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1,455,911 Views • Mar 9, 2024 • Click to toggle off description
0:00 - introduction
1:38 - origins and definitions
12:21 - but what was the first RPG?
28:53 - the golden 80's
49:25 - the JRPG
57:57 - the turbulent 90's
1:35:17 - the C stands for console now 00's
2:04:29 - 2010's A-side
2:20:48 - 2010's B-side
2:33:07 - RPGs today
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Views : 1,455,911
Genre: Gaming
Date of upload: Mar 9, 2024 ^^
Rating : 4.868 (1,188/34,866 LTDR)
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
2010/11 having Mass Effect 2, Skyrim, Fallout New Vegas, Dark Souls, and Witcher 2 all in that 2yr span was INSANE to experience
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Man watching almost 2 hours of older RPG’s to end up at Oblivion really puts into perspective how fuckin gorgeous and groundbreaking that game was when it came out
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As an RPG lover since 90's...this is another enjoyable long video to fall asleep to
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"Then-esteemed PC publisher Electronic Arts" 🤣
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Really glad that "entire history" seems to be becoming a long running series.
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Opened this video, noticed the run time and said to myself. No way I'm watching a nearly 3 hr video. But decided just to watch the beginning for a nostalgia trip see if you'd included the SSI games I played in the 80s. You did include them and so many other great games. I've played at least 80% of them all. Amazing video, so spot on it should be used to teach young devs and gamers in general. Hopefully it's not just old farts like me who will love this video.
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I’d love a video that goes into depths about the specific technical advancements at each stage and how those advancements opened up new gameplay possibilities for developers.
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I can't believe we're far enough into the 2020's that we can have such a deep dive into the 2010's and the effect they've had on RPGs. It felt like only yesterday.
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Nice to see a shout out to Dragon Quest.
RIP Mr. Akira Toriyama.
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This is one of my favourite videos on youtube now, I fall asleep to it like a comfy pillow! I bought Ultima IV and received a cloth map of Brittania and an Ankh necklace.
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How did I just now find this channel? It’s great for watching at any time even while trying to fall asleep.
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I'm 42 and been playing jrpgs, crpgs, and ttrpgs my entire life and I have seen it all. I am HERE for this video!!!
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This was an absolute enjoyable video to listen to while working on other things. Informative but not dragged out.
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This video was well-made and genuinely a joy to watch. Thanks for the great work, NeverKnowsBest!
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Purely anecdotal, but I was a teenager HUGE into crpg's in the mid/late 90's when Ultima IX came out, and another huge reason it flopped was that the requirements to even run it were MASSIVE. Like, if a game today required an RTX 4080 for minimum graphics, massive. Naturally neither me nor my other rpg friends could even afford it, only that one kid with rich parents that just got a new PC could run it. The one in our school that got it said it was fun, but I think he just wanted to sound cool because some of us went to try it and the bugs were basically unplayable. Basically a combination of hella bugs and the huge requirements would have made the game a launch flop even if there was a good game under it. That's how bad its circumstances were, it was doomed from quite a few angles. Figured I'd bring up my story since you didn't mention either angle when mentioning how bad it failed.
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One thing that has to be noted is that the "collapse" of hardcore RPGs in mid 2000's is that a lot of it is due to the fact that the few US based, RPG centric developers and publishers who survived the 1990's often accumulated debt from these failures(for instance Bioware went away from Interplay after BG2 was done because Interplay wasn't paying the full royalties from the sales of their game which shows that despite the seeming recovery the financial conditions were rather poor) and so they couldn't really adapt to the different conditions of the era, as downsizing meant interests couldn't be paid, making mainstream-appeal games was beyond their reach and making high production "oldschool" game was something they didn't have capital for. As these companies failed, the financial side of game development(investors, banks) decided that since the successful games in the genre are called Oblivion, Fable or KotOR rather than Temple of Elemental Evil or Lionheart then that's the end of the story on their financial viability.
So in a certain way the crisis of the early 2000's was just an extension of the crisis of the mid 1990's.
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My first memories of an rpg are probably watching my bro play ffx. What a classic, makes me want to pick it up again thanks to this video
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Here we all are... committing 2.5hours to a neverknows documentary and couldn't be more excited to do so. What a great topic!
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In all fairness, Final Fantasy I was directly based on D&D. It used its base classes, took inspiration from its combat system, directly lifted its spell system, and flat out plagiarized its monster manual. The series eventually moved away from it, but it did start with significant tabletop roots.
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@ianfrazier9896
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Hi! I was the lead designer on Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. For the record, the game DID turn a profit. Not a smash hit but respectable for a first outing. It just didn’t generate enough profits to fund an MMO at 38 Studios in addition to keeping Big Huge Games afloat—the amount it would have had to make in a very short time to clear that bar was untenable. (The whole story is very complicated, but I feel compelled to at least address that one point, as it’s a common misunderstanding)
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