The Bitter-Sweet Curse of Nostalgia

Nostalgia's great. But it isn't what it used to be. I moan about it and reminisce about the good ol' days.
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[@CopeAscetic]

What's even worse is when you're extremely nostalgic about a game that nobody knows or cares about. feelsbadman

[@dogiz6952]

I know that feel, bro.

[@titodick3694]

yeah, for me it's spore

[@YellowDice]

I got pretty lucky, with that one since I got very attached to a little pc racing game called re-volt, I remember when I found out you could edit textures in ms paint and then when I found out it had such a big supporting community I cried.

[@GouStoulos]

ayyy sphinx and the cursed mummy on the ps2

[@wilhufftarkin8543]

I have a friend who loves a game called Boiling Point. To him the nostalgia is real. I've never played this game and I know nobody else who did, yet the strange thing is, that he infused me with nostalgia about the game's main theme: a few years ago we often listened to it while drinking on long and warm summer evenings... Man, I get the feels now! I can't wait for summer!

[@FrostbyteEdits]

Nostalgia is like re-living the moment but having a deeper understanding

[@miksuko]

and wearing glasses that blur your vision

[@bloojpudding3697]

nostalgia just makes me sad

[@TheCatOfWarCSGO]

Awww :(

[@tomaskn]

feeels bad man

[@penapenis]

It makes me happy :) "don't be sad that it ended, be glad that it happened"

[@raf.nogueira]

You are not alone

[@antonioscendrategattico2302]

I mean, nostalgia comes from a combination of Greek words meaning "pain of coming back". It's right there in the name.

[@Rocknoob49]

Damn, this video really gave me the feels. When your going low-theme kicked in i felt my throat lumping up because exactly what you talk about shortly after has been increasingly prominent to me: I play games to beat them. Often I dont even finish them though. I burn out easily from games whereas back in the day I played Zelda for months, if not years not even caring how long it takes. I had 20 games or so for the n64 and i was fine. Now I have over 200 on Steam and I don't know what to play. And even though I never owned it I will forever have fond memories of tekken 2 or 3 on a buddies Playstation.

[@mateuszw.7905]

I feel u dude :(( I too could play one game for months before but now i feel like its a waste of time although i still like playing games :// Its crap

[@friendofp.24]

You'd think that when you grow older you become more mature and reserved in regards to entertainment. But it's quite the opposite.

[@afk_cs]

I almost threw up watching this. Nothing to do with the video, it was great! I just ate too many fishsticks...

[@miksuko]

it's a delicate state of mind!

[@leskaa3567]

+m1ksu congrats, that is a god-tier reference.

[@leskaa3567]

Gideon Kloosterman that is a garbage reference. Stop.

[@Ethorbit]

+Kaepora Gaebora Says the weaboo.

[@leskaa3567]

Ouch, my feelings. I'm going to go masturbate to anime porn now.

[@guieguima]

Honestly phillip, to me you were always able to transmit the feeling of nostalgia to me, even if I didn't play the same games you feel so nostalgic about, probably because of how relatable nostalgia can be. Sometimes when you talk about older games you care about I end up thinking about the ones I miss as well. Anyways really good video!

[@Hololand]

So I wasn't the only one who spent hours upon hours playing against bots in the old battlefield games?

[@humptyDumptyHadAGreatFall]

Naah man battlefield Vietnam that was the real deal, first game where u could fly planes and helicopters... aah me and my friend actually thought that the bots were other players and we said hey lets meet there and there i come pick u up and when we realized they were only bots it as kinda sad:(

[@element1111]

You could fly planes in 1942, and helicopters in the Desert Combat expansion pack

[@humptyDumptyHadAGreatFall]

Dreadnought but vietnam and 1942 came in the same pack tho.

[@Hololand]

Many memories from 1942 and Vietnam. Spent many hours just shooting bots thinking they were players aswell :D

[@element1111]

Did they? I only had 1942, Road to Rome and Desert Combat on the disc when I bought my copy. Maybe Vietnam came packaged with the older ones, but not vice versa

[@ejp794]

This guy's voice is so calming lol. Good to listen to after a long day.

[@Robo4720011]

This video helped me realize some things about my current life situation on whole different level beyond video games.. thanks kliksphilip, you are a wise man! And keep speaking your mind and experience in your videos.

[@spaceliberator470]

As someone in his early 20s who was in his mid-teens when CoD MW2 out in 2009. My nostalgia consists out of quickscoping and being an unironic xXxSNipzerzzzsxXx Faze Fanboy with over 500 hours in the game. Not sure how to feel about this Maybe kill myself

[@yoshi88mario]

Spaceliberator I feel you.

[@pipemong]

Lightstee1 i have 3k hours in tf2

[@pipemong]

@Ward Zahran it is very sad im not even good

[@Ash-fm6ym]

@@pipemong lol

[@jeffpraterJSF]

Bro you actually had a life I had 4,000 hours on mw2. I had 169 days played before I fully moved to black ops.

[@ConverseMass]

1:22 >'halo 4' we don't talk about halo 4 *never talk about halo 4*

[@ScrumbDuck]

ConverseMass halo 4 is bad? I thought that most people now accept as a pretty good Halo game? Oh wait... your one THOSE Halo fans. blind hate on different gameplay and art style is the worst way to look on a game. Optimisim is a good thing to have while playing a game, I never call a game shit unless I feel like its shit. DOOM 3 is blindly hated on, just because it had a different gameplay style and art style. But Doom 3 is a great game in the eyes of many.

[@ConverseMass]

Have you ever tried halo 4?

[@ConverseMass]

also most people in the halo community do not like halo 4, it's bad there's no need to explain why lmao

[@MrBeef-sh3lc]

Dude, C'mon. H4 is what brought me to the series, leading me to appreciate and beat H1-Reach. It was fun. And what Scrumber said is right, though. Many people actually liked H4's story. Just watch a LateNightGaming or Act Man video. Maybe even ask them a question. They answer.

[@ConverseMass]

Mr. Beef It's not the story that made halo 4 bad, it was the multiplayer and the change of art style that made it bad

[@Scredge]

Crash Bandicoot man, that was *the* shit.

[@Scredge]

Burnout 3, Battlefront 2, GTA San Andreas & Vice City

[@Scredge]

Yeah, I was a PS2 peasant.

[@mtkfrk]

Absofuckinlutely! I spent my teen years on that game

[@Jakal-Lantern]

Same. I grew up on the ps2. Although what really got me into comp gaming is pc gaming. Specifically tf2 and csgo

[@tnant4139]

that was literally my first game. Ever

[@swalker3175]

I miss command and conquer. The music from any of the early games always takes me back. I was also born in the 80's too. We've got to experience such a brilliant gaming evolution from Nintendo / Sega Megadrive to the modern consoles.

[@cgmislive]

red alert 2 was amazing too

[@LeoKeidran]

S WALKER you can actually still play it. It's on Origin.

[@Tommy23r10]

Yeah and number 3 Tiberium Wars is still on steam and optimised! i love playing them

[@Architector_4]

Yeah... That mix of game sounds at game end screen in C&C: Red Alert (PS1 older version, at least) was something awesome.

[@AToZCreations2023]

S WALKER im only 20 red alert 2 was the first video game ive ever played.... it holds a special spot in my heart.... about ever 2 years ill go back and play the whole game through again and still love it.

[@MegaKosan]

It kind of saddens me to see DoD:S die a slow death.

[@TheAlien564]

DOD (the hl1 version) is coming back in full force. The number of servers have quadrupled and the player counts are in the 10s and 20s instead of 2 or 3. So as DOD:S dies (which it should, DOD:S sucks compared to DOD < not nostalgia, played DOD after playing DOD:S mind you) DOD is born anew!

[@monkeyboy140]

Yeah, its a shame that Black Mesa's multiplyer had a short life, but on the other hand I felt that Half-life always had the better multiplayer, as shown by its one kinda-active server

[@MegaKosan]

I think the problem with Black Mesa is that it strayed a bit too far away from HL1DMs mechanics (even though they readded wall-gaussing and sorta-but-not-really improved movement) for the veterans and doesn´t offer something like a progression system with unlockables (not talking about guns, more like character skins) to keep the casual crowd. The opposite example would be CSGO, which has a healthy balance between casual players and competitive players, which as you can see does wonders to a games shelf life.

[@MegaKosan]

Good point. It sure seems like most of the community is a bunch of german 40 year old DoD veterans.

[@dbozan99]

Personally, I prefer DoD over DoD:S, but you should try out Day of Infamy if you haven't already, it's pretty great. They even got the official thumbs-up from valve to have remakes of maps like Avalanche.

[@jojogape]

1:38 "Or when Half-Life was actually a series that Valve cared about." [E] APPLY COLD WATER TO THAT BURN

[@nelsonheeley]

What you said about the demo levels being remembered fondly really struck a chord with my childhood, the Fort level in the first Far Cry that I was able to play from a Nesquik cereal packet still remains one of the integral parts of the finished game. Keep up the great work Philip.

[@sadface]

I'm only 20, so my nostalgia isn't exactly from a long time ago. But here's the things I am nostalgic about: - Old PS1 games, like Crash, Spyro, Tekken, etc. - Halo 3. So many good memories with my friends on custom games. - GTA IV and with the TBOGT DLC. Again, it's all to do with playing with my friends. - CoD WaW, especially with Zombies. - Portal. Doesn't need explaining. - Early days Minecraft. I was 13 at the time so it's easy to see why I would be nostalgic for that. There's more, but those are the important ones.

[@Michael-Hammerschmidt]

I absolutely love your channels. Especially videos such as this one. Like glimpsing into your mind, through your ramblings I feel closer to you. Closer than with most people I know. It seem's to me, similar to the feeling a well written autobiography might have, through I've never truly read one before. I just love to hear your thoughts, no matter how random they seem.

[@Minecraft7635]

I think I remember a game called "outside"

[@samyt681]

wot

[@theredgoblin562]

MinecraftMania that game's graphics are terrible and the gameplay is too punishing

[@rabbidbird5]

MinecraftMania Hate it, I remember so many problems with respawning. Some people saying they got stuck in animal AI, some said they were stuck in a white void with people they knew, and others said it just blacked out and their memory got deleted.

[@flux7945]

Plus, the tutorial takes forever. I'm STILL on it! Doesn't help that the instructions are fucking cryptic, either.

[@Sannidor]

Save states were not working properly in my GOTY mundane edition. NPC dialogues were predictable, grinding for basic resources was insanely tedious. It's overrated.

[@SwiftAlpaca]

Great video, 2kp. Very accurate description of how I feel, especially with the lack of time I have to play through games multiple times. I guess that's just what growing older means.

[@element1111]

I'm 23 now, and by right I should have no recollection of the PS1 era. However, I played and enjoyed PS1 games alongside PS2 games and then-current gen PC games. I always appreciated the inner workings of a game over the superficial eye candy slather on top. I don't consider my feelings for old games as nostalgia. I've played plenty of PS1/old PC games which I barely remember, but the ones I do are due to good game design/soundtrack/level design etc. I can sit down and play something modern on the PS4 or PC, but most of the time I just switch off because the games are just so .. casual. Cinematics that drag on, and on and on and ON, constant hints, hand-holding, straightforward levels, game play mechanics like "eagle vision" that are bordering on being cheats etc. I enjoyed older games more because they were gameplay driven, unlike a lot of triple A stuff today that tries to cram a movie-like experience in there as well. I don't particularly care about graphics, either. I care about aesthetics. If the game has shit art-direction, it can shove its anisotropic filtering up its arse for all I care. That's not to say I don't enjoy some modern stuff. But the ones that I do ( Bloodborne, one of my favs of all time ) are quite old-school in their approach to game design. Here's the weapon, here are the enemies - fight! And I haven't even mentioned DLC, micro-transactions, pay-to-win, skins et al.

[@MajkaSrajka]

Yeah. I can go back to the old games, see how fucking kick-ass they are, find more things about them as my video game skills has grown, and end up having arguments for why I love this game now, in 2017. Who knows maybe it is nostalgia to oldschool design, not the games...

[@cattysplat]

@@MajkaSrajka This is really important I feel. Most games in the past knew they had to be fun first and foremost. Even the dumbest arcade game is still worth 5 minutes of fun. You start up an old game and your usually into the action in less than a minute. Good luck having that experience in modern games, where you have to install, type in DLC codes, sit through logos, opening cinematic, tutorial and story cinematics before you can even start making gameplay decisions in your game. Let alone trying to stay awake and interested during this gameplay whilst being constantly interrupted with dialog and scripted sequences with identical shootouts and combat you swear you've already played in 100 similar modern games before, you might as well boot up netflix or watch a lets play if you wanted to watch a movie. When indie games are going back to 2D and old game ideas with great success, you know there is still much to learn from the games of the past.

[@haziprivate345]

nostalgia has to be my favourite feeling ever. it's so unexplainable in so many ways, for me its usually a sad feeling, but to a lot of people it's a happy feeling looking back at memories or discovering something from their childhood again. It's usually music or maybe a game I would play on my mini PSP like Abes Odessey for instance. Man, do i love nostalgia ...

[@_duncann]

was born in 2000, my most nostalgic games are Super Mario 64, Lost Planet 2 and Little Big Planet

[@julianwichmann2716]

Oh yea Little Big planet.. good times m8

[@cloudystory]

duncan i remember when the psp was relevant

[@start3000]

I was born in 1995, my most nostalgic games are Halo CE, Halo 2, GTA: San Andreas, Fable, and California Speed for the N64.

[@zacc2861]

I was born in 2003, and my most nostalgic games are any I Spy game for the pc, Pokemon hg & ss, luigi's mansion and Mario kart double dash

[@PinkShoesAreSnazzy]

if youre born in 2003 and yet you played those games that means you were too poor to afford the xbox or playstation era shit. i mean, you still played absolutely legendary games but you werent born in that era.

[@lucastasa7188]

At 5:20 I felt that nostalgia instantly, must feel cool to know you have created nostalgia even if it's just a background song.

[@Mew_1452]

This is the problem that I face. When growing up, my brother almost always had our family computer, and I got the xbox. The one game on the xbox that I played for hours and hours and never growing tired of was Morriwind, and it was an absolutely fantastic game. But is was HARD, for a (non-native english speaking) 6-7 year old kid, nearly impossible. But when booting up the xbox today. I realised that I got FAR. I had 7 quests left until completing the game and 56 days of ingame time since the first save. I was an dedicated child. And even though I was that young, I get so much nostalgia from hearing just the name, or the music of the title screen. But most people older than me dont get it, and certainly not the younger ones. So thank you Philip, for being one of few people I know to have shared (almost) the same experience as me. And for being a GREAT content producer.

[@DrDarashin]

Ratchet and clank 1-3 gets no love anymore. The remake hurt. All the first game needed was a strafe mode and it would have been perfect

[@npc_blob1609]

There's nothing to describe hearing the Veldin theme kick off like I'm 6 years old again. So much nostalgia.

[@BrickSand]

Lightstee1 “semi popular speed game” 😔

[@cattysplat]

I think nostalgia awakens positive emotions you experienced for the first time in your life from a much younger and impressionable time in your life and by engaging in nostalgia, either recounting your memories or revisiting the experience, you get to have a taste of that memory all over again and its emotions from amazement, excitement and being impressed by how much an impact it had on you. I think it's a fun thing to dabble in, and maybe recount old tales of a different time in your life, the world and its technology and fashions at the time, plus sometimes it's worth revisiting an era to find lost and forgotten ideas that have been ignored for a long time from being seen as old fashioned/unfashionable. However the current obsession with nostalgia in Hollywood and gaming, of which so many movies and games are being remade or rebooted is getting pretty extreme, in fact it seems most of the current big industries are all out of new ideas. As a whole they are too scared to try something new, so would rather mine nostalgia and retread old ground to appeal to our nostalgic nature with the bonus of introducing older games to a new audience. Looking back is great, but the world must move forward with new ideas, else we'll be stuck in a perpetual cycle of playing the same game with different names over and over again.

[@BimboLiqueur]

I am the minority, I can enjoy these old games for what they are. Not fuckin how nice the dirt looks.

[@CraftOfSparta]

wgreen84 Yeah,me too man,i just love playing games like Super Mario World,Earthbound,Super Metroid,and more!

[@dadangsudadang5963]

wgreen84 same, but tbh, I can't really play anything before the nes era sadly

[@DiffuseAppearance]

By today's standards, decent graphics are an essential part of storytelling, compelling storylines barely even existed on the NES save for a few exceptions out of the hundreds of games that were oftentimes no more complex than something on an arcade machine. The rise in graphics has helped turn video games into something more than just gameplay, that would not be possible without games with groundbreaking graphics for the time like Ocarina of Time, Half Life, Morrowind, Halo or Mass Effect.

[@GeekyGami]

Depends which ones though. I mean, you look at Doom, and it's amazing. You look at morrowind, and the control schemes and raks make you slowly go insane

[@Tasaq313]

Agreed, I played a lot of PS1 games, which were very old but new to me and I enjoyed them. To this day I find hidden gems for PS1.

[@hagridmary]

Do you ever get it when you cherish a certain feeling of nostalgia so much that you keep re-visiting it and in the process of repeatedly trying to experience it, the harder it becomes to find it again? That makes me depressed. Love these sorts of videos by the way, please keep making them. The music is top-notch too.

[@Kayobong]

Millennials in 10 years time be like "remember when games used to have micro transactions... the new super transactions are so much better."

[@RageQuitRQ]

Kieron I'm already missing monster truck madness and the old half life 2 engine. I still have the 2005 disc of half life 2 here and I can't force it to run on the old engine to get the same feeling. Fuck micro transactions though

[@noamias4897]

You uploaded this the same day the sun had starting shining again here in Sweden and I got super duper ultra nostalgic when I walked home from school. I don't know why but when spring starts and the weather gets all shiny I get very nostalgic, happy but also sad at the same time. I have no clue why this is but it really is a mystery

[@andgeo3374]

Personally I've been enjoying games less these days. Nothing to do with my perception of old or new games, I just don't enjoy them as much anymore. When it comes to nostalgia for me... well it's nice to reminisce but I can hardly go back to playing any of the first games I played. There's that old cryo interactive game called Atlantis which I loved back in the day even though it was hard for me back then but I cannot imagine myself spending more than 10 minutes with it today. It kinda makes me sad... things have gotten so fast paced it seems that I'm incapable of enjoying something that's a bit slower anymore. Do you have that problem too some times?

[@mateuszw.7905]

Omfg its totally the same for me right now. I remember these PS1 and old PC games, i think about playing them again cuz of nostalgia, install them turn them on and after 5 minutes im turning them off cuz idk what to do in them anymore. I feel like im just wasting my time. I remember like 14 years ago when i could play A game for months constantly and not feel bored but now... I feel bored after 10 minutes of playing and it keeps me away from games :// Its not like i dont like playing games, i just cant play them like i used to :(

[@Flatter_Sine]

My life has more complications now. Living as an adult stripped most of my joy... I just... wish I could live it again like a starstruck highschooler.

[@MagnifiqueRarity]

I am really nostalgic about experiencing WoW for the first time. I've worked months on my paper-route to buy the game and a monthly pass, and I've spent 3 days downloading the game, even though it came on 3 massive disks. It was all worth it; I remember booting the game up and creating my very own character in this massive world, with so many other real people playing! I was truly astonished. I could not comprehend the scale of the game, the possibilities, the potential friends, the customization. Perhaps this is my nostalgia speaking, but I really felt that most people playing at that time were truly immersed in the game. You would take your time chatting up other players if you met them, you would take time to help each other, trade inventory (even though it was worth nothing), show favourite merchants, find hidden spots in the game, and so on. Nowadays, a game on this scale is a norm, and I think it shows. Seemingly everyone, including me, takes such games for granted. I no longer care about the people I see in these worlds. The sense of wonder is just gone, and it makes me sad.

[@silasmayes7954]

Inspirational, informative, and insightful thank you!!

[@leon370]

I remember when I was in year 8 in school, September 2015 to July 2016 ( yes I know it wasn't that long ago) but I remember the memories I had, I remember coming home from school everyday in January 2016 and watching my favourite youtuber at the time which was pyrocynical, after that I'd play dying light with my friends, this went on until summer 2016 when I started experiencing more great times. I played battlefield 4 and watched a lot of youtubers, life was perfect until I went into year 9. At the beginning of year 9 I was still enjoying things a lot, but it all started going down hill when I hit puberty. What puberty does is it makes all the things that you used enjoy and love doing, not enjoyable anymore. You have a lot more worries on your mind and it's hard to settle down and have great moments like you did while you were young. All I do these days is look back at the times that I really enjoyed and think to myself that I can never experience ANYTHING close to it again, unless I really try, and even then it just won't be the same.

[@Craft2299]

Its not just nostalgia, but the philosophy of games made at the time. Today, alot of tools may spoil the developer. One of the reasons why indie games are rising is because of this. Big time developers with 50k man power make pretty predictable games unlike indie games that pretty much make games at the same caliber or philosophy of ps1/N64 era. And it is one of the reasons why games at the past, feel different than the modern ones. Of course modern ones are solid, but solid does not always equate to good. I mean, remember Old tomb raider versus new tomb raider? One is distinctively its own, and the other is another uncharted game.

[@christoptheillusiveman9875]

I was born in 2000 and my most nostalgic games are the Rayman series. I even feel nostalgic for the new Rayman titles, simply because I remember what a miracle it is they exist.

[@UninspiredUsername40]

18 year-old millennial here. I can enjoy the better games from the 8 and 16 bit consoles just fine, despite growing up with a gamecube/wii, ps2, and pc. Some games are just clunky (mario 1, zelda 1) while some play just fine from more modern standards, like mario 3, mario world and zelda lttp. I have like, 10 emulators installed on my computer, though I mostly use bizhawk for ps1/n64 era and back (accuracy, especially visual and audio accuracy, is very important to me for some reason. ZSNES and Project 64 can fok off.) Maybe I'm just a cheep ass who likes free games IDK.

[@MadScientist512]

I guess nostalgia is bitter-sweet almost by definition, being fond memories of a time one can never return to, and maybe that is a core appeal of time-travel fantasy. Having gamed for >35 years, all these gaming nostalgia vids make me feel really old, my first game was Pong on (ironically) a black-and-white TV! Atari 2600, Vic-20, C64, A500, SNES and PS1 was my progression, and re-visiting titles from that far back definitely shattered my rose-tinted glassses. What can't be seen in a video is the 'Zeitgeist' of the era of a game, how one was thinking and seeing the title at that time, and not how it looks now, something that can only be shared through explanation rather than experience, and I give kudos to this creator for doing so in his 'Review' videos; the "Operation Flashpoint" one certainly brought back some fond memories. Something people these days don't realize is just how bad the 'IBM' PC was at games when it first came out, the first 4.77 MHz 8-bit 8088-based 'XT' was useless for all but text-based games, Bill Gate's infamous quote of"640 Kb should be enough for anyone" was related to the hardware limitations of these 8-bit PCs, the same reason 32-bit PCs are limited to 4Gb. It wasn't until the AT '286 era, around which VGA-graphics started to become common(-ish), that it could really compete with other home computers; even when "Doom" came out many people still didn't have soundcards and were stuck with effectively 1-bit sound. This patchwork adoption of hardware restricted the scene for a long time even when PCs were theoretically superior. 3D PC gaming, with the exception of a few great titles, mostly sucked until after the PS1 came out and showed people how to 3D, all the while creating the modern game interface style with crews that cut their teeth on the Amiga, a machine that itself was hugely influential on modern software/hardware, such a shame it lost out to the hugely inferior Apple Mac. (As an aside, Acorn's Archimedes was another ground-breaking 'microcomputer', the heart of which still beats on in mobile devices in the form of the ARM processor (Acorn RISC Machine).) It wasn't until the first half of the nineties that the PC caught up to other home computers and slowly beat them out; it was in the latter half, and with the mass-adoption of 3D-accelerators, that PC gaming as we know it took off and truly surpassed the consoles, and at which time other home computers were left in the dust; RIP Amiga :( , I knew thee well :) . Seeing the PC take second place to consoles in the 'teens' was disheartening, and the squandering of possibility in favour of cash-grabbing in the mobile space is rather disturbing; I'm a gamer first and foremost, and while I prefer some platforms (PC now, Amiga then) to others, I think that being a 'Fanboy' and limiting oneself to one whilst looking down on and dissing the others does gaming itself a disservice, maybe mobile games being crap is kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Back in the old days innovation was king, now everything seems to be "set in its ways" and every new game is a variation on a long established formula, with truly novel titles few and far between in comparison to the deluge of the generic. If there is so much of the same around, will enough people even see something unique for there to be a real push in a new direction, or are we doomed to incremental improvements in existing franchises? IMHO the corporate focus on gaming, as well as copyright and IP laws have really strangled innovation, just look at how modding has become restricted, and how many old games are actually disappearing; I know I'm not the only one who'd love to be able to play "Marble Man/Marble Madness 2" but will only ever see it on KZbin. I'm still hoping for a renaissance and a return to the old days when genres were constantly in flux and heading in new and exciting directions, but maybe that's also being nostalgic. I realize that truly breaking new ground is difficult, but there are still so many possibilities that have already been spotted in niche indie titles, yet never truly explored in full, or incorporated into existing genres to revitalize them and maybe make new ones.

[@oliharding]

Crash: Tag Team Racing was maybe the best racing game of all time after Burnout 3: Takedown. Facts.

[@soldierorsomething]

The races against the "time" were the worst in burnout 3, since there always was that 1 random car behind that curve, that you would smash in to after strating to drift with full nitro boost

[@erin_aivallone]

No, opinion.

[@DrDarashin]

Oli Harding I cannot agree more. Maybe an age thing but on ps2 they were the best thing ever

[@ronald7795]

Thank you!!!! It's honestly one of the better crash games

[@judsta123kickass]

Crash Team Racing is better

[@LanceTheeGamer]

I feel like to be nostalgic about a game, it has to be something you haven't actually sat down and enjoyed for a very long time. That rules out games such as TES IV: Oblivion for me because I still have it installed to play til this day. However are games that comes to mind for me when I think of my childhood, and all the the memories that come along with that. From Zombies ate my Neighbors to Desert Storm and Road Rash there are so many good memories there. Beautiful video mate.

[@Konigreich]

So don't play games to beat it, play games to experience it?

[@kelbyhunter6852]

as someone who WAS born in the 2000's, i have incredible nostalgia whenever i touch an XBOX or Wii and even SNES, but mainly XBOX. i had older sisters, so we had one. Its always been a part of my childhood to play it. Im 15 and i play games and consoles as old as me.

[@phe4622]

Toy story 2 on PS

[@TggTechTalk]

Same! Space invaders on ps was always my fave

[@bluebaby30]

I played the demo with the first levels for so many hours

[@linklgas1691]

I played it on N64. Fight me.

[@Murukku47]

Nostalgia at its finest is a rewarding, enjoyable and sweet, even healthy indulgence. Nostalgia is a great thing when you learn to appreciate it for what it really is - your own special quirk of mind that allows you to enjoy a specific game far more than many others seem to just because it holds memories and context to you so strongly it makes you happy about them every time. Don't be upset about not having more games like those from the past that you love because new games trying to do the same thing will never fill any kind of void or that not everyone is playing and gushing over what you enjoy. Just love how you can love something this well and don't be afraid to tell people that you do.

[@georgecallander4062]

I was born in 2002, and it annoys me that people on the internet dismiss me and my opinions because I'm young. Like I'm not entitled to nostalgia. Sure, a lot of people my age are super annoying, but isn't that the same for any generation? Maybe mine has more annoying idiots, but it still isn't really fair. When I used to play CS:GO, I would immediately be dismissed as a squeaker and muted, kicked or trolled. I like to think I'm not a typical 2000's kid thanks to my brothers. They would constantly bully me and tease me about stupid or cringey shit I did, and although I hated them for it, I'm really grateful now, and I go to visit them every school break. So even though my brothers taught me not to embarrass myself and be a cringey idiot, I'm still dismissed as a millenial. By the way, not hating or complaining to Philip, just felt like I needed to say this.

[@TheRaphaPower]

dont worry its not your generation. We all go through it. It happened to me and i was born in 96 when i was playing halo 3 i was just dismissed like that and i also thought too. It's just the natural order of things i guess.

[@aoneko6813]

Try not to worry too much about the "my generation is different from x generation for x reason thing." I feel your pain. I'm from 2000, and i know exactly what you're talking about. I kept thinking to myself "man, thease people are immature as fuck. Do i belong here?" and so on, but trust me, i was just having a bad time and or had a bad relationship with those people. Every generation has its downsides, but generations consist of people, not machines. It's easy to think that everyone in the WORLD is completely fucking stupid because a large ammount of the people you often run into every week are stupid. But of course that's not true, that'd be stupid. And to answer your question about the squeaker thing, they're just being assholes because they're older than you. Heck, most of 'em probably aren't even older than you. Mean people get this sense of power from how anonymous you can be on the internet, and they take advantage of it. It's annoying as fuck but please remember that they're just being assholes. No matter when you're born it won't matter because older people will always make fun of younger people like that. Don't worry buddy :)

[@cloneclown1]

this guy got it :D

[@Xenoforge78]

You are effectively still a child. As others have said, you'll understand why you're dismissed now when you're older. You haven't even lived yet.

[@jkerman5113]

I'm 13 and get nostalgia for games that i've played like a year ago, just because my life is changing so dramatically. Circumstances mean everything.

[@jkerman5113]

I'm 14 and get nostalgia for games that i've played like a year ago, just because my life is changing so dramatically. Circumstances mean everything.

[@cheatsenabled1662]

Commenting to see all the updates.

[@guy1524]

I was born in 2016 and my fave nostalgic games definitely gotta be No Man's Sky, Ghost Recon Wildlands, Far Cry Primal and GTA VI

[@Danimations2015]

lol

[@Malkovith2]

I was born in 1997 and one of my favourite games ever is from 2020. It does appeal to the things I've always wanted from games "back then" but it is undeniably a new game, even if retro style. I am a big music fan, keep discovering great new music. But there is so much of it from all periods, you will never run out. Still new things come out and with enough digging I will always find something fresh that I really like.

[@kr0n580]

When the only game you play is CSGO, you wont have to worry about catching up on the new kids version Valve wont get off their lazy ass and make one

[@FrozenShop]

It's really hard for most of my friends to understand the nostalgia I have of going to Net Cafe's. Back when the only pc that we had at home was strictly used for work purposes, me and my old friends would almost hit our local net cafe, and play for hours upon hours. I always want to go there, but newer friends just don't understand the deal with it. "You have a pc at home, why pay to play on a different one with different settings than yours? Thanks for the video Phillip, It's nice knowing you aren't alone in what you feel :)

[@TheInfamousCloaker]

Timesplitters, but it is not a cursed nostalgia. Cause most people I show it to love it and ask why they never played it. Also that shows that most FPS games have gotten into the gritty boring Modern military shooter fps games

[@soldierorsomething]

Oh man, i think i spend way too much time slaughtering bots in that game than i should have, but never got bored of it with that fantastic map editor. The most annoying challenge was the "Brick flung high" where you had to smash all the windows and plates of the chinese restaurant map (+ the game had double miniguns and a good soundtrack, now how cool is that!)

[@RageQuitRQ]

The Infamous Cloaker Videos YES TIMESPLITTERS. Been waiting for Timesplitters 4 longer than half life 3 because I only got to half life 2 in 2006

[@JwpGaming]

this video had me thinking back to my childhood as far as i can for some reason. One of the first and fondest memories i have with my dad is actually watching him play counter strike. I remember as he passed a table mic and told me to say something and I went along the lines "you all suck. my dad is the best player in the whole world." I was like 3 or 4 at the time. He played it since the beta and had his own clan. The first game i can remember is CTR. I was only a toddler but i still remember watching this red fox looking thing (a bandicoot) driving a blue car on the screen. My very first own game however was Rayman 1 for the ps1. I also remember the night my dad left for a night out and told me the magic words: "you may play on the computer. don't stay up too late" I had grown up watching him play CS, red orchestra, and battlefield 2 so you can imagine my 10 yo face when i got to boot up Counter strike source for the first time. My steam account is my dads old that he gave to me among a crappy first gaming computer as he noticed I had gotten into CS as well. I suppose it's his legacy of sorts .I played till 3am, trying all the game had to offer. Defuse, hostage, jailbreak and zombie maps alike. And yes, I sucked. but over time i got a little better. How ever for me the zombie mods were the best the game had. Maps like zm_lila_panic , ze_mines_of_moria, ze_voodoo_islands or zm_4way_tunnel were among my favorites. I did play 1.6 as well but i didn't get into it as much personally. Until my later teen years when I met my dad's old clan member through steam. I played 1.6 with him since he couldn't run source.He had some self build battlestation from early 2000's. Then I stopped hearing from him for almost a year. I understood a grown man must have better things to do but since two of my dad's clan members had passed away I got a little worried. Since then I've seen him pop up a few times while i was offline. Maybe I'll contact him again soon. I just wish there was a way to capture the beauty of playing a game you hold dear first time again.

[@IBradFrazer]

Warcraft III was my shit. That and TimeSplitters.

[@ConfusedHound]

Memories of me exploring the mansion in tomb raider II came back after watching this. From trying to lock the butler in the meat room to attempting the obstacle course knowing I'll hear "Back to the start". Amazing how time flies.

[@8bit_pineapple]

I think allot of what you're saying only applies to allot of 90's 3d games e.g. _"obsolete titles that have since been bested"_ . When it comes to 2d 90's games allot of them are still great irrespective of nostalgia. For example, I didn't have an SNES when I was younger and only recently played Super Mario World , and it's a great game. To me well done pixel art around that time still look great, the capabilities were good enough to give the artists allot of creative freedom .... whereas in the land of 3d they were stuck trying to model a head out of 12 polygons, which no matter what is just going to just look like a box.

[@MajkaSrajka]

IMO graphics isn't what made old titles obsolete but gameplay or UI/usability (or both). For me the game to be bested, has to be bested on these fields, and graphics have absolutely no say in it.

[@ablationer]

I think this is particularly true of RPGs. Yes games nowadays have improved graphics and sometimes mechanics but things like story, characters, and pacing isn't something you can simply improve on with newer technology. For example I played both Secret of Mana and Ocarina of Time for the time ever only recently, and I enjoyed them both even without the nostalgia factor (slightly less so when I reached the water temple in OoT but still)

[@ATJ253]

Me and my cousin and our friends who we played cs with since source grew up on watching your videos bc they were so funny. Now we're all 18/19 and in a couple years we'll be nostalgic for the laughs we had with your videos. Also you should really watch 3kilksphilip while you're high

[@9823r5]

I prefer older titles like Sniper Elite 4.

[@RageQuitRQ]

OsamaBananaMelon Do you remember Half life 3? Such a classic.

[@portalowy5346]

My favourite old-school title is Battlefield 1.

[@imminent404]

Your music gives me nostalgia every time I watch a new video. Ingenious!

[@cheekypercy5413]

I am only 3 years old wait is a draggo?

[@UserofM1necr4ft]

dragoo is purple, means it good guy when red mean it a bad person like hitler and jesus

[@cheekypercy5413]

oh right. thxs dadu

[@d00m3fanatic]

Great video! I'm from the 80s too and I got in that beat game loop too. Now even with backlog I try to replay at least once because then you understand the controls and gameplay mechanics so much better than the first time so you can mess around a lot more :)

[@5partanzm1lk]

UNSUBBED N E S B U B B U B S E N DEBBUSNU

[@Clone2572]

lol no

[@01k]

Snop Doge Why?

[@flux7945]

And...why should we care?

[@flux7945]

Hold up, he's still subbed. He's trying to be funny. TRYING to be funny.

[@finitetv9661]

T I R N Y G

[@thebootysnatcher7907]

This video really hits home, summed up the feeling of nostalgia so well. I love you, Philip, always making some of my favorite videos

[@inhalerofmoistmeals2931]

Returning to soundtracks of games I used to love, seeing how they shaped the taste I have today, that's the shit.

[@Floatharr]

Wow I feel 5-10 years older just for having watched this. As an 80s kid that grew up with PC FPS my nostalgic games are Doom, Quake, and Unreal. They brought back the first one successfully already, now I'm just waiting for worthy successors for the other two.

[@MissFalcon]

I'm a young 14 year old, but I play ganes like ffe, postal 2, san andreas and other 80's gems. I have a non existent nostalgia. I don't hate new games of nostalgia, but don't dislike old games because of a lack of nostalgia. I like synthwave and classical music, but also dubstep and vapor wave. What I'm trying to say is that you don't have to be old to appreciate old things. PS 3klicksphilip I love your channels for its nostalgic vibe.

[@sirgordinni5154]

I was born in late 2001. I do feel a bit nostalgic now that you put those Spyro clips... Goddamnit I wish I still had a PS1.

[@JustSomeLeagueClips]

I literally get nostalgic by listening to your music. There's just something about your tunes phillip.

[@beejash]

Having nostalgia about old games I used to play just makes me sad, always makes me miss the old days :(

[@Siggvard]

In my mid 20s i've gone back and played A Link To The Past. A generation of games I didn't grow up with. I had a blast playing that game. It just shows you how good some of those older games really are.

[@nicoleplus]

I greatly appreciate the Spyro gameplay, Spyro 3 was one of my big childhood games. I was born in 2001, but we were always sort of behind when it came to video games. Looking back, I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

[@verrin9154]

I think part of the struggle of getting into new games as I get older is just that I've gone down so many similar paths so many times, that the sense of uniqueness and wonder has worn thin. How many FPS games have I played, and how many are really distinguished? My first real experience with a competitive online shooter was the original Counterstrike, and I don't think too many games from that genre have struck me as deeply since. And it's the same story with most genres-- RPGs, Strategy games, you name it. They would suck me in deep once, but not anymore. Like you said, I have to really chip away at a game like Battlefield1 or Overwatch to even hope to get stucked into a game that used grab me almost effortlessly 15 years ago.

[@Fuguire]

You made me plug my ps1 with those clips of spyro the dragon. Know that you've successfully shared some of your nostalgia with me :)

[@dylanhoven771]

After sinking almost 600 hrs into tf2, I still wish I could get back to that feeling of learning back when I had just downloaded it. The truth is, no matter how much I play, that feeling is something that has nothing to do with tf2, but rather with being introduced to a new game that is incredible.

[@CaveyMoth]

1:56 Thank god you got that egg. I was getting anxiety remembering this part.

[@sunnyboi3867]

One aspect of nostalgia in the older gamers is the most of them treat younger players with a tribal like hatred. Most interactions I see today between older folks and kids online is just a bunch of grown ups beings pricks to kids just trying to enjoy the game. One moment I recall was during America’s Army Proving Grounds. A kid on my team managed to take out the enemy VIP and won us the round. After he did it, he said “yes I did it!” With some joy. Then my entire team started meanly joking about him saying that he did it. One phrase I heard was “Wow this kid running around thinking this is the hardest thing in the world just to kill some f****** dude that anybody could kill” I just told them “What’s wrong with you guys?” and they just kept going, then the kid left because of them. Afterwards I left that match because of that. Maybe I’m just a butthurt softy but I simply don’t understand why people need to make fun of kids just trying to play and enjoy the games of today.

[@penapenis]

philip... i was born in the year 2000. i am 17 years old. I started playing crash bandicoot 2 and spyro 2 when i was 1 years old. not kidding. I love those games from the bottom of my heart and I speedrun crash bandicoot these days. Just wanted to tell you that not all 2000 kids are like you said in the video :D (most of them are)

[@S3renityGaming]

Nostalgia is very strong. I can't begin to describe the feelings I get when I look up the China loading theme for Battlefield 2.

[@red5robb1]

the fact that this year we are getting some 'older styled' games like sonic mania, yooka laylee, the crash remaster etc, people having so much hype over them will hopefully show companies that a lot of people would rather play these older types of games

[@CallumMcCartney]

Halo 3 will always be my game. I loved games like Spyro and I'm so happy I could grow up with them, but nothing will describe how awe stuck I was the first time I landed on the Ark in Halo 3.

[@PixelDolphin]

I swear the levels of Spyro you were playing are less detailed. Nostalgia hitting hard with how awesome it looked.

[@RudeFoxALTON]

Lords of Magic, Bladur's Gate, Planescape torment, Arcanum, Icewind Dale, Man... so many good memories.

[@JustAGiraffe]

My friend had a donkey kong cabinet in his garage, then I got a PlayStation with donkey kong country and bragged about it to him profusely.

[@Blustride]

My nostalgia game is Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries. I love the atmosphere and how well the combat portrays stomping around in a Battlemech blasting other big Battlemechs. I love the snarky protagonist and the sensible Scandinavian intel officer, I love micromanaging what 'Mechs your lance goes out in, and I love the whole idea, of being a mercenary in a civil war and fighting for money before aligning yourself with one of the two sides (I always chose the good guys...). I think the ending speech from one of the first missions will always be ingrained in my head. "Convoy, set your heading 3-5-0. Stray from that course, or broadcast on any frequency and you'll be vaporized. Cooperate, and you'll be free to go." "I'm not sure the Governor will be pleased with our letting loyalists go like that" "We're here for the payday, Castle, not the politics. Get salvage in here and see what we can use. Thermite bomb the rest." "Roger, sir. Deploying Tacops for salvage and recovery"

[@victorortiz4448]

I remember playing suikoden II on my psx, and is still my personal top1 game, played it again for 5th time 2 years ago and his history and chars still got me. also today is my 27 birthday, feelsoldman :( PD: great video phillip like always, even if you disliked it haha.

[@MilkmanCR]

I was born in 2000 and grew up with the SNES, N64, Ps1, and the original Xbox. LOVED THE HALO SERIES. #RipHalo

[@Meidenless]

Whenever I play a new video game, I rarely find them as enjoyable as I used to. As you said, I've started playing games just to beat them. Instead of the imaginative roleplay and creative gameplay I used to automatically experience, I've grown into be someone prefers story more than enjoying myself. I'll have to take your advice, and take a few steps back. The next time I play through Skyrim, I'm going to put as many buckets on people's heads as I can!

[@flobb91]

more than 10 years ago my mom decided to built a nice little summer house in the garden. it was all made of wood and pretty small. but it was the perfect place to have a lan party with my friend. we played "serious sam 2" the whole night and finally beat the boss. this impression really stuck to me. it stuck so much that even today the smell of freshly cut wood brings me back to the colorfull world of ss2. i cant walk into a hardware store without thinking of it.

[@totono241]

no matter what or how many time has passed from my last playthrough, i always come back to far cry 2, dead space 2 and spyro 1,2 & 3. Man i love those games

[@mintlou]

What you are describing here is a very common feeling I think amongst gamers. I too have tried to recreate the fun I used to have as a kid, and while technically it is the same, the greenness and child simplicity of small amusements isn't present.

[@darkangel67]

been hooked to ps1 games too..especially on RPG (xenogears,legend of the dragoon) etc...the nostalgic feeling of a simple life of just playing and going to school is so strong that even today i long for it..with no one to share that nostalgic feeling..now working here in japan i asked my co-workers bout it and they said 懐かしい which means "so nostalgic"..its nice to see and connect to ppl..on the different side of the world..different culture..but with a shared nostalgic childhood memories

[@skurr]

Every time I hear Oblivion's soundtrack I almost cry.

[@KingTwelveSixteen]

I had a weird experience with this video. When you started talking about nostalgic music and its affect on people you played the exact same music you've used in other videos, most notably the very recent 'The Suspect's Story', thus this video gave me nostalgia for a video the came out over a year after this one and I watched only like 2 days ago or so. It was an odd feeling.

[@darkability1393]

is it nostalgia if its a thing from 2 days ago?

[@Mauld]

Realizing this video came out 7 years ago at this point. It has felt like it has been 2

[@PeeHooo]

I think I have best memories from Game Boy Advanced days. I got it as christmas gift with Crash Bandicoot XS. I remember being clued to desk lamp as it didnt have back light and there was almost no daylight in winter. Mario and Luigi superstar saga was probably my favorite game for that. Honorably mentions also to Stuntman and Warioland 4. I also remember the day of getting original Nintendo DS with my own "hard-earned" cash(saved all my birthday/christmas gifts from parents and relatives.) Bought it on the launch day with Mario 64 DS which was a bit of disappointment at first but which later enjoyed quite a bit. Didn't really have much more memories from that time frame. I only remember my siblings bullying me for playing video games and I stopped playing for a long time. I didn't want to be called "nerd". I still shudder when I hear that word. Sigh... story of life. :d Got back to gaming when CS:S had been out quite a while, my older brother bought it as his friends were also playing it. He didn't really play it that much and I always remember his friends asking in steam if it was me playing or my older brother. Most of time it was me. :P Havent really played any other games since. (Other than transitioned to Global Offensive.) ps. Google, none of this information is correct. I made it all up. Don't use it to identify me or sell my information to advertisers. Thank you.

[@winston11381]

This is exactly what I contend with as a gamer newly in his 30s. Great video!

[@Mr4Fawkes]

My nostalgic game is Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2. I remember i got a dutch/french copy for my birthday and i played it for an abnormal amount of time (even learned some basic french words while i was at it). I got the urge to play it again recently, but it just won't install on Windows 10. And now there is a gaping hole in my heart that can't be filled with the "sequel" to Hot pursuit which came out in 2010.

[@SyndicatorDylan]

Pokemon Red is a game I go back and play on almost every year

[@susseratal]

For me, the original Ratchet and Clank on the PS2 sucked away hours of my childhood. I recently went back and played through it again, and got to play Ratchet and Clank 2, which I'd never played before. I loved Ratchet and Clank, and yet Ratchet and Clank 2 left me feeling nothing. Was sad

[@mahteuso6130]

My biggest nostalgic hit was when I was watching a video called something like "Best N64 games" and Mischief Makers appeared there, my mind was blown remembering those creepy faces