The "spooky painting" in Rhome is a real painting called "Woman Of The Rain" by Svetlana Taurus and its supposedly really haunted. Look it up and it has that kinda spooky vibe.
Probably, but from my own perspective it looks like a creepy one eyed alien or something. Which would be creepy if not for the fact the top part looks like a cowboy hat, so any of the horror of it is taken away.
For a free game, Rhome's house design was incredible! Like holy shit! lol - I can't believe that was a free game! Very well done! - I know the idea of the main character being dead has been done before but this was very well done!
The game was wonderful. However I personally felt weird about the plot. Why exactly the woman was tortured this way in her afterlife? She was a hardworking and successful member of society in a loving marriage. Overall, a nice lady. She asked all the right questions and acted appropriately in the situation. Is it because she was a little snobbish and enjoyed kitchy art? Well, that's a dumb reason And why John was so negative towards her? He seemed bitter and it felt strange overall
Honestly a game like Rhome would have never gotten to me a couple of years back but now that I'm married this is basically my worst fear, dying suddenly and leaving my husband alone and grief-stricken, so it kind of broke my heart. Great looking game too!
Omg right?! I'm not married but I'm in a very serious relationship with my bf and that game made me tear up and get truly scared. Just imagining leaving my boyfriend behind suddently, without having done everything we wanted to do, breaks my heart. I was begging for Hailey to suddently wake up 😭😭💔 Plus I want to be an architect so it really hit me home haha. I'll take it as a sign to keep pushing
When John was talking about the safe place, I remember when John played Emily Wants To Play Too, if I am not mistaken. There was one of the game which the player need to hide and the dolls did the seek, John just hide in corner of the dark toilet for the whole time and those dolls just stand in the doorway and then went away. They didn't even step into the toilet to search.
🤔 I'd swear Emily Wants To Play Too was better made than that... I remember the game John's referring to being more of a trainwreck... Can't remember the name at all, mind... 🤷♂️
No the game John refers to was a way worse one with a similar mechanic but just a random house and he could stand behind moving boxes because the dolls didn't go there. Literally nothing else was possible to survive, it was super boring😂
Well I mean, there is a difference to being inspired and just copying what’s popular to get attention. The better P.T. Inspired games usually try to expand the idea from a different/creative angle whereas others take the safe route of having a looping hallway/room with a deformed ghost woman that pop up for no reason.
@@williamhanekom9882 kinda reminds me of the anime art style. I fell into a rabbit hole yesterday of why lots of people (and especially artists) don't really care for the basic anime art style anymore. The biggest complaint that I saw was that people just draw in the anime art style and never add anything new to it, so they never grow. I can see the same logic applying in this situation too. Too much oversaturation and not enough originality.
Wow, I was _so_ impressed with Rhome! I was engaged the whole time, the visuals were crisp, unique, and sometimes downright trippy and strange, watching Hailey progress through her spiritual journey from being afraid and confused to understanding she was dead to _accepting_ she was dead felt quite heartfelt, and like others have already commented, the VA was great! This felt so much like a passion project for the devs; you can tell how much effort they put into this, and for a free game? Just great! I think my favorite “room” was the never ending elevator environment with constantly shifting cubes overhead. I really enjoyed that her journey through purgatory was clearly crafted to be meaningful for Hailey, with the architecture, art pieces, books, and photos all being glimpses into her life. Seriously, kudos to the developers, and thank you John for checking this out! It was fun to see you play a game you seemed to enjoy and appreciate.
I know it was only briefly mentioned but I'd love a residential house map game jam that would be really funny and cool to see what people could do with it.
I love the Best Friend announcement from the dev on Steam: Best Friend is now available on Steam! This is my first game. I created this game alone. It may not be much fun, but I want you all to try it. Thanks for your interest. "It may not be much fun." XD At least he's honest.
I'm obsessed with how David starts off the game all spooky and weeping angel like but after a while just goes screw it and starts full on chasing you through the house. Makes a bad game almost camp.
The only sad part about the Doudy playthrough not being included in this is that TH-cam-only viewers will never get to experience the magic of the ever-respawning ghost dog
@@hannag4768 It's not that much worth mentioning. The recurring dog part was a glitch that John noticed, and was the only gold comedy moment of the otherwise bland game. The graphics were really pretty, and John tried really hard to make progress, but the game just wasn't cooperating. You can watch the full playthrough of the game on YT (without the dog part), it's not that great. It's the standard "collect all the items to perform a séance to rid this place of evil while avoiding bad guys" type of game.
That 2nd game Rhome was probably the best game I've seen on this channel in the last year for me, maybe even the last 2 years. Apart from FIONA!!!! lol Really amazing voice acting and great ambience. Made me quite emotional, got me thinking about life too.
SenoritaPotatoes I don’t know if you realized, but a lot of the areas in Rhome were related directly to the stages of grief which really makes it more thought out than you’d think
I would totally be down for an HQ residential house game jam, although the barrier for entry might be a bit high since it's a $70 asset. Would def still be a lot of fun though!
That thing is $70?!?! I would have never guessed considering how often I see it in terrible horror games! With a price tag like that you'd imagine the devs would at least _try_ to make it somewhat useful/original!
Looks completely free to me: www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/hq-residential-house Also, it's interior is modular, they are just lazy and use the demo setup...
"best friend" makes me want a horror game with just an absolute shit ton of dolls everywhere but they have nothing horror about them. I mean I had porcelain dolls and puppets growing up and I had no idea that they were common horror fodder cuz "who could possibly like these dolls they're always so creepy" until well into high school. I want a horror that has nothing to do with dolls as an object of horror and instead they just sit there on the shelves where they were from the beginning and it's just that the house is scary because ghosts or an intruder or something. I would love to see how many TH-camrs would freak out on sight lol.
Lol, your comment reminded me of this family we were friends with when I was young. The young child in the family straight-up had a Chuckie doll, but they adored it because they didn't know the horror aspect of it! 😂To them, it was just a very well-made doll. And the parents had just moved to America, so they weren't familiar with the film series or that Chucky wasn't actually child-friendly. 😅
I have a lot of porcelain dolls and the like. I've had them since I was a child. I love them. They're so pretty and I don't think they're creepy looking at all. (My mom actually told me she went out of her way to find dolls that didn't look creepy.) One of my friends has actually said that whenever she's over, she does her best to not look in the direction of the dolls because they freak her out, but I still can't figure out why.
Rhome was such a good game what the hell. It has more Silent Hill (purgatory) and Control (architecture, supernatural design) inspiration than anything than puts that disclaimer in the beginning of their games. I love love love love love this game. Especially that hallway! WOW. Stunning.
Seriously Rhode touched me SO hard. The fear of suddently being stripped away from the possibility to continue life, to keep feeling, to keep progresing, the fear to one day leave my partner alone, to break their heart, to never BE with them again, and the mixture with architecture, the career I want to study, like the cherry on top. You know this easily could be the universe giving me a sign to keep pushing through the shitty phase I'm going through right now hahaha
It’s so cool to come back and hear John say he wants to make the HQ gamejam knowing that he actually did! That’s awesome that he followed through with it & the entries were awesome too
Hello John! I’ve been watching your videos since the beginning of my freshman year of Highschool and today I graduated! Thanks for sticking with me and helping me through some long nights! Here’s to many more years
It's always very impressive when someone speaks a language online that isn't their first language, but, damn, it's never intimidating when they try to be scary when they have such accented English. Am I the only one who thinks that? You can tell that they're not confident in their English so the lines typically aren't delivered that confidently + they probably have never done any acting or voice acting. Again, it takes a lot of bravery to speak a non-native language in front of native speakers, let alone on the internet. Never give up, if you want to speak the language, I mean. Most people won't make fun of you and are just impressed that you're doing it at all.
Yeah something about broken English in a horror game takes away from the experience, but that's something for us Americans (who only need to/care about speaking English) to get over. In most other countries, It's extremely common to be fluent in more than one language.
@@brittnyevans6232 oh for sure. I spent my entire high school career learning Spanish, but lack of confidence in myself and the fear of getting made fun of (anxiety) made me never use it. I graduated in 2010 and my Spanish ability is literally just gone now
@@anthonyconde7604 honestly, you're definitely right. Like I said, the lack of confidence in the delivery of the lines is definitely what takes it from scary to cheesey. Native English speakers can have the same things happen if they're just not confident as well, though, something I've noticed from native speakers is OVER confidence in the line delivery and then it gets extremely cheesey.
@@EdwardoLover i'm not a native spanish speaker, my mom spoke to me in spanish but obviously it didn't stick and instead i picked up english faster, i took spanish 1 and 2 in college and a good amount of words stuck but i still get nervous talking to our spanish speaking customers at work, i'm a cashier and the many times i've studdered over my spanish numbers makes me very self-concious because i feel like they're judging me or mocking me for stumbling so i feel you
Also sitting down here in the comments waiting for John to give the following games a try. - Ginkgo - Missing Children (Chilla's Art) - Bendy and the Dark Revival IJoey Drew Studios Inc.) - The Supper - No one lives under the lighthouse - Alisa (Casper Croes) - Spring Cleaning What other cool recent horror games can you think off the top of your heads that you hope John will eventually play?
Rhome was really cool visually speaking and the voice acting was pretty decent as well but i feel like the "you died and youre in limbo" gimmick is outplayed. not to mention the ending came very quick and felt a little rushed but the fact that its a free game with presumably custom assets and cool gameplay elements more than makes up for it. kinda reminds me of anatomy/control/NaissanceE/haunting of hill house. dont know if anyone else got those vibes
Rhome is the best adaptation of Jacob's Ladder and Juken Jigoku's visual filters are a big shout out to the visual filters of 80s-90s Japanese Horror movies. It's plot of having to find keys is a reference to the Japanese cultural taboo of the number 4, because the number kanji for the number 4 shares the same kanji for death. The Japanese write around that taboo by using the katakana for 4 instead and the Japanese education system is quite hard and conformity is key in the student dynamics. You stick out like a sore thumb and you'll be shunned by your peers. P.S: the High School asset model is present as the main hub in Yandere Simulator.
It's not the kanji of the number four that's the same as that of 'death' but the sound. 'four' and 'death' are read as "shi" in japanese; they're homophones. There is another reading for the number four - "yon" - and that's what they usually use to get around, you know, saying the number without confusing it with death
"Really tired today. I should go to sleep in 'My' Room" *Protag arrives in bedroom to sleep only to find 900,000 other horror game protags and half the House Party cast also in 'their' bedroom* "Your" Room, Riiiiight, good joke protag.
I love how in the alternate universes of these games their professors always have A) made the exams, B) have them made well in advance, and C) decided to leave their answer keys just in the unlocked school buildings.
HQ Knocking. John welcome back What a treat. I love it when he does 3 random horror games. Thank You. Awesome to see that the stream reached that amazing goal.
Best Friend: If a bad indie horror game isn't a key hunt simulator, odds are it's a survive the night against an unthreatening enemy. Whoopidty doop. Rhome: Oh man, that was such a cool game! I actually want to go through that one myself to get a look at the visuals first-hand. The voice actress did a great job too, though I think some of her lines could have been cut to help the experience. Pretty minor nitpick nonetheless, I loved this one! Juken Jigoku: It's funny because I could kind of get why leaving doors open would trigger the teachers realizing someone got into the school at night, but just leaving one open? What a silly condition either way. That's probably the only reason I'll remember this game. Congrats on smashing your charity goal! Big thumbs up to everyone who helped out, whether via watching or monetarily!
Not only should you have your mother make some foods you used to enjoy, you should get the recipe from her lol Nothing more nostalgic then a parents cooking
If I was a millionaire, I'd build a house JUST like HQ Residential, then casually infiltrate John's social circle, invite him one day for dinner, and watch him despair as he comes in.
The first game would be significantly improved if it had background music in the form of the track "Pretend Best Friend" by Terrorvision on an endless loop...
Wow that second game was really freaking cool especially for free, gotta give respect for a game that pulls through with a relatively unlikable protagonist and causes you to empathize through the environment more then the actual dialogue, I really enjoyed the part where her husbands art was looming over her as a visual metaphor of her guilt and regret after death. Thanks john for showing off a story I probably never would of experienced otherwise.
1. HQ Residential is the closest thing John has to an archenemy by now! 2. Rhome was a game I would have happily payed for. The architecture student in me LOVED the house design, even if it's ridiculously large for two people. The whole wall gimmick and those scale puzzles were fun ideas as well. Hell, even Hailey's dialogue was way better than the usual stuff we get!
This is gonna sound weird but I'm watching the 2nd game right now and I'm weirdly relating to it?? Idk how to describe it but I sometimes have nightmares of my house where the layout and everything is the exact same, but stuff is kinda rearranged and it's extremely unsettling? And sometimes when I'm in those rooms of my house I start imagining them as they were in my dream and I get so creeped out because its my house but.. not my house? I dont know how to describe it but I feel like the main character lol.
I liked the video before I watch it (as I always do with John) He isn't the biggest or the most financially dominant TH-camr...but he is just the most normal. I fell like when his videos are on it's just one of my mates playing the game and not some big time TH-camr. Being honest with the fact I struggle so much with anxiety and what comes with it...these videos help me so much. Thanks John your videos really do mean a lot
I honestly loved Rhome so much! It was so well done, from the environments to the visuals to the voice acting... I don't know, something about it intrigues me a lot!
David, Is Broken!? Thank you for doing this charity stream, John! the Ultimate YT! EDIT: john, Sinks above the counter are called "Vessel" sinks - They are really cool looking and I have seen and installed them in all types of material, like wood, granite, ceramic - not the cheapest sink you could buy lol
It's so sad that devs can't seem to come up with something better than: 1. children and their toys are scary, 2. The twist is you're actually dead or 3. zombies. A serious lack of imagination going on on the indie horror front, at least story-wise.
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HQ Residential house is the official channel´s mascot
Lmao.
hecking HQ Residential. wow. again.
A classic. B)
@@linkslayer15 That's the channel motto
It used to be Jeff the Killer
Somebody should make a PT-like game only it's John trying to escape HQ Residential.
Can you make multiple hq res like a maze ?, how dl the assets works ?
Brilliant! 👏🏾🌹😂
PT residential home
I don't get the point if he's already trapped doing it in real life over multiple games.
We've been watching that playthrough for four years. Someone call Guinness...
John could sell me that house in real life, he practically knows every dust particle that's ever fallen on the carpet.
Right tho?
😭
Except when you ask about it he gets real annoyed with having to go back to the house AGAIN
I don't think you want to know about anything that has fallen on that carpet
check out the game "the open house" its basically what youre saying
I can't believe you made fun of David the puppet after he spent all that time baking floor cakes John
Yea but he also rudely tries to take your v card as you try to eat the cakes
Didn't "David" remind anyone of the child robot from A.I.? How David wouldn't let go of his "mother".
“This is not my beautiful HQResidentialWife, this is not my beautiful HQResidentialHouse”
*Talking Heads would like to know your location*
Letting the dolls go by, let the demon hold me down.
Letting the dolls go by, demons flowing underground.
*Rhome main character doing a sad monologue*
Chris Redfield: Thanks
What if we kissed... In the HQ Residential House? 😳🤗😚
And then put our Minecraft beds next to each other 🥰
haha... jk!......... unless...
😳👉👈
I am losing it over this comment section, holy shit.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Is there a game where Jeff the Killer lives in HQ Residential House? That would be THE meme game for John's channel.
Sa Yu and make sure that the room's walls are painted red
@@kakiranne1530 you gotta make sure it's basically just a collect keys to open doors game, too!😂
You just know that as soon as they saw this comment, somebody out there started working on it.
Granny except it's Jeff the killer and he lives in hq residential house.
@@EdwardoLover the ultimate torture
The "spooky painting" in Rhome is a real painting called "Woman Of The Rain" by Svetlana Taurus and its supposedly really haunted. Look it up and it has that kinda spooky vibe.
Dang, good eye. I did NOT recognize it. I like how searching the painting also brings up a bunch of other allegedly haunted spookypaintings.
@@Whatlander yeah that painting has some off about it. I dont know what.
Thanks for sharing!!
Probably, but from my own perspective it looks like a creepy one eyed alien or something. Which would be creepy if not for the fact the top part looks like a cowboy hat, so any of the horror of it is taken away.
Even the google image of it creeped me 😂
For a free game, Rhome's house design was incredible! Like holy shit! lol - I can't believe that was a free game! Very well done! - I know the idea of the main character being dead has been done before but this was very well done!
Agreed! And I thought the lady's voice acting was excellent compared to most games, especially free ones.
The house design was incredible? it is *nothing* compared to the magnificent HQ Residential House, smh
The game was wonderful. However I personally felt weird about the plot. Why exactly the woman was tortured this way in her afterlife? She was a hardworking and successful member of society in a loving marriage. Overall, a nice lady. She asked all the right questions and acted appropriately in the situation. Is it because she was a little snobbish and enjoyed kitchy art? Well, that's a dumb reason
And why John was so negative towards her? He seemed bitter and it felt strange overall
@@bobblinggoblin2g2g2g2 because her house is too fancy 😅 I'm sure he was joking around
@@bobblinggoblin2g2g2g2 because eat the rich!
Honestly a game like Rhome would have never gotten to me a couple of years back but now that I'm married this is basically my worst fear, dying suddenly and leaving my husband alone and grief-stricken, so it kind of broke my heart. Great looking game too!
Zombie Rights made me hug my wife a little closer....
Your profile picture is fantastic, lmao.
TheFreshPrinceOfSaiyans
Thank you! Great to see a fellow Saiyan lol
Omg right?! I'm not married but I'm in a very serious relationship with my bf and that game made me tear up and get truly scared. Just imagining leaving my boyfriend behind suddently, without having done everything we wanted to do, breaks my heart. I was begging for Hailey to suddently wake up 😭😭💔 Plus I want to be an architect so it really hit me home haha. I'll take it as a sign to keep pushing
same. when i had my first child, i had so many nightmares of something happening to me and leaving her all alone. still terrifies me
0:16 "oh it's *this* house, noooooooo...!"
Welp, we're off to a cracking start... 🤣
47:24 "Unless you got some thicc thighs, I don't wanna be crushed" John, 2020
he has a way with his words 😩
It seems that the house always follows John
He is the house...
That's the real horror story here.
John's own house is stalking him. :P
the name "best friend" just screams "spooky doll go boo"
When John was talking about the safe place, I remember when John played Emily Wants To Play Too, if I am not mistaken. There was one of the game which the player need to hide and the dolls did the seek, John just hide in corner of the dark toilet for the whole time and those dolls just stand in the doorway and then went away. They didn't even step into the toilet to search.
Can you tell me which video was that? Seems funny
@@biwarayoganata i think Its Emily wants to play 2
🤔 I'd swear Emily Wants To Play Too was better made than that... I remember the game John's referring to being more of a trainwreck...
Can't remember the name at all, mind... 🤷♂️
oh yeah I remember that. fucking hilarious
No the game John refers to was a way worse one with a similar mechanic but just a random house and he could stand behind moving boxes because the dolls didn't go there. Literally nothing else was possible to survive, it was super boring😂
Does anyone else immediately lower their expectations to zero when they hear, "this game was inspired by P.T." or "this game was inspired by Visage"?
I'm a simple woman. I hear "PT inspired" I click off.
I do that when i see souls like in title
Idk the whole Dread X collection is inspired by PT and its pretty good.
Well I mean, there is a difference to being inspired and just copying what’s popular to get attention. The better P.T. Inspired games usually try to expand the idea from a different/creative angle whereas others take the safe route of having a looping hallway/room with a deformed ghost woman that pop up for no reason.
@@williamhanekom9882 kinda reminds me of the anime art style. I fell into a rabbit hole yesterday of why lots of people (and especially artists) don't really care for the basic anime art style anymore. The biggest complaint that I saw was that people just draw in the anime art style and never add anything new to it, so they never grow. I can see the same logic applying in this situation too. Too much oversaturation and not enough originality.
What I really like about Rhome is it's also structured like the stages of grief. It's a cool game.
Wow, I was _so_ impressed with Rhome! I was engaged the whole time, the visuals were crisp, unique, and sometimes downright trippy and strange, watching Hailey progress through her spiritual journey from being afraid and confused to understanding she was dead to _accepting_ she was dead felt quite heartfelt, and like others have already commented, the VA was great! This felt so much like a passion project for the devs; you can tell how much effort they put into this, and for a free game? Just great! I think my favorite “room” was the never ending elevator environment with constantly shifting cubes overhead. I really enjoyed that her journey through purgatory was clearly crafted to be meaningful for Hailey, with the architecture, art pieces, books, and photos all being glimpses into her life. Seriously, kudos to the developers, and thank you John for checking this out! It was fun to see you play a game you seemed to enjoy and appreciate.
the first jumpscare made me fumble with my phone in fright im truly disappointed in myself
The sound is really what gets ya. Jumpscare 101
Yeah, I'm ashamed to say that the first jumpscare from that stupid doll legitimately made me jump
same and i don’t scare easy, i am ashamed
I didn't even look at the screen, i was reading the comments and the lame loud jumpscare sound scared the shit out of me
jumpscares are not a scare factor, since its instinct to jump when there's a loud noise and a sudden image. but you *should* feel ashamed
'apple? ball?' from the first game reminds me so much of 'breakfast? toast? cornflakes?'
I know it was only briefly mentioned but I'd love a residential house map game jam that would be really funny and cool to see what people could do with it.
Seconded
Only horror tho
YES PLEASE
I love the Best Friend announcement from the dev on Steam: Best Friend is now available on Steam! This is my first game. I created this game alone. It may not be much fun, but I want you all to try it. Thanks for your interest.
"It may not be much fun." XD At least he's honest.
HQ Residential is John's second house.
Its his purgatory.
Thought John was live on TH-cam for a sec that would of been a surprise.
A scenario where you have to eat cake and donuts to survive? SOLD!
They said it like it was a bad thing too.
I wish every time John enters HQ Residential, it would start playing "Welcome to My House."
A full hour of John. This is a blessed day indeed.
I'm obsessed with how David starts off the game all spooky and weeping angel like but after a while just goes screw it and starts full on chasing you through the house. Makes a bad game almost camp.
The only sad part about the Doudy playthrough not being included in this is that TH-cam-only viewers will never get to experience the magic of the ever-respawning ghost dog
Doudy really should have been in the video lol
He'll perhaps post it on a later date? I'm curious af now :-(
@@hannag4768 It's not that much worth mentioning. The recurring dog part was a glitch that John noticed, and was the only gold comedy moment of the otherwise bland game. The graphics were really pretty, and John tried really hard to make progress, but the game just wasn't cooperating.
You can watch the full playthrough of the game on YT (without the dog part), it's not that great. It's the standard "collect all the items to perform a séance to rid this place of evil while avoiding bad guys" type of game.
That 2nd game Rhome was probably the best game I've seen on this channel in the last year for me, maybe even the last 2 years. Apart from FIONA!!!! lol
Really amazing voice acting and great ambience. Made me quite emotional, got me thinking about life too.
Feels inspired by Control, architecturally.
Rhome was a BORING walking sim
Eh. It was a bit basic and not very thought-provoking, and certainly not even close to the best I've seen on the channel.
SenoritaPotatoes I don’t know if you realized, but a lot of the areas in Rhome were related directly to the stages of grief which really makes it more thought out than you’d think
@@zachengel196 Ah a man of culture
I would totally be down for an HQ residential house game jam, although the barrier for entry might be a bit high since it's a $70 asset. Would def still be a lot of fun though!
That thing is $70?!?! I would have never guessed considering how often I see it in terrible horror games! With a price tag like that you'd imagine the devs would at least _try_ to make it somewhat useful/original!
Looks completely free to me:
www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/hq-residential-house
Also, it's interior is modular, they are just lazy and use the demo setup...
"best friend" makes me want a horror game with just an absolute shit ton of dolls everywhere but they have nothing horror about them. I mean I had porcelain dolls and puppets growing up and I had no idea that they were common horror fodder cuz "who could possibly like these dolls they're always so creepy" until well into high school. I want a horror that has nothing to do with dolls as an object of horror and instead they just sit there on the shelves where they were from the beginning and it's just that the house is scary because ghosts or an intruder or something. I would love to see how many TH-camrs would freak out on sight lol.
Lol, your comment reminded me of this family we were friends with when I was young. The young child in the family straight-up had a Chuckie doll, but they adored it because they didn't know the horror aspect of it! 😂To them, it was just a very well-made doll. And the parents had just moved to America, so they weren't familiar with the film series or that Chucky wasn't actually child-friendly. 😅
I have a lot of porcelain dolls and the like. I've had them since I was a child. I love them. They're so pretty and I don't think they're creepy looking at all. (My mom actually told me she went out of her way to find dolls that didn't look creepy.) One of my friends has actually said that whenever she's over, she does her best to not look in the direction of the dolls because they freak her out, but I still can't figure out why.
Rhome was such a good game what the hell. It has more Silent Hill (purgatory) and Control (architecture, supernatural design) inspiration than anything than puts that disclaimer in the beginning of their games. I love love love love love this game. Especially that hallway! WOW. Stunning.
24:56 "Brutalism" is pretty much how I'd describe my home cooking, so... 🤷♂️
The architect woman: *accepting her death*
The chat notification: *THANKS*
If there's really gonna be a hq residential house game jam. I'm gonna make Five Nights in the HQ Residential House.
John would be the chillest grim reaper.
"Where am I? What did I do?"
"You died lol"
Seriously Rhode touched me SO hard. The fear of suddently being stripped away from the possibility to continue life, to keep feeling, to keep progresing, the fear to one day leave my partner alone, to break their heart, to never BE with them again, and the mixture with architecture, the career I want to study, like the cherry on top. You know this easily could be the universe giving me a sign to keep pushing through the shitty phase I'm going through right now hahaha
The VA of Rhome was just, wow. Goddamn great.
It’s so cool to come back and hear John say he wants to make the HQ gamejam knowing that he actually did! That’s awesome that he followed through with it & the entries were awesome too
Hello John! I’ve been watching your videos since the beginning of my freshman year of Highschool and today I graduated! Thanks for sticking with me and helping me through some long nights! Here’s to many more years
It's always very impressive when someone speaks a language online that isn't their first language, but, damn, it's never intimidating when they try to be scary when they have such accented English. Am I the only one who thinks that? You can tell that they're not confident in their English so the lines typically aren't delivered that confidently + they probably have never done any acting or voice acting. Again, it takes a lot of bravery to speak a non-native language in front of native speakers, let alone on the internet. Never give up, if you want to speak the language, I mean. Most people won't make fun of you and are just impressed that you're doing it at all.
Yeah something about broken English in a horror game takes away from the experience, but that's something for us Americans (who only need to/care about speaking English) to get over. In most other countries, It's extremely common to be fluent in more than one language.
@@brittnyevans6232 oh for sure. I spent my entire high school career learning Spanish, but lack of confidence in myself and the fear of getting made fun of (anxiety) made me never use it. I graduated in 2010 and my Spanish ability is literally just gone now
@Schnitzel lmaoooo that's fuckin' funny dude😂😂
@@anthonyconde7604 honestly, you're definitely right. Like I said, the lack of confidence in the delivery of the lines is definitely what takes it from scary to cheesey. Native English speakers can have the same things happen if they're just not confident as well, though, something I've noticed from native speakers is OVER confidence in the line delivery and then it gets extremely cheesey.
@@EdwardoLover i'm not a native spanish speaker, my mom spoke to me in spanish but obviously it didn't stick and instead i picked up english faster, i took spanish 1 and 2 in college and a good amount of words stuck but i still get nervous talking to our spanish speaking customers at work, i'm a cashier and the many times i've studdered over my spanish numbers makes me very self-concious because i feel like they're judging me or mocking me for stumbling so i feel you
Hey John, can you give me your twitch password so I can stream on your channel tonight?
*the return of GUYS*
AHHHH! GET BACK BEAST! go back to the hellfire!!
Hey Guys, It's Kirk!
Schnitzel was he holding out on us?!?!
An architect's version of hell: Her own creation being turned into a nightmarish maze
John' version of hell: HQ Residential
Also sitting down here in the comments waiting for John to give the following games a try.
- Ginkgo
- Missing Children (Chilla's Art)
- Bendy and the Dark Revival IJoey Drew Studios Inc.)
- The Supper
- No one lives under the lighthouse
- Alisa (Casper Croes)
- Spring Cleaning
What other cool recent horror games can you think off the top of your heads that you hope John will eventually play?
Super marius 55
Routine by corpsepile- the same guy who made the open house!
When you think you'll go to sleep early, but then John drops three random horror games
Your name almost had me for a second.
Rhome was really cool visually speaking and the voice acting was pretty decent as well but i feel like the "you died and youre in limbo" gimmick is outplayed. not to mention the ending came very quick and felt a little rushed but the fact that its a free game with presumably custom assets and cool gameplay elements more than makes up for it. kinda reminds me of anatomy/control/NaissanceE/haunting of hill house. dont know if anyone else got those vibes
I feel like Rhome might've been hard for you to play so soon, but I'm glad to see you got through it. Beautiful game, too.
I think Rhome is both “roam” and r-home “our home”. Cool game!
56:06 Weird coincidence but Rhome was making me think about Kraven Manor with its sections of the manor that you can move around in a puzzle.
Yes! I remember the movable scale model being a key element of Kraven Manor's early hype.
Rhome is the best adaptation of Jacob's Ladder and Juken Jigoku's visual filters are a big shout out to the visual filters of 80s-90s Japanese Horror movies. It's plot of having to find keys is a reference to the Japanese cultural taboo of the number 4, because the number kanji for the number 4 shares the same kanji for death. The Japanese write around that taboo by using the katakana for 4 instead and the Japanese education system is quite hard and conformity is key in the student dynamics. You stick out like a sore thumb and you'll be shunned by your peers.
P.S: the High School asset model is present as the main hub in Yandere Simulator.
It's not the kanji of the number four that's the same as that of 'death' but the sound. 'four' and 'death' are read as "shi" in japanese; they're homophones. There is another reading for the number four - "yon" - and that's what they usually use to get around, you know, saying the number without confusing it with death
Chiizu right, my understanding is the hiragana symbol for 4 is acceptable, it’s how you pronounce it
@@chiizuholic
Oh. Thanks for correcting my mistakes. Chizu-san. It's been so long since I practiced and applied my Japanese Studies knowledge.
Pleeeeaaaasse never stop making videos, you're so awesome and funny!
Speaking of Visage, it is about time they made another story.
Yeah
They're aiming for the full release to be some time around Summer 2020, so we don't have to wait much longer, i guess.
Couldn't make it to the charity stream, but I'm super happy the goal was met!
"Really tired today. I should go to sleep in 'My' Room"
*Protag arrives in bedroom to sleep only to find 900,000 other horror game protags and half the House Party cast also in 'their' bedroom*
"Your" Room, Riiiiight, good joke protag.
I love how in the alternate universes of these games their professors always have A) made the exams, B) have them made well in advance, and C) decided to leave their answer keys just in the unlocked school buildings.
HQ Knocking. John welcome back
What a treat. I love it when he does 3 random horror games. Thank You. Awesome to see that the stream reached that amazing goal.
Best Friend: If a bad indie horror game isn't a key hunt simulator, odds are it's a survive the night against an unthreatening enemy. Whoopidty doop.
Rhome: Oh man, that was such a cool game! I actually want to go through that one myself to get a look at the visuals first-hand. The voice actress did a great job too, though I think some of her lines could have been cut to help the experience. Pretty minor nitpick nonetheless, I loved this one!
Juken Jigoku: It's funny because I could kind of get why leaving doors open would trigger the teachers realizing someone got into the school at night, but just leaving one open? What a silly condition either way. That's probably the only reason I'll remember this game.
Congrats on smashing your charity goal! Big thumbs up to everyone who helped out, whether via watching or monetarily!
Not only should you have your mother make some foods you used to enjoy, you should get the recipe from her lol
Nothing more nostalgic then a parents cooking
Imagine any Horror Game character getting arrested for leaving any doors open by the Police in such universes
already watched this live but i’m watching again because the stream was so much fun! thanks for being such a good person john
Omg John is here to cure my quarantine boredom! ☺️
Shout out to the House Party house lol
If I was a millionaire, I'd build a house JUST like HQ Residential, then casually infiltrate John's social circle, invite him one day for dinner, and watch him despair as he comes in.
David the doll seems as terrifying as the kid named David from the books “no David no!”
The voice acting in Rhome was really good. It messed with me in some spots. Hearing her scream really pulled at the heart strings.
So happy to see a new one of these from you John! Made my day!
“Just cause it’s not good doesn’t mean it’s not art!”
Truer words never spoken sir, truer words never spoken 😂🤣
Thanks John. Love watching these vids after work!
The first game would be significantly improved if it had background music in the form of the track "Pretend Best Friend" by Terrorvision on an endless loop...
In the second game John really gave me an "eat the rich" vibe. Just me?
eat the rich? what does that even mean
Fuck yeah, HQ Residential House has returned! My favorite reoccurring John character next to Guys.
I played Rhome a few months ago and I really enjoyed it. Glad you did too John!
"the ball's huge... the ball's gigantic" please john
Rhome is literally the plot to beetlejuice. The dining room even looks like Delia's
Lol that jump scare got me. I nearly through my phone .
The first one around minute 9? Because same. I actually cussed out loud...I’m glad my mom wasn’t around 😂😂
Yes it was lol
Lol same I wasn't paying attention then when i turn to see what was going on i got the jump scare
ok glad I’m not the only one lol
Me too .I was laying in bed & watching .It appear & i didn't even.notice that i am covering my eye with pillow .That scared Me XD
Wow that second game was really freaking cool especially for free, gotta give respect for a game that pulls through with a relatively unlikable protagonist and causes you to empathize through the environment more then the actual dialogue, I really enjoyed the part where her husbands art was looming over her as a visual metaphor of her guilt and regret after death. Thanks john for showing off a story I probably never would of experienced otherwise.
1. HQ Residential is the closest thing John has to an archenemy by now!
2. Rhome was a game I would have happily payed for. The architecture student in me LOVED the house design, even if it's ridiculously large for two people. The whole wall gimmick and those scale puzzles were fun ideas as well. Hell, even Hailey's dialogue was way better than the usual stuff we get!
“This isn’t real, right? Walls don’t just appear in a house.” Well, maybe your husband just got back from Walmart. I’m removing myself now.
Nothing better than starting with good 'ol HQ Residential house.
I love how you can tell when John is genuinely impressed with a game
i remember this reminds me of that puppet from goosebumps
yes!!!!! Ty
Slappy.
Are you going to do Rusty Lake: Samsara?
This is gonna sound weird but I'm watching the 2nd game right now and I'm weirdly relating to it?? Idk how to describe it but I sometimes have nightmares of my house where the layout and everything is the exact same, but stuff is kinda rearranged and it's extremely unsettling? And sometimes when I'm in those rooms of my house I start imagining them as they were in my dream and I get so creeped out because its my house but.. not my house? I dont know how to describe it but I feel like the main character lol.
I liked the video before I watch it (as I always do with John)
He isn't the biggest or the most financially dominant TH-camr...but he is just the most normal. I fell like when his videos are on it's just one of my mates playing the game and not some big time TH-camr.
Being honest with the fact I struggle so much with anxiety and what comes with it...these videos help me so much. Thanks John your videos really do mean a lot
It's almost like John got haunted in his own house.
Completely new level of immersion.
I'm so happy your fundraiser exceeded the goal (again!) for another worthy cause!
I honestly loved Rhome so much! It was so well done, from the environments to the visuals to the voice acting... I don't know, something about it intrigues me a lot!
Rhome was one of the more beautiful games I've seen! There's so much detail put into the architecture
I just realized that John's beard is growing back fast @_@
David, Is Broken!? Thank you for doing this charity stream, John! the Ultimate YT! EDIT: john, Sinks above the counter are called "Vessel" sinks - They are really cool looking and I have seen and installed them in all types of material, like wood, granite, ceramic - not the cheapest sink you could buy lol
HQ Residential House is the Rattata of horror maps, man.
Would've loved to have seen the stream.
28:54 Did John jut make a Calvin and Hobbes reference?
john’s excitement at seeing hq residential house >>>>
I love how absolutely shocked you sound, "There's a ball, an apple, and a DONUT?!"
It's so sad that devs can't seem to come up with something better than: 1. children and their toys are scary, 2. The twist is you're actually dead or 3. zombies.
A serious lack of imagination going on on the indie horror front, at least story-wise.
The first few jump scares got me 😂 and I’m a sucker for horror 😂
Me going to sleep at 12 am... John uploading a new video... My brain :ah shit here we go again
The voice acting in Rhome is so good and realistic 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾