A lot of games that appear in videos like this are exactly that a group of friends sandboxing with no goal or direction. They have levels and world then free build,I know there was a successful game but I forgot the name it’s the main reason why there’s so many people and games like that
@@NOTTIBOPPINtwitch it's peculiar that they go as far as coding and publishing a game and mantanining online servers if they just want it for their personal use, isnt it
@@Zestieee if noones on them doing anything, the overhead could be absolutely /tiny/, just the list itself, and the world itself is just on a harddrive somewhere completely shut down until someone joins. and actually "publishing" a game is only expensive for advertising reasons, many, many free options, and even steam only charge $100, which you get back completely once your game makes $1000, for a game as old as most of these? could easily be running off some dudes old computer, occasionally changing a part out and doing some code maintenance if someones new setup cant manage to load in or something breaks.
the game you went into where the players kept asking who you were is like going into a bar that only like 3 local old men are in and they all look at you like you've just walked into their house despite the sign on the door saying OPEN. i hope both these bars and these video games never have to shut down
@@No_True_Scotsman That's literally what joining a small public server would feel like, it clearly has it small community of friends that you're a stranger to
I hate those RU-vidrs who milk the LIMINAL, NOSTALGIC, MELANCHOLIC, EERIE, atmosphere of old or underground video game titles very obviously just for the sake of attracting more attention.
My grandmother used to play 2nd life. I remember sitting with her as she made all sorts of things from outfits, avatars, to houses. She was very talented and made some money off of commission making things for people. I miss her and would give anything to have that time with her again.
I remember my father playing Quake 2 on easy mode - and yet steering the mouse clumsily 😂. It was very wholesome, still. It was nice seeing him so immersed and free of every days sorrows. But from time to time he got stuck and I had to overcome an obstacle or enemy for him. But eventually he beat the game 👍😊 I want him to play RDR2. But I only have it on PS4 and he never used such a controller. I am afraid it might be to hard for him. Let's see..... Could be nice.
As someone who has spent the last 5 years playing it, yeah. It was really well made at one point, and had amazing potential, I don't think I've ever seen a game with more organically integrated mechanics, it was also pretty active, and had an *extremely* dedicated playerbase that was way larger than it was now, people, including me, saw huge potential and just latched onto the game, we knew we had something special. The simple mission system and detailed, open map where you'd trade cash for a disc allowed endless possibilities for what could happen, carefully-planned double crosses, hostage situtations, abushing already-dealing teams, and clean deals, anything could happen, think of one of those "player generated" story games like DF or Nethack but in 3D. And then world mode came out, it turned the game into a dull-RDM casual fest on a barely-detailed map made of cubes where you'd get gunned down at every possible instant, whether it be trying to even get a job or walking down the street. Later updates completely removed the previous mission system which held the experience up, dumbed down the graphics, and completely broke physics, and now the game is pretty much abandoned. Round mode is still there, but a lot of mechanical changes have just made shooting people and getting the $$$ easy as pie, so there's barely any activity. TLDR: Good video on how the game died. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UY28vCBOELA.html&t
people used to call my avatar child-sized cuz i made it true to my real height using the in-game measurement and not just based on a hunch... now my avatar's a petite 5'10 instead!
I used to use a cat avatar. Not a furry one, an actual cat with an army hat and a cigar smoking problem. Going through SL was like being a world of giants and it was hilarious.
Well...default height settings are around 6' in general, with 7' tending to be to most accessible. Trust me, you think THAT'S big, you REALLY don't want to see some folks avatars. I've seem some that would make Andre the Giant look like a dwarf...in...all departments.
Playing dead games, is like unearthing lost civilizations, obscured and untouched for a long time. like visiting a ghost town that's been abandoned for god knows how long, it's so fascinating.
It’s even weirder if you played or had history with the game, it’s like going back to your childhood home with everything in the same place it was, but no signs of life remaining there, just the memories of that place you have saved in your head
If you continue this, I'd love to see more interaction with the few people you do find on these games. You really get to wonder who they are and what they're doing on a literally dead game
Ditto. And as long as you're respectful, most people who play these sorts of games are usually thrilled to explain it and their interest. You can meet some real characters in these games. It's fun!
@@mercster Why would he be joking? I am sure these musicians are well known in some circles, but not really in all circles. Personally, I have only heard of the Police, and not Sting.
Agreed. Like most of us here I found this channel through the part 1 of this video and in my 11 years of watching youtube I've never subbed to a channel so fast.
9:19 Wow, I can't believe it, 3DEE is in here! 3DEE/3DWorlds used to be an offshoot of Active Worlds that ran on its own server with a couple of worlds. I think the creator paid for a license for an old version of the AW software to run it. It's partially a recreation of the Dam Square in Amsterdam, and you're correct that it's Dutch. It ran from about 2000 to... I have no idea when. What you're visiting here is a backup of the main world, and the main area has barely changed since my first visit. Those little shops have always been there, and have always been broken and unused, lol. I was active on there from 2001 to about 2008, as a young teenager. It had this small but great community of about 50 people from all ages between 10 and 60, and we used to have IRL meetups once or twice a year. It was awesome. A young, hormone-laden teenage Bert dated with a bunch of the girls on there. As a socially awkward teen who didn't really fit in at school, it was the perfect place to escape to when I came home. The world itself was really only secondary to the community experience, since a lot of us logged on and chatted on there on a daily basis. Nonetheless there are a lot of things in there that you missed: a pyramid-shaped night club behind the Palace On The dam, where we could listen to music (one of the members ran a streaming radio show every week, Radio 3DEE) and dance, and we even had a couple of New Year's parties in there. There was a swimming pool that way as well. In another direction there's a cinema that played some movie trailers. Remember, this was before RU-vid, so it was very impressive in those days. Every easter we had an easter egg hunt where they were hidden all around the Dam square. There were also a bunch of other worlds, mostly from members who wanted to experiment with building in their own world. The main world didn't have any building; I don't think flying was even enabled for non-moderator members. We also had a bunch of themed worlds throughout the years, mostly for Christmas. I'm still in a Facebook group with most of the regulars from 3DEE from back in those days, but we barely talk anymore. Everyone grew up, moved on, started living lives of their own. Still, it's nice to be reminded of this place.
Man, this is so interesting. It's cool to hear abt what these places were like in their prime. Do you recognize OptimumPx? I wonder what they do on the server these days, maybe there is still a small community they interact with
I used to play IMVU back in it's prime. Those "fake" players are actually people who bought vip/their username. If you buy VIP, you get the "Guest_" part taken out of your name along with a bunch of other features. It was a common thing back then (and seemingly still today) for people to be afk a lot. People, including myself, would be on IMVU all day and night, so there were periods where we weren't at our PCs but were still logged into the room. Watching that segment brought back so many memories. If anyone is curious, I can try to answer a few questions about the game.
I was little when I played IMVU with my sisters, so I don't remember much from it. I do remember being confused why my mom got rid of it on our computer lol
@@IExistAndMyNameIsKawaiiAngel As fun as it was, just like any other online game/chat room, it had it's problem with predators/pedos. So I can see why your mom got rid of it. Plus, there was some "adult" items you could get so that could;ve been why too.
@@sockXninja Yeah that's the reason. One specific memory I have of the game was inappropriate animations. Other than that, I really didn't run into pedos or bad content on online games.
@@IExistAndMyNameIsKawaiiAngel You were lucky to not run into any of those weirdos. I've seen some pretty sick stuff in online chat rooms, including IMVU. That was one of the main reasons why I quit.
Random fact about Second Life, I remember it being sponsored by Rio Salado College, a college my dad has worked at for around 20 to 30 years now. I don't remember much, but I remember my dad working on cpr training and my mom was a dj in the game, making actual money from it.
Oh man, IMVU. What a throwback. I used to play that a whole lot when I was like 12. I made some good friends there that I still speak with to this day.
I thought IMVU sounded familiar. Never played it myself but I remember seeing a lots of ads for it when I was younger, around 2005 maybe. I think some girls on my class played it. Creating different avatars and styles etc and showing them off to each other. I had heard of second life too, rest of these games I've never even heard before.
@@JackTheNoobersame here, sounded familiar but i’d never heard of second life until recently. I was 10 in 2005 and only ever played PS2, always thought IMVU was a girls game lmfao
Sadly none of the players he saw in the rooms were fake. IMVU tended to attract socially awkward people and now they're basically the only ones left on the platform. People that are so bad at socializing they can't even talk to someone through a keyboard unless they know them. These days they're AFK/ignoring you and just using it to ERP with their virtual SO. You still can find some rooms where people talk though, so it's not really a dead game even though it seems like the majority of the players online are bots. Wouldn't recommend it in the slightest.
To be fair, the one with the most licensed content and advertisements, "Second Life", was genuinely pretty large at its peak. The game had over a million users who were, collectively, spending tens of millions of dollars a year. You can definitely tell that time period has come and gone, with a lot of areas that look frozen in the pop culture of the late 2000s, but the idea actually makes some sense. It tapped into a large niche of players who enjoyed the social aspects of MMORPGs, but found the actual gameplay annoying. The rest of the games either have significantly less licensed content, seem like they might have paid for the content to advertise the game (like BowieWorld), or seem highly likely to be using the IP without any actual licensing.
but it was "this is how my family cracks jokes" type of stuff and it was a little cringe, like... have you ever left your home city or turned off the sopranos reruns?
Meridian 59 was the bomb back in the days, it felt so unreal walking around in a "big" world where other players from around the world where walking around at the same time.
Yeah I remember when it first came out in the dark ages it was like $10 an hour or some shit lol. It was always a game I wanted to play but didn't have a credit card at 12.
You including IMVU into this made me start dying of laughter. I remember all the drama that revolved around that game. One of my exes I would constantly catch him on there chatting up underage girls, about 1k REAL money spent in the game so he could spoil people with virtual clothes and gifts. It was a hot mess, those were real people, but the likelihood of them being actually in Discord or a private DM chatting it up and ignoring you is a lot higher than you think LMAO
yeap exactly that sounds like the imvu i remember. people just constantly in the private messages/whispers or ignoring you if you had "guest_" infront of your name. god i dont miss that cesspit
Naw, fr. I met my first love on there and uh... lot had happened. Still, I miss IMVU classic. Especially, Pulse. People would talk mad sh*t there and it's just funny now that I'm in my 20s, how we took those things pretty seriously. All that drama for NOTHIN'! I don't understand how it'd be considered dead though. The same peeps I know come on here and there. But I guess eventually, we'll get older and look back with a new perspective. The people traumatized me though! So many wicked memories.
This is a really niche part of collective internet culture I'd love to see more people explore but it's hard to imagine anyone else's take on it being quite as nailed on enjoyable as these. Both of your videos are a great balance of genuinely very funny and strangely touching, big appreciation
What I really find interesting is the fact, that someone built those places. He sat there with the 3D program and placed the trees, formed the caves, and arranged the chairs and tables. But it was so long ago, hard to find who built it; not many people "witnessed" these structures, with deep sadness, you can say people did this and put a lot of work into it, but only a few were able to appreciate this work.
The worlds I spent hundreds of hours making, decorating and perfecting in Terraria that only I have ever seen, feel less melancholy than these to me. I guess because these online worlds were meant to be shared and experienced by others, while my Terraria builds were just for my own amusement. They were for me, these are for other people, and are going unused.
Being a player of Second Life since 2006, it's always fun to see a new person's perspective of my weird ass game. You didn't do anything wrong, in fact you brought to light again how hard it is to get into it for anyone who's curious and doesn't have any friends to teach them the ropes. There's a ton of beautifully made places with the ability to use mesh, shaders, and normals, but because the game still has all the old stuff as well available to players, if they don't know what they're doing, they'll just end up mismatching literal decades of content, or paying Lindens (LBux) for stuff that doesn't look good, yet costs the same as something 10000x higher quality. It's a money hungry game to make it work right, but you end up getting amazing places like the Final Fantasy 7 Roleplay sim, which looks to the T from all three versions of the game. And it's not weird to enter a sim filled to the absolute brim with people, hundred strong though, constantly and consistently. It's just way too easy to just stumble across nothing but empty stores and strip clubs and see nothing worthwhile.
@@cantflyforshit Since pretty much everything in the game is usermade it's often down to creators being too fancy with their textures. A lot of assets use textures that are WAY too high-resolution for what they need to be (there's infamous examples of jewelry like rings that use several 2048x2048 textures... now imagine someone has one on each finger, and your PC has to download and render all of that in realtime!). You basically need to play with a heavily lowered render distance, and limit how many other avatars appear on screen. There are also third party viewers that optimize the game in various ways, I think the default second life viewer is better now but it's still not great especially by default
@Cameron Millspaugh it's a bit misrepresented here IMO. It has by far the most advanced avatar system in the internet virtual world games. You can make very advanced looking avatars but you need to know what you're doing and where to go and probably he also used an outdated viewer bc places in sl can look very good. And altho it looks like it's empty in this video, there's a pretty big user base and I'm surprised that he managed to meet nobody. Sl has very crowded places.
Seeing the old music news was so interesting. Its literally a time capsule or like time just suddenly stopped one day and everyone vanished in a spooky way.. its so cool
That track at 50:07 - amazing piece of music and love that you noticed it !! The music was composed by Gene Rosenberg who did the score to Furcadia as well!
Absolutely crazy amount of effort, I can tell the people involved really cared about this. I always love seeing really weird but clearly very sincere ways that people express themselves. That being said, who the tf even has to think about a bar of metal being an ingot?
@@thebest.1837 It says a lot about you when you're using anime. Most weebs are depressed or attention whores that act like they're cute because they don't recieve the attention/validation they want. Also, the production quality on animes are mostly extremely cheap compared to the smallest of indie games and animation films. Remember the saying of story telling "Show, don't tell"? Yeah, anime does the exact opposite, it over-analyses everything and over-explains it to you as if you were a 5 year old. If that's what you like then you got very low standards of fun. So you can't be more wrong.
As someone who has played Second Life for about 15 years and also have made quite a bit of money out of the game too (By selling land on sims like you spoke about.) it's honestly kind of a spectacle for US who play second life as well. My group of friends and myself will randomly go to sims like that just to find some wild things, from completely intact and working water parks and a whole ass recreation of central park. A lot of this stuff can even come and go so I'm not even sure what is still around, There ARE some places you can go to Redlyne though like London and the Welcome Islands, there are some other places as well but I forget them.
20:00 I am a huge wrestling fan, so I can help. That poster was The Rock vs Stone Cold Steve Austin from Wrestlemania X7(17). This was their second match in their 3 matches at Wrestlemania. (The first being at Wrestlemania 15 and the last on wrestlemania 19. It took place on April 1, 2001 and it regarded as not only the best Wrestlemania of all time, but possibly the best Wrestling Pay-Per-View of all time. The match is infamous for Stone Cold turning Heel (or bad guy to non-wrestling fans) and siding with is long time rival Vince (Mr.) McMahon. There were also other posters, the one I saw was King of the Ring 2001. That PPV had Shane McMahon getting thrown through real glass by Kurt Angle. So this map was either made or last updated in 2001.
It's so hard for me to watch you navigating SecondLife and going to some of the forgotten sims. But-- I'm also glad that it was visited. There's a bunch of places that are much much better, but there's a lot of those W E I R D places like the ones you bumped into. I kinda wish I might have bumped into you while you were checking Second Life out to show you around to the higher quality sims. x3 Either way! Great content, and lovely to see all the old games.
Sub Rosa was so good game. Ill never forget how I met with other businessman and he said to us. "It appears you want this disc. You can have it if you..." In that moment he and his friends were hit by high speed car and start flying away. One of us run pick up disc we looked at him and he said "What? Hes dead. He won't need it in heaven. Were rich, now get to car an lets get out of it before someone hit us" When he started to run towards us thru road he was hit by car and send flying. This game is pure comedy it's like "naked weapon"
The guy saying the answer to which bar was an ingot was a "bump in the road" is either some damn good acting, or the clip actually comes from all the way back when crafting in games wasn't a thing yet 😂
The map "Grid" was a recreation of the set from Tron: Legacy when he first gets teleported into the Grid and is sitting at the Grid version of his dads computer desk. Great movie that is welllll worth a watch
Because of how sad it is (to me at least), I find it weirdly difficult to think about how many friendships were formed in some of these old worlds. So many people have seen their friendships slowly fade away, or said their last goodbyes to their 90s online friends. How many people are thinking about these old online friends today? Wondering how they're doing? It makes me feel sentimental and is almost enough to make me cry... No time for crying now though, because despite how sad it is, these people are probably doing okay these days! So that's nice to think about at least. Hope that made sense... also OldPete65 is a Superchad Supreme. 😗
@@sirlimen333 You can form deep connections without ever physically meeting, not to mention that for some people there might be huge barriers preventing them from being able to meet online friends in person like disability or the cost of travel if they live far away
At 20:43 appears what seems to be the BT logo. So BT doesn’t stand for Big Time, it stands for British Telecom, one of the telecommunications companies in the UK. Edit: research reveals that BT Openworld was a former brand name for BT’s ISP division. It’s unclear when they stopped using the name but it seems to place that map around the early 00s. Why such a random game was presumably endorsed by BT I have no idea.
around an hour ago i commented on the first video in this series mentioning There, completely unaware that you actually found and explored it in the next video. the entire There section of this video was so nostalgic to me, i remember when i was a kid the first day i started playing the game, i teleported to tyr tower gate (the exact same one you went to in this video) and fell into the abyss while walking across the bridge. i spent hours trying to get out, completely forgetting that i could teleport out via the map seeing the game so empty and devoid of all the structures players had placed in the main beach area and the rest of the world like Vista Point and Twin Lakes makes me really sad. i'm glad the game is still around, but the things that made it special and fun to explore and mess around in are completely gone
14:58 This is Sting. He was in a band called "The Police" that formed in the late 70s and disbanded in the early 80s. Most people would put them into the "New Wave" genre but they had a lot of inspirations from punk music and reggae. They are really popular so you've probably heard some of their hits (Every Breath You Take, Message In A Bottle, Roxanne, Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic, and a lot of other songs.) Think my favorite song of theirs is "Be My Girl - Sally" which is kind of a deep cut from their first album "Outlandos d'Amour". It's about an inflatable sex doll, cool song! Also cool video I love this kind of stuff.
@@macintalkshow he's older than me and i recognized sting instantly lol. i guess thinking more about it though, none of my friends would recognize him just by his face.
Worlds actually wasn’t “dead long before the server went offline”! I played it sometime last year, and it was online back then; it had a pretty substantial user base, they were all friendly and chatty. It seemed their community was actually pretty active and did events together and everything. I have no idea what happened between now and then, because it really wasn’t that long ago that I checked it out. I’m almost tempted to think there may have been another download out there somewhere that is the actual active one. Anyway, it was pretty cool, there was an avatar customizing place where I gave myself the body of a woman in a black dress and the head of a Canadian goose. It was quite the look
Second Life seems to be the same as it was when I played it about 10 years ago - full of places to spend real money after the game went popular and a handful of people made a lot of money fast. That and watching everything load in so slowly you could probably make a game of guessing which textures would load next.
I absolutely loved Sub Rosa back when mission mode was still playable and seeing it randomly pop up after a bunch of 90s/early 2000s virtual chat rooms was painful
It’s a “you had to be there” type game. Open world was kinda cringe but round mode was peak, and some dude would host mini games on weekends sometimes with a zombie mode around 2019 I think.
39:56 I particularly love how they have an endless loop playing on the tv of Bakugo, a character who has absolutely fuck all to do with being a Gamer™ instead of like... Kirito or something
Something i remember from imvu is that if someone doesnt have guest next to their name it means they have the subscription, which gives them a "whisper" option. It basically just means they can dm each other in the room. I just noticed that all the players you thought were fake didnt have "guest" in their name so they were probably just talking to each other that way
Pretty fun content but the constant complaining about copyrighted content in a free downloadable game is super silly. Remember when people didn’t care about that and just used what they could find to make new things and have fun? Who cares if Microsoft owns the copyright on Master Chief, they’re not being robbed blind by some 20 something who ported the model into their silly free game
I actually played imvu for a long while, and just letting you know most of those players arent fake, theyre just deciding not to talk to you and are whispering. Groups in that game are super exclusive for some reason and people can be hard to befriend.
@Flare He's correct. Fighting, gambling, racing, shooting, farming, animal raising, dance clubs, fishing, scifi roleplaying sims, fantasy roleplaying sims, every fictional setting ever, every edgy weapon from any game, movie, or TV show, etc. Second Life literally walked so that Fortnite could crawl.
@FutaCattoLOL nice bait, based on your pfp you use mods in ffxiv to ""enhance"" the erp scene i assume 💀 (also via your bio i wouldn't be surprised if you were a dude irl pretending to be a catgirl LMFAO ((nice user btw.. even if you do it to troll others as i'm sure you do, you're disgusting 🤮 )) ) again i Know you are baiting but even so: i'm sure SL has its fair share of a nsfw community but so does ffxiv; you saying SL is *only* inhabited by "Lewds" is like me saying ffxiv is *only* inhabited by those same people, which we both know is not the case
I was a crazy Hanson fan back with Worlds 3D chat. The band actually hosted a CHAT in Worlds and it was weird. It was like an AOL. I was like 13 and mastered the custom avatars somehow. I remember I loved being a pool so everyone could stand in me 😂
Really appreciate the Trigun title card music. Very nice touch that both goes well with the vid and makes me feel all tingly inside from the fact that I've realized it.
I'm obsessed with this series. I just know that for some of these games, these videos will be the most clear footage that'll ever get saved of them. And I'm impressed with how well you manage to cover these empty worlds while keeping the videos entertaining.
Worlds making a comeback as some weird nft metaverse vr hellscape in 20 years sounds like a nightmare yet is likely to happen which is the scariest thing.
I used to play Sub Rosa religiously. Sadly it was a single developer who basically killed his own project. Would've been the best if he kept updating the game and not throwing fits on twitter.
I went on IMVU last year, those aren't actually fake players, they're talking on discord and ignoring people. Yes, it is stupid, no I don't understand it.
second life is absolutely the kind of game you need to explore with someone who knows what they’re doing, especially since the user interface is so unintuitive. my delve into the second life world was pretty much exclusively with my friend who knew the ropes, and it’s a good time just exploring all the weird stuff out there. the officially sponsored Duran Duran world holds a special place in my heart. another fun quirk about SL is how chock full of horny people there are, like i swear every interactable chair or couch or hot tub had a bunch of sex modes along with the regular sitting modes. i had to like actively try to not accidentally click on a sexy action when i was sharing a bench with someone.
And most modern games are hosted by big companies now too so when they die they will definitely just shut down and not by left for this kind of digital archaeology which is kinda sad
3:49 this is actually a very faithful recreation of Flynn's basement from the movie TRON Legacy, and the name "Grid" is a reference to the in-universe virtual reality of the same name
The unfinished GRID map in Virtual World appears to be the beginnings of a Tron map. That unfinished room you showed in the clip appeared to be a recreation of the room where Flynn is accidentally digitized into the Grid in the basement of the arcade.
BT Openworld was the first name for British Telecom nationwide broadband service (now called BT Openreach). Many Internet Cafes in the early-2000s in England offered Openworld connections for 15p per minute on a pay-as-you use basis, or 90 minutes for £5.99. That's BT's logo in the game too.
SUB ROSA is a unique concept for a game, but the way it was "marketed" was odd. When I first saw the game on steam, it was actually an unlisted page, meaning you couldn't find it though the search function or through the game developer's page. You could only get access to it if you had a direct link to the page, which devolver digital hid in one of their steam sale pages. That doesn't seem to be the case anymore, but when a good amount of streamers were playing this game, that's how the game was on steam. The weird secrecy of the game honestly could have worked better if the game was free, since having to pay to play the game means you're putting money into something that not that many people might play since they don't know about the game. I think a game like SUB ROSA might work better if it was on one of those games that rely on other people to make custom gamemodes, such as S&Box or Roblox.
@@TheSultan1470 yes, it was and still is in early access, but even then something like a closed beta and have the game be listed as a public upcoming release might have been better for publicity.
Ah someone’s probably already said it but “The Grid” is what the world inside the “Tron” machine is called. The only half completed room there looks VERY similar to the room from Tron:Legacy that teleports people in and out of the Grid.
Came here to say this. Yes: It looks like someone attempted to re-create The Grid from Tron: Legacy - the structure that does exist is indeed a recreation of Kevin Flynn's hidden arcade office. And... That's all the further they got.
Yeah Secondlife is one of those newb-unfriendly simulators that require some setup and knowledge before it gets good. With 90% of the map being practically dead, getting to the populated, new and current worlds is quite hard. I can also put together a list of interesting spots some time, the game is still doing great if you don't look at the dust! That aside, something friends and I like to do is get a car and drive across a main road on one of the bigger islands. It's fun to see all the old abandoned places people created, Chernobyl vibes!
not wrong, their is alot of dead space. in SL its all out in the open. its not like VRchat where if no one is their hosting the world comes down. everything is always up and connected (for the most part connected)
Ghost towns are always fascinating not just for their frozen in time aesthetic, but for the often interesting story everyone up and left. Video game ghost towns like these are no exception.
Been playing Sub Rosa since around its original release for a 7 day game jam. You were entire right that it's in an awful state due to the developer's abandonment, though a lot of poor design decisions amplified the problems you saw now. The only playable versions are modded, and most have shut down or are entirely dead, as you saw. Things used to be good, and people used to play the old versions, until the developer intentionally removed server support for older versions because no one was playing the latest (broken or unbalanced) ones. As Redlyne said, don't buy this game. It's just not playable anymore. Some archived videos exist from popular creators like Idubbbz, Bluedrake42, Criken, and so-on if you're looking to see what it used to be like, but most are unlisted or deleted and take some digging to find.
Even though i have 0 nostalgia for any virtual world since i didn't play any, the idea of exploring these abandoned places is such a cool niche i didn't know i needed.
Another dead game. Is my favorite Minecraft server. Played on the server when I was 13. Im 26 now and the server is still online. Allthouth nothing is there after so many resets. I still log back in, There are still 2 or 3 people. Its so wierd. I know none of my builds are there... but... I have the memories. Its almost like, I feel a need to go look for my builds. But theyll never be there. Idk ots depressing
I like when you encounter internet ghosts, random players that sometimes say something Its lik exploring an abandoned building and seeing things left behind that are now probably just somones distant memory
Don't know if anyone else has mentioned this but the BT Openworld map looks like it was actually a promotion with a massive broadband company in the UK, BT (British Telecom) is one of the biggest telecom companys in the UK, I Noticed their old logo above one lf the doors
Used to play There all the time as a child, remember it being pretty good. Game just randomly pops into my head every few years for no reason. Also sad to see Sub Rosa on the list, its an amazing game deserved way more success than it got
I used to play second life, it was my job basically for a year, I realized that in SL I made 4 times more money (if I converted the lindens I won by working to real dollars) than what I made in my real life job as a vet tech, with a lot less stress and less hours. Saved up enough money to buy a plane ticket and move to another country... Sad to see how empty it's gotten, but I've made friends there I still talk to and even met in real life, and also speaking to incredibly interesting people. SL is clunky when it comes to learning it, and since a lot of the playerbase has moved on people don't want to spend time into learning how diverse, and broad everything is. You can literally do anything you want there. Because of this "clunkiness" I do agree with some comment's I've read people telling you to revisit SL, since you didn't use the map properly. And I agree, theres places that are absolutely beautiful to hang out or just weird places to explore. Things like VRC take over SL saddens me but it's natural. SL will always have a special place with me, and all the people I ever interacted with there too.
meanwhile SL isnt really dead or close and current still has 2x more players then VRC... really the only thing that could out do SL is neos VR cuz u can build ingame and save stuff like SL
Hey Redlyne! I found your channel yesterday and fell in love with your Exploring Dead Games video. You can just imagine my reaction when I saw this video come up on my page. Thanks for the work you do!
That Ferris Bueller reference was unexpected and fantastic. Also, I still hop on Worlds from time to time as there's still a small active community. It's been quite some time, though.
