The Death of Midnight Releases | Asmongold Reacts
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- Asmongold Reacts to: The Death of Midnight Releases
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New version of midnight releases is folks take off work, sit at home waiting for game to go live, queue for hours just to log in, get booted, then servers go down for maintenance.
😂
Always request the day after release for this exact reason
My PoE2 experience.. Lol
There is another version of it. Calling off work, sitting around in discord with a community having a blast waiting for the game to go live and seeing who can get in first and then having a blast running through the game with other people seeing who can find what cool thing first.
@@beldareaverthat’s why I took 2 weeks off and it was my best holidays
"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good ol' days before you actually left them."
This right there hit me straight to my soul...
I think there is. But most of us fail to realise
Same. The 1990's and 2000's were different. Everybody always says that their youth was "the good old days" but the 90's and 00's actually were. It was like a golden age for the west. Technology was advancing rapidly, food was cheap, economies were good, kids had amazing games but still played outside, social media hadn't turned everyone into angry clowns because it hadn't been invented yet, everyone was optimistic and felt the future was even brighter than the present.
Like based on my age I should have 45+ years left (assuming I don't get Final Destinationed), but I'd trade every fucking one of them if I could just have 1999-2009 again with a memory wipe. It sucks now. And I'm not even old yet! I'm still in my early 30's and fit and healthy!
You are always in the good ol days. The only thing that will change about the times you're in is your perspective when you are past them. You won't be experiencing all of the challenges you are facing today. Instead of waiting for your perspective to change change it now by accepting that you live in good times and you can find ways to enjoy your life today that you will look back on in the future with gratitude .
You feel it but understand later
if youre having fun, its the good old days
I feel bad for people who didn't get to experience not only ~2000 - 2010 internet culture, but also gaming culture. It was a special time, and it will never happen again. E3 back then was something else, won't even try to explain it.
amen brother
I’m so thankful I grew up pre cell phone era. I experienced actual life as a child
Mid 2000s was crazy
2000s were awesome gaming years
i remember watching gamespot coverage of e3 back in the days, it made me so happy every year
Made a really good friend on Halo 2. His gamer tag was Blindboy67. Have so many great memories playing with him and his cousin LimitlessTuna. We actually talked about meeting up but unfortunately it never came to pass. He joined the army and was an EOD specialist. He was killed in action Feb 28th 2011 by a roadside bomb. I had only just talked to him a week prior. I still think about him and tear up. Glad I got to know you at least Chris. RIP
Was he blind?
😢
@@strategygalactic why?
F
So sorry man
There was no DEI, no division, no culture war; just gamers of all different backgrounds united with the same hobby.
@@fandreastisch yet act ma'am calls for more forced DEI in games out of spite
Those were beautiful times my friend
Yeah all we had were console wars
Think about which political party brought this crap into our lives. How much division they've caused.
There were no grifter youtubers you mean
If mass effect 1 came out today those inbeed dweebs would call it woke
Whats interesting is that nobody is trashing the store or disrespectful to workers. Like these guys were hyper but they werent mean or in your face or irritable they were just having fun
As someone that used to take part in midnight releases I can attest that nobody wants to add more hours to their wait.
That is because the latest generation of kids is total garbage. Not nice to say but it’s the truth.
@@danriedi7653 Hey old and wise person, tell us how it was like to survive the black friday back in the days? Isn't that black friday is just another midnight release?
@csmlouis pretty easy just very crowded. Me and my family went to many. Also it wasn't at midnight, and mostly not game related so I don't see the relevancy of what you're getting at.
Comparing the pokemon thing to a midnight game release is just disingenuous. The pokemon thing was more akin to a new console release and there have been fist fights and stabbings at those going back as far as at least the PS1.
I miss the time when people didn´t feel physically threatened by ideas they didn't agree with.
It sucks when things are forced down your throat
People are way softer than they know.
@@popajoekiller There's a joke in there somewhere xD
@@hunger4wonder yea. (Gay agenda “things down throat)
True, we just understood that we all have different experiences that shape our perspectives….And it’s okay to have different opinions.
That’s me at 30:26 . I was 16 and with my 13 year old brother on our way to EB Games.
I’m now 37 and married with 2 kids and a 3rd on the way. Still gaming as much as I can!
Hopefully you got your teeth fixed
Nice bro, i have the same stats, just one year ahead with the 3rd already plopped. All you other nerds need to make having a family top priority at all costs.
Beautiful memories ❤
@@PresidentBiIICIinton Yep! Got braces junior year 🤣
@@user-tm8jt2py3d Awesome! I’m just waiting for mine to get old enough to game so that I can game with them. That’s gonna be the best.
I was a store manager with GameStop for over 10 years mostly in Dallas. Midnight launches were the favorite part of my job. It sucks we had to hound for reservations but that just got us more copies to sell. Madden 2007, Guitar Hero World Tour, Halo 2, 3 and Reach, Skyrim, COD MW2, GTA4 and Gears 2 were some great ones. Hell, I remember having a mini midnight release for Mass Effect because we had a few regulars who were excited. I had a mall store at this time and we all sat on the floor and played Portal from the Orange Box from close until midnight. We just let everyone in since it was a small launch. So many stories. Great times!
Big downside of all the technology and online connectivity, we lose a lot of those human connections
I've been WFH since covid and I love it, but I definitely don't have the same relationships with my coworkers
'I was a store manager with GameStop for over 10 years mostly in Dallas. Midnight launches were the favorite part of my job. It sucks we had to hound for reservations but that just got us more copies to sell. Madden 2007, Guitar Hero World Tour, Halo 2, 3 and Reach, Skyrim, COD MW2, GTA4 and Gears 2 were some great ones. Hell, I remember having a mini midnight release for Mass Effect because we had a few regulars who were excited. I had a mall store at this time and we all sat on the floor and played Portal from the Orange Box from close until midnight. We just let everyone in since it was a small launch. So many stories. Great times.. !
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Super great times!
@@NikkoKnight703 thats cool. thanks for sharing
bot, yall gotta stop falling for this 😭
This bot post has more likes than the actual post from the real person. smh
It wasn't just gaming either, I remember my wife dragging me to borders for midnight releases of books, and all those people cosplaying and such especially twilight at the time. Those were some fun times
I got stuck working at the midnight release of the Deathly Hallows book when I worked at walmart but they did put me in charge of that event so I got to wear a wizard robe and hat that was fun spent 4 hours doing trivia contests and giving out prizes and thankfully one of the people in line saved me a copy of the book and once I clocked out I spent the rest of the night reading, I had the whole book finished right as my mom was waking up and just handed it to her telling her not to wake me up or I will spoil it for her lol
Yup, I lived the Harry Potter book releases as small youngin. With all the amazing merch and treats and special events for kids. It was a magical time, there was always something to be excited for and join in celebrating with like-minded people.
loved borders, used to spend hours there
If I had to pick one store I really miss, it would be Borders.
@cyanmage1 how did you read an entire book in one night??? I remember back when that book came out i was at the release with my family. My mom said her coworkers read the whole thing and were talking about it at work 1-2 days later and it blew me away back then too lol
The midnight releases are so much better now, you log in when servers go live then go to bed when the servers crash immediately
Yeah, one thing is midnight nights and another for how game You could do that???
@@karelstehlik633english.
Lol, sounds bout right
Not all games require servers 😅
What makes me sad is that you absolutely could make midnight releases a thing again. There's no reason why a company that saw the viral value in doing a proper old school midnight release couldn't bring it back by only selling physical first and only at midnight local time, but even if some company did make that bold decision it wouldn't be the same. A midnight release today would be hours of people looking down at their phones standing in line not talking to each other. We were the ones that changed. That's what hurts about it.
That's the sad truth that people don't like to acknowledge. For as much as you can hate the companies themselves for live service, DLC, unfinished games, the loss of midnight releases and everything else the real fact is that the reason these things exist, or where lost, is because gamers themselves enabled them or caused them to be lost. Wouldn't have unfinished games or live service garbage if gamers didn't tolerate it for so long, GameStop wouldn't be closing it's locations if gamers would just go buy physicals instead of staying at home all day on Steam, the XBox store or the PlayStation store. Same thing for midnight releases.
I work at GameStop, no one shows up cuz u can just buy it digitally lol
You were forced to do midnight release because it was physical copies. After maybe an initial cool factor, most people would realize standing outside in a line for hours is lame when you can just pre-download on steam
@emotionalfriend3864 you got discord?
They can't do midnoght releases anymore because they need the pre-order money to determine how much money they will spend on marketing the game. The system is too different now.
Respect for his mom making a core memory for him.
Man I lived in middle of nowhere. No walmart, no game stop, basically nothing. There was one video game / movie store and that’s we had to go for tbc and wrath. I’ll never forget my friends and I walked up expecting us and maybe one or two basement dwellers, but we were greeted by like 50 people waiting in line in this small store. At first they were letting people in to wait because it was cold in Ohio, but soon the front of the store was packed and they locked the door and the rest of us had to wait outside. As we waited the owner came out and said one game per customer we are running low, then came back out and said we only have 10 copies left. So my one friend got the last one and he roaches out on us. The rest of us drove an hour in a snow storm to the nearest 24/7 Walmart. The whole way there we worried they would be out too. Luckily they had plenty and we got there about 1:30 and by the time we got home it was probably around 3 the next few days we were dead to the world. What a time and adventure. Wrath wasn’t as fun but that was a story itself. Mannn I miss those days
“letting their aspergers run wild”
That is peak truth and comedy
Imagine if some publisher decided to do first-week releases as ONLY physical copies, then digital stuff comes out, incentivizing in-person sales.
Executives are very boring people. Just imagine the most boring, corpo manager you've ever had and multiply the boring stat. That is most people who climb the corpo ladder. The more of them I meet, the more depressing the world of work becomes to me. I'm not convinced an idea like this would ever get approved. Sad times.
I got the same thoughts, maybe for like really big games ( gta, Red Dead or concord 2😂)
Most PCs don't even have a CD player anymore, what do you expect?
@@gonzaloguzmanmontana4758ill never understand the complaint about physical copies no longer being available. I've got two huge tote cases packed full of Gameboy, gba, snes, n64, Playstation, GameCube, ps2, Xbox, Xbox 360, ps3, ps4, and even umds for psp and vita games. Oh forgot ds. They weigh an absurd amount, they're a massively annoying hurdle to move should I want to go through em, which I almost never do, and that's just the games lol. Physical media got outdated when we learned to emulate. Yet for some reason I don't just throw it all away 😅
No AAA publisher would do that, because sales for that week would be very low since majority of people just purchase digitally nowadays
I worked at a Gamestop in my teens and remember many midnight releases. The one that stood out most was MGS2 in 2001, because we had a line a mile long and 2 boxes of the game ended up being misdelivered to another Gamestop 30 minutes away. So at 11pm, my boss asked who could drive fastest, I raised my hand and was told "GO!" and I ran out of the store and tore out of the parking lot. Made it back at 11:50. Riots averted.
Lmao what a great story. You’re a hero
@@Shiestey Not really. I was 18 and was given a justification to drive like I was on a racetrack. Still a fun memory though.
Something that gets forgotten about 2000's gaming was that there was a legitimate stigma (especially in normie circles) attached to being a gamer. Unless you lived in a big progressive, urban center or were under the age of 15, being a gamer was something you did not want to broadcast. There was a guy at my work who got outed as a WOW player and he got ruthlessly mocked for a long time. You were basically seen as a loser who "had no life." This video showed a few times that news hosts who would interview these guys waiting in line for midnight releases would often openly mock and make snide remarks to these guys. You can TH-cam it. They were kind of seen as the lowest of the low. God bless 'em they were the honest-to-God nerds who got overshadowed by the "OMG, I'm such a nerd" phenomenon that would follow in the 2010s. These guys were the trailblazers.
The girls were brutal back then, constantly mocking dudes who play video games. It's crazy that it's now filled with activists, feminists, and onlyfans cosplayers when they realised there's profit and influence in this "nerdy" activity.
@@3starherotranslation717 Dude I knew guys in college who would hide their xbox on Friday night in case they brought a girl home lol. A "gamer girl" was completely unheard of and video games were 100% seen as an impediment to getting a girlfriend. To be fair, I'm pretty sure the purple-haired activist games these days don't actually like video games either.
Man those were truly the golden years of gaming, no micro-transactions no virtue signalling, no DEI bullshit just you and mates going out and having a blast.
I got smoke blown in my face by the cinematic director of Blizzard at the London midnight opening for Wrath while he was recording crowd footage. I was close to the front (10th in queue of 2000) so he and a group of us were chatting for a few hours that night while the clock ticked down.
He then joined us for a quick play session at an internet cafe in Soho after the event. Best evening of playing WoW I ever had!
So you mean Thors dad.
Wait seriously?! Cool!
Almost had an ambulance called for me because my bullshit asthma was acting up but I'd wager that was as much about being in a queue for 17 hours as it was the dude smoking in my general vicinity.
Either way, a few years back I said hi to him on Reddit and he apologized when I mentioned it.
If i had a time machine, i'd go back to the 90s and early 00s and when everytime that Era was about to end, i would just go back and do it all over again.
Forever 90s/00s
I bought Call of Duty MW2 and got the cool nightvision googles
I bought GTA 4 and got the gym bag and lock box
I bought a modern game and got a skin that they will release to everyone in a week.
Midnight releases used to be awesome but like everything game related that awesome time was a long time ago
Elden Ring came out a few years ago, wtf are you talking about?
Just because you are old and jaded doesn’t mean everything is poo-poo. C’mon.
@@MercurialStatic Everything related to gaming community wise and customer focused wise has gotten far worse. Maybe you weren't alive for the 2000s but stuff has changed drastically
@@ThePresidentDonaIdJTrumpbeen playing since the 90s, you guys are just chicken-littling at this point.
Have some things gotten worse? Yeah, No questions. To act like some of the greatest games that have ever been made werent released in the last 15 years is just being intentionally ignorant tho.
@@MercurialStatic You make such a good point. Let's all clap our hands for Elden Ring, and the other games that weren't complete garbage, all 7 of them.
@@MercurialStatic
>The gaming industry is great because elden ring
Lol
I dressed up as a waste lander for the midnight release of Fallout 3. I was the only one in line that dressed up. The manager gave me the only promo pack that the store got. It was a T-shirt, stickers, lunch box, soundtrack CD, and some other stuff like key chains. What a crazy time to be alive.
I meet some of the best friends in my life waiting for Halo and Call of Duty, we still play together almost 20 years later.
In 10 years we will remember how we watched peacefully Asmongold videos on TH-cam and they were not streamed into our brains with unskippable ads every minute.
The sad part is thinking about all of the actual footage that was lost due to phones getting lost/shattered and never restored. I can imagine there used to be tons of footage of that CoD event, but im willing to bet a lot of it wasn't backed up or saved properly.
Considering it was in North Carolina they probably used live rounds
Smart phones weren't even a thing when TBC released. Camera phones existed but video/photo quality was still fairly potato.
@@j0nnyism HEY.... you're probably right...
For Cataclysm launch here in Greece, they did a very cool midnight launch, you had to buy the game inside and take a receipt outside where they were literally unloading the truck in teh dark and ripping open pallets to hand individual games to the crowd along with a limited edition t-shirt. Cool shit.
Not cool enough. Would have been better if your monarch was there passing them out.
@@strategygalactic ok that actually does sound cool though
That kinda reminds me of when The Lion King was released on video. I went to the Suncoast Motion Picture Company in the local mall where I had pre-ordered the movie and after I showed them my receipt a man who was opening boxes of the cassettes took one out and gave it to me.
I was a very happy person that day.
I'll never forget the midnight release of Halo 2 at Gamestop RWC. I waited for 6 hours, 1st in line. When the time finally came, I was the very first person in my city to get Halo 2. When I came out of the store, the crowd all cheered like crazy for me. A bunch of people all saying "hell ya", "niiice" and patting me on the back. They were treating me like a fuckin celebrity, and that was so damn special to me. Such an amazing experience that I will never forget. Had my buddies over at my girl's house n we all played the game ALL NIGHT. I miss those good ol' days.
Back in the day we used to go to the store and buy a copy of a game that came in the form of a disc with amazing art, was packaged in a plastic case, came with a highly informative instruction book, had an amazing cover art and loads of gameplay images on the back, and if you were lucky it also came with extra stuff like a poster or codes for extra content. And when you weren’t even playing the game you could display the case with the other copies of games you collected over time.
Those were the days…..
One of my favorite memories is the midnight release for Black Ops 2.
The GameStop employees brought us over to the Dave and Busters in the mall, and we played private match FFA and zombies while we waited for it to hit midnight. Was such a great time
Like BO2 local MP and Zombies?
That's pretty awesome.
@Wesmoen yeah, 4 player split screen on a projector and we would pass the controllers around. Definitely my most unique experience when it comes to games.
I also went to the midnight release of Destiny 1, but they didn't do anything cool like that
@@BobAllen11232 haa cool!
My local mall's Gamestop setup for us to play Halo 3 ODST multiplayer in Barnes n Noble for ODST's midnight launch until midnight. We were even given free coffee and hot chocolate from the Starbucks there. It was awesome!
I miss gaming culture in the early 2000s. Honestly, I'd be very happy if the world got stuck in a timeloop 2000-2007. F smartphones, social media, AI and what not BS we deal with today. People say now that digital downloads and streaming saves time, which is objectively true, but back then you met like minded people in videogame or dvd stores. A lot more things could happen when you were outside on your way to said destinations compared to today when people are just doomscrolling, waiting for the game to download or the food delivery guy to come.
Sad times man. Ironic that something like social media has connected us all, and at the same time has pushed us further apart. God dayum
@@SiStockbridge Yeah Bro From One Word Of Hatred,Envy And Jealously It Spread Like A Wildfire In Social Media That Can Apart Our Harmony And Joy Community Instantly. That Gonna Existing Bad Debate Of Games, Toxic Games Community And Hater Of Potentially Video Games In Our New Generation Of Gamer.
Nothing worth a midnight release now
GTA 6 maybe.
@@redpanda416 not even that
@ Yeah, that'll be the first game in a while that has an explosive release. And it'll probably be the last for long time too!! 😅
Books
It's gonna be ass and digital only@@redpanda416
I was a manager at a GameStop at the Quarry Market in San Antonio (2010-2012). I brought a metal Mega Man cover band to play for the original Black Ops midnight release...so loud yet so amazing! There's a video on YT the band posted somewhere. Miss those days
Japan used to have so many midnight releases too, but now they're totally gone. Still missing those days though.
this is in contrast with the latest Pokemon card collection release.
Everyone chilled, exchanged stories, making fun and (almost) no fights.
Few days ago, middle aged men fightning each other in public for a piece of cardboard which is reprinted in a few weeks.
Obviously people shouldn't be fighting over pokemon cards, but Black Friday sales back in the day literally had people getting trampled and hospitalized. It's not a new phenomenon.
i miss the 2000s - 2010s so much
WAI R U GAI?
Future is now Old Man.
The internet was really like the wild west back then.
@@wok-sy6dd It might be now, but doesn't mean its better lmao
I’d go back
Back in the day, gaming brought people together in real life, as multiplayer games required a local connection.
This fostered real-world interactions and unity, unlike today, where everything is the opposite.
True Bro, Truly Opposite Nowadays Same As Fans Of Cartoon Animation Too.
MW2. Man. To go back and play that again in its prime.
Movies used to also be like this, when any star wars was released in theaters were massive lines and waiting and celebration now its just ZZZ
Snow day after a midnight release is divine intervention.
I remember going to the midnight launch of Black Ops 1 at a Gamestop. It was cold as hell and there was a crowd around the block. They got hot chocolate catered, bought pizza for everyone, hired a DJ who was taking requests. They hosted a mini PvP tournament and Zombies on other screens for people to play. They gave out free copies of the game to the winning team and the zombies team who made it the farthest.
It was insanity in the best ways possible, and I wouldn't have it any other way
The midnight release was too often followed by the 9 am return
I had a lot of great experiences waiting in those lines with friends and then playing the game all night and usually the next day missing work or school.
F RIP F
9 am return???
Did you have parents?
@@2006Mercury buy the game. Find out it stinks. Wait for the store to open to return it
@@Happiness-lp9fw No I was here when the Universe was formed
@@davidsgoliath4605 You cant return an opened game..
You KNOW yo mom letting you play your favorite game together until 6 in the morning only to find out the next day is a snow day is a core memory. Wholesome af.
I just cried over a video about midnight releases
best midnight release i've ever attended was definitely for guitar hero 3. the local gamecrazy brought a projector out to the parking lot and hosted a guitar hero 2 competition. not the longest line i've seen, which was probably for either wrath or cata, but what a memory.
GameCrazy was the best. Cheaper games, better trade in value, and your parents could get a movie to rent next door. What a time!
I feel sad for the generations that never got to experience the midnight releases. This was a time before the internet, before it was socially acceptable to play games. You were generally considered a nerd or an outcast. Midnight releases were a time when you could come together with other people who shared your hobby and celebrate it.
Everything had so much more life before the internet existed
Good those times ended.
It was ass tho
@@toasterenthusiast6188it was dei
There's to many white males that aren't gay
Literally everyone if those videos had to many white people do these bitter people
I bet the one with the rapper was also to much toxic masculinity
Idealogs ruined games and why would they want their game to have a crowd of straight white males clamoring waiting to get their hands on the game. They make games to piss these guys off so they can get their rocks off it's insane how these people are still in their positions
Don't confuse nostalgia with sadness, these memories need to be remembered with joy and happiness.
Nostalgia is specifically linked and intertwined with sadness. It was considered a mental illness for 350 years, until governments and companies realised that it could be used to manipulate people. The nearest condition to nostalgia is mal du suisse, which is a more intense form of homesickness.
I only went to a couple of them but my last midnight release I went to was Skyrim. Most of the time was spent in line outside the store in the cold, but it was still just such a fun and hype time. I was in uni at the time and would bring my console to my friend’s dorm room and we’d just play our own copies together and geek out over all the stuff we did/found. I feel bad for people who won’t get to experience that gaming culture again.
Damn this makes me miss my mom. She got me the ps2 version of the GTA trilogy back in the day knowing damn well how violent it was. Her only stipulation for me playing was that she be allowed to watch while I play Vice City so she could listen to the 80s music.
surprisingly, the GameStop near me still does the occasional midnight release for bigger titles like main series mario, zelda, pokemon, etc. but whenever i ask the manager who's worked there for almost 20 years if anything else is getting a midnight release he usually says 'i tried but corporate wouldnt give us clearance for it'. Can always tell hes pretty bumbed about it too.
We peaked so hard
Like a high school quarter back
Read this comment the same time the lsd starting working!
The Matrix the computers invented said the peak of humanity was the Modern Warfare 4 release.
Speak for yourself. I haven't even started to peak.
Protip: when waiting in line just start yelling "LARRY!" and moving forward in line
Aah the Impractical Jokers trick
@@arpanmahapatra342 Seems pretty practical to me
Doesn't work in this situation. Nobody would allow it.
Scoopsie Potatoes
30:30 "I must confess I'm going 30 over the speed limit right now." MKBHD: About that...
Why was this vid hidden for a bit? I was mid watch and reloaded 😭
20th century was a cultural golden age. Video game quality lasted a little bit longer til about 2010 as its a new medium.
Went to a GTAV midnight release at a local PA gamestop. It was a great time. Good vibes, excited people, Redbull van with Redbull girls, games, prizes, and I won every prize because my knowledge of GTA lore was impeccable back then. I even sold some of my winnings to others there and it paid for my big boy edition of GTAV. Good memories…
Redbull girls handing out free Redbull is enough reason for me to attend.
I miss the LAN parties we used to have back in the day. In the summer one friend in the group would have a sleep over with 8-12 kids and his parents would let us set up couches in the backyard with multiple TV's and Xbox's and we'd play the original Halo till the sun came up. It was the only way to play Halo with more than 4 people at a time. It was literally the most fun I have ever had gaming. 2 couches, 2 Xbox's, 2 TV's back to back (so you can't map watch) and 8 friends at sunset in July.
1990 - 2010 were the best years ever. The golden ages.
i think the best decade of gaming was the 2000's
We were playing Diablo, StarCraft, and Warcraft 3 when they announced World of Warcraft.. $10 monthly, we decided we can't afford it. We thought that was the beginning of Blizzards greed little did we know
When buying a game actually feels like you won the olympics! People clapping for your purchase! Man what a feeling
The worst part of it now is I can't remember the last time I got a game digital went to play a midnight launch and the game worked!!!! Servers don't work properly, can't log in, can't join friends, game breaking bugs and crashes it's just ridiculous.
This Midnight Release Situation is Crazy
As a PC player, it would hurt my soul knowing it would be a few months before the PC version of the game would be released back when there were still midnight releases. The one I remember attending was for Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood. One of the few good things about new releases is how all versions launch same day.
Still have my helmet and it has been one of the pieces of any memorabilia I keep safe through all the years of moving and storage. Halo peak years for sure
Gaming is too popular now, midnight releases would never work again
Oversaturation and gaining popularity is what kills so many things
Ever?
???? modern warfare 2 had a midnight release and the servers were fine...fucking everyone played that game
@@gunnarpoker2827hes not talking about the servers lol
That makes no sense bud. Lmao why does time of release have anything to do w popularity? Games release now at like 11 am. Some random ass time. It does not impact popularity whatsoever. Where tf did you even come up w this stupid idea?
This just puts an emphasis on the dark days we're currently living. Stay strong brothers.
Any advice on how to stay positive? My introvert status is going away because I tried to be more open to people but I’ve realized people are awful and I wanna go back to being a complete homebody
Burning crusade was my introduction to WoW and I remembered pre-ordering in Gamestop and waiting on line at midnight release with few of my friends.
I still have the cds.
There's a great video of a guy dressed as Master Chief buying Halo 3 in the GameStop in the Arboretum in Austin
Skyrim midnight release is something I will never forget, some dude had armor on and started screaming dovakin for the last 30 seconds of the countdown until midnight
And you know what he was right, Skyrim is an amazing game with an incredible online till this day
If anybody young watches asmon, enjoy your youth. Highschool and college are the best days of your life. Being surrounded by like minded people around your age is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Once careers, spouses, kids, and adulting take over it's not the same anymore. It's still great to be an adult but ensure you don't lose out on making memories while you can
Well said. So often people get stuck in the past and become way too nihilistic about the current time, and they can't enjoy anything anymore because of it.
It is but everything is what you make of it. Adulting is fun because you can do all the stuff in games in real life instead. Build, create and never stop learning, also get involved with the community
I stood outside of gamestop for the original world of warcraft midnight release in 2004. I was 15.
Burning Crusade was also my first midnight release. It was completely new for me, my friends and the region. We drove to the next store, we were like 6 or 7 guys, 4 crates of beer and then, there were like 300 people waiting, starting at 10 pm. It was a big party till midnight, insane!
16:16 had me like “some of you nerds were getting free pizza?!😡”
This brought a nostalgic tear to my eye 🥲
DOOM/Animal Crossing was the last real "midnight release'
Last midnight release for me was Fallout 4, after that it all ended :(
I actually got to do a midnight release for legend of zelda tears of the kingdom, showed up 10 hours early and I was the 2nd person in line, by the time midnight rolled around I wanna say 300+ people showed up to buy it, probably one of the best memories I have of recent years
My first midnight release was WotLK. A good friend and I were huddled along with other gamers out of a "computer shop" - we even had to give our names earlier on to be put on a list. In freezing cold (appropriate for the game expansion) we waited in the line until suddenly.... it was out. And we were on the list, and we got the Collector's Edition. Grabbed a beer and sat there for a while, and then off we went to go to our houses, do the installation and wait along with many others on the pier to Howling Fjord. Gaming moments like these, that are, sadly, lost in time forevermore.
For MW2 (2009), our local Best Buy projected MW Deathmatch on the side of the building for everyone to play and the top 10 got guaranteed copies. They also had a food truck before they were popular, and a Red Bull truck. There were a few hundred of us cheering on the countdown and those playing. When we got inside a few of the guys up front posted up and started passing copies back until the staff got there. Man, we played campaign and Spec Ops for hours. What a time it was. I'm sad that I won't get to share that sense of community and excitement with my kids.
Your kids won't even know what being able to buy games is as they stand in food lines. Stuff is going to get much worse when Trump is out of office again
I was in HS for Halo 1-2 and a very young adult for Halo 3. Words cant explain how epic it was back then.
Hail his editor overlords!
But yeah, they usually cut extra stuff out. I don't watch him live, so there is probably content I'm missing out, but I'm just not the target audience of Twitch.
I’m ’88 as well. We lucked out
4:36 that halo era brought online gaming to the masses
Phantasy star online on the Dreamcast was my first taste of online gaming using dial up. It was ridiculously expensive
Dude my son 7 YO. (At the time) Waited outside of GameStop with me for 6.5 hours to get a collectors edition of Legend of Zelda: Totk. It was awesome. It was about to start storming here in town and I told my wife we ain't scared of a lil bit of rain I'm getting this collectors edition! 😅 I took my switch and Gameboys and we sat there and played from 530 or so to midnights
Man, I was thinking about midnight releases just a week ago. That young people today will never know the experience. I remember my first time going to a midnight release was on 11/11/11, to get Skyrim. It was cool seeing so many people standing around, ready to get the game. And I remember people standing around for the midnight release of the Playstation 2 as well.
Man, those days were that good shit!
Amen to that… good times bro good times…
Imagine having a midnight release of current games released by famous companies?
Who in their right mind would go to Concord midnight release? Or Suicide Squad Kills Justice League
Blue haired people
@@bigbay11592 of them 😂
@@bigbay1159 Nah, the blue haired people don't even play the games, they just pretend to on Twitter for brownie points. They're not even gamers lmao.
Ones at a dark souls 2 midnight release, there was an 85 year old man in line, he told me that dark souls changed his life
Golden age of gaming. Now people are to anti social and lazy to leave the house
Its not aways that
lack of money too / too busy / socially drained from new work demands
@dougfax cope harder 🙂
Someone needs to do a physical release for like two weeks and then open up the digital downloads after. Make a limited amount of physical copies so that they don’t waste too much money on manufacturing. Maybe we could get some of this back.
What a time to be alive it was 🫡
The ACK Ma'am is unwatchable.
Act ma'am acting like he hasn't been on twitter begging for more DEI in games.
It's not just because of scalpers, it is also because we have the internet and digital age where you can just download it. I get that those events were pretty awesome time spent in anticipation, waiting in line and getting a physical copy of a game. Especially if you had a parent that was willing to take you. This was also the case for concert tickets, where you'd wait in line all night to get a ticket for a concert before the internet. But this is the down part of having the internet now they can just release it online.
One thing that’s bizarre to me is that in-person events nowadays feel like crap. Most conventions I’ve been to are kinda boring. I feel like half of it is people not even wanting to socialize, just get their signatures/merch and go home
Skyrim was my last midnight release. I'm too old for that shiz now.
You'll be 80 by the time the new elder scrolls comes out anyways
"You can relive those memories through others, even if it's not your own"
A couple of guys having fun and getting hyped waiting for a game is every gamer's memory. Every single one of us experienced it. It's the kind of things you dont forget
I went to Best Buy recently. The game shelves were 1/4 the space it used to be and there was no Blu Ray movies. It was dreary.
Asmon talking about Asmom always brings a smile to my face. Most the times hes smiling and talking good about the times with her. They really were best friends. Good shit.
90's kid here, found myself tearing up from nostalgia, watching this video, 2000's and older kids will never understand the happinesss and joy of being a gamer in the 90s.
I still have my Mw2 dog tags from release night
1990-2010 the golden era of human culture. Maybe even include the 80s