When Video Games Were Simple | Asmongold Reacts 

I remember when smash brothers switched from unlocking characters, to starting the game with everything unlocked, to now paying for additional characters, it gets worse with every generation

Indy scene still has that.

member when games would not take themself too seriously and add silly things ? miss the fat nathan drake on uncharted.

Pembridge farm remembers.

Yeah I member

@@alexbicak that’s true buts it’s actually since physical copies dominated. almost all games i had for ps2, xbox 360, and xbox one were pre owned from gamestop with like a 40-80% discount. now you have to wait for a 15% sale every christmas to get the game you want. shits sad.

no it wasn't, they were a handful of decent games but everyone over hypes it just because it is the best selling console. And yes I did have a PS2.

​@@AccursedHawkNah, there was a ton of hidden gems, classics and tech/genre pushing titles scattered all over it.

Anti aliasing, on tv. Woot!

You missed out modding games, doing crazy hacks on online games etc.

2012* End of the 360/PS3 era

For movies, anime and much other stuff too. Overall for nerd culture, media and mass/pop culture.

I would say 1992-2011. The SNES and Genesis have some bangers that still haven't been topped, and portal 2 came out in 2011.

The golden era never stopped. It's a mirage, a self-inflicted confusion of the highest order. What changed is the good old companies were handed to marketing managers and salesman, while devs just made the games and had these people as their advisors on how to make their games more profitable, and once their passion for their own games died, they quit and now those companies are all run by salesmen and greedy businessmen. Now if you delve into the AA and indies and ignore most AAA games, you'll find plenty and i mean plenty of good games, waaay more than there were back when we were young, and they are much more cheaper so you can buy lots of them. Oh, but you have to follow one simple rule, don't look up stuff online, find your own way and don't worry too much about what's the best thing to do or the best way to play a game, just play it, like we all did back then, you will have fun.

Were the 20s the dark ages then?

Absolutely. Deep rock galactic is sick despite being simple.

Okami is a perfect example of this being true.

@@DemonKnight94 same with sea of thieves the graphics are shit but the cartoonish art direction made the game look beautiful and fun

Hi fi rush

Gameplay> art> Graphics Gameplay is king. Game could look like Lethal Company or from the Atari as long as the gameplay is solid and fun its worth while.

This is adorable and something my partner would want to do if we were blessed to have a kid .. keep spending time like this with him because guaranteed these will be the best memories he will cherish for the rest of his life. All the best to you and your loved ones and enjoy your gaming sessions together mate 👍🏻

@@GeekyC. Thank you! I don't know your situation, but hope it works out for you guys. We went through a lot for a long time, so it really is a blessing. All the best to you as well! 💙

You are amazing dad

​@@railasvuosalute to u man....i tried so hard to do that with my brother and sisters and non of them really wanted to play those game....instead my bro got into games like fortnite and even tho i play that with him too...wish he grew up with what i did....actual games

You're failing your son. Have him play outside. Teach him to work out (run, box, etc). There will be time for video games. Tons of beta fathers like yourself keep creating weak men.

So I remember being 11 or 12 and reading Game Informer or Gamepro's preview of the first Suikoden, which stood out even among the slew of JRPG's that were slated for the PSX's first year. Rented it, and immediately bought it after. The scope of the continent, conditions and every new sprite possibly being one of the 108 runes of destiny, the pixel art, the evolving castle once claimed, even the art in the manual got me. As great as it was, I didn't expect Suikoden II to be of the caliber it was. Doubling down on everything great about the first, the evolving base, somewhat more fun med & large scale battles, varied party comp & unite moves, and great requirements to get (and keep alive) all 108 by the end.. BUT THE STORY, good god, did they outdo themselves, twice I believe I thought the game was over, just to find out it was maybe halfway through. I was -convinced- it was the end of the game during the section fighting Jowy and Prince Luca, had to be, everything was coming to that crescendo!! Yep, not even close. Everything screamed masterpiece, and few other games championed player investment in the world, diversity in their cast of characters as well as your investment in so many of them, a unique recruit system, varied gameplay, or such gorgeous pixel art... (Sidenote: Ugh, haven't thought of Nanami for almost 20 years 😳😭 & it's STILL a punch to the gut)

@@waterlysubstance There was a way to save Nanami if you collect all the stars of destiny and return to face joey on the cliff from the beginning where you both etch the cliff and enter a duel. During the fight you can only defend otherwise you fail the goal. Afterwards you get a secret ending.

Just a nitpick, but not a professor of philosophy. He was a philologist, which is something else.

@@perlundgren7797 He got it from mixing up the terms and falsely remembering the more known one.

@@Exgrmbl Yeah, I realized that and added the philology thing afterwards, so I should have changed the first part as well.

@@perlundgren7797 I think autocorrect filled in my misspelling of philology i fixed it now.

Stop acting as if a few big game releases include the other hundreds of games releasing every year. Spend less time on youtube

😂 Ey that's a slick title

that song was amazing

The guys a nakeyjakey copycat. Even the way he talks. It’s a nakeyjakey video made by a different guy.

Comment jut gave me 2nd hand embarrassed

Hey, still 3 disc's to play ff7 now. Just cost a hell of a lot more 😂

While True, they already existed back then as well. They've probably optimized the full shit out of their processes, ending up with our current situation.

The stupid "infinite growth" concept is ruining media. And the world.

+ Ace Combat

So many great games on the ps2.

Wow. I don't like a single one of those games

Not to Mention Tekken 5, Gran Turismo, Fun FIFA and NBA games... In general lots of fun obscure games

Best FF titles on PS2? Literally the worst take I've ever seen😂 Oh, Vagrant Story, so you're mixing PS1 and PS2.

I'm now, 50-years-old. Now, are there any games worth playing other than From Software? The occasional Mario Game?

Dude your dad is a legend for that 😅

Man I remember playing that as a kid. My parents had one they showed me.

@@ssombieswarhammer Space Marine 2, Baldur’s gate 3

@@sci-fiknight8084 Yeah. They do come along every once in a while. Not often enough.

I spent most of 2004 playing Kingdom Hearts to unlock everything and get the secret ending that was a promotion video for Kingdom Hearts 2 because we didn't have RU-vid yet to see it unless you actually played it, and Mario Kart Double Dash to beat the testers because.. well, why not? I like trophies, I have a lot of them, but it doesn't feel quite as satisfying to pop a platinum as it did to unlock the cut scene or track ghosts.

I've never cared about achievements in any games. I don't even see the point

Ive never understood why anybody cares about trophies lol. it's not part of the game. it's just weird random stuff inserted to try and get you to game more. it's meaningless

@@jimijames6449 it's not always about the trophies themselves, so much as what they represent. I'm big on completion, and in a lot of games trophies encourage you to explore and collect and do little challenges that frankly I would be doing anyway. I don't play games for trophies, but I do play a lot of games and they have trophies, so I have a lot of trophies. For some people it's just a big number that's meant to be impressive to someone else, and sadly often is, even if that big number is made up of 20 minute shovelware "games" they spent spamming X like a button mash QTE, or worse.. cheating. I've seen way too many profiles full of cheated trophies, and way too many people giving them props for having several thousand platinums, with no care at all for which "games" they "played" to get them. Those are the self professed Trophy Hunters TM, and they give the rest of us a bad name 😭

​@jimijames6449 if I'm already enjoying a game it feels really satisfying to get all the achievements

Half my class got an SNES for Christmas in 1992, and for all of January we were competing to get 96 stars, trading secrets, etc. Was such a fun time.

I'm sorry but you can't ignore all the improvements we got all over the years. I can't enjoy an old game anymore, and yes I owned a nes/snes/PS2/... when I was a child

@@vashe9Sucks to be you, then. I grew up on NES, too, and I consistently see myself drawn to all sorts of games I missed out on, up until the 7th generation, precisely due to the creative solutions devs would come up with to overcome hardware limitations back then. Sometimes it’s a bit difficult to go back to awkward controls, I’ll give you that, but the overall experience is usually worth the hassles of the adapting period. Not dissing you, BTW, I really mean it’s a shame you can’t go back to older games, there are plenty of great ideas out there that never really got a chance to be refined.

@@vashe9 My unpopular opinion: graphics ruined gaming. edit: i just got to the part where the video says exactly the same :P guess it's not unpopular afte rall.

@@vashe9 people love to call the golden age of video games their childhood days, that's all. There are way more masterpieces right now than there were back in the SNES/PS2 era, but they're indie games, they're not corpo dhiarrea. Lots more of fluidity and ideas too, more complex games, much simpler but more responsive and some even made games out of shitty controls which are real fun to play too because of the challenge.

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“Games came out done” Games were just as buggy back then and if there was a problem there was no fix. You understand what a broken fragile piece of shit Pokemon Red actually is, but you didn’t notice because you were a kid and those bugs were often exploits that would easily corrupt your data.

​@@rumfordcok then apply that logic to newer games as well that come out fun. Bg3 came out buggy as all hell but was still very fun

@rumfordc ok you know what? I'm just going to name a long string of games that I've been enjoying that have released either recently or within the past decade and come out fun instead of naming just one, factorio, rimworld, terraria, minecraft, bg3, elden ring, the binding of isaac, persona 5, ftl, into the breach, hades 1 and 2, NSO(needy streamer overload), helldivers(could give less of a fuck about the controversies surrounding Sony as I don't use ps), lethal company, ark, wuthering waves, honkai star rail, tw warhammer 3 are just a few examples. Sure some have a lot of dlcs, and some came out much earlier than 2020 and came out in 2010-2020, but there are so many damn games out there and you bums are in a repeating cycle of, "games are trash nowadays and nothing is fun😭" just say you have depression and move on

@@neworldfool9625 there absolutely was a fix: revisions. Anyone who has pirated emulated games knows this, any smash bros melee player knows this. "Greatest hits" also had patches.

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Yeah I tried the remake of ratchet and clank and would rather play the original and I also played rift apart and it feels like a cheap ripoff

I feel this so much.

100%. A big reason is also that these games are just unique and the stylized graphics just never loose their charm.

Yeah once Asmon gets attached to a point he preaches on it with a soapbox like no tomorrow.

Yeah I still go back to brood war all the time

And that's fine, but for people that played the old games and think they are better than current games, it's 100% nostalgia. The guy in the video compares the old Spiderman with the new one. The new Spiderman does everything the old Spiderman did but better, and adds a ton of other stuff to do. It's simply dumb to say the old Spiderman is better or even on the same level. And yes, most younger kids would never touch the old games, because they have control issues, bad camera, no voiced dialogues, crappy graphics, they are short, etc. And no, they are not a product of their time, as Asmon said. He compared them to movies like Ben Hur, that's a bad analogy. Movies tell a story and don't require any input, there is no gameplay and the "graphics" are always realistic. Any generation can watch an old movie, if it tells a good story, but most of the newer generation would not play old games. All these videos "Games were so much better in my childhood" are just nostalgia trips. The guy making the video is always a 30+ year old guy that now has a job and less time to play, he's stressed and associates his freedom from childhood with the games he was playing and thinks he had a better time back then. He had a better time because he was a kid with no responsibilities, not because the games were better than now

@@Gennosuke1983 Factually wrong because what makes a good game for someone is a personal subjective opinion. Also you are generalising a lot, every game has different qualities. The game I played lately was Super Metroid and that aged very very well and I enjoyed it way more than Hollow Knight etc which is also good.

Except when you were young with no background info & you took a garbage game home. I'm looking at you Pitfighter. The horror.

And PS3 and Xbox 360 was the end of that generation

Its def the silver age, golden age is the ps3/360 era and the platinum age is the ps4

I don't like to put it like this because I love the PS2 era of games I grew up with, but they ran the Blum House strategy of video game development. Pretty much any idea would get 3-7 million for a budget and make 40-50 and it was a great success, hell almost any flips at least broke even at 3-5 mil. The risks were small so they could experiment whereas now with 150-350 mil budgets you have to have an amazing success or bust. Make games smaller with smaller teams and only make a handful of larger 100mil games for dedicated popular franchises and make absolute bags. 10 mil getting 100 mil back over 3 years is better than 350 mil getting 450 back in 5-6 years. Smaller games smaller budgets with more freedom and more time is the way of the future and that is why I die is winning the game war right now. See movies these days are 10 years ahead of games as there are less hight budget movies and studios like Blumhouse are doing the same thing THQ was doing for games in the PS2 days, cheap movies that are decent and if they get a hit they double down with a bigger budget sequel and never exceed 30 mil on a budget to keep profitable no matter what

​@@SWOTHDRA it's the opposite. PS2 was the height of risk-taking and creativity.

So glad i was born during that time. I also could experience the N64 as a toddler thanks to my parents playing. I still had so many memories and nostalga from that time even tho i was so liddle.

Nah you were just a kid in that era so the experience was different. Imagine if we had gamepass back then? Our access to games was blockbuster rental and Christmas presents.

Don’t forget the Dreamcast

@@Captainaceguy00The PS2 is factually the most sold console in history… so objectively was “peak.” It may have the nostalgia factor but it was also factually the best selling console.

Panzer Dragoon is great on that.

delusional take. RPGs have had long cutscenes or a long time you just skipped the dialog boxes like a troglodyte

@@im1085wasnt there rpgs on ps2 with like 20 minute long fucking cut scenes lol

This man never played Xenosaga, we had hour long cutscenes and loved it

@@im1085 Obviously there are always exceptions to the rule. Like for every MGS or Final Fantasy with 20 minute cutscenes etc, there were many more games that followed his point. Which is the reason you had to mention RPG's specifically to get people to understand your point. Games in GENERAL were different back then. The first dude you replied to is still correct.

*insert KH3 with like 30 minutes worth of cutscenes after every world for a grand total of about 11 hours of cutscenes.* Like just the Tangled world itself consists of about an hour worth of cutscenes.

not every game should be open world. Theres also a big difference between open world, and an alive and interactive world (it can be both open and very interactive, but it can also exclusively be one)

@@M_CFV I didn't mean that The Last of Us should have an open world now like Skyrim or GTA or something like that but just being able to explore a bit more and do things on your own in between the cutscenes i feel like wouldve been more fitting for the game in my opinion

@@cronus-kumo yeah i was basically saying interactive world would be a better term to use lol youre good, i agree with ya

At least you can remember your PS2 memories all I remember was my parents buying me it

Love dynasty warriors

Man video game music used to be so simple and memorable. For a while there it was all good ass drum&bass music for some reason lol

Then don't buy the dlc game companies aren't forcing you they owe you nothing. Modern games have more content in their base game than any retro game ever did

@@BIRDSBIRDSBIRDSBIRDSBIRDSor don’t scam the players, no one is forcing you to choose predatory micro transactions and anti consumer practices. You’d be surprised that there’s more content in retro games than the modern fancy shops

The reason retro games are so good is nostalgia. You literally cannot play them for the first time and get an objective perspective today. Like I can go back and enjoy Neverwinter Nights 1 because I've played it before. My mind remembers mostly how everything works. Someone playing it for the first time today would have MAJOR valid complaints. And modern "retro" games are not really retro, there is so much they do better than true retro games as well as alot of modern tech hiding under the surface.

No it wasn't. Yes hard to master games like resident evil 1 were amazing, but a game like ratchet and clank did not come to be so good and fun because it was hard, it had its difficulty, but it was literally just fun. It was a beat em up. Those games are meant for fun. The entire purpose of the game was fun. That's because we came from games like Tetris and other arcades with no real focus on story and excess parts to a videogame. It was ALL about the gameplay and not those accessories. And fact is no game today focuses on gameplay. It's all about profit from the stores tbh and terrible terrible rich people who bought out a company like Bethesda. Our games today are just terrible especially with the youth today not knowing how to do any development on videogames as we've seen by a previous admin video. The adults today don't know how to do anything. And they are the ones who complain about the work they have to do. That's the problem.

It's purely nostalgia. I''m 37, I've played a LOT of games on my ps2's (fat, then slim) and I don't really want to play these games anymore. There are too many really good modern games (currently playing Octopath Traveler 2)...

​@@vashe9 we're talking about people in general. Lots of people are still playing games from 20 years ago. Nostalgia doesn't make things stand the test of time like this. Nostalgia wears off quickly. When you play an old game out of nostalgia, you play it for an hour and then you forget it for five years. But lots of people keep playing them, so it can't be nostalgia. Many people (including me) still play Thief and The Dark Mod quite often. I myself have been playing Broken Sword, Quake, Carmageddon, Jagged Alliance 2, Dungeon Keeper, Postal 2 from time to time during the last 25 years. Actually playing, not just tuning in for a bit and then forgetting them (like I did with Motoracer last year). And like I said, lots of younger people are also playing those old games. GoG was able to grow selling them. People can surely feel nostalgia, but the ongoing relevance of old games can't be explained by nostalgia.

At least for me, it’s 1000% nostalgia. I was born in the mid 90’s and I was playing video games before I could read. I say that to say when I go back to play golden eye 007, I play it for 10 min and think to myself, man this plays like shit. Why the hell am I playing this? Then I go back to playing some modern game. The older games have the benefit of being the first to do it. They were good and innovative for their time. Again, because those were the first to do it.

@@ReachxGames emulate ps2 era games at 4k 120fps (lossless scaling) and come back to me about how all the old games are terrible. They hold up just fine and the gameplay craps all over modern games

The "achievement system" of the old

change "vast majority" to "all" and you're correct. (rare pokemon drop events excepted)

Spy Hunter was an awesome, but tough, game to unlock all the achievements. The time limitations were tight.

Yup!!

@@cs8712 Having to play two rare GameCube games to complete the PokeDex was pretty bullshit ngl

That's what happens when small teams with complete passion are allowed to make games. Sadly most of the talent was forced out especially with the decade worth of DEI bullshit.

Games had soul and heart... everything is just content now...

@@cmbaz1140 Played Disco Elysium yesterday and it totally felt like one of the old titles. Had so much fun playing. Really wann finish that game.

@@paprika2280 i am going to play extreme g 3 for the gamecube this week... i learned about it just recently growing up playing the extreme g n64 games i didnt know they made one for gamecube...i am really looking forward to this.

Simple doesn't just refer to gameplay, graphics and realism has made dev time balloon all in the vain of charging more money for shiny graphics that do nothing or having that useless footprints in the floor that looks cool but does nothing. Ps2 etc devs didn't waste time on these things and could just make the game which I think makes it better and yes I love that dark souls game are just plug and play were alot of these AAA games gotta sit and watch a movie before touching the controller.

Idk most of time I go for achievements I learn a new way to play the game and learn things I didn't even know you could even do.

Holy crap, someone else who also remembers Foamy the Squirrel? Not that Foamy ever really went anywhere

You could always not go for them.

One issue is it forces the devs to add more and more stuff to make more and harder achievements so the game gets bloated

@@jase276 Your lord and master.

That's so cool bro!

@@jon8741 Thanks! many of the consoles just need some simple repairs like replacing leaking capacitors, replacing voltage regulators or blown fuses. Once fixed up they work like new. SNES and PS1 are my favorite to repair.

You should make video tutorials on it, I'd watch. Subbed

@@yanghao8351bro you chinese. Stop acting as if we know what „voltage“ or „regulators“ and „fuses“ are

That sounds like a lot of fun.

Everyone does though. It's an objective fact.

PS2-PS3 just all consols in that Era. There are videos listing the timeline of todays classic and there were games coming out every 1-2 weeks it's crazy. Today we need to wait 6+ years for a sequel and then to have a soulless game with good graphics.

I agree

​@@KazaiTVNah not ps3

Bro I still remember the first time I got a ps2 with grand theft auto 3 and tried hooking up my ps1 controller and it didn't work because of the dualshock, had a friend at school give me one of his busted controllers and got in so much trouble because I just became a little addict.

PS2 is officially a retro console

@@Xx1devilgod1xX their was definitely a different feeling from nes, to super nes, to ps1 to ps2 to xbox 360...but then after this the iterations were so small it feel like its still the same era of games

The multiplayer on crysis was underrated

Did you finish that trackmania map?

@@definetlyme6120 the dragon Castle map I was building? Yeah haha

@@GnasherGear Crysis Wars was goated, shame it died.

MGS2 was the first 3D game that did it for me, due to its unparalleled level of interaction and gameplay options, at the time of its release of course.

we still can't find dracula and that is ok

I'm at over 250 hrs in VS on Steam lmao, still haven't beaten the "quest mode" and missing some DLC.

Don't worry they'll convince Konami. ​@@flareflareon

It's boring

Nah, it's shit, 20 Minutes Till Dawn did it much better

Most random, great story ever

Just to be clear to everybody: he didn't literally invent or rewrite the dictionary. Johnson started that a long time ago. However, most of your story is true. This sort of issue came up a few times. He also tracked down many words, including Tolkien. One interesting thing is that Tolkien claimed that there's no relationship between 'elder' and 'eldar', despite how similar they are. This sometimes happens, though it's rare. They are completely different, unrelated words. Many people think he actually invented 'eldar', but he took this from the Bible, though its modern usage was invented by Tolkien. Most people also don't realise he invented talking trees (not just old tree spirits) in the form of Ents. He also invented mithril metal and the modern concept of elves/the elf (along with the pluralisation 'elves' instead of 'elfs'). Tolkien also did many of the drawings and scripts himself as a fairly old man, no less (including West Gate and the One Ring's). He wanted the latter in red, but it was changed to black to save money, and only changed to red years later. His lettering was so small that the printers couldn't correctly print it, so we never got his full detail until many years later (really, never). He spent many hours redoing the script and thickness until it was perfect. He was a master of about 5 different fields. He claimed to have invented the word 'Hobbit' without any thought, though I found many close words and forms (e.g. hobs). It's only logical for this to happen due to his great understanding of mythology (famous psychologist and Jungian, Jordan Peterson, called him a 'student of mythology', which is pretty much the highest praise you can get, and puts him in the same realm as Nietzsche and Jung). Tolkien did write the book on Beowulf and had the major translations as a world-class expert in Old English/Anglo-Saxon out of Oxford (though he had a difficult time teaching during WWII, naturally). Naturally, he's a very serious Roman Catholic, so there's a deep Biblical essence to the themes, though his worldbuilding is much more paganist and Icelandic. (He was very Anglo-centric, so didn't like the French and had mixed feelings about the Germans, too.) Some people think the dwarves are symbolic for the Jews, but this misunderstanding came from the fact he used Hebrew as the basis for the language, not the race. They also use generic features and stereotypes as evidence, which is ironic. Thanks to Jackson's direction, the dwarves took on a Scottish quality, and this is how I've always seen them. In the books, however, they have a more unknown/eastern quality. Likewise, Jackson's elves have an Anglo and American quality thanks to the actors, but they should be closer to Wales and Finland in terms of language and a certain graceful, almost angelic European/British culture (Jackson did capture this somewhat). Tolkien's dwarves are also much more Nordic/Anglo-Saxon in general (clothing, buildings, etc.). Alan Lee and Jackson must be praised for the dwarves in this sense. John Howe (the other major concept artist) said that 'Peter Jackson has done for dwarves what Tolkien did for elves'. This was true by LOTR and, more so, by The Hobbit. Not only did they really dig into the dwarves at every level, but they radically changed the architecture (the most notable feature is the shift from rounded, Greek pillars to polygonic pillars). This is overlooked largely due to ignorance. Note: If you look at Alan Lee's drawings from the mid-1990s back to the 1970s, they are all 'clsasical' (i.e. Nordic-like with rounded, Greek-style pillars). He was guided purely by the text and older depictions. However, his concept art by 2000 or so for the films show the new, Jacksonian pillars and designs. Lee pulled out the best thanks to Jackson, and Jackson had the wisdom to go in this new direction, fully cementing the dwarven culture in its own right. However, I have no idea how it came about that he actually went in this new direction (likely just testing ideas and Jackson liked it, and to also move away from real cultures). You'll notice this also with other cultures: very few of them are actually a single real culture. Phil (she's the co-writer and helped in other areas) in particular really didn't want certain groups to clearly just be 'Turkish' or 'Natives'. They had to fit into Middle-Earth and not look like any real group. This meant, most of the cultures -- such as the Easterlings-- are mixtures of about five different real cultures, to create a new whole. I regard Tolkien as one of the last great polymaths. An all-time genius. On the same level as Poe, I'd guess.

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​​@@MCharlesPaintingElves are liberally based on the Sidhe and the Seelie Court, but yeah, they are still different enough, especially today, that it's safe to say he invented them. On a similar note, what Tolkien is to the Western Fantasy in general, Dragon Quest is the same to Japanese fantasy. It's where the majority of tropes we consider clichés in, say, the isekai genre come from. Class systems, magic swordsman heroes, adventurer guilds, demon kings, four demon generals, boar-faced orcs... Heck, even slimes had their origins there. Sometimes, a single work or author can have absolutely massive impact on culture, to the point the tropes they created become so ubiquitous people just take them for granted without even questioning their origins.

More than once, I've loved to play a game and never done so because i don't have the time to go through the full 30 min tutorial just to try to start enjoying the game

@@danielcruz4960 30 minutes is a pretty short tutorial. I'll never forget pokemon moon where the tutorial is essentially the entire game.

There are games of both kinds released every day. If all you see are the longer more complicated ones then climb out of the box you've put yourself in and look harder. Wandersong, Carrion, Animal Well, Bloons TD 6, any game in the Vampire Survivors Genre, Any game in the Stardew Valley genre, Monster Train, Against the Storm, Soda Dungeon 2, Cult of the Lamb, Nobody Saves the World, Untitled Goose Game, Lethal Company, even an upcoming fusion of autobattler and pokemon game called Yaoling.

Also, older games you had to physically go to the store to buy, take it out of a jewel case (if you had one), put it into the CD tray, push it in, wait for it to install or load. It was a process. A ritual, if you will. It took a modicum of effort to actually start up a game and play it, which made every moment you put into the game worth it, because it was something tangible. Now with digital games it's easy to start any game you want, at any moment. Hell, play 2-3 games simultaneously if you want on your 3 monitors. The physical presence of the games are gone (for the most part) to the point that sometimes when you buy a game you don't even end up playing it ever because it's just some cloud of data stored somewhere you'll never have to look at, ever.

Exactly! Games take 100 hours to beat now, and with my busy schedule, I don't want to devote that much time into one game. It's daunting and pushes me away.

Still is

Sly 2 is one of the best games ever made.

He was always the uncrowned king. Sly was always more based than Jak or Ratchet IMO

facts

Sly series should be remade from the ground up same with jak and daxter and Ratchet and clank imo

I had that game as a kid where you grow your little creature

Niceee

I see what you did there

Nothing more nostalgic than spending some summer-break Lazy Afternoons playing some good ol' KH.

I don't see what you did there

When you walk away..

I said that years ago. They are handyman who think that they are artists. But we need gamers who will create art.

College graduates who think they know better when it comes to Gameplay, Art Style, Narrative and Morals, makes for a bad game, we have lots of examples, and no one can convince me though they look different, they're not the exact same people behind all of them on the inside.

A lot of gamedevs hate players

Too many whamen not enough men

​@@MaksimY_true

It’s simple and clean what do you mean???

Literally what I was about to type

Kingdom hearts blows.

But it was simple and clean

If you stick to KH1, it is pretty simple. From then on, it gets convoluted pretty fast.

Because Spyro games weren't great in the 6th gen

Things were never the same after Subway

i mean, he showed them on screen

Wasn't Spyro a PS1 game ?

Wrong era

There some amazing indie games. But people like to forget that about 80 percent of them are complete garbage.

A few things, she could barely pass as Asian and she's not skinny lmao. Also, most indie games are shit but like everything nowadays you have to filter out all the dirt to find a few gems.

That's the magic when the game is the top priority and not money by people with extreme passion. A small passionate team back in the day would beat even the biggest studio currently.

I think that’s a bit rude to the designers of Elden Ring. I think the way the world is designed and how it balances accessibility and difficulty using the open world, making it able to appease a wider audience without losing anything that made Souls special. There’s other things, but it’s just cool.

Really? Bare minimum? I like older games as much as anyone else, but we were not regularly getting games on the quality and scale of Elden Ring even back then.

​@@WarTalonXactually elden rings reused "bosses" and disappointing open world probably put it around an good great game level compared to what the best games of those times were

@@Jose_Doe IMO there is nothing wrong with having reused bosses in the overworld and mini dungeons; It didn't detract from my experience at all. Not sure what your expectations were but the open world in Elden Ring was very enjoyable to me.

Its still god tier. Kh2 on critcal cant be understated. Incredibly hard and flashy, its what ff16 desperately wanted to be.

Never beat him in kh1 lol. KH2 felt like a dark souls boss when I was a kid

Just played KH1. (completed like 70%) Great game but progressing the worlds without looking stuff up is a nightmare. Extremly lovable game tho.

​@@XionicAihara I'm playing Dark Souls 3 at the moment and I'm stuck on a boss and I keep having flashbacks from Sephiroth. That fight was insanely hard. I never beat him in KH1 either.

The achievement to beat Ravenholm with only the Gravity gun was a great one too probably one of my favorites of all time

@@mikehurt3290 yeah that was mint!

I don’t know if it was a mini game or an spin off but I suddenly remember Madagascar mini golf what was fun as well!

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Why would you choose a mid game as the one people would remember? Why not a classic game that people will actually remember?

​@@juliotorres3147Because TLOU 2 is a big game. Is also everything that is wrong with videogames when it comes to the actual content. (Not the monetization, Ass Creed is gonna cover that part soon)

Nah people are going to feel nostalgic regardless, it's human nature. Not talking about video games, but right now people are starting to feel nostalgic listening to Despacito. You think current video games won't have the same effect?

Gummi

@@jhondisjames2151 That's damn right Brother

Agreed

As that Nintedo guy (I think his name was Reggie, or Richie) said: "Games are meant to be fun. If it's not fun, then why bother." That quote stuck with me ever since I heard it for the first time.

Crazy to think my life went from people being nerds for playing to who tf isn't playing games these days.

Yup 100% agree it's like the soul of gaming was sucked out for corporate greed and politically driven agendas

Replay the oldies but goodies. Your love of gaming will be revilatized I promise.

The DEI and woke part is nonsense

@@balanced2482 True, they are nonsense that don't belong in video games.

But what about your "gamerscore"? 😮

@@BingTheGallant instead i have a google spreadsheet where I add entries of every game I finished. More fulfilling to fill that. Plus, my spreadsheet is universal. It's not tied to Xbox gamerscores, PlayStation trophies or steam achievements

Some games are only meant to be played once. Like “Atomic Heart”, the game is really good but once you finish it, it’s hard to play again with the same energy

@@Insanity-vv9nn yeah and I'd rather have that than an okay replayable game

@@Insanity-vv9nn that game goes into good games with terrible ending list for me, both endings are equally bad

The sequel is one of my favorite games from back in 2020, truly phenomenal.

My experience is almost identical , im also 35 too and yeah same thing, my first console was PS1 in 1998 and never looked back, i love old films too and old 1950s and 1980s stuff too and of course grew up with JP and HP, my folk’s hated me playing games BUT for sowm reason never took away from me , Bought me the every system and video games and just let me do my gaming in peace because as much as it destroyed my school career and life in general they kept me happy and content.