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I don't use Twitter but I would suggest. Pirates Vikings knights II . It's a great game for free. unfortunately it's been mostly dead, but still has active updates and a good community. I have at least 2.5k hours in the game, been playing on and off for over 10 years. Very fun game with an extremely high skill ceiling. Three teams, unique classes, source engine, melee and ranged combat. Shit load of maps and game modes , honestly a great time when you can find a populated server. Mainly active on weekends. Deserves a lot more love, as it is insanely deep when it comes to combat. Don't be scared off by the players like me that have thousands of hours. Always down to teach newbies.
hey man it’s me warlock, from the castle miner bit! i was showing my friend the legendary game that castle miner z was while he was over at my apartment
Played a shit ton of this game myself as a ten year old . Was wild when I try to remember the name and now I finally have a reference to the badass Minecraft with ak47’s and demons from hell lol
I was thinking it would be a cool idea for streamers to do something like that. "Hey guys, this Friday I'm gonna be playing *insert dead game here*. Feel free to download it and join the party." Granted, that would also be opening the door to griefing or stepping on the toes of the game's community 🤷♂
I replied saying that this is money laundering, but my comment is gone? Replying again... that's probably a money laundering scheme. Create a "store" that sells bullshit at stupid prices and oh look, I have a successful business. It's not that my customers are actually ME, not at all.
Biggest role in game preservation actually play the developers themselves by allowing players to create their own dedicated and moderated servers, without relying on some weird rental or live-service gimmick.
@@shuriken2505 Think of CS 1.6 and CS:S that are still alive after 20+ years because they allow player-run dedicated servers. You think CoD Warzone or any other live-service game will be alive in 20 years? Most of them close down after 5 or so.
@@shuriken2505 Rye said the biggest role in keeping the games going are the players, while its actually the devs who provide that ability to keep games alive for so long.
You guys should check out Shoubis servers if you're interested, he's a really cool dude. I've been playing DOI and Insurgency with him for a couple years now.
Luyk here! Was nice playing with you, this was less than a week ago I think in Post .. I mean Squad 44. Come join us again some time! We will keep the game alive! We have a whole in house mod that is incredible and really changes the game up. Videos of it on this my channel.
@@ulisesorozco7904 It's better than any other ww2 shooter in terms of a mix of milsim and fun. It's not really dead either. The realism community is hundreds of people and we have our own mod that we play on which makes the game even better. Also those sounds? Sound design in this better than anything else, period. We just love it.
@@ulisesorozco7904 A game is never dead as long you can still play it and have people to play it with. And if a community shrinks it usually gets better because people get closer. It's much harder to actually connect with people if you have hundreds of people in a lobby and fast hectic games.
Videos like these make me reminisce about games I used to play online a decade or so ago that are probably dead if not offline now. Stuff like the Assassins Creed multiplayer, The Last of Us mulitplayer, and all of the old WWE games.
Imagine being one of those guys addicted to a dead game and coming home from work after a long day, praying there’s enough people in a server so you can play your favorite game 😓
Used to spend hours upon hours on DOI back in 2019 and bought 2 friends the game. It was honestly one of the most underrated WW2 games in the past couple years IMO. Back in its prime when I used to play it had an average player count of roughly 700-900 players. It never was really a popular game but it was certainly a fun one.
bro ngl this video got me emotional man, thank you dude. it's very generous of you even if you only think of it as 'just sponsor money', you could have pocketed all that shit & its really cool to see how tactfully you chose to not just do that with it.
Do you remember Ace of Spades? Forgotten Hope 2? AoS isn't sold anymore, you can't buy it, nor play it, but it used to be one of my fav games as a kid. Forgotten Hope 2 was amazing because big battlefield fan
@@wookiewhat genuinely that’s what makes the game great. For some reason FH2 bots are still extremely fun to play with. Bf2 and the mods out of it were amazing
Oh bro, I hadn’t thought about Ace of Spades in years. I remember downloading it after watching VenturianTale play it back in the day. It was one of the very few games that was both free and could run on my family’s potato PC back in the day. That game was so insanely fun…it sucks that it’s gone.
These videos have sent me down nostalgia lane, reconnecting with old games of ages' past. It would be PHENOMENAL if you covered Tremulous, that was a game me and my siblings grew up playing extensively! It holds such a community-based, lost section of my heart that I will always cherish
I frequently play Squad44 (previously Post Scriptum) and almost always play Logistics on there. I've seen all the stages of development the game has gone through over the many years, both the positives and the negatives. Even with some of the updates a lot of folks disagree with, the game has one of the most tight nit communities I've ever been involved in. A lot of the same regulars will typically get on most nights and just have a ton of fun. Its very rare to meet someone that won't be overly helpful to new players or encourage you to try your best without getting mad at you. Squad44 is an absolute gem of a game and I'm glad you were able to cover it. ♥ P.S. - My Logistics team built that FOB you spawned at 19:52, likely that was me dead on the ground from a sniper that was shooting us under the radar 😂
And I'm the quiet female you'll always see tagging along behind JMM either as his Infantry Radio'man' or as his Logi sidekick... dying often and killing few, but keeping the rally refreshed and digging my little heart out. :D
I've been using youtube as my primary form of entertainment for over 15 years now. You are easily one of my favorite creators at the moment. I always click on your videos when I see them. Keep up the great work!
Bro you literally slapped me in the face with nostalgia when you put Assault Cube at the beginning. I used to go around my friends house with my laptop and we would do 1v1s on Assault Cube all night!
Rye, your videos always make me super nostalgic in such a good way. I used to play crysis 3 multiplayer back in like 2014 and 2015, only the infantry mode not that nanosuit mode tho. I was too good at the time along with some guy named charizard, we would drop 80 to 100+ kills every match and use the text chat to talk and goof off. In late 2015 i got banned from every active server because they all thought i was cheating. Your videos always make me remember charizard, god i pray hes doing well in life
Castle Miner Z was my childhood man! So many good memories on that game because Minecraft wasn’t there on Xbox at the time. It was awesome! Thanks for the memories man!
Playing Day of Infamy was a blast. Looking back in my Steam library, last played 2019. Didn't realise it had been so long. Dunkirk was a blast, one of my favourites along with Foy. I remember being the last guy defending Dunkirk (I can't remember the game mode, invasion maybe?) and managing to clutch out a 20+ kill streak to win it. I liked all the maps and they were usually pretty full, never had problems finding a match. Brittany always felt like an actual clusterfuck lol, flamethrowers just bursting out of walls or round corners
Going on about server owners for smaller servers and how important they are kinda made my day, in another world I run a server for a smaller/dying game and it takes so much work, time and resources to keep it running even just for the 10-20 players each day. It's worth it! XD
I am not sure if you'll see this, but I have to say it's very wholesome and really sweet to see you donate to them. There is something really nice how comparably little money goes such a long way to keep these small groups of friends and their loved "dead" game to keep going. It feels like you're keeping a friend of theirs on life support where everybody else has kind of moved on and given up. It's like if you knew there are 20 people who could continue to play a game for a year and all you had to spend was 200 dollars? Sure, it's money they could throw together but still. It's a worthwhile gesture and deed.
Hello Enlisted players! On enlisted there is a custom game/server mode, it would be fun if more of us would join them because we're mostly 20 playing them so its kinda boring, but the maps and the mods are insane: Modern Conflict Extended maps and many more! Have a good day guys! ❤ Ah and if you're not an Enlisted player give it a try, it's a free squad managing WW2 fps. I find it very immersive!
i remember having an xbox live friend that would speedrun castle miner z with me, on xbox 360. we sped ran it so many times and had so much fun doing it together. I hope he's doing well and, unfortunately, idr anything about how to speed run it. i only remember the amazing memories i made with him. edit: i forgot to add how amazing you are for being so generous and supporting these dead games, the way you have been. you're an absolute legend
Good video mate. Glad you reinvested your own money to keep some of these games going. They aren't my cup of tea, but it's good to know good people are still out there.
Squad 44 is anything but dead, it’s actually been revived! I’m seeing servers that were gone and now back, plus really new servers with full and with 15+ people in line to join. There all legend, each and every one of them. Also, they are the nicest, most communicative People I’ve ever seen, it’s so rare to join a game that is complete silence, when it dose happen it’s either everyone left or people are too tired lol
Assault cube from what I know of is the main game most game hacking tutorials use to help rookies learn a bit of everything. So please be careful if you decide to play it, I have no idea what kind of exploits people have found.
Just a congrats on 250k, luckily, the algorithm blessed me with your content early on, 10k or so. Legit, some of the best gaming content, been wild to see big RU-vidrs doing the ‘exploring empty games’ thing. You’ll be at 1m in no time!
Omg the Nostalgia lol I used to play Castle Miner Z on the Xbox 360 and completed all achievements, it gets harder the further away you get from spawn as there’s more biomes and enemy types.
Squad 44 is not dead, and never have been. Having a few servers up for that game is plenty enough to have fun. In addition new dev team making a lot of improvements, therefore I advise everyone to try it out!
The best part about castle miner z on the 360 was you got to play as your Xbox avatar, we had a golden master chief assassins creed characters all running around with aks and stuff man those were some wild times. Thank you for the nostalgia trip!
I used to play assault cube from 2009-2014. The game was amazing for a free game. It’s a really competitive game. I enjoyed the sniper osok servers. And the modding community was thriving. With those parkour maps you described. So much fun, so much variety, for a free game any pc, mac and linux can run. I played on Mac, so my choices for fps shooters were limited. I played cod4, assault cube, and aoe3 on mac
I am more of a PS2 console guy. I have been since late 2000. Before that, starting in 1997, I was a computer gamer. I tried cellphone games but am really annoyed with all of the ads they make a person watch and, for that reason, I rarely play a cellphone game. Your channel appeals to me because I love how you present your videos and, believe me or not, they are fun and insightful videos to watch which I really love. 🤗🤗 Just felt to share my thoughts since I had some time on my hands.
I played Assault Cube in high school. I remember taking it on a flash drive to my BCIS 2 class. We all would play different games together, and for a few days, it was Assault Cube.
I love how these games have their own little communities. I bet they all recognize each other in game. Nice one for donating to the games to keep them alive. You earned my sub 😁
How did you miss soldner secret wars? It was released in like 2002, got dropped by the original devs and now is community run with max 30 players at peak times. Used to play it with my dad when I was a kid. I still go back to visit it from time to time
Luckily, it's still populated (even if it's a small community) but the different games using that engine still have populations also and some of them have fairly decent populations as it is. I mean not thousands of players, but you know, a few dozen or so. Look at a game like Red Eclipse (which is on the Cube 2 engine, another banger of an old game with a cool engine system like AC) it has a decent population to this day and it's old as well.
im only up through day of infamy but youre a wholesome dude man, giving these fine people some cash to keep these old games chugging along. its something i wish i had a bit more spare cash to do, some of these old games are timeless
As a Squad 44 player I'll say that yes, when the first update by Ow dropped mamy didn't like it (included myself) because it changed logistics, BUT the devs listented and decided to back down certain things and kept some other. I'll just say, somehow it feels better than before (Post Scriptum Ogs don't kill me for this). The thing is that before logistic felt like a glorified delivey guy, now it feels more confortable. I do believe Ow is taking the right direction, they just need time and support. Honestly, Squad 44 can become one, if not the most inmersive WW2 shooter ever created
It's not OWI though, but a group of modders that don't seem to have the same experience or talent as the OG team (and I don't mean the 2nd team) or OWI core dev team. That's what made me quit after I realized that the quality on level design will be poor. Not sure how active you are in Discord but over 90% of the levels were made by the OG team (including Chapter 4) and they left a long ass time ago. Some of the levels are insane in detail and immersion, like Utah, Grave or Carentan. I don't see the new modder team being able to pull off something like that. My group were spying on the OG whereabouts and some of them are in lead dev positions or in really nice studios. Their story is still very strange, they all quit all of a sudden years ago, but the CEO. I bet the latter was responsible for the crap development. I think OWI will milk this as long it is marginally profitable. They now hold the IP, so if they want to start a new WW2 tactical shooter, they can from the ground up by luring old PS players.
Squad 44 player here. This gem of a game may be low player count but it is far from dead. Those of us who still play it don’t have any plans to move on and now that it has support from OWI the future is brighter than ever. If anyone is on fence about it, right now is the perfect time to get in on the action.
Assault cube was my jam back in ~2007. Whats even funnier is CastleMinerZ came out before Minecraft did for Xbox 360 and was for a lot of people our intro to this type of game. The main draw was you would try to get as far as possible from spawn, the further you got the harder the game got. You could craft guns to shoot dragons and Zombies and the goal really (for me) was to get as far as you could running in any one direction.
Such a combination of sad and wholesome at the same time. Sad that the games are dead but wholesome because of the few amazing people that remain. So happy/proud you were able to help create and keep some servers going with a little ad money. Thank you for doing what you do:)
I like how you always remain calm and friendly towards the players left in the dying games. Personally, I play Day of Infamy here and there, and it's a pity the developers don't care for a second game.
The background music you put in these videos really makes me feel more immersed. Your voice is so calm, on top of hearing OG Minecraft and Legend of Zelda music, it warms my heart.
Man castle miner Z gives me so much nostalgia. Me and my friends played countless hours on Xbox 360. I just remember hopping in the party and joining their worlds.
I love that you're exploring these games. Even more, you donating to keep these games alive is amazing! THAT got me to sub. I'll absolutely watch all I can to help you via ads (if I had money I'd give it... but I can give support).
The admin enemy spam thing has an interesting history. I used to play a game called War Rock as a kid, kind of a Korean CS clone but with the traditional East-Asia pay to win. Weapons were rented with in game currency, some weapons only available to subscribers, and you could permanently buy weapons with real money. In game currency was hard to come by. There were cheater lobbies where one cheater would teleport around nuking everyone with grenades to hit the kill cap as fast as possible to help everyone farm currency.
Little advice.... whenever doing a frame perfect trick/glitch lower your fps. The frames are tied to the hz..lowering it giving you more time to do the input on time eith the frame.
These are some of the few videos I actually look forward to as soon as I actually notice that they're there I click them. I love what you doing man. Keep it up
Not sure if you done it yet, but might wanna give APB: Reloaded whirl, at least the NA servers are down to handfuls. Anyway great video! Love to see the donations to help keep these people’s favorites alive, keep up the good work!
Not gonna lie, I started the video, haven't ventured past the first game so far. Assault cube was my jam for a long time and is still a game I go back to every once in awhile. Wonderful game when you are playing with friends! Can feel almost like old LAN party games when you get a few friends to play it!
Bro Rye here looking for dead games, ends up creating the next Karl Jobst video xD (great job on supporting the true gamers that keep those games alive!)
Dude i played castle miner z religiously as a kid, me and my friends at the time collected the best guns (bloodstone ?) And made the trek all the way to the end of the world where the giant border wall was. Honestly a core memory for my adolescent self. It took so much preparation, because if i remember right you couldnt set your spawn points so if you died you went all the way back to spawn.
Damn CastleMiner Z now that takes me back. I remember when me and my boys found this game on the Xbox play store and we were so excited to have something like Minecraft on your xbox. And then like 4 years later Minecraft came out on the Xbox lol so many great memories playing that game. I remember when me and my buddy played that game one time and we wanted to see if we could circumnavigate the entire map and come back to the center again. It took us like 2 hours and a lot of ammunition but by the time we came back we had all Bloodstone weapons and tools and has so much ammo we basically never had to create ammo for the rest of the time we played on that map.
Omg ASSAULT CUBE! I was in a clan and even learned to create maps and upload them to servers for everyone to play. I was 15 or so at the time. Great memory unlocked !