The nostalgia videos are getting super prolific on UA-cam. I mean I get it; shit was dope in the 90s and 2000's. But I really feel that part of it being SO intense is because of social media and not having anything to look forward to. I think the media has snuck in through the back door and that everyone is convinced the world sucks more now than it did then, when, if you control what comes at you, it actually looks about the same. If everyone pulled their faces out of their damn phones and actually talked to each other, maybe collectively try to get back and little of the balance of real life and tech, things wouldn't be so haywire.
I mean, money is worth less now than it was then, and look at how wages have stagnated across the job market outside of the tech sector - unless you meet certain immutable characteristics many companies have been scrambling for in the past decade. Social media does tend to blow things out of proportion, but as someone who doesn't use social media outside of UA-cam anymore, it actually has contributed to worsening mental health and degraded familial situations far beyond the scale that they were back then. Things are worse now despite technology having never been better. We have less privacy, more eggshells to worry about stepping on, far more societal landmines, and we have to do it all on a far, far tighter budget than people who were in the same stages of life back in that era did.
@@trashjash that's a really solid point. The finances of now, especially the anxiety in all of it is way more than those decades. And you're right as hell about "Social media doesn't really affect you and your brain cause you're not on it, but look around you." Even my parents are less grounded and more reactive politically and socially. The mental health of everyone I'm surrounded by is definitely worse off because of it.
Holy shit are you crazy? You can't be this balanced and nuanced! C'mon COME CONSOOM, do it for our shareholder overlords, CONSOOM ALL THE BAD NEWS AND BRAIN ROTTED MEDIA. ONE OF US, ONE OF US.
Real, I try to recreate that 1998 experience of StarCraft’s release date by listening to the OST while playing other games or constantly playing customs or talk about it on Discord. Halo I used to listen to the OST on a Discord VC every night when I went to bed because they were calming and soothing. Time is really an enemy and sometimes I like to remisicent or visit early years like 2019 by mentioning memes or referencing what happened in that event.
This video hits…it’s sad, but it is true…those good ole days are gone, but I like the sentiment of living in the moment. It’s like that scene from The Office where Andy talks about how he wishes he knew the old days were so great so that he could really take the time to enjoy them.
I think part of it isn’t just aging, it’s also that there doesn’t seem to be anything left to look forward to. Will a movie ever again blow minds the way Jurassic Park or The Matrix did? Will there ever again be a generational leap as big as the one between PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2? Will there ever be another Beatles or Metallica? (And no, Taylor Swift doesn’t count- her popularity is cult of personality, her music is average) Maybe there will, but everything has felt stagnant for at least the last 15 years, maybe longer. It’s all so iterative now, with the instance on constantly pushing out new content, that not enough time can pass between the old and the new to clearly define a leap forward. Remakes and remasters aren’t helping. The reason people look back to the 90’s and early 00’s in particular is because that was the last time they movies, music and games made us go WOW, I’ve never seen that before. There are exceptions of course - Half-Life Alyx, Red Dead 2… but they’re so few and far between these days as compared to a year like 1998, for instance, which featured the release of probably a dozen games that are considered legendary even by today’s standards. Smart phones may be the last great innovation of our era, and it seems like everything since has mostly been a downgrade in someway. Electric cars should be amazing, but as far as personal freedom, they suck compared to gas powered vehicles. AI should be changing our lives for the better, instead it’s ruining art and destroying educational testing. Someone once said that eventually we will run out of combinations of musical notes to create new songs, and no truly new music will ever be made again, it’ll all just be altered versions of something we’ve heard before. Maybe we’ve hit that point with everything.
Perhaps that's where we're I never really thought about it but I have felt it, I guess I just never saw it put into words. And yes the constant release of "new product" that feels exactly the same or worse as "last product" really doesn't help and of course technology has stagnated in the last 15-18 years, also gaming has become soulless, it's basically all about profit and the pushing of agendas just like Hollywood at least in the AAA space, long gone are the days where all games were about just fun and escapism and nerd culture, like you said there are exceptions but it seems like they've become more and more rare with each passing year. I was excited about AI at some point but now that has turned into dread, I know it has great capabilities but the cons and potential for misuse outweigh the pros, and if modern gaming has taught me anything is that having access to more powerful technology doesn't necessarily means we will get better games, just look at how it is today, we have access to amazing technology that we could only dream of decades ago, capable of creating vast almost infinite worlds that resemble real life and yet games have only become worse, more bland and less creative. 1998 was an amazing year for gaming, in my top 3 best years for sure, so many bangers and many of my favorite games where made in that year or the years surrounding it, I don't think we'll ever get close to anything like that again sadly.
This is a pretty Doomer take. I'll acknowledge the decline in quality in the big studios that have put out our favorite movies, tv, videogames. But it's our job as the consumer to hunt and find media that connects with us, not to expect some algorithm (which is paid off by those AAA companies) to serve us what we "want". Music in particular. There are so many artists, sounds, instruments, expressions being explored as we speak. To say that we are going to 'run out' of combinations is ludicrous. Stop letting Spotify server you the same 100 artists over and over and expect to find something new and exciting. Find a genre that interests you and use those tags on websites you don't normally use (like bandcamp) and you'll be amazed
Im notorious for dwelling in the past, but ive found the best thing is making sure my little ones are getting the best childhood i can, from everyday things to christmas. I get my joy from that and its so worth it
It's funny I felt this way myself too in the past, I remember thinking the same, that things will never feel the same, that the past was truly gone and the future was forever going to be bleak compared to my past but I was wrong, it is definitely possible to recover those feelings and happiness that we felt as kids and even let old and new things surprise you and make you feel like you did in the past even if things are different, I think a lot depends on your mindset and your mental state, like you said I think a lot of us are just going through mental things that make us feel this way, we just need to realize it and work towards improving them and getting better, once we get over them and we get better we can definitely recover that happiness and wonder we felt as kids, you just have to realize that is never truly gone if we don't want it to. No amount of bills, and adult-life responsibilities can destroy it, you just gotta learn to cultivate it inside of you. Also being positive and living in the moment and making the best out of every minute as much as you can (without stressing of course) helps a ton in reaching that goal. Also is good to acknowledge that the past is gone, that is a fact and that things change and some are gone forever, you have to let go sometimes that's how life works, but there are things that you definitely can keep alive inside of you if you want to and there will always be new ones that can replace or fill the gap that the loss of old ones made and there's nothing wrong with that.
Here is some silver lining: Finding enjoyment and happiness changes over time. You can't expect the same movies, games, friends, etc to make you feel just as happy. Your diet coke analogy is spot on. It wasn't the soda but the moment as a whole where everything aligned and you were doing what made you happy right there. Getting older, gaining more knowledge, allows us to widen our tastes and better understand what is good for us / what feels good. And finding that balance is the challenge, but it isn't like 'the good times are over' they just changed
What you're experiencing is a kind of dysthymia and its very common for people to experience in their 20's and 30's (the hardest years of their life) where they unlearn all the over-compensation that being a teenager surrounded by other emotionally clumsy teenagers brought you. What you have to do is become less guarded and embrace new experiences. You're looking to objects to get the feeling, when you should be looking to feelings to get the feelings. Part of growing up is thinking you an run away from bad feelings and not accidently amputate the good feelings too and then wondering why you don't feel anything -- or even as much. You have to accept that if you want the highs, you must have the lows. You must feel vulnerable to also feel euphoria because vulnerability is where acceptance is born and kinship and bonds are made. It begins by figuring out when the magic stopped, and going back to that place mentally and figuring out why it stopped. Trauma is a thing everybody experiences -- usually when we're let down by someone important, or someone we trusted and we don't fully heal properly. Like physical trauma, the obstruction must be removed so the body can heal itself, and so too is the case with the mind. Sometimes that means doing childish things to get into that mental space so you can have those really big really emotionally draining thoughts. When folks say "love yourself before others will love you", what it really means is you have to value yourself enough to know if the way others treat you is fair or not, to not let people be unfair to you. This doesn't mean reacting with violence or anger, or shutting people out or using your power it means telling them that you're not okay and diplomatically dismantling what they do to you -- and then when all peaceful means of diplomacy end, you move to unpeaceful means to protect yourself. Likewise, it also means not just assuming that you like yourself, and not just assuming that you're a good person so you ask if you are actually in the wrong so you weigh things up fairly. If you feel guilt, or you feel like a bad person, process that, figure out why that is. If you have some gap of "But I know I'm X" but "I feel Y" which contradict, you have knowledge, and understanding in conflict. You only turn knowledge into understanding with repeated practice, so it becomes engrained as part of you -- and likewise, this is how you also unlearn bad habits, with the help of those around you -- which begins by helping those around you. When you start feeling, people will want you around, and you'll stop being lonely, because everybody just wants to feel witnessed, and acknowledged and to do that, you have to be a feeling human being who doesn't cast judgement to placate some ego. These difficult emotions will absoloutely make you cry and they will make you angry, but you must feel those emotions to break the blockages so you can flow properly as a human being, and so your emotions can come freely and so the world can be enjoyed sincerely again without hedging expectations to protect yourself that risk robbing you of your future joy. The real lesson of finally growing up is that like Peter Weller says, you need to be strong enough to be gentle. Being hurt takes strength. Folks who hide and run away from their emotions are weak, or are in situations where it makes them vulnerable and others will capitalize on it to hurt them. Those are situations you must leave if you ever want to be happy. Being a child isn't being naieve, its being open to oppertunities and being willing to experience some really low lows to find those highs because you didn't "settle" for a life on some "Once in a Lifetime" Talking Heads life-plan track that everybody has laid out for you through implicit non-explicit social signalling shit like 2.4 kids, a wife, a car, etc etc. The sooner you get that and you figure that shit out, the sooner you'll sort your shit out. The kid was not eager to grow up to be who you became. That doesn't make them naieve, it means you failed them, and you're putting the blame on them. You can't do that. It will poison and kill you by making *ANY* emotion you associate with the kid (even good ones) be seen as threatening to your concept of self now so you cannot have those emotions in the present. Its a contradiction. You cannot have it both ways. Like Carl Rogers said: When you accept yourself just as you are, only then can you change. You must know your current location to figure out which direction will take you to a destination. That means accepting the parts of yourself you have trouble with: If you don't, you'll never work on them, and you don't improve. Every carpenter accepts the facts of their material. Every artist, every sculptor their canvas or their clay. Every engineer, the limits of their scope. You must be this way to live skillfully. It sucks. It hurts. It means yeah you probably get dealt a bad hand, but you're not quite down and you're absoloutely not out. Pick yourself up and try again. You are worth it, even if every cell in your body tells you that you're not because its easier for it to be some bullshit foregone conclusion to forclose your entire life to "I guess this is it then". The moment you do that, you're already dead. Everything you've been trained to do to protect yourself is there to turn you into a worker who doesn't complain, who can't network with others, who is isolated so your employer can take advantage of you -- where you just shrug and say "it is what it is". As absurd as it sounds, It doesn't have to be that way. Welcome to emotional availability, and welcome to the rest of your life. Source: Just turned 38, and this is the best lesson I have ever learned in my entire life. I strongly advise you follow it. I went from obsessing over the old Armored Core games trying to recapture nostalgia to finding personal projects that let me find new joy that isn't locked in the past. Just as there is nostalgia, there is also a kind of neo-stalgia, a longing for the future. Try to find futures you care about. Y'all take care. You're in my thoughts, and you deserve the world even if you've gaslit yourselves into thinking you don't. That you are still here when so many others aren't is worth celebrating. You don't know me, and I don't know you but you beat the statistics, and I'm proud of you. Godspeed, Spartans. To the moon and back. o7
I Don't expect it to feel the same. I just keep replaying the same old games because I don't enjoy the newer ones. Better fulfillment might come out of quitting video games entirely
This 100 percent. I found and downloaded Unreal 1998 this week. This graphics are well, dated. But the game is fun as hell, the sound effects, the music and the guns are all so dope. I know it's a boomer take but games nowadays just don't seem that good.
Ultimately do whats best for you. I'm a chronic gamer and I still find old games i've never played that I end up loving. But yeah I've dropped modern triple A gaming.
I feel like the internet makes a lot of things today less impactful, when I was a kid with no internet you only really heard about new things on occasion instead of a constant stream of new information you get today.
Finding those experiences again requires risk, and I can understand why people are risk averse when free time is getting more and more precious as life's pressures mount. You've still gotta try sometimes though. You're gonna get burned, but the payoff is usually worth it when it works. The good old days were still objectively good, I think given the state of our current consumerist nightmare that is indisputable, and it's okay to revel in those immaculate vibes, but the past can't be the only place we live in I miss the golden days of Halo 3 and the Bad Company games and CoD4 and those franchises just don't exist like that anymore, but I've found new indie titles that have floored me on Steam and I've recently fallen in love with the Ace Combat franchise. Wonder is still out there
@@echodelta2172 wingman is excellent. Got it on Xbox first, but I got it for PC so I could actually beat conquest mode, my One S could not handle it lol
I agree a lot with what you said here. It's something I've REALLY been struggling with especially as my mental health deteriorates. As I find myself struggling to hang on to hope that things will get better I can't help but look to the past and how it used to be so much more simple. Sure, times were tough but there's a long list of how things were better between ages 4-10. I've been constantly looking for a mental illness that I can point to and ask a therapist about and say "I think I have this." I obsess over the past and want nothing more than that. I cry when I think about it and even overspend around holidays as I try to buy my way into that happiness I had from when I was a kid. In short, what makes it hardest is the "you will never experience that again" aspect. That idea hurts so damn bad! It's something I'm working through. Trying anyway. If I don't see you again before Christmas; you and your family have an amazing and blessed merry Christmas.
I hope everything works out with it. I feel a lot of people have feelings like that. Nostalgia is a powerful thing. I hope your holiday is amazing as well! Stay strong. 💪🏻
I'm in no position to give anyone advice, but for myself I've just had to learn to try and not let external factors dictate how I feel so much. Pleasure and happiness are fleeting things, they can't last. I used to chase after those things (and still do at times when I forget myself) but they weren't and aren't sufficient to give my life meaning and they didn't bring me any real joy. For myself, I've only been able to cultivate joy through faith and love. Without those things, nothing else gives me life. Idk if that's of any value to you or not. Regardless, keep going and don't give up on life. Things can be good, often it's our perspective that needs changed as opposed to our situation Sorry for the long winded response. Stay the course, you're stronger than you know!
@@tylertesla3678 Wish I could help more. I've had my own mental struggles in the past so it's hard to see other's struggling and not really be able to do much about it
There are also those of us who "forgot" how to feel that type of excitement and joy because upon hitting adulthood we were basically run over by the bus of life and faced numerous tragedies, losses and struggles that shaped us into more of someone on survival mode. Where everything that should be exciting is met with a secret unspoken guarded demeanor where we don't fully open ourselves to the experience because in the past being open has left us vulnerable and made us experience hurt. If you experience enough events where you were incredibly excited for something and then when the moment came you were instead greeted with betrayal, hurt or disappointment. In a way you start to become fearful or nervous when something is exciting because events of the past have made you distrust that feeling due to how it can make you feel if it goes the wrong way. And once those are set in place it is very hard to rewire your brain back.
I feel you, buddy. I even went as far as setting up a full on LAN in my house so family and friends could relive those epic Halo memories. Funny enough, though, I barely get to play. Most of my time gets swallowed up by family, chores, work, more chores, and editing videos for my channel instead of gaming. And when I finally carve out a free hour? The game needs an update, my graphics drivers are outdated, or-of course-Windows 11 decides to break something. We truly didn’t realize how good we had it back then. My cousin and I often reminisce about how incredible 1995 to 2011 was. Hopefully, my kids will get a taste of that same magic with the LAN. On a brighter note, I recently played Halo: Combat Evolved in VR, and wow-it brought back that pure, childlike joy. For a moment, it felt just like the old days.
I thing I've had to learn is to not let my mood, outlook and joy in life be solely determined by external factors. Like all things good for you, it's easier said than done, but it has helped me.
It is definitely a good philosophy and something to keep in mind, but yeah it is pretty hard to do, takes a whole change of mindset but I think with time, effort and practice we can definitely find happiness inside that is not affected by external factors, that's when you really learn to be happy, and one benefit of it is that it makes it easier to let external factors contribute to our happiness, you even recover some of that sense of wonder that we had as children.
@@AJ-po6up That's true, external factors can certainly be a benifit and even a necessity. It's important to allow ourselves to be happy and enjoy ourselves during good times just as much as we also need to be able to feel sorrow and grief at other times. I just don't want to be solely governed by those things
100 percent agree that people need to learn to let go. It doesn't mean you can't revisit a favorite game from time to time but it isnt healthy to mourn the loss of those experiences. In my own experience I feel the same way that boomer shooter fans felt about what was new at the time with Halo and CoD, but for modern gaming instead. I actually was just thinking about this concept a few days ago after playing some Black Ops 1 and wondering if the modern CoD/Halo fans would go through a similiar exodus.
@ what I mean is, I’ve seen so much nostalgia-centered content in such a short period of time, that the emotional response I used to have to it has become lessened. It doesn’t hit like it used to.
The change from Halo 3's art style it took everything away. Halo 4 was a mix of Reach and a new engine which really made it hurt even more. Halo Infinite did a decent job. The gameplay wasnt the same sadly from anything
This was a very interesting video and I've been thinking about this as well. For the most part I don't get nostalgic about the past because I enjoy my life now far more than I ever enjoyed my childhood (that's not to say I didn't have some good memories). But sometimes I'll look back on period of time in my early adulthood when i lived in Vietnam for 6 years and I'll catch myself getting nostalgic for that time or for a girl I dated. But when I really think about it, I wasn't always happy during that time (even though it was an amazing time in my life). The funny part is at that time I was hungering for the kind of life I have right now. And the girl I get nostalgic about...I actually had several chances to be in a relationship with her but I refused all those times. I feel like what we miss is *not* the actual time, the person, or the moment that happened, but we miss how we felt in that moment, how we were actually approaching life - how we were growing as a person, making new friends, exploring new aspects of life, forming new relationships, and the meaning all these things gave us at the time. Because if we try to go back...all the magic that was there is now gone. Because it's over. That magic is elsewhere. While Vietnam is always going to be a part of me and I'll go back to visit, I know that part of my life is over. And it's really the feeling of living in a new country, growing as a person, making new friends, and living the *adventure* of my life that breathes the magic I felt into my life. And in doing so, I get to keep my childhood sense of wonder, joy, and play alongside hard earned wisdom & maturity as well. Love the video as usual, got me thinking, and I'll send it to my girl like I've done in the past. Keep up the awesome work!
It is interesting having to explain to people that : "talking to people on the internet was once a new and exciting thing." We have come a long way since then.
@ClassicHaloCommentary Why we chase the dragon in nostalgia is much to do with participating in the process of what a golden era is : the climb to the plateau. We existed in the era where entire genres were born. It's always missing the fascinating flash of the lightning, because you expect the thunder.
i just refuse to get attached to any game/movie/show anymore. these companies get away with way too much simply off of nostalgia...especially in the past few years.
100% agree, even though games are made to be profitable in another way now, its more that we had more time back then and now we can play for maybe an hour and there o guys from the OG squad online.
hey man just discovered your channel and I wanted to say I'm glad you're making these types of videos. I've had thoughts about doing something similar myself, just verbally processing general life events while playing an old comfort game.
max stirner's 'the ego and it's own' book has a part in it that talks about how rationality and pragmatism is something that is thrust upon us in adulthood that basically kills our minds which were nothing but a world of pure thought. What i find interesting about that is that it may not be just getting older, but the world's pressures on us. Now that sounds obvious but it is a key distinction. Is it just an organic part of getting older, that is would it have happened regardless of circumstances. or is it just because of the outside world? if it's the latter that means that it could hypothetically be reclaimed.
Oh man, Halo and Christmas have been utterly destroyed for me. Halo (no explanation needed. It's just changed a lot for the better and worse,) and after working retail for a few years... Yikes. All the fun and energy is just gone. It sucks, I can't wait for in 10 or so years when I spawn in some poor schmuck(s) to finally take fun seriously again because I miss it.
I’ll admit, yes some things will not be the same, 3 years ago when infinite came out that was the first time in years I was excited for a video game. Don’t lose optimism you just never know sometimes
Honestly sometimes I get giddy for a new game or something and looking back the highs feel about the same. I think having a lot of bad childhood memories helps temper my rose colored glasses in that sense. There are cynical/depressive thoughts 8yo me didn't have, but after getting out of my lowest point its pretty apparent I didn't fundamentally lose anything. I think we all just need to touch grass and take our meds lol. And if you REALLY wanna play Halo with that underdeveloped brain mindset, alcohol will do it in a pinch!
I still am a very nostalgic person. I do miss my childhood a lot. I'm 17 and for years I suffered so much mentally. Up until like somewhere at the beginning/end of last year I started questioning a lot of things. One of them being whether God is real or not. Like many people I knew about Jesus and all that growing but I never really got into it or really even believed it. About 3 years ago now I had a pretty bad breakup. For me it was like the literally end of the world. (First love type thing). Prior to the breakup I did overthink a bunch but afterwards.... man. I literally lived in my head 24/7. Obsessed with trying to fix the past. And that just heightened my overthinking and anxiety to a whole other level. Since than a lot of negative stuff happened but I won't go into detail. Around the beginning of this year/end of last year I started to question pretty much everything. One of them being whether God is real or not. Like many people I knew about Jesus and all that growing but I never really got into it or really even believed it. I started asking myself questions like, "If all this Jesus stuff isn't true then why is it after thousands of years still the world's biggest debate?" Anyways a while after I just started to trust in Jesus. And from there my life has changed significantly. I still worry and have anxiety, but I've found true peace in just simply trusting in God. I know it seems like it's possible to be real at first. But the good, good news is that it is. You might not understand now. We all suffer, and we all go through pain. But God doesn't want us to go through it alone. So please whoever is reading this. If you have all these questions about God. You have the power to google and research the answers. Jesus loves you, my friend. He really does. He saved me. He can save you too.
Funny I went through this exact same thing when I was 17, reading it felt like someone was describing my life back in those days. it's surreal. The only difference is that I made what now I believe was a mistake, I didn't choose God, I became an atheist, long story short the years that followed were the worst and saddest days of my life filled with non-stop depression, dread and anxiety where I was completely obsessed with the past and overthinking and felt completely alone, back in those days the thought that someone else could go through the same things was unthinkable to me and yet here is someone describing it to a tee, I guess we're never really alone or the only ones to go through this stuff we might just feel we're, especially at the moment where it's happening to us. Either way it was tough to get out of that hole I dug for myself, it took me a lot of time and effort but today I'm on much better place now and I was able to heal (I'm 32 now), it's interesting how a single decision can change your life completely and you might not even know it at the time. All I can say it's always choose positivity, don't let the intrusive thoughts win as they say, don't overthink stuff, if trusting and believing in God gives you peace then you made the right choice, doubting things is natural and healthy but we can't let it consume us, we all have to make a stand and choose something to believe in otherwise you will always feel empty, I learned that the hard way.
@AJ-po6up I'm glad you are doing better. Life's one nutty thing man. I never thought I could move on from my past. I can't force you or sway you to believe in God. And I don't think your an evil person for not believing in Him. I hope you find God one day. Thanks for taking the time to read my comment and reply to me.
Holy Halo! Our winds strive trough the stars and propell all worthy along The Golden Path trough Order and Chaos, Expansion and Decay, Live and Death. A Holy Halo. A Beacon bright. Never starting, never ending... Allways present. 💙🙏🏼🤍
It will never be the same but our love for halo always will. They should just remaster the old halo games and throw servers back up so we can all play again I look at halo games the way car enthusiasts look at abandoned cars.
I think some magic can be recaptured more easily than you think. Playing custom games and I saw a mod stream of custom games that recapture the magic and bring something new that isn’t even AAA content. Honestly makes u feel like a kid again for a bit. New games have stupid things like cat ear skins and buggy game launches that ruin experiences. Some new fun can still be had like throwing fusion coils across the map. Grown adults experiencing things they have missed out on for the first time can also be great to experience
Many material things objectively were better when we were younger. Gen Z today has 90% less spending power than people in their 20s back in the 1960s and 70s. That is an objective fact, you can look it up. The quality of so much of what we buy is significantly lower than it was 25-40 years ago.
I do some older shit with my friends sometimes just because we can, meet up at each others houses and play some custom games on the 360, i run around with an old kodak camera almost as old as me recording at school or whatever just because i can and looking on the footage something was clear, it wasnt doing the old stuff or the old tech or whatever but what it really is was the people, interactions, and all of the situations which truly give off that “old school vibe” that people seem to be obsessed over and the technology doesnt even matter, i could have recorded in on my perfectly good phone and gotten the same result. The true “secret ingredient” to that nostalgic “vibe” or whatever people call it was just having fun which seems to be what the people truly yearned for, having a good time. Anyways sorry for the long paragraph just wanted to talk about it have a good day
I play halo now and it just doesnt hit the same as when I was a kid. I definitely feel worse and some of the magic is gone. I wish I knew what happened with me and this series
I stopped playing online multiplayer games because of cheaters. It sucks... I used to love online multiplayer. Cheaters ruined the game for me. Why even try if it's possible for people to cheat? And of course everything you said. It truly won't be the same as it was in middle school, because it's too easy to cheat now, which takes the fun out of the game.
Being a boomer shooter guy and light gun guy, who only plays boomer shooters and light gun games, I'm just fine because I have lots of cool stuff to look forward to, with just banger after banger coming out. Furthermore, if I go back to all the older classic boomer shooter games like the QUAKE games or the DOOM games, or go back to all the older classic Light Gun games like the House of the Dead games or the Time Crisis games, they are all still just as fun as they were back when I first played them for the first time. Boomer Shooters and Light Gun games are timeless because you can play them 100 years from now, and still have lots of fun. So, I'm good.
@ClassicHaloCommentary I just pick up 360s and small HDTVs at goodwill for $20-35 when they show up, now i have enough to go to the local game store in ocala and set up in the backroom. (Have not started yet but plan to next year) i figure if i pay them around $20 a session for the electricity and space (its free as a rule but my idea will eat up tables) they wont have an issue with me making it a weekly practice. Especially if it gets more butts in the door buying games cards tabletops and comics.
That's where you are wrong kiddo, coming back to BioShock 1/2, Halo C-E, Minecraft 1.6.4, COD: WAW, Sniper Elite V2/Zombies etc etc you get the jist of it, ALLWAYS feels like coming home and new games also could have and create that feeling ... if good new games ever would come out today ... but they don't. 😎👉👉
Playing MCC and playing a capture the flag match and being stuck unable to leave the beach for the 10th time on Last Resort cuz the team just camps the wall and shoots us. Custom games suck. No lobbies or mics. Console players like me having an inherent disadvantage against pc players who snipe me the very nanosecond i poke my head out of cover. Most matches being a sweat fest. None of my old friends being online anymore. Yeah, the past is done.
People will never be over the 2005 to 2012 Call of Duty games! People will never be over the 2001 to 2012 Halo games because people cannot embrace the games of today! They struggle with change and only like game series at their most simplest incarnation! They can’t except the fact that games have to change and evolve! We all miss things from our childhood but we have to move on at some point because nothing stays the same!
This 100% sounds like a personal mental issue. I don't love, like or care about halo anymore because i know for a fact there are freaks corrupting it from within. But for the greater picture and the Potential of the Halo universe and games, it has been and continues to be extremely mismanaged. These hopeless nostalgia videos are only for people to cope with a real loss. I refuse to believe halo can't be as good as it was, realistically it can be and at the same time it wont be. But to say its impossible is Hella delusional.
Not even 1 second into this vid due to Thumbnail What Cry babies ! Yes it’s called Time and growing up more But the thing is That FEEling WILL Stay with your Forever and You CAN retell it to others Besides Halo Reach Sucked and Bungie lost their charm after Halo2 😊
I don’t know how this managed to make its way to me, I don’t have anything even halo adjacent in my algorithm and then this pops up and…. Damn man… I’ve definitely been feeling SOMETHING these past few years and it’s grown and tripled in size as I’ve gotten older…. Jaded and cynical to the point of hating everything about me and everything around me, I’ll have dreams sometimes where I’ll all of a sudden be a kid back in my first grade class room, still being fully aware of everything that happened the past 27 years, thinking about co workers and family and my kiddos right there in this dreamed up first grade class room as a kid again and I more often than not just finally settle on wondering if it’ll be mom or dad picking me up that day 😔
Holy Halo! Our winds strive trough the stars and propell all worthy along The Golden Path trough Order and Chaos, Expansion and Decay, Live and Death. A Holy Halo. A Beacon bright. Never starting, never ending... Allways present. 💛❤️🤍💙🖤
The nostalgia videos are getting super prolific on UA-cam. I mean I get it; shit was dope in the 90s and 2000's. But I really feel that part of it being SO intense is because of social media and not having anything to look forward to. I think the media has snuck in through the back door and that everyone is convinced the world sucks more now than it did then, when, if you control what comes at you, it actually looks about the same. If everyone pulled their faces out of their damn phones and actually talked to each other, maybe collectively try to get back and little of the balance of real life and tech, things wouldn't be so haywire.
I couldn’t agree more
I mean, money is worth less now than it was then, and look at how wages have stagnated across the job market outside of the tech sector - unless you meet certain immutable characteristics many companies have been scrambling for in the past decade. Social media does tend to blow things out of proportion, but as someone who doesn't use social media outside of UA-cam anymore, it actually has contributed to worsening mental health and degraded familial situations far beyond the scale that they were back then. Things are worse now despite technology having never been better. We have less privacy, more eggshells to worry about stepping on, far more societal landmines, and we have to do it all on a far, far tighter budget than people who were in the same stages of life back in that era did.
@@trashjash that's a really solid point. The finances of now, especially the anxiety in all of it is way more than those decades. And you're right as hell about "Social media doesn't really affect you and your brain cause you're not on it, but look around you." Even my parents are less grounded and more reactive politically and socially. The mental health of everyone I'm surrounded by is definitely worse off because of it.
Holy shit are you crazy? You can't be this balanced and nuanced! C'mon COME CONSOOM, do it for our shareholder overlords, CONSOOM ALL THE BAD NEWS AND BRAIN ROTTED MEDIA. ONE OF US, ONE OF US.
@@nomadicstrength...and when you have been working several years as web developer and software developer, perspective gets even more pessimistic
Real, I try to recreate that 1998 experience of StarCraft’s release date by listening to the OST while playing other games or constantly playing customs or talk about it on Discord. Halo I used to listen to the OST on a Discord VC every night when I went to bed because they were calming and soothing. Time is really an enemy and sometimes I like to remisicent or visit early years like 2019 by mentioning memes or referencing what happened in that event.
StarCraft was a dope game.
This video hits…it’s sad, but it is true…those good ole days are gone, but I like the sentiment of living in the moment. It’s like that scene from The Office where Andy talks about how he wishes he knew the old days were so great so that he could really take the time to enjoy them.
I think we all wish we could know when the good old days are.
I think part of it isn’t just aging, it’s also that there doesn’t seem to be anything left to look forward to.
Will a movie ever again blow minds the way Jurassic Park or The Matrix did?
Will there ever again be a generational leap as big as the one between PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2?
Will there ever be another Beatles or Metallica? (And no, Taylor Swift doesn’t count- her popularity is cult of personality, her music is average)
Maybe there will, but everything has felt stagnant for at least the last 15 years, maybe longer. It’s all so iterative now, with the instance on constantly pushing out new content, that not enough time can pass between the old and the new to clearly define a leap forward. Remakes and remasters aren’t helping.
The reason people look back to the 90’s and early 00’s in particular is because that was the last time they movies, music and games made us go WOW, I’ve never seen that before.
There are exceptions of course - Half-Life Alyx, Red Dead 2… but they’re so few and far between these days as compared to a year like 1998, for instance, which featured the release of probably a dozen games that are considered legendary even by today’s standards.
Smart phones may be the last great innovation of our era, and it seems like everything since has mostly been a downgrade in someway. Electric cars should be amazing, but as far as personal freedom, they suck compared to gas powered vehicles. AI should be changing our lives for the better, instead it’s ruining art and destroying educational testing.
Someone once said that eventually we will run out of combinations of musical notes to create new songs, and no truly new music will ever be made again, it’ll all just be altered versions of something we’ve heard before.
Maybe we’ve hit that point with everything.
Perhaps that's where we're I never really thought about it but I have felt it, I guess I just never saw it put into words. And yes the constant release of "new product" that feels exactly the same or worse as "last product" really doesn't help and of course technology has stagnated in the last 15-18 years, also gaming has become soulless, it's basically all about profit and the pushing of agendas just like Hollywood at least in the AAA space, long gone are the days where all games were about just fun and escapism and nerd culture, like you said there are exceptions but it seems like they've become more and more rare with each passing year. I was excited about AI at some point but now that has turned into dread, I know it has great capabilities but the cons and potential for misuse outweigh the pros, and if modern gaming has taught me anything is that having access to more powerful technology doesn't necessarily means we will get better games, just look at how it is today, we have access to amazing technology that we could only dream of decades ago, capable of creating vast almost infinite worlds that resemble real life and yet games have only become worse, more bland and less creative.
1998 was an amazing year for gaming, in my top 3 best years for sure, so many bangers and many of my favorite games where made in that year or the years surrounding it, I don't think we'll ever get close to anything like that again sadly.
Definitely some truth to what you’re saying
This is a pretty Doomer take. I'll acknowledge the decline in quality in the big studios that have put out our favorite movies, tv, videogames. But it's our job as the consumer to hunt and find media that connects with us, not to expect some algorithm (which is paid off by those AAA companies) to serve us what we "want".
Music in particular. There are so many artists, sounds, instruments, expressions being explored as we speak. To say that we are going to 'run out' of combinations is ludicrous. Stop letting Spotify server you the same 100 artists over and over and expect to find something new and exciting. Find a genre that interests you and use those tags on websites you don't normally use (like bandcamp) and you'll be amazed
Im notorious for dwelling in the past, but ive found the best thing is making sure my little ones are getting the best childhood i can, from everyday things to christmas. I get my joy from that and its so worth it
That’s the best thing to do. Give your kids the best experience and memories possible.
It's funny I felt this way myself too in the past, I remember thinking the same, that things will never feel the same, that the past was truly gone and the future was forever going to be bleak compared to my past but I was wrong, it is definitely possible to recover those feelings and happiness that we felt as kids and even let old and new things surprise you and make you feel like you did in the past even if things are different, I think a lot depends on your mindset and your mental state, like you said I think a lot of us are just going through mental things that make us feel this way, we just need to realize it and work towards improving them and getting better, once we get over them and we get better we can definitely recover that happiness and wonder we felt as kids, you just have to realize that is never truly gone if we don't want it to. No amount of bills, and adult-life responsibilities can destroy it, you just gotta learn to cultivate it inside of you. Also being positive and living in the moment and making the best out of every minute as much as you can (without stressing of course) helps a ton in reaching that goal.
Also is good to acknowledge that the past is gone, that is a fact and that things change and some are gone forever, you have to let go sometimes that's how life works, but there are things that you definitely can keep alive inside of you if you want to and there will always be new ones that can replace or fill the gap that the loss of old ones made and there's nothing wrong with that.
I couldn’t agree more. Positive mindset and living in the moment is key
Here is some silver lining: Finding enjoyment and happiness changes over time. You can't expect the same movies, games, friends, etc to make you feel just as happy.
Your diet coke analogy is spot on. It wasn't the soda but the moment as a whole where everything aligned and you were doing what made you happy right there.
Getting older, gaining more knowledge, allows us to widen our tastes and better understand what is good for us / what feels good. And finding that balance is the challenge, but it isn't like 'the good times are over' they just changed
What you're experiencing is a kind of dysthymia and its very common for people to experience in their 20's and 30's (the hardest years of their life) where they unlearn all the over-compensation that being a teenager surrounded by other emotionally clumsy teenagers brought you. What you have to do is become less guarded and embrace new experiences. You're looking to objects to get the feeling, when you should be looking to feelings to get the feelings. Part of growing up is thinking you an run away from bad feelings and not accidently amputate the good feelings too and then wondering why you don't feel anything -- or even as much.
You have to accept that if you want the highs, you must have the lows. You must feel vulnerable to also feel euphoria because vulnerability is where acceptance is born and kinship and bonds are made. It begins by figuring out when the magic stopped, and going back to that place mentally and figuring out why it stopped. Trauma is a thing everybody experiences -- usually when we're let down by someone important, or someone we trusted and we don't fully heal properly. Like physical trauma, the obstruction must be removed so the body can heal itself, and so too is the case with the mind. Sometimes that means doing childish things to get into that mental space so you can have those really big really emotionally draining thoughts.
When folks say "love yourself before others will love you", what it really means is you have to value yourself enough to know if the way others treat you is fair or not, to not let people be unfair to you. This doesn't mean reacting with violence or anger, or shutting people out or using your power it means telling them that you're not okay and diplomatically dismantling what they do to you -- and then when all peaceful means of diplomacy end, you move to unpeaceful means to protect yourself. Likewise, it also means not just assuming that you like yourself, and not just assuming that you're a good person so you ask if you are actually in the wrong so you weigh things up fairly. If you feel guilt, or you feel like a bad person, process that, figure out why that is.
If you have some gap of "But I know I'm X" but "I feel Y" which contradict, you have knowledge, and understanding in conflict. You only turn knowledge into understanding with repeated practice, so it becomes engrained as part of you -- and likewise, this is how you also unlearn bad habits, with the help of those around you -- which begins by helping those around you. When you start feeling, people will want you around, and you'll stop being lonely, because everybody just wants to feel witnessed, and acknowledged and to do that, you have to be a feeling human being who doesn't cast judgement to placate some ego.
These difficult emotions will absoloutely make you cry and they will make you angry, but you must feel those emotions to break the blockages so you can flow properly as a human being, and so your emotions can come freely and so the world can be enjoyed sincerely again without hedging expectations to protect yourself that risk robbing you of your future joy. The real lesson of finally growing up is that like Peter Weller says, you need to be strong enough to be gentle. Being hurt takes strength. Folks who hide and run away from their emotions are weak, or are in situations where it makes them vulnerable and others will capitalize on it to hurt them. Those are situations you must leave if you ever want to be happy.
Being a child isn't being naieve, its being open to oppertunities and being willing to experience some really low lows to find those highs because you didn't "settle" for a life on some "Once in a Lifetime" Talking Heads life-plan track that everybody has laid out for you through implicit non-explicit social signalling shit like 2.4 kids, a wife, a car, etc etc. The sooner you get that and you figure that shit out, the sooner you'll sort your shit out. The kid was not eager to grow up to be who you became.
That doesn't make them naieve, it means you failed them, and you're putting the blame on them. You can't do that. It will poison and kill you by making *ANY* emotion you associate with the kid (even good ones) be seen as threatening to your concept of self now so you cannot have those emotions in the present. Its a contradiction. You cannot have it both ways. Like Carl Rogers said: When you accept yourself just as you are, only then can you change. You must know your current location to figure out which direction will take you to a destination.
That means accepting the parts of yourself you have trouble with: If you don't, you'll never work on them, and you don't improve. Every carpenter accepts the facts of their material. Every artist, every sculptor their canvas or their clay. Every engineer, the limits of their scope. You must be this way to live skillfully. It sucks. It hurts. It means yeah you probably get dealt a bad hand, but you're not quite down and you're absoloutely not out. Pick yourself up and try again. You are worth it, even if every cell in your body tells you that you're not because its easier for it to be some bullshit foregone conclusion to forclose your entire life to "I guess this is it then". The moment you do that, you're already dead.
Everything you've been trained to do to protect yourself is there to turn you into a worker who doesn't complain, who can't network with others, who is isolated so your employer can take advantage of you -- where you just shrug and say "it is what it is". As absurd as it sounds, It doesn't have to be that way. Welcome to emotional availability, and welcome to the rest of your life.
Source: Just turned 38, and this is the best lesson I have ever learned in my entire life. I strongly advise you follow it. I went from obsessing over the old Armored Core games trying to recapture nostalgia to finding personal projects that let me find new joy that isn't locked in the past. Just as there is nostalgia, there is also a kind of neo-stalgia, a longing for the future. Try to find futures you care about.
Y'all take care. You're in my thoughts, and you deserve the world even if you've gaslit yourselves into thinking you don't.
That you are still here when so many others aren't is worth celebrating. You don't know me, and I don't know you but you beat the statistics, and I'm proud of you.
Godspeed, Spartans. To the moon and back. o7
I Don't expect it to feel the same. I just keep replaying the same old games because I don't enjoy the newer ones.
Better fulfillment might come out of quitting video games entirely
I’ve thought about it, but I still enjoy them a lot lol.
This 100 percent. I found and downloaded Unreal 1998 this week. This graphics are well, dated. But the game is fun as hell, the sound effects, the music and the guns are all so dope.
I know it's a boomer take but games nowadays just don't seem that good.
Ultimately do whats best for you. I'm a chronic gamer and I still find old games i've never played that I end up loving. But yeah I've dropped modern triple A gaming.
@@nomadicstrengthI don't care if it's a boomer take, older games are just better (at least the good ones)
I feel like the internet makes a lot of things today less impactful, when I was a kid with no internet you only really heard about new things on occasion instead of a constant stream of new information you get today.
That’s the truth. Information overload now.
Finding those experiences again requires risk, and I can understand why people are risk averse when free time is getting more and more precious as life's pressures mount.
You've still gotta try sometimes though. You're gonna get burned, but the payoff is usually worth it when it works. The good old days were still objectively good, I think given the state of our current consumerist nightmare that is indisputable, and it's okay to revel in those immaculate vibes, but the past can't be the only place we live in
I miss the golden days of Halo 3 and the Bad Company games and CoD4 and those franchises just don't exist like that anymore, but I've found new indie titles that have floored me on Steam and I've recently fallen in love with the Ace Combat franchise. Wonder is still out there
I agree. We have to take some risks.
Ace Combat goes extremely hard, try Project Wingman as well
@@echodelta2172 wingman is excellent. Got it on Xbox first, but I got it for PC so I could actually beat conquest mode, my One S could not handle it lol
I agree a lot with what you said here. It's something I've REALLY been struggling with especially as my mental health deteriorates. As I find myself struggling to hang on to hope that things will get better I can't help but look to the past and how it used to be so much more simple. Sure, times were tough but there's a long list of how things were better between ages 4-10. I've been constantly looking for a mental illness that I can point to and ask a therapist about and say "I think I have this." I obsess over the past and want nothing more than that. I cry when I think about it and even overspend around holidays as I try to buy my way into that happiness I had from when I was a kid.
In short, what makes it hardest is the "you will never experience that again" aspect. That idea hurts so damn bad! It's something I'm working through. Trying anyway.
If I don't see you again before Christmas; you and your family have an amazing and blessed merry Christmas.
I hope everything works out with it. I feel a lot of people have feelings like that. Nostalgia is a powerful thing. I hope your holiday is amazing as well! Stay strong. 💪🏻
@@ClassicHaloCommentary thank you! Keep up the great videos!
I'm in no position to give anyone advice, but for myself I've just had to learn to try and not let external factors dictate how I feel so much. Pleasure and happiness are fleeting things, they can't last. I used to chase after those things (and still do at times when I forget myself) but they weren't and aren't sufficient to give my life meaning and they didn't bring me any real joy. For myself, I've only been able to cultivate joy through faith and love. Without those things, nothing else gives me life.
Idk if that's of any value to you or not. Regardless, keep going and don't give up on life. Things can be good, often it's our perspective that needs changed as opposed to our situation
Sorry for the long winded response. Stay the course, you're stronger than you know!
@Myyoutube625 thank you. I appreciate the kindness and time you took to try to lift up a stranger.
@@tylertesla3678 Wish I could help more. I've had my own mental struggles in the past so it's hard to see other's struggling and not really be able to do much about it
There are also those of us who "forgot" how to feel that type of excitement and joy because upon hitting adulthood we were basically run over by the bus of life and faced numerous tragedies, losses and struggles that shaped us into more of someone on survival mode. Where everything that should be exciting is met with a secret unspoken guarded demeanor where we don't fully open ourselves to the experience because in the past being open has left us vulnerable and made us experience hurt. If you experience enough events where you were incredibly excited for something and then when the moment came you were instead greeted with betrayal, hurt or disappointment. In a way you start to become fearful or nervous when something is exciting because events of the past have made you distrust that feeling due to how it can make you feel if it goes the wrong way. And once those are set in place it is very hard to rewire your brain back.
I feel you, buddy. I even went as far as setting up a full on LAN in my house so family and friends could relive those epic Halo memories. Funny enough, though, I barely get to play. Most of my time gets swallowed up by family, chores, work, more chores, and editing videos for my channel instead of gaming. And when I finally carve out a free hour? The game needs an update, my graphics drivers are outdated, or-of course-Windows 11 decides to break something.
We truly didn’t realize how good we had it back then. My cousin and I often reminisce about how incredible 1995 to 2011 was. Hopefully, my kids will get a taste of that same magic with the LAN. On a brighter note, I recently played Halo: Combat Evolved in VR, and wow-it brought back that pure, childlike joy. For a moment, it felt just like the old days.
I’ve seen the Combat Evolved VR. I want to play it, I just don’t have a headset. That was indeed a golden time for gaming.
I thing I've had to learn is to not let my mood, outlook and joy in life be solely determined by external factors. Like all things good for you, it's easier said than done, but it has helped me.
It is definitely a good philosophy and something to keep in mind, but yeah it is pretty hard to do, takes a whole change of mindset but I think with time, effort and practice we can definitely find happiness inside that is not affected by external factors, that's when you really learn to be happy, and one benefit of it is that it makes it easier to let external factors contribute to our happiness, you even recover some of that sense of wonder that we had as children.
@@AJ-po6up That's true, external factors can certainly be a benifit and even a necessity. It's important to allow ourselves to be happy and enjoy ourselves during good times just as much as we also need to be able to feel sorrow and grief at other times. I just don't want to be solely governed by those things
be well my people
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100 percent agree that people need to learn to let go. It doesn't mean you can't revisit a favorite game from time to time but it isnt healthy to mourn the loss of those experiences. In my own experience I feel the same way that boomer shooter fans felt about what was new at the time with Halo and CoD, but for modern gaming instead. I actually was just thinking about this concept a few days ago after playing some Black Ops 1 and wondering if the modern CoD/Halo fans would go through a similiar exodus.
I’m sure they will. It’s almost more about the time you play the games, than the actual game itself
The nostalgia bubble has actually ruined the feelings I had towards my fond memories.
Try not to let it do that. The good times are a blessing to have had.
That makes not much sense anyway as Nostalgia IS Fond memories or Feelings
@ what I mean is, I’ve seen so much nostalgia-centered content in such a short period of time, that the emotional response I used to have to it has become lessened. It doesn’t hit like it used to.
Simply. Great video.
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The change from Halo 3's art style it took everything away. Halo 4 was a mix of Reach and a new engine which really made it hurt even more. Halo Infinite did a decent job. The gameplay wasnt the same sadly from anything
This was a very interesting video and I've been thinking about this as well. For the most part I don't get nostalgic about the past because I enjoy my life now far more than I ever enjoyed my childhood (that's not to say I didn't have some good memories). But sometimes I'll look back on period of time in my early adulthood when i lived in Vietnam for 6 years and I'll catch myself getting nostalgic for that time or for a girl I dated. But when I really think about it, I wasn't always happy during that time (even though it was an amazing time in my life). The funny part is at that time I was hungering for the kind of life I have right now. And the girl I get nostalgic about...I actually had several chances to be in a relationship with her but I refused all those times. I feel like what we miss is *not* the actual time, the person, or the moment that happened, but we miss how we felt in that moment, how we were actually approaching life - how we were growing as a person, making new friends, exploring new aspects of life, forming new relationships, and the meaning all these things gave us at the time. Because if we try to go back...all the magic that was there is now gone. Because it's over. That magic is elsewhere.
While Vietnam is always going to be a part of me and I'll go back to visit, I know that part of my life is over. And it's really the feeling of living in a new country, growing as a person, making new friends, and living the *adventure* of my life that breathes the magic I felt into my life. And in doing so, I get to keep my childhood sense of wonder, joy, and play alongside hard earned wisdom & maturity as well.
Love the video as usual, got me thinking, and I'll send it to my girl like I've done in the past. Keep up the awesome work!
Thanks for sharing! Nostalgia is such a weird thing.
It is interesting having to explain to people that : "talking to people on the internet was once a new and exciting thing."
We have come a long way since then.
That’s the truth lol. It used to be crazy.
@ClassicHaloCommentary Why we chase the dragon in nostalgia is much to do with participating in the process of what a golden era is : the climb to the plateau.
We existed in the era where entire genres were born. It's always missing the fascinating flash of the lightning, because you expect the thunder.
Dat Ambient Wonder at the end yeah life’s been going to shit, but that song will forever make me feel a certain way also amazing video 🤟
It’s my favorite halo song
It's about time someone finally realises it lol.
i just refuse to get attached to any game/movie/show anymore. these companies get away with way too much simply off of nostalgia...especially in the past few years.
I couldn’t agree more. Nostalgia milking
At least we got to experience it while it was fun 🤧
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100% agree, even though games are made to be profitable in another way now, its more that we had more time back then and now we can play for maybe an hour and there o guys from the OG squad online.
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hey man just discovered your channel and I wanted to say I'm glad you're making these types of videos. I've had thoughts about doing something similar myself, just verbally processing general life events while playing an old comfort game.
max stirner's 'the ego and it's own' book has a part in it that talks about how rationality and pragmatism is something that is thrust upon us in adulthood that basically kills our minds which were nothing but a world of pure thought. What i find interesting about that is that it may not be just getting older, but the world's pressures on us. Now that sounds obvious but it is a key distinction. Is it just an organic part of getting older, that is would it have happened regardless of circumstances. or is it just because of the outside world? if it's the latter that means that it could hypothetically be reclaimed.
That would make a lot of sense. I like that theory.
Oh man, Halo and Christmas have been utterly destroyed for me. Halo (no explanation needed. It's just changed a lot for the better and worse,) and after working retail for a few years... Yikes. All the fun and energy is just gone. It sucks, I can't wait for in 10 or so years when I spawn in some poor schmuck(s) to finally take fun seriously again because I miss it.
I feel you. It took me awhile to find that Christmas magic again.
I’ll admit, yes some things will not be the same, 3 years ago when infinite came out that was the first time in years I was excited for a video game. Don’t lose optimism you just never know sometimes
This video is going to blow up. I can feel it
You never know lol.
Honestly sometimes I get giddy for a new game or something and looking back the highs feel about the same. I think having a lot of bad childhood memories helps temper my rose colored glasses in that sense. There are cynical/depressive thoughts 8yo me didn't have, but after getting out of my lowest point its pretty apparent I didn't fundamentally lose anything. I think we all just need to touch grass and take our meds lol. And if you REALLY wanna play Halo with that underdeveloped brain mindset, alcohol will do it in a pinch!
I still am a very nostalgic person. I do miss my childhood a lot. I'm 17 and for years I suffered so much mentally. Up until like somewhere at the beginning/end of last year I started questioning a lot of things. One of them being whether God is real or not. Like many people I knew about Jesus and all that growing but I never really got into it or really even believed it. About 3 years ago now I had a pretty bad breakup. For me it was like the literally end of the world. (First love type thing). Prior to the breakup I did overthink a bunch but afterwards.... man. I literally lived in my head 24/7. Obsessed with trying to fix the past. And that just heightened my overthinking and anxiety to a whole other level. Since than a lot of negative stuff happened but I won't go into detail. Around the beginning of this year/end of last year I started to question pretty much everything. One of them being whether God is real or not. Like many people I knew about Jesus and all that growing but I never really got into it or really even believed it. I started asking myself questions like, "If all this Jesus stuff isn't true then why is it after thousands of years still the world's biggest debate?" Anyways a while after I just started to trust in Jesus. And from there my life has changed significantly. I still worry and have anxiety, but I've found true peace in just simply trusting in God. I know it seems like it's possible to be real at first. But the good, good news is that it is. You might not understand now. We all suffer, and we all go through pain. But God doesn't want us to go through it alone. So please whoever is reading this. If you have all these questions about God. You have the power to google and research the answers. Jesus loves you, my friend. He really does. He saved me. He can save you too.
Funny I went through this exact same thing when I was 17, reading it felt like someone was describing my life back in those days. it's surreal. The only difference is that I made what now I believe was a mistake, I didn't choose God, I became an atheist, long story short the years that followed were the worst and saddest days of my life filled with non-stop depression, dread and anxiety where I was completely obsessed with the past and overthinking and felt completely alone, back in those days the thought that someone else could go through the same things was unthinkable to me and yet here is someone describing it to a tee, I guess we're never really alone or the only ones to go through this stuff we might just feel we're, especially at the moment where it's happening to us. Either way it was tough to get out of that hole I dug for myself, it took me a lot of time and effort but today I'm on much better place now and I was able to heal (I'm 32 now), it's interesting how a single decision can change your life completely and you might not even know it at the time.
All I can say it's always choose positivity, don't let the intrusive thoughts win as they say, don't overthink stuff, if trusting and believing in God gives you peace then you made the right choice, doubting things is natural and healthy but we can't let it consume us, we all have to make a stand and choose something to believe in otherwise you will always feel empty, I learned that the hard way.
@AJ-po6up I'm glad you are doing better. Life's one nutty thing man. I never thought I could move on from my past. I can't force you or sway you to believe in God. And I don't think your an evil person for not believing in Him. I hope you find God one day. Thanks for taking the time to read my comment and reply to me.
Holy Halo! Our winds strive trough the stars and propell all worthy along The Golden Path trough Order and Chaos, Expansion and Decay, Live and Death. A Holy Halo. A Beacon bright. Never starting, never ending... Allways present. 💙🙏🏼🤍
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It will never be the same but our love for halo always will.
They should just remaster the old halo games and throw servers back up so we can all play again
I look at halo games the way car enthusiasts look at abandoned cars.
Classic halo will always be amazing
I don't know why Halo fans are just now realizing this. I've realized it since 2014 and hadn't bought a Halo product since.
This video really isn’t about the halo franchise.
I think some magic can be recaptured more easily than you think. Playing custom games and I saw a mod stream of custom games that recapture the magic and bring something new that isn’t even AAA content. Honestly makes u feel like a kid again for a bit. New games have stupid things like cat ear skins and buggy game launches that ruin experiences. Some new fun can still be had like throwing fusion coils across the map. Grown adults experiencing things they have missed out on for the first time can also be great to experience
Many material things objectively were better when we were younger. Gen Z today has 90% less spending power than people in their 20s back in the 1960s and 70s. That is an objective fact, you can look it up. The quality of so much of what we buy is significantly lower than it was 25-40 years ago.
I couldn’t agree more with that
Diet Coke tastes awful
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Ikr I still wonder how some people like it and yet while I hate it my own sister adores it 🤷♂
@@AJ-po6up Neither do i
I do some older shit with my friends sometimes just because we can, meet up at each others houses and play some custom games on the 360, i run around with an old kodak camera almost as old as me recording at school or whatever just because i can and looking on the footage something was clear, it wasnt doing the old stuff or the old tech or whatever but what it really is was the people, interactions, and all of the situations which truly give off that “old school vibe” that people seem to be obsessed over and the technology doesnt even matter, i could have recorded in on my perfectly good phone and gotten the same result. The true “secret ingredient” to that nostalgic “vibe” or whatever people call it was just having fun which seems to be what the people truly yearned for, having a good time.
Anyways sorry for the long paragraph just wanted to talk about it have a good day
Also i wrote this while watching so i may have missed some points or whatever just wanted to share personal experience with this “subject”
It’s a good perspective and take on it. I agree. It’s about the vibes and the people.
I play halo now and it just doesnt hit the same as when I was a kid. I definitely feel worse and some of the magic is gone. I wish I knew what happened with me and this series
I think we just grew up, honestly.
I stopped playing online multiplayer games because of cheaters. It sucks... I used to love online multiplayer. Cheaters ruined the game for me. Why even try if it's possible for people to cheat? And of course everything you said. It truly won't be the same as it was in middle school, because it's too easy to cheat now, which takes the fun out of the game.
I honestly have been lucky to not run into a lot of cheating.
Being a boomer shooter guy and light gun guy, who only plays boomer shooters and light gun games, I'm just fine because I have lots of cool stuff to look forward to, with just banger after banger coming out. Furthermore, if I go back to all the older classic boomer shooter games like the QUAKE games or the DOOM games, or go back to all the older classic Light Gun games like the House of the Dead games or the Time Crisis games, they are all still just as fun as they were back when I first played them for the first time. Boomer Shooters and Light Gun games are timeless because you can play them 100 years from now, and still have lots of fun. So, I'm good.
My friend is massive into classic DOOM. Seeing him play all the fan made level packs is awesome.
@ClassicHaloCommentary Based. 🔥🔥🔥
Make public LAN parties a thing again.
Couldn’t agree more. Seeing the Halo 2 tourney take place a month or so ago was amazing.
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I just pick up 360s and small HDTVs at goodwill for $20-35 when they show up, now i have enough to go to the local game store in ocala and set up in the backroom. (Have not started yet but plan to next year) i figure if i pay them around $20 a session for the electricity and space (its free as a rule but my idea will eat up tables) they wont have an issue with me making it a weekly practice. Especially if it gets more butts in the door buying games cards tabletops and comics.
That's where you are wrong kiddo, coming back to BioShock 1/2, Halo C-E, Minecraft 1.6.4, COD: WAW, Sniper Elite V2/Zombies etc etc you get the jist of it, ALLWAYS feels like coming home and new games also could have and create that feeling ... if good new games ever would come out today ... but they don't. 😎👉👉
I enjoy old games still. But this video isn’t about video games
Playing MCC and playing a capture the flag match and being stuck unable to leave the beach for the 10th time on Last Resort cuz the team just camps the wall and shoots us. Custom games suck. No lobbies or mics. Console players like me having an inherent disadvantage against pc players who snipe me the very nanosecond i poke my head out of cover. Most matches being a sweat fest. None of my old friends being online anymore. Yeah, the past is done.
It sucks to hear that. Hopefully you can find some lobbies not like that.
Dude seriously, is this like some new endeavor from tates hustle club? Why are all these channels with the same premise popping up all over youtube
I have no clue what you’re talking about lol. I just like halo and talking about life stuff. What is tates hustle club?
People will never be over the 2005 to 2012 Call of Duty games! People will never be over the 2001 to 2012 Halo games because people cannot embrace the games of today! They struggle with change and only like game series at their most simplest incarnation! They can’t except the fact that games have to change and evolve! We all miss things from our childhood but we have to move on at some point because nothing stays the same!
This 100% sounds like a personal mental issue.
I don't love, like or care about halo anymore because i know for a fact there are freaks corrupting it from within.
But for the greater picture and the Potential of the Halo universe and games, it has been and continues to be extremely mismanaged.
These hopeless nostalgia videos are only for people to cope with a real loss.
I refuse to believe halo can't be as good as it was, realistically it can be and at the same time it wont be.
But to say its impossible is Hella delusional.
The video wasn’t about Halo as a franchise. It was about life in general.
>plays exact same games over and over again
>"gAmES AreNT fUn AnYmOrE!!!1111"
This isn’t about video games lol. I enjoy games all the time.
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What Cry babies !
Yes it’s called Time and growing up more But the thing is That FEEling WILL Stay with your Forever and You CAN retell it to others
Besides Halo Reach Sucked and Bungie lost their charm after Halo2 😊
I don’t know how this managed to make its way to me, I don’t have anything even halo adjacent in my algorithm and then this pops up and…. Damn man… I’ve definitely been feeling SOMETHING these past few years and it’s grown and tripled in size as I’ve gotten older…. Jaded and cynical to the point of hating everything about me and everything around me, I’ll have dreams sometimes where I’ll all of a sudden be a kid back in my first grade class room, still being fully aware of everything that happened the past 27 years, thinking about co workers and family and my kiddos right there in this dreamed up first grade class room as a kid again and I more often than not just finally settle on wondering if it’ll be mom or dad picking me up that day 😔
It seems a lot of people have the same sentiment. I hope it can get better for you.
Holy Halo! Our winds strive trough the stars and propell all worthy along The Golden Path trough Order and Chaos, Expansion and Decay, Live and Death. A Holy Halo. A Beacon bright. Never starting, never ending... Allways present. 💛❤️🤍💙🖤