What Was Gaming Like In 2004?
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Today I wanted to talk about 2004 in video games.
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Damn, 2004 didn't have to go this hard.
Ofc it HAD to go this hard
Imo 2004 is the end of the golden age for general entertainment every industry from the late 90s to early 2000s (1996-2004) peaked till 2005 when there was a lot of bad movies and decline of tv shows and some bad music
2001 even better.
@@MadPaperMario IMO The decline of general entertainment would start around 2013. Game developers began to release buggy messes and expect you to pay full price for them, most movies or TV shows were soul-less remakes, and modern music has been a unbearable to listen to for over a decade at this point.
Wait till we get to 07 and 08
As someone who was 25 years old in 2004 I can tell you it was one of the best years to be a gamer.
And now?
So your 45 now ???
@@DivineSupremedude is flexing because he has basic math skills
For real though, on a more serious note: I am around the same age, maybe I'm assuming half a year younger thsn the OP. I didn't appreciate the games of the early 2000s enough, and I didn't respect them as much as I should have.
I played and loved some JRPGs in the PS2, but that was about it. I was more I to movies, TV and music at that time regarding entertainment, and had fallen out of gaming outside of JRPGs.
Part of it was because of the industry's focus on FPS games (I can't stand those), because I loathed the polygon graphics.
I've since gone back and discovered some great ps2 and ps3 games, stuff like the DMC series and other character action games like God Hand and Heavenly Sword, Uncharted, the ubisoft Prince of Persia, etc, and I realized that I missed a lot.
Those early 2000s polygon just looked so bad, though. I remembers seeing footage of Mario N64, GTA 3, and other games from the late nineties and early 2000s, and I'd go to message boards where everyone else were practically worshipping the way these games looked, and I would read and go gk myself, "the characters in GTA 3 have blocks for hands, and these games can't even do circle shapes." Whenever a game was supposed to have a circle drawn on a wall or something similar, it looked like an octagon. The textures and gradient shading were sad. Every visual aspect of those games was just painful to look at.
Yeah, I'm shallow, and visual appeal matters to me. Its difficult for me to watch 2000s era movies with bad CGI. I'm just like that.
Thankfully emulators like PCSX2 have the ability to import custom HD textures, and games are being remastered or remade (and if it's done by a Japanese or other non-Anericsn studio the remakes are usually better than the originals).
I’m 46 and around 2004 is when I was slowly starting to grow out of playing games all the time. Life was lifing😂. It was when I went from being a hardcore gamer to a casual gamer. Even to this day, I can appreciate where the graphics and tech has gone behind the current games, I just don’t have the hours in a day to play them like when I was younger. Last thing. I use to always have fun telling my kids when they were younger that the Gameboy was nothing new. The original came out when I was in middle school in 1989. They use to swear I was wrong lol!
I miss the 00’s so much.
I miss being a kid more than anything, or the days I didn't have to deal with exisitentialism.
@@civilwarfare101 you telling me you didnt deal with that as a kid?
@@Blanktester685
Hell no. I had school to brainwash me into thinking that I was going to do great things if I did well there.
@@civilwarfare101 same bro. After school and uni finished, existentialism and purpose is scary.
Fucking same, I hate how quickly time passes
2004 not only in gaming, life as a whole was like a fever dream.
Music, movies, tv, and pop culture heck we had a balance between social media (my space) and an actual social life.
Yup I agree. No popular social media taking over and a perfect balance imo
Iraq war though… and bling bling Rapp started out…
@@bingobongo1615 of course the Iraq war is of significance but globalization wasn’t as symbiotic at the time compared to now.
As much as horror inflicted on Iraq, the war didn’t result in a domino effect until early 2010’s.
That’s why I said fever dream, it felt like the final days of comfy seclusion.
Damn why everybody using the phrase “fever dream” lol
@@bingobongo1615 only if you were iraquí or American, the rest of us gave no fuck about it
2004 was definitely one of the best years in gaming history.
PS 1 called ....
I wasn't even born :(
oh boy... playing CTR with 6 players on 21inch tv screen is really chaotic and really fun
A much more creatively healthy time in gaming.
We have the indie scene now which is often great but the triple A scene is becoming extremely sterile. Going the way of Hollywood for sure when it comes to sequels, remakes and Safe bets.
2005 was better.
It’s always been so strange to me how Nintendo went about the GBA to DS situation. Weird time to grow up as a Nintendo fan
You're right. I'm glad we got both in retrospect though, some real bangers on both systems.
It reminds me of how the switch was treated with the 3ds
Many people speculated that Nintendo was unsure whether the Nintendo DS was going to be a success, but I think it was a wise decision to keep the GBA alongside it for its first years
Nowadays people tend to mock the Third Pillar talk, but they tend to forget that the GBA managed to sell over 80 million units, if the NDS haven't existed I can imagine the GBA selling more than 100 million units
Quick advancements in hardware technology, I suppose.
For me the weirdest time was the Wii era and into the Wii U era. I felt like they abandoned me as Nintendo fanboy. But I’m so happy with where they are now. Love my Switch!
The GameCube GBA era was awesome!
Every year between the late 90s and 2010 was an incredible year for games. The variety creativity and quantity of defining titles was on a different level.
And probably popular games, for this time.
PS2 GC and Xbox is the best generation. Amazing list of games
I swear yo fr creativity was at a all time high now mfs wana copy eachother
The last era where big devs actually played their own games and attempted to make the games they wanted to play themselves.
Eh, mainstream games got pretty annoying in the back half of the 2000’s. Too many tutorials and stripped back gameplay in favor of graphics and “cinematic” qualities.
2004 saw some of my most favorite games of all time! Jak 3, Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Sly 2: Band of Thieves, Star Wars Battlefront, Pokémon Fire Red and Leaf Green, Halo 2, Need for Speed Underground 2, Spider-Man 2, and many more, not to mention the early Japanese releases of games like Gran Turismo 4 and Pokémon Emerald. Truly a time to be alive!
Hell, even an unsung war was released in 2004! (Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War)
Spiderman 2 is still peak spiderman, miles morales aint it
Don't forget Burnout 3: Takedown and the Sims Spin-off, "The Urbz" with Black Eyed Peas cameo
NFL 2K5, NBA Street, NBA Live 2005, Smackdown Vs Raw
I still play spm2 and sly 2 🤗🔥
"What Was Gaming Like in 2004?"
* Vince McMahon crying meme *
I wasn't even born yet, but since they still had lots of these games up when I was still young, I fell in love with them
@localclown3287 : were they just around your house left by an older sibling?
I was 14 in 2004.
TTYD was my introduction to the Paper Mario series. I asked for it for Christmas, and apparently, my mom bought it last minute that she didn't have time to wrap it. She handed it to me still in the plastic bag from the store (I think she got it from Fry's but it also might have been from Best Buy) after I had unwrapped all of my other presents.
I remember saying, "oh my gosh, you got it!"
It was the best present I got that year. After I finished playing it, I borrowed the original Paper Mario from a friend from school, and of course, fell in love with Bow 👻 as you can see from the icon.
I still need to play through the rest of the series, but I'm so glad that PM is one my top RPGs.
The Paper Mario series is really special.
I was 7
I wasn’t even born yet. I was born in 2006.
@@kirotalksyt I am playing Halo Master chief collection
And dam that game is so fun
Multiplayer isn't much for me because I am bad for now
But the Campaign is a 10/10 or beyond 10
I don't know how a single player experience feels but playing with siblings and friends is a big Win for fun
I had only finished
Halo Reach
Halo Combat evolved/ Halo 1
14 too. Playing mtg, gba fire red, vector man with my little bro on Sega bayblades, pox, and scanners. DBZ budokai,yuyuhakasho. Kingdom hearts. And star wars ep1, SpongeBob movie!
The mid-2000s was a truly remarkable time for gaming. We saw the transition from janky first-person and third-person gameplay to more polished and refined versions of it that led up to many of the games we play today.
2000-2005 has to be the most insane window gaming ever
dont forget time splitters future perfect which has everything included and over 100 unlockable characters and no dlc or pay to win!
@@wangchung2157I'd say 1997 to 2005 personally
Also 2007 was great
@@zyriuz2🎯
Ahh 2004 the golden age for gaming for me
I never realized how peak 2004 was 😮
MGS3, MGSTS, Fable, Red Dead Revolver, GTA San Andreas, Ninja Gaiden, Need for Speed 2, Spider-Man 2, Pokemon Emerald, DBZ budokai 3, Star Wars Battlefront, WoW 🙉
Being 11 in 2004 was a great time. School days were long… and the anticipation of going home to play your favorite games was crazy. Time was so much slower back in the days but everything was much more enjoyable.
I guess that era will be my "nostalgic" moment for games. I was young enough to pick up and play but not old enough to understand the full complexity of games and how they are designed.
This exactly, I remember playing through and Pokemon Red and only use my starter Pokemon and no one else and the save battery in the cartridge was bad so it didn't save so I spent my whole summer keeping it on the charger😂
True I Wes just born that day my big brother show me all those amazing things
There is one game that hasn’t made an appearance at all in this video, and that is none other than *Ninja Gaiden* for the Original Xbox. While it would get a revised version a year later called “Ninja Gaiden Black” that includes the DLC and new difficulties, this game is still really awesome.
Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox is one of my favorite games of all time. Not only is this one of the best looking Xbox games of all time in terms of visuals AND technical specs, but it also turned the franchise from a hard-as-nails platformer to a hard-as-nails hack-and-slash. This was also ironically enough, my first hack-and-slash game, and got me into the genre.
I played it out of curiosity when I was able to play M-rated games more freely and one of the songs that played for the Master Collection trailers (a tips and tricks video) gave me memories of nothing but familiarity. It’s like I’ve experienced it, but I dunno what it was like.
I popped in the disk into the Xbox on the old HDCRT, and little did I know that this would be one epic and grueling journey for Ryu Hayabusa.
This game’s enemies are not meant to be messed with. They can and will kill you if you don’t know the mechanics. In fact, this game doesn’t give you much of a tutorial either. So you should either try over and over until you die, or read the combo list and manual to learn about blocking and dodging early on.
The adventure is good, the combos have decent depth, the pre-rendered cutscenes are gorgeous (although they’re rendered in 4:3), and the difficulty is just right despite being absolutely hard. The music is also awesome.
I would recommend trying it out (although the most accessible ones are Black [Xbox consoles only] and Sigma [Master Collection]).
Ninja gaiden>devil may cry
@@gjergjaurelius9798 both💪
The fact that I wasn't there to experience gaming in 2004 (I was a one year old) but I've still played most of these games, is a testament to how good this year was for the medium
Wow, I have no idea how many of my favorite games of all time were 2004! Thousand your door is my absolute favorite Nintendo game, Metroid zero mission is in my top 10, Minish Cap is my favorite Zelda game besides breath of the wild, and the DS is my favorite console! Incredible year for games, and I was just in elementary school!
PSP was the first system I ever owned... And the first that I ever bought for myself.
Didn't get mine till 2009, though.
But maaaan, so many good memories.
psp my favorite handheld bro I still play it frequently on my modded vita still enjoying it to this day psp goated
Counter-Strike and Half-Life 2 are such good games that I play to this day. They were really revolutional. As a mainly PC player, I'm glad you touched on PC releases as well. Most "Video Game Talker" channel just talk about the big 3
I bought a PC back then just to play Half-Life 2 and I regret nothing.
What was gaming like 20yrs ago.... MAGICAL 😢💯🤟🏻
16 in 2004. Being my graduation year too, I remember it so incredibly vividly as finally getting freedom from school and having so many incredible games to play. It felt like the gaming future was going to be incredible. Whilst graphics have improved greatly, unfortunately much of gaming genres has become stagnant and we're still playing the same games we were playing 15-20 years ago.
Literally the same games, just started going back and playing game library from around 2004 recently instead of buying "new" console games. PC games like Baldur's Gate 3 seem to indicate more hope of the magic in gaming being continued. Literally most every console game release looks like something I've seen before. People are more accepting of bugs e.g. in Pokemon S/V.
Gaming just won't ever have the same impact as it did in the 2000s
I’m guessing you’re in your late 20s! You speak with so much passion and nostalgia for the early 2000s. I’m the same way with the early 90s and I’m 37. I was 18 in 2004. Some fantastic games for sure. Great video!
The year I got my GameCube. Can’t believe it was 20 years ago! GameCube: Metroid Prime 2. PlayStation 2: Metal Gear Solid 3. Xbox: Halo 2.
That time period in so many ways was the best era in gaming in my opinion
Was so happy when you mentioned Red Dead Revolver and Def Jam FFNY. Those 2 games along with many others in this vid were a huge part of my childhood. I was 9 in 2004 and I was just playing whatever we had, so I never equated that year specifically to so many core memories.
Apparently 2004 was fuckin lit lol
This is an amazing video. I was 9 years old in 2004, 3rd/4th grade. Watching this made me realize how much of my life was defined by that year. I still have pretty much ALL of these games- the PSP was the first console I saved up my own money and bought, and no child could go anywhere without bringing Pokémon FR/LG/E (I still play these to this day). Sleepovers were defined by Def Jam FFNY, GTA, Madden, NBA Live, and Halo 2.
Paper Mario and Kingdom Hearts CoM were underrated, but the SpongeBob movie game was a MASSIVE sleeper hit, that game was actually so good. I wasn’t even a fan of the show but my friend was; played it at his house one day and it made me a fan of SpongeBob after that 😂 .
There were so many other games- Jak 3, Star Wars Battlefront, X-Men Legends…
But just imagine growing up in a time where you would go to school and everyone would be playing Pokémon, trading Yu Gi Oh and MagicTG cards, building Beyblades… growing up on the playground in the early 2000s was a time that will never be replicated. It was perfect.
2004 and 2007 were some of the best years for games
Movies too
This video did such an incredible covering 2004 in gaming in such a clear and concise way. Definitely sending this to my friend who doesn't think 2004 was that important in gaming.
idk why but ur voice is so fitting for your channel its amazing
Thanks, yeah I just talk about stuff that interests me haha
PSP was so insane at the time, I was using it as my own Mp3 player and watching movies at school and everything
I remember buying this media kit that allowed me to organize and upload data easier to my psp. I first started downloading off TH-cam then to my PsP my friends were freaking out that I had AMVs on my psp and some boobies 😂😅
@@Faltzerbeast90Dude, every kid that I knew had porn on their PSPs! 😂
The PSP “weird nub analogue stick” was WAY ahead of it’s time for a portable console and you will never see a portable without a analogue stick(s) again.
I remember growing up in 2004, 2000s Gaming was pretty fun for both PC and Consoles of all genres during that era. The Nintnedo DS and PSP were probably the biggest for the handhelds, As We had a very first touch screen device that can play games with dual screens as this way before the take over of Tablets and iPads and even Smartphones, And no those little games on the flip-up cell phones were cool. and Sony finally taking a leap with a handheld of their own.
I've always felt like people never give the PSP and DS the credit they deserve as handheld devices. Especially the PSP. It did a lot of the basic things that we all take for granted on a common smart phone these days. Both devices were ahead of their time.
@@Finfectionpeople DEFINITELY gave credit to the DS.
I was born in 2004 and console gaming wasn't big in Vietnam (and it still isn't). Now that I have come to Australia for college and I visit Japan with my girlfriend every year, I'm trying to get some old games to see how it was like before I was born. It was a blast to play through some of the old games that everyone love so much.
Thank you for this ❤. Was quite small in a not-so-developed place; and my aunt from the States had actually bought me Leaf-Green which I was allowed after my school exams. So many other memories with the link and other games.
Such a lovely video!
generation 6 video game really wild back then to show best era of gaming
original DS was something people, at least not around me... or maybe even in my country talked about. It feels like DS got knows for the Lite model, before that it was all about the game boy.
I lived so long in the assumption that DS came out in 2006 and new super mario bros and pokemon diamond/pearl were one of its launch games :D
I think the PSP managed to be the most popular portable console in some markets where the PlayStation was the de facto console, like South America in some aspects, though I say the Game Boy kept that title for a while. The PSP was easy to hack, but the DS became easily hackable later as well
I think the most interesting market in which the DS and PSP fought was Japan, the DS did sell the most units for a single console in one year with 8 million, but Monster Hunter sold millions of copies for the PSP
The PSP was definitely the shiny new toy that got all the attention at first. I got one at launch and would take it to school to show the guys how I had a full playable version of Tony Hawk Underground 2 in my pocket as well as a high quality copy of the Spider-Man 2 movie to watch on the device's beautiful wide screen. Nobody had seen anything like it.
2005-2006 was definitely when the DS really came into its own. By the end of 06 we had Nintendogs, New Super Mario Bros, the Japanese release of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, Cooking Mama, Brain Age, Mario Kart DS Animal Crossing Wild World, and the DS Lite model.
@@Finfection Problem is the iPod came along and stole PSP's media playback attention. Even though the screen was only SD, it was the "cool" thing to have running video on it. PSP disks felt positively dated compared to downloading at that point.
@@cattysplat You could play digital video files on a psp as well.
Christmas 04 was crazy. I was dying on Christmas Eve hoping to get Silent Hill 4 and NFS Underground 2. Miss those days
I still remember like yesterday my mom letting my brother and I open a present early on Christmas eve and it was the limited edition Halo 2 with the sick silver case. We were so pumped lol. I miss the early 2000s.
Didn’t know I needed this video. Thank you for this. So many memories even though I was 14 at the time.
The 2000s had some amazing games 2005 has to be my favorite year for gaming forsure
Maybe it's nostalgia talking here but I'd mention Need for Speed Underground 2. Sequel to an already great game, makes it open world, adds even more customization than ever... I'd say it was a good game
Still playing Underground 2 to this day and I just can"t get enough of the customization, too bad these new games suck and can"t even compare to the BlackBox era ones
2004 was an awesome time to be alive. i was grinding out FFXI on ps2 like a MADMAN.
That’s amount of legendary games that were out these year is insane, nothing compares to 2000-2008
Thank you for including a jpeg of Pikmin 2 at the end. That's my favorite game
You're welcome!
20 years ago...damn I'm old but yeah gaming back then was amazing.
Thank you for this 🥺
great vid ideas. they’re fun. you’re gonna be big real soon just glad i’m here from the start
2024 can learn many things from 2004 especially when it comes to gaming. I love those classic games from the early 2000's and 2004 went hard. Cool video. ^_^
I started 2008 with a PS2.
A very weird system, crawling with hidden gems. Like the Dark Age Crash Bandicoots for example.
Btw in 2004 in cinemas we could see: Eternal Sunshine of the Spottles Mind, Spiderman 2,Shrek 2, Kill Bill 2, The Terminal, Before Sunset, The Notebook, Butterfly Effect, The Day Before Tomorrow, National Treasure, The Girl Next Door, Eurotrip, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Troy, Harry Potter 3 (the best one I dare to say) and The Incredibles. What. A. Year. 😳
This was awesome. I recommend doing one of these videos for 2007. That was the best year for gaming ever imo
Oh yes, the DS and HL2, this was a good year
In 2004, was around 8 years old. My family was extremely poor at the time so I actually didn't have a game console. My mom got a job and bought a used computer for her school studies so that was the first games I played. But, I ended up getting sick and went to the hospital where I played my first game console in one of the recreational rooms. I don't even remember what game it was but it made me happy that I asked for one. My mom told me she couldn't afford it and I got sad. The doctors heard her and on Christmas of that year I got my first console, the Nintendo 64. My first game was Super Mario 64.
That's an incredible story, and a great introduction to console gaming! Honestly, IMO it's better to start out with a previous generation's console anyway. Allows one to experience a greater appreciation for what you have and what built up to the concurrent point.
Great story, man. I’m glad you at least got to experience some games at the time. I hope you’re doing well these days.
Was born in late ‘06 so didn’t really experience the games that you guys did but it’s good to hear a recap
2004 was a great year for gaming! For me, the biggest game that year was Tales of Symphonia. It was my first Tales of game and it changed my life in ways I'm still discovering. A close second for me would be Champions of Norrath, which was the game that got me interested in medieval fantasy RPGs. Of course, I spent many hours with Budokai 3 LOL! Good video!
Depending on when in 2004 I would be 16 years old. It was quite an interesting year in gaming for sure. That Def jam New York game I never heard of. I've heard of Def jam vendetta which is a wrestling game using artists from the Def jam label. I played through that entire game and beat it When I rented it from Hollywood Video on the GameCube.
Anyways a lot of the games you mentioned on there I remember playing when they were new. Fable, burn out three which I think is an incredible racing game and one of the greatest ever made. Metal gear Solid the twin snakes and I love how there's some kind of Mario and Yoshi figurine in the background when Otocon is talking to snake In a very important scene.
So many games that came out that year I actually played. Some of them during that year but probably more of them I played after.
2004 was the best year in gaming hands down
14 as a teen was amazing 👏 this was a great year. My cousin was old enough to start gaming and him and my best friend played Monnster Hunter ALL SUMMER. It was so fun
The DS was a crazy intro. I freaked out and even my dad was like the two screens and pen is cool. So he got it for me.
Golden age of gaming. Great video!
I was a full grown adult in my mid 20s in 2004. It was great because I finally had my own money and I bought EVERYTHING. I owned every system and bought every must play game. The early 2000s in particular were very special. That wasn’t even my child hood and I’ll say that. Although the 80s (My childhood) were incredible. The early 90s and late 90s were also incredible. There were great games in the mid 90s but it felt like a transition period.
For me the golden eras of gaming are:
Early 80s
Late 80s - early 90s
Late 90s - to mid 2000s
Late 2010s to present
That’s just my opinion, though. That’s not to say there aren’t amazing games during those other years. I just feel the “golden eras” were just different. For me, the early 90s and late 90s to mid 2000s were extremely special.
Same. I was 21 and owned a PC and every console. It was glorious.
haha so essentially just ~2006 - 2015 was weak?
I think 07 -08 was amazing with Halo 3, Mario Galaxy, Bioshock, GTA 4, Call of Duty's at their peak, Smash Bros Brawl, Fallout 3, Metal Gear Solid 4.
09 weaker, 10-11 good, 11-16 few masterpieces per year but agreed weaker (AKA the skyrim and GTA 5 era). 17-19 golden era, then 20-22 weak again (Elden Ring saved 22)
23 was amazing but I feel like 24 will again be a weaker year. I blame the late 00's and early 10's for appealing to casual audiences via mobile and motion controls. This focus was corrected when the switch came out in my opinion.
The last few years have been suffering from the pandemic (development hell), overcommitting to graphics instead of fun meaningful gameplay (broken launches), and trying to innovate live services after the lootbox backlash of the mid 10's.
@@Walt_Heisenberg You’re making way too much out of my comment. Calm down, dude. There’s great games every year, never said or called any year “weak.” Also, golden ages have as much to do with changes in gameplay and innovations as well as the games released. Take care, happy gaming.
Gta san andreas, nfs, midnight club, serious sam and silent hill 2 were some of my favorite games on the ps2
Man, to think that this happened 20 years ago, i started playing in the 80's with the Amstrad CPC and the NES, i feel old.
You forgot to include the first iteration of Smackdown vs Raw :)
Cool vid by the way bro!
I was 12 back then. I remember the DS came out and it was the coolest thing.
Jak 3 was one you missed, an absolutely stellar multi-genre action game, but good video
Wow what an amazing video you earned yourself a subscriber
Listened to this while I was at work and it was so good and informative, that I forgot I was working.
I just turned 19, I don’t wanna be 20 yet!!…
Funfact, I was born the day the Nintendo DS dropped in the US. November 21st 2004.
Another cool fact, it was my first handheld I owned!
Holy shit, I shared the same birthday as you but I was born 3 years earlier.
Edit: I just found out that i was born the same day as the initial release of super smash bros melee.
Wow, that's a crazy coincidence! The DS is a great first handheld. I had a GBA before then, but I probably spent just as much time if not more time over the years playing DS games.
A few years after San Andreas released there was a PC multiplayer online mod for the game (San Andreas Multiplayer) that came out in 2006, I played it all day with my friends and had so much. But I kept thinking to myself at the time what would happen if Rockstar ever made multiplayer in GTA as an official release and I thought to myself how successful that would be. Years later, that's what GTA Online is! I'm happy younger generations are playing it. It's too bad that Rockstar doesn't make as much single player games or DLC expansions for games anymore but I can't fault them if GTA Online makes so much money. Edit - typo.
2004 was absolutely enormous. early 00's was great but '04 changed the game. World of Warcraft, Halo 2, Half-Life 2, etc
Cool video great layout!
While I was born in 2000, 2004 is the oldest year that I can remember experiencing. And to my brain's memory, I still remember the Nintendo DS like it was released a whole/entire YEAR AFTER Paper Mario The Thousand-Year Door, Kirby & The Amazing Mirror, Mario Power Tennis, Mario Pinball Land, so very much etcetera! And yet, it appears to have no longer than a 1-month gap in America (which was and still is my native region)... Something ain't right (t)here!
And this is only just one year out of that generation. It used to just be constant banger after banger being released for any system at the time. You had to constantly hit up the rental store on a weekly basis to even be able to play everything. More recent consoles generations don't even have as many classics come out in their entire lifespans as the PS2, Xbox, and Gamecube would in only one year. You can't even call it nostalgia, we were straight up spoiled during that console generation.
The great thing about that period is there was huge competition in retail game sales and internet shopping started to become a thing. You could buy games very competitively priced from dozens of different stores and websites. Renting started to die because buying games became more affordable.
It helped all 3 consoles were having consistent solid releases and the affordability of the hardware and software. We had like a dozen GOTY contenders per year, a ton of exclusives for each console that made them all worth owning, a very diverse library of games of all genres, more creative risks, less annoying trends, more music variety, no remakes or remasters, no cringey forced politics, fun cheat codes, excellent couch co-op action, and no extra monetization or broken games at launch.
People may call it nostalgia but it was without a doubt the golden age and we didn't even realize.
@@cattysplat Agreed that shopping options were more versatile 20 years ago, but if anything, rentals were booming with no sign of stopping. Blockbuster was still huge back then. My town had one of the largest Blockbuster locations on the US east coast and the big parking lot was always full on Friday nights. Nowadays the lot is mostly empty. Feels like it was all a dream now.
Ayo 2004 was STACKED, I knew some of these but holy shit! Killer vid as always man!
Alien Hominid in the GameCube was so fire
2006 is when it went hard! Even when I wasn’t born until the end of 2006 but 2005 and 2004 were also bangers I say that 2004 - 2008 were a time to be alive… no LGBTQ+ or bad people. We had frutiguer aero and so much good stuff… playgrounds, parks… being in touch with nature and the epic DS for long road trips! I miss it… kids won’t understand people’s lives before mine, if you were born at the end of the 90s or start of 2000 and had good parents you were set for a fun time… always remember that we can change the future to bring those days back for a new generation…
Gay / LGBTQ+ people have always existed my friend I don’t get what you’re talking about LMAO
@@Icarus975 It’s honestly people confused and wanting to indulge in their made up nonsense.
Tldr: Op is old enough to remember the early-mid 00's, yet still has the mindset of a "sigma" (Homophobic) 6 year old on TH-cam shorts. What a loser.
2006 was the start of the decline. Literally everything wrong with gaming can be traced back to the Xbox 360. By 2011 it had peaked, and then the Xbox One came along and they doubled down on all the bad stuff
"being in touch with nature" everyone was watching tv ! :')
Oh my god I’m old..
thanks for taking me down memory lane. Truly a great year to be 14
I’m still playing a lot of these today! Just picked up a PSP last week and modded it with some classics.
I bet it was cool, sadly I couldn’t experience it
I'm actually surprised of how many games I remembered playing that came out that year.
Then get out
@@LandonEmmafr
Yea there was a lot of hype with games like world of warcraft
You literally can.
“Most of us were probably kids back then” 👴
In 2004, I was a “kid” starting graduate school 👴
Ahhh 2004, Resident Evil 4 and Metal Gear Solid 3. Fond memories.
you're super underrated
This will make some people feel old, but I'm 16 this year & wasn't born yet to even see any of this.
I was 19
What can really make people feel old is when they are 32 meaning they have lived long enough to be born and leave school twice.
I'm 18 but u make me feel old
For a sec I was convinced you were gonna say "I'm 16 so I was born this year!" God time goes so fast 😢😢
2008 was 16 years ago mind blowing .but enjoy this era because nobody knows what the future will be like its probably going to be good in some ways but bad in other ways
Sonic Advance 3 and Sonic Heroes were released in 2004
2003
@@nobodycares607 I'm talking about the American release for Sonic Heroes
@@devinsauls9137 game existed before 2004 so 2003
@@nobodycares607 for two days before 2004. Besides, the rest of the world didn't even get it until 2004 and regardless of what you say most people remember Sonic Heroes as a 2004 game. It still should have been mentioned along with Sonic Advance 3
@@devinsauls9137 debatable
Metroid Prime 2! I still remember waiting at my mailbox for the game to arrive.
Shrek 2 is definitely a hidden gem movie tie in game. I can still play it today and have fun
People weren’t afraid to experiment with new IPs and series. Nowadays it’s a lot of continuations of established franchisees and remasters
Man, what a great year! I remember playing Burnout 3 and freaking out about the visuals and speed! ❤
Its wild how this video got recommended to me when I was just talking to my brothers about 2004 media in general was amazing
2012 was a tremendous year too
Spec Ops The Line
Black Ops II
Borderlands 2
Are some of the ones I have on top of my head rn
In the scheme of things, '12 was weaker compared to most. Those are good games you listed though. This video covered lots of franchises that were the peak of **iconic** franchises.
Metal Gear 3
Halo 2
Half Life 2
KOTOR 2 (just 1 year after KOTOR)
Counter Strike
Battlefront 2
Fable
Paper Mario TTYD
GTA San Andreas
Pokemon Emerald + Metroid Zero (both regarded as one of the best GBA games ever)
World of Warcraft (not mentioned Runescape 2)
Alot of these games were played for YEARS after 2004. Which is insane
Peak era for me growing up as a kid 🎉❤
I haven't started watching the video but i felt the video title resonate with me because i remember 2003-2005 being the best years for ps2 titles for me.
Oh man, what a year for gaming. I was 10 in 2004 and I really look back fondly at how my parents treated me to all these amazing games.
Oh man you're right. Back then was such a fun year as a gamer kid
I turned 16 in the summer of 2004, and yes I remember that year in gaming. To say it was quite a year for gaming is an understatement. It most definitely IS the definition of the year of gaming. The only other time it felt this way again was, surprisingly, many years later in 2017.
What made 2017 special to you?
@@loope9421 Breathe of the wild, Mario Odyssey, Nier Automata, even Horizon and RE7, some other low key games released that year and some indie releases. Those brought some semblance of older days in gaming to me.
I’m 29 and so glad I grew up in this era
I remember going to my local eb games in 2004 and just being blown away by all the gba games and ps2 games and pc games it really was the hey day of gaming and physical media!! Gaming magazines were huge aswell sanadreas had such a sick build up to its release and the psp was not quiet released in aus yet but it was a trip reading about it
It wasn't quite on the level of Toys R' Us back in 90's era US, but Circuit City and other mall-sized stores were like media meccas, and Electronics Boutique still felt like... a boutique. There are a lot of benefits for gaming to expand from being a boutique industry to one that most people have access to. But it does feel like we lost something since 20 years ago...
Damn I was 17 then. Can still remember trying to find out PC specs if I could hopefully run Doom 3...I was so hyped for it.
Dude your video just puts into perspective how amazing 2004 was. Who cares about 2023...2004 definetly one of the greats!