I’m with you Weather Stuff I always feel so alone in garrys mod needing an Npc to accompany me because i don’t have friends willing to play with me lol.
@Abdul Binafif well the background footage is half life alyx where you play as alyx Vance and is not a silent protagonist but the video says you play as Gordon freeman and are silent. So he basically showed the opposite of what he said but yes I do see why you are asking why dumb?
@@funkymonkeyplays1616 does the background really NEED to match what he's talking about? Like jesus people don't need to make everything perfect for your standards, deal with it.
The fact that you can hear the city hustling yet you can't see anyone no matter where you go is terrifying. You know that they are out there somewhere, you can hear them, but you just can't seem to find anyone.
I always thought about playing garry's mod alone as "lonely god syndrome", you can create and destroy whatever you want but you will never be able to create something to comfort your lonelines...
No it's more like being a god but everything you create is in a specific way like if I could create humans just thinking about it but all of them are the same person and has no personality.
It's still amazing that Garry's Mod is more terrifying for me than other horror games because this game isn't supposed to scare us but is able to do so only with its base engine, maps, and overall ambiance. Jumpscares and creepy easter eggs are just additional ways to scare us.
Horror games aren't really scary because you already know that it's supposed to scare you, therefore you see it coming. But games that are made to not be horror are sometimes the scariest. Idk how to explain it.
@@Swisha16 Gmod doesn’t have any background music and not much ambience either, so it’s just eerily quiet and it’s pretty unnerving especially in the bigger maps
This just shows how amazing valve's source engine is when it comes to it's atmosphere. They created such an unforgettable, but unexplainable atmosphere with Half Life 2.
When the sound of civilians can be heard, but cannot be seen Where a busy looking city is empty and abandoned When something is so familiar, yet so *different* Where a loud and busy server is now Silent and unpopulated
a TF2 server that's been cleared out by bots gives off the same vibe. This place that's supposed to be a chaotic battleground full of other people all shooting and shouting is just... empty.
I think the main reason we get uncomfortable in this game is because of 2 things: 1.) When our environment goes silent for seemingly no reason, that's usually because there is a predator nearby, which is why many of us find silence freaky and why we tend to copy that silence so as to not draw attention to ourselves. In fact, this paranoia is the reason many of us like to keep TVs/Music on when doing other things. 2.) We're social creatures that are extremely vulnerable to attack from predators when away from our group. We're easy pickings without buddies and our subconscious knows it, causing us to get paranoid and jumpy since our only option when attacked alone is to run and hope that whatever is trying to make you its dinner is slower than you. We literally have little to no natural defense against predators.
That's actually a really great theory, thanks. I must say tho that now these maps give me nostalgia rather than other things (besides the fact that developping clostrophobia and agoraphobia also replaced the discomfortability lol)
@@Mkmcco there are mobs that spawn in night and those include: zombies,living skeletons, mutated spiders Those had to happen from something magical like a witch planning something or a hooman made freak accident
to be honest i've never felt this feeling and never got creeped out whilst playing but I could see why people would get the goosebumps whilst playing alone
yeah same. i think the people who experience this kinda don't really share the same perspective i do. obviously there's nothing there. but for me i find that while many people think the nothingness is a characteristic of the map or whatever, i think of it differently. i'm essentially making my own experience. the map feels lonely because you haven't really populated it and given it that life. like obviously if there's nothing it's gonna feel lonely. but once you put down some NPC spawners and have them go to war with eachother and whatnot it's really not.
@@bing_crilling8981To be fair it also depends of the maps. Like I don't feel that in tf2 maps and such, but bigcity is the best example as a "creepy" place in the way that you're alone and you know it, but the sounds (without seeing the source of these sounds) make you feel oppressed, like watched or something... Adding even one npc is instantly reassuring tho
@BRIAN BRADFORD Yes everybody knows that no one is actually being watched, if thats what you are implying. We are just talking about how it FEELS like we are being stalked and watched.
I think one of the reasons Gmod is so creepy is the lack of music. Minecraft doesn't have this same amount of creepyness because the constant music playing in the backround (most of which is made to be calming) Gmod however, doesn't have a soundtrack. (Not in the vanilla game at least) So it gives off this vibe of emptiness. Which can certaintly creep you out if your playing late at night
I'm glad someone finally talked about this. I used to do a zombie rp with my friend and I used to get so freaked out whenever he'd have to afk and I'd be alone for a bit
Gmod is less scary when you making npc battles or try convert random map into "adventure map". The most scarrier thing is when you die and mom walks to your room and see your furry half naked shark girl playermodel (Gladly never happened to me)
Make a battle with some high health enemy’s and allies so it looks like a war is happening and would probably convince your brain that everyone else but us are alive
The source engine is easily my favorite of all time. I actually find it’s uncanny creepiness to be comforting personally. Probably has to do with all my positive nostalgia associated with playing Half-Life 2 as an impressionable teenager.
I can’t even play gmod alone without feeling like something or someone is watching me. It a weird feeling and some of the map is actually said to be haunted which added more reason why I only have like 4 hours on it.
Its just eerie when alone and I don’t even know why and it feels like anything could happen, you are alone in your own world that looks beautiful and sounds lively but in reality its empty and I feel scared to play alone so I don’t play at night EVER
Whenever I see a shot of that map that, aside from a random structure in the middle of it, is literally just a barren expanse, I feel like at any time, some unsightly creature will come barreling from the distance and kill you in a split second from when you can see it coming over the hills.
"Hey bro, gonna end building the elevator and then all is done." "Okay mate, im so excited to post it, we will be so popular." "We've worked hard on it, we will be legends." "Ok bro, see you later." "See ya too." *last online 7 years ago*
i had this happen to me too once, except not for seven years. so me and my friend were just playing terraria and we were planning on playing it again sometime then hes like "dont beat moonlord without me" and i respond with "ill try not to" as a joke. last online 2 years ago now hes online and we still havent played that world. ps, i beat moonlord without him
i swear i've felt that exact same thing. i get scared if i play alone. its like if someones watching me but i cant see them. gives me "they can see you but you cant see them" vibes
@@lajbartek360 I can't play minecraft anymore. Every time I play with my friend it eventually ends in either ever TNT block spawning more lit TNT, or everything in the world gets smited on every tick at the same time. _Or I summon eggs on someone and every time it spawns a chicken it will hit it with arrows_
I've said this before, it's my personal theory that GMod is secretly the sequel to Half-Life where Gordon accidently managed to rip a hole in the fabric of reality which caused every other media universe to spill into the HL universe, which is why you can spawn pretty much anyone or anything.
I played gmod for hours after my cat died, the empty catharsis of loneliness was what I needed for the indulgence of sadness at that point. It's funny to think an entire side of UA-cam gaming was built on gmod gamemodes, prop hunt funny moments are at the roots of UA-cam's biggest creators, and it came from a game engine built to be as eery as possible
I remember being on the construct map (idk what it's called, the internet was unhelpful but it's the one with the lake thing and the odd reddish building that's super dark inside and a big expanse of grass) and I remember going into the building as a kid and trying to make my way through the maze of doors and darkness. I just left because I couldn't shake the feeling something was following me. Freaked me out more than anything else I can remember.
Definitely the latter. If you see something horrifying. You're more likely to know what to do. (Usually run if possible) But the tension of thinking something is watching you is so much worse. Cause your own mind works against you in every possible way. You make it far worse than it ever could be on its own.
Same I feel the complete opposite of creeped out. Empty gmod maps are calming compared to hopping on a darkrp server and getting constantly micspammed.
The worst thing I believe is the atmosphere, I love it but when you play allow and hear the cars driving or people walking or talking it jus weird hear that because no one is there... or is there someone with you but you don’t know that?
I always tend to have music playing in the background when I'm on Gmod. I think the main reason it's so scary to me is how quiet it is, at least in single player.
I feel like good should have a online multiplayer, that way we can always, well, not be alone with npcs and feel safe, and there’s the feeling about nextbots always following you and stalking, waiting to jumpscare you.
0:29 Well, the scary thing about that is the paradox between what you hear and what you can see. This is an empty town with no life and no movement in sight, it's just you. While the background sound and the many huge seemingly intact houses tell you the opposite, that there is actually a lot going on. It creates a feeling of loneliness, in a place where it shouldn't be like that in the first place, and this is where the scare factor comes from, along with the sound itself, as you already explained.
@@yusufhussein842 it’s like when you were younger and woke up in the middle of the night and every is asleep that feeling like there was someone else but it never showed itself, but you felt scared it might be just me but it’s the loneliness feeling
The odd thing is I only had this feeling as I got older, when I was young I put thousands of hours into this games singleplayer and never had that feeling.
The same applies to Minecraft I spawn in a world as a kid and I have so much fun But now I feel like something is watching me which is even scarier when you have scopophobia - the fear of being watched
This video is a hidden gem. Here at 3/26/21. 1 141 views, 95 likes, me being one of them. Amazing video. I love how GMod is starting to get popular again.
@@epicortonotepic8314 something like that gnome that if u hit it it screams at you on a map (idk which one) but idk if its real or not i last played g mod like 4 years ago
i actually managed to overcome the fear by not watching horror related stuff wile or just before playing and honestly when you mess around more or get concentrated in what your doing then its also gone!
well remember one thing if you do see something scary spawn as many op npcs at once turn on god mode and use the strongest gun you have in the game now your safe from gmod scary figures
whenever i play on singleplayer, i always play on flatgrass, so i can see anything. i dont like playing on maps like big city or darkrp when im alone. the idea of having limited vision and a sense of being alone but not alone at the same time gives me the chills.
I remember playing it at my friends house when i was 8, I remember it being soo unsettling. Havent played Gmod since then yet I still sometimes have weird dreams being on a green field alone that reminds me of the Gmod lot.
Its a combination of being alone and the pang of nostalgia that becomes more bittersweet the older you get. I remember first playing it when I started high school, that was 15 years ago. The creepiest part for me is having thoughts of how much time has gone by, how much time I've wasted, friends I no longer talk to who I used to play Gmod with and a bunch of other feelings. I suppose it feeds into the fact that Gmod at its core, including classic maps, haven't changed after all this time but so much has changed in my own life. It's scary to me for those reasons.
the maps i play on feel like a liminal space to me, they give the weird vibes of like the backrooms, feeling of being watched, loneliness, and just like another type of vibe (if you stare at any open area in a map, you might get this weird type of vibe) i cant explain all mixed together, really good way to scare the living sh-
Everytime I wanted to create a gmod video/sfm or whatever, I always pause midway, cause I feel this sudden feeling of uncomfort, like something anomaly is watching me, like im not truly alone, even though im in a single player world... The things you describe and show in this video definately hits home.
i think that the reason it feels creepy is because there’s this big area that’s normally full of people and it’s just empty. It’s like going to an empty school
It's called an liminal space, when something that once had a purpose and was designed by people is abandoned. This is cuz our brain is already used to locations like these to have ppl, and is confused. It's like a school before any students arrive, of an empty ikea, or a garry's mod map, or an flat minecraft world.
Same man that feeling all ways gave me the creeps I recreated the living the gm_construct but with an ragdoll I saw an black dot in the distance I got scared and it was never meant to be there but turns out it’s actually an blood splatter
It felt empty as the ambient noises and the environment depicted a busy environment but Gmod is just empty. It's feels as if something is watching you. The silence is too loud.
This is the reason why I always spawn NPC'S to keep me from being lonely. Been playing GMod for years and even though I know nothing is going to jump out at me, I'm always just paranoid.
I always had this lingering fear that someone, or something, would just come from behind me and kill me. Most times I played a random yt video in the background or spawned a bunch of random nps just to make that paranoia disappear for a while
Weird, I never felt that way when I played gmod as a kid. Though I did get the same feeling of some unknown thing watching me, I got excited and tried searching for them.. Lol I was lonely
the sentence at 3:34 was so true, like even if I am on a server with no people I still feel like I am not alone and everything I do someone is watching. in all source games.
This is the reason I play Garry's Mod only if I'm very overconfident to myself or with friends, because it's so creepy that from having fun to having think of yourself why you're playing this alone without anyone. I've still remembered that everytime I played this game, I feel someone on very far or behind watching me.
I think this has something to do with what stale/basic like graphics making a child and an adult see and feel there is some sound at the background but nothing at all that you can see,there is buildings but no people inside nor any sign of someone
It isn't creepy!, people have an expectation of what takes place on a map. When their expectations aren't met they form idea's about why the map is like this. often overlooking the games elements and focusing on something trivial. The feeling of being alone on a map which is clearly a habitable space can be daunting to people who are used to doing so with other people.
I’ve played this game since I was seven back when venturiantale and others were at their peak, I would always get so scared playing alone. Love this vid!!!
This creepy feeling is called a ‘limimal feeling’. It’s the off putting feeling of expecting a space to be filled with other beings but that space is empty. It’s like the really off feeling you get when you’re at school at night, or from abandoned places.
i think i know why its so eerie and creepy to play alone its because its mostly focused on community and being with people for the most part it seems too real in the sense that its made to simulate what you'd see IRL plus a majority of the maps if not all of them are public areas i.e. train station cities whatever and usually those are filled with people especially during the day but when you visit them and theres absolutely nothing YET theres sound as if life is in the area despite it being a ghost town or whatever it makes it that much more creepy to be in due to the lack of life but it feels as if there should be some life somewhere kinda like with RP Downtown it should be filled with people and when it isnt it just ends up feeling like an empty void
Always games like this when they have city ambience in a empty city, I always feel as if there is something behind me and the game will turn into a horror game
I've always found Gmod maps alone so relaxing, some people think its scary I think its just so relaxing, there always used to be people everywhere in them talking, living, etc, and without it, it almost feels better. Even though in the maps its all controlled chaos and I also feel the same way when there is no one in it, it reminds me of controlled chaos knowing people used to thrive there and still do. I also don't feel lonely at all, I almost feel like everyone is still there even though there not, remembering all of the friends I've made over the years on a map, going to the places where we use to base and buy just a bunch of money printers, it all makes me so happy being able to remember that. Feeling content while alone in a darkrp maps is the most odd feeling but it never feels scary, I guess being alone has never really scared me before.
It's the concept of Liminal Spaces. Being alone in an area where it feels like something should be there or feels familiar. Playing with friends changes the mood a lot, but being alone sometimes makes you feel like you aren't alone
everytime i played alone i always spawned NPCs to accompany me
I’m with you Weather Stuff I always feel so alone in garrys mod needing an Npc to accompany me because i don’t have friends willing to play with me lol.
SAME
Same
SAME
Good ol' Father Grigori helps keep me company with his rambling of nonsense.
2:08 “in Half Life, you play as silent protagonist Gordon Freeman”
*chooses Half Life: Alyx to be the background game*
I know it’s so dumb
@Abdul Binafif well the background footage is half life alyx where you play as alyx Vance and is not a silent protagonist but the video says you play as Gordon freeman and are silent. So he basically showed the opposite of what he said but yes I do see why you are asking why dumb?
@@funkymonkeyplays1616 so?
@@funkymonkeyplays1616 looks like someone is having a bad day
@@funkymonkeyplays1616 does the background really NEED to match what he's talking about? Like jesus people don't need to make everything perfect for your standards, deal with it.
The fact that you can hear the city hustling yet you can't see anyone no matter where you go is terrifying. You know that they are out there somewhere, you can hear them, but you just can't seem to find anyone.
It's kind of a solipsistic vibe.
After working graveyard shift in a convenience store in a relatively small (
And that's what makes it scary after all.
I don't know why, but having the background noise is actually quite comforting to me. I would be scared if there was no noise.
"It's not the fear of being alone, but rather thinking you are, and being wrong."
FR
Facts
yeh
Indeed
Deep
I always thought about playing garry's mod alone as "lonely god syndrome", you can create and destroy whatever you want but you will never be able to create something to comfort your lonelines...
except turrets
turrets can
atleast for me
Playing with friends helps
No it's more like being a god but everything you create is in a specific way like if I could create humans just thinking about it but all of them are the same person and has no personality.
@@Kyle2Fast this. It feels like there’s no depth
@@kingbaby9519 what if you dont have
It's still amazing that Garry's Mod is more terrifying for me than other horror games because this game isn't supposed to scare us but is able to do so only with its base engine, maps, and overall ambiance. Jumpscares and creepy easter eggs are just additional ways to scare us.
Horror games aren't really scary because you already know that it's supposed to scare you, therefore you see it coming. But games that are made to not be horror are sometimes the scariest. Idk how to explain it.
@@Swisha16 Gmod doesn’t have any background music and not much ambience either, so it’s just eerily quiet and it’s pretty unnerving especially in the bigger maps
@@Swisha16 eugh even Mario games creeped me out
Minecraft the most I absolutely hate building alone or for myself idek why I bought them
@@randompersony61 Yeah in Mario 64 you're just alone exploring empty levels. Take out the happy music in the game and it's probably creepy as hell.
yeah it's like being in a limbo, what are you supposed to do? just walking around forever
I can’t take this seriously while watching the background gameplay of him running over ton of anime girls with a car XD
Good Soldiers follow orders
@@uselessmeds wait a minute... arent you a crusader..?
@@crazysteve2884 yes
@@uselessmeds but your a useless crusader so your not a good soldier!?
@@mokongthe3856 Perhaps
When i was a kid, i always spawn some heavily armed bots to "Guard" me from something, lurking.
Sometimes the npcs I spawn in will shoot at nothing and it freaks me out.
Same thing, because of this feeling I had to download a ton of military npcs and arsenals addons XD
I downloaded a crap ton of ARcCW mods to defend myself, mostly ones that can use cheaty attachments
Damn ya'll sorts of paranoid.
Man, when I was a kid I loved to play alone.
It’s not being alone that’s scary, it’s the thought of something being there with you.
I'm not scared of being alone, I'm scared of _not_ being alone
Big brother is watching you vibes.
exactly lol, i dl a map, and my first play on it is always in no clip to see if im really alone xdddd
Welp you gave me a new fear
Except there's nothing really there with you,its all in your mind...or is it?
This just shows how amazing valve's source engine is when it comes to it's atmosphere. They created such an unforgettable, but unexplainable atmosphere with Half Life 2.
So, other engines are.
Gaben did wonders along with the team
Pretty excited to see what their next game will be on pc, I hope we see another game in the half life universe that's not vr
@@bl33zy52 Hopefully.
they should have made psychological horror games instead
When the sound of civilians can be heard, but cannot be seen
Where a busy looking city is empty and abandoned
When something is so familiar, yet so
*different*
Where a loud and busy server is now
Silent and unpopulated
bro you just straight up wrote a gmod poem
Damn
a TF2 server that's been cleared out by bots gives off the same vibe.
This place that's supposed to be a chaotic battleground full of other people all shooting and shouting is just... empty.
amen
@@demolition_lovers what a work of art :’)
This game is literally heaven for an introvert
Nope. Im an introvert, I hate people but it still creeps me out
i remember i played this city map with tons of detail, then i found a room that was completely dark and silent. it was terrifying
theres a secret gnome in that map, where if you hit it, it will scream at you
@@DuroNotroh lol where ?
@@DuroNotroh that can't be true, can it?
@@DuroNotroh Yes.
That room is meant to test light sources. Everything in that map is meant to test something
it always feels like there is going to be a jumpscare at any moment, especially when playing maps from the workshop.
Ye also gm_flatgrass has the creepy tunnel below you which is SO terrifying.
yep, i always played flying so if something came out of nowhere it couldnt reach me.
@@Chunky_MC7 also there is a creepy doll inside that tunnel that you can find by noclipping into it
@@ObliviousDog ye
Same
I think the main reason we get uncomfortable in this game is because of 2 things:
1.) When our environment goes silent for seemingly no reason, that's usually because there is a predator nearby, which is why many of us find silence freaky and why we tend to copy that silence so as to not draw attention to ourselves.
In fact, this paranoia is the reason many of us like to keep TVs/Music on when doing other things.
2.) We're social creatures that are extremely vulnerable to attack from predators when away from our group. We're easy pickings without buddies and our subconscious knows it, causing us to get paranoid and jumpy since our only option when attacked alone is to run and hope that whatever is trying to make you its dinner is slower than you.
We literally have little to no natural defense against predators.
That's actually a really great theory, thanks. I must say tho that now these maps give me nostalgia rather than other things (besides the fact that developping clostrophobia and agoraphobia also replaced the discomfortability lol)
that can be taken the wrong way, please rephrase that
Any game where you play alone in an open world is creepy due to the fact that you are always alone, and the only comfort there is you as the player.
One reason I play with friends in Minecraft or near a village
@@regularhooman1568 Yeah. Living out by yourself in Minecraft is scary as shit. Living with villagers takes some of that edge off.
@@regularhooman1568 I wonder if Minecraft takes place after some post-apocalyptic event?
Damn
@@Mkmcco there are mobs that spawn in night and those include: zombies,living skeletons, mutated spiders
Those had to happen from something magical like a witch planning something or a hooman made freak accident
Valve games are special.
When there is a bunch of people in a server, its a wacky and fun game.
But when you're alone, its a serious and creepy game.
@Anonymous 2918 Nah. Alone on a server, it feels sad and lonely like an empty school or empty playgrounds
this isnt made by valve?
CS:GO?
@@ewciaguttek2605 oh god not csgo
@@crack4184 just leave if youre in an empty valve server, if youre alone in your own server then you can add bots to play with you
to be honest i've never felt this feeling and never got creeped out whilst playing but I could see why people would get the goosebumps whilst playing alone
yeah same. i think the people who experience this kinda don't really share the same perspective i do.
obviously there's nothing there. but for me i find that while many people think the nothingness is a characteristic of the map or whatever, i think of it differently. i'm essentially making my own experience. the map feels lonely because you haven't really populated it and given it that life.
like obviously if there's nothing it's gonna feel lonely. but once you put down some NPC spawners and have them go to war with eachother and whatnot it's really not.
@@bing_crilling8981To be fair it also depends of the maps. Like I don't feel that in tf2 maps and such, but bigcity is the best example as a "creepy" place in the way that you're alone and you know it, but the sounds (without seeing the source of these sounds) make you feel oppressed, like watched or something... Adding even one npc is instantly reassuring tho
it's the noises, it made you feel like there's people there, but there aren't.
It made us feel alone, and feel like someone is watching us.
It make us feel lost and empty. Like knowing that its empty but also knowing that something used to be there.
@BRIAN BRADFORD Do you even know what we are talking about?
@BRIAN BRADFORD You Seem Lost
@BRIAN BRADFORD Yes everybody knows that no one is actually being watched, if thats what you are implying. We are just talking about how it FEELS like we are being stalked and watched.
@BRIAN BRADFORD Nevermind that. How about you explain your original point? "We live in a society, that's why." Please do explain.
I think one of the reasons Gmod is so creepy is the lack of music. Minecraft doesn't have this same amount of creepyness because the constant music playing in the backround (most of which is made to be calming) Gmod however, doesn't have a soundtrack. (Not in the vanilla game at least) So it gives off this vibe of emptiness. Which can certaintly creep you out if your playing late at night
Minecraft does have that sense, for quite a few people. Music does fill the void, but only so much
_I play with the music off because it gets annoying when you play 2000+ hours of solo survival_
I play games with no sounds
*Laughs in alpha versions of Minecraft PE*
laughs in cave noises
I'm glad someone finally talked about this. I used to do a zombie rp with my friend and I used to get so freaked out whenever he'd have to afk and I'd be alone for a bit
I feel im not alone in the game its scary when i play gm bigcity im always sticking with the npcs
sameeee
LOL SAMEEE I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE
The npc's cant really see the stalking things
@@wrightistheidiot the npc’s are on your side which makes u feel aafe
@@fosterkrajewski4012 well not all npcs are on the player side
Gmod is less scary when you making npc battles or try convert random map into "adventure map". The most scarrier thing is when you die and mom walks to your room and see your furry half naked shark girl playermodel (Gladly never happened to me)
not as scary as gm_contruct dark room
Yet...never happened to you yet.
suuuurrreee
Why that playermodel
Make a battle with some high health enemy’s and allies so it looks like a war is happening and would probably convince your brain that everyone else but us are alive
The source engine is easily my favorite of all time. I actually find it’s uncanny creepiness to be comforting personally. Probably has to do with all my positive nostalgia associated with playing Half-Life 2 as an impressionable teenager.
The way I’ve always portrayed GMod is that the world is dead, yet you still hear everything as though it was still alive.
Just like a burning memory
@INTROP3RVERT cap
@INTROP3RVERT cap
The caretaker?
@INTROP3RVERT cap
I can’t even play gmod alone without feeling like something or someone is watching me. It a weird feeling and some of the map is actually said to be haunted which added more reason why I only have like 4 hours on it.
I have over 5000 hours on it and I just cant play alone i feel like something is watching me too
I have 300 hours of just sandbox single player and even then I had to constantly spawn NPCs to get rid of that eerie feeling lol
Its just eerie when alone and I don’t even know why and it feels like anything could happen, you are alone in your own world that looks beautiful and sounds lively but in reality its empty and I feel scared to play alone so I don’t play at night EVER
I play alone but I spawn a lot of npcs to make me feel less scared
that was the same feeling i got playing the minecraft tutorial worlds.
Whenever I see a shot of that map that, aside from a random structure in the middle of it, is literally just a barren expanse, I feel like at any time, some unsightly creature will come barreling from the distance and kill you in a split second from when you can see it coming over the hills.
"Hey bro, gonna end building the elevator and then all is done."
"Okay mate, im so excited to post it, we will be so popular."
"We've worked hard on it, we will be legends."
"Ok bro, see you later."
"See ya too."
*last online 7 years ago*
Damn
i had this happen to me too once, except not for seven years.
so me and my friend were just playing terraria and we were planning on playing it again sometime
then hes like "dont beat moonlord without me" and i respond with "ill try not to" as a joke.
last online 2 years ago
now hes online and we still havent played that world.
ps, i beat moonlord without him
@@Onyx_7726 Rip
@@Onyx_7726 why did he just dissapear for 2 years?
I always worried about my friends when they leave for long periods of time.
"it almost feels like something was watching you.. stalking you.."
background: *BRRRRRRRMMMMMMMMM*
While killing anime girls.
i swear i've felt that exact same thing. i get scared if i play alone. its like if someones watching me but i cant see them. gives me "they can see you but you cant see them" vibes
Single players: Oh my gosh, It's scary!
Me, playing with friends: It's ok when gnomes fly, right? Wait, what did you-... *game crashes*
[discordant discord vc laughter]
So play with my friend.
His humor is so strange that when we play Minecraft even the sounds of caves or Herobrine are like a lullaby
Gnome Chompski is back at it again
@@lajbartek360 I can't play minecraft anymore. Every time I play with my friend it eventually ends in either ever TNT block spawning more lit TNT, or everything in the world gets smited on every tick at the same time.
_Or I summon eggs on someone and every time it spawns a chicken it will hit it with arrows_
“What did you spawn?” *pc blows up*
I've said this before, it's my personal theory that GMod is secretly the sequel to Half-Life where Gordon accidently managed to rip a hole in the fabric of reality which caused every other media universe to spill into the HL universe, which is why you can spawn pretty much anyone or anything.
Could we do the same?
@@PETRIXXXX maybe :)
So you're saying... half life 3 has been under our noses the whole time?
*proceeds to make a rocket propelled genital made out of exploding barrels*
Like the backrooms!
the most creepy thing is people working 9/5 then coming back home to roleplay work in gmod rp server
I played gmod for hours after my cat died, the empty catharsis of loneliness was what I needed for the indulgence of sadness at that point. It's funny to think an entire side of UA-cam gaming was built on gmod gamemodes, prop hunt funny moments are at the roots of UA-cam's biggest creators, and it came from a game engine built to be as eery as possible
Rip kitty cat
sorry to hear about your cat:(
@@B4N4NA_PH0NE Nah dude, it was like 4 years ago, I'm good! He lived a long life, anyway. Just thought it was a relevant story to bring up.
Rest In Peace catto
Sorry 4 ur cat man
You always get that uncomfortable feeling of being watched when you're far from any npcs or a safe zone in any game
I feel while playing Counter-Strike: Source..
never felt such thing, but im not a zoomer snowflake.
@@waterfood7009 oh wow look at you so cool and shit
I have that feeling in Minecraft unless I am buy another player or a more intelligent npc such as a villager
Yeah
I remember being on the construct map (idk what it's called, the internet was unhelpful but it's the one with the lake thing and the odd reddish building that's super dark inside and a big expanse of grass) and I remember going into the building as a kid and trying to make my way through the maze of doors and darkness. I just left because I couldn't shake the feeling something was following me. Freaked me out more than anything else I can remember.
I dont know whats more creepy,
seeing something terrifying,
or not knowing if you're alone when you think you are
Don't click the link, it's a rick roll
I took the L to find out
@@Prak_Giggles Respect this guy he clicked the link to prevent us from being rick rolled
Definitely the latter. If you see something horrifying. You're more likely to know what to do. (Usually run if possible) But the tension of thinking something is watching you is so much worse. Cause your own mind works against you in every possible way. You make it far worse than it ever could be on its own.
Thus why I quit gmod
Weird I always have a relaxed feeling when playing empty garry's mod maps
its all about the mindset,if you think theres something bad in a dark room you will be scared,but you could also be relaxed because its dark and calm
Same I feel the complete opposite of creeped out. Empty gmod maps are calming compared to hopping on a darkrp server and getting constantly micspammed.
You are to strong
Nice to meet someone else who thinks the same. Spent close to 14 years playing Gmod, I love being alone.
Same
i just think of it as and extension of my room
Played this as a teen and never found it creepy, didn't even cross my mind.
The worst thing I believe is the atmosphere, I love it but when you play allow and hear the cars driving or people walking or talking it jus weird hear that because no one is there... or is there someone with you but you don’t know that?
Agreed. Valve really knew what they wanted when they made Source engine, and that atmosphere / mood definitely carried over to Garrys Mod as well.
It's called ambient sounds, coward. There's nobody here at all.
@@Syhgma Bruh. I can't say you're joking. Aren't you a bit off old for this shit?
@@JohnnyTheGamer arent you a little salty?
@@JohnnyTheGamer do you need a nappy change?
I always tend to have music playing in the background when I'm on Gmod. I think the main reason it's so scary to me is how quiet it is, at least in single player.
I feel like good should have a online multiplayer, that way we can always, well, not be alone with npcs and feel safe, and there’s the feeling about nextbots always following you and stalking, waiting to jumpscare you.
@@juanatethejetdryer7580 it does have multiplayer...
@@spotifier3277 oh yeah i forgot 💀
this is a prime example of what happens when you overthinking things.
"Like something was watching you, stalking you..."
The Stalker: why tf is this guy bashing mario ragdolls together?
Stalker: HOLY MAN MARIO GOT A HUGE DAMN SAUSAGE OH GOD CALL THE FBI
SMG4
to feel less insane
The stalker:WHAT THE FUCKING SHIT WHY THAT GUY IS FUCKING A FNAF RAGDOLL CHARACTER
allso the stalker:dude stop spawning turrets the katencyu is getting too much
me: *turrets are the only friend i need*
3:39
Syhgma: *concluding his in-depth analysis of gmod's creepiness*
also Syhgma: *crushes multiple anime NPCs with his SCars vehicle*
Hes like: NO FUCKING RULE 3-
My boi is killing noire from hyperdimension neptunia
@@supersaiyangodofgamidustry321 :(
@@Prometheus-is-mywife 🤨
Not me summoning an army of nextbots to fight another army of nextbots to ignore the elderitch horror in the tunnels
0:29 Well, the scary thing about that is the paradox between what you hear and what you can see. This is an empty town with no life and no movement in sight, it's just you. While the background sound and the many huge seemingly intact houses tell you the opposite, that there is actually a lot going on. It creates a feeling of loneliness, in a place where it shouldn't be like that in the first place, and this is where the scare factor comes from, along with the sound itself, as you already explained.
The creepiness is not in the loneliness in the game u have the feeling that there is someone with u.
An untrusted and an unkown entity.
@@yusufhussein842 it’s like when you were younger and woke up in the middle of the night and every is asleep that feeling like there was someone else but it never showed itself, but you felt scared it might be just me but it’s the loneliness feeling
I got scared because of I heard a scream or cry in the background here 0:30
The noise actual made it non creepy for me lol
wo wo wo wo wo WO WO WO Wo
The odd thing is I only had this feeling as I got older, when I was young I put thousands of hours into this games singleplayer and never had that feeling.
maybe its cause when you're younger you're not really aware of whats gonna happen, you're just having fun
The same applies to Minecraft
I spawn in a world as a kid and I have so much fun
But now I feel like something is watching me which is even scarier when you have scopophobia - the fear of being watched
Bro why is your profile pic moving
@@Goblinofgobl I am watching you
@@Goblinofgobl do you think I'm joking
This video is a hidden gem.
Here at 3/26/21.
1 141 views, 95 likes, me being one of them.
Amazing video. I love how GMod is starting to get popular again.
I have gmod aswell
@@t_5511 yes
@@t_5511 yes
videos in your recommended = starting to get popular again. 2 iq
cya then
man you didn't even get to talk about the eerie "hidden" stuff in the classic maps
what is it?
@@epicortonotepic8314 something like that gnome that if u hit it it screams at you on a map (idk which one) but idk if its real or not i last played g mod like 4 years ago
Syhgma: speaks about how valve games are creepy
also gameplay: killing an anime girls with a spiked car
"...watching you, stalking you..." *rams a vehicle into a mass of anime girls*
good video tho lol
i actually managed to overcome the fear by not watching horror related stuff wile or just before playing
and honestly when you mess around more or get concentrated in what your doing then its also gone!
Or playing with friends on mic and messing around in big city and messing about with ragdoll controllers
@@theshadowcrusader exactly
lol
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for me it's usually 2 hours into the game, then i feel the weird feeling that i'm being watched
Any multiplayer game is the same when you're alone...
it fells like something is watching you just out of sight
It's sorta like the creepy feeling you get when you're totally alone in a forest. It's just a bit too eerie
hell no I’d never go on a forest alone
well remember one thing if you do see something scary
spawn as many op npcs at once
turn on god mode
and use the strongest gun you have in the game
now your safe from gmod scary figures
Imagine playing gmod with your friends and while all of you are laughing all your friends just disappear
That's called schizophrenia or maybe a very elaborated prank
@@xXMartineitorXxI first option sounds a lot better because as long I see another player I feel good
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Gmod is basically an unintended psychological horror game
I’ve never found gmod creepy
The source-y feeling, and gmod, is comforting. Maybe other games I might find creepy but for sure not gmod
Me an introvert: I enjoy being alone
Gmod: **exists**
Me: I no longer enjoy being alone
whenever i play on singleplayer, i always play on flatgrass, so i can see anything. i dont like playing on maps like big city or darkrp when im alone. the idea of having limited vision and a sense of being alone but not alone at the same time gives me the chills.
its just as worse when you see something in the open that isnt supposed to be there
@Anonymous 2918 but what if its an human npc but floating in the sky and when you go close to this your game will turn off
@Anonymous 2918 but can they fly on will and follow you even when you kill them?
"In Half Life you play as Gordon Freeman"
Proceeds to show gameplay from a game where you don't play as Gordon
I remember playing it at my friends house when i was 8, I remember it being soo unsettling. Havent played Gmod since then yet I still sometimes have weird dreams being on a green field alone that reminds me of the Gmod lot.
Its called stasis mr freeman
i had dreams that looked like garry's mod
When the NPCs you spawn hours ago get killed by the nuke you blew up and now you’re alone again
Just know that you are essentially a god in gmod, and nothing can really hurt you since you can just delete them instantly.
Its a combination of being alone and the pang of nostalgia that becomes more bittersweet the older you get. I remember first playing it when I started high school, that was 15 years ago. The creepiest part for me is having thoughts of how much time has gone by, how much time I've wasted, friends I no longer talk to who I used to play Gmod with and a bunch of other feelings. I suppose it feeds into the fact that Gmod at its core, including classic maps, haven't changed after all this time but so much has changed in my own life. It's scary to me for those reasons.
''You just couldn't shake that feeling of emptiness off"
*proceeds to run over anime girls*
Edit:Woah this is most likes I have gotten thanks guys!
God's work
Whoa the likers won't come back to this comment. What's the point of thanking them?
The edit ruined the comment
@@selestroyt shhhhhhhhhh shh it's ok I forgive you
@@alejandratrejo3070 Thanking for likes is like winning an oscar for people without a life😂
It always feels like someone or something is gonna pop out at you when you come around a dark corner even if there’s nothing in the server
0:53 hears a plane and immediately looks at the towers. i guess you never forgot
Gmod: I’m not a creepy game
Dark room: you will be
the maps i play on feel like a liminal space to me, they give the weird vibes of like the backrooms, feeling of being watched, loneliness, and just like another type of vibe (if you stare at any open area in a map, you might get this weird type of vibe) i cant explain all mixed together, really good way to scare the living sh-
Try to play with Zeta players addon, those bots really give some good feelings when playing alone
Alternative Title: man talking about lonniess when meanwhile sans is running over anime girls
i love how you are just killing anime girls whilst talking on a serious note XD
Everytime I wanted to create a gmod video/sfm or whatever, I always pause midway, cause I feel this sudden feeling of uncomfort, like something anomaly is watching me, like im not truly alone, even though im in a single player world... The things you describe and show in this video definately hits home.
I've played this game for 1330 hours, I don't think it's creepy.
I have over 3000 hours and I don’t find it creepy either
me neithet
is it possible to learn this power
i think that the reason it feels creepy is because there’s this big area that’s normally full of people and it’s just empty. It’s like going to an empty school
I played at Least 2000 hours and never felt creeped out, however ever since people started talking about it I somewhat feel creeped out at time's
Yeah I felt like I was being watched when I played on gm_bigcity for the first time.
Your brain is tricking you. Actually, there's nobody here.
@@JohnnyTheGamer
"No bodys" yeah, because is a virtual game. "No ones" i'm not sure about.
use background npc my friend
0:42 - *Camera pans up* -> *Sees WTC* -> *Hears plane overhead* -> "Oh dear"
It's called an liminal space, when something that once had a purpose and was designed by people is abandoned. This is cuz our brain is already used to locations like these to have ppl, and is confused. It's like a school before any students arrive, of an empty ikea, or a garry's mod map, or an flat minecraft world.
Maybe the point of gmod is an experiment… if you give someone everything but he/she is isolated, what will they do?
I can't believe how few subs and views you actually have, these videos are great!
Same man that feeling all ways gave me the creeps I recreated the living the gm_construct but with an ragdoll I saw an black dot in the distance I got scared and it was never meant to be there but turns out it’s actually an blood splatter
It felt empty as the ambient noises and the environment depicted a busy environment but Gmod is just empty.
It's feels as if something is watching you. The silence is too loud.
This is the reason why I always spawn NPC'S to keep me from being lonely. Been playing GMod for years and even though I know nothing is going to jump out at me, I'm always just paranoid.
@@Swisha16 same
I always had this lingering fear that someone, or something, would just come from behind me and kill me. Most times I played a random yt video in the background or spawned a bunch of random nps just to make that paranoia disappear for a while
Weird, I never felt that way when I played gmod as a kid. Though I did get the same feeling of some unknown thing watching me, I got excited and tried searching for them..
Lol I was lonely
bro u got excited searching for an unknown thin-
@@FracsonSimons when life gives you unknown demons, you befriend them
@@IcelandicChair you fuck them*
i look at singleplayer gmod as creepy then i look at vanoss old gmod videos then realize how funny it can be
When I play Gary's mod I feel the same way it's always lonely dark and always feel something watching me
the sentence at 3:34 was so true, like even if I am on a server with no people I still feel like I am not alone and everything I do someone is watching. in all source games.
This is the reason I play Garry's Mod only if I'm very overconfident to myself or with friends, because it's so creepy that from having fun to having think of yourself why you're playing this alone without anyone.
I've still remembered that everytime I played this game, I feel someone on very far or behind watching me.
I think this has something to do with what stale/basic like graphics making a child and an adult see and feel there is some sound at the background but nothing at all that you can see,there is buildings but no people inside nor any sign of someone
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edit: never mind i deleted that shit‼️
It's not. I've had the game for years with 7,000 addons and i have never felt creepiness.
@@rexjolles get into the zone and you should feel it
oksy
The thing is most of the maps on Gmod are community maps but some actually add music and liven the place up and it isn't so creepy with friends either
It isn't creepy!, people have an expectation of what takes place on a map. When their expectations aren't met they form idea's about why the map is like this.
often overlooking the games elements and focusing on something trivial. The feeling of being alone on a map which is clearly a habitable space can be daunting to people who are used to doing so with other people.
I’ve played this game since I was seven back when venturiantale and others were at their peak, I would always get so scared playing alone. Love this vid!!!
gmod is pretty chill but the ambience of some maps alone is minecraft cave noises levels of sus
This creepy feeling is called a ‘limimal feeling’. It’s the off putting feeling of expecting a space to be filled with other beings but that space is empty. It’s like the really off feeling you get when you’re at school at night, or from abandoned places.
I was surprised when I saw your subscribers, how come you don't have at least 1k? Underrated af
The game is some sort scary but how you said someone was stalking you that got me have the shivers down my spine
Every time I play the game alone I feel like someone is watching me.
i think i know why its so eerie and creepy to play alone its because its mostly focused on community and being with people for the most part it seems too real in the sense that its made to simulate what you'd see IRL plus a majority of the maps if not all of them are public areas i.e. train station cities whatever and usually those are filled with people especially during the day but when you visit them and theres absolutely nothing YET theres sound as if life is in the area despite it being a ghost town or whatever it makes it that much more creepy to be in due to the lack of life but it feels as if there should be some life somewhere kinda like with RP Downtown it should be filled with people and when it isnt it just ends up feeling like an empty void
Always games like this when they have city ambience in a empty city, I always feel as if there is something behind me and the game will turn into a horror game
Ayo same
I've always found Gmod maps alone so relaxing, some people think its scary I think its just so relaxing, there always used to be people everywhere in them talking, living, etc, and without it, it almost feels better. Even though in the maps its all controlled chaos and I also feel the same way when there is no one in it, it reminds me of controlled chaos knowing people used to thrive there and still do. I also don't feel lonely at all, I almost feel like everyone is still there even though there not, remembering all of the friends I've made over the years on a map, going to the places where we use to base and buy just a bunch of money printers, it all makes me so happy being able to remember that. Feeling content while alone in a darkrp maps is the most odd feeling but it never feels scary, I guess being alone has never really scared me before.
Are we not gonna acknowledge that's the World Trade Center buildings at 0:55?
It's the concept of Liminal Spaces. Being alone in an area where it feels like something should be there or feels familiar. Playing with friends changes the mood a lot, but being alone sometimes makes you feel like you aren't alone