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I was 21 when The Phantom Menace and saw it opening night. That was my gotta be there moment. I even walked out of the theater thinking it was good. I'm old now

This channel is so good. The mixture of game reviews, essays about interesting game mechanics (the parrying video is top tier) and about emotional connection with games is outstanding. You talk about so many interesting topics and are delivering your thoughts in a way that make every video fun to watch. Especially these „metaphysical“ aspects of gaming are the ones I often think about myself. Not only „What makes a game fun?“, but also „Why does this game make me feel the way I feel when I play it?“ Whenever I imagined myself having a RU-vid channel, it would have this concept. Keep up your unique and inspiring work

When Atomic Heart released i loved the game so much, i was so hooked i played the whole game on 3 days at a 100%. After that i went to the internet to see what people thought and the whole conversation was so toxic. Everyone was talking about the Russian controversy and it felt really bad because the game was nowhere near of being as bad as some media and metacritic said. I had one of the best experiences because it was everything i wanted, the music, graphics, the hype, but after reading so much hate it felt weird to like it afterwards. Next time a game like that releases I'll just stick to my experience and enjoyment.

Wtf you only have 6k subs. Bro you're channel has great content. You deserve way more. Keep grinding and you'll find succes.

Playing Elden Ring at the time of its release when nobody knew shit, everyone tried to figure the game out and everyone wanted to talk about their fight against Radahn and how epic it was, especially when he just vanishes and you're like "what the fuck is happening?" and then realize you need to FUCKING RUUUUUUN, or their first encounter against Malenia and just the overall first impressions of ER's vast open world. Shit, it's one of my favorite gaming memories and it was almost half a year ago. It was truly something special and the fact that From Software games are known for having great communities that live and breathe these games and are absolutely obsessed and fascinated by them felt even better. For all its faults and initial balance issues, the game was extremely successful in bringing people together and offering something no game offered before, not even their past games. This was on a bigger scale and everyone was skeptical how FS was going to approach the open world design formula, and wouldn't you know it, Miyazaki and his team knocked it out of the park and gave all of us a fantastic game to experience and marvel at. And yeah, gaming discourse online and the various communities pertaining to gaming on the internet have become extremely toxic in the past decade, it can even ruin your enjoyment of certain titles if you spend too much and get overinvested in said conversations and the overwhelming cynicism and negativity running rampart there, and while I do my best to stay away from such noisy places and incredibly negative online personalities, it's also really nice to find people who share my passion and interest in the titles I'm invested in and to form communities that welcome others and aren't toxic cesspools filled with the absolute dregs of society, that combat the notion that internet is inherently a negative place and that want to be a place of honest, sincere discourse on the medium we all love and want to improve, be it through getting better games or changing the way we talk and see the medium.

Oooh love these kind of videos! That "one single moment" will never feel the same again. The Endgame, GoWR & ER (to name a few) hype will never be beaten for me. Also I relate so hard with your Gta V & family issue its crazy.

Really inspiring video on a topic I've not seen talked about that much. It's really nice to see your personal experiences with the art you love!

Great vid! It’s good to see someone plugging genuine personal excitement and joy for media projects for once when, as you say, so much discourse leans critical. Thank you

Good video, your channel will boom sooner or later bro!

I think you should be up there with all the famous gaming youtubers, very very very underrated, really love your content bro

Dude what a great video! I´m 34 so I have been around for many important moments regarding games and I can totally confirm that when you are witnessing some breath taking game like no other you have seen before its so unique. I was just a little kid when Metal Gear Solid released and we had seen nothing like it. being so young and knowing very little English I couldn't clearly express how blown away I was with it but I knew it was something truly special.

This was very well written and made, could have told me this was a 1 mil plus channel.

Really loved this, my friends and I got into Elden RIng late but the fact that we all started playing it at the same time and were able to share our stories and findings together made it so much more enjoyable, I don’t think I would have finished, let alone platinumed, the game otherwise.

Another good one, my dude. I think the internet has had a profound effect on the formation of those sorts of moments in time. I think I most fondly remember those "You had to be there" moments from gaming during my childhood during the pre-internet days (SNES and early PS1 era). I mean technically the internet existed, but basically nobody had it. While the internet allows for fandoms to coalesce around even the most niche things, and can help create those moments/events, it also provides a constant information space that destroys a lot of the mystery. Back in the SNES days, we were getting our game info from monthly magazines and sharing notes on our play experiences. It meant that almost every game had at least some degree of mystery and discovery around it that lends itself to those sorts of YHTBT moments. These days it's only select games that can tap into that sense of mystery and shared discovery despite the internet putting every form of information and spoilers right at your fingertips. Games like Demon's Souls, Elden Ring, and Fez managed to craft mysteries that were strong enough that they endured the internet's crowd sourced solving efforts for long enough to foster those shared experiences, but at least in some cases I feel like they had to be so opaque to do so that the average player wouldn't be able to unlock their value without those communal efforts on the internet. And I totally get where you're coming from when it comes to Skyrim. I'm pretty sure you can guess the remedy I'd propose for it though. Play it in VR. I bounced off the flat version multiple times before I tried it on PSVR and fell in love. I put almost 400 hours into it and still haven't beaten the main campaign. I'd actually recommend playing it in PC VR though (hook your Quest 2 up to your PC), as there are a ton of mods that could improve the experience significantly. But yeah, the massive scope of the world and the exploration all hit very different in VR, and for me it made it much more compelling. Oh and I'd recommend playing as a stealth archer, as the bow mechanics are far more engaging with VR controllers than any other play style (though magic is alright). Rolling through a bandit camp at night like a one man medieval Seal Team 6, headshotting fools before they can wake their allies... it's awesome. Keep up the great work, man!

Elden Ring was the first From Soft souls game I played when it first came out. I literally bought a PS5 and LG C1 for ER and it completely lived up to the hype for me.

I remember those awesome moments full of spectacle and build up that really made me glad to be there. Andrew Garfield spiderman saving Tom Holland Spiderman's MJ and the crowd cheering in the cinema is one of those moments.

The best videogame experience i’ve ever had was playing Beyond good and evil for ps2 at 8 years old, the gameplay and the story were and still remain the best for me, and also the soundtrack too was brilliant!

13:37 I subbed just because of this transition holy shit

Asad back at it again with another banger. I love every video this guy puts out they all feel like genuine and personal content from a dude that you could get along with nerding out about video games with.

I think two big gaming moments more me were both Skyrim and Fallout 4. Skyrim because I did not even know the game was coming until the release month, I was 11 so I did not go onto the Internet much back then. Heard people talk about the game but did not know it was related to oblivion which I loved. Also Fallout 4s hype was pretty big aswell as there was so much speculation around it.

Bro, I didn't just buy TotK. I bought the fucking limited edition TotK switch with both BotW and the sequal, having never played a Zelda game before, because of the TRAILER MUSIC. I can relate to every sentiment shared in this video, right down to all the niche childhood stories. You're the brown me, my guy.

You’ve quickly grown to be one of my favorite creators I watch, the way you’re able to blend your personality into editing and sharing your experiences while relating to topics on the medium is really amazing and something I’m trying to learn and apply to my own content. Can’t wait to see what you have cooking in the future, thanks for making these videos, and keep grinding💯

found your channel today and love it man really did bring me back to so many moments in my life haha

1:20 - Sometimes I feel like a pedantic prick for expressing these same thoughts but in reality its because I miss the whimsical nature of discussion before the internet became widespread. 2:17 - For this reason I have found a way to just not really care about most opinions on the internet and just think for myself more 3:45 - Looking for better or worse things always leads me to a more negative outlook on a lot of things and for me just ends up being a topic of discussion that goes nowhere (Majora's Mask vs OOT or Fallout 3 vs New Vegas are some that come to mind) I just like both for different reasons. 5:13 - It does not matter if the world is holding their breath for it as long as I or those close to me are excited that is enough to treat it as if the world is waiting for it. 5:24 - Just a small personal note on how god dang amazing that sounds I only wish some of my siblings enjoyed the things I do with at least a small fraction of the passion I have 7:24 - As someone who has recently played games such as Silent hill and Deus Ex I must say while I do wonder what it was like during its release I find myself still enjoying the hell out of games that saw their hurrah years and or decades prior to me playing them, sometimes it feels even better as no one but the most niche communities talk about it making it easy to enjoy them for myself. 12:05 - Feel this on a grand scale my dude having such passion for something but no one really to express it with in detail. 13:00 - I was wondering if you were gonna mention these considering I genuinely enjoy those and while being in an experience when everyone is having fun is great having everyone tell you why you should not like something feels just as bad Amazing Video you put a lot of what I feel into games and media so much so I felt the need to write this long as comment for the video again I guess I am just throwing my opinions into the void.

Bro this is such a great video man. U underrated af just keep making videos and I'm sure you'll make it big 👍

pristine video as always !

i really like your channel ♡

Good work on this one. I agree with the review mindset but nowadays I'm so busy I wanna make sure the game is good ya know? But because I investigate like Batman I usually find the moment to fall flat next to my expectations.

I actually got allot of excitement from watching the big trash fires like cyberpunk and recently with redfall and jedi survivor I feel they have their own way of bringing entertainment. Kinda like watching the room and enjoying that movie

I feel like I was there for a lot of big moments like that, but also kinda missed the wave. And it's not just for the most recent things like Elden Ring or TotK when I mostly don't care about it being a big deal, but even when I was younger and way more hypeable, it never really was that big of a deal. At most it was me and a couple friends being excited about a specific game. There was stuff where everyone was into something like Pokemon or GTA but it was more a long term thing in the background than a big moment in time. Like yeah I played Halo 3 very late online with a friend before some exams once, but Halo 3 itself wasn't really a big deal for us 😆 And somehow when I was around people who were into Smash (esp university, everyone played it), it was never aligned with the release of a game

Bro was down bad whilst playing UC4 multiplayer

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I feel the GTA V ban bro i only played it last year 😐

Elden ring is the greatest game of this generation better than the last of us GOW2018 and ragnarok

Sounds like a you problem and an inability to recognize negatives because you are afraid to liking it less and insecure about what you enjoy.

Stop thinking like an NPC

Lovely topic for a video. None of the stuff you mentioned impacted me (I'm a little old for most of it) but I totally know what you mean. When the Matrix came out it was unreal. The hype hadn't reached me but I saw it the first week it came out and I had to mop my brains off the floor. It was all anyone talked about for months. Sixth Sense was another one. No one saw it coming and it swallowed public discourse. This was, of course, pre-social media so it was very different then. These days hype feels very artificial and I'm unsurprised by a lot of the pop culture stuff that comes out today and that's the feeling I long for again: A leftfield hit that no one saw coming. Tastes change but we all love being part of a collective "moment". For what it's worth, I've started not bothering with stuff until a year later and it's a good way of beating hype. It fades quickly after release which means you can judge a thing better on its own terms, but if you want to ride that wave: all power to you. It's great to see people enthusiastic about communal things. Very wholesome. 10/10. Great video.