Ahhh, right in the nostalgia. When we stop playing this game we’ll look back on it so fondly. I didn’t think I’d be playing this for 6/7 years when I first downloaded it 💀💀💀
This is kinda bittersweet. Seeing how big SMITE started and what it is now is saddening. Wish I could have seen the game when it had all those regions. I once again say, SMITE should be WAY bigger than it is.
@@eligreg99 Absolute facts. The potential this game had was unparalleled, just handled poorly. I’m afraid it’s too late for any significant growth but hopefully they can maintain the current player base. Perhaps even a small increase if the devs play their cards right.
@Haakonson A lot of people disliked the removal of boots, the constant item shakeups that broke the meta and seemed like an oversight, the introduction and removal of systems, lazy fixes like invasion curse to end metas, etc.
I first played before season one began, then rejoined around season 3- just to rage quit and not play until season 5. Feels like a toxic relationship that I finally managed to work out now. Happily married to smite for almost 5 years now
Started in late 2012 to early 2013 and it was really cool to see the changes and improvements made in such a tangible way other than through fading memories or a wiki thread. Haven't played since Gilgamesh's release, but with the decade anniversary coming up (which i didnt know until i finished this video sadly), I have to jump in and get my feet wet purely for nostalgia.
You forgot to mention in Season 4, Shield of Regrowth was added to the Emerald item tree, allowing gods like Chang'e pick it up, which led to the reason why she has never been seen since.
First started playing right at the very tail end of Season 7. Would love to have witnessed a lot of the adventure modes that came before then, but I definitely do not regret starting when I did.
Hearing that Mages couldn't fvxk with tanks back in Season One...can we go back to that please? I'm sick of my 325 of both protections builds getting 2 shot bc mages are broken 🙃
I played in beta when it was side jungles and you could have every buff so junglers were op as hell. I quit playing around season 4, so many changes that just made things not fun. Have some good memories of the game though. I feel like smite couldve competed with the big mobas if hirez knew what they were doing.
Bro wether you're a relic or just love to study this stuff, it's always appreciated. I love knowing more about how smite used to be, and have been watching your old vids and frosts old stuff on repeat recently and it's just so interesting to see how metas used to be, what changed to make them not as meta, etc.
this video fell off when u stopped talking about the metas. Not mentioning the absurd tank meta in season 4/5 whichever it was with upgraded warriors blessing was crazy.
This is the best Smite video I've watched in a long time. Those 40 minutes felt like 4. Thanks for all your work bro, and don't forget to watch my nene
I didn't know I started playing on S1, the first god release I saw was Serqet. During that time some people had the beta player profile picture. Really fun times.
I started playing back when Hou Yi was the newer god and then Bellona was the first character release I witnessed, this video gave me such nostalgia 💗. Love ur content, keep it up 🥰✨
Exactly the same for me, I can still vividly remember the Bellona main menu (and how busted she was lol). That was when I was 14 and now i'll be graduating uni next year, the nostalgia is real.
Are we counting season 1 as the beginning of smite? I joined when Sylvannus was released and I'm pretty sure seasons as we know them now didn't exist when I started playing.
I played smite from the nox release until the middle of season 3 and haven't touched it since. This video has me very interested in returning. Should I wait for season 10 or just hop in?
Just like in League gold gain was ignored till it was being used to rush some builds then getting nurfed to hell even though it's strong in any build and always will be.
I played this game from before season 1 to season 4-5 and just now rejoined playing this game. Tbh idk why I left. It’s pretty fun and relaxing if you don’t care about winning 24/7
I remember I got into this game during season 1 when serqet got released. It was huge when she stopped being a top pick/ban after YEARS of dealing with her.
It’s so weird to think of gods like baron samedi as being new and then seeing this video and seeing that they’ve already been out in circulation for years
Im just saying combat blink isn't broken if you gave it a long reasonable cooldown That or idc FUCKING MAKE IT SO MINIONS AND MONSTERS DON'T LOCK YOU OUT FROM USING BLINK!
I started playing Smite in early 2014 (and sadly missed out on Cacodemon Ymir by 2 or 3 levels) and I played it a ton until mid-late 2015, where I gradually played less Smite since I was getting into League. I stopped playing Smite altogether somewhere in 2016, between Fafnir and Erlang's releases. I started playing it again last year and, as of now, I play it every so often with my friends, with whom I used to play back then. I still like League better overall, but I have fond memories of Smite and usually have fun playing it too. It really is crazy how much the game has changed since 2014.
I'll never forget my first time playing. Chronos had just been released, and a couple of friends from Uni and I met up for a lan party. Neith was my first God because I had just paused playing my hunter in WoW, so she seemed a natural fit. Can't believe it's been almost 10 years
Nice vid! I appriciate how long looking into each season must have taken. Smite is one of those games I've been able to play off and on for years. Def one of my top 5 games of all time.
I started playing this game when Erlang Shen came out and you did a phenomenal job annotating everything! 🙏🏽 It was nice knowing what happened from seasons 1-3. I appreciate the hard work you put in this video and as always looking forward to your next videos 🔥
I started a little before season 1 and quit playing for a year or 2 after release Bellona just wore me down (I never saw release Guan so this was hands down the most bust god release I had and have since ever witnessed). I still followed the pro scene though and this video brought back some great memories. The game has had its highs and lows but always pulls me back in, an entertaining game if nothing else.
Ive started playing this game in last half of season 2, i just miss the thrill i had when learning/unlocking new gods and so on... I cant help but feel ever since season 5 or 6 the game has been going downhill with less updates, less innovative stuff ever since
Seems like everything gets changed to force people to play the same way... so many playstyles getting basically removed. You can't buy power pots, you can't invade, you can't backdoor, can't use rituals, etc. etc. So BORING. Everything interesting or clever is just... removed. Seems to happen with a lot of games.
I’ve been watching this game since season 3 but didn’t start playing til like season 5 or 6 when I started playing on console. Now I’ve been playing on pc since 2019.
Oh man seeing this. Makes me miss Rory (Drybear) even more. Though I'm pretty sure no one misses DmBrandon... Also during the interview with cog prime and barraccudda, when they asked him what he was going to do with his prize money, and he no-shit said : "buy lots of drugs", and literally everyone at Hi-Rez did the face palm emoji. And really that was the end of eSports and Smite. Lmao...
Men IDK i started in Season 3 when thoth game out. I wasnt a hardcore gamer back then more like a casual player who never watched eSports. But Smite got me into it and I started playing ranked every day. The game was SOOOOOOO GOOD back then even tho with some kind of broken Items. Nowadays the game feels just like afk farming to 20. Especially Sololane. ( not saying IT IS but it just feels like it)
I do totally agree with more realistic maps were just in line with huge price pool. Nowadays we have cartoon and pricepool in size of mobile game. I do play Smite for about 12 years... I missed old days when Smite had beatiful streams of Kelly and Bart and Smite had bright future ahead with love, care and being original. Well, sadly we have product which has to be run on mobile (sorry, switch) platform and devs downgrading the game with hand to hand with more and more gamba system. Good years anyways... Smite will allways be close to my heart with those 4k plus hours spent... well spent...
I haven't played Smite since Season 3 (started in the very beginning of Season 1). For some reason this video reminded me of Lassiz's streams back in those days, I miss that guy. Does anyone know why he quit Smite? No disrespect towards you Inters3ct, your videos are great :) I'm just reminiscing
Holy shit…penta kiiiilll was S1?! Sheesh. I took a mean hiatus, reinstalled and played for like 3 days before I realized I wouldn’t have the time to dedicate to it recently. Smite was the first moba I ever enjoyed. Played from closed beta all the way thru about 2016. It took the place of COD as my main game. I was destroying a conquest lobby in 2012 when my wife went into labor. Me and Eonjc met in MW3 and I introduced him to the game. Felt great seeing him take it to the pro level and win. Smite will always be near n dear.
i been here since Nike i guess you could say im a smite boomer. One thing i remember recently(ish) was Chernobog being only 1 gem when he released. his voice pack too! lol Also Da Ji was so OP (i know Cu was OP as hell too but something about being able to see him coming, knowing you was screwed and just hearing Da Ji) .. jesus h christ i got ptsd from hearing her 1. Still hate her to this day
Season 1 and 2 was the last time I was really keeping up with competitive. Pretty sure I got fed up with some rager in ranked and that’s what brought me to assault. Dig was the bomb.
i started playing when ao kuang was released, the first oddysey was happening and i didn't know what it was by then. icould've gotten archon thanatos :( stopped playing around season 7 oof, i have so many limited skins collected over the years, maybe i should go back to playing it, but i'm a valorant player now T.T
It's just kinda wild to me when I look back when when I first started playing back at S3 how different it was. I think I came right before the Erlang Shen release
I dont care what anyone says, Epsilon vs Cloud 9 in Season 2 best set of all time. Also no mention of the Oceans 1v1 vs Cyclonespin with throwing dagger?
Should have included the original season 1 which later got changed to season 0 during late season 1 , crazy times with balance back then , release Nemesis and Tyr etc
for my fellow spanish speakers just wait until FERRE steal inters3ct idea and copy the entire video but translated into spanish like he use to do ajajaj
God I joined the game around the Rat update when it was first added to xbox. I didn't think that was season 2 though. Been around alot longer than I remember lmfao
Im new at this game and i love it, its my first moba, i started at season 9 shiva debut, the people who complains the most of the game r usually people who played 4 a long time. Its a fun game, kinda hard at the beginning.
I honestly don't understand why people apprently prefer the season 3 joust map over the season 7 one. Season 3 map always seems to end up at a boring standoff at the losing team's towerline because there is so little farm to gain with your pressure. Also, the season 7 has two flank routes around the tower.
Find it funny that he said the god releases were better in season 5 than the previous 2 years, yet season 5 was the start of the downfall for me. Only god I really enjoyed after season 4 has been Horus. I really miss the old days of smite
The fact that I played this rollercoaster of a game since season 3 makes me feel old
same i started playing on when ama was released!
Started playing in 2013 on chronos release, I'm about to die of old age
@@thedoggbeast6942 same I don't play anymore, so why the fuck do I still watch smite????
Started when Thoth was added, it's crazy.
Season 2 vet here
Ahhh, right in the nostalgia. When we stop playing this game we’ll look back on it so fondly. I didn’t think I’d be playing this for 6/7 years when I first downloaded it 💀💀💀
Facts!!
Games addicting. I've played this game without a break more than any of my other games.
This is kinda bittersweet. Seeing how big SMITE started and what it is now is saddening. Wish I could have seen the game when it had all those regions. I once again say, SMITE should be WAY bigger than it is.
I blame the devs for that because a ton of people quit with some of the ridiculous changes they made
Smite could’ve been bigger than LoL
@@eligreg99 Absolute facts. The potential this game had was unparalleled, just handled poorly. I’m afraid it’s too late for any significant growth but hopefully they can maintain the current player base. Perhaps even a small increase if the devs play their cards right.
@@BasedChadman Can you elaborate on the changes?
@Haakonson A lot of people disliked the removal of boots, the constant item shakeups that broke the meta and seemed like an oversight, the introduction and removal of systems, lazy fixes like invasion curse to end metas, etc.
I first played before season one began, then rejoined around season 3- just to rage quit and not play until season 5. Feels like a toxic relationship that I finally managed to work out now. Happily married to smite for almost 5 years now
I miss the old days of SMITE eSports. Just that trash talk and competitiveness between NA and EU teams made for good entertainment
26:30 RIP the season ticket. Forever missed.
RIP Limited skins for 40000 points ☹️
Started in late 2012 to early 2013 and it was really cool to see the changes and improvements made in such a tangible way other than through fading memories or a wiki thread. Haven't played since Gilgamesh's release, but with the decade anniversary coming up (which i didnt know until i finished this video sadly), I have to jump in and get my feet wet purely for nostalgia.
You forgot to mention in Season 4, Shield of Regrowth was added to the Emerald item tree, allowing gods like Chang'e pick it up, which led to the reason why she has never been seen since.
Appreciate all the time this took! You rock!
First started playing right at the very tail end of Season 7. Would love to have witnessed a lot of the adventure modes that came before then, but I definitely do not regret starting when I did.
I started playing Smite when Awelix and Hou Yi were new. That's crazy
Hearing that Mages couldn't fvxk with tanks back in Season One...can we go back to that please? I'm sick of my 325 of both protections builds getting 2 shot bc mages are broken 🙃
Great nostalgia, although I’ve never really followed SPL despite starting this game at the end of S2 lol
Started in Open Beta, shortly before the Chaac release. Still love to play Smite, Still bad at the game anyway... now feeling old. :)
The adventure game modes were so fun I miss them. I used to only play the adventure modes instead of the actual game lol.
I played in beta when it was side jungles and you could have every buff so junglers were op as hell. I quit playing around season 4, so many changes that just made things not fun. Have some good memories of the game though. I feel like smite couldve competed with the big mobas if hirez knew what they were doing.
You should do a tier list for each season, might be an interesting video
No need for tier list (season 1-2 best and real SMITE game)
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@@lordstingray8341 Now it's too woke and cartoonish
Bro wether you're a relic or just love to study this stuff, it's always appreciated. I love knowing more about how smite used to be, and have been watching your old vids and frosts old stuff on repeat recently and it's just so interesting to see how metas used to be, what changed to make them not as meta, etc.
Your videos are always appreciated
I kinda wish you would have had the Ravanna rework and Baskin carrying.
this video fell off when u stopped talking about the metas. Not mentioning the absurd tank meta in season 4/5 whichever it was with upgraded warriors blessing was crazy.
1:12 Same with the Old Sun Wukong
Becoming Hun Batz and Rereleased as the new Sun Wukong
This is the best Smite video I've watched in a long time. Those 40 minutes felt like 4. Thanks for all your work bro, and don't forget to watch my nene
I started at the tail end of season 3, played for around a year, and then quit until recently. I have so many new gods to learn...
I didn't know I started playing on S1, the first god release I saw was Serqet.
During that time some people had the beta player profile picture.
Really fun times.
I started playing back when Hou Yi was the newer god and then Bellona was the first character release I witnessed, this video gave me such nostalgia 💗. Love ur content, keep it up 🥰✨
Exactly the same for me, I can still vividly remember the Bellona main menu (and how busted she was lol). That was when I was 14 and now i'll be graduating uni next year, the nostalgia is real.
Are we counting season 1 as the beginning of smite? I joined when Sylvannus was released and I'm pretty sure seasons as we know them now didn't exist when I started playing.
I think they did, Smite officially came out of beta in March (?) 2014 and started Season One right there.
I played smite from the nox release until the middle of season 3 and haven't touched it since. This video has me very interested in returning. Should I wait for season 10 or just hop in?
As an original Beta player, this makes me feel very old
If there is something this video does is shows how the pro-scene and the world championship went downhill from the very beginning. Sad stuff
Love your videos, but I think I love that you used divinity 2 original sins music as your transition sounds between clips!
This was very educational to a new player like me, thanks
Just like in League gold gain was ignored till it was being used to rush some builds then getting nurfed to hell even though it's strong in any build and always will be.
I played this game from before season 1 to season 4-5 and just now rejoined playing this game. Tbh idk why I left. It’s pretty fun and relaxing if you don’t care about winning 24/7
I play this game since open beta and S1-5 feel like a feaver dream when I think about them
I can't believe I've been playing for so long...
It's sad to see the downfall of this game. It's unbalanced af and needs a lot of fixing
I remember I got into this game during season 1 when serqet got released. It was huge when she stopped being a top pick/ban after YEARS of dealing with her.
It’s so weird to think of gods like baron samedi as being new and then seeing this video and seeing that they’ve already been out in circulation for years
Im just saying combat blink isn't broken if you gave it a long reasonable cooldown
That or idc FUCKING MAKE IT SO MINIONS AND MONSTERS DON'T LOCK YOU OUT FROM USING BLINK!
cope
you can't tell me you haven't lost a gank or died because of a minion or monster resetting the blink combat cooldown
The new gods look so ugly and weird lol, this game really went downhill
Your recaps of the spl results were all very engaging, gripping even
The nostalgia is strong with this one. I’ve been playing since beta and this brought back so many forgotten memories. Thank you for this!
Started at beginning of season 4 with ganesh release. Season 5 best season so far
I can’t believe I have been playing smite since season 1.
Seeing a 40 minute vid is definitely a good way to end a pretty shitty day thank you and you get my vote for the golden bolt! Cheers
Damn never realized cu chu was released so long ago. I started playing around then and I remember getting stomped by one in my first few matches haha
No comment about season 4 Cu Chu and Benji ???
I started playing Smite in early 2014 (and sadly missed out on Cacodemon Ymir by 2 or 3 levels) and I played it a ton until mid-late 2015, where I gradually played less Smite since I was getting into League. I stopped playing Smite altogether somewhere in 2016, between Fafnir and Erlang's releases. I started playing it again last year and, as of now, I play it every so often with my friends, with whom I used to play back then. I still like League better overall, but I have fond memories of Smite and usually have fun playing it too. It really is crazy how much the game has changed since 2014.
Amazing video this, so many memberberries. You may now officialy call yourself a Smite Historian! ❤
I'll never forget my first time playing. Chronos had just been released, and a couple of friends from Uni and I met up for a lan party. Neith was my first God because I had just paused playing my hunter in WoW, so she seemed a natural fit. Can't believe it's been almost 10 years
Nice vid! I appriciate how long looking into each season must have taken. Smite is one of those games I've been able to play off and on for years. Def one of my top 5 games of all time.
Would be nice to see another monster/god from H.P Lovecraft's novels. Maybe the Yellow King would be nice as a assassin or mage.
I started playing this game when Erlang Shen came out and you did a phenomenal job annotating everything! 🙏🏽
It was nice knowing what happened from seasons 1-3.
I appreciate the hard work you put in this video and as always looking forward to your next videos 🔥
I started a little before season 1 and quit playing for a year or 2 after release Bellona just wore me down (I never saw release Guan so this was hands down the most bust god release I had and have since ever witnessed). I still followed the pro scene though and this video brought back some great memories. The game has had its highs and lows but always pulls me back in, an entertaining game if nothing else.
Damn. More happened in S1 than I thought. It's hard to believe I've been playing it since Khumba was released lol.
Bro I remember talking smite open beta builds in 8th grade science class with my best friend. Now I’m a physics PhD candidate…
smite deserve more players :'(
Leviathans ftw
Anubis feet and walk in season 1 will never stop cracking me up
Ive started playing this game in last half of season 2, i just miss the thrill i had when learning/unlocking new gods and so on...
I cant help but feel ever since season 5 or 6 the game has been going downhill with less updates, less innovative stuff ever since
Damn I have really been around since 2014, I remember they gave away free god passes and smite merch at a gaming lounge by me for the championships
Always great content!
You have not included other adventure releases..
Ie smite kart lokis adventure ect...
"Smite huh? idk what this is but it looks cool. I'll try it" Me browsing the Switch Eshop
UHFFFF
I FEEL THE WORLDS WERE MUCH MORE ... HYPER before.
and like
with bigger names
and prices and all
Seems like everything gets changed to force people to play the same way... so many playstyles getting basically removed. You can't buy power pots, you can't invade, you can't backdoor, can't use rituals, etc. etc.
So BORING. Everything interesting or clever is just... removed. Seems to happen with a lot of games.
I’ve been watching this game since season 3 but didn’t start playing til like season 5 or 6 when I started playing on console. Now I’ve been playing on pc since 2019.
Oh man seeing this. Makes me miss Rory (Drybear) even more.
Though I'm pretty sure no one misses DmBrandon...
Also during the interview with cog prime and barraccudda, when they asked him what he was going to do with his prize money, and he no-shit said : "buy lots of drugs", and literally everyone at Hi-Rez did the face palm emoji.
And really that was the end of eSports and Smite. Lmao...
Men IDK i started in Season 3 when thoth game out. I wasnt a hardcore gamer back then more like a casual player who never watched eSports. But Smite got me into it and I started playing ranked every day. The game was SOOOOOOO GOOD back then even tho with some kind of broken Items. Nowadays the game feels just like afk farming to 20. Especially Sololane. ( not saying IT IS but it just feels like it)
Haven't played smite in A YEAR cause of school stuff but I still watch smite everyday lol
I do totally agree with more realistic maps were just in line with huge price pool. Nowadays we have cartoon and pricepool in size of mobile game. I do play Smite for about 12 years... I missed old days when Smite had beatiful streams of Kelly and Bart and Smite had bright future ahead with love, care and being original. Well, sadly we have product which has to be run on mobile (sorry, switch) platform and devs downgrading the game with hand to hand with more and more gamba system. Good years anyways... Smite will allways be close to my heart with those 4k plus hours spent... well spent...
I started playing around August of 2015. Right before Xiang tian was released
I haven't played Smite since Season 3 (started in the very beginning of Season 1). For some reason this video reminded me of Lassiz's streams back in those days, I miss that guy. Does anyone know why he quit Smite?
No disrespect towards you Inters3ct, your videos are great :) I'm just reminiscing
Holy shit…penta kiiiilll was S1?! Sheesh. I took a mean hiatus, reinstalled and played for like 3 days before I realized I wouldn’t have the time to dedicate to it recently. Smite was the first moba I ever enjoyed. Played from closed beta all the way thru about 2016. It took the place of COD as my main game. I was destroying a conquest lobby in 2012 when my wife went into labor. Me and Eonjc met in MW3 and I introduced him to the game. Felt great seeing him take it to the pro level and win. Smite will always be near n dear.
Been playing since beta watching drybear and squiiddish game play, CRAZY too see how far this game has gone
i been here since Nike i guess you could say im a smite boomer. One thing i remember recently(ish) was Chernobog being only 1 gem when he released. his voice pack too! lol Also Da Ji was so OP (i know Cu was OP as hell too but something about being able to see him coming, knowing you was screwed and just hearing Da Ji) .. jesus h christ i got ptsd from hearing her 1. Still hate her to this day
Holy hell, I've been playing since the start without realising it. I miss my old Ao Kuang.. :( still don't accept the current Ao
I never realized just how long I’ve been playing this game 💀 I remember being hyped about the Medusa release…. Season 2 💀
Season 1 and 2 was the last time I was really keeping up with competitive. Pretty sure I got fed up with some rager in ranked and that’s what brought me to assault. Dig was the bomb.
i started playing when ao kuang was released, the first oddysey was happening and i didn't know what it was by then. icould've gotten archon thanatos :( stopped playing around season 7 oof, i have so many limited skins collected over the years, maybe i should go back to playing it, but i'm a valorant player now T.T
It's just kinda wild to me when I look back when when I first started playing back at S3 how different it was. I think I came right before the Erlang Shen release
I dont care what anyone says, Epsilon vs Cloud 9 in Season 2 best set of all time. Also no mention of the Oceans 1v1 vs Cyclonespin with throwing dagger?
bellona was an absolute NIGHTMARE durin S2 like holy shit and ravana was a shitty ass god at the time
I miss old assault map. 😞
I mean the shards of s10 are probably the less op form of rituals Hi-Rez was speaking of
Started in s3. I remember exactly because I accidentally spent all my gems on susanoo and his stupid recolor skin.
Should have included the original season 1 which later got changed to season 0 during late season 1 , crazy times with balance back then , release Nemesis and Tyr etc
Funny, Season 9 wasn't just a picture of an actual dumpster fire. You're slipping
for my fellow spanish speakers just wait until FERRE steal inters3ct idea and copy the entire video but translated into spanish like he use to do ajajaj
Came in with the Belona release. I felt like the biggest badass stomping people as a newbie. Then they nerfed Belona and I realized how crap I was.
God I joined the game around the Rat update when it was first added to xbox. I didn't think that was season 2 though. Been around alot longer than I remember lmfao
Im new at this game and i love it, its my first moba, i started at season 9 shiva debut, the people who complains the most of the game r usually people who played 4 a long time. Its a fun game, kinda hard at the beginning.
Fuck my life ive been playing this game since season 3 (jing wei released) and this game has consumed my life ever since
I'm mad I joined right after the Grim Hades event, it still hurts me to this day not having Grim Shadow Nox skin
I honestly don't understand why people apprently prefer the season 3 joust map over the season 7 one. Season 3 map always seems to end up at a boring standoff at the losing team's towerline because there is so little farm to gain with your pressure. Also, the season 7 has two flank routes around the tower.
I've been playing since 2015/6 and the mad thing is it sort of feels like the same game for all the mad changes its had
Find it funny that he said the god releases were better in season 5 than the previous 2 years, yet season 5 was the start of the downfall for me. Only god I really enjoyed after season 4 has been Horus. I really miss the old days of smite
Kinda fun to warch how game evolved, after leaving it right before AoKuang release😅
I remember that launch tourney penta. Maaaaaan was it a time to play
I just starter olaying în season 8 and I move it..I will buy a better laptop for smite only