What's Up With Classic GM Videos? [GMod ARG] 

Richter is the type of guy to call the Gravity Gun "Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator"

Something interesting that you didn't mention: the 'disconnect' button at 5:25 goes from the unselectable gray to white just before the distortions happen and the black figure appears. If I recall correctly, this means it's somehow gone from a singleplayer session to a multiplayer one. I don't remember if there were any other times the game was paused before the weird stuff starts happening, but the disconnect button is always white when it's paused afterwards. It's a little 'blink and you miss it', but I think it might be a relevant clue to the newer videos.

He actually started using the term source horror. Finally as these aren't interactive enough to be args

I kind of wish you acknowledged that Bob and Bill episode 2 was actually following the same plotline of Breen Gets Pranked, just from a different perspective.

All arg and creepiness aside, bob and bill, and Kliener’s challenges should be an actual series Edit: the message at 54:35 says “when they call u arg boy”

Three things I think you should mention: 1. Breen gets pranked is not the first time a HL2 map is used. Kleiner's Challenge 1 is set in an HL2 map. 2. The glitchy noises at 18:49 are what happens when Source tries to call a sound file that doesn't exist. 3. Ever since the zombiekiller video, all of the uploads have been auto-uploaded, with no footnotes from the uploader.

Just to clear things up: A lot of the added tracks in the videos come from the first Paper Mario game on N64.

21:45 The scariest part is discovering that source can handle 2 light sources at the same time

I honestly hate the people who mock channels like this for being shadow man story but don't bother to actually hear people out, this channel is something special and shouldn't just be seen as a boring generic horror channel Edit: the amount of replies proving my point of people not listening is so sad, you are not fun to talk to, please leave

I feel like the "Hl2 cool sad area" video was made as an allegory for something that happened to GM personally, or what might something that happened in Bob and Bill. There's plenty of sad, depressing moments in HL2, but I think that one in particular stuck out to him, because of what happened to him personally; that's why he went the extra mile of recording it, and uploading it on RU-vid.

have we considered the possibility that the shadow man is actually classic gm’s father coming back from the store

I love the sad half life area video, specifically for the part where they say "theres 2 beds...... but one body.... *but then you realise theres actually another one you forgot about...."* It alludes to someone that this person is forgetting. The shadow person.

i feel bad for the guy recording, hes just scared, not oblivious, not the bad guy, just scared

One small thing I love is that the player is OBVIOUSLY a fan of Paper Mario due to how often its music shows up in his actual machinimas. Just a neat little bit of character detail, makes him more realistic since I'd absolutely use music from a classic childhood game in my machinimas.

What I think is happening here, is that the dark figure is a player, that sees the other player as also a dark figure. In the video on gm_dancefloor, (which wasn't covered here), the player enters a secret hallway, similiar to gm_graveyard. What I believe is happening here, is that 2 *completely different* players entered their respective hallways at the same time, and became ghosts in eachother's games. I don't have any idea on how would this tie into the lore of Gmod9fan, as this completely turns the established connections on their heads. But one thing is ceratin, dark hallways (which appear on both channels) are very important, and can even transport players and entities between games.

I grew up as a teenager watching “random” Gmod videos back in 2006 and I have to say that the guy absolutely nailed the aesthetic. The WMM instructions, the music choices, the visible trails from the physgun, having NPCs randomly flail their arms using thrusters until everything around them breaks as a punchline… Even the framerate seems authentically twitchy at times. It’s all so perfect, and adds a real edge of believability that these genuinely are reuploads of some teenager’s explorations into a bizarre Gmod rabbit hole.

Jeez now that I think about it gmod is not that scary but with the internet and community make it more scary then it’s supposed to be and I’m glad that gmod is getting recognized not just for the fandom but for people across the world.

I imagine the creator's friend Scizzy just chasing him irl around their neighbourhood anytime they see each other in order to ask about the gm_construct pond/darkroom.

14:35 my guess is that he removed the video because it's stand out too much comparing to the previous uploads and would feel less believable. While the other videos plays on subtlety, this particular one screams "paranormal shit" right away right in the face. Also it could not stick with the whole plot of Classic Gmod Videos, as you said, non canon.

I don't care how overdone it is, I love these dark figure series and living NPCS stuff. Anything that has to do with a game that's not what it seems is gold!

25:00 The earlier Kliener Challange videos used a HL2 level, the entrance to the apartment block, specifically the playground outside they you walk through before getting chased up the apartment.

41:44 Bill didnt kill anyone (atleast I think so). Remember the Dr. Breen prank video? Well if you look closely you can see that Dr. Breen was sitting on the bench on the background and when Bob was entering the building we could see how Bill was going to him. And we actually can see how Breen is puking when bob leaves the building

This really reminds me of when I was a kid and I would play minecraft looking for herobrine and get myself tensed up and scared over something that doesn't exist. In that way I really relate to the protagonist in this, and thinking how scared I would be to actually be in that situation.

Classic GM Videos is like the CH/SS of the Gmod webseries horror genre.

Something note about the weird glitchy sound near the end of "pondabyss" is that by where the audio is and from when Classic GM Videos starts sprinting... *Something is chasing them.*

My Theory is that : Scizzymeister is trying to scare the player by hacking into his computer or something, That could explain why scizzy found out about the commands, the radio and whould explain glitches. The videos also have a really weird thing with them, that there's always 2 of something, 2 cops by the door, Bob and bill 2 protagonists, gman and keliner 2 characters interacting with eachother, gman and the zombie town guy 2 performers, 2 people living in the outskirts in hl2. There's 2 players, what do other people think about this theory?

I love how gman just obliterates the guys stand for not selling a single item😂

41:52 this is particularly interesting to me, when this distortion is fully-kicking in there appears to be the shadowy figure _in_ the distortion on the bottom-left, and then after the fade it almost appears as if the metro cops actually SEE it and are frightened by it, both looking directly at it, one brandishing their stunstick while on the ground appearing like they are trying to back away, and the other seeming to have already made some distance and hugging the wall behind them. not sure if this was actually intended or not, but i still think this is a very interesting few seconds of this video also 1B might mean that the og bob & bill pilot episode is "1A", ie they are the "A" plot and these metro cops were the "B" plot for the same episode 52:18 ok, how did you _not_ notice the very clear green rocket/bullet or whatever that is that made those weird eyeballs appear?? wtf is up with that?? it also appears that the player didnt notice this at all either, as they dont react to it at all. its prolly some kind of video distortion that happened when all the other video files got corrupted, but still, this is so weirdly specific for a corrupted video EDIT: about the A and B plot thing, it does appear that this is the case considering the newest upload is called bob & bill mini 3b. so while episode 3 was happening, 3b with Breen was happening at the same time.

You missed in the first expedition that something came out of the pond after he sees the buggy drops sinks straight down and the video cuts.

This was the first Garry's Mod ARG I learned about. What a wild ride it's been since then...

I really appreciate you showing us the deleted video because it genuinely looks so damn creepy having no flashlight and seeing a burning figure out of nowhere. I agree with you, best ARG clip yet.

Odd that I swear I watched all of these WAY before they were uploaded... it's such an incredibly weird feeling when you feel like something has already happened before... been having that a lot with maps I never played before, heck even on other games and yet at some point it feels like... it happened long before yet that is impossible. Do wish this stuff were real and in more video games, imagine how much FUN and JOY people would have being haunted to shit!

It's worth noting that some channel pre-Google+ had their banners and profile pictures turned to blank white images if they didn't merge with the services before it was eventually shut down.

Another video from our beloved Richter, at evening... Damn, it is such a great atmosphere, listening to your voice, while you are showing, describing, or overall talking about something. You are an awesome person, glad I found your channel long time ago, when all that ARG situation was on a peak Btw, Richter Overtime ASMR when?

my theory: The fact there is two in everything and they are opposites all the time but they always go near each other, the murderer with gman, Bob and Bill are basically different but are friends, and the shadow man follows the player

This project and recap are both great. There are 2 details that I love about how it creates a feeling of something being wrong. How the abyss pond exists, and blocks the viewmodel of the player, eventually leading to concrete footsteps. All things that are possible in the game but should NOT be happening where they are. And, I love how the flaming skeleton appears OVER the quit confirmation box, again something that has no reason it should be unable to happen in a game, but really really should not be occurring how it is. You're right, this project is very subtle in its scares

Damn I can't believe bob and bill was an arg thing, I remember watching it before I was into horror stuff so I didn't know anything was up

Good Evening Richter. I see you were able to pump out an Hour long Video describing one of the most Popular oldest Gmod ARG in 8 days from your last video is impressive considering you have two channels to maintain. Respect.

Finally, a good subtle Analog Horror type scenario. Too many modern analog horror ARGs are in your face and meta.

13:09 Yeah, I have to agree that was pretty awesome, I’m right there with you in saying it’s my favorite ARG clip 👀

It's crazy to me how many of this guy's videos I've seen while just browsing RU-vid. I legitimately thought these were all just Gmod shitposts. This one is good just for that alone

also, on the kc2 broken trailer, he throws the ragdoll and runs because you can see its head look right at the player

This arg in peculiar sent a chill down my spine on the first note of the shadowy figure. Probably because it was combined with the source feel that you get by playing by yourself.

It's fun knowing in the videos like the nova prospect update, his attempts to get into the vent was probably him genuinely messing it up

Bob and Bill is unironically the funniest show (of this quality) I've ever seen. It's honestly even funnier than some comedy shows.

absolute insanity. completely unheard of. never before seen

One thing i realized about the videos is that the gman videos have stopped being made instead being replaced with the bob and bill episodes. And another thing i noticed is that gman seemed to be pretty liked by the player, being the first character in his videos and being the first character to appear in several of classic gm video’s older videos

only gmod stuff I watched was similar to if not kitty0706 and boshitt I was really creeped out by engineer when people would make his face look like the Grunt from Amnesia: The Dark Descent and that engineer was always like unkillable in the videos he was in left a shiver in my spine.

Something I wish you mentioned on the deleted video was how the burning skeleton had actually burned through the menu, and was visible through the quit game box, like it was far beyond escapable through just quitting the game.

Scizzy: hey wanna download this cool mod i made? CGV: oh yeah sure, what's in it? Scizzy: its a gun i made to be op CGV: heck yeah lets play with it *CGV doesn't know that Scizzy is trolling him* CGV: hey what's that figure? Thats scary, let me just close this off ---------------------------------------------- Theory: maybe he just downloaded some random mod from his friend

By the way, in the background of the scene where Bob is entering the food ration building (the close up), we see Bill running off to the left, and Breen on a bench. I can only assume the distortion in B&B:2 would happen at the same time as, or right before, Bill poisons Breen in "breen gets pranked". When the two cops are beating on Bill, Breen is seen vomiting, and (right as Bob throws the box and it hits a Metrocop) Breen is seen running in the background, in the same place (and in the same poses) as the final few shots from "breen gets pranked". I know it's obvious if you're a bit observent, but Richter Overtime did not mention this. (also sidenote i kinda wanna see B&B as a full series itd be cool i think)

only nerds call richter overtime the “Gmod ARG Guy.” Seriously, the other videos are great. And is the reason I suddenly bought Half life 2, not kidding. Why am I still commenting? Don’t know.

My personal theory is that Scizzy either died or cut off ties with Classic GM and all or at least most of these anomalies are manifestations of that. Yet instead of trying to move on, GM just keeps trying to interact with Scizzy and eventually using the Bob and Bill series as a way to cope with what's happening. The dark figure could be the side of GM that just wants to move on but is basically pushed back into his mind or, might be a stretch, how GM views Scizzy, now as just a bystander or stranger. TL:DR GM is stuck in the past, both literally and metaphorically

I’d say with GM Classic’s ARG, its more so shaping up to be some sort of multiverse glitch. Like he is haunting himself without realising it

in all honesty, i dont care if the idea is used up. shadow figure? yeah ive seen it quite a lot, but do i care? no. as long as the arg is well put together, i absolutely love it

54:38 You mean you don't recognise music from the original Paper Mario on the Nintendo 64? Other tracks from the game are also used in more of Classic GM Videos' works, PM64 has a pretty distinct style of music so it's easy to recognise.

A few things to note as well: ever since the original Zombie Killer video was uploaded, the actual creator has been conspicuously silent. Looking at the descriptions of every video since then there is no "modern" commentary like in the earlier videos, and they also say that the videos are being "automatically uploaded". Additionally in the "half life 2 cool sad area" the dead civilian is the same model as Bill, possibly implying that Bob & Bill were the ones who died there. And lastly there is a shocking parallel in the first Bob & Bill video where Bill blocks Bob into the bathroom, much like the player has blocked the shadow figure into the garage spawn room.

These videos perfectly utilize the dread a lot of gmodders felt when playing the Single Player. That certain unease when you're alone in a map and you get the feeling of something watching you.

Can I just say Mr. Overtime that you are one of my favorite RU-vid channels thank you for all of the work you put into your videos.

Thank you for making these, I have an itch for long deep dives into obscure content. I wish you only growth and prosperity!

24:54 Not too much of a stress considering the Keliner challenge videos were also filmed on a half-life map, and we saw no hints of the entity there.

These kind of videos scare the living crap out of me and its probably because as a kid myself i remember gmod creeping me the fuck out and i remember 13:37 this moment happening to me (being terrified of something and frantically trying to quit the game ASAP)

The Eerie quiet during the segments that RU-vid muted the copyrighted audio XP

surprised Richter hadn't talked about GM classic before, great video all together! cant wait for the hypothetical sequel to this video

can we just take a minute to appreciate gmod? you can turn the game from funny to horrifying or goofy or hyper-realistic with just a few mods. you cannot say its a waste of money edit: grammar

This is a copy of my comment on Stellar1's vid. Ok, theory time: I think that scizzy drowned. The infinite pond videos are representing that fact. The black area that he gets teleported to at the bottom of the pond represents death, which is further reinforced by the fact that the room is inescapable. His pond expedition videos might represent him trying to get his friend back to no avail, and the pod that he accidentally pushed into the pond might represent the fact that he accidentally led to scizzys death by pushing him into the pond by accident. This is further supported by the fact that scizzy is represented by a zombie, and he made a video called "zombiekiller" which is the most glitched out of all of the videos. The glitched videos probably represent a memory that is hard to cope with, and the most glitched video on the channel is zombiekiller. I think that video represents him accidentally killing scizzy, and that the shadowy figure is the memory of what he did haunting him. This explains why the shadow figure appeared at the graveyard. The graveyard made him remember Scizzy and what he did to them. Sorry if I misspelled anything, English is not my first language.

I remember back then there were addons that would add these kind of things to your game like a dark figure that would watch you from afar it was added along as some addon for example like a one that adds new enemies its very creepy forgot the name of the addon and its probably lost to time now

How the “ghostrider” thing was made is when back in the day in gmod 9 there was this tool called “ignite” what the player did is spawn an npc or a ragdoll and ignited it in the dark room.

My theory about the dark figure is similar to a comic I read many many years ago (cant remember the name). There was a guy who watched his pet get stolen by a demon of some short and chases it to get his pet back, after countless tortures he goes back into the overworld, goes to his pet and sees himself. He then proceeds to realise that he was that demon all along and the circle continues with his past self chasing after him.

Bill was the one who pranked Breen. That’s why he’s getting beat up by the metropolice in the episode. You even see breen throwing up in the background in the episode !

You didnt talk about this but during the Bob and Bill Mini episode when the two metrocops are just chilling by the door, through the static you can see a dude wearing a suit, maybe gman? Idk aint got a clue

why does seeing this feel so familiar. like it feels so familiar to see specifically rector overtime covering this channel yet this video only came up 4 days ago and yet my mind remembers me watching this last year... damn deja Vu do be hitting me right now.

I love GMod ARGs for some reason. I can't fully explain why, but maybe because I like seeing old gameplay footage and also like ARGs in general. Another great video!

Classic GM videos was the first channel I've heard about so called gmod horror and I'm glad it's still the only one with the true air of mystery surrounding it. It's the only one that never showed who's behind of it and still try to keep that feeling of "authencity" as in keeping pretending it's not a horror gimmick. It's exactly what makes such horror gimmicks work. Blessed be this person.

The "Half life 2 cool sad area" video might be related to "bob and bill" perhaps it's foreshadowing their fate.

No pc in 2009 could handle all those zombies on those frames lol

Probably he deleted the video because it was a little bit exaggerated.

Imagine how much funnier it would be if in the first video the figure WAS a friend of the guy running classic gm videos who joined in at the wrong time (as he was making gman's day out) and that's why he was prop blocked.

This isn't really an ARG, but If you can, I think you should cover Tipsy Ducks videos. More specifically, 'How to Climb a Tree', 'How to ride a Bike', and 'A Funny' (in that order). It's an interesting series following 3 red Scouts, but also absolutely terrifying. Spooky shit. Keep up the great work man, love your content^^

hmm, you know i had thought i had seen this video before, but I think I was wrong. The video I had seen was pretty clear about what the metafiction here likely was. Dead friend, ghost, now haunted. the one part where they show the one secret area from within the actual half life 2 game is a key corner stone of that theory

My interpretation, at least from what's been shown so far, is that the player is grieving the loss of someone close to them. I would guess that they had a relationship similar to the one shown in Bob and Bill before something happened to put an end to it, something the player feels guilty over. That guilt then manifests in the form of the shadow man and follows them even as they try to distract from it by making GMod videos. It's a simple metaphor and maybe not even an intentional one, but that's as much as I could get out of it.

Idk if you will ever see this comment but I have seen a lot of comments saying that the player is most likely grieving over the fact that his friend is dead and that it was most likely his fault and that he’s being haunted because of it. As well as him wanting to forget it

I think Classic GM videos is on the same level as Mandela Catalogue cuz they both were creepy as hell but then they became a meme

I think the zombie hl2 video 48:27 is meant to be a metaphor for how he lost is friend I think the other channel that gmod9 mentions is a dead friend who is haunting his computer for not giving his death much attention the shadow man is gmod9 dead friend.

I think the deleted video was removed for being too overtly sinister too early, that or uploading and then deleting it was part of the plan and done to create mystique.

I think the shadow figure on Bob and Bill 2 is just "Pick up that can" guy. It'd make a lot of sense. Also, like the continuity on Bob and Bill. You can see Bill go sneak off from Bob, and Breen throwing up. It all adds up.

The music for the computer video is the Paper Mario battle theme. A fair number of the songs they used are from the original Paper Mario

48:36 the first time I played half life 2 I remember chilling around that small area showed on the video, it is indeed very peaceful, but i never stopped to realize that little story behind it

I love videos like this as I am a chicken shit pansy when it comes to horror. I can't deal with it well, but I find it incredibly interesting. You're channel allows me to skip the videos themselves but still get the same enjoyment from putting the pieces together and the like.

god please make a video about hl2s environmental story telling

music in gman uses the computer is the battle theme from paper mario 64, good taste

i think the hl2 0000000 video is canon since the description of that video says "never upload", maybe CGV noticed that he accidentaly uploaded that video and deleted it so people cant see it

17:18 The reason why he is going backwards torwards the dark room is because he has a fast zombie right infront of him (i can tell by the speed and animations, due to the corruption moving at the same pace as a normal Fast Zombie in gmod.)

The shadow figure is probably his future self experiencencing this over and over again like a paradox loop

I like the fact that the player panics and quickly quits

“This channel is cery active” he says, moments before it dies

Imagine on the hl2 0000000 clip the audio just goes "RATTLE ME BONES"

How.. How do you not know Paper Mario music?

Theory: Distortions during videos were caused by time paradoxes.

i have a theory that the richter overtime in this video is an impostor because in 48:36 classic gm videos calls the mudskipper THE AIR BOAT and he doesn't say shit