**Corrections** (In theTheBriefHistory part): "[...] he's back to the spawn point with the same amount of items that he had before." This is actually wrong, he has an extra 3 dirt for some reason. "[...] and we can see things moving around in the distance, but it's unclear what they are." They're just sheep. (In the AlphaVer chapter): • Both clips in the AlphaVer video Internal Footage 3 were recorded by Dev 6, and Dev 4 was just someone who featured in the video. • I called "Code 8" the fifth code in the AlphaVer section for simplicity, because we never got a Code 5, and the MD5/SHA256 hash arrays in the source code only contain 8 non-empty elements (all we have + the lost code five). • I slightly hint that the order of chests being opened is important, and I never bring up throughout the video that it actually makes up the password for the second OST . zip download, which was only ever linked through a community post.
Honestly id love a parody arg where the protagonist doesn't understand what prebuilt strucutres are and gets scared whenever they find a desert well or something.
@@toastedcherries I was just digging a tunnel in a cave and I found this weird dungeon area with new blocks... It had these weird spawners that spawned mobs and a brand new air-like enemy that jumps around? Is this normal?
Finding good ARGs is like gambling. You either find a good well structured story or a lackluster obs recording of casual gameplay with added sound effects and unimpressive scare factors.
The Last Beta Player is so well done. this is peak minecraft horror to me, the last 2 minutes is the first time i felt uneasy watching a minecraft horror video since like 2013
@@0Blueaura yeah TLBP isnt for the adhd tiktok attention span, thats why i love it so much. it takes time to build up but doesnt drag on for months between episodes, doing everything in just one. AlphaVer is a fun concept but its not a horror series, too over the top and works better as an arg mystery. TLBP isnt an arg, its just a short digital horror movie, so this videos name is wrong
@@randomannoyance Yes, and he didn't kill it with the modern-day overreaction of most UA-camrs. OMG WHAT WAS THAT GUYS DID YOU SEE THAT. Nope, he kept it as realistic as possible: loud exhale lol
I appreciate you explaining the definition between ARGs and webseries at the start of your video. There are way too channels who incorrectly use the term "ARG" when it comes to webseries.
Not gonna lie, the "Am I Alone?" Series ending off with the protag just... Feeding the creature and sympathizing with it a bit honestly feels like a natural end point. Maybe the lad really was just hungry.
Hi! AlphaVer Freerun World Record Holder speaking ^^ I'm glad that people are talking about AlphaVer again, and more people should really get into it not just because it's another "wooOOOooo spooky ghost client :O!!!!" webseries, but just a fun, weird and esoteric custom Alpha version that anyone can pick up and play. I hope that the new versions can patch out certain bugs (i.e, certain lagspikes while playing Survival and loading chunks), but whatever the AlphaVer devs are up to is up to them, but I thank you for covering this! (Totally not an excuse to convince people to try more Freerun from the client, TOTALLY not saying it's underrated as hell lmfao)
@@asra-5180 There's this fun thing called 'Google' where you can type in 'Minecraft Alphaver Download' and it gives you a page of instructions and links on how to play it. There's also an even more exciting link in the description to the wiki page for Alphaver where there's something called an 'Installation guide'.
What even is that, exactly? Like, I know it's a rhythm game, but that's it. How do you play it, what kind of music does it have, do you need to spell it with an exclamation point?
@@malachiatkinson7245 1: you click appearing circles at the right time, they come in sync with the music along with slider notes, requiring you to lead a target one way and then back. 2: varied music, but most of the base songs the game starts with are the most 2015 stereotypical songs of all time 3: you don't need to, but the application name is "osu!" it's free too, so maybe try it out if you feel like it
would suck having an evil entity fella attacking you while youre playing a fat modpack with a gazillion mods, you'd have zero clue whether or not its part the mods or not depending on what type of modpack it is that you installed
*Minecraft ARGs Starter Pack* • Prerelease footage • Player name with a real life name plus 2-4 numbers • Entity haunting the world, either due to past trauma or as the outlooker in a simulation (almost always has a code placeholder name like null or anom) • *50% chance of drawing a bonus player or friend that eventually dissapears from the game* • Unsuspecting channel name • *10% chance to turn into lifelike analogue horror with VHS static* • Strange video names, or just "____.(mp4/avi/mp3)" • If it's good, RGN made a video on it • Somehow becomes "It wasn't real" at the end FriskyD: • screen is black for 40% of the runtime SpamtonGSpamton: • Render distance is always very low B-zk9bt: • Distorted audio krisiscelja: • Player having access to devspace
@@Spamton.G.Spamton1997-to6qx oh yeah I forgot that one! it's like the fog is coming the fog is coming the fog is coming the fog is coming the fog is coming the f
i generally don't enjoy arg's because of how unrealistic there reactions are. But some of these seem so genuine and look as if the player is freaking out.
Man i really like the "am i alone" one. I Love when the paranormal is either kept a full secret or explored and explained, and having the entity on full display with a player using all the tools given to them (creative, spectator, dev blocks, etc.) Is also cool because like... Why wouldn't you use that stuff upon finding an entity? Especially in current day Minecraft. Hope it does get followed up on
You know what’d be a good arg? One from the viewpoint of steve or a mob, imagine if we see steve being confused on where they are and occasionally they blackout and wake up in a different place in armor or in a house, basically steve is only conscious when a player isn’t actively playing
@lego,to be fair, AlphaDev is an actual ARG. All the things are there: player interaction, ciphers and decryption, and even progress driven by player interraction (as in, the saveblock thing from one of the version got butchered because something else got bruteforced)
There is actually a glitch in alpha minecraft where save data from an old world you deleted goes to another world, it happened to me. So basically i was in alpha 1.0.6 going through an ocean searching for cactuses and then i saw a huge wall which was a montain of an old world i had deleted in the same world slot (because back then you only had 5 world slots) and it had the stuff and my base from that older world in Infdev 327.
i watched as source horror came and went and its kind of interesting seeing the same trend happen with minecraft especially since the stagnation source horror went through seems to be happening much, much faster here. source horror lasted like 3 years and died once the creators found 'what worked' (gunslingerpro's gimmick) and copied it over and over to the point where nobody cared anymore. from what i've seen firsthand with minecraft args (the term arg here is erroneous but whatever) it feels like we're already at that point despite the concept being only a few months old - i've sifted through like 12 series that are practically identical. just scripted footage (sometimes with a vhs filter for some reason? what?) with a fake alpha number in the corner despite clearly taking place in 1.20.1 w a texture pack, and then there's a black figure in the background and then you go into the description/ccs for a caesar cipher or the end of a url just to find out the lore is dead kids/herobrine again. honestly i'm really glad you went out of your way to find some channels that actually have some kind of substance to them - horror is subjective so with horror i always try to find stuff that's INTERESTING over stuff that's SCARY, and for once i'm actually kind of engaged. props to you for bringing attention to the things that deserve to be analyzed esp since from what i've seen these args have basically no audience also not to be a nitpicking asshole but your use of the terms 'arg' and 'webseries' is wrong. everyone uses 'arg' wrong anyway nowadays but to clarify, to be an arg a story has to have audience participation. the G stands for 'Game', with the audience being players - if the players have no control over how the story ends, it's not an arg, and decoding things does not immediately count as participation. decoding CAN be part of an arg, but unless the players having to decode something influences how the story pans out, it's not an arg. the term 'webseries' is also not explicitly a horror term, it's an umbrella for literally any series posted on the internet. the most appropriate term would just be 'horror series' or, if you wanna get nostalgic, 'creepypasta', but i've seen the word 'unfiction' get brought up a few times and i feel like it's most fitting, as most of them seem to hinge on the viewer assuming they're real. i'd personally just go with creepypasta though. just felt like saying that because i see that word get misused a *lot* lol
yeah I see 'webseries' used 2nd-in-place-most to describe these type of 'unfiction'/horror series so that's what I called it for simplicity, but you're definitely right about 'horror series'/'unfiction' being more accurate terms
The alphaver is actually so well made outside of the video its just so well done and a good mod in general ,the series actually have a story and not just some jumpscare and scary vibes
I love that second arg bc its just a guy capturing a weird creature and feeding it carrots lol Given its reaction to potions, it might be undead? Zombies and Skeletons are either healed or unaffected by harmful potions and harmed by helpful potions The entity is unaffected by negative potions and accepts positive potions, which isnt quite the same but i feel its similar enough to make it possibly undead?? Maybe its a ghost and thats why it lacks a model
To be honest, you should cover OldRoot, one of the best Minecraft mysteries that has never been solved. It was created by Alex Bale, who has a UA-cam channel. Alex Bale created OldRoot by playing Minecraft, taking screenshots, and putting puzzles and hidden codes for people to solve.
I think it ended a while ago, with no conclusion. It became so cryptic and hard to crack and people were having to ask for hints at every turn so it just ended
The Last Beta Player is one of my favorite short films of all time. My favorite detail is actually in the ending sequence where the Castle von Spawn sign is once again replaced. It's a tiny, tiny detail but was just so awesome to catch.
just imagine creating a channel in your discord server dedicated to investigating an arg and your server instantly gets flooded by users related to the arg as they become active in your voice chats and channels
Minecraft “ARG’s” like “minecraft alpha 1.0.16 versions” (which is one of my favorites) are my favorite forms of creepy video game media. not, just because they’re really nostalgic. But if they put together well, they can be really good stories. I just love the whole idea of like creepy “Herobrine” thing. which, is something that is in your single player world that is terrifying. I don’t know, I don’t think I’m making any sense lol. but I’m just gonna say is that, I just really love well put together Minecraft “ARG’s”. especially “minecraft alpha 1.0.16 versions” and “mark101”. also, thanks for introducing me to “the last beta player”. it’s really good :D
Have you ever actually left your mom's basement? You probably think the avengers is the greatest masterpiece to grace this planet in the last century. Minecraft Alpha is old and janky and the only people interested in it are soy guys such as yourself who like the "nostaliga" because you cant move on and are still mentally 10 years old. Herobrine was only good for old minecraft videos to scare dumb children, not for some 30 year old man to relive his glory days. Besides, herorbine only works on youtube videos, its not as scary in the game. grow up
Despite already watching RetroGamingNow's video on the AlphaVer ARG it still sent me, just sent me man, this whole thing is like a vine boom sfx, it's so crazy not in a negative way but damn some of this stuff gets beyond what my measly tiny brain can handle, this is like overstimulating or something, idk I'm just silly
I Wacthed the last Beta Player alone. And I don't know why but i felt so engaged I just kept watching and it was probably one of the best videos I ever watched. It's just that good I wish there was more.
the last beta player freaks me out so much bc i used to play with friends on a private server from around 2012-2013 when i was about 13-14 years old and very easily spooked, and there must have been some buggy plugin on the server because i remember times when i was the only person online and then i would hear walking noises really close to me while i was still and there were no mobs nearby, and it freaked me out so much. i never thought it was paranormal and still believe it was some weird plugin glitch, but ive never been able to find anyone else experiencing the same thing.
The two types of Minecraft ARGs: The annoying unrealistic ones: -Unrealistic scenarios and player reactions -Supernatural entities for some reason -Stakes are way too high for a block game -disappointing, lackluster pacing and ending -not convincing or well-made in the slightest The compelling grounded ones: -Scenarios and player reactions seem grounded and realistic -No mention of the supernatural, just relies on storytelling to be spooky -Stakes are realistic. High enough to be compelling, but low enough to suspend your disbelief -Pacing is well done and the ending pays off and ties together the loose threads -Very well-made to the point where you second guess if it's actually real or not. The trouble with video game ARGs is that since they happen in our real word, they have to have some grounding. It doesn't make much sense for a singular random game to have some scary eldritch horror inhabiting it, meanwhile, the rest of the world is unaffected. Series like the AlphaVer ARG are intriguing since it's a huge mystery about missing and previously unknown Minecraft versions. Something that actually exists. And along with it it even has its own Minecraft mod with the version that is portrayed in the video.
The idea of a supernatural entity affecting the game is more 'believeable' for me than the shadowy organisation in AlphaVer, oddly. Precisely because the latter is *theoretically* possible, it becomes all the more difficult to suspend my disbelief, whereas if the strange occurrences are explained by something like a ghost, suddenly one has no frame of reference for what is plausible and likely.
@@iosefka7774 I don't think it's a shadowy organization as much as just an eclectic developer with a checkered past that even the other developers don't know about. It's not some Polybius-type stuff, it's just a weird rabbit hole with loose ends. Plenty of such rabbit holes exist IRL. (for instance, the CR6 webseries mystery) My main issue with the supernatural entities is them being contained to a video game. Like, really, this being is able to possess people and electronics... and it decides to freak kids out on Minecraft? It's also just so weird to imagine some kid going to school or eating breakfast and then just going to his computer and logging back into the world that's home to some eldritch horror possessing people. "The Last Beta Player" understood this really well, sure, it was at least somewhat paranormal, but you could see the person playing and reacting in real life, and also see how he asked questions on the subreddit, with realistic responses from other players. And the framing is another thing. If it's established that weird paranormal things have been happening in the world besides just on Minecraft, it's believable. But if it's just random black entities that are the cursed souls of dead players trapped in the game... it's sorta laughable.
@@ialwayswatchyoutube812 Fiction doesn't need to be realistic, but it needs to be consistent and immersive. My point was that slapping on paranormal entities haphazardly makes no sense, and the execution of it most of the time is extremely tropey.
for me it's not a matter of realistic vs supernatural, but about suspension of disbelief i could believe that maybe there's some unexplained entity in the game, but once it we get into over explaining stuff like "there's a cabal of inter-dimensional entities sneaking into random little kids' minecraft single player worlds to conduct a ritual to break into the real world using minecraft's moon as a catalyst to summon their god-program" it's like ok man this isn't a marvel movie, calm down with that
Second ARG is interesting. Would be cool if there was another where the main character had common sense as well as a good understand of Java mechanics and general IT.
the way you put the time and research into your videos is really influential to me. mb if i sound like i want you to guide me or if i'm glazing but you truly piece together your videos and have the knowledge to make such thought out videos. keep up the great work!
I've found a few structures in my world that the people and I play with can't explain, There's two really big holes in the middle of no where and some huge block in the sky made with all the blocks from the holes. It was creepy when I first found it but we think maybe someone got into the world some how and made it. Not really sure what else it could be from.
I mean, I think the thing that separates an arg from a web series is audience participation. Generally args have some step or steps dependent on the audience interacting with the creator in some way
i never actually watched mongsters “the last beta player” but i have seen his world tours and recognize everything hes built in that video lol, never knew he specifically turned that forest and village into an arg along with everything else lol
AlphaVer is (in my opinion) the best Minecraft ARG and best ARG in general. There’s something about it that makes it so different than the other ones. And the music for it is genuinely so cool.
I've been obsessed with Minecraft ARGs and webseries for almost 2 years now. I was suprised to see The Last Beta Player because it's actually one I haven't seen before! Love the way it is presented.
this is one of the only youtubers who knows damn well what he has to do to get views but still does what he loves, and im all in for it, keep it up ❤🔥
This was, and I can't ensure you know this enough, the smoothest, best paced, entertaining and informational video I've seen to date. Genuinely dude, this is fantastic top to bottom. Thank you for your work, I look forward to more!
the cypress or r4 version of minecraft feels so magical. Just like... There's so many other dev pathways mc could have taken. And it's insane because r4 still feels like minecraft.
**Corrections**
(In theTheBriefHistory part): "[...] he's back to the spawn point with the same amount of items that he had before."
This is actually wrong, he has an extra 3 dirt for some reason.
"[...] and we can see things moving around in the distance, but it's unclear what they are."
They're just sheep.
(In the AlphaVer chapter): • Both clips in the AlphaVer video Internal Footage 3 were recorded by Dev 6, and Dev 4 was just someone who featured in the video.
• I called "Code 8" the fifth code in the AlphaVer section for simplicity, because we never got a Code 5, and the MD5/SHA256 hash arrays in the source code only contain 8 non-empty elements (all we have + the lost code five).
• I slightly hint that the order of chests being opened is important, and I never bring up throughout the video that it actually makes up the password for the second OST . zip download, which was only ever linked through a community post.
toaste parries can you play roblock
Toasted cherries Is a time traveler, confirmed.
woah words
Ok "Coasted Terries"
before the video?
I shat my pantaloons when spidermangamer2004 said "ermm... I didn't le build this..." and then herobrine showed up
this is the funniest comment ive seen here today unfortunately
Every word of this is better than the late
"He's right behind me, isn't he?"
And then herobrine brined his hero all over the place and the game crashed... and the player was NEVER seen again..
@@blueflamingskulljpeg Aw Shart 😰 *_F-cking dies_*
Honestly id love a parody arg where the protagonist doesn't understand what prebuilt strucutres are and gets scared whenever they find a desert well or something.
guy who hasn't played minecraft in 13 years and starts freaking out after seeing a village
@@toastedcherries I was just digging a tunnel in a cave and I found this weird dungeon area with new blocks... It had these weird spawners that spawned mobs and a brand new air-like enemy that jumps around? Is this normal?
@@exterminator9676one problem is that the internet and wiki exists
@@Dominic_812what if he goes to the wiki but it’s just always down so he can never understand
@@aoodle1275 google
Finding good ARGs is like gambling.
You either find a good well structured story or a lackluster obs recording of casual gameplay with added sound effects and unimpressive scare factors.
inb4 "aw dangit"
@@ギコ aww, shucks!
i cant stop winning!!
you should check out Zeemyth, He makes ARGs in a very untraditional sense.
@@the_blocktophus I'll give it a watch
I love david's no fuck this energy as he does exactly what he should do in this situation. Close game
"Yeah, I'm good, fuck that noise."
"Yeah, you know what fuck this world and fuck this entity"
"mysterious sound? Investigate? Fuck that, save and quit"
The Last Beta Player is so well done. this is peak minecraft horror to me, the last 2 minutes is the first time i felt uneasy watching a minecraft horror video since like 2013
I was super bored with it, AlphaVer on the other hand... masterful mix of fake reality so toned down that you might believe it was actually true
@@0Blueaura yeah TLBP isnt for the adhd tiktok attention span, thats why i love it so much. it takes time to build up but doesnt drag on for months between episodes, doing everything in just one.
AlphaVer is a fun concept but its not a horror series, too over the top and works better as an arg mystery. TLBP isnt an arg, its just a short digital horror movie, so this videos name is wrong
@@randomannoyance Yes, and he didn't kill it with the modern-day overreaction of most UA-camrs. OMG WHAT WAS THAT GUYS DID YOU SEE THAT. Nope, he kept it as realistic as possible: loud exhale lol
@@randomannoyance uh. Sorry but attention span it wasn't. Simply boring
@@0Blueaura I gotchu! 🔑🗝 *jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle*
I appreciate you explaining the definition between ARGs and webseries at the start of your video.
There are way too channels who incorrectly use the term "ARG" when it comes to webseries.
EXACTLY...
That, and they mix it up with Unfiction
Not gonna lie, the "Am I Alone?" Series ending off with the protag just... Feeding the creature and sympathizing with it a bit honestly feels like a natural end point.
Maybe the lad really was just hungry.
Agreed, that poor fella was trying to get the players attention so it can be fed.
Hi! AlphaVer Freerun World Record Holder speaking ^^
I'm glad that people are talking about AlphaVer again, and more people should really get into it not just because it's another "wooOOOooo spooky ghost client :O!!!!" webseries, but just a fun, weird and esoteric custom Alpha version that anyone can pick up and play.
I hope that the new versions can patch out certain bugs (i.e, certain lagspikes while playing Survival and loading chunks), but whatever the AlphaVer devs are up to is up to them, but I thank you for covering this!
(Totally not an excuse to convince people to try more Freerun from the client, TOTALLY not saying it's underrated as hell lmfao)
So, you don't mind giving a link to that right? Because I can't find one in the description.
@@asra-5180 go to the wiki, you can find a mirror there. this video also shows the magnet URL and the full QR code needed to get the jar
@@asra-5180 There's this fun thing called 'Google' where you can type in 'Minecraft Alphaver Download' and it gives you a page of instructions and links on how to play it. There's also an even more exciting link in the description to the wiki page for Alphaver where there's something called an 'Installation guide'.
@@asra-5180 You can find the releases on the AlphaVer wiki
like, yeah, links would be highly appreciated :)
Though, since YT is stingy as hell, it's better to separate it to not look like a link
40:01 even the osu! logo in the taskbar is era-accurate, their attention to detail is crazy
but the firefox icon is the new one
oh hey it’s you
What even is that, exactly? Like, I know it's a rhythm game, but that's it. How do you play it, what kind of music does it have, do you need to spell it with an exclamation point?
@@malachiatkinson7245 1: you click appearing circles at the right time, they come in sync with the music along with slider notes, requiring you to lead a target one way and then back.
2: varied music, but most of the base songs the game starts with are the most 2015 stereotypical songs of all time
3: you don't need to, but the application name is "osu!"
it's free too, so maybe try it out if you feel like it
Ngl i was supposed to be an RNG channel but i can relate that the osu! Logo is era accurate
The Last Beta Player one lowkey had me on edge
Me too. I was edging under the table
@@Mongster83 WHAT. THAT IS WILDD.
shi actually made my heartburn worse wit that cobblestone breaking
@@Mongster83 me when the spooky video creator themselves shitposts in the comments
It was lowkey eding me in public
would suck having an evil entity fella attacking you while youre playing a fat modpack with a gazillion mods, you'd have zero clue whether or not its part the mods or not depending on what type of modpack it is that you installed
someone should make an ARG like that
@@novameowww i agree
Would suck for the evil entity as a slice it in half with my sharpness X adamantium longsword
@@dianavespid937 even harder when it feels the full power of a 15 megaton nuclear explosion
evil arg entity vs jenny mod
I love Minecraft ARGs, but MAN good ones are pretty hard to find.
Same dude, same.
wulfies
*Minecraft ARGs Starter Pack*
• Prerelease footage
• Player name with a real life name plus 2-4 numbers
• Entity haunting the world, either due to past trauma or as the outlooker in a simulation (almost always has a code placeholder name like null or anom)
• *50% chance of drawing a bonus player or friend that eventually dissapears from the game*
• Unsuspecting channel name
• *10% chance to turn into lifelike analogue horror with VHS static*
• Strange video names, or just "____.(mp4/avi/mp3)"
• If it's good, RGN made a video on it
• Somehow becomes "It wasn't real" at the end
FriskyD: • screen is black for 40% of the runtime
SpamtonGSpamton: • Render distance is always very low
B-zk9bt: • Distorted audio
krisiscelja: • Player having access to devspace
- screen is black for 40% of the runtime
- Render distance extremely low most of the time.
@@Spamton.G.Spamton1997-to6qx oh yeah I forgot that one! it's like the fog is coming the fog is coming the fog is coming the fog is coming the fog is coming the f
Don’t forget distorted audio!
Don't forget the player having access to the devspace!
i have been fascinated by niche minecraft ARGs for the past year and hearing maple talk about them is the best thing ever
5:47 "im evil bro look behind you" that is true.
i generally don't enjoy arg's because of how unrealistic there reactions are. But some of these seem so genuine and look as if the player is freaking out.
You should watch "minecraft arg but the protagonist is tired" its realy funny,and the main character reacts like how a normal person would
@@The_red_commanderi got that recommended to me minutes ago what the fluck-
A lot of Zeemyth's stuff is really good, especially the acting. Very much recommended.
Thats why i love the andrew gaming 67 arg
the alphaver one was so funny to watch through, i love how its an arg but they made actual mods and the stuff looks awesome
Man i really like the "am i alone" one. I Love when the paranormal is either kept a full secret or explored and explained, and having the entity on full display with a player using all the tools given to them (creative, spectator, dev blocks, etc.) Is also cool because like... Why wouldn't you use that stuff upon finding an entity? Especially in current day Minecraft.
Hope it does get followed up on
You know what’d be a good arg? One from the viewpoint of steve or a mob, imagine if we see steve being confused on where they are and occasionally they blackout and wake up in a different place in armor or in a house, basically steve is only conscious when a player isn’t actively playing
So a little similar to oneshot’s lore you’re saying?
people don't say "webseries" anymore, they just say ARG despite not having any viewer interaction that progresses the story
plague of something being popular, I guess. "Canon", "literally" and many other words have suffered this way
what does ARG means anyway
@@Hug0k stands for Alternate Reality Game - the best example of a true arg would be erratas or the gravity falls arg
AlphaDev has parts that are user-based. For example, they had to find the lost stream VOD to progress the story
@lego,to be fair, AlphaDev is an actual ARG. All the things are there: player interaction, ciphers and decryption, and even progress driven by player interraction (as in, the saveblock thing from one of the version got butchered because something else got bruteforced)
There is actually a glitch in alpha minecraft where save data from an old world you deleted goes to another world, it happened to me.
So basically i was in alpha 1.0.6 going through an ocean searching for cactuses and then i saw a huge wall which was a montain of an old world i had deleted in the same world slot (because back then you only had 5 world slots) and it had the stuff and my base from that older world in Infdev 327.
this was also the reason behind minecraft's "the very strange house i DID NOT build"
The most reasonable explanation outside of modding at least someone is honest about that part for a change instead of keeping it a secret
that shit is pretty dope. Like what if I actually wanted to merge two worlds lol
i watched as source horror came and went and its kind of interesting seeing the same trend happen with minecraft especially since the stagnation source horror went through seems to be happening much, much faster here. source horror lasted like 3 years and died once the creators found 'what worked' (gunslingerpro's gimmick) and copied it over and over to the point where nobody cared anymore. from what i've seen firsthand with minecraft args (the term arg here is erroneous but whatever) it feels like we're already at that point despite the concept being only a few months old - i've sifted through like 12 series that are practically identical. just scripted footage (sometimes with a vhs filter for some reason? what?) with a fake alpha number in the corner despite clearly taking place in 1.20.1 w a texture pack, and then there's a black figure in the background and then you go into the description/ccs for a caesar cipher or the end of a url just to find out the lore is dead kids/herobrine again. honestly i'm really glad you went out of your way to find some channels that actually have some kind of substance to them - horror is subjective so with horror i always try to find stuff that's INTERESTING over stuff that's SCARY, and for once i'm actually kind of engaged. props to you for bringing attention to the things that deserve to be analyzed esp since from what i've seen these args have basically no audience
also not to be a nitpicking asshole but your use of the terms 'arg' and 'webseries' is wrong. everyone uses 'arg' wrong anyway nowadays but to clarify, to be an arg a story has to have audience participation. the G stands for 'Game', with the audience being players - if the players have no control over how the story ends, it's not an arg, and decoding things does not immediately count as participation. decoding CAN be part of an arg, but unless the players having to decode something influences how the story pans out, it's not an arg. the term 'webseries' is also not explicitly a horror term, it's an umbrella for literally any series posted on the internet. the most appropriate term would just be 'horror series' or, if you wanna get nostalgic, 'creepypasta', but i've seen the word 'unfiction' get brought up a few times and i feel like it's most fitting, as most of them seem to hinge on the viewer assuming they're real. i'd personally just go with creepypasta though. just felt like saying that because i see that word get misused a *lot* lol
yeah I see 'webseries' used 2nd-in-place-most to describe these type of 'unfiction'/horror series so that's what I called it for simplicity, but you're definitely right about 'horror series'/'unfiction' being more accurate terms
making an entire mod pack for your ARG about minecraft development is pretty cool
The alphaver is actually so well made outside of the video its just so well done and a good mod in general ,the series actually have a story and not just some jumpscare and scary vibes
I love that second arg bc its just a guy capturing a weird creature and feeding it carrots lol
Given its reaction to potions, it might be undead?
Zombies and Skeletons are either healed or unaffected by harmful potions and harmed by helpful potions
The entity is unaffected by negative potions and accepts positive potions, which isnt quite the same but i feel its similar enough to make it possibly undead??
Maybe its a ghost and thats why it lacks a model
To be honest, you should cover OldRoot, one of the best Minecraft mysteries that has never been solved. It was created by Alex Bale, who has a UA-cam channel. Alex Bale created OldRoot by playing Minecraft, taking screenshots, and putting puzzles and hidden codes for people to solve.
ALEX BALE MADE OLDROOT?!?!
I think it ended a while ago, with no conclusion. It became so cryptic and hard to crack and people were having to ask for hints at every turn so it just ended
The last beta player actually unsettled me
The Last Beta Player is one of my favorite short films of all time. My favorite detail is actually in the ending sequence where the Castle von Spawn sign is once again replaced. It's a tiny, tiny detail but was just so awesome to catch.
just imagine creating a channel in your discord server dedicated to investigating an arg and your server instantly gets flooded by users related to the arg as they become active in your voice chats and channels
1:01:05 "Wanna break from the ads?"
nice video watched in 22x speed
impressive, what info did you get out of it
@@Fiszy attention span deficit disease (aka ipad kid disease)
@@omiaderaweird af comment
@@lambybunny7173 i do be weird sometimes
Minecraft “ARG’s” like “minecraft alpha 1.0.16 versions” (which is one of my favorites) are my favorite forms of creepy video game media. not, just because they’re really nostalgic. But if they put together well, they can be really good stories. I just love the whole idea of like creepy “Herobrine” thing. which, is something that is in your single player world that is terrifying. I don’t know, I don’t think I’m making any sense lol. but I’m just gonna say is that, I just really love well put together Minecraft “ARG’s”. especially “minecraft alpha 1.0.16 versions” and “mark101”. also, thanks for introducing me to “the last beta player”. it’s really good :D
Have you ever actually left your mom's basement? You probably think the avengers is the greatest masterpiece to grace this planet in the last century.
Minecraft Alpha is old and janky and the only people interested in it are soy guys such as yourself who like the "nostaliga" because you cant move on and are still mentally 10 years old. Herobrine was only good for old minecraft videos to scare dumb children, not for some 30 year old man to relive his glory days. Besides, herorbine only works on youtube videos, its not as scary in the game. grow up
How you make such professional videos on silly games is beyond me. These are the kind of channels I would subscribe to.
Most Minecraft ARGs start like a cool Minecraft thing then suddenly it's something silly that transcends the damn game and lose the fear factor
Despite already watching RetroGamingNow's video on the AlphaVer ARG it still sent me, just sent me man, this whole thing is like a vine boom sfx, it's so crazy not in a negative way but damn some of this stuff gets beyond what my measly tiny brain can handle, this is like overstimulating or something, idk I'm just silly
I love ARGs
I'm not smart enough to solve them myself and I prefer watching other people explain them to me
Same
I hope people make ARGs/Unfictions for other games because Minecraft is getting a little over saturated
WWF No Mercy
I fell like ARGs really helped the minecraft community all together, and thats what get me to Minecraft alot. Such good times
I Wacthed the last Beta Player alone. And I don't know why but i felt so engaged I just kept watching and it was probably one of the best videos I ever watched. It's just that good I wish there was more.
the last beta player freaks me out so much bc i used to play with friends on a private server from around 2012-2013 when i was about 13-14 years old and very easily spooked, and there must have been some buggy plugin on the server because i remember times when i was the only person online and then i would hear walking noises really close to me while i was still and there were no mobs nearby, and it freaked me out so much. i never thought it was paranormal and still believe it was some weird plugin glitch, but ive never been able to find anyone else experiencing the same thing.
something really scary happens then the yellow text casually just says peter griffin
Okay "Toasted "Cherries"
Yea,h
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ZLondon are.. My Craft?🤧
@@wyattprov5755 why _are_ you replying to your own comment
dude are you okay why are you talking to yourself
The two types of Minecraft ARGs:
The annoying unrealistic ones:
-Unrealistic scenarios and player reactions
-Supernatural entities for some reason
-Stakes are way too high for a block game
-disappointing, lackluster pacing and ending
-not convincing or well-made in the slightest
The compelling grounded ones:
-Scenarios and player reactions seem grounded and realistic
-No mention of the supernatural, just relies on storytelling to be spooky
-Stakes are realistic. High enough to be compelling, but low enough to suspend your disbelief
-Pacing is well done and the ending pays off and ties together the loose threads
-Very well-made to the point where you second guess if it's actually real or not.
The trouble with video game ARGs is that since they happen in our real word, they have to have some grounding. It doesn't make much sense for a singular random game to have some scary eldritch horror inhabiting it, meanwhile, the rest of the world is unaffected. Series like the AlphaVer ARG are intriguing since it's a huge mystery about missing and previously unknown Minecraft versions.
Something that actually exists. And along with it it even has its own Minecraft mod with the version that is portrayed in the video.
The idea of a supernatural entity affecting the game is more 'believeable' for me than the shadowy organisation in AlphaVer, oddly. Precisely because the latter is *theoretically* possible, it becomes all the more difficult to suspend my disbelief, whereas if the strange occurrences are explained by something like a ghost, suddenly one has no frame of reference for what is plausible and likely.
Its fiction it doesn't need to be realistic adding supernatural elements isn't in the slightest bit the problem with bad args lmao
@@iosefka7774 I don't think it's a shadowy organization as much as just an eclectic developer with a checkered past that even the other developers don't know about. It's not some Polybius-type stuff, it's just a weird rabbit hole with loose ends. Plenty of such rabbit holes exist IRL. (for instance, the CR6 webseries mystery)
My main issue with the supernatural entities is them being contained to a video game. Like, really, this being is able to possess people and electronics... and it decides to freak kids out on Minecraft? It's also just so weird to imagine some kid going to school or eating breakfast and then just going to his computer and logging back into the world that's home to some eldritch horror possessing people.
"The Last Beta Player" understood this really well, sure, it was at least somewhat paranormal, but you could see the person playing and reacting in real life, and also see how he asked questions on the subreddit, with realistic responses from other players.
And the framing is another thing. If it's established that weird paranormal things have been happening in the world besides just on Minecraft, it's believable. But if it's just random black entities that are the cursed souls of dead players trapped in the game... it's sorta laughable.
@@ialwayswatchyoutube812 Fiction doesn't need to be realistic, but it needs to be consistent and immersive. My point was that slapping on paranormal entities haphazardly makes no sense, and the execution of it most of the time is extremely tropey.
for me it's not a matter of realistic vs supernatural, but about suspension of disbelief
i could believe that maybe there's some unexplained entity in the game, but once it we get into over explaining stuff like "there's a cabal of inter-dimensional entities sneaking into random little kids' minecraft single player worlds to conduct a ritual to break into the real world using minecraft's moon as a catalyst to summon their god-program" it's like ok man this isn't a marvel movie, calm down with that
I love the am I alone arg and the last beta Player and honestly most of them, I was hooked on alpha ver
Second ARG is interesting. Would be cool if there was another where the main character had common sense as well as a good understand of Java mechanics and general IT.
the way you put the time and research into your videos is really influential to me. mb if i sound like i want you to guide me or if i'm glazing but you truly piece together your videos and have the knowledge to make such thought out videos. keep up the great work!
I love the usage of SH2 and SH3 OST in this video, such a nice touch
Am I alone? Seem to just have a "bugged" enderman
I've found a few structures in my world that the people and I play with can't explain, There's two really big holes in the middle of no where and some huge block in the sky made with all the blocks from the holes. It was creepy when I first found it but we think maybe someone got into the world some how and made it. Not really sure what else it could be from.
Finding good un-fiction is pretty hard, good video!
THE SILENT HILL MUSIC! it took me a moment to even hear it but oh my god. immediate nostalgia
53:28 Finally, guns in vanilla minecraft
I was like “man toasted cherries should make another Minecraft horror video” and then the same day he posts an hour worth of content
Mark101 was like pretty cool at the start but then after a few videos became goofy, still a pretty good ARG.
its not an arg
minecrafts arg starter pack
stalker like figure
privated videos
a code
This is so skoinkle boinkle
true
that is so calm4
this is so sweden
this is so norway
Was not expecting to see a frame from the 2004 flash game Exmortis. That brings me back holy God
1:35 nepeta homestuck cameo‼‼‼
NEPETA HOMESTUCK
3:14
You really took time out of your day to convert all this binary that i'm only putting here for a bit of background footage. i respect it.
1.0.16 might be the most detailed one with its own music. 3 volumes of them.
i love watching ur videos but especially the arg ones^^ keep up the good work cherries :]
5:30 "am I alone created by-"*ad starts* *this a tooth brush playing bile ilash*
I don’t know why but when I watch these videos I would get an unsettling atmosphere around me…
the second one is kinda funny to me cuz I'm just thinking of the guy keeping the entity as a pet and less of a lab rat lolz
I mean, I think the thing that separates an arg from a web series is audience participation. Generally args have some step or steps dependent on the audience interacting with the creator in some way
itch itchy!!! >_< help me itchyyyyy
scratch scratch :)
Wake up honey! new minecraft arg recap video dropped
Love an ARG that doubles as a playable game like AlphaVer. That's always fun.
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i never actually watched mongsters “the last beta player” but i have seen his world tours and recognize everything hes built in that video lol, never knew he specifically turned that forest and village into an arg along with everything else lol
Honey, wake up. Toasted Cherries just uploaded.
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5:58 "I'm evil bro Look behind you" the monster does not sound scary with that wording XD
AlphaVer is (in my opinion) the best Minecraft ARG and best ARG in general. There’s something about it that makes it so different than the other ones. And the music for it is genuinely so cool.
Join my company
ehh, I still think FoundOnTheTape is the better ARG. It's just... damn, it's scary somehow
tbh the idea of the low river biome sounds really cool
Yep, It starting to get over the place and samey since one ARG breakthrough it.
46:50 WOOO, OFF ost heard!! Video is fire, music is even better :))
YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG I SCROLLED TO SEE IF ANYBODY ELSE NOTICED THANK YOU SO MUCH
also at 58:50
i really liked the concept of am i alone; alphaver has to be my favorite though
I've been obsessed with Minecraft ARGs and webseries for almost 2 years now. I was suprised to see The Last Beta Player because it's actually one I haven't seen before! Love the way it is presented.
37:51 oooo Lilypad! That’s a nice version, i highly recommend watching Squiddo’s video where she plays it. I like that video.
caesar last words be like: "name a cipher after me too child"
this is a very wonderful video, ty maple
this is one of the only youtubers who knows damn well what he has to do to get views but still does what he loves, and im all in for it, keep it up ❤🔥
I need an old version of Minecraft ngl, I didn’t play it back then but it feels nostalgic ngl
17:40 the song is in his tab
2:37 MARBLE HORNETS MENTIONED
Alphaver is the most complicated devlog ever and I love it
I hope to see more videos from it because ill be sad if they blueball us like that
This was, and I can't ensure you know this enough, the smoothest, best paced, entertaining and informational video I've seen to date. Genuinely dude, this is fantastic top to bottom. Thank you for your work, I look forward to more!
1:35 Nepeta spotted
omg hai nepeta
Dear sweet Nepeta
nepeta hi!!! hello!!!!!!
me when the home is stuck or something
me when im a degenerate
silent hill music this video is instantly peak
Thanks for the video
save me toastedcherries video essay save me
true
When the cherries are toasted
I've played Minecraft for so long; I didn't know the VOD was lost media up until now
everything from that Alpha Versions series would be a really amazing modpack, i wonder if they'll release all of this in a playable form some day
it already is! check the miraheze wiki!
i would lowk pay for a video just about alphaver, it's so cool
I love this video it makes me so happy:-) I've already watched it 5 times!! Its so awesome and interesting!!! You're super cool!!!!!
thank you! ^_^
18:42 the absolute best ARG, so unique and such an amazing idea.
the cypress or r4 version of minecraft feels so magical. Just like... There's so many other dev pathways mc could have taken. And it's insane because r4 still feels like minecraft.
200k subs your toasting cherries
I've actually never heard of The Last Beta Player but it's so fucking cool