It's advanced almost as much as Half Life, only sad thing it's sequels aren't on it's level. F.E.A.R. 2 is great with gameplay but it has nothing to do with canonic story (Dark Horse and Vivendi timeline) where 3rd game is getting back to the roots vhile mergeing DC timeline with Vivendi. "Heeeeeesssss ttooooooooo ffaaaassssssssssssttttt" i had to put it here and i don't realize how it's not on Jake's list
@@dimitrijejanjic8209 F2 tried to spice things up with more varied environments. Let's be real, F1 is mostly traversing offices, basements and warehouses with very few stand out locations. It's great for the atmosphere and gameplay, but kinda dull compared to some other games (like mentioned HL1). I do prefer the gunplay of F1 than F2, but F2 is not a bad game, just different.
@@metalcollection1 i did not said that F2 is bad, yes it has improved environment and added more elements into combat but somehow origina AI and combat was more fluid, more natural, and extremely FUN where F2 is somehow dull on that field as F1 was on environment. But F1 atmosphere is something unique in all F.E.A.R games that they couldn't recreate in later games
Facts that was my peak gaming years. I would also add 2005-2006 as well because we got Resident Evil 4, Call of Duty 2, and God Of War 1&2 while stuff like Gears of War and Elder Scrolls Oblivion with their screenshots (pre rendered lol) was giving us a glimpse of what future games would look like
I'd just like to point out a few more bangers that imo still hold up: - Splinter Cell Chaos Theory - Prince of Persia Sands Trilogy - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - Lord of the Rings: Return of the King - Star Wars: Republic Commando - Neighbors from Hell - The Punisher There are more I'm missing, but playing through these ones now is even more impressive than when they first released. Being able to compare them with what's released now or even just realistically looking back on how limited technology was at the time, it honestly gives me even more of an opportunity to be shocked at how incredibly lucky we were to have such games back then.
Splinter Cell was solid, the original campaign, then online multiplayer in Pandora Tomorrow, and Chaos theory to top it off. A good time for stealth action, honorary mention for SOCOM 2 which was my first online game for a console. Not sure it would hold up today like Splinter Cell does though.
Halo 2 was my first Halo game back in the day, and it's still my favorite. The voice acting, music and atmosphere was nothing like I ever experienced in a videogame back then. Halo 2 was the game that showed me how deep and amazing a game can be. It's the game that turned me into a hardcore gamer instead of a casual
Same here, Halo 2 is my all time favorite game. I put a lot of hours in that game from campaign and co-op campaign to online multiplayer, made a lot of good friends back then, still in contact with some of them to this day. lot of fond memories, and still play the multiplayer maps eventho its by myself just like to sit in the nostalgia reminisce the good times, and I'll admit I was pretty young when i played online i was a "squeaker" some some other gamers would call it lol.
If you got to experience halo 2 and xbox live. It was a legendary experience.. so many friends were made during those days. Persistent lobbies you were part of for HOURS seeing people come and go. Voice chat was poppin, and friends lists were growing.
The multiplayer was what got me into having online. That was the first full on war game out that was fun. My uncle showed me it once and that was all it took. Was like a drug
@@dmo848 Wolfenstein ET was the absolute shit online. That was an insanely fun community with lots of great (modded) servers, loads of clans and all around just so much fun. I can still dream a few of those maps, like Gold Rush
A properly modded out Total Annihilation is a vastly superior RTS to RA2. TA is, simply put, the best RTS ever made. No one has ever made a remotely equivalent game...not even the original author of TA.
As a sk8er I dreamed of Marseille bowl because my heretige is french, and it was an awsome design and the footage of pros from there was incredible. When I aquired TH 2 I think on PC I just left society for weeks to enjoy that bowl. Never played the game proper, just free skate the bowl.
Riddick is one of few hidden gems that can qualify for a masterpiece! Best graphics of its time, engaging story, and variety of gameplay (action, stealth, adventure, FPS, Robo shooter) made the game ahead of its time!
Dude I remember when Soul Calibur 2 first came out on Dreamcast. Was 19 and had just moved into my first apartment in Huntington beach Ca with 3 of my friends in a 2 bedroom. We'd have Soul Calibur matches every other night for hours and hours. Trying to get a ring out with Asteroth or Nightmare when your getting your butt kicked. So many great memories.
It's worth mentioning just how much better Riddick looked than everything else at the time. It's because it was the first game to use normal mapping, the very first, and that technical leap was absolutely huge.
Wasn't Doom 3 the first to have popularised normal mapping? Nontheless, Escape from Butcher Bay looked absolutely state - of - the - art in the console space upon its release.
@@mohamedsaleh6026 Well, I looked it up. Apparently it was some game I've never heard of that did it first, and then Virtua Fighter did it after that, but it was the first big hit that got popular that used it.
Knights of the Old Republic still holds up as well. The story is still one of the best ever told, and the rpg mechanics made DND and Star Wars mesh perfectly.
@@tanzolo4487 surprisingly, imma have to disagree with you on that point, Kotor Gameplay still holds up solidly. I really enjoy the simpler controls and streamlined UI. Characters are responsive, and I love that force speed works outside combat(still pissed that's never come back) If anything doesn't hold up, it's the combat. While I understand the need for automatic fighting in such a large game, it hurts to watch my character get hit by an attack I'm sure I could deflect if I had control like in Jedi survivor.
Game mechanics worked so well they copied it to another game franchised called Mass Effect. Just change light/dark side options with Paragon/renegade, include well developed story and boom instant hit that is getting its own TV show.
I played the first Half Life games for the first time ever last year and I can see why everyone loves it so much the story and the graphics still hold up so well.
When I was in middle school I had gone to Gamestop to get Half Life 2, I was talking to the employee about it and he recommended I also get two cheap used copies of Escape from butcher bay and Timesplitters 2. Those games all made such a huge impact on me, I gotta give a shoutout to that gamestop dude for recommending some games that are still iconic and fun as hell!!
Same here bro. Halo is only campaign game that I replayed it 100 times from easy to veteran. Other campaign games i just play once and move on next game.
How's the Halo 4 and Reach? Asking because I bought Halo 1-3 few months ago on sales, but never got to actually play them. Heard mixed feelings about those two, some people absolutely love them, others hate it with passion.
Deus Ex. One of the best story-driven futuristic RPGs ever made and one of the top five PC games of all time. Square Enix's DE games were good but they have nothing on the original.
There were so many games that came out in the 90s that I still absolutely love and will always love and still play them and a lot of times have better experiences and more fun playing some of those older games even today!! It's my favorite time and gaming when I think about it? When it was all about the fun!!! we didn't have all of this interconnectivity, but we also didn't have all the aggravating bits that we have nowadays either? It was simple, it was unique, and everybody was putting out bangers!
Doom 3. I love it. I play it yearly, and leaving the controversies behind, is a solid FPS, and a great single player adventure, with many great mods that make it totally playable nowadays.
Same here. Still great as well as classic doom with something like smooth doom or project brutality depending on my mood. I struggle to excuse that shotgun though.
I haven't played this yet. I tried it many years ago but I've never owned a copy. But now it's on "my list" to play cause I've heard a lot of great things about it. And I've heard way more good things then some of the criticism this game received.
Yeah, it has some bullshit moments but it's so fun lol... I've still never managed to finish it I might have to download an emulator to give it another try..(Again lol)
meh. all due respect but Its weirdly overrated by folk that were v young when it came out and weren't playing Vice City or... anything. So So many games came out between end of 2002 and beginning of 2004... so many that were just insane leagues ahead of hit n run in every way.
@@PatrickByrne-e5v name literally five games that AREN'T in the GTA series that are ahead of hit n run. like...i know waht ur saying, but this should be a forum for recommendations, not demarcations.
That was such a great era of gaming. It was when games were expected to ship completed. It was before loot boxes and microtransactions. It was about creating the most fun game experience they could. One of the games I LOOOOVED from that era was Burnout 3. Not just racing, but CRASHING in novel ways. There was even a mode to create as much destruction as possible. It wasn't realistic, but it was PURE FUN. Thanks for including Rollercoaster Tycoon 2, by the way. Those games were so enjoyable!!
For Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, I feel it’s worth mentioning that there is still and active community playing it, and the created Open RCT2 that expands the game, adding new controls, rides (including coaster types with new sprites) and scenery elements.
Max Payne was my favourite game growing up I remember installing every part and trying to complete the whole story in one day. Truly a Masterpiece that needs a remaster today
Remedy is working on remasters of Max Payne 1 and 2. Too bad they don't own the IP (or right too MP 1,2) or the whole Remedy Universe would be so much more complete.
@@JoriDiculousI'm super hyped for MP remakes, plus Control 2 will hopefully be fire like the first. Remedy has become my favorite dev, if only they'd remake Quantum Break for ps, or at least port it. I'd be happy with a port.
Man, I played the original on pc back in the day, when the ppl in the cutscenes were the creator and his family members helping him out as a struggling dev.
@@Anes.024 They were memorable. Also, I was about 31 then and just rediscovering gaming and a bud handed me MP. It was a good moment. Experiencing that time period up 'till now, as a grown up, I'm proud to say I was there. Same bud also gave me Deus Ex.
I loved that game at a time, so I tried it couple years back, and naw, didn't hold up for me at all, but granted I gave up instantly, I remember thinking that controls are not like what I remember haha.
Yeah idk why they ignore those games. I know Prince of Persia had a 2D game out this year but most people gaming now grew up on the 3D hack and slash/wall running parkour games.
The equivalent in Transport Tycoon (which I preferred to Roller Coaster) is to create a looped track, set two trains in opposite directions head-on, and get them to pass through a station called "Last stop" or something like that. 😅
I find it amusing that if you go and ask people to give you their favorite Halo game and tell you which is considered the best in series, you will never get one game picked by majority. No other series has this phenomena.
I bought a 51" HDTV just for Soul Calibur 2, back when it launched. Not big by todays standard, but in 2002 it was massive (and cost as much as a used car).
Psychonauts 1 will always be a classic. 2... eh. The art direction and musical score are wonderful, but the levels and humor lacked the same bite the first game had.
Played both Psychonauts this year. The first holds up incredibly. The second is one of the best platformers of all time, only losing a few points for the combat being a bit meh.
Our life in Lithuania was playing Diablo 2, Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and 3, and Commandos. We never were big on consoles, PC master race. Current kids grew up on pathetic phones, I couldn't last a day without my PC.
@@TheRealUcanUwill Let's be honest, majority of Eastern Europeans are PC gamers because they can pirate games. I also find it amusing that Heroes 3 is like GOAT among us from East while lot of people didn't even play in in West.
@@J.J.Jameson_of_Daily_Bugle Yes, thats true, piracy is extremely popular in Eastern Europe, but I would say, PC became main platform for most even before internet, we did burn CD's and pirated that way, but even before piracy, people did choose PC over PS and stuff. I think things like Steamdeck will tackle piracy epidemic, because you really can't pirate anymore if you want to play same game on PC and Steamdeck, cause you wouldn't have cloud save, having games legit on STEAM is just far more convenient now, and considering how steep discounts on STEAM and especially GOG can be, piracy is not justifieable anymore. That said, most people still pirate new games that are full price, and very few people have platforms like Netflix. I do not pirate games anymore, but if I want to watch a tv show, I still pirate that stuff.
I loved Diablo 2 as a Kid...but they really screwed up with the "you just infinitely respawn" mechanic that has now become the standard Diablo thing. Diablo 1 was better even with generic classes. There were stakes. You die, you lose, everything since is just
@@justinlast2lastharder749 What are you talking about? D1 and D2 had the exact same mechanic when it comes to dying. In D1 you just reload your save, in D2 you just respawn and pick up your body. They just cut the part where you had to manually reload the save file.
Sid Meyers Pirates. Still the undisputed king of the pirate genre. Fable The Lost Chapters. Its still as charming as it ever was. Mario Kart Double Dash. Some of the best kart racing mechanics ever put in a game. Morrowind. Unequaled atmosphere and worldbuilding to this day. Jak and Daxter. All 3 of them. Humor and story hold up, and the platforming is solid even now. Some of the best platformers ever made.
Sid Meier's Pirates was Garbage....unless you for some reason like a Game that is just a collection of mini games that all sucked? As boring as Black Flag got (and as annoying as Ubisoft is for their "must be online and using a Ubisoft account) is still the best.
Terrible game, the little girl interrupting u was annoying as fuck lol, glad u enjoyed it though, i was too old for it, played it in 2015 when i was 26 , but if u played it in 2005 as a kid im assumig it hit different back then, for me DOOM 3 in 2004 was scary af lol
I either played this one or ssx tricky, not sure which but it had mario characters in it.. I think I had a ps2 version of one of them and a gamecube version..
Havok is not from Valve. From Wiki: Havok is a middleware software suite developed by the Irish company Havok. Havok provides physics engine, navigation, and cloth simulation components that can be integrated into video game engines. In 2007, Intel acquired Havok Inc.[2] In 2008, Havok was honored at the 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for advancing the development of physics engines in electronic entertainment. In 2015, Microsoft acquired Havok.[3] Valve's Source game engine uses VPhysics, which is a physics engine modified from Havok[21]
Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. Gameplay is janky and can be a bit rough to get into, but for my money it still has one of the best fantasy worlds ever created.
This is exactly what has been on my mind for some days now. How Riddick and Splinter Cell blew my mind graphics wise. Glad to see Riddick here! Sadly SC or Thief not mentioned. Pandora and Chaos Theory for me were 😙👌🏻 Edit: Forgot Mafia too! Just completed the Definitive Edition, saw some bugs but gosh what a story and still absolutely beautiful.
Chaos theory made several HUGE advancements in gameplay, audio, and graphics, too. And spawned that classic mini-series on XPlay. Secret Agents Steve and Bob or something,I forget
I remember playing Half Life 2 back in the day and I still have my copy but it was a shock to learn that it was twenty years old. Those years have passed really fast.
Fr fr. Ratchet was an absolute blast and I'm glad Insomniac brought it back. I got into Jak and Daxter way later, but I can see why it was so beloved at the time
Thanks for the nostalgia fix. I can still remember booting up Jedi Outcast on my PIII/GeForce3 rig and being completely blown away by how awesome it was.
Jet Set Radio is one of my all-time favorites. When I finally got to play Jet Set Radio Future, I was kinda disappointed. I loved Bomb Rush Cyberfunk being a throwback to both of them, though.
JSR is still one of my top 5, maybe even top 3 games of all time. I remember my mom bought me a used Dreamcast because she couldn’t get a used PlayStation at the time, and it came with JSR and Shenmue. Both just absolutely exquisite games!
Skull and bones is great. People give that game a lot of shit and I had my doubts but I loved it. Playing the 8 hr demo was enough to make me purchase it after
I did not expect right out of the gate Jedi Knight 2, Jedi Outcast 2. I just had a flooooodddd of nostalgia playing that online, having epic duels on my PC. Oh how time flies...
Vice City when it first released was a complete game changer, the gameplay the graphics the soundtrack. Even San Andreas can't compete from that front.
Imagine coming home from school on a Friday evening, settling into your room, and spending the entire weekend playing these games. No drama, no stress. Just enjoying the early 2000s.
@Megablueliner1 I thought about having that on my personal list but it is hard to make an agreement that your even playing the original wow anymore. It has changed so much over the decades and even playing "classic wow" isn't even that accurate to the original... so many quality of life changes. It's like owning a replica instead of an antique
Metal Gear Solid 3. It's aged liked fine wine, the controls are somewhat janky and the dialog can be cringey at times, but it's still a Masterpiece with one of the best video game stories and an incredible level of attention to detail.
@@dmo848 You are missing out, all the games are so good.(pro tip: try playing twin snakes instead of the original, it has the graphics and features of 2.)
@@donnyboi1990 Thank you for this. I feel like sometimes Twin Snakes is hated on because it veered into anime levels of cheese, even though MGS2 leaned fully into it. People get too wrapped up in MGS1 being this grounded spy thriller, but it was probably that way because of the technical limitations of the PS1. Twin Snakes feels like what it would have been like if it was made later, with a little extra cheesy sauce on top.
Before I watched this video I thought "I wonder if Jedi Knight 2 Jedi Outcast would be mentioned" So happy it was as I still absolutely love this game and I probably go through it once or twice a year just for pure nostalgia. And it's still incredibly fun.
@@brodriguez11000 I absolutely agree that Quake is incredible, but I would say that the partly sprite based graphics of Doom 1 and 2 aged better that Quake's early 3D models. Doom also has a much more coherent art direction, while Quake just kind of throws a bunch of themes together (which makes sense when you learn about its troubled development).
I came to the point of the same mistake. Havok was developed by...Havok, a company based in Dublin. The company and the engine were bought by Microsoft. Never has Havok been a part of Valve.
You had me at Jedi Knight 2... that game was EPIC! My favorite move was using the upgraded force pull to strip the blasters from a horde of storm troopers and just watch them freak out.
One of my favorite all-tine classics is Mercenaries....it definitely would look amazing with remastered graphics, while retaining the complete destruction physics.
Man... you make me want to get Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 and Max Payne 2! I spent good time with those games back in the day. Now I only need to purchase s gaming PC 😂
Mafia was great but I remember giving up on it back then because the controls were awful, there was one part I just couldn't get past because it was so bad. Fortunately they (mostly) fixed that with Definitive Edition, I finally beat it a few years ago when DE came out. Deus Ex is still to this day my favorite game, and DX: Human Revolution was also very good.
Call of Duty 1 and 2 (2003 and 2005 respectively). Those games played and looked so well that when I still had crappy market pc I used to replay them so so many times! When newer games started using fancier shaders and looked and ran so much worse on lowest settings than these first 2 CoD's, I just went back there and enjoyed my time again :D
back when there was no always online, no battle passes, no microtransactions, no deluxe editions, no muddy upscaling fsr dlss bullshid, no rtx gimmicks. the game you bought was the finished product and it worked from start to finish. good times and im glad i was there.
Even those old games had bugs and glitches, only reason we mostly didn't notice is because we believed some of the bugs were actually a part or feature in the games.
I've been playing max payne 2 on PC since 2003, im telling you there's alot of mods that you can install for it like The Punisher, The Matrix, there's this favorite mod that I still play up to this day called " Max Rambo 1.25" and the difference of that mod is that the Bullet Time is infinite and the world is a whole lot slower like literally frame by frame movement already and alot of the weapons fire rates are sped up to 100 times. You'll see that when you fire your weapons you can literally make a wall of bullets on how fast the fire rate was for shotguns and watch enemies flying when your turn off bullet time 😂. I've been playing this game for so long this game experienced multiple gpu's already, Nvidia Geforce 2, GTX860,. GTX970m, GTX1070, GTX1080, GTX1070ti, RTX3080ti 😂.
Oh ffs I still remember that blaster from Jedi Outcast, it was so painful to use. And a struggle to get past those few levels. My love of the series was the only thing that kept me going until I finally got that lightsaber, and then everything was glorious.
I wish some of these games were easier to access, I was thrilled when they released Star Wars: Republic Commando on PSN and I'm still having fun with that game
@ayceod That's true, but the retro game market is ridiculous as far as their skyhigh prices are now. Some games that were going for $20 5 or 10 years ago are now $400, I don't get it...
@@thestraydog You are absolutely right about that. I have been an active collector for about 15 years now, and when I first started collecting, I could find games for .60 cents at Goodwills. I found a DS Lite in a case with 5 games for $10 at a thrift store once.. So upsetting what has become of the collectors on a budget scene.
Far Cry 1 was amazing in its day but I've gone back and played it within the last year or so and it doesn't hold up very well. At very least the enemy AI is really bad and predictable. I remember how groundbreaking it was (particularly the draw distance) and the multiplayer was good fun as well but playing it these days you can really feel the age of it.
F.E.A.R. is almost 20 years old and it's insanely good to this day. I often revisit it and both DLCs.
Amen, brother.
no it's poor
It's advanced almost as much as Half Life, only sad thing it's sequels aren't on it's level. F.E.A.R. 2 is great with gameplay but it has nothing to do with canonic story (Dark Horse and Vivendi timeline) where 3rd game is getting back to the roots vhile mergeing DC timeline with Vivendi.
"Heeeeeesssss ttooooooooo ffaaaassssssssssssttttt" i had to put it here and i don't realize how it's not on Jake's list
@@dimitrijejanjic8209 F2 tried to spice things up with more varied environments. Let's be real, F1 is mostly traversing offices, basements and warehouses with very few stand out locations. It's great for the atmosphere and gameplay, but kinda dull compared to some other games (like mentioned HL1). I do prefer the gunplay of F1 than F2, but F2 is not a bad game, just different.
@@metalcollection1 i did not said that F2 is bad, yes it has improved environment and added more elements into combat but somehow origina AI and combat was more fluid, more natural, and extremely FUN where F2 is somehow dull on that field as F1 was on environment. But F1 atmosphere is something unique in all F.E.A.R games that they couldn't recreate in later games
That period of like, 1998-2004 was so fuckin peak, especially for PC gaming, we didn't know how good we had it
Even worse is we though the quality will never end. Wrong.
I disagree, it was clunky and far cry, half life all that stuff was impressive visually but ultimately boring.
Facts that was my peak gaming years. I would also add 2005-2006 as well because we got Resident Evil 4, Call of Duty 2, and God Of War 1&2 while stuff like Gears of War and Elder Scrolls Oblivion with their screenshots (pre rendered lol) was giving us a glimpse of what future games would look like
don’t forget it was peak console gaming too!
@@jimmyv3170 Don´t forget F.E.A.R. (2005)
I'd just like to point out a few more bangers that imo still hold up:
- Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
- Prince of Persia Sands Trilogy
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
- Star Wars: Republic Commando
- Neighbors from Hell
- The Punisher
There are more I'm missing, but playing through these ones now is even more impressive than when they first released. Being able to compare them with what's released now or even just realistically looking back on how limited technology was at the time, it honestly gives me even more of an opportunity to be shocked at how incredibly lucky we were to have such games back then.
Chaos Theory 🐐
Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow was the first stealth action game I ever played.
@@chris42069Nah man the first Splinter Cell is the real goat.
upvote for the LotR games. Would also include Ninja Gaiden Black, even though it's 2005. We're only a month away from 2025 after all
Splinter Cell was solid, the original campaign, then online multiplayer in Pandora Tomorrow, and Chaos theory to top it off.
A good time for stealth action, honorary mention for SOCOM 2 which was my first online game for a console. Not sure it would hold up today like Splinter Cell does though.
My all time favorite video game is the original Deus Ex from 2000, I play it over and over and never get tired of it.
New Vision helps 🙂
Amen❤
Halo 2 was my first Halo game back in the day, and it's still my favorite. The voice acting, music and atmosphere was nothing like I ever experienced in a videogame back then. Halo 2 was the game that showed me how deep and amazing a game can be. It's the game that turned me into a hardcore gamer instead of a casual
Same here, Halo 2 is my all time favorite game. I put a lot of hours in that game from campaign and co-op campaign to online multiplayer, made a lot of good friends back then, still in contact with some of them to this day. lot of fond memories, and still play the multiplayer maps eventho its by myself just like to sit in the nostalgia reminisce the good times, and I'll admit I was pretty young when i played online i was a "squeaker" some some other gamers would call it lol.
If you got to experience halo 2 and xbox live. It was a legendary experience.. so many friends were made during those days. Persistent lobbies you were part of for HOURS seeing people come and go. Voice chat was poppin, and friends lists were growing.
Wolfenstein: Return to Castle Wolfenstein was so good and incredibly underrated.
The multiplayer was what got me into having online. That was the first full on war game out that was fun. My uncle showed me it once and that was all it took. Was like a drug
@ I replayed that game so many times when I was kid it’s insane.
That one got very repetitive though. I loved it, but it was a slog.
That didn't make waves like the Machine Games versions. It was fun tho
@@dmo848 Wolfenstein ET was the absolute shit online. That was an insanely fun community with lots of great (modded) servers, loads of clans and all around just so much fun. I can still dream a few of those maps, like Gold Rush
Red Alert 2 is also such a timeless game that it still holds up and the skirmish mode with friends is great fun.
A properly modded out Total Annihilation is a vastly superior RTS to RA2. TA is, simply put, the best RTS ever made. No one has ever made a remotely equivalent game...not even the original author of TA.
the theme song, hell march
RA2 was awesome but I have an enduring soft spot for Generals... the b*stard step child of C&C.
Red Alert 2 is still great!
Yeah i would like to see modern graphics with the same exact gameplay
Tony Hawks Underground 2
My favorite part of the TH series. Amazing maps design, cool graffiti creation, mad story - just love its all
Pulling million point combos as Shrek on the Bermuda Triangle level lol
my personal favorite was THPS4. good soundtrack and vibes
Did all of that with no memory card, having to leave it on allllll the time and running home from school to co tinue 😂
I tried playing it recently. The ps2-era graphics are too rough. Was playing pc version.
As a sk8er I dreamed of Marseille bowl because my heretige is french, and it was an awsome design and the footage of pros from there was incredible. When I aquired TH 2 I think on PC I just left society for weeks to enjoy that bowl. Never played the game proper, just free skate the bowl.
Riddick is one of few hidden gems that can qualify for a masterpiece! Best graphics of its time, engaging story, and variety of gameplay (action, stealth, adventure, FPS, Robo shooter) made the game ahead of its time!
Indeed! it was melting even the best PCs back then 😅
Dude I remember when Soul Calibur 2 first came out on Dreamcast. Was 19 and had just moved into my first apartment in Huntington beach Ca with 3 of my friends in a 2 bedroom. We'd have Soul Calibur matches every other night for hours and hours. Trying to get a ring out with Asteroth or Nightmare when your getting your butt kicked. So many great memories.
It's worth mentioning just how much better Riddick looked than everything else at the time. It's because it was the first game to use normal mapping, the very first, and that technical leap was absolutely huge.
Wasn't Doom 3 the first to have popularised normal mapping? Nontheless, Escape from Butcher Bay looked absolutely state - of - the - art in the console space upon its release.
@@mohamedsaleh6026 Well, I looked it up. Apparently it was some game I've never heard of that did it first, and then Virtua Fighter did it after that, but it was the first big hit that got popular that used it.
@@RadishAcceptableVirtual Fighter 4, not Virtual Fighter. Important distinction.
It blew my mind back in the day
It's on the same engine @@mohamedsaleh6026
NFS: Most Wanted, I'm replaying it now after 20 years. still amazing
I am replaying it at the moment too, my favourite NFS game.
Yeah, but most wanted still under 20 years old
Not yet 20 years
@@mrbobgamingmemes9558 yeah, next year it won't hold up as much
Music was the main draw.
Knights of the Old Republic still holds up as well. The story is still one of the best ever told, and the rpg mechanics made DND and Star Wars mesh perfectly.
Agreed! I worry that the KOTOR remake seems to be stuck in production hell, but hopefully Saber gets it out eventually
The gameplay is horribly outdated tho
@@tanzolo4487 surprisingly, imma have to disagree with you on that point, Kotor Gameplay still holds up solidly.
I really enjoy the simpler controls and streamlined UI. Characters are responsive, and I love that force speed works outside combat(still pissed that's never come back)
If anything doesn't hold up, it's the combat. While I understand the need for automatic fighting in such a large game, it hurts to watch my character get hit by an attack I'm sure I could deflect if I had control like in Jedi survivor.
Game mechanics worked so well they copied it to another game franchised called Mass Effect. Just change light/dark side options with Paragon/renegade, include well developed story and boom instant hit that is getting its own TV show.
Amen to that.
The fact that Roller Coaster tycoon was built by one guy using Assembly makes it 100X more badass.
Yup.
I still love the Original Fable, fire that bad boy up every few years and it never disappoints.
Half Life 2 is stunning, I have started replaying it, and I am not disappointed.
I play that, episode 1 and 2, Portal 1 and 2 every few years or so. Great games!
@ portal games are my all time favourite.
I played the first Half Life games for the first time ever last year and I can see why everyone loves it so much the story and the graphics still hold up so well.
When I was in middle school I had gone to Gamestop to get Half Life 2, I was talking to the employee about it and he recommended I also get two cheap used copies of Escape from butcher bay and Timesplitters 2. Those games all made such a huge impact on me, I gotta give a shoutout to that gamestop dude for recommending some games that are still iconic and fun as hell!!
Oh, hey yeah, I remember you, glad you enjoyed the games.
@@bowlerbuddyjoey1 Good try... LoL
Halo 2 is the absolute GOAT. One of the first shooters I remember playing
Same here bro. Halo is only campaign game that I replayed it 100 times from easy to veteran. Other campaign games i just play once and move on next game.
How's the Halo 4 and Reach? Asking because I bought Halo 1-3 few months ago on sales, but never got to actually play them. Heard mixed feelings about those two, some people absolutely love them, others hate it with passion.
Loved halo... until Modern Warfare came out then was like halo what?
@@J.J.Jameson_of_Daily_BugleI hated Halo 4 campaign it sucked, didn't play the multiplayer. Reach was cool, multiplayer wasnt bad
halo ce, 2, 3 are goated asf, wish i could be there to see how big halo was back in the days
F.E.A.R. is one I replay once in a while. That bolter gun is one of the best weapons in any FPS.
Missing on this list: Age of Empires 2, Splinter Cell 1, Advanced Wars (GBA). All still fantastic games.
Deus Ex. One of the best story-driven futuristic RPGs ever made and one of the top five PC games of all time. Square Enix's DE games were good but they have nothing on the original.
Crazy they left out AoE²
Here I am thinking like 20 90's games, yes many DOS games, yet 20 years ago is 2000's lol.
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This is a fact... 20 years ago is mid to late 90s and you can't convince me otherwise !!! Facts are not allowed!! 😂😂😂😂
Command and conquer. Oh how i miss that game. Nothing like it anymore
@@dmo848 that and Warcraft 2!
There were so many games that came out in the 90s that I still absolutely love and will always love and still play them and a lot of times have better experiences and more fun playing some of those older games even today!!
It's my favorite time and gaming when I think about it? When it was all about the fun!!! we didn't have all of this interconnectivity, but we also didn't have all the aggravating bits that we have nowadays either? It was simple, it was unique, and everybody was putting out bangers!
Doom 3. I love it. I play it yearly, and leaving the controversies behind, is a solid FPS, and a great single player adventure, with many great mods that make it totally playable nowadays.
Cannot agree more
Same here. Still great as well as classic doom with something like smooth doom or project brutality depending on my mood. I struggle to excuse that shotgun though.
I definitely still play it. The Switch port with the QOL changes (the flashlight) is great
Have you played Phobos
I haven't played this yet. I tried it many years ago but I've never owned a copy. But now it's on "my list" to play cause I've heard a lot of great things about it. And I've heard way more good things then some of the criticism this game received.
Simpson hit and run deserved to be on here
Yeah, it has some bullshit moments but it's so fun lol... I've still never managed to finish it I might have to download an emulator to give it another try..(Again lol)
meh. all due respect but Its weirdly overrated by folk that were v young when it came out and weren't playing Vice City or... anything. So So many games came out between end of 2002 and beginning of 2004... so many that were just insane leagues ahead of hit n run in every way.
@@PatrickByrne-e5v name literally five games that AREN'T in the GTA series that are ahead of hit n run. like...i know waht ur saying, but this should be a forum for recommendations, not demarcations.
Hit n run is absolutely overrated
I couldnt agree more@@PatrickByrne-e5v
That was such a great era of gaming. It was when games were expected to ship completed. It was before loot boxes and microtransactions. It was about creating the most fun game experience they could.
One of the games I LOOOOVED from that era was Burnout 3. Not just racing, but CRASHING in novel ways. There was even a mode to create as much destruction as possible. It wasn't realistic, but it was PURE FUN.
Thanks for including Rollercoaster Tycoon 2, by the way. Those games were so enjoyable!!
Bro I remember XPlay and ...one of the other shows would do burnout contests and I loved watching it. Never got to play it, bit loved watching it
For Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, I feel it’s worth mentioning that there is still and active community playing it, and the created Open RCT2 that expands the game, adding new controls, rides (including coaster types with new sprites) and scenery elements.
Max Payne was my favourite game growing up I remember installing every part and trying to complete the whole story in one day.
Truly a Masterpiece that needs a remaster today
Remedy is working on remasters of Max Payne 1 and 2.
Too bad they don't own the IP (or right too MP 1,2) or the whole Remedy Universe would be so much more complete.
@@JoriDiculousI'm super hyped for MP remakes, plus Control 2 will hopefully be fire like the first. Remedy has become my favorite dev, if only they'd remake Quantum Break for ps, or at least port it. I'd be happy with a port.
Man, I played the original on pc back in the day, when the ppl in the cutscenes were the creator and his family members helping him out as a struggling dev.
@@MrRezRising Sam did a good job with the faces in that game 😂
@@Anes.024 They were memorable.
Also, I was about 31 then and just rediscovering gaming and a bud handed me MP. It was a good moment.
Experiencing that time period up 'till now, as a grown up, I'm proud to say I was there.
Same bud also gave me Deus Ex.
Currently replayling Prince Of Persia : The Sands Of Time. It also holds up amazingly well.
Two thrones was up there also. Idk kinda like all the prince of Persia games. Even the old Sega that was hard as heck
I loved that game at a time, so I tried it couple years back, and naw, didn't hold up for me at all, but granted I gave up instantly, I remember thinking that controls are not like what I remember haha.
i cant get through sot but two thrones is peak
2 thrones was good. But Warrior Within was the best one all around
Yeah idk why they ignore those games. I know Prince of Persia had a 2D game out this year but most people gaming now grew up on the 3D hack and slash/wall running parkour games.
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas will always be remembered as the 1st game we were terrified our parents would find out we were playing.
lol hot coffee mod.
Manhunt was before that. That freaked parents out big time. Was banned in various countries
Someone didn’t grow up in the Sega CD era…
CD sucked
If you're a baby 😂
6:46 - Max Payne 2 is an excellent game. I still own it for PS2 💪😎
Black, best looking fps of its time. Still holds up today. Game was a work of art. Came out in 2006 so it’s approaching 20 years.
Nice pick! :)
Best looking console fps maybe
BLACK was a game that very much deserved a sequel!
@ 100%. I’ll even take one now lol
I still have the original on PS2. Great game !!!
Roller Coaster Tycoon 2:
Create an incomplete roller coaster named "You will die if you get on this ride" and riders get on and die
Classic 😎
That feels like an allegory for something
The ride never ends... (Part one, I know.)
Ohh yea good times
The equivalent in Transport Tycoon (which I preferred to Roller Coaster) is to create a looped track, set two trains in opposite directions head-on, and get them to pass through a station called "Last stop" or something like that. 😅
Because 2004 was one of the greatest video game years of all time.
We needed the release after the economic mess following 2001.
2015
@@brodriguez11000 Oh did we AI bot? Please explain from your "life" experience how the economy was in 2001.
Halo 3 is the GOAT for me. All the great modes in it. Racing on the quad bikes with someone on the back blasting rockets at other racers was so fun!
@@joelavery3235 that was the worst game mode in the game
I find it amusing that if you go and ask people to give you their favorite Halo game and tell you which is considered the best in series, you will never get one game picked by majority. No other series has this phenomena.
One of my own favourite is no one lives forever 2. The graphics, the audio and the gameplay is so memorable for me.
I bought a 51" HDTV just for Soul Calibur 2, back when it launched.
Not big by todays standard, but in 2002 it was massive (and cost as much as a used car).
About the same size as one too 😅
Revisited Pshyconauts lately and that game holds up so well. Sly trilogy too.
👍🏼part 2
Yeah, playing it in 2k resolution and game having that amazing art direction, made it feel like it came out just few years ago 🙌...
Psychonauts 1 will always be a classic.
2... eh. The art direction and musical score are wonderful, but the levels and humor lacked the same bite the first game had.
Played both Psychonauts this year. The first holds up incredibly. The second is one of the best platformers of all time, only losing a few points for the combat being a bit meh.
I came to the comments to see if anyone else had mentioned Psychonauts. Such a great game.
Command and Conquer (pretty much all of them up to generals) and Resident Evil 2 get my vote
Diablo 2 deff deserved at least a honorable mention...
Our life in Lithuania was playing Diablo 2, Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and 3, and Commandos. We never were big on consoles, PC master race. Current kids grew up on pathetic phones, I couldn't last a day without my PC.
@@TheRealUcanUwill Let's be honest, majority of Eastern Europeans are PC gamers because they can pirate games. I also find it amusing that Heroes 3 is like GOAT among us from East while lot of people didn't even play in in West.
@@J.J.Jameson_of_Daily_Bugle Yes, thats true, piracy is extremely popular in Eastern Europe, but I would say, PC became main platform for most even before internet, we did burn CD's and pirated that way, but even before piracy, people did choose PC over PS and stuff.
I think things like Steamdeck will tackle piracy epidemic, because you really can't pirate anymore if you want to play same game on PC and Steamdeck, cause you wouldn't have cloud save, having games legit on STEAM is just far more convenient now, and considering how steep discounts on STEAM and especially GOG can be, piracy is not justifieable anymore.
That said, most people still pirate new games that are full price, and very few people have platforms like Netflix. I do not pirate games anymore, but if I want to watch a tv show, I still pirate that stuff.
I loved Diablo 2 as a Kid...but they really screwed up with the "you just infinitely respawn" mechanic that has now become the standard Diablo thing. Diablo 1 was better even with generic classes. There were stakes. You die, you lose, everything since is just
@@justinlast2lastharder749 What are you talking about? D1 and D2 had the exact same mechanic when it comes to dying. In D1 you just reload your save, in D2 you just respawn and pick up your body.
They just cut the part where you had to manually reload the save file.
That last part about halo 2. . Sargent Johnson saying " Hang On Everyone " always reminds me of my buds Jason and Tyler. R.I.P Buddahthesniper 21:18
Isn't johnson, it's lord hood
Scary to realise that 20 year old games are still AFTER my golden era of gaming. God I'm old
Sid Meyers Pirates. Still the undisputed king of the pirate genre.
Fable The Lost Chapters. Its still as charming as it ever was.
Mario Kart Double Dash. Some of the best kart racing mechanics ever put in a game.
Morrowind. Unequaled atmosphere and worldbuilding to this day.
Jak and Daxter. All 3 of them. Humor and story hold up, and the platforming is solid even now. Some of the best platformers ever made.
Still replay vanilla morrowind multiple times a year
Pirates was great fun, shame we haven't gotten a another game like it (well, there's that quadruple-A one)
Sid Meier's Pirates was Garbage....unless you for some reason like a Game that is just a collection of mini games that all sucked? As boring as Black Flag got (and as annoying as Ubisoft is for their "must be online and using a Ubisoft account) is still the best.
I'd like to nominate F.E.A.R. from 2005. Still has great atmosphere and is a hell of a lot of fun today.
Get me some office space.
OG fear game was my first horror and I loved it! I was like 14 when I played it and It terrified me XD
Terrible game, the little girl interrupting u was annoying as fuck lol, glad u enjoyed it though, i was too old for it, played it in 2015 when i was 26 , but if u played it in 2005 as a kid im assumig it hit different back then, for me DOOM 3 in 2004 was scary af lol
I still play SSX3 on GameCube every now and then.
Thank you for including Rollercoaster!
I either played this one or ssx tricky, not sure which but it had mario characters in it.. I think I had a ps2 version of one of them and a gamecube version..
@@lololollololol629 that would be SSX On Tour which was released after 3
@@keatstone218 Then I had that one and tricky for sure, I just didn't remember which one lol.. Fun games..
I keep thinking about SSX Tricky lately, really nothing quite like it... I liked Snowboard Kids too!
Such an awesome soundtrack
Havok is not from Valve.
From Wiki:
Havok is a middleware software suite developed by the Irish company Havok. Havok provides physics engine, navigation, and cloth simulation components that can be integrated into video game engines.
In 2007, Intel acquired Havok Inc.[2] In 2008, Havok was honored at the 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for advancing the development of physics engines in electronic entertainment. In 2015, Microsoft acquired Havok.[3]
Valve's Source game engine uses VPhysics, which is a physics engine modified from Havok[21]
Woah..the lighting in Chronicles of Riddick looks insane for a game from 2004.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Is The Dev’s Longest Game To Date
Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. Gameplay is janky and can be a bit rough to get into, but for my money it still has one of the best fantasy worlds ever created.
Better than Skyrim for sure
@@Daniel-p5w1teasily
This is exactly what has been on my mind for some days now. How Riddick and Splinter Cell blew my mind graphics wise. Glad to see Riddick here! Sadly SC or Thief not mentioned. Pandora and Chaos Theory for me were 😙👌🏻
Edit: Forgot Mafia too! Just completed the Definitive Edition, saw some bugs but gosh what a story and still absolutely beautiful.
Chaos Theory is such a classic. Really gorgeous game visually, and a great soundtrack and sound design as well
I’m shocked SC isn’t in this list now that you mention it…
Upscale the textures and Chaos Theory would looklike it came out today
Chaos theory made several HUGE advancements in gameplay, audio, and graphics, too. And spawned that classic mini-series on XPlay. Secret Agents Steve and Bob or something,I forget
Halo: CE and Halo 2 were just brilliant. .............. I will never forget them.
I remember playing Half Life 2 back in the day and I still have my copy but it was a shock to learn that it was twenty years old. Those years have passed really fast.
I play on a regular basis: Thief 1&2, Diablo 1&2 lod, doom (1,2,tnt,plutonia), sim copter, mtm1, deusEx goty, etc... Love this stuff 🎉😊
Jak and Daxter (2001), Jak II (2003), Jak 3 (2004) are banger 20+ year old games worth playing
along with ratchet and clank ofc! I remember playing that at my mates split screen on the ol tube tv!
Fr fr. Ratchet was an absolute blast and I'm glad Insomniac brought it back. I got into Jak and Daxter way later, but I can see why it was so beloved at the time
Y'all play Pong recently? That shits fire
Played it in a game quite recently, a month or so i guess. No idea What game though 😂
That game will always only be 20 years old, dammit!
Thank god you mentioned halo 2.
Best halo game of all time.
The remaster looked beautiful.
It really is!
@@gameranxTV and you could play as the covenant! With covenant allies and invisibility, I mean come on.
@@joshowawood1786next Halo game should follow that actually.
Too bad we never got to 'finish the fight' in that game.
@@rashonkelly3598 it should just be a straight covenant story of that silver guy with the missing jaw
Thanks for the nostalgia fix. I can still remember booting up Jedi Outcast on my PIII/GeForce3 rig and being completely blown away by how awesome it was.
Hey thanks for watching :)
The best intro to a gaming video I've ever seen. Straight to the point, no fat. Perfect.
Jet Set Radio is one of my all-time favorites. When I finally got to play Jet Set Radio Future, I was kinda disappointed. I loved Bomb Rush Cyberfunk being a throwback to both of them, though.
JSR is still one of my top 5, maybe even top 3 games of all time. I remember my mom bought me a used Dreamcast because she couldn’t get a used PlayStation at the time, and it came with JSR and Shenmue. Both just absolutely exquisite games!
Jsrf soundtrack was god-tier tho. Cyber funk had it all but the music just doesnt hit the same
Sid Meier's Pirates is still fun to play every now and then. A hell of a lot more so than Skull and Bones, anyway.
I prefer the original, original Commodore C64 version. First pirate game I ever played, at 6/7 years old. Still a classic.
Skull and bones is great. People give that game a lot of shit and I had my doubts but I loved it. Playing the 8 hr demo was enough to make me purchase it after
Pirates is just a collection of shitty mini games.
Half life 2 is great game🤩👌
omg hearing the roller coaster tycoon chain noise of rides going up brought a level of nostalgia I didn't know existed.
I did not expect right out of the gate Jedi Knight 2, Jedi Outcast 2. I just had a flooooodddd of nostalgia playing that online, having epic duels on my PC. Oh how time flies...
Vice City when it first released was a complete game changer, the gameplay the graphics the soundtrack. Even San Andreas can't compete from that front.
Graphics and Soundtracks were definitely better in VC but San Andreas had tons of stuff to do. Even GTA 5 couldn't match it.
Yep still remember the first time I played it back in 2002
The Resident Evil Remake on Gamecube. So good on release and still holds up.
Imagine coming home from school on a Friday evening, settling into your room, and spending the entire weekend playing these games.
No drama, no stress.
Just enjoying the early 2000s.
5:05 - Havok wasn't made by Valve just so you know, it was made by an Irish company and I think they're owned by Microsoft now
This is correct. That irked me hearing that misinformation
Half Life (inc Counterstrike mod) and Battlefield 1942 (inc Desert Combat mod) are the true groundbreaking titles in FPS gaming
World of Warcraft is celebrating its 20th anniversary this month and is still going strong. Honestly incredible, really.
@Megablueliner1 I thought about having that on my personal list but it is hard to make an agreement that your even playing the original wow anymore. It has changed so much over the decades and even playing "classic wow" isn't even that accurate to the original... so many quality of life changes. It's like owning a replica instead of an antique
@Corn_DOG if I start with the newest expansion do I still lvl up from lvl 1 in the original starting areas?
How is it that the game that’s actually still going strong with millions of regular players isn’t #1 on the list? Shesh.
@@DeltaTango2024Yes, but you level up incredibly fast.
As a retired FFXI guy I agree the staying power is something else.
Metal Gear Solid 3. It's aged liked fine wine, the controls are somewhat janky and the dialog can be cringey at times, but it's still a Masterpiece with one of the best video game stories and an incredible level of attention to detail.
The only 1 I've never played. I must get at it at some point
@@dmo848 You are missing out, all the games are so good.(pro tip: try playing twin snakes instead of the original, it has the graphics and features of 2.)
@@donnyboi1990 Thank you for this. I feel like sometimes Twin Snakes is hated on because it veered into anime levels of cheese, even though MGS2 leaned fully into it. People get too wrapped up in MGS1 being this grounded spy thriller, but it was probably that way because of the technical limitations of the PS1. Twin Snakes feels like what it would have been like if it was made later, with a little extra cheesy sauce on top.
MGS1 2 and 3 are all still excellent.
Max Payne 1 is absolutely amazing! And extremely underrated and in my opinion it's much better than the 2nd game!
Solid choice right there!
Unreal Tournament! Cant get it to work anymore but I adored that game.
Before I watched this video I thought "I wonder if Jedi Knight 2 Jedi Outcast would be mentioned"
So happy it was as I still absolutely love this game and I probably go through it once or twice a year just for pure nostalgia. And it's still incredibly fun.
I'm really missing Doom II. That's the game that I come back the most and its still incredible all the times.
Quake too.
@@brodriguez11000 I absolutely agree that Quake is incredible, but I would say that the partly sprite based graphics of Doom 1 and 2 aged better that Quake's early 3D models. Doom also has a much more coherent art direction, while Quake just kind of throws a bunch of themes together (which makes sense when you learn about its troubled development).
Havok was used in the Source engine, but Havok was NOT developed by Valve.
I came to the point of the same mistake. Havok was developed by...Havok, a company based in Dublin. The company and the engine were bought by Microsoft. Never has Havok been a part of Valve.
I played FFVII and it's 27 years old it's so strange to think about how much a jump technically wise games advanced in 7 years
And GPUs.
@@brodriguez11000
GPUs didn't make big jumps technically in games.
Biggest technical jumps were:
-Assembly -> C or other higher level language -> game engine
-Cassette/tiny module -> diskettes -> CD-ROM
-Tiles/sprites -> bitmaps -> vector/3D-gaming
-Hand animated -> motion capture and video -> facial motion capture
-Beeps -> synth sound -> digitized sound -> talkie
Even 4 years later when FFX came out. Insane
You had me at Jedi Knight 2... that game was EPIC! My favorite move was using the upgraded force pull to strip the blasters from a horde of storm troopers and just watch them freak out.
Fair play including RCT2. That game is amazing
I think we will all still be playing Tetris when the last black hole mines start to die at the end of the universe.
I 100% agree.
One of my favorite all-tine classics is Mercenaries....it definitely would look amazing with remastered graphics, while retaining the complete destruction physics.
Yes🎉 loved them dearly
never played this myself but my big bro had it and I watched with sheer delight
Def Jam fight for ny was way ahead of its time
Man... you make me want to get Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 and Max Payne 2! I spent good time with those games back in the day. Now I only need to purchase s gaming PC 😂
Listening to the storm troopers chat to each other was the best bit of jedi outcast. Made it so much fun to fight them.
really glad a Roller Coaster Tycoon game made it
Worms Armageddon would be an obvious choice for me, as it should barely fit the criteria (1999).
Anyone remember Chip’s challenge? My dad and I absolutely loved that game back in the day
I used to play it on the Atari Lynx 😁
Great game. Had it on the Amstrad cpc464. Loved the crazy music.
Have it for the commodore 64, mate. Great puzzle game. Ear grating music, full package!
Wow first one into video is Jedi Outcast, instant like.
I would add Mafia and Deus Ex to the list also.
Mafia was great but I remember giving up on it back then because the controls were awful, there was one part I just couldn't get past because it was so bad. Fortunately they (mostly) fixed that with Definitive Edition, I finally beat it a few years ago when DE came out. Deus Ex is still to this day my favorite game, and DX: Human Revolution was also very good.
My favourite part about Aria of Sorrow is the intro. I still watch it to date on TH-cam sometimes.😃
Call of Duty 1 and 2 (2003 and 2005 respectively). Those games played and looked so well that when I still had crappy market pc I used to replay them so so many times! When newer games started using fancier shaders and looked and ran so much worse on lowest settings than these first 2 CoD's, I just went back there and enjoyed my time again :D
Same here with my crappy dell pc that i bought with my own money as a kid
back when there was no always online, no battle passes, no microtransactions, no deluxe editions, no muddy upscaling fsr dlss bullshid, no rtx gimmicks. the game you bought was the finished product and it worked from start to finish. good times and im glad i was there.
Even those old games had bugs and glitches, only reason we mostly didn't notice is because we believed some of the bugs were actually a part or feature in the games.
1:40 Don't forget about the dismemberment code.
g_sabermorerealistic 3
@@TheDisturbedBaboon can it be combined with the ragdoll code?
@@McGeezle hm I don't know I'm not aware of that one!
Always feels good to see a personal favorite on the top of a Gameranx list
The first Star Wars of the Old Republic - awesome story with different paths. Star Wars Dark Forces II, and Rome Total War.
Another one for the list : Kingdom hearts 2, it s 19 years old but at the time it felt like a game from the future
i recently just played kingdom hearts 2, im ngl the game feels extremely modern. cant believe its from 2006!!! blows me away
I wish Riddick would come back to steam
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I wish they made another move, last one was good, the only time I ever liked Vin Diesel I think, well, apart Guardians of the Galaxy.
I've been playing max payne 2 on PC since 2003, im telling you there's alot of mods that you can install for it like The Punisher, The Matrix, there's this favorite mod that I still play up to this day called " Max Rambo 1.25" and the difference of that mod is that the Bullet Time is infinite and the world is a whole lot slower like literally frame by frame movement already and alot of the weapons fire rates are sped up to 100 times. You'll see that when you fire your weapons you can literally make a wall of bullets on how fast the fire rate was for shotguns and watch enemies flying when your turn off bullet time 😂. I've been playing this game for so long this game experienced multiple gpu's already, Nvidia Geforce 2, GTX860,. GTX970m, GTX1070, GTX1080, GTX1070ti, RTX3080ti 😂.
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Oh ffs I still remember that blaster from Jedi Outcast, it was so painful to use. And a struggle to get past those few levels. My love of the series was the only thing that kept me going until I finally got that lightsaber, and then everything was glorious.
Man I member all of these. Great video guys
I wish some of these games were easier to access, I was thrilled when they released Star Wars: Republic Commando on PSN and I'm still having fun with that game
Thanks to physical copies of a game, most of them are available at your local retro game store. Won't be so lucky with games of the future.
@ayceod That's true, but the retro game market is ridiculous as far as their skyhigh prices are now. Some games that were going for $20 5 or 10 years ago are now $400, I don't get it...
the high seas is the way to go!
@@thestraydog You are absolutely right about that. I have been an active collector for about 15 years now, and when I first started collecting, I could find games for .60 cents at Goodwills. I found a DS Lite in a case with 5 games for $10 at a thrift store once.. So upsetting what has become of the collectors on a budget scene.
@@ayceodit really is a shame that they are wanting $100s of dollars for this stuff.
Dont forget Far cry 1
Far Cry 1 was amazing in its day but I've gone back and played it within the last year or so and it doesn't hold up very well. At very least the enemy AI is really bad and predictable. I remember how groundbreaking it was (particularly the draw distance) and the multiplayer was good fun as well but playing it these days you can really feel the age of it.
MAX PAYNEEE
Woo
8:55 Brother got out if his car with a shovel 😂 lol
Wow the visuals for that Riddick game really hold up, like insanely well