Hey Ross, do you run these old games in a virtual environment? It looked like you were in post-XP Windows in the videos (Win7?). I've found VMs running very outdated OSes to be helpful at times for the most unstable games, although a lot of experimentation is required sometimes. Windows 98 seems to be a champ at getting old picky games to run for me. I'm not that familiar with the video capture side of things, but I wouldn't expect virtualization to impair your ability to record. Bonus: instead of a game that requires you to fix it every time you start it up by setting the same options repeatedly (like Revenant apparently did), you have a game that you resume immediately after restoring the saved machine state rather than having closed the game and shutdown the computer.
Revenant seemed like it had a good, though not trope-defying, underlying idea, and the execution just failed somewhere. That soundtrack is insanely good for the ultimate quality level of the game, BTW. Listening to it now.
I swear by Loki that if you ever have an open poll including suggestions for the topic of an upcoming RGD video, I will do everything in my power to make you play through the worst turn-based RPG I can find, just to spite you for trashing the whole genre like that. Or maybe a really old school text game, just to be a bastard; viewership be damned!