Game Theory: Fortnite's SECRET Plan to Control Disney!

This aged extremely well

I just love how Matpat just makes Mickey look like a maniacal mastermind every chance he gets

This aged like the finest wine in history .

The way Epic Games is giving oportunities to developers with their Unreal Engine seems just really kind of them

I love how despite all the horror content MatPat has put out, the scariest character in the lore across all of his channels is Mickey Mouse

Disney will rule the earth like the B&L did to Wall-E
Epic: yeah let me take that job for you

"It's just too much to make in-house engines now"
Team 4, the Overwatch Team: "Hold my bear"

This has aged quite well

When MatPat talked about touring houses in vitural reality, I almost immediately remembered that there was a horror game surrounded by that very idea.

MatPat missed where this is going. Companies in ALL fields are developing virtual training. It'll come a time where you will be training at home in how to do a job before setting foot in the place.

this aged well now there collabing

Activision had their own game engine at one point called Activision Alchemy, which was used to power Crash Nitro Kart, all the Skylanders games, Crash N. Sane Trilogy, and CTR Nitro Fueled, in more recent times it has been fully replaced by the Unreal Engine which powers Spyro Reignited Trilogy, and Crash Bandicoot 4 It’s About Time!

"If the moment you hear EPIC, all you think of is Fortnite, then you're missing the bigger picture here."
What I think of when I hear EPIC: *The Angry birds spin off RPG game*

"Unreal rendering can be projected onto backgrounds in real time"
That sounds unreal...

i was here for one of matpat's theorys to come true

Mickey: I own everything!
Jonsey: You sure about that kiddo?

I didn't realize the Unreal engine could do so much. They did name that thing right.

To quote Qui-Gon Jinn: “There’s always a bigger fish.”

Man, has this aged like fine wine! Fortnite just released a trailer that Disney is collaborating with Epic Games today. Can’t wait to play as Mickey Mouse.

I got an ad for the Big Change episode on this video, and let me tell you, the experience of hearing MatPat's voice after clicking on a game theory video but also seeing the "skip ads" button on the screen was certainly something

You didn’t even mention the biggest up-and-coming use for a game engine: training robots in simulation

Mickey: "I own everything!”
*Disney's copyright on Mickey set to expire in a little over 2 years*

Who is here after the announcement of the Fortnite x Disney collab was made

Whoa, that evil Mickey laugh was so good! The smooth transition from impression to building on top of the voice, the madness, the tone, so good!

Me, a Unity (and partial Unreal) game developer: "He's speaking my language HE'S SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE"

As a game developer, I got chills when I realized that the logo being drawn out was of unreal engine. Cause I didn't even know that Epic made it.

I feel like the power of unreal is simply breathtaking due to its ability to create things never before seen within a small amount of time. However it is quite unknown due to its complexity and backend nature. I am glad that someone finally shed some light on this for the public.

As someone who is working in the animation/game industry, I can say that Mat is right on this one. More and more animation companies are testing out unreal engine for their projects, heck some clients are asking for it as well.

I think you should do a Theory on 12 Minutes. It is a newly released game, but it's really fascinating and nothing is truly clear even after having completed the game and unlocked multiple endings. Not gonna spoil it to you, so here only the main premise: the MC was supposed to spend a romantic evening with his wife, but instead is stuck in a 12 minutes time loop and trying to solve its mystery.

Honestly, after being a fan of this channel for like 7-ish years, I never realized just how good the video editing actually is. It all looks very simple, and for the most part, it is, but once I really got into content creation myself, I am unable to do half the stuff these editors can do. It's so much harder to be as consistent as the ones that work on this channel.

Now that a Disney x epic collab is actually happening, this theory might come true

My guy knew all

It’s crazy that this came out when it did. I just finished a certificate program where one of the big topics was all the different applications of the Unreal Engine. It really is the industry standard in CGI and gaming. Crazy stuff

Fun Fact : Unity can also make vr games, such as budget cuts, and beat saber (maybe not for beatsaber) but yea, pretty nice.

This aged like wine.

The Game Theorists: "That's what Epic games did in the past."
Me, an old frick: "Do not cite the deep history to me, MatPat, I was there when it was written."
Also: Skaarj bestest enemy.
Edit: Also let's not forget the great engine of the early 00s. The Quake 3 engine. So many games done with it. And Steams Source engine.

Everybody gangster until MatPat says
“Anyways, thanks UNREAL Engine for sponsoring, let’s get onto the theory”

To quote Qui-gonn Jin : “there’s always a Bigger fish”

Plot twist: The intro shows that this entire video is actually just Jonesy showing Mickey how he took control.

oh how the tables have turned

i love how this isn’t a theory just him saying what’s happening

This video is literally just when an antagonist whos in all episodes gets challenged by a more op villain who appears only in some episodes and everyone hates them, and the antagonist has to team up with the protagonists to beat the villain

he was right.

I love the new Stagecraft technology they’re using in the Disney+ shows.

Nobody gonna mention how insanely realistic unreal engine 5 is? And it literally got revealed only like 2 months ago

surprised it took matpat THIS long to talk about the software behind the actual business empires.

first off I want to say, since you mentioned valorant just once, I think you would be quite intrigued by the lore in that game: second, yea I was surprised how insanely useful unreal is to make stuff with after using it the first time.

HE PREDICTED IT

“Epic’s “Unreal” advantage”. I see what you did there matpat

id software's "idtech" engine used for DOOM Eternal is godly

That was a *flawless* transition to the Big Change bit at the end. I'm stunned. I just didn't realise at all until you outright mentioned the sponsor. Congrats on that, you're the first channel to do it so well.

I really want a new binding of isaac theory, there's been so much more information, characters, and side games since your last theory on the game, and I really just enjoy the way you make your videos

Disney: *plans to dominate everything*
Epic: “Challenge accepted.”

I never knew that the unreal engine was used to make a movie, that's honestly really cool.

Where are you hiding the crystal ball? Bro predicted this like 3 years ago💀💀

2 years later we have a collab with disney including all it's IPs The man the myth the legend had predicted it way before anyone did

As a dev I can say I've used both Unreal and Unity and many other engines like Unigen, Cryengine, Godot, etc. But for devs epic games is like a god sent they have provided so many cutting edge tools and made them accessible enough that anyone can make something.

“Everyone keeps underestimating them”
Epic games is the mc of our world

this video aged well

So stoked that someone finally understands what a game engine is XD also Little Nightmares 1 and 2 also were made using unreal.

I just got an ad for the “big change,” right before matpat started talking about it.
Coincidence? I think not!

Epic recently added 2 new features that help tremendously with movies:
Lumen: this is a tool that epic made which calculates light for u. For eg, u can set a light source and put an object in the room and the tool will calculate the highlights shadows and bounce light for u. This reduces the production time by more then 30 percent sometimes even 50 percent as just calculating the lights manually is very hard and time consuming.

Matpat: Duopoly, Unreal and Unity control the market!
VALVe and Source 2: Am I a joke to you?

11:45 Now that you mention it, it would be cool to see what you think of Valorant's hidden lore. I'm just saying, that would be a fun theory.

One thing to keep in mind with this is how big movies are as well- after The Mandalorian season 1, the VFX crews working for Disney had enough time to figure out what functionality they needed from Unreal and just built their own software so they wouldn’t be tied to Epic any more. Epic wasn’t super happy about it, but Disney hadn’t actually broken any contracts or infringed any patents so they couldn’t sue over it

Theory idea: How much hair should Zelda have grown in the 100 years between Calamity Ganon's attack and the end of BotW.

So glad Matpat finally did a theory on Unreal, and even made an Infinity Blade reference! If only he'd do a theory on Infinity Blade's MASSIVE lore

2024: JACK SKELLINGTON WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE IN FORTNITE AND WHY DID DISNEY BUY 10% OF FORTNITE

I am quite happy that riot didn't programm an engine for Valorant themselves. Their League Engine is so far beyond broken, the game had an instance where a character could change the direciton of a jump midair, because they changed a damage value.

Fun fact: Battle Royale was not meant to be a main attraction in Fortnite. It was meant to be just a building game with a horde mode implemented in it

This is so much fun to watch as a game dev student, we studie this and talk a lot about this. In the begining mat talk a lot about the history aroud the gaming industry and how Unreal started and we talked a lot about it in our course Gaming history. So this video is so much fun to watch! And I learnd someing new too!!!! Keep up the good work!

This aged like fine wine 🍷

As soon as you mentioned that Epic made the Unreal Engine I realized how terrifying they could be.

Game Theory: HOW DOES SOLID SNAKE SURVIVE BEING IN A LITERAL MICROWAVE FOR 3 MINUTES IN MGS4? AND CAN NANOMACHINES EXIST?

Fun fact: the way that game engines are used in indurstries like the military, real estate, and even medicine has caused the creation of a sub section of the industry called "serious games" which involves developing these sorts of simulations

He was right

Just a quick note that The Mandalorian actually used LED light walls, rather than projection onto a screen, to display the backgrounds, allowing for the final image captured in the camera to include both the characters and the backgrounds together, rather than having to add the backgrounds separately after shooting.
(Additionally, one other great benefit, and arguably the one that impacts the final image more, is that the lighting on the characters is much more correct. One thing you might notice is that there are not a lot of very reflective characters shot with green/blue screen. This is because the light that is bouncing off of the characters and into the camera is not the light from the scene in the movie, but rather the light from the set it is shot on. This means that the real reflections will reflect the things on set (the green screen, the camera, etc.) rather than what’s in the movie scene. Some of this can be fixed in post but it’s often very difficult and intensive. Solution? Create a giant LED room that can create the scene that is being shot, allowing for much more accurate lighting and reflections [hence a reason why Mando’s armor is very reflective, to show off how cool this is].)

This video turned into a “why we need games: 3 reasons why”
Very nice

Guess it wasnt just a theory.

Who's here after the collab
👇

The intros have come such a long way. Look at this animation!

The one thing that people should take away from this is that the mandalorian is the longest cut scene.

Foreshadowing

“Video games are everything. Jobs, entertainment, lifestyle. It’s the engine that powers society itself. And to make it in this society, you need to win. A lot.”

Wasn't expecting this but here we are. That beginning scene was hilarious

This whole theory is more Epic than Epic Games themselves.

9:42 To be fair, Gamemaker has some merit too. After all, Undertale was made in it.

it'd be cool if there was a theory on fortnite's ACTUAL lore, it's changed alot since the days of the first rocket and worlds collide ARG, and is more complex than some of the stuff game theory covers nowadays. a tiny scratch into the surface is people from all realities trapped within a time loop which wipes their memories, which is managed by a mysterious organization called the Imagined Order.

This feels like when Sephirot cut Galeem in half
Evil isn't defeated, just replaced by a greater evil

I never thought I’d hear default man tell Mickey Mouse to dance.

please do a theory on Sea of Thieves, I know lots of people already cover the lore, like Falcore, but there is likely things that they might miss that you and your team have an eye for

The intro was so cool to look at. I have been replaying a lot

Unreal is also the engine people going into game development are taught in. I’m in college (UK) learning how to make games in Unreal, a generation of game developers are being trained this is the way to do it, added to game developers reliance on their software

Palpatine: The game engines are taking over!
Mace: They already have

HE WAS RIGHT

This is interesting to watch after Disney and epic started working together so hard

Matpat says unity:
Dani: "*uNity'S ParTicAl sYstEm*"

MatPat: “There really is only one competitor”
Godot: “Am I a joke to you?”

Don’t be silly MattPat, I could never afford to buy a home.

My god I just got thrown in for a loop I got a theory staring MatPat and Stephanie within the episode and it fit in seamlessly so while I was playing games I didn't even realize it was an ad until life halfway through, damn