The Greatest Run in Gaming History
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2024
- What is the Greatest Run in Gaming History? When I thought about contenders for this like EA during the 2000's or Nintendo from the 80's to the 2000's or Valve back when they made games, one Company stood above the rest, Rockstar Games. Here I look at 11 games from Rockstar that I've seen called classics by the general gaming community, so I decided to check them out for myself.
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Contents:
0:00 Intro
5:36 Grand Theft Auto 3
12:30 Max Payne
17:27 Grand Theft Auto Vice City
24:53 Midnight Club 2
27:20 Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
32:19 Manhunt
35:08 Red Dead Revolver
39:44 Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
49:47 Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition
52:24 The Warriors
57:20 Bully
1:01:24 Conclusion - เกม
Clicked on this video expecting a 1-hour documentary on running animations. My disappointment is ruined, and my day is immeasurable
Disappointment 100
So excited for the marathon lmao
EDEN IS DISSAPOINTED
yooo i just watched your whole car brand ranking vod
Hey Justin EDEN why did you kick my friend from your discord server I'm not in for having a condition?
Rockstar was a huge part of what made the 2000s such a legendary period for gaming. Games really reached the pinnacle of gameplay vs development time.
the best run hands down is streets 1:12
reminder that most of the Rockstar guys who made the old good games did not make any of the new games
Growing up in the 2000s, Rockstar Games was THE gold standard for games. Where I live every computer that is used to play games has at least one GTA game installed (usually San Andreas). Anytime someone asked, "hey, I wanna start playing games. What should I start with?" they were always told to play at least one Rockstar game. Whether it was GTA or Max Payne or Midnight Club. They were inescapable and you couldn't help but get sucked in and enjoy it.
I used to look up to Rockstar. They were the only developer I ever fanboyed over. To watch them go from making such varied and high quality games throughout the 6th and 7th generation of consoles to just releasing 2 games for the 8th generation (I consider the PS4 and Xbox One versions of GTA V to be the definitive console versions of the game because the PS3/Xbox 360 consoles were holding the developers back and the PS5/Xbox Series X versions are just pointless). Watching them not honour their own legacy by releasing the awful Definitive Edition trilogy was what broke me. Then I found out that many of the writing team left Rockstar after Red Dead Redemption 2 and I learned about all the scrapped ideas and rumours about what GTA 6 was originally supposed to be and I couldn't blame them for leaving.
I want to believe that Take Two Interactive is responsible for the downfall of Rockstar Games but apart from just "they got greedy" we'll never know what led to the fall from grace. I do think GTA 6 will be a great game but I don't know if it'll surpass the standards of past greats like IV and San Andreas. And even if it does, it'll probably be the last good GTA. That's how little faith I have left in the developers.
Get the original Xbox ports of the first three gta games, they're objectively the best versions.
Still mad they've never bothered to rerelease the stories games, Chinatown wars, or the the first two gta games in any capacity, though honestly after the anniversary, rdr and definitive edition ports its probably for the best.
Wait what were the Gta 6 scrapped ideas and rumors about?
@@wolfboy20 Supposedly the game was set from the late 70s to the early 80s in Vice City and would have featured a story inspired by the Netflix series Narcos. As the years in game passed and the story progressed, the map and characters would change in different ways. New cars and buildings would show up, new songs would get added to the radio stations. Characters would visibly get older. Basically the world would feel more alive due to several things in it changing as in game time passed. Some of the vehicles and weapons which were meant to show up in this version of GTA 6 were said to be reused in GTA V in Online updates like in the Cayo Perico Heist update.
It is believed that these ideas were scrapped because Take Two Interactive thought that a period piece game would be harder to make online updates for and therefore would be harder to sell Sharkcards for (look at what happened to Red Dead Online). So they supposedly forced Rockstar Games to turn GTA 6 into another game set in modern times which, combined with the lack of single player DLC for GTA V and the constant focus on Online updates, possibly led to several members of the writing team for the GTA series leaving Rockstar Games. Those people basically felt like they no longer had as much control over the GTA series as they used to (they weren't even allowed to decide when the story would be set) so they left with some even forming their own studios (Absurd Ventures).
@@CyanRooperdamn. That's quite tragic.
Let's hope GTA 6 doesn't become a dumpster fire when it comes out. Cause if it did, we might witness a king get cut down by his pride.
@oper Oh yeah! I remember hearing about those features and time periods being in the game...damn it really blows when greed gets in the way of actual innovation and something more fresh. Tbh they could've just made the online portion modern day but then it would probably take even longer to make and release so they had no choice but to obilge... Fucking Take Two Man....Ugh 🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🖕🏿🖕🏿🖕🏿🖕🏿🖕🏿
Shame how he left the manhunt portion completely vague and undescribed. It's such a good game even after only getting like 30% of the actual amount of content and stuff that was planned out for the game but never made it past BETA. Definitely one of Rockstar's most bold and raw entries.
I used to find that game distasteful and glorifying violence. Now I realize it actually did quite the opposite, it's probably the only video game I've seen that made violence insanely uncomfortable and brutal to watch. It does, what I imagine, the most realistic portrayal of one of the worst things you could do to another person.
Bold is a fucking understatement.
When he said " Back in high school one of my friends spam pinged me on discord" Shit I felt it... I felt the youth leave my body, In my days my friends in highschool would spam paperballs at me to get my attention. (I was born in '92) for some context. 😅
You're still young
I'm 40, you're all making me feel old 😂
Shit I was born in 97 and it made ME feel old. Fuck
I'll never forget when I played GTA VC for the first time. That was the first Rockstar game I played, and it's what got me into their whole GTA series and the 80's music as well. I then found out that Rockstar also makes games dedicated to racing enthusiasts: Midnight Club.
Some time later, with me getting a bit tired of playing NFS games, I decided to give Midnight Club 2 and 3 a try. Man, the joy I felt when driving and boosting through the city with the incredible jams that they had, it was truly an amazing experience.
Rockstar Games, the Tony Hawk series, and later Guitar Hero & Rock Band had a chokehold on my childhood. Honorable mention to COD Modern Warfare and World at War as well. Simpler times before all the stress, trials & tribulations of adulthood (I'm 27 now, for context)
I think the main reasons everyone says GTA3 is the hardest of the OG Trilogy is the slow exit from upturned vehicles/ no diving out, no swimming and that GOD AWFUL auto-aim
In terms of player freedom; you've got _wayyy_ fewer restrictions re 'how you complete your missions' than 4 or 5.
As for which major Dev struck the most gold the last 2 and a bit decades, arguing for anyone other than Rockstar is a losing fight.
They are to the 6th and 7th gen of gaming what Tarrantino was to 90s and 00's Hollywood
The best contenders I could see for taking on Rockstar, especially for the 2000s, were Valve and EA, which is also why I put them in the intro.
name a mission in gta san andreas that a speedrunner completes the intended way
gta 3 is the hardest one because of some small issues like: having no map on pause menu, having no blips on minimap when you are near ammu-nation or pay'n'spray, aim is slightly offset from the center and some missions are straight up impossible to finish if you are not an experienced player (same can be applied for both vice city and san andreas but gta 3 is infamous for having some seriously unbalanced missions - especially near the end of the game - one of them is the mission with coffee boxes)
oh man thats how i know im old because gta 3 is like the easiest one for me
Nah bro EA had the game on lockkkkk
If I read your video right you produced this entire thing at the age of 18?
When I was 18, I could barely write a passable 2000 word essay - you've got a bright career in front of you mate.
Yeah this caught me off guard. I’ve been binge watching his content all night and he mentions a LOT of games which I had forgotten about like “midtown madness” and I was like oh SH*T” I played that game when I was like 5ish on my family’s first computer. This guy must be around my age. I’m about to turn 30. Midtown madness released on 1999.
The Warriors (game) were actually pretty famous in my country, especially in the city where I lived at the time. I think it kickstarted a bunch of elementary and middle school kids to form gangs and buy spray paints, myself included. I don't know if this gets me in trouble now, but It got to the point of us going to school with spray paints with the intention to write our gang initials on the back of the buildings, then meet up after school and spray some more elsewhere, covering existing gang paints (this is asking for a lot of trouble), and even having our own hangout akin to The Warriors.
PS2 rentals were pretty big in those days, which was how most kids were able to play the game (also from word of mouth). Mention any quote from the game, and someone will probably recognize it, "Oh shit, The Warriors, right?" or "Hey, that's Cleon!". Granted, the game arguably influenced us kids in a pretty bad way back then, but most of us have moved on. Though, the game is still somewhere in our hearts in a fun and warm memory kind of way, lmao.
Thanks for opening up these memories, awesome video!
Just being curious, which country are you from?
@@manuelrodriguez3166 Somewhere in Southeast Asia.
Good to know about that.
@@KaspersDomain are you from malaysia
@@uglify1325 Even if I was, I don't wanna dox myself at the moment.
*1990s, 2000s and 2010s kids never will forget these games.*
bro sneaked 2010 in there
2010s kids? lol
@@brendyn__2244the gen a's secretly playing gta 5 at their cousins house 💀
I can’t believe you’re 18 you’re making me feel old even tho i’m only 23 haha, i remember going to this kids house for a sleepover even though he was kinda a dick to me just because i knew he had San Andreas and movies like Paranormal Activity when i wasn’t allowed to play or watch stuff like that yet. I also remember playing GTA V on release at friends houses because their mom would buy it for them, but I couldn’t get it myself until it came out for PS4 and i ordered it online and snuck it past my parents 😭.
And dude, the mods for GTA IV went crazyyyy when i was a kid, the game took me days to torrent even though it was only like 10GB because my internet was REALLY slow even for 2010, but I kept it for years (🙏🏻 to Razor1911). Fond memories of LCPDFR + Iron Man mod, Carmageddon + Tsunami, and just doing dumb stuff like using a trainer to speed up my car to top speed and seeing how far I could fling Niko out of the windshield. I miss those days
He sounds like he's 30 haha
I'm 21, and I gotta agree, the amount of time I spent on modded GTA 4 was just too much. I also remember playing the Iron Man mod a LOT
I honestly think that the immense amount of 80's nostalgia we still see to this very day, arguably started with GTA Vice City.
Also i remember buying the Vice City soundtrack and wondering why i heard Hold the Line by Toto on the Flash FM disk when it didn't appear in game. (although it did appear in San Andreas)
I agree with this comment. GTA Vice City was my first GTA game and I had played the game when I was around 8.
I was so confused when Hold The Line was mentioned in the VC section when it was in SA, but I realized it was supposed to be for VC at the time. Luckily we got Africa instead!
They still held the rights 🎉
Watched your Midnight Club doc/breakdown yesterday, excited to see this one m8
The music in Midnight Club 2 is amazing!
Red Dead Revolver was my favorite game when it came out. The reason why it's so unlike the other Rockstar games around it is because Capcom was originally making it but cancelled it then Rockstar bought it, finished it, & released it.
Skill issue on the Vice City RC missions and the airplane flight school bro
Love that MF DOOM remake beat ❤
Oh man that Don't Be A Menace / SA meme, perfection
I remember playing all the hard missions but you eventually learn the "trick" to em & then you're asking yourself, "How did I ever have difficulty with that?" Like chasing the Vagos on the train is SUPER easy once you figure it out, same with the RC missions, stunt schools, etc. Still though, a handful of missions don't have an easy trick & really come down to luck. I still get nervous when I have to play Kingdom Come in GTAIII.
4:44 bruh this guys editing is GOLDEN!😮
amazing video as usual! really enjoy long form content like this
i recently found your channel while looking into some racing games. You have some incredible quality in your content, keep it up, i was surprised to see your channel to be so underrated.
Man the quality of this video is absolutely incredibly. Keep it up! I loved it :)
WWAIT WAIT WAIT YOUR 18? wth
Good video, bit being born 2006 is a huge L
@SWOTHDRA It let's me review these games without any nostalgia glasses
Very interesting! Awesome video, really high quality production!
Man, I loved your editing. Awesome content too.
Great video man. An hour long video with very solid analysis of Rockstar. Keep up the great work.👍
UltraViolet and your video essays/analysis' are on a different level, well done keep it up!
Bro these transitions are top notch keep up the good work just got yourself a new fan.
I like the im sorry music by Tyler in the background
Btw great video as always
One of my fav content creators
This was a pleasure to watch, and to have a stroll down memory lane with u. Also u have good taste in music
Hell yeah love your videos man
Yeah no, your video took away me feeling old. You are a man of culture, love how you present all of the music with love. I like and subbed. Hope your next ad deal doesnt fall through
i'm glad i finally stumbled upon a good long-form video about a topic i'm passionate about. kind of sad about the small time spent talking about the midnight club games, but everything else is really good; the writing really impressed me, and the editing is simple but effective. love it, keep it up!
I didn't talk about them for long because I already made a video just on Midnight Club.
@@Fastminer07 yeah, i saw! definitely gonna check it out soon
I love that Trigun colorless sky you used for your intro into the Red Dead Revolver
Dude, you're absoLUTELY nailing the "long-form documentary youtuber" format. Your input and research is above board, and thus you're very intetesting to listen to. Keep it up man!
The only games from this list that I actually played was GTA SA & Max Payne 1 (and also GTA IV lol but it don't count), and yeah, Rockstar absolutely SLAYED it back in the day. I _gotta_ try out MC at some point
This video is perfection. Glad i was recommended this
This video is fantastic, it's like a bunch of smaller reviews all at once
It was a really nice video!! Loved it!! Your videos are amazing
To this day I feel like they are still on a great streak as far as game releases go for rockstar, games like red dead 1, max Payne 3, gta 4, gta 5, and red dead 2 are fantastic games, curious to see what gta 6 will bring, great video!
I think i fell asleep to this video because it was fully watched yet i dont remember 😅 so here's another watch! Love this content
When you were talking about how Midnight Club 3 had that appeal to both racing fans and non racing fans. I fully agreed with you because that’s one of the things that made the game so good. From the outside it had that appeal where it was a fun racing game that can be played by anyone from different backgrounds and genres like you said. Yet from the inside it still had many key components and features that helped make this game a solid racing game for all the die hard racing fans as well. This isn’t related to this video. But whenever I see a “problem with modern racing games” type of video. Everyone always talks about how we’re missing this and we’re missing that. But no one talks about how most racing games just simply aren’t that fun anymore and how they also lost that appeal to other non racing fans. I think if some racing games could go back to having that appeal where it could be played by anyone while still having that key characteristics of what makes a racing game a racing game, without sacrificing the core fanbase, and trying to make it a fun experience just like the Midnight Club games did. It would probably change up the whole atmosphere and mood of the newer games, and might make the experience a lot more better and fun for the player imo.
Overall this video was really good. I enjoyed watching it. The editing was nice and very clean. I noticed there was also some funny moments in here as well. Especially when you talked about the flying missions from Vice City. Well actually that probably wasn’t funny to you but it was to me sorry lol. Also this might seem like a hot take. But I think this is your best video yet!
*6:35** my older brother was have that GTA 2 CD.* Gosh... i still these days loved to GTA 2 Short Movie Intro.
after a vinesauce clip and roulé in the back on an other video, you hit me with the trigun ost
I absolutely love the fact that you used Frankenstein from Junkie Xl from the first Forza. Hidden gem.
You really sparked an interest in The Warriors game with this video. I always neglected it, thinking it was some weird quirky attempt of R* to enter the movie game market.
Great music selection!
What i really want to see from this guy is a Burnout series vid
The one series i've absolutely adored alongside the NFS & Forza franchise
You won't have to wait very long then (although knowing me, you will still have to wait some time)
That's fine
I can wait
Great video well made great edits 😅
Love the content👌🏼
started watching you last year, MY GOD bro the editing scripting music choice everything is great! I saw bully for the fist time over 12 years ago and i only just finished it this week, old rockstar just slaps SOOOO well
Rockstar games rocks🎸
great video my friend!!! also i noticed you are using davinci resolve like me.
58:26 i thought somebody spamming my discord!!!! WHAT
55:00 cool to see where that Regular Show reference came from...
Hearing the FM1 theme for the edit of all the rockstar games made me very happy
(I've been a long time forza fan, but I started with FM3 and FH1, so I'ma ask) that's it's main theme?
The editing of this video is so good. Good job man.
Big ups to the Forza Motorsport cover of Frankenstein being used in the beginning, I’ll never forget that cover as long as I live.
I've wanted to use Frankenstein for a hot minute, and when I found a good cover that wasn't in Content ID, I knew I had to use it.
@@Fastminer07 the ZZ Top cover they did was hot shit too, Motorsport 1 had absolute banger songs!
bro you got some impeccable taste in music im not even gon hold you
Was a little surprised by your age, great content from such a young person is refreshing, it wasn't really on my mind til you brought it up buying your first nintendo system. To the moon bud, hope your channel keeps growing.
Love the use of the FM1 music to introduce Rockstar.
Alright hold on, the transition in Max Payne 2 was solid as hell. Sat there in awe for a moment.
Finally, i have found another channel that uploads banger video essays on games. The next 3 months are gonna be a cruise.
I've got some smaller videos planned after this one (mainly cause of how big this was), but I've got a couple big things planned this year.
@@Fastminer07 I mean hey... You're channel dude, I'm just a part of the audience. And anyways, seems to me you have a jam packed Arsenal of long format essays... So I'm content!!
I mean yeah, I make these mainly for my personal enjoyment, but since I'm not full time yet, the only way I can keep making them like I have is if people watch them.
@@Fastminer07 trust me mate, judging by the quality of this video, the only direction you will be venturing towards is up
As soon as I heard one of the themes from Uncut Gems in the background I had to watch the whole video
Transition at 27:15 was smoooooooth, great video.
I would love to see a video similar style with the later rockstar games
A very well made video arguably they have had the best run
Its always nice to see this dude pop up in my recommeneded. He provides superb presentation, great analysis and excellent commenatary, and honestly? That got me to subscribe to him. Keep up the amazing work bro.
Great documentary, keep up the good work. But I was expecting State of Emergency to be in this video.
I made this specific list from my last video on Rockstar called "The Greatest Franchise Rockstar Abandoned" were I gotta bunch of comments that were "umm actually, the best franchise they abandoned was ____________" and so I tallied them up, threw in Midnight Club and GTA cause I already knew they were good, then sat down and played them all for the first time. So stuff like State of Emergency, Oni, and Beaterator got cut, that and this video was already way too long.
Great video actually!
so glad you shouted out fever, no one mentions that station and it's soooo good
Ikr
@@Fastminer07 if fever makes a return in VI they better keep it up
true
I'd say RGG Studio Is Having One Of The Greatest Runs as Of Right Now With The Yakuza/LAD/Judgement Games.
I am yet to play the Yakuza games, but all my friends have said really good things about them
@@Fastminer07 go play Yakuza 0 right now, such a good game
49:47 yall have no idea how intense my chills got when this played haha
Great vid Brudda
i remember friends calling me over to beat the vicy city rc chopper mission haha
4:54 fm1 soundtrack used for background music. instant sub
Im ngl it triggered me a disproportionate amount that you showed Max Payne footage without bullet time leaping a single time 😂
Idk why, I didn't really use leaping much in my playthroughs
W. This was emotional man.
Bully is literally in my top 10 games of all times i really recommend you give it another try one day. Also play the PC version it has more content
the presentation in this video is very good lol
20:48 I cannot believe that you did not include Billie Jean in the entire segment you showcased Vice City's Soundtrack!
I will have to revisit Vice City's soundtrack, as I don't recall it that well, but SA's is definitely my favourite. I recall several instances of me playing that game and just taking a car/bike for a ride through the desert/mountains listening to the radio. Suffice to say, I have the whole thing on my personal playlist. Also, you might want to give LCS and VCS a try, as I also recall picking up some great songs in the latter. As a side note, somehow I know barely anything about the Midnight Club series, despite spending countless hours in NFSU, U2, and MW, and replaying each one several times. I don't even recall running into them on TH-cam before for whatever reason, but then again, maybe I did, but never paid attention to them.
8:00 either A or 2, love it
i mean not that their 2006-2018 run has been bad either just few releases and too much focus on gta online but every release they make changes videogames still today
I just finished the video but I gotta comment on how fire that intro scene was, 2000s Rockstar is probably a record yet to be broken. I'd even argue they kept the run going until just after GTA V.
yup
GTAO kinda put an end to that streak. Which makes Rockstar's standing so disfavorable in my eyes.
Of course there's fun to be had with Online, and RDR2 is an amazing game
but the time between games and just the scummy things they've done for so long is just. Something i can't vibe with
Love the use of Dust Devil during the GTA 3 section, I love that song :3
wait, what?
@@Fastminer07 th-cam.com/video/enjV3AR5Wag/w-d-xo.html d code by dust devil
oh ok, I didn't know that was the name, I just knew it as an old Adult Swim bumper theme
Never thought you downloaded one of my dupes thanks! ^^
Was it the Skyline?
@@Fastminer07 My OC named Asriel. In case you forgot is at 1:06
@aevhronemeggy_official That was just the downloadable dupe list, I don't have any of them.
@@Fastminer07 Oh oops my bad heh.
I think tactical bacon production video reviewing all GTA SA missions is pretty solid
Fever 105, Bounce FM and Space 103.2 are legendary
Here at 35.8k subs, love the editing style, also GTA SA is the goat no debate😂
Regarding that car in Caesar mission in San Andreas, originally the devs intended to use a helicopter to go there and take those picture from helicopter that's why carl and caesar are screaming at each other when you're clicking the pictures. Amd they thought how did Caesar got a chopper anyway? So they replaced the chopper with that lowrider amd I suppose the code of having the mission fail when you leave the helicopter got carried over.
Persona 5 background is immaculate mate nice
you deserve way more subs
Woah, never heard of somebody using Forza 1s music for a video and I love it! Idk if you’ve reviewed it but you should!
I've only played FM3 on, and I recently reviewed FM8, but I might do a full series review at some point
@@Fastminer07 You should check one and two out, one is pretty good, while two is just the same as one but it’s in HD
I wanted to try 1, but I cant get an Xbox emulator to run it properly, and the caps in my OG Xbox exploded, so i guess I'll just have to wait to get another one.
rip, runs on the 360 last i remember
Hearing you say 3DS was your first Nintendo console when you were 13 makes me feel very old
We could be the parentd of this new TH-camrs wave
I'll never forget the day my dad bought me a ps2 with vice city, san andreas and gta 3 they all came in one small box, it was so nostalgic especially when i wake up early in the morning and play san andreas i remember writing down the cheat codes on a small note pad
Loved this video
Yo! love the video. Do you think you could do a doc/analysis on rdr2? There’s so much to unpack in that game and could make for a really interesting video
I haven't gotten around to playing it, so it'd be a while before I do, I'd say NakeyJakey already did a pretty good job at that though
I played a lot of The Warriors back in 2006 when I was 11. I wasn't mature enough for it though. lol
You play max Payne very oddly, but I loved this video 😍
Other people mentioned it, the leaping felt odd in the PS2 version of MP1, so I just got used to not using it
San Andreas soundtrack is the best by far - 90s rap and of course "It's a nice day for a white wedding" always played whenever i was flying the planes around the map
How did you not add video killed the radio star to the music portion of vice city! Your videos are fucking awesome btw
Algorithm decided to serve me your video, and I decided to sink an hour of my life into it, and I don't regret it. Well done, keep up the good work.