Vinny - Anomaly Hunt Games: 'The Stairway 7' & 'I'm on Observation Duty 4' 

I respect the restraint to not start the joke early in your comment with Terminal 7 :3

Don't forget about Project 0

I liked Rotten Womb 69

They're more like observation/anomaly likes than liminal likes

Scrungle 9

Bazinga jumpscare mod when.

That’s immediately what I thought of when I saw it lol

no... NO.

also that same hallway model was used in one of the observation duty games lol

It's kinda like recreating the original Fnaf formula in a way. That's how I think of it anyways. Feels nice.

@@pancakes8670 How do you have so many subscribers if you don’t have any videos or any playlist? I always found that strange.

​@@QuarcksterI honestly don't know. I made like one video and then deleted it

@@pancakes8670 I feel you man

Plus with the ants and everything being dimly lit, it makes it even harder for anomolies to stand out OR EVEN SEE THEM because now the set is too highly detailed.

The real horror is missed potential

the Watto Effect. he always goes Watto mode when he feels safe which is exactly when the game would jumpscare you

or fnaf but... pretty similar.

That's Not My Neighbor is kinda like that. You're door security to a hotel & need to spot doppelgangers. It's a pretty basic game tho

Where's Wally?

Spy Party

​@@FaceJP24 banana bread

it’s so cheap but so good. it’s like plastic pearls, really obvious but still enhancing the experience

But the first game was good, so I dunno was you are onto.

@@sirosagaming8228it definitely made for good streamer bait

@@DiskCord I just liked the Tyler one cameo as huge man.

LITERALLY, how do you misspell the one goddang word thats relevant to THE GENRE YOU'RE EMULATING.

a major part of it is focusing on a cat, i definitely didnt expect a good game

I was tired of it from the get go

For an aged Slenderman-era horror, it's still absolutely terrifying. But, I can't see the influencers returning to play a relic, so maybe it won't pop-off. Dare I say it, but we were lucky to be raised when flash games were everywhere and horror tried to be different: Amnesia, Slenderman, SCP, .exe, FNaF, Hello Neighbour, PT, and for the late zoomers - Baldi/Bendy/Poopie Playtime. Maybe the alphas will have their horror phenomenons, but I hope to god it isn't VHS horror #3 Miranda the Explorer.

​@@scrittlepatience my friend, we all liked stupid stuff when we were younger. soon they will grow up and share our sensibilities

It was a very bad game mainly aimed at streamer bait on a trending subgenre. Vinny was right to move on when it made it's intention clear.

​@@genericwhitekidthesecond4330It was made by one developer, dude. It's a fucking one guy project. Be less bitter. What happened to being fucking NICE?

Screaming Man means you weren't looking close enough at the details. If he can get all the way through Exit 8 & then speed-run it, thers's no excuse for quitting Stairway 7 after one try.

​@LikaLaruku maybe a shitty loud jumscare shouldn't be a penalty for not noticing that the cat's nose is bigger

When there is so little in a room that you can observe, then the cat's nose being a different size would be a perfectly acceptable reason.

I just don't understand why there's a monster that seemingly kills you if the text says you're stuck in the loop. I thought you died lol.

(knock knock knock) "Vinny" (knock knock knock) "Vinny" (knock knock knock) "Vinny"

The Bing Bong Theorem

I think the reason it sounds that way is because he has a gate after the reverb in his effects chain. If he speaks softly then the reverb is too quiet, so the audio gets cut off once he stops speaking. If he talks louder, the reverb is above the gate’s cutoff, so we can hear it still. I suspect the gate is in his effects chain to cut out any background noise when he isn’t talking. What you described might be an unintended consequence. Just a theory tho :P

in his defense I didn't notice it either 😭

I can't see it

@@thecactuarking at the end of the corridor, on the top left of the board. Compare it to a bit before the timestamp.

@@go_golden ah i see it now. it looks like a creeper lol

That dude is kinda just too good at video games. Genuinely just really good at video games. A smart man. Shame about the username

he's not streaming, so he can pay attention

Tbh considering he's not streaming nothing stops him from replaying a game after knowing what to do for the sake of keeping the video shorter and showcasing more of it (I only watch him on occasion so I'm probably wrong)

​@@notacomputer5486come on, the name is cute!

Genuinely impressive how the stairs game was made by one person yet felt like it was designed by a committee. lets take an existing trendy game but add louder jumpscares for bigger streamer reactions, plus a cat that you can pet because people like to highlight games where you can pet cats. lets not include any unique/surreal imagery you see in the other genre entries and focus on generic horror things like creepy dolls and gore. I'm normally never cynical about those kind of things, and I like me some horror fast food, but that was depressing.

@@bm_burger petting animals in general Shoutouts to the can you pet the dog twitter

Terrible game

I think whats even worse is that the game goes out of its way to explain every other mechanic in the game, but not the penalty system, so when it happens your first thought isn't even "NO I FUCKED UP", its just feels like the game thought you were getting bored.

People forget bc its "liminal" that the exit 8 wasnt really a horror game, just a slightly disturbing environment

@@augiekintop6242i don’t know, man. some of the anomalies were pretty spooky.

@@scrung yeah, eye of the beholder I guess Fun Fact: Signal Simulator wasn't considered (by its creator) to be a horror game. Correct me if I'm wrong

I lied, every jumpscare sucked. Yikes.

I agree, but Vinny blaming the game for his own inattentiveness is kinda grating. I assume the likelihood of obnoxious jumpscares would drop significantly if he were to have paid better attention.

The point is the jumpscare happens when you fail an anomaly so you have a moment of tension every time you turn the corner

@@jamesmccomb9525 not when the game itself makes you want to just throw it out the window. who would want to pay close attention in a shitty game like this when you have way better games like it that don't need to be this cheap to be good.

@@LovelySoftSnow But it's literally the same thing over and over. So at first it feels cheap, and then it's just annoying. There's no fear or tension, just a loud obnoxious noise.

Same here. I was enjoying playing along, and decided to just skip this vid and buy the game instead so I can experience it all firsthand before watching. It's so perfectly simple. There's these moments of extreme tension using such few tools. Like when you've just received a warning, and after 15 seconds you finally find one, only to accidentally submit the wrong thing, and you're just sitting there waiting in desperation to get the submission menu back, and that tension remains through the successful report just because of the waiting period. Very very compelling formula.

i originally found out about the observation duty series from watching Markiplier play it and by god is it fun to watch someone play and slowly get better at. really, the only problem i find with games like this or the home safety hotline game Vinny and Joel both played (being one of my favorite Vinny streams, even) is that the better you are, the more stuff you miss, like Vinny missed pretty much everything remotely secret in HSH due to only getting 4 or 5 calls wrong. apparently you can hear people's heads exploding on the other end, but i didnt hear a single one in his playthrough

Jumpscares aren't scary. They're startling. And a lot of the time, they hurt physically because they're disrespectfully loud. So I generally don't like them. The people that can be trusted to use them responsibly are also the people that don't usually use them in the first place. You know which game has... kinda good jumpscares? Minecraft. You get lost in mining and something sneaks up on you and you suddenly take damage. Makes you paranoid. Did I really place enough torches to make sure nothing can spawn here? And they're not loud, because they just use the normal damage sound, it's only a scare because it's so sudden.

while I find the jumpscare design choice dubious - if it is painful your volume is certainly way too loud

@@YumekuiNeru or mabey just mabey they had their volume set appropriatley for what they were watching, then suddenly something - UNEXPECTED - blasted their ears . and even if they did set it to the magically known level that wouldnt everything else would be basically inaudible.

​@@animeloveer97 please - if you listen to everything at the level you listen to vinny at you are probably hurting your hearing long-term. You can hate the game for having a jumpscare all you want but you should still lower your volume across the board - get used to not having music etc at whatever volume you currently have it on. I actually downloaded the audio from the video and opened it in an audio editor and the volume levels of vinny talking and the jumpscare really do not look drastically different. Just because you do not find music at that volume level uncomfortable does not mean it is not too loud and harmful. Jumpscares just make it obvious to you because it does not have the melodicness to it that music has which lulls you into a false sense of safety. In fact you can listen to music at volume levels way louder than the jumpscare and still need a conscious effort to realize it might be harmful because of this. if the jumpscare blasted your ears (read: did more than just startle you but actually felt painful) your volume is DEFINITELY set too loud - seriously please lower it until you can both still hear what vinny is saying and the jumpscare is not painful. trust me - a dumb short jumpscare is unlikely to give you tinnitus or whatever but the fact is you are also listening to music and vinny and or other stuff at that volume as well is a huge cause of concern.

@@YumekuiNeru I like how your narrative makes it sound like I dropped into the floor screaming, bleeding from my ears, forever cursing the developer until my last breath. It was more like "ffs when will indie devs learn to properly level their game's audio?" and "oh no, it's FNAF4 all over again." anyways, my volume was at 20%. lol Reading your comment was kinda amusing because the irony of it all, I have some bad habits for sure but I always took special care of my hearing because I know people that have pretty fucked up hearing at a very early age from that sort of stuff and it always worried me. Music and generally loud stuff I keep at 10% all the times because I'm aware that it is a considerable amount of loud sounds over a prolongated amount of time. If I knew how disproportionally loud the jumpscare was gonna be from the rest of the gameplay, I definitively would have dropped the volume to 10% from the start.

I skipped from floor 7 to floor 20, and then shat myself moments later

I did, not because of comments but because I’m familiar with observation duty and wanted to see fail there repeatedly

People tend to like cats more.

so streamers dont go ape shit at the reddit chonker

Mystery case files was my shit as a kid

He heard that Melperton is pretty strong

man you nailed that timestamp. holy shit

yeah I think it's like disney world or those bars you go to where there's people in animal costumes, but they're robots. very nostallgic

yeah an it has crazy wild lore fr ong blud

I was wondering CAUSE HOLY SHIT I would love to switch cameras and just see senator armstrong screaming and swinging at the air

How does one find mods for observation duty? I am finding nothing on google or youtube

again victim of le highly customizable streamer bait game. i hate all of this

@@osakeleto oh chill and let people enjoy things