Hello and welcome to my channel! I'm very passionate about music, video games, and film, all of which I've been collecting for over 30 years. My content is centered around history, nostalgia, and most of all, having fun enjoying physical media.
Great list! I haven't played max Payne 2 or the MGS game. But I played and loved the first three. Enslaved is such a hidden gem. Sad it didn't get the press and marketing and the ending was a cliff hanger. I'm actually playing new vegas now and am loving it. A little dated, obviously but I see why it's celebrated
@RetroMediaRoomКүн бұрын
Oh man Max Payne 2 is an absolute classic, I highly recommend it 😀
@zachabama2 күн бұрын
I am ONE game short for a complete North American set. And the game I am missing is by far the most expensive Sega Saturn game 😭
@RetroMediaRoom2 күн бұрын
That's REALLY impressive 👏
@6661082 күн бұрын
Aussie here. Eb games is still up and running. GameStop must of left it be here after buying iut
@RetroMediaRoom2 күн бұрын
Yep it has become regional.
@lolcat4 күн бұрын
dragon age origins is great too
@RetroMediaRoom4 күн бұрын
Yep, I have it and need to play it.
@NichalousSteele4 күн бұрын
Dude Finnish the game before you review it
@RetroMediaRoom4 күн бұрын
It's a first impressions mini review video, not complete reviews, also, I'd maybe get one or two videos a month done if I only talked about games I've beaten completely.
@BabyFlaminHot4 күн бұрын
You complain about resellers but you make a video that just encourages that.
@RetroMediaRoom4 күн бұрын
Sharing market values that are publicly available of games that I keep from my collection has no bearing whatsoever on scalpers preemptively purchasing mass quantities of brand new items using bots to immediately resale on eBay. So if a watch collector shows off his Rolex in a video, is it then his fault that others make imitation Rolex watches to scam people? The logic doesn't track. I guess it's also my fault if someone's games get stolen because the robbers that broke into their house knew the values of the games they spotted because they happened to watch my video. Sounds pretty far fetched to me.
@jUAN.T4 күн бұрын
Hitman Contracts on xbox series s|x is king
@MrKingSob4 күн бұрын
Idea for a video is setup tour. The TV you use, systems you have etc. As someone just getting in to building a gaming room im looking for ideas. And for ways to hook things up
@Mr.SodaJerk4 күн бұрын
Quake 4 has a horrible frame rate
@RetroMediaRoom4 күн бұрын
Yeah it's rough, I forgot to mention it was a launch title, it was probably rushed.
@Mr.SodaJerk4 күн бұрын
@@RetroMediaRoom I literally just bought it 12 hours ago and was shocked at how bad is
@RetroMediaRoom4 күн бұрын
@@Mr.SodaJerk I still enjoy the game, but one of these days I'm going to have a better gaming PC and play it with a smooth framerate.
@k2you215 күн бұрын
Never played diablo , is it satanic ?
@RetroMediaRoom5 күн бұрын
Not in an egregious way for the most part, mostly fantasy good versus evil type of stuff using hell and demons. An example of a game I'd say from a Christian perspective that's much more egregious is Tecmo's Deception on PS1 where your goal of the game is to resurrect Satan himself using the souls of your victims.
@MakeLifeExtraordinary5 күн бұрын
Condemned is still one of the best psychological horror/detective games ever made. Games today still haven’t matched its atmosphere and gameplay. When you can hear an enemy walking around you, but can’t see them because it’s so dark and then you hear them pull a conduit pipe off the wall and see the sparks and know they are coming at you with it… it’s incredible. And still to this day, I can’t think of one game that has matched. It’s AI, other than FEAR. The fact that enemies can find and use weapons in the environment, brings an entirely new level to the gameplay. Still one of my favorite games to this day and I wish Sega would pull it out of the archives and either remake it or have somebody else do so, introduce an entirely new generation to it and then make a new game. I also wish FEAR would get a remake and then a new game.
@RetroMediaRoom5 күн бұрын
Absolutely! Even in my gameplay footage you see me catching a guy attempting to pull a circuit rod off the wall and I stopped him with the taser, the level of detail is awesome!
@apex08245 күн бұрын
I replayed Condemned last year after maybe a decade or so. It was one of my favorite 360 launch titles. Had a blast replaying it. Just have to say that Rosa looks like a man...
@RetroMediaRoom5 күн бұрын
Yeah those character models are a bit rough Lol
@cameronleehorace5 күн бұрын
Is fallout better on xbox series x than it is on PC?
@RetroMediaRoom5 күн бұрын
If you have a capable rig no, especially if you're into mods.
@cameronleehorace5 күн бұрын
@@RetroMediaRoom I do not usually use mods but my PC is good enough, I have the xbox as modern games struggle on it. But things like Skyrim and games up to about 2019 work great
@RetroMediaRoom5 күн бұрын
@@cameronleehorace then I'd say it'll probably play more than fine, mind you I'm very limited in my modern PC gaming repertoire, more so I played PC games growing up in the 90s.
@cameronleehorace3 күн бұрын
@@RetroMediaRoom My PC crashes so much now actually. I rarely use it and it sucks how tech from just 5 years ago becomes unusable. Probably after all I might use the xbox for backward compatibility
@RetroMediaRoom3 күн бұрын
Yeah that's why I stick with consoles 99% of the time, things just work with less hassle.
@freddiegreen64916 күн бұрын
Condemned criminal originals is my favorite horror game of all time! Feel like a new one with todays technology would be insane
@RetroMediaRoom6 күн бұрын
A 3rd title would be very cool! 😀
@buggerlugz67536 күн бұрын
If you could play 360 games directly off the Disc then yes it would be "better". Unfortunately this isn't the case in 2024.
@RetroMediaRoom6 күн бұрын
Yeah an internet connection is required unfortunately.
@shadowguy200046 күн бұрын
DWGundam 2 is a perfect entry game into Gundam, DWG3 is perfect for experienced fans
@RetroMediaRoom6 күн бұрын
Agreed, that's what it felt like to me too 😀
@daveylugs70936 күн бұрын
Managed to get my hands on Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3 again last week 😊😁
@RetroMediaRoom6 күн бұрын
That's awesome! 😀
@deusvlad2.0836 күн бұрын
No wonder why Capcom suck now, they lost the original developers of capcom that are now called platinum games. Which means platinum games last job they worked on something before Nier Automata. back and before in 2017 which means even as far back as before bayonetta Capcom mind you haven't been good for years now.
@RetroMediaRoom6 күн бұрын
I don't know, Resident Evil has been very good lately, but yes some of their legacy devs have done some better Capcom style games over at Platinum throughout time.
@deusvlad2.0836 күн бұрын
Lollipop chainsaw doesn't play better on series X than it did on xbox360 too.
@RetroMediaRoom6 күн бұрын
I can't speak to that yet, I own it but haven't played it.
@deusvlad2.0836 күн бұрын
@@RetroMediaRoom I have, the new one won't have the licensed music in it, licensed outfits, and the graphics a bit darker shaded, but ruined some scenes in the classic, which actually looked better than the repop.
@Frozenduckling7 күн бұрын
I can’t play fallout 3 or new Vegas on my Xbox 360. It freezes every 10 minutes and the loading screens are very long. But on the Xbox series x they load quick and don’t freeze. When fallout freezes on the Xbox 360 I have to plug the cord out of the wall just to turn the Xbox 360 off.
@RetroMediaRoom7 күн бұрын
Yeah that's EXACTLY why I wanted to showcase these because they're so much more playable on new hardware 😃
@bigmac3717 күн бұрын
It’ll play even better on a pc too!
@RetroMediaRoom7 күн бұрын
Oh yeah that's the absolute premium way to play more often than not with a decent rig. My channel is focused on console gaming so that's why I usually don't get into the PC side of things much.
@bigmac3715 күн бұрын
@@RetroMediaRoomI see, since these games are older you don’t need a beefy GPU. MGR holds a special place above other games Forsure !
@Ronsilk-pu5hr7 күн бұрын
Xbox backwards compatibility does not get the praise that it deserves. I play lots of them on my Series X
@RetroMediaRoom7 күн бұрын
Absolutely right, that's why I've been wanting to make these videos, I absolutely love it 😀
@josuecervantes17578 күн бұрын
I remember being way too young when I first saw condemned at my cousins house. Game still looks great after all these years. It was impressive back then when I first saw it and still is. Can’t wait to finally play it.
@RetroMediaRoom8 күн бұрын
It's really great, you'll have a good time!
@RetroMediaRoom8 күн бұрын
CORRECTION: Fallout New Vegas doesn't have the resolution and graphical detail upgrades that I mentioned, I confused that with the upgrades Fallout 3 recieved from its Xbox One X upgrades, so for Vegas it is the 60fps boost mode at native 720p (which fooled me because I thought it looked pretty sharp) and the screen tearing is eliminated which is very nice. Yes it's still the best way to play on consoles, but I wanted to correct my statement. Sorry about that, I really try to be as accurate as possible.
@FrogThumb6 күн бұрын
Don’t beat yourself up over it! Mistakes happen and it doesn’t affect the video’s high quality! :)
@RetroMediaRoom6 күн бұрын
Thank you! 🙏 Honesty, integrity, and NOT being an AI riddled clickbait channel is what I'm striving for.
@PlasticSorcererTheOriginal5 күн бұрын
@RetroMediaRoom there is one extra benefit, 16x Anisotrop filtering.
@RetroMediaRoom5 күн бұрын
Oh right that's worth mentioning, yes it's natively 720p, but it still looks a bit better with that automatic feature that is enabled for most backwards compatible games so they're always going to somewhat sharper even without native upgrades.
@PlasticSorcererTheOriginal5 күн бұрын
@RetroMediaRoom it should be on by default for all 360 as well as Xbone games running through a Series X. The games without it are usually some 360 games that got the full 4K treatment. Ones without it from the top of my head that didn't seem to get an AF boost were: Oblivion, Witcher 2 (IIRC) and Halo 3 (according to DF video on Halo 3 through back compat vs Master Cheif Collection).
@13Carrey18 күн бұрын
DAMN I love the Intro of ur channel! :)
@RetroMediaRoom8 күн бұрын
Thanks! 😃
@RetroMediaRoom7 күн бұрын
For what it's worth, it's my original music and I also have a Playlist of music videos that I've produced and edited with my songs and some of my brothers.
@13Carrey17 күн бұрын
@@RetroMediaRoom that is cool but i also love the retro 80s vibe intro i tried this in a similar way but yeah :)
@NathanCorrado-yn2yx8 күн бұрын
Mx vs Atv Supercrods AC2 Gears of war 2 Mw2 Cod 4 mw I wish fall of cybertron was still available one of my all time favorites as a kid for sure
@RetroMediaRoom8 күн бұрын
All sorts of good titles 👌
@vinniecorleone628 күн бұрын
A very enjoyable segment on these lessor know 360 games! Frankly "Ride to Hell Retrobution" is a very fun guilty pleasure, I even enjoyed buying the DLC for it before the 360 Store went dark! I was absolutely delighted to see you show the 2009 reboot "Wolfenstein" some love! It was the excuse to finally buy a Xbox 360, as I didn't have one up to that point. In fact the first day of release I bought a brand new Xbox 360 Elite, which that same day was when Microsoft dropped the price of the console down $50 (first year with the vastly improved Falcon chip, that won't Red Ring). I love the "Wolfenstein" game so much & was blown away by the fantastic graphics Raven put into that game, that later that night I drove to Best Buy & bought the highest quality Flagship HD Samsung TV they had, just to savor the greatly enhanced HD visuals of the Xbox 360 & the game! It is in my Top 10 Favorite Xbox 360 games & I was pleased to hear you do it justice my friend!
@RetroMediaRoom8 күн бұрын
Thanks for sharing, this is why I love to talk about these classic and underrated games 😀
@jasonwilliams50468 күн бұрын
@jasonwilliams5046 0 seconds ago Alan Wake Assassins Creed Binary Domain Darksiders Dead space 2 Fable Far Cry 3 FEAR FF XIII Lightning Returns Medal of Honor Airborne Mirrors Edge Gears of War 3
@voidofhope62598 күн бұрын
FEAR remains one of the best games I’ve ever played. Darksiders also another sick ass game. Farcry 2 and 3 to me are and will remain the best of that series. My dad used to love watching me chainsaw shit to death in Gears…good times. Medal Of Honor and I go way back to the very beginning. Got the first one at EB Games at a mall in 5th grade. You can’t go wrong really with any MOH games from Ps1 or 2
@emeraldweapon78 күн бұрын
Someone tell me why fallout Vegas never works on PC
@RetroMediaRoom8 күн бұрын
Yeah hopefully someone has some insight because that's outside of my knowledge.
@Hughesburner5 күн бұрын
I put 90hrs into it on steam deck a few months ago with maybe 5 crashes. I have maybe 2-3hrs in windows steam with no issues. The crashes are to desktop with only one real gamebreaking glitch. I think more of these were in the first 10-15hrs.
@Wierie_4 күн бұрын
It can work but needs mod patches and stability mods. Stuff like tick fix, 4gb patcher etc. I heard the gog version runs the best out of the box if i’m not mistaken.
@Wierie_4 күн бұрын
Follow the viva la vegas modding guide for the best way to play new vegas stability wise.
@vinniecorleone628 күн бұрын
I found your channel via your recent Xbox 360 backwards compatible games video. Terrific job on picking excellent games to return to on modern hardware & well edited! I gave this video & your 360 one a big Like & subbed as a avid original Xbox & 360 fan! Looking forward to going through your videos & certainly up & coming uploads my friend, have a good one!
@RetroMediaRoom8 күн бұрын
Thank you very much and welcome aboard 😀
@jonathangrigg27288 күн бұрын
I’m at the part of your video where you got to New Vegas and you say it has better draw distances and better resolution. That’s not true at all, it’s still native 720p, draw distance is the exact same. It has FPS Boost to hit 60fps. That is all. When you mention Metal Gear Rising: Revengence, you mention Shinji Mikami and Platinum doing a phenomenal job. He left Platinum 3 years before they made Metal Gear Metal Gear Rising, and Hideki Kamiya is the creator of Bayonetta, and he also had nothing to do with MGR:R, no where to be seen in the credits of Platinum employees that worked on MGR:R.
@RetroMediaRoom8 күн бұрын
Okay New Vegas was my bad, I just took a look back and mixed up in my mind the carried over Xbox One X upgrades they did to Fallout 3 that are lacking for Vegas, you are correct and I'll make a note about it, they fixed the screen tearing and did the framerate boost to 60fps in it's original native 720p and that's pretty much it graphically. With Platinum Games I didn't do a super detailed timeline research into them for this so I should have just mentioned the fact that they were founded by Mikami and clearly his legacy and influence remained. While not created by the EXACT director of Bayonetta, Atsushi Inaba was the producer of Metal Gear Rising and was also producer of Bayonetta 2 and worked on Devil May Cry 2001 so I'm not exactly way off by mentioning those other games, all in all I was just trying to draw a picture of what Platinum Games has done as a team and Metal Gear Rising fits right along with what you would expect as a quality action game the likes of DMC and Bayonetta, which some members of the devs are connected to.
@jonathangrigg27287 күн бұрын
@@RetroMediaRoom it’s all good. Love your content
@RetroMediaRoom7 күн бұрын
I always like to correct the record so much appreciated 🤝
@robertrosalez65608 күн бұрын
I don't know why Stranglehold is not on Steam but GOG has it
@RetroMediaRoom8 күн бұрын
I don't know either that's weird 😕
@Ryglado8 күн бұрын
I still have these and will never part with them. I’ve not yet got the 4k but will do at some point.
@RokushoHasashi8 күн бұрын
I played Condemned Criminal Origins a long time ago. It's a great horror game, and I will definitely be getting this game. I recently just bought Medal Gear Rising Revengeance a month ago on Ebay for $20 and bought the DLC on the Xbox Marketplace afterward. It's a fun game. I bought I bought Max Payne 3 [CIB] for X360 almost 3 years ago from Facebook Marketplace in a 4 game bundle for $45 [$11.25 for each game]. I own Max Payne 1 & 2 as well, and I'm looking forward to Max Payne 1 & 2 Remake! RIP James McCaffrey 😢🙏🏽💔
@RetroMediaRoom8 күн бұрын
Yeah RIP, he was a legend 😥
@RokushoHasashi8 күн бұрын
He definitely is a legend ❤️
@ezioauditoredafirenze54538 күн бұрын
You can order Rad2X cables from Retro Gaming Cables which is in the UK. They are costly and with EU depart the customs to EU countries are there and of course to USA etc. other non EU countries. But they are good. It changes the output to HDMI from GameCubes digital output and they are top of notch cables with all kinds of image, sound interference protection etc. In short high tech put expensive.
@ezioauditoredafirenze54538 күн бұрын
Got that Eternal Darkness finally few months ago in good condition. It was 40-45 euros.
@RetroMediaRoom8 күн бұрын
Sweet! I hope you enjoy 😀
@ezioauditoredafirenze54538 күн бұрын
I'm missing that Condemned from these but it's on my list. New games coming next week again. This week I got: Aliens vs Predator steelbook version (Xbox 360) Vagrant Story (PS1) Crash Bash (PS1) Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2 (PS3) Dragon's Dogma (PS3) Syndicate (PS3 and Xbox 360) Generation Zero (Xbox One) Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions (Xbox 360) Remember Me (Xbox 360) Wipeout HD Pulse (PS3) Batman: Arkham Origins (Xbox 360) The Saboteur (PS3) It's fun to collect games and game consoles but there's only limited amount of space for them. 🙄 What games have you got lately folks?
@RetroMediaRoom8 күн бұрын
That's an awesome list! 👍
@13Carrey17 күн бұрын
@@RetroMediaRoom I have to say that Condemed is indexed here in Germany and the selling is forbidden because of the inhuman and cruel depiction of violence as well as the glorification of vigilante justice and the use of violence in the game like they said here.
@RetroMediaRoom7 күн бұрын
Wow that's wild 😳
@teedotfoster9 күн бұрын
Max Payne 3 is one of the best games ever made. It still looks amazing and the gunplay is great. You will die a lot tho lol
@RetroMediaRoom9 күн бұрын
Oh man you ain't kidding, I died a lot just capturing the gameplay 😅
@warehousedave79379 күн бұрын
360 actually had over 250 games that were physically exclusive to the console if you dont count PC versions. Exclusives were a very strong point for the console.
@RetroMediaRoom9 күн бұрын
Sure, more so referring to the current state of Xbox by appreciating the good old days.
@nathanchambers9859 күн бұрын
How many of those 250 games were top rated triple A titles? Most of them were shovel ware.
@warehousedave79378 күн бұрын
@@nathanchambers985 exactly 27 of them were top rated triple A titles, 18 of them were top rated double A titles, 22 of them were above average rated double A titles, 26 of them were above average rated single A titles. And an addition 16 of them were above average but not top rated AAA titles.
@warehousedave79378 күн бұрын
@@nathanchambers985 also an interesting phenomenon with 7th gen games generally is that modern reviews and ratings given by users are MUCH higher on certain games than they received back in 2006-2013. This proves that many games were simply way ahead of their time and could not be appreciated until many years had passed. A few examples are Operation Darkness, Ninja Blade, Deadly Premonition, Darkest of Days, Lost Dimension, Fatal Inertia. These games are much more appreciated now. Only a bonehead would judge by outdated review scores.
@ezioauditoredafirenze54538 күн бұрын
@@nathanchambers985So are you really saying that only AAA games are good? There are plenty of AA games that are great games. Just one good example from last year: RoboCop: Rogue City.
@B4reDown9 күн бұрын
“I don’t want to unfold that, I want to keep it nice” It’s a paper map/poster of a game youll never play or sell. Unless you are just collecting for profit, which is called reselling. Smh. You guys are so funny.
@RetroMediaRoom9 күн бұрын
Being obsessive is part of having a collector's brain, I try to find a balance but don't always succeed.
@B4reDown9 күн бұрын
@@RetroMediaRoom I think that’s totally fair, and I am not of the opinion that “someone else could enjoy it if you won’t” I just think you are shorting yourself on fully enjoying stuff like that in the name of preserving it.
@RetroMediaRoom9 күн бұрын
Yeah, sometimes I care and sometimes I don't so intensely, more often than not I really do enjoy this stuff and try not to worry too much about "messing it up"
@trueultimagod246510 күн бұрын
I was lucky enough to get the Xbox One versions of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1 and 2 digitally. None of the versions ran well performance wise on their original hardware. But the Xbox One release on a Series X for the 1st time actually brute forces the game to a locked smooth 60fps.
@RetroMediaRoom10 күн бұрын
That's great! I'm in the same exact situation with the PS4 versions on PS5, brute forces at least the first one to 60fps which is really nice!
@user-zz5uv4fw1s12 күн бұрын
I hate dead alive.
@RetroMediaRoom11 күн бұрын
👍
@samw.873412 күн бұрын
I don't think MAU DLCs you aren't really losing that much. MAU 1, you lose the ability to use 8 characters, and thats about it. Like you said, it's still very enjoyable even without them🤷♂️
@RetroMediaRoom12 күн бұрын
Oh yeah absolutely still worth playing 👌
@boosk212712 күн бұрын
Alter code F and Xenosaga 3 are two of the best ps2 games. The ending of both are fantastic
@17JordanHM1712 күн бұрын
Uhm, Ultimate Alliance 1 and 2 are backwards compatible though, unless they patched them so they are no longer because i did play the disc of the 360 on xbox one and it was not the updated one
@RetroMediaRoom12 күн бұрын
Nope, just tried it in case I was mistaken, and I can't find any evidence that it was once compatible either, even on Xbox.com back in 2021 they answered a customer's question and said it never was.
@Amp515012 күн бұрын
I loved kotor, it blew my mind 20 years ago
@RetroMediaRoom12 күн бұрын
That twist though 🤯
@Jinkyuu199913 күн бұрын
Golden axe beast rider for me and WET!
@RetroMediaRoom13 күн бұрын
You're in luck! I happened to cover WET in the very next video "5 More Xbox 360 Games That Are Still Not BC"
@Jinkyuu19995 күн бұрын
@RetroMediaRoom What about Golden axe beast rider
@RetroMediaRoom4 күн бұрын
Unfortunately I do not possess that one right now 😕
@KujaNoka13 күн бұрын
i admire the quality and consistency of your content!
@RetroMediaRoom13 күн бұрын
Thank you! 😀
@josuecervantes175714 күн бұрын
Quake 4 backwards compatibility with fps boost would be sick!
@RetroMediaRoom14 күн бұрын
It really would be, maybe they'll eventually bring it back somehow.
@Guernicaman15 күн бұрын
Seriously wish all these games had become backwards-compatible, but especially titkes like Captain America, as I remember enjoying the gane's combat. Any resolution & frame-dips would've no doubt been taken care of my the more powerful hardware thru emulation. Don't understand why Wolfenstein (360) & Return to Castle Wolfenstein (OG Xbox) aren't backwards-compatible - especially now that MicroSoft owns both Bethesda & Activision, who own the ip & published the former on Xbos 360. I'm also a fan of of Anarchy Reigns, which for the life of me never understood why the game wasn't made backwards-compatible, especially when SEGA's own Vanquish & Bayonetta already were! There's no ip relicensing involved which I'm aware of, so what gives? I can see why SEGA was hesistany in making their Fist of the North Star games backwards-compatible, but Anarchy Reigns?
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Great list! I haven't played max Payne 2 or the MGS game. But I played and loved the first three. Enslaved is such a hidden gem. Sad it didn't get the press and marketing and the ending was a cliff hanger. I'm actually playing new vegas now and am loving it. A little dated, obviously but I see why it's celebrated
Oh man Max Payne 2 is an absolute classic, I highly recommend it 😀
I am ONE game short for a complete North American set. And the game I am missing is by far the most expensive Sega Saturn game 😭
That's REALLY impressive 👏
Aussie here. Eb games is still up and running. GameStop must of left it be here after buying iut
Yep it has become regional.
dragon age origins is great too
Yep, I have it and need to play it.
Dude Finnish the game before you review it
It's a first impressions mini review video, not complete reviews, also, I'd maybe get one or two videos a month done if I only talked about games I've beaten completely.
You complain about resellers but you make a video that just encourages that.
Sharing market values that are publicly available of games that I keep from my collection has no bearing whatsoever on scalpers preemptively purchasing mass quantities of brand new items using bots to immediately resale on eBay. So if a watch collector shows off his Rolex in a video, is it then his fault that others make imitation Rolex watches to scam people? The logic doesn't track. I guess it's also my fault if someone's games get stolen because the robbers that broke into their house knew the values of the games they spotted because they happened to watch my video. Sounds pretty far fetched to me.
Hitman Contracts on xbox series s|x is king
Idea for a video is setup tour. The TV you use, systems you have etc. As someone just getting in to building a gaming room im looking for ideas. And for ways to hook things up
Quake 4 has a horrible frame rate
Yeah it's rough, I forgot to mention it was a launch title, it was probably rushed.
@@RetroMediaRoom I literally just bought it 12 hours ago and was shocked at how bad is
@@Mr.SodaJerk I still enjoy the game, but one of these days I'm going to have a better gaming PC and play it with a smooth framerate.
Never played diablo , is it satanic ?
Not in an egregious way for the most part, mostly fantasy good versus evil type of stuff using hell and demons. An example of a game I'd say from a Christian perspective that's much more egregious is Tecmo's Deception on PS1 where your goal of the game is to resurrect Satan himself using the souls of your victims.
Condemned is still one of the best psychological horror/detective games ever made. Games today still haven’t matched its atmosphere and gameplay. When you can hear an enemy walking around you, but can’t see them because it’s so dark and then you hear them pull a conduit pipe off the wall and see the sparks and know they are coming at you with it… it’s incredible. And still to this day, I can’t think of one game that has matched. It’s AI, other than FEAR. The fact that enemies can find and use weapons in the environment, brings an entirely new level to the gameplay. Still one of my favorite games to this day and I wish Sega would pull it out of the archives and either remake it or have somebody else do so, introduce an entirely new generation to it and then make a new game. I also wish FEAR would get a remake and then a new game.
Absolutely! Even in my gameplay footage you see me catching a guy attempting to pull a circuit rod off the wall and I stopped him with the taser, the level of detail is awesome!
I replayed Condemned last year after maybe a decade or so. It was one of my favorite 360 launch titles. Had a blast replaying it. Just have to say that Rosa looks like a man...
Yeah those character models are a bit rough Lol
Is fallout better on xbox series x than it is on PC?
If you have a capable rig no, especially if you're into mods.
@@RetroMediaRoom I do not usually use mods but my PC is good enough, I have the xbox as modern games struggle on it. But things like Skyrim and games up to about 2019 work great
@@cameronleehorace then I'd say it'll probably play more than fine, mind you I'm very limited in my modern PC gaming repertoire, more so I played PC games growing up in the 90s.
@@RetroMediaRoom My PC crashes so much now actually. I rarely use it and it sucks how tech from just 5 years ago becomes unusable. Probably after all I might use the xbox for backward compatibility
Yeah that's why I stick with consoles 99% of the time, things just work with less hassle.
Condemned criminal originals is my favorite horror game of all time! Feel like a new one with todays technology would be insane
A 3rd title would be very cool! 😀
If you could play 360 games directly off the Disc then yes it would be "better". Unfortunately this isn't the case in 2024.
Yeah an internet connection is required unfortunately.
DWGundam 2 is a perfect entry game into Gundam, DWG3 is perfect for experienced fans
Agreed, that's what it felt like to me too 😀
Managed to get my hands on Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3 again last week 😊😁
That's awesome! 😀
No wonder why Capcom suck now, they lost the original developers of capcom that are now called platinum games. Which means platinum games last job they worked on something before Nier Automata. back and before in 2017 which means even as far back as before bayonetta Capcom mind you haven't been good for years now.
I don't know, Resident Evil has been very good lately, but yes some of their legacy devs have done some better Capcom style games over at Platinum throughout time.
Lollipop chainsaw doesn't play better on series X than it did on xbox360 too.
I can't speak to that yet, I own it but haven't played it.
@@RetroMediaRoom I have, the new one won't have the licensed music in it, licensed outfits, and the graphics a bit darker shaded, but ruined some scenes in the classic, which actually looked better than the repop.
I can’t play fallout 3 or new Vegas on my Xbox 360. It freezes every 10 minutes and the loading screens are very long. But on the Xbox series x they load quick and don’t freeze. When fallout freezes on the Xbox 360 I have to plug the cord out of the wall just to turn the Xbox 360 off.
Yeah that's EXACTLY why I wanted to showcase these because they're so much more playable on new hardware 😃
It’ll play even better on a pc too!
Oh yeah that's the absolute premium way to play more often than not with a decent rig. My channel is focused on console gaming so that's why I usually don't get into the PC side of things much.
@@RetroMediaRoomI see, since these games are older you don’t need a beefy GPU. MGR holds a special place above other games Forsure !
Xbox backwards compatibility does not get the praise that it deserves. I play lots of them on my Series X
Absolutely right, that's why I've been wanting to make these videos, I absolutely love it 😀
I remember being way too young when I first saw condemned at my cousins house. Game still looks great after all these years. It was impressive back then when I first saw it and still is. Can’t wait to finally play it.
It's really great, you'll have a good time!
CORRECTION: Fallout New Vegas doesn't have the resolution and graphical detail upgrades that I mentioned, I confused that with the upgrades Fallout 3 recieved from its Xbox One X upgrades, so for Vegas it is the 60fps boost mode at native 720p (which fooled me because I thought it looked pretty sharp) and the screen tearing is eliminated which is very nice. Yes it's still the best way to play on consoles, but I wanted to correct my statement. Sorry about that, I really try to be as accurate as possible.
Don’t beat yourself up over it! Mistakes happen and it doesn’t affect the video’s high quality! :)
Thank you! 🙏 Honesty, integrity, and NOT being an AI riddled clickbait channel is what I'm striving for.
@RetroMediaRoom there is one extra benefit, 16x Anisotrop filtering.
Oh right that's worth mentioning, yes it's natively 720p, but it still looks a bit better with that automatic feature that is enabled for most backwards compatible games so they're always going to somewhat sharper even without native upgrades.
@RetroMediaRoom it should be on by default for all 360 as well as Xbone games running through a Series X. The games without it are usually some 360 games that got the full 4K treatment. Ones without it from the top of my head that didn't seem to get an AF boost were: Oblivion, Witcher 2 (IIRC) and Halo 3 (according to DF video on Halo 3 through back compat vs Master Cheif Collection).
DAMN I love the Intro of ur channel! :)
Thanks! 😃
For what it's worth, it's my original music and I also have a Playlist of music videos that I've produced and edited with my songs and some of my brothers.
@@RetroMediaRoom that is cool but i also love the retro 80s vibe intro i tried this in a similar way but yeah :)
Mx vs Atv Supercrods AC2 Gears of war 2 Mw2 Cod 4 mw I wish fall of cybertron was still available one of my all time favorites as a kid for sure
All sorts of good titles 👌
A very enjoyable segment on these lessor know 360 games! Frankly "Ride to Hell Retrobution" is a very fun guilty pleasure, I even enjoyed buying the DLC for it before the 360 Store went dark! I was absolutely delighted to see you show the 2009 reboot "Wolfenstein" some love! It was the excuse to finally buy a Xbox 360, as I didn't have one up to that point. In fact the first day of release I bought a brand new Xbox 360 Elite, which that same day was when Microsoft dropped the price of the console down $50 (first year with the vastly improved Falcon chip, that won't Red Ring). I love the "Wolfenstein" game so much & was blown away by the fantastic graphics Raven put into that game, that later that night I drove to Best Buy & bought the highest quality Flagship HD Samsung TV they had, just to savor the greatly enhanced HD visuals of the Xbox 360 & the game! It is in my Top 10 Favorite Xbox 360 games & I was pleased to hear you do it justice my friend!
Thanks for sharing, this is why I love to talk about these classic and underrated games 😀
@jasonwilliams5046 0 seconds ago Alan Wake Assassins Creed Binary Domain Darksiders Dead space 2 Fable Far Cry 3 FEAR FF XIII Lightning Returns Medal of Honor Airborne Mirrors Edge Gears of War 3
FEAR remains one of the best games I’ve ever played. Darksiders also another sick ass game. Farcry 2 and 3 to me are and will remain the best of that series. My dad used to love watching me chainsaw shit to death in Gears…good times. Medal Of Honor and I go way back to the very beginning. Got the first one at EB Games at a mall in 5th grade. You can’t go wrong really with any MOH games from Ps1 or 2
Someone tell me why fallout Vegas never works on PC
Yeah hopefully someone has some insight because that's outside of my knowledge.
I put 90hrs into it on steam deck a few months ago with maybe 5 crashes. I have maybe 2-3hrs in windows steam with no issues. The crashes are to desktop with only one real gamebreaking glitch. I think more of these were in the first 10-15hrs.
It can work but needs mod patches and stability mods. Stuff like tick fix, 4gb patcher etc. I heard the gog version runs the best out of the box if i’m not mistaken.
Follow the viva la vegas modding guide for the best way to play new vegas stability wise.
I found your channel via your recent Xbox 360 backwards compatible games video. Terrific job on picking excellent games to return to on modern hardware & well edited! I gave this video & your 360 one a big Like & subbed as a avid original Xbox & 360 fan! Looking forward to going through your videos & certainly up & coming uploads my friend, have a good one!
Thank you very much and welcome aboard 😀
I’m at the part of your video where you got to New Vegas and you say it has better draw distances and better resolution. That’s not true at all, it’s still native 720p, draw distance is the exact same. It has FPS Boost to hit 60fps. That is all. When you mention Metal Gear Rising: Revengence, you mention Shinji Mikami and Platinum doing a phenomenal job. He left Platinum 3 years before they made Metal Gear Metal Gear Rising, and Hideki Kamiya is the creator of Bayonetta, and he also had nothing to do with MGR:R, no where to be seen in the credits of Platinum employees that worked on MGR:R.
Okay New Vegas was my bad, I just took a look back and mixed up in my mind the carried over Xbox One X upgrades they did to Fallout 3 that are lacking for Vegas, you are correct and I'll make a note about it, they fixed the screen tearing and did the framerate boost to 60fps in it's original native 720p and that's pretty much it graphically. With Platinum Games I didn't do a super detailed timeline research into them for this so I should have just mentioned the fact that they were founded by Mikami and clearly his legacy and influence remained. While not created by the EXACT director of Bayonetta, Atsushi Inaba was the producer of Metal Gear Rising and was also producer of Bayonetta 2 and worked on Devil May Cry 2001 so I'm not exactly way off by mentioning those other games, all in all I was just trying to draw a picture of what Platinum Games has done as a team and Metal Gear Rising fits right along with what you would expect as a quality action game the likes of DMC and Bayonetta, which some members of the devs are connected to.
@@RetroMediaRoom it’s all good. Love your content
I always like to correct the record so much appreciated 🤝
I don't know why Stranglehold is not on Steam but GOG has it
I don't know either that's weird 😕
I still have these and will never part with them. I’ve not yet got the 4k but will do at some point.
I played Condemned Criminal Origins a long time ago. It's a great horror game, and I will definitely be getting this game. I recently just bought Medal Gear Rising Revengeance a month ago on Ebay for $20 and bought the DLC on the Xbox Marketplace afterward. It's a fun game. I bought I bought Max Payne 3 [CIB] for X360 almost 3 years ago from Facebook Marketplace in a 4 game bundle for $45 [$11.25 for each game]. I own Max Payne 1 & 2 as well, and I'm looking forward to Max Payne 1 & 2 Remake! RIP James McCaffrey 😢🙏🏽💔
Yeah RIP, he was a legend 😥
He definitely is a legend ❤️
You can order Rad2X cables from Retro Gaming Cables which is in the UK. They are costly and with EU depart the customs to EU countries are there and of course to USA etc. other non EU countries. But they are good. It changes the output to HDMI from GameCubes digital output and they are top of notch cables with all kinds of image, sound interference protection etc. In short high tech put expensive.
Got that Eternal Darkness finally few months ago in good condition. It was 40-45 euros.
Sweet! I hope you enjoy 😀
I'm missing that Condemned from these but it's on my list. New games coming next week again. This week I got: Aliens vs Predator steelbook version (Xbox 360) Vagrant Story (PS1) Crash Bash (PS1) Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2 (PS3) Dragon's Dogma (PS3) Syndicate (PS3 and Xbox 360) Generation Zero (Xbox One) Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions (Xbox 360) Remember Me (Xbox 360) Wipeout HD Pulse (PS3) Batman: Arkham Origins (Xbox 360) The Saboteur (PS3) It's fun to collect games and game consoles but there's only limited amount of space for them. 🙄 What games have you got lately folks?
That's an awesome list! 👍
@@RetroMediaRoom I have to say that Condemed is indexed here in Germany and the selling is forbidden because of the inhuman and cruel depiction of violence as well as the glorification of vigilante justice and the use of violence in the game like they said here.
Wow that's wild 😳
Max Payne 3 is one of the best games ever made. It still looks amazing and the gunplay is great. You will die a lot tho lol
Oh man you ain't kidding, I died a lot just capturing the gameplay 😅
360 actually had over 250 games that were physically exclusive to the console if you dont count PC versions. Exclusives were a very strong point for the console.
Sure, more so referring to the current state of Xbox by appreciating the good old days.
How many of those 250 games were top rated triple A titles? Most of them were shovel ware.
@@nathanchambers985 exactly 27 of them were top rated triple A titles, 18 of them were top rated double A titles, 22 of them were above average rated double A titles, 26 of them were above average rated single A titles. And an addition 16 of them were above average but not top rated AAA titles.
@@nathanchambers985 also an interesting phenomenon with 7th gen games generally is that modern reviews and ratings given by users are MUCH higher on certain games than they received back in 2006-2013. This proves that many games were simply way ahead of their time and could not be appreciated until many years had passed. A few examples are Operation Darkness, Ninja Blade, Deadly Premonition, Darkest of Days, Lost Dimension, Fatal Inertia. These games are much more appreciated now. Only a bonehead would judge by outdated review scores.
@@nathanchambers985So are you really saying that only AAA games are good? There are plenty of AA games that are great games. Just one good example from last year: RoboCop: Rogue City.
“I don’t want to unfold that, I want to keep it nice” It’s a paper map/poster of a game youll never play or sell. Unless you are just collecting for profit, which is called reselling. Smh. You guys are so funny.
Being obsessive is part of having a collector's brain, I try to find a balance but don't always succeed.
@@RetroMediaRoom I think that’s totally fair, and I am not of the opinion that “someone else could enjoy it if you won’t” I just think you are shorting yourself on fully enjoying stuff like that in the name of preserving it.
Yeah, sometimes I care and sometimes I don't so intensely, more often than not I really do enjoy this stuff and try not to worry too much about "messing it up"
I was lucky enough to get the Xbox One versions of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1 and 2 digitally. None of the versions ran well performance wise on their original hardware. But the Xbox One release on a Series X for the 1st time actually brute forces the game to a locked smooth 60fps.
That's great! I'm in the same exact situation with the PS4 versions on PS5, brute forces at least the first one to 60fps which is really nice!
I hate dead alive.
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I don't think MAU DLCs you aren't really losing that much. MAU 1, you lose the ability to use 8 characters, and thats about it. Like you said, it's still very enjoyable even without them🤷♂️
Oh yeah absolutely still worth playing 👌
Alter code F and Xenosaga 3 are two of the best ps2 games. The ending of both are fantastic
Uhm, Ultimate Alliance 1 and 2 are backwards compatible though, unless they patched them so they are no longer because i did play the disc of the 360 on xbox one and it was not the updated one
Nope, just tried it in case I was mistaken, and I can't find any evidence that it was once compatible either, even on Xbox.com back in 2021 they answered a customer's question and said it never was.
I loved kotor, it blew my mind 20 years ago
That twist though 🤯
Golden axe beast rider for me and WET!
You're in luck! I happened to cover WET in the very next video "5 More Xbox 360 Games That Are Still Not BC"
@RetroMediaRoom What about Golden axe beast rider
Unfortunately I do not possess that one right now 😕
i admire the quality and consistency of your content!
Thank you! 😀
Quake 4 backwards compatibility with fps boost would be sick!
It really would be, maybe they'll eventually bring it back somehow.
Seriously wish all these games had become backwards-compatible, but especially titkes like Captain America, as I remember enjoying the gane's combat. Any resolution & frame-dips would've no doubt been taken care of my the more powerful hardware thru emulation. Don't understand why Wolfenstein (360) & Return to Castle Wolfenstein (OG Xbox) aren't backwards-compatible - especially now that MicroSoft owns both Bethesda & Activision, who own the ip & published the former on Xbos 360. I'm also a fan of of Anarchy Reigns, which for the life of me never understood why the game wasn't made backwards-compatible, especially when SEGA's own Vanquish & Bayonetta already were! There's no ip relicensing involved which I'm aware of, so what gives? I can see why SEGA was hesistany in making their Fist of the North Star games backwards-compatible, but Anarchy Reigns?