remember when you knew nothing?

[@ArrowValley]

Best thing about having kids is being able to show them my past games for the first time. My daughter is currently stuck on Forest Temple on OoT and it's great knowing how to do it and watching her get so close but not quite getting there.

[@ubulayne_]

that is the cutest thing ive heard all day, i try to do this w my little brother, since a lot of the games i used to play are getting remasters he gets to have those same experiences i had when i was his age

[@WinterBoots15]

I can remember vividly how much that part frustrated me until that “Aha moment” clicked

[@Thonato420]

man i swear, at the moment i get a child that is 5 to 6 years old starts playin games on the phone, im gom ask him to play mario kart wii w me

[@Thonato420]

@The Game Man especially when mk wii got custom tracks, at some point they gon be playin minecraft and me self gon introduce em the minecraft track 🥶🥶

[@TERlNG]

My wife and i are having a baby boy and i honestly cant wait till i can show him my past games

[@R2-T4two]

Ah, yes the times that I made portals from Minecraft mods and got disappointed.

[@bleedingrevo]

Lol true

[@cloakedhornets6515]

Honestly the image of an Aether portal not working is more iconic to me than a working one.

[@liinnder]

I remember watching scary Minecraft video Easter eggs by I think by rageelixer and got disappoinment when they didn't.

[@PGtheVRguy]

@@liinnder I haven't heard that name in years...

[@alface935]

@@PGtheVRguy Who?

[@yunicommentary]

that thumbnail holy shit, i remember all of my friends telling me putting water in a square glowstone shape would take me to some alternate dimension.

[@AllanLovezGaming]

Lol same but with KZbin tutorials

[@sneak1677]

I saw a video where a guy went to "heaven" I had a free version without mods

[@urphakeandgey6308]

Some mods do that and I love the concept. Especially as a "heaven" to contrast the "hell" of the nether. The way to make the portal makes enough sense too.

[@xshme]

Yes, I think about this all the time. I remember as a kid suddenly seeing pokemon black and white on the shelfs. I had not heared of those games before their release. I played diamond and heart gold, but I did not know the pokemon on the BW boxart. Buying the game and experiencing a pokemon game full of pokemon I had never seen before was amazing. I wish I could experience another generation without knowing any of the pokemon, but with how much I am online nowdays, that is pretty much impossible for me.

[@gabrielkarantena4568]

I'm currently playing through Pokemon fire red because my friends recommend it to me and it's been really fun seeing all kinds of pokémon I never knew existed since I don't know anything about pokémon. 😀 And I've never played a RPG before so this is also my first RPG.

[@xshme]

@@gabrielkarantena4568 thats one of the best ways to experience pokemon, have fun!

[@weswright7888]

i'd recommend playing a fan game then on pc, romhacks etc if you're looking for a new pokemon adventure. New types, new pokemon, you could play a nuzlocke etc

[@xshme]

@@weswright7888 I tried fangames, but its just not the same for me. Idk why

[@markusb3712]

I remember my first experience of playing Minecraft. This was back in update 1.4 where everything was foggy and the render distance was horrendous. I had built a house into a hillside made out of dirt; it had two floors, each being only two blocks high with only one block separating the two floors. The bottom floor had a wooden door and a chest holding my items. On the second floor was my bed and a window to look outside. Here's where the story begin: I had just got out of bed from sleeping through my first night when I hear something creeping on top my roof. My roof was only one block thick, so I decided to dig a hole in my roof to look outside to see what it was. In drops a freakin' creeper and blows up straight in my face and killing me in the process. Once I had respawned I used the little wood I had to patch up the damage done to my house. HOWEVER, again I hear something walking around on top of my roof. I didn't dare repeat what I did last time so I went upstairs to try and look out the window to try to spot what it was. Unfortunately, I couldn't see anything so downstairs I go to open my front door and down drops another creeper that was right above my door and blows me up AGAIN! This time, however, I survived the blast and saw that a second creeper walking towards me. With only 1,½ hearts left I rushed upstairs in panic hoping that it wouldn't follow me. What I didn't realise until too late was that I had accidentally cornered myself. With no means of escape, the creeper slowly walked upstairs and blows up the little remains of my house still standing. In my defeat I dug a pit the shape of a cross in front of the crater that once was my house and placed down a sign which said "R.I.P. [my username's] house. [Date of the day I played]". That was the last time I ever played Minecraft. Well, err... at least not until years later (were talking like 3-4 years later). This was no joke one of the most traumatising experiences in my earliest days of gaming.

[@Dummout]

i just dug a whole in the ground

[@josephcasper8803]

I remember zombie tennis Steve Crazy tbh

[@hunterh.1238]

“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing,” -Socrates

[@dastoto0166]

@Internet “Person” because platon wrote it down

[@farhi411]

I swear I thought you are talking about Socrates the Brazillian Footballer💀

[@ajdude9]

Games are more fun when you're a total noob; you don't know the extent of the content in the game, so your brain patches it in for you. It imagines much grander things than there actually are because it doesn't know what to expect. Once you've learned the game and seen all it as to offer, you can still have fun with it, but that aspect of the unknown - the imagination of what the game is like - is lost forever. The unknown has become the known, there is no need to imagine because you know that what you imagine is false.

[@Aegisoftheshine]

That first time I played Skyrim, never heard of the game before didn’t know mods were a thing not knowing a stealth archer was the best choice going out without knowing the main quest and that rush of fighting the first dragon after goofing off for hours before even getting to whiterun that was the most fun I’ve ever had playing a game and luckily for me after completing my first play through the modding community was so vast that it can still keep the game fresh after all these years

[@Bazs121]

The rushing to the dragon part got me lmao I remember full sprinting to the tower because I didn't know you can delay quests and I didn't want the dragon to reach the city. It was a blast

[@zebragoboom]

@@Bazs121 sorry to say, he said the rush OF fighting the dragon. like, feeling the rush. he only did it after goofing off for hours before even getting to whiterun.

[@asingularpixel]

My first night in Minecraft, I didn't know what anything was. I saw a cow pop out from behind a tree in the dark, I thought it was the most terrifying thing I had ever seen in my life, and immediately exited the game.

[@blackzero786]

Imagine mining for coal only to have a fire appear behind you with no sources to cause the fire. Granted this happened back in alpha before the hunger bar.

[@vgaggia]

I remember digging into stone with a stick and not knowing how to craft a pickaxe at all

[@hgarr]

I remember on my first Minecraft night going up a hill to fight a zombie, and then Dying because it was actually a Creeper.

[@kenynotkenny]

@@vgaggia same lol

[@matuili2633]

Bruh, that's so funny XD The first time I played Minecraft, I literally didn't know anything about the game. I just started exploring the world and breaking a few blocks until it became night. Then a zombie started approaching me. I didn't know anything and I somehow thought it was another player, so I went to greet him and then he just started attacking me and I got so scared I closed the game too.

[@SergioEduP]

I've been thinking about this a lot over the last couple of years after all of the disappointments that have been recent game releases, and realized that the games that I enjoyed the most are games that I didn't know anything about before starting to play, maybe the issue isn't that recent game releases have been bad but that we know way too much about the games before they are released.... If I could turn back time to relive the moments of the first couple of games that I played I would do it without even thinking about it twice.

[@lennartweber2228]

Nah m8 most recent game releases have just been plain shit. Remember that when u where a child, you saw trailers and lets plays for most games bafore ypu played them yourself. And then when u experienced them, they still ruled. Most modern games just do kot focus on what makes games fun: good gameplay and a memorable story/ lore/ worldbuilding. I gonna rip thos from somebody who commented that under a game review on steam: The modern game market is whide as the ocean but deep as a puddle. Its kind of in the nature of how modern games are made: Huge development teams and a comparatively small vision. Games back then where made by smaller teams, wich in turn allowed more fresh ideas to flow into a project. In modern games a lot of people make a si gle game. Letting everyone pour their ideas into the project would end in conolete chaos. So own ideas must by nature be restricted. With smaller teams you do not have that. Habe a good idea? Run it by your hand full of colleges and if they approve implement it. Plus you whole crew knows abput your idea and if they want to play off that new gameplay mechanic, they cannjust ask you. In a huge team that is not possible. If jerry from the 51 floor had a cool idea, then running that by all the other 50 floors of the company would take ages. I strongly believe that this is the reason why indie games are most times so much better than company games. Fewer restrictions, smaller teams, more creativity, deeper gameplay.

[@no3ironman11100]

@@lennartweber2228 Bro are you 12 or something. There wasn't any lets plays just 15 years ago.

[@Buglin_Burger7878]

I don't know, lets compare Gold and Silver and their bonus region to new things. Or you know the fact new games have game breaking bugs for months after release commonly now. Or many bits are left out entirely because they can be added in later (once you finished the game) Or the bits left out to be DLC that is worked on before the game itself is done. You can literally compare differences, it isn't just nostalgia magic there is actual issues.

[@Person01234]

No, modern gaming is a cesspool. It's not like I don't enjoy games any more but most of the space is just crap. You have to dig pretty hard to find the indie games that aren't crap. And all AAA games are crap. Not all of your games you used to play will have aged well, some were good for their time but are outdated by modern standards, some you may have only enjoyed because you were a kid, but find a game that holds up with solid gameplay and tell me again that it's because you "know too much". I mean the games I'm playing most right now are Minecraft, a game from 2011 and Simutrans, a Freeware game from 1999. There are a couple of modern games I'm looking forward to, but there are a whole lot more modern games that I SHOULD like, that I SHOULD be playing by all rights, but either corporate greed or general limitations in what can be done in the for-profit space with modern tech and modern games markets really hamper modern game design and just make them lacklustre. It's not all nostalgia and knowledge.

[@ginge641]

Of course the problem there is that as an adult, it's your money you're risking on a game you don't know.

[@hennifen8420]

I remember when I convinced my parents to get me Minecraft, I loaded into my first world and I was so new to video games I didn’t know how to move. I spent 30 minutes pressing all the buttons on my keyboard and eventually I looked up a tutorial, on how to MOVE, in Minecraft. I was so scared of playing in survival I never played in survival until like 3-4 years later.

[@Haruki2009]

I’m 13 and got a Switch last Christmas and yesterday I bought and played BOTW and because I have only played Smash Ultimate and Mario cart 8 deluxe the last seven months and because I never have played an modern rpg. BOTW has an entire new game language for me and It’s honestly amazing. An completely new gaming experience not only from a mechanic point of view but from an interactive to.

[@corn_the_dog]

That is why I enjoy playing older games sometimes. I have no idea how they work, and it is mesmerizing.

[@prismozunfunny]

The control thing is so expected at this point that when i first played cuphead a few days ago, i was lost, the controls are so different it made the game 10 times harder for me, because at this point i personally expect to jump using 'space', not 'z', it's a thing that kind of transcended genres, so i get confused when it's not there lmao

[@vgaggia]

If you played a lot of flash games its not too weird, they had some pretty narly control schemes

[@kiwayakotako5320]

luckily for me i was somewhat used to playing on emulators and for some reason for as long as i remember i've always had Z and X as the A and B buttons, so cuphead didn't take much getting used to

[@koopatroopa9646]

@@kiwayakotako5320 same here lol i think that was the default control scheme on virtual boy advance back in the day

[@Desticler]

Personally, I think space only works as a good jump key in games that use the mouse for aiming and attacking. If that specific criteria isn't met, i always used Z to jump.

[@ultrasquid579]

Most 2d games on PC use the arrow keys for movement, and z, x, and c for inputs. I personally find this hard to get used to, as nearly every other control scheme has you move with your left hand, so I tend to rebind it to use wasd for movement and the arrow keys as inputs.

[@vaxlmfao]

I remember when I didn't even exist

[@johannlothe]

That's why Elden Ring was so refreshing. I'm not gonna finish it, it's too hard for a red-dead-redemption-flight-simulator-type gamer like myself - but man, that game brought out that kid in me. That kid who played Sly 3, but wasn't old enough to understand the objectives - so he spent literally hours and days and months, just running around. Playing the first story mission, over and over again. Until he figured it out, got stuck because it was too hard, and still kept on running around, exploring, having a blast. It took me years to finish those games. It was the best of times. Minecraft, what a game it was (and still is). Pre-2015: How do we sell this game? You better make it great! In 2022, they just have to sell you an idea, make a billion dollar cinematic trailer, insert pay-to-win/pay-to-have-fun here, and in comes the money. I bought so many Ubisoft games these last few years, because I wanted Far Cry 3 and AC: Black Flag again. It took Valhalla, Watch Dogs 3 and Far Cry 6 for me to stop. Those games felt like vomit in my ass crack. Moving around should be fun. Exploring should be fun. Fighting should be fun. Objectives should be fun. Even generic copy-paste content CAN be fun! Ahh, it's just like music. There is so much crap, and the worst crap is at the top. You just have to know where to look.

[@samwich2214]

I absolutely love Stryxo! His videos are so well put together and his voice is pretty soothing and there is not one second in his video that he doesn’t utilize. Truly a chad that deserves so many more viewers. Keep up the good work.

[@rainbowcloudss_]

I agree!

[@laprueba6521]

is this an ai generated comment?

[@samwich2214]

@@laprueba6521 no, came straight from the heart

[@arkaua]

Lol you know it's bad when ppl think your comment is AI generated

[@ginge641]

@@samwich2214 Definitely AI generated.

[@EZOnTheEyes]

Remember when I knew nothing? Stryxo i still dont know anything

[@HeebieJeebs]

One who knows nothing can understand nothing - some dude

[@pomeranianproductions647]

Still remember trying to make an Aether Portal or creating a shrine of Herobrine and being scared shitless of the consequences. Sweet memories. I wish I kept those worlds…

[@Beansman1213]

I wish there was more massive games that just let you go where ever

[@mapkidd]

man, do i always remark my first night of GTA V, knowing nothing and thinking the graphics were so good, and walking around the map with $20 to Franklin's account, constantly discovering stuff in the city. good times.

[@chitranshusingh3921]

I totally agree the feeling of the first time can never be replicated and I also feel that it was the best time to play video games. I perfectly remember my first time playing uncharted 1 not knowing anything about the franchise and almost returning it after a hour of playing, but then came one of my favorite franchise of all time. The sense of discovery of the eorld around new and different mechanics which I had never seen before and also the scale of the game. Those chaercters went on and became my favs of all time. No other game till now has been able to match that level of excitement and intrigue and sense of wonder for me and I dont think that will happen again. Same with minecraft, I feel minecraft is all about gradually discovering the world, surving the first night, first time discovering diamonds, your first time beating the dragon. I really miss the time when I knew nothing about these games that was prime of gaming for me.

[@Xerozhwi]

I remember watching my first Minecraft Let’s Play by a guy named PaulSoaresJr. I would be on my family PC for hours watching content by him, Kiershar, SeaNanners, AntVenom, etc.. I remember I watched so much to the point where my Aunt was sitting next to me like, “So… you just watch other people play Lego block games? Nerd.” When I first played the game myself, I was such a nerd, but every experience was superbly exciting for me. Fast forward to today, and those all seem like distant memories. However, it’s great to reminisce on how stupid I was (Yes, I’m referring to the Aether portal fail; everyone’s done it). Good times.

[@Xerozhwi]

P.S. I also did the portal thing for Twilight Forest when it dropped. However, I kinda knew it wouldn’t work then.

[@aprazoh]

i love this idea for a video, first experiences are something special.

[@shadowz6836]

It feels terrible, but it is such a unique feeling to stare off into the distance in a game and think about what could be there, even though you already know it is just a 2d image. Some part of your curiosity still wants there to be more.

[@rubz1390]

In Overlord, you have a castle with a balcony that looks setting sun on the mountain silhouette. It's something I appreciate in games and real life,makes me feel like there is something more to existence.

[@whydoiexist2180]

honestly with these moments the memories are to blurry for me to remember but honestly i dont remember having much fun playing back in the day even now its really rare for me to enjoy a game

[@sopersmosh5296]

Seeing this makes me so glad that the only consoles I had growing up were a wii and GameCube so I’m not familiar with a lot of these games

[@stepmanialdash]

same, but instead with the 3ds and wii u

[@lukinoo686]

GameCube, Nintendo 64, NES, 3DS. yeah those were the days for me

[@Sadako2602]

@@stepmanialdash Wow the 3DS and Wii U are someone's childhood, I felt old, and my childhood was the Wii.

[@lunokhod3937]

fills me with great pride to have unironically tried to make an aether portal as a kid

[@z4molxe690]

I vividly remember playing Terarria for the first meaningful time around 5 years ago. I barely knew how to do anything, and it took me months to complete the game. I remember that my house was made suspended between 2 Giant Trees. Now, with 2.2k hours on the game, almost nothing is as fun. I know every little secret, strategy, underrated weapons or gear, every step to getting every weapon or armour, block, anything. I know how to approach any boss fight, most optimized loadout for every moment in the game.... It isn't as fun as it once was, even mods don't bring me much happiness.

[@DaviJohns]

Have you played calamity, mods can really make a game you've played for hours and hours. Way different. And an entire new experience.

[@z4molxe690]

@@DaviJohns i just beat supreme Calamitas on revegence with a friend a few days ago, it was definitely the most fun I've had with terraria since the first months of 1.4

[@tante05]

I think that everyone can relate to the disappointment of trying to "light" the ether portal

[@nihilist1680]

The good old times when I was a kid playing Pokemon Blue on Gameboy and tried to find Mew from under the truck. Also going through all the gyms for the first time and Dark Cave and finding my first legendary Pokemon ever: Zapdos and going to the Pokemon League the first time and just when I thought I finally finished the game there's one more opponent that I didn't know about... my rival. It was so exciting not knowing anything and just explore and try to figure out where I need to go, what I need to do and how to solve all the obstacles on the way. Back in the day I didn't have access to internet and I don't even know if there was any website back then that would have helped play through that game so I had to figure it all out by myself and I was so proud of myself when I finally finished the game. Then there was Pokemon Silver and omg I was so excited to play the game with colors. And then Pokemon Crystal where the Pokemons had a little animation. It was so awesome even the little new things.

[@darkigg]

I remember when I was a kid I always tried to cross the bridges between Manhattan and New York in Lego Marvel Superheros... and I never stopped trying it. My friends also once told me they heard it is actually possible, and that you just have to 100% the game. I of course didn't.

[@dominickthegamer]

This guy is actually the most down-to-earth dude that plays video games and keeps that exciting fun energy of playing video games from being a kid back. I Miss that feeling so much but watching these videos brings me back. Keep up the excellent content homie, getting me back into trying and playing a new game.

[@baen8688]

Yes, minecraft for me. I played minecraft pvp for thousands of hours over 6 years and love the nostalgia thinking about the first time when I got it.

[@cannon_kat]

One of my first games was Lego Star wars on the Wii that I played with my older brother. I had to be about seven at the time and I loved the game. Out of all the games on our Wii that was the one I played most (at least after our Wii sports disc broke) now going into the star wars Skywalker saga with a friend who had never played a Lego video game before and didn't really play many video games at all, it was fun to bring back so many of those memories that had been pushed away by my now more favored games like destiny 2, the tomb raider reboot series and God of war.

[@theoonesite]

There is something magical about exploring and experiencing a game for the first time, back when we just picked and grabbed it from the store shelf without having heard of it or having watched gameplay beforehand. The pure experience and the strike of luck which made us forever invested into a franchise.

[@AdamEmond]

FFVII. Leaving Midgar and realizing that there's a whole WORLD to explore!

[@jacobmilham2258]

The first game I really remember playing is cave story on my dad’s computer when I was 6 and every time I come back to it is a very nostalgic experience

[@jejjiz6162]

I was waiting for you to mention the Stanley Parable, so I'm very glad that you did. It really gives a unique response to players seeking out the limits of the game. It has the irony that Undertale possesses as well, which is already a huge accomplishment, but because you're emerged in a threedimensional world, there's a lot more things the developers should consider. For example: in the starting room of the game, there's a window. Since players can't jump, and we know about games' limitations (developers might have put an invisible wall there), we expect that window to be of no significance. Yet, when a player maneuvers across the room by using ledges to glitch himself out of the window, they fall into an empty white void. How does the game deal with this? Well, while any normal game might have simply prohibited the player from going there (if the developers even found the bug), the Stanley Parable's unicity lies in the fact that they recorded entire voicelines for the narrator in case a player found this bug! There are a couple other moments in the game where something similar can be done, and every time we get new and unique voice lines. This game is entirely about game developing, so one might say it's no surprise that it does this, but I wish other games would do this. Undertale and Doki Doki: Literature Club do an excellent job as well, but they lack the freedom that make the Stanley Parable stand out. Undertale's movement is still two-dimensional, and Doki Doki is one-dimensional (you could even argue for 0 dimensions). The Stanley Parable does something that very few games can still do nowadays: it surprises us, and it does so in a way no game has done before.

[@ronniebarter3857]

Man this made me remember as a kid I straight up thought Nacht Der Untoten went on forever and I was so desperate to escape and explore the zombie world. As a little kid I used to think videogames were made by super computer geniuses who dedicated hyper-intelligence to make fun games for people.

[@aketsuuu]

I 100% miss those first moments with games. The need to ask my cousin for help with Soulsilver and the discovery of Kanto and Red, the mystery events too. Then we also had the Old Chateau in Diamond and Pearl which me and the boys theorized about for hours on end because it felt so out of place and cool. Or the first nights with Minecraft, building parkour in creative but eventually doing my first survival world... and doing it as a hardcore with several strangers. These first feelings haven't left me quite yet, but they do feel distant. But even today, I'm still discovering new experiences. Souls games aren't quite for me, but I experienced them. Danganronpa blew my mind and was super fun, and the story and characters had me stay up hours on end to complete a single chapter. Or my first time with Metroid, being Super. Super changed what I knew about platforming and exploration in games and, much like Zelda, really incentivised me to complete as much of the game as possible. First moment are beautiful, I'm just glad I can continue to experience them with new games. Great video again Stryxo, you nailed this topic on its head.

[@future1751]

i remember the very first time i played minecraft PE, at a mates place in probably '11 or '12 when i was just 5-6 years old, he let me have a go but before he flew up to where the ground wasnt rendered in, i spent a few min7utes trying to figure out how to get down but before i knew it i had to go back home for dinner, begged my mum for minecraft, and got PE lite, 10 years later still play it occasionally, damn the nostalgia

[@ZoniesCoasters]

"current objective: SURVIVE" "okay" "why is my visor cracking?"

[@Purpuler]

The this I hate the most about gaming is spoilers. If you try to find a new game and dive into it, just looking it up will receive massive spoilers. You can almost never enjoy a new game without hearing a spoiler.

[@imprincesswolfy2565]

Back in 2009 when I wasn’t a gamer I remember a neighbor telling me about a block videogame where you could do anything and there were creatures like zombies. I was really confused by this videogame. What happens if you run out of them? “You get more” Where do you get more, and what are these ‘blocks’? Are there just laying there waiting for you? What happens if you find a creature? I had so many questions and so little answers. And when we first loaded up that videogame, I was full of wonder, and curiosity, and my imagination fired up. I miss those days 🥲

[@Jaytwoster]

Man if I could relive all the games from my childhood I'd probably be a happier person. But now I know everything from data from how games are made makes me feel so burnt out because when i was a dumb stupid kid I didn't care about all of these things, i just had fun

[@Ubdedman]

I didn’t make the Aether portal thinking it was in base Minecraft, but I downloaded the mod along with other mods in a world me and my friends made. I made the portal when everyone else was offline hoping for them to log on so we could all go but it didn’t work because I downloaded the Aether mod for a different Minecraft mod launcher than the one I was using 💀

[@InMaTeofDeath]

I was playing mario/duck hunt before I could read, pretty sure the original gaming memories are gone.

[@voltmaster5005]

While I wish I could replay Titanfall 2 for the first time I love experiencing new games for the first time

[@cubikcube337]

when i started mc, i just switched to peacefull from normal the moment i saw more than 1 mob, sometimes i wish i didnt i also remember being blown away by the fact that ac2 had 3 cities and had really life historical elements i miss these surprises, now nothings new

[@thathatguy1151]

The Batman: Arkham games were amazing for me for this reason. I knew very little about DC Comics and the overall story and the game's mechanics and writing led me to love the franchise. I am not joking when I say that I played Batman: Arkham Knight for two days straight on my Xbox One.

[@a_cowwithlegs]

It’s funny you made a video about this, there is this update for a game I’ve been waiting over 2 years for. The amount of new content is insane. And completing one of the 40 new objectives is a massive puzzle that is super fun to figure out. It’s the first time I don’t know what to do as I slowly piece everything together.

[@omle8492]

I was watching one of stryxos streams and he brung up the idea of this video. I’m so glad he ended up making it. One of my favourite vids!

[@crabulaunch4754]

Remember when I saw a Spider-Man mob battle when I was a kid and was disappointed to see no Spider-Man in minecraft

[@phantom9062]

Playing Back Ops 1 for the first time on Christmas day while my dad watched next to me in excitement explaining the history behind the bay of pigs and castro , and what Vietnam really was. It peaked my curiosity with Kennedy’s assassination. World at war made me like Nazi zombies but Black Ops made me fucking love it! It would also however be the last game my father would be able to give me. He died the next year and would shape the rest of my life as i know it today. That game was the last COD i got to experience with my dad, I can never forget the first time i played my favorite game. I hope maybe one day i can show him some games that he missed out on that i know he would want to play.

[@x8c8r]

Sometimes I wish I could completely forget the game, and just play it like the first time...

[@spooble5030]

Call of Duty Black Ops II, the beauty I witnessed playing that game is something I still havent found after all of these years in newer games, with such an amazing campaign and me not knowing about multiple endings, I ended up getting one of the worst and even then it was an incredibly enjoyable experience. Not to mention zombies, my first time loading up Town and just learning what its all about in my basement on a summer with the smell of freshly mowed grass wafting in from a window is a core memory that will never ever leave. Along with coming back to get the diamond camo on shotguns being the only guns I could use with a half broken ps3 controller

[@ChloeVFX]

My first video game was "Sonic Colours", on the Nintendo Wii. It was mid-November, 2010. My grandma had gotten the Wii like two years ago at the time, so, it definitely wasn't new, or as new as **I** thought it was. I was six years old. I had my grandma put the game in the console, and flip the HUGE old CRT's channel to 'Video2', and she gave me the controller. I learnt everything by myself, because my grandma raised me with that mentality. I learnt what button was jump. It was the '2' button. What button was used to dash, the crouch button, and how to activate wisp powers, '1', 'B', and 'shake' respectively. I learnt what red stars were, and collected a few of them through my first playthrough. I got stuck on Asteroid Coaster's boss level for a solid month, but it felt like years back then. I remember a conversation I had about what the final world would be with my grandma, and that I didn't know what it was called. She told me to give it my own name, so- as a dumbass kid, I chose "The Pile of Water", because it sounded COOL and ORIGINAL (do not steal) to me! Eventually, she beat the boss for me after a few days of asking and asking. She already had her own save file, and had completely 100%-ed the game with a guide she used online and never told me about. I wasn't allowed to touch this save file. Then, I got into, and eventually beat 'Terminal Velocity', and I was satisfied. That game started my 11-year-long Sonic obsession. Every year, I make sure to go through and complete the game again in the 'Challenge Mode'. It took me until I was 13 to get every red star. I unlocked Super Sonic, and had a blast with it. Now the game is over ten years old. I'm seventeen as of writing this comment. Thank you, SEGA, for an awesome first game experience. -Chloe Madeline.

[@skyward14]

I have been thinking about this a lot, I wish I could forget everything about Minecraft and re-experience everything again. I feel like i know too much about it now, and that almost ruins it. Going over to a friends house and playing it for the first time, watching old tnt mods, I wish I could just have to relearn it all.

[@Indianadixon]

Stryxo, it’s been so fun to see you grow!!!! Loving your videos as always!! I also think about the wonder that games like Minecraft used to have. A little bit of that wonder is lost now that my siblings and I have already done everything in the game. But those memories still hold very special places in my heart. I also find it so fun that I never played through the first 3 halo games despite playing so much Halo Reach as a kid. I can’t wait to one day go play those games and have all those new experiences with such beloved classics

[@rebekahferro9017]

The first time I played Roller Coaster Tycoon is hard to forget. I'd always watched my older brother playing and wanted to play myself, but he wouldn't let me. Eventually he made a deal where he wouldn't tell me anything about the game or how to play it, but if I could beat the first level, he'd let me play it whenever I wanted. I failed, but eventually got to play it later, and to this day I still love playing building tycoon and sim games.

[@minarishell]

This is why I love modding. Players creating new content for games lets you re-live that feeling of learning - personally, my favorite part of any game. I adore Minecraft and Factorio modding in particular, as their mods are so much more complex and expansive than some vanilla content - learning how to automate things in modded Minecraft is so fun when you're first starting

[@oliicole]

I first played, and still play, destiny 2 in middle school I think. I'm addicted. The first playthrough of the campaign was the best thing ever for me, mainly because I did know nothing. That's continuing over season by season, and I still feel like I know nothing, despite the hundreds of hours I've put into the game. Back to the beginning, I was learning to use an Xbox controller. I got to learn controls for the first time and I was immersed by destiny's movement and gunplay. The story was captivating, I didn't know what abilities were best (I used what I found as cool), and the enemy felt daunting- but I could still be "good" at the game and feel cool. Nowadays, I know so much but the game isn't "over". Despite losses, trouble with hardware, pvp and pve issues, etc etc, destiny is still my main game because no other game doesn't leave me wondering "what's next" like it.

[@Hydraxouz]

I remember the first time I played Minecraft, in 2010 I believe. It was a late school night that was kind of warm and I had just eaten dinner and showered. I then got on my computer to go look for something to entertain me before I had to go to bed in about a half hour. Earlier in the day my friend was talking about this new game called Minecraft and how it was really fun and you could make your own house and stuff. I looked the game up and got on the Minecraft classic player online. Within 10 minutes I was absolutely hooked, I built a spaceship, a big boxy house, and flooded the world. Before I knew it, a couple hours went by and my mom burst into the room with our computer to scold me for staying up way past my bed time. I begged her to buy me the full game the next day and I've been playing it and growing up with it since. So many fun memories of playing with my friends, adventuring, building, fighting, etc.

[@dawson8843]

This is a really interesting concept. I subscribed within the first few minutes. Keep pushing the limits on video essay ideas. Love the work.

[@treyllo]

this is a really great video from you Stryxo. When you know less, its often better.

[@The_Bizzler1]

My favorite game of all time was borderlands 2. I started playing it when I was somewhere around 7 or 8 and I would kill to be able to play it for the first time again with my small kid brain and have the stupid fun I had with my older brother playing it with what I thought was limitless gameplay. Now with how I know almost everything about the game and where everything is, it just doesn't have that spark that young me sought out. Now don't get me wrong the game is still hella fun and it shaped me in ways like with my humor and love for firearms, I just wish I could go back in time and witness the spark that lit my love for video games.

[@AxuPlays]

This brought up so many memories. I know San Andreas is relatively new, but I remember as a teen hearing my friends debate over which island of the three was the coolest, and I was just flabbergasted that there was so much for me to find, as I had been doing absolutely everything in Los Santos. Arriving in foggy San Fierro and the luxurious Las Venturas was mind-blowing at the time, after trying to trick the cops tens of times that came after you when crossing the border prematurely. I still have that innate mischievousness regarding limitations placed by developers, for example in RDR2. Hiding inside a wagon so the snipers don't get me, and getting close yet no cigar.

[@Furebel]

Hence why I never strive to reach what's in "meta", or the best solutions, even if I have hundreths of hours in. I have almost 3000 hours in Warframe, and my level is still not at max, and I enjoy doing things stealth, even tho it's not the most optimal way to get through level. I just enjoy doing what I like to do. That said, when I try a new game, with new mechanics, new things to do, I sometimes feel like I don't want to learn things all over again, and the real fun begins when I catch up to how to play it. For example, I only recently got into Hotline Miami. Since I am a stealth and strategy type of a player, feeling most rewarded from preparation and perfect execution, I tried to play like this in Hotline Miami too. And I failed over and over. After I gave up stealth and out of frustration I decided to go all in, only than it clicked - THAT'S how I'm supposed to play this! And only than I started to have fun.

[@soupbane1688]

idk how but you always managed to pick an interesting topic, keep it interesting, all while in short format you make really good stuff keep it up i love it

[@ItsDrike]

I no longer play minecraft, but I've started out a long time ago at version 1.2.5, and it was the first game I've ever played. Even though I can't remember exactly my reactions to the first creeper, death, diamonds, or any of that anymore, I do remember the general experience of it, and the incredible sense of curiosity and freedom it gave me as I was first exploring the world I spawned in. I remember that back then, I only got to play at the computer class in my school, since I didn't even have my own computer, and I was exploring the game along with 2 of my best friends. Since we only had very little time at the class for playing, the experience of novelty that I felt while exploring minecraft back then lasted for months. I won't ever forget our first LAN game, where we then made my our first shared base in this dug out hole underground, or the times we went to the library where we brought minecraft on flash drives so we could play on the computers there. Thinking back on these experiences brings back some absolutely incredible memories and it feels really amazing to replay some of those moments in my head, but it's also sort of sad, because while it's something you can never really forget, it's also something you can never really re-experience again.

[@thepandani]

I've gotten this feeling of "oh fuck.. that's the last time I'll be so taken aback by this" fairly recently when I became a Kojima fan. It's so sad to think that I will never play Death Stranding for the first time again, or piecing together the hints through Metal Gear Solid V. I've still got the other Metal Gear games that aren't so easily accessible to PC to play, but I'd absolutely adore to be as fascinated as I was when first finishing MGS:TPP or Death Stranding once more

[@The_Number1Candyman]

I'll never forget the first time I played Borderlands 2. I was about 12-13 and on Christmas I got this game I'd never heard of, but it seemed quite interesting and was apparently popular with people who had similar taste for games according to my parents. My parents then went away for a trip or something and my best friend was coming over to spend the night so I waited to play the game with him, we load up this game with no idea what awaits us, what followed is one of my fondest memories, and a game I still occasionally play to this day. What I wouldn't give to go back in time without my memory and do it again.

[@thelvadam3870]

Its pretty hard getting a new favourite game when you have played halo 3!

[@Wilfoe]

This was a very well thought-out video. I enjoyed watching. I do have many fond memories of video games...from when I button-mashed on Sonic Adventure due to not knowing how to play, to when I couldn't figure out how to get out of the house you start in in Pokemon Red... Even though I now know a LOT about video games, I find I can still enjoy them in my own way. I get curious about various things and ask questions that most people don't think to ask, so I can sometimes still find secrets that most people don't find. Sometimes I might just put in place as elf-imposed restriction to add to the experience or to see how I handle it. I know I'm not the only person who does that.

[@T3nMiDGET5711]

My first night in Minecraft was spent hiding away in a hole in the ground lol

[@Valcuda]

I remember when I was younger, games were just so amazing to me, and it became my life long goal to become a game developer. And I love game development, and it's extremely interesting to me, even now. Yet, it's ruined part of that fun, that excitement. What's outside the play area? Nothing, it probably ends as soon as I can no longer see it. Yet, I've found a new fun. Seeing things I was never intended to see. Seeing the tricks game developers use to make the game work. When I was younger, I thought gamed were these amazing things, with hours put into every detail, but now I know that games are like TV shows. They're made to be viewed in a certain way. An NPC that goes behind an inaccessible wall, just freezes the second you can't see them, and teleport if they're needed elsewhere. Like a magic trick, you only need to make it *look* like something happened, it doesn't actually have to happen.

[@elio6361]

I can't remember my first night in Minecraft, but I do remember playing on my mother's Ipad, mining by going down to bedrock then up to the surface then repeat the process, playing in a non infinite world, my first base which was just a cobblestone box on an island, the worlds my brother and I covered in lava, making lava flow on invisible walls at the edge of the world, trying to do minigames in creative, or a zoo, and overall having fun. I don't really play Minecraft much anymore, but I have very found memories of it

[@Khofax]

The first thing I actually crafted in minecraft was sticks and I remember my 7years old brain thinking it was the coolest thing ever! (Yeah planks came first but sticks are different cause it take 2 item slots to craft)

[@whoisanarnb]

I remember playing Minecraft on Xbox and not being able to progress because I didn’t know how to jump. It was a small cave with a one block step up as well, and I cherish this memory of my stupidity.

[@foogriffy]

I got Minecraft in maybe 2008 or 09, because I saw a video of Tobuscus playing it and it looked really fun. That's the only Tobuscus video I've ever watched, just randomly clicked on it one day. He was using mods, but I didn't know what those were, and I was disappointed when the vanilla game seemed to be stripped down. I still continued to play though, and soon the sun was setting, and suddenly I was surrounded by zombies and skeletons hurting me. I walked away from them, not knowing how to run since this was way before they added ctrl to run. I also didn't even have a crafting bench since I had no idea how to craft, so definitely no weapons. I thought I could lose them in the forest, so I hobbled into the trees, and then what seemed like dozens of glowing red eyes descended upon me, and I died to spiders. That was my first night in Minecraft. I did a little research and watched some let's plays. People still made videos describing how to survive your first night back then, which usually involved digging a hole in the side of a hill and waiting. Nowadays I usually have a bed before the first night in a new survival world, or I spend it caving. I've enjoyed the game for a very long time. There are no other games in my life that I have played so much for so long. The replayability is incredible, and the constant updates keep me coming back. If I ever felt like the game was getting boring, or I'd done everything, I would just wait a couple years and it's like a new game again. Exploring the new nether for the first time was so intense.

[@Knightmare2018]

I remember playing halo 2's campaign for the first time (In 2020, on OG xbox LOL) and being amazed. I wish I could experience that again. There's a kind of sad nostalgic feeling, but it's incomplete, and you can never feel it again.

[@trippwyre3191]

If ya'll want the closest approximation to this feeling that I have found, Yume Nikki tells you literally nothing about how to play. Even if you go on the wiki, it doesn't have specific details on what to do, so you're either on your own or you find a friend who can give you directions, just like old times.

[@PlGGS]

At least we can relive some of this joy by showing loved ones our favorite games

[@jacobgardiner9267]

That's what I'm doing with my dad, we just finished Halo 2 yesterday

[@bardofvoid174]

Tbh, I think about this a lot, and it's honestly one of my main draws to dnd and ttrpgs as a whole; unless an insane amount of love and attention to detail is put into a game, you can expect that 90% of the things you try that are 2-steps-removed from the gameplay loop you're already doing, will lead to dissapointment, though I still absolutely adore the imagining in trying to even still, and the immersion regardless. And on the other side of the matter, if there *is* so much content so as to support such exploration and imagination and unique creative attempts, there can almost feel like an obligation that you *have* to find every aspect of a game, for those that are more completionist; and if much of it *is* two-steps-removed from the gameplay loop so to speak, then it can be *pretty difficult* to find even a majority of it naturally in a fun way. (though this isn't always the case of course, and this isn't at all me advocating against love and attention to detail, out of the two I'd graciously take the latter anyday) Just I suppose that's where DnD and other ttrpgs shine; There is no real limit to what you can do, no real skybox, no real "oh, invisible wall again", no real "I would've just done this in this situation tbh, but it's not one of the options so-", and a lot of the time, what you come across has about just as solid of a chance of being pulled from their ass as it is to have been prepared weeks in advance, so there's no inherent necessity to explore or not explore in any specific direction, or to try to find every secret, you just immerse yourself and play. (Granted, just like actual game devs, game consoles, game engines, etc, it depends on the dm for all of this as well, but I'd say in dnd it's more-so inherently built around that kind of concept, while in videogames, it's quite a bit harder to pull off something like that)

[@Miss_Trillium]

I still remember halo 3 for the first time. I had gone from an old original Xbox to 360, so I had only played 1 before it. 3 was electrifying, and damn that ending where you drive off? I remember screaming at the TV, go faster go faster! On a later run, sitting with a friend for coop, he said to me hey let's drive over here. We found the grunt cowering on that level, and we both died of laughter, and then promptly died as the platforms fell around us

[@billschannel1116]

My first game of Minecraft was magical. It was in the alpha. The gamma mode was way off, so nighttime was pitch black. I stumbled into an area that had the most difficult terrain I've ever experienced in the game. My nephew was a seasoned player by this point and he had to come rescue me because I couldn't get out of there with the monsters and not being able to see anything. During the day I decided to build a staircase down and then up and I was playing with math to accomplish it. Along the way I was putting doors in case I hit water. I was worried water might flood the chamber. I didn't understand this wasn't a thing.. To this day, my favorite part of Minecraft is starting over with nothing. I love being concerned with survivability. I wish the game had serious threats later in the game.

[@drewwagner5227]

Flashbacks to giving my brothers IMac 12 viruses to try install Minecraft space mods

[@NotePortal]

SO TRUE, I remember trying to make the aether portal and being disappointed. i remember being at a sleepover on my birthday and coming home early for a reason i could not remember. as soon as i stepped in i saw my dad has a Xbox One. I got so happy and me and him sat down and set it up. i get SO confused when trying to play minecraft. Little me didnt realize that it would CHANGE my life. i remember my dad getting battlefield 4 and trying it out cause he got bored. that got him to play the game and only that for the next 6 years constant. Sometimes the smallest things can make the biggest impact.

[@Floydknight]

I think this feeling is what makes Minecraft so nostalgic for me. I’m only 16, and Minecraft PE was one of the first games I ever played, and it played a huge part in my childhood. I remember for the first few nights me and my brother didn’t know what a crafting table was, and when we found out that if you tapped on it you could make TOOLS was literally game changing. There’s other things that makes it nostalgic for me, but 6-year-old me trying to figure out how to get out of flight mode is a memory I’ll cherish. #saveminecraft

[@TwoManyFoxes]

I am not new to games whatsoever, but one that gave me such great joy having played it for the first time, was the time I played and beat TUNIC in the span of a week. The game follows other games in the genre's you can put it in, but it challenges you by not telling you everything. at all. the game is a joy to explore and just so satisfying to find things in. the game was absolutely fantastic, and I still play it again and again.

[@lwitzz8391]

When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

[@praralexander7561]

Even in Elden Ring's vast, fully explorable world, the little details scattered about are still incredible, like being able to walk on the small outcroppings next to a balcony and rewarding you with unique items and a miniboss, dungeons that try to mess with your understanding of the game or have hidden secret paths or the unique items if you manage to climb your way down the backside of the beast sanctum.

[@ProjectPlugTTV]

first video of yours I've ever seen an I just have to say I absolutely loved this man, great content. Great topic, well spoken, well edited, etc. Looking forward to diving into your other content.

[@everythingzone]

I want to mention Valheim as one of the games that gave me this feeling again. Me and a few friends jumped into the game, without knowing anything about the world or it's mechanics. It really felt like there was something new to explore around every corner for at least 20-30 hours.

[@jasoncurran1000]

I'll sometimes look for people on twitch doing first time playthroughs of games I love. It's the closest I can get to experiencing it again for the first time. I also get what you mean by Elden Ring reigniting that feeling of discovery and never knowing what lies ahead, especially because the game world and enemies are so bizarre.

[@MnemonicHeadTrip]

Talking about first experiences, nothing encapsulates that more than Outer Wilds. The game’s main mechanic is literally your memory. Once you know everything about the world and it’s story, you can’t truly play it again. And if you get spoiled before you play the game, it really won’t be the same. I really wish I could relive that first playthough..

[@LuckayyAU]

i had the same thing with soul silver, it was my first Pokemon game and i was so surprised and excited by the second region when i unlocked it, when i eventually played pokemon black i tried for ages to find a second region with no luck bc i believed there would be a second region you just had to find

[@Struwex]

man I remember looking for herobrine on Minecraft pocket edition in 2012😂

[@bored77551]

A lot of not being able to finish games but having so much fun, replaying them up to the point where you get stuck, lack of skill or puzzles you can't solve + the internet doesn't exist yet so you don't have the just Google how to do it mindset... we may never fully go back to what that is like