Here's a link to Makopowered's video on the Divide: Enemies Within - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v-sWBEsZlPU.html Thanks as always for watching everybody
Thank you so much for this! Also, for those who ask, the wheel definitely does NOT play favorites: I have been pestering Sean about Omega Boost for the better part of a year. No, seriously, go back and look at the comments for previous volumes of this series - I got obnoxious about it, and I'm surprised he didn't just pull it from the wheel to spite me. 😅
Snagged a copy of Gekido, looks like an absolute blast, I also remember seeing omega boost at my local shop for a pre pandemic price. Thanks for the vids
The lead programmer of Cheesy actually programmed Quake 4, Unreal Tournament 3, Bulletstorm, and the first 3 Gears Of War games and the producer worked on Elden Ring. Now that's a career improvement if I've ever seen one!
Gekido was such a great pick.I can't believe they fit a 2d version on the gba. I get so many comments on how good it looks when I take my ps one with the LCD screen to work 💼. 😂
That 2d version is a different game. And they fit it on the GBA by taking a huge dive in variety. The enemy repetition is painful, even by beat-em up standards. (Still a great tech demo, though.)
Omega Boost! Great too see it on this list, criminally overlooked gem of a game. I remember playing it around 2010, I was impressed by how fast and technically flawless it is, and later bought a copy in 2019. Fortunately the game is not super expensive to buy even now, get it if you can
Sean please don't stop this fu&%ing series , it gives us life 😍😍 you are maybe the only RU-vidr that can play so perfect so many different genres of videogames 👏👏
I need you to know just how much you've taken my life with this series sir. My gaming has come to a halt, my music is being taken up by ps1 bangers, and my chores..... I don't even want to talk about it. In other words..... God Bless You. 😭
You're one of those creators that are worth the wait. I appreciate IMMENSELY that you take your sweet time to make this prime time boomer content for me specifically, and let it be said, i will NEVER unsubscribe because they take longer, because I'm here for this very reason. Also, what an absolute Chad you are for just letting your entire revenue go, all in favor for the quality of the video. I had REALLY ROOTED for Omega Boost having its turn, and HERE WE GO! Now I want to see Deathtrap Dungeon, Alundra 2 and Z from you. I will pray to the wheel each night until Vol.12 comes out.
Thank you so much! Would you like to add one of the three games you mentioned as your viewer pick? We've already for Alundra 2 & Deathtrap in the wheel, but nobody has picked Z yet, so that could be a fun choice!
Oh hell yeah, Omega Boost! Absolutely adore that intro cinematic. It's really well produced with some good compositing of CGI and live action, and its overall style has this Michael Bay cheezyness to it. Just... *chefskiss*
I've been watching through this series over the last week or so, and I've quickly come to really enjoy it. Not only am I learning about some great games that have slipped past my radar, I'm also learning about some pretty sweet music (in this particular episode). It's a shame it appears the Feeder music is absent from the NA version of Gran Turismo. You deserve a lot more subs, Sean. Keep up the great work.
I had Omega Boost in 2001, when mom got me a ps1 for christmas. I was a kid, and i never got past the spider level. This game is OUTSTANDING, and I always swore by it.
Still love Gekido ^^ a shame you couldn't unlock the playable bosses (one of which is "Donkey Kong") cause they're a lot of fun, but maybe someday ^^ It holds a special place in my heart not just because it's an aweosme beat 'em up, but it also introduced me to Fatboy Slim's "Love Island", love that track and also, because it has posters from Shadow Fighter, NAPS's fighting game for the Amiga, which was one of my fav games for the system, it was really a nice easter egg to find ^^
I have to commend NAPS for managing to replicate (sans the OST) the feel of the Japanese beat 'em ups down to a tee. :0 Really, quite a feat during the era. I'm sure we were all rooting for Omega Boost, and the wheel has delivered indeed! The particle effects and how smooth the game feels to play are just 🤌🤌 Also, nice one for making the most of the licensed music in this episode, like an absolute gigachad!
Gekido, fuck yeah! I remember buying it for a friend birthday is a bargain bin, had no clue what the game was about. Everyone spent the afternoon fighting for the controllers ahah. And I will have to check Omega boost. Good video Sean.
So I got recommended this channel by the algorithm a couple of months back, and i have been digging through the backlog. First off, the love the Obscure and Japan only series. They are fantastic. Second, I lost it at Daddy Magic in the Wheel's office. Wheel really is a true sports entertainer.
Can't believe I never saw the Omega Boost intro O: that's rad as hell, It's been on my definitely play list, I just never got around to it. also sorry again 😂just caught you mentioning Tunguska as I started typing out this comment.
Hell yeah, new Obscure & Forgotten PS1 Games! Hope the wheel enjoyed its vacation(s). 😁 Game #1: This looks like a nice first-person helicopter flying action game. Game #2: Man, I've heard about that game so much before and how bad it is, but your review has to be the first one to be a proper insight (at least from the ones I've watched). I can't remember the stuff like the flying or minecart sections. Game #3: I love beat'em ups, so this is right up my alley. Now to be fair, it is mostly 2D beat'em ups I love but I don't mind 3D ones either. This looks like a nice game. Gives me some slight Fighting Force vibes. Game #4: Okay, let's start off by saying how absolutely amazing the intro music is...IN ALL 3 VERSIONS!!! I love how easily you can spin around with that mecha. Also, "Threads of Fate" was so close to being chosen by the wheel. Thank you so much for another very informative and very entertaining video about (obscure & forgotten) PS1 games!
Ahhhhhh glad Omega Boost came up! I remember you recommending it to me so I knew it was one you were itching to talk about! Another absurdly varied lineup. Is it bad I knew exactly what tier Cheesy was going in before you placed it? 🤣 Gekido is interesting, as it sounds like it had the opposite problem of Crisis Beat which I recently played. That one had infinite continues, which while much less frustrating, did dampen replay value for me. It's a shame as it looks like I'd enjoy Gekido - until I snapped one of my controllers in frustration! Another excellent episode, all praise the wheel!
Bless youtube for finally getting it right when it pointed me to this channel. I can’t understate how much I appreciate you playing those licensed tracks in this. You are spot on when you were talking about how those tracks are intrinsic to the experience of these games.
Good lord. Thank the algorithm... the first episode in this series was recommended to me and I fell in love. Keep going Sean! I hope a big break is coming your way soon. Your production style is great and you're captivating as a host or narrator. Your vids have joined Wrestling Bios and Alex Webb as must sees.
Losing my mind over the fact that one of your banger examples for Black Dawns soundtrack (Track 11 or "Action Theme") got remixed in, of all games, Sonic and The Black Knight. Hit me like a sack of bricks when I realized but man what a fucking wild bit of trivia. Granted someone in the past 11 months has probably already said this so it's moot lmao. Fantastic vid as always man.
Always wondered about Gekido, as it looked like one of the more promising roaming beat 'em ups on a system that tended to struggle with them. It had a really nifty Game Boy Advance sequel that had a more fitting, SNK-esque art style, well worth a look 😊🙂
Black Dawn's soundtrack slaps so much because it was composed by Tommy Tallarico of Earthworm Jim's fame (and Pac-Man World). Speaking of Earthworm Jim: that bungee battle in Cheesy looked ripped straight out of Earthworm Jim one (Snot A Problem). And finally, after so much demand from many of us, Omega Boost got featured, praise the wheel! It's a shame Polyphony has forgotten their past, they can't even bother to at least include some form of Easter Egg in their newest Gran Turismo entries referencing either Omega Boost, or Tourist Trophy, or heck, Motor Toon Grand Prix...
I was thinking while watching the Omega Boost section that it really looked like a playable version of Macross' aerial combat scenes. And, voilá, Macross guy in the credits.
Oh wow, I already had Omega Boost on my list of games to check out thanks to the glimpses and recommendations of it from your previous videos, but it's only now that I realize... I actually played the HELL out of this game's demo. I distinctly remember fighting that big satellite in space, probably on one of those lovely demo discs that tended to be included in magazines. Man, why DID I never actually seek that game out? It seemed really fun! Thanks for uncovering a buried memory of something awesome, Sean!
Finally! My day has come! Omega Boost in all its glory! For my next suggestion, let's go spooky with either Koudelka or Tecmo's Deception (which, fun fact, actually needed to have a warning label in North America for satanic content) - whichever is more obscure/hasn't already been chosen for the wheel! Also, you're right about the speed changes for Gekido. I watched this episode with my brother, who has worked for a certain large game developer whose initials start with an E and end with an A, and he said that, since it was a small PAL developer, they probably didn't have the resources/testing capability to tune it for the North American market. Also also, I'm almost certain I recognize the wall vine texture in some of those Cheesy clips. I think it might have come from the first Pandemonium. Another great video, and I cannot thank you enough for the shout out for my Divide video!
Don't mention it buddy, it's the defacto Divide video on the internet and I think its worth checking out. Both are great choices but since we already have Koudelka on the list, so its gonna be Tecmo's Deception. Trap time for all!
@@SeanSeanson I really appreciate that! Thank you! I promise I won't be as annoying about Tecmo's Deception, as I was about Omega Boost. Sort of. We'll see. 😁😅
I think critics of the time ranked Cheesy lower than Bubsy 3D. I'll have to check the scores again soon. Speaking of the latter. I'm playing through it to full completion at the moment, and for the sixth time no less.
The particle effects and graphics in omega boost in general are fukin awesome. Long time lover of the boost. I've forced all my friends to play it. Share the boost. Embrace the boost.
I had omega as a kid and I’m not a huge rail shooter dude but it caught my eye cause I am a huge mech dude but anytime anyone with eyes was over I would make them bear witness to the greatness that is that intro
Man, your excellent Psygnosis video showed up in my feed like a week ago and I've worked my way through all of your obscure Playstation videos and am halfway through Japan. Not only is your content awesome for someone like me who got a PS1 for Christmas as a middle schooler, the visual and sound design you use in your videos, I just really dig them. Also being a tiny RU-vidr (trying to get back into it), it's really inspiring to see a tiny channel putting out so much quality in looooong videos. I don't want a Tik Tok, I want a movie, and the wheel provides. You deliver, just want to say thanks. My picks for Obscure and Japan: Obscure: Guardian's Crusade, a Tamsoft RPG I adored as a kid. Japan: Simple 1500 Vol. 94, The Cameraman. The most relevant game I've ever seen.
I'm saying this because I see a lot of people who don't know or don't remember a time where 3d games where new in a mainstream way, the idea that you could display spherical abstracts opposed to flat stuff was dimension changing psychologically. like i remember looking at everything before it as a dark age. that 3d was the new world to my child mind and the future looked so bright, then for me I learned a few years later the internet. I remember the shift vividly. I still stand in reverence to information presented by light.
The difficulty in Urban warriors is exactly why I love having save states as an option. I'm too old and have too many games to try to care about the sanctity saves in retro games.
Your videos come up in recommended feed just as I got Covid for the second time, I couldn’t have asked for more entertaining videos whilst I’m laid up in bed! Keep up the great work Sean!
OMG this episode reminded me so much how I love licenced music soundtracks on videogames and how much that it impacted me ! Especially since you mentionned the game with the best soundtrack ever, Burnout 3 ! I bought many CDs from bands of this soundtrack so much it impacted me (Funeral For a Friend, Eighteen Visions, Atreyu, Silent Drive,...). I never palyed Gekido nor Omega Boost, but just hearing the soundtracks I felt something special with those games, specially Gekido with that old shool nu metal sound, I immediatly and completly fell in love with that, I grew with this sound
Oh for sure, I've just gotta find a why to narrow down a list of games to highlight for such an episode, and also navigate the legal minefield that would be highlighting them all, but I'll make it work! 😅
@@SeanSeanson I know it's kind of difficult with the copyright bullshit system of RU-vid, but I think it's worth the try, I'd be very interested in such an episode ! Some of my favorite games of many with awesome soundtrack: Burnout 3 and Revenge, Road Rash PS1, NFS Underground, NFS Hot Pursuit 2, True Crime, Splashdown Rides Gone Wild, Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX,...
I cannot believe you managed to mention 3 of my all time favorite things in one segment! Static X, PS1, and Mechs!!! Wow Omega Boost just Sky Rocketed to the top of my list. Also I would’ve giving up Ad revenue too for this vid, so many great songs. Thanks for another great Video Sean and I’ll leave two thumbs up for the Static X shoutout 👍👍 😁!
With Gekido it was developed by an Italian dev team so maybe it was designed with PAL's 50hz in mind ? Edit : Omega Boost looks awesome. That intro was cool but yeah the Feeder one is best. Was that Steve Blum ? Kind of sounded like him.
I got curious about Omega Boost ever since you featured Ground and The Sky in Playstation Club Mix. That song is a banger, even my non-gaming friends popped hard when I played it in my car.
I had the fortune of olaying Omega Boost back in the day, it always baffled me (and the owner of the store where I bought it) that such marvel ofba game wasn't an instant hit. Showing it to my step-son, he thought it was a ps2 game, so... yeah... some random kid has better judgement than magazines of that time
Sean I think you are correct about the tuning for the NTSC version of Gekido. I always felt it was too fast and seeing gameplay of the PAL version, it certainly appears that the intended speed of the game was not converted to NTSC
Another great video of games I never heard of before. Thanks again for an entertaining ride through these "lost" titles. Also from the sound effects to graphics, Omega Boost looks awesome!
Gekido! The sound effects to that thing are seared into my brain. I was with a mate when he was buying cheap games in the Co-Op with his pocket money, and we narrowed it down to either Gekido or Ridge Racer Type-4 cuz his mam wouldnt let him get both. Obvs we went with Gekido - didn't even regret it, despite how great RR4 is (which I didn't learn til 20 years later but whatevs). Great for co-op (ha).
I've always loved Omega Boost. A little strange to hear it's been forgotten, but I guess you really don't hear about it these days. I was just playing it again recently. Time obscures all, but that game is one I consider a true great on a console full of them. Come to think of it, it was bangers all year long that year. I remember playing a lot of Tenchu, Metal Gear Solid, and Gran Turismo around that time.
Well, I'm all caught up on the Obscure and Japan Only volume vids and this episode had one game I always loved: Omega Boost. I've always heard good things about Gekido, but haven't played it yet. For the Obscure list, I'll suggest the 2D platformer The Adventures of Lomax unless someone already suggested it.
Congrats! That's a big commitment :) Somebody has already suggested Lomax for the viewer wheel, so you can either add your name under that pick or go for something different not already in the mix. It's up to you!
I would recommend the game "Bushido Blade 2" it's a very unique fighting where the fight are more realistic and end with 1 to 2 strikes from a weapon, it's really fun playing with friends. There's also the first, but the second has more variety.
Incredible series, just incredible! If I can recommend a game for the player's choice wheel... Blade (2000). Despite being based on a blockbuster movie and a Marvel property, as well as being published by Activision, this game is SO underrated. Would love to see you take it on!
Appreciate the kind words friend! I actually covered it breifly in another series on the channel, where I ranked and reviewed every Marvel game on the PS1. So, hopefully that will suffice for now! Let me know if theres another game you'd like to add. :)
Man, Feeder really were out here making 1993 videos in 1999 eh? Kinda missed the boat on that one lads. Also thank you as i was losing my mind thinking "didn't Feeder do the intro to Omega boost?! Whats this nu-metal stuff??". From a fellow IE creator who also earns zero ad revenue, Great work!!
It's not just you, NTSC Gekido actively drops your inputs compared to the intended PAL timing due to the input buffer not properly adjusting alongside the speedup, similar issue happened to Medievil, Frogger and other unoptimized PAL to NTSC ports. (side note, it should be easy to port the ntsc soundtrack to pal if anyone wanted to)
Currently my favourite series on RU-vid. This is fantastic. I've just put bids in for both Black Dawn and Treasures of the Deep, they both looked like games which are right up my street. Was going to start work on a game very similar to Treasures of the Deep after I finish my boomer shooter, so it will be great to have something to play so similar. Only other similar game I've seen is Diver's Dream.
Whatssup, i had watched your Disney, Marvel,Dc and Star Wars all ps1 games and they are so good, continue doing videos like that, its so good, i have a challenge to you, make a video with all Shonen Jump games to PS1 😎✌
I didn't recognize the cutscene music and then I remembered back in the day my friends and I rented the Japanese version from a local comic book store. So all I knew was the Japanese intro.
