All these fames got vr mod portal 2 Half-Life Half-Life 2 (and sequels) Deep Rock Galactic Minecraft Jedi Academy Risk of Rain 2 Gamecube emulator (Dolphin VR) Metal: Hellsinger Valheim All modern Resident Evil games/remakes (except 4 which should be coming out soon) Dark Souls Remastered Cyberpunk 2077 Final Fantasy VII Remake Ghost Runner Elden Ring Ghostwire: Tokyo Horizon: Zero Dawn No One Lives Forever 2 Stray Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered Marvel’s Spider-Man Miles Morales Grounded Red Dead Redemption 2 (Old version) GTA V (Old version) RDR2 (Old version) Mafia Trilogy Remake (Old version) Left 4 Dead 2 Life is Strange: Before The Storm - Dawn VR Alien: Isolation - MotherVR The Stanley Parable - StanleyVR Valheim - VHVR Risk of Rain 2 - Drbibop The Outer Wilds - Nomai VR Deep Rock Galactic - VRG Firewatch - TwoForksVR GTFO - VR plugin Dead By Daylight (Private Server) Hogwarts Legacy Mirror 2: Project X Satisfactory It Takes Two STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order Stray Squad Astroneer Borderlands 3 Mordhau Ready Or Not SCUM Conan Exiles The Isle Tekken 7 eFootball 2023 Poppy Playtime Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice OUTRIDERS Dragon Ball FighterZ Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach Grounded Days Gone Remnant From The Ashes State of Decay 2 Ghostrunner Code Vein Little Nightmares Back 4 Blood Brick Rigs Bright Memory: Infinite Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot What Remains of Edith Finch Life is Strange 2 Foxhole ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- The Callisto Protocol Medieval Dynasty Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Remnant II ENDER LILIES Little Nightmares II Tales of Arise 死寂（Deathly Stillness） One-armed cook Hydroneer ABZÛ FPS Chess Aliens: Fireteam Elite GEARS 5 PAYDAY 3 Tropico 6 The Ascent Gas Station Simulator Atomic Heart Dark Deception Ground Branch Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet Vampyr Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles Hi-Fi RUSH Tribes of Midgard Final Fantasy VII Remake: Intergrade Hatred Witch It Sword and Fairy 7 Omega Strikers Biomutant The Day Before SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated Scarlet Nexus Subverse We Happy Few Dark and Light Choo-Choo Charles Gotham Knights Terminator Resistance Octopath Traveler Torchlight 3 Spyro Reignited Trilogy Darksiders III Ghostwire: Tokyo Life is Strange: True Colors Session: Skate Sim Operation: Harsh Doorstop High On Life BPM: Bullets Per Minute Marauders Ruiner Chernobylite Enhanced Edition POSTAL 4: No Regerts Xuan-Yuan Sword VII Maneater Darksiders Genesis Empires of the Undergrowth Tiny Tina's Wonderland MechWarrior 5 SOULCALIBUR VI Orcs Must Die! 3 Kena: Bridge Of Spirits Marvel's Midnight Suns Call of Cthulhu Scorn The Forgotten City Psychonauts 2 Destroy All Humans! Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 Slender: The Arrival Torchlight: Infinite The Beast Inside Six Days in Fallujah The Vagrant Space Hulk: Deathwing - Enhanced Edition Aliens: Dark Descent Minecraft Dungeons Tower of Fantasy Ride 4 Octopath Traveler II Azur Lane: Crosswave Wandering Sword Fernbus Simulator Visage Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey Predecessor Gears Tactics DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age
The first half of this video is very painfully obvious cherry-picking, comparing the worst recent games vs the best older games to try to push the narrative of "old good, new bad". Comparing The Finals to Far Cry 2, Resident Evil 4 to...Unknown 9?? Second half is you focusing on specific companies that are failing to live up to their old titles, which is fair, but it just feels very pessimistic to only focus on the bad games of recent years. There's still plenty of amazing titles coming out like Baldur's Gate, Yakuza, Death Stranding, Elden Ring, way too many to list.
The Saints Row section was sad to watch. Used to be a great alternative to GTA and has now been neutered to be just another generic action game with cringe humor.
I started with goldeneye on the n64 and here I am today. Without going into long winded detail, we absolutely have regressed or at minimum have been stagnant for a decade or so now
I renember back then i was marveled at how incredible the graphics,physics and details on these games were and fantasizing about how much better they would be on the future... Well looks like we were at the peak already.
RUclips got sensitive and removed my comment for criticizing modern gaming and today's gamers so I just wanted to say that I loved this video and that you got some serious Crowbcat quality right there
This whole video shows what video games were in late 90s and early 2000s. Games were built different in 2000s compared to Video games nowadays. Everything is F2P , micro transactions to mid-gen refresh. Today’s era in video games are so dumb down it’s upsetting 😢. Love the video mawk❤❤❤
Games have become bloated with hyper realistic graphics, 4k textures everywhere, thousands of pollygons for the smallest of models and yet they regressed in the physics and simulation aspect that made these older games fun to play AND look at
I liked the ending a lot. There's a lot of garbage today, but even among that garbage, there will always be some gems still releasing, no matter how terrible the industry gets. Gaming is really negative these days, but I think that should be the prevailing message. Vote with your wallet, avoid the slop, only buy games that truly deserve your time and money. You only have so much of both.
Couldn't of have said it better. Games like Astro Bot & Space Marine 2 prove that despite how negative things are now, Good AAA still do exist! Thank you for watching BTW!
Such a great video bro. Watched the whole thing. I’m so happy you took a huge dump all over the new “Saints Row” while also highlighting just how special the original 1 & 2 were and still are today. Also loved how you included Fear, Bad Company, Red Faction Guerrilla, Far Cry 2 & Crysis. All phenomenal games that I still play to this day. They truly don’t make games anymore with the same amount of effort and creativity & you put it all on full display. Glad I got to live through the golden era of gaming when I was a teenager. Respect.
It's clear as day, games were better in the 2000's. I mean Far Cry 2 has more details than Far Cry 6. Gaming is pathetic today, and this current generation blows by the way. I have not seen many good games for the PS5 or XB series and we are more than half way through the generation. I am happy staying on XB one, PS4, PS3, PS2 , PS1 and OG Xbox also Gamecube. Nice video, it really paints a clear picture of how dire the gaming industry have become, it's important that we speak with our wallets until the industry stops treating us like fools.
Gamers are hypocrites, paying 3$ for a horse armor back in 2006 is greedy, but paying 60$ for COD DLC that were coincidentally published at the exactly same mouth every year isn't it. Also you used COD as a main example in the "downgrade of FPS games" segment, like if COD is the only FPS franchise.
@@goredonfreakman5620 you are kinda right, gamers usually follow the masses, why everyone complains about Skyrim relaunches while Resident Evil 4 gets ported to every platform in the existence? why gamers disliked Concord for being a DEI game if Playstation always had DEI in their games? a bunch of hiveminds.
@@DrundeFPS Gamers only complain about DEI if it's visible for even blind people they never seen feminist and pro indian/black anti white themes of RDR2.
Far Cry 2, old Halo and Crisis are featured on this video, not COD only. The same people who waste money at old MMO RPG games during the 2000s are the same ones who are wasting money on loot boxes and pay walls. Gamers are not equal to each other, nobody does the same.
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Paid mods are just diabolical 😭 It’s crazy how different gaming is today compared to 10-15 years ago. Great fucking work brother, the hard work shows! I’m proud of ya 💯🔥✨
Every single thing needs to be monetized. And it's not just official mods but a lot of fan mods are hidden behind paywall. Want new outfits for MH World/Rise? They pay me $6 each month.
Yep. Game studios now are about making games pretty without much substance. It’s like if someone made the most delicious-looking meal possible but it tastes bland and makes you feel frustrated you spent your hard earned money on it in the first place.
This video has a Crowbcat quality in it and I love it Though you shouldn’t compare 2000s to 2020s games with different genre like how you compared far cry 2 to arcade ones like the finals and black ops 6. It should be in similar genre like with far cry 5 and 6, you can see how much quality and gameplay got degraded.
Yeah MP games are always downgraded when compared to SP games they can't run advanced physics and particles since their server would need to simulate it for too many players.
@@MAWK3That's a good idea. I felt there were too many games in this video to keep up with. It would also be cool if you could compare the backgrounds of different games. I've been playing PS3 games and noticed that a lot of backgrounds, even in multiplayer, are very detailed with a lot going on, which immerses you even more.
The extremely complex models, shaders, and textures that devs commit to really hamper their ability to contort facial flexes. They try to make faces look "real" without giving them actual movement and expression. Just look at older horror games with character models and monsters having their whole shapes contort and move and get mutated with complex animations. Instead, we get overly detailed static meshes for everything that the devs just can't actively work with. Instead, they have to cut the camera away during moments to hide the fact they can't animate complex motion.
I was going to comment about the coming of the shills who defend their billion dollar company, but they're already here expect bs such as "unfair to compare these 10 year old apart games" "it's not a finished product" "devs were not given enough time" "devs were forced to do this" and, of course, "GET YOUR NOSTALGIA GLASSES OFF"
@@mdnp-grid487Yes, true, 6th and 7th have their bad sides but it is overshadowed by the people of 2000s and 1990s, they only focus on the good side in 6th and 7th and the only focus bad side in 8th
Who would have thought that the limitations actually, tangibly spawned creativity, today not only devs have infinite resources but also miserably fail at being artists.
Also, that light-shooting segment absolutely needs footage from the early Splinter Cell games, Perfect Dark (N64, 2000), and even Thief (1998). Taking down lights to conceal your movement and to create distraction's been a thing for 25 years. Similarly, anyone needing some great cutscene comparisons should absolutely thrown in footage from Silent Hill 3 (PS2, 2003), VtmB (2003), and Half-Life 2 (2004), and just about any Metal Gear Solid game; Kojima's still top tier cinematography master to this day, as seen in the Death Stranding (2019).
@@Silva_GPTons of DLC and Microtransactions, and if you even said anything about i: *JUST DONT BUY IT* 7th Gen was awful, and people treat it like some sort of a golden age.
Alot of the comparisons you made are completely unfair, like comparing Battlefield destruction to Red Faction Geurilla, Battlefield features destruction in a completely different way, its used partly for that immersion factor but also as a way to make flow and general gameplay different as the match progresses, while red faction geurilla is almost entirely focused on that destructive element as its main feature. The other games were also mostly destruction focused games, such as mercenaries and Crackdown while the modern game you compared them with just have it as a sort of side feature because it isnt the focus of the game.
Alot of my favourite games are from like 20 years ago that I still play. Star Wars Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy, Soldier of Fortune II, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, etc. I noticed alot are based on the quake 3 engine too lol
1:59 PARADISE BIRD THEORY FROM CRACKDOWN MENTIONEDD 🗣️‼️🎶, seriously though, what an absolute banger of a vid once again mate, you can tell pure effort was put into this. Next time you stream, hit us with a "Walk wid ya boizzz" pls ☺️
This is why I'm still playing older AAA games on PC, Xbox 360, and PS2 to this day. They will always be better than newer ones because they lack attention to detail and replayability and would just be a cash grab rather than a passion project, and most games are just remakes and remasters, which shows the lack of creativity from the modern gaming industry, and most games are online only, which I was never a fan of. Been enjoying your videos. Keep up the good work.
The lack of details in a lot of modern games makes me sad. And its amazing how we even had games from the 6th gen that did attention to detail better then what we see today. Also happy to see True Crime New York city in there. Despite its flaws, the details in that game were very impressive!
Fantastic video! I just had a thought, what if game companies began charging us a "small fee" if we wanted a refund for a game we didn't like, that would be pretty gnarly.
@@DrundeFPS They were made with passion money was secondary it was a complete experience with no dlcs but some got expansions and free patches (since late 90s), while now they think about how to overly monetize game FIRST and then deliver a semi playable game that is pretty much a $70 early access game that is broken at launch and with full dlcs that were cut from the game and sold separately
I've appreciated the details of older games for a long time, but seeing them directly compared actually made me a little angry 😅 Although there are great modern titles, and survivorship bias may affect our perception of older ones, I say props to you for showing a variety of games - I think this was tastefully done.
@@alkhoaja Yeah, if you can get the disc. I had the Ps3 version but its pretty much locked to the console and runs at like 20fps. Gog included all DLC plus 4k support.
is this crowbcat? Seeing FEAR first, warmed my heart. I finished the game multiple times on PC but now on PS3 with horrible framerate but with all the enjoyment on a console. Edit: Phantasy Star Online????? I wish I had known about this game before. SInce only the US play regularly, I can not play it, well - my skill is zero and time for that too. It could have been my favourite multiplayer game next to CnC Renegade and Enemy Territory. Man you hit the sack well with Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. True Crime, bruh.
You also missed on Phantasy Star Online 2 that launched few years ago what a great experience it was now it got ruined by Sega and new more gay and lame version called NGS which killed the IP.
Games have become hilariously stagnant since about 2018. We have been playing the last minute busted scams those and cash grabs from the end of the Xbox 360 for about 20 years now, but with every year, a feature or visual is made worse, something is removed outright for some malicious reason usually, or otherwise something is added but it’s bad or annoying. Almost never anything new. Everyone took the wrong message and ideas from games like Battlefield 1 and older games from the Xbox 360 and have been actively making their games worse the longer they go. Battlefield 1 was doing new things with a setting that was uncharted territory for aaa gaming with great new tech and crazy and obscure weapons. It was really when 2019’s modern warfare came out that it became obvious we were literally just giving up and not trying anymore. Just recycling a game idea from the late 90s and early 2000s verbatim with a few additions and updates, and now so many companies can’t even be bothered, so they just spam bad and broken remakes of games that were good 20 years ago when our standards were lower. We’re way past the DOS computer days. These companies need to stop pretending to play dictator like they’re in 1984.
Cool thing about F.E.A.R. is that the particle effects affect the AI too. If you can't see them, they also can't see you (or they fire blindly with low accuracy if they think you are pushing). Modern games don't take that into account so the AI always have perfect vision.
It’s so weird how companies with millions of dollars will make a cash grab or re release multiple versions of the same game. But some guy in a basement with just a computer can make a masterpiece of gaming!
Dude, you compared games that have different publics and game styles. They might be the same genre but a game like Battlefield or crysis cant be compared to a call of duty. One is a war that has way more realistic movement and even a build system, compared to call of duty, that is basically just a run n gun or arcade shooter. Some games are more physics based, and since these ones didnt use to have an online mode, or at least most of them didnt, they didnt had to focus on how it was going to work with a lot of players on the same server so they had more time to add these neat little things, but since nowadays almost evertything is focused in online multiplayer, they would have to create entire systems so the game doesnt explode or is abused by players to cheat in the game. To make a fair comparison you should use single player games that dont have an online multiplayer and then you'll see the evolution of games.
Modern AAA Games: Profits first, the moment it isn't profitable the cords are cut. Gameplay is designed by beancounters to maximize sales who define fun as a number, and reduce players to statistics. Risks aren't allowed, the only innovators are smaller studios who have to take risks to break, or make the market. Any semblance of risk is disguised as sequel to an existing franchise in the form of a spinoff, OR its a game that releases as an over saturated genre as a "safe" choice, OR its a remake, remaster, reimagining, redo, rerelease. 2000-2010 AAA Games: Developers controlled development, they took risks because they ultimately made games they wanted to make. If the gameplay before launch wasn't to their liking they changed it, but there wasn't necessarily the big publishers we know today meddling in the affairs of what they have no interest in. The market at this time is not nearly as over saturated as it is now. Even if the game wasn't "perfect" it still could sell. A large amount of the existing genres, and franchises can trace their roots back to this era for many now considered standard game mechanics. It wasn't all sunshine and rainbows though. This is also the era where live service started. With the internets speed being much more reliable for the average player to have, developers started the trend of post launch updates. This could be considered good if the game was unplayable at launch since they could deploy a patch to fix it. It also meant that nerfing/buffing for balance became much more common. Same with patching exploits. Finally, it became ever more easy for developers to see random peoples feedback, negative, or positive, for better, or for worse.
@@MAWK3 I found out about the game about 2 years ago, I pull it out to show off what happens when developers don't have time to (or don't want to) listen to QA. There used to be a webcomic by the Penny Arcade guys called the Trenches, it was awful, but the meat were the stories of QA talking about their experience, and one of the stories talked about how a major AAA release came out with a ton of bugs that ranged from crashing the game to breaking it in ways you didn't think possible. I think that was it, because I accidentally got out of bounds into an unused subway tunnel my first time playing. Amazing experience, though, game was way ahead of its time.
Modern gaming at its peak, at least for PC/Console. I also wonder if mobile (phone) games will eventually turn like this in especially we're in huge glimpse of mobile games revolution will come out from time to time now like Delta force, WZM, R6M, Arena Breakout, etc. like that Also developers now predominately chinese who make great games, how the tables turned kinda sad seeing the future of gaming is fallen apart but on the bright side indies is on the rise. Btw im mostly on mobile gaming news so this is very interesting even tho i used to play on PC now switch on mobile since i dont want to sit for hours, also emulators were peak
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Man where is vr games...
All these fames got vr mod
portal 2
Half-Life
Half-Life 2 (and sequels)
Deep Rock Galactic
Minecraft
Jedi Academy
Risk of Rain 2
Gamecube emulator (Dolphin VR)
Metal: Hellsinger
Valheim
All modern Resident Evil games/remakes (except 4 which should be coming out soon)
Dark Souls Remastered
Cyberpunk 2077
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Ghost Runner
Elden Ring
Ghostwire: Tokyo
Horizon: Zero Dawn
No One Lives Forever 2
Stray
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
Marvel’s Spider-Man Miles Morales
Grounded
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Old version)
GTA V (Old version)
RDR2 (Old version)
Mafia Trilogy Remake (Old version)
Left 4 Dead 2
Life is Strange: Before The Storm - Dawn VR
Alien: Isolation - MotherVR
The Stanley Parable - StanleyVR
Valheim - VHVR
Risk of Rain 2 - Drbibop
The Outer Wilds - Nomai VR
Deep Rock Galactic - VRG
Firewatch - TwoForksVR
GTFO - VR plugin
Dead By Daylight (Private Server)
Hogwarts Legacy
Mirror 2: Project X
Satisfactory
It Takes Two
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order
Stray
Squad
Astroneer
Borderlands 3
Mordhau
Ready Or Not
SCUM
Conan Exiles
The Isle
Tekken 7
eFootball 2023
Poppy Playtime
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
OUTRIDERS
Dragon Ball FighterZ
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
Grounded
Days Gone
Remnant From The Ashes
State of Decay 2
Ghostrunner
Code Vein
Little Nightmares
Back 4 Blood
Brick Rigs
Bright Memory: Infinite
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot
What Remains of Edith Finch
Life is Strange 2
Foxhole
ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN
GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-
The Callisto Protocol
Medieval Dynasty
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Remnant II
ENDER LILIES
Little Nightmares II
Tales of Arise
死寂（Deathly Stillness）
One-armed cook
Hydroneer
ABZÛ
FPS Chess
Aliens: Fireteam Elite
GEARS 5
PAYDAY 3
Tropico 6
The Ascent
Gas Station Simulator
Atomic Heart
Dark Deception
Ground Branch
Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet
Vampyr
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles
Hi-Fi RUSH
Tribes of Midgard
Final Fantasy VII Remake: Intergrade
Hatred
Witch It
Sword and Fairy 7
Omega Strikers
Biomutant
The Day Before
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated
Scarlet Nexus
Subverse
We Happy Few
Dark and Light
Choo-Choo Charles
Gotham Knights
Terminator Resistance
Octopath Traveler
Torchlight 3
Spyro Reignited Trilogy
Darksiders III
Ghostwire: Tokyo
Life is Strange: True Colors
Session: Skate Sim
Operation: Harsh Doorstop
High On Life
BPM: Bullets Per Minute
Marauders
Ruiner
Chernobylite Enhanced Edition
POSTAL 4: No Regerts
Xuan-Yuan Sword VII
Maneater
Darksiders Genesis
Empires of the Undergrowth
Tiny Tina's Wonderland
MechWarrior 5
SOULCALIBUR VI
Orcs Must Die! 3
Kena: Bridge Of Spirits
Marvel's Midnight Suns
Call of Cthulhu
Scorn
The Forgotten City
Psychonauts 2
Destroy All Humans!
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2
Slender: The Arrival
Torchlight: Infinite
The Beast Inside
Six Days in Fallujah
The Vagrant
Space Hulk: Deathwing - Enhanced Edition
Aliens: Dark Descent
Minecraft Dungeons
Tower of Fantasy
Ride 4
Octopath Traveler II
Azur Lane: Crosswave
Wandering Sword
Fernbus Simulator
Visage
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Predecessor
Gears Tactics
DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age
Bro i have to really say this: old games was really gold and a real gems, but the games now days since 2020 to now days really sucks up big time man
The first half of this video is very painfully obvious cherry-picking, comparing the worst recent games vs the best older games to try to push the narrative of "old good, new bad". Comparing The Finals to Far Cry 2, Resident Evil 4 to...Unknown 9??
Second half is you focusing on specific companies that are failing to live up to their old titles, which is fair, but it just feels very pessimistic to only focus on the bad games of recent years. There's still plenty of amazing titles coming out like Baldur's Gate, Yakuza, Death Stranding, Elden Ring, way too many to list.
It's crazy to think the older games had better physics than modern games
Even ragdoll physics have been significantly downgraded in the past generations
@@MAWK3 honestly Rdr2 have good ragdoll physics
Yea Half-Life 2, Gta 4, and Red Faction Gruerilla had insane physics for their time. Now, most games' physics don't even come close.
And ai don’t forget about ai it’s so much worse these days
@@MAWK3black ops 6
The golding age of gaming 1993-2013
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For me it's 1985 - 2013.
2016
Yessir the games of all time
Doom to GTA 5?
We had it so good. Physical media, tech pushing boundaries, offline SP and MP, no live service BS unless you were looking for it, good writing.
I miss 2000s and early 2010s a LOT 😢
This is what happens when you hire people based on gender, race and color instead of talent and passion
regardless of dei hiring there isnt much passion anymore nowadays
The Saints Row section was sad to watch. Used to be a great alternative to GTA and has now been neutered to be just another generic action game with cringe humor.
modern game development is Ikea furniture being presented and sold as proper artisan pieces.
I started with goldeneye on the n64 and here I am today. Without going into long winded detail, we absolutely have regressed or at minimum have been stagnant for a decade or so now
Same Ted! That and Super Smash Bros on the 64. It's crazy how we went from Goldeneye in 1997 to Crysis in 2007. So much has changed it is Unreal.
@MAWK3 then from 2014 to 2024 I can't spot a single difference haha
Man get vr headset
@@gomersimpson777ram I got one lol
@TedFegal Watch Dogs 1 vs Outlaws would be interesting comparison!
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Big ups Crowbcat!! Love his work
I just commented this
@@MAWK3he nitpicks idk how he is liked
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@@MAWK3 the resident evil 4 Video is literally just old bad new good
I renember back then i was marveled at how incredible the graphics,physics and details on these games were and fantasizing about how much better they would be on the future...
Well looks like we were at the peak already.
R.i.p good days of old school gaming
R.i.p best days of almost 3 decades of life.😢
RUclips got sensitive and removed my comment for criticizing modern gaming and today's gamers so I just wanted to say that I loved this video and that you got some serious Crowbcat quality right there
Thanks DJ! My goal was to aim for that while doing my own style into the mix
RUclips actually censors if you insult gaymers, they treat them like a minority or endangered species LMFAO
Even better in a way because he actually promotes old games and explains why they were so good and updates us on their player count.
I got censored plenty of times myself recently.
@@TestamentFromTheForest RUclips is trying to silence us unfortunately,they hate the truth
This whole video shows what video games were in late 90s and early 2000s. Games were built different in 2000s compared to Video games nowadays. Everything is F2P , micro transactions to mid-gen refresh. Today’s era in video games are so dumb down it’s upsetting 😢.
Love the video mawk❤❤❤
I never thought you would do this kind of video, it's pretty good.
Glad you liked it!
For me gaming from 2006 to 2014 was the bomb
Games have become bloated with hyper realistic graphics, 4k textures everywhere, thousands of pollygons for the smallest of models and yet they regressed in the physics and simulation aspect that made these older games fun to play AND look at
I liked the ending a lot.
There's a lot of garbage today, but even among that garbage, there will always be some gems still releasing, no matter how terrible the industry gets.
Gaming is really negative these days, but I think that should be the prevailing message. Vote with your wallet, avoid the slop, only buy games that truly deserve your time and money. You only have so much of both.
Couldn't of have said it better. Games like Astro Bot & Space Marine 2 prove that despite how negative things are now, Good AAA still do exist!
Thank you for watching BTW!
Such a great video bro. Watched the whole thing. I’m so happy you took a huge dump all over the new “Saints Row” while also highlighting just how special the original 1 & 2 were and still are today. Also loved how you included Fear, Bad Company, Red Faction Guerrilla, Far Cry 2 & Crysis. All phenomenal games that I still play to this day. They truly don’t make games anymore with the same amount of effort and creativity & you put it all on full display. Glad I got to live through the golden era of gaming when I was a teenager. Respect.
Thanks Madness man for the support! I felt as if the 2022 devs ignored a lot of what made the OG's so beloved. SR 2006 has aged very well to!!
Old games always great i hope gamers loving it forever
Appreciate the effort you put into your work,man
Thank you Red!!
It's clear as day, games were better in the 2000's. I mean Far Cry 2 has more details than Far Cry 6. Gaming is pathetic today, and this current generation blows by the way. I have not seen many good games for the PS5 or XB series and we are more than half way through the generation. I am happy staying on XB one, PS4, PS3, PS2 , PS1 and OG Xbox also Gamecube. Nice video, it really paints a clear picture of how dire the gaming industry have become, it's important that we speak with our wallets until the industry stops treating us like fools.
Perfect Timing Baby!!!
Big Ups BigBoss!!
Gamers are hypocrites, paying 3$ for a horse armor back in 2006 is greedy, but paying 60$ for COD DLC that were coincidentally published at the exactly same mouth every year isn't it. Also you used COD as a main example in the "downgrade of FPS games" segment, like if COD is the only FPS franchise.
"all gamers are one person"
@@goredonfreakman5620 you are kinda right, gamers usually follow the masses, why everyone complains about Skyrim relaunches while Resident Evil 4 gets ported to every platform in the existence? why gamers disliked Concord for being a DEI game if Playstation always had DEI in their games? a bunch of hiveminds.
@@DrundeFPS Gamers only complain about DEI if it's visible for even blind people they never seen feminist and pro indian/black anti white themes of RDR2.
Far Cry 2, old Halo and Crisis are featured on this video, not COD only.
The same people who waste money at old MMO RPG games during the 2000s are the same ones who are wasting money on loot boxes and pay walls. Gamers are not equal to each other, nobody does the same.
cryengine is just a masterpiece.
Glad you didn't yeeted the poor bird in that Crysis clip, I know it must've took a lot of restraint
Damn, 33 mins? You put effort into this my boi
Thank you Annie!! It took a lot of effort to get it right. 2 weeks ago, it was a complete mess 😅
There some Good Modern AAA Games out there like Resident Evil 4 Remake’ Silent Hill 2 Remake’ Nintendo Games’ Sega Games’ Sony Games’ and Square Enix Games
Absolutely! I highlighted a few at the end of the video
@ LOL I saw your Highlights at the end by the way but thanks MAWK3
RE4 Remake is a modern masterpiece that improves on the original in every way. One of the few games I've enjoyed the past decade.
Awesome video!
Thank you Harvey! Means a lot dude 🎉
I like how you've been kind of objective and still showed when a newer game has a cool detail compared to the old ones
Gotta keep it balanced! I thought the finals had exceptional destruction mechanics
Paid mods are just diabolical 😭 It’s crazy how different gaming is today compared to 10-15 years ago.
Great fucking work brother, the hard work shows! I’m proud of ya 💯🔥✨
100% paid mods should of never been a thing. Thanks brethen!! Apreicate you, looking forward to your new video!! 🔥
what about Total Conversions (if you even know what that mean)? They put a lot of effort and are basically new games.
Every single thing needs to be monetized. And it's not just official mods but a lot of fan mods are hidden behind paywall. Want new outfits for MH World/Rise? They pay me $6 each month.
Why is everyone caring about the physics when you can have fun
A lot of love and dedication was shown to older games
Yep. Game studios now are about making games pretty without much substance. It’s like if someone made the most delicious-looking meal possible but it tastes bland and makes you feel frustrated you spent your hard earned money on it in the first place.
Now it’s all corporate no innovation
This video has a Crowbcat quality in it and I love it
Though you shouldn’t compare 2000s to 2020s games with different genre like how you compared far cry 2 to arcade ones like the finals and black ops 6. It should be in similar genre like with far cry 5 and 6, you can see how much quality and gameplay got degraded.
Thank you for the kind words! Moving forward i plan on just comparing two games vs a ton of them.
Yeah MP games are always downgraded when compared to SP games they can't run advanced physics and particles since their server would need to simulate it for too many players.
@@MAWK3That's a good idea. I felt there were too many games in this video to keep up with. It would also be cool if you could compare the backgrounds of different games. I've been playing PS3 games and noticed that a lot of backgrounds, even in multiplayer, are very detailed with a lot going on, which immerses you even more.
The fact that cod don’t use licenses for their guns now is pathetic
This is a great video, hopefully the next generation can have more competent game engines and developers.
Thanks dude! I fully agree
You've managed to nail the point that games haven't been good for a long time
Thanks!!
The extremely complex models, shaders, and textures that devs commit to really hamper their ability to contort facial flexes. They try to make faces look "real" without giving them actual movement and expression. Just look at older horror games with character models and monsters having their whole shapes contort and move and get mutated with complex animations. Instead, we get overly detailed static meshes for everything that the devs just can't actively work with. Instead, they have to cut the camera away during moments to hide the fact they can't animate complex motion.
More ambitious games is less powerful hardware.
I was going to comment about the coming of the shills who defend their billion dollar company, but they're already here
expect bs such as "unfair to compare these 10 year old apart games" "it's not a finished product" "devs were not given enough time" "devs were forced to do this" and, of course, "GET YOUR NOSTALGIA GLASSES OFF"
nostalgia glasses are a real thing though
@@mdnp-grid487Yes, true, 6th and 7th have their bad sides but it is overshadowed by the people of 2000s and 1990s, they only focus on the good side in 6th and 7th and the only focus bad side in 8th
I loved that you had the tbogt theme song at the end. such a nostalgic song. Great video btw!
The new Crowbcat
Big Ups Crowbcat 🙏🔥
GTA4,CS source,half life 2 and gta san andreas (with silentpatch) those are real 2000s AAA games
Who would have thought that the limitations actually, tangibly spawned creativity, today not only devs have infinite resources but also miserably fail at being artists.
GenZ be like "LOL >old good, new bad!!", amirite??"
Everyone else: *YES.*
Also, that light-shooting segment absolutely needs footage from the early Splinter Cell games, Perfect Dark (N64, 2000), and even Thief (1998). Taking down lights to conceal your movement and to create distraction's been a thing for 25 years.
Similarly, anyone needing some great cutscene comparisons should absolutely thrown in footage from Silent Hill 3 (PS2, 2003), VtmB (2003), and Half-Life 2 (2004), and just about any Metal Gear Solid game; Kojima's still top tier cinematography master to this day, as seen in the Death Stranding (2019).
gamers are delusional hypocrites, a lot of games back then were greedy like COD.
I'm Gen Z but I feel I have validation to say that lol since I grew up playing with a PS2.
@@DrundeFPSNot all, on PS3 games there is less micro-transactions compared to the PS4 and PS5 games.
@@Silva_GPTons of DLC and Microtransactions, and if you even said anything about i:
*JUST DONT BUY IT*
7th Gen was awful, and people treat it like some sort of a golden age.
Alot of the comparisons you made are completely unfair, like comparing Battlefield destruction to Red Faction Geurilla, Battlefield features destruction in a completely different way, its used partly for that immersion factor but also as a way to make flow and general gameplay different as the match progresses, while red faction geurilla is almost entirely focused on that destructive element as its main feature. The other games were also mostly destruction focused games, such as mercenaries and Crackdown while the modern game you compared them with just have it as a sort of side feature because it isnt the focus of the game.
BF Bad company 2 has full destructive environment tho.
Sure but BC2 was part of the BF series too and the destruction was better than 2042 anyways
Amazing video like old AAA games🔥❤️
Alot of my favourite games are from like 20 years ago that I still play. Star Wars Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy, Soldier of Fortune II, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, etc. I noticed alot are based on the quake 3 engine too lol
Jedi Academy was so damn good man. I used to play that on my OG xbox back in the day!!
This hits hard, I miss the days where triple A companies made even the generic NPCs feel like actual relevant characters
Excellent video👌
Thanks Cursed!!
The imagination and sheer talent the devs had back then was truly amazing.
Damn only 300 views you should get more views
Big ups Hashplays 🙏
i rarely comment on videos, but god damn! This was a great one man. Love the attention to detail. keep it up
you earned a new subscriber for sure
Thanks man! Means a lot 😊🙏
Ghost recon phantom was one game i wanted to play, then when I had the chance the server were down :(
Bro has got his priorities straight
Amazing video
Thank you bro!!
1:59 PARADISE BIRD THEORY FROM CRACKDOWN MENTIONEDD 🗣️‼️🎶, seriously though, what an absolute banger of a vid once again mate, you can tell pure effort was put into this.
Next time you stream, hit us with a "Walk wid ya boizzz" pls ☺️
That track lives rent free in my head 😅 of course man thank you!
This is why I'm still playing older AAA games on PC, Xbox 360, and PS2 to this day. They will always be better than newer ones because they lack attention to detail and replayability and would just be a cash grab rather than a passion project, and most games are just remakes and remasters, which shows the lack of creativity from the modern gaming industry, and most games are online only, which I was never a fan of. Been enjoying your videos. Keep up the good work.
The lack of details in a lot of modern games makes me sad. And its amazing how we even had games from the 6th gen that did attention to detail better then what we see today.
Also happy to see True Crime New York city in there. Despite its flaws, the details in that game were very impressive!
Rainbow six Vegas 1-2 were the best FPS games I’ve own still to this day I want Vegas 3
Sweet Baby Inc really earned their checks with that timeless dialogue huh?
Imagine destruction that didn't make the rubble disappear.
The best nostalgic part of the video is 32:25 with GTA TBoGT pause music i have felt chills
Fantastic video! I just had a thought, what if game companies began charging us a "small fee" if we wanted a refund for a game we didn't like, that would be pretty gnarly.
This SBI activist destroy all videogames
Older games- Made for fun
Newer games- Made for money
you are the proof gamers are delusional, you imply that old games aren't made for money, what i can expect from someone with a tf2 pfp.
@@DrundeFPS They were made with passion money was secondary it was a complete experience with no dlcs but some got expansions and free patches (since late 90s), while now they think about how to overly monetize game FIRST and then deliver a semi playable game that is pretty much a $70 early access game that is broken at launch and with full dlcs that were cut from the game and sold separately
@@Dregomz02 games back then was never made for money, they had a budget of millions for nothing, you all are the reason why the industry is dying lol
Bro i have to really say this: old games was really gold and a real gems, but the games now days since 2020 to now days really sucks up big time man
Move over, Crowbcat. Mawk3 is in the house!
Big ups Kingmaster!! 🙏🔥
Crowbcat 2 huh.
Excellent vid
Thank you Muzafferturhan!!
Honestly Red faction guerrilla had the best destruction I've ever seen. I have yet to see another game be on par with its destruction.
This is why i still play old games, they’re way more fun than modern games
This is so sad, that saints row reboot tanked the studio
I've appreciated the details of older games for a long time, but seeing them directly compared actually made me a little angry 😅
Although there are great modern titles, and survivorship bias may affect our perception of older ones, I say props to you for showing a variety of games - I think this was tastefully done.
F.E.A.R. platinum usually goes on sale on GOG for like $1 and it's an absolute blast
I played it with disc through backwards compatible on the Xbox Series X even though it’s delisted, it works with a disc.
@@alkhoaja Yeah, if you can get the disc.
I had the Ps3 version but its pretty much locked to the console and runs at like 20fps. Gog included all DLC plus 4k support.
@@praisetheoak well here on Xbox, it got a FPS boost up to 60fps! Along with F.E.A.R. 2 and F.E.A.R. 3 and F.E.A.R. Flies!
F.E.A.R. is a forgotten gem dude.
is this crowbcat? Seeing FEAR first, warmed my heart. I finished the game multiple times on PC but now on PS3 with horrible framerate but with all the enjoyment on a console.
Edit: Phantasy Star Online????? I wish I had known about this game before. SInce only the US play regularly, I can not play it, well - my skill is zero and time for that too. It could have been my favourite multiplayer game next to CnC Renegade and Enemy Territory. Man you hit the sack well with Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. True Crime, bruh.
You also missed on Phantasy Star Online 2 that launched few years ago what a great experience it was now it got ruined by Sega and new more gay and lame version called NGS which killed the IP.
When graphic and physic increasing inversely proportional to each other
Games have become hilariously stagnant since about 2018. We have been playing the last minute busted scams those and cash grabs from the end of the Xbox 360 for about 20 years now, but with every year, a feature or visual is made worse, something is removed outright for some malicious reason usually, or otherwise something is added but it’s bad or annoying. Almost never anything new. Everyone took the wrong message and ideas from games like Battlefield 1 and older games from the Xbox 360 and have been actively making their games worse the longer they go. Battlefield 1 was doing new things with a setting that was uncharted territory for aaa gaming with great new tech and crazy and obscure weapons. It was really when 2019’s modern warfare came out that it became obvious we were literally just giving up and not trying anymore. Just recycling a game idea from the late 90s and early 2000s verbatim with a few additions and updates, and now so many companies can’t even be bothered, so they just spam bad and broken remakes of games that were good 20 years ago when our standards were lower. We’re way past the DOS computer days. These companies need to stop pretending to play dictator like they’re in 1984.
2:05 oh yes, the crackdown music
Cool thing about F.E.A.R. is that the particle effects affect the AI too. If you can't see them, they also can't see you (or they fire blindly with low accuracy if they think you are pushing).
Modern games don't take that into account so the AI always have perfect vision.
Bullets have some kind of AI too. If you miss, bullet will randomly choose where to move.
Hahaaha 24 timer sound effect i love it
23:38 This was hilarious 😂
SR2 soundtrack man 😅
I feel vibes from Crowbcat
How to turn the passion into a hopeless job
Many modern games lack the atmosphere of older games. Make the graphics good enough, and then work on art design, atmosphere and gameplay features.
It’s so weird how companies with millions of dollars will make a cash grab or re release multiple versions of the same game. But some guy in a basement with just a computer can make a masterpiece of gaming!
No wonder why saints row 5 reboot is so much hated Big thanks to goofy ah Wxkeness
Dude, you compared games that have different publics and game styles. They might be the same genre but a game like Battlefield or crysis cant be compared to a call of duty. One is a war that has way more realistic movement and even a build system, compared to call of duty, that is basically just a run n gun or arcade shooter. Some games are more physics based, and since these ones didnt use to have an online mode, or at least most of them didnt, they didnt had to focus on how it was going to work with a lot of players on the same server so they had more time to add these neat little things, but since nowadays almost evertything is focused in online multiplayer, they would have to create entire systems so the game doesnt explode or is abused by players to cheat in the game. To make a fair comparison you should use single player games that dont have an online multiplayer and then you'll see the evolution of games.
Games just dont have that "lived in" world feel anymore
that's why i still play older game but with mods to update the game that look in modern way .
I miss my days. Especially I played most 1990s - 2000s games
2010s (pre 2017): im a joke you?🤡
Modern AAA Games: Profits first, the moment it isn't profitable the cords are cut. Gameplay is designed by beancounters to maximize sales who define fun as a number, and reduce players to statistics. Risks aren't allowed, the only innovators are smaller studios who have to take risks to break, or make the market. Any semblance of risk is disguised as sequel to an existing franchise in the form of a spinoff, OR its a game that releases as an over saturated genre as a "safe" choice, OR its a remake, remaster, reimagining, redo, rerelease.
2000-2010 AAA Games: Developers controlled development, they took risks because they ultimately made games they wanted to make. If the gameplay before launch wasn't to their liking they changed it, but there wasn't necessarily the big publishers we know today meddling in the affairs of what they have no interest in. The market at this time is not nearly as over saturated as it is now. Even if the game wasn't "perfect" it still could sell. A large amount of the existing genres, and franchises can trace their roots back to this era for many now considered standard game mechanics. It wasn't all sunshine and rainbows though. This is also the era where live service started. With the internets speed being much more reliable for the average player to have, developers started the trend of post launch updates. This could be considered good if the game was unplayable at launch since they could deploy a patch to fix it. It also meant that nerfing/buffing for balance became much more common. Same with patching exploits. Finally, it became ever more easy for developers to see random peoples feedback, negative, or positive, for better, or for worse.
As soon as I saw your channel avatar and title. Easy like and sub
Was that footage of True Crime NYC filmed on the GameCube? That's the worst port, it's so much fun.
Sure was! Grew up playing that verison
@@MAWK3 I found out about the game about 2 years ago, I pull it out to show off what happens when developers don't have time to (or don't want to) listen to QA. There used to be a webcomic by the Penny Arcade guys called the Trenches, it was awful, but the meat were the stories of QA talking about their experience, and one of the stories talked about how a major AAA release came out with a ton of bugs that ranged from crashing the game to breaking it in ways you didn't think possible. I think that was it, because I accidentally got out of bounds into an unused subway tunnel my first time playing. Amazing experience, though, game was way ahead of its time.
i miss when games tried to push the limits in more ways than just your gpu usage
Modern gaming at its peak, at least for PC/Console. I also wonder if mobile (phone) games will eventually turn like this in especially we're in huge glimpse of mobile games revolution will come out from time to time now like Delta force, WZM, R6M, Arena Breakout, etc. like that
Also developers now predominately chinese who make great games, how the tables turned kinda sad seeing the future of gaming is fallen apart but on the bright side indies is on the rise. Btw im mostly on mobile gaming news so this is very interesting even tho i used to play on PC now switch on mobile since i dont want to sit for hours, also emulators were peak
I don't talk to people who make less than 6 figures 😂😂👌 bro the audacity
There was a time of experiments. Time of opportunity. Time of good games.
i miss the times when games had no microtransactions integrated in it