#twisted metal 4

[playstationpark]

An American commercial for 'Twisted Metal 4' on the PlayStation.

[gsd-420]

[psxui]

Twisted Metal 4 (1999) - Character Bio

[playstationgamemania]

[citadraws]

Pizza Boy has arrived and he wants his money!

Pick up the sticker here!

[sakusagi]

Thumbnail for TM4 Goggle Eyes livestream

[ihatetaxes99]

One thing that will never cease to get on my nerves is the retcons brought about by Twisted Metal 4.

I know that the TM series is one of those where getting annoyed about the lore is a fruitless task. Every game in the series has contradicted another at least once, but I can't help but feel 4 is the egregious, since although it and 3 have been discarded as non-canon nowadays, when they were made, they were supposed to be canonical follow-ups to 1 and 2.

First off, the source of Calypso's power being a ring that contains the souls of everyone who died during the tournaments. Okay, this one os relatively minor, literally every game aside from 3, weirdly enough, retcons where Calypso's powers come from. Still, it's a notable example of just tossing away whatever was established previously in order to structure 4's own paper-thin plot.

Then, the idea that Twisted Metal has been running since the early twentieth century. This brings about a few problems. First of all, it implies that Needles was a child at this point; Twisted Metal 1 is canonically set in 2005 and, back when 3 and 4 were supposed to be canon, one can assume they were set after 1, since Calypso has that familiarity with Needles that he didn't have in 1, and Needles has consistently been portrayed as being in his late thirties to forties. This retcon of him being young in the early 1900s implies that he would have been at least a century old during TM1 and God knows how old during 3. Furthermore, it also retcons Calypso being born around 1957.

I do understand how dumb it is to get worked up over Twisted Metal's non-existent worldbuilding, but I've been looking into writing a small TM fanfiction and, as a writer who honestly enjoyed a lot of the writing in 2 particularly, it just annoys me that 989 Studios were so blatantly disrespectful to what Jaffe and Co. established.

[uchihanitro]

Twisted Metal 4

[iekeejkeek]

😺👋 (some tw art and is been long time of not drawing tw art sorry ig)

[fancyshooting]

r3volv3r oc3lot

[v4mpb0t]

Sorta like the sun…

[psxui]

Twisted Metal 4 (1999) - Car Selection

[mastercontrol123]

Happy 45th Birthday Anthony Mackie!❤️

[citadraws]

Pizza Boy - Twisted Metal 4

We have stickers of some of the Twisted Metal contestants over at our store!

[dottyduke]

PS1 and PSP games Plus NEEDS!

Sony has had a decent amount of PS1 and PSP classics for PS4/PS5 but there are so many games we still need on the platform.