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I got caught in a whiteout at night about a year ago. My only markers to follow were the faint tail lights of one car ahead of me, their rapidly fading tire tracks, and the alarming number of vehicles in the ditch on both sides of the road. If I had stopped at any point, I would have lost the road. I just had to trust the guy ahead of me and stay on the gas for like 20min straight to avoid getting stuck or lost. One of the scariest moments of my life.
I had a similar experience while driving across Lake Erie in a snowstorm. The thing didn’t let up for several hours and visibility remained near zero until I reached Toledo and turned south. After awhile of driving in those conditions my senses began to play tricks on me; I developed the strange sensation that I was driving up, into the sky, rather than forward along the road. Occasionally I’d pass a car in the ditch but for the better part of two hours it was just… nothing. Surreal, tense, and unpleasant. I’m glad we both woke up from that dream.
For context of how ridiculous the world of Blame! is... this isn't simply a megacity that covered and replaced the Earth, but one that replaced a decent amount of the solar system, and one that will eventually replace it outright if enough material is located and found. The furthest edge of the city sits in Jupiter's orbit. All-encompassing voids in the city are not there because of an error in architectural design, but because they had to build around a planet.
That's outright silly, the sun accounts for like 98% of all the mass in the solar system. There is nowhere near enough material to cover that much volume, even if you were to count the Oort's cloud
@@devildante9Yeah, that's what gets me about this concept. You simply can't build a city the size of Jupiter's orbit with the mass contained in the whole solar system. Not unless almost the entire city is empty space.
@@devildante9 In the spin-off manga NOISE, it is shown that heavy metal paste, the material of cities, is being transported from the far reaches of the universe. There also exists the theory that cities are not filling the solar system but are shaped like giant doughnuts, and the consideration that dark matter is being converted into the material.
There are matter printers and antigravity support structures which prevent the whole thing from collapsing into a black hole. Pre-apocalypse humanity (or more accurately their AIs) were breaking the laws of thermodynamics like twigs.
I experienced this to an extreme degree in a "digital trip" in Watch Dogs 1 called "Alone" where the entire city is shrouded in darkness and the objective is to restore lights section by section while avoiding patrolling camera headed enemies. The feeling comes when you have restored the majority of the city and you are left with a city that is completely abandoned, you walk the empty streets while a hauntingly beautiful musical score lulls in the background
As a person who have been in snowy mountain terrain skiing during some whitouts; it isn't just that things look like they are floating, you can't even tell up from down. There was a scenario when we had been touring and was going back, only following a snowmobile path (marked with signs like the ones in the game but a red X at the top (although they were white because of frost)). We decided to do a shortcut and instead of following the path go downhill straight to where we had park our cars. As we went down we did stops from time to time to make sure we didn't lose anyone or at least make sure nobody got hurt. I stopped at one point, but nobody else was stopping but going slowly pass me, so I yelled out to them to make sure they could see I had stopped. Instead they replied with "we are not moving, YOU are!". I then tried to edge my skis to make sure I had stopped and immediatly noticed that, I was indeed, moving. Side note: it wasn't snowing a lot. Sometimes you get whiteouts from clouds or moisture in the air.
@@kricku well... Maybe not because of the whiteout (that was very scary) but the skiing is fun! If you want a good side of it; there was a cabin that we planned to reach which we did. We reached it round lunch, made a fire, drank some coffee/water and ate sandwiches we had made earlier in the morning. It was really cozy tbh. It was only for lunch, we did turn back straight after.
A small detail that I noticed in the first game is that the rifle that you use is a Krag Jørgensen, which is a Norwegian rifle, which connects it to the real life expedition even more
“Imagine being caught in a whiteout, somewhere in the Arctic” that part just reminded me of being a kid on the US Naval base in Keflavik, Iceland and getting caught in a whiteout blizzard while playing outside by myself. I found some lava rocks to try and shelter myself, clinging desperately to my sled covering me, and waited it out for like an hour. When I got home, my mom was just like “huh wondered where you were” 😅
@@vincentdreemurr tbh a blizzard happening wasn't something most people on base bat an eye. Someone worrying about it would be like someone worrying about rain in Seattle.
Nordic kids are built different how does someone just say “I picked up some lava rocks and survived a blizzard alone as a kid” like it’s a tuesday afternoon
My favorite dying world game is Darkwood. It feels simultaneously dead and alive as you see what should look like regular flora and fauna, but are almost all malformed and strange.
Finally a Silent Hill 1 fan. I was at Toys R’ Us as a kid with my dad and we played the Syphon Filter demo, and he mistakenly bought Silent Hill. We then went home where I experienced one of the most horrific nights of my life.
I was 17 when Silent Hill came. I lived with my brother and his friend. They were playing GoldenEye in the next room, so I thought, "I'll give this a go" on my little 15-inch portable TV. In a dark room. Wearing headphones. To this day, the only time I've been more scared was when I watched the Japanese Ring movie. Coincidentally, in the same room. Absolutely terrifying. I think something that isn't always appreciated with playing games from back then, is that horror games just didn't exist. We were playing GoldenEye, Ocarina of Time and Streetfighter. I wasn't expecting Silent Hill. I wasn't prepared for it and it scared the shit out of me.
2003, 11 years old, got an original copy. A good friend of mine had told me before about this game and I wanted to experience it myself. That was a mistake. This game gave me nightmares. What a masterpiece. Today I can speedrun it in 60-75mins. But back then, the story, the unknown got me badly. We spent so many nights together, shocked and scared to go on…SH aged like good wine
12:48 "They then speculated that the deer are detecting the electromagnetic field and uses it for navigation, they then removed the deer's brain. The deer was no longer able to find its way to the herd, thus proving the theory"
That which gave chase becomes even creepier when you realise that it shows that shrooms, and fungi in general can communicate in hivemind. And the part where the player eats shrooms and becomes the part of hivemind is the most disturbing.
babbdi feels like this one dream i had. crossed a border, walked for a few hours, made it to a town that looked like that. no regard for safety or anything. i saw a few people die from falling off elevators and such.
@@MineSlimeTVIn this liminal space fashion I often have dreams where I run or slide across the floor of a big open shopping mall. All empty and at night
The game I think of when I hear "abandoned city" or "loneliness" is "Fragile dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon" for the Wii. It's a game with one of the best atmospheres out there.
I regret not having the chance to play that game back then, since I love me a game with a moody atmosphere. I wish there was a way to play it somehow without having to shell out a hefty price online
I wrote out a whole comment comparing the two games to BLAME! and commented it right as you brought up the manga. So happy I recognizes the inspiration in the two games.
This is actually one of my favorite parts of the Souls games, especially the first. The world feels so decrepit, like everything is either dusty and untouched or rotting away. NieR Automata also has these vibes too, with a long dead world being fought over by machines that arent even sure why
its.. strange. i cant really put it into words but ill try. iam 38 years old, ive been playing games since i was 6 (obviously, games in 1991 were very different to the ones we have today). over the years, as i became older, games lost some of their magic. they didnt give me much feeling anymore, feelings you only have, when your a child or young. uneasyness, awe, wonder, seeing something you dont understand but like how it looks.. back then, everything felt new to you, but as an adult, you know so much and have so much experience, that most things, become normal. playing games like these, with the strange and uncanny architecture, brings backs those childhood feelings, where you didnt understand things that were shown to you by the game, because you were just to young to understand them.. and thats a great feeling to have. edit: ive just reached the part about Blame! and iam total fascinated by it. never heard of the manga, movie or even the series before, but i know instantly, that i love the concept and iam willing to dive deep! it falls right into my longgoing fantasy about "holodeck adventure locations" like: if we had holodeck technology like the one in star trek, stuff like the backrooms is something i would want to visit there. let the deck create it and let me walk through it and enjoy it for a few hours and then come back out overall, i wish i could play games like these together with my wife. she wasnt a gamer when i meet her 18 years ago, she only played rollercoaster tycoon, sims and the occasionel round of tekken or crash in her old psx. she saw cs:s at my place once and got hooked.. that game showed her, how cool pc gaming can be and she was interested, branched out, tried shooter, rpgs, mmos, building games... for 15 years, games were her hobby, a hobby she spend alot of time on together with me we had weekends, when a new game released, like dragon age inquesition, where we started friday 6pm, played till 1am, and then got back to the pc next day at 1pm and spend 8 hours on it that day.. and then on sunday too. during the week, we squeezed in 3-5 hours a day after work. last game she played, was hogwarts legacy and that was already a "oh boy, now its day 6 on this games, when is it finally over"? and she didnt touch any game since then. she changed her career 2 years ago and since then, is focused on her work and uses all her engergy for that, shes too tired and not wiling anymore, to learn something new at home and learn how to play a new game.. and the limited time she has, shouldnt get eaten up by something like games. if you only have 3 hours left, those 3 hours will fly past if you play something and if she would start something, then i would meant weeks till completion, which is demotivating for her, so the easiest path for her, was to drop gaming all together and its a real loss for me. she never said it, but i feels like shes outgrown gaming, since it doesnt fit in her dalie scedule anymore and rather spends time on things, that can be done passively, like watching tv but to be honest here, i thought that would never change. gaming was her go to hobby from 18,5 to ~33. she always came back to it, she always wanted to play, i thought if thats just a phase, then it would end with 23 or 25, but when she turned 30 and was still as excited to play the new guild wars addon, or the new eso stuff, or the new rainbow 6 update, she made time to play them but since her new job, everything changed, its all about being the picture of the "employee of the month" section and being the first one to arrive at the office, the last one to leave, the first one to think about, when it comes to promotion, the last one to think about, when it comes to fireing, having a life at home, feels like its a hurdle keeping her, from beeing 150% dedicated and spend more hours at work. its.. strange, after getting her "work degree" with 19 she took a year off, then started to work 100h parttime from 2009 on till jan 2022. nothing ever changed, she never wanted to work more because the money was enough and she wanted to have spare time and now, one offer for different position changed her almost 180 degrees
You should definitely play the Myst series. They are not scary, or even dystopian probably, but they definitely are empty and you have this uncanny feeling of loneliness while traversing the worlds.
One game I’ve been doing my best to keep tabs on is Agony of a Dying MMO. The title alone is intriguing, but playing the demo that came out a few years ago just has this air of dreamlike loneliness covering dark subject matter that I haven’t experienced anywhere else.
I remember the very first game that ever gave me this feeling, that i was the sole living person in a world where everybody else just vanished. It was this old ass MSDOS point-and-click adventure game called 'Dare to Dream'.
Something about seemingly empty and deserted (as in devoid of humanoid life) lands is equally soothing and lonely to me. Not necessarily a sad loneliness, but mostly one of tranquility. It makes finding cultural references left behind by those who were there before even more impactful. I appreciate if it’s not always due to a virus/plague/curse, since that has been used a lot so far, but it’s fine nonetheless. Really great video!
this isn't about the video but i love that, however much french people are hated on the internet, people will still choose to learn the language, love that for us. Please continue ! source : am french
Absolutely perfect voice, knowledgeable and clear without having that overdramatic influencer twang. I don't even need subtitles. Subscribed and sacrifice offered.
btw the LIDAR gamemode is based off the video game Scanner Sombre. Sort of fits the "dead world" theme as you explore a massive cave system with (spoilers) a vast network of ancient constructions and the like, which ends in an abandoned mine
I actually made a similar comment because I tried scrolling below in the comment section to find someone talking about this. I posted the comment after scrolling for so long but I was honestly quite surprised how almost no one has been talking about this.
The Souls Series is my favorite series that is largely based on this topic, because the way it depicts the deaths of its worlds is so timeless yet relevant. The world is destroyed over and over in a flat circle of time due to the vices and depravity of those who are at the top of society, and those who are at the bottom (the characters you play as being just one of the indefinite victims of this ceaseless cycle of the universe’s birth, decay, and death) face the worst of it. However the worlds, despite dying, or having already been killed in the case of The Dreg Heap, Kiln of The First Flame, and Pygmy Throne, still have this mystique and beauty/serenity despite it all. Despite how grim the endless cycle of suffering and peace that Dark Souls and Elden Ring are, their worlds and settings and gameplay still are comforting to me.
idk but the huge goliath structures of elden ring feel so eerie & out of this world, that it feels like we are on parallel reality alien planet, it feels like a scifi more than fantasy, its one of a kind experience
Outer Wilds differs because it's a hopeful dying world (or universe in that case), unlike these games like Iron Lung, you still have full control, time and guidance to do something about it, and while things may not turn out as you expected, you still did something impactful
I don't know if you check your comments much or not, but I wanted to say thank you. I've been in and out of the hospital for a while and probably won't ever get better, but the kind of content you make is fantastic to me and a great distraction to help me sleep at nights where the pain is too much. Thank you so much for your efforts! This video is a favorite. I LOVE this kind of content. Hope you are well!
My favorite one of these games is a game I played when I was like 11. All I really remember is that you were a train driver in the American southwest during the late 1800s or early 1900s, running a Santa fe (?) passenger. The world was very empty, with maybe a town every now and then, all dying. I distinctly remember a small town called Joseph, with all remaining being the depot and a old wooden church. I really hope to rediscover this game at some point, but those memories were fun yet eerie. (This was like 5 years ago)
If humans in “Iron Lung” found moons with literal oceans of blood, the constituent elements of said blood, along with the tidal forces of the oceans, would allow humans to build a civilization that could - in theory- last until the heat-death of the universe.
@@turkeygod6665 The two forces that make up tides on Earth are gravitational pulls of the Moon and the Sun. Blood moons are implied to be nowhere close any potential tide sources (grabitationally significant bodies)
The game states that it's anatomically human blood. Doesn't look like there's any tide, and considering how all gravity wells except the moons are gone that's not surprising.
@@nouhorni3229Yes- I know that it is human blood. Doesn't change the facts in my OP. Looks like there's tidal motion in the menu screen - doesn't matter if it is slow, or minor - motion = energy.
My first exposure to this theme was a point-and-click flash game I discovered as a kid, called Little Wheel. And man, did it leave an impresion on me. If you have Flashpoint installed (as you should), I urge you to play it. It's only 15-20 minutes long - but the atmosphere is just amazing.
Oh my God! I've played Lorn's lure demo last year and then, few moths later, Babbdi (I've been sometimes thinking about them). I got that special feeling of something liminal, atmospheric and luring to explore, reminiscent of dreams. I felt in love with that feeling. I hope we'll get a lot more of that type of games. Wow, you just organized some of my thoughts about this. Thank you!
The atmosphere, the tone of the voiceover, the imagery, the example media brought up, fantastic. An hour never went by so fast, yet felt so rich in content
Ive been watching the whole video yesterday, shortly afterwards I fell asleep and this night , I had dreams that made me feel a similar way as your video and the games you explored. I can’t get that feeling out of my mind so I really am thankful for your video
i always love hearing about smaller games. there's always such hidden gems. (in case anyone's wondering, the thumbnail is from the game fatum betula, which also fits te vibe of this video and is worth checking out)
Great video! One that does this well, and it doesn't appear to be on the surface, is Riven: A Sequel to Myst. It's set in a semi-tropical archipelago, but it captures a real sense of isolation for major portions of the game, almost zero contact with other humans; and, makes it clear through exploration that you are in a doomed world. You catch glimses of the people who used to live there, see their abandoned infrastructure, and learn more about what caused this vibrant place to go stagnant. It's not quite so grim in visuals as these games, but that's where I think the genius of it lies, that it's tone and theme can still hold that message even as you walk around a very beautiful world.
the thumbnail got me really excited to hear someone talk about fatum betula and then he didn't which was majorly disapointing. still a good video that talked about a lot of excellent dead worlds I have affection for
My theory on Iron Lung is that the blood oceans are the digestive system of some cosmic entity. The beast we encounter in the blood ocean isn't an "animal" but an active function of the entity's digestive process
Would love to see you cover Fatum Betula! I saw the church at the bottom of the lake in the thumbnail and was hoping somebody big would finally cover it! Super great content, keep it up!
I have to come back and thank you for this. I picked up Blame! a short while ago and read it in full. It might be my new favorite series/author and I found it all thanks to this video.
That was an absolute ride. I came in and didn't think I was gonna like the tone of the narration but it just so perfectly fit the existential theme all the games had. I also LOVE how the games weren't overhyped, the horror overplayed, just explained. The games spoke for themselves and that was artfully done.
Blame! is such a haunting series, I've read it at least once a year since I discovered it. The megastructure is a melancholy, profanely beautiful world that I can't stop coming back to
Oof, I would've wanted ya to talk about Fatum Betula, since that's where ya got the image of the church from. I hope you talk about it, even for a little, it's one of my favorite games of all time.
exactly. it's so odd that you'd use an image from fatum betula for the thumbnail, but not the actual video. that game is literally about a dying world in which you decide its fate. would've been perfect
Sooo happy to see you getting close to 100k. I feel so lucky to have found you when you were below 10k subs because as soon as I watched a video I knew you could get big and I subbed immediately. Keep up the outstanding work ❤
This channel is really just as good as Nexpo or Nick Crowley or ScareTheater or any other of those scary/abnormal channels. This channel is inevitably gonna blow up, i mean it has to man It might be something u dont wanna do but u might have to do a video on one of the popular items today like Walten Files or Poppy Playtime or Welcome Home, something like that, those kinda videos get viewer engagement and the algorithm for sure
@@rickyrain7773I don't think there is any content like he makes in those titles. Even still I don't think that's a good reason, so long as he delivers good content I'm a fan.
Please don't EVER suggest content for a RUclipsr. If you think you knkw what people want, then YOU make your own channel and see how it goes. If not then stfu.
I'm Southern-Californian, and I've never experienced actual snow. But I've seen those videos of collision chains during whiteouts, and I'm like "that's ok, I'll stick to my dry, arid valley🤗"
A game I feel could have fit very well in this video is Rainworld, spoiler warning for anyone thinking to play it, in rainworld, the world is basically a mechanical and industrial landscape once used by a civilization, now overrun by fauna and flora trying to survive, but seeing these landscapes of machines and places once used by a civilization, now rusting and rotting away after who knows how long, gave me a sense of a "dying" world, even though it gave way to new life on the surface to the various creatures and plants that now live in it, it is a really fascinating world that leaves you a feeling I cannot describe once you finish it, it's incredible
I've been reading Usuzumi no Hate and, although the manga is just beginning and it's far smaller in scope, it gives me major Blame vibes. An eternal being on an equally eternal mission going slowly through a vast but empty landcape.
I'm glad to know that someone out there not only likes the vibe and aesthetics of worlds like this but made a good video to show others the appeal of such worlds. Good work Carbon.
This is why I love and prefer Okami. The world isn't dying. It's already dead. Your job as the goddess of the sun is to bring it back to life one flower spawning paw step at a time.
Found this channel at a new year's eve and it became my favourite amongst all creepy and eery ones such as Nexpo or Maverick Files. The voice matches the atmosphere and the music... oh my god the music is such a delight. I love you man, thanks for content you're making
The atmosphere of the music you used and the visuals displayed… i dont know man it made me feel some weird way, but i liked it. It’s almost unexplainable. Amazing video
These remind me a little of Ico, Shadow of The colossus, and The Last Guardian. I really enjoy the peaceful solitude of a big empty world where you are the only one exploring it.
you and cresendex are one of my few favourite channels for this type of unique content! And I don't even know what "this type of content" is called! XD
I've learned about Babbdi from Vinny Vinesauce and didn't think much of it. Maybe it's because he streamed the game in a more comedic tone. Seeing this game being analyzed in a much more sophisticated, serious, and maybe even sombre way expanded my understanding of the game. Thank you! Also, throughout this video, I've been waiting for a "Blame!" mention, and I'm very pleased to see it being shown! Keep up the good work 👍
what a stellar video, I have always loved this kind of vibe, and I'm so glad to see others take note of it too. It has this dreamlike and almost liminal feeling (though i hate using that term because it kind of feels like a buzzword). I remember playing stalker anomaly, and early on in the game it feels decently lively and lived in, but once further north the game started to feel more and more lonely, then i finally made it to pripyat, a large city once filled with people now empty apart from mindless soldiers here and there. I had a mod making the game have a snowy atmosphere so i was just walking around this abandoned city, covered in snow, with the sky as blue as an ocean, and it reminded me of when it snowed when i was younger, the world was quiet, and the world was beautiful. everything was dead but it was gorgeous regardless, it felt like i was at the end of the world, and i didnt want to be anywhere else.
I live about an hour away for the town in PA that inspired Silent Hills look, Centralia. It's an old coal mining town that, last I heard, still has fires burning underground after an accident in 1962. Now only like 5 people live there still. There used to be this big abandoned section of highway near it that was covered in graffiti but they covered it all in dirt recently. My family used to drive through the town to get to the amusement park Knoebels before the roads were closed. There's a dark ride there based around mining that actually references Centralia, there's a burning ring of coal fire your mine cart goes through before you see a bunch of torn up buildings. It's pretty interesting.
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38:00 Hi VC, minor nitpick, "BLAME!" is supposed to be onomatopoeia for *_blam,_* not "blame" as in accusing someone.
You should check out Paratropic
play world of horror the odd dead horror is pretty and fun wilts not dead yet you haft to fight for it and your home
What the source for first game in intro? (driving car)
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An hour long video from a creator i've never heard about on a topic i know nothing of? *OH BOY GIMME MORE!*
Yes
You sound brain dead
Yes 2
these videos are always the best ones
Every now and then I'll stumble upon an obscure creator I never heard about making a niche video I'm not initially interested by but will watch anyway
I got caught in a whiteout at night about a year ago. My only markers to follow were the faint tail lights of one car ahead of me, their rapidly fading tire tracks, and the alarming number of vehicles in the ditch on both sides of the road. If I had stopped at any point, I would have lost the road. I just had to trust the guy ahead of me and stay on the gas for like 20min straight to avoid getting stuck or lost. One of the scariest moments of my life.
Yeah snow is really scary like that.
I had a similar experience while driving across Lake Erie in a snowstorm. The thing didn’t let up for several hours and visibility remained near zero until I reached Toledo and turned south. After awhile of driving in those conditions my senses began to play tricks on me; I developed the strange sensation that I was driving up, into the sky, rather than forward along the road. Occasionally I’d pass a car in the ditch but for the better part of two hours it was just… nothing. Surreal, tense, and unpleasant. I’m glad we both woke up from that dream.
@PiplupPlus Yes it is.
@PiplupPlusit definitely is, i recommend watching the video Fear of Cold by Jacob Geller, its truly horrifying
You're still stuck there
For context of how ridiculous the world of Blame! is... this isn't simply a megacity that covered and replaced the Earth, but one that replaced a decent amount of the solar system, and one that will eventually replace it outright if enough material is located and found. The furthest edge of the city sits in Jupiter's orbit. All-encompassing voids in the city are not there because of an error in architectural design, but because they had to build around a planet.
That's outright silly, the sun accounts for like 98% of all the mass in the solar system. There is nowhere near enough material to cover that much volume, even if you were to count the Oort's cloud
@@devildante9Yeah, that's what gets me about this concept. You simply can't build a city the size of Jupiter's orbit with the mass contained in the whole solar system. Not unless almost the entire city is empty space.
@@devildante9 In the spin-off manga NOISE, it is shown that heavy metal paste, the material of cities, is being transported from the far reaches of the universe. There also exists the theory that cities are not filling the solar system but are shaped like giant doughnuts, and the consideration that dark matter is being converted into the material.
I love Blame!
There are matter printers and antigravity support structures which prevent the whole thing from collapsing into a black hole. Pre-apocalypse humanity (or more accurately their AIs) were breaking the laws of thermodynamics like twigs.
I experienced this to an extreme degree in a "digital trip" in Watch Dogs 1 called "Alone" where the entire city is shrouded in darkness and the objective is to restore lights section by section while avoiding patrolling camera headed enemies. The feeling comes when you have restored the majority of the city and you are left with a city that is completely abandoned, you walk the empty streets while a hauntingly beautiful musical score lulls in the background
Name of the music score please
the only one i played was the spider mech one q.q
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so happy to see that watch dogs 1 is still being talked about, timeless game
isnt there like a minigame on your phone where you bounce on flowers thru the city on that game?
As a person who have been in snowy mountain terrain skiing during some whitouts; it isn't just that things look like they are floating, you can't even tell up from down. There was a scenario when we had been touring and was going back, only following a snowmobile path (marked with signs like the ones in the game but a red X at the top (although they were white because of frost)). We decided to do a shortcut and instead of following the path go downhill straight to where we had park our cars. As we went down we did stops from time to time to make sure we didn't lose anyone or at least make sure nobody got hurt.
I stopped at one point, but nobody else was stopping but going slowly pass me, so I yelled out to them to make sure they could see I had stopped. Instead they replied with "we are not moving, YOU are!". I then tried to edge my skis to make sure I had stopped and immediatly noticed that, I was indeed, moving.
Side note: it wasn't snowing a lot. Sometimes you get whiteouts from clouds or moisture in the air.
Cool story man
And this is something people do... for fun?
@@kricku well... Maybe not because of the whiteout (that was very scary) but the skiing is fun!
If you want a good side of it; there was a cabin that we planned to reach which we did. We reached it round lunch, made a fire, drank some coffee/water and ate sandwiches we had made earlier in the morning. It was really cozy tbh. It was only for lunch, we did turn back straight after.
A small detail that I noticed in the first game is that the rifle that you use is a Krag Jørgensen, which is a Norwegian rifle, which connects it to the real life expedition even more
Good catch!
I saw tht too. It was a genuine surprise to see it. I’m going to most likely play this game now.
really? I though it looked more like an imperial mosin
The Krag loaded from the side rather than from the top so its fairly easy to recognize
I recognised that rifle from an episode of Forgottenweapons!
“Imagine being caught in a whiteout, somewhere in the Arctic” that part just reminded me of being a kid on the US Naval base in Keflavik, Iceland and getting caught in a whiteout blizzard while playing outside by myself. I found some lava rocks to try and shelter myself, clinging desperately to my sled covering me, and waited it out for like an hour. When I got home, my mom was just like “huh wondered where you were” 😅
a blizzard happened and no one was worried, thats something
@@vincentdreemurr tbh a blizzard happening wasn't something most people on base bat an eye. Someone worrying about it would be like someone worrying about rain in Seattle.
My first memory of Iceland was walking outside and getting blown over by the wind in Keflavik.
@@vincentdreemurr it ain't that serious
Nordic kids are built different how does someone just say “I picked up some lava rocks and survived a blizzard alone as a kid” like it’s a tuesday afternoon
Having you and Nexpo is like having divorced parents, 2 birthdays and 2 christmases
... That's a very unique compliment that makes too much sense as one while also sounding initially bad with the divorced parents part-
except both birthdays and Christmases are awesome unlike real life where one is good and one is super shitty lmao
with Nick Crowley being the fun uncle you see every so often lol
you’d like Nick Crowley too!
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My favorite dying world game is Darkwood. It feels simultaneously dead and alive as you see what should look like regular flora and fauna, but are almost all malformed and strange.
Finally a Silent Hill 1 fan.
I was at Toys R’ Us as a kid with my dad and we played the Syphon Filter demo, and he mistakenly bought Silent Hill. We then went home where I experienced one of the most horrific nights of my life.
I was 17 when Silent Hill came. I lived with my brother and his friend. They were playing GoldenEye in the next room, so I thought, "I'll give this a go" on my little 15-inch portable TV.
In a dark room.
Wearing headphones.
To this day, the only time I've been more scared was when I watched the Japanese Ring movie. Coincidentally, in the same room.
Absolutely terrifying. I think something that isn't always appreciated with playing games from back then, is that horror games just didn't exist.
We were playing GoldenEye, Ocarina of Time and Streetfighter.
I wasn't expecting Silent Hill. I wasn't prepared for it and it scared the shit out of me.
2003, 11 years old, got an original copy. A good friend of mine had told me before about this game and I wanted to experience it myself. That was a mistake. This game gave me nightmares. What a masterpiece. Today I can speedrun it in 60-75mins. But back then, the story, the unknown got me badly. We spent so many nights together, shocked and scared to go on…SH aged like good wine
@@glaprince I've never thought of speedrunning it. Is it pretty consistent or quite clunky?
I love how SIGNALIS OST was used a lot in this video that music was made for this feeling exactly
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Just finished this game today, I’m depressed but it was an absolute masterpiece
Great holes secretly are digged where Earth's pores are ought to suffice
That sled game in the snow was so eerie and I was really impressed how realistic the movements of the characters were despite being so pixelated
SAME.
It reminded me of Penumbra by way of Nobody Lives Under the Lighthouse.
@JoshSweetvale i think it reminds you of every ps1 game ever 😂
12:48 "They then speculated that the deer are detecting the electromagnetic field and uses it for navigation, they then removed the deer's brain. The deer was no longer able to find its way to the herd, thus proving the theory"
"sometimes my genius is almost frightening"
this is almost 1:1 that joke about soviet scientists determining that a fly needs feet to hear
@@CallN0w yeah reminds me of the jokes my dad who grew up in the ussr makes
*American voter
@@CallN0wcare to tell us the joke?
That which gave chase becomes even creepier when you realise that it shows that shrooms, and fungi in general can communicate in hivemind.
And the part where the player eats shrooms and becomes the part of hivemind is the most disturbing.
They think something like this getting in the water supply caused the Salem witch trials
Girls Last Tour is also in a setting with a dying world but it is slightly more lighthearted, I totally recommend reading.
fun fact, that mangas world was inspired by blame!
The creator is a huge fan of niheis work
holy, I was thinking of same anime, it is one of my favourites for sure!
babbdi feels like this one dream i had. crossed a border, walked for a few hours, made it to a town that looked like that. no regard for safety or anything. i saw a few people die from falling off elevators and such.
That's sounds oddly beautiful! I always find fascination to how or what people have in terms of dreams and what they recall
@@MineSlimeTVIn this liminal space fashion I often have dreams where I run or slide across the floor of a big open shopping mall. All empty and at night
California?
@@Chichirumiru What
BLAME! hit me hard when I first discovered it, because my dreams were so close to the massive scaled setting years before I even knew what it was.
Man Blame! is amazing. I need to finish that manga
that's interesting
Play Bleak Faith it's a souls like inspired by the manga
thanks for reminding me of that game I was meant to get it but totally forgot@@kacperwalkowiak2564
Mangas for predators.
The game I think of when I hear "abandoned city" or "loneliness" is "Fragile dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon" for the Wii. It's a game with one of the best atmospheres out there.
I regret not having the chance to play that game back then, since I love me a game with a moody atmosphere. I wish there was a way to play it somehow without having to shell out a hefty price online
@@ezyglide0909dolphin emulator
Amazing game and such an unsettling atmosphere
@@ezyglide0909The Wii is actually pretty easy to emulate, so I'd recommend that!
@@ezyglide0909you sound so goofy lmao keep lining the companies who hate you’s pockets
I wrote out a whole comment comparing the two games to BLAME! and commented it right as you brought up the manga. So happy I recognizes the inspiration in the two games.
This is actually one of my favorite parts of the Souls games, especially the first. The world feels so decrepit, like everything is either dusty and untouched or rotting away.
NieR Automata also has these vibes too, with a long dead world being fought over by machines that arent even sure why
Such a good video. Keep going bro, 100k is coming so soon… can’t wait to see what’s next
We have to do a collab by then!
@@VirtualCarbon 100% , I have a few ideas , I’ll hit you up soon 😎
@Broogli Ah ur a Backdoors channel? That's tight, I gotta check your videos out!
Lol I meant Backrooms, Backdoors haha
u goofy! 🏀
@@baller_ballinbro can I ask you something like the like beggars like that
Virtual, the atmosphere you build from your videos is simply just impeccable. Thank you for the incredible work you do.
love you bro
The ambient Silent Hill music really makes it for me! 💗
Your voice is cool also nice music you select
Shadow of the Colossus also has a cool dead world, Its huge but almost nothing is there except ruins. its one of my all time favorite games.
From the same makers, the last guardian is also incredible, pretty much a dead world too
16 bosses and nothing else was a pretty alright game tbh
I wish they would release a PC port of the remaster so much.
one of the "what-if" cut content games in my list. its just an artistic game, a breather id say.
its.. strange. i cant really put it into words but ill try. iam 38 years old, ive been playing games since i was 6 (obviously, games in 1991 were very different to the ones we have today). over the years, as i became older, games lost some of their magic. they didnt give me much feeling anymore, feelings you only have, when your a child or young. uneasyness, awe, wonder, seeing something you dont understand but like how it looks.. back then, everything felt new to you, but as an adult, you know so much and have so much experience, that most things, become normal.
playing games like these, with the strange and uncanny architecture, brings backs those childhood feelings, where you didnt understand things that were shown to you by the game, because you were just to young to understand them.. and thats a great feeling to have.
edit: ive just reached the part about Blame! and iam total fascinated by it. never heard of the manga, movie or even the series before, but i know instantly, that i love the concept and iam willing to dive deep! it falls right into my longgoing fantasy about "holodeck adventure locations" like: if we had holodeck technology like the one in star trek, stuff like the backrooms is something i would want to visit there. let the deck create it and let me walk through it and enjoy it for a few hours and then come back out
overall, i wish i could play games like these together with my wife.
she wasnt a gamer when i meet her 18 years ago, she only played rollercoaster tycoon, sims and the occasionel round of tekken or crash in her old psx. she saw cs:s at my place once and got hooked.. that game showed her, how cool pc gaming can be and she was interested, branched out, tried shooter, rpgs, mmos, building games...
for 15 years, games were her hobby, a hobby she spend alot of time on together with me we had weekends, when a new game released, like dragon age inquesition, where we started friday 6pm, played till 1am, and then got back to the pc next day at 1pm and spend 8 hours on it that day.. and then on sunday too. during the week, we squeezed in 3-5 hours a day after work.
last game she played, was hogwarts legacy and that was already a "oh boy, now its day 6 on this games, when is it finally over"? and she didnt touch any game since then.
she changed her career 2 years ago and since then, is focused on her work and uses all her engergy for that, shes too tired and not wiling anymore, to learn something new at home and learn how to play a new game.. and the limited time she has, shouldnt get eaten up by something like games. if you only have 3 hours left, those 3 hours will fly past if you play something and if she would start something, then i would meant weeks till completion, which is demotivating for her, so the easiest path for her, was to drop gaming all together and its a real loss for me.
she never said it, but i feels like shes outgrown gaming, since it doesnt fit in her dalie scedule anymore and rather spends time on things, that can be done passively, like watching tv but to be honest here, i thought that would never change. gaming was her go to hobby from 18,5 to ~33. she always came back to it, she always wanted to play, i thought if thats just a phase, then it would end with 23 or 25, but when she turned 30 and was still as excited to play the new guild wars addon, or the new eso stuff, or the new rainbow 6 update, she made time to play them but since her new job, everything changed, its all about being the picture of the "employee of the month" section and being the first one to arrive at the office, the last one to leave, the first one to think about, when it comes to promotion, the last one to think about, when it comes to fireing, having a life at home, feels like its a hurdle keeping her, from beeing 150% dedicated and spend more hours at work. its.. strange, after getting her "work degree" with 19 she took a year off, then started to work 100h parttime from 2009 on till jan 2022. nothing ever changed, she never wanted to work more because the money was enough and she wanted to have spare time and now, one offer for different position changed her almost 180 degrees
You should definitely play the Myst series. They are not scary, or even dystopian probably, but they definitely are empty and you have this uncanny feeling of loneliness while traversing the worlds.
The segment with Blame is amazing , the background music and your voice combine beautifully
I love seeing Blame! get more attention. I remember when I first read it I just couldn’t put it down.
One game I’ve been doing my best to keep tabs on is Agony of a Dying MMO. The title alone is intriguing, but playing the demo that came out a few years ago just has this air of dreamlike loneliness covering dark subject matter that I haven’t experienced anywhere else.
it's awesome
I am so happy that this video is an hour long. Nier Automata and Myst are the abandoned world games I’ve played so far. Eerie but beautiful.😀
I remember the very first game that ever gave me this feeling, that i was the sole living person in a world where everybody else just vanished. It was this old ass MSDOS point-and-click adventure game called 'Dare to Dream'.
truly, the auditory experience is 70% of the videos quality. the visuals are the cream on top
Something about seemingly empty and deserted (as in devoid of humanoid life) lands is equally soothing and lonely to me. Not necessarily a sad loneliness, but mostly one of tranquility. It makes finding cultural references left behind by those who were there before even more impactful.
I appreciate if it’s not always due to a virus/plague/curse, since that has been used a lot so far, but it’s fine nonetheless.
Really great video!
IM SO HAPPY TO SEE NAISSANCEE, BLAME AND IRON LUNG IN ONE VIDEO I LOVE THE ATMOSPHERE AND UNCANNY HORROR THESE THREE MEDIA GAVE TO ME.
AWESOME ME TOO!
Same!
A bit disappointed not seeing SOMA here as well, it goes super deep with this concept and even asks the question of what it means to be human
@@Cappuccino_RabbitYEA! im actually sad SOMA didn't made it in here and i love that game too so much
any reason you type in all caps like an NPC?
this isn't about the video but i love that, however much french people are hated on the internet, people will still choose to learn the language, love that for us. Please continue !
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Absolutely perfect voice, knowledgeable and clear without having that overdramatic influencer twang. I don't even need subtitles. Subscribed and sacrifice offered.
btw the LIDAR gamemode is based off the video game Scanner Sombre. Sort of fits the "dead world" theme as you explore a massive cave system with (spoilers)
a vast network of ancient constructions and the like, which ends in an abandoned mine
Yes!! I was shocked that it wasn't mentioned in the video; the Gmod LIDAR gamemode is simply a derivative of it
I actually made a similar comment because I tried scrolling below in the comment section to find someone talking about this. I posted the comment after scrolling for so long but I was honestly quite surprised how almost no one has been talking about this.
The Souls Series is my favorite series that is largely based on this topic, because the way it depicts the deaths of its worlds is so timeless yet relevant. The world is destroyed over and over in a flat circle of time due to the vices and depravity of those who are at the top of society, and those who are at the bottom (the characters you play as being just one of the indefinite victims of this ceaseless cycle of the universe’s birth, decay, and death) face the worst of it. However the worlds, despite dying, or having already been killed in the case of The Dreg Heap, Kiln of The First Flame, and Pygmy Throne, still have this mystique and beauty/serenity despite it all. Despite how grim the endless cycle of suffering and peace that Dark Souls and Elden Ring are, their worlds and settings and gameplay still are comforting to me.
I was gonna metion the souls series but looks like you beat me to it
Both Souls games and Miyazaki films (different Miyazakis, I know) give me a sense of nostalgia for places I've never been.
idk but the huge goliath structures of elden ring feel so eerie & out of this world, that it feels like we are on parallel reality alien planet, it feels like a scifi more than fantasy, its one of a kind experience
@@line4169 what Goliath Structures are you referring to?
Its very different, but Outer Wilds is one of my favorite "dying worlds" and one of my favorite games of all time.
Absolutely!! One of the best games out there
This, Outer Wilds is to me the successor to Majora's Mask I couldn't even have imagined or wished for because Outer Wilds is pure perfection
yeah, Outer Wilds & OneShot are both perfect examples of “dying worlds” that absolutely do not fit the norm.
Those fucking anglerfish the first time you enter dark bramble....
Outer Wilds differs because it's a hopeful dying world (or universe in that case), unlike these games like Iron Lung, you still have full control, time and guidance to do something about it, and while things may not turn out as you expected, you still did something impactful
I don't know if you check your comments much or not, but I wanted to say thank you. I've been in and out of the hospital for a while and probably won't ever get better, but the kind of content you make is fantastic to me and a great distraction to help me sleep at nights where the pain is too much.
Thank you so much for your efforts! This video is a favorite. I LOVE this kind of content.
Hope you are well!
My favorite one of these games is a game I played when I was like 11. All I really remember is that you were a train driver in the American southwest during the late 1800s or early 1900s, running a Santa fe (?) passenger. The world was very empty, with maybe a town every now and then, all dying. I distinctly remember a small town called Joseph, with all remaining being the depot and a old wooden church. I really hope to rediscover this game at some point, but those memories were fun yet eerie. (This was like 5 years ago)
If humans in “Iron Lung” found moons with literal oceans of blood, the constituent elements of said blood, along with the tidal forces of the oceans, would allow humans to build a civilization that could - in theory- last until the heat-death of the universe.
And what, pray tell, would power the tides?
@@KarolOfGutovo Oceans can still have tides without moons, they're just weaker
@@turkeygod6665 The two forces that make up tides on Earth are gravitational pulls of the Moon and the Sun. Blood moons are implied to be nowhere close any potential tide sources (grabitationally significant bodies)
The game states that it's anatomically human blood. Doesn't look like there's any tide, and considering how all gravity wells except the moons are gone that's not surprising.
@@nouhorni3229Yes- I know that it is human blood. Doesn't change the facts in my OP.
Looks like there's tidal motion in the menu screen - doesn't matter if it is slow, or minor - motion = energy.
My first exposure to this theme was a point-and-click flash game I discovered as a kid, called Little Wheel. And man, did it leave an impresion on me. If you have Flashpoint installed (as you should), I urge you to play it. It's only 15-20 minutes long - but the atmosphere is just amazing.
I remember that game! Another set of games that gives off a beak deserted feeling were the Submachine games. Those always unnerved me.
Oh my God! I've played Lorn's lure demo last year and then, few moths later, Babbdi (I've been sometimes thinking about them). I got that special feeling of something liminal, atmospheric and luring to explore, reminiscent of dreams. I felt in love with that feeling. I hope we'll get a lot more of that type of games. Wow, you just organized some of my thoughts about this. Thank you!
The atmosphere, the tone of the voiceover, the imagery, the example media brought up, fantastic. An hour never went by so fast, yet felt so rich in content
Ive been watching the whole video yesterday, shortly afterwards I fell asleep and this night , I had dreams that made me feel a similar way as your video and the games you explored.
I can’t get that feeling out of my mind so I really am thankful for your video
i always love hearing about smaller games. there's always such hidden gems. (in case anyone's wondering, the thumbnail is from the game fatum betula, which also fits te vibe of this video and is worth checking out)
Thank you! I was going through comments just for this. Funny that I just haven't finished that game
Great video!
One that does this well, and it doesn't appear to be on the surface, is Riven: A Sequel to Myst. It's set in a semi-tropical archipelago, but it captures a real sense of isolation for major portions of the game, almost zero contact with other humans; and, makes it clear through exploration that you are in a doomed world. You catch glimses of the people who used to live there, see their abandoned infrastructure, and learn more about what caused this vibrant place to go stagnant. It's not quite so grim in visuals as these games, but that's where I think the genius of it lies, that it's tone and theme can still hold that message even as you walk around a very beautiful world.
I can’t stress how much these “video game” videos HIT!! I NEEED MORE DEPRESSING GAME VIDS!!!
I LOVE BLEAK SETTINGS!!! I LOVE WORLDS I WOULD DESPAIR TO IMAGINE LIFE WITHIN!!!
You guys LOVE ALL CAPS 😄
@@JunkyardGodWHAT MAKES YOU SAY THAT?
@bear6540 OH I DONT KNOW 😆
the thumbnail got me really excited to hear someone talk about fatum betula and then he didn't which was majorly disapointing. still a good video that talked about a lot of excellent dead worlds I have affection for
kinda ruined the whole video for me tbh
Here for Fatum Betula as well
My theory on Iron Lung is that the blood oceans are the digestive system of some cosmic entity. The beast we encounter in the blood ocean isn't an "animal" but an active function of the entity's digestive process
Dude the quality of every one of your videos is insane. The atmosphere you create is perfect and matches these dead worlds really well.
i'm so glad to have found this so early! Thank you for a relaxing and informative start to my Wednesday!
Would love to see you cover Fatum Betula! I saw the church at the bottom of the lake in the thumbnail and was hoping somebody big would finally cover it! Super great content, keep it up!
bro is gatekeeping it lol
@@feIon fr 😭
same. I clicked on the video super excited to hear somebody talk about Fatum Betula. The game even fits to the topic of the video T-T
Same fr :/
I have to come back and thank you for this. I picked up Blame! a short while ago and read it in full. It might be my new favorite series/author and I found it all thanks to this video.
Sometimes I come back to this video to watch sometimes because there’s something so soothing and nice about it
Theres very little I find as satisfying as hitting refresh and seeing a new VC drop.
Let me savour every bite.
I really love the signalis music you used at the beginning, it sets the tone and mood (that game has the greatest OST of anything I’ve played or seen)
I highly agree, signalis is such a masterpiece of a game
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That was an absolute ride. I came in and didn't think I was gonna like the tone of the narration but it just so perfectly fit the existential theme all the games had. I also LOVE how the games weren't overhyped, the horror overplayed, just explained. The games spoke for themselves and that was artfully done.
Blame! is such a haunting series, I've read it at least once a year since I discovered it. The megastructure is a melancholy, profanely beautiful world that I can't stop coming back to
The rts game Tiberian Sun captures the slow, melancholic vibes of a dying world.
Oof, I would've wanted ya to talk about Fatum Betula, since that's where ya got the image of the church from. I hope you talk about it, even for a little, it's one of my favorite games of all time.
exactly. it's so odd that you'd use an image from fatum betula for the thumbnail, but not the actual video. that game is literally about a dying world in which you decide its fate. would've been perfect
Fatum betula is so good I wish it got more recognition because it absolutely deserves it.
ITS SO GOOD, I thought he was gonna talk bout it too
Ahh i was looking for a comment talking about fatum betula. It's also one of my favorite games and i saw the church in the thumbnail
that annoyed me so much actually
This channel is criminally underrated
That feeling when you find a banger video essay about cool games that’s over an hour long is unmatched
The amount of detailed information and sourcing of resources used in the video description is commendable. Thank you.
Sooo happy to see you getting close to 100k. I feel so lucky to have found you when you were below 10k subs because as soon as I watched a video I knew you could get big and I subbed immediately. Keep up the outstanding work ❤
Thank you so much for your early support!
While a lot more optimistic than the games shown here, Oneshot is a really good game that has a few similar aspects, I would really recommend it.
agreed, oneshot is a hidden gem of a game set in a dying world
The main character is a furry animal so I wouldn’t recommend it.
@@TheONLYFeli0 Niko is not a cat
they're a person
This channel is really just as good as Nexpo or Nick Crowley or ScareTheater or any other of those scary/abnormal channels. This channel is inevitably gonna blow up, i mean it has to man
It might be something u dont wanna do but u might have to do a video on one of the popular items today like Walten Files or Poppy Playtime or Welcome Home, something like that, those kinda videos get viewer engagement and the algorithm for sure
If he does any of those three im unsubscribing 😊
I like this one more! And Nick Crowley's!
@@rickyrain7773I don't think there is any content like he makes in those titles. Even still I don't think that's a good reason, so long as he delivers good content I'm a fan.
How pompous of you to think you (a nobody) knows more than a successful content creator.
Please don't EVER suggest content for a RUclipsr. If you think you knkw what people want, then YOU make your own channel and see how it goes. If not then stfu.
I'm Southern-Californian, and I've never experienced actual snow. But I've seen those videos of collision chains during whiteouts, and I'm like "that's ok, I'll stick to my dry, arid valley🤗"
Watching this in the middle of the night is such an experience
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A game I feel could have fit very well in this video is Rainworld, spoiler warning for anyone thinking to play it, in rainworld, the world is basically a mechanical and industrial landscape once used by a civilization, now overrun by fauna and flora trying to survive, but seeing these landscapes of machines and places once used by a civilization, now rusting and rotting away after who knows how long, gave me a sense of a "dying" world, even though it gave way to new life on the surface to the various creatures and plants that now live in it, it is a really fascinating world that leaves you a feeling I cannot describe once you finish it, it's incredible
Rain world mentioned
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I've been reading Usuzumi no Hate and, although the manga is just beginning and it's far smaller in scope, it gives me major Blame vibes. An eternal being on an equally eternal mission going slowly through a vast but empty landcape.
This was such a wonderful listen/watch. You have a peaceful and intriguing way of narrating making me feel elax. Thank you 😃
I'm glad to know that someone out there not only likes the vibe and aesthetics of worlds like this but made a good video to show others the appeal of such worlds. Good work Carbon.
VC, thanks so much for adding the links to these games. Especially excited to test Lidar.
I, no joke was about to comment about BLAME! until you mentioned in the video truly a thought provoking premise for a story
Yesss!! Thank you for the new video and commentary! I feel like these are incredibly profound, and beautifully written games.
"That Which Gave Chase" reminds me so much of the book I just finished titled "The Girl With All the Gifts". Same dead world, the mushrooms...
This is why I love and prefer Okami.
The world isn't dying. It's already dead.
Your job as the goddess of the sun is to bring it back to life one flower spawning paw step at a time.
Found this channel at a new year's eve and it became my favourite amongst all creepy and eery ones such as Nexpo or Maverick Files. The voice matches the atmosphere and the music... oh my god the music is such a delight. I love you man, thanks for content you're making
The atmosphere of the music you used and the visuals displayed… i dont know man it made me feel some weird way, but i liked it. It’s almost unexplainable. Amazing video
These remind me a little of Ico, Shadow of The colossus, and The Last Guardian.
I really enjoy the peaceful solitude of a big empty world where you are the only one exploring it.
When I search for unique gaming content, this is what I'm looking for!
Great video man! 👏
These kind of video game places dont fill me with fear but rather with sadness seeing those once great now dying civilisations is just sad
you and cresendex are one of my few favourite channels for this type of unique content!
And I don't even know what "this type of content" is called! XD
I've learned about Babbdi from Vinny Vinesauce and didn't think much of it. Maybe it's because he streamed the game in a more comedic tone. Seeing this game being analyzed in a much more sophisticated, serious, and maybe even sombre way expanded my understanding of the game. Thank you!
Also, throughout this video, I've been waiting for a "Blame!" mention, and I'm very pleased to see it being shown! Keep up the good work 👍
Wow, fantastic video! Games with these vibes and atmospheres are some of my favorite, and a few here are completely new to me.
I'm so glad you talked about babbdi! I discovered it at random and it immediately made me fall in love with it.
This was so interesting! And your relaxing voice made it a soothing surreal journey
Always excited to see another video posted from you!!
Watching a video like this is a good way to start the day
Blame! sounds fascinating. I've seen the title in passing here and there but always overlooked it.
I think "Iketsuki" would have been a perfect fit for this list as well. It's short, roughly 30-40 mins, but an interesting experience
what a stellar video, I have always loved this kind of vibe, and I'm so glad to see others take note of it too. It has this dreamlike and almost liminal feeling (though i hate using that term because it kind of feels like a buzzword). I remember playing stalker anomaly, and early on in the game it feels decently lively and lived in, but once further north the game started to feel more and more lonely, then i finally made it to pripyat, a large city once filled with people now empty apart from mindless soldiers here and there. I had a mod making the game have a snowy atmosphere so i was just walking around this abandoned city, covered in snow, with the sky as blue as an ocean, and it reminded me of when it snowed when i was younger, the world was quiet, and the world was beautiful. everything was dead but it was gorgeous regardless, it felt like i was at the end of the world, and i didnt want to be anywhere else.
Watched til the end. This was such a vibe.
This is my favorite video by far. Keep up the great work!
I live about an hour away for the town in PA that inspired Silent Hills look, Centralia. It's an old coal mining town that, last I heard, still has fires burning underground after an accident in 1962. Now only like 5 people live there still. There used to be this big abandoned section of highway near it that was covered in graffiti but they covered it all in dirt recently.
My family used to drive through the town to get to the amusement park Knoebels before the roads were closed. There's a dark ride there based around mining that actually references Centralia, there's a burning ring of coal fire your mine cart goes through before you see a bunch of torn up buildings. It's pretty interesting.
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@@JoshSweetvale by look I meant the fog, not the architecture. It's a really cool story you should look it up
Silent Hill was not inspired by Centralia. The director of the 2006 movie adaptation drew some amount of inspiration from it, but the games were not.
The RUclips algorithm has lead me to another gem channel. Great video!