Spiritual Followups 2

[@umageddon]

Joe deserves a thumbs up. He never asks for it...

[@mickael486]

That's why I always press the thumbs up button twice! 👍 👍

[@Mister_Clean]

@@mickael486 why haven't I thought of doing that?

[@aesculetum]

@@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.

[@Bubbabyte99]

​@@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?

[@OhChristopher]

Aight I'll thumb him 👍... Wait...😳

[@DrCorndog1]

Joe, I just discovered yesterday that you're responsible for some excellent OCRemixes that I downloaded back in college. So thanks for that.

[@PowerPandaMods]

You can't just leave me hanging like that. Which ones?

[@skins4thewin]

Lol was just bout to ask the same thing! Which ones?

[@vvlvmusic]

It's really impressive how you manage to produce content of this quality (and quantity). Always something to look forward to. Thx!

[@hylianbran7273]

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.

[@Wykesidefruitmachine]

But not impossible?

[@Godsgood111]

​@@Wykesidefruitmachine we have the technology

[@hylianbran7273]

@@Godsgood111 Good point.

[@ilikecurry2345]

Why not have Yuzo Koshiro on the job?

[@Justforvisit]

US and EU people: Oh well, that's a shame, too bad Japanese people: We will find a solution to this!

[@WWammyy]

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?

[@HybridDivide]

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!

[@FrancivanBezerra]

Yep, definitely BallisticNG is missing in this episode.

[@AirknightTails]

If that idea ever happens. I honestly hope that MegaRace gets a Mention

[@acertainshape]

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.

[@ScottX68000]

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!

[@OlivierDrevet]

Regarding Spiritual followups what comes to my mind immediately is lanstalker -> alundra -> dark savior -> steal princess

[@musickid43]

The "did you just say tits" bit gets me every time.

[@BurritoKingdom]

Osman has recently been ported to the PS4/PS5, Xbox Series and Switch as Cannon Dancer.

[@ultimateman55]

OS-man!

[@thetechn1que518]

It’s $30 USD. That’s like a dollar for every minute of gameplay it offers.

[@Shinobi33]

​@@thetechn1que518yea that's why I didn't get it. I'll wait for a sale

[@torgeist.]

You're one of the few KZbinrs who delivers every time!

[@SeveredLegs]

As far as gaming, him and SEGA Lord X are verrrrry consistent.

[@analog_ape]

Now I finally understand the name Road Rash. Thank you, Joe-sensei.

[@jeralgrant]

A "Games With Dumb Names" episode would be great! Also, the pacing of that last sketch was spot on. The demon blinking was hilarious.

[@hemangchauhan2864]

Joe taking to Japanese demon at the end is pure gold 🤣

[@Miraak22]

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.

[@gryphonofmight]

Im happy that Osman has since come to Switch and PS4 and it is a great game

[@leecroft1983]

Wait... Osman is on the Switch. I'm going straight to the digital store, thanks for messaging this 👍🏻

[@gryphonofmight]

@@leecroft1983 its under the name cannon dancer/osman

[@yermongo]

I think in Demon's Tilt you can go into the options menu and adjust the zoom on the ball.

[@thebrentster2563]

So happy when I see a new Game Sack episode!

[@BuzzaB77]

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.

[@ChannelCortez33]

Ending to this episode cracked me up more than any other. Classic😂

[@Sweet4ooth]

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.

[@mistkeyblade]

I always love me some Game Sack before the end of a productive Saturday

[@thegreathadoken6808]

No one could ever be Joe's spiritual follow-up, he's just too damn original.

[@analog_ape]

It's just great to see you going strong, Joe, like 10 years or so after I first came across your channel. Lovely 🌹

[@MuscarV2]

That end skit was superb, thanks for the laugh (and yet another great video)!

[@villain253]

Thanks for all you do Joe!

[@quarkbent9165]

Osman deserves exposure... it's so weird.

[@rockmanfan5104]

It just got ported to switch.

[@Subfightr]

GameSack, making life worth living since 2011. Thank you Joe. Great work as alwaya

[@livefreeprintguns]

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!

[@ravagingwolverine]

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.

[@budyll1]

You're weird. I sleep at night 🤷.

[@DemonyxsLair]

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.

[@Dac_vak]

You’re the best, Joe. Thanks for all you do!

[@gravitywaves2796]

So much for getting some sleep. Thanks for the late night video.

[@zacharythomasfreeman]

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.

[@TheFireRed]

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. ☺️

[@btr3k]

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?

[@aquietmonk]

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.

[@papasnejk87]

Blazing Chrome! A better contra game than a real Contra (at least the most recent one from the same year)

[@TexasHollowEarth]

... 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.

[@VideoGameStupidLC]

Still play Blazing Chrome to this day! Game is amazing and wish they'd make a sequel.

[@datriaxsondor590]

That outro got some genuine laughs from me. 😆 Nicely done.

[@sozaj]

"Oh. Streaming... No, thank you! 😅" That was the best thing ever said. You're doing the Lord's work.

[@mrjotz]

I usually find the post-credits skits to be humorous, but this one actually gave me a chuckle. Well done!

[@DrFrogglePhD]

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.

[@afropowa1598]

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)

[@jam237]

Ive watched every episode but that "did you just say tits?"really caught me off guard this time lmfao 😂

[@animatedplastic]

Now that I have caught up and watched all of the videos, I love that I catch these running jokes strewn throughout the show.

[@Chaos89P]

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.

[@kennethd4958]

The best retro gaming channel on KZbin just keeps on getting better.

[@paulclinton6414]

It peaked back in 2015.

[@kennethd4958]

@@paulclinton6414 Lmao ok. Then why are you here?

[@andrewwilliams5655]

I always felt like Numan Athletics in the arcade was like a spiritual successor to Track n Field et al.

[@NoSpamForYou]

Wipeout 3 was a huge jump in quality for PS1.

[@shorty1k]

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!

[@vegaspaul9428]

Sometimes a dry sense of humor is the greatest sense of humor you 🦵🏻ends!

[@vegaspaul9428]

I liked my own comment if that helps 😂

[@The1Joy]

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.

[@LupusRexRgis]

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. 🙏

[@GameSack]

Being grown up certainly does take up a lot of time, doesn't it?

[@FreePlayMode]

@Game Sack How could you miss "Sketchin'" under spiritual successors to Road Rash? Also ESPN Extreme Games and 2Xtreme for Playstation.

[@D.E._Sarcarean]

Again, forgets to mention the most anticipated spiritual sequel of the retro era: Perfect Dark!

[@VR-Emcee]

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

[@StormsparkPegasus]

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]

A stagehand can be a commoner.

[@Amiculi]

@@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.

[@JFD62780]

Ah! Like the Yiga in Zelda games!

[@gavinj6111]

Thank you for the great addition, Joe!

[@JasonCrosen]

PS3 and 360 in 2001? Moon diver devs getting ahead of the industry there. 😂

[@fr.joshmayer3593]

Good or bad, have to give it credit for coming out 4-5 years before the systems were released 🔥🔥

[@GameSack]

They were time travelers, what can I say?? :)

[@PsychomachineryEBM]

The follow up for Stryder should be Run Saber on SNES, way before Osman and also a great game

[@blackphoenix77]

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....😵

[@Jordan3DS]

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

[@SinaelDOverom]

40:31 The real successor to Wipeout is not Redout, but BallisticNG instead

[@OldManTheseDays]

Always a nice evening when I see a new GameSack episode in my feed.

[@samidekash]

Another fantastic episode. I find myself rewatching many episodes. Thanks a lot!

[@loki.odinson]

Devil's Crush proves the Turbo Grafx and Genesis were way cooler systems than the SNES. Fight me!

[@Des_Zee]

Can't sleep and behold, new episode of game sack👍

[@sneedplays]

15:35 - First time I've ever heard someone pronounce accoutrements correctly. Nice. Love the videos.

[@JomasterTheSecond]

I can't believe he didn't mention Human Killing Machine, the *best* spiritual sequel ever.

[@TexasHollowEarth]

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.

[@LateNightPerson]

Ah yes totally, the true street fighter 2

[@jamesburchill7522]

There is a special place in hell for old PC devs.

[@robertmanes9333]

Spiritual successor to the unfinished sequel of Kung Fu: Special Olympics Edition

[@michelegambierazzi]

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.

[@RobertWCrouch]

“Some Shenanigans Going Down at the Dock” would be an amazing title for an unofficial sequel to Virtua Cop.

[@ChibiFighter]

The skit at the end was one of the funniest skits I've seen.

[@ultimateman55]

Loved the skit at the end this time. Very well done. Something about that demon's face just got me good.

[@dwood78part23]

A great topic indeed! Let's get it on!

[@HoroJoga]

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.

[@Falcnuts]

Joe where did you get that Ikaruga shirt? It’s sick!

[@GameSack]

I honestly don't even remember, had it for years.

[@xmaverickhunterkx]

Good quality programing I can watch any time. Thank you, sir.

[@leeboy2k1]

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.

[@mickael486]

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.

[@JSCG12]

Check out Rogue Galaxy, spiritual successor to Dark Cloud on PS2.

[@Jokerwolf666]

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.

[@sidearmsalpha]

WipeOut 3 had some of the best electronic music. That clip you put in of Xpander took me back.

[@Beckerattacker]

Yay, my favorite show for breakfast, greetings from Berlin, Germany!

[@sudolinuxfish]

Good job man, been following for so many years now and I still love it.

[@johnathanashleyOCSO]

This channel keeps my love of retro Gaming alive 😊

[@carlosrainhaaraujo]

⁠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 😊

[@juiceala]

Also Perfect Dark as a spiritual follow up to Golden Eye? Idk, I never played these games.

[@danwroy]

Great as usual but Strider has an _amazing_ soundtrack! I revisit it all the time! Junko Tamiya is a brilliant composer.

[@SirKibble88]

I think the FM tones of that era are too harsh for most people. I agree though

[@vix_in_japan]

Enjoyed the movie at the end "The Jack's Speech"

[@joaobabler1584]

Panzer Dragoon Remake is really beautiful

[@jong2359]

33:51 - As your worst enemy, I appreciate your concerns regarding the controls.

[@pasu2k]

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

[@Amiculi]

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...

[@Electroudon06]

Your videos have the right amount of comedy in them. Not too much, but still there 👍

[@ljessecusterl]

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.

[@androidtekashi402]

right???

[@gabrieldias3479]

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 😢

[@Gojiro7]

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.

[@regametro8517]

The spiritual sequence for jaki crush will be called Jack crush. 😂😂😂. Another great video Joe!!!!

[@Vinicius_Berger]

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.

[@mscottjohnson3424]

Games have "Season Passes" for online multiplayer. They are expansion packs with patches, but for online multiplayer to work, everyone playing needs to be running the same version of the game with all the same content. So you're basically paying to play online with people this "season" until new content drops. Then you need to pay for an upgrade in order to keep playing online.

[@mikeL65000]

Always excited to see what's in your sack.

[@BainesMkII]

I'd guess that Demon's Tilt was designed around the idea of playing it on a vertical screen, even if most people would end up playing it on a horizontal screen. That would explain why it has no horizontal "action" and only uses the center third of a horizontal screen, which in turn helps explain why everything is so small.

[@tatenaibenbusi]

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!

[@TexasHollowEarth]

Ever look into the Rothschild/Hitler connection (theory)? Seems quite likely.

[@RealAlphaDrum]

Can't wait for "Games With Dumb Names," 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, and then the 3 hour long marathon episode.

[@juiceala]

How about Hard Corps Uprising? A follow up to Contra Hard Corps.

[@mw9771]

I love Game Sack videos….thanks for all you do !