To this day I am still seething about the kids at my school lying to everyone that there was a machine gun on the roof of the school in Simpsons Hit and Run.
Awesome shit man. 32 year old here and u reminded me what it was like watching early UA-cam videos in early 2000s with the x files music and shit editing. The sheer imagination running wild at 2 in the morning. Good stuff
@@groovysnake6664 my freind trolled the shit out of me by printing off those low res shadow of the colossus pictures and claimed he found the secret colossi.
2:12 "Or that is until one day I decided to get experimental" "Oh, oh no. I know what he had done..." "to put a random PC game into my PS2" THOR NO NO THOR NO For me, the most frustrating rumor was the one about Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones. You know the one. *The Dark Prince Ending.* I was a PoP obsessed teen at that time, and I completely bought it. Found all the life upgrades on my own, with zero help, only to find out the harsh truth later. Some time after the revelation, my brother, who was -ten years older-, returned back from the university for the holidays, and eagerly sat down to play the game, being just as strong of a PoP nerd as I was. I tried to warn him, but not only he didn't listen ("nonsense, you must have done something wrong!"), he made me sit by his side as he played, and show him where all the upgrades were. He should have listened... he should have...
I used to think that CPUs in games were actual developers connected to my ps or game boy advance via the Internet. I didn't get internet until 3 years ago
Herobrine actually scared the shit out of me, Minecraft in general was really scary to me and it got to a point where i'd only play the game multiplayer cause it was too scary to play alone
This was some good shit. I used to do a lot of glitch hunting shit on Spiderman 2 on PS2. There was one where this dude hit me and my game froze with this awful high pitched sound. Scared the shit out of me as a kid. Also, I definitely downloaded a debug save for FF7 on my PSP. I remember showing some people in my middle school and none of them cared. I was just super cool like that.
I used the DS as an MP3 player with this really awkward SD card cartridge that poked out of the GBA slot, so i was just a smidge cooler, but yeah i know what u mean.
I remember the Aerith theories creeping me out for similar reasons. Apparently bugging her into your party shortly after her death sequence triggered at least one unique dialogue from her. After the snowboard mini game she says something like "I'm sick of this" and no other party member uses that line. There's a theory that she was originally supposed to die later in the game and they changed it shortly before releasing the finished product.
The San Fierro Train Station In "Hell" Is Used For Cutscenes At The Garage Across The Street From The Station. You'll notice the garage doors are open here just like in the cutscenes but unlike the actual garage in freemode
The ps2's red screen never really scared me but it was pretty neat in a hellish atmospheric kinda way. The consoles at the time had nice sound design. The OG Xbox had a cheesy boot screen compared to its competition. Im not one to seek out secrets like these but its cool to hear about stuff the developers hid in thier games. Like some of the unused cars; some are placeholding test models, and test tracks in Gran Turismo make me wonder why do the leave them instead of freeing disc space. Gravity Rush please play this had the unused city floating around somewhere. And of course Namco shoving refernces to their other games, like in Ace Combat Infinity they put those spinning squares from Xevious in the sky from one map and having Godzilla just stroll around in Tokyo.
I spent months obsessed over Shadow of the Colossus myths, hidden bosses, unused assets and creepy stuff Those were simpler times, I miss them greatly ;(
I remember one kid in school who kept talking about bikes in Need for Speed Carbon. Nobody believed him. I can also remember looking for lots of things in GTA SA (bigfoot, leatherface, aliens all the stuff). BTW: Is there a chance of you doing video about Persona game/series? Anyway great work(as always) with today's video
My mom used to buy me those "40 games on one disc!" cdroms from garage sales when I was a kid and I swear to god those were legitimately haunted. Especially because I don't even know what half those games were called anymore and can't find traces of them on the internet, so I'm left to forever wonder if my spooky game memories are real or just a dream or some mix of both
Before the GTA conspiracy videos on YT, I remember the two EGM screenshots that fueled the cryptid crusade. My friends and I would spend hours in GTA:SA around MT. Chiliad, searching for bigfoot and other myths. We'd ride around the surrounding woods and scream stop each time a cluster of pixels resembled a hidden figure in the trees.
Jesus, there was something really off about sixth generation consoles! I grew up with the original Xbox, and sometimes I would have the menu open without putting any disc in because I was doing something and then all of a sudden there are these robot voices just started speaking. The first time I heard it I nearly shat bricks. When I told the other kids in Elementary school about it, no one believed me. But I think that was because I was one of the few people that had an Xbox and not a PS2 or Gamecube at the time. Still, that shit scared me!
Donnerbalken I miss the vanilla world. All the unfinished content in the world from the beta. That underground dungeon with the hanging corpses was insane. They never even used it. Also FFXiV classic. Before the rebirth was just an eerie world to explore in general.
I always love the myth of the hidden colossus in Shadow of the Colossus. It made the die hards of that game really try to go through the entire game with a fine tooth comb hoping there would be a secret
I spent countless hours reading up forums and what not trying to figure out if you could actually revive Aerith. A little basic, I know, but I look back fondly at the intrigue and wonder it inspired in my young, naive heart.
Ah, I remember fervently reading about the "hidden Triforce" in OoT back in the day.............luckily by the time I found out about it everything had been debunked, saving me precious hours of wasted time. In the days before Photoshop was really well known, some of those "screenshots" looked so convincing............it really triggered my sense of wonder. I'll always love this kind of stuff. It might be less common now that we have the internet but luckily this kind of thing has never fully gone away.
Man, you're the exact right person to talk about such crap. One of your bests. Never change yourself, though change your content if you get tired of the format of course.
For some reason, when I was a kid the scariest thing I'd seen in a game was the "You're Dead" screen on Resident Evil 4. When I played it as a 7 year old I made myself get good at the game out of fear of seeing that screen.
I think that mods were the most beautiful thing that spiraled out of this easter egg and myths and legends trend of mid 90s/ early 2000s gaming. These were the forerunners of modding scene that had since given birth to fan remakes and Skyrim dlc sized mods (although frankly I’d call them better dlcs than the dlc themselves)
i also explored the hell in gta sa, and i came to the conclusion that you are just going back to the normal map and can see some assets that load properly, while most of the normal assets don't, you can see the gates to the airport, the big crane, train stations, etc
This is such a great topic to make a video on, been binge watching all of your videos once I found your silent hill video. Some top notch quality content, keep it up m8
I to still casually "myth/glitch hunt" in Gta S.A still to this day and then before you know it....... AFTER 5 YEARS ON THE EAST COAST..... It was time to go home. Goodbye 50hrs of my life. AGAIN!
Lol! I always wondered everytime I started a new game if that plane was crashing or landing. I'm actually working on a new video for my channel about my years in S.A. That game just had so much charm and depth you can easily get sucked in.
One area in a game that really freaked me out was the sewer level in the OG Spiderman game on the PS1. Just the faint drips, dark areas, and giant whirlpools of chaos made me feel incredibly uneasy as a kid.
The red abyss of the PS2 only frightened me because it meant I got hit by the disc read error on a good ol' fat PS2, which meant opening it up to screw with the dial controlling the disc reading LED, or worse that I'd have to ask my parents for like 300 bucks to get a new system.
You know what scared the shit out of me as a kid? The dungeons in Mega Man Legends, especially the first major one you enter. It was already creepy as fuck with dark lighting and ominous music, and when you enter this bigass room and jump down to the floor, what are you greeted with? Loud, clanking footsteps that speed up and grow louder as they come closer, only you can't see what the fuck it is. Those goddamn invisible robot enemies absolutely terrified me as a 12 year old.
This one kid in elementary school spent months meticulously gaslighting me about hidden content in Link to the Past, accessible only via game shark. Nintendo should have hired that bastard, he managed to think of another game-and-a-half's worth of content just to fuck with me.
Oh my God bro this shit brings me back. Especially that xfiles theme lol. I remember the suicide road that was 'haunted' and caused people to just walk off the cliff and drown. Or the 'ghost 'cars that just roll down a hill , with no driver, just to slam into a tree .
Sometime in the early 2000s my brother, mother uncle and i survived a fatal bus crash which i think unfortunately many people died in, after that long day/3 days can't remember because i smacked my head really hard we returned home and we just saw my other siblings playing with this weird car on the screen using a weird remote control... it was the ps2! My siblings bought it without my mother knowing and because of that series of unfortunate events i got into gaming and now I'm a 3d game character artist!
As a kid the PS2 never scared me, even with the wrong disk screen... What really scared me, and as a teen, were the fucking Xbox 360 random Idle noises ... like the space transmissions etc. I remember waking up at 3 AM (after a session where I fell asleep) only to be greeted my Alien noises coming out of my speakers, for a reason that took me entirely too long to figure out from a UA-cam video years later.
The PS2's red screen and the PS1's.. everything really, were a big part of my nightmares as a kid lol I remember running away from my room whenever I wanted to play GTA San Andreas at night because my PS2 disc was scratched up, so I peeked into my room If it turned red I knew I still had to come inside but.. at least I was safe near the light switch lmao
The “hell void” in san andreas is actually where the interior for the cutscenes are held, the train station is used for all the cutscenes that take place inside the garage during the san fierro part of the story
I have my own accidental horror story. I was playing madden '07 and turned off the system when it was saving. When I booted it back up it said [SAVE CORRUPTED] and when I selected it, bloody john madden bursted through my bedroom window and said "can I use your bathroom thanks"
the things in the ps2 were represented save files and the thing in the GameCube menu is a slowed downed version for the original famicom boot-up jingle.
Noooiiice. Yeah, games were like a sort of network of experiences, a psychic link to other gamers who'd been where you were virtually, even before the Internet. Ghosts of before, like what Dark Souls would build into its series years later. I actually wonder what the impact of the increased, online coverage of games media does to this mysteriousness, if one can now truly be alone with a game anymore? Regardless, that ability of early games to provide hints to hidden or glitched features - real or non-existent - really helped to engage the imagination of a generation of gamers and spread their enthusiasm through the formation of urban legends. I think it's great also when games do embrace a weirdness on purpose, but keep the story details or themes sketchy to encourage interpretation: Earthbound's Giygas, the Half-Life series's G-Man, Arsenal Gear at the end of MGS2. Also, I agree - solitude is great for horror. Being home alone is the best.
Shits dead hollow now. I was around for OG Demons Souls and even just the myths online today are so quick to get disproven. Like the Remake had most of the secret stuff revealed in like two months ; - ; Being a dev 10-15+ years ago had to be fun to know that your secrets hadnt been found a year or two into the game being out.
@@feralkitty33 True. I think that's as much a player overengagement thing as a media coverage thing. Even my own last example falls prey to what you're describing; the whole plot of MGS2 was revealed before the game even came out if you knew where to look. A combination of both factors, I guess, but there are still some gaming mysteries out there if you pace yourself.
your parents bought a house? man times have changed. I have a recurring dream of living in a second house that isn't mine but is, I wake up in a panic because have I forgotten this house?' am I neglecting that cat living there? Somewhere I believe this house exists and it fills me with existential dread.
I remember I rented a ps1 game in 2002 or something, put it in my ps2, and got the red screen. It scared me so much that to this day, even while knowing some of the technical details behind the machine, it still scares me to see that screen.
Late comment but i think that the cut content and the images of the beta/cut colossus from Shadow of the Colossus are quite eerie and mysterious,and the beta quadratus that apears to have a mouth is really creppy,there is a small 24 second clip of the thing.
I will never forget my childhood best friend, who is still muh boy™ telling me in 2nd grade that not only was there Cyborg from Teen Titans in Melee, but also Sephiroth, the Sonic and Toad characters were "real" and that Megaman X himself with full armor was in it too. I believed it, I believed it so hard until my older brother, aptly named Chad, said "Your friend is a fucking liar" and thus began my trust issues
Something in a game that I remember really fucking me up was the wild west level in Banjo Tooie. Yes, yeah, it's weird and niche and something that could only scare me, but let me set the tone for you. Your entire 11 year old existence, the majority of your vacations you would go on were to the hillbilly Ozark howdy y'all festival of eerie joy known as Silver Dollar City, in the South's equivalent to Vegas, Branson Missouri. A place who's most standout memory to you is riding the slow moving water darkride where you shoot at things in various scenarios which involve hillbilly prisoners attempting to escape a flooded mine. Over and over and over again. I think one time when I was young I rode it so many times without actually getting up and leaving the boats that the teenage operator overhead in the loading and unloading area straight up told me I needed to get off. The reason I kept riding it wasn't because it was fun, but because it, to this day, absolutely terrifies me. The aging, way too loud recordings playing over moldy speakers, the paint peeling of the static, wooden prisoners, the outside sequence that shows flooded graves and floating bones what the fuc- Now, take that, and put it in a gigantic map where you can easily get lost and it's super dark in areas, and boy howdy diddly darn fuck, do you have the perfect recipe to scare the ever loving shit out of tiny bab Platinum.
Lol I was emulating panzer dragoon saga and messed up while changing discs and the system threw me to the main menu and while trying to navigate it with its funny buttons a woman started yelling at me in japanese. That still spooked me even tho i could guess what she was saying.
This is some random imfo but I know diablo 2 was PC only but I also remember putting the actual disc in my ps2 and it actually playing. Did anyone else have a similar experience?
The noclip horror aspect was a great thing even earlier, during the 90s, in the pc games era with the likes of Doom, Blood, Shadow Warrior, Duke 3D (pretty much anything that used the BUILD Engine), Quake, Thief... F'ing Half Life was quite hellish, as well. It felt like exploring a hidden place of the game, specially in cases that there is no obvious cheat for this and by just messing around in the ingame console or messing aroung with game files like .bat files and so. It felt strangely personal and the realisation of other people were focking around like that, was a very heart warming one. Im mainly reffering the pc era as at that time when i bought (ok, my parents did obviously) my very first pc in 1996, i was 11 at that time, the Playstation was THE Big Shit as its existence was rumored but brought to the local market a little later, if i recall correctly? and buying a console that costs one third of a PC, it was a no no. So there i was, constantly dreaming of PC ports and bragging about Quake II and how awesome it was while others were also talking about this Crack BandyCute dog thing. It was interesting. Thank you for your videos! You are awesome. PS. You cannot imagine how hyped i was with the pc port of FFVII! Just by looking at this white big box with EIDOS's big ass logo on the Big Ass PC Big Game Box of bluntness as the pc cover was not all that imaginative and yet, full size Cloud, big box, big game! Only to find out that they totally fucked it up, with much more sharp graphics and weird outlined anime faces... It was not pretty at all, specially in comparisson to the grainy lovely ps1 visual aesthetics...
I really thought there was big foot in San Andreas. The "ghost car" further made me think there was and other cool areas like the bloody cabin and wheelchair
playing san andreas again as adult and when I found a caravan in the desert I almost thought it was a Breaking Bad reference. Which kinda scared me coz Breaking Bad wasn't aired until years later.
The first time there was the mineshaft update i didn't know about it so me and my brother were playing and we thought it was a herobrine cave or something and we started crying lmao
Not yet but will soon. I just don't want to rush through the series. I've really been loving the games so far and so I want to take my time I guess. (also it's fine dont worry about it :)
I grew up with a ZX Spectrum playing Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy when I was like 4. Your pathetic polygons cannot harm that which was destroyed long ago.
Hey Thor I’m a huge fan of your videos and I’m in the works of starting my own channel and I have this urge to try to follow in your footsteps and make some videos like yours but I also don’t wanna feel like I’m copying you. What are your thoughts on that and when you started did you have a similar feeling with some other UA-camr or at I just trash and I’m looking at this the wrong way obviously my videos would have my personal twist on them and not be exactly the same but I just wanted to hear the opinion of the atmospheric darling Thor high heels 👠
(srry for the late reply) I don't think I specifically took after any one person. There's some jokes in my earlier videos that do feel more like something Caddicarus or Jontron would've made, so I guess in that small way I did, and in terms of the actual review aspects of my reviews, I looked towards what TheGamingBrit and Superbunnyhop were doing. Especially because I never really wanted to do reviews. I wanted to talk about the games I liked and why I liked them, but didn't have clear idea as to how I would do that, so I looked for standards other people had set in regards to that. Mainly though, what really fueled my style over all was what I disliked in other channels. Certain ways of doing voice over, reliance on stale repetitive jokes, either being far too negative or blindly positive, stuff like that. I knew that whatever I would be doing, it was going to be the opposite of that. But that isn't to say that inspiration, direct or otherwise, is at all a bad thing. Hell, if you were to rip me off I'd probably be honored more then anything. And you kinda need to start somewhere as well. I came into game reviews quite late. I had already released music albums, worked in theater, and made some short films, so I had some stuff to draw influences and skills from in other areas already. But, I started with music, and learnt everything by straight up trying to copy certain styles and genres, which over time, I would learn to incorporate into what would become my own style. So by any means, feel free to rip me off haha.
Well not quite. They were moving, but for bullshit reasons they were stuck with the old house for a while. Social housing be like that some time. And so I could hang around there doing dumb shit. It's not like had rich parents who were going around buying houses lol
To this day I am still seething about the kids at my school lying to everyone that there was a machine gun on the roof of the school in Simpsons Hit and Run.
Omfg
That game was what us kids ran to because our parents wouldn't let us play GTA.
Awesome shit man. 32 year old here and u reminded me what it was like watching early UA-cam videos in early 2000s with the x files music and shit editing. The sheer imagination running wild at 2 in the morning. Good stuff
Something about cut content and urban legends in gaming both intriques and horrifies me.
same
It got me when I was younger too
@@groovysnake6664 my freind trolled the shit out of me by printing off those low res shadow of the colossus pictures and claimed he found the secret colossi.
Likewise, dude.
The empty abyss in GTAV is creepy, but look at the leftover assets from Bloodborne, it is the stuff of nightmares.
2:12 "Or that is until one day I decided to get experimental"
"Oh, oh no. I know what he had done..."
"to put a random PC game into my PS2"
THOR NO NO THOR NO
For me, the most frustrating rumor was the one about Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones. You know the one. *The Dark Prince Ending.*
I was a PoP obsessed teen at that time, and I completely bought it. Found all the life upgrades on my own, with zero help, only to find out the harsh truth later. Some time after the revelation, my brother, who was -ten years older-, returned back from the university for the holidays, and eagerly sat down to play the game, being just as strong of a PoP nerd as I was. I tried to warn him, but not only he didn't listen ("nonsense, you must have done something wrong!"), he made me sit by his side as he played, and show him where all the upgrades were. He should have listened... he should have...
Lol
I used to think that CPUs in games were actual developers connected to my ps or game boy advance via the Internet.
I didn't get internet until 3 years ago
LMFAOOOOOOOOOO tf
When you accidentally find the most obscure but good UA-cam channel out there.
Herobrine actually scared the shit out of me, Minecraft in general was really scary to me and it got to a point where i'd only play the game multiplayer cause it was too scary to play alone
Scardey baby poopy pants
This was some good shit. I used to do a lot of glitch hunting shit on Spiderman 2 on PS2. There was one where this dude hit me and my game froze with this awful high pitched sound. Scared the shit out of me as a kid.
Also, I definitely downloaded a debug save for FF7 on my PSP. I remember showing some people in my middle school and none of them cared. I was just super cool like that.
I used the DS as an MP3 player with this really awkward SD card cartridge that poked out of the GBA slot, so i was just a smidge cooler, but yeah i know what u mean.
I remember CJ's mom's ghost myth.
I remember the Aerith theories creeping me out for similar reasons. Apparently bugging her into your party shortly after her death sequence triggered at least one unique dialogue from her. After the snowboard mini game she says something like "I'm sick of this" and no other party member uses that line. There's a theory that she was originally supposed to die later in the game and they changed it shortly before releasing the finished product.
This was interesting. Definitely wouldn't complain of you made more stuff like this.
What scared me were the 240p 128 bps videos of spooky games back in 2010/11 UA-cam
Remember people putting jumpscares at random in game "secrets" videos?
The San Fierro Train Station In "Hell" Is Used For Cutscenes At The Garage Across The Street From The Station. You'll notice the garage doors are open here just like in the cutscenes but unlike the actual garage in freemode
The ps2's red screen never really scared me but it was pretty neat in a hellish atmospheric kinda way. The consoles at the time had nice sound design. The OG Xbox had a cheesy boot screen compared to its competition.
Im not one to seek out secrets like these but its cool to hear about stuff the developers hid in thier games. Like some of the unused cars; some are placeholding test models, and test tracks in Gran Turismo make me wonder why do the leave them instead of freeing disc space. Gravity Rush please play this had the unused city floating around somewhere. And of course Namco shoving refernces to their other games, like in Ace Combat Infinity they put those spinning squares from Xevious in the sky from one map and having Godzilla just stroll around in Tokyo.
I spent months obsessed over Shadow of the Colossus myths, hidden bosses, unused assets and creepy stuff
Those were simpler times, I miss them greatly ;(
I remember one kid in school who kept talking about bikes in Need for Speed Carbon. Nobody believed him. I can also remember looking for lots of things in GTA SA (bigfoot, leatherface, aliens all the stuff).
BTW: Is there a chance of you doing video about Persona game/series?
Anyway great work(as always) with today's video
I'd love to cover the Persona games one day, but also very long and many effort, so not sure when exactly.
I figured out how that it isn't easy but I'll be waiting just like for the one covering OFF.
Thank you for replying
"John Madden HAND-EGG" Ahh... I see you're a man of culture and logic.
I actually miss those creepy aesthethics.
My mom used to buy me those "40 games on one disc!" cdroms from garage sales when I was a kid and I swear to god those were legitimately haunted. Especially because I don't even know what half those games were called anymore and can't find traces of them on the internet, so I'm left to forever wonder if my spooky game memories are real or just a dream or some mix of both
Before the GTA conspiracy videos on YT, I remember the two EGM screenshots that fueled the cryptid crusade. My friends and I would spend hours in GTA:SA around MT. Chiliad, searching for bigfoot and other myths. We'd ride around the surrounding woods and scream stop each time a cluster of pixels resembled a hidden figure in the trees.
Jesus, there was something really off about sixth generation consoles! I grew up with the original Xbox, and sometimes I would have the menu open without putting any disc in because I was doing something and then all of a sudden there are these robot voices just started speaking. The first time I heard it I nearly shat bricks. When I told the other kids in Elementary school about it, no one believed me. But I think that was because I was one of the few people that had an Xbox and not a PS2 or Gamecube at the time. Still, that shit scared me!
Same
It was also PC games at the time. WoW out of bounds stuff is a plenty even in Vanilla and was superbly interesting.
Donnerbalken I miss the vanilla world. All the unfinished content in the world from the beta. That underground dungeon with the hanging corpses was insane. They never even used it. Also FFXiV classic. Before the rebirth was just an eerie world to explore in general.
1:50 dude that is the sexy David Lynch commercial.
Ps1 regular intro is the most idk stuff ever
I always love the myth of the hidden colossus in Shadow of the Colossus. It made the die hards of that game really try to go through the entire game with a fine tooth comb hoping there would be a secret
You went into San Andreas' myths, but you never mentioned the Bigfoot one? That is probably the "elephant of the room" for San Andreas.
The butler following you around in Tomb Raider was scary as HECK
I spent countless hours reading up forums and what not trying to figure out if you could actually revive Aerith. A little basic, I know, but I look back fondly at the intrigue and wonder it inspired in my young, naive heart.
Every once in awhile, I still have nightmares about Lurker sharks from Jak and Daxter to this day X'D
Nice vid. I remember getting spooked by the PokeGods when I was a wee kid.
Looking for sasquatch in the south east of the map for days!!
Ah, I remember fervently reading about the "hidden Triforce" in OoT back in the day.............luckily by the time I found out about it everything had been debunked, saving me precious hours of wasted time. In the days before Photoshop was really well known, some of those "screenshots" looked so convincing............it really triggered my sense of wonder.
I'll always love this kind of stuff. It might be less common now that we have the internet but luckily this kind of thing has never fully gone away.
Man, you're the exact right person to talk about such crap.
One of your bests.
Never change yourself, though change your content if you get tired of the format of course.
Thanks man! Honestly, at this point I've gone so far down my own rabbit hole that i'll be hard to change drastically haha
For some reason, when I was a kid the scariest thing I'd seen in a game was the "You're Dead" screen on Resident Evil 4. When I played it as a 7 year old I made myself get good at the game out of fear of seeing that screen.
do a high heel reveal
sadly i do not actually own a pair of high heels.
I'll buy you some
"I am held ca..."
I think that mods were the most beautiful thing that spiraled out of this easter egg and myths and legends trend of mid 90s/ early 2000s gaming. These were the forerunners of modding scene that had since given birth to fan remakes and Skyrim dlc sized mods (although frankly I’d call them better dlcs than the dlc themselves)
i also explored the hell in gta sa, and i came to the conclusion that you are just going back to the normal map and can see some assets that load properly, while most of the normal assets don't, you can see the gates to the airport, the big crane, train stations, etc
This is such a great topic to make a video on, been binge watching all of your videos once I found your silent hill video.
Some top notch quality content, keep it up m8
I to still casually "myth/glitch hunt" in Gta S.A still to this day and then before you know it.......
AFTER 5 YEARS ON THE EAST COAST.....
It was time to go home.
Goodbye 50hrs of my life. AGAIN!
Grove Street. Home... Least it was before I fucked everything up. *cars and NPCs in beachwear fly by as a jet crashes into CJ's house.
Lol! I always wondered everytime I started a new game if that plane was crashing or landing. I'm actually working on a new video for my channel about my years in S.A. That game just had so much charm and depth you can easily get sucked in.
One area in a game that really freaked me out was the sewer level in the OG Spiderman game on the PS1. Just the faint drips, dark areas, and giant whirlpools of chaos made me feel incredibly uneasy as a kid.
Man your content is soooo good. I can't understand why you don't have way more subscribers.
The red abyss of the PS2 only frightened me because it meant I got hit by the disc read error on a good ol' fat PS2, which meant opening it up to screw with the dial controlling the disc reading LED, or worse that I'd have to ask my parents for like 300 bucks to get a new system.
bruh the fish in the greenscreen got me good
You know what scared the shit out of me as a kid? The dungeons in Mega Man Legends, especially the first major one you enter. It was already creepy as fuck with dark lighting and ominous music, and when you enter this bigass room and jump down to the floor, what are you greeted with? Loud, clanking footsteps that speed up and grow louder as they come closer, only you can't see what the fuck it is. Those goddamn invisible robot enemies absolutely terrified me as a 12 year old.
This one kid in elementary school spent months meticulously gaslighting me about hidden content in Link to the Past, accessible only via game shark. Nintendo should have hired that bastard, he managed to think of another game-and-a-half's worth of content just to fuck with me.
Don't suppose he eventually made it into a story about some kid called Ben?
Oh my God bro this shit brings me back. Especially that xfiles theme lol. I remember the suicide road that was 'haunted' and caused people to just walk off the cliff and drown. Or the 'ghost 'cars that just roll down a hill , with no driver, just to slam into a tree .
I was 10 when I got my ps2. Can't believe there's people who tought that the screens were scary. For me they were like a soothing... meditative thing
Sometime in the early 2000s my brother, mother uncle and i survived a fatal bus crash which i think unfortunately many people died in, after that long day/3 days can't remember because i smacked my head really hard we returned home and we just saw my other siblings playing with this weird car on the screen using a weird remote control... it was the ps2! My siblings bought it without my mother knowing and because of that series of unfortunate events i got into gaming and now I'm a 3d game character artist!
As a kid the PS2 never scared me, even with the wrong disk screen... What really scared me, and as a teen, were the fucking Xbox 360 random Idle noises ... like the space transmissions etc.
I remember waking up at 3 AM (after a session where I fell asleep) only to be greeted my Alien noises coming out of my speakers, for a reason that took me entirely too long to figure out from a UA-cam video years later.
The PS2's red screen and the PS1's.. everything really, were a big part of my nightmares as a kid lol
I remember running away from my room whenever I wanted to play GTA San Andreas at night because my PS2 disc was scratched up, so I peeked into my room
If it turned red I knew I still had to come inside but.. at least I was safe near the light switch lmao
The “hell void” in san andreas is actually where the interior for the cutscenes are held, the train station is used for all the cutscenes that take place inside the garage during the san fierro part of the story
I have my own accidental horror story. I was playing madden '07 and turned off the system when it was saving. When I booted it back up it said [SAVE CORRUPTED] and when I selected it, bloody john madden bursted through my bedroom window and said "can I use your bathroom thanks"
Yo that X-Files twist to Robert Miles' "Children" actually goes hard, why have I only heard of this now 🤔
the things in the ps2 were represented save files and the thing in the GameCube menu is a slowed downed version for the original famicom boot-up jingle.
Noooiiice. Yeah, games were like a sort of network of experiences, a psychic link to other gamers who'd been where you were virtually, even before the Internet. Ghosts of before, like what Dark Souls would build into its series years later. I actually wonder what the impact of the increased, online coverage of games media does to this mysteriousness, if one can now truly be alone with a game anymore?
Regardless, that ability of early games to provide hints to hidden or glitched features - real or non-existent - really helped to engage the imagination of a generation of gamers and spread their enthusiasm through the formation of urban legends.
I think it's great also when games do embrace a weirdness on purpose, but keep the story details or themes sketchy to encourage interpretation: Earthbound's Giygas, the Half-Life series's G-Man, Arsenal Gear at the end of MGS2.
Also, I agree - solitude is great for horror. Being home alone is the best.
Shits dead hollow now. I was around for OG Demons Souls and even just the myths online today are so quick to get disproven. Like the Remake had most of the secret stuff revealed in like two months ; - ; Being a dev 10-15+ years ago had to be fun to know that your secrets hadnt been found a year or two into the game being out.
@@feralkitty33 True. I think that's as much a player overengagement thing as a media coverage thing. Even my own last example falls prey to what you're describing; the whole plot of MGS2 was revealed before the game even came out if you knew where to look. A combination of both factors, I guess, but there are still some gaming mysteries out there if you pace yourself.
In the end, you could find a Mew trough a glitch in pokemon.
your parents bought a house? man times have changed.
I have a recurring dream of living in a second house that isn't mine but is, I wake up in a panic because have I forgotten this house?' am I neglecting that cat living there?
Somewhere I believe this house exists and it fills me with existential dread.
I remember I rented a ps1 game in 2002 or something, put it in my ps2, and got the red screen. It scared me so much that to this day, even while knowing some of the technical details behind the machine, it still scares me to see that screen.
Late comment but i think that the cut content and the images of the beta/cut colossus from Shadow of the Colossus are quite eerie and mysterious,and the beta quadratus that apears to have a mouth is really creppy,there is a small 24 second clip of the thing.
had to do a double take when i heard rule of rose’s soundtrack, great choice!!
You are the soundtrack to my life.
I ALMOST DIED IN THE BEGGINING BRO
If you go into the casino you do a heist in and get into the hole you gotta throw the smoke into you will fall into “blue hell”
6th gen indeed had some dark and spooky soundscapes. I still find the ps2 menu very eerie.
Lol that ps2 thing reminded me of the terror inflicted by the anti-piracy stuff from around then
I will never forget my childhood best friend, who is still muh boy™ telling me in 2nd grade that not only was there Cyborg from Teen Titans in Melee, but also Sephiroth, the Sonic and Toad characters were "real" and that Megaman X himself with full armor was in it too. I believed it, I believed it so hard until my older brother, aptly named Chad, said "Your friend is a fucking liar" and thus began my trust issues
Something in a game that I remember really fucking me up was the wild west level in Banjo Tooie. Yes, yeah, it's weird and niche and something that could only scare me, but let me set the tone for you. Your entire 11 year old existence, the majority of your vacations you would go on were to the hillbilly Ozark howdy y'all festival of eerie joy known as Silver Dollar City, in the South's equivalent to Vegas, Branson Missouri. A place who's most standout memory to you is riding the slow moving water darkride where you shoot at things in various scenarios which involve hillbilly prisoners attempting to escape a flooded mine. Over and over and over again. I think one time when I was young I rode it so many times without actually getting up and leaving the boats that the teenage operator overhead in the loading and unloading area straight up told me I needed to get off. The reason I kept riding it wasn't because it was fun, but because it, to this day, absolutely terrifies me. The aging, way too loud recordings playing over moldy speakers, the paint peeling of the static, wooden prisoners, the outside sequence that shows flooded graves and floating bones what the fuc-
Now, take that, and put it in a gigantic map where you can easily get lost and it's super dark in areas, and boy howdy diddly darn fuck, do you have the perfect recipe to scare the ever loving shit out of tiny bab Platinum.
You know the blue ps2 boot up is a rendering your data and save files . So it's creepy because it changes as your files change.
That John Madden jumpscare though.
Yeah the ps2 disc read error scared the shit out of me too
Lol I was emulating panzer dragoon saga and messed up while changing discs and the system threw me to the main menu and while trying to navigate it with its funny buttons a woman started yelling at me in japanese. That still spooked me even tho i could guess what she was saying.
This is some random imfo but I know diablo 2 was PC only but I also remember putting the actual disc in my ps2 and it actually playing. Did anyone else have a similar experience?
were you not maybe thinking of diablo 1? which did have ps1 version
That ps2 screen thing made me curious. Everyone has their thing that freaks them out. I got scared by doom 3 on the original Xbox lol.
And yeah. I'm 29. San Andreas was my shit when I was 15.
Back when existential angst was just a weird word.
The noclip horror aspect was a great thing even earlier, during the 90s, in the pc games era with the likes of Doom, Blood, Shadow Warrior, Duke 3D (pretty much anything that used the BUILD Engine), Quake, Thief... F'ing Half Life was quite hellish, as well.
It felt like exploring a hidden place of the game, specially in cases that there is no obvious cheat for this and by just messing around in the ingame console or messing aroung with game files like .bat files and so. It felt strangely personal and the realisation of other people were focking around like that, was a very heart warming one.
Im mainly reffering the pc era as at that time when i bought (ok, my parents did obviously) my very first pc in 1996, i was 11 at that time, the Playstation was THE Big Shit as its existence was rumored but brought to the local market a little later, if i recall correctly? and buying a console that costs one third of a PC, it was a no no. So there i was, constantly dreaming of PC ports and bragging about Quake II and how awesome it was while others were also talking about this Crack BandyCute dog thing. It was interesting.
Thank you for your videos! You are awesome.
PS. You cannot imagine how hyped i was with the pc port of FFVII! Just by looking at this white big box with EIDOS's big ass logo on the Big Ass PC Big Game Box of bluntness as the pc cover was not all that imaginative and yet, full size Cloud, big box, big game! Only to find out that they totally fucked it up, with much more sharp graphics and weird outlined anime faces... It was not pretty at all, specially in comparisson to the grainy lovely ps1 visual aesthetics...
Cant believe you didn't mention the ffx7 "this is hades" line in the debug room
Old ps2 games with xfiles music... awesome
That level on Earthworm Jim where you were literally in hell with all those weird screams in the background man...
I would like to know where the mew under the truck rumor started, this shit was known worldwide and the Internet wasn't that big back then.
Fuck I love when I get notifications from you.
I really thought there was big foot in San Andreas. The "ghost car" further made me think there was and other cool areas like the bloody cabin and wheelchair
Old enough to have actually been alive during, and believed, the naked Lara myth in the original Tomb Raider.
the biggest one for me was the hidden boss at the very top of the castle in Shadow of the Colossus.
playing san andreas again as adult and when I found a caravan in the desert I almost thought it was a Breaking Bad reference.
Which kinda scared me coz Breaking Bad wasn't aired until years later.
I notice dat reference to the creepyass Armor King theme music from Tekken 1 and 2
The first time there was the mineshaft update i didn't know about it so me and my brother were playing and we thought it was a herobrine cave or something and we started crying lmao
Are you playing yakuza 0 yet? (sry if the Question nerves you just say it)
Not yet but will soon. I just don't want to rush through the series. I've really been loving the games so far and so I want to take my time I guess. (also it's fine dont worry about it :)
throw the rest of your game collection in the trash so you will have time to play the rest of the yakuza™ series
Anyone ever die in Yoshi's Story while playing at night?
Oh boy, the Half Life 2 leak. Some maps are uncanny as hell.
That rule of rose background music 😍
Are burps u do a take on Rick's burps, are they a condition or u really don't notice em?
2:30 Wow have you never had a scrached disc?
Who doesn't seen Bigfoot or UFO in San Andreas? Also I'm scared by ghost mall in Vice City Stories.
I grew up with a ZX Spectrum playing Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy when I was like 4.
Your pathetic polygons cannot harm that which was destroyed long ago.
Hey Thor I’m a huge fan of your videos and I’m in the works of starting my own channel and I have this urge to try to follow in your footsteps and make some videos like yours but I also don’t wanna feel like I’m copying you. What are your thoughts on that and when you started did you have a similar feeling with some other UA-camr or at I just trash and I’m looking at this the wrong way obviously my videos would have my personal twist on them and not be exactly the same but I just wanted to hear the opinion of the atmospheric darling Thor high heels 👠
(srry for the late reply) I don't think I specifically took after any one person. There's some jokes in my earlier videos that do feel more like something Caddicarus or Jontron would've made, so I guess in that small way I did, and in terms of the actual review aspects of my reviews, I looked towards what TheGamingBrit and Superbunnyhop were doing. Especially because I never really wanted to do reviews. I wanted to talk about the games I liked and why I liked them, but didn't have clear idea as to how I would do that, so I looked for standards other people had set in regards to that. Mainly though, what really fueled my style over all was what I disliked in other channels. Certain ways of doing voice over, reliance on stale repetitive jokes, either being far too negative or blindly positive, stuff like that. I knew that whatever I would be doing, it was going to be the opposite of that.
But that isn't to say that inspiration, direct or otherwise, is at all a bad thing. Hell, if you were to rip me off I'd probably be honored more then anything. And you kinda need to start somewhere as well. I came into game reviews quite late. I had already released music albums, worked in theater, and made some short films, so I had some stuff to draw influences and skills from in other areas already. But, I started with music, and learnt everything by straight up trying to copy certain styles and genres, which over time, I would learn to incorporate into what would become my own style. So by any means, feel free to rip me off haha.
CJ in the thumbnail spooked me.
In my 30s and still scream like a little girl hearing a creeper down a deep shaft in Minecraft. Shaft. Yw.
Your parents left you home alone because they had just too many houses? Wow thats really scary
Well not quite. They were moving, but for bullshit reasons they were stuck with the old house for a while. Social housing be like that some time. And so I could hang around there doing dumb shit. It's not like had rich parents who were going around buying houses lol
Holy shit that was the shit back in the day