Accidental Horror in Video Games
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- Sometimes, the most notable feelings of fear where molded out of something rather innocent and that makes them all the more memorable in the end, Right ?
From the dread of being stalker by a reaper leviathan to the Unsettling liminality of Gmod today I'd like to discuss Accidental Horror in Video Games
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This video has been getting a lot of attention recently so i feel as though i should clarify something
This video in scripting and right before it came out was supposed to be called "Unsettling things in otherwise Normal games" But after literally in the final stages of production i thought the title and thumbnail didn't sound or look snappy enough so i changed them both. It was 2am i wanted to go to bed, so i just changed them both real fast. Never expected it to blow up like this so i apologize for misleading you.
Sorry for the confusion, that's why the reaper leviathan seems so out of place. I plan on making a video in the future talking about specifically the horror of subnatica so there is that
eh, I think it still works to include them to an extent. Sure, they are supposed to be scary, but they're also... _frightening_ and I'm not sure that was intentional. Subnautica isn't a horror game, it has enemies you have to avoid sure, but tons of games do, and not many of those game (especially the non-horror ones like Subnautica) have been as frightening as the Reaper Leviathans. The devs knew people would be scared of them, but I can't imaging they knew how frightening they would be at first to a lot of people. Tonally, they're different from the rest of the game (bar the ghost leviathans perhaps) and even the areas you're supposed to be cautious in don't give off the same emotion as encountering a Reaper Leviathan. It could have been a 'we should make a really great predator as the hardest enemy!' situation, and it happened to tap right into the animal part of the human brain that knows what it's like to be prey. Or not lol, idk
@alexthemovie2915 with comments like this, I've clearly made it.
@@Soul_of_a_Artist
5:43
Can I point something out?
*Back in the old days of Minecraft, another fear of the game is that it kinda felt TOO empty, which works for some people who would get that demoralizing feeling that your in a huge world that use to be full of life, and now it's just you, hoping for there to be someone else. It also works because the feeling of it being TOO empty might make it feel deceitful, like somewhere out there, despite your better judgment(and single player) there's something else in your game that shouldn't be there, which gave birth to a TON of minecraft creepypastas like yours truly: Herobrine.*
@Alex: The Movie in your dreams
I find it a bit unsettling to walk around maps on early unfinished maps of hl2 from times like 2001 they are just devoid of any npcs or fighting it just feels empty and coupled with the dark dingey mood of the maps it is just creepy
abandoned game servers have to be by far the most unnerving experiences, knowing that those places used to be thriving with people and now seeing them completely empty feels wrong
I know right?!
I used to play a lot of online games when I was younger and recently I went back to a few on a nostalgia trip only to see they where empty.
I didn't stay for long, it was far to unsettling for me
Oh yeah, Especially if you have memories of playing on populated servers
I remember being around 9-10ish and playing a game with my brother online, I revisited it a couple years later, and i was the only player online, I wandered around for about an hour and felt this unnerving sort of loneliness, I left the game feeling creeped out but not sure why. the wrongness your talking about is the exact feeling I had all those years ago
man reminds me of horror game caled no players online
wasn’t there a horror game built around this exact concept
It seems ripe for use
Subnautica's horror wasnt accidental. It very much means to scare you, its just not the main focus. Its even tagged as a survival horror game on steam
And yet it seems like the devs forgot why their game was scary in the first place, when designing Below Zero
To bad they didn't focus too much on the horror aspects it could have been amazing, the horror of the unknown starts to fade away once you know whats down there. Maybe it was a decision to reach a large audience.
@@scenicsudan Tell that to the reaper that was guarding my usual entrance and exit to the lost river. Or the sea dragons
@Joshua Ryder Just "I know." is such a funny response.
@@krimson8317 people who say that the devs weren't designing Below Zero to be scary have not seen the Void Chelicerate. That mf is scarier than Ghost Leviathans.
Nostalgia is part of the horror of Minecraft. But there's a different yet kind of similar horror to it, the lack of ambience. Just exploring the plains, in a forest, boating down a valley, just anything. You hear nothing except for the occasional Moo and sorts, you see nothing but a vast, empty land, only with a few mindless animals. You're all alone, with the ear-piercing loud silence. That's the reason I sometimes just stop playing and get off for seemingly no reason, it's just because I'm, well, scared. I can't explain it that well, but I'm sure some others will know what I'm talking about
For me it's a sense of being on edge the whole time. I once had a save where I had an enormous tunnel system near bedrock as a mine, just "miles" of long, seemingly endless passageways that faded into fog when you looked down them. I ended up blocking off "used" tunnels after a while because it was just too eerie.
I seem to have the complete opposite experience when playing the game. Wandering around with no ambience feels nice to me.
Like a sort of peaceful quietness that lets me relax. And I know that if I get sick of the animal noises I can just get rid of them by killing the cows or sheep.
In fact I remember a moment where I was playing in peaceful and I found a huge dark cave. The moment I walked inside one of the creepy cave sounds played.
Instead of being scared I just laughed. This wasn't a nervous or fearful laugh either.
I found the experience pretty funny. As if the game was really trying to spook me but failing.
A big factor is the fact that most players turn off game music for servers, so on singleplayer the lack of background noise that servers typically have feels very jarring on top of the lack of music
Fear of isolation
To remove the fear of being alone in Minecraft I turn off the music and listen to C418 songs and remember my old days withy friends in Minecraft
Quite the Nostalgia I wanna go back
Did anyone else spawn friendly NPCs when playing Gmod so you don't feel alone when walking around the map? Sometimes that unsettling feeling was to much
yea lmao
ngl same but with minecraft villagers
@@legoinferno7 when i was younger i used to put down lots and lots of snowmen so i wouldn't feel creeped out by being alone. they were there to protect me.
Same lol, tho I generally prefer spawning custom characters like Master Chief (because it's funny). Because I just end up being a bit creeped out by default NPCs.
Combine vs Friendly NPCs bests content
One thing I would’ve mentioned about Minecraft is how the worlds are infinite but to a point where you feel trapped because of liminality regardless of it being technically infinite. You can travel miles and miles just to see the same landscapes repeating. Anyway Great video overall you earned a sub :)
That’s not what liminality means
@@destroyerofturtles5024 Liminality is a term used to describe the psychological process of transitioning across boundaries and borders.
Can you expand how I used the word incorrectly?
You can travel 10,000 blocks and feel like you've gone nowhere.
The player's problem of Minecraft is being a lone demigod. No matter how far you go, you will never meet anyone on the same level as you. You only meet weird villagers, hordes of zombies and skeletons. If first one can exist on their own, but zombies and skeletons meant that there were limitless amounts of other humans who were consumed by disease and died, turned into skeletons and walking corpses. You're not even sure if those walking corpses are not your own from past lives.
@@Firearmjitsu o
The cave noises were a perfect form of horror in Minecraft, because they were unexplainable. Eventually with any horror game you find out what the monster is and grow accustomed to it. But you could never find the source of the cave noises. alone, past your bed time, when you decided to venture into the mines, hearing that noise for the first time freaked many of us out believing that there was something in the mines.
Agreed, it's just unsettling. Especially one time when i explore a massive cave and those sounds played. Unnerving af
i hate what they did to the backrooms recently, the fear of liminality is such a cool thing, and it is very cool how that image expresses it, but eventually that image was turned into "shrek in the backrooms" just like every other meaningless monster horror type.
It's what happens when it became a meme and attract to Children. Oftenly,
Memes and Children tends to Ruin the aspect of Horrors.
@@paraclonebasedtrooper8225 exactly
Have you seen the channel "lost in the hyperverse"? I think his animations capture the right feel while also including new "locations" into the concept of the backrooms.
You should see "the complex: found footage" game. It's the backrooms done really well.
In a weird way, I think what happened to the backrooms is similar to what happened to Minecraft. At its base, it's so simple. So hopeless. So empty. It's horror in its purest form, less of a place and more of a distilled feeling, defined by its loneliness. When it went mainstream, people tacked on new layers, creatures, and exits because the concept of the backrooms was compelling enough to capture people's imaginations, but the pure, raw feeling it was meant to evoke was so uncomfortable, so effective, that people naturally tried to drown it out with memes and monsters and whatever the hell else. The mainstream backrooms simply exist to distract from the horror the backrooms really is.
With the Gmod thing, that makes me think of that feeling like when you're in a mall/school and no one else is there. Feels so weirdly wrong. Nice vid, I like content like this :D
yeah thats the feeling of liminality, its so unknown in how and why it happens that its existance alone scares me
@@gabyyyyyyyyy I have this theory/idea about how liminal spaces scare some people,
It scares or creeps some people out due to the natural human fear of being left behind and being left alone.
Humans always have had each other, it is why we as a species even survived as long as we have and being separated from the rest of our kind is a definite death sentence which makes the feeling of being alone so scary
@@funni_noises it cant be just that, you could see a picture of a place with no one inside it like a normal room or a nice forest and you wouldnt feel liminal at all, liminal spaces have more to them than just that they dont just feel empty and creepy they feel WRONG
@@gabyyyyyyyyy I think it’s not the space itself that’s scary it’s the fact that something or someone could be there just out of sight and nothing is around to save you
@@mrcheese5383 i dont think so, you can feel liminal and safe at the same time and i dont see it as that kind of fear but something else and more complex. although you could be right, who knows these things vary a lot
"Detecting multiple leviathan class life forms in this area, are you certain whatever your doing is worth it" will never not freak me out
In all of my Subnautica playthroughs, I ALWAYS avoid the Dunes (and Mountains actually) for this reason.
I will actively take the long way around, even if it adds hours to my gameplay.
Me in my first few hours : "What class of lifeform ?! Ah hell, f*ck it, that scrap ain't worth it."
On my thirteenth playthrough: "Yeah, f*ck it, I don't care, I have my knife..."
@@trashoujunior3940 knife and the stasis rifle is all thats needed
Warning, entering ecological dead zone.
liminality usually just gives me a feeling of sadness, but it is probably just something else entirely
it hast to make you nostalgic you look at random liminal picture and you feel nostalgic
Gup
Same liminal spaces just seem lonely to me. Not that they make me lonely but it feel like the space itself is lonely
Irl liminal spaces feel quite pleasant to be in, particularly empty streets at 3am, places of work or schools after they close (To me at least). In games they either induce nostalgia or loneliness
Brcause they generally remind you of hopelessness and loneliness, you're stuck in a place you were never meant to be or see and it feels like there's no way out.
I used to have so many nightmares about the mobs in Minecraft. Especially with endermen and zombies. I just generally hated zombies in anything and the sounds they made were horrifying to me when I was younger. Endermen were just so fear inducing. They basically jump scared you and they made strange sounds and their lanky long bodies compared to Steve made it even more unsettling for me. It still kinda scares me to this day, which sounds ridiculous, but I still haven't touched the game in 5+ years. Which is also ironic because I love horror. I need to get over it LOL! The description is exactly right.
Funny story, the zombies caused me nightmares as a kid because there was an update where they first introduced zombies breaking down doors as a mechanic and it was on any difficulty. So it was pretty alarming just waking up updating minecraft and then playing to hear this weird banging, I never quit the game so fast lmao
@@TotallyNotRaven342 tbh that mechanic is terrifying in all means
@@Vector123 True, though I find it funny that they made it Hardcore only
@Joshua Ryder yeah, even if you stare at them in creative mode they will make scary sound
Same, I’m 18 and endermen scare the shit out of me, yet I love horror games and movies and getting jump scared😭
The Talos Principle is a 3D first person view puzzle game. You play a robot AI that is solving puzzles to advance to climb a giant tower, but the game eventually reveals that you are not the first robot AI to do this, there were others before you that tried and failed, and once in a while you sometimes see the "ghosts" of these previous robot AI that might give you some clues on what to do next or how a puzzle might be solved, stuff like that. Except for one. After you finish one certain puzzle and start walking again, suddenly one of these "ghosts" appears a few feet in front of you, and starts running towards you and screaming, and disappearing as it reaches you. It scared the crap out of me since it was so unexpected, its like if you were playing Tetris and suddenly there was a jumpscare.
The Robot Ghost also screamed like a Beheaded Kamikaze (Serious Sam)
Because Talos Principle was made by Croteam
I love the Talos Principle
You really managed to describe that unsettling feeling. I remember when my brother told me about herobrine and since then minecraft really started to creep me out. There was just something about the early PE builds that felt wrong - being locked in a relatively small box, odd lighting, creepy fog, the lack of ambiance. the game felt empty although it was entertaining enough to keep playing. The herobrine myth certainly didn't help. Young me felt very paranoid and sometimes would feel like I'm not alone in a minecraft world. I remember when I was mining and it started to feel very wrong, like I was about to hear footsteps behind me or see someone behind the next block I break. It was so unsettling that I eventually quit. It is great to see that now minecraft feels much livelier and more natural.
Wow its uncanny how similar this is to my experience. Early alpha pocket edition had an eerie vibe like no other version of minecraft for me. Even early alphas of Java with the old fog just doesnt quite compare to the claustrophobic little box. Even worse was the rumor about Herobrine placing crosses in the world, which of course showed up constantly and spooked me further.
While minecraft is more lively now it’s still very creepy lol
herobrine still scares me to this day hence why i don’t play minecraft alone 😭
I think a lot of the fear that comes with games like minecraft and gmod is that you feel alone in a place where usually you should not be alone. Humans have evolved to be extremely social creatures, so it would make sense that a small primal part of our brain has evolved to make us uneasy when we are isolated, because it remembers what happens to humans who stray from the group…
that's surprisingly something I've never heard anyone say to explain _why_ being alone feels creepy, yet makes so much sense
@@uncroppedsoop social spaces are meant to be filled with people so when they arent it feels uneasy because the design isnt meant to be alone in
@@dylanking9646 no, no, the design isn't some sort of thing intrinsically ingrained into your head. but you consciously recognize people should be there. what I never heard explained before this comment is what even makes it uncomfortable (that being humans are by nature social animals)
@@uncroppedsoop thats what i meant i guess i wasnt clear enough
@@dylanking9646 admittedly I can be kinda nitpicky with wording
I used to have a creative world on my xbox 360 minecraft where I would get home from school pretty much every day and keep developing this sandstone desert city. It was really fun thinking about all these projects I wanted to do and building them, but anytime I actually walked around the city it always felt off. It's this sprawling city with amenities like aqueducts and farms and markets, but not a single soul lives in it not even a villager. From the sky it looks impressive, but from the ground it's unsettling
This is why I always base my survival builds around villagers. I build fisher huts, farm houses, libraries and occasionally a cottage for the jobless villagers
You created your own horror without realising it
Building my Minecraft world only to realise no one will ever visit or see it but me felt a bit strange. Like a god who can't create people.
@@NewOrderOfAlexandria "I am god and I must scream"
In ARK, there's a prehistoric whale thing that attacks your boat, unlike the megs that also give me anxiety. Supposedly it hangs out in deep water. I was island hopping in shallow water when I suddenly got attacked by one and I legit screamed and panicked. My sister said it was hilarious.
I call them moby dicks, though the actual name is leedsichthys
The moby dick
But yeah its not deep water but shallow
Visiting abandoned game servers also gives me a feeling of being left behind, like everyone else has moved onto other things yet your still there, very eerie.
i was always terrified of single player minecraft, as someone with a phobia of open spaces and being alone
Perhaps the most unsettling thing about Garrys Mod maps has to be the ambience in some maps. Like GM_City, the map you loaded up for the example for Garry's Mod. You hear all these... sounds in the background of activity yet... It's nowhere to be seen. That in of itself is one of the scary factors about the Source Engine, is it's ability to create environments that can fell wrong just from a number of various things. Whether that be the appearance of the area, if it looks like an area that shouldn't be void of people, or say an area filled with ambience that may haunt the player if they are the only one there. Hell, just even the experience alone can cause it. It's why the source engine, in my eyes anyways, is notorious for such creepy things. It's because Garrys Mod, one of the most well known source games besides Team Fortress 2 and CSGO, is easily rather creepy even if the map isn't inherently designed for such. Because if you are just wandering about. It'll probably at the least more often than not, send shivers down your spine from areas that are unsettling without a distinct reason why.
My old Minecraft worlds don't give me a liminality feeling, but just...sadness. Like, there was a point where I exited each one with intent on doing more the next day and then never came back. Projects still undone, houses still never built, and so on.
There was a last time I saved and quit my 360 survival world, never to progress in the world I once sunk hundreds of hours into ago. Now it sits as a relic of the past.
When you started showing the liminal spaces in minecraft,I started to get weird goose bumps its truly terrifying of how such a innocent looking game can turn out as a whole horror
Subnautica was a great pick! It's a super fun game, but can be terrifying. Honestly though, the fear jumps way up for me when I'm in VR because then it really feels like I'm having to sneak past the reaper
Part of me wondering what a Subnautica horror movie or something along those lines
The first time I played Subnautica, I took the portal from the quarantine enforcement platform to the floating island, and the second I entered the water to head back to my base, the emperor leviathan first vision showed up and scared me so bad. I immediately pulled out my sea glide and stuck to the surface as I swam back. Did not go back over there until I got the seamoth.
@@DipUniversal that has to happen
7:31 7:34 Two weird things in these images: in the first one, which looks like an alpha world, you can see a birch tree in the background. Birch trees weren't added until Beta 1.2.
In the second one, you see the old main menu panorama from before 1.13. Seems pretty normal, until you see that the version number is Beta 1.7.3, the version before the panorama was added.
I love these subtle hints of something being "off" with these images, definitely adds to the liminal horror of them.
LMFAO
Thats a fuckin good one
Aw shish, I knew something felt off about those-
Also, 7:34 has the Java Edition subtitle even though it wasn't added into the game then
did i just find kermit's youtube channel?
I think the feeling of liminality for me is you imagining a place where souls and memories have been made when it never existed there in the first place. It’s like uncanny valley but for memories. Your brain trying to make something up that is fake but it gets overloaded and goes back to realizing you’re simply alone and and its just you its always been just you.
Damn, that's... that's probably one way to look at it.... 👀
when i was a kid, i was unironically, wholeheartedly terrified of minecraft cave sounds. i remember when i was like 12 or something, hearing about herobrine for the first time, and thinking back to the cave sound i was already creeped out by, and hearing them time and time again. i would rush out of the caves when i heard them, as if it actually meant something
great vid btw good stuff
Coming off that Minecraft note, I recently booted up alpha 1.2.2 for the first time. The earliest version I had played prior to this was release 1.2.5. I was genuinely surprised to find out just how much more alone and unsettling the game feels than it does today. I had always thought it was sort of a nostalgic effect that caused people to remember the game being creepy as a kid. But even as a grown adult, I can definitely see where those feelings came from
A version of this that creeps me out is empty call of duty lobbies, the same feeling like gmod, feeling like your being watched, the kind of dread you feel when turning a corner and expecting there to be an enemy, hearing the sounds in the background like distant gunfire and whispering, thinking about all the memories you had, thinking about all the memories other people had when playing. Very creepy to me.
I'd like to say that you did an amazing job on the video, definitely been awhile since I've been scared like that, please keep up the amazing work.
To add to the Minecraft thing. I have played for a long time. As a kid I heard a cave noise that sounded like a violin screech. It immediately made me feel fear because I hadn’t seen a mob at all in a few minutes.
Even today when I go mining I’m just nervous remembering that moment.
Also in gmod. Play in any default map alone in sandbox. You will get a feeling. It’s hard to explain.
Haha, yeah it was a real "f it, enough minecraft for today" moment for 13 yo me
I literally can not play Minecraft with ambient sounds turned on, because cave noises terrify me to death.
I also always feel quite anxious when playing, prefering to just build around on the surface instead of cave delving and mining.
One thing I can't stand is the oceans. I believe that Guardian jumpscare (When the Guardian's face floats through your screen) single handedly made me scared of deep water (or refreshed the phobia hidden deep in me)
On the other hand, the Minecraft mobs are somewhat terrifying in their weird way, zombies and skeletons are okay, creepers are more annoying than scary, Endermen are okay too if you are careful around them and don't trigger them by accident without realising it, but Ghasts, Guardians, and now the new Deep Dark Wardens and the sound-detecting tentacle things? No Thank You!
I am not the bravest person, I know, I basically can not stand any form of horror game or film and hate jumpscares with passion. And pranks like unexpected loud noises can literally turn my Fight or Flight reflex on.
So about the GMod liminality, I once opened up the game to see if there had been any new things added, devs or community. Eventually I got bored and hopped onto a server, then it didn’t take long before I got that eyes-burning-on-the-back-of-the-head feeling. So I hoppped around, played about with physics objects, trying to make the feeling go away, with childlike entertainment. Then, about five minutes in, the feeling evolved into pure anxiety. I didn’t want to turn my camera around, that voice in me head was telling me to just log off and not pay any attention to whatever feeling I was having. Instead, I turned the sensitivity on my mouse up, which helped me bhop, just in case I needed to run, and whipped my camera around, behind me stood a lone player, just watching me, standing in the middle of the street. Far enough away that they might have been a passer by that was wondering what I was doing, but close enough that I started to feel unsafe. I hopped around a bit in my little aura, nodding my character’s head every so often at the player, who was just standing there, slowly tracking my movements. I opened up chat: “Hey player, want to build a tower?”
No response
A minute later:
“Player, chat is y or v, voice is x.”
Still no response.
“Francais? Italia? Deutsch? Nederlands?”
Nothing, they were just tracking my movements slowly.
Then I just took my hands of the keyboard and stared back. I spoke in vc: “Are you dead? Buddy come on let’s spawn the atom bomb.”
Nothing.
A minute later, their mic opened. Static.
It got louder.
It started to get so loud I turned down the volume on my headset.
Somehow it got even louder, up until the point I hung the headset around my neck.
The static continued growing louder, louder, louder until.
They disappeared, their character phasing into thin air. The static had felt like it had been saying something, but I hadn’t been able to make it out, between the ear-splittingly loud static.
That left me deeply unsettled that afternoon, so I closed the game, shutdown my pc and locked my room, I was deathly scared. Alongside being deeply unsettled, I also felt overwhelming dread and fear, though also intrigue, who was this mysterious, nameless, voiceless person on this empty server?
So that. That’s my experience with GMod accidental horror.
I should throw this onto Reddit, might get a few upvotes.
That is the most horrific thing I’ve ever heard
Thats.. oh god
@@Nahwap omg that’s like a creepypasta come to life
“Man, I’m bored. Let’s play Gmod and scare anyone who’s there.”
- that random dude, probably
That absolutely sounds like something some random shit would do just for the kicks of freaking someone out, lmao. If they had half the mind, you'd have probably ended up in a pranks montage. xD
What's crazy to me (and what makes me think I'm crazy) is when I start to see things in games like gmod or any other "accidental horror" game I play, that really aren't there.
I hope I'm not the only one who sees things or movement around the corner of some object, or in the corner of the screen only to find there was nothing.
I know that realistically it was all in my head, but there's always that feeling at least for me that I could be very wrong. It doesn't help that I'm a paranoid person of course.
you aren't crazy brother i know exactly what you mean
@@Soul_of_a_Artist we’ve all been there. I think. Sometimes, when I play snowrunner, and I stop at night and turn of my engine… I can swear I hear things. I would venture to say voices. I may just be hearing things, but god it can be scary
I don't know why, but I absolutely love the feeling of empty Gmod maps. Maybe because I was too socially anxious to play multiplayer with strangers, but I loved messing around for hours alone in sandbox. The ambient noises were very relaxing and now they're very nostalgic for me. The maps weren't "empty" so much as they were blank canvases, waiting for me to add something.
6:10 another way to explain liminal spaces is "if something not familiar with humans tried to recreate human architecture but wasn't fully successful"
Like how the backrooms go on and on and are completely empty.
Conan Exiles also gave me that odd sense of liminality... I remember I was building a city and placing NPCs to create quests (it's a mod), and I was the only one in my server. Suddenly, out of nowhere, I took damage. And you have no idea how bad the sense of fear looming got through, where I started even becoming suspicious of the NPCs I placed, looking around to see any enemies (which don't attack you at all in creative mode, which made it a lot worse).
On other occasions, I see things running on top of buildings I made, like very quickly, and I don't know if it's an NPC spawning and rapidly shifting into position, or maybe just some background birds, but hot dang, I think it's the first time ever I experienced fear in liminal spaces in a video game that wasn't a horror game at all.
Did you ever find out how you took damage
@@mrcheese5383 to this day, I still have no clue. Maybe accumulated fall damage that the game decided to release while I was editing dialogues or something, but yeah, it was uncanny
@@TheDrsalvation I would have *shat* no matter the reason haha. Thanks for sharing this!
Thanks for the no jumpscare thing and letting us know. Love watching YT videos about horror topics but hate those cheap jumpscares so knowing ill get my content and not have to worry about that is so cool. Thanks!
Woah, Kermit had a YT account?
Dude sounds like Kermits dad
The scariest part of the minecraft segment wasn't liminality or even herbobrine, it was the trees he left floating
I would really love for you to cover the dlcs and unknown specimens of spookys jumpscare mansion, love those designs and their lore and stories
Playing slime rancher, and every enemy is a cute slime and is nice, except for this randomly spawning dark rainbow slime and everytime I see it, it scares the shit out of me. And then It goes and wipes out your best slime in your slime farm until you get a grip and kill it. It's easy to kill, but the randomness of how the thing will respawn always scares me in a game where I just wanna chill.
literally had to mute the video and watch with subtitles because my brain was genuinely hurting from his voice
He sounds like Ronnie2K
The unnerving experience of walking around an empty Gmod map is ruined when you go third person and just see Neco Arc scampering around like a mischievous little schemer
Oh boy, Mark my words: this channel's popularity is gonna skyrocket at any moment. Your content is amazing!
Thanks for the No Jumpscare thing at the beginning of the video, really nice!
Thought kermit was talking in the vid when it started.
something about playing alot of these games alone at night are so eerie, has the feeling of being watched
excellent video, loved the kermit impression!
Minecraft was horrifying sometimes when I was a kid because of that track that sometimes plays in caves, whenever I heard it I blocked myself in immediately because I thought it was triggered by a dangerous mob nearby. I now know that it's actually random
Another example I haven't seen mentioned is in, surprisingly, "The Stanley Parable". Even though the game is known for being "liminal" it's never scary. But, there was one unintended ending that actually has that scary element, nicknamed the "Escape Pod Ending". To activate this ending you have to trick the game into closing the door to the Boss' office before you enter it. Once it has been triggered you will see the doors behind you being open, even though they were closed before you activated the ending. It's quite scary going through the hallways without the narrator, but what's even more scary is once you enter the room with the stairs. After you get to the floor you're supposed to go into you will see a room with an escape pod. You go into the escape pod an then... it just ends, no ending cutscene, no going into another room, no nothing, it just resets the game with "the end is never the end" loadscreen symbolizing an ending has been achieved. What's even scarier is how this ending wasn't meant to be there, it just exists due to residual code. I am guessing you were supposed to get out just by opening the door, but since you can't do that you obviously can't get the ending the intended way. Since you did that, the narrator will no longer be there since there is no trigger for his voicelines, leaving you alone.
I have never heard of this but dear God that's incredible.
The deep dark made strip mining hell.
Having headphones on and strip mining in silence only to hear distorted sounds and footsteps that sound like they are either above or behind where you just came from feels as scary as my first few times playing Subnautica.
I've been playing Minecraft since it's release on Xbox and never been scared like that.
Even with thalassophobia, subnautica becomes way less scary after a few play throughs and mainly becomes more anxiety inducing than terror/horror. I sure as hell got scared by the leviathan jumping out of the water when I went to the gun island in my most recent play through. Sometimes the ai just does weird things like reef sharks just chilling in the shallows or a reefback zooming.
The dark hallways in gm construct have always put a sense of dread in me that I can't put into words. In gmod maps, you're so alone that it feels like you can't possibly be truly alone.
why does this man sound like a masculine version of kermit the frog?
being scared in Minecraft is so unreasonable like i literally know every single mob in the game yet whenever i enter a dark cave especially the old ones that were so small and closed in i just get spooked by the ambience sounds and it gives you that feeling of something watching you in the shadows just outside your view
I've had this weird feeling too when i was checking the halo ce multiplayer maps, Blood Gulch is just very unnerving when you're alone
Subnautica's a masterpiece, the fuzzy transition between chilling in the shallows or building your base and feeling completely isolated in the depths or insignificant with your flashlight against a 1:1 geological formation. No cutoff, map boundaries for you are pretty much established by a very real comfort zone surrounded by the very truly unsettling, and then you're asked to push those boundaries, I don't think I've ever seen another game pull off anything remotely close
THANK YOU for the reassurance about jumpscares. I love watching video essays about horror games because I’m too scared to play them myself, but it’s annoying when essayists try to scare you lol. Really appreciate maintaining a tone that makes it easy to watch and letting us know up top.
i couldnt imaigne to experience something like a abandoned mp server in gmod.. i specifically feel scared enough when i am in minecraft all alone... honestly i feel more comfortable when i play on a normal difficulty than the peacefull one... it just.. feels so wrong beeing all alone in those caves.. dungeons and everything.. but very well made video! i liked it a lot!
I used to be a big Minecraft kid back before and during the Caves and Cliffs update. I have so many memories of me and one of my brothers playing Minecraft on our old Xbox 360, and nothing was unsettling about the game. Fast forward until I moved, we didn’t have an Xbox for a while because it got misplaced while moving, for 2 years to be precise. We get a new Xbox One, and the first game we got was Minecraft. For a month, nothing seemed off besides the fact that our Minecraft on our old Xbox 360 was severely outdated compared to what had been out for that time (I was pretty unaware when we had our 360, so I thought we had the latest edition, when we didn’t.) Anyways, we get cool new games, start playing Minecraft less and less because we wanna play these other games. Eventually, one of my Xbox friends wants to play Minecraft, so I join them for a little bit. He leaves the game for the day, and I left the world, but I fired up a new Minecraft world. Twenty minutes into the world, however, and I felt weirdly unsettled for no reason at all, similar to the tension in analogue horror. I feel like something is going to happen, when it doesn’t. It feels off-putting, and very creepy for little reason. Every time I tried to revisit the game after that, I would always feel wildly uncomfortable after a few minutes on the game, with me deleting some Survival worlds because of a gut feeling that they are “cursed”. I haven’t played the game in a while, and I feel like if I am going to revisit it, I’ll get more tense than playing a legitimate horror game. This made me about as tense as Subnautica, and I have Thallassaphobia, so Subnautica was VERY unpleasant for me (still a really great game). No other game has made me feel this kind of unsettled or creeped out, and I really don’t know why. Thanks for the vid, helps supply some answers to this discomfort towards a game I love.
BRO this video is so good, I saw this on TH-cam's home page and you did not disappoint. I can't believe you only have a few thousand subscribers. Have a sub my guy!
Another thing about Minecraft for me is this fear that someone is just watching me, and that can be boiled down to one thing..herobrine. Yes even though he’s not real, after he hit the scene it just really made me feel like I’m being watched at all times.
I didn’t know Kermit became a youtuber
i define subnautica as an underwater survival horror game
You sound like Kermit the frog trying to disguise his voice.
I'm so glad I got to experience minecraft from 2009 to present day
I had youtube on autoplay and I didnt even realize this was from a channel below 1k subs
absolutely subscribing and supporting any new videos you make! this is great shit
Beginning of video:
I won't jumpscare you. No jumpscares in this video.
Seconds later:
*Kermit voice *
Me:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
nothing could have prepared me for how this guy sounds
ill take that as a compliment
@@Soul_of_a_Artist u got a unique voice fs
@@ak83579 thats one way to put it
We know you're Gabe Newell disguising your voice
I think Little Nightmares is a perfect example of this, as the game was not originally meant to be a scary game. Maybe it was meant to have some dark themes at first, but after a while it was clear that it couldn’t have gone anywhere else then a scary direction.
I really like the games that come out of accidental horror due to the way that the game has interesting things outside of just being scary. Subnautica has its beautiful environments and Little Nightmares has it’s fascinating architecture. Very cool topic and video.
I'm new to the channel and uh, is he trying to sound like Kermit or is that his real voice?
I remember when Minecraft was first released on xbox 360. It was the first time I was able to play the game with a constant framerate, being I would play java on my dads old dell laptop that ran the game at 10 fps. I remember being genuinely terrified to go down into my mine because every time i would feel like im being watched through the bedrock fog. This was before I knew about the Herobrine legend and when I first heard about it i 100% believed it just because the feelings the game would produce in me.
I remember playing minecraft for the first time, i got scared of the dark and closed myself inside a hole for the night, in the morning i tried going outside and a burning zombie jumpscared me and killed,
i couldn't escape because the game was super laggy and i was just a kid, i cried.
Halo has a creepy factor. I sometimes feel like I'm being followed when making a map, my footsteps sometimes sounding like 4 feet instead of 2. This is from H5 and only H5.
I’m sorry but that voice caught me off guard
i've always been scared to play singleplayer minecraft nowadays like it just feels empty and lonely, i hate that
bro is kermit 💀💀
I am so glad to find out I'm not alone in feeling unnerved in the past when playing the old versions of Minecraft. I've been playing since 1.5 and I distinctly remember getting that feeling at times in survival when I played on peaceful. Once you killed all the animals, it was just nothing. You and the vast world. I remember another time in bedrock edition 1.14. I built a pretty big base, but I had no animals or anything. And it just felt weird. It felt lifeless.
You sound like a certain member of the Muppets. Kermit the Frog.
I barely started the video, but I can really appreciate the no jumpscare sign. I love watching horror stuff but absolutely hate jumpscares. So again thank you!
"Errrm Achtually, Reaper Leviathans don't spawn in the floating island!" 🤓
he abandoned teyvat to bring his beautiful forced voice to new people. good for him.
First of all the subject of the video is really original, props to you for that. In a second time, I have some criticisms/questions for you. The text is long but more words doesn't mean the video is bad, it's just the most precise criticism I could muster. If it was bad and I didn't care, I wouldn't be spending my time writing all of this. We good? Perfect.
On the choice of including the Subnautica Reaper in this video. I do not understand how it fits the "accidental" part. It feels to me like a genuinely designed monster meant to scare and threaten players. It doesn't feel like "accidental horror" to me.
The explanation as to why someone would feel off in a Minecraft world was a bit confusing imo. The use of the word Liminality is perfect context-wise (I had to check wikipedia to understand the meaning of the word) but I think you did not spend enough time to explain the meaning of the word and its link to the subject at hand, especially since it was relevant for 2 of your 3 examples. There was no need to explain for 5 minutes but I think more than a sentence was needed. Note that I may just be dumb or lack some basic linguistic knowledge as I am not a native speaker.
For the explanation of the horrors in Minecraft and Gmod, you used very vague terminology (excluding "Liminality") like "feeling like something is off" which I think made the point less clear. Though the point was clearer in Gmod's case because you explain the fact that it's supposed to be full of people and that a player may even remember playing with friends on those map, making the whole more unsettling, adding that to the scary easter eggs and the explanation was complete. In the Minecraft case, I did not get why it felt off and even in Gmod's case what precisely was causing this unease. From how I understand it it's not horror one should be feeling but nostalgia, loneliness, a sense of time passing, and time changing. For that reason, I would have liked a more thourough explanation.
After all said and done, I liked the video. It's unique and spurred many questions and thoughts in my head about video games, nostalgia, horror, and design intent. Good job, truly.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of the best accidental horror games I know. So much creepy shit in the world, the open nighttime feels unnerving.
Bro sounds like Kermit the frog
The biggest acidental horror was when playing modded Minecraft and Minecraft on deepslate levels,the thing is,when you know how horror works,you don't feel afraid anymore,you know how to counter it,but i haven't gotten close to finishing rlcraft and i have no idea how deepslate or dark levels work,so that gives me some spooks
I really like how unsettling places like the manor in Nier and 343 Guilty Spark in halo combat evolved are
As a big scaredy cat, the "no jumpscare" disclaimer really helps. I will be subscribing just for that!
tried gmod in vr once and it was more unsettling than any other vr game ive played, including subnautica
Play subnatica in VR and get back to me.
@@Soul_of_a_Artist i did, thats what the comment meant if it wasnt clear
@@speeklymaeve ahh upon rereading I see where I misread lol.
Nah you where clear and concise I'm just stupid lol.
@@Soul_of_a_Artist I have a dodo bird playermodel. If any entities see me, they’ll see me, an extinct species, alive. Possibly scared.
i get this feeling a lot when playing old single player games like hl2. The feeling of being surrounded by this NPC's that talk to you like you are the protagonist just doesn't feel right it feels so unnatural, like if you were the only real person in that world (which actually happens to be true). And even though it sounds kinda stupid the fact of being aware that they are not real and that they also talk like they knew you are the protagonist makes everything feel so artificial and kinda scary
Pizza Tower’s 4th boss is sorta an example of this, as it has an extremely lanky and inhuman design that just leaves the player unsettled and horrified as to what this monster is. for those of you wondering what the boss is, im not gonna spoil it, just know the way it’s introduced adds to how unnerving it is. someone’s friend asked the to stream pizza tower for them as they got to that bossfight, and the friend immediately assumed pizza tower was a horror game
I’m out here getting scared in battle royals where you’ll be in a building hearing footsteps and nature every second feels scary when your own footsteps get delayed so it feels like someone is near you. Not to mention how being in an open field where you are a prime target just freaks me out.
Sometimes I can’t breathe
Are you literally Gabe Newell
A glitch in assassins creed 3 still sticks with me today because how creepy it was. I was playing as Connor just after the prologue. Me and my buddy were talking and I wasn’t paying attention and I walked underneath a boat dock in the frontier and the very acute angle caused me to no clip out of the map I guess. We started to watch Connor just fall through the map and I swear every single animal in the game could just be heard making noises and it got really loud! Just falling and birds cawing and bears roaring. It was spooky at like 14, I just shut my ps3 off and looked at my friend and he spooked just like me.
New channel! Nice! Subbed! ✌🏻🙌🏻
Ngl I was 100% expecting a jumpscare after the “I’m not going to jumpscare you” thing
Kermit?
I recently binged Game Grumps playing DDLC and you sound exactly like how Dan voiced Yuri.
It made an enjoyable video even better.
Why does he sound like baldi
Everytime i played Minecraft, i felt watched, and the low render distance didn't help either, it just felt like something was gonna jump out at me at any second and i would not be prepared
Not gonna lie minecraft still creeps me out in the new versions. I am just building a sound and the music cuts off leaving my mind in silence to think, I am starting to be creeped out for no reason, then the leaves of the tree I broke start to decay and make the break sound, and every time it did I jumped a little and look back to see nothing.