Me : thought of simcity 4 when I saw the title The video : starts with a simcity 4 music ❤❤

I played gothic 2 numerous times and i love the atmosphere and the surroundings and the feel it has. Leveling up from 0 and getting stronger..but once i hit the part where i must go into a Valley of mines, i get bored real quick and never finish the game. For some reason that part feels unnecesary hard and tedious and not like Gothic 1 that i finished mulitple times.

Hardware limitations made us more imaginative and creative back then , now that hardwares are limitless and can produce infinite posibilities . our brain''s imaginations and creativity is slowly losing it's purpose thats why we are easily get bored in playing and creating because of this rapid improvements of technological advancements , our brain is starting to depends on technology ,and someday we will lose that ideas of being creative .

The scariest question of all: What does it mean to be human?

Thank you for this video. I also love this aesthetic. However we could define all 2d games as pre-rendered graphics. If we want to deepen this definition we could also say that it is pre-rendered 3D therefore generated from 3D software but rendered in 2D. But that's not all, if we take Donkey Kong country on Super Famicom it was the case and yet we are far from this aesthetic. A definition that seems correct to me to define this style would be 3d isometric realistic pre-rendered. Let me know what you think :)

Spec ops, one of the game that reminds others that something is missing. Civilians, the victim of war.

Man...that last entry made me cry actually😢

so you essentially want to remove the open world part of the open world games? ok.....

pre rendered backgrounds look good in its original resolution.

"I'm gonna do good tomorrow though. God knows I've skrewed things up before and probably shouda stayed out of the Army in the first place instead of signing up because of what I thought Dad would think. But that doesn't really matter now. Tomorrow I'm gonna do good. No matter what it takes. Take care, okay? Bye Mom. I love you." - CPT Bannon

I love this art style too

Sim City 4 music off the bat and my butt is planted in the seat. You win this round

I was a child when I used to play this. I wasn't able to understand English that time but still I managed to understand 70% of story. And oh.. boy It was my dream to get Reed's horse 🐎 when I finished @100% it's just popped up and blew my mind. I used to glitch myself at the starting point of the game to unlock a secret menu to replay missions. And I can't forget this line "Welcome to my domain kid"

100% Hard agree. Art, it was art.

YESSS SPEC OPS IS SO GOOD AND UNDERATED, I WISH EVERYONE KNEW HOW GOOD IT IS, i remember buying it one day my partner was away and i was by myself, i played it all in one sitting and was basically screaming towards the end. Thats the only game ive ever done that for

Cossacks - Back to War, recommendation

I was here for Age of Empires and Stronghold.

4:14 The worst horror isn't supernatural it's the one that is actually possible in this world.

Whats the thumbnail from?

I had a similar experience with Spec Ops. I had no clue about the story until I played it. I thought it was just another mindless FPS. First time a game every depressed me. 10/10

for me was Silent Hill 3 when you meet Vincent Cooper and Heather ask about the monsters

Holy shit the Sim City 4 music is good. Would never expect those games to have bangers lmao.

The best example of chapter based zones is tlou part1 remastered

Syndicate (1993) was one of the OG's of the isometrics. Coincidentally I just started playing it again a week or so ago. Still great fun to play after 30 years with a few DOSBox config tweaks.

I'd say a more recent one for me is Death end Re:quest. How about this plot for a game? Playing as a game dev that ends up fiddling with a buggy game that's still in development... Only to find out your best friend And co-worker gets stuck in the game as a character and you have to Program the game and debug it to get her back out. Sounds good yeah? Well, here comes the ugly parts, spoiler alert for anyone that hasn't played it yet that now wants to. Occult conspiracies with Graphically described (but not shown) deaths, some of which were self-inflicted, Several bad endings where the player, their friends or BOTH die, Scenes of implied torture with a bunch of Bunny masked cult freaks, Murders, Abuse, trauma, The literal apocalypse (no I'm not joking) and finding out the person you've spent this whole time trying to Rescue is Frickin' DEAD and you've just been Helping her Consciousness trapped in the game which is now Shut down so you basically killed her by accident, And all of this started over Basically an experimental Prototype Ai called Iris. Also, one of the most Disturbing Written but not shown Deaths I've ever experienced in a game that made me take a minute to pause and breathe through it because i got a bad case of tremors from it (Basically in these lava caverns you set a Bait trap to kill this monster, And if you leave to go find a save point or something, it Screws up and You Get a really Disturbing game over where Everyone basically burns to death slowly, descriptively, and horrifically. It... messed me up for a minute.) The good news? There's a happy ending if you fulfill TWO simple steps: do all the sidequests (which there's not that many) and Agree to help during the last boss. Also The girl that you were trying to save Is alive and well again in the good ending (all of them are.) but that'd take too long to explain why. After THAT traumatic Mess I'm glad there's a happy ending for everyone involved... SHEESH. Also one of the very few times an antagonist Actually Made me Genuinely angry because of how Messed up and cruel they were.

Subnautica looks so fun on the outside and it kinda is but holy hell, it is TERRIFYING in certain places.

Pre-rendered graphics isn't a style, it is a technique. Many of the example games in this video weren't even pre-rendered. The graphics had been just designed with a traditional image editing software

I played the heck out of Army Men: Toys in Space back in the day, and still play Stronghold: Crusader with my little brother from time-to-time.

Sim city 4 is for sure the best argument. I still want a true spiritual successor to sim city4. Cities skylines was an upgrade but i feel that the bar raises with time. It might be 20+ years still.

Unpopular opinion: The so called "pixel art" is easy to produce, this is why it has thrived instead of more complex retro games styles.

And you missed Senran Kagura?! Lol now that hits hard: a sexy funny slasher with anime girl characters, what could go wrong? Suddenly the game goes into some serious character development (along with some darker stuff already), and you likely have no idea why at first ;) Well, pretty much every game in the series ends in something heavy, but take the first one for example: once they set up that fun and naive atmosphere, next give you the feeling of the characters actually being alive (and making you feel sorry for harassing and beating them up), ofc the logical happens: the girls are all forced to freaking murder each other! And yes, once this happens, after the first "fun" fight still with the clothes destruction and all that fanservice the opponent bids her farewell to our protagonist and freaking dies off-screen, leaving everyone questioning in how could it happen! Well, with how it carries on like this until the finale (which is still a good ending, yet who cares at this point), along with shifting the whole game's setting into this murder-and-revenge theme is, especially in contrast with how silly it all started, just plain freaking perfect!

I was waiting for AOE2, glad you mentioned it. I think the remastered version is a masterpiece graphics/optimization wise.

great video analysis, thank you for the trip down nostalgia lane (or highway) :) BiA sequel is there in limbo along with HL3 and the continuation of Kain&Raziel story..

I remember playing this game in winter with my cousins. We were sitting on the floor in front of the tv, and literally felt like cowboys. We then became obsessed about getting a whisky flask lol

A modern example I love is Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales. I also love how they used this technique to make a great looking game that can run on PC and Mobile.

Early 2000's rts games are the best.

Not exactly the same subject but I just wanted to say that I also heavily miss pre rendered cutscenes.

Great quick material on a very dear subject to my heart, I grew up playing diablo, diablo 2, heroes 2, heroes 3, so I love prerenders still got one little bone to pick, you just CAN'T say isometric perspective, because the concept of isometrics is something much different than a perspective, it's like telling ice to be hot, if you're interested read about euclidean transformation.

I went down back to Patrician 2 from Patrician 4 because of the graphics. Games were just better back then.

the music of sim city 4, love it <3.....look at those graphics...beautiful <3 <3

Spec Ops didn't really do much for me. Oh no, you need to commit a war crime to progress any further, HOW DARE YOU KEEP PLAYING YOU MONSTEE?

Halo CE starting out making people think it was an intergalactic war, and then you start fighting galactic horror that is the flood works really well.

Nox is my favorite game of all time.

It's criminal that you ignored The Ascent! Comment aside, thanks for the video. I do miss those kind of graphics. I fondly remember some of the late Ultima games.

LMAO THE WHOLE TIME I was asking myself if Disco Elysium is also pre rendered and there u go, u just answered my question. No wonder why I am so in love with this game..

So pre-rendered is just 'using sprites'? Can you really call that pre-rendered?

All this with a team without 600 project managers, coordinators, 250 HR, 100 Leads, 75 "Art Producers" etc. etc. How astonishing that devs can actually think for themselves as adults and come up with their own "development plan". Quite shocking... I thought you need 600 project managers etc. for this...

The aesthetics were normal at that time, without Kardashian's big butt and sausage lips