The Solemn Ambience of Minecraft, and Nostalgia 

I've got a feeling this video is gonna blow up some day. I will never forget Minecraft and the memories it has brought me, even memories as late as last year. Minecraft is a game you never really stop playing, you just take breaks.

Oh Matt this is SO your best video yet. My main critique of your previous work has always been that you're too self-deprecating towards yourself and this is such a wonderful 180, it's so genuine and vulnerable and you capture your deep and almost blinding love of Minecraft so beautifully. Minecraft is not special to me but u are 💕

Criminally underrated

It's wonderful when you go into detail about why a game/soundtrack has affected you so deeply, and I love listening to the stories you associate with them. It's just like when you talked about the Tabora Mining Area track from Ratchet and Clank 2. This is a fantastic video and I relate to it very strongly. Thank you so much!

In terms of age, the equivalent game I had was Runescape 2 which came out in 2004 (your 2004 video made me think about this as well) and I played when I was 9-10. That game was also pretty impactful, but nowhere near minecraft. I recently added a 2 hour long old school Runescape music video to my background music playlist here on YT. Even just hearing the music in the background triggered memories. I could visualise the area of the game and remember the general feeling of it for most of the tracks. I could even anticipate the music sections as I listened to it even though it has been probably over 12 years since I listened to it. Being so young and listening to it over and over almost drilled it into my mind like some sort of trance. I remember it was some of my early interactions with people online, even though I generally avoided other people. Like I would make full sets of armour for random people because I could (I was into the mining and smithing a lot). I remember getting scammed because I thought an iron axe bank note was actually a rune axe, and yes he said 'lol noob' as he ran away. I started playing minecraft in september 2011 around the beta 1.8 release when they added a whole bunch of stuff like endermen, then the released the 1.0 update soon after that that added the End and hunger mechanics and all that stuff (but screw potions, never bothered with them lol). After playing with some of the individual modpacks like buildcraft and industrialcraft, I found out about OG Tekkit, where I wasted countless hours when I should have been doing my A levels revision (this became a running theme). I built big architectural bases because I'm not satisfied by a hole in the ground or a cobblestone cube. I built like a mini marble and basalt Parthenon for one of my bases on a roughly triangular island. I then built a perfectly equilateral triangular marble wall around it and the edge of the island, just because, with all my railcraft lines going to buildcraft miners around it. I dabbled a bit in computercraft but then the server crashed and got corrupted, although some parts survived. I even joined a minecraft society at University lol. There was one guy there who was on a Comp Sci course who did a lot of custom modding (unsurprisingly). I would play modded minecraft but right now I have other things occupying my time. It's definitely a game you never stop playing, just take extended 'breaks'.

I feel like it’s every zillennial’s right of passage to make a Minecraft retrospective, with the dividing factor between one another being the quality of the production It was crazy seeing your first world again cause I remember it, I think it might have been the first time I saw ice blocks Fuck what I would do to get my first two worlds back, they’ll be long gone now You articulated this way better than I could about the relationship to my defining piece of media I wouldn’t even know where to start Good shit

I love your channel. cant believe you only have 1980 subs. these videos are such high quality and I think your presentation is superb. I would love more ratchet content :p obsessed with that franchise lol

Great video dude! Always love hearing how media affects a person and seeing things like a camp ground you went to and connecting it to Minecraft is the kind of stuff I love seeing. Keep up the great work

I love this channel

You are a really good story teller

Dude, massive props to you for putting out something so incredibly personal. Extremely well-spoken!

I appreciate your efforts to articulate how this game has made you feel and how you feel about it looking back. I certainly don’t have the eloquence to do so for my experience. And yet, on some fundamental level I understand the way Minecraft and nostalgia has been such a core part of your experience just as I imagine it has been for many others, just all in our own ways.

Great video I enjoyed it much

I remember playing the demo of minecraft for days, cause i didn't have money to buy it at the time. Few years later i got it and played it a lot. Last time was like 3 years ago but this video gave me spark to play it again :D Great video and i like the personal experience angle that it took!

So beautiful