This video was a BEAST to make alone, but I LOVED reliving my childhood with Blizzard's fantastic games. Let me know what other games you'd like me to play next!
These "I Played Every..." vids are so cool. They're a perfect mix of game review, developer history, and Goose backstory. Always engaging and interesting, love it.
My first Blizzard game was Warcraft 2 at a friend's house in 7th grade. Seeing that Blizzard logo as a young gamer was like seeing Lucasfilm on screen for original Star Wars fans. Take me back to the 90s.
I don't like the fact that watching this makes me emotional. I'm 35, married, and work nonstop. I grew up playing all of these games and they shaped my life with so many great times. Great video.
It's great to see someone 10-20 years younger play Diablo, Diablo 2, WC2, Starcraft and come up with the same conclusion about Blizzard's latest games as me, who played them back in the day
The golden age of Blizz games. Communities grew, players played games and weren't yelling at each other, and creativity went wild with custom maps. I miss those days. :
Dude when I was a kid and opened the butcher's door for the first time I shut that shit so fast. Dude says "Fresh meat!" and I was done. That game was so good.
OG Butcher was genuinely an ohshitohshitohshitohshit moment. By comparison I was playing D4 recently hardcore Druid and was doing an Infernal Horde and the Butcher spawned in, I never noticed him till he was had a fraction of health left before he died. Don't get me wrong D4 is getting better but it sucks that all the people who bought the game ended up paying to be beta testers for 12 months in everything but name.
Love your story. I was a demolition worker for 15 years and I absolutely hated it. I started teaching myself web development after work. After years of taking courses on TH-cam I got hired as a web developer. I'm so much happier now, glad it worked out for you too.
@@ntl9974 honestly man, there isn't a guide that is better or worse. You could learn more from one or another. The thing that will decide if you do it is you in the end. If you decide to push through the struggle you will get there. If you don't you won't..
Kind of like how it used to be going to see Pixar films; no reviews needed and you knew you'd have a hit. Everything seems to have a renaissance period. At least we got to enjoy Blizzard's.
Prime example of why corporate greed is a bad thing. Blizzard slowly started to die when Activision bought the company and Microsoft is the place where all video game companies that were once great go to die. Shit like this is starting to destroy the video game industry as a whole
@ntl9974 everything they touch turns to shit. It was sad seeing what happened to Rare which used to be one of the best video game companies ever and sadly Bethesda/Id is next. Hell they even killed the companies that made their most iconic franchise(Halo) and shit on their customers on a regular basis. I honestly don't know how they still have people buying their products I sold my Xbox 1 after having it for a month and switched to Playstation.
That’s simply an amazing video! I’m 41 and I went through all of the games you played during my childhood and my teen years. I’m glad that someone who didn’t know the old blizzard understands why I can’t play their newest titles anymore. Back in days, when blizzard released a game you knew it will be THE BEST EVER title. I don’t think blizzard is gonna come back, it lost its identity, principles and basic values.
@@revanthmunnangi5319 Dragon's Dogma 2, Shenmue 3, Final Fantasy 15, Dark Souls 2, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Fallout 76, Tomb Raider 3, etc. I can go on.
As someone who first played Blizzard games in 1996, when WarCraft 2 was their newest title, I can say this does an excellent job of encapsulating the company and its fall from grace over the years. Superb job.
Had this 41 year old man reliving my childhood as I grew up playing blizzard games and watched them make classics . Then you had me teary eyed about your math grind and changing your life. Good for you man and I'm glad Diablo 3 got you through it.
Incredible video. I'm an old machinist who's played almost every console since Atari. Games have kept me sane while doing a job I hate. I totally get it. Thanks for the throwback.
I love how this turned in to a story about investing in yourself, knowing your worth and believing that you can accomplish your dreams. Very proud of you. Thank you for sharing your story. You may very well impact another and help them make that leap.
Just wanted to say this is the best video I've ever watched. You pretty much summed up everything most of us that play blizzard games feel. Also the editing is legendary!
I worked for Blizzard for 11 years in the EU and everything went to shit once activision got involved. First thing they did was remove our Christmas bonus :D
This was a fantastic video and as someone who was fortunate enough to experience the Golden Age of Blizzard thank you for taking the time to play through these amazing games and sharing this experience with us!
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. Blizzard games were some of the greatest of all time and those memories will never leave us. Been playing their games since Lost Vikings on SNES and Warcraft 2 and it's hard to understate the quality of life Blizzard games had compared to the jankyness most PC games had in the1990s, playing multiplayer flawlessly on dial up modem was huge. The personal story about your journey to change your life for the better was really heartfelt, could feel your struggle and need for change. Honestly these modern service games are just cynical money making machines, they are not primarily designed for fun. Indie games are our future, our hope.
This. It's not like it's an easy feat to keep the same level of quality over decades of producing games. We got some amazing games out of Blizzard, many that my friends and I have lots of good memories with.
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. Blizzard games were some of the greatest of all time and those memories will never leave us." So much this! It will never be the same again, but they made some damn good games and i'm really thankful for the memories.
@@cattysplat you mean it’s hard to overstate. Not it’s hard to understate. If the bar is high it’s very easy to understate it. But hard to overstate it.
This may be the nostalgia talking, but that was one of the best long form videos I've seen here on youtube. Extremely well done and a great way for me to get introduced to this channel. Thanks for all the hard work making this!
The attitude of the Blizzard guy with Classic WoW, "You think you want that but you don't" reminds of the arrogance a lot of younger people tend to have. Where basically newer is better because it's new. Older things have nothing of value and it's not worth studying them. And in general they know better than everyone else attitude. This attitude I think is one of many issues the gaming industry has these days as young developers who wanna make their mark don't bother learning why things are they way the are, what has worked and what hasn't in the past. It's like someone showing up at a race track thinking they can design a better faster car because they have some experience as a mechanic. It's like working on cars is completely different than designing an engine and everything else for a high performance car. In the same way that knowing how to do some coding and making a great game are worlds apart. C&C4 is a great example of this as I remembering thinking the team looking like a bunch of college grads and EVERYTHING they were hyped about doing to the franchise as a long time C&C fan sounded like a complete disaster, and the fact it killed the IP showed my fears were correct. It just feels like the people put in charge of these IPs are not actual fans of the IP. They are either like Activision wanting to use another companies name to hide their fingerprints so they can milk it for cash or a bunch of self righteous developers who couldn't get their own game idea green light so they will just do it under the skin of another IP because like that Blizzard guy they think they know better than the fans.
Thank you so much for making this! About a month ago my wife sent me via text Diablo immortal. And she asked if I had played this. I didn’t have the time, energy, or slightest interest in explaining why I would never play that game. But she watched this video with me and now understands. Your personal story in this video hit really hard. I’m in a job I don’t love but it lets me game. Now that games aren’t that fun anymore I’m looking for ways to retire faster. We can only hope our cry’s are heard and fun games are made once more. Keep it up! I truly enjoy watching these videos. I also watch your reaction videos.
11 year old me thinking the Starcraft Battlechest box looked cool in walmart and spending all the bday money i had saved to unknowingly become a terran for life cried a little watching this.
Blizzard games used to always give you so much value for the money. I think I paid almost 100$ for warcraft 3 which was a lot back then but I got so much gaming out of, it was so worth it.
Warcraft 2 is when the addiction started for me, now in 2024... still playing. Time has gone by too fast! I have played Blizzard games for more than half of my life! Watching over 20 yrs compressed into a 1+ hour video clip brings back so many good memories!
Warcraft III was the first game I ever participated in a LAN party. My buddies and I dragged all of our computers over to one house, had power cables running everywhere, and played W3 for an entire weekend and had the greatest time ever. We realized that was too much work after that one weekend, and then everyone bought OG Xbox's and just played Halo CE LAN with 10 more friends. The early 2000s was the greatest time for social gaming experiences.
It was warcraft 2 for me, I still remember it like it was yesterday. My friends older brother and his friends were having one and I was amazed then eventually got a game in myself. I was hooked after that
Original StarCraft got me into PC gaming. I played it in college on my wife’s gateway desktop. StarCraft 2 inspired me to build my first PC…..been a PC guy ever since! Great vid Goose!
The confidence with which Goose called the most stereotypical English woman in Overwatch Australian made me reflexively hit the pause button to absorb the shock 😂
Dude, you are a fantastic storyteller! I was also a small town Canadian kid who grew up on a farm and these blizzard games were my connection to the world! Thanks so much for the walk down memory lane! Your style and storytelling are light out fantastic and an inspiration to my own channel! Keep up the awesome work🎉
Best long form content I have ever seen on TH-cam. I saw the time stamp and was like no way! But I was like “but it sounds cool, I will watch 5 mins and maybe skip around” over an hour later I watched every minute and now I’m subscribed 😂
Honestly this video is perfect illustration of what gaming has become. Something that started as a passion turned into corporate greed, so many great studios that started with the goal to make amazing games aquired by these big corporations who sucked their soul out with so few bearing the torch of quality and honesty these days. I don't think we'll ever see the old Blizzard at the very least not under this name. Call me sceptical, but unfortunately with microtransactions, pre-orders and season passes being a thing, I don't think things will change for the better anytime soon.
It's either CTRL+drag rectangle with mouse, or SHIFT+click on unit to add. And, btw, the devs explicitly decided to allow just 4 unit per batch to prevent stack-of-doom gameplay.
I played a lot of Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos and Frozen Throne when I was in high school with a lot of my friends. The custom games were some of the funnest mini games. I remember bringing my laptop that wasn't even a gaming laptop, but my dad's spare work laptop to my friends playing helms deep, kodo tag, tower defense, hero seige, and many other custom games. Then WoW came out, and the same thing I brought that laptop to many friends' houses to play WoW. Playing WoW for the very first time with everyone else who was new to the game was probably one of the funnest times I had personally with any video game. Such good times. I remember that laptop getting so hot and thought it was going to overheat or explode from WoW.
I am a huge Blizzard guy and I agree with every single thing you've said here... I love what you've done here. Great video. I really hope the magic comes back to blizzard....
Blackscape! I'll never forget all the amazing comments you gave while I grew. You were the first big creator to ever notice me in the dragon ball days I'll never forget it
Incredible watch! Thanks for this, Goose, our good buddy. Also, I was really surprised/moved to see that you also upgraded math to study software development. I'm doing 3 courses in 9 months, and I have one course left! This video gave me a surprising amount of motivation in a way I did not expect. Video games are absolutely helping me level out the stress!
Zenkai, I love you man. You make some amazing videos that really just show me how big a gaming company or game can be. Don’t ever quit, you’re goosetastic.
Fun fact, you can drag select in Warcraft Orcs and Humans! You just have to hold Ctrl while doing it! Though it was limited to only 4 units lol. This was a great nostolgiac trip! I was 5 years old when Orcs and Humans came out, my cousin played it and my brother and I would watch. A few years later when my family got a PC, my older brother and I got the Battle Chest with WC1 and WC2+Expansion. Have been a Blizzard fan ever since, played Starcraft, Diablo, and way too much WoW even up until recently with the official hardcore servers. These days i don't really play their games anymore, Diablo 4 just didn't hold my attention like past Diablo games and every WoW Expansion I have played recently I play for a few weeks and then eventually get bored. It's been a good run, but I've accepted that no company can stay at the top forever and continue to raise the bar for themselves, especially with how much they've released over the years.
Sad to think, someone who hasn't played most of these games, comes up with the same conclusion we all have... Blizzard went from a top tier, player focused company, to a game mill 'only worried about our wallets' company... It'll never be what it once was... And I'm sad. Thank you for the real nostalgia trip though. Glad you've found some games that'll stick with you forever.
Dude, 50 min of the video still left, but I have to tell you, this is by far the BEST gaming video I've ever watched. I already got goosebumps multiple times, I almost cried out of nostalgia and WoW is still coming. SO GOOD. Keep it up. Thank you so much!!🎉🎉🎉
There are some serious gaps in research, some of those old games helped popularize lan party networking and internet multiplayer gaming. He clearly didn't bother to ask any old head about this stuff.
Your story is the same. I left my construction job in 2010. Went to college for 2 years and was unemployed that whole time. Starcraft 2, diablo 3, and dota 2 got me through my days. Dota 2 was born from blizzard custom games.
@@ZenkaiGoose It's me who can't thank you enough for content so nostalgic that it brought tears to my eyes. Thank you for all the time and effort you put into your videos 🙌
My biggest problem with WoW, and MMORPGs in general, is that I don't want to play an RPG with other people. If an RPG doesn't have a completely playable single player campaign, I have no desire to even try it.
Great video. The "I played every.." series is amazing to watch. Loved the one with all R☆ games also. Do you know about TellTale Games? How about you try all TellTale Games? Its a shame what happened to them now but it'd be really fun to see other people's perspective on what they had to offer to the people.
Man I got to say this is the most honest reviews I’ve seen and as a lover of the older blizzard games you hit the nail on the head! Greetings from Newfoundland Canada!
@@ZenkaiGoose I really hope we can get back some of that true gameplay where you can get lost in time and space literally. Wow classic really got me thru some dark days.
This might be one of the best videos ok TH-cam. As a person thats started with Starcraft and Diablo i really agree on ALL you said in this video. Your oponions on OW and what it became is a painful reminder of what Blizzard became.
"Now Diablo II is a 24 year old game so it shouldn't be as much fun as what folks who grew up with it describe." Yeah, no. It's possibly the greatest and most replayable game ever made. Certainly the best ARPG game ever made - easily. Saying merely that it 'holds up' does not do it justice. It's still better than all other contenders in this genre. It's fantastic. Thank god Vicarious Visions managed to complete the remaster before the lights really started to dim at Blizzard.
@@ZenkaiGoose While not direct sequels, devs from Blizzard North ended up on teams who worked on Titan's Quest, Torchlight, and Grim Dawn. Grim Dawn has a mod called the Reign of Terror mod which recreates Diablo 2 and Diablo 1 (in that order, because scope creep) but with the enhancements that come with Grim Dawn.
Rock n Roll Racing has a sequel!! Biker Mice from Mars. In essence, it’s practically the same game, just wrapped in a different aesthetic. Give it a try. It´s really fun!
Goose, no waaaaay you never played Diablo II?! It is such an awesome game!!! Keep up these kind of videos, they are getting a lot of tracking and for good reason. Your narrative and editing is on point and it is very entertaining. I usually pull back from hour long videos, but yours are SO worth it.
You missed a perfect opportunity to mention in regards to Overwatch and WC3 refunded about the destruction of video games and shout out the stop killing games initiative to try and defend our right to own the games we purchased.
Great video fello canuck. My only gripe with this great video is your DOTA section. DOTA 2 and LoL were made by groups that were involved with the original DOTA custom map.
You know, despite knowing Blizzard used to be called Silicone & Synapse, I never realised that it was the same company whenever I played Rock N Roll Racing. Probably makes me a little silly but I genuinely never put 2 and 2 together. Edit: Genuinely can’t wait to hear your thoughts on Snake Eater
I still play Heroes of the Storm weekly. It is hands down my favorite game I own. Even after I unlocked all the heroes, I gave Blizz $60 because I play it so much. Also, that Overwatch transition. 🤣
You absolutely didn't get what "The Lost Vikings" is about. It's a puzzle platformer with a big emphasis on "puzzle", and it gets quite complex later on the game. And it's really good.
@InsidiousOne I'm very sad he glossed over The Lost Vikings. He shoulda done Norse by Norsewest even if it's just worse Lost Vikings 2. The only game I can think of that tries to be this kind of puzzler is Trine.
Yeah, it was so much fun as a kid, I loved it. but.. not the first world or two, which is what he said, mostly walking. I guess he gave up after an hour, which is understandable when you have such a massive undertaking to accomplish.
what's worse - he used Reforged when he was talking about the original Warcraft 3. Some who never played WC3 might actually believe that's how the original game looked like.
Damn bro, I worked construction my entire life. Thankfully I had some tech knowledge from my mother, but I also worked construction to save up money to quit and start my own tech business. Good work!
I absolutely loved this compilation. Took me down a very heartfelt road of nostalgia. You are hilarious. Keep doing what you are doing and well done on what you've accomplished so far
They better have Blackthorne back in some form or another, like say, as a new character in Overwatch 2. Fact: Starcraft's John Raynor is inspired by the 90s Jason Patric movie, Rush. Heck, it can be argued that Kerrigan's story arc is inspired by that movie.
My biggest gaming regret was liking Diablo 2 too much. It made me annoyed that Blizzard focused their attention on WOW instead of focusing on creating Diablo 3 and so I decided not to play WOW out of spite. I gave in at WOTLK and regretted not starting sooner. Boy did I back the wrong horse on that one.
This video was a BEAST to make alone, but I LOVED reliving my childhood with Blizzard's fantastic games. Let me know what other games you'd like me to play next!
@@ZenkaiGoose goose drops a New video?
We will be there.
Every Metal Gear game/ Hideo Kojima game? Edit lol a minute after this comment I saw "Should I play every Metal Gear?"
@@ZenkaiGoose I have exactly the same PC speakers (Z407)! We must be lost brothers or something...
Yes. Every metal gear
I feel like Blizzard could have been a multi video project so it's not so overwhelming.
These "I Played Every..." vids are so cool. They're a perfect mix of game review, developer history, and Goose backstory. Always engaging and interesting, love it.
You guys leave the best comments EVER 😭😭😭
My favorite one goose has done is I played every Rockstar game
My first Blizzard game was Warcraft 2 at a friend's house in 7th grade. Seeing that Blizzard logo as a young gamer was like seeing Lucasfilm on screen for original Star Wars fans. Take me back to the 90s.
Idk shit about this channel yet I totally agree lol
The Rockstar one is my favorite, but that's because it's Rockstar games
I don't like the fact that watching this makes me emotional. I'm 35, married, and work nonstop. I grew up playing all of these games and they shaped my life with so many great times. Great video.
It's great to see someone 10-20 years younger play Diablo, Diablo 2, WC2, Starcraft and come up with the same conclusion about Blizzard's latest games as me, who played them back in the day
Exactly my thoughts!
Were not just wearing the nostalgia glasses… we know we are just sane people who know and value good games now.
The golden age of Blizz games. Communities grew, players played games and weren't yelling at each other, and creativity went wild with custom maps. I miss those days. :
Amen, brother
You stayed engaging for over an hour, damn. I had no intention of watching the whole thing. I did, and it felt short. Bravo.
Dude when I was a kid and opened the butcher's door for the first time I shut that shit so fast. Dude says "Fresh meat!" and I was done. That game was so good.
Hahahaha same here :D
OG Butcher was genuinely an ohshitohshitohshitohshit moment. By comparison I was playing D4 recently hardcore Druid and was doing an Infernal Horde and the Butcher spawned in, I never noticed him till he was had a fraction of health left before he died.
Don't get me wrong D4 is getting better but it sucks that all the people who bought the game ended up paying to be beta testers for 12 months in everything but name.
Love your story. I was a demolition worker for 15 years and I absolutely hated it. I started teaching myself web development after work. After years of taking courses on TH-cam I got hired as a web developer. I'm so much happier now, glad it worked out for you too.
This is incredible I love everything about this
Any guide you recommend above others, for web dev?
@@ntl9974 honestly man, there isn't a guide that is better or worse. You could learn more from one or another. The thing that will decide if you do it is you in the end. If you decide to push through the struggle you will get there. If you don't you won't..
I remember when you would just buy a new Blizzard game w/out reading reviews as you knew it would be great.
Kind of like how it used to be going to see Pixar films; no reviews needed and you knew you'd have a hit. Everything seems to have a renaissance period. At least we got to enjoy Blizzard's.
Then they took a leaf from EA's book..........and it went down hill from there.
You can't even trust reviews these days either. You'd actually believe a "professional game journalist" if they told you Diablo 4 is a good game? 😂😂😂
And if there was going to be a delay, you knew it was for a good reason.
Prime example of why corporate greed is a bad thing. Blizzard slowly started to die when Activision bought the company and Microsoft is the place where all video game companies that were once great go to die. Shit like this is starting to destroy the video game industry as a whole
@@evilsamurai-83 microsoft bought AOE2 and then it stalled
@ntl9974 everything they touch turns to shit. It was sad seeing what happened to Rare which used to be one of the best video game companies ever and sadly Bethesda/Id is next. Hell they even killed the companies that made their most iconic franchise(Halo) and shit on their customers on a regular basis. I honestly don't know how they still have people buying their products I sold my Xbox 1 after having it for a month and switched to Playstation.
That’s simply an amazing video!
I’m 41 and I went through all of the games you played during my childhood and my teen years.
I’m glad that someone who didn’t know the old blizzard understands why I can’t play their newest titles anymore.
Back in days, when blizzard released a game you knew it will be THE BEST EVER title.
I don’t think blizzard is gonna come back, it lost its identity, principles and basic values.
Shoutout to Overwatch 2 for being the most useless sequel in the history of media.
That games sick definitely a lot worse sequels.
@@micahwest2793 name 1 tsequel that underdelivered like ow2.
@@GeremyG if only we could play the first game we paid for...
@@revanthmunnangi5319 Dragon's Dogma 2, Shenmue 3, Final Fantasy 15, Dark Souls 2, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Fallout 76, Tomb Raider 3, etc. I can go on.
@@lexiconprime7211 please go on. As you're 5/5
As someone who first played Blizzard games in 1996, when WarCraft 2 was their newest title, I can say this does an excellent job of encapsulating the company and its fall from grace over the years. Superb job.
Had this 41 year old man reliving my childhood as I grew up playing blizzard games and watched them make classics . Then you had me teary eyed about your math grind and changing your life. Good for you man and I'm glad Diablo 3 got you through it.
Incredible video. I'm an old machinist who's played almost every console since Atari. Games have kept me sane while doing a job I hate. I totally get it. Thanks for the throwback.
I love how this turned in to a story about investing in yourself, knowing your worth and believing that you can accomplish your dreams. Very proud of you. Thank you for sharing your story. You may very well impact another and help them make that leap.
amazing.
Goose is a character that i want to be successful, and a guy that's fun rooting for
This was such a nostalgia trip. 😭
hahaha wtf i havent seen your name in yeaaaars.
Dude! Thank you so much 😭 I really appreciate this KreekCraft
Kreekcraft no way!
smart
Rich
Just wanted to say this is the best video I've ever watched. You pretty much summed up everything most of us that play blizzard games feel. Also the editing is legendary!
I worked for Blizzard for 11 years in the EU and everything went to shit once activision got involved. First thing they did was remove our Christmas bonus :D
"Our responsibility is to bring joy and fun to people around the world" - Bobby Kotick.
what, you dont WANT a membership in a "jelly of the month" club?
Lemme guess, they also renamed it to Xmas?
Do you guys not having Santa Claus spoiling you??
Don't you guys have christmas bonuses?
This was a fantastic video and as someone who was fortunate enough to experience the Golden Age of Blizzard thank you for taking the time to play through these amazing games and sharing this experience with us!
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. Blizzard games were some of the greatest of all time and those memories will never leave us. Been playing their games since Lost Vikings on SNES and Warcraft 2 and it's hard to understate the quality of life Blizzard games had compared to the jankyness most PC games had in the1990s, playing multiplayer flawlessly on dial up modem was huge. The personal story about your journey to change your life for the better was really heartfelt, could feel your struggle and need for change. Honestly these modern service games are just cynical money making machines, they are not primarily designed for fun. Indie games are our future, our hope.
This. It's not like it's an easy feat to keep the same level of quality over decades of producing games. We got some amazing games out of Blizzard, many that my friends and I have lots of good memories with.
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. Blizzard games were some of the greatest of all time and those memories will never leave us."
So much this!
It will never be the same again, but they made some damn good games and i'm really thankful for the memories.
@@pollyw00d OP's first sentence is a very overused quote, FYI.
@@cattysplat you mean it’s hard to overstate. Not it’s hard to understate. If the bar is high it’s very easy to understate it. But hard to overstate it.
@@cattysplat bg3 is fun
Played so, so many hours of Rock N Roll Racing. What a great game.
BLIZZARD PLEASE REMAKE THIS GAME!
@@ZenkaiGoose for real
@@ZenkaiGoose It has been remastered on pc
@@ZenkaiGoose play blaze rush
@@ZenkaiGoose Have a look at Motor Rock (2013) by Yard Team
"TOOK A SHOT EVERYTIME SOMEONE SAYS YES, IT WOULD BE A VERY INTERESTING GAME. OR YOU'D BE DEAD" 10/10 QUOTE
😂
@@ZenkaiGoose I wanted to play this game but my girlfriend said she might sue so... I'll save you the trouble. Thanks for nothing Goose man.
yes
I gladly obey
This may be the nostalgia talking, but that was one of the best long form videos I've seen here on youtube. Extremely well done and a great way for me to get introduced to this channel. Thanks for all the hard work making this!
The attitude of the Blizzard guy with Classic WoW, "You think you want that but you don't" reminds of the arrogance a lot of younger people tend to have. Where basically newer is better because it's new. Older things have nothing of value and it's not worth studying them. And in general they know better than everyone else attitude.
This attitude I think is one of many issues the gaming industry has these days as young developers who wanna make their mark don't bother learning why things are they way the are, what has worked and what hasn't in the past. It's like someone showing up at a race track thinking they can design a better faster car because they have some experience as a mechanic. It's like working on cars is completely different than designing an engine and everything else for a high performance car. In the same way that knowing how to do some coding and making a great game are worlds apart.
C&C4 is a great example of this as I remembering thinking the team looking like a bunch of college grads and EVERYTHING they were hyped about doing to the franchise as a long time C&C fan sounded like a complete disaster, and the fact it killed the IP showed my fears were correct. It just feels like the people put in charge of these IPs are not actual fans of the IP. They are either like Activision wanting to use another companies name to hide their fingerprints so they can milk it for cash or a bunch of self righteous developers who couldn't get their own game idea green light so they will just do it under the skin of another IP because like that Blizzard guy they think they know better than the fans.
Thank you so much for making this! About a month ago my wife sent me via text Diablo immortal. And she asked if I had played this. I didn’t have the time, energy, or slightest interest in explaining why I would never play that game. But she watched this video with me and now understands. Your personal story in this video hit really hard. I’m in a job I don’t love but it lets me game. Now that games aren’t that fun anymore I’m looking for ways to retire faster. We can only hope our cry’s are heard and fun games are made once more. Keep it up! I truly enjoy watching these videos. I also watch your reaction videos.
it's not good if you only find joy in video games
Blizzard 1991: Make great games
Blizzard 2024: Make great profits
@CajunCatguy maybe every year after the merger, yeah
Diablo 4 is fantastic though , try playing it now
@@timothyscott1951 ahahah no
@@timothyscott1951 I tried their free tutorial and in terms of diablo metaphors, it was dreadful boring.
Blizzard: Make great games
Activision Blizzard: Make great profits
Blizney: DEI & DIE
11 year old me thinking the Starcraft Battlechest box looked cool in walmart and spending all the bday money i had saved to unknowingly become a terran for life cried a little watching this.
That was me with the Diablo 2 battle chest. I spent so many hours!
All that and you chose Terran, a life of suffering. 👌
Me but protoss
Blizzard games used to always give you so much value for the money. I think I paid almost 100$ for warcraft 3 which was a lot back then but I got so much gaming out of, it was so worth it.
My life for Aiur!
I already knew all of this Blizzard lore, yet you managed to make it interesting and funny to experience again. Great video!
Warcraft 2 is when the addiction started for me, now in 2024... still playing. Time has gone by too fast! I have played Blizzard games for more than half of my life! Watching over 20 yrs compressed into a 1+ hour video clip brings back so many good memories!
Warcraft III was the first game I ever participated in a LAN party. My buddies and I dragged all of our computers over to one house, had power cables running everywhere, and played W3 for an entire weekend and had the greatest time ever.
We realized that was too much work after that one weekend, and then everyone bought OG Xbox's and just played Halo CE LAN with 10 more friends. The early 2000s was the greatest time for social gaming experiences.
It was warcraft 2 for me, I still remember it like it was yesterday. My friends older brother and his friends were having one and I was amazed then eventually got a game in myself. I was hooked after that
Original StarCraft got me into PC gaming. I played it in college on my wife’s gateway desktop. StarCraft 2 inspired me to build my first PC…..been a PC guy ever since! Great vid Goose!
Same here! This video is phenomenal
The confidence with which Goose called the most stereotypical English woman in Overwatch Australian made me reflexively hit the pause button to absorb the shock 😂
It's frankly absurd that yours is the only comment I could find addressing this.
I just giggled
I am right there with you
Dude, you are a fantastic storyteller! I was also a small town Canadian kid who grew up on a farm and these blizzard games were my connection to the world! Thanks so much for the walk down memory lane! Your style and storytelling are light out fantastic and an inspiration to my own channel! Keep up the awesome work🎉
@@RegsChannel same farm childhood back in Chile playing almost exclusively Blizzard 90-00' hits. Actually I perfected my english playing D2
Best long form content I have ever seen on TH-cam. I saw the time stamp and was like no way! But I was like “but it sounds cool, I will watch 5 mins and maybe skip around” over an hour later I watched every minute and now I’m subscribed 😂
Honestly this video is perfect illustration of what gaming has become. Something that started as a passion turned into corporate greed, so many great studios that started with the goal to make amazing games aquired by these big corporations who sucked their soul out with so few bearing the torch of quality and honesty these days. I don't think we'll ever see the old Blizzard at the very least not under this name.
Call me sceptical, but unfortunately with microtransactions, pre-orders and season passes being a thing, I don't think things will change for the better anytime soon.
Warcraft 1 you can select up to 4 units at same time lol. Hold down.. I think it's CTRL and left-click drag and select :D
It's either CTRL+drag rectangle with mouse, or SHIFT+click on unit to add.
And, btw, the devs explicitly decided to allow just 4 unit per batch to prevent stack-of-doom gameplay.
The magic is gone, but not forgotten. So many good memories and some good friends along the way.
Never stopped playing HotS since day 1. Best MOBA out there despite everything. Big hug to the other 5 bros.
I played a lot of Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos and Frozen Throne when I was in high school with a lot of my friends. The custom games were some of the funnest mini games. I remember bringing my laptop that wasn't even a gaming laptop, but my dad's spare work laptop to my friends playing helms deep, kodo tag, tower defense, hero seige, and many other custom games. Then WoW came out, and the same thing I brought that laptop to many friends' houses to play WoW. Playing WoW for the very first time with everyone else who was new to the game was probably one of the funnest times I had personally with any video game. Such good times. I remember that laptop getting so hot and thought it was going to overheat or explode from WoW.
You played the tower defense map? That was bonkers.
I am a huge Blizzard guy and I agree with every single thing you've said here... I love what you've done here. Great video. I really hope the magic comes back to blizzard....
Guess who Kchacks? Kchaks again. Zenkais back, tell a friend!
I'm ready to KCHAK ALL NIGHT, ALL DAY!
Keep doing what you doing brother I got mad respect for your come up keep grinding
Blackscape! I'll never forget all the amazing comments you gave while I grew. You were the first big creator to ever notice me in the dragon ball days I'll never forget it
Incredible watch! Thanks for this, Goose, our good buddy.
Also, I was really surprised/moved to see that you also upgraded math to study software development. I'm doing 3 courses in 9 months, and I have one course left! This video gave me a surprising amount of motivation in a way I did not expect. Video games are absolutely helping me level out the stress!
Zenkai, I love you man. You make some amazing videos that really just show me how big a gaming company or game can be. Don’t ever quit, you’re goosetastic.
Fun fact, you can drag select in Warcraft Orcs and Humans! You just have to hold Ctrl while doing it! Though it was limited to only 4 units lol.
This was a great nostolgiac trip! I was 5 years old when Orcs and Humans came out, my cousin played it and my brother and I would watch. A few years later when my family got a PC, my older brother and I got the Battle Chest with WC1 and WC2+Expansion. Have been a Blizzard fan ever since, played Starcraft, Diablo, and way too much WoW even up until recently with the official hardcore servers. These days i don't really play their games anymore, Diablo 4 just didn't hold my attention like past Diablo games and every WoW Expansion I have played recently I play for a few weeks and then eventually get bored. It's been a good run, but I've accepted that no company can stay at the top forever and continue to raise the bar for themselves, especially with how much they've released over the years.
The "No" voice over in the overwatch 2 trailer had me ........good stuff.
If you play every Metal Gear game, I’ll eat my hat. Well, I don’t currently have a hat, but I’ll go out and buy a hat, and I’ll eat it.
Now I feel like I have to 😂
@@ninja_tony Quit eating all your hats! :)
@@aukir that WOULD solve the no-hat-having problem I keep finding myself in 😂
@@ZenkaiGoose my work here is done 😂
"Hello, I would like to buy an edible hat."
"Sir, this is a Wendy's."
Over an hour? Goose! You have blessed us, my man! Love to see it
Hope y'all enjoy it! 1 hour videos might be the hardest things I've ever edited in my life 😭😭😭 hahaha
You take your time to make videos, but when they are finally out, they are goosetastic, they are khack 😂
Sad to think, someone who hasn't played most of these games, comes up with the same conclusion we all have... Blizzard went from a top tier, player focused company, to a game mill 'only worried about our wallets' company... It'll never be what it once was... And I'm sad.
Thank you for the real nostalgia trip though. Glad you've found some games that'll stick with you forever.
I haven't watched this yet, but I hope it blows up, because I know the amount of effort you put into these
bro 😭😭😭 thank you!!
Dude, 50 min of the video still left, but I have to tell you, this is by far the BEST gaming video I've ever watched. I already got goosebumps multiple times, I almost cried out of nostalgia and WoW is still coming. SO GOOD. Keep it up. Thank you so much!!🎉🎉🎉
There are some serious gaps in research, some of those old games helped popularize lan party networking and internet multiplayer gaming. He clearly didn't bother to ask any old head about this stuff.
now we just sit and wait for the Asmongold reaction vid 😂
Dude, you're such a funny and entertaining storyteller! keep it up man!
Excellent video. The Starcraft, Diablo, Warcraft trio is such a brilliant world.
Your story is the same. I left my construction job in 2010. Went to college for 2 years and was unemployed that whole time. Starcraft 2, diablo 3, and dota 2 got me through my days. Dota 2 was born from blizzard custom games.
Going from Blizzard’s amazing box art / battle chest collections over the years down to your phone screen was depressing lmao
Your content is like no other 👌
DUDE!!! DIETNINJA YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO DO THIS! Thank you so much
@@ZenkaiGoose It's me who can't thank you enough for content so nostalgic that it brought tears to my eyes.
Thank you for all the time and effort you put into your videos 🙌
Well played friend.
My biggest problem with WoW, and MMORPGs in general, is that I don't want to play an RPG with other people. If an RPG doesn't have a completely playable single player campaign, I have no desire to even try it.
Great video. The "I played every.." series is amazing to watch. Loved the one with all R☆ games also. Do you know about TellTale Games? How about you try all TellTale Games? Its a shame what happened to them now but it'd be really fun to see other people's perspective on what they had to offer to the people.
Another Saturday morning goosetatick video. Love it!
😎😎😎 Now we're talking!
You should do Bioware next. You can pretty much use the same script but change the name of the games.
I tell my wife who works at home, "WORK WORK!"
Man I got to say this is the most honest reviews I’ve seen and as a lover of the older blizzard games you hit the nail on the head! Greetings from Newfoundland Canada!
Thanks Brandon! Always nice to hear from my fellow Canadians!
@@ZenkaiGoose I really hope we can get back some of that true gameplay where you can get lost in time and space literally. Wow classic really got me thru some dark days.
This might be one of the best videos ok TH-cam. As a person thats started with Starcraft and Diablo i really agree on ALL you said in this video.
Your oponions on OW and what it became is a painful reminder of what Blizzard became.
Sorry I missed the celebration stream goose, I havnt watched the video yet, but I bet it'll be a massive W.
Huge thanks Kiwi! 🙏🙏🙏
@ZenkaiGoose it twas a banger of a video.
This video is gold. We all got united by this.
"Now Diablo II is a 24 year old game so it shouldn't be as much fun as what folks who grew up with it describe."
Yeah, no. It's possibly the greatest and most replayable game ever made. Certainly the best ARPG game ever made - easily. Saying merely that it 'holds up' does not do it justice. It's still better than all other contenders in this genre.
It's fantastic.
Thank god Vicarious Visions managed to complete the remaster before the lights really started to dim at Blizzard.
It was sooo good. I loved my time with D2. Would love a proper sequel to it
@@ZenkaiGoose While not direct sequels, devs from Blizzard North ended up on teams who worked on Titan's Quest, Torchlight, and Grim Dawn. Grim Dawn has a mod called the Reign of Terror mod which recreates Diablo 2 and Diablo 1 (in that order, because scope creep) but with the enhancements that come with Grim Dawn.
diablo 4 and 3 i cant see d fekin screen! It's hard to appreciate the combat. Hopefully Path of exile 2 will be as good as d2
Path of exile is the successor and is what took me from Diablo 2. GGG games really knows what they’re doing.
@@ZenkaiGooseexcept the jungle… I always hate that chapter 😂
Rock n Roll Racing has a sequel!! Biker Mice from Mars. In essence, it’s practically the same game, just wrapped in a different aesthetic.
Give it a try. It´s really fun!
Goose, no waaaaay you never played Diablo II?! It is such an awesome game!!! Keep up these kind of videos, they are getting a lot of tracking and for good reason. Your narrative and editing is on point and it is very entertaining. I usually pull back from hour long videos, but yours are SO worth it.
hahah thank you PO! I really appreciate it!! Also Diablo 2 slaps
Bro u are so underrated how much effort u must have put into this video.I hope ur channel grows❤❤
Do Valve next!
Rock N Roll Racing is an absolute gem for the SNES.
It's actually better on the Genesis, because the SNES version was missing 1 or 2 of the classic rock songs.
I know zenkai you might not see this, but that mini life story you gave us just gave me the motivation I needed
LETS GO! PROUD OF YOU
@@ZenkaiGoose I appreciate it man!
Your storytelling is on friggin point, my man!
The only Blizzard game Ive actively played was rock and roll racing with my lil bro on yhe Super Nintendo.
This was 10years ago
@@frumpysnorfls5088 you are a statistical rarity, but a welcome one
You missed a perfect opportunity to mention in regards to Overwatch and WC3 refunded about the destruction of video games and shout out the stop killing games initiative to try and defend our right to own the games we purchased.
I just needed to say:
"Yes?"
"What?!"
"Stop poking me!"
If you get it, you get it.
I was waiting for a Stop Poking Me and it never got into the video!!
@@davidlawrence8711 I was waiting for the exploding sheep 😕
Excellent! so well put together! Thank you! And the sound design is on another level!
Great video fello canuck. My only gripe with this great video is your DOTA section. DOTA 2 and LoL were made by groups that were involved with the original DOTA custom map.
Another Goosetatstic video as always
BDOGROMPICUS with the classic W comment
I loved the irl goose part
You know, despite knowing Blizzard used to be called Silicone & Synapse, I never realised that it was the same company whenever I played Rock N Roll Racing. Probably makes me a little silly but I genuinely never put 2 and 2 together.
Edit: Genuinely can’t wait to hear your thoughts on Snake Eater
Climate change is melting blizzard’s chill
Great video! Diablo II got me addicted so many times over the years... It's so good. Resurrection hooked me again. It's crazy how satisfying it is.
Definitely play the metal gears, it'd be goosetastic
I still play Heroes of the Storm weekly. It is hands down my favorite game I own. Even after I unlocked all the heroes, I gave Blizz $60 because I play it so much.
Also, that Overwatch transition. 🤣
If u play every metal gear and understand its story and timeline , I will call u the goosiest goose of all time 😂
This is the first of your videos ive seen... And im hooked. This was really something! The nostalgia... Right in the feels!
Gaming journalist peak content.
One of the best gaming-related videos I've seen and - "oh boy" - I've seen many.
You absolutely didn't get what "The Lost Vikings" is about. It's a puzzle platformer with a big emphasis on "puzzle", and it gets quite complex later on the game. And it's really good.
@InsidiousOne I'm very sad he glossed over The Lost Vikings. He shoulda done Norse by Norsewest even if it's just worse Lost Vikings 2. The only game I can think of that tries to be this kind of puzzler is Trine.
Yeah, it was so much fun as a kid, I loved it. but.. not the first world or two, which is what he said, mostly walking. I guess he gave up after an hour, which is understandable when you have such a massive undertaking to accomplish.
Warcraft 3 Best Game ever... 100%
You forgot the Warcraft III: Reforged disaster....
what's worse - he used Reforged when he was talking about the original Warcraft 3. Some who never played WC3 might actually believe that's how the original game looked like.
Damn bro, I worked construction my entire life. Thankfully I had some tech knowledge from my mother, but I also worked construction to save up money to quit and start my own tech business. Good work!
I absolutely loved this compilation. Took me down a very heartfelt road of nostalgia. You are hilarious. Keep doing what you are doing and well done on what you've accomplished so far
the goat dropped again
I got one more in me!!! 💪💪💪
They better have Blackthorne back in some form or another, like say, as a new character in Overwatch 2.
Fact: Starcraft's John Raynor is inspired by the 90s Jason Patric movie, Rush. Heck, it can be argued that Kerrigan's story arc is inspired by that movie.
As soon as I saw "October 13th 2023" I just said "GG" what a world we live in. Activision ruined Blizzard, So long - old friend.
This is the fabulous content I have been looking for
Warcraft III looks so dope. I wish I played that.
My biggest gaming regret was liking Diablo 2 too much. It made me annoyed that Blizzard focused their attention on WOW instead of focusing on creating Diablo 3 and so I decided not to play WOW out of spite. I gave in at WOTLK and regretted not starting sooner. Boy did I back the wrong horse on that one.
@@Moarlatz sell out! They did that to fallout and elderscrolls. You helped make this nightmare possible.
Capital Lights has a song about you! Outrage!