I miss when Roblox games actually had interesting and unique ideas to them. All the old games felt like passion-filled Indie games made by people who just wanted to bring their ideas to life, instead of big corporate games that trick you into gambling and wasting hours of your life for a goal that could not be acheived.
There are some games that aren't like that but its only like less than 10% of the games in the platform sadly.. One of them is Arcane Odyssey a very good game, though the combat is not that good but to advice: the bosses are NOT easy, the First 2 maybe but the others are quite complicated, it has some bugs since it is in early access and this year maybe like September or October the game will become a full release with all of its intended features
Starting from around 1:48 there’s a short clip of the game “Boost Vector” on its map called “Orion”. I’d like to say that although the game looks generic and is also no longer receiving updates, the game could be still fun and the concept is great: Without using vehicles, you could race against other players in (somewhat) speedy action. It does have its own unique system called “bands” which go on the players’ wrist and buying new ones as well as upgrading them (to gain speed and other stats) allows for several playstyles. You should check out the game itself, and the music is pretty cool. Although some have been removed for legal ressons.
Well most likely because they were always the first to do something and you didn't have to worry about copying anybody and every game was just a fresh new idea
Whats crazy is that isn't even the old roblox loading screen, well, it is now but it wasn't back then. I remember the roblox R logo loading screen. Time flies.
i completely agree when you said "finding good games in roblox is like finding diamonds in a garbage bin" cause it is literally impossible to actually find great, amazing games nowdays
im an aspiring game dev, who already has several games out, and this video is insanely accurate. my games dont have any shops or things like that, so roblox isnt really pushing them. my situation has probably happened to millions of other creators, so any new original games have probably just been killed off by how roblox works edit: thanks for all of the likes and replies, you guys have actually pushed me to keep updating my game so i really appreciate it. for those who want to try the game, its Bobert's Marble Playground made by me, BananaBurrito2000.
I do want to wish you the best on your games, it can be difficult to create original content and be able to stand out in such crowds that you could drown under in, but if you keep it up and learn various techinques, you can surely get there! Just don't go after the money, it is best to stick to what you want to make as a passion!
@@pyrobytee but do you have to market your game? is all games that don't monitize just gonna get same treatment as if you we're uncopylocking it to have others learn from it (or modify it for fun)? sounds fun, but hey roblox isn't advertising itself as game development platform but as a metaverse
Games I play that I recommend to play! :) The Experiment [V7.3] Horrific Housing Zombie Attack Super Doomspire Bear Alpha Zach's Service Station (Or Gas Station Simulator) Write A Letter All of these games are my favorites that I still play today, and most of these games are not toxic, and are still updated today! (I don't know about Bear Alpha) They're all extremely unpopular. The Experiment is a horror waiting game, where you are a Delta Experiment that is trying to escape and figure out the lab around you. (This is my favorite! :D) Horrific Housing is a survival game to play with friends, where you survive on your house and try and kill the others to survive. Zombie Attack is were you fight off hoards of zombies and get the gun that works for you best. Super Doomspire is an upgraded and more fun version of Doomspire Brick battle. Bear Alpha is a survival game where you hide from the bear that tries to catch you. (It also has lore) Zach's Service Station is a simulator game that you can play with up to 12 friends where you build your ever growing gas station, and upgrade yourself to work better. Write a Letter is a hangout game that has little hiding spots, a library, a cabin, a house, an abandoned gas station and a hidden underground ice wonderland. *Enjoy these games as much as you can! All of these games deserve recognition!*
OMG I played all of these and almost forgot some of them and you're absolutely right they are damn fun and I was addicted to most of them except the zombie one I never heard of it, I'll definitely try that out on a better device!
I’ve played write a letter before and it blinded my soul and eyes. I recommend all of these but for the sake of sanity do NOT go to write a letter the playerbass there is questionable😭🙏🏼
pro tip: play a roblox game called “retro studio” as it simulates roblox in 2010 to 2015 perfectly… with lots of active players and a community similar to the one many years ago
I miss when i could survive in 14 different islands while a Kraken attacked me and random events happened, like the island becoming glass or the island becoming lava, or even getting an free ufo randomly
@@dysol4455 It was full off players and it is really old, and it was also the First game i played so i miss It, even though i can revisit it when i wan't
Every single person who has every played roblox needs to see this, such simple games used to not even matter as it was still fun, but nowdays it only matters if it is high effort. No matter if you're OG, or a new player, you need to know this before you play any roblox game. They're all just cash grabs, like simulator games or Adopt Me that really have no actual effort come into them while games such as Hours or BMII are overlooked and underappreciated. I love how you want to spread this idealogy and make sure everyone knows this. Missed this content of yours! (Also editting is amazing!)
I totally agree with you, roblox has changed. The majority experiences in Roblox is just simulators and cashgrabs that isnt mentally good for underage users. I rarely find games with good pvp mechanics like Black Magic II because my recommendation would get bombarded with repetitive grinding pet autoclicking monstrosity. I would always get up, play ABD with the homies, killing toxic spanish users with the rainbow drip using NTWAU. Now basically every one of my friends are either gone or autoclicking on some random game. Roblox just aint fun no more, I'm still playing roblox just because i cant find any multiplayer games that is suitable for my laptop (shit laptop btw). So basically, i cant play valorant, apex or etc. Nowadays i just play with my classmates on roblox horror games or bully children on PVP games. Also siomai, your commentary and editing is amazing, sadly there's barely any views coming into the video at the moment. I wish you good luck on your college and TH-cam channel.
Some gems will always be found/made on the game, so there is alllways hope that we can find good quality games still and hope the community evolves from the current state it is in (mostly the slenders ect)
Monster islands… i miss monster islands when it was popular Also boost vector Also survive the disasters Also arcane adventures Also Volt Also Booga Booga
The real problem is the platform for sure. There are still great games out there ready to be found. But the sense of simplicity, innocence and community that made Roblox a jolly time is lost.
imo roblox just became too big for its own good. literally millions of kids playing means any good developer can get an easy buck by making shitty simulator games and overmonetizing everything
also a game company becoming public is probably one of the worst decisions it can make, from the players perspective at least. as soon as that happens, the company's interests aren't to keep the players happy, its to keep the shareholders happy
i miss the "boring roblox games" with those chill vibes like early 2016 u know the ones like where there arent really many game mechanics but its still fun to play kinda, something about those low graphic games is nice and it seems this mindset to chill games and a balance of really nice games is returning, there's a game called "need more heat" it seems very simple at first but its actually quite bittersweet and goofy about a kid who doesn't want to go to school and needs to convince a fever hence the name, but as you progress through the endings you start to notice something is off with dad, it turns out the kid (player) mother is dead so upon that the kid that you are playing as decides to visit their moms grave, at the end the father and son reconcile and spend the day together instead of having the kid go to school. if you like bittersweet or sad games there's lots of very good projects on those, but again the stupid problem of actually finding them in that mindless garbage corporate algorithm arises.
@@ElvixErty that sounds like a really cool game and it reminds me of one of my old favorite games called get a snack at 4am, it seems simple at first but the story is super cool (I won’t spoil anything in case you haven’t played it yet)
Sometime around 2018 - 2022 (i dont remember exactly), roblox began giving more monetized games higher in the front page. Underrated, fun, passion-based games are significantly less popular
Yeahh true, but even tho it was 2018 back then simulators were way more popular than currently (excluding Pet Sim 99 but that will just die off like pet sim x).
even in 2018 - 2019, Most of my cousins/friends didnt give a crap about simulators and played really awesome games. My favorite genres were platforming/obbies, with a side of horror (and maybe even RP). I played so many games between 2018 - 2019 that many of yall played earlier in like 2016 - 2017, (EX: Epic Minigames, Stop it Slender 2, and Freeze Tag [the one made by ConnorVIII], and so many other games that I am compelled to make a list of) which gave off the same aura of surprise and pride while playing, instead of a weird experience, like way modern games
Also there were other cashgrabs too, and horrible games that have existed way before this point. (Around the start of Roblox going public), so even though it felt like it was most likely popularized in one year then the other, doesn't meant that that year is horrible/ it was filled to the brim with trash games/ Heck, most of the front page games in 2018 (from like Wayback archive as far as I can remember), arent even simulators lol. Sorry for ranting, I just feel like certain years get stereotyped way to much for something that could be easily forgotten about lol, also includes some bias since I joined very early on in 2018 haha
I remember the good days when Meepcity and Bloxburg where the height in player count. I would come from school and see these games and start playing and some games such Advanced Warfare Tycoon!, Military Warfare Tycoon, Call of Roblox, Themepark Tycoon 2, Retail Tycoon, Lumber Tycoon, Roleplay World, Survive a Natural Disaster, Would you Rather 1/2, etc were the height of Roblox nobody was toxic everybody was nice it was super active I remember the day I would wake up go to school come back and play roblox I would be ectsatic when I could come back and play now I feel sad that barely anybody and plays now it's just full of OD's, Slenders, Emos, scammers, etc so much hate and toxicity and cash grabs. Now those games I used to play are so low in player count as before. The game with the most low player count than I remember is AWT!, MWT, RT, COR, LT, RW, and WR 1/2. Who else remembers these times (around 2015-2018/9) Also Siomai, I loved your comentary and editing and suggestions. My guy that was good fucking awesome!
I agree with you 100%, its so sad to see that the games on roblox are not an "experience" anymore, they're just cashgrabbers, aspiring game developers are probably ages 7-14 (but this is from what i've observed) and say "hey, that looks cool, let me try making something similar" but of course, they are overtaken by other games, those fun and entertaining, simple games that are made with passion are just set aside with barely and players, and those shitty simulator games are just generating more revenue from children who probably begged for robux from their parents, i mean don't get me wrong, most simulator games are fun, but would you really spend money to enjoy the "experience", wasting things like that is just plain dumb, but of course, they're kids, they wouldn't know, but how can i blame them, when i was one of them. (yes i know some of these probably dont make sense but i mean im terrible at english) (also i love playing micheal's zombie and project lazarus)
im 14 rn, in summer will be 15, ive talked to people and a game dev too, and nobody is motivating me just cuz i want to make a tower defense i´with sutff that is featured in more popular ones,i have an obby idea, which will easily get overshadowed by those super easy obbies or will get a few vists from pros, but my friend wanted to make a sotry game, well, theres so many of those kind i think its really not different, but yeah im kinda thinking if i really want to make these just to make my idea be a game or just let it be since probably nobody will play it anyways
@@missshariyay then why are you people shitting on simulator games, they're the exact same thing (this guy edited their comment to talk about autism for some reason)
I remember feeling just genuinely burnt out off of roblox because of how dry the games got, repetitive, addictive, built to develop a habit, all that stuff And then i turned to arcane odyssey, sure it's an MMORPG so it's grindy, but even then it felt like a genuine experience replaying it after several months of taking a break, the combat could be considered as janky sure but it grows on you, and i feel that's something a lot of roblox games are missing now, something new that could grow on a number of people
Wish I could’ve seen this video earlier. that being said I’m glad I’ve known friends back then including you have realised the new Roblox algorithm to which many are exploited by that grind aspect and many wishing the old community and the old Roblox we know. Back then Roblox was ideal of “Powering Imagination” the community was chill, actual genuine fun games were made, Roblox ACTUALLY cared for their community. I myself ran into TheGuestToBlame on pvp games such as project sumbus accudo and critical strike, that guy as a developer deserved more love towards others, his nicer nature should be cherished like other developers rather be pressured by their own community. So glad you have the same viewpoint and experience I do Siomai, it was worth subscribing to you during the abd days.
I remember toxic players only being like 1 in 5000 servers it used to be very enjoyable... roblox keeps ruining the platform by trying to make it for older and younger audiences, and we no longer have the freedom of speech we used to. cashgrabs are much more common now, being the only games people play nowadays also i was very suprised to be BM2 in that list, i tried to get a lot of youtubers to play it but never actually got them to play it. Great video btw, have a nice day!
>mfs in 2015 roblox: “i miss old roblox!!! no toxic people back then!!!” >mfs in current roblox “i miss old roblox!!! no toxic people back then!!!” nostalgia blindness
For anyone that want's a grindy game but it's also fun try Evolve, its like a Spore like game where you can your own little creature and fight player and make friends, it will also make you captivated but not in such a bad way. Hope that helps anyone finding a game (:
Finding good games is like nearly impossible nowadays which cause to play less and less to the point I might as well quit Roblox because of it, the only games I actively play nowadays is either the old classic games people’s stop playing. One game I could recommend y’all to try at least once is neonKnights (which is the same devs who made a Boost vector) The game not perfect but its one of those that the developers put there time into making it and it’s pretty fun for me in my opinion
Personally, I agree with you on roblox's status. The majority of games rely on cash grabs and addicting younger children into playing non stop, and the better less grindy ones that don't get thousands of robux worth of ads get overshadowed and usually abandoned. As one of the younger people who plays this game, I can totally say that there are many things that will cause lasting issues with our young minds, either that being pedos, addicting games with bad communities, or just straight up bad games. Personally, Its hard to find roblox enjoyable now, because all I can do is play one or 2 decent roleplay games (which still arent that great) or play some pvp games and grind. I've even gotten into scripting myself, as it seems enjoyable and a good way to enjoy roblox nowadays. I hope roblox gets better, but the future seems grim unless some major changes happen in the community. People like you make my day better siomai, good luck with college.
I used to play a game called flood escape 2 back in 2018, it was my most played game back then and I would constantly play it 24/7. I miss those days when I have to work together with other players to procced to the next part in the level which encourages players to have a sense of teamwork, because of that I made alot of friends from that game it. Damn I really REALLY miss those days...
I remember when my friend found hours and told me how we should try it until we realized it was a singleplayer game, so we just left it behind and decided to go play something else. A few days later I remembered about it and decided to try it. It was probably the most fun I've had on roblox since I first joined the platform
I stopped playing Roblox in 2020 after playing it since 2012. I now, got back to it, I play it sometimes with friends, and it's really not the same. No fun at all. Where are the events? There is so much stuff I don't see anymore. Nothing to do now. It's really sad.
You know at this point i can’t even blame or get mad at the developers of these roblox games I used to play. They made there game to be fun and addictive as possible to get you hooked on it. After all its your choice to play these games whats the point of playing a game when you don’t even have fun playing it anymore
@@C40dude everyone was nice and so sweet during those times and it was pretty much the same for me judging by experience. The best part is the games are not so pay to win. Plus su tart games and more. All I can say is it was the happiest times. At least for me. 🤷🏻♀️
Dude I’ve legit been thinking for so long like “Wtf happened to this game?” Everything you said perfectly described it and it’s just sad it has to be like this, I don’t think there will ever be a game that will make creativity it’s priority anymore which just sucks. Thanks for this video.
i hate that god's mistake of a game engine is only built for first person shooters. too bad people prefer making donation games and afk simulators to rot your brain at a young age over capitalizing roblox's only good strength
This video was honestly one of, if not your best video. Been watching you since around the middle of 2020 and watching you and your content grow has been amazing and I cant wait to see what you have instore for the future! (also a game you should checkout is Roguelike Prototype, it's kind of like Minecraft Dungeons)
Holy shit bro. Going into this video, I was expecting it to be the same old garbage complaint video about modern Roblox games but you’re completely right. This is the best video I have ever watched about Roblox and it encompasses all of its problems perfectly. Thank you man, you made my 12 hour flight amazing. And thank you TH-cam for suggesting such an amazing video for me to download.
Sure, everything looks much more sleek, clean, and nice to look at, but one thing the old page will have over the current one is the colors and how inviting the game page looked. The new colors, mostly white, black, grey, and green (mostly found on the Robux page) don’t seem very inviting at all.
i agree with every single point made in this video. i remember going onto roblox almost every day and playing abd, where i actually had fun and enjoyed myself. now literally almost every game on the front page is just a cashgrab and isnt fun at all to play. roblox is still almost the only platform i even play anything on, but all I really do is just play horror games or join whatever my friends are doing. roblox is still fun, although sometimes it can take actual hours just to find a fun game to play. the entire games page is just simulators or cash grabs where you repeat the same thing over and over again. not to mention the players too. roblox used to be an actual fun community and was mostly peaceful, now most of the community is extremely toxic and its really hard to find anyone thats nice or a good sport in games. the only game ive even played throughout the past year without quitting is the mimic, which despite being a literal horror game is still my favorite game on the entire platform currently because of how money hungry all the other developers are. i wish the entire platform could just go back to how it was like 1 and a half years ago, back to when there was actually more fun games than pay to win cashgrabs made by some developer who barely even puts effort into their game.
It's really sad how roblox nowadays is lable as yet another cash grabbing game(platform),compare as back then. It really hits the spot when you said "It's about the experience“, I discovered roblox when I was in G5-6 and me, my younger sibling and my cousin used to play roblox alot and have fun, getting lost in maze in Lumber tycoon 2, escaping prison in prison life, and finding your target in assassin, Trying out new elements in elemental battle grounds. It was such a fun and wonderful experience as a child.
This video has said LITERALLY everything on my mind, I only play roblox since its all i can do with the amount of friend i play with and hardware differences, I miss being able to play Arcane Adventures with my friends, thanks for the suggested games though,
yeah i also had this feeling too, when i was younger around 2015 the front page looked like a whole different world that i could hop in and explore but nowadays its like.. its just way too different man.
As a 2016 roblox veteran I myself think roblox is just boring now. Literally the only games you can see on the website is only some simulators or pay-to-win games and the cooler games you have to find them. Truly disappointing
I literally almost cried when I saw roblox before, life has changed man. Roblox was way better back then, I remember all of the fun times I used to have while not having to play simulator games and all of the old games I used to play
I loved boost vector, and I went back to it a while back. Most of the music got copyrighted and it kind of killed the experience until I listened to the proper music while playing it. There still are good games
As a roblox developer with 7+ years of experience, this is SO RELATABLE!!! I remember putting my heart and soul into a pretty much terribly executed game. I spent one and a half years on it to only get 40 visits. I had practically released it during the time when "simulators" were on the rise. I remember being eight years old and absolutely hating simulators and cash-grabby games for the same reasons this video explains. Roblox just cant seem to really care much about developers, in fact, you are more likely to get banned as a developer due to the fact that you are uploading assets to the platform, you kind of have no other choice but to do it and deal with it. Long wait times, terrible moderators, strict guidelines, unoptimized client, and outright unfair devex restrictions.. the ecosystem makes it almost impossible to make complex games on roblox. And then working for small teams with fanbases was absolutely STRESSFUL!! Fans expected so much in so little time, they did not understand anything about game development and just wanted us to release the game, expecting it not to be half-ah ah ah'd. With this platform, i constantly end up with massive roadblocks from just the development ecosystem. I refuse to pump out cash grabs because I want to create video games as if it were art. And thats because video games 𝗮𝗿𝗲 art. Roblox doesnt "power imagination" in fact it does the opposite... preventing it. Ive practically resorted to having to attempt learning ANOTHER game engine all over again from scratch, leaving all my roblox experience behind. Roblox needs to find ways to treat their developers who are there for, as the video suggests.. "experience" rather than money. Anyways sorry for long rant, i rlly enjoyed the video and u earned urself a sub!
Roleplay games are peak Roblox IMO. Titles like After the Flash, Legends of Aether, Blastaway Newmex, SBRP, and even some undertale ones if you go to the right servers, are amazing and fun.
The montage close to the end of the video really gave me an unexplainable feeling of nostalgia, I grew up with ROBLOX, and now any game just seems either too grindy, or too toxic. At the start of it, I saw possibility, and now, I see a loss of hope. Whenever I watched this video, at the start I was ignorant, but you brought up a lot of good points and this opinion has now grown onto me as truth, most of the ROBLOX games now are just blatant cash grabs, or too bland. After watching this video, I realized how much this platform has inspired me to try new things, now it's just a reason for me to yell. I mainly only play games which involve combat, like Jojo's games. I've long quit Your Bizarre Adventure, and A Universal Time got too boring for me to play. There are very few games as of now that I continuously play, Grand Piece Online is fun, but I realize that won't be for much longer. This video opened up my eyes, I'm not a common viewer on your channel, but I have watched a lot of the funny videos you make. Amazing content, and I wish you well on your trip to college!
Monster islands Also boost vector Also survive the disasters Also arcane adventures Also Volt Also Booga Booga All these games were made for the entertainment of people and not for cash grabbing. Games like these are hidden gems. Some of them are broken and most are dead though
Tbh, Roblox as a game engine has massively improved with it's many new features but the frontpage and popular games section have evolved backwards. We need the passion of old Roblox with the technology of modern Roblox and you'd have a platform that could compete with indie Unity and Unreal Engine games in terms of quality.
Fun fact, I actually started playing Roblox in 2016, some weeks after the Tix removal. The old games were great as hell, however now there are constant cash grab games. One of the cash grab game creators is called "vintagetoysandmore". I saw him once in a Roblox game and checked his profile to see how he's so rich! He always lied and profitted off trends, exc. Turning Red, Huggy Wuggy, etc. He also claimed that he made UNCOPYLOCKED games. He also lied. jesus christ..
dude he is so freaking true i agree with him so much roblox has changed so much in the Past 6-4 yrs. oders have advanced , trolls are not funny anymore and its pretty crazy ive been playing roblox for like 7-5 yrs and im still prob gonna play it but this is really touching and i will always be the same and i wont let roblox change me because i dont think i would want to make my life miserable because of one mistake, playing roblox.
Tbh i spend way more time in old broken 2010-2017 roblox games than the new scammy ass simulators. Can we normalize making simple enjoyable games like bake a cake, dont blink, stop it slender, survive the disasters, animatronic world, twisted murderers, epic minigames and SO many more forgotten great games that arent just money scams
This video is what i always wanted, even tho im SUPER young, i agree with everything you are saying, and this moment of roblox is the reason i HATE pay to win games, i just play them when joking around with some friends and the good maps that don't have gamepasses are my favourite ones, and im probaly just like you, addictated to deepwoken, where the only robux things(other then the actual game) are slots and the race reroll. Roblox devs should know that they are probaly stealing a kid money and it is wrong, not just to get free money and release an update that is just skins(YES, IM TALKING ABOUT YOU YBA) for money
This video is really inspiring. I have to agree with you that, most new gen Roblox games are just cash-grab, repetitive, boring and s i m u l a t o r s.
The last thing that made me quit Roblox was them removing Linux support. And yeah I agree with you, games are also just cash grabs and get boring quick. I made my first account in 2018.
thats why ive been legit just been offline for weeks and weeks of roblox because there are just....... none fun games that arent grindy, arent toxic, and arent bad development/community.... even on the play store i cant even find a single thing that is fun... all of them are... now just... only..... nothing.... edit: i also dont have a pc yet.... so i cant even play valorant and etc.
I was so addicted to roblox like everytime i come back from school i would try to sneak my way to my potato without mom noticing back then..but now i just ignore it. There is no fun games just filled with boring clicking games with little to no fun,and oders everywhere. I know there are some fun games but..like Siomai said "its like try to find a diamond in a trash can" Roblox doesn't care about its community it cares about how much they make thats what its making it bad.
Ever since 2020, and when premium was introduced m, game developers realized they could make grindy clicker games which made you stay overnight in order to become stronger. Staying overnight gave developers tons of robux from premium players due to the fact that premium payout gave some robux every certain amout of time. Having thousands of premium players by riding on a trend or putting fun colors in your face to get the most amount of people to play would make developers thousands of robux each day.
Zeppelin wars is by far my favorite game. It was a reimagined version of an older Roblox game from the late 2000s. There are two teams, Patrol, and Pirates. Each team has the exact same zeppelin and planes, no pay to win game passes. From like 2020 - 2023 it had 1k active player average. But now it’s been overshadowed by Airship assault. With many micro transactions along the way. I can’t even figure out how to move the plane off the runway in that game. Now Zeppelin Wars has a 80 - 120 active player average. Still a wide variety of players who play today. The OGs: people who playing game since it’s pre alpha stage. The intermediates: people who had been playing the game for a few months and already love it. And of course, The newcomers: people who aren’t looking for a game, people who are looking for an experience.
its funny, how im part of a generation build on grindy games and dumbass kids, yet i still very much agree with you on this, sure im not old but i played the games that were fun, and i still had fun even today, but we are just stuck here, we cant do shit right now
The people who love Grindy dumb simulator games, play Roblox a lot more than the average Robloxian, which is probably why those games are much more popular, but that’s just a theory
I would sacrifice everything just to go back and fix the damn platform or go back just to experience the nostalgia again 😞 You know roblos' gonna die if this keeps up in the future
3:15 holy sh*t that is EXACTLY what my little brother does to his pc and every time I look at the poor thing (the pc) I think about how badly it’s being treated by a 10 year old. Micro transactions and addictive/predatory game loops in games NEEDS to be moderated ESPECIALLY on platforms where the majority of their players are actual children… makes me want to rip something apart istg
This is so true, like, for real, every single thing is true. I'm a full time roblox developer, but a player aswell, since 2016. And since then, the only reason i dont quit roblox is because i have friends and games, community and stuff and those things mean a ton to me. Roblox burries good but underrated games and promotes bad and cashgrabbing games because they only want money. No wonder why roblox takes 3/4 of the revenue from games. Because of that, the only thing i've been doing for the past 2 years is playing roblox, everyday. And i can truly say that roblox is garbage now. Whan i was younger, i used to play a TON of gomes, like Lumber Tycoon, Jailbreak, ABD, and a ton of other games. Now the only thing i see is boring grindy shitty games, even jojo games like AUT and YBA are shitty and boring. The main issue is that peiple thing quality is more important than gameplay! And thats the thing im trying to avoid. I'm a experienced developer and i can make fun games. Thanks for reading this. -artucox7
3:05 there’s also the option of.. just playing the game and enjoy it as it is without getting burned or paying- which is very hard to happen,, but its possible
I started playing roblox back in 2016 and just seeing how much it changed to some horrific abomination just sucks. sometimes when I’m bored I play roblox but it doesn’t feel the same.
as a person who was formerly #3 on the kill leaderboards for combat warriors i cant imagine where id be today without it, i made so many good friends and met so many amazing people on that game and it made me a more social person in general so i cant be more grateful for it.
THIS VIDEO IS OLD, THIS WAS MY FIRST “VIDEO ESSAY” SO EVERYTHING IS SO MESSY.
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Miss the good old day when i can roleplay as a highschooler for a whole day and not get bored
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So we do the same things back then...
@@nevergonnagiveyouupwasamas3209 Yes,…but it was more better.
James/18/Bad Boy/Cool/Quiet
I miss when Roblox games actually had interesting and unique ideas to them. All the old games felt like passion-filled Indie games made by people who just wanted to bring their ideas to life, instead of big corporate games that trick you into gambling and wasting hours of your life for a goal that could not be acheived.
There are some games that aren't like that but its only like less than 10% of the games in the platform sadly..
One of them is Arcane Odyssey a very good game, though the combat is not that good but to advice: the bosses are NOT easy, the First 2 maybe but the others are quite complicated, it has some bugs since it is in early access and this year maybe like September or October the game will become a full release with all of its intended features
Starting from around 1:48 there’s a short clip of the game “Boost Vector” on its map called “Orion”. I’d like to say that although the game looks generic and is also no longer receiving updates, the game could be still fun and the concept is great: Without using vehicles, you could race against other players in (somewhat) speedy action. It does have its own unique system called “bands” which go on the players’ wrist and buying new ones as well as upgrading them (to gain speed and other stats) allows for several playstyles. You should check out the game itself, and the music is pretty cool. Although some have been removed for legal ressons.
Well most likely because they were always the first to do something and you didn't have to worry about copying anybody and every game was just a fresh new idea
Sadly, only youtube shows you these games, while roblox wants your money whit ugc simulator LIKE WHAT THE F.
you got nostalgia blindness dawg most front page games back then still wanted to leech off your robux
3:59 the loading screen gave me nostalgia like damn it's been years since I saw that.
nostalgia boner right there
I miss it too
Had me teared up fr
So real i literally gasped because i forgot about it
Whats crazy is that isn't even the old roblox loading screen, well, it is now but it wasn't back then. I remember the roblox R logo loading screen. Time flies.
bee swarm feels like one last relic of old roblox that simultaneously modernized
This is the perfect description
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Bee sim is old roblox? 😂
@@Lol99410 It's six years old, so yes, it is quite old for a Roblox game.
@@Lol99410what is considered an "old year" for you?
i completely agree when you said "finding good games in roblox is like finding diamonds in a garbage bin"
cause it is literally impossible to actually find great, amazing games nowdays
yes
try entry point
bro it's pointless to play it, its already finished and has boring gameplay@TXA-TXAT
Try Guts & Blackpowder
@@xenogoree You could say it's.... entry pointless
im an aspiring game dev, who already has several games out, and this video is insanely accurate. my games dont have any shops or things like that, so roblox isnt really pushing them. my situation has probably happened to millions of other creators, so any new original games have probably just been killed off by how roblox works
edit: thanks for all of the likes and replies, you guys have actually pushed me to keep updating my game so i really appreciate it. for those who want to try the game, its Bobert's Marble Playground made by me, BananaBurrito2000.
I do want to wish you the best on your games, it can be difficult to create original content and be able to stand out in such crowds that you could drown under in, but if you keep it up and learn various techinques, you can surely get there!
Just don't go after the money, it is best to stick to what you want to make as a passion!
thank you!@@rook1342
roblox doesnt care if you game has gamepasses, you just dont know how to market your game
@@pyrobytee but do you have to market your game? is all games that don't monitize just gonna get same treatment as if you we're uncopylocking it to have others learn from it (or modify it for fun)?
sounds fun, but hey roblox isn't advertising itself as game development platform but as a metaverse
May I ask what your games are?
Games I play that I recommend to play! :)
The Experiment [V7.3]
Horrific Housing
Zombie Attack
Super Doomspire
Bear Alpha
Zach's Service Station (Or Gas Station Simulator)
Write A Letter
All of these games are my favorites that I still play today, and most of these games are not toxic, and are still updated today! (I don't know about Bear Alpha)
They're all extremely unpopular.
The Experiment is a horror waiting game, where you are a Delta Experiment that is trying to escape and figure out the lab around you. (This is my favorite! :D)
Horrific Housing is a survival game to play with friends, where you survive on your house and try and kill the others to survive.
Zombie Attack is were you fight off hoards of zombies and get the gun that works for you best.
Super Doomspire is an upgraded and more fun version of Doomspire Brick battle.
Bear Alpha is a survival game where you hide from the bear that tries to catch you. (It also has lore)
Zach's Service Station is a simulator game that you can play with up to 12 friends where you build your ever growing gas station, and upgrade yourself to work better.
Write a Letter is a hangout game that has little hiding spots, a library, a cabin, a house, an abandoned gas station and a hidden underground ice wonderland.
*Enjoy these games as much as you can! All of these games deserve recognition!*
Omg The Experiment is one of the most underrated games on this platform.Really REALLY hope for future updates
@@mlchaellss8761 You've played it before?! :D I'm so glad somebody actually knows the game, because I have to tell them all the lore and such! :')
OMG I played all of these and almost forgot some of them and you're absolutely right they are damn fun and I was addicted to most of them except the zombie one I never heard of it, I'll definitely try that out on a better device!
I’d also recommend Juke’s Towers of Hell, it’s a collection of really hard obbies but it’s fun, it feels like Mario for me for some reason
I’ve played write a letter before and it blinded my soul and eyes. I recommend all of these but for the sake of sanity do NOT go to write a letter the playerbass there is questionable😭🙏🏼
pro tip: play a roblox game called “retro studio” as it simulates roblox in 2010 to 2015 perfectly… with lots of active players and a community similar to the one many years ago
and in the future, it will add 2008 and 2016 to the mix of time periods!
I miss when i could survive in 14 different islands while a Kraken attacked me and random events happened, like the island becoming glass or the island becoming lava, or even getting an free ufo randomly
Ah yes, cursed islands
the easier plates of fate
way easier plates of fate
That game is still around, how do you miss that?
@@dysol4455 It was full off players and it is really old, and it was also the First game i played so i miss It, even though i can revisit it when i wan't
Every single person who has every played roblox needs to see this, such simple games used to not even matter as it was still fun, but nowdays it only matters if it is high effort. No matter if you're OG, or a new player, you need to know this before you play any roblox game. They're all just cash grabs, like simulator games or Adopt Me that really have no actual effort come into them while games such as Hours or BMII are overlooked and underappreciated. I love how you want to spread this idealogy and make sure everyone knows this. Missed this content of yours! (Also editting is amazing!)
sad truth
@@SiomaiSiomai the fact that i play most of these games especially allusions and hours
@@SiomaiSiomai also dont mind the name for my profile
@@evllestguy 🤨
@@rej6419 🤨
I totally agree with you, roblox has changed. The majority experiences in Roblox is just simulators and cashgrabs that isnt mentally good for underage users. I rarely find games with good pvp mechanics like Black Magic II because my recommendation would get bombarded with repetitive grinding pet autoclicking monstrosity. I would always get up, play ABD with the homies, killing toxic spanish users with the rainbow drip using NTWAU. Now basically every one of my friends are either gone or autoclicking on some random game. Roblox just aint fun no more, I'm still playing roblox just because i cant find any multiplayer games that is suitable for my laptop (shit laptop btw). So basically, i cant play valorant, apex or etc. Nowadays i just play with my classmates on roblox horror games or bully children on PVP games.
Also siomai, your commentary and editing is amazing, sadly there's barely any views coming into the video at the moment. I wish you good luck on your college and TH-cam channel.
Maybe try some meme games like Item Asylum and Slap battles, they're fun to kill some time
And the reason is that guess what?
You need AT LEAST 100,000 robux to make money from making a game in roblox.........
Like excuse me Mr Roblox WTF
(Just for record, that is equivalent to around US$1000.00)
@@StarlieW Already did, had a blast playing it. But rn roblox dry
Hella dry, I feel myself getting kidney stones if I play Roblox for more than an hour or two
Roblox deteriorates along with the internet
Some gems will always be found/made on the game, so there is alllways hope that we can find good quality games still and hope the community evolves from the current state it is in (mostly the slenders ect)
this is sad cause its very true
@@randomgamer3664I remember a few good ones there’s sentinel dummies vs noobs defend the train and final stand 2 you might have heard of some of these
Yeah 😭
Monster islands… i miss monster islands when it was popular
Also boost vector
Also survive the disasters
Also arcane adventures
Also Volt
Also Booga Booga
The real problem is the platform for sure. There are still great games out there ready to be found. But the sense of simplicity, innocence and community that made Roblox a jolly time is lost.
imo roblox just became too big for its own good. literally millions of kids playing means any good developer can get an easy buck by making shitty simulator games and overmonetizing everything
also a game company becoming public is probably one of the worst decisions it can make, from the players perspective at least. as soon as that happens, the company's interests aren't to keep the players happy, its to keep the shareholders happy
@@PosterityIslesNewsastute observations
Strongly agree with this comment! Actually super strongly agreed..
Things is roblox makes. It so u can't see the games only the trash game so they can make a quick buck
The fact that this still appears to Roblox today is actually chilling
Seeing Roblox game page is like checking the free to play section on steam, very few is good and the rest is not good
At least there are some good games that are well known like regretevator and phighting
@@Skippymcskepi agree
i miss the "boring roblox games" with those chill vibes like early 2016 u know the ones like where there arent really many game mechanics but its still fun to play kinda, something about those low graphic games is nice and it seems this mindset to chill games and a balance of really nice games is returning, there's a game called "need more heat" it seems very simple at first but its actually quite bittersweet and goofy about a kid who doesn't want to go to school and needs to convince a fever hence the name, but as you progress through the endings you start to notice something is off with dad, it turns out the kid (player) mother is dead so upon that the kid that you are playing as decides to visit their moms grave, at the end the father and son reconcile and spend the day together instead of having the kid go to school. if you like bittersweet or sad games there's lots of very good projects on those, but again the stupid problem of actually finding them in that mindless garbage corporate algorithm arises.
@@ElvixErty that sounds like a really cool game and it reminds me of one of my old favorite games called get a snack at 4am, it seems simple at first but the story is super cool (I won’t spoil anything in case you haven’t played it yet)
Sometime around 2018 - 2022 (i dont remember exactly), roblox began giving more monetized games higher in the front page. Underrated, fun, passion-based games are significantly less popular
roblox prioritized cashgrab games since the start you just didnt see it back then
Yeahh true, but even tho it was 2018 back then simulators were way more popular than currently (excluding Pet Sim 99 but that will just die off like pet sim x).
@@pyrobyteewell they often got deleted bc they usually were insane clickbaits with no effort
even in 2018 - 2019, Most of my cousins/friends didnt give a crap about simulators and played really awesome games. My favorite genres were platforming/obbies, with a side of horror (and maybe even RP). I played so many games between 2018 - 2019 that many of yall played earlier in like 2016 - 2017, (EX: Epic Minigames, Stop it Slender 2, and Freeze Tag [the one made by ConnorVIII], and so many other games that I am compelled to make a list of) which gave off the same aura of surprise and pride while playing, instead of a weird experience, like way modern games
Also there were other cashgrabs too, and horrible games that have existed way before this point. (Around the start of Roblox going public), so even though it felt like it was most likely popularized in one year then the other, doesn't meant that that year is horrible/ it was filled to the brim with trash games/ Heck, most of the front page games in 2018 (from like Wayback archive as far as I can remember), arent even simulators lol. Sorry for ranting, I just feel like certain years get stereotyped way to much for something that could be easily forgotten about lol, also includes some bias since I joined very early on in 2018 haha
I remember the good days when Meepcity and Bloxburg where the height in player count. I would come from school and see these games and start playing and some games such Advanced Warfare Tycoon!, Military Warfare Tycoon, Call of Roblox, Themepark Tycoon 2, Retail Tycoon, Lumber Tycoon, Roleplay World, Survive a Natural Disaster, Would you Rather 1/2, etc were the height of Roblox nobody was toxic everybody was nice it was super active I remember the day I would wake up go to school come back and play roblox I would be ectsatic when I could come back and play now I feel sad that barely anybody and plays now it's just full of OD's, Slenders, Emos, scammers, etc so much hate and toxicity and cash grabs. Now those games I used to play are so low in player count as before. The game with the most low player count than I remember is AWT!, MWT, RT, COR, LT, RW, and WR 1/2. Who else remembers these times (around 2015-2018/9)
Also Siomai, I loved your comentary and editing and suggestions. My guy that was good fucking awesome!
thanks man i’m trying to make a vid on the toxicity too like christ almighty
I agree with you 100%, its so sad to see that the games on roblox are not an "experience" anymore, they're just cashgrabbers, aspiring game developers are probably ages 7-14 (but this is from what i've observed) and say "hey, that looks cool, let me try making something similar" but of course, they are overtaken by other games, those fun and entertaining, simple games that are made with passion are just set aside with barely and players, and those shitty simulator games are just generating more revenue from children who probably begged for robux from their parents, i mean don't get me wrong, most simulator games are fun, but would you really spend money to enjoy the "experience", wasting things like that is just plain dumb, but of course, they're kids, they wouldn't know, but how can i blame them, when i was one of them.
(yes i know some of these probably dont make sense but i mean im terrible at english)
(also i love playing micheal's zombie and project lazarus)
cod zombie
Yea bruh never played cod zombies and found out that micheal's zombies is basically that and its soo fun
@@eve_tron whats wrong? is there a problem?
Try voxlblade, its pretty good
im 14 rn, in summer will be 15, ive talked to people and a game dev too, and nobody is motivating me just cuz i want to make a tower defense i´with sutff that is featured in more popular ones,i have an obby idea, which will easily get overshadowed by those super easy obbies or will get a few vists from pros, but my friend wanted to make a sotry game, well, theres so many of those kind i think its really not different, but yeah im kinda thinking if i really want to make these just to make my idea be a game or just let it be since probably nobody will play it anyways
0:49 'except bee swarm' thats so real ngl
bee swarm is so fucking boring i have no idea how people play it
@@PosterityIslesNewsThe only thing I know is all my friends that are diagnosed with autism or adhd (including me) so that with a grain of salt 😭
@@missshariyay then why are you people shitting on simulator games, they're the exact same thing (this guy edited their comment to talk about autism for some reason)
its fun but the majority of the playerbase is js macroing not even playing, plus onett is lazy@@PosterityIslesNews
@@snow-tq4yp how the fuck is macroing fun
I remember feeling just genuinely burnt out off of roblox because of how dry the games got, repetitive, addictive, built to develop a habit, all that stuff
And then i turned to arcane odyssey, sure it's an MMORPG so it's grindy, but even then it felt like a genuine experience replaying it after several months of taking a break, the combat could be considered as janky sure but it grows on you, and i feel that's something a lot of roblox games are missing now, something new that could grow on a number of people
Bout the only game I play on roblox, when roblox crashes that game and vetex calls quits, That'd be my time off the website
Gah I hate auto correct
Try world of magic, basically the big bro of arcane odyssey
@@10hourburstman11 world of magic is discontinued?
and ao is still in early access so yea
Sinking Ships: I was obsessed with flooding, and a lot of these games where you survive sinking ships. Where the only things I played as a kid 😭
I recommend flood escape
@@anxiousVICKyooo it's been a long time since i played flood escape, it used to be one of my favorite games 😭
u might like flood escape then lol
there's also a second one with more mechanics and maps
Wish I could’ve seen this video earlier. that being said I’m glad I’ve known friends back then including you have realised the new Roblox algorithm to which many are exploited by that grind aspect and many wishing the old community and the old Roblox we know. Back then Roblox was ideal of “Powering Imagination” the community was chill, actual genuine fun games were made, Roblox ACTUALLY cared for their community. I myself ran into TheGuestToBlame on pvp games such as project sumbus accudo and critical strike, that guy as a developer deserved more love towards others, his nicer nature should be cherished like other developers rather be pressured by their own community. So glad you have the same viewpoint and experience I do Siomai, it was worth subscribing to you during the abd days.
I remember toxic players only being like 1 in 5000 servers
it used to be very enjoyable...
roblox keeps ruining the platform by trying to make it for older and younger audiences, and we no longer have the freedom of speech we used to.
cashgrabs are much more common now, being the only games people play nowadays
also i was very suprised to be BM2 in that list, i tried to get a lot of youtubers to play it but never actually got them to play it. Great video btw, have a nice day!
>mfs in 2015 roblox: “i miss old roblox!!! no toxic people back then!!!”
>mfs in current roblox “i miss old roblox!!! no toxic people back then!!!”
nostalgia blindness
@@pyrobyteethere were less toxic people back then though, there were less people on ROBLOX in general.
@@NoiFox less toxic people but same rate in encountering one from then to today
@@pyrobyteeI encounter more toxic people nowadays than back then.
Wait idk about that now 😭 toxic players have always been fairly common on Roblox
For anyone that want's a grindy game but it's also fun try Evolve, its like a Spore like game where you can your own little creature and fight player and make friends, it will also make you captivated but not in such a bad way. Hope that helps anyone finding a game (:
Finding good games is like nearly impossible nowadays which cause to play less and less to the point I might as well quit Roblox because of it, the only games I actively play nowadays is either the old classic games people’s stop playing. One game I could recommend y’all to try at least once is neonKnights (which is the same devs who made a Boost vector) The game not perfect but its one of those that the developers put there time into making it and it’s pretty fun for me in my opinion
This happened to me in 2021, ending to quit Roblox and even i remember that only i play psp emulator and ps2 emulator games only
Tried it out game gave it a shot, thanks for the recommendation, but have ya tried out arcane odyssey or xelo.(I think I spelt it wrong...)
Personally, I agree with you on roblox's status. The majority of games rely on cash grabs and addicting younger children into playing non stop, and the better less grindy ones that don't get thousands of robux worth of ads get overshadowed and usually abandoned. As one of the younger people who plays this game, I can totally say that there are many things that will cause lasting issues with our young minds, either that being pedos, addicting games with bad communities, or just straight up bad games. Personally, Its hard to find roblox enjoyable now, because all I can do is play one or 2 decent roleplay games (which still arent that great) or play some pvp games and grind. I've even gotten into scripting myself, as it seems enjoyable and a good way to enjoy roblox nowadays. I hope roblox gets better, but the future seems grim unless some major changes happen in the community.
People like you make my day better siomai, good luck with college.
This is why I stop playing 2 years ago
@@Krossavwhat you play now?
@@nosk4393 rdr 2, og mw2, god of war, and meny more
Back then on 2016 I was so obsessed of getting all of the axes in Lumber Tycoon 2, man nostalgic
I used to play a game called flood escape 2 back in 2018, it was my most played game back then and I would constantly play it 24/7. I miss those days when I have to work together with other players to procced to the next part in the level which encourages players to have a sense of teamwork, because of that I made alot of friends from that game it. Damn I really REALLY miss those days...
It's as if nobody ever heard of the game
@@holl7w Nope, played it before also alot. Kinda quitted since the recent maps has higher quality making my tablet lag alot.
@@towerofhelluse1 what I was implying is that this guy made it look like it's some kind of unknown game barely anybody knows about.
Thought a ton of people knew about it, it’s fun untill you need a break
the moment of silence: 2:31
ok thank fuck i wasn’t the only one
Prob had to remove a copyrighted song
1:03 "STOP SMOKING THE KIDS" captions what are you on
the kids
I remember when my friend found hours and told me how we should try it until we realized it was a singleplayer game, so we just left it behind and decided to go play something else. A few days later I remembered about it and decided to try it. It was probably the most fun I've had on roblox since I first joined the platform
try mours
What game is it tell me now im thirsty for new games aaaaaa
I guess the name is hours@@okay2048
Mours went down just like ABD. Those bratty kids never learn.
@@okay2048hours
I stopped playing Roblox in 2020 after playing it since 2012. I now, got back to it, I play it sometimes with friends, and it's really not the same. No fun at all. Where are the events? There is so much stuff I don't see anymore. Nothing to do now. It's really sad.
You know at this point i can’t even blame or get mad at the developers of these roblox games I used to play. They made there game to be fun and addictive as possible to get you hooked on it. After all its your choice to play these games whats the point of playing a game when you don’t even have fun playing it anymore
I also had the same feeling for awhile. But I got to back into it recently because I played the old games I used to play and loved.
2024: old roblox was better
2020: old roblox was better
2016: old roblox was better
2012: old roblox was better
2008: man this game sucks
haha fax
True
2020-2012 was a great time wdym?
@@2Nune how?
@@C40dude everyone was nice and so sweet during those times and it was pretty much the same for me judging by experience. The best part is the games are not so pay to win. Plus su tart games and more. All I can say is it was the happiest times. At least for me. 🤷🏻♀️
Dude I’ve legit been thinking for so long like “Wtf happened to this game?” Everything you said perfectly described it and it’s just sad it has to be like this, I don’t think there will ever be a game that will make creativity it’s priority anymore which just sucks. Thanks for this video.
i hate that god's mistake of a game engine is only built for first person shooters. too bad people prefer making donation games and afk simulators to rot your brain at a young age over capitalizing roblox's only good strength
This video was honestly one of, if not your best video. Been watching you since around the middle of 2020 and watching you and your content grow has been amazing and I cant wait to see what you have instore for the future! (also a game you should checkout is Roguelike Prototype, it's kind of like Minecraft Dungeons)
Holy shit bro. Going into this video, I was expecting it to be the same old garbage complaint video about modern Roblox games but you’re completely right. This is the best video I have ever watched about Roblox and it encompasses all of its problems perfectly. Thank you man, you made my 12 hour flight amazing. And thank you TH-cam for suggesting such an amazing video for me to download.
4:34 i remember seeing the main page like this,nostalgia
You can see a quality difference.
Sure, everything looks much more sleek, clean, and nice to look at, but one thing the old page will have over the current one is the colors and how inviting the game page looked. The new colors, mostly white, black, grey, and green (mostly found on the Robux page) don’t seem very inviting at all.
i agree with every single point made in this video. i remember going onto roblox almost every day and playing abd, where i actually had fun and enjoyed myself. now literally almost every game on the front page is just a cashgrab and isnt fun at all to play. roblox is still almost the only platform i even play anything on, but all I really do is just play horror games or join whatever my friends are doing. roblox is still fun, although sometimes it can take actual hours just to find a fun game to play. the entire games page is just simulators or cash grabs where you repeat the same thing over and over again. not to mention the players too. roblox used to be an actual fun community and was mostly peaceful, now most of the community is extremely toxic and its really hard to find anyone thats nice or a good sport in games. the only game ive even played throughout the past year without quitting is the mimic, which despite being a literal horror game is still my favorite game on the entire platform currently because of how money hungry all the other developers are. i wish the entire platform could just go back to how it was like 1 and a half years ago, back to when there was actually more fun games than pay to win cashgrabs made by some developer who barely even puts effort into their game.
It's really sad how roblox nowadays is lable as yet another cash grabbing game(platform),compare as back then.
It really hits the spot when you said "It's about the experience“, I discovered roblox when I was in G5-6 and me, my younger sibling and my cousin used to play roblox alot and have fun, getting lost in maze in Lumber tycoon 2, escaping prison in prison life, and finding your target in assassin, Trying out new elements in elemental battle grounds. It was such a fun and wonderful experience as a child.
This video has said LITERALLY everything on my mind, I only play roblox since its all i can do with the amount of friend i play with and hardware differences, I miss being able to play Arcane Adventures with my friends, thanks for the suggested games though,
The same dev will rework arcane adventure to arcane oddyssey. Plan released on late 2022 (maybe)
@@hotelbintang5797 i already know, and im stoked!
yeah i also had this feeling too, when i was younger around 2015 the front page looked like a whole different world that i could hop in and explore but nowadays its like.. its just way too different man.
As a 2016 roblox veteran I myself think roblox is just boring now.
Literally the only games you can see on the website is only some simulators or pay-to-win games and the cooler games you have to find them.
Truly disappointing
When the world need him most
He returned
😐
I literally almost cried when I saw roblox before, life has changed man. Roblox was way better back then, I remember all of the fun times I used to have while not having to play simulator games and all of the old games I used to play
Same dude,same
Jailbreak 2017 hit so hard man
@@justcloss16 I swear
Same , roblox also removed the old searching feature which made it harder to find new games...
I loved boost vector, and I went back to it a while back. Most of the music got copyrighted and it kind of killed the experience until I listened to the proper music while playing it. There still are good games
Omg yes finally someone knows what boost vector and blockage is
As a roblox developer with 7+ years of experience, this is SO RELATABLE!!!
I remember putting my heart and soul into a pretty much terribly executed game. I spent one and a half years on it to only get 40 visits. I had practically released it during the time when "simulators" were on the rise. I remember being eight years old and absolutely hating simulators and cash-grabby games for the same reasons this video explains. Roblox just cant seem to really care much about developers, in fact, you are more likely to get banned as a developer due to the fact that you are uploading assets to the platform, you kind of have no other choice but to do it and deal with it. Long wait times, terrible moderators, strict guidelines, unoptimized client, and outright unfair devex restrictions.. the ecosystem makes it almost impossible to make complex games on roblox. And then working for small teams with fanbases was absolutely STRESSFUL!! Fans expected so much in so little time, they did not understand anything about game development and just wanted us to release the game, expecting it not to be half-ah ah ah'd.
With this platform, i constantly end up with massive roadblocks from just the development ecosystem. I refuse to pump out cash grabs because I want to create video games as if it were art.
And thats because video games 𝗮𝗿𝗲 art.
Roblox doesnt "power imagination" in fact it does the opposite... preventing it.
Ive practically resorted to having to attempt learning ANOTHER game engine all over again from scratch, leaving all my roblox experience behind.
Roblox needs to find ways to treat their developers who are there for, as the video suggests.. "experience" rather than money.
Anyways sorry for long rant, i rlly enjoyed the video and u earned urself a sub!
Roleplay games are peak Roblox IMO. Titles like After the Flash, Legends of Aether, Blastaway Newmex, SBRP, and even some undertale ones if you go to the right servers, are amazing and fun.
The montage close to the end of the video really gave me an unexplainable feeling of nostalgia, I grew up with ROBLOX, and now any game just seems either too grindy, or too toxic. At the start of it, I saw possibility, and now, I see a loss of hope. Whenever I watched this video, at the start I was ignorant, but you brought up a lot of good points and this opinion has now grown onto me as truth, most of the ROBLOX games now are just blatant cash grabs, or too bland.
After watching this video, I realized how much this platform has inspired me to try new things, now it's just a reason for me to yell. I mainly only play games which involve combat, like Jojo's games. I've long quit Your Bizarre Adventure, and A Universal Time got too boring for me to play. There are very few games as of now that I continuously play, Grand Piece Online is fun, but I realize that won't be for much longer.
This video opened up my eyes, I'm not a common viewer on your channel, but I have watched a lot of the funny videos you make. Amazing content, and I wish you well on your trip to college!
Sadly we live in an age where most developers only care about money.
Monster islands
Also boost vector
Also survive the disasters
Also arcane adventures
Also Volt
Also Booga Booga
All these games were made for the entertainment of people and not for cash grabbing. Games like these are hidden gems. Some of them are broken and most are dead though
Tbh, Roblox as a game engine has massively improved with it's many new features but the frontpage and popular games section have evolved backwards.
We need the passion of old Roblox with the technology of modern Roblox and you'd have a platform that could compete with indie Unity and Unreal Engine games in terms of quality.
3:57 was the most nostalgic I've been in a while
I don't get how people find new games, all I see are the same 20 games that I already hate.
Better video idea:: “What happened to Siomai Siomai”
Fun fact, I actually started playing Roblox in 2016, some weeks after the Tix removal.
The old games were great as hell, however now there are constant cash grab games.
One of the cash grab game creators is called "vintagetoysandmore". I saw him once in a Roblox game and checked his profile to see how he's so rich!
He always lied and profitted off trends, exc. Turning Red, Huggy Wuggy, etc.
He also claimed that he made UNCOPYLOCKED games.
He also lied.
jesus christ..
Also I meant "Poppy Playtime" instead of "Huggy Wuggy", for fucks sake.💀
dude he is so freaking true i agree with him so much roblox has changed so much in the Past 6-4 yrs. oders have advanced , trolls are not funny anymore and its pretty crazy ive been playing roblox for like 7-5 yrs and im still prob gonna play it but this is really touching and i will always be the same and i wont let roblox change me because i dont think i would want to make my life miserable because of one mistake, playing roblox.
that's the spirit goodluck with that
@@SiomaiSiomai your comment made my day :)
tbh all trolls are now is [insert food or drink png] + tiny arms + blocky torso and legs + woman/man face and thats it i guess
Tbh i spend way more time in old broken 2010-2017 roblox games than the new scammy ass simulators. Can we normalize making simple enjoyable games like bake a cake, dont blink, stop it slender, survive the disasters, animatronic world, twisted murderers, epic minigames and SO many more forgotten great games that arent just money scams
Sad that gen alpha won't ever get to experience Roblox 2015-2017
The good old days where you camp the door until the police opened it in prison life
This video is what i always wanted, even tho im SUPER young, i agree with everything you are saying, and this moment of roblox is the reason i HATE pay to win games, i just play them when joking around with some friends and the good maps that don't have gamepasses are my favourite ones, and im probaly just like you, addictated to deepwoken, where the only robux things(other then the actual game) are slots and the race reroll.
Roblox devs should know that they are probaly stealing a kid money and it is wrong, not just to get free money and release an update that is just skins(YES, IM TALKING ABOUT YOU YBA) for money
we love deepwoken
@@estrela4035 We love *every* good and underrated roblox game
@@SiomaiSiomai THE DEPTH CANNOT HOLD US
This video is really inspiring. I have to agree with you that, most new gen Roblox games are just cash-grab, repetitive, boring and s i m u l a t o r s.
they aren’t even simulators they’re just cube dogs being forced into slavery 💀💀
The last thing that made me quit Roblox was them removing Linux support. And yeah I agree with you, games are also just cash grabs and get boring quick. I made my first account in 2018.
One of my favourite Roblox games just got re-added to Roblox after being deleted for 3 years, but now it has no Robux transactions.
What's the games' name?
this video brought me so much nostalgia but also made me want to quit roblox again
relatable
0:09 Bro what happened to you ive been on this platform since i 2010 and i have never stooped to that level
This video really needed to be said, shit just ain't lookin' too good for Roblox.
Untitled tag game beta and recode are my faves. If anyone looks out for a new experience, and playing a childhood game, just play this.
The nostalgia hit like a freight train when I was the PBB game icon, my god, it was so fun, I remember picking torchic because it was cute.
thats why ive been legit just been offline for weeks and weeks of roblox because there are just....... none fun games that arent grindy, arent toxic, and arent bad development/community.... even on the play store i cant even find a single thing that is fun... all of them are... now just... only..... nothing....
edit: i also dont have a pc yet.... so i cant even play valorant and etc.
Hey you should try "Run" by Kongregate games
On play store
I was so addicted to roblox like everytime i come back from school i would try to sneak my way to my potato without mom noticing back then..but now i just ignore it. There is no fun games just filled with boring clicking games with little to no fun,and oders everywhere. I know there are some fun games but..like Siomai said "its like try to find a diamond in a trash can"
Roblox doesn't care about its community it cares about how much they make thats what its making it bad.
Ever since 2020, and when premium was introduced m, game developers realized they could make grindy clicker games which made you stay overnight in order to become stronger. Staying overnight gave developers tons of robux from premium players due to the fact that premium payout gave some robux every certain amout of time. Having thousands of premium players by riding on a trend or putting fun colors in your face to get the most amount of people to play would make developers thousands of robux each day.
I love when someone has the exact same opinions as i do
Zeppelin wars is by far my favorite game. It was a reimagined version of an older Roblox game from the late 2000s. There are two teams, Patrol, and Pirates. Each team has the exact same zeppelin and planes, no pay to win game passes. From like 2020 - 2023 it had 1k active player average. But now it’s been overshadowed by Airship assault. With many micro transactions along the way. I can’t even figure out how to move the plane off the runway in that game.
Now Zeppelin Wars has a 80 - 120 active player average. Still a wide variety of players who play today. The OGs: people who playing game since it’s pre alpha stage. The intermediates: people who had been playing the game for a few months and already love it. And of course, The newcomers: people who aren’t looking for a game, people who are looking for an experience.
When you mentioned ABD i got so sad. I really miss when I used to play that game with friends
1:40 this deepwoken clip is so true
Roblox 2008 was possibly the best time of my life.
2:50
HOURS MENTIONED, RAHHHHHHHHH
🔥
man your music choice is absolutely perfect
Rest In Peace, Dawn Of Aurora. You're a legend.
They are redoing it
9:09 (ignore this this is to remind future me were i was at)
its funny, how im part of a generation build on grindy games and dumbass kids, yet i still very much agree with you on this, sure im not old but i played the games that were fun, and i still had fun even today, but we are just stuck here, we cant do shit right now
The people who love Grindy dumb simulator games, play Roblox a lot more than the average Robloxian, which is probably why those games are much more popular, but that’s just a theory
1:55 Hahahahahahha Pwede na ngang pang college yon
Before, the game idea was "Fun over profits", now it is "profits over Fun"
The truth is, the (non simulator / tycoon) games haven’t gotten worse, it’s just our standards have gotten higher
6:30 GOD DAMMIT GET IT OUT
I would sacrifice everything just to go back and fix the damn platform or go back just to experience the nostalgia again 😞 You know roblos' gonna die if this keeps up in the future
2:05 ok bro what
bro some of the clips in here hit so close to home seeing pokemon brick bronze with thinknoodles and denis man those were some good ol times
3:15 holy sh*t that is EXACTLY what my little brother does to his pc and every time I look at the poor thing (the pc) I think about how badly it’s being treated by a 10 year old. Micro transactions and addictive/predatory game loops in games NEEDS to be moderated ESPECIALLY on platforms where the majority of their players are actual children… makes me want to rip something apart istg
10:20 YO THAT HIT HARD WHAT THE HELL
9:16 tf2...
This is so true, like, for real, every single thing is true.
I'm a full time roblox developer, but a player aswell, since 2016. And since then, the only reason i dont quit roblox is because i have friends and games, community and stuff and those things mean a ton to me.
Roblox burries good but underrated games and promotes bad and cashgrabbing games because they only want money. No wonder why roblox takes 3/4 of the revenue from games. Because of that, the only thing i've been doing for the past 2 years is playing roblox, everyday. And i can truly say that roblox is garbage now.
Whan i was younger, i used to play a TON of gomes, like Lumber Tycoon, Jailbreak, ABD, and a ton of other games. Now the only thing i see is boring grindy shitty games, even jojo games like AUT and YBA are shitty and boring.
The main issue is that peiple thing quality is more important than gameplay! And thats the thing im trying to avoid. I'm a experienced developer and i can make fun games.
Thanks for reading this.
-artucox7
I first played roblox high school when I wasn't even IN high school. Now I am really in high school.
When I was younger I could open up roblox and find a game immediately, now it takes me 30 minutes scroll around and leave
Yeah it’s impossible to find a game that’s actually fun do you just play the same things over and over or give up
@@GoofyAhhBoxy me and my friends just play super place roulette and the games that pop up are pretty funny
Fuck roblox😌
I love and hate Roblox at the same time 😔
Roblox games isnt getting worse the players are because most of us are no longer kids
Nope like 2016 RB was fun but now it’s just micro transactions
3:05 there’s also the option of.. just playing the game and enjoy it as it is without getting burned or paying- which is very hard to happen,, but its possible
I started playing roblox back in 2016 and just seeing how much it changed to some horrific abomination just sucks. sometimes when I’m bored I play roblox but it doesn’t feel the same.
as a person who was formerly #3 on the kill leaderboards for combat warriors i cant imagine where id be today without it, i made so many good friends and met so many amazing people on that game and it made me a more social person in general so i cant be more grateful for it.