Witcher 3, bloodborne, dark souls 3, sekiro, ghost of tsushima, god of war, last of us 2, uncharted 4 and many many more - is nothing to you? Batman Arkham Knight, Resident evil 2/4 remakes, etc etc etc
Cool, you can relive around 95% of that era in a modern PC, and also play everything before it and most games after it. Isnt this better than just being limited to those 3 consoles you mentioned?
The single player ones are that. The multiplayer GaaS ones are all built around gameplay... That's addictive and satisfying enough to get you to come back and check out the stores, lol
@@colmecolwag "multi-player" games aren't really multi-player anymore. Most have no voice chat, lobbies, or even text chat sometimes. You might as well be playing with bots.
@@harrymason4300 you got some mad unrealistically high standards for bots lol I do think a lot of that is that voice chat is way more opt in nowadays and most people just don't wanna do that with randoms anymore.
Great video. We're at a point where it doesn't matter if the golden age of gaming has passed, because we can still access all those golden age games easier than ever before. I didn't realise how good we had it until I emulated the original Time Crisis on my phone.
Good summary. Some people are saying ps2 or 360 were the golden age, but you can still play those games AND everything else that came after. Now that you mention, I completely forgot about the mobile scene, but since the only game I play on my phone is Tetris, it's not like I have much to say about it.
Golden era of gaming: micro transactions, censorship, ESG, DEI, woke consultants, modern audience, awfull writting.. buddy you might have a point in some of your arguments but we couldnt be further from something we could consider a golden age.
I mean... no... it won't. People have been talking about a second crash for the past 10 years and it has yet to happen. That and indie games will be around forever so it's not really possible for something like that to happen. As for AAA games, slowly, and I mean SLOWLY companies are learning that releasing yet another live service game will hurt them, not give them infinite renewable cash. Sony already cut their plans for live service games in half, and I bet them might cut their plans in half a second time after the failure of Concord. Then there is Nintendo who doesn't know how to make an unpolished game. They treat their workforce like people and not like cogs that need too be thrown out and replaced, and they always release at least on GOTY contender every year without fail.
@@ZX81v2 videogames were barely getting started during the ET fiasco, the whole medium fizzling out seemed like a real possibility. but too much time has passed since then. Entire generations have grown up loving videogames, it’s a lifelong pastime. The CEO of games isn’t gonna come out and say no more.
Absolutely not, we are living in a decrepit age of dogshit. The 4-6 gen are undoubtedly the golden age, with noticable improvements between them. The 8th gen onward have been unfettered dogshit by comparison.
For me 96-08 was the golden age. Simply when 3d gaming started to becoming popular developers were pushing console and pc systems to it's limit and enormous creativity as there wasn't any blueprints they were allowed to being something new to the table which resulted every year in that period to release games that were genre pushing and generating new standards. 2007 was a last big year of that era that brought enormous amount of games that generated own franchises and 2008 as swan song. After games started to become more polished but they were already using all blueprints from that era and after 2012-2013 we're already live in current era.
I think it's something that people generally mistake. It's never been a better time to be a gamer despite it not being the best time for new games. With that said I find people who have issues with "modern gaming" tend to ristrict themselves to new AAA games & ignore indie games or smaller A or AA games like A Plague Tale, Sifu & Pepper Grinder which are all great smaller titles.
Golden age of gaming ended in 2013-2014. We live in an era of pre-built frameworks for each game series, and companies refuse to innovate. They play it safe because they know they'll make enough money to be fine.
ps2 era was the golden age. ps3/xbox 360 era was good because it was still riding that wave from the ps2 boom, but ps2 was and never will be surpassed. at least the great people of pcsx2 have made the emulator better than ever for us to play right now
PS2 vs Switch would be an interesting fight tbh. PS2 was before that big indie boon so a lot of smaller quality games came out on switch, along with Switch's huge library of later powers and retro games too, to go with its own constant stream of Pretty Darn Good Games.i do think our standards for games are higher now than they were then too, which plays into that. ....but also also going to the PS2 metacritic rankings and pretty much every game in the top 50 is a banger, aside from some yearly sports games that got invalidated
Golden Age of being able to play older games. Steam Deck emulation is incredible. Can play basically anything I want. Also modern indie games are really good, with the occasional AAA or AA game being really good.
Focusing on backwards compatibility to say that NOW is the golden age just shows that NOW isnt the golden age and that it has gone by already. When games take more than half a decade to be made and still try to catch on now outdated trends since budgets baloon so much that games have to be designed to follow trends in no way are we living in a golden age of gaming. There is argument for the indie space but the AA-AAA space is outright busted where even a big number in sales isnt enough, the goal is a long term ecosystem that gets the entire attention of the player for years (CounterStrike, Overwatch, COD, Valorant, GTA, Destiny, etc...) that is dependent in aggressive strategies even getting to the point of gambling and casino strategies.
But that's the thing though. You can play those old games (sometimes in higher resolutions, with better control schemes, etc.), as well what whatever came next (that you still want to play). As bad as the AAA market might be, you have more choices than ever.
@criticalpixels I must admit that in that it's certainly better then ever. But for a golden age to make me expect so little of the present and future I just don't see it. There is very little excitement for the future possibilities and some even seem quite worst. But it's alright, you got your opinion and I got mine, your points are valid, I simply can't just accept "this" as being the best gaming could be or has been, and open access to older games still isn't enough for me even though I do love a lot of the classics
@@paulolopes1768 I'm trying to stay positive, but yeah, there are some undeniable disappointments. If we were to judge the PS5 and Xbox Series solely based on their current-gen games, without factoring in backwards compatibility, re-releases or crossgen, it would pretty much feel like a downgrade from the previous generation, and the Switch would seem like a more attractive option. But that seems to be the way that gaming is heading, with digital libraries and availability, and that wild west of innovation in the 90s and early 2000s is far gone.
As someone who never grew up with a playstation or xbox, just PC and Nintendo, it’s kinda wild seeing discourse be nonstop black pill lately haha. Things have gotten much slower paced lately sure but they’ve also gotten better, from my perspective. Whenever I go through backlogs of recommended ps2 and xbox games (or even stuff I played as a kid), i’m kinda shocked to find how much of it is kinda meh, or is just an inferior, older version of something that has a more refined counterpart with hindsight on its side. Meanwhile mods are out there to fix long standing issues on my favorite games or just add new content and ways to play, effectively making some games last forever. I guess to anyone who can’t find anything to be excited about… expand your horizons? Play more than just one or two genres?? Find someone with similar tastes to you and then see what else they enjoy, maybe some of it will rub off on you!
Thank you, that's the point I'm trying to make. There's lots of mods, emulators to play old games, indies and hidden gems that you might have missed out out there. And I'm actually on the oppositive side, I never had Nintendo consoles at home, just Xbox and PS, so I still have lots of Nintendo games and franchises to explore. That's not to say we shouldn't criticize current state of AAA games, Ubisoft or Activision, but gaming in general is going really well if you can expand your horizons.
@@criticalpixels What's been crazy to me is watching old Nintendo games develop their own mod/fan game scenes without any official support (more the opposite lol). Current day SM64 modding is almost like seeing HL modding circa 2005, it's wild!😵💫
@@Ad-im1ne Believe it or not, to this day Nintendo doesn't localize many of their games in portuguese (my native language), so the modding community is really important in making those games more accessible. Breath of The Wild and Tears of the Kingdom do not have an official translation and Super Mario Bros Wonder was the first Mario game (!!!) to have a portuguese version. That's one of the reasons I kinda dislike Nintendo.
Some good stuff here. I'm not getting much out of new releases from the traditional AAA devs, so I've since turned my attention to the emulator scene and catching up on games I missed out on since 2015. It's a peaceful life.
I’m just glad this whole crisis of AAA gaming is happening right now. With every industry it’s bound to happen. And in this age of having every single videogame available to us now, we can literally just chill with no need to pay attention to the greed.
I would say we are in a very weak era of gaming. Nothing has been able to pass up the classics and few have even come close. For example, we don’t have a Metroidvania title on par with Super Metroid. Hollow knight is the closest, but just isn’t up to snuff. We don’t have an RTS on par with Starcraft Brood war or Age of empires 2. We don’t have an action adventure game to top Ocarina of Time/Majoras Mask, we don’t have a Stealth game on par with the metal gear solid series (especially 1,2, and 3). We don’t have a classic JRPG on par with Chrono Trigger. I love and respect the indie genre for putting out great games in this arid gaming market, but when compared to that style of game from the 90s-2000s, they aren’t on the same tier yet in my opinion
I think it's a bad era for new games, not for gaming in general. No one I knew had a N64 back then so I could never play OoT or Majoras Mask. Now I can finally play it. Plus Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. I can also recommend Chrono Trigger to friends who don't speak english or japanese as there is a fan translation availiable and so on. But yeah, some genres like RTS, stealth and hack and slash are pretty much abandoned. Plus all the crazy racing games like Twisted Metal, Carmageddon, Outrun, etc.
@@criticalpixels I agree with that. And while I definitely re-buy old games all the time, I do think it’s a little sinister to not just include backwards compatibility with each new console release. Hardware eventually fails and our old games that we own get harder to play in the modern day. But I generally agree with you that accessibility is better than what it was, it’s also just more expensive
It doesnt sound like the most optimal statement, but I feel like if I can find one game or movie this year or any year that i enjoy, then I can be thankful that there was one instead of none and usually my favorite games and/movies come from many different years. I consider myself a patient gamer
Kinda feel the same way. Like I have enough of favorite movies/series/etc so anything new that makes into the list is great, but not necessarily a big deal. It's not like I don't look for new things, but I'm not desperate for new content elther.
We are in a golden age for the choices of AA down to indie productions, the choice of pricing for games (game pass, 75% off Steam sales, etc.), the choice of where you want to play (cross-platform multiplayer too), and the ability to play nearly anything from the past in my hands on a Steam Deck. The tarnish to this age is that we also live in a time of mediocre to bad big-production output, from lackluster AAA releases to exploitative service-based games. As these parts of the industry bleed-out, we will likely enter an even better time.
Nope. It’s not the worst era or anything hyperbolic like that, but it is an era of oversaturation. Gaming is such a popular thing now that you can’t get away from it, in a way that was not as prevalent back when I used to love gaming. It’s a sport now, it’s all over social media, it’s nearly impossible not to strike up a conversation with someone about gaming…and at some point, it can turn to being mentally exhausting, hence why I’ve stepped away from it.
Unfortunately Fallout London has memory leak issues as of right now and needs polishing. It might actually become one of the 'good old games' by the time it actually becomes playable without crashes :D, but it's good beside this, it has a nice nostalgic atmosphere which takes your mind off of real life.
Yea, let's also not forget how the arcade games would ramp up the difficulty in artificial ways just to make you fail more frequently and spend more money.
Thanks to emulation, digital preservation due to hackers, and the open architecture of PC, we can play almost all the old games. And who cares about modern AAA games and GaaS shit.
Wow, what an audience youve got here... i really dont understand this negativity. Yes, im also part of the PS2/360/DS/WII generation, and im going to make a quick comparison so you can decide what generation is better: old (good): - AAA games were usually better - couch coop was a thing - games didnt have many bugs at launch - you actually owned the games old (bad): - PC gaming was super expensive - mobile/portable gaming barely existed - emulation? Maybe the NES - mods? Whats that? - got stuck? Better have a friend who already finished the game. - want to play online? If its before 2008, the most popular title you own has 100 players in your server! You will also be playing at 300ms! - retrocompatibility? 1 generation maximum - indies? Forget about it, you wont find them anywhere. - your gaming friend moved away? Forget about him. - do you want to know if a recently released game is worth your money? Hopefully the back of the box doesnt lie... This comparison has been done comparing the ~2007 generation to current.
Yeah, I'm surprised with the negativity tbh. I think some people are reading it like "is it the golden age for new games" when I'm actually talking about gaming in general. And even if you think that PS2 and PS3/360 games were better, which is a fair thing... You can still play those (even in enhanced versions) and whatever came next. Plus the other stuff that didn't exist or wasn't as good back then.
for gaming in general id say we are in a golden age due to emulation . but golden age for new games? nah.. its been so ass recently. 90% of new games i buy on steam get refunded in a few hours .old games felt so much more creative with the limitations they had . now games just have boring ass gameplay with an insane amount of in app purchases but atleast they look nice in 4k .
Yeah, I'm trying to make a point about gaming in general, but for new big-budget/live service games and even current-gen consoles, things are pretty disappointing.
But the emulators of the games you are playing do not belong to the current era. If anything, you are making a case that the 90s and 2000s were the golden era because of the emulators. I think an era is defined by what an industry is producing currently. But I get your point about how games are accessible now, and I can see why that makes it golden. I think we are slowly entering the golden age, rather than living in it. Because more people are staring to call out malpractices like micro-transactions, injecting politics and the Indies surpassing AAA in popularity. If things go like this, then the next decade would be the golden era.
It's currently the Golden Age of Indie gaming -Super Indie Karts -Anger Foot -BombRush Cyberfunk -Wild Aces -BG3 If there's gonna be another Video Game Crash, the Indie scene is gonna resurect the industry
I just recently discovered Yakuza and went through all the games and am now playing spin offs. Some of those games are so old and I just never gave them a chance
We live at the golden age of accessibility in games, but the modern AAA market is in shambles.
Everything pre 2014-ish was the golden age. We didn't realize how good we had it back then.
The end of the '00s was the lowest point in gaming. After that gaming was saved thanks to indies.
Witcher 3, bloodborne, dark souls 3, sekiro, ghost of tsushima, god of war, last of us 2, uncharted 4 and many many more - is nothing to you? Batman Arkham Knight, Resident evil 2/4 remakes, etc etc etc
Ps2 to ps3/360 was golden era.
Genuine question, not to be disrespectful, we're you 14 at the time ?
I think we're living in the golden age of pc gaming.
Cool, you can relive around 95% of that era in a modern PC, and also play everything before it and most games after it. Isnt this better than just being limited to those 3 consoles you mentioned?
*snes to PS2
Ps3 was when everything started to go down hill.
This era was the lowest in games. Games were saved right after the xbox360 era thanks to kickstarters and indies,.
Modern videogames are just interactive movies. It's all about graphics and cutscenes, actual gameplay is an afterthought.
The single player ones are that. The multiplayer GaaS ones are all built around gameplay... That's addictive and satisfying enough to get you to come back and check out the stores, lol
@@colmecolwag "multi-player" games aren't really multi-player anymore. Most have no voice chat, lobbies, or even text chat sometimes. You might as well be playing with bots.
@@harrymason4300 you got some mad unrealistically high standards for bots lol
I do think a lot of that is that voice chat is way more opt in nowadays and most people just don't wanna do that with randoms anymore.
Great video. We're at a point where it doesn't matter if the golden age of gaming has passed, because we can still access all those golden age games easier than ever before.
I didn't realise how good we had it until I emulated the original Time Crisis on my phone.
Good summary. Some people are saying ps2 or 360 were the golden age, but you can still play those games AND everything else that came after.
Now that you mention, I completely forgot about the mobile scene, but since the only game I play on my phone is Tetris, it's not like I have much to say about it.
Golden era of gaming: micro transactions, censorship, ESG, DEI, woke consultants, modern audience, awfull writting.. buddy you might have a point in some of your arguments but we couldnt be further from something we could consider a golden age.
Modern Gaming is about to hit that magically "Game crash" territory last seen in 80's. So much tosh being produced, makes E.T. look good
"The layoffs will continue until morale improves"
no
I mean... no... it won't. People have been talking about a second crash for the past 10 years and it has yet to happen. That and indie games will be around forever so it's not really possible for something like that to happen.
As for AAA games, slowly, and I mean SLOWLY companies are learning that releasing yet another live service game will hurt them, not give them infinite renewable cash. Sony already cut their plans for live service games in half, and I bet them might cut their plans in half a second time after the failure of Concord.
Then there is Nintendo who doesn't know how to make an unpolished game. They treat their workforce like people and not like cogs that need too be thrown out and replaced, and they always release at least on GOTY contender every year without fail.
@@RegalPixelKing time will tell
@@ZX81v2 videogames were barely getting started during the ET fiasco, the whole medium fizzling out seemed like a real possibility. but too much time has passed since then. Entire generations have grown up loving videogames, it’s a lifelong pastime. The CEO of games isn’t gonna come out and say no more.
Absolutely not, we are living in a decrepit age of dogshit. The 4-6 gen are undoubtedly the golden age, with noticable improvements between them. The 8th gen onward have been unfettered dogshit by comparison.
For me 96-08 was the golden age. Simply when 3d gaming started to becoming popular developers were pushing console and pc systems to it's limit and enormous creativity as there wasn't any blueprints they were allowed to being something new to the table which resulted every year in that period to release games that were genre pushing and generating new standards. 2007 was a last big year of that era that brought enormous amount of games that generated own franchises and 2008 as swan song. After games started to become more polished but they were already using all blueprints from that era and after 2012-2013 we're already live in current era.
I think it's something that people generally mistake. It's never been a better time to be a gamer despite it not being the best time for new games.
With that said I find people who have issues with "modern gaming" tend to ristrict themselves to new AAA games & ignore indie games or smaller A or AA games like A Plague Tale, Sifu & Pepper Grinder which are all great smaller titles.
Golden Age of Gaming was the sith gen of Consoles. Fight me.
Golden age of gaming ended in 2013-2014. We live in an era of pre-built frameworks for each game series, and companies refuse to innovate. They play it safe because they know they'll make enough money to be fine.
ps2 era was the golden age. ps3/xbox 360 era was good because it was still riding that wave from the ps2 boom, but ps2 was and never will be surpassed. at least the great people of pcsx2 have made the emulator better than ever for us to play right now
PS2 vs Switch would be an interesting fight tbh. PS2 was before that big indie boon so a lot of smaller quality games came out on switch, along with Switch's huge library of later powers and retro games too, to go with its own constant stream of Pretty Darn Good Games.i do think our standards for games are higher now than they were then too, which plays into that.
....but also also going to the PS2 metacritic rankings and pretty much every game in the top 50 is a banger, aside from some yearly sports games that got invalidated
Golden Age of being able to play older games. Steam Deck emulation is incredible. Can play basically anything I want. Also modern indie games are really good, with the occasional AAA or AA game being really good.
Focusing on backwards compatibility to say that NOW is the golden age just shows that NOW isnt the golden age and that it has gone by already.
When games take more than half a decade to be made and still try to catch on now outdated trends since budgets baloon so much that games have to be designed to follow trends in no way are we living in a golden age of gaming.
There is argument for the indie space but the AA-AAA space is outright busted where even a big number in sales isnt enough, the goal is a long term ecosystem that gets the entire attention of the player for years (CounterStrike, Overwatch, COD, Valorant, GTA, Destiny, etc...) that is dependent in aggressive strategies even getting to the point of gambling and casino strategies.
But that's the thing though. You can play those old games (sometimes in higher resolutions, with better control schemes, etc.), as well what whatever came next (that you still want to play). As bad as the AAA market might be, you have more choices than ever.
@criticalpixels I must admit that in that it's certainly better then ever. But for a golden age to make me expect so little of the present and future I just don't see it. There is very little excitement for the future possibilities and some even seem quite worst. But it's alright, you got your opinion and I got mine, your points are valid, I simply can't just accept "this" as being the best gaming could be or has been, and open access to older games still isn't enough for me even though I do love a lot of the classics
@@paulolopes1768 I'm trying to stay positive, but yeah, there are some undeniable disappointments. If we were to judge the PS5 and Xbox Series solely based on their current-gen games, without factoring in backwards compatibility, re-releases or crossgen, it would pretty much feel like a downgrade from the previous generation, and the Switch would seem like a more attractive option. But that seems to be the way that gaming is heading, with digital libraries and availability, and that wild west of innovation in the 90s and early 2000s is far gone.
As someone who never grew up with a playstation or xbox, just PC and Nintendo, it’s kinda wild seeing discourse be nonstop black pill lately haha. Things have gotten much slower paced lately sure but they’ve also gotten better, from my perspective. Whenever I go through backlogs of recommended ps2 and xbox games (or even stuff I played as a kid), i’m kinda shocked to find how much of it is kinda meh, or is just an inferior, older version of something that has a more refined counterpart with hindsight on its side. Meanwhile mods are out there to fix long standing issues on my favorite games or just add new content and ways to play, effectively making some games last forever. I guess to anyone who can’t find anything to be excited about… expand your horizons? Play more than just one or two genres?? Find someone with similar tastes to you and then see what else they enjoy, maybe some of it will rub off on you!
Thank you, that's the point I'm trying to make. There's lots of mods, emulators to play old games, indies and hidden gems that you might have missed out out there. And I'm actually on the oppositive side, I never had Nintendo consoles at home, just Xbox and PS, so I still have lots of Nintendo games and franchises to explore. That's not to say we shouldn't criticize current state of AAA games, Ubisoft or Activision, but gaming in general is going really well if you can expand your horizons.
@@criticalpixels What's been crazy to me is watching old Nintendo games develop their own mod/fan game scenes without any official support (more the opposite lol). Current day SM64 modding is almost like seeing HL modding circa 2005, it's wild!😵💫
@@Ad-im1ne Believe it or not, to this day Nintendo doesn't localize many of their games in portuguese (my native language), so the modding community is really important in making those games more accessible. Breath of The Wild and Tears of the Kingdom do not have an official translation and Super Mario Bros Wonder was the first Mario game (!!!) to have a portuguese version. That's one of the reasons I kinda dislike Nintendo.
Golden Era for Single Player games.
Ps3 and Xbox 360 and Ps4 and Xbox one for my it's golden era for gaming I miss these days
Nice video! Switch has great exclusives but it's also a a formidable platform to play indie games.
Still playin 3DS games while wondering if I'm a patient gamer...nah its the massive library.
We are in the age of shit gaming. If this is the golden age, I'll take bronze anyway.
Some good stuff here. I'm not getting much out of new releases from the traditional AAA devs, so I've since turned my attention to the emulator scene and catching up on games I missed out on since 2015. It's a peaceful life.
I’m just glad this whole crisis of AAA gaming is happening right now. With every industry it’s bound to happen. And in this age of having every single videogame available to us now, we can literally just chill with no need to pay attention to the greed.
I would say we are in a very weak era of gaming. Nothing has been able to pass up the classics and few have even come close. For example, we don’t have a Metroidvania title on par with Super Metroid. Hollow knight is the closest, but just isn’t up to snuff. We don’t have an RTS on par with Starcraft Brood war or Age of empires 2. We don’t have an action adventure game to top Ocarina of Time/Majoras Mask, we don’t have a Stealth game on par with the metal gear solid series (especially 1,2, and 3). We don’t have a classic JRPG on par with Chrono Trigger. I love and respect the indie genre for putting out great games in this arid gaming market, but when compared to that style of game from the 90s-2000s, they aren’t on the same tier yet in my opinion
I think it's a bad era for new games, not for gaming in general. No one I knew had a N64 back then so I could never play OoT or Majoras Mask. Now I can finally play it. Plus Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. I can also recommend Chrono Trigger to friends who don't speak english or japanese as there is a fan translation availiable and so on. But yeah, some genres like RTS, stealth and hack and slash are pretty much abandoned. Plus all the crazy racing games like Twisted Metal, Carmageddon, Outrun, etc.
@@criticalpixels I agree with that. And while I definitely re-buy old games all the time, I do think it’s a little sinister to not just include backwards compatibility with each new console release. Hardware eventually fails and our old games that we own get harder to play in the modern day. But I generally agree with you that accessibility is better than what it was, it’s also just more expensive
Nope the golden ages of gaming has passed
It doesnt sound like the most optimal statement, but I feel like if I can find one game or movie this year or any year that i enjoy, then I can be thankful that there was one instead of none and usually my favorite games and/movies come from many different years. I consider myself a patient gamer
Kinda feel the same way. Like I have enough of favorite movies/series/etc so anything new that makes into the list is great, but not necessarily a big deal. It's not like I don't look for new things, but I'm not desperate for new content elther.
We are in a golden age for the choices of AA down to indie productions, the choice of pricing for games (game pass, 75% off Steam sales, etc.), the choice of where you want to play (cross-platform multiplayer too), and the ability to play nearly anything from the past in my hands on a Steam Deck.
The tarnish to this age is that we also live in a time of mediocre to bad big-production output, from lackluster AAA releases to exploitative service-based games. As these parts of the industry bleed-out, we will likely enter an even better time.
Nope. It’s not the worst era or anything hyperbolic like that, but it is an era of oversaturation. Gaming is such a popular thing now that you can’t get away from it, in a way that was not as prevalent back when I used to love gaming. It’s a sport now, it’s all over social media, it’s nearly impossible not to strike up a conversation with someone about gaming…and at some point, it can turn to being mentally exhausting, hence why I’ve stepped away from it.
Unfortunately Fallout London has memory leak issues as of right now and needs polishing.
It might actually become one of the 'good old games' by the time it actually becomes playable without crashes :D, but it's good beside this, it has a nice nostalgic atmosphere which takes your mind off of real life.
as patient gamer, I want game just like The legend of Spyro remake based on trilogy into new experince long gameplay combat
The fact there's free to play games is proof gaming has never been better, considering we had to pay hundreds on arcades.
Let it Die is free 🔥
Yea, let's also not forget how the arcade games would ramp up the difficulty in artificial ways just to make you fail more frequently and spend more money.
been playing infamous 1 on the ps3 emulator recently, amazing game i missed when was new
No, we live rn in the woke garbage era of gaming.
no
Great video - glad I clicked
Awesome video, ty 😉
Thanks to emulation, digital preservation due to hackers, and the open architecture of PC, we can play almost all the old games. And who cares about modern AAA games and GaaS shit.
Wow, what an audience youve got here... i really dont understand this negativity. Yes, im also part of the PS2/360/DS/WII generation, and im going to make a quick comparison so you can decide what generation is better:
old (good):
- AAA games were usually better
- couch coop was a thing
- games didnt have many bugs at launch
- you actually owned the games
old (bad):
- PC gaming was super expensive
- mobile/portable gaming barely existed
- emulation? Maybe the NES
- mods? Whats that?
- got stuck? Better have a friend who already finished the game.
- want to play online? If its before 2008, the most popular title you own has 100 players in your server! You will also be playing at 300ms!
- retrocompatibility? 1 generation maximum
- indies? Forget about it, you wont find them anywhere.
- your gaming friend moved away? Forget about him.
- do you want to know if a recently released game is worth your money? Hopefully the back of the box doesnt lie...
This comparison has been done comparing the ~2007 generation to current.
Yeah, I'm surprised with the negativity tbh. I think some people are reading it like "is it the golden age for new games" when I'm actually talking about gaming in general. And even if you think that PS2 and PS3/360 games were better, which is a fair thing... You can still play those (even in enhanced versions) and whatever came next. Plus the other stuff that didn't exist or wasn't as good back then.
NO
No.
The best games currently are what would be much less than ,AAA
Absolutely excellent video 😮
Thanks!
one word: Sifu.
Recently i discovery Lunacid good indie dungeon crawler.
for gaming in general id say we are in a golden age due to emulation . but golden age for new games? nah.. its been so ass recently. 90% of new games i buy on steam get refunded in a few hours
.old games felt so much more creative with the limitations they had . now games just have boring ass gameplay with an insane amount of in app purchases but atleast they look nice in 4k .
Yeah, I'm trying to make a point about gaming in general, but for new big-budget/live service games and even current-gen consoles, things are pretty disappointing.
Anyone knows what game that is? 6:00
It's Tinykin
@@criticalpixels Thank you
But the emulators of the games you are playing do not belong to the current era. If anything, you are making a case that the 90s and 2000s were the golden era because of the emulators. I think an era is defined by what an industry is producing currently. But I get your point about how games are accessible now, and I can see why that makes it golden.
I think we are slowly entering the golden age, rather than living in it. Because more people are staring to call out malpractices like micro-transactions, injecting politics and the Indies surpassing AAA in popularity. If things go like this, then the next decade would be the golden era.
It's currently the Golden Age of Indie gaming
-Super Indie Karts
-Anger Foot
-BombRush Cyberfunk
-Wild Aces
-BG3
If there's gonna be another Video Game Crash, the Indie scene is gonna resurect the industry
I wasn't aware of Aces Wild (?) and Super Indie Karts. Just wishlisted both, thanks!
Game at 3:00?
Also the game at 3:58
Gungrave and Hard Reset
2:49 game name ?
Gungrave
Are u from BR?
Sim
brasil?
Sim
@@criticalpixels seu sotaque me lembrou o do jalex rosa
No, no we are not. Next.
No, we live in the dark age of gaming. The golden age was 90s-early 00s.
No
I just recently discovered Yakuza and went through all the games and am now playing spin offs. Some of those games are so old and I just never gave them a chance