Joseph Anderson's Descent into Madness | Hello Neighbor Supercut 

I was thinking that. It's like those clips of neural networks playing hide and seek, and they learn that they can clip each other into the geometry to find the hiders better, so he's up on his fridge trying to hit the BLJ through the wall to find you.

his animations are like he's still in a fucking alpha build, not having a proper catch animation and just generally not working properly

@@Winasaurus that, except the AI is just sapient enough to be aware of what is happening and driven mad by the situation it's in it's bound by the rules programmed into it, having to catch the player etc, but is trying as hard as it can to break out or at least end its suffering (making the player quit the game and never touch it again)

0:55 is definitely some shit a speedrunner would do

Still remember hello neighbor desperate attempt to bait mat pat to make more vid bout their newest game on twitter

i JUST commented something similar after seeing 1:14. it LOOKS so promising, but mechanically ended up a bit strange and hodgepodge.

It's a huge shame because I was really, really interested in the game when the first look came out. The ai gimmick was creative and the neighbor himself was oddly pretty scary. That dream sequence where he was giant honestly stuck with me with the creepy music. The music in general was super great in that one. I thought it was shaping up to be something really neat, but then the scare factor was replaced with frustration and the ai gimmick kind of fizzled and was unfairly difficult.

if a good version of this game existed it would've been something like a lucas arts point and click adventure with puzzles in a wacky house but instead you have a cheap le horror youtuber bait, which is what this was from day 0

oh yeah totally. hello neighbor definitely has vibes of maniac mansion, or even the movie "The People Under the Stairs" which is the closest thing I've seen to a Maniac Mansion movie, and I think it would be a great video game in that style. there are also hints of Rear Window/Suburbia/Fright Night here, the idea of "a kid thinks the neighbor is concealing horrors in his unassuming suburban house and must investigate." done right, perhaps with a team of three characters you can switch between, similar to maniac mansion, would be cool. @@genericgoosereturns

It’s because they’re both. I’m disappointed that nobody in this comment section seems to know the context to WHY the game is the way it is. It’s the perfect example of the worst case of an early access development cycle. Each subsequent build of the game during development was basically a direct response to the youtubers and community surrounding it. For example, originally stacking and climbing boxes was just as much of a glitch as it feels like it would be. But the devs said “the videos where people stack boxes to get to places they shouldn’t get a lot of engagement, we should keep that in and even incorporate it into some puzzles”. Likewise, each subsequent build was tailored for a community who had already overanalyzed everything in the last one. They already knew the solutions to most of the puzzles and needed to be sufficiently challenged by the new ones. Thus, subsequent puzzles became more and more absurd, and the game itself became more and more bloated. It’s all well and good when it’s being drip fed, but throw it at someone with none of the prior context and you get the abomination you see now. Shitting on a shitty game is all well and good, but to me this game is more of a cautionary tale about the dangers of viral development. You can clearly tell that what the game became was nothing like what the devs had originally imagined, but they saw their chance to make the next big viral hit and they took it. They listened to everything their community said and did everything they could to keep them happy, but when the game finally came out and the audience outside of their community saw it for the train wreck that it was, they were instantly abandoned by EVERYBODY. All of the fans who played each beta, all of the youtubers who’s easter eggs they hid around the map, they all went “damn, shit game” and stopped talking about it within a week. It’s their fault for so desperately chasing clout, but I still can’t help but feel kind of sorry for them. They thought they were doing everything right until the very last moment. If you’ve read this far, please leave a comment so I know somebody actually read this and I didn’t write it for nothing, otherwise I’ll be a bit depressed :/

@@WhiteKnuckleRide512 This is helpful, interesting, and more fair than 'devs are stupid/making a soulless cashgrab", thank you for the write-up

@@lowpolyzoe thanks man lmao

​@@WhiteKnuckleRide512interesting point, i hadn't thought of that before. i could definitely see good intentions causing the game's design to spiral out of control like that. but still, the design issues are their responsibility, and i don't think it's unfair to call it bad

@@chainswordcs Oh it’s absolutely a terrible game, no arguments here.

Deadass didn't even know it wasn't a in game thing until I saw this comment lol

me too i was just like "ay shit is just goin on in this game"

Oooh okay, I saw the meter go up after he fell thru the map when leaving the Act 2 bunker so that makes sense lol

I think I've seen you in GnomeGeso's comment section. Howdy.

@@BrianHopson Greetings fellow vod goblin

@@freshlymemed5680 ahh greetings, nice to see another tomato enjoyer.

hehahehohehahehaho lets piss off the other commentors

It's like a badly designed Mario troll level put into a foreign language.

Where are your old videos?

Joe was once asked "worst game you've played on stream" without a second to think he brought this one up. And my fucking god was he right to. It absolutely surpasses my imagination. Like holy fuck I watched a stream of someone playing this like 6 years ago or os and I think then the end of the game was just getting into the basement. I have no fucking idea what drugs the lord gave them access to, to create the rest of this fever dream.

well actually there is no physical disc copies sold of hello neighbor.. checkmate.. mate 😂 is there? was there? please don't tell me there is/was? games ass tho..

@@unbearablysmug2437 ...huh? I don't know why you think that's a normal thing to ask someone but if you must know i delisted the REALLY shitty ones. Several are still publicly available for posterity's sake.

@@300IQPrower Nah that's a pretty normal thing to ask. If someone's a fan of your older work and suddenly they can't find it anymore, asking the creator where it went is a fairly logical next step. Beyond that the guy wasn't rude about it, so I don't understand the hostility.

'neighbour-like' is actually a really good way to describe gollum.

Hellocore

Never say that word ever again XDDDD

Lmao

@@manboy4720 I want more games like this and gollum and have Joe suffer through for our entertainment this was so fucking ridiculous.

Amnesia was the first true Granny-Like game

That’s so funny, I literally just made a game like this for a 7 day game jam, my first 3D game. It’s a game where a monster tries to kill you while you do a sudoku and manage creepy distractions in a house. It was pretty much solo and I spent all my time on the 3D side/technical side and I never play tested my own game and I have to say, I hate it hahaha. It *isn’t* fun to do a sudoku under stress. I think the idea is redeemable but it would require less sudoku and alternate ways to progress the sudoku by taking risks.

sounds like every horror games, ever. The convoluted puzzle would put you under high stress and alert, then boom, jump scare.

The first granny was fun, but they made it way more complicated for some reason

​@@ilikeshiba Sounds like a pure, super-distilled version of a granny-like would make a great base for a non-horror game... if you can afford the time to tune it to perfection. Though at that point it becomes more of a classic "rage game" type.

So normal they needed 4 games, 2 novels, and an animated cartoon to explain half of it.

@@Dragon4234 My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

@@Dragon4234 the MC is a dedicated trespasser, a sovcit who doesn't believe in private property or borders because it impedes his constitutional right to roam. Obviously.

​@@appalachiabrauchfrau his neighborhood his rules, not the asshole

@@appalachiabrauchfrau “the Magna Carta says I’m allowed in your house.”

What I remember is that they just kept adding random shit for tuber bait and then changed the story like 3 times. Also "the neighbor learns"

@@avarisi whats funny is the neighbor did learn at first. its just now with the level so complicated they had to dumb it down

Hello Neighbor is definitely one of those games where the devs had an absolutely GREAT concept and just could not stick the landing no matter what. Every build was as if there was someone on the dev team got a hold of the direction without any pushback. Like how do you go from "defeat your creepy neighbor and find out what's in the basement" to "Fight your giant neighbor in a mindscape representing... something."

​@@Kyle_Rielwhat? He spent like an hour banging his head against a wall trying to do the shark. Wtf made you think that

Judging by how it expanded into a cartoon and some amount of comics, it's far more successful than it seemed during this playthrough's time.

Actually, is the creator a cryptobro? He seems like he would be

The sequel just came out last month and did claim to use "neural network AI" but it was just a complete lie to try and sell more copies

@@shortsrus Maybe they did use it and it decided an existence in a D tier horror game made for 12 year olds was not worth it and it ended himself. I know I would

@@shortsrus They were originally intending to, if memory serves, but it was just too unfeasible. It'd have made the game braindead easy at launch, and near unbeatable later in its lifetime. It would've also taken far too long to GET smart. It was a stupid idea from day one.

@@danielgiovanniello7217 Yeah I think they kinda knew even from the beginning it was far from a great idea but decided to (maybe) do some work on it and talk about it just to use it as a marketing buzz word

the witcher videos require the cursed tongue, its power too great for one man to contain

This comment made me realise that the VOD was 5 years ago. Holy shit. How!?

Weeb games galore

"it's intentionally bad as commentary on modern video games."

matpat will definitely make a theory about this 👀

it being bad is a metaphor for the neighbor's mental state (also bad)

​@@manboy4720 so this was a YIIK prologue? 🤔

​@@couchiephart4212the creator actually tagged matpat and implied "he'd wanna make a theory on it" and Matpat ignored him.

jesus fuck yes this is just an utter disrespect to brain cells

an escape roon filled to the brim with puzzles, wires, all sorts of mechanical pieces - and the way out is finding a key behind a desk, and then finding the keyhole behind that same desk

This feels like one of the games I would be playing in my dream as my sister informs me that the president has been divorced and half of the states are under the first lady now.

Exactly! It’s like they have all this convoluted shit but the answer to every puzzle is “stack boxes”.

Bad game - I sleep Bad art - Real shit?

The game was genuinely fun to me while in development idk where the hate train has been coming from, the game wasn’t getting this much flak years ago when it released lol

​@trist10 I think most people liked the game while it was in development as well, it was when the full release happened that everyone critisized it

His face is so blank, it's like he's spacing out

Its either that hes commically close or its just his fat forehead taking half the screen

he gives you that lightskin stare every time

he looks like hes looking at his webcam

For me its the completely straaight face + the animal grunting

​@@listlessdandelion3587kojima called death stranding the first "strand-type" game, much to everyone's confusion. It became a meme.

Is this anything like Death Stranding?

the first refund type game

You misspelled "Sh1t game" hahahahahaha

i dont know, this seems up matpats alley. in terms of quality its a great match.

@@EvelynNdenial Nah not even matpat stooped that low

I've had emergency surgeries more enjoyable than this game.

Same, I had a dream where I had to escape a underground facility in a escape room ( this time escape facility in 8 levels ) and when I escaped, I found that fucking police staged an coup against country and dropped a nuclear bombs against rebels. Half of the dream later was navigating through the desolate world trying to find a normal life

@@deadpan904 do you dream of peak fiction often

@@csam9167 I'd say yes

some of cut parts are hilarious simply by nature of how long they were

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE MUMMY?!

BUT WHAT ABOUT ANYTHING IN THIS GAME?!

a tech demo straight out of 1999 at that, there are more advanced doom mods out there.

​@@comyuse9103dont compare this AI to doom's, doom 1 AI could walk in 4 DIRECTIONS

I dunno Gravity Rush 2 is getting up there

@@Dragon4234 oh god, how? I thought gravity rush 1 was pretty good

GR2 had its problems but still has a lot of charm and good qualities. Putting it on the tier of Hello Neighbor is sheer disingenuity.

@@GarudaRamudasRumpusRoom I mean he quit playing both of them mid stream, only that he went to play a different weeb game for GR2.

@@DitzyBear 2 got Joe to quit midstream, if you want an idea.

That would be great

Too bad the fucking props shake like mad and the mannequins do not function

the entire third act feels so accurate to dreams (which of course, it is revealed to be in the ending) but i'm not even sure that's what they were going for with the first and second acts being similar, plus dream progression is not very engaging in real life

the clicking just pisses me off

I’m disappointed that nobody in this comment section seems to understand WHY the game is the way it is. It’s the perfect example of the worst case of an early access development cycle. Each subsequent build of the game during development was basically a direct response to the youtubers and community surrounding it. For example, originally stacking and climbing boxes was just as much of a glitch as it feels like it would be. But the devs said “the videos where people stack boxes to get to places they shouldn’t get a lot of engagement, we should keep that in and even incorporate it into some puzzles”. Likewise, each subsequent build was tailored for a community who had already overanalyzed everything in the last one. They already knew the solutions to most of the puzzles and needed to be sufficiently challenged by the new ones. Thus, subsequent puzzles became more and more absurd, and the game itself became more and more bloated. It’s all well and good when it’s being drip fed, but throw it at someone with none of the prior context and you get the abomination you see now. Shitting on a shitty game is all well and good, but to me this game is more of a cautionary tale about the dangers of viral development. You can clearly tell that what the game became was nothing like what the devs had originally imagined, but they saw their chance to make the next big viral hit and they took it. They listened to everything their community said and did everything they could to keep them happy, but when the game finally came out and the audience outside of their community saw it for the train wreck that it was, they were instantly abandoned by EVERYBODY. All of the fans who played each beta, all of the youtubers who’s easter eggs they hid around the map, they all went “damn, shit game” and stopped talking about it within a week. It’s their fault for so desperately chasing clout, but I still can’t help but feel kind of sorry for them. They thought they were doing everything right until the very last moment. If you’ve read this far, please leave a comment so I know somebody actually read this and I didn’t write it for nothing, otherwise I’ll be a bit depressed :/

@@WhiteKnuckleRide512 ^^

​@@WhiteKnuckleRide512I see your text wall, don't worry

@@WhiteKnuckleRide512 I feel like yanderesim suffers in a lot of the sam way

@@lordanzu8763 I’m glad haha

Victim of its own success for sure. Makes you realize Bendy (which was also a victim of its own success and got noticeably more kid-directed as it went on (though they luckily readjusted with the sequel)) didn't go all that bad after all.

I’m disappointed that nobody in this comment section seems to know the context to WHY the game is the way it is. It’s the perfect example of the worst case of an early access development cycle. Each subsequent build of the game during development was basically a direct response to the youtubers and community surrounding it. For example, originally stacking and climbing boxes was just as much of a glitch as it feels like it would be. But the devs said “the videos where people stack boxes to get to places they shouldn’t get a lot of engagement, we should keep that in and even incorporate it into some puzzles”. Likewise, each subsequent build was tailored for a community who had already overanalyzed everything in the last one. They already knew the solutions to most of the puzzles and needed to be sufficiently challenged by the new ones. Thus, subsequent puzzles became more and more absurd, and the game itself became more and more bloated. It’s all well and good when it’s being drip fed, but throw it at someone with none of the prior context and you get the abomination you see now. Shitting on a shitty game is all well and good, but to me this game is more of a cautionary tale about the dangers of viral development. You can clearly tell that what the game became was nothing like what the devs had originally imagined, but they saw their chance to make the next big viral hit and they took it. They listened to everything their community said and did everything they could to keep them happy, but when the game finally came out and the audience outside of their community saw it for the train wreck that it was, they were instantly abandoned by EVERYBODY. All of the fans who played each beta, all of the youtubers who’s easter eggs they hid around the map, they all went “damn, shit game” and stopped talking about it within a week. It’s their fault for so desperately chasing clout, but I still can’t help but feel kind of sorry for them. They thought they were doing everything right until the very last moment. If you’ve read this far, please leave a comment so I know somebody actually read this and I didn’t write it for nothing, otherwise I’ll be a bit depressed :/

@@ethanlivemere1162 Wasn’t the second Bendy game also a greed-derailed nightmare of a production?

@@WhiteKnuckleRide512 it's a little late but I did read it. it's quite the shame, because it's an unintuitive mistake to avoid. listening to your players is often a heavily touted paradigm of game design, but the truth is that you need to be really good at filtering what is or isn't something to make a change about

⁠​⁠@@WhiteKnuckleRide512Nice to know what actually happened through development, thanks for sharing!

I mean, that's a physics engine problem. Unless they were developing their own from scratch (extremely bad idea and those who try deserve their torment) prop glitches are not their fault.

honestly I'd think i was playing a masterpiece if that was all i saw. Too bad there were more things in this game than just the funny cartoonish physics

@@Frommermanthats not how game engines work. Yes game engines do have prop physics but the game devs still program the collisio of objects, and if its coded poorly or its poorly optimized its gonna be glitchy. Hello neighbor was made in unreal engine 4. There are plenty of games made in unreal 4 that dont have this level of jank

He did it in Undertale once by mistake (actually first pronounced it as sun-deery) and then has maintained it ever since because he knows it annoys people. Just like sake as sa-ke.

Excuse u, Goosebumps rocks! And scary stories to tell in the dark is a book that exists! I just think that people mistake Child Friendly with not-scary, or cute. I think Child friendly horror is just horror that validates a child’s fear, which is most horror!

I think people describing shitty horror genre products as 'child-friendly horror' or similar terms are stupid. Don't bother trying to change my mind.

Bugsnax

Yeah the other replies make a good point but I don't think you're dumb for making this comment at all. Goosebumps et al are a dying breed and good horror for kids is very much in the minority compared to this weird modern indie horror phenomenon.

I know what you mean, but yeah I think "child friendly" isn't the best term for it. I don't know if there _is_ a word for this genre of horror game at all honestly. I've heard "mascot horror," but that only applies to FNaF-alikes, not really Hello Neighbor.

True, I only just finished watching this edit and I already can’t believe the game actually exists. It feels like I know many different versions of it.

Yeah , the bad kind

im pretty sure the entire second half of the game is literally a dream. i have no idea how this game is so bad

@@theeliteterrarian1888 Totally, I always knew this game was a lacklustre title but I thought it was more like We Happy Few, bad design, below expectations, but this is just utterly absurd. It's like a half-joke game jam entry.

Can't believe there's not a pyrocynical video on this game yet. He loves "it was all in le head" games.

I accidentally clicked on your profile picture and saw the list of your subscriptions, and I’m subscribed to basically all of them. What ????????? I literally thought it was a list of just my subscriptions

I have been informed that youtube only shows shared subscribers on that popup, still absolutely flummoxed by the niche channels we’re both subscribed to

"Wish you weren't so awkward, bud."

I'm pretty sure he only did that for the Dark Souls 2 video, not any others or any streams

watching this supercut with zero prior exposure to this game, i believed the madness meter was part of the game itself for an embarrassingly long time

@@Baconomics1 if only the game had that kind of self-awareness 😭

"Those who covet injury find it in no short supply."

This game had literally no footprint on pop culture, tf are you talking about lmao.

@@WhiteKnuckleRide512 Are you a certified Gamer?

I don't think he is,​@@shortsrus

No, Five Nights at Freddy's ruined horror games for a decade. This is just the first case. People saw FNAF's success with child-friendly lore-baiting games and before you know it, Hello Neighbor exists. Hello Neighbor was patient 1, but FNAF was patient zero.

@@Winasaurus FNAF was a good game so it doesn’t count. It’s like blaming the Lego movie for the movies that came out after it in the attempts to cash it on its success.

Bad comment :(

@@cabracadabra_4256 I’m not sorry :)

Holy FUCKING shit is that a MOTHERFUCKING YIIK reference??? IM YIIKING OUT

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN HELLO NEIGHBOR?!? VELLA, DID YOU DEVELOP THIS GAME?!? A GIRL GAME DEV, SERIOUSLY???!

OMG IM YIIKING THE FREAK OUT! YIIK REFERENCE

CIA torture tier game

sorry i accidentally made it scarier than the real game i guess // after listening to the same piano smash a thousand times during editing i've become jumpscare proof

Some cuts are seamless and chat will speed up for timing so that when the cut happens it is synced with the next segment. You could also just be seeing one of the many nonsensical moments in the game.

@@avarisi i assumed it was just the game being so awefull

HA

the first version (alpha 1 or whatever, the one that got popular first) was fucking goated, but it was a downward slope after that