Gmod is Beautiful in Its Simplicity

gary's mod or gmod if you're in a hurry if you're into computer games and spend time on the internet you might have played it and if you haven't played it you've definitely seen it [Music] i am because gary's mod is that influential it's a game that's definitely been influential on me and millions of other people too with gary's mod's 16th birthday coming up tomorrow and a sequel on the horizon i think it's only fair to talk about the huge influence it's had even though the original mod was released 16 years ago very little about it seems to have changed the most popular game modes like trouble and terrace town prop hunt dark rp they're all a decade old or older if you boot up a single player game sure there's some more tools to play with in a fancier ui but still just spawning props watching npcs murder each other building weird stuff making boss man and g-man have sex in a world where games get showered with updates and new seasons you'd think a game where the developers have done very little to change things would be a disappointment but personally i couldn't be happier that's the way things are and today i'm going to talk about why that is gmod is such a diverse game that i don't think i'll be able to speak for everybody's experiences but i think one thing everyone can agree on is that the reason this hardly updated 16 year old game still thrives is because it's beautiful in its simplicity i struggled with what to name this video for a while until i remember the name of the freaking game is called gary's mod there's no competition for world's most creative title going on here so i figured an equally straightforward title would be fitting and it made me think about how the game itself really lives up to the simplicity of its name the reason we love gmod is it's a blank canvas if you disable all your add-ons all 500 of them in my case and boot up gmod there isn't much to it you can definitely keep yourself entertained for a while and i'm sure a lot of people have but i would have almost definitely put the game down a long time ago if it wasn't for all the user created content you could spend a whole lifetime checking out all the different add-ons dupes and saves as of me writing this there are 1.5 million player submissions to the workshop now that's not to say they're all good but there are countless great player models to be weapons to use vehicles to drive tools to create with maps to explore or npcs to battle and because of the sheer diversity of all this content everyone's going to have a different experience you can ride somebody's roller coaster as a sentient bag of doritos you can make the guys from tf2 fight a giant robot from fallout some addons actually give you the tools to make your own stop-motion films with the gmod models there are surprising number of adventure map add-ons user-created levels where you solve puzzles fight enemies or get jump scared by shitty jpegs of jeff the killer i could go on all day and i'm sure any gmod veterans watching would agree that this is far from the craziest stuff you can do but my point is your imagination is the limit and if there's something you can imagine that's not on the workshop you can make it carries mod leaves it all up to the players and i love it but add-ons are not the only outlet of user-created content that gmod allows if you take a look at the artwork section of gmod on steam the gmod subreddit or even the gmod main menu artwork is a big part of the community i think the first thing i did when i got gmod was took some counter-strike characters and made a crappy screenshot of it this screenshot is a total piece of crap though i mean i'm pretty sure these guys aren't even touching the floor and this guy's about to shoot his friend anyways there was something just so cool about being able to imagine any kind of scene and then build what i was thinking of i was pretty addicted to lego back in the day so that probably explains it but the artwork that people make with gmod never ceases to impress me some of it looks like real pictures there's historical scenes realistic battles stuff from fictional universes and some artwork which is just dumb fun most of these screenshots couldn't be made if it wasn't for the models weapons maps all from the workshop the player created content feeds back into itself and it really lowers the barrier of entry for people who want to make 3d artwork you don't need some fancy software like sfm or blender this is a screenshot i just made right here recreating the one i made six years ago i think it looks a little better of course if we're talking about gmod's player created content i could have not mentioned the youtube videos i mean you're watching one right now if you've watched my channel before you know that gary's my videos are you know kind of a big part of my channel this is going to be a pretty big segment because i can't talk about why i love gmod or why it's so popular without talking about the youtube content around [Music] it [Music] firstly you have the machinimas between about 2008 and 2011 gmod had his first wave of mainstream fame with the machinima scene you had bullshit's gmod idiot box with all sorts of valve characters doing funny stuff or recreating the memes of the day hello i'm a mac and i'm a pc what what exactly do you mean by better by better i mean making a website or photo book is easy for me and for you it's not [Music] you had kitty0706 a legend of machinima and he had comedy focused stuff that every 12 year old was wondering about like what would it be like if the heavy went bowling or took a driving test i think part of why people love these machinimas is they got to see their favorite characters that they'd spent hours playing with in a more lighthearted context just getting up to wacky stuff [Music] [Applause] he also had his own original elliot goes to school series which even though i was too young to watch at the time i'm sure plenty of people loved relating to and laughing with after their own long days of school and then of course you had ikton whose half-life full-life consequences series taking the piss out of some foreign guys crappy half-life fan fiction will put a smile on my face until the day i die zombie ghosts leave this place and the zombie ghost said but this is our house and john freeman felt sorry for them because they couldn't live there anymore because they were zombie ghosts so he blew up the house and killed the zombie ghost on the more serious side of things mission was like war the servers were like entire freaking movies with the proper story and action scenes if the demand is there i might even make a whole separate video on these machinimas because there's just so much to talk about and so many great machinima makers out there even today but there's a whole other aspect to gmod youtube content that is worthy of a mention and probably impacted me more than the machinimas hello and welcome to the odd cast gary's mod if machinima was popularized gmod let's play super sized it as a kid i had no idea what the hell gary's mod was until i watched the yogscast play gmod and just screw around on gm flat grass i love the atmosphere they had of just friends messing around and being amazed at all the stupid dupes it's kind of the way i felt later on when i played for the first look time this either way after watching gary's mod on youtube i don't think there was anything 12 year old me wanted more than to own it and play for myself i can't say for certain but i definitely think all these big youtubers playing gmod played a pretty big part in his popularity if you take a look at the google trends page for gary's mod you can see his popularity really shot up in 2013 and reached its peak in 2014. that was the same year i picked up gmod around this time you had pewdiepie markiplier jacksepticeye venturiontail the yogscast vanos all playing gmod and ranking interviews sometimes in the tens of millions so you had millions of people all seeing how much fun their favorite youtubers were having with gmod and it gave the game popularity like it never had before after youtube introduced me to gary's mod the novelty of the usual game modes big youtubers tended to play like sandbox started to wear off for me and then around 2015 i watched a guy named zuthar13 messing with some gmod role players and after that there is no hope for me one of the users decided to open a pizzeria chain on an online server but as later revealed alternatively from the usual ingredients they also plan to use newborn babies as the main ingredient instead if you look at the server browser for gmod multiplayer love him or hate him roleplay game modes are utterly dominant now everybody strap in because this might be where the video gets a little controversial i've probably leaned more towards what some people might call a minge in g mod rp in that at times i've taken the rules less as rules and more as suggestions hey guys it's me ninja from fortnite i mentioned zuthar at the start of this segment and his videos introducing me to gmod rp are probably the reason that's the way i am i would laugh my ass off as videos where there'd be all these people taking themselves so seriously and 12 year old admins going on power trips and he would just be screwing with them guys there's an alien drone upstairs i suggest we take it out my god i suggest we take it out with elite force who's with me on this expedition yeah whatever mr halo commander my name's lieutenant jones you're thinking of now having heard all that you might think that i totally hate gmod rp and all the people who play it seriously which is not at all the message i want to get across here of the thousands of hours i've sunk into this game most of them were probably on rp servers even though the admins and rules can be overbearing i guess what i'm trying to say is i love the chaotic element of gmod rp it's like a cross section of the whole internet which granted can make it pretty cancerous at times but at other times it's great because you get to talk to all these random people from all over the world not only that but sometimes you end up making these hilarious stories that you just couldn't make up otherwise being a guy in 7 years war rp became convinced we were living inside a simulation and started rebellion i met a guy in a russian server who taught me a few russian words and we went on a killing spree chanting vladimir putin is great in russian some british guy and this other kid i met on fallout rp decided to form a band and sang to the people of the wasteland about gay cowboys now this is a song about a gay cowboy who was really gay cause he used to have a woman but then she got what get out of here my point is even though stuff like this isn't always in line with the rules of serious rp it feels more in the spirit of gary's mod which doesn't give you a set of rules but just encourages you to have fun just like the base game is a blank canvas for your ideas and creations gmod rp is a blank canvas for these crazy stories just waiting to be told with people you've never even met gmod is not this triple a experience it's a game that ended up being called gary's mod on accident because gary wasn't expecting it to be this big thing but this simplicity makes the game so much better it allows the community to mow the game into whatever they want it to be the community has been a massive part of making carries mod the game it is today it's hard to think of gary's mod without dark rp trouble in terrace town gm big city rp downtown hell even all those five nights at freddy's add-ons which is why i wanted to give back to the community a little when this goes out there's a map i made that i'm planning to upload to the workshop i try to add everything i love about gmod there's an arena for npc battles a race track and a garage for vehicles an obstacle course out of death run and some houses you might see on dark rp i can't lie to you guys i've never made a map in any game before so it kind of sucks but the community has done so much for this game and i've gotten so many hours of fun out of content made by gmods players that i felt it was only fair to pay it forward even if only a little so i highly encourage all of you to give something back to the community if you haven't already you don't have to design an intricate map but maybe just upload that car dupe or that crappy ragdoll scene or that let's play video you've been working on even just being a part of somebody's crazy story on a multiplayer server it all helps to make this game what it is because gary's mod is one of a kind i've said gmod is a lot of things in this video it's friends having dumb fun it's a sandbox to test out contraptions and add-ons it's a tool to let anyone make movies or artwork it's a vessel for these weird stories really it can be anything depending on the player it's only through its simplicity that gary's mod makes this all possible gmod gives us the bass and then lets all the players have fun in their own unique and weird ways and i wouldn't have it any other way it wouldn't be my favorite game of all time without all of you guys and that's why gmod is beautiful in its simplicity if you made it this far into the video thanks for watching and hearing me out seeing as how gmod is such a huge game with 16 years of history now i'm sure i only scratched the surface but still i hope i touched at least a little on what makes gmod such a great game and if you really did enjoy my nonsensical ramblings think about sticking around and subscribing if you happen to be into gmod content that's mostly what i make on this channel and i'm pretty new to the whole video essay thing but depending on the reception this cuts i might even make more in the future either way thanks again for hearing me out and i will see you when i see you

Channel: Dacoobers

Views: 126,702

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Id: Q_jZG6QuBtk

Length: 14min 22sec (862 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 23 2020