Great time, world still wasn't majority consumed with smartphones and tablets. Neighbors still hung out and maybe chilled at each others' place to game at night - LAN party warriors carry that huge tower and CRT like a boss. Ain't complaining about the small super powerful micro systems and gaming laptops today - as long as people meet up in person to LAN party. Micro Pico-ITX almost pocket sized desktop that can handle the latest stuff at pretty decent settings, mini projector monitor across the wall.
What I enjoy about the older games, in comparison to the newer games ironically, is the graphics. To me, using your imagination to immerse yourself in your own way in the game by filling in the gaps, smoothing out the sharp polygons, filtering out the grainy textures, or fleshing out the game world in your mind while you play is much more enjoyable than having the world graphically fleshed out for you. I'm not saying there aren't good modern games, but there was a certain charm and experience in playing some of these older titles.
FANTASTIC comment, Ben Sokol!! I agree. I like the colors...the great cartoon graphics. Other games may have great graphics, but they lack the fun colors or brightness. And Imagination should never be sacrificed in these modern games. Great accurate comment, Ben Sokol!
I agree. Just one example would be "Betrayal At Krondor". The blurry graphics always lended the sense of imagining what types of creatures might be lurking in that clump of trees (greenish pixel clumps) just ahead.
Yes. I'd love it if a few mainstream companies tried releasing new flagship titles with late 90s graphics and models (minus render distance / total meshes limitations). Maybe it would catch on?
The golden age of pc games imo, the graphics and hardware were catching up with the ambitions where earlier titles were held back by their time, then as the tech got better a lot of this ambition dwindled it seems
Yeah gaming has gotten worse for the most and has been dumbed down. I'd say the peak of gaming at least for the mainstream was the mid 90's to mid 20's
@@benjackman4814 Definitely. From 95 onwards and the early noughties PC Gaming was just prime. Even before that the early 90's was still PC power. The golden age of Adventure games. Gamin was a wonderful thing back then.
@@realamericannegro977 nowadays they follow Ai and what brings the most money. You have videos about this on yourube. Gotta check it out. For example Valve.
@@Trysomieflexntjes Can't blame them. People will tell you how much they love your content but don't buy it or support then give their money to lesser stuff. Business is about making money.
When I was growing up, there was a computer store in my town that focused on repairing computers. And as you entered into it, it was an extremely long store but not particularly wide. And on the right wall they had ALL of those old PC games in their original boxes for sale, with the majority being used. But I remember going there all the time just to admire the art work on the old video game covers. I'd buy things from there all the time that I knew I had absolutely no intention of ever playing. Some were literally floppy discs, and this was in the 2006-2013 period. I just bought them because I thought they were an incredible thing. I truly miss that store. They shut down a while back. Every time I drive by that strip mall I think about it. Just a genuinely magical store.
Arcanum had such a nice atmosphere and music. And the fact that you could play it either as turn based or real time created a million strategies to overcome enemies.
Vampire Redemption was so good... I wish more people tried it out. Such a good story, such cool powers. Way too good for the low sales it got. I enjoyed this video a lot, if even 2 years too late. Thank you
The Bloodlines game gets a ton of attention and I can see why. But I only played that a little bit, where as I've played Redemption about a thousand times and loved meeting people online with it when it first came out.
The best time of my life in terms of Games. Sometimes I think my mind stucked in the "golden age" of the 2000er. Such great Memories... Or only I'm old :)
There was certainly more freedom in gaming back then. We didn't science the shit out of the fun like today's game. It was experimenting, hit and miss but truly original games.
Dungeon Siege was a fun game, it lacked a bit on the story telling but in terms of an adventure game, it was really good. It was also the first game I've played on that time whose loading screen wasn't obvious. When you go to another area, there would always be a loading screen that pauses the action, this game didn't... you just proceed to that next game. Even AA titles back then had loading screen.
I feel like there was a certain magic lost from this Era. Idk what it was but it felt more experimental and fun, there was a roughness yet effort put forth in them. Games today are amazingly well crafted, and we are definitely in a celebration of all kinds of graphics, but it feels like the games are trying to capture the magic of older games. Like the newest thief just wasn't as good as old thief. The new Deus Ex doesn't have that same wow factor of playing the first game. Maybe it's nostalgia blinders, but that's how I feel.
Nostalgia might be a factor for some people but recently I have recommended a few old games to my friend who didn't have a PC back around late 90s and early 2000s. He played those old PC classics for the first time and now he is hooked. He also agrees that older PC games are far better than what we get these days. Nostalgia is not a factor for his case.
I played those "older" games later as well, like Witcher 1 and right after witcher 2 and a bit later 3... Same with Dragon Age Series.... It's not just nostalgia, (can't be for me). Those games had SOUL
My perspective is that today AAA games are so expensive to develop that the studios cannot afford to experiment anymore, and therefore just goes with what they know (or expect) will work, leaving no space for experimentation.
Funny enough that I can’t get the same fun from before.Tried playing civilization the other day,and got me bothered with so much information on screen.Seems very off playing most of these games.Believe I go as far as hitman blood money (2006).
Dungeon Siege, Enclave, American McGees Alice, Drakan Order of the Flame .... maaan I love those games and especially the soundstracks were so great in this era.
Yeah the charm and atmosphere was pretty nice. A more relaxing / simple Diablo 2. My favorite part was the secret Goblin Factory with tons of advanced technology - an optional easter-egg hidden area with ridiculous weapons
LOL! So nostalgic...remember overclocking my Pentium III to get dungeon siege to barely work - and then found a cheap 2nd hand Athlon XP 2200+ and upgraded motherboard to suit...was amazed with the 1280x1024 @50-60fps :D Good old days
Good old days. Those games were not the best looking, but the fun of them was crazy. I spent whole nights playing Dungeon Siege back in the day. Loved the vibe it gave me.
You're telling me you never played Warcraft 3? Gothic 2, in the very least, I'd recommend you to try. It's an experience unmatched by games that came out since. The graphics are a bit outdated and the fighting system is pretty much "cheese only", but there's a reason why people are still hung up on it. If you appreciate good level design and a living atmosphere, you'll love Gothic games.
@@RWNPOP Awesome present! I also got the CD way back when it was sold in a bundle with Jagged Alliance, called the Gold Version (along with some Concept Art and Soundtrack etc.)
Soldier of fortune 1 and 2 Return to Wolfenstein. Severance. Gta 3. Alien vs predator 1 and 2. Serious sam. No one lives forever 1 and 2. Max Payne.. just a few I was playing from 2000 to 2003 until doom and far cry released in 2004. Sof 1 I played from 2000 to 2014 in multiplayer.. great times.. but was more into fps 👹
Soldier of Fortune 1... best multiplayer FPS I've played in an entire life. not too quick like Quake, not too slow like CS. Miss the times when it was popular. nowadays it's dead.
@@mateusz5161 hehe.. Yea it's dead now.. with sof plus you can still find players though on servers.. I was more DM back then but helped out in TCL league's for a few klans. Was called P R E D A T O R
@@mateusz5161 nice to meet a fellow member of sof 😀 I've never found a fast paced shooter since sof1. Most are tactical now and slower paced. I did revisit sof1 a month ago and found Junior aka Element on there. I think we talked for an hour, just reminiscing lol. Great times man for Fps. 👌🏻👍😉 I also helped G Klan and Efz.
The misunderstanding is entirely on you. Don’t look for anything clever from ”AAA” developers. They have to shift millions of units to break even. Your grand ma has to be able to play the game. It can’t be hard, it can’t be confusing, it can’t try anything new because they put $50 million into making it. You can’t put in an easter egg without permission from a dozen people. In the 90’s you could recolour a sprite and write some text and that was it. Now you have to have 5 voice actors in different languages read the lines, you have to do motion capture work, several modellers and texture artists have to make the character, someone has to sign off on the spending for the easter egg, some blue haired feminist has to deem the joke appropriate and inoffensive. If you are looking for creativity from a team of 300 peple where nothing can ever be spontaneous you are just looking in the wrong place. It is not surprising that the innovative games have graphics that look more like the 90’s and are made by less than a dozen people.
And another curio is how trends change. You can go look at newsgroups from 1995 and read the pages of lamenting about how the golden days of pc gaming are over; they don’t make good CRPGs anymore, not like Bard’s tale, ultima and the SSI gold box games. That trend and style of games died and they would have considered the games you enjoyed, like maybe Deus ex or gothic or something, as watered down and not even an RPG.
@@BG-mw5pt I actually liked all of these games you mentioned. But when I consider the overall storytelling, attention to details, the amount of stuff to do and ways how to play a game, plus the quality of NPCs and their dialogues, BGII still comes out as a winner for me.
Dungeon Siege II was a really good sequel in that it seemed to add new parts that were very good, yet managed to keep the 'soul' of what made the first one so good. You should be able to get it on Steam for not much if you're interested.
@@Skumtomten1 I don't know. I've got it installed and was playing it about a month ago, I think my computer is modern, it's a: 64-bit, Windows 10, and the video card is an AMD-Ryzen 5 2600. This is a medium or low-tier setup.... but DS 2 is not demanding on a system.
I was blown away by Deus Ex back then. Still considering to replay that game. Funny how graphics dont matter so much when you grow up with these early games. Young people are so spoiled these days when you read the comments on digital foundry.....
Morrowind and Oblivion are incredible games that outshine Skyrim. They are more story and character driven than graphics hogs. Skyrim is fun and very pretty, but so very shallow. Morrowind and Oblivion just seem to have endless wells of adventure. Bonus is that the characters are worth discovering aswell.
Starts right with vampire masquerade ,fcking loved this game as kid. morrowind, gothic 2 and dungeon siege, i spent so many hours playing these games ❤️
At one point of our time with our pc-s (or more) we were playing nice and smoothly and then came the "my computer is too slow to run this" part, which could last a few years and missed out some good games. I think just around the 00s, my computer was just trash and I kept going back to the 90s games. Then some years later upgraded I was good to go for another 4-5yrs when it had to be done all over again. Also don't forget Operation: Flashpoint 1985. I played that game over and over when it came out.
CPUs were improving by on average 60% per year in the 90’s and that stopped a few years into the ’00s. This was called Dennard scaling. Moore’s law meant that chips could continue to get smaller, but without Dennard scaling they wouldn’t clock much faster. That’s why they had to move to multicore. In the 90’s a 2 year old PC was already obsolete and a 4 year old PC would have barely been able to play anything.
@@soylentgreenb The technological leap of the 90's still amazes me. It started with 286 / 386 / 486 computers and ended with pentium 3 series and 1ghz clock speeds
@@ewha2456 In a way it felt strangely normal, as if this kind of improvement was just obvious and automatic. After Dennard scaling ended a lot of people pivoted on a dime and acted as if it had never been a thing and the only thing that ever mattered was IPC. We just had this 100x improvement from just cranking up clocks from 20 MHz to 2 GHz but never mind all that; these 1.1x increases in IPC are where it is at. That's when the 90's started feeling very strange and amazing.
At 8:23 , did that bridge just float up from beneath the water? It even rocks a bit while it comes to rest, I don't remember that but seems kinda silly lol.
Ya opened with a fun one. VtM: Redemption hits a nostalgia button for me. Didn't get to play too much of it, since it was only at a friend's house, but damn it had character.
call me old... i am born in 89... so during this time i was like 10... but here in east of Europe (Romania) more exactly.. those titles were coming slower.. like 2 or even 3 years later.. the internet was still slow back then.. and mainly we got them through pirate sites.. we couldn't afford buying them but i know that i saved all my money for internet coffee! they had an option like ''long night'' you will pay 6 hours and get 2 extra! one hour was like 1 leu.. 4,50 lei is a dollar... so like 25 cents or so... anyway.. i had hard time convincing my mom to let me play there at 12 years old in 2002! with another friend... we were killing it!! half of the time we play cs 1.6 and the rest a single game that we like.. he was playing FIFA and i was playing either Max Payne, NFS Porsche, GTA Vice City or GTA 3 and more... i had a PC that i was saving all my data form the 20 computers at that net caffee... man those times.. i will never forget it.. those were the Christmases for ME! and NEW YEARS! and moreee!!
I think is because is the first time we play it, maybe we didn't see anything like that before so it shock our head a little. Now all the games are just trying to be older games, there are not that much innovation except indie games
This is why I want to become a game dev despite the industry being an exploitative slave labor for corpos. Video games are the prime medium of human creativity.
@@kosterix123 Do you not watch old films, read old books, listen to old music simply due to them being made in the past? If i was limited to to only being able to watch modern films, listen to modern music and play modern games i think i'd give up on all 3.
gaming wasnt mainstream back then and was kind of a really committed nerdy subculture. im happy i was born in 1990 and got to enjoy alot of classics from the snes and gameboy on over pc games. this time was for gaming what the 70s were for music. maybe i got too old now but i really dont enjoy alot of the new games i played the recent years. my best memories were playing wc3 battlenet maps online all day and building my own in map editor. it was a great time and alot of todays famous games mechanics were invented back then by people like me who just had fun building maps.
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I still listen to Morrowind and Gothic ambience sounds when relaxing or trying to focus on work. So good.
Gothic is love
Looking back to it around 2000 was a great time for gaming so many great titles released
not only for gaming but for living too
@@hanskloss9482 so true
Great time, world still wasn't majority consumed with smartphones and tablets. Neighbors still hung out and maybe chilled at each others' place to game at night - LAN party warriors carry that huge tower and CRT like a boss. Ain't complaining about the small super powerful micro systems and gaming laptops today - as long as people meet up in person to LAN party. Micro Pico-ITX almost pocket sized desktop that can handle the latest stuff at pretty decent settings, mini projector monitor across the wall.
What I enjoy about the older games, in comparison to the newer games ironically, is the graphics. To me, using your imagination to immerse yourself in your own way in the game by filling in the gaps, smoothing out the sharp polygons, filtering out the grainy textures, or fleshing out the game world in your mind while you play is much more enjoyable than having the world graphically fleshed out for you. I'm not saying there aren't good modern games, but there was a certain charm and experience in playing some of these older titles.
Aardwolf, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
FANTASTIC comment, Ben Sokol!! I agree. I like the colors...the great cartoon graphics. Other games may have great graphics, but they lack the fun colors or brightness. And Imagination should never be sacrificed in these modern games. Great accurate comment, Ben Sokol!
I agree. Just one example would be "Betrayal At Krondor". The blurry graphics always lended the sense of imagining what types of creatures might be lurking in that clump of trees (greenish pixel clumps) just ahead.
Yes. I'd love it if a few mainstream companies tried releasing new flagship titles with late 90s graphics and models (minus render distance / total meshes limitations). Maybe it would catch on?
I agree!!! And we got full version games todays games will give you buggy betas
The golden age of pc games imo, the graphics and hardware were catching up with the ambitions where earlier titles were held back by their time, then as the tech got better a lot of this ambition dwindled it seems
Yeah gaming has gotten worse for the most and has been dumbed down. I'd say the peak of gaming at least for the mainstream was the mid 90's to mid 20's
@@benjackman4814 Definitely. From 95 onwards and the early noughties PC Gaming was just prime. Even before that the early 90's was still PC power. The golden age of Adventure games. Gamin was a wonderful thing back then.
Facts. Newer games only have ambition when its a fresh idea
@@realamericannegro977 nowadays they follow Ai and what brings the most money. You have videos about this on yourube. Gotta check it out. For example Valve.
@@Trysomieflexntjes Can't blame them. People will tell you how much they love your content but don't buy it or support then give their money to lesser stuff. Business is about making money.
I still returning to Gothic when i want to remeber old good times
If someone haven't played Deus Ex. I can assure you that, this game is incredibly oddly satisfying. Great game, I really loved it.
When I was growing up, there was a computer store in my town that focused on repairing computers. And as you entered into it, it was an extremely long store but not particularly wide. And on the right wall they had ALL of those old PC games in their original boxes for sale, with the majority being used. But I remember going there all the time just to admire the art work on the old video game covers. I'd buy things from there all the time that I knew I had absolutely no intention of ever playing. Some were literally floppy discs, and this was in the 2006-2013 period. I just bought them because I thought they were an incredible thing. I truly miss that store. They shut down a while back. Every time I drive by that strip mall I think about it. Just a genuinely magical store.
@Xthe DEMO playerX no they shut down a while back. Miss that place.
Arcanum had such a nice atmosphere and music. And the fact that you could play it either as turn based or real time created a million strategies to overcome enemies.
And the game also allowed you to clear missions and even the game just by talking if your character had enough social skills.
100% right!
The only turn based western game of those years.
I played a lot of dungeon siege. Couldn't play the last one but this is the game that got me into rpgs and esp party based rpgs.
age of empires 2, diablo 2, Command & Conquer, GTA 3, world of warcraft beta 2003, epic games 2000
Nostalgia overload
Vampire Redemption was so good... I wish more people tried it out. Such a good story, such cool powers. Way too good for the low sales it got. I enjoyed this video a lot, if even 2 years too late. Thank you
The Bloodlines game gets a ton of attention and I can see why. But I only played that a little bit, where as I've played Redemption about a thousand times and loved meeting people online with it when it first came out.
I love that game too! I love the fact that game take place in 2 different time periods, it was so great idea!
The best time of my life in terms of Games. Sometimes I think my mind stucked in the "golden age" of the 2000er. Such great Memories... Or only I'm old :)
There was certainly more freedom in gaming back then. We didn't science the shit out of the fun like today's game. It was experimenting, hit and miss but truly original games.
Dungeon Siege was a fun game, it lacked a bit on the story telling but in terms of an adventure game, it was really good. It was also the first game I've played on that time whose loading screen wasn't obvious. When you go to another area, there would always be a loading screen that pauses the action, this game didn't... you just proceed to that next game. Even AA titles back then had loading screen.
Baldur’s Gate, Morrowind, Gothic is a bestest ever and ever!
They really made games different back then, lucky to be able to say I played *so many* of these back when they were new releases. Good video!
'RADIO FREE ACAB' 'made games different' Isn't your opinion just worth it's weight in gold?
Better 1000000 times than games of that days
Good selection. Great trip down memory lane. Subbed.
Morrowind man. Never had the PC but I played tf out of that on my brothers Xbox. One of the all time greats right up there with chrono trigger for me.
I feel like there was a certain magic lost from this Era. Idk what it was but it felt more experimental and fun, there was a roughness yet effort put forth in them.
Games today are amazingly well crafted, and we are definitely in a celebration of all kinds of graphics, but it feels like the games are trying to capture the magic of older games.
Like the newest thief just wasn't as good as old thief. The new Deus Ex doesn't have that same wow factor of playing the first game. Maybe it's nostalgia blinders, but that's how I feel.
Nostalgia might be a factor for some people but recently I have recommended a few old games to my friend who didn't have a PC back around late 90s and early 2000s. He played those old PC classics for the first time and now he is hooked. He also agrees that older PC games are far better than what we get these days. Nostalgia is not a factor for his case.
I played those "older" games later as well, like Witcher 1 and right after witcher 2 and a bit later 3... Same with Dragon Age Series.... It's not just nostalgia, (can't be for me). Those games had SOUL
My perspective is that today AAA games are so expensive to develop that the studios cannot afford to experiment anymore, and therefore just goes with what they know (or expect) will work, leaving no space for experimentation.
@@rodrigofayad This is a very good point. I think this might be one of the main reasons why modern games all feel similar to each other.
Funny enough that I can’t get the same fun from before.Tried playing civilization the other day,and got me bothered with so much information on screen.Seems very off playing most of these games.Believe I go as far as hitman blood money (2006).
Dungeon Siege, Enclave, American McGees Alice, Drakan Order of the Flame .... maaan I love those games and especially the soundstracks were so great in this era.
I love the simple but clear graphics of the 2000's.
Miss those days...good times
Just saw "Vampire The Masquerade" and hit the like button 👍🏻 That game was so beautiful!
Trioka games are what I call romance of the RPG games.
90's and 2000's : greatest era of gaming (both pc and consoles)
Gothic 1 and 2 forever !!
You bring good memories with vampire the mascarade and my beloved morrowind
dungeon siege is criminally underrated pc rpg gem. thin story but memorable experience with heaps of charm
Yeah the charm and atmosphere was pretty nice. A more relaxing / simple Diablo 2.
My favorite part was the secret Goblin Factory with tons of advanced technology - an optional easter-egg hidden area with ridiculous weapons
Vampire so underrated! All time favorite
subscribed. this man's taste is off the charts
Vampire the masquerade redemption was beautiful masterpiece
That is Baldur's Gate 1. The best in my opinion, love the start of the epic adventure, when you have nothing and need to survive with few things.
Everybody despised bg1 back then.
@@kosterix123 why?
@@Faks.09 I don't remember exactly. IIRC it was considered too cliche.
aah..rainy days in Seyda Neen, very soothing atmosphere..
I was literally playing Baldurs Gate 1 yesterday and can absolutely confirm you showed that hahahaha
Was gonna comment, but saw you picked this up as well!
LOL! So nostalgic...remember overclocking my Pentium III to get dungeon siege to barely work - and then found a cheap 2nd hand Athlon XP 2200+ and upgraded motherboard to suit...was amazed with the 1280x1024 @50-60fps :D Good old days
Dungeon Keeper. What a new fantastic concept. Great stuff. Memories of that time helped me through a lot of struggles in life.
First title and its VTM Redemption, one of my favourite games of all time! Damn.
Good old days. Those games were not the best looking, but the fun of them was crazy. I spent whole nights playing Dungeon Siege back in the day. Loved the vibe it gave me.
I played only Dungeon Siege, Max Payne and Counter Strike. Missed so many.
Uff!
You're telling me you never played Warcraft 3?
Gothic 2, in the very least, I'd recommend you to try. It's an experience unmatched by games that came out since.
The graphics are a bit outdated and the fighting system is pretty much "cheese only", but there's a reason why people are still hung up on it.
If you appreciate good level design and a living atmosphere, you'll love Gothic games.
These were my teenage years. Makes me more emotional than I thought..
Very interesting list! 0:57 is Baldur's Gate 1.
2:38 ... hit me on various levels
@Jewel Donley Wow!
No one gives a fuck!
Max Payne 1-2 is one of the best games of all time! For me :D
I am so glad Enclave is on the list, it's still one of my all-time favorites.
Luckily you can get it on steam and even the CD can be installed and run easily.
@@ancientcall7737 yup, my cousin got me a cd as a gift few years ago, I love him for that
@@RWNPOP Awesome present! I also got the CD way back when it was sold in a bundle with Jagged Alliance, called the Gold Version (along with some Concept Art and Soundtrack etc.)
Video from "Baldur's Gate 2" is actually from Baldur's Gate 1 :-)
baldur's gate 1 enhanced edition from 2012
Its a sin to everyone who Love BG2, the best RPG ever
I never played bg2 so I assumed they reused those annoying voice clips lol
@@timjen3 play it bro!
Blasphemy :)
the summoner was a very good and underrated game IMO from the 2000s
Soldier of fortune 1 and 2 Return to Wolfenstein. Severance. Gta 3. Alien vs predator 1 and 2. Serious sam. No one lives forever 1 and 2. Max Payne.. just a few I was playing from 2000 to 2003 until doom and far cry released in 2004. Sof 1 I played from 2000 to 2014 in multiplayer.. great times.. but was more into fps 👹
Soldier of Fortune 1... best multiplayer FPS I've played in an entire life. not too quick like Quake, not too slow like CS. Miss the times when it was popular. nowadays it's dead.
@@mateusz5161 hehe.. Yea it's dead now.. with sof plus you can still find players though on servers.. I was more DM back then but helped out in TCL league's for a few klans. Was called P R E D A T O R
@@ADreamPC I remember pred :) one of the best dm players
@@mateusz5161 nice to meet a fellow member of sof 😀 I've never found a fast paced shooter since sof1. Most are tactical now and slower paced. I did revisit sof1 a month ago and found Junior aka Element on there. I think we talked for an hour, just reminiscing lol. Great times man for Fps. 👌🏻👍😉 I also helped G Klan and Efz.
@@ADreamPC back in 2002,2003 you were like top3 best DM players, pure talent.
I played almost all of these...10000 points for adding Bloodrayne to the list!
Are you Gen X or Millennial?
@@TannerWilliam07 older than that lol
This video should be used as a reminder to new developers what a good game should be like. If they can even grasp the concept.
Yes it's so sad how gaming has gotten worse at least in the mainstream
The misunderstanding is entirely on you. Don’t look for anything clever from ”AAA” developers. They have to shift millions of units to break even. Your grand ma has to be able to play the game. It can’t be hard, it can’t be confusing, it can’t try anything new because they put $50 million into making it. You can’t put in an easter egg without permission from a dozen people. In the 90’s you could recolour a sprite and write some text and that was it. Now you have to have 5 voice actors in different languages read the lines, you have to do motion capture work, several modellers and texture artists have to make the character, someone has to sign off on the spending for the easter egg, some blue haired feminist has to deem the joke appropriate and inoffensive. If you are looking for creativity from a team of 300 peple where nothing can ever be spontaneous you are just looking in the wrong place.
It is not surprising that the innovative games have graphics that look more like the 90’s and are made by less than a dozen people.
And another curio is how trends change. You can go look at newsgroups from 1995 and read the pages of lamenting about how the golden days of pc gaming are over; they don’t make good CRPGs anymore, not like Bard’s tale, ultima and the SSI gold box games. That trend and style of games died and they would have considered the games you enjoyed, like maybe Deus ex or gothic or something, as watered down and not even an RPG.
I played all Bioware games and I still consider Baldur´s Gate II to be the best one of them all.
Better than DA: Origins? Or any of the KOTOR? Or Mass Effect? Come on, Bioware were the masters of storytelling in their prime.
@@BG-mw5pt I actually liked all of these games you mentioned. But when I consider the overall storytelling, attention to details, the amount of stuff to do and ways how to play a game, plus the quality of NPCs and their dialogues, BGII still comes out as a winner for me.
Dungeon Siege is definitely in my top 5 games list i ever played. I wish there is a remastered version but it seems impossible...
Microsoft ruined the third sequel. I don't think it will ever recover.
Dungeon Siege II was a really good sequel in that it seemed to add new parts that were very good, yet managed to keep the 'soul' of what made the first one so good. You should be able to get it on Steam for not much if you're interested.
@@TROOPERfarcry Does it work on modern systems?
@@Skumtomten1 I don't know. I've got it installed and was playing it about a month ago, I think my computer is modern, it's a: 64-bit, Windows 10, and the video card is an AMD-Ryzen 5 2600. This is a medium or low-tier setup.... but DS 2 is not demanding on a system.
Dungeon Siege was a game ahead of its time. Great interface. I am going to replay that game again. It is sort of like TWO WORLDS game.
Deus Ex is truly a trendsetter!
OOOMGG Dungeon Siege and Gothic 2 ftw
I miss games like Dungeon Siege, party based hack and slash games are one of my favorites
2000 Years! Look at those Graphics... Amazing or... did we forgot how Beautiful 2D Games can be and still are in the Future. Early 3D ; )
I was blown away by Deus Ex back then. Still considering to replay that game. Funny how graphics dont matter so much when you grow up with these early games. Young people are so spoiled these days when you read the comments on digital foundry.....
Great thumbnail
Enclave really was an excellent game.
I would appreciate a remake.
Just re-played Enclave a few months, still held up GREAT!
Instant like for starting off with Vampire the masquerade redemption. It was the first PC game I ever played besides Minesweeper and Pinball.
damn cs 1.6.. i remember when it was just a mod for hl lmao. taking me back to highschool
Amazing compilation Max Payne still impressive today also morrowind!!!
That first Deus Ex was so epic!
these games are better than todays games by far...
Damn... I remember all of them so good....
God, morrowind is such a masterpiece
I agree and I'm playing it now
Always will be
Morrowind and Oblivion are incredible games that outshine Skyrim. They are more story and character driven than graphics hogs. Skyrim is fun and very pretty, but so very shallow. Morrowind and Oblivion just seem to have endless wells of adventure. Bonus is that the characters are worth discovering aswell.
Dungeon Siege is my all time fav. I still play it
Champions of Norrath II was probably the greatest game of that time…
Max Payne with bullet time mode :D and my all time favorite warcraft 3 and dota 1 :D
Starts right with vampire masquerade ,fcking loved this game as kid.
morrowind, gothic 2 and dungeon siege, i spent so many hours playing these games ❤️
Arcanum, THE RPG.
What a time to have been young.
Delta force was truly amazing.
Warcraft 3. The good old days on battle net playing tides of blood.
Ah man the games hit right in the nostalgia
Yes!!! Opening with Vampire Masquerade!!!
BRB going to my neighbour to play Warcraft 3 for 2 days straight on a local LAN Party.
Very nice! Suitable for my old computer
At one point of our time with our pc-s (or more) we were playing nice and smoothly and then came the "my computer is too slow to run this" part, which could last a few years and missed out some good games. I think just around the 00s, my computer was just trash and I kept going back to the 90s games. Then some years later upgraded I was good to go for another 4-5yrs when it had to be done all over again.
Also don't forget Operation: Flashpoint 1985. I played that game over and over when it came out.
CPUs were improving by on average 60% per year in the 90’s and that stopped a few years into the ’00s. This was called Dennard scaling. Moore’s law meant that chips could continue to get smaller, but without Dennard scaling they wouldn’t clock much faster. That’s why they had to move to multicore. In the 90’s a 2 year old PC was already obsolete and a 4 year old PC would have barely been able to play anything.
@@soylentgreenb The technological leap of the 90's still amazes me. It started with 286 / 386 / 486 computers and ended with pentium 3 series and 1ghz clock speeds
@@ewha2456 In a way it felt strangely normal, as if this kind of improvement was just obvious and automatic. After Dennard scaling ended a lot of people pivoted on a dime and acted as if it had never been a thing and the only thing that ever mattered was IPC. We just had this 100x improvement from just cranking up clocks from 20 MHz to 2 GHz but never mind all that; these 1.1x increases in IPC are where it is at. That's when the 90's started feeling very strange and amazing.
Great trip down memory lane. I had totally forgotten about Delta Force. We spent some hours in that one during lan gatherings.
i had played some dungeon siege also, awesome game
At 8:23 , did that bridge just float up from beneath the water? It even rocks a bit while it comes to rest, I don't remember that but seems kinda silly lol.
Ya opened with a fun one. VtM: Redemption hits a nostalgia button for me. Didn't get to play too much of it, since it was only at a friend's house, but damn it had character.
Enclave, 2003 one of my best games! Like!
C&C Red Alert (1 + 2) : Thank you for making my childhood and my life greater
always stuck with old school runescape since the beginning in 2004
Man I love your list !! I play/played 95% of them
Of course, there were no other titles back then.
@@kosterix123 🤣 i wouldnt say such thing
@@lironk1 there were other titles but nothing worth remembering.
@@kosterix123 I would add few more actually
@@kosterix123 there are hundreds more worth knowing.
Ohh man... Morrowind following gothic following warcraft 3 following bloodrayne made me just literally crying from nostalgia :|
I like it, keep it up
Magnífico, morrowind simplesmente o melhor...
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O futuro e pikkkkkkkkkkka!
Speak quickly or go away outlander.
Juegos que sentaron las bases para los juegos que disfrutamos en las décadas siguientes.
call me old... i am born in 89... so during this time i was like 10... but here in east of Europe (Romania) more exactly.. those titles were coming slower.. like 2 or even 3 years later.. the internet was still slow back then.. and mainly we got them through pirate sites.. we couldn't afford buying them
but i know that i saved all my money for internet coffee! they had an option like ''long night'' you will pay 6 hours and get 2 extra! one hour was like 1 leu.. 4,50 lei is a dollar... so like 25 cents or so... anyway.. i had hard time convincing my mom to let me play there at 12 years old in 2002! with another friend... we were killing it!! half of the time we play cs 1.6 and the rest a single game that we like.. he was playing FIFA and i was playing either Max Payne, NFS Porsche, GTA Vice City or GTA 3 and more... i had a PC that i was saving all my data form the 20 computers at that net caffee... man those times.. i will never forget it.. those were the Christmases for ME! and NEW YEARS! and moreee!!
man i played the living hell out of dungeon siege 1 and 2 back then those games are amazing
Yeah, BG 2 and Deus Ex are my absolutely top 2 games till this day.
I really had no clue how good I've had it, back in 2000's...
VtM Redemption right from the start. An AMAZING game
Counter strike and Warcraft 3.... memories my childhood
Great list 👌
Yeah babe this is my childhood ❤️
Why it feels that the games were much better back then???
I think is because is the first time we play it, maybe we didn't see anything like that before so it shock our head a little. Now all the games are just trying to be older games, there are not that much innovation except indie games
Oh man Gothic 2. A living legenadary. Reinstalling!
0:56 is Baldur's Gate 1 (1998) and the version being showcased is Baldur's Gate 1 Enhanced Edition (2012)
This is why I want to become a game dev despite the industry being an exploitative slave labor for corpos. Video games are the prime medium of human creativity.
No they’re not. Everything has to be represented on one flat screen.
@Catzor Next you'll be saying that autism is a super power...
@@kosterix123 Never heard of VR headsets?
@@TurboNutterBastard most of the list were great games, back in 2002. I really don't need them anno 2022.
@@kosterix123 Do you not watch old films, read old books, listen to old music simply due to them being made in the past?
If i was limited to to only being able to watch modern films, listen to modern music and play modern games i think i'd give up on all 3.
I play Dungeon Siege legends of aranna now and recommend it to everyone :)
Ds1 is free on Xbox 360
gaming wasnt mainstream back then and was kind of a really committed nerdy subculture. im happy i was born in 1990 and got to enjoy alot of classics from the snes and gameboy on over pc games. this time was for gaming what the 70s were for music.
maybe i got too old now but i really dont enjoy alot of the new games i played the recent years.
my best memories were playing wc3 battlenet maps online all day and building my own in map editor. it was a great time and alot of todays famous games mechanics were invented back then by people like me who just had fun building maps.