I remember the Serious Sam graphics engine getting a lot of attention due to how advanced it was for the time, and having been made from the ground up by a previously unknown Croatian indie developer.
Oh heck yeah! Tribes 2 was my jam! I was in a guild in both Tribes 1 and 2, battles were crazy fun with large teams fighting each other and every player having unique roles and strategies. Tribes 3 was such a disappointment, but I have to admit, the skiing mechanic in that game is actually really fun.
Tribes 2 is a team fortress game that was way ahead of its time and was killed by the end of Sierra. If it came out now, it would probably be one of the biggest games. The combination of vehicles and jetpacks, and the amazing skiing mechanic made for some of the greatest flag snatch and returns I've ever had in any game playing with my friends. So much fun.
You know the old mech commander rts games were amazing and remember MYTH? My god those games were so good if anyone played myth and myth 2 back in the days online i was =Warlock=if we ever met. :)
I still play first mechcommander from time to time. My dad used to replay missions untill he salvaged all the timber wolfs possible. I only heard about myth from friends and on mandalor channel, cutscenes and atmosphere are top yet idk if I'll find time to grind through campaign myself)
12 1/2 years later I find my old video used in something in 2024. I never would of thought I'd see the day! Thanks for the shoutout! Looking back, I see how silly I looked trying to make that 2nd puzzle work for a bit with the least amount of items used. I just didn't want to use that hover piece even though it's super easy xD But yeah it's a really fun game! Fun fact: This version of The Incredible Machine was on the Hoyle Puzzle Games 2003 version, but this series has its own versions, this just happened to be the one I grew up with personally when I would play it at my grandparents house!
I loved Uplink. If you had told nine year old me, the point where I first played the Shadowrun and Cyberpunk 2020 tabletop games and started reading cyberpunk novels that seventeen year old me would make the choice I did in a hacking focused game like uplink the younger me would have thought seventeen year old me was a replacement clone or him from the mirror universe.
I used to love Etherlords! I had found both Etherlords 1 and 2 for sale at the store as a kid, and had lots of fun playing both games (even if I was really bad at them).
I remember running across a really weird "bug" in Tribes 2. Well, not so much in the game itself - rather in the NVidia drivers of the time which I'd only ever seen affect Tribes 2. When watching someone show off their shiny new GeForce 2 GTS at a computer shop, we noticed that the game wasn't running particularly well. Adamant that it normally ran better, we set about trying to determine what could be different between this and their usual home setup. We eventually came to realise that the resolution was the difference - he was running it in a *lower* resolution to show us, being only 800x600. Sure enough when we bumped it up to 1024x768 it suddenly sprung to life and ran buttery smooth. All I can put it down to is some weird kind of power management. The lower resolution wasn't enough for it kick into full P0 clock states, crippling performance. Never saw anything like it ever before or since.
WOW! That's sooo random! I once witnessed a PC that wouldn't start without a disk in a floppy drive. Granted that was earlier, circa 1995-ish. Oh, and to be clear, the drive never even made a noice, read nothing from it, it could be any disk whatsoever, and until it was inserted, the PC just waited frozen at that post screen with all the RAM and stuff.
As an ex-division 1 Eurocup Quake III player, and a top 25 dueller in my country, I gotta admit that there was a lot of repsect for the Tribes scene back then, from us Quake players. Tribes 2 was highly regarded competitively, as was Tribes Vengeance, but I never tried either of them. EDIT - wait thats a lie, I DID play some Tribes 3 for a few weeks back in the day and it was very decent.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames It's nothing special, I had to dedicate literally tens of thousands of hours carving out that rating. I loved the game, which made it easier, but anyone with a tacitum of skill in FPS could've done the same. It was interesting reaching that high echelon though, not just personally (the udnerstanding you develop of mechanics etc) but mixing it with other elite level players was always exciting. And the best part was - being able to spectate games across the genre of the best of the best and actually udnerstand what was going on, what each player was planning, etc. That was always fun. Met some great people over the years from the scene and am friends with one or two of them still, so I guess in hindsight that is probably the best takeaway.
In 2001 I was still playing older games if any. I think I was already nostslgic over the 90s ones. :) I can't really give an objective opinion about 2001's games... I'll give the video a bacon though.🥓 A pretty objective one. :D I tried some Incredible Machine, but very briefly unfortunately. I keep putting good games off for later, when I'd have more time. The idea of it is very fun and I see this version has mice and crocodiles, so even better. :) I've never heard of Uplink before. Maybe because hacking was becoming a concern at the time here and it became a taboo subject. Who knows? :D Having worked in telephony, I'm curious if the game has phreaking, though I reckon it doesn't. Judging by the movie's aesthetic, I wonder if anyone's ever called hackers cyberpunks. XD
I love The Incredible Machine & Even More Contraptions is, as you suggested, essentially a large expansion pack. Now we have to decide if they’re Rube Goldberg or Heath Robinson machines? 😄 Serious Sam: TFE rocks so hard! It looked great for the time, has some interesting mechanics & enemies & the enemies have a look all their own. By the way the Game Boy Advance version is actually pretty good for a demake, it’s great for the system. Uplink is fun & inevitably was contentious in it’s day for being a “hacker trainer” but as you pointed out it’s more like a movie like Hackers version of the art. The Rage looks kind of rough but from what you’ve said it sounds fun? Never played Tribes 2 because I’m antisocial & don’t like interacting with people. 😄 Dino Crisis 2 is awesome! I loved it but played it on Play Station, so never saw it at PC resolutions but I don’t care. The Dino Crisis games are silly fun & highly recommended! Fun video, thanks! It’s hard to say if 2001 was a better year because gaming hardware was ramping up hard at this point so games looked, sounded & ran better than ever before but the games from this era don’t seem as monumental or epoch making as previous years, if you see what I mean? Gaming was “settled in” & not the frontier of new ideas previous years games had been.
Such difficult questions so late at night! Come on, I can't answer that now! ;) I actually had to grow into appreciating of SS games. I was much more narrow minded as a kid. xD Movie or no movie, Uplink rocked! Glad you know of it too. :) Antisocial? Not "here" though, right? ;) You may be right. 2001 may be a year of a "perfected" game, as in game that we've seen for a few years by then, and not a revolutionary one.
If allowed i would love to ask personal things, is that ok? How old are you, first video game, when did you start to play video games, favorit typ of game and favorit game, did you or parents have to drive outside your country to buy games and system like i had or could you buy everything in your own country, could you play games in your tongue or in german, rus, eng, was your country a lot more expensive than your neighbours, censored like german or free like austrian? I will continue to watch you, so i am very interested in how you had it. Sry for bad eng.
I suppose it is, and I'll try to answer most of these. My first video game? Well, the piracy here was very prominent between early 80s and mid 90s, so I can't tell you the exact "first". But I can tell which was the first I remember playing. It was either "Jumpman Junior" or "Treasure Island" or "Popeye" - all on C64. The C64 came from Germany, games were available here in the form of compilation tapes, each with 10-30 pirated titles. Such were the times I suppose... Amiga was purchased locally, so it was when times began slowly changing. For the better, as I am totally against piracy these days. And I've few thousand games. xD It's also worth noting that both C64 and Amiga got here a 2-3 years later than in the West. So yeah, there was a hardware release "slide" here back then. Since I'm Polish, only Polish games were in my native language, and I played most in English. Which is great, as believe it or not, it helps you learn the language in a very effective and natural way. Engagement, fun, stuff like that really boosts the learning in kids. xD Also, I don't play any games in Polish anymore, everything's in English. I also don't watch anything streaming in my language as I'm too used to being surrounded with English that I couldn't really care switching anything to any other language. And especially that the most content's in English and translations are of, well questionable quality. No censorship in games here. Hope that was what you were looking for, and look at that, I've only skipped one question. And it's not even because I'm particularly old, but because I consider age an artificial number we've created to describe passing based on an artificial notion that it should had something to do with how the Earth rotates around its axis and the Sun. Silly. xD
Don't tell them! ;) Seriously though, they would never find it even by mistakes as nothing that I cover here is in their shallow puddle of interests. xD
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Serious Sam.. a legendary game!
I've played many times ago.
I remember the Serious Sam graphics engine getting a lot of attention due to how advanced it was for the time, and having been made from the ground up by a previously unknown Croatian indie developer.
Well, it was rather fast for its time. :)
Commandos 2 is god tier tacstrat. Pinnacle of the genre likely
Definitely of its subgenre.
Oh heck yeah! Tribes 2 was my jam! I was in a guild in both Tribes 1 and 2, battles were crazy fun with large teams fighting each other and every player having unique roles and strategies. Tribes 3 was such a disappointment, but I have to admit, the skiing mechanic in that game is actually really fun.
Tribes 1 - Renegades Mod is the greatest team shooter to ever exist.
Must've been fun! I never really had anyone to play with back then. Online that is.
Tribes 2 is a team fortress game that was way ahead of its time and was killed by the end of Sierra. If it came out now, it would probably be one of the biggest games. The combination of vehicles and jetpacks, and the amazing skiing mechanic made for some of the greatest flag snatch and returns I've ever had in any game playing with my friends. So much fun.
You know the old mech commander rts games were amazing and remember MYTH? My god those games were so good if anyone played myth and myth 2 back in the days online i was =Warlock=if we ever met. :)
I still play first mechcommander from time to time. My dad used to replay missions untill he salvaged all the timber wolfs possible. I only heard about myth from friends and on mandalor channel, cutscenes and atmosphere are top yet idk if I'll find time to grind through campaign myself)
I still have my OG myth 2 Mac/PC combo cd. I need to go through gymnastics of getting it to work on my x86 mac.
It was also fun and enjoyable to watch your video! Greetings from Austria 🇦🇹
Thank you sir! :D
12 1/2 years later I find my old video used in something in 2024. I never would of thought I'd see the day! Thanks for the shoutout!
Looking back, I see how silly I looked trying to make that 2nd puzzle work for a bit with the least amount of items used. I just didn't want to use that hover piece even though it's super easy xD But yeah it's a really fun game!
Fun fact: This version of The Incredible Machine was on the Hoyle Puzzle Games 2003 version, but this series has its own versions, this just happened to be the one I grew up with personally when I would play it at my grandparents house!
I loved Uplink. If you had told nine year old me, the point where I first played the Shadowrun and Cyberpunk 2020 tabletop games and started reading cyberpunk novels that seventeen year old me would make the choice I did in a hacking focused game like uplink the younger me would have thought seventeen year old me was a replacement clone or him from the mirror universe.
Uplink IS still great! There are fanmade mods to update the UI ... and the game below is still so fun
Good to know, I should really look it up again, or the MODs really. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Google "Uplink OS mod" for my favourite one
ahaha forgot about The Rage. Character skins were saved as *.bmp in the game directory and I made some changes to how they look :>
Oh, I didn't know that! It's something I'd enjoyed back then. :)
Thanks for reminding me that I need to try Commandos 2 at some point!
Yeah, 23, nearly 24 years, I think you're ready. ;)
I am still in love with 99, 00, 01 games golden era in my opinion
Yeah, they defo were something special!
I used to love Etherlords! I had found both Etherlords 1 and 2 for sale at the store as a kid, and had lots of fun playing both games (even if I was really bad at them).
Man...Commandos 2 and Tribes II...Good times, good times.
Yup :)
I remember running across a really weird "bug" in Tribes 2. Well, not so much in the game itself - rather in the NVidia drivers of the time which I'd only ever seen affect Tribes 2.
When watching someone show off their shiny new GeForce 2 GTS at a computer shop, we noticed that the game wasn't running particularly well. Adamant that it normally ran better, we set about trying to determine what could be different between this and their usual home setup. We eventually came to realise that the resolution was the difference - he was running it in a *lower* resolution to show us, being only 800x600. Sure enough when we bumped it up to 1024x768 it suddenly sprung to life and ran buttery smooth.
All I can put it down to is some weird kind of power management. The lower resolution wasn't enough for it kick into full P0 clock states, crippling performance. Never saw anything like it ever before or since.
WOW! That's sooo random! I once witnessed a PC that wouldn't start without a disk in a floppy drive. Granted that was earlier, circa 1995-ish. Oh, and to be clear, the drive never even made a noice, read nothing from it, it could be any disk whatsoever, and until it was inserted, the PC just waited frozen at that post screen with all the RAM and stuff.
As an ex-division 1 Eurocup Quake III player, and a top 25 dueller in my country, I gotta admit that there was a lot of repsect for the Tribes scene back then, from us Quake players. Tribes 2 was highly regarded competitively, as was Tribes Vengeance, but I never tried either of them.
EDIT - wait thats a lie, I DID play some Tribes 3 for a few weeks back in the day and it was very decent.
WOW! I was never as good at any genre, even the ones that I love. :) Congrats! Even if you don't play them any more, still, congrats!
@@OldAndNewVideoGames It's nothing special, I had to dedicate literally tens of thousands of hours carving out that rating. I loved the game, which made it easier, but anyone with a tacitum of skill in FPS could've done the same.
It was interesting reaching that high echelon though, not just personally (the udnerstanding you develop of mechanics etc) but mixing it with other elite level players was always exciting. And the best part was - being able to spectate games across the genre of the best of the best and actually udnerstand what was going on, what each player was planning, etc. That was always fun.
Met some great people over the years from the scene and am friends with one or two of them still, so I guess in hindsight that is probably the best takeaway.
Dino crisis 1, 2 and Etherlords 2 were the goats
Decent games, yup. :)
In 2001 I was still playing older games if any. I think I was already nostslgic over the 90s ones. :) I can't really give an objective opinion about 2001's games... I'll give the video a bacon though.🥓 A pretty objective one. :D
I tried some Incredible Machine, but very briefly unfortunately. I keep putting good games off for later, when I'd have more time. The idea of it is very fun and I see this version has mice and crocodiles, so even better. :)
I've never heard of Uplink before. Maybe because hacking was becoming a concern at the time here and it became a taboo subject. Who knows? :D Having worked in telephony, I'm curious if the game has phreaking, though I reckon it doesn't. Judging by the movie's aesthetic, I wonder if anyone's ever called hackers cyberpunks. XD
I love The Incredible Machine & Even More Contraptions is, as you suggested, essentially a large expansion pack. Now we have to decide if they’re Rube Goldberg or Heath Robinson machines? 😄
Serious Sam: TFE rocks so hard! It looked great for the time, has some interesting mechanics & enemies & the enemies have a look all their own. By the way the Game Boy Advance version is actually pretty good for a demake, it’s great for the system.
Uplink is fun & inevitably was contentious in it’s day for being a “hacker trainer” but as you pointed out it’s more like a movie like Hackers version of the art.
The Rage looks kind of rough but from what you’ve said it sounds fun?
Never played Tribes 2 because I’m antisocial & don’t like interacting with people. 😄
Dino Crisis 2 is awesome! I loved it but played it on Play Station, so never saw it at PC resolutions but I don’t care. The Dino Crisis games are silly fun & highly recommended!
Fun video, thanks! It’s hard to say if 2001 was a better year because gaming hardware was ramping up hard at this point so games looked, sounded & ran better than ever before but the games from this era don’t seem as monumental or epoch making as previous years, if you see what I mean? Gaming was “settled in” & not the frontier of new ideas previous years games had been.
Such difficult questions so late at night! Come on, I can't answer that now! ;)
I actually had to grow into appreciating of SS games. I was much more narrow minded as a kid. xD
Movie or no movie, Uplink rocked! Glad you know of it too. :)
Antisocial? Not "here" though, right? ;)
You may be right. 2001 may be a year of a "perfected" game, as in game that we've seen for a few years by then, and not a revolutionary one.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames never here. 😄
do the incredible machines have different levels or is the last one a goty version of something?
Different ones.
Wasn't 2001 the year of Max Payne?
It was, and was already covered in part 1 of the year's series.
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Etherlords were fun, but impossible to play because it was taking way too much time to do battles.
I heard most of the games here but only played The Rage. Heck I even modded the game with skins and my hacks :D.
OK, you got me curious. What kind of hacks? :)
If allowed i would love to ask personal things, is that ok? How old are you, first video game, when did you start to play video games, favorit typ of game and favorit game, did you or parents have to drive outside your country to buy games and system like i had or could you buy everything in your own country, could you play games in your tongue or in german, rus, eng, was your country a lot more expensive than your neighbours, censored like german or free like austrian? I will continue to watch you, so i am very interested in how you had it. Sry for bad eng.
I suppose it is, and I'll try to answer most of these. My first video game? Well, the piracy here was very prominent between early 80s and mid 90s, so I can't tell you the exact "first". But I can tell which was the first I remember playing. It was either "Jumpman Junior" or "Treasure Island" or "Popeye" - all on C64. The C64 came from Germany, games were available here in the form of compilation tapes, each with 10-30 pirated titles. Such were the times I suppose... Amiga was purchased locally, so it was when times began slowly changing. For the better, as I am totally against piracy these days. And I've few thousand games. xD It's also worth noting that both C64 and Amiga got here a 2-3 years later than in the West. So yeah, there was a hardware release "slide" here back then. Since I'm Polish, only Polish games were in my native language, and I played most in English. Which is great, as believe it or not, it helps you learn the language in a very effective and natural way. Engagement, fun, stuff like that really boosts the learning in kids. xD Also, I don't play any games in Polish anymore, everything's in English. I also don't watch anything streaming in my language as I'm too used to being surrounded with English that I couldn't really care switching anything to any other language. And especially that the most content's in English and translations are of, well questionable quality. No censorship in games here. Hope that was what you were looking for, and look at that, I've only skipped one question. And it's not even because I'm particularly old, but because I consider age an artificial number we've created to describe passing based on an artificial notion that it should had something to do with how the Earth rotates around its axis and the Sun. Silly. xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames thank you very much for sharing 👍 :)
Oh man tribes was such a great game sadly starseige is a dead ip it def needs a reboot some of the best mech games back in the days
Etherlords 1 was intresting but it was a drag with the AI spamming lvl 1 heroes burning your runes. But Etherlords 2? Thats where it shone!
I take it your boss doesn't know about your youtube channel.
Don't tell them! ;)
Seriously though, they would never find it even by mistakes as nothing that I cover here is in their shallow puddle of interests. xD
Settlers 4 was ugly compared to Settlers 2.
Well, it was a bit of a side-step. I too love 2 Gold the most.