Videogames Were Always Terrible

The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia

[@bagggers9796]

There's nothing more vapid than the nostalgia goggles argument. When I'm playing an old ass game I've never played before and I'm loving it, that's not nostalgia. When I'm playing something new and I hate it, that's not bias. It's not "rose tinted glasses" as they call it. It's called "the old one is just fucking better."

[@tryhardnobouken465]

I didn't played Chrono Trigger when i was young, i recently tried to replay it, and bro it is the BEST Jrpg i have ever played and i played alot of Jrpg's. It's just evident how much better gameing used to be.

[@Krysnha]

I play sacrifice when i was 25, consider a great game, love it win it like 3 times, i play i of the dragon like 5 times old game as F, evil genius 2000 game, win it like 10 times, sid meyers alpha centaury, i lost count how many times i play it, all of them didnt play them around mi 20, starcraft 1, i play when child, i play 2 wings of liberty meh, and i re play one i admit wings of liiberty has good stuff, but one i nearly didint stop, win campaings nearly none stop, love it

[@Krysnha]

@@SolidLoach Ico shadow of the colossus amaising games, no doubt amaising games, and compare with anything now, come on hell divers 2, palworld i watch and i said to miself, they are good, but nothing special, nothing spectacular, tehy good, really good but nothing like world changer, these is how bad, indusry is, that games wich are nothing outside ordinary, are applaud

[@SyntheticMan]

This is a claim I've had to face many times in the last few years. For some reason it is unfathomable that entertainment, and really just life itself, was ever better than right now. Games can't possibly suck now, you're just blinded by nostalgia. It's such an absurd opinion that I find it hard to believe anyone over 20 actually believes it. Like you said, Marxist ideology plays a huge part in this nonsense but I also have to think it's kids who quite literally have never played a game before the PS3/360 era because they have "bad graphics". It's depressing in a sense because so many modern game reviewers are shills, and I'm not talking about journalists. The NPC group think is impossible to break through when every hack youtuber is giving your Soyny slop a 10/10. Zoomers seem to be incapable of understanding that you can like a game and still criticize it, or hate it and still acknowledge a few good things. But at the end of the day, it doesn't even matter that the industry still churns out a few 7s when the 10s are long gone by now. I've said it before, but "Gamers" get what they deserve. They have shown me time and time again that they have zero standards. It might be a blessing in disguise that I'm basically shadowbanned because I don't have to deal with their idiocy anymore.

[@KratostheThird]

Sony, specifically. But I have watched your GoW Ragnarok livestreams and basically agree to your views on it. God of War 2005 is still miles better, because it understands it’s a game first and foremost. Not a story driven propaganda piece.

[@SyntheticMan]

@Isaccclarke69 Good to know at least someone tries the games I recommend. Sometimes I rail on zoomers a bit too much but it's really just meant to be a code word for teenagers. There's nothing inherently wrong with Baby Boomers/Gen X/Millennials/Gen Z it's just stereotypes based on broad observations about people who grew up with certain major cultural/technological developments (The Internet and Smartphones being the ones to shape Millennials and Zoomers respectively). So basically what I'm saying is I don't like arrogant teenagers who think the trash they're growing up with now is as good or better than games from 15+ years ago. There are plenty of casual/normie Millennials who think the exact same way because they didn't play video games growing up. There are also plenty of people who are nothing like these stereotypes, it just so happens that my channel has attracted the worst fanboys, activists, and Redditors who can't handle a different opinion.

[@beetheimmortal]

The weird thing is that even the 360/PS3 had better games than we have now. I'm a zoomer myself and I definitely know. So even if zoomers only play games from that era, they should know that things used to be better. Why else would modern devs go back and "remake" games from that era, even though there is no way those games need it? Just think of the Dead Space or Demon's Souls remakes. It's horrendous. Also, hey SyntheticMan. I hope you're enjoying this channel I recommended to you a long time ago. Good to see you here.

[@KratostheThird]

@@beetheimmortal I think The Callisto Protocol is a more accurate example of what modern games are striving to be. Full of propaganda, mediocre acting, and lackluster gameplay. Most of us can agree that Japan on the whole does a better job with video games. But I also have to say I sorely miss what the western video game industry used to be. Doom from John Carmack and John Romero, there’s a reason why people still talk about that game. We’re not seeing another Doom, or another Deus Ex. The best we can do is simply copy it, as Doom Eternal and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided have done.

[@beetheimmortal]

@@KratostheThird Yeah, I see what you mean. It's a real shame about the western vidya industry. This also ties into my point about "remakes". Of course they have to remake something that's already good, if they try to make new stuff, the best they can come up with is Callisto Protocol (or, God forbid, Flopspoken). It's easier to leech off things others have already made. It's the nature of marxists. I come from an ex-soviet satellite state (Hungary), so I should know from our history.

[@oliverr4946]

My younger brother, born in 2000, always ask me why I hate "modern" game. So I challenge him to play those "nostalgic" ff7, ffviii, ffix to completion. Now he hates "modern" games too. XD

[@Vrilluminati]

You're teaching em well brother

[@Krysnha]

Indeed, i have play old games before all of these and o mi lord you realize the o is just nostalgia is dumb, i have`playold games and mi yes there were bad games but they try, at least try

[@daklr2501]

Dangerously based to talk about link as an ancient and eternally recurring avatar lol

[@Nimbereth]

Link is white, blonde and with blue eyes. This is anatema for the woke left of 2023.

[@soooslaaal8204]

Wtf Link was Manu

[@soooslaaal8204]

Honestly the more I think about it, the more it makes sense, it bears similarity to Aryan tales of ancient India, which the Japanese were exposed to through Buddhism.

[@KratostheThird]

@@Nimbereth All things the woke left are trying to get rid of.

[@ruggie.74]

My whole life, all I wanted was for Chrono Trigger to be remade. I was 5 when it came out. It changed my life. I don't feel that way anymore though; now I am AFRAID of it being remade. Please leave all the golden age games alone. They are perfect the way they are. Leave it all alone. Keep the present away from the past. I feel so bad for anyone who wasn't there at the time. They'll never know what they missed. Its kind of like how our generation missed the British Invasion, in terms of music media. Today, there is no creative, new, fresh media at all. Kids today just have no idea. They have been completely robbed of art for the sake of sick, twisted agendas.

[@KratostheThird]

For anyone who has young kids, I recommend they play Nintendo games on the Switch. Some of the classics from the NES generation onward are still available, but they’re even better if you have the original hardware. However the retro gaming market has picked up a lot of steam in recent years, so you have to pay a pretty penny for the NES and SNES consoles. No woke politics. No pride flags. No angry characters like Abby from TLOU Pt 2. No blatant in-game advertising or monetization. No DLC. Japan can still hit it out of the park. Unfortunately Capcom and Square Enix have fallen to greed, but overall Japanese made games are simply better and more polished. Modern western games simply can’t compare.

[@SammySam7x]

Another based masterpiece. I like how you said that being woke is anti-beauty. It really is.

[@videoclunk4731]

marxist bugman panopticon lmao this is my favourite recently discovered channel good work m8

[@AntiRiku]

such a gem of a channel

[@nuke7138]

Go back and look at the release schedule of systems from the past. Several games came out each week throughout the year. Each week. Games of all types. If they did not sell, then that was it and they would make a different game. Now a game might be released every six months. And if the game does not sell well, it is not taken as a lesson. No, it is the fault of the customer base, not the developer.

[@KratostheThird]

You’re speaking specifically of AAA games. Indie games are still around, but the big problem is a lot of them are low budget, meaning a chunk basically amount to retro inspired 90’s era Metroidvania. AAA games cost exponentially more now, and few if any of those corporations are taking any risks. That is why so much of the industry feels stale, in contrast to a game like Doom which 30 years almost turned the industry on its head.

[@Krysnha]

Bingo, old sistem, have tons of videogames, evevn when they have to have fisical disck or fisical stuff, and yet they launch a lot of games, but now, they suppose digital crap that is supposly easy and cheaper to mae and yet they increase prices and you need more expensive hardware to play they crap game they launch so few games and the sistem become obsolete as shit and what they want, more and more crap games that are platafrom for the message and NFT and microtransactions, and crap

[@liveyourdreammedia]

These down to earth essays is why I'm here.well done.

[@greygorygaming]

"we live in a gay disco that's on fire" I'm dead. But that's okay because it's Easter. Happy Easter, Ptolemy. Christ is Lord!

[@soooslaaal8204]

He is Risen!

[@greygorygaming]

@Boon-vh6zk Nietzche is gay and a p3d0. Literally.

[@edattacks]

On the rose tinted goggles thing: I just got around to finally playing and beating Deus Ex back in 2019 or 2020 and it banged pretty hard. Sure it's out of date graphically and maybe mechanically in some way. But the story was great alongside the rpg mechanics and whatnot. Same with stuff like TLOZ: A Link To The Past, Chrono Trigger, and many other old banger SNES games. I grew up on PS1 and mostly PS2

[@KratostheThird]

The original Deus Ex soundtrack is a killer.

[@ChimpRiot]

Deus Ex is my favourite game of all time. There’s no point in any modern remake or remaster since it’s owned by a big publisher and there’s no chance they would keep lots of the themes in there now. Grey death/ambrosia being amongst them.

[@Krysnha]

The original chorno trigger, one of the few JPRG that i actually love and have fun, and play a lot, that and when i see modern games, mi, compare the old legend of mana or senkai dentsesu, it was amaizing, when you compare the old with new, yes better graffics but mi, sensuality gone, loading black, and the combat, mi is not bad yet you notice the transition. Chrono trigger, wath an amazing game, fun good story no bs, yes it was hard and yes you need sometime to think but come on

[@necrosteel5013]

The older eras brought an insane number of things, most of the mediocre and bad died. But even despite that, the good that did come was incredible. New things of worth does come out, but it is noticeably smaller. Good stuff is mostly indie games. Old games may not be the greatest ever, but it has something worth building up.

[@Saciachrid]

Man, another absolute gem of a video, you never miss. The way you're able to so carefully yet eloquently string words, sentences and metaphors together is truly masterful and it really does pain me to see the unbelievable lack of subscriptions to your channel. You wear the name "Ptolmey" with such assurance. The Ptolmey of old would be proud of ya.

[@walmartian422]

The Ptolemy of Alexander’s time would be like “Why tf aren’t you guys killing these people?”

[@linuxgameplayxp6246]

I was browsing an old local PC gaming mag just the other day. I can't tell exactly when it came out, but it was somewhere between the end of 98 and the beginning of 99. Here are the games that were reviewed inside: The masterpieces: Thief: The Dark Project - only Thief 2 is its equal Half-Life - need I say more? Myth 2: Soulblighter - has yet to be rivaled Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri - the best 4X ever created, full stop Starcraft: Brood War - the expansion to the best game Blizzard ever released Abe's Exoddus - only Oddysey is better when it comes to the cinematic platformer genre Not masterpieces, but still good games in their own right: Heretic 2 Carmageddon 2 Recoil Close Combat 3 Railroad Tycoon 2 Populous: The Beginning Baldur's Gate I don't know if every single one of these came out in the exact same month, but still it's incredible that so many good titles were reviewed in just one magazine issue. Gaming will never be good again.

[@KratostheThird]

Meanwhile you had Ocarina of Time on the N64, and Resident Evil 2 on the PS1. Gaming today is a joke.

[@TheTBCNinjas2]

Excellent video, I just finished playing ocarina of time a few months ago, it’s such a breath of fresh air from all of the modern crap in games, movies, tv, and commercials.

[@KratostheThird]

It’s in my top 3 or 5 games of all time. Played it back in 1998 when the game released. It was and still is highly nostalgic. Childhood Link is basically a childhood experience, he explores portions of Hyrule and meets Princess Zelda. As Adult Link he discovers times have changed. He sees a happy town turn into a living nightmare as Ganondorf uses his powers of evil. But the forest didn’t really change. The kids are still the same kids, they didn’t grow up, and are afraid of the outside world due to a power/bond they are tied to. This didn’t make sense to me back in 1998 when I was a kid. Now in my late 30’s, I understand completely how the land of Hyrule was corrupted by evil, and how Link has to save it from utter destruction.

[@valder8423]

@@KratostheThird "I understand completely how the land of Hyrule was corrupted by evil, and how Link has to save it from utter destruction." Can you give your thoughts on the matter? I'm replaying OOT after so long and it I noticed details in the story/themes etc. that I did not before.

[@KratostheThird]

@@valder8423 If you haven’t played far into the game then I won’t bother to give you spoilers. All I will say is adult Link sees that everything has changed. What he saw as a child as different. Hyrule isn’t the same, and the NPCs he revisits later have changed as well.

[@retrorystergaming577]

Great way to start my Easter morning. Love your content bud

[@DoPtRiGGa]

Every single one of your videos are absolute perfection man, works of art. Hats off.

[@Rorschach1998]

These same sheep can't cope when you criticize their "masterpiece" 10/10 Woke "Remakes"

[@nuke7138]

I hope you have a nice Easter.

[@smallbrainmoves]

You too

[@Dousch]

14:39 I like the way you talk about nostalgia as a building block. This is why I want to give my children a childhood that can only be described as a 90s-early 2000s bubble. To pass on all the best things I took for granted growing up, with little to no modern interference. To actually protect them in the years when they most need protection. No Netflix. No KZbin Kids. No smartphones. No algorithms. No drag queen ads. All the classic shows, movies, music and games I used to love, with the added bonus of getting to play the video game titles I never actually got to play as a kid, and doing it in the company of my children. I downloaded He-Man and the Masters of the Universe yesterday. It's one of the 80s shows I only glimpsed as a 90s kid. I never saw a full episode, but the intro is one I always remembered. You look at the ultra buff male characters and the ultra feminine female characters and it's just undeniable, the same way a sculpted statue from ancient Greece is undeniable. Looking at some of the episodes now, it strikes me just how funny and based the writing is, especially Skeletor's dialogue. It's a combination of things that does it for me: the poetic way he speaks, his voice, and him being ripped to fucking shreds. In his own words, loud and proud, he is "completely and utterly evil". No modern cartoon has me smiling like a fool the way this show does, and it's not even one I grew up with. It's just good stuff. Quality is timeless.

[@KratostheThird]

What they did to the modern He Man was a complete disgrace. I’m getting tired of Hollyweird and other entertainment venues taking beloved IPs and turning them into mush.

[@KratostheThird]

Best of luck to you. Homeschool your kids. Don’t take them to a public school. That’s a good place to get warped by the agenda.

[@LegionaryHunter]

Games were the last form of entertainment that wasn't stale and somewhat was thriving up to the 2010's then it was a down slope to staleness, the 5 games that launch each year nowadays are just the same cookie-cutter corridor walker or some interactive movie without any soul or effort put in. I really dislike modern gaming.

[@Noble_Savage]

Game devs back then had vision and a story to tell. Now that doesn't matter anymore, just create some woke slop, add some dlcs, and watch the flies gather around.

[@Krysnha]

Worst they suppose to create and they work in an enviroment totaly opposite to creativity with date, with crunch culture

[@MitternachtssternXIII]

and yes the legend of zelda ocarina of time is one of the greatest games ever made

[@ZaWarudo55]

Is there any hope? I feel overwhelmed by the current status quo and worry we will never experience anything truly beautiful or enjoyable ever again. Is the rest of my life going to be nothing but disappointment until I die?

[@dougkeller12]

New fan of your work, enjoy your perspective on gaming 👍. Your Final Fantasy 7 vids are fascinating, especially with religious/spiritual references and allusions

[@aephyn_]

I've played Ocarina of time and ff7 a couple of years ago and let me tell you the nostalgia argument is bullshit, they're among my favorite games

[@MitternachtssternXIII]

we have 2 become the hero of time or it will be too late

[@shedontlove8490]

I can't describe how much nostalgia this video made me feel. Heck, someone should invent a time machine so you can go back to a simpler time away from this circus. Back to a time when the industry made the best movies, films, TV shows, games and music! Back when California was the beautiful place I traveled to with my parents and family, not a sad spectacle with tents on every corner. Back when my dad was at a Metallica concert in Moscow and Stone Temple Pilots concert in Latrobe, and no one in the crowd was standing around with their phones like an idiot taking pictures, totally clueless about how to have fun. Damn, that was a great time! But unfortunately I was born too late to see a small period of good times in my early-to-late childhood, and get caught up in the clown world right afterward.

[@KratostheThird]

The 1980s and 1990s was the golden era for movies, films, TV shows, games and music. California is a dystopian mess. One of my friends shared some of his pics of LA to me via social media and it was just awful. Went to a concert last year. Everyone just had their phones up and recording. No way to really live in the moment. The 1980s to early 2000s was the time of place.

[@Yoshismasher22]

Yeah, the true, good and beautiful needs to be present or at least referenced for real greatness. People know when something is ugly, but we live in a fallen world. Man, I’m kinda grateful this madness is happening because it makes my soul cry out and seek the Truth. I look on the bright side and keep struggling (with God) instead of giving up. Twilight Princess is another good Zelda game! If you end up liking Ocarina, give that one a shot via Wii U emulation.

[@disgaealikerasapOG]

@@Dousch What does blonde hair and blue/green eyed have to do with anything

[@houragents5490]

Not only evil but also highly subversive. Its craaazy how people are constantly chomping at the bit to steal Japanese video games.

[@houragents5490]

It's extra crazy how how people had such a vitriolic hatred of the Wii U but now here's someone giving big ups to pirating Wii U games. It's like some type of subversive one two punch.

[@Yoshismasher22]

@@houragents5490 ​ Hahaha, I’m actually super opposed to subversion (twists in stories are cool though). I owned a Wii U around when it came out. It’s not a bad system, it’s just a product of bad marketing. I’d recommend the best port regardless, since Twilight Princess was remastered in HD for the Wii U, so people should play the higher quality option. :)

[@KratostheThird]

@@houragents5490 Japan needs to stay based and be left alone. None of this ideology garbage from the West.

[@planetzdr]

Yeah it was totally nostalgia when I got a ps5 and played a bunch of ps2 and ps3 games that I never touched before and they were fun af. I really hate the nostalgia argument when you can play these old masterpieces today and they will still give you that dopamine high you seek.

[@KratostheThird]

Because they were good. I don’t see Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 being a game I’m going to spend my time playing.

[@arturliviu]

When there is no nostalgia to cling onto then we fiind other games that have not yet been tainted Pizza tower and most (not all) indie games are a good alternative imo

[@KratostheThird]

I find smaller games. Usually find a gem or two on occasion.

[@Krysnha]

Nostalgia is important to tell you, how things go and yes i have find good mobile games but you have to dig, dig hard because majority mobile games are really crap, from gatchas to these and that, and soon all games will have microtransaction even more, more lock stuff, more censorship i love videogames but mi lord i play for a week mi old games new games have nothing

[@arturliviu]

@@Krysnha maybe you are just not looking in the right places

[@Krysnha]

@@arturliviu I have found good games and i have good mobile games, i dont have mi pc, mi old pc wich i dont have thanks to the plandemic, is full of old games and emulators when i manage to have if for a week, i play with them as crazy, and i miss them, no chats, no live service, no internet conection required, i have found mobile games that are good, but you need to dig and i have found them, but when i compare how amaizing even average game were in those times and the quantity, when supposly were expensive and difficult to make compare with today supposly efficient, and digital great era, is when you realize like Ptolomy said, how amaount of crap modern narrative is that games today are better

[@Arendvdvenk]

Its always a joy when you release a new vid. Even though you get blocked by the algorithm know that they are appreciated 👍

[@CloudyWinter1111]

It's not just nostalgia the games were legitimately good I can still play all the old Zelda games and most of the other games I enjoyed they are still fun if it was just nostalgia the memory I had wouldn't they not be as good when returned to because my eye's are only remembering a memory and not the actual amount of fun or good qualities and gameplay the game actually had but I still play many of those game's to this day and they are still just as fun as the day i played them so it's not just nostalgia their was something real and relatable nd genuine and fun about those games I think.

[@Krysnha]

Not only were good, they have replayability, i can play old evil genious ver and over again, i can play, old mario, old games, from 4x to strategy to so many others there was replayability, you see new games today and they are so long and so boring, you play once and instead of feeling fun, it feels like a job, it feels like why would i play again, i even notice in some lets play, how they feel more like a chore, i know for them is a job but you realize how heavy it is

[@gamesthatmatter9374]

i installed duckstation and played some old games like Lunar 1 an 2 ... Wow ! What a joy . I almost forgot why i fell in love with video games playing the releases of the last 10 years...

[@lector-dogmatixsicarii1537]

_“The truth," he said, "is, indeed, as you once wrote: one can only understand the {censured} when one knows what his ultimate goal is. And that goal is, beyond world domination, the annihilation of the world. He must wear down all the rest of mankind, he persuades himself, in order to prepare a paradise on earth. He has made himself believe that only he is capable of this great task, and, considering his ideas of paradise, that is certainly so. But one sees, if only in the means which he employs, that he is secretly driven to something else. While he pretends to himself to be elevating mankind, he torments men to despair, to madness, to ruin. If a halt is not ordered, he will destroy all men. His nature compels him to that goal, even though he dimly realizes that he must thereby destroy himself. There is no other way for him; he must act thus. This realization of the unconditional dependence of his own existence upon that of his victims appears to me to be the main cause for his hatred. To be obliged to try and annihilate us with all his might, but at the same time to suspect that that must lead inevitably to his own ruin, therein it lies. If you will: the tragedy of Lucifer.”_

[@mwahahaha2100]

Nailed it as usual!

[@ChimpRiot]

Since I became a Nintendo Switch-only gamer, I’ve never seen a black month, woman month or rainbow creator sale. Just fun and simple gameplay without agendas.

[@Nimbereth]

My kids only play nintendo, a Switch and SNES Classic.

[@KratostheThird]

@xid Abby is an insult to characters like Bayonetta. Nintendo still has an audience because Japanese developers don’t care about the agendas we have here in the West.

[@friedchicken4735]

@xid Abby is a troonie I dont believe Neil when he said thats aa woman

[@MLFreese]

"...we live in a gay disco that's on fire." Burn baby burn! Disco inferno!

[@jgrif7891]

Fellow golden age gamer here. It's not that I can't find good games to play, but I have to work way harder to find something that gets me excited. There's maybe 2 games per year I find worth buying, let alone exciting. Also, you got a link to that OoT hack?

[@PtolemySL]

www.shipofharkinian.com/

[@j-555]

All uncreative people can do is take something established and dismantle it in a deconstructionist fashion. And the woke idiots preaching about how awful the past was are trying to justify ruining everything good. it's just a cynical mindset where they say "who cares, it's just a game, movie, etc" which is the exact opposite of what they're supposed to think. they can't help themselves either. As cringey as they are, they're pretty mean people -- way meaner than anyone normal is to them -- and they take this hostile attitude towards the audience. Games with soul back in the day used to respect the player and their intelligence. There was no winking at the camera or some kind of meta commentary -- the games were earnest and taken seriously. I was playing chrono trigger recently and it was the first time in a while a game blew my mind with something that happened. But it made me sad that I can't even remember something new had the same effect. I left a comment on a video of some old footage from the 2000s saying that so much has changed the late 2000s now feel more like how we used to look back on the 90s and this queer replied essentially arguing that everything is still the same. imagine being one of these people who really thinks everything is normal. scary. I think Japan merely shifted to keep up with the increasingly westernized gaming market. The west on the other hand has handed the keys over to the idiots coming out of colleges who only know how to be snide and creepy. They don't have any ideas or any passion for video games but they get control of these projects and produce the cheapest, most uninspired material ever. It's really embarrassing and makes me ashamed to be apart of such a stupid culture. They make games for the kind of people who don't even play or like video games. And surprise -- no one buys them!

[@Krysnha]

Agree, i personaly, no longer feel the wow, the o mi, or how fun it looks, there are games that have some stuff but majority past under the radar or are very few, or not trying to be triple AAA, but gaming cant continue like these

[@j-555]

@@Krysnha the last time i remember it being somewhat fun to go out and look for a game was the ps3 days. it's so weird how pedestrian the game systems became after ps3. the ps3 with its multimedia functionality and all the features makes it feel more futuristic than ps4 or ps5. ps4 was a very cookie cutter kind of system you would have no use for outside of playing recent AAA games. just a pure vanilla user experience with its row of oversized tiles that are ugly. I hate the way interfaces and apps now are developed as if they are giant versions of mobile apps with their giant, waste-of-space picturesque displays and tiles. ugh. I always associate this current era with that kind of tacky look with the flat colors, it makes you want to puke. you go back and look at the ps2, ps3 or even something like dreamcast and you might think "woah" if you've forgotten how the user experience used to be. there used to be a novel approach and not everything was the same. the ps2 had an ambient homescreen with an alluring, almost mystical feel. All I ever wanted in a new playstation was something like that but with more features.

[@Krysnha]

@@j-555 Mi the colors, yes i know, now everithing like a lifless plastic cardboardcut thing, yes i know, PS3, you are rigth that was the last console that have amaizing things, but i always remember two Valkiria chronicles, the only game i see desppite all of its things the only game that dare to touch concentration camps on WW2, in any sort of more or less serious manner, and dragons crownn a game that like many games and movies, ca not be made today, those were the last game i see in a console that atempt to do something inovating with the sistem, after that, all become lifeless and plastic, the last console one said ok is expensive but has something

[@Otome_chan311]

Japan is kinda interesting because a lot of the larger studios are shifting to appeal to western audience (or rather, what the western companies are pushing), while Japanese people do not like it, so these companies end up abandoning their original japanese audience. Whereas other studios end up still working to appeal to Japanese people and put out very different games. I'll let you guess which one gamers like more.

[@deathcamz389]

The thumbnail is the average pc gamer setup from 2003. Pretty cool I'd say.

[@KratostheThird]

Back when gaming was good.

[@g0yientgreen783]

Well we’ve been assured that diversity is totally safe and effective and is, despite appearing to be an absolutely crippling weakness, our greatest strength. That being the case, our diversity super power should be kicking in any day now and everything that’s degraded or gotten significantly worse since the good guys lost ww2 (video games, cinema, tv, west economics, news, politicians, women, men, cities, novels, social media, clothing, automobiles, western militaries, parenting, intelligence, airlines, traffic, trains, infrastructure, architecture, government corruption and, umm well…. everything else) will turnaround and start improving. Any day now…

[@accept4978]

I want to go back, bros...

[@Nimbereth]

The most based youtuber strikes again. I just wish a video per week. Is that ask so much?

[@KratostheThird]

Boomer has been heavily watered down these past few years. It used to only mean the generation of people born during the Post War Era after WW2. As someone in his late 30’s I can confirm things were better 15, 20, 25 years ago. To the left, this makes me a spiritual Boomer, because frankly our situation is not looking good as Millennials and Zoomers. Us elder Millennials were truly the last to grasp the pieces of prosperity before everything went to crap. Zoomers never had a chance. They are entering our real world with the cards stacked against them. But people following the far left ideology will still call us all Boomers, when in reality it has been the Baby Boomers that have been selfish and in power that have pushed us to this mess we’re seeing today. The actual Boomers destroyed that prosperity. Blackrock is headed by a Boomer himself, who have become morally corrupt. Somehow some of the people pushing 70, 80 and even 90 years old are still in power and refuse to pass the torch.

[@MrGageHarrison]

You people are so dumb and jaded it’s wild. All your woes you put on “leftism” look toward the 80s and Reaganomics for all your woes

[@aortaplatinum]

You play old games in HD with widescreen and 60fps hacks your opinions are all invalidated. Jk Nostalgia goggles are absolutely a thing, but there's definitely merit to the idea that "things used to be better", because even though not everything used to be better, [evidenced in said 4K 16:9 60fps OOT] there are definitely things that used to be better overall. It's weird as hell to me that there are people who refuse to play or read or watch things that are "old" because they think being old makes them bad. But the age of a work doesn't determine it's quality, and I actually find it more enjoyable when I discard the context of a work during my initial exposure to it, because that context can give me a false impression. Going back to the Zelda 64 games, because of their tone, aesthetic, and stories, Ocarina and Majora both feel very 80s to me, even though Majora was released in the year 2000. Games and movies are the only thing that were "worse" in the past and that's literally JUST because of technical constraints, most of which can be easily looked past. And, as a filthy zoomer, I've actually abandoned modern gaming other than sequels I know will be good, or indie projects that look interesting to me. I've straight up regressed, 7th gen is as far as I'll go usually and I sit comfortably between 6th and 4th gen consoles. Recommend me a 2 hour untranslated Japanese Saturn game and I'm all over that shit. Show me a CG trailer for another 50 hour western action RPG with lootboxes and a high fantasy setting that for some reason despite it's setting, also lets you play as an agender character, who all the NPCs in the entire game, including the very generic looking black and white morality villain who's a stereotypical straight white male, all these characters just automatically know to refer to your agender character using theys and thems, and all with a screen at the end of the trailer touting the lamest pre-order bonuses you've ever seen even though the game won't be patched into a finished state for months after release, and I fall the fuck asleep.

[@hcohic9884]

the west accused of having no culture probably has the most diverse culture from greek to roman to nordic and its values reflected on their media from litterature to movies to games , something that is similar to east asia. cultures that valued fantasy, vitrues, education , development , disciple, expolration , self improvement , philosophy. and wherever these values exist it parralelled healthy develepoed civilizations. sadly not all civlizations are inheritly good like we see with the elves who continue to be a plague of corruption anywhere they go. i believe a eturn to tradition and applying it in a futurstic way like you said is the only way to beat them.

[@chilpeeps]

Max payne was the game which got me into pc gaming and honestly from 2007 to 2013 it was great time for me personally crysis far cry mass effect skyrim assasins creed ah good old days now i have 100 of games in library but dont excite me then i play deadspace remake and wow that experience.

[@SarkkiKarkki]

You should check out a video on the Dead Space remake by American Krogan, but his work can only be found on alternative platforms.

[@adam3647]

​@@SarkkiKarkki That video is an eye opener. Tells you everything you need to know about these modern remakes of classic games.

[@KratostheThird]

@@SarkkiKarkki American Krogan was banned from KZbin back in 2019, which explains why he’s only on other platforms.

[@dreyga2]

why do they push this woke stuff? Does anybody know?

[@Thelrox]

Because they want to destroy you.

[@SammySam7x]

it's part of a neo-marxist global agenda. It's propaganda coming from groups like blackrock and the ESG corporate rating.

[@franciscor390]

Demoralization from within.

[@Th3BigBoy]

1 Thessalonians 14-15 The people who are contrary to all men are trying to kill you spiritually as well as physically.

[@AntiRiku]

to secure esg funding and the game industry diversity hiring a bunch of degens

[@PaulieMcCoy]

Does Ptolemy ever miss? I'm wondering if you heard the story (must have been three weeks ago) about 17 y/o Makani Tran being disqualified from a Pokemon tournament because when asked his pronouns, he was a bit confused, stated them, and then nervously laughed. Disqualified. First, they came for the gamers and I did not speak out because I was not a gamer...

[@JCDetona]

You are the best youtuber! Keep it up!

[@astrahcat1212]

Im 34, watched the rocky series for the first time this year, and those are some of the best movies. The first two are incredibly inspiring. It's not nostalgia. Things were really that good back then. AAA games had their best time in the 90s.

[@KratostheThird]

True. Sylvester Stallone made them great. Nothing in Hollywood or the western movie industry today holds a candle to them.

[@Timic83tc]

where do i download the ship of hark these days

[@Ad-im1ne]

OoT was magical as a kid, but it slowly got worse for me over the years... gameplay is very underwhelming and the world feels like a husk. However I will say, there is something nice about how straight forward, but well executed the story is. Sometimes you just need a "heroes journey" tale told straight.

[@hamekochi2331]

I mostly play Japanese games. 20 years ago I used to buy lots of PC games from EB games online oversea. To name a few, Fallout 1 and 2. torment planescape Arcanum Jagged Allience. OG X-COM 1 and 2 Falcon 4.0 Sacrifice Become somewhat a westaboo gamers. They don't make games like that anymore. Now? I rarely play western games anymore other than obscure indies. I especially feel CRPGs were much better than now. The video games were always terrible argument are used alot in pop music as well. People that like probably will argue pop music nowadays is better than classical music 200 years ago. Because classical music is just like the pop music of the old days, except it is not. It is the most annoying and shallow argument. Classical music were not a popular entertainment in the past. It was niche and only enjoyed by the elites. It is not the pop music of the past. PC games and western PC games was also niche. Not a popular entertainment. It can be said that the entire western games aren't as mainstream as the Japanese games after atari crush. I believe it is going mainstream making the western games go down hill.

[@KratostheThird]

I just played Fallout 1 recently, went as far as The Hub in one night. If you haven’t I recommend you watch one of Timothy Cain’s videos on why modern gaming sucks.

[@Mingodough]

Brutal Black pill

[@Krysnha]

You know, the more and more i hear these, i am watching trailers of street figther 6 and if it is not because the legacy character, wich are change, you wont recognice it and worst, the twater and outside people that have play it, or play before the old ones dare to said the true, that modern thing suck, no one dares, everyone applaud, applaud, when mods look better and put more effor than the creator, because no we need to erase. Erase the past, we have the first african figther, Elena didint exist, we have the most diverse cast, it was always diverse, game for modern crap. I am so tired, watching things make me nostalgic and realize miss the old time, no these modern distopian,

[@typho6279]

But do wokeness and marxism and all that explain why my new zeldas are ruined by being sci-fi minecraft clones? Reason I barely buy any new games is because I'm the only person in the world who longs for the simpler games without all the flashy, weird stuff.

[@snacks404]

Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these Ptolemy's right again

[@Krysnha]

Also i know these is old, but, i was thinking in you, in these video, i love anime, that is why i hate it now, and outside a few. that have been here for a long time, or some that are new and decide to watch old, all modern anime sucks and modern fans are tourist, that dont watch old stuff, or only watch a bit and said o no you have to watch a million episodes, to love. I hate modern anime and i hate watch these tourist have done, and i realize, is same videogames, endless, serie, yes wasnt amaizing, but have ideas, be endless legend and endless space, and now endless dungeon, have diversity and if you dont like dont play, is like what, a company that works with genres nearly gone, now want something new and trendy, F these and worst normies and tourits play and buy. Anime is dead and see younger tourist cant see why, and they said, o no it always was like these, i live i see old anime, and how, how can old look better and at least try, modern with all these teck do same over and over, or unable to create human behavour, i mean i hate these o it is nostalgia, F modern bs

[@Yoo_Wats_Guuci]

Wokeism is the anti-life equation. Darkseid is the modern left fascism.

[@Cretaal]

My generations version of battlefront 2 is the superior one, played on PS2 and PSP. That's not nostalgia, that's just reality.

[@EgonCholakian69]

First

[@PtolemySL]

Nice

[@Yaxx5]

People just need to outgrow video games honestly. Yknow, how everyone eventually should as they grow older

[@LegacyCosts]

Why are you even here

[@Yaxx5]

@@LegacyCosts So you can ask

[@OsirisVas]

i agree with you but there are still some good games releasing , just this year we have Amnesia the bunker The last case of benedict fox Baldur's Gate 3 ( it has some woke elements but its still a very good complex rpg ) Final fantasy 16 Age of Wonders 4 Lord of the rings gollum Rise of the ronin Lies of P Alan wake 2 Zelda tears of the kingdom Gord and many more

[@zammich3649]

I'm not sure how this wound up in my recommends, but as a person you'd definitely include under the limitless umbrella term "woke" (which I won't speak to in this comment as I'm already exhausted by the notion) I can assure you that yours isn't the only perspective that sees and is tired of AAA gaming trends. However, I was disappointed that despite how articulate and clearly aware you are of a lot of these issues plaguing the gaming industry of late, in the end you settle on blaming the symptoms (perceived "wokeness" etc.) rather than the actual issue here, which is the SAME issue that occurs to any new market after being perceived as profitable: big business and marketing. The reason the burgeoning gaming industry was so free to follow after ideas is not because "wokeness" hadn't hit yet, but because it was largely ignored by the outside world. Games were thought of as childish, as a phase, as a shameful addiction, etc.... and only around the 2000s did the press start figuring out how to cover the industry (it also helped that every year, more and more gamers were reaching working age and influencing attitudes towards gaming). With more attention, gaming companies grew more and more ambitious for profits and attention, and more and more business managers with no prior interest in gaming got involved to start pushing margins etc. and working out ways to produce a FORMULA for game creation, as well as new business models to take advantage of the flourishing marriage between games and online. All this was happening while game technology was advancing, and of course with better graphics and sound came demand for games that took complete advantage of them -- which means MORE staff and MORE time (though this cause and effect was inevitable). AND WITH ALL THAT TIME AND MONEY GOING IN, companies are more terrified than ever of making a misstep and wasting the investment, so they dilute whatever watered down creative concept they had to start by filtering it through hundreds and hundreds of voices all closely following trends they see on social media. So you see, even if the current trends were different, we'd still just be getting back a reflection of the same popular voices pulled from social media. The words those voices say might be different, but the games would be no more creative nor more free -- just an echo in order to guarantee the lowest possible risk. If you want to see more freedom of expression in games, you're much better off following the indie gaming scene which is far more genuine and diverse in ideas and creative concepts -- it's cheaper, too! *Additional: I don't mean to say that business and marketing are inherently bad, only that for the industry to develop this way was written in stone as soon as it started getting buzz. The same is true for everything that becomes mainstream with the possibility of profits (KZbin, Google search, and even Drag Race). (My personal views on a lot of social issues seem to be very, VERY from yours, but I thought I'd say my piece at least where modern AAA gaming is concerned.)

[@prestigini3150]

Your videos aren’t bad or anything and you probably won’t care or read this but I’m lowkey confused on why you’re talking so much about politics in this video when it seems like you have no clue what you’re talking about? It seems like you’re just throwing around buzzwords with no actual substance. Communism and wokeness are like some of you’re main arguments on why games are trash but fail to really critique capitalism that much if not at all. I also don’t understand how wokeness correlates to gameplay and not just maybe the story or character designs. Capitalism literally can be more to blame for why games are trash because of micro transactions and the fact capitalism promotes you to put in the lowest amount of effort for high profit.

[@PtolemySL]

Maybe you’re wrong

[@prestigini3150]

@@PtolemySL how? Are you actually able to back up your point or are you gonna play high and mighty because you have 3k subs lmao. I’d love to see you actually break down how capitalism isn’t worse for video games rn than “wokeness” lmao. You use buzzwords and call people names when you can’t defend your brain dead gamer videos that are stuck in 2015.

[@handles_are_a_bit_rubbish]

Microtransactions have nothing to do with the actual quality of gameplay and aren't inherently bad things, for many free to play games they are likely the primary source of monetisation for the company making them and the only thing keeping the game around. The low effort for high profit argument is also neatly covered by the fact that modern games are often not made to fulfil the creative desires of a game designer but instead are either a product cynically produced to cash in on a trend or the creator's rejected manuscript awkwardly inserted into yet another uninspired third-person shooter like everything that Sony's been making for the last 5 years.

[@tannamay3142]

There is no such thing as a healthy piracy scene. Yuck! 🤢🤮🤮

[@WhiteWolf126]

Best games of 1997: Final Fantasy 7, Final Fantasy Tactics, Grandia, Fallout, Goldeneye, BoF3, Castlevania: SotN, Age of Empires, Mario Kart 64 Best games of 1998: Zelda: OoT, Half-Life, Grim Fandango, Baldur's Gate, Starcraft, Resident Evil 2, Xenogears, Suikoden 2, Fallout 2 Just to mention a few. Best games of 2022: Elden Ring... and nothing else really.

[@WhiteWolf126]

@xid I haven't played it but heard good things about it. The first Xenoblade is one of my favorites games though. But there used to be dozens upon dozens of GREAT games every year. Nowadays it's 1-3 at best.

[@Yoshismasher22]

@@WhiteWolf126 XB3 got wokified. Too many Twitter/Redditors complained and 3 was forgettable because the devs were trying to be less controversial in their visuals and story. I really like 1 and 2.

[@WhiteWolf126]

@@Yoshismasher22 That's a shame if true. Xenoblade 1 is on my top ten list of best jrpgs of all time for sure. Killer soundtrack.

[@Yoshismasher22]

@@WhiteWolf126 Oh yeah, I always get hyped from “You will know our names”.

[@SammySam7x]

@xid adding they/them unnecessarily sounds woke af.