The Strange Lore of Pixel Gun 3D 

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Yankee with no brim 🙏🙏🙏

lol, oh btw I just got a pixel gun 3d ad while watching video.

The Strange Lore of Pixel Gun 3D

@@avggaming2168SAME

true

I legit camped on top of police car roof, waiting for them to came at me

I only bought the jet pack so I could camp in the trees from him

@@breadman2835 He teleported to me i was on the tree and i screamed very loud...

true

You just awoke memorys I didnt know I had

Bro😭😭😭😭

i remember grinding the hell out of that

god fuck I remember that grind

good times

Same

same

Same

I had to make my younger brother do story mode for me because i was too scared 🥲

Same

The hospital and forest were really unsettling. I remember trying the hospital level for the first time and it was trully creepy for a 6 year old lol

"oh no my home's being overrun by zombies and now i'm in a f*cking space ship"

“Crap zombies are invading I need to leave the city!” “Oh welcome to egypt!” “Oh welcome to some wizard’s castle! Oh yeah btw ur inside the internet” “Oh Welcome to the Rubix cube matrix!”

@@SomeGrunt_On_RU-vid I think they should’ve kept that scary atmosphere and maybe made it more like the first world, world 2’s story could just be stretched to world 4-5 while the world 1 story continues to world 3. The story feels like the original creators had a good idea of where it was going but feels like another dev team wrote the story for worlds 2-4 since it feels so different and out of place

It’s no wonder the focus shifted to some game dev stuff. The old devs that made the scary stuff left around 2017 due to a hostile takeover and internal corruption that made the game what it is now. The pixel gun devs made a blog post about it when battle royale came out, and here's what I gather now having gotten into game dev myself. The survival horror story that borrowed from other popular media and made it into an uncomfortable murder mystery was unique, and kind of cool feeling like it could go anywhere. The newer worlds with the cubic overlord aren’t really as fictitious as you'd think since the new team likely just didn’t have time to make a new story, so they just used the internal office problems as a Trojan horse to get around NDAs and rush a new world out, thus the levels consisting of mostly broken, disconnected, and recycled content. The parkour level stands out to me especially, since it was so busted and difficult that it was unplayable at launch. Strangely lacking much polish even compared to world 3. The virus was corporate violently changing the game’s identity and leaving it half busted and chipped like broken blocks. The virus is named after the game developer, Cubic. That always sounded wrong to me. The company name was originally RilliSoft, then it changed to Cubic Games, Pixel Gun Company, etc. multiple times without warning. The campaign and business stuff is adding up in similarity and it's seeming more like a warning and less coincidence. The old game is being likened to a "mistake" or a "bug" in the plot as it continues, and this very well looks like an in-universe way of telling people about how the horror story and survival aspects that made the game originally popular are being killed to focus on the silly multiplayer stuff they make bank on. The corporate virus is dirtying the truth to sell cyber santas. I think this makes the most sense, thus why the story cut to silly so abruptly and was barely updated. The game got very popular very quickly and it got the attention of investors who wanted to chase trends for cash instead expanding on the unique horror niche it found. It was blindsided by its hubris, and the 2017-2018 multiplayer mass bannings were the final nail in the coffin for most. Like Icarus, Pixel Gun flew too close to the sun and dropped dead after it had burned too many bridges, and like Newbie, the game itself has just been in this horrible state of purgatory waiting for someone to make it good again. Still, I like this concept for a story and see a lot of potential, so I'll be looking into it for my own game projects. Very fascinating.

​@@3ofSpadesnow i see why damn robot cyber dragon and santas everywhere with their gigantic sniper laser rifles

as a kid I would always rage because everyone has that fire dragon thingy

I remember when you could uninstall and re-install the game for like 10 free coins.

@@zezodbis5102Dragons Breath? I always used to rage from the Big Buddy. It was always one shot one kill and I always wanted to get it.

@@LastsBobaTea i think i never raged from a weapon, except peacemaker

I started playing the game in 2018, but it was still a good game at that time.

@mantoid680 that's around when i stopped playing. I played since 2015 maybe, but definitely since 2016

I played in 2014 and stopped in 2016 when the I started seeing pop ups and p2w activities

No idea when I started but I remember that jet pack mechs potions where floor loot. And I would farm arena for coins and bought everything at the time.

It’s fake nostalgia mainly

World 4 sucks tbh imo

​@@swagbtwzx True.

I miss 2015 pixel gun

​​@@swagbtwzx this shitass world is pure pain even in easy world the first levels are easy as fuck,now the citadel boss is way more painful than some motherfucker with an X module with the most op guns that 3catspams with every fucking weapon Haven't got to cubic yet, Remember...... *Yet*

He looks like a CS:GO character. Is it?

Pg3d isn’t like it use to be sadly.

I used to have everything before I deleted the game

I used to love the game until everything turned into p2w that's when I quit. Pvp was unplayable and getting coins was a lot more difficult

The Strange Lore of Pixel Gun 3D

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got me rage quitting every time i see purple lazers all over the map until i got one myself

I remember that one map where everyone used it

@@sophia313 Fr 😭😭

it has liminal space vibes.

@@headwreak1768 yep.

my experience: basically l4d with 1 player

the developers killed the game in every way after that

The Strange Lore of Pixel Gun 3D

I remember struggling to get through the hospital. All the blood and skeletons made me shit my pants back in the day

@@frogxbow9572 main thing for me was the forest xD

@@josephbarrios5147 forest was a good one aswell. The final boss was also really hard to beat

​@@josephbarrios5147same

​@@frogxbow9572Here's a trick: You can purchase the Jetpack tool, and fly over a really high tree and stand on there, slenderman won't be able to reach you, then just shoot him till he dies

Thanks for making my childhood

Wow

My childhood was based off of your game, I thank you so much

Chad🗿

PLEASE GIVE WORLD 5 CUBICCCC

Samee, wish that they made an "classic" version of the game so we all could play it one more time

For me it wasn’t too nostalgic, but it was fun at the time. I don’t even know it was still available to play after all these years.

and now it (or the multiplayer at least) absolutely sucks ass because of all the p2w

600 gems for a gun in traders van 😆 😢

Anyone remember that mobile version of Magicka?

Born in 2004, this game was everything for me. I played every minute I could. Back then, I didn't care about the cheaters, or rich white moms giving their kids thousands of dollars to spend on gems. I didn't care that it was pay-to-win. I just enjoyed it. But as I got more mature, the whole game got worse too. Micro-transactions got worse, balancing got worse, cheating was getting worse. So much shit being added, remove, changed. The game was all over the place. I haven't played it in a while but it's probably in a whole world bad management and greedy fucks at the top. I miss this game, I really do.

​@@tobywankenobi3088, this game has dug its own grave.

@@tobywankenobi3088 Myself being born in 2006, it was legendary. I think I stopped at around 2016 and started in 2011-12 or so, but the game was still gold during that time.

Dayum I'm born in 2011

@@catfacecat. >:( You being here is illegal you're gonna get arrested (jk I doubt anyone cares)

SAME

Bro the slender man level was scary for some reason 😂

Is the story mode co-op?

Same lol

​@@MDG-mykys Not yet, but they can add it

i remember seeing that and getting scared as a kid

Well, damn.

Crucified in Hell?

​@@NiksterskiIkr

It went from one of the best mobile games ever to one of the mobile games ever.

u can even go into the other side of bridge when the game is at its early stages aogh

i remember climbing at the top of the bridge and sniping people from it

@@alephkorick9285 same, goated strategy

How do I remember all this after so long... I loved the bridge one and I was scared of the slenderman one...

Wait what??

The newbie and a ghost girl identical to the one in the story mode can be seen in one of the multiplayer maps. It’s a cyberpunk looking one. Due to the fate of both the girl and newbie being unknown, people have speculated that the girl is dead and the newbie is still trapped in the cubic revolution game. However, this has yet to be confirmed to this day.

Can you explain about the Ghost Girl?

@@3ofSpades That futuristic cyberpunk map is called Parkour City 3019. If it’s 1000 years in the future and the campaign is assumed to take place during our present time, it would make sense that the girl is long dead after all that time. Pretty unsettling to think the Newbie has been trapped that long…

@@ManGuyPersonTTT The implication that she's been searching for him for 1000 years is very haunting. She can be seen with a Rubik's cube next to a crime scene, so it's safe to assume she found out about cubic, and died failing to find newbie due to Cubic killing her. Cubic took over and the old world has been erased, thus the sillier cyberpunk look of everything. Given the last campaign world released in 2019, it's pretty clear that this map is the last canonical part of the story telling us very clearly what happened. Everyone is dead and the bad guys won. Game over.

Agreed

I also met a friend for life playing mobile games

I remember dating in the game wow it was so fun but they removed sandbox mode

@@Bluecheese1400nah what💀

@@Operator_gloomy Yeah the sandbox mode where they made it specifically for "dating", I have seen nude skins in that mode 💀💀💀 They look like shit

Yea that slenderman was scary when I was a kid

It scared me more than the actual Slender 8 Pages

Straight up got so scared I closed the game 😭

I got so scared from the fnaf levels

A GAME THEORY!

A GAME THEORY!

@@liquindiego lmao I knew someone would do that

Yes

A GAME THEORY!

I tried playing it months ago. Man campaign was the only bearable thing for me. I can still remember the op rifle (prototype?) can be obtained by f2p.

I remember playing it like 7 or something years ago. I got near the end of the game but I remember not being able to beat the parkour. 😅

Yeah, it changed so darn much, I started playing it WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back, like damn 5-6 years ago or something, so long ago. 2015 was a good year.

@@SgtHawk45same here

@@qwertycring3249yea that god forsaken thing could shoot through walls and it was a pain to play against

Yah I went back to play it a few months back and turns out they ereased all player data that wasn't used for like a few years.

​@@adenanimations Pretty sure they erased ALL player data, I played this game alot and at the time of the wipe even my save that i played daily got deleted

same reason, if only the data wasn't deleted i wouldn't have to keep getting stomped by p2w players. Because of that, I quitted the game 😑

Mine is still here after like ten years of not playing, probably because I was one of the OG’s

@@cindercoreentertainment6505 I’ve been playing for a while too mine just got deleted cause I switched iPads and they didn’t have a very good account system so I lost all years of work on that account

faxxx i remember pulling out that purple sniper cuz it so broken (yes i was one of them)

@@xandergay3505oh damn.

​@@xandergay3505 Pretty sure it was called "Prototype"

​@@xandergay3505 its not broken, its a feature where you shoot tru walls and yes i abused those og guns like the homing rocket from mario and red minigun

​@@der_underszI really hate that they removed the homing rocket as soon as I bought it..

Back in my day, those things didn’t exist.

@@CarterWills1 Ok boomer 😂🤣🤣

​​@@CarterWills1 Back in mah day, we had potions...

Idk if I was there for this, or left already, because I remember those items, but I've never seen anybody using them all at once. Must have felt like a boss encounter

And an invisibility potion! You had to get them off the ground, too.

The second world and the final monsters I remember grinding in survival mode and those monsters were nice

Same dude

@@omarswag thing we’re going pretty well, but devs got greedy and many ppl quit the game cause it was getting Pay To Win, I was always Free To Play and got so far till 65lvl with great weapons, the ultimatum was the only thing I bought with real money in the game (it was worth ngl) but then they added fixed delay, heavy, special, melee spammable weapons and that bothered me a lot no matter if I had the max lvl, I was 3catspammer y to be honest is one of the best things that could ever happened to me, it was so fun, but the game got screwed and there was nobody left to fight against. And when I say nobody, I mean NOBODY, I got to the point that many lobbies were empty. Well, R.I.P. PG3D 😪

I waited for someone in this comment section to mention 3 cat spam, those were good days.

Damn I played this when I was young, this game is so much nostalgia

I used to play Pixel Gun in 2016 and a bit in 2018. It just lost its’ eerie vibe I used to feel on the campaign.

They could’ve made that plot point in world 2 but they probably forgot it by now

I ain't reading allat🤦‍♂️😂

The ender dragon? Nah

@@V3lk0n Back in the very old versions, the dragon was the ender dragon but I guess the game got copyrighted and they changed the entire thing to the parallel world. There were even Enderman skins and everything

​@@northerneastern man your answer is very long, i aint reading allat Waluigi is the ultimate example of the individual shaped by the signifier. Waluigi is a man seen only in mirror images; lost in a hall of mirrors he is a reflection of a reflection of a reflection. You start with Mario - the wholesome all Italian plumbing superman, you reflect him to create Luigi - the same thing but slightly less. You invert Mario to create Wario - Mario turned septic and libertarian - then you reflect the inversion in the reflection: you create a being who can only exist in reference to others. Waluigi is the true nowhere man, without the other characters he reflects, inverts and parodies he has no reason to exist. Waluigi’s identity only comes from what and who he isn’t - without a wider frame of reference he is nothing. He is not his own man. In a world where our identities are shaped by our warped relationships to brands and commerce we are all Waluigi.

same

Hospital level was easy though

the first couple levels were basically a rip off of the walking dead. The farm (season 2), the cemetery (season 2), city (season 1), hospital (season 1), bridge (actually original and not from twd, instead taking inspiration from the golden gate bridge in san francisco however him chasing after a helicopter in the city is taken from season 1) and the prison (season 3 but actually also taking inspiration from Alcatraz prison in san fran so very creative) are all from twd. Taking inspiration from twd, a grounded zombie apoclypse gave the first half of world 1 a grounded in reality feel and combining it with iconic places in san fransisco (golden gate and alcatraz) made it original enough to stand on it's own. Going after area 51 and finding aliens there, meeting slenderman in a haunted forest and fighting pyramid head in a silent hill version of a haunted school and finding a portal there to another dimension completely jumps the shark and abandons the realism of the first half of world 1. World 2 is also just minecraft lol.

Yeah.

@@dannydevito4184 oh yeah, the similarity to The Walking Dead was what originally drew me towards the game. I was really big into Zombie stuff when i was 14-15.

What was your reaction when you first met slenderman at the park? MIne was fear

@@tensefan3008 I was incredibly terrified I beat it with my friends at a sleepover when I was nine

@@tensefan3008i was scared of that slenderman level too i was camping on a tree the whole tome

@@thej8656 🤣🤣🤣

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I played during the actualization that removed good maps, some weapons, add more microtransactions, removed in-game boosters. It was horrible.

@@KozelPraiseGOELRO the weapon level upgrade system was the worst thing to be ever implemented into the game. I don’t understand why they removed the feature where you only need to upgrade a weapon once or twice that comes with a slight power boost and a reskin

Is there no way to play the old version?

Theres even the swords from attack on titan in there

There's also clear references to minecraft and plants VS zombies

silent hill? may I ask where?

@@kidney_theft there was a pyramid head skin but its been removed

@@kidney_theft in the school level there was a pyramid head boss. Idk if they are still there but there was also other monsters from silent hill like the nurse and lying figure or grey child

Same man. I would stay up up night with my brother and we would play through this entire day. I still remember the mech suits and the colosseum flower map. Sadly my kindle died right after the summer event that added that shark gun

i remeber playing the zombie game mode and for some reason all the enemys were fnaf enemys

@@Iroducklingoh yeah, there was a fnaf level and all the enemies in it are fnaf characters

Same!

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what was your username, that sounds really cool

lol

I don't play anymore because I grown out of it about 7 years ago but I know how it felt to be on the top back in the days. I remember when the prototype first got released and I grinded so much kills with it on Mafia Mansion and Parkour City with some glitches I abused. This sort of "cheat" allowed me get to #4 and I was so excited even though it was only for a month. The campaigns also were truly fun to play but unfortunately I haven't caught up to the story on my account. It was fun playing it back then and I'm grateful that this video brought nostalgia to me and others who also reminisce the great story we all played through in PG3D (despite it's flaws).

My theory is that they removed Pyramid Head is maybe due to risk of copyright infringement? I mean, I remember the Dragon Realm being purple instead of red (Change probably to avoid it looking too much like The End in Minecraft) and Pixel Man used to wear green instead of red (And this is probably to avoid him being compare to Steve).

@@mettawatkutaninwat5411 oh my god I remembered that lol. But yeah it does makes sense why they had to get rid of pyramid head and change most of the mobs. But I really dislike the spider jokey they could’ve done something better

@@HBRO_04 I haven’t play Pixel Gun 3D for decades but looking at the Spider Boss in the video footage, yeah, I don’t like the design either, it just look out of place with Silent Hill-themed map.

I remember the wand that had infinite ammo and shot through everything

That fnaf one was my childhood fr And some others WHY DID THEY REMOVE THE SINGLEPLAYER SANDBOX That was legit my favourite level of all time

Man when they added the stupid gear currency and OP one shot guns the game become frustratingly pay to win and boring

Man who are you telling I had the prototype but the head hunter looked so nice and the headshots were so satisfying

I grinded so much for that purple rail gun only to never get a single kill with it because I sucked at the game. Also I tried grinding for the red mini gun but eventually my iPad just couldn’t handle the game anymore and started constantly crashing.

Wym

​@@HuTaoWeedSmokerit's like how sometimes you mop yourself into a corner

@@HuTaoWeedSmoker Expanding on Akid Productions analogy of mopping yourself into a corner, it’s that the writers wrote themselves into a corner that by doing anything would destroy some of the plot (much like how stepping on something you just cleaned and has not yet dried will ruin it). The writers were putting themselves in difficult situations to continue the story and thus it did not work as great as a plot.

The school was definitely the scariest map for little me. All that's going through my mind back then was just pure WTF, at how a school could possible look this hellish. It felt like the protagonist was in hell and the school was just built there. The upside down classroom and massive room with the dangling chains and bottomless pit stood out to me.

It’s hacky, inconsistent and lazy lol. Amateur through and through

​​@@HelloHelloe have to agree, it's very jaring and It seems like the devs don't know how to write a story

Man just read fanfiction. This type of storytelling can be found in spades. Reminds of the imaginary storyline’s we would come up with as kids which is why I like it tho.

I know you're getting hammered with similar comments, but the reason we don't see it in media very often is because it's not a very good method of storytelling.

being unique doesnt make it good

Most of us came back to this game because of nostalgia. However, at the moment Pixel Gun is pure disappointment for me. A lot has changed in this game, mostly for the bad. I played Pixel Gun from 2015 to the end of 2017 and gosh it was a lot of fun, even my siblings played with me. Unfortunetly when i came back to this game it wasn't the same old Pixel Gun I knew :/

Dude the same thing happened to me. I lost most of my progress after changing phones but the game was still a blast. Too sad that it got P2W

same:(

Yeah I remember being fully maxed out on the game around 2013 and actually managing to be on a leader board. I then quit the game because my sister bought a weapon I didn't want with my gems (post helmet and hammer removal) and was so destroyed by losing all of my gems, I just stopped playing

Thats why its fun to play

​@@fire4036eh In my opinion the game became pretty crappy after 2020, it's just something about the quality drop, it just started to feel more mechanical and less fun. They also nerfed flare jumping, which sucks. They deleted the bosses (some) many maps and gamemodes, and they deleted the best map amongst all (FNAF Clone)

@@History_Nurdyep

Addition: There is an alternative plot based on the seasons of combat pass and pixel pass. This is just my theory, but it has a place to be!

k

actually.. there is also real difficulty playing rn, multiplayer and campaign (hard mode)

terraria and undertale have literally nothing to do with this game

​​​@@waffler-yz3gw he was talking about music of these games that were added into this video

Yea exactly. Those knifes that dash forward and kill you immediately. That one weapon that is one shot. It's just not fair. I'm honestly considering modding the game and maxing everything out so I can play a couple levels below them

Saaaame

Same

I miss the old skins

I miss being scared of being in the campaign maps

@@Amogusrath no joke me too

Especially world 3's last level music, cause that shit goes hard! Despite it being a more repetitive semi-bruchering edited version of an already existing song, I still liked it regardless and it's still very nostalgic to me.

God I remember that time, hated the fact it could go through walls and it always seemed that everyone had one.

Agreed

I’ve played it more recently. I think they have an absolutely impressive assortment of weapons now, but you have to pay money for almost all of them unless you want to grind for months.

@@1800notascam see that’s my main issue with the “one shot” guns. You can grind for weeks and the best weapon you’ll get is an antiquated combat rifle that was good maybe a decade ago, but you have to spend money to even have a chance

There was that one gun that literally had aim bot and it killed pretty fast and another one that u could manually which literally encouraged people to sit a corner and shoot for easy kills