Ah, yes the times that I made portals from Minecraft mods and got disappointed.

@bleedingrevo

Жыл бұрын

Lol true

@cloakedhornets6515

Жыл бұрын

Honestly the image of an Aether portal not working is more iconic to me than a working one.

@liinnder

Жыл бұрын

I remember watching scary Minecraft video Easter eggs by I think by rageelixer and got disappoinment when they didn't.

@PGtheVRguy

Жыл бұрын

@@liinnder I haven't heard that name in years...

@alface935

Жыл бұрын

@@PGtheVRguy Who?

Best thing about having kids is being able to show them my past games for the first time. My daughter is currently stuck on Forest Temple on OoT and it's great knowing how to do it and watching her get so close but not quite getting there.

@ubulayne_

Жыл бұрын

that is the cutest thing ive heard all day, i try to do this w my little brother, since a lot of the games i used to play are getting remasters he gets to have those same experiences i had when i was his age

@WinterBoots15

Жыл бұрын

I can remember vividly how much that part frustrated me until that “Aha moment” clicked

@thonato295

Жыл бұрын

man i swear, at the moment i get a child that is 5 to 6 years old starts playin games on the phone, im gom ask him to play mario kart wii w me

@thonato295

Жыл бұрын

@The Game Man especially when mk wii got custom tracks, at some point they gon be playin minecraft and me self gon introduce em the minecraft track 🥶🥶

@TERlNG

Жыл бұрын

My wife and i are having a baby boy and i honestly cant wait till i can show him my past games

that thumbnail holy shit, i remember all of my friends telling me putting water in a square glowstone shape would take me to some alternate dimension.

@AllanLovezGaming

Жыл бұрын

Lol same but with KZread tutorials

@sneak1677

Жыл бұрын

I saw a video where a guy went to "heaven" I had a free version without mods

@urphakeandgey6308

Жыл бұрын

Some mods do that and I love the concept. Especially as a "heaven" to contrast the "hell" of the nether. The way to make the portal makes enough sense too.

Yes, I think about this all the time. I remember as a kid suddenly seeing pokemon black and white on the shelfs. I had not heared of those games before their release. I played diamond and heart gold, but I did not know the pokemon on the BW boxart. Buying the game and experiencing a pokemon game full of pokemon I had never seen before was amazing. I wish I could experience another generation without knowing any of the pokemon, but with how much I am online nowdays, that is pretty much impossible for me.

@gabrielkarantena4568

Жыл бұрын

I'm currently playing through Pokemon fire red because my friends recommend it to me and it's been really fun seeing all kinds of pokémon I never knew existed since I don't know anything about pokémon. 😀 And I've never played a RPG before so this is also my first RPG.

@xshme

Жыл бұрын

@@gabrielkarantena4568 thats one of the best ways to experience pokemon, have fun!

@weswright7888

Жыл бұрын

i'd recommend playing a fan game then on pc, romhacks etc if you're looking for a new pokemon adventure. New types, new pokemon, you could play a nuzlocke etc

@xshme

Жыл бұрын

@@weswright7888 I tried fangames, but its just not the same for me. Idk why

“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing,” -Socrates

@dastoto0166

Жыл бұрын

@Internet “Person” because platon wrote it down

@farhi411

Жыл бұрын

I swear I thought you are talking about Socrates the Brazillian Footballer💀

Games are more fun when you're a total noob; you don't know the extent of the content in the game, so your brain patches it in for you. It imagines much grander things than there actually are because it doesn't know what to expect. Once you've learned the game and seen all it as to offer, you can still have fun with it, but that aspect of the unknown - the imagination of what the game is like - is lost forever. The unknown has become the known, there is no need to imagine because you know that what you imagine is false.

My first night in Minecraft, I didn't know what anything was. I saw a cow pop out from behind a tree in the dark, I thought it was the most terrifying thing I had ever seen in my life, and immediately exited the game.

@blackzero786

Жыл бұрын

Imagine mining for coal only to have a fire appear behind you with no sources to cause the fire. Granted this happened back in alpha before the hunger bar.

@vgaggia

Жыл бұрын

I remember digging into stone with a stick and not knowing how to craft a pickaxe at all

@hgarr

Жыл бұрын

I remember on my first Minecraft night going up a hill to fight a zombie, and then Dying because it was actually a Creeper.

@kenynotkenny

Жыл бұрын

@@vgaggia same lol

@matuili2633

Жыл бұрын

Bruh, that's so funny XD The first time I played Minecraft, I literally didn't know anything about the game. I just started exploring the world and breaking a few blocks until it became night. Then a zombie started approaching me. I didn't know anything and I somehow thought it was another player, so I went to greet him and then he just started attacking me and I got so scared I closed the game too.

I remember my first experience of playing Minecraft. This was back in update 1.4 where everything was foggy and the render distance was horrendous. I had built a house into a hillside made out of dirt; it had two floors, each being only two blocks high with only one block separating the two floors. The bottom floor had a wooden door and a chest holding my items. On the second floor was my bed and a window to look outside. Here's where the story begin: I had just got out of bed from sleeping through my first night when I hear something creeping on top my roof. My roof was only one block thick, so I decided to dig a hole in my roof to look outside to see what it was. In drops a freakin' creeper and blows up straight in my face and killing me in the process. Once I had respawned I used the little wood I had to patch up the damage done to my house. HOWEVER, again I hear something walking around on top of my roof. I didn't dare repeat what I did last time so I went upstairs to try and look out the window to try to spot what it was. Unfortunately, I couldn't see anything so downstairs I go to open my front door and down drops another creeper that was right above my door and blows me up AGAIN! This time, however, I survived the blast and saw that a second creeper walking towards me. With only 1,½ hearts left I rushed upstairs in panic hoping that it wouldn't follow me. What I didn't realise until too late was that I had accidentally cornered myself. With no means of escape, the creeper slowly walked upstairs and blows up the little remains of my house still standing. In my defeat I dug a pit the shape of a cross in front of the crater that once was my house and placed down a sign which said "R.I.P. [my username's] house. [Date of the day I played]". That was the last time I ever played Minecraft. Well, err... at least not until years later (were talking like 3-4 years later). This was no joke one of the most traumatising experiences in my earliest days of gaming.

@Dummout

Жыл бұрын

i just dug a whole in the ground

@josephcasper8803

Жыл бұрын

I remember zombie tennis Steve Crazy tbh

That first time I played Skyrim, never heard of the game before didn’t know mods were a thing not knowing a stealth archer was the best choice going out without knowing the main quest and that rush of fighting the first dragon after goofing off for hours before even getting to whiterun that was the most fun I’ve ever had playing a game and luckily for me after completing my first play through the modding community was so vast that it can still keep the game fresh after all these years

@Bazs121

Жыл бұрын

The rushing to the dragon part got me lmao I remember full sprinting to the tower because I didn't know you can delay quests and I didn't want the dragon to reach the city. It was a blast

@zebragoboom

Жыл бұрын

@@Bazs121 sorry to say, he said the rush OF fighting the dragon. like, feeling the rush. he only did it after goofing off for hours before even getting to whiterun.

I've been thinking about this a lot over the last couple of years after all of the disappointments that have been recent game releases, and realized that the games that I enjoyed the most are games that I didn't know anything about before starting to play, maybe the issue isn't that recent game releases have been bad but that we know way too much about the games before they are released.... If I could turn back time to relive the moments of the first couple of games that I played I would do it without even thinking about it twice.

@lennartweber2228

Жыл бұрын

Nah m8 most recent game releases have just been plain shit. Remember that when u where a child, you saw trailers and lets plays for most games bafore ypu played them yourself. And then when u experienced them, they still ruled. Most modern games just do kot focus on what makes games fun: good gameplay and a memorable story/ lore/ worldbuilding. I gonna rip thos from somebody who commented that under a game review on steam: The modern game market is whide as the ocean but deep as a puddle. Its kind of in the nature of how modern games are made: Huge development teams and a comparatively small vision. Games back then where made by smaller teams, wich in turn allowed more fresh ideas to flow into a project. In modern games a lot of people make a si gle game. Letting everyone pour their ideas into the project would end in conolete chaos. So own ideas must by nature be restricted. With smaller teams you do not have that. Habe a good idea? Run it by your hand full of colleges and if they approve implement it. Plus you whole crew knows abput your idea and if they want to play off that new gameplay mechanic, they cannjust ask you. In a huge team that is not possible. If jerry from the 51 floor had a cool idea, then running that by all the other 50 floors of the company would take ages. I strongly believe that this is the reason why indie games are most times so much better than company games. Fewer restrictions, smaller teams, more creativity, deeper gameplay.

@no3ironman11100

Жыл бұрын

@@lennartweber2228 Bro are you 12 or something. There wasn't any lets plays just 15 years ago.

@Buglin_Burger7878

Жыл бұрын

I don't know, lets compare Gold and Silver and their bonus region to new things. Or you know the fact new games have game breaking bugs for months after release commonly now. Or many bits are left out entirely because they can be added in later (once you finished the game) Or the bits left out to be DLC that is worked on before the game itself is done. You can literally compare differences, it isn't just nostalgia magic there is actual issues.

@Person01234

Жыл бұрын

No, modern gaming is a cesspool. It's not like I don't enjoy games any more but most of the space is just crap. You have to dig pretty hard to find the indie games that aren't crap. And all AAA games are crap. Not all of your games you used to play will have aged well, some were good for their time but are outdated by modern standards, some you may have only enjoyed because you were a kid, but find a game that holds up with solid gameplay and tell me again that it's because you "know too much". I mean the games I'm playing most right now are Minecraft, a game from 2011 and Simutrans, a Freeware game from 1999. There are a couple of modern games I'm looking forward to, but there are a whole lot more modern games that I SHOULD like, that I SHOULD be playing by all rights, but either corporate greed or general limitations in what can be done in the for-profit space with modern tech and modern games markets really hamper modern game design and just make them lacklustre. It's not all nostalgia and knowledge.

@ginge641

Жыл бұрын

Of course the problem there is that as an adult, it's your money you're risking on a game you don't know.

Remember when I knew nothing? Stryxo i still dont know anything

@HeebieJeebs

Жыл бұрын

One who knows nothing can understand nothing - some dude

I remember when I convinced my parents to get me Minecraft, I loaded into my first world and I was so new to video games I didn’t know how to move. I spent 30 minutes pressing all the buttons on my keyboard and eventually I looked up a tutorial, on how to MOVE, in Minecraft. I was so scared of playing in survival I never played in survival until like 3-4 years later.

That is why I enjoy playing older games sometimes. I have no idea how they work, and it is mesmerizing.

I remember when I didn't even exist

The control thing is so expected at this point that when i first played cuphead a few days ago, i was lost, the controls are so different it made the game 10 times harder for me, because at this point i personally expect to jump using 'space', not 'z', it's a thing that kind of transcended genres, so i get confused when it's not there lmao

@vgaggia

Жыл бұрын

If you played a lot of flash games its not too weird, they had some pretty narly control schemes

@kiwayakotako5320

Жыл бұрын

luckily for me i was somewhat used to playing on emulators and for some reason for as long as i remember i've always had Z and X as the A and B buttons, so cuphead didn't take much getting used to

@koopatroopa9646

Жыл бұрын

@@kiwayakotako5320 same here lol i think that was the default control scheme on virtual boy advance back in the day

@Desticler

Жыл бұрын

Personally, I think space only works as a good jump key in games that use the mouse for aiming and attacking. If that specific criteria isn't met, i always used Z to jump.

@ultrasquid579

Жыл бұрын

Most 2d games on PC use the arrow keys for movement, and z, x, and c for inputs. I personally find this hard to get used to, as nearly every other control scheme has you move with your left hand, so I tend to rebind it to use wasd for movement and the arrow keys as inputs.

I’m 13 and got a Switch last Christmas and yesterday I bought and played BOTW and because I have only played Smash Ultimate and Mario cart 8 deluxe the last seven months and because I never have played an modern rpg. BOTW has an entire new game language for me and It’s honestly amazing. An completely new gaming experience not only from a mechanic point of view but from an interactive to.

Still remember trying to make an Aether Portal or creating a shrine of Herobrine and being scared shitless of the consequences. Sweet memories. I wish I kept those worlds…

I wish there was more massive games that just let you go where ever

I totally agree the feeling of the first time can never be replicated and I also feel that it was the best time to play video games. I perfectly remember my first time playing uncharted 1 not knowing anything about the franchise and almost returning it after a hour of playing, but then came one of my favorite franchise of all time. The sense of discovery of the eorld around new and different mechanics which I had never seen before and also the scale of the game. Those chaercters went on and became my favs of all time. No other game till now has been able to match that level of excitement and intrigue and sense of wonder for me and I dont think that will happen again. Same with minecraft, I feel minecraft is all about gradually discovering the world, surving the first night, first time discovering diamonds, your first time beating the dragon. I really miss the time when I knew nothing about these games that was prime of gaming for me.

It feels terrible, but it is such a unique feeling to stare off into the distance in a game and think about what could be there, even though you already know it is just a 2d image. Some part of your curiosity still wants there to be more.

@rubz1390

Жыл бұрын

In Overlord, you have a castle with a balcony that looks setting sun on the mountain silhouette. It's something I appreciate in games and real life,makes me feel like there is something more to existence.

I absolutely love Stryxo! His videos are so well put together and his voice is pretty soothing and there is not one second in his video that he doesn’t utilize. Truly a chad that deserves so many more viewers. Keep up the good work.

@rainbowcloudss_

Жыл бұрын

I agree!

@laprueba6521

Жыл бұрын

is this an ai generated comment?

@samwich2214

Жыл бұрын

@@laprueba6521 no, came straight from the heart

@arkaua

Жыл бұрын

Lol you know it's bad when ppl think your comment is AI generated

@ginge641

Жыл бұрын

@@samwich2214 Definitely AI generated.

i love this idea for a video, first experiences are something special.

Seeing this makes me so glad that the only consoles I had growing up were a wii and GameCube so I’m not familiar with a lot of these games

@Placeholder-lowercasen-ame

Жыл бұрын

same, but instead with the 3ds and wii u

@idkbro12123

Жыл бұрын

GameCube, Nintendo 64, NES, 3DS. yeah those were the days for me

@Sadako2602

Жыл бұрын

@@Placeholder-lowercasen-ame Wow the 3DS and Wii U are someone's childhood, I felt old, and my childhood was the Wii.

honestly with these moments the memories are to blurry for me to remember but honestly i dont remember having much fun playing back in the day even now its really rare for me to enjoy a game

fills me with great pride to have unironically tried to make an aether portal as a kid

I think that everyone can relate to the disappointment of trying to "light" the ether portal

That's why Elden Ring was so refreshing. I'm not gonna finish it, it's too hard for a red-dead-redemption-flight-simulator-type gamer like myself - but man, that game brought out that kid in me. That kid who played Sly 3, but wasn't old enough to understand the objectives - so he spent literally hours and days and months, just running around. Playing the first story mission, over and over again. Until he figured it out, got stuck because it was too hard, and still kept on running around, exploring, having a blast. It took me years to finish those games. It was the best of times. Minecraft, what a game it was (and still is). Pre-2015: How do we sell this game? You better make it great! In 2022, they just have to sell you an idea, make a billion dollar cinematic trailer, insert pay-to-win/pay-to-have-fun here, and in comes the money. I bought so many Ubisoft games these last few years, because I wanted Far Cry 3 and AC: Black Flag again. It took Valhalla, Watch Dogs 3 and Far Cry 6 for me to stop. Those games felt like vomit in my ass crack. Moving around should be fun. Exploring should be fun. Fighting should be fun. Objectives should be fun. Even generic copy-paste content CAN be fun! Ahh, it's just like music. There is so much crap, and the worst crap is at the top. You just have to know where to look.

I was watching one of stryxos streams and he brung up the idea of this video. I’m so glad he ended up making it. One of my favourite vids!

One of my first games was Lego Star wars on the Wii that I played with my older brother. I had to be about seven at the time and I loved the game. Out of all the games on our Wii that was the one I played most (at least after our Wii sports disc broke) now going into the star wars Skywalker saga with a friend who had never played a Lego video game before and didn't really play many video games at all, it was fun to bring back so many of those memories that had been pushed away by my now more favored games like destiny 2, the tomb raider reboot series and God of war.

The first game I really remember playing is cave story on my dad’s computer when I was 6 and every time I come back to it is a very nostalgic experience

This was a very well thought-out video. I enjoyed watching. I do have many fond memories of video games...from when I button-mashed on Sonic Adventure due to not knowing how to play, to when I couldn't figure out how to get out of the house you start in in Pokemon Red... Even though I now know a LOT about video games, I find I can still enjoy them in my own way. I get curious about various things and ask questions that most people don't think to ask, so I can sometimes still find secrets that most people don't find. Sometimes I might just put in place as elf-imposed restriction to add to the experience or to see how I handle it. I know I'm not the only person who does that.

This is a really interesting concept. I subscribed within the first few minutes. Keep pushing the limits on video essay ideas. Love the work.

I vividly remember playing Terarria for the first meaningful time around 5 years ago. I barely knew how to do anything, and it took me months to complete the game. I remember that my house was made suspended between 2 Giant Trees. Now, with 2.2k hours on the game, almost nothing is as fun. I know every little secret, strategy, underrated weapons or gear, every step to getting every weapon or armour, block, anything. I know how to approach any boss fight, most optimized loadout for every moment in the game.... It isn't as fun as it once was, even mods don't bring me much happiness.

@DaviJohns

Жыл бұрын

Have you played calamity, mods can really make a game you've played for hours and hours. Way different. And an entire new experience.

@z4molxe690

Жыл бұрын

@@DaviJohns i just beat supreme Calamitas on revegence with a friend a few days ago, it was definitely the most fun I've had with terraria since the first months of 1.4

Stryxo, it’s been so fun to see you grow!!!! Loving your videos as always!! I also think about the wonder that games like Minecraft used to have. A little bit of that wonder is lost now that my siblings and I have already done everything in the game. But those memories still hold very special places in my heart. I also find it so fun that I never played through the first 3 halo games despite playing so much Halo Reach as a kid. I can’t wait to one day go play those games and have all those new experiences with such beloved classics

It’s funny you made a video about this, there is this update for a game I’ve been waiting over 2 years for. The amount of new content is insane. And completing one of the 40 new objectives is a massive puzzle that is super fun to figure out. It’s the first time I don’t know what to do as I slowly piece everything together.

I remember when I was a kid I always tried to cross the bridges between Manhattan and New York in Lego Marvel Superheros... and I never stopped trying it. My friends also once told me they heard it is actually possible, and that you just have to 100% the game. I of course didn't.

There is something magical about exploring and experiencing a game for the first time, back when we just picked and grabbed it from the store shelf without having heard of it or having watched gameplay beforehand. The pure experience and the strike of luck which made us forever invested into a franchise.

first video of yours I've ever seen an I just have to say I absolutely loved this man, great content. Great topic, well spoken, well edited, etc. Looking forward to diving into your other content.

I 100% miss those first moments with games. The need to ask my cousin for help with Soulsilver and the discovery of Kanto and Red, the mystery events too. Then we also had the Old Chateau in Diamond and Pearl which me and the boys theorized about for hours on end because it felt so out of place and cool. Or the first nights with Minecraft, building parkour in creative but eventually doing my first survival world... and doing it as a hardcore with several strangers. These first feelings haven't left me quite yet, but they do feel distant. But even today, I'm still discovering new experiences. Souls games aren't quite for me, but I experienced them. Danganronpa blew my mind and was super fun, and the story and characters had me stay up hours on end to complete a single chapter. Or my first time with Metroid, being Super. Super changed what I knew about platforming and exploration in games and, much like Zelda, really incentivised me to complete as much of the game as possible. First moment are beautiful, I'm just glad I can continue to experience them with new games. Great video again Stryxo, you nailed this topic on its head.

This guy is actually the most down-to-earth dude that plays video games and keeps that exciting fun energy of playing video games from being a kid back. I Miss that feeling so much but watching these videos brings me back. Keep up the excellent content homie, getting me back into trying and playing a new game.

idk how but you always managed to pick an interesting topic, keep it interesting, all while in short format you make really good stuff keep it up i love it

this is hands down the best thumbnail that pertains to its topic i have ever seen

Man, good times. I always try to replicate that now, always on the search for that feeling just once more. Probably the reason why I search out for new games all the time.

I'm so glad I found your channel.

Call of Duty Black Ops II, the beauty I witnessed playing that game is something I still havent found after all of these years in newer games, with such an amazing campaign and me not knowing about multiple endings, I ended up getting one of the worst and even then it was an incredibly enjoyable experience. Not to mention zombies, my first time loading up Town and just learning what its all about in my basement on a summer with the smell of freshly mowed grass wafting in from a window is a core memory that will never ever leave. Along with coming back to get the diamond camo on shotguns being the only guns I could use with a half broken ps3 controller

you talking about wondering what was behind the skybox reminded me of when i was playing Lego star wars the complete saga, and I so desperately wanted to know what was behind the cantina bar door that the tender would go through sometimes, I literally had dreams about what could be behind there.

Playing Back Ops 1 for the first time on Christmas day while my dad watched next to me in excitement explaining the history behind the bay of pigs and castro , and what Vietnam really was. It peaked my curiosity with Kennedy’s assassination. World at war made me like Nazi zombies but Black Ops made me fucking love it! It would also however be the last game my father would be able to give me. He died the next year and would shape the rest of my life as i know it today. That game was the last COD i got to experience with my dad, I can never forget the first time i played my favorite game. I hope maybe one day i can show him some games that he missed out on that i know he would want to play.

Amazing video man :]

At least we can relive some of this joy by showing loved ones our favorite games

@jacobgardiner9267

Жыл бұрын

That's what I'm doing with my dad, we just finished Halo 2 yesterday

yep, i think about this sometimes, there was some magic with video games that I lost and will (likely) never get back once I understood gaming and there development... it's like that about everything in life, once you realize the rules of reality things progressively lose their magic

The first time I played Roller Coaster Tycoon is hard to forget. I'd always watched my older brother playing and wanted to play myself, but he wouldn't let me. Eventually he made a deal where he wouldn't tell me anything about the game or how to play it, but if I could beat the first level, he'd let me play it whenever I wanted. I failed, but eventually got to play it later, and to this day I still love playing building tycoon and sim games.

I remember watching my first Minecraft Let’s Play by a guy named PaulSoaresJr. I would be on my family PC for hours watching content by him, Kiershar, SeaNanners, AntVenom, etc.. I remember I watched so much to the point where my Aunt was sitting next to me like, “So… you just watch other people play Lego block games? Nerd.” When I first played the game myself, I was such a nerd, but every experience was superbly exciting for me. Fast forward to today, and those all seem like distant memories. However, it’s great to reminisce on how stupid I was (Yes, I’m referring to the Aether portal fail; everyone’s done it). Good times.

@Xerozhwi

Жыл бұрын

P.S. I also did the portal thing for Twilight Forest when it dropped. However, I kinda knew it wouldn’t work then.

I didn’t make the Aether portal thinking it was in base Minecraft, but I downloaded the mod along with other mods in a world me and my friends made. I made the portal when everyone else was offline hoping for them to log on so we could all go but it didn’t work because I downloaded the Aether mod for a different Minecraft mod launcher than the one I was using 💀

The good old times when I was a kid playing Pokemon Blue on Gameboy and tried to find Mew from under the truck. Also going through all the gyms for the first time and Dark Cave and finding my first legendary Pokemon ever: Zapdos and going to the Pokemon League the first time and just when I thought I finally finished the game there's one more opponent that I didn't know about... my rival. It was so exciting not knowing anything and just explore and try to figure out where I need to go, what I need to do and how to solve all the obstacles on the way. Back in the day I didn't have access to internet and I don't even know if there was any website back then that would have helped play through that game so I had to figure it all out by myself and I was so proud of myself when I finally finished the game. Then there was Pokemon Silver and omg I was so excited to play the game with colors. And then Pokemon Crystal where the Pokemons had a little animation. It was so awesome even the little new things.

My first video game was "Sonic Colours", on the Nintendo Wii. It was mid-November, 2010. My grandma had gotten the Wii like two years ago at the time, so, it definitely wasn't new, or as new as **I** thought it was. I was six years old. I had my grandma put the game in the console, and flip the HUGE old CRT's channel to 'Video2', and she gave me the controller. I learnt everything by myself, because my grandma raised me with that mentality. I learnt what button was jump. It was the '2' button. What button was used to dash, the crouch button, and how to activate wisp powers, '1', 'B', and 'shake' respectively. I learnt what red stars were, and collected a few of them through my first playthrough. I got stuck on Asteroid Coaster's boss level for a solid month, but it felt like years back then. I remember a conversation I had about what the final world would be with my grandma, and that I didn't know what it was called. She told me to give it my own name, so- as a dumbass kid, I chose "The Pile of Water", because it sounded COOL and ORIGINAL (do not steal) to me! Eventually, she beat the boss for me after a few days of asking and asking. She already had her own save file, and had completely 100%-ed the game with a guide she used online and never told me about. I wasn't allowed to touch this save file. Then, I got into, and eventually beat 'Terminal Velocity', and I was satisfied. That game started my 11-year-long Sonic obsession. Every year, I make sure to go through and complete the game again in the 'Challenge Mode'. It took me until I was 13 to get every red star. I unlocked Super Sonic, and had a blast with it. Now the game is over ten years old. I'm seventeen as of writing this comment. Thank you, SEGA, for an awesome first game experience. -Chloe Madeline.

Honestly underrated video

I was waiting for you to mention the Stanley Parable, so I'm very glad that you did. It really gives a unique response to players seeking out the limits of the game. It has the irony that Undertale possesses as well, which is already a huge accomplishment, but because you're emerged in a threedimensional world, there's a lot more things the developers should consider. For example: in the starting room of the game, there's a window. Since players can't jump, and we know about games' limitations (developers might have put an invisible wall there), we expect that window to be of no significance. Yet, when a player maneuvers across the room by using ledges to glitch himself out of the window, they fall into an empty white void. How does the game deal with this? Well, while any normal game might have simply prohibited the player from going there (if the developers even found the bug), the Stanley Parable's unicity lies in the fact that they recorded entire voicelines for the narrator in case a player found this bug! There are a couple other moments in the game where something similar can be done, and every time we get new and unique voice lines. This game is entirely about game developing, so one might say it's no surprise that it does this, but I wish other games would do this. Undertale and Doki Doki: Literature Club do an excellent job as well, but they lack the freedom that make the Stanley Parable stand out. Undertale's movement is still two-dimensional, and Doki Doki is one-dimensional (you could even argue for 0 dimensions). The Stanley Parable does something that very few games can still do nowadays: it surprises us, and it does so in a way no game has done before.

Im a long time halo player and I just got my friend into it on pc for the first time and we're now on halo 2 and it's so fun seeing him react to it all

Man if I could relive all the games from my childhood I'd probably be a happier person. But now I know everything from data from how games are made makes me feel so burnt out because when i was a dumb stupid kid I didn't care about all of these things, i just had fun

Oh fuck yeah new Stryxo

I remember playing halo 2's campaign for the first time (In 2020, on OG xbox LOL) and being amazed. I wish I could experience that again. There's a kind of sad nostalgic feeling, but it's incomplete, and you can never feel it again.

This hits like a truck full of nostalgia

Yes, minecraft for me. I played minecraft pvp for thousands of hours over 6 years and love the nostalgia thinking about the first time when I got it.

This is something I think about all the time. Glad to see I wasn't the only one :)

FFVII. Leaving Midgar and realizing that there's a whole WORLD to explore!

This is why I love modding. Players creating new content for games lets you re-live that feeling of learning - personally, my favorite part of any game. I adore Minecraft and Factorio modding in particular, as their mods are so much more complex and expansive than some vanilla content - learning how to automate things in modded Minecraft is so fun when you're first starting

really cool video and a great topic of discussion. I have 1 vivid memory associated with this. I was first exposed to undertale about 2-3 months after it was popular online. I had known it was the popular game but didn't know anything beyond the name and that it was an rpg. I remember watching a full video of the sans fight, and the way he's dressed and how he bleeds at the end as well as his voice made me think he was a mafioso/henchman and that the final boss after him was gonna be the mob boss lol. I didn't spoil myself any further so I had this idea of the game in mind for a while when starting the game.

Man this made me remember as a kid I straight up thought Nacht Der Untoten went on forever and I was so desperate to escape and explore the zombie world. As a little kid I used to think videogames were made by super computer geniuses who dedicated hyper-intelligence to make fun games for people.

Good video stryxo :)

I enjoy knowing what to do and being good at a game. I hate being completely clueless in a game, understanding that I'm clueless, but having no direct idea how to get better.

I'll never forget the first time I played Borderlands 2. I was about 12-13 and on Christmas I got this game I'd never heard of, but it seemed quite interesting and was apparently popular with people who had similar taste for games according to my parents. My parents then went away for a trip or something and my best friend was coming over to spend the night so I waited to play the game with him, we load up this game with no idea what awaits us, what followed is one of my fondest memories, and a game I still occasionally play to this day. What I wouldn't give to go back in time without my memory and do it again.

I'll sometimes look for people on twitch doing first time playthroughs of games I love. It's the closest I can get to experiencing it again for the first time. I also get what you mean by Elden Ring reigniting that feeling of discovery and never knowing what lies ahead, especially because the game world and enemies are so bizarre.

This brought up so many memories. I know San Andreas is relatively new, but I remember as a teen hearing my friends debate over which island of the three was the coolest, and I was just flabbergasted that there was so much for me to find, as I had been doing absolutely everything in Los Santos. Arriving in foggy San Fierro and the luxurious Las Venturas was mind-blowing at the time, after trying to trick the cops tens of times that came after you when crossing the border prematurely. I still have that innate mischievousness regarding limitations placed by developers, for example in RDR2. Hiding inside a wagon so the snipers don't get me, and getting close yet no cigar.

i had the same thing with soul silver, it was my first Pokemon game and i was so surprised and excited by the second region when i unlocked it, when i eventually played pokemon black i tried for ages to find a second region with no luck bc i believed there would be a second region you just had to find

I still remember halo 3 for the first time. I had gone from an old original Xbox to 360, so I had only played 1 before it. 3 was electrifying, and damn that ending where you drive off? I remember screaming at the TV, go faster go faster! On a later run, sitting with a friend for coop, he said to me hey let's drive over here. We found the grunt cowering on that level, and we both died of laughter, and then promptly died as the platforms fell around us

I picked up on this with new TV shows a long time ago. It applies to anything new and enjoyable and I am conscious of it the first time I try anything new, it really helps to enjoy that first time even more. Everything gets harder to enjoy the longer I'm alive though, even new stuff which gets rarer and rarer =\

You made me realize what i love about the fromsoft games and Elden Ring. They make me feel EXACTLY what you were describing.

I no longer play minecraft, but I've started out a long time ago at version 1.2.5, and it was the first game I've ever played. Even though I can't remember exactly my reactions to the first creeper, death, diamonds, or any of that anymore, I do remember the general experience of it, and the incredible sense of curiosity and freedom it gave me as I was first exploring the world I spawned in. I remember that back then, I only got to play at the computer class in my school, since I didn't even have my own computer, and I was exploring the game along with 2 of my best friends. Since we only had very little time at the class for playing, the experience of novelty that I felt while exploring minecraft back then lasted for months. I won't ever forget our first LAN game, where we then made my our first shared base in this dug out hole underground, or the times we went to the library where we brought minecraft on flash drives so we could play on the computers there. Thinking back on these experiences brings back some absolutely incredible memories and it feels really amazing to replay some of those moments in my head, but it's also sort of sad, because while it's something you can never really forget, it's also something you can never really re-experience again.

I am not new to games whatsoever, but one that gave me such great joy having played it for the first time, was the time I played and beat TUNIC in the span of a week. The game follows other games in the genre's you can put it in, but it challenges you by not telling you everything. at all. the game is a joy to explore and just so satisfying to find things in. the game was absolutely fantastic, and I still play it again and again.

Games have more meaning to me now though, when I played No Russian when I was like 13 or whatever I just laughed and found it funny being allowed to execute every human I could find. That's why games are so replayable throughout your life, your perspective changes and it's like playing it again for the first time sometimes.

I got Minecraft in maybe 2008 or 09, because I saw a video of Tobuscus playing it and it looked really fun. That's the only Tobuscus video I've ever watched, just randomly clicked on it one day. He was using mods, but I didn't know what those were, and I was disappointed when the vanilla game seemed to be stripped down. I still continued to play though, and soon the sun was setting, and suddenly I was surrounded by zombies and skeletons hurting me. I walked away from them, not knowing how to run since this was way before they added ctrl to run. I also didn't even have a crafting bench since I had no idea how to craft, so definitely no weapons. I thought I could lose them in the forest, so I hobbled into the trees, and then what seemed like dozens of glowing red eyes descended upon me, and I died to spiders. That was my first night in Minecraft. I did a little research and watched some let's plays. People still made videos describing how to survive your first night back then, which usually involved digging a hole in the side of a hill and waiting. Nowadays I usually have a bed before the first night in a new survival world, or I spend it caving. I've enjoyed the game for a very long time. There are no other games in my life that I have played so much for so long. The replayability is incredible, and the constant updates keep me coming back. If I ever felt like the game was getting boring, or I'd done everything, I would just wait a couple years and it's like a new game again. Exploring the new nether for the first time was so intense.

It’s funny that you slightly touched on racing games and how those controls work because I had an experience twice the first game I ever played was Mario kart Wii in that game you turn the controller to turn the cart someone I played Forza a couple of years later I ended up having that same experience learning a new control scheme

Even in Elden Ring's vast, fully explorable world, the little details scattered about are still incredible, like being able to walk on the small outcroppings next to a balcony and rewarding you with unique items and a miniboss, dungeons that try to mess with your understanding of the game or have hidden secret paths or the unique items if you manage to climb your way down the backside of the beast sanctum.

everytime i hear the story about the eather portal i think back to my childhood and i regret a little bit the fact that i already knew everythin about minecraft, even more than today and that i immediately knew it was a mod. that's a memory i don't have in common with most people and i kinda regret it.

I would erase all of my memories and data of my favourite games just to experience that feeling of the first time playing the game. After you played yours favourite game for several time, it becomes repetitive and you get burnout.

I think outer wilds was such an amazing experience for me because it kinda managed to capture that feeling of not knowing anything again. Learning about all the planets and how the quantum moon works and where to go and what to do and even just how to move. Flying the ship took a long time for me to get to grips with and it sure as hell was a lot of fun.

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The only bad thing about outer wilds is that is incredibly hard to tell people how good of a game it is without ruining the experience.

I remember playing Minecraft on Xbox and not being able to progress because I didn’t know how to jump. It was a small cave with a one block step up as well, and I cherish this memory of my stupidity.

Cool video, that aether portal incident… very relatable

I can't remember my first night in Minecraft, but I do remember playing on my mother's Ipad, mining by going down to bedrock then up to the surface then repeat the process, playing in a non infinite world, my first base which was just a cobblestone box on an island, the worlds my brother and I covered in lava, making lava flow on invisible walls at the edge of the world, trying to do minigames in creative, or a zoo, and overall having fun. I don't really play Minecraft much anymore, but I have very found memories of it

I still remember that I didnt understand holding left click and crafting when first playing minecraft, and being both terrified of digging, as well as the night

Tbh, I think about this a lot, and it's honestly one of my main draws to dnd and ttrpgs as a whole; unless an insane amount of love and attention to detail is put into a game, you can expect that 90% of the things you try that are 2-steps-removed from the gameplay loop you're already doing, will lead to dissapointment, though I still absolutely adore the imagining in trying to even still, and the immersion regardless. And on the other side of the matter, if there *is* so much content so as to support such exploration and imagination and unique creative attempts, there can almost feel like an obligation that you *have* to find every aspect of a game, for those that are more completionist; and if much of it *is* two-steps-removed from the gameplay loop so to speak, then it can be *pretty difficult* to find even a majority of it naturally in a fun way. (though this isn't always the case of course, and this isn't at all me advocating against love and attention to detail, out of the two I'd graciously take the latter anyday) Just I suppose that's where DnD and other ttrpgs shine; There is no real limit to what you can do, no real skybox, no real "oh, invisible wall again", no real "I would've just done this in this situation tbh, but it's not one of the options so-", and a lot of the time, what you come across has about just as solid of a chance of being pulled from their ass as it is to have been prepared weeks in advance, so there's no inherent necessity to explore or not explore in any specific direction, or to try to find every secret, you just immerse yourself and play. (Granted, just like actual game devs, game consoles, game engines, etc, it depends on the dm for all of this as well, but I'd say in dnd it's more-so inherently built around that kind of concept, while in videogames, it's quite a bit harder to pull off something like that)

when i started mc, i just switched to peacefull from normal the moment i saw more than 1 mob, sometimes i wish i didnt i also remember being blown away by the fact that ac2 had 3 cities and had really life historical elements i miss these surprises, now nothings new

I remember the first time I played Minecraft, in 2010 I believe. It was a late school night that was kind of warm and I had just eaten dinner and showered. I then got on my computer to go look for something to entertain me before I had to go to bed in about a half hour. Earlier in the day my friend was talking about this new game called Minecraft and how it was really fun and you could make your own house and stuff. I looked the game up and got on the Minecraft classic player online. Within 10 minutes I was absolutely hooked, I built a spaceship, a big boxy house, and flooded the world. Before I knew it, a couple hours went by and my mom burst into the room with our computer to scold me for staying up way past my bed time. I begged her to buy me the full game the next day and I've been playing it and growing up with it since. So many fun memories of playing with my friends, adventuring, building, fighting, etc.

Yup. I agree with all that has been said. I sometimes look back at Minecraft and how wonderous everything was or how I explored GTA IVs Underground to maybe find the Ratman or Heart of Liberty (which actually exists and I was somewhat scared). I luckily still have Halo and COD asweel as most of Battlefield untouched when it comes to the story but when I finally bought Mass Effect 1-3 it was definetly a different experience because I already knew the lore more or less by heart.

going back and reliving my first playthrough of a game is probably the one thing that connects almost all games I've ever played. I've played so many games now that it's so hard for me to find something to stick with because everything seems to lack the depth I enjoy. And almost never is that the actual game's fault. It just comes down to me having the knowledge I do about games plus getting bored of the story or whatever the content of the game is. I'll look through libraries upon libraries of games I've never played, find one that looks like the perfect game and pick it up only to play it for a few hours and then forget it ever existed and continue to scour for something new. Another problem I've found is that it's become increasingly difficult for me to pick up something new and unfamiliar so I stick with what I know and that ends up in loss of interest pretty fast because I've burnt myself out of that style of gameplay. Something I never thought would happen is I would get bored of gaming but here I am having on the edge of being completely burnt out where I've been sitting for about a year and have no idea what to do about it.

"even though I won't be able to go back and relive playing my favorite game ever for the very first time, I could always find a new favorite game ever and experience THAT for the very first time' man I'm in tears

SO TRUE, I remember trying to make the aether portal and being disappointed. i remember being at a sleepover on my birthday and coming home early for a reason i could not remember. as soon as i stepped in i saw my dad has a Xbox One. I got so happy and me and him sat down and set it up. i get SO confused when trying to play minecraft. Little me didnt realize that it would CHANGE my life. i remember my dad getting battlefield 4 and trying it out cause he got bored. that got him to play the game and only that for the next 6 years constant. Sometimes the smallest things can make the biggest impact.

A first i remember well was the first time a game's story made me cry. This game was Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core. Despite having a PS1 as a kid i never got to play the original FF7 so i didn't know what would happen in Crisis Core and that ending crushed me. I can still hear the music.

my favourite game of all time would be watchdogs 1, there really isnt a single moment i can point out but i loved unlocking all the cars and the gang hideouts were fun, most of all i would say that i was addicted the games you can play on aidens phone.

favorite game ever is celeste, I bought if off my first paycheck over winter break and I remember I sat down and played the game start to finish in 2 days faster than I ever did before and I fell in love, it was the most fun few days ever