For me it wasn't just a single game. It was the idea of getting my own computer that could actually run games. Thinking of all the amazing new games I was going to play and being able to ditch my old laptop that could barely run solitaire; but now that I have it gaming feels more empty than ever.
I'm having this idea as we speak, I'm getting a broken desktop soon and I'm hoping to fix it and have a fully working desktop to actually play games at a playable frame rate. I can run most xbox one VCR level games but at 720p but I have never experienced a game that was new and ran decently well. I'm getting the desktop from a friend which he just wants to give to me because it's been sitting in a box for years
This comment is so relatable it honestly hurts. Gaming was a big no for my parents and I played on a PlayStation 2 w/ a handful of games up until 2014(!). I remember myself drooling over gameplays of Minecraft, Rome II, Skyrim, MGS, CS and what not. A year later I got my first PC... for some reason, all the hype quickly became overwhelmingness and then disappointment, I'm not sure why. To this day gaming is fun, sure... but it's nothing compared to what I used to dream of as a kid.
As soon as I built my 3000 series PC it was like, whelp, what do I want to play? and then I didn't play anything. Complete switch flip. This seems to actually be a common thing. Personally, I hope VR will rekindle some of this magic.
same, upgraded from a laptop with GTX 850M to PC with R5 3600 + 1650S (later replaced with 6600xt). Expectedly, I have way more power to play with now, but aside from sinking tons of hours into Doom eternal and Warzone I don't know what to do and mostly play older, way less demanding games
The Metal Gear Solid 2 hype back then was INSANE. Also the funny thing is that the game was designed to mess with your expectations, the whole game is one giant mind fuck and literally couldn't have worked if the game wasn't that anticipated. I remember being dissapointed throughout the whole game not beeing able to play Snake - and that feeling was intentional. We'll literally never get a game like MGS 2 again, with the hype, marketing and expectations playing into the narrative of the game.
Funny part is now after putting 500 plus hours into mgs5, I'm kind of sick of snake/bigboss.... or weird clones/cosmetically altered and brainwashed look alikes ....
"the funny thing is that the game was designed to mess with your expectations" "Heh heh. They're going to think the game will actually be good, and star a character you actually like". = Hideo Kojima, subverting your £40 purchases since 2001.
@@Aggrobiscuit Raiden is a good character to me and I thoroughly love MGS2. May I ask why you dislike him? I know there's hate for him but I've not encountered it yet
@@andrewc2802 because during that era everything is about snake... Even the trailer is about snake only... (Everyone hate Raiden because we're not told by Kojima we will using new character)
For me, it was Halo 3. I remember seeing all the promotional materials and trailers and thinking how 'next generation' it all looked. When it first came out, I had the good fortune to play it every now and then at my friend's house but in a limited capacity. Those small servings of the game only fueled my imagine even more, building it up to such a high point. It seemed like the pinnacle of the modern FPS genre. About a year later, I got my own 360. Halo 3 and EA Skate were the first 2 games I owned on it. I immediately booted up Sandtrap as we always played a custom version with all items spawned at my friend's house. There were no bots or other players. Just me exploring that sandy, open map. It was glorious.
Same here, except I was stuck with PC only since my parents already spent so much on them they don’t have money for consoles. And by the time I had my own money, I’d already become too much of a PCMR purist and newfound MGS fan (buying a PS3 instead) to really bother. But I longed for Halo 3 on the PC since 2009 after owning Halo CE, watching Halo 2 Vista at my friend’s house and getting my first gaming rig. I only got to experience Halo 3 in its entirety for myself in 2020 when it came out with the MCC on Steam; well after I had given up hope in 2017 and 2018.
For me RIGHT NOW its halo 3 since I have a computer which can play games up to the 2010's but I don't have an old console and can't run the master chief collection
Playing Halo 3 at a family members house as a kid was unreal after watching so much footage of it while not owning an Xbox. My memory of playing it for the first time is so much grander than the game actually was because of my imagination.
My game funnily enough was TF2, watched youtubers play it for idk atleast 10 years, and never got the chance to play it as I never had a laptop or pc able to run it, up until a month ago where I finally got to try it out, and I can still remember the sheer ecstasy from trying it for the first time, and since then i've been non-stop enjoying it.
I was exactly the same, but when I get XBOX Live I played TF2 through there before I then played it on PC. There were some truly magical experiences from actually populated servers of tc_hydro
Hah, i also just been able to have my own setup to finally play tf2 at home hours on end as opposed to playing it on internet cafes, and as expected, it was still great time like before, but in the comfort of my own house.
Man just like you I have been unable to play tf2 for all of these years, watching TH-cam videos and seeing how people played. I did end up playing it sometime in 2017 or something in a borrowed laptop. I absolutely loved it. But now that I can play it in my own setup the matchmaking is absolutely destroyed, full of bots cheaters and tryhards that have been playing the game for years. I still remember my first experience with the game and how there was no problems in matchmaking back when I played it.
Same; I played HL1 a very long time ago (and played the the other Valve games in between), I've seen so much positive talk about HL2 for years, but only somehow came around to play it a couple of years ago, but it held up all expectations. Now the same thing repeats for HL:Alyx
Yeah when I finally got to hl2 in I wanna say 2017 it was a fine game just nothing special, I had such high expectations for it because I’d heard how good it was for years and it was just an okay game I remember talking about this in a different comment thread and someone said it was probably because of the time that I got to it because half life two was such a great game when it came out because it was unique for its time. I think I can see it with half life Alex because I actually know how good it is in terms of a vr game but it’ll probably be nothing special in a decade, it’s a weird one.
I still remember fantasizing about playing Crysis when it came out, how it felt like this completely out of reach futuristic experience. I remember as kid creating accounts on PC forums to ask if my measly family PC could run it only for my hopes and dreams to be crushed by cold blooded PC gamers. I finally bought the original PC version last year, so 14 years later and I still felt emotional when launching the game
Darn that makes two of us. Though i didn't see crysis as a otherwordly experience but something knowing that once i could run on a machine, would mean i reached the milestone of being able to run any game i want.
It took me years to find and play Luigi's Mansion. I heard so much praise about it but we never had a gamecube. I eventually just emulated it and it was a blast.
I avoided Luigi's mansion because everyone was mad at it not being a Mario platformer launch title. Turns out vocal gaming fandoms are stupid and it's a great game.
I have such a large list of "great games I really ought to play" along with movies, shows and books. And yet I still play the games I've already spent hundreds of hours in instead
I struggle with this a bit too. Not sure why something fun like playing a new game can cause such apprehension where you just retreat back to something comforting you know. It's meant to be a video game after all...not like you're avoiding work :D
I really appreciate these sorts of videos, Phillip. I thoroughly enjoy listening to the profound things you often have to say. Yes, it's nice to remember just how excited you'd get as a child over things. With games, my mind would fill in the blanks and at school I'd pretend that I was a giant warrior with a sword from Fable, fighting bandits with my friends. Or I remember being on holiday and pretending to battle the monsters from Crash of the Titans. I find people don't talk enough about the way they felt / how they imagined when they were children. Its a shame as I love reminiscing, remembering how I was and hearing other people's experiences. Another example was when I was 15 - 18. I was quite lonely, and would play this Garry's mod DayZ style gamemode for hours. I absolutely loved it. I would think about it all the time, the battles we'd get into, the bases we'd build etc. My life is objectively so much better now - things are going great for me in so many ways. But I do look back fondly to 2015 and 2016. The excitement I had for that game, the few friends I had at the time and the important people in my life. I enjoy gaming, and occasionally I'll encounter a game that takes over my brain (Enderal: Forgotten Stories occupied my mind heavily at the end of last year), but the limitless enthusiasm and constant imagination of childhood has lessened. That being said, I often daydream about Minecraft builds.
I am 25. When I started playing Garry's Mod and Minecraft in 2011 (around same time) I was 14 they became my favorite games for years to come. Playing on a Hungarian Minecraft server with all my friends, eagerly waiting for new Shadow of Israphel videos from Yogscast, then switching over to GMod and playing on HL2RP and CityRP servers was just such a fullfilling time of my life for me. Same goes for Skyrim, the atmosphere of that game captured my mind instanteniously. Though, the first game that ever captured me (though for a shorter period, since Gmod and MC I still play to this year), was WoW. I remember buying Vanilla and BC to find out that it was subscription-based which of course my parents wouldn't do just to have me play videogames instead of being with my family. After a while though I managed to get on private servers and it was fun for a while, but reading the back of the unfoldable velcro-tapes box of the original WoW CD even today still gives me a trip down memory lane.
@@2kliksphilip we pretty much share the same nostalgia and taste in video games, minus counterstrike, though I did play loads of it back in the day. Watching your videos is like watching my brain spill out from another person's skull.
@@hmark03 What I love about Minecraft is a young generation got to experience community servers for games, which was the way more people played online games in the old days, where internet speeds were slower so local servers were far more important, often with their own community, rules, culture and regulars. It was very much killed off by the official matchmakers lobby which was supposed to find the best servers for you, you had little to no choice in the matter and killed off so much customisation making every server the same.
When I saw Far Cry 1 for the first time on a brand new PC at my friends' house, I couldn't believe my eyes. That a computer was able to produce such graphics was beyond comprehension for me. At the time, I believed it was the future of gaming and that it wouldn't be able to be surpassed by anything, ever. That was as close to photorealistic you could get. Fastforward to -2012 wrong sorry- 2007 and Crysis came out and it started all over again.
The funny thing is, that Crysis actually pulled it of. You can find screenshots from that game that actually look photorealistic. Not every screenshot. Not all assets. But seeing the cherry picked ones say printed in a magazine... yeah, those were photos of jungle as far as I'm concerned.
I was 12 when MGS2 was released back then in Baghdad-Iraq...this was war years leading up to 2003 which caused me and my cousin to wait till I was 16 to play it on PC (pirated version)---it was so satisfactory to play it on Pentium 2 with a UPS after my cousin and I spent my 3 months worth of allowance to ration diesel for the mini-generator to boot up a pirated MGS2 on PC in Baghdad 2004. Damn good times sir.
ok but metal gear solid 2 is a fucking banger and my favorite of the series. It was pretty far ahead of its time both on story, but mainly the technology behind it,. It's really no wonder you thought of it as this grandiose thing. As for a game like this for me, it would have to be the original borderlands. I remember reading this one article about it in an xbox magazine and thinking it sounded so cool, only to have to wait years til i got a copy off a friend, playing it on a shitty laptop in a tiny resolution when i should have been paying attention in 8th grade. I think I only ever beat it once, because borderlands 2 was on the horizon and that took over my life in its place.
I had dreams of playing Duke Nukem Forever and when it came out it was the biggest disappointment i ever experienced. The released leak is better than whatever got officially released is supposed to be but still my dream has yet to become a reality.
I could only play N64 on the weekend because it was an hour away, at my mom's. I had to go to school at my dad's all week long just thinking about what was through the next star door in Mario 64... Where the next portal key could possibly be hidden behind the fog of Turok Dinosaur Hunter... And what was over Hyrule's next horizon. These painful weeks of waiting and wondering left my imagination flooded with possibilities. The experience was torturous at the time, but similar to your own explanation, left the games feeling more memorable, expansive, and perfect than any N64 game could ever achieve on their own.
I had the same thing happen with the Wii. I remember getting to play Wii Sports at a friend's place, but they didn't have a nunchuck, so I could never play boxing, which made it feel like an experience far greater that everything else the game had to offer. I remember getting really excited about the Wii version of Defend Your Castle, because I loved the flash game and the Wii version seemed like the future. My friend obviously didn't have the small indie game and I was left confused and disappointed as to how they could not have the most important Wii game of all.
Bro I had a wii for my entire childhood, I remember when the wii u and 3ds came out and begging my parents to get me them. I was so blinded by getting the new thing and playing new games that I kind of hated my wii.
I remember begging for a wii and saving up for a good long while (or what felt like it to an elementary schooler) before finally getting one. It was glorious
I got a little annoyed when he kept saying the game was rubbish, like who knew setting high expectations for yourself will always lead to disappointment. And then he judges mgs3 but it’s trailers, so yea I don’t really like this video lol
@@notpea I’ll do you one better: MGS1 (PS1 version) is the best in the series in terms of story, because the guy who translated it changed Kojima’s dialogue (which Kojima didn’t like) so that it didn’t sound so batsh!t ridiculous to a western audience. Ever since then, every MGS game has a more 1:1 translation of Kojima’s scripts. The result? Riveting lines like, “They played us like a damn fiddle!!!” 🙄
This is EXACTLY what happened to me when MGS came out!! I was 14 and already beaten MGS1 but there's no way I could afford a PS2 and a lot of my time was spent imagining the game, running in the rain on building rooftops in real life, drawing sketches of Snake etc although I never had any footage to replay, just a demo I saw at a store. About a couple years later I finally got a PS2 and to be honest, the game actually exceeded my expectations especially in terms of the themes and subtext, which at the time I had a feeling it was presenting in spades. I'm purely guessing here, but perhaps your slight disappointment with the game must have came by playing the PC port, which was utterly horrendous with so many missing stuff from the PS2 and broken controls and presentation. It's funny that as a kid, I saw MGS2 was touching upon real-life internet issues due to the rise of forums and such but I had no idea that it will actually happen (Cambridge Analytica scandal etc). I feel somewhat bad for the Twitch streamers that play this game for the first time while drunk or reading up chats without actually trying to absorb the game's messages as I think it's one of those extremely rare games that offer a paradigm shift in the way you can view the world and that itself, like our imaginations as children, is priceless.
In 2001 the story seemed absolutely batty off the wall ridiculous hyper pretentious Sci Fi. A few years later it started to make sense with fast internet spreading everywhere. By the 2010s is was totally believable.
It was GTA V for me. I can't even remember the amount of times I've watched the first trailer while waiting for the game. I probably watched it everyday. I remember even downloading some sketchy .exe files on my mom's laptop because it said I could play a beta version of GTA V lol. I didn't have a PS3 or PS4 or a good enough to PC to play it until 2017. I have around a thousand hours in game now and I've 100% it and done almost everything online lol. I'm so sick of the game now but damn, I really do remember a time like how you described in the video. Imagining what I would do when I finally got the game, etc. lol
Dude I just commented basically the same as you a day later. It makes me happy to know that out there somewhere, someone I don't know, had the exact same experience with something so specific and personal to me.
Same. Back in '16 I had the pc, BUT only 4GB ram, 2x1.7GHZ and a 820Mobile. Had like 5FPS, yet I played hundreds of hours. But funnily enough all games I play right now could run on that old machine...
GTA V was that game for me too. I vividly remember watching the trailer on the day I started middle school (2011). I was hyped for months after that but I eventually lost interest because it would be launched only in 2013 for consoles and then in 2015 for PC when I entered high school.
MGS 2 is probably one of the worst ones, right down there with The Phantom Pain (but for different reasons obviously) if I would have to rank my 3 favorite MGS games, it'd be MGS 3 MGS 1 MGS 4 also Peace Walker is cool I guess
@@Mate_Antal_Zoltan Phantom Pain is definitely not one of the worst MGS games. Story wise, it's definitely lacking but for gameplay, I'd argue it's one of the best. It's definitely the least janky controlled MGS game. I'd rank it MGS 3 > MGS TPP > MGS 2 > MGS 1 > MGS PW > MGS PO > MG1/MG2 (only because ive never played it and have no plans to lol)
@@yungjoshx yeah, that's what I meant by different reasons the story is good in 2, but the gameplay is meh the story in TPP just doesn't even exist, but the gameplay is the best in the series
Facts, if he had played MGS2 when it came out like many of us did at a similar age the game would’ve probably blown his mind. Definitely a game far ahead of its time.
Mgs1 changed my life, and mgs2 changed gaming as a whole, even if 3 is more popular 2 did a lot of things first and in better ways. People were just pissed you played a snake only for a short while, the game is a masterpiece.
Excellent video, I can relate to this so much. I definitely have enjoyed watching videos of and reading about games just as much as I have played them.
I remember when I was around 12 and found out about Doom through various youtube videos and how it was 'one of the greatest shooters ever made' and how the modding scene for it was (and still is) amazing, 12 year old me thought it sounded amazing but when I asked my mum to get it for me she said no because she remembered how it gave her brother nightmares (back when it first came out), I tried reasoning but they wouldn't listen so I just went back to watching videos, then after a few months I realised I could just download it (for free so it didn't appear on my dad's steam account which we shared at the time) and play it anyway, didn't have nightmares but definitely had a great time (and I ended up buying it a few years later)
I have a similar story with doom, I was 4 yo when doom came out, so I would only watch my dad play it, it was one of the most horrifying experiences ever, I always hated games that tried to scare you and I was already afraid of a few games because my dad used to play Alone in the Dark 1, so I never really played doom back in the day, especially because so many other games like duke nukem, tomb raider and quake came out so fast. So, flashforward to 2018 and my GPU died out of nowhere and I had no money to get another and I got stuck with the intel graphics of my pentium, so I was reading a thread on 4chan and someone mentioned brutal doom and I was "oh yeah, I never really played doom besides a few levels of the shareware I should give that a try since I can't play anything else" and man I rediscovered my love for shooters that have been dead for a while because of all the CoDs and Battlefields souless clones.
When I was three years old, and we were visiting relatives in Guernsey, my brother got really sick with his asthma. It was serious enough that we had to go to hospital, and I had to sit in the waiting room for quite a long time. Since we were in the childrens section, they had a small games area which had a mysterious, unknown games console with this cool, vibrant looking game! There was a castle, and enemies, fun music and this big long staircase that went down to a door, and you jumped into the wall like it was made of water! I was mostly watching someone else play but I was captivated. I had such vivid memories of this game but I had no idea what it was, even though I knew I wanted to play it. Fast forward to the final day of the final year of primary school. I'm 11 years old, and I'm talking to my friends one last time before we all go our separate ways. Max(?) had his DS with him (we were allowed since it was final day) and he was playing some games. Then suddenly he puts in this game and that's it! THATS THE GAME! I've been holding these memories in my brain for 8 years, thinking of it every so often, always wondering what the game was and imagining how cool it would be to play it... I ask Max what the game is, and he tells me it's Super Mario 64 (the DS version of course) and I'm so happy I start tearing up a bit. Even now I really feel moved because of how long that memory had stayed with me. I've told this story a few times before and people will often look at me funny and ask why I'm so dramatic or say that's a bit much, but fuck them, this game (and my memory of it) meant so much to me and it made me so happy. I obviously went on to obtain the game for my DS a few years later and play it a tonne, loving every second of it. It's a rare "it was better than my memory" experience, though that's probably to be expected with a game like SM64. I've had other experiences like what you've described in this video, but nothing has come close to this absolute treasure of a childhood memory.
I kinda had the same aspirational feelings about Star Citizen. I remember in high school I would talk to my friends about it and how none of our computers would be able to run it when it would come out. I had a 550ti and an fx4100 then. A couple of years later the game still had the same aspirational status but it became apparent to us that it wasn't coming out any time soon. I joked about how it wouldn't come out until I graduated college. I had a 7970 and an fx8150 then. A couple of years later I was in college and building a new pc from scratch. Gone was the bulldozer platform in favor of the 7700k and I was on the 980. I thought to myself that I finally have a system that can probably do 60 fps with alright settings in 1080p when the game drops in a year or 2. Fast forward to today, I graduated in May, my system is now a 9900k and a 3080 and sometimes I catch myself daydreaming about what Star Citizen could have been.
Problem is not in old age, really. Just do not fell for hype culture. Do not read reviews, ratings, trailers. An overabundance of information causes subconscious fatigue, even if you have not played the game directly. The less expectations, the more impressions, surprises and discoveries
I just don't get the same dopamine rush anymore as I used to. I remember just being excited to go home just to play MGS3, a game I've played over and over and over but now I don't even get excited to play unless it's with friends
Love your videos, no other TH-camr quite makes videos that can relate to my childhood as much as you do. This and the video about command and conquer special to me
I remember when Far Cry 3 first released in 2012, I wanted to play it so bad that I can't even describe how many times I've watched and rewatched all the reviews, TH-cam videos and gameplay of it. This lasted until 2016, when I actually did get the game, but didn't get far. Then I actually beat it last year. It felt great to finally tie that loose end that has stuck with me for 9 years. Another game that I also couldn't get for a while was Grand Theft Auto V. I did the same thing I did for Far Cry, but when I did finally get the game not that long after, I played it to death with my friends Online and even beat the Story Mode when my internet was off and had nothing else to do. I'm so glad that someone else also has a game like that, where they wanted to play it badly but couldn't. Thank you so much Philip. Bless.
for me its GTA V, I was 11 when it came out and really wanted to play it, I would watch livestreams of othersers playing it when it launched and it seemed like this wonderful game of infinite possibilities. Unfortunately my parents deemed I was too young to play it, I would hear my dad play it on the xbox 360 at night, I could only imagine the amazing things he was doing. It was so close yet so far. All I had of my own to game on at the time was an android tablet, I would play GTA clones and search up 'GTA V android' on youtube trying to find some way of playing it but of course these were all scams or jokes. Even some of my friends at school were allowed to play it, I often pretended I was allowed to as well, I'd scramble to make some vague answer whenever I was asked what my favourite mission was. We'd play GTA on the playground and argue other who would be which character, but of course I had no idea who they where. It was only a couple of years later when I bought my own PS3 at my mum's house and she FINALLY let me play it. Admittedly, it was one a lot of fun, but when I finally got to play it, a lot of the mystique of the open world environment faded, it quickly became predictable and stale. I turn 20 next month and part of me still hopes that GTA VI will be the game that 11 year old me thought GTA V would be.
I had a similar experience with GTA myself, 4 and 5. I always loved watching Rooster Teeth/Lets Play do their GTA shenanigans, and that was the most appealing part of the game to me, while I didn't have it. I watched it for years, and while eventually I did end up getting the game, I lost interest in it rather quickly, because I didn't have a large enough group to just do those random things with, and my own mind wasn't creative enough to come up with those ideas when I did get to play it with friends. It was still a neat game for what it was I suppose, but it did make me realize that the game itself wasn't exactly what I was hoping for, especially without a community to play it with.
For me wind waker was my dream game that i watched playthroughs of over and over, and i love it to bits. Its by no means perfect and when i was finally able to play it, it was certainly different than the image of it i had created, but it makes me feel warm and fuzzy every time i start it up. Since then i've replayed it a couple times and i still love it very much.
I remember buying a magazine that came with the complete guide for mgs2. I must have read it front to back like 10 times. I finally played it close to 5 years later (which for a teenager is half a life), with the whole story spoiled and accompanied by a worn out booklet guide. The good old days.
For me this game was Turok: Dinosaur Hunter. My neighbors had a "graphics card" (Voodoo) and this was beyond the realm of what we could afford. I dreamt of buying a Voodoo Banshee and I never did. First graphics card was a Rendition Verite, and the first game I played was Lego Racers. Best experience ever.
For me it was Prince of Persia, I used to run around in school trying to climb pillars jumping from ledges and even attempting to wall run but I could only do two steps 😅 those were the days, no modern game can ever replace that feeling no matter how good...
No way in hell im missing the days where all my friends gather to talk about their next gen console games.. and im standing there just listening and imagining how perfect these new games must be Im grateful i can play RE4 in freaking VR now. 15yo me would never believe current me if told him that i will be fighting those monsters in person someday in a futuristic wireless console
@@ando2421 It was a good video and a lot of the things Philip talked about, I related to with games like WoW: wratch+cataclysm expansions, and cod, and csgo updates now. For me, the game that I never got to play but had fond memories of hoping to one day play it was diablo 2. I grew up watching my uncle play it, and even a friend who was allowed to have it and play it. Good memories for me to hold dear, and still a good video by mr tuber man
I felt the same for many games: Rome Total War 1 & 2, Empire Total War, Red Alert 3, Assassins Creed 3, etc. And that last part of the video really struck my soul, almost made me cry. Great video mate
Mgs 1 and 2, and then 3 when it came out, were the most defining game of my childhood. I got both 1 and 2 at the same time in 2001 when I was 6 (got them from a friend as I wouldn't have been allowed them at such an age). I was utterly obsessed and engrossed. I was so, so excited for mgs3. I used to sneak around the house and I'd sing/hum the MGS2 opening theme endlessly. That theme is so fucking epic.
this video hits hard 💀 i literally just got MGS2 after years of thinking it was amazing and after finishing the first boss i just closed it and went back to playing Smash Ultimate lol
@@c6m bruh. Breaking bad is great. But i kinda understand you, i watched first two seasons, was super bored, then watched the rest 3 years later. Maybe i just grew up to be able to watch this or first 2 seasons really suck but now i think that BB is the greatest show of all time. Just give it a try. Or start with Better call saul, this is a spin off, very logical one though so you are able to get very unique experience - watch BCS first and then BB, unlike millions like me.
For me, I never really had a concept of "new stuff" when it came to video games because I just had what my uncle left me and that was that. I guess the best contender would be Timesplitters: Future Perfect, not because I never played it, but because I couldn't finish it. I relied heavily on my dad carrying me to the finish line for most of the levels, and when he was at work or not wanting to play, I couldn't get past the later levels no matter how hard I tried. So to make up for this I would replay the earlier levels over and over with friends or alone, and I would play multiplayer just to see all the guns and characters that I would eventually get to see. I ended up building up this idea of a long, expensive, massive game because I spent so much time exploring every bit I could access several times over to make up for what I couldn't get to.
This was me for my first desktop, my first 3D printer, and studying away from home. Always so obsessed but once I got them I realised the hours of researching and watching online video reviews were actually what were kept me so hooked. I’m currently having that desire phase for the oculus quest but I have a feeling it’ll become dull if I somehow am able to get it one day
For me it was Bug's Life N64. My N64 broke 1 day before I got the game, and because every game I played on the N64 was amazing I expected nothing less from Bug's Life n64 (lol). We couldn't afford to fix the console, so I spent a thousand hours looking at the game's manuals, box, cartridge, I tried drawing the game, me and friends imagined the gameplay, I had dreams about the game even (the movie was popular). Well, years later, I can only say that it was the worst game I got to play on the N64.
My first thought after your intro was back to all the cereal box PC game demos I used to play. There was a toy story game that I remember replaying the demo of what must have been hundred, or even thousands of times. I never got to play the full game, but I spent endless time dreaming, imagining what the rest of the game would have been like and what incredible things awaited me. In my imagination, the game could transcend any limitations gaming technology had at the time. Eventually another cereal box game demo would grab my attention and the cycle would repeat. In the end I don't think I ever ended up playing one of the full games, but I did watch a bit of gameplay of the toy story game, and was what I can only describe as: "whelmed"
I had always fantasized about playing Halo, but wasn’t allowed to because it was rated M. It must have been like 7 or 8 years I fantasized about it. When I was finally able to play it with Halo 3, it was almost better than I imagined it to be. The social memories are what still stick with me today, meeting interesting people playing custom gametypes late into the night. I still play it every now and again to remember the good old days. . Also, sorry to hear you didn’t like MGS2. I had pretty much the opposite experience as you. I’m a bit younger than you and had always heard it was the “weird one” in the series, but when I finally played it about 10 years after release, it blew me away. It is easily my favorite game of all time.
It feels weird to have the same memory has you, but I did have the PS2 and I did play the game when it came out. The demo bundled with ZOE, is something I've played more than most games I've ever bought. Actually that demo might have been the perfect video game to me after seeing that VHS tape. I think it's a damn shame that some of the gaming experiences kids have now are ones based on an industry that learned how to be effective at making money and following trends. MGS2 broke the mould hard, I'll always give it respect for that. Despite MGS2's flaws and perhaps not what I wanted it to be in the end, there's just...nothing like it even today. And I played it basically daily, I even sent a video of MGS2 gameplay to PSMS2 magazine and they featured it on the DVD, I still have it. PSM2 was a banging magazine, I got a star letter once and never got sent a game though...bastards lol.
Which issue? I still have a bunch of them, both OPSM and PSM2. The most popular segment was perhaps 'Goal Of The Month', especially during the PS1 era. They'd always use the same music track for those compilations, which I suspect was produced through Music 2000. The issues released in Portugal featured the same demos and competition submissions as the original U.K publication, but with PSM2 we could finally send our "masterful plays" - - amateur when compared to today's speedruns... One of my friends from school owned Metal Gear Solid, which - as you know - sported an amazing PAL cover. It got me intrigued, although he never booted the game when we'd go to his house, during lunchbreaks. This would've been around March 2002. Around that time, I got a MGS2 poster (Snake aiming at the viewer). It was bundled with another magazine that covered all systems. It stood right above my head for many-a-nights, not even knowing this guy's name! Then, around '04, someone sent their Boss Survival video to PSM2! At last! I've witnessed this damn game running, rolling and blowing my mind! It was much more whimsical than the screenshots lead on. It was still "cool" aesthetically but goofy and loose in delivery. And by that point Snake Eater was around a really sharp corner, so I knew how much I was missing out by having just a Dreamcast. But all those amazing PS2 exclusives didn't eclipse my interest and enthusiasm from all the amazing stuff going on concurrently: the GBA, for example. In fact, I was relieved the industry kept making 2D games! Such was the magic of that era, with an absurd variety of genres and ways to enjoy them, by borrowing, renting, even trading at times. There was no excuse for not maintaining a balanced diet to explore such a vast ecosystem.
I often feel the first levels of games are perfect video games. They are fun, educational and simple. After that they get more complicated, frustrating and most players stop playing after they stop having fun.
I bought lemmings 3D when I was a kid, and I was so excited to see how the third dimension would transform the fun game of lemmings into something amazing. I could never get the game to run out our PC, so my imagination turned lemmings 3d into some kind of elusive masterpiece that the universe wouldn't let me enjoy. I forgot about this for years, then I saw some footage of lemmings 3D and it looks horrible to control with the early 3D camera. My metal gear solid 2 is lemmings 3D.
Wow the feeling of reading the manual in the car on the way back from a trip to the store... What a memory you have brought back hahaha. It's not quite the same with Prime and getting it same day (not that I'm complaining) but there really was something so exciting about reading the manual and hyping yourself up before you finally got home.
I felt this way with Elden Ring, when it was first announced in 2018 I was insanely excited. I'd imagine being a knight traversing a beautiful landscape fighting baddies and learning about the ruins of the world, I imagined my character grappling with the torment of being cursed and coming to terms with it, I wondered what weapon I would use and I wanted to dual wield a sword and spear just like I did in Dark Souls II. But when Elden Ring finally came out I started up a play-through and got past the first big boss, then I began losing interest and realized that what I wanted Elden Ring to be, was quite different from what it was. But maybe one day, your game that you imagined and the version of Elden Ring that I imagined, perhaps something like them will come to fruition.
Funny, I had a similar experience with MGS:3. Having only played Smash Bros Brawl, I was addicted to this 'Solid Snake' character I idealised so much. So when I saw this game, so new that it seemed, not even occurring to me that MGS:4 had already been released, I desperately wanted to play it. I never would. Not for years. Fast forward to this Summer and I've finally decided to play the MGS games. I bought the PC version of 1, and emulated 2 (it was alright). And then I played 3. It was nothing like the game I had in my head, but it was beautiful. The story was incredible. But I won't sit here and play it constantly for years on end. Now, I move on to 4, then Rising or Peace Walker, and finally V. I might even get Survive and Portable Ops. A wonder, what the young mind can do to make us fantasise things we've never seen.
@@GhostIMGS my PC is fairly high end, but I already see what you mean... audio glitches galore. Hopefully fixed by now. Maybe someday you'll be able to enjoy it as well :)
For me it was vanilla wow. I missed out on it by starting wow when the burning crusade was out and realising that I missed out on the initial meta of the game. I thought that i could never experience the original version of the game for years until i found out that private servers were running a reversed engineered version of the original game. Despite the servers being buggy and laggy I had a lot of fun and by the time classic wow actually came out I had already burned myself out on that game.
Vanilla WoW was an experience that was entirely shaped by how broken it was and by how hard to was to find information online back then. Half the things you read in forums and comments were false information so insanely unreliable. Classic WoW is a very refined game with masses of changes and fixes but more importantly, lost the naive explorers in a new world, to be replaced by sweaty raiders and speedrunners.
@@cattysplat I don't think minmaxing is a bad to a certain extent but there's so much negativity that comes with meaningless shit. Spending 2 hours getting world buffs to shave off maybe 10, 15 minutes in a raid is insane and whatever bs explanation rls give you is just them being influenced by the 'pros'. It's kinda sad how everyone is forced to do shit they're not interested in when playing or they won't experience the raid content. Knowing the best items for your class is fine. You can happily chip away at bis dungeons and quests and what not. But the chores that they thankfully removed that a tiny percentage of the community insists on could really fuck off- along with not allowing class variety because 3% dps matters in their mind. I just don't get where the negativity comes from in the community, some people are set off by hair triggers, more often than not due to their own lack of due dilligence about meaningless pixels
I remember I made up my idea of what Star Wars Battlefront 3 should be in my mind for so long. I would tell my friend about it but pretend it was actually what they were going to make. Think I was like 7 or 8 at the time. I would daydream in class or on the toilet thinking of how amazing it would be. I would do this after playing CoD4 and thinking how a game like that could be improved, essentially the perfect modern military shooter. Most of my ideas for that actually made it into Battlefield 3 much to my delight.
What a masterpiece of a video! I can 100% relate to this. Nowdays you can play all the games on fantastic hardware, but what is it worth when the child-like enthusiasm and will is gone. I always feel like i missed out in my childhood - i should've played more games.
As a 20-something year old when MGS2 came out I was somewhat disappointed because all I wanted was more MGS1. The story seemed so pretentious, esoteric and absurd. It wasn’t until 20 years later that I’ve fully come to appreciate everything about this game.
I am a huge metal gear fan, my favorite game series of all time hands down so I feel you on that, I also felt that same pain lol. I ended up with a GameCube a few years later and got to play the twin snakes remake and it blew my mind. Eventually got to play 2 but never felt the same as when I wanted to play it though still a great game. I remember first being introduced to it through my best friend Frankie at the time, he was already at metal gear and Grey fox scene end game. He was telling me how the games so crazy and let me borrow it and that's when my love first started.watching that scene though I'll never forget it and still one of my favorite ga,e memories of all time.
I've felt the same thing with the HALF LIFE 2 tech demo from E3 2003. It took me a couple of years to get a new pc and finally play it. It was great, but nothing compared to the excitement I felt after seeing that tech demo on a game store tv that played different trailers in a loop. I stood there for 3 hours just so I can watch it again.
Core memory of mine is throwing toilets at each other in HL2 Deathmatch with the gravity gun. That was so insanely fun and I don't think physics in games has really been bettered in terms of fun gameplay.
I can so relate to reading the cover before getting home. Back then I bought the Batman Arkham Games, and only had a ps3, so my mum and I went out and with a little begging I got it. The walk back from gamestop is so awesome. So hyped to play it, reading the back of the case, reading the cover. It's such an awesome feeling that I will probably never feel again :(
Call of duty 2. I remember downloading the demo whenever I was home alone since my parents didn't let me play war games haha. I probably played that demo mission 100 times before I actually got the game. I would rewatch the trailer on the xbox game store over and over and tell all my friends in school how good that game was. I still play it maybe twice a year just to relive some nostalgia
I was only 2 when this game was coming out. I wasn't a huge metal gear fan until about 2013 when my favorite youtuber at the time had mentioned it. So I HAD to play all of them. I was only able to get MGS2 to emulate properly and I played it from start to finish. It is a great game. Got me through rough times.
Only just discovered your channel but you have a gift for for making entertaining, thoughtful content which doesn't fit in any particular category. Very unique voice/character. This video especially taps into something I'm sure a lot of us relate to. Quite poignant in a way. Also, I hope the cat in the footage of young Philip is the same one in your recent RTX 4090 videos!
A lot of games passed my mind through that intro, each feeling closer to *my* best game I never played, then as soon as Bubble Bobble appeared all of those thoughts pissed off immediately. I'm not sure if it was the unexpectedness of seeing Bubble Bobble on a kliksphilip video or remember Bubble Bobble was my game to play when I didn't have that game I never played. I suppose ironically that makes my memory of that time waiting even stronger. love u
I recently played all the mgs games and I have to say they are some of the best games I've ever played. And i know understand all the praises older people on the internet give it.
This video says more about nostalgia than any other piece of media I've seen. It really explores a great abstract concept that I think most of us go through, and I think it shows that when you're in charge of an IP, you're not just managing the actual content of the series itself but also the concept and collective "aura" of all of it that people have. The first game that came to mind when watching this was Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3. While Smash Bros Brawl had already come out and there wouldn't be another for years, MvC was a brand new crossover with so many cool characters from revered franchises. I was so excited to learn that Phoenix Wright was being added and the few months before its release felt so much longer than they actually were. The day after my eleventh birthday, they finally showed a trailer of what he would look like in action and it was every bit as glorious seeing one of my characters not only fighting, but for the first time in full, voice-acted 3D. I only had a Wii at the time, but when I eventually did play the game years later, it was just as amazing as I hoped.
That absolutely ENORMOUS jump in graphical fidelity during Y2K (PS1 to PS2, OG Xbox, Gamecube) was insane. I don't think we'll ever experience that kind of optimistic technological leap of progress again. I think the promotional material for MGS2 perfectly encapsulates that era. I was too young for MGS, but having only played PS1 games like Rayman at the time, and suddenly seeing what looked like perfect 3D in games like Ratchet and Clank, SSX, and Madden, I couldn't imagine how games could look better than that. Ironically, now I'm kinda dreading new technology since it seems to be pushing us in the wrong direction societally.
That game was MGS4 for me. After seeing the E3 2013 video of MGSV and falling love with it, I also somehow saw the opening cutscene (War has changed) of MGS4. I was 11 at the time and had never seen a game that cinematic, granted I had played only a handful of games up to that point. Over the years, I would watch that opening on YT countless times but never had a chance to play it since I didn't have a PS3. About two years ago when MGS1 and 2 came out on GOG, I figured I'd start the series (excluding MGSV since I had finished it prior). I also played MGS3 on PCSX2 and only MGS4 was left. At the time, I was planning on getting a PS5 and was hoping that MGS4 would be released on it. So I started to wait, again. Then one day I watched a Scott the Woz video (can't really remember which one) and later asked myself "What I am waiting for?" so I bought a used PS3 on July 3, 2021. When that opening cutscene started to play I burst into tears. Finally, after all those years I would be playing the almighty MGS4. I remember finishing the last three chapters on one day, after which i felt as if an age was finally over. I doubt I will ever crave playing a game so much as I had craved for MGS4.
Ahhh, Assassins Creed 2. My dads friends gave him a copy of it for PC, but it was already linked to his ubisoft account so I couldn’t play it. Instead I spent years reading the manual, imagining how great it would be, until finally Dad got us a secondhand PS3 and bought me Assassins Creed 1. Played through it and thoroughly enjoyed it, then he got me AC2 and my mind was blown. Then, we found a loophole in the return policy of the local game store: No questions asked full refunds of any purchase in the last week. I would only be at my dads in the weekend, so from that point on, every weekend we would by and return the next Assassins Creed title, until I finally got to the newly released AC rogue. It was an amazing few weeks. Years later, when I was nearing the end of highschool and had a weekend job, I went back to that same game store and bought all the assassins creed games Id previously bought and returned. Since then I’ve finished all of them at least twice, most of them i’ve finished more than that. The nostalgia within those games for me is unreal.
Mine was early days WoW, but wasn't allowed as my parents essentially thought subscriptions were a terrible idea. What added fuel to the fire was the WoW south park episode, it ironically made me utterly insane to try and play. I played it a lot when I got older but it feels like I've missed being a part of a really close community.
I've had this with almost everything i've enjoyed and still do with things that don't exist, it's gotten to the point where i enjoy things that don't exist more than those that do, which is why i'm trying to work on making those things real one day one way or another
For me it was No Man's Sky. I remember hearing about the hype for that game around it's launch. But I didn't have a PC fast enough to run that game until a few years later. It's a good thing too because my first experience actually playing it wasn't until after Hello Games improved it a lot.
Being a bit younger my perfect games existed as game trailers on the PS2 demo discs. I remember Jack and Daxter was probably my favorite game I never played. Many years later I bought most of these games second hand and finally got to play them
I had the same situation with Metal Gear Solid, I owned the Demo 1 disc with the MGS trailer on it, I played it back so many times, same as you, imagining how cool this game must be, to me the music of the trailer is still giving me goosebumps and oh my the scene at the end where the whole complex is blown up by c4, and it was all planted by the player, god like
I've played it when I was 16 years old, when it came out, changed my vision about games as an art, and I still think it's one of the best games ever made. The soundtrack makes me get goosebumps every single time I heard it, even today.
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For me it wasn't just a single game. It was the idea of getting my own computer that could actually run games. Thinking of all the amazing new games I was going to play and being able to ditch my old laptop that could barely run solitaire; but now that I have it gaming feels more empty than ever.
I'm having this idea as we speak, I'm getting a broken desktop soon and I'm hoping to fix it and have a fully working desktop to actually play games at a playable frame rate.
I can run most xbox one VCR level games but at 720p but I have never experienced a game that was new and ran decently well.
I'm getting the desktop from a friend which he just wants to give to me because it's been sitting in a box for years
I just play one game at a time, otherwise I get overwhelmed with too many games and get burnt out
This comment is so relatable it honestly hurts. Gaming was a big no for my parents and I played on a PlayStation 2 w/ a handful of games up until 2014(!). I remember myself drooling over gameplays of Minecraft, Rome II, Skyrim, MGS, CS and what not. A year later I got my first PC... for some reason, all the hype quickly became overwhelmingness and then disappointment, I'm not sure why. To this day gaming is fun, sure... but it's nothing compared to what I used to dream of as a kid.
As soon as I built my 3000 series PC it was like, whelp, what do I want to play? and then I didn't play anything. Complete switch flip.
This seems to actually be a common thing.
Personally, I hope VR will rekindle some of this magic.
same, upgraded from a laptop with GTX 850M to PC with R5 3600 + 1650S (later replaced with 6600xt). Expectedly, I have way more power to play with now, but aside from sinking tons of hours into Doom eternal and Warzone I don't know what to do and mostly play older, way less demanding games
The Metal Gear Solid 2 hype back then was INSANE. Also the funny thing is that the game was designed to mess with your expectations, the whole game is one giant mind fuck and literally couldn't have worked if the game wasn't that anticipated. I remember being dissapointed throughout the whole game not beeing able to play Snake - and that feeling was intentional. We'll literally never get a game like MGS 2 again, with the hype, marketing and expectations playing into the narrative of the game.
Funny part is now after putting 500 plus hours into mgs5, I'm kind of sick of snake/bigboss.... or weird clones/cosmetically altered and brainwashed look alikes ....
"the funny thing is that the game was designed to mess with your expectations"
"Heh heh. They're going to think the game will actually be good, and star a character you actually like". = Hideo Kojima, subverting your £40 purchases since 2001.
@@Aggrobiscuit Raiden is a good character to me and I thoroughly love MGS2. May I ask why you dislike him? I know there's hate for him but I've not encountered it yet
@@andrewc2802 because during that era everything is about snake... Even the trailer is about snake only... (Everyone hate Raiden because we're not told by Kojima we will using new character)
Even during the first scene in Raiden part is like MGS 1... So yeah everyone during that era hate Raiden because we're getting trolled by Kojima
For me, it was Halo 3. I remember seeing all the promotional materials and trailers and thinking how 'next generation' it all looked. When it first came out, I had the good fortune to play it every now and then at my friend's house but in a limited capacity. Those small servings of the game only fueled my imagine even more, building it up to such a high point. It seemed like the pinnacle of the modern FPS genre.
About a year later, I got my own 360. Halo 3 and EA Skate were the first 2 games I owned on it. I immediately booted up Sandtrap as we always played a custom version with all items spawned at my friend's house. There were no bots or other players. Just me exploring that sandy, open map. It was glorious.
Sandtrap. A favorite map of mine that my two younger siblings and play and fool around on.
Same here, except I was stuck with PC only since my parents already spent so much on them they don’t have money for consoles. And by the time I had my own money, I’d already become too much of a PCMR purist and newfound MGS fan (buying a PS3 instead) to really bother.
But I longed for Halo 3 on the PC since 2009 after owning Halo CE, watching Halo 2 Vista at my friend’s house and getting my first gaming rig. I only got to experience Halo 3 in its entirety for myself in 2020 when it came out with the MCC on Steam; well after I had given up hope in 2017 and 2018.
For me RIGHT NOW its halo 3 since I have a computer which can play games up to the 2010's but I don't have an old console and can't run the master chief collection
Playing Halo 3 at a family members house as a kid was unreal after watching so much footage of it while not owning an Xbox. My memory of playing it for the first time is so much grander than the game actually was because of my imagination.
Halo 3 was the only game that lived up to all my expectations as a wide eyed 9-year-old. God, those were the days.
My game funnily enough was TF2, watched youtubers play it for idk atleast 10 years, and never got the chance to play it as I never had a laptop or pc able to run it, up until a month ago where I finally got to try it out, and I can still remember the sheer ecstasy from trying it for the first time, and since then i've been non-stop enjoying it.
Welcome to the family
That's interesting. Did you already do your first rocketjumps? And if yes is it hard or easy since you watched so much footage all those years before?
I was exactly the same, but when I get XBOX Live I played TF2 through there before I then played it on PC. There were some truly magical experiences from actually populated servers of tc_hydro
Hah, i also just been able to have my own setup to finally play tf2 at home hours on end as opposed to playing it on internet cafes, and as expected, it was still great time like before, but in the comfort of my own house.
Man just like you I have been unable to play tf2 for all of these years, watching TH-cam videos and seeing how people played. I did end up playing it sometime in 2017 or something in a borrowed laptop. I absolutely loved it. But now that I can play it in my own setup the matchmaking is absolutely destroyed, full of bots cheaters and tryhards that have been playing the game for years. I still remember my first experience with the game and how there was no problems in matchmaking back when I played it.
14 years before I managed to play HL2.
Praise be to Gaben.
Same. Played hl2 first time on 2015 bc i was using netbook and just bought the same on 2015 summer sale, basically whole valve for $5
Same; I played HL1 a very long time ago (and played the the other Valve games in between), I've seen so much positive talk about HL2 for years, but only somehow came around to play it a couple of years ago, but it held up all expectations. Now the same thing repeats for HL:Alyx
Yeah when I finally got to hl2 in I wanna say 2017 it was a fine game just nothing special, I had such high expectations for it because I’d heard how good it was for years and it was just an okay game I remember talking about this in a different comment thread and someone said it was probably because of the time that I got to it because half life two was such a great game when it came out because it was unique for its time. I think I can see it with half life Alex because I actually know how good it is in terms of a vr game but it’ll probably be nothing special in a decade, it’s a weird one.
@@Skinned_fried_n_cut_up_potato that's how trend setting works.
You set the trend and everyone follows, eventually burying the setter.
That's life.
14 year old me: "Wow, that was awesome! I can't wait for episode 3!"
29 year old me: Oh, Half-Life. I remember that name.
I still remember fantasizing about playing Crysis when it came out, how it felt like this completely out of reach futuristic experience. I remember as kid creating accounts on PC forums to ask if my measly family PC could run it only for my hopes and dreams to be crushed by cold blooded PC gamers. I finally bought the original PC version last year, so 14 years later and I still felt emotional when launching the game
Did you buy ... the Remastered version tho?
@@raresmacovei8382 of course not that would have been heresy
Darn that makes two of us. Though i didn't see crysis as a otherwordly experience but something knowing that once i could run on a machine, would mean i reached the milestone of being able to run any game i want.
It took me years to find and play Luigi's Mansion. I heard so much praise about it but we never had a gamecube. I eventually just emulated it and it was a blast.
Mine was Luigi’s mansion as well. My older cousin ended up having a gamecube that he barely used, so that’s how I finally got to play it.
Get out of here, this instant.
I avoided Luigi's mansion because everyone was mad at it not being a Mario platformer launch title. Turns out vocal gaming fandoms are stupid and it's a great game.
I have such a large list of "great games I really ought to play" along with movies, shows and books. And yet I still play the games I've already spent hundreds of hours in instead
Same except the main reason for not playing/watching them is mostly money 🥲
@@blackoutlol2857 piracy lol
@@blackoutlol2857 FG repacks.
I struggle with this a bit too. Not sure why something fun like playing a new game can cause such apprehension where you just retreat back to something comforting you know. It's meant to be a video game after all...not like you're avoiding work :D
Especially when nostalgia hits hard. I keep coming back to older games/movies/shows/books
I really appreciate these sorts of videos, Phillip. I thoroughly enjoy listening to the profound things you often have to say. Yes, it's nice to remember just how excited you'd get as a child over things. With games, my mind would fill in the blanks and at school I'd pretend that I was a giant warrior with a sword from Fable, fighting bandits with my friends. Or I remember being on holiday and pretending to battle the monsters from Crash of the Titans.
I find people don't talk enough about the way they felt / how they imagined when they were children. Its a shame as I love reminiscing, remembering how I was and hearing other people's experiences.
Another example was when I was 15 - 18. I was quite lonely, and would play this Garry's mod DayZ style gamemode for hours. I absolutely loved it. I would think about it all the time, the battles we'd get into, the bases we'd build etc. My life is objectively so much better now - things are going great for me in so many ways. But I do look back fondly to 2015 and 2016. The excitement I had for that game, the few friends I had at the time and the important people in my life. I enjoy gaming, and occasionally I'll encounter a game that takes over my brain (Enderal: Forgotten Stories occupied my mind heavily at the end of last year), but the limitless enthusiasm and constant imagination of childhood has lessened. That being said, I often daydream about Minecraft builds.
I am 25. When I started playing Garry's Mod and Minecraft in 2011 (around same time) I was 14 they became my favorite games for years to come. Playing on a Hungarian Minecraft server with all my friends, eagerly waiting for new Shadow of Israphel videos from Yogscast, then switching over to GMod and playing on HL2RP and CityRP servers was just such a fullfilling time of my life for me. Same goes for Skyrim, the atmosphere of that game captured my mind instanteniously.
Though, the first game that ever captured me (though for a shorter period, since Gmod and MC I still play to this year), was WoW. I remember buying Vanilla and BC to find out that it was subscription-based which of course my parents wouldn't do just to have me play videogames instead of being with my family. After a while though I managed to get on private servers and it was fun for a while, but reading the back of the unfoldable velcro-tapes box of the original WoW CD even today still gives me a trip down memory lane.
@@2kliksphilip we pretty much share the same nostalgia and taste in video games, minus counterstrike, though I did play loads of it back in the day. Watching your videos is like watching my brain spill out from another person's skull.
@@hmark03 What I love about Minecraft is a young generation got to experience community servers for games, which was the way more people played online games in the old days, where internet speeds were slower so local servers were far more important, often with their own community, rules, culture and regulars. It was very much killed off by the official matchmakers lobby which was supposed to find the best servers for you, you had little to no choice in the matter and killed off so much customisation making every server the same.
When I saw Far Cry 1 for the first time on a brand new PC at my friends' house, I couldn't believe my eyes. That a computer was able to produce such graphics was beyond comprehension for me. At the time, I believed it was the future of gaming and that it wouldn't be able to be surpassed by anything, ever. That was as close to photorealistic you could get. Fastforward to -2012 wrong sorry- 2007 and Crysis came out and it started all over again.
*2007
Farcry 3 might be what you were thinking of in 2012 but Crysis was released around the same time as Halo 3
The funny thing is, that Crysis actually pulled it of. You can find screenshots from that game that actually look photorealistic. Not every screenshot. Not all assets. But seeing the cherry picked ones say printed in a magazine... yeah, those were photos of jungle as far as I'm concerned.
Crysis was brutal, I saw it in a mall when I was a kid and the VTOL scene was absolutely mind blowing.
I was 12 when MGS2 was released back then in Baghdad-Iraq...this was war years leading up to 2003 which caused me and my cousin to wait till I was 16 to play it on PC (pirated version)---it was so satisfactory to play it on Pentium 2 with a UPS after my cousin and I spent my 3 months worth of allowance to ration diesel for the mini-generator to boot up a pirated MGS2 on PC in Baghdad 2004. Damn good times sir.
Love how pirated games brighten up a kids life in a dark place.
MGS2 was so influential, that scene with the AI will live with me forever
I like the scene where he says "it's snaking time"
@@realhami there's no such scene
@@LuisC7 Of course there is, silly. You know, around the beginning-end part, when he snakes all over the screen?
@@LuisC7 Yes there is. It's in the corridor at the end of the game. He points to his bandanna and says "It's Snaking time".
@@ondexb no
ok but metal gear solid 2 is a fucking banger and my favorite of the series. It was pretty far ahead of its time both on story, but mainly the technology behind it,. It's really no wonder you thought of it as this grandiose thing.
As for a game like this for me, it would have to be the original borderlands. I remember reading this one article about it in an xbox magazine and thinking it sounded so cool, only to have to wait years til i got a copy off a friend, playing it on a shitty laptop in a tiny resolution when i should have been paying attention in 8th grade. I think I only ever beat it once, because borderlands 2 was on the horizon and that took over my life in its place.
I had dreams of playing Duke Nukem Forever and when it came out it was the biggest disappointment i ever experienced. The released leak is better than whatever got officially released is supposed to be but still my dream has yet to become a reality.
I could only play N64 on the weekend because it was an hour away, at my mom's. I had to go to school at my dad's all week long just thinking about what was through the next star door in Mario 64... Where the next portal key could possibly be hidden behind the fog of Turok Dinosaur Hunter... And what was over Hyrule's next horizon. These painful weeks of waiting and wondering left my imagination flooded with possibilities. The experience was torturous at the time, but similar to your own explanation, left the games feeling more memorable, expansive, and perfect than any N64 game could ever achieve on their own.
Even playing it for the first time back in 2015, MGS2 absolutely floored me. Still one of the best.
I had the same thing happen with the Wii. I remember getting to play Wii Sports at a friend's place, but they didn't have a nunchuck, so I could never play boxing, which made it feel like an experience far greater that everything else the game had to offer. I remember getting really excited about the Wii version of Defend Your Castle, because I loved the flash game and the Wii version seemed like the future. My friend obviously didn't have the small indie game and I was left confused and disappointed as to how they could not have the most important Wii game of all.
Bro I had a wii for my entire childhood, I remember when the wii u and 3ds came out and begging my parents to get me them. I was so blinded by getting the new thing and playing new games that I kind of hated my wii.
@@overfoxy I'm the opposite. I had a Wii U, but never a Wii. I always wanted to play Mario Kart Wii, but didn't have a Wiimote.
I remember begging for a wii and saving up for a good long while (or what felt like it to an elementary schooler) before finally getting one. It was glorious
Go back to a time when MGS2 is the best game ever? What do you mean by going back to the present?
Amen, still the best game ever.
It was soo funny cause all he was doing was describing exactly the game it was.
I got a little annoyed when he kept saying the game was rubbish, like who knew setting high expectations for yourself will always lead to disappointment. And then he judges mgs3 but it’s trailers, so yea I don’t really like this video lol
im willing to start an unnecessary argument and say mgs3 is on a complete different league to sons of liberty, and so the better game.
@@notpea I’ll do you one better: MGS1 (PS1 version) is the best in the series in terms of story, because the guy who translated it changed Kojima’s dialogue (which Kojima didn’t like) so that it didn’t sound so batsh!t ridiculous to a western audience.
Ever since then, every MGS game has a more 1:1 translation of Kojima’s scripts. The result? Riveting lines like, “They played us like a damn fiddle!!!” 🙄
This is EXACTLY what happened to me when MGS came out!! I was 14 and already beaten MGS1 but there's no way I could afford a PS2 and a lot of my time was spent imagining the game, running in the rain on building rooftops in real life, drawing sketches of Snake etc although I never had any footage to replay, just a demo I saw at a store. About a couple years later I finally got a PS2 and to be honest, the game actually exceeded my expectations especially in terms of the themes and subtext, which at the time I had a feeling it was presenting in spades. I'm purely guessing here, but perhaps your slight disappointment with the game must have came by playing the PC port, which was utterly horrendous with so many missing stuff from the PS2 and broken controls and presentation. It's funny that as a kid, I saw MGS2 was touching upon real-life internet issues due to the rise of forums and such but I had no idea that it will actually happen (Cambridge Analytica scandal etc). I feel somewhat bad for the Twitch streamers that play this game for the first time while drunk or reading up chats without actually trying to absorb the game's messages as I think it's one of those extremely rare games that offer a paradigm shift in the way you can view the world and that itself, like our imaginations as children, is priceless.
In 2001 the story seemed absolutely batty off the wall ridiculous hyper pretentious Sci Fi. A few years later it started to make sense with fast internet spreading everywhere. By the 2010s is was totally believable.
Philip, wtf. The last minute of the video hit me right in the feels. Loved the video.
It was GTA V for me. I can't even remember the amount of times I've watched the first trailer while waiting for the game. I probably watched it everyday. I remember even downloading some sketchy .exe files on my mom's laptop because it said I could play a beta version of GTA V lol. I didn't have a PS3 or PS4 or a good enough to PC to play it until 2017. I have around a thousand hours in game now and I've 100% it and done almost everything online lol. I'm so sick of the game now but damn, I really do remember a time like how you described in the video. Imagining what I would do when I finally got the game, etc. lol
Dude I just commented basically the same as you a day later. It makes me happy to know that out there somewhere, someone I don't know, had the exact same experience with something so specific and personal to me.
Same. Back in '16 I had the pc, BUT only 4GB ram, 2x1.7GHZ and a 820Mobile. Had like 5FPS, yet I played hundreds of hours.
But funnily enough all games I play right now could run on that old machine...
GTA V was that game for me too. I vividly remember watching the trailer on the day I started middle school (2011). I was hyped for months after that but I eventually lost interest because it would be launched only in 2013 for consoles and then in 2015 for PC when I entered high school.
MGS 2 is one of the greatest games ever. A lot of critics didn't get it at the time tho.
Nah it was just pretentious and weird. You see some of that in MGSV, yet MGSV is critically acclaimed for some reason.
MGS 2 is probably one of the worst ones, right down there with The Phantom Pain (but for different reasons obviously)
if I would have to rank my 3 favorite MGS games, it'd be
MGS 3
MGS 1
MGS 4
also Peace Walker is cool I guess
@@Mate_Antal_Zoltan Phantom Pain is definitely not one of the worst MGS games. Story wise, it's definitely lacking but for gameplay, I'd argue it's one of the best. It's definitely the least janky controlled MGS game. I'd rank it MGS 3 > MGS TPP > MGS 2 > MGS 1 > MGS PW > MGS PO > MG1/MG2 (only because ive never played it and have no plans to lol)
@@yungjoshx yeah, that's what I meant by different reasons
the story is good in 2, but the gameplay is meh
the story in TPP just doesn't even exist, but the gameplay is the best in the series
Facts, if he had played MGS2 when it came out like many of us did at a similar age the game would’ve probably blown his mind. Definitely a game far ahead of its time.
Mgs1 changed my life, and mgs2 changed gaming as a whole, even if 3 is more popular 2 did a lot of things first and in better ways. People were just pissed you played a snake only for a short while, the game is a masterpiece.
Excellent video, I can relate to this so much. I definitely have enjoyed watching videos of and reading about games just as much as I have played them.
I remember when I was around 12 and found out about Doom through various youtube videos and how it was 'one of the greatest shooters ever made' and how the modding scene for it was (and still is) amazing, 12 year old me thought it sounded amazing but when I asked my mum to get it for me she said no because she remembered how it gave her brother nightmares (back when it first came out), I tried reasoning but they wouldn't listen so I just went back to watching videos, then after a few months I realised I could just download it (for free so it didn't appear on my dad's steam account which we shared at the time) and play it anyway, didn't have nightmares but definitely had a great time (and I ended up buying it a few years later)
I have a similar story with doom, I was 4 yo when doom came out, so I would only watch my dad play it, it was one of the most horrifying experiences ever, I always hated games that tried to scare you and I was already afraid of a few games because my dad used to play Alone in the Dark 1, so I never really played doom back in the day, especially because so many other games like duke nukem, tomb raider and quake came out so fast. So, flashforward to 2018 and my GPU died out of nowhere and I had no money to get another and I got stuck with the intel graphics of my pentium, so I was reading a thread on 4chan and someone mentioned brutal doom and I was "oh yeah, I never really played doom besides a few levels of the shareware I should give that a try since I can't play anything else" and man I rediscovered my love for shooters that have been dead for a while because of all the CoDs and Battlefields souless clones.
When I was three years old, and we were visiting relatives in Guernsey, my brother got really sick with his asthma. It was serious enough that we had to go to hospital, and I had to sit in the waiting room for quite a long time. Since we were in the childrens section, they had a small games area which had a mysterious, unknown games console with this cool, vibrant looking game! There was a castle, and enemies, fun music and this big long staircase that went down to a door, and you jumped into the wall like it was made of water! I was mostly watching someone else play but I was captivated. I had such vivid memories of this game but I had no idea what it was, even though I knew I wanted to play it.
Fast forward to the final day of the final year of primary school. I'm 11 years old, and I'm talking to my friends one last time before we all go our separate ways. Max(?) had his DS with him (we were allowed since it was final day) and he was playing some games. Then suddenly he puts in this game and that's it! THATS THE GAME! I've been holding these memories in my brain for 8 years, thinking of it every so often, always wondering what the game was and imagining how cool it would be to play it... I ask Max what the game is, and he tells me it's Super Mario 64 (the DS version of course) and I'm so happy I start tearing up a bit. Even now I really feel moved because of how long that memory had stayed with me.
I've told this story a few times before and people will often look at me funny and ask why I'm so dramatic or say that's a bit much, but fuck them, this game (and my memory of it) meant so much to me and it made me so happy. I obviously went on to obtain the game for my DS a few years later and play it a tonne, loving every second of it. It's a rare "it was better than my memory" experience, though that's probably to be expected with a game like SM64.
I've had other experiences like what you've described in this video, but nothing has come close to this absolute treasure of a childhood memory.
Love this nostalgia trip. Philip u always do it right. Never stop doing what you love. Across all channels!
I kinda had the same aspirational feelings about Star Citizen. I remember in high school I would talk to my friends about it and how none of our computers would be able to run it when it would come out. I had a 550ti and an fx4100 then. A couple of years later the game still had the same aspirational status but it became apparent to us that it wasn't coming out any time soon. I joked about how it wouldn't come out until I graduated college. I had a 7970 and an fx8150 then. A couple of years later I was in college and building a new pc from scratch. Gone was the bulldozer platform in favor of the 7700k and I was on the 980. I thought to myself that I finally have a system that can probably do 60 fps with alright settings in 1080p when the game drops in a year or 2. Fast forward to today, I graduated in May, my system is now a 9900k and a 3080 and sometimes I catch myself daydreaming about what Star Citizen could have been.
I mean you can play it right now, it exists
It's pretty neat honestly, looks extremely nice
This was a terrific video. I never expected that you'd make a video that'd make me tear up a bit, yet here we are.
I wish the excitement from playing games did not fade away as you get older :(
Problem is not in old age, really. Just do not fell for hype culture. Do not read reviews, ratings, trailers. An overabundance of information causes subconscious fatigue, even if you have not played the game directly. The less expectations, the more impressions, surprises and discoveries
@@Jackfromshack 🙏🙏
I just don't get the same dopamine rush anymore as I used to. I remember just being excited to go home just to play MGS3, a game I've played over and over and over but now I don't even get excited to play unless it's with friends
Love your videos, no other TH-camr quite makes videos that can relate to my childhood as much as you do. This and the video about command and conquer special to me
This was such a good video. I love that you made this.
I remember when Far Cry 3 first released in 2012, I wanted to play it so bad that I can't even describe how many times I've watched and rewatched all the reviews, TH-cam videos and gameplay of it. This lasted until 2016, when I actually did get the game, but didn't get far. Then I actually beat it last year. It felt great to finally tie that loose end that has stuck with me for 9 years.
Another game that I also couldn't get for a while was Grand Theft Auto V. I did the same thing I did for Far Cry, but when I did finally get the game not that long after, I played it to death with my friends Online and even beat the Story Mode when my internet was off and had nothing else to do.
I'm so glad that someone else also has a game like that, where they wanted to play it badly but couldn't. Thank you so much Philip. Bless.
for me its GTA V, I was 11 when it came out and really wanted to play it, I would watch livestreams of othersers playing it when it launched and it seemed like this wonderful game of infinite possibilities. Unfortunately my parents deemed I was too young to play it, I would hear my dad play it on the xbox 360 at night, I could only imagine the amazing things he was doing. It was so close yet so far. All I had of my own to game on at the time was an android tablet, I would play GTA clones and search up 'GTA V android' on youtube trying to find some way of playing it but of course these were all scams or jokes. Even some of my friends at school were allowed to play it, I often pretended I was allowed to as well, I'd scramble to make some vague answer whenever I was asked what my favourite mission was. We'd play GTA on the playground and argue other who would be which character, but of course I had no idea who they where. It was only a couple of years later when I bought my own PS3 at my mum's house and she FINALLY let me play it. Admittedly, it was one a lot of fun, but when I finally got to play it, a lot of the mystique of the open world environment faded, it quickly became predictable and stale. I turn 20 next month and part of me still hopes that GTA VI will be the game that 11 year old me thought GTA V would be.
I had a similar experience with GTA myself, 4 and 5. I always loved watching Rooster Teeth/Lets Play do their GTA shenanigans, and that was the most appealing part of the game to me, while I didn't have it. I watched it for years, and while eventually I did end up getting the game, I lost interest in it rather quickly, because I didn't have a large enough group to just do those random things with, and my own mind wasn't creative enough to come up with those ideas when I did get to play it with friends. It was still a neat game for what it was I suppose, but it did make me realize that the game itself wasn't exactly what I was hoping for, especially without a community to play it with.
Have you tried read dead 2?
@@germantarnoski7130 Yes, I got it on launch for ps4 and I have also played it a bunch on PC, one of my favourite games of all time
This is such a fantastic concept for a video. Great job Philip
So relatable, almost shed a tear even. Thank you for this great video.
For me wind waker was my dream game that i watched playthroughs of over and over, and i love it to bits. Its by no means perfect and when i was finally able to play it, it was certainly different than the image of it i had created, but it makes me feel warm and fuzzy every time i start it up. Since then i've replayed it a couple times and i still love it very much.
I remember buying a magazine that came with the complete guide for mgs2.
I must have read it front to back like 10 times.
I finally played it close to 5 years later (which for a teenager is half a life), with the whole story spoiled and accompanied by a worn out booklet guide.
The good old days.
For me this game was Turok: Dinosaur Hunter.
My neighbors had a "graphics card" (Voodoo) and this was beyond the realm of what we could afford. I dreamt of buying a Voodoo Banshee and I never did. First graphics card was a Rendition Verite, and the first game I played was Lego Racers. Best experience ever.
lego racers is great
Lovely narration, made me nostalgic, thanks for putting out what's hidden in our childhood memories..
For me it was Prince of Persia, I used to run around in school trying to climb pillars jumping from ledges and even attempting to wall run but I could only do two steps 😅 those were the days, no modern game can ever replace that feeling no matter how good...
😂
No way in hell im missing the days where all my friends gather to talk about their next gen console games..
and im standing there just listening and imagining how perfect these new games must be
Im grateful i can play RE4 in freaking VR now.
15yo me would never believe current me if told him that i will be fighting those monsters in person someday in a futuristic wireless console
There is something so wondrous about this feeling in childhood. Thanks for making a video about this
Your nostalgia videos are the best
mgs2 really outshines every game because of the guard pee mechanics
I enjoyed the first 10 seconds as of posting this
any update 4 minutes in?
@@ando2421 It was a good video and a lot of the things Philip talked about, I related to with games like WoW: wratch+cataclysm expansions, and cod, and csgo updates now. For me, the game that I never got to play but had fond memories of hoping to one day play it was diablo 2. I grew up watching my uncle play it, and even a friend who was allowed to have it and play it. Good memories for me to hold dear, and still a good video by mr tuber man
I love it when you make videos like this they make me so happy :)
I felt the same for many games: Rome Total War 1 & 2, Empire Total War, Red Alert 3, Assassins Creed 3, etc. And that last part of the video really struck my soul, almost made me cry. Great video mate
For me it was Rome Total War. Even tho the game is one year younger than me 😂
I remember as a kid getting the ps2 and mgs2 with it. It was perfect, trust me 👌
A brilliant video capturing the sense of nostalgia perfectly :)
Mgs 1 and 2, and then 3 when it came out, were the most defining game of my childhood. I got both 1 and 2 at the same time in 2001 when I was 6 (got them from a friend as I wouldn't have been allowed them at such an age). I was utterly obsessed and engrossed. I was so, so excited for mgs3. I used to sneak around the house and I'd sing/hum the MGS2 opening theme endlessly. That theme is so fucking epic.
this video hits hard 💀
i literally just got MGS2 after years of thinking it was amazing and after finishing the first boss i just closed it and went back to playing Smash Ultimate lol
aight who do you main. I play jigglypuff :D
@@justnate01 oh that's a painful character. missing down B feels like when you want to sneeze but it never comes
but yeah i main cloud
Yeah I feel you man I watched the first episode of breaking bad and it was super boring, just some dreary man looking sad, I don't get all the fuss
@@c6m bruh. Breaking bad is great. But i kinda understand you, i watched first two seasons, was super bored, then watched the rest 3 years later. Maybe i just grew up to be able to watch this or first 2 seasons really suck but now i think that BB is the greatest show of all time. Just give it a try. Or start with Better call saul, this is a spin off, very logical one though so you are able to get very unique experience - watch BCS first and then BB, unlike millions like me.
For me, I never really had a concept of "new stuff" when it came to video games because I just had what my uncle left me and that was that.
I guess the best contender would be Timesplitters: Future Perfect, not because I never played it, but because I couldn't finish it.
I relied heavily on my dad carrying me to the finish line for most of the levels, and when he was at work or not wanting to play, I couldn't get past the later levels no matter how hard I tried. So to make up for this I would replay the earlier levels over and over with friends or alone, and I would play multiplayer just to see all the guns and characters that I would eventually get to see. I ended up building up this idea of a long, expensive, massive game because I spent so much time exploring every bit I could access several times over to make up for what I couldn't get to.
what an absolute blast of a video, thanks!
This was me for my first desktop, my first 3D printer, and studying away from home. Always so obsessed but once I got them I realised the hours of researching and watching online video reviews were actually what were kept me so hooked. I’m currently having that desire phase for the oculus quest but I have a feeling it’ll become dull if I somehow am able to get it one day
As a kid I waited years to get metroid fusion, and when I finally emulated it I was blown away. Great game.
For me it was Bug's Life N64.
My N64 broke 1 day before I got the game, and because every game I played on the N64 was amazing I expected nothing less from Bug's Life n64 (lol). We couldn't afford to fix the console, so I spent a thousand hours looking at the game's manuals, box, cartridge, I tried drawing the game, me and friends imagined the gameplay, I had dreams about the game even (the movie was popular).
Well, years later, I can only say that it was the worst game I got to play on the N64.
This is the greatest comment I read :D
This game is pretty bad and punishing, played it on PS1. But that childhood imagination, that's priceless.
My first thought after your intro was back to all the cereal box PC game demos I used to play. There was a toy story game that I remember replaying the demo of what must have been hundred, or even thousands of times. I never got to play the full game, but I spent endless time dreaming, imagining what the rest of the game would have been like and what incredible things awaited me. In my imagination, the game could transcend any limitations gaming technology had at the time.
Eventually another cereal box game demo would grab my attention and the cycle would repeat. In the end I don't think I ever ended up playing one of the full games, but I did watch a bit of gameplay of the toy story game, and was what I can only describe as: "whelmed"
I had always fantasized about playing Halo, but wasn’t allowed to because it was rated M. It must have been like 7 or 8 years I fantasized about it. When I was finally able to play it with Halo 3, it was almost better than I imagined it to be. The social memories are what still stick with me today, meeting interesting people playing custom gametypes late into the night. I still play it every now and again to remember the good old days.
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Also, sorry to hear you didn’t like MGS2. I had pretty much the opposite experience as you. I’m a bit younger than you and had always heard it was the “weird one” in the series, but when I finally played it about 10 years after release, it blew me away. It is easily my favorite game of all time.
It feels weird to have the same memory has you, but I did have the PS2 and I did play the game when it came out. The demo bundled with ZOE, is something I've played more than most games I've ever bought. Actually that demo might have been the perfect video game to me after seeing that VHS tape. I think it's a damn shame that some of the gaming experiences kids have now are ones based on an industry that learned how to be effective at making money and following trends. MGS2 broke the mould hard, I'll always give it respect for that.
Despite MGS2's flaws and perhaps not what I wanted it to be in the end, there's just...nothing like it even today. And I played it basically daily, I even sent a video of MGS2 gameplay to PSMS2 magazine and they featured it on the DVD, I still have it. PSM2 was a banging magazine, I got a star letter once and never got sent a game though...bastards lol.
Which issue? I still have a bunch of them, both OPSM and PSM2.
The most popular segment was perhaps 'Goal Of The Month', especially during the PS1 era. They'd always use the same music track for those compilations, which I suspect was produced through Music 2000.
The issues released in Portugal featured the same demos and competition submissions as the original U.K publication, but with PSM2 we could finally send our "masterful plays" - - amateur when compared to today's speedruns...
One of my friends from school owned Metal Gear Solid, which - as you know - sported an amazing PAL cover.
It got me intrigued, although he never booted the game when we'd go to his house, during lunchbreaks.
This would've been around March 2002.
Around that time, I got a MGS2 poster (Snake aiming at the viewer). It was bundled with another magazine that covered all systems. It stood right above my head for many-a-nights, not even knowing this guy's name!
Then, around '04, someone sent their Boss Survival video to PSM2! At last! I've witnessed this damn game running, rolling and blowing my mind! It was much more whimsical than the screenshots lead on.
It was still "cool" aesthetically but goofy and loose in delivery.
And by that point Snake Eater was around a really sharp corner, so I knew how much I was missing out by having just a Dreamcast.
But all those amazing PS2 exclusives didn't eclipse my interest and enthusiasm from all the amazing stuff going on concurrently: the GBA, for example. In fact, I was relieved the industry kept making 2D games!
Such was the magic of that era, with an absurd variety of genres and ways to enjoy them, by borrowing, renting, even trading at times. There was no excuse for not maintaining a balanced diet to explore such a vast ecosystem.
I often feel the first levels of games are perfect video games. They are fun, educational and simple. After that they get more complicated, frustrating and most players stop playing after they stop having fun.
I bought lemmings 3D when I was a kid, and I was so excited to see how the third dimension would transform the fun game of lemmings into something amazing. I could never get the game to run out our PC, so my imagination turned lemmings 3d into some kind of elusive masterpiece that the universe wouldn't let me enjoy. I forgot about this for years, then I saw some footage of lemmings 3D and it looks horrible to control with the early 3D camera. My metal gear solid 2 is lemmings 3D.
You just make perfect videos man
Wow the feeling of reading the manual in the car on the way back from a trip to the store... What a memory you have brought back hahaha. It's not quite the same with Prime and getting it same day (not that I'm complaining) but there really was something so exciting about reading the manual and hyping yourself up before you finally got home.
I felt this way with Elden Ring, when it was first announced in 2018 I was insanely excited. I'd imagine being a knight traversing a beautiful landscape fighting baddies and learning about the ruins of the world, I imagined my character grappling with the torment of being cursed and coming to terms with it, I wondered what weapon I would use and I wanted to dual wield a sword and spear just like I did in Dark Souls II. But when Elden Ring finally came out I started up a play-through and got past the first big boss, then I began losing interest and realized that what I wanted Elden Ring to be, was quite different from what it was. But maybe one day, your game that you imagined and the version of Elden Ring that I imagined, perhaps something like them will come to fruition.
same, elden ring feels too empty
Funny, I had a similar experience with MGS:3. Having only played Smash Bros Brawl, I was addicted to this 'Solid Snake' character I idealised so much. So when I saw this game, so new that it seemed, not even occurring to me that MGS:4 had already been released, I desperately wanted to play it. I never would. Not for years.
Fast forward to this Summer and I've finally decided to play the MGS games. I bought the PC version of 1, and emulated 2 (it was alright). And then I played 3. It was nothing like the game I had in my head, but it was beautiful. The story was incredible. But I won't sit here and play it constantly for years on end. Now, I move on to 4, then Rising or Peace Walker, and finally V. I might even get Survive and Portable Ops.
A wonder, what the young mind can do to make us fantasise things we've never seen.
Great to hear! Have a blast, such good games!
Don't forget revengeance. You must embrace the memes.
Defo try portable ops it's an underrated gem
@@GhostIMGS my PC is fairly high end, but I already see what you mean... audio glitches galore. Hopefully fixed by now. Maybe someday you'll be able to enjoy it as well :)
@@thegamingprozone1941 I'm seriously considering it, but I've hyped myself up for V and will probably play Portable Ops during or after
Wow bubble buddies or whatever that retro game you showed brought back a lot of nostalgia! My uncle me and my brother would play it together :)
The youtube video of that VHS tape is incredible. Even after the MGS2 gameplay, it's a look into a fantastic bygone era.
For me it was vanilla wow. I missed out on it by starting wow when the burning crusade was out and realising that I missed out on the initial meta of the game. I thought that i could never experience the original version of the game for years until i found out that private servers were running a reversed engineered version of the original game. Despite the servers being buggy and laggy I had a lot of fun and by the time classic wow actually came out I had already burned myself out on that game.
Vanilla WoW was an experience that was entirely shaped by how broken it was and by how hard to was to find information online back then. Half the things you read in forums and comments were false information so insanely unreliable. Classic WoW is a very refined game with masses of changes and fixes but more importantly, lost the naive explorers in a new world, to be replaced by sweaty raiders and speedrunners.
@@cattysplat I don't think minmaxing is a bad to a certain extent but there's so much negativity that comes with meaningless shit. Spending 2 hours getting world buffs to shave off maybe 10, 15 minutes in a raid is insane and whatever bs explanation rls give you is just them being influenced by the 'pros'. It's kinda sad how everyone is forced to do shit they're not interested in when playing or they won't experience the raid content.
Knowing the best items for your class is fine. You can happily chip away at bis dungeons and quests and what not. But the chores that they thankfully removed that a tiny percentage of the community insists on could really fuck off- along with not allowing class variety because 3% dps matters in their mind.
I just don't get where the negativity comes from in the community, some people are set off by hair triggers, more often than not due to their own lack of due dilligence about meaningless pixels
well, i think mgs2 is actually still really good by modern standards
I remember I made up my idea of what Star Wars Battlefront 3 should be in my mind for so long. I would tell my friend about it but pretend it was actually what they were going to make. Think I was like 7 or 8 at the time. I would daydream in class or on the toilet thinking of how amazing it would be.
I would do this after playing CoD4 and thinking how a game like that could be improved, essentially the perfect modern military shooter. Most of my ideas for that actually made it into Battlefield 3 much to my delight.
What a masterpiece of a video! I can 100% relate to this. Nowdays you can play all the games on fantastic hardware, but what is it worth when the child-like enthusiasm and will is gone. I always feel like i missed out in my childhood - i should've played more games.
For me, it was GTA SA. I played it 5 years after release, and it was just as magical as I had thought. Still is the best GTA by far to me.
@eanfran don't get discouraged because it looks old, I am certain that if you play it you will enjoy it immensely, it's still a great game.
Well basically no other open world game has successfully improved upon that, it’s a big shame too. And I know gta 6 won’t either.
As a 20-something year old when MGS2 came out I was somewhat disappointed because all I wanted was more MGS1. The story seemed so pretentious, esoteric and absurd. It wasn’t until 20 years later that I’ve fully come to appreciate everything about this game.
I am a huge metal gear fan, my favorite game series of all time hands down so I feel you on that, I also felt that same pain lol. I ended up with a GameCube a few years later and got to play the twin snakes remake and it blew my mind. Eventually got to play 2 but never felt the same as when I wanted to play it though still a great game.
I remember first being introduced to it through my best friend Frankie at the time, he was already at metal gear and Grey fox scene end game. He was telling me how the games so crazy and let me borrow it and that's when my love first started.watching that scene though I'll never forget it and still one of my favorite ga,e memories of all time.
I've felt the same thing with the HALF LIFE 2 tech demo from E3 2003. It took me a couple of years to get a new pc and finally play it. It was great, but nothing compared to the excitement I felt after seeing that tech demo on a game store tv that played different trailers in a loop. I stood there for 3 hours just so I can watch it again.
Core memory of mine is throwing toilets at each other in HL2 Deathmatch with the gravity gun. That was so insanely fun and I don't think physics in games has really been bettered in terms of fun gameplay.
I can so relate to reading the cover before getting home.
Back then I bought the Batman Arkham Games, and only had a ps3, so my mum and I went out and with a little begging I got it. The walk back from gamestop is so awesome. So hyped to play it, reading the back of the case, reading the cover. It's such an awesome feeling that I will probably never feel again :(
Call of duty 2. I remember downloading the demo whenever I was home alone since my parents didn't let me play war games haha. I probably played that demo mission 100 times before I actually got the game. I would rewatch the trailer on the xbox game store over and over and tell all my friends in school how good that game was. I still play it maybe twice a year just to relive some nostalgia
"You're not alone. You are not the only one." I wish could say those words to my past, younger, me.
Seeing all the times philip put footage of MGS2 in his videos really connects with me now :)
I was only 2 when this game was coming out. I wasn't a huge metal gear fan until about 2013 when my favorite youtuber at the time had mentioned it. So I HAD to play all of them. I was only able to get MGS2 to emulate properly and I played it from start to finish. It is a great game. Got me through rough times.
Only just discovered your channel but you have a gift for for making entertaining, thoughtful content which doesn't fit in any particular category. Very unique voice/character. This video especially taps into something I'm sure a lot of us relate to. Quite poignant in a way.
Also, I hope the cat in the footage of young Philip is the same one in your recent RTX 4090 videos!
A lot of games passed my mind through that intro, each feeling closer to *my* best game I never played, then as soon as Bubble Bobble appeared all of those thoughts pissed off immediately. I'm not sure if it was the unexpectedness of seeing Bubble Bobble on a kliksphilip video or remember Bubble Bobble was my game to play when I didn't have that game I never played. I suppose ironically that makes my memory of that time waiting even stronger. love u
I recently played all the mgs games and I have to say they are some of the best games I've ever played. And i know understand all the praises older people on the internet give it.
This video says more about nostalgia than any other piece of media I've seen. It really explores a great abstract concept that I think most of us go through, and I think it shows that when you're in charge of an IP, you're not just managing the actual content of the series itself but also the concept and collective "aura" of all of it that people have.
The first game that came to mind when watching this was Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3. While Smash Bros Brawl had already come out and there wouldn't be another for years, MvC was a brand new crossover with so many cool characters from revered franchises. I was so excited to learn that Phoenix Wright was being added and the few months before its release felt so much longer than they actually were. The day after my eleventh birthday, they finally showed a trailer of what he would look like in action and it was every bit as glorious seeing one of my characters not only fighting, but for the first time in full, voice-acted 3D. I only had a Wii at the time, but when I eventually did play the game years later, it was just as amazing as I hoped.
That absolutely ENORMOUS jump in graphical fidelity during Y2K (PS1 to PS2, OG Xbox, Gamecube) was insane. I don't think we'll ever experience that kind of optimistic technological leap of progress again. I think the promotional material for MGS2 perfectly encapsulates that era.
I was too young for MGS, but having only played PS1 games like Rayman at the time, and suddenly seeing what looked like perfect 3D in games like Ratchet and Clank, SSX, and Madden, I couldn't imagine how games could look better than that. Ironically, now I'm kinda dreading new technology since it seems to be pushing us in the wrong direction societally.
That game was MGS4 for me.
After seeing the E3 2013 video of MGSV and falling love with it, I also somehow saw the opening cutscene (War has changed) of MGS4. I was 11 at the time and had never seen a game that cinematic, granted I had played only a handful of games up to that point.
Over the years, I would watch that opening on YT countless times but never had a chance to play it since I didn't have a PS3.
About two years ago when MGS1 and 2 came out on GOG, I figured I'd start the series (excluding MGSV since I had finished it prior). I also played MGS3 on PCSX2 and only MGS4 was left. At the time, I was planning on getting a PS5 and was hoping that MGS4 would be released on it. So I started to wait, again. Then one day I watched a Scott the Woz video (can't really remember which one) and later asked myself "What I am waiting for?" so I bought a used PS3 on July 3, 2021.
When that opening cutscene started to play I burst into tears. Finally, after all those years I would be playing the almighty MGS4.
I remember finishing the last three chapters on one day, after which i felt as if an age was finally over.
I doubt I will ever crave playing a game so much as I had craved for MGS4.
Ahhh, Assassins Creed 2. My dads friends gave him a copy of it for PC, but it was already linked to his ubisoft account so I couldn’t play it. Instead I spent years reading the manual, imagining how great it would be, until finally Dad got us a secondhand PS3 and bought me Assassins Creed 1. Played through it and thoroughly enjoyed it, then he got me AC2 and my mind was blown. Then, we found a loophole in the return policy of the local game store: No questions asked full refunds of any purchase in the last week. I would only be at my dads in the weekend, so from that point on, every weekend we would by and return the next Assassins Creed title, until I finally got to the newly released AC rogue. It was an amazing few weeks.
Years later, when I was nearing the end of highschool and had a weekend job, I went back to that same game store and bought all the assassins creed games Id previously bought and returned. Since then I’ve finished all of them at least twice, most of them i’ve finished more than that. The nostalgia within those games for me is unreal.
Thanks for the video!
Mine was early days WoW, but wasn't allowed as my parents essentially thought subscriptions were a terrible idea. What added fuel to the fire was the WoW south park episode, it ironically made me utterly insane to try and play. I played it a lot when I got older but it feels like I've missed being a part of a really close community.
Jesus man that MGS opening music is so beautiful, brings back a lot of memories.
I've had this with almost everything i've enjoyed and still do with things that don't exist, it's gotten to the point where i enjoy things that don't exist more than those that do, which is why i'm trying to work on making those things real one day one way or another
You don't play MGS2 in 2022. You live it.
For me it was No Man's Sky. I remember hearing about the hype for that game around it's launch. But I didn't have a PC fast enough to run that game until a few years later. It's a good thing too because my first experience actually playing it wasn't until after Hello Games improved it a lot.
I got to play the version that you imagined in your head.
It is fantastic.
Being a bit younger my perfect games existed as game trailers on the PS2 demo discs. I remember Jack and Daxter was probably my favorite game I never played. Many years later I bought most of these games second hand and finally got to play them
Fantastic video.
I had the same situation with Metal Gear Solid, I owned the Demo 1 disc with the MGS trailer on it, I played it back so many times, same as you, imagining how cool this game must be, to me the music of the trailer is still giving me goosebumps and oh my the scene at the end where the whole complex is blown up by c4, and it was all planted by the player, god like
I used to dream and fantasize about Unreal Tournament 1999. The weird thing is I owned it and played it all the time. I just loved the game.
I've played it when I was 16 years old, when it came out, changed my vision about games as an art, and I still think it's one of the best games ever made. The soundtrack makes me get goosebumps every single time I heard it, even today.