I used to spawn a single enemy on one side of the map and start on the other and hunt them with intentionally lowered health to increase the sense of danger, some really good spooks came out of it. The AI pathing on this map is pretty decent.
I've been studying human fear for a while and as far as I'm able to tell, that effect with the lights on and nobody home subconsciously makes you think that whatever happened was so fast and dangerous that nobody even had time to flick a lightswitch. Whatever it was happened suddenly, at least for some. I love that sort of effect. Show, not tell.
"..makes you think that whatever happened was so fast and dangerous that nobody even had time to flick a lightswitch." is a perfect way to say it. It's extremely terrifying and I love it.
It's like everyone just vanished out of existence from where they were standing. It really taps into that fear of the unknown, especially like what this map did. It didn't exactly tell a full story, but it left enough evidence to tell the player that something went _horribly_ wrong.
I like how he doesn't constantly spit low-hanging fruit jokes every 5 seconds, ruining the mood. He actually immerses himself like you should in a experience like this. We need more CZcamsrs like this.
@@drsnakhenry653 ‘low-hanging fruit’ references a joke or comment that’s easy to make in a situation - the obvious joke. Cosmic was saying that Librarian doesn’t go around making the obvious jokes.
@@jennal4143 I appreciate how kind you were explaining a very simple concept to someone, most people would've been extremely rude about something as simple as that, but you decided to explain it in a very calm and nice manor. I applaud your kindness sir
There's a relatively new map on the gmod workshop that got featured on the front page recently called gm_mallparking. It is not quite as horror-themed as gm_shambles but it does give me some serious liminal space vibes as it takes place in an underground parking garage of sorts. That and just a lot of nostalgia. It's also a lot bigger than I expected when I first checked it out myself.
Someone should take all your fears that you describe in these videos and make the perfect map to terrify you. Where you really are being watched from the shadows, lured into dead ends, and things are running around in the shadows just beyond your flashlight.
I do really think that he wont be able to play it. Imagine like urban exploring gone wrong without the cheesy screams and stuff, and more footsteps far away, shadows just outside the flashlight and a strong feeling of being watched. The perfect spooky map.
Maybe everyone in the boarded up houses are still hiding and the only houses you can enter are the ones who didn't make it. The only reason you're the only one there is because you are the one they're hiding from. This could be why the power is still on and the church bells sound distantly, there are still people, you just can't see (or find) them...
@@nov_icee I'm not sure which house it's in, but there's a newspaper on the floor of one of the houses that says "FIGHT OR FLIGHT" on it. It talks about an apocalypse happening but doesn't directly explain what kind of apocalypse it is. All it mentions is natural disasters and aliens, but it isn't clear if either of those are the actual things behind the apocalypse or not
18:09 "what is this garden gnome... is it real? more importantly, what does it look like? and is it watching me right now?" is easily the funniest quote from your gmod urbex videos. could easily be a movie line
I have a theory about the whole "lights on but nobody's home" thing: it's sort of related to liminal spaces. I've always kind of thought of liminal space as the "uncanny valley" of places. Something is clearly Not Quite Right, but it's subtle; there's something wrong or illogical with an otherwise normal place or scenario. Media nowadays is chock full of apocalyptic scenarios, so that by itself no longer reads as "wrong" to us. Nor does the concept of being Not Quite Alone; at this point, we've seen every iteration of that (someone's there but they're evil; someone's there but they're friendly; someone's there but they're not real; etc.) and none of it really reads as particularly creepy because we're just so used to it. But add a detail we aren't used to, something that makes no logical sense, and it re-adds some of that horror in the form of liminality (can that be a word? idk). There IS no good reason for the lights to be on. Logically, even if there are people left, the power system wouldn't be maintained. It's pretty much the first thing to go in any real-world disaster. And, maybe worse, without people and life and the normal goings-on of the world, there's no reason they SHOULD be on. They're not needed, they're not useful. They're this random frivolous detail that adds to that whole surreal feeling, that "this isn't right but I can't put my finger on WHY" sort of deal.
Hey Librarian, There’s a recent map called “Tokyo University Hospital” on the workshop. I think it might be worth exploring because there’s a ominous feeling about the map and a really scary Easter egg. Hint: turn the lights off at the start and go into the elevator and press the button at the very bottom.
@@chaoscowboy189 It's gm_tokyo_hospital and all it is a Mercy Hospital from L4D but cleaned up and has supposed "paranormal activity" though I haven't been able to find such on the map.
You were correct regarding this map being based on English architecture. In the description of the workshop page for this map, the Creator (who I garnered from the comments has passed away, RIP) said they based it on their own neighborhood.
@@samuraijackoff5354 that's horribly tragic, especially at such a young age too. at least his content lives on for more people to experience after his passing.
Fartomatic (Fartomaticatron) was the author of this map. The inclusion of his name is a cheeky easter egg of sorts. The slightly creepy and mostly sad thing is that he's actually no longer alive.
@@nov_icee He actually fell very ill in very late 2014, passing in January 2015. Currently he was last online 2059 days ago, he still sits there on my friendslist.
Yeah but that's just it. Atleast you know they're dead, even if you don't know why. And they're likely not going to get back up or something or they've been mind controlled by something or other, ect. Basically you know where they are now and probably won't have to worry about it later.
There was a myth in that map about a gnome that followed the player around the map and sometimes you could spot it, its probably fake but interesting none the less
I really prefer these more creepy or atmospheric oriented maps than the outwardly horror ones. It just meshes better with your commentary style in my opinion. Anyway, thanks for another great VR video. 👍
I think the "haunted" versions of maps are really the best style for him. They give that creepy feeling, like you mentioned, but they have an active aspect to them.
"No, not the Physics Gun. Not gonna keep my immersion if I keep reminding myself I'm basically God in this scenario." That's a thought prompt that hits me every time I'm setting up Tacti-Cool GMOD shit and shooting courses and what not. Despite being set to Ignore me, despite being set to not have any thoughts, the genuine look of concern on the faces of citizens and what not gives me the impression that NPCs you spawn exist in a G-Man-esque void until you spawn them and they KNOW their SOLE PURPOSE to exist is simply to be killed *OVER AND OVER AGAIN.* Like some kind of personal Hell. Literally, and I shit you not, one day I was going through doing my assassin/liquidation team shit where I clear the map of not just enemies but also civilians too. And I always set this guy up to be talking to this front desk lady. So I do my usual shit of clearing the map when I get to her and right after shooting her, this guy turns around, looks directly at me and just says "That's it. I'M PISSED!" before kinda trying to run at me before getting gunned down, himself. It's just shit like that that gives NPCs way more life than you expect or really even want. I also got the "Bad Friend" achievement that run for gunning down 5,000 friendly NPCs.
i actually found a half life 2 episode one voice line that says exactly that line "thats it, im pissed" its supposed to trigger when you kill their "buddy" cit_buddykilled12
Unrelated, but at 4:04, the moment you entered that room and said "How's this for a creative prompt?" I immediately tensed up in fear. I had dreamt this exact scenario, laying in bed watching this exact video in that EXACT scene as a CHILD. It's definitely not a false memory either, because I had thought about it, and I know I had before, multiple times in the past before this video was ever uploaded. It was as if dejavu had just sucker punched me in the jaw. I'm going to continue with the video but I'm still at 4:04. Idk why, I just felt as though I had to say that.
@@channelchannelchannelchannel he's talking about a youtuber called mini ladd, known for playing with other youtubers such as vanoss, h2o delirious, wildcat etc before he went off to do his own thing. he was later found out to be sexting minors. one of his most famous jokes was a character he made on this very map called pablo who was a pedophile. so yeah.. it didn't age well to say the least.
I love the fact that you can tell the fear and uneasyness is genuine and not some show put on for viewers. The flinches, the sudden pauses and snaps of his head to distant sounds, those are all fear responses that aren't really falsifiable on command. The constant checking behind him and in open doorways, the slow movement as a whole. You can tell he's actually unsettled. Mad props to you. Only found your channel the other day but immediately a fan. Keep it up.
you get that by going to school in america and get a gun HAHAHA haha america change your gun laws your kinda killing students in shcool becuase they steal there parents guns
I believe this is made to be a roleplay map, empty houses mean the player(s) can decorate their own homes and live in them. I've played this with friends, and we roleplayed going to each other's houses for sleep overs and stuff. Used the media player mod to drown out some of the ambiance though.
1:45 that's change ringing, you have someone on each bell and you ring them at varying speeds so they come in and out of phase, does sound a bit like someone throwing the belfry down a staircase but it has quite a nice jubilant sound to it, especially if you live somewhere with enough belltowers and they all do it at the same time. It's fairly common in England especially for weddings, but I don't know if other places do it that much because a lot of places nowadays have mechanical controllers rather than a room full of people on ropes.
I remember seeing VanossGaming use this map for a zombie apocalypses skit video once. It's cool to see you explore this since I never thought about it back when I originally saw the video. Also RIP to the map creator, didn't know about the car crash. Creator made a great map, sad that they passed away.
26:53 I'm gonna go with dragged down - that's a splat, then drag motion to the blood stain. I think if something was sloshing up out of a bloody brew, there would be more splatter along the drag-path. Ha, that's the story those decal assets tell me, anyway.
Decal assets, prop location, noises, everything you find in a map like this tells you what happened here in a way you have to piece together. The end day happened, people panicked, they boarded up their windows and doors, some more successful than others
I'm only up to 24:10 but When the video started I almost instantly recognized the map, I remember I put zombies and weapons about the place. I remember very specifically looking from the first house TL went into at the second house, and just *feeling* something there. I remember spawning a sports car and driving around a bunch, going house to house killing hords and getting progressively better guns. I remember that first water bit, going through it just to find it leading to another house, no sewer network or anything. Just your usual GMOD vent but underwater. So you can imagine how that felt for me, when I saw it I couldn't tell if I had just forgotten that area or if the map was updated. Then there was the outside area. You could never go outside the fence. There was never any sniffling in that second house. Never any basement. *That version of the map was supposed to be the final version iirc.* The map quickly went from "haha lets see how TL manages to freak himself over a map that does nothing this time" to "familiar but *off*, not necessarily just different but *wrong*". This...is gonna be interesting.
Once in a blue moon CZcams recommends me something that's just out of the realm of what I normally watch and knocks it out of the park. The Ashville video is what got me here, and I'm loving the stuff you're doing, the map walkthroughs are strangely fascinating.
Knocked down doors means something broke into multiple houses, did people get out in time? You never find a body so where did the blood come from? It's rarely ever too much blood so it's possible they were carried or consumed whole
You know, this would probably make a good setting for a short film, wondering through a seemingly abandoned town while the entire time being given hints that you're either not alone or somehow just missed the people as they either fled or were done away with by some unknown entity. Then of course the locked garden hatch to the sewer which lead to the static remains of the citizens, suggesting something far more... eldritch.
Bravo on finding the bodies dude! Played this since I was a little kid, never found that. Its honestly kind of a little bit disturbing to know now, that the corpses were there the whole time.
The church bells make me think of a baptism or a wedding; when it's all over & everyone is walking out the front dbl-doors the bells indicate something joyous has occurred, I think or imo. 😀
The thing I find creepy about a lot of these maps is there’s almost always evidence of something having *just* lived in the area, but you are always too late to have seen what had once occupied it. A barrel fire probably wouldn’t stay lit for that long, and as you said with the house lights being on.
hey! i just want to let you know the vrmod supports Full body tracking so if you were to get FBT you could basically move your legs torso hand and body separate from everything
I can tell you a little bit about exactly what happened, if you read the whole paper in the house where there is a sign that says HELLP the date on the paper is on December 4, 2012 when the Mayans said the end of the world would be on December 21, 2012 so I think the map is a reference to that day and also I think the paper said something about aliens or something like that and also that the UK economy was ending in a disaster.
This map really reminded me of a dream that I've recently had where it was Halloween in the suburbs and lights and stuff were on peoples' front yards yet..... nobody was there.. just me wandering around the streets at night.
I'm British and Oh god GM Shambles like straight from the start looks like your average UK street and resembles what the road I live on looks like so much
Wow I remember when you started to grow and I was thinking "I really hope he keeps making these" and you've really kept up with the content, thanks for that
GM_Shambles reminds me of a Something terrible happened on the Surban Area were they have to board up the windows. This is perfect a Horror Map for anything you want for example like Trevor Henderson famous monster like Siren Head or Famous creepypasta legend Slenderman.
19:43 is when this map went from creepy to absolute cynical abandon it got so creepy in that house especially as librarian tries to read the news paper while there is snifflings chimes and buzzing and that news paper predicts the total collapse ... Sooo well done.
Few years ago me and my friend were playing this map, played for a good few hours and went into the lower sewers, i distinctly remember the sound of a camera flash behind me and my friend.
This map heavily reminded me of Everybody's gone to the rapture, just houses left open, lights kept on as if everyone had suddenly just poofed out of existence at the same time
Yo man. Just wanted to let you now that I absolutely adore your content and that your VR videos have been an absolute blast. You sound so earnest when it comes to admiring these maps as a piece of art, god damn. Love it.
Every time i hear the bells i can only imagine some giant anomination shambling around the map makling these weird ringing bell noises, getting closer and farther away aimlessly wandering.
the worst part about this to me is that there are no corpses or anything... there's just blood. but you never find out who's blood it is so you never even find out how long ago whatever happened happened
When i downloaded this map i was like "Oh, this would be a good map for some npc battles!" and it was, but i was paranoid as fuck, always checking my back. The background sounds were the worst, and yes I felt like i was being watched like him.
Gm_Shambles is my favorite map, really fun to play on and do stuff with and at the same time it's just a wonderful map on it's own, it was amazing seeing you traverse it in vr
I have the feeling the *player* is the thing they were trying to fight against since you *are* a literal god and can do anything but I guess you got through
The first time I ever saw this map was of a group of CZcamsrs using it for a zombie apocalypse video which I watched when I was very young also btw you make great content
Me and my friend would get on this map when we got beck from school, and he would both go to random parts of the map and one of us would hunt down the other useing just knives. Good times and quite spooky
This reminds me of SCP-001 with everyone gone and the windows being boarded up and then that one house where the ply wood was off of the windows, almost as if the person was persuaded to “look at the sun” or to come out of hiding by the people consumed by the monstrous flesh blob that was made for the cataclysmic events that SCP-001 causes
My theory is that that people are still in the houses that have boarded up windows and closed doors, and the ones who didn't board the house up in time died.
American man explores England for 40 minutes and experiences his own personal hell
so a average british chewsday'?
Man explores England (derogatory)
so true bestie
That's not England at all. The roads are way too huge.
Must be in the rich part
I used to spawn a single enemy on one side of the map and start on the other and hunt them with intentionally lowered health to increase the sense of danger, some really good spooks came out of it. The AI pathing on this map is pretty decent.
what kinds of enemies did you use?
which npc? (just for educational purposes)
Running zombie would be terrifying
Any SCP npc that can follow you would be terrifying.
You should try doing it in void maps like gm_bigcity void. I tried that once with a cry of fear monster, it was the most horrifying shit ever
RIP to the creator who made this amazing map
Well knowing that sure does make the map even more bloody terrafying
dang, what did he die from? and when?
@@smoothbrained4channer976 from reading the comments on the workshop page, it seems like it was a car crash back in January 2015.
@@davvvvo damn, R.I.P man
@@davvvvo Rest in peaces
I've been studying human fear for a while and as far as I'm able to tell, that effect with the lights on and nobody home subconsciously makes you think that whatever happened was so fast and dangerous that nobody even had time to flick a lightswitch. Whatever it was happened suddenly, at least for some. I love that sort of effect. Show, not tell.
"..makes you think that whatever happened was so fast and dangerous that nobody even had time to flick a lightswitch." is a perfect way to say it. It's extremely terrifying and I love it.
The Furrapocalypse.
Furries rising and going rabid.
@@Poodleinacan awoocalypse
It's like everyone just vanished out of existence from where they were standing. It really taps into that fear of the unknown, especially like what this map did. It didn't exactly tell a full story, but it left enough evidence to tell the player that something went _horribly_ wrong.
@@nekolaiwastaken Stop being scared, it's just Life After People lore.
I like how he doesn't constantly spit low-hanging fruit jokes every 5 seconds, ruining the mood. He actually immerses himself like you should in a experience like this. We need more CZcamsrs like this.
fruit jokes??..
@@drsnakhenry653 ‘low-hanging fruit’ references a joke or comment that’s easy to make in a situation - the obvious joke. Cosmic was saying that Librarian doesn’t go around making the obvious jokes.
@@jennal4143 ohhhhh
@@jennal4143 I appreciate how kind you were explaining a very simple concept to someone, most people would've been extremely rude about something as simple as that, but you decided to explain it in a very calm and nice manor.
I applaud your kindness sir
@@an-average-box
It's so sad that is something to be impressed about nowadays.
There's a relatively new map on the gmod workshop that got featured on the front page recently called gm_mallparking. It is not quite as horror-themed as gm_shambles but it does give me some serious liminal space vibes as it takes place in an underground parking garage of sorts. That and just a lot of nostalgia. It's also a lot bigger than I expected when I first checked it out myself.
I'll have to check that out. Is sounds interesting.
I literallty thought of him while i played that map myself
ah thats a good map, really good for scene building as well
Played it in VR myself. Instantly thought it would fit his videos very well.
It’s so good!
The nostalgia remembering Vanoss played this map with his friends hits hard
The zombie survival vid was lit
Miniladd became Pablo in real life tho
Oh god, the nostalgia... IS REAL.
Ah yes, the American ADHD guy where popular references and loud = funny. I am very glad I never consumed any of his videos.
@@Reichstaubenminister thanks for your opinion. I still can't find who asked though.
Someone should take all your fears that you describe in these videos and make the perfect map to terrify you. Where you really are being watched from the shadows, lured into dead ends, and things are running around in the shadows just beyond your flashlight.
I do really think that he wont be able to play it.
Imagine like urban exploring gone wrong without the cheesy screams and stuff, and more footsteps far away, shadows just outside the flashlight and a strong feeling of being watched. The perfect spooky map.
Gm_construct13 beta
Oh, and obscenely high roofs.
And water.
Maybe everyone in the boarded up houses are still hiding and the only houses you can enter are the ones who didn't make it. The only reason you're the only one there is because you are the one they're hiding from.
This could be why the power is still on and the church bells sound distantly, there are still people, you just can't see (or find) them...
there's a newspaper explaining that there was some kind of apocalypse that killed everyone off
@@Tulip_bip could you explain the newspaper a bit more or where is it?
@@nov_icee
I'm not sure which house it's in, but there's a newspaper on the floor of one of the houses that says "FIGHT OR FLIGHT" on it. It talks about an apocalypse happening but doesn't directly explain what kind of apocalypse it is. All it mentions is natural disasters and aliens, but it isn't clear if either of those are the actual things behind the apocalypse or not
@@Tulip_bip cheers
@@nov_icee you can see the newspaper at 19:53
18:09 "what is this garden gnome... is it real? more importantly, what does it look like? and is it watching me right now?" is easily the funniest quote from your gmod urbex videos. could easily be a movie line
This is what it feels like when your parents forget to pick you up from school and you have to walk back home late at night
I have a theory about the whole "lights on but nobody's home" thing: it's sort of related to liminal spaces. I've always kind of thought of liminal space as the "uncanny valley" of places. Something is clearly Not Quite Right, but it's subtle; there's something wrong or illogical with an otherwise normal place or scenario. Media nowadays is chock full of apocalyptic scenarios, so that by itself no longer reads as "wrong" to us. Nor does the concept of being Not Quite Alone; at this point, we've seen every iteration of that (someone's there but they're evil; someone's there but they're friendly; someone's there but they're not real; etc.) and none of it really reads as particularly creepy because we're just so used to it. But add a detail we aren't used to, something that makes no logical sense, and it re-adds some of that horror in the form of liminality (can that be a word? idk). There IS no good reason for the lights to be on. Logically, even if there are people left, the power system wouldn't be maintained. It's pretty much the first thing to go in any real-world disaster. And, maybe worse, without people and life and the normal goings-on of the world, there's no reason they SHOULD be on. They're not needed, they're not useful. They're this random frivolous detail that adds to that whole surreal feeling, that "this isn't right but I can't put my finger on WHY" sort of deal.
The Earth vored everyone.
@@Poodleinacan earth chan isn't real she can't hurt you
Hey Librarian, There’s a recent map called “Tokyo University Hospital” on the workshop. I think it might be worth exploring because there’s a ominous feeling about the map and a really scary Easter egg.
Hint: turn the lights off at the start and go into the elevator and press the button at the very bottom.
I can’t find it, link?
@@chaoscowboy189 It's gm_tokyo_hospital and all it is a Mercy Hospital from L4D but cleaned up and has supposed "paranormal activity" though I haven't been able to find such on the map.
You were correct regarding this map being based on English architecture. In the description of the workshop page for this map, the Creator (who I garnered from the comments has passed away, RIP) said they based it on their own neighborhood.
How?
@@uglymelon6721 How to what? That the creator is died? He died around 2015 during a car crash. He was only 24, may rest peacefully.
@@samuraijackoff5354 that's horribly tragic, especially at such a young age too. at least his content lives on for more people to experience after his passing.
@@samuraijackoff5354 damn.... That's really unfortunate
Could've sworn that was debunked. The author dying that is.
Fartomatic (Fartomaticatron) was the author of this map. The inclusion of his name is a cheeky easter egg of sorts. The slightly creepy and mostly sad thing is that he's actually no longer alive.
What happened?
@@namelessxdread he died in a car crash at the age of 24 i believe
@@nov_icee I'm always skeptical because it seems like for every creepy map on gmod there's always a rumor about how the maker died.
@@nov_icee He actually fell very ill in very late 2014, passing in January 2015. Currently he was last online 2059 days ago, he still sits there on my friendslist.
@@SlugGaming holy fuck if this is real then damn
Your fear of high ceilings is probably because of the idea that something could be clinging to or hanging from it
30:50
No corpses is worse imo than finding a pile of them. Because atleast then you have the comfort of knowing what happened to them. You know?
Ah yes this corpses died by UNKNOW REASONS
i dont think that
Yeah but that's just it. Atleast you know they're dead, even if you don't know why.
And they're likely not going to get back up or something or they've been mind controlled by something or other, ect. Basically you know where they are now and probably won't have to worry about it later.
no way man
There was a myth in that map about a gnome that followed the player around the map and sometimes you could spot it, its probably fake but interesting none the less
I think is fake, but you can find the gnome though
im gnoght a gnelf
In the garden of one of the furnished houses, there's an empty pedestal with the sign 'Beware of the Gnome'
@@professionalnerdharper Yeah no shit, that's probably what prompted Codec to comment this.
I've also heard in this map that there is a gnome ritual at the bottom of a well at the corner of the map
God wakes up and comes down to earth, he's zooming around in noclip holding a physgun, you see him open the npc tab
Wake up, YHWH. Wake up and smell the ashes.
@@penzorphallos3199
"5 more minutes..."
*2000 years pass*
I RDM the nearest man to me
@@tylerweis5484 you broke #67892 of our rulebook. Prepare for a 20 year ban.
Disgusting background pfp.
I really prefer these more creepy or atmospheric oriented maps than the outwardly horror ones. It just meshes better with your commentary style in my opinion.
Anyway, thanks for another great VR video. 👍
I second this
I think the "haunted" versions of maps are really the best style for him. They give that creepy feeling, like you mentioned, but they have an active aspect to them.
"This map look really normal"
Turn around to glitching windows
"No, not the Physics Gun. Not gonna keep my immersion if I keep reminding myself I'm basically God in this scenario."
That's a thought prompt that hits me every time I'm setting up Tacti-Cool GMOD shit and shooting courses and what not.
Despite being set to Ignore me, despite being set to not have any thoughts, the genuine look of concern on the faces of
citizens and what not gives me the impression that NPCs you spawn exist in a G-Man-esque void until you spawn them
and they KNOW their SOLE PURPOSE to exist is simply to be killed *OVER AND OVER AGAIN.* Like some kind of personal
Hell.
Literally, and I shit you not, one day I was going through doing my assassin/liquidation team shit where I clear the map
of not just enemies but also civilians too. And I always set this guy up to be talking to this front desk lady. So I do my
usual shit of clearing the map when I get to her and right after shooting her, this guy turns around, looks directly at me
and just says "That's it. I'M PISSED!" before kinda trying to run at me before getting gunned down, himself. It's just shit
like that that gives NPCs way more life than you expect or really even want. I also got the "Bad Friend" achievement that
run for gunning down 5,000 friendly NPCs.
i actually found a half life 2 episode one voice line that says exactly that line "thats it, im pissed"
its supposed to trigger when you kill their "buddy"
cit_buddykilled12
I would have gotten a heart attack if that happened to me lol
im proud of your tacticoolness!
@@fantasybabydino thats so fucking odd.
@@cabtaxi i agree, i can see how it might have been added into garry's mod, but still kinda weird to add a feature like that into half life 2 yknow
Unrelated, but at 4:04, the moment you entered that room and said "How's this for a creative prompt?" I immediately tensed up in fear. I had dreamt this exact scenario, laying in bed watching this exact video in that EXACT scene as a CHILD.
It's definitely not a false memory either, because I had thought about it, and I know I had before, multiple times in the past before this video was ever uploaded. It was as if dejavu had just sucker punched me in the jaw. I'm going to continue with the video but I'm still at 4:04. Idk why, I just felt as though I had to say that.
@@oxymoron02 lmao
How can you have watched this video as a child?
@@jasonlp4928 I don't think that was the point
@@femmesammy8768 Not exactly an easy to ignore detail.
@@jasonlp4928 They said they had a dream where they watched it as a child. Most likely meaning they had a dream where they were a child hearing that
Back into the creepiness of gmod maps, perfect for the creepy season
This map makes me uncomfortable, mainly due to a certain *Craig* and how he basically foreshadowed his own downfall
Pablooooooo
I would say Rip but he can burn
What are you talking about?
@@channelchannelchannelchannel he's talking about a youtuber called mini ladd, known for playing with other youtubers such as vanoss, h2o delirious, wildcat etc before he went off to do his own thing. he was later found out to be sexting minors. one of his most famous jokes was a character he made on this very map called pablo who was a pedophile. so yeah.. it didn't age well to say the least.
The absolute horror with which you said,
"Am I gonna have to go underwater?" Made me lol
Ah, this brings me nostalgia, i remember the vannoss crew playing this map, i loved it. This video gives me so much chills.
Ah! That's why it seemed familiar, they did a zombie video in this map, right?
@@fgp0032 indeed they did
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@@nuggetsoup8150 2014?! That was ages ago, oh my god
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@@generalskyshadow977 same goes with his creator.
Love the ending where you showed us what you found while not in VR. It reminded me of those old video game urban legend videos on CZcams
Ah man, I remember being scared shitless when I first played Shambles. It really is nostalgic nowadays, still get the creeps tho.
I love the fact that you can tell the fear and uneasyness is genuine and not some show put on for viewers. The flinches, the sudden pauses and snaps of his head to distant sounds, those are all fear responses that aren't really falsifiable on command. The constant checking behind him and in open doorways, the slow movement as a whole. You can tell he's actually unsettled.
Mad props to you. Only found your channel the other day but immediately a fan. Keep it up.
you get that by going to school in america and get a gun HAHAHA haha america change your gun laws your kinda killing students in shcool becuase they steal there parents guns
I believe this is made to be a roleplay map, empty houses mean the player(s) can decorate their own homes and live in them. I've played this with friends, and we roleplayed going to each other's houses for sleep overs and stuff. Used the media player mod to drown out some of the ambiance though.
1:45 that's change ringing, you have someone on each bell and you ring them at varying speeds so they come in and out of phase, does sound a bit like someone throwing the belfry down a staircase but it has quite a nice jubilant sound to it, especially if you live somewhere with enough belltowers and they all do it at the same time. It's fairly common in England especially for weddings, but I don't know if other places do it that much because a lot of places nowadays have mechanical controllers rather than a room full of people on ropes.
this dude is so underrated. props for the good content! keep it coming!
EDIT: You should try the map gm_liminal_space_cursed by Dadaskis :D
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@@Firezok that would also be really cool to watch
37:33 ooh, there's an idea. What if the reason you can't find anybody is because you are the one responsible for what happened here.
I remember seeing VanossGaming use this map for a zombie apocalypses skit video once. It's cool to see you explore this since I never thought about it back when I originally saw the video.
Also RIP to the map creator, didn't know about the car crash. Creator made a great map, sad that they passed away.
26:53 I'm gonna go with dragged down - that's a splat, then drag motion to the blood stain. I think if something was sloshing up out of a bloody brew, there would be more splatter along the drag-path.
Ha, that's the story those decal assets tell me, anyway.
Decal assets, prop location, noises, everything you find in a map like this tells you what happened here in a way you have to piece together. The end day happened, people panicked, they boarded up their windows and doors, some more successful than others
@@forecastlotus3899 What exactly happened, you didn't really give a detailed summary.
@@adammezza5362 i dunno
I'm only up to 24:10 but
When the video started I almost instantly recognized the map, I remember I put zombies and weapons about the place. I remember very specifically looking from the first house TL went into at the second house, and just *feeling* something there. I remember spawning a sports car and driving around a bunch, going house to house killing hords and getting progressively better guns.
I remember that first water bit, going through it just to find it leading to another house, no sewer network or anything. Just your usual GMOD vent but underwater.
So you can imagine how that felt for me, when I saw it I couldn't tell if I had just forgotten that area or if the map was updated.
Then there was the outside area. You could never go outside the fence.
There was never any sniffling in that second house. Never any basement.
*That version of the map was supposed to be the final version iirc.*
The map quickly went from "haha lets see how TL manages to freak himself over a map that does nothing this time" to "familiar but *off*, not necessarily just different but *wrong*".
This...is gonna be interesting.
His friend / family / someone who has access to his computer could've uploaded it.
Once in a blue moon CZcams recommends me something that's just out of the realm of what I normally watch and knocks it out of the park. The Ashville video is what got me here, and I'm loving the stuff you're doing, the map walkthroughs are strangely fascinating.
Same
Also, I love your pfp
The lights still being on means that nobody had time to turn them off.
It means they did not leave calmly.
Knocked down doors means something broke into multiple houses, did people get out in time? You never find a body so where did the blood come from? It's rarely ever too much blood so it's possible they were carried or consumed whole
You know, this would probably make a good setting for a short film, wondering through a seemingly abandoned town while the entire time being given hints that you're either not alone or somehow just missed the people as they either fled or were done away with by some unknown entity. Then of course the locked garden hatch to the sewer which lead to the static remains of the citizens, suggesting something far more... eldritch.
11:19
Actually you can, unless you install a mod that enables drowning. Gmod doesn't have an oxygen system by default like Half-Life 2.
This is the first time I've actually felt anxious while watching one of your VR videos, the ambiance of this map was just done so damn well.
RIP the map creator he was a good person hope he is in a better place now
Bravo on finding the bodies dude! Played this since I was a little kid, never found that. Its honestly kind of a little bit disturbing to know now, that the corpses were there the whole time.
The church bells make me think of a baptism or a wedding; when it's all over & everyone is walking out the front dbl-doors the bells indicate something joyous has occurred, I think or imo. 😀
The thing I find creepy about a lot of these maps is there’s almost always evidence of something having *just* lived in the area, but you are always too late to have seen what had once occupied it. A barrel fire probably wouldn’t stay lit for that long, and as you said with the house lights being on.
18:12 my mind immediately went "oh, not the freakin' gnome joke again!"
20:30 oh, that's a cool way of handling the credits!
i had so much fucking fun running on this map,we just spawned in 10 gorillas and then ran from then for another 3 hours,perfection
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i just want to let you know the vrmod supports Full body tracking so if you were to get FBT you could basically move your legs torso hand and body separate from everything
The orange glow is comforting because we would find comfort by the glow of campfires when we were still developing as a species
I can tell you a little bit about exactly what happened, if you read the whole paper in the house where there is a sign that says HELLP the date on the paper is on December 4, 2012 when the Mayans said the end of the world would be on December 21, 2012 so I think the map is a reference to that day and also I think the paper said something about aliens or something like that and also that the UK economy was ending in a disaster.
The fact that you got scared of your phone reminds me when I scared myself one time by my hand.
This map really reminded me of a dream that I've recently had where it was Halloween in the suburbs and lights and stuff were on peoples' front yards yet..... nobody was there.. just me wandering around the streets at night.
1:22 The No-No-Zone
I'm British and Oh god GM Shambles like straight from the start looks like your average UK street and resembles what the road I live on looks like so much
Wow I remember when you started to grow and I was thinking "I really hope he keeps making these" and you've really kept up with the content, thanks for that
This has become my favorite channel. I always look forward to these long videos. I turn out the lights, grab a blanket, and enjoy the ambience.
GM_Shambles reminds me of a Something terrible happened on the Surban Area were they have to board up the windows.
This is perfect a Horror Map for anything you want for example like Trevor Henderson famous monster like Siren Head or Famous creepypasta legend Slenderman.
19:43 is when this map went from creepy to absolute cynical abandon it got so creepy in that house especially as librarian tries to read the news paper while there is snifflings chimes and buzzing and that news paper predicts the total collapse ... Sooo well done.
I used to play this map with the Zombie survival gamemode, scrounging for supplies and sneaking around was really fun.
I love how you explain how you feel about the maps as you play. Keep up the great work! :)
Your videos are so good and underated, I swear. You always bring me joy with an upload:3 Keep up the good work and amazing comentary!
Few years ago me and my friend were playing this map, played for a good few hours and went into the lower sewers, i distinctly remember the sound of a camera flash behind me and my friend.
Watching these before bed are great. Keep it up dude.
This map heavily reminded me of Everybody's gone to the rapture, just houses left open, lights kept on as if everyone had suddenly just poofed out of existence at the same time
Always love these long-form exploration videos, keeps me company for about an hour at work
its more creepy that this is a zombie map so it shows that is why the houses were boarded. and the unlucky ones died by the zombies
15:32 gave me the goosebumps and chivers
Yo man. Just wanted to let you now that I absolutely adore your content and that your VR videos have been an absolute blast.
You sound so earnest when it comes to admiring these maps as a piece of art, god damn. Love it.
your my new favorite youtuber, keep up the good work!
Every time i hear the bells i can only imagine some giant anomination shambling around the map makling these weird ringing bell noises, getting closer and farther away aimlessly wandering.
I love these GMOD VR series keep it going man!
the worst part about this to me is that there are no corpses or anything... there's just blood. but you never find out who's blood it is so you never even find out how long ago whatever happened happened
When i downloaded this map i was like "Oh, this would be a good map for some npc battles!" and it was, but i was paranoid as fuck, always checking my back.
The background sounds were the worst, and yes I felt like i was being watched like him.
lol i remember Venturiantale and his siblings playing this map in 2013, chasing each other around with the nyan cat gun.
You are a king of liminal exploring. Liminal "tomb raider" :)
14:25
“Is that an owl?”
*slaps face* MY DUDE THAT IS A COYOTE
A coyote in England?
Gm_Shambles is my favorite map, really fun to play on and do stuff with and at the same time it's just a wonderful map on it's own, it was amazing seeing you traverse it in vr
I have the feeling the *player* is the thing they were trying to fight against since you *are* a literal god and can do anything but I guess you got through
The map maker has actually passed away.
The first time I ever saw this map was of a group of CZcamsrs using it for a zombie apocalypse video which I watched when I was very young
also btw you make great content
you should try the map Runaway : 911
you honestly made me get back into youtube, thank you
I remember back when a few people were seeking refuge and was searching for left boots on this attic. 8:49
35:11 that's probably the name of the mapmaker
4:24 Heart dropped, thought there was a face but its just lighting.
Yeah it was pablo mini ladd face
That post-outro sequence gave me some serious 2010's video game urban legend vibes and I freaking loved it. Those videos kept me up at night as a kid.
Me and my friend would get on this map when we got beck from school, and he would both go to random parts of the map and one of us would hunt down the other useing just knives. Good times and quite spooky
Oooh I always use this map for horror with my friends
Gm_shambles is designed as a zombie apocalypse map but if there are no zombies it becomes a lot more eerie
very happy you did this map :D
it's probably my favorite map. Also, "Farto" is the Creator of the map who died. R.I.P Farto
Have nothing to say like other people other than your like the only CZcamsr that makes me feel peaceful
8:50 I think I know what house that is. That's where Luigi, Solid Snake, and I believe Buzz light-year started the adventure for the right boots
Pablo.
@@adorablecockroach5131 we don't talk about that thing anymore
rest in peace Fartomaticatron
You're so wondrously earnest in these videos and it just soothes my weary soul.
Well yea but I never sleep then like rn it’s 3am I need sleep actually no I neeed COWFEE! Squeal!
The zombies came and went killing all residents of shambles except for a few who stay in their hiding spots crying
This reminds me of SCP-001 with everyone gone and the windows being boarded up and then that one house where the ply wood was off of the windows, almost as if the person was persuaded to “look at the sun” or to come out of hiding by the people consumed by the monstrous flesh blob that was made for the cataclysmic events that SCP-001 causes
Those church bells induced anxiety holy shit my eyes teared up
My theory is that that people are still in the houses that have boarded up windows and closed doors, and the ones who didn't board the house up in time died.