the weird forgotten world of xbox indie games
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มี.ค. 2024
- Remember games like APOCZ, CastleMiner Z, Avatar Warfare or any of the other Xbox 360 Indie games from back in the day? They used to be the backbone of the Xbox 360.
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Bro was the leader of the clan but not TH-cam
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💀 Bro really said:
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He's the uh jokester guy so uh yeah
Yeah...
she was silent bc she was shocked how manly he was (source: I made it up)
Castleminer Z and Total Miner were some of my most treasured childhood memories, and I wish somebody would kind of like bring them back in some way
Theyre on steam, arent they?
Did you ever play just castle miner it's was literally castle miner z but creative mode Minecraft no enemies just really beautiful areas or a super flat world
@@rentalmeturd3247 I know castle miner z is me and my friends play is from time to time
@@11ggames20 yeah I bought Castle Miner specifically so I could use Creative Mode in CMZ lol. It was alright but it didn't have that same level of depth for me
Castle Miner Z with the music, dragon and zombie raids, and insane updates was truly one of the best games on Xbox.
It’s sad that Xbox doesn’t really use avatars in games anymore. Even the new avatars, I’ve hardly seen any game use them. I remember seeing a few XBLA games utilizing them
I always felt like after Kinect launched, avatars became almost exclusively Kinect characters, so when Kinect died, so did they.
I honestly miss the active usage of them. Like if Microsoft invested some time into being able to use both kinds of avatars for games on the Xbox, we could see a renaissance with the avatars. I honestly haven't touched my XBL avatar in over 5 years, mostly because I haven't been incentivized to do so, cause I never got to see it in use ANYWHERE.
I remember when some games would give you avatar items for getting achievements, I was constantly updating my avatar. I have an Xbox (granted I hardly use it) and I don’t even remember having to make an avatar or seeing somewhere you can make one
I played the heck out of the laser game with my buddies
Same, hell, i'm pretty sure there isn't even indie games exclusive to xbox that even utilize them which is a huge shame
i'm actually thankful i got to grow up with the 360 it truly was the golden age of gaming
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It ‘twas
Lol it was great but the golden age was the PS1 lol..u missed it man, hate to tell you
@@Ac0ustics0ulshut up old head
@@Ac0ustics0ulyea no it wasn’t that’s just an old head response ps1 was ass and nostalgia based
The xbox avatar at this point is a relic of a kinder past. Theyre still there but not in the spotlight anymore let alone even seen on the new consoles
Was the best part of Xbox they ruined it by not using it anymore
Um if you play in the 360 you still can duh what a chump
You can still just use them as a picture. I still use the monkey on Xbox. Never changed it. Also I still have the Bungie Octopus 🐙 on my original account. My buddy uses the Bungie Monkey.
You can still just use them as a picture. I still use the monkey on Xbox. Never changed it. Also I still have the Bungie Octopus 🐙 on my original account. My buddy uses the Bungie Monkey.
The new Avatars kind of code your character in certain ways. Ironically, I can't be the default fat bearded gringo😂
I remember playing ApocZ and barley running into people what's so weird is also remember meeting someone one day looting stuff and getting a car it was such a blast a core memory of my childhood ill never forget those days
You can still play it as long as you and your friends have a rgh
@crazyfloof I don't know who the guy was and I don't have a 360 anymore and I don't know what a rgh is
ApocZ was a fever dream 💀
I remember abusing the bugginess of the game to load into someone's base and gun them down.
I also remember wanting to see were it went but the creator supposedly got into a car wreck and never worked on it again.
I remember the warehouse behind the city scape having a M249 and some kind of sniper and assault rifle by it and always fighting over it with the randoms😂 the driving was weird and wonky asf too but enjoyed it because it was dayz before having a pc
Real ones continued to play castle miner Z even after minecraft was on Xbox
I miss the Doritos Dash of Destruction game where you either played as a car trying to hit checkpoints or a dinosaur trying to eat the car. Used to play that with my young cousins (5-7) because I didnt have a lot of appropriate games for kids.
Loved that game. Never seems to get mentioned.
I swore I remembered you controlled turrets...
Castle Crashers, I MAED A GAEM WITH ZOMBIES 1N 1T, White Noise Online and Doritos Crash Course were top tier arcade/indie games
No Luca No & Try not To Fart were also interesting.
the fucking soundtrack from "I made a game" was incredible
So many good times. Kids today missed out
3 out of those 4 are still available on the new consoles. Castle crashers got a remaster, I MAED got a rerelease and Doritos crash course is available through backwards compatibility.
Don’t forget total forge
Oh how I miss the Xbox indie marketplace. If I log onto my 360 right now, my library is full to the brim with Xbox indie and arcade games.
I forget if it was indie or arcade, but I loved a game called Beat Hazard. What it did was, you could scan in your music CDs and it used the tracks as levels of a twin stick space shooter. So when the music got heavier more enemies would appear. It wasn't perfect but the idea came across clear, and it had more structure like mini boss fights and such, and it gauged the difficulty rating. Also the beam from your ship pulsated with the music, so it felt like the music was your weapon. The great thing was it worked with any song so the gameplay was endless. A great offshoot of the Guitar Hero music game revolution, and it got an upgrade in Ultra Beat Hazard. I think it would work just as well now as it did then.
Wait, Beat Hazard first came out on Xbox? Crazy! I haven't played much of 2, but I've played a lot of 1 on Steam. I even tried it on my phone, when I had a phone with USB OTG support for a wired controller, but like, how often am I stuck waiting somewhere AND I wanna feel amped up? 😂
I think my go-to tracks were stuff like Pink Floyd and the tiny bit of techno I had, but there are some really fun bits of classical music to play, plus you can get a really long round in, that way. Sucks when a boss comes at a quiet part, though, like... Thanks for the pea shooter, damn it!
What were some artists or genres you remember being really fun?
@@neonte13 Nine Inch Nails translated really well, other than that I focused on punk rock mostly. I didn't use the Xbox to play CDs, but the scanning process was quick and easy. There just wasn't much to it once you've mastered the basics, it was a fun novelty. But that was the perfect level of involvement for the game, it was a mindless relaxation exercise.
Oh my god I hope they talk about that one village management game where your avatar was a giant. That game was a core memory.
Edit: A Kingdom for Klefflings!! Haha no way, you guys even talked about ApocZ. Great research guys, this vid brought back so many memories.
World of Kefflings?
World of Kefflings was def a core memory
World of Keflings was a sequel game. My wife and I played them together.
I don't know if Kingdom was ever on the Indie side, but he's wrong about not being able to use your avatars on the Arcade version. That was a later add on.
Absolutely wild to see Speedrunners introduced as "this other game" at 3:24 when now it's a full and popular party game that was a hit with the TH-cam greats in the 2010s
I miss these days. Everything felt much more social back then. A far cry from what we have today on Xbox
Throw in the 1v100 live TV game and the fact that Netflix had a whole "Watch movies with friends in a movie theater" thing going on.
It was the most social of video games systems ever and was awesome.
Total miner was so much more then a Minecraft clone. It had rpg elements, shop blocks, had to find blue prints to craft new things, skills. I miss total miner
Best indie game was definitely I MADE A GAME WITH ZOMBIES IN IT. Then Castle Miner Z in 2nd, Total Miner Forge in 3rd, and Murder Miners in 4th.
For most of the 360's lifetime, I MADE A GAME WITH ZOMBIES IN IT was the highest rated indie game then the last year or 2 of the 360's life Castle Miner Z passed it even though it didn't have near the number of reviews.
SO glad to see someone mention I MADE A GAME WITH ZOMBIES IN IT. My little brother and I played this like crazy
@jacobj5080 yeah. Black Ops 1 even copied this game with Dead Ops Arcade. I really wish that game was forward compatible with modern Xboxes.
They went on to make salt and sanctuary
@Mattakschwa yeah they had a lot of games I played on the 360 like Charlie Murder (Castle Crashers but you're in a band) and Zombies and Pterodactyls
I was so disappointed that they didn’t mention this game. Better than it had any right to be. Especially since all y’all misspelled it. It’s “i maed a gam3 w1th z0mb1es 1n it !!1”
This is honestly the only channel that has videos more than 20 mins that I actually enjoy and fully watch. Love the channel and content.
Murder Miners is still available on modern Xbox platforms, and Steam. It's great.
And they're working on a sequel Murder Miners X
bro, you just brought back some memories with murder miners. i used to play this game 24/7 and i never seen anyone else talk about it until now. thank you for sharing this
Its still on steam. So is castleminer z.
so glad youtube algorithm has been suggesting more content like video essays or just this
There really isn’t anything like these games anymore..
16:00 as far as custom maps on Minecraft on 360 for the time, there was a way to import them via USB using a save state editor. My friends would send me maps and custom games and I just use the same program I used to edit our borderlands characters.
Hybrids in borderlands are cool
Or just use a program called ‘Horizon’ and swap the save IDs to your own profiles’ ID so that the console can point the save to your specific account
Me and my friends played so many avatar and indie games. CastleMiner Z, CastleMiner, Apocz, Shark Attack, Avatar Warfare and so many others. From time to time i still boot up my 360 just to get on the games and play them. I will always remember CastleMiner Z, CastleMiner, Total Miner, Apocz, and Shark Attack. All buggy but fun indie game you could play multiplayer.
12:00 woah the fact this game had multiplayer is insane 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Dude, thank you guys so much for the new episode. I needed this tonight, kinda' down. But yeah man I forgot ALL about Rainbow Unicorn. Seeing that footage was a blast from the past man. Great topic in this one. 👍
My xbox 360 avatar is still my profile picture and its kinda blurry lmaoooo. im glad it carried over and I don't have the heart to change it.
Same for my wife. She's used the same one since World of Keflings.
Soo many games we played as teens so much fun
All the perfect controller massages lol
I will never forget these xbox avatar games. So glad youre covering this
I once was in a mount your friends competition between me and 15 other people at a party, let’s just say it was one of the best times I’ve ever had in all my years. Ended up in third place at the end so you can imagine the pressure after all that time. Wish I could go back to those nights.
Also this sounds bad out of context but if you know you know
Daaamn, I forgot all about Avatar Warfare. Never got to play it as I was at a friend's house back in the day. This is a nostalgia trip.
I remember Avatar Warfare as the first digital game I ever bought when I wasn't allowed COD. Avatar Legends was also a cool game, its graphics are what I immediately think of when someone says Xbox 360. I bought Avatar Paintball but the playerbase was dead by the time I got it
the avatar games were so good, it really felt like i was able to represent myself the way i wanted in the games. like the motocross madness game was so cool to see my avatar in it
This was such a nostalgic ride.
My 3 favorite Xbox Indie games were Try Not to Fart, I Made a Game With Zombies in it, and Cthulhu Save the World.
I used to enjoy an indie game called Concept Coaster Craft back in the 360 days. It wasn’t anything special but it was a neat little coaster creator with Xbox avatars and I enjoyed it more than I should have
Oh lord I came ready to see Total Miner, Castle Miner, and Fortress Craft and now that I’ve been reminded of Mount Your Friends, I had such a crazy flashback of awesome memories lmao
Who played Try Not To Fart? Your character was on a date and you had to press controller button combos with what was on screen. Miss one and he lets one rip
Total miner forge, castle miner z, chopsticks, zombie turkey outbreak, arcade craft, avatar legends. These are some of the best!!
There was one zombie game I remember playing a whole lot. It was a really poor copy of call of duty zombies, but it had avatar support and it was really easy to adjust rack up a whole bunch of points, and just go on instantly I remember sinking so much time into that
i was waiting on somebody to document this, thank you
A Kingdom for Keflings and A World of Keflings are both backward compatible on the Xbox One and by extension Series X/S! I still play them every so often!
Indie games where half of my xbox childhood it was halo call of duty and indie games and roblox that were booming back then
Bro the paintball, avatar warfare, dorito crash course, and keflings were unlocked memories thank you
I had several of these on my 360 - the massage one, total miner, constructor360 (a neat little Lego-like thing), and a fantastic one called The Most Addicting Sheep Game, which got rereleased on iOS and Android a few years back
Fast forward to now, I’m going into the game dev industry and unironically learned XNA, which the 360 indie games were built on. These games and the Xbox 360 had such a profound impact on me
Murder miners was, and still is, seen by several halo pro players as a good halo game. They are making a sequel now. Recently a very popular map builder had passed and the whole community got together to celebrate his life and what he did for the community.
16:06 Essentially when the Legacy versions of Minecraft released (console versions prior to the switch, though PS4 and One would get updated to the new one) They had MINIGAMES! Which were absolutely phenomenal. There was a Spleef game called Tumble, a flying game with the elytra called Glide, but most importantly there was Battle. A hunger games style game. So great. So many amazing memories.
The indie games were some of my favorite memories ever gaming. My buddy and i would find the funnest looking one of the week and go to town. We absolutely loved total miner forge, castleminer z, murder miners, shark attack deathmatch and the laser deathmatch just to name a few. There were so many options with 99% of them being a dollar... good times
Apocz and total miner forge, the memories are golden!
Still gutted someone looted my base I had in a glitch spot 😂
On my original Xbox 360 I still have a couple of these indie games still download like total miner, castle miner z, avatar laser wars 2, and a few more I can’t remember
Dudeee, Murder Miners was incredible!!
Great video guys you just unlocked my memory Vauld Good times
I have such nostalgia for Total Miner Forge from playing it with my school friends over the Christmas break all those years ago. There was actually some things it did better than Minecraft at the time like the underground going way way deeper than Minecraft and that had biomes related to the depth you were at and right at the bottom was like a Hell biome. It was pretty cool.
This was an immense nostalgia trip for me! I lost my Xbox 360 in a move and this was an awesome way to relieve some of those weird games (I got a few on steam)
The avatar laser tag game was FIIIIIRE
I played a ton of Kingdom for/World of Keflings. Loved those games.
Xbox indie games was something alright.
You unlocked many memories for me thank you
Avatar Adventurers Online, Miner Dig Deep, and I Maed a Gaem with Zombies in it were some of my most played games on 360 after things like Gears and Halo.
The one Xbox Live indie game I sorely miss out on the most is a game known as Star Cross, it was an interesting RPG, I remember watching my older sibling playing the game quite religiously, and got stuck on one boss that we thought for sure was the final boss due to its difficulty, but much to our surprise, there was still more of the game left. Alas, we never got to see how the game ended, because eventually, the Xbox 360 updated with this two-step authentication process, which, locked us out of our primary Xbox Live account, and still cannot be accessed to this day.
Other Xbox Live indie games I fondly remember playing are games like Abstacked, On A Roll, Polywobble, Avatar Grand Prix (or, whatever its name is), Smashell, Wacky Kart, Bobbin's Quest, and Avatar Glides 1 and 2. (Oh, there was also this one game known as Artoon, and that was cool as well, shame it's hard to find information on it)
The draw of Avatar Legends was the game creator mode. You could make your own massive RPG with their tools and it was fun.
Miss the xbox indie games, actually played murder miners on PC recently and was surprised to see people still playing it. That game, total miner, and castleminer z were some of the best :)
Murder miners and Dishwashers brought back crazy memories. Its actually so crazy this vid came out because me and my brother was searching for murder miners not too long ago but couldnt find the name, we just called it that minecraft halo game lol. The game had the creativity of minecraft and halo forge, with all the cool game modes (especially infection). The customization was sick, the game was very active and we enjoyed every moment of it till we ran out of xbox live gold :/. Dishwasher tho… i think thats a game everyone should experience, the art, gameplay, and story is great. It reminded me if that edgy stickman/newgrounds era and was perfect.
Doritos crash course was great.. me and my friends would play it so much back in the day, it was basically the show Wipeout but with your Xbox avatar.
I used to play apoc z all the time back in the day. I got my buddy to buy it too but I remember running into more than 1 person. It was never more than like 1 or 2 people but I remember we used to all fight over the military base at the top of the map
Oh my godddd techno kitten adventure. I LOVED that game. I put so many hours into it. I miss it 😭
I made a game with zombies in it, and super amazing wagon adventure were the two I remembered so fondly I picked them up on steam years later
Hey dude. There is a very high chance that it was me that played Apocz with you
I played that game for many many hours back in the day and used to love teaming up with random people and driving about to each base
Kingdom for keflings was goated
THIS
It was a great game to play with my wife.
ive been trying to get it on pc
that and the old farming games was dope asf.
I recently bought this on series X and it still has my 360 Avatar
Bro seeing murder miners apoca z and majority of the indie I used to play especially castle miner z great memories
This video brought me back to my childhood such a beautiful era glad we all feel the same about it
You look like Andrew Horowitz, nice video I liked the chatting and memory lane
avatar paintball was gas and nobody can convince me otherwise
Murder Miners was easily one of my favorite game from my xbox 360 days. It's on steam now, but its pretty much deserted compared to the xbox version. It was such a nice game, and still is. Had a pretty active player-base as well.
apocz was amazing i also remember meeting someone and playing with them for a bit
Pretty sure I had Avatar Racedrome, and played the demos for a lot of other games mentioned here, including Avatar Warfare. I'll have to get my 360 set up so I can see what I've got lol.
16:30 you could play Minecraft Hunger Games on the 360 at a certain point. I don't remember the process or if it was even legal, but you could download maps onto a USB stick and inject them into your save data and then play them on the 360. You just had to host it and invite people to play, but you could do it.
Doritos Crash Course was AMAZING
A bit of these Xbox Live Indie titles are not yet preserved, and can no longer be downloaded. They also can't seem to be played in the Xbox 360 emulator Xenia. If anyone watching this still has an Xbox 360 with Indie titles downloaded on it please look into getting them backed up and archived.
3:23 There's a multiplayer party style game directly based on it afaict called Speedrunners. Fantastic game, highly recommend.
Bro me and my Buddy used to pick people up in apocz and just drive around. It was my favorite past time in that game. That game filled a void in me.
CastleMiner Z will always remain one of the most fun Xbox indie games me and my friends had the most fun on
ive never had an xbox but i enjoy seeing these videos and how it compared to PS Store from back then and now. we have different, but just as weird games lol
16:32 one thing to add for avatar legends is the create mode. Like if you wanted to fight the poor map making tools you could make a short fun campaign. 😅
I remember fondly enjoying the Kefling games a lot when I was a kid
I remember the massage "game" and I have to say, i used it on my back and it was actually pretty awesome !
I remember getting Minecraft for the first time for my 360 my uncle bought it for me and I was so excited I wish I could relive this moment again
Speed runners was always one of my favorite games growing up
Brooo!! The comedy club one , was so great , it either built you or broke you, man me and a group of friends would go one once a week and just roastt each other , man that built character and I feel like it’s where my humor was built for today , The Netflix one where you could go in as your avatar and friends and watch movies together was such a bonding and amazing experience, surprised they didn’t bring them back for the pandemic when people were locked down .
thank you to anyone who made or worked on these games. for poor children all around the world you filled our time with semi playable games that our childhood brains could turn into full movies.
I don’t think the keflings series was ever labeled “indie” only “arcade”
correct
The vibrating control game had me laughing so hard. One of my favorites is Zombie estate it is a forgotten indie Xbox game that I love
I recently repicked up one of keflings game because I played it as a kid to feel nostalgic about playing it again
I played the Fortress Craft and the Zombie like one I loved the old Arcade. even the Demos were cool to be able to have
castle miner z was amazing i remember spending countless hours, just exploring and playing with others on multiplayer i wish someone booted up the servers back.
Doritos Crash Course was a fun game with the use of avatars
My favorite ones that nobody talks about anymore are Avatar Legends and Avatar Legends 2360 i played the HELL out of those games. They even had a map maker / level editor! it was great.
Just from watching the few seconds shown here, Miner Dig Deep looks a lot more like the flash game Motherload which was released in 2004.
this video is a fever dream i played like 90% of these back in the day LOL
Comedy night was one of my favorite games it’s on steam and it’s basically the same game to this day I still enjoy it playing it 😂
My top 3 favorite indie games were Super Amazing Wagon Adventure: Turbo, Xenominer, and Xenominer swarm.
Ilomilo, 1 vs 100, there was a game where you could play asteroid and the rocks would come in to the beat of your music that was stored on the system. I miss going to my friend Sam’s house and playing L4D2 and the Doritos game
PS that one avatar game is basically Elden Ring for 360 lol