Lucas: "Star Fox sounds like Star Wars because one of the words is the same!" Nintendo: "Okay, we'll change it to Lylat Wars" Lucas: "Much better, that's...Hey, wait a minute!"
He didn't get the irony of him using the name "Star Wars" for his movie when there already was "Star Trek" which not only had the same first word, but the second word has the same amount of letters.
Funny thing. When my father bought Lylat Wars for me, he chose it, because the "Wars" in that name, reminded him of... you've guessed it. Star Wars. xD
To be fair, Lylat Wars almost seems like them trolling George. "Oh, Star Wing sounds too much like Star Wars does it? Okay, we'll change it :3" *Changes it to a name that still sounds similar (especially when you realize that Lylat is in fact a star) but in a different way*
@@Larry I was confused too, so I looked up. It's the star the Lylat System is named after: starfox.fandom.com/wiki/Lylat_(star) I never got into the series (never played many famous Nintendo games in fact, as I never owned a Nintendo console), so I had no way to know that.
@@Larry Missed the notif for this, but aside from certain maps and whatnot spelling... it out it's implicit in the name "Lylat System". Solar systems are named after their sun - ours is the Sol system, for example.
Do we know for sure it was George Lucas himself and not one of his lawyers acting without consulting him? Famously, one of Lucas's lawyers sent a threatening letter to Mad Magazine after they did a parody of The Empire Strikes Back with Alfred E. Newman dressed up as Yoda. They responded by sharing a letter that George Lucas had previously sent them saying how much he liked the parody.
Well, it isn't true, to let you know. I can't find anything to back it up other than baseless accusations, and it doesn't even make sense when you actually stop and think about it, so it's most likely not true.
Don't feel bad about the UK title for Pro Skater being changed, due to some moron thinking it would confuse people. We Aussies have suffered worse insults in that Mad Max was dubbed from Australian English into US English because they thought Americans are too stupid to understand Australian English.
Umm actually, Demon Souls was renamed to Dark Souls because Sony owned exclusivity to all Demon Souls games, and since the next game FROM SOFTWARE wanted to release was to be multi-platform to make their money back without being tied to one platform, Dark Souls was named as the spiritual successor to Demon Souls, but without the requirement of being tied to Sony's consoles only.
You should've said how "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' was renamed "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' in the US as they weren't sure people in the US knew what a philosopher was.
Sounds like the renaming of "The Madness of King George III" to "The Madness of King George" because American test audiences protested that they hadn't seen "the first two movies". Yes, I'm aware that this story is regarded as an urban legend, but I once met somebody who was on the crew for that movie and she insisted it was true. She even had the merch.
I'll admit I'm not too mad at Soulcalibur's name change because by the time Soulcalibur came out it was about a brand new good sword that wasn't as evil as Soul Edge.
that's one EA case where EA were the good guys , hell yeah , Fuck that dude trying to hold a patent on the name edge. I always did wonder about soul blade's/edge's name change.
... EA tends to get the credit for finally stopping Langdell's trademark trolling and outright perjury, but the indie game community deserves a heaping helping. After they went after Mobigames' Edge, they compiled piles of evidence that he didn't have a leg to stand on. EA's case was based on almost entirely on this evidence, and it's likely part of the reason they challenged it instead of folding like every company before them.
OK so demon's souls was not changed to dark souls, dark souls was a spiritual successor because demon's souls was a ps exclusive licence and they wanted to go onto multiple formats so decided not to do a sequel, also miyazaki doesn't like doing sequels and wanted to create a new ip from day one anyway.
In Quebec, where we speak french, but do not get the releases made for France, the game was still called Deception. Everybody found that funny. I don't think it hurt sales too much, though.
More ludicrous than the Soul Edge fiasco, albeit less noteworthy, was when German darkwave group BlutEngel released their somewhat recent album Omen. 20th Century, or whoever owns the film "The Omen", declared that they owned the copyright to the word "Omen", which they did not create, in all forms of media, forcing the band to re-release the album under the name "Save Us". The legal matter was not even over a work in the same medium. Save Us is a name of a song on the album, but I can't help but wonder if it was selected as a tongue in cheek plea from the band to their fans to rescue them from the film studio.
Funny thing is that despite renaming the game Out of this World because of the show Another World, there was also a sitcom called Out of this World. Whenever I heard about the game, the song from the show popped into my head.
Whang! Would you like to swing on a star Carry moonbeams home in a jar And be better off than you are Or would you rather go to earth. Awesome show, grew up wishing I had those powers.
I've seen so many jokes directed at Peter Molyneux on this channel that I no longer see a human's face when I see that clip. I only see a set of eyes, a nose, and a mouth superimposed on a bulbous, fleshy, ear-touting orb. It's really weird.
@@jackmazeika5594 he promised a lot of features that never materialized in the games he designed, to the point that his name is synonymous with "filthy verminous liar" in the video game industry. The Fable series is the one most people have heard of, but I think Godus was the worst.
The Commodore VIC-20 was renamed in Germany to VC-20. Because VIC sounds in German like Fick = Fuck. And the Game Vixen was renamed in Germany to She-Fox. Because Vixen sounds in German like Wichsen = to wank ;)
ERIC AND THE FLOATERS T_T dude i laughed so hard at that!! man I'd play a game about a guy named Eric struggling to flush multiple turds. they just keep coming back up
even better about the Tim Langdell/EA thing is that when he was trying to sue EA over Mirror's Edge, he announced a game called "MIRRORS by EDGE", and of course the word "by" was super small in the titling".
Similar to the "Edge" copyright crap, remember when the publishers of "Candy Crush Saga" thought they owned the word "Saga" and nothing could use that word unless they gave them all the profits? Yea...........Pepsi also did the EXACT same thing with their "Monster" energy drinks. They think they now own the word "Monster" and pretty much forced the developers of the game "Gods and Monsters" to change the name of the game to "Fenix: Immortals Rising?" Guess people think they can just copyright WORDS now.
@@ENKTDeeColon_and_randomnumbers Either way...they think they own the word "Monster" and will either force everybody to change names, or demand "royalties" for anything with "Monster" in the title.
I always wondered why Soul Calibur was spelled with a "u" instead of as "caliber", not to mention why there were no guns! Thanks for explaining the origin of the name!
But wait... He got his panties in a bunch about the "Star" part of the name... So they made a new name that ends with "Wars"? It sounds like some major passive-aggressiveness to me.
I wonder if the guy who thought he owned the copyright to "Edge" sued U2 for having a bandmember called "The Edge" or sued WWE video games for having a wrestler on their roster called "Edge".
Well, considering Soul Edge remained in the Soul Calibur games, I don't think he was able to touch content in the game with "Edge" in their name, like items or characters.
Or how he obtained the magazine "The Edge" and stole its logo and claimed he co-created the magazine, he also bullied mobigame to make their game "edge" be a successor to their (the edge's) game "bobby bearing".
To be fair, this is the guy (George Lucas) who compared selling the rights of Star Wars to Disney to "White Slavers". And complained that the Force Awakens wasn't a completely new story from scratchs with different settings and characters-essentially whining that he didn't have creative control anymore despite agreeing to sell the rights (for 5-million or so).
I think Nintendo might have gotten the last laugh on George Lucas in this situation. He wasn't okay with Nintendo using a title with "Star" as the first word, so they changed the title to have "Wars" as the second word.
Speaking of Another World or Out Of This World, there was a sitcom back in the day called Out Of This World which featured a half alien girl living on earth.
MLGMInecraft09 Patient: psst, who is that guy? Is he the priest?!? How can that edgy looking guy be a priest? What, EA has an order protecting me from him because of Mirrors Edge? Thank god EA fixed a bug that wasn't even in their game...
"oh bomberman had a different title? probably something dumb like "blaster boy" i did not expect ERIC AND THE FLOATERS. That sounds like a parody of an absurdly british ZX Spectrum game you'd see in an Ashens video.
I actually like "Out of This World" over "Another World" because it has that rad 90's thing going on. But I'm also an American who greatly prefers the title "Chaos Engine" to "Soldiers of Fortune".
Namco were nothing to do with Demons' Souls. That was published by Sony in Japan and Atlus in the US. From Software changed the name to the "next" Demon' Souls because Sony own the IP.
I imagine the people behind sending cease and desists are little impish trolls with long ears and beards, round bellies that stick out, and they squat over a computer, being fed with little dog treats occasionally.
In portuguese the word "deception" is a false cognate of "decepção" (which means "disappointment"). I remember having the same reaction as the french at the time. Loved the game, by the way.
I wonder if Tim Langrell sued any of "Rockstar" games for using U2 as one of the artists (because they have a drummer called "The Edge") or THQ or 2K for having a character called "Edge" in their WWE video games?
Oh yeah, I remember learning the original name Mortal Kombat Deception some time after its release. I started thinking of other names that would sound weird in French, such as Saw 6 that sounds like "saucisse" (sausage)
Honestly, it's not just in french. Deception sounds way too close to Decepción in spanish, which also means Dissapointment. Probably the same with Portuguese and Italian, other languages that come from latin.
That's super cool that you know that and whatnot...but I don't think he ever said it was *only* in French. He just cited that particular translation as the reason.
This reminded me of an example of titles being changed in film. When Army of Darkness was in production, it went under the title Evil Dead 3: MidEvil Dead, as it’s the third entry in the Evil Dead franchise. However, after a yearlong delay between the film being completed and the film being released, Universal wanted the film’s title to be changed to Army of Darkness, as they didn’t want it to have any connection to the first two Evil Dead films for some reason (despite the fact that the film picks up right where Evil Dead 2 left of). The strange thing about it is that some international releases of the film were titled Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness.
I like the sound of Lylat Wars, but it's more fitting as a subtitle, like Star Fox: The Lylat Wars
but the trademark was still in place at that time.
sounds like a tactical rpg starfox game
Star Wars: The Lylat Fox
@@new_donker7189 yessss
I fought with your father in the Lylat Wars, Luke
Tim Langdell quitting the entire industry because courts ruled that he didn't own the word "edge" is the greatest ragequit in the history of gaming.
...and became a priest!
What an edgelord.
Microsoft now owns the word edge
"Edgy"
U2 Guitar player says hi
"Starwing? No, no, no- too much like Star Wars. Lylat Wars? Okay, sounds good."
Lucas: "Star Fox sounds like Star Wars because one of the words is the same!"
Nintendo: "Okay, we'll change it to Lylat Wars"
Lucas: "Much better, that's...Hey, wait a minute!"
Starwing = Star (Wars) +(X) Wing, that's what Lucas probably thought.
@@rvbrexer or he's just a dumb prick lol
He didn't get the irony of him using the name "Star Wars" for his movie when there already was "Star Trek" which not only had the same first word, but the second word has the same amount of letters.
Funny thing.
When my father bought Lylat Wars for me, he chose it, because the "Wars" in that name, reminded him of... you've guessed it. Star Wars. xD
To be fair, Lylat Wars almost seems like them trolling George. "Oh, Star Wing sounds too much like Star Wars does it? Okay, we'll change it :3"
*Changes it to a name that still sounds similar (especially when you realize that Lylat is in fact a star) but in a different way*
Where did you hear Lylat was a star? I can't find any info on that.
@@Larry I was confused too, so I looked up. It's the star the Lylat System is named after: starfox.fandom.com/wiki/Lylat_(star)
I never got into the series (never played many famous Nintendo games in fact, as I never owned a Nintendo console), so I had no way to know that.
@@Larry Missed the notif for this, but aside from certain maps and whatnot spelling... it out it's implicit in the name "Lylat System". Solar systems are named after their sun - ours is the Sol system, for example.
06:59 - I won't lie. "Shooting Bad People with Guns" sounds like a great title for a tongue-in-cheek Indie FPS.
xD
Do we know for sure it was George Lucas himself and not one of his lawyers acting without consulting him?
Famously, one of Lucas's lawyers sent a threatening letter to Mad Magazine after they did a parody of The Empire Strikes Back with Alfred E. Newman dressed up as Yoda. They responded by sharing a letter that George Lucas had previously sent them saying how much he liked the parody.
Researching online yields absolutely no info whatsoever about this Lucas story. Not sure where Larry even got this from.
Starwing = Too similar sounding to Star Wars
Lylat Wars = A-OK
#LucasLogic
The Militant Atheist is not as weird to me as the fact they only changed the name in Europe why not America where he's from?
probably nintendo alleged starfox was already a registered trademark on america, while not on europe.
because Starfox was called Starfox in NA.
oh why wasn't it changed? Probably because Atari 2600 games weren't trademarked. That and we never got the ZX Spectrum.
Well, it isn't true, to let you know. I can't find anything to back it up other than baseless accusations, and it doesn't even make sense when you actually stop and think about it, so it's most likely not true.
Deception also sounds very close to "decepción" (spanish for dissapointment).
I remember mocking a friend for buying a "disappointing game".
Only EA could counter sue someone into priesthood...
It honestly took me two decades to realise the game Eric and the Floaters my mom talked about was actually Bomberman.
To be fair it sounds like the reason for changing bombermans name wasn't the stupid part. It was the name they went with that was stupid
Don't feel bad about the UK title for Pro Skater being changed, due to some moron thinking it would confuse people.
We Aussies have suffered worse insults in that Mad Max was dubbed from Australian English into US English because they thought Americans are too stupid to understand Australian English.
Umm actually, Demon Souls was renamed to Dark Souls because Sony owned exclusivity to all Demon Souls games, and since the next game FROM SOFTWARE wanted to release was to be multi-platform to make their money back without being tied to one platform, Dark Souls was named as the spiritual successor to Demon Souls, but without the requirement of being tied to Sony's consoles only.
CAN YOU FEEL THE SUNSHINE
does it brighten up your day?!
Joey Jojos Wacky Trip 2 OMG I loved Sonic R when I was younger
DON'T YOU FEEL THAT SOMETIMES
FUCK BEAT ME TO IT
All these references.
*IT MAKES ME WANT TO SURVIVE.*
You know, as much as I hate EA, I'm glad they finally put a stop to Tim's antics. I'm glad they decided they weren't going to take his shit anymore.
I'm surprised Tim Lagdell didn't try to sue Sega for Shadow the Hedgehog being so edgy.
Eric & The Floaters sounds like an open-mic night pub band.
Also Deception means Dissapointment in Spanish but they didn’t changed it in Latin America
You should've said how "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' was renamed "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' in the US as they weren't sure people in the US knew what a philosopher was.
yes
Steven Douglas Ain't our fault the editors were so out-of-touch they didn't know shit about the States.
Not our fault our children are dumb
...oh wait yes it is
Sounds like the renaming of "The Madness of King George III" to "The Madness of King George" because American test audiences protested that they hadn't seen "the first two movies".
Yes, I'm aware that this story is regarded as an urban legend, but I once met somebody who was on the crew for that movie and she insisted it was true. She even had the merch.
I'll admit I'm not too mad at Soulcalibur's name change because by the time Soulcalibur came out it was about a brand new good sword that wasn't as evil as Soul Edge.
That "Mortal Kombat: Disappointment" shit made me laugh, that must've been a great time to be alive in France.
That awkward moment when you tell EA thank you for being aggressive.
This may sound stupid but.....
I think Call Of Duty Shooting bad people with guns is actually a good title.
Lylat Wars sounds more like Star Wars than Starwing does.
that's one EA case where EA were the good guys , hell yeah , Fuck that dude trying to hold a patent on the name edge. I always did wonder about soul blade's/edge's name change.
... EA tends to get the credit for finally stopping Langdell's trademark trolling and outright perjury, but the indie game community deserves a heaping helping. After they went after Mobigames' Edge, they compiled piles of evidence that he didn't have a leg to stand on. EA's case was based on almost entirely on this evidence, and it's likely part of the reason they challenged it instead of folding like every company before them.
Eric & The Floaters sounds like the name of a band.
Like a doo-wop band
could be worse, it can be named "pepe y los globos"
@@tsubasasupremo why did I just get that now?
i don't know
OK so demon's souls was not changed to dark souls, dark souls was a spiritual successor because demon's souls was a ps exclusive licence and they wanted to go onto multiple formats so decided not to do a sequel, also miyazaki doesn't like doing sequels and wanted to create a new ip from day one anyway.
I suspect Larry has that clip of Peter Molyneux set as a hotkey in his editing program.
In Quebec, where we speak french, but do not get the releases made for France, the game was still called Deception. Everybody found that funny. I don't think it hurt sales too much, though.
So instead of Bomberman Act Zero we could have gotten a gritty Eric and the Floaters reboot.
The world truly missed out on that one.
"Eric & The Floaters" sounds like a terrible 60's scatological based pop band 🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣
Did not need that image in my head😂😂😂
The name is even worse in Spanish countries
Is called...... DON PEPE Y LOS GLOBOS
More ludicrous than the Soul Edge fiasco, albeit less noteworthy, was when German darkwave group BlutEngel released their somewhat recent album Omen. 20th Century, or whoever owns the film "The Omen", declared that they owned the copyright to the word "Omen", which they did not create, in all forms of media, forcing the band to re-release the album under the name "Save Us". The legal matter was not even over a work in the same medium.
Save Us is a name of a song on the album, but I can't help but wonder if it was selected as a tongue in cheek plea from the band to their fans to rescue them from the film studio.
Funny thing is that despite renaming the game Out of this World because of the show Another World, there was also a sitcom called Out of this World. Whenever I heard about the game, the song from the show popped into my head.
Whang! Would you like to swing on a star
Carry moonbeams home in a jar
And be better off than you are
Or would you rather go to earth. Awesome show, grew up wishing I had those powers.
And an Odyssey 2 game
I've seen so many jokes directed at Peter Molyneux on this channel that I no longer see a human's face when I see that clip. I only see a set of eyes, a nose, and a mouth superimposed on a bulbous, fleshy, ear-touting orb. It's really weird.
JoshSaysStuff remind me what he did again? It’s been a while.
@@jackmazeika5594 he promised a lot of features that never materialized in the games he designed, to the point that his name is synonymous with "filthy verminous liar" in the video game industry. The Fable series is the one most people have heard of, but I think Godus was the worst.
The Commodore VIC-20 was renamed in Germany to VC-20. Because VIC sounds in German like Fick = Fuck. And the Game Vixen was renamed in Germany to She-Fox. Because Vixen sounds in German like Wichsen = to wank ;)
"Eric and the Floaters" sounds like a 60s/70s British band name. Explosive rock music!
ERIC AND THE FLOATERS T_T dude i laughed so hard at that!! man I'd play a game about a guy named Eric struggling to flush multiple turds. they just keep coming back up
even better about the Tim Langdell/EA thing is that when he was trying to sue EA over Mirror's Edge, he announced a game called "MIRRORS by EDGE", and of course the word "by" was super small in the titling".
I did use a screengrab of that in my Patents video, he also stole EDGE magazine's logo for that too!
Similar to the "Edge" copyright crap, remember when the publishers of "Candy Crush Saga" thought they owned the word "Saga" and nothing could use that word unless they gave them all the profits? Yea...........Pepsi also did the EXACT same thing with their "Monster" energy drinks. They think they now own the word "Monster" and pretty much forced the developers of the game "Gods and Monsters" to change the name of the game to "Fenix: Immortals Rising?" Guess people think they can just copyright WORDS now.
Except Pepsico doesn't own the Monster energy drink trademark at all, they're an independent company and have a distribution agreement with Coca-Cola
@@ENKTDeeColon_and_randomnumbers Either way...they think they own the word "Monster" and will either force everybody to change names, or demand "royalties" for anything with "Monster" in the title.
To my American mind a "floater" would be a dead body.
3:20 If Star Fox sounds too much like Star Wars, then doesn't Star Wars sound too much like Star Trek?
- Hey man, let's go to my house, I've got a new cool game!
- Which game?
- Eric and the Floaters
~friend never appeared to play~
His mega crush on peter molyneux doesn't take long to show up in this vid......
Eric and the Floaters sounds like a Do-Wop singing group from the 50's...
I always wondered why Soul Calibur was spelled with a "u" instead of as "caliber", not to mention why there were no guns! Thanks for explaining the origin of the name!
Me: "Oh yeah, I know about Bomberman and Dynablaster, must be that..."
Larry: *Eric and the Floaters*
Me: o_O
White Bomber's real name is Eric. This is now my headcanon lmao
Honestly I always thought Lylat Wars was supposed to sound like Star Wars, Starwing sounds like a completely separate entity.
Funny how Lucas objected to "Star" being in the title, yet didn't kick up a fuss about the game being renamed, with "Wars" in the title.
But wait...
He got his panties in a bunch about the "Star" part of the name... So they made a new name that ends with "Wars"? It sounds like some major passive-aggressiveness to me.
Ion Maiden renamed to Ion Fury because Iron Maiden sued 3D Realms for "imitating the Iron Maiden trademark"
That's #6
I didn't know the edge copyright guy (as I call him) became a priest after his disastrous attempt to sue EA. That's kinda funny actually.
Eric and the Floaters is the name of my new ska band.
About Bomberman's name change, that explains why I have seen some arcade machines for Bomberman back in the 90's called Dyna Blasters.
I wonder if the guy who thought he owned the copyright to "Edge" sued U2 for having a bandmember called "The Edge" or sued WWE video games for having a wrestler on their roster called "Edge".
Well, considering Soul Edge remained in the Soul Calibur games, I don't think he was able to touch content in the game with "Edge" in their name, like items or characters.
Or how he obtained the magazine "The Edge" and stole its logo and claimed he co-created the magazine, he also bullied mobigame to make their game "edge" be a successor to their (the edge's) game "bobby bearing".
To be fair, this is the guy (George Lucas) who compared selling the rights of Star Wars to Disney to "White Slavers". And complained that the Force Awakens wasn't a completely new story from scratchs with different settings and characters-essentially whining that he didn't have creative control anymore despite agreeing to sell the rights (for 5-million or so).
So we aren't exactly talking to the next Eistein.
Eric and the Floaters sounds like a cover band that plays in dive bars.
Yeh, they can open for the Butthole Surfers.
Another Oldie but Goldie video. Bin rewatching you before bed every night lately.
aw, thank you! ill have new vids up soon, i promise!!!
@Larry no rush you just keep healing up. Thankfully you have a lot of content to watch.
Eric & the Floaters. I think I saw them in concert once.
😂 I wish I had any musical talent to start this very band, haha
I think Nintendo might have gotten the last laugh on George Lucas in this situation. He wasn't okay with Nintendo using a title with "Star" as the first word, so they changed the title to have "Wars" as the second word.
Can you feel the sunshine
When Larry Bundy uploads!
Do you feel that sometimes
you just need Fact Hunt todaaay!
Well Hello you!
Speaking of Another World or Out Of This World, there was a sitcom back in the day called Out Of This World which featured a half alien girl living on earth.
pretty surreal to see that not only was EA not the asshole in the story, but the hero.
5:37 Thought this was a RebelTaxi video for a second there.
Tim langdel is a hospital priest now? wow... Patient: "Can I see a priest... I feel a little on edge." *Langdel breaks the door down* "SUED!"
MLGMInecraft09 Patient: psst, who is that guy? Is he the priest?!? How can that edgy looking guy be a priest? What, EA has an order protecting me from him because of Mirrors Edge? Thank god EA fixed a bug that wasn't even in their game...
barely even started, but I can feel the sunshine
lakie92 HAHA
One thing Tim should have learned to not sue a company bigger than yourself just to keep a name trademark.
A rare case, almost unicorn level, where EA was the GOOD GUY(?!) in the situation. Timmay there needed to have it all burnt down.
It always makes me chuckle, when you find a way to slide in that small clip of Peter Molynuex!
Keep it up, Larry!
"oh bomberman had a different title? probably something dumb like "blaster boy"
i did not expect ERIC AND THE FLOATERS. That sounds like a parody of an absurdly british ZX Spectrum game you'd see in an Ashens video.
I think they were tying to make balloons sound even remotely intimidating :)
Oh, thanks for the sub too Ty, glad to have you on board!!!
@@Larry I know a guy named Eric who leaves floaters in his toilet
The "Blaster Boy" thing isn't actually too far off
Bomberman was actually named Dynablaster and Atomic Punk in some versions of the arcade game! :3
Does it make me a bad person that I to go to his church just to try to trigger him with Edge puns?
How... 'edgy'... of you.
Tell him his Sermon keept you on the edge of your seat
DO IT.
oh and make sure to videotape it.
I actually like "Out of This World" over "Another World" because it has that rad 90's thing going on. But I'm also an American who greatly prefers the title "Chaos Engine" to "Soldiers of Fortune".
Shouldn't Starfox sue Lucas for having Anikin do a barrel roll?
And for you British readers, "...dou a barrel roull?"
U got a loisence for dat barral roll m8?
@@Larry holy crap, replying to comments on a video this old, well done.
@@equious8413 I was similarly impressed!
Larry is always the greatest! One of the few "video game facts" channels with stuff deeper than "Did you know the 64 DD exists?"
Namco were nothing to do with Demons' Souls. That was published by Sony in Japan and Atlus in the US. From Software changed the name to the "next" Demon' Souls because Sony own the IP.
Bandai Namco published Demon's Souls in Europe.
I imagine the people behind sending cease and desists are little impish trolls with long ears and beards, round bellies that stick out, and they squat over a computer, being fed with little dog treats occasionally.
In portuguese the word "deception" is a false cognate of "decepção" (which means "disappointment"). I remember having the same reaction as the french at the time. Loved the game, by the way.
"CAN YOU FEEL THE SUNSHINE?"
- Tails Doll
uhmm ackshualy larry... **snort** demon's souls **hack** and dark **gulp** souls **wheeze** are **cough** diff**splooge** erent- **heart attack**
Shooting Bad People With Guns: Combat That Happens Today is my favorite game
L3M0NZ the second one is a masterpiece
I dunno, I liked Racist Operations 2 more.
Eric and the floaters summary.
Cartman eats too much fried chicken and can't flush the toilet.
I wonder if Tim Langrell sued any of "Rockstar" games for using U2 as one of the artists (because they have a drummer called "The Edge") or THQ or 2K for having a character called "Edge" in their WWE video games?
Jesus you dont hold your punches with the savage call outs... I fkn love it and this is why I'm subscribed
i kind of miss Pokken in this list, it litteraly means smalpox in germanso it's called pokemon tekken here
Wow that death animation of that pretty much Bomberman prototype is brutal. The dude bascially loses his head after he dies.
Amazing how gory such a basic graphic can be really! :D
Why didn’t they call it tony hawk pro skateboarding?
Oh yeah, I remember learning the original name Mortal Kombat Deception some time after its release. I started thinking of other names that would sound weird in French, such as Saw 6 that sounds like "saucisse" (sausage)
Its funny to see your comments on Retroblasting videos. Good to see two greatly underappreciated TH-camrs supporting one another.
"Gods & Monsters" renamed to "Immortals: Fenyx Rising" because of Monster energy drink would fit in this video just right.
Ok i get where they got floater from but why Eric?
Honestly, it's not just in french. Deception sounds way too close to Decepción in spanish, which also means Dissapointment. Probably the same with Portuguese and Italian, other languages that come from latin.
That's super cool that you know that and whatnot...but I don't think he ever said it was *only* in French. He just cited that particular translation as the reason.
Thank God for that Tony Hawk name change, as a Brit I just thought the guy on the box had one very long, wide, wheeled ice skate
As long as he didn't stutter.
This reminded me of an example of titles being changed in film. When Army of Darkness was in production, it went under the title Evil Dead 3: MidEvil Dead, as it’s the third entry in the Evil Dead franchise. However, after a yearlong delay between the film being completed and the film being released, Universal wanted the film’s title to be changed to Army of Darkness, as they didn’t want it to have any connection to the first two Evil Dead films for some reason (despite the fact that the film picks up right where Evil Dead 2 left of). The strange thing about it is that some international releases of the film were titled Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness.
The Bomberman one isn’t a stupid reason so much as a stupid sounding name in all fairness
...."Eric & the Floaters".... What!? The reason for the name change itself makes perfect sense, but... "Eric & the Floaters" ...*Double Face Palm*
George Lucas always has to fuck up good things. *SIGH*
"Thanks George....Twat!"
Thanks Guru Larry!!!
Eric and the Floaters sound like a 70's band name. XD
To be fair, there WAS a 70s R&B group just named The Floaters. They did the song Float On, which is one of the best worst things ever recorded.
"Cancer, and my name is Larry..." Now I need mind-bleach!
I'm happy to have shared such a masterpiece.