Millennial Reviewers

[@ShreddedNerd]

Go to surfshark.com/shreddednerd for 4 extra months of Surfshark

[@wooderice64]

The All-Seeing Eye sees all

[@thebigpig2364]

Next video title: Millennial People

[@lukemccullough9279]

he sold out

[@gowanlore2434]

No.

[@ryzas111]

Shrerd getting money now

[@dzigayu4944]

Guys, I'm starting to think ShreddedNerd doesn't like millennials.

[@amadeusagripino6862]

Not even millennials like millennials

[@JacktheStripper-tc5pn]

I don't think anyone does

[@thespacedisland5746]

Gen Alpha are Aryan beasts

[@soulextracter]

@@amadeusagripino6862 True. I am one, and I don't. Especially the ones who are a tad older, with the man buns and the thick framed glasses, with the quirky hipster clothes.

[@tater4462]

@@amadeusagripino6862you are correct

[@kosmas173]

You aren't the Angry Nintendo Nerd but you are certainly the Calm Halo Nerd.

[@ghostcat11]

mild mannered halo fan

[@idklol4197]

The diddy joke in your ad read was extremely millenial btw

[@Weppi4]

he can't escape his destiny

[@larsthemartian9554]

Millennials gotta millennial, we can't help it

[@itsasecrettoevery1]

eh, more of a tasteful zoomercore

[@sbajkgfvhedirwghv]

Diddy joke in big 2025💔

[@jonatanrobledo9812]

​@@itsasecrettoevery1zoomers don't know who diddy is.

[@Caspicum]

Say what you will, but those old reviews had soul, and will always contain more value than the modern, pretentious, 3-hour-long video essay which just recite Wikipedia and occasionally make a bad political joke.

[@cyberninjazero5659]

Hey, it's the digimans. Yeah, the early ones had their own sense of style, but ad time went on it was kind of clear that more and more were doing it because it was just the style at the time. Same with Video Essays

[@Hypnotically_Caucasian]

ThePatrician with his “Brief Analysis of *insert game* Part 1” (it’s 37 years long):

[@cyberninjazero5659]

@Hypnotically_Caucasian To be fair to him, he does have shorter ~30 minute reviews of games. It's just massive Elder Scrolls style RPGs that he makes the massive essays on

[@WorthlessWinner]

Getting paid to make videos ruined videos v_v

[@Mr.KneeGrow]

Say what you will but I watched the entire 25 hour video on Berserk in only three sittings.

[@Other8arry]

Half life wasn’t cool because it was sophisticated; it was cool because it sort of broke the mold in a lot of ways. I think it’s the first game I can remember that introduced true interconnected levels that replaced a level select with an area load, creating an immersion we hadn’t seen before it.

[@magicjohnson3121]

Didn't Quake 2 do the same thing? I know it had loading screens but it had a similar level structure.

[@Other8arry]

@ so it’s been a minute, but, I think you’re progression locked on Q2. Half life could go back and forth, it for sure intended linear progression but allowed you to make mistakes and go back. Q2, you hit a milestone / progressed to the next level, and I don’t think there was any going back.

[@dotanuki3371]

@@magicjohnson3121 no. quake 2 had a few places where you needed to go back and forth between levels. it didn't have the near seamless level transitions hl did.

[@sneedsquatch6129]

Imo what made Half Life 1 stand out was it's environmental storytelling compared to other FPS at the time. The level design was top notch from a narrative standpoint.

[@saisameer8771]

Technically, System Shock did it first. Not only were the levels seamless, but the individual levels all had a distinct look and feel of their own, with the lower areas looking industrial and cold, with the upper floors being more posh and luxurious. Shodan in ss1 is still one of the greatest villains in gaming, even better than it's sequel. Unfortunately, the game controls like a flight simulator, while still being a fast paced twitchy shooter, which is why it never caught on, unlike half life.

[@reviewspiteras]

"how * insert flavor of the month indie quirky slop game * destoys the AAA industry, promoves GOOD trans visibility, cured my depression, made me a better person, walked my dog around the park, made my father cameback and SHOW WHY WE LIVE IN A LATE STATE CAPITALISM NIGHTMARE" - The pseudo intellectual millenial consoomer who is totally unbias,doesn't shill and has no agenda

[@thebuddah1253]

"Oh gaming sucks now? Did you play the 13th metroid ripoff indie game that wasn't even that good but I'm shilling anyway? Checkmate fake gamer!"

[@TheThreatenedSwan]

Disco Elysium

[@dogeboithedoomslayer]

I ❤ THE ENDLESS CYCLE OF CONTRARIANISM

[@TheL1034]

*sells ten thousand units at best and causes the studio to collapse* Don't forget that part. Also journos and reviewers trying to convince anyone who listens that the game wasn't total shit (it was).

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

"Oh man. I am so exicited for yet another indie game with a hidden deep message about how capitalism and evil corporation is bad (even DOE Its game being published by a major corporation)" These people try to pretend they are centrist as well. Such cowards they cannot admit to what they actually are.

[@CrawlingShadow9]

I usually really like your videos but this is just aimless ranting. I don't really get what point you were trying to make other than "Millennial Bad" (even though some of the games you talk about weren't even being widely reviewed by millennials at the time, as most of them were still too young to be part of the game journalism industry) It really just feels like you're complaining about people disagreeing with you and that you're trying to be a contrarian by going against the "popular opinion." I'm not saying that's what you're definitely doing, but that's how you come across.

[@kalinmir]

kindda felt like recounting old discourses around games, pointing out some attitudes that maybe weren't justified form todays perspective...but thats the most normal thing in the world, I dont get how that is different than any other cultural phenomena regardless of time period or people involved

[@counterfeit6089]

Genre tribalism and fanboying during this era was fucking wild. The mindset was that if you liked one type of genre, be it JRPGs, "dudebro shooters", or Nintendo, that had to be the only thing you played or else you were a fake fan or something.

[@ultratheman]

i was a child at the end stages of the "console wars" and i hope most who "participated" were too, worst thing of that generation and an eternal symbol of corporate domination over us.

[@Pallamut]

Not really no, and it saddens me that you had acquaintances like that It has always been easier to put people in boxes of genre and some people gatekeeping what a "real gamer" is but the tribalism wasnt really any more intense than what it is nowadays. I know because i met plenty of people who recommended me games that were wildly different from what we were playing

[@arkgaharandan5881]

i mean you say this, but look how absolutely soaked in dark souls clones we are. Action rpg meant alot of things, now i ave to manually check every new action rpg to make sure its not a souls clone, it became a genre.

[@Sketchy_2]

Miss the days when consoles were actually worth fanboying over

[@Pallamut]

@@Sketchy_2 They never were Don't get me wrong they are good toys but there should have to be a lot more going on to actually stan a company like people do

[@Legiteral]

Should’ve named this Millennial Game Critiques, would’ve made this whole video a lot less confusing

[@HeroOfHarran]

we get it, you're salty that you missed the 90s and live in Australia lol... the land the industry forgot, censorship and inflated prices

[@SamM_Scot]

Pretty much this :-)

[@Zyklon_B_still_and_know_God]

💯 this video demonstrates how little he understands the time these things existed in

[@reviewspiteras]

I felt in my teenage to early adulthood in the trap of anime reviewers like mother's basement where he does outlandish claims like "Naruto is socialist while BNHA is capitalist" and I am so autistic that I used that as a conversation on a party. I hate idiots like him and idiots like me who know nothing about philosophy other than "muh socialism and muh capitalism"

[@DSPHistoricalSociety]

You guys need to read

[@dzigayu4944]

Reminder this dumbass said you should skip Jojo part 2 because it had nazis in it, you know, the part that specifically takes place in the late 1930's

[@kirigherkins]

in 20 years you will still remember what you said at that party, there's no escaping what you've done

[@reviewspiteras]

@@kirigherkins Yeah, pretty much

[@zhedrag04]

Hahahahhaahha

[@Vari860]

This is a video disguised as hate towards millennial reviewers but it's actually someone reliving arguing with people 10 years older than them on /v/.

[@VitaliyMilonov]

This.

[@johncoppinger2241]

Yeah, that's the impression I get too.

[@dajokahbaby1506]

@@Vari860 Seeing “Gaylo” will send ShreddedNerd into a realistic depiction of a panic attack

[@arthries]

OH MY FAUCI! GET YOUR BOYFRIEND HERE, HONEY! SHREDDEDNERD HAS UPLOADED

[@amadeusagripino6862]

Bring the wife's son too

[@squirrel1331]

ack

[@MackBananas]

Im getting all my friends from the synagogue to watch this gem!

[@fojisan2398]

BROOOOOO!!!! IM POGGGING OUT RN!!!! POOOOOOOG!!!!!

[@xilongma4794]

​@@squirrel1331NAHHH BLUD DONE FORGOT XIS ARROW 😂😂😂😂😂 ONLY IN VERMONT

[@kirigherkins]

Hey other generations, don't worry: nobody hates millennial more than other millennials.

[@Chud_Bud_Supreme]

I'm a Millennial, and this is true.

[@insomnolant6043]

Yeah, millennials are very divided, with maybe 20% being based and wanting to end the other 80% who are gay.

[@TearThatRedFlagDown]

I'm a Millennial and when I look at all the rampant leftism in my generation I would give most of them "free heli rides".

[@yunggolem4687]

@@TearThatRedFlagDown True, but it started with the boomer hippies who raised the millennials as cringe frag gots. And let's not get into all the post Nuremberg """media""" brainwashing, but that played a massive role.

[@elisehalflight]

@@TearThatRedFlagDown don't worry, it is mutual.

[@nickjohnson398]

ngl this script isnt as well focused as ur other videos, just kind aimlessly ranting about old games

[@TheMinskyTerrorist]

ngl tbh imo "if I'm being honest" "babe wake up"

[@BoleDaPole]

No cap ong imo lmao fr fr tho

[@Kagawwy]

Skibidi Skibidi Hawk Tuah Hawk

[@Ixis04]

Couldn't agree more. This one just came off as a 26 min rant. It would have been more effective if he gave specific examples of creators, critics, and hit videos perpetuating the narratives he's complaining about. I don't think he's giving enough credit to some of the games he's lower on, like Ocarina of Time or Half Life, for being the industry shaping titles that they were.

[@yeez13]

Using OoT as an example of “industry shaping” isn’t exactly high praise when you consider that games like Skyrim, Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, Far Cry 3x and Fallout 3/New Vegas are also held in a similar regard. Not only did OoT only really have the splash that it did due to the N64 having a perceived drought of games up until it released well after SM64 (another game that gets way too much praise via Muh Nostalgia)…but when you pair it up with the heavy hitters of the time in a similar genre (Tomb Raider, LoK Soul Reaver, the various N64 platformers by Rare), it’s not quite as “industry shaping” as much as it was just on time to help shape the trend that a lot of PC & PS1 games by then made manifest. What do Skyrim, FO3/FNV, the new Zelda games, and FC3 have to do with anything you ask? - Skyrim & FO3/FNV normalized expecting a bare minimum for a retail priced video game while people make endless excuses for them being broken as is….bUt HeRe’S a PaTcH tO mAkE iT wOrK! It’s like we went from buying action figures w/ occasional flaws and traded them for pieces of an action figure that may or may not fit together w/o having to have someone make a fix for it. - FC3 really and truly created the “Capture A Tower & Unlock more of the game Map” Open World Gameplay Loop we all know and loathe today…unless you’re Nintendo and copy Ubisoft’s homework outright. THEN IT’S SUDDENLY A GOOD THING AND YOU HAVE YOURSELF A NEW PAIR OF CLASSICS! /s Just because it “shaped the industry” doesn’t mean it did so for the better.

[@deathenhancer484]

the moral of this video should be, think for yourself, I use to hold a few youtubers on this pedestal of best for gaming opinions, but now that I'm older and know what I want, looking back; certain youtubers had extremely vague criticisms, reviews filled with jokes while ignoring gameplay, and grossly oversimplify the games they talk about to the point where all nuance is destroyed.

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

Speaking from experience. almost every youtube I used to look up to as a kid 10 years ago turned out to not be good at all. Don't meet your heros is a real thing. Once you realize they are just reciting the popular opinion and adding their own spin to it. then you realize how BS it is I kind of realized with a certain youtuber that went full mask off in 2023 as a shill and just taking sponsorships every chance and not even letting people know it was a sponsored review while pretending to be a genuine everyday person. At first I thought he changed but I realized he was always like this when I looked at his older reviews and it literally was just the the popular opinion with extremely vague criticisms and dumb jokes. I kind of realized this is a factor to why so many halo reviews suck because they never actually explain why they like or enjoy the older games. they just mention nostalgia this and that. Which makes the game look bad when its a great game. They do this because they don't actually have an opinion on the matter and just want to give something so inoffensive that it doesn't spark anything of value.

[@VenomSnakeMGS]

A lot of reviewers are still like this today. Surface level, boring analysis and just reading off a plot synopsis.

[@AndrewChumKaser]

Ironically, Shredded nerd is exactly guilty of this too.

[@cjenui]

Think for yourself and watch ShreddedNerd because he's always right

[@RosesRedThorns]

Imagine actually thinking that people like AVGN and Game Grumps (shown explicitly at the beginning of the video as examples) are "serious reviewers that did reviews filled with jokes while ignoring gameplay," instead of "comedy channels with some slight review-like elements."

[@olofman300]

Ok... That just happend

[@kirigherkins]

shredded nerd is right behind me isn't he

[@giga_chad9]

⁠@@kirigherkinsI just threw shreddednerd, HAHA’ yeah now that’s something I do

[@olofman300]

@@giga_chad9 Uhmm, that sounded a lot better in your head

[@pumpnking]

Yep, that's capitalism for you

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

@@pumpnking "ermm..... Uhhhhhh..... microtransactions? Sweety, thats LITERALLY, UNIRONICALLY just a symptom of late stage PROBLEMATIC capitalism! The only ACTUAL way to stop heckin microtransactions is by having LITERAL socialism and destroying UNIRONIC capitalism, Now I will continue to buy and defend the microtransaction slop"

[@daddy-odizzy5180]

YourMovieSucksDotOrg (YMS) is the epitome of Reddit. All he does is adopt weird movie takes from a progressive furry lens and act smug about being in the minority. 😂

[@BigIndividual]

And breadtuber-level logic when arguing beastiality should be legal

[@daddy-odizzy5180]

@ I remember those clips. He backpedaled and said he was drunk. 🫠

[@matro2]

Lefties are really fond of bestiality it seems.

[@wooderice64]

The Beard

[@BigIndividual]

@@daddy-odizzy5180 drunk man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts

[@BillytheBolter]

Gotta disagree with you on the half life takes. While they are obviously not the be all end all of gaming, when they released they were ahead of the game for just about everything in its genre.

[@yunggolem4687]

Yep, one of the first to do environmental storytelling well & consistently until the Xen portion. Other games like Thief & System Shock did it very well too, better at times, but it was inconsistent.

[@jmac79ers]

And it was fun

[@silkroadsam3860]

OH MY SCIENCE IT IS FINALLY UP!

[@Daz912]

@@silkroadsam3860 up-fauci’d your comment 😉

[@wooderice64]

The Great Pyramid of Giza

[@commentpolice4694]

Dr Fauci give us vaccines

[@freedomgoddess]

@@wooderice64 the great pyramid of british man

[@kaiserteddie9564]

There's also a weird hate boner that critics had for japanese games, specially turn based JRPGs Which is funny because those progressive critics would spout some anti japanese racism you didnt see in the aftermath of pearl harbor edits are for typos

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

We've seen what they cheer for. there crying means nothing.

[@VenomSnakeMGS]

Reminds me of Adam Sessler back on G4. There are a few clips of him reviewing old JRPGS from the early 360 era, and he tore the games apart making extremely racist jokes. Funny to see that with what he would later become.

[@arkgaharandan5881]

honestly as someone how is not a weeb and i grew up with pc gaming, jrpgs were linear and grindy but also had good characters and a story they wanted to tell, most western games are just boring now. I think jrpgs need mini games like final fantasy rebirth to break the monotony.

[@kaiserteddie9564]

@arkgaharandan5881 guess it was just a matter of different philosofies Japanese people really like grinding

[@belstar1128]

the only thing i disliked was the bad translations and not supporting pal

[@KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva]

Ocarina and Half Life were revered as timeless classic landmark games because, much like something like The Blair Witch Project, whatever media you can cite as technically getting to a concept first doesn't matter if 90% of consumers are first exposed to that concept by something that came out later and executed the concept better. The novelty of cinematic storytelling in a 3D environment with quality gameplay gave people a strong sense of those games being watershed moments that defined games that came out before them and after them. I'd say Final Fantasy 7 would be the other one that fits this description, and most landmark Gen 5 games do still hold up quite well even if asserting them as the objective best games forever is silly. Jak was a very successful franchise so I think that whole section was more or less just your personal animus about people not liking its change of direction. It's not like the people who disliked it adversely affected the series that went on to have like 6 more games. And the old /v/ Smash meme about mascot platformers is almost as dated as Millennial Humour at this point. The tacked-on multiplayer, chest-high walls and 4 hour critiques were entirely caused by the AAA industry's hyperfixation on "we want the Call of Duty audience" that went on from 2007-~2016. Slapping multiplayer onto a formerly singleplayer-focused series was the 7th Gen version of making a game open world slop nowadays, because people rightly saw that the multiplayer resources were hoovering up stuff that could have been given to singleplayer. GTA5 was essentially the peak of the 7th Generation's pathologies and bridged the gap between them and modern problems with monetization and pointless grind; the closest thing to a singleplayer story DLC GTA5 ever got was a multiplayer expansion where one of the main characters came back years later. I'd say the best retort in the video was against the obsession with open worlds over linearity considering how almost all open worlds are slop nowadays, but again the 7th Generation saw high profile examples of series like Final Fantasy and Thief getting their openness stripped away, so the push for more open worlds was at the time a reaction to that. Honestly this isn't as pointed or incisive a critique as your previous videos on similar subjects.

[@HandjobHandsome]

6th and 5th gen all had bonus multiplayer just without the online usually, saying devs were trying to poach cod fans is dumb

[@yunggolem4687]

Video definitely undercooked, straight up wrong about certain things like the cover shooter critique. No one ever critiqued the concept of taking cover, it was snap to cover they critiqued.

[@purebaldness]

Good comment

[@captainweekend5276]

It's 27 minutes of seethe over other people's opinions disguised as a video being about reviewers, like I thought this was going to be about AVGN, Nostalgia Critic, Jontron, etc, but no he literally gets to the point where he's just bringing up old forum posts as "reviewers".

[@mistergrool3941]

​@@captainweekend5276 was also expecting him to talk about old youtube reviewers and including storylines in their videos, halfway through watching now and very disappointed so far

[@darkuniversechicken]

Not gonna lie, I thought this video was really weak, dude. I really enjoyed and agreed with a fair bit of stuff in your previous two millennial X videos. But this video is really just you complaining about gaming critiques you don't care for; like, just you mentioning praise or criticism of a certain game and saying you disagree. You don't even really go into particular depth in this regard either, some of your points feel a bit strawmanish. Which is fine, I agree with some of your arguments here. But it lacks any of the insights your previous two had and is just not very interesting.

[@AwkwardAndInnocent]

Yea I'm 17 mins in and not really understanding what the point of the video is. Kinda tuning out

[@davisvoelzke8011]

I am agreeing with you guys

[@RedstonekPL]

i am disagreeing with you guys

[@desuretard8654]

No, media critics tend to be full of themselves.

[@JJLarge]

Yeah i agree hes basically just spending the whole video shitting on things he finds 'overrated' but coming up with bullshit reasons why they arent actually as good as people say.

[@TIBONEtheoprhan]

Shreddednerd is officially the master of ‘saying of the things that we’ve all been thinking’.

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

Notice how the world has gotten better since shredded has made these videos? Giving a voice to the silent majority! coincidence? I THINK NOT!

[@wooderice64]

Manatees

[@Aa-dn1oq]

Always has been

[@MarkRotondi]

@@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778world peace is just over the horizon!

[@lancelancer8313]

not just saying, but *articulating*.

[@BasedAtreides]

Something exists and people like it* Millennial: wElL aCtUaLlY this is

[@Northstar-x]

I would like to do horrible things to those specific type of reviewers. Remember that one guy who said Cars promoted eugenics and that Sky High was fascist propaganda? Insufferable.

[@JoeWithTheHoesBiden]

Falsenvke nobody likes millennials but they got autism

[@wooderice64]

The Great Pyramid of Giza

[@kirigherkins]

"Well actually this is the Great Pyramid of Giza"

[@BasedAtreides]

@wooderice64 Easy friendo, the great Pyramids were deeply racist structures Constructed by slaves and stood to hold up the patriarchal system of Ancient Egypt

[@ipostlamememesallthetime953]

We didn't know how good we had it, until we lost it all :'(

[@bannedmann4469]

Not at all. We were very excited and celebrated the industry and its innovations all the time. That’s when the conventions were at their strongest.

[@salsathemonkey22]

I mean all those games are still there

[@arkgaharandan5881]

worse, you think these clowns would make something better but they made everything worse and more cringe.

[@arkgaharandan5881]

@@bannedmann4469 meanwhile now we are amazing if something good actually comes out.

[@rakeguy7703]

Lost? what did "we" lost? Im still enjoying video games.

[@Dren_The_Heck]

I usually like your videos, but I think you let your personal biases overshadow your points in this one

[@xenosayain1506]

Agreed considering most publishers are run by gen x I thought.

[@mlv-y3o]

yeah..

[@RosesRedThorns]

Agreed. A lot of this video is him responding to made-up and simplistic strawman arguments. Many of his other points are about people praising games that constituted a great leap forward in some way, programming-wise or in terms of game design or anything else of that sort. A lot of the time he also starts with a strong opinion and then instantly backtracks, like "OoT is not at all a great game, as all these people say. It's still a really good game though."

[@dukesalt]

Gotta be honest not sure what you're going for here. Is this basically just popular opinions/reviewer opinions you agree/disagree with? That's fine. But kinda odd for you to praise parts of one game that could feel dated today while dissing them in another. I grew up with a variety of great first person shooters, and when I went back and played HL1 and HL2 I was really taken aback by how ahead-of-its-time the level design and storytelling was, ESPECIALLY in HL1. That game was released one year after Quake II (fantastic game), but it felt a decade apart in how it pushed the entire genre forward. Even if you want to call its levels "bad," fine, that's totally your opinion though I disagree since my personal experience was very positive despite playing it for the first time in the 2010s. But completely omitting how groundbreaking their design was (not the technology/graphics) for the time, and thus how they have such huge fanbases feels disingenuous. Like . . . hating on fanboys, great. I'm all for it. They probably deserve it because fan culture generally sucks. But I don't feel like your points against the games themselves are that strong, and would be better presented as what they are. Subjective opinions.

[@Oppen1945]

I honestly never even saw those Half Life fanboys he's making fun of and I'm a life long HL fan. The community is pretty chill for the most part. It's like he saw Half Life 2 fans talk shit about Halo 2 as a kid and he carried that trauma ever since. I can't explain that slander any other way. Rare L for him.

[@ponozkas.r.o7320]

​@@Oppen1945he is a Halo fanboy, noone can be perfect. I love how he made video about Halo and no one watched it

[@purebaldness]

​@@ponozkas.r.o7320to be fair, his channel was much smaller back then

[@superplayerex2431]

@@Oppen1945 To be fair, the Half-Life games aren't some kind of flawless masterpieces or the second coming of Christ, and I'm saying this as someone who's a massive Half-Life fan. Both the first and the second game had their failings that were sort of just ignored because they still had those large parts of them that were great. It's undeniable that they were still quite revolutionary for gaming, but that alone doesn't make a game great. There's games from the 70s and 80s that were very revolutionary for their time, and yet you don't really see anyone play and uphold them as such these days (besides a very few stand outs, and even then those aren't really "must-plays" like they used to be). It's not necessarily the status of "Game of the Year" that makes a game playable, but the inherent quality and value it provides the customer with. Obviously, Half-Life games aged a lot better when compared to games from the 80s, but the revolutions they've brought to the FPS genre of gaming as a whole has shined much harder than the actual innate qualities that they posses and so a lot of people just view and judge them as masterpieces that defined gaming rather than the flawed but good games that they really are. But for me personally, the first game was a lot better than the second one just because it didn't have these forced "cut-scenes" where you stand watching characters talk on and on and on until you're given control back to be able to progress further (barring the game's intro, obviously). It made replaying the game a lot worse because I can't just pick any chapter besides the first two and expect to have immediate game-play since there's quite a decent amount of downtime in the form of those "cut-scenes" that pop up quite frequently in the second game. The weapon roster was also a lot better in the first game as well. The second game really dropped the ball with some of the weapon selections, especially when you compare it to all of the weapons that were present in the game's leaked beta and how those had some decent potential that ultimately went unrealized. The gravity gun may be fun and all, but it hardly replaces the tau cannon. Or what about the satchels/trip-mines which were only reused in Half-Life 2 Deathmatch/Garry's Mod? ShreddedNerd also didn't say that Half-Life 1 and 2 were bad games... He just said they were massively overrated, to which I can definitely agree with. Despite it's shortcomings, I still replay the first game quite often and I constantly look out for mods for it such as Brutal Half-Life. I just wish Half-Life 2 was more replayable as well because all I can really stomach with it are custom maps from users online.

[@Shrek_es_mi_pastor]

​@@superplayerex2431 Not only I agree with Half Life 1 being better than Half Life 2, I would also add a better enemy selection. The sequel just has variants of headcrabs, zombies and combines, the latter being retarded compared to 1's soldiers...

[@bocodamondo]

funny, i recently decided to look up "most iconic videogame music" on youtube, and the top video i found was 90% just a bunch of nintendo games, one of the entries was just luigi humming to himself...in a video thats called "most iconic video games songs" i was speechless at the bias

[@Daz912]

@@bocodamondo why would you search such a stupid phrase? Self selection

[@loafodisease614]

@@Daz912 probably to find the sentiment of what people believe to be the most iconic video game songs, if i had to guess

[@Daz912]

@@loafodisease614 same energy as googling “what is the temperature today in Melbourne”

[@mariokarter13]

Luigi diegetically humming the Luigi's Mansion theme in the original Luigi's Mansion is pretty iconic, but I get your point.

[@triplecrosscounter]

Waiting for the day these COWARDS accept the fact that the rance OST has absolute bangers.

[@pp_m256]

My wife's boyfriend is going to love this!

[@AD3SPG]

💀

[@squirrel1331]

ack

[@Jetstoanywhere]

Totally original

[@fojisan2398]

I GOTTA DRINK MY HECCIN SOYLENT BEFORE I WATCH

[@vapingfury4460]

@pp_m256 man shut your unoriginal ass up

[@krush9673]

I can tell the video maker is young, because Golden Eye was one of the milestone games that changed the common sense in gaming at the time, that FPS games are bad for consoles.

[@magicjohnson3121]

Also hugely influential whether he likes it or not. It inspired Half Life, Thief, Medal of Honor, Deus Ex, No one Lives Forever. If you don't believe me you can look it up lol.

[@yunggolem4687]

A lot of bad takes born of patching massive knowledge gaps with wikipedia & watching a few lets plays. He obviously just doesn't really know what happened or why before the Halo CE era.

[@Ja-eu6gj]

I felt this. He does acknowledge "you had to be there" for OoT though, but it doesn't seem like he understands it as he keeps making the claims that the games weren't that special.

[@karenwang313]

Bro the 90's were 30 years ago.

[@randomcharacter1796]

Still bad tho

[@doltBmB]

There is an inverse relationship between how harsh critics are and how good the games are. Back when critics just couldn't be pleased games were great, now they'll give out 10's to any repetitive slop that comes out. Also most of these critics are gen x. Millenials were the children playing these games, not the adults reviewing them.

[@inanefabas4402]

Toxic positivity

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

The companys realized they could just pay all their critics into being shills and the shills defend slop games for ideological reasons. Now the Millenials are in control of making these slop triple A games.

[@LordRezo]

Shhh, don't disturb the narrative.

[@arkgaharandan5881]

@@inanefabas4402 exactly and this is how we get trash like concord now, no one dared to criticize that crap inside the studio.

[@LordVarkson]

8.8 broke the entire generation.

[@Nin_tony]

So the main theme of this video is you dunking on contrarians who slander games because they're popular And 5 minutes later you do the exact same thing Talk about lack of self awareness

[@pisserald]

maybe the self awareness was left in the cutting room flooor. like diddys musics

[@HandjobHandsome]

because kids are just lining up to play banjo kazooie and ocarina of time in 2025

[@bk1128]

Complaining about soylennials as a soylennial is so soylennial.

[@cinnamonnoir2487]

I normally like your videos a lot, but this one seemed a bit too polemical and lacked a strong overarching point (unless it was "KZbin game critics from the 2000s all suck", which is a terrible thesis). Reviewing games both in print and on the Internet was never a hive mind, and if people get the impression that _everyone_ from a certain era thinks Ocarina of Time is the best game in history just because it topped several "best-of" lists from that era, that's not the fault of reviewers for whom it's genuinely their favorite game. It's the audience's responsibility to seek out alternate viewpoints, which have always been there, and for most of the last thirty years have also been published in some form. As for your opinions on specific games, which you seem to dwell on more in this video than you do on its ostensible subject, some of them just don't make sense to me. If you like Croc more than Banjo-Kazooie, that's your prerogative, but I've played both games and I think the vast majority of those who have would agree that Banjo-Kazooie is more fun and interesting. So what if Croc sold better? Pac-Man for the Atari 2600 sold more than _7 million_ copies back in the early 1980s, and in retrospect practically everyone agrees that it wasn't even a good port of Pac-Man, let alone a great game by modern standards. Judging a game based on its contemporary reputation is arguably a better way to judge quality than sheer sales volume, even if it does leave out part of the story. And if you want people to have a fuller view of that era and its games, make your own videos and _tell them_ about it. I agree with you that the bashing of games for being too "edgy" or "grimdark", too linear and too short were often overblown. Twilight Princess is probably my second favorite Zelda game and it's suffered from that overreaction to the hot trends of the mid-2000s. I'm a millennial myself, and I certainly don't consider the Gamecube and its library inferior to the N64 and its; in fact, the Gamecube has most of my favorite games on it, and the Wii is a close runner-up (one reason why I was upset to hear you jump in on bashing the Wii, which in my opinion is just you repeating the same mistake that your millennial forebears made with the Gamecube 15 years ago). It's tempting to jump on a bandwagon, not only because it's easier but because you reach more people that way. Reviewers should resist the urge to defer to public opinion, but I think they tried harder to do that than you're giving them credit for, and in many cases succeeded in sharing a unique and insightful view that was worth hearing. You're part of a new generation of reviewers that's currently supplanting the millennial generation. You're right to point out that many of the older reviewers shared certain prejudices, some of which don't even make sense when held together (how can linearity be bad if Half-Life, which is a linear sequence of set-pieces, is one of the greatest games ever?), but no matter how influential their opinions might have been once they lose power with every year that passes. You're turning around to spit in their faces when it would make more sense to keep running forward, given that you're ahead of them in the race for influence right now. And it doesn't hurt to remember that you have your own prejudices which will probably seem just as short-sighted and irritating to Gen Alpha twenty years from now. Be charitable to the past, because someday you'll be the past. P.S. I still use my Wii all the time, by the way, including as a way to play Gamecube games, since both of my Gamecubes stopped working years ago.

[@pisserald]

he shouldve stuck to making fun of nostalgia critic and game grumps instead of what ever he was trying to do here.

[@magicjohnson3121]

You can tell he parroted his Banjo Kazooie points from a twitter user without putting much thought of the context. Same with Goldeneye 007

[@JJLarge]

Yeah hes clearly just biased to whatever he enjoyed as a kid. Croc good/Banjo bad, Halo good/Half-Life & goldeneye bad, Gamecube good, N64/Wii bad.

[@leonenjoyer]

@@magicjohnson3121 Sorry but Goldeneye was unironically shit. Pure blindness from nostalgia.

[@purebaldness]

​@@leonenjoyerSurely you were on PC at the time? Can't imagine coming to that conclusion otherwise. I'm much more of a Quake player but I can recognise how and why people talk about Goldeneye to this day.

[@jacobfloyd3410]

I was driving down on Radical Highway and when I saw this notification I just had to stop in the middle of the road. Cranked my speakers so I can’t hear the cars honking and robots exploding. Worth it.

[@kroganshepard6594]

Did you happen to see a hedgehog nearby?

[@wooderice64]

Manatees

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

Watch out for the black hedgehog on radical highway.

[@belitithd284]

Bro I was on stardust speedway 💀

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

@@belitithd284 Past, Present, Good Future or Bad Future? Depending on if you destroyed the robot generators and the metal sonic holograms!

[@Nerkusha]

14:07 Wait, who even saying that half-life is only for intelingent people??? Who- Wha- Did you even play the game??? This is a bait video?? I am confused.

[@smileysuburban8146]

yeah ive never really seen this. I’m a big half life fan and 2 is one of my favorite games period despite its flaws, but I feel like this guy saw some overzealous fans make fun of halo back in the day and he never got over it lol he made that one millennial writing video and is trying to replicate the success it had

[@Nerkusha]

@@smileysuburban8146 Gahdamn.

[@almac5446]

​@@smileysuburban8146 you are not wrong it just sounds like him complaining about shit

[@niggacockball7995]

He is a millennial dont be to harsh on him.

[@IAmCaligvla]

This is 100% bait. Just look at the top comments.

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

The millennial reviewers are to blame for the state of gaming today. They unfairly slandered the GEMs of the early 2000s era to fit their narratives. They dismissed everything gaming related from the early 2000s because they saw it as "dudebro". They just took a glance at it, called it a problematic and demand it be changed to appeal to them. Look at the state of gaming now as a result and its all crashing down. They just wanted to replace the cliches they cry about with their own.

[@YAGPG403-nr6dd]

Despite the industry being in such a poor state no game can release without a disastrous launch, we are always missing features from newer games that get added in later, skins cost $30, you have devs attacking their own playerbases openly. They want you to believe that "gaming isn't bad now now, we just grew up!"

[@domeshotz800]

The real problem is companies being paid to take in people who don't actually play video games, you can't blame an entire generation for making modern video games shit when modern video games are out sourced to India, look how starfield turned out and soon to be GTA VI. I'm sure when every single video game in 20 years features LGBTQ shit gen alpha is going to be blaming zoomers.

[@wooderice64]

The Pyramids

[@wooderice64]

Manatees

[@thebigpig2364]

Coal for everyone

[@benjamaster14]

I still take the nostalgia critic over the 5 hour gen z video essays

[@Fetchdafish]

As a terminally online millennial this video was weirdly nostalgic. I could feel myself flashing to various different moments of my terminally online existence.

[@magicjohnson3121]

The reason no one talks about Croc is because the Playstation had a bigger install base and Croc sucks. At the time i thought it was a slow, clunky and lifeless platformer. Banjo Kazooie has around the same sales with a smaller install base with a more passionate fanbase because it's simply a better game.

[@MackBananas]

Croc-Chads stay winning over Banjo Cuckzooie fans I have not played either game

[@robertclive491]

Passionate fanbase because they never grew up.

[@cinnamonnoir2487]

@@MackBananas Croc is Banjo-Kazooie with about one-twentieth as many characters, one-fifth as many enemy types, tank controls similar to the original Resident Evil, and it's a stage-based platformer rather than an experience focused around exploration. Essentially, Croc is a fully 3D version of Crash Bandicoot, not really an adventure game at all. Ape Escape has more in common with Banjo-Kazooie than Croc does. I'm going to give SN the benefit of the doubt and assume that he was just having a really hard time trying to think of a late-90s game that outdoes Banjo-Kazooie (which should have been a sign that his argument needed a lot of work). In 1998 you would have been insane to pick Croc over Banjo-Kazooie if you had a choice.

[@MackBananas]

@ Ok, but did you know Bill Gates rebuilt George Floyd as George Droyd in 2021 with money from Isreal?

[@vsear5911]

@@cinnamonnoir2487 That is a long way to say that Croc is a platformer while Banjo Kazooie is a walk around touching shiny things simulator

[@nikovidya7994]

the industry is arguably worse now in prioritizing graphical fidelity over good, effective art styles

[@bradensmith8682]

IMO graphics plateaued in the 360/PS3 era and no graphics have ever been enough to sell me on a game.

[@geek593]

Unicorn Overlord was my favorite game last year and it could run on the mechanism that powers the light in the back of my oven because it prioritized style over fidelity.

[@theonewhogetsshot-v7k]

Spoiler alert, it’s always done that. Devs just don’t know how to use art direction to achieve fidelity anymore, so games are hellishly unoptimized. Saying games in the 6th gen never strived for the best graphics is insane, cartoony games have always existed but so did games like MGS, Resident Evil, and CoD

[@yunggolem4687]

Prioritizing fidelity is what you do when you have nothing else of value to offer, because you can just input money/manhours & achieve higher fidelity... you can't just input money/manhours & achieve transcendent gameplay.

[@elisehalflight]

I'd say the indie industry has you covered, but people in this comment section seem to hate indies for some reason. Some things never change.

[@geek593]

People hating linearity annoys me as someone who likes games like Fire Emblem. Being able to choose how you sequence things while having options is fine, but there's only so much dev time that can be put into a game that spreads itself too thin.

[@kirigherkins]

for real, you only really appreciate the flow and pacing of a well-made linear game after you play some open world game with no flow OR pacing and then you're like "oh, now I get why the fence was there. Maybe we shouldn't have taken it down."

[@benisign]

I think people hate linearity in games where it restricts the gameplay. Fire emblem is different from those types because you can clear a map however you want with whichever units you want. In a linear shooter you go through a very on rails experience where every sequence is approached the same way. Definitely not always a bad thing but I like a less linear experience personally.

[@thebuddah1253]

Tendy get out

[@olofman300]

The most linear game is Red Dead 2 even though it is open world

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

Yeah and now in a world without much linearity in gaming we have open worlds that are as wide as a sea, but as shallow as a puddle. I miss linear games. miss set pieces. I am so sick of open worlds with no purpose

[@ianxiris1990]

Millennials want longer games! (shares clip of a reviewer whose favorite game is Portal, one of the shortest games ever)

[@elisehalflight]

to be fair it made sense at the time for you to want longer games, since digital storefronts were still not quite there yet (does anyone remember Games for Windows Live? it was atrocious) so you were often limited to the selection your local store had to offer, which often was not really good, this meant that if you bought a game it better lasted until you found something else to play. I personally don't miss those days, Steam, GOG and piracy are a blessing when it comes to finding videogames to play nowayays, now the real issue is coming up with enough time to do so, so now it makes sense to want shorter games and I honestly can't wait for the industry to realize you don't need 80 hours of playtime in order to be profitable.

[@kabbablabba4073]

one of my favorite millenial reviewer cliches is when they overanalyze something with the sole purpose of finding something "problematic" about it so they can show off how vigilant they are in sniffing out wrongthink to their fellow millenials

[@yunggolem4687]

19:45 Egregiously strawmanning the criticism of snap-to-cover shooters. Most of it was critiquing the dumbing down of cover with snap-to-cover constraints. Was NEVER critique of the concept of taking cover. Chesthigh wall shooters removed Y & Z dimensions from cover interaction, you no longer managed distance from cover or height above/below cover... it was only a peek on/off switch & sliding along the cover. One of the original examples of designing around a console limitation infesting the entire industry, similar to the two gun limit from Halo (and I think CE is easily a top 10 game, but this did infest the industry for years, mostly detrimentally because games were not designed to make the 2 gun limit add anything to the game the way Halo did with encounters designed around limited loadouts & attack alternatives like melee, grenades, & general increase in weapon power). Snap-to-cover never made sense for KBM, but it makes sense for analog sticks where subtle movements are not as easy to perform, especially for the less sensitive analog sticks at the time. Tactical shooters in the late 90s all had no wall/cover snapping, same as every other FPS at the time, they just added lean, prone, & made every gun 100ms TTK. Not sure how you manage to think up the objectively wrong idea that tac shooters came from cover shooters when the original crop of tac shooters like R6, Delta Force, Spec Ops, Ghost Recon were mostly released 1-2 years before even the earliest examples of snapcover games like Winback (1999) & several years before the first vaguely popular example of snapcover, Killswitch (2003), and nearly a decade before Gears of War (2006) when snapcover actually became a genre due to all the imitators.

[@Ja-eu6gj]

Thank you, I really couldn't follow his criticism here either. I remember this era coinciding with the brown and bloom as well (or close to it) and every arena being designed as a basically flat plane with a bunch of boxes or sandbags scattered around.

[@yunggolem4687]

@@Ja-eu6gj Yep, it was a pretty bad era. Snap-to-cover made for a whole crop of forgettable, samey slop games. And they were particularly samey since the mechanic just doesn't have much depth to plumb. I think the only games that actually utilized it well weren't even considered cover shooters, they were stealth games like Splinter Cell.

[@Irishcrossing]

Sorry, replied to video but then i accidentally remembered after posting i was replying to you.

[@purebaldness]

I really enjoyed Gears of War. It was my reintroduction to console gaming after a decade on PC. That said, I completely agree with everything you've said and wasn't even fully aware of it at the time. I was a Quake head. I got filtered pretty hard by Operation Flashpoint lol

[@SeruraRenge11]

I mean he's also completely forgotten why things were called Dudebro games and WHY they were disliked. It wasn't the games themselves, a lot of them were usually pretty good, it was because of the kinds of people who played them. People who liked sports, went out to parties, drank for fun. You know, the exact kind of normie fratboy that says words like "dude" and "bro", hence the name. They were disliked because these were the exact kind of people who used to shit on us for liking videogames and called it a nerd thing, and so they were seen as intruding on OUR hobby that they did not belong to, and you're too blind to see it because the series you're most known for talking about, Halo, is THE dudebro gateway drug. Dudebro was just an attempt at gatekeeping videogames which failed. Say what you want about the wannabe gangbangers that would knife you in the arcade because you won a little too hard against them at Street Fighter back in the day, but at least they played videogames back when it wasn't seen as cool.

[@Marlboro-lights1]

Nah, the trends you’re talking about have been used because it worked on children’s minds. Fortnite and apex legends. That’s not a millennial game. Skins, weapon skins, color Tiers for skins, and even premium loading screens. The era you’re talking about was the best era of gaming. It’s the tik tok brain. Also PC gaming was niche. The vast majority of gaming was done on consoles that couldn’t handle games like quake or unreal tournament. You answered your own question. You had to be there. You had to grow up in that time. There was no “normie Brain” back then because people didn’t box everyone into neat groups with cute slang terms like “normie” were only 25 years out from heavy pixelated graphics and CRT screens.

[@LordRezo]

Bingo.

[@KaptajnKaffe]

​@@LordRezoexactly!

[@Nero_Jero]

You nailed it. The entire time he was talking about "millennial reviewers" but he was talking about N64 game reviews from the time the games actually came out, modern day game journalists, early game reviewer KZbinrs, and all of millennials as one big homogeneous lump. I also love how he went from saying the biggest hits on the N64 were overrated (you had to be there) and then went right into hyping his favorite games from childhood. Like come on man, have a little self reflection 😂

[@ereunds]

I thought exactly the same, couldn't have said it better. This is his weakest video to date and seems rather forced. People hype and hate stuff. If anything, those trying to bring justice to some"unfairly reviewed" games also have forced opinions about games that were considered great, as if they have to tear the hype behind them down to showcase that the game they like isn't that bad. Nerd does some of that in this video too. It can go both ways.

[@spoonman4024]

This comment right here. Nailed it.

[@sirpatrick549]

>Screen black >Sigh or silence from reviewer. >Iconic music from thing being played before its revealed >Multiple times in a top 10 list

[@mhgjd49865fm]

While I'm all for trashing millenials, this feels like a video of contrived grievances. Every example of "this game is overrated" is an example where the game made something work in a way never seen before or tried a different approach that became a staple in the industry. Consider how Gone with the Wind and Wizard of Oz and Disney films like Snow White or Pinnochio were considered masterpieces of their time, and today while still "good", they're not considered as masterpieces by new generations. Theose movies, like those games, WERE masterpieces because they redefined expectations and built new standards. Golden eye was huge because we didn't need a PC and a modem/LAN party to play 4 player versus. Half Life built an intelligent AI system and ran with a unified environment. Halo 1 brought PC LAN parties to consoles and Halo 2 brought online gaming yo consoles. Nintendo confirmed that games could be polished at launch, instead of buggy messes. Its just easy to see these things as "good but not great" 10-20 years later, and wonder what the hype was all about. But you can't understand it if you didn't experience the progression at the time. Consider stuff like UO or EQ, mmorpgs which for their time felt to many like real living worlds, but today just seem like exhausting grind-fests.

[@VitaliyMilonov]

If nothing is great, then everything is. This mindset denies having any kind of standards.

[@Gradedd]

The bias towards nintendo was so insane back then that they would have you believe that Zelda and Mario were the pinnacle of game design when really you could list off hundreds of games that have done things better.

[@GabrielAKAFinn]

Was? Nintendo is more popular now, and it's worse then ever.

[@Gradedd]

@@GabrielAKAFinn true

[@AkuTenshiiZero]

Every time I hear someone talk like that about Nintendo, it's like "Ok, I get it, you grew up upper-middle class and had an NES, now please move on with your life." And I love Nintendo myself, I just don't think they're always the best thing ever.

[@belstar1128]

I used to be like that its because Nintendo was the first company to have game saves in most of their games and made the only good handheld

[@Bionicleforever]

they were the most innovative usually but future games usually execute their stuff in more interesting ways

[@bearoyay]

All the games you listed were peak, especially at their time of release. Yeah, Nintendo fans lived in a bubble and youtube channels that over analyze their favorite game they played growing up are pretty biased. But that doesn't change the fact that these games were super influential for gaming. "Maybe you had to be there" Yeah man, the stuff was pretty revolutionary, people really hadn't seen games like these before. Ocarina of time didn't invent the concept of a 3d Adventure game but it still felt like something no one had ever seen or felt before. Its not even my favorite zelda game, but it changed the industry.

[@antman1672]

It seems like your entire video is to point out a problem people complained about, admit there were terrible examples of that problem but then complain about the over correction. Like yea, I hate games that are padded, boring open world games, and generic shooter games, but the opposite is also trash. I hate short, linear, cover shooters. Games responded too well to millennial criticism but that criticism wasn't meritless. Almost all millennial problems with games were legitimate problems even if only slight problems. I would have less a softer touch fixing them too, but that's not what we got. I look foward to seeing Gen Alpha complain about zoomer complaints about videos games that destroyed the industry.

[@bigmack70]

This video was too short, too linear, and clearly shredded nerd has never played any Zelda or half life games or he'd know the undisputed best two games of all time are OoT and Half Life 2. What a dude bro.

[@Kiezly]

You underrepresented the Sonic part. Millennial Reviewers/Critics MASSIVELY impacted every sonic game after sonic 06. They hated the all-3D gameplay, they hated multiple playable characters, they hated serious dramatic stories. Which resulted in 12+ years of only playing as sonic, goofy ironic stories and writing, and tons of 2D sections in 3D games. But finally ever since 2022 we can move on from Sonic 06’s reputation and can go back to fully 3D games with multiple playable characters and serious stories. (Shadow Generations & Frontiers & Dream Team)

[@superplayerex2431]

Personally, the big problem I have with that is the new stories won't really be any better than what we've gotten in the 2010s of Sonic games because the writers they currently have are once again not up to par to write actual good stories. Yeah, Ian Flynn may know all of the little lore details like the back of his hand, but he unfortunately doesn't know how to write good stories. As a result, Sonic Frontiers had a really bad, seemingly unfinished story where things just magically happened all of sudden for no reason at all and the general themes were garbage (really basic coverage of themes such as "muh friendship is the key" and the like), and that's on top of the botched characterizations of the Sonic characters who don't behave at all like anything they used to be in the older games. Just on that alone, I would expect mostly average, sub-par stories in the future. At this point, I just hope the games are actually genuinely good to play.

[@cammyshill3099]

The American way of arbitrarily classifying generations and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. Easily worse than youtubers being cringe in 2012, that's for sure.

[@amberbaum4079]

Yeah, am I supposed to identify as millennial? Nearly all of their generational takes are also bound to THEIR bubble. I did not grew up with "screaming is funny" on TV shows. They did. Yes, there was an overlap of cultural import, but lots of people didn't even grew up with all their internet-nimwits either due to language barrier or it looking like ass for someone with other cultural sensitivities, such as a different type of humour.

[@Henskelion]

Takes about Halo being bad made by elder millennials will always be the most baffling thing. Obviously it's not as common today, but I still see comments from those sorts insisting things like the weapon feedback is bad, or that there's no enemy variety, or that the music was generic. Really feels like talking to people from another planet.

[@arkgaharandan5881]

apart from the music the rest were true back then because pc shooters of the past eg boomer shooters had better weapon feedback and enemy variety than halo which by the way was originally a rts.

[@proudalbanianjcdenton7129]

​@arkgaharandan5881 I disagree, while pc shooters had more enemy types, halo didn't have any one enemy fill a similar role, and designing the game around having to switch up weapons also helps a lot with making encounters fill different when you don't have the entire game's arsenal at all times.

[@Henskelion]

@ Arguments about enemy variety also seem stupid on account of Halo's Covenant enemies having almost FEAR-level AI. A single Grunt has a larger behavior tree than most of those old FPS's have for their entire enemy roster combined.

[@TearThatRedFlagDown]

I think that Halo is great, at least up until Reach, but before Halo I played Quake and Unreal Tournament and I think those games feel much better to play. They are a lot more fast-paced and also more movement based than Halo and PvP in those games also felt more hectic, I just prefer that type of gameplay.

[@yunggolem4687]

The weapon feedback was mid, especially compared to PC shooters. Sound & VFX on the weapons may be iconic now, but that's retrospectively applied due to the success of the overall game. IDK how anyone could say the enemies didn't have variety or were badly designed, that was the core of what made CE good, the enemies were fun to fight. Maybe the variety in pure numbers terms is less than some others, but the gap between enemy types, how qualitatively different they are from each other, is much greater than most shooters at the time which mostly devolved to ground or flying + melee, hitscan, or projectile. Halo was one of the first to really put a lot of effort into encounter design in a non-gimmicky way. Doom, Quake, & Half-life had a lot of gimmick encounters, but Halo encounters were very tightly & uniquely designed without feeling the hand of the designer breaking immersion as you played with gimmicks.

[@chimingito]

The "linearity bad" shit was usually in respose to those type of missions where if you try to explore even a little bit the game gets angry and yells GET BACK TO THE MISSION AREA OR YOU DIE IN 5 SECONDS. CoD had a lot of those, idk if they still do that.

[@alewis514]

Most FPS games that came around years 2010-2014 used to be like this. Campaign that was literally a roller coaster ride. No other direction but forward, with scripted spectacles for you to watch. And I mean sure, COD MW campaign from 2007 was memorable and very good, but playing 20 similar games in succession made you hate these games. They became old and boring. Wolfenstein from 2014 and then Doom from 2016 re-invigorated older style of level design.

[@captainweekend5276]

This is true but I remember trying to convince a friend to try doom 2016 and his take was literally "no, it's bad because it's linear, only open world games are good". Like anything that wasn't a complete open world was an on rails experience to him.

[@dontbothertoreply9755]

​@@captainweekend5276Doom Eternal is one of the top 10 games ever, you deserve better friends.

[@ramr7051]

@@dontbothertoreply9755 we're talking 2016 Doom. Which is better than Doom Eternal btw.

[@TotalNigelFargothDeath]

@@ramr7051 sneed

[@hal3674really]

I'll always fondly remember The Escapist as that place that had broadly good reviewers, but they all had the worst case of the "Halo bad because- well it just IS, okay?!" mindset.

[@JoeyJ0J0]

Zero Punctuation was insufferable

[@Henskelion]

You still see vestiges of that with guys like Civvie11 lol

[@Nin_tony]

Halo insists upon itself

[@ThatGuy-ky2yf]

Yahtzie's Halo 3 review made me never watch anything else of his material again with how he shrugged off the multiplayer. I believe he influenced Hbomberguy's pretentious style that he adopted after he stopped being a Metokur chud.

[@sonang7721]

Civvie & Doom 2016 was the catalyst of the "boomer shooter no.1" crowd

[@TheForklifter]

I will give one criticism to this video. I believe the Sonic 06 segment is a bit contrarian. Of course there are worse games and yes it's probably overplayed but Sonic 06 is really bad on all levels. Graphic, art, story, gameplay, technical, etc. Especially from a large franchise and developer such as sonic and Sega and it being a mainline game. I don't fault people for making it the butt of jokes, it deserves a lot of it. I believe if such a game was released today it would be the butt of a lot of jokes. Lot of triple A games are bad but not hilariously bad. Most are just the pinnacle of mediocrity.

[@LoremIpsum1919]

Wrong. If sonic 06 released today, you'd have trillions of fanboys defending it to the end of the Earth. The same thing happened with Stalker 2 and Cyberpunk 2077. So, this would be no different.

[@Martorfunk]

I think is more about how this sentiment extended into them trying to gaslight anyone that Sonic was never good or that good games were dogshit actually

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

@@Martorfunk Yeah they were saying that when Sonic mania came out. to be one of the best reviewed sonic games in years! There is a reason people gave IGN shit for that. its not being contrarian its that they are wrong and they wont stop mentioning sonic 06 in every review and its by effect also effecting the quality of sonic games because sega refuses to do anything mature or serious ever since these people start crying about sonic 06.

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

@@LoremIpsum1919 Yeah, there were sonic fans defending sonic superstars despite it being a poor imitation of what made classic sonic great and they tried to shit on sonic mania to defend superstars. There would definitely be so many people downright shilling for the game and pretending it got fixed years later. I think people forget sonic 06 was panned so hard because it was one of the first examples of a buggy game release. But thats segas fault for rushing sonic team and forcing them to also make two other games while they worked on 06

[@SeruraRenge11]

@@LoremIpsum1919 And they'd be seen as contrarians defending something that is objectively bad.

[@dikathemas6713]

Holy vantablack coal, the entire Half-Life section feels like written by someone who likes Dial of Destiny!

[@pisserald]

his surfshark VPN went to Chilean coal mines

[@TheGreatLeon]

Asmon features this dude's video and now he's going to milk this millennial hate thing for every last cent

[@MegaMat_Show]

Millennials are officially the new millennials. How far they have fallen...

[@_Imperium_7]

TMD? TMD.

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

Total Microtransaction Death.

[@gorillagroddgaming]

TND and TKD 👍

[@saulspanco854]

​@gorillagroddgamingfax brother 0/

[@MrBigShot264]

@gorillagroddgaming don’t forget TTD

[@MrBigShot264]

@gorillagroddgaming also TGD

[@YeTism]

GameCube was peak. Anyone who hates it should have none of their opinions taken seriously.

[@SonicArchaeology]

Oh absolutely, GameCube was and still is my favorite console

[@magicjohnson3121]

disappointing at the time in my experience. I don't think it's bad but I still hold Playstation 2 and the og Xbox in higher regard.

[@Weldedhodag]

still has the best version of Pikmin 2 to this date

[@firesideentertainment]

It was a subpar console with only a handful of good games, give it a rest.

[@NihilisticIdealist]

@@firesideentertainment Still better than the N64.

[@kylevernon]

Here before Asmongold reacts to it.

[@SirAuron777]

He’s gonna make this 26 minute video into a 50 minute long reaction vid somehow

[@PerSquareKilometer]

Pausing every 5 seconds to say: “Yeah”, “Wow”, “so true”

[@picklas]

Are people actually believing you when you call every argument you don’t like millennial

[@elisehalflight]

Tribalism, my friend, some things never change.

[@picklas]

@ sad!

[@KamiSanzo]

6:43 the big deal with golden eye was about how well it worked on console, not that it was the best or more innovative FPS of the time, the n64 controller is a silly controller but Rare made it work really well with the game because of the way you hold it. Pressing the Z as a trigger moving with the stick felt really good for me as a kid. Golden eye released on console in a time when other fps in consoles had tank controls or weird strafing with the bumpers because the dual shock controller wasn't a thing, that released a couple of months after golden eye actually

[@yunggolem4687]

People forget that N64 was the first to do an analog stick. Yea, the trident thing was dumb, but it was an innovation over every other controller at the time such that PS followed suit & came out with the dual shock afterward. Original PSX controller was just a D pad... which is why the two analog sticks look obviously tacked on in the design.

[@a_brodo3158]

Ok but the id and raven catalogue of the 90s humiliate it now that we’re not kids in the 90s who can’t afford pcs that can run those games anymore

[@VitaliyMilonov]

"Everyone I disagree with is soyjak: the video". NOT A SINGLE GODDAMN TIME did you bring uр AN EXAMРLE to back uр ANY of your claims. What a horrible waste of time.

[@hrr597]

Found the millennial reviewer 😂😂

[@EpikBirb]

Nobody says this

[@VitaliyMilonov]

@ Who's that? The video failed to define it's own title. Maybe you will enlighten me.

[@p33ko81]

I say this and I look like this

[@smugshrug]

dunking on cel shading being a millenial thing is so weird because the most iconic cel shaded games came out while millenials were growing up, like Jet Set Radio and Sly Cooper.

[@reptilefan1115]

made by boomer and gen x devs thougheveralbeit

[@Salabar_]

This is literally the first time I've heard about hating cel shading being millenial thing or millenial reviewers thing. There are people hating stylized graphics in general because reasons, but this is not even that widespread either.

[@reptilefan1115]

@@Salabar_ people literally wouldn’t buy windwaker because they said it was a cartoon/kids game. you can find old forums online.

[@captainweekend5276]

@@Salabar_ It was more of a thing by people who were completely graphics obsessed, it's a bizarre claim given in other videos he talks about millennials being practically defined by Borderlands, yet at the same time millennials hate cel shaded style games?

[@maajkemii]

I totally disagree about everything you've said about HL. I, played HL1, and its expansions and I'm in the middle of HL2 play and I think all games are amazing. I was struck how a 1998 shooter is so fun to play in 2025

[@Ripotes]

I feel like the second half of this video is all just dancing around calling out Yahtzee Croshaw directly. "Halo is a dumb game for dude bros" and "Chest high wall shooters are mindless shovelware" were both bad opinions created and popularized by him. And if you want your channel to do numbers, you should stop dancing around it and do an actual video calling him out for the shitty takes he enshrined into gaming discourse in the 2000s

[@sneedsquatch6129]

Back when people just automatically assumed Snarky + British = Correct.

[@cedric15773]

I would blame this more on the late TotalBiscuit (RIP). He spouted the same opinions as Yahtzee, but unlike Yahtzee, who treated his videos more like jokes than reviews, TB demanded his opinions be taken seriously, and the industry did, for better and for worse. And at least Yahtzee wasn’t a total PC elitist that supported ending the sale of used games just because it affected PC games far less than consoles games.

[@salsamancer]

I feel like Yahtzee doesn't really deserve that much hate because he was never a thought leader. He mostly just said the same opinions you could read on reddit/something awful at the time.

[@mister-x2]

The 8-12 hours game rental that you could finish over a weekend was amazing. Bring that back.

[@Nin_tony]

You want them to revoke access to the games we pay for after a certain time?

[@arkgaharandan5881]

well, you gotta realize that making a game 8-12 hours and good isnt easy, you can make it 20 hours but its copy paste slop however.

[@elisehalflight]

this, totally this, I hate modern gamer's obsession with bloated platimes, I don't want to dump 90 hours grinding a game, I just want 8 hours of raw joy

[@DioTheGreatOne]

Some random gamers: Noooo gamepass is bad because then you don't actually own your games Meanwhile, 80% of people in the old days rented games because they couldn't afford to buy all of them.

[@superplayerex2431]

@@DioTheGreatOne This guy: Noooo, 80% of people in the old days rented games because they couldn't afford to buy all of them! Meanwhile, gaming today is much cheaper than it used to be (provided you don't shell out extra of the shitty DLCs and microtransactions or for the rising prices of triple-A games) and older games from various ages are now so cheap, it's a bargain. Also, the seven seas are easier to sail than ever... Yarrr.

[@zaikolebolsh5724]

"Cover shooters where alright" "Crysis wasn't a tech demo" You got me writing an entire essay until i realized you were ragebaiting, nice vid chud

[@PÉTRIC-m7f]

One thing I love about old school reviewers is that they were always some nerdy guy playing this “badass” dude who gets incredibly mad at children’s entertainment media by swearing excessively and shooting video games with a gun.

[@yunggolem4687]

what's not to love really

[@fatsurprise7892]

A lot of angry dads out there

[@energeticyellow1637]

And I would have it no other way

[@Ayahuasca98]

The funniest shit was when yatzhee got mad at demon’s souls like 14 years ago for being “hard” but then sucked off dark souls 1 for the same reasons a few years later because it was more popular

[@murray9807]

He didn't like either at first and then he came back around them admiting he was wrong and that it was an important part of growth as a critic.

[@a_brodo3158]

@@murray9807damn he didn’t grow much then

[@Zaurthur]

The point about Banjo Kazooie and Croc is idiotic because many more PlayStations were sold than N64s. If you compare proportionally to install base, Banjo sold comparably to Final Fantasy 7. Which is why it is remembered fondly. Almost every other point in this video was equally facile and disappointing.

[@VitaliyMilonov]

Just saw a comment in the "new" section, liked by the author. Which means he reads all of this, but chooses to ignore the criticism. He knows he's making a slop and he still makes it. A nihilistic self-absorbed hottentot.

[@Zaurthur]

@VitaliyMilonov cry more, no one has to engage with your opinions.

[@arsenhrutsky5501]

Face it, liking Halo is the most millennial thing ever

[@pajamapantsjack5874]

Doom 2016 multiplayer really was great. I wasn’t even that good at it yet I still had so much fun with it.

[@womp6338]

The simping for valve gets really annoying

[@KingdomKillaz117]

Yahtzee was overrated even as a millennial in high school in 2011.

[@aaronn8191]

This video is somehow more cringe than millennials

[@HapsbyRobo]

Due to it having been produced by a braindead zoomer.

[@KamiSanzo]

Crisis being a tech demo isn't because of a "cliche", it's because the damn thing was really, really specs heavy for the time. Only 1st worlders could play that shit on release, which is why it got labeled tech demo, it's a demo for tech.

[@blarrrggg]

plenty of games have been heavy without ending up with that label. it implies the game is bad, but it wasn't

[@captainweekend5276]

@@blarrrggg It doesn't imply the game was bad though, if it did the meme of "can it run crysis?" would have never been a thing because nobody would care if it could run crysis if crysis was seen as a bad game.

[@SeruraRenge11]

@@blarrrggg No, it doesn't imply it was bad, it implied your pc couldn't run it because you're poor.

[@blarrrggg]

@@captainweekend5276 it was generally used dismissively. perhaps it was cope and dilation from nographics poors, but I rarely saw people say anything positive about the game other than visuals

[@captainweekend5276]

@@blarrrggg No it wasn't lol, being able to run crysis was a landmark to aspire to, not to dismiss the game by. People mostly talked about the graphics because not as many people played it, it was never a super popular franchise, but it was well known for having good graphics.

[@davidmason4140]

7:18 I did not care for The Ocarina Of Time, it insists upon itself.

[@benisign]

It's a great game but definitely over hyped

[@dzigayu4944]

It was a fun experience, but I really can't see how you would give it a 9/10, let alone say it's the best game of all time, unless you're heavily biased because of nostalgia, it had many sections that were just designed pretty poorly.

[@Henskelion]

OOT praise sort of makes sense in the context of how groundbreaking it was at the time, but I think the two followups (Majora and Wind Waker) iterated on it in way more interesting ways.

[@Nin_tony]

​@@dzigayu4944name them

[@TheSNESGrounder]

I never cared about the Zelda series in general tbh

[@jackrussell3084]

I think a large factor is just the "copy cat approach" of these reviewers who desperately wanted to get noticed and get rich off youtube, which meant they looked too closely at what their peers were doing, and if something looked semi successful, the safest bet in their eyes was to copy it; this includes opinions, style, and content. What this ultimately lead to was creating a massive echo chamber. Explains the Nintendo IP love (you discussed with Zelda and Golden Eye), Sega hate (crapping on Sonic), and other particular "truths" considered to be "self evident" (Half Life is the greatest game of all time). Being born in 1983, I understand some of it. Half Life for example, I believe, was just the right PC game at the right time. I remember a big factor not discussed today, is how around the early 90s, there were a lot of hardware compatibility issues with games, and Half Life just seemed so well optimised at the time, and could run well on potatoes, I think this led somewhat to its acclaim and the fact everyone with a P200 was playing it - the same could be said for Starcraft, it just ran well on any PC and hence, people just played it.

[@CoolSs]

You know the sad thing, today industry needs the critics of the 2010 more than ever. Unironically we had it so good back then.

[@tweezersalad4075]

I'd argue it was Gen X era who initiated the Sonic 3D hate. I remember being on forums as a kid in the early 2000's and seeing crap like "Sonic has been dead since 1994" and how "Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 unplayable cause the camera". It went hand in hand with the unnecessary Star Wars Prequel hate of the time.

[@ThatGuy-ky2yf]

The hate for Shadow the Edge 'hog and especially the werewolf sections of Sonic Unleashed were also overblown

[@magicjohnson3121]

Yeah it's funny because Adventure has some jank but it's never enough to outweigh the positives of the game. People making a mountain out of a molehill.

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

Sonic adventure 1 and 2 had bad ports. the game itself weren't bad. Shadow 05 and unleashed were overhated as well. Just a punching bag for people to use.

[@Northstar-x]

It was them 100%. They are absolute scum who also unjustly hate the Star Wars prequels, hate every FF game that came out after 7 and hated on Oblivion and Skyrim when they first released (they try and deny that now). A lot of their anger is based in irrationality and their inability to accept that they've gotten older and their sensibilities have changed. Sonic Adventure is kino, I'm so glad I never listened to those losers.

[@SirAuron777]

Yeah the Star Wars prequel hate was crazy back then. Now somehow everyone loves the prequels…

[@thebigpig2364]

Your channel inspired me to play through all of Halo MCC. It's been a blast. I don't even like multiplayer games that much but I've been having fun with Matchmaking.

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

Try the custom games browser as well

[@ThatGuy-ky2yf]

I also recommend Ruby's Rebalanced Halo CE campaign mod and the recent Halo 2 Uncut Campaign mod. Both changed weapon balance and added both new and cut content to the campaigns. Just fantastic fan efforts with more passion and cohesion than the 343 and recent Bungie efforts. Both have steam pages iirc.

[@InternetHydra]

I have my gripes about the Halo games, but I understand and appreciate it appealed to many people. It’s above a lot of stuff put out nowadays which is going to form a black void of nostalgia looking back.

[@robertclive491]

@@InternetHydra Ermmmm regenerating health is bad because... it just is, OK?

[@PPX14]

This is genx really for the most part

[@slightlyaboveaveragebutaverage]

I'm 30 seconds in and have no clue what you're talking about. Millennials loved the late 90s through mid 00s games. It was absolute peak gaming.

[@JacktheStripper-tc5pn]

They also give those games a lot of shit for being as old as they are, I don't think video games go through a mid life crisis. Lots of younger gamers like old games but Millennials just assume zoomers can't physically comprehend any game that doesn't play like Fortnite

[@slightlyaboveaveragebutaverage]

@JacktheStripper-tc5pn Yeah idk who those people are. I'll finish tha vid before saying anything else tho.

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

@JacktheStripper-tc5pn Most people are playing older games

[@LukeEganLyrics]

It's about millennial reviewers specifically.

[@MrJekken]

he's talking about the reviewers among gaming press, not the general audience.

[@whatsthehistory4752]

You really just had to call us schizophrenics out by saying “some” find paradox games and factorio as the greatest of all time 💀

[@silkroadsam3860]

A reviewer clichée for me is just how massively overhyped The Witcher 3 is. The game is pretty good and does many things right but also has a bunch of huge flaws. No way it is the greatest RPG of all time or best game ever with its' absolutely mid combat, a horrendous skill system, the "Middle Ages... LE BAD!!!" trope and repetitive quest design that just loves to throw plot twists at you for a million times. The RPG elements are also badly implemented. Level requirements on weapons sucked and the level scaling of enemies just breaks the immersion. You fight evil himself who is level 20 and it is an even fight then a random level 25 city guard can just one hit you. I played through Witcher 3 and enjoyed it but it never clicked for me. Solid game but I just can't understand the praise it gets.

[@arkgaharandan5881]

i never played it because witcher 2 was boring and game of thrones ripoff, very short and crappy combat. But i heard witcher 3 had choices, meanwhile the people who say "Cyberpunk 2077 is good now" annoy me because its not, its just more patched and polished, its a terrible rpg and the level scaling made it more bulletspongy.

[@Kitsune2Megafan1086]

​@@arkgaharandan5881I played Cyberpunk on harder difficulties and it never really came across as more bullet spongy.

[@Billionsmustchill]

man talks about stuff he has a good or bad personal vibe about for 26 minutes with a pretentious tone disappointed because you're doing what modern slop AAA devs are doing - repeating the same formula that was once successful, "millenial writing:part 2" i don't even get why this video exists

[@VitaliyMilonov]

To milk his most viewed video title, obviously.

[@IAmCaligvla]

"i don't even get why this video exists" m o n e y m o n e y m o n e y

[@benisign]

The genre that really got ruined by millennials was fighting games. Every soylennial feels the need to redesign staple fgc games for the modern audience. They add this shitty overcentralizing system mechanics so if you're shit you can still win by filling up the slop gauge and performing an action so strong it basically resets the round. Thank god SNK still make decent games since arc sys shat their pants and Capcom is on their way next.

[@NihilisticIdealist]

That 3rd Strike clip did untold amount of damage to fighting games. Even Daigo is not a fan of the game.

[@benisign]

@@NihilisticIdealist Drive rush is the fgc equivalent of the yellow spray paint.

[@NihilisticIdealist]

@ I haven't played Street Fighter 6 yet. How was it?

[@Ayahuasca98]

Valve isn’t owned by blackrock so I like them

[@SirAuron777]

Based

[@DioTheGreatOne]

Not yet.

[@AbcDefg-zt8xy]

yet they're an SBI partner, they censor steam reviews and Gabe Newell donates democrats. Also deadlock

[@JillRegina]

tf are you even on about? I'm 37 and we all loved the 360 era, as well as the Genesis, the PS1/64... if you're any younger than a millennial, then you were never cognizant enough to appreciate this stuff when it was hot anyway.Sorry if you missed the boat when the industry was absolutely electric from 96-04

[@michaelcottrello]

This is a neat perspective, but the croc comparison is nuts. You can’t just look at total sales without context and draw a conclusion. By this logic, Brain Age is a bigger deal than any Halo game ever made.

[@Hoplopfheil]

Omg I recognize myself

[@steven.2602]

millenial writing killed shot show

[@sierra715]

Oh yeah thats right you had a gaming channel

[@44Jervis]

Didnt expect you here lol

[@vrubayka]

You're wrong about cover shooters not being something that was like a plague. You like tactical shooters? Your Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six and Socom are now cover shooters! You love stealth action like Splinter Cell? It's now also a cover shooter. Are you a fan of first person immersive sims like Deus Ex? It's now a cover shooter where cover makes you invisible. So even if the games ended up good just by definition (good products, good value, quality, etc.) they lost a lot of their uniqueness in this transition.

[@VitaliyMilonov]

He was wrong about many things, but this one was the moment I lost my mind. The level of detachment from reality and brainrot you'd have to have to say that cover shooters invented tactical shooters and then show Rainbow Six VEGAS - the ONE that COMPLETELY erased all tacticity from the series. That's like saying Splinter Cell invented stealth games and then show Conviction as an example of that.

[@semioval]

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