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On weich Console Can you Play all these games the best? Sth like miyoo mini?

That's maybe one of the reasons why Neverwinter Nights didn't age so well as Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale.

As a kid playing Robin Hood, the scenery of that game made it enchantingly engrossing

Now you have to learn german for better voice acting and feeling

Nintendo started and revolutionized the pre-rendered graphics industry when they created Donkey Kong Country...timeless classic on a 16-Bit console...nuff said

The song brought to you by that special kind of painful nostalgia that's only found in the game. Rip Maxis

Nyras had a dream from the sleeper and went insane so its fitting that his voice acting is like that

this was made by the same dev team that made cyber punk?

ps1 rpgs were the best for me ffix so good painted backgrounds by 80s-90s famous movie posters artists

if you like beautiful prerendered graphics you gotta give Disciples 2(from 2002) a chance i like how the only bad looking thing are models in combat but everything else is still beautiful 22 years later

cdpr games are garbage game with uninspired combat with only one click button for action attack and you win. you're unworthy. they didn't even adapt gothic properly. they literally just copied gothic 3's overall design. you're blinded by the truth they were inspired by freaking gothic 3. not gothic 1 or 2, that's why they NEVER adapted the combat learning progression with the 3 stances which one of the best parts. get lost already you newbies.

die new player, game is not janky you're a janky

Nice review I love this game so much. I spent so many time trying to do the most hellish resort, this game gave you so much freedom.

And the steam deck uses this technique for every game on the steam deck. There are specific files that are pre-rendered and must be downloaded for every version of the game with all updates so the game is running faster and can run on this smaller mobile device, very interesting thanks for this video

Bro did you dare to forgot to add men of war to the list??

Thank you. Great video, great review, great game

I love this style and Stronghold, Desperados, Robin Hood, RollerCoaster Tycoon and ZooTycoon totally represent my childhood ! Fortunately there is a new wave of games coming with this art style and one of the most promising and amazing looking ones is "Bustling World" set in ancient China. It is in 3D but totally respects the isometric style and point of view. It looks even more seamless and smooth ! I hope this isometric style gets really popular again, and we get to see a lot of new Games with these kind of visuals for a lot of different eras.

should check out DORF, coming out soon

Man i loved Megarace 2, it was basically a video of the track for a racing game.

The first major mistake for all new players is always the same: The game was never meant to be played with the mouse but entirey on keyboard. The mouse support was only added very close before release to please the reviewers of the video game magazines. :D

the most horrifying nightmare is realizing this game may never have a sequel , we will forever be stuck in an endless hunt for ghostly rumors

That "bad voice acting" is intentional. The Nyras guy was a nut even before "The Sleeper" "spoke" to him. it is there to underline who you speak to in a funny, and self-aware way, as far as expectations of the player. I say that I keep being surpised by people thinking this was "mishandled/inaccurate" VA. I see how Mandalore or Sseth are somewhat "ajar", but not definitive in tone about it(even if Mandlore says it is bad- it is bad IN WHAT WAY? i ask, and I see that we differ in innate perception), and that i can understand from how they commentate on the whole thing, it sure stands out at first glance, but it isn´t without purpose, and doesn´t not "tell" why it is so. The whole ordeal´s tone stands on that very delivery. These NPCs and lines enhance the overall experience for me, and It makes a lightheartedly "chill from mine POV" streak of NPC madness come alive. I really see no objective fault to say the VA is bad. Depends on your expectations. IMO, it is just as good as most any other VA in the game. it just clashes with what I can only see as funny competing with serious. I adjust my perception of the world, i do not see the "guy" as "being impossible/ badly portrayed", In my mind, surprising, but within reason, as is expected, no coercion, and I see no issue. It worked with me. It just shows that even the "now traveled" Gothic "nameless" is still the same guy, and can still get pranked, or find shit in his jacket´s pockets, as what separates him from the others is not thinking he has it figured out, but he is being humane and aware. He has his connections and friends, and The world largely functions with him in it, and not because of him, no matter how important and weighty his role some of the time. It just makes sense in my mind, and is a part of why I like it, as it serves as a steering device that keeps the contrast between the active, but still human hero, compared to most others. Atleast to me, it paints a picture of the motivation and restrained smarts of the hero, and of what makes him survive the ordeals when compared to most lamenters around, that are, for the most part, just like him, except for his determination.

The timeless beauty of nostalgia**

If I am a billionaire, I would pull the whole team together again and make a new Gothic 3. I would give them all the time and resources they need to produce the game.

I remember Diablo II blew my mind back in 2002

Always happy to see people discovering the perfect game from 23 years ago

Absolutely spectacular video 🔥🔥🔥 I'm a big fan of Bloodborne game too

I just picked up Heroes of Might and Magic 3 again. Oh boy, it’s as fun and beautiful as I remembered

100% in agreement. At least Indie game makers can still utilize this style. I will never get over how beautiful those years were, and I have a difficult time playing games from any other time. Divine Divinity (one of THE best RPGs ever made), Beyond Divinity (haven't beaten yet but on Act II), Stronghold and Stronghold Crusader, Fallouts 1 & 2, Diablo 1 & 2, Arcanum, C&C Tiberian Sun, and oh so many more... Wanna make a hit game? Isometric pre-rendered graphics. Newer game that hit it perfectly was Pillars of Eternity.

Pre rendered graphics games always have a great story to tell. That's always my impression

Simcity 4 music rocked

Strong hold!

Does They are Billions also use this? It looks like it to me but it's not like I would know. The game is absolutely beautiful tho.

Painful to see no mention of Factorio in this...

Truly phenomenal! But the sad thing is that these modern open world games that are fully rendered have no creativity whatsoever. How many times have I seen devs just drop textures on top of each other, the worst case id say of recent was Dying Light 2. Go on top of a building and look at a distance, its ugly.

There is one in particular named Heroes of Might and Magic III. Played online till these days.

its so sad we cant go back in time

I think Total Annihilation was an important step on the path away from pre-rendered graphics. It mixed a pre-rendered isometric environment with real-time 3d rendered units and 2d explosion sprites. The logic for this (as explained in the marketing for the game at the time) was that increasing screen resolutions and frame rates required vastly more pre-rendered sprites per unit type to achieve smooth rotation, so real-time rendering was actually cheaper.

Beach Life, how is it?

this was one of my most replayed games.... i loved this game when i was a kid

diablo counts too

I must insist that you add HOMM3 to your list. It is a crime that you have not included it already.

You didn't mention that all the old (pre ~2000) RTS games used this style as well.

I disagree

Bro what are you smoking? All the examples look like trash 😂

Why the focus on only isometric perspectives? Some of the most beautiful pre-rendered graphics aren't isometric. You could have included both with a few extra minutes in length.

Great video thanks

OH MY GOSH SIM CITY 4 SOUNDTRACK