I cant believe you didnt mention the sheer vastness of Hoth. I remember walking out there so far before ever having the leaving battlefield warning. It was so white and on my ps2 the sky turned pink and purple weirdly if you walked out too far.
I can't believe you forgot about outside of the venator. During space battles if you land just right on the shields of the hanger it will drop you out and you can walk on the venator and take no damage
That engineer walking up, listening as you ask what he’s doing there, and then giving you a supply pack is the cutest thing ever, I love when engineers do that
I always found it fascinating that you can go outside the hangars on Polis Masa and chill out on the asteroids surface with the literal unending abyss of space above you while tanks cruise around the surface. You would suffocate and die as a rebel, clone, or stormtrooper (naturally) but the droids were immune, so you could spend the entire match as a hunk of metal just vibing out in space
Oh yeah I always loved playing polis massa as the droids, huge advantage to not need to breath lol I used to play as an assault droid and go out alone in a tank to put mines on the front of it (with friendly fire turned off) so I could ram the enemy tanks and instantly kill them, good times
it's so excellent how in old games *sometimes* the only penalty for going out of bounds or sequence breaking was that you'd miss out on the main fun, but you were still allowed to do it
The ATV Off-Road Fury series’ free roam mode is the biggest vibe for this series. I used to spend literally hours exploring and finding weird and out of the way things
yes i did tag with my friends on ps2 (mx vs atv unleashed on ps2) downloaded a newer game on ps4 for some of my younger friends so i could do car tag again, but its just not the same. levels are smaller, only atvs and mx no helicopters sandrails, of course it doesnt have the cool desert portal from northern lights zone in unleashed, but at least they seem to enjoy it.
the newer ps4 gane was "mx vs atv supercross encore". Still has some freeroam levels but surprisingly contains visual bugs, and its a ps4 game so huh. im getting an emulator, im gonna emulate all the games of my childhood
Holy shit dude you just unlocked so many memories for me. My dad used to work at Rainbow studios so we had every mx vs ATV game when I was a kid. I remember being obsessed with the edge of the world cannon, especially in specific places like the train tunnel where you get shotgunned out in one direction. Sometimes me and my friends would play tag in the free roam mode or just dick around and explore... I'm a little biased but that series would made for some great exploration (especially Unleashed and Untamed, the older ones)
I've been finding myself looking for Unremarkable and Odd places more in video games now after watching your series. I just adore how much you pay attention to detail. No matter how small or stupid it may seem- it's always interesting. Keep up the great work! Always looking forward to more :D
I've been doing the same and it's genuinely giving me a new exciting reason to play a bunch of oldies from my childhood when compared to the one I've had when playing them all these years past which was just to beat the game or get that one trophy etc. I'm taking it slow and just enjoying the scenic route even in games that don't have much scenery.
same, I feel like I've always liked looking around at the environments in games but seeing someone dedicate videos to just the areas that feel particularly odd has made me even more interested in focusing on all the random details and areas that I might usually not pay much attention to.
I like the fact that you’re sitting out the whole game on Endor and are still absolutely crushing the Empire bc that’s how OP the Ewoks are on Endor somehow
I believe you can walk underwater infinitely when you play as a droid, so that can be useful to explore certain areas. Also, there is a glitch I found as a kid that gets you behind some collision in the Bespin: Cloud City map. It is by the random ammo droid hidden down a hallway between the forward flank and chamber Command Posts.
Oh my god, I know the spot you’re talking about! I think that was my first time going out of bounds in a game. I remember being kinda freaked out by it.
You can also walk under it as non-droids in Battlefront 1(I think it works differently in 2 but I can't remember how or if it actually does so I'm just mentioning how I know it worked in the original) but you occasionally have to jump to not have your character suffocate.
Mos Eisley has a number of these places from my recollection. The first is a wall near the awkard alleyway to nothing. With a force jump or a jet pack, you can get out of the map into a courtyard. The other is there is a place where you can exit the entire map and explore the unrendered city, but you can only use Aayla Secura or another Jedi that has a similar jump attack. Use it at a specific corner of a building and you're there. Learned of that one from a random RU-vid video from probably more than a decade ago
Or Jetpack (Boba or Jango) high enough by the main allied arena spawn gets you above the entire field. Then snipe from there while people run around with their swords wondering where the damage is coming from.
Hell yeah. I always take the time to just stand around and appreciate the environments and ambient noises in games, the gears of war multiplayer maps always have a lot of little noises and subtle things going on in the maps, they all tell a story
At 6:04 I like that they have one side of the building's windows lit from within, but the immediately adjoining window around the corner is somehow pitch dark inside. As if there's an extremely thin room along that side of the building
An possible oversight by devs, then again they didn't expect anyone to look at this map edge buildings with magnifying glass. They prob put texture with transparency on windows onto 'building', and behind a buildings side (wall) they added a plane (looks like a sheet of paper in 3d space) with yellowish texture. They prob forgot to add another to the side. But yeah, it's how it's done when u need to work with limited ps2 specs. The whole 'building' has at most 20 polygons.
@@tonyhawksunderground2 idk capabilities of ps2 cpu and gpu, so it was just a wild guess on my part, mostly based on observing some model rips from games of that era
The maps in this game felt so big as a kid. It always felt like there were many mysteries to find not too far away from the action. You made me wanna go back to it and look around some more. Great video!
The Battlefront 2 maps are so damn big for what are quite small battles. I always found the game to be really weird because of that. You could just... keep walking. There wasn't much around most of the time, but they left it all in there anyway. Pretty much entirely unfinished sections that are perfectly accessible. So strange.
I wonder if it’s a case where they originally planned the battles to be much larger but had to cut down the amount of NPCs to run on the PS2 and original Xbox?
@@MrCantStopTheRobotAt least in regards to these unusual locales, BF1 is equal. Especially in the maps that are in both games, of course, like Bespin in this very video. Maybe you could argue they should've been upgraded for a new game, but it never stopped us from battling for hundreds of hours. Other factors, I'll pick 2 over 1 every time for sure. Having played 1 recently, I wonder what you prefer about it. Or at least don't consider to be upgraded in 2.
@@MrCantStopTheRobot I preferred BF1 as well, but there were some nice upgrades in 2 such as playable jedi, awards, and more unique units. But space battles were tedious, galactic conquest in 2 was a slog, and the playable jedi gimmick wore off and I would default to no heroes when I played.
There were places in halo 2 that I used to just sit and think "man this place is strange" and you could hear fighting in the distance, I don't know just this video reminded me of my strange finds in halo 2 for some reason 🤷🏻♂️ anyway awesome video
Interestingly, many of these liminal spaces come from maps in Battlefront II that were ported over from the original Battlefront. The original game has a lot more maps that feature liminal spaces like these ones, such as the Kamino map (which is one huge room and then dozens of isolated landing pads) and Rhen Var Harbor and Rhen Var Citadel are both snowy, icy wastelands with lots of isolated spots. One of my favourite maps in the original game is Naboo: Plains, which looks like the default Windows XP desktop background
@@TheIncredible2ICyeah i used to be obsessed with recreating as much of the rhen var castles as I could in minecraft, they are like dracula's castle crossed with Superman's fortress of Solitude. There were some places also like this in the Dragon Quest series in the early 2000s
you standing in weird corners while a war goes on over there = me standing in the outfield in little league looking at ants while the game goes on over there
I've always liked games that don't try and restrict your movement around the game world, including the places that weren't intended to be visited. I did this a lot with the Battlefront games and Halo CE and 2 as a kid. Most games now days put up invisible barriers, even in places that seem like they should be apart of the game space.
I like this series and the skybox series a lot. And I like your eternal deadpan approach, compared to other RU-vidrs who shout at you and try to grab your attention. Less is more, and you do it wonderfully.
its pretty eerie when you think about it. No people, no action, just you...alone..in the wilderness or some back alley start writing those creepypastas kids!
I don’t know how you’ve managed to hit all the nostalgic points of my childhood, but you’ve done it. I would always explore the maps in this game and be like wow why is this here. I’d make up like elaborate stories to explain why these places were here, and I’d explore them. I don’t know why, but I did. This game was one of the largest reasons I’ve become obsessed with exploring in games
I really love both this series and the skybox series. One game from the PS2 era that I loved to waste time doing nothing in was Midnight Club 3. I had more fun exploring the cities in cruise mode than I did doing actual races.
this might sound weird but thank you for not covering literally every location like these in the game, i didn't know you could get to places like that on bespin or especially geonosis, you actually blew my mind with that part. i thank you because i'm going to have a lot of fun figuring out other locations myself, and after playing the game for the last decade i def need more new things to do in it lol
0:55 There is reason to go outside of the most direct path between points. Flanking and sneaking to control points off the front and are thus unprotected. Being somebody who did that kind of thing a lot, I love this video.
Star Wars Battlefront One (2004) had some of these as well. My personal favorite being the pathways connecting the Tusken Raider camps on the Dune Sea map. I was a small detail that made the world more lived it.
7:59 this weird alleyways also confused me when playing the first Battlefront game on PC, but I loved roaming around the maps, picking empty online servers just to explore
Hoth was always my favourite, I would either sit as a sniper atop one of the hills or Id get in a snowspeeder and race over to the back of Echo base where theres a whole area with no death zone that was meant for the campaign/wampa hunt gamemode
I remember playing an old Fan-made map for Battlefront 1. It was a ship battle map, where you were supposed to get in to Tie-Fighters or X-Wings and fight, but you could land on the bottom of the starry skybox. It was really odd to get out of my ship and walk around on sky texture. 10/10 map design btw.
I'd love to see you cover any of the first three Silent Hill games. They all have loooads of places that feel out of place. In a town filled with horrors and monsters trying to kill you there's alleyways, side streets, and even entire buildings that seemingly serve no purpose since there's nothing scary or little to no plot things to get/encounter and they've always stood out to me Regardless I love this series and can't wait for the next one.
Another one for your list - Hoth, in normal instant action/conquest mode, still has the back-hanger/hunt region loaded in. Meaning, if you climb over Echo Base from the normal snowspeeder section and avoid the "Leaving Battle" warnings in the right direct path, you'll find the "other half" of Echo Base where the hunt map technically takes place. You'll notice in Echo Base that the bridges inside the bunker are broken/impassable, so the only way to access this "secret area" is to climb over the entire base itself. Very eerie feeling back there because the rest of the battle continues to stay loaded in/ongoing, yet you can walk around that entire section with no issues. It's odd to me that they didn't block it off entirely, but you essentially only play on half of the map space in BF2 - that back section stays there the entire time.
Your channel has been a real inspiration to me the past few weeks! I have a channel completely dedicated to my favorite film Waterworld (1995). I love any RU-vid content that takes a really close look at very specific topic. The number of views may never be enormous, but I think videos like this build a very dedicated fanbase! Keep up the great work!
i might have commented this before but I remember Perfect Dark having many odd unremarkable places, some crazy skyboxes and lots of things to look at in the levels "off in the distance". The very first moment of the first level drops you on top of a building where you can look around at a blade runner type city with flying cars around that you can shoot and blow up. Also each level has a piece of cheese (cut out of a cheese wheel) hidden somewhere, usually in an unremarkable place
This channel is the best thing I have found on youtube in a long while, look forward to bingeing it all and more future episodes. It seems like your hardwork is paying off, I was one of the people the algorithm fed your racing game obscure spots vid. Keep putting out bangers like that haha. Reminds me of minnime, also great videos.
I liked to do one during the space battles where if you’re on a republic or empire ship, you can glitch out of the hanger and walk alongside the ship. You can even fall through space. It’ll take about a min for you to hit the kill barrier tho lol
As a child, I found a way to clip outside of the map in my house in Toon Town, and it became my mission to invite strangers to my house and show them the splendor of the void. It was almost impossible to explain my intentions using the in-game chat system, so I’d basically just go “yay!” And then put myself between a wall and a bookcase and disappear. At least once someone came with me out there and we jumped around shouting excited phrases as the house grew more and more distant. I felt like I knew an important secret. Exploring beyond the intended space gives you the same feeling as getting to know someone and seeing the parts of them that aren’t perfect, presentable, constructed. If you really like the thing or person you are seeing behind the curtain of, it only deepens your appreciation for them. Anyway. Good video.
For anyone who wants to explore these maps extensively, the invincibility cheat prevents the death barrier from killing you, letting you fully explore out of bounds
Battlefront 1 Endor map actually had a small AI footpath that went out there. It had a very low weight so the AI rarely used it, but every now and then you'd have a soldier or ewok NPC using that path to do a long flank to either side's main bases.
Rhen Var Harbour had one of my favorite places to go. By driving the tank sideways up the south side mountain wall, you can atop overseeing the citadel. In BF1, proning worked best here (but you cant get up from it due to ceiling limitations) My favorite spot in the entire game. It was easier to get up here in battlefront 1 with more hover tank options, but it still works with this one.
I remember by using a jetpack on Tatooine, you could access an invisible platform you could stand on up high in the sky, and a flashing button was there, floating. As well, I think you should have explored Kashyyyk as there are for sure empty parts like on those big platforms that feel so erie and empty
The most odd places in Battlefront for me are the “Rhen Var” maps, bot the citadel and harbor. Afaik they don’t really exist in the Star Wars canon outside of Battlefront, and it’s interesting to me that Battlefront has all of these iconic and important locations from the movies but also these random locations that they made up, which are essentially icy frozen wastelands way out in the outer room. Even as a kid I wondered why any faction would need to fight over that territory.
I am reminded of playing World of Warcraft around 2006/2007, just before purchasing the first expansion. I put off buying it for a while, so when I went up north of the undead city, I ended up in an entirely different place than my friend who ended up in the blood elf lands. There's a whole empty peninsula up there that you can swim all the way around if you're careful, and that whole area with all of the map data ceases to exist if you buy an expansion pack. Weird feelings about my memories of making that swim for no reason in a world only I could see in an MMO.
Dude WoW is FULL of odd and unremarkable places, at least from when I remember it. Idk how it is now, but back when my brother and I played which was right around Cataclysm so many places give kind of a liminal/lonely/nostalgic feeling. Before my bro and I got subscriptions we played on one of those hacked free servers that don’t have a lot of players, and I remember we were swimming in the ocean trying to circumvent a higher-level zone. It took us at least 30 minutes of swimming in this weird place on the outskirts of all these mountains jutting out that were supposed to be the borders of Stormwind or something. In general the way the regions in WoW are designed with the mountain boundaries is strange but necessary ig, it kind of harkens back to the unique time in gaming when it was released. There’s just something kind of emotionally provocative about it, especially when it’s 2 am and you’re wandering around alone in the middle of nowhere with no other players around.
Hoth has so many tunnels to explore. But how many of you remember making custom battles where it was creatures versus humans? Wampas vs Rebels or Ewoks vs Clone Snipers or Tusken Raiders vs the clones, the Wookiees vs clones, etc That was so cool, unexpected, and unique 😅
The blurry textures in all the N64 games allowed the imagination of the player to build off of them, basically giving every player their own unique experience.
In Mos Eisley, there is a small part of the map where you can only access it as a jedi/sith or with a jetpack, but it is just on the other side of the outer map wall where there are a few houses. There's nothing to do back there but its completely isolated from the rest of the map and I would sometimes spend the entire duration of the assault mode back there. There is also a part of the Kashyyyk map where you can fly up with a jetpack and I would use my precision pistol with my jet trooper to snipe enemies down below. It is so high up where none of the enemies will ever shoot back, but its also hard to hit opponents from that distance with just the improved pistol.
If you use the invincibility cheat code, the "leaving the battlefield" prompt won't kill you. So on Bespin, you can go to the edge of the geometry and jump off where there's still tons of land to walk on.
This game was my childhood -- I made my first online friends on X-fire playing this game. I spent countless hours on those maps and learning about fun glitches. And yet you've still managed to find places I'd never bothered really looking, because they're so unremarkable.
Before you told me there was a battle on Endor, I was relaxed and calm, thinking it hadn’t started yet. Then when I noticed there was fighting, my chest got tight thinking “WE ARE LOSING REINFORCEMENTS!”
Wow, the pond in Naboo is so beautiful, so eerie. I loved the video even though I never played this game before, I just love virtual environments and your analysis of them is always very interesting. Thank you for your work!
YES! I’ve gotten back into Battlefront 2005 over the last few month or so and I’ve been watching your channel since the start of the year so this is a perfect mix. Great video dude
I freaking *loved* playing battlefront 2 as a kid. So many fun memories playing with/against my brother in those battles. Its also where I learned of the A-Wing, and i love that ship lol
I actually have seen many tree walls in real life, not in the middle of the forest but where I live lots of farmers have big walls of trees seperating their field's from their neighbors.
"over there, uh you can see that there's a war happening. That's the nature of Star Wars, it's right in the name. But uhh we're not concerned about that, we're concerned about this!" basically sums up my relationship with Star Wars
I like these videos, reminds me of when I would go into out of bounds areas in games as a kid, like there was this army men game, like based on the little toys and all the maps were surrounded on all sides by mountains, but you could with a bit of patience actually just get up on top of them and there wasn't any invisible walls or anything past them so you could just wander around. and I did that and I think I remember finding like an oasis or something far out from a desert level and finding one of the other levels from one as well.
Seriously, these videos and the skybox ones are a treat every time I see them pop up in my feed. Something very cozy and contemplative about them. Y'know. Just chillin'. Enjoyin some weird video game zones. You can kind of tell when someone really enjoys what they're doing and I get that sense in these videos from you. It's nice to see!
2:58 The filming locations for Endor in Return of the Jedi were some redwood groves between Redwoods National Park and Humboldt County in Northwest California so you would be correct that Endor is a national park
Dude you just triggered a fever dream of a memory with Bespin. You gotta think, I'm 7-8 YEARS OLD playing Battlefront 2004 and I got LOST AS ALL HELL on the Bespin map and I was panicking so hard I threw a grenade at my feet just so I could spawn at a command post (I didn't know what "respawn" in the pause menu meant) and would PRAY it didn't happen again. It happened again. And again.
My battlefront 2 algorithm has really blest me today. Not only did I find another fun Battlefront 2 video but also a super awesome and underrated channel with tons of rly unique and entertaining content. Subbed!
Bespin was also my favorite map on BF1! I kind of liked how chunky and artificial the architecture is. It felt Star Wars, and the weird backalley streets were interesting to poke around in too. I loved the big spooky pit as well. I think it's legitimately a fun map too though. I love the vehicles in the game, but there's a different feeling on the maps that are infantry-only. Vehicle maps have wide open sections for vehicles to pass through, while infantry-only maps are made to maximize their infantry combat. Bespin just has a tight and varied gameplay loop, compared to some of the other maps
there really is something special about a game you've mastered so you stop caring about rushing to the goal.. you just kinda take a stroll around your conquered land.
You can drive the various hover vehicles on the water in Naboo and you can even get back up the ramps. It's not tactical often but sometimes it's really fun to get behind enemy lines with a vehicle. The Naboo section made me miss that
my favorite maps to explore was the outsides of Polis Massa and Hoth. I always turned on invincibility and then took a vehicle as far as i could before reaching a black hole. Exploring was always such a fun thing to do on this game.
I can’t believe you didn’t go to Kashyyyk. Activate infinite health and take a speeder to the inland part of the map beyond the boundary. My brother and I used to ride up and down the mountains in split screen for hours lol
