I'll be honest with you. I played Subnautica. I was swimming along, minding my own business, and I saw a 'snake' the size of a house. That was enough Subnautica for me.
@@michaeltalpas that encounter is one of the best designed I've run into in a game. It's really just a masterfully done set up, especially given the open world setting. It manages to be the first really terrifying encounter for most players, and the degree to which it ramps up the threat level, all while very rarely actually killing any players, is great.
@@iriswaters Right. I realized afterwards I wasn't in any actual danger (though, if I had kept moving toward it, I would have been), but the sense of danger, and the scale of it was just too much. I laughed so hard afterwards.
Up in space there is no pressure. Once you reach it, it is just emptiness waiting to be explored. But the ocean tries harder and harder to deter you the deeper you go. Almost like nature itself is telling us to go up and away rather than finding out what is down below us.
There are pressures so extreme water forms new forms of hot ice out there in our galaxy. Depth eventually stops being liquid. There is always an end. Getting there though... we probably shouldn't
@@FeedMeSaltThat kinda pressure exists inside celestial bodies or certain regions around said celestial bodies, not the vast emptiness itself. You'd only be in trouble when you venture close enough. Yet, in the sea, the deeper you go, the harder the sea is trying to crush you, even if there's actually nothing around to pose any real threat. You don't need to get close to particularly anything to get yourself sick or killed; you just need to go deep enough.
Barotrauma explores exactly this sort of thing. What's worse than the ocean? An alien ocean under kilometers of ice on Europa (Jupiters moon). It doesn't help that all the equipment feels like it was modified from Soviet-era gear. The only shame is that you need a fairly tight-nit group to crew a sub effectively for the full experience as it's designed primarily as a cooperative multiplayer experience. It can be hard to gather a serious team in such a complex game that is also fairly niche.
Yep. It'd have been fine if the submersible had been made outta the right materials & thoroughly tested, yet the ones responsible & would eventually ride inside it, simply settled for cheap & 'looks good enough'. If the combination of hubris & avarice were to have a personification, this case may just end up as one of the textbook examples.
just like the titanic it was due to complacency and greed. there isn‘t much about the ocean we actually have to fear… we just need to respect the risks and use proper gear
@@meganoob12that we’re aware of lol! For real tho of course anything big enough to be that scary is in deep ocean and we don’t survive there… but I’m still extremely scared lol!
A sea always has so much eeriness to it. Whether it’s a sea of water, sea of space, sea of darkness, all of them are so creepy. Awesome video of it all c:
I also have another fun phobia: submechanophobia, fear of manmade objects in the water. So ships, sunken ships, docks, etc make me physically recoil in fear.
Oh my goodness, THIS! I never knew the name of it! Ships give me chills. The one time I saw the actual size of a buoy at a museum made me feel so uneasy. Hell, I've enjoyed playing Sea of Thieves with a friend but no matter how brightly colored I've made my ship(to make it less "threatening" looking), it's so hard for me to board it again if the deck isn't easy to board from a dock 😭
Easily Frictional's best game, it absolutely blew me away, I must have obsessed over it for months after playing it and it still lives rent free in my head lol. The story, the setting, the themes, the atmosphere, the art direction, all of it is so close to perfection it's crazy.
Everyone else talking subnautica and fears... AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT KNOWS HE WAS BLATANTLY LYING ABOUT IT BEING A STORM THAT TOSSED THE TWO OVERBOARD IN SEA BEAST?! They had harpooned Red, and she made a massive whirlpool to sink the ship. The kid cut the line with the man's knife and that sudden slack tossed them overboard. She saw them cut the line, she understood they wanted to get away just like she did, neither wanted to die
Yeah, it was moray eels that inspired it actually, they actually have a second set of jaws in their mouth that help them pull their food into their stomach. There's some footage of them using it that was captured for a study a while ago, you should definitely look it up, it's absolutely wild. Basically marine animals that have a jaw but lack the ability to suck water into their mouths to capture their prey (which is partially what goblin sharks are doing when they extend their jaws, lots of fish have similar, extendable jaws, bass for example also have extendable jaws that allow them to quickly suck food into their mouths) have a set of pharyngeal jaws that pull their prey into their throat, similar to how we use our tongues and the motion of the muscles in our esophagus to swallow our food.
The game Ark really brought this out for me. I was fine in the jungle and caves everywhere else but even with a retinue of dinosaurs I always felt in danger underwater. Having to always look over ones shoulder because an attack could come quickly and silently from any direction is stressful.
As far as that Scene in The Sea Beast goes, part of the reason the Tonal Shift is as severe and intense as it is, is that you as the viewer know _exactly_ how smart Red is. (the Creature's name is Red Bluster for anyone who didn't see the movie) If Red wanted the Hunters dead, they would be with no hesitation. If Red was a simple beast, the Hunters *would* be dead. But she left them alive, and sank deeper into the ocean. Without a sound, without a struggle, her message was Crystal clear to them and to us: "It would be so easy for me to end you, don't make me remind you of that." No matter who you are, no matter your status or wealth, you are nothing more than a pest to be ignored (at best) compared to Red.
12:50 you think I’ll be scared hearing that I mean yes I would but what would be worse is hearing a robotic voice saying:” warning, entering ecological dead zone, are you sure what you are doing is worth it?” Like any pants I’m wearing would become dark wash
Subnautica is such a good game. I honestly can't wait for #2 to come out. Below Zero was great too but it wasn't as claustrophobic and isolated as I wished it was going to be. And I'm really glad to hear that they listened to the fans and are going back to that with Subnautica 2. I hope it is as good, and then better.
It's like they went "oh no, we made a horror game" and pulled back on it when that's exactly why everybody loved it lmao. If they are going back to how 1 felt, that's not only incredibly exciting but I'll even say they should go further. Make my absolutely worst nightmares a reality
@@derickbowne8633 my friend recently found out about the game. and he asked "how is this a horror game when everything is so bright and colorful?" oh man 😅
That is a stupid statement. We can't even quantify how much "space" there is. Its possible that it is infinite as far as we understand it. Earth's oceans are quantifiable.
@@ArvisSc We can see space way easier than the bottom of the ocean, though. And of course we've mapped a bigger percentage of the observable universe for that very reason.
@@MySerpentineoh really?? How many live creatures are in space? Habitable planets? Sentient creatures? What is dark matter? Is it possible that we are examining the universe with a screwdriver and a pencil rather than a tool we haven't invented yet? We don't know shit about our "observable universe" nor the laws of it. We only possibly seen an object and splattered a label name for it. We know about the oceans enough. We know the temperatures of surface and the deeps. We roughly know what kind of species we will encounter in the deep and surface level. Just because we didn't explore every meter of the ocean, that doesn't mean we don't have knowledge of it based on similar locations. Also the ocean floor is mapped out for the entire planet too. This statement is meant just for shock value when its not true at all. Not even the slightest.
@@ArvisSc A quick Googling will tell you that maybe 20% of the ocean floor has been mapped in any detail, we don't know how many creatures are in it and there's almost certainly no way to make it habitable.
Subnautica embodies all of my most primal fears of deep water and the unknown entities that inhabit it just outside the realm of your vision. I hate all of those things so much and yet... Subnautica is one of my favorite games of all time. The world building and sense of simultaneous wonder and fear you get from exploring the vast and different ecosystems on such an alien world is so mesmerizing and I while I dread venturing into the darkness, I'm also captivated- a morbid curiosity to see what's even further down even though I know there's horrors down there. Thanks for such a wonderful video that encapsulates my fear and fascination with the deep, Snnu- i mean, Cosmic Hour!!
I played a game on the Wii called Endless ocean and theres a pitch black trench area. That always terrified me and i would actually have a few nightmares about it. Dident help theres a colossal squid and a sperm whale in there
The scariest part of all is that their may actually be some gigantic unknown species cuz it's been really discovered that most of the time there are large large large creatures in the deep that are very very large
i genuinely adore games like dredge, where the horror of the ocean is always there, but youre also able to forget about it and relax (until it rears its head again) edit: i love the real world info you brought to this video!!!
Both Subnautica and Soma are masterpieces, and I can only recommed you play them if you havent yet. They are very different, but they both expertly prey on your fears rather than being "scary" in the traditional sense. The makers of Soma, Frictional games, also made several other games - The Amnesia and Penumbra series. If you want the same feeling of horror outside of the water, these are some of the games that first pioneered this sort of slow rising dread style horror in the mainstream.
Although not technically ocean/deep space, Jacob Geller uploaded a video a while back regarding the outer bounds in video games, i.e. the infinite emptiness of game engines that becomes apparent once you peek beyond a video game's invisible walls. The reason why I bring this up here is because the ideas Jacob Geller discussed in that video and the ones you present here are similar yet different, both hinting at an overarching fear of incomprehensible vastness - which is probably what cosmic horror is, at its core. Also, highly recommend you look up a game called Water Womb World. It's a very short indie horror game which also takes place at the bottom of the ocean. All of Yames 's (the developer) other games are amazing as well.
To add to the list of undersea terrors is SCP-3000, "Anantashesha". Granted the horror of it is more focused on the effects its presence has on humans as well as what it does to its prey, but I feel like it's still worth mentioning.
I underestimated thalassophobia most of the time because I only had the experience through games like Farcry 3 or Stranded deep where 3 meters great white is the main source of horror and I thought real ocean wouldn't be as scary. Until one time I tried snorkeling in shallow waters about 4 meters deep and on the corner of my eyes I saw probably around 1,5 to 2 feet long barracuda floating still few meters from me. It didn't get closer but not swimming away either is the scariest part. I get on the boat and bail and proly never gonna go snorkeling again. I can swim, quite well I think. my swimming teacher used to put in a 5 meter depth pool when I was 6 yrs old. So drowning isn't what I'm afraid of I did tried swimming in closed enclosure of a juvenile black tips, they were fed before I jumped in so not at all dangerous. But I still can't shake the feeling of uneasiness when I touched their backs
SOMA is one of the best written horror games ever made, right up there with the early Silent Hill games, I absolutely love horror games that tackle philosophical questions and games that take place under the deep ocean, so SOMA is a match made in heaven for me.
"Let's be realistic" "THERE IS A LEVIATHAN LURKING IN THOSE DEPTHS!!" Already my favorite part. The thing that triggered my Thalasophobia was either Jolly Roger Bay in Mario64 or/and the picture of a killer whale on the bottom of a pool. I liked the picture on the pool but once I dived down there and stared in it's eye. After that I would not swim near that picture.
Fear of the unknown especially the unseen is a very potent especially with how our brain treats it as a survival instinct. With Space, even though it is so unfathomably vast and unknown, it is still visible. With the sea, at best the furthest you can see is around 3 mile. In space 3 miles is nothing, your mine keep speculating the worst case scenario about what lies beyond that 3 miles. There are probably nothing, but that uncertainty will kicked your survival instinct to eleven.
The ocean always has ominous vibes to it like the pressure and mighty ships devoured by it and of course some of its lifeforms btw what’s your next topic.
Your first Reaper Leviathan encounter might be scary but the first time you get too far from the crater and you run into a Ghost Leviathan is far worse. Having the Shadow Leviathan pull up on you unannounced in Below Zero is horrifying too. It might be my vote for most disturbing Leviathan. It ticks a lot of the creepy boxes.
One game I find kind of unsettling is Dave the Diver. In spite of the cute art style, hokey humor, and Stardew Valley-like mechanics, when you venture down there as just your average everyday scuba diver and you encounter more and more of the mysterious underwater world hidden practically beneath your sushi bar, it left me a little fearful to push on further. It's no Subnautica, but it still has that eerie uncertainty to it. Especially since they did a DLC crossover with Dredge. Imagine being in the water with the abberations, rather than just pullingthem up in your net.
They started including arachnophobia mode for games but still no thalassophobia mode. I played dredge for like 2 hours thought I saw something and noped all the way to the Uninstaller.
I love thalassophobia, both in its concept as an irrational fear, and in the reality that it's not an irrational fear at all. And while I don't personally fear waters, vast, deep or otherwise, I respect them with far more reverence and deference than, say, a handful of asshole billionaires who no doubt fed a significant number of tiny fish and other aquatic creatures with their liquefied remains. One of my favorite early episodes of The Magnus Archives (MAG 51 - High Pressure) also tackles thalassophobia wonderfully. In fact, if you've never heard The Magnus Archives, it's an amazing podcast chock full of phobias.
MAGNUS ARCHIVES MENTIONED LETS GOO!!! One of my favorite things about the Magnus Archives' tackling of Thalassophobia is that (SPOILERS) . . . . . . . . . . The ocean is grouped into the same fear category as space- The Vast. The connection between these two fears is (I believe) quite prevalent; stemming from similar concepts such as fears of the unknown and simple survival instinct (space and the ocean are both *very* hostile environments for a squishy human form, after all). I adore it.
@@Minto8384 SPOILER It's also directly relatable to The Buried, which is fantastic. But High Pressure being a Vast tale was definitely the right choice. I'm actually going through and listening to the whole series again so I can finally get to The Magnus Protocol.
I'm going through my first playthrough of subnautica right now. I've been spoiled of a few things, I know what happens when you go into the edge of the map(even though I've never even been that far out) I know a little about that lost river thing and those giant leviathan bones. I have only caught a single glimpse at a reaper leviathan, I have seen them in videos but not up close in game. I am not looking forward to when I do.
You're right! The reason I took some liberties with what actually happened is to avoid spoilers as much as possible while still being able to show the scene that stood out to me the most
I’m sorry but I have to say this, the Greek and Norse myths are lame as hell compared to eastern and new world myths. The umibozu is scary. The Aztec and Maya feared the depths so much that the euphemism for dying in their language instead of “passed away” is “went into the water”.
I felt every nerve in my body bristle (*no I was going to give a specific example of when my nerves bristled but this whole video has had my nerves on end I feel nauseous) looool
I just got submatica and my only complaint is how creatures move and how they interact with the water. They don't look like they are in the same game is the only way i can describe it. They kinda look like they are just floating around and the water around them practically doesn't respond to them at all. It takes me out of the game seeing things move so unaturally. Other than that it's a great game
We call out to the beasts of the sea to come forth and join us This night is yours Because, one day we will all be with you in the black and deep One day we will all go into the water Go into the water Live there, die there Live there, die We reject our earthly fires Gone are days of land empires Lungs transform to take in water Cloaked in scales we swim and swim on We are alive and we'll metamorphasize And we'll sink as we devolve back to beasts Our home is down here and we've known this for years We must conquer from the sea, we build an army with water steeds We'll rise From our depths down below Release yourselves Drown with me We will conquer land with water Gone are days of land empires Lungs transform to take in water Cloaked in scales we swim and swim on We swim on We swim on
I say this in every ocean comment section: The South Pacific ALONE is millions of square miles. Connecting that to ALL the other oceans, there is no way possible to know what is or is not out there in those depths.
God that quick dive down with the camera within the first 30 seconds made me tense up and panic. 🥲 Open water is the scariest thing there is imo. Being on a cruise would be hell 😂
I'll be honest with you. I played Subnautica. I was swimming along, minding my own business, and I saw a 'snake' the size of a house. That was enough Subnautica for me.
In the Jellyshroom Caves? That's just a crabsnake, they leave you alone for the most part
@@redcapo011 At the size of a house, I imagine it might have been a Reaper. Not quite a snake, but a little snake like. And definitely terrifying.
@@iriswaters Indeed, it was one of the Reapers you can encounter at the beginning of your adventure, near the crashed ship.
@@michaeltalpas that encounter is one of the best designed I've run into in a game. It's really just a masterfully done set up, especially given the open world setting. It manages to be the first really terrifying encounter for most players, and the degree to which it ramps up the threat level, all while very rarely actually killing any players, is great.
@@iriswaters Right. I realized afterwards I wasn't in any actual danger (though, if I had kept moving toward it, I would have been), but the sense of danger, and the scale of it was just too much. I laughed so hard afterwards.
You don't hate the ocean. You love the ocean. You want to get closer. Come closer. It looks so friendly. Do not resist.
Hello there Satan
You do not recognise the bodies in the water
Breathe us in, breathe us in.
Yeaaaa… nah
Lies
Up in space there is no pressure. Once you reach it, it is just emptiness waiting to be explored. But the ocean tries harder and harder to deter you the deeper you go. Almost like nature itself is telling us to go up and away rather than finding out what is down below us.
There are pressures so extreme water forms new forms of hot ice out there in our galaxy.
Depth eventually stops being liquid. There is always an end.
Getting there though... we probably shouldn't
I think there's a depth where buoyancy reverses, almost like, "OK, since you didn't want to listen, then I guess you wanna stay."
@@FeedMeSaltThat kinda pressure exists inside celestial bodies or certain regions around said celestial bodies, not the vast emptiness itself. You'd only be in trouble when you venture close enough. Yet, in the sea, the deeper you go, the harder the sea is trying to crush you, even if there's actually nothing around to pose any real threat. You don't need to get close to particularly anything to get yourself sick or killed; you just need to go deep enough.
Barotrauma explores exactly this sort of thing. What's worse than the ocean? An alien ocean under kilometers of ice on Europa (Jupiters moon). It doesn't help that all the equipment feels like it was modified from Soviet-era gear. The only shame is that you need a fairly tight-nit group to crew a sub effectively for the full experience as it's designed primarily as a cooperative multiplayer experience. It can be hard to gather a serious team in such a complex game that is also fairly niche.
Hearing Snnuy's voice so disconnected from his typical channel completely stun locked me. But I do enjoy deep see monster discussions so cool channel.
I THOUGHT IT WAS HIM! Man it’s so wild lol
oh that's who it was!
Thank god for this comment. I was going crazy thinking it was Snnuy but assumed it was someone else who sounded so similar
the titan submersible did not implode or fail due to us humans being tiny specks of dust in the cosmos, but hubris and avarice
Yup.
With the ever-present helping hand of capitalism!
Nah it wasn't capitalism the guy hired a bunch of unqualified DEI hires to work on his sub as some grand virtue signal and well....
nah it was a megalodon
Yep. It'd have been fine if the submersible had been made outta the right materials & thoroughly tested, yet the ones responsible & would eventually ride inside it, simply settled for cheap & 'looks good enough'. If the combination of hubris & avarice were to have a personification, this case may just end up as one of the textbook examples.
just like the titanic it was due to complacency and greed.
there isn‘t much about the ocean we actually have to fear… we just need to respect the risks and use proper gear
The scary part of the ocean is the low visibility and how something so much bigger than you can be so close before you even see a shadow
there aren‘t too many things that are bigger than you in the ocean though. And most of them are not dangerous at all.
@@meganoob12that we’re aware of lol! For real tho of course anything big enough to be that scary is in deep ocean and we don’t survive there… but I’m still extremely scared lol!
@meganoob12 they may be few and far between, but EFF no!
A sea always has so much eeriness to it. Whether it’s a sea of water, sea of space, sea of darkness, all of them are so creepy. Awesome video of it all c:
I also have another fun phobia: submechanophobia, fear of manmade objects in the water. So ships, sunken ships, docks, etc make me physically recoil in fear.
Oh my goodness, THIS! I never knew the name of it!
Ships give me chills. The one time I saw the actual size of a buoy at a museum made me feel so uneasy.
Hell, I've enjoyed playing Sea of Thieves with a friend but no matter how brightly colored I've made my ship(to make it less "threatening" looking), it's so hard for me to board it again if the deck isn't easy to board from a dock 😭
Well now you get to play with the super friendly man-o-war or flame heart’s ship isn’t it cute?
I CAST TITANIC REMEMBERING
I've never really understood submechanophobia, thalassophobia is obvious but I haven't felt fear of sunken things yet
@@Goofy4841 I think it’s not really a fear, it’s a gut wrenching feeling of extreme unease (that’s how I experience it)
“Bioluminescence: a language of light, spoken by denizens of deep”
Your creativity is appreciated🫶
Just naming SOMA sends shivers through my body. This game is sooo fcking good
Easily Frictional's best game, it absolutely blew me away, I must have obsessed over it for months after playing it and it still lives rent free in my head lol. The story, the setting, the themes, the atmosphere, the art direction, all of it is so close to perfection it's crazy.
SO MAny places to explore?
The Quiet Rapture is the most fucking scary thing I've seen on my screen for soooo long. Damn.
Everyone else talking subnautica and fears... AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT KNOWS HE WAS BLATANTLY LYING ABOUT IT BEING A STORM THAT TOSSED THE TWO OVERBOARD IN SEA BEAST?! They had harpooned Red, and she made a massive whirlpool to sink the ship. The kid cut the line with the man's knife and that sudden slack tossed them overboard. She saw them cut the line, she understood they wanted to get away just like she did, neither wanted to die
Love the new content, it has the same kind of vibe as oceaniz monster hunter ecology documentaries. Glad to see you well mate.
I think the Xenomorph’s second jaw was inspired by the goblin shark’s extendable jaw.
Moray eel.
Yeah, it was moray eels that inspired it actually, they actually have a second set of jaws in their mouth that help them pull their food into their stomach. There's some footage of them using it that was captured for a study a while ago, you should definitely look it up, it's absolutely wild.
Basically marine animals that have a jaw but lack the ability to suck water into their mouths to capture their prey (which is partially what goblin sharks are doing when they extend their jaws, lots of fish have similar, extendable jaws, bass for example also have extendable jaws that allow them to quickly suck food into their mouths) have a set of pharyngeal jaws that pull their prey into their throat, similar to how we use our tongues and the motion of the muscles in our esophagus to swallow our food.
@@BlacknovaTheDragon oh ok
Came for LoR, stayed for Cosmic Hour essays
so happy to see you back!
i have yet to see the video, but just by the title im predicting subnautica is in it
1:10 ding ding ding 🎉🎊
2:35
i was kind of thinking it wouldnt affect me, then FUCK
There are prehistoric sea creature who are huge for example: mosasaur, megalodon, liviyatan, dunkleosteus and leedsichthys.
Yeah that's the crazy thing, those sea monsters actually existed 😭
@@ApahtiePartyPrehistoric Earth was Metal.
One game that not as well know but has great thallassaphobia vibes is an old Arcade game called Ocean Hunter
Oh hi Snnuy, didn't know you shared my intrest in the deep ocean
The game Ark really brought this out for me.
I was fine in the jungle and caves everywhere else but even with a retinue of dinosaurs I always felt in danger underwater.
Having to always look over ones shoulder because an attack could come quickly and silently from any direction is stressful.
As far as that Scene in The Sea Beast goes, part of the reason the Tonal Shift is as severe and intense as it is, is that you as the viewer know _exactly_ how smart Red is. (the Creature's name is Red Bluster for anyone who didn't see the movie)
If Red wanted the Hunters dead, they would be with no hesitation. If Red was a simple beast, the Hunters *would* be dead. But she left them alive, and sank deeper into the ocean. Without a sound, without a struggle, her message was Crystal clear to them and to us: "It would be so easy for me to end you, don't make me remind you of that."
No matter who you are, no matter your status or wealth, you are nothing more than a pest to be ignored (at best) compared to Red.
*laughs in nuclear weaponry*
12:50 you think I’ll be scared hearing that I mean yes I would but what would be worse is hearing a robotic voice saying:” warning, entering ecological dead zone, are you sure what you are doing is worth it?” Like any pants I’m wearing would become dark wash
Subnautica is such a good game. I honestly can't wait for #2 to come out.
Below Zero was great too but it wasn't as claustrophobic and isolated as I wished it was going to be.
And I'm really glad to hear that they listened to the fans and are going back to that with Subnautica 2.
I hope it is as good, and then better.
It's like they went "oh no, we made a horror game" and pulled back on it when that's exactly why everybody loved it lmao. If they are going back to how 1 felt, that's not only incredibly exciting but I'll even say they should go further. Make my absolutely worst nightmares a reality
@@derickbowne8633 my friend recently found out about the game. and he asked "how is this a horror game when everything is so bright and colorful?"
oh man 😅
Wake up babe there is a new eldritch deity analysis video
The algorithm cooked with this one
2:46 that is a heart attack for me lol god that is horrifying
"We know more about space than we do about the ocean"
That is a stupid statement. We can't even quantify how much "space" there is. Its possible that it is infinite as far as we understand it. Earth's oceans are quantifiable.
@@ArvisSc We can see space way easier than the bottom of the ocean, though. And of course we've mapped a bigger percentage of the observable universe for that very reason.
@@MySerpentineoh really?? How many live creatures are in space? Habitable planets? Sentient creatures? What is dark matter? Is it possible that we are examining the universe with a screwdriver and a pencil rather than a tool we haven't invented yet? We don't know shit about our "observable universe" nor the laws of it. We only possibly seen an object and splattered a label name for it. We know about the oceans enough. We know the temperatures of surface and the deeps. We roughly know what kind of species we will encounter in the deep and surface level. Just because we didn't explore every meter of the ocean, that doesn't mean we don't have knowledge of it based on similar locations. Also the ocean floor is mapped out for the entire planet too. This statement is meant just for shock value when its not true at all. Not even the slightest.
@@ArvisSc A quick Googling will tell you that maybe 20% of the ocean floor has been mapped in any detail, we don't know how many creatures are in it and there's almost certainly no way to make it habitable.
Soma is best.That elevator descend is still one of the most intense gaming moments for me.Also try Stasis:Bone Totem if you like ocean games.
Soma is one of the best horror games ever. It instills a feeling of dread and existential horror no other game can.
Subnautica embodies all of my most primal fears of deep water and the unknown entities that inhabit it just outside the realm of your vision. I hate all of those things so much and yet... Subnautica is one of my favorite games of all time. The world building and sense of simultaneous wonder and fear you get from exploring the vast and different ecosystems on such an alien world is so mesmerizing and I while I dread venturing into the darkness, I'm also captivated- a morbid curiosity to see what's even further down even though I know there's horrors down there. Thanks for such a wonderful video that encapsulates my fear and fascination with the deep, Snnu- i mean, Cosmic Hour!!
I played a game on the Wii called Endless ocean and theres a pitch black trench area. That always terrified me and i would actually have a few nightmares about it. Dident help theres a colossal squid and a sperm whale in there
I would love it if you talked about Noita! I loved your video on knowledge-based games, and noita popped up in my head!
Space is dope. The deep ocean is my nightmare.
The scariest part of all is that their may actually be some gigantic unknown species cuz it's been really discovered that most of the time there are large large large creatures in the deep that are very very large
Life that is that big is impossible to sustain, if there were anything bigger than the blue whale, we would know
i genuinely adore games like dredge, where the horror of the ocean is always there, but youre also able to forget about it and relax (until it rears its head again)
edit: i love the real world info you brought to this video!!!
Have you tried subnautica?
@Alguien_random_aqui yeah! its great.
Have you ever played "Sunless sea"? What could possibly be more scarier than an underground ocean?
@@danielefabbro822 god yeah that one is horrifying. not quite my cup of tea, but i appreciate it
@@vizzzyy190 I loved it.
feels like watching high quality documentaries.
Very good job the video was amazing!
yeah ive think i slowly just got a fear from playing so many video games knowing or thinking there is something sinister in the water
Sr2 is where mine started, got dragged to the depths by a giant tentacle, never used a boat again.
Oh oceangate absolutely could have been controlled lol, the ceo intentionally cut corners
Fun fact the eldrich monster at the center of the map in the game dredge, yeah hes the good guy.
at the center of the map? you're talking about the leviathan but he can appear anywhere on open water
One game that horrified me was Jack and daxter the giant fish that would swallow you if you jumped in the water
Mass effects leviathan DLC would fit with this video
Both Subnautica and Soma are masterpieces, and I can only recommed you play them if you havent yet. They are very different, but they both expertly prey on your fears rather than being "scary" in the traditional sense.
The makers of Soma, Frictional games, also made several other games - The Amnesia and Penumbra series. If you want the same feeling of horror outside of the water, these are some of the games that first pioneered this sort of slow rising dread style horror in the mainstream.
Although not technically ocean/deep space, Jacob Geller uploaded a video a while back regarding the outer bounds in video games, i.e. the infinite emptiness of game engines that becomes apparent once you peek beyond a video game's invisible walls. The reason why I bring this up here is because the ideas Jacob Geller discussed in that video and the ones you present here are similar yet different, both hinting at an overarching fear of incomprehensible vastness - which is probably what cosmic horror is, at its core.
Also, highly recommend you look up a game called Water Womb World. It's a very short indie horror game which also takes place at the bottom of the ocean. All of Yames 's (the developer) other games are amazing as well.
To add to the list of undersea terrors is SCP-3000, "Anantashesha". Granted the horror of it is more focused on the effects its presence has on humans as well as what it does to its prey, but I feel like it's still worth mentioning.
I underestimated thalassophobia most of the time because I only had the experience through games like Farcry 3 or Stranded deep where 3 meters great white is the main source of horror and I thought real ocean wouldn't be as scary. Until one time I tried snorkeling in shallow waters about 4 meters deep and on the corner of my eyes I saw probably around 1,5 to 2 feet long barracuda floating still few meters from me. It didn't get closer but not swimming away either is the scariest part. I get on the boat and bail and proly never gonna go snorkeling again.
I can swim, quite well I think. my swimming teacher used to put in a 5 meter depth pool when I was 6 yrs old. So drowning isn't what I'm afraid of
I did tried swimming in closed enclosure of a juvenile black tips, they were fed before I jumped in so not at all dangerous. But I still can't shake the feeling of uneasiness when I touched their backs
0:08 pyke is that you
SOMA is one of the best written horror games ever made, right up there with the early Silent Hill games, I absolutely love horror games that tackle philosophical questions and games that take place under the deep ocean, so SOMA is a match made in heaven for me.
This video was just- amazing
Thank you for mentioning zelda. Loved the exploration in that game
We going deep with this one
"Let's be realistic" "THERE IS A LEVIATHAN LURKING IN THOSE DEPTHS!!"
Already my favorite part.
The thing that triggered my Thalasophobia was either Jolly Roger Bay in Mario64 or/and the picture of a killer whale on the bottom of a pool. I liked the picture on the pool but once I dived down there and stared in it's eye. After that I would not swim near that picture.
Fear of the unknown especially the unseen is a very potent especially with how our brain treats it as a survival instinct. With Space, even though it is so unfathomably vast and unknown, it is still visible. With the sea, at best the furthest you can see is around 3 mile. In space 3 miles is nothing, your mine keep speculating the worst case scenario about what lies beyond that 3 miles. There are probably nothing, but that uncertainty will kicked your survival instinct to eleven.
Thank you I cried while watching this
i'm convinced finding nemo gave me thalassophobia.
Images of the opening scene makes me sweat and panic.
and the barracuda coming out of nowhere made it even worse 🥲
The ocean always has ominous vibes to it like the pressure and mighty ships devoured by it and of course some of its lifeforms btw what’s your next topic.
Also i like that you show the sea beast its one of my favorites
scp-3000 being 800km long:
scp-169 being over 8000 km long:
Your first Reaper Leviathan encounter might be scary but the first time you get too far from the crater and you run into a Ghost Leviathan is far worse. Having the Shadow Leviathan pull up on you unannounced in Below Zero is horrifying too. It might be my vote for most disturbing Leviathan. It ticks a lot of the creepy boxes.
One game I find kind of unsettling is Dave the Diver. In spite of the cute art style, hokey humor, and Stardew Valley-like mechanics, when you venture down there as just your average everyday scuba diver and you encounter more and more of the mysterious underwater world hidden practically beneath your sushi bar, it left me a little fearful to push on further. It's no Subnautica, but it still has that eerie uncertainty to it. Especially since they did a DLC crossover with Dredge. Imagine being in the water with the abberations, rather than just pullingthem up in your net.
Full Fathom looks like a blast! I love playing Subnautica, so Full Fathom looks right up my alley.
Me playing timebomb printer and looking for cool background music:
“Hey wait a minute this voice sounds familiar”
Cosmic horror is the best label for it. Cosmic horror relies on the unknown. And the ocean is very much unknown.
In Ark, you avoid the water, everything down there wants a piece of you.
They started including arachnophobia mode for games but still no thalassophobia mode. I played dredge for like 2 hours thought I saw something and noped all the way to the Uninstaller.
I really wish sea beasts wouldve gone full thalassophobia but instead it was like ooo the big monster is nice and just misunderstood
I love thalassophobia, both in its concept as an irrational fear, and in the reality that it's not an irrational fear at all. And while I don't personally fear waters, vast, deep or otherwise, I respect them with far more reverence and deference than, say, a handful of asshole billionaires who no doubt fed a significant number of tiny fish and other aquatic creatures with their liquefied remains.
One of my favorite early episodes of The Magnus Archives (MAG 51 - High Pressure) also tackles thalassophobia wonderfully. In fact, if you've never heard The Magnus Archives, it's an amazing podcast chock full of phobias.
MAGNUS ARCHIVES MENTIONED LETS GOO!!! One of my favorite things about the Magnus Archives' tackling of Thalassophobia is that (SPOILERS)
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The ocean is grouped into the same fear category as space- The Vast. The connection between these two fears is (I believe) quite prevalent; stemming from similar concepts such as fears of the unknown and simple survival instinct (space and the ocean are both *very* hostile environments for a squishy human form, after all). I adore it.
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It's also directly relatable to The Buried, which is fantastic. But High Pressure being a Vast tale was definitely the right choice. I'm actually going through and listening to the whole series again so I can finally get to The Magnus Protocol.
I'm going through my first playthrough of subnautica right now. I've been spoiled of a few things, I know what happens when you go into the edge of the map(even though I've never even been that far out) I know a little about that lost river thing and those giant leviathan bones. I have only caught a single glimpse at a reaper leviathan, I have seen them in videos but not up close in game. I am not looking forward to when I do.
Giant Angler fish are more frightening rhen a Megladon at this point.
Also the whirlpool isn't a storm its the red sea beast or "the red bluster/buster" they shot a harpoon at it so It was smart and made a whirlpool
You're right! The reason I took some liberties with what actually happened is to avoid spoilers as much as possible while still being able to show the scene that stood out to me the most
Albeit non as intense and dramatic, I can sense some inspiration from SuperEyePatchWolf. And I'm all in. Great video.
Im so confused… is this a ocean games review??
Not just a general video about scary stuff about the ocean in media
Man, Barotrauma didn't even get an honorable mention, that games horrifying.
you should talk about Narcosis the Playstation videogame, excellent video brooooooo ❤❤❤❤
Subnautica unironically causes me stress to the point im unable to play it and enjoy it, cool game tho.
I’m sorry but I have to say this, the Greek and Norse myths are lame as hell compared to eastern and new world myths. The umibozu is scary. The Aztec and Maya feared the depths so much that the euphemism for dying in their language instead of “passed away” is “went into the water”.
your videos are amazing!
Not what inwas expecting but i like it.
No matter how big the fish is there's only one real monster here, humans
I have an obsession with big monsters because they are cool
I felt every nerve in my body bristle (*no I was going to give a specific example of when my nerves bristled but this whole video has had my nerves on end I feel nauseous) looool
I just got submatica and my only complaint is how creatures move and how they interact with the water. They don't look like they are in the same game is the only way i can describe it. They kinda look like they are just floating around and the water around them practically doesn't respond to them at all. It takes me out of the game seeing things move so unaturally. Other than that it's a great game
First time encountering the Kraken in Sea of Thieves was terrifying
And he managed to cover this without mentioning Cthulhu.
We call out to the beasts of the sea to come forth and join us
This night is yours
Because, one day we will all be with you in the black and deep
One day we will all go into the water
Go into the water
Live there, die there
Live there, die
We reject our earthly fires
Gone are days of land empires
Lungs transform to take in water
Cloaked in scales we swim and swim on
We are alive and we'll metamorphasize
And we'll sink as we devolve back to beasts
Our home is down here and we've known this for years
We must conquer from the sea, we build an army with water steeds
We'll rise
From our depths down below
Release yourselves
Drown with me
We will conquer land with water
Gone are days of land empires
Lungs transform to take in water
Cloaked in scales we swim and swim on
We swim on
We swim on
Do you play legends of runeterra by any chance???
17:28 he didnt notice that the fish is right there in the image
9:43 this looks so similar to the art style of limbo
I say this in every ocean comment section:
The South Pacific ALONE is millions of square miles. Connecting that to ALL the other oceans, there is no way possible to know what is or is not out there in those depths.
The scene from Sea Beast is hands down one of the worst things ever 😭😭😭
God that quick dive down with the camera within the first 30 seconds made me tense up and panic. 🥲 Open water is the scariest thing there is imo. Being on a cruise would be hell 😂
first sentence of the video - agreed!!!
I always thought I had thalassaphobia, but Assassin’s Creed Odyssey really triggered it for me.
You need to play Death in the water 2
Took me long enough to watch this. And now I regret it ! Great video anyway, but please no more ocean
this is a certified barotrauma moment (barotrauma wasn't even mentioned)
What a great video.
In all retrospective, I feel lost right now.
13:44 just like you frfr
LMAO