Part 3 - Every Great Thing About Rockstar Games (Ft. You)
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Rockstar Games is currently a shadow of their former self. This half of the series focuses on the Rockstar that casts that shadow.
This is Part 3 of my 4 part Rockstar Games series. Part 1 and 2 are "Every Single Problem" Featuring Mutahar, Trip, and The Professional. The last two parts share the theme: "Every Great Thing About Rockstar Games" and this half of the series features you, my viewers!
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Ok
But you forgot the actual workers. the people that made Rockstar. Rockstar 🤘🏻⭐. the people who build the world that you see. The OG creaiters are amazing. 🤘🏻but there are also the amazing people that made it happen. made the dream😴💭. the vision in to a reality
Oh nostalgia, I do think but yet wonder, what happened in 2016? Was it the year that everything started to go bad, not only for gaming but everything, like globally.
@@arturdemin2755 part 4 bud
Aww... I wasn't in 'ere...
Jkjk, it's an honor to be able to submit a voice file and have my voice to even possibly be featured in here or in part 4!
(And truth be told... the points that I brought up weren't exactly as impactful as some of the other peeps in the video,) but it's nice, and it's incredible to see your community come together like this! 😁👍
Despite Rockstar being a laughingstock with their money hungry schemes lately, you gotta admit, they gave us some of the greatest games from our childhood
And then destroyed it all
Yeah its over though, Houser and Benzies are gone
Can't forget that they were inspired by Zelda: Ocarina of Time when they made Body Harvest and the first 3D GTA.
@@khebre6032 some bs remaster is enough to ruin your childhood? I grew up playing IIIX and the remake of that game turned out to be a god damn mess
That's the point of the video 💀
Legitimately surprised John Marston didn't get any love at all. He's by far my favourite Rockstar character so quite surprised him and RDR1 itself didn't get any love in this video.
It ain't on PC it don't exist XD
@@DumbArse I cry.
Jk, in all honesty if you have a beast PC, Xenia Emulator is by far the best way to play RDR 1 now. Some of the indoors have flickery shadows but playing the game at 4k 60fps is a sight to behold. Baffling Rockstar don't just re-release it as is with no changes. It holds up really well in 4k, I even think it looks better than GTA 5 I'd say!
@@Zoezs Yeah I remember hearing that. And it's a damn shame too since its such a legendary title. I replayed it again recently and I actually think I still prefer RDR 1 over 2 (both masterpieces though). Game turned 12 years old just today and looking at now, goddamn. It's still such a beautiful game.
@@foodwich2132 When he started talking about Red Dead he didn't even say 2 most the time, so I was holding out for what he was going to talk about but noticing the lush greenery and checking the HUD made it clear 1 wasn't on the cards. Arthur is definitely the higher definition character now so when we move to John it's not quite the same, but going back to 1 his character is much more fully enjoyable and the world is more desert cowboy. I like both for different reasons but 1 is definitely more what I think of for a western movie.
Well, I for one am surprised, that Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories were not mentioned in these videos (either this one or the previous parts) at all; not even shown as the background B-roll footage. I mean, hey, I know they were just PS2/PSP exclusives, so not as many people played them… but I did, and they were pretty darn good games too!
No one even talked about Mike Toreno. He ended up being the greatest help for CJ and James Woods did such a good job on the character
Yea I never trusted Toreno but his missions were some of the best and gave CJ his word
@@TheBigshot19 You didn't trust him but he ended up being more loyal than the vast majority of gta characters. He was a man of his word.
@@Kaledrone you right that what i like his character rockstar is very smart for his character
Toreno's missions were too over-the-top at the end of the day, much like what The Truth is giving. Yeah, highjacking a Hydra to bail Sweet out is one thing, but stealing a jetpack and green goo for nothing is quite bizarre.
I hate his N.O.E mission
0:56 Claude popping up and having nothing to say gets me everytime, I love the little jokes you put in your videos. I might just make a 2nd acc so I can subscribe to you again
Now people are starting to notice that it wasn't just the company that made the games, it was the people that work on them. Thanks to corporate greed, those people are gone and they will never be replaced. Soon every company just like this will go under and the people that left these companies behind them will carry on their legacy.
You didn’t even mention the incredible DLCs Rockstar released. To this day Undead Nightmare for Red Dead will be my favourite expansion to a game. It completely changed how the game played out whilst adding an entirely new story for John allowing us to go back an see fan favourite characters we’ve learnt to love from the main story.
RDR2 not getting an Undead Nightmare is criminal. They could've done Cowboys and Aliens too, but then greed got in the way
@@lucasw.4282 Seems like you watched the video titled "Read Dead Online is ruined" by Jack Sather
Man,that beginning montage…
When Claude said “…”
I felt that ;-;
For me Arthur Morgan is the best protagonist in video game history because Dan Houser, the other writers and Roger Clark did a perfect job at making him someone you can sympathise with and making him feel like a real character and your there alongside him, watching his life play out. Not only that but Roger is a great guy in general. He's very patient with fans, he loves to communicates with fans, he's happy to talk to people about their problems and tries to make it clear that theres more than just voice acting when it comes to video game characters. Rockstar not only created the perfect protagonist they found the perfect guy to play him and it's another example of Rockstar doing good for the world.
Also Niko and Michael are my favourite GTA protagonists for similar reasons.
For me, CJ, Claude, my OG GTA Online protagonist, Niko and Franklin are my favorite GTA heroes.
*Rockstar from 2009:* "We're looking for the best people out there, with passion and dedication to their job. Love what you do, show the strongest work, we only hire the best!"
*Rockstar from 2022:* "We're looking for people who can do a poor job without any dedication or passion in our new project, GTA: Defective Edition."
If people can still games for Defective Edition, then I can call my own kids for Defective.
If GTA Trilogy is Defective Edition, then I can call Mafia DE for Defective Edition. OK for now on, I'm calling all remasters and remakes for Defective Edition, even if they're good.
@@automation7295 you mean the definitive edition is good?
lol Rockstar had hella crunch problems in 2009, don’t make it seem so sunshine and rainbows.
The driving physics in 4 were awesome.
idk if its just me, but gta 4 is the only game ive ever played where you truly feel the weight of the vehicle ur driving
Agreed, the best driving yet
Going fast felt dangerous
The driving physics was hard and not that practical when you are trying to hurry to reach a certain point in time during missions , but sure as hell it was so unique and adventerous
@@osamashamla8933 Hard? There was nothing hard about it. If anything, the game could have used some cars that were hard to drive, that could do actual drifts.
Man, I remember Everyone ranted on how they hated driving physics in GTA IV, I on the other hand Loved it. Glad I'm not the only one 👍
I remember when I was arguably too young for these games, and I played GTA Vice City in a friends home, I would put myself an hour limit 'cause when I played too much I would end up so pumped up with it that I had issues to sleep later in the night.
It was a terrific but incredibly enjoyable feeling just being dumb in such a great sandox.
I know that feeling...its like blue balling your self😂😂😂😂
There's quite a few points he missed out on, hopefully they'll be addressed in Part 4
I remember playing GTA III at a friends birthday party. They would go on rampages till they died, then it would be the next person's turn. They had to set a 5 minute timer for me because I'll I wanted to do was just drive around.
Rockstar watches only this video:
Wow! Thank you for being such a long time fan! We're always making the highest quality games and content for our fans...
I cried almost the entire video. it's sad to know that there will no longer be such endearing and iconic characters, vivid cities that remind us of the best gangster movie stories, and so much attention to detail that makes their games so immersive.
I'd like Dan and Leslie to see this video, just so they know how grateful we are for the art they did.
Ok man your overreacting💀 if anything that last director left would be making sure it sticks up to rockstar standards. It’s not like the lower guys don’t have good ideas
Yup, and the sad part is gamers are who is to blame, they'd keep making great games, but people pay for shit games, so why put in effort?
Red dead redemption 2 has been erased from the memory of everyone in this comment section
@@CKangZ gameplay sucked and the story was pretty average. It can’t even hold a candle to RDR1.
@FrancoCornalo Uhhm how do you know that exactly? Maybe we can get these with gta 6 so stop overreacting.
Really makes you wonder what happened. R* used to be a venerable dream factory. I remember I was "too young" for GTA, so I got Bully instead. To this day, I can still recall the names to most of the students.
I loved Claudes quote in the beginning. Touching, Inspiring. All that good stuff
I have so many great memories with GTA San Andreas not only was it the first GTA I'd ever played its hands down my favorite Grand Theft Auto of all time
I have memories and still play it to this day here and there (the original version).
@@jesperbottenheft I do as well I used to play it on my grandpa's PS2 all the time and I still occasionally play it and it still holds up fantastically today
That's me with 4, but I played SA since and it's right behind it for me
@@Jiub_SN For me a lot of what pushes San Andreas to the top (besides nostalgia) are the features that are either exclusive to SA or done the best in it such is the weight mechanic and having food affect your weight or being able to go to the gym or box. Little things like that just push it to the top for me and I'm really hoping GTA VI has some similar features.
Another excellent video Ocean! It's been a pleasure being part of it.
Ocean?
@@ashtontheartist6751 Ocean
Honestly rockstar was awesome. Made so many memories and even with gta 5 they were so ambitious but then they did gta online and it was like a gateway drug to corporate greed which has over taken them and turned them into darkness of it which has over taken them.
It's just time to move on. Such is life. You lose friends, make new ones, lose touch with those friends as well, move, get a job, start a family etc etc. Time to move on from rockstar and remember it fondly for all the good memories. Same way we remember our childhood friends, the people that enriched our lives at some point or another.
@@Shushkin I can't really move on because there's nothing like rockstar. No one can make a game like rockstar. Some things cannot be replaced.
@@IskenderCaglarM41B441 Or you could give up gaming entirely.
@@Shushkin How? There are still tons of games for me to play.
This video is an amazing look at the near-masterpieces that Rockstar made in the past vs what they've put out over the past five years or so.
I even got a bit emotional at the beginning showing two of Rockstar's most beloved characters finally realizing that they were both stuck in gangs and wanted out but you know the thing with gangs is they don't like turning loose someone who has insider information
Not to mention, that San Andreas had 2 player mode. Incredible 🔥
I would write a giant paragraph about why GTA 4 and the Yakuza game series are my favourite games but then I'd forget what I was writing halfway through ,
Just know that they both have a ton of things you can do at your own leisure, you can almost interact with a lot of places (in the new games thanks to the newer engine), both have fun characters to play as and the only thing that Yakuza has over GTA? Karaoke!
I should really check yakuza out
0:52 Is when i shed a tear
well said Claude,well said
0:52 that's arguably the most motivational thing Claude ever said
Always loved playing GTA 4, it surprisingly showed at the age of 13 that life is a complicated thing and that there is no American dream and if there is then it's very greedy and lonely.
Honestly man your videos are on another level of quality!
The visualisation and animations in between with the nice structured topic.
Mmhmm! Awesome job
I will always remember that satisfying sound when you run someone over in GTA IV.
that sound of me bashing your skull with the heaviest rock
CLONK
Go away Midnight Club!
omg he's back
Aah you again
Thanks for that awesome intro. It literally gave me goosebumps.
this video is truly touching but so heartbreaking as well knowing how far rockstar has strayed. i truly hope some people at rockstar see this series and that it will somehow be able to warm some cold corporate greed ridden hearts.
this is amazingly edited great work
Glad I could do an interview for this, video was great as always
Very nice!
I cannot wait for the answers you've collected for the second half of the questions tho.
VERY underrated youtuber! Great job on these videos. I can tell a lot of effort goes into them.
Another masterfully crafted video by Ocean.
Looking forward to part 2 and part 3 of epwrg! This is really well made
Been playing GTA IV again recently and man. I always love replaying this game every so often. It’s a game that has held up very well over the years. Many of Rockstars games have aged quite well, I just wish we had more games from them in the recent decade though.
I jump back to GTA IV and i don't know how to enjoy it anymore. Wheres the hyper cars? Wheres the bloody snap gunshot sounds. Where are the pedestrian, the glowing time square etc. Where are the cool outfits? Brucie meant to be the richest dude in LC but he looks like a homeless bum 😂
@@edishasora5200 just pay attention to the story, it's the only GTA game that can safely say it has a GOOD story
@@Gannoh i have not played the gta 4 story in god knows how long. probably about 12 years ago now when my dad bought me a 360 and i got that game with it. there arent many good ways to play gta 4 currently the pc port is absolutely ass and if i play it on my xbox then i'd have to deal with 720p 60fps. its one of those games that needs a bit of a touch up and more optimisation before id get back into it.
@@JudeTheCZcamsPoopersubscribe that's fair, but you wouldn't want a remaster from modern Rockstar. There's plenty of mods that improve the PC port, I had no issue replaying through it last year.
@@edishasora5200 GTA IV has the best gun sounds. I don't know what the hell you mean with everything else, the hell do you need ugly ass hyper cars for? You have Super cars and Sports cars.
You killing it Dark space much love. Awesome video!!!
love your work
Thanks for including me in the video, looking forward to part 2 :) - Clouwdy
What your doing for Rockstar games is amazing!
This was a great video as usual just one problem.
There is a major lack of Red Dead Redemption 1 hopefully there is more next time.
I think that all depends if he records all the gameplay himself and whether or not he has a PS3 or 360 to play RDR1. Cause i think all the gameplay are from PC ports.
Yeah I said my favourite character was John from rdr 1, but was kinda sad it wasn't included. It seems not enough people talked about it in the interview. Hopefully there will be more in part 2
@@braeden4878 if he doesn't have an old gen console, he could still just take footage from youtube then credit the channel. I think it's more likely that not enough people talked about it
@@braeden4878 also you can play rd1 on series consoles
I think your channel is underrated bro, the analysis, the reaserch and the way you intergrate this whole infrrmation is amazing
You can't just keep putting out bangers like these! Seriously though, amazing vid :)
0:00 I actually liked the cell phone system in IV. I was very disappointed when it was nerfed in V.
In what way was the cell system nerfed in V?
@@paulbell3682 Can't save & access cheats through the phone anymore in story + no ability to put phone in sleep/silent mode in GTAO.
@@kingflippynips3102 you can save through the phone tho
Can't get custom ringtones in GTA V I remember you could buy them in 4 hell I actually miss the gps voice while you were in cars guiding you being you feel like you were driving it
@@Rat-O-Tim I meant that you can't save the cheats themselves in a list.
You can still enter phone cheats in GTA V but you have to type out the entire number each time, GTA IV used to save them in a list which made your phone feel like a built in mod menu.
Wish we could go back to the golden days of Rockstar Games
Edit- Another great thing is that every student in Bully is unique and feels real and relatable to the point that they actually feel like your actual classmates
the golden days of Rockstar was 2001-2018, that's 17 years of greatness in a row.
It's not only every student, every single NPC in Bully is atleast named and unique, given that the story takes place in a relatively small town and nobody gets killed its to be expected that you run into the same people commonly.
It's really a shame that we will never have a sequel.
@@lol-ih1tlI'd say 2013-prior to rdr2 release we're not golden years whatsoever
I’m so happy I made it in! This video was masterfully done. Thanks Dark Space 👍
You were hilarious! Had to include it
that quote from Claude in the beginning of the video really hit close to home.
11:25 the part where you say “or do what you don’t least once playing gta “follow the traffic laws “ made me genuinely happy cos whenever I can play gta I least try to follow the traffic laws it’s like a fun little challenge for me! it should lowkey be a trophy achievement just for even trying that it’s sad to see rockstar games is where it gets a today I grew up with rockstar games I’ve loved gta since 3/ San Andreas but my fav was gta Chinatown seeing how good they USED to be just makes me sad tbh I appreciate this video sm thank you for this
Hey DarkSpace I actually really liked the songs you included at the end of your vids. It's clear that you are passionate enough about rock* being a better company that you would reach out to artists and produce those songs. Don't let some people telling you that it's cringey get you down. I think they are very nice and speak to your hard work and dedication. The message is there, but you won't please everyone with the music. people have different tastes is all. Keep it up king
I bet people who aren't pleased with the music still love what Rockstar and Two-Take Interactive are doing.
This man editing is amazing....
Seigfried here! Thank you for having me it was a plasure to make!
I promise you're not the only one who loved GTA 4's car physics. The way the car lurches to the side when you come swinging around a corner is so reminiscent of old 70s and 80s chase scenes to me, especially when you see the suspension jiggle around. Cars feel weighty and dangerous. I even prefer not being able to control my car in the air, unlike how you can somehow magically tilt your entire vehicle while airborne in GTA 5. One other thing is GTA 4's motorcycles feel tangibly different, and you can more easily be knocked off than in 5. In 5 it feels like your player character is glued to the seat and feels all stiff.
And seeing your character launch out of the front windscreen is still one of my favorite things ever.
You're not the only one who loves the driving physics in GTA 4. I love it as well. Everything feels so heavy so real. 👍
Hitting peds in 4 is so satisfying how they bounce off the bonnet with a real weight to them
Woo, I made it in. Was a pleasure to help!
GTA IV fav
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
i liked driving in IV too. and vehicle damage. both were much better than in V
8:18 “no one has seen it before”? There was a racing game called FlatOut released all the way back in 2004 that featured insane and realistic physics/damage and it also featured shooting the driver out of the window at high velocity impact
The quote from Claude brought a tear to my eye 🥲
it was an honor collaborating on this video, thanks for the title credit man!
Either we make them to wake up or lost them forever, both the community and R*/TK2 has to work together for the future of the video game industry.
Amazing series video to wrap it up. The OG R* indeed made strides to what its today. Hopefully one day we return to that version of themselves.
10/10 production quality
i love how when you showed claude he said nothing
I love that you had the small footage of Mercs 2 gameplay. The driving in that is so weird.
Sheeesh I'm in a Dark Space video
Edit: Also the Midnight Club series had some real masterpieces
I think these videos do a great job of showing why so many of us are so critical of Rockstar's recent decisions. We know that they can and have made masterpiece after masterpiece but as I and everyone else knows there's not enough competition for them to be motivated to keep it up.
I also liked what I imagine was a reference to the hive from the Resident Evil series at 23:04.
Great video.
I loved the driving on IV and honestly, I love how divided the community is on that. Always something that comes up when talking about IV. GTA is probably my go-to comparison when driving in any open world game that isn't solely based in the racing genre like Forza lol.
I hated the driving, felt really clunky
I love the driving in 4! Every car had weight to it and felt satisfying
Same i also really liked it, probably because im used to playing racing games
Mafia 2 had weighty cars and they dint role over at 60 mph
I never got to play 4 but i enjoyed the driving in Saints row than in gta 5
The community interaction in this video is really cool ngl
i love this you have highlighted everything wrong and now here you are praising them for the things they do right respect my dude respect
Was literally up at 4am rewatching yr vids on rockstar
Rockstar supplies this channel with content that’s for sure
Yeah, and part 4 covers that. Also, this is the end of Rockstar Stuff. Unless something crazy happens
Rockstar before the fall
💯💯💯 before the collapse of an empire
I was there it was beautiful
0:52 one of the most inspirational sentences claude has said
*The Rockstar We Truly Remember*
It's heartbreaking.
like seeing a family member become a deranged crack addict.
The first Rockstar game was GTA 4. The game was my childhood. I remember my half bro playing the game, and handing me the controller to play. I didn't understand anything. Now I'm 18, a decade or so after I played the game, and I still come back to GTA 4, to relive my childhood. To relive the world that I ended up enjoying so much. My half brother passed away 5 years ago, and the one thing I remember is me and him reenacting one of the ending scenes in GTA 4. I am going to keep going for him, and I am going to keep playing the game that he introduced me to, and I instantly fell in love with.
Thank you for including me in the video.
Yeah, some of the rockstar games are epic forever, they are the mirror of the good old rockstar, I hope rockstar can see this video and realize how good their games are, how much fun they had bought to people and I hope they can bring back all of the joy
My favorite quote from the intro is "..." from Claude
Mommy I'm on CZcams!
Thanks for the opportunity, Ocean! Listening to everyone else now, I really should've wrote a proper script lol. There were a lot more ideas I could've said. Anyways, great video as always! I hope you do more of this
First Rockstar game I played was GTA 2 back in 2000. The copy I had for PS1 had an ad for GTA 3 on the back of the booklet. Time flys.
My first rockstar game was gta 3 and have been a fan ever since. Even with rockstars issues I still think they are probably unbeatable when it comes to attention to detail, physics, gameplay and also story. To this day not many devs at all can have all this in their game all at once without one suffering over the other. Even rockstars latest game rdr2 still shows that the devs still put so much detail and love into their games whenever they release something.
Yes their quality of games is incredible and unbeatable, but they destroy the games by adding useless and annoying things nobody ever wanted.
Then they’re also very greedy, just look at the Sharkcard prices.
In Germany you get 100.000 credits for 2,49€.
All the new content is overpriced and especially as a new player it’s hard to get started.
They have great games that they destroy by greediness.
Rockstar games have followed me entirety of my life , one of my first games that i played as a kid was gta 1 and fall in love with .. i played every rockstar game since, I even remember i would be absent from school to go in a video game store where they would have playstation 2 with san andreas you can play on and i just keep on playing it and its a bitter sweet feeling to today .. what they put out is still ahead of everyone elses but i am afraid that it ran the course , the departures of some of the most important members of Rockstar makes me question their future and success of GTA Online scares me that they will shift the focus on money and that quality wont follow ..
Dan Houser's been bald for at least 20 years but Sam Houser has a lush head of hair even in 2022. What's that about?
that big smoke cluckin bell order gets me everytime because not everyone realizes smoke was stalling for the drive by
I really love the Claude quotes in the at the start
I really hope they bring back the voice actor for Claude
@@Adam_X78 I hope so too, I just hope Rockstar doesn't accidentally put the volume to 0% again when recording his lines.
@@shyamal903 It must’ve been rough recording all of those lines and figuring out the volume was on 0
@@Adam_X78 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
@@shyamal903 I wonder where Claude’s voice actor is now?
ik wist sommige dingen nog niet eens omdat ik alleen GTA V heb gespeelt en klein beetje RD2. Goeie video
I still remember playing gta 4 on my playstation 3 and having so much fun.
Fantastic as always. Thank you dark space and thank you rockstar games for making some of the greatest games of the last few generations, despite your ongoing corruption.
Also sidenote: 19:37 made me laugh, very hard.
You are not the only person that liked the driving in GTA IV. Vehicle physics and Euphoria are my favorite things in the entire series. I loved GTA IV.
Another great video, outstanding! I really hope they can revert themselves to their former glory. It’s almost too late tho
In fact, it's already too late. Rockstar been supporting GTA Online for 9 years and reached out to Grove Street Games to develop GTA Trilogy - The Defective Edition.
@@automation7295 Once they release GTA 6 everyone is gonna appreciate them
@@ivanxtrem7114 People make no sense.
Rockstar games aside the effort darkspace puts in his videos are s tier keep up the good work man
I will never forget playing GTA 2 on the PlayStation, that's how my relationship with Rockstar got started. Classic top down view, finding the tank on the top of the building. man good old days
It's crazy to see what the Rockstar has turned into and how they really changed with the generations
That Claude spoke to me.
When Claude said " "
damn. That was powerful.
just noticed how Dan seems (well shit, used to) way more vocal and about the games not the money. on the other hand I've never ever seen a video of Sam talking or.. just looking healthy.
I feel like Sam is as money hungry as their parent company
Well Sam barely do interviews
@@theoutsiderjess4869 Possible, otherwise he would've put a stop to this.
I agree with all of your point man, my first Rockstar Games I play was Midnight Club 2 and 3, my first GTA was III and Vice City despite I was never finishing the game.
the point about the driving in watchdogs is on point tho, jesus. I miss old R*
Ah the good ol' days!
The first GTA I played was GTA 2 on PS1. I was too young to play it properly i,e missions but I still enjoyed it because of how it looked and and music. It was fantastic.