This video was a BEAST to make alone, but I LOVED reliving my childhood with Blizzard's fantastic games. Let me know what other games you'd like me to play next!
These "I Played Every..." vids are so cool. They're a perfect mix of game review, developer history, and Goose backstory. Always engaging and interesting, love it.
My first Blizzard game was Warcraft 2 at a friend's house in 7th grade. Seeing that Blizzard logo as a young gamer was like seeing Lucasfilm on screen for original Star Wars fans. Take me back to the 90s.
I don't like the fact that watching this makes me emotional. I'm 35, married, and work nonstop. I grew up playing all of these games and they shaped my life with so many great times. Great video.
It's great to see someone 10-20 years younger play Diablo, Diablo 2, WC2, Starcraft and come up with the same conclusion about Blizzard's latest games as me, who played them back in the day
The golden age of Blizz games. Communities grew, players played games and weren't yelling at each other, and creativity went wild with custom maps. I miss those days. :
That’s simply an amazing video! I’m 41 and I went through all of the games you played during my childhood and my teen years. I’m glad that someone who didn’t know the old blizzard understands why I can’t play their newest titles anymore. Back in days, when blizzard released a game you knew it will be THE BEST EVER title. I don’t think blizzard is gonna come back, it lost its identity, principles and basic values.
@@ZenkaiGoose It's me who can't thank you enough for content so nostalgic that it brought tears to my eyes. Thank you for all the time and effort you put into your videos 🙌
Love your story. I was a demolition worker for 15 years and I absolutely hated it. I started teaching myself web development after work. After years of taking courses on UA-cam I got hired as a web developer. I'm so much happier now, glad it worked out for you too.
@@ntl9974 honestly man, there isn't a guide that is better or worse. You could learn more from one or another. The thing that will decide if you do it is you in the end. If you decide to push through the struggle you will get there. If you don't you won't..
Incredible video. I'm an old machinist who's played almost every console since Atari. Games have kept me sane while doing a job I hate. I totally get it. Thanks for the throwback.
Dude when I was a kid and opened the butcher's door for the first time I shut that shit so fast. Dude says "Fresh meat!" and I was done. That game was so good.
OG Butcher was genuinely an ohshitohshitohshitohshit moment. By comparison I was playing D4 recently hardcore Druid and was doing an Infernal Horde and the Butcher spawned in, I never noticed him till he was had a fraction of health left before he died. Don't get me wrong D4 is getting better but it sucks that all the people who bought the game ended up paying to be beta testers for 12 months in everything but name.
Had this 41 year old man reliving my childhood as I grew up playing blizzard games and watched them make classics . Then you had me teary eyed about your math grind and changing your life. Good for you man and I'm glad Diablo 3 got you through it.
As someone who first played Blizzard games in 1996, when WarCraft 2 was their newest title, I can say this does an excellent job of encapsulating the company and its fall from grace over the years. Superb job.
Kind of like how it used to be going to see Pixar films; no reviews needed and you knew you'd have a hit. Everything seems to have a renaissance period. At least we got to enjoy Blizzard's.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. Blizzard games were some of the greatest of all time and those memories will never leave us. Been playing their games since Lost Vikings on SNES and Warcraft 2 and it's hard to understate the quality of life Blizzard games had compared to the jankyness most PC games had in the1990s, playing multiplayer flawlessly on dial up modem was huge. The personal story about your journey to change your life for the better was really heartfelt, could feel your struggle and need for change. Honestly these modern service games are just cynical money making machines, they are not primarily designed for fun. Indie games are our future, our hope.
This. It's not like it's an easy feat to keep the same level of quality over decades of producing games. We got some amazing games out of Blizzard, many that my friends and I have lots of good memories with.
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. Blizzard games were some of the greatest of all time and those memories will never leave us." So much this! It will never be the same again, but they made some damn good games and i'm really thankful for the memories.
@@cattysplat you mean it’s hard to overstate. Not it’s hard to understate. If the bar is high it’s very easy to understate it. But hard to overstate it.
The attitude of the Blizzard guy with Classic WoW, "You think you want that but you don't" reminds of the arrogance a lot of younger people tend to have. Where basically newer is better because it's new. Older things have nothing of value and it's not worth studying them. And in general they know better than everyone else attitude. This attitude I think is one of many issues the gaming industry has these days as young developers who wanna make their mark don't bother learning why things are they way the are, what has worked and what hasn't in the past. It's like someone showing up at a race track thinking they can design a better faster car because they have some experience as a mechanic. It's like working on cars is completely different than designing an engine and everything else for a high performance car. In the same way that knowing how to do some coding and making a great game are worlds apart. C&C4 is a great example of this as I remembering thinking the team looking like a bunch of college grads and EVERYTHING they were hyped about doing to the franchise as a long time C&C fan sounded like a complete disaster, and the fact it killed the IP showed my fears were correct. It just feels like the people put in charge of these IPs are not actual fans of the IP. They are either like Activision wanting to use another companies name to hide their fingerprints so they can milk it for cash or a bunch of self righteous developers who couldn't get their own game idea green light so they will just do it under the skin of another IP because like that Blizzard guy they think they know better than the fans.
I love how this turned in to a story about investing in yourself, knowing your worth and believing that you can accomplish your dreams. Very proud of you. Thank you for sharing your story. You may very well impact another and help them make that leap.
@@revanthmunnangi5319 Dragon's Dogma 2, Shenmue 3, Final Fantasy 15, Dark Souls 2, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Fallout 76, Tomb Raider 3, etc. I can go on.
I do miss the experience of going to a game store to buy a physical game in a box. Before you even install the game, you’ve got this sense of epic wonder regarding what the contents will be.
I worked for Blizzard for 11 years in the EU and everything went to shit once activision got involved. First thing they did was remove our Christmas bonus :D
Thank you so much for making this! About a month ago my wife sent me via text Diablo immortal. And she asked if I had played this. I didn’t have the time, energy, or slightest interest in explaining why I would never play that game. But she watched this video with me and now understands. Your personal story in this video hit really hard. I’m in a job I don’t love but it lets me game. Now that games aren’t that fun anymore I’m looking for ways to retire faster. We can only hope our cry’s are heard and fun games are made once more. Keep it up! I truly enjoy watching these videos. I also watch your reaction videos.
Prime example of why corporate greed is a bad thing. Blizzard slowly started to die when Activision bought the company and Microsoft is the place where all video game companies that were once great go to die. Shit like this is starting to destroy the video game industry as a whole
@ntl9974 everything they touch turns to shit. It was sad seeing what happened to Rare which used to be one of the best video game companies ever and sadly Bethesda/Id is next. Hell they even killed the companies that made their most iconic franchise(Halo) and shit on their customers on a regular basis. I honestly don't know how they still have people buying their products I sold my Xbox 1 after having it for a month and switched to Playstation.
Same thing happened when Disney bought club penguin long time ago, there has never been a situation where corporate steps in and the game gets better lol not once.
@@Anthony678678678They purchase the game company as an acquisition milk the brand for money from its loyal fans or customers than let it die as everyone abandons it then the process repeats as they find the next big thing
Original StarCraft got me into PC gaming. I played it in college on my wife’s gateway desktop. StarCraft 2 inspired me to build my first PC…..been a PC guy ever since! Great vid Goose!
Dude I absolutely loved rpm racing I didn't even know it was blizzard I used to play the fire out of that game the way you could upgrade your car was awesome
I'm a russian guy that speaks fluent English and I got all SOLID basics of the language , it's grammar and slang by playing Diablo 2 back when I was 10 in 2000. After mastering english in live-text I was no longer affraid to speak it and by making english-speaking friends and meeting them I then actually learned the language that I use in my work every day now. Thank you Diablo for the fun and the knowledge that you gave us! )
11 year old me thinking the Starcraft Battlechest box looked cool in walmart and spending all the bday money i had saved to unknowingly become a terran for life cried a little watching this.
Blizzard games used to always give you so much value for the money. I think I paid almost 100$ for warcraft 3 which was a lot back then but I got so much gaming out of, it was so worth it.
Blackscape! I'll never forget all the amazing comments you gave while I grew. You were the first big creator to ever notice me in the dragon ball days I'll never forget it
Dude, you are a fantastic storyteller! I was also a small town Canadian kid who grew up on a farm and these blizzard games were my connection to the world! Thanks so much for the walk down memory lane! Your style and storytelling are light out fantastic and an inspiration to my own channel! Keep up the awesome work🎉
I take my hat off to you I have rarely seen such a well created YT video where the title does what it promises. (By that I mean, exactly what you expect and also presented completely correctly) Even gaming giants like "Diablo II" that you have never played before are exactly as you say. I can feel the passion behind it! Keep it up!
The confidence with which Goose called the most stereotypical English woman in Overwatch Australian made me reflexively hit the pause button to absorb the shock 😂
Sad to think, someone who hasn't played most of these games, comes up with the same conclusion we all have... Blizzard went from a top tier, player focused company, to a game mill 'only worried about our wallets' company... It'll never be what it once was... And I'm sad. Thank you for the real nostalgia trip though. Glad you've found some games that'll stick with you forever.
It's either CTRL+drag rectangle with mouse, or SHIFT+click on unit to add. And, btw, the devs explicitly decided to allow just 4 unit per batch to prevent stack-of-doom gameplay.
Just wanted to say this is the best video I've ever watched. You pretty much summed up everything most of us that play blizzard games feel. Also the editing is legendary!
I love Blizzard, been playing Diablo for over 20 years, played Starcraft, played Warcraft, remember the excitement when the new DOTA's version drop, played Hearthstone,... remember loosing my voice by the excessive hours of screaming at the LAN parties at cyber-cafes or someone's house, those were the days man, this video was really a trip. Thanks a lot Goose.
Your story is the same. I left my construction job in 2010. Went to college for 2 years and was unemployed that whole time. Starcraft 2, diablo 3, and dota 2 got me through my days. Dota 2 was born from blizzard custom games.
Incredible watch! Thanks for this, Goose, our good buddy. Also, I was really surprised/moved to see that you also upgraded math to study software development. I'm doing 3 courses in 9 months, and I have one course left! This video gave me a surprising amount of motivation in a way I did not expect. Video games are absolutely helping me level out the stress!
188k subscribers??? cmon now, this guy is extremely entertaining and hilarious been a breath of fresh air scrolling through this channel only to find out he’s somehow not in the millions ??? forgive me for glazing this is the content i look for on youtube, thank you goose man 🤙🏾
Best long form content I have ever seen on UA-cam. I saw the time stamp and was like no way! But I was like “but it sounds cool, I will watch 5 mins and maybe skip around” over an hour later I watched every minute and now I’m subscribed 😂
Dude, 50 min of the video still left, but I have to tell you, this is by far the BEST gaming video I've ever watched. I already got goosebumps multiple times, I almost cried out of nostalgia and WoW is still coming. SO GOOD. Keep it up. Thank you so much!!🎉🎉🎉
There are some serious gaps in research, some of those old games helped popularize lan party networking and internet multiplayer gaming. He clearly didn't bother to ask any old head about this stuff.
Fun fact, you can drag select in Warcraft Orcs and Humans! You just have to hold Ctrl while doing it! Though it was limited to only 4 units lol. This was a great nostolgiac trip! I was 5 years old when Orcs and Humans came out, my cousin played it and my brother and I would watch. A few years later when my family got a PC, my older brother and I got the Battle Chest with WC1 and WC2+Expansion. Have been a Blizzard fan ever since, played Starcraft, Diablo, and way too much WoW even up until recently with the official hardcore servers. These days i don't really play their games anymore, Diablo 4 just didn't hold my attention like past Diablo games and every WoW Expansion I have played recently I play for a few weeks and then eventually get bored. It's been a good run, but I've accepted that no company can stay at the top forever and continue to raise the bar for themselves, especially with how much they've released over the years.
This may be the nostalgia talking, but that was one of the best long form videos I've seen here on youtube. Extremely well done and a great way for me to get introduced to this channel. Thanks for all the hard work making this!
You missed a perfect opportunity to mention in regards to Overwatch and WC3 refunded about the destruction of video games and shout out the stop killing games initiative to try and defend our right to own the games we purchased.
This was a fantastic video and as someone who was fortunate enough to experience the Golden Age of Blizzard thank you for taking the time to play through these amazing games and sharing this experience with us!
Warcraft III was the first game I ever participated in a LAN party. My buddies and I dragged all of our computers over to one house, had power cables running everywhere, and played W3 for an entire weekend and had the greatest time ever. We realized that was too much work after that one weekend, and then everyone bought OG Xbox's and just played Halo CE LAN with 10 more friends. The early 2000s was the greatest time for social gaming experiences.
It was warcraft 2 for me, I still remember it like it was yesterday. My friends older brother and his friends were having one and I was amazed then eventually got a game in myself. I was hooked after that
I am a huge Blizzard guy and I agree with every single thing you've said here... I love what you've done here. Great video. I really hope the magic comes back to blizzard....
My biggest problem with WoW, and MMORPGs in general, is that I don't want to play an RPG with other people. If an RPG doesn't have a completely playable single player campaign, I have no desire to even try it.
You know, despite knowing Blizzard used to be called Silicone & Synapse, I never realised that it was the same company whenever I played Rock N Roll Racing. Probably makes me a little silly but I genuinely never put 2 and 2 together. Edit: Genuinely can’t wait to hear your thoughts on Snake Eater
Warcraft 2 is when the addiction started for me, now in 2024... still playing. Time has gone by too fast! I have played Blizzard games for more than half of my life! Watching over 20 yrs compressed into a 1+ hour video clip brings back so many good memories!
I played a lot of Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos and Frozen Throne when I was in high school with a lot of my friends. The custom games were some of the funnest mini games. I remember bringing my laptop that wasn't even a gaming laptop, but my dad's spare work laptop to my friends playing helms deep, kodo tag, tower defense, hero seige, and many other custom games. Then WoW came out, and the same thing I brought that laptop to many friends' houses to play WoW. Playing WoW for the very first time with everyone else who was new to the game was probably one of the funnest times I had personally with any video game. Such good times. I remember that laptop getting so hot and thought it was going to overheat or explode from WoW.
"Now Diablo II is a 24 year old game so it shouldn't be as much fun as what folks who grew up with it describe." Yeah, no. It's possibly the greatest and most replayable game ever made. Certainly the best ARPG game ever made - easily. Saying merely that it 'holds up' does not do it justice. It's still better than all other contenders in this genre. It's fantastic. Thank god Vicarious Visions managed to complete the remaster before the lights really started to dim at Blizzard.
@@ZenkaiGoose While not direct sequels, devs from Blizzard North ended up on teams who worked on Titan's Quest, Torchlight, and Grim Dawn. Grim Dawn has a mod called the Reign of Terror mod which recreates Diablo 2 and Diablo 1 (in that order, because scope creep) but with the enhancements that come with Grim Dawn.
Zenkai, I love you man. You make some amazing videos that really just show me how big a gaming company or game can be. Don’t ever quit, you’re goosetastic.
You absolutely didn't get what "The Lost Vikings" is about. It's a puzzle platformer with a big emphasis on "puzzle", and it gets quite complex later on the game. And it's really good.
@InsidiousOne I'm very sad he glossed over The Lost Vikings. He shoulda done Norse by Norsewest even if it's just worse Lost Vikings 2. The only game I can think of that tries to be this kind of puzzler is Trine.
Yeah, it was so much fun as a kid, I loved it. but.. not the first world or two, which is what he said, mostly walking. I guess he gave up after an hour, which is understandable when you have such a massive undertaking to accomplish.
Rock n Roll Racing has a sequel!! Biker Mice from Mars. In essence, it’s practically the same game, just wrapped in a different aesthetic. Give it a try. It´s really fun!
They better have Blackthorne back in some form or another, like say, as a new character in Overwatch 2. Fact: Starcraft's John Raynor is inspired by the 90s Jason Patric movie, Rush. Heck, it can be argued that Kerrigan's story arc is inspired by that movie.
What an awesome video. I wasn't aware of all the other games Blizzard created and it's cool to see how that moved them forward in the process. Great work!
Wow… this video really brought back memories… all the way from when i was 6 years old in korea playing warcraft 2 and then startcraft… to all those 2d games i played that i had no idea was blizzard until now. I cant believe i played every single blizzard game from back in the day. Thank you for bringing these memories back.
Cinematic team as usual outdid themselves with the 12/10 Announcement trailer, that shit got me so hyped I almost forgot what kind of a quality was Blizzard producing at the time.... yeah and then the game came out. Was probably my last straw with that company.
The criticism towards D4 can be targeted for D3 too. D3 already had a map where you already knew where to go, the game was extremely easy especially with companions but the gameplay was still fun. They just are different types of games compared to the first Diablo games. Which doesn't mean they're boring.. The whole industry has changed and the types of games where you're left off to figure everything out are more rare by the day. Also, Blizzard Entertainment has always made casual games (easy to play, hard to master right?). Their first games were harder as games in general were harder back then. So I don't understand the surprise here. As for OW2, the same criticism can be said for OW1. Esport was already pushed strongly in the first game (on the day of the reveal at Blizzcon, they literally had a commentated match). OW1 was a bigger visual mess than OW2 because it was 6v6 and not 5v5. As for the developers, they literally are the same ones, still pumping out great content (cool maps, awesome heroes and beautiful skins). Yes the business model is different since OW2 is free, it has its advantages and disadvantages, I personally preferred the premium model like most people probably. There is a much greater chance that Activision is behind the business models, release schedules etc. rather than the actual quality of the content (although rushed content caused by tight schedules does make the quality suffer).
This video was a BEAST to make alone, but I LOVED reliving my childhood with Blizzard's fantastic games. Let me know what other games you'd like me to play next!
@@ZenkaiGoose goose drops a New video?
We will be there.
Every Metal Gear game/ Hideo Kojima game? Edit lol a minute after this comment I saw "Should I play every Metal Gear?"
@@ZenkaiGoose I have exactly the same PC speakers (Z407)! We must be lost brothers or something...
Yes. Every metal gear
I feel like Blizzard could have been a multi video project so it's not so overwhelming.
This was such a nostalgia trip. 😭
hahaha wtf i havent seen your name in yeaaaars.
Dude! Thank you so much 😭 I really appreciate this KreekCraft
Kreekcraft no way!
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These "I Played Every..." vids are so cool. They're a perfect mix of game review, developer history, and Goose backstory. Always engaging and interesting, love it.
You guys leave the best comments EVER 😭😭😭
My favorite one goose has done is I played every Rockstar game
My first Blizzard game was Warcraft 2 at a friend's house in 7th grade. Seeing that Blizzard logo as a young gamer was like seeing Lucasfilm on screen for original Star Wars fans. Take me back to the 90s.
Idk shit about this channel yet I totally agree lol
The Rockstar one is my favorite, but that's because it's Rockstar games
WarCraft III "this might be the best game ever made"
Total respect.
Dude!!! Huge thanks that is insanely kind of you
I don't like the fact that watching this makes me emotional. I'm 35, married, and work nonstop. I grew up playing all of these games and they shaped my life with so many great times. Great video.
work nonstop sound sad, our life is so short.
@Bulletproof_Van and our dads worked non stop so we could all have these childhoods....its our turn brother.
@corymcgarrity7535 You maybe, my dad was a alcoholic, my Parents get divorced, and i saved money, work since 15years to get a playstation and PC.
@@corymcgarrity7535 and know we need to work Hard, childhood is so Importend
so show the kiddos whats up!
It's great to see someone 10-20 years younger play Diablo, Diablo 2, WC2, Starcraft and come up with the same conclusion about Blizzard's latest games as me, who played them back in the day
Exactly my thoughts!
Were not just wearing the nostalgia glasses… we know we are just sane people who know and value good games now.
The golden age of Blizz games. Communities grew, players played games and weren't yelling at each other, and creativity went wild with custom maps. I miss those days. :
Amen, brother
Hello, fellow old! Oh my memories of Lost Vikings and Warcraft.
I don't know... The D4 take seems off. High level D2 or D3 was just as chaotic and "numbers go up".
That’s simply an amazing video!
I’m 41 and I went through all of the games you played during my childhood and my teen years.
I’m glad that someone who didn’t know the old blizzard understands why I can’t play their newest titles anymore.
Back in days, when blizzard released a game you knew it will be THE BEST EVER title.
I don’t think blizzard is gonna come back, it lost its identity, principles and basic values.
Your content is like no other 👌
DUDE!!! DIETNINJA YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO DO THIS! Thank you so much
@@ZenkaiGoose It's me who can't thank you enough for content so nostalgic that it brought tears to my eyes.
Thank you for all the time and effort you put into your videos 🙌
Well played friend.
Love your story. I was a demolition worker for 15 years and I absolutely hated it. I started teaching myself web development after work. After years of taking courses on UA-cam I got hired as a web developer. I'm so much happier now, glad it worked out for you too.
This is incredible I love everything about this
Any guide you recommend above others, for web dev?
@@ntl9974 honestly man, there isn't a guide that is better or worse. You could learn more from one or another. The thing that will decide if you do it is you in the end. If you decide to push through the struggle you will get there. If you don't you won't..
Incredible video. I'm an old machinist who's played almost every console since Atari. Games have kept me sane while doing a job I hate. I totally get it. Thanks for the throwback.
Dude when I was a kid and opened the butcher's door for the first time I shut that shit so fast. Dude says "Fresh meat!" and I was done. That game was so good.
Hahahaha same here :D
OG Butcher was genuinely an ohshitohshitohshitohshit moment. By comparison I was playing D4 recently hardcore Druid and was doing an Infernal Horde and the Butcher spawned in, I never noticed him till he was had a fraction of health left before he died.
Don't get me wrong D4 is getting better but it sucks that all the people who bought the game ended up paying to be beta testers for 12 months in everything but name.
Every time the butcher door is a terrifying time
Had this 41 year old man reliving my childhood as I grew up playing blizzard games and watched them make classics . Then you had me teary eyed about your math grind and changing your life. Good for you man and I'm glad Diablo 3 got you through it.
As someone who first played Blizzard games in 1996, when WarCraft 2 was their newest title, I can say this does an excellent job of encapsulating the company and its fall from grace over the years. Superb job.
You stayed engaging for over an hour, damn. I had no intention of watching the whole thing. I did, and it felt short. Bravo.
I remember when you would just buy a new Blizzard game w/out reading reviews as you knew it would be great.
Kind of like how it used to be going to see Pixar films; no reviews needed and you knew you'd have a hit. Everything seems to have a renaissance period. At least we got to enjoy Blizzard's.
Then they took a leaf from EA's book..........and it went down hill from there.
You can't even trust reviews these days either. You'd actually believe a "professional game journalist" if they told you Diablo 4 is a good game? 😂😂😂
And if there was going to be a delay, you knew it was for a good reason.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. Blizzard games were some of the greatest of all time and those memories will never leave us. Been playing their games since Lost Vikings on SNES and Warcraft 2 and it's hard to understate the quality of life Blizzard games had compared to the jankyness most PC games had in the1990s, playing multiplayer flawlessly on dial up modem was huge. The personal story about your journey to change your life for the better was really heartfelt, could feel your struggle and need for change. Honestly these modern service games are just cynical money making machines, they are not primarily designed for fun. Indie games are our future, our hope.
This. It's not like it's an easy feat to keep the same level of quality over decades of producing games. We got some amazing games out of Blizzard, many that my friends and I have lots of good memories with.
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. Blizzard games were some of the greatest of all time and those memories will never leave us."
So much this!
It will never be the same again, but they made some damn good games and i'm really thankful for the memories.
@@pollyw00d OP's first sentence is a very overused quote, FYI.
@@cattysplat you mean it’s hard to overstate. Not it’s hard to understate. If the bar is high it’s very easy to understate it. But hard to overstate it.
@@cattysplat bg3 is fun
The attitude of the Blizzard guy with Classic WoW, "You think you want that but you don't" reminds of the arrogance a lot of younger people tend to have. Where basically newer is better because it's new. Older things have nothing of value and it's not worth studying them. And in general they know better than everyone else attitude.
This attitude I think is one of many issues the gaming industry has these days as young developers who wanna make their mark don't bother learning why things are they way the are, what has worked and what hasn't in the past. It's like someone showing up at a race track thinking they can design a better faster car because they have some experience as a mechanic. It's like working on cars is completely different than designing an engine and everything else for a high performance car. In the same way that knowing how to do some coding and making a great game are worlds apart.
C&C4 is a great example of this as I remembering thinking the team looking like a bunch of college grads and EVERYTHING they were hyped about doing to the franchise as a long time C&C fan sounded like a complete disaster, and the fact it killed the IP showed my fears were correct. It just feels like the people put in charge of these IPs are not actual fans of the IP. They are either like Activision wanting to use another companies name to hide their fingerprints so they can milk it for cash or a bunch of self righteous developers who couldn't get their own game idea green light so they will just do it under the skin of another IP because like that Blizzard guy they think they know better than the fans.
I love how this turned in to a story about investing in yourself, knowing your worth and believing that you can accomplish your dreams. Very proud of you. Thank you for sharing your story. You may very well impact another and help them make that leap.
amazing.
Goose is a character that i want to be successful, and a guy that's fun rooting for
Shoutout to Overwatch 2 for being the most useless sequel in the history of media.
That games sick definitely a lot worse sequels.
@@micahwest2793 name 1 tsequel that underdelivered like ow2.
@@GeremyG if only we could play the first game we paid for...
@@revanthmunnangi5319 Dragon's Dogma 2, Shenmue 3, Final Fantasy 15, Dark Souls 2, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Fallout 76, Tomb Raider 3, etc. I can go on.
@@LexiconPrime7 please go on. As you're 5/5
You've got me hooked. I hope the algorithm keeps running with this.
"TOOK A SHOT EVERYTIME SOMEONE SAYS YES, IT WOULD BE A VERY INTERESTING GAME. OR YOU'D BE DEAD" 10/10 QUOTE
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@@ZenkaiGoose I wanted to play this game but my girlfriend said she might sue so... I'll save you the trouble. Thanks for nothing Goose man.
yes
I gladly obey
Blizzard 1991: Make great games
Blizzard 2024: Make great profits
@CajunCatguy maybe every year after the merger, yeah
Diablo 4 is fantastic though , try playing it now
@@timothyscott1951 ahahah no
@@timothyscott1951 I tried their free tutorial and in terms of diablo metaphors, it was dreadful boring.
Blizzard: Make great games
Activision Blizzard: Make great profits
Blizney: DEI & DIE
I do miss the experience of going to a game store to buy a physical game in a box. Before you even install the game, you’ve got this sense of epic wonder regarding what the contents will be.
I worked for Blizzard for 11 years in the EU and everything went to shit once activision got involved. First thing they did was remove our Christmas bonus :D
"Our responsibility is to bring joy and fun to people around the world" - Bobby Kotick.
what, you dont WANT a membership in a "jelly of the month" club?
Lemme guess, they also renamed it to Xmas?
Do you guys not having Santa Claus spoiling you??
Don't you guys have christmas bonuses?
Thank you so much for making this! About a month ago my wife sent me via text Diablo immortal. And she asked if I had played this. I didn’t have the time, energy, or slightest interest in explaining why I would never play that game. But she watched this video with me and now understands. Your personal story in this video hit really hard. I’m in a job I don’t love but it lets me game. Now that games aren’t that fun anymore I’m looking for ways to retire faster. We can only hope our cry’s are heard and fun games are made once more. Keep it up! I truly enjoy watching these videos. I also watch your reaction videos.
it's not good if you only find joy in video games
Prime example of why corporate greed is a bad thing. Blizzard slowly started to die when Activision bought the company and Microsoft is the place where all video game companies that were once great go to die. Shit like this is starting to destroy the video game industry as a whole
@@evilsamurai-83 microsoft bought AOE2 and then it stalled
@ntl9974 everything they touch turns to shit. It was sad seeing what happened to Rare which used to be one of the best video game companies ever and sadly Bethesda/Id is next. Hell they even killed the companies that made their most iconic franchise(Halo) and shit on their customers on a regular basis. I honestly don't know how they still have people buying their products I sold my Xbox 1 after having it for a month and switched to Playstation.
Same thing happened when Disney bought club penguin long time ago, there has never been a situation where corporate steps in and the game gets better lol not once.
@@Anthony678678678Nintendo is a corporation
@@Anthony678678678They purchase the game company as an acquisition milk the brand for money from its loyal fans or customers than let it die as everyone abandons it then the process repeats as they find the next big thing
Played so, so many hours of Rock N Roll Racing. What a great game.
BLIZZARD PLEASE REMAKE THIS GAME!
@@ZenkaiGoose for real
@@ZenkaiGoose It has been remastered on pc
@@ZenkaiGoose play blaze rush
@@ZenkaiGoose Have a look at Motor Rock (2013) by Yard Team
Original StarCraft got me into PC gaming. I played it in college on my wife’s gateway desktop. StarCraft 2 inspired me to build my first PC…..been a PC guy ever since! Great vid Goose!
Same here! This video is phenomenal
Dude I absolutely loved rpm racing I didn't even know it was blizzard I used to play the fire out of that game the way you could upgrade your car was awesome
I'm a russian guy that speaks fluent English and I got all SOLID basics of the language , it's grammar and slang by playing Diablo 2 back when I was 10 in 2000. After mastering english in live-text I was no longer affraid to speak it and by making english-speaking friends and meeting them I then actually learned the language that I use in my work every day now.
Thank you Diablo for the fun and the knowledge that you gave us! )
11 year old me thinking the Starcraft Battlechest box looked cool in walmart and spending all the bday money i had saved to unknowingly become a terran for life cried a little watching this.
That was me with the Diablo 2 battle chest. I spent so many hours!
All that and you chose Terran, a life of suffering. 👌
Me but protoss
Blizzard games used to always give you so much value for the money. I think I paid almost 100$ for warcraft 3 which was a lot back then but I got so much gaming out of, it was so worth it.
My life for Aiur!
Keep doing what you doing brother I got mad respect for your come up keep grinding
Blackscape! I'll never forget all the amazing comments you gave while I grew. You were the first big creator to ever notice me in the dragon ball days I'll never forget it
If you play every Metal Gear game, I’ll eat my hat. Well, I don’t currently have a hat, but I’ll go out and buy a hat, and I’ll eat it.
Now I feel like I have to 😂
@@ninja_tony Quit eating all your hats! :)
@@aukir that WOULD solve the no-hat-having problem I keep finding myself in 😂
@@ZenkaiGoose my work here is done 😂
"Hello, I would like to buy an edible hat."
"Sir, this is a Wendy's."
Dude, you are a fantastic storyteller! I was also a small town Canadian kid who grew up on a farm and these blizzard games were my connection to the world! Thanks so much for the walk down memory lane! Your style and storytelling are light out fantastic and an inspiration to my own channel! Keep up the awesome work🎉
@@RegsChannel same farm childhood back in Chile playing almost exclusively Blizzard 90-00' hits. Actually I perfected my english playing D2
I take my hat off to you
I have rarely seen such a well created YT video where the title does what it promises. (By that I mean, exactly what you expect and also presented completely correctly)
Even gaming giants like "Diablo II" that you have never played before are exactly as you say.
I can feel the passion behind it! Keep it up!
The confidence with which Goose called the most stereotypical English woman in Overwatch Australian made me reflexively hit the pause button to absorb the shock 😂
It's frankly absurd that yours is the only comment I could find addressing this.
I just giggled
I am right there with you
The magic is gone, but not forgotten. So many good memories and some good friends along the way.
Sad to think, someone who hasn't played most of these games, comes up with the same conclusion we all have... Blizzard went from a top tier, player focused company, to a game mill 'only worried about our wallets' company... It'll never be what it once was... And I'm sad.
Thank you for the real nostalgia trip though. Glad you've found some games that'll stick with you forever.
Warcraft 1 you can select up to 4 units at same time lol. Hold down.. I think it's CTRL and left-click drag and select :D
It's either CTRL+drag rectangle with mouse, or SHIFT+click on unit to add.
And, btw, the devs explicitly decided to allow just 4 unit per batch to prevent stack-of-doom gameplay.
Just wanted to say this is the best video I've ever watched. You pretty much summed up everything most of us that play blizzard games feel. Also the editing is legendary!
I love Blizzard, been playing Diablo for over 20 years, played Starcraft, played Warcraft, remember the excitement when the new DOTA's version drop, played Hearthstone,... remember loosing my voice by the excessive hours of screaming at the LAN parties at cyber-cafes or someone's house, those were the days man, this video was really a trip.
Thanks a lot Goose.
The "No" voice over in the overwatch 2 trailer had me ........good stuff.
Another Saturday morning goosetatick video. Love it!
😎😎😎 Now we're talking!
I know zenkai you might not see this, but that mini life story you gave us just gave me the motivation I needed
LETS GO! PROUD OF YOU
@@ZenkaiGoose I appreciate it man!
Do Valve next!
This video is gold. We all got united by this.
I already knew all of this Blizzard lore, yet you managed to make it interesting and funny to experience again. Great video!
Your story is the same. I left my construction job in 2010. Went to college for 2 years and was unemployed that whole time. Starcraft 2, diablo 3, and dota 2 got me through my days. Dota 2 was born from blizzard custom games.
Incredible watch! Thanks for this, Goose, our good buddy.
Also, I was really surprised/moved to see that you also upgraded math to study software development. I'm doing 3 courses in 9 months, and I have one course left! This video gave me a surprising amount of motivation in a way I did not expect. Video games are absolutely helping me level out the stress!
188k subscribers???
cmon now, this guy is extremely entertaining and hilarious
been a breath of fresh air scrolling through this channel only to find out he’s somehow not in the millions ???
forgive me for glazing
this is the content i look for on youtube, thank you goose man 🤙🏾
I tell my wife who works at home, "WORK WORK!"
Never stopped playing HotS since day 1. Best MOBA out there despite everything. Big hug to the other 5 bros.
great video. kinda got me in my feels.
Guess who Kchacks? Kchaks again. Zenkais back, tell a friend!
I'm ready to KCHAK ALL NIGHT, ALL DAY!
Going from Blizzard’s amazing box art / battle chest collections over the years down to your phone screen was depressing lmao
Best long form content I have ever seen on UA-cam. I saw the time stamp and was like no way! But I was like “but it sounds cool, I will watch 5 mins and maybe skip around” over an hour later I watched every minute and now I’m subscribed 😂
Over an hour? Goose! You have blessed us, my man! Love to see it
Hope y'all enjoy it! 1 hour videos might be the hardest things I've ever edited in my life 😭😭😭 hahaha
Dude, 50 min of the video still left, but I have to tell you, this is by far the BEST gaming video I've ever watched. I already got goosebumps multiple times, I almost cried out of nostalgia and WoW is still coming. SO GOOD. Keep it up. Thank you so much!!🎉🎉🎉
There are some serious gaps in research, some of those old games helped popularize lan party networking and internet multiplayer gaming. He clearly didn't bother to ask any old head about this stuff.
Fun fact, you can drag select in Warcraft Orcs and Humans! You just have to hold Ctrl while doing it! Though it was limited to only 4 units lol.
This was a great nostolgiac trip! I was 5 years old when Orcs and Humans came out, my cousin played it and my brother and I would watch. A few years later when my family got a PC, my older brother and I got the Battle Chest with WC1 and WC2+Expansion. Have been a Blizzard fan ever since, played Starcraft, Diablo, and way too much WoW even up until recently with the official hardcore servers. These days i don't really play their games anymore, Diablo 4 just didn't hold my attention like past Diablo games and every WoW Expansion I have played recently I play for a few weeks and then eventually get bored. It's been a good run, but I've accepted that no company can stay at the top forever and continue to raise the bar for themselves, especially with how much they've released over the years.
I haven't watched this yet, but I hope it blows up, because I know the amount of effort you put into these
bro 😭😭😭 thank you!!
This video was more cinematic and epic than wow cinematics
This may be the nostalgia talking, but that was one of the best long form videos I've seen here on youtube. Extremely well done and a great way for me to get introduced to this channel. Thanks for all the hard work making this!
You should do Bioware next. You can pretty much use the same script but change the name of the games.
You missed a perfect opportunity to mention in regards to Overwatch and WC3 refunded about the destruction of video games and shout out the stop killing games initiative to try and defend our right to own the games we purchased.
This was a fantastic video and as someone who was fortunate enough to experience the Golden Age of Blizzard thank you for taking the time to play through these amazing games and sharing this experience with us!
Warcraft III was the first game I ever participated in a LAN party. My buddies and I dragged all of our computers over to one house, had power cables running everywhere, and played W3 for an entire weekend and had the greatest time ever.
We realized that was too much work after that one weekend, and then everyone bought OG Xbox's and just played Halo CE LAN with 10 more friends. The early 2000s was the greatest time for social gaming experiences.
It was warcraft 2 for me, I still remember it like it was yesterday. My friends older brother and his friends were having one and I was amazed then eventually got a game in myself. I was hooked after that
Another Goosetatstic video as always
BDOGROMPICUS with the classic W comment
I loved the irl goose part
You take your time to make videos, but when they are finally out, they are goosetastic, they are khack 😂
I am a huge Blizzard guy and I agree with every single thing you've said here... I love what you've done here. Great video. I really hope the magic comes back to blizzard....
Rock N Roll Racing is an absolute gem for the SNES.
It's actually better on the Genesis, because the SNES version was missing 1 or 2 of the classic rock songs.
My biggest problem with WoW, and MMORPGs in general, is that I don't want to play an RPG with other people. If an RPG doesn't have a completely playable single player campaign, I have no desire to even try it.
Such a great video! Thank you from the bottom of my old heart!
You know, despite knowing Blizzard used to be called Silicone & Synapse, I never realised that it was the same company whenever I played Rock N Roll Racing. Probably makes me a little silly but I genuinely never put 2 and 2 together.
Edit: Genuinely can’t wait to hear your thoughts on Snake Eater
now we just sit and wait for the Asmongold reaction vid 😂
I just have to say this is the finest piece of film production to come from my neighbors Canada. Much love from Michigan.🎉
Bro u are so underrated how much effort u must have put into this video.I hope ur channel grows❤❤
Sorry I missed the celebration stream goose, I havnt watched the video yet, but I bet it'll be a massive W.
Huge thanks Kiwi! 🙏🙏🙏
@ZenkaiGoose it twas a banger of a video.
Warcraft 2 is when the addiction started for me, now in 2024... still playing. Time has gone by too fast! I have played Blizzard games for more than half of my life! Watching over 20 yrs compressed into a 1+ hour video clip brings back so many good memories!
I just needed to say:
"Yes?"
"What?!"
"Stop poking me!"
If you get it, you get it.
I was waiting for a Stop Poking Me and it never got into the video!!
@@davidlawrence8711 I was waiting for the exploding sheep 😕
I played a lot of Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos and Frozen Throne when I was in high school with a lot of my friends. The custom games were some of the funnest mini games. I remember bringing my laptop that wasn't even a gaming laptop, but my dad's spare work laptop to my friends playing helms deep, kodo tag, tower defense, hero seige, and many other custom games. Then WoW came out, and the same thing I brought that laptop to many friends' houses to play WoW. Playing WoW for the very first time with everyone else who was new to the game was probably one of the funnest times I had personally with any video game. Such good times. I remember that laptop getting so hot and thought it was going to overheat or explode from WoW.
You played the tower defense map? That was bonkers.
I swear this is GREAT content Bravo!!!!Thanks for the nostalgia🤩
"Now Diablo II is a 24 year old game so it shouldn't be as much fun as what folks who grew up with it describe."
Yeah, no. It's possibly the greatest and most replayable game ever made. Certainly the best ARPG game ever made - easily. Saying merely that it 'holds up' does not do it justice. It's still better than all other contenders in this genre.
It's fantastic.
Thank god Vicarious Visions managed to complete the remaster before the lights really started to dim at Blizzard.
It was sooo good. I loved my time with D2. Would love a proper sequel to it
@@ZenkaiGoose While not direct sequels, devs from Blizzard North ended up on teams who worked on Titan's Quest, Torchlight, and Grim Dawn. Grim Dawn has a mod called the Reign of Terror mod which recreates Diablo 2 and Diablo 1 (in that order, because scope creep) but with the enhancements that come with Grim Dawn.
diablo 4 and 3 i cant see d fekin screen! It's hard to appreciate the combat. Hopefully Path of exile 2 will be as good as d2
Path of exile is the successor and is what took me from Diablo 2. GGG games really knows what they’re doing.
@@ZenkaiGooseexcept the jungle… I always hate that chapter 😂
Definitely play the metal gears, it'd be goosetastic
Zenkai, I love you man. You make some amazing videos that really just show me how big a gaming company or game can be. Don’t ever quit, you’re goosetastic.
the goat dropped again
I got one more in me!!! 💪💪💪
The only Blizzard game Ive actively played was rock and roll racing with my lil bro on yhe Super Nintendo.
This was 10years ago
@@frumpysnorfls5088 you are a statistical rarity, but a welcome one
These videos are really well done, great job!
You absolutely didn't get what "The Lost Vikings" is about. It's a puzzle platformer with a big emphasis on "puzzle", and it gets quite complex later on the game. And it's really good.
@InsidiousOne I'm very sad he glossed over The Lost Vikings. He shoulda done Norse by Norsewest even if it's just worse Lost Vikings 2. The only game I can think of that tries to be this kind of puzzler is Trine.
Yeah, it was so much fun as a kid, I loved it. but.. not the first world or two, which is what he said, mostly walking. I guess he gave up after an hour, which is understandable when you have such a massive undertaking to accomplish.
If u play every metal gear and understand its story and timeline , I will call u the goosiest goose of all time 😂
Rock n Roll Racing has a sequel!! Biker Mice from Mars. In essence, it’s practically the same game, just wrapped in a different aesthetic.
Give it a try. It´s really fun!
They better have Blackthorne back in some form or another, like say, as a new character in Overwatch 2.
Fact: Starcraft's John Raynor is inspired by the 90s Jason Patric movie, Rush. Heck, it can be argued that Kerrigan's story arc is inspired by that movie.
Climate change is melting blizzard’s chill
What an awesome video. I wasn't aware of all the other games Blizzard created and it's cool to see how that moved them forward in the process. Great work!
Warcraft 3 Best Game ever... 100%
As soon as I saw "October 13th 2023" I just said "GG" what a world we live in. Activision ruined Blizzard, So long - old friend.
Wow… this video really brought back memories… all the way from when i was 6 years old in korea playing warcraft 2 and then startcraft… to all those 2d games i played that i had no idea was blizzard until now. I cant believe i played every single blizzard game from back in the day. Thank you for bringing these memories back.
Something about d4 made it a chore to play and i fell asleep multiple times while playing. I think you put it into words.
Cinematic team as usual outdid themselves with the 12/10 Announcement trailer, that shit got me so hyped I almost forgot what kind of a quality was Blizzard producing at the time.... yeah and then the game came out. Was probably my last straw with that company.
try playing it now , much better
@@Hito343try it now , much better
@@timothyscott1951 and with the expansion it will be even better
The criticism towards D4 can be targeted for D3 too. D3 already had a map where you already knew where to go, the game was extremely easy especially with companions but the gameplay was still fun. They just are different types of games compared to the first Diablo games. Which doesn't mean they're boring.. The whole industry has changed and the types of games where you're left off to figure everything out are more rare by the day. Also, Blizzard Entertainment has always made casual games (easy to play, hard to master right?). Their first games were harder as games in general were harder back then. So I don't understand the surprise here.
As for OW2, the same criticism can be said for OW1. Esport was already pushed strongly in the first game (on the day of the reveal at Blizzcon, they literally had a commentated match).
OW1 was a bigger visual mess than OW2 because it was 6v6 and not 5v5. As for the developers, they literally are the same ones, still pumping out great content (cool maps, awesome heroes and beautiful skins). Yes the business model is different since OW2 is free, it has its advantages and disadvantages, I personally preferred the premium model like most people probably.
There is a much greater chance that Activision is behind the business models, release schedules etc. rather than the actual quality of the content (although rushed content caused by tight schedules does make the quality suffer).
eh I wouldn't say too easy , try a higher difficulty , and d2 told you where to go alot
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Playing Warcraft 3 in reforged graphics is crime against humanity.