I remember one time my lil bro recently put on Cod: Modern Warefare 2. He couldn't get on multiplayer so he decided to go on a private lobby by himself and Not gonna lie it was a cerebral experience walking in on him in an empty lobby with no one but his own happy childlike thoughts. No music, no enemies just.... Silence *It was creepy*
Back then I had no internet connection for the ps3 so apart for split screen I played alot alone on multiplayer doing "military things" with inmaginary enemies
@@zaicanna96 me too, but when I would just walk around it was so creepy cause I could hear my footsteps and I always felt like somebody was behind me so I never played it much alone, I would play it mostly when my brother played with me or I would replay the campaign all the time
Anyone remember maid marian, the mmorpg game maker? I think the servers are still up. If anyone knows a way to install adobe shockwave 12.3 and see if one the games they made still works i saw a few videos 8 months ago where they still played but i dont know after the flash end of line
@@blackbob1576 newgrounds is making a flash emulator called ruffle and you can download flash games and play them in flashpoint but if it's online then that wont work
@Algernon Papadopoulos YES I HAD EXACTLY THE SAME FEELING i had a nightmare too once about being on a mountain and it was foggy and something was staring at me
Ok, but Garry's Mod is also unnerving alone. Or any source game. A multiplayer map in single player feels like something out of a creepypasta. For example, take a bright map, like gm_construct. With friends it's fun, but alone feels unnerving.
@@Actvontact No, that won't make you feel less lonely They don't do anything, They just stand there and say things like ''I'm Hurt Gordon'' ''Maybe you should go with Alyx'' ''Gordon freeman..''
@@Joyless Haha I think most people did. I was super into it for a good while so I refuse to let its memory die. I even miss the Co op breaking bug where an npc was meant to open a path for you at a certain point of the game but 50% of the time didn't
A man of fellow culture I see. I use to do the same thing. Auh you made me have a nostalgic moment. I have the entire fear series on steam. I think I’m going to play it later. Shame Fear online is not active anymore from the sources I found. If anyone has knows anything about how to get it still. Please let me know.
On bo1, the map isnt as spooky, but in waw, you are truly immersed and the sounds in the game make you feel like you’re in an asylum going insane fighting zombies
@@jackiechimp6878 I don’t think there is a creeper zombies map than the original World at War Nacht der untoten. If you don’t believe me just listen to the background noises without the zombies...
I remember back in the day I played Splinter Cell Chaos Theory and I didn't have any internet connection and understood english really poorly. But as a stupid kid that couldn't even complete the first level out of curiosity I wanted to check out that "Versus mode". It had a cool ninja guy on the screen so I thought it must've been some additional content. I remember walking around as a spy, expecting someone, but I was all by myself on these maps and the pure map design which was intended to be dark and mysterious made is so much creepier. It was even worse when I switched roles to a mercenary. All these dark corners, open vents, rooftops, windows, holes in the ceiling - it all made me feel like someone is watching me all the time from these places and is just trying to scare me before finally jumping from the darkness and snapping my neck.
When I was 7 back in 2000, I've had a Half Life installed on my grandparent's PC and me and my cousins would play the game religiously. But, back then, the CD was not inserted because it belonged to another cousin who don't visit often. So, what we got was a Half Life game without the ability to play the single player. But, we could play the LAN maps. Being the technologically blind kids we were (And my grandparents having no internet. My country's internet coverage was small at that time), whenever we play the LAN maps, it's just us running around the maps shooting at nothing. The feeling of being alone in those maps were unnerving sometimes...like we felt like SOMETHING is stalking us or if there's a bot who'd suddenly appear. This situation happened the same when I played Counter Strike 1.6. Thinking the same logic applied to the game, I played one map, walking alone and shooting randomly, when suddenly I confronted a bot. The bot killed my character. I was so scared at that time. It came out of nowhere.
Funnily enough a game I was playing the other day attempts to capture the whole "spooky empty maps vibe" it's about what happens when a server is online yet no one is there, it's very short but take a look at "No Players Online" it'd be right up your alley
Dude, I was so bummed out that game released after I had already finished this video so I just completely missed out on being able to bring it up. Weird coincidence though.
I was doing the same thing in tf2. Just walking around, listening to the soundscape. The sound design on the maps is really good, and you can only hear it if you play alone. For example on 2fort. Outside you can hear water, cows, wind blowing, but once you go down to the intel area, all you hear is this looped really deep bass sound and old computer noises. All the outside sounds fade away, and you suddenly get the feeling that someone's following you.
Well this actually very normal for me, to sit alone in the intel room or the right of the spawn room with my sentry of course while everyone is having fun in the middle. the feeling of being watched and followed is also normal i mean i don't know how long you played TF2 but there is an invisible, french, shape-shifting, murderer soo Oh and if you don't have the sound of the sentry beeping or teleporter or dispenser, you can actually hear spy footstep when he is invisible/cloaked
Once I joined a (official) server with only one person. In the middle of the game they left, leaving me alone running around this map. It was a really small inside map aswell, so it was pretty creepy being alone on an official server. I definitely had a bit of a feeling of being watched or something. It was just so wrong.
Have you ever thought of doing one of these unintentional spooky videos on mods? I say this because I installed like 400 mods for skyrim and got kind of creeped out when a pokemon kept appearing in the distance, t-posing and crashing my game. You can finally be in a creepypasta.
I was playing Fallout 4 with quite a bit of mods and I got a new location of a vault tec trailer named "Benny's place" there were some cool looking mini robot statues and trash and then I read a diary that was on the floor, it said something by the lines of "I want to wait until you get here, john, but until that I am already behind you...." and I was creeped out, it was 2 am in the morning and it was all quiet in my room, don't know why that was there since it did nothing else, just that creepy note and to this day I'm still creeped about it, dont think it was meant to be scary
I need a horror game that covers this topic where you go into a server every day for a week each day getting slight changes that eventually cause it to shift into a horror game rather than a fast paced fps game.
@@thisispequod6620 Alright I watched videos on that before but I mean it ruins it because you dont feel alone the dev is there and the ghost thing is there so no mystery they kinda messed it up.
Kinda want a game like that where nobody shows up in the server, but you can hear faint footsteps, breathing, etc. would be a fun concept, no players online is too short and ruined once the dev joins
It's even worse if you have memories of that certain game when many were playing it. You look at maps that filled you with joy but now left in pieces from its former glory. Barren and forgotten
You can also get the same feeling with Minecraft once you've finished all your tasks, built everything you want to build and just sit there looking around your world knowing you've been alone the entire time. *Herobrine has been removed*
It's like being done with a project with no purpose or making art no one asked for. Once you are done, you just sit there, asking yourself, "I'm done. Finally finished with this masterpiece." "..." "But now what?" "What do I do now?" "If I make more art, this feeling of being incomplete will loop." "Guess I'll.." "Scratch that," "Nevermind." "I'll just go to bed now."
You're half-wrong with the Call of Duty:WaW maps. If you're playing against one other player, then it's like trying to play hid & seek with Jack the Ripper. You don't know when the other player is gonna come around the corner in front of/behind/ to the side you and shank you. And let me tell you, Asylum map has A LOT of relatively thin hallways & rooms with at least 3 doorways each. - Do yourself a favor. If you and a friend both have CoD:WaW, play knife-wars against each other inside the Asylum.
@@werm3635 Hide & seek in cliffside map is hell. Once someone gets a sniping position, they can snipe anyone who tries to get into position. I once just stood there, not even crouching, against a wall & people don't see me. XD
I remember that happening to me, but in a 1vs1 sniper match against a random in Day of Defeat classic(a lot of years ago after the people stopped to play that), the map was a destroyed city.
As a kid with no idea how to set my 360 up online back in '07 and '08, I'd just wander around Halo 3's maps in Forge mode, just trying to see all the strange stuff the devs put into the game without being bothered by other people. I flipped the elephant and what not. I even tried to make my own Machinamas back then with game's record tool (it was the late aughts and I just found YT, what can I say!?), shame I didn't have a mic. I disinctly remember seeing The Ghosts of Lockout at one point and being afraid I might bump into one of those "Ghosts" (left over bots that sometimes appear if the right circumstances were met like console overheating). I remember looking through TF2's port a bit as well but not as extensivly as Halo 3's. It wouldn't be until 2010 that I'd play my first online games... Bioshock 2 and Playstation Home of all things!
I used to do that in Halo 3 all the time, too! It was even weirder in Halo 2, where I didn’t have Forge to keep me occupied and couldn’t fly around and separate myself from the map
Oh man, I got the biggest smile when I heard Star Wars BF2, and now I have a reason to tell this story, and boy is it a long one. Ever since this happened, I had it burned in my brain for no reason at all. But when I was playing some solo Galactic Conquest, I was the clone army fighting on Dagobah. It was a standard match, I remember the CIS using a troop bonus, putting me at a disadvantage. I knew I was in trouble when both the CIS and I had about 10 units left, and I was at low health. When the unit count got to around five for both of us, it was deathly silent, with the occasional blaster shot. The counter slowly dwindled down to 4, 3, 2. Then one. It was silent, with only the fauna to accompany me. I was on edge, looking around frantically to find that last droid. I was at low health, around half, so I decided to go to the top of the map, where Yoda's house was. I found that the med droid was destroyed, leaving me at half health, alone, and creeped out. The chirping of alien birds and whatever substitute crickets exist on Dagobah was deafening. Then, I hear a blaster. I jump and look to my right, and there is a Super Battle Droid standing there. I hear the iconic clone line about the supers. I panic fire in it's general direction, hitting it a couple times. Then before I knew what happened, "VICTORY" along with that classic brass solo. I never felt so freaked out before. This story it dumb, I know. But at least I can say I single handedly won that game. Tl;Dr: Basically the game ended on a 1v1 on a somewhat large map.
You know whats worse? Felucia on the campaign. Sure, you got tons of buds to help. *But there are giant MAN EATING BUG THINGS CHASING YOU AROUND THE ENTIRE MAP.* After that it just dies down into the other maps, though.
Source games are creepier because of how the games are always populated with npcs or players murdering each other But the eerie feeling of booting up gmod and playing an empty roleplay map makes everything eerie considering how the maps are supposed to be populated with players and kid admins Sometimes I expect someone is watching me or an npc would jump out and attack me.
The main reason for this is probably the fact that most gmod maps use the hl2 soundscapes and sound effects which were created to be creepy and unnerving.
Surprised you never mentioned the frankly omnious multiplayer maps of Halo: Combat Evolved and to a lesser extent Halo 2. Although the maps are creepy on their own the real horror comes from the known lore of the actual game. Most of the multiplayer maps are built on existing Forerunner structures with the maps themselves having little lore about themselves making player have to fill in the gaps about why anything like this was even built in the first place. What's the purpose of a map like Gephyrophobia which is literally just a giant bridge hovering over a black, bottomless pit of death or Death Island which is like a giant religious temple on an inescapable island in the ocean. Then there's also maps like Blood Gulch, Beaver Creek, and Side Winder which are all maps built in these deep ravines or pits that are hard to get out of by foot. Why would they build bases here? And finally there's Hang Em High which is the most overtly creepy map with some trippy geometry and one thick ass atmospheric design which leaves you feeling watched constantly in these wide open spaces or cramped shoulder to shoulder. Were the flood here at one point? Is the flood still a threat here? Was this built apart of the Forerunner plan to fire the ring? Hell even the space bound maps like Boarding Action and Isolation are creepy because they themselves rely heavily on the quiet ambience and uncomfortable vastness of space. This kinda exists in later Halo 2 maps like Lockout but it's never to the level of CEs maps.
I think Halo 2 is pretty unnerving, too. You can’t tell me Backwash, Burial Mounds, Colossus, Waterworks, Containment, Warlock, Desolation, and Tombstone aren’t eerie as hell.
@@jimjellyjinjamjimbo or what about guardian, isolation, last resort, foundry, Valhalla, ghost town, rats nest, sandbox, sandtrap, and the pit from halo 3?
@@chuckymaynard96 Speaking of Ghost Town, i actually had a spooky thing happen to me on Ghost Town in OG Halo 3 while messing about in Forge where i hurt myself, then went into forge mode to immediately recharge my shield, but then several minutes later, i end up back in the area where i hurt myself and just happen see shield recharge particles come out of nowhere i.imgur.com/rYe8epI.jpg I tried to recreate this, but i could never get it to happen again
Oh man, I remember being alone in Hang Em High, waiting for players to join, and I felt exactly the same thing you described here. Sidewinter was another map that felt so strange when alone
also gears of war 1 and 2... also old rpg games like diablo or hellgate london. Darksiders 1, batman arkham asylum, dark souls, prince of persia warrior within, red faction guerrilla, titan quest immortal throne and so on. Everything that gives post apocalyptic vibe, or/and makes you feel small compared to the grand scale of things which in return makes you grateful for being alive, which in return makes you value it more, which in return makes you more cautious, which in return makes you just a bit more afraid to die, you feel like you are alone, but deep down you know that you are also part of this, and whatever truth rules this world applies to you also. Which in return makes you value your life more, but also fear for your life more, but also realise, that even if you value it more that does not change much. It leaves you alone with your thoughts, and that alone is scarier than any video game, because you do not have the comfort of other people's lies and you realise that in the end the only thing that matters is your own lies, the one that you tell yourselfs every day deep down.
there’s all sorts of ominous hidden sounds in WaW, some of which can only be heard through spectator mode, such as a hitler speech near a burned nazi flag on Dome and Japanese whispering in an out-of-bounds bunker on Cliffside. just adds to how spooky world at war is in general
WaW is the only cod that i can remember that is just straight up creepy. Its as if the devs took ww2 and said “okay, dont let people see them, but theres definitly ghosts.” Especially since the only time i played multi was splitscreen, there was plenty of quiet time so i always noticed these sounds when i was younger, and thats why they really stuck so well into my memory.
I remember when my father played Battlefield 3, 4 or the others. It was creepy as hell when all the gunfire suddenly stopped and no one died. No tank engines, no jets, no helicopters. Not even a sniper firering a bullet. The longest record I remember was like 15 seconds...
@@mohammadnooriman4185 Multiplayer. I most clearly remember it happening once on one desert map where the oilfields burn in the backround and on the map that takes place on a base which is carved into a mountain.
I remember once my wifi went out while playing MW2 so i made a split screen match and walked around Terminal and it was scary, not only because of the events that happened in that map but I swear I heard crying in an area of the map
I honestly feel this way whenever I watch old videos I liked on UA-cam, the comments section used to be so active, now the last comment was 8,9 years ago…. Always feel sad, time truly flies man 😢
You ever just boot up a old game that at one point had a multiplayer and think about the memories that were made on its maps? It’s just fascinating to me.
Gmod maps on your own are a surreal experience, as most sandbox maps have been designed to be able to be played single player, but it still has that general feeling of spookiness
I once started a non-dedicated tf2 server. I was playing on Egyptian version of 2fort. Just messing around by myself, completely alone. *And then I heard the sound of a spray being used despite seemingly being alone.* Needless to say I promptly said fuck that and closed down the server.
Oh my god,you forgot the most spooky,the empty first cod servers were after a while "someone shoots you", even if you are doing things Edit:If someone uploads a video of it so i dont seem crazy i would be forever thankful
@@spacewargamer4181 basically you were walking or driving on the map,you hear a rifle shot and get hit. It doesnt kill you and you can even tell the direction of the shooter but you wont see anyone
I don’t play Splatoon and never did, but as i heard somewhere, if you turn off the action volume to zero and stay on the spawn you’ll hear some really terrifying sounds coming from somewhere above
You know, the museum map (I don't remember what it's called) in the splatfest version THE STATUES CAN LAUGH SERIOUSLY WTF. ah yes, in the splatfest version some inkling statues are added in
Actually, I've been wanting to revisit the Splatoon 2 maps in recon mode. I remember doing that back in like 2019, the Inkblot Art Academy felt especially creepy alone.
Once I was building something alone on Halo 3 sandtrap on xbox 360. I must have been at the bathroom or something when my friend came online and joined into the game session. I was lost in my own thoughts while flying around in a hornet inspecting my construction when, out of nowhere, the friend zoomed past in a banshee shooting at me. I've never jumped so hard in my life.
man this stuff rocks. can't say I see anyone else on youtube doing videos on stuff like this, and though that's likely just because this is an obscure topic, being original is probably one of the best traits any content creator can have. as said, this stuff rocks
Thanks so much dude. Uploading these types of videos is literally all I've ever wanted to do but the concept is hilarious to me because they do everything you're told not to. Like, they're waaaay too long, they're slow paced, there's a bunch of silent periods, and it's a super niche topic. But that ain't gonna stop me.
I actually love just booting a private multiplayer lobby where its only me because i love exploring the maps. Looking at the details and taking in the atmosphere, because its something you wouldnt be able to do in a normal match where youre too busy fighting opponents. A good example is Halo Combat Evolved MP maps. Their ambient noises are sometimes downright creepy and i suggest you look up the ambience of them.
Imo Half Life Death match is the creepiest when you're alone. No creepy ambiance, no crying ghost people, just, quiet. Like I'm not supposed to be there. Also, that on part in the beginning of Half Life 2, where you walk through that child's playground and hear the silent sound of crying babies and playing children. It reminds you the Combine are monsters who would kill of a whole generation.
Damn I love this subject. I used to play a lot of turok rage wars and Duke Nukem 64 mp all by myself as a kid and I would definitely get eerie feelings here and there. Like your imagination can't help but place something else in the map with you even though there could never actually be anything. Really glad I found your channel and I can't wait to watch more when I'm with a blanket and in my recliner tonight lol
I remember on COD4 in the “Old Skool” mode days when I used to go into a private mach on my own on maps such as Crossfire and Backlot etc and get out of the map for fun. Seriously creepy as soon as you realise you’re alone…
This reminds me of a video I watched a few years ago, of a guy joining the last still-online EverQuest server. He expected it to be empty, but over 2 hours in, he came across another player, who had been playing on his own for years. I don't remember exactly what happened after that, but I do remember that watching that gave me the same eerie feeling that you are describing here.
When you're designing multiplayer levels, particularly deathmatch type levels, everything is based on "loops", paths that lead the player in circles throughout the level so they can continuously run and shoot without hitting dead ends or having to backtrack. I think this makes the multiplayer maps extra eerie when they're empty. The subway level feels like the subway station you would be trapped in in a nightmare, because you can just keep walking around infinitely and it never ends
I feel like the uncanny valley and liminal spaces are the same instinctual reaction to something. Both are triggered due to something familiar but abnormal being seen. Since your mind consciously and subconsciously makes patterns and associations with things, anything that falls outside the realm of normalcy and assured security is labeled as being a potential threat or something to avoid. The liminal space is harder to find in modern games on PS5 and Xbox Series X due to the high detail and being able to rationalize that some places simply are empty due to things being less abstract.
i think something even scarier is when people are playing with you on multiplayer until everyone but you just leaves and your just stuck there with no one listening to creepy ambiance sounds
I’d play forge on Halo: 3 a lot when i was younger and just play around with buildings and vehicles, and always felt this. It was silent, empty and eerie. Even though I didn’t play online multiplayer i still had that feeling. It was... wrong.
There is something very mysterious about going through older games multiplayer maps that i enjoy also, it gives off a feeling that you're going through something that has become obsolete and forgotten. Call Of Duty 3 has some good ones, my favourite one being Poisson, it's this little war torn town and you can go in some of the buildings.
I was playing a *war vr game called onward, and a glitch* happened, *everyone disappeared. I was alone.. walking around, looking around* in vr... *it was a terrifying experience*
finally UA-cam recommends me a channel that's worth subscribing, this video is very interesting... Does anyone else feels the same eerie feeling when watching a tech demo? Especially those in the early 2000s? I swear those tech demos really gives me a surreal feeling of emptiness similar to these empty maps.
I compare this feeling to those movie scenes where the camera pans and explores an abandoned settlement or village of some kind. Like these empty maps, they are supposed to be filled with human activity but are not. Usually in those movies, and even in real life, the emptiness indicates something went wrong, *very* wrong. Whatever caused this mass disappearance might still be within the vicinity, or even in that same location. That feeling carries into video games.
When I was around 12 I didn’t have access to internet so I would play mw3 maps by myself, it was creepy and was so weird but I didn’t have anything else to do, until bo2 where bots were introduce
The only time I've really felt this feeling in a singleplayer non-horror game was in hotline miami, the level ending music combined with all of the dead bodies really sent chills down my spine
You know what G Mod and Minecraft are especially one of those games that you can't literally play alone, theres just that unnerving vibe of seeing a nostalgic place now abandoned, the noise and fun that you sre accustomed into a certain map now feels gone, it feels empty, but you're still left wondering is there still anyone here, the feeling of being alone in a large space filled with unawnsered questions makes it feel uneasy even if you aren't the accomplice who did this a while back you arent accustomed to seeing your nostalgic and fun place just been abandoned and left alone
its true i downloaded gmod few days ago and joined gm construct because i didnt download any maps yet and FUCK i had a feeling of being watched all the time
@@whimsicalwizardoh And the ambient noises of wind are creepy like you feel like a guy is watching you from behind one of the buildings creeping over the wall and jolting back when almost seen. Someone needs to make a game that used this feeling of being in a unusually empty place with bright colors but you cant seem to shake off the idea of being stalked.
all of the battlefield maps are creepy when you're alone!! cus you're expecting SOMEONE to come screaming around the corner and opening fire, but it's just empty and quiet, except for off-map gunfire and missiles
I remember Goldeneye 64 maps would scare me as a kid when I played alone. I was always afraid an AI bot would (somehow) appear out of nowhere and kill me
I remember when i had a ps3, i had a few littlebigplanet games, and i specifically remember being kind of scared when i went into the create mode and just walked around in the empty default background place, with no ambience sounds whatsoever.
When you play these games for a long time, you immediately associate a certain map that is meant to be played with people, the absence of people takes your mind off noticing the people and puts it to the environment which can be surreal and unnaturally quiet and giving the unnerving feeling of being watched or not alone, and you may even start to see things.
Back in the day I used to make gun syncs on BF4, which meant that I would have to join empty servers so I could record the guns without interference. There was something absolutely surreal about walking into buildings that I had already ran through a hundred times during multiplayer, but without the deafening gunfire in the background, the rush of adrenaline, and the constant fear of death. Sometimes I'd just stop in a building I already knew by heart, just to discover that there actually was furniture in the room. Furniture that I was always missing because I was rushing to the next objective or focusing on my next kill. If you own the game, I suggest you try and walk through an empty version of a map you play a lot. The feeling is really weird
After watching the video I scrolled down expecting at least a few hundred thousand view, but it only got 2k? wtf dude, the content is awesome. I thought I was the only one who thought empty MP maps are kinda creepy.
This is the feeling i get in empty battlefield servers from their older games just running around by yourself when there suppose to be a war goin on is so weird and just makes it feel like im bein watched out of nowhere
**Jay I don't want you do ever go away you make such great content keep it up** Anyways yeah classic battlefronts were super comfy with the atmosphere that's why I hold it in a special place in my heart.
when I was younger I play Unreal on online those years online play was not the best so mostly I just run around in empty maps the sound design hearing weapon respawning make in even more scary
everytime i play the old beta and alpha versions of minecraft from beta 1.7.3 and below, i always get a feeling that i'm not alone, like there's someone watching me, this usually doesn't happen on servers and usually takes a while on beta 1.7.3 but its still that feeling of being watched that creeps me out. it might be the thought of herobrine in the back of my head, but i rarely ever have that feeling whenever i play the newer versions
Black Ops 2 and 3 still have active servers and Black Ops 3 on playstation still has a pretty active playerbase on the popular maps, you're not gonna get a game on Verruct but you'll get one on Shadows of Evil, Origins, Kino, Gorod Krovi etc easy.
I always used to love playing BO1 multiplayers maps in custom solo lobbies by myself back then (also because I had no friends lol) and you explain how I feel about this perfectly. It was always so cool how eerie they felt to me, with the ambience and background noise playing and no other players or voices around. This along with noticing creepy things you haven't noticed before that change how you look at certain maps. I always liked wondering how firing range would be as a zombies map so I explored that map a lot along with Nuketown which are 2 maps that were always busy and packed. Zombies maps give off this vibes times 10 if you can mod it to have no zombies spawn in. Ascension is a great one to explore on BO1 aswell.
Gotta say that Battlefront one inspired me. The Jedi temple was still and silent, more than it had been in millennia. Only one person walked it's newly hallowed halls. A clone trooper. CT-7531. He knew he was unwelcome here, he hadn't been part of the platoon sent to the temple only a few weeks earlier. His footsteps echoed through the main hall as he walked towards a fallen column. He ran his finger along it, some dust gathering on his glove. He wiped it off on his armour before continuing on his way. He moved to the library, the holobooks sat unused and unloved, he wondered if they would ever be touched again. The sound of a gonk droid echoed through the building, 31 wasn't entirely alone, his only company an unthinking droid that may not have even noticed the massacre that took place here, beyond the preview of its simple programming. The server room was next, from what he had been told, some Padawans had hidden here during the purge, it had taken a while to find them, but now it was as if no one had ever set foot in here. it had been immaculately cleaned. The low hum of the servers indicated the that despite no one being here for its upkeep, everything was, at least for now still functional. The logs showed a recent alteration to the code, it was probably signal for Jedi to return being disabled, after all, no Jedi would be foolish enough to come here now. 31 paid it no mind and moved on. 31 made his way into the garden and took his helmet off, taking a deep breath of the fresh air, crisp and cool, taking a sip of icy spring water. With his second breath, he tasted the industry of Coruscant. The sound of the birds and the crickets gave an odd sense of serenity. He pulled his helmet back on and checked his list, this was the last place he needed to check. No survivors hiding out, mission accomplished. He hurried to the exit, his footsteps echoing through the giant building. He never wanted to return. No clone was ever welcome between these walls again.
the maps in 007: nightfire, the maps in the shooting mode in Rayman: Arena, thats what introversion is all about. there should be more Walking Simulators like The Witness: no story, just maps to explore for no reason
One of the games series that really works for this is the Halo games, especially the Forerunner maps like Epitaph on H3, or Lockout on H2. You really get a chilled sense of the long forgotten race that created those locales.
I remember one time my lil bro recently put on Cod: Modern Warefare 2. He couldn't get on multiplayer so he decided to go on a private lobby by himself and Not gonna lie it was a cerebral experience walking in on him in an empty lobby with no one but his own happy childlike thoughts.
No music, no enemies just.... Silence
*It was creepy*
i’m assuming the map was high rise
Back then I had no internet connection for the ps3 so apart for split screen I played alot alone on multiplayer doing "military things" with inmaginary enemies
@@zaicanna96 me too, but when I would just walk around it was so creepy cause I could hear my footsteps and I always felt like somebody was behind me so I never played it much alone, I would play it mostly when my brother played with me or I would replay the campaign all the time
I remember start an empty server on battlefield 2, i enjoyed it, but when i thinking it rn its creepy, just wandering around in a big map alone
@@santicheeks1106 sameee broo
It's that feeling of typing into the Chat in minecraft in single player but then you get the feeling that something is going to respond,
Thanks for varying my nightmares
Anyone remember maid marian, the mmorpg game maker? I think the servers are still up. If anyone knows a way to install adobe shockwave 12.3 and see if one the games they made still works i saw a few videos 8 months ago where they still played but i dont know after the flash end of line
@@blackbob1576 newgrounds is making a flash emulator called ruffle and you can download flash games and play them in flashpoint but if it's online then that wont work
@@IAm-zo1bo i know
@Algernon Papadopoulos YES I HAD EXACTLY THE SAME FEELING i had a nightmare too once about being on a mountain and it was foggy and something was staring at me
Ok, but Garry's Mod is also unnerving alone. Or any source game. A multiplayer map in single player feels like something out of a creepypasta. For example, take a bright map, like gm_construct. With friends it's fun, but alone feels unnerving.
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Just spawn some npcs or make a bot or two
im sorry i stole your comment i have no original thoughts I thought I had an original idea :(
@@Actvontact No, that won't make you feel less lonely
They don't do anything, They just stand there and say things like ''I'm Hurt Gordon'' ''Maybe you should go with Alyx'' ''Gordon freeman..''
Bro play counter strike 1.6 map, i know it isnt source, just play it, if you have a ball, play on de_storm
Now you can just go outside to get the same eary feeling
LOL
@Akira Don't tell me what to do and there won't be a problem.
*eerie.
@Akira hurr durr corona scary it kils everything it touch we must quarantine
@@siegfried2k4 people like you are part of the problem imo but you do you
I'd love to explore the now gone Fear Online maps to see if they had any secrets. Miss that game
That's so true holy shit. I only started playing that game in the last week of its life and I completely forgot it existed fucking rip
@@Joyless Haha I think most people did. I was super into it for a good while so I refuse to let its memory die. I even miss the Co op breaking bug where an npc was meant to open a path for you at a certain point of the game but 50% of the time didn't
A man of fellow culture I see.
I use to do the same thing. Auh you made me have a nostalgic moment. I have the entire fear series on steam.
I think I’m going to play it later.
Shame Fear online is not active anymore from the sources I found. If anyone has knows anything about how to get it still. Please let me know.
Fear online was that trash game that came out after fear 3. Do you mean fear combat which used fear 1?
@@modernmobster No, no I do not. And whilst it was definitely flawed with multiple bugs and some pay to win elements, it was still very fun
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what if the second player just starts moving...see this is the shit I would think while playing split screen by my self.
And hyper realistic bloody eyes
everybody gangsta til the player starts moving and spamming ez on the chat everytime he spawnkills u
@@Zemlyaa epic creepypasta
@@reimuhakurei2123
Legendary creepy spaghetti
@@Zemlyaa Legendary Scary Spaghetti
Asylum is also used as Nazi Zombies map Verruckt, where the sounds stick out more between rounds.
Verrückt
@CantThinkofaGoodName not all of us can
Verrückt and Shi No Numa were definitely the scariest zombie maps
On bo1, the map isnt as spooky, but in waw, you are truly immersed and the sounds in the game make you feel like you’re in an asylum going insane fighting zombies
@@jackiechimp6878 I don’t think there is a creeper zombies map than the original World at War Nacht der untoten.
If you don’t believe me just listen to the background noises without the zombies...
I remember back in the day I played Splinter Cell Chaos Theory and I didn't have any internet connection and understood english really poorly. But as a stupid kid that couldn't even complete the first level out of curiosity I wanted to check out that "Versus mode". It had a cool ninja guy on the screen so I thought it must've been some additional content. I remember walking around as a spy, expecting someone, but I was all by myself on these maps and the pure map design which was intended to be dark and mysterious made is so much creepier. It was even worse when I switched roles to a mercenary. All these dark corners, open vents, rooftops, windows, holes in the ceiling - it all made me feel like someone is watching me all the time from these places and is just trying to scare me before finally jumping from the darkness and snapping my neck.
Oh man I completely forgot about the early splinter cell games. They're perfect examples.
The Orphanage level is already really creepy, but wandering around the level alone makes 100x unsettling.
Oh god... I now remember. I was creeped out and still doing, the same damn thing.
When I was 7 back in 2000, I've had a Half Life installed on my grandparent's PC and me and my cousins would play the game religiously. But, back then, the CD was not inserted because it belonged to another cousin who don't visit often.
So, what we got was a Half Life game without the ability to play the single player. But, we could play the LAN maps. Being the technologically blind kids we were (And my grandparents having no internet. My country's internet coverage was small at that time), whenever we play the LAN maps, it's just us running around the maps shooting at nothing.
The feeling of being alone in those maps were unnerving sometimes...like we felt like SOMETHING is stalking us or if there's a bot who'd suddenly appear. This situation happened the same when I played Counter Strike 1.6. Thinking the same logic applied to the game, I played one map, walking alone and shooting randomly, when suddenly I confronted a bot. The bot killed my character. I was so scared at that time. It came out of nowhere.
I still can't forget Double Agent
Funnily enough a game I was playing the other day attempts to capture the whole "spooky empty maps vibe" it's about what happens when a server is online yet no one is there, it's very short but take a look at "No Players Online" it'd be right up your alley
Dude, I was so bummed out that game released after I had already finished this video so I just completely missed out on being able to bring it up. Weird coincidence though.
The wife thing is retarded but the game looked and feel like time splitters lol
Swat 3 and 4 maps without people just feel strange and scare me because the regular gameplay makes you feel a gunman is around every corner
I was about to say the same about SWAT 4 after I watched this video. First game that came to my mind
Some of the SWAT 4 maps without people are *really* unsettling. Especially Children of Taronne Tenement and The Wolcott Projects...
The wolcott projects being empty is probably the scariest alone.
I'd expect some random guy jump from a corner.
@@Theakritas_ ahhh but what about the fairfax residence?
The empty multiplayer maps make me feel like i need to collect 8 pages
Nice profile picture. I wonder who the character is.
@@AaronCleetus-cj4gw looks to me like a tomb raider game but I'm probably wrong.
@@AaronCleetus-cj4gw it's Resident evil 2 probably?
@@AaronCleetus-cj4gw Its Tom Raider
"slender man had entered the game"
I was doing the same thing in tf2. Just walking around, listening to the soundscape.
The sound design on the maps is really good, and you can only hear it if you play alone. For example on 2fort. Outside you can hear water, cows, wind blowing, but once you go down to the intel area, all you hear is this looped really deep bass sound and old computer noises. All the outside sounds fade away, and you suddenly get the feeling that someone's following you.
Well this actually very normal for me, to sit alone in the intel room or the right of the spawn room with my sentry of course while everyone is having fun in the middle. the feeling of being watched and followed is also normal i mean i don't know how long you played TF2 but there is an invisible, french, shape-shifting, murderer soo
Oh and if you don't have the sound of the sentry beeping or teleporter or dispenser, you can actually hear spy footstep when he is invisible/cloaked
I mean, you are being watched, ye. By the Administrator. She follows your every move.
There are cameras everywhere on the map.
Beware the spy!
Once I joined a (official) server with only one person. In the middle of the game they left, leaving me alone running around this map. It was a really small inside map aswell, so it was pretty creepy being alone on an official server. I definitely had a bit of a feeling of being watched or something. It was just so wrong.
@@bonesauce1393 ah yeah, nothing is creepier than that. What was the map tho? If you don't know the name, what was it like?
Have you ever thought of doing one of these unintentional spooky videos on mods? I say this because I installed like 400 mods for skyrim and got kind of creeped out when a pokemon kept appearing in the distance, t-posing and crashing my game. You can finally be in a creepypasta.
Woah, that's a really good point.
@@Joyless Aw, thanks
dammit todd howard, skyrim became so buggy it literally spawned missingno
Holy moly that creeped me out
I was playing Fallout 4 with quite a bit of mods and I got a new location of a vault tec trailer named "Benny's place" there were some cool looking mini robot statues and trash and then I read a diary that was on the floor, it said something by the lines of "I want to wait until you get here, john, but until that I am already behind you...." and I was creeped out, it was 2 am in the morning and it was all quiet in my room, don't know why that was there since it did nothing else, just that creepy note and to this day I'm still creeped about it, dont think it was meant to be scary
I need a horror game that covers this topic where you go into a server every day for a week each day getting slight changes that eventually cause it to shift into a horror game rather than a fast paced fps game.
Try a game called "No players online" ita literaly a horror game set in a empty multiplayer server.
@@thisispequod6620 yeah. Someordinarygamers made a video on it. Hes a cool guy
@@thisispequod6620 Nah, no players online completely ruins the horror aspect once the “dev” joins
@@thisispequod6620 Alright I watched videos on that before but I mean it ruins it because you dont feel alone the dev is there and the ghost thing is there so no mystery they kinda messed it up.
Kinda want a game like that where nobody shows up in the server, but you can hear faint footsteps, breathing, etc. would be a fun concept, no players online is too short and ruined once the dev joins
Empty MP maps are scary, because they are liminal spaces itself.
These maps must be full of people, but not empty.
That's all the mystery right here.
Да, есть такое
They’re not luminal spaces
@Alex W actually they are liminal spaces
It's even worse if you have memories of that certain game when many were playing it. You look at maps that filled you with joy but now left in pieces from its former glory. Barren and forgotten
Cheers for that I’m depressed now
I can really only do that in campaign missions, didn’t have xbox live
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Empty multiplayer maps scary because too open and vulnerable but nobody attacks ye
Great video tho
You can also get the same feeling with Minecraft once you've finished all your tasks, built everything you want to build and just sit there looking around your world knowing you've been alone the entire time.
*Herobrine has been removed*
It's like being done with a project with no purpose or making art no one asked for. Once you are done, you just sit there, asking yourself, "I'm done. Finally finished with this masterpiece."
"..."
"But now what?"
"What do I do now?"
"If I make more art, this feeling of being incomplete will loop."
"Guess I'll.."
"Scratch that,"
"Nevermind."
"I'll just go to bed now."
What rock do you live under? The “removed Herobrine” patchnote has been missing for a while now.
Good thing he made a video about that then :p
You're half-wrong with the Call of Duty:WaW maps.
If you're playing against one other player, then it's like trying to play hid & seek with Jack the Ripper.
You don't know when the other player is gonna come around the corner in front of/behind/ to the side you and shank you.
And let me tell you, Asylum map has A LOT of relatively thin hallways & rooms with at least 3 doorways each.
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Do yourself a favor. If you and a friend both have CoD:WaW, play knife-wars against each other inside the Asylum.
Asylum was my favorite map to play against my brother on
You can also hide super well in the tall grass on the edges of that map, i miss hide n seek on WAW
@@werm3635 Hide & seek in cliffside map is hell. Once someone gets a sniping position, they can snipe anyone who tries to get into position.
I once just stood there, not even crouching, against a wall & people don't see me. XD
I remember playing my brother on split screen. Jump scare deluxe.
I remember that happening to me, but in a 1vs1 sniper match against a random in Day of Defeat classic(a lot of years ago after the people stopped to play that), the map was a destroyed city.
As a kid with no idea how to set my 360 up online back in '07 and '08, I'd just wander around Halo 3's maps in Forge mode, just trying to see all the strange stuff the devs put into the game without being bothered by other people. I flipped the elephant and what not. I even tried to make my own Machinamas back then with game's record tool (it was the late aughts and I just found YT, what can I say!?), shame I didn't have a mic. I disinctly remember seeing The Ghosts of Lockout at one point and being afraid I might bump into one of those "Ghosts" (left over bots that sometimes appear if the right circumstances were met like console overheating). I remember looking through TF2's port a bit as well but not as extensivly as Halo 3's. It wouldn't be until 2010 that I'd play my first online games... Bioshock 2 and Playstation Home of all things!
Oh man, wandering around TF2's Xbox 360 port was weird. It's so dated compared to PC by now, but it's so *surreal*
Used to do the same thing in Halo
playstation home is so creepy. walking my gross disgusting avatar thru an extra scenario created entirely to advertise Street Fighter X Tekken, LOL
a neat little detail on highground that i noticed is on the rocks near the water. The flood is just starting to infect the place.
I used to do that in Halo 3 all the time, too! It was even weirder in Halo 2, where I didn’t have Forge to keep me occupied and couldn’t fly around and separate myself from the map
Oh man, I got the biggest smile when I heard Star Wars BF2, and now I have a reason to tell this story, and boy is it a long one. Ever since this happened, I had it burned in my brain for no reason at all. But when I was playing some solo Galactic Conquest, I was the clone army fighting on Dagobah. It was a standard match, I remember the CIS using a troop bonus, putting me at a disadvantage. I knew I was in trouble when both the CIS and I had about 10 units left, and I was at low health. When the unit count got to around five for both of us, it was deathly silent, with the occasional blaster shot. The counter slowly dwindled down to 4, 3, 2. Then one. It was silent, with only the fauna to accompany me. I was on edge, looking around frantically to find that last droid. I was at low health, around half, so I decided to go to the top of the map, where Yoda's house was. I found that the med droid was destroyed, leaving me at half health, alone, and creeped out. The chirping of alien birds and whatever substitute crickets exist on Dagobah was deafening. Then, I hear a blaster. I jump and look to my right, and there is a Super Battle Droid standing there. I hear the iconic clone line about the supers. I panic fire in it's general direction, hitting it a couple times. Then before I knew what happened, "VICTORY" along with that classic brass solo. I never felt so freaked out before.
This story it dumb, I know. But at least I can say I single handedly won that game.
Tl;Dr: Basically the game ended on a 1v1 on a somewhat large map.
Happened to me too, good times.
@@brandemon6667 Good times indeed.
This always happens when I'm in a 1v1
That sounded epic actually.
You know whats worse? Felucia on the campaign. Sure, you got tons of buds to help. *But there are giant MAN EATING BUG THINGS CHASING YOU AROUND THE ENTIRE MAP.* After that it just dies down into the other maps, though.
Source games are creepier because of how the games are always populated with npcs or players murdering each other
But the eerie feeling of booting up gmod and playing an empty roleplay map makes everything eerie considering how the maps are supposed to be populated with players and kid admins
Sometimes I expect someone is watching me or an npc would jump out and attack me.
@@Mewcat god this is so me
@@Mewcat we are not alone lol
The main reason for this is probably the fact that most gmod maps use the hl2 soundscapes and sound effects which were created to be creepy and unnerving.
@@koksu1208 I mean hl2 was originally meant to be creepy plus it's a horror-ish game
Just watch the librarians video
Surprised you never mentioned the frankly omnious multiplayer maps of Halo: Combat Evolved and to a lesser extent Halo 2. Although the maps are creepy on their own the real horror comes from the known lore of the actual game. Most of the multiplayer maps are built on existing Forerunner structures with the maps themselves having little lore about themselves making player have to fill in the gaps about why anything like this was even built in the first place. What's the purpose of a map like Gephyrophobia which is literally just a giant bridge hovering over a black, bottomless pit of death or Death Island which is like a giant religious temple on an inescapable island in the ocean. Then there's also maps like Blood Gulch, Beaver Creek, and Side Winder which are all maps built in these deep ravines or pits that are hard to get out of by foot. Why would they build bases here? And finally there's Hang Em High which is the most overtly creepy map with some trippy geometry and one thick ass atmospheric design which leaves you feeling watched constantly in these wide open spaces or cramped shoulder to shoulder. Were the flood here at one point? Is the flood still a threat here? Was this built apart of the Forerunner plan to fire the ring? Hell even the space bound maps like Boarding Action and Isolation are creepy because they themselves rely heavily on the quiet ambience and uncomfortable vastness of space.
This kinda exists in later Halo 2 maps like Lockout but it's never to the level of CEs maps.
I think Halo 2 is pretty unnerving, too. You can’t tell me Backwash, Burial Mounds, Colossus, Waterworks, Containment, Warlock, Desolation, and Tombstone aren’t eerie as hell.
@@jimjellyjinjamjimbo or what about guardian, isolation, last resort, foundry, Valhalla, ghost town, rats nest, sandbox, sandtrap, and the pit from halo 3?
@@chuckymaynard96 Speaking of Ghost Town, i actually had a spooky thing happen to me on Ghost Town in OG Halo 3 while messing about in Forge where i hurt myself, then went into forge mode to immediately recharge my shield, but then several minutes later, i end up back in the area where i hurt myself and just happen see shield recharge particles come out of nowhere
i.imgur.com/rYe8epI.jpg
I tried to recreate this, but i could never get it to happen again
Oh man, I remember being alone in Hang Em High, waiting for players to join, and I felt exactly the same thing you described here. Sidewinter was another map that felt so strange when alone
also gears of war 1 and 2... also old rpg games like diablo or hellgate london. Darksiders 1, batman arkham asylum, dark souls, prince of persia warrior within, red faction guerrilla, titan quest immortal throne and so on. Everything that gives post apocalyptic vibe, or/and makes you feel small compared to the grand scale of things which in return makes you grateful for being alive, which in return makes you value it more, which in return makes you more cautious, which in return makes you just a bit more afraid to die, you feel like you are alone, but deep down you know that you are also part of this, and whatever truth rules this world applies to you also. Which in return makes you value your life more, but also fear for your life more, but also realise, that even if you value it more that does not change much. It leaves you alone with your thoughts, and that alone is scarier than any video game, because you do not have the comfort of other people's lies and you realise that in the end the only thing that matters is your own lies, the one that you tell yourselfs every day deep down.
Stumbled upon you by complete accident and I'm shocked how small your channel is. This is some legit quality video commentary.
there’s all sorts of ominous hidden sounds in WaW, some of which can only be heard through spectator mode, such as a hitler speech near a burned nazi flag on Dome and Japanese whispering in an out-of-bounds bunker on Cliffside. just adds to how spooky world at war is in general
WaW is the only cod that i can remember that is just straight up creepy. Its as if the devs took ww2 and said “okay, dont let people see them, but theres definitly ghosts.” Especially since the only time i played multi was splitscreen, there was plenty of quiet time so i always noticed these sounds when i was younger, and thats why they really stuck so well into my memory.
I remember when my father played Battlefield 3, 4 or the others.
It was creepy as hell when all the gunfire suddenly stopped and no one died.
No tank engines, no jets, no helicopters.
Not even a sniper firering a bullet.
The longest record I remember was like 15 seconds...
In alone on multiplayer?!
@@mohammadnooriman4185
Multiplayer.
I most clearly remember it happening once on one desert map where the oilfields burn in the backround and on the map that takes place on a base which is carved into a mountain.
@@El_Presidente_5337 operation locker? The only other oil one is operation fire storm but that has no mountain base
@@vastheeternal4972
Looked it up.
Operation Locker in Battlefield 4 and Gulf of Oman in Battlefield 3.
I love battlefield 3.
I remember once my wifi went out while playing MW2 so i made a split screen match and walked around Terminal and it was scary, not only because of the events that happened in that map but I swear I heard crying in an area of the map
I honestly feel this way whenever I watch old videos I liked on UA-cam, the comments section used to be so active, now the last comment was 8,9 years ago…. Always feel sad, time truly flies man 😢
You ever just boot up a old game that at one point had a multiplayer and think about the memories that were made on its maps?
It’s just fascinating to me.
Gmod maps on your own are a surreal experience, as most sandbox maps have been designed to be able to be played single player, but it still has that general feeling of spookiness
agreed. I think garrys mod is horror game over all. its horror of isolation and creativity
The profile picture, He-Man... EAT IT!
there is a game that explores this context, the name is "No Players Online" !
Man, little me playing a World at War map by myself probably gave me some trauma
They’ll always be the scariest experience to me, scarier than any horror game.
this tbh
I once started a non-dedicated tf2 server. I was playing on Egyptian version of 2fort. Just messing around by myself, completely alone.
*And then I heard the sound of a spray being used despite seemingly being alone.* Needless to say I promptly said fuck that and closed down the server.
I would've shat my pants after that
"50,000 people used to live here... Now it's a ghost town." -Captain MacMillan, 2011
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Oh my god,you forgot the most spooky,the empty first cod servers were after a while "someone shoots you", even if you are doing things
Edit:If someone uploads a video of it so i dont seem crazy i would be forever thankful
Also in the cod United offensive
Wait what? That sounds great
Excuse me. *What?*
Explain
@@spacewargamer4181 basically you were walking or driving on the map,you hear a rifle shot and get hit. It doesnt kill you and you can even tell the direction of the shooter but you wont see anyone
World at war's colour palette resembles a burn victim
can’t say you’re wrong
Holocaust
I don’t play Splatoon and never did, but as i heard somewhere, if you turn off the action volume to zero and stay on the spawn you’ll hear some really terrifying sounds coming from somewhere above
I think you are referring to the end of the campaign, were if you kill the final boss but stay in place the horrible sounds will play.
@@Shrek_es_mi_pastor if i remember it right, it happens in multiplayer. But you also could be right.
You know, the museum map (I don't remember what it's called) in the splatfest version THE STATUES CAN LAUGH SERIOUSLY WTF. ah yes, in the splatfest version some inkling statues are added in
Actually, I've been wanting to revisit the Splatoon 2 maps in recon mode.
I remember doing that back in like 2019, the Inkblot Art Academy felt especially creepy alone.
Although its scary, creepy, and eerie its also very interesting!
It reminds me of videos of exploring abandoned places
Once I was building something alone on Halo 3 sandtrap on xbox 360. I must have been at the bathroom or something when my friend came online and joined into the game session. I was lost in my own thoughts while flying around in a hornet inspecting my construction when, out of nowhere, the friend zoomed past in a banshee shooting at me. I've never jumped so hard in my life.
man this stuff rocks. can't say I see anyone else on youtube doing videos on stuff like this, and though that's likely just because this is an obscure topic, being original is probably one of the best traits any content creator can have. as said, this stuff rocks
Thanks so much dude. Uploading these types of videos is literally all I've ever wanted to do but the concept is hilarious to me because they do everything you're told not to. Like, they're waaaay too long, they're slow paced, there's a bunch of silent periods, and it's a super niche topic. But that ain't gonna stop me.
I actually love just booting a private multiplayer lobby where its only me because i love exploring the maps. Looking at the details and taking in the atmosphere, because its something you wouldnt be able to do in a normal match where youre too busy fighting opponents. A good example is Halo Combat Evolved MP maps. Their ambient noises are sometimes downright creepy and i suggest you look up the ambience of them.
Urban exploring: empty videogame map edition
how
Rat Race is one of the creepiest maps I've ever been on by myself
Imo Half Life Death match is the creepiest when you're alone. No creepy ambiance, no crying ghost people, just, quiet. Like I'm not supposed to be there. Also, that on part in the beginning of Half Life 2, where you walk through that child's playground and hear the silent sound of crying babies and playing children. It reminds you the Combine are monsters who would kill of a whole generation.
The sounds in the playground remind you that, due to the Combine's Suppression Field, there's no more children on Earth by the events of Half Life 2.
"turns the game into this..."
*oral care ad plays*
Damn I love this subject. I used to play a lot of turok rage wars and Duke Nukem 64 mp all by myself as a kid and I would definitely get eerie feelings here and there. Like your imagination can't help but place something else in the map with you even though there could never actually be anything. Really glad I found your channel and I can't wait to watch more when I'm with a blanket and in my recliner tonight lol
I remember on COD4 in the “Old Skool” mode days when I used to go into a private mach on my own on maps such as Crossfire and Backlot etc and get out of the map for fun. Seriously creepy as soon as you realise you’re alone…
This reminds me of a video I watched a few years ago, of a guy joining the last still-online EverQuest server.
He expected it to be empty, but over 2 hours in, he came across another player, who had been playing on his own for years.
I don't remember exactly what happened after that, but I do remember that watching that gave me the same eerie feeling that you are describing here.
When you're designing multiplayer levels, particularly deathmatch type levels, everything is based on "loops", paths that lead the player in circles throughout the level so they can continuously run and shoot without hitting dead ends or having to backtrack. I think this makes the multiplayer maps extra eerie when they're empty. The subway level feels like the subway station you would be trapped in in a nightmare, because you can just keep walking around infinitely and it never ends
I feel like the uncanny valley and liminal spaces are the same instinctual reaction to something. Both are triggered due to something familiar but abnormal being seen. Since your mind consciously and subconsciously makes patterns and associations with things, anything that falls outside the realm of normalcy and assured security is labeled as being a potential threat or something to avoid.
The liminal space is harder to find in modern games on PS5 and Xbox Series X due to the high detail and being able to rationalize that some places simply are empty due to things being less abstract.
i think something even scarier is when people are playing with you on multiplayer until everyone but you just leaves and your just stuck there with no one listening to creepy ambiance sounds
The feeling where your in a map used for campaign where it waiting to be used gives such a cool feeling like the calm before the storm
I’d play forge on Halo: 3 a lot when i was younger and just play around with buildings and vehicles, and always felt this. It was silent, empty and eerie. Even though I didn’t play online multiplayer i still had that feeling.
It was... wrong.
Sandtrap or Isolation were some of the most unsettling, hell even High Ground was off to walk in alone in custom games offline.
There is something very mysterious about going through older games multiplayer maps that i enjoy also, it gives off a feeling that you're going through something that has become obsolete and forgotten.
Call Of Duty 3 has some good ones, my favourite one being Poisson, it's this little war torn town and you can go in some of the buildings.
I was playing a *war vr game called onward, and a glitch* happened, *everyone disappeared. I was alone.. walking around, looking around* in vr... *it was a terrifying experience*
finally UA-cam recommends me a channel that's worth subscribing, this video is very interesting...
Does anyone else feels the same eerie feeling when watching a tech demo? Especially those in the early 2000s? I swear those tech demos really gives me a surreal feeling of emptiness similar to these empty maps.
For COD WAW when you take away the guns and explosions, it feels like your playing zombie Apoc survival game,but the zombies are dead.
Last time I checked zombies are supposed to be dead
@@burrito7B last time I checked zombies aren’t real
Ww2 was an apocalyptic event
I was suprised to see that you don't have more subscribers. This is high quality stuff.
I compare this feeling to those movie scenes where the camera pans and explores an abandoned settlement or village of some kind. Like these empty maps, they are supposed to be filled with human activity but are not. Usually in those movies, and even in real life, the emptiness indicates something went wrong, *very* wrong. Whatever caused this mass disappearance might still be within the vicinity, or even in that same location. That feeling carries into video games.
It's crazy what the technology of videogames can do.
We went from Pong, to realistic horror games in 50 years or so.
DayZ is literally that “spooky empty multiplayer map” itself
Kinda, but it's intentional
play arma 2 chernarus map without any npc. It's scary. It's the map from dayz but for arma 2 game without any zombie or so.
Green Mountain.
@@TamalPlays do not feel like a special princess because I’ve played it a lot too.
"But not doing that transforms the map into this: [Tacobell nachos box commercial]"
18:09 literally got me wondering why my fl studio had opened and where it had opened for half an hour
It makes me sad that video like this doesn't have millions of views
Keep up the good work
When I was around 12 I didn’t have access to internet so I would play mw3 maps by myself, it was creepy and was so weird but I didn’t have anything else to do, until bo2 where bots were introduce
The only time I've really felt this feeling in a singleplayer non-horror game was in hotline miami, the level ending music combined with all of the dead bodies really sent chills down my spine
You know what G Mod and Minecraft are especially one of those games that you can't literally play alone, theres just that unnerving vibe of seeing a nostalgic place now abandoned, the noise and fun that you sre accustomed into a certain map now feels gone, it feels empty, but you're still left wondering is there still anyone here, the feeling of being alone in a large space filled with unawnsered questions makes it feel uneasy even if you aren't the accomplice who did this a while back you arent accustomed to seeing your nostalgic and fun place just been abandoned and left alone
Its that weird feeling when you dont know where to go in a halo mission, scrambling around trying to find that one vent at the back of the map.
i think i've found a hidden gem channel
4:32 lmao you faced him to the wall
Someone needs to talk about GM construct its so creepy yet I have never played with people in it as with other maps though.
its true i downloaded gmod few days ago and joined gm construct because i didnt download any maps yet and FUCK i had a feeling of being watched all the time
@@whimsicalwizardoh yeah and that basement area is creepy too, you know theres nothing there yet its so creepy.
right? there is literally nothing and its really dark
@@whimsicalwizardoh And the ambient noises of wind are creepy like you feel like a guy is watching you from behind one of the buildings creeping over the wall and jolting back when almost seen. Someone needs to make a game that used this feeling of being in a unusually empty place with bright colors but you cant seem to shake off the idea of being stalked.
@@obama_yo_mama4653 this is exacly the mood in old 2000 ps2 horror games. Thats why i think old horror games are waaaaay scarier then the new ones
I remember going into Fort De Vaux in Battlefield 1 alone. That is quite the creepy map when no one is around.
all of the battlefield maps are creepy when you're alone!! cus you're expecting SOMEONE to come screaming around the corner and opening fire, but it's just empty and quiet, except for off-map gunfire and missiles
I remember Goldeneye 64 maps would scare me as a kid when I played alone. I was always afraid an AI bot would (somehow) appear out of nowhere and kill me
Your videos help me scratch my itch for Jordan Underneath's old gaming videos. Really good stuff here. Subbed!
I remember when i had a ps3, i had a few littlebigplanet games, and i specifically remember being kind of scared when i went into the create mode and just walked around in the empty default background place, with no ambience sounds whatsoever.
When you play these games for a long time, you immediately associate a certain map that is meant to be played with people, the absence of people takes your mind off noticing the people and puts it to the environment which can be surreal and unnaturally quiet and giving the unnerving feeling of being watched or not alone, and you may even start to see things.
Back in the day I used to make gun syncs on BF4, which meant that I would have to join empty servers so I could record the guns without interference.
There was something absolutely surreal about walking into buildings that I had already ran through a hundred times during multiplayer, but without the deafening gunfire in the background, the rush of adrenaline, and the constant fear of death. Sometimes I'd just stop in a building I already knew by heart, just to discover that there actually was furniture in the room. Furniture that I was always missing because I was rushing to the next objective or focusing on my next kill.
If you own the game, I suggest you try and walk through an empty version of a map you play a lot. The feeling is really weird
Gta 3 has unused multiplayer maps though I never explored them they seem to fit this well
man that mortal kombat deception video really introduced me to an amazing channel.
After watching the video I scrolled down expecting at least a few hundred thousand view, but it only got 2k? wtf dude, the content is awesome.
I thought I was the only one who thought empty MP maps are kinda creepy.
58k in 6 days from when you posted that comment so that's pretty good.
@@thisismyfirstusernameimade3007 indeed, glad to see UA-cam recommendations promoting worthy content for once, I guess
This is the feeling i get in empty battlefield servers from their older games just running around by yourself when there suppose to be a war goin on is so weird and just makes it feel like im bein watched out of nowhere
**Jay I don't want you do ever go away you make such great content keep it up**
Anyways yeah classic battlefronts were super comfy with the atmosphere that's why I hold it in a special place in my heart.
when I was younger I play Unreal on online those years online play was not the best so mostly I just run around in empty maps the sound design hearing weapon respawning make in even more scary
Honestly, I was expecting a jumpscare.
Siege of Shanghai in BF4 is really eerie when you play it alone. It's a whole portion of a city that's empty
The map "Cheshire Park" also has the same vide in the New Call of Duty game. I played it while empty and it definitely had a vibe
I subscribed to your channel man because I did the same thing in Call of Duty. So thanks for the nostalgia.
When a Minecraft Realm finishes and all your friends' builds are empty and motionless.
Are you truly alone?
everytime i play the old beta and alpha versions of minecraft from beta 1.7.3 and below, i always get a feeling that i'm not alone, like there's someone watching me, this usually doesn't happen on servers and usually takes a while on beta 1.7.3 but its still that feeling of being watched that creeps me out. it might be the thought of herobrine in the back of my head, but i rarely ever have that feeling whenever i play the newer versions
Try playing a CoD: Zombies game with no players or zombies, but just, alone.
Man I just did that in WaW zombies the other day, I was feeling uneasy af 💀
How do you deactivate zombies?
@@arkay4387 console commands. Use google you tit.
Black Ops 2 and 3 still have active servers and Black Ops 3 on playstation still has a pretty active playerbase on the popular maps, you're not gonna get a game on Verruct but you'll get one on Shadows of Evil, Origins, Kino, Gorod Krovi etc easy.
I always used to love playing BO1 multiplayers maps in custom solo lobbies by myself back then (also because I had no friends lol) and you explain how I feel about this perfectly. It was always so cool how eerie they felt to me, with the ambience and background noise playing and no other players or voices around. This along with noticing creepy things you haven't noticed before that change how you look at certain maps. I always liked wondering how firing range would be as a zombies map so I explored that map a lot along with Nuketown which are 2 maps that were always busy and packed. Zombies maps give off this vibes times 10 if you can mod it to have no zombies spawn in. Ascension is a great one to explore on BO1 aswell.
How it feels to go in an empty Minecraft server.
Gotta say that Battlefront one inspired me.
The Jedi temple was still and silent, more than it had been in millennia. Only one person walked it's newly hallowed halls. A clone trooper. CT-7531. He knew he was unwelcome here, he hadn't been part of the platoon sent to the temple only a few weeks earlier. His footsteps echoed through the main hall as he walked towards a fallen column. He ran his finger along it, some dust gathering on his glove. He wiped it off on his armour before continuing on his way.
He moved to the library, the holobooks sat unused and unloved, he wondered if they would ever be touched again. The sound of a gonk droid echoed through the building, 31 wasn't entirely alone, his only company an unthinking droid that may not have even noticed the massacre that took place here, beyond the preview of its simple programming.
The server room was next, from what he had been told, some Padawans had hidden here during the purge, it had taken a while to find them, but now it was as if no one had ever set foot in here. it had been immaculately cleaned. The low hum of the servers indicated the that despite no one being here for its upkeep, everything was, at least for now still functional. The logs showed a recent alteration to the code, it was probably signal for Jedi to return being disabled, after all, no Jedi would be foolish enough to come here now. 31 paid it no mind and moved on.
31 made his way into the garden and took his helmet off, taking a deep breath of the fresh air, crisp and cool, taking a sip of icy spring water. With his second breath, he tasted the industry of Coruscant. The sound of the birds and the crickets gave an odd sense of serenity. He pulled his helmet back on and checked his list, this was the last place he needed to check. No survivors hiding out, mission accomplished. He hurried to the exit, his footsteps echoing through the giant building. He never wanted to return. No clone was ever welcome between these walls again.
I wanna make an fps with only 1 max player, and after a while of playing it, your character slowly descends into insanity...
Just got here from another video on empty multiplayer maps and I gotta say, you've got something good going here. Keep it up. o/
this feeling is why i love stalker - like games
I get a severe sense of Scopophobia whenever I play GMod maps, multiplayer maps, or just maps with no NPCs, like the City 17 intro from HL2z
i've stayed on official tf2 servers for hours even after everybody has left. it's not fun
ok but all things aside empty halo 3 maps are one of the most terrifying things I’ve experienced in gaming
the maps in 007: nightfire, the maps in the shooting mode in Rayman: Arena, thats what introversion is all about. there should be more Walking Simulators like The Witness: no story, just maps to explore for no reason
One of the games series that really works for this is the Halo games, especially the Forerunner maps like Epitaph on H3, or Lockout on H2. You really get a chilled sense of the long forgotten race that created those locales.