Quick Look: Sky Battles

You know It'll be a good quick look when Vinny goes "You know, making video games is hard".

The real Sky Battles begins here.

"im a fish im a robot-baaaaaaaaaaaaah"

With the Unity, UE4 and Source 2, everyone can make games for free, which is great... but oh no... now everyone can make video games for free.

Vinny truly is this world's greatest treasure.

So, I guess the dream of a modern Crimson Skies is still dead?

You owe me Vinny

It's good to know that Steam is quickly becoming the dumping ground for everyone's student game design projects.

From what I know about this game "we" and "they" imply more people worked on this game than I think actually did.

This looks a lot like something that would have come out on the Sega Saturn.

I'm sold you guys. This looks great

Looks like GotY material.

Is this a parody of video games from the 90's?

This game is at least 15 years too late

I mean this is more original than the 3000th MOBA to come out. If this controlled well....

26:55

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-7UmysdD260

Vinny "Sky Battler" Caravella

Oooph. I like that Vinny tries to stay positive, but if you're going to charge money for something, it's gotta be better than this.

I guess Alex has never seen Mega Piranha

Something has changed about GB Flight Club and I can't quite put my finger on it.

The retro style has progressed from 8-bit to ps2 launch titles, with all the muddiness and swimmy controls you love and remember.

So majestic, I live for these kinds of Quicklooks.

Yeah, like this was probably a fun game to make, but maybe don't sell it in such a state?

Vinny Care'in-vella

"This is an abhorrent piece of shit" is perhaps my favourite Giant Bomb quote of 2015.

Alex's complete and utter disdain for this, it's just beautiful.

This makes War Thunder look like the ultimate simulator.

This is some quality Quick Looking.

It's cool that people set out to make a game and all, but I agree that charging money for it is lame. There's no way this thing will make any more than $10k or so but still... if you're going to charge money for something it has to hold up as a consumer product.

Is it possible this is Frog Fractions 2?

I think this just might be the Citizen Kane of quick looks.

Never before has such a video so perfectly embodied mankind's struggle to find meaning in that which has none. To persevere hardship and our desire to struggle against the inevitable. God bless you @vinny and @alex for your selfless sacrifice.

Fun Sky Battles Game Facts:

• Created by one dude with "Over 2o years experience in the digital arts".
• Designed for 4:3 aspect ratio. Just look at the menus and message box. What year is it?

I swear that laser sound is straight out of Spider-Man and the X-men in Arcade's Revenge.

I don't understand how something like this makes it onto Steam. It bothers me that Steam is turning into the Google or Apple app stores. The service is just flooded with this garbage, early access trash, movies and apps.

I can't wait to be able to buy Vinny's self-improvement lecture series "Life doesn't Have Health Bars"

Hell yeah! But I hope we haven't skipped PS1 jitter forever.

For about three seconds I was all excited that this was a spiritual successor to Crimson Skies. Then the Giant Bomb splash screen ended.

The Giant Rom game jam games are better than this, and those got made in 9 days or less.

This honestly seems like a subpar project from a junior programming class. I can't see how anyone thought it was okay to ask for money for it.

@evilsbane: I kind of like bad game QLs more than ones that are good, but of games I'm not interested in. Also, I don't know why it wouldn't embed the video. Stupid Ipad.

Vinny Karen "Care'n" Caravella

Vinny is just the best.

This should be a free game on somebody's website, but I can't fault whoever made this for wanting to put their work out for sale. You gotta start somewhere if you want to quit your day job and make games for a living.

Man, we need more QLs of bad games!

Zizek and Freezepop? Somewhat outrageous

I just can't get over the drift the plane was getting.

Quick look of the month!

I'm glad we live in a world where people are free to develop what they want and choose to purchase what they want.

After Vinny's "Die, monster!", I instantly said in my head "You don't belong in this world!"

Without Track IR and a HOTAS setup this game isn't worth it, way to much of a hardcore sim to be using an xbox controller.