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Small Soilders not only Tommy Lee Jones as the main bad guy but David Cross, Dennis Leary, Dick Miller, and Phil Hartman as the annoying neighbor it is also the first movie I owned with Phil Hartman and Dennis Leary in it I wish I still had my copy of the movie
Planet Laika looked so genuinely unhinged and insane that it might be the first one of these showcases that actually convinced me to play one of the games, so thanks for the inevitable nightmares that experience will bring me.
Planet Laika is simultaneously one of the most surreal in terms of visuals and events, and also one of the most real in terms of Heavy subject matter one will play in the PS1, while it takes a bit going, the game absolutely goes places.
All the games featured here were really cool/interesting! You have good taste and I only watched a bit of the Planet Laika section just because I really want to play the game for myself now and I didn't want to spoil any more of it.
Fun fact: The other Laika dev Quintet would go on to help Sega out with developing Shenmue the same year Laika came out. Totally didn't steal that from a chat member or anything.
We should probably start putting PDF's of the instruction manuals in these collections. In cases where Vinny doesn't understand or misses the controls, it would be quicker to check the manual than for him to ask the chat or desperately try to figure them out on his own.
I don't care what anybody says, I'm really interested in giving Planet Laika a shot. I love weird experimental stuff from that era of games and this looks totally up my alley. I did not think my takeaway from this stream was gonna be "fever dream space furry game" but life works in weird ways like that sometimes.
Not to be a snob because believe me I hate pretentious pricks, but you're better than the people who just reduce it to that. Even if it wasn't interesting to me, I'm glad it exists Just like walking simulators, games as a medium are better off thanks to them. Some people rave about weird, inventive movies but put derogatory labels on games that do the same
It's fascinating to me that: A: so many people think The War of the Worlds is originally a mid 1900's US setting B: That Vinny's never even _heard of_ the Jeff Wayne album musical. It's a pretty stunning prog-rock opera from the 70s, heavy on the synth, with spoken word narration and character dialog. It's in two acts, and definitely worth getting lost in for a couple of hours. Especially if you can get an album with the inlays/inserts with the artwork. The original set is 95 minutes long in total but there are alternate/remixed tracks added to the end of some releases.
I have the rerelease vinyl, CD's, both versions including New Generation, and in all honesty the fact Vinny never heard of it is just depressing. Why is my favorite rock album so underrated?
@@otakunthevegan4206 I wouldn't use the word "depressing". Just quite surprising, since it seems it would sit right in the middle of a sort of venn diagram of some of the stuff he speaks about in genres of music and story-telling.
@Mark Aspen It's more likely due to the fact that the classic radio drama version and several films change the setting to america because they were made in america. I agree that the book is great though.
I know this has no chance of it happening but a full playthough of Planet Laika would genuinely change the face of Vinesauce, this game is a RIDE, and if you look past the bizarre and strange, its a great introspective game about human nature, trauma and how we can overcome it, colonisation, conformity and conventionality. It was made by Quintet (ActRaiser, Terranigma) and Zeque, known for Kowloon's Gate, whose Planet Laika share themes and characters with (in a more universe way, I don't think its the actual same characters).
After witnessing that segment myself, I agree. Never watched the Space Funeral stuff but I get the same vibe, that said. Themes do feel less buried than Space Funeral though I would love for that to happen, but I think playing it myself will do. We weren't told what team did the translation, but I thank them. Wish I could do it directly
I spaced out and thought Attack of The Saucermen was a retro indie game made in the PS1 style and kept thinking "holy shit they did their research this feels just like the real thing" until I realized he was playing actual PS1 games and not throwbacks. Something about it feels weirdly ahead of it's time.
Attack of the saucermen unlocked a strange childhood memory of the game, I completely forgot about the existence of the game and I feel an odd sense of nostalgia from it somehow despite remembering absolutely nothing about it.
Schlocky sexually tense cutscenes aside (though those honestly make it even better imo), just wanna say that Disruptor is genuinely one of the best FPS games on the PSX. Shame it underperformed but we got spyro out of it.
That MDK game gave me flashbacks to sittin in my lil brother's room playin PS1 games from my dad's massive Mortal Kombat case of games... What a weird feeling of nostalgia that is. I remember the weird glide mechanic with the stringy parachute. Idk, im happy i saw this c:
a shame this couldn't have been done on laika day. it was in the past month or so. would've been great to celebrate the irl dog by playing a game about flat-faced anthro dogs with dissociative identity disorder fighting evil smell gas with pong on mars or whatever.
In Planet Laika i Saw Many Easter Eggs to the Art and Culture Pop Such The Story-Wise Alla Solaris by Stanislaw Len and the Sandro Botticelli's "a Birth of Venus"
Call me crazy but I'd say Hartman's wife, who shot and killed him in his sleep, is a bit more to blame than Andy Dick. Always find it wild when Andy Dick rightfully gets shit on for his part in the story, but the actual murderer goes unmentioned.
2:05:30 - Not on DS9, but maybe on Babylon 5. I knew I recognized that one lady... she was Commander Ivanova on there. I loved that show back in the 90s. On looking this up to confirm looks like she does quite a lot of video game voice work to this day.
The costume the dude is wearing at 36:50 is the (exact) same costume used by the antagonist in 'Future War' (1997), starring Daniel Bernhardt, famously covered by Redletter Media in 'Best of the Worst: Future War, The Jar, and White Fire' (2015) starring Rich Evans.
Blasto has one of the worst "First levels" in a video game. Just instant death pits all around you and using awkward controls to fight with while platforming them. The second world is a more open flat terrain zone. I dont know why they didn't go with that first.
They probably thought it would be wise to introduce all the core mechanics to the player out of the gate rather than slowly dole that out and have people not understand what to do. Sort of the same approach that the Driver 1 "tutorial" takes. Flawed logic, but I can see the idea behind it.
During the Planet Laika segment, I was thinking about Enix, which went to thinking about Terranigma, which I played, and I just realised that you play as a Swedish guy in that game.
One of my favorite remarks ever was on the shovel ware showcase for it: "Every time ET picks something up he makes a sound like he just discovered his asshole"
90s games were always a fever dream. I used to think it was because I was a kid when I played them but nope, watching this confirms that they were always a fever dream.
You can make damn near anything in Excel. I wouldn't at all be surprised if they made map data using Excel and then exported that data out to their game. Excel is a horrible work of art with a backend that allows you access to an entire scripting system with VBA - people have made 3D using Excel.
after seeing vinny’s reaction to planet laika makes me want to see him play moon remix rpg adventure. they aren’t really similar asides from being experimental RPGs but i know he loved earthbound so i think he’d appreciate it.
small soldiers is a pretty solid game, if you're aching for that good old PSX era platformer shooter genre, it's a very good game. the soundtrack and levels are crafted really well for that fantasy look
I think the "humans gave martians their faces" thing in Planet Laika is either literal, as in humanity somehow gave their faces to the martians, and then replaced their own faces with dogs' or it's partially metaphorical in that humanity gave their entire bodies, not just their faces, and then got dog forms.
The PS1 was one of my first consoles and I had MDK. I remember being so fascinated by the protagonist design but could never get past the opening sequence because I was too young and had no idea what was going on, but still loved it. Years later I found I missed out on such a good game lmao
Depends, would you say Killer7 has _any_ set theme? I love it, but that game is like ideas barely stitched together. Laika seems to be pretty forthcoming about it's themes Either way, Killer7 is awesome. And this game got me interested the same way
MDK is amazing, one of my favorite games ever. It's short, surreal, and hilarious too if its sense of humor hits your funny bone just right, like it does for me. Boy, do I miss Shiny Entertainment and their weirdo beautiful games.
E.T is cheesy? ET is the opposite wtf... its partially renowned for having such realistic characters, despite the unrealistic situation. The kids act like kids, and the adults act like flawed but real humans. E.T is fantastic, and it certainly isnt a movie you need to have the nostalgia for either, i certainly didn't, i saw it and was just blown away by film making and technique. I'd be curious to know what part was cheesy to you? You could argue its schmaltzy, but how is a movie that personifies sentiment not gonna be sentimental?
vinny should play Otto Matic, i have extreme nostalgia for playing that game at my grandmas as a kid. good alien game. also there was this one movie i saw as a kid while my parents watched it, only part i remember is some chick getting abducted through the roof of her house and it scared the shit out of me (must have been 5 or 6). no clue what movie it is but i distinctly remember this
I have a memory kind of like that: the aliens came for abductions(?) & attacked a kid through a window(?) But what I am sure of is that it sucked out all the contents of kid's skin to where the eyeballs were just left sticking up. It's hard to describe; sorry I can't help with your forgotten-remembered movie...
23:46 Having played Blasto, the camera is a bit slow but the ledge grab and auto aim help quite a bit. As far as early 3D platformers go, I'd say it's at least above average, but you have to be willing to sort of "unlearn" modern control schemes in order to play and appreciate a lot of the the PSX's library.
this is a video game from the 90s so i dont know if the devs were clever (or cared) enough to do a starship troopers on purpose. but they called them stormers....i need context. manuals. explain. EXPLAIN. EXPLAIN!
@@commandantcarpenter I think it's more that starship troopers is basically the backbone of all Military Scifi rather than a deliberate homage. Especially since the book is VERY different from the movie and the movie wasn't out yet (though I love both for different reasons).
Because all three of them are parodies of Buck Rodgers and/or Flash Gordon (more so the latter than the former in Blasto's case, complete with an almost identical outfit). As is Zap Brannigan. And Buzz Lightyear.
@@gnbman Yeah, they had planned on having Blasto be one of the Playstation's big platformer mascots going forward since they didn't own Spyro or Crash and Gex was multiplat. And Phil was fully on board as he loved the character and wrote/improvised most of the script (similar to Dana Gould with Gex, except more T humor... and funnier and more charming). Blasto 2 even started early development shortly after the original came out. But tragically we all know what happened, and out of respect for Phil + losing the main creative force and personality behind the character, they shelved the franchise. Really sad story as Phil was super passionate about the project. In behind the scenes footage you can tell he was having a ton of fun.
Speaking of the Men in black cartoon Wasn't there a scene where J and K were fighting an alien and they were about to crash their blimp into the twin Towers Mind you the cartoon came out in 97
02:12:58 Seeing the Small Soldiers game be set in the toys' fictional universe rather than having anything to do with the actual movie just makes me wish the movie was that instead of it just being Gremlins-but-worse meets edgy Toy Story. Like the idea of a full stop-motion/CGI hybrid military scifi movie with those characters in the late 90s is 1000 times more interesting than what Joe Dante actually did.
Jeff Wayne's War of the World's was a musical based on the original story (which is set in the early 1900s). It included some popular musicians at the time (1978) and is an iconic album. They did a remake in the 2010's also (shit). Definitely worth a listen.
I can't believe that War Of The Worlds didn't trigger some HUGE DMCA notices. But then again, the music in the game seems modified from the album's original...
There were two MIB games on the PS1, one was based on the cartoon series and the other was based on the movie. I remember it plays a bit like Resident Evil, it was my first game on the PS1 along the Crash trilogy and some other I forget.
Vinny, definitely consider giving Blasto another shot. The gunplay is pretty much all autoaim, and side stepping enemy shots. It's a lot less clunky than it seems.
I remember playing a PS1 Game with an Alien, where there were also strange yellow Creatures, and you could use the Spines of fat ones like Jump pads after you killed them. I'm curious if it is included here edit: AND IT'S LITERALLY THE FIRST GAEM, NICE!
Steel Harbinger was my dad's favourite game when I was a kid and I loved it as well. I have fond memories of playing that game for weekends at a time. Vinny, this cuts me deeply.
For the love of God Vinny please play battle tanx I played them both as a wee bab the Nuke Deployed voiceline is forever burnt into my brain and the rad menu music
Men in black tv show was good as hell. Imo better than the movie. I really liked that it was more serious and had much dryer humor, i liked that cool factor
Damn Vinny skipped the best part of the BlastO opening right when it was about to happen. I wanted to hear the part about the aliens plans of enslaving women, raping cattle and eating children. :(
Vinny I know you probably wont see this, but MDK and it's sequel MDK2 are some of my fav cult classic titles and I'm glad you at least got to take a crack at the first one.
I have been trying to remember Titan Wars for what felt like forever leave it to a random bunch of alien games on a vinesauce stream to remind me what PS1 FMV game it was
Speaking of graphically impressive games for the PS1, I remember I had Alone in the Dark 4 on a demo disc, and it really stood out to me, especially how the flashlight works and nicely lights up dark environments.
2:17:45 "The only thing we didn't get a chance to do was the Superman PS1 prototype" Soup Mang 64 is in the thumbnail. Or at least he used to be. I think the MiB on the thumbnail flashed me. Or maybe I'm getting the intro confused with the intro art. Either way, fun fact, did ye know: The PS1 Superman 64 game was going to be a half decent game potentially, too bad it was shitcanned for dumb reasons. Then we got the legendarily bad 64 version.
1:51:03 It is funny how they used Doom SFXs when the game's ending is almost the same as Doom 64 (staying in the enemy's land to protect the world from further attacks). Too bad the ending is a budget 3D FMV cutscene instead.
Vinny, do yourself a huge favour, and get a copy of the original Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds! Not the remastered version where they horrendously shoehorned dubstep into the music, the 70s original. You'll love it. Terrified the shit out of me as a child when my dad would play it in the 80s. Also, I'm pretty sure the pitch shift on the PAL startup screen is BS. It never did that for me when I had a PS1.
"Not the remastered version where they horrendously shoehorned dubstep into the music" What? Is that real I've only ever seen some newer ones show up on youtube where the actors are different from the original but the music is mostly the same. Or is there an even more recent version of it I've never heard about?
MDK on PC is actually good, as long as you do some re-bindings. Though the environment can be super confusing. EDIT: Another cool alien game I can remember off my head is Captain Blood for Amiga. One way to describe it would be "alien conversation simulator"
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