10 Video Games That Were Ahead Of Their Time
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- As is the case in every creative industry, sometimes it pays to do things before they are cool. Bucking trends, pushing boundaries and earning millions, the likes of Tomb Raider and Animal Crossing could definitely be described as games that were ahead of their time. In fact, here are ten of them!
VO: Peter Austin (@ThatPeterAustin)
Script: Tyler Bramley (@TylerBramley3)
Video Editor: Liam Carroll (IG: filmcamerafella)
#HarvestMoon #AnimalCrossing #TombRaider
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Panzer Dragoon Saga was incredibly ahead of its time for the JRPG genre. Full voice acting, fully 3D, an ATB battle system that had real time elements and being able change from day to night.
I love that game!
"Elite" should be number one on this list. It was the very first 'open world' game, and was so far ahead of anything else at the time that it made other games look like what current gen games would make Atari 2600 games look like.
Also a personal shout-out goes to "Dungeon Master" on the Atari ST. It is the Grandaddy of first person RPG's.
Donkey Kong Country was absolutely mind-blowing when it came out, it’s still one of my all-time favorites. The graphics, music and gameplay were like nothing I’d ever experienced on a console before.
It’s a classic
I totally believe that you found it mindblowing. There were definitely more 'advanced' or 'impressive' games though around that time.
The PS1 (and N64) was a teething period for polygon based games, especially in hindsight. DKC was kind of the zenith of 2 platforming. With the thrill of experiencing polygons at home for the first time near forgotten, I think the whole package of DKC is now the more impressive out of the contemporary releases of the time.
For consoles especially the 16 bit snes yes it's leaps and bounds ahead of their time. But compared to PC games not even close doom 1 and 2 had come out before it even system shock 1 which was a technical marvel at the time with good voice acting and mind blowing graphics for the time had come out then. Don't get me wrong I love dk country especially the 1 and 2 the new ones are great too but they were only ahead of their time compared to the other 16 bit consoles and early ps games like Rayman which is Impressive that it could beat thev 32 bit systems for a short time.
@@joeywalker2061 DK country is more visually impressive and satisfying than Doom on the PC, especially in retrospect. It's 'only' a 2D platformer, but it's the high-water mark of the genre ; it's acheives what it sets out to do and masters it's aesthetic. Early 3D fps shooters are more ambitious games, but rather fugly in comparison.
I think Sim City and The Sims were also really ahead of their time! The building, the "Play as God" style and the life simulator are great concepts and very addicting games and I think all city-buiding and life simulators should thank Maxis for those incredible games
One of System Shock's innovations that I think still hasn't been matched elsewhere was its unique difficulty system. It broke down gameplay into four subsets - combat, puzzles, mission and the cyberspace sections - and gave each its own range of difficulty settings. Don't like puzzles? Drop it to 0 and every security panel or wiring puzzle solves itself in one click. Love puzzles? Whack it up to max and they'll become real headscratchers.
Even the game's main story worked this way, with higher settings adding additional objectives and the highest giving the game a hard cap time limit of 7 hours.
The only downside was that you had to set the levels at the start of the game. Once you were into the story, the only way to change the difficulty levels was to start from scratch.
I deeply need more games to do this. I hate puzzles.
Yeah i can't think of anything that did that befoee system shock.
Crazy to think donkey Kong country came out the same y.year
Reminds me slightly of State of Decay 2 - in a later update they added difficulty sliders that can be independently adjusted for enemies, loot scarcity, and community/base management
Never stop using that music during the countdown, I love it!
The pinnacle of CZcams content creation.
They always have great background music for their videos.
Looking for name of background music
I agree the music is nice seeming. But I think in a way for me) it’s mildly stress inducing. Maybe it’s the musician in me, or simply just me. But I do find myself getting stressed by it and not understanding why. I do agree it’s pleasant sounding though, so what I’m saying is sort of contrary.
@Luis Collado I appreciate you for reaching out, but doesn't sound like the background music from this video. Been looking for awhile now lol
Just played Tresspasser again in 2020. Had it modded. It's great with mods and looks amazing. Though obviously it still shows its age with the models. Still though.... hearing a T-Rex stomping behind you as you scramble for shelter still scares the crap out of me. Oh and walking into a room and a Velociraptor just sitting there looking at you.
Strife would be a good entry as it's the first FPS/RPG hybrid. You raise stats, you talk to NPCs and have dialogue options, you have towns, you make important story decisions.
I'd argue it's not a 'role playing' game, though it includes a few elements that were common in Dungeon crawlers of the time. Most western dungeon crawlers or 'WRPGs' (Most of which I don't consider rpgs.) since the early 80s had been first person up until that point anyway and Dungeon crawlers since the late 80s had been experimenting with real time elements. It wasn't the first of them to be first person, be real time and include firearms either.
@@7dayspking Your overly-strict and idiosyncratic idea of what constitutes an "RPG" is not as impressive as you seem to think it is, nor is your hair-splitting and pedantry.
@@yourgameisstupid Is it pedantic to say a game from the late 90s wasn't the first 'FPS RPG' when there'd been FPS dungeon crawlers coming out for 10 years by that point and first person dungeon crawlers for 20 and when it isn't even an RPG?
@@7dayspking Again, no one cares about your idiosyncratic definition of RPG. There is no insight to be gained whatsoever by pimping your own definition of RPG that no one else accepts.
And no, games like Ultima Underworld for instance aren't even shooters and no one would classify them as an FPS unless they were trying to make some inane point.
Goldeneye 64 and Dark Souls (one of the most important games in modern history)
I'd say the first Legend of Zelda should be on this list, though heavily inspired by Adventure on Atari 2600, it was so innovative it basically became the blueprint for adventure and open world games to come
I feel lucky to have experienced Shenmue contemporaneously with it's release. It was mind blowing at the time. And, frankly, so was the Dreamcast in general
Dreamcast was so far ahead. I heard that's how Xbox had such a killer launch console, bc they just hot rodded the dreamcast into a stronger multimedia machine.
Amen! I got Shenmue for Christmas in 2000, and I was utterly blown away by it. I still play it from time to time, and for me at least, it still holds up. Even all these years later, there's still something magical about it.
I was thinking the same thing when it popped up on the list. The Dreamcast really was a special moment in gaming. I still miss playing PSO back in the day with my friends.
@@ItsMeBarnaby so what was the Dreamcast release date? Only one I remember was COD bo2 I think it was? 10.11.12 lmao hard to forget. This years COD actually drops on 01.11.23 which is another easy one lol
An unexpected Japanese Simon Miller appeared! Great video as always boys OR GIRLS!!
One game that was way ahead of its time in terms of unique features that still aren't done today is the original Perfect Dark (2000). Here are some of the main things it did that no or few other FPSs have done since: unique secondary functions, MP bots with custom difficulty levels *and* behavior, AI commands including objective-based ones in MP, unlockable cheats that can drastically change how the game feels/plays, co-op with a human or AI ally, counter-op where a second player plays as one enemy at a time, objectives that require thought and exploration (not just "go to the nav point and press the action button," "kill everyone," or "fight off waves of enemies"), an explorable hub area that has things added as you progress through the game, always having full control over your character (no forced tutorials, slow walking, forced turret or on-rails sections, QTEs, unskippable/interactive cutscenes, etc.), highly satisfying and fair mission enemy AI that has varied reactions and reacts to being shot, the ability to disarm most targets, tons of unlockables that aren't limited to MP, manual gadget use with occasional opportunities to be creative (such as distracting a guard with a floating camera or using x-ray glasses to shoot enemies behind doors with a piercing weapon), the ability to keep playing a mission if you fail an objective (for fun/practice; progress doesn't count), cutscenes that are not only skippable but can strategically be skipped at certain times since enemies move while they play, a cutscene viewer that lets you view all cutscenes individually or in a row like a movie, weapons unlocking across modes regardless of where you first encounter them, so many MP options that there are different menu options depending on how many you want and an option to save and load setups, challenges as even more content with unlocks for beating certain numbers of them, preset and custom MP weapon sets for pickups with challenges and presets having their own sets on top of those, hit detection that's so good that you can shoot dropped mines/grenades and rockets mid-flight, rotating 3D gun models and two different descriptions of each gun (most games don't have in-game weapon descriptions, and some don't even let you see the name of your current gun at will), the ability to shoot out individual lights, etc.
I remember sinking in hundreds of hours on the multiplayer modes with bots and having a absolute blast! It's an experience I don't think will ever be created again, and it sucks because it was so much fun. Definitely waaay ahead of it's time, and still is in my opinion
Awesome video guys I genuinely enjoy the content
13:00 I REALLY want to see a "What ____ means to Simon Miller" guest video.
I would have to say Chrono Trigger for its use of new game plus and multiple endings on the SNES. Still amazes me to this day
One's a small feature and the other was by no means 'advanced' in Chrono trigger in the mid 90s! There were other games in the 90s with actual branching stories, numerous paths that stretched the length of the game (instead of being instant game overs that cut the game short.) and that tallied player's actions or decisions throughout the game and chose one of a number of endings at the game's actual end.
It's not like Chrono trigger was highly influential in or started any sort of trend of games with 'multiple endings'.
Kind of surprised Ninja Gaiden (NES) wasn't on the list with it's implementation of cut scenes and story.
A back to the future reference? Could it be? An actual Film Ben or Peter have watched?!?!
Despite Tomb Raider not aging THAT well, I am so glad it was ahead of its time.
Elite for the BBC Micro.
Showing my age as a gamer but it was mind blowing back in 1984 and would definitely make my top 10 favourite games ever
Vette by Spectrum Holobyte for PC should be on a sequel list to this one. 3D open-world racing in San Francisco with an online peer-to-peer multiplayer option and it came out in 1989. Like a whole decade before Microsoft's Midtown Madness did much of the same thing.
Metal Gear Solid was definitely before it’s time , I’m mad it wasn’t mentioned, the fact you had to unplugged your controller and plug it into the second slot to fight psycho mantis
Donkey Kong country looks so good on snes but pixelated on switch.
Resident Evil 4, Muramasa the Demon Blade, and Nier Automata are a few that come to my mind.
easy to forget DKC was released around the same time as the PS1. didn't get my PS1 till xmas of the following year after playing both it and DKQ as well as Earthworm Jim. Although the polygon models in games like Tekken looked rather goofy, the pre-rendered cutscenes that the CD based systems allowed were still jaw dropping,
I love this channel! My only thing is, and it took me a while to realize this, is that maybe that music you play while talking is mildly stress inducing. Lol I know it’s not meant to be, and it’s probably just me. I think it’s similar to John Murphy stuff.
I'm surprised you mentioned quick time events on Shenmue. Ignoring that Dynamite Deka (or Die Hard as it was called in the States, since Sega had the license so they literally just slapped it on the game) which had it prior, I'd say something like Dragon's Lair actually kicked it off. I mean, the game is nothing but that. Plus, it was on a disk, so even if you hated the QTE, you still wanted to play it to see how events would play out. Considering the story was nothing more than just a knight saving the princess, that must've been high praise for the developer.
Also, we'd be remiss not to mention Winback or Kill.Switch for doing cover-based 3rd person shooters. Winback did it a decade (and Kill.Switch half of one) before Gears of War would come along and do it justice and kick the trend into popularity.
I still have my original copy of Eternal Darkness. What a treasure, that game was.
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One funny tidbit about DKC is that it was Nintendo's answer to the Genesis Aladdin. And the DKC trilogy series sealed Sega's fate in the final days of the Console Wars.
There's no wrong time to play a game for the first time but i feel pretty fortunate to have played most of these back when they were new and you could really appreciate the strides they were making in the medium.
Btw your subtle video plugs are the smoothest plugs that exist on the internet. They're appealing but not shoehorned in. Good stuff. Makes me wanna go find the video
What is that background music!? Its so good!
This channel is filling the void that Whatculture left when it decided to suck
No Baldur’s Gate, Wasteland, or Maniac Mansion? Thinking you need to expand your horizons.
Love baldurs gate. Bought a ps2 recently just for that game. Lockdown was a blast
Cool list. Kind of surprised that Doom isn’t on it.
Harvest Moon 64 was my favorite game growing up, until a wonderful life came out.
Never played the original System Shock but did really love System Shock 2
no seiken densetsu 3?
the first rpg game that not only had multiple chars to choose from, multiple storys and endings, (semi) open world after certain point of the game and a deep lore
additionally being able to find the other chars in the world at some point (if u didnt take them as party members)
But none of those things are true, it wasn't the first game to do any of those things. I'm also adamantly arguing it's not a role playing game. By the mid 90s it wasn't even the first JRPG (which I don't consider RPGs.) to do that and not the first RPG to have those features.
Oh yeah, here we go, Back To The Future time!
Tomb Raider! FTW. so ahead of its time, and such a good series of games that hold up well.
Angry Birds totally ripped off Storm The Castle, so it does not deserve a mention on this list.
I thought it was called Crush The Castle.... assume you're referring to that flash game that used to be on Kongregate.....
For whatever reason maybe just cuz I was so young at the time I didn't even think about how amazing the graphics really wore for the time on Donkey Kong country. Looking back at it now I realize that wow I really did witness a massive evolution in graphic design within video games
I always feel Perfect Dark on the N64 doesnt get enough credit. The multiplayer options and weapon designs were awesome for its time
I said that PD was way better than Goldeneye and someone legitimately said PD is trash.
Think he was butthurt tbh.
@@Gamesta100 Probably some kid or PS fanboy that never played it. PD was great if you played it when it was released but like a lot of N64 games probably hasnt aged well but I wish more modern FPS games had as many options for multiplayer as PD had. The fact you could have sim AI players of different difficulty levels and strategies on your team and give them orders was so cool for the time
@@Gamesta100
PD was in every respect better than Goldeneye, better graphics, had a storyline of sorts, reload animations, more diverse multiplayer etc. However I played the heck out of Goldeneye because it was first and the music made it charming. Having said that I only played one run through of my OG PAL copy before a friend swapped me his US NTSC copy with a converter for it because he had young kids and he was worried about them breaking it and the console. The NTSC version was night and day for me and I 100%ed the game multiple times, I would do the whole game with just a sniper rifle or a single PPK for a challenge. I even taught a non-gamer friend to beat it so he could impress[cough embarrass cough] his nephews. Fun fact: It was Goldeneye that offered twin analogue control first, you could hook 2 controllers up and use one in each hand.
I remember having hundreds of hours of fun in the multiplayer missions alone, and that's something I have yet to see replicated in any other game to this day. I miss being able to play multiplayer modes with bots for practice, and Perfect Dark took it too an incredibly extreme level of volume with the amount of achievements you could do. Definitely an underrated game that's still ahead of it's time
@@the-engneer The amount of match options from the multiplayer simulants was amazing. You could select difficulty level, fighting styles and give them all orders throughout the matches. How have we not seen this more in todays FPS games
Love to see Shenmue getting a mention on anything!
A lot more games should be on this list. Angry Birds being here make me laugh.
another great video pals
I just happened to watch this while I'm replaying Tomb Raider Anniversay
Triple jump is the CZcams channel ahead of its time
Love that catchphrase let's look at some
And ironically not many can run Crysis Remastered maxed out. At least this time my PC happened to be all new parts so I maxed it out. So glorious! Also glad the "Can it run Crysis" thing died. It came back briefly when the remaster came out then went away just as quick.
Chrono Trigger deserves a mention. Open world, optional stuff, multiple endings.
How about every game based on the Aliens movies ranked...I’ve had a few in my time...plus the 80’s arcade machine was awesome...
Terminator for DOS was ahead of it's time too, from 1990. You played as either Kyle Reese to protect Sarah or as the Terminator to Kill her. You ran around a huge 3D L.A. and had to steal cars, run from the police, rob shops or buy from them, go to hospitals and banks. Kill people to get the cops after you, killing them to survive. Cars had manual gears and others had automatic. Also Hunter on DOS from around the same time was also a huge open world where you took on missions and drove vehicles.
Vette! from the same time also was a fully 3D open world racer, set in a huge San Francisco, You took any route you wanted to the finish line....if you ever decide to do the races. You ran over people, totalled your car, got fines, upgrade the car.
Eternal Dark: “One of the most unique games, ever - takes place over 2,000 years and has 12 characters that are somehow linked”
Assasin’s Creed: …😮
I definitely wouldn't blame animal crossing for that sort of game mechanic, Chinese browser games like farmville were far more influential on how modern mobile phone gaming works. They were literally designed with the objective of being addictive.
9:57
"1996's Resident Evil"
*shows clips of RE2 from 1998*
When I saw dk Country first running on the snes I thought the snes was 32bit
One of the best games on the snes
Jumping Flash let you triple jump!
I reflect on the first Phantasy Star game released for the Sega Master System and how ahead of its time that it was. Now not seeing it on this list not even being mentioned is a bit disheartening.
Yes! I actually just recently got into the series and I am continually mind blown on how ahead of it's time it was, an still is. Phantasy Star definitely deserves more recognition and I would love to see a new one made properly
@@the-engneer Well Sega did remake the first Phantasy Star game on the Dreamcast. Remade and updated with better graphics. The catch is that it never left Japan.
4:26 I didn't know Stu from the Hangover films advertised the PlayStation 1 😳
I totally thought that was Ed Helms too.
Splinter Cell ( O.G. XBOX).
GTA5 made it through 3 generations of consoles!
Mortal Kombat.
Def Jam Fight for New York!
ESPN Football 2k5!
Killer Instinct (Snes.)
XBOX Kinnect.
5:10 Rayman says hi.
You guys should do a list ranking every character in Mario games
I can't decide which one I like more.
Nicely nicely sugar and spicely
super mario 64 not being on this list is a crime
I know I shouldn’t complain about spoilers for a 20 year old game, but it irks me how every video that covers Eternal Darkness spoils the unexpected parts of the game that depend on surprising the player. Not knowing those 4th wall breaks are coming is what makes the game so fun.
I really want a sequel to Eternal Darkness
Chu chu rocket on dreamcast being one of first online console games followed by phantasy star online
*Stunt Race FX and STAR FOX sir* 💡
Trespasser!! YES!
2:05 so I guess the insanity system in "Don't Starve" doesn't count either?
Keep up the good work! Good scripts, good topic, and good voice work. Even Though I hate Peter. Slow it down a bit, we are all sharing. Don't rush bruvh! Hit ya dude back. We can talk.
Ps Ben. Old-school raver... Let's talk.
What are you talking about.
@@KeirCampbell he needs to slow down his pace of talking. His voice is fine and he reads the script great. But he's rushing just a tad to quick. Like literally a pause a sentence. If you write a comedic script, then you give a pause to laugh. Ben and peter made me laugh. They have amazing timing. Ask them. That's what you pay the talent for! Right?
Ps im just a prick and should probably be a producer. Don't mind me bruv...
@@KeirCampbell Peter reminds me of the goosebumps ventriloquist dummy... He has small hands and i don't trust him!
Do you know where I can find some sailors?
Hunter on the Amiga. An open world 3d adventure game with multiple vehicles on a single 880kb floppy is mind blowing. And yeah it was ugly and wife frame, but it still took a decade for anything similar to turn up
Do a list where Tomba on PS1 is included
Spyro 1, 2 and 3
Possible to get a link or a name of the music used in the background?
I do not mean to come off as a troll pointing out any inconsistencies in the time, effort, and research that the creators put into this video (which is great as always!), but I've got to say something. The EGM quote used to make the point that Harvest Moon wasn't a hit, or very warmly welcomed by the general public, was used so far out of context that it's meaning was literally reversed from the way it was written. The very next sentence (and the entire following review), makes it clear how pleasantly surprising it was for such a concept to become so unique and enjoyable. I mean, even the game the author compared it to was none other than Zelda! No self respecting gamer out there would liken a game to the masterpiece that is (any) Zelda unless it was something special! 🙃
I actually never heard the can it run crisis meme... I've heard "can it run doom?"
Chrono trigger is still ahead of games today
@TripleJump, I am mad that you forgot a far more influential game than Tomb Raider on your list and that is Battlezone, you know, the game that was developed by Atari, as well as some people with some actual rank within the military forces of the USA. Why I am making this argument is that Battlezone is, essentially, the starting point of the whole first person shooter genre and it is also one of the few first person shooter games that is not only in the arcade, but that it also does not go on rails, unlike most arcade shooter games. Yes, Battlezonewas Doom and Wolfenstein 3D before either one of those franchises ever existed. Also, as for System Shock 1 and 2, those games are actually, as well as technically, considered as spiritual sequels to the BioShock franchise, as they occur in the future rather than the past, as is the case for the BioShock games, despite ironically being made far before the BioShock games in real life.
Isn't battlezone from the late 90s? I also think your associatiom with early 'first person' action games being on rails derives from console gaming. Shooters weren't designed on rails on the PC like they were on the consoles.
If Crysis was released today people would be calling it an optimised mess not a hardware pushing marvel.
Just something to think about.
Perfect Dark tho 🥺
It’s a pity Shenmue dropped on the DOA Dreamcast, may have found the success it deserved launching on the PS, and evolved accordingly, like the Yakuza franchise (which was extremely rough in its first entry).
It was also on the original Xbox.
@@simplyhuman3982 Only the sequel, they never ported in the original, so the XBox version only appealed to those who had also owned a Dreamcast.
Scorched Earth was the original game. Before Tiny Tanks and before Worms. How ahead of its time was that?
No offense, but surely Dragon's Lair was the inventor of quicktime events, no?
I'd also humbly add that without SEGA BASS FISHING, and in particular the rod, there'd be no Wii, and therefore no Switch.
Oh, also ... Far Cry (1) for open world innovation. Plus it could look good on many levels of hardware, and even had an HDR mode.
If we're expanding to PC-only titles: ArmA 3 is a definite contender for system-killer; but I agree: Crysis takes that crown.
What’s the background music
no Lemmings on this list? Strange!
Bloodbornes insight stat allowing you to see amygdalas is similar to HODs sanity mechanic
Those who rate Yakuza higher than Shenmue need to understand when Shenmue was released and the depth involved. Even the weather was accurate to the location and time
"Animal crossing has potentially had the most negative impact on gaming...in 2020" - this did not age well at all
Honorable Mentions: Ultima/Wizardry and Street Fighter 1/2
I can see Ultima. Though there were a lot of first person dungeon crawlers, so it'd be hard to credit Wizardry.
Before the fake out, I was getting reading to make a comment about how the title was Story of Seasons, not Tale of Seasons. Don't underestimate those that love their sim games. Our knowledge shall consume worlds.
It's criminal that GTA3 isn't on here
It sure is.
Been going since the Spectrum ZX days, thru the Atari 1040 STe etc etc and GTA 3 was my absolute " jaw on the floor" moment in all my gaming years. Truly astonishing at the time.
12:56 Animal Crossing Yeeeee
Who needs Shenmue these days when you've got Yakuza? It's literally Shenmue but actually good.
well yeah, if you wanna get serious about this.
Is that Ed Helms promoting the PS1?