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
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
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
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 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.
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
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
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.
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?
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
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
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
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!
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
Im surprised no one has mentioned that on Kashyyyk if you walk out toward the ocean, you'll never be told youre leaving the battlefield and it'll just let you walk off the edge of the map
My theory with the first spot was that it was either supposed to be a second path of Endor to be populated with at least 1 command post but didn't balance well OR it's an alternate path for a speederbike rote/race. There minute evidence that BF1 was going to have a race mode but was cut early in dev. Me and my friends still would race that track early on. Spawn as rebels quick, rush to speedbikes, first person in the bunker wins. No other rules. Great fun. Tatooine sands had a race "route" as did Kashyyk Islands
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'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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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!
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!
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.
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
That area on geonosis actually looks like a good sniping position for both sides since the ai doesn't go there, I'll definitely be racking up dead clones once I get there as an assassin droid.
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.
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
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 love finding these sorts of places in games. I definitely used to seek them out a lot more as a kid without even really grasping that I was searching liminal spaces. I still do it a bit now and there's something cathartic about it.
oh wow what a throwback. my friends and i would compete for hours to see who would be the first to jump out of the arwing/wolfen and land on the top of the tower in Corneria to plant a firecracker bomb on the peak of the spire. We would also try to swag on each other by exiting the cockpit of the plane mid-flight so we could stand on top of the ship and line up a fly-by sniper rifle kill. so many memories :'D
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 😅
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
What a nice birthday gift! First your music drop and now an Odd and Unremarkable places video, my favourite series of yours. Yes I love your skybox appreciation videos, but as a kid I would used to just go and hangout in little odd areas in games and I didn’t know anyone else who would do that or even cared about that kind of stuff. Also you cover another one of my childhood games (and one of my favourites to be honest) Love your videos Austin, they are literally the best. I’m gonna get myself some of your merch :p And yes it was a nice trip back to memory lane 😊
I just discovered your video and would like to say how much I love this concept. I’ve been out of map exploring for years and it gives me very liminal spaces vibes.
This reminds me of how I've played old Command and Conquer games and will send units to explore every corner of the map. Sometimes you find some interesting stuff.
oh man. I think this is the first game I ever played that I realized that sometimes video games can just feel... weird. I would always try to sneak to the outskirts of maps to get to enemy command posts and felt like I was so far from anything. Really cool to see this game talked about.
Biiiig fan of these sorts of videos, as I've expressed before. :) Thanks for keeping it up! I loved (the original) Battlefront games a ton and this was a great idea for an episode.
One of my favorite of your vids on the topic yet, for whatever reason Lots of interesting places to look at here. Wish I had more suggestions to give but also I think most games should have some amount of these places, so excited to see your next one
Really enjoy watching these. Conkers bad fur day on the N64 was one of my childhood favs, would love to see an unremarkable and odd places video for that too! 👀
I Always had an interest for stuff like this but I couldn't explain it. I just liked knowing I was in a space that someone took time to design, and I was in some quiet corner of it. Kinda similar to the vibes of finding your own quiet place inside a big mansion and knowing you're surrounded by stuff people built.
This brought back so many memories and makes me want to start a discord or find people interesting in playing and talking about the weird things in our favorite games
I never really went looking for these sorts of weird nowhere places in these games but I did end up in Bespin's weird alleys and drove off into the distance in the first game's Dune Sea map.
Nabor and Coruscant at night literally make up and inspire a good amount of mental images I daydream about/with. Sweet to see I’m not the only that found this kind of “fun” in this game
I like videos like this, also, I always found Yoda’s hut on Dagobah super odd and weird feeling. Like here’s this man’s home and 10 feet away is an all out battle. Super odd
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.
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.
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.
This is great, I would always explore maps like this as a kid. You should cover Jet Set Radio Future, I used to try to get to the weirdest places in that game, and there are many
Funny, I randomly had your eggbusters video on this game from 2014 recommended to me last night and I watched it, then this pops up in my subscription feed today. It’s like RU-vid knew what you were about to upload 😳 Anyway this was always in my top 5 games as a kid and I’ll always love it. This series is also perfect and I’m happy I found this channel 😊
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'm so glad I wasn't the only person fascinated with the spaces you can find in 4th and 5th gen games' weird spaces. (Especially those in Star Wars Battlefront 2) I found a lot of these kinds of places in the original 3 Halo games as well.
Reminds me of when I used to go at the edge of the True Crime: Streets of LA map, it was interesting to see how the devs clearly ran out of time at the edge of the maps because the roads stop making sense and connect to nowhere.
I used to do this a lot with this game, if you use the invincibility cheat you can explore completely out of bounds on all the maps (even in space). It's so fun
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!
