the weird forgotten world of xbox indie games
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- Remember games like APOCZ, CastleMiner Z, Avatar Warfare or any of the other Xbox 360 Indie games from back in the day? They used to be the backbone of the Xbox 360.
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Bro was the leader of the clan but not RUclips
klan*
💀 Bro really said:
⚪️⚪️ 🔥 🔴
He's the uh jokester guy so uh yeah
Yeah...
she was silent bc she was shocked how manly he was (source: I made it up)
It’s sad that Xbox doesn’t really use avatars in games anymore. Even the new avatars, I’ve hardly seen any game use them. I remember seeing a few XBLA games utilizing them
I always felt like after Kinect launched, avatars became almost exclusively Kinect characters, so when Kinect died, so did they.
I honestly miss the active usage of them. Like if Microsoft invested some time into being able to use both kinds of avatars for games on the Xbox, we could see a renaissance with the avatars. I honestly haven't touched my XBL avatar in over 5 years, mostly because I haven't been incentivized to do so, cause I never got to see it in use ANYWHERE.
I remember when some games would give you avatar items for getting achievements, I was constantly updating my avatar. I have an Xbox (granted I hardly use it) and I don’t even remember having to make an avatar or seeing somewhere you can make one
I played the heck out of the laser game with my buddies
Same, hell, i'm pretty sure there isn't even indie games exclusive to xbox that even utilize them which is a huge shame
The xbox avatar at this point is a relic of a kinder past. Theyre still there but not in the spotlight anymore let alone even seen on the new consoles
Was the best part of Xbox they ruined it by not using it anymore
Um if you play in the 360 you still can duh what a chump
You can still just use them as a picture. I still use the monkey on Xbox. Never changed it. Also I still have the Bungie Octopus 🐙 on my original account. My buddy uses the Bungie Monkey.
You can still just use them as a picture. I still use the monkey on Xbox. Never changed it. Also I still have the Bungie Octopus 🐙 on my original account. My buddy uses the Bungie Monkey.
The new Avatars kind of code your character in certain ways. Ironically, I can't be the default fat bearded gringo😂
I remember playing ApocZ and barley running into people what's so weird is also remember meeting someone one day looting stuff and getting a car it was such a blast a core memory of my childhood ill never forget those days
You can still play it as long as you and your friends have a rgh
@crazyfloof I don't know who the guy was and I don't have a 360 anymore and I don't know what a rgh is
ApocZ was a fever dream 💀
I remember abusing the bugginess of the game to load into someone's base and gun them down.
I also remember wanting to see were it went but the creator supposedly got into a car wreck and never worked on it again.
I remember the warehouse behind the city scape having a M249 and some kind of sniper and assault rifle by it and always fighting over it with the randoms😂 the driving was weird and wonky asf too but enjoyed it because it was dayz before having a pc
i'm actually thankful i got to grow up with the 360 it truly was the golden age of gaming
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It ‘twas
@Ac0ustics0ulshut up old head
@Ac0ustics0ulyea no it wasn’t that’s just an old head response ps1 was ass and nostalgia based
100%. I still own one and play on it regularly. Also have a series X and I spend 90% of the time playing backwards compatible games.
Castle Crashers, I MAED A GAEM WITH ZOMBIES 1N 1T, White Noise Online and Doritos Crash Course were top tier arcade/indie games
No Luca No & Try not To Fart were also interesting.
the fucking soundtrack from "I made a game" was incredible
So many good times. Kids today missed out
3 out of those 4 are still available on the new consoles. Castle crashers got a remaster, I MAED got a rerelease and Doritos crash course is available through backwards compatibility.
Don’t forget total forge
Real ones continued to play castle miner Z even after minecraft was on Xbox
what it was fun to travel to the far lands where you could just find diamonds on the ground and if you went even further you could find blood stone and if you went really far the world just loops
Castle miner z was goated I wish I could play it again
@@SnoopyScoots its on steam
Castleminer Z and Total Miner were some of my most treasured childhood memories, and I wish somebody would kind of like bring them back in some way
Edit: I appreciate everyone who let me know it was on Steam, I did not this at the time, and that's really cool to know.
Theyre on steam, arent they?
Did you ever play just castle miner it's was literally castle miner z but creative mode Minecraft no enemies just really beautiful areas or a super flat world
@@rentalmeturd3247 I know castle miner z is me and my friends play is from time to time
@@11ggames20 yeah I bought Castle Miner specifically so I could use Creative Mode in CMZ lol. It was alright but it didn't have that same level of depth for me
Castle Miner Z with the music, dragon and zombie raids, and insane updates was truly one of the best games on Xbox.
I miss the Doritos Dash of Destruction game where you either played as a car trying to hit checkpoints or a dinosaur trying to eat the car. Used to play that with my young cousins (5-7) because I didnt have a lot of appropriate games for kids.
Loved that game. Never seems to get mentioned.
I swore I remembered you controlled turrets...
Oh how I miss the Xbox indie marketplace. If I log onto my 360 right now, my library is full to the brim with Xbox indie and arcade games.
Quite a bit of the Indie titles have not been preserved and are not re download able. Please back them up to a USB drive if you haven't already
I forget if it was indie or arcade, but I loved a game called Beat Hazard. What it did was, you could scan in your music CDs and it used the tracks as levels of a twin stick space shooter. So when the music got heavier more enemies would appear. It wasn't perfect but the idea came across clear, and it had more structure like mini boss fights and such, and it gauged the difficulty rating. Also the beam from your ship pulsated with the music, so it felt like the music was your weapon. The great thing was it worked with any song so the gameplay was endless. A great offshoot of the Guitar Hero music game revolution, and it got an upgrade in Ultra Beat Hazard. I think it would work just as well now as it did then.
Wait, Beat Hazard first came out on Xbox? Crazy! I haven't played much of 2, but I've played a lot of 1 on Steam. I even tried it on my phone, when I had a phone with USB OTG support for a wired controller, but like, how often am I stuck waiting somewhere AND I wanna feel amped up? 😂
I think my go-to tracks were stuff like Pink Floyd and the tiny bit of techno I had, but there are some really fun bits of classical music to play, plus you can get a really long round in, that way. Sucks when a boss comes at a quiet part, though, like... Thanks for the pea shooter, damn it!
What were some artists or genres you remember being really fun?
@@neonte13 Nine Inch Nails translated really well, other than that I focused on punk rock mostly. I didn't use the Xbox to play CDs, but the scanning process was quick and easy. There just wasn't much to it once you've mastered the basics, it was a fun novelty. But that was the perfect level of involvement for the game, it was a mindless relaxation exercise.
Best indie game was definitely I MADE A GAME WITH ZOMBIES IN IT. Then Castle Miner Z in 2nd, Total Miner Forge in 3rd, and Murder Miners in 4th.
For most of the 360's lifetime, I MADE A GAME WITH ZOMBIES IN IT was the highest rated indie game then the last year or 2 of the 360's life Castle Miner Z passed it even though it didn't have near the number of reviews.
SO glad to see someone mention I MADE A GAME WITH ZOMBIES IN IT. My little brother and I played this like crazy
@jacobj5080 yeah. Black Ops 1 even copied this game with Dead Ops Arcade. I really wish that game was forward compatible with modern Xboxes.
They went on to make salt and sanctuary
@Mattakschwa yeah they had a lot of games I played on the 360 like Charlie Murder (Castle Crashers but you're in a band) and Zombies and Pterodactyls
I was so disappointed that they didn’t mention this game. Better than it had any right to be. Especially since all y’all misspelled it. It’s “i maed a gam3 w1th z0mb1es 1n it !!1”
I miss these days. Everything felt much more social back then. A far cry from what we have today on Xbox
Throw in the 1v100 live TV game and the fact that Netflix had a whole "Watch movies with friends in a movie theater" thing going on.
It was the most social of video games systems ever and was awesome.
Party chat kinda ruined the social aspect
Oh my god I hope they talk about that one village management game where your avatar was a giant. That game was a core memory.
Edit: A Kingdom for Klefflings!! Haha no way, you guys even talked about ApocZ. Great research guys, this vid brought back so many memories.
World of Kefflings?
World of Kefflings was def a core memory
World of Keflings was a sequel game. My wife and I played them together.
I don't know if Kingdom was ever on the Indie side, but he's wrong about not being able to use your avatars on the Arcade version. That was a later add on.
Murder Miners is still available on modern Xbox platforms, and Steam. It's great.
And they're working on a sequel Murder Miners X
Total miner was so much more then a Minecraft clone. It had rpg elements, shop blocks, had to find blue prints to craft new things, skills. I miss total miner
Finally someone said it & remembers it the way i do. It was way more feature rich than 360 Minecraft was on launch.
Them stopping backwards compatibility killed the Xbox for me
This is honestly the only channel that has videos more than 20 mins that I actually enjoy and fully watch. Love the channel and content.
Absolutely wild to see Speedrunners introduced as "this other game" at 3:24 when now it's a full and popular party game that was a hit with the RUclips greats in the 2010s
16:00 as far as custom maps on Minecraft on 360 for the time, there was a way to import them via USB using a save state editor. My friends would send me maps and custom games and I just use the same program I used to edit our borderlands characters.
Hybrids in borderlands are cool
Or just use a program called ‘Horizon’ and swap the save IDs to your own profiles’ ID so that the console can point the save to your specific account
Used those USB programs for so many games when I was a kid. I think the most memorable was that you could load a mod menu into Call of duty World at War zombies without having to use a Jtag or RGH. Also the Borderlands modded save files and dropping random people modded guns and shields
@@FlathaxiosRGH can't forget editing your mw2 gamertag
I remember Avatar Warfare as the first digital game I ever bought when I wasn't allowed COD. Avatar Legends was also a cool game, its graphics are what I immediately think of when someone says Xbox 360. I bought Avatar Paintball but the playerbase was dead by the time I got it
Daaamn, I forgot all about Avatar Warfare. Never got to play it as I was at a friend's house back in the day. This is a nostalgia trip.
A bit of these Xbox Live Indie titles are not yet preserved, and can no longer be downloaded. They also can't seem to be played in the Xbox 360 emulator Xenia. If anyone watching this still has an Xbox 360 with Indie titles downloaded on it please look into getting them backed up and archived.
bro, you just brought back some memories with murder miners. i used to play this game 24/7 and i never seen anyone else talk about it until now. thank you for sharing this
Its still on steam. So is castleminer z.
12:00 woah the fact this game had multiplayer is insane 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
so glad youtube algorithm has been suggesting more content like video essays or just this
I once was in a mount your friends competition between me and 15 other people at a party, let’s just say it was one of the best times I’ve ever had in all my years. Ended up in third place at the end so you can imagine the pressure after all that time. Wish I could go back to those nights.
Also this sounds bad out of context but if you know you know
Soo many games we played as teens so much fun
All the perfect controller massages lol
Me and my friends played so many avatar and indie games. CastleMiner Z, CastleMiner, Apocz, Shark Attack, Avatar Warfare and so many others. From time to time i still boot up my 360 just to get on the games and play them. I will always remember CastleMiner Z, CastleMiner, Total Miner, Apocz, and Shark Attack. All buggy but fun indie game you could play multiplayer.
There really isn’t anything like these games anymore..
I was a game dev on blood & bacon did the voices, soundtrack and playtested. Met a lot of fans and loved playing co op with them, fun times. If you never played it you missed out.
Indie games where half of my xbox childhood it was halo call of duty and indie games and roblox that were booming back then
Who played Try Not To Fart? Your character was on a date and you had to press controller button combos with what was on screen. Miss one and he lets one rip
I used to enjoy an indie game called Concept Coaster Craft back in the 360 days. It wasn’t anything special but it was a neat little coaster creator with Xbox avatars and I enjoyed it more than I should have
Xbox indie games was something alright.
A Kingdom for Keflings and A World of Keflings are both backward compatible on the Xbox One and by extension Series X/S! I still play them every so often!
I will never forget these xbox avatar games. So glad youre covering this
Avatar Farming Online and White Noise Online used to be my shit on the 360 store.
This was such a nostalgic ride.
My 3 favorite Xbox Indie games were Try Not to Fart, I Made a Game With Zombies in it, and Cthulhu Save the World.
Hey dude. There is a very high chance that it was me that played Apocz with you
I played that game for many many hours back in the day and used to love teaming up with random people and driving about to each base
Its not a "weird forgotten world", its just considered that by PS and PC players. Everyone who was on Xbxlive back then played these games too. We all played games like these to cool down after sweatin in Halo or COD.
Speed runners was always one of my favorite games growing up
thank you to anyone who made or worked on these games. for poor children all around the world you filled our time with semi playable games that our childhood brains could turn into full movies.
I don’t think the keflings series was ever labeled “indie” only “arcade”
correct
The creator of apocz passed away in a car accident I believe. His parents sold his PC so someone out there had his source code. It's really sad because he had big plans to make it so much better but passed shortly after release.
Murder Miners, White Noise, ApocZ, Xenominer, and castleminer Z were a big part being 13 yr old and explaining to my pop that i could buy games for the same price as a burger
The indie games were interestingly fun, scary, and also weird. I remember playing Avatar drop, Castle Miners Z, and including several Avatar games, like the laser tag game and fighting games. And most of those games only costed a buck (80MSP). The good old days.
Oh lord I came ready to see Total Miner, Castle Miner, and Fortress Craft and now that I’ve been reminded of Mount Your Friends, I had such a crazy flashback of awesome memories lmao
Omg core memory unlocked I remember playing avatar survival games with my friends. Of course I remember castle miner, but forgot about survival games completely.
Castleminer Z and Total miner Z were peak childhood. I loved them so much
On my original Xbox 360 I still have a couple of these indie games still download like total miner, castle miner z, avatar laser wars 2, and a few more I can’t remember
Murder Miners, Castleminer Z, Avatar Laser Wars 2, Avatar Survival, Climb Your Friends, Avatar Warfare.
All peak.
There was one zombie game I remember playing a whole lot. It was a really poor copy of call of duty zombies, but it had avatar support and it was really easy to adjust rack up a whole bunch of points, and just go on instantly I remember sinking so much time into that
You didn’t include the slender man clone, “WHITE NOISE”
Absolutely loved that game
I remember getting Minecraft for the first time for my 360 my uncle bought it for me and I was so excited I wish I could relive this moment again
The avatar laser tag game was FIIIIIRE
Hidden In Plain Sight was a genius game. It was only a dollar and I’ve still never seen anything quite like it since
avatar paintball was gas and nobody can convince me otherwise
Glad to be apart of the Xbox 360 Indie Game Community! 🙏
xbox 360 was truly a great console.
It's the only one that really did connect everyone on a social level.
CastleMiner Z will always remain one of the most fun Xbox indie games me and my friends had the most fun on
The one Xbox Live indie game I sorely miss out on the most is a game known as Star Cross, it was an interesting RPG, I remember watching my older sibling playing the game quite religiously, and got stuck on one boss that we thought for sure was the final boss due to its difficulty, but much to our surprise, there was still more of the game left. Alas, we never got to see how the game ended, because eventually, the Xbox 360 updated with this two-step authentication process, which, locked us out of our primary Xbox Live account, and still cannot be accessed to this day.
Other Xbox Live indie games I fondly remember playing are games like Abstacked, On A Roll, Polywobble, Avatar Grand Prix (or, whatever its name is), Smashell, Wacky Kart, Bobbin's Quest, and Avatar Glides 1 and 2. (Oh, there was also this one game known as Artoon, and that was cool as well, shame it's hard to find information on it)
the indie game called $1 Zombie Game was my shit growing up
I thought of that game like 0.2 seconds before reading your comment lol
I remember playing the hell out of murder miners
It’s still up I play it still
Dudeee, Murder Miners was incredible!!
12:20 the e-daters would go crazy for this now a days
We didn't play Castle Miner Z because we didn't have Minecraft on Xbox. Castle Miner Z is a whole different beast of its own. It really was about running as far as you could and destroying everything in your path with a God damn machine gun. The aliens and demons the further you went.
I remember being able to do basically movie parties with friends on Netflix on the 360 and it would put you into a movie theater with your friends and you would just talk and watch movies with friends it was the coolest feature to me on the 360 I used to always watch movies with my cousins and friends online
"A really unique game" shows an infinite runner. basically the hello world of videogames.
1:02 that’s just the Doritos Xbox game but with less graphics XD
Bro me and my Buddy used to pick people up in apocz and just drive around. It was my favorite past time in that game. That game filled a void in me.
Castle miner Z deserves a come back as its own thing .. because diamond Ak47 vs a Dragon off the top of my fort with my homies was peak
I remember there was a glitch on Apocz where you could glitch inside that hangar and you were invincible to zombies and players those were the days
Oh my gosh! I loved avatar drop 😭😭 you just unlocked a memory, wow
Apocz brought me back, I was like 8 bro
ApocZ was my favorite game as a kid, it was great for a kid who couldn’t afford a pc for dbd
Doritos Crash Course was AMAZING
the avatar games were so good, it really felt like i was able to represent myself the way i wanted in the games. like the motocross madness game was so cool to see my avatar in it
Anyone remember 1 vs 100?
That and doritos crash course
16:06 Essentially when the Legacy versions of Minecraft released (console versions prior to the switch, though PS4 and One would get updated to the new one) They had MINIGAMES! Which were absolutely phenomenal. There was a Spleef game called Tumble, a flying game with the elytra called Glide, but most importantly there was Battle. A hunger games style game. So great. So many amazing memories.
Had some friends tell me that their first uh… “O”. was caused by a PlayStation or GameCube controller. So there’s that. Might explain the ‘massage’ games.
“Friends” huh lol it’s okay bro you can admit it was you don’t gotta lie it’s just RUclips
Bro the paintball, avatar warfare, dorito crash course, and keflings were unlocked memories thank you
12:19 i did this wayyyy ahead of time. Back when ps2 had that game “Corvette” I used to go to free rave and drive while crashing into the wall to create a back massaging controller for my mom after a long day at work. Kid shit
I really like how the old Xbox 360 avatars looked. They look so cartoony. i hate how they shrunk their big heads to normal size on new Xbox. lost its charm.
The nostalgia is almost painful. So many good friends I'll never talk to again. Simpler, happier times.
Honestly, the $1 Zombie Game was GOAT-ed. This was when i couldn’t afford BO1 when it was new.
There was a santa clause zombie indie game that was hilarious
But who remembers the Netflix theater, where you could watch shows with your friends
Doritos Crash Course was a fun game with the use of avatars
I remember when Netflix would’ve let you watch movies and shows with your fiends on Xbox 360 Live it wouldve been like your avatar and your friends avatar at a theater
Judging by art style and mechanics, I think "Miner Dig Deep" is more of a copy of "Aground" or the same game upgraded by the same people in the future, but there's a lot of similarities there
Man I remember a Vampire's vs Hunter's game on the Xbox 360 that was a tiny indie game and I played it a long time ago no one really played it wish I remembered the name of it but the Vampire's mainly looked like Nosferatu and when you knocked them down with your crossbow thing's you had to steak them in the heart to properly finish them and something like that should be made into a bigger game that looks like it had some budget put into it cause it is just a good idea
But maybe make it more Infection based where one person is randomly picked as the first Vampire and they need to make others into Vampire's with it being super horror based with map's being dark and eerie cause yeah
Zombie estate was my jam
Murder Miners still has a fairly dedicated player base and a sequel called Murder Miners X is coming in the future.
I swear, i must be crazy or something. I know that i played an indie game back then where the game had no visuals. Only a black screen and the game sounds. Every step you took was in a puddle of water. There was a monster that you could hear sometimes in the distance. If you stepped the wrong way, the monster killed you. Problem is, i can't find the damn game anywhere. Anyone else remember this game?
No way Minecraft released on the 360 in 2012 because I have a very vivid memory of 2011 December 25th or 26th being at my Grandads with money for any small thing on the Xbox Live store. I remember friends being in a party and playing Minecraft and I wanted that so bad to play with friends that I bought the game that night and played with friends to surprise them.
ApocZ had a really sad story, I believe the dev got into a car crash, I can’t remember if there was any fatalities but he pretty much stopped developing the game after that
Maaan, I used to have an arcade owner sim I would play for H o u r s, not to mention miner dig deep, loved it.
Murder miners and Dishwashers brought back crazy memories. Its actually so crazy this vid came out because me and my brother was searching for murder miners not too long ago but couldnt find the name, we just called it that minecraft halo game lol. The game had the creativity of minecraft and halo forge, with all the cool game modes (especially infection). The customization was sick, the game was very active and we enjoyed every moment of it till we ran out of xbox live gold :/. Dishwasher tho… i think thats a game everyone should experience, the art, gameplay, and story is great. It reminded me if that edgy stickman/newgrounds era and was perfect.
that comedy night was wild i remember a dude getting the mic on stage and stuttering and a black guy *set yo ass down* and he just continues to stammer and stutter on stage whilst the african saying *Set Yo ASS Down!* it was just really funny to hear the one over the other
I had several of these on my 360 - the massage one, total miner, constructor360 (a neat little Lego-like thing), and a fantastic one called The Most Addicting Sheep Game, which got rereleased on iOS and Android a few years back
Fast forward to now, I’m going into the game dev industry and unironically learned XNA, which the 360 indie games were built on. These games and the Xbox 360 had such a profound impact on me