"Old games were scary" slop

[thespanishcel]

Anyone noticed this trend? Video essays about how N64/Ps1 (some Ps2 too) era games that were always considered kid friendly like Super Mario 64 now are creepy because of some dumb reasons like the worlds feel empty, the hidden lore or liminal spaces, wtf

If you said that about survival horror games or adventure games that added some horror elements (Atlantis levels in Tomb Raider, MGS2 codec conversations, etc.) fair enough but you will never convince me that secretly Crash Bandicoot 1 was a horror game because the industrial plant levels feel eerie.

The only thing I remotely agree is that when I was a kid I found the GTA San Andreas woods creepy specially at night because of the huge tall trees and dense fog, I always thought some myth like Leatherface or Big Foot would come out and attack me even if I knew those were fake kek

 

[Spooky_Heejin]

Video essays about how N64/Ps1 (some Ps2 too) era games that were always considered kid friendly like Super Mario 64 now are creepy because of some dumb reasons like the worlds feel empty, the hidden lore or liminal spaces, wtf

It's always a fucking hour long of a guy talking about it in a fake deep monotone voice. Shit is so fucking cringe.

but you will never convince me that secretly Crash Bandicoot 1 was a horror game because the industrial plant levels feel eerie.

They'll spend a whole fucking 10 minutes describing why it's creepy when it could be shortened in 10 seconds by saying it's just a dark fucking room with little lighting and shit.

 

[TooSomething]

I have watched a video of how Mario 64 was some illuminati innitiation ritual. LoL

It was wild, but kind of plausible.

 

[Loliraider]

I've gotten eerie feelings from empty multiplayer maps ever since I first played Jedi Knight 2. This isn't a new thing.

 

[starystulejarz]

You Zoomers and gen a (more like fAgs) are extremely gay and it shows you are scared of everything even your shadow.

 

[starystulejarz]

I've gotten eerie feelings from empty multiplayer maps ever since I first played Jedi Knight 2. This isn't a new thing.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4M5DPGOfx4

 

[Belisar]

Yeah I hate that too. I only agree that horror works way better with older graphics then newer.

It just looks more surreal but also paradoxically more believable.

 

[Loliraider]

You Zoomers and gen a (more like fAgs) are extremely gay and it shows you are scared of everything even your shadow.

It’s not a Zoomer thing. I’m a millennial and experienced this back in the early 2000s. empty maps could feel really eerie ,or melancholic at least.

Ok, internet tough guy.

 

[NonNTFailure]

Video essays are only good for background noise when I go to bed. I just whatever slop autoplay till I pass out

 

[Hoodpreet]

Video essays

Lost me here lmao. I couldn't imagine watching these

 

[ordinaryotaku]

I never understood why people get "scary" feelings, especially, from what I have seen, about Source games and maps. I think it's just Zoomer retardation, and I am saying this as a "cusp" Zoomer myself. Back when these games were around, not everything was put on the screen for you, which then required some imagination to fill in the blanks. I think some of these kids just watch too much horrorslop.

I just get nostalgia with a mix of melancholy when I play these games, because it takes me back to my childhood and it makes me think about the good times, and how things will never be as good as they once were.

 

[Exhunter45]

Anyone noticed this trend? Video essays about how N64/Ps1 (some Ps2 too) era games that were always considered kid friendly like Super Mario 64 now are creepy because of some dumb reasons like the worlds feel empty, the hidden lore or liminal spaces, wtf

If you said that about survival horror games or adventure games that added some horror elements (Atlantis levels in Tomb Raider, MGS2 codec conversations, etc.) fair enough but you will never convince me that secretly Crash Bandicoot 1 was a horror game because the industrial plant levels feel eerie.

The only thing I remotely agree is that when I was a kid I found the GTA San Andreas woods creepy specially at night because of the huge tall trees and dense fog, I always thought some myth like Leatherface or Big Foot would come out and attack me even if I knew those were fake kek

Only kids game that scary is usa version of Sonic CD infinite fun

 

[bruhwtf]

I mean the only game that scared me was gmod when I boot up a hl2 map on single player. Yknow the atmosphere of hl2, it's dark, apocalyptic, dead silent and lonely. But I don't get it why on games like SM64 lol.

 

[SociallyStunted]

I mean the only game that scared me was gmod when I boot up a hl2 map on single player. Yknow the atmosphere of hl2, it's dark, apocalyptic, dead silent and lonely. But I don't get it why on games like SM64 lol.

I don’t believe people are actually “scared” of sm64, imo there’s nothing to even be scared of lol. Also yea, Gmod kinda scares me abit to with its atmosphere

 

[slavcel11]

The ones that get to me are these:

"You didn't get [insert a somewhat popular game from 2005-2014 that everyone correctly deemed mediocre on release]" (duration 3:42:15)

"I played every [insert an old game series where only one or two entries were actually good] and this is what I understand" (duration 5:10:12)

"A brief introduction to [insert an old game series where the last entry came out 20 years ago] (Part 1)" (duration 04:59:34)

etc etc but yours is a good one too, an example of a made-up narrative invented by autistic zoomer mind

 

[sullen]

When I played Mario64 in the early 00's I never thought of it as creepy, that's a modern interwebz approach to create creepypastas off the early 3D wonkiness.

 

[poorenglishcel]

All old games suck and every new game is good HAHAHAHAHAHHA

 

[AutistSupremacist]

I can understand old minecraft or mario 64. It has less to do with their being active entities seeking to kill you and more to do with the isolation of it all.

 

[deleted fren]

I never found Mario 64 scary as a kid. The only thing I found scary in regards to Mario was that Manta boss in Mario Sunshine.