Old Man takes a trip to the creepiest zone from the beta of Sonic 2: Genocide City Zone! Which had a silly story written about it... phelous.com / phelous
Imagine how this guy would react to the Pokemon Black 2 title screen. There's no Sonic OR Tails in it. And worst of all, the "Black 2" is written in...BLACK TEXT...
Old Man in "Star Wars." "Help! Get us out of this trash compactor!" "Okay, just one--Hey, you're all wet! You're completely useless now!" (Presses the button to crush Luke, Han and Leia.)
"Playtesters balked at the permadeath hallucination mechanic enough that we were forced to take it out. Personally I think it would have gone over just fine if we had only removed the guilt-trip text messages."
20:10 "Tails, hanging from a noose on one of those old west stands you see in hangman games." Did the author mean 'gallows', which is where the term 'gallows humor' comes from (which means 'grim and ironic humor in a desperate or hopeless situation')?
As the Ultimate Gamer, I've faced many scary things in video games. Zombies, demons, jumpscares, vampires, I've gone through so many horror games and I'm still not close to finding all horrors present in video games, though I play more every day. But nothing. Nothing compares to the soundless horror of BLACK TEXT and a TAILSLESS TITLE SCREEN. I can't sleep at night knowing that a few pixels in a 1992 Sega Genesis video game resembling a cartoon fox is apparently dead and the only Sonic games I can ever touch again are Knuckles Chaotix and Shadow the Hedgehog.
The only counting in that creepypasta that made sense was the 8 hits done to Eggman since bosses in those games almost always took 8 hits to defeat them.
I wish I could see the face of the author of these freakin’ stories when he discovers these Old Man videos XD The guy should accept the fact that as an author he is all washed up :D
It's technically close enough I guess, but the guy who wrote Sonic.EXE threw like a MASSIVE temper-tantrum on furaffinty when he found out his story had been moved to the trollpasta wiki (IE where the worst of the worst CPs go). It was HILARIOUS and you can find it archived on the trollpasta page.
Actually, this story was pretty obviously a parody, so the original author is probably either laughing his ass off or just thinking "someone actually liked that crap? I was half drunk when I wrote that!"
@@lizzychrome7630 I dunno how you can possibly say that with how seriously these stories and their authors take themselves. There's no "clear" parody here that sets it apart from any other creepypasta on this level.
@@Alucard-A-La-Carte That's just Poe's law in effect. It's pretty much impossible to tell apart a fanfic/pasta written by an edgy teenager with illusions of grandeur, and an actually competent writer shooting the shit and lampooning a genuine example of the above. Take My Immortal for example. There were a couple of people out there who claimed they wrote it as a troll-fic, but the early parts were so genuinely "teenager dumb" that I personally think they were written by an actual edgy, hot-topic covered goth girl venting her frustrations into a fanfic. The later parts, however, might be troll-fic additions. We may never know, and there's no surefire way to tell.
I love this series so much! Sometimes, when I'm having trouble sleeping, I'll put on the whole playlist. It's like having a stupid, ass-hole grandfather reading me nonsense bedtime stories.
I'm sorry? "The oddly slow banjo music in the background was a little unsettling..." In what universe is the banjo considered unsettling? That's like saying "The Kazoo music in the background gave me the heebie jeebies."
According to the Sonic Wiki, the reason for the name "Genocide City" was to make it sound dangerous to Japanese players. That piece of information has a "citation needed" tag, so I don't know how true it is.
If someone wants to draw a giantess inflated Rouge the bat trapping knuckles in her shoe while wearing a diaper and *insert other weird deviant art stuff that i didn't have enough courage to look up*, who are we to judge?
Maybe after going through Discount Wonderland and meeting several other Beauty's Fathers who are way more stupid and evil than he is, he realized that stupidity is all relative. Especially when reading creepypastas.
His next story "one day I wanted some toast for breakfast but when I went to the kitchen I had ran out of breed I had a nonstop panic attack for 3 days then I eventually returned to my kitchen to find.................my milk had spoiled and then I had a heart attack and died the end
Wow, what a boring and messy creepypasta! This story makes "Sonic.exe" look like a masterpiece! The only reason I was able to power through this was hearing Old Man read it and criticize its numerous plot holes! But seriously, the "Old Man Reads Creepypastas" videos are always fun to listen to! Old Man makes these stories FAAAR more entertaining than they really are. :)
Keep these Creepypasta protagonists away from real horror like Eternal Darkness. That stuff will give them a fear-induced anyerusim. Who am I kidding, a frikkin' My Little Pony game would give this protag a fear-induced anyerism. EDIT: A city filled with fire, lava spouts and flaming demons? Sounds an awful lot like Crisis City. Was this story made before or after '06?
The author of the creepypasta has no idea how to write horror. Is Tails supposed to real, in-universe, despite being a video game character? Is there only one Tails in the Sonic Universe, or is there a different Sonic Universe for every person? (I would lean to the latter, because the narrator's friend still saw Tails). Do only the video games affect the Sonic-verse, or do the weird parts of DeviantArt cause Shadow to marry Knuckles in some Sonic-verses? Could Sega have prevented the death of Tails (or the multiple Tailses across the Sonic multiverse) by programming the game differently, and if so, why is the narrator, and not Sega, responsible for Tails' death? The problem is that the "horror" has very little to do with the in-universe real-world setting. It is possible to write an interesting story about fictional characters or inanimate objects that come to life that are influenced by the real world, but have minimal influence in the opposite direction: the Toy Story franchise and the ReBoot TV series come to mind. In fact, the concept could make an interesting story; a Sonic-verse exists as normal, but strange things begin to happen. Characters fall in love with one another for no apparent reason, characters waking up 9 months pregnant, characters losing limbs, and even characters dying. The Sonic characters conclude that there is some outside all-power force altering their world without rhyme or reason. Eventually, they learn that this force is a human in the real world, and the entire Sonic-verse exists within the mind of the person. Whenever that person writes or draws a Sonic fanart, that alters the reality in the Sonic-verse, unknown to the human. The Sonic characters then find a way to communicate with the human through his dreams, however, the human goes mad with power, and requires the characters to return to his dreams to do degrading things, or he will start killing off the characters one by one. The problem in the creepypasta is that Tails and Sonic don't even really make an appearance as characters. They are mentioned, but the reader is left to speculate about the nature of the universe(s) that they reside in, or even if they do actually exist, or are just the figments of a half-crazy narrator. We don't even know if the narrator actually killed Tails, and if he did, there is no explanation of how exactly he is at fault. So, we left which a narrator who is angsting over killing what is probably a completely fictional character.
So many of these videogame creepypastas just read like a horror version of "Ready Player One," where it's just "REFERENCE: THE STORY!" I mean reading the Sonic.exe creepypasta is just gibberish if you don't have extensive knowledge of 16-bit RPG MIDI sound-effects (except Phelous is smart enough to include them in his readings, because he's smarter than the author).
Lol you put more thought into this criticism than the creepy pasta author did for the entire story. I guarantee the "Lost Beta Genocide City Zone" author was like 10 Years old or had the brain of one.
You know, this would actually have some promise if it was written in a less melodramatic tone. Have the protagonist start out as a snarky skeptic. When the whole "Tails disappears" thing happens, he writes it up to in being a really creative, fourth-wall breaking hack. The bits about this somehow corrupting all other copies of the game he plays is a bit too over-the-top, so let's take it out of the story. Then instead he could try to erase the saves, and yet the game wouldn't reset, making him a little freaked out. After this he would invite the friend mentioned in the story over to show him this weird game, and we would have the scene with the friend arguing that Tails is still there on the title screen, but the protagonist still can't see him. They play through the game, and it works perfectly fine when the friend plays it, but when the protagonist takes control, he starts getting the messages the friend cannot see. He figures that the friend is playing some kind of dumb prank on him and they stop playing the game, but he is still drawn to it, so he gets up in the middle of the night to continue it, and keeps repeating the whole game trying to save Tails over and over. And then, finally, when he cracks during the final boss battle, the game tells them that they need to let go of their guilt, and when he does so, it turns out he has been repressing the memories of a childhood friend of his dying when they were really young. They were playing on a bridge, the friend slipped, the protagonist tried to pull them back but wasn't strong enough, and he fell to his death. He had been repressing this for years, and now that he remembers and accepts what happened, he plays the game one last time, where now the game plays like normal after Tails dies, but he can actually defeat Robotnik, and it ends with Sonic moving on with his life, mirroring the protagonist. Then when he tries to turn the game back on again, it no longer starts up anymore, but instead there is just a text message telling him to move on, implying this was all done by the ghost of the dead friend to help him get over the trauma.
Yeah, but it's also long as fuck. Slowbeef did a readthrough too, and he _doesn't_ have the Old Man thing which slows the read down, and that still took him well over forty minutes. Can you _imagine_ Phelous trying to do this godawful voice for over a freaking hour?
A game where you can kill your friends and can't easily reset your mistakes, and it tries to make you feel bad about it? WOW, how horrifying. Not like it could actually make a REALLY popular RPG. (Note the sarcasm.)
I would say that this was the most pathetic protagonist in a creepypasta that Old Man has read, but that's only because he hasn't read "Blood Whistle" yet.
So what would happen if this guy watched Sonic Boom? Would Sonic and Tails be missing and their dialogue silent? what if he drew them? would they vanish from the page? I'm just curious as to what extent this "i can't see sonic or tails" curse goes.
Personally, I think Phelous should have an interview with Old Man. It seems that he's had to adjust to modern life. I wonder how he dealt with the amazing new technology that we in the 2010s have access to. We might even get some insight into what specific mental condition he suffers from.
Okay, if you ever take requests for future episodes, then I say Old Man at some point MUST read either Blood Whistle, The Real Chuck E Cheese, or The Dating Game
ilikethecokev2 Oh god those are awful. If he reads Blood Whistle though his head will explode, The Real Chuck. E. Cheese is just stupid and Dating Game is disgusting for literally no reason. All three are good choices
Yknow I have a feeling this isn’t how the story ends, but it might be interesting if it was implied the main character was feeling immense guilt because something he did caused someone else’s death (like it was hinted, maybe he was throwing himself into the game because of mourning) and it ends with some sort of resolution where he accepts what happens and can begin moving on
And here I thought this'll be about the hyper realistic bloody sonic ruling over the city with the people being tortured in it that he sucked into the game from Sonic.exe story. Still hillarious though.
Why is it that all these creepy pastas have this obsession with faces being in / on everything? Just... seems silly when they get to that part... hm. Seconds bits, too... honestly, I'd've just reset the thing if Sonic stared at a crack in the ground for 15 seconds. Not that I'd ever get that far in the game; I'm not that patient, hmn.
1:31 Damn, Old Man here laying down the FACTS! I just love how he's surprisingly knowledgeable when it comes to media productions, XD! In all fairness, this was most likely written before that info was revealed to the public. And even if it was written after the fact, honestly I could've forgiven this story. After all, even a masterpiece like From Hell by Alan Moore was written with a famously debunked Jack the Ripper theory as a basis because Moore thought it made a compelling narrative. Then again, the idea that I'm even comparing this shit to Alan Moore is likely more blasphemous than saying "Jesus was fucking Nerd" while turning all silver crucifixes into a silver chain so I'll just stop here.
It's perfect! The images...The music...Old Man... I've been watching those videos over and over, they are so good! I hope there is a new one to come soon !! :D
I honestly can’t tell when Old Man is reading the story and when he’s making comments. Then it occurred to me that he might be commenting when he’s not holding the book. Why it took me so long, I have no idea.
Since we are getting Jojo on Toonami, can we get an Old man for DIO part 3 voice actor. "You are sweating Jotaro, that means your Star platinum is completely *useless* now *UUUUURRRRRRRRYYYYYY*"
Hey you joke about running away at the sound of banjo music, but true horror always follows the sickly sweet melody of the banjo. So glad to see/listen to another Old Man Reads! Love your vids guy.
If you listen to the old voice recordings of the Original Nightstalker, it sounds like there's a banjo in the background. So you might be more right than you know.
I was never really spooked by Silent Hill. I mean yeah the fog, the monsters, and the psychological horror were nice. But without a single banjo how could anyone be spooked?
Today is the 2 year anniversary of you uploading Old Man's reading of "Genocide City". 🎂 EDIT: It was so shitty that Old Man wouldn't read another one for nearly 2 years.
