great video i mostly play retro games these days, but people forget how many BAD games came out back in the day. now when we go back, we're (probably) playing the best of the best. over the holidays, i picked up a ps2 bundled with gta 3, vice city, and san andreas for around $120 at a local game shop. man, i've had a blast replaying those three games. there's so much content there.
@@Dziller man, it was a crazy steal. they even threw in an original controller and a memory card. i couldn't walk away from it. the ps2 era was great, especially since it was backwards compatible with ps1 games. maybe the GOAT...? 🐐
@Watcher-Gaming I most definitely agree its the GOAT. Best catalog, strong graphics, game changing for its era truly, I haven't even scratched the surface of its greatness.
If you don’t wanna bother with collecting old devices, but still wanna play some old games, just emulate. You can even get achievements for your retro games with an retro achievements account.
Thanks for the vid, I was born in 2008 in Australia and all I had until the ps4 was the wii which although wasn't the most polished game console it was so much more fun with heaps more character to most of the system. Now I just bought an r36s for $41 Aus dollar with shipping on aliexpress and it is so much fun getting to know all these old games and playing most of these for the first time. I won't rabble on too much but it does need some work when you first get it like new sd cards and I already has a bluetooth transmitter and just got a $3 wifi adapter which I apparently need an extension adapter to fix this issue of crackly noise coming through the speaker. These old games are awesome, just subbed, great the vid
Thats super cool! The wii was my dear friend when i was a teenager, it had a phenomenal collection of games even though the hardware was limited. We share a child hood favorite. Salute to the retros! Also that r36s sounds like it can do alot!
I got my first handheld in 2012 with the 3ds and my first console in 2016 with the ps4. Bought a ps3 a year later and a few ds games as well, I bought a ps2 during lockdown but sold it after not being able to get used to it. In April I’m going to try and buy myself a gameboy and GBA along with some games in Japan. All this is not only because I love games, but I feel like games from older generations have more consistency in being good games, I love it!
@ mostly going for games that are just way too expensive in English (mostly Pokemon, but am also thinking the three mother games). I think a big part is also the feeling that you actually own the copy of the games you play, which i feel like it’s always a difficult question for modern games.
I play games from different decades because if I only want to play good games. If I play only current titles, that is way too limited. From my experience I've learned one important thing: Very best games ever made are usually made for computers, not consoles. Major reason for that is that computers are open to everyone, programming is easier and barrier is lower. And there is no console ecosystem gatekeepers to that restrict blood, boobies or horror themes, so there are also content made for adults. But while often very best games can be found for computers only, there is also way more crappy games on computers so the quality level of the games varies way more.
Yeah youre right, PC gaming is peak as for as how many great games you have access to. You just gotta shift through some nonsense along the way. You doing it the best way by playing games from diff decades forsure, it doesn't make sense to be only a current gen gamer in my opinion.
I personally feel like modern gaming has lost its sole and everything just looks soo samey is because this new generation of gamers are more of the smartphone era generation, loot boxes and microtransactions, unfinished games from the beginning are normal to those people. For past generation of gamers all the way from the 80's to the PlayStation 3, 360 generation. We just feel like the creativity and excitement isn't there.
@Electro096 You're right! Gaming used to be cultural now it's just corporate. Quickest game to make a dollar is all their looking for. Shout out to the studios that ain't fall into that trap
I grew up as a kid in the 80s and early 90s. NES is my all time favorite console. Modern games still are good, but you have to look for them and not easy to find. To this day, I prefer SNES or Sega Genesis over PS5 or Xbox.
They are great games because the developers and even the publishers were gamers themselves. Just look at the old "making of anything pre 2010", especially Mortal Kombat and Halo documentaries. They enjoyed gaming and wanted you to enjoy them too.
I love me some ps1 and ps2 jrpgs, dude. The Tales Of games on ps2 are the PINNACLE of action of RPG. Pcsx2 and emulation is an absolute godsend because you don't even need to spend extra money for a console. Just load it up on your computer or android device and have fun.
@Dziller See that's a little hard. Xillia 2 on the PS3 is my personal fave, but I'm a huge fan of Tales of Destiny Director's and Tales of Rebirth. (Which just got a translation last month.) Tales of the Abyss is also incredible. I don't think there was a single miss on the system besides mayyyybe Legendia? Of the PS2 games, Rebirth is probably my favorite.
I'm playing Vesperia on Switch, I'm enjoying so far. Plus, it comes with a bunch of skins from the get-go, so my Yuri is running around dressed like Mitsurugi from SC.
The Nintendo Switch has some emulators, and remasters of old games, that sort of thing, and I've found some pretty fun puzzle games on the SNES emulator. And I'm itching to buy the 1 and 3 Devil May Cry games someday
I grew up more of a PC gamer starting with the Commodore 64 which had some classics. I still buy classic retro games for PC on GOG and sometimes Steam. The advantage of PC is there a lot of remakes or re implementations that fix some of the warts on these old classic games and make them better in some way like old 90's XCOM with OpenXcom. My console of my youth was just the NES then many many years later with the Wii (now Switch). Personally, I'm tempted to buy a real SNES and get some classics that I never got to play. I prefer not to emulate due to gray legal areas around copyrights.
@@j_atkinson Thats cool you were a PC kid. A childhood dream of mine for sure. And I agree with you about the emulation, you know what the book say, thou shalt not steal
Emulation is the future man, I was blown away when I was able to play the original silent hill for the first time ever on my phone and man that game still is creepy
@@KrisVickers-wn6dd I see you actually enjoy yourself with gaming. I'm with you, I don't understand forcing yourself to play something you don't really like.
@KrisVickers-wn6dd them backlogs are a forever story 😂 And replaying GTA San Andreas was the best game I've played in 2024. But hell divers 2 is probably the funnest game from 2024 hbu
@@Dziller I can't do it bro, I had like 50+ games sitting, was stressing me out. Sweet, sweet. I just traded San Andreas in. Really want to get a triple pack of games called Alien Breed for my 360. btw how do you play your retro consoles? on a CRT, with a hdmi adapter?
@@KrisVickers-wn6dd Whaaaat 50+??? Man you got some work to do my guy😂 And how could you trade ps2s BEST GAME!? And i typicalljy use an hdmi adapter for my dreamcast, im still looking to get a ps2. i actually played san andreas on my phone last year
I want games that challenge me. The new style of gaming is made for people who refuse to be challenged because they don't have the emotional intelligence to accept a challenge. Therefore I only play retro games. All new games are designed to keep stupid people enjoying them by giving them the ability to do well in the game even though they don't have actual skill. Anyone playing modern games is allowing themselves to be dumbed down
@TrevorHamberger I've noticed they don't pack that same challenge too. You can tell it's intentional. Makes that feeling of overcoming a challenge less sweet. Easier game = Wider audience of people to play but at the cost of the integrity of the game unfortunately.
@Dziller for me personally a game like battle frogs is like the ultimate test of hand-eye coordination and a whole bunch more. Also your patience. I'm not saying battletoads is my favorite game ever played because I've never actually played it. But the main reason I'm interested in playing it is because it has the reputation as the hardest game to ever exist. That's something that I want to have challenge me. The Young generation coming up now with literally cry over it. I would cry tears of joy over being challenged I'm really shocked that people can't see it. Pretty much every time I watch somebody play a modern game I think about how it's throttled to make them lose. It's so easy to see it that I don't understand how they don't see it while they're playing it. But just in general this entire generation of children starting after around the millennium is completely lacking in the emotional intelligence that would allow something like a challenging game to be fun for them. They've been handed everything and babied and cuddled by everybody their whole lives that they can't deal with defeat of any kind. I've seen it said that most modern games are just like following a 200 hour movie. There's almost zero skill involved in most of the game is just you watching cutscenes. And then going through with easy tasks in order to complete the storyline. No I could be exaggerating some of this because I don't play any modern games at all. You would literally have to pay me to play modern games so I'm not exactly speaking from experience. Mostly just from what I read people online talking about
@TrevorHamberger It's few challenging games out there for sure! And alot of the skill based games that are modern are extremely popular, I can't speak on who's playing what because I don't play most games 😂 But it's safe to say there's a lot of loss savor with these easy mode AAA titles. I love a game that doesn't even care about how good I am at the game n just gives me what it's got. I HATE DIFFICULTLY SETTINGS. Hopefully newer devs take into account the importance of challenge in games, instead of money, the cash will come if it's a cow 😂
@@Dziller personally I only play simulation football games. In simulation football games basically ended in 2009 when Madden 2009 released. Ever since then the games have been dumbed down. So I stick to all pro football 2K 8 NFL 2K 5 in Madden 04 through 09. I wouldn't even play a human player even if i could. I prefer to only play the computer intelligence. And when I get good enough I just upped the AI sliders for the computer and lower the human sliders. It's really fun this way because I never know if I'm going to win or lose. And I can win or lose games that I'm either down by 20 points or up by 20 points with ease. It's really fun this way. I got so good at playing the computer intelligence that I can't even play humans anymore. Humans simply aren't good enough at the game to give me a challenge. I'm sure some exist but I don't have a way to play them
For me personally 🤔 I love retro games for sure but I want to make sure I'm supporting the actual company that made said game/console. For example I can get sonic 1-3 from an independent game store but Sega won't receive any financial support. Only the independent game store I bought it from which isn't the goal. Which is why with the new ninja gaiden they brought back the classic style based on the community support. So I usually wait for a remaster on a modern console so they at least know people still love those games. Same with contra as well
great video
i mostly play retro games these days, but people forget how many BAD games came out back in the day. now when we go back, we're (probably) playing the best of the best.
over the holidays, i picked up a ps2 bundled with gta 3, vice city, and san andreas for around $120 at a local game shop. man, i've had a blast replaying those three games. there's so much content there.
@@Watcher-Gaming YOU CAUGHT A STEAL 🔥
@@Watcher-Gaming and thanks brother
@@Watcher-Gaming and maybe im blinded by my childhood but that ps2 era could do no wrong in my eyes 😂
@@Dziller man, it was a crazy steal. they even threw in an original controller and a memory card. i couldn't walk away from it. the ps2 era was great, especially since it was backwards compatible with ps1 games. maybe the GOAT...? 🐐
@Watcher-Gaming I most definitely agree its the GOAT. Best catalog, strong graphics, game changing for its era truly, I haven't even scratched the surface of its greatness.
If you don’t wanna bother with collecting old devices, but still wanna play some old games, just emulate. You can even get achievements for your retro games with an retro achievements account.
@@owieOne Retro achievements Account?? That sounds interesting
“If you don’t wanna bother with collecting old games, just steal them” 😂
@mildhoof 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@mildhoof thou shalt not 😭
@@mildhoof imo it ain’t stealing if the darn company does not let me pay them a one time fee to own an ancient video game.
Thanks for the vid, I was born in 2008 in Australia and all I had until the ps4 was the wii which although wasn't the most polished game console it was so much more fun with heaps more character to most of the system. Now I just bought an r36s for $41 Aus dollar with shipping on aliexpress and it is so much fun getting to know all these old games and playing most of these for the first time. I won't rabble on too much but it does need some work when you first get it like new sd cards and I already has a bluetooth transmitter and just got a $3 wifi adapter which I apparently need an extension adapter to fix this issue of crackly noise coming through the speaker. These old games are awesome, just subbed, great the vid
Thats super cool! The wii was my dear friend when i was a teenager, it had a phenomenal collection of games even though the hardware was limited. We share a child hood favorite. Salute to the retros! Also that r36s sounds like it can do alot!
I got my first handheld in 2012 with the 3ds and my first console in 2016 with the ps4. Bought a ps3 a year later and a few ds games as well, I bought a ps2 during lockdown but sold it after not being able to get used to it. In April I’m going to try and buy myself a gameboy and GBA along with some games in Japan. All this is not only because I love games, but I feel like games from older generations have more consistency in being good games, I love it!
@@harrybale313 NICE! You going all out! I love it🔥
@ mostly going for games that are just way too expensive in English (mostly Pokemon, but am also thinking the three mother games). I think a big part is also the feeling that you actually own the copy of the games you play, which i feel like it’s always a difficult question for modern games.
I play games from different decades because if I only want to play good games. If I play only current titles, that is way too limited.
From my experience I've learned one important thing: Very best games ever made are usually made for computers, not consoles.
Major reason for that is that computers are open to everyone, programming is easier and barrier is lower. And there is no console ecosystem gatekeepers to that restrict blood, boobies or horror themes, so there are also content made for adults. But while often very best games can be found for computers only, there is also way more crappy games on computers so the quality level of the games varies way more.
Yeah youre right, PC gaming is peak as for as how many great games you have access to. You just gotta shift through some nonsense along the way. You doing it the best way by playing games from diff decades forsure, it doesn't make sense to be only a current gen gamer in my opinion.
I personally feel like modern gaming has lost its sole and everything just looks soo samey is because this new generation of gamers are more of the smartphone era generation, loot boxes and microtransactions, unfinished games from the beginning are normal to those people.
For past generation of gamers all the way from the 80's to the PlayStation 3, 360 generation.
We just feel like the creativity and excitement isn't there.
@Electro096 You're right! Gaming used to be cultural now it's just corporate. Quickest game to make a dollar is all their looking for. Shout out to the studios that ain't fall into that trap
I grew up as a kid in the 80s and early 90s. NES is my all time favorite console. Modern games still are good, but you have to look for them and not easy to find. To this day, I prefer SNES or Sega Genesis over PS5 or Xbox.
@ryanpierce5460 HEAT🔥 I missed out on alot from that era. Glad to hear you're still enjoying it👏🏿
They are great games because the developers and even the publishers were gamers themselves. Just look at the old "making of anything pre 2010", especially Mortal Kombat and Halo documentaries. They enjoyed gaming and wanted you to enjoy them too.
@@nathanlamont9920 Thats valid 👏
For the people Who want to try out a Sega Dreamcast games
Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio are great choices
@@alface935 Jet Set Radio blew me away recently 🔥
@Dziller The Soundtrack is so Cool
I love me some ps1 and ps2 jrpgs, dude. The Tales Of games on ps2 are the PINNACLE of action of RPG. Pcsx2 and emulation is an absolute godsend because you don't even need to spend extra money for a console. Just load it up on your computer or android device and have fun.
@@Patrick-bn5rp Those old Tales of Games are GOATED. Which one is your favorite?
@Dziller See that's a little hard. Xillia 2 on the PS3 is my personal fave, but I'm a huge fan of Tales of Destiny Director's and Tales of Rebirth. (Which just got a translation last month.) Tales of the Abyss is also incredible. I don't think there was a single miss on the system besides mayyyybe Legendia?
Of the PS2 games, Rebirth is probably my favorite.
@@Patrick-bn5rp You Making Me Wana Go Get Intuuuuune🔥
I'm playing Vesperia on Switch, I'm enjoying so far. Plus, it comes with a bunch of skins from the get-go, so my Yuri is running around dressed like Mitsurugi from SC.
The Nintendo Switch has some emulators, and remasters of old games, that sort of thing, and I've found some pretty fun puzzle games on the SNES emulator. And I'm itching to buy the 1 and 3 Devil May Cry games someday
Aww yeaaa they in they bag wit that! DMC is a legit classic
I grew up more of a PC gamer starting with the Commodore 64 which had some classics. I still buy classic retro games for PC on GOG and sometimes Steam. The advantage of PC is there a lot of remakes or re implementations that fix some of the warts on these old classic games and make them better in some way like old 90's XCOM with OpenXcom. My console of my youth was just the NES then many many years later with the Wii (now Switch). Personally, I'm tempted to buy a real SNES and get some classics that I never got to play. I prefer not to emulate due to gray legal areas around copyrights.
@@j_atkinson Thats cool you were a PC kid. A childhood dream of mine for sure. And I agree with you about the emulation, you know what the book say, thou shalt not steal
Emulation is the future man, I was blown away when I was able to play the original silent hill for the first time ever on my phone and man that game still is creepy
That game is a lil too eerie for me lol
Glad you enjoyed it tho, its crazy the games we can play on our phones aint it?
Your so underrated
@HeyitsFelix-1 Much love brother, not for long Lord willin
I have a xbox 360 and PS2.
My problem is I have too many games I want to play.
I don't understand people who just play the new shiny games.
@@KrisVickers-wn6dd I see you actually enjoy yourself with gaming. I'm with you, I don't understand forcing yourself to play something you don't really like.
@Dziller I need to get rid of bunches of them though. stresses me out having big backlog.
what was your favourite game you played in 2024?
@KrisVickers-wn6dd them backlogs are a forever story 😂 And replaying GTA San Andreas was the best game I've played in 2024. But hell divers 2 is probably the funnest game from 2024 hbu
@@Dziller I can't do it bro, I had like 50+ games sitting, was stressing me out.
Sweet, sweet. I just traded San Andreas in. Really want to get a triple pack of games called Alien Breed for my 360.
btw how do you play your retro consoles? on a CRT, with a hdmi adapter?
@@KrisVickers-wn6dd Whaaaat 50+??? Man you got some work to do my guy😂 And how could you trade ps2s BEST GAME!? And i typicalljy use an hdmi adapter for my dreamcast, im still looking to get a ps2. i actually played san andreas on my phone last year
I want games that challenge me. The new style of gaming is made for people who refuse to be challenged because they don't have the emotional intelligence to accept a challenge. Therefore I only play retro games. All new games are designed to keep stupid people enjoying them by giving them the ability to do well in the game even though they don't have actual skill. Anyone playing modern games is allowing themselves to be dumbed down
@TrevorHamberger I've noticed they don't pack that same challenge too. You can tell it's intentional. Makes that feeling of overcoming a challenge less sweet. Easier game = Wider audience of people to play but at the cost of the integrity of the game unfortunately.
@Dziller for me personally a game like battle frogs is like the ultimate test of hand-eye coordination and a whole bunch more. Also your patience. I'm not saying battletoads is my favorite game ever played because I've never actually played it. But the main reason I'm interested in playing it is because it has the reputation as the hardest game to ever exist. That's something that I want to have challenge me. The Young generation coming up now with literally cry over it. I would cry tears of joy over being challenged
I'm really shocked that people can't see it. Pretty much every time I watch somebody play a modern game I think about how it's throttled to make them lose. It's so easy to see it that I don't understand how they don't see it while they're playing it.
But just in general this entire generation of children starting after around the millennium is completely lacking in the emotional intelligence that would allow something like a challenging game to be fun for them. They've been handed everything and babied and cuddled by everybody their whole lives that they can't deal with defeat of any kind. I've seen it said that most modern games are just like following a 200 hour movie. There's almost zero skill involved in most of the game is just you watching cutscenes. And then going through with easy tasks in order to complete the storyline.
No I could be exaggerating some of this because I don't play any modern games at all. You would literally have to pay me to play modern games so I'm not exactly speaking from experience. Mostly just from what I read people online talking about
@TrevorHamberger It's few challenging games out there for sure! And alot of the skill based games that are modern are extremely popular, I can't speak on who's playing what because I don't play most games 😂 But it's safe to say there's a lot of loss savor with these easy mode AAA titles. I love a game that doesn't even care about how good I am at the game n just gives me what it's got. I HATE DIFFICULTLY SETTINGS. Hopefully newer devs take into account the importance of challenge in games, instead of money, the cash will come if it's a cow 😂
@@Dziller personally I only play simulation football games. In simulation football games basically ended in 2009 when Madden 2009 released. Ever since then the games have been dumbed down. So I stick to all pro football 2K 8 NFL 2K 5 in Madden 04 through 09. I wouldn't even play a human player even if i could. I prefer to only play the computer intelligence. And when I get good enough I just upped the AI sliders for the computer and lower the human sliders. It's really fun this way because I never know if I'm going to win or lose. And I can win or lose games that I'm either down by 20 points or up by 20 points with ease. It's really fun this way. I got so good at playing the computer intelligence that I can't even play humans anymore. Humans simply aren't good enough at the game to give me a challenge. I'm sure some exist but I don't have a way to play them
I already did 2 years ago 💪
@@JeremyYu-r8g You ahead of the game 🔥
For me personally 🤔 I love retro games for sure but I want to make sure I'm supporting the actual company that made said game/console. For example I can get sonic 1-3 from an independent game store but Sega won't receive any financial support. Only the independent game store I bought it from which isn't the goal. Which is why with the new ninja gaiden they brought back the classic style based on the community support. So I usually wait for a remaster on a modern console so they at least know people still love those games. Same with contra as well
@Taure-aku Ooooo I never thought about it That way🔥 Makes sense
that new ninja gaiden looks sick
Too bad with cant play this retro games because of the cartridge and disc rot.
@@anonymoustroll2432 im kinda confused at what you're saying my guy, can u say it again in a different way
For me personally I like 3d games just because that’s what I grew up with
@Peaceouteditz-r2p Niiice what was your first system?
@ a switch
@@Peaceout313-r2p ONE THE BEST TO DO IT
@@Peaceout313-r2p A switch lol. Mine was megadrive in 1989