Why I'm Going Back to Retro Games in 2024 | 10 Reasons! 

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When video games actually played like video games instead of being a digital salesman constantly trying to sell you something...

Glad I’m not the only one that misses the old gaming industry. Physical copies of games and everything. 100% agree

Reason 1, they don’t ask for my credit card or have a binding arbitration agreement before I even play

Most video games today feel like jobs. Most old games quickly put you at ease and don’t let go.

Those of us being born in late 80s or early 90s like myself 89 have an extra reason to be grateful. Perfect age for best gaming era.

Unlockables really ARE dearly missed. I'm so glad we have 20+ years worth of 3d games with cool vibes & unlockables. I'd like to think that my backlog will keep me busy until I'm old & decrepit.

Don’t forget games didn’t take 10 hours to update. Just turn on the ps2 and play battlefront without waiting for a update

They're also finished products. Classic games like budokai and Ultimate spider-man made me glad to grow up during the ps2.

This is exactly why I still play my PS3 and recently went back to playing PS2, OG Xbox, and GameCube and been having way more fun playing those then my PS5 lately, I miss how simple and fun gaming used to be, no microtransactions, no always online/ online requirement, no live service, no dlc thats actually part of the base game locked behind a pay wall, no day one patches/ games released incomplete, just complete games all on the disk, no installs just pop in and play, simpler times, with games that were way more fun and had way more replay value than whats out now....Now (with the exception of nintendo) the modern consoles feel too much like PCs, exclusives are almost nonexistent, and too many games now feel more like a chore than actually being fun to play, this is exactly why consoles before the 8th gen will never die

Nothing better than an old dude just chilling and talking about gaming with rock music in the background.

I still have my old GameCube from 2011. Old neighbors was moving I helped them move and the lady gave me a GameCube with some rare games for free. Still have it to this day.

Agreed, that pick-up-and-play-ability is so good in old games. And not only is it the simplicity, but they drew you back in, you WANTED to play them repeatedly. And time flied, 2 hours felt like 20mins because you were having a blast. And I think that added to that approachability, compacting the experience into something that doesn't feel heavy or riddled with barriers to fun. Whereas now you get told you have to "invest", "immerse yourself" and "work on your attention span" just to experience unskippable cutscenes, scripted sequences and more that does everything to delay or remove fun/gameplay away from you. Add to that the trend of depressing storylines trying to lecture morals to you like it's school all over again. It's the opposite of drawing you in and entertaining you - you feel more like you're forcing yourself to wade through a draining experience.

I love oldschool games way more than modern games. I grew up in the 90's with Snes, sega, ps1, N64. Started going back to them along with a lot of indie games 👌

I've started to play my ps 3 again. I know it's not as retro as ps2 but it's still games on a disc with a minor update. Once you update the game it's playable offline. Excellent video.

Now starting my 30s i realize that the only time i buy a new game its just a hd or remake of a retro game

Emulating with a high-end crt filter is pretty awesome. Especially if the game has pre-rendered background, makes the 3d models and 2d textures blend together as intended. It's crazy how much better games from this era looked when played on the expected hardware.😊

I've realized that despite growing up during the Gameboy and PS era, there are so many games I missed to due lack of availability and me being a kid at the time. Why on earth am I spending hefty amount on a modern game, when I can just go through the old ones ? Its like we are brainwashed to think newer = better.

Im slowly going back to retro. Some retro games on my ps5. But since i modded my vita & finally figured out the roms thing, i been playing nes, snes & genesis games. No logging in, no wifi, just turn on and play. Straight old school.

it's why i ditched doling out cash for a big pc upgrade. my used 1060 3gb fried, and instead of a 40 series I bought a new 3050 4gb msi laptop for 600 bucks. Very rarely am I excited for new games for the list of reasons you provided, and even if I am there are still a lot of potential setbacks with promising titles. I'm mostly emulating or playing stuff between 1995-2007.

Excellent video and excellent points! The fact that most of the time now games are sold to us basically incomplete is a crime and very disappointing.

I’ve completely abandoned modern systems at the moment. Don’t even own a series console or ps5 I’m currently playing my original Xbox picking up games I missed growing up.

I'm like 8 years ahead of you on that. Sure I've played a few recent games but not many. Good video to listen to while working, keep up the great content mate

Yeah I've been downloading a bunch of repacks from the end of the PS3/360 era. Like right now I'm playing through Sniper Elite 3! Also playing through the Need for Speed games! I agree with the comments, as long as repairmen will exist, and gaming nerds like us do that care enough about the systems to learn simple tuneups and proper care, gaming before the 8th generation will live on forever! Hell, I absolutely adore my 3DS still to this day! When I bring it out it's a really good conversation starter! Everyone has memories with those 😊

Having more fun on PS2 than playing modern titles on my fully decked out gaming PC

I also find myself going more and more back to older games. Playing through the 2021 Quake remaster right now, along with Vampire Savior. Much better to go back to old classics than to waste money only to be disappointed again.

Respect bro from South Africa....being a 90s kid...these days I find myself only playing mostly older games these days too. Become disillusioned with new games and their trends that you all mentioned as issues with modern gaming

PS5 is my last modern console. I won't go with the times anymore when it comes to videogames. I will beat my back log first.

Retro games are made complete out of the box with no 20GB update patch to worry about 🎮

So many people hear the word Retro and immediately think of Atari, Nintendo, Sega, ETC but what they may not realize is that Wii, PS3, and 360 are now considered retro as well. So yeah there’s a MASSIVE library of games to go back to or play for the first time.

Original Xbox, PS2, 360, and PS3 is all I need

Honestly if I didn’t plug my ps3 back in (in 2021) and set up some emulators I most likely would’ve stopped gaming as a whole. Getting back into the ps2/xbox & ps3/360 era games really reminded me what gaming is suppose to be. It’s nice knowing there’s other out there still loving these great consoles and not letting themselves be trapped into the “oh these graphics suck so game must be bad” mindset

Same here bought a steam deck and emulated all my classic games it’s much refreshing than seeing loot boxes and micro transactions

I'm playing all retro games my favorites on my modded ps3 and I have been having having so much fun

The reason I decided to go back to retro gaming and focus on cartridge games is because owning physical media now makes no sense. Like you said, you only own a fraction of the game and will have to download the rest. I rather have a self-contained experience that I can keep indefinitely. I don't have much faith in the games I own for my PS5. PC is a different beast because of the communities that would maintain a project long after it's gone, but if someone says "do you own Decapatack or Golden Axe" I can say wholeheartedly "YES"

Nice video, I also prefer playing older video games, and not even out of nostalgia; I like discovering older games that I missed out on. The only reason I bought a Xbox Series X was due to Microsoft bringing back a fair amount of their legacy titles with their backwards compatible program. Also as for the question that you posed about the video games being showcased in the video are: Avatar The Last Air Bender, Burnout 3 Takedown, Medal of Honor Frontline, Mortal Kombat Deception, Micro Machines (2002), Space Invaders Anniversary, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, and Wild Wild Racing.

all I play is 90's early 2000's... and indie titles inspired by them. Deadly Alliance is awesome

Totally agree...I miss buying a game for $60 and you got the game. Everything now is "Pay this amount to get this thing" it takes the skill out of getting rewards and also bragging rights. I get some options to buy, especially as a middle-aged gamer and being low on grind-time.

One thing is it was litterally impossible for one retro system to look and sound the same as the other. Ports of the same games were completely different. Sega Genesis had its own look and sound as well as SNES. The PS2 was the last system that had it's own style and look.

I have stopped keeping up with new releases for a long time now. Old games are often very good, cheap, nicer to look at (not because of graphics but design) and simpler to get into.

I'm really glad Ratchet and clank is still going , there's been a Ratchet and clank game on every Playstation console since the debut on the PS2

I love playing older games from my childhood! Mostly from N64!

You were then paying for what you were getting and now you get what you pay for.

I've been playing retro games more and more and more since about 2021 or so. And honestly, after so many years feeling like I didn't "get" retrogamers, now I do. I still don't go back to the NES era and stuff, I really can't stomach those super old games. But SNES/Genesis onwards, almost anything goes. I grew up on the early days of PC citybuilders/RTS and the PS2 golden days. And I've went through a process of playing games from a few years back, to 10 years back, to 12, 15, 20 and more... Nowadays I literally can't stop playing DOOM and Quake. Games I don't have nostalgia for because I missed them growing up. Retrogaming has been a gate into discovering cool games I never knew existed, and experiencing great gameplay and music and stories. From the arcades in the 90s to the arena shooters of the early 2000s, dozens of racing games and more. All the while we're all done and tired with the modern landscape of gaming, not because the games suck (some of them do) but because of the industry's constant push for greed and stealing your time and manipulating you. So yeah, retrogaming is great. Plus, if you're a broke gamer with a weaker computer, you can play hundreds of amazing games for free with emulators and abandonware PC games. Or just buy old games on sales on GoG and Steam, they go as cheap as $1-5 sometimes. What I'm trying to say is, even if the gaming industry exploded toomorrow and I lost access to the Internet, I still have enough games on me that I will literally never finish playing. 30 years of rich history at my fingertips.

Most retro games doesn’t take itself too serious. Today games feel like simulators of real life events.

I was born in 2002 and for the last few years ive basically played nothing but games from 2005-2013/ish. That entire gen is just perfect to me. So many classics from the 360 and ps3.

The thing is before everyone started releasing broken, unfinished games there was a time when we still had the capability to update via the internet while also still getting working complete games. We used to just have DLC or small patches that in the past would've required new copies of the game to be printed. Standards were still in place but over the years the state a game can be released in has just kept getting worse.

I completely understand, I have a great retro collection on my PS4 pro. I sit back and throw my old school playlist on Spotify and just jam to my retro games. I honestly have no desire to buy a current gen console because I'm kind of burnt out with cinematic gaming.

I absolutely LOVED this video. I can't tell you how much every point you made resonated with me. Thanks for making this!

There are a lot of reasons to go back to retro games! I grew up playing the Nintendo 64 and I have a lot of memories of playing games with my family. This was a great video! I can’t wait to see more! 🥰

Been playing since the NES and have always been a modern and retro gamer but after this gen I'm done with modern gaming and going fully retro. Already for over a year I've mostly been a retro gamer.

As someone who's experienced atari in diapers at 3 up to ps 4pro cross gen i gotta say ps1,2 n 3 n snes hold dear in my heart n i still play all my ps1,2 n 3 games to this day not just my ps4 . been more on my ps lately then ps4. LIKED N SUBBED

I really liked what you did here! You're honest and your content is good! You got yourself a follower, my friend! Please keep up the good work! PS: I'm a huge fan of Burnout 3.

Nostalgia in a video. Nothing more.

The big thing for me lately has been the RPG-ification of games, despite loving RPGs even growing up. I don't need or want every game to have stats on weapons & xp to earn & unlock new abilities. Yes it's fun to have bits of that added into some games, but now games are having those mechanics added to them as requirements vs ways to differentiate. Also free to play is killing games that would otherwise be great fun experiences. I don't have anything against a game being free, but when they are they tend to have a bigger grind than if they weren't. Bring back the 10-15 hour action packed adventure, especially with exclusives taking 5-7 years to make a 30-50 hour game. I know it's not exact math, but we could easily get a trilogy of games that allow iteration & tell a more expansive story. I'd even have been happy with Last of Us 2 being spilt up into 2 games with 1 being released earlier & a second made a PS5 exclusive. The story could've even been expanded, plus we would've gotten to play the first part earlier.

The ps2 Is by far the best system ever made tons of fun games too choose from Im sooooo satisfied with my ps2 for years too come Its just absolutely pure fun 😊 happy 😅

There's just something "honest" about old games. Games these days feel like cash grabs.

I'm 41 now. I have gamed since the 8 bit systems. I missed the 360/PS3 era because I was too busy being a young adult. I caught the very end of it, after settling down. I have recently purchased a £20, 360 and wow, what a catalogue of games that still stand up. I have all the current gen systems, I can say without doubt, this is the worst generation I have lived through. Of course there has been a few decent games, but broke arse at launch and filled with preachy messages just doesn't appeal to my need for escapism for a couple of hours week.

last few years i'm mostly playing 80s and 90s arcade games and i'll probably play that till i'm 100 :) never gets old

The great thing is theres no shortage of retro games.

I’ve actually went back to retro games, I use the Odin 2 and the steam deck oled . I just have a lot more fun with the older games.

I've honestly been doing this for the past year. Especially since alot of newer games are no longer being printed physically. I just miss when you got a full game, you had a completed product. Even as recent as the Ps3 era, they still had games on the disc, and most of the time they were complete and didn't need an upgrade. Infamous comes to mind, amazing games. I think the only games in present day that give off the feeling of a completed game from the Retro era are indie games.

solid reasons... One reason that you missed sir is... YOU OWN that DARN THING that you bought. Imagine this - you bought the CD, you have the game with content, characters, modes etc. as you mention. And you have to pay for it how much? Not sure about the price, what it was, talking about PS2 era, $50 per new game? As you mention Tekken: Tekken Tag had a 20 characters at start, 14 characters to unlock, every character had a movie to unlock, many characters had additional custom to unlock, there were modes to unlock, and usually you were playing the game for hours to unlock it (as much things you have covered in the video) Right now you are paying the same price, if not even more than that, you are receiving less content (characters, modes etc), more bugs (because patches/updates/fixes) and the company is ABLE TO TAKE IT AWAY FROM YOU, if they will decide to do so, because of something.

I play newer titles and they're pretty fun, I just don't bother with buying many of them due to the fact the production cost of making games has gone up alot, along with games being more expensive, predatory micro transactions, etc. I enjoy my backlog of games I currently have for my older consoles, though also being a dude in his mid 20's who is getting his life in order, I don't have much time either.

Yes, I had fun with Ratchet & Clank RiT PS5 & I platinum it. However, I challenge you to go back and play Ratchet & Clank Up Your Arsenal. I'm surprised R&CUYA was not mentioned, because it defends half your points. I got my money's worth with that game and I didn't connect it online once.

I bought I rog ally just so I can just cleaning up my back catalog in a convenient/new way. Man I got some virtue prince glasses and play 6th/7th gen having more fun then I had in a while with traditional gaming. Modern games just seem to suck me dry I can’t do it anymore

Games should be complete at launch without stuff you have to pay for. Retro gaming is superior.

unfinished business, for revenge , for nostalga, for fun . like our exes

I own the big 3 systems. After the newness wore off, I bought an upscaler for my ps2 and went back to that. Like you, the updates, day one patches etc... I'm over it.

I love retro games!

Reason 1: no segments where you hold forward at walk speed and listen to exposition dumping waiting for gameplay to start again

Retro games have a clue in their name - games. Modern games are now an investment of time and don't 'feel' like games anymore, which a lot of working adults also don't have time to install or play, so retro games are much more likely to be accessible quickly and easily for a quick 10-20 minute blast, then turn off and do something else. I also prefer to own something physical too. Modern games are often too complex and require much more expensive PC's to play them effectively and suck up a lot of your leisure time if you are an adult with family commitments or other hobbies.

12:40 I remember playing Speed Punks (also called Speed Freaks in some countries) as a kid. This was a Playstation exclusive.

22:09 I think that's a little bit overblown. Don't get me wrong I agree with the concern going forward (it's definitely going to get more and more like that...) but _most_ games currently, particularly PS4 and even PS5 titles, do have a fully playable version on the actual disc with no further download required. Series X titles on the otherhand seems to be the worst for the disc being little more than a key. That said again I agree it's definitely a worsening trend and it's why I've also got into a bit of game preservation via disc collecting and (for the 7th gen especially) emulation. The closer we get to the 360 store closing especially the more in demand certain discs are going to become.

I never quit retro video games, I knew!

My PS4 is covered in dust. Enough said…. What I play on my Legion Go and Asus Laptop? Anything retro!! NES, SNES, GENESIS, PS1,2,3 , Dreamcast, Gamecube, Wii, 360!!! Awesomeness… I can wait to get back to the states and set up a game room again!

The problem is games are too long now, I love lots of JRPG's and games like that, and back in the PS2 generation and prior maybe the longest games you would come across was around 20-40 hours even for the longer JRPG's, but now it's like 80-120 hours plus for them, and yes I do love that because you do get your money's worth, but when you have a family, kids you're not going to be able to keep up with games, and starts feeling like a job, not a hobby. I loved Guitar Hero 1-3, I was in middle school when it came out, and we were talking about it daily didn't matter if you were girl or boy, it really brought everyone together for the ones that played it, at least in my town. The problem is that it was Activision that released it, like if it was directly Nintendo or Playstation, and were going going to release it maybe like once a generation, I think it would still be a hit today. I think they just over saturated the game. It's kind of the same with DDR. I also love DDR, and just got back into it. That was really popular, but looking back at how easy the early 00's DDR games were, compared to the newer/stepmania or Arcade versions today are, you're basically going to be sweating within ten minutes are so, so maybe DDR is too active for most people. Even though it's super niche now. I miss exclusives, in a way it's nice since you really only need a Switch, PS, and PC. I'll always choose PS just because there are still JRPG's/anime that don't come to Xbox. I did love Hogwarts Legacy, it's probably my favorite game in a while. I'm envious of guys, because they always had group hangouts at each others houses, and just gamed all night, and were gluttonous eating pizza, chips and drinks, my brother did that like weekly. Yes I had a couple friends that were geeky and into the things I were into, but girls just really didn't go that deep into it. I would hang out with my brother, while his friends were over, and I would get a slice of pizza, but t wasn't often that I joined. My husband and I are 30, and he still has 3-5 friends that still come over or he goes over to their house, and plays games, watches anime or whatever. If they are over here yes, I'll join them for a bit, but as always I am just there, not actually part of the group. I miss being able to just put the game and able to play as well, I tried to put in a game the other day, it was a PS4 game, that I played on PS4, but wanted to play PS5 DLC for it, and so I had to update it, being a mother I had limited time that night to do it, so I put it in then had to updated it to PS5 version, that was about an hour in half, then I had to updated it to the newest version, so that was another 30 minutes. Needless to say, I wasn't able to game that night. I haven't done much emulation, but mainly did it for SNES, and a few PSP games. It takes a lot of memory, so I have to figure it out more. I honestly just miss 99-12. It just felt like a different time, games, anime, pop culture were just better and more magical feeling.

Retro games are great! Grew up playing Super Mario on an N64 emulator on a windows XP PC and you can bet as soon as I get myself a PC again I'll be getting all the old games I used to have! Icy Tower, Plants vs Zombies, Warlords Battlecry II, could spend hours on playing through the full game and unlocking everything, and didn't need internet or anything to update the games cos it was all in the completed version. Great discussion vid! Looking forward to see what comes next!

I've only just got around to finally watching this video. Not as fluid as your newer ones, but still good to listen to. I actually watched this on a brand new device- I'm sure you can guess which one! The frustrating thing, though, is that I have to download everything. My internet is also fairly slow, so a bigger game takes 10+ hours to download! I've actually not played anything on it yet, it's mostly just been sitting around downloading stuff, haha!

Great song in the background

As someone also going back to retro games in my spare time, I do disagree with exclusives. I've always hated exclusives because I don't want to have an entire console for the 3 or 4 exclusives on it that I'm interested in. If everything comes to PC then I don't have to worry about having a specific console or emulator for a couple of games. I don't have (or want) current Gen consoles so having them on PC is a good way for those companies to get a sale from me.

Man, seeing old school Burnout has me so nostalgic.

a big problem is that many gamers aren't asking for anything new and different, they just want remakes of every decent game ever made. and personally for me these "remakes" almost always lose what made them so great to begin with, they just make them to be more modern and "accessible".

I hope you read this comment because there is a lot to cover. The problem with videos like yours is that they come from a perspective of a person who clearly focuses on AAA games, many of the problems you listed have been mitigated and fixed by indie developers. Sure their games are not as popular but they're there and you should give them a chance. You talk about platformers with quirky main characters not being a thing anymore and then immediately go for Ratchet and Clank as an example or Crash 4 as the only one remaining of the genre, the two most mainstream ones. But indie platformers keep coming out, they don't come out in troves and they're not all spectacular but many are fantastic games. Let's look at a few modern platfoemers, again they're not as plentiful and definitely not as popular but they are here and are awesome. - Psychonauts 2 - Penny's Big Breakaway - Hell Pie - A Hat in Time - Song of Nunu - Koa and the Five Pirates of Mara - New Super Lucky's Tale And a few others I can't recall the names of at the moment, combine those with the AAA 3D Platformers like Spyro, SackBoy, Astro's Playroom, Mario Odyssey and you have a decent number of 3D Platformers to play and enjoy. Not as many as back in the day but they're here. 2D Action games and platformers are also here, whether fully 2d in pixel art form or 2d gameplay with 3d models, they're not as many but they exist and are a ton of fun too. Now you say you grew up on PS1 and up, I assume you're younger than me but I grew up on LCD and VFD handhelds and tabletops, Arcades, home computers, 8 and 16bit consoles, PS1 was 8th grade and up for me :) So even for old timers like me indie developers have us covered. There is everything, indie gaming and AA smaller budget games is where gaming is at and it is as good as ever. And don't even get me started on pick up and play short and dynamic experiences like back in the day through the PICO-8 and PlayDate platforms, you can now even buy a physical console the RGB30 which is PERFECT for the PICO-8, it's basically like an official PICO-8 console with native support for the platform. I play both modern and retro games equally I completely understand what you are saying and agree with it, but only when it comes to AAA titles Gaming is so much more than the boring and often deprived of creativity AAA space.

Good times. And it’s scary how really younger generations don’t even have a perception that it used to be like this. They are growing with mobile casino machines (I refuse to call them games) in their pockets, so they are getting manipulated into growing up accepting gambling and forced addiction as something completely normal.

I also find old games satisfying and try to interest my son in them. Since I'm on the PC side this is very easy. Most of the games were available on DOS and early Windows so it's trivial to get them playable on a "modern" (10 year old) system. GOG sells them for a buck or so per game (patched to run on Win-10 or through their DOSbox) and others can be downloaded from the web. If push comes to shove there are embedded html versions on retro sites for thousands of them. The bad thing is that my son likes playing Doom to much after I introduced him to this masterpiece.

Another problem I have with modern gaming is that games don't feel like they are made with the idea to have fun. It feels like they are enginered to make the most amount of money possible. I highly agree with the gimicks section. Game gernres are just lost to time because companies just wanna print money. I miss lightgun games or gallery/railgun shooters where the screen moves on it's own and you just have to aim. I did play House of the Dead remake and I loved it. But using the analogstick + gyro is not the same as having an actual guncontroller. This is why I love the Wii so much. Soooooo many incredible lightgun games. Remember when console manufacturers would have quality control? When they looked over a game and said something like. This is not good enough we can't let you release this or with this much content we can only allow the game to be released digital at a maximum pricepoint of 5€. Developers have to much freedom nowadays. Stuff like NOS (new operating system) or Clock simulator 315 on Switch has no right to be released. Whenever I browse games during a sale I get interupted by these worthless trashgames that I can't ignore. Or a game like Enchanted Portals releasing at 20€. The same price as it's "inspiration" Cuphead but with not even 10% of the content. There needs to be more regulation in this regard.

Got a good PC that can run emulators like Duckstation and Dolphin? Or a console like an Xbox Classic for games that aren't backwards compatible? Then seize the chance and balance out the middle market games and rare AAA successes of the modern day with Retro Videogames! [ditto for oldschool PC games, too]

Man unlockables in games was great, epically for fighting games back in the day where you had to unlock characters, makes you feel like you're really progressing. Gimmicks I love from the ps2 days was the mini games you'd get the odd time for loading screens. Light gun games will never feel as good as when they where on crt tvs and felt like an arcade experience! I'm always sad that nintendo games never come down in price, it's painful on the wallet. Local coop has to come back, it's sad it's faded away so much, I always pick up games that allow local multiplayer. Yeah, having to wait for games to download and update is so sad, only got fast Internet recently which has helped, but still takes so much time to get around to playing a game.

Brother, how could you not mention the most important things? 1. The old games didn't treat you like an idiot. In modern games you are always put in the linear alley and you are passing from the cutscene to cutscene, and the game doesn't even give you a chance of getting lost. Riddles are much more simplified. 2. Dying in the modern games or taking damage has essentially no impact, since automatic checkpoints are every 15 seconds (Tomb Raider Anniversary started it), and in most games you just wait it out behind the cover for health to come back. You don't feel the need to be focused and to perform well. 3. Newer graphics looks more like oily graphics, often carroonish graphics, rather than dark or realistic (Look Countrer Strike 1.6 -> Counter Strike 2)

As someone who grew up with the 360 era I still love retro games more even back in 2013 I saw the change how every game felt the same and I went back to the 80s love it even the bad games from the 80s are better than modern games.

You don't have to play emulation to get good high quality ps2 gameplay. You can pick up a crt TV and play it the way it was intended. Or play on ps3 it boost the graphics slightly but still looks decent

games didn't feel manufactured in those days, and the internet didn't draw any interest in terms of what the game should look like. We'll never get that back again, so we enjoy the old games. People were waiting on the next great thing back then, better graphics, and technology which was ever evolving.

Were you using an old version of PCSX2? The black sky in Burnout 3 is already fixed on the latest nightly builds. Also, don't give your voice reverb or add bass, make sure your voice is clear and get a pop filter, try to lower the volume of your background music. If you have any sort of frame resample in your video editor, disable it.

Seriously, I have had more fun playing older titles for the first time than I have had playing most new releases as of late. And better yet, thanks to places such as GOG, a lot of the games are dirt cheap.

I like just jumping on a game and being able to play instead of having to go through an extensive learning curve to be able to play. These training requirements also put me off going back to a game later if i haven't played it in a while

Oh, I don't see anybody in the comments trying to identify the games you had in the background. I know a goodly few of them, but I am curious as to what that 3D Space Invaders one is called and which platform it can be played on. If anybody could point me in the right direction that would be grand!

Games of today just don’t hit like the older games RU-vid killed competitive gaming And it’s not a lot of games like back in the day Thankfully we can play are old great games

Sure there's a lot of live service crap. The fact is, one can just laugh and ignore that. Yesterday's AAA games where created by small teams. Today's small teams create Indy games. There's loads and loads of those. Back in the PS2 era I had about 2 dozen PS2 games, now I've got 400 on Steam and about 300 free on the epic store. The amount of great games from the last decade that play great on a Steam deck is astonishing.

Seem like someone I could converse with for hours. Really great video with lots of insight I find. I will say though. Bring the volume of your voice up just a touch. Stuck between trying to listen to a good voice and some good music. Keep it up!