Why The 6th Generation of Gaming Was So Important
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Songs Used:
Bully OST
Show Business - A Tribe Called Quest
It Ain't Hard To Tell - Nas
Wooded Kingdom - Super Mario Odyssey OST
The graphics of this gen were like the sweet spot of graphics. Not ultra-realistic like modern games, not grey like the 7th gen games, and not blocky 240p polygons like the 5th gen. The games of this era were art. This gen had a SOUL that is untouchable.
eh new games are still good even though there is still shit
@@zacharygiles2984hands down the best generation GameCube,ps2,Xbox,psp,ds,
Psp My Fav Out Of Alll these consoles :)
@@Gloryboyquan RDR2, BOTW, ToTK, Elden Ring, Sekiro, Bloodborne, Metal Gear Rising, not to mention that PC became the best option for gaming after that gen, no debate.
i would agree with this comment if u didn't mention the 5th gen graphics lookin like "240p blocky mess" when some games of 6th gen had it's fair share of graphics looking like that as well.
@@zacharygiles2984 brah 6th generation was best generation dont argue ok 👍
The vibe of that era is unmatched
360 era was fire bro 😎 funky Burger King game type beat 🍔 🍔🍔
Horrible description
For nintendo i'd say 7th gen was better for them
Amen
Yeah 😂
7th gen was the last era where video games where video games. Where passion and creativity was the forefront of most game creations. Where games were complete and fun. Where the consumer wasn't taken advantage of at every opportunity. 6th and 7th gen was the best era to be a gamer.
The 7th generation was the last great era in gaming
@@jumpman2326 Really was. 8th gen had some great stuff, for sure, but nowhere nearly as frequently as the 7th.
I would argue the 7th gen perfected everything from the 6th, the 2011-2013 era was pretty shit though. 8th generation consoles are poo poo
@@jumpman2326 beginning of the worst
the disrespect to the wii xbox 360 and ps3
One of the things that I've come to appreciate the most about the 6th generation of gaming is the fact that you got the whole game. No dlc, no day one patches. You popped the disc in and play. On top of all of that, the games were just better in my opinion.
I think about this often. It’s what makes roms easy as well, there is only one possible complete package. Anything after this gets messy with updates, expansions etc
DLC existed but only for 3-5 xbox games. However you could also buy these things as Expansion pack, which usually gave you more value than a DlC.
This was THE pinnacle of gaming!!
I grew up in the 1990’s and 2000’s and I miss this era of gaming so much. You played games having fun with friends you knew. You felt like you belonged to a community. Not only that, but video games were fun and innovative. I still have held on to my games from this generation after all these years and replay them from time to time.
I certainly got more value for the money I paid to purchase a PS2. Kill zone, Def Jam and Proevolution Soccer was unbelievable
Don’t forget the exclusives the PS2 had
I remember I bought Killzone back in the day brand new for only $19.99, was a random game that look interesting so I picked up and was impressed by the gameplay and visuals. I miss the days of not knowing what I'd be picking up and actually enjoying a game without all the unnecessary dlc and patches.
@@Braylon1997 don't forget the absence of micro transactions and cash grab games.
6th gen. The peak of gaming. Back when games had great storytelling along with unique gameplay and when most of them were actually finished.
Is overrated
I often think about the early to mid 2000s PS2, GameCube, XBOX era. The industry was so full of creativity and freedom at the time, and so many classics because of it. Developers were able to take risk back then that resulted in some if the greatest games of all time being made. Def Jam vendetta started out as a crazy idea that two dudes who loved hip hop thought up and that along with its sequel became a classic. Something like that can just never happen again in gaming and it’s so sad man. Biggest thing to me that’s apparent here is that developers used to be run by gamers. Now it’s just run by corporate suits who literally only care about money over quality. I love gaming, but I’m glad to know I’m not the only one getting sick of what it’s becoming. Thank god we got to live through a time where creativity could thrive to give us the best memories and experiences through the games we got back then.
I agree. There are a lot of underrated games I still own from that generation that I kept most of my life. Games like The Suffering, The Thing, Beyond Good and Evil, Ghosthunter, Darkwatch, Time Splitters, Primal, etc. The innovation and the creativity of the 6th gen was unparalleled. And I still remember some really great PC games that came out that still hold up today like Half Life 1,2 and Deus Ex, the developers were firing on all 8 cylinders come the 21st century. Here's what I miss, the movie tie-in games that used to come out especially the Harry Potter ones. And I still miss that music of that decade (nu metal, post-hardcore, indie rock) always paid homage to gaming culture. If it wasn't for the whole gaming/music/movie "grunge horror" of that time a lot of my personal favorite franchises wouldn't still be around today like Resident evil and Silent Hill. Ah the good old days.
I feel like video games aren’t the same anymore I wish games could be as cool as this era again this video was amazing
At least developers are trying. 2023 has given us a lot of great releases: Pizza Tower, Hi-Fi Rush, Resident Evil 4 Remake, Tears of the Kingdom, Street Fighter 6, FF16, and Pikmin 4.
We’ll see what year’s end has in store for us.
Lmao and most of what you listed are unoriginal remakes. Lame. We need originality in games again.
It's less about the quality of new games and more about the culture around gaming. In the 90s-2000s it was subversive, niche and a huge part of the zeitgeist. Everything felt kind of punk rock. Today gaming has become so normalized that the subversive nature has been toned down for more mass appeal and the medium has aged into the mainstream.
Picking up a game, not knowing what the game was going to be like, just going out on a whim just to see if it was going to be enjoyable or not, that's what I miss about this era. Expecting the unexpected and being hyped about a game that defied your expectations.
@@JordanToussaint To me personally it felt more heavy metal. Guitar hero did this all too well, exposed me to bands I never heard of before. But I agree the whole niche-collecting feeling of that era as well the 7th gen kinda lost its flavor along the way, if you know what I'm saying. To me game collecting became a thing in the late 2000s/early 2010s till about 2015 maybe 2016. The nostalgia I get from playing games I collected over the years always brings me back to 6th/7th gen games more so that newer ones so I concur.
Back when gaming was still a small enough industry that studios had freedom to experiment with novel ideas and appeal to niche interests, but with hardware that had advanced to the point where it was starting to catch up with the creative ambitions of developers. It never got better than this.
Even the smaller companies would come out some great underrated games like Ghosthunter, Primal, The Thing, kill.swtich, The Suffering. Even a game like Shadow of The Colossus, the first time I picked it up in 2005 I was like holy sh*t! I can't believe they put this entire game on the ps2.
Can’t get used to this, you know you’re getting old when things you grew up with are becoming “nostalgic.”
Just wait until the things you loved in your early to mid 20s become nostalgic.
@@SuperballsSupervidsOnYT the cycle continues lol
imagine being nostalgic about those npc memes calling it an internet classic XD
@amosamwig8394 things age so quickly nowadays that it only takes a couple years before things are old hat.
When inwas young we used to still enjoy things that were decades old without any nostalgia. Like watching the Lone Ranger and stuff.
Kind of sad that pop culture these days is so disposable.
I was 21 when the GameCube and Xbox and ps2 came out. 19 when the dreamcast came out.
At that point we were just on the cusp of feeling that nostalgia for the NES. Now that nostalgia is for stuff I was in my early 20s when it was current.
@@SuperballsSupervidsOnYT Makes you wish you can go back & play them when they were new & bleeding edge, such a simpler time, lol.
@@SuperballsSupervidsOnYT I hear ya. I was in high school when the ps2 and Xbox came out. Perfect time for gaming. I graduated college pretty much around the time the 360 and ps3 came out, and in the late 2000s/early 2010s is when I started collecting for both gens. Good time to be alive.
PS2 is still my favorite console of all time. I'm so happy i grew up in the 2000s
The 4th to 6th Gen really was the Golden Age. Ever since then, it's felt like a slow and steady roll downhill in quality that's just been picking up speed more and more as time goes on. With the exception of the Indie Market, can safely say you'll still find plenty of quality titles there.
7th Gen with gears of war for exemple was fire too it's more the 8th Gen the first "bad" generation (I'm not using atari 2600 era who was the baddest one)
4th gen the golden era for 2d gaming of which we got two companies trying to compete over who had the best game. 5th gen the era of experimental gaming towards 3d gaming. 6th the golden era for 3d gaming :)
It was also the last era where you could make a AAA game in a fairly short time and without a huge team. Vice City, a masterpiece title, was made by 50 people in a year (sure the tech was there from III but still), which is unheard of today.
So true. A time when gaming companies could have 5-12 games to release each year.
The jump from Vice City to San Andreas was all the more alluring to me. My older brothers (myself included), then about 10 and 11, weren’t allowed to “own” VC, so in came True Crime LA and Simpsons Hit & Run- that was, until my parents gave in with GTA San Andreas. For me, the Mid 2000’s Rockstar trifecta in GTA>>Midnight Club 3>> Bully was my sweet spot and are 3 of my favorite games.
Without the PlayStation 2, I'm pretty sure my gaming tastes wouldn't have been as broad as they are now.
That console's library is GOAT tier.
The last good era of gaming.
And the PS3 and 360
7th was good (last good one) The 6th gen was the last great one.
@@leecroft7311that's fair.
@@leecroft73117th was good, but that's when things started declining.
@@leecroft7311 early 7th gen was great, late 7th gen is when things started to get screwed
just got my old ps2 from storage, the amount of absolute classic games on this console is crazy. modern consoles wished they had the amount of variety and quality of the ps2's catalog, definitely my favorite era of gaming
It bugs me that PS5 doesn't support PS3 and PS2 games
Being born in’02 I caught the tail end of this era but I still loved everything it had to offer
Same here
Missed it entirely since I was born in 08 but it’s still nice to look back
Born in 02… so you loved it at 3-4 years old? Yeah no. You didn’t catch shit
@@RORONINSyou missed out on everything
@@barkley8285 fr
Gah, the PS2 logo’s “booooop”ing noise is a banger.
That sega net commercial. 👌🏿
“Introducing The chocolate starfish and the hot dog flavored water”. Say what you want about fred durst but limp bizkit still goes hard
It was the first time 3d graphics and games worlds really became what we imagined all over the years.
I agree. Ratchet & Clank, Jak & daxter games, Prince of Persia series, those games really honed in on the platforming. Spyro and the Sly Cooper a close second.
Wow, that dreamcast advertising blurred the lines of fantasy and reality quite well. It was like a dream broadcast. A dreamcast.
This the the 3rd video I’ve watched this week about how superior this era was for gaming,and this says a lot about the current state of the industry.
Gaming slowly started dying from 8th gen and on, once they started making micro transactions and unfinished games with promises of dlc. Even Xbox one was doing horribly and was marketed as an all-in-one system, it’s should be about gaming first and foremost
I agree. They started pulling off dlc's and patches come the 7th gen but it still wasn't required to play and enjoy the game, you could still play the base game and get your money's worth. It felt like the 7th gen that part was optional, nowadays it seems like it's almost required just to play the ENTIRE game.
renderware will always have a place in my heart
I do wish you elaborated a bit more on what Nintendo was doing during this era. I'd argue that this was one of their most creative and experimental eras which have also had massive influences on the gaming industry to this day, and it feels incomplete to leave them out.
Otherwise I really enjoyed this video, I've been talking about how important the 6th generation of gaming has been for years and I'm glad to see those sentiments shared.
The beginning with the Bully theme (the most Underrated game of the entire 6th Gen)
*MASTERPIECE*
Great video man glad I came across your channel always looking for new vids regarding that era. Nostalgia at its finest
yet another banger video, good job! i grew up playing ps2 era games (and still play many today) so its neat to hear how that era impacted modern games 😁💪
I hate to sound pessimistic, but I don't think we will ever see a video game generation that good ever again. Most of the games on my top 20 of all time list are from the 6th generation. It still blows my mind that all of these great games came out in the same gen:
Resident Evil 4
Metal Gear Solid 2&3
Metroid Prime
Ninja Gaiden Black
Devil May Cry 1&3
Half Life 2
Halo 1&2
Silent Hill 2 & 3 & 4
Resident Evil 1 Remake
Forbidden Siren 2
Shadow of the Colossus
Final Fantasy X
Kingdom Hearts 1&2
Gta 3 & San Andreas & Vice City
Super Smash Melee
Wind Waker
Morrowind
Deus Ex
Knights of the Old republic
Tekken 4 & 5 & Tag Tournament
Soul Calibur 2&3
Dynasty Warriors 3 & 4 & 5
God of War 1&2
God Hand
Okami
Viewtiful Joe
Shenmue 1&2
Hitman Blood Money
Bully
Midnight Club
And many more! I believe video games have already peaked to be honest.
I agree 100 percent video games have already peaked the proof is in the remakes, remasters, reboots, just look at all the top games in the last few years the majority of them have been remakes. IMO the 2000's was the best decade of gaming and it's not just nostalgia talking so many games still hold up from that era.
When games came complete on the disc, major AAA developers/publishers took risk and made diverse games, and online play was still in its infancy.
Dang man you promised the next one wouldn't take 4 months.... Subbed hope for more content!!
God I miss those commercials. Advertising just had an earnest way about them.
Edit: PS CZcams is recommending this video on peoples home page
this era makes me old.
Nah the era doesn't make you old. It's your age that does that
This is great to remember and relax to. Thanks for putting this all together. Super chill.
good use of the nas instrumental i subbed for that alone! retro gaming and golden era rap go together too well
The fact that Jet Set Radio Future opened this video… I am so happy right now!
Man you had me at the It ain't hard to tell instrumental and referencing Chad Warden. Great video man keep it up!!
This was a really good watch! The advertisements where something else back then! Also nice to see an image of Medal of honor Frontline when you talked about your favorite games of the generation, a banger shooter!
Nice use of the It Ain’t Hard to Tell instrumental, great video man. 💪🏾
Good video, you earned a subscriber 👍 keep up the good work ❤️
no idea why youtube is marking this video under gta 5, i didn't even use any footage from that game lmao
I'll always remember those days fondly. Playing Jet Set Radio Future as a kid. I eventually managed to buy another copy so I could 100% that game on my Xbox 360. I don't know if it's the best, but it's one of my favorites. Also, now that you mention those stupid filters in the 7th, I finally know the reason why I had to turn my TV brightness all the way up so I could see anything on the screen. Even though the 7th generation has better specs, I feel that the 6th has more vibrant colors when it needs and that really helps to set the tone better. When the games are dark though, they're not impossible to see.
Man I love gaming videos from the late 90s to mid 2000s 🙏🏻😂
6th gen, particularly PS2, was like the wild west of gaming, with so many and diverse mid-budget games rising and failing. You no longer see that these days.
Big respect for putting in "Nas - It ain't hard to tell" instrumental. I have my own version where I rap to it on my channel but that was like 15 years ago:) Great video - you forgot to mention Midnight Club 1 & especially 2 from Rockstar, unforgettable.
6th gen was peak gaming, at least during the 3D era. Those that prefer 2D I guess would pick the 4th gen (SNES/Genesis).
I started gaming on the 5th gen and the jump to the 6th was incredible at the time, it felt like the limitations for 3D gaming were off and devs finally unleash the true potential.
The 7th gen was still good but signs of decline were already there, like there was less creativity and game genres just dying off entirely for not being profitable enough along with creeping monetization. Also the jump to HD wasn't as impressive since it didn't innovate much other than cleaning up the image quality.
There is the GBA for the 6th gen. Great for 2D games, but since it was a handheld, it gets forgotten about. Sure, the ports aren't the definitive editions, but it lots of great titles.
5th gen should have been a 2d generation, except the N64. Both the Saturn and Playstation were sprite pushing monsters. Especially Saturn with the RAM expansion.
When you mentioned Tony Hawk’s Underground being your most favorite game of all time I felt like I wanted to cry tears of joy lol. I think it’s the most underrated game of all time.
unreal video, i'm 29 and grew up on the 6th gen
Wholeheartedly agree, this gen of consoles was revolutionary. I’ve sunk countless hours into this gen, particularly on the PS2 and Dreamcast, although I was fortunate enough to own all of them while they were still relevant eventually. They all added a little something has has become foundational in the industry to this day.
One thing I like about this generation is how varied the games are. In the 5th generation everything was a collectothon platformer, in the 7th generation everything was a first person shooter, and now everything is an open world RPG. I don't really get that feeling with the 6th generation though, it's best and most influential games are much more diverse
This was the Era that gaming became seen as something that wasn't just for kids.
6:58 Same here man. THUG is a classic
This was one of the last gens when developers actually added things to the games because fuck it, it sounds fun. Starting from the next generation, things started to get formulaic and much more guided by what was trendy.
The generation that brought me into gaming!
You know the video's gonna be lit when the Caucasian with the Cowboy Bebop profile picture starts talking about the early 2000's.
Yeah, I'm very biased since I grew up during this generation, but I think gens 6 and 7 were the peak of videogames. The thing that I think has lead to the decline of the industry was incorporating online connectivity though, which initially was fantastic, but has lead to 2 of the most toxic practices in gaming to become the norm, those practices being the live service game, and the broken release that is fixed much later. Both of these kinds of games were not possible until internet connections were normalized for console and the internet has basically just given devs free range to cut corners and sell the laziest "DLC" and microtransactions imaginable.
the nas instrumental threw me off dawg, amazing video 10/10
Man this video really speaks to my soul. This is EXACTLY how I feel about the 6th Gen of gaming.
These were the games I played as a kid. Man what a time! This is when you played games because they were actually fun. The next generation was fantastic but it was the beginning of the end. This generation was the last purely fun one
Goddamn it's so rare to come across a video essay that uses my era music and media to make me miss it more. Liked and subbed fam 🫡
Loving the Nas in the background
This video is good af my dude
You should make more like it.
banger video, great music choices too
Great vid dude
What was the background music played in the last 2 minutes of the video? It's familiar
6th gen is the golden era of gaming I would give anything to revive it
Games from this generation were modern enough to hvae cool graphics and decent physics but old enough to not have microtransactions and need one year after release to get fixed.
6th generation gaming is something i’ll forever love. many games were made with creativity, love, and soul. now games are just pay to win or copy and paste
Hey mate! Love the soundtrack of your vids. Where do you get the instrumental (no lyric) versions of the songs?
Best Gen of Gaming
This video is "way much more better" than any other I watched today.
This was probably my favourite gen. Back when games were created to be as great as could be from day one
Excellent video
Glad I was young enough for the 5th generation leading into the 6th was such a time to be a gamer
Holy crap, please someone tell me what game the background music is from at 1:09? Is it conkers bad fur day?
I wished to have experienced it, I was born in the era (2002) but when I got old enough to remember something it has passed already, my first console was a Xbox 360 in 2013
Outside of Nintendo I feel like a lot of modern games forgot how to have FUN
That’s why everyone should just buy the OG consoles with the OG games. Screw ports and emulation and all that crap. These games need to be played the way they were meant to be played.
Ssx 3 and bully still in rotation
Still epic AF to hear the PS2 turn on sound and boot up GTA or Scarface and truecrime New York 🔥🔥🔥
The bully music hits
My favourite generation for couple reasons:
1.The 3d tech has already matured (like 2d with Genesis/Snes/TG16), and it still looks good, especialy considering that now when we're used to realistic graphics, it's easier to enjoy good artstyle.
2. Games were cheaper to make, so there were more games, and they could adress a certain niche without ruining profits, and AA games were a thing.
3. Diversity of games, closely related to previous point about costs, but also there was more unique perpectives on basic game mechanics and control schemes, which resulted in games that not only told a different story but had different gameplay.
4. Finished games at launch. Yeah bugs were a thing, and some games run horribly, but most of the time the game at launch was 100% playable.
5. and also the games themselfs, it is my favourite period in racing and shooters (actually shooters are a tie with current market because of indie developers), also amazing period for platformers, xtreme sports games, jrpg, hack 'n slash and so on.
Memory unlocked with that brute force reference my god 6:10
I miss the feeling and excitement of playing video games compared to now
By far my favorite gaming gen, don’t think it will ever be topped
back when games had depth
I can mostly speak about PC gaming in that era because I never had a console, and the 6th gen was a time when most companies didn't really care about PC unless they were a PC focused company, the likes of Valve, Blizzard, Bethesda, BioWare and Epic at the time. And these companies were releasing groundbreaking games at those times for PC. On the PC side, that was the era when MMO's were at their best, RPG's were at their best, strategy games were at their best.
Most companies still don't care about PC 😂 if they do show some love it's months after a game was released for consoles and then they deliver a terrible port to PC
Nice video, dude.
I grew up gaming in the 90s. There was a lot of innovation back then and you actually had more attempts at consoles by Philips, Atari etc. But yes, I agree that this era was the best era in gaming. Not only because the games itself, but you still had 3-4 gaming magazines & also you had tv shows dedicated to gaming back then. TechTv was a great network. I think gaming simply peaked back then... Technology improved vastly and many Gen Xers were still in the gaming industry. I think one of the biggest problems with the industry now is you have to many millennials and Gen Zers making games. Gen Xers were the perfect mix of Pride in their work, work ethic and imagination and innovation.
I know what you mean, but I don't think the younger generation is exactly the problem, but more of the circumstances of the current situation. AAA Games are more expensive to make today and it seems like the strict deadlines to make said games are starting to make the cracks show. Deadlines were also strict back in the day (many of the 6th Gen had crunch development) but since games at the time were simpler, it was much more manageable to get an acceptable result. Sequels back in the day also were more iterative from the last game release so they came out faster (usually the fastest was 1 year apart but there were other games that were 2 years apart...check out the GTA 3 era games).
Even then, there were still released games that suffered from the sped up development cycles (which I imagine are not only exclusive to 6th gen).
On the GameCube, games such as Super Mario Sunshine and The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker had some major content cuts in order to be able to release on schedule. It's a miracle they still ended up as good as they were; game development is hard!
@@ConcavePgons Everything you said is plausible. Games are more complex than they use to be. Which is why in every generation we see smaller and smaller game libraries and less and less Indy developers. The 6th gen is when many of those smaller developers got absorbed. I was watching a documentary on Spyro the Dragon and that game was basically created in a garage 😂. Good luck buying a development kit and developing a game in your garage on this technology. You could literally have a main group of 10-12 man crew and develope a game back in the 5th gen.
Song name from the last part???
What I liked about this era was that while yes, we had many great games. We also weren’t glued to the screen as kids and would actually go outside and ride bikes with friends. Kids these days are glued to a screen 24/7.
I play my PS2 to this day, (mainly because I missed out on the PS2 as a whole and found one at a flea market, modded it and have everything at my fingertips back in 2020.) Games were just fun back then...nowadays gaming is like another job, they focus on hyper-realistic graphics but the games are too long and NOT fun.
My room still looks like that
great video
The 5th generation of gaming revolutionised 3D gaming. The 6th Gen revolutionised video game franchises. The 7th Gen revolutionised video game consoles. Each brought something new to the table, but it's thanks to the 6th Gen that we have Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter, Halo, Sly Cooper, God of War, Shadow of the Colossus, Fable, Forza, and Knights of the Old Republic
our culture peaks creatively between the 6th and 7th console generation. Everything afterwards is the afterbirth of what came before/was set into motion earlier. I.e Rockstar w GTA, Blizzard milking WoW/Overwatch/Old Ips, Value not making any new games just acquiring mods of pre-existing ones.
U deserve more subs bruv
Gran Turismo, snake eater, final fantasy, silent hill, forbidden siren, tekken 4, vice city, SOCOM, too many to list. PS2 is king.