This video was a BEAST to make alone, but I LOVED reliving my childhood with Blizzard's fantastic games. Let me know what other games you'd like me to play next!
These "I Played Every..." vids are so cool. They're a perfect mix of game review, developer history, and Goose backstory. Always engaging and interesting, love it.
My first Blizzard game was Warcraft 2 at a friend's house in 7th grade. Seeing that Blizzard logo as a young gamer was like seeing Lucasfilm on screen for original Star Wars fans. Take me back to the 90s.
I don't like the fact that watching this makes me emotional. I'm 35, married, and work nonstop. I grew up playing all of these games and they shaped my life with so many great times. Great video.
It's great to see someone 10-20 years younger play Diablo, Diablo 2, WC2, Starcraft and come up with the same conclusion about Blizzard's latest games as me, who played them back in the day
The golden age of Blizz games. Communities grew, players played games and weren't yelling at each other, and creativity went wild with custom maps. I miss those days. :
As someone who first played Blizzard games in 1996, when WarCraft 2 was their newest title, I can say this does an excellent job of encapsulating the company and its fall from grace over the years. Superb job.
Kind of like how it used to be going to see Pixar films; no reviews needed and you knew you'd have a hit. Everything seems to have a renaissance period. At least we got to enjoy Blizzard's.
Had this 41 year old man reliving my childhood as I grew up playing blizzard games and watched them make classics . Then you had me teary eyed about your math grind and changing your life. Good for you man and I'm glad Diablo 3 got you through it.
Warcraft 2 is when the addiction started for me, now in 2024... still playing. Time has gone by too fast! I have played Blizzard games for more than half of my life! Watching over 20 yrs compressed into a 1+ hour video clip brings back so many good memories!
Fun fact, you can drag select in Warcraft Orcs and Humans! You just have to hold Ctrl while doing it! Though it was limited to only 4 units lol. This was a great nostolgiac trip! I was 5 years old when Orcs and Humans came out, my cousin played it and my brother and I would watch. A few years later when my family got a PC, my older brother and I got the Battle Chest with WC1 and WC2+Expansion. Have been a Blizzard fan ever since, played Starcraft, Diablo, and way too much WoW even up until recently with the official hardcore servers. These days i don't really play their games anymore, Diablo 4 just didn't hold my attention like past Diablo games and every WoW Expansion I have played recently I play for a few weeks and then eventually get bored. It's been a good run, but I've accepted that no company can stay at the top forever and continue to raise the bar for themselves, especially with how much they've released over the years.
Love your story. I was a demolition worker for 15 years and I absolutely hated it. I started teaching myself web development after work. After years of taking courses on RU-vid I got hired as a web developer. I'm so much happier now, glad it worked out for you too.
I love how this turned in to a story about investing in yourself, knowing your worth and believing that you can accomplish your dreams. Very proud of you. Thank you for sharing your story. You may very well impact another and help them make that leap.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. Blizzard games were some of the greatest of all time and those memories will never leave us. Been playing their games since Lost Vikings on SNES and Warcraft 2 and it's hard to understate the quality of life Blizzard games had compared to the jankyness most PC games had in the1990s, playing multiplayer flawlessly on dial up modem was huge. The personal story about your journey to change your life for the better was really heartfelt, could feel your struggle and need for change. Honestly these modern service games are just cynical money making machines, they are not primarily designed for fun. Indie games are our future, our hope.
This. It's not like it's an easy feat to keep the same level of quality over decades of producing games. We got some amazing games out of Blizzard, many that my friends and I have lots of good memories with.
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. Blizzard games were some of the greatest of all time and those memories will never leave us." So much this! It will never be the same again, but they made some damn good games and i'm really thankful for the memories.
@@cattysplat you mean it’s hard to overstate. Not it’s hard to understate. If the bar is high it’s very easy to understate it. But hard to overstate it.
I played a lot of Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos and Frozen Throne when I was in high school with a lot of my friends. The custom games were some of the funnest mini games. I remember bringing my laptop that wasn't even a gaming laptop, but my dad's spare work laptop to my friends playing helms deep, kodo tag, tower defense, hero seige, and many other custom games. Then WoW came out, and the same thing I brought that laptop to many friends' houses to play WoW. Playing WoW for the very first time with everyone else who was new to the game was probably one of the funnest times I had personally with any video game. Such good times. I remember that laptop getting so hot and thought it was going to overheat or explode from WoW.
I worked for Blizzard for 11 years in the EU and everything went to shit once activision got involved. First thing they did was remove our Christmas bonus :D
@@revanthmunnangi5319 Dragon's Dogma 2, Shenmue 3, Final Fantasy 15, Dark Souls 2, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Fallout 76, Tomb Raider 3, etc. I can go on.
That’s simply an amazing video! I’m 41 and I went through all of the games you played during my childhood and my teen years. I’m glad that someone who didn’t know the old blizzard understands why I can’t play their newest titles anymore. Back in days, when blizzard released a game you knew it will be THE BEST EVER title. I don’t think blizzard is gonna come back, it lost its identity, principles and basic values.
Thank you so much for making this! About a month ago my wife sent me via text Diablo immortal. And she asked if I had played this. I didn’t have the time, energy, or slightest interest in explaining why I would never play that game. But she watched this video with me and now understands. Your personal story in this video hit really hard. I’m in a job I don’t love but it lets me game. Now that games aren’t that fun anymore I’m looking for ways to retire faster. We can only hope our cry’s are heard and fun games are made once more. Keep it up! I truly enjoy watching these videos. I also watch your reaction videos.
Blackscape! I'll never forget all the amazing comments you gave while I grew. You were the first big creator to ever notice me in the dragon ball days I'll never forget it
Original StarCraft got me into PC gaming. I played it in college on my wife’s gateway desktop. StarCraft 2 inspired me to build my first PC…..been a PC guy ever since! Great vid Goose!
Dude, you are a fantastic storyteller! I was also a small town Canadian kid who grew up on a farm and these blizzard games were my connection to the world! Thanks so much for the walk down memory lane! Your style and storytelling are light out fantastic and an inspiration to my own channel! Keep up the awesome work🎉
Dude when I was a kid and opened the butcher's door for the first time I shut that shit so fast. Dude says "Fresh meat!" and I was done. That game was so good.
OG Butcher was genuinely an ohshitohshitohshitohshit moment. By comparison I was playing D4 recently hardcore Druid and was doing an Infernal Horde and the Butcher spawned in, I never noticed him till he was had a fraction of health left before he died. Don't get me wrong D4 is getting better but it sucks that all the people who bought the game ended up paying to be beta testers for 12 months in everything but name.
11 year old me thinking the Starcraft Battlechest box looked cool in walmart and spending all the bday money i had saved to unknowingly become a terran for life cried a little watching this.
Blizzard games used to always give you so much value for the money. I think I paid almost 100$ for warcraft 3 which was a lot back then but I got so much gaming out of, it was so worth it.
It's either CTRL+drag rectangle with mouse, or SHIFT+click on unit to add. And, btw, the devs explicitly decided to allow just 4 unit per batch to prevent stack-of-doom gameplay.
The confidence with which Goose called the most stereotypical English woman in Overwatch Australian made me reflexively hit the pause button to absorb the shock 😂
Just wanted to say this is the best video I've ever watched. You pretty much summed up everything most of us that play blizzard games feel. Also the editing is legendary!
Incredible watch! Thanks for this, Goose, our good buddy. Also, I was really surprised/moved to see that you also upgraded math to study software development. I'm doing 3 courses in 9 months, and I have one course left! This video gave me a surprising amount of motivation in a way I did not expect. Video games are absolutely helping me level out the stress!
Dude, 50 min of the video still left, but I have to tell you, this is by far the BEST gaming video I've ever watched. I already got goosebumps multiple times, I almost cried out of nostalgia and WoW is still coming. SO GOOD. Keep it up. Thank you so much!!🎉🎉🎉
There are some serious gaps in research, some of those old games helped popularize lan party networking and internet multiplayer gaming. He clearly didn't bother to ask any old head about this stuff.
My biggest problem with WoW, and MMORPGs in general, is that I don't want to play an RPG with other people. If an RPG doesn't have a completely playable single player campaign, I have no desire to even try it.
@@ZenkaiGoose It's me who can't thank you enough for content so nostalgic that it brought tears to my eyes. Thank you for all the time and effort you put into your videos 🙌
Warcraft III was the first game I ever participated in a LAN party. My buddies and I dragged all of our computers over to one house, had power cables running everywhere, and played W3 for an entire weekend and had the greatest time ever. We realized that was too much work after that one weekend, and then everyone bought OG Xbox's and just played Halo CE LAN with 10 more friends. The early 2000s was the greatest time for social gaming experiences.
It was warcraft 2 for me, I still remember it like it was yesterday. My friends older brother and his friends were having one and I was amazed then eventually got a game in myself. I was hooked after that
Incredible video. I'm an old machinist who's played almost every console since Atari. Games have kept me sane while doing a job I hate. I totally get it. Thanks for the throwback.
Sad to think, someone who hasn't played most of these games, comes up with the same conclusion we all have... Blizzard went from a top tier, player focused company, to a game mill 'only worried about our wallets' company... It'll never be what it once was... And I'm sad. Thank you for the real nostalgia trip though. Glad you've found some games that'll stick with you forever.
"Now Diablo II is a 24 year old game so it shouldn't be as much fun as what folks who grew up with it describe." Yeah, no. It's possibly the greatest and most replayable game ever made. Certainly the best ARPG game ever made - easily. Saying merely that it 'holds up' does not do it justice. It's still better than all other contenders in this genre. It's fantastic. Thank god Vicarious Visions managed to complete the remaster before the lights really started to dim at Blizzard.
@@ZenkaiGoose While not direct sequels, devs from Blizzard North ended up on teams who worked on Titan's Quest, Torchlight, and Grim Dawn. Grim Dawn has a mod called the Reign of Terror mod which recreates Diablo 2 and Diablo 1 (in that order, because scope creep) but with the enhancements that come with Grim Dawn.
Prime example of why corporate greed is a bad thing. Blizzard slowly started to die when Activision bought the company and Microsoft is the place where all video game companies that were once great go to die. Shit like this is starting to destroy the video game industry as a whole
As someone who calls Path of Exile their main game, I'm so glad I talked myself out of buying D4. As far as I'm concerned blizzard has lost their right to my money.
You missed a perfect opportunity to mention in regards to Overwatch and WC3 refunded about the destruction of video games and shout out the stop killing games initiative to try and defend our right to own the games we purchased.
Your story is the same. I left my construction job in 2010. Went to college for 2 years and was unemployed that whole time. Starcraft 2, diablo 3, and dota 2 got me through my days. Dota 2 was born from blizzard custom games.
You absolutely didn't get what "The Lost Vikings" is about. It's a puzzle platformer with a big emphasis on "puzzle", and it gets quite complex later on the game. And it's really good.
@InsidiousOne I'm very sad he glossed over The Lost Vikings. He shoulda done Norse by Norsewest even if it's just worse Lost Vikings 2. The only game I can think of that tries to be this kind of puzzler is Trine.
You know, despite knowing Blizzard used to be called Silicone & Synapse, I never realised that it was the same company whenever I played Rock N Roll Racing. Probably makes me a little silly but I genuinely never put 2 and 2 together. Edit: Genuinely can’t wait to hear your thoughts on Snake Eater
I am a huge Blizzard guy and I agree with every single thing you've said here... I love what you've done here. Great video. I really hope the magic comes back to blizzard....
I still play Heroes of the Storm weekly. It is hands down my favorite game I own. Even after I unlocked all the heroes, I gave Blizz $60 because I play it so much. Also, that Overwatch transition. 🤣
what's worse - he used Reforged when he was talking about the original Warcraft 3. Some who never played WC3 might actually believe that's how the original game looked like.
I absolutely loved this compilation. Took me down a very heartfelt road of nostalgia. You are hilarious. Keep doing what you are doing and well done on what you've accomplished so far
Best long form content I have ever seen on RU-vid. I saw the time stamp and was like no way! But I was like “but it sounds cool, I will watch 5 mins and maybe skip around” over an hour later I watched every minute and now I’m subscribed 😂
They better have Blackthorne back in some form or another, like say, as a new character in Overwatch 2. Fact: Starcraft's John Raynor is inspired by the 90s Jason Patric movie, Rush. Heck, it can be argued that Kerrigan's story arc is inspired by that movie.
Zenkai, I love you man. You make some amazing videos that really just show me how big a gaming company or game can be. Don’t ever quit, you’re goosetastic.
My biggest gaming regret was liking Diablo 2 too much. It made me annoyed that Blizzard focused their attention on WOW instead of focusing on creating Diablo 3 and so I decided not to play WOW out of spite. I gave in at WOTLK and regretted not starting sooner. Boy did I back the wrong horse on that one.
Cinematic team as usual outdid themselves with the 12/10 Announcement trailer, that shit got me so hyped I almost forgot what kind of a quality was Blizzard producing at the time.... yeah and then the game came out. Was probably my last straw with that company.
