Wings over Europe is the predecessor to "Strike Fighters" and "Strike Fighters 2", which to this day are some of the best combat flight simulators since era of DID simulators.
You gotta be kidding me. I was just on your channel because I rewatched your amazing tanki online videos and I accidentally refreshed the website and your new video podded up. Im exited to watch it.
@@DeamonTanki No one gives a sh*t bro, let people enjoy ian's videos without getting told that the channel they are watching isn't as good as someone else's.
Beast Battle Simulator use to be very famous because alot of popular youtuber played it like Pewdiepie,Jacksepticeye,LazarBeam,Etc....Its truly a hidden gem in the battle simulator genre
@@GERMANCHEESERAT I escaped the snail more than once was it worth it? Yes am i willing to do it again? Maybe but for sure the worst opinion Snail still haunts me
It is. It was a mod that they released as a standalone game. It was supposed to "compete" with the invasion 1944 mod that was literally free. The assets are still used for WWII arma 3 missions
15:30 theres also another one by gaijin: "Birds of Steel" (yes thats the name.) available on PS3 and i guess PC too? Mine is still running, its basically just 2012 War Thunder, theres not much difference.
Played so much Comanche 4 back in the days. It was a good game and fun to play but Comanche 3 did it better, especially with Comanche 3 Gold released in 1998. Graphics were the GOAT back then. Nowadays they look antique and nobody plays the game anymore. Thanks for making me feel old once more. ^^
Iron front (game 41) seems to be literally just a standalone Arma 2 mod. Arma 2 is pretty complex since its a combat sim (and is really good in its own right if you're into that, their more modern releases like Arma 3 and most recently reforger is really fun too with huge mod scenes) so that makes sense on how its like completely lost on what to do lol, its controls are incredibly convoluted on top of that
@toffee3944 getting abandoned says otherwise, since half of what was meant to be in the game never came to be. Doing basic maintenance doesn't change that.
Heroes In The Sky used to be playable. It was actually pretty fun. It was like an early version of War Thunder back when it was only planes, but if it was PvE instead of PvP. Though the developers stopped supporting it, left it to rot, people could still play it for a long time but eventually when they lost the website domain (that the servers and launcher were tied to) it broke the game and made it impossible to get past the launcher. So, not exactly a scam, just... a literally dead game. Not abandoned dead, but unplayable dead.
This has truly changed my life for the better. I am in tears from the amazing games that have been showcased today; humanity will truly benefit from this research. The only sacrifice it needed was 570$ and Ian's sanity.
Yo, on the topic of game 27 "All hit all her", I recognize those assets! This game was made in a very crude development software called "FPS creator" that existed like 14 years ago. I used to tinker around in this, but it's like extremely limited in what you can do with it, because it was aimed at non-developers as a gimmick to play around with rather than an actual development software to make FPS games with.
Great video but I have one constructive suggestion: You mention games or whatever that you're going to talk about "soon" or "later" way, way too much. I understand why you would do this once or twice to keep people watching but it started to get grating. Otherwise, great content.
I don't think you know how close to the water Ekranoplans actually fly, they only fly about 20 feet above the surface, so flying straight or turning huge circles is pretty much all they can do, but they should DEFINITELY be a lot faster than that.
Interesting - I actually started following Great Wars by Carolus XII on Steam and it is apparently being updated but slowly since its apparently only one guy working on it. I hope it will be worth purchasing sometime next year. For the rest, I get the impression they are works of programmng students, and I wouldn't even waste space on my SSD for any of those. Good video though - appreciate the effort and the money spent. Oh, and War Trains should be reported as a scam.
I actually watched videos of people playing WW2 Bunker Simulator (Game 15), and Beast Battle Simulator (Game 33)!! I always wanted to play Beast Battle Simulator (Game 33).
Kids these days, I swear... So tired of seeing "abandoned" written in reviews of actual, finished projects. They think this trend of 'forever games' is normal; Where a game is never, ever finished and feature/content complete and if a game stops getting updates every month because it _is_ finished, it's suddenly considered 'abandoned'. "Finished" does not mean "abandoned". An abandoned game is one that is left unfinished, which is not the same as a finished game which doesn't receive updates. Which are also different concepts to abandonware, which is old software that usually for grey legal reasons is considered fiscally or otherwise valueless by it's copyright owner, if it still even has one. fml
A few hours ago, i stumbled on your channel. Watched a lot of videos, saw last one was like 7 months ago. I was kinda stressing is this youtuber gone forever, then i see a new video upload xD. I love the content and editing man, keep it up. Military games aint my stuff, but your videos make it rly entertaining.
I love this so much, brings back all those memories about bargain bin games you got from relatives for Christmas as a kid during the 90s. And you played them anyway and 100% them because why the fuck you wouldn't, you had no internet and owned a few dozen games total, you had the time to master buggy, broken games that no one ever played and even grew to like some of them.
Just watched two of your war thunder videos, like them both. And glad you're back. I'd say that was brutal of a playthrough rhere, appreciated for the reviews. The 195 game should have auto full refund button in the game.
A good reminder that price is often irrelevant to actual quality. You can find great things that are free as much as terrible things that are expensive.
Crash Dive 2 is actually a pretty good middle ground between an arcade game and a sim like Silent Hunter. I'd say it is ideal for those who want an experience of WWII naval combat, without needing to actually learn how to use a electromechanical Torpedo Data Computer. It is also pretty easy to mod and set your own paramaters (like if enemy destroyers can fire torpedoes at your submerged boat.) On the comical side, there is a game called "Panzermadels!", that is similar to the attack helicopter dating simulator, just with WWII tanks.
I had in my childhood Comanche 4 on old ACER advertisement box as demo game on a disk with other titles like delta force desert warrior and operation flashpoint, icoming or somth like this vague scifi game. Box had full game with disk key for Aquanox and some vague racing game. Being child hadn't really played much of anything and I rather got hooked on OFP and mil sims when grew up thanks to the box laying around all this time. For me seeing Comanche 4 is more literally bringing up childhood memories.
Wings of Prey only works on console and Nintendo DS, the PC version doesn‘t work anymore because the service responsible for accounts doesn’t exist anymore
2:09 Heroes In the Sky is a Korean game. It had Korean and Japanese server, but all are closed - so it is not weird you can see only one option in the selection box.
I played Wings over Europe: When Cold War Gone Hot, it is a cheap version of Lock-On and DCS. And a lot of combat flight sim fans made a lot of mods! I enjoyed it pretty much!
Wing of Prey is just old Warthunder single-player (i think they used WoP as the base game for it, and you would get free Golden eagles if you had the game) The Warthunder campaign you can buy is the exact same campaign, so you didn't miss anything, and can just play it straight from warthunder with 0 differences (maybe balance changes if they affect the SP mode by mistake)
wings over Europe actually slapped at the time. a slightly better version of the game is called Strike Fighters 2. its pretty neat. has a bunch of expansions, and a somewhat dynamic campaign generator.
fun fact about wings over europe is that it will most likely say it has 0 players since you need to download a patch to fix the lag and launch it from the file directory so it wont show up on steam it is an alright flight sim arcadey physics but other than that its a nice game for cheap
Ive always been interested on Ekranoplans, i wish there was more games about them. If not have gaijin add them even to War Thunder to make Naval more interesting?
16:30 no man, winter war 1939, is my Favorite game, LITERALLY an Open World where you command your own troops, in this thing, The Creator is a one Man Developer with other games that I really like, like this one game where you make your own city in the middle east and the American Revolution
I actually used to play Steel Ocean, and enjoyed playing it while it was still active. Unfortunately, the dev team basically shut down/quit after not enough interest (because WG had cornered the market), as well as lack of funding. Kind of sucked that it happened, but what memories I had of it were good.
btw, the games that take forever to load like that are made in unity and there is a bug where if the game file is located within too many folders it will never load.
I played air missions: hind on my friend's nintendo because for some reason it's available on nintendo and he has it for some reason and honestly it was kinda fun, we played it for hours.
The winter war game is very good, thres some battles(5) with big maps, a lot of vehicles and its a real time strategy mix with FPS, that goes very good, tbh a shame the game is not even working
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One youtuber was disappointed by war train too and made his own version of that game.
Yes
Jeff
Yes
And its free
yes
and its also fun as hell.
i was about to say about this
@@AspectBros I already said this before this guy even did so, just a few hours of difference, still somehow got more popularity
I like the way he saw the snail and went "NO, NO, NO; NOT THEM!"
the ptsd....
@ianNotShort The snail is coming
@@ianNotShorti am disappointed you didn’t try. Not even il-2 szturmovyk, which is the same thing.
@@ianNotShortdid you feed the snail?
@@0li945 I'm pretty sure there are still a lot of people playing that gane
Iron front is LITERALLY an Arma Mod, which is why the weapons felt good probably.
I thought it looked like arma alot.
also explains all the vehicle jank he experienced
@@onemorescout yepyep
I vaguely remember playing and enjoying iron front. I even have an AAR in my old blog.
Wings over Europe is the predecessor to "Strike Fighters" and "Strike Fighters 2", which to this day are some of the best combat flight simulators since era of DID simulators.
STRIKE FIGHTERS 2 MENTIONED
too bad they ruined it by not adding multiplayer and private servers
@@mustangrt8866 Fuck that. Not everyone wants to play with retards and xbox shitkiddies. I'll take single player every time.
You gotta be kidding me. I was just on your channel because I rewatched your amazing tanki online videos and I accidentally refreshed the website and your new video podded up. Im exited to watch it.
haha thanks
My tanki history video is better bro , great video ian this gotta get 1m fr fr
@@DeamonTanki No one gives a sh*t bro, let people enjoy ian's videos without getting told that the channel they are watching isn't as good as someone else's.
@@RebelAlliancePilot hate speec.
@@RebelAlliancePilot give him f**king peace
I will never be the same...
I wonder
Attack helicopter dating simulator is definitely game of the year
Noooooo...
are you by any chance german?
BTW the snail 🐌 will find you ;)
Beast Battle Simulator use to be very famous because alot of popular youtuber played it like Pewdiepie,Jacksepticeye,LazarBeam,Etc....Its truly a hidden gem in the battle simulator genre
15:30
You can't escape.
You never will.
you can't escape the snail the snail can only escape you (if it chooses to)
the snail is always there (i have 1500 hours in war thunder)
the immortal snail will haunt me forever
@@GERMANCHEESERAT I escaped the snail more than once
was it worth it? Yes
am i willing to do it again? Maybe
but for sure the worst opinion
Snail still haunts me
@@Cats_Elite rookie numbers
35:38 I would recognize that gameplay anywhere. It's an arma 2 mod no doubt about it.
I saw the HUD and gameplay and started tweaking LOL
@@toffee3944 you have been what?
It is. It was a mod that they released as a standalone game. It was supposed to "compete" with the invasion 1944 mod that was literally free. The assets are still used for WWII arma 3 missions
yeah i saw the side HUD
15:30 theres also another one by gaijin: "Birds of Steel" (yes thats the name.) available on PS3 and i guess PC too? Mine is still running, its basically just 2012 War Thunder, theres not much difference.
Birds of steel was fun
I had it on disk xbox 360. Birds of steel and there was another birds of prey I think. A pvp birds of steel on the 360
27:37 - Mirage tank simulator. Nobody here but us trees!
29:40- NEVER trigger the fight of flight response from a flightless bird.
Played so much Comanche 4 back in the days. It was a good game and fun to play but Comanche 3 did it better, especially with Comanche 3 Gold released in 1998.
Graphics were the GOAT back then. Nowadays they look antique and nobody plays the game anymore. Thanks for making me feel old once more. ^^
the irony of the thumbnail being modded KSP which has a notable vehicular combat sub-community is not lost on me lol
Iron front (game 41) seems to be literally just a standalone Arma 2 mod. Arma 2 is pretty complex since its a combat sim (and is really good in its own right if you're into that, their more modern releases like Arma 3 and most recently reforger is really fun too with huge mod scenes) so that makes sense on how its like completely lost on what to do lol, its controls are incredibly convoluted on top of that
That desert gunner gameplay really reminds me of the tank mission in Battlefield 3.
I miss Rising Storm 2 like you wouldn't believe.
I will never forgive Tripwire for abandoning it.
Anyone who buys KF3 is endorsing their actions.
Well Rising Storm 2 is on 95% sale on Steam soooo....
What's kf3 ?
@@mewan5360killing floor 3, zombie game that’s unrelated to rs2 besides the publishers
RS2 got updated like last week
@toffee3944
getting abandoned says otherwise, since half of what was meant to be in the game never came to be.
Doing basic maintenance doesn't change that.
27:05 No we cannot help Melody, it is beyond us. That profile picture explains everything.
Really happy to see Commanche 4, Iron Front, Graviteam and Wings over Europe
Heroes In The Sky used to be playable. It was actually pretty fun. It was like an early version of War Thunder back when it was only planes, but if it was PvE instead of PvP. Though the developers stopped supporting it, left it to rot, people could still play it for a long time but eventually when they lost the website domain (that the servers and launcher were tied to) it broke the game and made it impossible to get past the launcher. So, not exactly a scam, just... a literally dead game. Not abandoned dead, but unplayable dead.
ksp is NOT abandoned bro
didn't have many steam players tho :(
@@ianNotShort bro it has 2k palyers online what are u talking abt
KSP is such a W
@ianNotShort that's cause a lot of people play modded lol which needs an alternative launcher
ksp 2 is tho
2:08 Heroes in The Sky was a real game, and it had the English language! I remember playing it as a kid. It was quite okay from what I remember.
Man i rememember playing this all day in my childhood. That game was warthunder before warthunder existed
I feel bad he mocks the game because it has only english option. All other server (Korean/Japanese) had closed long ago.
the dogfight game was most likely an IFrame of a bad webgl game, it just looks like the domain of their website expired.
13:00 has got to be the best moment of this video. Apart from the first game
Yeah 😂
Thumbnail is Kerbal Space Program
This has truly changed my life for the better. I am in tears from the amazing games that have been showcased today; humanity will truly benefit from this research. The only sacrifice it needed was 570$ and Ian's sanity.
Yo, on the topic of game 27 "All hit all her", I recognize those assets!
This game was made in a very crude development software called "FPS creator" that existed like 14 years ago.
I used to tinker around in this, but it's like extremely limited in what you can do with it,
because it was aimed at non-developers as a gimmick to play around with rather than an actual development software to make FPS games with.
Great video but I have one constructive suggestion: You mention games or whatever that you're going to talk about "soon" or "later" way, way too much. I understand why you would do this once or twice to keep people watching but it started to get grating. Otherwise, great content.
I don't think you know how close to the water Ekranoplans actually fly, they only fly about 20 feet above the surface, so flying straight or turning huge circles is pretty much all they can do, but they should DEFINITELY be a lot faster than that.
After 7 Months Your finally back
ikk
@@ianNotShort so will you disappear again for another 7 months?
Interesting - I actually started following Great Wars by Carolus XII on Steam and it is apparently being updated but slowly since its apparently only one guy working on it. I hope it will be worth purchasing sometime next year. For the rest, I get the impression they are works of programmng students, and I wouldn't even waste space on my SSD for any of those.
Good video though - appreciate the effort and the money spent.
Oh, and War Trains should be reported as a scam.
I actually watched videos of people playing WW2 Bunker Simulator (Game 15), and Beast Battle Simulator (Game 33)!! I always wanted to play Beast Battle Simulator (Game 33).
Kids these days, I swear...
So tired of seeing "abandoned" written in reviews of actual, finished projects. They think this trend of 'forever games' is normal; Where a game is never, ever finished and feature/content complete and if a game stops getting updates every month because it _is_ finished, it's suddenly considered 'abandoned'.
"Finished" does not mean "abandoned". An abandoned game is one that is left unfinished, which is not the same as a finished game which doesn't receive updates. Which are also different concepts to abandonware, which is old software that usually for grey legal reasons is considered fiscally or otherwise valueless by it's copyright owner, if it still even has one.
fml
A few hours ago, i stumbled on your channel. Watched a lot of videos, saw last one was like 7 months ago. I was kinda stressing is this youtuber gone forever, then i see a new video upload xD. I love the content and editing man, keep it up. Military games aint my stuff, but your videos make it rly entertaining.
Good video, I'm upvoting and commenting to help you pay that initial cost of these games. Good job man, I'm not a bot, you have a good video here.
13:27 Hey, I know this game!
I love this so much, brings back all those memories about bargain bin games you got from relatives for Christmas as a kid during the 90s. And you played them anyway and 100% them because why the fuck you wouldn't, you had no internet and owned a few dozen games total, you had the time to master buggy, broken games that no one ever played and even grew to like some of them.
I'm supposed to be sleeping but this video is way too funny to stop watching! 😂
Airstrike used to be a free mobile game
Just watched two of your war thunder videos, like them both. And glad you're back. I'd say that was brutal of a playthrough rhere, appreciated for the reviews. The 195 game should have auto full refund button in the game.
ian when he learns basic strategy:
"put your bowmen in the back"
"put your offense units in the front"
the thumbnail is a screenshot from modded ksp lol
Not gonna watch the full video before commenting but............ Amazing video
Respect for using MOH Airborne music
I thought you left yt since last video was seven months ago,good to see you back nice material as always.
The amount of effort put into these videos! 🔝
Oh great god hes back after the crazy ice mounten video, i thougt the snail did sth to you...
the snail has left permanent damage
@ianNotShort im sorry for you
15:30 I love how you're having flash backs about War Thunder AS I'm playing War Thunder 😂😂
A good reminder that price is often irrelevant to actual quality. You can find great things that are free as much as terrible things that are expensive.
Crash Dive 2 is actually a pretty good middle ground between an arcade game and a sim like Silent Hunter. I'd say it is ideal for those who want an experience of WWII naval combat, without needing to actually learn how to use a electromechanical Torpedo Data Computer. It is also pretty easy to mod and set your own paramaters (like if enemy destroyers can fire torpedoes at your submerged boat.) On the comical side, there is a game called "Panzermadels!", that is similar to the attack helicopter dating simulator, just with WWII tanks.
I love your content and the amount of work you put into it
I had in my childhood Comanche 4 on old ACER advertisement box as demo game on a disk with other titles like delta force desert warrior and operation flashpoint, icoming or somth like this vague scifi game. Box had full game with disk key for Aquanox and some vague racing game. Being child hadn't really played much of anything and I rather got hooked on OFP and mil sims when grew up thanks to the box laying around all this time. For me seeing Comanche 4 is more literally bringing up childhood memories.
After 7 months he finally returns
its actually insane how someone on youtube played finnish army simulator for 10 hours straight
Desert Gunner has that Conflict desert storm feel to it (even though they're completely different games)
Wings of Prey only works on console and Nintendo DS, the PC version doesn‘t work anymore because the service responsible for accounts doesn’t exist anymore
2:09 Heroes In the Sky is a Korean game.
It had Korean and Japanese server, but all are closed - so it is not weird you can see only one option in the selection box.
You should have done T72: Balkans on Fire, it's super forgotten but it's fun with friends
the reason ace combat still top flight game
They use to have Tank Life Simulator on Wild Tangent and I use to love it as a kid.
I played Wings over Europe: When Cold War Gone Hot, it is a cheap version of Lock-On and DCS. And a lot of combat flight sim fans made a lot of mods! I enjoyed it pretty much!
Bro, do you have another channel or something? Why no videos in 6 mos? Your content is the best!
Wait - Is the KSP on the thumbnail?
i didnt realize it was 45 minutes long. It was entertaining
Wing of Prey is just old Warthunder single-player (i think they used WoP as the base game for it, and you would get free Golden eagles if you had the game) The Warthunder campaign you can buy is the exact same campaign, so you didn't miss anything, and can just play it straight from warthunder with 0 differences (maybe balance changes if they affect the SP mode by mistake)
fun fact:wings of prey is actually old war thunder,basically a pre-alpha war thunder
Hah, I fondly remember playing Steel Ocean some time ago
elite Nam.... Now that brings back memories. Back when i used to play Delta force constantly. Hard game, even has some jank towards the end.
It took bro 7 months to get enough money for the video
Yo make hidden mobile games next. Skyblaze,project mech and jet attack move needs more love.
Yooo my favorite game is featured
Crash Dive!!!!
My favorite game of all time
Good vid. Keep it up
so i haven't actually watched the video, let me guess... day of defeat is there isn't it
wings over Europe actually slapped at the time.
a slightly better version of the game is called Strike Fighters 2. its pretty neat. has a bunch of expansions, and a somewhat dynamic campaign generator.
Ian, please, what was the song you used at 11:36? I beg. I looked at your description but there’s too many sounds and songs
The song is from the game itself; Depopulation. I tried to find the name but I couldn't. I hope you can find it.
@@SoyElZetado you own the game?
Someone actually reworked War Trains, and they actually put it on Steam *for free* iirc
Wing over series was actually very interesting flightsim series.
Steel ocean had some very cool mechanics tho. And submarines
33:00 that's just a Wolfenstein reskin...
31:19 Oh the memories, I didn't play that exact iteration of Comanche,but I played the heck out of Comanche gold back in middle school...
I played wings of prey back in the day it was honestly really good, now I play war thunder... the snail will never let me go.
15:30 wings of prey isnt even a game anymore it was the pre pre pre stage of war thunder xd they deleted this i thought
On the old Xbox360 it was Birds of Steel. Played the Crap out of that game
fun fact about wings over europe is that it will most likely say it has 0 players since you need to download a patch to fix the lag and launch it from the file directory so it wont show up on steam it is an alright flight sim arcadey physics but other than that its a nice game for cheap
Ive always been interested on Ekranoplans, i wish there was more games about them. If not have gaijin add them even to War Thunder to make Naval more interesting?
16:30 no man, winter war 1939, is my Favorite game, LITERALLY an Open World where you command your own troops, in this thing, The Creator is a one Man Developer with other games that I really like, like this one game where you make your own city in the middle east and the American Revolution
15:54 MUST FEED THE SNAIL
All hail the snail
@@AlesAlar-sy2grall hail the snail
Gimme a sec I need popcorn and a drink this is gonna be good
I actually used to play Steel Ocean, and enjoyed playing it while it was still active. Unfortunately, the dev team basically shut down/quit after not enough interest (because WG had cornered the market), as well as lack of funding. Kind of sucked that it happened, but what memories I had of it were good.
Bro is the CEO of foreshadowing
Iron Front is excellent. It's basically ARMA. I never experienced any bugs. Best WWII simulator if you ask me.
You deserve more views, sir
btw, the games that take forever to load like that are made in unity and there is a bug where if the game file is located within too many folders it will never load.
game 26 one tank army.. you're in a beautiful tiger tank... with an open top.
I played air missions: hind on my friend's nintendo because for some reason it's available on nintendo and he has it for some reason and honestly it was kinda fun, we played it for hours.
i played winter war on the phone, it was fun, sure i was too incompetent to play it but it really was fun
TBF, to play Wings of Prey, it is easier to pirate it.
Desert gunner was made by the devs of beachhead btw.
The winter war game is very good, thres some battles(5) with big maps, a lot of vehicles and its a real time strategy mix with FPS, that goes very good, tbh a shame the game is not even working
About Birds of Prey there is a working version of it called Il-2 Sturmovik:Birds if prey and it is available on the xbox 360
I saw sb whos creating an own war train game and until now it looks pretty cool
Graviteam was a competitor to combat mission. It’s pretty decent if you know what you’re doing.