The best part is they didn't even see 30% of this map, nor did they even catch any of the story it tells. It's SSSSOOOO much bigger than they think. @outsidexbox - You need to play through again. You missed a LOT of stuff. You got 1 of THREE endings for this map.
@@ThndrChld yeah it's quite literally impossible to experience all of it in a single sitting, and probably impossible to do without SIGNIFICANT outside help.
Obvious spoilers, but if anyone wants to see how MyHouse works, there's a guy that goes by DavidXNewton who has a 3-part series called "The Mysteries of MyHouse" breaking down how it constantly shifts things around and disorients the player. The utter mechanical scale of this WAD is nothing short of staggering. Someone in another thread said that just the WAD itself is larger than the entirety of DOOM 1 and 2 combined
Wow, loved this. As others have commented, it took inspiration from House of Leaves - one of the main characters has the last name Navidson. The big plot point in HoL is that the house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside (not really a spoiler since this happens very early on). It changes a little bit at first, then becomes more and more eccentric with added rooms that didn't used to be there. The mod does a good job replicating the deeply unsettling aspects of the book by keeping things house-like/ house-adjacent, adding layer upon layer of disorientation. The change from house to concrete apartments to airport is WILD. You have to hold the book upside down sometimes and there are pages of footnotes and two other stories going on at the same time. (I actually never finished reading it because it was so dense, ha) But there were a ton of fascinating narrative techniques going on. PT does the same thing - you descend through a house that slowly changes, twisting the familiar into an absolute nightmare. There's a scene in the book that involves a staircase, and I'm absolutely haunted by it even years later. Man, I dig stuff like this so much, lol. Great video and great mod!
You should absolutely finish HOL, it's ending is amazing :) Also, having only read it once, and it being a decent number of years ago, what staircase scene are you referring to ?
@@denniswijker7162 Hmm. I always loved House of Leaves as well. There isn't a particular scene of the staircase that sticks out in memory. I know there's the spiral stairway that changes as the group explores. Then there's the imagery of the shape of the staircase making the fibonacci spiral (like on the cover). But I'd say what stays with me most was Navidson's frantic reading in the dark. Love Danielewski's works (well, I never got into The Familiar much). I would highly recommend several of his other books.
@@dmrukifellth I read the first two of The Familiar, and thought it was super interesting, but maybe starting a 27 book run wasn't the best idea ever :P (especially not if they are this expensive to print with all the full colour pages and the like). It's a shame he couldn't actually finish it, but I'm also not suprised. I really need to reread HOL again (I've tried a few times, but never push through it like I did the first time :( )
Also takes obvious inspiration from the Backrooms which is a creepypasta thing that also resulted in a series of youtube videos. As the last part of the game is recreation of a Backrooms.
When the door first started swinging instead of sliding vertically I was hooked. The person that made this was a freaking pro! Fantastically seamless world switching.
At 14:04 him telling Mike to check the cupboard for the endless supply of medkits makes me pretty certain he was doing it on purpose. Edit: later on it's even more evident.
He's definitely just playing along XD There's a video essay on this mod in it's entirety (which i only watched recently, weird coincidence) and I'm 99% sure he's watched it and it inspired him to have Mike play it.
Oh, he absolutely knows what's happening. He's not that good of an actor (sorry Andy, but it's true). He keeps telling Mike to do with wayyyy too much certainty
The way Andy keeps feigning ignorance like he hasn't played this mod before is pretty funny. He's just leading Mike along like he does with Ellen when she plays horror games. 😆
I'm an absolute weenie when it comes to jumpscares, and I'm currently wearing a heart monitor for my cardiologist. I'm pretty sure the recording is gonna show a cardiac event on that plane. 🤣
I hadn't jumped at anything, but I seriously jumped and said "oh shit" when that smoke monster appeared. It reminded me of how I reacted when the Boy of Silence appears behind Booker after he pulls the lever in BioShock Infinite. Even when I know it's coming I still jump occasionally. I also got major Langoliers vibes from that empty airport.
It is one of those very easy to overlook things if you're not very into DOOM, there's been so much advancement in game development that you just kind of take like verticality for granted.
When I watched a documentary about this level, I paused the video like 20 seconds in and stared at the floor being below another floor. I've only dabbled in modding as a pre-teen when the games came out, but I totally remember not being able to place floors above floors. The maps are basically 2D with a height parameter.
Just to confirm the *original* Doom engine can't do room-under-room, but GZDoom, which this mod runs on, definitely can (through portals, 3D floors etc.). The particular application in the "first" version of the house is a rather cute old-school approach using a cleverly positioned silent-teleporter.
This mod uses a stupid amount of silent/hidden teleporters. It solves the room under room problem of the Doom engine and that's why the door reappears when Mike is backing up the stairs - he's suddenly in a completely different part of the map.
I think the reason why the lower floor door closes when you back up the stairs is because they have an invisible teleport between the upper floor and lower floor in two separate parts of the map, since Doom cannot naturally have multiple floors
This entire ordeal was genuinely amazing It started out like "Oh this neat" And then the f**kery starts slowly seeping in until youre watching an episode of The Backrooms Wild. 10/10
omg i've been lowkey bummed now that the re4 playthrough is over but this is like a dream come true,, this mod is insane and i'm so unbelievably excited to see you guys play it
I don't know if it was intentional or not, but the sheer narrative foreshadowing of having TH-cam recommending "7 Misleading Trailers That Were Nothing Like the Final Game" whilst watching a video, that starts out as a quirky Doom mod with basic Doom enemies, before turning into a horror movie with weird supernatural monster enemies, is just...*chef kiss*
Its the perfect simple build program that is easy for first time developers. I built sooooo many levels with this and the Duke Nukem 3D creation suite. Its the best starter.
This is awesome tribute to a life oddly brings back happy memories of my own modding days.. Back then I was working as tech support for a company based in Wales. Now the company had rather grown out of its factory building and to easy space had bolted 2 ranks of 6 portacabins on the side, giving a lovely 2 storey shanty-town vibe to work. Being the tech-support nerds we were, we used to have doom matches over the network at lunchtime. Which of course meant eventually I ended up mapping the entire factory / portacabin complex as a WAD. It took about 2 months to build but we had hours of lunchtime fun blatting each other and the numerous monsters I placed around the factory. Of course, I tried to specific in monster placement, filling HR with lost souls, and the head of stores (who we were all terrified of) was a Hell Baron. The MD only ranked a Cacodemon. Ah happy times
Mike predicted that killing the dog kills the cerberus, then finds out that the apartment is the same layout as the house, what did the RE4 playthrough do to you Mike?
I sincerely hope the Navidson Reality sign is a nod to House of Leaves. In fact, that book came to mind when Mike went into the underground car park. This was an awesome mod!
When I saw the "Sold by Navidson Realty" it reminded me of House Of Leaves, a novel by Mark Danielewski, which has a non-euclidean house. I'd say it was very inspired by that book.
Yes, MORE LETS PLAY! I love this kind of stuff. Especially when you guys play some obscure weird games (mods in this case) like this. I laughed particularly hard at Andy's "Why haven't you quicksaved? I'd be quicksaving right now" as Mike gets obliterated by Cerberus.
There's A Ton more stuff you guys didn't even catch, this isn't the end, the from what i can tell the rest of it gets easier in terms of having ammo and health. Maybe do a part 2 for Halloween where you guys read the lore and fully play through? 😄👍
I love how subtle this mod/map is. Like ... most people don't realize how they can suddenly look out of a basement window - when there were none to begin with. The weirdness starts so slowly and escalates into madness over 9k. Masterpiece of a map. (And the book it's based on - House of Leaves)
Congrats on getting one of the bad endings! Now you need to find the rest of them. Don't forget to finish the level after as well, it's a nice refresher 😉 Oh, and please don't kill the dog, it's sad 😿
Okay, judging by the look of the house in one iteration, I'm thinking that the in-game story involves a fire at some point? Like, this game is at least partly "someone was traumatized by a house fire" stuff? I dunno, this is confusing and pretty darn cool. I love how they keep making it into different houses -- and then a freaking airport! Frankly quite impressive. :)
The pacing in this mod is unreal. From cutesy “look at my house in doom” to backrooms sublte change chicanery, to the ravenholm basement and then brutalist cerberus kennel. Also fun to see a horror game genuinely get under mikes skin for once lmao
This was so surreal and creepy. I think this is the first time Mike has been creeped out by a horror game. Usually he doesn't react or he just laughs. I agree that the noises were the worst part. That airport at the end gave me immediate and intense Langoliers vibes. I legit jumped and said "oh shit" when that shadow monster appeared behind him in the plane. Yeah, this is definitely extremely effective horror. Damn. I've never done drugs, but this mod makes me feel like I've done drugs.
Honestly, the amount of creativity in this mod dwarfs anything I've seen in any triple A release in the last 5 years. Always fun to see others experience it for the first time... (Yet sad they didn't go into the airport bathroom. You know...)
Given that the first dimension had a Playstation and the second an XBox, it seems like a major missed opportunity that the hell dimension doesn't have a Nintendo Virtualboy or something.
"Is it the end of the level?... It is the end of the level!!!" But it was not the end of the level, not by a long shot. Glad Andy said he'd do more investigating, this whole thing is worth it.
Even though I've already seen others play through this mod and I've played through it myself, it's amazingly deep and I hope you guys keep at it because it warrants it. Also, the "friend's" map that he finished story is complete bunk. It's obvious that it was a from scratch creation based on an old idea that used to pop up a lot in the forums. Also also, you can only get the best ending if you don't kill the dog. The tiny dog poses no threat so it's easy to not kill him, and the big one can be entirely avoided as you did here.
I've never really been a Doom fan, but House of Leaves is one of my alltime favorite books so it was cool to see a mod inspired by it. If you haven't read it Andy, I think you'd really enjoy it.
I was not expecting the whole environment to change as they were playing. I wonder if that health was there just to draw people out for the house interior to undergo such a change. A lot of work went into this.
I would love to see a full series or a few livestreams of you two trying to truly complete this mod. Having watched Power Pak's video essay (which I think is what really launched this mod into the mainstream), I know that y'all haven't seen half of what this mod can do and I would really enjoy hearing your reactions and occasional riffs. In the meantime, I heartily recommend that video essay for anyone who was intrigued by this video but would rather not play the mod themselves. It's a great way to experience a lot of what this level has to offer and what the narrative and inspirations could be without having to battle your own fear to keep moving forward.
even though i watched the whole thing - i still feel kinda baffled of what and why things happened. but heck was a lovely ride - gratz to modder who made this.
Ah, the Cerberus part is messing with me. In the map where you're small (a child?) It's an unstoppable monster. In the map where you're normal sized, it's just a regular dog. That your neighbor just saw you shoot.
very interesting, a lot of layers to this level, i was trying to work out when things changed from the first to the second iteration of the house and i'm not sure if it was when Mike went into the dark room or not. would be interesting to see what clipping though the level reveals
"Chugga Chugga Horse Horse" Reference to "you can lead a horse to water, but you cant make it drink" perhaps? like how I never noticed that the way to design a level in a game where you want someone to go is to light the way like the world's most heavily armed moth
Oooooh haven't even got through the video yet but it's so cool that you're playing this!! I watched a video on it a couple of months ago and thought it was pretty neat. I loved the book that this mod is based on, House of Leaves- definitely worth a read for experimental horror fans 🥰
I saw a lot of comments about this saying it was "a beautiful introspection of queer loneliness". What those comments forgot to mention was that it was also a freaking Doom mod.
@@blunderingfool No, it actually is. In this video, they only saw maybe 30% of the map, and didn't explore any of the "documentation" that went with it. It 100% tells the story of a gay couple that were ostracized by their families and had to endure multiple tragedies. Find another video that goes completely through it. It's fucking WILD.
@@jellojiggler1693 They didn't explore the full map. There's some documentation that comes with the map in the same file that's kind of a journal of sorts. Plus, they saw maybe 30% of this map. The full map has parallel realities, time travel, and tales of loss and tragedy. It has three different endings based on how you explore. In this video, they only found ending 1, which is the shittiest of the endings.
@@jellojiggler1693 It's from piecing the map's story together from the ingame and out of game clues (there are a bunch of "lore" docs for the map, like an ARG, that the author published alongside the map). It's all very intentionally vague of course, but a very likely reading is that it's about two men that were married/in a relationship and one of them died, plus a bunch of other stuff. The map is very big and has tons of content.
The entire map is a house of leaves reference. There's even a closet that opens into an impossible hallway, but only 1 out of every 100 or so times you open it.
If you want another blast from the past inspired game to check out, have a look at FAITH: The Unholy Trinity. It's like an Atari 2600 game went to hell several times and took a lot of drugs during each trip. Even from the screenshots and trailers it looks genuinely messed up. 8-bit horror as it never was.
This is an unbelievably deep mod, the sheer work and scope out into it is difficult to fully appreciate.
The best part is they didn't even see 30% of this map, nor did they even catch any of the story it tells. It's SSSSOOOO much bigger than they think. @outsidexbox - You need to play through again. You missed a LOT of stuff. You got 1 of THREE endings for this map.
@@ThndrChld yeah it's quite literally impossible to experience all of it in a single sitting, and probably impossible to do without SIGNIFICANT outside help.
There's also the doc that is full of stuff
Obvious spoilers, but if anyone wants to see how MyHouse works, there's a guy that goes by DavidXNewton who has a 3-part series called "The Mysteries of MyHouse" breaking down how it constantly shifts things around and disorients the player. The utter mechanical scale of this WAD is nothing short of staggering. Someone in another thread said that just the WAD itself is larger than the entirety of DOOM 1 and 2 combined
@@ThndrChldPretty sure there are more than 3 endings.
Wow, loved this. As others have commented, it took inspiration from House of Leaves - one of the main characters has the last name Navidson. The big plot point in HoL is that the house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside (not really a spoiler since this happens very early on). It changes a little bit at first, then becomes more and more eccentric with added rooms that didn't used to be there. The mod does a good job replicating the deeply unsettling aspects of the book by keeping things house-like/ house-adjacent, adding layer upon layer of disorientation. The change from house to concrete apartments to airport is WILD.
You have to hold the book upside down sometimes and there are pages of footnotes and two other stories going on at the same time. (I actually never finished reading it because it was so dense, ha) But there were a ton of fascinating narrative techniques going on. PT does the same thing - you descend through a house that slowly changes, twisting the familiar into an absolute nightmare. There's a scene in the book that involves a staircase, and I'm absolutely haunted by it even years later.
Man, I dig stuff like this so much, lol. Great video and great mod!
You should absolutely finish HOL, it's ending is amazing :)
Also, having only read it once, and it being a decent number of years ago, what staircase scene are you referring to ?
@@denniswijker7162 Hmm. I always loved House of Leaves as well. There isn't a particular scene of the staircase that sticks out in memory. I know there's the spiral stairway that changes as the group explores. Then there's the imagery of the shape of the staircase making the fibonacci spiral (like on the cover). But I'd say what stays with me most was Navidson's frantic reading in the dark. Love Danielewski's works (well, I never got into The Familiar much). I would highly recommend several of his other books.
@@dmrukifellth I read the first two of The Familiar, and thought it was super interesting, but maybe starting a 27 book run wasn't the best idea ever :P (especially not if they are this expensive to print with all the full colour pages and the like). It's a shame he couldn't actually finish it, but I'm also not suprised.
I really need to reread HOL again (I've tried a few times, but never push through it like I did the first time :( )
Also takes obvious inspiration from the Backrooms which is a creepypasta thing that also resulted in a series of youtube videos. As the last part of the game is recreation of a Backrooms.
We've done it folks, we've found a horror game that creeped Mike out
When the door first started swinging instead of sliding vertically I was hooked. The person that made this was a freaking pro! Fantastically seamless world switching.
I wondered why they mention it sliding open in the first iteration, but don't react to the fact they swing open afterward.
There is a fantastic 2hour+ video essay on this mod. It goes incredibly deep
@@ARUCARDFTEPES Because they aren't aware that Doom normally doesn't do swinging doors.
I just noticed, in the second iteration, the doors open normally. How cool is that.
Technically speaking, given that this is doom, they open very abnormally.
Gun animations also become more smooth (as in having more frames in animation)
On their first walkaround, there's no ground floor windows that they would eventually see the respawned baddies in.
I'm surprised they didn't notice that considering Mike amd Andy both commented on the how the doors open
@@OTE_TheMissile On that first walkaround the roof is flat, too.
I can't tell if Andy is genuinely confused and going "huh?" or he's doing it sarcastically like when playing with Ellen during Hallowstream
Fairly certain he was playing along, as he seemed to have a decent idea on how to (in broad terms) progress the mod.
At 14:04 him telling Mike to check the cupboard for the endless supply of medkits makes me pretty certain he was doing it on purpose. Edit: later on it's even more evident.
He's definitely just playing along XD There's a video essay on this mod in it's entirety (which i only watched recently, weird coincidence) and I'm 99% sure he's watched it and it inspired him to have Mike play it.
@@shannonbennetts Yeah it probably got algorithmed, it's been showing up for a while for me as well.
Oh, he absolutely knows what's happening. He's not that good of an actor (sorry Andy, but it's true). He keeps telling Mike to do with wayyyy too much certainty
What an interesting Legend of Zelda mod, seeing Link walk around with guns is quite something.
"I know, I know....
but hear me out."
You're joking but somebody totally made a mod that turns Zelda into Doom.
I rewatched that video a few days ago, a true classic
@@Giga-lemesh I watch it for the lols every once in a while. lol
This will be Luke's legacy.
The way Andy keeps feigning ignorance like he hasn't played this mod before is pretty funny. He's just leading Mike along like he does with Ellen when she plays horror games. 😆
OUR HOUSE
IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR DOOM
OUR HOUSE!
🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶
It cracks me up that Mike plays Hitman like it's Doom, but plays Doom hiding around the door worrying about health and ammo. :)
Glad to see more let's play videos
Same. It's nice to get invested
Im equally glad that Mike gets to play something.
I appreciated the zoom forward instead of a skip, it made my brain happy for some reason
I tend to think that jump scares never get me but that smoke monster on the plane almost made me spill my tea down myself!
That one made me jump which spooked my poor cat 😅
I'm an absolute weenie when it comes to jumpscares, and I'm currently wearing a heart monitor for my cardiologist. I'm pretty sure the recording is gonna show a cardiac event on that plane. 🤣
I hadn't jumped at anything, but I seriously jumped and said "oh shit" when that smoke monster appeared. It reminded me of how I reacted when the Boy of Silence appears behind Booker after he pulls the lever in BioShock Infinite. Even when I know it's coming I still jump occasionally. I also got major Langoliers vibes from that empty airport.
The thing that creeps me out the most about this mod is the Smooth Doom animations just kinda happening whenever you forget they're there.
You completely overlooked it with the basement, but did you know that doom's engine can't make rooms under other rooms?
It is one of those very easy to overlook things if you're not very into DOOM, there's been so much advancement in game development that you just kind of take like verticality for granted.
When I watched a documentary about this level, I paused the video like 20 seconds in and stared at the floor being below another floor.
I've only dabbled in modding as a pre-teen when the games came out, but I totally remember not being able to place floors above floors. The maps are basically 2D with a height parameter.
Oblivion zombie sounds😀
Just to confirm the *original* Doom engine can't do room-under-room, but GZDoom, which this mod runs on, definitely can (through portals, 3D floors etc.). The particular application in the "first" version of the house is a rather cute old-school approach using a cleverly positioned silent-teleporter.
This mod uses a stupid amount of silent/hidden teleporters. It solves the room under room problem of the Doom engine and that's why the door reappears when Mike is backing up the stairs - he's suddenly in a completely different part of the map.
I think the reason why the lower floor door closes when you back up the stairs is because they have an invisible teleport between the upper floor and lower floor in two separate parts of the map, since Doom cannot naturally have multiple floors
This mod was what it took to finally read the book House of Leaves, and my mind has never been more screwed lmao
This entire ordeal was genuinely amazing
It started out like
"Oh this neat"
And then the f**kery starts slowly seeping in until youre watching an episode of The Backrooms
Wild. 10/10
At the risk of spoilers, the Backrooms are actually _in_ this mod. You do not want to be there.
This is one spooky Doomicile...
omg i've been lowkey bummed now that the re4 playthrough is over but this is like a dream come true,, this mod is insane and i'm so unbelievably excited to see you guys play it
That RE4 playthrough lasted 16 weeks. It might be the longest lets play theyve ever done and I loved every second.
I don't know if it was intentional or not, but the sheer narrative foreshadowing of having TH-cam recommending "7 Misleading Trailers That Were Nothing Like the Final Game" whilst watching a video, that starts out as a quirky Doom mod with basic Doom enemies, before turning into a horror movie with weird supernatural monster enemies, is just...*chef kiss*
Love that there are still Doom mods being made. Really goes to show how important the game was, that it's still relevant even today.
Its the perfect simple build program that is easy for first time developers. I built sooooo many levels with this and the Duke Nukem 3D creation suite. Its the best starter.
This is awesome tribute to a life oddly brings back happy memories of my own modding days.. Back then I was working as tech support for a company based in Wales. Now the company had rather grown out of its factory building and to easy space had bolted 2 ranks of 6 portacabins on the side, giving a lovely 2 storey shanty-town vibe to work. Being the tech-support nerds we were, we used to have doom matches over the network at lunchtime. Which of course meant eventually I ended up mapping the entire factory / portacabin complex as a WAD. It took about 2 months to build but we had hours of lunchtime fun blatting each other and the numerous monsters I placed around the factory. Of course, I tried to specific in monster placement, filling HR with lost souls, and the head of stores (who we were all terrified of) was a Hell Baron. The MD only ranked a Cacodemon. Ah happy times
That's brilliant
there's not actually a dead friend, presumably - it's part of the meta story with the original Doom WAD thread and the Google docs it comes with.
Mike predicted that killing the dog kills the cerberus, then finds out that the apartment is the same layout as the house, what did the RE4 playthrough do to you Mike?
I'm still so sad he killed the friendly dog
When Mike is even getting spooked, you know it’s a scary vibe
You know when you watch a playthrough and you're screaming "Do the thing!" "Fill all the sinks!" "Remove the blanket from the mirror!" Lol
Dog-killer! 😡 Automatic bad ending. The dog doesn't hurt you Mike, you can just avoid Cerberus version
The longest YT video I have ever watched was a deep dive into this MOD and it was a thrillride from start to finish. Whoever made this is incredible!
I think it was a bunch of whoevers that made this
I watched the TH-camr PowerPak play through the whole thing including all the secrets
@@jimmyp4024 that one was the first that I watched and I think it’s the best so far
Love the House of Leaves reference at the end with the realtor being named Navidson.
I sincerely hope the Navidson Reality sign is a nod to House of Leaves. In fact, that book came to mind when Mike went into the underground car park. This was an awesome mod!
It is 😊
@ashuggtube That's awesome! It's been a while since I read it, I think I'm going to need to read it again.
Mike: does it close when you walk away?
also mike: keeps walking away and shooting the door.
Freakin shadow monster in the plane jump scared me hard 😅
There is a lot more to this than you guys realise. A LOT more.
Play through MAP02 and the game will reset back to MAP01.
When I saw the "Sold by Navidson Realty" it reminded me of House Of Leaves, a novel by Mark Danielewski, which has a non-euclidean house. I'd say it was very inspired by that book.
Would be great if Andy plays the rest of this and shows mike just how insane this mod gets!
Yes, MORE LETS PLAY! I love this kind of stuff. Especially when you guys play some obscure weird games (mods in this case) like this. I laughed particularly hard at Andy's "Why haven't you quicksaved? I'd be quicksaving right now" as Mike gets obliterated by Cerberus.
House Of Leaves: The Video Game.
There's A Ton more stuff you guys didn't even catch, this isn't the end, the from what i can tell the rest of it gets easier in terms of having ammo and health. Maybe do a part 2 for Halloween where you guys read the lore and fully play through?
😄👍
I love how subtle this mod/map is. Like ... most people don't realize how they can suddenly look out of a basement window - when there were none to begin with. The weirdness starts so slowly and escalates into madness over 9k. Masterpiece of a map. (And the book it's based on - House of Leaves)
Congrats on getting one of the bad endings! Now you need to find the rest of them.
Don't forget to finish the level after as well, it's a nice refresher 😉
Oh, and please don't kill the dog, it's sad 😿
This map has so much more than you realize. You could easily do 2 more videos on it
For those who haven't seen it, Power Pak did a real good video on this. Not a Let's Play, a video essay.
It took me a while to click on a random 1:42:01 long video that kept being recommend to me, then just watched it intensely.
Just watched it after your recommendation. One of the best videos I've seen. What a rabbit hole this turns into. 10/10 video.
Okay, judging by the look of the house in one iteration, I'm thinking that the in-game story involves a fire at some point? Like, this game is at least partly "someone was traumatized by a house fire" stuff? I dunno, this is confusing and pretty darn cool. I love how they keep making it into different houses -- and then a freaking airport! Frankly quite impressive. :)
All of the reactions to this mod have been incredibly fun to watch.
My fav part is them slowly finding out the house is messed up while clowncore plays in the background.
"what's that thing". this is doom you shoot first & ask questions later
Navidson realty! Navidson is the name of the family in House of Leaves, a book that also deals with a scary house with doors that open to nowhere!
The pacing in this mod is unreal. From cutesy “look at my house in doom” to backrooms sublte change chicanery, to the ravenholm basement and then brutalist cerberus kennel.
Also fun to see a horror game genuinely get under mikes skin for once lmao
This was so surreal and creepy. I think this is the first time Mike has been creeped out by a horror game. Usually he doesn't react or he just laughs. I agree that the noises were the worst part.
That airport at the end gave me immediate and intense Langoliers vibes. I legit jumped and said "oh shit" when that shadow monster appeared behind him in the plane. Yeah, this is definitely extremely effective horror. Damn. I've never done drugs, but this mod makes me feel like I've done drugs.
Honestly, the amount of creativity in this mod dwarfs anything I've seen in any triple A release in the last 5 years. Always fun to see others experience it for the first time... (Yet sad they didn't go into the airport bathroom. You know...)
24:16 "No more health for Mikey" would actually fit as one of the blurbs that pops up when you pick up a memory item in this mod.
This map is so well made!
Spoiler kindof:
The airplane part really creeped me out! :D Cool ending!
Given that the first dimension had a Playstation and the second an XBox, it seems like a major missed opportunity that the hell dimension doesn't have a Nintendo Virtualboy or something.
Neat House of Leaves reference at the end there.
The whole thing is pretty much a big HoL reference
I like Andy's .. "Oh that is weird" ... sub commentary ...
I cannot believe mike killed the good doggo
"Navidson" realty . I loved that one.
Andy and Mike saying "laundry room" at the exact same time in perfect harmony makes me want them to start a 2 man roadshow
"That's the attic route, isn't it?" Is it, Mike? Is it? This game is great. It's so unexpected.
"Is it the end of the level?... It is the end of the level!!!"
But it was not the end of the level, not by a long shot.
Glad Andy said he'd do more investigating, this whole thing is worth it.
Even though I've already seen others play through this mod and I've played through it myself, it's amazingly deep and I hope you guys keep at it because it warrants it. Also, the "friend's" map that he finished story is complete bunk. It's obvious that it was a from scratch creation based on an old idea that used to pop up a lot in the forums. Also also, you can only get the best ending if you don't kill the dog. The tiny dog poses no threat so it's easy to not kill him, and the big one can be entirely avoided as you did here.
They didn't notice the doors suddenly stopped sliding upwards and actually opened outwards. o.o
They didn't even notice the way that half the upstairs rooms should be overlapping!
Lol I actually jumped at the scare on the plane. Almost tossed my cellphone 😅
I've never really been a Doom fan, but House of Leaves is one of my alltime favorite books so it was cool to see a mod inspired by it. If you haven't read it Andy, I think you'd really enjoy it.
I was not expecting the whole environment to change as they were playing. I wonder if that health was there just to draw people out for the house interior to undergo such a change. A lot of work went into this.
Can't believe he shot the dog. For shame Mike. For shame.
Anyone else panicked because Mike and Andy are like, health items? Eh, don't need that.
Ok, the smoke monster on the plane legit jump scared me. Holy hell, this was a weird combination of Doom and The Backrooms and I love/hate it.
I would love to see a full series or a few livestreams of you two trying to truly complete this mod. Having watched Power Pak's video essay (which I think is what really launched this mod into the mainstream), I know that y'all haven't seen half of what this mod can do and I would really enjoy hearing your reactions and occasional riffs. In the meantime, I heartily recommend that video essay for anyone who was intrigued by this video but would rather not play the mod themselves. It's a great way to experience a lot of what this level has to offer and what the narrative and inspirations could be without having to battle your own fear to keep moving forward.
That pistol sound is like a core memory for me!
The doors opening, too!
OutsideXbox saying that the dimension with the Xbox is the wrong one as opposed to the one with the PlayStation.. nice
even though i watched the whole thing - i still feel kinda baffled of what and why things happened.
but heck was a lovely ride - gratz to modder who made this.
So Doom Guy, aka Link, doesn't have a reflection. Link's a vampire confirmed.
I think as the iterations progress, as with the other improvements (opening doors, smoother animations etc) the reflection does show.
But I could be misremembering that 🤔
The reflections of the enemies appear, not Doom Guy.
Doom speedrunners: uuuhhh...gimmie 2 days.
OHhh! The smoke monster in the plane is a LOST reference, of course. I didn't put it together before now, thanks.
I legit jumped at one of the smoke monsters haha
Navidson house - a nod to House of Leaves.
he came SO frustratingly close to discovering the visually awesome path in the bathtub >.
Oh, I'm surprised you guys covered this!? 😱
I can't believe Mike killed that little dog.
Ah, the Cerberus part is messing with me. In the map where you're small (a child?) It's an unstoppable monster. In the map where you're normal sized, it's just a regular dog. That your neighbor just saw you shoot.
Mike, the sweet doggo killer. lol
30:04 biggest laugh i've had in a minute lol
The biggest gasp I let out when Mike killed the poor doggo.
That "weird apartment complex" part was a reference to The Backrooms.
Nah, there's an optional, actual Backrooms reference in this mod other than the Brutalist bit.
very interesting, a lot of layers to this level, i was trying to work out when things changed from the first to the second iteration of the house and i'm not sure if it was when Mike went into the dark room or not. would be interesting to see what clipping though the level reveals
"Chugga Chugga Horse Horse" Reference to "you can lead a horse to water, but you cant make it drink" perhaps? like how I never noticed that the way to design a level in a game where you want someone to go is to light the way like the world's most heavily armed moth
Oooooh haven't even got through the video yet but it's so cool that you're playing this!! I watched a video on it a couple of months ago and thought it was pretty neat. I loved the book that this mod is based on, House of Leaves- definitely worth a read for experimental horror fans 🥰
I saw a lot of comments about this saying it was "a beautiful introspection of queer loneliness". What those comments forgot to mention was that it was also a freaking Doom mod.
Can you explain how this was "a beautiful introspection of queer loneliness"? I'm completely lost.
@@blunderingfool No, it actually is. In this video, they only saw maybe 30% of the map, and didn't explore any of the "documentation" that went with it. It 100% tells the story of a gay couple that were ostracized by their families and had to endure multiple tragedies. Find another video that goes completely through it. It's fucking WILD.
@@jellojiggler1693 They didn't explore the full map. There's some documentation that comes with the map in the same file that's kind of a journal of sorts. Plus, they saw maybe 30% of this map. The full map has parallel realities, time travel, and tales of loss and tragedy. It has three different endings based on how you explore. In this video, they only found ending 1, which is the shittiest of the endings.
@@jellojiggler1693 It's from piecing the map's story together from the ingame and out of game clues (there are a bunch of "lore" docs for the map, like an ARG, that the author published alongside the map). It's all very intentionally vague of course, but a very likely reading is that it's about two men that were married/in a relationship and one of them died, plus a bunch of other stuff. The map is very big and has tons of content.
@@ThndrChldoh so _that's_ why it makes me think of Unpacking
Okay I had to look it up. Uncompressed, the WAD is a merely 3.6 MB! Damn old games had a lot of content for such little space!
"you're twisting my melon man" a happy monday reference...on a monday...its a conspiracy.
So, that's only about maybe 1/3 of this map. Will there be a part 2?
The fact that you don't know about the "Backrooms" means most of the impact of this mod is lost on you. Oh well.
Mike and his arch nemesis. Doors!
I cannot believe how much trouble Mike has with doors. I swear it's happened before
13:29 "Anyone in here? Nooo." Oh Mike - how wrong you are...
I'd love to see more Doom Mod plays
Fun fact. Mike could have walked into the mirror.
This mod is so cool. And I like the little House of Leaves reference.
I'd like to recommend Power Pak's video on this mod, if you want to see more.
The entire map is a house of leaves reference. There's even a closet that opens into an impossible hallway, but only 1 out of every 100 or so times you open it.
My House
It's a very very very odd house
With Health things in the yard
Navigating is so hard
Now everything's confusing cuz of Doom
If you want another blast from the past inspired game to check out, have a look at FAITH: The Unholy Trinity. It's like an Atari 2600 game went to hell several times and took a lot of drugs during each trip. Even from the screenshots and trailers it looks genuinely messed up. 8-bit horror as it never was.
Manlybadasshero did a playthrough. That game is twisted and awesome.
MORTIS
Navidson Realty? I understood that literary reference to the house with a five-mile hallway.