Would you believe me if I told you there were 13 Croc games? I wouldn't. Somehow, though, this oft-forgotten early PS1 platformer not only received a number of even more forgotten sequels - it may just be one of the most important games of all time, with its 1994 tech demo allegedly providing direct inspiration to Nintendo ahead of Super Mario 64. A game developed by the team responsible for Star Fox AND for creating the modern FPS control scheme on consoles, Croc's journey is a wild one that snakes its way through the paths of so many other series and companies. Join me today in this retrospective, as we journey down that winding path, exploring the lost 14th Croc game, the cancelled Croc TV series, and explore the entire Croc series.
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0:00 Intro 1:49 Jez San and the Argonauts; Yoshi Racing 6:18 Everybody Clapped 10:50 Croc: Legend of the Gobbos 19:49 Croc 2 27:15 Croc 30:11 Croc 2 32:09 Argonaut's Collapse, Croc Mobile 37:33 The Croc Prequel* Saga 42:30 The Definitive* Croc Timeline; The Lost 14th Croc Game
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Would you believe me if I told you there were 13 Croc games? I wouldn't. Somehow, though, this oft-forgotten early PS1 platformer not only received a number of even more forgotten sequels - it may just be one of the most important games of all time, with its 1994 tech demo allegedly providing direct inspiration to Nintendo ahead of Super Mario 64. A game developed by the team responsible for Star Fox AND for creating the modern FPS control scheme on consoles, Croc's journey is a wild one that snakes its way through the paths of so many other series and companies. Join me today in this retrospective, as we journey down that winding path, exploring the lost 14th Croc game, the cancelled Croc TV series, and explore the entire Croc series.
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0:00 Intro 1:49 Jez San and the Argonauts; Yoshi Racing 6:18 Everybody Clapped 10:50 Croc: Legend of the Gobbos 19:49 Croc 2 27:15 Croc 30:11 Croc 2 32:09 Argonaut's Collapse, Croc Mobile 37:33 The Croc Prequel* Saga 42:30 The Definitive* Croc Timeline; The Lost 14th Croc Game
#Croc #CrocWillReturn #adAstro Bots Director talks about THAT final cameo (spoilers, duh) #astrobotThe Golden Bolt2024-09-20 | This was the only question from my 30min interview with Astro Bot's Director Nicolas Doucet that I took out of the interview upload, so people had time to see the final level for themselves. Catch the full interview here! youtube.com/watch?v=cPWMTv_7qk8
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Chapters 0:00 Intro 5:22 A stellar opening... 14:10 ...held together by really important tape 29:29 A stellar opening (continued) 38:15 The Island of Creation 44:57 Kratos's updated arsenal 55:09 Reinventing the wheel 1:04:28 Wrap-up
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The first God of War is a tough game to properly revisit - it's a game defined more by cultural response, legacy, and even parody than by the contents of the game itself. Within a year of this PS2 classic's 2005 launch, Kratos was already being boiled down to an angry brute, at times even within official PS marketing materials. Nearly 20 years later, with a whole second saga of games that's redefined this series and its anti-hero, it's time to revisit both the original God of War and its development - to see how that development defined both the game and its later evolution...and to see how it changed the dynamic of PlayStation's internal development as a whole.
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What game has been beaten more than any other? How many people have beaten it? And how have as many people beaten Insomniac's Spider-Man as Minecraft...if not more?
Chapters: 0:00 Intro & Questions 2:09 Grand Theft Auto V 12:52 Red Dead Redemption 2 13:36 Minecraft 18:34 Are we beating games more than ever before?
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Welcome to the fourth* annual Golden Bolt Awards, the most illustrious gaming awards ceremony on this side of the Nile. Join me as I find excuses to tell you to play some games you probably didn't from 2023.
Chapters: 0:00 Crub 1:24 "Probably Best Game, Idk I Didn't Play It" Award 2:06 Best Story 7:06 Best Gameplay 8:58 Game I Was Most Wrong About Award (An Award For Exactly What I Just Said) 11:51 Most Overlooked/Best Hidden Gem 17:28 Breakout Performer 21:24 Best Game I Played That's NOT From 2023 23:33 Bridesmaid Award 24:35 Game of the Year
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I played every version of every main Nickelodeon Avatar game, from The Last Airbender's GBA port to The Legend of Korra on 3DS, and even the movie games. 16 unique versions in total across 17 years, and all I wanted was one truly good game deserving of the series' quality. I knew the odds, and I'm still disappointed. We're not allowed to have nice things.
CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro & Early Show History 6:06 Avatar: The Last Airbender (2006, PS2) 18:00 ATLA (GBA) 21:36 ATLA (DS) 24:16 ATLA (PSP) 29:23 Avatar: The Burning Earth (2007, Xbox 360) 39:37 Burning Earth (DS) 40:28 Burning Earth (GBA) 42:52 Avatar: Into the Inferno (2008, DS) 46:02 Into the Inferno (Wii) 50:18 Rapid-Fire Round: Every Avatar Flash Game 53:55 The Last Airbender Movie Game (2010, DS) 56:45 The Last Airbender Movie Game (Wii) 59:23 The Legend of Korra (2014, console/PC), & Show History 1:07:37 The Legend of Korra: A New Era Begins (3DS) 1:13:25 Four Seasons Dreams Fangame (2019, PS4) 1:17:02 Avatar: Generations (2023-2023, smartphone) 1:21:17 Avatar: The Last Airbender - Quest for Balance (2023, console/PC)
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In 2007, THQ posted its first billion dollar year. In 2012, it was bankrupt. THQ's collapse is the story of a company caught in the crossroads of a recession, a new console generation, and an industry shakeup - all hitting at the peak of its business. It's the story of a company with two warring internal divisions, with a CEO that refused to break up the fights or make the hard decisions.. Unlike so many other game studios during this era, however...THQ should have made it out alive, and it almost did. It had a strategy in place should the licensed game well start to dry up, and it even executed on that plan; it just didn't fully commit.
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#THQ #TheGoldenBoltI 100% Completed Spider-Man 2. Should You? (Spoiler-Free Review!)The Golden Bolt2023-10-23 | Early review copy provided by PlayStation
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Chapters 0:00 Intro 3:08 History: 1999 Origins & International Infighting 10:54 Wonderbook: Book of Spells 15:26 Wonderbook: Book of Potions 19:17 Walking with Dinosaurs 24:05 Diggs Nightcrawler: The Wonderbook's best title
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#TheGoldenBolt #PS3The Sims 2s Even Weirder Handheld Games - The Golden BoltThe Golden Bolt2023-09-29 | Thanks to Harry’s for sponsoring! Visit https://Harrys.com/TGB to get your Harry's Trial Set for just $5! The Sims 2's Strangetown Saga: Three completely different handheld versions of The Sims 2, all set in the same town, all made by the same studio - in the same year. And somehow, each one of these fever dreams gets weirder than the last.
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Chapters: 0:00 Intro & Development History 2:56 Sims 2 PSP: A Meta 4th Wall Adventure Game 22:41 Sims 2 GBA: Redefining Reality (TV) 37:21 Sims 2 DS: The Myth, the Legend
#TheSims #TheSims2 #StrangetownWhich Ratchet & Clank should be ported to PC next? (& Rift Apart PC/Steam Deck Review!)The Golden Bolt2023-08-31 | Help support the channel and buy a perfect gift for yourself or a loved one thanks to my exclusive discount with Ekster's smart wallets & more! Enjoy up to 25% off at shop.ekster.com/thegoldenbolt or by using the code GOLDEN!
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What's the first Xbox game to release on a non-Xbox system? Well, from Solitaire to Monster Trucks to Banjo-Kazooie, Microsoft released 3 games for the Game Boy Color and 6 for the Game Boy Advance - all AFTER officially announcing its entrance into the console wars with the Xbox. Microsoft even co-published an N64 game with Rockstar in 1999! However, depending on how you want to count things - depending on if you count Rare's GBA games as "true" Xbox games since they were in production before Microsoft purchased the company - the first Xbox game to release outside of the Xbox brand dropped in 2003 on the GBA...and it's from a game series more associated with PlayStation than Xbox. Join me today on this trek through some of the earliest and most fascinating days in Xbox's history, for the earliest origins of Xbox telling you to Play Anywhere!
Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:48 GBC: Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection (2000) 11:33 GBC: Microsoft Pinball Arcade (2001) 16:01 GBC: Microsoft Best of Entertainment Pack (2001) 25:00 Microsoft's GBA Games & Monster Truck Madness (2003) 30:00 GBA: Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge (2003) 40:05 GBA: Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (2003) 43:52 GBA: Sabrewulf (2003) 46:53 GBA: It's Mr. Pants (2005) 49:20 GBA: Banjo-Pilot & its FIVE-YEAR development (2005)
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A franchise pioneered by a team of mostly engineers who had never before made a video game - led by a Sony employee who after only about a year of employment was on the last straw - and a game that was ruthlessly mocked both by Sony's higher brass and play testers ahead of launch...which immediately won game of the year, became the system's first true blockbuster exclusive, and helped kickstart the era of the PlayStation. This is the complete story behind the underdog series, ahead of its television revival.
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Mii Maker How to make Peter Griffin from Family Guy Tutorial Nintendo Switch/Wii/3DS/Wii U/2DS Seth, Frederick Vandoren: youtube.com/watch?v=8sA7LlzQ9gA
Dragon Quest X [Wii] (No Commentary) #007, Quests 004 - 006; White Shrine: Arm Lion, heorotlinea: youtu.be/hh3-vE03Pog
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Pizza Parlor - Club Penguin Bowling - Wii Sports Pokemon Selection - Pokemon Battle Revolution Submission Plaza Theme - Check Mii Out Channel Results Music - Everybody Votes Channel 5PM - Animal Crossing (GameCube) Farm of Cultivation - Monster Hunter 3 Tri Maple Treeway - Mario Kart Wii Main Theme - Nintendo eShop (3DS)Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart 2nd Anniversary LIVESTREAM! (Full Game)The Golden Bolt2023-06-12 | To celebrate the newest R&C game turning 2, and to celebrate its coming PC release, let's run through the game together, in full!
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It'll come as no surprise that Grand Theft Auto has a storied history on handhelds just as the main series does on consoles - from the two GTA Stories games becoming the two best-selling PSP games, to GTA Chinatown Wars becoming the highest-rated Nintendo DS game (and second-highest-rated PSP game), GTA's portable spin-offs didn't cut corners. But how do the games hold up today, looking back years later, are they really the best games either system has to offer? And what about the other three GTA Nintendo games, the ones for Game Boy Color and Advance? Let's dive back through the development and history of Grand Theft Auto's handheld games.
0:00 Intro 2:56 GTA Liberty City Stories 24:12 GTA Vice City Stories 41:48 GTA Chinatown Wars 57:57 GTA 1 & 2 Game Boy Color 1:02:08 GTA Advance 1:09:56 Subscribe 👉👈
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#GTAThe Futurama Video Game: Futuramas Official Lost EpisodeThe Golden Bolt2023-05-23 | 🥷 AdGuard VPN on SALE! Use promo code THEGOLDENBOLT to get a 2-year subscription plan with 83% OFF — agrd.io/thegoldenbolt Limited time offer!
With Futurama coming back for another go-round, it's an excellent time to look back at Futurama: The Lost Adventure - the "lost" 73rd episode of the series that has never aired on television. Written by one of the show's Emmy award-winning writers during Futurama's first run, but released after its cancellation, this episode also happens to be specifically designed for a rare and expensive PS2 and Xbox game. This is the story of Futurama: The Video Game.
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After my recent video talking about some of The Sims' console ports and their unique single player story modes, some of you pointed out a few others, like The Sims 3's awful Wii port. Well, that got me to twist my ankle in the rabbit hole that is MySims, the (mostly) Nintendo-exclusive Sims spinoff series that started off aping Animal Crossing, and ended with a detective game and aerial combat game. And what's weirdest of all? They're actually pretty good games.
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This video is not intended for viewers under 13 years of age, and may contain content inappropriate for such viewers. Parental guidance suggested.The Sims Weird Console Story Modes - The Golden BoltThe Golden Bolt2023-02-19 | Between 2003 and 2007, six Sims console games were released across PS2, GameCube, Xbox, and Wii - half of which never made their way back to PC. Even better, four of them owe their existence to The Urbz, the first Sims game designed for console...which ended up releasing third. With console-exclusive features such as direct control of your Sim and entire story campaigns, even "ports" like The Sims 2 are completely unique games built from the ground-up for the home console experience. Let's revisit this weird era of Sims console games, their unique story modes, and more!
0:00 Intro/Development History 7:22 The Sims Console 18:36 The Sims: Bustin' Out 22:15 The Urbz: Sims in the City 33:16 The Sims 2 Console 40:07 The Sims 2: Pets 40:55 The Sims 2: Castaway
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#TheSims #Sims #TheGoldenBoltRatchet & Clanks addictive fan mod: My new favorite way to play R&C - The Golden BoltThe Golden Bolt2023-02-14 | Make sure to visit buyraycon.com/TGB for 15% off your order!
This is the story and behind-the-scenes development of Ratchet & Clank's most addictive fan mod, and my new favorite way to play Ratchet & Clank 1.
I didn't expect to come back to Ratchet & Clank so soon after my retrospective series had finished, but then while working on my Rift Apart video, I found a new thread that I had to keep pulling on: The Ratchet & Clank Randomizer mod. A fan-made (sort-of-)mod that technically isn't a mod at all, this Randomizer completely rewrote how I saw the first R&C game, and it took me from not wanting to think about the games after two years of working on videos about them...to not being able to get enough of playing the first game over and over again.
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#RatchetAndClank #TheGoldenBoltTY the Tasmanian Tiger Series Retrospective: Rise, Fall, & ResurgenceThe Golden Bolt2022-12-30 | A complete retrospective covering the history of Australia's first AAA-level video game, and the story of the studio that brought TY to life, that died right alongside the tasmanian tiger, and that came back from extinction thanks to grassroots fan support. This is the Rise, Fall, & Resurgence of TY the Tasmanian Tiger.
Chapters: 0:00 Intro 3:15 The History of Ty and Krome Studios 8:01 Rise: Ty 1 23:37 Plateau: Ty 2 38:48 Fall: Ty 3 57:03 Collapse: The Cancelled Ty 4 & Krome's Closure 1:01:18 Revival: Ty 4, Remasters, & The Future
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#TyTheTasmanianTiger #TheGoldenBoltLooking back at 2000s best-selling and highest-rated games - The Golden BoltThe Golden Bolt2022-12-17 | Every year, as the game of the year awards roll in from different publications and websites, I like to take a look back at some of the highest-rated and most successful games of past years. This year, I decided to share the fun with you - join me as we explore the absolutely PACKED year that was 2000.
This video is not intended for viewers under 13 years of age, and may contain content inappropriate for such viewers. Parental guidance suggested.PlayStation All-Stars: The Untold Stories Behind Sonys Smash Bros.The Golden Bolt2022-11-30 | Cancelled fan-requested characters. Baffling internal Sony decisions. Activision being greedy. PaRappa the Rapper. This is the story of PlayStation's failed Smash Bros. game, a game whose failure 10 years ago helped reset and redefine the future of PlayStation games that came after it.
Chapters: 0:00 Intro 5:13 Chapter I: Michael 13:43 Chapter II: "It Takes Two To Tango" 28:40 Chapter III: Go Out Fighting 49:47 Chapter IV: New Challengers 57:48 Chapter V: Grand Finale
This video is not intended for viewers under 13 years of age, and may contain content inappropriate for such viewers. Parental guidance suggested.I Did EVERYTHING in God of War Ragnarök. Heres My Review (Spoiler-Free, Read Description)The Golden Bolt2022-11-03 | I even made Kratos Fortnite Dance in a Jersey Mike's. (Early review copy provided by PlayStation. This review only contains footage from the opening 3 hours of the game. Most of said footage is from the first 60 minutes; if that's still too much of a potential spoiler for you, you shouldn't be watching this video, or any review of the game for that matter!)
This video is not intended for viewers under 13 years of age, and may contain content inappropriate for such viewers. Parental guidance suggested.The Rise and Fall of Tak and the Power of Juju (Full Series Retrospective)The Golden Bolt2022-09-30 | Of all the "B-list" or second tier of platformers during the PS2/GameCube/Xbox era, Tak may be the most fascinating: A game series developed in partnership with Nickelodeon, alongside plans for a tie-in cartoon...but a series that ended BEFORE the cartoon could reach the airwaves. The Tak trilogy released as three very different kinds of game, all in the span of three short years, and then just disappeared. It's the product of a developer crunching across multiple licensed projects at once, a studio that was bought out by Nickelodeon's competitor Disney, ending the Tak saga before it had the chance to bloom.
But are the Tak games worth the rosy, nostalgic recollection that many players have of them? And what about that Tak cartoon, and the fourth Tak game made to tie into it? This Tak and the Power of Juju series retrospective has you covered - let's look at this blink-and-you'll-miss-it series from cover to cover.
0:00 Intro 4:10 Tak's origins, dev, and Tak 1 22:21 Tak 2 39:24 Tak 3 51:06 Tak's Nick cartoon and the Guardians of Gross 59:47 Conclusion: Can Tak make a comeback?
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#TheGoldenBolt #Tak #NickelodeonThe Weird World of PlayStation Commercials - The Golden BoltThe Golden Bolt2022-09-26 | Visit http://www.squarespace.com/GOLDENBOLT to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain!
From Uncharted's infamous Subway ad to the PS3 Baby, to Kevin Butler himself, PlayStation has had some of the most confusing and strangest commercials in the video game industry. Today, let's highlight some of these weird PlayStation commercials, along with some of the best!
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#TheGoldenBolt #DrakeEatsFresh #BringBackKevinButlerThe Pokémon Developers PlayStation Games - The Golden BoltThe Golden Bolt2022-09-21 | Visit http://www.squarespace.com/GOLDENBOLT to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain!
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This video is not intended for viewers under 13 years of age, and may contain content inappropriate for such viewers. Parental guidance suggested.From MMO to Divorced Dad: The Wild World of Dig Dug GamesThe Golden Bolt2022-08-26 | Visit http://www.squarespace.com/GOLDENBOLT to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain! Why was there a Dig Dug MMO? Why did the Dig Dug MMO not play at all like Dig Dug, but instead like Dig Dug 2? Why is Dig Dug canonically an absentee father? I'm in so much pain.
This video is not intended for viewers under 13 years of age, and may contain content inappropriate for such viewers. Parental guidance suggested.INSERT DISC 2: A Brief History of Multi-Disc Video GamesThe Golden Bolt2022-07-29 | Did you know that there's a Sega game that spans across 8 full CDs? Or that there are even PSP games that have two discs? Almost every disc-based console has had at least one game too big to fit onto a single disc, and you've almost certainly played one. But how does disc-swapping work? Join me on a brief journey through the world of multi-disc video games to learn more than you ever wanted to about how CDs work!
Chapters: 0:00 Intro 3:01 How Does Disc-Swapping Even Work? 7:00 Multi-Disc PS1 Games (And Other CDs Too!) 11:51 Multi-Disc DVDs (PS2, Xbox) and Dreamcast GD-ROMs 15:21 Nintendo's Multi-Disc Games 18:39 DVD vs. Blu-Ray: The Battle for HD 24:54 Are There Any 2-Disc PS3 Games? 27:54 PS4/Xbox One Games With 2 Discs
This video is not intended for viewers under 13 years of age, and may contain content inappropriate for such viewers. Parental guidance suggested.Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Retrospective - The Golden BoltThe Golden Bolt2022-07-07 | NOTE: The first 44 minutes of this video are spoiler-free, containing almost exclusively footage of the intro and first three levels. There are two moments where I show out of context footage of later levels, one of which is a clip of gameplay from a level featured heavily in the demo reels and marketing. If this is still too spoilery for you, get out.
Chapters: 0:00 Intro 4:20 Development I: Another Ratchet 8:57 Story I: Rusted by Time (spoiler-free) 12:40 Gameplay I: Rifts 21:31 Gameplay II: A Series-Best 25:51 But It Should Be Better 40:15 Story II: Rivet (still spoiler-free) 44:08 SPOILERS BEGIN HERE 50:43 Story III: The Juice is Loose 56:38 Story IV: Enter Nefarious 1:02:30 Development II: Interdimensional Freaky Friday 1:08:15 Story V: The End of a New Beginning 1:19:10 Conclusion (still contains spoilers)
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#RatchetAndClank #RiftApart #TheGoldenBoltThe Development of Ratchet & Clank PS4 - Gamings Most Successful FailureThe Golden Bolt2022-05-01 | When you look at Ratchet & Clank PS4 six years later, you might just assume it was a bad game, as it's been the subject of more scorn and put under a larger microscope than any other game in the franchise. A game made to tie into 2016's Ratchet & Clank movie and a retelling of the original R&C's story, Ratchet PS4 quickly became the most successful R&C game to date, a game that was well-liked by both critics and fans alike...and it just as quickly soured in the eyes of many other fans due to its struggles adapting the original 2002 game's story. What led to this game's shift in perception - and more importantly, why did Ratchet PS4 turn out the way that it did? With more information about both the Ratchet & Clank game and movie's production history, the hazy picture quickly clears up. This Ratchet & Clank PS4 retrospective will shine a full light on the production behind a game that failed at its chief goals, and was still a massive, breakthrough success. This is gaming's most successful failure: Ratchet & Clank PS4.
Chapters: 0:00 Intro 3:10 The Game, Based on the Movie, Based on the Game 10:21 What is a Reimagining? A Miserable Pile of Letters 16:00 Hashtag Gadgetron 18:44 Movie Meddling - Ratchet's New "Friends" 25:10 The Kicker 28:32 The But 41:08 Nested What-Ifs - Outro
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#RatchetandClank #TheGoldenBolt #sponsoredThe History of Sonics Bad Years (Documentary) - Collapse, Crunch, and Chaos in the Early 2000sThe Golden Bolt2022-04-19 | A significant chunk of Sonic the Hedgehog's history has been brushed aside simply as "the bad years," without much effort having gone into preserving the actual stories that led to Sonic's more controversial or perhaps disappointing titles: Games like Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic Heroes, and to many, even Sonic Adventure 2. Each of these Sonic games has a fascinating history that's been overshadowed by other discussions - each has its own story of crunch, of layoffs, of developers losing 20+ pounds trying to meet deadlines, of a Sega that was even closer to the brink than we ever remember.
Regardless of whether you feel that any of these Sonic titles ended up being good or bad, the chaos behind the scenes that led to these games explains essentially everything about them - and the stories are far worse than we tend to hear. These are the true stories behind Sega's collapse, the fall of Sonic Team, and the "dark era" of Sonic games.
Chapters: 0:00 Intro 2:09 1998-2001: Sonic Team USA 13:44 2002: "Tell Him to F*** Off." 23:16 2003: The Sonic Heroes Diet 39:06 2004-2005: That Damn Fourth Video Chapter (working title) 51:00 2006 51:04 2007 and beyond 55:42 Credits
SPECIAL THANKS Big the Cat That Trav Guy Gritty Dana Carvey
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#Sonic #SonictheHedgehog #BigIsYourDadRatchet & Clank: Into the Nexus Retrospective - The Golden BoltThe Golden Bolt2022-03-14 | Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus isn't just the epilogue to the Ratchet & Clank's Future Saga of games; it's not just a return to form after two polarizing spinoffs. It's a tale as old as the series itself, another R&C game developed on a short timeline, another game packed full of ambitious ideas and even more that never made it off of the early design pages. The idea of "what if?" is the biggest constant throughout the entire Ratchet & Clank series - and it only makes sense that this game would tackle that what-if head-on.
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Chapters: 0:00 Intro 2:03 What If? 11:15 Return to Form 15:47 Into the Netherverse 23:12 Before the Nexus and ItN Vita 27:33 A Battle Against Time 31:58 Memory Lane 37:52 Outro
#RatchetAndClank #IntoTheNexus #TheGoldenBoltI Did (Almost) Everything in Horizon Forbidden West. Heres My Review (Spoiler-Free)The Golden Bolt2022-02-20 | Early copy provided by PlayStation. That's how I did almost everything so quickly.
This video is not intended for viewers under 13 years of age, and may contain content inappropriate for such viewers. Parental guidance suggested.Were Ratchet & Clanks Spinoffs Really That Bad? | All 4 One & Full Frontal Assault RetrospectiveThe Golden Bolt2022-02-12 | There's a clear line in the sand marking the different eras of Ratchet & Clank: There's the PS2 Saga, the PS3's Future Saga, and then after 2010 things get...weird. The "bad batch" era of Ratchet & Clank only makes up two of the worst-received games in the R&C series, All 4 One and Full Frontal Assault, but these two games are sometimes considered the first steps in the downfall of the franchise. Looking back a decade later with more insight into their development, was the Spinoff Era as bad as many fans say, or are they hated more for being different than truly "bad?" These are the Blunder Years of Ratchet & Clank...or are they?
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Chapters: 0:00 Intro 2:18 The Story So Far 10:09 Ratchet & Clank: The Comic 15:47 Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One 34:14 Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault 51:10 Become a Patron for exclusive perks!Sly Cooper COMPLETE SERIES Retrospective - The Golden BoltThe Golden Bolt2022-01-09 | On today's very special edition of The Golden Bolt, we cover the entire Sly Cooper franchise, and dig into one of the PS2's most cherished series, that still doesn't get the respect it deserves.
Special thanks to Consinity for the use of their rendition of "E.T." both in the original Sly retrospectives and this supercut! You can find it here: youtube.com/watch?v=66ZDBh-Qe_w
This video is not intended for viewers under 13 years of age, and may contain content inappropriate for such viewers. Parental guidance suggested.Trying (and Failing) to Love Sonic Adventure 2 - A RetrospectiveThe Golden Bolt2021-12-13 | After learning to love Sonic Adventure recently, I was excited to give the sequel the same shot, to see if maybe I'd come around on Adventure 2 as well. Sadly, that didn't happen - with so many odd changes and decisions made, I find Sonic Adventure 2 to be a flat-out weird game. BUT, thanks to my research into Sonic Adventure 2's unbelievably chaotic development, I understand what happened. Even if I didn't find much to love about it, I found a ton to appreciate about this weird game...even if it may not be in the way that long-time fans would agree with.
Keep the fun going, check out MykonosFan's video on the history of Sonic game compilations/collections! youtube.com/watch?v=mU2RunwfCmM
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Chapters: 0:00 Intro 3:26 SA2's Chaotic Development 14:50 Hero Story 19:23 The (Great) SA1 vs. SA2 debate, explained 23:36 Gameplay I - Mech and Treasure Hunting 32:35 Gameplay II - Sonic/Shadow 46:33 SA2's Successes 51:33 Dark Story 57:35 Adventure 2's Poisoned Discourse; Last Story 1:07:58 Conclusion