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I could definitely lose my religion in final fantasy! With each new video you come out with Im always blown away about the way you make them always feel like I’m right there in the game, or at the developer team’s office meetings bringing the game together. Also take me back to this era.

Still going through the video but I have some comments on part 1: 1. A game being $50 back then but $90 by today’s standard is irrelevant to how much it costs today. You’re forgetting that a) people have become accustomed to 50-60 dollars for decades so it’s understandable they’d be jarred by a $10 increase, especially when we all know that even the $60 games are not worth $60. b) inflation and prices have gone up but salaries don’r reflect the prices going up. People’s purchasing power is weaker than back then. So in a way $70 today feels more than $50 back then. 2. The movie theater thing is a bad example. You’re not paying that much to watch a movie. You’re paying that much for the experience. It’s a night out. It’s like saying you can go to a theme park or buy a video game that you own forever. Yeah it’s cheaper to buy a game but I’m not there JUST to watch a movie. I’m there for the experience to watch it with friends in a crowded theater, otherwise I’d have waited for a blu-ray or a subscription service to carry it.

Still going through the video but I have some comments on part 1: 1. A game being $50 back then but $90 by today’s standard is irrelevant to how much it costs today. You’re forgetting that a) people have become accustomed to 50-60 dollars for decades so it’s understandable they’d be jarred by a $10 increase, especially when we all know that even the $60 games are not worth $60. b) inflation and prices have gone up but salaries don’r reflect the prices going up. People’s purchasing power is weaker than back then. So in a way $70 today feels more than $50 back then. 2. The movie theater thing is a bad example. You’re not paying that much to watch a movie. You’re paying that much for the experience. It’s a night out. It’s like saying you can go to a theme park or buy a video game that you own forever. Yeah it’s cheaper to buy a game but I’m not there JUST to watch a movie. I’m there for the experience to watch it with friends in a crowded theater, otherwise I’d have waited for a blu-ray or a subscription service to carry it.

chain of memories was fine because you could play 1 and 2 and still get the idea of what happened in the DS game without playing it. there are 6 games between 2 and 3, so you don’t go into 3 as seamlessly as you did with 2

I 100% agree with you, it was my favorite licence before botw now i don’t think i will be buying the new games anymore

I refuse to pay more than $25 for a game. There are so many games I've gotten for free from Prime, Epic, Steam, Gog.. that I can wait years

I’m subscribing because this video was so good

I love when I find people that appreciate Pokémon music as much as I do. I get teary-eyed when I hear them.

at least fans have made awesome ports of old Zelda with Ship of Harkinian 1 and 2.

Another banger by the man, the myth, the legend

Wish I could share your feelings regarding the Switch. For me, aside from Animal Crossing NH, it was kind of a disappointment. So many times I got temped because <name of game> was being ported to Switch, and so many times I got absolutely disappointed. I'm not sure which ports you played that were stable, or maybe it is because I have the Switch Lite, but most ports ran like crap for me. The idea of Borderlands 3 on a handheld for example was insane. I craved for it. And then when it finally released, it sucked. It is literally unplayable. Not only because of the freezes and frame drops, but also because.. well frankly the Switch thumbsticks suck. At least voor FPS games they do. It felt like a world full of promises that eventually turned out to be yet another Nintendo console that runs Nintendo games well (Pokemon aside..) but runs everything else like crap. What Animal Crossing NH did for me and my family is something I have never experienced before. It brought me and my older sister closer together again and eventually included half the family. That was pure magic. But that was also the only experience on Switch that I fully remember in a good way. Also Nintendo still not having their own achievement system by now is just.. I have no words for it. They even implement it in some of their own games but then refuse to make it a console wide thing. Finally, given the fact that the Switch 2 hardware was already outdated at the time of it's leak in 2021, and it still hasn't been released in 2024, just makes me feel like it will be the same shit on a different console again. Yes, Nintendo games will run great.. but the majority of other, more graphically intens games won't. To think that my current ROG Ally is already more powerful than a console that has not been released yet is just frustrating. And even the Ally is by far not strong enough to run every game very stable.

Amazing video and nice editing. You deserve more subscribers !!

4:59 The Sounds Resource - Kingdom Hearts - System Sounds you’re welcome :)

TheNamesJER makes fantastic content, glad to see him featured on here.

I hear that Waterworld SNES music. This video really captures those feelings really well of the early Switch era. Hard to believe it's been almost 10 years since it came out Hopefully Nintendo's new console beefs up the power to bring it in line with more modern titles. Super cool to see PSPMan in this!

I had my first Zelda game back in 1998, Link’s Awaking for GBC and I was hooked on the series from that point. I played ever Zelda game from there onward and loved each one until TP. To me it just felt mediocre and did didnt have the same magic feel to it that the previous games did. Then SS came out and I played it but didn’t like it, then then it just got worse and worse to me, to the point where I dont even recognize the series anymore. Imo peak Zelda was from ALTTP - Minish Cap. After that it deviated so much that it completely alienated older fans like myself. And its sad to know that Nintendo will likely never make Zelda games like the 90’s/early 2000’s stuff ever again😢

Yeah I really can't stress how much the Switch was able to come along and eat the Vita's Lunch. So many ports that came to Vita were not optimized correctly, and if they were it wasn't heavy hitters. Vita has a ton of great indie games and some cool exclusives, but the Switch has a ton of great everything. I made the Switch my main, and likely final, console for a reason. It's just good.

Nintendo is always slept on even though they’re doing the industry’s most innovative and concept breaking gaming instruments. This video got me excited for what’s next too.

Yo I hope you’re doing well man. I was browsing through your blog and saw you wrote about Astro Bot, glad to see you loved it! That game was easily my GOTY, the only thing that *may* come close is Plucky Squire, which I’m anticipating will also be insanely creative and charming. Much love! ❤

I remember exactly when Nintendo dropped the tweet the night before of Mario peeking around the curtain and saying the reveal would be the following morning. And even though I was in class at school I kept refreshing their YT on my phone over and over until I saw it and it was so exciting such a breath of fresh air away from the dire WiiU/3ds era. It felt like they were finally going to be taken seriously again in the industry, and now maybe they're a little too praised, but still... it was a great feeling. Great vid!

Man I loved this video! Really sums up how I feel about the Switch and just reminds me how blessed we've been to have such an amazing console with an unbelievably good catalog of games Thanks for letting me be a part of this!

No one asked me if I thought old Zelda is stale I enjoyed every game and was just happy to have it. What I did have an issue with was how heavy it was on tradition in world and story which botw kept but the worst incarnation of these characters. Save maybe Zelda but the storytelling was an anime made for 5 year olds so that foundation for a good character is a waste. Like pokemon creativity and laziness was the issue and no amount of tinkering or canning old gameplay can save it. Needed more Majora's Masks and Links Awakening not another skyward sword. There's a creativity issue and it's still here. Side note me and every other loser who thought getting everything first was gonna get us some creative puzzles now they can assume we have everything got clown makeup on our face.

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Reanalyzing history is a good thing. The internet is good at doing that, but they’re also good at lying haha. Triggering seems to be the #1 activity of commenters and creators and the platforms push it. So yeah you’re right man, all this hate is just to rile people up.

You woke up and decided to start speaking fax

People really disliked TLOU2 so much (whether for valid reasons or not) that they completely revised their own feelings about the company. I see this type of thing happen in music too. An artist will release one bad / divisive album and suddenly the framing is “they were never good”. It’s weird behavior.

the first TLOU game remains beloved, idk why you spent so much time on that. Most of the hate is from their actions in the last 5 years. You gotta be blind to not see naughty dogs wokeness. They put their political agenda first, and story second. I mean a trans character in a post apocalyptic, savage cult, worried about pronouns. like c'mon 😂. They were already pushing it with the 2 little girls making out, but they had to go a step further and add a trans kid. And then with the show, instead of giving Ellie and Joel much needed screen time, they had a whole episode about 2 gay side characters. Like I'm watching as a fan of the first game, and I don't remember the part where 2 grown men get naked and rub their hairy chests together. I'm not tryna see tht shit. I think their hate is very much deserved. They dug their own grave.

Ill never understand saying stupid things online for validation from random people who don't care about you.

100% agree, I couldnt stand the manufactured hate for TLOU. I also think that anyone whos against something cause of their own bigoted positions just shouldnt be taken seriously at all.

I want you to know the rumor about the girl being trans was so widespread this is how I found out it wasn't true.

Saaaaaaame

I love the ye reference

Thank the lord someone is talking about this. So many games feel bloated nowadays, even BG3 and TotK which I truly love have quite a bit of bloat, BG3 in it's itemization/loot system which just eats away hours over a whole run and TotK with the depths and overabundance of some side-content. Persona 5 Royal (which I played somewhat recently) had so much bloat it definitively broke me, I didn't even play FF7: Rebirth because I knew how bloated it would be. Not a lot of people talk about it, but man do I wish gamedevs would stop putting stuff in to simply make a game longer.

12:10 I'm surprised no one mentioned Genshin Impact. Although the similarities are very surface level, that didn't stop every Zelda fan from having a breakdown over it

I have only bought 4 Atlus games persona 5 royal, persona 5 strikers, persona 4 golden, and first one to preorder physically was SMT vengeance but currently hitting up my backlog, but i definitely feel for the hardcore fans who have bought the games day one and probably did again with expansion or rereleased, but when i saw royal port to ps5 i was sure as heck not getting that $60 frame boost.

I played both Digital Devil Saga games the last year with PCSX2 and I just want so hard a remaster of both titles like happened with Nocturne. More ppl should be able to play this amazing games without the need to emulate

Atlus really be making some of the best Jrpgs out there and then turning into EA when it comes to the DLC lol

All of your videos get me excited to start playing each one of these games. Even your analysis and projections are spot on and interesting. Going to your site now to read up on them!

It’s me. I’m the guy that thinks every game, regardless of quality, should be preserved

The goat has returned 👍🏾

I agree, Tactics better be announced soon!

And yes, I know the seven seas exist ;) Arrrr Matey

I just want dungeons man..

How did you sum up my thoughts perfectly lol

Your videos are so real, man! That part about needing to create something when feeling down really hit and I related to that a lot. I know I told you already that I’d play MM this year but this video showed me that I *need* to play it!

If there’s a class on how to make the your videos better, this is the template that would be showed. Incredible work done by you Dyl. The entire video had so much diverse elements to enjoy from. Beautiful display of craftsmanship. I was intrigued the whole video.

I think there needs to be a middle ground of open world and a structure gameplay, ie. a hybrid of both the new and old Zelda gameplay. A perfect example of a good open world game is Red Dead Redemption 2. RDR2 has a good balance of an free open world game and a structured main story. Zelda should follow this formula. Dungeons and main story quests should be done in sequence like you explained with the "old Zelda flow" diagram. More of the open world can open up as the story progresses. And just like RDR2 which BOTW has, players can explore the world to tame different horses, go hunting, find new equipment, find quests, explore towns or small farms, etc. Unlike RD2, the new Zelda's open world feels way too empty. So following a similar formula like a rockstar game, especially RDR2 with Zelda elements integrated, would make the most ideal Zelda IMO.

Such a waste of time. The diamond survives all the dust.