Exploring Dead Games 3

welcome back or just welcome if you're here for the first time as a quick refresher and as an explanation for new viewers we are looking at Dead games it's uh it's pretty self-explanatory let's go all right Gamers welcome to the active worlds revisit it's been about a year since I last played this one and ever since then I felt like I had to check it out again as a very brief refresher this is a virtual world game from the mid90s that's still up and running today pretty much everything you'll see in it is entirely Community made and that's both its biggest strength as well as weakness this one is legitimately one of the most weird interesting and unique games I've ever played so I wanted to see more of it before it's inevitably wiped from existence accessing data for all the new viewers this right here is Big cool Tony 1991 my secret Alter Ego in this game but at this point that's kind of a bust I have literally been stocked while recording for this I figured that this time around I'd start off fresh get a little rebreather and maybe learn a thing or two so this time I actually did the tutorial because last time I completely skipped over it I learned a couple things but all you've really got to know is that I learned how to fly and how to surgically alter Tony's bone structure so I made big cool Tony well big apart from that I didn't really do too much else aside from a little sightseeing around the island I found this map pretty interesting it's basically a big old dead Mall within the game and not full of fake products or anything but like actual real world stuff and it's not solely dead because no one's here most of these products and brands are fully discontinued or liquidated I'd say it's about a 50/50 split on brand websites that still work and ones that don't even then some of the websites that do still work on it haven't been updated in like 10 years just as a pointer to how old this one is Amazon is still advertising itself as a bookstore all right let's be real if you're advertising on active worlds you're you're bound to go bankrupt Now by far the most interesting site on this map was one from 2005 advertising their VR headset for nearly 9 Grand and that's 2005 money so we're talking like 13k nowadays unless the site actually is up to date and they're just actively pumping out and selling 2005 VR headsets it wasn't just headsets though they had some cheaper offerings available and I will be honest everything on this site looks and sounds like they're right out of an 80s hacker movie or or like Metal Gear Solid Tac I ST1 monocular VR Pro 1080p Patriot Spaceball 5,000 Liberty lettuce holy [ __ ] that one's 12 Grand what's even weirder is that these guys have apparently done business with the US Army multiple governments and universities and I cannot find a single thing about them online aside from their website very very strange with that said I will be purchasing an Impulse stick to play worms Crazy Golf optimally excellent welcome to Brazil this one's a little town square type map cars were flying by but the streets were dead empty I was the sole survivor it was kind of unnerving being the only actual person there despite all these fake Signs of Life all over the place I know that's literally all of the maps in this game but this one felt different for some reason everything in this one was Portuguese obviously but luckily some of it had translations one of the first signs I saw was one which read doorbell call the owner of the world I pressed it without a second thought and the bell started ringing blaring the sound across the whole map honestly it was kind of spooky it did not help when a woman appeared in front of me holding a signed reading he arrives at 8:30 p.m. which was super freaky minutes later I spotted a name in the distance I'm assuming this was just some Rando though as the green star he's only been around the game for like a year this guy also seemed to be AFK anyway I don't know if he was here the whole time or have he joined at some point when I was looking around either way probably not the owner I continued exploring and kind of forgot about the whole arrival thing it wasn't even close to 8:30 so I wanted to just have a look around and then leave I climbed to the top of a small Tower which had walls lined in Portuguese text like they were literally made out of Portuguese text and when I reached the top I had to look around at the map from above can't show the what like they might say something awful they they I can't show these has this guy been here the whole time was he was he here before uh hello this is freaking me out this is I uh I gotta I got to get out of here I got to go I got to go I got to get out of I got to go so you think this one would be either a lead Zeppelin map or a real churchy map based on the title and if you guess the ladder you are correct congratulations you've won 1 million funny money now despite the server name usually being the full theme of a map literally all of that was condensed into one small area way up at the top of the playable area I'll see what's up to [Music] St they had some real freaky open your third eye type videos up there like literal open your third eye stuff and it was it was just it was really weird but somehow also a lot more uninteresting than you would think John was here not even worth showing really the real party was down below where there were like seven separate dance floors and parties going on all at once happy New Year 2023 this guy's jamming out this one was actually really cool and I'm very glad I found it it's called Cy Awards which stands for Community Awards now I had previously noticed these weird trophy statue things scattered around various Maps saying things like Lifetime Achievement Award but I didn't know where they were from well I found where they were from this was some sort of award ceremony where various members of the community would all band together and then award people trophies based on categories like mapping Community involvement and stuff like that there's barely any traces of this online in like video format so it seems most of these were a be there or B Square type deal like I actually think there's like four maybe five videos about the event a couple are only slideshows and the others are mostly the Afterparty I found one part of the map that seems like it had trailers for the event and possibly some footage from it but since a lot of the links on active worlds are dead these sadly didn't function so a lot of the history here is seemingly lost media unless someone has a recording of these themselves now from what I can tell it seemingly ran from the late '90s up to around2 14 and then they stopped I did some exploring and based on this Big Field I found of previous Award winners they had plenty of events and gave out like a ton of awards over the years they were active I even found their voting rules and voting Commission office and I got to say this in-game award show has more rules and regulations than like actual real life ones and they went all out while actually making the map too it looks like every year they had a new in-game firework show as a sort of intro to the awards as well as a working roller coaster Ballroom lounge and more overall this is a really cool world and concept but sadly it seems almost everything surrounding it is lost media that's if any media actually even existed in the first place so I guess uh hypothetical lost media as I was looking around somebody joined and I thought I would get the opportunity to ask about the map cuz who's joining This Server unless they're there to like reminisce but uh they were just there because they knew me and were stalking me so I hopped [Music] off just to show off what kind of maps the Cy Awards actually awarded here's the best of the year 2010 winner it's a map called the mythopia in my opinion it looks pretty damn nice for being an active Worlds Map I'm not going to say it's mind-blowing or anything but for what they're working with I think it looks pretty good legitimately this map really does show off what's possible in this game when people aren't just making crack Maps I just wanted to show off and also you know see for myself the craftsmanship possible in this game I went for a little stroll around this one called elvado but didn't really find much until I came across some kind of stage for live performances if you're interested the next performance is in 2026 Mark that down on the old calendar this is probably what you can [Music] expect okay what is this I'm just stuck you're going to need protection accessing data at first when I was looking around this one I wasn't going to put it in the video because there wasn't much to it and then I stumbled across the War Room yeah you you heard me right uh you did not mishar a word of that sentence this map has a fullon war room it had a global weather tracker multiple live news feeds links to news sites current events times conflicts the whole shebang and it was all completely up to date when I recorded this this is an actively updated crisis room so if the world ever goes nuclear hop on active worlds and you'll have all the info you could ever need right here this one is like if they made a map for babies lots of Builds on this one all made out of basic shapes and simple colors a real preschool level map this one's like if you gave a bunch of kids just infinite Mega Bloks aside from the Mega Bloks architecture there were some text boxes on this one that were somewhat more interesting a lot of them were like X was here type messages and ones like that from the early 2000s which I mean that's pretty cool to see they lasted this long instead of Tony I was some grease Ball blonde guy with a ponytail this guy ain't no Tony but he can Sprint I'll give him that at least now I really only found one other thing of any node on this map that being a big old tomb someone made now I'm pretty much completely certain that this is just someone's very dramatic way of saying they quit the game or they just quit the server because they left behind some yahoo contact info to get in touch with them now I don't know what this person did to piss so many people off but there's like seven or eight Signs by the tomb that say some pretty awful things about this person which I won't show here because like they they are messed up since it's on topic um I guess this would be a good time to say that I do not encourage vandalizing stuff in any of these games that I play just leave them be within the server browser there's a giant portion of maps called AV something something and these have got to be some of the most interesting maps in the game while also being some of the most boring maps in the game simultaneously the AV stands for Avatar and the numbers after it are the year that it was made so AV 99 is Avatar 1999 each one of these is a little Showcase of Avatar progress and creators of the Year this sounds like it would be a pretty cool little piece of Internet history and it totally would if any of it still worked yeah sadly a lot of pictures and stuff on these Maps which would be where a lot of the context photos and other stuff would be they just don't work anymore so they're just big maps with a bunch of empty picture frames and text boxes luckily there were a few that still kind of worked and showed off the models so these aren't a complete loss at least not yet the 2001 map which was themed dur on the movie by the way thought that was pretty cool still has a bunch of avatars showcased in pictur the 1998 map was an another virtual Expo type map with Booth set up to show off and sell stuff like usual pretty much all links and images in it were just wiped from existence but I did find one website up where a guy was selling his models I guess as a reference for how much these sold for back in the 9s this guy was selling a stormtrooper model for 80 bucks one last thing I want to show off was this wall of webcams I don't know if these were sending a direct webcam feed into the game or if they were just static images or something else I feel like having a bunch of webcams beamed into the game in real time in 98 would be pretty intensive so I don't know how this worked if anyone was around for the 1998 Avatar Expo in active worlds please let me know there is not one not two not three not four not five not six but seven Bingo servers there's not actually that much to these like they're Bingo Maps I don't I don't know what you expected um I just thought it was funny that there's so many these aren't made for a handful of people either they each have like rows upon rows of bingo sheets set up to support like 20 to 30 people each I guess there are actually a few things of note one being that you can win citizenship in these Bingo tournaments I don't know how long ago this was or if that's still going or what but I guess if you wanted to become a citizen for free all you had to do was become a bingo King another thing I noticed is that these seem to have won some Cy Awards so clearly they're liked by the community and also pretty old each of them were pretty much the same thing with different themes on the map 1 through five are real barebones pretty much just being bingo with a theme but six and seven were actually full Maps for some reason I I don't know why Bingo 6 was the circus is coming to turn themed they had clowns elephants and a big circus tent but also a full town with enterable buildings for some reason keep in mind this is a bingo [Music] map Bingo 7 was Island themed with a whole island wor of stuff to find the beach bar was empty but the main with no name was chilling at the snack bar the rest of it was a little Barren I take it they were just going to keep making more and more of these Bingo Maps but for some reason stopped while making this one the only other real thing to note is that there was a lifetime achievement Cy award from 2006 so I wouldn't be surprised if these Bingo places were at least that old aw gz is pretty cool it's a map which is a preserved state of the main build map as it was in the year 2000 so everything on this is either from or before the turn of the Millennium comeer free home Brave no [ __ ] way no [ __ ] way there's stuff on this one going all the way back to when the game was just made the roads on it are from nearly 30 years ago along with multiple builds in the area sadly this isn't a complete archival as it's only a chunk of the whole map as it was with that said there's still plenty of interesting things to find on this one I found a 1996 Museum a nice little Memorial to some people and a ton more if you're into late '90s to Y2K type internet stuff I'd recommend downloading the game just to try this one out for yourself there's way too many random Builds on this one for me to cover it here the build I found most interesting was this giant gold tinted Tower with a bunch of monitors down on the ground floor each of these link to different websites last updated in like 2001 and to my surprise most of them still worked you know for the most part these also weren't like links Amazon or anything they were mostly websites specifically for active World stuff like Avatar Creations World guides and blogs there was one blog which stopped being updated forever ago which had some recipes you've got one for an Italian pasta bake short ribs and the best ever chocolate cake also quickly on the topic of websites since we're here uh I think the last video on this might have led to the in-game radio station website PK Tunes either shutting down more breaking because very shortly after the video went up the site just stopped functioning and I really don't think that that was a coincidence because the site was up and running for like 14 years prior to the video so if you're the person that owned the site uh sorry sorry about that this one is a bit of a mess but you know it was interesting at the same time the beginning bet of this map was just a bunch of random [ __ ] like fountains and some Jeeps you can drive but after walking for a bit you reach this walled off area no clipping inside I found that it was some kind of of graveyard most of the graves just have rip or some numbers on them so I assume that this isn't like a real graveyard but that's thrown off by there being like three potentially real names really just a strange one I wanted to bring up for if anyone knows any more about it accessing data pollen is an absolute crack map that I flew around and honestly I'm probably going to have to edit a lot of it out because the strobing effects were hurting my eyes it honestly wouldn't even be in here if not for this giant wall of people writing down personal notes there's all kinds on here like chaos O2 was here on December 30th 2003 Viv sh proxy on November 1997 chromia was here on November 6th 2014 Act of Worlds is dead and it will never go back to its Glory Days as this revolutionary 9s virtual world internet browser but we will always celebrate it for what it has accomplished no matter what we're still [Music] here visiting family yeah yeah that sounds that sounds nice no uh yeah I I didn't really I didn't do too much just um I went out dancing one night that's that's about it really van go and I'm not saying that in the proper Dutch way I'm not doing that uh you'll have to fight F me on a rooftop shirtless if you want to make me do that uh this one was pretty sick honestly it's a 3D Recreation of a van go painting I really don't know what else to say besides like it's cool do I even need to say anything else like look at this starting off the trip XX segment with a bang X Files spawn me on top of a spooky endless Road surrounded by corn fields attack helicopters and Gman burning crops I wish I could say there's more but that's actually about it it's uh it's just a reference to the movie The Triple A X segment continues with a long awaited sequel X Files 2 this one was in a creepy ice cave maze thing I don't know if this one was a reference I looked up xfiles ice cave and didn't find anything so uh someone let me know what this is [Music] X-Men this one is predictably a recreation of the X mansion and yes the shitty midi is included it seems to be pretty faithful and intricate you've got the outer area furnished insides sacred passages the danger room and the creepy basement Allin one map I spawned into this one in first person and it took me a bit to actually check who I was am I wolverine or something the trip X segment is now over we will now look at a map about Harps so this map is basically the War Room map but increased in scale and entirely about Harps like the instrument you know Harps genuinely all the harp info you could ever ask for or wonder or possibly think about is all right here I don't think there's a single harp related question that goes on answered everything harp is condensed right here in this map this isn't even some weird map from the '90s either this has legitimate upto-date information on Harps harp events harp education harp music and all other harp stuff the creator of this one is also a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006 so I can only assume this harp map has been going strong for literal decades now at first when I joined this one I thought it was you know like probably you do I thought it was really strange to have a big ass map dedicated to Harps but then I thought you know if you replace harps with something like guitars or violins I don't think anybody would baty if the creator of this one ever watches this keep on rocking out and harp on verome is another map and one of very few where it's actually really wellb built and pretty cool for what they were working with it's a recreation of a bunch of prime time ancient Rome which I assume is accurate but I'm not an ancient Rome cartography and City infrastructure expert so I couldn't tell you if it is it's pretty expansive with a lot of custom textures and assets prob the most I've seen in any map in this game it's not just a map though there's a full list of custom avatars to choose from too like this funny Caesar and this horse guy inside the arena they even had animals and Gladiators pretty sweet overall a very very very cool Recreation of Rome very cool if you ever download active worlds and end up playing it you know make sure Rome was on your list one player's name I saw consistently pop up throughout the game was someone going by the name dmc2 they were like all over the place they had won plenty of Cy Awards made the Bingo maps and plenty of others as I could tell by their C award trophies they placed on all of them and this guy even had his own server named after himself in the server browser when I hopped on that one barely anything worked as expected but luckily a few things still did from these working bits I could see that this guy was some kind of active world's guide a sort of volunteer helper tour guide and just someone who loved the game and wanted to help as many new players as they could I also found his trophy cabinet of awards and finally I came across one of the only working images I'd ever seen in this game and could put a face to the name as well was a dog now after the recording was wrapped for this game I was doing some research into a few maps on here and that one spot on the main build map had a memorial wall and from there I think you can guess where this is going DMC 2u was one of multiple active World citizens that I recognized on the wall despite my relatively Short play time on the game each and every name on this wall sends you to a dedicated personalized Memorial which I won't won't be showing much of as they have some very personal details on most of the players I think this goes without saying again but please just leave these be as they are they're pretty beautiful tributes to Fallen friends and relatives and I'm highlighting them here as I've never seen anything like this in any other game and for the fact that these people deserve to be recognized for the time they spent in the community as well as for the work they put into the game and the things around it let's hope that people can continue to enjoy their work for years to come rest easy fellas I'm sorry to end this one out in a pretty sad way but I think it's important to highlight these things even in silly videos like this I did find it uplifting that many of these people despite having been passed away for a decade or more still have their maps and servers up and running fully preserved despite the people behind them being gone their legacies remain within the maps and the friends they left behind anyways that's it for active worlds Tony's retired and is settling down on a nice beach somewhere hitting a mad break dance let's continue this one's called heat I got gifted this game like four years ago to play it with a buddy but it's like 110 gigs so we just never did um I'll be honest I didn't even look at the screenshots or anything so this is one that's just completely blind all I know is that there's Cowboys and that's it hopping right into things I started up the multiplayer mode and had to pick a server I was playing at a normal hour and there were about four people in game three of which were on a private server so I joined the one with one player in it things started out on a train where I had to make a western Gunslinger there's a bunch of options in this game for the Character Creator like they let you go wild and make the goofiest Cowboy imaginable there's gut size arm length height dump truck size damn feet size schnaz size and a ton more that all combine to make a pretty Great Character Creator I personally was going for extreme historical accuracy and modeled my character after the famous cowboy Legend dude nasty but it quickly devolved into Richard Nixon I am not a crook I named him Lone Star and sent him off into the wild I spawned in with just a pair of long johns and a cartoon hobo stick to my name as well as an American Dream I checked the map and um it's actually the entire United States and upon saying Washington I had to reach it that was my new goal I had to gather some supplies first and I was just chopping down entire trees in one sing with my step deforestation deforestation I got a little sidetracked when I saw fire I had been chopping down trees naked in the rain for a good while and I was getting pretty cold at this point so I hit it on over hello holy [ __ ] a bobcat Wow fight the cougar dick come on dying here was a actually a bit of a blessing in the skies as now I could just take the train right outside of Washington so uh my goal was like done my sole goal now was to reach the White House but first I had to make a quick pit stop to uh get some pretty sick accessories and I was looking swell I marched right up to the White House bare feet slapping against Stone right on through the front door and sat my ass down at the Resolute disc on the presidential Throne now for some reason the started an election which I ended up having a landslide victory in so I renamed the country to Canada and officially the moon boys had taken over the White House now that I had taken office it was time to have a look around my new pad I took the presidential thre own lift down to the secret pool room in the basement and went for a walk around the place what the [ __ ] I grabbed my presidential Provisions gathered My Secret Service agents and collected all those sweet sweet tax dollars as I was Distributing the Weaponry uh the game hard crashed now luckily when I rejoined everything was as I left it so crashing wasn't going to be an issue here up on the top floor balcony I learned the third person hotkey and got my first good look at president lonar oh look at the Dr rip look at the holy moly after I did this I did some revolver tricks in the Oval Office with my presidential Golden Gun learned that I could ride the basement bear and then I headed out to do my inauguration speech I want to thank everybody for voting for me um we about to do some cool [ __ ] after that Banger of a speech I instantly raised all taxes across the board and went to do a little sightseeing this is for me uhoh this isn't good uhoh okay hold on oh that's not good okay I can save this I just can't take any more damage I'm dead after that quick encounter with death I literally ran for my second term and easily won again these common folk are fools to trust me this much instantly taxes were raised across the board again and I re renamed it to America 2 some lowly farmer creton in Shad told me to be serious as if I wasn't seriously running this place into the ground if they don't like it they will have to stop me by force and let me be the first to tell you the president is packing heat anyways the game crashed again after this after writing some threatening letters to world leaders I took a look outside and realized that it had been raining for like a week in game and it was super gloomy and depressing so I decided to hit the town to raise the spirits of my [Music] citizens [Music] back to the White House I went back home and climbed up onto the roof testing out the thickness of my legs by jumping off and of course of course I was perfectly fine now this reminded me that I hadn't given my second speech yet where I plan to flex my huge muscles so I headed over to the Lone Star Monument to give it why did you vote for me again are you stupid I literally died on my first St and you thought that this time it would be different you you Goofs hey who's that prick laughing at I see you down there come up and say that [ __ ] to my face Mr President get down based on all these criminals and outlaws taking shots at me it was fairly obvious that the judicial branch wasn't doing a damn thing so I was going to take matters into my own hands I ate a new Mission comb the lands and stop all crime myself easy quick pit stopped though first using tax dollars to buy like 17 bananas that I ate whole with the skin I mounted the presidential Bear for the first time code name be Force One and I was [Music] off money after having a good thorough look at the map of America 2 I had a new secondary objective to check out whatever these cash house icons were I mean if there were houses full of cash it's only right that the president gets a piece of that pie you know or the whole pie once I reached it it seemed like these were player made bases or potentially shops this one had literal pallets of cash and gold which was too big to carry so I'll send some boys out to pick them up later while in the area though I saw the campfire where I died at originally so it was time for some good oldfashioned American Vengeance I got into some beon bear combat and my secret service agent just watched me in awe not doing a single thing to actually help I took out the man who attacked me earlier the president does not forget scum from this point I had a few options I could head south towards Florida there's guaranteed to be plenty of crime there or I could head out west to Tombstone I decided the best course of action would be to take a round trip heading out west to Tombstone down south to Florida and then back home and I prepared bare Force One for takeoff this was going to be one hell of a journey I approached a lady by a bonfire she seemed to be unarmed so I wanted to greet her now that was until she pulled out a shotgun and popped it straight into the ground now lady if you aim for the king you best not [Music] miss I had to stop for a minute as my trusted companion bear Force One was extremely hungry I would never let this big fell run on empty so I fed him some bananas this Noble act of kindness paid off as the weather was completely clear and sunny after this for the future duration of my Odyssey and I got to say this uh this game looks pretty damn good when it's not a gloomy rain Fest the entire time in our journey to Tombstone we sadly lost our Secret Service agents uh not because they died or anything they just literally got lost and couldn't keep up with the bear if you see them out in the woods uh please be sure to write me a letter with info regarding their [Music] locations finally I had arrived at Tombstone and as a bonus I owned the city federal land pal didn't even think about that before I arrived I went into the national bank because of course as the king of Tombstone I owned the joint uh but it crashed the game again this game sucks when I reconnected I spawned under the floorboards and I thought this was going to be the end of lonar but I clawed my way out because I'm just that much of a gamer I was going to take the train to Florida but the president's flat broke from buying too many beans and bananas I scraped together a couple bucks and spent it on scratch tickets which I I lost somehow I went into the church to ask for a couple bucks but they told me to piss off dude dude dude dude dude dude being flat broken without backup I was uh I was thinking of calling it quits and heading home but I continued I continued towards the most dangerous area of the mall Florida I found an encampment of swamp folk and took them all out who knows what kinds of Nefarious Act they were committing there were a lot of them too at least seven or eight that I soloed easily looting their bodies we've got a new pit stop to make on the way home as one of them had a treasure map on them which will look real nice in my presidential suite along my travels I reached a swamp Plantation which was completely empty inside but I was given the opportunity to become its Governor as much as I would like to I don't think I can hold more than one spot in office didn't matter though since I had treasure to find I was pretty taken aback by the beautiful sights I saw around me fresh green leaves on trees waterfalls with flowing Blue Water structurally Sound American architecture Forest Critters enjoying life in the wilderness the only thing that could make this trip any better is if I raise the taxes again so I maxed them out I came across a town that was entirely player made it was actually pretty sick they had a bar hotels stores and a good number of homes and probably some more it didn't really do much with no one on which kind of sucks this would actually be a pretty sick place to be I was going to say when but it's more like if there's ever 30 to 40 people on luckily the town was close by to the treasure so this wasn't a major detour I finally got to the marked spot which was on someone's property and I got off bear Force want to dig up that treasure which is what I would say if I had a shovel which I probably should have thought to buy at some point along the way so uh you know free treasure right here if if anyone wants it whoever snags it up wins 1,000 funny money I finally crossed the bridge heading back into Washington at long last I was home and ready to collect my taxes oh hot damn would you look at that like two 100 bucks in taxes that's like a million bucks today I am loaded and this concludes a truly legendary cross country Adventure we lost some damn good men along the way made plenty of friends enemies but most important of all we made plenty of money all that's left to do is kick my feet up and count my cash crash the game crash the game my first order of business in any game is to create a new iconic character for the masses to enjoy in Blockland this is no different you're gazing upon the man I started off on a little test map I had to collect chess and I was just kind of going through it to see if the recording worked things were a little quiet so I turned the volume up by 2 and it was loud when I opened the chest the first thing you'll instantly notice with this one is that it's more of a Lego game than Minecraft or Roblox ever will be I don't know if the discussions are still active because both of those have evolved Way Beyond what they started as but back like 10 plus years ago people called both of those games playable Lego games like Lego ripoff all that stuff this game is actually a playable Lego game without The Branding it's about as close as you can legally get I started off Blockland by joining the only server with any amount of players in it and it had nearly 8,000 files to download which took like six full minutes to join some truly Gmod tier load times not a great start and uh it had me pretty worried for bigger servers at this current rate looking at 10 servers would have an hour of just load times now when I logged into this one there were seven total players that's Blockland as a whole and more than half of them were on This Server when I finally loaded they had some iconic SpongeBob music playing which sadly I can't let you hear so just uh just just pretend it's playing despite the comedy music This Server had a hellish atmosphere and was a real crack map with all kinds of crazy sound effects and voice lines I didn't think I would spend too long on this one but one of the players in it was surprised anyone else was even playing the game he said it had been a while since Blockland had more than one player so I guess I got on it a good time I told him I was just having a look around and we kind of wandered around together taking in all the insanity the map had to offer shout outs to this guy after we had our fun he went to see if he could find any more Blockland survivors and he left the server I was all by my lonesome from here the server had a surprising amount of interactable stuff in it from NPCs to objects and more which all had custom text sounds and even animations there was a guy in a house I sent fly a guy on a pirate ship I blew up a market in the middle of the map with shopkeepers that all had unique lines such as this one that just says I'm French and an underground secret Library where every single book all of them had a custom name and author pretty cool map uh I don't even think I saw like 10% of [Music] it sadly the load time thing was not a one-off this game really just has mucked load times doesn't matter in this case though because this one was absolutely worth it I loaded into this and was instantly In the Heat of a race on the starting line instant cart gaming the second I joined there was another guy here as well who had been alone for an unknown amount of time by the name of Blockland 1892 absolute goddamn Legend this guy is I tried to get him to talk but he was a silent but deadly type character he would not respond to a single thing I said so I said fine I'll speak the only language you seem to know racing oh [ __ ] get out of here no no the last survivor [Music] stand I raced this dude countless times we were neck and neck in nearly every match our scores were about equal and we had developed a heated rivalry one for the ages it was truly something out of a movie we rammed into each other on multiple occasions one time I was an [ __ ] and parked my car right in front of him at the start which backfired on me as he just ran past me and I had to do the whole race backwards to keep up it was about a 50/50 split on who was in the lead for wins it seemed like nobody was going to be the definitive Victor for some time so I yielded to him and left the match giving him the victory he was there before I got on and remained after I left the solo champion of Blockland speed cut and a true Master of the track will we ever know his name his intentions his Origins his family crest I think not sayonara Blockland 1892 back to another crack server plain and simple uh this one had some people they didn't respond to me but I did get nuked by one what the other was just AFK there were also some NPCs that just kind of walked around but that was pretty much it another one that took like 5 minutes to load this one was some kind of miname map there were people on this one and they were active but I couldn't find them in the lobby all I could find was the gift slop so I head it outside into the Wasteland to track them down I barged in on an ongoing chess match that had apparently been running for an hour and a half this was very late into the night mind you so these guys were committed to finish this game peacefully is My Last Wish guess that won't happen we've been interrupted again haven't seen you around for a long time they weren't doing any insane moves so I had to look around the place I stopped for some pizza at Pizza Hut and then I went to the theater Gary Rebel is a professional worm grunter I hopped in a jeep to go see the conclusion of this epic match and sent it off into space these two simply would not end the game so I I called it quits I was done it was is late I watched them for a solid like 20 to 30 minutes at the end here and I'm sure you Chess Masters can already tell me who won at this point anyways this one was actually pretty cool it was a a little Dungeon Crawler map with upgrades and magic and stuff it was probably the only server in the game that was both working and a real game mode aside from speed card there's not much to say really like it's a pretty basic Rog likee Dungeon Crawler in Blockland with like spiders skeletons and other normal fantasy stuff it's kind of cool though and goes to show that not every map in this game is a crack map I tried to join a server before this one and it had 11,000 files to download and it was going at around two files per second so that was absolutely a nogo this one was a tiny bit better but I still had time to make a bowl of soup eat it make a cup of tea drink it and then time to spare after that to write the notes saying the the last one took forever to download even then I had about a quarter of the download time to spare so still not great all in all this one took like 20 minutes to download and after all that after all that waiting it was just a soccer field and that's actually it what you see here is the entire map Blockland 1892 was still here it had been nearly 2 hours at this Point since I played the speed card map he was solo racing that entire time what an absolute Legend no scratch that what an absolute gamer now I'd love to show more but um I turned off password protected servers and there's like a dozen so that's it unless I can find the password to feat Cinema 2 uh we're done here animist is a viewer recommended game that I went into completely blind I don't even think I looked at the screenshots for it I just downloaded it it's from 2018 and describes itself as a persistent Single Shard open world first person primitive magic PVP and PVE sandbox so you know we're in for a good one hopping into this one there were only like four rules total one being no repeated harassment so I guess just once or twice is fine now my eyes immediately gazed towards the rule bit when I logged in and it took a few seconds to comprehend that this was the menu you lived a life that ended tens of thousands of years ago you rise once again with a mind free of any memories or responsibilities of the past do you wake filled by the love you felt for your family and friends or are you Guided by rage and Vengeance for those who did you wrong in your mortal life of all the places you could have ended up why here young one welcome back from your Eternal sleep I gave you life with my magic and now I lie here weak and dying I feel I will perish soon please find me in the town sympathy the birthplace of us all after getting the rundown of the game from that loading screen I had two options to choose from I could be a cursed one or I'll alternatively I could be a friend the choice was obvious now after picking friend as my guy I spawn inside some kind of bone pit they were meat giblets spread about some meat chickens bones Galore and some NPCs I could talk to now I say talk but really it was more like listen the NPCs all talked with these text boxes over their heads and they all used a whisper text to speech voice a very very strange Choice please pleasee I do not wish white has my beautiful ended white this night Mar patory I lovey at the very least this is a pretty unique choice I don't think any other MMO has the balls to make every single character have the exact same TTS voice after chatting around the bone pit I learned some basic tutorial stuff and was told to go to the town of sympathy so I had a goal at least the only thing of true importance I learned from all these Tut tutorial guys was that I've got a smack and a bone throw ability if there were other weapons in this game I did not care I was purely going to use the comedy smack the whole game there's also a crafting system you've got this Witcher sense type Vision to Mark literally every single collectible thing on the entire map and all those Collectibles are just the weirdest things is monoliths bones meat ancient blood onire torches full trees and a bunch of other weird [ __ ] that you can use to craft stuff like armor and meat spells the majority the gaml is just running around like a [ __ ] picking up materials I myself handcrafted some drip after looting the Reed [Music] Fields now I was just wandering around and I was kind of taking it all in after a pretty fast fast-paced beginning I looked at the clouds which were moving very fast and I don't know something about the the weird graphics music and atmosphere all coming together kind of it just put me at a standstill I was uh I was kind of taken aback by the strange beauty of this game purely at this moment obviously it's kind of ugly and the music isn't that pleasing to listen to but I don't know something about it was just drawing me in then I snapped out of it once more bone meat creatures appeared I found the map button and was actually pretty close to sympathy already along the way I found out that you can build like rust baces so that's uh that's kind of cool I guess overall the map seems pretty decently sized now that's not to say that it's filled with interesting things to find just that it's big once I got into town I talked to more NPCs they were all just talking nonsense so I ignored them I found the matriarch who the game told me to find she was dying and gave me her last wish she wanted me to find the lore name another game where the main quest is to literally find the lore now from this point on uh the more I played the more that initial awe from the beginning kind of faded and uh the game actually kind of just sucks I did I did snipe a floating chicken though with a wicked bone throw check this out got him after getting into the open world proper I found the first batch of enemies so far it was a was a bunch of weird rock creatures that kind of just made slight movement sounds didn't actually move and they all died in three smacks what are these creatures once I dealt with them I climbed one of the many long forgotten bases in this game the whole open world was just littered with them as far as I could tell and getting on top of this one gave a pretty decent view of that the ones right out of the starting area were all pretty much garbage but after I saw a massive like actually gargantuan Tower in the distance genuinely how am I not going to go directly towards that when I see it now the tower sadly um it had no visible way to actually get inside so what you see here is what you get still pretty cool someone did this I I assume it took like a lot of time to build well I got into my first real fight with these rock creatures from before they spawn pretty much up my ass and actually move this time combat I have to say this genuinely might be the worst combat I've ever seen in any game that I've ever played I hit up the Dome after this and there were some flying demon guys I tried to Bone one to death but they just absorbed my attacks then I got attacked by some little rat man and died that was it that's game over I was going to hop off after this but a couple people logged on around this time like my boy salad 228922 I tried to talk with them but I didn't get a response for like a good while I had a brief chat with the other fell online asking him how he found the game I expected him to be a veteran lone animist regular but it was um just a guy who found the game through a video on it so I uh plugged the channel and hopped off Team Fortress Classic this one's a true classic [Laughter] I crack myself up obviously this is the predecessor to Team Fortress 2 and it is a weird game if you played TF2 before this everything is very familiar but at the same time very different in a lot of big and small ways there's a lot of differences to list but for this video they're kind of irrelevant as we're not really going to be playing the regular game but rather a bunch of weird Community servers that are still up and running obviously the first thing I did on this was go through the server browser looking for the first one to play and I mean of course my eyes are drawn towards the one called moon cheese while downloading the map I saw that this one apparently even has its own Anthem so I was getting I was getting real hyped for this one and then it crashed before it even opened so we're off to a great start so the first actual map we're looking at is a true classic everybody knows them everybody loves them we've even looked at one before we've got a Mario card map this one is uh a lot smaller and blander than what you're probably used to with the TF2 ones though I mean it's legit just a little oval with some houses in the middle at wager this one is pretty old probably from around maybe 2003 or 4 as there's Double Dash posters on the walls also it said there was a real guy in here but this is this is totally just a bot which kind of sucks cuz I was hoping to talk with the lone Team Fortress classic Mario kartist but I guess that's not going to happen next next map I joined into a crack Smurf map and this Smurf map was one of like three that had any players on it in the whole game I spawned into this one and I had no idea what was happening there was a Coca-Cola guy Smurfs running a muck and without a doubt worst of all everyone in here was French Ever Seen The Smurfs they were already partway through the map and I don't even know how to properly describe the first part that I played so here's a bit of the footage as [Music] is shoot him shoot him kill him kill him boys shoot him he's taking us all out shoot him boys shoot him nuke them boys nuke them get him nice going boys nice going GG excellent work once we got past the first bit with the boss fight it got ridiculously hard there was a timed be hop section which wasn't super super bad just janky and then after that a split path the split was where it got truly awful like genuinely I think I saw maybe 15 attempts where anyone even reached them and both had to be completed to continue like like just look at this it might not look like that hard from the footage but like trust me it was nobody could beat these I spent way too long on this one before leaving cuz for some reason I had faith in the French fellas I really thought that they had it in them they didn't we were stuck on this one bit for legit like 45 minutes before I left I did enjoy my time on the map though so I checked back in on it like 25 minutes later they were still on the same checkpoint I I don't even have to explain what this one is the name is literally Bots vers humans I I think you get the premise this map was just chaos absolute Insanity I don't think anything other than some live footage would do it justice I guess people back in the day were big fans of role playing on Team Fortress cuz we've got a city RP map here it's not the biggest to the bestest but it's got the basics as a the corner store with all kinds of products from Coca-Cola to the captain of crunch himself there were a few other buildings like a police station as well but I don't know how to enter them properly so I just wandered the streets until I fell into the sewers and got trapped I was going to make fun of a roleplay map on Team Fortress but really I'm glad Maps like this are still up even if no one plays them anymore it would kind of suck if these server browsers were just full of regular boring old maps and I'm sure there's someone out there who played on This Server you know ones like it who would just be ecstatic to find out that it's still around the city RP map had a map vote and suddenly we were onto a map called House B4 it's a pretty sweet house you know nice furniture cool TV it's only missing walls a floor a roof doors stairs I kept starting the map vote in the server to see the other maps and there were a bunch with int map in the name this is either a thing and it's really obvious what it is and I just don't know or it's not a thing and they all have it in common for no reason either way they were really weird because all of them were just Big Empty Maps even though they would be named things like end map Castle end map Castle was like a bunch of ramps in a moat but there was no Castle or anything I don't understand the only one I found with anything on it was one with a couple props in a snow area like this comedy snowman but that was it and I checked like three or four of these I don't know if these were supposed to be empty or if something was busted with the maps and things just start loading in if there's any end map creators out there watching this let me know I hopped onto a climb map climbed fell got sad and pissed off voted for a new map called short bus 3 and I drove the iconic Bus Around Town it was a fun [Music] time I seem to have a sort of bad habit of getting baited into maps with funny names but like how am I not going to play the one called two meatballs it was just a regular TFC map I I am furious the server for this one was called the fun house but the map was anything but this was a real scary map that was like some kind of Capture the Flag or something I don't know I was way too drawn in by the creepy art on the map to actually play The Objective now despite this being like a spooky ominous Forest black and white map uh the flag on it was just a regular soccer ball in the middle everybody's familiar with rocket jumping and sticky jumping but how many people know about concussion jumping now if you didn't know TFC has grenades for each class and one of them is a concussion grenade which you can use to chain explode yourself to get some crazy air I never played TFC so I had no idea about this I thought the map was a Rocket Jump Map until I looked it up and damn this [ __ ] is cool I miss when stuff like this was still in games the closest we have nowadays is stuff like frag boosting a Titanfall but that doesn't even hold a candle the [ __ ] jumping Penguin Park is a truly insane Christmas server running 24/7 365 it's full of bots and has the full four team setup resulting in absolute chaos Christmas Santa Santa Merry Christmas Mill rats rats where the rats I found a couple rats Maps which is pretty sweet because these are just the best the first one I played was a locker room map which I mean it was cool but they put turrets on the ceiling for some reason which kind of ruins the whole map cuz they just decimate anything they see I don't know why they thought that was a good idea the second one I found was a lot better though it was a little bedroom dorm kind of thing with a bunch of fun stuff on the map like this pencil machine gun on the table that's actually probably my favorite thing I've seen in any rats map ever there were also big rat traps which I got crushed by instantly this one was definitely the better of the two by far oh what that you didn't think we were going to do another Christmas map well we are luckily this one isn't just an arena I actually don't know what this map is supposed to be there was a Santa team and a civilian team and I initially went with Santa I think the server needed people though because the Santa team was just nothing or I didn't know how to make it work so I left that to the OG big man swapping over to civilians I spawned in a little suburb type thing the gimmick with this map is that all these houses were unique and explorable and also given names based on what I assumed to be admins of the server or just friends of the map maker some houses were pretty normal you know nothing much to say your average Suburban household and some were transparent alien hellscapes food hands off this one called Venom's house was a pretty average run-of-the male house but it had an ominous strange red glow coming from the basement heading down there it was like a big bunker thing but sadly didn't have anything more than what you see here now the big draw on this map was a huge walled off Mansion at the end of the road I saved it for last and after thoroughly exploring the rest of the map it was time to head on in from the outside the place looked pretty cool I was excited to see what was on the inside as so far the other houses were all pretty interesting oh brother all right okay this place was littered from top to bottom in naughty furry images I cannot show Merry Christmas everyone okay stop looking at it stop I can't look at that today I want to end things off by looking at what's probably team fortress's most iconic map by far banana land this is a pretty sick level where you hop around collecting bananas to progress the map is covered in a texture that's just like green puke all over your whole screen when you manage to collect those nanas a door will open to your next collection room where you've got to grab some more there's an upside down room a spinning room and a Mario Sunshine Pachinko room and some of these are much harder than others once you beat the Pachinko room you're sent into the spinny room and that's it that's the end of banana [Music] land this one is called Club Koy it's a virtual hangout game where you can make your own avatar make your own rooms and generally just sit around and chat with others it's actually a lot older than you would think being from 2007 so it's uh it's got that going forward I guess let's get into it Club kooy is a No Nonsense game so the character name this time is not funny it is not unique and it is not crazy the name that was chosen is granulated sugar I had to start this one out with a solid character design my guy was yolked by default so I just kept him that way and next up was buying some clothes money in this game is kooy points which makes the worst possible abbreviation they could pick I decided I would make a marketable clown type character that the fans would just go nuts over I went all out on it hoping that it would get very popular with lots of fan art Big Time merch sales possibly a few TV deals but while looking through the catalog I had an epiphany hold on wait a minute hold on hold on okay things things just got things just got serious during the character remake I had a better look through all the items and I assume that most of these are Community made because I mean ju like just look at this despite the store being absolutely full of random crap I couldn't just find a white suit with a black shirt so this is it this is what you get after like 40 minutes of [ __ ] around in the Character Creator I was finally got to go now I noticed that despite the game saying it had like 15,000 people people on there seemingly weren't that many active rooms for North America it was maybe like six servers with any number of people on them and worldwide the total number of players added up to like maybe 5 or 600 now I Don't Know Jack Diddley about this game so that might be normal I'd assume it's counting people who have the browser running in the background but aren't actually playing which probably adds a fair number of players let me know if this game is a big hit in like Brazil or something I tried one of the few servers in North America with anyone playing numbers were very few in this one so I was a little bit worried that it was all just going to be AFK players but they were active and just kind of having a casual conversation I made Small Talk complimenting this nice lady's boom stick and she had no idea what I meant and I left next up I joined one called sad room it was pretty full of sad Gamers but only one was actually active I asked how they were doing and they responded that they were AOK so so I called him a fraud sad gamer and left I was pretty quickly running out of active English speaking servers and I joined this one in the middle of a massive heated argument probably going to have to blur the chat in this one it's uh it's a little bit filled with slurs and insults the feud came to a climax when one of the players said that by eating makeup they would probably be prettier on the inside I was fed up with their arguing and uh I just decided I would be a kid who just installed the game to distract them and possibly get them to quit I just turned 13 I am playing the game I want to club club Clum dance how to dance I play game this strategy did not work and I left I joined this one which was a bunch of people chilling out on a tiny tiny Island I asked how we were going to get off this damn Rock and that it would be where we died I got uh I got pretty mild reactions from the crowd and then I snagged some pretty slick pictures we've entered the danger zone as I found out where the emote shop is including the dances Juju on that beat let me quickly Juju on that beat can I get a quick Juju on that beat please despite having nearly every dance on the goddamn Planet they did not I repeat did not have the gritty I'm sorry I was given a prompt in the menu to try out a chat request thing it was like a little one-on-one matchup program thing where you enter an age range and get matched with someone to talk to I tried it out with literally all criteria checked you know a 12 to 99 years age range all genders and found absolutely nobody to talk to damn also as a side note uh being able to search for one-on-one shots with teenagers and kids as young as 12 I don't know if this is just me but that seems like that seems like a very dangerous program I'm not going to lie I wanted to go on the Harley-Davidson friends only Club saying I myself I'm a biker in his late 50s I hopped onto the owner's profile to add him as a friend but his description of French read if you look at me you will be blocked I uh I was blocked now sadly it seems like uh we're going to have to go without the Harley club for today the top dogs in this game have more hours in it than professional Esports players have in their respective games and that's not an exaggeration now obviously if we're talking you know realistically here they must have just left it running for long periods of time but they have such a ridiculous amount of XP and achievements that like a good chunk of that play time has to be real absolutely nuto dedication to Club Koy next up on the list was an 18 plus naughty Z room it was uh it was is a lot Tamer than I thought so I can actually just show it fully [Music] uncensored this one was um this one was like a rock club or something I don't know here's uh here's Nishi rocking out I kind of just um I kind of chillaxed by the pool for fully clothed for a bit uh then I hit up the water slide this this game sucks I think I'm done with this one be sure to uh be sure to check out club Koy if um I don't [Music] know you've heard of all those classic halflife mods right Counter Strike Day of Defeat hell even Team Fortress classic what about uh what about master sword continued this one's a very forgotten halflife mod that turns it into a medieval fantasy RPG uh no relation to Zelda originally it came out in 1998 as just master sword and then it relaunched in 2005 as Master Sword continued no reason to explain everything here though so let's just start with some gameplay I started this one out with a little test run on a single player map called WW1 and it was an absolute nightmare there were a bunch of bores just nuking me over and over and over and over again bodies were just piling up mostly my own and I just died over and over and over as the combat music which is copyrighted so I can't play it just blasted in the background it was also a little version of me on the bottom of the screen the UI was bugging out and everything was just off about this game it was perfect before I installed this one I found a list of servers on the mods website it was about 20 to 30 servers on all different maps and game modes and literally all of them are dead and don't work I was stuck with just the server browser so this game actually only has one server that works the first time I tried joining it it crashed while I was loading so I was getting I was getting real worried that this one might not work at all but somehow I managed to squirm my way into the server I started strong literally as my new original character Max mass and of course I had to choose the Hammer as my weapon of choice nobody beats the hammer now instantly upon spawning something was wrong now this is a weird one this is something I've never seen before I could not turn past a certain angle this wasn't as big a deal as you'd think but it was still pretty annoying I spent a bit of time looking around the spawn for instructions on how to do stuff and finally you can talk NPCs and not in like the dialogue box Fallout kind of way but legit like through a text box typing out stuff that you want to say you can only really say certain key wordss for them to respond to but I still thought this was a pretty cool system also this beard guy looks wicked funny I thought my graphics card or monitor were like breaking cuz the game kept deploying a full screen blue tint and then I realized that that was just the rain effect you know a game's going to be good when it gets you to think that it broke your whole computer before leaving the wizard Guild spawn area I found a board with some console commands on it I had to full 360° turn to get a good look at it because of the camera bug leaving the guild my quest had truly begun I came across a small Homestead which I foolishly thought was my own thus I barged on through the front door the owner within didn't seem to care and even granted me a quest to get the hell out of his house and clear out his backyard of evil creatures thinking to myself that this was a prime opportunity to get some free XP I took him up on his offer and went to murder these backyard beasts after a hardfought battle leaving me scarred but stronger I made a daring escape from the man's backyard as the Beast had respawned I came across my first city and headed to the pub in search of questgivers the owner of the bar promptly told me to piss off however before leaving I took a quest to deliver a letter to the man in the house from earlier Easy Money upon exit I stumbled across two men in dire need of my assistance [Music] nice day nice day outside isn't [Music] it nice day outside isn't it nice day outside nice day outside nice day nice day outside isn't it nice day outside isn't it nice day outside isn't it nice day outside isn't it Isn't it nice day outside isn't it nice day outside isn't it proceeding to the next area my game crashed and it almost broke the server luckily all it took was a quick reconnect and we were good more than good actually I mean this this area has some admirable jock [Music] jams [Music] I came across a cave filled with giant rats perhaps ones that make all the rolls their deaths meant that I now became the giant rat Co surprise I Max mass now entered a state of grinding to maximize my mass I slaughtered many a boar until only the terminar remained I noticed in the distance a fallen soldier with blood splattered about all around him I came to his aid but he was actually just chilling on the floor perfectly fine I went into a creepy cave and bashed a spiderweb with my hammer and I will admit I got actually jump scared by Master's sword continued oh [ __ ] what the [ __ ] I got out of there as fast as I could no other Adventurer had be hops like me after all I did have a letter to deliver I be hopped back to the man's home and bestowed on him the letter fulfilling yet another quest for Max Mass uh one problem with this though um this like this like crashed the server like hard crashed the server like it was gone whoops I gave it a minute and tried opening up the server browser again oh man uh unironically not a bit not a joke I I think I actually broke the sole working online server for this one uh uh sorry sorry guys I checked back like 30 minutes later and it was still gone so uh that's it for this one like forever and that's it we've uh We've made it to the end of this one thanks for sticking through it uh I don't really have much more to say so uh yeah I've got another video in the works that's sort of tangentially related to this series but like kind of not really I don't know it's probably going to be the next video and it's probably going to be a lot shorter so it shouldn't take as stupidly long that's really it though so um you know thanks for checking out the video [Music] bye

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Published: Sat Mar 16 2024