Just for your entertainment. If you haven't stumble yet on this theory about Inside. That you're playing as a cancerous cell in a human body. And all the enemies are actually blood cells that trying to protect their host. But you - by sneaking, mimicking and running away - grew and got into the final form, where they no longer can hurt you and you can devour the host. That theory turns the world upside down and gives a definite meaning to the name - Inside. Amazing vid. As usual
The Board isn't a group of individuals, it's a semisentient base of rules and places that sits inside the Astral plane. It's basically the game engine personified. It's also kind of how levels in video games were once colloquially called "Boards". Or like a game board.
Wow. It's funny that you mention Hackdirt from Oblivion. I played this game when it first came out back in 2006. I'd forgotten the details surrounding Hackdirt, but after all of these years, I still remember the location and the sense of mystery surrounding it. I wasn't 100% sure if it was from the base game or if it was from a mod. It's so cool to see this again.
@@FranklyGaming Me too. The upcoming fan-made mods Skywind and Skyblivion both have me super excited. But they're using the already dated Skyrim engine. They look amazing for what they are, but it'd be a dream come true seeing Morrowind and Oblivion completely remade using current day graphics.
A bit surprised not to see Outer Wilds in your list (not to be confused with Outer Worlds). It's kind of like Subnautica if it was purely about exploration and solving a mystery with only the very lightest of survival elements. Since story and clues are the major rewards for exploring, it's best to go in absolutely blind.
Would have been a great pick for sure, there are a couple more I want to include I did talk about outer wilds in some of the other recent videos as well
I appreciate how this is essentially a good (better?) version of "top 10 creepy mysteries in games" types of content, made better by the genuine interest and personal involvement and research into each point, instead of what seems like a narrated wiki article. Makes it a way more engaging watch. Also, RE: The Polyhedron. I haven't actually played the games myself, but from the big number of videos I've watched, I remember that somewhere it was insinuated that the polyhedron is standing on a giant needle, proportionally big enough to support it. (In the footage of the old game though you see the bottom being a relatively short point and the structure standing on a staircase... but the staircase is connected to a platform, and maybe the needle is coming out of that platform? Considering the staircase ruins throughout the town that were protopypes for this sort of structure, maybe staircases are just hella solid? Not sure if it actually stands on a needle in the second game). And the pools of blood below it I think were meant to be Earth's blood seeping up because it's being punctured by this giant needle. (And I never truly understood if the earth's blood was a metaphorical thing in this already very metaphorical world, or if it was pooling underground from all the bull slaughtering and presumably blood being drained into the earth). So I think the blood underneath the polyhedron doesn't really indicate anything creepy about the polyhedron itself, and more of what it did to the world and the nature of the world itself. I may be completely wrong though, since again I haven't played the games myself.
First vid of yours i saw was the "Unsolved video game mysteries" an hour ago which honestly amazed me, with the level of detail you put into telling the story and the overall passion you have for video games in general that is on par with my own. So i immediately hopped on to the next vid which was this one and i gotta say it doesnt disappoint just like the previous one, same energy and enthusiasm and love for the games. Only thing that urked me in this one was the quick mention of STALKER in the beginning but no segment of its own, that said, seeing that you mentioned it makes me believe that you played the series and that youre enthralled by it story and world building as i was. Keep it up with the vids my good man of culture, ill be eagerly awaiting your uploads :) PS. Would be cool to make a video about the dishonored universe, with the void, outsider and the cult that observes them.
@@borkomartinovic3467 thanks for the kind words I’m glad you liked the two mystery videos! And ya stalker is another one I can put in future stuff along with dishonored. Dishonored and prey are some of my favorite games ever
@@FranklyGaming I actually have the mark of the outsider tattooed on my left hand and am planning to do a whole sleeve with the games i love the most (max payne, stalker, dark souls and blasphemous). Also, if you havent checked out or played Blasphemous before, i highly recommend it, its a souls-like metroidvaina made by indie devs with a heavy theme of Spanish Christianity, one of the best games i ever played.
I find for me that the world of Pandora from borderlands 2 offers a lot of diverse and unique sectors of the planet. Like there’s the stories of how these legendary vaults are created on the planet, or the fact that siren’s are these creatures that can harness the power of eridian to give them unique powers.
I discovered your channel 4 hours ago and I've already watched 13 hours of content. I absolutely love lore deep dives, your research and storytelling are amazing, great work dude!
This might inclined to a more surrealistic, dreamworld depiction of places, but I want say that Uncharted: The Lost Legacy made me to develop games. I was simply staring to its naturalistic landscapes of a deep wild. The atmosphere something I never seen before!
The audiovisual makeup of your videos is excellent! Your content is interesting enough to watch actively and focus on but also serves really well as something one can put on in the background or such as in my case, while sleeping. This is huge for me at least, so thank you!
The Oceanview Motel in Control scare the shit out of me, it make me feel uneasy, I keep looking behind me IRL... I dont know why, but this place give me the creep
Completely disregarding the absolute insanity of the Dolorian Church and dismissing it as a wall climbing crab man and instead choosing to obsess over an inoperable door with a clear explanation is exactly what Harry du Bois would do. The door is literally just there to make fun of you for being unable to open it
This is such an amazing video. Wow! You did your investigative reporting. This is absolutely amazing! Needless to say, I have subscribed and told all my gaming friends about your AWESOME channel. Thank you so much for your great video.
Regarding Ocean House Motel the ghost of the wife is still trapped in this hellish place all those years later. And when the husband was killing them he was shouting that they'll be together forever.
Love these longer videos! It's great to be able to put something on and not have to already be scouting the next video, only to have the current one end before it could get too interesting. Longer videos let you actually go into detail about a particular part, instead of a list video going "Number 9 spooky place from x game, pretty craaazy! Number..)
That leviathan was cut content but they left that in there to show game breakers what was originally intended to be in the game all game devs do similar as Easter eggs halo did it so yeah that's why there's only a remnant of the leviathan sitting in the game
Some great choices in this video. Pillars of eternity was something special for me, I don't even know what it was about it but it just gripped me from the start and I spent at least 500 hours over the 2 games. I felt like I was playing it for months and never once got restless or bored. Souls games are always amazing for these moments. That moment in elden ring accidentally going down to the river well and later on nokron is just so incredible.
Just played pillars for the first time ever recently which is why I thought of it for this video, on the second one now. Such an amazing world and lore
@@FranklyGaming Phew! I was starting to worry 😁 Honestly, I agree with its every inclusion. One of the most criminally underappreciated games of all time!
I love these videos, your intrigue of cause and correlation makes your videos very interesting, almost like a documentary. Keep up the good work and do more mystery stuff. Unexplained cosmic life-forms in games next?
Control has been on my wishlist for ages. Just bought it and looking forward to diving in this weekend. 🎉 Your videos are the dessert at the end of the day! 😊
Control is one of my favourite games. It's so weird and creative and I like that the oldest house is implied to be Yggdrasil the world tree from Norse mythology which makes sense considering it's a place that exits between and connects different worlds and dimensions.
Glad to see a reference to Pathologic. I played both and they're truly unique. The Void, which I've had in my backlog for a long time, is also worth a try.
@FranklyGaming definitely, I think one that could have done with more of an expansion to it was the Void pf the Dishonered series. As for control, I got into it after finding the SCP community and the Volgun channel here on YT. So, from its trailers and dev info at the time, I really had my imagination going. I can't saynit disappointed at all other than leaving me wanting more, lol. I also loved the Alan Wake tie-in.
Alan Wake needed it's own chapter. They're the most mystery filled games I've come across. Everything means something but you never *really* know what it means.
Literally I spent most of this video being wowed and trying to think of other media that made me feel this sense of mystery yet satisfaction in the mystery and I just kept thinking of remedy, especially Alan wake 2. I went through max payne, quantum break, control, and both Alan wakes and seeing how it all ties together in the 2nd game despite keeping the mystery alive was so amazing to see. One of my favorite games of all time
What vtmb did was very unique. The mansion mission is near the very start of the game after you meet some of the other kindred and there’s not an ounce of horror at all until you get to the mansion, then all of a sudden it doesn’t matter that your a vampire with powers you still feel so vulnerable and terrified.
Great video. Made my workday go quicker. Im surprised you chose labyrinth from remedy, but i understand, the game is crazy. Im still intrigued by dark place.
@@FranklyGaming I hope it will. Zenozoik and the Zeno Clash games (1 and 2, from 2009 and 2013, as well as the prequel Clash: Artifacts of Chaos) are set in a very weird, bizarre and fascinating lands. Everybody is a different flavour of monster, chimera, freak, mutant and aberration. The Zenos don't even seem to really designate species and subspecies, there is hardly a concept of central unified culture, language or even currency, and there are people that siimply decide to go insane. It's not a mental plague or an evil religion, it's simply a conclusion to the nature of being "slaves" to reality, to morality, to love and hate and relationships and grudges, to the needs of the body. So to be truly free you need to stop caring about even that. And from there, you choose what you decide will make you happy. Like believing you need to be invisible, so you pluck out the eyes of everything that can see you. Or believing you need to walk in a straight line all your life. Colorful, violent and strange. Zenozoik is a fascinating world.
Perfect video with a lot of games that have those creepy places, the one of cyberpunk with whatever lives on that place is really interesting i with the Peralez mission was really scary. I dont know if this one does count but is on mgs2, the place where raiden fights the metal gear ray, like where is that place or what is exactly. Its really strange.
@@FranklyGamingtrust me, mgs2 is something I dont even know what was real or not, really mind bending, and maybe darkwood would also have places like this, you should try it.
Discussing Shadow over Hackdirt without once bringing up it's a huge H.P. Lovecraft reference. The story "Shadow over Innsmouth" is about a remote coastal town where people are turning into Deep Ones which are fish people, and sacrifice outsiders to their god, Dagon Dunwich Borers in Fallout, again, another Lovecraft reference, this time to the story "The Dunwich Horror" Lovecraft was a pioneer of the cosmic horror genre. His monstrous alien beings were meant to inspire awe while also being unknowable nightmares. Much like you described many of the places in this video as vast, ancient, otherworldly, and/or unreachable, the Great Old Ones and the creatures connected to them are beyond the reach of ordinary humans. Seeing a glimpse of the truth is enough to kill a person, drive them insane, or make them an obsessed cultist (with some modicum of functional insanity).
numenera is one of my favorite rpg worlds, i played a numenera game many years ago atp but i still remember how TRANSFIXED i was by the world and just reading the books of game material, if anyone's into dnd/pathfinder/other tabletop games and looking for a new spin, i would recommend checking it out!!
First vid I've seen of yours, and loved it. This is the kind of content that I like to listen to when working or working on something edit: Double-checked, it's actually the second but I liked that one too
In the elder scrolls oblivion I figured you may bring the crazy place you have to do special things to get too. You have to make a save in frostcraig spire dlc and then delete the dlc then you fall in a black void into a house you can exit and be in a place with very strange stuff you'd just have to see for yourself :)
what should have been in this video is wonder city from batman: arkham city. i used to spend hours there just trying to find out more information about it. but it also creeped me out so bad. that whole game is dark and mysterious, but that area especially.
I never liked the idea that the trees in Ash Lake (Dark Souls) lead to different worlds. It makes much more sense that the gods built their realm on top of all the archtrees as a way of building over the previous age of ancients.
VTMB is one of those games that I really wish they would remake but deep down know it would ruin it if they did. I just wish newer generations could experience some of the classics in a way where they actually could stomach it.
It’s probably more likely that they’re both references to the Overlook in The Shining Especially the Ocean House, considering the context of a husband going mad once moving in and attacking his family.
I just wanted to recommend a stealth/strategy RPG game that you probably don't have on this list and not a lot of people played it at the time it came out? Aside from me suggesting obvious games for this video like oblivion, the Witcher3 & Fallout type stuff, I wanted to suggest: Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden It's a short 25 hour or less type of AA stealth/turn Based RPG you play as soldiers... genetically enhanced soldiers... It's kind of on the cartoon side, but the atmosphere and tone are really cool, and the story and everything to it is not too long but just right? You do kind of feel like you wished it lasted a little bit longer, but I swear it's a completely unique game that more people should have played because it was so fun in my place through of it? It was in 2018 when I played it game pass, and I ended up liking it so much that I decided to buy it!! Edit: It's not the most in-depth game where gameplay or story or anything like that is concerned in comparison to others on this list ... but for what it is worth and judging it as the whole package that it is, I think it's a really good game that I really would like to see a sequel to where they could expand on all of the "XCOM Like" elements that the game has in it? The main character you play as a duck ?!?!! Who wouldn't like playing as a duck with a crossbow?
My personal scariest area in a game is in silent hill 2 after the 3rd hole in historical society after dropping past the body dump just before the well you find yourself in a dingy mineshaft like structure but what makes that scene particularly horifying is the fucking audio playing in there. Its utterly terrifying. I remember going through that section as a kid and had to do it in shifts. I couldnt beat that section of the game in one playthrough maybe due to my overly active imagination i had thought of horrible and strange imagrey in my mind of what could produce such noises and what ungodly aboninations could be behind the doors in that prison. More games need to leave things to the imagination instead showing poorly made or designed enemies or environments.
PATHOLOGIC MENTIONED!! Thanks for spreading the good word of Pathologic 2. Honestly the whole town is strange and unnerving, but the polyhedron is probably the best pick. Comment reader, play Pathologic 2! You will die and you will think and you will love Murky and Artemy Burakh!
bro you look so cute in that shirt
Appreciate that me 🔥
@@FranklyGaming professional glazing
@@itmekobb8075 no one compliments me better than me 😂
I like men
Bro you doin tricks on it
You know it's gonna be good when Control is in the thumbnail
Such a quality game
TAKE CONTROL
Not me thinking it was Spiderman😢
Legit the reason I clicked the video 😂
I didn't like that game at all.
Just for your entertainment. If you haven't stumble yet on this theory about Inside. That you're playing as a cancerous cell in a human body. And all the enemies are actually blood cells that trying to protect their host. But you - by sneaking, mimicking and running away - grew and got into the final form, where they no longer can hurt you and you can devour the host. That theory turns the world upside down and gives a definite meaning to the name - Inside.
Amazing vid.
As usual
The Board isn't a group of individuals, it's a semisentient base of rules and places that sits inside the Astral plane. It's basically the game engine personified. It's also kind of how levels in video games were once colloquially called "Boards". Or like a game board.
Wow. It's funny that you mention Hackdirt from Oblivion. I played this game when it first came out back in 2006. I'd forgotten the details surrounding Hackdirt, but after all of these years, I still remember the location and the sense of mystery surrounding it. I wasn't 100% sure if it was from the base game or if it was from a mod. It's so cool to see this again.
Really hope they eventually remaster oblivion
@@FranklyGaming Me too. The upcoming fan-made mods Skywind and Skyblivion both have me super excited. But they're using the already dated Skyrim engine. They look amazing for what they are, but it'd be a dream come true seeing Morrowind and Oblivion completely remade using current day graphics.
Its based on shadow over innsmouth by HP Lovecraft
Control will forever peak my curiosity. Remedy did an excellent job building that world.
Pique
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Bro, it took YT too long to serve me your stuff.
I'm here now 😂 good stuff, my friend
Thanks for the support!
Control in the thumbnail plus your shirt dragged me here.
It’s a deadly combo
I like the fact that control take place in whole building and it’s open world in building that is sure really unique
Same
this video is gonna end up with millions of views. so well made bro
@@gabeck1832 really appreciate that!
Billions even
The 'Toxic Forgotten Gas World' is canonically Geralt getting warped to a random No Man's Sky Planet.
Gonna save this for dinner later, cheers mate
Hope you enjoy!
Howdy gamer, what're we eatin?
A bit surprised not to see Outer Wilds in your list (not to be confused with Outer Worlds). It's kind of like Subnautica if it was purely about exploration and solving a mystery with only the very lightest of survival elements.
Since story and clues are the major rewards for exploring, it's best to go in absolutely blind.
Would have been a great pick for sure, there are a couple more I want to include I did talk about outer wilds in some of the other recent videos as well
I appreciate how this is essentially a good (better?) version of "top 10 creepy mysteries in games" types of content, made better by the genuine interest and personal involvement and research into each point, instead of what seems like a narrated wiki article. Makes it a way more engaging watch.
Also, RE: The Polyhedron. I haven't actually played the games myself, but from the big number of videos I've watched, I remember that somewhere it was insinuated that the polyhedron is standing on a giant needle, proportionally big enough to support it. (In the footage of the old game though you see the bottom being a relatively short point and the structure standing on a staircase... but the staircase is connected to a platform, and maybe the needle is coming out of that platform? Considering the staircase ruins throughout the town that were protopypes for this sort of structure, maybe staircases are just hella solid? Not sure if it actually stands on a needle in the second game). And the pools of blood below it I think were meant to be Earth's blood seeping up because it's being punctured by this giant needle. (And I never truly understood if the earth's blood was a metaphorical thing in this already very metaphorical world, or if it was pooling underground from all the bull slaughtering and presumably blood being drained into the earth). So I think the blood underneath the polyhedron doesn't really indicate anything creepy about the polyhedron itself, and more of what it did to the world and the nature of the world itself. I may be completely wrong though, since again I haven't played the games myself.
Glad you enjoyed! And great point might be from the grounds it was built on I saw some of that in comments when I was doing research for the section
"I've always been fascinated with the strange dark and mysterious"
* MrBallen has entered the chat*
The goat 🐐
First vid of yours i saw was the "Unsolved video game mysteries" an hour ago which honestly amazed me, with the level of detail you put into telling the story and the overall passion you have for video games in general that is on par with my own. So i immediately hopped on to the next vid which was this one and i gotta say it doesnt disappoint just like the previous one, same energy and enthusiasm and love for the games. Only thing that urked me in this one was the quick mention of STALKER in the beginning but no segment of its own, that said, seeing that you mentioned it makes me believe that you played the series and that youre enthralled by it story and world building as i was. Keep it up with the vids my good man of culture, ill be eagerly awaiting your uploads :)
PS. Would be cool to make a video about the dishonored universe, with the void, outsider and the cult that observes them.
@@borkomartinovic3467 thanks for the kind words I’m glad you liked the two mystery videos! And ya stalker is another one I can put in future stuff along with dishonored. Dishonored and prey are some of my favorite games ever
@@FranklyGaming I actually have the mark of the outsider tattooed on my left hand and am planning to do a whole sleeve with the games i love the most (max payne, stalker, dark souls and blasphemous). Also, if you havent checked out or played Blasphemous before, i highly recommend it, its a souls-like metroidvaina made by indie devs with a heavy theme of Spanish Christianity, one of the best games i ever played.
I find for me that the world of Pandora from borderlands 2 offers a lot of diverse and unique sectors of the planet. Like there’s the stories of how these legendary vaults are created on the planet, or the fact that siren’s are these creatures that can harness the power of eridian to give them unique powers.
First of all- love the content man!!
Second- you sound just like Aaron Mahnke, the guy who does the ‘Lore’ podcast. It’s crazy!
Loved seeing Torment Tides of Numenera on here genuinely a good game
Such an awesome world really unique too
Glad ash lake is on this list. I remember being perplexed when coming across it after a friend showed me
How on earth does this video not have a billion more likes? High quality high effort content that’s totally worth the watch! 💜
Appreciate that! ❤️
Yo, OUTSTANDING work, much love
Thanks for the kind words!
I feel like this video will take off 🔥 glad to be here so early 🙌
@@spark556 hope so! Thanks for the support
I discovered your channel 4 hours ago and I've already watched 13 hours of content. I absolutely love lore deep dives, your research and storytelling are amazing, great work dude!
Glad to hear you are enjoying the videos, thanks for the kind words and support!
That math ain't mathing lol.
@@Tom-bf2nm 😂
What an excellent channel. I listened to this falling asleep and it was lights out to that smooth voice.
Thanks for the support!
Finding Hackdirt as a teenager freaked me out, but also solidified oblivion as one of my favorite games of all time.
This might inclined to a more surrealistic, dreamworld depiction of places, but I want say that Uncharted: The Lost Legacy made me to develop games. I was simply staring to its naturalistic landscapes of a deep wild. The atmosphere something I never seen before!
The audiovisual makeup of your videos is excellent! Your content is interesting enough to watch actively and focus on but also serves really well as something one can put on in the background or such as in my case, while sleeping. This is huge for me at least, so thank you!
@@Creeamzz really appreciate the kind words thank you!
The Oceanview Motel in Control scare the shit out of me, it make me feel uneasy, I keep looking behind me IRL... I dont know why, but this place give me the creep
Control is an amazing game.
Completely disregarding the absolute insanity of the Dolorian Church and dismissing it as a wall climbing crab man and instead choosing to obsess over an inoperable door with a clear explanation is exactly what Harry du Bois would do. The door is literally just there to make fun of you for being unable to open it
@@beatman2359 crab man just another day in the office 😂
“Strange, Dark, and Mysterious.” Ah a fellow man of culture I see.
Shoutout ballin
Lol
This is such an amazing video. Wow! You did your investigative reporting. This is absolutely amazing! Needless to say, I have subscribed and told all my gaming friends about your AWESOME channel. Thank you so much for your great video.
I really appreciate the kind words and support thank you!
Regarding Ocean House Motel the ghost of the wife is still trapped in this hellish place all those years later. And when the husband was killing them he was shouting that they'll be together forever.
Such a tragic story, amazing level too
You somehow featured like every single one of my favorite games here. Thank you so much! This was a fascinating video
Super happy you enjoyed it! Thanks for the support
Love these longer videos! It's great to be able to put something on and not have to already be scouting the next video, only to have the current one end before it could get too interesting. Longer videos let you actually go into detail about a particular part, instead of a list video going "Number 9 spooky place from x game, pretty craaazy! Number..)
Ya that’s why I like doing the longer vids, it’s what I would want to watch with more in depth analysis so figured other people would too
Great! Just the perfect video I wanted to lock in at 2am before I go to sleep
@@ivanboukhris7204 glad to hear you are enjoying 🔥
Pillars of Eternity is my fav fantasy rpg series. So glad you mentioned it here.
Played it for the first time recently, absolutely love the worldbuilding and story
Amazing narration, great deep dives, and this is just well made! Glad I found this channel :)
Thanks for supporting my work!
I see control on the thumbnail. Love the Ashtray Maze music btw.
Thanks for supporting! And ya always think a lot about the music
That leviathan was cut content but they left that in there to show game breakers what was originally intended to be in the game all game devs do similar as Easter eggs halo did it so yeah that's why there's only a remnant of the leviathan sitting in the game
W channel, your contents are so underrated man
Really appreciate that!
Awesome video!
Thank you!
32 seconds in i can tell this video is gonna be a banger. Have to watch after work but cant wait.
Hope you enjoy!
Incredible stuff as always
Thank you very much!
A very interesting video and topic! Was thinking of going to bed, but I guess I'll be thinking of strange places from other games for a while
Glad to hear you are enjoying thanks for watching!
Some great choices in this video. Pillars of eternity was something special for me, I don't even know what it was about it but it just gripped me from the start and I spent at least 500 hours over the 2 games. I felt like I was playing it for months and never once got restless or bored.
Souls games are always amazing for these moments. That moment in elden ring accidentally going down to the river well and later on nokron is just so incredible.
Just played pillars for the first time ever recently which is why I thought of it for this video, on the second one now.
Such an amazing world and lore
Wait, no Prey? 😜Another great list!
Don’t worry still managed to mention prey in the deus ex section 😂
@@FranklyGaming Phew! I was starting to worry 😁 Honestly, I agree with its every inclusion. One of the most criminally underappreciated games of all time!
I love these videos, your intrigue of cause and correlation makes your videos very interesting, almost like a documentary. Keep up the good work and do more mystery stuff.
Unexplained cosmic life-forms in games next?
Ooo like this idea will put it down as one to tackle, and thanks for watching!
There are many interesting things in your video. Thank you
@@meimei8718 glad you liked it! Thanks for the support
So many intriguing things I didn't know about! Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed! Appreciate the support
Love the upload time. Take me to the mysterious places while I work.
Enjoy ❤️
@@FranklyGaming another great video!
*Control looks like somebody played INSIDE and said Bet...*
Such a cool setting
Control has been on my wishlist for ages. Just bought it and looking forward to diving in this weekend. 🎉 Your videos are the dessert at the end of the day! 😊
Think you’ll love it! And thanks for the support
Control is one of my favourite games. It's so weird and creative and I like that the oldest house is implied to be Yggdrasil the world tree from Norse mythology which makes sense considering it's a place that exits between and connects different worlds and dimensions.
I loved Torment as well.
The world is so cool for sure
lookin fresh, Mr. Frankly
Appreciate it luna 🔥
Love your videos. They help me destress from work 🙌💕
Happy to hear that! Thanks for the support
Re: Deep One's, have you not read Shadow Over Innsmouth?
Great video btw
Yep that is what it’s based on! And thanks for watching
Glad to see a reference to Pathologic. I played both and they're truly unique. The Void, which I've had in my backlog for a long time, is also worth a try.
Other games have them, too, but yeah, control has a phenomenal setting.
One i wish that had event more mysterious places and objects to it.
Ya lot of potentially great settings out there, why I love making videos like this one
@FranklyGaming definitely, I think one that could have done with more of an expansion to it was the Void pf the Dishonered series.
As for control, I got into it after finding the SCP community and the Volgun channel here on YT. So, from its trailers and dev info at the time, I really had my imagination going.
I can't saynit disappointed at all other than leaving me wanting more, lol. I also loved the Alan Wake tie-in.
Amazing video es always! I really enjoy your content a lot and I am looking forward to the next one! Keep it up!
Thanks for all the support!
You know it’s gonna be a good video when it includes elder scrolls and fallout in the timestamps
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This is sooooo good, thanks!
Glad you liked it! Thanks for the support as always!
A good watch. Thanks for the vid 👌
Glad to hear you enjoyed, thanks for supporting the channel
Alan Wake needed it's own chapter. They're the most mystery filled games I've come across. Everything means something but you never *really* know what it means.
Literally I spent most of this video being wowed and trying to think of other media that made me feel this sense of mystery yet satisfaction in the mystery and I just kept thinking of remedy, especially Alan wake 2. I went through max payne, quantum break, control, and both Alan wakes and seeing how it all ties together in the 2nd game despite keeping the mystery alive was so amazing to see. One of my favorite games of all time
What vtmb did was very unique. The mansion mission is near the very start of the game after you meet some of the other kindred and there’s not an ounce of horror at all until you get to the mansion, then all of a sudden it doesn’t matter that your a vampire with powers you still feel so vulnerable and terrified.
Great video. Made my workday go quicker. Im surprised you chose labyrinth from remedy, but i understand, the game is crazy. Im still intrigued by dark place.
Thanks for watching!
The only thing that keeps me up at night is the screaming.
That might be because I fall asleep to Viking metal though🤔
@@angel8fingers Viking metal for sleeping is nuts lol
@@FranklyGaming I am a Texan, we do have a reputation to live up to!🤣
More of this 🔥
Ya love the mystery stuff
New hour and half long Frankly video? Guess I'm getting no work done this morning.
@@dglodi glad you guys are enjoying the long form!
@@FranklyGaming I think depending on their content, they both have their place. Some are just perfect though.
47:25 whales being alternate dimensional beings in the Witcher is so funny
I wonder if Zenozoik from the Zeno Clash series could warrant a place within the realms of these subjects.
Haven’t heard of this, for future videos may make an appearance if I check it out
@@FranklyGaming I hope it will. Zenozoik and the Zeno Clash games (1 and 2, from 2009 and 2013, as well as the prequel Clash: Artifacts of Chaos) are set in a very weird, bizarre and fascinating lands.
Everybody is a different flavour of monster, chimera, freak, mutant and aberration. The Zenos don't even seem to really designate species and subspecies, there is hardly a concept of central unified culture, language or even currency, and there are people that siimply decide to go insane.
It's not a mental plague or an evil religion, it's simply a conclusion to the nature of being "slaves" to reality, to morality, to love and hate and relationships and grudges, to the needs of the body.
So to be truly free you need to stop caring about even that.
And from there, you choose what you decide will make you happy.
Like believing you need to be invisible, so you pluck out the eyes of everything that can see you. Or believing you need to walk in a straight line all your life.
Colorful, violent and strange. Zenozoik is a fascinating world.
Can you talk about mirror edge world i think its very underrated
Perfect video with a lot of games that have those creepy places, the one of cyberpunk with whatever lives on that place is really interesting i with the Peralez mission was really scary. I dont know if this one does count but is on mgs2, the place where raiden fights the metal gear ray, like where is that place or what is exactly. Its really strange.
@@Slice-tq9fr still need to eventually play the metal gear series, and thanks for watching!
@@FranklyGamingtrust me, mgs2 is something I dont even know what was real or not, really mind bending, and maybe darkwood would also have places like this, you should try it.
Chrono Cross' Dead Sea of Eden is my top 1 mysterious place in video games. A future that shouldn't exist frozen in time.
Discussing Shadow over Hackdirt without once bringing up it's a huge H.P. Lovecraft reference. The story "Shadow over Innsmouth" is about a remote coastal town where people are turning into Deep Ones which are fish people, and sacrifice outsiders to their god, Dagon
Dunwich Borers in Fallout, again, another Lovecraft reference, this time to the story "The Dunwich Horror"
Lovecraft was a pioneer of the cosmic horror genre. His monstrous alien beings were meant to inspire awe while also being unknowable nightmares. Much like you described many of the places in this video as vast, ancient, otherworldly, and/or unreachable, the Great Old Ones and the creatures connected to them are beyond the reach of ordinary humans. Seeing a glimpse of the truth is enough to kill a person, drive them insane, or make them an obsessed cultist (with some modicum of functional insanity).
Good job 🔥🔥🔥
numenera is one of my favorite rpg worlds, i played a numenera game many years ago atp but i still remember how TRANSFIXED i was by the world and just reading the books of game material, if anyone's into dnd/pathfinder/other tabletop games and looking for a new spin, i would recommend checking it out!!
First vid I've seen of yours, and loved it. This is the kind of content that I like to listen to when working or working on something
edit: Double-checked, it's actually the second but I liked that one too
Thanks for watching!
Another one i like a lot is "the maw" in Little Nightmares or "The Nowhere" in Little Nightmares II
"Why those with thalassaphobia should steer clear." Just to be clear if you don't have thalassaphobia, Subnautica will give it to you.
In the elder scrolls oblivion I figured you may bring the crazy place you have to do special things to get too. You have to make a save in frostcraig spire dlc and then delete the dlc then you fall in a black void into a house you can exit and be in a place with very strange stuff you'd just have to see for yourself :)
what should have been in this video is wonder city from batman: arkham city. i used to spend hours there just trying to find out more information about it. but it also creeped me out so bad. that whole game is dark and mysterious, but that area especially.
I never liked the idea that the trees in Ash Lake (Dark Souls) lead to different worlds. It makes much more sense that the gods built their realm on top of all the archtrees as a way of building over the previous age of ancients.
VTMB is one of those games that I really wish they would remake but deep down know it would ruin it if they did. I just wish newer generations could experience some of the classics in a way where they actually could stomach it.
I think BioShock was left out, because the whole game is mysterious until the big twist in the story.
Bioshock is another great one, definitely some more games I’ll have to touch on eventually
love your channel!! i make simple lore videos and this level of production quality is what i aspire to get to :)
Thanks for the support! And keep at it 👍
@@FranklyGaming thanks my dude! you too!!
Subnautica straight up gives me thalassophobia
WAIT!! Is the Ocean View Hotel in Control/AW2 a reference to Ocean House Hotel from vampire the masquerade?!!?
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It’s probably more likely that they’re both references to the Overlook in The Shining
Especially the Ocean House, considering the context of a husband going mad once moving in and attacking his family.
Aw man I weep for what the Dragon Age series could have been.
I think it’s still great for sure, Veilguard hopefully will have great lore and worldbuilding
I dunno I didn't find that vampire the masquerade level scary or creepy it was pretty tame imo
I’m just a baby hahha
I just wanted to recommend a stealth/strategy RPG game that you probably don't have on this list and not a lot of people played it at the time it came out? Aside from me suggesting obvious games for this video like oblivion, the Witcher3 & Fallout type stuff, I wanted to suggest:
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
It's a short 25 hour or less type of AA stealth/turn Based RPG you play as soldiers... genetically enhanced soldiers... It's kind of on the cartoon side, but the atmosphere and tone are really cool, and the story and everything to it is not too long but just right? You do kind of feel like you wished it lasted a little bit longer, but I swear it's a completely unique game that more people should have played because it was so fun in my place through of it?
It was in 2018 when I played it game pass, and I ended up liking it so much that I decided to buy it!!
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It's not the most in-depth game where gameplay or story or anything like that is concerned in comparison to others on this list ... but for what it is worth and judging it as the whole package that it is, I think it's a really good game that I really would like to see a sequel to where they could expand on all of the "XCOM Like" elements that the game has in it?
The main character you play as a duck ?!?!! Who wouldn't like playing as a duck with a crossbow?
Lots of yggdrazil like entries here. Many center of the universe type things.
#2 it’s just a reference to the Shining bruh.
WHO THE HELL IS "JESSE FARDON"???
@@theguyinthere mistakes were made 😂
Me after a glass of milk 😔
Glad I’m not the only one to pause the video here for a double-take.
Every time I see a witcher portal Goatse flashes in my minds eye
My personal scariest area in a game is in silent hill 2 after the 3rd hole in historical society after dropping past the body dump just before the well you find yourself in a dingy mineshaft like structure but what makes that scene particularly horifying is the fucking audio playing in there. Its utterly terrifying. I remember going through that section as a kid and had to do it in shifts. I couldnt beat that section of the game in one playthrough maybe due to my overly active imagination i had thought of horrible and strange imagrey in my mind of what could produce such noises and what ungodly aboninations could be behind the doors in that prison. More games need to leave things to the imagination instead showing poorly made or designed enemies or environments.
Control read House of Leaves
PATHOLOGIC MENTIONED!! Thanks for spreading the good word of Pathologic 2. Honestly the whole town is strange and unnerving, but the polyhedron is probably the best pick.
Comment reader, play Pathologic 2! You will die and you will think and you will love Murky and Artemy Burakh!