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Metroidvania refuses to die.. but I wish it would.

Another thing to consider is that our generation became addicted to game at a young age because of our parents. It was a means of escape from a hostile home life. Lets be real for a sec but a lot of our parents were tired of us being kids and at the same time, these gaming consoles were created. A lot of games are boring now because we dont have a life we have to escape from anymore. And we play a lot of the old ones over and over simply due to nostalgic value

3:35 I played all gba pokemon games many times. Sometimes to try a new starter pokemon. And sometimes to go to league with a different team or with different moveset. Those were good times.

So my main comment is when you talk about games where the devs care and the games you go back and play... you're naming the biggest hits. They're still remembered today for good reasons. There was tons of shovelware shit going back decades. Hell, the reason the industry almost crashed back in 1985 before the Nintendo was because too many companies were trying to make a buck shoveling out garbage games for the Atari. Nothing is new under the sun.

Definitely the year of the back log, my most recent games were Trepang and Lies of Pi

Glad to have my 360 slim working as new. I am on the path in cd collection spree. Surprisingly there some cd in marketplace in a very good condition as it was bought a month ago.

I still prefer Final Fantasy XVI & Visions of Mana moreso than garbage live service games.

I grew up in the 90's when the biggest competitors were Nintendo & SEGA. Sony came in after being backstabbed by Nintendo for the SNES-CD Add-on. I entered High school in 2001 when Xbox released in November of that year along with the GameCube. I was 20 when Assassins Creed first cameout.

Fuck live service games.

Love hate is the perfect word to describe my relationship with remakes as well. Heck its a perfect word to describe my relationship with gamers in general. I like and accept some things that would make gamers blood boil. Gamers say, do and accept some things that make my blood boil. Such is life, I guess.

New games? You mean they call those games? Rigged pay to wins?

But the newer games are fine.... Wu Kong is good new spiderman games are good. But i do miss the kind of games we had such as Deadrising 2 good arcade story games.

Yes, this. All of this totally, especially the *games that came to an end bit* @9:38 A big part of the reason of why I don't like *Tears of the Kingdom* is because it's too long. I crashed out trying to do everything, putting a 100 hours into it, only to end up dropping it in the end. It's so frustrating. I much preferred when games were 20 to 30 hours but gave you worthwhile replayable content that made you want to come back for another round. That's so much more fun than pumping 1000s of hours into a game that never ends, like GTA Online.

I was team Huffy back in the day and super jelly of anyone with a Mongoose

If I ever have a kid, I'm just gonna pretend it's 2001 and be like "Check out this new Zelda game that just came out! Twilight Princess!"

I think a lot of people are feeling this way now. I can relate. I miss physical games and not having to constantly download and juggle drive space. I recently started buying 360 games again as that was the last generation of gaming that still kinda meant something. With modern gaming, I find myself trying more indie games than AAA games. I have no interest in playing the new Cod or 2k games.

Gor me, Nintendo's the overall exception. They don't have a spotless record, but half of the success of the Switch came from its strong first-party support. There's also other third-party franchises that also have quality polish. My personal fav being Monster Hunter, there's also Doom, Eldin Ring, plus more modern IPs like AstroBot and Black Myth Wukong! There ARE games with the same level of polish as the classics, just as there were a bunch of mediocre projects back in the day. The recent balndness is more apparent because Sony and Microsoft are barely pursuing the level of quality in their first party exclusives. Save for some exceptions, AAA titles have been botched for Corporates need to print money!

Yeah man I know what you mean. Iv'e had the Steam Deck for about two years now and every time I open the carry case I here the Zelda tune play in my head when Link opens a treasure box lol. I am a retro gamer as well, I go way back to the early 80s. I still play on my Commodore 64 it loads games by using the old cassettes. I agree with everything you have said 100% Happy retro gaming my friend!

Legit Steam Deck and RG35XXSP are my go-to systems when I'm not playing something that requires my PC. I've gotten back into not only emulation, but game preservation is really important to me. Being able to emulate nearly everything on the Deck, and being able to take almost all of my favorites with me on the SP is something that I never would have thought possible.

One of my observations is older games that modern controllers aren't precise enough to handle. Sometimes this is for simple reasons of hand ergonomics, a particular input was designed around a button being near the finger, and no longer is, but beyond that, sometimes modern controllers are just too sloppy to play N64 or Gamecube games in a way that feels baffling. Even the older Xbox controller feels a lot more responsive than modern ones

I find myself missing a lot of the old game box art lately. There's a lot of character to it that's just... Missing from modern games. Part of it might have been that you knew going in that the 8-, 16-, or even 64-bit graphics tended to be fairly abstract, so the wild box art helped get your imagination working to fill in the gaps of what was really going on in the game. Modern game label art is... Well, it tends toward the 'realistic' end of the scale, and while I can appreciate that both artistically and technically - a lot of it may be only moderately photoshopped from in-engine footage, and it genuinely looks good - it just doesn't grab me the way a lot of older stuff does. Granted, there were a lot of jumbled, bizarre, and misleading messes among the old stuff - Mega Man 2 comes to mind - but when it got things right, it nailed the vibe of the game in ways most new games' box/label art just doesn't capture. I mean, just look at the box art for Gradius - that is some prime 70's-80's sci-fi artwork right there.

No exclusives, no point. "B-BUT EXCLUSIVES ARE FINANCIALLY UNFEASIBLE NOW!" Then there might as well be no consoles.

Kids nowadays are accustomed to having skins and tons of micro transactions in games 😔 we’re never getting full experiences with our purchase ever again

I don’t think it’s because older games are a comfort. I mean maybe it is. But I think the bigger issue is a lot of newer games are made to be addictive and give you constant dopamine hits to keep you coming back. While older games were made to be fun and tell good stories. I don’t think they’re the same anymore.

Elden Ring is a disappointment. It tells you this a platinum Soulsbornesekiro player. FS never should have made an open world game.

Yeah, companies used to want to make fun games, but they're only interested in making profitable games these days. I think it's also related to the fact that making a game is much more expensive these days.

We jeed to bring back couch co op

Which game were you playing in the video?

About "playing something at the right time", I'm playing Silent Hill 2 (original) for the first time after 25 years it was released

I literally bought an original Xbox and I’ve been playing the hell out of GTA San Andreas the nostalgia is crazy

Capitalism is literally incapable of producing a fun experience.

Buying a ds over a steamdeck lol cuz its more portable plus more battery life THATS IT

A game that left eternal impression on me as a teen was Okami. The story, gameplay, visuals and ambience were unique and its a shame there arent so many bold games out there today. I could replay Okami 100 times, and each time it will be a unique experience...

I don’t know if you’re aware, but you can still buy new consoles that require discs… Side note, I agree with a whole lot of what you said, though. The whole “open world” thing is getting SO damn tedious. The only exception (in my opinion) is the Insomniac Spider-Man series.

4:43 I wouldnt mind NSO if Virtual Console still existed and I could play retro games on Switch without having to have a subscription.

I personally only really like remakes that don't substantially change the story or gameplay in anyway. Give me the original game with updated visuals, bug fixes, and maybe some extra content. I much prefer remakes like Pokemon Leaf Green/Fire Red/Soul Silver/Heart Gold, Kirby's Nightmare In Dreamland, Kirby's Return To Dreamland, Spyro Trilogy, Crash Bandicoot Trilogy, Lollipop Chainsaw (despite the lack of original soundtrack), and the upcoming Croc remake to something like Final Fantasy VII, Dead Space, or the Resident Evil 2, 3, 4 remakes. Moreso , DO NOT CENSOR THE GAME! Remakes like Destroy All Humans 1 and 2, Diablo 2 Resurrected, and the Dead Rising Remake are objectively worse than the originals due to censorship. The absolute WORST remake of all time for me, though, is Warcraft 3 Reforged because it not only is a shitty remake, it also has censorship, and worst of all REPLACED the original game making it impossible to play without depatching and destroyed the online component.

just wanted to say about the whole woke/grifter mob (yeah both sides are annoying as hell, and they both complain about everything nowadays since twitter has been a thing people care about) rant, I agree but idk it used to be like that in the old days too, only difference is that now people are getting offended over other things, it used to be that everything was "satanic" or "too violent", lets end it, now it its "its too sexual, or too many black people on my games" like people will complain about anything all the time, and people have their right to not buy stuff, and that's whats cool about it, but for real games are bad today not because of those factors at all, they contribute sure, but at the end of the day, its because of greed or late stage capitalism lmao, once suits realized they can make tons of money by making the same game over and over (cough COD, cough FIFA) they just rode that wave! and that's what I was preaching since early 2010s, games don't need to be realistic, they should be fun first, if they are boring and have amazing graphics then ill pass it, if they are interesting but you are just watching cut scenes after cut scenes then I might as well watch a movie, gladly as you mention people are finally realizing that games nowadays are awful, and again not because of haters manipulating, its because of greed, its because of the just make something quick and release it, make another remake of that remake and release it, people are finally fed up with it, sadly Nintendo is basically the only one trying to be innovative to some extend but thats not enough, we need to go back to that era where EVERYONE was trying to make something cool, something fun

I also have to play an entire series from the beginning. I bought like a dragon: infinite wealth and then started playing the entire Yakuza series from the beginning just so I could start up infinite wealth and now I am a hardcore Yakuza fan!

Only 2 mins in, but I love it! I also made this year the year of defeating my backlog! I have played and finished so many games this year that I had just been sitting on for whatever reason. I had to just focus and commit and drop some of my live service multiplayer time sinks and go back to good old story/narrative driving single player or co-op experiences.

Skate 3 holds a special place in my heart till this day 🥲

I feel like people get too hung up on the anti-woke stuff. If you're looking for a root cause of the problem IMO it's just that game design has been "solved" enough that companies can produce games as consistent, reliable products. Prior to around the HD generations games were still experimental and devs were figuring out what to do on the fly and pushing new ideas simply because they were passionate about them

That segment about having to manage your hard drive space for games really hit home with me. Like getting a new game and finding out you have to delete one or two of your old ones to make room for it. Or even better a game requires an update that the space takes enough to where you have to delete a game for that as well.

Now you can do it for free.

Once a year I play SMW on GBA. It's still my favorite Mario-Game of all time. Around Christmas I also play some ither comfort games of the past. This year it will be one of the Mario & Luigi Games on NDS or GBA.

I agree with you on a lot of this but I really disagree with your take on the new God of war series. They are both solid games imo. Fun addicting gameplay, beautiful graphics, well written and voice acted, and a compelling story. Maybe the first one more than the second one but still both enjoyable.

I like to play classic games, now after this video you'll make me more grateful keep up the cool content dude ❤

I actually like plenty of remakes like RE4 and Persona 3 Reload that I wouldn't made time to play the og

Objective markers ruined games

This is a great video. I don’t ever comment on videos, but this one hit home. I exactly agree with you. And putting value on older games, you realize that just because it’s new doesn’t mean it’s more fun. Plus every game that I never got a chance to play back in the day is still new to me!