GMOD: Exploring RP_Asheville in VR 

A really wonderful review! I would really like to play on my map in vr if I had one.. Btw in any incomprehensible situation take out a glock lmao By watching your video I felt some terrible moments that I didn't feel myself

"We have a couple of things going for us." "1. I know it's just a game, and i can always take the headset off and nothing can really hurt me. " "2. I have you guys, you're here with me in spirit." "3. *I HAVE A GLOCK.* " I fuckin' lost it.

imagine a non-abandoned version of this map, every light on, people chatting, distant car noises maybe even some rain would make it a calming map

"I'm 26, i belong in a retirement home" boy, I felt that

36:10 Imagine dying in a game, with no enemies, because you grenaded yourself out of pure fear of opening a door.

"I can reach into the vending machine, but i cant grab the Reese's... am i in hell?" That caught me more offguard than anything up until that point

41:28 had an experience like this with my family when I was 10 we went to a restaurant at like 9pm after driving around the whole day. We went in cashier took our order we went and as seating wasnt a problem cus we were the only people there besides the 2 or so employees we sat down in a booth in the back corner. Dad was called up to get our food and we ate for like 15 to 20 minutes. As we left me, my sister, and dad wanted to refill our sodas so walked over to the counter. Nobody was there. We could see most if not all of the kitchen and nobody was in there either. All the lights were still on so my dad called out into the kitchen if anyone was still around. No response. Went home and even as we pulled out nobody came out of the kitchen as far as I could see from my view of the front window of the building. Shit really creeped me out and I found out the place shut down like a month later.

"3. I have a glock." That just made me laugh, I wasn't expecting that.

19:35 that van against the wall of the police department is a breaking bad easter egg. That's why the evidence room is all messed up. They used a giant magnet.

The feeling of being watched in Garry's Mod, with no music or ambience is just eerie, in a way. That's why I use Nombat, I love it, as it helps the game feel less.. empty.

"One, I know this is a game. Two, you guys are with me in spirit. Three, I HAVE A GLOCK!" Gave me a chuckle.

Your decision to mix more creepy Garry's Mod into your content is genius. You've found a great way to steadily bring in more viewers while still focusing on your area of interest, which is something even some large RU-vidrs haven't figured out.

The tunnel collapse is also story telling. Because with the city surrounded by mountain ranges, the military detonated the charges to block off the only exit for the city to keep the virus contained

I think the reason that ceiling looked unnerving was because it gave the impression that the floor you were going into was going to be an endless empty room, like a liminal space in a tardis-like house

40:43 this was truly the scariest part of this gmod map

Rp asheville is absolutely incredible. The level of detail is one of the best I have ever seen!

I fucking lost it at "The glass is broken.. I can reach right into the vending machine, but I can't pick up the Reese's......am I in hell?" 35:16

It's crazy when done right a Gmod map has the power to mess with your mind and genuinely creep you out at times. The old "retro realism" from the more gritter source games like Half-Life 2 makes it all the more uncanny when you look back at them considering they haven't aged too well, not horribly bad by any means but it's in this weird grey area where everything just becomes a little too uncomfortable, especially when a lot of Gmod maps have these open empty spaces inside buildings.

53:37 I could FEEL the horror felt just by that door opening by itself

Love how, with the Trevor Henderson NPC Pack, you can turn this into a truly Silent Hill experience. From both a horror standpoint and an aesthetic standpoint.

Hey Librarian. I wanna pop in and say something real quick. These spooky map videos really mean a lot. Being able to get comfy and watch/listen to these cozy videos is such a wonderful experience. Things are a bit shitty in my life right now and your commentary just lets me get immersed into… something else… You go through these videos like a narrator of a story book and it makes me feel so relaxed and detached from the bad. I really do appreciate you Librarian. Thanks a ton :)

Condemned: Criminal Origins has some insane liminal-like atmosphere. I highly recommend you do a playthrough on the channel.

"I can only open doors if I'm disarmed" Honestly this makes everything much more atmospheric

rp_asheville is one of the most impressive gmod maps I have legitimately ever seen.

This really feels like a lost city documentary where the guy filming this is actually in this area. In a way...it's peaceful.

22:14 That Evidence room being the way it is with the truck outside is a breaking bad reference :P . Loved the extra long video, thanks!

1:16:18 You might be thinking of Megalophobia, which is a fear of massive things. Fog isn't inherent to the fear, but many examples of Megalophobic images contain fog due to its ability to imply even greater size than is already apparent. I wouldn't exactly say I have the phobia, but I do feel it more than most and I can confirm that this map absolutely falls in the category.

I think the gun feeling comes from the fact that in video games if you don't have a weapon you feel way more vulnerable but if you do you know in the back of your mind that you can overcome whatever you're facing that or maybe it's a part of human nature where having a weapon gives you focus in tense situations.

POV: Paranoid man holds a glock to anything his delirious mind finds a threat in the middle of an abandoned city.

It gets scary everytime you peek/look around the corner, i have played enough horror games to know that corners are the scariest things when you're exploring areas

26:15 "This place is like someone's memory of a town, and the memory is fading." - Rustin Cohle

What I really loved about this Map is that some of the traffic Cars were real Cars. There was a Trabant (East German Commie Box of the Cold War), a Ford Crown Victoria, a Ford F150 as Ambulances, it's very cool and makes it that much more immersive.

The different inspirations and vibes this map had in it's creation is truly interesting. Out in the (I guess) country side across from the bridge everything just has such a Day Z feeling crossed a tiny bit with Alan Wake. The geography of the area and the eastern European assets like the trains just makes it feel ripped right out of Stalker through and through. Then though once you get to the city everything is much more Left 4 Dead feeling with a very American styled city in complete chaos the way Left 4 Dead levels portray that exact disarray, and frankly the reused Left 4 Dead assets only adds to this. But then once you have the map figured out out of nowhere the map just goes fully Silent Hill in places like the morgue, the underground, the apartments, and the church with insane metallic architecture and rusting on everything that is completely ripped out of the otherworld while the church and apartments feel like something in the fog world. It's just so out of nowhere given the rest of the normal-ish map.

I have no idea what happened at 19:20. Everything looks normal on the Vegas timeline.

5:53 the true bathroom horror is the fact that there's no sinks

Hard not to see that the final map of Blood Harvest from L4D was the inspiration here, keep having to doubletake at a lot of turns

9:22 The ceiling looks almost infinitely larger than it should be. It's due to the smoothness, distance, lighting and framing of the staircase. An optical, spatial illusion.

The Librarian in NH2: "Oh, an abandoned hospital full of monsters, mannequins and ghost girls? How blasé!" *Yawn* The Librarian in an empty GMod RP map: "I am going mad from constant terror, I can't take it!" *Gets scared of ellipses*

So it's 1:30 AM for me while I started this, I watched from start to beginning, felt evey "jumpscare" that technically wasn't even there. This map was something else truly, terrifying in its own right, and terrifying even without all of the silent hill assets

That bit that you did at 6:26 with the Glock had me dying laughing, it was so unexpected lmao.

The vibe changed so fast when he went into the morgue

What make Gmod Creepy is that u always expecting a Jumpscare but its just Silence

1:40:05 My heart skipped a beat when he said that, I fr just got massive chills

Love these map exploration vids and all the other spooky content. You're quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. Keep up the good work bro.

He literally was shaking and i could hear the fear in his voice And some times the way he is paranoid in some of these Gmod VR videos it makes me paranoid too But ngl this is weird but he sounds cute when he's scared =)

6:41 - my favorite speech! "We've got a couple of things going on for us. One; I know it's just a game and I can always take the headset off and nothing can really hurt me. Two; I have you guys, you're here with me in spirit. Three; *_I have a glock._* "

librarian is such a refreshing take on garry’s mod content. No fast funny random edits, no hyper exaggerated internet personality, just a calm level headed approach to actual interesting content from the creativity and hard work of garry’s mod users

I love your hour long creepy gmod videos Mr librarian, the sound design of the maps and your voice being so real, makes it seem like a relaxation video but with a great twist, keep up the great work!!

The thing that would get me is the lack of human corpses, an apocalyptic event happened, a hell of a lot of deaths are implied. Where are all the bodies? That crashed plane for example should have been packed, but there was nothing, and that sent chills through me.

13:20 I got that feeling a LOT in Alyx, sometimes I'd walk into a particular room and get overwhelmed at how real the room felt. There are a lot of near-photorealistic rooms in that game that sink you one level deeper into the immersion.

"Remember last year when covid hit, and every mourge had a bodycage?!" That was hilarious

It's always so uncanny hearing how much deeper his voice was in his older videos

Usually RP maps don't have any major jumpscares or triggered events, if they do it's mostly in easter eggs. This is meant to be played on an RP server, and having triggered events round about isn't going to do well on a server. However, the ambiance is great in this one. Really gives you the heebie jeebies.

22:46 This setup with the evidence room almost got passed me until realizing the box-truck was on the other side of the wall. I then realized it was likely an homage to the hard drive erasure scene in Breaking Bad.

I like the breaking bad reference at the police department. As you mentioned the fear of structures in the fog I 100% have that fear lol, specifically transmission towers and radio masts.

Gmod is not surprisingly, a great work. it looks good, operates well, has had coding since 2005. (Source). It will run 4k textures, run VR, uses hyperdynamic lighting, is the founder of HDR, and HL2 Lost Coast SHIPPED WITH RAY TRACING in 2005 (before ray tracing was truly implemented into HL2 for EP1. it in itself is an enigma. its a game, but its able to play 4k textures, and you can remake full on MW2 scenarios. why is this surprising? there is no game out there at Gmod's level of content, community, and 3rd party deving.

@9:28 I think it's that dingy shade of yellow. As put by 'The Dungeon Alphabet' "In those dank catacombs, yellows come not in bright, cheerful hues, but in faded tinctures of age and rot. It is a sickly shade, calling to mind craven fear, shattering madness, and the unstoppable march of the grave." Ever since I read that entry I notice those darker shades of yellow in all sorts of horror works, from the backrooms to that scene in Insidious Ch 2 where they find the secret room with all the corpses. Dingy yellow is just this unsettling color of decrepitude and forgotten spaces, its a color I can smell; dusty and musty like an old library or bookstore.

20:33 you scared *me* when you got scared lmao. This map is truly a gem for creating scenes, since the mapper really paid attention to details.

I LOVE the creepy gmod maps in VR. It makes me want to buy GMOD just to play it on VR. Keep playing these creepy maps please!

This is one of the best "in-game found footage" style videos I've ever seen, and the reason why I categorize it as so, is because it genuinely seemed as if you were there! You immersed yourself so well and this video overall is fantastic my man, good job and thanks for putting it out there :)

1:16:26 Homichlophobia is the fear of fog and Megalophobia is the fear of large objects, just incase y'all didn't know

Theres something really amazing about how back in Gmod's "prime" a majority of the horror maps consisted of cheap jumpscares and the same 4 jpegs reused over and over and now a lot of them are maps like this where the horror comes from the unseen and unheard. Just wandering through an empty map waiting for something that may or may not show up. Really took a whole 180 and Im not mad about it in the least.

The feeling of being watched even though there is literaly nothing "scary" on this map really proves that terror often superior to other forms of horror.

58:17 "I've just gone right. Let's just hope right is the opposite of wrong in this context." * Goes left *

when you said i have a glock i busted out laughing

With being able to go to such distant places in this map and how often you pointed it out, it kind of reminds me of how it felt looking at the old Playstation game Spyro's skyboxes, they used to look like you could go there and I remember trying to fly to them. Watching this feels like what it would have been like to shatter that boundary.

Great video, when it comes to walking up the stairs it have been always scary for me, cuz you dont know whats up there and if something attacks you its hard to escape, i live in a Soviet style apartment and walking up the staircase is always creepy at night

Thanks to your video, I finally understand why I liked The Long Dark so much back in a day, and why now I didn't feel the same about this game. I been living in a small provincial town for good 20 years, the place that all young people with at least some brains want to escape, but when you are only sixteen and you still have to go to school you don't have many ways to escape; maybe in books, movies, video games, sports, buying alcohol and cigs from shady stores, drugs at the end... I remember when I was seventeen and decided to start smoking we went with my friend to one of these "shady" (don't know how to describe it in english, you know, not a Walmart type store) stores and asked for a pack, we didn't looked more older as we were but vendor didn't bother, didn't asked our documents of course, gave us what we wanted and suggested to also buy some vodka, we passed on that one, after that we went there some times to buy again until we hit eighteen. Back to the theme, during that time I felt need for something new, to feel like and explorer, discoverer and that feel merged with desire of isolation from all that "school" stuff, angry and unsatisfied parents, so I started to explore. For three years in gymnasia (10-12 grade) I walked throw every street in my town, I knew every corner and everything in outskirts, all abandoned post-soviet ruins had their nicknames, I had a Hideout (nickname inspired by Darkwood) in the woods, where I spent half of my free time on old sofas by the campfire adoring nature, sharing out loud my thoughts with trees and stars, drinking and smoking, the other half was spent on video games, movies and books. Somewhere that time I discovered game The Long Dark and felt in love with it, I don't really feel like reviewing and describing it here, I liked that it runs on my old PC, how it looks simple but not too much and beautiful in the same time, how it sounds so realistic (you know that the sound of you walking is changing depending on your gear and things that you have in your backpack?, like If you take some twigs they will crunch and metal pots will rattle as you go), that you have to survive not from zombies or other fantastic stuff but from weather and wildlife, how survival realistically hard and understandable at the same time, not too realistic nor to casual, and the last thing - is that contrast: when you hunting deer in the woods, cooking their meat on a campfire sitting under spruces on snow and after that you are in the ordinary house, looking for matches and soda, tearing curtains for rags to make a bandage, smashing down comfy sofas for firewood... Abandoned civilization where people once lived, but now left (lived-left haha), like almost recently they were right there and now gone, frozen bodies are still intact, food is still pretty eatable, buildings and transport still looks like it can be used, nature did not consumed it yet. And as I said before - I liked to explore, and while I was exploring real world I was doing the same in that snowy, cold and hostile world of The Long Dark, going into every house where people lived someday, entering every little wooden shack in the woods where some hunter used to spent weeks living and hunting, hydroelectric dam, lighthouse, barns, factories, offices and so on, all now empty, peopleless and pointless without them, only as storages with supplies for me, a shelter from deadly weather, a hideout... I graduated from the gymnasium and had to do something, make a new step, for that time I already got bored from my town, I explored everything and there weren't any more reasons to stay so I moved to another one, left my home behind continue exploring, sadly the same thing happened with The Long Dark. Game that I used to escape boring reality become that boring reality full of routine, I knew every route, every house, every car, every tree and mountain like my ten fingers, like my home town. And watching how The Librarian is exploring never seen before world, which looks so real, like our, but empty, and this reminded me of my past explorations.

Been working for several days in a row now. Finally, got a break. This will be wonderful to sit down, watch, and eat some lasagne and drink some tea to.

In this map I feel like the virus would be a cover up for what truly happened since that cavern looked like it was abandoned or the entrance to that underground cavern was purposely blown up to keep something in. Soon something escaped through the morge killing and causing havoc in the city. The evacuation was planned but failed as the bridges were still down connecting to the city letting whatever was in the cavern escape to the open areas killing off the people. The military was active and either killed,captured, or had a protical to destroy the town/city access to the outside world, the city/town was classified as closed down due to a virus or plague and they used that as a cover up, the beast would probably still be around mimicking the crow or the sounds being echoed in the cavern, haunting and torturing the player with sounds like the "Help" from the beginning in the video. Noone survived due to the beast killing everything and the military blew up the tunnels so the beast doesn't leave the area. That is what I believe happened in this city/town and the creator said that to give an illusion of false relief and emptiness.

Considering how the mind can make you Feel not alone in the map Such as when you open a door to an Empty building...Your Mind tells you you might not be alone. Also could be handy to have a Map for this Map.

55:35 "you remember when covid hit, every morgue had the "body cage"?" Lmao that was good.

The city reminds me of GTA 4's Liberty City. There were parts on some of the islands where less npcs would spawn and I would absolutely hate it and would book it straight back to central park or times square.

Been bingeing your VR explorations, this one's old as fuck but just wanna express how cute n chill these VR videos are. Someone bumbling around in normal 1st person is so much more (aggravating? Boring?) than when you can actually see their head movements and gesticulations

Been needing a hour and a half long librarian video today. What a good turn of events.

Holy shit I'm an hour and 40 minutes in and there's still no end to the map geez that dude did his thing on this game. I hope whoever made this game is a billionaire cuz he deserves to be for sure

Me: *Just lost earring, late for work, annoyed* The Librarian: *Uploads spooky VR thing* Me: 😃

I'm literally watching this in my room, and with the lights off. The scary noises and the paranoia just filling me with fear, with nothing but a feeling of something about to pop up. It scared me so much I had a tear. When he entered the morgue, it was so unsettling because of all of the dead bodies. I've never felt so much of being a pussy after watching this. But overall thanks for the video bro, really unsettling but that's the point. I don't know why but I like videos like this.

When I remember a VR experience I don't remember it like a game or a regular memory, I remember it like a dream.

45:42 Playing Only Time Will Tell gives this a different atmosphere. 49:00 I recommend Halo 3 ODST's Jazz from here on... Until the place that looks ripped from Silent Hill, then you get the Silent Hill music. 1:01:54 Back to ODST music. 1:08:08 The moment you looked up No Stone Unturned - Cast Aside started picking up... 1:10:50 Here's where Special Delivery - Still Strong started up in the ODST City Ambience video I have playing in another tab, it's really adding to the mood. 1:12:50 Difference of Darkness - Rain started playing while you were talking about feeling someone in the room with you, amazing how to separate videos can sync up. 1:14:00 The sync is unreal, you have no idea how amazing the moment you pulled out that Glock was. The ODST Ambience video syncs SO WELL with you exploring the city. 1:24:00 This synced up with Mombasa Streets... 1:27:30 This whole courtyard is giving me Uncharted vibes... 1:31:44 The ODST Ambience video had some Engineer noises at this moment and that was actually pretty scary. 1:33:00 More Engineer noises from the Ambience video, more unnerving moments. 1:36:10 I switched over to Rapture City Tunnels ambience here and yeah, Bioshock seems more fitting for this area than ODST's Smooth Jazz... Also, something went REALLY wrong in this city, like Rapture Civil War bad... 1:37:32 This area with the quiet, distant 30's to 50s music from the Bioshock Ambience video is actually unnerving me...

I would honestly buy a vr headset if THIS was what the games were like (but more polish and vr intractability), just pure environmental storytelling, pure atmosphere, it's incredible it can subtly tell so much without a single word

The fear in the man's voice tells me how much the creator knows about human fears when it comes to horror games. People like that are rare.

Really love the exploring videos, especially the longer ones, reminds me of Venturion Tale which makes me super nostalgic

This mod feels more than *just* quiet, the whole world is in this state of hyper silence- It feels like if he fired his gun the ENTIRE map would hear it

45:15 - 45:17 If you listen ever so closesly, you can hear someone in the debris saying "Hello"..

I love that as the fear rises, you start trying to clear rooms like it's a tactical shooter.

I'm astounded at the actual effect watching this map has had on me. I've had a pretty nice and calm day, but after just kinda existing in this space virtually for a while I've come away feeling kinda chilly, and with that kinda lonesome melancholy feeling you get when it gets more autumnal outside. I know it's completely psychosomatic, but it's just really interesting how these virtual spaces can affect our (or at least my) mental state here in the real world.

This map seems to be built for people that have Megalophobia (fear of large objects), Homichlophobia (fear of fog), and sorta Nosophobia (the fear of contracting a disease or plagues in general).

Those trains looked straight out of Dayz or something so that given the Cyrillic text I feel it'd have to be ripped from something like that.

Something that really gets me in creepy settings like this is ambiance with low, pulsing bass drones, like in the facility around 31:40 onwards. Especially if it sounds vaguely music-like, but not entirely - sort of a phonic uncanny valley effect, also giving off a feeling like the place you're in is somehow alive, and you're hearing the beating of some incomprehensible heart it might have.

this feels so special, i love these VR videos, it feels like you're exploring alternate realities and itches that horror i desperately need

This unironically made me want to buy a VR headset, this experience to just feel like you're there, how scared you were, god it looks fun as hell, also unrelated to anything but happy Bi visibility week

Hope you keep doing videos in the same style as this, love your exploration of horror or just atmospheric maps. You are killing it!

I've been slowly watching these gmod exploration videos for a week now and I gotta say: so far this one has the highest number of quotes that belong on a cross stitch

Ngl dude, you’re probably my favorite gmod youtuber rn

The tunnel at 1:33:30 (seen before from another side) reminds me of the movie Tremors. It's like they dug up and creatures from another time came out and caused this chaos. Greetings and thanks for the virtual exploration.

“I can’t pick up the Reese’s, am I in hell?” I know your pain, those Reese’s bars rock!

1:16:20 The fear of this can be called Megalophobia, fear of giant objects and structures, But I also think it goes with the fog, Cause it makes it look bigger and the fog is hiding something or a part of this object.

"We have a couple of things going for us." "1. I know it's just a game, and i can always take the headset off and nothing can really hurt me. " "2. I have you guys, you're here with me in spirit." "3. I HAVE A GLOCK. " gold comedy🤣🤣🤣

44:11 that right there is the kind of stuff that makes me wonder "What happened here?" If the fence was fallen off the ledge I'd assume somebody knocked it off, but it's on the ground and you can walk on it. Same thing with the bar just a few minutes prior. It's got a barricade against the front door like something was supposed to be kept out