38:32 each music track you hear in Aironauts is actually a shortened form of the original recording - the songs in the game tend to last 2 minutes and a half before fading out, but the actual recordings are considerably longer and contain some more composition. I was sent a few of the unedited tracks by composer Chris Scudds, including one that wasn't actually used in the game at all called Scraper City (likely from a level of the same name that was scrapped from the final version of the game), and have in fact uploaded them recently on my channel and I can tell you that the difference between what you hear in the game and the uncut version of the music can be astounding. The Penton V theme especially suffered from being cut short, and Alcajazz had an extended intro and outro which to me makes it sound way more epic than it already is.
54:13 so like Road Blaster/Road Avenger FMV Dragons lair type game with 3+ whole minutes of cell drawn Animation of the a Red car from the opening of Double Dragon Exploding.
the reason for some of the smooth controls is due to application. for 3D aiming and steering and the like, my preference is to place a position in front of the player object, and then move that position using an input such as a joystick or mouse and then align the player object to align with the vector from player object to steering pos. the effect can either me instant, or delayed, like in panzer dragoon, but always gives smooth input, holds even more true if used with analog inputs. digital are always a bit wonky
39:19 Oh my, looking at the profile pic I had back then makes me cringe. I was only just made aware that this video existed a few days ago...thanks for the shout out. I don't feel that I precisely struck gold by uploading the soundtrack, because like you've mentioned it earned very little views for each video. For years, the theme for Penton V was the one that racked up the most views but then it was eventually surpassed by Alcajazz and I wondered why but now I know. Funny story: I didn't really mean to upload all of the music, in 2015 I uploaded the three tracks that you can play with Windows Media Player when you mount the game's ISO. Almost two years later I uploaded the rest of it because an user called Adam Demeter requested it, and I used a PSX data ripping utility to get the whole thing. I have the feeling that RUclipsrs have given the game a second lease of life, because let me tell you, eight years ago if you tried to look for Aironauts on this site there was just the playthrough by Renegade and the three soundtrack vids by me. Now however there are many search pages' worth of uploads related to the game. Which is really cool for that to have happened.
Well I'm very glad you did! Archiving these old and forgotten tracks is important work and making it easily accessible for folks like me is a great service, so thank you for that!
This video was my first time ever coming across it! It's mad. Wish I enjoyed it more but I'd still love to see it get a bit more attention, figure there would be a lot of people who would really digg it. Thanks for watching! :)
The drinking game. Take a swig: 1. Every time he calls Hybrid a nightmare. 2. Every time a bad game is almost saved by amateur artwork/FMV. 3. "The game wants to be __________" 4. A better soundtrack than the game deserves.
Me midway during editing "God I hope nobody notices how much I used the word nightmare repeatedly in this video and uses it as a rule in a drinking game"
The wheel was so close to Firebugs. It’s a super fun game. It’s effectively Rollcage 3, same dev, same game engine, same concept, just with bright kid friendly visual design.
Your stuff is really good man! Means a lot coming from you, appreciate it. Just gonna keep working away, improving over time and hope the videos keep reaching the right people :)
Praise be to the wheel, my game was finally chosen! I knew you would enjoy it! Now, you are ready for Steel Harbinger, looking forward to the day the wheel will let you review it. You know, you had to first play The Raven Project before Steel Harbinger to not miss a reference to it in the opening FMV
12:40 - this reminds me of the setup to Broken Helix, have you covered that? It's jank city, but the dialog was hilarious and branching narrative structure ambitious, kinda cool.
The Wheel Will Provide and it did deliver. Aironauts really looks like something I would enjoy, I put it on my "Games from the wheel I will eventually get, I promise" list.
Back in the day I completly loved Hexen that I had and I still have on Nintendo 64 ! So the first time I heard about Hybrid, I wanted to have it but I never had the chance to buy it ! Your video confirms that it's an interesting game for me, because that's what I'm looking for the FPS genre in the PS1. Of course, it won't have tha same level design complexity and background quality as Hexen, it's a clearly less polished game but I think it's an interesting game for me. Aeronauts seems also very interesting, very different from what I know from the PS1 library, I also want to give it a shot. The two other games, if I find them very cheap why not, but nothing that interesting. Nice video as always.
There is actually a game for the ps3 and Xbox 360 that sort of does what rockem sockem was trying to do. It was the tie in to Real Steel. It was made by yukes, of all companies, and was more akin to a rather solid boxing game
I am really wsorry your channel is not more known and viewed. Your content is top notch: the analysis and depth of the reviewed games are one of the best i have seen in youtube
I really need to give Aironauts a shot, I've played demo version back in the day, seen your demo playthrough and now this. Another amazing episode, I hope for this series to never end, praise the Wheel! Also, I love that Croc and Parasite Eve Music. Can't wait for another video Sean.
What kind of monster nominates a Cryo game?? ;) The wheel didn't provide much this episode eh? I kept seeing Aironauts on Ebay but never took the plunge, but it sounds decent actually. Rock em sounds interesting, but disappointing Paradox didn't stick the landing. Awesome episode, digged the Croc music at the end too O.O
Sean you are a true inspiration for me , as I have a greek RUclips channel , where I make retrospectives about retro survival horror videogames 😁 Your dedication and passion helps me to cope up with the difficulty of balancing work with content creation 💪
Amazing to hear! It can be exhausting balancing work and content creation, but it's a really satisfying feeling knowing you put your all into something and seeing it come to fruition. Makes it all worth it. You channel sounds really interestng, I'll make sure to check it out soon! Keep it up and trust the process :)
@@horrorgaminghistorian1289 haha you were right but I could still see you are putting a lot of effort into the videos, they're really well put together. It's always nice to see video game content in different languages, makes the hobby more accessible to more people. Keep up the great work!
@Horror Gaming Historian Hey, your channel sounds really cool! Any chance for English subtitles at some point? Also, I'm kind of an expert on that subject, as well (I literally wrote my PhD dissertation on the Resident Evil series) - we should talk! (Sorry, Sean, but this is cool, and I am absolutely going to try to connect if I can!)
Another great video! Its a shame about The Raven Project. There are so many FMV games that I wish I liked more. I do wish the space SIM-with-FMV genre would get a revival though.
Almost definitely, but I still think it would have ended up quite the obscurity. Most FPS games kinda faded in the shadow of games like Doom and Alien Trilogy early on and then with games like Quake II & Medal of Honor later in the system's life.
Aironauts is the reason I love PSX games. Weird idea with a weird aesthetic and gameplay not quite there but altogether interesting enough you’d wish it was better. Robot arenas cgi fmv looks amazing to me, while hybrid does not at all. The 3DO game seems more interesting. A bit disappointed with Cryo here, but at least the cutscenes have a slight Dune vibe. Overall a rather mundane selection for me.
Yeah definately the weakest line up of games so far, at least in terms of stuff you'd actually want to play. I'm surprised we havnt seen more episodes like this, there's some really rough games floating around in that wheel 😅
How did you manage to catch the image of the 90’s in your music. Every time I hear your intro or it goes to the next game, I picture that industrial style grungy dark brown look. Metal grates steel beams and rock music all flood my mind. Seems odd when I type it out lol. That’s the aesthetic I associate in my head for the 90’s, well that and Evil Disco (Static X)!! 🤣
Hell yeah Static X! A lot of it just comes from piecing together a lot of vivid memories I have from the time period, that almost rusty brown aesthetic I usually associate with the industrial stuff coming out in the 90's. Fear Factory, NIN, a little Aphex Twin, not to mention its prevalence in rock/grunge. It sounds like such an odd thing to describe but I completely get it man 😂
So, many of these games basically suck except for the music? Really cool to see a look at a bunch of games I never played though. And to be reminded of a fair few I did. Great series.
Here from Bubsy video. Raven project looks like any other 3d shooter. But I never liked the genre, even the supposed best of the best like Panzer Dragoon or Rogue Squadron. But I don't see anything that makes it offensively bad. Looks like a 5/10, competent attempt at the genre but bland and boring.
Sean i hope you never stop making these obscure PSX games videos 😁 Your channel is an oasis for every retro gamer 👏👏
I just found this channel and I love it. I've been watching non stop
Rock-Em Sock-Em robots arena looks to be based on the line of action figures released in the '00s that featured swappable limbs on the robots.
38:32 each music track you hear in Aironauts is actually a shortened form of the original recording - the songs in the game tend to last 2 minutes and a half before fading out, but the actual recordings are considerably longer and contain some more composition. I was sent a few of the unedited tracks by composer Chris Scudds, including one that wasn't actually used in the game at all called Scraper City (likely from a level of the same name that was scrapped from the final version of the game), and have in fact uploaded them recently on my channel and I can tell you that the difference between what you hear in the game and the uncut version of the music can be astounding. The Penton V theme especially suffered from being cut short, and Alcajazz had an extended intro and outro which to me makes it sound way more epic than it already is.
54:13 so like Road Blaster/Road Avenger FMV Dragons lair type game with 3+ whole minutes of cell drawn Animation of the a Red car from the opening of Double Dragon Exploding.
the reason for some of the smooth controls is due to application. for 3D aiming and steering and the like, my preference is to place a position in front of the player object, and then move that position using an input such as a joystick or mouse and then align the player object to align with the vector from player object to steering pos. the effect can either me instant, or delayed, like in panzer dragoon, but always gives smooth input, holds even more true if used with analog inputs. digital are always a bit wonky
Sean I’ve been sat here bingeing your content all day. Never stop doing what you’re doing. This channel is an awesome catalog of work.
Thank you ♥️
39:19 Oh my, looking at the profile pic I had back then makes me cringe. I was only just made aware that this video existed a few days ago...thanks for the shout out. I don't feel that I precisely struck gold by uploading the soundtrack, because like you've mentioned it earned very little views for each video. For years, the theme for Penton V was the one that racked up the most views but then it was eventually surpassed by Alcajazz and I wondered why but now I know. Funny story: I didn't really mean to upload all of the music, in 2015 I uploaded the three tracks that you can play with Windows Media Player when you mount the game's ISO. Almost two years later I uploaded the rest of it because an user called Adam Demeter requested it, and I used a PSX data ripping utility to get the whole thing. I have the feeling that RUclipsrs have given the game a second lease of life, because let me tell you, eight years ago if you tried to look for Aironauts on this site there was just the playthrough by Renegade and the three soundtrack vids by me. Now however there are many search pages' worth of uploads related to the game. Which is really cool for that to have happened.
Well I'm very glad you did! Archiving these old and forgotten tracks is important work and making it easily accessible for folks like me is a great service, so thank you for that!
The ps1 library of interesting titles is astonishing to say the least.
Thanks for the video!
I used to have Game 1 (no spoilers) and loved it to death, and I was always the ONLY one to know about it, so underrated. Great content as usual Sir
This video was my first time ever coming across it! It's mad.
Wish I enjoyed it more but I'd still love to see it get a bit more attention, figure there would be a lot of people who would really digg it.
Thanks for watching! :)
The drinking game.
Take a swig:
1. Every time he calls Hybrid a nightmare.
2. Every time a bad game is almost saved by amateur artwork/FMV.
3. "The game wants to be __________"
4. A better soundtrack than the game deserves.
Me midway during editing
"God I hope nobody notices how much I used the word nightmare repeatedly in this video and uses it as a rule in a drinking game"
@@SeanSeanson
It's the only reason there's a drinking game.
I don't even drink.
The wheel was so close to Firebugs. It’s a super fun game. It’s effectively Rollcage 3, same dev, same game engine, same concept, just with bright kid friendly visual design.
Sweeeet its over an hour this time! Praise be to the wheel!
That Croc music for the outro 🤙🏻 Cannot get enough-another great episode, Sam!
So like, I've watched all your videos, so I think your videos are pretty good. Seriously, you're going to get a metric ton of subs pretty soon
Your stuff is really good man! Means a lot coming from you, appreciate it.
Just gonna keep working away, improving over time and hope the videos keep reaching the right people :)
Combot in Tekken Tag 2 does what rockem sockem arena does years later with the customizable movelist thing.
Oh Cool! Been meaning to check out TT2 at some point so I'll keep an eye out for that.
The rock em sock em robot game reminds me of what rise of the robots should have been
Praise be to the wheel, my game was finally chosen! I knew you would enjoy it! Now, you are ready for Steel Harbinger, looking forward to the day the wheel will let you review it. You know, you had to first play The Raven Project before Steel Harbinger to not miss a reference to it in the opening FMV
Congrats! I'll be watching extra carefully when the wheel eventually gets to it :)
DUDE YOU JUST UNLOCKED A MEMORY FOR ME! i used to play the robot game so often as a child, it was just plain fun. thanks a lot
Absolute banger of a RUclips channel. Sean Seanson Will Provide!
man I love these videos, but on top of that your editing and just general product have gotten so good. Please keep it up.
12:40 - this reminds me of the setup to Broken Helix, have you covered that? It's jank city, but the dialog was hilarious and branching narrative structure ambitious, kinda cool.
Not yet but I'm very much looking forward to it. I imagine it will either show up in one of these wheel videos or the inevitable Konami mega video.
@@SeanSeanson hell yeah! Just prepare yourself for the worst 3rd person platforming sections ever. 😅
I've binged almost all of your videos, I'm addicted to the good stuff I think. Incredible job man
This series is pretty amazing. Featuring truely obscure games and even many of them looking like hidden gems. Please keep it up.
Will do friend, appreciate you watching!
The Wheel Will Provide and it did deliver.
Aironauts really looks like something I would enjoy, I put it on my "Games from the wheel I will eventually get, I promise" list.
Why do all these PAL exclusives have to look so interesting?
Comment for the RUclips algorithm
PRAISE THE WHEEL! FOR IT WILL PROVIDE.
I just came across your channel and it is great! The PS1 has such a massive library of games! I own about 350 and have not even dented the library.
Back in the day I completly loved Hexen that I had and I still have on Nintendo 64 ! So the first time I heard about Hybrid, I wanted to have it but I never had the chance to buy it ! Your video confirms that it's an interesting game for me, because that's what I'm looking for the FPS genre in the PS1. Of course, it won't have tha same level design complexity and background quality as Hexen, it's a clearly less polished game but I think it's an interesting game for me.
Aeronauts seems also very interesting, very different from what I know from the PS1 library, I also want to give it a shot. The two other games, if I find them very cheap why not, but nothing that interesting. Nice video as always.
There is actually a game for the ps3 and Xbox 360 that sort of does what rockem sockem was trying to do. It was the tie in to Real Steel. It was made by yukes, of all companies, and was more akin to a rather solid boxing game
I am really wsorry your channel is not more known and viewed. Your content is top notch: the analysis and depth of the reviewed games are one of the best i have seen in youtube
Appreciate the kind comment friend, thanks so much for watching!
I really need to give Aironauts a shot, I've played demo version back in the day, seen your demo playthrough and now this. Another amazing episode, I hope for this series to never end, praise the Wheel! Also, I love that Croc and Parasite Eve Music. Can't wait for another video Sean.
Addicted to your videos. Really liked the editing with the little sound clips and tittle cards a la adultswim.
Aironauts does look like a bit of fun. Great stuff as usual.
Always ending up playing PS1 games for several days straight after watching these episodes.
Praise the wheel!
What kind of monster nominates a Cryo game?? ;)
The wheel didn't provide much this episode eh? I kept seeing Aironauts on Ebay but never took the plunge, but it sounds decent actually. Rock em sounds interesting, but disappointing Paradox didn't stick the landing.
Awesome episode, digged the Croc music at the end too O.O
First step to becoming a dedicated Croc fan channel :)
Thanks for watching man!
I'm glad I found this gem of a channel.
Keymapping and Save states make these older games way more fun now.
Thank you and the wheel for another fun video!
I've started saying "you love to see it" now and I'm thankful 😂
Ayyyy you love to see it!!! 😁
Man the way that stars move in The Raven Project is really unsettling to me for some reason!
The stars are trying to escape the game.
I’m a little late but an obscure game choice is “Rising Zan: The Samurai Gunman” (:
Never too late friend! I'll get it added now :)
Its ironic how we went from Hexen and Hybrid to Call of Duty! Getting lost sims to ultimate hand holding!
Cheers for great content!
Sean you are a true inspiration for me , as I have a greek RUclips channel , where I make retrospectives about retro survival horror videogames 😁 Your dedication and passion helps me to cope up with the difficulty of balancing work with content creation 💪
Amazing to hear! It can be exhausting balancing work and content creation, but it's a really satisfying feeling knowing you put your all into something and seeing it come to fruition. Makes it all worth it.
You channel sounds really interestng, I'll make sure to check it out soon! Keep it up and trust the process :)
@@SeanSeanson you are absolutely right 👌 I think that you won't understand much because I speak greek , but thanks for the support 😍
@@horrorgaminghistorian1289 haha you were right but I could still see you are putting a lot of effort into the videos, they're really well put together.
It's always nice to see video game content in different languages, makes the hobby more accessible to more people. Keep up the great work!
@@SeanSeanson man I can't thank you enough for your kind words 😍 I hope that we someday reach 100k subs 🤣
@Horror Gaming Historian Hey, your channel sounds really cool! Any chance for English subtitles at some point?
Also, I'm kind of an expert on that subject, as well (I literally wrote my PhD dissertation on the Resident Evil series) - we should talk!
(Sorry, Sean, but this is cool, and I am absolutely going to try to connect if I can!)
Another great video! Its a shame about The Raven Project. There are so many FMV games that I wish I liked more. I do wish the space SIM-with-FMV genre would get a revival though.
never clicked on a video so fast
this is the first time i heard virtuoso be called "good"!
In this case the quotation marks are very important 😉
New subscriber, convinced of the divinity of the wheel
Thank you so much Sean !
I'm creating a cartoon. It's called, Forgotten Tales! It's about these forgotten and obscure characters that go on wacky and crazy adventures.
I thought I was over PS1 collecting, but these videos are tickling my collecting rage 😬
glad to be one of your early subs before you hopefully make it big.
@48:48 I used to tie an onion to my belt
F**k there goes the onion !
You're awesome, Sean. Thank you
Great video bro!
You need to get a Wheel of Fortune wheel. Maybe get Marty too.
I'll call in a few favours
Praise be the mighty Wheel
Question about Hybrid... Do you think that if it has come out in 1997, that it would've done better?
Almost definitely, but I still think it would have ended up quite the obscurity. Most FPS games kinda faded in the shadow of games like Doom and Alien Trilogy early on and then with games like Quake II & Medal of Honor later in the system's life.
beautiful, please keep doing this :>>> i love psx games!!!
Aironauts is the reason I love PSX games. Weird idea with a weird aesthetic and gameplay not quite there but altogether interesting enough you’d wish it was better.
Robot arenas cgi fmv looks amazing to me, while hybrid does not at all. The 3DO game seems more interesting.
A bit disappointed with Cryo here, but at least the cutscenes have a slight Dune vibe.
Overall a rather mundane selection for me.
Yeah definately the weakest line up of games so far, at least in terms of stuff you'd actually want to play.
I'm surprised we havnt seen more episodes like this, there's some really rough games floating around in that wheel 😅
@@SeanSeanson even the music wasn’t great. You should rank the soundtracks at the end or add a „just listen“ category. Some games deserve it.
How did you manage to catch the image of the 90’s in your music. Every time I hear your intro or it goes to the next game, I picture that industrial style grungy dark brown look. Metal grates steel beams and rock music all flood my mind. Seems odd when I type it out lol. That’s the aesthetic I associate in my head for the 90’s, well that and Evil Disco (Static X)!! 🤣
Hell yeah Static X!
A lot of it just comes from piecing together a lot of vivid memories I have from the time period, that almost rusty brown aesthetic I usually associate with the industrial stuff coming out in the 90's. Fear Factory, NIN, a little Aphex Twin, not to mention its prevalence in rock/grunge. It sounds like such an odd thing to describe but I completely get it man 😂
So, many of these games basically suck except for the music? Really cool to see a look at a bunch of games I never played though. And to be reminded of a fair few I did. Great series.
Even when the gameplay lets me down, the composers always have my back.
Hybrid predicted 2022 being the last year before an epoch reset. How prophetic.
hahahah
Quality as always
Thanks bro :)
Is 'Trill Kill' a game about bloodthirsty budgies?
well now I wish it was
I fuckin love u and ur content its so cool!!!
I am once again asking for you to play and rank all Cryo PS1 games. Or you could play and rank ALL Cryo games.
Someday hopefully! I needed a little break from Cryo after the Ubik incident 😅
@SeanSeanson since I found the channel I've been going thru all your videos from oldest to newest. I'm excited for Ubik now!
here is my comment, plese notice me algorythm senpaiiiiiiii!!!!!
48:46 Matt Muscles viewers know
What is Your Favorite Aironaut's Music?
Alcajazz for sure!
@@SeanSeanson Good Taste 👍
A tree or four!?!??!
If I had to Torture myself I would pick Aironauts. Looks like the game that would not give me brain damage.
What's the game at 00:08 seconds?
Its the Dungeons and Dragons fighting game, called Iron & Blood :)
👌
Hey, can you tell me the music at 43:30?
Its a track called Out of Phase from the Parasite Eve OST :)
@@SeanSeanson Awesome, thanks. And great videos and mixes btw.!
ty! ❤
I would have put Hybrid into the Try tier, personally, because as you said, for genre fans of the Doom/Hexen-clone, you could do worse.
its not another obscure video if there isnt a weird flying shmup
Treedio!!?!!
Tru-out?!?? Huh
Here from Bubsy video. Raven project looks like any other 3d shooter. But I never liked the genre, even the supposed best of the best like Panzer Dragoon or Rogue Squadron. But I don't see anything that makes it offensively bad. Looks like a 5/10, competent attempt at the genre but bland and boring.
mech games are so boring and it seems like there's usually one or two in every one of these videos lmao