They should keep making games with tropical beaches ill keep playing them

Not to forget that halo CEs most famous stage was the beach landing.

Am I the only one that kinda likes the aesthetic? I remember seeing some stuff with Frutiger Metro as a kid and I actually liked it.

Also america has no intangible cultural heritage except the gullah people the Cajuns and native americans

This was to show that capitalism and accelerationism and america sucks ass

This is mostly capitalism and accelerationism and extramint is a centrist neoliberal or apolitical

Great era. Games felt so big even though they are tiny compared to the games of today

that’s why we should always ignore the trend, kids. see y’all next week.

... i just bought horse armor in oblivion for my wife last week, she's playing it for the first time and wanted her horse to match her favourite set, elven.

We had our own brainrot and we're fine afterall.... I think.

I still can't believe my mom sold her gold and jewellery to buy me a PS2 after my dad refused to buy it. Asking my dad to buy me any console or anything related to video games was always met with rejection. I remember when I wanted the original PlayStation, and he refused to buy it, I called my aunt and asked her to buy it as a gift. She bought me a knockoff console called "PolyStation", but I didn't get mad. I would have missed on NES games if I didn't have it after all.

It's because of the water. Water physics in 3d gaming was THE THING! So of course every game developer wanted to show off what they could do with it! Nintendo even based a whole game around it with Mario!

I’d be interested in a video on 2000’s internet, especially the earlier half.

I actually don't think of PS2 games as Low Poly.

What people forget is that for us at the time it wasn’t “low poly”, it was state of art graphics. Things seem that way in retrospect but it wasn’t the experience of people at the time. In short: it’s not that deep.

better than it is now

my only complaint with Couch Co-Op back in the day was in a lot of games the playfield would be split into 4 windows and with our small low res crt TVs back in the day it was hard to tell what was going on .i liked the smash bros games and other fighting games because they didn't have this issue maybe it would have been more fun on a big tv .

12:26, sounds like he got punched in the stomach

Yo, 20:00 video length. Bravo sir!

100% agree on this, I miss it constantly on big budget games and it has become a strong point for indies and NIntendo it seems. If you can afford a Switch, go for it - tons of good first party stuff and some solid indies that have local coop.

Ohhhh baby a triple, ohhhhh yeaaaaaaa 😱

I don't understand how people can find this time cringe. It was literally an epic era to be a teenager and I love it! I still love mlg humor, vines, "Triggered"/laser eyes memes, earr@pe and stuff like that. It just shaped my sense of humor and I don't need to feel ashamed of myself to admit that. I know that this era was so good. (Born in 1999)

There's nothing more that I want than to be able to play games co-op with my partner next to me on the couch. Everything you see nowadays is online multiplayer only. I'm annoyed 😒 Edited to say, I'm glad you mentioned It Takes Two! It's one of the only games in my recent memory that I've been able to play with my partner.

Good old days 🙂

Squares influence in islands i believe is particularly interesting you have to remember that final fantasy spirits within just finished and released in 2001. That studio was located in Hawaii it was also grueling labor to finish and keep that on track. I'm sure having Sakaguchi and those who returned to Japan after this or transfered after this left Square with an influx of creators longing for Hawaii as winter rolled in and left there Tokyo offices a bitting 40ish degrees compared to the more milder Hawaii offices they came from.

0:59 Kingdom Hearts call out❤❤

Now I know the reason why I started using beach / ocean blue wallpapers

I don't have friends to play couch co-op with anymore anyway lmao

"there is nothing i like more than giant balls, and bryce is pretty damn good at playing around with them" pause 6:48

Memes are what posers consume iykyk

This video is almost 20:00 long...off by a single second. Missed opportunity if you ask me :P

9:16 Friggin loved Windows Vista after the childlike look of XP that aged terribly

8:02 That Combine trooper on the right posing like "draw me like one of your french girls"

6:34 - Prototype, Killzone, Gears of War, Infamous - all these games played into that heavily

Early 2000s had a whole "trance music, tropical islands/beach clubs, electronic rock" vibe that played into the whole Y2K aesthetic and it was just...Amazing. Games were either a frickin' summer vacation at the beach or a cyberpunk/biopunk dystopian police state that we were bringing down (or even both, in some cases!). Even popular media like Star Wars played heavily into that. It truly was a great time to be alive and play games.

Finding out Leroy Jenkins was staged is like finding out Santa isnt real :(

The only company who still cares about split-screen and couch co-op at this point is Nintendo. when my nephew comes over to play games together it’s always the Switch we end up playing on

I think Frutiger Aero truly started with Windows Live Messenger 8.0 (2005) and mobile phone advertisement from that era.

:)

Couch coop is great

This video should blow up

I love tropical and also the ocean because it feels peaceful and far away from the chaos of todays society we have to live with

im actually gonna crap my pants SOMEONE USED MY TERM FOR DARK AERO?????😧

This is a nice video and I enjoyed watching it but it strays quite far from topic and doesn't seem to actually answer the question in the title at all

The yakuza games give me PS2 vibes and enjoyment while being next gen

It's just gen Zs version of dusting off the old NES

yay halo mention

Because they looked good