History & Evolution of Open World Games 1981-2021 #1

[@Milan-db3uy]

I hate how painfully underrated you channel is every time I come here. Please keep making good content like you do :)

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Really appreciate it man ❤️❤️

[@gonzaloacevedo33]

Bro this channel is stealing videos form a spanish youtube channel called lucasmelor

[@gonzaloacevedo33]

If you don’t believe me look at lucasmelor channel

[@TheCuttingEdge]

@@gonzaloacevedo33 This channel is a collaboration with Lucas Melor. He contacted me to write/voice the videos, and he edits them, but they're mostly based on the ones over on his channel. He wanted to make a channel for English speaking audiences, and contacted me to help.

[@hsslegg]

There’s a difference between something being underrated or being lesser known.

[@smiley8574]

Bruh. I just can't. KZbin needs to make these amazing high quality videos more popular

[@PO1PLE]

I am going to rewatch. This masterful video every year. 2020:✅ 2021:✅ 2022:✅ 2023:✅ 2024:✅

[@bendovernaugh8171]

That is not enough, everyday.

[@alkaupadhyay7650]

Where you?

[@PO1PLE]

@@alkaupadhyay7650 here

[@PO1PLE]

@Kepler 186-F hi

[@u0_a647]

do you know how years work?

[@aloysiustomi8023]

Yeah keep em coming. Can't wait for the parts 2 and 3

[@jimmylee7989]

And we are still waiting

[@derohero403]

I dont think its happening it's been almost a year

[@mudged]

Your videos are too good man. Keep em coming

[@KapsalonGroot]

wow, very underrated channel. this video is really nicely put togheter, i hope someday this channel will make it big because i can imagine there is aloot of effort going into these.

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Thanks! Maybe one day!

[@sohamkadam9944]

I've been binging your stuff you have taken over my reccomended list and i just keep clicking i love these videos keep it up!

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@ThirstysURL]

I almost lost this video after my shower but somehow found it again YESSSSSS

[@Youtubeuser1aa]

You checked your history?

[@kko9329]

It's been two years. Where's part 2?

[@PrinceZakariyya]

Great video man!! Can’t believe you’re only At 1.4k subs

[@spiyder]

me going to get a snacc in the middle of the night: 2:29

[@BroLygamingyt_999]

This Should go Trending

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Here's hopin'!

[@TheCrazyCartModChannel]

This is absolutely one of the very best channels out there... Thank you for all that you do!

[@sean2811]

Damn I think my first open world was that first GTA. I was shocked at what you could do in the game at that time. Man games have come so far. I remember when games had black streaks for rain.

[@early90smf90]

The good ol days.

[@Simte]

Great video. You deserve way more views, these are perfectly crafted videos.

[@iamnabil5611]

Your videos seemed so professional. I just had to ignore the subscribe count. Never seen such pro videos with a low amount subscriber. You deserve more man.

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Thanks a lot! Stuff has been picking up, so here's hoping it continues to gain momentum!

[@jesuslovestoastyaya]

What a great video. How are you so underrated??

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Thanks! Stuff was picking up for a bit there, but it looks like it's slowed down again. Hopefully it starts catching on again soon!

[@nix3l_]

Criminally underrated

[@renaldi6210]

Bro, you are deserve more view and subs

[@TheCuttingEdge]

I appreciate that!

[@jondobon402]

Wow I was surprised how little subscribers you have you deserve a lot more with these amazing videos

[@Sapta77n]

I will back in 3 years to see how big this channel Will be

[@priyanshu_q]

Trust me buddy, one day you're channel is gonna blow up with subscribers. Loved your style and narration. Keep up the great work.👍

[@H.T.H.]

You have to add cyberpunk! I know it’s not playable on standard hardware.... But you are “the cutting edge “ and on cutting edge hardware (3090, 10900k and an LG OLED ) this game is unbelievable.

[@davidmoritz4297]

True !

[@TJames-gz2fl]

Your right ... if u got the money for sure

[@H.T.H.]

Hope he sees it

[@paypalgewinnspiel5054]

Hahah that’s Exactly what I did

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Not a bad idea! I know there's lots of controversy surrounding it at the moment, but I've heard when it's cranked up to ultra nothing can beat it.

[@tylerdurden6917]

Bro u r the best, keep making more videos!! U just gained a subscriber

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Thanks, will do!

[@tylerdurden6917]

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[@devinwicaksono1248]

You got 15k sub already? I subbed here since 600 subs! Uve come far. Thank you for your english translation of spanish videos that some guy made i forgot his name. They are the best.

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Haha, thanks! Yup, it's a translated video from Lucas Melor. :)

[@sertdemir7138]

Just pure gold content man. I loved your channel so much.

[@bogscave]

Yep, still waiting for the next part.. thx for your hard work into this content!

[@bendovernaugh8171]

How is this a 4k subscriber channel, it seems like it should have 400k tbh

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Thanks! We've just started getting some attention, so hopefully things keep going up!

[@bendovernaugh8171]

@@TheCuttingEdge Good luck! I've started watching most of your content and I'll surely continue.

[@tozcloud4612]

6k now.

[@void5239]

Wow. This channel is a GEM. Happy to be subbed before this blows up!

[@rad8078]

I love your channel, you can tell there’s legitimate passion and time put into these videos, you just gained a subscriber

[@withoutthejuice7193]

ye we're definitely gonna need parts 2 and 3

[@tozcloud4612]

I need part two! Good luck, and I hope I can see it soon!

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Thanks a ton! We've got another video or two in the pipeline, but I'm sure we'll get it out soon.

[@Spekii]

Rly underrated channel! GJ :]

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Hey, thanks!

[@Spekii]

@@TheCuttingEdge Np, keep it up! :)

[@Pyromancer.piro32]

youtube recommended me this...thought i was watching some 1.5mil subscribed channel, with that kind of awesome video quality. Love the voice, love the humor, love the pacing of your videos...keep up the good work and i hope you make it 1.5 mil or more someday :DD

[@seifadly3613]

How tf do you only have 10k subs, I mean it's a lot but you really deserve more with all the effort you make to make these videos

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Maybe one day!

[@Arif-qr5pk]

This is quality content, I thought it was a channel with over a million subscribers until I saw it. Nice work dude

[@PO1PLE]

I may or may not have looked for a floppy disk port after this.

[@MurmuringJoey]

Ha, that's awesome! Glad we talked about something you'd like to check out. :)

[@crazy_loc124]

your channel really is underrated man , I just subscribed cause of the hq videos you put out

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Thanks a ton!

[@trixon2118]

Please make more videos. I just love your voice and the topics you take on. Hope to hear you soon mate :)

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Thanks a ton! Got more in the pipeline. :)

[@aymanbeast8229]

still waiting for part 2, great work keep it up.

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Thanks, will do! Already have a script mostly written, just have to get a few other videos out the door first! :)

[@vikingmetaldragon]

I primarily play open worlds. So I decided to search "first open world game", and here I am. Great video, great commentary. Been playing for around 30 years. While Ocarina was not my first Zelda game (that would be LttP in '93 or so), when that piano kicked in... NO JOKE, I got some tears of nostalgia. So I agree, there is no way you could leave it out! Morrowind was my first ES game. Until now, I have actually never seen footage of an earlier one. I am amazed at seeing this '99 Daggerfall footage. I actually have had that game for maybe 10+ years because although I started with the xbox Morrowind, I later purchased the PC one which came with Dagger and another. Admittedly, after EXTENSIVELY passing through Morrowind on console, I bought it for PC to spam it for fun. As with age, time, marriage, children, I probably will never play those previous ES ones. But it was cool to see and hear about how they (or that one anyway) were/was.

[@ChronoTales17]

Keep up the good work

[@shelbyspeaks3287]

It's a real bruh moment when you realize there was a game where you could travel between planets in 93'

[@kko9329]

I'm gonna play it now lol

[@vhr]

Mizzurna Falls looks like such a vibe.. and thankfully it was fairly easy to "find" a copy, translated! Very hyped to play this.

[@g-lowin6588]

Your going to blow up soon, I can just feel it.

[@Ultranothing]

Hey, cool video! But where's #2? You called it "History & Evolution of Open World Games 1981-2021 #1" but you stopped in 1999 and...well...ya know.

[@Shiraishi07]

Great review! Glad you also included Shenmue

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Glad you liked it!

[@afajriz5721]

zero dislike boiss, and that's how you know how good this channel is..

[@breadop67]

I saw a pretty cool game in the thumbnail and you didn't trick me and showed it. Great video! By the way the game was Mizzurna Falls. The game looked pretty cool.

[@purooshresth7809]

Just found this channel!!! Nice work man!!!

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@Rynoverse]

This channel finna blow up soon

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Hey, thanks! :)

[@elduderino3995]

Can't wait for part 2!

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Thanks! Lookin' forward to it, this was one of my favorites to work on. :)

[@lokchucklindryfry94]

it's just mind blowing to look at frontier elite 2 and think that it can still pass off as a game made a few years back.

[@aza8109]

Only 7 thousand subs??? Dude with the effort you put into these videos you definitely deserve a million!

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Maybe one day!

[@jvon3885]

So if 4 days ago this channel had 7k subs and today he sits at 15.7k subs, if one does proper maths then by this time next year..... and....................... if zombies don't force our world to become an open world RPG where we are forced to hunt, stock, and kill our prey, this channel will far surpass the million man mark......

[@neole894]

Underrated video. Should've deserved more reviews

[@DEADMANPLAYS]

underrated 😠🥺😢😢

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Thanks! Means a lot. :)

[@skibadeeskibadanger]

Great video! Looking forward to the next one

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Thanks! More coming soon. :)

[@videocommissiondeparture1998]

Really Underatted Channel

[@trevorrogers95]

I know it wasn’t the greatest open world games, but I’ll always love spider man 2 for the GameCube! I still play it to this day.

[@Youtubeuser1aa]

Imagine making a game that couldn’t be updated. It was completely good out of the box for decades.

[@TheCuttingEdge]

I grew up with that kind of thing! Lots of NES, SNES, and GameCube/PS2. It was great getting a game that felt like it was a totally finished product, but on the same token if a game had any big issues they couldn't really be fixed.

[@tusername5091]

dont stop this.

[@TheCuttingEdge]

We won't :')

[@whatamidoingwithmylife4108]

@@TheCuttingEdge we?

[@squirrelgore]

@@whatamidoingwithmylife4108 he has someone who voices the video

[@TheCuttingEdge]

@@whatamidoingwithmylife4108 Yup! There's two of us- Lucas writes the initial script, and I (Joey) translate it and do the voice over.

[@whatamidoingwithmylife4108]

@@TheCuttingEdge Oh I didn't think you'd reply to a month old comment.

[@PimpMatt0]

I subbed. I see a future for this channel. Very great delivery.

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Much appreciated!

[@Daniel-ss5tg]

Amazing job guys! You really deserve a wider audience. Keep making these high quality videos and more ppl will come. For example "Let's game it out" had 100k subs for years and years and then one day he just popped and now he has 2.28 million subs he got that in like a year or two! I believe you guys can manage that too. Quality over quantity.

[@pressstart8738]

You deserved million subsriber

[@Qui-9]

Awesome video! I was ready to pounce all over your thumbnail for the left side image, as I thought "there are 𝙉𝙊 games in 1981 which look like that"...

[@tobytoxd]

Great video! Thank you :)

[@Screwhead]

Shadowrun on the Genesis should be on the list! Even though it was fairly small in terms of area to explore/do things in, it's one of the first games I can think of that really had a "do what you want to progress" feel to it. There were procedurally generated missions, different people that gave different types of missions.. you could go into nearly every building.. You could essentially play the game forever and never run out of things to do.

[@jcnot9712]

Here's two hoping we get the rest of the series, because this was a joy to watch.

[@h4x0y]

Awesome video!

[@CharcharoExplorer]

I like this series. I hope you cover STALKER and its AI, Ballistics, when it comes time for it.

[@lasangthecat8090]

I'm sure one day you'll reach a million subs, and i'll look back to this video when u only have 17k subs

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Thanks for the vote of confidence! It really means a lot. :)

[@NightEye87]

The realisation that Zelda:OoT came only one year after GTA. Wow. Also, very curious if you'll include Operation Flashpoint (the original 2001 game, ofcourse) in the next video.

[@HarshSaroha]

1 month has passed and still no part 2

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Sorry, stuff's been a bit nuts, but we're working on it!

[@Simulacrum1310]

Time to get this channel to 100k subs....extremely underrated channel! Thank god the Algorythm sometimes works

[@MEYH3M]

13:50 OMG sleeping dogs is easily one of the most underrated open world games out there.

[@GreenX_real]

Why

[@MEYH3M]

@@GreenX_real Try it, you will understand. it's basically GTA but with way better combat and really deep and interesting story.

[@palakroy5530]

Soo good video!! subbed bro!! Take my money!!!

[@boosaft1622]

Is anybody else wanting to play a lot of these older games in place of current options? The kind of games you pay for once and enjoy as long as you want

[@rob5129]

I watched like 3 videos and was wondering why you only have 11k subs Now I guess it’s because you don’t upload regularly :( good luck on growing and I hope we can see more from you in the future!

[@TheCuttingEdge]

I've got a few videos in the pipeline, hoping to put them live soon!

[@Beregond1861]

I'm gonna have to make a playlist just for high quality videos like one. Also, did you just do a Hulk quote/threat but with sadness instead of anger?😂 "You're making me (sad), you won't like me when I'm (sad)."

[@fungoidfest100]

While not entirely 'open world', Rowan's 'Mig Alley' [late '90's] did feature a full-scale representation of the Korean peninsula complete with rivers, hills, towns, roads, etc. that could take an hour or two to fly from one end to the other of. I once tried flying north, dodging enemy contact, and seeing how far the map actually went. I ended up well into the mountains in southern China when I ran out of fuel!

[@1D991]

Elite

[@Rihcterwilker]

Mizzurna falls already has a fully working english patch out there.

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Cool, thanks for the tip!

[@chris11420]

Bro u are amazing

[@CloudColumncat]

Starfield : "Who's laughing now" *Frontier II : "me."*

[@cederickforsberg5840]

Why do "1981" in the thumbnail not show something from 1981?

[@damiangreen299]

Great content. I just discovered your channel and watched all of your vids, and found them to be quite impressive. I haven't been much of a gamer for the past decade or so, but I was part of the generation who played the heck out of the original Zelda and I appreciate that it was included in this video. That said, in many of your other videos, you talk about game mods, or projects in which game developers have updated older games to work with newer hardware and get a bit of a face lift. My question is, where do you find these sort of moded games? Are they trustworthy? Is there a trusted outlet for these games that tests them first and maybe even acts as a gateway for legal and licensing issues that these games might have? I really don't know anything about this, all I ever see are the blockbuster games coming from the usual outlets like Epic or Steam. And besides having a fancy GTX video card, what sort of tweaking do you have to do to your computer to get them to run? (like overclocking etc.)

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Thanks a ton! Always really awesome to hear that someone likes what I'm doing. This should be a good source of looking more into modding and such: www.reddit.com/r/GameMods/ As far as the legality of it all goes, it might be a bit of a case-by-case basis, but overall I don't think it's anything to worry about too much. So long as you legally obtained the game itself, and your modding isn't something like enabling cheating in a multiplayer game, you should be good to go! Some games are built with modding in mind, and have simple to use tools to make it as painless as possible. Something like Skyrim might not be a bad place to start- it's got a bunch of well-known mods, and the game is built to accommodate them. Things like overclocking and tweaking are all going to depend on your computer, and what it is you're trying to run. Overclocking can help you get a bit more power out of your GPU and CPU if you know what you're doing, but it's going to be another case-by-case sort of thing. Hope that helps! Thanks again for supporting the channel, and hope you're doin' well. :)

[@damiangreen299]

@@TheCuttingEdge Thank you for the reply. It answers several of my questions and gives me a good place to start. Keep up the good work!

[@arbeyj.v585]

tbh ur vids is a HIGH quality contents

[@sylnz97]

is there no part 2 yet or am I blind?

[@aswin.a7539]

Keep it up brother.

[@TheCuttingEdge]

Thanks, I will!

[@dreamsmpfunnymoments3619]

Man old coders really knew how to optimize

[@doggo__usa]

What's the background music used for the OOT clip??? I love it

[@doggo__usa]

Of note, just found your channel and I'm enjoying the heck out of it

[@user-ot4rc9jh8e]

My first open world was probably Driver 1 for the PS1.

[@justinevilofficial]

Yeah in 1981 3d games were so famous

[@fizzyfuzz5878]

Shenmue II really executed the great idea 1 had better, namely pacing. But I'd really love to finally see a part 2 of this video. This was an extremely interesting history lesson, I didn't know most of these titles.

[@binkbonkbones3402]

Mizzurna falls is one of those game I always wished was more popular

[@Freshbrood]

Mizzurna Falls is amazing and way ahead of its time. The Japanese kept all their best titles at home. Thank goodness for fan translations. I am convinced talented devs could have put Skyrim on the PS1.

[@СергейФролов-т7ю1ю]

This gorgeous music in the beginning... I can’t remember the name of it. I think that it was from a movie trailer, but I’m not sure. Help me, please)

[@dalantemaes3277]

waiting on part two!

[@Miata.Is.Always.The.Answer]

Remember me when you reach the top. -Big Smoke

[@SanOcelotl]

Is this Chanel focused on games? I would like yo see some render softwares more.