@@mickael486Wouldn't that take back the thumbs up tho, since you're tapping it twice? Or do you mean you that you tap the thumbs up a total of three times, and just toggle it to the lit-up position twice?
The composer of the original Panzer Dragoon, Yoshitaka Azuma, died in the early 2000s. It would be pretty difficult for him to come back to compose a game ten years later.
Wipeout had 2 other direct spiritual successors also BallisticNG and Pacer Rollcage was a spiritual successor to Wipeout which now has it's own spiritual successor Grip Another Wipeout like game was Extreme G on the N64 which has it's own spiritual successor phaseshift Another Wipeout / Fzero type game was Fast Racing RMX Maybe in an episode called futuristic racers?
Yeah, Redout doesn't even have weapons and the developer got super pissed when people complained, insisting weapons would detract from his precious "pure" racing game. OK, then don't call it a tribute to Wipeout and Rollcage.
Thank you for recommending BallisticNG! I'm a massive fan of the original PS1 Wipeout games and I can't believe I never knew this game existed, it's basically a perfect recreation of that original style!
Gamesack is one of the very few channels which I actually and genuinely grew up with, I have been watching for like 7 years and I never stopped, this is truly my favorite channel ever and I wish Joe never stops making these spectacular videos.
Joe "gacha" is not an umbrella term for anything with login rewards, pay to win, micro transactions or other free to play traits etc. It's a specific mechanic from Japan called Gachapon. Think the toys in shenmue. It's like early loot boxes, a physical random drop from a machine with the aim being to collect em all.
A channel that you can literally pick any video at random and know you will be entertained either in the living room, the bath or falling asleep is very rare.. thanks Joe and Dave for 12 or more years of amazing content.. much love.
I have done that too, though before the compilations. I made my own playlists. Helped me overcome some bad insomnia. Like you said, good for unwinding. I had to weed out episodes where Joe would scream though, like the "mega power" bit.
Always catches me off guard. Although, I'm wondering why he didn't shout "TAAAAAAAATE MOOOOOOODE!!!" when that pinball game showed it had a TATE mode in the Options screen.
Streets of Rage + Mighty Final Fight = Fight'n'Rage. The most crazy and adrenaline beat 'em up. Also with tons of characters references from other beat' em up and fighting games.
Assigning a monetary value to words is pretty straightforward. I use this simple formula: Number of syllables + the number of times you've heard people you ACTUALLY know use the word commonly +2 or -2 for correct/incorrect contextual usage = value in local currency. The exchange rate is calculated by how many expletives/colourful metaphors you can use INSTEAD of the word in question, whilst still making sense to the people you are talking to. Bonus value is added if you can use a non-expletive instead and still make it sound like an expletive - I use nadgers instead of balls (not going to put the actual expletive here), for example. Finally an additional bonus is available if you can use a non-contextual, totally surreal alternative and still be understood - for example "I went to the bar last night, had a few too many drinks and was totally kettled!" I had to learn this as I have the world's worst thesaurus - it's appalling and also it's appalling.
... it's really good, but can't beat Shattered Soldier, personally. It's just so hardcore. I do love Blazing Chrome tho. It's so reminiscent of Contra 3: The Alien Wars on SNES.
X-Games for the PS1 is also a spiritual successor to the initial 3D0/PS1 Road Rash. It plays almost exactly the same, uses some of the same sound effects, and uses FMVs in a similar way.
Great episode as always Joe, waking up to new episodes to watch on a Sunday morning in southern Europe is always a treat. By the way, you can zoom in the action in Demon’s Tilt, but it’s behind the pause menu under “Standard zoom” and “Multiball zoom”. Slide it to tighter and it really makes the difference. I’m playing on PC. It was thanks to you that I found Devil’s Crush and loved it, and the reason that I bought Demon’s Tilt. ☺️
Wanted to mention this too - there are so many options, but they're not in the main options menu. In the in-game pause menu, you can also turn on ball trails which helps keep track of ball location, and enable randomized music which reveals a number of different tunes that can play during the game. You'd think all this would be enabled by default but... it's the joy of discovery I guess?
I can’t explain, I simply watch and like your videos every week. I no longer play video games (adult life definitely caught up), but I really love getting high and watching video reviews of them, and @gamesack just happens to be the best out there. 🙏
I'll go with: 1) Valkyrie Profile 1 & 2 (PSX, PSP & PS2) = Spiritual: Indivisible (PS4, Switch & Xbox 1) 2) Muramasa: The Demon Blade (Wii & PS Vita) = Spiritual: Bladed Fury & Sword of the Vagrant (PS4, Switch & Xbox 1) 3) Wonder Boy In Monster Land series = Spiritual: Aggelos, Odallus: The Dark Call & Cathedral (PS4, Switch & Xbox 1) 4) Mickey Mouse Illusion series = Spiritual: Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion (3DS) 5) Contra series = Spiritual: Blazing Chrome (PS4, Switch & Xbox 1) 6) Ghost N' Goblin series = Spiritual: Cursed Castilla (PS4, Switch & Xbox 1)
I always felt that the 2d games where better on the 90s than today, more like they put their heart and soul to it. By the way Joe as always a very good video.
Jesus Joe, all you had to do was turn ball tracer on to see the ball better in Demon's Tilt. Plus the game was designed with tate in mind, not horizontal. Man, the one game on the list that was actually a really good spiritual sequel too!
The funny thing, the "ninja" outfit has nothing to do with martial arts. It's the uniform of a stagehand in Japanese theater. Real ninjas often dressed as commoners to blend in, so they'd look like normal people.
@@thedeadpoolwhochuckles.6852 The point was that the stage hands were wearing black outfits in low light and dark backgrounds expressly so you didn't see them. The costume came about in kabuki performances where a stagehand, dressed in the 'ninja outfit' would suddenly murder someone and reveal themselves to NOT be a stage hand, quite literal third wall breaking. Normally you would fully ignore the stage hands to suspend disbelief as they were used to do things like change scenes, animate background set pieces and animals and otherwise just do non-acting related things.
Haven't played that one. I'm surprised that he missed/skipped Alien Crush 2 on WiiWare. I like that one more than the original. It also had different boards as levels and the game could be completed, like Metroid Pinball on Nintendo DS 👍. I actually beat the game, once.
Another spiritual followup to Panzer Dragoon is Air Twister for the Apple Arcade, made by Ys Net and produced by Yu Suzuki. Also, another spiritual successor to Wipeout is Pacer by R8 Games for PS4, XBone and PC.
I never knew Strider was based on a manga! It's crazy how many Japanese games have influence in manga and anime, even if they're not direct adaptations
The Seasons Pass term comes out of sports, where you would buy a seasons pass to get access to the entire season's games. I think EA started the term with their sports games and it just spread to everything else eventually, where the seasons pass is buying access to all the DLC for that game. Unfortunately, some companies are taking that very literally now and often they only give you that year's DLC and you see additional seasons passes afterwards, so I guess that does confuse it, but GENRALLY before the later parts of lastgen, it just means all the major DLC or ALL of the DLC in general, which I guess confuses it more as they often leave cosmetics out and... I miss when a game came out complete and if they added more you'd just get a sequel or a single major expansion pack...
Great episode Joe, really enjoyed it! For a follow up episode, as I watched Virtua Cop, I instantly remembered wii’s Ghost Squad or the high-octane LA machineguns and Gunblade NY. They’re great fun and surely do have that Virtua Cop pedigree/dna. Keep it up 😊
Hey, Joe, since you've mentioned twice in this video (for the Not-Road Rash and then the Not-Wipeout), how about a video about: Games Where You Need Four Hands To Play? And by that I mean games that aren't necessarily bad, but the controls are too complicated for their own good. One that comes immediately to my mind is the first Darksiders game, where it used Every. Single. Button. On. The. Controller. INCLUDING L3 and R3 (!!!) for an action game (!!!)!! Of course, that would mostly be a more modern oriented video, but still.... I feel that that's a plague for modern gaming 😢
Keep up the awesome videos! Speaking of spiritual successors, I'm currently going on 2 years of developing a game that's inspired by ghouls and ghosts and demons crest but it's a roguelite and the entire game is also Co-op from start to finish, there are two characters a Blue Knight and a Red Demon. The game is also going to have tons of references to other games.
This reminded me I need to download the Anton Blast demo, which is a spiritual successor to Wario Land 4. I'd say give it a go for the next episode, along with PIzza Tower, which might be more of a spirital successor to Wario Land Shake Dimension? I don't know, they both look good
The star used in Devils crash is Polyvalent and older than the Jewish implementation. in Gnostic Freemasonry and other forms of the occult, it is known as the seal of Soloman or Star of Remphan (Egyptian) it represents both man and the elements of Earth-Air-Fire-Water-Spirit sealed within a circle or binding pattern.
When talking about Wipeout, I thought you were gonna mention Quantum Redshift, as it's the literal spiritual followup of Wipeout, since it was developed by several former Psygnosis' staff. Or maybe even Pacer, which is also a spiritual successor to Wipeout with some of the staff having worked on Wipeout 3 for Psygnosis.
I like how Joe says "2001" and even marks the year on the screen just to make sure we know the game was indeed made in the year two thousand AND one. It's those attention to details that matter in the end of the day.
I cannot for the life of me understand how you, GVMERS and Rerez aren't all three over a million subs. I can't think of any other gaming channels that always put out good content.
Joe, A dollar word is one whose total value is exactly 100. Each of its letters is assigned a value according to its position in the alphabet. a=1, b=2, z=26. Some examples of dollar words are: contented, cookout, mittens and shadowing.
My thumbs up for this episode and Joe, a good friend to me (?). Never thought or believed some of the games were kinda "successors" to many of this games. Really good. I might try a few of em if I get the chance. Thanks as always, Joe! A big hug from Argentina!
Game Sack, going strong for almost 15 years, no slobs, no drama, no zip tied tripods. In addition to genuine interest AND knowledge of the video subject. I know I have been leaving comments randomly and usually just end up writing some cockamamey tard stuff but I totally appreciate you, Joe. Red Cow Arcade, kind of pokes fun your way but in a way that acknowledges and respects your work/talent. Big Frankie fan...btw
You didn’t mention Left 4 Dead’s spiritual successors Evolve and the ill reviewed disappointment Back 4 Blood. They never live up to Left 4 Dead in every conceivable way considering they were made by the same damn team.
Great video, Joe! I’d love to see you talk about Snatcher and its spiritual successor 2064: Read Only Memories. ROM is one of my favorite indie games. Great story, gorgeous pixel art graphics, and good voice-acting. They even got the English actor who plays Gillian Seed in Snatcher to voice a character in their game; Dekker.
Virtua Cop 3 is badass, you get a floor pedal that lets you slow down time for as long as you want but you have to manage the time gauge so you can't abuse it, its arcade only so good luck finding one, i've only ever seen it at Gameworks when those were still a thing.
Thanks for giving Road Rash on the 3DO the mad props that it deserves. Yeah, you can play it on the Playstation or Saturn and the framerate is a bit smoother, but it just doesn't play or look quite the same, so the 3DO version remains my favorite. I have to mention, however, that I think Road Rash 64 on the N64 is extremely underrated. It doesn't look or feel much like a traditional 2D Road Rash game, and the graphics are really bland, but the gameplay is pure gold. It benefits from the ability to change different variables of the races, like how many pedestrians there are, cops, etc. If you have the slightest bit of imagination, this ups the replay value immensely. Sometimes I like to mow down as many pedestrians as possible, or sometimes I like to knock down as many opponents as possible, etc. It's really a great game, one of my favorites in the franchise.
The Fast Racing series (Fast Racing League on Wiiware, Fast Racing Neo on WiiU, and Fast RMX on Switch) is an excellent spiritual successor to F-Zero/Wipeout, with its own gimmick reminiscent of Ikaruga (you change polarization/color). The Torchilight series is a pretty good spiritual successor to the Diablo series.
Strider is one of my favourite arcade games. The weird sprite angles adds to the weirdness. It's just special. I feel the same for shadow dancer. A bit weird but super fun
One I remember was Demolition Racer for PS1. On the back of the PS1 case, it said it was the "spiritual successor to Destruction Derby 2". Destruction Derby 2 has a few proper sequels after with Destruction Derby Raw Destruction Derby Arenas.
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Joe deserves a thumbs up. He never asks for it...
That's why I always press the thumbs up button twice! 👍 👍
@@mickael486 why haven't I thought of doing that?
@@mickael486 I heard that if you press the thumbs up twice, it becomes a thumbs down. You need to press it four times to count as two thumbs up.
@@mickael486Wouldn't that take back the thumbs up tho, since you're tapping it twice? Or do you mean you that you tap the thumbs up a total of three times, and just toggle it to the lit-up position twice?
Aight I'll thumb him 👍... Wait...😳
Joe, I just discovered yesterday that you're responsible for some excellent OCRemixes that I downloaded back in college. So thanks for that.
You can't just leave me hanging like that. Which ones?
Lol was just bout to ask the same thing! Which ones?
It's really impressive how you manage to produce content of this quality (and quantity). Always something to look forward to. Thx!
You're one of the few TH-camrs who delivers every time!
As far as gaming, him and SEGA Lord X are verrrrry consistent.
The composer of the original Panzer Dragoon, Yoshitaka Azuma, died in the early 2000s. It would be pretty difficult for him to come back to compose a game ten years later.
But not impossible?
@@Wykesidefruitmachine we have the technology
@@Godsgood111 Good point.
Why not have Yuzo Koshiro on the job?
US and EU people: Oh well, that's a shame, too bad
Japanese people: We will find a solution to this!
Wipeout had 2 other direct spiritual successors also
BallisticNG and
Pacer
Rollcage was a spiritual successor to Wipeout which now has it's own spiritual successor Grip
Another Wipeout like game was Extreme G on the N64 which has it's own spiritual successor phaseshift
Another Wipeout / Fzero type game was Fast Racing RMX
Maybe in an episode called futuristic racers?
Came into the comments to mention BallisticNG and Pacer.
Glad to see I'm not the only WipEout fan in here!
Always happy to see it get some love!
Yep, definitely BallisticNG is missing in this episode.
If that idea ever happens. I honestly hope that MegaRace gets a Mention
Yeah, Redout doesn't even have weapons and the developer got super pissed when people complained, insisting weapons would detract from his precious "pure" racing game. OK, then don't call it a tribute to Wipeout and Rollcage.
Thank you for recommending BallisticNG! I'm a massive fan of the original PS1 Wipeout games and I can't believe I never knew this game existed, it's basically a perfect recreation of that original style!
Regarding Spiritual followups what comes to my mind immediately is lanstalker -> alundra -> dark savior -> steal princess
A "Games With Dumb Names" episode would be great! Also, the pacing of that last sketch was spot on. The demon blinking was hilarious.
The "did you just say tits" bit gets me every time.
Osman has recently been ported to the PS4/PS5, Xbox Series and Switch as Cannon Dancer.
OS-man!
It’s $30 USD. That’s like a dollar for every minute of gameplay it offers.
@@thetechn1que518yea that's why I didn't get it. I'll wait for a sale
Now I finally understand the name Road Rash. Thank you, Joe-sensei.
Gamesack is one of the very few channels which I actually and genuinely grew up with, I have been watching for like 7 years and I never stopped, this is truly my favorite channel ever and I wish Joe never stops making these spectacular videos.
Im happy that Osman has since come to Switch and PS4 and it is a great game
Wait... Osman is on the Switch. I'm going straight to the digital store, thanks for messaging this 👍🏻
@@leecroft1983 its under the name cannon dancer/osman
Joe taking to Japanese demon at the end is pure gold 🤣
I think in Demon's Tilt you can go into the options menu and adjust the zoom on the ball.
Joe "gacha" is not an umbrella term for anything with login rewards, pay to win, micro transactions or other free to play traits etc.
It's a specific mechanic from Japan called Gachapon. Think the toys in shenmue. It's like early loot boxes, a physical random drop from a machine with the aim being to collect em all.
No one could ever be Joe's spiritual follow-up, he's just too damn original.
A channel that you can literally pick any video at random and know you will be entertained either in the living room, the bath or falling asleep is very rare.. thanks Joe and Dave for 12 or more years of amazing content.. much love.
Ending to this episode cracked me up more than any other. Classic😂
That end skit was superb, thanks for the laugh (and yet another great video)!
It's just great to see you going strong, Joe, like 10 years or so after I first came across your channel. Lovely 🌹
So happy when I see a new Game Sack episode!
I love that you're still on the grind. I spent countless times falling asleep to your multi-hour compilations... perfect for unwinding at night!
I have done that too, though before the compilations. I made my own playlists. Helped me overcome some bad insomnia. Like you said, good for unwinding. I had to weed out episodes where Joe would scream though, like the "mega power" bit.
You're weird. I sleep at night 🤷.
GameSack, making life worth living since 2011. Thank you Joe. Great work as alwaya
Ive watched every episode but that "did you just say tits?"really caught me off guard this time lmfao 😂
Now that I have caught up and watched all of the videos, I love that I catch these running jokes strewn throughout the show.
Always catches me off guard. Although, I'm wondering why he didn't shout "TAAAAAAAATE MOOOOOOODE!!!" when that pinball game showed it had a TATE mode in the Options screen.
Streets of Rage + Mighty Final Fight = Fight'n'Rage. The most crazy and adrenaline beat 'em up. Also with tons of characters references from other beat' em up and fighting games.
I always love me some Game Sack before the end of a productive Saturday
That outro got some genuine laughs from me. 😆 Nicely done.
You’re the best, Joe. Thanks for all you do!
Assigning a monetary value to words is pretty straightforward. I use this simple formula:
Number of syllables + the number of times you've heard people you ACTUALLY know use the word commonly +2 or -2 for correct/incorrect contextual usage = value in local currency.
The exchange rate is calculated by how many expletives/colourful metaphors you can use INSTEAD of the word in question, whilst still making sense to the people you are talking to. Bonus value is added if you can use a non-expletive instead and still make it sound like an expletive - I use nadgers instead of balls (not going to put the actual expletive here), for example. Finally an additional bonus is available if you can use a non-contextual, totally surreal alternative and still be understood - for example "I went to the bar last night, had a few too many drinks and was totally kettled!"
I had to learn this as I have the world's worst thesaurus - it's appalling and also it's appalling.
Thanks for all you do Joe!
So much for getting some sleep. Thanks for the late night video.
Osman deserves exposure... it's so weird.
It just got ported to switch.
Blazing Chrome! A better contra game than a real Contra (at least the most recent one from the same year)
... it's really good, but can't beat Shattered Soldier, personally. It's just so hardcore. I do love Blazing Chrome tho. It's so reminiscent of Contra 3: The Alien Wars on SNES.
Still play Blazing Chrome to this day! Game is amazing and wish they'd make a sequel.
X-Games for the PS1 is also a spiritual successor to the initial 3D0/PS1 Road Rash. It plays almost exactly the same, uses some of the same sound effects, and uses FMVs in a similar way.
Great episode as always Joe, waking up to new episodes to watch on a Sunday morning in southern Europe is always a treat. By the way, you can zoom in the action in Demon’s Tilt, but it’s behind the pause menu under “Standard zoom” and “Multiball zoom”. Slide it to tighter and it really makes the difference. I’m playing on PC.
It was thanks to you that I found Devil’s Crush and loved it, and the reason that I bought Demon’s Tilt. ☺️
Wanted to mention this too - there are so many options, but they're not in the main options menu. In the in-game pause menu, you can also turn on ball trails which helps keep track of ball location, and enable randomized music which reveals a number of different tunes that can play during the game. You'd think all this would be enabled by default but... it's the joy of discovery I guess?
You're a national treasure bro. I really enjoy falling asleep watching your videos. Its 0230 here and I'm about to do that. Thank you for what you do.
I can’t explain, I simply watch and like your videos every week. I no longer play video games (adult life definitely caught up), but I really love getting high and watching video reviews of them, and @gamesack just happens to be the best out there. 🙏
Being grown up certainly does take up a lot of time, doesn't it?
"Oh. Streaming... No, thank you! 😅"
That was the best thing ever said. You're doing the Lord's work.
I'll go with:
1) Valkyrie Profile 1 & 2 (PSX, PSP & PS2) = Spiritual: Indivisible (PS4, Switch & Xbox 1)
2) Muramasa: The Demon Blade (Wii & PS Vita) = Spiritual: Bladed Fury & Sword of the Vagrant (PS4, Switch & Xbox 1)
3) Wonder Boy In Monster Land series = Spiritual: Aggelos, Odallus: The Dark Call & Cathedral (PS4, Switch & Xbox 1)
4) Mickey Mouse Illusion series = Spiritual: Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion (3DS)
5) Contra series = Spiritual: Blazing Chrome (PS4, Switch & Xbox 1)
6) Ghost N' Goblin series = Spiritual: Cursed Castilla (PS4, Switch & Xbox 1)
I always felt that the 2d games where better on the 90s than today, more like they put their heart and soul to it.
By the way Joe as always a very good video.
I usually find the post-credits skits to be humorous, but this one actually gave me a chuckle. Well done!
Devil's Crush proves the Turbo Grafx and Genesis were way cooler systems than the SNES. Fight me!
Jesus Joe, all you had to do was turn ball tracer on to see the ball better in Demon's Tilt. Plus the game was designed with tate in mind, not horizontal. Man, the one game on the list that was actually a really good spiritual sequel too!
The funny thing, the "ninja" outfit has nothing to do with martial arts. It's the uniform of a stagehand in Japanese theater. Real ninjas often dressed as commoners to blend in, so they'd look like normal people.
A stagehand can be a commoner.
@@thedeadpoolwhochuckles.6852 The point was that the stage hands were wearing black outfits in low light and dark backgrounds expressly so you didn't see them. The costume came about in kabuki performances where a stagehand, dressed in the 'ninja outfit' would suddenly murder someone and reveal themselves to NOT be a stage hand, quite literal third wall breaking. Normally you would fully ignore the stage hands to suspend disbelief as they were used to do things like change scenes, animate background set pieces and animals and otherwise just do non-acting related things.
Ah!
Like the Yiga in Zelda games!
Wipeout 3 was a huge jump in quality for PS1.
PS3 and 360 in 2001? Moon diver devs getting ahead of the industry there. 😂
Good or bad, have to give it credit for coming out 4-5 years before the systems were released 🔥🔥
They were time travelers, what can I say?? :)
The follow up for Stryder should be Run Saber on SNES, way before Osman and also a great game
As time goes on Virtua Cop has possibly become my favorite light gun game. I really like the whole timing system of the enemy rings
Sometimes a dry sense of humor is the greatest sense of humor you 🦵🏻ends!
I liked my own comment if that helps 😂
Again, forgets to mention the most anticipated spiritual sequel of the retro era: Perfect Dark!
The best retro gaming channel on TH-cam just keeps on getting better.
It peaked back in 2015.
@@paulclinton6414 Lmao ok. Then why are you here?
I can't believe he didn't mention Human Killing Machine, the *best* spiritual sequel ever.
Haven't played that one. I'm surprised that he missed/skipped Alien Crush 2 on WiiWare. I like that one more than the original. It also had different boards as levels and the game could be completed, like Metroid Pinball on Nintendo DS 👍. I actually beat the game, once.
Ah yes totally, the true street fighter 2
There is a special place in hell for old PC devs.
Spiritual successor to the unfinished sequel of Kung Fu: Special Olympics Edition
Flashing lights segment starts at 8:49: skip to 13:45 to avoid it completely. My old ass eyes can't handle that stuff anymore....😵
Another spiritual followup to Panzer Dragoon is Air Twister for the Apple Arcade, made by Ys Net and produced by Yu Suzuki. Also, another spiritual successor to Wipeout is Pacer by R8 Games for PS4, XBone and PC.
15:35 - First time I've ever heard someone pronounce accoutrements correctly. Nice. Love the videos.
I never knew Strider was based on a manga! It's crazy how many Japanese games have influence in manga and anime, even if they're not direct adaptations
40:31 The real successor to Wipeout is not Redout, but BallisticNG instead
Another fantastic episode. I find myself rewatching many episodes. Thanks a lot!
I always felt like Numan Athletics in the arcade was like a spiritual successor to Track n Field et al.
“Some Shenanigans Going Down at the Dock” would be an amazing title for an unofficial sequel to Virtua Cop.
The Seasons Pass term comes out of sports, where you would buy a seasons pass to get access to the entire season's games. I think EA started the term with their sports games and it just spread to everything else eventually, where the seasons pass is buying access to all the DLC for that game.
Unfortunately, some companies are taking that very literally now and often they only give you that year's DLC and you see additional seasons passes afterwards, so I guess that does confuse it, but GENRALLY before the later parts of lastgen, it just means all the major DLC or ALL of the DLC in general, which I guess confuses it more as they often leave cosmetics out and...
I miss when a game came out complete and if they added more you'd just get a sequel or a single major expansion pack...
Great episode Joe, really enjoyed it! For a follow up episode, as I watched Virtua Cop, I instantly remembered wii’s Ghost Squad or the high-octane LA machineguns and Gunblade NY. They’re great fun and surely do have that Virtua Cop pedigree/dna. Keep it up 😊
Always a nice evening when I see a new GameSack episode in my feed.
WipeOut 3 had some of the best electronic music. That clip you put in of Xpander took me back.
Thank you for the great addition, Joe!
Hey, Joe, since you've mentioned twice in this video (for the Not-Road Rash and then the Not-Wipeout), how about a video about: Games Where You Need Four Hands To Play?
And by that I mean games that aren't necessarily bad, but the controls are too complicated for their own good.
One that comes immediately to my mind is the first Darksiders game, where it used Every. Single. Button. On. The. Controller. INCLUDING L3 and R3 (!!!) for an action game (!!!)!!
Of course, that would mostly be a more modern oriented video, but still....
I feel that that's a plague for modern gaming 😢
Great as usual but Strider has an _amazing_ soundtrack! I revisit it all the time! Junko Tamiya is a brilliant composer.
I think the FM tones of that era are too harsh for most people. I agree though
Also Perfect Dark as a spiritual follow up to Golden Eye? Idk, I never played these games.
Loved the skit at the end this time. Very well done. Something about that demon's face just got me good.
Keep up the awesome videos!
Speaking of spiritual successors, I'm currently going on 2 years of developing a game that's inspired by ghouls and ghosts and demons crest but it's a roguelite and the entire game is also Co-op from start to finish, there are two characters a Blue Knight and a Red Demon. The game is also going to have tons of references to other games.
Can't sleep and behold, new episode of game sack👍
@Game Sack How could you miss "Sketchin'" under spiritual successors to Road Rash? Also ESPN Extreme Games and 2Xtreme for Playstation.
This reminded me I need to download the Anton Blast demo, which is a spiritual successor to Wario Land 4. I'd say give it a go for the next episode, along with PIzza Tower, which might be more of a spirital successor to Wario Land Shake Dimension? I don't know, they both look good
The star used in Devils crash is Polyvalent and older than the Jewish implementation.
in Gnostic Freemasonry and other forms of the occult, it is known as the seal of Soloman or Star of Remphan (Egyptian) it represents both man and the elements of Earth-Air-Fire-Water-Spirit sealed within a circle or binding pattern.
The skit at the end was one of the funniest skits I've seen.
Check out Rogue Galaxy, spiritual successor to Dark Cloud on PS2.
When talking about Wipeout, I thought you were gonna mention Quantum Redshift, as it's the literal spiritual followup of Wipeout, since it was developed by several former Psygnosis' staff. Or maybe even Pacer, which is also a spiritual successor to Wipeout with some of the staff having worked on Wipeout 3 for Psygnosis.
The spiritual sequence for jaki crush will be called Jack crush. 😂😂😂. Another great video Joe!!!!
Good job man, been following for so many years now and I still love it.
I like how Joe says "2001" and even marks the year on the screen just to make sure we know the game was indeed made in the year two thousand AND one. It's those attention to details that matter in the end of the day.
I cannot for the life of me understand how you, GVMERS and Rerez aren't all three over a million subs. I can't think of any other gaming channels that always put out good content.
right???
Enjoyed the movie at the end "The Jack's Speech"
Joe,
A dollar word is one whose total value is exactly 100. Each of its letters is assigned a value according to its position in the alphabet. a=1, b=2, z=26. Some examples of dollar words are: contented, cookout, mittens and shadowing.
My thumbs up for this episode and Joe, a good friend to me (?). Never thought or believed some of the games were kinda "successors" to many of this games. Really good. I might try a few of em if I get the chance. Thanks as always, Joe! A big hug from Argentina!
Yay, my favorite show for breakfast, greetings from Berlin, Germany!
Panzer Dragoon Remake is really beautiful
Game Sack, going strong for almost 15 years, no slobs, no drama, no zip tied tripods. In addition to genuine interest AND knowledge of the video subject.
I know I have been leaving comments randomly and usually just end up writing some cockamamey tard stuff but I totally appreciate you, Joe.
Red Cow Arcade, kind of pokes fun your way but in a way that acknowledges and respects your work/talent.
Big Frankie fan...btw
LOL zip tied tripods?
You didn’t mention Left 4 Dead’s spiritual successors Evolve and the ill reviewed disappointment Back 4 Blood. They never live up to Left 4 Dead in every conceivable way considering they were made by the same damn team.
Great video, Joe! I’d love to see you talk about Snatcher and its spiritual successor 2064: Read Only Memories. ROM is one of my favorite indie games. Great story, gorgeous pixel art graphics, and good voice-acting. They even got the English actor who plays Gillian Seed in Snatcher to voice a character in their game; Dekker.
Joe where did you get that Ikaruga shirt? It’s sick!
I honestly don't even remember, had it for years.
Virtua Cop 3 is badass, you get a floor pedal that lets you slow down time for as long as you want but you have to manage the time gauge so you can't abuse it, its arcade only so good luck finding one, i've only ever seen it at Gameworks when those were still a thing.
Heh, I just saw that Osman was on the Xbox store last week, and wishlisted it immediately.
I need that shirt!
Good quality programing I can watch any time.
Thank you, sir.
Thanks for giving Road Rash on the 3DO the mad props that it deserves. Yeah, you can play it on the Playstation or Saturn and the framerate is a bit smoother, but it just doesn't play or look quite the same, so the 3DO version remains my favorite. I have to mention, however, that I think Road Rash 64 on the N64 is extremely underrated. It doesn't look or feel much like a traditional 2D Road Rash game, and the graphics are really bland, but the gameplay is pure gold. It benefits from the ability to change different variables of the races, like how many pedestrians there are, cops, etc. If you have the slightest bit of imagination, this ups the replay value immensely. Sometimes I like to mow down as many pedestrians as possible, or sometimes I like to knock down as many opponents as possible, etc. It's really a great game, one of my favorites in the franchise.
The Fast Racing series (Fast Racing League on Wiiware, Fast Racing Neo on WiiU, and Fast RMX on Switch) is an excellent spiritual successor to F-Zero/Wipeout, with its own gimmick reminiscent of Ikaruga (you change polarization/color).
The Torchilight series is a pretty good spiritual successor to the Diablo series.
Strider is one of my favourite arcade games. The weird sprite angles adds to the weirdness. It's just special. I feel the same for shadow dancer. A bit weird but super fun
We can't make jokes about religions, especially our Jewish friends, in Germany that easily. The joke about the bar mitzvah present made me crack up!
Ever look into the Rothschild/Hitler connection (theory)? Seems quite likely.
This channel keeps my love of retro Gaming alive 😊
One I remember was Demolition Racer for PS1. On the back of the PS1 case, it said it was the "spiritual successor to Destruction Derby 2". Destruction Derby 2 has a few proper sequels after with Destruction Derby Raw Destruction Derby Arenas.