วีดีโอ

Back when games used to be fun and not a chore like most modern 3d games

If you only play "Life is Strange" once, it's a nice experience. It's only when you play it a second time and decide on the exact opposite as last time and notice that the overall outcome and story arc stay the exact same with only minor deviations you notice that the game mechanic isn't quite as intelligent as it was advertised and you're majorly let down.

Time to reinstall Sim City 4!

They Are Billions is another great isometric one!

Gun could do with a remake, with a continuation from where it left off, with plenty of side-missions and plenty of activities available for when the main story is complete, also maybe a suprise set of missions after completion...Great game, full of flavour and atmosphere!🤠💫

I played Gothic for the 9000th time in 2024, my friend if your not satisfied with the graphics of "Gothic 1" with all due respect DON'T install it, Gothic is a holy artifact and shall NOT be modified

I almost thought it was a game adaption of the gyro manga

Love the sim city 4 music

Every time I see even a split second of signalis in a video essay my head perks up like “my hyperfixation???👀👀👀👀”

I always adored the art style of Commandos 2, it's a shame more developers didn't create games based in that era with that artistic style.

I questioned why a video with this title needed a cw, then I remembered autoplay.

Reminds me of the Bloody Baron Quest in Witcher 3. Wasn't ready for that like at all.

Spec ops: the line had my entire guts sink into a black hole.. what an amazing delivery of dark and disturbing real events

I've always found that the prisoner segment of Tomb Raider (2013) reminded me of Outlast, which is one of my favourite horror games. But that section was unexpectedly scary in the action adventure game

wow, a videogame video essay with post-ironic horror themes that talks about spec ops the line! theres only like 500000000 of those already available! and wow, the guy talking has a low-tone unenthustiastic voice???? this is amazing!

pre rendered graphics are bad, which is why they arent used any more. Every one of those scenes would look 1000x better in 3d

for anyone that doesn't understand how horrifically bad white phosphorus is should watch ChemicalForce's video on it

Totally agree with you. They still look awesome!

Unfortunately I largely disagree with the statement that combat is simply a stat check. Enemies can take minimum amount of damage regardless of your stats. With enough know how and being able to avoid damage or Parry enemy strikes, you can pretty much kill any enemy in the game at level 1. It takes time effort and concentration but it's doable. Getting more stats and becoming stronger just easier, but by no means does this make combat a simple stat check.

No one’s talking about the Sim City 4 soundtrack? It gives me goosebumps

I loved commandos when it came out. Even my rubbish PC could manage it fine.

One moment for me is in Hollow Knight. You work so hard to finally approach your sibling, the Hollow Knight, who has been spewing infection across all of Hallownest infecting the minds of all its citizens. You fight and fight, until it lets out a screech. With that, its music shifts from a cryptic battle theme to a slow theme of dread and despair. And after that, the Hollow Knight turns its weapon on itself and begins stabbing its chest. It's finally become sentient and sees all the damage it caused. It recognizes this and in between fighting you, it fights itself and in turn the Radiance (the source of the infection). The musics swells and swells getting more dramatic as the Hollow Knight's movements become slower as it focuses more on killing itself rather than you. And once you kill your sibling, you absorb and seal the infection. Doing what your sibling could not, sealed away, forever

The classic Fallout 1 & 2 were released one year apart from eachother. They used this isometric 2D graphics but were full of story, mechanics, and depth. They were turn based combat. Now, Bethesda has no idea what Fallout is even about and every 5 years they put out a 3D shooter that is more like a Skyrim/Borderlands mashup than anything resembling the true spirit of Fallout

You're so Dutch coded I love it so much

Great video! Grew up playing BIA.

The first two gothics are my favourite games ever. Ive played them for hundreds of hours and they never get boring. Recently i started my run with the returning mod. If you love gothic 2 I suggest you to play with this mod

i knw this is pc centric, but ff7 for me always had the most beautiful renders

It is a crime you didn’t play the audio of Chloe finding Rachel’s body. I didn’t play the game but instead watched a playthrough and that moment was chilling. Ashley Burch sold that moment as the devastating reveal it was.

I wasnt expecting the mass effect clip to hit hard, im autistic and got famly with more severe cases, my case isnt the worst and i heard about people with autism being abused but this one make me think.

The video is so short :(

In Dragon Age: Origins the whole Deep Roads sequence is nightmarish You're probably going there with a couple levels on you. You probably saved the day along with your companions a couple of times, and feel invincible. Then you really face the threat of the Darkspawn. First, a crazed man that had to rely on cannibalism to survive. Then corpses and more corpses all around you. Then dwarf warriors just barely holding a spot. Then you slowly and slowly start to wander deeper and deeper into a thaig and flesh and stone meld into one another. A dark twisted poem rings in your ears then you discover WHY there are so much darkspawn. How they are made. Broodmothers. The whole sequence made my skin crawl and I had to actually give the game a pause after the boss fight

Surprised you didn't bring up Life Is Strange. There's a little foreshadowing, but it really goes haywire

Hi Eric, ik vind net je kanaal en vond deze video heel goed, veel jeugdherinneringen. Mijn favoriet uit dit genre is Nox, van Westwood Studios. Helaas heeft Microsoft ze de das omgedaan..... Hij is beschikbaar op GOG, zeker de moeite waard om eens te bekijken denk ik!

I think it's important to note these days that it's actually *harder* to produce these kinds of games then to simply make it 3D. The 3D scenes that produce the prerendered graphics need to be created regardless of the final outcome. At that point, you can either stick the models into your scene, add a camera, and press go, or you can painstakingly start breaking up the renders into sprites, laying them out by hand in your scene, adding all sorts of extra logic for character movement and barriers, etc. It's a ton of work, but it creates a wonderful final result.

Underrated? Its legitimately the best also no soundtrack has even come close. Auch a good game and i feel it's abondonware nowadays.

Lmfao those time codes, are you kidding?

you forgot cossacks in your list

"30.2"

That Overlord DLC for Mass Effect 2 is damn perfect. Great eerie atmosphere and the awful things that were done to David. BY HIS OWN BROTHER. Damn. That is some really heavy stuff.

timeless. unitl the resolution does a notable jump...

That you didn't include Heroes of Might and Magic 3 in this video is blasphemy! :P

I thought i was the only one

I immediatly thought factorio

No love for Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom? The architecture, my god.

Billion-times more beautiful than any 3D.

I always had a soft spot for the classic Tropico (2001)

I’m Autistic, and God, I feel David’s pain.

Rise of Nations is a true masterpiece IMO