All these fames got vr mod portal 2 Half-Life Half-Life 2 (and sequels) Deep Rock Galactic Minecraft Jedi Academy Risk of Rain 2 Gamecube emulator (Dolphin VR) Metal: Hellsinger Valheim All modern Resident Evil games/remakes (except 4 which should be coming out soon) Dark Souls Remastered Cyberpunk 2077 Final Fantasy VII Remake Ghost Runner Elden Ring Ghostwire: Tokyo Horizon: Zero Dawn No One Lives Forever 2 Stray Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered Marvel’s Spider-Man Miles Morales Grounded Red Dead Redemption 2 (Old version) GTA V (Old version) RDR2 (Old version) Mafia Trilogy Remake (Old version) Left 4 Dead 2 Life is Strange: Before The Storm - Dawn VR Alien: Isolation - MotherVR The Stanley Parable - StanleyVR Valheim - VHVR Risk of Rain 2 - Drbibop The Outer Wilds - Nomai VR Deep Rock Galactic - VRG Firewatch - TwoForksVR GTFO - VR plugin Dead By Daylight (Private Server) Hogwarts Legacy Mirror 2: Project X Satisfactory It Takes Two STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order Stray Squad Astroneer Borderlands 3 Mordhau Ready Or Not SCUM Conan Exiles The Isle Tekken 7 eFootball 2023 Poppy Playtime Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice OUTRIDERS Dragon Ball FighterZ Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach Grounded Days Gone Remnant From The Ashes State of Decay 2 Ghostrunner Code Vein Little Nightmares Back 4 Blood Brick Rigs Bright Memory: Infinite Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot What Remains of Edith Finch Life is Strange 2 Foxhole ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- The Callisto Protocol Medieval Dynasty Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Remnant II ENDER LILIES Little Nightmares II Tales of Arise 死寂（Deathly Stillness） One-armed cook Hydroneer ABZÛ FPS Chess Aliens: Fireteam Elite GEARS 5 PAYDAY 3 Tropico 6 The Ascent Gas Station Simulator Atomic Heart Dark Deception Ground Branch Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet Vampyr Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles Hi-Fi RUSH Tribes of Midgard Final Fantasy VII Remake: Intergrade Hatred Witch It Sword and Fairy 7 Omega Strikers Biomutant The Day Before SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated Scarlet Nexus Subverse We Happy Few Dark and Light Choo-Choo Charles Gotham Knights Terminator Resistance Octopath Traveler Torchlight 3 Spyro Reignited Trilogy Darksiders III Ghostwire: Tokyo Life is Strange: True Colors Session: Skate Sim Operation: Harsh Doorstop High On Life BPM: Bullets Per Minute Marauders Ruiner Chernobylite Enhanced Edition POSTAL 4: No Regerts Xuan-Yuan Sword VII Maneater Darksiders Genesis Empires of the Undergrowth Tiny Tina's Wonderland MechWarrior 5 SOULCALIBUR VI Orcs Must Die! 3 Kena: Bridge Of Spirits Marvel's Midnight Suns Call of Cthulhu Scorn The Forgotten City Psychonauts 2 Destroy All Humans! Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 Slender: The Arrival Torchlight: Infinite The Beast Inside Six Days in Fallujah The Vagrant Space Hulk: Deathwing - Enhanced Edition Aliens: Dark Descent Minecraft Dungeons Tower of Fantasy Ride 4 Octopath Traveler II Azur Lane: Crosswave Wandering Sword Fernbus Simulator Visage Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey Predecessor Gears Tactics DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age
The first half of this video is very painfully obvious cherry-picking, comparing the worst recent games vs the best older games to try to push the narrative of "old good, new bad". Comparing The Finals to Far Cry 2, Resident Evil 4 to...Unknown 9?? Second half is you focusing on specific companies that are failing to live up to their old titles, which is fair, but it just feels very pessimistic to only focus on the bad games of recent years. There's still plenty of amazing titles coming out like Baldur's Gate, Yakuza, Death Stranding, Elden Ring, way too many to list.
Miss the days when the games were COMPLETE. No DLC BS, and even if they wanted to push a DLC, it'd just be a small expansion or something (for the most part). Games were not that easy to break, and not saying that they're immune to it, but at least they weren't bug-riddled messes that the 'live serving model' is then brought in to 'fix' those.
Games have become bloated with hyper realistic graphics, 4k textures everywhere, thousands of pollygons for the smallest of models and yet they regressed in the physics and simulation aspect that made these older games fun to play AND look at
@@としあき-x8u in my eyes 2 and 3 feels and looks like completely different games theryre nowhere near 1 in terms of atmosphere aswell F.E.A.R 1 Standalone with dlc is its own thing game like that hasn't been made again...
@@としあき-x8u FEAR 2 was made partially by a different studio, FEAR 3 by a totally different one. You may notice that the hospital and school levels in FEAR 2 were made by monolith and the other unmemorable ones are basically a B-studio invention. The FEAR 1 expansions were also made by a different studio but those guys had a much better grasp on what made the game good, and went with it.
The Saints Row section was sad to watch. Used to be a great alternative to GTA and has now been neutered to be just another generic action game with cringe humor.
@@berserkronald7008 saints row 2 is legendary. so MUCH content, such a great character creation engine. forget all the new ones, they should do a remake of this with all features intact. Or at least it would be nice, but with the modern devs, they'd screw it up.
@@DrundeFPS They were made with passion money was secondary it was a complete experience with no dlcs but some got expansions and free patches (since late 90s), while now they think about how to overly monetize game FIRST and then deliver a semi playable game that is pretty much a $70 early access game that is broken at launch and with full dlcs that were cut from the game and sold separately
I started with goldeneye on the n64 and here I am today. Without going into long winded detail, we absolutely have regressed or at minimum have been stagnant for a decade or so now
Calling games a "sport" was our first biggest mistake No, sorry, I love tournaments and competition I'm not doing a sport either eSport also ruined fighting games since thousands of casuals came by, expecting to be the next Evo Moment 37 makers and because they found out our games were hard, devs made everything to appeal them
It's good if you are actually trying to tightly design a game in that way, but we also need room for the spectacle and interactive games. Not everything needed to be a sweat fest shooter.
The Finals is probably the only modern day game with good destruction physics and even then it's not even AAA it's an Indie game made by a smaller studio of ex AAA devs
I renember back then i was marveled at how incredible the graphics,physics and details on these games were and fantasizing about how much better they would be on the future... Well looks like we were at the peak already.
Same, i remember watching my bigger brother play hl2 and crysis on his pc back in 2006-2007 and i was wondering about how cool games will be in the future. Ffw a couple years and I’m playing masterpieces like bf3 and black ops, so my wish kinda became true
I played videogames since the early '90s and I got to tell you: gaming peaked in the early 2000s. Everything after that is just a disgrace. Today the medium has been totally corporatized by big companies whose CEOs know nothing about gaming. Games today have no soul, no ambition, nothing. It's all empty and souless corporate shit.
This whole video shows what video games were in late 90s and early 2000s. Games were built different in 2000s compared to Video games nowadays. Everything is F2P , micro transactions to mid-gen refresh. Today’s era in video games are so dumb down it’s upsetting 😢. Love the video mawk❤❤❤
@@samzony artisan - "a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand." Like professional woodworkers that charge a grand for a varnished plank, those are the people I generally mean. (varnish is nice finish for wood)
Last really good game that I played was Armored Core 6. But Fromsoft is literally the only devs who seriously want to make games and it's Japan devs. Western gamedev is 99% slop.
Who would have thought that the limitations actually, tangibly spawned creativity, today not only devs have infinite resources but also miserably fail at being artists.
The extremely complex models, shaders, and textures that devs commit to really hamper their ability to contort facial flexes. They try to make faces look "real" without giving them actual movement and expression. Just look at older horror games with character models and monsters having their whole shapes contort and move and get mutated with complex animations. Instead, we get overly detailed static meshes for everything that the devs just can't actively work with. Instead, they have to cut the camera away during moments to hide the fact they can't animate complex motion.
What? Plenty of games have highly detailed models and still exhibit complex facial expressions. Not every game is a modern ubi game. Look at the last of us, uncharted, rdr2, ghost of tsushima, ratchet and clank, stellar blade, infamous second son, spiderman, Detroit become human, all the dark picture games, the yakuza/like a dragon games, FF16, FF7 remake, the re remakes, and silent hill 2 remake. And That's just big studio games off the top of my head.
2003 to 2011 is the absolute peak of the game industry. It's not close. It won't eve be that good again. Sad. But true. Being a late teen and early 20s man in this era truly was a godsend if you were a gamer. Greatest times of my life really. And gaming was a major reason why.
Such a great video bro. Watched the whole thing. I’m so happy you took a huge dump all over the new “Saints Row” while also highlighting just how special the original 1 & 2 were and still are today. Also loved how you included Fear, Bad Company, Red Faction Guerrilla, Far Cry 2 & Crysis. All phenomenal games that I still play to this day. They truly don’t make games anymore with the same amount of effort and creativity & you put it all on full display. Glad I got to live through the golden era of gaming when I was a teenager. Respect.
It's clear as day, games were better in the 2000's. I mean Far Cry 2 has more details than Far Cry 6. Gaming is pathetic today, and this current generation blows by the way. I have not seen many good games for the PS5 or XB series and we are more than half way through the generation. I am happy staying on XB one, PS4, PS3, PS2 , PS1 and OG Xbox also Gamecube. Nice video, it really paints a clear picture of how dire the gaming industry have become, it's important that we speak with our wallets until the industry stops treating us like fools.
Couldn's say it better myself. I thrive on emulation, everything up to and including PS3 and 360 can be reliably emulated on PC. All consoles and arcades on emulation plus all classic PC games from places like GOG and of course less legal places, and it is heaven.
I liked the ending a lot. There's a lot of garbage today, but even among that garbage, there will always be some gems still releasing, no matter how terrible the industry gets. Gaming is really negative these days, but I think that should be the prevailing message. Vote with your wallet, avoid the slop, only buy games that truly deserve your time and money. You only have so much of both.
Couldn't of have said it better. Games like Astro Bot & Space Marine 2 prove that despite how negative things are now, Good AAA still do exist! Thank you for watching BTW!
In my opinion, a game doesn't need to have crazy physics if they don't benefit gameplay. But some of the examples are just crazy, like, how can a simple thing like trees falling down became a thing of the past?
@@Agent56000 Quarter century older... Back in late 80s and early 90s there was a clear difference between computer games and console games. Console games were very childish and all arcade. But computer games, mainly in PC, started to be very ambitious. What I mean, computer games were increasingly made for adults. We have very hardcore gaming back then, like realistic military simulations, RPGs and strategy games. Casual games were story based puzzle adventures but they were often extremely well done. One of the reason was that PC was very expensive, that is used for work and gaming was option so the games were made for that audience. That golden era of gaming stopped when Playstation arrived and 3D-gaming started to be more common. Same games were made both consoles and computers, and hardcore games vanished. Also game developers often didn't know how to make 3D-games properly as technology became more common so many 90s 3D-games were garbage. Many of the all time best games were made to PC in early 90s. At one point in time, top games seemed to keep coming every month. I've still got archive of games that I haven't yet played from that era but are known to be top notch, so I will play them now when new game releases are micropayment garbage.
@@gruntaxeman3740 I feel jealous of you guys. You got to experience them. I was born in 2006, and I was about 16 years old when I got to know about consoles (I had very less exposure to gaming) But honestly, modern games suck, in the sense, most do. I prefer older games. Maybe from 2010 to 2015
@@Someone_2406 Early 2010s and late 00s was indeed great time. We got Stalker - shadow of chornobyl, Dead Space, GTA V, Europa Universalis IV... Excellent games. PC game development changed mid 90s when they started to make games to Windows, and that caused issue that isn't really solved. When Windows is changed, old games break and game developers don't fix them. Old console games and DOS era games (with DOSBox emulator) are more accessible. What I mean is that old games can be still experienced. Especially point and click genre because games were originally written to game engines with virtual machines, that are ported to modern computer so they can be played natively. Nearly every point and click adventure made by LucasArts is excellent game and some of them are remastered. GOG is also selling RPGs from that era like Betrayal at Krondor. If the old game hasn't been remastered, the low resolution on the big screen is annoying, so that may require to move the monitor further away. Upcoming Civilization VII is also game from 1991 with added mechanics and graphics. Early 90s military flight simulators suffered from old graphics. So even while they are playable, I would not touch them. They were anyway delivered back then with a thick physical manual, UI is weird and needed to keyboard layout somewhere and joystick to use that fighter, so the effort is no longer worth it to be able to simulate things with ugly 320x200 graphics. But, I wish we got that _mindset_ back and similar stuff with modern gaming technology.
UA-cam got sensitive and removed my comment for criticizing modern gaming and today's gamers so I just wanted to say that I loved this video and that you got some serious Crowbcat quality right there
I feel like I just found a new Crowbcat video. I love Show not Tell formats. Really sets it into stone how worse off we are when you can just look at a couple clips and see how backwards some of this stuff is
@@MAWK3This is seriously an eye opening video dude. It’s what happens when the people making the games are hired because they are “safe” picks and comply with the supposed “industry standard”. In layman’s terms, you hire a square to make games, you get boring games. All of the things that made games fun are fundamentally lost because the people who made the games back then weren’t the “safe” picks but rather people, who on a large scale, were ambassadors for the common man.
Things that I miss. -Splinter cell Convinction and Blacklist: Ai is actually making a search by walking room by room and looking behind possible cover. So basic yet ever since the release of blacklist in 2013 only watch dogs legion managed to get it right, Star wars Outlaws made by the same company messed it up. -Ai facial animations which actually looks right. Again last time I seen it done right in WD legions. -AI on the map actually doing something like gardening cooking or whatever and not just standing or walking. 2016 AC Unity did an impressive job, Watch dogs keept the basics and many game still sucking up with it. -AI actually communicating so that the other will respond or act the way being ordered/ asked and not just randomly chatting stuff. (See above) -Ai actually calling the other one out by name: Call of Duty Until Black ops. -Ai actually capable to tell the other where the player is located, Like "behind that car, On the second floor etc" which is criminally overlooked in stealth games. Last ever encountered this in Mercenaries 2. Ever since only Mirror's Edge Catalyst managed to get as far as giving a general "Up there!, above us, down there" chat.
Translated by Google: As a car enthusiast, what bothers me about the current generation of consoles is the absence and lack of major racing franchises on both consoles and PC. Where is Midnight Club? Where is Burnout? Where is Ridge Racer? Where is Driver? Where is Motorstorm? And other franchises that unfortunately remain discontinued from the PS3 and Xbox 360 era. And no, don't go saying ridiculous nonsense that racing and driving games are only for car enthusiasts because it's niche. That's a lie, racing and driving games (Arcade and simulator) are designed for everyone whether you are a car enthusiast or not.
Alot of my favourite games are from like 20 years ago that I still play. Star Wars Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy, Soldier of Fortune II, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, etc. I noticed alot are based on the quake 3 engine too lol
@@user-ne9sd4ow1o At some point i got out the paper with the written down cheats for the game and all i did was flattening every city i found. Just because it was possible. And i liked it. This sounds really wrong now. :D
Paid mods are just diabolical 😭 It’s crazy how different gaming is today compared to 10-15 years ago. Great fucking work brother, the hard work shows! I’m proud of ya 💯🔥✨
Every single thing needs to be monetized. And it's not just official mods but a lot of fan mods are hidden behind paywall. Want new outfits for MH World/Rise? They pay me $6 each month.
Yep. Game studios now are about making games pretty without much substance. It’s like if someone made the most delicious-looking meal possible but it tastes bland and makes you feel frustrated you spent your hard earned money on it in the first place.
This is what you get when fancy graphics are the pinnacle of technological evolution and not everything else that goes into making a good game. Ever wonder why graphics cards are as expensive as they have ever been, games are as unoptimized as they have ever been, yet all the marketing focuses on is on how good they all look? It's a ploy for consumers to buy worse games at higher prices that run worse to sell more hardware that will run them.
Lack of Time , Money and just pure incompetence. It feels like there are a lot of young devs who don't know any better. Who , after 15 years , is still left to teach them. the big nerds are all gone but these were the people that made the good games.
Modern AAA Games: Profits first, the moment it isn't profitable the cords are cut. Gameplay is designed by beancounters to maximize sales who define fun as a number, and reduce players to statistics. Risks aren't allowed, the only innovators are smaller studios who have to take risks to break, or make the market. Any semblance of risk is disguised as sequel to an existing franchise in the form of a spinoff, OR its a game that releases as an over saturated genre as a "safe" choice, OR its a remake, remaster, reimagining, redo, rerelease. 2000-2010 AAA Games: Developers controlled development, they took risks because they ultimately made games they wanted to make. If the gameplay before launch wasn't to their liking they changed it, but there wasn't necessarily the big publishers we know today meddling in the affairs of what they have no interest in. The market at this time is not nearly as over saturated as it is now. Even if the game wasn't "perfect" it still could sell. A large amount of the existing genres, and franchises can trace their roots back to this era for many now considered standard game mechanics. It wasn't all sunshine and rainbows though. This is also the era where live service started. With the internets speed being much more reliable for the average player to have, developers started the trend of post launch updates. This could be considered good if the game was unplayable at launch since they could deploy a patch to fix it. It also meant that nerfing/buffing for balance became much more common. Same with patching exploits. Finally, it became ever more easy for developers to see random peoples feedback, negative, or positive, for better, or for worse.
It’s so weird how companies with millions of dollars will make a cash grab or re release multiple versions of the same game. But some guy in a basement with just a computer can make a masterpiece of gaming!
Crazy how studios back then that's full of ppl who dedicated themselves to their craft can make a better game than today standards. Sure the graphics got better but less techniques are involved
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the reason why people gets so excited about remasters and even remakes. They miss those days and have this wish to come back to them.
PSA: Saints Row 2006 Still has an active online playerbase! Check them out here 👇
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Man where is vr games...
All these fames got vr mod
portal 2
Half-Life
Half-Life 2 (and sequels)
Deep Rock Galactic
Minecraft
Jedi Academy
Risk of Rain 2
Gamecube emulator (Dolphin VR)
Metal: Hellsinger
Valheim
All modern Resident Evil games/remakes (except 4 which should be coming out soon)
Dark Souls Remastered
Cyberpunk 2077
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Ghost Runner
Elden Ring
Ghostwire: Tokyo
Horizon: Zero Dawn
No One Lives Forever 2
Stray
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
Marvel’s Spider-Man Miles Morales
Grounded
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Old version)
GTA V (Old version)
RDR2 (Old version)
Mafia Trilogy Remake (Old version)
Left 4 Dead 2
Life is Strange: Before The Storm - Dawn VR
Alien: Isolation - MotherVR
The Stanley Parable - StanleyVR
Valheim - VHVR
Risk of Rain 2 - Drbibop
The Outer Wilds - Nomai VR
Deep Rock Galactic - VRG
Firewatch - TwoForksVR
GTFO - VR plugin
Dead By Daylight (Private Server)
Hogwarts Legacy
Mirror 2: Project X
Satisfactory
It Takes Two
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order
Stray
Squad
Astroneer
Borderlands 3
Mordhau
Ready Or Not
SCUM
Conan Exiles
The Isle
Tekken 7
eFootball 2023
Poppy Playtime
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
OUTRIDERS
Dragon Ball FighterZ
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
Grounded
Days Gone
Remnant From The Ashes
State of Decay 2
Ghostrunner
Code Vein
Little Nightmares
Back 4 Blood
Brick Rigs
Bright Memory: Infinite
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot
What Remains of Edith Finch
Life is Strange 2
Foxhole
ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN
GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-
The Callisto Protocol
Medieval Dynasty
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Remnant II
ENDER LILIES
Little Nightmares II
Tales of Arise
死寂（Deathly Stillness）
One-armed cook
Hydroneer
ABZÛ
FPS Chess
Aliens: Fireteam Elite
GEARS 5
PAYDAY 3
Tropico 6
The Ascent
Gas Station Simulator
Atomic Heart
Dark Deception
Ground Branch
Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet
Vampyr
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles
Hi-Fi RUSH
Tribes of Midgard
Final Fantasy VII Remake: Intergrade
Hatred
Witch It
Sword and Fairy 7
Omega Strikers
Biomutant
The Day Before
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated
Scarlet Nexus
Subverse
We Happy Few
Dark and Light
Choo-Choo Charles
Gotham Knights
Terminator Resistance
Octopath Traveler
Torchlight 3
Spyro Reignited Trilogy
Darksiders III
Ghostwire: Tokyo
Life is Strange: True Colors
Session: Skate Sim
Operation: Harsh Doorstop
High On Life
BPM: Bullets Per Minute
Marauders
Ruiner
Chernobylite Enhanced Edition
POSTAL 4: No Regerts
Xuan-Yuan Sword VII
Maneater
Darksiders Genesis
Empires of the Undergrowth
Tiny Tina's Wonderland
MechWarrior 5
SOULCALIBUR VI
Orcs Must Die! 3
Kena: Bridge Of Spirits
Marvel's Midnight Suns
Call of Cthulhu
Scorn
The Forgotten City
Psychonauts 2
Destroy All Humans!
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2
Slender: The Arrival
Torchlight: Infinite
The Beast Inside
Six Days in Fallujah
The Vagrant
Space Hulk: Deathwing - Enhanced Edition
Aliens: Dark Descent
Minecraft Dungeons
Tower of Fantasy
Ride 4
Octopath Traveler II
Azur Lane: Crosswave
Wandering Sword
Fernbus Simulator
Visage
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Predecessor
Gears Tactics
DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age
Bro i have to really say this: old games was really gold and a real gems, but the games now days since 2020 to now days really sucks up big time man
The first half of this video is very painfully obvious cherry-picking, comparing the worst recent games vs the best older games to try to push the narrative of "old good, new bad". Comparing The Finals to Far Cry 2, Resident Evil 4 to...Unknown 9??
Second half is you focusing on specific companies that are failing to live up to their old titles, which is fair, but it just feels very pessimistic to only focus on the bad games of recent years. There's still plenty of amazing titles coming out like Baldur's Gate, Yakuza, Death Stranding, Elden Ring, way too many to list.
Why aren't you using the OG PC version of Crysis?
Watching that ugly console look, abomination.
It's crazy to think the older games had better physics than modern games
Even ragdoll physics have been significantly downgraded in the past generations
@@MAWK3 honestly Rdr2 have good ragdoll physics
Yea Half-Life 2, Gta 4, and Red Faction Gruerilla had insane physics for their time. Now, most games' physics don't even come close.
And ai don’t forget about ai it’s so much worse these days
@@MAWK3black ops 6
I miss 2000s and early 2010s a LOT 😢
Thank god the games still exist, I've been replaying games from the 90s up to 2013 but not beyond that.
I miss the 2000s and 2010s the best times for gameing today sucks a..s for gameing😢
Back then it was all about turning your baby into ART
Today is all about turning your baby into MONEY
I wanna go back!
The golding age of gaming 1993-2013
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For me it's 1985 - 2013.
2016
Yessir the games of all time
Doom to GTA 5?
We had it so good. Physical media, tech pushing boundaries, offline SP and MP, no live service BS unless you were looking for it, good writing.
then... the marketing nation attacked.
physical media is garbage bro get off the galaxy gas
@@Padlock_Steve nice bait kid, but you have to try harder next time
@@JvanEditswouldn't have even entertained the idiot.
Miss the days when the games were COMPLETE. No DLC BS, and even if they wanted to push a DLC, it'd just be a small expansion or something (for the most part). Games were not that easy to break, and not saying that they're immune to it, but at least they weren't bug-riddled messes that the 'live serving model' is then brought in to 'fix' those.
Games have become bloated with hyper realistic graphics, 4k textures everywhere, thousands of pollygons for the smallest of models and yet they regressed in the physics and simulation aspect that made these older games fun to play AND look at
F.E.A.R is absolute masterpiece
even better than F.E.A.R 2 and 3 in many ways
@@としあき-x8u It is. Like Crysis 1 is also better than Crysis 2 and 3.
@@としあき-x8u in my eyes 2 and 3 feels and looks like completely different games theryre nowhere near 1 in terms of atmosphere aswell F.E.A.R 1 Standalone with dlc is its own thing game like that hasn't been made again...
@@としあき-x8u FEAR 2 was made partially by a different studio, FEAR 3 by a totally different one. You may notice that the hospital and school levels in FEAR 2 were made by monolith and the other unmemorable ones are basically a B-studio invention. The FEAR 1 expansions were also made by a different studio but those guys had a much better grasp on what made the game good, and went with it.
still playing this masterpeace,
modern fps games can't beat the F.E.A.R AI and its enganging combat
they are just braindead aim and shoot
To say the video game industry is in a dark state is an understatement
At least the mainstream games yes, but indie and smaller devs are still pushing out quality stuff.
@@UrbanDefenseSystems only indie studios have the ambition older AAA studios used to
Baldurs Gate 3 is good. Cyberpunk 2077 not on launch day. Honestly 2077 is prolly the new New Vegas with how much mods you can do.
The Saints Row section was sad to watch. Used to be a great alternative to GTA and has now been neutered to be just another generic action game with cringe humor.
Saints Row is my favorite open World game, mainly the 2nd.
@@berserkronald7008 saints row 2 is legendary. so MUCH content, such a great character creation engine. forget all the new ones, they should do a remake of this with all features intact.
Or at least it would be nice, but with the modern devs, they'd screw it up.
@@ministryofwrathtoo bad volition is gone now
@@berserkronald7008 2-nd game is first game in the series for me,and the best(but,i ain`t played first one,and all parts after 4-rd).
@@DgkYogi Shame for Red Faction,i hope another good company bought the franchise(Mindfish can do the trick,but it`s only a dreams)...
Older games were Art, newer games are a product.
Always has been
Older games- Made for fun
Newer games- Made for money
you are the proof gamers are delusional, you imply that old games aren't made for money, what i can expect from someone with a tf2 pfp.
@@DrundeFPS They were made with passion money was secondary it was a complete experience with no dlcs but some got expansions and free patches (since late 90s), while now they think about how to overly monetize game FIRST and then deliver a semi playable game that is pretty much a $70 early access game that is broken at launch and with full dlcs that were cut from the game and sold separately
@@Dregomz02 games back then was never made for money, they had a budget of millions for nothing, you all are the reason why the industry is dying lol
captalism created the gaming indstry and it is destroying it
Yeah, people in the past went to work to have fun. Makes total sense.
Remember when games let you play with Physics?
*Half-Life 2 remembers!*
Underrated Comment. I just watched the HL2 Anniversary video. Banger!
So you ignore Quantum Breaks or Alan Wake or Control for sake of nostalgic bias lol
Such a fucking good game!
Crysis and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic also remembers.
@@epicmetod 'Insert airplane-flying-over-head noise'
Crowbcat is born
Big ups Crowbcat!! Love his work
I just commented this
@@MAWK3he nitpicks idk how he is liked
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@@MAWK3 the resident evil 4 Video is literally just old bad new good
I started with goldeneye on the n64 and here I am today. Without going into long winded detail, we absolutely have regressed or at minimum have been stagnant for a decade or so now
Same Ted! That and Super Smash Bros on the 64. It's crazy how we went from Goldeneye in 1997 to Crysis in 2007. So much has changed it is Unreal.
@MAWK3 then from 2014 to 2024 I can't spot a single difference haha
Man get vr headset
@@gomersimpson777ram I got one lol
@TedFegal Watch Dogs 1 vs Outlaws would be interesting comparison!
cryengine is just a masterpiece.
Blame the esports community for suggesting to remove game physics on multiplayer games
esports people should go play real sports and stop being a cancer to the video game industry
Esport games never go out PC gaming community, Quake es the unique Real e sports
Calling games a "sport" was our first biggest mistake
No, sorry, I love tournaments and competition
I'm not doing a sport either
eSport also ruined fighting games since thousands of casuals came by, expecting to be the next Evo Moment 37 makers and because they found out our games were hard, devs made everything to appeal them
It's good if you are actually trying to tightly design a game in that way, but we also need room for the spectacle and interactive games. Not everything needed to be a sweat fest shooter.
@@radiantansel202 Share some brain damage for the rest of us goddam
The Finals is probably the only modern day game with good destruction physics
and even then it's not even AAA
it's an Indie game made by a smaller studio of ex AAA devs
The Finals destruction is cooking it, a breeze of fresh air in 2023.
Theyre the same devs from the old bad company games
@@AlgaeEater09 yes and they refined the destruction process.
I renember back then i was marveled at how incredible the graphics,physics and details on these games were and fantasizing about how much better they would be on the future...
Well looks like we were at the peak already.
Same, i remember watching my bigger brother play hl2 and crysis on his pc back in 2006-2007 and i was wondering about how cool games will be in the future.
Ffw a couple years and I’m playing masterpieces like bf3 and black ops, so my wish kinda became true
We had no idea we were living in the golden age and it's over now.. at least we were there to experience it while it happened. 🙁
Glad you didn't yeeted the poor bird in that Crysis clip, I know it must've took a lot of restraint
How were facial animations in Half Life 2 better than 90% of games today?
Even the tf2 ones are better
Style over substance man, always. Valve really knew what they were doing back in the day.
Honestly the destruction on The Finals Is absolutely crazy, shit can get obliterated within seconds.
I played videogames since the early '90s and I got to tell you: gaming peaked in the early 2000s. Everything after that is just a disgrace. Today the medium has been totally corporatized by big companies whose CEOs know nothing about gaming. Games today have no soul, no ambition, nothing. It's all empty and souless corporate shit.
I couldn't have said it better myself *High fucking Five* straight-up
Thats why i play indie
I see your icon is Commander Keen and can tell you're a man of culture
Somebody that speaks my thoughts. I remember things starting to easily go downhill since 2006.
COMMANDER KEEN?
This whole video shows what video games were in late 90s and early 2000s. Games were built different in 2000s compared to Video games nowadays. Everything is F2P , micro transactions to mid-gen refresh. Today’s era in video games are so dumb down it’s upsetting 😢.
Love the video mawk❤❤❤
It's definitely not the same anymore 😞 Thank you!!
Out of all the modern games, the finals actually does pretty well and actually feels like an upgrade
Out of all the modern game studios, Sony and Microsoft are active destroying gaming
Yep, but it's an unplayable sweatfest that feels like shit even when you're winning.
modern game development is Ikea furniture being presented and sold as proper artisan pieces.
What is artisan?
@@samzony artisan - "a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand."
Like professional woodworkers that charge a grand for a varnished plank, those are the people I generally mean.
(varnish is nice finish for wood)
@@RMDetho Oh I got it now!
Last really good game that I played was Armored Core 6. But Fromsoft is literally the only devs who seriously want to make games and it's Japan devs. Western gamedev is 99% slop.
Last western game was Cyberpunk 2077 and that's not even American or British
They are not "literally" the only ones. They are one of the few.
There's also Larian, for example.
And yet I'm still angry they had to nerf boss difficulties
Is always a joy to see a game studio that want to make games, and not a "cinematic experience"
Totally unbiased
Appreciate the effort you put into your work,man
Thank you Red!!
back then : few passionate people with brilliant ideas actually wanting to get something good out there. now: oh games = money glitch
Bet all the old games shown combined is still cheaper than $70
@@happybuggy1582 that as well !
Who would have thought that the limitations actually, tangibly spawned creativity, today not only devs have infinite resources but also miserably fail at being artists.
The extremely complex models, shaders, and textures that devs commit to really hamper their ability to contort facial flexes. They try to make faces look "real" without giving them actual movement and expression. Just look at older horror games with character models and monsters having their whole shapes contort and move and get mutated with complex animations. Instead, we get overly detailed static meshes for everything that the devs just can't actively work with. Instead, they have to cut the camera away during moments to hide the fact they can't animate complex motion.
I want a game with crazy real physics at the expense of ps3 graphics. Wouldn’t mind.
What? Plenty of games have highly detailed models and still exhibit complex facial expressions. Not every game is a modern ubi game. Look at the last of us, uncharted, rdr2, ghost of tsushima, ratchet and clank, stellar blade, infamous second son, spiderman, Detroit become human, all the dark picture games, the yakuza/like a dragon games, FF16, FF7 remake, the re remakes, and silent hill 2 remake. And That's just big studio games off the top of my head.
2003 to 2011 is the absolute peak of the game industry. It's not close. It won't eve be that good again. Sad. But true. Being a late teen and early 20s man in this era truly was a godsend if you were a gamer. Greatest times of my life really. And gaming was a major reason why.
R.i.p good days of old school gaming
R.i.p best days of almost 3 decades of life.😢
This video was well made and gets the point across
Such a great video bro. Watched the whole thing. I’m so happy you took a huge dump all over the new “Saints Row” while also highlighting just how special the original 1 & 2 were and still are today. Also loved how you included Fear, Bad Company, Red Faction Guerrilla, Far Cry 2 & Crysis. All phenomenal games that I still play to this day. They truly don’t make games anymore with the same amount of effort and creativity & you put it all on full display. Glad I got to live through the golden era of gaming when I was a teenager. Respect.
Thanks Madness man for the support! I felt as if the 2022 devs ignored a lot of what made the OG's so beloved. SR 2006 has aged very well to!!
It's clear as day, games were better in the 2000's. I mean Far Cry 2 has more details than Far Cry 6. Gaming is pathetic today, and this current generation blows by the way. I have not seen many good games for the PS5 or XB series and we are more than half way through the generation. I am happy staying on XB one, PS4, PS3, PS2 , PS1 and OG Xbox also Gamecube. Nice video, it really paints a clear picture of how dire the gaming industry have become, it's important that we speak with our wallets until the industry stops treating us like fools.
Couldn's say it better myself. I thrive on emulation, everything up to and including PS3 and 360 can be reliably emulated on PC. All consoles and arcades on emulation plus all classic PC games from places like GOG and of course less legal places, and it is heaven.
This is a great video, hopefully the next generation can have more competent game engines and developers.
Thanks dude! I fully agree
I never thought you would do this kind of video, it's pretty good.
Glad you liked it!
I liked the ending a lot.
There's a lot of garbage today, but even among that garbage, there will always be some gems still releasing, no matter how terrible the industry gets.
Gaming is really negative these days, but I think that should be the prevailing message. Vote with your wallet, avoid the slop, only buy games that truly deserve your time and money. You only have so much of both.
Couldn't of have said it better. Games like Astro Bot & Space Marine 2 prove that despite how negative things are now, Good AAA still do exist!
Thank you for watching BTW!
Just like before
In my opinion, a game doesn't need to have crazy physics if they don't benefit gameplay. But some of the examples are just crazy, like, how can a simple thing like trees falling down became a thing of the past?
That's because trees are made of "carbon credits" now. They only exist if corporate says they do.
0:21 For anyone wondering, this game is Shadowrun (2007), a now defunct multiplayer game.
One of my new favorite "Modern vs Traditional" gaming comparison videos. Excellent work
For me gaming from 2006 to 2014 was the bomb
That was great time.
Another good time was around 1990.
@ if you don’t mind how old are you. I was born mid 2000. Hence I wouldn’t know lol . Tell me what those days were like
@@Agent56000
Quarter century older...
Back in late 80s and early 90s there was a clear difference between computer games and console games. Console games were very childish and all arcade. But computer games, mainly in PC, started to be very ambitious.
What I mean, computer games were increasingly made for adults. We have very hardcore gaming back then, like realistic military simulations, RPGs and strategy games. Casual games were story based puzzle adventures but they were often extremely well done. One of the reason was that PC was very expensive, that is used for work and gaming was option so the games were made for that audience.
That golden era of gaming stopped when Playstation arrived and 3D-gaming started to be more common. Same games were made both consoles and computers, and hardcore games vanished. Also game developers often didn't know how to make 3D-games properly as technology became more common so many 90s 3D-games were garbage.
Many of the all time best games were made to PC in early 90s. At one point in time, top games seemed to keep coming every month. I've still got archive of games that I haven't yet played from that era but are known to be top notch, so I will play them now when new game releases are micropayment garbage.
@@gruntaxeman3740 I feel jealous of you guys. You got to experience them. I was born in 2006, and I was about 16 years old when I got to know about consoles (I had very less exposure to gaming)
But honestly, modern games suck, in the sense, most do. I prefer older games. Maybe from 2010 to 2015
@@Someone_2406
Early 2010s and late 00s was indeed great time. We got Stalker - shadow of chornobyl, Dead Space, GTA V, Europa Universalis IV... Excellent games.
PC game development changed mid 90s when they started to make games to Windows, and that caused issue that isn't really solved. When Windows is changed, old games break and game developers don't fix them. Old console games and DOS era games (with DOSBox emulator) are more accessible.
What I mean is that old games can be still experienced. Especially point and click genre because games were originally written to game engines with virtual machines, that are ported to modern computer so they can be played natively. Nearly every point and click adventure made by LucasArts is excellent game and some of them are remastered. GOG is also selling RPGs from that era like Betrayal at Krondor. If the old game hasn't been remastered, the low resolution on the big screen is annoying, so that may require to move the monitor further away. Upcoming Civilization VII is also game from 1991 with added mechanics and graphics.
Early 90s military flight simulators suffered from old graphics. So even while they are playable, I would not touch them. They were anyway delivered back then with a thick physical manual, UI is weird and needed to keyboard layout somewhere and joystick to use that fighter, so the effort is no longer worth it to be able to simulate things with ugly 320x200 graphics. But, I wish we got that _mindset_ back and similar stuff with modern gaming technology.
UA-cam got sensitive and removed my comment for criticizing modern gaming and today's gamers so I just wanted to say that I loved this video and that you got some serious Crowbcat quality right there
Thanks DJ! My goal was to aim for that while doing my own style into the mix
UA-cam actually censors if you insult gaymers, they treat them like a minority or endangered species LMFAO
Even better in a way because he actually promotes old games and explains why they were so good and updates us on their player count.
I got censored plenty of times myself recently.
@@TestamentFromTheForest UA-cam is trying to silence us unfortunately,they hate the truth
3:28 Black is my all time fav FPS game, thanks for including it in your list!
I feel like I just found a new Crowbcat video. I love Show not Tell formats. Really sets it into stone how worse off we are when you can just look at a couple clips and see how backwards some of this stuff is
Always online: So corporate can brag to their shareholders how many "daily active users" they have. 💀
Damn, 33 mins? You put effort into this my boi
Thank you Annie!! It took a lot of effort to get it right. 2 weeks ago, it was a complete mess 😅
@@MAWK3This is seriously an eye opening video dude. It’s what happens when the people making the games are hired because they are “safe” picks and comply with the supposed “industry standard”. In layman’s terms, you hire a square to make games, you get boring games. All of the things that made games fun are fundamentally lost because the people who made the games back then weren’t the “safe” picks but rather people, who on a large scale, were ambassadors for the common man.
I still play the following games. Old school and to the point:
Gears 3
CoD4
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
L4D2
Halo 2 PC
Metro Trilogy
nice man
i think i will do the same and replay some of those titles
Underrated video, great job.
Things that I miss.
-Splinter cell Convinction and Blacklist: Ai is actually making a search by walking room by room and looking behind possible cover. So basic yet ever since the release of blacklist in 2013 only watch dogs legion managed to get it right, Star wars Outlaws made by the same company messed it up.
-Ai facial animations which actually looks right. Again last time I seen it done right in WD legions.
-AI on the map actually doing something like gardening cooking or whatever and not just standing or walking. 2016 AC Unity did an impressive job, Watch dogs keept the basics and many game still sucking up with it.
-AI actually communicating so that the other will respond or act the way being ordered/ asked and not just randomly chatting stuff. (See above)
-Ai actually calling the other one out by name: Call of Duty Until Black ops.
-Ai actually capable to tell the other where the player is located, Like "behind that car, On the second floor etc" which is criminally overlooked in stealth games. Last ever encountered this in Mercenaries 2. Ever since only Mirror's Edge Catalyst managed to get as far as giving a general "Up there!, above us, down there" chat.
Translated by Google:
As a car enthusiast, what bothers me about the current generation of consoles is the absence and lack of major racing franchises on both consoles and PC.
Where is Midnight Club?
Where is Burnout?
Where is Ridge Racer?
Where is Driver?
Where is Motorstorm?
And other franchises that unfortunately remain discontinued from the PS3 and Xbox 360 era.
And no, don't go saying ridiculous nonsense that racing and driving games are only for car enthusiasts because it's niche. That's a lie, racing and driving games (Arcade and simulator) are designed for everyone whether you are a car enthusiast or not.
Awesome video!
Thank you Harvey! Means a lot dude 🎉
Old games always great i hope gamers loving it forever
2008 was a notable year in gaming for me. It was the first time I saw the physics in GTA4 which blew me away and then Force Unleashed came after
Content right on par with crowbcat.
Means a lot! That was my goal for the video 😅
Alot of my favourite games are from like 20 years ago that I still play. Star Wars Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy, Soldier of Fortune II, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, etc. I noticed alot are based on the quake 3 engine too lol
Jedi Academy was so damn good man. I used to play that on my OG xbox back in the day!!
Games just dont have that "lived in" world feel anymore
Man that Crackdown Music when showing red Faction, Crackdown and Mercenaries 1. Loved all those games
Mercenaries 1 is the most fun you can have In a grey depressing open world! The feeling of misery is unmatched. They really captured North Korea 😅
@@user-ne9sd4ow1o At some point i got out the paper with the written down cheats for the game and all i did was flattening every city i found. Just because it was possible. And i liked it. This sounds really wrong now. :D
In some ways modern AAA games are better but old AAA games still mop the floor with them.
You've managed to nail the point that games haven't been good for a long time
Thanks!!
Paid mods are just diabolical 😭 It’s crazy how different gaming is today compared to 10-15 years ago.
Great fucking work brother, the hard work shows! I’m proud of ya 💯🔥✨
100% paid mods should of never been a thing. Thanks brethen!! Apreicate you, looking forward to your new video!! 🔥
what about Total Conversions (if you even know what that mean)? They put a lot of effort and are basically new games.
Every single thing needs to be monetized. And it's not just official mods but a lot of fan mods are hidden behind paywall. Want new outfits for MH World/Rise? They pay me $6 each month.
A lot of love and dedication was shown to older games
Yep. Game studios now are about making games pretty without much substance. It’s like if someone made the most delicious-looking meal possible but it tastes bland and makes you feel frustrated you spent your hard earned money on it in the first place.
Now it’s all corporate no innovation
this is part of the reason why i will probably stop buying newer game
Ghost recon phantom was one game i wanted to play, then when I had the chance the server were down :(
Opening with the Crackdown 1 theme oof hitting me right in the nostalgia.
Perfect Timing Baby!!!
Big Ups BigBoss!!
All thoes "AAA" fps shooter games from 2020-2024 look all the same bruh can't event tell which is which
Fr man
I like how you've been kind of objective and still showed when a newer game has a cool detail compared to the old ones
Gotta keep it balanced! I thought the finals had exceptional destruction mechanics
Freaking excellent video dude! Like a fever dream the beginning
Excellent video👌
Thanks Cursed!!
Greed ruined it all
The imagination and sheer talent the devs had back then was truly amazing.
i rarely comment on videos, but god damn! This was a great one man. Love the attention to detail. keep it up
you earned a new subscriber for sure
Thanks man! Means a lot 😊🙏
The new Crowbcat
Big Ups Crowbcat 🙏🔥
There was a time of experiments. Time of opportunity. Time of good games.
that was a golden end ! With TBGT pause menu theme ... great video
Most FPS games shifted toward realism over gratuitous weapon damage. Both are fun imo
2000's: no gay
no woke
no pandering
finished products
modern:
unplayable
unfinished
woke pandering
trash
No gay but a lot of gray
Bruh, there was alot of gay back then. They were just hiding. Corporate pandering is the enemy. Not gay lol
Fantastic video man ! love it !
2024 AAA games no physics 😂
2000 to 2012 are peak of gaming
Most AAA games back then are 10 to 30gb and offers A LOT of fun and extra minigames
The best nostalgic part of the video is 32:25 with GTA TBoGT pause music i have felt chills
This is what you get when fancy graphics are the pinnacle of technological evolution and not everything else that goes into making a good game. Ever wonder why graphics cards are as expensive as they have ever been, games are as unoptimized as they have ever been, yet all the marketing focuses on is on how good they all look? It's a ploy for consumers to buy worse games at higher prices that run worse to sell more hardware that will run them.
Lack of Time , Money and just pure incompetence. It feels like there are a lot of young devs who don't know any better. Who , after 15 years , is still left to teach them. the big nerds are all gone but these were the people that made the good games.
Seeing COD4 multiplayer brought back sooo much memories, thank you
amazing !!
Modern AAA Games: Profits first, the moment it isn't profitable the cords are cut. Gameplay is designed by beancounters to maximize sales who define fun as a number, and reduce players to statistics. Risks aren't allowed, the only innovators are smaller studios who have to take risks to break, or make the market. Any semblance of risk is disguised as sequel to an existing franchise in the form of a spinoff, OR its a game that releases as an over saturated genre as a "safe" choice, OR its a remake, remaster, reimagining, redo, rerelease.
2000-2010 AAA Games: Developers controlled development, they took risks because they ultimately made games they wanted to make. If the gameplay before launch wasn't to their liking they changed it, but there wasn't necessarily the big publishers we know today meddling in the affairs of what they have no interest in. The market at this time is not nearly as over saturated as it is now. Even if the game wasn't "perfect" it still could sell. A large amount of the existing genres, and franchises can trace their roots back to this era for many now considered standard game mechanics. It wasn't all sunshine and rainbows though. This is also the era where live service started. With the internets speed being much more reliable for the average player to have, developers started the trend of post launch updates. This could be considered good if the game was unplayable at launch since they could deploy a patch to fix it. It also meant that nerfing/buffing for balance became much more common. Same with patching exploits. Finally, it became ever more easy for developers to see random peoples feedback, negative, or positive, for better, or for worse.
Not the background Crackdown music please :( I still have nightmares haha amazing video m8!!
Far Cry 2 is UNIQUE
Far cry 2 is amazing
I loved that you had the tbogt theme song at the end. such a nostalgic song. Great video btw!
This is what happens when you hire people based on gender, race and color instead of talent and passion
regardless of dei hiring there isnt much passion anymore nowadays
@@mdnp-grid487 Blame socialism, its been around a long while and got worse over the last 4 years
"I'm yellow enough as it is, Dex."
I love that line. Never gets old.
It’s so weird how companies with millions of dollars will make a cash grab or re release multiple versions of the same game. But some guy in a basement with just a computer can make a masterpiece of gaming!
Welcome back crowbcat
i totally forgot that saints row made a newer game recently wtf
When gamers make games vs when corporations make games
Crazy how studios back then that's full of ppl who dedicated themselves to their craft can make a better game than today standards. Sure the graphics got better but less techniques are involved
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the reason why people gets so excited about remasters and even remakes. They miss those days and have this wish to come back to them.
Videogames are just like cars, evolving backwards.