Badly Aged Games - Austin Eruption 

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I played Devil May Cry for the first time last year and I still really enjoyed. it may be a bit clunky but it still has great bosses. enemy design. atmosphere and a lot of heart

Other things that have aged poorly. Austin’s hair

How dare you crop out the "Mega Milk"

The original DMC is still one of my favorite games 😊

I SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE ONE TO FILL YOUR DARKSOUL WITH LIIIIIIIIIGHT!

Eh, I got to dmc1 after playing 3&4 and it held up pretty well in my oppinion

I respectfully disagree with DMC1, personally I think it still holds up pretty well.

woudnt a game that has aged poorly make sence to be remade? i dont see how a game dosent deserve a remake if it can make a game thats aged poorly playable to modern audiences

to be fair mel gibson isn't a "big" racist he's only 5′ 10″

Alot of people are talking about milk. I guess they really love milk

I still found DMC 1 to be quite enjoyable. Sure, it's not as combo heavy, but I still had fun with what was there. It's not an uncontroable mess like you make it out to be. It's limited, and the platforming is frustrating. But it's still a fun game with solid mechanics, intriguing designs, and fun bosses.

Nah, DMC1 is still a fantastic game. It's got issues, sure, but it's got so much good stuff, too.

I played the original Devil May Cry just a few years ago and actually had a great time. I feel it’s aged pretty well for being a title from 2001 and being a pioneer in the action genre.

Mate, DMC1 is still a solid game.

I am very sensitive please do not atac

Your posters are hypnotizing.

interesting. i played DMC1 for the first time like 1 month ago and even if i thought that some fights were stupidly hard (the mundus boss fight) and fighting the same boss again and again was kinda boring, i felt it held up pretty well!

Brave Fencer Musashi, what a legendary game.

Devil may cry will always have a place in my heart i loved the games

Gotta disagree on DMC 1. It still age kinda well today. What is not is the second one.

I thought most people liked Ecco the Dolphin but it seems like every game reviewer ever hates Ecco.

Ecco the dolphin gets intense, when you get to the alien levels. Only hardcore gamers know.

oi. poorly-aged games are why remakes are invented. i mean, metroid 1 aged terribly, but zero mission ends up being one of the best games in the series. a good remake can fix many, many poorly-aging games problems.

Revisiting Jet Force Gemini in Rare Replay was a real nostalgia buster. The N64 tech and controller just weren’t capable of what Rare was going for with it. I wouldn’t be against Microsoft getting another dev to try and reboot it, hopefully playing on its goofier aspects and not gritting it up to be just like Halo and Gears.

Devil May Cry 1 is way better on harder difficulties tbh

the Mega Milk girl!

Austin one of these dyas you need to have a "weird fps games" and BREAKDOWN should deff be there

I agree with most of the things aging poorly but for me part of the charm of going back to games is honestly how clunky they are. I don't know there's some kind of weird charm to how clunky games like Tomb Raider are.

Man if you haven't played Furi, do it. Have spare controller handy for after you break the first.

I played DMC for the first time the other week and I loved it. Maybe I’m weird

I hate to be that guy, I really do, but it's really odd (and a bit hypocritical) to hear someone who I know really likes JRPGs say he can't get into Collectathon platformers because "they are artificial time-wasters that sacrifice interesting gameplay or story moments in favor of numbers" I'm sure you have a better explanation for that and you just didn't want to get into much detail in this video because it has nothing to do with that, I just thought it was kind of a weird tangent. I'm sure you have legit and more detailed reasons for not being into Collectathons. And even if you don't, just not being into a certain genre of games is a-ok. It happens.

I'm glad you stuck with games that had a personal connection to you, it makes this list more memorable than others covering the same topic. I'm also disappointed in myself for knowing exactly what your screensaver is.

Idk, I played the entire DMC series this year in preparation for 5 and it became one of my favorite series. Sure the graphics weren’t the best and it was a little jank in some places but it still had some of the best gameplay I’ve ever experienced.

Tbf most of the N64 library hasn't aged well due to that fecking awful controller Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

I'm not quite sure how you got to that conclusion on DMC1's story. It's so simple and barebones I fail to see how it'd ever be called non-sensical or baffling. It's gameplay is slow and limited though, but at least it's dialogue is accidentally funny instead of DMC2's... uh, did DMC2 have any characters?

i remember loving jet force gemini, but i mostly played it PvP against my brother i think. also, goldeneye worked fine with the N64 controller... so long as you used the turok controls (c buttons to move/strafe, stick for looking). it was basically WASD+mouse on consoles. once i started using that control scheme i started kicking my older brother's ass at goldeneye, which didn't happen before then.

"Oh no not musashi" was exactly what I said

Brave Fencer Musashi might not have aged all that well, but it had a ton of charm and personality. The voice acting alone was pretty good for the time, and it helped make the world and characters that much more alive and real. I also really liked how you could go around unlocking new areas with your powers that weren't necessarily hard to miss, but still out of the way enough to warrant and reward exploration. To this day I have yet to see another game with cheese aging mechanics.

"That one demo disc with Musashi"

Jet Force Gemini needs a full remake. It's was cool on N64, but really aged badly.

having played dmc1 for the first time a month ago, the camera is the game's biggest obstacle. well that and the fact that i'm bad at dmc games. everyone else seemed to have an easier time getting through it than me.

"Oh no, not Brave Fencer Musashi!" - I was literally thinking that when you brought it up, lol.

Let's not forget that impossible boss fight with Mizar at the end where you have to shoot his back with only homing missiles. It was near impossible to aim within 1 second but what screwed me over were the upgrade canisters. You can give a character a lot of upgrades for one weapon and have the other lacking that ammunition. And unfortunately, they never told me that I needed to have somewhere near 25 or more on my main character to safely take him down. To this day I have that uncompleted save file for that stupid mistake.

Jet Force Gemini reminds me of Men in Black. Mostly cuz it's a game about space police who fight bugs. This was cool to discover.

I've played DMC again when that collection came out and these are my two cents: 1) I was much better at it the second time having been playing these types of games for years now =p 2) It is very limited if compared to newer iterations, that much is true, but it still is very much playable and there definitely is fun to be had. Jet Force Gemini is that one Rare game on the N64 that I've never played and people have been dissing it for over a decade now. I'm almost convinced it is that bad even if I never touched it. But you couldn't talk me out of Musashi. I own it and I'm still gonna play it. Some day...

18:10 YOU HAD ME IN THE FIRST HALF NOT GONNA LIE

Honestly I don't really understand the your point about Devil May Cry 1. the game still holds up well today, I mean of course it doesn't hold a candle to Devil May Cry 3 or even Devil May Cry 2 but combat, level design, enemy design, boss battles it still hold up. The only thing that I'll agree with you on is the camera and the voice acting but I will say that part of the charm of Devil May Cry 1 is it's voice acting

Lol, I played Devil May Cry 1 in 2018 and it was perfectly fine, I was actually very surprised with how well it aged considering its from 2001.

0:09 Heyyyy its Mega Milk

Yes, a new video from Austin :). I just found your channel this summer, and my first video was the one about Danganronpa and I was hooked. So naturally I binged most of your videos this summer. Your mix of review, lists, analysis and so on is just what I am looking for when finding youtube channels. Keep it coming man.

I get that DMC 1 compared to modern games of the genre can make it seem kind of quaint and dated, but judging it by its own standard I think it holds up extremely well. I also think it has the best hardest difficulty (Dante Must Die Mode) of the entire series as the DMD in other entries makes enemies feel a little too tedious. And while DMC1's combat might not top some of the genre's latest and greatest, I'd still hold it up above most other action heavy games that have released recently, especially games with floaty Arkham style combat.

"Ha Golden eye is easy if you wanna show a shooter that REALLY aged poorly..." Jet Force Gemini pops up "Well there it is". For real though I still have my N64 copy of Jet Force Gemini and I don't what it is that makes me go back to it and everyone time I do, those controls man. Also that later half where you have find parts for some space ship? I 10 year old me couldn't it. Too stupid i guess. Good video Austin.

I booted up DMC1 (pc hd remaster) a couple of days ago to check out one tiny detail and ended up beating the whole thing. It's aged way better than i remembered (with an updated control scheme). It's nothing like 3 or 4, but the combat is still satisfying in it's own way, it's more about exploiting enemies weaknesses rather than styling them into oblivion. The only issue i had the whole way was Mundus' first stage, which has inverted flying controls but only for the vertical axis.

The Mama Milk screen saver lol made my day, also good video man.

I remember asking my brother For Afro Samurai for Christmas, as a sort of attempt to find a connection with him since he loved the Anime, and well... We didn't get past the first level, I think I ended up selling it the next year.

badly aged games? basically, every 3d game from playstation era

Einhander is one of my favorites shooters ever!!! Einhander,axelay and darius gaiden have the best shooter's soundtrack of all time.

Austin I respect you for having the background to your pc that you do, shout outs to the people who get where the background is from.

Don't know how you showed up in my recommended videos but I'm glad you did. Haven't heard of your stuff until now but loving your videos.

It's hard to take anything you said about DMC1 seriously when based on your gameplay footage you didn't seem to even realize there was more than one attack string

I think DMC 2 aged way better than DMC 1, in DMC1 the clunky controls and few combos dont really allow you to do a whole lot however . . . DMC 2 was just as garbage as the day it came out.

So right after he talked about Echo I got an ad for water-proof speakers. The ads, they are watching!

OH MY GOD TRIBES 2. I GREW UP ON IT AND YOU'RE THE ONLY PERSON I'VE SEEN MENTION IT. I played it recently and it holds up fairly well. Man, those taunts in chat were the best.

I'll have to disagree with you on Musashi, I think it's aged quite a bit better than a lot of action RPGs. Also, that timed mission was a nightmare even at the time. Also, the sequel isn't a bad game at all. It doesn't capture the magic of the original, but it's still solid

love your pc wallpaper....

HELP! Could someone tell me the name of the game at 14:48? its the one where you fight and evolve into animal/monsters? i speant hours looking for this game!

does anyone know the game at 13:51? i had it as a kid and loooooved it, but remembered it being SUPER infuriating. would love to try it again.

If you ain't talkin Squaresoft, then your talkin don't matta

Never played ecco as a kid, but played it a couple years ago and multiple times again recently, and it's still great. The game is jank, but I really think its difficulty is overstated - it's not too hard to do combat or navigation once you get used to it. Also dolphins :)

I actually play a lot of ps1 to ps2 era games I never did as a kid and I love them more than watching old films.

I can't believe there are parents who didn't let their kids get T or M rated games, I thought that was only on TV or something. My first game as a child was Doom, I was 5 years old, it was right when it came out and my dad got it for his computer nad used to let me play.

Is footage of you playing DMC some sort of out of season april joke? Beside go sode off with you "Character actions".

I would argue Ecco was fun. I beat it a year ago. Its biggest issue is how convoluted it was. Would love to see a modern take. But when does Sega make a good game?

Jet Force Gemini is like any games from the SNES / N64 and into the GCN era. It wasn't just about taking CoD or Half Life and modding it into a new game - new controls, physics & mechanics were implemented to make the whole experience new (better or for worse). If you play Jet Force like a run & gun shooter in the strictest sense - it feels bad. But that's because the game actually incorporates a tactical approach to the gun play with more primary focus on platforming not shooting. Ideally you actually use the Pistol 95% of the time switching to other weapons only for very specific reasons that are often quickly resolved and back to pistol you go. You don't mash Pistol either. If you wait 1 and a half seconds between shots the default shot hits the enemies head automatically unless they're running away at the time. Machine Gun os used to clear out swarms of fliers and if you feel lazy fighting small shield enemies. Big shield enemies can eat your Tri-Rockets. You'll also find that the game spoon feeds you enemy relevant ammo the room before an encounter. Ammo that respawns for a refresh once you clear the new room. Also, in the rooms with the Elite flying swarms (the ones with deadly accuracy, massive damage and advanced flying formations) ALWAYS have a limited invincibility item in the room which should last more than long enough to stand their and wipe them out with the Machine Gun. Boss fights are isolated to a rail shooter type side dodge & shoot system allowing you to focus on aiming & timing. I just finished a play through of it recently on N64 and I actually feel it has held up for what it is. Now that being said, that kind of frankenstein shooter/platforming as a Genre holding up is something else entirely. I personally though that genre maxed out and left the building long before Ratchet & Clank or Jak & Dexter came out.

Haven't watched anything from you in a while, but this was nice.

As someone who has been a furry for around 6 years, never in my life have I ever heard the term "phin" used to refer to aquatic fursonas. It sounds so silly lmao

1:25 Not Musashi - took the words out of my mouth. 4:49 Every time-limit quest in a game back then were easy compared to that. That quest trained me even in real-life situations to this day because of Steamwood.

Just randomly found ya channel.. awesome stuff.. subscribed 🙌

I played all the DMC games recently and as a game I thought 1 held up the best due to its atmospheric design that it retained from its days as a Resi title.

"third person character action games" What's the problem with "hack 'n slash"? lol

Oh boy. That's a hairdo

You know, while you were talking about the Afro Samurai, I suddenly felt like playing Furi again. And then you mentioned that they both had the same art director. And it all makes sense, even during my first playthrough I recall the game (especially one specific boss) reminding me of "that Afro Samurai manga that came out a few years ago that I never actually read". Really neat to know!

DMC 1 makes me think of that one time my dad tripped over my whole ass television and broke the back off the crt box, my television was naked for years after that

>comparing DmC1 to the Afro Samurai game Oh my. Also, that game was never good, Austin. Whether or not you thought it was innovative, it was never, ever good.

Kingdom Hearts 1 also hasn't aged too well. It's still good, but magic was hardly needed outside of Cure, Aero, and the occasional thunder. Platforming was super stiff and jumps were were barely accomplishable. Cutscenes were unskippable. The constant mashing of the X button didn't lend itself well to giving us more variety in our combos, and that wouldn't be fixed until KH 2. Also, Summons were absolute trash, with the only good one being Tinkerbell.

A few months ago I played DMC of the first time, and for a PS2 game, it’s pretty damn good

Okay say what you want about the original DMC's gameplay, camera, and "plot," but for me personally, it managed to scratch a particular itch that no other game in the series has been able to since. I just really love the game's aesthetic and overall sense of atmosphere. All the little things you can look at that have flavor text added a lot, and the castle was a really cool interesting location that was surprisingly well fleshed out. None of the other games gave me that same sense of wonder about the world I was moving around. The rest of the series doubled down on the dumb fun action spectacle aspect, and really improved the gameplay, but they never did scratch that same itch the first game did for me. My favorite parts of the original weren't combat encounters, they were just wandering around exploring the castle and island and finding new things to look at.

Doujinshis are self-published works of art being mainly manga but can apply to any media. Saying "indie doujin" is like saying "indie indie" which sounds stupid, just a heads up. Other than that, great video.

"badly aged videos"

"As far as I knew, I was 10" is my favorite take on Jet Force Gemini.

Anime name for the anime shown as the example for badly aged anime at the beginning?

Quality Keijo!!!!!!!! reference, there. 10/10

Banjo-Kazooie is my favorite game ever made, I 100% it every few months or so. So when you said Banjo-Kazooie I was about to go off on dat ass. XD

Jet force broke my heart when I realized it wasn't the game I remembered as a kid. I had let a friend borrow my Pokemon stadium 2 and in return they let me borrow this game. I remember playing this game everyday for the week I had it and after returning to my friend he moved away and I was unable to ever remember the name of this game to ask my parents if I could get it. So for years and years I had this memory of this game, but then one day replay was announced and as I was looking through what games it had. I saw it. I saw it and every memory I had of this forgotten gem came rushing back and I bought it the day if came out and jet force was the first thing I put on. Only to not even be able to play past the first few levels.

Knowing the original DMC was originally a RE game makes so much sense..

Shenmue aged super poorly imo. While the story is just as good, but the controls are sooo bad, to the point where it ruins it for me. (Soundtrack is still pretty good though)

WHERE'S EVE OF EXTINCTION, AUSTIN? (I say this before I watch the video, for all I know it's actually already there)

Good stuff Austin! Very constructive and good reasoning for the games you chose.

Just stumbled across this video and enjoyed it very much, might check out the rest of your channel Good vid