Exploring The Best Dead Games

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2023
  • Today Rye Games once again, dives into the dead game genre. After vetting a lot of games, there were 6 great ones remaining - which are all in this video. From 5, to 25 years old, these games all slowly lost their audience over the years but the core features are almost entirely the same.
    Mauz's website for Active Worlds history: host.activeworlds.com/mauz/pu...
    Discord for empires mod: / discord
    1. store.steampowered.com/app/60...
    2. www.soldnersecretwars.de/main....
    3. store.steampowered.com/app/88...
    4. www.activeworlds.com/
    5. store.steampowered.com/app/36...
    6. store.steampowered.com/app/17...
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  • @RyeGamesOfficial
    @RyeGamesOfficial  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1860

    hello legends
    If you want to submit a game for me to play in future videos. Best way is to dm my twitter (twitter.com/RyeGamess)
    Or join the discord and put it in the submission channel. enjoy the video

    • @0hubi
      @0hubi 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      will you ever play Raft again tho 😮

    • @it5_j05h
      @it5_j05h 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      i love this entire series.

    • @SpaceKraut_
      @SpaceKraut_ 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Love you man, amazing video again. Hope everything's good on your end💙

    • @epsilonunit694
      @epsilonunit694 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      did you not put Empires discord link in the description?

    • @AzizTheGazele552
      @AzizTheGazele552 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yo bro i think you should chang ethe thumbnails a bit more between videos they all seem like the same video being reposted again and again wrongfully

  • @scriptkid_rs
    @scriptkid_rs 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +32572

    The fact 2 russian kids taught u the game then sang to you is so wholesome

    • @PongoDaMan
      @PongoDaMan 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1799

      it really is. Especially given whats going on in the world, they needed that

    • @JChosen53
      @JChosen53 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +429

      Yeah fr it was awesome

    • @cabriskus4700
      @cabriskus4700 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2131

      @@PongoDaMandon’t associate civilians with the foul play their government is doing.

    • @professionalhater3929
      @professionalhater3929 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      They weren’t singing

    • @JasperFoxo
      @JasperFoxo 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +740

      @@professionalhater3929 they were playing *guitar* AND singing

  • @natorious314
    @natorious314 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5085

    That kid playing guitar and singing for you was very sweet, I wasn't expecting a wholesome moment like that 😭

    • @belofost
      @belofost 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +69

      ​@@tgs-45They are not war songs lol, it is Letov, Viktor Tsoy and KiSh band.

    • @cycomiles4225
      @cycomiles4225 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

      ​​@@tgs-45War songs? First time I heard anybody say that about Kino. Anti war, yes, but propaganda? You sure you got your hearing right?

    • @tgs-45
      @tgs-45 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@cycomiles4225 Yes absolutely I think i overstated, they were just songs about war. And I didnt mention anything about propoganda.

    • @hakemz.
      @hakemz. 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      fr fr!

    • @Blackbuck9832
      @Blackbuck9832 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Such a incredible moment in history. So wholesome.

  • @MeanGreenMachine100
    @MeanGreenMachine100 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1132

    That russian kid was singing Viktor Tsoi's Kukushka, one of the most influential soviet era singer. I am so surprised to see that people still listen to Kino, his band, after all this time. Their songs about freedom and man's struggle in life are still relevant to this day, especially with what's been happening in that part of the world for the past few years. Those kids have great taste in music and they were so wholesome!

    • @udittlamba
      @udittlamba 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      there are videos of russian troops playing his music in ukraine. He is immensely popular still

    • @zmvrcv
      @zmvrcv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      took kyiv yet?@@udittlamba

    • @AhmadsaniTijjani-zu3nx
      @AhmadsaniTijjani-zu3nx 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Please let's not talk conflict here​@@zmvrcv

    • @crunkaintdead7702
      @crunkaintdead7702 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Yeah obviously. Kino was literally the most popular band back in the day. That would be equivalent to saying you're surprised people still listen to Queen

    • @krisssstronggg5178
      @krisssstronggg5178 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      i was amazed as well but yeah, people still listen to his music which makes me happy, ive known ab his music for 4 years now.

  • @nonameanonymous3633
    @nonameanonymous3633 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +530

    The memorials made me start sobbing. The kids, the memorials, all of this is just terrifyingly beautiful. All of these people were real and I'm not sure any of them were thinking about dying when they were starting out. The internet is such a fucking place. There's so much love buried in these nooks and crannies.

    • @fallingwater
      @fallingwater 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      I wonder, though, if those memorials are intended to honour actual deaths or players who permanently left and therefore "died" for the community. Also some of those dates make little sense, unless that game was routinely played by seventy-year-olds in the nineties.

    • @nonameanonymous3633
      @nonameanonymous3633 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@fallingwater Fair enough, I just honestly think the internet is a pretty little place. It feels like a mall next to a graveyard, lmao. Graveyards are beautiful monuments to human kindness and memorials have always made me feel a certain kind of happiness. Kids randomly playing an old game, memorials in old mmo's, all of it is just hauntingly kind, hah.

    • @fallingwater
      @fallingwater 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@nonameanonymous3633 Agreed on that - I feel the same way about them. One way or another, people who frequent memorials are usually moved by wholesome feelings.

    • @misterthegeoff9767
      @misterthegeoff9767 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@fallingwater When I started playing Ultima Online in 2000 there were players I knew who were in their 60s and 70s. I'm still in touch with some of the people from back then via discord and there are fewer of us each year, every few months I get to hear that someone else from that old community has died. So some of those memorials could well be to actual deaths.

    • @roli3454
      @roli3454 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@misterthegeoff9767oh man..when I saw some built
      is 23 years old I started to cry..That is just an "empty" game..

  • @OneDarkCutie
    @OneDarkCutie 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4253

    That depression hits different when you're the only person on a server of what once was a booming, bustling community... Those memories are timeless.

    • @Michael-vm4bb
      @Michael-vm4bb 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

      I remember loving the hell out of Quake Wars on PC🎉😢 and also Warhawk on PS3

    • @mba1234
      @mba1234 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

      This, theres thousands of games like this too

    • @CPTCHRIS1
      @CPTCHRIS1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@Michael-vm4bbWarhawk was amazing

    • @Dregomz02
      @Dregomz02 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Good thing that i hop from game to the game only a few games can hold me for hundreds or thousands of hours

    • @Michael-vm4bb
      @Michael-vm4bb 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @CPTCHRIS1 yes and how unfair Starhawk had an even shorter life span.

  • @verydisrespectful7679
    @verydisrespectful7679 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1303

    A kid singing Kukushka in a 20 year old dead game is something I'll never anticipate before watching this. Along with a deer crashing through my window right now. The odds are just very minuscule.

    • @sergeantjoe6802
      @sergeantjoe6802 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      With a guitar too! And consider the odds of rye playing at that time and him being online. Fated encounter perhaps?

    • @jwnomad
      @jwnomad 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      @@sergeantjoe6802 The deer had a guitar?

    • @communications23
      @communications23 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      A deer crashed through your window? Are you both okay? What floor do you live on?

    • @MichaelDeSanta.
      @MichaelDeSanta. 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      That was such a vibe. I felt very 90s Russia in that moment 😂. Wholesome indeed.

    • @Whatthevr_official
      @Whatthevr_official 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      A WHAT?!?

  • @Ryansnuttz
    @Ryansnuttz 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +278

    that memorial hit me in the feels those are foot prints of people who where once alive who enjoyed the game with their friends

    • @88RangeRoverClassic
      @88RangeRoverClassic 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Yeah same.... more than one emotion from that segment.

  • @dripdrop9787
    @dripdrop9787 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +165

    I love how you give the kid his moment. He’s been waiting on that server for a guy like you to show up ❤😂

  • @coeus4733
    @coeus4733 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3927

    Man, it was a pleasure playing with you guys 😅
    Thanks for shining a light on what I do on my weekends Rye ❤

    • @sophiacristina
      @sophiacristina 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +183

      The game looks pretty cool, if i knew that in 2008 i would have played it! :)

    • @partytor11
      @partytor11 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +84

      Man it's so fun to see this game still being played, I remember playing it a lot with some friends back in like 2011. Good times!

    • @imVuid
      @imVuid 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

      @coeus4733 you’re a legend man, keep doing what you love

    • @CptBologna
      @CptBologna 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

      I never heard of this game but I think I'm going to pick it up and play it next weekend, it seems really fun

    • @RyeGamesOfficial
      @RyeGamesOfficial  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +215

  • @MaestroOblidemon
    @MaestroOblidemon 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1941

    Those kids singing "Everything is going according to plan" melted my heart. They're probably scaping all the stuff that's going on by playing an old game in a probably not so good computer, and they took the time to teach you everything. Awesome.

    • @Eysc
      @Eysc 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      link to the song?

    • @lisan835
      @lisan835 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

      Other 2 songs that kid sang - Кино - Кукушка and Король и Шут - Разбежавшись прыгну со скалы

    • @user-ss4oy9wx4m
      @user-ss4oy9wx4m 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Eysc There was 3:
      1. Кино - Кукушка
      2. Егор Летов - Всё идёт по плану
      3. Король и Шут - Прыгну со скалы
      just paste them in google or youtube

    • @GenosseGenos
      @GenosseGenos 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      thanks 😁

    • @varrictethras669
      @varrictethras669 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

      @@Eysc copy+paste Гражданская Оборона - Всё идёт по плану
      Classic siberian punk, little known outside Russia

  • @fightshyper
    @fightshyper 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

    0:31 Ricochet
    3:33 Soldner: Secret Wars
    8:21 CRSED: F.O.A.D.
    12:44 Active Worlds
    16:45 Half-Life Deatmatch: Source
    19:44 Empires Mod

    • @DereC519
      @DereC519 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Ty

  • @FranklinSteele
    @FranklinSteele 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +104

    There's something stunningly beautiful about two people trying to teach you how to play a dead game via Google translate. That's gaming at its best. No meta. No tier lists or power leveling or bots. Just a few humans trying to muck through a digital landscape together.

  • @ikutahgrimfate4859
    @ikutahgrimfate4859 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1862

    That singing was absolutely legendary! Wonder if he'll pop up in other dead games later down the road?

    • @PongoDaMan
      @PongoDaMan 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

      we can only hope my friend , legendary

    • @destrojer124
      @destrojer124 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That would be cool.

    • @BuggzZ1823
      @BuggzZ1823 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      hes probs now on the front line lets be honest..

    • @fish5671
      @fish5671 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      @@BuggzZ1823wth are you talking about lmao, russia ins't conscripting 12 year old kids to fight in the army

    • @BuggzZ1823
      @BuggzZ1823 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@fish5671 its a joke mate chill

  • @Groggers96
    @Groggers96 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1588

    There's something so harrowing about that Active Worlds memorial wall. Each one of those people had hopes and dreams, lived somewhere on this planet, maybe had kids or parents or siblings that missed them. It makes me think of all the people we meet in online games years ago who we never see anymore.

    • @timo4463
      @timo4463 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +83

      Reminds me of a Guy named mewto Something i Played Minecraft with him for one night told him i get Back in at noone the day Bit never came i will never See him again :(

    • @A_Stereotypical_Guy
      @A_Stereotypical_Guy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@timo4463maybe send them a friend request?

    • @YumiiSauce
      @YumiiSauce 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@timo4463 it happens, had a online friend call me when i was busy once and then a few hours later his dad texted me that he was in a hit and run with a collapsed lung. he's dead now, but life continues as normal

    • @7U57HTJRYGHG
      @7U57HTJRYGHG 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

      crazy, people born in the 19fucking30s were on there

    • @anonymoususer638
      @anonymoususer638 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      last online 8 years ago 😞

  • @collinmclaren6608
    @collinmclaren6608 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +105

    I'm so used to the screaming russian goblin child archetype, it was really refreshing seeing those two kids patiently coach you on the game and sing to you.

    • @GAMETESTER1114
      @GAMETESTER1114 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      большинство школьников слушают цоя и т.д, только потому что цоя слушали их отцы, ну или я не знаю

  • @Kifey8183
    @Kifey8183 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    Spooky the bot was probably a place holder so they don't close server. Loved the video.

    • @Nathan-lh6cq
      @Nathan-lh6cq 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ahhhh that makes sense!

  • @baylissprice9449
    @baylissprice9449 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1477

    Those two kids teaching you was so funny, good kids. Love to see friendship built off a game without even speaking the same language.
    It’s deeper than just a game, video games bring everyone so much closer together it’s beautiful!

    • @slitherken4330
      @slitherken4330 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Damn straight brother, hehheh, getter done

  • @zeusexmachina3991
    @zeusexmachina3991 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1754

    It's like a digital trip to unknown empty lands. Beautiful video.

    • @aldieee5959
      @aldieee5959 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      With An sound of electric guitar ,😂😂

    • @michalis5817
      @michalis5817 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Digital Zombies

    • @kieranburkhill
      @kieranburkhill 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Liminal games

  • @Mangaka-ml6xo
    @Mangaka-ml6xo 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    I find it fascinating to go back to old games, posts or even forums that are 20-25 years old, just to see and read what people wrote or did. Its a bit like stumbling on a ghost town and going into people's abandoned houses. I suppose its because of a sense of nostalgia, it reminds me of back in the days when I'd look up any info on the hoaxes of Zelda Ocarina of Time, trying to find places I didn't knew or getting answers for details I noticed and couldn't explain.
    I have to say that the stumbling on graveyards and memorial on Active Worlds was something, it almost got an eerie feel to it, we get to see players who were loved and are gone memorialized there.

  • @bofumytofu
    @bofumytofu 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    thats creepy. 13 year old me was really into active worlds. i remember printing out a material code book and taking it to junior high so i could think about things i would build after school was out. its crazy to see it's still around

  • @firo729
    @firo729 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1592

    Hi just a note for Ricochet
    The reason you weren't able to turn around using mouse is some weird glitch that is present in a lot of old valve games.
    The way you fix this is by doing the following:
    Options > mouse > Raw Mouse Input (tick it)
    Don't know if you'll read this comment but there you go

    • @Rorschach_Tattoo
      @Rorschach_Tattoo 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      This happened to me playing Opposing Force and I fixed it exactly like you said

    • @firo729
      @firo729 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@Rorschach_Tattoo Happy to hear!

    • @calebsmith254
      @calebsmith254 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Maybe buy a mouse with a tracking ball?

    • @littlestarshepherd
      @littlestarshepherd 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It happened to me in Fortnite recently (before last update). It's an Epic game though.

    • @docolemnsx
      @docolemnsx 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I came here to say the same thing. Also, how is Ricochet dead? I love it but never play it, is that how? 😂

  • @juancarlosroman32
    @juancarlosroman32 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1251

    Those two kids are the kind of people gaming needs. ❤

    • @shantyclips6358
      @shantyclips6358 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      cringe

    • @Eurodance_Groove
      @Eurodance_Groove 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You are!!! ​@@shantyclips6358

    • @Eurodance_Groove
      @Eurodance_Groove 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Agree with you, friend!!! Unfortunately we see only biiiip-heads in mmorpg and shoot-hem-up videogames, today...

    • @TesticleTortureGaming
      @TesticleTortureGaming 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@shantyclips6358go on fatherless kid

    • @sandansaiyan5675
      @sandansaiyan5675 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@shantyclips6358cringe your ass

  • @sc4veng3r
    @sc4veng3r 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    I highly recommend Empires Mod! The community is not dead, just very small. If you like big battles, class perks, and vehicle customization, it's definitely worth checking out.

  • @Beencheeling
    @Beencheeling 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    Damn, thoes russian kids were just legends. The very old game was also pretty wholesome taking by it's history and the last game, wow like people keep up such a comunity and the servers are still up for them it's just wholesome, this whole video is so wholesome so confy and honestly you're such a legend for giving light to such epic comunities. Honestly if the comunity is welcoming then you're going to have a blast with the game

  • @Ilshatey
    @Ilshatey 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2546

    5:18 Grajdanskaya Oborona - Vsyo Idyot Po Planu (Civil Defense - All Goes According to Plan)
    5:42 Kino - Kukushka (Cinema - Cuckoo)
    5:55 Король и Шут - Прыгну со Скалы (Korol I Shut (tran: King and Jester) - I Will Jump Off Of Cliff)
    Google this songs and their translation. Classic Russian rock. Now is considered as doomer music.

    • @nickem6556
      @nickem6556 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +86

      Damn i am empressed by his skills in his (young?) age i am 19y.o, only starting to learn the guitar, having medium level of English and having a good taste in music, and he have all of this)

    • @bluewho4071
      @bluewho4071 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      thanks dude

    • @kokpit7320
      @kokpit7320 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      @@nickem6556 like how his voice sound i can say he from 12 to 15 yo

    • @Derperfier
      @Derperfier 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Oh shit they sang Kino

    • @Derperfier
      @Derperfier 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @@nickem6556I mean that taste is just normal in Russia tbf

  • @Vernafveik
    @Vernafveik 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +698

    The idea that the creator of the maze still occasionally checks in to update the board is weirdly heartwarming.

    • @godusopppppp
      @godusopppppp 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      That's a real passion project

    • @mr.rattleotattle
      @mr.rattleotattle 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I would like to Congratulate them for checking up on their world and updating it hope they live a long and fruitful life

    • @ninjaowl8208
      @ninjaowl8208 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      That song he sang would slap around a campfire

  • @kevintech7457
    @kevintech7457 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    This is videogame history. Real history. At least we can see its age. It seems real. This touches my heart!!!

  • @Mimi-qj1km
    @Mimi-qj1km 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    These kids really warmed my heart, I hope they watched the video

  • @614BlueBerry
    @614BlueBerry 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1595

    Active worlds is an amazing, and sad story. Some of those people playing it have probably known each other for decades. Theyve probably lost a ton of friends over that time.

    • @bullfart9221
      @bullfart9221 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Yes, especially the Goreans of AW

    • @orztaku
      @orztaku 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

      you could say similar about any online game that didn't die the year of it's release. Over the span of nearly a decade in FFXI i "lost" several dozen friends (who quit the game) including several who actually died irl for one or another reason. But there aren't many "games" that allow players to freely build memorials to make those losses visible to others.

    • @NodokaHanamura
      @NodokaHanamura 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      @@orztaku Mhm. One thing we often never think about in online communities is when those we call friends lose their lives. Growing up in AW, I experienced this stuff first hand, and while I don't think of it often, when I do, I'm often brought back to the countless memorial sites.

    • @ObjectiveGamer
      @ObjectiveGamer 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@NodokaHanamura😅😮😅😅😮😅😮😅😅😮😅😅😮😮😅

    • @lofidigitalmonk
      @lofidigitalmonk 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Can you play on ios?

  • @VerticalCloud
    @VerticalCloud 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +598

    The memorials in active worlds were fascinating, didn't expect to see something like that in a game

    • @searchiemusic
      @searchiemusic 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      just what comes to my mind first but i play a lot of dayz, there's a half dozen crosses placed around the game in a few player's favorite spots after they passed away, the devs really appreciate their crowd and it makes me happy to see and explore those, i assume in years when it's completely abandoned it'll have the same vibe

    • @seikaparadox
      @seikaparadox 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      you should check one the one in Eve online

    • @imVuid
      @imVuid 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@searchiemusicyeah man this 100% true, so cool that they did that. Nothing compares to the DayZ atmosphere

    • @johnanon6938
      @johnanon6938 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Another virtual world I'll call Kalypso Projectz had added a memorial island back in 2003 and it had some people mentioned too. But greedy corporate changes and all that was pretty much removed by 2009, there's now just a blank gazebo and a couple stone looking blocks on island but that's it. The game itself is still around but its a pale ghost of what it used to be with new devs turning it into a mission based first person shooter hunting game.

  • @Aspect43216
    @Aspect43216 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    it is so wholesome seeing players of dead games help you play the game it is really fun to see this!

  • @user-fe5io9rs3r
    @user-fe5io9rs3r 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Those two kids are the kind of people gaming needs. . It's like a digital trip to unknown empty lands. Beautiful video..

  • @vladislavfilippov1722
    @vladislavfilippov1722 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +515

    Growing up in a small town in Kyrgyzstan, I used to go to internet cafes as a kid and was spending hours and hours in the early 2000s just watching other people playing the games (Counter-Strike, GTA Vice City, Need For Speed, Sims, Call of Duty etc....). I remember when I saved up from my pocket money just enough to pay for an hour in that internet cafe, it was a truly remarkable experience that I'll never forget! It really amazes me that such old games still have few people playing them after so many years... Later on, I did not have the best PC, Internet, or a wide variety of games. I remember when I started playing Counter-Strike 1.5 & 1.6 Online for the first time and discovered one server from the neighboring country: Kazakhstan and on that server were mostly the same people playing every night. Everybody knew each other and we became a short community and it was a great fun time until the server was shut down... Almost 15 years later, I still remember the nicknames of those guys & girls... Ehhh what a times, what a times. Thanks for your flashback video!

    • @teckniqqque
      @teckniqqque 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      ​@@karlwithak.🤓

    • @Shaggy620
      @Shaggy620 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@karlwithak.and you wasting your life commenting on videos just like all of us :)

    • @jeshala
      @jeshala 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@karlwithak. Video games are why I have nieces and nephews idk what to tell you. People meet in all sorts of ways. I'm kinda surprised you're able to operate youtube comments if you're that much of an atavist. So you sought out a video about dead games, found a nice comment about an old community, and commented on it because you hate video games? Dude why are you watching a video about shit you hate. That is a terrible use of your private time and if you wanted something to hate about gamers this is basically the most innocuous video online. You're not even good at hating shit. Take some multivitamins and come up with a better way to spend your breakfast times.

    • @lenteraredup8333
      @lenteraredup8333 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      you're not alone, same here

    • @malakamasawmpiou3540
      @malakamasawmpiou3540 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      in mid early 2000s i used to go to internet cafes to play cod 2 lan or cs 1,6 then cuz im in balkans,a lot of ppl including me started selling weed and other drugs at internet cafes cause they were the hot spot of the time ahahahahaa the bestt thing smoking weed and playing cod 2 or gta sa feeling like cj

  • @Sileff
    @Sileff 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +480

    Listening to those guys sing and play guitar was so wholesome. You are such a great guy.

    • @partytor11
      @partytor11 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      They have great taste in music too! Kino is fantastic

    • @danger.snakes
      @danger.snakes 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@partytor11 one time I wanted to learn a Kino song (This Is Not Love from the album of the same name) so I searched it up on YT thinking maybe there would be like one or two decent covers I could learn from and the page just filled up with great covers - Russians REALLY love Kino!

    • @xoce6210
      @xoce6210 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@partytor11ikr, it surprised me so much

  • @pepo2307
    @pepo2307 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    TH-cam recommended your video and I'm happy I clicked on it, I really loved the video and I will check more of your work :)

  • @katrinaninanina
    @katrinaninanina 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    19:00 he spent 10 years of his life on THAT game

    • @katrinaninanina
      @katrinaninanina 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Also there are only 336 hours in 2 weeks If he spent 305 hours on that game he only had 31 hours in those 2 weeks to eat and sleep and everything else. That is madness 😂

    • @knutzano
      @knutzano 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@katrinaninaninaMy guess is he’s as bot, but the game counts the amount of maps he has played either way

  • @sleepymind99
    @sleepymind99 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +333

    the russian kids singing and playing while teaching you how to play the game was one of the coolest things I ever saw on the internet lol. and he got a great music taste, too

  • @zacharyh1071
    @zacharyh1071 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +623

    Tbh seeing that memorial in alphaworlds is both very sweet but also somber, it's incredible a virtual world can live so long for the userbase to age out like that and for the community to be so consistent to want to recognize their presence in game.

    • @ATypiclaNPC
      @ATypiclaNPC 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      Especially when i think about the fact, that some of them (and that are not so few as some may thought) are also dead already in real life. U could see for example one person who was from 1937. The possibility that she is still living is probably not so high.

    • @azizalfa752
      @azizalfa752 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ATypiclaNPCyup it will happen with us too

    • @NodokaHanamura
      @NodokaHanamura 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@ATypiclaNPC She probably isn't. There was a period of time in the 1990s and the sort that those who were in their 50s and 60s were interested in interacting with modern tech much like we do. As someone who was in AW (Hell, I was in the photo he showed of the Anniversary, just below Lazysuzy, someone I remember as one of the Gatekeepers (a community help volunteer team governed by AWI). There are quite a few people I remember from my time who were probably thrice or four times my age (for comparison, my active years on AW were from around 7-15), who were genuinely nice and friendly.
      If you've ever played Hypnospace Outlaw, and seen the Oldtime Country section of Hypnospace, that is what a sizable chunk of Activeworlds' userbase was like back then. Between them and the younger users who tended to be in AWTeen or the sort, that is what AW's population amounted to in the 2000s, before its' userbase started to either pass away from old age, or flock to sunnier shores in Second Life.
      I wasn't around for quite of the few who passed, but those who I was there to be with, I will always remember them and AW fondly.

  • @brycemost
    @brycemost 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great to experience such interesting worlds. Thanks for making this

  • @Rockancrime
    @Rockancrime 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Those kids were awesome! Hooray for just genuinely good interactions like that.

  • @ScottThePisces
    @ScottThePisces 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +440

    Its oddly wonderful how Active Worlds is kinda like a time capsule for gaming, with its original Sims style graphics of the time

    • @reedman0780
      @reedman0780 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Yeah, its kinda just something people go to at late nights to just play around. I can imagine the places being so crowded. It is just a place of memories, of what people used to enjoy, in a sand box style. In the future this may be what we would look like in our abandoned sandbox games or anything online that can be archived

    • @TonCZArch
      @TonCZArch 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      I am sad the Active Worlds europe servers are offline. I've spent a good chunk of my childhood in that game and it's sad to never be able to play these worlds again

    • @scottwaggoner223
      @scottwaggoner223 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      It’s still kinda funny seeing videos like this. I joined Active Worlds a few months after it launch in 95, when I was very young, and went on actively for about ten years. It was super taboo to call it a ‘game’ back then, because it wasn’t structured as such. It was a virtual community, that had a much more robust build system than Minecraft that came many years later.

    • @reedman0780
      @reedman0780 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@scottwaggoner223 damn, sounds nice to have been able to witness the rise of the internet and the fast growth of technology. As a kid I took these for granted, and only thing I have as some kind of nostalgia that is dead is Flash games. Even half life is still alive

    • @op8ztv
      @op8ztv 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Wish Sims Online and Star Wars Galaxies still existed...Player ran worlds are the best.

  • @dandymcgee
    @dandymcgee 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +383

    The amazing thing about Active Worlds isn't how long ago the stuff was built, it's the fact that it's still online and accessible. The internet in the 90's was a hoppin' place, but almost all of it is gone now. Cool to have just a teeny bit left for future generations to explore.

    • @Shiznit304
      @Shiznit304 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      there's another similar virtual reality world I used to play called There, more specifically MTV virtual reality worlds in the mid 2000's

    • @akachucknasty
      @akachucknasty 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm shocked at the lack of penis monuments... those original players were def classy.

    • @Tyrannis01
      @Tyrannis01 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Shiznit304 I remember there, Is it still around?

    • @vladimirsmith1907
      @vladimirsmith1907 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Even though I was viewing it through a screen, I could imagine how great the game was.
      I could sense a feeling of hidden nostalgia, and even how hard it must have been to see these people pass away as time slowly went on. And im honestly proud of the people that would still play the game, and honor the legacy of all the old gamers that used to play it.
      Makes me wish I had been born a long time ago, to experience the whole thing.

    • @macwolf2863
      @macwolf2863 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was on dial-up internet back then, so i never could have played it. But it is crazy to think that it was 20 years ago. Makes me wonder if one day people will look back at something I done on a game 20 years later. It's a strange thought

  • @RandomScrolls-mu9ce
    @RandomScrolls-mu9ce 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That was a really wholesome moment with you in Secret Wars!

  • @juannick69
    @juannick69 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Idk why but seeing those old games, old dates, and just the whole old school vibe of the 90s/begin 2000s gives a sort of nostalgic emotional feeling.

  • @raidmaster6879
    @raidmaster6879 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +250

    Every time Active Worlds is talked about, I feel this massive sense of extinctual dread. Seeing something that at one point was so important to so many people, and knowing that those people were just like me, truly puts the impermanence of life into full view.

    • @ajofmars2579
      @ajofmars2579 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      I met a traveller from an antique land,
      Who said-“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
      Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
      Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
      And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
      Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
      Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
      The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
      And on the pedestal, these words appear:
      My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
      Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
      Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
      Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
      The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
      Ozymandias,
      Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1818

    • @Drakence
      @Drakence 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      The internet exists as a tombstone for countless souls

    • @looopamith9456
      @looopamith9456 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Never 0kayed it but i don't know why but man was that part emotional

    • @sol_ab143
      @sol_ab143 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I spent a good while searching about ActiveWorld and the great Mauz. I wasn't even alive in the 1990s but man, seeing everything and the passion that players had warmed my heart and made me feel like I was there with them.
      Definitely going to check out ActiveWorld now.
      RIP Mauz and all other players

  • @unknown_karma12334
    @unknown_karma12334 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +294

    The two russian kids trying to help you then play music for you it's relaly wholesome. And his skill at singiong is also nice, there's just something nice in hearing a russian play a simple guittar and sing

    • @geronimo5537
      @geronimo5537 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      it was a great moment and I honestly think the song. which I dont understand as an english speaker. would be a great internet meme song.

    • @unknown_karma12334
      @unknown_karma12334 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@geronimo5537 They sounded pretty familiar! the songs. I highly suggest listening to Kino or Molchat Doma, first one is an old russian rock band and the second is a belarusian band with a similar style of music. A russian person will be better at explaining what are the songs about that the kid played, but funny enough most are about love, hard life, freedom and not wanting to fight in wars.

    • @a.katyusha2667
      @a.katyusha2667 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      the kid was playing кукушка from kino btw, it's impressive that the song is recognisable at all

    • @unknown_karma12334
      @unknown_karma12334 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@a.katyusha2667 Hahaaa called it. I knew it was familisr from somewhere. as i said. Hehehe what it means to be a kino fan.

    • @justanotherperson3783
      @justanotherperson3783 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@unknown_karma12334best band ever

  • @sen7167
    @sen7167 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    19:06 the voiceover and backgroubd music really makes you feel emotional

  • @DereC519
    @DereC519 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    There's something heartwarming about finding groups of survivors in dead games still carrying on something they enjoy

  • @Motolmang
    @Motolmang 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +266

    game 4 was so fucking surreal to me
    I was born a few years before it came out and just seeing those tombstones and creation dates just made me feel a way i can't explain that was both somber and in deep thought. Just the idea of a game from 1995, just 3 years after I was born, is still played online by a handfull of people who are holding memorials for people who have played and passed on over the past 25 years is so mind boggling to me.

    • @shinobione2575
      @shinobione2575 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      sounds cool to me

    • @Motolmang
      @Motolmang 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@GalacticFoxCat good, VR chat is a cesspit

    • @JesusIsKingMyLord
      @JesusIsKingMyLord 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Gospel of Jesus Christ John 3:16 For God So loved the world that he gave his only Begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not Perish but have Everlasting Life. Jesus Christ Died for the sin of the World, If you believe in ur heart God risen Jesus from the dead and confess him with ur mouth to people you shall be saved. Jesus said I Am The only way to heaven there is no other way! Repent of urs sins (Repent means Change ur Mind turning away from sinful things and being truly sorry for it.) trust Jesus and give ur life to him He Loves you cares about you more than anyone ever will! we are saved By Grace Trough Faith!,this is sin: Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death but the gift of eternal life in our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 3:23 For all have sined and felt short of the Glory of God. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Romans 1:18‭-‬21‭, ‬23 KJV Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 6:9‭-‬10 REPENT OR YOU WILL PERISH REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL GET RIGHT WITH GOD LORD JESUS CHRIST.

    • @ATypiclaNPC
      @ATypiclaNPC 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@GalacticFoxCat I don´t think there will be any game like that anymore. The thing is, the Internet back then was a complete other then today. Especially because not everyone was in it like today.

    • @azrielsatan8693
      @azrielsatan8693 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Motolmangeven if it dies, its players will still exist ☹️

  • @Tetelokarro
    @Tetelokarro 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +154

    Man this two kids, made me remember about just how games long time ago were about having fun and meeting people, nothing more than that. A lot of memories

  • @sidkara9911
    @sidkara9911 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great idea of the video,and the 2 guys were wholsome ,there are much more of those type of people

  • @PalaceDude
    @PalaceDude 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My goodness, when I clicked on this video, I did not know I was in for a feel train.
    Also, funny that you visited HL: DM so recently, as it has experienced a resurge with the latest grand update (and 100% discount).

  • @brankenmason8463
    @brankenmason8463 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +381

    0:33 Ricochet
    3:33 Söldner: Secret Wars
    8:22 CRSED: F.O.A.D.
    12:45 Active Worlds
    16:46 Half-Life Deathmatch: Source
    19:44 Empires Mod
    23:44

    • @JeremyBaconThe1st
      @JeremyBaconThe1st 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Ham

    • @Bsebt
      @Bsebt 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@JeremyBaconThe1st Bone

    • @JeremyBaconThe1st
      @JeremyBaconThe1st 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@Bsebt You are godamn right

  • @IamMaggie8
    @IamMaggie8 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +149

    The absolute legends you meet and the friendships you make are 100% the reason i would forever watch this series. That kid on the guitar was amazing and brought such a smile to my face during a very trying week. KEEP ON ROCKING DUDE

    • @plastilinstudio425
      @plastilinstudio425 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thanks

    • @JesusIsKingMyLord
      @JesusIsKingMyLord 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Gospel of Jesus Christ John 3:16 For God So loved the world that he gave his only Begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not Perish but have Everlasting Life. Jesus Christ Died for the sin of the World, If you believe in ur heart God risen Jesus from the dead and confess him with ur mouth to people you shall be saved. Jesus said I Am The only way to heaven there is no other way! Repent of urs sins (Repent means Change ur Mind turning away from sinful things and being truly sorry for it.) trust Jesus and give ur life to him He Loves you cares about you more than anyone ever will! we are saved By Grace Trough Faith!,this is sin: Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death but the gift of eternal life in our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 3:23 For all have sined and felt short of the Glory of God. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Romans 1:18‭-‬21‭, ‬23 KJV Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 6:9‭-‬10 REPENT OR YOU WILL PERISH REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL GET RIGHT WITH GOD LORD JESUS CHRIST.

  • @yoda90
    @yoda90 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I remember half life 1’s 25th anniversary and the half life death match source numbers went up, and that was nice to see playing it bringing back memories from so long ago.

  • @DukeAKS47
    @DukeAKS47 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wasn't expecting to see empires here, miss the old school source mod days. That's one that definitely deserved to be turned into a franchise

  • @SlySkydiver
    @SlySkydiver 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    Interesting fact about Cuisine Royal is that it is actually made by the developers of Enlisted (Darkflow Software) and started its life as an April Fools joke beta test to test out the Enlisted engine back when the game was still in development. The idea proved popular and it eventually turned into a standalone game and the money made from it was also used to fund Enlisted's development. Enlisted itself is a free to play fps WW2 shooter where the player commands an entire squad rather than one soldier. And it's also a game I've been hopelessly addicted too for a few years now. It's also nowhere near as pay to win as Cuisine so maybe the entire idea behind Cuisine was to just make as much money as possible for the development of Enlisted which was actually something I heard rumored in the past.
    I never played Cuisine Royal but it's really interesting to see just how similar the two games are or at least were as Enlisted has changed a lot since it's initial release. Yet many things still remain the same in other regards.

    • @itacticlesnowman726
      @itacticlesnowman726 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Yea no man, I seen cursed FOAD and immediately clicked it because I knew it was one of Gijins entertainments property’s and damm all the visuals and hud elements is just enlisteds. It just felt weird seeing it.

    • @user-qu9zh8wc4q
      @user-qu9zh8wc4q 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Enlisted: I’m a good and well made popular free to play WW2 shooter game! War Thunder: I’m one of the most popular war games in history! Enlisted Cusine: I’m Fortnite but with dudes in underwear.

    • @csci307lectures
      @csci307lectures 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      YESS NOW I REMEMBER
      I was watching this video, and thinking that this map looks really familiar xDD

  • @fenixspider5776
    @fenixspider5776 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +151

    I like how dead games have more wholesome people than big games with millions of players playing
    Man your videos are really dope, love these type of videos

  • @gustavoxavier2380
    @gustavoxavier2380 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    you unlocked good memories. I played a lot of Soldner in 2007-2008 and 2009. Good times, just teenage worries.

    • @gustavoxavier2380
      @gustavoxavier2380 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Soldner Game came in a gaming magazine as a gift. I remember reading the review of the game in the magazine, and I was impressed by how many of the weapons, vehicles and especially the scenario were destructible.

  • @WolfFang-rt9ub
    @WolfFang-rt9ub 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Well considering there are a lot of dead games even abandonware ones it's good to see someone has made a video on these games nicely done man

  • @tashkent561
    @tashkent561 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +183

    The fact that HoneyBadger was singing Kino made me respect him even more, hope he gets even better and even more recognized for his talent.

    • @mikistenbeck6517
      @mikistenbeck6517 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      yea, for real, with trainning and Equipment, we might see a coming Singer in the next few years, :D

    • @JesusIsKingMyLord
      @JesusIsKingMyLord 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Gospel of Jesus Christ John 3:16 For God So loved the world that he gave his only Begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not Perish but have Everlasting Life. Jesus Christ Died for the sin of the World, If you believe in ur heart God risen Jesus from the dead and confess him with ur mouth to people you shall be saved. Jesus said I Am The only way to heaven there is no other way! Repent of urs sins (Repent means Change ur Mind turning away from sinful things and being truly sorry for it.) trust Jesus and give ur life to him He Loves you cares about you more than anyone ever will! we are saved By Grace Trough Faith!,this is sin: Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death but the gift of eternal life in our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 3:23 For all have sined and felt short of the Glory of God. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Romans 1:18‭-‬21‭, ‬23 KJV Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 6:9‭-‬10 REPENT OR YOU WILL PERISH REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL GET RIGHT WITH GOD LORD JESUS CHRIST.

    • @Ehrenandi
      @Ehrenandi 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I totally thought this too! Kino is great.

  • @demonseeall
    @demonseeall 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +193

    Парень легенда, сидит в мёртвой игре и играет КиШа и Летова
    Guy is legend, he stays on dead game and playing songs

    • @oliveryt7168
      @oliveryt7168 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "КиШ" = " Король и Шут" (to anybody wondering)...

  • @Ever_Side
    @Ever_Side 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I remember Soldner, this was my best game when I was a kid. I remember when there was many players, heli, tanks, jet fights. It was amazing during this time. It's a bit like battlefield but in a softer way :)

  • @TheKillerP90
    @TheKillerP90 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    holy shit empires, what a treat
    loved the game, it was big when valve advertised a whole bunch of source mods on steam. Unfortunately, you're about 14(ish) years late to experience the full servers.
    it had brilliant vehicle customisation systems and mini-rank-ups that i if i remember correctly, gave you perks.
    thanks for the nostalgia trip, god damn

  • @RPVoid
    @RPVoid 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +84

    Seeing things in Active world build in '98 made me really understand how far it was, those buildings are as old as me

    • @daanstrik4293
      @daanstrik4293 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Any building starting with “19” is several years older than me. And i’m 22

    • @RPVoid
      @RPVoid 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@daanstrik4293 I'm born in '98, it was a realization of how old I am

    • @Agret
      @Agret 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I actually played active worlds when I was a kid using our dialup internet. It took a long time for the world's to load in and basically all of the player avatars were restricted behind paywalls. There was some way to load up worlds you'd previously visited in an offline mode and you could use any avatar you wanted without paying. I used to download some worlds and then switch to the seagull avatar and you could actually free fly while using it, was pretty cool.

  • @standard-carrier-wo-chan
    @standard-carrier-wo-chan 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +115

    Active World is fascinating. Some of the players in the memorial are straight up from the Silent Generation, and it really struck me at just how age-universal video games are, even back then.

    • @unuks9731
      @unuks9731 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Silent generation?

    • @Ottriman
      @Ottriman 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@unuks9731 People born between 1900-1920 or so.

    • @standard-carrier-wo-chan
      @standard-carrier-wo-chan 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@Ottriman No those are the GI Generation, Silent Generation comes after, from ~1920 to around the war end at 1945.

    • @SheLxvDraco
      @SheLxvDraco 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@standard-carrier-wo-chanwhat does it mean by silent and gi

    • @Sacred-Lotus
      @Sacred-Lotus 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@standard-carrier-wo-chan would love to know why they are called silent?

  • @Michaelb17897
    @Michaelb17897 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Your videos give my hope for the future of gaming bro, its not all toxic communities like cod/fifa ect. Much love to you and the people you encounter ❤

  • @fuadhidayat4633
    @fuadhidayat4633 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nostalgia, what a fun feeling
    tyvm rye !

  • @LS1056
    @LS1056 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +89

    Something about Active Worlds is crazy to me. Seeing things that people tried in late 90s to early and mid 2000s and still there is wild. Like its a relic and amazing one.

  • @cyanide7270
    @cyanide7270 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    Seeing a couple of what im assuming are either pre-teens or teens, playing a 20 year old game and willing teaching somebody how to play it instead of being the typical obnoxious internet twat is honestly quite refreshing. Hats off to them.

  • @dynastymusou8906
    @dynastymusou8906 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thank you for this video. It makes me want to try out some of these games. Also, Active Worlds... it looks so old. But in a charming way. And it's great to see those people that played and have since passed away are still remembered.

  • @MasterOfSayajins
    @MasterOfSayajins 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    its always unbelievable how much stories a players made graveyard/memorial garden can tell. me and my gf from 15 years ago have such a memorial spot in metin2 on one of the already deleted servers. many stories behind that spot and a perfect end of an era ^-^

  • @Portato19
    @Portato19 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +124

    This is wholesome; maybe the game is already dead with a lack of player, but their heart to warm the community will never die. An immense respect to HoneyBadger3 and his friends!

  • @death_star4956
    @death_star4956 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +315

    Pretty weird and interesting to see that Cursed, or Cuisine Royale despite being dead, became the foundation for Enlisted, same maps and same guns and even mechanics

    • @B0redZer0
      @B0redZer0 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      From what i recall, they made Cuisine Royale as a sort of beta for the engine and mechanics/gameplay of Enlisted, so that was always the plan.
      I quess good for them, but as someone who really enjoyed Cuisine Royale, i am sad at the state its in.

    • @ThatDamnedAmericanUSA
      @ThatDamnedAmericanUSA 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      @@B0redZer0 As someone who used to play, yeah, they built Cuisine Royale as an April Fools thing to act as a testbed for Enlisted, and the beginning really leaned into that aspect. Purely the WWII weapons and kitchen themed armor/health items. Miss that time tbh

    • @andressandoval197
      @andressandoval197 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      thats actually wild cuz Enlisted is fun, and ive been playing it alot

    • @mango-qz4ds
      @mango-qz4ds 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      i noticed that as someone who plays enlisted alot

    • @jackyjew8607
      @jackyjew8607 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Interesting stuff! Never heard of this game but I play enlisted and I legit thought to myself the map and scenery look just like enlisted.

  • @xcapox0358
    @xcapox0358 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This video was so cool i loved it, exploring some really old game made appassionate even more to a sort of videogame lore lol

  • @CalvinScores
    @CalvinScores 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love this style of content. The part about them muting you because of fat ass had me dying. Subscribed!

  • @HazeyInsanity
    @HazeyInsanity 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +77

    This video feels extremely special, all these ancient games I have never played and yet they gave me a feeling of nostalgia. They really feel like empty and extinct worlds of a bygone era

  • @NifesTheCat
    @NifesTheCat 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +93

    Found this video after our usual weekend Empires games were suddenly so populated that the main server was full! The community is extremely niche but very dedicated.
    Another game you might find 'dead' with a insanely niche weekend community is Microsoft Allegiance (2000) which was released on Steam in 2017 and made free to play. It's also pretty different from anything that you've featured before!

    • @johndoe5432
      @johndoe5432 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Empires Mod was fantastic back in its heyday I played it a ton.

  • @ShivanshSingh-vx1ps
    @ShivanshSingh-vx1ps 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    please play
    released on March 19, 1999
    Recoil is a vehicular combat tank-based Microsoft Windows video game. It involves the player piloting an experimental tank known as the "BFT" (Battle Force Tank) through various missions. There is a heavy influence on collecting various weapons for the BFT throughout the game. It was developed by Zipper Interactive, a subsidiary of its parent publisher, Electronic Arts, and uses the same game engine as MechWarrior 3.

  • @thefrostshieldjotunn7287
    @thefrostshieldjotunn7287 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is awesome and has a very nostalgic feel to it.

  • @FRFD23
    @FRFD23 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +201

    Name of band`s and name of track`s :
    5:28 Гражданская Оборона - Всё идёт по плану
    5:46 Кино - Кукушка
    6:15 Король и Шут - Прыгну со скалы

    • @rydout
      @rydout 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I thought that one was Kino :)

    • @FRFD23
      @FRFD23 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@rydout)))

  • @Neoony
    @Neoony 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Thanks for checking out Empires and linking the game/discord
    Hope to see you in the big games

  • @virtuabutch
    @virtuabutch 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1st of your vids ive watched-- very enjoyable!

  • @xHyperActiveGamingx
    @xHyperActiveGamingx 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    this video rocks man, so great watching it

  • @NollaWasTaken
    @NollaWasTaken 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

    I absolutely adore this series! It's so fascinating to interact with games that have been left behind by their developers and community. Dead games almost feel like time capsules that you can immerse yourself in.

  • @FatItalianMan
    @FatItalianMan 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

    This was legitimately one of the happiest videos I've seen. Exploring these new communities with the people willing to work with you like that is wonderful. You've earned a new subscriber and I'll be joining the channel soon.

  • @blargslap
    @blargslap 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Actually such a great video. New sub 😁

  • @GiladPellaeon
    @GiladPellaeon หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember Empires mod and I played it back in the day. I always wondered how it was called. Awesome!

  • @_TheBassManLivesOn_
    @_TheBassManLivesOn_ 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    I didn’t even realize this was new😭😭😭

    • @personalaccountcraciuncarm1048
      @personalaccountcraciuncarm1048 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same💀

    • @lopobomb
      @lopobomb 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It’s cause he uses very similar thumbnails for most of his videos

  • @sixeros4435
    @sixeros4435 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +91

    Those two Russian Kids singing to him is now gonna be one of my all time best gaming things. Truly beautiful to witness.

  • @HicksWithTricks
    @HicksWithTricks 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing!! Great teachers and music!!.

  • @emreduru3080
    @emreduru3080 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That kid is playing a song called Kукушка which I first heard in the movie Battle for Sevastopol. I am not Russian or understand anything but I have been listening to that song time to time for years and I don't know why but him randomly singing that song made me emotional.

  • @ozztelorman7057
    @ozztelorman7057 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +158

    The "spooky action at a distance" nickname is actually the reference to Einstein's remark on "quantum entanglement" phenomenon in physics. Nice one 😇

    • @A_Stereotypical_Guy
      @A_Stereotypical_Guy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      But that's not what he was talking about

    • @OwnedEpicStyle
      @OwnedEpicStyle 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      @@A_Stereotypical_Guyyou look like you talk shit to people from your hometown on public Facebook posts

    • @ozztelorman7057
      @ozztelorman7057 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      @@A_Stereotypical_Guy you are right, my friend. I just humbly wanted to add the actual meaning of his nickname. Maybe i had to start with something like "on a side note: ....". My mistake 😇Thank you for your warning.

    • @A_Stereotypical_Guy
      @A_Stereotypical_Guy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@ozztelorman7057 no I meant that's not what Einstein meant when he said that.

    • @A_Stereotypical_Guy
      @A_Stereotypical_Guy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@OwnedEpicStyle I dont have Facebook my friend

  • @grizzlycmmg9578
    @grizzlycmmg9578 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A Game that may not be dead but is likely walking that line is Darkest Hour/Red Orchestra (Darkest Hour) is a Mod for Red Orchestra I believe. I played that game a lot from 2018-19 or so, I’d be interested in seeing how it’s doing nowadays.

  • @Pedakin
    @Pedakin 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    That song sounds suspiciously like "Rock Lobster".

  • @Beansswtf
    @Beansswtf 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    Empires Mod was one of my most played games back in the day, and I still hop on at the weekends occasionally when I see the invites blasted out by all the regulars. It was literally an RTS and FPS combined and it worked so well, a genre many still wish for to this day... Each commander has a tech tree they can research, and it completely changes every match. Sometimes artillery is rushed and it just turns into mad artillery spam. And other times they have like nuke ammo tech, and the tanks just go crazy. It was such a good hectic game back in the day, and tbh still is.

  • @Pilps
    @Pilps 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +75

    Recent subscriber to the channel & don't know if you've done it yet but one that would fit this series would be Post Scriptum. Sadly a few months ago the devs pretty much have abandoned it and its now only one person. Which it's a shame because it's honestly one of the best games i've played in the past 10 years easily.
    Only a couple hundred that play it now and its playerbase is sadly dwindling by the day.

    • @NicholasEzclapz
      @NicholasEzclapz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      The Medieval 2 gamer himself has commented

    • @thedukeofz8974
      @thedukeofz8974 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The community is still active and mainly peak on weekends, even recently there's been 100 player server with even a couple of weeks ago a clan tested and set up a 120 player server

    • @azez6799
      @azez6799 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It was essentially thrown into the dirt for Squad. Which sucks, but it makes sense I guess

    • @G33KSPALACEdotCOM
      @G33KSPALACEdotCOM 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Post Scriptum was absolutely fantastic, but sadly, compared to Hell Let Loose, the devs weren't half as invested in upkeep to keep their playerbase, and it shows. I played so much PS during its peak, I switched to playing mainly HLL a little over a year ago, and I see many players I met in PS running around, so I'm guessing that's where they all went.

    • @backwardsbandit3955
      @backwardsbandit3955 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Me and my buddy love squad we tried he’ll let loose and felt like it was too casual and encouraged too many people to play it like cod so we found post scriptum and thought it was awesome every so often my buddy brings up how sad it is that it’s a dead game

  • @CubCadetMan71
    @CubCadetMan71 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It’s so crazy playing old games like this. I was in Nova 3 on my 4th gen iPod. I found like 5 people and we were in a team match. Nobody cared to kill each other and all we did was run around and find the glitches in the maps. It sucked with no Voice chat but we made do.

  • @mahdifrag1
    @mahdifrag1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    background musics are so good man