Fighters Lost in the Files - Rising Thunders "Hidden" Characters

Thanks for the video. Your "mad conspiracy theory" at the end is dead on. We included the "Goodies" download to give y'all a taste of our grand vision for the game, especially Aegis and Gun, who we hoped you'd eventually find (which of course you did). RT was an 18 month race from start to finish, built by a dozen talented, passionate devs who love fighting games. While the journey ended too soon, it was an unforgettable experience and helped set the stage for Project L. By the way, the Goodies download also has concept art for all the mechs' pilots, who were planned but never made it into the game.

Incredible content. Now I care about unreleased characters and the people who made them more than I do about myself.

My dyslexia kicked me hard here, I 100% read "Fighting Game Lord of the Flies" and I was like... "Well, they made one on Le Mis, and LoTF does create potential scenarios where fighting game gameplay could work..."

Poor Gun. He accidentally became an appropriate joke character for a game about giant mechs: a first draft prototype who somehow found the light of day and now has to contend with other, much more refined machines.

What is very promising to me is that the Rising Thunder devs are now working on Project L, which already seems to be experimenting with similarly unique character ideas. I suspect that Riot bought the team and instantly set them to work on Project L, which should be a much bigger game. So for Radiant, things seem to be looking up.

Shoutouts to Radiant for allowing people to get access to continue playing the game, no matter how small that fanbase is. It's a really cool thing to do, and is unfortunately an very rare act of kindness in this era of online games being lost to time, never to be played or enjoyed again

The editing in this video is genuinely incredible

aegis is my new favorite fighting game character of all time, thank you for introducing me to my new robot wife

im lost in your eyes babe, great video per usual

The Rising Thunder discovery reminds me how the internet basically ruined any sorts of self discovery in video games. I'm glad there's an actual modern example of gaming mysticism with Gun and Aegis.

Holy cow the visuals are crazy in this one. That Paper Mario party was wild Also really appreciate this video. I'm in the majority that mostly heard about rising thunder and then heard it was taken down. Would never of known about this and what a unique character honestly

I prefer getting lost in the sauce myself

Didn't expect to watch a whole Netflix documentary with an incredible script and top notch editing. You can really feel how much effort is put in those videos

I'd say part of the lack of knowledge about the discovery is is definitely because of Discord's nature as an information black hole. It's unsearchable/unindexable,information is locked behind communities with often esoteric inductment rituals many wouldn't want to touch and you just plain don't even know whether there is anything to look for,much less where it would be. Many similar things disappear into discord's event horizon,destined to be observed by naught but the single sensor technician that was staring at their moment of entry without any recording equipment.

idk man, with each new video, you further cement yourself as the new gold standard for gaming analysis videos, particularly with regard to FGs - well done m8

this story reminds me a lot of gigantic’s untimely demise and all of that games unused content. Seeing characters that range from almost at the finish line (in gig’s case much closer than aegis and gun) to untextured buggy messes in the only fully functional build and taking peeks back at their concept art, early kit design, and so on has been a small obsession of mine since the game shut down in 2018. I boot up the test build every now and then and play all these barely functional characters and it’s soooo weird standing on the cutting room floor. I never got into rising thunder but it’s always bittersweet seeing what could’ve been

if you uploaded this on day of the dead on purpose that is so genius

learning that almost all of the concept art was for aegis and gun actually made me cry they were probably the two people on the team were most passionate about and they didnt even get into the final game :((((

As someone who sees a fascination in experiencing unused content in games, the ending was touching. I thought this game looked awesome and worth trying despite the inputs that normally wouldn't appeal to me, and genuinely looked forward to its release. When I heard of its cancellation, I was pretty damn sad that a PC fighting game was now gonna be lost before I even knew it had available to the public due to it getting so little attention, and the community edition was something I'd never think was possible. Maybe, I will play it and experience the cool robot fighter I never could.

despite never having touched Rolling Thunder and not planning to, i am now a Aegis main. Cool ass video, wonder how many Rolling Thunder-ism we'll see revived in Project L