Rooster Teeth / Achievement Hunter / Let's Play / Funhaus / Inside Gaming - The company was resurrected.

[Burt Ryan]

One of the dumbest takes I've ever seen from FH was when they were shitting on the guys who did Shenmue for doing a Kickstarter for another game and they wouldn't shut up about how scummy and stupid the whole thing was, even to the point they incessantly harped about it when they played it, but praised the moron Tim Schaefer who did Psychonauts 2 via a Kickstarter.

Funhaus never liked playing / watching "slow games", mostly because of Adam being utterly incompent at reading or following anything on the screen that isn't shooting at people, yet they praised Yakuza when someone - somewhat competent - like Lawrence played it and stringed them along for the ride.

It was mostly "convince Bruce that something is worth / funny to banter about" and the whole crew will follow along with it.

The most blatant offense by Adam was when he didn't read "SCROLL" in the For My Boyfriend series, and every shop selection of items was locked to two items because he didn't know that he had to SCROLL.

 

[Whaler]

The Willems clan did voices for Psychonauts 2. So of course it gets a pass. Source

This was before he got the voice work in the game, which is why I considered it a dumb take.

 

[JimiHendrix]

What the actual fuck? How the fuck are people so desperate to see more half-assed "research" to fund half a million?

i honestly don't think ith as anything to do with the "research" segments or even who wins.

death battle just seems to be the highest quality "x character vs y character" on the internet animation wise. i mean, if you know of another series that often has full 3d 4-5 minute fights between characters, lemmie know, because I ain't seen one. closest I ever saw was "what if x happened in DBZ?" and it's just a bunch of edited PNGs.

 

[Druveer]

What a tragedy of an entertainment company.

They had everything and then they just botched it in the end.

Hey now don't be like that. The people at RT worked very hard to get to this point. It takes alot of work to fuck up what they had this badly.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

i honestly don't think ith as anything to do with the "research" segments or even who wins.

death battle just seems to be the highest quality "x character vs y character" on the internet animation wise.

I could accept that if they didn't preamble for 60% of the video highlighting shit they were going to ignore.

 

[Pig Boss]

I was pretty sure she and one of the FH guys dated for a good time. Rate me gay if I am remembering incorrectly.

Are you not thinking of Garrett from Mega64?

 

[Random Internet Person]

Death battle has gone independent and will continue on

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Update after the first 24 hours.



Noe they need more goals.

 

[LazyLizard]

Update after the first 24 hours.

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Noe they need more goals.

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i only watched RT/AH and FH so i don't what's in a death battle video but how the fuck does it cost 50k per video?

 

[Zane Flynt]

Are you not thinking of Garrett from Mega64?

It could have been, especially considering they dated at one point and he was also more affiliated with RT than the rest of the Mega64 guys thanks to his VA work over there.

 

[JimiHendrix]

i only watched RT/AH and FH so i don't what's in a death battle video but how the fuck does it cost 50k per video?

50k seems really fucking high, but for full 3D animations like Goku vs Superman, I could see it costing 10-15k. no idea how they got 50k though.

 

[Pat Fried Rice]

And another one because THAT put you of watching FH.


Even dated Alanah for a bit.

Well fuck. Does double gay cancel out? Like, Am i super straight now?

Either way, Barb’s the county bicycle, maybe I’ll dig through and give some of FH’s earlier content a second chance.

 

[Random Internet Person]

i only watched RT/AH and FH so i don't what's in a death battle video but how the fuck does it cost 50k per video?

50k seems really fucking high, but for full 3D animations like Goku vs Superman, I could see it costing 10-15k. no idea how they got 50k though.

From the kickstarter, it seems a lot of it is production costs, paying the folks who work on the episode, and not having any more funding from higher ups, so everything they do is basically out of their own pockets.

 

[JimiHendrix]

From the kickstarter, it seems a lot of it is production costs, paying the folks who work on the episode, and not having any more funding from higher ups, so everything they do is basically out of their own pockets.

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ah, i was looking at this from the costs of what they made when they were with Rooster Teeth, if they no longer have that company backing, I can see why the cost would go up.

 

[Burt Ryan]

Also, Alanah's addition to the Funhaus roster was the worst choice ever.

 

[Monkey Shoulder]

Also, Alanah's addition to the Funhaus roster was the worst choice ever.

Well, there's the tranny.
At least Alanah is nice to look at.

 

[Burt Ryan]

Well, there's the tranny.
At least Alanah is nice to look at.

I've said it before, Alanah is as hot as she is unfunny. But you're right.

 

[Friedrich Hayek's Ghost]

ah, i was looking at this from the costs of what they made when they were with Rooster Teeth, if they no longer have that company backing, I can see why the cost would go up.

There's also the fact that anyone working on it as a full-time project has to have all of their living expenses coming out of that money, too.

 

[LazyLizard]

Well, there's the tranny.
At least Alanah is nice to look at.

wait FH invited a tranny to the crew?

 

[Monkey Shoulder]

wait FH invited a tranny to the crew?

Yeah. Obviusly a very flattering picture.

 

[TheArtilleryman]

Am I the only one here who doesn't like Funhaus? There humor just didn't land for me and that whiney little podcast they did about Kingdom Come Deliverance just killed any remaining chance for me to like their content.

No, you’re not. I never got into FH, it always felt like they were riding AH’s coattails hard, and then when we found out that one of them managed to put a bike lock on Barb for a bit, I was thoroughly turned off their content. I did try a few of their vids, but they never made me lol like AH’s stuff did.

They were much better as Inside Gaming, before Rooster Teeth acquired them and they became Funhaus. 2012-2015 were the real golden years for them boys (and Spoole), they started to decline by the time they became Funhaus though they could still make some magic happen whenever it was the OGs in a video together (Adam, James, Bruce, Lawrence, Joel, Spoole and maybe sometimes Peake). They had unmatched chemistry and banter, and it was often much more intelligent than the whooping and shouting characteristic of Achievement Hunter (a natural comparison at the time).

The decline really became apparent when they started doing God awful original animations like "Sex Swing" and other RT clone content, as well as shoehorning in loads of new hires. Riding coattails is an understatement.

It's ironic because by all their accounts, business was much tougher in the IG days working under Machinima instead of RT. They hated it and I recall Adam and Bruce saying once that the freedom they suddenly had working with RT was overwhelming at first. Its doubly ironic how that freedom lead to them becoming near indistinct from the rest of RT.