Gm_bigcity - A Quick Look

if you enjoy this video please consider subscribing to the channel because if you do maybe we'll get a gm bigger city out of the many things gary's mod has offered to the players over the years one of these things is above all else freedom and what better map to display the sense of freedom than gm big city big city is almost a 10 year old map and it is one of the most subscribed maps on the gmod workshop with a subscriptions count going over 2.5 million the map was created by bigwig who also created other famous maps like gm atomic gm buttes and gm buttes knight there's not much i could find about bigwig or the history behind the creation of his maps so rather let's take a look around the map itself the map is divided into four quarters or at least that's how i always divided it there's no official names to these places there's the radiation plant the industrial block the plaza area and downtown big city the radiation plant as well a plant that has a pool of radiation surrounding it there's not much else in fact there's not much else to the whole map in terms of details there aren't any specific props and models but rather dozens of buildings stacked across the landscape and that's the thing about this map it lets you choose you add in the details you add in the props and you make the story all the map does is provide you with all the space you would ever need and space is something big city is not short on this might be one of the biggest maps made for gary's mod it is absolutely humongous seeing that i did not have much to say about this map i turned to the viewers you for help from a question i asked about your memories on this map i received hundreds of replies and from all the comments i realized that this map provided one of the best sandbox experiences to the players some said they would hang around the radiation pool some would jump off the highest buildings fight hordes of zombies watch npcs fight each other and so much more given how the buildings are structured on this quarter i think it is safe to say that this is the industrial quarters situated alongside the canals most buildings on this map do not have an interior but those that do provide some space allow the player to utilize it to make their own contraptions here i wondered about something why did i instinctively call this the industrial quarters like i said earlier there aren't any official names for the locations in the map why did i look at this and the first thing that popped up in my mind was the word industrial i've always called it this ever since i started playing gmod all those years ago it is the shape and the textures that's all there is even though the buildings are designed in a very primitive manner the textures used on top of them certify the fact that this is supposed to be an industrial complex this is why i always say appropriate textures mean a lot and can improve any map significantly moving on there's the canals that borders the industrial quarters the radiation plant and the plaza areas it's nothing too fancy but i remember having endless vehicular experiments in this area i would spawn the airboat and let my mind think of all the contraptions i would make coming back to this place made me realize that as i start to age i'm starting to lose my imaginative abilities thinking of the wildest things to make now i just make videos about these maps and call it a day things will never be as they were before there are four open fields in the plaza area huge play fields that players could use as their battlegrounds or experiment areas you could spawn in dozens of npcs and have an all-out war there's a garbage dump area then the baltic cafe area and finally the most memorable one the spawn area all of these four open spaces are surrounded by tall huge buildings that would cover the sky in my lonely garry's mod video here's where i felt the most alone canopsia nostalgia or something supernatural there is a somber feeling in gmod maps some people feel it some people don't lastly there's the downtown area here is where most of the more taller buildings are and that's pretty much it the buildings are so tall here that they block the sunlight and cast shadows onto the streets below these city blocks are also connected with each other through the alleyways dark corners that open up to the other side of the map there are more places in here but i'll leave that to you to discover now let's take a look at some easter eggs since i'm not very knowledgeable about easter eggs here's a fellow youtuber victor overtime to show us the easter eggs in this map all of the easter eggs are located in this quarter of the city the first two are right by this plaza interacting with the door to cafe baltic will jump scare the player it'll jolt them backward while the stalker scream from half-life 2 plays heading down this alley leads you to this grungy garage there's a closed door with blood trailing from it graffiti of a skull and bones wanting you to stay away if you still choose to interact with it you'll be met with a low pitched laughter from father gregory kind of creepy at this street corner down the road there's a long alley leading to an entrance inside is a gritty industrial corridor paved in red light taking you to this doorway going through takes you to the secret room looking out above the spawn area why such an unnerving entrance to a standard room looking over a cityscape i don't know that's the only way to access this room too if you try to no clip in from the outside a teleport brush will bring you away if you break this panel in the wall i find the easiest way is with explosives you'll reveal noam chomsky he's rigged to utilize pitched up citizen voice lines from half-life 2. he'll call for help if you pick him up if you punt chomsky around too much he'll get angry and say that's it i'm pissed at which point he will launch at terminal velocity and kill the player the map's author hit an identical easter egg on his other map gm atomic if you're interested i recently did a whole video about atomic on my channel [Music] big city like rp downtown has its own fair share of inspired maps mostly who aim to either expand it or improve it or show it off in a different style there's so many choices a player can get easily confused as to which one to download gm big city will always remain one of the most iconic gmod maps ever made so many memories packed inside this city thank you for watching [Music] you

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Id: l14BLo9cplE

Length: 8min 27sec (507 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 14 2021