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These stories are everything young me ever feared while playing Minecraft. Weird entities, unexplained world changes……. This video would have terrified me
@@lucastheunfunnyguy They were probably lying btw. Man I remember saying lies similar to this to my friends during like elementary school and stuff and they believed me... Good times.. But I still feel like there is probably some entities that are in Minecraft that aren’t lies.
I think he specifically choose slimes as the monsters Markus killed, because their spawn chances in Minecraft are dependent on the moon phase fitting the theme of the series. Nice touch
Unfortunately this is not true in this case as slime's spawn rate is only influenced by moon phase in swamps, and the slimes spawning in Markus' mine is the slime chunk method of spawning.
@@rotisseriepossum No, augmented reality games and alternate reality games are two different things that happen to have the same acronym. Augmented reality is when a game adds something to a real-life image, like Pokemon Go. Alternate reality is when a game uses the real-world as a platform to tell the story.
but where else could this possibly go, you can't just perpetually sustain the eerie environment with no climax, if you think it could be done better why don't you do it yourself?
@@EmiWiwhat do you mean? The best horror stories are the ones who know where to end. They're the ones who have no clear ending. What we make up in our mind will always be more scary than reality, which often ends up underwhelming. You absolutely can sustain an eerie environment with no climax.
@@catscanhavelittleasalami I agree, but horror these days, especially mainstream, is about the narrative, the conclusion that it brings at the end. I also enjoy the horror with no clear conclusion as well, but that’s not what horror is about in recent times. Though, it does seem that people are starting to make vague horror stories like that again.
@@TheWhiteSpy No, not really. Roblox is a game where you are usually filled with other people in the game. Minecraft is empty. Nobody. "Single"player. The world is so incredibly vast, and you are the ONLY sentient being in the world. Are you sure? Is there something else out there? You can't know.
fnaf got ruined so fucking much, honestly the smaller a creepypasta about some monster is, the scarier it is, atleast for me with the exception of few cases
@@user-mn7dk2mt8j Yeah it was, but I miss old creepypasta-style stories, and this story started as one of those. Eventually, when multiple entities were introduced, it lost it's shine- in my opinion.
The character of Markus must be the bravest man in the world. If I saw anything that could qualify as an anomaly in my world then I would leave and never touch the world again.
Heh. In a bedrock world a while ago, I had this weird glitch where a roughly 18 block tall, 12 wide, 1 thin wall of dirt, stone, or other blocks with some tall holes in it would appear out of the ground and occasionally would disappear after relogging. I called the “entity” that made it “Factoryman” because the wall kind of looked like an old factory wall. If I had seen this video I would have left the world and never returned, but nothing ever happened other than the walls.
30:27 Actually this is a bug in old versions where if you walk down a staircase of blocks, not touching each step for long enough to create a footstep sound, it will play every missed footstep sound in quick succession once you do stand on a block long enough again.
OH MY GOD thank you, I was just playing Alpha 1.2.3 and had this EXACT bug happen to me while walking down my mine stairs, and I tried looking it up to no avail, but I still kept this video in my mind. Now I know what it is
So it gets delayed when walking and touching each step. It just counts it and waits until you stand on a block.when you do, the step sounds plays at once.
Id actually be smashing the whole setup, nah you know what… demolish the whole house, wipe the ip, move countries, change names and live my life in the trees somewhere in vietnam alone.
I mean, it is a smart idea and I personally think it was executed well in a majority of the scenes it was presented in. It's easier to animated, with the added addition of making it seem like it's literally eating away at your hardware.
No, it's revealed in season two that they recorded the whole thing in 1.12.2 The entity are model display entities from the "blockbuster" mod The players are also recordings from the same mod. Blockbuster is super handy for creating cinematic stuff in mc
@koboldwizard You're mostly right on that. Though, what's even more confusing now is the identity of the author. Not sure if you've seen the latest videos on this series (they're on The Let's Play Archive channel), but The Author certainly isn't a human being. Not sure if they're a part of the "void beings" since there's some contraditions to that but at this point I am running with it for now lol.
Genezion: Yeah a minecraft letsplay and seeying weird anomalies, also moon became redmarked Finalion: The moon houses teh adnuinspace console, destroctrion of void, arg knowing it being an arg
I'm an adult, but this kinda scares me because it reminds my old fear of playing Minecraft survival alone, because I watched too many Herobrine, Entity 303, and Null videos on UA-cam when I was a kid , it's a weird feeling of a nostalgia
Okay, those void spaghetti shadow demons were actually kinda creepy. Mostly because of how hard they contrast the Minecraft art style. If it had stuck with that angle and followed the more "traditional" corrupt and/or haunted game motif it could have probably been better overall. That second half kinda derailed the plot into some other dimension of absurdity.
* crazy how if it DID stick to the traditional haunted game plot, you people would complain it's unoriginal. there's no pleasing the minecraft creepypasta community i swear
This started off as a interesting creepy pasta but then introduced a bunch of characters and a new plot that I think didn't really need to be added to the story
Indeed. I think that such is often the unfortunate case for a lot of ARGs. They are made by story writers who get too caught up in plot development, and they often forget about what made them scary in the first place.
Yeah, i think people like psi and star mightve been needed but like markus’s friends, checkmark, void entities probably should have had more purpose, maybe these will have more of a purpose in act 2 but idk
It's the I need to overexplain my plot points syndrome, just like any creepypasta/backroom type shit it needs to get shit explained for no reason instead of leaving the unexplainable unexplained or vaguely explained just like the first 15 minutes of this video, giving characters emotions and thoughts is bad because the viewer can imagine something far beyond what the writer's comprehension is, at least FOR HIS OWN entertainment (which is actually the CORECT way to write stories like these if you want most positive feedback). It's exactly like the what's in the dark dillema. You and your friend are taken by force to an undisclosed location and put in 2 different rooms, in the corner of your rooms, total darkness. Your friend gets told that there is a person holding a knife there, he is distressed but you are being told that there is something there in the shadows waiting, no matter what, you will ALWAYS think that the unknown is scarier because your brain makes you the special monster that it knows it will scare you, it's the same with this, those characters could be anyone your brain thinks there is , the monsters could be coming from a lot of places, if it gets explained it stops being a creepypasta/horrorARG and it starts being a basic sci-fi horror-like story. I understand there are ARG fans that like this type of stuff where there are crossovers but I find them overused already.
@ige_3599 The metafiction stuff is super cool but there needed to be a bunch of more intrigue and middle section between the two. You can have "spooky alternate reality invasion through minecraft" and "the whole thing is metafiction that technically IS affecting reality in a memetic way" at the same time... but not if you just brush off the first part and jump into a bunch of weird character narrative and skip to the end point. It weakens the metanarrative punch tons too, IMO.
With how most of these args just seem to lose the plot entirely, i honestly fully believe that itd be better to just end it off at a high note with like a video going "yeah then i stopped playing Minecraft cause i got scared"
True like i'm sad about how they changed the entity design like at first it looked TERRIFYING but then it just got turned into a "oooohhhh spooky horror mod"
@@tl1882 I wouldn't say these ones are realistic but these ones are damn near perfect stories adult check out some Team Fortress 2 ARG the to that I recommend are bad water 2009 and Gunslinger Pro 2009 I don't want to spoil the story so I'm only going to give you the one gimmick that make sure you stories interesting, the rag doll characters with in the game of Gmod in these stories are alive and sentient
I love how this ARG, in some weird way, is a love letter to online story telling and the nature of ARGs themselves. It’s lowkey poetic, but at the same time, amazingly confusing and kinda ridiculous. As a fellow author, it is amazing to see everyone’s creations come to life in such unique ways. Absolute banger of a video, worth the wait, and a solid 11/10
I always thought it was weird how the moon being scary is such a common trope in internet horror. From this to HIS THRONE from Local 58 to the Crescent king from the Monument Mythos to Neptune from Gemni Home Entertainment.
@@henryoppenheimer So with that logic anything paranormal is also a cop-out? If it were lazy then they would all be the same. I admit they have similar themes but all twist it in their own way. It's all about how it's executed.
30:25 this was actually just a bug in older versions of Minecraft! :) If you crouch-walked for a long time, and then stood up again, the game would play all of the un-played step noises in rapid succession!
The moment I saw that “entity sliding out from behind the block” was actually just a png being click-and-dragged into frame, I knew where this was going.
I think this is one of the most high-quality args I've ever seen. When I first started watching this video, my original thought was "Ah, it's another mysterious dark creature in the distance arg," and then I saw that this video was A FULL HOUR LONG. I knew there must have been a reason you made a full-length documentary on this, and I was not disappointed in the slightest. Thank you for making your awesome videos, RGN. :D
This genre of horror is something that is specifically effective to us as its not just something we fear out of instinct, but out of experience. We lived out these fears back in the day and seeing them again like this only adds to our "fond" memories
Holy crap... a couple of weeks ago I found the video from 26:54 in my recommended, watched some snippets of it and looked at the channel, found it weird, then moved on with my day because I didn't understand anything. I seriously didn't know I stumbled upon a wild ARG, feels wild to me.
Also for what I understand, Markus became the new star because the author put him in "star"'s body and made him "go forth and wreak havoc". The author essentially wants a loop to happen
It's a really interesting way to commentate on the nature of ARGs, their popularity, and the follow-ups. There have been many "creepy Minecraft entity" stories and ARGs but this one really stands out because of this, because it can imply that Markus could be Herobrine itself stuck in this loop of "inspired by" media, which like I said, is an interesting way to commentate on the nature of Internet legends and storytelling as a whole. Even if you see it as a "cop-out" then it's a damn good one.
30:27, I don't think that's part of the ARG. Old Minecraft versions had a bug where if you were walking while not on a block (Like shifting off the side of a block) it would continually add walking sounds, then if you stepped on a solid block, it would play them all in short succession.
Fun fact: The moon with red eyes was actually a feature notch discussed on 4chan where in the night the moon would have a chance of a red eye in the middle. However the feature was never added. Also more features were discussed here is a list of them: Crystals - Diamonds and emeralds Hatchet - Axe Sky - old sky demension that was removed Order of the stone-The original title of minecraft
@thefox97652 Yeah, Notch talked about a feature on 4chan, a site where every user is anonymous and it's therefore impossible to determine who's posting, right
@@PILLOWKVLTits not too far off, while i cant verify the validity of OPs claims, notch actually used 4chan to promote the game and update features on /v) a LOT
I know that there is nothing to fear in singleplayer, but I ALWAYS have that slight paranoia that I will notice something changing in my world. It can be anything, from something subtle like door changing material, or my furnace and crafting table switching places. Or I could walk in my home after building something outside, and see that everything is missing inside. I first got this fear from seeing Herobrine videos back in the day, but it slowly faded out. That is until I played GMod for the first time, where playing multiplayer was fun and entertaining, playing singleplayer felt like being always watched. And my fear appeared once again.
You should check out "how Minecraft is secretly a horror game" by RandomSageless. It does a good job of explaining why you're paranoid in singleplayer.
It is this kind of insidious horror that is truly the scariest. Everything being normal except for one or two things you notice are off, like, you swear you closed the door behind you when you last left your house, or, you swear you never placed a torch over there, just little tiny things like that that give you chills up your spine.
playing minecraft PE back in the day was really something else in creative singleplayer. it always seemed so eerie and quiet and everything seemed so... unfinished
This story felt like it started good and then... the silly entities happened to exist. It's like playing the first hour of any F.E.A.R game only for it to lose all the horror and starting a CoD campaign
“Any FEAR game” implies that the series has any cohesion at all, which it doesn’t. What you’re describing sounds most like F3AR, the worst one. IMO the original fear was genuinely good at mixing action and horror, and managed to at times make you feel anxious in spite of the firepower you had.
Not gonna lie once the admins and all the weird meta stuff got introduced my interest in the story itself dropped, but i kept going cause holy shit dude your presentation and ability to tell and explain the story of this weird tale are top notch! Despite the story kinda falling apart for me at the halfway point, god was the effort in this arg/story absurdly top notch!
Spot on. The story started well, but later it just became unbearable because of the metaphysical stuff. Just like you, I only finished the video because of RGN's top quality presentation.
My interest actually went through a rollercoaster. At first I was interested because it resembled the Alpha 16 ARG, then it dropped because it seemed to be "oooo spooky haunted minecrap oooo", then it went back up again when the story turned out to be about void creatures hopping through different universes' versions of Minecraft.
this feels like they tried to get chat gpt to finish the rest of their minecraft alpha story about creepy stuff appearing in low quality footage and it just went WILD
Yeah and star couldve either been one of the moon’s minions or some anomalous entity trying to warn Marcus into deleting the game or something to stop it
The thing about this ARG is that it’s concept is taken to it’s ‘logical conclusion’ which means it inevitably stops being scary in favor of an actual narrative.
I think it's so cool how a lot of these sorts of "Minecraft found footage ARGs" often manage to appear as though they include actual old screen recordings of Windows 7 desktops, I have tried before, and it is very hard to accurately portray what appears to be a screen recording on some crappy desktop in 2010, they get the resolution, Aero being disabled due to low-end hardware, using Internet Explorer, and Windows Media Player, having realistic files on the filesystem, the date being set correctly, and so many other little details correct. I love attention to detail, especially in things like this.
Unfortunately the Internet Explorer version is anachronistic: it looks like IE11, which was not released until 2013. This is basically unavoidable as I think most websites will refuse to connect a client running anything older than IE11.
This is sooo cool! I keep on coming back to it as well as your other mc vids, they are just so fascinating! And also the massive change from an almost downright cryptic mystery , to so much character development with ⭐️ and the void beings!
this is nostalgic. Reminds me of the old Herobrine videos I'd watch the shit out of back in the early 2010s as a kid. Back when the scariest shit to me was herobrine, the daylight owl, and Music Disc 11. To this day I still adore Music Discs 11 and 13, they're such a fascinating left-field addition to the game that just ask so many questions.
Finally! I found someone who remembers.. although the music discs have been debunked by matpat… honestly adding them to herobrines arg was really dumb… it has like nothing to do with it, and the fact that people didn’t thought of putting them together next to each other when played is really hurting my brain by it’s stupidity but sure.. old civilisation of builders and stuff.
@@MrDespair1983 really old youtube webseries from the beta days of minecraft. the first season is really neat, it's similar to herobrine but with a more fantasy twist. seasons 2 and 3 shifted the tone to a Shadow of Israphel knockoff sadly
I don't like that it turned from a horror ARG to a meta one (I would've much preferred Markus gathering his friends and attempting to hopelessly defend against the void and eventually losing if we're going the corruption of the world route) but overall I love the ARG and despite how meta it got, I like the message behind it. This makes me wonder if servers like 2b2t could defend against this (and other creepypastas) before it even happened.
When I first started watching I assumed this was another "spooky shadow Boi crawls through the laptop and kills the author ARG" but I was pleasantly surprised by how well it was made , good video by the way
Geez. Literally 10 minutes into the video I was like "oh that's a kinda creepy story, cool" and then I looked at the time and realized it's an hour long... oh dear. This is one of those cases where I think less is more.
I feel like the series got less scary as time went on. as it went on, it got more narrative-driven (which is fine, i thought the transition was smooth), but i wish it still kept its spookiness with its "fear of the unknown" throughout the whole thing. also, the pictures of the void beings in real life made me laugh out loud. in conclusion, its a good series, i just hope season 2 brings back the horror aspect
I like so much the different "stages" we get in this series. I specially loved the sky base, it gave me early fan-made counter-strike deathmatch maps, untextured, labyrinthic, I love it.
The idea of something being on your world is an oversaturated concept, but I feel this story real knocked it out of the park in the first part. The void beings and the eye on the moon really gave me a sense of uneasiness, and really nailed the "something isn't right here" feeling that most ARG's strive for. But I immediately rolled my eyes when the writer(s) introduced Sector 4 and this "adminspace" stuff. I felt like if the writer(s) just left out the irl stuff and just focused on the unknown aura of these void beings, this would have been an outstanding ARG. It went from genuinely creepy and eerie sightings in and alpha Minecraft world, to being on the moon and fighting some sort of sentient A.I.??? This story got so stretched out of proportions, and I feel the moon storyline should have just been dropped. And the A.I. thing could have been executed better. Perhaps make the A.I. literally hide in the code of the Alpha save, where the main protagonist has to find a way to purge it out of his system with interactions in-game and through coding/modding. Overall, this ARG had potential, but just went overboard with the cyberspace stuff, which really contrasted and clashed with the original plot.
Aw man this brings back those days of pure curiosity and mystery while playing minecraft. I remember being absolutely terrified of the smallest obscurities in my world. I’d psych myself out so many times over nothing. I miss it.
It's depressing. It began interesting and scary, but just like FNAF and so many other actually popular ARGs it turned into something other than what it was meant to be. No longer a horror story like it was originally, instead a story with a very unsatisfying ending.
The weird sound being played when he first loads the corrupted world is from the hl2 beta, it was going to be used as a transmission sound effect in the citadel but was scrapped after the leak
I got a little lost on the story once the adminspace was introduced, but I really liked the usage of the moon throughout the entire ARG. Also the void beings not just existing as minecraft skins and instead CG'd figures in the distance was better imo, it made the void creatures more ominous because they didn't look like anything else at all. Even with the weird adminspace business, the ARG was amazing and well executed, thanks for publicizing it!
@@plantboy6249 Backrooms also explains the monster while also not explaining it at the same time. Everytime it explains something, it introduces a new thing that it DOESN'T explain, and I like that
The thing that makes a good horror is leaving the unknown making the viewer think they might of experienced it or it could happen and And make it realistic as if it happens or happened or could and last but not least the most scary It's based on a true story
I'm surprised how brave Marks is to go trough all of those stuff. Once while I was playing minecraft Beta I was hearing strange noises and I just left and never rejoined back to that world
this was scary because of the fear of the unkown but then it got to the weird white world and other players started joining and all immersion was lost like bro one player has a endgame reference on their skin
Love how the void beings very obviously went from either some kind of imposed image or manipulated texture of something that looks super uncanny in minecraft to silly not entirely out of place looking in game entities
This is by far the strangest video I've ever scene. It genuinely freaked me out at first but then when there was this new texture packed world and new random characters came out of nowhere it became more like a blade runner or futuristic type plot. It was very interesting though, even when the plot completely shifted, it still was interesting, not very creepy though, just random. Overall, Good video
One thing I really appreciate in this channel is since it's using alpha minecraft, there is no creative mode, so they had to make all of this stuff from scratch which is some true dedication
The site being on Neocities kind of messes up the whole idea of this taking place in 2010. Neocities didn't exist until 2013, so it seems likely that the URL being visible was a mistake by the series creator and not an actual clue. EDIT: After seeing the full interpretation, this could be intentional. It shows that this does not actually take place during 2010, which according to this interpretation is an integral part of the story.
Dear BrokenLynx, I have noticed that the site has been updated and since you were talking about the site I was keen to reply. Now it seems more like a death threat and is extremely conspicuous even saying that 'the end is nigh' with a gif attached. Thank you. I hope you respond soon an quick
The Internet Explorer version is anachronistic in any case: it looks like IE11, which also wasn’t released until 2013. This is hard to get around as making the ARG probably required working Internet and many websites will refuse service to anyone running an IE version older than 11.
I've always felt a sense of uneasiness in Minecraft like there was something............ evil In the emptiness of the world. This series reinforces that feeling.
@@amjkodaz That loneliness terrified me. I could never play survival alone, when I was playing by myself I always loaded into creative for that feeling of safety.
@@rebelliccanadianpilot6513 Same, it took me years to finally decide to play in survival, first I played in pacific, then I tried playing with the normal difficulty. I think the feeling of loneliness and emptiness is due to the fact that the overworld lacks of ambience noise. I compare the nether to the overworld, for me the nether feels more "full" because of the sound ambience.
Holy crap, another hour of an incredible ARG. You covered the last Minecraft ARG so well! I absolutely love your style of storytelling and I honestly cannot wait for the next one. Thank you for entertaining my mystery-loving brain for an entire hour.
The fact that this story started off as "Creepy Things I Caught On My Minecraft World" series, transitioned into "Let's save this gosh damn world", ended off as a "You are not real and this is a Matrix" story, and *is currently* continuing...it's so disappointing. It's like Petscop but if Petscop was a FNAF-type of creepypasta thing.
I was the only scared at and before the mother giving birth to her children part But then it got goofy when the star people came and "used" his account.
honestly the whole first part is scary as hell, and then at the end it just gets corny as hell. they should have just left it alone instead of going through with the “plot twist”
When Markus is turned into Star, he is told to infect someones minecraft Beta... I think he infects Markus's Minecraft beta, which brings it full circle. It also sort of gives a reason to how it all started.
What a disappointing route this ARG took. It started off being genuinely terrifying. The sounds made me curl up in my chair, the scenes of panic from Markus were infective and genuinely made my heart race. Even the entities and unexplained world changes were creepy and gave me chills. But as soon as the Sector 4 and everything with that got introduced, it got genuinely less creepy. It felt more like some strange intergalactic fanfiction. The entities were still kinda creepy at that point but the more they got explained and the more time we spent in the Moonbase and Adminspace the more value they lost as horror creatures. I hope with the next installment of this series they stick to the horror and leave out the frankly unnecessary Admin and Dev stuff.
For me it stopped being scary after first two white rooms things with star and then the second player guy after that. Then I thought that they both maybe are trying to stop the anomalies that are spreading from some another world but even they are failing with their command server becoming destroyed too. Then the weird dimention travel began. And finally it kind of was confirmed to be not real inside it's own universe, making it less real than my imagined multiverse, where it's canonically real inside itself, while being a world below this one in hirerarchy No, they just made basically everything a story in it's lore, which was even worse that becoming a science fiction. And to add to it, I'm one of the people who liked backrooms more as another universe than a creepy place, so me not liking this story really shows that it wasn't a good plot twist
This... Act 1 feels like a neat meta-commentary on the nature of Minecraft ARGs, and how many authors feel the need to spiral things further and further into absurdity to retain audiances.
I love how Markus is completely unfazed by ✺'s threats at the end. He's just so done with everything, and it gives him the means to defeat the antagonist, as it were.
30:26 Actually, this may be just normal Alpha behavior. There was a bug for a while where when you walked on the edge of a block, it didn't play the walking noise, but when you went back to the center of the block, it played those noises in rapid succession.
@@shirakotakamotogd Sorta? If I had to guess, the sounds get queued to play but they don't actually play until you walk to the center of the block due to different conditions for queuing and playing sounds. Just a guess, though. I imagine even if I read the source code with RetroMCP symbols I couldn't figure it out.
I’m really sad the story got turned into a generic space horror type thing; I really like the idea of the moon being an influence over the world, but when all of that hacker bullshit trying to save the world came over, it lost me immediately. I hope the creators can improve from that
Act 2 has been a thing for a few months, maybe it's what you've been looking for The creator entirely changed the concept though, most likely since the first act was improvised and was hard to work with, part of act 1 is still there though
Interesting thing, the "Skybox" may have been the "Server" that was around before Multiplayer. Meaning before we got the system that we have now they had to use man made worlds with doors connected to one minecraft seed to another.
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Worth the wait! Love your content!
amazing
I understand why people love to make Minecraft creepy content in Alpha, but why not beta or release? I can see possibilities with those versions
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Yay you uploaded! Quality over quantity!!
These stories are everything young me ever feared while playing Minecraft. Weird entities, unexplained world changes……. This video would have terrified me
My friend sayed he saw like a doom boss in the void💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Yeah but at this point its getting cheesy
Bro this is like the same exact thing for me! Lol
@@lucastheunfunnyguy They were probably lying btw. Man I remember saying lies similar to this to my friends during like elementary school and stuff and they believed me... Good times.. But I still feel like there is probably some entities that are in Minecraft that aren’t lies.
@@mikeobannion2129 except its a game so no there are not
I think he specifically choose slimes as the monsters Markus killed, because their spawn chances in Minecraft are dependent on the moon phase fitting the theme of the series. Nice touch
Nice catch!
Unfortunately this is not true in this case as slime's spawn rate is only influenced by moon phase in swamps, and the slimes spawning in Markus' mine is the slime chunk method of spawning.
@@maqma_2118🤓🤓
@@maqma_2118 Still quite neat, either way!
@@maqma_2118 Yeah I'm not saying the exact method is the same but it's still linked to it
These ARGs describes perfectly the feeling of Minecraft in development when you start to play it
What’s an ARG?
@@swiftsword6489 "Alternate Reality Game"
I disagree. This is very strange and bizarre. Scary, even. Sure, Minecraft can be scary sometimes, but not it's not like this.
@@erickjoestar1561 it’s ‘augmented reality game.’ not sure why the ‘alternate’ misconception has caught on
@@rotisseriepossum No, augmented reality games and alternate reality games are two different things that happen to have the same acronym. Augmented reality is when a game adds something to a real-life image, like Pokemon Go. Alternate reality is when a game uses the real-world as a platform to tell the story.
This turns to "creepypasta" to "horror story" to "goofy movie". Literally.
Yeah, pretty weird, It was creepy, then it just turned into a fucking “Hero Vs Villain”
but where else could this possibly go, you can't just perpetually sustain the eerie environment with no climax, if you think it could be done better why don't you do it yourself?
@@EmiWiwhat do you mean? The best horror stories are the ones who know where to end. They're the ones who have no clear ending. What we make up in our mind will always be more scary than reality, which often ends up underwhelming. You absolutely can sustain an eerie environment with no climax.
@@catscanhavelittleasalami I agree, but horror these days, especially mainstream, is about the narrative, the conclusion that it brings at the end. I also enjoy the horror with no clear conclusion as well, but that’s not what horror is about in recent times. Though, it does seem that people are starting to make vague horror stories like that again.
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I SERIOUSLY missed this kind of creepy minecraft found footage type stuff. This is the kind of stuff that gave me nightmares as a kid.
God I miss herobrine lol
@@Mentelgen-1337 i miss the monster school without the cringe 😔
roblox footage archieves are more scarier.
@@TheWhiteSpy No, not really. Roblox is a game where you are usually filled with other people in the game. Minecraft is empty. Nobody. "Single"player. The world is so incredibly vast, and you are the ONLY sentient being in the world. Are you sure? Is there something else out there? You can't know.
Still does. never playing Minecraft lol
This story was FNAF'ed. What started as a genuinely eerie, horror story turned into another inter-galactic story about saving the world.
fnaf got ruined so fucking much, honestly the smaller a creepypasta about some monster is, the scarier it is, atleast for me with the exception of few cases
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Dude it was more original than others,tf you talking about?
@@user-mn7dk2mt8j Yeah it was, but I miss old creepypasta-style stories, and this story started as one of those. Eventually, when multiple entities were introduced, it lost it's shine- in my opinion.
The character of Markus must be the bravest man in the world. If I saw anything that could qualify as an anomaly in my world then I would leave and never touch the world again.
He deadass told Star "I'm not afraid of your noodle friends" referring to the void entities, he's a badass
Heh. In a bedrock world a while ago, I had this weird glitch where a roughly 18 block tall, 12 wide, 1 thin wall of dirt, stone, or other blocks with some tall holes in it would appear out of the ground and occasionally would disappear after relogging.
I called the “entity” that made it “Factoryman” because the wall kind of looked like an old factory wall.
If I had seen this video I would have left the world and never returned, but nothing ever happened other than the walls.
well also because i doubt anything in a fictional game could really harm you in reality
@@firemayro The highest damage I think a fictional game can cause is mental trauma
Put the Hard Drive that has the affected world on it in the Microwave and turn the Microwave on
I came here to watch a minecraft alpha creepypasta, but this turned into a story where the real world is at risk because a minecraft entity 💀
Which makes no sense considering how Minecraft is a game that has next-to-no impact on the real world
@@amethyphoenixand ARG mean alternate reality game so it makes sense for it to also take place in the real world
30:27 Actually this is a bug in old versions where if you walk down a staircase of blocks, not touching each step for long enough to create a footstep sound, it will play every missed footstep sound in quick succession once you do stand on a block long enough again.
OH MY GOD thank you, I was just playing Alpha 1.2.3 and had this EXACT bug happen to me while walking down my mine stairs, and I tried looking it up to no avail, but I still kept this video in my mind. Now I know what it is
now that i think of it, it still happens to me sometimes in multiplayer
@@redranjer that's just lag, not a bug
So it gets delayed when walking and touching each step. It just counts it and waits until you stand on a block.when you do, the step sounds plays at once.
"actually" - 🤓
13:58 imagine being chased by a weird creature in Minecraft and the framerate is so low you can barely run from it.
Id actually be smashing the whole setup, nah you know what… demolish the whole house, wipe the ip, move countries, change names and live my life in the trees somewhere in vietnam alone.
@@andrewduncan6972 LOL i would actually do the same
@@andrewduncan6972 respectable
It's like these dreams where you have to run but struggle to move your legs.
@@tashkent561 or when you get kidnapped, and you can't scream
It’s so interesting seeing UA-camrs make series like this. It’s like the Minecraft equivalent of analog horror videos
that's actually becoming a new genre of horror, called digital horror
Digital Horror, to be exact (I’m a nerd🤓)
Now what is: 7 • 7 = ?
@@jasonthebeast1454 49.
Bruh really?
I find it funny how whenever an entity is around, they drop the framerate to make it easier to edit the entity in
Yeah, and it even works 😂
That kinda concept of the frames dropping when something terrifying is near has been a thing in text creepypastas for over 10 years tho
I mean, it is a smart idea and I personally think it was executed well in a majority of the scenes it was presented in. It's easier to animated, with the added addition of making it seem like it's literally eating away at your hardware.
No, it's revealed in season two that they recorded the whole thing in 1.12.2
The entity are model display entities from the "blockbuster" mod
The players are also recordings from the same mod.
Blockbuster is super handy for creating cinematic stuff in mc
@@AvogodosCorneroh so maybe theyre just super high poly models and actually lag the game that much lol
This is like if an AI wrote a Minecraft creepypasta and this group is acting it out
Ever heard of ChatGPT?
@@MCAlexisYT no
@@MCAlexisYT yes lol
Accurate.
@@MCAlexisYT nah i remember AlongCameJosh tho
The beginning: Ooh thats spooky
The end: I have no idea what is even happening anymore.
haha legit
@koboldwizard You're mostly right on that. Though, what's even more confusing now is the identity of the author. Not sure if you've seen the latest videos on this series (they're on The Let's Play Archive channel), but The Author certainly isn't a human being. Not sure if they're a part of the "void beings" since there's some contraditions to that but at this point I am running with it for now lol.
Beginning: Oh a random minecraft alpha mystery.... that's *interesting*
End: *WHAT THE FUCK* did I just watched
Genezion: Yeah a minecraft letsplay and seeying weird anomalies, also moon became redmarked
Finalion: The moon houses teh adnuinspace console, destroctrion of void, arg knowing it being an arg
@@埊 real lmao
I'm an adult, but this kinda scares me because it reminds my old fear of playing Minecraft survival alone, because I watched too many Herobrine, Entity 303, and Null videos on UA-cam when I was a kid , it's a weird feeling of a nostalgia
Same!! I couldn't even play in pacific
HAHAHAHA MY GUY SAME
Although only Herobrine convinced me, the others are cringe imo ever since i learned abt coding
Bro even me when i hear cave sound then i leave so fast when i was kid i think it was entity
As an ass this dosent scare me
Okay, those void spaghetti shadow demons were actually kinda creepy. Mostly because of how hard they contrast the Minecraft art style.
If it had stuck with that angle and followed the more "traditional" corrupt and/or haunted game motif it could have probably been better overall.
That second half kinda derailed the plot into some other dimension of absurdity.
* crazy how if it DID stick to the traditional haunted game plot, you people would complain it's unoriginal. there's no pleasing the minecraft creepypasta community i swear
@@edge_ieloser no one would have complained, people are only complaining because it didn't go that way.
I agree I feel like the second half could've been something on its own
@@somebody-te5gy yeah it just confused me how they were connected tbh
This started off as a interesting creepy pasta but then introduced a bunch of characters and a new plot that I think didn't really need to be added to the story
Indeed. I think that such is often the unfortunate case for a lot of ARGs. They are made by story writers who get too caught up in plot development, and they often forget about what made them scary in the first place.
Yeah, i think people like psi and star mightve been needed but like markus’s friends, checkmark, void entities probably should have had more purpose, maybe these will have more of a purpose in act 2 but idk
I agree, it stopped being scary but it was still interesting nonetheless
It's the I need to overexplain my plot points syndrome, just like any creepypasta/backroom type shit it needs to get shit explained for no reason instead of leaving the unexplainable unexplained or vaguely explained just like the first 15 minutes of this video, giving characters emotions and thoughts is bad because the viewer can imagine something far beyond what the writer's comprehension is, at least FOR HIS OWN entertainment (which is actually the CORECT way to write stories like these if you want most positive feedback). It's exactly like the what's in the dark dillema. You and your friend are taken by force to an undisclosed location and put in 2 different rooms, in the corner of your rooms, total darkness. Your friend gets told that there is a person holding a knife there, he is distressed but you are being told that there is something there in the shadows waiting, no matter what, you will ALWAYS think that the unknown is scarier because your brain makes you the special monster that it knows it will scare you, it's the same with this, those characters could be anyone your brain thinks there is , the monsters could be coming from a lot of places, if it gets explained it stops being a creepypasta/horrorARG and it starts being a basic sci-fi horror-like story. I understand there are ARG fans that like this type of stuff where there are crossovers but I find them overused already.
@ige_3599 The metafiction stuff is super cool but there needed to be a bunch of more intrigue and middle section between the two. You can have "spooky alternate reality invasion through minecraft" and "the whole thing is metafiction that technically IS affecting reality in a memetic way" at the same time... but not if you just brush off the first part and jump into a bunch of weird character narrative and skip to the end point. It weakens the metanarrative punch tons too, IMO.
Just imagine what would happen if Markus and all his friends were in a voice call
Chaos.
Just incoherent screaming and chatting
@@Amogusrath "I'm gonna put my cat on the mic"
@@isle-unto-thyself *MMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW*
"MARKUS WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING"
"ima troll this star guy real quick, watch me"
scariest part is 3:13 where Marcus uses a lever to open a wooden door
i cannot sleep anymore after this realization.
@@pentagr6m Same
This made me sleep in my moms bed 😳
@penta same sadly
It’s kinda scary because sound
With how most of these args just seem to lose the plot entirely, i honestly fully believe that itd be better to just end it off at a high note with like a video going "yeah then i stopped playing Minecraft cause i got scared"
the beginning was actually quite creepy but then it turned into the goofiest story ever
True like i'm sad about how they changed the entity design like at first it looked TERRIFYING but then it just got turned into a "oooohhhh spooky horror mod"
@@bropels just once i'd like to see a realistic arg
@@tl1882 yeah but for me I would actually like to see an arg that actually makes me terrified for the night and the next day dude
@@tl1882 I wouldn't say these ones are realistic but these ones are damn near perfect stories adult check out some Team Fortress 2 ARG the to that I recommend are bad water 2009 and Gunslinger Pro 2009 I don't want to spoil the story so I'm only going to give you the one gimmick that make sure you stories interesting, the rag doll characters with in the game of Gmod in these stories are alive and sentient
True
I love how this ARG, in some weird way, is a love letter to online story telling and the nature of ARGs themselves. It’s lowkey poetic, but at the same time, amazingly confusing and kinda ridiculous. As a fellow author, it is amazing to see everyone’s creations come to life in such unique ways. Absolute banger of a video, worth the wait, and a solid 11/10
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I completely agree, a very well made ARG that manages to go meta in its unique way, kudos to THE author
man named himself an author💀💀💀💀
I find it an interesting parallel to the actual minecraft end poem, which touches on the nature of creating.
@@szeretemahansant226 Brian Griffin headass
I always thought it was weird how the moon being scary is such a common trope in internet horror. From this to HIS THRONE from Local 58 to the Crescent king from the Monument Mythos to Neptune from Gemni Home Entertainment.
Maybe if it didn't have that spooky face lookin thing on it, it would be less creepy.
Humanity is beginning to sense the sentience emanating from the moon
The moon has always been a symbol of mystery in many cultures. Not really strange to see its representation in this way in horror
Yeah it's a lazy horror cop-out imo
@@henryoppenheimer
So with that logic anything paranormal is also a cop-out?
If it were lazy then they would all be the same. I admit they have similar themes but all twist it in their own way. It's all about how it's executed.
The beginning was peak horror but then it turned into a goofy save the world movie
Watch whole arg
I did and it’s still dumb. Very cliche ending
This guy is the equivalent to a professional movie director
Ya
The voices
Facts
rgn or mark101?
@@thumbgoblin4716 pretty sure the comment meant rgn but honestly they're both incredible story tellers
6:34 seeing the ladders spaced like that just gave me so much nostalgia
30:25 this was actually just a bug in older versions of Minecraft! :)
If you crouch-walked for a long time, and then stood up again, the game would play all of the un-played step noises in rapid succession!
The moment I saw that “entity sliding out from behind the block” was actually just a png being click-and-dragged into frame, I knew where this was going.
Honestly the story went downhill after that
I'm really losing faith in the SCP company to actually secure and contain these creatures.
The SCP Foundation Aint A Company Its A Foundation
Ämöng Üs
They “guarantee safety and peace” until they hear you say that, haha
This is all because of the damn 05-13 he nuked the entire site
theres an sco that is actually stuck in minecraft and is contained in minecraft
I think this is one of the most high-quality args I've ever seen. When I first started watching this video, my original thought was "Ah, it's another mysterious dark creature in the distance arg," and then I saw that this video was A FULL HOUR LONG. I knew there must have been a reason you made a full-length documentary on this, and I was not disappointed in the slightest. Thank you for making your awesome videos, RGN. :D
I’m only now seeing it’s an hour long, at the end of the video. It felt like 20 minutes to me
@@Robert-mn1uw Same, that hour went by fast. 100% worth it.
@@MalcolmKeithGaming I liked the arg however the admin stuff and star ruined the mystery and the explaining stuff.
Seriously! It continued to surprise me as it went on, and it's only Act I!
You should watch “garfilled” ‘exploring abanded servers.’ It’s still one of my favorites to this day
This genre of horror is something that is specifically effective to us as its not just something we fear out of instinct, but out of experience. We lived out these fears back in the day and seeing them again like this only adds to our "fond" memories
I hate creepy creatures
Analogue horror
Analog horror is what it is called
@@NewDonta analog horror is horror captured with analog technology, I'm talking specifically minecraft based horror
@@bluejay117 oh okay but the beggining of it was kind of in the analogue genre
I really hate it when args add other players/friends. The feeling of being alone, just makes it that much more eerie.
"a mother giving birth to her child" is the scariest line given the context because there's so little and it's just so random
probably the void giving birth to void beings
Mate i see a man on a hill 🗣️👤🗣️🫁🫁🫁
Huh
Holy crap... a couple of weeks ago I found the video from 26:54 in my recommended, watched some snippets of it and looked at the channel, found it weird, then moved on with my day because I didn't understand anything.
I seriously didn't know I stumbled upon a wild ARG, feels wild to me.
Part way through I wondered how confused someone would be if they stumbled upon some of the videos, it’s something I find funny about these channels.
✺?
*founds a wild ARG*
*wild battle music kicks in*
"What will drag do?"
*selects run*
"Got away safely!"
@@brokenflyingcat4213 probably not, cause the moon was affected too
@@NeverEndingFire13 ✺.
Also for what I understand, Markus became the new star because the author put him in "star"'s body and made him "go forth and wreak havoc". The author essentially wants a loop to happen
It's a really interesting way to commentate on the nature of ARGs, their popularity, and the follow-ups. There have been many "creepy Minecraft entity" stories and ARGs but this one really stands out because of this, because it can imply that Markus could be Herobrine itself stuck in this loop of "inspired by" media, which like I said, is an interesting way to commentate on the nature of Internet legends and storytelling as a whole. Even if you see it as a "cop-out" then it's a damn good one.
That's what I thought too.
I feel like around 20:00 it got less and less realistic, the “anomaly” looks like it was edited in because of how smooth it moved
that actually scared me
Loving the name changes.
"Mystery of Mark101"
"Layers of the void"
"Strange sightings on an Alpha minecraft channel"
"65Mystery"
"65Mystery"
"65Mystery"
idk what this means, but continue the chain
“65Mystery”
also no idea what this means, but continue the chain
"65Mystery" I in truth as well have no idea what this means but the chain must continue
30:27, I don't think that's part of the ARG. Old Minecraft versions had a bug where if you were walking while not on a block (Like shifting off the side of a block) it would continually add walking sounds, then if you stepped on a solid block, it would play them all in short succession.
Like I guess Mario 64 BLJ but without the jumping or something?
Nice catch - I didn't remember that bug!
yeah! i still play old versions and that bug constantly freaks me out
Fun fact: The moon with red eyes was actually a feature notch discussed on 4chan where in the night the moon would have a chance of a red eye in the middle. However the feature was never added. Also more features were discussed here is a list of them:
Crystals - Diamonds and emeralds
Hatchet - Axe
Sky - old sky demension that was removed
Order of the stone-The original title of minecraft
this fills me with pure sadness that it was never added
My sadness is immeasurable and my day is ruined
Stop lying
@thefox97652 Yeah, Notch talked about a feature on 4chan, a site where every user is anonymous and it's therefore impossible to determine who's posting, right
@@PILLOWKVLTits not too far off, while i cant verify the validity of OPs claims, notch actually used 4chan to promote the game and update features on /v) a LOT
Maybe Nintendo would sue
Turned from "creepypasta" to "horror movie" to "4th wall breaker movie"
I know that there is nothing to fear in singleplayer, but I ALWAYS have that slight paranoia that I will notice something changing in my world. It can be anything, from something subtle like door changing material, or my furnace and crafting table switching places. Or I could walk in my home after building something outside, and see that everything is missing inside. I first got this fear from seeing Herobrine videos back in the day, but it slowly faded out. That is until I played GMod for the first time, where playing multiplayer was fun and entertaining, playing singleplayer felt like being always watched. And my fear appeared once again.
You should check out "how Minecraft is secretly a horror game" by RandomSageless. It does a good job of explaining why you're paranoid in singleplayer.
There was something in your world
It is this kind of insidious horror that is truly the scariest. Everything being normal except for one or two things you notice are off, like, you swear you closed the door behind you when you last left your house, or, you swear you never placed a torch over there, just little tiny things like that that give you chills up your spine.
playing minecraft PE back in the day was really something else in creative singleplayer. it always seemed so eerie and quiet and everything seemed so... unfinished
@@junolysses yeah I remember how I spooked by an enderman and start observing on distance, then try to capture it just for teleport in front of me.
This story felt like it started good and then... the silly entities happened to exist.
It's like playing the first hour of any F.E.A.R game only for it to lose all the horror and starting a CoD campaign
happens when you abandon a good idea for child engagement
nuh uh FEAR 2 is my favorite game I will not accept any criticism of it
“Any FEAR game” implies that the series has any cohesion at all, which it doesn’t. What you’re describing sounds most like F3AR, the worst one. IMO the original fear was genuinely good at mixing action and horror, and managed to at times make you feel anxious in spite of the firepower you had.
400th like
except FEAR’s combat is interesting and dynamic
Not gonna lie once the admins and all the weird meta stuff got introduced my interest in the story itself dropped, but i kept going cause holy shit dude your presentation and ability to tell and explain the story of this weird tale are top notch! Despite the story kinda falling apart for me at the halfway point, god was the effort in this arg/story absurdly top notch!
Spot on. The story started well, but later it just became unbearable because of the metaphysical stuff. Just like you, I only finished the video because of RGN's top quality presentation.
For me it was the opposite, before that it was "scary thing does boo" ,but then the story became interesting.
Opposite for me.
My interest actually went through a rollercoaster. At first I was interested because it resembled the Alpha 16 ARG, then it dropped because it seemed to be "oooo spooky haunted minecrap oooo", then it went back up again when the story turned out to be about void creatures hopping through different universes' versions of Minecraft.
I was really into it at the beginning, thinking of star, etc being the "parents" of some kind of digital parasite
this feels like they tried to get chat gpt to finish the rest of their minecraft alpha story about creepy stuff appearing in low quality footage and it just went WILD
Honestly it was still enjoyable to me as just a silly story
If the ARG peaked at a planet-sized monster shedding the moon as its shell and trying to inhabit earth, I think it would have been much better.
Like Local58?
Holy shit this would be scary
Yeah and star couldve either been one of the moon’s minions or some anomalous entity trying to warn Marcus into deleting the game or something to stop it
Dead space vibes
Isn’t that the dont look at the moon mc arg
The horror peaked by playing with the whole feeling of ‘there’s unknown entities in Minecraft’ angle.
Everything after that was a different genre.
The thing about this ARG is that it’s concept is taken to it’s ‘logical conclusion’ which means it inevitably stops being scary in favor of an actual narrative.
Yea but the actual narrative is kinda goofy and poorly written.
This wouldn't be a problem if the actual narrative was good. However it's... Mediocre at best.
yeah because the orignal story was sooo scawwy. oh no there's a red dot on the moon im scared!!
@xn6963 still better than a high stakes "Gotta save the world" thing.
@@catscanhavelittleasalamistill better than most Minecraft creepypastas
The Moon base alpha killed me lmao
Is no one else worried about the guide on what to do if the anomaly has "gained sentience" on that website in the beginning?
8 Beings gaining Sentience? Kinda like HB and Null eh?
The ARG went from classic "There is something wrong with my Minecraft world" creepypasta to fucking Third Impact
"it all, returns, to bedrock, it all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down"
get on the game shinji
Oh my god, evangelicals mentioned
shinji, get on the skybox shinji
Get in the moon Shinji
I think it's so cool how a lot of these sorts of "Minecraft found footage ARGs" often manage to appear as though they include actual old screen recordings of Windows 7 desktops, I have tried before, and it is very hard to accurately portray what appears to be a screen recording on some crappy desktop in 2010, they get the resolution, Aero being disabled due to low-end hardware, using Internet Explorer, and Windows Media Player, having realistic files on the filesystem, the date being set correctly, and so many other little details correct. I love attention to detail, especially in things like this.
i really think they just get a really old machine and record the footage on it lol
Unfortunately the Internet Explorer version is anachronistic: it looks like IE11, which was not released until 2013. This is basically unavoidable as I think most websites will refuse to connect a client running anything older than IE11.
they probably use some kind of virtual machine
@@Daemon4 They also could have used a virtual machine, which would be easier to set up as it doesn't require a whole 'nother PC.
This is sooo cool!
I keep on coming back to it as well as your other mc vids, they are just so fascinating!
And also the massive change from an almost downright cryptic mystery , to so much character development with ⭐️ and the void beings!
this is nostalgic. Reminds me of the old Herobrine videos I'd watch the shit out of back in the early 2010s as a kid. Back when the scariest shit to me was herobrine, the daylight owl, and Music Disc 11.
To this day I still adore Music Discs 11 and 13, they're such a fascinating left-field addition to the game that just ask so many questions.
Finally! I found someone who remembers.. although the music discs have been debunked by matpat… honestly adding them to herobrines arg was really dumb… it has like nothing to do with it, and the fact that people didn’t thought of putting them together next to each other when played is really hurting my brain by it’s stupidity but sure.. old civilisation of builders and stuff.
WHAT IN THE UNHOLY HELL IS THE DAYLIGHT OWL?!
@@MrDespair1983 really old youtube webseries from the beta days of minecraft. the first season is really neat, it's similar to herobrine but with a more fantasy twist. seasons 2 and 3 shifted the tone to a Shadow of Israphel knockoff sadly
imagine if this arg was published in 2010, jesus, it would make people go crazy
Old Minecraft before Microsoft took over and neutered it was really good.
I don't like that it turned from a horror ARG to a meta one (I would've much preferred Markus gathering his friends and attempting to hopelessly defend against the void and eventually losing if we're going the corruption of the world route) but overall I love the ARG and despite how meta it got, I like the message behind it.
This makes me wonder if servers like 2b2t could defend against this (and other creepypastas) before it even happened.
2b2t would find a way to lag out Star.
2b2t players are capable of everything, a creepypasta would be no match for them
What is the difference between them? (Horror ARG vs Meta ARG)
Every 2b2t player has the capacity and potential to become a creepypasta in themselves.
FitMC the next day: How 2b2t players turned a killer virus into a lag machine
When I first started watching I assumed this was another "spooky shadow Boi crawls through the laptop and kills the author ARG" but I was pleasantly surprised by how well it was made , good video by the way
Geez. Literally 10 minutes into the video I was like "oh that's a kinda creepy story, cool" and then I looked at the time and realized it's an hour long... oh dear. This is one of those cases where I think less is more.
I feel like the series got less scary as time went on. as it went on, it got more narrative-driven (which is fine, i thought the transition was smooth), but i wish it still kept its spookiness with its "fear of the unknown" throughout the whole thing. also, the pictures of the void beings in real life made me laugh out loud. in conclusion, its a good series, i just hope season 2 brings back the horror aspect
It’s like a Backrooms type thing, or to a lesser extent, The Mandela Catalogue
Wait plz timestamp the IRL void being photos
@@FNDoomIsland 11:33
@@FNDoomIsland the irl void being photos are on act 2 ep 2
@@darthdump5440The void guy looks like bacteria from backrooms, Tbh.
I like so much the different "stages" we get in this series. I specially loved the sky base, it gave me early fan-made counter-strike deathmatch maps, untextured, labyrinthic, I love it.
✺!
Reminds me of an SCP involving an entity who tried to break into our reality, but landed in Minecraft instead.
SCP FANS DO NOT SAY IT
What specific SCP?
@@EmbeddedWithin Here it is, SCP: 4335
@@cryo1195 Thanks!
@@nullinary011 Say what, exactly?
The idea of something being on your world is an oversaturated concept, but I feel this story real knocked it out of the park in the first part. The void beings and the eye on the moon really gave me a sense of uneasiness, and really nailed the "something isn't right here" feeling that most ARG's strive for. But I immediately rolled my eyes when the writer(s) introduced Sector 4 and this "adminspace" stuff. I felt like if the writer(s) just left out the irl stuff and just focused on the unknown aura of these void beings, this would have been an outstanding ARG. It went from genuinely creepy and eerie sightings in and alpha Minecraft world, to being on the moon and fighting some sort of sentient A.I.??? This story got so stretched out of proportions, and I feel the moon storyline should have just been dropped. And the A.I. thing could have been executed better. Perhaps make the A.I. literally hide in the code of the Alpha save, where the main protagonist has to find a way to purge it out of his system with interactions in-game and through coding/modding. Overall, this ARG had potential, but just went overboard with the cyberspace stuff, which really contrasted and clashed with the original plot.
Aw man this brings back those days of pure curiosity and mystery while playing minecraft. I remember being absolutely terrified of the smallest obscurities in my world. I’d psych myself out so many times over nothing. I miss it.
It's depressing. It began interesting and scary, but just like FNAF and so many other actually popular ARGs it turned into something other than what it was meant to be. No longer a horror story like it was originally, instead a story with a very unsatisfying ending.
fr
No, HAAHAHAHAHAAA!!
bro really landed a conclusion with only act 1 💀💀💀💀💀
for me it went from a scary story to a decent story
True, ruined by the plot tbh
The weird sound being played when he first loads the corrupted world is from the hl2 beta, it was going to be used as a transmission sound effect in the citadel but was scrapped after the leak
whats it called.
Pls time stamp
@@MatthewT394 trans6
found what the sound was meant to be used for, not the beta citadel but for the "hazard01" map by marc laidlaw.
As I know it's from Soviet failed rocket
It got less eerie when they introduced the sector stuff but it was still pretty interesting
I got a little lost on the story once the adminspace was introduced, but I really liked the usage of the moon throughout the entire ARG. Also the void beings not just existing as minecraft skins and instead CG'd figures in the distance was better imo, it made the void creatures more ominous because they didn't look like anything else at all. Even with the weird adminspace business, the ARG was amazing and well executed, thanks for publicizing it!
It's funny how it went from unknown horror to adventurous.
Back rooms be like
@@The-Random-fool1697 i think backrooms is a neat example of it actually working (keeping horror while also having indepth lore). This is not.
@@plantboy6249 Backrooms also explains the monster while also not explaining it at the same time. Everytime it explains something, it introduces a new thing that it DOESN'T explain, and I like that
The thing that makes a good horror is leaving the unknown making the viewer think they might of experienced it or it could happen and
And make it realistic as if it happens or happened or could and last but not least the most scary
It's based on a true story
Same with NES godzilla
I'm surprised how brave Marks is to go trough all of those stuff. Once while I was playing minecraft Beta I was hearing strange noises and I just left and never rejoined back to that world
What did the noises sound like?
Cave sounds
@m1sty that is beyond wrong
@@Rubinkys how so
@m1sty wrong as in creepy and not right
It started so fucking strong but then plummeted to its death for me when the characters started speaking in formal English
At 49:48 ✺ really tried to persuade Markus by giving him “rainbow ore” 😆
Lgbt ore
gay ore
can you show me how to do the star pls? if you do, then thanks😊
this was scary because of the fear of the unkown but then it got to the weird white world and other players started joining and all immersion was lost
like bro one player has a endgame reference on their skin
I agree but I have to say I LOVE the adminspace environment. It looks so vast and dreamlike. Almost like something I'd actually see in a dream
@@MCTogs looks very similar to like liminal space I agree
@@shloobington ye the start wass intresting but then it got too much stuff and stuff
Which player
@@JohnLennonDecember8th one of the players has a infinity gauntlet
I don't remember which one it was but
it's there
it's like a very modern skin
Love how the void beings very obviously went from either some kind of imposed image or manipulated texture of something that looks super uncanny in minecraft to silly not entirely out of place looking in game entities
This is by far the strangest video I've ever scene. It genuinely freaked me out at first but then when there was this new texture packed world and new random characters came out of nowhere it became more like a blade runner or futuristic type plot. It was very interesting though, even when the plot completely shifted, it still was interesting, not very creepy though, just random.
Overall, Good video
6:20 gave me a mini-heart-attack
here's what I said during those moments:
"Is that a chunk error?"
**notices ladders**
"No, that's not a chunk erro-"
same
Same, I thought it was the monoliths hahaha
I was like
“Oh damn, he built a mob far-“
*GASP*
Wait what is it?
lol after i jumped from the noise i laughed
One thing I really appreciate in this channel is since it's using alpha minecraft, there is no creative mode, so they had to make all of this stuff from scratch which is some true dedication
Not unless he used an external level editor
The site being on Neocities kind of messes up the whole idea of this taking place in 2010. Neocities didn't exist until 2013, so it seems likely that the URL being visible was a mistake by the series creator and not an actual clue.
EDIT: After seeing the full interpretation, this could be intentional. It shows that this does not actually take place during 2010, which according to this interpretation is an integral part of the story.
Dear BrokenLynx, I have noticed that the site has been updated and since you were talking about the site I was keen to reply. Now it seems more like a death threat and is extremely conspicuous even saying that 'the end is nigh' with a gif attached. Thank you. I hope you respond soon an quick
@@ProCraze bro watched an arg vid and became an arg himself
The Internet Explorer version is anachronistic in any case: it looks like IE11, which also wasn’t released until 2013. This is hard to get around as making the ARG probably required working Internet and many websites will refuse service to anyone running an IE version older than 11.
the idea of some force joining your single player server and sending messages in chat like "come here" is genuinely beyond terrifying
I've always felt a sense of uneasiness in Minecraft like there was something............ evil In the emptiness of the world.
This series reinforces that feeling.
It's a normal feeling, though Minecraft doesn't have any mysteries or anomalies, the stores are nice
When I was younger I would always avoid playing singleplayer survival for that exact reason. I just felt so vulnerable.
@@amjkodaz That loneliness terrified me. I could never play survival alone, when I was playing by myself I always loaded into creative for that feeling of safety.
@@rebelliccanadianpilot6513 I'm so glad to know I'm not alone. I thought I was mental, turns out I have people that felt just the way I did
@@rebelliccanadianpilot6513 Same, it took me years to finally decide to play in survival, first I played in pacific, then I tried playing with the normal difficulty. I think the feeling of loneliness and emptiness is due to the fact that the overworld lacks of ambience noise. I compare the nether to the overworld, for me the nether feels more "full" because of the sound ambience.
Holy crap, another hour of an incredible ARG. You covered the last Minecraft ARG so well! I absolutely love your style of storytelling and I honestly cannot wait for the next one. Thank you for entertaining my mystery-loving brain for an entire hour.
I loved the part where Mark said “It’s Markin time” and proceeded to Mark all over the place.
I killed them all
kinda kinky
It's Marking time
It’s Marking time
It's Markin time
These kinds of videos always show up when I am sick. And I just don't want these kinds to end. You deserve a
star ⭐
Jumpscare timestamps: 3:24, 6:39, 9:08, 13:53, 19:51, 22:16, 25:26, 32:25, 41:38, 41:47, 49:06, and 49:58
my dumb ass clicked on a timestamp while at high volume knowing damn well there is a jumpscare 💀💀💀💀
thanks!
Our saviour
based comment
king
Hearing RGN’s voice after watching a clip is like finding light in a dark tunnel
yea man
This is so good, really liked this ARG, it acknowledges its goofy early 2010's creepypasta nature
The fact that this story started off as "Creepy Things I Caught On My Minecraft World" series, transitioned into "Let's save this gosh damn world", ended off as a "You are not real and this is a Matrix" story, and *is currently* continuing...it's so disappointing. It's like Petscop but if Petscop was a FNAF-type of creepypasta thing.
This started good but went from spooky to silly real fast
Tbh I'm just happy it was a neat story that didn't just scream at me for no reason
@@ScrewdriverGaming like practically every analog horror ending
I was the only scared at and before the mother giving birth to her children part
But then it got goofy when the star people came and "used" his account.
I just started watching and
WHAT THE FU---?!!!
CONTEXT IS OUT THE WINDOW
@@soda_coir7595Same
Peter, the horse is here
@@soda_coir7595yeah it was actually kinda creepy upto that point…
honestly the whole first part is scary as hell, and then at the end it just gets corny as hell. they should have just left it alone instead of going through with the “plot twist”
When Markus is turned into Star, he is told to infect someones minecraft Beta... I think he infects Markus's Minecraft beta, which brings it full circle. It also sort of gives a reason to how it all started.
What a disappointing route this ARG took.
It started off being genuinely terrifying. The sounds made me curl up in my chair, the scenes of panic from Markus were infective and genuinely made my heart race. Even the entities and unexplained world changes were creepy and gave me chills.
But as soon as the Sector 4 and everything with that got introduced, it got genuinely less creepy. It felt more like some strange intergalactic fanfiction. The entities were still kinda creepy at that point but the more they got explained and the more time we spent in the Moonbase and Adminspace the more value they lost as horror creatures.
I hope with the next installment of this series they stick to the horror and leave out the frankly unnecessary Admin and Dev stuff.
The author self-insert is what ruined it imo
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@@SorryForBecomingHumanAgain9819I agree
For me it stopped being scary after first two white rooms things with star and then the second player guy after that. Then I thought that they both maybe are trying to stop the anomalies that are spreading from some another world but even they are failing with their command server becoming destroyed too. Then the weird dimention travel began. And finally it kind of was confirmed to be not real inside it's own universe, making it less real than my imagined multiverse, where it's canonically real inside itself, while being a world below this one in hirerarchy
No, they just made basically everything a story in it's lore, which was even worse that becoming a science fiction. And to add to it, I'm one of the people who liked backrooms more as another universe than a creepy place, so me not liking this story really shows that it wasn't a good plot twist
Agreed. Extremely misued.
This story started off interesting and then had the biggest identity crisis of any ARG ever
the problem is that this actually was nightmare fuel in the first part and then all of a sudden it goes to genric creepypasta tropes
This... Act 1 feels like a neat meta-commentary on the nature of Minecraft ARGs, and how many authors feel the need to spiral things further and further into absurdity to retain audiances.
13:52
Got me dying because of how he was trying to escape quickly LOL
What the f*** was that damage my guy?
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh
**looks behind**
_OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH_
@@sirtangerine1465 LOL
FR BRO😂
I love how Markus is completely unfazed by ✺'s threats at the end. He's just so done with everything, and it gives him the means to defeat the antagonist, as it were.
Markus just went:
"Nah screw this I was trying to play some Minecraft"
@@ZurtedHow Bro!? 😂 There Is Nothing But The Mother Fuging North Star And The Burge Kalifa!
@@junklabs-studios1318 what does this comment even mean
@@firewolftheguy How Bro?! 😂 There Is Nothing But The Mother Fuging Saturn And The Sears Tower!
@@derekrequiem4359 insightful thanks
30:26 Actually, this may be just normal Alpha behavior. There was a bug for a while where when you walked on the edge of a block, it didn't play the walking noise, but when you went back to the center of the block, it played those noises in rapid succession.
Like lag on a server?
@@shirakotakamotogd Sorta? If I had to guess, the sounds get queued to play but they don't actually play until you walk to the center of the block due to different conditions for queuing and playing sounds. Just a guess, though. I imagine even if I read the source code with RetroMCP symbols I couldn't figure it out.
@@aubymoriyeah i remember this bug
yeah the bug scared me to delete my world xD
this was one of the first minecraft args ive ever watched and i came back to it again and its still soo good
keep up the work retro.
I’m really sad the story got turned into a generic space horror type thing; I really like the idea of the moon being an influence over the world, but when all of that hacker bullshit trying to save the world came over, it lost me immediately. I hope the creators can improve from that
the story just became confusing. it should’ve just been like 7-8 videos not 40 of them. it woulda made it a lot easier to digest in the end.
Act 2 has been a thing for a few months, maybe it's what you've been looking for
The creator entirely changed the concept though, most likely since the first act was improvised and was hard to work with, part of act 1 is still there though
As a kid I was terrified of dark caves, especially when cave sounds played. I’m gonna be honest, I would have believed this as a kid.
Interesting thing, the "Skybox" may have been the "Server" that was around before Multiplayer. Meaning before we got the system that we have now they had to use man made worlds with doors connected to one minecraft seed to another.
imagine if 2b2t players were able to break into the skybase world
despite being the story derailed from creepypasta to "sci-fi arg" (idk how to call it), the story overall is really interesting and intriguing :DD