Psychonauts Retrospective // The Color of the Sky in Your World Part 3
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- ESRB Rating: TEEN with Cartoon Violence, Crude Humor, Language
2 Player Production's documentary work with Double Fine continues with a look back at Psychonauts, the platform action adventure game that launched the studio. This short series serves as a prelude of things to come, as Double Fine looks to the past to better understand the future.
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2 Player Productions is a San Francisco-based production company dedicated to documenting the world of videos games and the rich subcultures the medium has inspired. Their most recent projects include The Double Fine Adventure documentary series and Penny Arcade: The Series (Season 1) as well as feature films Reformat the Planet and Minecraft: The Story of Mojang and behind the scenes looks at Naughty Dog’s Uncharted and Keiji Inafune’s Mighty No. 9. Since partnering with Double Fine in 2012 they have created several hundred videos for the Double Fine TH-cam channel exploring game development and production.
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Man, I am so glad that you guys did push through and actually make Psychonauts happen. That game legit changed the direction my life was heading in. I wouldn't be who I am today without it.
Your "What's in a level?" analysis of Gloria's Theater is amazing! Are you planning by any chance to continue the series?
I didn't realise that the amount of belief, heart and turmoil went into the development of psychonauts was so massive
Welcome to the game industry.
Psychonauts came out right around the time I started seeing someone - he finished the meat circus for me. We're now engaged. I give full credit to the magic of DoubleFine!
“Nicest guy no one slept with” cracked me up
Damn. That's a scary story. This really makes me appreciate the game even more.
Same
Same
The story of Psychonauts is both depressing and inspiring. So much hard work against such great odds just to make the game happen, and it was branded a "failure" anyway. And yet it's inspired so many people and is beloved to this day. Personally I absolutely loved it (in fact I bought it twice - once for the PS2 and once for the PC), and one of the big disappointments of my life was that the sequel never happened. When I found out it was going ahead after all I couldn't believe it! I'm so happy and excited!
Yes of course I chipped in. I've been checking the campaign's progress every day. Methinks it's going to make a lot more than expected. Which is awesome.
(Oh man I say "X. Which is awesome" all the time, and I just now realised I got that from Psychonauts...)
Check the news! Psychonauts 2 is almost out! :D
It's taken longer than expected, but it's finally coming!
Tim Shafer is such a good person. made me tear up when i heard he put his own money to keep the studio going. Jeez I hope psychonauts two rocks the world he deserves it.
Normally I can't stand youtube comment sections, but these are so positive it just gets me more stoked about the sequel. I've googled "psychonauts 2" probably once every 3 months for the past couple years. I donated the first chance I got and have been pulling up the fig page to check the progress every day. Idk if any DoubleFine members will read this, but thanks for creating such entertaining games, I hope you guys stick around for a long time even if the sequel somehow doesn't get funded.
+Taylor Harper Double Finers have definitely read this.
Bert Chang You guys are awesome, thanks in every possible way for doing what you do.
thank you mr Chang
The fact that i still have an original copy of this amazing game makes me happy.
Psychonauts is one of the most influential games I've ever played. Probably the only game i've bought three times. Its story, world design, humor, character designs and style; Its the first game that showed me just how quirky and expressive storytelling in a game could be. And in an action platformer no less!
I love this company so much.
Watching this now and I had no idea this game almost didn't come out. I remember back in 2004/2005 playing a demo of it at an old PC store called CompUSA and immediately being fascinated with it. Because I never ended up getting it and it ended up becoming so hard to find secondhand copies of the game it was my white whale up til 2012 when I finally found a used copy for the PS2 at Gamestop. It exceeded my expectations and it's still one of my favorite games to this day.
If Psychonauts isn't in any way a perfect game, then there are hundreds of thousands of games that must be straight-up terrible.
+orijimi It definitely isnt a perfect game. Instead, its just good.
+MVA Agent it's not perfect, but it's a damn amazing game.
I swear, If I had enough money, I would singlehandedly fund your Psychonauts games till the end of time.
I was giving away copies of Psychonauts on Reddit for Thanksgiving since it was on steam sale for 99c, also convinced a lot of people to try it who hadn't played it before. Then to my surprise the announcement for Psychonauts 2 crowdfunding campaign came out like a week later, talk about a synchronicity! :D I hope that my evangelism for this awesome game in some small way helps drive some new eyes to the franchise. Everyone I've convinced to play it seems to really enjoy it. I have faith that Psychonauts 2 will be every bit as good as the first one. Thanks for making this documentary, I enjoy peeking behind the scenes. Love you guys
this game is a large peace of my heart in my youth and even now
+Zide Deikery seeing a Pychonauts 2 is the most ex-siding thing in the world
One of the best games i've ever played, so excited for the sequel!
I'm so happy
I appreciate this game even more now!
I remember when i read about this game (and Voodoo Vince) on a manual from an og Xbox game i got for Christmas. I've ALWAYS wanted to play it, seeing the trailers on the "bonus/extras" in the game i owned made me ask my parents sooo many times to get it for me. And now, being 18, the game always stuck in the back of my head and now i was finalle able to play it with Discord Nitro, and ive already completed it 100% 3 times. I love it, and i love even more that i never forgot about it.
I had a friend who introduced me to Psychonauts around the time it came out, maybe a bit later. It was a free CD for a gamer magazine here in Hungary and he started to play it. "Mentalis über alles" was the first line I'd remember. After almost a decade I was bored and remembered the title "Psychonauts"..oh, that could be interesting. It was fun and like you said the feeling of teenage :) It is a very creative game with a lot of good ideas in it story and play-wise. Thanks
I just had to rewatch the speedrun video after seeing this. Their reactions make so much more sense now.
HOLY CRAP MY FAVORITE GAME FINISHED DEVELOPMENT THE EXACT DAY I WAS BORN!!!
I was too young to ever get that chance to play but I've always heard about it growing up, now in 2021 I'm so thankful that I can get to play both the original Psychonauts and now Psychonauts 2. This is a game that has made such an impact to me and so grateful it pulled through certainly a game that I won't get tired of playing truly thankful for the team.
Hopefully sometime soon I'll get to play Rhombus of Ruin, can't get enough of this amazing world.
Zero punctuation was the thing that really brought this onto mine and a lot of my friend's radars, it was one of his first reviews
It's an absolute cult classic and you all should be damn proud! It absolutely captured my imagination when I was younger, and I just picked up my Steam copy and it's just as good in 2021.
This was a really cool documentary and great sneak peek at a very human games studio. I love Double Fine's games and Psychonauts is easily my favorite. Can't wait for Psychonauts 2! Lots to live up to, but there's so much room for improvement and fresh ideas that I doubt it can possibly disappoint me (unless it turns into a weird psuedo-RTS game halfway through - I'm looking at YOU Brutal Legend)
15 Years later its still in my top 5 favorite games of all time. Such a classic
Just finished 100 percenting psychonauts 2. A few years ago I had never even heard of psychonauts. Then a couple years ago I started it, and finally finished it this year, while going through a lot of my own problems. I just love the message so much. I hope if you make more psychonauts stuff in the future that you try to tackle mental health even more head on, and explore even more struggles that real people face, to continue to cheer them on in their journeys and inspire them to invest in themselves and to be more understanding of others, the way these games have done for me. Thank you.
IM LAUGHING
ITS ADAM AGAIN HAHAHA
POOR JAMES
:DD
I recently played Psychonauts on the Xbox GamePass and i must say, i love your game, funny and excellent characters and funny story, im ready to play the second part, i wish you the best of luck, greetings from Mexico.
I remember renting psychonauts for ps2 when I was 8 or 9 loving it, then spending the rest of my life searching for it. Finally I got it on steam, my journey is complete! I'm 19 now.
Psychonauts is my favorite game, thank you guys so much for making it and hopefully making the sequel. I'm glad there's a company out there willing to go through so much to make something good instead of churning out crap sequels every year because they think they'll sell.
I bought it and played it when it came out 13 years ago....just bought it and beat it again on steam. One of my favorites of all time. Can’t wait for Psychonauts 2
I played in on pc back in 2007, going back and buy this ritght now on PS4. Out of love for this game, and people who created it and working on new one. We love you guys!
This game alone was my childhood. Would play this game over and over again throughout the years. I love that the second one is being made.
Psychonauts is in my top three favorite games of all time. I've always appreciated the care that was put into it, how unique and creative and funny and above all, GENIUS and BRILLIANT. Now, knowing a little of the backstory of the game and seeing the amazing team, I love it even more. Thank you for pouring yourselves into creating something so fun. And thank you for making a sequel! I can't wait!
These docs mean so much to me. It's so great to be able to share in this story and see everything that went in to the most excellent game Psychonauts! I'm so happy DoubleFine and 2Player keep doing this.
This makes me quite glad that I originally bough Psychonauts twice! Once on Xbox Live Arcade and the original Xbox version!
Such an inspiring piece of history!
I remember a younger me standing in a retail store and not having enough money for the already on sale Psychonauts PC copy in front of me.
Now the Double Fine bundle is in my library and I'm planning on diving into it this christmas!
I wish you guys the best work flows, ideas etc. for Part 2!
Psychonauts is my absolute favorite game, so a sequel naturally makes me both excited and nervous. Seeing this makes me feel a little bit better, though. As long as Psychonauts 2 gets a lot of love from the devs I can't imagine it being bad. All the best wishes!
I JUST FOUND MY PS2 VERSION OF PSYCHONAUTS WHILE WATCHING THIS VIDEO!!!! I'M SO HAPPY!!!
I don't know how many hours I have on my original file (considering it was erased due to a power outage while the game was auto saving on my PS2, but restarting the game wasn't a huge deal even when I was almost done with it...replaying it from the beginning is always a treat.) So I don't know how many hours all together I have poured into that game. On Steam I have...76 hours and counting (considering I've restarted and 100% completed the game countless times.) It's by far one of my favorite games, and it's been my favorite game since I first played it in 2006. I never knew I needed a sequel so bad until you guys announced it. This video made me appreciate the game and the company a lot more, and I look forward to seeing what comes next for Raz the Psychonaut.
Unfortunately, I missed the chance to help fund Psychonauts 2 :( I am excited for the game though and am looking forward to playing it! Thanks for posting these documentary videos. I just love 'behind the scenes' stuff like this.. it's so cool seeing a group of people band together to accomplish something amazing. I wish you guys all the best!
Psychonauts time and time again has saved me. Playing it brought me out of some pretty dark places in my life and its easily my all time favorite game. I cried when I heard Psychonauts 2 was being crowd funded and I am so ready to have a new addition to my favorite story.
Awesome - glad someone was video-taping all this old archive footage at the time! Super interesting stuff and I can only hope the best from Psychonauts 2. I'm sure at the very least it'll be an interesting game to play.
I have been in love with this game since I was 16, back in 05 when it was released. The music in the campgrounds is my favorite music in the game. It's very Poison the Well.
The velvet painting level is my favorite level.
I found the Easter egg in Madness Returns btw, back in 2011. That is another all time favorite game of mine. Psychonauts and Madness Returns somehow fit beautifully together.
American is working on Alice Asylum as you guys are working on Psychonauts 2 and seeing both teams simultaneously create these new masterpieces brings me to tears. These games have been such an integral part of my life. Thank you for keeping this magic strong after so many years. We have complete faith in you and we know Psychonauts 2 is going to be amazing. I have literally been hoping for this for years. Thank you so much for making it happen. 💜
I remember when I was younger and saw the game, and wanted it, but we couldnt afford it, and now that I'm older, I bought it and played it. Loved it. Knew I would love it when I was younger too. Did this with the portal series as well. I have a good hunch for certain games
As a student studying game-design, i find this educational and highly interesting.
the game had so so so much charm
Brad's right, I have so many Humble Bundle games in my steam libary that I don't remember owning. Actually Psychonauts was one of them as I bought the DF humble bundle for Stacking and CQ and at the time didn't know what this game was. I still have yet to beat it (That damn tank!)
I had always assumed it was a relatively quick hand off from Microsoft to Majesco, I never knew it had gotten that dire. I'm glad you guys made it through, Psychonauts was definitely worth the wait and has stood the test of time pretty well.
I don't think you have too much to worry about when trying to bring a platformer "back" in this generation. The only studios out there who have been exploring that 3D platformer space since 2005 have been Nintendo and Insomniac. The general design of it holds up so well that all you really need is a new collection of brains to explore, though I guess thats where the real challenge is.
Maybe fit a temporally displaced roadie in there somewhere.
Thank God you guys worked as hard as you did! Just finally played the game for the first time this year and I’m genuinely mad I never picked up this game as a kid.
I feel like a kid again playing this game, it’s so fun, creative and detailed.
Good thing you pulled through with it, despite everything that happened. and made one of my absolute favourite games *ever* happen.
My dream has always been being part of the programming and creative team behind video games, I'm currently studying systems engineering to achive that. In the past I wanted to work for Capcom, but they got greedy with DLC, and I don't like that, takes away the beauty of the game, then I wanted to work for EA, and yeah... Then I wanted to work for Konami, since with Hideo Kojima's games I saw that a video game could be art, but Konami is not what it used to be, and now... I think I want to work for you guys, maybe in some years I will appear right on your door, maybo not, but this little documentary really reminds why I love game developing, keep on going and I hope the best for the company
Axel Redsteel how did it worked out?
raz was doing this stuff way before the inception team haha
I love Psychonauts so much. I played it when it first came out on XBox and then again on Steam a few months ago and it really holds up well. One of my all-time favorites.
Holy cow, that Principal Skeleton t-shirt (6:44) is amazing.
See this shit? This is why I donate to their fund me projects. You guys keep making creative games and I will keep throwing money at you.
the game was awesome. i think the humor may have been lost on many people but it really made the game great!
Psychonauts 2 being in development is such great news I almost can't believe it. I really hope DF bring a lot of new to the table, avoid capitalizing on fan's nostalgia and let Psychonauts evolve instead of just rehashing old material. And also hopefully avoids using "damsel in distress" trope, which for me was the only flaw in the original game. Super excited and can't wait for the release!
This game is a masterpiece man thank you so much guys for making this game against all odds
Such respect for video game developers, games are bloody hard to make.
Exciting!
Keep it up guys! Remember to keep questioning the color of your sky, it's an important thing.
Thank goodness you lot managed to release this wonderful game, I completed it recently on Steam and it's already a favourite of mine :).
Amazing game with lots and lots of personality.
I never realized this came out on my birthday! best gift ever!
11:28 shhhh, thank you, thank you so very much. Had one of the most amazing times playing this game while eating mushrooms.
i love these videos, BUT THE HYPE FOR PSYCHONAUTS 2 IS SO FUCKING REAL I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT I HAVE TO WAIT 'TILL 2018! Make it worth the wait, the money but mostly the effort!
I was 5 - 7 years old when I got psychonauts, I don't remember exactly how I got it or why but I remember asking my parents thats the game I wanted for my birthday, I don't know why I wanted, there is a chance I might have seen it on g4 at some point probably when they did find like cheat codes and shit and I thought ( wow that game is pretty cool looking ) and I loved the game so much that as I grew older and lost both my original xbox, I still had my original copy of the psychonauts game and I found out I could play it using xbox 360's backward's compatibility and when I saw the double fine lego with the psychonauts intro playing, it was sadly but in a ' I don't regret or care' kind of way, the best feeling in the world, because alot of happy memories seem to link my brain to the game and ever since than I loved double fine and everything they do and have done, I'm 19 now and I have learn so much about myself, about the gaming community, and tools I taught mostly myself on using to hopefully one day be a true game developer, and all because the feelings I got when I played Psychonauts as a kid
Wow, Tim and his team rock!. I can't wait for psychonauts 2
im soo psyched! I hope production goes great
Morgan Caplinger was that pun intended? :D
Have to support this studio and buy psychonauts on steam even though i've already beat it several times in past and most likely wont have time to play it now.
Awesome retrospective and now I'm doubly stoked for Psychonauts 2!
Great documentary :D I recently played Psychonauts for the first time, fun to see behind the scenes!
There are some 11/10s in this world but to find a 12/10 was something I thought was impossible.
This game is a masterpiece. I just finished it for the first time, and the game was too good I finished it in one day. Congrats 👏
Wow... just wow. It's inspiring hearing the hardship you guys went through and that you stuck it out together. Here's to the future!
adam trolling James again. I wonder if Adam got a bigger chance being a toilet sit in the game.
I wish you guys all the best :) These documentaries are great, Pyschonauts is great and I'm positive the sequel will be amazing with all of you working on it!
Proud to have been someone who bought the game at midnight on launch day at my local superwalmart(only option in small town america at the time). I was quite literally the only person I knew who bought it.
Pure awesome. You guys are such a great team and I'm so happy to support this one of a kind company. Keep up the work. I appreciate you all.
i remember saving up my launch money for months for psychonauts still have it in my old xbox
watching this documentary makes me so happy :)
This is an amazing insight into the company and game! I appreciate all the work everyone has done for psyconauts and the work they are doing for the second one!
How inspiring.. Thank you for all of your hard work into making such a beautiful piece of art. Can't wait for the sequel.
Great work, I've enjoyed these since Episode 1 of DFA, keep it up and good luck with the project!
Psychonauts is one of my favorite games of all time, so much so that I've bought a version of it for every console release so far (I think). I'm really looking forward to Psychonauts 2.
So excited for the game!
Man i love these types of videos. This gets me soooo excited for pychonauts 2 :D
I love these behind the scene videos even though I never did finish Psychonauts. I seem to get motion sickness from playing the game ; it was the combination of the vivid colours, the odd-looking characters, and the camera movement. It made me sick! I hope I get to finish it before the second Psychonauts comes out.
I always get motion sickness from LEGO Racers
very interesting watch.
Watching this video and hearing about how Psychonauts didn't sell as well as it should have back then I'm reminded of this one interview I read a few years ago. It was with American McGee who was talking about how Alice didn't sell very well at first either but people stayed interested in it a looooong time after it released. The sequel to that game happened (11 years later) because the first one had this long tail where it kept making money long after way better selling games had stopped. I guess Psychonauts was kind of the same deal?
So good to see such a good-spirited team :) keep it up
And here something that's cool as tits about this game.
I just started it for the first time ever, in 2020. It's the Xbox version, so no achievements, no widescreen. Just the original normal Xbox version of the game.....
It's still a ton of fun and controls really well. It's super interesting with its world and level design, the humor is still great, voice acting is good. Even the graphics, while technically dated, look perfectly fine due to how stylized everything is meant to be. Like if this was a new game that released today, I think it'd still do really well.
Gotta commend them on the work they put into it. I mean, not many platformers can say they still hold up both mechanically AND graphically. I do wish the original Xbox version had widescreen, but I'm not faulting them for that.
And now here's we are, finally getting Psychonauts 2. Can we all just give DoubleFine a nice big group clap?
I finally played and finished Psychonauts last night. The game crashed in the final section of the last boss fight too lol. The game is amazing. I loved the characters.
I have alot of fond childhood/tween memories of this game :) it actually helped me look at people and their quirks from their/another point of view and honestly helped me on the road to being a more understanding person. I really cared for the characters and felt for them...despite their "weird" appearances ;) plus I had a crush on Raz...oops lmao!
The only platform game that I actually still play.
I'm in like bacon beacons and sniffing salt!
..There will be bacon beacons and sniffing salt again, won't there?