There was an old minecraft server i used to play on called Faux Paws. I was a common resident of the server for years and I had built a massive castle on the edge of a mountain. Near spawn there were hundreds of small shops and bases all with their own stories. There's even an Unnus Annus tribute near spawn. I remember helping someone fend off a griefer, I remember creating my own shop in the server mall, I remember the server Admin happily watching me build my castle and enjoying my progress. I filled my castle with hidden rooms and trapdoors all hiding secrets, and I would give people compasses that led to my castle so they could explore... The server shut down a few years ago due to the admin having money problems. We all took a group screenshot saying goodbye on the servers last day... the admin even gave us all a world download of the server. I think the world file was about 10 gigabytes. Sometimes I go back to that world with the distant horizons mod so I can see for miles and I realized just how many builds were everywhere. Some ive never seen before.. i wonder what there stories were... i miss it..
The clicking sound on the Minecraft server with the creepy signs from about the 23:50 mark is one of the Minecraft cave noises. Mojang was devious when they added that one.
It's one of the underwater loop addition ambient sounds called Crackles 2, imo Animal 1 and Animal 2 are worse not just for the sound itself but the fact that it's just "Animal" like it's completely unknown what made the sound except that it's an unseen creature of some sort.
there's a line of fan made source maps that focus on turning well known gmod maps into "haunted" versions. they turn what you expect to see into what you actually see. somehow it relieves a bit of that tension, knowing that there actually is something out there.
Reminds me that there's a map in G-Mod's workshop. It's gm_construct "beta" where the creator "restore" contents that has been lost overtime. Obviously, it has definitely been tweaked to include some crazy stuff in it, but the vibe is still there. That might be what you're talking about, but I'm uncertain tho lol
@@NicholasLongART that counts, but that map has a whole ARG attached to it i have gm_bigcity_haunted no complicated puzzles or anything as far as i know the map is just unsettling. from the start. you load in and everything is desaturated, grey. it's not nice to look at. it's sad. and 100% silent. it's mostly the same. there are some scripted events and new setpieces to find, like a summoning circle. Don't noclip. Do your best to get around on foot if you wanna see everything. keeps you feeling vulnerable, too. While you're moving along, you'll see something every now and then. You'll keep looking for them. You'll see them in places they aren't. In the dark alleys between buildings. that's it, really. just creepy.
i was absolutely a blockland kid; renderman was HUGE, and there were servers dedicated just to hunting renderman. you can find one of the most popular renderman videos preserved on the blockland wiki : )
The impression I got from the video was that Sagan didn't seem to be aware of House of Leaves at the time he played the server. It makes the segment all the better, seeing something so nonsense that it stretches the boundaries of your willingness to believe it was an actual intelligence who did it and not just entropy or the breakdown of the universe.
Using the Roblox game called "Super Place Roulette" is a great way to urbex old roblox games, its a game that teleports you to a completely random roblox game made in the past 18 years. I've found some really neat stuff that way. Sleep over games that have assigned beds for friends of the creators (like whats seen at 48:51), games built by friends using the old stamper tool, it feels so surreal exploring them. Even just going onto the profile of the creator of one of these old games can lead you to a whole rabbit hole of other dated games. I've enjoyed urbexing old roblox games for a good while now, especially ones from the 2010-2014 era.
idk why but the never ending road minecraft server made me tear up. So much love and dedication. It really makes me think of my online history and all the friends I've made and lost. And all the friends I still have. I'm still in contact with my two very first online friends, and very close to two others that I talk to almost daily still. We're all grown up, adults. I've known them all for over a decade now. Two of us(me and another) are married, the other married one even has a daughter. My oldest friend is so very busy, she had a stroke at only 27 and I'm always reaching out to check up on her. One friend I rarely talk to but I still have her on facebook. We've all lived so many long years, but we still think about each other. Even if it isn't as often as when we were young and dedicated hours of the day talking to each other. That's what the road makes me think of.
The horse thing reminded me of a dream I had. In the dream I was at a wedding, standing up near the altar next to the bride and groom. The priest came over to give communion, but refused to give it to me. I asked why and he said "Because, you're a horse." And then, I turned into a horse. I woke up a bit later.
As someone who doesnt have nostalgia for games like Roblox or Minecraft or Gmod, i find it very interesting to see peoples blend of nostalgia, discomfort, and sadness when revisiting these online games now empty. Then the moment you mentioned "Club Penguin", I had a gutteral resistance, like, "Please don't show me it empty." I know its not even online anymore, but that game exists in my mind as it was, which was full of players and memories of social development for myself and many others. So don't kill that place for me, Sagan, even if it's already dead.
I dumped way too many hours into Blockland during inarguably it's golden years, 2010-2014. This is the 3rd time I've seen it included in an "empty games" video, and every time I wish there was some sort of heads up about it so I could shed some light on interesting things about the game, custom gamemodes, community, and the eventual slow decline of the game's popularity and what contributed to that. Always love seeing it though, great stuff. Side note, Trogtor in the first server is someone I would see almost daily in game. Crazy to see that name pop up again.
@@BenWhittle ya we still play Blockland fairly actively a lot of us were laughing at him joining servers in the morning to noon on a weekday when most people are at work or school
1:13:41 and all we need is some other TH-camr making a dead online games video and a segment like that: "as I was wandering the land of Blackland, I've stumbled upon a house. Upon resting inside, I noticed something - I was being stalked by a horse"
Going through a miserable time right now. I regularly fall asleep to your videos and have them playing on a loop in the background just for noise as it brings me comfort. Thanks for a new upload, Boss.
@@cozmoee I have a masters degree and a well paying job. You spend your free time on TikTok lives recording videos to post on TH-cam for 0 viewers. You will never be better than me lol.
13:25 I feel like this part is made more mysterious by the absence of anything organic. Like in that environment, I’d expect bodies. It’s as if something swept through and cleaned it all up, but left the improvised cover and knocked over furniture alone. It didn’t put things back the way they were before, just sucked up all the viscera and debris and left.
1:07:59 Hey, I made that pixel art! Well... not technically me, Blockland has tools where you can turn images into pixel art like this, they're pretty easy to download and a lot of freebuilds have these scattered around. Still pretty cool to see my art in a video like this! :3 Also, that server is on a default save. which means it's just a standard map that people can load. I think it was built by Badspot (the actual dev), but don't quote me on that. Inco (the host of this specific server) mainly uses it for testing purposes with the actual monster that inhabits it's premises, and he's made a few changes. A few more types of them, some more based on inside jokes, others just generally being memey. I would love to see you return to Blockland sometime, since the game has a small active playerbase, and there's usually a cycle of servers over the years that make sure that we have at least some peaks of activity. There's also multiple discord servers and other stuff. It used to be more active before some players decided to steal a huge amount of player IDs from people who bought the game from the official website and not Steam, I think it was a security leak somewhere, but I forgot because that was 4 years ago now. Thank you again for putting attention to the game, it's been a cornerstone of my childhood and it still is important to me to this day.
Are you able to explain the like, dozens of feet servers? lol I'd never even heard of blockland before this video but just looking at the server list here is baffling
@@lixyororke Inco originally made these as both an elaborate joke, but also to at least have something of his interests in the game. And yes, this vitriol has also been seen in other users of the game, some of which say he's potentially corrupting kids or something like that, even when the Blockland community is mostly made out of 20 year old basement dwellers. Then again, the main ones who oppose his antics don't even want to talk to him to the point of making bots that instantly disconnect them from any server he joins. This same person (it's only 1 with this instant leave script) also is obsessed over by another one, like, literally they edate with someone else. Yeah, the game's community is fricking weird. That's probably why I like it.
23:54 thats actually one of the random ambient sounds that minecraft plays to mess with you! honestly i think they were made for moments like that, when your mind will just run wild with the possibilities from an unusual sound that doesn't fit anything you're used to
53:48 dude, I'm actually speechless. Sherwood meant SO much to me as a kid, but at some point every bit of info online just vanished, like it never existed. Hearing this and seeing it again now just reminded me how it directly lead me to games like Fate and Torchlight, Runescape, the TES series, etc.. I really thought I'd never hear anyone mention this game again. It may be a footnote on history now, but seriously, thank you for reminding me.
I loved industrial17 as a kid. Had my own rp server where we did little nerdy gang wars with the npcs. The map is one of the many influences/inspirations that led me to currently making a ttrpg. Such a good map!
Love the signature collector encounter. That immediately made me think of some urbex chance encounters I've had with other urbexers, that uncertainty at first that turns into a friendly greeting as you show that you're here doing same thing before going your separate ways.
Holy shit, what?? Maid Marian??? I remember playing the hell out of that whole site with my friends in an after-school program on days when we spent the night in the computer lounge. That was way back in elementary school, I genuinely haven't met anyone who experienced those games since! Sherwood dungeon was my wow
If you ever do this again, I recommend going to old TROVE faction bases - I've urbexed some abandoned places that were griefed, just abandoned, or had some players willing to tell me the story about the place
Ugh. Man. That fishtank lamp. My grandparents owned that exact product. They were pretty high up in the middle class, and for the time I knew them, they lived in this beautiful, massive work of art of a McMansion house on the corner. The house was built by the previous owner, with numerous handmade fixtures and carved decorative pieces. They were the kind of people who brought the whole family together for the most joyful and pure Christmas energy and feast every year. Reindeer and lights on the balconies, embroidered stockings, snowglobes everywhere. A massive, year-round tree in the corner. On the fridge and along the walls, you'd find at least one picture of about every family member you did or didn't know. Knickknacks filled the kitchen windows, spring legs dangling daintily off the ledges. But in the dining room, you'd find the most love, and in that room, the fishtank lamp sat. And it's so bad. I love it so much, but it sucks. I never got over my fascination with it. Grandpa died a year or two ago. Grandma is far gone, in the late stages of dementia, but living past all estimates. But she's gone. The purest little woman in the world. The house was sold after Grandpa passed. We tried to save as many little things as we could, but plenty of the best things went to auction. Including the fishtank lamp. Thank you for reminding me of a time where my only concern was whether or not I was getting a console. And great work on the video overall! The whole thing sparked memories.
Seeing the roblox iron cafe place made my heart skip a beat. It's such a vivid memory from when I was young thinking how cool club-esque night life and believing it be so "adult-ish". Now an actual adult still stuck in Vegas, I work at a fancy bespoke restaurant as a busser. A lot that adult world mystique and idealism sure was a lot warmer than reality.
Mildly interesting, but rp_industrial17 also seems to be based partially off the leaked beta maps of HL2's City 17- it feels doubly "haunted" knowing it's also built off of abandoned ideas.
not hating just curious... when people leave this comment on every video is for the meme, for the likes, a genuine feeling or a mix or these or something else? I just never really “got it“ after the 1000th time what the point was instead of leaving a comment which adds some novelty (again, no hate, people who leave these comments don‘t harm my ability to enjoy the video and comment sections its just kinda weird seeing it on nearly every single comment section and I want to get some insight from those who leave them)
You @thishandleistacken literally lol just answered your own question. But fuck it I got time today.. listen, trying to dissect internet culture is like trying to understand the Bible. There's no damn point. It's a [TLDR: meme] - that will die out soon its a thing attention deprived Neanderthals use when creators drop new content, to be honest tho mostly its bots or cringe fuck fans that type it earliest someone drops a video bc its a meme or they wanna garner likes, comments, and attention because their social life is as dry as a 43 year single Mormon fuck. Hope that helps you knew the answer bro you always knew.
Oh god watching the Blockland section brought back so many memories. I first bought the game because I had heard of the Renderman creepypasta and I remember asking people on random servers if they knew what the Renderman was and them laughing at me.
I actually do this sort of digital urban exploration as you put it around every Halloween in places like VR chat and other games. Always interesting to see what gets left behind.
I was never much of a social gamer. At most, I’d chat with some person I paired up with in Castle Battle on Kongregate. As such, the only thing I can even remotely relate to this kind of experience is finding a living space in a post-apocalyptic game. Now, I personally make an attempt to immerse myself in games, even when the game isn’t necessarily trying hard to make me do so. As such, there’s usually a small moment when walking through the Capital Wasteland on Fallout or finding an apartment on Deadrising where I just feel…kind of mournful. No matter how strong my character is or how many enemies I killed getting there, I just felt sad, all of a sudden. I know it’s probably not even close to a similar feeling, but that’s what this video reminds me of.
You draw out the wonder and curiosity of late 90s and early 2000s childhood nostalgia without the burden of knowing that it's a feeling you can only truly appreciate retrospectively. Its an almost hopeful nostalgia for the now that looks forward rather than back, and I think that's pretty cool.
hey im a blockland history nerd - the online blockland servers still being hosted don't really feature much actual historical builds/worlds from as far back as 2007, blockland servers have typically had a short lifespan unlike minecraft worlds and whatnot. as a result, the servers you visited showed more newly built stuff only, i guess aside from that one build that comes with the game. for exploring super old stuff, it would be best to either download archived saves or have someone specifically host them for you (alongside classic old mods/add-ons too!)
I think this explains why minecraft scares me, not even old versions or abandoned servers, just that my memories of the first time playing it as a kid creates the same feeling whenever I play it regardless of version or world.
As someone who’s been doing this for a month now, specifically playing old Roblox games from my childhood, this video feels like a much deserved punch in the gut to remind us to cherish what we currently have
The tunnels with the trees reminds me so much of how I played minecraft when I was a kid, I have a bad anxiety disorder and when I was on non-peaceful servers I'd move underground with trees and mine out my own safe spaces. Lit well enough that nothing could spawn, hard enough to navigate that other players and mobs couldnt easily chase me. Trees and farms so I'd never have to go above ground again. I'd mine out randomly looking for minerals, blocking off caves as I found them out of fear and turning those tunnels into halls with more rooms where I'd afk
All these source maps just make me sad. I used to play a lot of CSS and Gmod (including ancient Melonbrew era RP), it just reminds me of being a kid, friends I made online that I've lost touch with because of growing older. I miss those lates night where I was alone, but not really alone.
I routinely visit the old Roblox servers I worked on as a teenager. Beautiful, intricate recreations of the evil alien Homeworld from the cartoon my friends and I were all obsessed with. One is just a revival project, though. Because the original is from 2014ish and very broken, so I don't have any access to my original special character model anymore. It's weird.
Something I will always be heartbroken about is the minecraft servers my friends and I played on as kids that reset to match new updates. I’m still sad that I’ll never get to explore the builds we made.
one thing that permeates in my mind when I see things like those minecraft signs or the abandonded roblox cafes and homes is "where are those people now?" and "I wonder if they'll ever see this video, and rethink those memories of what actually happened in those old servers"
Vr chat is also fantastic for this. I absolutely love getting high/drunk and just walking around vibeing in random worlds, theres so many that are low-no players and alot of limmanal stuff, playing calm abent music also helps
I've been here since the fnaf retrospectives, and it's honestly insane how much better you get even just with each video. Every time I tune in, the visuals, the presentation, the music, or something has always improved in some way, big or small. Massive props man!
Whats intiresting about these exploration videos especially in abandoned minecraft servers is many of the mostly or intact houses/mining systems are so confusing and odd from the outside perspective but once made total sense to someone or the entire server There are jokes on those servers we will never understand, storage systems we would never personally use, mods we haven't seen in years and glitches/farms that in modern day can't be used or are just inconvenient due to the updates after these worlds
Those tunnel complexes just look like regular old shaft mining to me. I used to spend hours and hours doing that. Great way to find lava lakes to make obsidian (or to stage an impromptu Pompeii re-enactment if you aren't careful).
oh hell yes, hopping onto any multiplayer source/goldsrc game and exploring the abandoned servers is something i've always been super into, i have a hoards of custom maps from team fortress 2, half-life, opposing force, half-life 2 deathmatch, and even deathmatch classic i can always feel the echoes of chaos that achievement/trade maps invited between the tdm and rtd rolls, and the ghosts of top fraggers in all those deathmatch maps as for what was explored in the vid, i always felt cs_office was especially unnerving because there is a radio in it that's supposed to play a news report regarding the terrorist attack on the in-universe location, i don't remember if it only plays during cs gameplay or if it's totally unused, but it's one that's really stuck with me
The house of leaves tunnel system is likely just a mine. They brought saplings with them to get more wood so they can keep mining when their tools break.I've done that before.
I think the aspect of the ghosts of Place that i really resonate with the most is idenitfying the occupancy of a building that it exudes on its own. (Psychologically, i think maybe this comes from our ancestors typically living in and around trees, literal "living structures", and thus our association of occupancy with life, or "ghosts", or Feng-sui.) An abandoned building is an abandoned occupant. And while some, like the Source maps, were made to be empty, to be accommodating to any visitors they might get... Its the old, worn down bases that get me. Because they're not expecting to be empty. They're supposed to be a home. A home for someone. The occupant of the house is made to be in tandem with the occupant of the builder, in a personalized way you don't typically see in most modern housing. They're a pair, a team, a package deal. And thats just gone. Something about some of these old builds just makes me want to find them. To repair them. To heal them. There's just something to alluring about... Mending whats broken. Creating something new out of the discarded. Giving that ghost a home.
I love your content Sagen! It's very professional and enjoyable. Your scripts are great and impactful and the subtle editing and background details are fun! Thanks for being a comfort channel for me! Im always excited to watch your newest video. You deserve many more viewers! I'm so happy I found this hidden gem. I found you through that dinosaur museum game that you went looking for btw
I find it absolutely fascinating that people are talking with such fondness for early Roblox. I don't mean to shit on it or anything because every generation has their "back when games meant something" moment, but I just so vividly remember how everyone who grew up a gaming generation prior constantly talked about Roblox as an example of why modern gaming for kids was soulless and corporate, when it had just come out.
Your one of the only content creators I’ve seen not complaining about this, im reallt excited personally. I know this games not for everybody, but I’m excited and really hype for this and playing with my friends
that minecraft server with all the weird trees in the tunnels has very easy explanation the tunnels are strip mining tunnels to find diamonds and the trees are there to chop down for wood instead of having to go back up! they also would give apples so a good source of food too if lucky
Love seeing you randomly exploring Blockland build servers when most people are at work on a weekday lol Cheers to the chads playing Blockland since 2004 Blockland alpha. I mainly host a dedicated server and alternate between gamemodes i love like zapt zombies, TDM, rising lava etc.... DM and TDM have always been pretty fun. Speedkart Remastered is newer even more fun version of Speedkart really popular racing gamemode. Blockland Events have also thought me how programming works as well as rpg maker. Events is basically a really easy way to do basic programming with bricks. Of course you can also just code anything you want and make it an addon.
31:42 the feeling of a walking down a road that someone else has walked before, guiding you along is what I love most about Death Stranding. the only fully fledged game I’ve played that leans into it. yeah, it is a bit of a walking simulator sometimes, but the connections (strands, literally) between you and unseen faces is the best feature that I hope to see more of in DS2.
i've really been loving these recent videos where you explore examples of a certain concept. especially videos like the one on digital horror, which seems to now have branched off into smaller and more precise concepts like ghosts in the machine and digital urbexing and kenopsia. you've certainly earned your place as my favorite creator in this genre
I get the same feeling going through Little Big Planet's user generated levels along with Phantasy Star Online 2's classic mode. On Little Big Planet, when the server was still active, many folks would hang and play levels together. Sometimes they'd share a space with the host and they'll make some wacky things on the Host's moon. Which leads to a bunch of user made roleplay levels in the 2D space. Revisiting those levels whilst most of everyone had stopped playing the game is quite the vibe. Some of them still play custom music composed by players, while others are devoid of anything and are just dead silent apart from the sounds you make from hopping and grabbing onto things. Phantasy Star Online 2 also has a similar vibe to me as its Classic mode was incredibly active back before they announced New Genesis. Now? There's little to nobody on the classic server despite it still being supported by the team. It's either because the players left, or they migrated to New Genesis. Leaving the lobbies empty, and even the player made personal rooms forgotten. Some of them defaulting back to their original state, while others are still fully furnished with messages from other players from many many years ago and much more. Edit: I'm pretty sure that Minecraft server "The House of Leaves" is a nod to the book of the same name. A house with non-euclidean interiors that don't make sense and defy the outward exterior of the place.
Oh man... Iron Cafe... I spent so much time there. It used to be the case that the "dance" tool disabled gravity, so you could jump or run off the stage and hold dance to fly.
I miss Blockland so much dude, that game was genuinely so fun back when it was active. The Renderman servers in particular were super fun to me as a kid, I remember trying to shoot him when he'd appear not knowing that he was p much invincible most of the time.
@@EpikBerm this video inspired me to re-download it on steam and to my amusement there were like 6 people all playing a minesweeper game mode on some random server, never change, blockland.
Hey Sagen those sounds you heard while swimming were ambient cave sounds because the game thought you were still in a cave at the time. Hope this helps!
This video gives a strong nostalgic melancholy. The passage of time always feels like one of the greatest tragedies when you see monuments to what once was but no longer is.
thanks for being a content creator going through my past it brings be a somber joy seeing this stuff again because I probably will never experience this again and that can make me sad for a moment but still glad I got to see it once in my past when I was younger
23:54 That clicking sound is incredibly odd, considering that's one of the new underwater equivalents to cave sounds, but those are from a more recent version than what you're playing on
my ears perked up when you mentioned Lost in Vivo, such an beautiful and terrifying game. I love the soundtrack for it and I'm still playing through it as of this comment. Keep up the amazing work!
this video was PEAK, actually fire! Very interesting topic honestly, it'll definitely stick with me for a while. Always been a fan of liminal spaces and/or abandoned ones, so this is awesome tbh
Thank you for dropping Kenopsia. It’s very awesome to see more people drop The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. I wish more people mentioned this book. I got a copy and it’s VERY interesting to go through occasionally and just find words that I’ve definitely felt. But I never had a word to place on that feeling. Which is what it sets out to do, and I think it 100% succeeds.
Warms my heart to see blockland getting videos! the sounds you heard in my render freebuild server is the default ambience of the renderman mod whilst running, with creepy sfx :o
What a great throwback with the Iron Cafe! I used to hang out there between 2010-2015, so I don't think I've ever seen that particular version of it. I love the fact that archive projects exist to preserve stuff like this.
32:38 honestly, this sign is more impactful than any of the structures that were built. It's bittersweet to think at some point in time, (possibly a decade ago if the server was active in 2012,) "minerprincess" left this sign for someone, and for whatever reason, it was never removed. minerprincess then moved on with their life, leaving the server for good one day, while their message for whoever, remains, as part of the server's history. Maybe it's just me, but it would feel weird to me if I loaded into an old world and found a sign with a message I left for someone. I wonder if I'd even remember the context, or why I created it
As silly as it seems, that chicken dying is a perfect example of how even when we think what we are doing might be for the best it often times can make things much worse than they began.
Oh, the Roblox section always brings back so much nostalgia. I occasionally hop back in to find some of the retro-emulators in the *hope* that I can find some of the old games I played as a child. I never, ever have, and it does tug at my heart strings a bit that they are just lost media. Farm tycoon, Cake Bakery Tycoon, Halloween door-to-door trick or treating, Survival 303- all gone, and there's nothing on the website that quite scratches that itch anymore. I did manage to find one of my old games, "Hide and seek with Friends!", which I always remember had this brilliant waiting lobby (full of colourful squares, circles, glass walls & all sorts). I joined the dead server and wandered about. It was neat for the first few seconds before I realised the game would never start as the server was utterly dead. You needed at least 3 players to start, and I knew that wasn't going to happen. Oh, it breaks my heart to see it all gone. I miss the iridescent balls that exploded with the same compressed .mp3 noise. I miss the truly terrible and cringey roleplay servers that were just filled to the brim with so much love and character. I miss the (arguably) archaic but addictive gameplay loops. I miss raising Epic Ducks and (truly awful models of) Dragons and Pokémon, only to leave to go play as a cat in the town of Robloxia. Ah well, I suppose it can't all last forever.
I so badly wish little big planet player levels were still playable so I could do stuff like this. It was my roblox as a kid and I honestly miss it so much.
Man this is so sad you know. Friendships were made on these maps, maybe even ended with them too. These maps made someone's day at one point, maybe made another's worse. People used to be here, used to live here, used to create here, and now it's all abandoned. And honestly it makes me mourn for them
In a complete coincidence, I'm watching this a couple of days after watching the latest Pixelkane Backrooms video, where two people can hear but not see each other because they're both occupying the same space, one in reality and one in the backrooms. When you're exploring all those empty buildings with sounds of people, that's ALL I can think of. It makes it so much creepier.
My theory about the eerieness of Source games is that it's intentionally designed. The engine was built up around Half-Life 2, and Half-Life 2 is a game with a very deliberate horror element, so a lot of the fundamental choices made at an engine level were designed to facilitate horror. Things like the very loud and present room tone, the way your footsteps echo, or the way your flashlight lights up a dark room. When you're in a quiet and lonely moment in Half-Life 2, it's *usually* because they're ramping up tension or actively putting you in a horror sequence, so the choices they made about things like how Source handles sound and lighting and the subtler elements that stand out most in those quiet, lonely moments were intended to create a spooky atmosphere. It's just that good old polished Valve design at work.
There was an old minecraft server i used to play on called Faux Paws. I was a common resident of the server for years and I had built a massive castle on the edge of a mountain.
Near spawn there were hundreds of small shops and bases all with their own stories. There's even an Unnus Annus tribute near spawn.
I remember helping someone fend off a griefer, I remember creating my own shop in the server mall, I remember the server Admin happily watching me build my castle and enjoying my progress. I filled my castle with hidden rooms and trapdoors all hiding secrets, and I would give people compasses that led to my castle so they could explore...
The server shut down a few years ago due to the admin having money problems. We all took a group screenshot saying goodbye on the servers last day... the admin even gave us all a world download of the server. I think the world file was about 10 gigabytes.
Sometimes I go back to that world with the distant horizons mod so I can see for miles and I realized just how many builds were everywhere. Some ive never seen before.. i wonder what there stories were... i miss it..
That sounds awesome dude, if you're ever able to upload the world file somewhere like megadrive I'd love to explore it
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I agree with the commenter above me, you should totally share the world! God bless ya and Jesus loves ya man!
making a youtube video of exploring the world would be fun to watch
You should upload the file! I'm tempted to try to explore the world in VR
Having a shadowy stalker pursue you through some empty lands then just ask for your signature has to be one of the experiences of all time
would you like to sign my petition?
Shadow stalks sagan "ahem can I get an autograph sagan"
"Hi there, would you like to sign my petition" says the shadow man
Timestamp?
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The clicking sound on the Minecraft server with the creepy signs from about the 23:50 mark is one of the Minecraft cave noises. Mojang was devious when they added that one.
can confirm, I think they also have one that is similar but slowed / deeper that plays in the ocean biomes? either way it's definitely just ambience
Thought it was a dispenser on a redstone loop at first
im pretty sure thats just one of the many underwater ambience noises they added in 1.13
It's one of the underwater loop addition ambient sounds called Crackles 2, imo Animal 1 and Animal 2 are worse not just for the sound itself but the fact that it's just "Animal" like it's completely unknown what made the sound except that it's an unseen creature of some sort.
there's a line of fan made source maps that focus on turning well known gmod maps into "haunted" versions. they turn what you expect to see into what you actually see. somehow it relieves a bit of that tension, knowing that there actually is something out there.
Reminds me that there's a map in G-Mod's workshop. It's gm_construct "beta" where the creator "restore" contents that has been lost overtime. Obviously, it has definitely been tweaked to include some crazy stuff in it, but the vibe is still there.
That might be what you're talking about, but I'm uncertain tho lol
@@NicholasLongARTI assumed they were talking about those maps where it's a classic GMod map but with shadow figure added
@@NicholasLongART
that counts, but that map has a whole ARG attached to it
i have gm_bigcity_haunted
no complicated puzzles or anything as far as i know
the map is just unsettling. from the start. you load in and everything is desaturated, grey. it's not nice to look at. it's sad. and 100% silent.
it's mostly the same. there are some scripted events and new setpieces to find, like a summoning circle. Don't noclip. Do your best to get around on foot if you wanna see everything. keeps you feeling vulnerable, too.
While you're moving along, you'll see something every now and then. You'll keep looking for them. You'll see them in places they aren't. In the dark alleys between buildings.
that's it, really. just creepy.
i was absolutely a blockland kid; renderman was HUGE, and there were servers dedicated just to hunting renderman. you can find one of the most popular renderman videos preserved on the blockland wiki : )
r u onto brickadia now?
@@xstarforcex990 Brickadia won't replace Blockland.
@@nameless8692 my fault bro 😭
BLOCKLAND THE BEST BRICKADIA CAN NEVER COMPARE THOSE GUYS R STINKY POOPOO WE PLAY BLOCKLAND TILL THE SERVERS CLOSE DOWN
i remember one with a guy saying things as renderman and as a kid i thought it was really him
I get the feeling that the House of Leaves server has to be a reference to the book of the same name, given the structures you found…
Glad I'm not the only one who thought so.
It obviously is, its not even subtle
Think Sagan named the chapter that as a reference rather than it being the actual server's name.
The impression I got from the video was that Sagan didn't seem to be aware of House of Leaves at the time he played the server.
It makes the segment all the better, seeing something so nonsense that it stretches the boundaries of your willingness to believe it was an actual intelligence who did it and not just entropy or the breakdown of the universe.
@@CrowaldHe's talked about House of Leaves many times before, he's definitely aware of it.
Using the Roblox game called "Super Place Roulette" is a great way to urbex old roblox games, its a game that teleports you to a completely random roblox game made in the past 18 years. I've found some really neat stuff that way. Sleep over games that have assigned beds for friends of the creators (like whats seen at 48:51), games built by friends using the old stamper tool, it feels so surreal exploring them. Even just going onto the profile of the creator of one of these old games can lead you to a whole rabbit hole of other dated games. I've enjoyed urbexing old roblox games for a good while now, especially ones from the 2010-2014 era.
Isn't that place broken?
@ I think it was down a few months ago, but it’s back up and running just fine now
yea that game is pretty cool.
most of the time the roblox games arent that interesting but I did find like 2 or 3 strange games
@@ryans-archive It's not broken, it just sends you to broken places often lol
idk why but the never ending road minecraft server made me tear up. So much love and dedication. It really makes me think of my online history and all the friends I've made and lost. And all the friends I still have. I'm still in contact with my two very first online friends, and very close to two others that I talk to almost daily still. We're all grown up, adults. I've known them all for over a decade now. Two of us(me and another) are married, the other married one even has a daughter. My oldest friend is so very busy, she had a stroke at only 27 and I'm always reaching out to check up on her. One friend I rarely talk to but I still have her on facebook. We've all lived so many long years, but we still think about each other. Even if it isn't as often as when we were young and dedicated hours of the day talking to each other.
That's what the road makes me think of.
Me too bro, literally crying at work. It's just a damn road
The horse thing reminded me of a dream I had. In the dream I was at a wedding, standing up near the altar next to the bride and groom. The priest came over to give communion, but refused to give it to me. I asked why and he said "Because, you're a horse." And then, I turned into a horse. I woke up a bit later.
We're Sagan'ing our Hawkes with this one!
Hawke Tuah
I hotelled my Trivago!
This comment made me hawk my sagan
@@Luzum truth
This December... it's time to Hawke down your Sagans
As someone who doesnt have nostalgia for games like Roblox or Minecraft or Gmod, i find it very interesting to see peoples blend of nostalgia, discomfort, and sadness when revisiting these online games now empty.
Then the moment you mentioned "Club Penguin", I had a gutteral resistance, like, "Please don't show me it empty." I know its not even online anymore, but that game exists in my mind as it was, which was full of players and memories of social development for myself and many others. So don't kill that place for me, Sagan, even if it's already dead.
I dumped way too many hours into Blockland during inarguably it's golden years, 2010-2014. This is the 3rd time I've seen it included in an "empty games" video, and every time I wish there was some sort of heads up about it so I could shed some light on interesting things about the game, custom gamemodes, community, and the eventual slow decline of the game's popularity and what contributed to that. Always love seeing it though, great stuff.
Side note, Trogtor in the first server is someone I would see almost daily in game. Crazy to see that name pop up again.
@@BenWhittle ya we still play Blockland fairly actively a lot of us were laughing at him joining servers in the morning to noon on a weekday when most people are at work or school
@@patyos2I mean, other timezones exist, lol
the slow death of blockland servers over the late 2010s was heartbreaking, some modders are still going, the filipe car guy is still making stuff
1:13:41
and all we need is some other TH-camr making a dead online games video and a segment like that: "as I was wandering the land of Blackland, I've stumbled upon a house. Upon resting inside, I noticed something - I was being stalked by a horse"
Like Redlyne lol
@@SimonPetrikov12 That would've been perfect. I wonder if they know each other.
Going through a miserable time right now. I regularly fall asleep to your videos and have them playing on a loop in the background just for noise as it brings me comfort. Thanks for a new upload, Boss.
Thanks for the motivation to get off my ass and be better than you
@@cozmoee I have a masters degree and a well paying job. You spend your free time on TikTok lives recording videos to post on TH-cam for 0 viewers. You will never be better than me lol.
@@usagi666_ I have 2 videos
@@cozmoee If you want to be better, stop commenting.
@@usagi666_ Sorry you're having a rough time lately, I hope things will look up for you soon!
13:25 I feel like this part is made more mysterious by the absence of anything organic. Like in that environment, I’d expect bodies. It’s as if something swept through and cleaned it all up, but left the improvised cover and knocked over furniture alone. It didn’t put things back the way they were before, just sucked up all the viscera and debris and left.
Seeing blockland show up in videos outside of the community always feels like I'm being hit by a train, thanks sagan
BLOCKLAND FOEVA
1:07:59 Hey, I made that pixel art!
Well... not technically me, Blockland has tools where you can turn images into pixel art like this, they're pretty easy to download and a lot of freebuilds have these scattered around.
Still pretty cool to see my art in a video like this! :3
Also, that server is on a default save. which means it's just a standard map that people can load. I think it was built by Badspot (the actual dev), but don't quote me on that. Inco (the host of this specific server) mainly uses it for testing purposes with the actual monster that inhabits it's premises, and he's made a few changes. A few more types of them, some more based on inside jokes, others just generally being memey.
I would love to see you return to Blockland sometime, since the game has a small active playerbase, and there's usually a cycle of servers over the years that make sure that we have at least some peaks of activity. There's also multiple discord servers and other stuff. It used to be more active before some players decided to steal a huge amount of player IDs from people who bought the game from the official website and not Steam, I think it was a security leak somewhere, but I forgot because that was 4 years ago now.
Thank you again for putting attention to the game, it's been a cornerstone of my childhood and it still is important to me to this day.
Are you able to explain the like, dozens of feet servers? lol I'd never even heard of blockland before this video but just looking at the server list here is baffling
@@lixyororke Inco originally made these as both an elaborate joke, but also to at least have something of his interests in the game.
And yes, this vitriol has also been seen in other users of the game, some of which say he's potentially corrupting kids or something like that, even when the Blockland community is mostly made out of 20 year old basement dwellers.
Then again, the main ones who oppose his antics don't even want to talk to him to the point of making bots that instantly disconnect them from any server he joins. This same person (it's only 1 with this instant leave script) also is obsessed over by another one, like, literally they edate with someone else.
Yeah, the game's community is fricking weird. That's probably why I like it.
Bump
23:54 thats actually one of the random ambient sounds that minecraft plays to mess with you! honestly i think they were made for moments like that, when your mind will just run wild with the possibilities from an unusual sound that doesn't fit anything you're used to
53:48 dude, I'm actually speechless. Sherwood meant SO much to me as a kid, but at some point every bit of info online just vanished, like it never existed. Hearing this and seeing it again now just reminded me how it directly lead me to games like Fate and Torchlight, Runescape, the TES series, etc.. I really thought I'd never hear anyone mention this game again. It may be a footnote on history now, but seriously, thank you for reminding me.
Me too bro! Those were the days! I loved that game, and that tanks game aswell.
I love this type of video, just exploring forgotten web worlds and websites... it's so nostalgic
We’re so back
???
It’s been only a month bro
@@AlexanderHulettHulett-xp3yb let the pizza guy have this
We’re so black 🥵🤤😛
Is no one talking about how he commented before the video came out?
I loved industrial17 as a kid. Had my own rp server where we did little nerdy gang wars with the npcs. The map is one of the many influences/inspirations that led me to currently making a ttrpg. Such a good map!
Love the signature collector encounter. That immediately made me think of some urbex chance encounters I've had with other urbexers, that uncertainty at first that turns into a friendly greeting as you show that you're here doing same thing before going your separate ways.
Holy shit, what?? Maid Marian??? I remember playing the hell out of that whole site with my friends in an after-school program on days when we spent the night in the computer lounge. That was way back in elementary school, I genuinely haven't met anyone who experienced those games since! Sherwood dungeon was my wow
duuude same and all the other games on their websites too!!!
If you ever do this again, I recommend going to old TROVE faction bases - I've urbexed some abandoned places that were griefed, just abandoned, or had some players willing to tell me the story about the place
Ugh. Man. That fishtank lamp. My grandparents owned that exact product.
They were pretty high up in the middle class, and for the time I knew them, they lived in this beautiful, massive work of art of a McMansion house on the corner. The house was built by the previous owner, with numerous handmade fixtures and carved decorative pieces. They were the kind of people who brought the whole family together for the most joyful and pure Christmas energy and feast every year. Reindeer and lights on the balconies, embroidered stockings, snowglobes everywhere. A massive, year-round tree in the corner. On the fridge and along the walls, you'd find at least one picture of about every family member you did or didn't know. Knickknacks filled the kitchen windows, spring legs dangling daintily off the ledges. But in the dining room, you'd find the most love, and in that room, the fishtank lamp sat. And it's so bad. I love it so much, but it sucks. I never got over my fascination with it.
Grandpa died a year or two ago. Grandma is far gone, in the late stages of dementia, but living past all estimates. But she's gone. The purest little woman in the world.
The house was sold after Grandpa passed. We tried to save as many little things as we could, but plenty of the best things went to auction. Including the fishtank lamp.
Thank you for reminding me of a time where my only concern was whether or not I was getting a console. And great work on the video overall! The whole thing sparked memories.
You telling me we now getting the horror version of a Redlyne video???👀
I was just rewatching his videos lol, perfect timing
The real ghosts are the friends we made along the way
The friends we lost along the way
How tragic
Seeing the roblox iron cafe place made my heart skip a beat. It's such a vivid memory from when I was young thinking how cool club-esque night life and believing it be so "adult-ish". Now an actual adult still stuck in Vegas, I work at a fancy bespoke restaurant as a busser. A lot that adult world mystique and idealism sure was a lot warmer than reality.
Mildly interesting, but rp_industrial17 also seems to be based partially off the leaked beta maps of HL2's City 17- it feels doubly "haunted" knowing it's also built off of abandoned ideas.
Dude, wake up, Sagan just dropped
Exactly what I said seeing this.
Dropped what
not hating just curious... when people leave this comment on every video is for the meme, for the likes, a genuine feeling or a mix or these or something else? I just never really “got it“ after the 1000th time what the point was instead of leaving a comment which adds some novelty (again, no hate, people who leave these comments don‘t harm my ability to enjoy the video and comment sections its just kinda weird seeing it on nearly every single comment section and I want to get some insight from those who leave them)
You @thishandleistacken literally lol just answered your own question. But fuck it I got time today.. listen,
trying to dissect internet culture is like trying to understand the Bible. There's no damn point. It's a [TLDR: meme] - that will die out soon its a thing attention deprived Neanderthals use when creators drop new content, to be honest tho mostly its bots or cringe fuck fans that type it earliest someone drops a video bc its a meme or they wanna garner likes, comments, and attention because their social life is as dry as a 43 year single Mormon fuck.
Hope that helps you knew the answer bro you always knew.
Dropped from where? Is he okay?
The chicken in the walls is one of the prime examples of making random stuff just to mess with archeologists lol
Oh god watching the Blockland section brought back so many memories. I first bought the game because I had heard of the Renderman creepypasta and I remember asking people on random servers if they knew what the Renderman was and them laughing at me.
its basically a slenderman bot for blockland it is often used for horror servers
HE WILL FIND YOU HES COMING HE KNOWS WHERE YOU ARE RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN
Production value is high with this one boys!
I actually do this sort of digital urban exploration as you put it around every Halloween in places like VR chat and other games. Always interesting to see what gets left behind.
I was never much of a social gamer. At most, I’d chat with some person I paired up with in Castle Battle on Kongregate. As such, the only thing I can even remotely relate to this kind of experience is finding a living space in a post-apocalyptic game.
Now, I personally make an attempt to immerse myself in games, even when the game isn’t necessarily trying hard to make me do so. As such, there’s usually a small moment when walking through the Capital Wasteland on Fallout or finding an apartment on Deadrising where I just feel…kind of mournful. No matter how strong my character is or how many enemies I killed getting there, I just felt sad, all of a sudden. I know it’s probably not even close to a similar feeling, but that’s what this video reminds me of.
You draw out the wonder and curiosity of late 90s and early 2000s childhood nostalgia without the burden of knowing that it's a feeling you can only truly appreciate retrospectively. Its an almost hopeful nostalgia for the now that looks forward rather than back, and I think that's pretty cool.
that renderman sequence was cool as hell!
hey im a blockland history nerd - the online blockland servers still being hosted don't really feature much actual historical builds/worlds from as far back as 2007, blockland servers have typically had a short lifespan unlike minecraft worlds and whatnot. as a result, the servers you visited showed more newly built stuff only, i guess aside from that one build that comes with the game. for exploring super old stuff, it would be best to either download archived saves or have someone specifically host them for you (alongside classic old mods/add-ons too!)
he unfortunately played all inco servers which is a terrible fate for any blocklander 😭😭😭😭😭😭
I think this explains why minecraft scares me, not even old versions or abandoned servers, just that my memories of the first time playing it as a kid creates the same feeling whenever I play it regardless of version or world.
As someone who’s been doing this for a month now, specifically playing old Roblox games from my childhood, this video feels like a much deserved punch in the gut to remind us to cherish what we currently have
The tunnels with the trees reminds me so much of how I played minecraft when I was a kid, I have a bad anxiety disorder and when I was on non-peaceful servers I'd move underground with trees and mine out my own safe spaces. Lit well enough that nothing could spawn, hard enough to navigate that other players and mobs couldnt easily chase me. Trees and farms so I'd never have to go above ground again. I'd mine out randomly looking for minerals, blocking off caves as I found them out of fear and turning those tunnels into halls with more rooms where I'd afk
All these source maps just make me sad. I used to play a lot of CSS and Gmod (including ancient Melonbrew era RP), it just reminds me of being a kid, friends I made online that I've lost touch with because of growing older. I miss those lates night where I was alone, but not really alone.
I routinely visit the old Roblox servers I worked on as a teenager. Beautiful, intricate recreations of the evil alien Homeworld from the cartoon my friends and I were all obsessed with. One is just a revival project, though. Because the original is from 2014ish and very broken, so I don't have any access to my original special character model anymore. It's weird.
Something I will always be heartbroken about is the minecraft servers my friends and I played on as kids that reset to match new updates. I’m still sad that I’ll never get to explore the builds we made.
I think ur the only yt essayist whose videos i not only look forward to, but also ur music! Great one as always⭐
one thing that permeates in my mind when I see things like those minecraft signs or the abandonded roblox cafes and homes is "where are those people now?" and "I wonder if they'll ever see this video, and rethink those memories of what actually happened in those old servers"
Vr chat is also fantastic for this. I absolutely love getting high/drunk and just walking around vibeing in random worlds, theres so many that are low-no players and alot of limmanal stuff, playing calm abent music also helps
I've been here since the fnaf retrospectives, and it's honestly insane how much better you get even just with each video. Every time I tune in, the visuals, the presentation, the music, or something has always improved in some way, big or small. Massive props man!
Whats intiresting about these exploration videos especially in abandoned minecraft servers is many of the mostly or intact houses/mining systems are so confusing and odd from the outside perspective but once made total sense to someone or the entire server
There are jokes on those servers we will never understand, storage systems we would never personally use, mods we haven't seen in years and glitches/farms that in modern day can't be used or are just inconvenient due to the updates after these worlds
Those tunnel complexes just look like regular old shaft mining to me. I used to spend hours and hours doing that. Great way to find lava lakes to make obsidian (or to stage an impromptu Pompeii re-enactment if you aren't careful).
oh hell yes, hopping onto any multiplayer source/goldsrc game and exploring the abandoned servers is something i've always been super into, i have a hoards of custom maps from team fortress 2, half-life, opposing force, half-life 2 deathmatch, and even deathmatch classic
i can always feel the echoes of chaos that achievement/trade maps invited between the tdm and rtd rolls, and the ghosts of top fraggers in all those deathmatch maps
as for what was explored in the vid, i always felt cs_office was especially unnerving because there is a radio in it that's supposed to play a news report regarding the terrorist attack on the in-universe location, i don't remember if it only plays during cs gameplay or if it's totally unused, but it's one that's really stuck with me
that anarchy server made me so happy for some reason .. there was so much love and care left behind there
The house of leaves tunnel system is likely just a mine. They brought saplings with them to get more wood so they can keep mining when their tools break.I've done that before.
Its an obvious reference to the book house of leaves
I think the aspect of the ghosts of Place that i really resonate with the most is idenitfying the occupancy of a building that it exudes on its own.
(Psychologically, i think maybe this comes from our ancestors typically living in and around trees, literal "living structures", and thus our association of occupancy with life, or "ghosts", or Feng-sui.)
An abandoned building is an abandoned occupant. And while some, like the Source maps, were made to be empty, to be accommodating to any visitors they might get... Its the old, worn down bases that get me. Because they're not expecting to be empty.
They're supposed to be a home. A home for someone. The occupant of the house is made to be in tandem with the occupant of the builder, in a personalized way you don't typically see in most modern housing. They're a pair, a team, a package deal.
And thats just gone.
Something about some of these old builds just makes me want to find them. To repair them. To heal them. There's just something to alluring about... Mending whats broken. Creating something new out of the discarded.
Giving that ghost a home.
I love your content Sagen! It's very professional and enjoyable. Your scripts are great and impactful and the subtle editing and background details are fun! Thanks for being a comfort channel for me! Im always excited to watch your newest video. You deserve many more viewers! I'm so happy I found this hidden gem. I found you through that dinosaur museum game that you went looking for btw
I find it absolutely fascinating that people are talking with such fondness for early Roblox. I don't mean to shit on it or anything because every generation has their "back when games meant something" moment, but I just so vividly remember how everyone who grew up a gaming generation prior constantly talked about Roblox as an example of why modern gaming for kids was soulless and corporate, when it had just come out.
Your one of the only content creators I’ve seen not complaining about this, im reallt excited personally. I know this games not for everybody, but I’m excited and really hype for this and playing with my friends
that minecraft server with all the weird trees in the tunnels has very easy explanation the tunnels are strip mining tunnels to find diamonds and the trees are there to chop down for wood instead of having to go back up! they also would give apples so a good source of food too if lucky
Love seeing you randomly exploring Blockland build servers when most people are at work on a weekday lol
Cheers to the chads playing Blockland since 2004 Blockland alpha.
I mainly host a dedicated server and alternate between gamemodes i love like zapt zombies, TDM, rising lava etc....
DM and TDM have always been pretty fun.
Speedkart Remastered is newer even more fun version of Speedkart really popular racing gamemode.
Blockland Events have also thought me how programming works as well as rpg maker. Events is basically a really easy way to do basic programming with bricks. Of course you can also just code anything you want and make it an addon.
HELLO PATYOS THANKS FOR ALWAYS HOSTING THINGS SO AWESOME BLOCKLAND FOREVER BLOCKLAND UNITED WE WIN WE WIN
patyos meow
just from the first few minutes, i know Sagan has been watching Solar Sands and RedLyne lmao
31:42 the feeling of a walking down a road that someone else has walked before, guiding you along is what I love most about Death Stranding. the only fully fledged game I’ve played that leans into it. yeah, it is a bit of a walking simulator sometimes, but the connections (strands, literally) between you and unseen faces is the best feature that I hope to see more of in DS2.
i've really been loving these recent videos where you explore examples of a certain concept. especially videos like the one on digital horror, which seems to now have branched off into smaller and more precise concepts like ghosts in the machine and digital urbexing and kenopsia. you've certainly earned your place as my favorite creator in this genre
I get the same feeling going through Little Big Planet's user generated levels along with Phantasy Star Online 2's classic mode.
On Little Big Planet, when the server was still active, many folks would hang and play levels together. Sometimes they'd share a space with the host and they'll make some wacky things on the Host's moon. Which leads to a bunch of user made roleplay levels in the 2D space. Revisiting those levels whilst most of everyone had stopped playing the game is quite the vibe. Some of them still play custom music composed by players, while others are devoid of anything and are just dead silent apart from the sounds you make from hopping and grabbing onto things.
Phantasy Star Online 2 also has a similar vibe to me as its Classic mode was incredibly active back before they announced New Genesis. Now? There's little to nobody on the classic server despite it still being supported by the team. It's either because the players left, or they migrated to New Genesis. Leaving the lobbies empty, and even the player made personal rooms forgotten. Some of them defaulting back to their original state, while others are still fully furnished with messages from other players from many many years ago and much more.
Edit:
I'm pretty sure that Minecraft server "The House of Leaves" is a nod to the book of the same name. A house with non-euclidean interiors that don't make sense and defy the outward exterior of the place.
DUDE NO ONE ELSE KNOWS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT WHEN I TELL THEM ABOUT THE MAID MARIAN GAMES
ilysm thanks for reminding me of them
New Sagan Hawks video to pass out to tonite let's fucking GOOOOOOO
so so glad I found you a couple years ago. non-stop high quality and interesting videos. thank you, truly.
Oh man... Iron Cafe... I spent so much time there. It used to be the case that the "dance" tool disabled gravity, so you could jump or run off the stage and hold dance to fly.
I miss Blockland so much dude, that game was genuinely so fun back when it was active. The Renderman servers in particular were super fun to me as a kid, I remember trying to shoot him when he'd appear not knowing that he was p much invincible most of the time.
BLOCKLAND STILL ALIVE NEVER STOP PLAYING BLOCKLAND UNITED just dont join inco servers like this poor soul did BLOCKLAND NEVER DIE
@@opti6248 We still play Blockland
@@EpikBerm this video inspired me to re-download it on steam and to my amusement there were like 6 people all playing a minesweeper game mode on some random server, never change, blockland.
Hey Sagen those sounds you heard while swimming were ambient cave sounds because the game thought you were still in a cave at the time. Hope this helps!
I keep thinking this every time I watch your videos, but I love your editing. It's so good, especially the intros. I'll never tire of it.
This video gives a strong nostalgic melancholy. The passage of time always feels like one of the greatest tragedies when you see monuments to what once was but no longer is.
thanks for being a content creator going through my past it brings be a somber joy seeing this stuff again because I probably will never experience this again and that can make me sad for a moment but still glad I got to see it once in my past when I was younger
I keep wanting to call you “Seagan” for some reason, Sagan. Definitely glad to see you got a new video by the way.
23:54
That clicking sound is incredibly odd, considering that's one of the new underwater equivalents to cave sounds, but those are from a more recent version than what you're playing on
my ears perked up when you mentioned Lost in Vivo, such an beautiful and terrifying game. I love the soundtrack for it and I'm still playing through it as of this comment. Keep up the amazing work!
Great video as always! Anyways, Sagan Hawkestuah.
Didn't expect this...but now I got my Popcorn and coke to watch this,LET'S GO!!!
this video was PEAK, actually fire! Very interesting topic honestly, it'll definitely stick with me for a while. Always been a fan of liminal spaces and/or abandoned ones, so this is awesome tbh
Thank you for dropping Kenopsia. It’s very awesome to see more people drop The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. I wish more people mentioned this book. I got a copy and it’s VERY interesting to go through occasionally and just find words that I’ve definitely felt. But I never had a word to place on that feeling. Which is what it sets out to do, and I think it 100% succeeds.
Warms my heart to see blockland getting videos! the sounds you heard in my render freebuild server is the default ambience of the renderman mod whilst running, with creepy sfx :o
oh yea I added the ability for rendermen to take on the appearance of players, lol
Its always a good day when sagan hawkes drops
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man this took me back with the gmod maps, 8:12 made me think about working my first job and coming home to dark rp shenanigans
What a great throwback with the Iron Cafe! I used to hang out there between 2010-2015, so I don't think I've ever seen that particular version of it. I love the fact that archive projects exist to preserve stuff like this.
Your video topics are so fascinating but your voice is so soothing that I just want to put it on repeat and fall asleep to them
LESSSS GOO NEW SAGAN VIDEO!!!
Love having your stuff on while I’m in the office. Great content brother.
23:49
dont worry, its just the ocean/underwater version of cave sounds
DECAY IS AN EXTANT FORM OF LIFE. LIKE SLEEP, LIKE DEATH, YOU HAVE WOKEN THESE PLACES UP AGAIN AND INSPIRED THEM TO EXPLORE.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORT.
32:38 honestly, this sign is more impactful than any of the structures that were built. It's bittersweet to think at some point in time, (possibly a decade ago if the server was active in 2012,) "minerprincess" left this sign for someone, and for whatever reason, it was never removed.
minerprincess then moved on with their life, leaving the server for good one day, while their message for whoever, remains, as part of the server's history. Maybe it's just me, but it would feel weird to me if I loaded into an old world and found a sign with a message I left for someone. I wonder if I'd even remember the context, or why I created it
As silly as it seems, that chicken dying is a perfect example of how even when we think what we are doing might be for the best it often times can make things much worse than they began.
These are the videos that made me sub. I love creepy video game stuff like this. Especially haunted servers
Oh, the Roblox section always brings back so much nostalgia. I occasionally hop back in to find some of the retro-emulators in the *hope* that I can find some of the old games I played as a child. I never, ever have, and it does tug at my heart strings a bit that they are just lost media. Farm tycoon, Cake Bakery Tycoon, Halloween door-to-door trick or treating, Survival 303- all gone, and there's nothing on the website that quite scratches that itch anymore. I did manage to find one of my old games, "Hide and seek with Friends!", which I always remember had this brilliant waiting lobby (full of colourful squares, circles, glass walls & all sorts). I joined the dead server and wandered about. It was neat for the first few seconds before I realised the game would never start as the server was utterly dead. You needed at least 3 players to start, and I knew that wasn't going to happen. Oh, it breaks my heart to see it all gone. I miss the iridescent balls that exploded with the same compressed .mp3 noise. I miss the truly terrible and cringey roleplay servers that were just filled to the brim with so much love and character. I miss the (arguably) archaic but addictive gameplay loops. I miss raising Epic Ducks and (truly awful models of) Dragons and Pokémon, only to leave to go play as a cat in the town of Robloxia. Ah well, I suppose it can't all last forever.
The feeling of seeing a new sagan video really is like nothing else. This is such a comfort channel for me ❤
I so badly wish little big planet player levels were still playable so I could do stuff like this. It was my roblox as a kid and I honestly miss it so much.
This man deserves so much more attention these videos are nuts
Man this is so sad you know. Friendships were made on these maps, maybe even ended with them too. These maps made someone's day at one point, maybe made another's worse. People used to be here, used to live here, used to create here, and now it's all abandoned. And honestly it makes me mourn for them
In a complete coincidence, I'm watching this a couple of days after watching the latest Pixelkane Backrooms video, where two people can hear but not see each other because they're both occupying the same space, one in reality and one in the backrooms. When you're exploring all those empty buildings with sounds of people, that's ALL I can think of. It makes it so much creepier.
My theory about the eerieness of Source games is that it's intentionally designed. The engine was built up around Half-Life 2, and Half-Life 2 is a game with a very deliberate horror element, so a lot of the fundamental choices made at an engine level were designed to facilitate horror. Things like the very loud and present room tone, the way your footsteps echo, or the way your flashlight lights up a dark room. When you're in a quiet and lonely moment in Half-Life 2, it's *usually* because they're ramping up tension or actively putting you in a horror sequence, so the choices they made about things like how Source handles sound and lighting and the subtler elements that stand out most in those quiet, lonely moments were intended to create a spooky atmosphere. It's just that good old polished Valve design at work.
hell yeaahh, new vid + awesome topic, missed you man! (also at 31:26 the sign on the floor is written by an argentinian, woah!)