I like these subjects. I’m not quite there yet as I’ve just discovered just how great the switch library is and playing through as much as I can as well as mixing in older games (Xbox 360/ps3 gen/wii/wii u) that have been re released in some way
im currently playing my 360 backlog while I wait a year or two for these current gen games to get ALL of the patches, fix, DLC, etc.... into one nice package. So that I can buy the game COMPLETE just like the ol' days lol
What's funnier is that most companies with the products they put out these days that answer to these Shareholders have been failing spectacularly something's got to give eventually.
@@louisewilliams1258Cut it out with that nonsense already. Guys like you think literally anything is "woke" now. It has nothing to do with gameplay, anyways.
@@davidaitken8503 It's not "nonsense". It's absolutely true. It's called "ideological subversion" and is a topic that you should dive into. It's a very powerful tool that is used to get people to believe absolute rubbish and to deny reality, even when the facts are presented right in front of them. Do you want an example?
98% of games I’ve been playing have been retro/old-school games. I simply don’t have the patience for modern gaming crap in 2024. Same with movies and tv shows.
Modern games are made to hook you in and do nothing else but play a single games. Older games are the game you can enjoy it right away and you don’t have to think about it soon as you turn off the console.
This notion that gaming "went corporate" is confusing. Since the SNES video games were always an investment for a company to see a return. They've always been corporate. I think now there's just less unicorns at the top and more business oriented people leading. And by unicorn I mean leaders who were creatives first but also business conscious. Now it's flipped bc of these massive budgets and bigger data to work with
Games used to be made by people who were passionate about making games. Now they’re made by people who are passionate about making money. And the rest is history.
THey're made for streamers who make money making videos playing them. IE all the PVP Multiplayer. No real new single player games. Online Multiplayer are for people who have friends. Gaming used to be a Hobby and not it's a "Job"....Gaming Nerd Culture of the outcasts with no friends got appropriated by the "Jocks" and cool kids that used to make fun of the kids spending all their time in gaming
People who are passionate about making money!? What!? Is that why they INSIST on LOSING money!? No, seriously, they make a product that loses tons of money, then they look at the reasons that it lost money, and DOUBLE AND TRIPLE DOWN! Every single time!
Nintendo and Sega are still publishing fun ,family games in this modern era. This is why I bought my then 6 year old son a Nintendo Switch back in Christmas 2022.
yes that was the sweet spot between freedom and creativity suported with enogh technologies to develop games. After that massification of onlime gaming came along and the debacle started...not because the online itself, but because of the possibility of grinding massively for the companyes.
Last 45 years has been the golden era in gaming Music and films had theirs similarly. Hopefully smaller creaters can still flourish. Capitalism ruins EVERYTHING eventually. Support grass roots always! Have to keep tilling the land, so to speak.
I mean to be fair I play a ton online multiplayer. I love it and this is the best era for it. I do agree single player games have fallen off creatively.
@@jr.jamesfuller9282 but capitalism is what grew these industries in the first place . Without capitalism you wouldn’t have iPhones .. capitalism gets millions of people out of poverty. .. I get it though, late stage capitalism causes a host of problems
@@brianmeen2158 I completely agree with you that capitalism has done many great things! However there are certainly negatives and calling them out doesn't diminish those things. Corporate greed IS currently leading to a downswing in game quality. Amongst other factors of course, such as the unrealistic cost of making games today, and economic factors that are far from exclusive to capitalistic societies.
I’m 1000% with you bud. 47 year old who’s been gaming for 4 decades, and while I don’t play nearly as much for obvious reasons, I still keep up with the hobby. I see it like this…The jump from one console gen to another was so exponential for decades that we were hooked. Atari -> 8bit -> 16bit -> 32bit -> CDRom -> 64bit -> HD etc all the way up to 4K was truly special. This golden age in gaming from the mid 80’s to the circa 2015 was so magical because the jump and WOW factor was significant. Since then, each subsequent iteration brought only marginal improvements so you combine that with everything you mentioned and OG’s like you and me are simply having a harder time getting excited for modern day gaming.
I understand your point. I look at some digital foundry comparison or some remaster graphics comparison and can't see any significant difference. RTX here and there, shadows goes to slightly different direction or have a little different tint. Who cares? And I've thought that graphics peaked at 2010 and nothing better will come out. But! For example compare Dead Rising 1 (even prev. remaster that came out in 2016) with new announced remaster Dead Rising, and you will see a big difference. Even though it's a difference between 2016 and 2024. Graphics progress slowed down? Sure! But it's happening every day, little by little, and this little improvements turned out into big change spread into a decade. I see huge difference between 2014 game and 2024 game. If it is not Nintendo exclusive that is :) So I understand you, but also I think we can appreciate the improvement still. It's almost like all games are beautiful today, if they aren't failed the art style (like Immortals of Aveum did)
To me the PS3 and Xbox 360 are relatively recent systems, but to others these will seem very old. Then the first 'TV Games System' I had was a first generation PONG systems in the 1970s. They weren't even called 'consoles' at that point, and I've had at least one machine from every console generation from then. I agree the biggest change happened from the mid 1990s to before 2015. I have an Xbox series S that is never played, and old machines from the VIC 20 to the PS3 that are.
I honestly think new capabilities of each system is a selling point. I agree there was more of a noticeable upgrade prior, but much more is missing in modern games. The industry is fixated on graphics and content over storytelling and fun. No doubt the games aren't as fun then... I do not need 8 characters all with unique abilities for wario ware though! Souless over bloated monotony just loses to so many 16 bit era games
This notion that gaming "went corporate" is confusing. Since the SNES video games were always an investment for a company to see a return. They've always been corporate. I think now there's just less unicorns at the top and more business oriented people leading. And by unicorn I mean leaders who were creatives first but also business conscious. Now it's flipped bc of these massive budgets and bigger data to work with
@@basedmek The guy who did "Tactics Ogre," "Final Fantasy Tactics," and "Vagrant Story," Yasumi Matsuno, was complaining about how derivative and money-chasing games had become by the early-to-mid 90's; in fact, that's one of the big reasons why we got "Vagrant Story."
they always been involved. The thing is the massification of online gaming gave them the chance to realize how to milk games ultil the last consequences.
Been collecting for PS2, PS3, XBOX and 360 for about a year now. My kids love the old HALO games, Splinter Cell, Fight Night and many others. I emulate everything before these systems. New games are too dependent on the internet, lack a good story and deprive our kids the shoulder-to-shoulder gaming experience we grew up playing on the couch and at the arcade.
I remember telling my friend years ago all that multiplayer crap was going to kill gaming. Well as you say the best games aren't really online dependent, most likely because offline games has to have depth. I'm enjoying older games again now and enjoying the depth of story and quality.
I'm sorry, but Halo was very dull franchise. I played several of them and unless you love that scifi factor they were really nothing special. It's literally CoD with some alien stuff.
Same here. I've been buying a ton of Xbox 360 and classic movies on physical since last summer. Got some good prices last year, now the cost of some physical media is going up. I don't really want much to be connected to the internet anymore, whereas 5 years ago I was interested in that stuff. I sold my Series X too and I'm done with new consoles going forward.
@@mikemetheny1086 I owned my X360 since I was a kid and have bought used Halo game and it was really boring. I think it was ODST. I tried Halo 1 on PC and had same impression. I personally had the most fun with 360 in games like Forza Motorsport 3, Thief, Kinect Adventures, Kinect Sports, The Darkness II, Spec Ops: The line and Sleeping Dogs. Your kids really shouldn't play slop like Halo on console like that.
I’m so glad I had the chance to grow up thru the 2004 gaming year. Best year for gaming … halo2 , San Andreas, half life 2, Need for Speed Underground 2, Warcraft , silent hill 4 , metal gear 3, doom 3, Unreal Tournament 04, Tony hawks underground 2, ninja gaiden, Grand Turismo 4 .. and January 2005 had resident evil 4.. yeah high school was great! 😌
ESPN NFL 2K5 and Madden NFL 2005 head-to-head. Star Wars Battlefront, KOTOR II, WoW (never for me, but large impact), Burnout 3, Fable, and Bloodrayne 2
I feel this. Retro games, indie games, rom-hacks, and fan games have most of my attention these days. There's still that creative passion when it comes to making games, but you mostly see it with solo projects or smaller teams who just want to make something cool and fun instead of chasing $$$. My favorite recent trend in fan-made gaming are randomizers. Retro games are already fun on their own, but randomization turns them into completely new experiences each time you play them!
Depends on the game.. like a dragon/yakuza has tons of passion in it, even monkey ball lol. Sure not every game, but let's not like every retro game is a passion filled game that is good.
As an almost 18 year old this year I have played more games from the 90s than I have from this decade. There's just something so magical about retro games that modern games can't reclaim. And it's NOT just nostalgia.
*old man voice* back in my day, games were made to be played over and over without getting too boring too quickly. Developing games was very cutthroat and highly competitive. The games needed to have replay value since the typical families back then could only afford a handful of games for just one console per gaming generation. Because of that, exclusives were a big deal and the FOMO was real.
yeah, i play modern games and i never finish them, i play old games just to relive the memories, i say i will play it for a while and get back in the new games but i end up finishing them. I even enjoy old games i never played before. Why? Because like old disney it had "magic" people made these games out of passion, now every game is made with a template as if its made by ai and assembled in a factory, everything must be done in a specific way to fit "best practices" and must have a list of things like a checkbox that must be there, it all feels so pointless. Its just not fun, its a grind, its a job.
My guess: Not yet graphically impressive, that you can't leave out some imagination. I've seen many amazing looking games, but due to Realistic art styles it is falling flat. It's trying to do something special.
Bro went ham the whole video. 😂 I agree 100 percent. Games these days are not the same as the older classics, especially when it comes to the older sports games.
Same here man, 43 years young. Tekken 8 on the PS5 today just don’t hit the same as Street fighter turbo on the Snes in 93’ for me. Nostalgia plays a huge part. 👍
@@topshotta2000 Unless you want to spam rage attacks, deal with certain characters being better than others, and pluggers, be my guest. My last straw was with Heihachi coming back from the dead and you have to buy him as DLC and I was like nah I'm done with this franchise.
Again, all these super fancy, expensive and complex graphics. Emulating older Tekken games is arguably more fun than 7 and 8. On a Steam Deck, for example, we get all those older games that are full games, and they don't drain your battery just cause you want to have fun with your fighting game. These newer games seem like such a mess to me sometimes.
Retro games are relaxing and nostalgic asf. No dlcs no bs features just a solid Gameplay. I play old call of duty games now cuz i find it fun and relaxing so thats my reason
Sure, nostalgia plays a part, but I play retro games over 2024 games because they are just BETTER!! I grew up in the 80's and 90's with my NES/SNES/GB/N64 and they were my favourite era of gaming. Complete experiences on the cartridge. No DLC, Lootboxes, Season passes. Just pure gaming!!
Just watch, it's going to get to the point where having a complete game in your hands that you can play anytime you want offline is going to be a luxury that most people won't be able to afford.
The last “modern” game I’ve purchased was Buldur’s Gate 3 and that game is a freaking masterpiece. You can tell that Larian Studios was motivated and passionate to make an incredible game. I feel like most game developers lack exactly that, passion and motivation. Without that, great games are more difficult to create.
Let alone bleeding talent due to the industry wide lay offs like it's going out of style, that's the other problem losing S Tier Talent after they prove themselves of being capable of making some incredible work. Some of this talent can go from being new blood to just long time industry veterans that to just throw it all away as these companies do is one of the most foolish ideas given. Some leave the industry all together others join other companies in the industry like what happened with the former Rocksteady Devs forming their own studio out of frustration with their former employer. Anything is possible and it's worth supporting talent when they show themselves to hopefully push the industry in the right direction for once, vote with your wallet as they say.
Being a PC gamer almost all my life retro gaming always went toe to toe with contemporary gaming for me. And I still do it. It's just a joy when one week you're fighting through Elden Ring's DLC and the next week you're playing Doom 2 or the original Deus Ex. And speaking of graphics I love the "Unreal Engine 1 look" with modern resolution, there is something catchy in sharp low poly models which are very clean to look with nothing mudding the picture, no noise or something. One recommendation to all of you: Rune, very good 3D action hack'n'slaher? game in Norse mythology setting. A bit of tinkering and you will run it with minimum amount of problems.
I just finished Donkey Kong Land on gameboy and started NFS Porsche and Age of Empires 1 on my retro PC. I am waiting for my initial D gba copy from Japan ❤
These companies better start to realize, that right now a person has access to over 100000+++ great games. Retro is where it's at right now , so many great games!
I built myself a bartop arcade. I've spent ours on the cabinet itself. Sanding, custom staining it a cool pattern. RGB speakers. Made the marquee & properly backlighting it. Large playdeck with Sanwa buttons & Sanwa stick with 7 lbs spring & 4/8 way on-the-fly switcher. Custom Retrobat build with a curated list of games covering Pong all the way to 360/PS3 era. Not a rom dump. A curated list of stuff I'm interested in. It will take the rest of my life to even come close to playing everything & discovering things I missed through the years. The hidden gems as it were. For online - I hit up Fightcade 2. That's were my money has gone & my interest. 98% of modern games are hollow & uninspired cash grabs.
I don't have an N64 but playing on the Mister which has come a very long way. Really fun library. I didn't play a lot of games from the N64 back in the day since I didn't have one, but my friend down the road used to have several of us get-together after school to play Goldeneye, Star Fox and Mario Kart. Enjoying Rayman and F-Zero X.
@@itsmeimback732 Me too, I am super bad at it though ha. My buddy said you can set up two controllers as one almost like the wii and nunchuk from what it sounded like. I will have to mess around with that.
I've got an ATARI 2600+ sitting under the living room TV, and me and the wife have been playing through all the old cartradges from our childhood. It' surprising how playable they actually still are.
They want to take your money but not just once but like a drug dealer in multiple batches that's why you have live service games (b2p and f2p) they want maximum "engagement" from npcs that keep buying stuff every update for years and then they will shut down their servers and ask to buy another copy.
Nostalgia plays a role definitely. However, the PS5 is literally “let’s remaster everything” the console. I can’t even think of 5 exclusives (that interest me). The entire “let’s release a game broken and patch it later which you also have to install btw” really disincentivizes buying physical media and buying games in general since you only have so much storage.
It's not nostalgia. Even young people are playing older games. And I'm discovering old games I never played before like Fatal Frame 2 which I'm playing right now. If anything I hate nostalgia cause it feels sad
That s why PS4 is the better console. I am owning about 10 exclusives on the PS4 and they are all masterpieces, every single one of them. PS5 has... A nice spiderman game..... and i think that s it for me.... It a ghostconsole......
It s not notalgia. I doscovered GT4 last year, and NFS Porsche this year. I haven t encountered a better career mode in racing games better than those 2.
I feel this. I gave up on modern games a few years ago. More than that really. I think the last AAA title I bought and played was Death Stranding. It was... fine. I turned an old Chromebook into an emulation machine. Ive been having a blast playing Chrono Trigger, Super Metroid, God of War Ghost of Sparta, FFVII Crisis Core... just everything from PS2 and earlier. Its honestly reignited my love of gaming. Granted I'm old. I grew up playing NES at 5 years old and went from there. There is just something magical about retro gaming. More people need to give it a shot.
Retro games are shorter, so when you go back and replay it, you can get through a good chunk of it at a faster pace. So even if you discover new stuff in a modern game, it's a slow discovery.
@@NetBattlerMega man BN is a long game but it doesn’t consume your life when you’re not playing the game. Modern games have time limited events that trigger FOMO (fear of missing out) so you have to consistently log on play the game to keep up with the meta.
I think a lot of people are starting to share this mindset. I went into this year mostly playing older games or some of my favorite newer games at least that are a few years old. I just started losing interest in current AAA games. Now it seems like everyone agrees. I wonder what that could mean for the games industry. Also I played mgs4 online a ton back in the day. I was in a clan called “We Suck”. I wasn’t good at it but I didn’t care it was just fun and unique to mgs4.
@@surogunertwilight princess is already in HD for wiiu the fact I can't at least buy it digitally for switch is criminal... I'd buy every single zelda if they let me it's crazy they won't take our money for decades old games
@@Tacitus_kilgore_1903 I have it digitally for wii u, but nintendo has no obligation to provide every game they make on prior systems on their current systems. that would be like expecting every movie ever made to always get ported to the next format. If you want the game that badly, make the space for the system it's on and hunt down a wii u
@@suroguner no they don't have an obligation but it's called stupidity they're stupid... 13 million wiiu sold vs 130 million switch consoles and Nintendos complete lack of backwards compatibility is ridiculous... and the movie comparison doesn't prove your point because the vast majority of films were moved from vhs to DVD to blue Ray to digital sales
For me final fantasy 11 is the ultimate nostalgia trip. It amazes me that the story, and the expansions all weave into a story including you getting stronger. But the servers are mostly dead now.
But xiv felt weird to me, I remember playing the demo of the game on a ps4 and being sent to a zone and waiting in line to hop across some mine carts. Recently I heard someone describe it as an amusement park game. People like flocking to new stuff and feeling the glow of unity of the masse, but the quality of anything suffers when you pull stunts like that.
It takes me back to being like 12 and fighting my mom to stay home from doing pretty much anything. I used to have to take adhd medication (as prescribed by my doctor) and I could really get absorbed into that game for all time, it just never ends. They've moved the goalpost a bunch of times. By now I'm like level 160... Never been able to get someone to play it with me... it's a shame.
I’m playing more Ps2 era games than any other. X-men legends 1/2, Justice league Heroes & both ultimate alliance games :) loving it and having so much fun.
That's a very deep generation and the PS2 library in particular is a monster. Anyone who has the interest can have a really good time exploring the PS2. Lots of games across a lot of genres.
Because they had to be. There was no day one patching in the 90s-early 2000s. They had constraints on memory, storage, etc. it forced them to get good and be creative. It also forced players to be more imaginative; we knew it didn't look 'real', but it didn't matter.
@@MarkCurtis-u6oHonestly... in the 90's and early 2000's, videogames looked, videogamey... and you know what... I liked them looking like that. The wobbly textures on ps1. The pre-rendered backgrounds of resident evil and final fantasy. The early 90's presented us with amazing sprite work, and musical compositions. Then we had the revolutionary change to 3d graphics in the mid to late 90's. It was just a more enjoyable and enlightening time!
Well we got the new Doom release, that’s what I’ve been retroing. It may sound crazy, but I see Doom as the fps equivalent to Super Mario Brothers. It mainstreamed the genre it’s in and honestly is still one of the best ever made in that genre despite all the years since. I hope they do an enhanced version of Wolf 3d also using that kex tech from Nightdive.
When I was a kid the video game industry was dominated by nerds with an Apple II and a cartridge ROM burner. The video game industry in 2024 is dominated by dudes with suits and business degrees who have nothing to do with the development of the actual game. The suits' main focus is to extract as much money as possible from you. That's why I'm in full retreat from 99% of AAA gaming. Good call on indie games, RGT. The suits don't understand games. They don't like them independently from their ability to earn money. The nerds? They still get it. Support indie devs.
It's actually worse than that now, because the "suits" are mostly also activists, and activism is even given a higher priority than making money. And somehow, these suits are not fired, even after flop after flop after flop. Frankly, I don't know how they don't get sued for intentionally failing their fiduciary responsibilities.
Nothing wrong with playing retro games at all, man. It's a blast, because we were young and had to rely on our parents to buy games at birthdays and Christmas. Now it's anything goes.
As someone who grew up without a console and just got one in 2020 because there was nothing to do during covid i did agree that modern games are all about micro transactions and not so much the gameplay Recently I get a RG35XX PLUS and I've been loving playing all these old games from the 90's and early 2000s make me realize just how much I missed but also makes me happy because I get to enjoy this games for the first time. As for modern games I stay away from multiplayer games, I don't wanna waste my time on people who's only talking about the new skin they got for their rifle
Absolutely true... There's always what they say in such situations.... There are times when the older technology turns out to be the better option instead of the more modern thing....
We've been on the same generation it feels since 2005. Except the games feel tired. Generations used to have a huge step forward. HDR, RT, 120fps isn't a huge step forward, it'd just smoother
ive noticed that when youre young, youre bored of the old and excited for the new. now that im in my 40s, anything made in the last 30 years looks appealing. there is a neverending backlog. if the world didnt produce another videogame, id still be good for 10000 hours or so.
I played Baldurs Gate 3 this year and this is the only new game I've played so far in 2024. All the rest of the games have been PS2 games hotted up by an emulator. That generation was just the best for me.
I'm doing exactly the same. Modern games just seem to be massively over-padded dull experiences that last too long, look pretty but have absolutely no soul. I'm jumping back into my Dreamcast and N64 on a CRT and absolutely loving it.
Shout out to you. 1985 all day. I’m with you dude. Having seen gaming change so much over the years, I often want to play older games from when we were young. Those were the most fun
Reto games never really go out of style (many of them were made very well the first time out, they still play very well even today & they're still fun as heck to play)....the vast majority of my own video game library consists of many retro games & retro game compilations (and I love evey one of 'em). Peace all ✌️🎮
I had similar thoughts when looking to upgrade my gaming PC. I looked around and thought "What games are coming out that I actually care enough about to spend money upgrading? I couldn't think of any so saved my money.
Amen! I’m not going to say that modern gaming is crap or that modern gamers don’t know what they’re even talking about because I only share a small fraction of what makes them tick. I grew up with the Atari being my introduction to videogames and the NES being my indoctrination…I was 6-7 when I started and I’m 44 now just enjoying games here and there still but really starting to slow down. I’m finding myself turning back to the classics for many of the reasons you outlined and I do agree that it was amazing to have been a part of the rise of modern gaming through its entirety…I feel like there may be a time for us all to either keep adapting or to finally let go of the reigns and let someone else take over and that’s kind of where I feel I’m at in life. To all of the current gamers that keep this industry alive, keep on gaming and enjoy what you enjoy…I hope you can do so for as long as I have at this point…for all of the OG’s in gaming, I commend you as well for either sticking with it and adapting or I also feel the pain of a bygone era that remains so embedded in our hearts and minds. Thank God for emulation and retro gaming…multiple ways to enjoy the past no matter how you decide to go. RGT thank you for your time to make this and just know I definitely feel your sentiments…I’m doing exactly what you’re doing and enjoying every second of it…my experience with more modern gaming and consoles has created this rift that sees me spending more time with past gems then even entertaining the thought of buying another newer game anymore. Again, thank you beyond words!
I'm 37 and wonder if it's that games are worse or I'm getting old then I start something like link to the past or ff6 and realized games are just bad now...
I think the issue with the cost of modern games is due to corporate bloat and changing teams which is affecting all industries. Previous games were made by a team of 20 guys who were passionate about gaming and worked unpaid overtime just cause they loved what they did. This wasn’t a corporate slavedriver forcing them to work more (although crunch was a thing), this was guys going home and thinking about what kind of game they wanted to play and adding cool details and stuff in their spare time. This was guys sitting around playing the game with each other, hanging out, having a good time, and coming up with new ideas in real time. These days that same team of 20 passionate guys looks way different. Now it’s a team of 50 devs, 2 HR people, a couple operations analysts, a couple budget or finance analysts, and a few executives who don’t do much and leech off the budget. Of the 50 devs, 30 of them are just there for the paycheck and don’t care much about the game. 5 of them are diversity hires who don’t care much either. These 35 people are below average workers who don’t go above and beyond, and get jealous of coworkers who do. They see “Steve” from the art team working overtime because he’s passionate about his job and they think he’s brown nosing and being a shill for the CEO so they treat him passive aggressively. Steve, being a human, starts to feel self conscious about most of his coworkers treating him like this so he slowly becomes less engaged. He sees this game that he’s really passionate about, but what’s the point of adding cool details when no one else is doing it? So he slowly becomes one of those “just there for the paycheck” type of people. Now there’s 36 people who aren’t passionate about the game. And the disease spreads throughout the organization. This is the core problem. Game development became like every other corporate office. Devoid of life, filled with a lot of passionless toxic people, and full of a late of people who only care about money. I’m speaking from experience btw. I’m certain this is what the issue is, you can’t just bring in a bunch of people who don’t care about gaming and expect to produce a good game, it doesn’t work that way.
Hey, sorry if that happened to you in the gaming industry. You seem like a creative person and I hope you can find a good team to make games with someday.
Part of why games these days aren’t as good as retro games is because the stuff you use to be able to unlock are now being sold to you in loot boxes or expensive DLC.
I thought I was the only one who felt this way! I spent $500 on a steam deck and just started playing retro gaming out through emulation. Currently playing “The Warriors” and “God Of War chain of Olympus “
I've done the same thing as my kids get older, I try to keep things non-violent around them and have collected all the old NFS and Burnout games. NFS Carbon Collector's copy for 360 is a tough find!
I am 100% tired of online multiplayer as an excuse to not make in-game content. I've been either playing retro games or modern indie games recreating retro playstyle.
I didn’t expect to watch this entire video, however it was so on point with how I’ve been feeling about games lately and thought I was the only one who’s been playing retro games because the new ones have no charm. Thank you for 26 min of real talk!!
This is why I am excited to play the Castlevania Advance and Dominus collections this Halloween. Some I'll replay and some I'll play for the first time ever. You always feel good when playing these games. On a side note, any Castlevania fan should visit Romania and see the Transylvanian region. Beautiful castles and great vibes.
I feel it. More often than not this year I've been playing older stuff through emulators. SSX 3, Burnout Revenge, Fire Emblem 4, Sin and Punishment to name a few. The only real modern game I've been enjoying recently is a remake of an old game - Persona 3 reload.
Old is gold as they say. Back then gaming was all about fun and passion. I currently play PS1, PS2, PS3, OG Xbox, Xbox 360, N64 and Nintendo DS/3DS games. 😃 My PS4 and Switch (Oled) are the weak links in my collection. 😆 I’m going to try to get a backwards compatible Nintendo Wii and PSP 3000 this year or by next year.
Nintendo is the only company that tries new things and innovative. And like you said they actually make games in all genres. They havnt done mich since totk but i think there just saving alot for the switch 2.
was born in '01 as a 23 year old I can say, this generation is definitley the weakest compared to the Ps2, xbox, gamecube era. and the HD 360,ps3,wii era. it's just sad man, I've been literally building a collection of wii, gamecube, ps1/2 games and been having a great time with them all
games were made to be fun. Now they're made to make money. Nothing else matters. Until people stop buying these stupid battle passes and virtual cards etc etc etc, nothing will change.
Dolphin has had me giggling like a little school girl lately. I’m playing maybe 3 games on my PS5 but having loads of fun playing even more GameCube games. And there is definitely a shift when switching between the 2.
Sorry for the long video. I had a lot to say. lol
we need and update on the basment
PS3 360 wii is not retro, retro is anything before PS2 gamecube OG Xbox dreamcast.
I like these subjects. I’m not quite there yet as I’ve just discovered just how great the switch library is and playing through as much as I can as well as mixing in older games (Xbox 360/ps3 gen/wii/wii u) that have been re released in some way
Dude you were cool till you redid your intro....bring it back dog
im currently playing my 360 backlog while I wait a year or two for these current gen games to get ALL of the patches, fix, DLC, etc.... into one nice package. So that I can buy the game COMPLETE just like the ol' days lol
Sadly games aren’t actually about games anymore, but rather answering to corporate shareholders
What's funnier is that most companies with the products they put out these days that answer to these Shareholders have been failing spectacularly something's got to give eventually.
Too much
W oak k rapp, ya know? I wanna game/enjoy -- not be prop a g an d.i.zed/ preech ed 2.
@@louisewilliams1258Cut it out with that nonsense already. Guys like you think literally anything is "woke" now. It has nothing to do with gameplay, anyways.
@@davidaitken8503 It's not "nonsense". It's absolutely true. It's called "ideological subversion" and is a topic that you should dive into. It's a very powerful tool that is used to get people to believe absolute rubbish and to deny reality, even when the facts are presented right in front of them.
Do you want an example?
let's not forget "consulting" firms like Sweet Baby Inc being a cancer on modern gaming
98% of games I’ve been playing have been retro/old-school games. I simply don’t have the patience for modern gaming crap in 2024. Same with movies and tv shows.
You couldn't have said it any better.
@@nerdbit84 the game I am building is 2D and I've done all of the sprite work and sound effects so far in 16/32bit style.
I been playing MegaMan Zero lately, what an awesome franchise.
Modern games are made to hook you in and do nothing else but play a single games. Older games are the game you can enjoy it right away and you don’t have to think about it soon as you turn off the console.
@AkagiRedSun please rephrase your dialog
The reason we play retro games is because they are real games.
I agree.
I just started a new run of the infinity engine games. BG3 is garbage, the older games are great though.
Gaming went corporate, nothing kills creativity more than that.
Players wanted gaming to "get big" for years and years. They got what they wanted.
Gaming has always been coporate.
@@Mister_Phafanapolis What era did they say that?
@@Mister_Phafanapolis gamers never wanted gaming to "get big" ... it got big on its own like everything else that makes money.
This notion that gaming "went corporate" is confusing. Since the SNES video games were always an investment for a company to see a return. They've always been corporate.
I think now there's just less unicorns at the top and more business oriented people leading. And by unicorn I mean leaders who were creatives first but also business conscious. Now it's flipped bc of these massive budgets and bigger data to work with
I treat games like books. Some of the best books are already made.
Same with movies and music.
@@EightPieceBox most definitely
Books are written, but yes I agree.
Games used to be made by people who were passionate about making games. Now they’re made by people who are passionate about making money. And the rest is history.
Or they make them for OR made by a certain demographic who do not play actual video games
But you make an excellent point
THey're made for streamers who make money making videos playing them. IE all the PVP Multiplayer. No real new single player games. Online Multiplayer are for people who have friends. Gaming used to be a Hobby and not it's a "Job"....Gaming Nerd Culture of the outcasts with no friends got appropriated by the "Jocks" and cool kids that used to make fun of the kids spending all their time in gaming
People who are passionate about making money!? What!? Is that why they INSIST on LOSING money!?
No, seriously, they make a product that loses tons of money, then they look at the reasons that it lost money, and DOUBLE AND TRIPLE DOWN! Every single time!
They are made by dei hires now
Nintendo and Sega are still publishing fun ,family games in this modern era. This is why I bought my then 6 year old son a Nintendo Switch back in Christmas 2022.
The 90s and early 2000s were a great era for gaming. Game publishers took way more risks back then on new IPs.
And many still do.
yes that was the sweet spot between freedom and creativity suported with enogh technologies to develop games. After that massification of onlime gaming came along and the debacle started...not because the online itself, but because of the possibility of grinding massively for the companyes.
You don’t know your in a golden era until it’s over
Amen 👊🏾
Last 45 years has been the golden era in gaming Music and films had theirs similarly. Hopefully smaller creaters can still flourish. Capitalism ruins EVERYTHING eventually. Support grass roots always! Have to keep tilling the land, so to speak.
I mean to be fair I play a ton online multiplayer. I love it and this is the best era for it. I do agree single player games have fallen off creatively.
@@jr.jamesfuller9282 but capitalism is what grew these industries in the first place . Without capitalism you wouldn’t have iPhones .. capitalism gets millions of people out of poverty. .. I get it though, late stage capitalism causes a host of problems
@@brianmeen2158 I completely agree with you that capitalism has done many great things! However there are certainly negatives and calling them out doesn't diminish those things. Corporate greed IS currently leading to a downswing in game quality. Amongst other factors of course, such as the unrealistic cost of making games today, and economic factors that are far from exclusive to capitalistic societies.
I’m 1000% with you bud. 47 year old who’s been gaming for 4 decades, and while I don’t play nearly as much for obvious reasons, I still keep up with the hobby.
I see it like this…The jump from one console gen to another was so exponential for decades that we were hooked. Atari -> 8bit -> 16bit -> 32bit -> CDRom -> 64bit -> HD etc all the way up to 4K was truly special. This golden age in gaming from the mid 80’s to the circa 2015 was so magical because the jump and WOW factor was significant.
Since then, each subsequent iteration brought only marginal improvements so you
combine that with everything you mentioned and OG’s like you and me are simply having a harder time getting excited for modern day gaming.
I understand your point. I look at some digital foundry comparison or some remaster graphics comparison and can't see any significant difference. RTX here and there, shadows goes to slightly different direction or have a little different tint. Who cares?
And I've thought that graphics peaked at 2010 and nothing better will come out.
But! For example compare Dead Rising 1 (even prev. remaster that came out in 2016) with new announced remaster Dead Rising, and you will see a big difference. Even though it's a difference between 2016 and 2024. Graphics progress slowed down? Sure! But it's happening every day, little by little, and this little improvements turned out into big change spread into a decade. I see huge difference between 2014 game and 2024 game. If it is not Nintendo exclusive that is :)
So I understand you, but also I think we can appreciate the improvement still. It's almost like all games are beautiful today, if they aren't failed the art style (like Immortals of Aveum did)
To me the PS3 and Xbox 360 are relatively recent systems, but to others these will seem very old. Then the first 'TV Games System' I had was a first generation PONG systems in the 1970s.
They weren't even called 'consoles' at that point, and I've had at least one machine from every console generation from then. I agree the biggest change happened from the mid 1990s to before 2015. I have an Xbox series S that is never played, and old machines from the VIC 20 to the PS3 that are.
I honestly think new capabilities of each system is a selling point. I agree there was more of a noticeable upgrade prior, but much more is missing in modern games.
The industry is fixated on graphics and content over storytelling and fun. No doubt the games aren't as fun then... I do not need 8 characters all with unique abilities for wario ware though! Souless over bloated monotony just loses to so many 16 bit era games
I really miss being about to pop a disk in and play. Why haven't disks evolved? There's gotta be a way to play games straight from the disk again.
@@botezsimp5808 Disks have evolved, it's just that they arn't utilised much now because it suites the games componies better to use digital download.
It's because big corporations got involved in video game making.
The greedy corporations that have stockholders.
This notion that gaming "went corporate" is confusing. Since the SNES video games were always an investment for a company to see a return. They've always been corporate.
I think now there's just less unicorns at the top and more business oriented people leading. And by unicorn I mean leaders who were creatives first but also business conscious. Now it's flipped bc of these massive budgets and bigger data to work with
@@basedmek The guy who did "Tactics Ogre," "Final Fantasy Tactics," and "Vagrant Story," Yasumi Matsuno, was complaining about how derivative and money-chasing games had become by the early-to-mid 90's; in fact, that's one of the big reasons why we got "Vagrant Story."
they always been involved. The thing is the massification of online gaming gave them the chance to realize how to milk games ultil the last consequences.
Been collecting for PS2, PS3, XBOX and 360 for about a year now. My kids love the old HALO games, Splinter Cell, Fight Night and many others. I emulate everything before these systems.
New games are too dependent on the internet, lack a good story and deprive our kids the shoulder-to-shoulder gaming experience we grew up playing on the couch and at the arcade.
I remember telling my friend years ago all that multiplayer crap was going to kill gaming. Well as you say the best games aren't really online dependent, most likely because offline games has to have depth. I'm enjoying older games again now and enjoying the depth of story and quality.
I'm sorry, but Halo was very dull franchise. I played several of them and unless you love that scifi factor they were really nothing special. It's literally CoD with some alien stuff.
@MJ-uk6lu I said my kids enjoy playing it, not that it's one of the greatest games of all time, which it probably is.
Same here. I've been buying a ton of Xbox 360 and classic movies on physical since last summer. Got some good prices last year, now the cost of some physical media is going up. I don't really want much to be connected to the internet anymore, whereas 5 years ago I was interested in that stuff. I sold my Series X too and I'm done with new consoles going forward.
@@mikemetheny1086 I owned my X360 since I was a kid and have bought used Halo game and it was really boring. I think it was ODST. I tried Halo 1 on PC and had same impression. I personally had the most fun with 360 in games like Forza Motorsport 3, Thief, Kinect Adventures, Kinect Sports, The Darkness II, Spec Ops: The line and Sleeping Dogs. Your kids really shouldn't play slop like Halo on console like that.
My ps5 is a paperweight.
Same...
My ps5 only purpose is to party up with my friends while we play nintendo switch games 😂
Don't worry one day you'll be able to afford a real PS5
I sold mine last week. And only owned it for 4 months. For ff7 rebirth and 16. Rebirth was good. 16 was just okay.
An expensive paperweight at that😂😂
This industry needs to get it together. You can't begin a story and then make people wait 7-8 years for the next installment in the franchise.
Very much this. Looking at you Elder Scrolls...
Haha went 14 years from kingdom hearts 2 to Kingdom Hearts 3 lol
Square Enix has left the chat.
Yeah I forget the story after about the 2yr mark.
hollywood is mostly the same- creatively bankrupt
I’m so glad I had the chance to grow up thru the 2004 gaming year. Best year for gaming … halo2 , San Andreas, half life 2, Need for Speed Underground 2, Warcraft , silent hill 4 , metal gear 3, doom 3, Unreal Tournament 04, Tony hawks underground 2, ninja gaiden, Grand Turismo 4 .. and January 2005 had resident evil 4.. yeah high school was great! 😌
1992 was better, but 2004 was one of the best for sure.
@@zetablade7018
1998 ?
ESPN NFL 2K5 and Madden NFL 2005 head-to-head. Star Wars Battlefront, KOTOR II, WoW (never for me, but large impact), Burnout 3, Fable, and Bloodrayne 2
2004 gives me fav year a run for its money. As does 1996.
For me, you can't beat 1999. I loved that year.
@@albertlevins9191 What did 1996 and 1999 have again?
I feel this. Retro games, indie games, rom-hacks, and fan games have most of my attention these days. There's still that creative passion when it comes to making games, but you mostly see it with solo projects or smaller teams who just want to make something cool and fun instead of chasing $$$.
My favorite recent trend in fan-made gaming are randomizers. Retro games are already fun on their own, but randomization turns them into completely new experiences each time you play them!
New games lack passion. Let’s be honest new games lack any type of the old school goodness of even the PS3/360 era. 90% of games now are wack af.
If all you play is triple A then I can see how you say this
I painfully agree with you
Indie games are flourishing and triple A games are a dumpster fire
Depends on the game.. like a dragon/yakuza has tons of passion in it, even monkey ball lol. Sure not every game, but let's not like every retro game is a passion filled game that is good.
Call me weird for saying this, but it almost feels like its being done by design
As an almost 18 year old this year I have played more games from the 90s than I have from this decade. There's just something so magical about retro games that modern games can't reclaim.
And it's NOT just nostalgia.
Happy to hear today's younger gamers turning to retro games. What are some of your 90s favorites?
*old man voice* back in my day, games were made to be played over and over without getting too boring too quickly. Developing games was very cutthroat and highly competitive. The games needed to have replay value since the typical families back then could only afford a handful of games for just one console per gaming generation. Because of that, exclusives were a big deal and the FOMO was real.
I'm 25, and Ive also been doing this, as well as watching TV shows from the 90s and early 2000s.
yeah, i play modern games and i never finish them, i play old games just to relive the memories, i say i will play it for a while and get back in the new games but i end up finishing them. I even enjoy old games i never played before. Why? Because like old disney it had "magic" people made these games out of passion, now every game is made with a template as if its made by ai and assembled in a factory, everything must be done in a specific way to fit "best practices" and must have a list of things like a checkbox that must be there, it all feels so pointless. Its just not fun, its a grind, its a job.
My guess:
Not yet graphically impressive, that you can't leave out some imagination.
I've seen many amazing looking games, but due to Realistic art styles it is falling flat. It's trying to do something special.
We had it so good in the late 90s and early 2000s
Early 90s was great too snes & genesis era was bitching
SNES to Dreamcast, the 90's were AMAZING!!
Bro went ham the whole video. 😂 I agree 100 percent. Games these days are not the same as the older classics, especially when it comes to the older sports games.
Same here man, 43 years young. Tekken 8 on the PS5 today just don’t hit the same as Street fighter turbo on the Snes in 93’ for me. Nostalgia plays a huge part. 👍
Tekken 8 is a great game
@@topshotta2000 Unless you want to spam rage attacks, deal with certain characters being better than others, and pluggers, be my guest. My last straw was with Heihachi coming back from the dead and you have to buy him as DLC and I was like nah I'm done with this franchise.
Again, all these super fancy, expensive and complex graphics. Emulating older Tekken games is arguably more fun than 7 and 8. On a Steam Deck, for example, we get all those older games that are full games, and they don't drain your battery just cause you want to have fun with your fighting game. These newer games seem like such a mess to me sometimes.
Most modern games are like chores to finish and it's not fun doing chores. Like Reggie fils - aime said "If it's not fun why bother?"
Hello Dragons Dogma 2😂
I remember spending hours grinding various RPGs and modern games take less time.
@@paoloalcantara2813 Alan wake 2 is an amazing newer game that feels like a classic well thought out experience
My friend said it is not video game but video work.
I noticed that as well and I burnout incredibly fast after awhile with a game
With your obvious love of virtual cards you should give Balatro a look
Please don't comment on my videos
@@RGT85😂😂😂😂😂
Balatro is good and extremely addicting. Been playing it nonstop.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The relationship between these two Nintubers is comparable with the relationship Homer Simpson has with Ned Flanders. 😂
Retro games are relaxing and nostalgic asf. No dlcs no bs features just a solid Gameplay. I play old call of duty games now cuz i find it fun and relaxing so thats my reason
No buying characters
I LOVE RETRO GAMES, MAN! That's why I'm STILL growing my Retro Room!
Yep. Got a steam deck, installed emulators, and started looking back. Currently playing through Wii titles I missed.
Sure, nostalgia plays a part, but I play retro games over 2024 games because they are just BETTER!! I grew up in the 80's and 90's with my NES/SNES/GB/N64 and they were my favourite era of gaming. Complete experiences on the cartridge. No DLC, Lootboxes, Season passes. Just pure gaming!!
Let's not act like all retro games are good lol. The bad games back then just didn't get played as much as copy paste games today
Agreed
Just watch, it's going to get to the point where having a complete game in your hands that you can play anytime you want offline is going to be a luxury that most people won't be able to afford.
@@Gravy1255No one said that. 😋 But they were better overall. 🤷♂️
@@YeeHahKablaamIt's why I have 300+ of them now. Before the young uns realize this.
The last “modern” game I’ve purchased was Buldur’s Gate 3 and that game is a freaking masterpiece. You can tell that Larian Studios was motivated and passionate to make an incredible game. I feel like most game developers lack exactly that, passion and motivation. Without that, great games are more difficult to create.
These days games are more often than not money making products instead of pieces of art. Gaming got way too popular and big in the last 15 years.
I’m sure I know why you enjoyed it so much 🏳️🌈👨❤️💋👨
Let alone bleeding talent due to the industry wide lay offs like it's going out of style, that's the other problem losing S Tier Talent after they prove themselves of being capable of making some incredible work.
Some of this talent can go from being new blood to just long time industry veterans that to just throw it all away as these companies do is one of the most foolish ideas given.
Some leave the industry all together others join other companies in the industry like what happened with the former Rocksteady Devs forming their own studio out of frustration with their former employer.
Anything is possible and it's worth supporting talent when they show themselves to hopefully push the industry in the right direction for once, vote with your wallet as they say.
This is also the type of game that will stand the test of time. People are still playing it and trying new ideas the game has everything you need.
now you said an exception
Being a PC gamer almost all my life retro gaming always went toe to toe with contemporary gaming for me. And I still do it. It's just a joy when one week you're fighting through Elden Ring's DLC and the next week you're playing Doom 2 or the original Deus Ex. And speaking of graphics I love the "Unreal Engine 1 look" with modern resolution, there is something catchy in sharp low poly models which are very clean to look with nothing mudding the picture, no noise or something. One recommendation to all of you: Rune, very good 3D action hack'n'slaher? game in Norse mythology setting. A bit of tinkering and you will run it with minimum amount of problems.
Three categories of gaming:
Good
Bad
Agenda
Welcome to the club, RGT. I'm currently playing FF Tactics, and Spirit Tracks.
Here, Here. I'm doing the same with right now Lufia (gameboy), Legend of Dragoon (psx), and Suikoden Tierkreis (ds).
Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 enhanced editions, and SNES roms here.
PS1 rules!
I just finished Donkey Kong Land on gameboy and started NFS Porsche and Age of Empires 1 on my retro PC.
I am waiting for my initial D gba copy from Japan ❤
These companies better start to realize, that right now a person has access to over 100000+++ great games.
Retro is where it's at right now , so many great games!
It seems like they are catching on, they're doing their best to get rid of emulation rom websites right now
Yup, even low end PCs can run emulators. My cheap laptop for work can comfortably run PS2 games. 🤷♂️
@@vegetashairline3060
Bro, what is you Laptop configuration ?
What emulator you use ?
@@malachor5ve beautiful way --_--
They are catching allright, they are remastering everything 😂
Industry peaked in 2008.
Disagree, it peaked in 2011
@@vegetashairline3060 not even close you two
It peaked 2008 and on 2011 and on 2016
2017 and 2019 had plenty of good games too
Try 1998
I got my girlfriend six-year-old son playing donkey Kong 64… he loves the 64 , Mario kart , Mario 64 and all of them wave race, and excite bike.
I built myself a bartop arcade. I've spent ours on the cabinet itself. Sanding, custom staining it a cool pattern. RGB speakers. Made the marquee & properly backlighting it. Large playdeck with Sanwa buttons & Sanwa stick with 7 lbs spring & 4/8 way on-the-fly switcher. Custom Retrobat build with a curated list of games covering Pong all the way to 360/PS3 era. Not a rom dump. A curated list of stuff I'm interested in. It will take the rest of my life to even come close to playing everything & discovering things I missed through the years. The hidden gems as it were. For online - I hit up Fightcade 2. That's were my money has gone & my interest. 98% of modern games are hollow & uninspired cash grabs.
I got the N64 out yesterday and cleaning it going to start playing it
have you got one of those carts that has a memory card in it to put all the roms on it?
I don't have an N64 but playing on the Mister which has come a very long way. Really fun library. I didn't play a lot of games from the N64 back in the day since I didn't have one, but my friend down the road used to have several of us get-together after school to play Goldeneye, Star Fox and Mario Kart. Enjoying Rayman and F-Zero X.
@@andyvandercoy6049 loved Goldedeye
@@itsmeimback732 Me too, I am super bad at it though ha. My buddy said you can set up two controllers as one almost like the wii and nunchuk from what it sounded like. I will have to mess around with that.
I've got an ATARI 2600+ sitting under the living room TV, and me and the wife have been playing through all the old cartradges from our childhood. It' surprising how playable they actually still are.
Old games were designed to have fun and bring people together. New games are designed to take your money.
They want to take your money but not just once but like a drug dealer in multiple batches that's why you have live service games (b2p and f2p) they want maximum "engagement" from npcs that keep buying stuff every update for years and then they will shut down their servers and ask to buy another copy.
Nostalgia plays a role definitely.
However, the PS5 is literally “let’s remaster everything” the console. I can’t even think of 5 exclusives (that interest me).
The entire “let’s release a game broken and patch it later which you also have to install btw” really disincentivizes buying physical media and buying games in general since you only have so much storage.
It's not nostalgia. Even young people are playing older games. And I'm discovering old games I never played before like Fatal Frame 2 which I'm playing right now. If anything I hate nostalgia cause it feels sad
"Literally" ... stop it.
That s why PS4 is the better console. I am owning about 10 exclusives on the PS4 and they are all masterpieces, every single one of them.
PS5 has... A nice spiderman game..... and i think that s it for me.... It a ghostconsole......
It s not notalgia.
I doscovered GT4 last year, and NFS Porsche this year.
I haven t encountered a better career mode in racing games better than those 2.
I feel this. I gave up on modern games a few years ago. More than that really. I think the last AAA title I bought and played was Death Stranding. It was... fine.
I turned an old Chromebook into an emulation machine. Ive been having a blast playing Chrono Trigger, Super Metroid, God of War Ghost of Sparta, FFVII Crisis Core... just everything from PS2 and earlier. Its honestly reignited my love of gaming.
Granted I'm old. I grew up playing NES at 5 years old and went from there. There is just something magical about retro gaming. More people need to give it a shot.
Out of the 51 games I have on my Series X I'd say 40 of them are from the 360 and XBox One eras.
Companies made games with passion back then.
Retro games are shorter, so when you go back and replay it, you can get through a good chunk of it at a faster pace. So even if you discover new stuff in a modern game, it's a slow discovery.
Retro games aren't shorter, Megaman battle network and Twilight Princess are the best example.
@@NetBattler I was thinking real retro games. NES & SNES... and shorter on average, I'm sure there were RPGs really long
@@NetBattlerMega man BN is a long game but it doesn’t consume your life when you’re not playing the game. Modern games have time limited events that trigger FOMO (fear of missing out) so you have to consistently log on play the game to keep up with the meta.
@@AkagiRedSunthose are live service games you brings up,so it doesn't count.
BOTW
I think a lot of people are starting to share this mindset. I went into this year mostly playing older games or some of my favorite newer games at least that are a few years old. I just started losing interest in current AAA games. Now it seems like everyone agrees. I wonder what that could mean for the games industry.
Also I played mgs4 online a ton back in the day. I was in a clan called “We Suck”. I wasn’t good at it but I didn’t care it was just fun and unique to mgs4.
could mean Nintendo should start re-releasing retro titles for their old systems.
Starting? Jesus you guys are sp far behind
@@surogunertwilight princess is already in HD for wiiu the fact I can't at least buy it digitally for switch is criminal... I'd buy every single zelda if they let me it's crazy they won't take our money for decades old games
@@Tacitus_kilgore_1903 I have it digitally for wii u, but nintendo has no obligation to provide every game they make on prior systems on their current systems. that would be like expecting every movie ever made to always get ported to the next format.
If you want the game that badly, make the space for the system it's on and hunt down a wii u
@@suroguner no they don't have an obligation but it's called stupidity they're stupid... 13 million wiiu sold vs 130 million switch consoles and Nintendos complete lack of backwards compatibility is ridiculous... and the movie comparison doesn't prove your point because the vast majority of films were moved from vhs to DVD to blue Ray to digital sales
I painfully miss old-school gaming 😅
Me to games were fun and playful without all this money grab bs.
Grow up kid
@emanhero6311 yes video games should be fun
@michaelmyersplays4992 that what a homeless shelter case manger implies when he told me to quit my job
To be fair all those game still exist. I just play my ps2 on an old tv when there's no new games I'm interested in.
For me final fantasy 11 is the ultimate nostalgia trip. It amazes me that the story, and the expansions all weave into a story including you getting stronger. But the servers are mostly dead now.
But xiv felt weird to me, I remember playing the demo of the game on a ps4 and being sent to a zone and waiting in line to hop across some mine carts. Recently I heard someone describe it as an amusement park game. People like flocking to new stuff and feeling the glow of unity of the masse, but the quality of anything suffers when you pull stunts like that.
It takes me back to being like 12 and fighting my mom to stay home from doing pretty much anything.
I used to have to take adhd medication (as prescribed by my doctor) and I could really get absorbed into that game for all time, it just never ends. They've moved the goalpost a bunch of times. By now I'm like level 160...
Never been able to get someone to play it with me... it's a shame.
1991 John Madden Football '92. 1992 Sensible Soccer. 1993 NBA Jam. 1994 NHLPA Hockey '93. Back then there was a great sports game released every year.
I’m playing more Ps2 era games than any other. X-men legends 1/2, Justice league Heroes & both ultimate alliance games :) loving it and having so much fun.
That's a very deep generation and the PS2 library in particular is a monster. Anyone who has the interest can have a really good time exploring the PS2. Lots of games across a lot of genres.
I am playing through xmen legends right now! Wish I had the ultimate alliance games
Loved XMen Legends, great games and well worth it for the co op mode.
I'm revisiting PS1 era a bit.. Tried MoH and it's kinda neat.
I’d die if they made an X-men legends remaster! Silently praying lol
100%. PLEASE make more longer videos like this, I really enjoyed it.
Because the old gaming developers are better than modern day gaming developers. That's why the ps1 and most definitely the PS2 era was so amazing.
Because they had to be. There was no day one patching in the 90s-early 2000s. They had constraints on memory, storage, etc. it forced them to get good and be creative. It also forced players to be more imaginative; we knew it didn't look 'real', but it didn't matter.
@@MarkCurtis-u6oHonestly... in the 90's and early 2000's, videogames looked, videogamey... and you know what... I liked them looking like that. The wobbly textures on ps1. The pre-rendered backgrounds of resident evil and final fantasy. The early 90's presented us with amazing sprite work, and musical compositions. Then we had the revolutionary change to 3d graphics in the mid to late 90's. It was just a more enjoyable and enlightening time!
@@robertharper3114 yes. Limitations are what breeds creativity. Now, everything either looks the same, or is intentionally trying to look old.
Well we got the new Doom release, that’s what I’ve been retroing. It may sound crazy, but I see Doom as the fps equivalent to Super Mario Brothers. It mainstreamed the genre it’s in and honestly is still one of the best ever made in that genre despite all the years since. I hope they do an enhanced version of Wolf 3d also using that kex tech from Nightdive.
Been playing night dives remasters like a crackhead!
@@jose131991
Older game were better and its not just nostalgia
When I was a kid the video game industry was dominated by nerds with an Apple II and a cartridge ROM burner. The video game industry in 2024 is dominated by dudes with suits and business degrees who have nothing to do with the development of the actual game. The suits' main focus is to extract as much money as possible from you. That's why I'm in full retreat from 99% of AAA gaming. Good call on indie games, RGT. The suits don't understand games. They don't like them independently from their ability to earn money. The nerds? They still get it. Support indie devs.
Suit people are straight up fucking cancer spreading everywhere in entertainment.
It's actually worse than that now, because the "suits" are mostly also activists, and activism is even given a higher priority than making money. And somehow, these suits are not fired, even after flop after flop after flop. Frankly, I don't know how they don't get sued for intentionally failing their fiduciary responsibilities.
Nothing wrong with playing retro games at all, man. It's a blast, because we were young and had to rely on our parents to buy games at birthdays and Christmas. Now it's anything goes.
I remember my
Buddies coming over to play 16 bit sports games co-op or vs .. oh and the contra type games .. those were good times
As someone who grew up without a console and just got one in 2020 because there was nothing to do during covid i did agree that modern games are all about micro transactions and not so much the gameplay
Recently I get a RG35XX PLUS and I've been loving playing all these old games from the 90's and early 2000s make me realize just how much I missed but also makes me happy because I get to enjoy this games for the first time.
As for modern games I stay away from multiplayer games, I don't wanna waste my time on people who's only talking about the new skin they got for their rifle
Absolutely true...
There's always what they say in such situations....
There are times when the older technology turns out to be the better option instead of the more modern thing....
Retro gaming is awesome.
We've been on the same generation it feels since 2005. Except the games feel tired. Generations used to have a huge step forward. HDR, RT, 120fps isn't a huge step forward, it'd just smoother
For sure. And things like RT come at the cost of performance.
Me too. I just bought a Fat Boy PS2 for around $80 bucks, and a NDS Lite. Can’t wait to get my collection bk up 💪🏽
ive noticed that when youre young, youre bored of the old and excited for the new. now that im in my 40s, anything made in the last 30 years looks appealing. there is a neverending backlog. if the world didnt produce another videogame, id still be good for 10000 hours or so.
I've been playing all the great 360 games I missed out on. A lot if them hold up pretty well.
I bought a bunch of digital games before the store closed. I'm eating good right now I have lots of fun games lined up.
If it doesn’t run at 60 fps it’s not holding up
@@saucemasterx911most games of that gen ran at 30 on consoles, you shouldn't let that put you off playing them though.
@@thelastofus2872 I’ll emulate them on pc…. I wont play good games that are held back by 30fps and frame drops
@@saucemasterx911 fair enough 👍
I played Baldurs Gate 3 this year and this is the only new game I've played so far in 2024. All the rest of the games have been PS2 games hotted up by an emulator. That generation was just the best for me.
Jesus Christ thank you for the variety statement!!! There were choices wtf happened!!!
I'm doing exactly the same. Modern games just seem to be massively over-padded dull experiences that last too long, look pretty but have absolutely no soul.
I'm jumping back into my Dreamcast and N64 on a CRT and absolutely loving it.
My little nephew is 11yrs old and loves retro games. He says they are better.
Mine cries for Fortnite skins.
Stands up, salutes... and starts a slow clap! 👏
I played Metal Gear series more than anything else and Still do
This is easily one of your most based videos ever. Your thoughts echo what many of us hardcore gamers are feeling.
Shout out to you. 1985 all day. I’m with you dude. Having seen gaming change so much over the years, I often want to play older games from when we were young. Those were the most fun
Reto games never really go out of style (many of them were made very well the first time out, they still play very well even today & they're still fun as heck to play)....the vast majority of my own video game library consists of many retro games & retro game compilations (and I love evey one of 'em). Peace all ✌️🎮
I had similar thoughts when looking to upgrade my gaming PC. I looked around and thought "What games are coming out that I actually care enough about to spend money upgrading? I couldn't think of any so saved my money.
At the time I based my PC build around maximising for RPCS3. 😅
I think a lot of us are doing the same. Been working through Final Fantasy 6 currently.
I'm going to get to that game next. What a masterpiece
I'm playing FF8. FInally figuring out the junction system and the card game lol
@@robertharper3114the card games from 8 and 9 are so good
Amen! I’m not going to say that modern gaming is crap or that modern gamers don’t know what they’re even talking about because I only share a small fraction of what makes them tick. I grew up with the Atari being my introduction to videogames and the NES being my indoctrination…I was 6-7 when I started and I’m 44 now just enjoying games here and there still but really starting to slow down. I’m finding myself turning back to the classics for many of the reasons you outlined and I do agree that it was amazing to have been a part of the rise of modern gaming through its entirety…I feel like there may be a time for us all to either keep adapting or to finally let go of the reigns and let someone else take over and that’s kind of where I feel I’m at in life. To all of the current gamers that keep this industry alive, keep on gaming and enjoy what you enjoy…I hope you can do so for as long as I have at this point…for all of the OG’s in gaming, I commend you as well for either sticking with it and adapting or I also feel the pain of a bygone era that remains so embedded in our hearts and minds. Thank God for emulation and retro gaming…multiple ways to enjoy the past no matter how you decide to go.
RGT thank you for your time to make this and just know I definitely feel your sentiments…I’m doing exactly what you’re doing and enjoying every second of it…my experience with more modern gaming and consoles has created this rift that sees me spending more time with past gems then even entertaining the thought of buying another newer game anymore. Again, thank you beyond words!
Wow, you really nailed it with the new FF and my feelings on it. Happy I'm not alone.
Retro media will always be undefeated, never mess with our nostalgia
I'm your age I feel exactly the same way and I am playing way more retro than modern gaming...✌️😎💯
I'm 37 and wonder if it's that games are worse or I'm getting old then I start something like link to the past or ff6 and realized games are just bad now...
I think the issue with the cost of modern games is due to corporate bloat and changing teams which is affecting all industries.
Previous games were made by a team of 20 guys who were passionate about gaming and worked unpaid overtime just cause they loved what they did. This wasn’t a corporate slavedriver forcing them to work more (although crunch was a thing), this was guys going home and thinking about what kind of game they wanted to play and adding cool details and stuff in their spare time. This was guys sitting around playing the game with each other, hanging out, having a good time, and coming up with new ideas in real time.
These days that same team of 20 passionate guys looks way different. Now it’s a team of 50 devs, 2 HR people, a couple operations analysts, a couple budget or finance analysts, and a few executives who don’t do much and leech off the budget. Of the 50 devs, 30 of them are just there for the paycheck and don’t care much about the game. 5 of them are diversity hires who don’t care much either. These 35 people are below average workers who don’t go above and beyond, and get jealous of coworkers who do. They see “Steve” from the art team working overtime because he’s passionate about his job and they think he’s brown nosing and being a shill for the CEO so they treat him passive aggressively. Steve, being a human, starts to feel self conscious about most of his coworkers treating him like this so he slowly becomes less engaged. He sees this game that he’s really passionate about, but what’s the point of adding cool details when no one else is doing it? So he slowly becomes one of those “just there for the paycheck” type of people. Now there’s 36 people who aren’t passionate about the game. And the disease spreads throughout the organization.
This is the core problem. Game development became like every other corporate office. Devoid of life, filled with a lot of passionless toxic people, and full of a late of people who only care about money. I’m speaking from experience btw. I’m certain this is what the issue is, you can’t just bring in a bunch of people who don’t care about gaming and expect to produce a good game, it doesn’t work that way.
Hey, sorry if that happened to you in the gaming industry. You seem like a creative person and I hope you can find a good team to make games with someday.
One of my favourite retro games from the 80’s was Dig Dug. When I played it again recently I absolutely loved it still..🤷♂️😄
Same here my dude! Nothing like the classics for real. I'll stick with my Banjo Kazooie and Super Mario 64 haha
It's difficult to compete with games like TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection!!!
Part of why games these days aren’t as good as retro games is because the stuff you use to be able to unlock are now being sold to you in loot boxes or expensive DLC.
Retro games just plainly provide more value. More fun, more full experiences, no DLC, no Microtransactions, and it feeds that nostalgia monster, too.
I couldn't even finish rebirth I was hyped for it I pre-ordered and got bored with it. I'm hoping the dragon quest remakes don't let me down
I thought I was the only one who felt this way! I spent $500 on a steam deck and just started playing retro gaming out through emulation. Currently playing “The Warriors” and “God Of War chain of Olympus “
Ever since you were on I have been playing nothing but old racing games. I am almost done NFS Carbon. Gonna start Gran Turismo 2 next!
I've done the same thing as my kids get older, I try to keep things non-violent around them and have collected all the old NFS and Burnout games. NFS Carbon Collector's copy for 360 is a tough find!
Been playing most wanted on my gamecube. Im more most wanted type than carbon but I own both.
We’re not creatively tapped out. Unfortunately, companies don’t want to take a financial risk for something new. Sad times.
Partially correct. Most Big companies don't wanna take risks. We seem to ignore smaller companies and indies.
@@TonyJenn Thanks. I didn’t clarify I was talking about bigger companies. But you’re right, indie developers are way more creative.
I got tired of modern games and went back to playing Xbox 360, SNES and PS1 games because there way more fun imo.
I agree i own both a ps5 and xbox series x and whilst i enjoy both they don't compare to gaming in the 90's that was a golden era for gaming.
Great video! I am drawn to older games, even the retro ones from the 90s, they’re great! They have so much art and inspiration in them.
"You are not alone....I am here with you...though we're far apart..." hahahahahaha
I’ve picked up a Wii U recently and honestly that’s all I’m playing my PS5 and XBX hasn’t been touched in months
I am 100% tired of online multiplayer as an excuse to not make in-game content. I've been either playing retro games or modern indie games recreating retro playstyle.
I didn’t expect to watch this entire video, however it was so on point with how I’ve been feeling about games lately and thought I was the only one who’s been playing retro games because the new ones have no charm. Thank you for 26 min of real talk!!
This is why I am excited to play the Castlevania Advance and Dominus collections this Halloween. Some I'll replay and some I'll play for the first time ever.
You always feel good when playing these games.
On a side note, any Castlevania fan should visit Romania and see the Transylvanian region. Beautiful castles and great vibes.
I feel it. More often than not this year I've been playing older stuff through emulators. SSX 3, Burnout Revenge, Fire Emblem 4, Sin and Punishment to name a few.
The only real modern game I've been enjoying recently is a remake of an old game - Persona 3 reload.
P3R is not a modern game but an older game
@@therealjaystone2344 yeah that’s what I said
Anything 20+ years old, is completely retro!
Same. I’m currently playing Def Jam Fight for NY and other GameCube/Ps2 games
Old is gold as they say. Back then gaming was all about fun and passion. I currently play PS1, PS2, PS3, OG Xbox, Xbox 360, N64 and Nintendo DS/3DS games. 😃
My PS4 and Switch (Oled) are the weak links in my collection. 😆
I’m going to try to get a backwards compatible Nintendo Wii and PSP 3000 this year or by next year.
I agree I just got done playing some donkey Kong country 2 myself.
I feel ya bro, I'm playing old games myself
Nintendo is the only company that tries new things and innovative. And like you said they actually make games in all genres. They havnt done mich since totk but i think there just saving alot for the switch 2.
Also, Nintendo is the only one that actually makes games that actually games instead of interactive movies masquerading as games.
Let’s not get carried away, modern Nintendo has a crap ton of issues too. Totk is a joke and a cash grab.
@@jairekambui7738i understand that TOTK has its flaws but what makes it a cash grab?
was born in '01 as a 23 year old I can say, this generation is definitley the weakest compared to the Ps2, xbox, gamecube era. and the HD 360,ps3,wii era. it's just sad man, I've been literally building a collection of wii, gamecube, ps1/2 games and been having a great time with them all
games were made to be fun. Now they're made to make money. Nothing else matters. Until people stop buying these stupid battle passes and virtual cards etc etc etc, nothing will change.
Dolphin has had me giggling like a little school girl lately. I’m playing maybe 3 games on my PS5 but having loads of fun playing even more GameCube games. And there is definitely a shift when switching between the 2.