I'll be honest with you. I played Subnautica. I was swimming along, minding my own business, and I saw a 'snake' the size of a house. That was enough Subnautica for me.
@@michaeltalpas that encounter is one of the best designed I've run into in a game. It's really just a masterfully done set up, especially given the open world setting. It manages to be the first really terrifying encounter for most players, and the degree to which it ramps up the threat level, all while very rarely actually killing any players, is great.
@@iriswaters Right. I realized afterwards I wasn't in any actual danger (though, if I had kept moving toward it, I would have been), but the sense of danger, and the scale of it was just too much. I laughed so hard afterwards.
Up in space there is no pressure. Once you reach it, it is just emptiness waiting to be explored. But the ocean tries harder and harder to deter you the deeper you go. Almost like nature itself is telling us to go up and away rather than finding out what is down below us.
There are pressures so extreme water forms new forms of hot ice out there in our galaxy. Depth eventually stops being liquid. There is always an end. Getting there though... we probably shouldn't
A sea always has so much eeriness to it. Whether it’s a sea of water, sea of space, sea of darkness, all of them are so creepy. Awesome video of it all c:
I also have another fun phobia: submechanophobia, fear of manmade objects in the water. So ships, sunken ships, docks, etc make me physically recoil in fear.
Oh my goodness, THIS! I never knew the name of it! Ships give me chills. The one time I saw the actual size of a buoy at a museum made me feel so uneasy. Hell, I've enjoyed playing Sea of Thieves with a friend but no matter how brightly colored I've made my ship(to make it less "threatening" looking), it's so hard for me to board it again if the deck isn't easy to board from a dock 😭
Subnautica is such a good game. I honestly can't wait for #2 to come out. Below Zero was great too but it wasn't as claustrophobic and isolated as I wished it was going to be. And I'm really glad to hear that they listened to the fans and are going back to that with Subnautica 2. I hope it is as good, and then better.
It's like they went "oh no, we made a horror game" and pulled back on it when that's exactly why everybody loved it lmao. If they are going back to how 1 felt, that's not only incredibly exciting but I'll even say they should go further. Make my absolutely worst nightmares a reality
The game Ark really brought this out for me. I was fine in the jungle and caves everywhere else but even with a retinue of dinosaurs I always felt in danger underwater. Having to always look over ones shoulder because an attack could come quickly and silently from any direction is stressful.
The scariest part of all is that their may actually be some gigantic unknown species cuz it's been really discovered that most of the time there are large large large creatures in the deep that are very very large
I love thalassophobia, both in its concept as an irrational fear, and in the reality that it's not an irrational fear at all. And while I don't personally fear waters, vast, deep or otherwise, I respect them with far more reverence and deference than, say, a handful of asshole billionaires who no doubt fed a significant number of tiny fish and other aquatic creatures with their liquefied remains. One of my favorite early episodes of The Magnus Archives (MAG 51 - High Pressure) also tackles thalassophobia wonderfully. In fact, if you've never heard The Magnus Archives, it's an amazing podcast chock full of phobias.
MAGNUS ARCHIVES MENTIONED LETS GOO!!! One of my favorite things about the Magnus Archives' tackling of Thalassophobia is that (SPOILERS) . . . . . . . . . . The ocean is grouped into the same fear category as space- The Vast. The connection between these two fears is (I believe) quite prevalent; stemming from similar concepts such as fears of the unknown and simple survival instinct (space and the ocean are both *very* hostile environments for a squishy human form, after all). I adore it.
@@Minto8384 SPOILER It's also directly relatable to The Buried, which is fantastic. But High Pressure being a Vast tale was definitely the right choice. I'm actually going through and listening to the whole series again so I can finally get to The Magnus Protocol.
I played a game on the Wii called Endless ocean and theres a pitch black trench area. That always terrified me and i would actually have a few nightmares about it. Dident help theres a colossal squid and a sperm whale in there
i genuinely adore games like dredge, where the horror of the ocean is always there, but youre also able to forget about it and relax (until it rears its head again) edit: i love the real world info you brought to this video!!!
Subnautica embodies all of my most primal fears of deep water and the unknown entities that inhabit it just outside the realm of your vision. I hate all of those things so much and yet... Subnautica is one of my favorite games of all time. The world building and sense of simultaneous wonder and fear you get from exploring the vast and different ecosystems on such an alien world is so mesmerizing and I while I dread venturing into the darkness, I'm also captivated- a morbid curiosity to see what's even further down even though I know there's horrors down there. Thanks for such a wonderful video that encapsulates my fear and fascination with the deep, Snnu- i mean, Cosmic Hour!!
"Let's be realistic" "THERE IS A LEVIATHAN LURKING IN THOSE DEPTHS!!" Already my favorite part. The thing that triggered my Thalasophobia was either Jolly Roger Bay in Mario64 or/and the picture of a killer whale on the bottom of a pool. I liked the picture on the pool but once I dived down there and stared in it's eye. After that I would not swim near that picture.
As far as that Scene in The Sea Beast goes, part of the reason the Tonal Shift is as severe and intense as it is, is that you as the viewer know _exactly_ how smart Red is. (the Creature's name is Red Bluster for anyone who didn't see the movie) If Red wanted the Hunters dead, they would be with no hesitation. If Red was a simple beast, the Hunters *would* be dead. But she left them alive, and sank deeper into the ocean. Without a sound, without a struggle, her message was Crystal clear to them and to us: "It would be so easy for me to end you, don't make me remind you of that." No matter who you are, no matter your status or wealth, you are nothing more than a pest to be ignored (at best) compared to Red.
One game I find kind of unsettling is Dave the Diver. In spite of the cute art style, hokey humor, and Stardew Valley-like mechanics, when you venture down there as just your average everyday scuba diver and you encounter more and more of the mysterious underwater world hidden practically beneath your sushi bar, it left me a little fearful to push on further. It's no Subnautica, but it still has that eerie uncertainty to it. Especially since they did a DLC crossover with Dredge. Imagine being in the water with the abberations, rather than just pullingthem up in your net.
I was totally 100% with you and then you got to those two dumb cartoon fish at the end 🙄 Real “Im 15 and I just came up with my own creepypasta” energy
The ocean always has ominous vibes to it like the pressure and mighty ships devoured by it and of course some of its lifeforms btw what’s your next topic.
You're right! The reason I took some liberties with what actually happened is to avoid spoilers as much as possible while still being able to show the scene that stood out to me the most
I’m sorry but I have to say this, the Greek and Norse myths are lame as hell compared to eastern and new world myths. The umibozu is scary. The Aztec and Maya feared the depths so much that the euphemism for dying in their language instead of “passed away” is “went into the water”.
I remember playing Far Cry 3 collecting things, and when I was looking for the ship I arrived on, I suddenly saw a giant manta ray that made me wonder if I was still in the same game...
Really enjoy you branching out with this channel and exploring all these cool interests. Surprised you didn’t bring up Barotrauma as it’s also pretty fitting for this topic, but regardless the video was great and hope you do make more!
I played a Sea Simulator its meant to be explorering but one place called "the void" is way to creepy it has a big ass Spinal cord and ribs and Goblin fish?
Curiously, the sea was "familiar" space for ancient civilizations such Greeks and Romans. Many western nations had ventured into sea in order to become great powers. And yet we westerners (I can't talk for anyone, figure it out for the "non-westerners", but) finds open sea as something often disturbing, alien.
