Death of a Game: FusionFall
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Correction: Cartoon Network was in the UK too. Which I watched from Germany when the channel launched..
Wow did NOT run on a toaster. On my 2003 Powermac with a high end Radeon 9800 Pro, I got like 5-20 fps and the game froze in place infront of the auction house.
THIS is what Hero Wars really looks like?
(Clears throat) fuck hero wars (Clears throat agian)
hero wars sucks and it was a lame sponsor to take
hero wars is garbage
FusionFall still stands as the coolest thing Cartoon Network has ever released and we'll probably never see anything like it be done again.
Thats because Cartoon Network is a shadow of its former self. It stopped supporting new creative animators and introducing new cartoons in exchange for nostalgia bait with bad remakes and reboots. Even when they had gems made like Mystery Inc., Megas XLR, or Symbionic Titan, they cancelled them.
@@crawlingchaos2811 symbionic titan isnt either, its from 2010, those were pretty bad examples since the nostalgia bait stuff didnt really start until TTG in 2013 and became a trend with the powerpuff reboot in 2016
@@crawlingchaos2811 but anyway they all ended lol
Don’t tell Cartoon Network or Warner bros about this, but fusionfall universe
TKO was crazy too though & the level creators for different shows on the website
Seeing all my favorite Cartoon Network cartoons teaming up together to fight an unstoppable threat while you could join them was the coolest thing EVER as a kid.
Yeah!! You would not believe the sheer hype that was around it. When I saw this back in the day, my mind was BLOWN!
Haven’t seen it done right since
the coolest ever bro.
💯
@@shcdemolisherif you think that is awesome, how awesome would it be if South Park had a massive Cartoon Network Crossover 2 Part Paramount+/HBO Max Exclusive Special Duology? And The GO! Teen Titans Allied with Lord Fuse & The Old Characters Form Dexter's Laboratory to Ben 10: Omniverse formed a Resistance to win the war to save their home.
Think of the cameo potential.
Think of how massive the battle would be.
Maybe even bigger than the imaginationland trilogy.
The deep lore with Fusionfall Retro is that it was shut down because one guy contacted a CN Lawyer to get the servers shut down because he was upset that the developers didn't want to add crafting to the game.
There's always someone who ruins the cake for everyone else.
It sounds a bit unbelievable, but . . . well, I wouldn't be surprised. _We can't have nice things because of people like that._
This show consistently reminds me about games I forgot even existed.
Meanwhile, I never even heard of this back in the day. If I did, I would've never forgotten about it. Where the fuck was it advertised?
@@bioresidentskg5025 Cartoon Network advertised this. Just like all the games they used to have in their website. They always use to advertise new updates too.
This game existed at just the right time, that 10-14 area when I was REALLY invested in looking "grown up" and expecting the things that I loved to "grow up" with me
I have now reached the point of realizing that I do not care about "growing up". I have my whole life to act my age and it's not a damn lick of fun, so I'm just gonna take the things I love as they are instead.
I think the real win of Fusionfall was how detailed and jam packed of stuff to look at the world was, so many good zones and so fun to explore
I remember coming home from school every Friday and booting this game up on the Family Computer. The framerate was trash for me and the game kept crashing, but the concept of it made me keep playing. Good times.
Same!! Any chance I could I would be playing it on my pc, likely after getting homework done.
This game will never leave my heart.
It had so much to offer to those who were growing out of their pre-teen phase, that it was my first exposure to non-asian anime-style games.
I don’t even remember when I even discovered Fusionfall as I live in the Philippines (possibly the old trailer on RUclips), but I was so hyped that I pushed myself to play the free trial multiple times just to experience it.
I looked up the website on the old CN Asia for info on FusionFall, which lead me to a coming soon page for South-East Asia.
This game influenced me so much that my internal mindscape was build on the world it, which has since become an original concept for a story I write.
Heck, my Avater is based on my initial Custom Character.
This one hurts but thankfully there are many fusionfall fan projects that are receiving development
Yep, though I hate how one was taken down (for some BS reason). I was actually trying to create a "taxi guild".
There’s like 5 projects
Openfusion Rettobution FF Start Saturday Morning Invasion and others
You mean to tell me its still possible to play this game somehow???
I mean, the one we had got shut down pretty fast, which just really takes away all the hope I had left for a revival. Pretty much any of the fan projects will end up shut down by Cartoon Network, and there is nothing to do about that.And to be honest, when I played Fusionfall Retro, it just felt boring. Don't get me wrong, I love the game, but now that I'm all grown up, it's hard to find the game's magic
That's such an appealing art style that has aged incredibly well considering its age.
Yeah I feel like the art style, themes, and aesthetics are also really relevant to the current sorta tiktok-based internet aesthetics/culture which has brought back and popularized alt aesthetics and also since anime has become insanely popular
This game was my first mmo and holds a special place in my heart. Thankfully i can still play it, despite some versions being taken down
Believe it or not, my dad was one of the project leads of fusionfall. So, fairly recently (2-3 months ago) he talked about how he occasionally watched videos like this, and this one in particular, unlike most videos talking about FF, is largely accurate. He also expressed a disdain towards the ending part of the script, primarily for the criticism of the heavy copyright enforcement from cartoon network. The primary reason CN shut them down was actually due to usage of ripped assets from base fusionfall, which although legally sound, I personally think your argument of it being kind of an asshole move to be wholly fair. Regardless, seeing someone talk about something my dad tells me about in stories from his past from another perspective is extremely interesting. Good video 👍.
I enjoyed Fusionfall, but are we not gonna talk about how dark it all was?!
Ed and the Kankers were missing,
The moon base has fallen leaving the knd without their supreme leader and down potentially thousands of operatives,
At least one of the powerpuff girls was missing
Fosters was turned into a fuse nest to say nothing of the friends inside,
Megas was turned into a modern art piece,
The omnitrix was busted leaving Ben largely powerless,
Most of this was in the future timeline yes, but the implication that a good chunk of your favorite characters were either dead or worse was pretty freaky. Hell, I probably Missed a few things! This was when CN properties were very aware of each other, so it was probably worse!
The Kankers were legit evil, they won't be missed.
DIDE FUSION FALL IS STILL PLAYABLE!!!!!!!! Watch the latest video of fusion fall he shows u how u can play it
This is really late but when you started the original game (not the academy version) Fusion Buttercup is the first one you fight along with Dexter in the future- after you finish the mission, you're transported to the fallen tree house in sector v. In ur mission journal, your character makes a note that you defeated fusion Buttercup but you don't know if Dexter was able to escape. Sector V has a small monument where they show the 'fallen heroes' and if u notice- Dexter is there.
So quite literally from the jump they KILLED OFF one of the main characters as soon as you start the game 😭😭😭
Also in the past, Buttercup is the one missing but in the future, you see that she's the only one who actually survived :')
You forget, most of the planet had been subsumed into Planet Fuse.
My old ass footage from 2017 (or 18, idk) made it in here
I am forever winning.
Amazing video dude!!!
Yeah I remember really wanting to play the game in Europe, but they never released it there. Its a shame, cause the unified anime visuals for all the different shows was ingenious and forward thinking, seeing how Japanese styled animation is now dominating the industry and influencing western animations.
@@MaxwellTornado yea same here had no problems playing it from europe
As a kid, I was a huge fan of the early 00s 'Cartoon Cartoon' shows like Dexter's Lab, Cow and Chicken, Ed, Edd, and Eddy, and Powerpuff Girls.
But i was unaware of this MMO with some of those characters in it. I didn't have a pc at the time but this seems like it would have blown my mind back then. lol
Cartoon Network hyped this game up on the tv channel and a lot of people played and loved it.
man I vaguely remember playing this for a few weeks back as a kid. Seeing the slimes just unlocked memories
The memories are always never last forever for FushionFall
This was my first real MMO I played as a kid, I remember daydreaming at school of the wacky guns and the whole KND vibe the game had, man the nostalgia is real! Gotta play retro or restart at some point!
My childhood, I've been waiting for you to cover this forever
No one else remembers this game
I have vague memories of seeing the character redesigns online all the time, but I never checks it out because I didn't have internet to play MMOs at the time.
I forget it sometimes now, but this game was really a big part of my childhood. I couldn't boot it up on my home computer, so I always had to wait until I was at my Grandma's house to play it. Redeeming all the codes for the in-game outfits, sharing my excitement over getting Dee Dee to my confused aunt, NEVER getting the fucking Numbuh 4 Nano. Seeing the game again, it really did have some great art design, and the work they did reimagining those classic Cartoon Network characters is so nice.
RIP FusionFall, man. Thankfully it's still somewhat alive, which is better than you can say for some of the other games on this series.
It amazes me that with all of the episodes so far theres so many factors that lead to a games death, yet to my memory this is the only case where the death STARTED with the studios demise, really makes it feel like anything after that point was just funeral preperations.
FusionFall will always be one of my favorite MMORPGs. The game was released on my birthday and for me, who was and still am a huge fan of CN's cartoons, it was a huge gift. I will always support fan projects to revive this game and every time I get to play it these days my inner child jumps with happiness and nostalgia. I feel warm in my heart remembering the moments I lived with this game and a time when I was happier and I can't help but smile while playing and dancing in my chair listening to the soundtracks
It brings me great joy and sadness that you covered this, joy cause I love Fusion fall and sadness because this was such a fun-looking game (I never got to play it) and the idea of it sounded awesome! Shame about what happened to it , you will be missed Fusion fall
Taking a line from Stitch, the FusionFall community is "little and broken, but still good. Yeah. Still good." Through all the hardships, the ups and downs, the victories and setbacks, the community is still there to ride it out. I had hoped that seeing all these fangames would make Cartoon Network's big wigs look into trying their hand at another MMORPG, but that's most likely wishful thinking on my part. Until some divine intervention happens, and CN opts to try their hand at FusionFall 2 (or something in its spirit), I'll happily play on the fangames which are done with love and respect for not only the game that brought many of us together, but to the legacy of Cartoon Network.
As my first ever MMO I ever played, this game was truly something else and so glad the fans are keeping it alive long after it went offline
Jesus seeing that old CN website, the schedule on the side, the show tabs at the top, the Megaman NT warrior ad, it's like a concentrated blast of nostalgia. I think that was just before they tried bringing live action shows into the mix.
I never got to play this game, we just didn't have internet or cable back then, but I would always catch it in commercials when I visited people that did have cable.
And of course it just let my mind burn with creativity as I had never seen something like that ever before. Frankly we don't think we ever will to be honest, but I'm glad the spirit of it continues on.
I'm so glad you chose to cover this game!! I recommended it a while back and haven't been able to connect as personally with some of the DOAG's in the series but this one I played with my friends at over my grandparents' computer when I was a kid and it just brings back memories seeing it. Thank you!!
I missed this game with a passion.
I know I've recent found your channel not long ago, nerdSlayer, but you've covered a TON of fantastic MMOs I've played since teenhood with as much research behind it as you can possibly show.
I gotta thank you for helping me keep up to date over what became of some of my favorite games since they seemingly disappeared with no context at all! ☺️
Thanks man for making this video, fusion fall was by far my entry into mmos as a kid
I remember going to an endgame area and just exploring for hours and having to slowly make my way back to early areas. Lots of great memories with this game in general
You know with all those 3D models and 3D printers you could print all those models provided somebody fixed them and ported them from the game which is hard but... That would be pretty cool for war gaming someone might be even doing that right now.
Wait a minute tenny-son bro they say it so many times in the show...not like that.
Most of the game models can still be found online, but you'd need to add a lot to them to make them worth printing. At that point it might just be best to make a custom model from scratch.
i think most of the detail on those models comes from their textures not their Mesh. meaning that if you printed them you'd just end up with some strange little dolls you have to do a lot of paint work on to get to look good.
As a person from Europe, I was shocked to hear that it was US only cause I had sunk so many hours into Fusionfall as a kid 😅
Same was confused had no problem playing it
The game had a European website that said "coming soon", but it was never updated as far as I know. I'm from Canada, and I could access the US website no problem, so I assume people in other regions could do the same. So I guess it was never officially released outside of the US, even though the game didn't region lock you?
@@flarestorm9417 Don't really recall if it would direct to the us website in the end, or if it showed as "coming soon" only to people outside of Europe. But yeah I played it a lot as a kid and never had any region locking issues or the such
I never played _FusionFall,_ but I was there, watching the CN website, when it came about and I was intrigued. There's something about exploring the *Cartoon Network* world that fascinates me even now, particularly in a way that had the characters interacting and establishing relationship dynamics. I was quite fond of the art style too; more so for pushing everything to be more visually cohesive, which made it feel like a unique entity.
This was also during the time of the _Toon City_ bumpers on CN, which were an ingenious way making all the disparate neighbourhoods feel like part of one whole location. I just have a _love for the mundane in extraordinary worlds_ and having Prof. Utonium search for his car keys, while Ed devours his groceries embodies that notion perfectly for me. 😂
I'm from Brazil and I got to play this game in 2011, I loved it and I was really sad about it ending... but recently I found out that there were these fan servers!
Every time I think about this time in my life it brings back so many memories. Our childhood was lit😂
Hey! I'm a member of the community formerly known as Poppleworks. I've since left the community but I wanted to add some further detail to help out this story, as I'm a huge fan of this series:
So on the topic of post-Grigon content, it's worth mentioning that the CN devs really did attempt to add what they could to the game. There were six key aspects:
1. The Academy was this insane move pulled by the dev team, ripping out the entire first four levels of the game and changing the way players leveled up. It used to be that each Nano received would grant you a new level, but in the Academy era you could pretty much receive any Nano at any point, with the first four being distributed to later parts of the game. Buttercup, for example, used to be the first- now, she's available at level 15.
The Academy was also rather exposing, as it showed it was mainly a marketing move for the network's current programming. Whereas older/ending shows were featured prominently in the Future, this new take featured Ben 10, Generator Rex, Adventure Time, and the tragically short-lived Sym-Bionic Titan. This was the first time you saw the effect of not having Grigon, as most new characters completely lacked cel-shading.
It also sort of messed up the game's plot but justified it being an MMO, if that makes sense? The idea behind the Future was that you were this "chosen one" who could save the world by going back in time, but the Academy was written to take place after the chosen one already did that, and your training was a result of better planning by the Guides. Super weird lore detail there, but now it made sense why there were so many other people around.
2. With a looser Nano system, leveling became way easier. Like, you could grind for a bit in the game's first few levels and be able to dominate probably the first half of the game's combat. But it also resulted in code Nanos, where you would have to type in a code on the website to redeem them in-game. These Nanos also lacked cel-shading, but were themed to shows not actually present in the base game- Gumball and Regular Show. (Adventure Time also had code Nanos but their characters were actually added in.)
3. The Birthday Bash was this big anniversary celebration for the game, sort of a tease for what was to come- though, in retrospect, it seems they were simply offloading models they didn't have finished. They placed a giant birthday cake structure in a central hub and had a ton of new NPCs standing around. These NPCs all had official 2D art done, but again- no cel-shading on most of them, and some even lacked voice lines. It was even at the point where some lacked animation entirely. The Bash came and went, but a few characters were placed in their spots- though they lacked any purpose whatsoever, as their missions never made it into the game. Johnny Bravo, Zak Saturday, and the Sym-Bionic Titan got Nano missions though, so that's something?
4. Code items were done weekly, many of them existing post-Grigon. You'd see a code on the website's main page advertising something like the newest episode of Ben 10, and the item would be related to that. Again, not everything was cel-shaded. Though Firebreather had a really dope dragon costume.
5. The FusionFall Adventures were the content drops the devs felt comfortable doing, but they were admittedly not great. They were three show-specific mission lines themed to Adventure Time, Chowder, and Ben 10 Ultimate Alien. Lots of really cool ideas, but the missions were tragically harder than they needed to be. It really felt like the new devs were trying to work with a system they didn't understand, from both a platforming and combat perspective. Flapjack got something akin to this, but they never finished his plotline past one mission.
6. There were some other content drops, particularly for Ben 10, Johnny Test, Johnny Bravo, Toonami, and Adventure Time, but one of these missions (a Nano mission for Ben 10's Rath) was infamous and set a low standard for these. Bravo and Test both got Nanos but outside of special events they were kinda useless. The AT and Toonami stuff were truly just items.
In other words, once Grigon was out the game fell apart and the team was basically saving face by pretending they had more in the can than they actually did. That's when Devan, the leader of FF Retro, began working on "Project: Revive." Project R was a pitch to save the game, essentially, and it damn near worked. This guy built a huge reputation learning how to hack the original game, and used that knowledge to create test builds for new weapons, outfits, and areas. There was a dev in contact with him who wanted to give him a chance, but ultimately that ship sailed and Project R had to be shelved. Then, of course, it evolved into FF Legacy, a republishing of the original game with some added content.
Then FF Retro took that spot, allowing Legacy to become this distinctly unique take on FF built from scratch with both games developed under the same team. The DMCA hit them roughly *eight years* after Project R, pretty much the same year they aimed to release a Legacy demo.
After Legacy, there were many attempts to continue the concept with new teams. Very few still exist.
I was part of a project called Rebirth, but our project leader was revealed to be a [not-nice person towards minors] and we kicked him out publicly. We changed the name to re:SPAWN and I ended up becoming the project head through process of elimination. I was very clueless (I was only head writer prior to this with no development knowledge), and after over a year we collectively decided that my ideas were way too big for a small team to handle. I left when another team member threatened to quit, and I haven't touched it since. Unfortunately that team eventually disbanded themselves, though most joined another project:
Devan's team had nearly brought on a super talented dude named Soul prior to the DMCA, but were not able to in time. This kept him exempt, and he was able to start up a brand new team of artists. Unlike us, they kept their presence basically unknown- with access to assets from Legacy, they had a bit of a template to base original content off of and blew us out of the water, quite frankly. There was never exactly nice relations, I would say? We were going to collaborate but the project head before me refused, and after that a few of their current members just came at us personally in various ways. Most of them are super wonderful people but equally disappointed in those few. Still, the game looks to be coming together nicely.
Soul's game began as "Worlds Collide," which was the title of a mange used to provide backstory on the beta build of the game. It was pretty much outdated for the game's public release, since Ben had to be aged up for marketing.
Anyway, MultiVersus comes along and uses "WORLDS COLLIDE" in a trailer, and suddenly they need to call themselves something different. After all, a huge theory for why Legacy got DMCA’d was because CN was trying out a new branding for their older shows, “Cartoon Network Legacy.” And that's how Saturday Morning Invasion happened.
Man. Hearing fusionfall brings backs memories. It's amazing how it's even still on and the dedication of players. If only we could return to the past.
I was waiting for this one!
Also that online Fosters Home for Imaginary children videogame, I remember playing tons of it and then puff offline
OH MY GOD, YOU MENTIONED "ADVENTURE QUEST!"
*A core memory has been reinstated in this unit*
THANK YOU
Also, another comment hi, im gonna point out some mistakes and some other stuff in the video, for the comments here
> There were NOT 40 nanos AT LAUNCH, but rather 36 nanos. As the game updated the roster did rise up to around 50+ nanos, and in Retro, there are 40 nanos. Speaking original game however, only 36 Nanos at launch.
> You mispelled XPCGamer´s credit as "XPVGamer".
> I feel like a lot of important updates or history from FF is sorely lacking here. Would have been nice to cover those, just a thought.
> FusionFall Retro and Legacy were both developed by the same group of fan developers, under the umbrella of "FusionFall Universe". There were no other FusionFall fan projects going at the time. This story alone has a lot of red herrings and history, but case and point CN made a project that had a similar name to FF Legacy and they found the projects that way.
> OpenFusion also has public servers online for people to play in, not JUST private servers. It has a version of the game from 2010 and the Academy version from 2011 (which was weirdly missing from here, since it was a big thing that upset a lot of the community, killing it more)
> Retrobution wasnt just teased, but its actually out now and you can play it RIGHT NOW thru our discord server. Re:Start is still in development but its looking very promising!
Overall though, great video despite the missing or incorrect info. Thank you so much for showing everyone how cool FusionFall is!
I remember two of the openings. One was Dexter sending a message to you and others to pthers but Deedee brings you to the future. There was also the whole you were there for the invasion. I also remember why Ben wasn’t allowed to use his aliens was because the goo guys would copy him and a army of four arms is scary
Dudde,,, I remember playing this back in the day..... This brings back memories... You made my day, thank you.
The only reason i knew about Fusionfall was because i was a moderator for the forums for CN asia as my first job. I always thought it was a waste that the game was never released worldwide, as it would undoubtedly have a bigger audience. I loved the designs for the teenaged CN characters (had a huge crush on dexter lol). I remembered that i wanted to collect all the KND nanos but the game sadly died
Interesting I didn’t even know there was a Fusion Fall Heroes. I remember regular Fusion Fall, I even still have some of the swag they gave out at SDCC.
Kind of wish I had played it when I had the chance but between moving and work I was low on spare time.
Some time ago I stumbled upon your channel and saw some games that I was really invested in and that you covered (namely Guns of Icarus and Hyper Scape) and now, after stumbling again, you have done one on Fusion Fall and I'm just astonished. I should've subscribed back then but now I'm really forced to because of this. Also, I suggested back then on the Hyper Scape video to do one on Roller Champions, which hadn't come out yet. Right now, it has been launched but I sense it's going the same path as Hyper Scape. So I stand by that suggestion.
Other than that, thank you for your work and keep pumping out bangers like this one! (even though it's at the cost of some games which I am very interested in)
The reason of the DMCA takedown for FF retro/Legacy isn't started by CN. It was from a very heated "fan" that they thought the devs were ignoring his requests for the game despite there were many people wanting other things too.
So this fan (I don't know the name of atm) reported several times to CN that the devs were making money off of retro. CN were okay of FF retro/legacy existing along that it doesn't make money off from it and the devs were okay about it. But since this fan lied to CN about it, CN sent a dmca to the team and the rest is history.
But the fan is still stalty about the devs and targeted one of them in one of completely different game they were working on. But I haven't heard much about that, but I hope this brings more info for the fan games
This game was legitimately ahead of its time. Think about it, it was an unconventional MMO that traded away the traditional active battling in exchange for focusing on gunplay. A variety of different weapon types and builds, involving companions (the nanos) that all gave you different effects, combined with platforming and movement challenges.
That's pretty much what Destiny and other looter shooters are today. This game came out before Borderlands, even. They were onto something, seriously.
Oh fusionfall
The start of my online gaming, and one I'll never forget. Used to play all the time with friends and I still remember playing on the last day it was online.
Too bad so many fan projects have shut down.
Oh my god this video unlocked the deepest recesses of nostalgia I didn't even remember I had.
14:33 I was wondering why I'd never heard of this game. Cartoon Network was well known in Canada where I grew up but they never officially launched here, even though we still got all the same shows just on other TV channels.
Yeah, it never officially launched outside of America like the video said. It was still perfectly accessible in Canada, but I don't know if it was ever advertised on Cartoon Network's Canadian equivalent, Teletoon.
Cartoon network is originally American but it has channels all over the world. They launched the Europe channels back in the 90s. There's no real reason I can see for them wanting to make it America only except maybe server cost. Canada didn't get it until 2012 for...some reason
My first (and really only consistently played) mmorpg and it was DOPE. Our favorite characters coming together to fight. I loved it!
I started playing this back in 2011 and stuck with it until the shutdown in 2013. It's where I met my longest known friend and led me to the people I love to hang around today. Openfusion and Retrobution have done an excellent job at preserving the game and has me excited to see where it leads to in the future, and hopefully someday we may see the earliest gamebryo version of the game be released. Long live Fusionfall!
Wow, interesting! Do you hang out with them in real life or keep in touch online?
Loved this game as a middle school kid, it was the first gaming community i participated in through the game itself and its forums. I still miss it from time to time and it’s a shame Cartoon Network made it worse and just replacing it with something lesser.
This was the only game my mom let me play online(other than Club Penguin) and god do I love her for it cause I’ve met some of my best friends on it
I was waiting SO MUCH for this one, Fusionfall was my top 1 game when I was a child, and the one that made me love MMORPGS, I played so much when it became free cause I coudln't pay for it and would spend a lot of tme in the starter levels just imagining what was beyond, and when I got to it, man was amazing
Toontown and that one were my favorite games of all time, is kinda sad but nostalgic to see those here, but oh well, great vid as always o/
Weird how disney of all companies was the only company that never tried to take down private servers for their mmos, since toontown is still a thriving game from fans.
I remember being in middle school and finding the teaser website and art of FF before it launched, me and my friends were blown away by the anime styled art. Its still got a cool look to it even if some characters didn't translate too well, and the fact it still has so many dedicated players is nothing short of impressive
This game was one of my first obsessions!
Damn, this hurts.
Fusionfall Legacy wasn't REALLY going to be another server per say, but rather a full on remake of the game with modern character designs, new characters from shows that weren't in the original game, new locations, and new music too, made by the same people who were working on Retro too!
I really miss Fusionfall, but the memories I have of playing both the original with my sisters and Retro too will always be there for me to replay constantly in my head.
HOLY SHIT. i have been SEARCHING for this game, i couldnt remember the name! my first EVER youtube video was a 10 minute and 15 second gameplay video of this game, however back then you couldnt upload a video longer than 10 minutes so it was never completed and i lost the footage. THIS BRINGS SO MANY MEMORIES
Yeah, publishers be like: "If we can't make money with this neither can you. Even if we will never touch this IP ever again and have no plans to ever, ever, ever, ever revive it."
It is such bullshit shortsighted ness, which is quite typical these days.
@@shcdemolisher These days? Lol that is just simply how capitalism works.
i wish i had been older when i played it bc i took it for granted then. i miss this game so much and would do almost anything to play it just one more time.
holy cow i remember telling people about this game and they end up looking at me sideways
I remember my friend asking me to play this game with him, I never really got into it though
This is still one of my favorite MMO’s ever,
My friend from school would come to my house and we would take 2 Hour turns watching each other play
I remember playing this game a lot as a kid. For me personally this is the best game ever made.
Damn just the other day I thought to myself "I wish he'd make a video on that cartoon network mmo I don't remember the name of." and here we are finding said video.
I remember playing it a little bit back in the day, but it didn't keep for long, with things like AQWorlds and Wizard101 being more fun to me. I had no friends to play it with at the time as they were on other MMOs, which didn't help. You should do a Resident Evil/Biohazard Outbreak series video as they were interesting games cut short.
Dammit man. You dont have to hit me with the nostalgia
Probably personal bias but my money’s on performance issues as the biggest thing that killed it. Speaking from experience, i could nag my parents all day long about paying for adventurequest, but i couldnt do the same for a game that i couldnt even get to boot up without melting my parents’ computer.
I have actually been waiting for this vid fof years. This game was such a big and weird time for my childhood
Glad you're finally touching on this, while I knew Free Realms and PSO, this was the huge MMO I was there for in all it's big moments. Even for the restorations efforts. FF just never seems to get lucky enough.
I had the most crappest computer that made playing this game a nightmare as it would take forever to load up the game. But once i got it working , it made staring at the loading screen worth it this game was a Hella of a drug.
I've never clicked faster to a video. Been loving your stuff since the essay about SWG. Super cool your work keeps intertwining with my childhood!
Thank you for letting me now I can still play FusionFall is still available. I've been wanting to play it for years!
Seal Online wasn't actually Korean only, it actually had an English version be released and was playable for some time in 2007.
Interesting
@@nerdSlayerstudioss It wasn't that great, but I have good memories playing it waiting for Mabinogi to come out!
bruh, i really would've loved to play that game when i was a child, bit it was not easily acessible in Brazil. So, my mom would've had to enable her credit card to make international purchases, on top both of us trying to figure out that was a thing, for everything was in english, so both of us were left clueless about it. Only launching it in the US, was a big mistake. Honestly, this video unlocked a lot of memories that were deeply buried.
FIRST SOLDIER! fuck! the wound is too fresh! I could cry! I cant wait for this episode, I streamed the game almost everyday.
I remember seeing fusionfall being advertised as a kid, but I never cared enough to give it a shot.
for half of this I was like "Why have I never heard of this game... I used to love watching cartoon network as a kid and this would have been right when I started having my own PC with a internet connection (rather than one the other side of the house from the broadband router (not wireless).
"US Only"
*Sad British noises...*
Seems enjoyable and cute and fun, I would have loved playing this as a kid/teenager and it's not hard to understand why fans were pissed when the official servers shut down, then the DMCAs.
I used to love this game to the point where i would sit in front of my pc for 12 hours a day as much as i love the if it hadn’t shutdown i would’ve been an incel
The us only part is straith up cap, i live in Europe, Lithuania, where i remember playing this game around 2012-2013, it was super fun, but sad when it closed, me and my brother also tried fushionfall heroes whitch was nowhere near as good as fushion fall. Respect + for the people trying to revive the game.
This game made me who I am today, and it felt like I was the only one that played it in my little'ol town. I am happy someone is covering it!
I remember the game when it's commercial was advised constantly on my tv. To where I then jump on my parents computer with joy to play it during the beta. Boy I miss this game so much, I wish I had more time to play it
Beta FF player here, good video with the stuff you mentioned (such as performance issues, lack of end-game content) definitely hampering it, though there's some things that weren't discussed that I feel are worth mentioning:
* Early on in FFs life a system was present to limit how often you played. You'd start out being able to get 100% of Fusion Matter (XP & the currency needed to change a Nano's power) from missions, monsters & Infected Zone races, which would decrease to 50% after a few hours, then to 0% a few hours later. You'd have to wait a couple hours before you could gain full FM again. This might've also applied to Taros (main currency) too but I don't remember for sure. Thankfully this was eventually removed.
* F2P players weren't just locked to the Future but also 2 character slots as well, with the final 2 being sub only.
* Speaking of the Future on February 16 2011 this was replaced with the Academy, a glorified tutorial area, and a move that was very unpopular with fans (myself included), so much so that FF Retro opted to use the Future instead of the Academy.
* Dungeons (Fusion Lairs) weren't repeatable if you didn't have its appropriate mission or weren't partnered with someone who did. This included Lord Fuse's Lair. Because of this many players never turned in the final mission just so they could fight Fuse again.
I was wondering why I never heard of this game before and then I realised. They never released the game in my country. Great job CN, you incompetent bunch.
FusionFall was one of the BEST games i have played that made my childhood. Loved every aspect of it!
It's funny how if you make a crossover game that isn't garbage it'll sell like hotcakes. But for some reason companies never give them a budget
-FusionFalls life in a nutshell-
CN: WHY WONT YOU DIE!?
FusionFall: Ritualistically being resurrected by its adoring fans.
I remember seeing commercials for FusionFall and questioning to myself, "Why do my American cartoons look like my Chinese cartoons?"
An episode on Allods Online would be so great. It was so ahead of its time... So much memories in this game
WOAH :O I WOULD HAVE NEVER EXPECTED YOU TO GO THIS FAR BACK FOR THIS.
The private servers are a thing so I'm guessing they're getting popular. Played them in their early days.
I’ve got some good memories with this game any mmo I could find as a kid I would play it the early 2000’s had so many
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