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Okay, but imagine you're a deep sea creature who doesn't interact with light. You find a little weird metal bubble. You're observing it, and then suddenly it flashes right in your eye because the shithead human inside takes a picture of you. I think I'd freak out too.
@@neilryan3150 How would the camera take the picture without a flash? My knowledge of aquatic photography equipment is limited but considering how rustic the Iron Lung itself is and the quality of the image leads me to believe that the camera wouldn't have any sort of image intensifier.
@@GenericProtagonist7 What would a flash do? This is the deep sea (in a blood ocean no less), so the camera most likely uses sonar or lidar or something. Why else would the images look the way they do?
13:14 The realization that jack had when he saw the thing in the picture and thought "that almost looks like a huge angler fish" then he took another picture after in the same place and it was just gone and he realized that was an actual living creature watching him was terrifying. at the end also you see that it looks like an angler fish that kills you, and you realize it was stalking you the entire time
@@Weirdgtag plus some people speculate that the eye of the creature is a different creature then the one that attacks you, as it has a pupil while the frog doesnt
@@KorporalKReephdmkiytrecv69 I saw someone say that it could be an amphibious creature, and only went into the ocean after seeing the player. Makes it 10% scarier for me tbh
While this game is scary, the most terrifying aspect for me is the 'ghost light' they describe in the beginning. I read that if the sun were to suddenly vanish, it would take 8 minutes for us on earth to see that it's gone, as light takes 8 minutes to reach us from the sun. The same would apply to a star that's 100 light years away, or a galaxy that's 10 million light years away. In this universe, if every star vanished, you'd still see them in the sky for a time. Eventually, the last light that every star emitted would reach your eyes, and they'd fade away forever. The stars you'd see truly are ghosts.
It's such a fascinating thought, reminds me of one clip i saw of a visible supernova in the sky you could've seen a couple of years ago and the cool thing is that star exploded back in the dinosaur age but we see it now due to how far away it is and how long the light of the supernova had to travel
It's a real phenomenon. The distances are absurd, and light travels fast but it's not instantaneous. Stray light bouncing around that universe, even though the starts which cast it have stopped, will long outlast humanity regardless of outcome. It's impressive.
I love how despite the game only being in a small cramped space, there is still an entire world building concept. The thought that outside of that ocean planet is nothing but dead stars is amazing background.
The eerie part is that you're situated in a position where humanity is on its's last legs, heading to mysterious moons to find some way of sustaining themselves. It's like, near the end, your contributions, saved images and sacrifice is simply in vain as a limping humanity continues forward into an uncertain and likely doomed future, as people migrate en masse and society attempts to find sustainability in this universe. It's almost like, to you, you are at the vanguard of something important, something that may be able to bring some light to this vague, slow burning doomsday, when in reality, whoever sent you in there, the head honchos don't care, and brush you off as another accident as they move on. Everyone is too desperate, stretched or busy to care about your experience, and you're another small blip in a slowly dwindling humanity. Even if you were to survive this expedition, return to civilization and earn your pardon, you're left with an increasingly forlorn mankind, moving across surviving stars to find something to live for, which may not entirely be better than the depths of the oceans.
@@Kenneth-zk1nh We have no clue how long one unit is- 100 x movement and 30 y movement (as one of the shakes was) could easily be a fairly short distance, and even if it is a long way, I wouldn't underestimate a massive fish's ability to throw a metal box in an ocean of blood.
The scary thing is that, the eye you see in the picture looks WAY bigger than what attacks you in the end, SO that implies that there is an even BIGGER creature out there 😰
One detail I didn't fully appreciate about this game at first was the fact that this was the *fourth* blood ocean they've discovered. Once is an anomaly. FOUR implies a widespread occurance.
And its worse than one can imagine, as they know something "alive" is in there, and they send convicted and only way out is by doing this missions, so in a way, disposable people, just like SCP do in dangerous beings Also dont forget that seems to had civilized population in there, by the structure left behind Maybe the portal bring those things here? Beings so dangerous that kill a ocean of livings, leaving only blood behind
@@felipejuhasc4394 *_That's actually a good story imo. Theres a lot of mysteries behind the game. The fact that they found FOUR blood oceans, meaning that this thing has been going around for a long time. People get sent to this underwater "expedition" to unravel the secrets that lay beneath the sea of blood, going around completely blind and clueless of what's ahead of you. There's just a lot about this game, it has minimal graphics but it has HIGH quality of gameplay. I might have sounded stupid since I'm not very fluent in english but I hope I made sense lol._*
yeah my theory is that every living being got teleported to the planets where they died and their blood was used to make oceans, which is backed up by you randomly getting teleported around and even seeing man made structures that seemingly got teleported here, however i dont have an explanation for the death of all the stars and the teleportation of the planets itself although i do think that maybe theres a bigger being behind all of this and im sad this game doesnt have more beacuse i really wanna find out the truth
Another absolutely terrifying part of this game is the lack of a backstory. The game leaves you with more questions than answers. For instance, where does all the blood come from? Based on the seemingly manmade structures, there seemed to have been intelligent life before, and this part of the moon probably wasn't an ocean yet. Was the blood coming from its inhabitants? Is the presence of blood oceans and the apparent wipeout of what seemed to be intelligent life connected to the quiet rapture? What is that strange electrical thing? Is it connected to any of this? What caused the stars in the universe to die? The quiet rapture is, in itself, an extremely horrifying and depressing concept, even more, if nothing, and no one is behind it. The thought that we have nowhere to go after Earth and the solar system dies and there is nothing we can do about it is scary, even more than any deep-sea monster. Take all of that and combine it and you have an unforgettable experience. That is horror.
Consider this equally terrifying premise. The quiet rapture didn't happen to the planets and stars, but EVERYBODY NOT ON THEM. Afterall the "ghost light of dead stars" could be light lag, or bleed from the original universe into their shadowy place. And that is the reason we can't find alien life. It periodically disappears...
Tbh if there is anything that explains the death of all life its just the universe preparing another big bang aka restarting or at least restarting that part of the universe. The blood ocean is explainable, its just a shit ton of iron in water the color wouldn't be that bright thou, and ya the ruins do leave you wondering when did this planet have intelligence life
@DreadCrystal S not all at once though, long after the sun died there will still be new stars forming from gas clouds and leftover supernova junk for billions of years and after the last "normal" star has died neutron stars will still exist for trillion of years (afair we dont know how long they last, considering theres still a shitton of energy left in them and they only radiate an absolutely tiny fraction of what regular stars send out, but its relatively certain that they should "die" at some point because they do radiate energy even if its very little)
This game needs a sequel. This game takes the saying “Less is more” to the fullest. Edit: I realize my comment contradicts itself thanks to all you guys. Guess I made an oopsie 💀
At least they have sonar. Still, much respect to submariners. It can't be easy being trapped in a metal box underwater for weeks at a time with almost no personal space. That alone has to be incredibly draining.
This game is a prime example of how crucial the use of terror is in a horror game. For clarification, HORROR is the immediate reaction to extreme stimulus; flinching or shouting at a jumpscare. TERROR is a passive reaction to subtle stimulus; being put on edge by strange sounds or imagery. In this case, the terror is fueled by many things: the restriction of sight through your camera that takes a few seconds to load, the moans implying something's out there, the weird noises at the portal node, the bumps, and of course seeing the beasties, just once, in the camera. All of this works in tandem to invoke a heightened sensitivity to stimulus, so when the jumpscare finally comes, the stimulus is perceived to be more extreme than it really is, making the jumpscare, well, more scary. When done well, it results in a REALLY good horror game, as the scares are always more intense. It's the main reason why this game is so highly praised: it ALL sets you up for that one scare, and it does it right.
@@casperbinnett8265 nope, terror is subtle, horror is instant. For example, Subnautica's PDA says the Blood Kelp trench matches 7 of the 9 preconditions for stimulating terror. Terror = being on edge, which I gotta say, the BK trench does a good job
When your ships "suddenly stops" you actually get teleported, just look at the coords at 24:06 :D pretty sure u went into one of those portals, also (apparently) there is a lot to find if you go out of your to look for it instead of following the map
For those who didn't notice, the structures scattered across the trench seem to vaguely resemble the eldritch city of Raleigh based how Lovecraft described it
And yes the oxygen depletes with progress not with time you're fine Well you're not fine you're dead by the end but still I'm sure it's like a checkpoint thing like when you reach certain coordinates
Love how Jack missed that the sub getting "whacked" was it being teleported. Another note. The fish eye pic you see isn't the fish that kills you, meaning two different fish at least, were stalking you.
One sees it as reassurance that they don't have to go so far back if they fail. The other realizes the game is about to throw something at them. Kinda like when a horror game tells you how to sprint
@@CatsandBoots935 - Things are so "meta" and self-aware these days that horror-games (or their creators) might actually just put it in to mess with the player's mind.
This is my depression video… every time something in life fucks with me I come back to this vid and watch the whole thing, I don’t know why it’s so comforting for me but ur reactions, the sounds, everything is perfect for when I’m sad
It might be how enthusiastically he tackles the most disturbing situations in these games. Like even in these dark situations he's having a good time with it.
I've seen a few other people play this game, and there are some things you missed. Every time your sub slammed to a halt, your coordinates jumped. You get randomly teleported around for no reason on occasion. There are more ruins, though the objective markers don't take you to them. If you drive into the glowing mass, it absolutely is a portal, and it teleports you. Why are their humanoid ruins five miles below a dead moon? Why are these oceans made of blood? How are there creatures down here at all? It's cosmic horror. We have no answers. I've seen some people speculate that the blood is from all the people who were raptured away, and that the ruins may have been teleported to these locations from the planets that vanished. I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse.
Actually, you won’t get teleported if you drive into the glowing mass. I assumed you had watched the LP of Iron Lung by IGP? I think he is the only gamer RU-vidr to have driven into the glowing mass. What you had seen of him getting teleported was done after he was going back from the glowing mass. He cut the video a bit, that's why you thought he was teleported not long after going into the glowing mass, even though he got teleported after going some distance away; you can check the coordinates. The Y coordinate of the glowing mass was around 569. When IGP got teleported, it's around 605. So, yeah, the short cut in his video around that part may have given people the wrong conclusion. I think the devs put fixed teleportation spots only on the submarine route, so that everybody can experience them when playing the game. It would be cool though, if the glowing mass could really teleport you. Could’ve been a nice hidden feature. Other than that, the game indeed makes you question a lot of things. The ocean of blood itself was a big mystery, and how the living creatures could see through all that blood and live in it was another one. There’s also the leftover civilizations from other planets. Though by that theory you mentioned, for the blood to be able to fill an entire ocean meant that billions of human/animals were teleported, and be devoid of their blood all in that same place. Really scary to think of it.
The teleportation was almost for sure just there to speed the game up, when you get teleported you just end up bactracking some so that you don't actually have to go through the area again.
Some speculation I had seen was that there was a civilization on the moon, then the Quiet Rapture started and, for some odd reason, the people on the moon exploded, creating the blood ocean and leaving the abandoned structures. I have no explanation for the fish though.
You can play all the Subnautica you want, but nothing will ever get rid of the uneasiness you get when exploring the deep. It's why deep sea horrors games simply work.
13:25 this. this is literally my worst fear. seeing something there, not being sure if its actually there or not, and then its gone when you look away... this game does it so well. holy shit, actual shivers
Damn, man this game just makes me want a proper horror subnautica game. it even reminds me off one of the concepts that was scrapped from subnautica. it was a biome that was pitch black, the seabed was going to be covered in a strange entity that would destroy and kill anything that produces light, including submarines. so you'd have to turn all your lights off and rely on your sensors, just like in this game.
I think part of what makes the final scare with the fish eating you so effective is that the other stuff that happens to you, like the teleportation or the owner of the big eye bashing your sub, happened after you took the pictures. So you're expecting to take the final picture and then something happens, but it happens right before then. Incredibly good use of timing.
25:11 that is genuinely terrifying, my heart fucking sank. It's so brilliant too, now all the noises have meaning, then you think back to every noise, every time you were so close to it.
Not gonna lie, I didn't freak out AS MUCH as soon as I saw the eye as I let out a lighter "WOAH" than Jack's, but once it whacked the sub that's what really spooked me. Then the music afterwards filled me with sheer dread... o.o;
Came to watch this after i saw people on twitter mention it after the submarine went missing, the similarities to game and the submarine is honestly terrifying
Dear god I didn't even think about that. The terror that you experience playing this game is only a fraction of what the people in that sub must have felt, dying slowly and quickly at the same time.
The coding and the way they did this game is so unique, your ship and character are out of the map while the camera you use to take photos is whats moving, in reality, the map is quite small, but since you move slowly and you need to navigate away from walls it feels much bigger
Wait... are you talking about game design or game lore? In the way the game is designed, yeah basically the camera is the only thing not stationary. But as far as in universe, in the games reality, the sub is moving through the waters right? If not, it's a lot less scary. Its scarier if you are blinding crawling through this minefield of creatures, then if you are just sitting on a ridge, sending a camera in.
I answered my own question. At 12:39 you can hear a huge creature brush by the sub, at the same time the alerts are going off. So the sub is moving through the water, in the games world. So i guess you meant design and programming wise, its just the camera moving.
@@marcuswestphal4955 I think your confused. They are talking about the sub being outside the map, design wise. But IN GAME wise.. you're in the water, thus, like you said, the monster tears in. It's two different levels. Design wise you are outside the map. In game wise, you are in the water.
I like how everything is uncertain in this game, especially the ambient sounds. Is it your ship making noise? is it the environment? Or is it a seamonster? It's damn terrifying, I love it!
ive learned to never judge a game by how "old" the graphics look. when jack uploaded his first episode of undertale, i clicked off the video before he even left the first room and met flowey, because i didnt want to watch him play "some old game". undertale is now one one of my favorite series, and while this game is much smaller in scope, its still some really good stuff. im not sure how it could be expanded, or how sequels could be made, but maybe it doesnt need any of that (as much as it pains me for a story not to be concluded from every possible angle).
I'm curious, actually, Sean: is it more that you're afraid of confined spaces, or that you're afraid of being _trapped_ in confined spaces? It's a subtle difference, but they're actually two different phobias -- the former's _claustrophobia,_ and the latter's _cleithrophobia._
I was curious aswell. For instance, I'm fine alone in the car with all the windows up, but if someone locks me in the car I'm done for. It's the thought that there's no escape
Hey Jack, one interesting detail you missed. Each time the sub got “hit” (except for the eye photograph one), the coordinates changed. Almost as if you were teleported.
This is legitimately a terrifying experience. No knowledge of what’s down there, no sight, a damn blood ocean, limited oxygen, ambience, and well done jumpscares. This game is honestly up there in the scary games, I couldn’t sleep after playing this
@@michaelmonstar4276 GET IT BECAUSE ITS AN OCEAN GAME IT TAKES PLACE IN DEEP WATER THATS THE JOKE YOU GET IT????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Yeah, I like that there were only 3 jumpscares so far. One was when he saw the creature's face in the photo he was supposed to take, retook the photo and _didn't see it anymore_, the next was the proxy sensor detecting something _right in front of you_ and getting the chance to take a photo and see a giant fucking eyeball staring right at you (I figure it would've gone away if you didn't do anything), and the last one was set up so that as soon as you get in position for a photo, it crashes right through the back of your submarine (makes me wonder what you would see if you turned around and took a photo instead), so that you don't even get the chance None of them are the same scare, and the first two are more meant to inflict terror ("There's something out there stalking me and I can only see it like 0.1% of the time"), whilst the final one is basically guaranteed to catch you off-guard, as you're absolutely going to be focused only on the objective by the time you get close enough to it to take the photo. Either that or you're running the fuck away because there's blood leaking into your sub, which I wouldn't blame you for
25:15 this honestley scared the living shit out of me, that was so terrifying just seeing that black screen turn into a huge eye staring right at me. that was such a good moment in the game lol
I'm so glad that horror games got past that trend of jump scaring every other second. Its just cheap. This is real horror, with a build up, and everything. and I love it. Also so glad you are on a horror game binge recently, it makes for such great content.
I love how the picture taken at 13:13 doesn't clearly display the face of the thing in the water with you, so you're left trying to decide whether it's just a random shape or not. If you look at most other playthroughs the face is very obviously a face which sort of takes away from the mystery of it.
Sean hit the nail on the head with his points on audio. Too often games rely on sight to create a response, but there's plenty of other senses. Since you can't smell or touch video games and Nintendo says we can't taste them, the only other sense you can use is hearing. Especially when a game restricts your only other sense, all you can rely on is hearing, which subconsciously makes your brain try to create an image of your surroundings using only what you can hear. The ambience in this game makes it as scary as it is. If you had windows and you could see "Oh there's a beeg feesh out there spooky" yeah, it might be scary, but not nearly as scary as what your own brain can conjure up. Anything the developer can model will be nowhere near as terrifying as what your own mind imagines to be out there.
imo sound is the most immersive part of games because at the end of the day you’re still looking at a monitor in your room but with sound you can only hear what’s in the game not what’s around you
Yes, audio is good, however I think good audio and subtle visuals are also a good combination, for example maybe when the audio makes you think something hit your vehicle, you can look around and see a visible dent/damage. This game sort of does that but it'd be a cool combo if the oxygen holes formed right after an audio impact to the vessel. Would create this feeling that it is trying to harm you.
I kinda disagree. Subnautica I find ten times scarier than this because I can see the scale and looks of the creature attacking me. This here, I got no sense of scale and I don't get vibes of Eldritch terror, until it actually does something. Yeah, relying on just audio is neat, but if I don't really know what I'm seeing (the damn pictures are so grainy they might as well be Rorschach tests!) I can't really be that afraid.
Theres a mission in no mans sky that requires you to navigate via x/y coordinates like this and its extremely difficult. I was really impressed by how natural it was for Jack.
@@Spliffted Lmao, I don't know if this is good or bad but I have trouble with numbers and I genuinely learned X/Y coordinates and graphing from Minecraft and Terraria 😅
I usually find the addition of a heart rate monitor for horror games to be a fun gimmick for at least the first few minutes, but it often ends up showing how many horror games don't really do a good job of pacing their scares or creating tension (or dread, as Jack so aptly called it). This game, though...it would have been very interesting to watch him play this the first time through with a heart rate monitor. I feel like the results would have been quite different... Absolutely fantastic use of sound, visuals and pacing. I also think it's interesting that even with such a bleak story, and that note telling you outright about your fate, the curiosity still burns and causes you to keep trying, keep searching, just find that next node and take a picture. You know they did a good job with their story when even knowing you're going to die doesn't ruin your desire to keep playing.
I love how the game never actually shows you what it's like outside the submarine, most of the horror comes from the gaps your mind fills in from the context of the photos... It really adds to the atmosphere
watch closely at 24:06 . what he doesn't realize is that every time that *THUD* happens to his ship, his coordinates change drastically. something to do with the star/portal maybe? maybe big fish tail slap across the map? who knows
It's the anomaly that you encounter, it is also probably what teleported everyone to the blood moons during the quiet rapture. Blood oceans don't make themselves, that's a lot of blood.
@@FunSkipping That was my theory. It's red blood, so it has to be from creatures on earth, but we don't know for sure. I hope David Szymanski expands on this concept.
So fucking cool. I have a love hate relationship with psychological horror because of my terrible anxiety, but this game is gauged perfectly in my opinion
"I know you're looking at the graphics and thinking, this can't be that scary!" ah but you see, fellow Jack, some of the scariest games have these kinds of graphics!
that indicates the electricity portal is really a thing. who knows if theres secret for a specific portal that you can enter, or it just an easy way for coming out of the caves
Based on how the spooky jumps are eye is shaped, it's likely that it is positioned in the side of the head of the creature, a very common evolutionary benefit from prey in the wild, including fish. It's quite possible that the creature encountered in the game isn't the Apex predator of the region.
You also have to account that all Lizards, snakes and (nearly) all marine life have eyes on the side of their head. meanwhile front facing eyes is mainly used for depth perception. Apex predators with side facing eyes for an example are: Komodo Dragons, Pythons that are several meters long, Orcas and Great Whites. This theory is awesome idea as there is "always a bigger fish" but there's a reason why it's alive and the other creatures (bones) are not...
I take it the eye is from a creature much much larger than the anglerfish, you only see its eye so it must be as big as if it were a whale and the submarine were a small shrimp. However the anglerfish was probably more agressive since it stalked you and ultimately killed you.
"This the most stressed I've ever been in a submarine in my life. It's also one of the only times I've ever been in a submarine." SubMaria somewhere in the depths surrounded by Leviathans: *sobs* This game gave me LEGIT heebie jeebies ;-;
I spent time in a submarine as part of a tour and was terrified at the fact i might not be able to see out. I have a massive fear of drowning and burning so this game would be terrifying if it was irl for me.
13:19 when he first actually sees the face, he isn’t even worried, but he takes a picture of something in the middle of the ocean and is scared for his life
This submarine is no bigger than a bathroom, which means there is no bathroom, which means when piloting this submarine, and also seeing what’s lurking outside of it, you will inevitably shit your pants.
@@PepsiMewMew There is an outside, every pic you take is from the actual outside, which is really cool as it gives you the idea you could easily miss something big right beside you unless you take a pic.
The simple premise for this game is absolute genius. You're denied direct vision of what you're looking at, but there's still a full map that you can take limited pictures of. The only way to navigate is with a map and coordinates, and the only atmosphere you have is from outside noises, low res and slow to take photos, your control panel, and your imagination. It's a horror game whose challenge is taken from simply making you have to do a navigator's job, and whose horror is made by giving you a terrifying environment and severely limiting your knowledge of it, love it!
This is the scary part of putting big skeletons in games or movies, whenever you see them, you think, “What did that?” And then there is the fear of a possible monster you don’t even know exists or not that somehow killed something that big
It's very monster movie seeing something gigantic being malled and/or killed and going 'If this thing is this huge then how big mustn't what was able to kill it be?'
IMO, it’s even scarier when the skeleton of the obviously massive creature shows clear signs of damage done pre-mortem so that it’s undeniable that something bigger killed it, because if the skeleton is more or less intact, old age would be more believable than being eaten or mauled by another even worse leviathan.
@@Raptorworld22 That is usually the most viable option, but I like to think that in a stressful situation like this, your mind jumps to the darkest of assumptions(But that’s just what I think of)
I feel like Subnautica gives me more anxiety than stress cuz I KNOW something is out there that will kill me. In this you don't know a damn thing other than your map and the little camera which takes long enough to take the picture that it's not usefull for spur of the moment looking
This whole world concept is so damn interesting. Why did all the habitable planets disappear? How? Where to? Are they in some pocket dimension, orbiting around one star, safe and happy? What madman created it? Can the survivors get there? Are the planets just obliterated? Why only the habitable ones? WHY ARE THERE AT LEAST FOUR BLOOD OCEANS?!?
my theory is that it's all related to the portal that can be found in-game, as in a multitude of portals or wormholes of unknown origin suddenly mangled the universe for unknown reasons by teleporting both living and non-living matter around itself
The best part if this game is that you realize since you're welded into that thing underwater, there's no way to get fresh air in that thing so you're definitely gonna suffocate in there from carbon monoxide poisoning long before anything gets to you
Meh this isn't super relevant considering you're also surrounded by blood. The only way to get oxygen would be for you to resurface. Also you would suffocate due to your own carbon dioxide, I don't know what carbon monoxide has to do with anything in this?
what scares me a lot about this game is the possibility, there’s probably a moon or world out there with an ocean filled with the most terrifying possible creatures
By the way, it IS possible to take last photo if you dont take photos in normal order, submarine still will get hit along the way and start filling with blood but it wont trigger that attack when you go to take photo in the last locationm what triggers death is not last location but act of taking picture of final location, whatever that location is. but back to location that is normally last one, its actually nothing special its actually very similar to bottom right one, its a building with doors/windows in it
There's a project to map out every part of the game through the camera and it turns out there's a bunch of cool stuff that isn't on the map that you can find, so far no alternate ending though.
There is absolutely something so terrifying about being stuck in a cramped space, surrounded by the absolute unknown with the only window to it being a delayed camera that only shows pictures, not video. Creating a coffin for a convict in an attempt to get answers as well, is... honestly kinda disturbing. Maybe because it does sound like something political leaders would do, in a scenario like this. The world building is insane, absolutely insane
See, THESE are the games that I absolutely LOVE. The thought of being 'alone' in a small cramped space when in reality, there is something dark lurking around every corner. Just gets the blood pumping in a freakishly good kinda way
The thing this game, and other games done by this creator, does extremely well is save an incredible amount of time and money by leaving it up to your imagination. There are no visuals, no anything, just simply your imagination drifting through an ocean of blood…the concept is really cool as well, and the sound design is what really sells a game in my opinion!! This game was done so well and is so simple and so horrifying…deep sea games never, ever get old. And they never, EVER will, because they just fucking WORK
All of those boring realistic horror games where your more annoyed then scared, this simple ass game of moving a rusty tin can around made me more paranoid for my life than any AAA game had gotten close to
@@evilsclone2499 AAA horror games mostly have cheap, old-school jumpscares like "boo this is a scary bloody looking face with screams in the background now run for your life" kind of jumpscares. Iron Lung already feels uneasy because of the low-res graphics (can't explain why it feels like that) but it is also atmospheric and actually feels like a giant sea monster is after your ass while you're stuck in a claustrophobic submarine with no clear view of what's outside whatsoever. The developers have absolutely amazing skills
The problem with AAA games in general is the they have to be "accessible" to the lowest common denominator of consumer. An example of this how EA interfered with the development of deadspace 3. Another example is how resident evil 6 and 5 are drastically different that the first 3 games. Yet when RE 7 came out every loved it, but RE 7 had less total sales that RE 6.
It’s something about low resolution graphics man, it makes you work for it. Your mind is constantly filling in the gaps as to what you’re looking at, searching for textures, smells, movement, detail, all which just isn’t there, but doing so crafts an all new reality in your mind, which feels so much more real because you’ve subconsciously moulded it by hand. I dunno if that makes sense to you, but it makes sense to me. The human mind is infinitely creative, so when you’re forced to think about the context of the game beyond the graphics it becomes so much more vivid than the high poly, high res, perfectly sculpted graphics of AAA games, which do all the work for you and subsequently starves your brain of any real substance.
Basically the threat in a AAA game is literal- a sack of ones and zeroes programmed to chace and pretend to harm you, whereas the threat of a low res game is so much more real because it usually doesn’t even exist; our mind conjures that threat by itself and does a pretty good job of convincing you it’s there
Little tidbit, the giant fish was called Frog in the games code. The wavy star-looking thing was called Void. The giant green ribs and skull were called Whale Bones. If you were to get a look at frog from behind, he would completely disappear. You, the player, and the sub you’re confined in are off the map completely. There’s a little camera actually in the map that moves around instead. Also, the map feels much bigger than it is because the camera moves so slowly.
When the monster bonks on the sumbarine, you can actually see how much it pushed you from watching the coordinates, a long distance. It's a shame Seán didn't catch on that, but to be fair, it's such a minute detail that not many people will catch that.
I think the best thing about sound based horror games is that your brain can paint a picture a thousand times scarier than what they could come up with. And because “the big bad” isn’t set in stone, it’s (usually) equally scary for everyone who plays it because your brain is taking from your own personal fears. With a concept like the bottom of the ocean, especially a foreign ocean, everyone is afraid of that in some way shape or form. I feel like I’m mansplaining fear but just generally I love the premise of sound based horror because of how scary the unknown is
mansplaining is soo overused, its only real "appropriate" use is when a guy is explaining something everyone knows to a woman just because she's a woman. Though really I feel that's just a stupid word in general because a woman can do the same to a guy just because he's a guy. The real word would be condescending, plain and simple, we don't need new terms to explain guys doing something wrong. Anyways you're completely fine here, you are stating how you feel about this, you aren't directing this at anyone
Is it weird that I would love this to be a ride? Like a theme park kinda attraction where you actually press those buttons IRL and the sub shakes and everything.
This game was updated recently to add more things to find (and 2 more hidden steam achievements with them) as well as a computer terminal which lets you ask questions and learn more about the people you’re working for and the Silent Rapture
