they deserved more money. Babies
The Robotech games would be awesome in this series, specially “Robotech: Invasion”.
New episode of wha happun?
"Then there's no time to waste!"
“Fuster clucks” is now in my vocabulary.
Back in 99/2000, the game store I hung out at would always have games you could play inside. However, sometimes they would need to clear it out for customers so they would put this game on……it surprisingly didn’t work. 🧐
This is my favourite show on youtube right now. Keep it coming
I know I’m late to this video, but it would have been pretty awesome to collab with Protonjon for this video. I know he would have rolled his eyes at being the “guy who played SM64” for the millionth time, but with how his videos/style goes with being informative, this show seems like a great place for him to collab.
Superman deserves a real good game. Man I wish I had the money to buy the rights.
My friend got an N64 back in the day. He bought one game. ONE GAME. It was this one, imagine having but one game for new, at the time state of the art console, and it’s THIS ONE
A fully functioning Superman game, particularly with modern technology, really shouldn't be hard to do.
*Points at Kakarot* Like... one of those, please.
Also another thing, considering that in the early comics, Superman could shoot MINI VERSIONS OF HIMSELF OUT OF HIS HANDS, I think Warner Bros didn't really know what they were talking about.
I'd love to see a Whut Happun for Bioshock: Infinite. Not because it's a bad game, but because the final product is a game stitched together by a thousand little compromises.
The problem that I think a lot of publishers don't understand when dealing with Superman is that he needs to be a story driven character. His entire character is based around being a god among men, and existing between the worlds of Kryptonian and Kansas. While you can make compelling boss battles, Superman has equals in power and massive threats he faces, they need to still incorporate who he is as a character. By implementing things like limited time to save metropolis from those threats, or protecting those that can't protect themselves, you can add that stress that Superman would feel despite his powers. His games should not be played in the same way a Batman game would be played because they are fundamentally different.
Sonic X-treme would make for an interesting video, though it may have been done to death. I would be curious about the people involved and where they are now.
I remember seeing a bunch of copies of this game used at a gaming store and i was wondering why soo many used copies when it was just a new game oh boy i found out real quick after reading the reviews why this game was a travesty.
I'm not ready for the Rise of the Dark Spark episode
11:29 Is this what inspired the Planet Express logo? Looks so familiar!
I LOOOOVE all the Wha Happun?! Episodes lately. Thanks for the content and hard work.
I've watched about 10+ "WH?" and became totally hooked! Congratulations!
The years have changed, but Warner Bros. hatred towards Superman hasn't changed.
This makes me feel bad for Titus.
This game just shifted from bad to tragic .
This might be a longshot, but could you do a What Happened on the anime Wolf's Rain? It had a ton of great talent behind and it was totally squandered on a dull, meandering story and production issues that caused 4 consecutive recap episodes.
there are many times i forget that this game existed. Now i can learn what happened.
So basically, even back then, Wanner Brothers CANNOT do ANYTHING right?
Wow. Did NOT expect you to be sympathetic to Titus of all publishers. You took a Totally new angle on the whole thing, which is doubly impressive when one considers just how many videos there are dissecting this particular video game disaster.
LOL after the part at 5:20 you should have inserted a clip of Suicide Silence playing You Can't Stop Me (preferably from the music video for it) i would've lol'd
When I just stumbled on your channel, I knew this had to be an episode.
I used to blame Titus about this, but goddamn did your vid change my mind about that.
This is a long list but here are some suggestions for future What Happened? episodes and reasons why.
Feel free to add stuff if I missed some things (it does not have to be an awful game or a movie. It could also be a game or a movie with a troubling production or development.):
Star Wars Battlefront 2 (EA) - Broken promises and microtransactions. Better save this before Rise of Skywalker releases. And speaking of Star Wars...
The Star Wars Holiday Special, Phantom Menance, The Last Jedi and Solo: A Star Wars Story - Other contenders for a Star Wars tie-in episode
Netflix's Death Note - it destroyed my sanity...
Lula 3D - I think the gameplay explains it all.
Shadows of the Damned - Before anyone says anything, this is not really an awful game considering that it's good and gained a cult following. I liked this game IMO. But if you look behind the scenes this was not the game that Suda51 and Shinji Mikami were most proud of, mostly because of one publisher. Then again, the cult following prompted the return of Garcia Hotspur in some way or form (hint on another GHM game) so it doesn't count..? Maybe save that for Halloween...?
Silent Hills - What could have been a potential reboot to the franchise now gone from existence by Konami. Also another Halloween special?
Batman and Robin - A movie that was made to sell toys.
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace - A shameful movie
Mars Needs Moms - An animated film that not only was the biggest animated box office bomb but also killed off Imagemovers.
Justice Leauge - Not a bad film IMO, but it was not only a bomb but also ruined the DC Cinematic Universe (and lost its two key actors).
E.T. The Game - One of the games responsible for the Video Game Crash of 1983
CDI Mario and Zelda games - Need to say more?
Bomberman: Act Zero - One word... Why?
Space Invaders remake - Again, why...?
The Room - Considered the WORST movie ever made by critics, it gained a cult following. I recommend you watch the movie first and then read/watch The Disaster Artist which takes a behind the scenes look of the film.
Others included: Star Trek (2013), Agony, Alone in the Dark (2009), The Quiet Man, No Man's Sky, Ride to Hell: Retribution, Metal Gear Survive, The Wicker Man (2006), Monkeybone, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Howard the Duck, Battlefield Earth, Ghostbusters 2016, Pixels (2015), The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, Catwoman, Final Fantasy XIV (Pre-Legend Reborn) and The Last Airbender movie.
Don't forget Shadow the Hedgehog (2005) for the PS2, Xbox, and Nintendo GameCube.
WB interference completley screws over a project, so basically Justice League.
Honestly the frankly cartoon villain shit ol’ WB did would be a great anime plot
Wow. These poor guys. I feel for them. 😑
@12:25 Sorry, just gotta pause to appreciate that other people know that Vectorman exists. That game was dope. And so were it’s sequels.
Nice to hear that WB execs have been consistently self sabotaging themselves throughout the years
Every time I hear about Superman 64, I wonder if Proton Jon has uploaded a new episode yet.
Wait wait wait wait WAIT. So you're telling me that Warner Bros genuinely believed that EA would have made a BETTER game?!
I get the feeling Protonjon will never come back to finish his let’s play of this game. Even some episodes had a bit of “wha happun’d” research like emailed responses from devs and web sources.
Titus'es 2D games were pretty good though, especially Titus The Fox.
Earthworm Jim.
@Finalhunter then play Titus The Fox or Super Cauldron (best played on Amiga, but PC version is good too), Titus was good on computers.
Or if you're a console guy, maybe Incantation which looks to be a port of Super Cauldron.
@@mrchiefbs what?
Ah yes, Superman, the best mayor Metropolis ever had
I feel like it wouldn’t have been that bad if they had just made the timers longer on the missions.
That's the least of that game's problems. 😂
@@Gideon13397 I think it’s actually the biggest problem. It means nobody ever gets past the first mission so none of the other content matters at all.
honestly the protonjon lets play of superman 64 is so good that it makes the whole thing worth it.
I feel like that should be illegal to force a company into a strangle hold to make crap game. It's like false imprisonment of the digital kind. And I thought my child and all his friends threw stupid fits over something they didn't like. This is just sad..
Time to rewatch this since Protonjon updated his let's play.