Remembering Before The Internet
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I also miss the old urban leyends about old games, they still exist but as creepypastas that know no one will belive anyway, so they make them so over the top that they aren't scary.
I remember being scared of “monsters” in GTA SA that my siblings talked about
Lmao mate, they were giga over the top back then aswell.
Dude I still remember getting no sleep after reading about Jeff the Killer lmao
Was was Jeff the killer before the creepypasta version? Was it a pokemon ghost? XD@@LeHarmacist
@@JinYo265 I honestly don’t remember cuz I was wee lad when I first saw it and i think I saw the creepypasta version
That's what I like about the game TUNIC, the game has a built in game manual that is written in runes that can be decoded. You have to collect the pages in the game as you progress, and the manual is the map.
I mean on one hand, there is something to be said about the wonder of exploration and discovery in old gaming before the advent of countless websites breaking down each and every mechanic, sidequest, etc. of a game.
On the other hand, nostalgia lenses can make us forget things, like bullshit playground rumors sending us on wild goose chases for days, or just literally getting stuck and never finishing a game because you couldn’t figure out some minor bullshit in the game, or spending money on strategy guides.
Also people don't realize how much people back in the 90s and 80s already explored every single pixel of a game.
Wolf3D is an example, it had a secret in one of the levels that was meant for a contest, but the secret was found by people while messing with the files before the contest was even announced. No mystique of the past, they just found it in the directories.
Meeting up with your friends each morning was huge, swapping new tips and bringing new questions to each other.
I don't really miss the rumor mill because I wasted a lot of time trying things that were never going to work, like bringing back Aerith in FF7, or trying to find Mew. But I do miss the sense of exploration you get from playing without access to like a fan wiki or whatever. So for most single player games I just choose to play games blind and avoid all walkthroughs/strategy guides/lets plays/etc. It has significantly improved my enjoyment of most games. If I really like a game and I beat it and still want to play it (which is uncommon even for games I really like) then I can go see all the secrets that the community has dug up.
Even with the internet I wasn’t aware of wiki or official guides but I do remember using CZcams to try and figure out how to unlock Luigi in Mario 64 because of the “L is real” thing and wasted time on that.
@@ToonGohan Yeah, earlier on in the Internet there were a lot fewer organized things, and less stuff in general. Plus if you were younger in those days it was a lot harder to find what WAS around. I know that I had a lot of trouble finding stuff that turns out later were really big communities.
Mew under truck broooooo 😤😤😤
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I miss it too and i think that certain games like elden ring are actually damaged because we do have all of these guides showing you where everything is and what not so it becomes difficult to have that joy of discovering without blocking out all social media. That's how it is for me at least.
I was in elementary school, at a book fair. I saw a strategy guide for a Runescape. Read through it and learned about the old guy who was actually a wizard, would send you to a labyrinth if you talk to him wrong. Felt like I learned arcane knowledge as a kid. Fun times.
Was the labyrinth the same as the "Four Horsemen" cave dungeon? Man I loved RuneScape.
I still have the Pokemon Emerald official guide book
When Pokemon Black and White came out I preordered them alongside the official strategy guide. And no online guide since then has come close to how amazing it felt to have that physical book.
I only use guides to help me down a path, and I use a collection list for items.
Anyone who misses days before internet take everything for granted.
Remember back in the day everytime you meet your boys in the school and exchange information of anything
I still have my thick paper back strategy guides for all the final fantasy and kingdom hearts games
Some even came with a big chart with stickers to mark out the treasures that you found
Some times, I think I would love to play a game completely disconnected from the internet and only figure things out communicating with friends (I still had that to an extent with Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, sharing things we discovered over Discord).
Then I remember all the games I couldn't beat when I was a kid before the internet was a thing.
I decided to do that last time I got a brand new game, I just avoided any and all Internet content about it until I had completely finished. It was definitely better that way, so I'm gonna keep doing that with new games.
I challenged myself to finish an NES game called Shadow of the Ninja recently with no online help or tips or save states, and it was incredibly satisfying. It's way too easy to go online for help nowadays.
me and the boys assembling to discuss how to get each power berry in back to nature
one thing i dont miss is the BS rumors, like u can unlock goku in super smash bros 64 by beating the main story with all characters 3 times each on one sitting.
Some players guides were really clever in how they gave you the information. Maps, long descriptions, little tables and checklists. I always really liked the official one for Ocarina of Time for a wide variety of reasons, one of which was that the instructions for going through parts of the story are written as narration. You're not being told "go here and do that;" you're being told "Link went here and did this."
When i started playing majoras mask for the first time about a month ago, i used the official strategy guide. It felt better following that than copying a youtube video
I still remember that guide - the list of heart containers it's the final section and I remember it being the most important section for me because the hearts are fairly difficult in that one ( I'm actually just replaying it right now!)
Games having urban legends that transcend the game itself. People like Zezima from Runescape, or Faker from League of Legends as well. Legends in the making today are much different to how Legends of old built their reputations.
He was 1 years old when pokemon came out. I doubt he was aware of the mew under the truck.
Back in the day most people didn't only play new Releases and then never again. Games had a much longer shelflife.
I think I miss the wonder in games. Nothing is ever too far or difficult when there are 1000 guides at your finger tips and metas dictating what a majority of players will use.
I think the only thing I don't miss about the "playground" rumors is the sadness I'd feel when it turned out to not be true
I still remember getting "Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky Walkthrough Guide" as a birthday present one year and i was ECSTATIC.
Boss stats, Dungeon Secrets, Plot Guides, the WORKS. That book had them all. The artwork was gorgeous too.
I took it practically everywhere I went.All family car trips, short and long, even after I'd practically memorised the book.🤣
Nowadays, I coulr spend 5 minutes looking up that information on my phone and get a bland, straightforward explanation on a wiki site that has plenty of detail, but NONE of the flair and flowery language kf the guide.
Haaaaaahhhhhh.... definitely a lost relic of my childhood.
I didn't have much opportunity to look up guides online as a kid because, well, even if I grew up with the internet, I wasn't very good at it. So either I had to know about stuff, or I heard rumors
Oh Mystery Of Convoy, what the fuck were you?
>_> that level of mystique is still a thing it’s just able to be spread much faster.
I remember buying a thick paper guide from my local game shop for Pokemon Ruby. Both the guide and game were obviously pirated and printed/ported 😂
I miss the game magazines back then that had actual guides, and even then it's not even complete because the gamers that made that guide didn't explore enough.
So while following some guides you stumble a new exploit on your own
The only game I can think of having zero clue what was going on the whole time was BOTW legend of Zelda, because it was so different and I went in completely blind no clue of anything and… it was perfect like that. Having zero clue going into and figuring everything out yourself, that is a million times better than knowing everything due to the internet
Its fun to remember the fun, but easy to forget all the pain in games dropped because stuff couldnt be figured out at all, misinformation messing up the game and information being locked behind magazine sales. I do believe the easy access now makes the game experience at the same time better and worse, its a bit like having access to cheat codes. Knowing they are a few seconds away just takes a moment of weakness and after the initial hype it feels ruined. But at other times its the only savior
Not quite the same point but this is how I feel about Skill Based Match Making in games nowadays. It feels like you always need to be using whats meta just to keep up or else you don't get to play the game. It makes sense in a competitive environment but having it in casuals is just not fun
True. I want to chill and have fun not put like 1000 hours just to play with pressure. Miss the days when games were made with intent to be fun for sales not constant playtime and active players.
Also when there were lot of fun single player games. Now days you have to stay connected or else it locks some of the features in some games. Makes you wish harder for hard copies.
Also I hate how people will judge a single player game withs player count not with its gameplay than gaslight and bully people for liking it just to boost their agenda.
I think if you're going to do a raw matchmaking thing where you hit "start playing" and they find a group of people for you, then skill-based matchmaking is important. But I miss the pre-matchmaking days of old where you would just pick a server and play on it. Sometimes people would be hosting their own servers and they have their own rules and stuff. You could find/make/join little communities of people playing a game and it was totally different than anything with matchmaking.
@@TheJackOfFools Like TF2 pub game or community servers. I miss pubplay.
@@patrickiamonfire965 Exactly! Being able to see the same names and get to know people even if you weren't like making a bunch of IRL friends for the rest of your life it was still cool to kind of have a place that you went. And honestly while there were more corners of those server lists where there were people who were complete jerks, the reality is that those jerks would end up keeping to themselves most of the time because if you had a nice group then everyone would treat that jerk like they were a jerk. That's not to say that I don't appreciate matchmaking I really do like it especially for 1v1 games, but pub servers were just a totally different thing.
I can’t describe why but Joey looks like he’s from the 1980s in this video
Imagining now if FEZ was made during that era 🙃
kinda like minecraft. everything was scary, there were easter eggs, that you'd find and be excited about, in that vast open world. but now mojang just announces the updates
Which episode was this?
Nah ,i don't miss it.
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The amount of time I wasted on that fucking truck....
“Bro you won’t believe this, the main character in metroid is a women”
“Nah bro, that’s B.S. there’s no way.”
“It’s true, it’s revealed at the ending”
It was fun, but I don't miss cable TV and VHS tapes.
A lot of people seem to think the internet suddenly started existing in about 2004.
They're all under 30, the world wide web was already there when they were born.
No? Gigguk is 30+ and joey is also 29 or 30
I think most people realize the internet is older. There’s just a hard distinction btwn dial-up and high-speed access.
Hell, my fam were engineers and we had a 128K ISN RED connection in the 90’s. Netscape Navigator and Usenet weren’t really comparable at all to modern internet.
I’m just glad the new generation never had to experience… RealMedia player.
Yeah, but personal computers didn’t really become a common thing until the 90s, and even then it was mostly adult using them. Kids only started getting on the Internet in the 2000s
The rumours around samus being a female must’ve been crazy for the original nes days.
Bro said 'like' 14 times 💀
Trasnformer
i am from the old days and fuck no
i dont miss this garbage....like fuck no
I dont have money so no
Hallo
The mystique is still in online games
Herobraien
Just don't look stuff up on the game? It's a problem of your own creation, don't make the problems you don't want. That's how I play every souls game for example. Way more fun blind.
What part of the world that the Internet hasn't covered? Did it ruin the level of mystique?
You guys are so old lmao
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Wait, Joey played Mystery of Convoy? That's wild...
Which episode is this?
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