Nostalgia - Why Gaming Will Never Be The Same
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Is it just easy to be blinded by nostalgia, or are the good old days really better than today? In this video, I look back at all of my years playing videogames, from the Super Nintendo, Game boy Color, Advance, Nintendo DS, PSP, PS3 and now PS4. I reminisce about my favorite memories and talk about how gaming today compares to the past. I hope you'll enjoy it!
Edited by Josh Anderson - / josh_j_anderson
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To me the gaming today is better than ever
@RobinGaming great video! 👍
Honestly I think all the games from 10 years ago till now have been exceptional. I really miss the Uncharted series however I’m so happy it was as good as it was and they stopped.
I relate to this video 100% now that j have money to get whatever game I want it makes games just not as fun, but otherwise great video man I truly enjoyed it🤘🏻
RobinGaming PREACH bro 🙏
Just keep a eye out for death stranding
You don’t know you’re in the good old days until you’ve left it behind
Well said brother. *pats shoulder, tear rolling down the cheek*
I wish there was a way to know your in the good old days before you leave them
@@Tysanator Time travel. Tell yourself things will change, you'll go through a lot of depression, responsibilities and all that shit a kid doesn't want know. And tell yourself to cherish and live every day as if they are gonna grow up tomorrow and all this will be gone.
I miss the classic Minecraft, man.
Your profile picture is very fitting.
The thing with Nostalgia is that you will feel nostalgia for the great games you are playing right now aswell. It just needs time 😅
Haha yup video hasn't been up long enough yet but I pretty much mention it at the very end ;)
xAka_DeViL not for me the last true game I enjoyed came out in 2012
don eladio esta muerto
@Nathan Clark Mad max is far from a 'cheap open world' game.
Yeah, a great example is that I started off with Mario Kart DS, but MK 8 willbe probably feel very nostalgic for me in a maximum of 10 years.
It's not the games that we miss. Because we still play them to this day.
It's the view of the world around us, as a child that we miss.
The pure innocence and spirit that we crave for.
These are the days in which we were the most happiest.
spot on
Liquor Hole
Thank you. ☺️
I miss multiplayer games from around 2010
@@TheZombaslaya I feel like online gaming peaked around that time. Great times.
I miss the old online communities.
Me 10 years in the future: yow bro..you remember them microtransactions back then...damn..... mom's credit card was hella a drug.. couldn't get enough
Will Andrew Wilson be the president in that future?
Gavin's friend He’s president of America
Microtransactions will hopefully be outlawed in 10 years.
@@StewHeisenberg honestly. For me they make the game feel like a cheap mobile game
@@Patricswift where are you? Gavin's still looking for you and I think he's traveled pretty far to find you.
While I havent played Mirror's Edge a lot, that main theme from the OST always brings me that strange sensation of nostalgia. Man, those days were awesome!
So good.
Yup, that soundtrack was something else man.
Search "mirrors edge the shard puzzle" and enjoy.
Or Maybe this link work.
ua-cam.com/video/2OgAilvLkFk/v-deo.html
My first ps3 game. Feels like it's been centuries, yet I remember every level. Simple, but beautiful game. And that soundtrack, oooohboi.
The new one is my fav
This Video: *Exists*
Nostalgia: I'm about to Remember this Man's Whole Career.
Epic
Cute
Nice
Great!
The era of Halo 1-3 was the golden age for me. All the local system link multiplayer matches i've played with my bros will never be forgotten.
Xbox started that all.
I remember that feeling when first time entered online lobby and started playing. Magic. X360 and PS3 era mastered that. This gen didnt really offer anything new in that area hopefully next gen will offer yet more.
@@wolfgangvonhertzen9820 because back in 7th gen era, some of the big publishers are not greedy as hell like now. I know the concept of business is less expense more income. But still, sometime they are just doing it over the edge
@@ekopermana7150
EA for example have been just that even back then, same as many others. Some things will always be the same.
Hell yea. Those Mountain Dew and junk food fueled nights back in 2002, up til 3am with 4 OG Xboxs linked together playing on Blood Gulch.
@@wolfgangvonhertzen9820 EA released more than 5(!) brand new highly acclaimed AAA IPs along with sequels to them by their internal development studios + they published some like Bulletstorm in a span of couple of years - for example this generation they released...one new AAA IP that was an complete disaster(Anthem) and I dont count Titanfall since Respawn wasnt their internal studio by the time first game came out. They turned to shit after 2010 which concludes massive changes in their upper managment and resign of John Riccitiello their previous CEO. I get that EA should burn now but seriously saying that they always were the same is just delusional.
I also consider 2009 to 2013 to be the golden age of gaming for me. I remember playing Uncharted 2 and being blown away by the single player campaign.
Rickalicious1 that was definitely a golden time period for games. Uncharted 2, Assassins Creed 2, Skyrim, Arkham Asylum/City, Red Dead Redemption, Portal 2, MW 2, Far Cry 3, GTA 5, and The Last of Us all came out in that time frame. No doubt those were some of the best 4 years the gaming community has ever seen.
Uncharted 2 was the first PS3 game I played and it was crazy to me seeing how different Naughty Dog became cause of seeing their logo in the beginning. First chapter will always be hype.
MattTheHuman the Uncharted 2 opening was so good that the next two games in the series did basically the same thing lol.
The Bloody Doctor Yeah. About to be 21 next month
Patrick Gleason Yeah. I remember when Online pass was considered the worst thing the gaming industry has ever offer. Now it pales in comparison to micro transactions and unfinished games being released at launch.
Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer is probably one of the most addictive games ever made
We went into those lobbies boys. Came out men.
Never agreed with a comment more
Nah World At War
Put 31 days into that game
@@_piz2862 World at War was brilliant. The story was amazing laying the roots for the black ops series and the multiplayer was great
I feel bad for people that have never played Simpsons Hit & Run...
the REAL gta
*the feels pour out of me*
What is simpsons hit & run?
OK One of the best open world games for the PS2.
@@rickalicious1116 i did not get to play ps2 since i was not born in those times but I will get an Ps4
I have nostalgia already with games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and I only played last october when it came out till november when I finished it. I feel like it's been ages ago because I enjoyed it so much. Listening to some OSTs from it, especially free roam music, throws me in a nostalgia and makes me feel like I played it long ago. Good games followed with great soundtracks which awaken memories of the game's moments is what makes great games in the end.
I feel the same. It was a hell of an experience that only comes around once in a great while. I've been holding out hope for a PC re-release for an excuse to replay the story mode.
I have some nostalgia for 2005-2008 (basically PS3), and also around 2013, when GTA V, The Last of Us ect. came out.
“May I stand unshaken”
What other games have caused this feeling?
WoW classic inc.
"Hey man I gotta go eat some dinner, i'll be on tomorrow ok."
"ya man see ya tomorrow."
*last seen online 10 years ago*
I still remember the gamer tags of my closest Xbox friends from like 5 years ago. Big sad.
Ouch
yep today 2 years ago
30+ friends online at all times
now: nobody online
I bet your old xbox friends probably Got a PS4 instead of an Xbox One, Stopped caring about games, Have more important stuff to do, or are... i don't wanna say it.
@@taxjax dead..... you can say dead. My best friends and I have always kept up after they moved during high school. We even ended up creating a clan as we got into Rust. I put a couple thousand of hours into games with them (Rust, CS-GO, R6, and a couple other) but in the end one of them came and visit and we hung out, but then the very next day he passed away in a car accident. This was about a year ago, but pretty much by now the clan has pretty much fallen apart. The last message on our main discord server is the notice for his funeral and though there is some activity on our secondary server it is almost non-existent. With only a few people active only like 1 every couple of weeks. Life happened and we all fell apart. I do miss the days of pulling an all nighters with my friends, but thats just memories now. I guess one of my favorite quotes is from Winnie the Poo. It goes "We didn't realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun."
the good ol' days of playing Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (the 2005 one) with my dad on the PS2 are gone :(
Edit: dang didn't see all these replies; glad y'all could relate
You and I must be similarly aged cause I did the exact same thing. Stuff like Killzone 2 and 3 and uncharted all still kept this alive though and games like the last 2 of us are still coming up. It's not dead, just isn't as old anymore :P
Unless you want my cousins ps2?
:( I loved battlefront 2, I played with my dad all the time
My dad hated that i played videogames. Pretty sure he hated me too. Still look back fondly on my dad yelling at me to turn it off and me playing till i won the battle and happily eating my cold food.
Bro this make me get the feels, I remember playing battlefront 2 with my dad on the ps2
Nothing like playing an amazing single player campaign , multiplayer is good but I always got fascinated when AI do some great things, Example enemy AI in games like FEAR, farcry 1
I read that as fear factor, I love joe Rogan
Saturated Neō Wax no. He meant F.E.A.R. not FF... lol
DEREZZEDZ0MB Belman! He’s saying he read it as that, but he isn’t saying it’s that.
Im lookin forward to Deathstranding
Did you really just call Far Cry 1 AI good?
wii sports gives me very much nostalgia, wii sports gang rise up.
pichito hell yeah man :(,I miss those days
I never got into wii. But its cheap as hell right now. Finna buy as much games as possible.
Wii Sports all the way
pichito
Yeah!!!
I miss throwing the bowling ball behind me
What I really miss is couch coop and LAN parties. Gaming has become a solitary experience even with all the interconnectivity and social features.
Miss loading up the ps2 after school every day, and playing bangers such as crash and ratchet and clank. damn 😥
damn right man.. when were you born?
@@MCoconut97 1999
Man those Rachet and Clank games were fun!
I'm a 2000. Though, as a kid, I played the same games. Ratchet&Clank, Jak&Daxter, Crash, Sly Cooper, etc.
@@TheTyupi i feel most of us Gen Z(ages 19-24 currently) played those games i miss the days too, and especially how PS2 had such a crazy huge library i still remember games i only saw once in my life and never again.
I still feel gaming was more pure pre-internet. I loved playing my Sega Genesis with no care in the world.
For me the golden age was 2000-2007, the PS1, PS2 era, with all those JRPG and it's soundtracks and memorable stories, which is honestly hard to find like those today....
@Stalker 18 Last gen is very overrated compared to the previous ones.
@Macdealerx even though 2018/2019 is better than 2013-2017, it is still far from being good tbh.
Stuff like microtransactions, dlc policies and uncreative and unfinished stuff hurts a lot.
There are only a few lights of hope left right now besides indie games
@Stalker 18 story driven RPGs are all the mf rage
omg yes, PS1 JRPGs have a special place in my heart too,FF,Legend of Dragoon,Suikoden I&II,Legend of Mana,Xenogears etc
Modern Warfare 2 has such a special place in my heart
Same here ... so many memories
C4 Suren same
Hell yeah AND World at War...special place in my heart
ENEMY AC130 ABOVEee!!!
cellP8 TACTICAL NUKE INCOMING
Mirrors edge was my life, loved playing through the campaign, loved speed running it, and the soundtrack is just straight up amazing. gets Me everytime XD
i'm with you on that man, i got chills when the music started playing
same. i miss it
when i heard the runescape music i stood up from my chair and gave a salute.
>runescape more nostalgic than Public Enemy
no, m'lord
that runescape music got me right in the feelings
r/thathappened
The Xbox 360 and PS3 days were amazing. The online friends, clans, and just staying up all night on the weekend with no worries was the most fun I’ve ever had.
Yeah games just don't hit different anymore
@@chadcarroll550 yeah because past is the past and you will remember it as the best past, that's called nostalgia, just wait 7-10 years from now and you'll 100% say the same things
@@chadcarroll550 yeah because past is the past and you will remember it as the best past, that's called nostalgia, just wait 7-10 years from now and you'll 100% say the same things
@@abdalazizalqaffaz9252 meh
Nah bro nothing lately has compared to the 2009-2014s. That's when gaming peaked everything afterwards has been chopped liver failing to recreate anything close to it@abdalazizalqaffaz9252
"I’d spend most of my time outside."
Yep. Different times.
Kids today will never understand
Jacob Maxwell I know
Actuall, they will. They are sitting outside in their supremes, listening to some trap and smoking pot
Cjwjxmcjfi Gahjanznjxke Stereotyping? Okay then.
@@dutchvanderlinde9991 All of these comments are stereotyping
my little brother: *kicks the shit out of other kids at Smash Bros. U*
me: *clutches gamecube controller, holds back tears of pride*
Add gay after "of"
Sonodietrodithe4 iltuoincubopeggiore that’s epic
ew gamecube
Solaxe S GameCube controllers are the best for smash
@@Solaxe the ability to speak does not make you intelligent
Early PS3 was peak gaming for me with MW2 and BO1 zombies.
You have a point. I think everything went downhill in 2013
Miguel Robb nah 2017
@@ffucknate there are some exceptions such as uncharted 4 and 2016s doom. But we both can agree that gaming isn't the same
@@miguelrobb5719 nah it's better (for me at least)
You remember LBP? :(
You can only experience the first time playing your favorite game once. That first time was the greatest but you’ll never have it again.
I'll never be 12-13 again, playing cod 4 at midnight without my parents know it 😟
Sniping in search and destroy with the M40😔
It'll be so weird 50 years from now when I'm 78 looking back. I guarantee video games will be so different.
(If I live that long)
They've changed tremendously in the 30+ years I've been playing.
I'm definitely not living that long lol. I already have a world of health issues at 24. I'll probably live to maybe 45 if I'm lucky. But I'm okay with that, I hope nobody reading this is sad for me.
@@AdrenaLukeYT well, i hope you will get better mate
@@reduxdev the stuff I have is not "curable" really but again, you're talking to someone where if anyone got dealt this stuff it should be me anyways, because I'm tough enough to take this stuff and still enjoy the fuck out of life and basically not even be bothered. So that's another reason why I'm happy the universe chose me rather than someone else.
@@AdrenaLukeYT woah, you're a strong person, stay like that
The fact you didn’t mention Halo once is mind blowing to me and really illustrates how fundamental having one console over another was “back in the day”. I’m around your age as well, and Halo was a major influence. I couldn’t imagine not having all those hours in Halo 2 & 3 multiplayer with friends online screwing around in the Forge. It’s so crazy.
can't imagine someone not experiencing the uncharted franchise, i grew up with it and i'll always miss those days. it's crazy how different games can hold the same impact on people.
@@emilymeza6547 glad I was lucky enough to have both.
I get depressed thinking ab it bro. My 7th grade summer all I did was play halo 3 custom games and stuff my face with Big Texas Cinnamon roles. Legit should have diabetes from that year 😂😂
@@israelfoster4065
wtf you didn't throw back the halo classic snacks???? where were the doritos and dew?
F for split screen gaming.
Greeneyeball 69 F don’t worry some steam Developers still make games with split screen. But yeah I get it it will never be the same remember playing Halo 2 split screen
Mariokart split screen 😭
I'm still extremely pissed off about 343 tearing out splitscreen for the PC version of Halo MCC. -_-
@@theisgood0 Those are indie developers that have nothing to lose. You don’t see major studios or triple A devs thinking about split screen anymore
Halo infinite: am i a joke to you
Halo 3 and Minecraft to me will always spark the most nostalgia
Your pfp sparks nostalgia for me. I played on my xbox 360 RELIGIOUSLY
Simpson’s: hit and run
Mw2 too
But fuck man, Minecraft is my baby, the most depressing thing to think about is when I die I won't ever be able to play it again
I remember in minecraft playing tumble all day on Xbox 360...
The social media part of this video is spot on and quite honestly it’s a much bigger issue than people think
damn straight.
yea definitely; it was much better when you picked up games because your friends advised you about one, or just by looking at the case or the three screenshots on the back, and this led in finding the games that you nowadays love and miss so much
it was a lot more pure, more than being costantly overwhelmed with informations on social media
when he said 2008:everyone liked that
edit : wow thx for the likes
2007 to 2011 was so good not just for gaming but for UA-cam and the music I was listening to too
@@bassettgames8076 👏👏👏👏👏
Johnny Buddy 2002 tho, that year was legendary. So many great games on GameCube came out that year
Wat gta 4 og cod mw was litt
Johnny Buddy you have no idea what you are talking about
I was 15/16 I’d come home from school and grab a drink and a snack and straight onto mw2 multiplayer and halo 3 custom games with my friends In 2010/2011 and 2012. The best years of my life now I look at all of my old friends, who have drifted away for more than 9 years now and they are married, married with kids, or some focusing on their career. And there’s me still thinking about the good old days even though I have the GF, and the career (I’m a nurse working in the emergency department) makes me f*****g depressed to know they will never come back. 😔
I relate to this games become more self-indulge than fun. You play games nowadays to level up etc. than enjoy it.
that's what i did after years of MMORPG, nowdays it's more fun playing RPG with modded/cheat exp rate, it may reduce the satisfaction of reward but as long as it's fun
And microtransactions
Why not both? Some games are fun in that regard, like WoW and The Division, Prey, Warframe, Borderlands, even Assassin's Creed; anything with skill trees and upgrades. I feel like the leveling and character progression systems in gaming has been better than ever. I see what you mean though, I feel like it's more towards nasty shit like Apex Legends microtransactions, and retarded grinds like Battlefield 5 and Battlefront that add paywalls on a game that is already $60.
@@MrCholoPants3415 I hate games like Warframe because they're so grindy. I want to play fun games that don't take themselves too seriously. Yes, I'm a filthy casual.
@@GhostSamaritan Yeah Warframe was a bad example on my part. It's a free to play game so they have to make the grind a bit harder. It's one of those games that you grind HARD for like 100 hours and then everything comes easy
You make me happy by putting Mirror’s Edge on the thumbnail and in the video, that is one of the few games that I always feel like playing through.
Great video Robin, this was a great topic!
And one of my favorite games of all time that I never really got to discuss fully. One day maybe :)
Mirror's Edge was my first PS3 game that I bought and it hold a special place in my heart.
I was lucky getting mirrors edge. I think the game is a 15 here. I went to the shop and saw that they was doing a buy two games get one free deal. I was kinda stupid at the time being 14 and picked up a 12 rated game, Mirrors edge and a 18 rated game. Obviously I was told I couldn’t buy the 18 one but somehow I got away with getting mirrors edge. I will never forget that day since I love the game so much haha
Everytime I load up my Xbox 360 and that slick night theme loads in I'm instantly flooded with nostalgia.
This video really choked me up, just thinking back to being a kid and playing video game nonstop, discovering these worlds and characters and really forming a love for gaming.
Great video Robin & Josh, once again!
14:55 This hits hard and is truly depressing, but so true.
Mirror's Edge is one my most nostalgic games. I had a lot of games and I always played this one over and over because it just has a certain feeling I like
same man same
Some say Faith and her sister are still waiting on top of that skyscraper.
I feel bad for the PS3 owners that didn't experience Halo 3 in its prime
FOR REAL LOL glad I had both Xbox and PS3 at the time
@Grym chill
@Grym sheesh lmao someone is shit at matchmaking
@Grym I think you meant to say it wasn't interesting for you. 🤷♂️
I was a ps3 owner, but pretty everyone owned halo 3. played it daily anyways at a friends house might as well say I got the full experience playing everyday on both campaign and multiplayer. This extends all the way back to halo CE and halo 2 as well
I just played Portal 2 for the first time today and DAMN I love the feeling of knowing that something's going to become nostalgic to me! That feeling never gets old!
For me the great days were from about 2011-16 playin Call of Duty Zombies from Kino Der Toten to Revelations. HAPPY DAYS
Same bo4 ruined it.
Same tranzit with my homies on split screen was amazing , even thought the map sucked , that was the great days for me , also zombie chronicles
Raven Agreed buddy.
Basically A sicko Agreed man! Loved split screen on BO1 too. Remember my dear game of Tranzit with my friends we were in the bus and the avocado appeared and chased the bus, jumped on the side and stopped the bus and the zombies were all over the bus and the avocado was so scary we was screaming and shooting him and the zombies piled in 😂
holy shit I remember I was the only kid who had BO1 on PC, the rest of my friends had it on PS3. So I used to go to my friends place and we had crazy LANs playing BO1 zombies. We even sometimes played with our other friends who lived further away so we used to just call them and put our phones on loudspeakers to communicate. Ahh... those were truly better and simpler times.
My first gaming experience was playing the halo 2 story and being blown away by how amazing it was
for me i was halo 3, i am so glad i went down the xbox path as halo is now a part of me ahahaha
That was my first game too! Before I was playing HP games & miniclip.
My first game was halo ce
I just think me and the boys got old. Basically every day after school the only thing we did was play all type of shit until we had to go to bed. I do miss the simpler times when we could just play without any real responsibilities in this world. I still actively play all types of games but idk I kinda just feel empty
I used to think this way until I played Breath of the Wild and Nier Automata (for gameplay and story respectively). These games showed me that there is still so much that video games can do, so many places that they can go.
It isn't time, or just you becoming jaded, it is, honestly,lack of creativity, talent, or most importantly, balls on the part of game devs.
Back in the day, everybody was trying to blow the socks off of their audience all the time. People created genres, game mechanics and concepts like fucking clockwork. Instead of trying to just add a gimmick to an already established formula and call it a day like most AAA games today, studios tried to _create_ new formulas.
Most of all though is that AAA games are now seen as too big or too expensive to fail so they take zero risks, and indie games just don't have the budget or manpower to fully realise the potential of their ideas and thus shrink the scope of their games.
It seems my last hope seems to rest in Japanese AAA devs, since because the fact that they've always spent far less money than western devs is counterbalanced by AAA growing budgets, means that they are now in the same situation western AAA was in last generation, with games being big enough to be feature rich but small enough that they can still experiment.
Although it seems like that time may be passing for them too, as they are spending more and more money on large scale projects, (FF15, MGSV) that turn out... less than groundbreaking, like western games did.
very well said!
Lack of creativity surely is a major factor. You should try games like Superhot, which is the only game since Portal to truly do something new in design. Or all the Arkane games, especially Dishonored 2 and Prey, as these games let you explore their vast set of mechanics and systemic/emergent gameplay. They don't assume the player in front of the PC/Console is braindead like so many games nowadays do.
Lots of games are just so schematic today with their Ubisoft formulas and micro transactions. It's just gotten harder to find the good ones.
The problem is that these things that they have done over and over or called cliche is unique back then because there are a lot of unexplored ideas. The Example is : the villain is the father of the protagonists. It's easy to come up with something like that. While now a lot of things are already explored literally every idea for dramatic plot etc is already used. Like another example is the main protagonist's family died. Sorry for my grammar mistakes(if there are any). It's 12pm right now and English is not my first language so it's kinda hard to say something in English when I'm tired.
Just reading Nier Automata gave me goosebumps
@@MrHater-su9iz I feel like he's saying that is because he likes anime. Storyline in some japanese video games are kinda similar to anime. Like nier automata for example.
"Just accept the good old days are dead, and accept games as they are now." What a blackpill.
Bro imagine if all of them stopped making video games since 2012 just for all of you to be happy about your "good old days" for the rest of your lives.
You should think about it this way...plenty people who were younger and grew up playing the games that were a part of the “good old days” are now game developers, writers, animators, etc. and one day we will see more of them become publishers, hopefully they will right a lot of the wrongs we’ve seen in the last 10 years BUT with all of the remasters and remakes coming out it’s evident that there is a big demand for nostalgia and since they’re taking off and the industry is always growing and aging a lot of those mechanics and gameplay types will likely make their way into new titles. Look at the indie scene with games like shovel knight and cup head...those are new titles being made with another generations “good old days” in mind. Studios like Ninja Theory and Remedy have launched amazing games lately clearly inspired by certain games from the 360 era
I've played too many terrible new games though. I can't stand long drawn out dramatic scenes to the point to where I'm watching a movie. I can't stand dumb tutorials.
@@kevinreyes2043 Sounds based NGL
So I should just accept they’re aggressively trying to alienate me with which genres get popular?
The feeling of turning on the xbox 360 in the morning, the sun shining through the curtains and the games being actually fun. I miss those days
I miss gaming about 10-15 years ago. I was a kid, never knew what I'd pick up at the shop, everything was a surprise, so much variety. Now we know every single game coming out, what it looks like, plays like, the story, the mechanics , if it's good or bad, everything is known before they're even out. It's just boring, I can't go to a game shop now without the knowledge of every single game on the shelf. And there's less than there used to be. There used to be rows of games in different deals (5 for £10, 4 for £20, 2 for £20, etc) and I could flip through them all having different games behind each and get hidden gems. It was great. Now that's gone, there's now just rows on the shelves and nothing behind each game and they're all overpriced and again I know everything about all of them.
TL;DR The internet squeezes every little thing you could find out about a game before it's out. Boring. Let me find out myself.
Death Stranding. Maybe the only AAA game you want know what you will get.
@@Buzz_1991 I literally made a comment on the gameplay video of it yesterday saying exactly that! Marketing done right! I've no idea what it's about, if it's good, basically nothing. All I know is I wanna try it.
Ps3 days were golden, I was the same couldn't afford much games but a lot of people I knew owned a ps3 so I would borrow games from them. Great video robin, will you be streaming gamescom tomorrow?
For me it was with the PS2, had so many good games on that console it was insane. Can't ever relive that experience, unfortunately.
@@austinchery never own a ps2 myself but my cousin own one so when ever I was over I would play, loved tekken,gta,midnightclub
I still consider the time I used to play cs zero with my farther to be one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. The dust, just me getting absulutly destroyed by my dad... It's strange that I back then could find such an abundance of joy just by getting defeated, but when I think about it it's pretty clear that the fun I got back then didn't come from dominating the game but from enjoying it.
Edit: Lovely video btw :)
It is so true what you said in the end... I already feel nostalgic when I hear the God of War soundtrack
Emre Sarac I know what you mean. I get a huge wave of nostalgia every time I see something GOW related and the game isn’t even that old. I can’t imagine how hard that nostalgia will hit 5-10 years from now.
I'm 14 and my brother is 27, those countless hours spent playing runescape, fable, assassin's creed and skyrim, were the best times of my life, i miss the old life. I'm way too young to be going into an existential crisis already ._.
Felt man. I'm only 14 and I miss games like bo2 bo3 skyrim and new vegas and mk9. The games just don't feel good anymore Idk.
*Late 1990s: Why Gaming Will Never be the Same*
*Late 2010s: Why Gaming Will Never be the Same*
*Late 2030s: Why We'll All Die*
Pfft the last one seems a bit optimistic
Hell, I'm glad I grew up in the 80s, if NES came out now, I would have to use my credit card to take a warp zone in super mario bros.
@TheButterCrossiantGuy Most games I play these days try to make me buy shit after I bought the damn game. You think you can just have a game and be done spending money on it? Nah, this is the future of gaming, they're gonna have our asses paying for everything soon. Buy a game, and they will lock the ending behind DLC. Need some more ammo? Go get your credit card and buy some. Welcome to the future.
Jeffrey McGillivray eg. destiny although it may be fun it just pisses me off i have to buy the game, buy the dlc next season and so forth
@@phantomwolfgames5813 I know your pain man, it pisses me off too, makes me just want to play super nintendo.
2005-2013 had the best games for me in my opinion. (didnt really play before that)
There were some lights of hope afterwards like Witcher, Life is Strange and Hellblade, but otherwise nothing could really catch me
I agree completely. It will never be the same and while that sucks, moving forward is the only option
Man, I'm having blast with Tekken 7, I've had many mindblowing moments in games, but I also know this is one of them, it just fits so perfectly what I want and what I enjoyed and respected back then and still do.
It’s not just a matter or nostalgia for games, but for life in general. Fact of the matter is, no matter how hard you might try to remake those feelings and memories, the past is just that. The past. And as you get older, you change, the things and people around you change, and time moves on. Hell, you don’t even need video games or large sources of entertainment to find this satisfaction in life.
Trying to form new experiences, learning from mistakes, and finding things to work towards should be the priority no matter how old you are, or how jaded you could become as the years roll by. It’s not that you can’t look back on the good ol’ days with rose tinted glasses, but you can’t let yourself get too caught up in it, otherwise be left behind as the rest of life continues on.
Halo, Warcraft 3, Half Life 2, Shadow of the Colossus, Ocarina of Time, Oblivion........man, those were truly the days!
The only game that I'd played recently which will probably have a similar impact on my memory as these games is the Witcher 3.
Gaming will never be the same. We lived in a time where developers made games because they were new, they were fun, and most importantly, they wanted to. You simply don't get that, the only way you can is through other people who grew up with the same thing you did, and went on to make their own game. I've said it so many times before, and I'll say it again. We live in the generation of the Indie. I can't lie and say that I don't enjoy some new games these days, but I have to admit that I find it hard to be excited for anything. It's sad too, because Halo is my favorite series, and to see the way it's turned out in recent generations breaks my heart. It sucks to see your favorite games just get torn apart right in front of you. I miss my old Xbox/360 and some of my older consoles, and my CRT.
Great video Robin, and I totally agree with this.
I'm a few years older than you and I used to get gaming magazines, which released demo discs and I'd play them to death as a kid because I couldn't afford to buy all the titles that were being released.
I'd spend weeks or months saving up for one game, playing it continuously, and over all I appriciated the content more than I do now. That's because you valued it, there was less choice, and there was more time to immerse yourself in the worlds.
Now there is so much content competing for your attention that you get so overwhelmed.
Uncharted was a series that got me back into gaming for the same reasons you mentioned, but I spend more time supporting and playing indie titles than AAAs right now because in a weird way, indies give me the nostalgia that I lack from the bigger titles.
Far cry 3 will forever be the game I have the strongest nostalgia for. This game is just perfect.
Feel ya
Harrison Qu I bought far cry 3 recently and I’m loving it
Unknown Ghostslayer I’m glad you did. It is truly a masterpiece.
Idk I preferred FC5, it felt more open in terms of the overall gameplay & map design. *That’s just my opinion (I’m more of a gameplay over story type of person)*
Harrison Qu n I’m going meeting citra now
I never really got to experience the good old days. So now I’m just sitting here crying, I always had friends and they played games but I never went to their houses or got to play online games. Everything was offline. I miss the experiences I had but he’s right I need to except that the good old days are gone. Thank you robingaming.
For me, nostalgia is playing dangerous dave on windows 3.1. Miss those days so much 😢
Literally a masterpiece 🔥.Thats exactly how i got brought into Gaming .Good Video Robin and Josh 👌
mw2, cod4, alpha minecraft was the golden era for me, good ol days
san Andreas, skate 2, mortal kombat, god of war, tomb raider (on the ps2)
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I remember as a kid spending absolute hours on Assassins Creed 2.
Memories...........
Also Konami hadn’t become the video game equivalent of absolute
A S S C A N C E R
@@iceangelx22 I loved AC2 but I dont think it aged as well as Revelations
RDR2 had bad movement but i think you didnt mention just how amazing it was for 2018. EA and activision was scared of it, its the number 30 most selling game of all time and rightfully so. The story is so good, the soundtrack is amazing, the animations (specifically the facial animations and lip syncing) is unparalleled to any other video game I have ever played. The ending is satisfying yet depressing and Rockstar did an amazing job taking a character like John Marston, being the best character rockstar created, and then 8 years later making Arthur Morgan the best character rockstar has ever made. I wish i could go back to october 28, 2018, where i skipped school to play rdr2 the first second it came out.
rdr2's flaws are significant, but its strenghts so incredible that in the end i can't help but to feel its one of the best gaming experiences I had.
@@TheConst4nt i dont know, the flaws put me off the game, and the multiplayer was just garbage
PandAches are we talking about the multiplayer?
PandAches can you mention what flaws put you off the game? Other then “animation” which I find smooth af compared to many other games.
I really don’t understand what’s wrong with the animation. Please explain
In 10 years you’ll be looking back on the games you’re playing now with fond memories. You just don’t realize it yet.
Right now, I'm living in my golden age. Got a PS4 for Christmas 2018 when I was 14 (15 now) after being stuck with the PS2 for ages. Don't get me wrong, I adore that system and the games but it was time for an upgrade.
Getting a PS4 made me more social because I was playing online games (Fortnite, Brawlhalla) and I'm experience great AAA games like God Of War and Horizon Zero Dawn. It's so new and magical because I was basically stuck in the 6th gen.
Now I have 2 main consoles, my PS2 and my PS4 and that feels great
buying mine ps4 console in upcoming December 😁
@@Floki_here Awesome, what games do you plan to buy?
@@Trisaaru all of them 😁 as ps4 will be my 1st console ever hyped 🎧🥇
Tbh, I think it’s just us getting older. If I was a kid now, so many modern games that I hate now I would probably love. Playing fortnite everyday like I do halo.
Naaa Halo had an amazing story, historic characters, full customization, forge and a fun and competitive list of online game modes and maps. Fortnite has 1 map and 1 premise last man standing, Halo was on a complete other level.
@@KizaTheShaddow theres other games than fortnite
paralyzed yoshi And my point stands to all of them. It’s just a straight up fact that the quality of games have severely decreased as big money laundering corporations have taken over the industry. Same with music and film.
@@KizaTheShaddow they haven't you're just nostalgia blind
paralyzed yoshi Literally nothing of what i just said is related to nostalgia, u clearly didn’t understand what i just wrote so don’t worry about it mate.
i grew up playing the xbox 360, best years of my life from around 2008-2013. i never thought id find a game quite like the ones on the 360 again until i played rdr2. that shone a whole new light for me however i still miss those older years
All gameplay, no "surprise mechanics" is what makes the games in the past remembered fondly.
Also, you got a sub. 👍
Striker Alpha One are you sure??
I think its the other way around...
I LOVE ‘“surprise mechanics’” and hate the gameplay theyre what make it enjoyable. Ive spent over 5,000$ on them!!!! Theyve also helped me spend my time doing things other than playing games... now i gamble at least 20,000$ away everyday and im indebted by over 5,000,000 this year already!!!! (I live in the cassino)
I didnt this that was how it was gonna turn out...
@@aleccorliss135 wtf
AAA gaming, anyway.
Indies and smaller companies can and sometimes do offer better deals.
That’s the way it is and Ezio’s family i see u
even the opening instrumental that you used of Public Enemy's Harder than you Think in the beginning of the video brought back nostalgia. Bravo.
2007-2013 is the gold era of videogames! Example: Grand Theft Auto IV, Metal Gear Solid 4, Heavy Sword, Resistance Fall Of Man, Orange Box...
Halo 3, Gears of war 2
Ratchet & Clank has been my childhood. I even played every Ratchet & Clank on the PS3 in chronological order just to get the experience of their world the way they had it in their story, from Tools of Destruction to Into the Nexus. It took me about 6 months and I didn't touch any other game in that period. I really miss the old PS3 days
Ricky911 Make sure you play the PSP game where Clank is a special agent trying to break Ratchet out of prison.
@@untamedpandasweg8986 hahhaha. I only remember one bit from that game...
I honestly should replay the Ratchet & Clank games too. A Crack In Time is still my favorite though.
@@cassu6 my favorite one is Tools of Destruction. The thing about a Crack in Time was that main weapon was horrible because you didn't have the combuster and its shots were weird. I also feel like A Crack in Time also had planets that were less fun to play through. But the biggest thing was that you didn't have Clank and therefore a helipack for 3/5 of the game. Don't get me wrong, the game was really good but the reason why Ratchet and Clank Tools of Destruction was my favorite is because it was more of a classic Ratchet and Clank game where Clank was always with you and where you could also see some beef going on between them like in the first Ratchet and Clank game for the PS2. The Metropolis level was probably the best level I have ever seen in a video game too,.The levels were also more entertaining in my opinion and it definitely felt like you had to play the game on your own insead of relying on people like Azimuth. A Crack in Time comes in at number 2 for me though
@@Ricky911_ Yeah the thing is that A Crack in Time was the last Ratchet and Clank game I played and I played that a lot so that influences my decision. Also I really can't remember what happened in the earlier games, I know that Tools of Destruction is one of the better ones (I think I played it a bunch too) but It's been ages since I played it and I was super young at the time.
I feel nostalgia for good old games, but there are also good new games that offer unique, fun, and interesting experiences that stand out: The Witness, SUPERHOT, Overgrowth, and probably others I haven't gotten to yet.
Mirrors edge man. What a game, and that music, so good. Shame they didn't do so great with the sequel.
Says a lot that the first game was still selling digitally for $20, while 2 was on sale for $4 like every other week.
You know you have rs nostalgia when you hear runescape login music and have goosebumps and a tingling feel going over your body
What a wonderful recap! Even though most of these games weren't my jam, I had plenty of ones just like them and rode the memory lane right alongside you. Incredible job!
“Thousands of Instagram comments still won’t get ETA to bring us a new dead space...”
Ow, I felt that in my soul. I miss it so bad.
I think there will be nothing scarier for me than Dead Space 2. DO YOU REMEMBER THAT OPENING GAMEPLAY!?!?!! AT NIGHT!!?!?! I immediately paused and stopped playing for awhile bro.. I never heard of the game and my friend only gave me the disc to play and said only at night. You could never understand the imprint it had on my 13 year old mind. I had nightmares for just shy of two years. It’s because of dead space that I had to force myself to overcome fear. Not much scares me anymore. I even got mugged at gun point but I was calm as shit. Not even a faster heart rate. Freaks me out a bit, ironically.
Smol Pixels yeeeeeeeesssss
@@Bryanmiester cap
@@erik-sr9bj you right :(
Outlast fucked me up pretty good too
2:52 Bruh that music unlocked a catacomb of memories!!
which music is it?
I’m still a teenager and watching this video made impulsively buy one of the first ever open world games I’ve played - GTA 4 just few seconds ago (wow). I don’t remember much of the story but I know the experience will be as amazing as the first time I played it.
How does, a man with such a defined, and transparent and objective point of view not have about half a million to three quarters of a million subscribers?
This man says it in such a well thought out way and basically outlined WHY i'm feeling dry over certain games nowadays.
Least i know WHERE to look now :D
Thanks and cheers!!!
Thanks man, I appreciate it! Spread the word I'd say haha :)
Nostalgia Now: “Ahh the good old days, Black Ops 1 and other amazing games with no Microtransactions.”
Nostalgia in the Future: “Ahh the good old days, Fortnite and NBA 2k20 and other amazing games with Microtransactions.”
black oops had map packs
and microtransactions with the gun skins
It's true. there were no bad games in 2008 and there's no good games now.
It's funny because I thought video games were going down the shitter around 2009-2011. Publishers were starting to notice how much money they could make off of DLC's, so many AAA titles were just brown and grey military shooters that were trying to cash in on Call of Duty's success which resulted in a lot of established IP's losing their identity, and it was also around the time when companies starting pushing their one-time use online passes, which punished people who bought games second-hand.
I felt the same. The "been there done that feeling" was creeping in. Then i got PSVR and i have to say it brought back to my initial exitement.
Why am I getting goosebumps....Nice content 👏🏼👏🏼
I am so happy for watching this, I thought I was the only one who felt like this.
Coming home from high school and playing MW2 with your school buddies was something special. Life was so easy back then. Feels bad man.
Ghost of Tsushima really hit me with a story that couldn’t be compared to
Gaming isn't the same as it once was. Between PS3, PS4, Vita, and Switch I have over 500 games but struggle to want to play any of them. Crazy times we live in..
Yeah, i just love to collecting game especially back in PS1 era. Without realizing it, my PS1 games are already reach around 180 titles
360/PS3 was peak gaming magic for me. After that I had to grow up, spend a ton of time at work and just couldn't dive into gaming like I used to.
Gaming's roots derived from the very interpersonal experience of back on the box marketing, necessitated innovation, and novel game play hooks. I remember when I described 3 concepts for a game to a girl I was seeing, the first being an astronaut has to amass a army of vegetables to survives, the second a persian prince who can manipulate time, and finally a Japanese girl capturing the spirits of ghosts...she only believed that one of these could have been a real game. I don't blame her, gaming has homogenized to the point that everything plays the same.
Dead island series and early call of duties. Me and my friend would stay up until like 7 am playing the dead island games, hell. I named myself after the second one
Old school Runescape, and being limited to the games I got for Christmas/birthdays were good times. I had no consoles except for a NES that was passed on to me by my parents. Lots of Ice Climbers, for some reason. First console that I owned was a PS2 around 2008, a Wii the next year, and a PS3 the year after that. Getting that PS3 was almost magical.
I definitely feel like gaming now isn’t as great as it was before. Back then, we didn’t have to worry as much about scummy practices. When I heard about the concept of DLC, I was ecstatic. It meant that games could still have value even after they were done, but nowadays, it just means devs can cut up a game and sell it back to you. I have the same sentiment towards patches. Before they existed, devs had to make sure the game they put out was polished because there was no way to fix it once the game shipped. But now, they can rush out a buggy mess and then say they will fix it down the line.
You as a customer have all the power in the world. DO NOT support that kind business practices.
you had to deal with shitty licensed games instead
@@aagh8714 still do 🤣
Minecraft, and Skyrim have aged just enough that going back and playing legendary edition and older versions of Minecraft taste like relatively sweet mugs of nostalgia
And ofc there’s newer versions, and sse but I prefer the original.
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