I still like the piss filter in certain games like COD Modern Warfare because it added to the immersion of being in an area that's overall deserted of civilians and emphasizes the scope and environment of danger.
It weird, we barely recognised the piss filter at the time. We complained about it if they stopped using it. We complained when some games did use it again. Now every game kinda looks the same and most of them are forgettable. I want the piss filter era back. 😢
The thing is that MW2, unlike some games, only featured the filter in certain levels. It's called color correction and it's a genuine art to get right.
for me, its like your friends older brother. i grew up on the wii, and never had anything like that. it was the games i never were able to play. playing some stuff in rpcs3 was making me feel kinda nostalgic for it even tho i didnt really play that much of these types of titles i feel like was pretty much dead by the time the ps4 and xbone came out, like the last of us and gta5 didnt have this
I never hated the yellow "piss" filter. But it was definitely overused and became a generic AAA thing just for the sake of it. I think it worked well with the atmosphere of games like Fallout: New Vegas, and fitted Deus Ex: Human Revolution (despite many people hating it). I think the original looks better than the directors cut version where they removed it. But in many other cases it just felt bland and uninspired like the current trend of generic unreal engine photorealism look which makes every game look and feel the same.
Human Revolution is a very big exception to the trend indeed, as the Black/Gold aesthetic is present in every corner of it's art direction. It is very telling that the DC you mention exactly has the filter restoration as one of the more popular mods - made by a very accomplished person to boot.
Style is bad, because it takes talent and time. It's better to just shit out an overly colorful turd with not a single thought put into the style of it.
Yeah skylanders was so good i regret selling all of mine but thankfully there are shops close by which still sell them and i have bought just a few to play the games again
One gaming trope from the 2010s that i hope stays in the past are the forced walking/crawling sequences alot of the games had back then to hide the loading times. They were huge pace breakers
The other gaming trope from the 2010s that I want it back is loading times in cutscenes like in the original modern warfare trilogy, cuz I feel like games nowadays have loading times being separated from cutscenes, as opposed to them being together.
4:42 I honestly prefer the beta lighting of Undercover where it was more Blue-ish and white. I still really like the concept of that sunsoaked 2000s music video aesthetic of Undercover. Black Box's NFS games had really solid art direction and color palettes if you ask me.
I certainly don't miss the 7th Gen Piss Filter era. Some incredible games were released, but the grey/green/brown/yellow color pallette aged like milk.
I think you’re right about the new style being just as good, but the early seasons of fortnite battle royale just had a charm that they never quite mastered sunce
The "piss filter" was great and beautiful in most scenarios. Was it good in EVERY game? No. But most games used it well and it gets overhated just to be hated. It's useful for giving an artistic look to scenes. And also just good for the same reason even movies do this kind of thing, being that it's a game/movie. You can't use all five of your senses in something like this, and you can't always know everything. The visuals are one of the only ways to convey things, so you have to get creative with it. Use it as ways to feel the environment, to know the tone of how the situation feels. It's no different than how music when used right is used as introspection for a character's feelings whereas in a book where music/visuals aren't available, you get a direct look into the character's head. Different mediums have different constrictions and have different solutions for getting around them.
i kinda find it funny you spoke about fortnite becoming more realistic and talking about its "necassary" evolution it went through between chapters but only showed scenery of chapter 4 (IMO the highest graphical/art style peak whilst still remaining true to its cartoony style aesthetic) i think its because we can all agree chapter 5 doesnt really feel or look that appealing in a fortnite sense yes its impressive just how much detail you can see in the grass or distant buildings pixel by pixel theres probably twice as much or 2000000x more then chapter 1 but not really that important within a fortnite context we players dont particulary care about how many pixels you can fit on a screen we just enjoy the overall vibe and feeling if we wanted a realistic experience we'd play pubg COD or h1z1/tarkov we came to fortnite because it was so bold and yet so different on every sense.
I'm a big fan of edgey aesthetics and I have BIG love for the gray and piss filter era of games. Sometimes I wish some games were still made that way instead of all games competing to have the highest screen clutter and color saturation.
I really think one of if not THE biggest influencing factor of these era of games (around mw2 and even cod4) was the way lighting was done. It was real but it was like bloomed. Where it almost looked like how it looks in paintings with HOT white and yellow. Unlike today where it’s basically just like reality. But I think this is important because it almost instilled an element of “godliness” to the games. Where the lighting was almost akin to a painting or something you see in religious god imagery which HEIGHTENED the experience of the game. Not to be “real” but to be an “elevated” sense of reality. Almost idealized and immortalized Atleast that’s my thoughts. I know since lighting has become more “real” in my games a large part of my fantasy aspect has been lost
As an old gamer, 2010s is when gaming went mega corporate. Any elements of gaming still being a niche thing with unique creative ideas was completely gone. It was now razor focused to farm attention with multiplayer progression grinds, sell DLC and online becoming a requirement. Free to play games as a service absolutely exploded in popularity which made it hard for AA and indies to compete at budget price points when Free ate their market, graphics became super safe and similar. Now it's not all bad, free updates were amazing for non microtransaction payers, games were bigger and longer than ever with digital games becoming really cheap. However I still miss when games came near perfect in a box on day 1.
US wind waker hd box art is a nod to the original GameCube version’s box art in the US as well. It was all gold with an image of toon link on the king of red lions sailing.
Nfs most wanted piss filter was matching perfectly with the musics in the game, like blinded in chains (a7x) and Hand of blood (bfmv) was fitting so perfectly with the filter (in my opinion)
I actually loved the way the piss filter looked in New Vegas, and as a non-gamer (I play games occasionally and have been for many years, but I’m certainly not anything above casual) it wasn’t something I really noticed in other games before, but I do definitely understand how it can look out of place in other games and environments. I think it was a great tool, just overused and over saturated.
I feel like talking about 2010s games between 2010-2019 as one group makes less sense to me than talking about the 2007-2013 period I feel like world at war and battlefield 4 have more in common than fortnite and any game of the early 2010s The industry has changed too much in that decade, especially since it has seen 2 different console generations, the impact of which have been massive on how games look, feel, and are overall built
The piss filter actually does work in Fallout New Vegas with its post apocalyptic western type vibe. It's way more tolerable than the grayed out/ baby puke green aesthetic of fallout 3
I feel like 2010s wasnt the greatest decade of gaming as 90s and 00s gaming but at least there few great,fantastic and bad games out there. 2020s gaming may be slow or worst in the future.
I think distance has made the heart grow fonder for piss filters, as I recently played a ps3 game and because it wasn't the 10th piss-colored game I've played in a row, it was actually kind of refreshing.
Haha The most recent GTA game being featured in a retrospective is hilarious. Reminder: GTA V came out more than 11 years ago. I was 19 when GTA 5 came out. Now I'm 31.
I really don’t like how Fortnite is entirely sponsors and references now. Looked in the item shop recently and not a single original skin by epic, it was entirely celebrity cameos, a Nike sponsor, and default skin variants of the cameos
Remember when horror games back then looked realistic and gritty? Examples being, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Slender: The Arrival, Outlast and Outlast: Whistleblower, Cry of Fear, Five Nights at Freddy's and maybe even SOMA? Now, we have shit like Garten of BanBan. Truly an evolution.
Bro mouthwashing, Faith: the unholy trinity, buckshot roulette, signalis, crow country, visage, slay the princess, and even iron lung like bro how the hell indie horror is dying it’s only the mascot ones that are trash and not the hidden gems so plz if you think that indie horror is dying then I think your a dumbass
Not every indie horror game is filled with mascots like looks at this we have mouthwashing, slay the princess, buckshot roulette, inscription, hollowbody, faith: the unholy trinity, crow country, signalis, visage, lethal company, killer frequency, in sound mind, carrion, iron lung, nightmare in decay, and heck even puppet combo/chilla’s art games are better than this mascot horror slop like c’mon man if you looked closely through the horror genre on steam you could tell that there have been a lot of creative, fun, and unique ideas of a unique horror games
@@LucidNightmarez oh ok sorry abt that I hate when people are sometimes mostly ignorant or just hate indie horror in general so yeah and many games have been popular throughout the years and also I’m sorry for not handling the joke
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I still like the piss filter in certain games like COD Modern Warfare because it added to the immersion of being in an area that's overall deserted of civilians and emphasizes the scope and environment of danger.
Devs wanted it to always be "golden hour", but instead made it "golden shower" 😅
It weird, we barely recognised the piss filter at the time.
We complained about it if they stopped using it.
We complained when some games did use it again.
Now every game kinda looks the same and most of them are forgettable.
I want the piss filter era back. 😢
For me it created a contrast to all the colorful and vibrant kids games
The thing is that MW2, unlike some games, only featured the filter in certain levels. It's called color correction and it's a genuine art to get right.
for me, its like your friends older brother. i grew up on the wii, and never had anything like that. it was the games i never were able to play. playing some stuff in rpcs3 was making me feel kinda nostalgic for it even tho i didnt really play that much of these types of titles
i feel like was pretty much dead by the time the ps4 and xbone came out, like the last of us and gta5 didnt have this
I never hated the yellow "piss" filter. But it was definitely overused and became a generic AAA thing just for the sake of it. I think it worked well with the atmosphere of games like Fallout: New Vegas, and fitted Deus Ex: Human Revolution (despite many people hating it). I think the original looks better than the directors cut version where they removed it. But in many other cases it just felt bland and uninspired like the current trend of generic unreal engine photorealism look which makes every game look and feel the same.
Human Revolution is a very big exception to the trend indeed, as the Black/Gold aesthetic is present in every corner of it's art direction.
It is very telling that the DC you mention exactly has the filter restoration as one of the more popular mods - made by a very accomplished person to boot.
And there’s me with modded FNV with tint removing and all LOL
fnv looks like shit
"why did games have life and style back then?"
Style is bad, because it takes talent and time. It's better to just shit out an overly colorful turd with not a single thought put into the style of it.
@@imaginarymenageriemanager6303 We've only got two options for visuals in games now. Photorealism or Unreal Engine. Nothing else.
@@imaginarymenageriemanager6303 bingo.
how can someone look at gta 4 and say the words "life"???
@@imjonathan6745 GTA4 had style, 90% of modern games do not.
Having golden box art is the longest running Zelda tradition
>2010s
>only slightly mentions GTA V
>talks about Fortnite instead
Epic troll moment
GTA 5 is probably the first GTA with a very generic style. It's just realistic without a distinctive feeling IMO
You so did not just tell kids to look up "fortnite rule 34"...... Savage.... "More detail" is wild
😭😭 that shit was so random
HA! JOKES ON YOU IM INTO THAT SHIT AND EVEN WORSE THAN THAT!
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@@adamlazic493fym worse?
Man opened the video with skylanders, which instantly unlocked my memories
Yeah skylanders was so good i regret selling all of mine but thankfully there are shops close by which still sell them and i have bought just a few to play the games again
For me it was Lego Dimensions, what a game
@@Gorilla7738I started playing Giants again it's so good
I forgot all about skylanders untill i saw this video
19:13 bro you are unhinged for that lol. Some poor kids actually gonna fall for it
Not really poor kids, but moreso Redditors
@@VyxiMainchannel35 redditors totally know
@@AmyCherryLMAO Well Fortnite is Redditors' favorite game, so..
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You know what's crazy we're already halfway through this decade it's almost been 15 years since 2010
6:06 five nights at Diddy's?🤣
W ryai
One gaming trope from the 2010s that i hope stays in the past are the forced walking/crawling sequences alot of the games had back then to hide the loading times. They were huge pace breakers
The other gaming trope from the 2010s that I want it back is loading times in cutscenes like in the original modern warfare trilogy, cuz I feel like games nowadays have loading times being separated from cutscenes, as opposed to them being together.
Ben Quadinaros jump scare lmaooo
The Newest big video essayist is back! Can't wait for you to reach 100K
Thanks legend 100k would be crazy
4:42 I honestly prefer the beta lighting of Undercover where it was more Blue-ish and white. I still really like the concept of that sunsoaked 2000s music video aesthetic of Undercover. Black Box's NFS games had really solid art direction and color palettes if you ask me.
I liked how warm it made the game feel 😊 it was cozy like a warm summer day. In contrast i really liked how dark and edgy NFS Carbon was.
[minecraft music plays as I cry]
🥲🥲
Great video, thank you for memorizing my nostalgic childhood
To be fair, you can get everything in My Singing Monsters without spending diamonds; It's all about patience.
My singing monsters is goated, was a grind but collecting rares etc was so satisfying
@ExtraMintyy Yep
this is one of my favorite channels on youtube.
Thanks so much 💯
I think the filter works well for fallout 3 and NV but is a bit strong at times. It makes them feel irradiated/dusty
Agreed
Fallout 3 doesn’t have the yellow filter. It has a green filter
opening the video with skylanders is diabolical
I certainly don't miss the 7th Gen Piss Filter era. Some incredible games were released, but the grey/green/brown/yellow color pallette aged like milk.
its more apt to say, aged like piss
I think you’re right about the new style being just as good, but the early seasons of fortnite battle royale just had a charm that they never quite mastered sunce
I miss the old games from 2010s
The piss filter in Fallout NV was a beautiful upgrade from the puke green filter in Fallout 3
The "piss filter" was great and beautiful in most scenarios. Was it good in EVERY game? No. But most games used it well and it gets overhated just to be hated. It's useful for giving an artistic look to scenes. And also just good for the same reason even movies do this kind of thing, being that it's a game/movie. You can't use all five of your senses in something like this, and you can't always know everything. The visuals are one of the only ways to convey things, so you have to get creative with it. Use it as ways to feel the environment, to know the tone of how the situation feels. It's no different than how music when used right is used as introspection for a character's feelings whereas in a book where music/visuals aren't available, you get a direct look into the character's head. Different mediums have different constrictions and have different solutions for getting around them.
0:33 turn on captions
Those mountain jews love their dreidels
Oy vey
Very nice
Being 16 years old and playing god of war, red dead redemption 2 was awesome
i kinda find it funny you spoke about fortnite becoming more realistic and talking about its "necassary" evolution it went through between chapters but only showed scenery of chapter 4 (IMO the highest graphical/art style peak whilst still remaining true to its cartoony style aesthetic) i think its because we can all agree chapter 5 doesnt really feel or look that appealing in a fortnite sense yes its impressive just how much detail you can see in the grass or distant buildings pixel by pixel theres probably twice as much or 2000000x more then chapter 1 but not really that important within a fortnite context we players dont particulary care about how many pixels you can fit on a screen we just enjoy the overall vibe and feeling if we wanted a realistic experience we'd play pubg COD or h1z1/tarkov we came to fortnite because it was so bold and yet so different on every sense.
3:08 what an excellent video on display at this timestamp that I have no bias or vested interest in
nice video also, especially love the pee filter discussion, thanks for the little inclusion ;3
Ayyy thanks bro I appreciate it. Love your work 💯
I'm a big fan of edgey aesthetics and I have BIG love for the gray and piss filter era of games. Sometimes I wish some games were still made that way instead of all games competing to have the highest screen clutter and color saturation.
17:10 what was this game called??
This brings back so many memories.
Doodle jump was the goat tho on my old LG Cookie
Crossy roads I believe
I really think one of if not THE biggest influencing factor of these era of games (around mw2 and even cod4) was the way lighting was done. It was real but it was like bloomed. Where it almost looked like how it looks in paintings with HOT white and yellow. Unlike today where it’s basically just like reality.
But I think this is important because it almost instilled an element of “godliness” to the games. Where the lighting was almost akin to a painting or something you see in religious god imagery which HEIGHTENED the experience of the game. Not to be “real” but to be an “elevated” sense of reality. Almost idealized and immortalized
Atleast that’s my thoughts. I know since lighting has become more “real” in my games a large part of my fantasy aspect has been lost
As an old gamer, 2010s is when gaming went mega corporate. Any elements of gaming still being a niche thing with unique creative ideas was completely gone. It was now razor focused to farm attention with multiplayer progression grinds, sell DLC and online becoming a requirement. Free to play games as a service absolutely exploded in popularity which made it hard for AA and indies to compete at budget price points when Free ate their market, graphics became super safe and similar. Now it's not all bad, free updates were amazing for non microtransaction payers, games were bigger and longer than ever with digital games becoming really cheap. However I still miss when games came near perfect in a box on day 1.
Do NOT look up Fortnite rule 34
Why not
Those who nose💀💀💀🥶
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@@Lil_Sobo yro’ue*
US wind waker hd box art is a nod to the original GameCube version’s box art in the US as well. It was all gold with an image of toon link on the king of red lions sailing.
0:05 lawrence albert connor reference is crazy work
i just recently found your channel and i absolutely love your videos, please keep making them
Metal Gear Solid 4 perfected the piss filter. It's my about it
The WW box art differences mirror the GCN box art differences. The US GCN box art was gold, and the JP GCN box art was colored
Ooh you doing sponsers now get that bag you legend
Aw, Gen 1 bioncles, I remember them. Their heads were my favorite chew toys.
I had a problem with chewing on plastic, and I still do.
Nfs most wanted piss filter was matching perfectly with the musics in the game, like blinded in chains (a7x) and Hand of blood (bfmv) was fitting so perfectly with the filter (in my opinion)
I like how every example in the thumbnail looked completely different from each other
3:12 holy shit I had completely forgot about UB funkeys. You just unlocked a memory I didn’t know I had
The fact that when talking about the kinect you said "if you were around back then" 😭
Love how the video length is exactly 20:10
Keep doing what you’re doing bro videos are class 100k soon 🫡
this video earned a sub! i love the format
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it
Pubg and dayz before the popularly of battle grounds games was a cool era definitely memorable to me.
i stopped paying attention for two seconds and instantly got jumpscared by ben quadinaros
Clicked because of 20:10 runtime
The wind waker box was changed because Zelda releases are often in gold cartridges, disks, or cases.
I miss the days of “holy shit I just got 1600 microsoft points for (holiday/birthday) I can’t wait to play more Xbox games”
man early 2010s when youtube was at it's peak with youtube rewind,pewdiepie,game rage,cod..ect
back when games wanted to be games
I actually loved the way the piss filter looked in New Vegas, and as a non-gamer (I play games occasionally and have been for many years, but I’m certainly not anything above casual) it wasn’t something I really noticed in other games before, but I do definitely understand how it can look out of place in other games and environments. I think it was a great tool, just overused and over saturated.
Get a grip nerd
13:47 Daggerfall mentioned!
I feel like talking about 2010s games between 2010-2019 as one group makes less sense to me than talking about the 2007-2013 period
I feel like world at war and battlefield 4 have more in common than fortnite and any game of the early 2010s
The industry has changed too much in that decade, especially since it has seen 2 different console generations, the impact of which have been massive on how games look, feel, and are overall built
Ohh those where the days... 😞
The piss filter actually does work in Fallout New Vegas with its post apocalyptic western type vibe. It's way more tolerable than the grayed out/ baby puke green aesthetic of fallout 3
I feel like 2010s wasnt the greatest decade of gaming as 90s and 00s gaming but at least there few great,fantastic and bad games out there. 2020s gaming may be slow or worst in the future.
90s gaming!?? I mean 90s is best decade but for gaming!?
@ yes people say that was true. The 90s was the greatest decade of gaming ever.
What do you mean “around for the Kinect’s release”? Are we for real doing that now? 💀
I liked the piss filter…. Sets the entire era apart from the rest. The games back then were more gritty and I appreciated it.
14:00 Ah yes, Fortnite : Save the world. The coop zombie tower defence game
Wow those Minecraft books took me bacc
The 2010's were truly a golden age.
I absolutely loved my Xbox Kinect for the 360 I played the hell outta that thing and it was amazing
I love everything with piss filter
You can do a dolphin dive 360 in call of duty Black ops six with the new movement system
FNAF definitely owes like 80% of its success to youtubers, the original Fnaf games were definitely very limited in what they offered.
I'm surprised you neglect to mention DLCs and it evolution. Heck that would be a good video. DLCs and Microtransactions.
MW2 and Minecraft came out in 2009
It was a beta for Minecraft
It’s about time
Why is 2020s look depressing and also the mobile games have no effort to be creative nowadays
I think distance has made the heart grow fonder for piss filters, as I recently played a ps3 game and because it wasn't the 10th piss-colored game I've played in a row, it was actually kind of refreshing.
I looked up Rule 34 Fortnite and I can't sleep now
OH MY SCIENCE FIVE NIGHTS AT RAPESON'S
Haha The most recent GTA game being featured in a retrospective is hilarious. Reminder: GTA V came out more than 11 years ago.
I was 19 when GTA 5 came out. Now I'm 31.
Fortnite used to have its own identity, now it's a live service Unreal Engine Tech Demo
Omg funkeys. I forgot all about those.
I actually do have all my skylanders 😭
Skylanders mentioned!
For me, the 2010s was the golden age of gaming. Good times!😊
the early mobile game era was peak
6:06 WHAT
Fnaf was released people didn’t know how big the franchise will be with books and a movie
I really don’t like how Fortnite is entirely sponsors and references now. Looked in the item shop recently and not a single original skin by epic, it was entirely celebrity cameos, a Nike sponsor, and default skin variants of the cameos
5 nights at cobsons mentioned. Gem
Honestly, toys to life had some more to do with this. The artstyle was practically CREATED to make toys. It’s simplistic.
Wait why are we already making videos about the 2010's, it wasn't that long ago guys come on
yall remember the og br of Minecraft hunger games ???
WARNING: may start randomly talking about the 2010's
Remember when horror games back then looked realistic and gritty? Examples being, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Slender: The Arrival, Outlast and Outlast: Whistleblower, Cry of Fear, Five Nights at Freddy's and maybe even SOMA? Now, we have shit like Garten of BanBan. Truly an evolution.
Bro mouthwashing, Faith: the unholy trinity, buckshot roulette, signalis, crow country, visage, slay the princess, and even iron lung like bro how the hell indie horror is dying it’s only the mascot ones that are trash and not the hidden gems so plz if you think that indie horror is dying then I think your a dumbass
Not every indie horror game is filled with mascots like looks at this we have mouthwashing, slay the princess, buckshot roulette, inscription, hollowbody, faith: the unholy trinity, crow country, signalis, visage, lethal company, killer frequency, in sound mind, carrion, iron lung, nightmare in decay, and heck even puppet combo/chilla’s art games are better than this mascot horror slop like c’mon man if you looked closely through the horror genre on steam you could tell that there have been a lot of creative, fun, and unique ideas of a unique horror games
@AquilesThaGoat It was just a joke bro...
@@LucidNightmarez oh ok sorry abt that I hate when people are sometimes mostly ignorant or just hate indie horror in general so yeah and many games have been popular throughout the years and also I’m sorry for not handling the joke
@AquilesThaGoat I accept your apology. Also I fucking love buckshot roulette.
Even the video is 20:10 min long
There are no accidents 💯
Because games were actually just games?
Pixel art is low cost but high skill and time based is how I see it
minecraft is not a game of the 2010s i mean its full release date was in the 2010s but its early release was in the 2000s
man ii was not even born in the 2000s
Ah yes i love brown filter gaming
Yes I still have them they're in storage
Edit: I still have Skylanders