Looking back at 2000's best-selling and highest-rated games - The Golden Bolt
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- Every year, as the game of the year awards roll in from different publications and websites, I like to take a look back at some of the highest-rated and most successful games of past years. This year, I decided to share the fun with you - join me as we explore the absolutely PACKED year that was 2000.
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0:00 Intro
2:04 2000's Best-Selling/Most Successful Games
7:23 2000's Most-Acclaimed/Highest-Scoring Games
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If you enjoyed this little experiment, please make sure to let me know! It's a fun and easy video to put together, just sitting down and chatting into a mic with you guys, and I'd absolutely love to explore other years if there's interest in taking this further. There are some wrinkles to iron out (shoutout to my editing software for cutting out the footage I placed at 1:53 oops), but that's what your feedback is for!
Hey man, if you need a spank I'll be sure to lend a hand haha, joking...unless...??? Just kidding....but unless...? 🥵
gonna be honest this was fun, I enjoyed it been wanting to learn more about the history of the industry and where games were back then, I'd say this should become a whole series on your channel.
i respect my parents for quality controlling my games i would never of found the games that most interest me out of all of them without it
As a spoiled brat now i have to say if it aint dragon quest 11 i dont want it cel shaders the art ill literally just play final fantasy and squares collection like harvestella to animal crossing i hate most games but i love the art style and adventure elements that runescape fleshed out for me farming fishing harvesting gathering monster hunter worlds rpgs need the layers but they need a compelling story and fantasy element to really drive it home
no game beats runescape as what people want a long fulfilling game that will take a life time to beat that right there is runescape you dont even know what you want in life and i say that right there will fulfill you to a point you could die happy fyi yes i can but sneaky king a crazy marble game on the 360 to crazy racing survival games and i was a gamer who played most everything mainly cause i had a brother my parents couldnt say no too and could find means to get time with a game from him
Yeah would love more videos on the most critically or commercially succesful games of 199x -200x
I enjoy your content a lot and this video is not an expection but I personally found it annoying you used The Sims 4 promotional footage to represent The Sims (1).
Probably wouldn't of bothered me so much if you showed at least SOME clips from the original Sims game (or promotional footage of it) like you did for every other game mentioned here.
You should totally do this with more years. Ive seen plenty of people argue certain years as the best year in gaming even some as far as the late 2000s to 2010s or in the 90s.
For me, the best is either one of these:
2009 (because InFamous, A Crack in Time, Uncharted 2 AND there was also one great day, before "that one great day" I "didn't exist".)
2007 (Uncharted 1, R&C Tools of Destruction)
@@Shockwerk Judging by your best years being in HD generation I would guess you are a zoomer.
Guess what, I was born in late 2000's!
@@Shockwerk 2009 really was a crazy year for games. Arkham Asylum, the original modern warfare 2, Ass Creed 2, Left 4 Dead 2, borderlands and plants vs zombies.
Ass Greed, ASS ASS sins Creed!
My cousin knows that joke, and man, what a good cousin he is.
Early 2000s were full of crazy good games. Also full of variety.
Just 2000.
And the time when games came out regularly, when you didn't have to wait over a decade to get new entry into the franchise. Remember how PS2 got 5 GTA games meanwhile PS4 got not one, GTA V is just port from PS3?
Great retrospective. 2001 also needs one: Halo, MGS2, Grand Theft Auto 3, Tony Hawk 3, Max Payne, Devil May Cry, Final Fantasy X, Silent Hill 2, Ico, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec, etc. PS2 coming to the fore, along with the debuts of the Gamecube and Xbox.
2004 as well!
2007 always stood out to me as one of the best years for gaming with a ton of amazing stuff. That would be a fun year to cover if you consider doing more!
A lot of industry changers for sure!
uncharted, dead space,assassins creed,bioshock are the only ones i remember but oh boy awesome. 2013 17 andc18 were awesome too
2010 and 2017 as well, my three favorites alongside 2000.
Please please please do more of this. I absolutely adore these kinds of looks back into gaming history, both critically and especially commercially. It's fun learning stuff like this, and you manage to make a topic most would find dull very entertaining imo
2001-2004 was probably the greatest era of gaming for me as far as single player games go. Ratchet & Clank trilogy, SOCOM Trilogy, Jak and Daxter series, Pokemon Sapphire/Ruby & Firered/Leafgreen, Metal Gear Solid 2-3, Final Fantasy X, Vice City, Sonic Adventure 2, Silent Hill Games, Soul Reaver 2 and Legacy of Kain Defiance, Call of Duty, Lord of the Rings games, DOOM 3, Spider-Man 2, Kingdom Hearts and more. Really nostalgic era for me.
I always like thinking about things like this too! There's just some years that just have an insane number of great games. Usually I think about 1994, 2007, 2017, but yeah, 2000 was insane too! Would love to see more of these!
I should mention as a bit of a counterpoint that, as a JRPG fan who's played Chrono Cross only recently, I've actually had the opposite reaction than what was stated, due what I think is because of the passage of time (a non-intentional pun). It's not perfect, but I kind of adore it!
i also think 2018 too. god of war,red dead2,shadow of the colossus,detroit become human,celeste, and more i dont remember rn
As a JRPG fan I also love Chrono Cross and I even played Chrono Trigger although after Cross. Chrono Cross doesn't get enough praise how actually before its time it was. You have party members follow you everywhere both on world map and in towns, you could switch leaders anytime you want, everywhere, you can escape every battle including boss battles and in had no random encounters. There are RPGs today that doesn't offer you all of those or neither. Celebrated Octopath Traveler has random encounters in this day and age in FF XV you can't control you party member and switch leaders in VIIR also outside of battles for example. No matter what the haters say, Chrono Cross was a game way ahead of its time just because it isn't the Chrono Trigger sequel doesn't mean it is bad lol.
Nice to see Chrono Cross getting the love it deserved back in the day, very sad and true it did lay in the shadow of Trigger so is more maligned nowadays but I still love what it did, and the atmosphere is just gorgeous.
So many cool games came out this year, lot of variety, really were spoilt for choice, and it is kind of a shame there's no real competition and variety in sports games nowadays.
This was a really fun, chill lil deep-dive so would totally love to see more of this type of video. Exploring other years or another, nice, broad topic like the multiple discs video. Thumbs up from me
Fascinating time capsule. Makes me miss the era where AA games were still a thing outside of Atlus.
Piranha Bytes and Focus Entertainment are probably the closest we have to fun AA studios these days but they kinda just make the same games over and over again with slight twists...
@@greenhowie There are studios like Cyanide and Spiders that are basically AA studios, besides Pyrahna Bites
@@raresmacovei8382 Ahh you're right. Didn't realise Focus were just the publisher of Greedfall
Ah I remember this time, for 2000's Christmas I got a Sega Dreamcast and Sonic Adventure.
I miss these times when things were more optimistic instead of the all over the place outlook of the future of gaming. These times are surely missed.
You honestly always knew that game companies would pump out AAA games most of the time without feeling incomplete or buggy as all hell, Most of the time.
God bless the dreamcast
2000 also had Paper Mario. Dark Cloud. Oracle of Ages/Seasons. Team Buddies.
Yes, do one about 2001, that year was pure insanity for gaming!
And btw, Soul Calibur, which is *the* Dreamcast game, came out in 1999.
Love this style. Would love to see more years covered, working your way up till now
I remember my bday year 2000, my parents got me a N64 and Majora's mask. It was one of the greatest gifts ever imo
Spyro: Year of the Dragon is one of my favorite games that came out in 2000. Hell it's one of my favorite games of all time.
Year of the Dragon gets weirdly overlooked by the Spyro community, mainly to do with playing as other characters, the Sparx levels in particular.
Personally I loved the variety and had no problem with the shooting segments so I think it's just cool to hate on it or something.
@@greenhowie I have always loved how Insomniac implemented the multiple playable characters in this game, as if to say that this adventure is so dang huge that you can’t do it all by yourself this time around.
Finally watched this one, and I loved the look back.
2000 was such a great year with the Dreamcast reaching its peak year and the final 5th generation hurrah before the 6th officially started.
Also, Tekken Tag was a PS2 favorite that aged better than most of those launch games at least.
This era when we were about go to the PS2/Xbox/GameCube generation was just insane. I hope you do a few more years of this. Like at least up until 2006 or so.
I love seeing retrospectives and trips down memory lanes - the hits of nostalgia are like none other. I'd definitely be happy to see more videos like this one in the future. Awesome work, as always!
PS2 launch had DOA2, Tekken Tag, and the Dynasty Warriors 2. absolute kino.
2004 has my favorite year of gaming imo. Halo 2, San Andreas, my favorite mgs3, Battlefront, Ratchet 3, and many more. Helluva year
Love the channel dude. There are not enough gaming history channels imo. Your casual style with all the details is awesome 👌 👏
I'd say 2004 was crazier. It's probably a god year. That was the peak of the 5 generation of consoles.
That was my fav year, monster hunter, dmc3, metal gear3, gow (I 🤔think) plus alot more aaaaand AMAZING anime
@@jhsrt985 Ratchet and Clank Up your arsenal, Jak 3,, Godzilla Save the Earth, Star Wars Battlefront, Spider-Man 2 the game and more
@@JoshuaJacobs83 Tekken 3, Spyro the dragon and Crash Warped, Sonic Adventure
Banjo-Threeie made 2004 the peak for me!
*LOUD SOBBING*
@@mandalorianhunter1 it was so great
Bloody good retrospective, the jokes and editing are on point as usual :)
I will say that there's been a recent surge in appreciation for Chrono Cross in particular - something about that art style and colour palette has just been popping off lately, not to mention the surprisingly dark story attracting lore fans.
Also, bit of a tangent but how weird is it that Alone in the Dark: the New Nightmare was on both PS1 and PS2 but launched in 2001?
"Most acclaimed games of years past" as you show Croc... as you should.
As we all know, Croc is the most influential mascot of all time. Miyamoto himself said Croc was the main inspiration for the original Donkey Kong arcade game back in 81.
This was a delight to watch. Keep up your amazing work!
Porsche Unleashed was that year's Need for Speed game. It is still an oddity of that franchise for being about a single btand. It was also my first intro to game mods. Yes Minecraft players, a racing game from ten years prior had a extremely robust mod scene back then.
I really like this style of video and wouldn't minding seeing more years covered. It's nice looking back to these years and how review scores were handled before what gaming has turned into now.
As someone who was there and into games at the time, 1997-2001 were just absolutely insane years for gaming, a disproportionate amount of my personal faves come from that stretch of time, even a few I wouldn't play until years (if not decades) later.
For 2000, as an RPG nerd, it's a paradise. Legend of Mana, Legend of Dragoon, Vagrant Story, the unmatched Final Fantasy IX and a heaping serving of Pokémon goodness
You should definitely start a series going through gaming year by year. The classics, the weird, the underrated, the forgotten, etc.
Fantastic content, take my like. Please continue this series with different years.
I don't have a dumb joke for this one. 2000 game me Manora's Mask. That game means more to me than most forms of media ever could.
Merry Christmas Golden Bolt
And to you too, my friend!
I feel like 2007 was the best year for gaming, because Tools of Destruction released that year which automatically makes it the best year
This era is a real trip down memory lane for me and yes sir I would sure love to see more videos like this!
I love that the WWE section of the video was Batista themed even tho he wasn't in any of those games
Brilliant content dude a great look back into some of the early years thank you for all you long hours of research as well 😁
I'd absolutely dig more year retrospectives like this, especially for years full of heavy hitters like 1998, 2001, 2004 and 2007.
1998 and 2001 sure had some very heavy-hitters, but I think these 2 years overshadow 1996 because of how many great games were released.
1996 was full of fun and innovative games, Mario 64, Crash 1, Nights, Fighting Vipers, Harvest Moon, Mario RPG, Gen 1 Pokèmon, Tomb Raider and so much more...
Really enjoyed this format, can't wait for more!
Man I just found your channel and this topic is ridiculously fascinating to me and I was born after Y2K! 😂 I just find it amazing viewing things from todays and the contemporary perspective and seeing what has changed :) Hope to see more videos like this!
You've got good timing - the 2001 version is coming in a few days!
@@TheGoldenBolt Haha no way, let's go! :D
I would absolutely watch more videos like this. Great work!
This was 22 years ago, I still have my copy of Pokémon Silver, among other games from the time, and now I feel old...
I loved PSX and PC gaming at that time. Vagrant Story and Valkyrie Profile were both very underrated Square games for PS1. On PC the few years between Quake 1/2 and about 2006 we're insane. For RPGs and shooters alike. So much progression and experimentation. And I had a crap PC so only got to play stuff later on low res/settings usually or at a friends lol. But BG2 blew my mind as Mirrorind did later but for different reasons. The 2000s may be my most favorite time, tho the 90s we're a blast too. (At least in gaming lol)
2000 and 2001 are probably my favorite years in gaming. 2017 up there with it.
Love this idea, I'd happily watch a video like this about every year in gaming
Vagrant Story is one of those games (much like Legend of Dragoon) that falls under "cult classic" or "you had to be there to understand". If you played it and loved it, it stuck with you all these years later. Forever living rent free in our minds and ready to spring when the stars align and you find other people who played it and you both get super stoked about it.
Has it aged well? Eh not really. QoL things wouldn't hurt though. It also sits on a list if games that absolutely should get a full remake. My list of those titles are filling up fast. We got Crash, Spyro, and Shadow of the Colossus. Just need LoD and Vagrant Story and my childhood will thank you.
I like the editorial style.
PlayStation 2 will always be my favourite console. Just too many good memories and games, and the fact it was backwards compatible makes it even sweeter. Arguably the last console era that if you bought the game, you own it outright!
First, I want to see this type video for other years. 2004 and 2007 would be great choices, but there are many special years like these.
Secondly, I don't know what was the game of the year in 2000, but it was definitely one of the greatest years in gaming. My favorites are Deus EX, Pokémon G&S, Chrono Cross, FF IX, Vagrant Story, CS, Diablo II...
Spank definitely existed and it was the most 2000s thing ever. Totally forgot about it til this vid. Thanks for the laugh
i don't know why, but i found the abruptly cut-off knock on Pokémon Scarlet & Violet's graphics at 3:43 so funny, that i reoeated that part way too much. And on top of that i have'nt even finished the video yet at the time i've posted this comment.
The format is enjoyable , lets go part 2 🍻
The dig at scarlet and violet got me good 😂 but so true.
Final Fantasy 9 AND Majora's Mask the same year? I can't believe the 2000s blew its load SO early! lol
I really enjoyed this vid, it was a real cool retrospective for a year in gaming in which I was a year away from even being born, let alone being able to comprehend and experience it, so it's def a cool way to get inserted into the timeframe in which we're talking for the industry. Please do more of this, very cool stuff.
soz i mean deathloop 10/10 best game everrrrrr
I live in Ohio and you mean to tell me that the V-tuber AI didn't go haywire and we aren't living in a desolate wasteland?!
I don't believe you.
I loved watching this. I'd like to see 2005, 2010, and 2013. Especially 2005 since that's when the 360 launched. I'd also like to see 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. But at this point im just being greedy and wanting some nostalgia from my childhood. I was born in 1997, so anything between 2000-2010 is my childhood ❤️.
I had a feeling that was minime on the thumbnail
Edit: Haha, I actually had Who Wants To Be A Millionaire for PS1. That show was huge back then.
12:24 I actually nabbed the three Interplay Fallout games yesterday and played a bit of the 1st game, I like the concept for it, and the gameplay is pretty neat. I also have 2 and Tactics which was part of the three that got pretty much bundled in on that deal.
*reeling from croc flashbacks and Ohio flashbacks and the year 2000 flashbacks*
Reminds me of ToddInTheShadows throwback year top 10 song lists. Excellent stuff.
Really liked this video, would love to see more.
Can't believe the algorithm didn't show me this vid when it came out
Yeah, I agree with you. Paper Mario on the Nintendo 64 was one of the most acclaimed games of 2000.
You definitely should do this with more years! I know 2004 was solid, had sly 2, paper Mario ttyd, Metroid prime 2 I believe off the top of my head and love those games
Oh wow mgs 3 gta San andres ratchet 3 half life 2 halo 2 pikmin 2 as well
I'd love to see vids for 2001 and 1996. I remember those years being kinda wild
I def like these videos. I’d love to see more :)
14:00 Did you forget about Conker’s Bad Fur Day? It released in 2001 on the N64.
That would be a game I'd talk about in a 2001 version of this video; the games I named right there were all 2000 releases!
love stuff like this, more of these videos please!!!!!!!!!
2000 has 2 games that are in my top 10 games off all time (Final Fantasy IX and Chrono Cross). Final Fantasy IX was the first RPG I ever beat and that is the game and 2000 the year that got me into the genre and it has been my favorite ever since for 22 years now.
Great Watch Man
Gaming in the new millennium!!!
5:12
Ah, wrestling, how my facesitting fetish was born.
🤨📸
Yeah i like this new format of video
Odd, I'm subscribed and I have the bell on "all" but I didn't see this video until I saw the community post
I saw this just a few minutes after seeing your post about what they had in common, lol
That Batista and Rey clip seemed a little too specific, is the golden bolt a wrestling fan? That aside, great video, underrated channel!
I’d love this for more years especially the mid 2000s
What is the name of that wonderful Sonic Heroes main theme remix that you start playing at 5:17? It sounds like it might be a GBA-styled arrangement but I couldn't manage to track it down. Would love to listen to it on its own!
Miss this era of gaming.
Yep such a good year like 1996, 2009, 2012 and my favoite game of that year even in it's nerfed form is and was... Ace combat 3 my favoite flight combat game setting for a flight combat game.
First time viewer. I very much enjoyed this video. Keep up the good work.
Rayman 2 Revolution changed it all for me
this video jsut poppud up for me and i kinda feel upset that i was born in 2010 now... everyone is saying that 2000-2010 was the best era of gaming 😭
Thief 2 was so good looking glass went bankrupt
Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.² was a masterpiece for 2000.
You from another universe, we don't got spank.
Awe Ryan Davis was in a clip.
Also would love for this tto be anauel thing here or maybe quertly as there are few water shed years to get though.
i dont think the ps2 launch lineup was weak, we got ridge racer 5 and tekken tag tournament. games that are timeless on the ps2. i think they even look better than their sequels on the same console (tekken 4 & r racing evolution)
I need a Ratchet and Clank Size Matters review. It was the best game on the psp
do this for every year pls. Do 2001 next then every year after then before x
I do have good news for you: The 2001 version's already uploaded! I've gotta find time to get back to the series beyond 2001 though...one day!
bussin video idea
If you ever want to do a video like this again, cover 1998, which is widely considered to be the greatest year in gaming.
never heard of these games. 21, born in 2001
I still live in 2002, so all of this is still current news to me, lol
I gotta ask.
What issues do you and whoever made that song have about Deathloop?
The shortest version is that one of my buddies had a roommate that paid full price for Deathloop at launch, when everybody full well knew it'd be $40 within two weeks (which it was) and $20 not long after that (which it also was). So over time, it became a bit that only I needed to appreciate as part of the video lmao
@@TheGoldenBolt Well, it's still showing up as 60 bucks on PSN, so I'm guessing you mean either the physical copies or the fact that it's on both PS Plus Extra and Game Pass, right?
Music at 11:25?
The Tekken series was great.
A fair experiment. I hear about them all the time so while a good video (time capsules of big hits is a fair idea for sure and in 20 minutes also is pretty good length) and direction I'm not going to watch as I'd rather see the hidden gems or worst games of the 2000s instead then the hits and nostalgia talking about the same games over and over again that I can find out or heard about to death and hear about constantly everywhere on the internet during that decade and look away from in search of the interesting ones no one talks about with more interesting ideas in them than whatever was talked about, sold more and couldn't care less about.
So instead I gave you my click to see the ad and that's about it. Good idea for a video though just not interested in watching it but still wanted to say it's a good idea though. But easy to make because sources aren't too hard to find, easy nostalgia watching and talking about what people experienced and so on sales/consoles and whatever the community spaces were like I guess. The E3s and so on moments of things people experienced is always cool to see as good games appeared at them and the epic reveals meant something then the boring ones of nowadays.being very disappointing besides Indies.
Branching out to different ideas is great to see but also I think other games you don't usually could be cool. Or like I said the worst and hidden gems (list a handful not all of course that's a lot of work) of the decade/handful of yearsinsert here.
I will say on the worst-of idea, I usually tend to try and avoid a lot of easy negativity and dunking since a ton of people already do that and I don't care to add that energy to the world, y'know? But yeah, I totally understand with a year like 2000 where it's "oh yeah that game, of course." I chose this year to start because there are just so many games that you'd _have_ to forget a few of them came out this particular year - when it gets into the other years, there's a lot more fun of the "wait, THAT sold the best that year?" alongside watching the trends change and evolve. There's some tweaking to be done if I do run another one of these back a little down the road, but I expected that!
@@TheGoldenBolt understandable with dunking on games. I meant just a look at, I guess some balance of negative and positive (or neutral to tell it how others did in some way) if possible that is whether of worst by metacritic score or just games not your thing I guess but in a nice way. I agree you can upset anybody on the internet with whatever so that's fair. Hidden gems open even if a handful as anything can be to some degree of course?
2000s is a fair decade to start with for sure and many that can be forgotten long series or one offs, those not around in a while even.
I guess some sales and things can be a bit surprising for sure that is something sometimes for the rare times it can be then 'well of course it did due to that one ad, celebrity, event, this causal game, hardcore game, controversy or whatever that year'.
It's a good start and I welcome an idea like this it's a good direction to go for sure. You'll work out the tweaks over time or course.
Red Alert 2!