Why We Miss the Old Days (And Why That’s Okay)

[@itsjykee]

Bros videos are like daily affirmations in the morning

[@LostSoulDanGer]

You are literally a friendly voice in the static. You feel like a real old school (Halo)bro and I know you since forever. I just wanted to give some love back because you gave me a pick me up ever so often. Stay authentic. Love you mate #nohomo

[@Testify087]

I remember in middle/highschool skating and listening to Odd Future and Mac Miller without a care in the world playing Reach and Battlefield 3/bbc2. Now Im married and working all day just to get by. Life goes by so fast man

[@Rizzo91]

Can I just say that I absolutely love this channel. I had a really rough morning and listening to this video helped a ton.

[@GGamerGeneralista]

I think that´s also a very important point to make when you say you rather be who you are now than you were then! Sometimes, we romanticize the past so much, we often forget there was a lot of elements that made us mostly unhappy and/or unfulfilled, I prefer to play videogames the way I´m doing it now, because I´m having genuine fun and not because I feel like I had to get addicted to something so I can escape from the hardships that my childhood and teenage years had. Look back to that past without anger or sadness, with damn good nostalgia and seize the moments now. Well said eheh

[@sigdrifahildr2624]

You have made a huge impact on my life as I grow older and raise my son, I sit here and worry why none of the things I loved bring me that feeling anymore. Why I launch my pc and just stare at steam and never want to play anything or worry I'm playing the wrong thing and might have more fun in my limited time on something else. But your videos have been making me understand what's going on thank you truly from the bottom of my heart

[@ForumArcade]

I'm often struck by the realization that the "old days" aren't even really that old. I mean they may be for us as individuals, but most of human technological progress has taken place over the last two centuries. Your grandparents likely interacted with people who were alive before electricity was a public utility. There are people alive today who predate the entire video game industry. So much has happened so quickly. Is it any wonder we feel such loss and desire for the past, in a world which changes so rapidly? Not to mention for the different stages of our lives where our responsibilities may have been fewer, the support from our families and communities greater, when we had fewer failures to burden our memories. It's a funny thing to realize that everyone has these experiences. Everyone who came before us, and everyone who will come after, will feel many of the same things. It's a deeply human shared experience, and you're right; it's okay.

[@Beck0797]

“One who watches the wind will not sow, And the one who looks at the clouds will not reap”. Ecclesiastes 11:4 Thats from one of the books of wisdom in the bible. I love that book! If there’s anything you want or have to do in life, don’t wait for more favourable or easier conditions, or you won’t do it.

[@MIDLES.]

man your videos are like a wash for my brain from all the negativity and bad thoughts i really like your videos style the cozy warm aesthetic its amazing keep going and i appreciate the fact that it is your hobby to make vids it is not your full time job

[@aegisleague4053]

I don't really miss old games. I do miss old friends, though. Covid hit right in the middle of college and it got so difficult to maintain connections. It's tough making new friends as a working adult now.

[@bigt4135]

It gets worse as you get older.

[@seannapier2298]

I miss the old days of gaming where imagination and creativity were at the forefront of developers and publishers goals instead of realism, micro transactions and f2p.

[@DrummerDudeCal]

Sitting on Nightshift and this gets dropped, on fire again with this one dude! Thanks very much 🙏👍

[@Ty-douken]

I'll be the first to admit I'm a complete Nostalgia nut, I own almost every console from my life time & want to play them more than I have (which is some, but not as much as I'd like). That's partly because I know I'll be introducing my kid to them who's soon to be born & I can't wait to see their reactions to some of them. This way I also don't burn myself out on replays & can effectively get a second first time with those games. I got a sneak peek with a friend's kid coming over to check out my game room, as I'd gifted them a switch with some games & they love Pokemon. They ended up playing Pokemon Stadium for almost the entire day until their younger sibling & father started playing my Simpsons Arcade. The pure joy was honestly infectious, especially as someone who plays games regularly, plays with friends online & doesn't get the time that I'd like to go back as often as I'd like to. There's always a chance my kid won't like games which is fine, but I'm nostalgic for more than just games. Give me a super soaker & some Sunny D, then I'm good to go.

[@PaperCoelacanth]

"The good ol' days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems." ~Billy Joel, _Keeping the Faith_

[@bigt4135]

The 80’s were the last great decade

[@levi22es]

Thoughts of Halo switching to Unreal Engine 5 and the rebranding of 343 to Halo Studios?

[@holycrudproductions7996]

did you hyperlink "Unreal Engine 5"?

[@zmerc]

i think i needed this. At a point in my life where i just miss my adolescence dearly. I'm working a job i hate with awful hours, in terrible shape, and i've never been more bitter. But i can't go back and i gotta accept that

[@stpenker]

Thanks for the Monday therapy good sir. I had my first child back in April, which has set everything in this wonderful spiral. With that though I have gone through this shift of nostalgia, change, and growth. Definitely agree with you on just appreciating that we were there and the memories we made. I am sure you have by now, but I have found myself sinking extra hours into Deep Rock Galactic after years of binging mostly PvP experiences. Wow, what a change of pace. Definitely recommend.

[@OstriChicken]

I agree 1000 percent, but there's also a flip side to this. If you see all the endless possibilities to experience the world layed out in front of you and start chasing every opportunity you can get into a state where you're always chasing the next big trip or big adventure. When covid hit and i put a hold on travelling, I learned that I'm just as happy going for a paddle or spending the evening with friends than I am chasing a hike or a fish half way around the world. The pages of life do flip by through, whether or not we write anything in them before the book ends is up to us.

[@6lu5ky86]

You're so much more than a games commentator, thanks for the great talks.

[@elmccor6298]

I love the direction this channel is going lately. Big love and support to you dude! #whocaresifitshomo

[@fragr33f74]

The game that gets me the most nostalgic is Smash Bros. Playing 4 player couch versus was so special, and I always tell myself that one day I'll get a gang of ppl to get together and do the same. The heyday of COD and Battlefield are also like that. Good times.. I'm hoping the Battlefield game led by Vince Zampella delivers a classic.

[@joshfoustcommunity8928]

The classic era is not a trap, it was the pinnacle of gaming, nowadays the gaming industry sucks, and everything in life sucks with war, conflict, and chaos, I wish this generation would end so that we can have another glorious generation, and not only bring the past, but also the future!

[@lilBx554]

Thanks for the free therapy, didn't know I needed it but I loved it.

[@rattlehead999]

It's not just being a kid, things were better in all the places that really mattered, including games.

[@exactly1176]

Couldn't agree more 👍

[@suntannedduck2388]

I don't miss the old days, good game design and changing our opinions on our favourites/those that analyse and I see it or see what I like not face value believe everything they say. What risks of games, what reputation, what trust. I jump between more as the trust isn't there. I research, I see new ones their game design, their audience demographic/intentions, business practices. I can tell by playing and researching games, genres, tropes of a company in their games. I pay a lot of attention to what they do interviews or through their products. Old or new. Rushed or complete. First impressions or not. I still seek if the product turns out well enough or had fair ideas on launch. I determine it myself not emotions. I play or replay them. I don't compare them to modern media much but I play and if awkward I get used to it. Most people go this is too hard. I go suck it up. I know how awkward old games are but it clearly was playable at one point, youg et used to it, find the fun, the tropes, the great even among the bad. Emotional people are idiots and actually good design holds up regardless. I don't care how I feel playing it. If it was good in its design for character movesets to play, visuals were old but still communicated the experience, dialogue was fair enough you experienced a good game didn't you? That simple. Licensed or not, other people's opinions or not. Emotions are an excuse. Actually well communicated to the player design and fun is a good game. I don't care how it made me feel emotionally I care how it felt to play was what the developers wanted to make, how I see it leading people well to things I don't always check ads/trailers or interviews but besides them if it's a good game in aspects it's good. Not old is better and oh nostalgia for it. I don't do nostalgia I do logic and how it actually is designed. Making cases in analysis how it actually turned out, how to get through it's rushed design or awkward now design of a good game do the past but old and different. The right mindset not being emotionally blinded by good game design. I look at all genres, many details and I don't care how old or how takes time to get going I'm still curious. Narrow view people that's fine. Some of us look deeper. Have time to. Want to see what's out there old or new, different mindset. I experience old and new, no emotions, no nostalgia just because it's BETTER, more experimental, less nonsense values and more basic inoffensive game design, money milking or other nonsense. I know the tropes, I see the fresh ideas in old games, or key Indies not those too lazy. Not everyone has a Game and Watch calculator button pressing moment but still. People don't even try to think outside the box. Understand popular AND niche games not a narrow view. Even Indies know this, those that look at games. Nerrel's emulation video is great on this. Many did for metroidvanias but it's not like people don't look at less successful games. But many are too lazy, barely play many and go oh only the popular. I'm sorry but ai get more inspiration from less successful games and want to play them more. Marketing and basic game design appeal or other factors of branding or wants doesn't determine good game design. They didn't have ads appear or magazines, reviews or whatever happens to them at the right time or it weirds people out or whatever circumstances. That's not the company's fault. The Devs fault people aren't onboard with it and it has great ideas and no one cares to look because nonsense social status or what people push as cool or not. What emotions or other things people feel with some games. I don't let my childhood games determine my metric, it changes all the time. I play singleplayer and still feel the disappointment of modern gaming with less modes, more garbage, basic straightforward games. Why would I not prefer better old game design or the good Indies not nostalgic and really full or empty Indies. They may be trying but cloning is not trying it's laziness. Nostalgia successors are not trying the Devs aren't trying, audiences aren't trying and juts overly easy to bait emotionally then make anything new. If just repeating history. Being stupid emotionally or effecting others if Zirl things besides entertainment because people wanted something and act on it or don't and people act like children why would I listen to history repeating idiots with anything. I'd things work sure evut if people are boring, everything else around us is boring and nothing happens that good for it to change sometimes just comfort or less good new ideas, maybe fair bad ideas to not try but you never know. Why would I want repeating things. I don't go oh it was better back then because not all things were. I don't think all 1% of shows that were good reflects a whole decade. Not 1% of games reflects it either. Not all good events reflects a period of time, weeks, months, years, decades, etc.

[@WarFoxThunder]

God i love your videos, man

[@Johnsbrggnfndm]

thank you bbl dragoon

[@SmellMyPeanut]

As a kid we think every game is fun, when we get older we think every multiplayer is awesome, as an adult we refine our taste in genres and narrow down way more what we like. I think that's why game "used to be more fun". They were, but only because we had less standards. At some point we tried alot of genres, alot of games. And now alot of themes are being redone for a different generation and we should look for more niche things we like or pick up old nostalgic games. Lastly: Gaming is so big now and there is more quantity then quality in that regard. We just have to find the right games for us personally =)

[@smallcalfsyndrome06]

im new to your channel ive been watching your 'rant/talk' videos i can relate to alot of them.I enjoy these kinds of videos.Im not too sure if youve talked abt juggling with work and gaming and youtube but if u havent do talk abt it im quite curious.Love your vids

[@vans2548]

Nostalgia reminds us of what has passed, but also how far we have come and will go. In the future, we may look back the same way on the present. And in fact, being nostalgic is good - it means we have experiences worth remembering. Things important to us, that are often foundations of our sense of self. That's why we revisit it fondly. But revisiting it too much can just destroy the memories. In some ways its special because you cant recreate it Instead we gotta let these memories guide us, remind us of what's important, learn from them and inspire us to keep making more memories worth treasuring in our future. Time passes. In the end that's what nostalgia and living in the present are both about, 2 sides of the same coin, facing that emotion. Appreciate the vid as usual, have a good week ahead!

[@jofromcarmax9377]

thank you

[@viciousmonkey1992]

A part of me interprets this Warren Miller quote a little differently. If we'll be only "one year older" when we do it, why stress about doing it now?

[@BBKDRAGOON]

Agreed, I think you can read it that way as well, I think it's less about worrying and more about living

[@viciousmonkey1992]

@@BBKDRAGOON I guess it hits on the finitude of time but also discourages dwelling in that finitude. definitely been connecting with your videos, thanks for sharing!

[@nomadicstrength]

Bro winter is coming times are great 😃

[@exactly1176]

And yet what's actually happening right now is the " old days " of tomorrow 😉 (We tend to forget that). Edit : but EVERYTHING was better in the 90s for a fact (video games and outside of video games) lol.

[@SmellMyPeanut]

You should try playing UFO 50, trust me 😊!

[@vans2548]

It's funny, when you're younger, you tend to think "born in thr wrong generation", then as you get older you start to think "born in the right generation" 😂

[@Jallenbah]

I think that it's less the old games and more how we felt when we played those games at the time, because of the way we played back then. We had so much free time, so we played games without thinking about maximising our time. We were playing for fun only. These days when I play games I have to make a conscious effort to not go overboard in trying to play efficiently or make the most progress. You have to remember that if you have 2 hours of gaming time, the objective is not to be as effective in that game in those 2 hours as possible, it's simply to experience the game for 2 hours. If that means you make absolutely no progress then so be it. Making optimal progress in a game does not equal optimal fun, and if you try and optimise your fun you will end up not having fun at all.

[@SQUID-r87vhh]

I think people think older games are so much better is because of Nostalgia, I’m a newer gamer. My first cod was MW2022, I actually absolutely love the game. I’ve played my fill of the game, I’m ok with how much I played the game, I still pop over and play it from time to time. I saw a video on how much better the games were back then and so it inspired me to buy BO3, and honestly, it wasn’t that great, movement wasn’t great, weapons weren’t great, mastery camos, maps, gun handling. All of it wasn’t as great, now I’m not saying that the gaming situation has gotten better, but I am saying is that I think the reason we think of games/anything else really so fondly is because of Nostalgia. Love your vids btw man, keep it up. Edit:Sorry for the wandering in topics throughout, I have a hard time keeping track of what I say xD

[@JamieJonesanimator]

Nostalgia is great unless you're using it to judge new media, because it will never live up to it. Even if you replay an old game the feelings you had in the past start coming through even if you've convinced yourself they won't. Sorry you just cannot play an old game without that bias there. Those moments in time when you're sitting with your mates, your mum ordered a pizza and you're playing your favorite game or you're playing game boy in the playground on your lunch break. You can never have a similar experience those times are gone. Love them for what they are and meant to you but don't let it get in the way of you enjoying new things.