For those who don't know the song that plays in the actual WAD at 51:23 is 'Like the Wind' and it's one of the biggest internet mysteries because to this day nobody knows who made it. It's super funny to me that Jack replaced it fearing the copyright. If he did get a copyright strike we would at least know who holds the rights to it.
how hard is it to read? people keep saying its heavy reading but I read a lot of high fantasy (J. abercrombie, B. sanderson, T. pratchett, R. jordan) and feel books like song of ice & fire are more mid (martin is defo worse than many other epic authors).
For those wondering, "House of Leaves," the story this mod is based off of, is a book in which multiple accounts of people talk about a documentary of a family with an endless labyrinth in their house. All of the accounts vary and since there's no clean shift between speakers, transitions between points of view gets convoluted at times. Similarly to the house's changing perspective in the game.
@@jeremylindemann5117 very different, House of Leaves is actually quite an easy read if you have a physical copy, it mostly plays with form rather than language, though there is some of that too. It's been accurately described as a horror romance, and I fully agree, one of my favorite books of all time
I also like how when you pick up the pill bottle the first time it says "Refill needed" and then when you pick it up the second time on your way out it says "Feelin' fine," and if you turn around to look at the bathroom it's normal again. Like you had a breakdown or something in the bathroom as your meds wore off, and then when you took them again, it was like it never even happened.
As someone who grew up with doom 2 and currently in the middle of house of leaves, this still feels like a fever dream. It's just that insane, like insanely good!
25:36 as a woman myself i can honestly say this is what happens in the womens bathroom all the time, its why we always bring our friends into the restroom with us
male friend of mine had to use the ladies room because the men's was out of order and I forgot to warn him before he found out. All I heard was "hey, what's this box on the wall fooOOOOH MY GOD!"
That hallway is actually the main element directly from the Book, House of Leaves. Also, Navidson reality is another reference to the book. Beyond that, it mainly that the tone of this Mod is really drawing inspiration from the Novel more than anything else, especially if you read all the files and clips that come with it in the folder. Also, I tried to read the book. I really really tried. But around page 120 when Johnny Truant interrupts the main narrative once again to ramble on about his sexual escapades, I threw in the towel.
If you didn’t know at 11:39, this place has a 9% chance of appearing when opening this door. It’s a place with LITTERALY nothing. It’s a reference to an infinite tunnel in the house of leaves. It’s funny because this place has random sound without actually having no threat. But you can get stuck there
Not all. Most, but not all. The forest isn't the house. The plane isn't the house. Infinity staircase isn't part of the house. But yes, everything else is exactly the house. Even the picture file that comes with the game that shows a blue key card is the house.
I love the subtle effect of the doors suddenly opening realistically, it's the type of thing only a huge doom fan would notice but it really makes it start to feel uncanny.
@@BigHailFan it is. Its worth noting that it only activates it as things are changing, though. It's one of the changes made alongside the doors and so on.
My favorite part about this mod is that rather than your typical jumpscare horror experience, this one slowly gaslights you until you don’t know what senses you trust.
(INTRO) As A brief Explanation of what this is about: Attached to the WAD file, (Which in reality is a normal version of the house. Interestingly the one with all the strange events is on a seperate file attachment) Is a google doc of the authors thoughts as they update the map and prepare it for publishing this is meant to be the springboard of where you find all the "Levels" ingame. This Doc also relates to "House of Leaves." By highlighting the word "Home" blue everytime it shows up which the book also does. In this google doc the author states that he has dreams, Many of which are extremely similar to the "Levels" in the Game (The Pools, DayCare, Beach Etc.) Throughout the document it is seen that the author is becoming mentally unwell, Not knowing if parts of the map are in the original, or if he added them. A common theme throughout the doc is that the author had a hard upbringing and states that "Happiness has to be fought for." and that his friend was one of the only things that gave him happiness in life. (BURNED HOUSE, FOR SALE SIGN) The Burned house and the empty lot have nothing to do with the main story aside from being another one of the dreams the Author had and that the name of the Realty company is the name of the family in "House of Leaves". When exiting the level through the driveway on the empty lot it leads back into normal DOOM2 (Eventually after 2 normal DOOM levels it somehow loops back to the house even though it states its a single level, The level itself remains the same as before) (THE DOG AND CERBERUS) The dog and cerberus are life linked and if one dies the other goes with it. The author says in the Doc that he had a bad connection with dogs and he owned a cat for the majority of his childhood. a nod to the author owning a cat is a cat litter box in the breaker room which you interact with before the house burns down. Interestingly when the Cerberus is spawned in the map is larger or the character is smaller. (Idk which one) This may imply that this is how the author viewed dogs as a child. (THE GAS STATION AND FLIPPED REALITY) As far as I know these have no real connection to the Author besides the author having a dream where his reflection winked at him. Aswell as him having a dream where his car crashed in the woods and he stumbled into a empty shell gas station. A general theme for the entire map is that all locations are places in the authors dreams. (THE FAKE BEACH)The White Beach is simply another dream the author had where he wandered into the void for what felt like a eternity. The tree to Access the beach has the Initials S+A written on it. These are the initals of the auther (S) and the recently decessed friend (A) This is just another sign about how close there friendship was. (THE REAL BEACH) The Real Beach is Extremly hard to get, As the player has to fight through Hundreds of enemy's Throughout all levels to reach it. This links with the authors statement about "Happiness has to be fought for." (from this point onwards it gets pretty philosophical and even hard for me to understand) The Beach Most likely represents the author coming to terms with the passing of his friend (Although there is a major Controdiction in this statement I will bring up later). (SECRETS AND CONTRADICTION) 1.After digging through the file that the map comes in one can find a newspaper article on the friends death and pictures of them hanging out together. The biggest suprise is that through further digging another newspaper segment can be found that is a Obituary for the author (Ikr Confusing) This either means that the map was made by a "Ghost" Or (The more Likely Option in my opinion.) That the Map was uploaded by a unknown third friend or party. 2. There are two Secrets (That I have found, and remember) That are on the map. I. If you noclip out of the map in any area it leads to the backrooms, Which is A extremly hard maze that took me nearly a hour to beat. Upon beating this maze you will spawn back into the map. II. If you die in the map and Wait on the death screen you will spawn into a hospital bed in a hospital. You can get up from this bed and explore the hospital, through further exploration of the hospital you can get close enoughto another paitents room and hear the sound of a person flatlining. You can enter the room and see the sillouete of a man on the bed (Idk if this has anything to do with the story) (CONCLUSION) Generally, This Map is a great play and can take a suprisingly long time to complete. it has a pretty complex story that took the collective efforts of many people to piece together. Sorry for any Typos, and Contradictions as I Wrote this at 4:05AM. Thank you for listening to my Ted Talk.
I still wonder if there are things about this map that no one has discovered yet. It's such a complex thing to complete even the things that we know about it really makes me wonder what we haven't found. There has to be something, lurking in the depths of the wad, that no one has found or stumbled upon yet.
Very well written out, althought i do have to add that the S+A isnt about the Author and the Deceased Friend: Basically, theres two different stories with this game. There's the Game Story, and the real story. The game story is about the Author and the Deceased Friend, and dealing with that loss. The real story, however, comes out if you dig a little deeper. Its much less sinister and dark, but it's still very emotionally difficult to go through. The real story is about divorce, and that's where the S+A come from. Steve and Amy. In fact, Amy has a tiktok account that shows that the basic house from the .WAD is a real house, in Michigan IIRC.
I've read House of Leaves. It's a story about madness and delirium, but, yours as well as the character's. At its heart is a house with openings into infinite architectural structures - cold, grey, and dark. The author fears there is something menacing hiding inside, like the minotaur to the labyrinth. But, this story is being told by a blind man, who is recounting a video that does not exist, and you are learning this through the notes of the person who found the writings of the blind man after his death. Except, now that he's taken the pages detailing this fictional video, there's something after him. Just like the minotaur, in the labyrinth. Great read.
Jack getting the dark hall on the first door open just... Astonishes me. What a way to get lost in a completely secret and unimportant but _very_ creepy maze.
I’m more surprised he actually found that maze. Not a lot of let’s players actually find that maze. In honesty, that entire section is just horrifying and unnerving with the dead ambience and looming noises beyond the walls.
In the book the maze, or labyrinth and minotaur are the most important themes. The books main premises is to explain a house that is bigger on the inside than the outside
@@peterallen6456 I need to read that book sometime, but what puts me off was someone describing it as a read you need to actively take weekly breaks from chapter to chapter. And I don’t mean putting me off out of annoyance or boredom, but out of fear.
@@heeheelio1591 Or so they claim. In truth, we have NO idea how much of what they posted is true or just backstory for the mod. It could very well be true. The account used had last posted 16 years ago.
51:35 While I respect the caution, Jack/Robin, the song that was actually playing there is a song with basically no copyright. The internet has been searching for the creators for a while now, but those searches haven’t bore any fruit.
When I first heard and looked at the mod, I thought it would be about someone’s abuse story put into doom What did I get? Liminal spaces and people overreacting about how TERRIFYING!!! and LIFE CHANGING!! it is
As someone who loved playing this wad, I completely envy you. I want to experience it for the first time again. It was so crazy, surreal, and just generally incredible. Nobody's gonna see this, but if you do, please play this wad for yourself. There is so much content in this short little tribute of a wad. And as a tip for Jack, even though it doesn't look like it, bullets still go in the center of the screen.
@@kijetein the google doc where you would normally download the game it tells the story of its creation and what the maps are based on building a sort of arg around the game
House of Leaves is essentially just a book about trauma and emotions. It’s about a guy who finds entries by an old man who passed away. The entries are about an anomalous house. The idea behind the pages being super weird is that you, the reader, read and get emotions how the author wants you to, often matching how the characters in the book feel. If he wants you to read fast, he puts one word on the page. If he wants you frustrated, he puts something nearly unintelligible. Mainly, though, the old man started his journal to document a nice family life in the house he thought was normal, but was surprised by the anomalous house just as you’re surprised by the weirdly written pages.
“House of Leaves” has a ton of layers. At its core it’s about a couple who measure their house and realize it’s somehow bigger on the inside than the outside. The story is a description of a documentary about it watched by a Blind Man. The person reading his descriptions and taking notes and leaving footnotes, slowly starts getting wrapped up in the increasingly weird and disturbing story. I was creeped out from page one.
TBH going in without ever having read House of Leaves puts you in the perfect position to experience the story just as the characters do. Also I love the juxtaposition of not bothering to read the book because it's too esoteric (valid), yet casually dropping "ergodic text" into the conversation.
To anyone who's interested in reading House of Leaves after this (and to people who have read it but maybe didn't know this!), there is actually a companion album by Danielewski's sister! Her stage name is Poe, the album is called Haunted, and it's one of the most moving pieces of art I've ever experienced. She's actually the one who fished the manuscript for HoL out of the trash and pieced it back together when her brother lost faith in the project.
Her work was pretty good. I'm a fan of that 90's trip hop sound though. I was really blown away by the discovery of his sister and further doing an album based on the book. It's such a weird novel and I love the notion that there's a community around such a book creating different types of media inspired by it.
i discovered Poe after first reading the book years ago. i went looking for info on the author and almost immediately found his sister and that album. so good.
40:33 holy shit, when the community on Doom World was going through this and trying to figure it out, by far the biggest struggle was finding this pool. At this point, the community had found 13/16 artifacts (missing d20, ring, and joystick), but they were unable to find the pool for a good while, thinking the last 3 artifacts were in the dark closet maze. The moment I saw Jack double back after entering the maze, I just thought “shit, he’s gonna find the pool instantly, isn’t he.”
I think people tend to overexaggerate how hard House of Leaves is to read. It's definitely more challenging than the passive reading style you'll find in most literature, but it's not some cryptogram you have to spend hours and hours on to figure out (unless you want to! There are portions like that)
This is horror. It's existensial, unknown, painful, and surreal. But something makes me feel comfortable watching this video, I don't normally handle those kinds of horror well. Something really makes me come back to this video, Could it be it's uniqueness, its quality, or that feeling where every room and place in this .wad is comforting, and they're forever frozen there, in time.
So grab your super shotgun from under halls, pick up your bfg hidden in the bloody bathroom, take a big gulp from your slurpee machine and get *set* for a combat drop
Jack, you have to read the files in the google doc. There are images, journal entry, and bunch of lore that makes this whole level a whole lot crazier.
@@erasablefawn03that's such a shame as well imagine having playthrough Jack stumbling around not knowing what's happening with post jack quoting the journal giving the lore
I've tried to read it 3 times and haven't managed it yet, not because it isn't good, but because it requires so much of your attention that if I don't read it for 3 or 4 days I lose the thread of the story. I'm planning to try again this summer though, and what I have read is amazing
I just started reading today at 1am. Is is complicated and does require major focus to not get lost in it but im loving it so far and even leaving my own notes on the pages to come back to them later or for someone else to read
1:01:58 you can drink from the slurpy machine and it gives you 200% health, there’s also a thing in the bathroom part of the airport where you can get a BFG.
Yes, but the latter is a tricky thing to accomplish. You need to carefully move around the bathroom in such a way that the blood gets all over the place EXCEPT for the entrance to the bathroom. The slurpy machine works several times depending on difficulty level.
Navidson is the name of the family that owns THE house in house of leaves. The first long dark hallway you find is a reference to "The 5 1/2 minute hallway" In which Will Navidson records himself walking through a hallway that randomly appeared in his family's house that is far too big to actually fit in the house. The red minotaurs are also a reference. They are used as an allegory in the book, as the house represents a labyrinth. IN the book, the word "minotaur" is always in red font.
My favorite part of every My House playthrough is the first 10 minutes or so when everyone goes "hey wait were those windows there? Where'd the blue orb go? Why are the enemies back? Skulls?" Edit: holy shit Sean found the maze on accident. He's the first one I've seen stumble on it.
House of Leaves seems like something my high school english teacher would make us read, only give us a week to read it, and expect us to fully understand it right away
[READ AFTER FINISHING THE VIDEO] Included with the download for the mod is a journal by the creator. In it, he describes his dreams, which mirror parts of the mod (the housefire, the mirror, the daycare, the plane, and the beach.) He talks about how the longer he works on the map the more it feels like a compulsion, like the map itself is guiding his hand. It's worth noting that in the last dream, on the fake beach, he says that he stayed there for an eternity, losing his mind in the nothingness of infinitude. He posited that somewhere on the other side of the mirror, he was on the real beach, with the consolation that existence is finite, there is no afterlife, and happiness comes from the little day-to-day things you can control. "Happiness has to be fought for." Also included with the map is an obituary of the creator's friend, Tom. There's a secret ending where if you do all the prerequisites for the beach ending and then trigger the housefire, you can find a gravestone with a QR code. If you scan it, it leads to the creator's own obituary, next to Tom's. It states that both he and Tom fell in love with their high-school crushes (who are not named in the 'survived by' sections) and will be having a joint service. Make of this what you will.
Wait, is the creator dead? edit: I now know that it is fictional. Idk, I thought that maybe it was a real kind of memorial to the creator's friend. Some games have done stuff like that. Thanks for the people who clarified. 👍
House of Leaves is one of the best books I've ever read. It's a book about a man who finds the manuscript of a book, written by a blind man, analyzing a documentary that doesn't exist, exploring the family living in a seemingly ordinary house. The house is larger on the inside, but not in the fun Dr Who way. There are multiple plot lines, the footnotes trail off into incomprehensible tangents, and as the characters dive deeper into their own faults and fears, the house at the center of the narrative gets larger and more deadly. I've read it four times, and each time it's been different. If you tried to read it front to back like a conventional novel you'd probably never finish it. The joy of it is choosing a single storyline, like a thread in a labyrinth, and following it through the noise. Every time I read it I think I'm going to be done with it, and every time I see something that I missed the previous read. It looks like this Doom mod took that to heart, and built an experience that feels like it goes on forever. A very cool piece of art.
Oh I liked parts of it, but absolutely hated how it was written. It's the first book that I just put down and did not finish. I donated it to the library. I was disappointed as I was really intrigued by it.
It’s ironic because I just finished the book recently. It’s interesting to see how it’s interpreted in this mod too, like the grey hallways/maze that he enters looks exactly how I pictured it in the book lol.
Bought the House of Leaves book because of this video, and i thought I'd periodically update with fun facts about it. 1. The word "house" is blue whenever it appears 2. Roughly half the book is pages with less than ten words 3. There's a page with braille, but because there's no lines to show how far up the dots are, it's near impossible to decipher 4. A few copies of the book include pages that didn't make it into the rest 5. The letter P is oddly important for whatever reason
I mean it seems cruel from the start, but that dog is inherently connected to that massive dog like beast that one shots you and is extremely annoying.
I'm not sure if he realized this, but every single space that Jack visits in this doom mod is just the house again but furnished differently. The airport is the house again. The convenience store is the house again. The daycare is the house again. The backrooms area is the house again, except sometimes resized differently. Everything is the fucking house.
The MUSIC later in the house is so so soothing. I'm watching this while doing tedious overtime at my factory job and god, I've never been so RELAXED in my entire life from a vid game. Sean's voice helps add to it. Awesome game and experience. ❤
I think something Jack didn’t realize that immediately distinguishes this from other Doom maps is that the house has… levels. It has floors on top of other floors, which should be impossible in the Doom game engine. Pair that with the absolutely massive file size of this map, and that already raises some eyebrows.
@kingofravens2156 in case you didn't know. Their is no buddy, and it's just part of the story. When you download the mod, you also get a journal file that details the "mod creator" suffering while making the mod. The journal is what gives you hints on what to do.
@@archer9356 Yup, I caught that part pretty early. I was wondering to myself, “Why would this guy create such an elaborate and technically complex map for what was apparently just a tribute to his late friend?” But alas, I brushed that aside because I legitimately thought this was actually dedicated to his friend who might’ve liked creating complex maps like this.
@@william_hI've gotten a bit obsessed with this, watching a bunch of different play throughs to see reactions to it, and no one, in their whole playthrough ever finds it. It's one of the things that the community has found through luck and brute force opening up the map to see how it works. Lore wise, it's probably one of the biggest references to house of leaves, an impossibly long hallway that turns into passage upon passage, becoming a nigh inescapable labyrinth.
As someone who has both played DOOM and read House Of Leaves... I am very happy right now. I loved growing up with DOOM; hearing the sounds, seeing the doors open, finding the keucards... So nostalgic
And then here comes My House.wad to flip everything on it's head and twist it until it's almost unrecognizable, so much small stuff changes to the point of just being straight up uncanny and i love it such as the guns getting more animation frames and being smoother than they should be
An interesting fact about this wad is that Doom’s level generation doesn’t actually do separate floors. There are many efforts to create the *appearance* of it, usually through winding corridors and stairs, but never actually rooms directly on top of one another. The technical prowess required to create this illusion of multiple floors is rather impressive.
@@kraigclubb550 This is incorrect. Doom calculates z height. Flying enemies like Cacodemons and Lost Souls would not work otherwise, neither would the vertical lock-on of projectiles. Wolfenstein 3D was 2D, however.
@@Zikar I never said it didn't use a Z axis. It has to. MECHANICALLY it's a top down shooter. Though I don't know why I said "My House" was the same... which is not correct. I guess you reminded me that GZDoom was a thing. It's been 20 years since I've done anything with Doom II (aside from playing the Brutal mod)
Jack really stacked the deck against himself in the gas station fight through sheer bad luck - no going through Underhalls to get the Super Shotgun, no getting the secret BFG 9000 in the airport bathroom, no figuring out that the slushie machine in the gas station can give you 200% health a few times... finding any one of those things could have totally turned the tides.
The line 'Top of the mornin' laddies' is very often used, however the line 'I have no idea what I'm doing' is also very frequent. So I might be done in 20 minutes, but that seems farfetched.
Rockets and plasma are definitely enough for that fight. If you're a dedicated Doomer, which he sadly is not. No SSG or BFG really hurts with crowds that heavy though.
In fairness, getting the BFG is insanely hard. How are you supposed to know that you need to go into the airport bathroom and go around so that blood is everywhere, but make sure none of the blood is near the exit? The only clue is the response to entering one of the cheat codes and it's extremely vague.
In the endless staircase at 43:20 you were supposed to keep going up and eventually the Exit door will open, go inside, go up a few more times and when you pass the door again you will be transferred to a red room with a door, when you go inside it you will be transferred back where you've fallen This happened to me also in the Back Rooms when I fall again from a height
As someone who's read the book, Jack's gradually increasing levels of nervousness and bafflement at the beginning please me, while 11:39 was a very enjoyable moment of recognition.
When I first read (ok, the only time I read) House of Leaves, my initial thought was "I am losing my damn mind [reading] this." Right there with you, sir. Glad(?) I got brought back into this nightmare story. I'd recommend people who are either insomniacs already or love diving deep into lore to read it. Just don't expected The Hero's Journey or even a jump-scare read. It is delving into a good representation of the Cthulu series sanity drain. On multiple levels as there are at least three "authors" writing the book.
I spent 3 and a half hours of my life just playing this map, finding all the hidden nooks and crannies, not even counting reading all the lore and reading and watching hours of theories and analysis, so glad you played it Jack!
For anybody hungry for more after watching this, I highly, HIGHLY recommend watching Power Pak's video where he does a deep dive into every single little intricacy that exists in what might be the best mod ever made for a game, as well as all the files attached to it that Sean didn't cover (and there are a LOT of important ones). It's called "MyHouse.WAD - Inside Doom's Most Terrifying Mod". Pyrocynical is also soon uploading his deep dive video on the mod, tho I can't speak for that yet.
It's wild, I was just recommended that video a few days ago. Never been interested in anything Doom related. I watched it and I was instantly hooked though. Crazy that a few days later Jack is playing it too. Did RUclips know?
@@Seven_Swell this mod is what has gotten me into classic doom mods. My roommate knew I was super into house of leaves so he pushed really hard for me to play this mod even tho I'm not super into classic doom, and I immediately fell in love with it and it spiraled outward into me trying out a ton of the absolutely insane mods that exist for this game like Blade of Agony which is a full sequel to wolfenstein 3D but plays significantly more like the new order than it does like wolfenstein 3D or even doom, or Divine Frequency which is a full survival horror experience inspired by system shock and bloodborne, or ashes which is fallout on the doom engine
_Jack enters the service station with 1% health_ "Use the slurpee machine, use the slurpee machine, use the slurpee machine" _Jack asks out loud if there's any health_ "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, YOU PRESSED E ON EVERYTHING ELSE IN THERE EXCEPT THE SLURPEE MACHINE"
I would absolutely recommend reading House of Leaves. The events of the WAD aren't based on it directly (for the most part, barring a certain maze you spent some time with), but the tone and the idea of impossible liminal spaces unfolding out of what should be a safe place, and the twisting nature of the narrative are very much in line.
Another thing that's unsettling is the fact that there is a downstairs to the house. The way Doom maps are made is by taking a 2D map and scaling it up, making the basement and attic literally impossible to make in Doom. Eerie
Gzdoom allows for silent teleporting like the build engine, which also can't stack rooms. But this mod is all one map. Like 64 versions of the house all on one 2D plane connected by line events o_O
The first basement is a teleport, it’s a little janky, the door is funky because before the teleport it’s just a wall, but I think that’s on purpose because every other teleport is flawless-also a lot of them are portals instead of teleporters, which means you can see through them just fine. It’s how there’s all the non-euclidean stuff. Also the orb you can see from inside the house that disappears outside? A teleport in the sideyards on the way, when you turn around and there’s all the windows and monsters and stuff it’s actually just a different part of the map, like the basement from the first house. Jack didn’t see everything, either…
@@elmapachevevo You're supposed to run straight to the end in the ending, not killing anything doesn't stop you from going to the ending and no sane map creator would exoect you to kill all of that.
@@cowabungaitis9319 finished watching only a while ago and realized jack did it without killing them all, but according to the diary you at least have to put up a fight to get there
I had absolutely no idea what this game was or what house of leaves was, so I was absolutely astonished. Making an old game and old graphics like this do all of these different amazing-looking things is absolutely crazy. This is a phenomenal game
18:55 First person to ever shoot the dog, wow, I can't believe Sean would hate dogs so much that he would willingly shoot one. For a frame you could see it, the rage in his eyes, his mouth beginning to foam, his skin turning red with anger. And I can't believe he started fortnight dancing on the corpse afterwards
I loved playing the wad first and then watching this video after, noticing all the differences I didn't notice on my original playthrough. Great video!
this is one of my favorite games sean has played on his channel so far (along with love,sam & many others). this game is insanely intriguing, mind-boggling, unpredictable, etc. i was genuinely enthralled throughout the entire video to the point that i researched house of leaves and ordered the book on amazon.... keep up the good work and thank you for exposing me to this amazing story/game
I started reading House of Leaves because my boyfriend bought it for me as a gift. I’d never heard of it and went into it 100% blind. I’m just about 50 pages away from finishing it and I can confidently say it’s my second favorite book of all time. I can definitely see the inspiration on this, although not entirely the same. House of Leaves is a story within a story, which tells the tale of the Navidson family, who move into a house that is bigger on the inside than on the outside. You should definitely give it a go! I have ADHD and it was hard to wrap my head around it at the beginning, but it gets easier the more you read!
the fact that every single map is just a retextured version of the house is awesome, like the backrooms part is the house, the airport is the house, everything is the house
*House* of Leaves, man... Sometimes, when I'm all alone, I still feel like I'm inside that -labyrinth facing down the Minotaur- and that familiar tingle sets into my spine, I just can't help but look behind me, knowing I'll find nothing, but knowing it will be there, all the same. That said, I can tell you with certainty that this map was more of the 'inspired by' than 'based on', it was more the general vibe, the uneasiness, the -creeping dread as you walk through the labyrinth waiting for the Minotaur to find you,- the endless hallways, the non-Euclidean geometry. The only thing that was actually 'from' *House* of Leaves was the name Navidson on that real estate sign, Will Navidson was the one who documented the abnormalities of the *House* on Ash Tree Lane.
Yes, I've read *House* of Leaves. The black maze section is a faithful recreation of the labyrinth described in the book which also appears inexplicably in a *house* . The rest of this game is the creator's ideas and not related to anything in *House* of Leaves. Edit: Oh yeah "Navidson Realty" is also a reference to the book, Navidson is the last name of the guy who owned the *house* .
I really can’t find any good videos about *House* of Leaves, and I think it’s cause it’s kinda really hard to even talk about. Like… what do you focus on? Johnny? Zamponò’s obtuse and incredibly dense literature? Wills adventure through the *House* None of these even address the sheer act of trying to navigate through the book, and I’m not talking about when the text goes wacky and starts printing in weird spots on the page. I’m talking about navigating through the footnotes, through the added appendixes, through POEs sister album (which is a real thing and actually ties into the book!). I’ve yet to see anybody actually address what *House* of Leaves is actually about, what THE *HOUSE* itself actually is. The book itself is the *house* - the maze that Will finds himself trapped in!
Okay so I said this in a different comment- my edition begins the book from a perspective of a group that gathered the writings to create the book- is that part of the plot or the story or is it reality? its written so real I cant tell 😂
House of Leaves is a story told in the..... fifth person, I believe? A guy (Johnny Truant) finds a book in an old blind guy's (Zampano's) house detailing his (Zampano's) recollection of and thoughts on a "documentary" (that's not real) that he "saw" (he's blind, remember) about a *_third guy's_* (Will Navidson's) personal encounter with a lot of unexplainable things, called "The Navidson Record". The only problem is that, according to Truant, there *_IS_* no documentary called "The Navidson Record". It doesn't exist at all. Much less as the "cultural phenomenon" that Zampano claims it was. Supposedly, Navidson found out that the measurements of his house didn't match from the inside to the outside. The documentary... documents (duh) his explorations of that phenomenon, from those seemingly "human error" beginnings, to Navidson's house collapsing in on itself both metaphorically and literally. I'll *_leave_* (see what I did, there?) the rest of the account to you to find out if you choose to dig through this "ancient ruin on top of another ancient ruin that never existed" of a book, if you want. Then Navidson released the documentary about those events. Then Zampano dictated to his nurse the words written on the unfinished manuscript, then Truant found that manuscript. Truant reads through the SCP-ass document and starts having vivid hallucinations and going crazy. The story bounces back and forth between Navidson's firsthand account (well, retold by Zampano), Zampano's story (well, told by his nurse) and hinted at by his writing choices, and Truant's growing psychosis and personal life/drama. It's a story written by a guy (Danielewski, the author) about a guy (Truant) finding a story written by a guy (Zampano) about a guy (Navidson) who made a movie about some stuff that happened to him. That's pretty much the most concise summary possible. 😅
It's awesome to see Sean playing this. If anyone wants to know absolutely everything about this watch Power Pak's review, it's incredible if you have 2 hours to spend. I'm not even a doom fan, never played it or this mod but watching it has been the best video game experience I've had this year!
As a Doom nerd who plays all the wads, I'm so happy to see a wad be so popular. Millions of views on youtube, attention from the biggest content creators and so on. It truly deserves it. The Classic Doom community is truly amazing
exactly! i just got in a year or two ago! easy to find and combine mods for ultimate fun of all kind! can be as simple or modern as you like! this game still keeps on giving. Hopefully some would learn what GZDoom is, then wonder how they have seen this game many times but never played it, and then get into the community lol
I watched a video about this wad, it's insane how the creator just ignored what can be done in doom or even in real life and made this reality defying map.
Same! I got into the scene last year and there’s so much to offer for all sorts of people I’m hoping one of these days a big RUclips winds up stumbling across Reelism 2. But beyond a genuinely fun arcade horde shooter, yeah.. there’s so much to see in the world of DOOM wads
this perfectly portrays what its like to lose someone close to you. i cant even begin to describe how much those little details encapsulate the feelings, thoughts, and chapters in life from then on after. the subtle oddities leading up to jack turning off the breaker and how they got progressively more jarring is so perfect. the symbolism of the once familiar and easily understood house becoming haunted and runned down; full of things that are hurtful and painful to think about. the "ruined memories" really sent shivers down my spine. that is exactly how it feels to have periods in your life that are completely gone and abandoned. you'll never get that back and the people you share it with are dead or estranged. its just a withering part of your life that only gets fuzzier.
Nearly a decade ago I went down a very dark place after a divorce and it was just me and the house and myself having to learn who I was, depressed with little contact to friends. The house was like waking up in a torture full of memories that had become completely alien to me. A complicit companion in reminding me to question if I'm the awful person, the conclusion was yes, a little bit. Though they gaslit me through a hell of a lot. The version of them in my mind, in my memories was a lie. Nothing for that period of my life made sense anymore. Things moved on and eventually I did too. I gained someone I care dearly about and then lost my mom. I learned how to burn memories to ash, and how to put grieving on hold to rebuild. I'm in love now, and we're only getting older. Sometimes life is moving from a temporary safeness to another, sometimes it's a shitstorm of awful that curbs whatever haunted one before with something much more daunting. I'm scared for the health of husband and myself. I can't possibly say that mirrors your experience, but at least it's a cozy fireside chat to share. On the bright side there's someone whose speedrun this map with a lawnmower mod 😂
I really liked this play through, it was so strange and on brand for you. Also a huge fan of the old doom games, so it was fun through and through haha
Aw. Sean thank you for ensuring that the creator's tribute note was included. That was really good of you. Best wishes to Veddge and my deepest condolences for their loss. :(
@@chriscofer6780 we aren't entirely sure if there's no truth to it tbf. It's entirely possible that the creator DID lose their friend (or, if the notes they've written are based on real life, their potential partner), and decided to make a tribute map inspired by other things like House of Leaves. It's very clear that there are some very very personal sorts of themes in the map itself, so I do wonder if it's at all based on real feelings of the creator, but the story was designed to bring it more to life. Like a sort of poetry, perhaps.
@@exist4046the house is actually a replica of the creators actual house in real life I’m pretty sure since his wife posted a tour of the actual house on TikTok and it’s almost an exact copy
One of things that blows my mind when it comes to this level, is that there’s multilevel areas, which the Doom engine doesn’t allow for some reason, so the fact that the creator of the mod managed to make upstairs and downstairs sections is incredible.
Doom doesn’t allow that because it uses 2D map data in a way that prevents overlapping areas. GZDoom lets you do some clever stuff to enable this, though
Yeah, the first house uses silent teleporters and the second house uses portals. The first house uses teleporters as that's a classic imperfect method, while the second uses portals as they're seamless and pretty much impossible to spot unless they're used in a non Euclidean way
@@badbeardbill9956 no that's not true, gzdoom allows you to look up and down and jump yes, but the way maps are built and laid out are still confined to the rules of classic Doom, so what the Dev did really is insane
So TECHNICALLY doom is not actually a 3D game, it's mechanically a top down shooter but with a first person perspective, which leads to some very interesting mechanics and limitations, like not needing to aim up or down to shoot things above or below you, or not being able to jump up ledges because there isn't actually any verticality, it's all an illusion, modders however have gotten very good at tricking the engine into doing things it's not meant to do because this game has existed for 30 years and is totally open source
24:50 as someone who knows about this map I'm just now piecing together that you can hear a bit of running from evil (the first track played) in that lofi ambient track played in the backrooms and airport in this map. Freaky
This video was the last push I needed 4 months ago to finally order this book. As of 5 minutes ago I finished the book, and am thrilled to finally watch this video
For anyone who hasn't read House of Leaves (keep in mind i haven't finished yet) while it does take more effort to read than your average book, it isn't impossible. It just takes a bit of effort, which I actually found helped keep my attention with certain parts. The book does have existential horror and animals death, along with gore. Keep this in mind if you think of reading it
As someone who's dabbled in making doom maps, this map is impressive from a technical standpoint as well, many people don't realize this playing the original game but doom maps are actually 2D, so you can't have overlapping areas where players can stand (which is also why you don't need to aim up or down, in-engine its all flat), true 3D maps didn't come around until the Duke3D engine so having a multi-floor house, let alone a complete mirrored alternate attached to it, is pretty cool.
Even Duke Nukem 3D uses trickery with it build engine. It uses what we often call portals in modern map making. Which is a technique used here but was not in original doom. This map actually showcases a lot of old school techniques. Like the sublevel of the house when you in the "First" house do not use portals, but hidden teleporters. To make it seem like there is a basement. That is why the door is a bit funky at that part. It is intentional. There are so many techniques and trickery in this single map (and that is just a single map in itself is impressive) that it all just sheer brilliant. One could have taken the easy way and just used modern tool provided and done everything a lot easier. But rather, it showcases old workarounds to achieve an effect you could not do in other ways in the past. And the best part its that it follows a narrative of the story itself is a very subtle way. I am pretty sure that all of us that know the Doom engine and what it is capable of are very impressed at what was done. This is a masterpiece on so many levels.
@@Cythil I've only worked with portal doors in Valve's Hammer, didn't know they were even a thing in this engine until I saw that first 'mirror reflection' and it dawned on me how this map was done, then as he found more and more areas and my brain started adding up the overall area I kept thinking "How is there MORE! isn't there a memory limit in the single-digit MB's for this engine?? wait.. custom textures too?? HOW!?". Yeah, so many levels indeed, I may have to track down a wad editor and give the map a lookover sometime and just awe at the marvel of it all.
House of Leaves is one of my favorite books (if not my favorite!) And it was very cool to see major story elements in game form, like the house collapsing in on itself. I love reading the book though. It felt like one of the reasons I got into ARGs, as its a lot of puzzle solving, decoding, and conspiracy theories. I will say it also has some of my favorite psychological thriller moments, some that have stuck with me my whole life (I read it at 16, Im 36 now). I highly recommend even just finding a synopses video if you dont want to read it.
So cool , as a doom fan seeing the weapon frames becoming better after leaving and going back in the house as it's clearly not a base game feature , very nice detail also that when re entering the house the music re starts
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For those who don't know the song that plays in the actual WAD at 51:23 is 'Like the Wind' and it's one of the biggest internet mysteries because to this day nobody knows who made it. It's super funny to me that Jack replaced it fearing the copyright. If he did get a copyright strike we would at least know who holds the rights to it.
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It's immediately what I thought, I was like who the fuck will copyright this video?
I just shazamed it its elfl- mega woman IV
Hadn't heard of the song until now, how crazy.
@@wassimhaimoudi no it's not
Shazam doesn't work
As someone who has read "House of Leaves," I can confirm it is indeed about fighting Shrek to the death with a shotgun.
You spelled house wrong.
Honestly, Johnny probably would have made Navidson shrek just to fuck with the reader tbh.
@@Fenizrael bro what
how hard is it to read? people keep saying its heavy reading but I read a lot of high fantasy (J. abercrombie, B. sanderson, T. pratchett, R. jordan) and feel books like song of ice & fire are more mid (martin is defo worse than many other epic authors).
42:38 Glad to see Jack accepting the reality of his channel 😂
For those wondering, "House of Leaves," the story this mod is based off of, is a book in which multiple accounts of people talk about a documentary of a family with an endless labyrinth in their house. All of the accounts vary and since there's no clean shift between speakers, transitions between points of view gets convoluted at times. Similarly to the house's changing perspective in the game.
It's brilliant and I love how it can be written from Johnny's, Zampano's, or Pelafina's perspective and it all still makes sense.
As someone who hasn't read the book it reminded me of Cloud Atlas
He needs to pin this I would not understand this if I didn’t read this
Is it as difficult as Gravity's Rainbow?
or is it a different type of difficult?
@@jeremylindemann5117 very different, House of Leaves is actually quite an easy read if you have a physical copy, it mostly plays with form rather than language, though there is some of that too. It's been accurately described as a horror romance, and I fully agree, one of my favorite books of all time
The bloody bathroom was such a good transition
It has literally 16 iterations of just that room
And if you do it juuuust right and make sure none of the blood gets on the entrance to the rest room, you'll find a BFG 9000 there.
I see what you did there
@@Bluesit32 To think, most of that iterative detail is to make the BFG secret *work* ;)
I also like how when you pick up the pill bottle the first time it says "Refill needed" and then when you pick it up the second time on your way out it says "Feelin' fine," and if you turn around to look at the bathroom it's normal again. Like you had a breakdown or something in the bathroom as your meds wore off, and then when you took them again, it was like it never even happened.
as someone who has never read house of leaves nor played any doom, this whole video feels like a fever dream
play doom
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As someone who grew up with doom 2 and currently in the middle of house of leaves, this still feels like a fever dream. It's just that insane, like insanely good!
same
@@hudaalnounou1126 just watching jack play feels like such an amazing experience and you played it too. this must've been a fun video for you as well
The irony of Jack saying "why am I so short" in the mod where your height is slightly increased compared to regular DOOM 2 is incredible
doom guy short king confirmed????
the map randomly changes your height throughout to mess with you, alongside with playing a discord notification like 10 minutes in
That was exactly my thought too lmao. I was like "dude doom guy is like barely 5 foot you are taller in this than normal"
@@willsmith7088 the discord sound effect is actually totally random it's like a 1 in 1000 chance
@@HallowIsSmol oh yeah big time. Doomguy is litterally a muscle gremlin
25:36 as a woman myself i can honestly say this is what happens in the womens bathroom all the time, its why we always bring our friends into the restroom with us
Refill needed.
As a fellow woman, I 100% can confirm this comment to be truth
Periods be tough sometimes😔
So it's not just boys that summon demons in the bathroom
male friend of mine had to use the ladies room because the men's was out of order and I forgot to warn him before he found out. All I heard was "hey, what's this box on the wall fooOOOOH MY GOD!"
the flashback to other dogs Sean has killed was top tier lol
I was laughing so hard. It's a good thing he has a cat IRL
Thought he would bring up Pompidou from Life is Strange lol.
@@zainabbashar2385SAMEE
5:25 Nice reaction time, Jack! Sure hope those gamer reflexes won't cause a traumatizing event approximately 13.5 minutes later
lmao
"NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"
I'm deeead much like nothing in particular
NOOOOOO
Lol
the fact that jack got the mystery hall way so easily is EXTEREMLY RARE
I got that lucky myself...or unlucky since I immediately got lost in there. Then I tried to noclip my way out. That was a bad idea.
That hallway is actually the main element directly from the Book, House of Leaves. Also, Navidson reality is another reference to the book. Beyond that, it mainly that the tone of this Mod is really drawing inspiration from the Novel more than anything else, especially if you read all the files and clips that come with it in the folder. Also, I tried to read the book. I really really tried. But around page 120 when Johnny Truant interrupts the main narrative once again to ramble on about his sexual escapades, I threw in the towel.
@@v2micca The 3 main endings can be said to be related to the 3 narrative endings in House of Leaves.
@@Bluesit32 did you accidentally trigger all events at once doing that?
@@Tactical_wulf5.56 No. I was sent to the Backrooms.
If you didn’t know at 11:39, this place has a 9% chance of appearing when opening this door. It’s a place with LITTERALY nothing. It’s a reference to an infinite tunnel in the house of leaves. It’s funny because this place has random sound without actually having no threat. But you can get stuck there
Jack is a true Irish
I laughed out loud at how he stumbled into that on basically the first go
Is this separate to the pitch black maze needed for another ending?
@@vintagememelord8168 yes, though i'm not sure what "pitch black maze" you are referring to
Wanna know what's wild? Every single environment is the house.
House, house.
Crazy concrete place?, house.
Pool? House.
Airport? House.
Daycare? It’s the house.
Even the motherfuckin gas station?
All house.
Not all. Most, but not all. The forest isn't the house. The plane isn't the house. Infinity staircase isn't part of the house. But yes, everything else is exactly the house. Even the picture file that comes with the game that shows a blue key card is the house.
It’s surprising, how many people don’t see it
But once you realise you can never not recognise all the *House*
@@Bluesit32I wouldn't be surprised if the forest was laid out like the house from above, like the keycard
i dont get it
I love the subtle effect of the doors suddenly opening realistically, it's the type of thing only a huge doom fan would notice but it really makes it start to feel uncanny.
Also the animations for firing and so on are also smoother
@@dawshonaragma8263 yeah, I also read that apparently the view is slightly higher than in vanilla doom. lots of really neat little details in this.
i'm surprised jack didn't comment on it, because by that point, you've already used the normal doors long enough to get accustomed to them
pretty sure the smoother firing animations is from a mod called "smooth weapons."
@@BigHailFan it is. Its worth noting that it only activates it as things are changing, though. It's one of the changes made alongside the doors and so on.
My favorite part about this mod is that rather than your typical jumpscare horror experience, this one slowly gaslights you until you don’t know what senses you trust.
It’s called psychological horror
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My guy just gave the appropriate term for it. Whatchu on about
@@sq4472 It’s a trend that’s used to depict “know-it-alls” by using the nerd emoji -> 🤓
And to be honest they can fnck off.
@@bootnoot8696youtube comment section when someone gives a definitive answer to a genuine question
(INTRO) As A brief Explanation of what this is about: Attached to the WAD file, (Which in reality is a normal version of the house. Interestingly the one with all the strange events is on a seperate file attachment) Is a google doc of the authors thoughts as they update the map and prepare it for publishing this is meant to be the springboard of where you find all the "Levels" ingame. This Doc also relates to "House of Leaves." By highlighting the word "Home" blue everytime it shows up which the book also does. In this google doc the author states that he has dreams, Many of which are extremely similar to the "Levels" in the Game (The Pools, DayCare, Beach Etc.) Throughout the document it is seen that the author is becoming mentally unwell, Not knowing if parts of the map are in the original, or if he added them. A common theme throughout the doc is that the author had a hard upbringing and states that "Happiness has to be fought for." and that his friend was one of the only things that gave him happiness in life.
(BURNED HOUSE, FOR SALE SIGN) The Burned house and the empty lot have nothing to do with the main story aside from being another one of the dreams the Author had and that the name of the Realty company is the name of the family in "House of Leaves". When exiting the level through the driveway on the empty lot it leads back into normal DOOM2 (Eventually after 2 normal DOOM levels it somehow loops back to the house even though it states its a single level, The level itself remains the same as before)
(THE DOG AND CERBERUS) The dog and cerberus are life linked and if one dies the other goes with it. The author says in the Doc that he had a bad connection with dogs and he owned a cat for the majority of his childhood. a nod to the author owning a cat is a cat litter box in the breaker room which you interact with before the house burns down. Interestingly when the Cerberus is spawned in the map is larger or the character is smaller. (Idk which one) This may imply that this is how the author viewed dogs as a child.
(THE GAS STATION AND FLIPPED REALITY) As far as I know these have no real connection to the Author besides the author having a dream where his reflection winked at him. Aswell as him having a dream where his car crashed in the woods and he stumbled into a empty shell gas station. A general theme for the entire map is that all locations are places in the authors dreams.
(THE FAKE BEACH)The White Beach is simply another dream the author had where he wandered into the void for what felt like a eternity. The tree to Access the beach has the Initials S+A written on it. These are the initals of the auther (S) and the recently decessed friend (A) This is just another sign about how close there friendship was.
(THE REAL BEACH) The Real Beach is Extremly hard to get, As the player has to fight through Hundreds of enemy's Throughout all levels to reach it. This links with the authors statement about "Happiness has to be fought for." (from this point onwards it gets pretty philosophical and even hard for me to understand) The Beach Most likely represents the author coming to terms with the passing of his friend (Although there is a major Controdiction in this statement I will bring up later).
(SECRETS AND CONTRADICTION) 1.After digging through the file that the map comes in one can find a newspaper article on the friends death and pictures of them hanging out together. The biggest suprise is that through further digging another newspaper segment can be found that is a Obituary for the author (Ikr Confusing) This either means that the map was made by a "Ghost" Or (The more Likely Option in my opinion.) That the Map was uploaded by a unknown third friend or party.
2. There are two Secrets (That I have found, and remember) That are on the map. I. If you noclip out of the map in any area it leads to the backrooms, Which is A extremly hard maze that took me nearly a hour to beat. Upon beating this maze you will spawn back into the map. II. If you die in the map and Wait on the death screen you will spawn into a hospital bed in a hospital. You can get up from this bed and explore the hospital, through further exploration of the hospital you can get close enoughto another paitents room and hear the sound of a person flatlining. You can enter the room and see the sillouete of a man on the bed (Idk if this has anything to do with the story)
(CONCLUSION) Generally, This Map is a great play and can take a suprisingly long time to complete. it has a pretty complex story that took the collective efforts of many people to piece together. Sorry for any Typos, and Contradictions as I Wrote this at 4:05AM. Thank you for listening to my Ted Talk.
man this game is so cool. i thoroughly enjoyed reading that thank you for your service 🙏
I still wonder if there are things about this map that no one has discovered yet. It's such a complex thing to complete even the things that we know about it really makes me wonder what we haven't found. There has to be something, lurking in the depths of the wad, that no one has found or stumbled upon yet.
Very well written out, althought i do have to add that the S+A isnt about the Author and the Deceased Friend:
Basically, theres two different stories with this game. There's the Game Story, and the real story.
The game story is about the Author and the Deceased Friend, and dealing with that loss.
The real story, however, comes out if you dig a little deeper. Its much less sinister and dark, but it's still very emotionally difficult to go through. The real story is about divorce, and that's where the S+A come from. Steve and Amy. In fact, Amy has a tiktok account that shows that the basic house from the .WAD is a real house, in Michigan IIRC.
Yeah, I thought it was something along those lines. Thanks for the correction@@audreynogales
If I'm not mistaken, the man flatlining could be the author's dad, since he mentioned losing him in the journal entries
I love how at 40:20 Jack skipped the entire maze by accident
When I played this, I think I skipped the maze by accident too
I've read House of Leaves. It's a story about madness and delirium, but, yours as well as the character's. At its heart is a house with openings into infinite architectural structures - cold, grey, and dark. The author fears there is something menacing hiding inside, like the minotaur to the labyrinth. But, this story is being told by a blind man, who is recounting a video that does not exist, and you are learning this through the notes of the person who found the writings of the blind man after his death. Except, now that he's taken the pages detailing this fictional video, there's something after him. Just like the minotaur, in the labyrinth.
Great read.
wish google told Me that lol
And Johnny is a downright bastard of a narrator too, which doesn't help.
In short, it's a story about a house written by a blind dude, then edited by another dude. With insanity sprinkled in liberally.
The book is a fantastic read indeed.
YES I loved this book! It was definitely a hard read but entirely worth it
Jack getting the dark hall on the first door open just... Astonishes me. What a way to get lost in a completely secret and unimportant but _very_ creepy maze.
I was thinking the same thing
God I'm so glad I finally saw someone get this.
I’m more surprised he actually found that maze. Not a lot of let’s players actually find that maze. In honesty, that entire section is just horrifying and unnerving with the dead ambience and looming noises beyond the walls.
In the book the maze, or labyrinth and minotaur are the most important themes. The books main premises is to explain a house that is bigger on the inside than the outside
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I need to read that book sometime, but what puts me off was someone describing it as a read you need to actively take weekly breaks from chapter to chapter.
And I don’t mean putting me off out of annoyance or boredom, but out of fear.
sean voicing the thing at 12:45 made me feel like he actually lost a friend instead of it being a part of the story lol
The creator of the game did lose a childhood friend and this game is a tribute to said friend.
@@heeheelio1591 Or so they claim. In truth, we have NO idea how much of what they posted is true or just backstory for the mod. It could very well be true. The account used had last posted 16 years ago.
51:35 While I respect the caution, Jack/Robin, the song that was actually playing there is a song with basically no copyright. The internet has been searching for the creators for a while now, but those searches haven’t bore any fruit.
The fact that a DOOM WAD got so popular that jack covered it is insane
This is several times bigger than the wads for doom 1 and 2.
Hi Calamitas
I hope the same happens for games like pizza tower
@Terrence Tuesday apparently RUclips thinks your speaking in another language
Fr seen this map when it came out and it blew my mind
Crazy how he found this many secrets and spent so long playing, yet never found the hospital. Just goes to show just how crazy deep this mod is.
And he never found the secret BFG, the super shotgun, or the plug for the TV either
@@skraegorn7317 That or the guy hiding round the corner, I think you can see it in the background of the video at one point too
I'm surprised he found the Closet Hallway, it's so funny lol
@@commanderchlorella5268 Yeah, I thought for sure he wouldn't find it, but it happened so easily for him
When I first heard and looked at the mod, I thought it would be about someone’s abuse story put into doom
What did I get? Liminal spaces and people overreacting about how TERRIFYING!!! and LIFE CHANGING!! it is
As someone who loved playing this wad, I completely envy you. I want to experience it for the first time again. It was so crazy, surreal, and just generally incredible. Nobody's gonna see this, but if you do, please play this wad for yourself. There is so much content in this short little tribute of a wad.
And as a tip for Jack, even though it doesn't look like it, bullets still go in the center of the screen.
except that it isn't a tribute. it's part of the arg
@@thephonelad992 what arg
@@kijetein the google doc where you would normally download the game it tells the story of its creation and what the maps are based on building a sort of arg around the game
S ♡ A
they go in the center horizontally but autoaim vertically
House of Leaves is essentially just a book about trauma and emotions.
It’s about a guy who finds entries by an old man who passed away. The entries are about an anomalous house.
The idea behind the pages being super weird is that you, the reader, read and get emotions how the author wants you to, often matching how the characters in the book feel. If he wants you to read fast, he puts one word on the page. If he wants you frustrated, he puts something nearly unintelligible.
Mainly, though, the old man started his journal to document a nice family life in the house he thought was normal, but was surprised by the anomalous house just as you’re surprised by the weirdly written pages.
Correction, the entries are about a movie, and the movie is about a house.
You know when Jack gives a briefing before the start of the video it’s going to be good
@CeedayGamingYou’re alone pal.
@Joseph #Biden2024 Not me, but i respect jacks opinion I guess
Jack: “gamer reflexes baby! Haha!”
18:53 *Jack learns the true price of gamer reflexes*
Lmao ikr
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Poor pup 😅😢
he would have to kill bad dog. bad dog and good dog share a life, If good dog is killed bad dog dies if bad dog is killed.
@@BloxxoMan what in the actual fuck was your sentence my guy? 😂
"I'm here for a good time not a long time" - Jacksepticeye before spending an entire hour exploring this weird fever dream
I think he said it was more like three hours, just heavily edited.
Today I learned to never let my dog near Sean while he's armed in a liminal space.
Jack: "I don't have enough health for this!"
Also Jack: _Completely misses the quite literally infinite health supply from the sludge machine._
nobody can knows that instantly but after seeing other yeah it kinda triggering
Not really infinite, you can only use it a few times before it's "out of order."
It's not infinite and like, why would he have any idea that that would work?
I would have completely missed that as well. No chance of me noticing that without reading the comments or looking up a walkthrough.
@@firdanharbima6997 🧐
Note to Sean: The lower difficulties are actually harder in this level. Nightmare is the easiest difficulty.
How?
@@jop8907 trolling
stalker type game
@@robbesworkshop Doom is one of those games that punish you for playing on easier difficulties. I speak from experience
@@axinhedgelion8417 lol
“House of Leaves” has a ton of layers. At its core it’s about a couple who measure their house and realize it’s somehow bigger on the inside than the outside. The story is a description of a documentary about it watched by a Blind Man. The person reading his descriptions and taking notes and leaving footnotes, slowly starts getting wrapped up in the increasingly weird and disturbing story. I was creeped out from page one.
TBH going in without ever having read House of Leaves puts you in the perfect position to experience the story just as the characters do.
Also I love the juxtaposition of not bothering to read the book because it's too esoteric (valid), yet casually dropping "ergodic text" into the conversation.
To anyone who's interested in reading House of Leaves after this (and to people who have read it but maybe didn't know this!), there is actually a companion album by Danielewski's sister! Her stage name is Poe, the album is called Haunted, and it's one of the most moving pieces of art I've ever experienced. She's actually the one who fished the manuscript for HoL out of the trash and pieced it back together when her brother lost faith in the project.
I guess that bit where another author finished their work wasn't entirely fictional after all
Such a stellar album.
Her work was pretty good. I'm a fan of that 90's trip hop sound though. I was really blown away by the discovery of his sister and further doing an album based on the book. It's such a weird novel and I love the notion that there's a community around such a book creating different types of media inspired by it.
YOOOO i just picked up the book two days ago this is invaluable info thank u so mu hc
i discovered Poe after first reading the book years ago. i went looking for info on the author and almost immediately found his sister and that album. so good.
40:33 holy shit, when the community on Doom World was going through this and trying to figure it out, by far the biggest struggle was finding this pool. At this point, the community had found 13/16 artifacts (missing d20, ring, and joystick), but they were unable to find the pool for a good while, thinking the last 3 artifacts were in the dark closet maze. The moment I saw Jack double back after entering the maze, I just thought “shit, he’s gonna find the pool instantly, isn’t he.”
When he doubled back I started laughing. He INSTANTLY got it.
@@Kaitivere when did he double back? i don’t remember that happening
I'm sure he looked up guides
i got it instantly on my blind playthrough...
@@bdmeyers_art yes only at the end
Jack looking like a 90's antagonist in a terrible sitcom with his hair and earring haha love it
The last vid I saw from him was the flashgame Paper airplane. What happenedin between then and now? His ADHD energy, hairstyle; it's all changed!
I think people tend to overexaggerate how hard House of Leaves is to read. It's definitely more challenging than the passive reading style you'll find in most literature, but it's not some cryptogram you have to spend hours and hours on to figure out (unless you want to! There are portions like that)
i love how everything in this game is about symbolism, liminal spaces and questioning reality, then suddenly, S H R E K
because the true horror is dreamworks milking shrek and potentially ruining the quality of the franchise
@@sarafontanini7051 potentually?
They did that already long ago.
It makes a little more sense when you see what he's named in game: Childhood Nightmare.
this is the definition of horror... the slowly sinking feeling that something is incredibly wrong.
watch "Speak No Evil" (2023) - exactly that feeling in movie form and incredibly well executed
then you should definitely read House of Leaves it captures this so well
Dread
really simply put, but *so* damn accurate.
Which why House of Leaves is such a bop to read. It's amazing at making you fearful of everything.
This is horror. It's existensial, unknown, painful, and surreal.
But something makes me feel comfortable watching this video, I don't normally handle those kinds of horror well.
Something really makes me come back to this video, Could it be it's uniqueness, its quality, or that feeling where every room and place in this .wad is comforting, and they're forever frozen there, in time.
this is your brain on gen Z
@@marioplumber3378 what?
Happiness has to be fought for
So grab your super shotgun from under halls, pick up your bfg hidden in the bloody bathroom, take a big gulp from your slurpee machine
and get *set* for a combat drop
Happiness. needs. to be fought for.
Jack, you have to read the files in the google doc. There are images, journal entry, and bunch of lore that makes this whole level a whole lot crazier.
where can i find it?
@@ralphmate9509 The google doc where you get the map
He quotes the journal at 12:20, so I assume he's read it.
@@stevoisiak thats not the journal, just the original Doom World post
@@erasablefawn03that's such a shame as well imagine having playthrough Jack stumbling around not knowing what's happening with post jack quoting the journal giving the lore
House of Leaves is a BEHEMOTH of a book, it feels like a damn cosmic horror
I've tried to read it 3 times and haven't managed it yet, not because it isn't good, but because it requires so much of your attention that if I don't read it for 3 or 4 days I lose the thread of the story. I'm planning to try again this summer though, and what I have read is amazing
It's such a great book. absolutely loved it
I trust you because you have a Jetstream Sam profile picture.
I just started reading today at 1am. Is is complicated and does require major focus to not get lost in it but im loving it so far and even leaving my own notes on the pages to come back to them later or for someone else to read
I think I heard about that book in a video explaining the originals of the backrooms
1:01:58 you can drink from the slurpy machine and it gives you 200% health, there’s also a thing in the bathroom part of the airport where you can get a BFG.
big fucking gun?
@@spudothy yes
Yes, but the latter is a tricky thing to accomplish. You need to carefully move around the bathroom in such a way that the blood gets all over the place EXCEPT for the entrance to the bathroom. The slurpy machine works several times depending on difficulty level.
Navidson is the name of the family that owns THE house in house of leaves. The first long dark hallway you find is a reference to "The 5 1/2 minute hallway" In which Will Navidson records himself walking through a hallway that randomly appeared in his family's house that is far too big to actually fit in the house. The red minotaurs are also a reference. They are used as an allegory in the book, as the house represents a labyrinth. IN the book, the word "minotaur" is always in red font.
I think jack’s appreciation of this game is proof of how important it is to go into games blind
This can't be stressed enough!
oh god i remember the spoiled undertale playthroughs
My favorite part of every My House playthrough is the first 10 minutes or so when everyone goes "hey wait were those windows there? Where'd the blue orb go? Why are the enemies back? Skulls?"
Edit: holy shit Sean found the maze on accident. He's the first one I've seen stumble on it.
What is this game called and where can I get ir
@@LockIsLive google.
@@stealingyourbones0this game isn’t called Google, silly. That’s a search engine.
@@ImTyMac thought it was gzdoom at least
This is the only playthrough I've seen but I've read house of leaves and this is kind of a perfect representation of how it feels to read it
House of Leaves seems like something my high school english teacher would make us read, only give us a week to read it, and expect us to fully understand it right away
Legitimately jumped and yelped when Sean found the bloody bathroom and the creature jumped out, a legit jump scare as he said! My poor dogs 🤣🤣🤣
Why did 18:52 immediately come to my mind when you said that lmao
@@BCDeshiGSame tho 💀
[READ AFTER FINISHING THE VIDEO]
Included with the download for the mod is a journal by the creator. In it, he describes his dreams, which mirror parts of the mod (the housefire, the mirror, the daycare, the plane, and the beach.) He talks about how the longer he works on the map the more it feels like a compulsion, like the map itself is guiding his hand. It's worth noting that in the last dream, on the fake beach, he says that he stayed there for an eternity, losing his mind in the nothingness of infinitude. He posited that somewhere on the other side of the mirror, he was on the real beach, with the consolation that existence is finite, there is no afterlife, and happiness comes from the little day-to-day things you can control. "Happiness has to be fought for."
Also included with the map is an obituary of the creator's friend, Tom. There's a secret ending where if you do all the prerequisites for the beach ending and then trigger the housefire, you can find a gravestone with a QR code. If you scan it, it leads to the creator's own obituary, next to Tom's. It states that both he and Tom fell in love with their high-school crushes (who are not named in the 'survived by' sections) and will be having a joint service. Make of this what you will.
I love how everyone has just agreed “they gay”
@Richard Gibson it's not that everyone agreed, it's literally "they gay".
Wait, is the creator dead?
edit: I now know that it is fictional. Idk, I thought that maybe it was a real kind of memorial to the creator's friend. Some games have done stuff like that. Thanks for the people who clarified. 👍
@@bluelfsuma The creator is listed next to the friend in the obituary; on the same day.
@@JJexplorerofgames it doesn’t outright say it, so technically it’s something everyone agreed on. Like how we all agree gravity exists.
House of Leaves is one of the best books I've ever read. It's a book about a man who finds the manuscript of a book, written by a blind man, analyzing a documentary that doesn't exist, exploring the family living in a seemingly ordinary house. The house is larger on the inside, but not in the fun Dr Who way. There are multiple plot lines, the footnotes trail off into incomprehensible tangents, and as the characters dive deeper into their own faults and fears, the house at the center of the narrative gets larger and more deadly. I've read it four times, and each time it's been different. If you tried to read it front to back like a conventional novel you'd probably never finish it. The joy of it is choosing a single storyline, like a thread in a labyrinth, and following it through the noise. Every time I read it I think I'm going to be done with it, and every time I see something that I missed the previous read. It looks like this Doom mod took that to heart, and built an experience that feels like it goes on forever. A very cool piece of art.
aaaand now im convinced to go read it- welp, time to see how much money I have and how soon I can get it
Who is the book by?
Oh I liked parts of it, but absolutely hated how it was written. It's the first book that I just put down and did not finish. I donated it to the library. I was disappointed as I was really intrigued by it.
This sounds like I'm not smart enough to read it 😭
It’s ironic because I just finished the book recently. It’s interesting to see how it’s interpreted in this mod too, like the grey hallways/maze that he enters looks exactly how I pictured it in the book lol.
Bought the House of Leaves book because of this video, and i thought I'd periodically update with fun facts about it.
1. The word "house" is blue whenever it appears
2. Roughly half the book is pages with less than ten words
3. There's a page with braille, but because there's no lines to show how far up the dots are, it's near impossible to decipher
4. A few copies of the book include pages that didn't make it into the rest
5. The letter P is oddly important for whatever reason
18:53 the sudden realization of shooting the dog was just milliseconds.
I think its actually hilarious how Jack instantly flick shot the good dog the second he heard a bark and saw it run towards him
even more than that
he just saw another living thing for a split second and thought "enemy, must kill"
I mean it seems cruel from the start, but that dog is inherently connected to that massive dog like beast that one shots you and is extremely annoying.
@@justaneditygangstar it doesn't one-shot you?
I'm not sure if he realized this, but every single space that Jack visits in this doom mod is just the house again but furnished differently. The airport is the house again. The convenience store is the house again. The daycare is the house again. The backrooms area is the house again, except sometimes resized differently. Everything is the fucking house.
OH MY GOD IT IS I THOUGHT I WAS JUST IMAGINING THE SIMILARITIES HOLY CRAP
what about the plane
I picked up on this the second time he went through the brutalist space, such a cool detail.
so should i listen to the album while i read the book
@@cleventinetheclementine195 A plane is a plane, not a building. *pats head*
The MUSIC later in the house is so so soothing. I'm watching this while doing tedious overtime at my factory job and god, I've never been so RELAXED in my entire life from a vid game. Sean's voice helps add to it. Awesome game and experience. ❤
I think something Jack didn’t realize that immediately distinguishes this from other Doom maps is that the house has… levels. It has floors on top of other floors, which should be impossible in the Doom game engine. Pair that with the absolutely massive file size of this map, and that already raises some eyebrows.
Not to people who know about Doom mods. They get how it works, but they're impressed by the placement.
The room over room think works my secretly teleporting you and you can see if you look up
Not only this map is so meticulously designed, the technicality of it is so impressive. I’m glad this map is getting its well deserved attention.
It’s also really sweet that the guy who uploaded it did it to honor his buddy so others could enjoy what he made!
@kingofravens2156 in case you didn't know. Their is no buddy, and it's just part of the story. When you download the mod, you also get a journal file that details the "mod creator" suffering while making the mod. The journal is what gives you hints on what to do.
@@archer9356 Yup, I caught that part pretty early. I was wondering to myself, “Why would this guy create such an elaborate and technically complex map for what was apparently just a tribute to his late friend?” But alas, I brushed that aside because I legitimately thought this was actually dedicated to his friend who might’ve liked creating complex maps like this.
@@archer9356 Ah thank you!
Seriously though, the use of silent teleporters is insane! This is good shit
The fact that jack randomly found the labyrinth first open is hilarious.
what’s so cool about the labyrinth
@@william_h it has like, a 10% chance of appearing I think? It was crazy that he got it first try
@@NickelW yep.
@@NickelW and then he restarted 😭
@@william_hI've gotten a bit obsessed with this, watching a bunch of different play throughs to see reactions to it, and no one, in their whole playthrough ever finds it.
It's one of the things that the community has found through luck and brute force opening up the map to see how it works.
Lore wise, it's probably one of the biggest references to house of leaves, an impossibly long hallway that turns into passage upon passage, becoming a nigh inescapable labyrinth.
As someone who has both played DOOM and read House Of Leaves... I am very happy right now. I loved growing up with DOOM; hearing the sounds, seeing the doors open, finding the keucards... So nostalgic
And then here comes My House.wad to flip everything on it's head and twist it until it's almost unrecognizable, so much small stuff changes to the point of just being straight up uncanny and i love it
such as the guns getting more animation frames and being smoother than they should be
I read house of leaves sophomore year of college and every day at lunch I would give my friends an update on the story
That sounds like a nice memory
An interesting fact about this wad is that Doom’s level generation doesn’t actually do separate floors. There are many efforts to create the *appearance* of it, usually through winding corridors and stairs, but never actually rooms directly on top of one another. The technical prowess required to create this illusion of multiple floors is rather impressive.
In fact, old school Doom is not a FPS. It's mechanically a top down shooter.
Which means that this is mechanically a top down shooter
@@kraigclubb550 This is incorrect. Doom calculates z height. Flying enemies like Cacodemons and Lost Souls would not work otherwise, neither would the vertical lock-on of projectiles. Wolfenstein 3D was 2D, however.
This uses GZDoom, which can render 3D floors easily enough. Though here portals and silent teleports are used as it's easier.
@@Zikar I never said it didn't use a Z axis. It has to. MECHANICALLY it's a top down shooter.
Though I don't know why I said "My House" was the same... which is not correct. I guess you reminded me that GZDoom was a thing. It's been 20 years since I've done anything with Doom II (aside from playing the Brutal mod)
Would love to see John Romero shit his pants when he see this .wad LMAO
Jack really stacked the deck against himself in the gas station fight through sheer bad luck - no going through Underhalls to get the Super Shotgun, no getting the secret BFG 9000 in the airport bathroom, no figuring out that the slushie machine in the gas station can give you 200% health a few times... finding any one of those things could have totally turned the tides.
That sounds like the most insane sentence ever to anyone who hasn't seen this
@@abaddonarts1129 the worst part is that you can do all of those things within 20 minutes if you know what you're doin
The line 'Top of the mornin' laddies' is very often used, however the line 'I have no idea what I'm doing' is also very frequent.
So I might be done in 20 minutes, but that seems farfetched.
Rockets and plasma are definitely enough for that fight. If you're a dedicated Doomer, which he sadly is not. No SSG or BFG really hurts with crowds that heavy though.
In fairness, getting the BFG is insanely hard. How are you supposed to know that you need to go into the airport bathroom and go around so that blood is everywhere, but make sure none of the blood is near the exit? The only clue is the response to entering one of the cheat codes and it's extremely vague.
In the endless staircase at 43:20 you were supposed to keep going up and eventually the Exit door will open, go inside, go up a few more times and when you pass the door again you will be transferred to a red room with a door, when you go inside it you will be transferred back where you've fallen
This happened to me also in the Back Rooms when I fall again from a height
As someone who's read the book, Jack's gradually increasing levels of nervousness and bafflement at the beginning please me, while 11:39 was a very enjoyable moment of recognition.
so crazy how Jacky filmed this while visiting MY house 😂
Jakey have you played this and did you like it
jakey man hope your good brother
is this your house?
Here before this blows up
🐐
Jack screaming "WHAT DID I DO!" immediately after shooting the dog is the most "I had no idea that that button did that" that Jack has gotten.
I felt so bad for Jack
I thought he was going to snap. I mean, snap his own neck.
@@sherwinashford ayo
When I first read (ok, the only time I read) House of Leaves, my initial thought was "I am losing my damn mind [reading] this."
Right there with you, sir. Glad(?) I got brought back into this nightmare story.
I'd recommend people who are either insomniacs already or love diving deep into lore to read it. Just don't expected The Hero's Journey or even a jump-scare read. It is delving into a good representation of the Cthulu series sanity drain. On multiple levels as there are at least three "authors" writing the book.
I spent 3 and a half hours of my life just playing this map, finding all the hidden nooks and crannies, not even counting reading all the lore and reading and watching hours of theories and analysis, so glad you played it Jack!
For anybody hungry for more after watching this, I highly, HIGHLY recommend watching Power Pak's video where he does a deep dive into every single little intricacy that exists in what might be the best mod ever made for a game, as well as all the files attached to it that Sean didn't cover (and there are a LOT of important ones). It's called "MyHouse.WAD - Inside Doom's Most Terrifying Mod". Pyrocynical is also soon uploading his deep dive video on the mod, tho I can't speak for that yet.
It's wild, I was just recommended that video a few days ago. Never been interested in anything Doom related. I watched it and I was instantly hooked though. Crazy that a few days later Jack is playing it too. Did RUclips know?
@@Seven_Swell YES! Good shit spreads fast ig, same thing happened to me.
Whats even wilder is how many subs Power Pak has gotten since the upload. 5 days ago he was at 100k from the myhouse video, now hes at 140k
Power Pak has the best commentary on this mod: "If I had a dollar for every horror game that was really a gay romance, I'd have 2 dollars!"
@@Seven_Swell this mod is what has gotten me into classic doom mods. My roommate knew I was super into house of leaves so he pushed really hard for me to play this mod even tho I'm not super into classic doom, and I immediately fell in love with it and it spiraled outward into me trying out a ton of the absolutely insane mods that exist for this game like Blade of Agony which is a full sequel to wolfenstein 3D but plays significantly more like the new order than it does like wolfenstein 3D or even doom, or Divine Frequency which is a full survival horror experience inspired by system shock and bloodborne, or ashes which is fallout on the doom engine
_Jack enters the service station with 1% health_
"Use the slurpee machine, use the slurpee machine, use the slurpee machine"
_Jack asks out loud if there's any health_
"FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, YOU PRESSED E ON EVERYTHING ELSE IN THERE EXCEPT THE SLURPEE MACHINE"
I was yelling at him to hold the fire button when using the plasma gun.
Shell doesn't even sell Slurpee. Looking it up to confirm they don't, Slurpee is actually 7-ELEVEn's name for ICEE.
Meanwhile with Vanoss and Lui’s playthrough, they straight up used it all in one shot
I would absolutely recommend reading House of Leaves. The events of the WAD aren't based on it directly (for the most part, barring a certain maze you spent some time with), but the tone and the idea of impossible liminal spaces unfolding out of what should be a safe place, and the twisting nature of the narrative are very much in line.
What a journey! Congrats to the developers and their amazing effort on building something like this! It was worth watching every minute of it!
Another thing that's unsettling is the fact that there is a downstairs to the house. The way Doom maps are made is by taking a 2D map and scaling it up, making the basement and attic literally impossible to make in Doom. Eerie
Gzdoom allows for silent teleporting like the build engine, which also can't stack rooms. But this mod is all one map. Like 64 versions of the house all on one 2D plane connected by line events o_O
@@0v_x0 build supports room over room. It has silent teleporters as well.
Room over Room is possible nowadays. Its just tricky to get detail work done.
@@kennyroberson5726 in modern doom engines. In the original it wasn't.
The first basement is a teleport, it’s a little janky, the door is funky because before the teleport it’s just a wall, but I think that’s on purpose because every other teleport is flawless-also a lot of them are portals instead of teleporters, which means you can see through them just fine. It’s how there’s all the non-euclidean stuff. Also the orb you can see from inside the house that disappears outside? A teleport in the sideyards on the way, when you turn around and there’s all the windows and monsters and stuff it’s actually just a different part of the map, like the basement from the first house. Jack didn’t see everything, either…
Love that Jack never considered you weren't supposed to kill all the demons at the gas station.
you were, but you couldnt kill the mirror vile bc you were supposed to run from it if thats what youre referring to
@@elmapachevevo You're supposed to run straight to the end in the ending, not killing anything doesn't stop you from going to the ending and no sane map creator would exoect you to kill all of that.
@@cowabungaitis9319 finished watching only a while ago and realized jack did it without killing them all, but according to the diary you at least have to put up a fight to get there
I mean, you can kill all the enemies
@@FlantisFroggu you can do it, but you're not meant to, those are different things.
I had absolutely no idea what this game was or what house of leaves was, so I was absolutely astonished. Making an old game and old graphics like this do all of these different amazing-looking things is absolutely crazy. This is a phenomenal game
0:31 The twists and turns it takes, and the expectations that it brakes
Become a poet you have
When Jack got jumpscared in the bathroom at the airport, I legit got startled and dropped my phone.
Thanks for the heads up! Still pooped my pants though
Lol there was one part where he said "that's unfortunate," right after my phone dropped to the ground. Had to giggle.
My lights flickered at the same time ( it’s an old place it happens) and I pooped a little
i just jumped back and almost hit my head on the wall lmfaooooo
I flinged along my little sister
18:55 First person to ever shoot the dog, wow, I can't believe Sean would hate dogs so much that he would willingly shoot one. For a frame you could see it, the rage in his eyes, his mouth beginning to foam, his skin turning red with anger. And I can't believe he started fortnight dancing on the corpse afterwards
He’s a pure catperson
Vinesauce did as well lol, died to the bad dog a few times before but he eventually did
I killed the dog on my first run too.
psycho youtuber confirmed!!???
so sad
I loved playing the wad first and then watching this video after, noticing all the differences I didn't notice on my original playthrough. Great video!
this is one of my favorite games sean has played on his channel so far (along with love,sam & many others). this game is insanely intriguing, mind-boggling, unpredictable, etc. i was genuinely enthralled throughout the entire video to the point that i researched house of leaves and ordered the book on amazon.... keep up the good work and thank you for exposing me to this amazing story/game
I started reading House of Leaves because my boyfriend bought it for me as a gift. I’d never heard of it and went into it 100% blind. I’m just about 50 pages away from finishing it and I can confidently say it’s my second favorite book of all time. I can definitely see the inspiration on this, although not entirely the same. House of Leaves is a story within a story, which tells the tale of the Navidson family, who move into a house that is bigger on the inside than on the outside. You should definitely give it a go! I have ADHD and it was hard to wrap my head around it at the beginning, but it gets easier the more you read!
This is the most helpful description I’ve seen so far - thank you! 💌
Edit: ALSO, I feel like these vids will get more people reading again. Amazing.
Out of curiosity, what is your #1 favourite book?
what a coincidence I recently got it for my girlfriend as a gift too XD
Second favourite. Low key insult 😂
I definitely need to read it I tried before and couldn't get into it but I really want to try again
the fact that every single map is just a retextured version of the house is awesome, like the backrooms part is the house, the airport is the house, everything is the house
WHY IS EVERYTHING MY HOUSE?!?!
It's not just retextured. It follows the layout, but the geometry and scale of the maps is very different.
The keycard drawing in the files is the layout of the map, making it so that everything is the house, the sky section has you in the garage
@@willsmith7088 what holy shit is it?? Is the *House* laid out like the keycard??
@@MrShadic140 Yep! I was floored when I found out too.
*House* of Leaves, man... Sometimes, when I'm all alone, I still feel like I'm inside that -labyrinth facing down the Minotaur- and that familiar tingle sets into my spine, I just can't help but look behind me, knowing I'll find nothing, but knowing it will be there, all the same. That said, I can tell you with certainty that this map was more of the 'inspired by' than 'based on', it was more the general vibe, the uneasiness, the -creeping dread as you walk through the labyrinth waiting for the Minotaur to find you,- the endless hallways, the non-Euclidean geometry. The only thing that was actually 'from' *House* of Leaves was the name Navidson on that real estate sign, Will Navidson was the one who documented the abnormalities of the *House* on Ash Tree Lane.
33:40 old jacksepticeye "I LOVE BALLS"
Yes, I've read *House* of Leaves. The black maze section is a faithful recreation of the labyrinth described in the book which also appears inexplicably in a *house* . The rest of this game is the creator's ideas and not related to anything in *House* of Leaves. Edit: Oh yeah "Navidson Realty" is also a reference to the book, Navidson is the last name of the guy who owned the *house* .
I really can’t find any good videos about *House* of Leaves, and I think it’s cause it’s kinda really hard to even talk about. Like… what do you focus on? Johnny? Zamponò’s obtuse and incredibly dense literature? Wills adventure through the *House*
None of these even address the sheer act of trying to navigate through the book, and I’m not talking about when the text goes wacky and starts printing in weird spots on the page. I’m talking about navigating through the footnotes, through the added appendixes, through POEs sister album (which is a real thing and actually ties into the book!).
I’ve yet to see anybody actually address what *House* of Leaves is actually about, what THE *HOUSE* itself actually is. The book itself is the *house* - the maze that Will finds himself trapped in!
Okay so I said this in a different comment- my edition begins the book from a perspective of a group that gathered the writings to create the book- is that part of the plot or the story or is it reality? its written so real I cant tell 😂
I like the subtle bolding of "house"
@@Alucard-mj6yj every time the word *house* appears in the book “ *House* of Leaves”…. It’s highlighted blue.
@@theduelist649 every comment I read about this book makes me want to read it more lol
House of Leaves is a story told in the..... fifth person, I believe?
A guy (Johnny Truant) finds a book in an old blind guy's (Zampano's) house detailing his (Zampano's) recollection of and thoughts on a "documentary" (that's not real) that he "saw" (he's blind, remember) about a *_third guy's_* (Will Navidson's) personal encounter with a lot of unexplainable things, called "The Navidson Record".
The only problem is that, according to Truant, there *_IS_* no documentary called "The Navidson Record". It doesn't exist at all. Much less as the "cultural phenomenon" that Zampano claims it was.
Supposedly, Navidson found out that the measurements of his house didn't match from the inside to the outside. The documentary... documents (duh) his explorations of that phenomenon, from those seemingly "human error" beginnings, to Navidson's house collapsing in on itself both metaphorically and literally. I'll *_leave_* (see what I did, there?) the rest of the account to you to find out if you choose to dig through this "ancient ruin on top of another ancient ruin that never existed" of a book, if you want.
Then Navidson released the documentary about those events. Then Zampano dictated to his nurse the words written on the unfinished manuscript, then Truant found that manuscript. Truant reads through the SCP-ass document and starts having vivid hallucinations and going crazy. The story bounces back and forth between Navidson's firsthand account (well, retold by Zampano), Zampano's story (well, told by his nurse) and hinted at by his writing choices, and Truant's growing psychosis and personal life/drama.
It's a story written by a guy (Danielewski, the author) about a guy (Truant) finding a story written by a guy (Zampano) about a guy (Navidson) who made a movie about some stuff that happened to him.
That's pretty much the most concise summary possible. 😅
I am about 100 pages in, and this description is perfect.
@@dlahouss Good luck! It only gets more confusing from there! 😅
I got lost while trying to understand your recap lol
Maybe because English is not my first language but why did all dat gave me a stroke reading??
Picture that. In your dreams.
It's awesome to see Sean playing this. If anyone wants to know absolutely everything about this watch Power Pak's review, it's incredible if you have 2 hours to spend.
I'm not even a doom fan, never played it or this mod but watching it has been the best video game experience I've had this year!
This has to be one of the best mods, for any game, I've seen.
As a Doom nerd who plays all the wads, I'm so happy to see a wad be so popular. Millions of views on youtube, attention from the biggest content creators and so on. It truly deserves it. The Classic Doom community is truly amazing
lets hope youtubers start looking at doom wads for more content. My favorite is Ashes 2063, would be cool if it got youtube stardom attention
exactly! i just got in a year or two ago! easy to find and combine mods for ultimate fun of all kind! can be as simple or modern as you like! this game still keeps on giving.
Hopefully some would learn what GZDoom is, then wonder how they have seen this game many times but never played it, and then get into the community lol
Absolutely! I've been a massive doom nerd for years, so seeing mainstream youtubers and streamers playing classic doom mods has been awesome!
I watched a video about this wad, it's insane how the creator just ignored what can be done in doom or even in real life and made this reality defying map.
Same! I got into the scene last year and there’s so much to offer for all sorts of people
I’m hoping one of these days a big RUclips winds up stumbling across Reelism 2. But beyond a genuinely fun arcade horde shooter, yeah.. there’s so much to see in the world of DOOM wads
this perfectly portrays what its like to lose someone close to you. i cant even begin to describe how much those little details encapsulate the feelings, thoughts, and chapters in life from then on after.
the subtle oddities leading up to jack turning off the breaker and how they got progressively more jarring is so perfect. the symbolism of the once familiar and easily understood house becoming haunted and runned down; full of things that are hurtful and painful to think about. the "ruined memories" really sent shivers down my spine.
that is exactly how it feels to have periods in your life that are completely gone and abandoned. you'll never get that back and the people you share it with are dead or estranged.
its just a withering part of your life that only gets fuzzier.
yeah that was the way i saw it
I fucking hate RUclips and the dudes who have to physco analyze everything and write it in one drawn out comment
Hope you're okay now fellow human ❤
Nearly a decade ago I went down a very dark place after a divorce and it was just me and the house and myself having to learn who I was, depressed with little contact to friends. The house was like waking up in a torture full of memories that had become completely alien to me. A complicit companion in reminding me to question if I'm the awful person, the conclusion was yes, a little bit. Though they gaslit me through a hell of a lot. The version of them in my mind, in my memories was a lie. Nothing for that period of my life made sense anymore. Things moved on and eventually I did too. I gained someone I care dearly about and then lost my mom. I learned how to burn memories to ash, and how to put grieving on hold to rebuild. I'm in love now, and we're only getting older. Sometimes life is moving from a temporary safeness to another, sometimes it's a shitstorm of awful that curbs whatever haunted one before with something much more daunting. I'm scared for the health of husband and myself. I can't possibly say that mirrors your experience, but at least it's a cozy fireside chat to share.
On the bright side there's someone whose speedrun this map with a lawnmower mod 😂
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I really liked this play through, it was so strange and on brand for you. Also a huge fan of the old doom games, so it was fun through and through haha
Aw. Sean thank you for ensuring that the creator's tribute note was included. That was really good of you.
Best wishes to Veddge and my deepest condolences for their loss. :(
I hope you know it's not real. Its an arg watch some ordinary gamers break down on this game.
@@chriscofer6780 we aren't entirely sure if there's no truth to it tbf. It's entirely possible that the creator DID lose their friend (or, if the notes they've written are based on real life, their potential partner), and decided to make a tribute map inspired by other things like House of Leaves. It's very clear that there are some very very personal sorts of themes in the map itself, so I do wonder if it's at all based on real feelings of the creator, but the story was designed to bring it more to life. Like a sort of poetry, perhaps.
@@exist4046bro the "creator" has his own obituary in the files. It is not reality
@@user-bn3yy8qf5g again, we know that that part is not real. It's the friend having passed away that we don't know whether it's real or not.
@@exist4046the house is actually a replica of the creators actual house in real life I’m pretty sure since his wife posted a tour of the actual house on TikTok and it’s almost an exact copy
One of things that blows my mind when it comes to this level, is that there’s multilevel areas, which the Doom engine doesn’t allow for some reason, so the fact that the creator of the mod managed to make upstairs and downstairs sections is incredible.
Doom doesn’t allow that because it uses 2D map data in a way that prevents overlapping areas. GZDoom lets you do some clever stuff to enable this, though
Yeah, the first house uses silent teleporters and the second house uses portals. The first house uses teleporters as that's a classic imperfect method, while the second uses portals as they're seamless and pretty much impossible to spot unless they're used in a non Euclidean way
@@badbeardbill9956 no that's not true, gzdoom allows you to look up and down and jump yes, but the way maps are built and laid out are still confined to the rules of classic Doom, so what the Dev did really is insane
So TECHNICALLY doom is not actually a 3D game, it's mechanically a top down shooter but with a first person perspective, which leads to some very interesting mechanics and limitations, like not needing to aim up or down to shoot things above or below you, or not being able to jump up ledges because there isn't actually any verticality, it's all an illusion, modders however have gotten very good at tricking the engine into doing things it's not meant to do because this game has existed for 30 years and is totally open source
@@kllause6681 Well said.
24:50 as someone who knows about this map I'm just now piecing together that you can hear a bit of running from evil (the first track played) in that lofi ambient track played in the backrooms and airport in this map. Freaky
This video was the last push I needed 4 months ago to finally order this book. As of 5 minutes ago I finished the book, and am thrilled to finally watch this video
For anyone who hasn't read House of Leaves (keep in mind i haven't finished yet) while it does take more effort to read than your average book, it isn't impossible. It just takes a bit of effort, which I actually found helped keep my attention with certain parts. The book does have existential horror and animals death, along with gore. Keep this in mind if you think of reading it
As someone who's dabbled in making doom maps, this map is impressive from a technical standpoint as well, many people don't realize this playing the original game but doom maps are actually 2D, so you can't have overlapping areas where players can stand (which is also why you don't need to aim up or down, in-engine its all flat), true 3D maps didn't come around until the Duke3D engine so having a multi-floor house, let alone a complete mirrored alternate attached to it, is pretty cool.
Even Duke Nukem 3D uses trickery with it build engine. It uses what we often call portals in modern map making. Which is a technique used here but was not in original doom.
This map actually showcases a lot of old school techniques. Like the sublevel of the house when you in the "First" house do not use portals, but hidden teleporters. To make it seem like there is a basement. That is why the door is a bit funky at that part. It is intentional.
There are so many techniques and trickery in this single map (and that is just a single map in itself is impressive) that it all just sheer brilliant. One could have taken the easy way and just used modern tool provided and done everything a lot easier. But rather, it showcases old workarounds to achieve an effect you could not do in other ways in the past. And the best part its that it follows a narrative of the story itself is a very subtle way.
I am pretty sure that all of us that know the Doom engine and what it is capable of are very impressed at what was done. This is a masterpiece on so many levels.
@@Cythil I've only worked with portal doors in Valve's Hammer, didn't know they were even a thing in this engine until I saw that first 'mirror reflection' and it dawned on me how this map was done, then as he found more and more areas and my brain started adding up the overall area I kept thinking "How is there MORE! isn't there a memory limit in the single-digit MB's for this engine?? wait.. custom textures too?? HOW!?". Yeah, so many levels indeed, I may have to track down a wad editor and give the map a lookover sometime and just awe at the marvel of it all.
@@outpost42theres a good series by DavidXNewton that goes over the map's techniques
I thought it was weird there was multiple floors, but I just guessed I remembered wrong and only the orignal Doom used 2d maps
@@HDDStrider Seconded. "Mysteries of myhouse.wad," 3 parts. Really mind blowing.
House of Leaves is one of my favorite books (if not my favorite!) And it was very cool to see major story elements in game form, like the house collapsing in on itself.
I love reading the book though. It felt like one of the reasons I got into ARGs, as its a lot of puzzle solving, decoding, and conspiracy theories. I will say it also has some of my favorite psychological thriller moments, some that have stuck with me my whole life (I read it at 16, Im 36 now). I highly recommend even just finding a synopses video if you dont want to read it.
So cool , as a doom fan seeing the weapon frames becoming better after leaving and going back in the house as it's clearly not a base game feature , very nice detail also that when re entering the house the music re starts
I like how the editor edited out the most mysterious song on the internet, even though no one can actually copyright claim it
Can i get the info or link probably? I want to hear it on my own
@@pureinnocentboi it’s called like the wind, honestly really good
@@bucketts6148 Well, that the colloquial name, until proven otherwise.
Maybe he knows the truth...