On one hand, I'm pretty sure the psychological horror tag gets thrown around as a joke on steam. One of my favorite puzzle game franchise has all steam releases tagged as psychological horror despite not being that in the slightes On the other hand, i agree with the other commenter, this game is so garbage that it might as well have been a horror game
I remember playing this a couple years ago out of sheer curiosity. There's a race in Challenge Mode involving the London buses at a cave track. The problem is that on this track there is a jump that you can't cross if you're going too slow which turns out to be literally impossible to clear because the buses cannot go fast enough even with a nitrous boost. I did, however, find a way to finish this race: I had to do a full lap BACKWARDS to reach the next checkpoint after the jump and then finish the lap normally, and then rinse and repeat for the rest of the race all while the AI driver (it was a 1v1) was stuck in a loop of failing to make the jump and respawning to try again.
"Unknown Player" is probably based off The Stig from the British automotive show 'Top Gear' as they have a professional "tame" racing driver who sets lap times and drives whatever crazy vehicle situation they come up with.
Either the stig, or one of his many "cousins" who only appear as jokes on the show. Like the American cousin, who is depicted as an obese stereotype. His footsteps are so heavy, the earth shakes beneath him when he leaves his trailor. It's hilarious! Kudos to the writers, you ribbed us good! 😄
I love how their solution to spawning a bunch of players wasn't to actually check the spawn point to see if it was clear, but just make it so nobody has collision.
Fun fact, part of Team6's Wikipedia page now says that, as part of that developer's history: "In the year 2001, Satan decided to flat out out cappy racing games."
I just realized the problem with the character selects: the one that looked like hitman was actually supposed to be hitman, but the names and character descriptions for the hitman and the Postal guy got swapped. Postal of course having had the movie made by Uwe Boll
It might have been a misunderstanding. Uwe Boll was famous for making horrendous video game adaptations. Hitman: Agent 47 was a horrendous video game adaptation, but it was not directed by Uwe Boll.
@@purwantiallan5089 Broken? Yes, very obviously. But my point is that underneath the bugs and Sonic's story is a game with a lot of potential that was lost when Sega decided to push it out in time for Christmas.
By the way, Bugbear couldn't make Flatout 3 because they were working full-time on Ridge Racer Unbounded (which kinda sucked but that's Bandai-Namco's problem), and getting a second team ready to roll and develop another game would be expensive and time consuming. So of course the rights holders went with the bottom of the barrel choice of a game studio (that also developed Super Street, another blasphemy of a game that should be covered here), it was the right thing to do!
"The AI drivers are missing the I in AI." Those are not "artificial intelligence", those are "artificial *idiots".* Also, the "broken, on top of busted, on top of wrong" line absolutely got me.
That's because this crazy excuse for a video game was probably programmed by the Glitch Gremlin. 0:03 FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction? You mean Flat Out Chaos: Laughing Joking Numbnuts Edition!
Letting the cars from various modes into every other mode is a great idea. Give the player the option to turn it on and off and make sure they all control well and you got yourself a fun game.
You actually have a point here. I know Mario Kart Wii has a feature like that where you can toggle “Karts and Bikes” for 50cc and 100cc (you have to unlock it first though, and I don’t remember how).
I love the way you guys review your games. Most reviewers would say something like "The controls for this game sure have a lot of problems." You guys would put it "like a Torre of water gushing out of a fire hydrant onto the street, we're overflowing with gripes!" Ignoring the bits of pure comedy you guys do. (Like every scene with Satan in it) you guys do such a great job in telling the audience how you feel while also keeping our attention. I love it
In terms of comedy they are really good, in terms of a review they do hit the mark decently well, though it feels a little drowned in the amount of nitpicking and trying to make references that aren’t really there
You'd think Team 6 would take a look at the games of years past and actually put th ecoding and mechanics to good use...but they just lazily pushed 'em away saying "Nah, I'm good."
@@cyberprime9355 From what I've seen pretty damn good. I believe it had a rough start when it came out in Early Access, but nail it on actual release. TH-camr, FailRace, has videos where he plays it so you can see for yourself.
If Big Rigs Over the Road Racing was on Steam it would probably be ranked even lower than FlatOut 3. Not that anyone cares, but the error booting FlatOut 4 at the end was just a missing Microsoft C+ Distributable file, a really common error and an easy fix.
Im surprised you guys didnt mention Wreckfest. Its pretty much a spiritual successor to the original Flatout games. Its actually one of the best racing games ever made in recent years and was developed by BugBear Entertainment.
@@ChaseMC215 I mean Ridge Racer Unbounded is irrelevant to the topic at hand here, plus it’s another huge departure from the original Ridge Racers and is just a Split/Second clone. But at least it’s good enough.
Like Sims 4. You sit on you your porch, touching nothing, doing nothing. One minute later, all the neigbors and people from entirely different Cities stand around you. You are always a magnet for each and every living beeing.
Fun fact: A real world prop car of the Tumbler was used as a pace car at the Michigan International Speedway NASCAR 400 in 2005 to promote Batman Begins. You know, a pace car - a car the other racers have to slow down in order to avoid passing
Honestly, these F1 racers in Flatout 3 make the Andrea Moda and the Lola T97/30 look driveable. Also, a tank would come in handy for backmarker teams. 6:40 - Unknown Player is not the Stig, but he is the Stig's Rip-off Cousin.
"Hold up, you're telling me that you took all of your previous games, encapsulated them into one package, scamming not only me but every other gamer in the entire world..." Rockstar Games has left the chat.
I hope Rockstar learned their lesson, and won’t cheap out on remaster development again. It’s so sad when a developer that’s so highly regarded screws up as an apparent grab for cash, like Blizzard or Bethesda. Rockstar was solid, until the Trilogy, now it’s only Valve and Nintendo (arguable).
It's not just a regular bad game. It's the product of the greatest minds of a generation working together with the express purpose of building the worst racing game that ever existed.
Big Rigs was a case of "oh, you have an engine test alpha ready? Cool, we ship in two weeks!" It's not the fault of incompetent devs, it's incompetent management.
I enjoy your Just Bad Games series, I give kudos to both of you for making me laugh so many times. I will say I watched a lot of your videos when I was in ICU with Covid Pneumonia and fighting for my life, you kept my mind off the sickness, so thanks guys.
You know it’s gonna be bad if you hear games from the same developers that you never heard of Edit: Damn my highest liked comment so far. Thanks I guess.
@@purplehz97 As someone who likes to think they're okay at making chiptunes, I... well, don't despise GXSCC, it's not worth that, but strongly dislike it because it's not as good as the real thing and rather low-effort (it takes in a MIDI and spits out a shoddy recreation of what it would have sounded like on the MSX (which used the SCC sound chip, hence the name), a computer most people have probably never heard of). You're probably not interested in this by any stretch of the imagination, but I know about it, so you get this information anyway.
6:45 Look at the character description. “A rapper with 225 pounds rock-hard, pure muscle. He’s known to wrestle his way out of the wreckage of his car only to continue the destruction derby on foot.” Yeah, that’s definitely a Fifty Cent ripoff.
Man, i used to play flatout 2 so much, it was a such underrated and fun game And then team 6 came in to ruin everything and turn this franchise into a total forgotten dead game
I think the "37 Rupias being a cheap knockoff of 50 Cent" might have actually been intentional. If so that's actually kinda funny, and probably the game's only redeeming value.
Maybe it's actually supposed to be "Rupiah(s)", the currency of Indonesia... That makes it, well, approximately a quarter of a cent; significantly more than I'd be willing to pay for this game.
If you do some research you'll notice that ALL the characters (excluding the one that's the reversed name of the studio head) are a cheap knockoff of some celebrity and/or character.
Overwatch 2 recently got released on Steam and that now has the lowest rated score on the platform. Flatout 3 has finally lost its number one spot as the worst game on Steam.
What you get for Xmas when grandma half-remembers what she heard. It’s not a game where you emerge from a vault, but the code should be thrown into one.
You just reminded me of an amusing moment: Back in elementary, I bought this cheat code book that had cheats for one of the Flatout games inside. My dumbass read it as "Fallout" and then I was wondering where in the world I could input those cheats in Fallout III.
Would you believe a buddy of mine worked for TEAM SIX in Amsterdam maybe even on this game. The seek fresh college kids (*ie CHEAP)* whom havent been beaten down by the World yet and are still open to recruiting cliches like "with your dreams and our company you will go far" and "we see ourselves as a very talented family". Only to get you working on one of the 99 awful z grade PC\mobile knockoff "dollar bin' racing games Nice to see you guys still making these videos yourselves. The high squealing voice montages dont have the air of hopelessness you got from hacks like 'Nostalgia Guy" and are also still relatively funny after all these years away
I like how you guys delve into the lesser known details about development studios. I've learned a lot of things I never knew about game development and studios from watching. Thanks for the quality videos!
Wow, this is just as obscure as Morphman. Also, these guys feel like DDI reincarnated. Wii games, a lot of games with the same engine, seriously, these guys are like DDI revived.
If Team6 is like DDI, then it would have the characters from their games, Elviz, Ninjabread Man, Anubis The 2nd, Trixe, Barry Hatter, and all if the gane would have slammed like a gorilla on crack. But it slammed like a gorilla on crack anyway
I remember seeing an ad for Fallout 3 thinking that Flatout had gotten all dark and gritty... Racing in a apocalyptic setting with Flatout's gameplay would be pretty cool honestly It's amazing in itself that the series was able to bounce back after this... what did people think about Fl4tout: Total Insanity?
I remember always mistaking the Flatout section on Steam's old forums for Fallout. Hadn't occurred to me that people might make the opposite mistake, but if it's still 2007 and you've only played console games, it makes perfect sense.
I was working for Team6 Game Studios until last month. I didn't work on Flatout 3 (which is oooold), but it's no wonder it's bad. The publisher isn't paying the studio enough, so they can't hire programmers. Unreal Engine is Complicated, and for many reasons the built-in vehicle physics is not suitable for many games, either arcade or simulation. There are only about 5 programmers in the team. Until 18 months ago they had never hired a physicist. Finally they found me but I had no onboarding. Tech was so tiny that I had to work on non-physics stuff and figure out everything alone. The legacy code base was a disaster, basically years of quick-and-dirty hacks introduced because of publisher-imposed time pressures. There is never any time for refactoring or redesigning. I spent more time tweaking it than doing any good physics; I never had time for R&D. It doesn't help that the head of the Tech team is toxic AF. The guy is just noisy, mean, passive aggressive, micro-managing, know-it-all and condescending. Fortunately he barely ever shows up to the office anyway. Sure he does have a LOT of skills, and he's good at getting some things done; many many things actually. But working with him is so hard that people just flat-out avoid it. And with no time to train anyone else, they're stuck with him. But there's a reason the team is hemorrhaging programmers and testers (they don't even have in-house testers anymore). So, in order to meet deadlines, all programmers have to crunch full time. After 5 months of working 16 hours a day with no weekend and barely the time to pee, my heart gave up. I had to be brought to the ER and get open heart surgery. The extreme stress had broken the tendons of my mitral valve (sure I had a pre-existing condition, but I'm only 40, this usually happens to people over 70). Team 6's solution to being understaffed and not having enough scientists: let me go because I "can't stand the pressure". Which is true; I couldn't stand it, like, I could have died. A sane solution would be to hire more programmers and pay them better so that 1) they can afford to live there (housing crisis) and 2) spread the work load. That requires money and training time, two things the publisher doesn't give us. Oh and by the way, the studio is Dutch, which explains the poor English (like the missing apostrophe in Nico's). There are no writers, just designers having fun. But also, Dutch means that nobody can drive. We all use bikes and public transportation because it's a tiny flat densely-populated country. A studio making games about driving has a vast majority of devs who've never been behind the wheel and don't actually care about cars. The art, design, production, and HR teams have it much better. It's really Tech that's the problem, and it's not Team6's fault really. They don't work in a vacuum. I freaking loved working there, despite everything. I knew we weren't making great games but we did our best with the insane constraints from the publisher. In the end, the publisher is our client, and the devs can't make better games if the publisher doesn't give better feedback or directions. All it would take is for an investor to inject a decent amount of cash so that the studio can hire and train programmers. It would break the cycle, everybody could relax, the mood would lift and the games would be better. But hey, vicious circles. Anyway, time to find another job.
Great video as always! The Mr. Satan bits had me laughing more than they should have, and it's always good to see Bat-Shane make a cameo. The sheer audacity of the studio to just cram all of their previous games into one incomplete package isn't surprising, but could have at least left the numeral off it at least...
I have to believe that Tesm6 is some kind of Mafia front. There is no way that a studio can exist for this long, with virtually every release being nothing shovelware that everyone hates, and not have gone out of business by now unless something sketchy is going on behind the scenes.
I own a Team 6 PC game called Downtown Challenge. It's got broken physics, but hey, I got it dirt cheap with a T-shirt for $6! Still got it. I'm surprised it works on my Windows 10 after having it for 15 years. I'm not surprised they recycled their vehicle models from that game into this! So cheap!
You got one thing wrong. Which was why BugBear left Flatout. It was about money Just not from the original publisher. Bugbear got a deal with Namco to make Ridge Racer: Unbound. Because of this they would not be available for the Flatout series due to contract reasons.
Ironically both franchises ended up being killed off because Unbounded and Flatout 3 could never compare to their predecessors. Except Unbounded was actually good and well polished.
This seems literally like some sort of nightmarish Resident Evil hybrid zombie, just as it’s own game. Team 6 basically took a bunch of parts from their past games’ corpses, then dumped those assets into a ‘test tube’ and mashed them into one horrid, mutated, barely functional hodgepodge monster.
@@RainingMetal Yep. Everybody wants to see that! "You f**ed up my face!" And I hope they mention IHE playing an Asian guy in the game, who goes bald halfway through despite the fact that he's British, and very easily noticeably NOT Asian, but despite IHE not being part Asian(I'm Chinese/Filipino myself), I'm not really offended by his performance, because I Hate Everything is one of the best youtubers I've ever seen, and I was glad to hear he was in a game, it's just too bad he was in Hunt Down The Freeman, and not a game that allowed IHE to really shine the way he normally does in his videos, also, when his character (Nick), does go bald, he starts to look like Lex Luthor. If they ever do cover it, I hope they can get a refund afterwards. Because the game's hilariously bad.
The cars chasing you off the map when you fall off is like that one scene from SpongeBob where the cops chase him and Mrs. Puff off the unfinished bridge and they all crash into the fruit punch truck.
The silver lining is we got Wreckfest from Bug Bear out of this whole debacle, and Wreckfest is a shitload of fun. I'm embarrassed how long I slept on it.
Flatout Ultimate Carnage was an unbelievably fun game - aside from the hilarious and addictive stunt mode where you launch your drivers at breakneck speeds, the racing levels, physics, and soundtrack were just so good. Sure, maybe the racing was derivative of the "aggressive driving" formula of the early 2000's but the game had charm and a distinctive weight to the driving. It's a shame to see how this series ended up to be.
Bro the thank shooting projectiles to parked F1 cars was the funniest thing I've ever seen. By far, this was the funniest game you guys have shown yet, batman crushing strangers cars, riding a wave of demolition cars. You got me with this video.
Bugbear was busy with Ridge Racer unbounded when flatout 3 was due for development. Team 6 studios basically ate the pizza 1 and 2 gave us and sold the egg smelling chocolate sausage on steam
The best part of this game is the character references and even they suck! Also why is the chopper stage so boring? Shouldn't it swing around like a seesaw? That would make it more fun.
Well the reason why it's so boring, it's because once you fall off, you expect to be eliminated. But no, you respawn on it. This could be nullified if it was bigger. Or, you know, REMOVE THE BARRICADES AND GET RID OF THE HOLES?
I per ordered this back in 2011 and remember my utter shock at just what a train wreck it was, but also the Team6 devs going ballistic on the steam forums to anyone who was unhappy with the mess that is Flatout 3.
Y'know, this is one of the very very few games on this show I actually own. Why? Because it was cheaper to buy the Flatout series bundle for 1, 2, and the remake, and get 3 and 4 (I've heard 4 is ok but I really just wanted 1 and 2) as a bonus, than to actually just buy the good games separately. Also yes I have Wreckfest, the real FlatOut 3.
You need to play Alone in the Dark 2008. Its not a racing game, but it has the worst driving I have ever suffered through. Would rather be stuck in actual traffic than play that game again.
I checked into the original devs and thank god they are still around. They may have lost the Flatout name, but they released a spiritual successor recently, and it is great.
recently? you mean 2013/2014 in early Access (which failed 1st time, before their went on steam), changed the title 2 times before their got helped by THQ Nordic and started in 2018 with the bigger changes?
I find it very appropriate that the description for the "Nightshift" mode simply reads: "A nightmare to drive!" Well, it certainly is a nightmare, but probably not in the way the developers intended.
I loved Flatout 2: Ultimate Carnage. This one doesn't measure up, at all. The graphics don't seem to be nearly as good and the action falls flat. The cars seem like they're made of glass and shatter when they impact anything solid. It's almost as though they took the console version and ported it to PC. Yes, its been said. But this game is horrible...im glad i didnt buy it. Companies need to start being held accountable for making steaming piles of **** such as this game, and a few others i could mention. Whoever made this, should be ashamed of themselves
If we want to get technical the tank vehicle in this game would be classified as a tank destroyer which was faster than standard battle tanks as the objective was to "shoot and scoot."
I remember getting Flatout 3 inside a disc collection for PC games. Start it up, main screen, and the game crash when I want to start the race. Gotta thank my old ass laptop for that save. RIP (2011 - 2019)
When there was a sale on all the Flat out games, I spent a bit extra to NOT buy Flatout 3 in a bundle and just purchased the previous games individually.
Gotta love how it's labeled as *psychological horror* in steam
Wait really?
That's at least it's honest
*Psychological Horror* is more on point than they know.
It's a running joke to tag bad games with psychological horror on Steam.
That tag is pretty much useless now.
@@borummoon is that also why Doki Doki Literature Club could still fool people that know nothing about it?
Fun fact: Flatout 3 despite being a racing game, also tagged as "Psychological Horror"
Fitting. because it's so bad it might aswell be terrifying.
On one hand, I'm pretty sure the psychological horror tag gets thrown around as a joke on steam. One of my favorite puzzle game franchise has all steam releases tagged as psychological horror despite not being that in the slightes
On the other hand, i agree with the other commenter, this game is so garbage that it might as well have been a horror game
You forgot to mention that it's a tagged by the community
It's so bad than can shock anyone.
More like psychological torture
4:51 - Can we take a moment to notice that Flatout 3 is listed as PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR?
Thanks for pointing this out.
Well, after seing the video, I think it actually does make sense.
Knowing this game exists does inflict existential dread, so...
Well.... Are they wrong?
@@MaxWasSurprised nope
I remember playing this a couple years ago out of sheer curiosity.
There's a race in Challenge Mode involving the London buses at a cave track. The problem is that on this track there is a jump that you can't cross if you're going too slow which turns out to be literally impossible to clear because the buses cannot go fast enough even with a nitrous boost. I did, however, find a way to finish this race: I had to do a full lap BACKWARDS to reach the next checkpoint after the jump and then finish the lap normally, and then rinse and repeat for the rest of the race all while the AI driver (it was a 1v1) was stuck in a loop of failing to make the jump and respawning to try again.
I can't even. GGWP lol.
Did it took you an hour?
You're joking. These fuckers didn't even test their mutant creation before asking money for it!
Brilliant.
It was difficult, but not impossible. As a bonus, check out bulldozer, it's way faster than tractor or tank, because of this broken gearbox...
"Unknown Player" is probably based off The Stig from the British automotive show 'Top Gear' as they have a professional "tame" racing driver who sets lap times and drives whatever crazy vehicle situation they come up with.
I was literally thinking the same thing too.
Same, that was the exact first thing that came to my mind.
Either the stig, or one of his many "cousins" who only appear as jokes on the show. Like the American cousin, who is depicted as an obese stereotype. His footsteps are so heavy, the earth shakes beneath him when he leaves his trailor. It's hilarious! Kudos to the writers, you ribbed us good! 😄
I thought it mighta been a reference to Speed Racer.
Team 6 should’ve called them “The Stink”
Chaos and Destruction fits so well. This game truly was a Chaos and the Destruction of a franchise.
Agree. But its the only word that fits it sadly. 😂
@@purwantiallan5089 At least until Strategy First gave it a second chance with the fourth game.
I love how their solution to spawning a bunch of players wasn't to actually check the spawn point to see if it was clear, but just make it so nobody has collision.
FLATOUT 3 on Derby mode is like Hard Target in DiRT SHOWDOWN. ONLY YOUR CAR IS THE MAIN TARGET. 🤣
Fun fact, part of Team6's Wikipedia page now says that, as part of that developer's history:
"In the year 2001, Satan decided to flat out out cappy racing games."
I just realized the problem with the character selects: the one that looked like hitman was actually supposed to be hitman, but the names and character descriptions for the hitman and the Postal guy got swapped. Postal of course having had the movie made by Uwe Boll
Postal dude
Oh my god that makes so much sense
It might have been a misunderstanding. Uwe Boll was famous for making horrendous video game adaptations. Hitman: Agent 47 was a horrendous video game adaptation, but it was not directed by Uwe Boll.
@@Vesperitis The movie came out in 2015, this game came out in 2011.
I don't think this is a misunderstanding.
@@dude27lebowski the first Hitman movie released in 2007.
‘Worse than Daikatana’ is a pretty impressive feat, you have to admit.
"Worse than Daikatana" is an accurate assessment of Bubsy 3D, Superman 64, Action 52 and Sonic 06.
@@zyzzy-ko4ww Ehh, remove Sonic 06. It's bad, yes, but Project 06 is definitive proof 06 always had potential.
@@bababooey5402Sonic 06 still as broken like NASCAR 21 IGNITION. 😂
@@purwantiallan5089 Broken? Yes, very obviously. But my point is that underneath the bugs and Sonic's story is a game with a lot of potential that was lost when Sega decided to push it out in time for Christmas.
@@purwantiallan5089Just cuz it's broken doesn't mean it's not peak fiction
I actually created a charecter variant called, Lozario.
I NEVER thought it already existed my God.
Bro i know your pain lol
@@FEARitself100 lol
Lozario sounds much better than Zario ;) =)
You should totally sue them
(Jk don't do it)
8:35 "and if you buy bad video games you go to hell before you die"
By the way, Bugbear couldn't make Flatout 3 because they were working full-time on Ridge Racer Unbounded (which kinda sucked but that's Bandai-Namco's problem), and getting a second team ready to roll and develop another game would be expensive and time consuming.
So of course the rights holders went with the bottom of the barrel choice of a game studio (that also developed Super Street, another blasphemy of a game that should be covered here), it was the right thing to do!
"The AI drivers are missing the I in AI."
Those are not "artificial intelligence", those are "artificial *idiots".*
Also, the "broken, on top of busted, on top of wrong" line absolutely got me.
I feel like this comment should've gotten more attention.
"AI...what's the I stand for?"
@@willem6605Ai Dake Ni!
Ai Miyashita also feeling the pain yet happiness while playing FLATOUT 3. LOL. 😂
@@willem6605intelligence
In the words of Internet Historian:
"Enemy AI is far more A than I."
The "don't touch anything" advice is so funny, you can indeed see how broken the game is.
That's because this crazy excuse for a video game was probably programmed by the Glitch Gremlin.
0:03 FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction? You mean Flat Out Chaos: Laughing Joking Numbnuts Edition!
NEVER TOUCH ANYTHING!
Letting the cars from various modes into every other mode is a great idea. Give the player the option to turn it on and off and make sure they all control well and you got yourself a fun game.
You actually have a point here. I know Mario Kart Wii has a feature like that where you can toggle “Karts and Bikes” for 50cc and 100cc (you have to unlock it first though, and I don’t remember how).
It really should have been Luigi they ripped off instead of Mario. That way he could win demolition mode by doing absolutely nothing.
Ha hahahahahahha hahahahahahah
Hahaha
Ha
True genius if you think about it
More like hornieo and hornigi. (8:23)
19:12
XD
Oh hey, I also found your comment on that one dude's bedroom funtime song.
I love the way you guys review your games. Most reviewers would say something like "The controls for this game sure have a lot of problems." You guys would put it "like a Torre of water gushing out of a fire hydrant onto the street, we're overflowing with gripes!"
Ignoring the bits of pure comedy you guys do. (Like every scene with Satan in it) you guys do such a great job in telling the audience how you feel while also keeping our attention. I love it
In terms of comedy they are really good, in terms of a review they do hit the mark decently well, though it feels a little drowned in the amount of nitpicking and trying to make references that aren’t really there
What sucks so badly about this being so bad is that Flatout 1, 2, and Ultimate Carnage are awesome racers.
A bit hard, but super fun.
Thankfully there seems to be a pretty good spiritual successor in Wreckfest.
How is Wreckfest? I have been itching to get into it. Even though, I am not fan of racing games.
You'd think Team 6 would take a look at the games of years past and actually put th ecoding and mechanics to good use...but they just lazily pushed 'em away saying "Nah, I'm good."
@@cyberprime9355 From what I've seen pretty damn good.
I believe it had a rough start when it came out in Early Access, but nail it on actual release.
TH-camr, FailRace, has videos where he plays it so you can see for yourself.
@@Gruntman1234 I will keep that in mind. Thanks a bunch.
6:42 Im sure that's meant to be the Stig from Top Gear. He was a driver that was always kept anonymous
Toooooop gear
😉
Maaaan, FlatOut 2 is still one of my alltime favorite racers.... and oh.... oh has the franchise fallen...
Luckily the original devs went on to make Wreckfest which I hear is pretty fun :)
don't like Wreckfest ?
Surprised to see you here professor!
@@JaggedBird Well, he does have a Ghost of Wasted Money plush in the background of his videos.
W r e c k f e s t.
If Big Rigs Over the Road Racing was on Steam it would probably be ranked even lower than FlatOut 3.
Not that anyone cares, but the error booting FlatOut 4 at the end was just a missing Microsoft C+ Distributable file, a really common error and an easy fix.
Im surprised you guys didnt mention Wreckfest.
Its pretty much a spiritual successor to the original Flatout games. Its actually one of the best racing games ever made in recent years and was developed by BugBear Entertainment.
But mentioning a good game would interrupt the bitching and whining about a bad game.
They failed to mention that Bugbear left the Flatout series to do Ridge Racer Unbounded, which was released around the same year as Flatout 3.
@@ieuanhunt552 No, it’s to prove that other games do a better job than this.
@@ChaseMC215 I mean Ridge Racer Unbounded is irrelevant to the topic at hand here, plus it’s another huge departure from the original Ridge Racers and is just a Split/Second clone. But at least it’s good enough.
@@ChaseMC215 when we seeing that game on this show
Like Sims 4. You sit on you your porch, touching nothing, doing nothing.
One minute later, all the neigbors and people from entirely different Cities stand around you.
You are always a magnet for each and every living beeing.
Fun fact: A real world prop car of the Tumbler was used as a pace car at the Michigan International Speedway NASCAR 400 in 2005 to promote Batman Begins. You know, a pace car - a car the other racers have to slow down in order to avoid passing
Now I wish Dale Sr. was still alive to bump it, just to see what the reaction would be. XD
Perfect for stopping racers of going ahead of the pace car
@@mariodacostamosteiro7262or even crashing pace car.
Honestly, these F1 racers in Flatout 3 make the Andrea Moda and the Lola T97/30 look driveable. Also, a tank would come in handy for backmarker teams.
6:40 - Unknown Player is not the Stig, but he is the Stig's Rip-off Cousin.
"Hold up, you're telling me that you took all of your previous games, encapsulated them into one package, scamming not only me but every other gamer in the entire world..."
Rockstar Games has left the chat.
I see what you did there.
I hope Rockstar learned their lesson, and won’t cheap out on remaster development again. It’s so sad when a developer that’s so highly regarded screws up as an apparent grab for cash, like Blizzard or Bethesda. Rockstar was solid, until the Trilogy, now it’s only Valve and Nintendo (arguable).
@@24fretsoffury Yeah, about that…
Can't wait for the global gaming shitshow that's going to be GTA6
@@gianpaguiligan1358 what happened?
The "Scatman" bit still cracks me up after all this time. Namely, because my brother and I do that same type of thing in very similar contexts. 😂
“My parents are dead”
It never gets any less funny whenever Shane says it !!!
Oh lovely,a bot
Oh wait no your not,my b,I thought you were those bots that spammed comments about jacksepticeyes parents
Sorry
Alfred? Robin? My parents are dead! -Shane Batman
@@akisa7865 I prefer BatShane, personally.
I really like this Mr. Satan costume, and his voice. I love how they put so much effort into these episodes.
If we lived in a perfect world where every game was released in a stable and fun state, it would be nice, but we would miss out on this channel :)
Too true
That would be lovely actually. I care for good games more than this channel.
Eh, there are a few games, like Driv3r that are actually "good" because of how broken they are.
@@scottthewaterwarrior stable is not the same as fixed
True although they do cover good games too
32:53
"Wow... That's actually pretty evil."
I burst out laughing when I heard Satan say this.
When you got fucking satan shocked by how evil you are it says a lot.
It's not just a regular bad game. It's the product of the greatest minds of a generation working together with the express purpose of building the worst racing game that ever existed.
Big Rigs would beg to differ because it's a crazy glitch-fest that was probably programmed by the Glitch Gremlin.
_clap_
_clap_ Good, that's still working...
Nice Portal reference.
Big Rigs was a case of "oh, you have an engine test alpha ready? Cool, we ship in two weeks!"
It's not the fault of incompetent devs, it's incompetent management.
@@heyitzrareFLATOUT 3 for me is more like Big Rigs 5.0.
7:38 Cyborg and AI are totally different things. Makes you realize how well they thought this out.
Also, if they’re talking the AI for the CPU drivers, yeah. They ain’t driving that good.
I enjoy your Just Bad Games series, I give kudos to both of you for making me laugh so many times. I will say I watched a lot of your videos when I was in ICU with Covid Pneumonia and fighting for my life, you kept my mind off the sickness, so thanks guys.
We're really happy to hear our videos helped you out when you were sick!
@@Jolis_Parsec wow thats nice of you
Sorry to hear that I'm glad you're feeling better and yes I enjoy this channel very much
100% glad your better this is a very good Channel and they make me laugh also
@@rerez yes y'all really do have a good Channel I've been on this channel for years
Unlike this game, this was a really fun video. The "Mr. Satan" bit got me...multiple times. Thanks man!
I heard “Flatout 2010 on Wii” as “Flatout 2010 Ennui.” And I think I was right.
🤣 haha
I did too! I got the mental image of a person in a driving suit and helmet staring out of a window listlessly....
I made the same joke to my friend while we were listening in car.
And I heard "horrors and despair" as "whores in despair".
@Newaru Thanks.
"The roads feel slick with baby oil"
That's a sectence that should belong to P. Diddy
Diddy if he escaped from prison:
You know it’s gonna be bad if you hear games from the same developers that you never heard of
Edit: Damn my highest liked comment so far. Thanks I guess.
Oink.
@@qty1315 Oink.
@@MrRaveyGravy Oink.
@@nickyblue4866 Oink
@@thyredmanexists7183 Oink.
I have no idea why but the entire skit from 32:35 to 32:57 just keeps making me laugh.
Amazing job lads!
19:12 is this game's equivalent of the glorious "Luigi wins by doing nothing" compilations.
As someone who played the heck out of Flatout 2 as a kid, seeing Flatout 3 rated worse *THE QUIET MAN* HURTS
I was dying at the 8-bit version of "Careless Whisper" when the cars were getting busy.
Hilarious 😂
They actually took a MIDI rendition of the tune and played it under a software called "GXSCC"
@@YoshiNoir Cool.
@@purplehz97 As someone who likes to think they're okay at making chiptunes, I... well, don't despise GXSCC, it's not worth that, but strongly dislike it because it's not as good as the real thing and rather low-effort (it takes in a MIDI and spits out a shoddy recreation of what it would have sounded like on the MSX (which used the SCC sound chip, hence the name), a computer most people have probably never heard of). You're probably not interested in this by any stretch of the imagination, but I know about it, so you get this information anyway.
@@pikksen7905 Thanks anyway!
@@pikksen7905 What is the SCC? Is it an 80's gaming computer?
6:45 Look at the character description.
“A rapper with 225 pounds rock-hard, pure muscle. He’s known to wrestle his way out of the wreckage of his car only to continue the destruction derby on foot.”
Yeah, that’s definitely a Fifty Cent ripoff.
Uses a tank shoots a few times and blows up the entire field of players.
Game: u did 2% damage 🙈
YOU HAD ONE FUCKING JOB, TEAM6!!!!!!!
The devs being that bad at basic math kind of explains everything about the AI and physics.
@@ChaseMC215TEAM 6 is broken. 😂
@@stevethepocketKanon Shibuya ever got all 45 achievements in FLATOUT 3 sadly.
The fact that they didn’t even program in a failsave for the player clipping out of bounds…
They must have felt really confident
Man, i used to play flatout 2 so much, it was a such underrated and fun game
And then team 6 came in to ruin everything and turn this franchise into a total forgotten dead game
Just goes to show that sometimes it takes one bad experience to ruin a brand for good, and be lost to time
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 Because money
@@cyberprime9355 I always think of Breath of Fire when I hear this...
At least you got to have your gas station promoted. =P
@@calemr which breath of fire is bad?!
28:25 racers HATE this trick! See how you can win any race with this one simple hack
I think the "37 Rupias being a cheap knockoff of 50 Cent" might have actually been intentional. If so that's actually kinda funny, and probably the game's only redeeming value.
Maybe it's actually supposed to be "Rupiah(s)", the currency of Indonesia... That makes it, well, approximately a quarter of a cent; significantly more than I'd be willing to pay for this game.
If you do some research you'll notice that ALL the characters (excluding the one that's the reversed name of the studio head) are a cheap knockoff of some celebrity and/or character.
May 50 cent Ripoff is named 1'000 Pesos.
@@lordlundar legally they’re classified as satirical characters
@Mcheetah Kind of a massive stretch to be calling Ronnie Nelis a celebrity considering the game we're looking at
Overwatch 2 recently got released on Steam and that now has the lowest rated score on the platform.
Flatout 3 has finally lost its number one spot as the worst game on Steam.
What you get for Xmas when grandma half-remembers what she heard. It’s not a game where you emerge from a vault, but the code should be thrown into one.
You just reminded me of an amusing moment:
Back in elementary, I bought this cheat code book that had cheats for one of the Flatout games inside. My dumbass read it as "Fallout" and then I was wondering where in the world I could input those cheats in Fallout III.
Would you believe a buddy of mine worked for TEAM SIX in Amsterdam maybe even on this game. The seek fresh college kids (*ie CHEAP)* whom havent been beaten down by the World yet and are still open to recruiting cliches like "with your dreams and our company you will go far" and "we see ourselves as a very talented family".
Only to get you working on one of the 99 awful z grade PC\mobile knockoff "dollar bin' racing games
Nice to see you guys still making these videos yourselves. The high squealing voice montages dont have the air of hopelessness you got from hacks like 'Nostalgia Guy" and are also still relatively funny after all these years away
I like how you guys delve into the lesser known details about development studios. I've learned a lot of things I never knew about game development and studios from watching. Thanks for the quality videos!
If you like those things look into wha happun on TH-cam Matt does that a bunch and like you I love background info on bad development
@@K1llM31FYouCan Thanks! I'll check that out.
@@gryzzlyb what he say
This series continues to reach new peaks more and more! This megazord of gangly deformed software story is outstanding!!!
Wow, this is just as obscure as Morphman.
Also, these guys feel like DDI reincarnated. Wii games, a lot of games with the same engine, seriously, these guys are like DDI revived.
SO, WHERE'S THIS CASTLE?
If Team6 is like DDI, then it would have the characters from their games, Elviz, Ninjabread Man, Anubis The 2nd, Trixe, Barry Hatter, and all if the gane would have slammed like a gorilla on crack.
But it slammed like a gorilla on crack anyway
Wait until they eventually play one of the DDI racing games because oh boy, they are somehow worse than this.
@@monkaWGiga
Is it that one game that Scott The Woz took a look at in one of his shovelware videos?
@@ChaseMC215 I think so. I've played a handful of them after getting a bunch of them for 3 bucks and they are exceedingly bad.
3:15 You should of put the pig from earlier to make it funnier
I remember seeing an ad for Fallout 3 thinking that Flatout had gotten all dark and gritty... Racing in a apocalyptic setting with Flatout's gameplay would be pretty cool honestly
It's amazing in itself that the series was able to bounce back after this... what did people think about Fl4tout: Total Insanity?
Guess we won’t know Fred flinstone
have you ever heard of Powerslide by chance?
I remember always mistaking the Flatout section on Steam's old forums for Fallout. Hadn't occurred to me that people might make the opposite mistake, but if it's still 2007 and you've only played console games, it makes perfect sense.
I was working for Team6 Game Studios until last month. I didn't work on Flatout 3 (which is oooold), but it's no wonder it's bad.
The publisher isn't paying the studio enough, so they can't hire programmers. Unreal Engine is Complicated, and for many reasons the built-in vehicle physics is not suitable for many games, either arcade or simulation. There are only about 5 programmers in the team. Until 18 months ago they had never hired a physicist. Finally they found me but I had no onboarding. Tech was so tiny that I had to work on non-physics stuff and figure out everything alone. The legacy code base was a disaster, basically years of quick-and-dirty hacks introduced because of publisher-imposed time pressures. There is never any time for refactoring or redesigning. I spent more time tweaking it than doing any good physics; I never had time for R&D.
It doesn't help that the head of the Tech team is toxic AF. The guy is just noisy, mean, passive aggressive, micro-managing, know-it-all and condescending. Fortunately he barely ever shows up to the office anyway. Sure he does have a LOT of skills, and he's good at getting some things done; many many things actually. But working with him is so hard that people just flat-out avoid it. And with no time to train anyone else, they're stuck with him. But there's a reason the team is hemorrhaging programmers and testers (they don't even have in-house testers anymore).
So, in order to meet deadlines, all programmers have to crunch full time. After 5 months of working 16 hours a day with no weekend and barely the time to pee, my heart gave up. I had to be brought to the ER and get open heart surgery. The extreme stress had broken the tendons of my mitral valve (sure I had a pre-existing condition, but I'm only 40, this usually happens to people over 70).
Team 6's solution to being understaffed and not having enough scientists: let me go because I "can't stand the pressure". Which is true; I couldn't stand it, like, I could have died. A sane solution would be to hire more programmers and pay them better so that 1) they can afford to live there (housing crisis) and 2) spread the work load. That requires money and training time, two things the publisher doesn't give us.
Oh and by the way, the studio is Dutch, which explains the poor English (like the missing apostrophe in Nico's). There are no writers, just designers having fun. But also, Dutch means that nobody can drive. We all use bikes and public transportation because it's a tiny flat densely-populated country. A studio making games about driving has a vast majority of devs who've never been behind the wheel and don't actually care about cars.
The art, design, production, and HR teams have it much better. It's really Tech that's the problem, and it's not Team6's fault really. They don't work in a vacuum. I freaking loved working there, despite everything. I knew we weren't making great games but we did our best with the insane constraints from the publisher. In the end, the publisher is our client, and the devs can't make better games if the publisher doesn't give better feedback or directions. All it would take is for an investor to inject a decent amount of cash so that the studio can hire and train programmers. It would break the cycle, everybody could relax, the mood would lift and the games would be better. But hey, vicious circles.
Anyway, time to find another job.
Great video as always! The Mr. Satan bits had me laughing more than they should have, and it's always good to see Bat-Shane make a cameo. The sheer audacity of the studio to just cram all of their previous games into one incomplete package isn't surprising, but could have at least left the numeral off it at least...
Imagine if Yoshiko Tsushima is Mr. Satan. 😂
The good game from 2005 somehow looks incomparably better that the game made in 2011. I’m not even sure how that’s possible
A compilation of racing games as glitchy as Sonic '06 honestly sounds like a pretty fun time-waster.
Flatout 3 for me is like Sonic 06. Completely BROKEN! 😂
I have to believe that Tesm6 is some kind of Mafia front. There is no way that a studio can exist for this long, with virtually every release being nothing shovelware that everyone hates, and not have gone out of business by now unless something sketchy is going on behind the scenes.
I own a Team 6 PC game called Downtown Challenge. It's got broken physics, but hey, I got it dirt cheap with a T-shirt for $6! Still got it. I'm surprised it works on my Windows 10 after having it for 15 years. I'm not surprised they recycled their vehicle models from that game into this! So cheap!
Atleast you got it with a shirt for a fair prize
@@mariodacostamosteiro7262 you can get this game for free and still want your money back
You got one thing wrong.
Which was why BugBear left Flatout.
It was about money
Just not from the original publisher.
Bugbear got a deal with Namco to make Ridge Racer: Unbound. Because of this they would not be available for the Flatout series due to contract reasons.
Ironically both franchises ended up being killed off because Unbounded and Flatout 3 could never compare to their predecessors. Except Unbounded was actually good and well polished.
"Your car controls like a greased up water balloon filled with bricks." Go ahead and put that on the back of the box.
This seems literally like some sort of nightmarish Resident Evil hybrid zombie, just as it’s own game. Team 6 basically took a bunch of parts from their past games’ corpses, then dumped those assets into a ‘test tube’ and mashed them into one horrid, mutated, barely functional hodgepodge monster.
Now we know where Shane and Adam get thier games for this series the literal worst games on steam list.
Can't wait for them to cover Hunt Down the Freeman!
@@RainingMetal Yep. Everybody wants to see that! "You f**ed up my face!" And I hope they mention IHE playing an Asian guy in the game, who goes bald halfway through despite the fact that he's British, and very easily noticeably NOT Asian, but despite IHE not being part Asian(I'm Chinese/Filipino myself), I'm not really offended by his performance, because I Hate Everything is one of the best youtubers I've ever seen, and I was glad to hear he was in a game, it's just too bad he was in Hunt Down The Freeman, and not a game that allowed IHE to really shine the way he normally does in his videos, also, when his character (Nick), does go bald, he starts to look like Lex Luthor. If they ever do cover it, I hope they can get a refund afterwards. Because the game's hilariously bad.
@@shawnfields2369 Oh and hopefully they mention the fact that Pyrocynical is in………
The aliens are comin-
@@ItsLelingTime "You f**ked up my face!"
@@ItsLelingTime “Oh colonel, we’re sooo fucked…”
by the way, I'm not sure if you noticed this, the arrows above the trucks are different colors, some red some blue, meaning there is a team system.
23:19
"Not once,
Not twice,
Not thrice,
Not *frfrffrfs,"*
15:01 Good Job! You screwed up in your own damn level!
16:57 Techno love music
27:48 A tank.
I just noticed that the preview image for the Speed game mode is literally a screenshot from the game Speed, you can tell because of the car.
The cars chasing you off the map when you fall off is like that one scene from SpongeBob where the cops chase him and Mrs. Puff off the unfinished bridge and they all crash into the fruit punch truck.
The silver lining is we got Wreckfest from Bug Bear out of this whole debacle, and Wreckfest is a shitload of fun. I'm embarrassed how long I slept on it.
Not the worst rated Steam game of all time anymore. That dishonor now belongs to Overwatch 2
Flatout Ultimate Carnage was an unbelievably fun game - aside from the hilarious and addictive stunt mode where you launch your drivers at breakneck speeds, the racing levels, physics, and soundtrack were just so good. Sure, maybe the racing was derivative of the "aggressive driving" formula of the early 2000's but the game had charm and a distinctive weight to the driving. It's a shame to see how this series ended up to be.
Bro the thank shooting projectiles to parked F1 cars was the funniest thing I've ever seen. By far, this was the funniest game you guys have shown yet, batman crushing strangers cars, riding a wave of demolition cars. You got me with this video.
Isaac newton and other physicians watching this: Alright I am out. It’s an insult to physics
Bugbear was busy with Ridge Racer unbounded when flatout 3 was due for development. Team 6 studios basically ate the pizza 1 and 2 gave us and sold the egg smelling chocolate sausage on steam
The best part of this game is the character references and even they suck!
Also why is the chopper stage so boring?
Shouldn't it swing around like a seesaw?
That would make it more fun.
Well the reason why it's so boring, it's because once you fall off, you expect to be eliminated. But no, you respawn on it.
This could be nullified if it was bigger. Or, you know, REMOVE THE BARRICADES AND GET RID OF THE HOLES?
I mean adding barricades
23:36 you need to accidentally find an unmarked container that has a higher point pool
Me: what about the colors of the containers
I per ordered this back in 2011 and remember my utter shock at just what a train wreck it was, but also the Team6 devs going ballistic on the steam forums to anyone who was unhappy with the mess that is Flatout 3.
They were so petty for getting mad like did they really expect us to be happy with this garbage they releeased
Y'know, this is one of the very very few games on this show I actually own. Why? Because it was cheaper to buy the Flatout series bundle for 1, 2, and the remake, and get 3 and 4 (I've heard 4 is ok but I really just wanted 1 and 2) as a bonus, than to actually just buy the good games separately.
Also yes I have Wreckfest, the real FlatOut 3.
28:25 Imagine that in online multiplayer
You need to play Alone in the Dark 2008. Its not a racing game, but it has the worst driving I have ever suffered through. Would rather be stuck in actual traffic than play that game again.
I checked into the original devs and thank god they are still around. They may have lost the Flatout name, but they released a spiritual successor recently, and it is great.
recently? you mean 2013/2014 in early Access (which failed 1st time, before their went on steam), changed the title 2 times before their got helped by THQ Nordic and started in 2018 with the bigger changes?
@@nightstorm5914 Still counts as released in 2018, when it finally leaves early access
Fine, dont tell us the name of the game, keep your secrets.
@@janeblogs324 Nobody asked, it is called wreckfest
I find it very appropriate that the description for the "Nightshift" mode simply reads: "A nightmare to drive!"
Well, it certainly is a nightmare, but probably not in the way the developers intended.
28:18 "F1 racers are not prepared for this" should become a meme
4:42 I'll die on this hill: DAIKATANA IS PRETTY GOOD. (With the fan patch that fixes a ton of bugs.)
This list doesnt account for fan patches so this isn't saying that it's also bad with the fan patch
I loved Flatout 2: Ultimate Carnage. This one doesn't measure up, at all. The graphics don't seem to be nearly as good and the action falls flat. The cars seem like they're made of glass and shatter when they impact anything solid.
It's almost as though they took the console version and ported it to PC. Yes, its been said. But this game is horrible...im glad i didnt buy it.
Companies need to start being held accountable for making steaming piles of **** such as this game, and a few others i could mention.
Whoever made this, should be ashamed of themselves
If we want to get technical the tank vehicle in this game would be classified as a tank destroyer which was faster than standard battle tanks as the objective was to "shoot and scoot."
What’s happening is Justin’s coat is not properly detaching from the car, so it stays stuck to the seat.
28:58 that arrow is from my guess could be represent a team. blue one is your team and red one are opponent's team
I remember getting Flatout 3 inside a disc collection for PC games.
Start it up, main screen, and the game crash when I want to start the race.
Gotta thank my old ass laptop for that save. RIP (2011 - 2019)
Look, if you’re a company, don’t buy a successful IP just to change it into whatever you want it to be. Kinda undermines the point of buying it.
YES...just bad games upload is always a great way to finish the day!
And a Friday, no less!
24:40 Hey, to a ragdoll, falling down a never ending flight of stairs WOULD be hell.
I like how the London bus and the tank have the same strength rating.
4:35 Is noone going to mention that the dog football game has the physological horror tag?
So does flatout 3
I love that you guys kept the takes of Money Money and Scatman where you cracked up laughing.
When there was a sale on all the Flat out games, I spent a bit extra to NOT buy Flatout 3 in a bundle and just purchased the previous games individually.