Perhaps not every older game. You still get crap like SMURFS DANCE PARTY during those times.

streaming killed modern gaming...everybody plays tryhard and competitive and not for fun anymore

Because you had to use your imagination with older games, made it much more immersed in them

What's the name of the games on the B games section?

When gaming was fun even without online multiplayer. But today, despite new ideas, realistic graphics its not fun enough but more harder and requires you to learn and practice, making it feel more like a lesson than a means of enjoying and refreshing your mind. For those that manage to dedicate the time to learn and remain patient, only they reap the rewards. And the prices have literally gone so high too.

Never knew Mika Hakinnen loved videogames 😅

Still have 750+ physical copies for PlayStation1

There was quite a lot of variety on the console.

I keep collecting PS1 games, last was a lucky find... Alien Resurrection and Alien Trilogy. PAL, black lable, like new... paid about £50 for both last summer. One of them is fetching triple that now lol. Yesterday I decided to try burning some ps1 games to discs now Ive made room for a CRT TV... 6 discs wasted, no luck lol, something to do with needing to burn them at maximum of 4x speed, none of my writers will burn that slow... Duckstation is okay I guess lol.

Best console of all time period. imo. Got mine when I was 14, christmas 1998 with FF7. The rest is history.

For me the PS1 was more my new Super Nintendo then the N64 was without no JRPGs and a CastleVania like Symphony of the Night😅

I was PC gaming during that time. But it didn’t stop my siblings or cousins and I from renting these systems and some buying one. We always had a blast with PlayStation. N64 was disappointing and even when my sister and my cousin a couple of houses away had one I wasn’t all impressed. Tekken was really cool. Final Fantasy VII, Tomb Raider 2, MDK, and Soul Reaver all classics I absolutely had on my PC. After finding all the titles released in Japan for the Sega Saturn pulled me in that direction. I love the original PlayStation. And really not a fan of its successors. There are a lot of PlayStation titles accessible for PC and other systems. Sega Saturn had a few. I see what arcade titles and obscure titles that were released in Japan and it really makes it my favorite.

My childhood are with NES, but my formative years are fully PS1, it shape my taste on gaming even today. Playing japanese,US and EU games in PS1 trully a remarkable experience for me.

Bought a Japanese ps1 Dec 1994 for £700 with Ridge racer. Still have it. Having future tech almost a year before anyone else was incredible. I couldn't describe it at the pub because they would think I'm drunk or lying, I had to show them.

Suikoden is an amazing game

It's really kind of a no brainer. The PS1 had the biggest and best library of that generation.

Your argument wins on the WOKE gender politics alone.

FPS?

PS4 almost killed the Xbox brand. How was it a low point?

PS1 was a juggernaut back then and easily the dominant force. I had one for a few years and then got an N64 which I loved. Eventually I even got a Saturn as well which I also loved for handful of games Nights, Daytona, Sega Rally, Burning Rangers, Panzer Dragoon II and Radiant Silvergun. Wonderful system the Saturn. My fondest memory on the PS1 was the first Tomb Raider, Gran Turismo I-II , Ridge Rave IV, Wipeout, Wipeout XL and Touring Cars. The Ps1 was part of my gaming for a few years and I'm very fond of it and still play the games. They do look a whole lot better these days however if you run them through Duckstation with internal resolution and the option to sort out wonky textures which the PS1 was all about. In fact I'd say the PS1 has aged very badly in comparison the Saturn

I agree that PS4 was a low point for Sony. Every game in its library I could play on PC with better fps and quality. There were very few games I was interested in. Even Uncharted 4 didn't feel great compared to ps3 ones.

Ps1 was the game changer. Everything after got more boring imo. I was 17 ish when I got the ps1 with resident evil..I went from a mega drive to shitting my pants and never being more excited for games to release such as Re2 and Metal Gear solid. It was the best times to be a gamer. I have a ps5 now and spend what ever little time playing Old games through it, current Turrok 2.

Easiest choice ever. PS1 was legendary

1998 my brother gave me Metal Gear Solid as a Christmas gift and it left me speechless. We normally didn't give each other such expensive things (for 12-13 year olds everything is expensive haha). I'm still very grateful for that gift. One time I forgot to turn off the Playstation before bed time. I went to school the next day with the game still running. When I returned home and put the TV on I found Solid Snake was in the warehouse ventilation shafts all night and all day. I remember I felt as much shame and grief as if Snake was a real person. I told him I was sorry. Please make as much PS1 content as you like Mr. SSG!

I wonder why you say the PS4 is a horrible system? It's a system I honestly enjoy a lot.

i would like that please talk about the games you loved grouping up your perspective is invalable as an older gamer to game devs like me who want to understand why people like you loved gaming growing up compared to games today <3

back then sega saturn was worthless cuz less games and games look worse than ps1, also nobody wants to wait a year for N64 to release, so ps1 was a better option

don't compare ps1 to snes and genesis, these consoles were 4th generation and early 90s, while ps1 is 5th gen and mid 90s

agree, ps1 offers more games, cool contents and true 3D gaming

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Totally forgot about jumping flash and Dino crisis ever existing.

Modern games aren't 'games'. No challenge, no secrets, very easy, no thinking necessary.

I love some of my modern Games but will admit recently I've been on my Good old PS2 playing the Legacy of Kain Series, and Predator Concrete Jungle and am absolutely loving them I actually forgot how good these games were and how much I enjoyed them.... set my PS3 up also so need to play Alice the Madness returns, Dantes inferno, Sly Cooper Trilogy, and The force unleashed 1 and 2..... i have these lined up ready

Internet connection is one thing that ruined games. That opened the gate for micro-transactions DLC. It also opened the gate for devs to release unfinished games. Modern gaming is no fun. If you think about it, you don't own a game anymore. You just rent it.

Retrogaming is timeless and better than old games. I don't care what people think.

A really great video that makes lots of great points. One of the most important points that I don’t hear enough is about people saying to try indie games if you’re sick of soulless AAA titles. Indie titles are almost always rubbish apart from a few breakout hits and even then are no replacement for AA games. I hope AA games like Robocop are a big part of the future of gaming.

Well when you choose to remember the good stuff while ignoring the bad of course your gonna think the old is better. Anyone remember Superman 64,sonic 06, ff14 (2010), mortal kombat special forces?

Me Always used to own dual socks. Singular socks kinda sucks.

i think i found the fix change the display aspect ratio to par 1,1

*Old games were better because fun and passion drove game development.* Then one day Corporate Vampires took over the industry and drained all of the fun and passion and turned it into a Money Grind. Corporate Vampirism results in such a high turnover rate the teams are producing bad code. Due to high turnover the code becomes a patchwork nightmare that results in the buggy poorly optimized AAA messes we have seen over the past decade. The Corporate Vampirism also kills and sterilizes the company culture. Corporate Vampirism produces rushed development cycles that push projects to be launched well before they are ready. It also causes project scope and direction to change so much that it kills the product in its infancy resulting in cancellations. Game Engine is a huge factor that can make or break a game. When you have a long dev cycle you need to be sure the engine is going to stay the same through the whole dev cycle and not be outdated by the time it releases. Look at how the Frostbite Engine forced on Bioware killed their reputation and games. Frostbite was made for FPS games and not RPG games. Games like Starfield exposed what happens when you have 70+ Teams working on the same game on a busted outdated game engine. Starfield has so many loading screens when most modern games have none at all. The engine caused the same bugs in Starfield that modders had been fixing for over a decade in their previous creation engine games. Ultimately to get back to how things were, they need to have 1 Local Team with low turnover work on a game for 6-10 Years to produce great AAA games without the interference of Corporate Vampires. It needs to be done on a stable and well designed game engine as well. One that won't be outdated by the time the game releases.

13:27 what is this game ???

It’s a combination of several factors. Games were better made because of the crash of 83 which had an over saturation of poor quality games and too many platforms..is this ringing a bell, I think there are far too many today as well. The later 80s and 90s had the best games. You could argue games were a lot simpler but so was knowledge of programming back then. Games were a lot not a very mainstream pass time, I remember them being quite difficult compared to today, an example is Microsoft Hellbender on windows 95, I remember that game naving no way point, no hand holding, just you have this objective, find it destroy it in a maze of tunnels, never once the dis game crash or stutter, or have FPS drops etc. Game developers and programmers didn’t have the means to release a patch after launch like they do now. It had to be right first time.

90$ i can buy 50 classic 4A games that are excellent in design and stories!!!!

actually they were as broken as they are now. in design and implementation.

how to disable burst mode for pistol in the trainer. i didn't enable it. it automatically happen.

YES, they were Less bugs, no microtransactions, no online mode only, no mic surveillance, just fun

The finnish accent lmao

games has been the same since 2014

first games system was the atari 2600 pacman space invader pitfall

short answer to this question is love was involved in the work