Afraid of Monsters: Half-Life's Darkest Mod
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2023
- In this video I dig deep into the Half-Life horror mod Afraid of Monsters, its history, and more.
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Thanks for covering this. Cry of Fear is infamous but more props need to be given to Afraid of Monsters. Cry of Fear wouldn't exist without it
karen haircut gone :(
the slop man himself
hello
More slop when :)
aye its pyrocynical
*crashes into Simon*
“Sorry man I’m fucking stoned”
*refuses to elaborate further.*
ain't no way we got the same pfp
If the HL1 flashlight in a dark hospital wasn't terrible enough, my first experience playing AoM as a young teenager was on a monitor that came default with a "screen-saving" setting that would automatically fade the screen to black if over 80% of it was dark. Not only did I have to deal with the horrible flashlight, I had to constantly shine it at the floor to keep my monitor from turning off, and if I ran out of batteries in the dark I was completely blind lmao. Still fun as all hell though
i can relate
I had a stupid monitor like that.
@@lolitaras22 Me too, for some fucking reason it had 'fake HDR' or whatever, so when it was dark on screen it would get like 50% more dark, and when it was bright it would get brighter. What fucking creature ever thought that was a good idea.. who tested that monitor and said 'yep looks good!' it would get so dark you couldn't see anything, many games I had to crank up gamma/brightness and ruin the atmosphere a bit..
It was the worst case of aggressive energy saving technology@@famulanrevengeance3044
nice, an added layer of challenge to the game lol
Fun fact: the missing girl from the painting can later be seen for a split second (as a jumpscare) if you access the bathroom that's been covered in bloody letters and has red lighting. Didn't know this even after having played the game plenty of times.
the banana girl?
@@ohshititstheyeah yup, that one.
the painting is actually the cover of in the aeroplane over the sea by neutral milk hotel, which is like eternally memed about on the Internet and makes it even funnier that he put it there as a scare at 15. (I'll admit i had my phase with the band at 15 too)
@@noahgarwood936I was hoping someone would point this out.
Should I feel old that this many people don't know Neutral Milk Hotel?
rumpel and his team truly have managed to catch lightning in a bottle twice, making masterpiece horror games back to back on relatively low-ass budgets and low (to none) team assistance
Limitations does bring out a lot of creativity.
ur a noob
random highschooler gets hyperbolic with a positive twist for youtube points, has no clue what a masterpiece even is.
@@KAEFARIK i'm sorry that you don't like people enjoying things next time i'll make sure to bow down and worship you and your extensive 4chan argument win/loss ratio instead
@KAEFARIK Callisto Protocol
i actually love afraid of monsters, i own david's hoodie irl and wear it occasionally, and i always get a good scare whenever i play aom
same
@RichterOvertime, could u do a video about gmod playermodels?
Do you happen to know David's hoodie or is it just a standard grey hoodie?
@@RichterOvertimecan you make a video on the poopy man
@@mr.maroroiwhat tf would he even say
Very glad that Spike and Barley were given a mention with the videos topic. May Charles live on in all of our hearts.
was EXTREMELY happy to hear this
Little ol' man.
I miss those guys, they were the best and funniest Let's Player channel (before PewDiePie and Markiplier became popular).
I wish they'd reunite (even if it's just for one final Let's Play).
I miss the duo, big part of my early high school days. The sole reason i got into AoM and cry of fear.
@HagalazI I still say Lil ole man and 99% of people have no idea what I'm referenceing
My favorite part of Afraid of Monsters is when David saw a twitcher for the first time and said, “Eek! I must be afraid of monsters!”
"Eeeeyikes! I'm so Afraid Of Monsters, I might just Cry Of Fear!!"
@@surelylune Oh my God... Afraid of Monsters predicted Cry of Fear!
Actually the 3 endings feel a lot like they are meant to be part of the same sequence (assuming Ritcher hasn't skimmed on any other details):
1) David comes back to his senses and is arrested for the murders he commited
2) David is interrogated for what he did
3) David is sentenced to jail for life and makes it into the headlines (notice how the picture in the newspaper is a screenshot from ending #1) until he hangs himself to death
Ultimately a very logical conclusion to the game, seems like to give the illusion of multiple choices the creator just wrote a single ending and split pieces of it through many routes lol
That's exactly what I was thinking
and then i assume ending 4 would be him waking up after... all of that shit
Spike and Barley are forever tied to this game for me. Such good memories. The rock paper scissors moment, ooh, chills. Hope the lil ol men are ok.
DUDE I HAD NO IDEA YOU MENTIONED SPIKE AND BARLEY IN THE VIDEO WTF
They are okay ;)
Lol I just saw the thumbnail and immediately remembered the lil ol men
tiny...tinnnyyy men
They hunger : Laughing in the corner .
im doing a vid on they hunger too
@@RichterOvertimekeep it up dude !
Just about time
@@RichterOvertime yes please
umh there's actually a scarier game ☝️🤓
@@Kus-101hello brother...
My take on the spear you get to defeat The Addiction is that it represents the various needles (IVs, any syringe based medications used to counteract ODs, etc) that the doctors inject into David in their attempts to save him.
The “banana girl” from the painting is actually the album cover from Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”
+ W Aphex Twin soundtrack
Thanks Richter for this video, I can't express how much I love this mod, since the first time I played Sven Co-op and found it on a server.
The whole ambient, monsters, levels, makes me love this mod and in my opinion, one of the best horror games I've tried along with cry of fear, and whenever I can I make a friend play one of these
I was really invested until you got to the part with the Neutral Milk Hotel painting and I couldn't stop laughing.
Goldsrc and Source will always be some of the best Game engines of all time
no matter how many years pass people will still play their games and make mods for those engines.
why?
@@jmgonzales7701 cause they're fun and beautiful in their own way
@@jmgonzales7701 its a couple reasons, one is valve makes developer tools for these engines widely available, another is how beloved the engines are, quirks and all
I just discovered recently the titanfall universe including apex legends use modified source engines! Makes me appreciate the source engine even more without knowing it!
@@flakproof valve needs to make new games
The amount of Whiplash Richter just gave me the second I even saw the words "Afraid Of Monsters" is insane, it's seriously good for how old it is and for it's time as a mod itself. Pure art.
Richter Overtime jumpscare will be real in negative 53 seconds .
It has already happened.
God I miss Spike and Barley so much. They were an absolutely iconic UA-cam duo, and the first UA-camrs I’ve ever watched when I was about 9 years old. Miss them Mister Mans.
What happened to them?
@@eintorpid9101Dunno tbh, Spike did a lot of solo stuff with another one of his friends called Sass patrol that I really liked
MISTA MEENNNNNNNN
@@tonylee3624 You tiny thing.
@@SpikewessHey.
I like your boots.
So glad that AOMDC is still getting appreciation all these years later! It sucks that it's getting harder to get people to try it out as it gets older, but I really do think it's still one of best (albeit flawed) horror games out there. Also, much love for the nod to Spike's and mine's playthrough you tiny tiny myan ❤
Glad to see you're still active, I remember being a dumb teenager watching your guys' playthrough on Cocyx's server way back when. Hard to believe it's already been 12 years
And there's the legend himself
Hell yeah man what's up
MISTER MAN!!
It's so strange how barely anybody covers Afraid of Monsters, but when you hit that treasure trove like this beaut of a video, it's amazing! Thank you for this!
The 7:31 "banana girl" is actually the cover art for An Airplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel. Andreas is a man of culture
Massive props for bringing up Spike and Barley too, way back when these were coming out, they were my favorite!
For a time of old horror where obnoxious jumpscares was common place, the AoE jumpscares are very meticulously put together and that's what I commend it the most for. They're so well made that you'd genuinely feel like you're hallucinating, cus you wouldn't know if some weird face on window was actually in game or just your imagination, it just pops in and out in complete silence and leaves you questioning its existence. My favorite jumpscare is one that manages to burn the shape of face into your retina, by using some trick with contrasting lighting, making you see it whenever you blinked or looked into darkness of your room. You never see other games have a scare this creative. Hell, even the loud obnoxious ones pop up while you're actively fighting enemies, making you freak out and waste ammo on nothing in moment of adrenaline. Game truly makes you feel like you're going insane.
I love the introduction of the addition. The fact that you're just trapped in a small unfamiliar area with this thing the game makes you know is big news. It's just perfect.
Fuck, I remember spike and barley co-op'ing this in Sven Co Op and being haunted by David Leatherhoff. those were fun times.
but yeah while I do like Cry of Fear more, Afraid of Monsters is still a really good horror mod and goes to show that rumpel always had that knowledge of horror even on his younger days (Being 14-15 and making this is honestly leagues above what I could pull off at that same age).
LIL OL MAN! I forgot about Spike and Barley!
7:39 thats the album art for in the aeroplane over the sea the girls head is a well worn drum head and the album is supposedly inspired by anne frank its really out there stuff IMO but kinda interesting
Great album. Mod creator had great music taste
Thank you for making me miss Spike and Barley. Also gonna replay this mod for the heck of it.
One detail i noticed about the addiction, it’s choppy movements make it look like it’s trembling from drug withdrawal.
I personally would love to see a spin off or sequel to Afraid of Monsters. I think there is so much potential lore to the mysterious drug and supernatural elements going on behind the scenes. Maybe a sequel could revolve around a private investigator who is tracking the manufacturer of the drug but accidentally consumes some of it himself.
there is
Cry Of Fear is the spiritual sequel
I grew up with Afraid of Monsters and Cry of Fear. I am SO HAPPY people are talking about them again because these games were genuinely special and finding this video made my heart expand!
I just gotta say that the inclusion of spike and barley really made my day. I still watch their playlist pretty frequently and to see someone actually give them the light that i feel they deserve is pretty nice. there's definitely a part of me that feels like no one really knew about them but this shows that I wasn't alone in enjoying their old content.
seeing this get covered is actually insane to me. I remember in the 2010's when I was big into Marble Hornets, I watched Tim and Troy play this during one of their THAC gaming livestreams and would rewatch the VOD constantly because of both how hysterical their commentary was, but because of how insane the mod was. seeing other people enjoy it as much as I did is great
good evening, great videos as usual! Keep up the good work richter!
thank you!
always love these mod reviews/retrospectives, and that hoodie thing is just wholesome
I'm so glad this was covered. It's one of my favorite horror games ever, I use to watch Spike and Barley play this all the time when I was younger.
Finally, as someone who loves both Afraid of Monsters AND Cry of Fear, it's so nice to see someone cover it out of a sea of Cry of Fear videos.
Lowkey miss this era of people doing mods that turn a game into a horror game. Nowadays you rarely see ones or the ones that do exist either suck or just play like walking sims
Yeah, modern horror games are boring af
Older horror games had that survival aspect. The protagonist could fight back and not just run away and hide from the monsters. I miss older horror games
You called his messenger bag a purse or something 🤣
This is one of the most replayable horror experiences for me. Anytime I'm bored, booting up a game of AoM is always a good time. I was also The Addiction for Halloween like three years ago
13:02
definitely a Benelli M3 with wood furniture and a heat shield
reason why is because of the very memorable back sight shape of it and the fact that it has both a charging handle and pump
man put in "dead ended" at 8:20 and thought no one would notice
Gave you a sub, I enjoyed sitting here listening to someone speak in detail about such a creative project I enjoyed in my teen years long ago.
13:01 I believe the shotgun appears to be a mix of a Remington 870 and a Mossberg 590
22:27 “Oh what’s this, BOOP, Superjuice”
its kinda strange and fun to know i have that Spike and Barley connection with others
i guess i never really thought about just how important Afraid of Monsters was, love your content Richter
The “Banana Girl” image is actually the album cover of “In The Areoplane Over the Sea” by the band Neutral Milk Hotel! :))
Richter clearly never experienced semen staining the mountain top
This game is really amazing... Specially being made by one guy in the 2000's like damn o.o
Good video! and incredible editing!
Thank u scienti.. ur amazing....
jajaj banco muchísimo donar en pesos
@@RichterOvertimeHey. The shotgun looks like a Winchester model 1897, since you asked during your video
AoM:DC holds a special place in my heart for being THE best horror experience my high school era integrated graphics craptop could run
The surreal experience of the levels, the delicious choice of weapons, and the dark and lonely story really opened my eyes to more horror games as I grew older. I can't thank Rumpel enough for helping create such a memorable moment from my childhood
Also, this game was my first introduction to Aphex Twin, and that "boring intro" was a fucking perfect blend of visuals and music to really set the tone of unease that was yet to come. Really thankful to the mod for introducing me to music like that
I always liked the Spike and Barley videos for this game, and the concept was a novel idea at the time. They took a simple co-op let's play of the game, and added a curated haunted house element to it with Coccyx acting as David Leatherhoff. I miss them. Barley seems to be doing okay these days, but I think Spike needs a show of love and support, judging from what I've seen his tweets.
my favourite part of this entire mod has to be the “over here” sound the plays during the first dream sequence
My first experience with this game was actually way back probably during 2010 or 2011 in Sven Coop. Someone named Cocyx ran a cooperative Afraid of Monsters Director's Cut server. What made it so fun was that the admin would occasionally join in as "David Leatherhoff," who would then proceed to do things such as:
- Manipulating objects in the levels to block or hinder players, or alternatively mess with their heads
- Outright walking towards players with a knife/firearms and killing them (players in Sven Coop at the time were resistant to friendly fire)
- Watching players from a distance or from inaccessible areas such as behind windows or fences, especially early on in the game
- Teleporting players into cages or out of the way areas to mess around with them
- Changing the player's camera to David's perspective, revealing that they're being watched from above with just enough time to spin around when they gain control of their view back to see David watching over them with a rifle or something of the sort
I did manage to eventually play the original, but the server that hosted the game itself was very fun. The twitchers unironically freaked me the hell out.
trust me i know bro i literally talked about this stuff in the vid lmao
Probably means I need to stop playing Baldur's Gate 3 and actually sit down to watch this video! Happy to hear I'm not the only one that remembers the server!
Richter you just sent me on the biggest nostalgia trip of all time, especially when I heard the Spike and Barley intro sound lol
Dude when I heard Barleys voice I got fucking whiplashed from the nostalgia hit. I loved their videos so much when i was kid
Thank you, for sharing your opinions with us. It's cool to see that Afraid of Monsters and Cry of Fear are getting some attention again. ☺️
Afraid of Monsters and Cry of Fear one of my favourite games at all. Thank you for your awesome video, and Andreas for his projects. I hope in the future he gonna bless us with some Afraid of Fear or something like that
Watching your videos on HL1 mods is making me wanna get all of them. Great stuff man. I myself wanna make one in the future.
I still haven't beaten this game because I'm a big puss. Thanks for taking me through the endings. I could experience them without shitting myself of fear haha. Cheers.
13:03 in answer to your question, the shotgun closely resembles a Winchester 1897 12 gauge Trench Gun.
Edit: I’m not saying thats what it is, I’m just saying thats what it looks very similar to. Dont get your overalls in a knot.
bruh, video was posted 46 seconds ago and your comment is from 10 hours ago
how did you answer to the video already? it was posted 1 min ago
@@H3ADROOMyeah because of the patreon, have you been living under a rock
@@dumpstringprobably from patreon
HOW DID YOU POST THIS COMMENT BEFORE THE VIDEO
Tbh, seeing Rumpel pouring so much love and care into his projects is inspiring as someone who is also working on a few fan projects.
I love your use of Black Mesa tracks throughout this video. Amazing game with an even better soundtrack.
I swear AOM and Cry Of Fear was the most underrated horror hame back then, now both games are getting recognition it deserved
I know it's been said by many others, but the spike and barely mention it is something I'd never hear out of another youtuber. They're classic youtube let's plays, and I always go back every year to just have a good hit of nostalgia. Thank you.
The girl from the portrait is the album cover for In The Aeroplane Over the Sea, a really good record and its really cool that Rumpel liked it.
Maybe the idea of the addiction boss fight is that using your normal weapons are ways to help your addiction that instead hurt you since fighting an addiction is a long and painful process, but finding the spear is, after all the time and pain, finding the thing that works to help you fight your addiction the most without hurting yourself along the way.
7:40 Motherfucker just put a Neutral Milk Hotel album cover in his game. Respect.
7:38 BANANA GIRL??? Come on bruh...that's the album cover of "The Aeroplane Over The Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel...
Thank you, I'm so happy someone pointed it out. It's a great album!
The shotgun you asked about at 13:01 in the bottom left is the Winchester Model 1887, More widely known as the M87 Trench, Or the Trench gun.
Great video and that Re-volt outro music made me smile
The 'banana girl' at 7:38 is actually the album cover of 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea' by Neutral Milk Hotel
24:00 sorry what? 20 years old and already engaged???
Gen alpha discovers young engagement:
@@UnusualSandvichTF2 Im older than him, thats what im surprised. I´m probably older than you too my guy
13:04 I don't know if anyone has already answered but I believe the shotgun is model after either a Mossberg 590 Retro or a Winchester SXP Trench gun. Hope this helps the curious!
You just unlocked a memory for me, this game has been in the back of my head for years
I just realized, the song you played at 19:57 is At The Heart Of It All by Aphex Twin and Nine Inch Nails for the album Further Down The Spiral
16:02
I think the endings are all connected honestly, regardless of route it's the exact same thing where he kills many people and those are just the sequence of what happened.
That's a very interesting way to look at it.
maybe the monsters he killed was people
@@Turtle69696maybe he was afraid of those monsters
Thanks for the Spike N Barley shoutout, these were and are still some of the best let's plays from 2010/11, their multiplayer AOM one with Cocyx playing as david Leatheroff was just pire gold! Goofy, corny at times, but hella fun!
My man just uploaded at the right time as soon as I'm browsing for what yt video to watch while I eat.
For someone whose barely into his 20's, Richter Overtime tends to "Old man Yells at cloud" wax poetic about the not to distant past.
played this a ton as a kid and never realized that neutral milk hotel album cover was in the game. love this guy's taste in music.
Same honestly, it's hilarious that Richter called the character on the album cover "banana girl" too lol
Thank you for covering this, pyro needed a new content idea
14:50 fucking genius of you, using Aphex Twin - Stone in Focus for this.
It's calm but somewhat eerie vibe fits so well. I know this track from David Firth and it's just so damn amazing, each time I hear it somewhere or listen to it on its own
Afraid of monsters is a game I have an unhealthy obsession with, I just love everything about it.
I don't think there are many games like it, where the game respects the player's time AND intelligence by not trampling them with lore dumps. Just a solid gameplay base with great horror environments.
Most games just inconvenience the player in order to make it more scary or whatever but AoM is as fast as you want it to be without ruining the scary mood of the game, just you and your thoughts.
And I have to thank Spike and barley (ft. Cockyx) for it. I watched it religiously and tune in every now and then. Heck, I was even recreating the entire AoM campaign in Left 4 Dead 2.
Can you link AoM campaign? I would highly appreciate it, searched for AoM content on workshop, didn't find this
@@thr333stars ah it's on my channel actually, that being because it's still not done.
And it's currently in hiatus due the lack of proper gameplay flow, which is pretty much saying is not exactly fun as is.
It's pretty far into it though.
What a great Video mate I see a lot of videos of cry of fear but nothing of Afraid of Monsters God Job.
7:39 This picture, I never knew it was an actual picture for a real life music album. I quite literally got jumpscared by it while I was reading my college textbook for history of rock and roll (album is "In the Aeroplane over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel)
Ah the horror nostalgia. it never fails the great jumpscares and terrifying monsters and annoying invisible Face monsters. i wish if they going to make a Remaster version of it.
This game made me cry of fear because I’m afraid of monsters.
I'm unreasonably excited that you brought up Spike and Barley, AOM was one of those things I played an unreasonable amount of times over multiple nights on Sven Co-op with friends growing up, and a surprising amount of bonding between my sister and I happened in part due to Spike and Barley's shenanigans in their playthrough. (Legit she and I go LIL OL' MAN at each other like psychopaths every now and then out of neutral.)
Super cool to see some love thrown at AoM, especially since it does tend to get overshadowed by its admittedly more technically competent successor.
Thank you for this video!
I was a kid when I first played AOMDC. I was one of the people who watched COF's development because I knew their previous game. I still play AOMDC from time to time, especially via Sven Co-op to experience that fun with friends. I listen to the recordings I uploaded to youtube while I'm at work to pass the time just because of how fun it still is.
7:38 banana girl? what the hell are you talking about?? that is a music album. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.
The biggest jumpscare is seeing the Neutral Milk Hotel album cover
This is exactly how i’d hope to see the gameplay of half life to evolve into the space of modern fps! Im very excited to see your work progress!!
I share your same passion for AOM. The amount of dreams I've had about this game during my childhood is actually nuts and it's been such an inspiration to me. I still hold on to many of the dreams to this day, and I've been planning on making a map pack at some point based on the locations I saw in those dreams. Something about this game is just dream fuel, it's so surreal.
How Andreas could make an entire horror mod that's actually scary, on top of having multiple branching paths, all when he was just 16 is just insane.
Also, imagine how cool this game would be with truly randomized enemy spawns. The game already has different spawns for each ending path, but those are all easily memorized if you play through a bunch. I know something like this already exists for half life, I hope it's possible for AOMDC because it would be a PERFECT fit.
I'm not a huge fan of the game nor do I dislike it, but the soundtrack department is still one of the best mysteries of OSTs in my time. The original AoM-intro theme is still unknown by every person that has been looking for it. The bassline resembles Solar Fields' Confusion Illusion but it's confirmed to not be that track. The search continues.
The team needs to make more horror games
As usual, a really cool and interesting video !
The spike and barley mention holy moly. Didn't expect that but it is what introduced me to AoM
i love jbmod
That’s unrelated
He love jbmod
Fun fact:
I grew up in Sweden at the time when this was made, and the horror themes behind it are grounded in very true things that happened. At this time, eugenics had only been reformed and most doctors had still been taught that it works and that it was a legitimate science. On top of that, they still practiced coerced sterilisation of LGBT people.
Anyways, long story short: Most academics and doctors at this time had some incredibly fucked up views about mentally ill people. There was this idea that good and evil didn't exist, and that all crimes and bad things could be traced back to people who had some kind of condition or disability (I only exist because my mother asked for a second opinion). A lot of doctors would perform illegal/coerced abortions under false pretences if they suspected an infant was going to have a disability, and abuse towards mentally ill people was super common (and to be fair, still is, nobody's done anything about it).
The reason I know about this is because it happened to me, and I was in fact given medication that they said were a bunch of harmless SSRIs... but then I showed them to a real doctor from a different country (admittedly an American doctor, so like, good education, shitty ethics. But still a step up). Truth is, they were extremely powerful antipsychotic meds, and without a legitimate condition that requires such medication, you're going to get brain damage. Ever since then I've heard voices in my head because of how the pills really messed me up over the course of several months.
So, yeah, based on a true story. A lot of people experienced these kinds of abuses by the Swedish government.
Also to you Americans out there:
I get that you want public healthcare, and I respect that. But kindly shut up about the Nordic system, when you praise it, you're just parroting government propaganda. Look into French or Spanish hospitals. They're far less pseudoscientific and respect people's rights.
SPIKE AND BARLEY BBY, god I loved those guys, I wondered if the "Story" transition with the music was related to them since their intros were the same!
Here in time for the newest Richter Overtime upload
ahhh Afraid of Monsters, i find this game rather comfy... even if the game is actually pretty scary, especially when you get to the pitch black forest
I find it comfy aswell, same with cry of fear. I think its the enviroments that do it for me, I used to spend alot of time as a kid wandering in an around town at the wee hours between mid night and sunrise when noone else was around, not even weirdos. The cool air, the freedom and the "depressing" envirement around me felt comforting. I still enjoy late night walks now.