Yeah and if it has glitches, soft locking, and corruption save glitches you just have to endure then like a big boy! Or to buy a new press with a newer version if you're lucky
Inde games and devs who realy care still do that like God of War 2018 was a full package, so are most Nintendo games with a few Bonus updates or expansion pack style DLC, Spider Man was a complet game with just a episodic expansion pack that should have been just one big thing but whatever but yeah the incomplete games are BS but most of them are big "AAA" games I never gave a shit about to begin with.
Counterpoints (8) Except the equivlant of DLC was often repurposed into sequels so you'd often be paying full price for minor improvments. You'd also be encouraged into buying magazines to get info or demo disks or stratgedy guides (9) They were always untrustworthy mate. See Sega during this time alongside, DE, Vicarious, any company that did movie licenced games etc (10) Not true. Firstly, nowadays you have ways of seeing a game before buying it. Back then, reviews were hard to come across or limited to magazines. Again, see movie licended games and the like. Shovelware was actually at its most common during the PS2 era
Sure. You always got what you paid. That's why we never had a market crash for trashy games on Atari lying. And we never got BS screenshots and renders either! Suuure
@@MiloKuroshiro Your fault for buying & trusting the non trustworthy of the time. Also read everything I've posted because wow, it's sad nowadays you have to spill out everything in a comment & then deal with people like you that doesn't read all posted.
You get what you pay for you paid for the overpriced dlc and the digital deluxe for a extra 20 bucks it comes with a skin that you wont get for the 60 dollar version
@@tylertheshark2494 i still had one of those big 400 lb monsters til a few years ago, that thing had glass a few inches thick and the screen was like 2 ft accross which made the back super huge, thing fell off the back of truck and all it did was scratch the screen a little. I bet it still works and will long after i am dead
Full on content There is a single player/split screen co-op, split screen local and online multiplayer with bot and different game modes Gallery mode, cheats etc. Now one of them is a game now 😅
Mar Speedsman nar not really remember unlocking them all for challenges etc in most of not all fighting games now it requires the bank account challenges
@@Artoliann i heard that all the time down south in georgia florida and alabama back in the day it was definitely a thing that was popular in atleast 3 states in the early aughts
I also really enjoy Rob. I just wish he covered some other games like, Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy, Assassin's Creed (especially Blackflag's water), Skyrim, The Witcher 3, Kingdom Hearts & SoulsBorne for example.
I remember the first time my friend played Final Fantasy X. It was on my home system because it was the best one available at the time. There were three of us present and we were all blown away by the opening cutscene. After it was over we let the character stand there for nearly five minutes because we didn’t realize that the cutscene had ended. Titus still looked like Titus instead of a pixelated 16 bit version of himself.
The good ole days when my mom made me stay off the computer all day because my grandfather was having surgery, and we had to keep the phone line open... to this day the it is still longest day of my life. P.S grandfather was fine.
They say it's for the good envoirement by saveing paper and They are now digitaly provided via the game's option menu on the home menu or in game but at the same time those are boring and dull 9 times out of 10 as there all like the cheep 3rd party maunals that are just text with a few black and white pictures instead of the beautiful works of art many 1st party and 3rd party devloped by people who cared about their games with manuals full of beautiful artwork and visual diretions along with the text! It's jusr people cuting costs for more money
The best thing for me with the game Manuals was reading the back story for that game or reading about the characters, allies, enemies or factions that you'll meet in the game.
I had a subscription so just waited every month a took the disc out before reading. The first Viewtiful Joe demo erased all my memory card and month's later there was an apology to everyone in the magazine about it.
Jose Partida In one of his Friday features Rob said the puppet was gone and there was a cutscene that said he was off to train with this monkey puppet who’d go and destroy Rob I’m waiting for the endgame
And I know I've played too much guitar hero when I can tell you sucked at guitar hero because you played slow ride enough to immediately recognize it. Good players typically avoid the easy songs. They get really boring really fast.
"Hello you've caught me feeling nostalgic about the naughties!" - oh dear, the naughties? I'm getting old aren't I....... "First on our list.......DVDS....lolz who remembers those!" - 😭😭😭
My favorite memory of things that takes me back to 00s was when I was 15 years old. Early in 2002 a friend of mine helped me get my hands on a PS2. I managed to afford getting a used console from a pawn shop and I also got a single controller, the A/V cable, power cord and two games. I couldn't wait to get home and play, and in my excitement I forgot a key item to have especially considering the only two games I now owned. I was the proud owner of Final Fantasy X and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. The key item I was missing, a memory card. My 15 year old mind was smart enough to realize I wasn't going to be able to really enjoy FFX without the ability to save but was just dumb enough to think MGS2 would be easy enough to do without it. So I played the game on Normal mode and found myself happy and spiteful of my ignorance as it took me 36 hours straight of playing (mixed with food and washroom breaks) to beat MGS2. Every death making me angry I wanted to quit combined with the idea of starting over from the very beginning built my own personal hell while I sat there internally screaming obscenities in my head for my foolishness and jumping for joy at my successes when I made it further after every death. To this day the idea of playing games you need to save manually to progress (Nier: Automata for example) take me back to that moment I was 15 and being ignorant enough to think "I don't care I can't save, I need to play this As soon as possible!"
Those cutscenes in games like ffx and ffxii where the graphics quality jumped up to the most beautiful things I’d ever seen are still some of my favorite things, even though everything remotely new looks better than they ever did. It’s just not the same
being born in '85, I'm right there with you, sir. between trying to get my Dreamcast to go online, without an ISP mind you, and the first time I was able to utilize the "HD" in that of the HDMI ports of my XBox360 and my HD TV. I knew there was a reason why I loved this channel! :-D
It took me a while to recognise her because the picture is so blurry, but yes it would appear to be the case. That's real dedication, to record new EyeToy videos instead of just using some stock footage.
@@Astfgl also i think she did it because it's fun. i think they were like who wants to try and capture footage of the Eyetoy for the Friday feature, and Rosie was like "Meee!! Meee!" XD
Without even watching the video, I'm going to guess it was the one by Alex. He or she made the best walkthroughs, and for a lot of my favorite games to boot. EDIT: It wasn't. Boo.
@@ShyBoy6ty9 It wasn't, but I think this still qualifies as another thing only early 00 gamers will remember. I always remember looking at the gamefaqs strategy guide pages for my games, and if I saw one by AIex (usually did), THAT was the one I was using, because they were always such high quality.
Full backwards compatibility (if you had a PS2), no remasters, no patches, no live services, no dlc, no lootboxes, no installation times (the console would load the game from the dvd), music CD and movie DVD players, cheat codes rather than p2w, studios would release high budget - polished games quicker, more resistant controllers, a lot co-op games and you can still play 99% of the library today because they all released physically and/or are archived by the internet. The negatives: Many games lacked auto save, region lock and extremely blurry/pixelated resolutions. However, let's speak about the negatives of the mid 10s for a comparison's sake. Zero backwards compatibility, filled with remasters you have to pay for again, large patches/live services/dlcs/lootboxes by greedy publishers who release broken or unfinished games for full price, no cheat codes, taking forever to release new titles, hardly any co-op, a couple of the games released this generation are already gone forever due to them being always online, yearly sequels (remasters on steroids) of already established franchises rather than betting on new ideas, paid online, ruined story/offline mode of some games by trying to shove American politics and heavy censorship. But don't worry guys, the 2020s will be worse thanks to streaming. You won't even own the broken game releases anymore! And then some people say gamers are toxic, the fact that we downgraded in everything except graphics is really telling of the current generation.
@@djangomarkov7948 Except the game was designed around it. I'm talking about games that tried to shoehorn american leftist politics to please people who don't even buy the damn games. MK11 (Jak's ending & full clothed women to avoid 'sexism'), Life Is Strange 1 and 2, Overwatch, BFV, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Mass Effect Andromeda, anime games (mostly censorship because 'sexism' again) and Ubisoft games in general even though they don't outright say it, it's obvious.
JKL I’m all for representation but even I can agree it’s a little much. I miss my OP female hero’s/villains in scantily clad armor barely covering their privates bits. You know when women could actually be tough and badass and still keep their feminine traits instead and of making them all tomboy like.
Yeah, 95 for me as well. First systems I played on were the N64 and SNES, and the first system I owned was the ps1 that I got from my mothers ex boyfriend. I got all of his games with it as well, so I do have nostalgia for a lot of 90's stuff, even if I only experienced the tail end of it. But most of my time was spent with the ps2. Got it early in its lifecycle, and played with it until like a couple of years into the ps3, 360 generation.
The first time upgrading my ps3 to HD graphics left me in a constant state of amazement and awe. I imagined that this is what people must have felt like the first time color TV's came out. Simply amazing and I couldn't imagine going back. Not that I won't play an old game, I'm perfectly fine with that; just couldn't imagine plugging in AV cables for my PS3 to play FFX for example.
God those online walkthroughs, the flashbacks seeing that caused me! My final fantasy games, my legends of legia, my breath of fire, all of them requiring these guides that were somehow typed out with every single painstaking step spelled out for us to find every last thing possible and explain every single issue. Up till then you needed to burn 15 bucks on a strategy guide which, too be fair, generally were pretty solid. Great pictures to work with, written by the people who made the game (more or less) but yeah, 15 bucks. Finding the good walkthroughs online was heaven.
I still have my tiny DVD collection lying around which I used to watch on my PS2. I watched Fellowship of the Ring on DVD so much until the disc just stopped working properly. But I bought the trilogy on Blu-Ray so it's all good.
I remember getting an xbox 360 and being amazed by the graphics. Was a huge jump up from the old ps1 we still had. I’d been asking for a ps2 for a couple of years then ( when I had finally convinced my dad around 2005) and when was finally allowed one the next gen had just started
I know millions of people say this every generation but damn I feel old. I remember playing super Mario 64 at a circuit city. Things aren’t so simple anymore
Rob, I feel your pain, I live in the Caribbean and didn't get DSL until around 2003/4. Even then I didn't hook up my PS2 to it cause we only had a modem which was hooked up directly to the PC and the Ethernet cable was about 3 feet long and on the opposite end of the living room :(
Hearing the PS2 opening theme just hit me with a wave of nostalgia. Playing games on the PS2 was literally my entire entire childhood until I got a PS3. Good times.
Well I'm french and I have no clue how 00's is actually supposed to be pronounced, and "naughtys" or "naughties" is what I got from this video! :) So what is it supposed to be? no-ties? like sixties or seventies except you say "no" for 0?
Being able to watch DVDs on the PS2 & Blue-rays on the PS3 were HUGE bonuses. I recommended the PS3 (and the remote of course) to SO many non-gamers because it was arguably the best blue-ray player for a long time and also stand alone blue ray players were $1,000+. It took years if I remember right for the cost of blue-ray players to finally drop below the cost of the PS3. I'm not proud of it, but I also got the HD-DVD add-on. I ended up getting a fair amount of movies dirt cheap for it too because no one had players. I'm hoping that turns into a "rare" item in the years to come, but I'm not holding my breath lol.
Never played online on any console other than the PS4 I got recently. And GameFAQS was my home in the 00's! It's kinda amazing how these things that feel "not so long ago" are now almost (or are) a decade gone now. Still feel more at home in the 90's stuff tho.
I loved those walkthroughs! And like you, Rob, they helped me out with FFX and those pesky side quests and hidden coordinates from the airship. I miss those times. But more than anything else I just miss buying a complete game.
First HD game I played was the original Mass Effect. Awesome. Also, as an American I admit I had to contain my snorts every time you said "Noughties" and my mind continually translated that as "Naughties." Made me wonder what you were up to back then when you weren't playing games Rob!
One thing i remember from the 00's is: Having a scratched PS2 disk, and going online and finding all the super secret methods people use to get their games working again, some examples include: Putting the disk in the freezer overnight, spitting on the scratches (apparently the acid in your saliva would melt the scratches back to perfection), using things like Toothpaste and shaving cream and so on and so on, most of the time none of these worked and you just looked like a big idiot with toothpaste on the disk, heck even the semi De-Scratch machines that came out rarely if not ever worked XD
When you brought up EyeToy, I had a surge of memories. Me and my mate Blake. I miss him. I had completely forgotten it even existed and then the mere mention of it has loaded my brain with things I thought I had forgotten.
Im 13 but you still had better internet than I have now. I have none at all. I am watching this video using mobile data. Alot of these apply to me cause I still play the ps2 quite alot.
That is one of the dumbest comments I've seen in a while! I hope you're joking kid. Dial-up internet speed was 56kb/seconds, if everything went well and if nobody dropped your connection by answering the phone. Your LTE speed is between 5 to 12 mb/seconds with peaks up to 50mbps, it follows you everywhere and you can literally surf the web while taking a call or even a video call on the same handheld device. Cry me a river you spoiled brat. If I was your father and saw your comment I would remove your mobile data.
@@alecksluciferis4188 im sorry i offended you i have very little mobile data and no internet whatsoever ever and im not crying or whining. Rob from the video could still play online on his console using an Ethernet cable. I cannot at all no matter how hard i try. I was meaning more on the console side not the phone side sorry if you took it to heart. I wasn't trying to offend anyone. Also I pay for my own mobile data so my dad can't take it away
@@dannymallon3172 Don't give yourself that much importance. You didn't offend me. You just come across as an ungrateful kid who doesn't know the chance he has.
My sister and I printed out several pages for Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness because it was so difficult. At least a hundred pages or more. It was such a long game and super difficult. Still a really great game that I might make myself suffer through again at some point in time. Man those were the days.....
Honestly...my favorite thing to do was put my finger through the disc and spin it around. Especially when I was online scouring GameFAQ for The Ultimate Guide - it was how I put myself in the zone, a little reminder right there on my finger.
I still have an original brick ps2, that has the HDD and network adapter in it. Mostly for FF XI and Twisted Metal: Black online. As for entry 7, I too first played my new ps3 on a standard definition tv. But with nearly all ps3 games only playing in 720p at max, I really didn't notice the HD difference until I played FF XIII, which was in actual 1080p. Such a gorgeous game, wish the story was a bit better than it was though...
I remember my first online gaming experience was Quake 3 arena on the dreamcast with a cable so long it had to reach from my upstairs bedroom, down the stairs and into the kitchen where the phone was.
I completely agree with the jump to HD. Mine was on the 360 and it took me months to realise I'd only flicked the switch over and was running at 480p still as I hadn't gone into the settings. Needless to say I check everything now.
I could watch these videos all day long. They’re so entertaining! But this video had me laughing so hard because I could relate to all of this!!! Especially when you brought up gameFAQS. That site was a lifesaver!! 😂😂😂
Putting a disc into the console and it instantly plays. No updates, no asking to sign in to the online mode, just “here’s the game, now play it.”
I think the Wii is the last console to do this. instant gaming no silly updates.
There still games that did that just don't connect to the network only thing you need is to install it like PC
So true, man!
Yeah and if it has glitches, soft locking, and corruption save glitches you just have to endure then like a big boy! Or to buy a new press with a newer version if you're lucky
yes, Yes, YESSS!
Opening the manual and having lore characters and cool art
Gr ay oh man, buying a new game and opening the manual for the first time... can’t beat that
opening the manual in the first place lol
Reading the manual cover to cover in the car on the way home from buying the game
Oh my god yes!
Sniffing the manual (You know you've done it)
No DLC's ,No Microtransactions. Full package games that you pay for.
and THE beloved manuals
Also no patches, no improvements after the release. If the game had bugs... You were fucked
Hope for the best i guess
Inde games and devs who realy care still do that like God of War 2018 was a full package, so are most Nintendo games with a few Bonus updates or expansion pack style DLC, Spider Man was a complet game with just a episodic expansion pack that should have been just one big thing but whatever but yeah the incomplete games are BS but most of them are big "AAA" games I never gave a shit about to begin with.
until M$ brought it on to consoles on the original Xbox
The move to HD was nice, but the move from PS1 graphics to PS2 graphics was even way more impressive. Also 2000s.
It was a big jump, and now we have more consistent but smaller jumps.
Ps3 to ps3 was a bigger jump I thought
@@stevencundy4501 they are called day 1 patches
Ps1 graphics have not aged well
Gamers don't age. We just gain exp.
My back says otherwise
And don't go back to the lower level areas except for memories.
Damn right 👍
bacot
My body disagrees :(
That PS2 startup noise literally made me go "Oooh" in tandem with Rob in sync with Rob lol
Sony and Sega should've kept their classic intros.
Same I had to go find it
Soulofd4rkness 750 did you find it?
Why did u say "in tandem with Rob" AND "in sync with Rob"? They mean the same thing, why were BOTH necessary lolol
@@MerkhVision HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHA jfc dude, you got me
Best part of my Friday is coming home to Rob's Friday Features.
Really? I"d say it's the second best part of mine; first would be Show of the Week at Outside Xbox. (Shameless plug.)
10:32 will definitely get you a full view of Rob's Friday features 😵
Definitely
25 seconds in...this video is going to make me feel old isn't it 😂
Yup.
32 here and I feel ancient after watching this.
not even 30 yet and it mafe me feel old
Yeah, it is making me feel that way.
More like when you see people that say “I was born in 99”
8) No microtransactions or DLCs
9) Developers/Publishers were trustworthy
10) You got what you paid for.
Counterpoints
(8) Except the equivlant of DLC was often repurposed into sequels so you'd often be paying full price for minor improvments. You'd also be encouraged into buying magazines to get info or demo disks or stratgedy guides
(9) They were always untrustworthy mate. See Sega during this time alongside, DE, Vicarious, any company that did movie licenced games etc
(10) Not true.
Firstly, nowadays you have ways of seeing a game before buying it. Back then, reviews were hard to come across or limited to magazines.
Again, see movie licended games and the like. Shovelware was actually at its most common during the PS2 era
I liked movie based the in games I knew what I was getting I wish they come back!
Sure. You always got what you paid. That's why we never had a market crash for trashy games on Atari lying. And we never got BS screenshots and renders either! Suuure
@@MiloKuroshiro
Your fault for buying & trusting the non trustworthy of the time. Also read everything I've posted because wow, it's sad nowadays you have to spill out everything in a comment & then deal with people like you that doesn't read all posted.
You get what you pay for you paid for the overpriced dlc and the digital deluxe for a extra 20 bucks it comes with a skin that you wont get for the 60 dollar version
Oh god the FAQs, the wonderful FAQs! Got me through all the Final Fantasys, Legend of Dragoon, and many more! Good times
Playing split screen multiplayer games with 4 people and a multi tap
Sam Wright haven’t heard that word in a long time.... Multi-tap
On one of the big TVs with the giant box on the back
@@tylertheshark2494 i still had one of those big 400 lb monsters til a few years ago, that thing had glass a few inches thick and the screen was like 2 ft accross which made the back super huge, thing fell off the back of truck and all it did was scratch the screen a little. I bet it still works and will long after i am dead
Quake 3,unreal tournament,rune,and time splitters
@@hollowknight9528 and doom
Can we have a moment of silence for the old Cheat Code Central Walkthrough page. 🙏
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Big F
I still have the guides for a handful of games from Cheat Code Central printed off in my ps1/2 storage box :p
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Costumes were earned in game for *Free*
Full on content
There is a single player/split screen co-op, split screen local and online multiplayer with bot and different game modes
Gallery mode, cheats etc.
Now one of them is a game now 😅
Technically, we had to find cheat codes, first, and some times, they were fake.
But yeah, better than paying lol
They still are
In coming “iTs OnLy CoSmT#%”
Some of the best things in some games are the bloody cosmetics sorry terrible argument
Mar Speedsman nar not really remember unlocking them all for challenges etc in most of not all fighting games now it requires the bank account challenges
I still have a tower with 500+ dvd's lol I can never let them go, so many movies I have that are stupidly hard to find online to watch.
I never heard anyone saying the year 2000 as “early naughties”. 😅
It's a British thing, they often call zero "nought". The decimal 0.7 would be "nought point seven", hence "the noughties", or "naughties".
Corey C. Nobody says that
@Corey C. No one says that in the US
nayrB _hedgehog read the replies
@@Artoliann i heard that all the time down south in georgia florida and alabama back in the day it was definitely a thing that was popular in atleast 3 states in the early aughts
not only are the 90s finished,
not only are the 00s finished,
but the decade after the 00s is now almost finished
wtf is going on!?
....time.... Time slows for no one
@@Yoder023 I shall conquer Time even if I have to become a JRPG villian to do it!!!!!!
Sepiroth theme starts playing.
The real question is, what do we call this decade??!! The "Teenies"???😂
@@k.k.poptart7469 that sounds good to me, i'm more worried about the decade after that.
You're getting old and soon you'll be in an old folks home weeing on yourself and your ungrateful kids won't visit you.
Happy Friday!
Reasons I am a subscriber:
1-Rob.
2-Because I love the content and the guys and girls are amazing.
3-Rob.
Vaas Montenegro I’m just here for rob
@@DivinityFallen same
Do you know the definition of insanity?
I also really enjoy Rob. I just wish he covered some other games like, Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy, Assassin's Creed (especially Blackflag's water), Skyrim, The Witcher 3, Kingdom Hearts & SoulsBorne for example.
I only watch the Friday features
Ugh.. The orange button. How it betrayed my hopes and dreams of being a pretend guitarist.
Never mastered it. My gf was a real pro tho and five-stared lots of songs on Expert. Made me feel a bit lame
I remember the first time my friend played Final Fantasy X. It was on my home system because it was the best one available at the time. There were three of us present and we were all blown away by the opening cutscene. After it was over we let the character stand there for nearly five minutes because we didn’t realize that the cutscene had ended. Titus still looked like Titus instead of a pixelated 16 bit version of himself.
Tidus
Same thing with StarFox Adventures. "Oh, I can shoot now!"
The good ole days when my mom made me stay off the computer all day because my grandfather was having surgery, and we had to keep the phone line open... to this day the it is still longest day of my life.
P.S grandfather was fine.
It was worth it then.
Printing the entire walkthrough for Kingdom Hearts 1 because the internet is too slow to bother looking it up everytime
I did it too. After my friend got annoyed after a few visits:D code veronica was hard for a little kiddo
Ha! I did that with FF7 and FF8. I still have that walkthrough printed, and I still use it when I replay that game.
I still have a printed from gameFAQs 100% completion guide for FFX-2 which could double as a doorstop, it has so many pages stapled together!
You're not alone. Our first DVD player was also the PS2.
And now my current Blu-ray player is my PS4. Times change but things stay the same
🖐 guilty as charged.
Same, and my Blu-ray player is my Xbox one. Yes, this a PlayStation channel, I don’t care
Same
CmdrLeonhart my first and only blue ray is my PS4. I bought it a couple months ago
I miss manuals, devs got lazy not making them anymore!
I still have the map I got with my copy of San Andreas it felt so good to have these goodies
Bring back the manuals!
First thing ya did with a new manual?
INHALE and reflect aaaah it's great to be alive 😁
I don't do that 😄
They say it's for the good envoirement by saveing paper and They are now digitaly provided via the game's option menu on the home menu or in game but at the same time those are boring and dull 9 times out of 10 as there all like the cheep 3rd party maunals that are just text with a few black and white pictures instead of the beautiful works of art many 1st party and 3rd party devloped by people who cared about their games with manuals full of beautiful artwork and visual diretions along with the text! It's jusr people cuting costs for more money
The best thing for me with the game Manuals was reading the back story for that game or reading about the characters, allies, enemies or factions that you'll meet in the game.
Fully developed games that didn't need day one patching.
Games that were very difficult to patch at all, meaning developers got them right first time.
Enter store - buy Dungeon Keeper on day 1 - get out of the store - be happy. (oh the good old days!)
@@anvb5a1 yeah, lets see you go back to those days without all the technology
@@Freestyle80 Oh how i so wish i could!
That HD part is completely true.
I couldn't believe how CLEAN it looked
It was like going from Demon's Crest on Super Nintendo to Final Fantasy 8 all over again!
If I recall correctly my fist HD experience was Gears Of War, the game still holds up remarkably well.
Loved buying the latest magazine for a demo disc lol
I still have some demo disc's from the Playstation magazine :p
I had a subscription so just waited every month a took the disc out before reading. The first Viewtiful Joe demo erased all my memory card and month's later there was an apology to everyone in the magazine about it.
Some people forget Delsin Rodent....but not us
...not us
What happened to him?
Bring back Delsin!
Jose Partida In one of his Friday features Rob said the puppet was gone and there was a cutscene that said he was off to train with this monkey puppet who’d go and destroy Rob I’m waiting for the endgame
James Bond where has that badger been?!
I know I've played too much Guitar Hero when I can tell the song at #5 is Slow Ride without even hearing it.
I thought exactly the same thing
And I know I've played too much guitar hero when I can tell you sucked at guitar hero because you played slow ride enough to immediately recognize it.
Good players typically avoid the easy songs. They get really boring really fast.
5 starred ttfatf. I just like playing games with my friends
@@ritterbrown5474 keep telling yourself that. You'll actually believe it eventually.
Ohhh... We found ourselves the moody self righteous troll! How cute ❤❤❤
Rob went straight into 1080? I started on 720p and stayed there for years, at the time 1080 TVs were insanely expensive.
I worked at a Blockbuster during the long slow changeover from VHS to DVD. I feel old now.
What's Blockbuster?
What’s blockbuster 😂😂
Store that sold vhs, dvds, and videogames... grew up with it
.. shame if you didn't no one knows :(
Ah Blockbusters. I used to drop my son's off at their grandmothers after I'd taken them there. They would have rented a video or PS game back then.
I'm not the only person who did that with the discs
I did too. I dont know why, it just fasinated me
@@Raindrop_2401 I liked how the rainbows would move when you turned the disk
The smell of the fresh disc out of the box
I'm sure we all did. It was so shiny and full of rainbows, after all :D
Remember the purple disks? So pretty
The switch from AV input to HDMI input.
It was like opening your eyes for the first time
You mean I plug this one cord into one spot and I'm good to go? Lol.
Not if you actually changed lol wasn't much of a difference
"Hello you've caught me feeling nostalgic about the naughties!"
- oh dear, the naughties? I'm getting old aren't I.......
"First on our list.......DVDS....lolz who remembers those!"
- 😭😭😭
My favorite memory of things that takes me back to 00s was when I was 15 years old. Early in 2002 a friend of mine helped me get my hands on a PS2. I managed to afford getting a used console from a pawn shop and I also got a single controller, the A/V cable, power cord and two games. I couldn't wait to get home and play, and in my excitement I forgot a key item to have especially considering the only two games I now owned. I was the proud owner of Final Fantasy X and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. The key item I was missing, a memory card. My 15 year old mind was smart enough to realize I wasn't going to be able to really enjoy FFX without the ability to save but was just dumb enough to think MGS2 would be easy enough to do without it. So I played the game on Normal mode and found myself happy and spiteful of my ignorance as it took me 36 hours straight of playing (mixed with food and washroom breaks) to beat MGS2. Every death making me angry I wanted to quit combined with the idea of starting over from the very beginning built my own personal hell while I sat there internally screaming obscenities in my head for my foolishness and jumping for joy at my successes when I made it further after every death. To this day the idea of playing games you need to save manually to progress (Nier: Automata for example) take me back to that moment I was 15 and being ignorant enough to think "I don't care I can't save, I need to play this As soon as possible!"
Those cutscenes in games like ffx and ffxii where the graphics quality jumped up to the most beautiful things I’d ever seen are still some of my favorite things, even though everything remotely new looks better than they ever did. It’s just not the same
He's wearing Kojima productions jacket! 🥰🖤
This list just made me realize I'm eligible for a senior discount
Got a wee shiver up the back of my neck at that start up sound, thanks Rob! 😍
90's and 00's gamer here and i remember it all
being born in '85, I'm right there with you, sir. between trying to get my Dreamcast to go online, without an ISP mind you, and the first time I was able to utilize the "HD" in that of the HDMI ports of my XBox360 and my HD TV. I knew there was a reason why I loved this channel! :-D
ESL scrub here, and this is the first time I hear the term noughties. Yes, though you were saying naughties 😈
Dont worry, no one really ever uses that term in reality. Most ppl say "the two thousands/The 2000's" instead.
EFL veteran here. First time for me hearing that as well!
I thought he was referring to the "nineties", yet I realized he was talking about the 2000's.
Never heard it before either
Aeladya I am American too, but I have heard the term before
Wait a sec is that footage of Rosie playing the on the eye toy?
Indeed it is
It's amazing
It took me a while to recognise her because the picture is so blurry, but yes it would appear to be the case. That's real dedication, to record new EyeToy videos instead of just using some stock footage.
@@Astfgl also i think she did it because it's fun. i think they were like who wants to try and capture footage of the Eyetoy for the Friday feature, and Rosie was like "Meee!! Meee!" XD
@@Astfgl I love that they did that.
Man....that exact FFX guide on GameFAQs....I'm pretty sure I used that SAME. EXACT. ONE....
it is the best one after all!
Without even watching the video, I'm going to guess it was the one by Alex. He or she made the best walkthroughs, and for a lot of my favorite games to boot.
EDIT: It wasn't. Boo.
@@ShyBoy6ty9 It wasn't, but I think this still qualifies as another thing only early 00 gamers will remember. I always remember looking at the gamefaqs strategy guide pages for my games, and if I saw one by AIex (usually did), THAT was the one I was using, because they were always such high quality.
@@ShyBoy6ty9 Alex is the god of final fantasy walkthroughs.
Those written guides are well etched in my memory. I could always rely on the table of contents leading me to the exact part I needed help on.
I never would've started playing real guitar if I'd never picked up Guitar hero, and for that I will always treasure the series.
same here. if it weren't for guitar hero (legends of rock to be specific) I wouldn't love rock music as much as i do now
Playstation acces is the perfect break for my job, thank you guys!
Rob's early 00s internet usage:
90% walkthroughs, 10% hentai
Joe Knowles 10% why do ps1 manuals smell so good
10% Searching for rare games he didn't have in his possession.
You had to be very dedicated to those downloads is all I'm saying.
10% popups
That's my day now
Full backwards compatibility (if you had a PS2), no remasters, no patches, no live services, no dlc, no lootboxes, no installation times (the console would load the game from the dvd), music CD and movie DVD players, cheat codes rather than p2w, studios would release high budget - polished games quicker, more resistant controllers, a lot co-op games and you can still play 99% of the library today because they all released physically and/or are archived by the internet.
The negatives: Many games lacked auto save, region lock and extremely blurry/pixelated resolutions.
However, let's speak about the negatives of the mid 10s for a comparison's sake.
Zero backwards compatibility, filled with remasters you have to pay for again, large patches/live services/dlcs/lootboxes by greedy publishers who release broken or unfinished games for full price, no cheat codes, taking forever to release new titles, hardly any co-op, a couple of the games released this generation are already gone forever due to them being always online, yearly sequels (remasters on steroids) of already established franchises rather than betting on new ideas, paid online, ruined story/offline mode of some games by trying to shove American politics and heavy censorship.
But don't worry guys, the 2020s will be worse thanks to streaming. You won't even own the broken game releases anymore!
And then some people say gamers are toxic, the fact that we downgraded in everything except graphics is really telling of the current generation.
Oh wait just thought about another game taking aim at American politics! MGS on ps2. Still coming up blank on current gen though.
@@djangomarkov7948 Except the game was designed around it. I'm talking about games that tried to shoehorn american leftist politics to please people who don't even buy the damn games. MK11 (Jak's ending & full clothed women to avoid 'sexism'), Life Is Strange 1 and 2, Overwatch, BFV, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Mass Effect Andromeda, anime games (mostly censorship because 'sexism' again) and Ubisoft games in general even though they don't outright say it, it's obvious.
JKL I’m all for representation but even I can agree it’s a little much. I miss my OP female hero’s/villains in scantily clad armor barely covering their privates bits.
You know when women could actually be tough and badass and still keep their feminine traits instead and of making them all tomboy like.
I remember jumping from my trusty ps2 to an Xbox 360 at Christmas of 2007. I was amazed at the HD resolution it actually hurt my eyes
I'm in my 30's. This made me so happy. We've been through a lot of changes. This was a badass Friday feature. No doubt. Thank you.
oooh, remember that time the world ended?
Lots of fireworks that day, it was pretty amazing..
Like flat earthers got a realization that the things they believe are BS 😅
I was born in 95' so I relate some to the 90s videos but this one really hit home!
Me too 97
Same here, I was born in 94’ so I know how you feel. Man do I feel old. I remember playing the N64 and PS1 so makes it even worse.
Yeah, 95 for me as well. First systems I played on were the N64 and SNES, and the first system I owned was the ps1 that I got from my mothers ex boyfriend. I got all of his games with it as well, so I do have nostalgia for a lot of 90's stuff, even if I only experienced the tail end of it. But most of my time was spent with the ps2. Got it early in its lifecycle, and played with it until like a couple of years into the ps3, 360 generation.
As a 35 year old....I can relate to ALL OF THIS!
As a 12 year old, so can I.
The first time upgrading my ps3 to HD graphics left me in a constant state of amazement and awe. I imagined that this is what people must have felt like the first time color TV's came out. Simply amazing and I couldn't imagine going back. Not that I won't play an old game, I'm perfectly fine with that; just couldn't imagine plugging in AV cables for my PS3 to play FFX for example.
God those online walkthroughs, the flashbacks seeing that caused me! My final fantasy games, my legends of legia, my breath of fire, all of them requiring these guides that were somehow typed out with every single painstaking step spelled out for us to find every last thing possible and explain every single issue. Up till then you needed to burn 15 bucks on a strategy guide which, too be fair, generally were pretty solid. Great pictures to work with, written by the people who made the game (more or less) but yeah, 15 bucks. Finding the good walkthroughs online was heaven.
Lol...that FFX walkthrough....I had so many flashbacks when that came on screen I almost fell on the floor and had a seizure.
The accuracy of this video makes me feel insanely old.
Dammit Rob, I celebrated 27 last week. Now I feel old. Thanks ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
Platonis The Warlock boomer
Im turning 27 in October omg 😭
@@slaturwinters1828 My advice - DON'T. JK
I'm 31 and raising the next generation of gamers. My 9 year old rage broke her first controller last month. So proud.
27,wait till your about to turn 57 now that is old,my next party will be my funeral lol.
I still have my tiny DVD collection lying around which I used to watch on my PS2. I watched Fellowship of the Ring on DVD so much until the disc just stopped working properly.
But I bought the trilogy on Blu-Ray so it's all good.
I remember getting an xbox 360 and being amazed by the graphics. Was a huge jump up from the old ps1 we still had. I’d been asking for a ps2 for a couple of years then ( when I had finally convinced my dad around 2005) and when was finally allowed one the next gen had just started
I know millions of people say this every generation but damn I feel old.
I remember playing super Mario 64 at a circuit city.
Things aren’t so simple anymore
I remember playing Duck Hunt on my NES with the gun. Damn I feel old realizing I started gaming at nearly the begining of the video gaming era >
AMY HOARD great game duck hunt. I still have the old nes lightgun 😆
Duck hunt is a surefire way to make someone feel old. :-P
Press F for Circuit City
Damn, when you showed kh, I thought you were gonna say unskippable scenes
Now at the ripe age of 31 nostalgia has taken on a whole new meaning......I love gaming.....and Dragons Dogma......Game on young ones, game on.
Rob, I feel your pain, I live in the Caribbean and didn't get DSL until around 2003/4. Even then I didn't hook up my PS2 to it cause we only had a modem which was hooked up directly to the PC and the Ethernet cable was about 3 feet long and on the opposite end of the living room :(
Hearing the PS2 opening theme just hit me with a wave of nostalgia. Playing games on the PS2 was literally my entire entire childhood until I got a PS3. Good times.
Instant like for mentioning the Eye Toy. That was truly mindblowing back in the day.
There was nothing better than fighting ninja's or cleaning windows
His accent made it sound like he was saying naughtys🤣🤣🤣
Well I'm french and I have no clue how 00's is actually supposed to be pronounced, and "naughtys" or "naughties" is what I got from this video! :)
So what is it supposed to be? no-ties? like sixties or seventies except you say "no" for 0?
@@tawksoul8489 Noughties. :)
To bad we can’t change our PS4 bootup screen to mimic the classic PS1 bootup screen
There is a PS1 theme that has the menu music from the PS1.
You totally can
You kinda can with the 20th anniversary theme...
Being able to watch DVDs on the PS2 & Blue-rays on the PS3 were HUGE bonuses. I recommended the PS3 (and the remote of course) to SO many non-gamers because it was arguably the best blue-ray player for a long time and also stand alone blue ray players were $1,000+. It took years if I remember right for the cost of blue-ray players to finally drop below the cost of the PS3.
I'm not proud of it, but I also got the HD-DVD add-on. I ended up getting a fair amount of movies dirt cheap for it too because no one had players. I'm hoping that turns into a "rare" item in the years to come, but I'm not holding my breath lol.
Never played online on any console other than the PS4 I got recently. And GameFAQS was my home in the 00's! It's kinda amazing how these things that feel "not so long ago" are now almost (or are) a decade gone now. Still feel more at home in the 90's stuff tho.
I loved those walkthroughs! And like you, Rob, they helped me out with FFX and those pesky side quests and hidden coordinates from the airship.
I miss those times. But more than anything else I just miss buying a complete game.
I personally preffered those old game guides with the ASCII art
Another Friday, another Rob Video.
13:19 minutes of greatness x)
First HD game I played was the original Mass Effect. Awesome. Also, as an American I admit I had to contain my snorts every time you said "Noughties" and my mind continually translated that as "Naughties." Made me wonder what you were up to back then when you weren't playing games Rob!
One thing i remember from the 00's is: Having a scratched PS2 disk, and going online and finding all the super secret methods people use to get their games working again, some examples include: Putting the disk in the freezer overnight, spitting on the scratches (apparently the acid in your saliva would melt the scratches back to perfection), using things like Toothpaste and shaving cream and so on and so on, most of the time none of these worked and you just looked like a big idiot with toothpaste on the disk, heck even the semi De-Scratch machines that came out rarely if not ever worked XD
When you brought up EyeToy, I had a surge of memories. Me and my mate Blake. I miss him.
I had completely forgotten it even existed and then the mere mention of it has loaded my brain with things I thought I had forgotten.
What happened to your mate Blake?
@@intensellylit4100
Just grew apart. Both in our late twenties and doing completely different things.
Im 13 but you still had better internet than I have now. I have none at all. I am watching this video using mobile data. Alot of these apply to me cause I still play the ps2 quite alot.
That is one of the dumbest comments I've seen in a while! I hope you're joking kid. Dial-up internet speed was 56kb/seconds, if everything went well and if nobody dropped your connection by answering the phone. Your LTE speed is between 5 to 12 mb/seconds with peaks up to 50mbps, it follows you everywhere and you can literally surf the web while taking a call or even a video call on the same handheld device.
Cry me a river you spoiled brat. If I was your father and saw your comment I would remove your mobile data.
@@alecksluciferis4188 im sorry i offended you i have very little mobile data and no internet whatsoever ever and im not crying or whining. Rob from the video could still play online on his console using an Ethernet cable. I cannot at all no matter how hard i try. I was meaning more on the console side not the phone side sorry if you took it to heart. I wasn't trying to offend anyone. Also I pay for my own mobile data so my dad can't take it away
@@dannymallon3172 Don't give yourself that much importance. You didn't offend me. You just come across as an ungrateful kid who doesn't know the chance he has.
That demo with T-Rex on it omg I forgot about that one. It also had Hercules and Abe's Oddesey on it. I played the shit out of that demo.
My sister and I printed out several pages for Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness because it was so difficult. At least a hundred pages or more. It was such a long game and super difficult. Still a really great game that I might make myself suffer through again at some point in time. Man those were the days.....
Honestly...my favorite thing to do was put my finger through the disc and spin it around. Especially when I was online scouring GameFAQ for The Ultimate Guide - it was how I put myself in the zone, a little reminder right there on my finger.
Please keep talking about Final Fantasy 8. Maybe someday they will release it on ps4....
They still haven't brought 8 to PS4??? Sad days. Would love an excuse to play again.
But why did most ps2 sales ad have the ps2 disc upside down you would just see a blue disc the gamers know what I mean
Extreme sports games with great soundtracks like Tony Hawk Pro Skater Seris
So thanks to you guys I just bought the dynamic legacy theme. Always wanted something like that didn’t know they had it, appreciate youuuuuuu
I still have an original brick ps2, that has the HDD and network adapter in it. Mostly for FF XI and Twisted Metal: Black online.
As for entry 7, I too first played my new ps3 on a standard definition tv. But with nearly all ps3 games only playing in 720p at max, I really didn't notice the HD difference until I played FF XIII, which was in actual 1080p. Such a gorgeous game, wish the story was a bit better than it was though...
Watching DVDS on a 4K TV, there's only one word to describe Rob's dad, LEGEND!
As I'm watching this my internet is playing up big time. 10/10 maximum immersion
I watch your videos just for the funny way you say everything.. & yeah my first DVD player was PS2.
I remember my first online gaming experience was Quake 3 arena on the dreamcast with a cable so long it had to reach from my upstairs bedroom, down the stairs and into the kitchen where the phone was.
I completely agree with the jump to HD.
Mine was on the 360 and it took me months to realise I'd only flicked the switch over and was running at 480p still as I hadn't gone into the settings.
Needless to say I check everything now.
ff 10 on psp
You can now play it anywhere and you can play ff7, ff9 on your phone
301+ club yay it's been a long time
I miss the Guitar Hero/Rock Band days.
The algorithm gave me this video today. I had all but forgotten the window washing game, and now I've got the song stuck in my head. Thanks, RUclips 😂
Thank you Rob. I needed this.
4:59. Yeah. Sure thing, Rob. "90%".
i mean, 90% of 'his' internet use. plus pornhub didn't start till 2007, it's a pretty late addition.
Love your jacket Rob, it’s ace!
10:50 "The Ethernet cable currently plugged into my laptop-"
Younger viewers, Laptops never used to have wireless.
Even if they did, we all fought for the ethernet cable anyway, wireless connections were unreliable as ****.
I even know the Guitar Hero song was Slow Ride of the clip they used from GH 3
I could watch these videos all day long. They’re so entertaining! But this video had me laughing so hard because I could relate to all of this!!! Especially when you brought up gameFAQS. That site was a lifesaver!! 😂😂😂