That engineer walking up, listening as you ask what he’s doing there, and then giving you a supply pack is the cutest thing ever, I love when engineers do that
@@maleexile9053some control points they always capture. Some require direct player intervention. Play the campaign on hard. Some control points on planets are a nightmare to win. The AI will dump all the tickets running into chokes and getting obliterated.
I cant believe you didnt mention the sheer vastness of Hoth. I remember walking out there so far before ever having the leaving battlefield warning. It was so white and on my ps2 the sky turned pink and purple weirdly if you walked out too far.
I always found it fascinating that you can go outside the hangars on Polis Masa and chill out on the asteroids surface with the literal unending abyss of space above you while tanks cruise around the surface. You would suffocate and die as a rebel, clone, or stormtrooper (naturally) but the droids were immune, so you could spend the entire match as a hunk of metal just vibing out in space
Oh yeah I always loved playing polis massa as the droids, huge advantage to not need to breath lol I used to play as an assault droid and go out alone in a tank to put mines on the front of it (with friendly fire turned off) so I could ram the enemy tanks and instantly kill them, good times
it's so excellent how in old games *sometimes* the only penalty for going out of bounds or sequence breaking was that you'd miss out on the main fun, but you were still allowed to do it
@@blueshit199 Some games reward it. Infamous 2 gave you a trophy for getting back to a tutorial area that's initially locked off and secretly becomes accessible again later on when you can glide better..
The ATV Off-Road Fury series’ free roam mode is the biggest vibe for this series. I used to spend literally hours exploring and finding weird and out of the way things
yes i did tag with my friends on ps2 (mx vs atv unleashed on ps2) downloaded a newer game on ps4 for some of my younger friends so i could do car tag again, but its just not the same. levels are smaller, only atvs and mx no helicopters sandrails, of course it doesnt have the cool desert portal from northern lights zone in unleashed, but at least they seem to enjoy it.
the newer ps4 gane was "mx vs atv supercross encore". Still has some freeroam levels but surprisingly contains visual bugs, and its a ps4 game so huh. im getting an emulator, im gonna emulate all the games of my childhood
Holy shit dude you just unlocked so many memories for me. My dad used to work at Rainbow studios so we had every mx vs ATV game when I was a kid. I remember being obsessed with the edge of the world cannon, especially in specific places like the train tunnel where you get shotgunned out in one direction. Sometimes me and my friends would play tag in the free roam mode or just dick around and explore... I'm a little biased but that series would made for some great exploration (especially Unleashed and Untamed, the older ones)
I can't believe you forgot about outside of the venator. During space battles if you land just right on the shields of the hanger it will drop you out and you can walk on the venator and take no damage
I've been finding myself looking for Unremarkable and Odd places more in video games now after watching your series. I just adore how much you pay attention to detail. No matter how small or stupid it may seem- it's always interesting. Keep up the great work! Always looking forward to more :D
I've been doing the same and it's genuinely giving me a new exciting reason to play a bunch of oldies from my childhood when compared to the one I've had when playing them all these years past which was just to beat the game or get that one trophy etc. I'm taking it slow and just enjoying the scenic route even in games that don't have much scenery.
same, I feel like I've always liked looking around at the environments in games but seeing someone dedicate videos to just the areas that feel particularly odd has made me even more interested in focusing on all the random details and areas that I might usually not pay much attention to.
I don’t know how you’ve managed to hit all the nostalgic points of my childhood, but you’ve done it. I would always explore the maps in this game and be like wow why is this here. I’d make up like elaborate stories to explain why these places were here, and I’d explore them. I don’t know why, but I did. This game was one of the largest reasons I’ve become obsessed with exploring in games
Im surprised no one has mentioned that on Kashyyyk if you walk out toward the ocean, you'll never be told youre leaving the battlefield and it'll just let you walk off the edge of the map
oh my god i completely forgot i used to be a little prick to my brother and hid in the water as yoda since you couldnt see his lightsaber and i just randomly started running until i hit the edge and was like "wtf is this?"
I would use the speeder bikes to ride up the sides of some of the trees, namely the one on the left of the beach head by the beach CP and the tree(s) between the CIS spawn point and the CP surrounded by rocks before the beach head. The later trees could be used to get to the weird stand-alone platforms there, def some odd and really cool spots.
I believe you can walk underwater infinitely when you play as a droid, so that can be useful to explore certain areas. Also, there is a glitch I found as a kid that gets you behind some collision in the Bespin: Cloud City map. It is by the random ammo droid hidden down a hallway between the forward flank and chamber Command Posts.
Oh my god, I know the spot you’re talking about! I think that was my first time going out of bounds in a game. I remember being kinda freaked out by it.
You can also walk under it as non-droids in Battlefront 1(I think it works differently in 2 but I can't remember how or if it actually does so I'm just mentioning how I know it worked in the original) but you occasionally have to jump to not have your character suffocate.
Hell yeah. I always take the time to just stand around and appreciate the environments and ambient noises in games, the gears of war multiplayer maps always have a lot of little noises and subtle things going on in the maps, they all tell a story
its pretty eerie when you think about it. No people, no action, just you...alone..in the wilderness or some back alley start writing those creepypastas kids!
Interestingly, many of these liminal spaces come from maps in Battlefront II that were ported over from the original Battlefront. The original game has a lot more maps that feature liminal spaces like these ones, such as the Kamino map (which is one huge room and then dozens of isolated landing pads) and Rhen Var Harbor and Rhen Var Citadel are both snowy, icy wastelands with lots of isolated spots. One of my favourite maps in the original game is Naboo: Plains, which looks like the default Windows XP desktop background
@@TheIncredible2ICyeah i used to be obsessed with recreating as much of the rhen var castles as I could in minecraft, they are like dracula's castle crossed with Superman's fortress of Solitude. There were some places also like this in the Dragon Quest series in the early 2000s
Mos Eisley has a number of these places from my recollection. The first is a wall near the awkard alleyway to nothing. With a force jump or a jet pack, you can get out of the map into a courtyard. The other is there is a place where you can exit the entire map and explore the unrendered city, but you can only use Aayla Secura or another Jedi that has a similar jump attack. Use it at a specific corner of a building and you're there. Learned of that one from a random UA-cam video from probably more than a decade ago
Or Jetpack (Boba or Jango) high enough by the main allied arena spawn gets you above the entire field. Then snipe from there while people run around with their swords wondering where the damage is coming from.
The maps in this game felt so big as a kid. It always felt like there were many mysteries to find not too far away from the action. You made me wanna go back to it and look around some more. Great video!
you standing in weird corners while a war goes on over there = me standing in the outfield in little league looking at ants while the game goes on over there
At 6:04 I like that they have one side of the building's windows lit from within, but the immediately adjoining window around the corner is somehow pitch dark inside. As if there's an extremely thin room along that side of the building
An possible oversight by devs, then again they didn't expect anyone to look at this map edge buildings with magnifying glass. They prob put texture with transparency on windows onto 'building', and behind a buildings side (wall) they added a plane (looks like a sheet of paper in 3d space) with yellowish texture. They prob forgot to add another to the side. But yeah, it's how it's done when u need to work with limited ps2 specs. The whole 'building' has at most 20 polygons.
@@tonyhawksunderground2 idk capabilities of ps2 cpu and gpu, so it was just a wild guess on my part, mostly based on observing some model rips from games of that era
I like the fact that you’re sitting out the whole game on Endor and are still absolutely crushing the Empire bc that’s how OP the Ewoks are on Endor somehow
@@frankusyoung4198 You gotta go around a side and take the most rear command post. Avoid the main battle at first, work on essentially swapping the factions' sides of the map. For The Empire!
The Battlefront 2 maps are so damn big for what are quite small battles. I always found the game to be really weird because of that. You could just... keep walking. There wasn't much around most of the time, but they left it all in there anyway. Pretty much entirely unfinished sections that are perfectly accessible. So strange.
I wonder if it’s a case where they originally planned the battles to be much larger but had to cut down the amount of NPCs to run on the PS2 and original Xbox?
@@MrCantStopTheRobotAt least in regards to these unusual locales, BF1 is equal. Especially in the maps that are in both games, of course, like Bespin in this very video. Maybe you could argue they should've been upgraded for a new game, but it never stopped us from battling for hundreds of hours. Other factors, I'll pick 2 over 1 every time for sure. Having played 1 recently, I wonder what you prefer about it. Or at least don't consider to be upgraded in 2.
@@MrCantStopTheRobot I preferred BF1 as well, but there were some nice upgrades in 2 such as playable jedi, awards, and more unique units. But space battles were tedious, galactic conquest in 2 was a slog, and the playable jedi gimmick wore off and I would default to no heroes when I played.
My theory with the first spot was that it was either supposed to be a second path of Endor to be populated with at least 1 command post but didn't balance well OR it's an alternate path for a speederbike rote/race. There minute evidence that BF1 was going to have a race mode but was cut early in dev. Me and my friends still would race that track early on. Spawn as rebels quick, rush to speedbikes, first person in the bunker wins. No other rules. Great fun. Tatooine sands had a race "route" as did Kashyyk Islands
There were places in halo 2 that I used to just sit and think "man this place is strange" and you could hear fighting in the distance, I don't know just this video reminded me of my strange finds in halo 2 for some reason 🤷🏻♂️ anyway awesome video
I've always liked games that don't try and restrict your movement around the game world, including the places that weren't intended to be visited. I did this a lot with the Battlefront games and Halo CE and 2 as a kid. Most games now days put up invisible barriers, even in places that seem like they should be apart of the game space.
I like this series and the skybox series a lot. And I like your eternal deadpan approach, compared to other UA-camrs who shout at you and try to grab your attention. Less is more, and you do it wonderfully.
my favorite place is to go into classic WoW and swim around the coast south of Silithus to find the demo Tarren village. its a little spot where the devs were testing out how different houses for different areas would look, and they just left it there. you don't have to cheat or hack or anything, just swim for about 15 minutes. its the best
this might sound weird but thank you for not covering literally every location like these in the game, i didn't know you could get to places like that on bespin or especially geonosis, you actually blew my mind with that part. i thank you because i'm going to have a lot of fun figuring out other locations myself, and after playing the game for the last decade i def need more new things to do in it lol
I really love both this series and the skybox series. One game from the PS2 era that I loved to waste time doing nothing in was Midnight Club 3. I had more fun exploring the cities in cruise mode than I did doing actual races.
2:58 The filming locations for Endor in Return of the Jedi were some redwood groves between Redwoods National Park and Humboldt County in Northwest California so you would be correct that Endor is a national park
For anyone who wants to explore these maps extensively, the invincibility cheat prevents the death barrier from killing you, letting you fully explore out of bounds
i might have commented this before but I remember Perfect Dark having many odd unremarkable places, some crazy skyboxes and lots of things to look at in the levels "off in the distance". The very first moment of the first level drops you on top of a building where you can look around at a blade runner type city with flying cars around that you can shoot and blow up. Also each level has a piece of cheese (cut out of a cheese wheel) hidden somewhere, usually in an unremarkable place
Battlefront 1 Endor map actually had a small AI footpath that went out there. It had a very low weight so the AI rarely used it, but every now and then you'd have a soldier or ewok NPC using that path to do a long flank to either side's main bases.
Star Wars Battlefront One (2004) had some of these as well. My personal favorite being the pathways connecting the Tusken Raider camps on the Dune Sea map. I was a small detail that made the world more lived it.
7:59 this weird alleyways also confused me when playing the first Battlefront game on PC, but I loved roaming around the maps, picking empty online servers just to explore
Another one for your list - Hoth, in normal instant action/conquest mode, still has the back-hanger/hunt region loaded in. Meaning, if you climb over Echo Base from the normal snowspeeder section and avoid the "Leaving Battle" warnings in the right direct path, you'll find the "other half" of Echo Base where the hunt map technically takes place. You'll notice in Echo Base that the bridges inside the bunker are broken/impassable, so the only way to access this "secret area" is to climb over the entire base itself. Very eerie feeling back there because the rest of the battle continues to stay loaded in/ongoing, yet you can walk around that entire section with no issues. It's odd to me that they didn't block it off entirely, but you essentially only play on half of the map space in BF2 - that back section stays there the entire time.
oh man. I think this is the first game I ever played that I realized that sometimes video games can just feel... weird. I would always try to sneak to the outskirts of maps to get to enemy command posts and felt like I was so far from anything. Really cool to see this game talked about.
The most odd places in Battlefront for me are the “Rhen Var” maps, bot the citadel and harbor. Afaik they don’t really exist in the Star Wars canon outside of Battlefront, and it’s interesting to me that Battlefront has all of these iconic and important locations from the movies but also these random locations that they made up, which are essentially icy frozen wastelands way out in the outer room. Even as a kid I wondered why any faction would need to fight over that territory.
0:55 There is reason to go outside of the most direct path between points. Flanking and sneaking to control points off the front and are thus unprotected. Being somebody who did that kind of thing a lot, I love this video.
I remember by using a jetpack on Tatooine, you could access an invisible platform you could stand on up high in the sky, and a flashing button was there, floating. As well, I think you should have explored Kashyyyk as there are for sure empty parts like on those big platforms that feel so erie and empty
Rhen Var Harbour had one of my favorite places to go. By driving the tank sideways up the south side mountain wall, you can atop overseeing the citadel. In BF1, proning worked best here (but you cant get up from it due to ceiling limitations) My favorite spot in the entire game. It was easier to get up here in battlefront 1 with more hover tank options, but it still works with this one.
I'd love to see you cover any of the first three Silent Hill games. They all have loooads of places that feel out of place. In a town filled with horrors and monsters trying to kill you there's alleyways, side streets, and even entire buildings that seemingly serve no purpose since there's nothing scary or little to no plot things to get/encounter and they've always stood out to me Regardless I love this series and can't wait for the next one.
As a child, I found a way to clip outside of the map in my house in Toon Town, and it became my mission to invite strangers to my house and show them the splendor of the void. It was almost impossible to explain my intentions using the in-game chat system, so I’d basically just go “yay!” And then put myself between a wall and a bookcase and disappear. At least once someone came with me out there and we jumped around shouting excited phrases as the house grew more and more distant. I felt like I knew an important secret. Exploring beyond the intended space gives you the same feeling as getting to know someone and seeing the parts of them that aren’t perfect, presentable, constructed. If you really like the thing or person you are seeing behind the curtain of, it only deepens your appreciation for them. Anyway. Good video.
I liked to do one during the space battles where if you’re on a republic or empire ship, you can glitch out of the hanger and walk alongside the ship. You can even fall through space. It’ll take about a min for you to hit the kill barrier tho lol
0:23 - I would have assumed that you said "Welcome to the planet Endor," so that thousands of Star Wars pedants would rush to the comments and boost engagement by pointing out that it is, ahem, actually, the _forest moon_ of Endor. Strangely, though, I scrolled through several pages of comments without seeing a single comment pointing it out. That seems...remarkable. And odd.
That area on geonosis actually looks like a good sniping position for both sides since the ai doesn't go there, I'll definitely be racking up dead clones once I get there as an assassin droid.
I remember playing an old Fan-made map for Battlefront 1. It was a ship battle map, where you were supposed to get in to Tie-Fighters or X-Wings and fight, but you could land on the bottom of the starry skybox. It was really odd to get out of my ship and walk around on sky texture. 10/10 map design btw.
Seriously, these videos and the skybox ones are a treat every time I see them pop up in my feed. Something very cozy and contemplative about them. Y'know. Just chillin'. Enjoyin some weird video game zones. You can kind of tell when someone really enjoys what they're doing and I get that sense in these videos from you. It's nice to see!
Hoth was always my favourite, I would either sit as a sniper atop one of the hills or Id get in a snowspeeder and race over to the back of Echo base where theres a whole area with no death zone that was meant for the campaign/wampa hunt gamemode
I actually have seen many tree walls in real life, not in the middle of the forest but where I live lots of farmers have big walls of trees seperating their field's from their neighbors.
Your channel has been a real inspiration to me the past few weeks! I have a channel completely dedicated to my favorite film Waterworld (1995). I love any UA-cam content that takes a really close look at very specific topic. The number of views may never be enormous, but I think videos like this build a very dedicated fanbase! Keep up the great work!
Wow, the pond in Naboo is so beautiful, so eerie. I loved the video even though I never played this game before, I just love virtual environments and your analysis of them is always very interesting. Thank you for your work!
oh wow what a throwback. my friends and i would compete for hours to see who would be the first to jump out of the arwing/wolfen and land on the top of the tower in Corneria to plant a firecracker bomb on the peak of the spire. We would also try to swag on each other by exiting the cockpit of the plane mid-flight so we could stand on top of the ship and line up a fly-by sniper rifle kill. so many memories :'D
This channel is the best thing I have found on youtube in a long while, look forward to bingeing it all and more future episodes. It seems like your hardwork is paying off, I was one of the people the algorithm fed your racing game obscure spots vid. Keep putting out bangers like that haha. Reminds me of minnime, also great videos.
YES! I’ve gotten back into Battlefront 2005 over the last few month or so and I’ve been watching your channel since the start of the year so this is a perfect mix. Great video dude
In Mos Eisley, there is a small part of the map where you can only access it as a jedi/sith or with a jetpack, but it is just on the other side of the outer map wall where there are a few houses. There's nothing to do back there but its completely isolated from the rest of the map and I would sometimes spend the entire duration of the assault mode back there. There is also a part of the Kashyyyk map where you can fly up with a jetpack and I would use my precision pistol with my jet trooper to snipe enemies down below. It is so high up where none of the enemies will ever shoot back, but its also hard to hit opponents from that distance with just the improved pistol.
Loved this busted game, as well as the first one. It gave me a fondness for the low restriction or even unpolished games. Naturally Halo became a favorite. I found legit wall clips and many glitches. I remember discovering that on Kamino, inside one of the facilities as a Droideka, you could roll behind a health or ammo droid in a hallway, stand up, and you'd clip straight through the wall into a dark round room. From there, you could see and shoot enemies. It only worked at one base, with that one droid. I think this was Battlefront 1. I also used to like riding up on top of the Temple on Yavin 4. This may have only been possible in the first game. Riding back down allowed for some insane, usually fatal speed.
My battlefront 2 algorithm has really blest me today. Not only did I find another fun Battlefront 2 video but also a super awesome and underrated channel with tons of rly unique and entertaining content. Subbed!
There's also a cool spot on the Kashyyyk map, where you can get on top of one of those huge tree branches as a jet trooper. The tree was sort-of close to the clone spawn next to the gate, but the the leaf-covered branch itself was in the middle of the map. Makes for a good secret snipe spot with boba fett!
As someone getting into urban planning, I love this content. With these types of odd and unremarkable spaces, we think about how places make us feel which is very interesting and something people have been doing for awhile. I'm glad I learned about desire paths at 1:09, think that's something that should be factored into pathway design.
oh man I am so glad someone said it. It was so weird but kinda nice and peaceful. Part of me used to think what it would be like to escape the war and disappear into those fringe places forever
There's a custom map I played on a lot called Tatooine Tusken Camp. It was full of easter eggs on the fringes of the map. Like a little area behind some rocks full of health and ammo droids that were so densely packed your health and ammo would be instantly refilled. Or maybe you could find your way up onto the roof of the canyon wall where there was a little maze you could run around. It was a cool map.
my favorite maps to explore was the outsides of Polis Massa and Hoth. I always turned on invincibility and then took a vehicle as far as i could before reaching a black hole. Exploring was always such a fun thing to do on this game.
I am reminded of playing World of Warcraft around 2006/2007, just before purchasing the first expansion. I put off buying it for a while, so when I went up north of the undead city, I ended up in an entirely different place than my friend who ended up in the blood elf lands. There's a whole empty peninsula up there that you can swim all the way around if you're careful, and that whole area with all of the map data ceases to exist if you buy an expansion pack. Weird feelings about my memories of making that swim for no reason in a world only I could see in an MMO.
Dude WoW is FULL of odd and unremarkable places, at least from when I remember it. Idk how it is now, but back when my brother and I played which was right around Cataclysm so many places give kind of a liminal/lonely/nostalgic feeling. Before my bro and I got subscriptions we played on one of those hacked free servers that don’t have a lot of players, and I remember we were swimming in the ocean trying to circumvent a higher-level zone. It took us at least 30 minutes of swimming in this weird place on the outskirts of all these mountains jutting out that were supposed to be the borders of Stormwind or something. In general the way the regions in WoW are designed with the mountain boundaries is strange but necessary ig, it kind of harkens back to the unique time in gaming when it was released. There’s just something kind of emotionally provocative about it, especially when it’s 2 am and you’re wandering around alone in the middle of nowhere with no other players around.
This reminds me of how I've played old Command and Conquer games and will send units to explore every corner of the map. Sometimes you find some interesting stuff.
All of these empty spots on basically every map had me intrigued. I always loved hanging out in the Bespin alleyways I’d love to just, keep going you know? That long bridge overlooking the waterfall that no one goes to on Yavin Temple. The intimidating Infinite oceans of Kamino. Every planet in all games have these amazingly interesting “dead ends”. You can’t help but find some beauty in it right? *THESE ARE ALL CANON BY THE WAY!!!*
Ultimate Paintball Challenge and Tony Hawk’s Underground come to mind for me along with Battlefront when thinking about games I used to just wander around in. Good stuff. Had me chuckling a few times which was unexpected.
I'm so glad I wasn't the only person fascinated with the spaces you can find in 4th and 5th gen games' weird spaces. (Especially those in Star Wars Battlefront 2) I found a lot of these kinds of places in the original 3 Halo games as well.
I know this is an old video but I remember that pond on Naboo Theed being a favorite hangout spot for me and my brother playing this game. I'm not sure if you or anyone else have done it and I can't remember if it was Battlefront 1 or 2 but you can take the levitating tanks out on the pond and they will hover above the pond. My brother and I would just roam around in the tanks for fun and take shots at the enemies on the land, have a little destruction derby. Good times. Reminiscing about this has made me remember another odd place in a different game my siblings and I discovered in Cars Maternationals for the nintendo ds. What a fun game, back when they put effort into those offshoot bottom of the barrel movie games. We would play multiplayer and the first track called Main street has this clearly slower dirt path where you can go off a ramp back onto the track. Next to the ramp there is a like lumber mill or something and if you aim to be hanging off the right of the ramp and jump (feature of the game) as you go off the ramp you can clip into it. We spent HOURS doing this. It is an out of bounds glitch basically and the game will warp you back to the track if you find the out of bounds collisions but you could sneak around and we went wild for it. Also attempting the trick can just wreak havoc on the game's physics which we enjoyed equally. Loving this series, keep it up, there are so many places to explore in all of video games.
This game was my childhood -- I made my first online friends on X-fire playing this game. I spent countless hours on those maps and learning about fun glitches. And yet you've still managed to find places I'd never bothered really looking, because they're so unremarkable.
I love finding these sorts of places in games. I definitely used to seek them out a lot more as a kid without even really grasping that I was searching liminal spaces. I still do it a bit now and there's something cathartic about it.
If you use the invincibility cheat code, the "leaving the battlefield" prompt won't kill you. So on Bespin, you can go to the edge of the geometry and jump off where there's still tons of land to walk on.
I freaking *loved* playing battlefront 2 as a kid. So many fun memories playing with/against my brother in those battles. Its also where I learned of the A-Wing, and i love that ship lol
Tatooine: Dune Sea has some very strange places I remember visiting as a kid and thinking “why is this here?”. The Tusken Raider camp expands pretty far back behind the command post, lots of little tents that are out of view from the common fighting areas. There are also some cliffs that overlook the command post in the back right corner, the one closest to the tusken raider camp. Fun to fly your ship up to the cliffs, land, and then very stealthily capture the command post without being seen.
That engineer walking up, listening as you ask what he’s doing there, and then giving you a supply pack is the cutest thing ever, I love when engineers do that
The Ai was phenomenal for the time. Seeing an engineer run across the map to help you made it feel so real
@@lazydog223 But they can't capture a command post
@@maleexile9053 Pathing is always a weak point for AI somehow, except nextbots.
@@maleexile9053some control points they always capture. Some require direct player intervention. Play the campaign on hard. Some control points on planets are a nightmare to win.
The AI will dump all the tickets running into chokes and getting obliterated.
@@Shoxic666L number in username mate
I cant believe you didnt mention the sheer vastness of Hoth. I remember walking out there so far before ever having the leaving battlefield warning. It was so white and on my ps2 the sky turned pink and purple weirdly if you walked out too far.
I filmed a version of this including Hoth but then the power went out and I lost it so I did Naboo instead
And you can use a snowspeeder to get over to the empty Hunt Mode map behind the rebel base
@@spacellamamk1 Also, as a Wampa you can run over the hill instead of going through the main hallways
@@any_austin aw rip:(
The empty hallway that had a command post in Battlefront 1
That engineer that came up to you with nothing to gain just gave you a Bacta and left lol what a nice guy
I always found it fascinating that you can go outside the hangars on Polis Masa and chill out on the asteroids surface with the literal unending abyss of space above you while tanks cruise around the surface. You would suffocate and die as a rebel, clone, or stormtrooper (naturally) but the droids were immune, so you could spend the entire match as a hunk of metal just vibing out in space
Oh yeah I always loved playing polis massa as the droids, huge advantage to not need to breath lol
I used to play as an assault droid and go out alone in a tank to put mines on the front of it (with friendly fire turned off) so I could ram the enemy tanks and instantly kill them, good times
it's so excellent how in old games *sometimes* the only penalty for going out of bounds or sequence breaking was that you'd miss out on the main fun, but you were still allowed to do it
i would play engineer and just force the enemies out of their tanks. got over 100 technician medals because of it.
"man where tf is that last guy?"
@@blueshit199 Some games reward it. Infamous 2 gave you a trophy for getting back to a tutorial area that's initially locked off and secretly becomes accessible again later on when you can glide better..
The ATV Off-Road Fury series’ free roam mode is the biggest vibe for this series. I used to spend literally hours exploring and finding weird and out of the way things
Same
yes i did tag with my friends on ps2 (mx vs atv unleashed on ps2) downloaded a newer game on ps4 for some of my younger friends so i could do car tag again, but its just not the same. levels are smaller, only atvs and mx no helicopters sandrails, of course it doesnt have the cool desert portal from northern lights zone in unleashed, but at least they seem to enjoy it.
the newer ps4 gane was "mx vs atv supercross encore". Still has some freeroam levels but surprisingly contains visual bugs, and its a ps4 game so huh.
im getting an emulator, im gonna emulate all the games of my childhood
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Holy shit dude you just unlocked so many memories for me. My dad used to work at Rainbow studios so we had every mx vs ATV game when I was a kid. I remember being obsessed with the edge of the world cannon, especially in specific places like the train tunnel where you get shotgunned out in one direction. Sometimes me and my friends would play tag in the free roam mode or just dick around and explore... I'm a little biased but that series would made for some great exploration (especially Unleashed and Untamed, the older ones)
I think the fact that you know that there are battles going on in other part of the map makes these spots feel even lonelier and more odd.
I remember feeling exactly that way about hundreds of locations in BF2, places that AI never touched
they probably did get use in multiplayer tbf
I can't believe you forgot about outside of the venator. During space battles if you land just right on the shields of the hanger it will drop you out and you can walk on the venator and take no damage
You just brought back memories 😮💨
hell yeah i remember that
Same with the Star Destroyer!!! I used to leap from the Venator all the way down to the acclamator below. Good times.
Yes!!!!
You could also do it with the imperial star destroyer
I've been finding myself looking for Unremarkable and Odd places more in video games now after watching your series. I just adore how much you pay attention to detail. No matter how small or stupid it may seem- it's always interesting. Keep up the great work! Always looking forward to more :D
I've been doing the same and it's genuinely giving me a new exciting reason to play a bunch of oldies from my childhood when compared to the one I've had when playing them all these years past which was just to beat the game or get that one trophy etc.
I'm taking it slow and just enjoying the scenic route even in games that don't have much scenery.
Ohh you adore his weenie huh
same, I feel like I've always liked looking around at the environments in games but seeing someone dedicate videos to just the areas that feel particularly odd has made me even more interested in focusing on all the random details and areas that I might usually not pay much attention to.
I guess it's really cool to do in open world games
I don’t know how you’ve managed to hit all the nostalgic points of my childhood, but you’ve done it. I would always explore the maps in this game and be like wow why is this here. I’d make up like elaborate stories to explain why these places were here, and I’d explore them. I don’t know why, but I did. This game was one of the largest reasons I’ve become obsessed with exploring in games
That's a nice thing to do.
Same and I would roleplay on maps with my stories
@@Batkenpre I did this in BF1942 as well.
@@gergoantal1066 I did that on a few of the battle fields it's so fun I still some times do it
I remember being freaked out at the unending abyss and map ledges. freaked me out. I remember thinking “is this what forever is?”,
Im surprised no one has mentioned that on Kashyyyk if you walk out toward the ocean, you'll never be told youre leaving the battlefield and it'll just let you walk off the edge of the map
Going way back to the refinery while everyone else runs passed you to war is definitely an odd place
oh my god i completely forgot
i used to be a little prick to my brother and hid in the water as yoda since you couldnt see his lightsaber and i just randomly started running until i hit the edge and was like "wtf is this?"
I would use the speeder bikes to ride up the sides of some of the trees, namely the one on the left of the beach head by the beach CP and the tree(s) between the CIS spawn point and the CP surrounded by rocks before the beach head. The later trees could be used to get to the weird stand-alone platforms there, def some odd and really cool spots.
I believe you can walk underwater infinitely when you play as a droid, so that can be useful to explore certain areas.
Also, there is a glitch I found as a kid that gets you behind some collision in the Bespin: Cloud City map. It is by the random ammo droid hidden down a hallway between the forward flank and chamber Command Posts.
Oh my god, I know the spot you’re talking about! I think that was my first time going out of bounds in a game. I remember being kinda freaked out by it.
You can also drive the ships over the water by taking that ramp
I always used the underwater droid trick on the big Kashyyyk level in bf1 to jump up at the clones.
You can also walk under it as non-droids in Battlefront 1(I think it works differently in 2 but I can't remember how or if it actually does so I'm just mentioning how I know it worked in the original) but you occasionally have to jump to not have your character suffocate.
Droids cant walk underwater, you can die too
I'm so glad there's other people that have always been drawn to this stuff.
It's such a weird feeling, so it's nice to share it
Hell yeah. I always take the time to just stand around and appreciate the environments and ambient noises in games, the gears of war multiplayer maps always have a lot of little noises and subtle things going on in the maps, they all tell a story
its pretty eerie when you think about it. No people, no action, just you...alone..in the wilderness or some back alley
start writing those creepypastas kids!
Interestingly, many of these liminal spaces come from maps in Battlefront II that were ported over from the original Battlefront. The original game has a lot more maps that feature liminal spaces like these ones, such as the Kamino map (which is one huge room and then dozens of isolated landing pads) and Rhen Var Harbor and Rhen Var Citadel are both snowy, icy wastelands with lots of isolated spots. One of my favourite maps in the original game is Naboo: Plains, which looks like the default Windows XP desktop background
The Rhen Var maps always just felt off to me. Don't really know how else to put it besides that.
@@TheIncredible2ICyeah i used to be obsessed with recreating as much of the rhen var castles as I could in minecraft, they are like dracula's castle crossed with Superman's fortress of Solitude. There were some places also like this in the Dragon Quest series in the early 2000s
Mos Eisley has a number of these places from my recollection. The first is a wall near the awkard alleyway to nothing. With a force jump or a jet pack, you can get out of the map into a courtyard. The other is there is a place where you can exit the entire map and explore the unrendered city, but you can only use Aayla Secura or another Jedi that has a similar jump attack. Use it at a specific corner of a building and you're there. Learned of that one from a random UA-cam video from probably more than a decade ago
Or Jetpack (Boba or Jango) high enough by the main allied arena spawn gets you above the entire field. Then snipe from there while people run around with their swords wondering where the damage is coming from.
The maps in this game felt so big as a kid. It always felt like there were many mysteries to find not too far away from the action. You made me wanna go back to it and look around some more. Great video!
you standing in weird corners while a war goes on over there = me standing in the outfield in little league looking at ants while the game goes on over there
7:46 - “what are you doing here?”
Engineer - “I dont know either… here take some ammo tho”🤣
At 6:04 I like that they have one side of the building's windows lit from within, but the immediately adjoining window around the corner is somehow pitch dark inside. As if there's an extremely thin room along that side of the building
An possible oversight by devs, then again they didn't expect anyone to look at this map edge buildings with magnifying glass. They prob put texture with transparency on windows onto 'building', and behind a buildings side (wall) they added a plane (looks like a sheet of paper in 3d space) with yellowish texture. They prob forgot to add another to the side. But yeah, it's how it's done when u need to work with limited ps2 specs. The whole 'building' has at most 20 polygons.
blackout curtains lol
@@Kiri678 there's no way they were wasting gpu budget on transparency for scenery like that on a PS2 game, it's just an emmisive map
@@tonyhawksunderground2 idk capabilities of ps2 cpu and gpu, so it was just a wild guess on my part, mostly based on observing some model rips from games of that era
I like the fact that you’re sitting out the whole game on Endor and are still absolutely crushing the Empire bc that’s how OP the Ewoks are on Endor somehow
Yeah, I don't think I ever won playing as the empire in Endor xD
@@frankusyoung4198 I loved try as an "ultimate challenge" in the game. Like a 1v24 battle
Yeah cannon-proof steel armored walkers are really no match for wooden logs
@@frankusyoung4198 You gotta go around a side and take the most rear command post. Avoid the main battle at first, work on essentially swapping the factions' sides of the map. For The Empire!
i know this is an old thread but don’t forget about trying to beat the jawas as the Tuskin raiders lol
The Battlefront 2 maps are so damn big for what are quite small battles. I always found the game to be really weird because of that. You could just... keep walking. There wasn't much around most of the time, but they left it all in there anyway. Pretty much entirely unfinished sections that are perfectly accessible.
So strange.
I wonder if it’s a case where they originally planned the battles to be much larger but had to cut down the amount of NPCs to run on the PS2 and original Xbox?
BF2 felt rushed, back when I played it. Didn't feel like much of an upgrade. Friends loved it, though.
@@MrCantStopTheRobotAt least in regards to these unusual locales, BF1 is equal. Especially in the maps that are in both games, of course, like Bespin in this very video. Maybe you could argue they should've been upgraded for a new game, but it never stopped us from battling for hundreds of hours.
Other factors, I'll pick 2 over 1 every time for sure. Having played 1 recently, I wonder what you prefer about it. Or at least don't consider to be upgraded in 2.
@@MrCantStopTheRobot I preferred BF1 as well, but there were some nice upgrades in 2 such as playable jedi, awards, and more unique units. But space battles were tedious, galactic conquest in 2 was a slog, and the playable jedi gimmick wore off and I would default to no heroes when I played.
@@MrCantStopTheRobot it feels so much better to play compared to one though, faster and more accurate guns, better movement
7:44 “What are you doing here!?”
“Sir, here’s the pizza you ordered.”
My theory with the first spot was that it was either supposed to be a second path of Endor to be populated with at least 1 command post but didn't balance well OR it's an alternate path for a speederbike rote/race. There minute evidence that BF1 was going to have a race mode but was cut early in dev. Me and my friends still would race that track early on. Spawn as rebels quick, rush to speedbikes, first person in the bunker wins. No other rules. Great fun.
Tatooine sands had a race "route" as did Kashyyk Islands
There were places in halo 2 that I used to just sit and think "man this place is strange" and you could hear fighting in the distance, I don't know just this video reminded me of my strange finds in halo 2 for some reason 🤷🏻♂️ anyway awesome video
@TenAte108 yeah you are right
the rooftops that you could get on in the level Outskirts definitely had a really weird vibe and as a kid I used to explore them all the time
Exploring Delta Halo and finding all those places in between the temple pillars where weapons were hidden. There were also dead ODSTs
I've always liked games that don't try and restrict your movement around the game world, including the places that weren't intended to be visited. I did this a lot with the Battlefront games and Halo CE and 2 as a kid. Most games now days put up invisible barriers, even in places that seem like they should be apart of the game space.
4:55 its gameplay purpose is to be a sniper and torment the enemy team.
9:10 seeing Vader crouch like he is Batman is something I never thought I would see..
I like this series and the skybox series a lot. And I like your eternal deadpan approach, compared to other UA-camrs who shout at you and try to grab your attention. Less is more, and you do it wonderfully.
I wouldn’t call his manner of speech deadpan per se, though it’s most certainly genuine.
@@walrus2515 He gives me Joe Pera vibes.
@@dominic2060 EXACTLY THAT MAN
7:45
I love how there's this random engineer who follows you to the corner just to give you a medpack and leave
my favorite place is to go into classic WoW and swim around the coast south of Silithus to find the demo Tarren village. its a little spot where the devs were testing out how different houses for different areas would look, and they just left it there. you don't have to cheat or hack or anything, just swim for about 15 minutes. its the best
this might sound weird but thank you for not covering literally every location like these in the game, i didn't know you could get to places like that on bespin or especially geonosis, you actually blew my mind with that part. i thank you because i'm going to have a lot of fun figuring out other locations myself, and after playing the game for the last decade i def need more new things to do in it lol
I really love both this series and the skybox series. One game from the PS2 era that I loved to waste time doing nothing in was Midnight Club 3. I had more fun exploring the cities in cruise mode than I did doing actual races.
2:58 The filming locations for Endor in Return of the Jedi were some redwood groves between Redwoods National Park and Humboldt County in Northwest California so you would be correct that Endor is a national park
For anyone who wants to explore these maps extensively, the invincibility cheat prevents the death barrier from killing you, letting you fully explore out of bounds
“Who’s going in that door, Dobby?” Had me on the floor laughing
i might have commented this before but I remember Perfect Dark having many odd unremarkable places, some crazy skyboxes and lots of things to look at in the levels "off in the distance". The very first moment of the first level drops you on top of a building where you can look around at a blade runner type city with flying cars around that you can shoot and blow up. Also each level has a piece of cheese (cut out of a cheese wheel) hidden somewhere, usually in an unremarkable place
6:47 I know the AI is like “where the hell is the last guy” and it’s just you standing way over where you aren’t suppose to be 😂😭
Battlefront 1 Endor map actually had a small AI footpath that went out there. It had a very low weight so the AI rarely used it, but every now and then you'd have a soldier or ewok NPC using that path to do a long flank to either side's main bases.
Star Wars Battlefront One (2004) had some of these as well. My personal favorite being the pathways connecting the Tusken Raider camps on the Dune Sea map. I was a small detail that made the world more lived it.
7:59 this weird alleyways also confused me when playing the first Battlefront game on PC, but I loved roaming around the maps, picking empty online servers just to explore
Another one for your list - Hoth, in normal instant action/conquest mode, still has the back-hanger/hunt region loaded in. Meaning, if you climb over Echo Base from the normal snowspeeder section and avoid the "Leaving Battle" warnings in the right direct path, you'll find the "other half" of Echo Base where the hunt map technically takes place. You'll notice in Echo Base that the bridges inside the bunker are broken/impassable, so the only way to access this "secret area" is to climb over the entire base itself. Very eerie feeling back there because the rest of the battle continues to stay loaded in/ongoing, yet you can walk around that entire section with no issues. It's odd to me that they didn't block it off entirely, but you essentially only play on half of the map space in BF2 - that back section stays there the entire time.
You could also put on the invincibility cheat and go out of bounds as the "Leaving Battlefield" kill timer can't kill you.
I would do this and take the speeder bike off the sharp hills in kashyyyk. Such fond memories.
I'd also sit on the hills and snipe enemies lol
My god I love this channel. Austin is a treasure.
oh man. I think this is the first game I ever played that I realized that sometimes video games can just feel... weird. I would always try to sneak to the outskirts of maps to get to enemy command posts and felt like I was so far from anything. Really cool to see this game talked about.
Oh the memories, I remember I used to glitch out off the venator hangar and just walk throught the sidewalls of the ship
The most odd places in Battlefront for me are the “Rhen Var” maps, bot the citadel and harbor. Afaik they don’t really exist in the Star Wars canon outside of Battlefront, and it’s interesting to me that Battlefront has all of these iconic and important locations from the movies but also these random locations that they made up, which are essentially icy frozen wastelands way out in the outer room. Even as a kid I wondered why any faction would need to fight over that territory.
0:55 There is reason to go outside of the most direct path between points. Flanking and sneaking to control points off the front and are thus unprotected.
Being somebody who did that kind of thing a lot, I love this video.
I remember by using a jetpack on Tatooine, you could access an invisible platform you could stand on up high in the sky, and a flashing button was there, floating. As well, I think you should have explored Kashyyyk as there are for sure empty parts like on those big platforms that feel so erie and empty
This is the type of video made for me. Love this game.
The geonosis in the first battlefront was so much better than the one in the second
Rhen Var Harbour had one of my favorite places to go. By driving the tank sideways up the south side mountain wall, you can atop overseeing the citadel. In BF1, proning worked best here (but you cant get up from it due to ceiling limitations)
My favorite spot in the entire game. It was easier to get up here in battlefront 1 with more hover tank options, but it still works with this one.
I'd love to see you cover any of the first three Silent Hill games. They all have loooads of places that feel out of place.
In a town filled with horrors and monsters trying to kill you there's alleyways, side streets, and even entire buildings that seemingly serve no purpose since there's nothing scary or little to no plot things to get/encounter and they've always stood out to me
Regardless I love this series and can't wait for the next one.
As a child, I found a way to clip outside of the map in my house in Toon Town, and it became my mission to invite strangers to my house and show them the splendor of the void.
It was almost impossible to explain my intentions using the in-game chat system, so I’d basically just go “yay!” And then put myself between a wall and a bookcase and disappear.
At least once someone came with me out there and we jumped around shouting excited phrases as the house grew more and more distant. I felt like I knew an important secret.
Exploring beyond the intended space gives you the same feeling as getting to know someone and seeing the parts of them that aren’t perfect, presentable, constructed. If you really like the thing or person you are seeing behind the curtain of, it only deepens your appreciation for them.
Anyway. Good video.
I liked to do one during the space battles where if you’re on a republic or empire ship, you can glitch out of the hanger and walk alongside the ship. You can even fall through space. It’ll take about a min for you to hit the kill barrier tho lol
0:23 - I would have assumed that you said "Welcome to the planet Endor," so that thousands of Star Wars pedants would rush to the comments and boost engagement by pointing out that it is, ahem, actually, the _forest moon_ of Endor.
Strangely, though, I scrolled through several pages of comments without seeing a single comment pointing it out. That seems...remarkable. And odd.
That area on geonosis actually looks like a good sniping position for both sides since the ai doesn't go there, I'll definitely be racking up dead clones once I get there as an assassin droid.
I just want to point out the incredible npc moonwalk at 10:28
I remember playing an old Fan-made map for Battlefront 1. It was a ship battle map, where you were supposed to get in to Tie-Fighters or X-Wings and fight, but you could land on the bottom of the starry skybox. It was really odd to get out of my ship and walk around on sky texture. 10/10 map design btw.
Seriously, these videos and the skybox ones are a treat every time I see them pop up in my feed. Something very cozy and contemplative about them. Y'know. Just chillin'. Enjoyin some weird video game zones. You can kind of tell when someone really enjoys what they're doing and I get that sense in these videos from you. It's nice to see!
Hoth was always my favourite, I would either sit as a sniper atop one of the hills or Id get in a snowspeeder and race over to the back of Echo base where theres a whole area with no death zone that was meant for the campaign/wampa hunt gamemode
I actually have seen many tree walls in real life, not in the middle of the forest but where I live lots of farmers have big walls of trees seperating their field's from their neighbors.
Your channel has been a real inspiration to me the past few weeks! I have a channel completely dedicated to my favorite film Waterworld (1995). I love any UA-cam content that takes a really close look at very specific topic. The number of views may never be enormous, but I think videos like this build a very dedicated fanbase! Keep up the great work!
There's a freakin war going on, and Jim is over here just eating mushrooms and looking at the trees.
Wow, the pond in Naboo is so beautiful, so eerie. I loved the video even though I never played this game before, I just love virtual environments and your analysis of them is always very interesting. Thank you for your work!
Spamming the takeoff/land button in space battles in the second one will let you outside the shield of the hanger. You can jump off and fall forever.
I would love to see an episode on Star Fox Assault. That game had big maps with lots of interesting little corners. Keep up the good work!
oh wow what a throwback. my friends and i would compete for hours to see who would be the first to jump out of the arwing/wolfen and land on the top of the tower in Corneria to plant a firecracker bomb on the peak of the spire. We would also try to swag on each other by exiting the cockpit of the plane mid-flight so we could stand on top of the ship and line up a fly-by sniper rifle kill. so many memories :'D
@@StIdes-wb3ir I did all the same stuff with my friends! We got into all kinds of silly fun like that. Totally an underrated multiplayer game.
When I play Bespin Cloud City, I always find the last person in "those backrooms"
Hi Austin 👋. Big fan
Been watching since the egg busters days 😎
6:21 Dobby playable character for SW Battlefront III confirmed
You should try a video of Unremarkable and odd places in your house cause that to me would be also exciting to see as well in the next video.
This channel is the best thing I have found on youtube in a long while, look forward to bingeing it all and more future episodes. It seems like your hardwork is paying off, I was one of the people the algorithm fed your racing game obscure spots vid. Keep putting out bangers like that haha.
Reminds me of minnime, also great videos.
That saber throw with Darth on Bespin that sniped the wookie was very skillful
YES! I’ve gotten back into Battlefront 2005 over the last few month or so and I’ve been watching your channel since the start of the year so this is a perfect mix. Great video dude
I'd really like to see you do odd places in the real world too!
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In Mos Eisley, there is a small part of the map where you can only access it as a jedi/sith or with a jetpack, but it is just on the other side of the outer map wall where there are a few houses. There's nothing to do back there but its completely isolated from the rest of the map and I would sometimes spend the entire duration of the assault mode back there.
There is also a part of the Kashyyyk map where you can fly up with a jetpack and I would use my precision pistol with my jet trooper to snipe enemies down below. It is so high up where none of the enemies will ever shoot back, but its also hard to hit opponents from that distance with just the improved pistol.
Loved this busted game, as well as the first one. It gave me a fondness for the low restriction or even unpolished games. Naturally Halo became a favorite.
I found legit wall clips and many glitches. I remember discovering that on Kamino, inside one of the facilities as a Droideka, you could roll behind a health or ammo droid in a hallway, stand up, and you'd clip straight through the wall into a dark round room. From there, you could see and shoot enemies. It only worked at one base, with that one droid. I think this was Battlefront 1.
I also used to like riding up on top of the Temple on Yavin 4. This may have only been possible in the first game. Riding back down allowed for some insane, usually fatal speed.
The hoth base section in the back is my favorite. It’s easy to find these sections when you activate invincibility
My battlefront 2 algorithm has really blest me today. Not only did I find another fun Battlefront 2 video but also a super awesome and underrated channel with tons of rly unique and entertaining content. Subbed!
There's also a cool spot on the Kashyyyk map, where you can get on top of one of those huge tree branches as a jet trooper. The tree was sort-of close to the clone spawn next to the gate, but the the leaf-covered branch itself was in the middle of the map. Makes for a good secret snipe spot with boba fett!
As someone getting into urban planning, I love this content. With these types of odd and unremarkable spaces, we think about how places make us feel which is very interesting and something people have been doing for awhile. I'm glad I learned about desire paths at 1:09, think that's something that should be factored into pathway design.
oh man I am so glad someone said it. It was so weird but kinda nice and peaceful. Part of me used to think what it would be like to escape the war and disappear into those fringe places forever
There's a custom map I played on a lot called Tatooine Tusken Camp. It was full of easter eggs on the fringes of the map. Like a little area behind some rocks full of health and ammo droids that were so densely packed your health and ammo would be instantly refilled. Or maybe you could find your way up onto the roof of the canyon wall where there was a little maze you could run around.
It was a cool map.
my favorite maps to explore was the outsides of Polis Massa and Hoth. I always turned on invincibility and then took a vehicle as far as i could before reaching a black hole. Exploring was always such a fun thing to do on this game.
I never knew I needed a youtube series about skyboxes and unremarkable places in video games, but hell am I happy that it exists. Love your videos!
I am reminded of playing World of Warcraft around 2006/2007, just before purchasing the first expansion. I put off buying it for a while, so when I went up north of the undead city, I ended up in an entirely different place than my friend who ended up in the blood elf lands. There's a whole empty peninsula up there that you can swim all the way around if you're careful, and that whole area with all of the map data ceases to exist if you buy an expansion pack. Weird feelings about my memories of making that swim for no reason in a world only I could see in an MMO.
Dude WoW is FULL of odd and unremarkable places, at least from when I remember it. Idk how it is now, but back when my brother and I played which was right around Cataclysm so many places give kind of a liminal/lonely/nostalgic feeling. Before my bro and I got subscriptions we played on one of those hacked free servers that don’t have a lot of players, and I remember we were swimming in the ocean trying to circumvent a higher-level zone. It took us at least 30 minutes of swimming in this weird place on the outskirts of all these mountains jutting out that were supposed to be the borders of Stormwind or something. In general the way the regions in WoW are designed with the mountain boundaries is strange but necessary ig, it kind of harkens back to the unique time in gaming when it was released. There’s just something kind of emotionally provocative about it, especially when it’s 2 am and you’re wandering around alone in the middle of nowhere with no other players around.
This reminds me of how I've played old Command and Conquer games and will send units to explore every corner of the map. Sometimes you find some interesting stuff.
Just finding this channel and this is my favorite video
All of these empty spots on basically every map had me intrigued. I always loved hanging out in the Bespin alleyways I’d love to just, keep going you know?
That long bridge overlooking the waterfall that no one goes to on Yavin Temple.
The intimidating Infinite oceans of Kamino.
Every planet in all games have these amazingly interesting “dead ends”. You can’t help but find some beauty in it right?
*THESE ARE ALL CANON BY THE WAY!!!*
I love your odd locations videos. Real Joe Pera talks you to sleep vibes. Very chill and relaxing. Thanks
Ultimate Paintball Challenge and Tony Hawk’s Underground come to mind for me along with Battlefront when thinking about games I used to just wander around in. Good stuff. Had me chuckling a few times which was unexpected.
I love these videos so much dude. They really have this vaporwavey feely concept of like new nostalgia. Keep it up please. HUGE fan
I'm so glad I wasn't the only person fascinated with the spaces you can find in 4th and 5th gen games' weird spaces. (Especially those in Star Wars Battlefront 2)
I found a lot of these kinds of places in the original 3 Halo games as well.
I know this is an old video but I remember that pond on Naboo Theed being a favorite hangout spot for me and my brother playing this game. I'm not sure if you or anyone else have done it and I can't remember if it was Battlefront 1 or 2 but you can take the levitating tanks out on the pond and they will hover above the pond. My brother and I would just roam around in the tanks for fun and take shots at the enemies on the land, have a little destruction derby. Good times.
Reminiscing about this has made me remember another odd place in a different game my siblings and I discovered in Cars Maternationals for the nintendo ds. What a fun game, back when they put effort into those offshoot bottom of the barrel movie games. We would play multiplayer and the first track called Main street has this clearly slower dirt path where you can go off a ramp back onto the track. Next to the ramp there is a like lumber mill or something and if you aim to be hanging off the right of the ramp and jump (feature of the game) as you go off the ramp you can clip into it. We spent HOURS doing this. It is an out of bounds glitch basically and the game will warp you back to the track if you find the out of bounds collisions but you could sneak around and we went wild for it. Also attempting the trick can just wreak havoc on the game's physics which we enjoyed equally.
Loving this series, keep it up, there are so many places to explore in all of video games.
This game was my childhood -- I made my first online friends on X-fire playing this game. I spent countless hours on those maps and learning about fun glitches. And yet you've still managed to find places I'd never bothered really looking, because they're so unremarkable.
This is so niche, but it’s so so perfect. They feel like places I would have searched around the map looking for Easter eggs, playing this back in ‘05
I love finding these sorts of places in games. I definitely used to seek them out a lot more as a kid without even really grasping that I was searching liminal spaces.
I still do it a bit now and there's something cathartic about it.
Vader casually crouched on top of a Bespin tower looking at the edge of the map and beyond is such a mood.
If you use the invincibility cheat code, the "leaving the battlefield" prompt won't kill you. So on Bespin, you can go to the edge of the geometry and jump off where there's still tons of land to walk on.
I freaking *loved* playing battlefront 2 as a kid. So many fun memories playing with/against my brother in those battles. Its also where I learned of the A-Wing, and i love that ship lol
Tatooine: Dune Sea has some very strange places I remember visiting as a kid and thinking “why is this here?”. The Tusken Raider camp expands pretty far back behind the command post, lots of little tents that are out of view from the common fighting areas.
There are also some cliffs that overlook the command post in the back right corner, the one closest to the tusken raider camp. Fun to fly your ship up to the cliffs, land, and then very stealthily capture the command post without being seen.
6:18 i’ve rebuilt this map in minecraft and they only use 4 or 5 distinct building models for the most part! those little flat doors are everywhere