Play games from 1990-2013. That’s enough to last a lifetime.

The Dana White of retro games

"Modern gaming is a bit of a let down" Huge understatement.

I remember, back in the 90s, dealing with "now loading" screens on disc-based consoles, and thinking, someday in the future, consoles will be so powerful that we will never have to wait to play a game ever again. I was wrong.

As a kid playing the 360, the future felt exciting. Little did I know that future me would rather stick to the 360/ps3 era

I feel this…modern gaming is nothing but a cash grab anymore. They used to actually release complete games that worked properly and didn’t need day one patches or always online requirements to play…really sad in its current state. I mainly play older games myself now, there’s good replay-ability in them. Also, sweet collection behind you!

It's so derivative. All the open-world games now seem to consist of finding a tower or location to reveal the map and the same old collection and small battle activities.

There is no pick up and playability anymore. That’s why I mainly play the old stuff now. I just don’t have the time.

When I start feeling this way I find it best to take a break from gaming until I have the desire to get back into it

I miss the days off just selecting a cartridge and when the system turns on the game starts. PS2 was the last good run, no downloads required. Anymore I find myself playing old gameboy ps1 games.

Well every now and then there will be a great triple a game, I find indie games to house the most creativity in the modern era.

Nice game collection in the background 👌👌

PC gaming really is the way to go. Basically every game you could ever want to play on one system with emulation and easy storage expansion... I've got like 100 games installed, including PS3, PS2 and xBox 360 games, all work pretty well.

I just learned recently you can emulate games on the Xbox series, pretty sick

Im 41. I've been gaming as long as i can remember. More and more, I've been buying and playing older games. Adding them to my collection. I haven't bought many modern games tbh. Last one i picked up was FF7 rebirth. Huge Jrpg fan.

Modern games shouldn't need all these updates or installations, absolutely no need for it. I come from the tape era and even now I will load a game from tape....but thats because it was how I was brought up. I don't mind that. These days there is no excuse for it - install, patches, updates, hard drive size, yadd yadda yadda. It puts me off totally. At this time in my life I just want to put something on and play it. I barely use my PS4, Switch or Xbox One and no desire to buy the latest gen. I am stuck in the past and very happy to be 😊👍🐻

Right there with you. My PS4 single player offline Tintin game arrived last week. Right there, printed on the cover, "internet required". Must be a multiplayer option. Nope. It turns out the game discs were printed before the game was completed and the missing levels have to be downloaded before you can start the game. Who thought that was a good idea? So they knew soon enough to print the instructions onto the game cover but, not soon enough to hold off printing the discs until the game was finished. Crazy.

5:45 I’m kinda the same, I play video games also for the art, the worldbuilding, the visuals as well as the challenge. When you said:”thrill of the chase” it reminded me of delboy from OFAH haha.

Where do i start? Well today i sold my series S. I am also getting to the point myself where im finding it an effort to play. Give me retro anyday of the week. Pick up and play. And i also love that my daughter loves the old mario and sonic games from when i was a child. Takes me right back.

Mordern gaming is soo greedy

Turn on Dev Mode on your Xbox, and turn it into emulation device. Have 100s of great Games ready for you. No storage issues, no updates, just pure fun with good games.

Great collection you have there in the background.

I spent 2 hours trying to get my PS5 connected to the WiFi, it’s been happily connected the the WiFi for two years, But no, it didn’t want to know, it found the WiFi and it even paired with it but it wouldn’t go online. I did eventually get it to connect only to find that I had to sign into all my apps. And the PS Network again 🤷🏻 Around 3 hours wasted. I should have just pushed Mario Kart into my SNES and put a smile on my face 👍

I feel like anybody's experience of modern gaming all depends on your internet speed. For me its not great, probably 10-15 mbps tops. I've noticed I've kind of weaned off of triple AAA game releases due to the large data that usually comes with those games on top of microtransactions ect. Overall, I think as long as you barley touch big titles and more go for smaller development/indie games the modern gaming experience is much better. BTW keep up the great videos man you're killing it brother, much love from the US!

I hear that, my XSX went from being a GTA/RDR2/Forza box to a KZfaq box. Moved to the steam deck and just loaded up all the emulsion roms.

Sounds like burn out to me……if it’s an effort or feels like a chore you need to look to do something else…..I have these downtime moments where it feels nothing is keeping my interest, and then I seem to find a game that completely grabs my attention….although all day benders are much more rare these days….and bought a 4TB external HDD where I have put all my back comp games, although you can’t play XSX games off a HDD (only transfer to free space on the SSD)

GameCube I think is perfect balance, one of the last offline system and with incredible games. Nowadays is perfect for chilling. Everything nowadays is too much… just put the disc and enjoy. 100% no updates no BS

I lasted up to 2016. I didn't see the point of the Xbox One. I loved my 360 and me and the lads still up to 2016 played Black Ops daily. Fast forward to this year, I got an Xbox Series S. Out of maybe 40 people I gamed with regularly online with, maybe 1-2 are occasionally online. Likewise, online games feel lonely. Nobody is really using microphones. There's no real sense of community on consoles unless you want to use Discord but that takes knowing where to go and hanging with people you already have a connection with. I ended up moving over to the Switch because the indie titles there piqued my interest and I feel a better sense of that childhood thrill with the console. Breath of the Wild really did bring back that positive feeling I had for gaming. Now that I got a a 9th gen? I'm just catching up with titles I missed out on from years ago and then I'll probably switch it off and my Game Pass. I think the next move will be back to PC gaming, my PS2, PS1, and Xbox 360.

Great video. I like both retro and new games. I just finished Demons Souls on the PS5 and it was great. I am playing Super Mario World 2 on the Snes.

Hard Target is absolute legendary classic, same with Sega Rally Championship on Saturn.

Im 25 and am feeling super burned out with video games nowadays. Grew up mainly on the PS2 and Xbox 360, being able to put in a disc and just unwind. Nowadays I pay 60/70 quid on a game (either on my xbox series x or ps5), throw the disc in to wait a hour for the main install and update to play an obviously unfinished game. Finding myself going back a lot and playing older games and having no complaints.

Multiplayer gaming now it's way to sweaty ! People play like their life depends on it !

Modern games are typically not designed to be fun, they’re designed to make you play as much as possible and spend more and more.

_Hard Target_ - director John Woo’s first Hollywood movie. While his Hong Kong work is still superior, _Hard Target_ still has a lot to like about it.

I feel the exact same some times, over the last say 4-5 years the only new games I get excited about (and preorder) are fighting games like King of Fighters XV, Mortal Kombat 1 or Street Fighter 6. There’s been plenty of times where I’ve decided on a game I want to play but by the time the game has installed and done all the updates I’ve changed my mind and fancy playing something else. Our time is too valuable to be waiting for game installs and then game updates, where the older games (cartridge based) can be played instantly- what a step backwards. Great video and very thought provoking. Have a good weekend dude 🫡

I feel ya brother. I think part of it is we’re getting older, and the new shifty business of gaming turns our stomach. We still remember when games were more pure and fun. I feel bad for the next generation of kids who never got to experience it

Game developers behind HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST have done it completaly right. HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST COMPLETE EDITION IS EXACTLY WHAT GOLDEN- COMPLETE EDITION REALLY MEANS. REPRINTED DISC ALL UPDATES, PATCHES AND DLC BURNING SHORE INCLUDED ON THE DISC WITHOUT HAVING TO CONNECT ONLINE ' PLAYSTATION 5 OFFLINE PLUG AND PLAY. JOY TO SUPPORT THIS " HOPE MORE GAMES developers would do this!

Not many recent games I enjoyed could count on one hand still trying to catch up with games I got years and years ago - great video brother 👍

Gone of got all the consoles and a PC. Since having a baby this year and time being more limited I have decided to go back to the 360 recently. Have not regretted it since. Also nice walking the high street and picking up 10 games for £20 😎 One word for modern gaming these days and the downloads like you said... CBA!

Pretty much stopped gaming now. Will come back for gta 6.

Cod is the worst when it comes to updates. I've spent almost as much time downloading updates than playing the damn game

The online multi-player feature has become a money grab. They sell you a game and then try to sell you all the cool shit later. Whatever happened to just giving us cool shit? Worse thing I see is people who defend it by saying that it helps support the service which is BS. There are games on PS3 that still have online multi-player working. You are giving them money for cosmetics and or buffs while the service still has bugs and cheaters. Make it make sense.

The Gaming Industry has ruined our wonderful hobby, but thank the Gaming God’s for my radical retro collection:-))

Remarkable how many videos of this topic I have seen recently and how many people feel this way and I'm feeling the exact same way too. Modern gaming sux!

I'm 38 with two young kids. My time to play games is very limited. I don't play enough anymore to be competitive in multiplayer games. I don't have time to play single player games for 40+ hours for a single playthrough. Plus my play times are spaced too far apart for me to even remember what I need to do, what buttons I need to press, etc. I may not turn on my Xbox for weeks at a time -- most of the time the system, the game, and even the controller need to be updated. Another thing is that most AAA don't feel different/unique anymore. I grew up cutting my teeth on the NES but I still look back at the first generation of 3D games on the PlayStation with great fondness. Every game, for better or worse, offers such a unique experience. A lot of games just feel tedious anymore -- a never-ending fetch quest that I've done 100 times before but now with a new coat a paint. Edit: Look at the games behind you. Every one of those games feel unique compared to the one next to it. Faery Tale Adventures is legit one of my favorite games on Sega Genesis.

Completley agree id rather go back to the old sonic games loads up in secs 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Whats with all the man babies crying about games not being what they grew up with? Just play indies, get out of your comfort zone, there is literally no better era for gaming than right now.

Same experience with Dirt 4. Fired up Outrun 2 Coast to Coast and was having a blast from the start.

I've abandoned by far the most AAA modern games. I will say that modern gaming is amazing if you look outside of the AAA stuff. There's so many fantastic indie games if you just look for them and many of them don't require powerful pc's. I remember when I first dipped my toes into these smaller games and lamenting the fact I was leaving behind high-fidelity graphics and crazy high production value and scale, but I think it was super worth it and has kept my passion for gaming alive. Some of my favorite smaller games that bring back my love for gaming are: - Orcs Must Die 1-3 (defense shooter) - Deadlink (fast paced sci-fi shooter) - Dusk (Quake style shooter) - Mechabellum (round-based strategy) - Diplomacy Is Not An Option (Castle defense strategy) - Redout (Wipe-out inspired racing game) - Talos Principle 1 & 2 (puzzle games in the style of Portal) None of these games have crazy updates that take any time to download and no micro transactions beyond a few cosmetics in Orcs Must Die and Mechabellum. All of them I think are easy to start playing and have fun with within minutes. I think GTA 5 holds up really well, though I have not played the multiplayer.

Hard target was me and my mates fav film as kids. Well good I had really bad internet until starlink came out and id often finish work and chores and turn on the xbox to see a 2gb update. That would take a couple days. So that would be the end of that, and id sod off to the pub, which i bought the console to cut back from

'' this modern gaming shit is doing my head in'' never related to something as much as that i miss when you put a disc in you would just start playing, now everything is 100gb + needs 12 updates been on my 360 for several months now loving it, also love finding small channels like this

Agree with you mate, modern game is a let down, and good to hear about having time to yourself always important me its usually thursday night haha great video mate 😊😊

I've got a 4tb drive hooked into the Xbox and still space is an issue. It's just pushing the problem forward as you will still hit a point that you want to play something but still don't have the space. It's the installs and updates that do my head in. I don't live in an area with the greatest internet and I think it was Forza horizon 3 took me a week to play after getting it on day one. It would download so slow that when I went to boot it the newer update was out and it started all over again with like 70gb files. I just wish the patches were short and snappy like they were on the 360 again. I didn't have any troubles with dirt 4 difficulty wise, but I have found with some modern racers and just games in general a lot don't allow you the range of control to the difficulty they did a generation ago. For example I love the dirt rally games but they are tough, but the first one doesn't give you much choice in difficulty. It's just play it this way and If your having trouble get better. I dunno where I'm going with this now I've typed too much haha

The old era was definitely more of just load up a game to entertain yourself quickly for a bit before needing to do something else. The new era just wastes all your time. The games are massive and require constant troubleshooting or downloading, and it all takes away so much time. I mean, i'm used to it these days, but I can definitely understand the disaster modern gaming is. Hell, when i was using Xbox 360, i just pop in a disc and get going on it within minutes. No updates, no downloads, no extra strings attached. As a kid, I had an hour or two a day on the game. Those days saved so much time for me. It took a max of 5 minutes to get a game up and playing without being installed. Nowadays, it takes an hour or two of install, and then you get into the game. I downgraded my xbox recently to the One S. I don't do modern games much anymore. I have a PS5 which I will use for modern games when needed tho.

You're an absolute unit man

I'm still playing ps2 in my ps5

I picked up The Suffering on Gog not so long ago, what a enjoyable blast from the past.

Truth. All I play these days is RE4 (2005) and FFXII Zodiac Age, both of which have original releases during the PS2 2005/6 era games.

I've been playing Chrono Trigger for the first time and having a blast.

I'm 48. I love gaming. Gaming doesn't love me.

Great video. 🔥

I've definitely experienced this lull and frustration with modern systems before. Sometimes I'm not sure whether it's modern gaming's fault or just me getting older and being less interested in gaming overall. As a huge fan of the Metal Gear Solid series, I mostly just find myself playing through those games on loop. I'm looking forward to gaming with my son when he gets older, as hopefully it'll respark my passion a bit! P.S. Liking the Sega collection btw!

I bought a *Steam* Deck OLED and I can honestly say it is my favorite console I ever played. I wait for Steam sales and pay about $5 to $10 per game. It's very easy to emulate games for older systems on it as well. It also doubles as my portable PC.

Great video and points mate.

Much respect to a man that understands himself.

oddly i understand how you feel. its not a cool feeling if you dont have enough space on your console and feel like playing a game u havent played inwhile. espcially if its 100GB game. kills the whole thrill.

as someone that was born in the 00s. i fancy the older gen. i love the fact that i can just pop in a disc and play without deleting or updating anything. the xbox 360 and ps2 (my favourite's) was the last of its kind that had that ability. even i in my early 20s don't see anything really interesting about this current gen of consoles. if i want to play something new i'll play it on pc or the ps4.

Top video lad

I’ve always been a AAA gamer until I’d say 2022. The new games recently have underwhelmed. Randomly looked into indies and created wishlists on PS, Switch and Steam and have loved it. Even downloaded games from the last 10 that Ive played and forgot about and they just seem better.

You're a top bloke Rodgy! I hope to crack a few with yah someday and talk about retro gaming. 👍

11:03 I would make the same choice haha. Big GTA fan here. If you want to, I also recommend Red Dead Redemption 2; a wonderful game where you can do almost anything (just like GTA) but in the Wild West era. Another notable mention is the latest Hitman World of Assassination, if you're into stealth / combat games. These are my top picks. I hope you have a great time with GTA 5!

Totally agree with you pal ...my series x is used for youtube only cose when I get time for bit of gaming (not that much cose too busy) i go to 360..ps2 or ps3..my golden era of videogames with wast libraries..enhanced graphics and massive diversity while you still get to throw disc in and play instantly with 95% of your games I do like retro games..and most likely I'll get ps5 eventually..for certain titles and out of curiosity...but i fully understand by now that 6th and 7th gen. Is my definite golden era... .. hoping to retire catching up ... got massive bucket list 😬 ... thank you for the video... couldn't agree more

Personally I am more often than not playing old games I've beaten. Playing stuff I had a blast with. Even though I bought about 11 games this month.

i miss the 5th gen. The saturn/psx/n64 was a golden age.

If you haven't done so already, I recommend playing the following games: *Shogun* 2 Total War *Rome* Total War Half Life 2 Saints Row 3 and 4 Soul Calibur 1, 2, and 6 Team Fortress 2 Dead or Alive 5 Last Round Dragon Ball FighterZ War Hammer 40,000 - Space Marine Guns Gore and Cannoli Power Stone MotorStorm Apocalypse Empire Earth Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection and Tekken Tag 1 Hyrule Warriors 1 Pacer Brutal Doom Battlefield 1 (Anti-Cheat Servers) Return to Castle Wolfenstein Worms Armageddon

I feel exactly the same way about modern games as you do. I miss just flipping a switch and the game is started and on the screen. You can't just sporadically put in a modern game into your system and play, it's like an investment of installing (hopefully having enough hard drive space), downloading patches, and loading screens before you can actually play the game. By the time all that is done, my excitement to play has died down quite a bit. 😫

You got a thumbs up as soon as you said you watched Hard Target 🤩 Modern gaming has its perks and definitely the cons too, such as long install times, the bloody updates and things losing charge. I think if you have the right game to grab you then it’s all good, if not then you can fall out of love very quickly. 😊

Personally I think people just take things for granted these days there are so many brilliant games still being made look at Elden Ring for instance, I am 35 now and began gaming on the NES with my dad when I was 3 all the way back in 1991. PS5 for me is the golden age of console gaming, great price and so many amazing games to enjoy, they even updated most of the PS4 library for free. Finally we have rid ourselves of the 30fps standard that we had on previous generations, games play so much better at 60fps, I am really enjoying the improvements overall and the graphics in some games just blow my mind sometimes, have a Nintendo Switch also which I do like a lot but they really need to make a more powerful system as soon as possible. I know there are issues with live service and predatory practices in gaming these days, things have changed a lot over the years with the introduction of online gaming, was a very different world back in the 90's. With regard to fully enjoying a game I get what you mean, what I like to do is commit to one main story heavy game until it is finished like say Resident Evil 2 or Horizon Zero Dawn for example then have side games like Helldivers 2 or Battlefield

Great upload buddy 👍👍

Modern games: A almost picture perfect guy with a Cape standing at the edge of a mountain looking at a huge open world with a mountain with snow far away

I think we gotta specify we're tired of 'modern corporate gaming norms' like always online, DRM, MTXs, planed obsolesence of discs, tracking etc. Modern indies like Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, and smaller but still known games like Armored Core 6 that are one of many good games releasing now, they shouldnt be buried with other big games that are falling in quality, gotta expand the horizons, was hard for me cause all I want to do is stick to halo 3 and forza 4 lol. I was always on xbox till the one (specifically the X) which was my first buyers remorse. Series has dropped the ball further and for the first time ever I bought a PS console. I could boot it up and play physical games and movies entirely offline, DoesItPlay helped me see which games could be played offline without patches (or not), definitely worth looking into if you buy new physical games. Lots of good still out there, gotta take chances cause you may very well hit gold, dont give up🤟

what a video, straight from the heart. and you're spot on, its too difficult to just jump in and that's half the battle.

I can't relate. I understand why the new games are garbage, but it's a lot better than arcades, or a scratched disc, or a moisture problem on the cartridge... I prefer online purchases. I don't jump around from game to game either. Maybe try buying tons of 1TB hardrives and have all the games already downloaded and ready to go. Sometimes the updates are preshader caches so the game doesn't do shader compilations during gameplay (loading textures, animations, lighting, etc), but those are usually 1 minute updates.

Oh my god, your Mega Drive collection behind is amazing. My childhood right there. I remember my dad getting me a little cash in hand Sunday job working on a market stall that sold video games, belong to someone at his workplace. My first job, must have been around 1993. I was about ten… memories. Good old days. Oh yeah, modern gaming is just crap 😂 Agree, modern gaming requires too much preparation to get started. Just want to plug in and play, once all the installs and updates are done the mood and time is gone and before you know it the evening is gone and gotta get to bed for work in the morning.

Been playing PlayStation 3 games and loving it. For as much time as I have to play and how much I'm willing to pay per game, it's absolutely perfect. Games look reasonably good enough visually that I'm not wanting, gameplay is modern, many "big" franchise games, SSD upgrade makes the system fast and gives me 16x more storage. Really scratching the gaming itch in a way I couldn't with a modern, current generation console.

Great video mate, i feel ya. subscribed

I know the feeling of uninstalling a game just to play another, but then I was forced to buy the western digital memory card, I found one on Amazon usa, for 75 dollars, but it’s a 512 gb memory card. There expensive but saves me the headache of transferring games in and out of the Xbox series x and an ssd drive. Now at least all I do is swap out the memory car and play games on them. It sucks that Xbox series x has priority type memory cards for there system. I sure they did that on purpose to charge a hell of a lot of money for them. And they know eventually your going to cave in and buy those, just like me.

I agree mate the frustration of modern Xbox/PS5 is a nightmare but what I would say is the switch is amazing for not holding you up so I normally play games on that And if that fails I would go back to that awesome collection behind you Great video mate 👍

503 subscribers. Ngl, I saw your thumbnail, your face, and said let's give it a go. Good job, mate, would watch more. 504 subscribers.

It’s a challenge isn’t it. I find that one can’t be spontaneous when playing these modern titles. Need to play ahead for downloads / updates and random errors. Ole skool is so much easier. Can’t remember the last update for gameboy Tetris 😉. Have a top weekend mate.

Old games are the best. I think they always will be. I fear for the future of gaming!

I'm the same way it's just puts me off playing games have been a gamer for decades.

The easy solution for this would be to make the updates optional, just like patches used to be on PC games. Then you could just download the patch manually whenever you felt like it. There's no reason to mandate an update for a single-player game. It doesn't make any sense.

I mean theres still occasional bangers that come out, from indie devs and some big devs. But 5th 6th and 7th gen were my favorites.

i don’t know if you like rpg/survival games, but might i suggest medieval dynasty. i was like you a couple of weeks ago, lost my passion for gaming. it felt like a chore or an obligation when i would try to play something. mind you, i have a library of over 300 games i’ve accumulated through sales and other sorts… and still, i don’t want to play ANY of them. that was until i tried medieval dynasty, now i’m addicted (for better or worse lol) but it’s a chill game with plenty of progression and content in it that you can play at your own leisure. just a suggestion :)

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I agree mate. Being a family man my gaming time is limited (when the kids are in bed) cant spend my free time waiting for updates then have an hour playing 🤦‍♂️ Retro i can load it up and playing within 5 mins.

How odd that this video pops up in my recommended after i've been thinking about this for a good while.. anyway thanks for the vid dude. I agree completely. I feel developers love for gaming just isn't there right now. It's all about $$. Also I don't know if you've played much online gaming with the latest consoles but it's such a toxic environment, don't get me wrong i like to win at games too, but for everyone to play the exact same way just makes online obsolete, it might aswell be against a cpu bot. I recently got my old PS Vita out of the attic after i found out you can jailbreak them (you can play ps1/psp/vita games for free with jailbreaking) with it being handheld it's so easy to just pick up and go. Maybe something to look into if you find it interesting 👍

Went to go play some Assassin's Creed Valhalla got it downloaded off the disk Launched a game just to realize that it needs another 91 gigabytes Just to make the game playable. Now mind you, I don't have to update it. I can play it as it is, but it ain't playable. You're telling me it takes 91 gigabytes to fix a game and make it playable? Crazy