Roblox's Cringiest Horror Trend (and how it shaped the genre)

well Halloween has officially come and gone even though my favorite holiday is now over and you're once again considered weird for pretending to be abducted by an alien in public there's at least one part of the Halloween season that we can keep on enjoying all year round and that's Roblox horror games I think what a lot of people think of Roblox horror they tend to think back to Old myths like mujin one by one by one by one guest 666 and John Doe but what a lot of people don't realize is just how far roblox's horror genre has really come since then it's 2022. the capabilities of the Roblox Studio engine are better than ever before and the skill set of the average developer grows wider by the day there are tons of beautiful and unique horror games out there now that do so much more than we would have ever thought possible in the days of John Doe gone are the days of getting spooked by large random cave systems with blocky Blood on the walls and roblox's horror genre is so diverse now that it's kind of split into several sub-genres instead of just horror we now have survival horror Adventure horror horror showcases horror mystery solving games and Pastries bakery cafe to name just a few but there's another horror game sub genre that was pretty prevalent on Roblox not too long ago one that seemed to Captivate almost every robloxian out there in fact despite its games being so unapologetically bad one that arguably shaped the evolution of the Roblox horror game landscape as we know it today despite being utter garbage looking back on it this is the cringy Roblox Horror Story game [Music] now to be clear when I refer to these games as games I mean that in the most trivial sense of the word because the very first red flag we should have seen with this genre is that its games don't really have any Gameplay at all upon spawning into one of these games you're met with various doorways to travel through each with its own unique name denoting the story that lies behind it stories are comprised of several scenes made up of usually stationary objects and characters acting out part of the story at viewing each scene in sequential order comprises a story if you've ever had one of those miniature books with a picture on each page and you're meant to flip through the pages rapidly to create something similar to an animation it's basically that except a lot more drawn out and uh that's it there is literally nothing else to do in these games I kid you not some of these games offer things like a campfire to tell your own horror stories around but aside from that and maybe resetting your character a bunch of times to see if he'll respawn as a ghost there's no more fun to be had now I don't know about you but when I'm say watching a movie the movie's story is only half of what I'm paying attention to a good piece of visual media needs both a good story and good visuals so I wouldn't exactly mind if the gameplay was skimped out on a little bit if it meant the game's design would be that much more interesting I'm a showcase fan I could definitely appreciate an awesome design and place of awesome gameplay these games had neither take scary stories for example a game that I actually have a lot of nostalgia for I used to play it pretty frequently around 2018 which is generally considered the peak of this genre and playing it again recently made me realize just how rose-colored my Nostalgia goggles apparently were the walls were paper thin in spots allowing me to Traverse to basically anywhere in the map I wanted using e Dance 2 clipping free model usage was rampant most of the story scenes took place in Barren colored voids most of the teleporters were broken making half the map inaccessible through legitimate means and there were several spots where bricks didn't even connect or underwent severe clipping it was honestly a train wreck I'm surprised they didn't get prompted to buy a fake admin t-shirt every 10 seconds there are better games than this one of course but at the end of the day pretty much all of them still had severe flaws one pretty well-built game I found tried to use audio cues to heighten the mood but one of the cues was apparently a sock sound that they never paid for the jungle there was another game that was actually Even Better Built but the English they were using for a character dialogue was so bad that I literally could not understand one of their stories because of it if one of you can decipher this sentence please let me know yet another once popular game I found was literally just a grastering field with stories on one side and free model abandoned buildings that I couldn't get into on the other which reminds me despite the obscene levels of free model usage in most of these games not a lot of the developers apparently decided to take a free model of a professional looking dialogue system because for the most part the characters in these stories could only talk one sentence per scene using Roblox Studio's default humanoid naming system essentially what this means is that they took the character that was speaking renamed its username in Roblox Studio to the line it was saying and called it a day it's an incredibly unreliable line of text that Clips in and out of view depending on the angle you look at it from and it's a shame that it hasn't been updated and all the time it's been implemented on Roblox because it would help make these games you know actually readable at this point it's probably pretty obvious that most of these games developers were not professionals by any means in fact after looking at a lot of their profiles I have a sneaking suspicion that a lot of them were literal children cute Megan the developer behind that abandoned building place is dressed like a gotcha life character and I'm pretty sure joshi1122334455 the name of the Mastermind behind scary stories is the username that autofills when you click under 13 on the Roblox signup page and so that makes it pretty clear why these games were so unprofessional and rudimentary the devs behind them simply didn't have the knowledge and experience to do anything else they didn't know how to animate characters they didn't know how to implement professional looking dialogue they didn't know how to build impressive looking designs of their own often having to resort to free model usage they simply worked with what they had and unfortunately that didn't really allow for them to be anything other than cringe by today's standards but I feel like I still haven't quite impressed upon you the exact level to which these games were cringed I can talk about poor design quality Rush development Corner cutting and much more until I'm blue in the face but in my opinion in order to really understand the full scope of cringy Roblox Horrors story games you really have to experience one for yourself and I think I know of the perfect one that's right I made one of these [Music] yes I too was a cringy horror story game developer years ago in fact mine was made slightly after the peak of this genre in 2019 also known as the last Goodyear to ever happen you see back in 2019 I was dead set on becoming a famous Roblox game developer why because famous devs have cool limiteds and I wanted them to yeah my reasoning for things was pretty shallow back then now fun fact about me I actually went to a special Magnet High School That was supposed to teach you all about information technology which included video game making but what I didn't know when I enrolled there was that the education to be received there was for lack of a better word dog water in the entirety of my four years at that school I only ever learned the basic principles of coding and the building of maps and 3D models was something that was practically never touched on as a result even though I was in my sophomore year at an I.T dedicated high school there was a pretty significant problem with my aspiration to be a famous game developer which was that I didn't know how to develop any games so in order to make the that dream a reality the game I made would have to have little to no coding rely pretty heavily on free models made by people better at building than me and yet still seem professional and have the potential to go viral and there was only one genre of game that I could think of that fit all of those criteria and that I knew I wanted to make a Horror Story game to increase my game's chances of going viral I decided to give it a theme it would be a haunted library with books containing portals to the stories they contain there would be a side quest a hangout area for people to tell their own stories monster characters throughout with witty dialogue Isles and aisles of creepy books and artifacts and most importantly some Banger horror stories unfortunately I don't really remember what those stories were because I haven't seen them in about three years remember this game relied heavily on free models and back in 2019 the free Model Market was a lot more wild than unpolice than it is now you kids really have it too easy models featuring viruses unwanted game breaking elements and lag-inducing properties Galore were Staples of roblox's model Library some models would sneakily insert malicious scripts into hard to find places without you knowing someone tried to teleport players of your game to a different one and some would simply try to troll You by making your game unplayable and I unfortunately downloaded one of those if my memory serves me right after downloading this model whenever I would play the game it would play fine for about a minute then the screen would slowly begin to fade to gray after a few seconds it would turn completely gray and text would appear on screen saying hacked by so and so and it would stay there permanently I don't remember who the quote unquote hacker was but I do remember that they were kind of the straw that broke the camels back for this game I'd already had a very hard time developing this game before this problem arose because I was a new bit deving I hadn't bothered to organize my models and parts at all when I first started so everything was pretty much just jumbled all over the place and changing anyone part of the game was becoming more and more of a challenge also because it had so many needlessly part and script heavy free models the game was now laggy as hell it would take 14 ticks of the waiting for an available server counter to generate a new server and even at minimum Graphics the lag was apparent I really wanted to finish this game but it was getting harder and harder to work on by the day and once this hacker incident happened I realized the game was far too laggy buggy and unplayable at this point to be enjoyable in any capacity so I had no choice but to abandon it until now this past week I was in a nostalgic mood and I decided to revisit nightmare Library upon play testing I found that the hacker message was just gone for some reason and because the Roblox game client has improved overall the game is actually now playable with minimal lag and that's actually how I got the idea to do this very video I just hit a pretty cool Milestone of 500 Subs thanks so much for that by the way I literally can't thank you enough and it was just the spooky season so what better way to celebrate my Halloween 500 Subs Milestone than to take a look back at the spookiest part of my Roblox career to that end I haven't gone through any of the stories yet because I want both you and I to experience them essentially for the first time together I have vague memories of thinking that the stories were really good back when I was making them so let's find out if I really made a spine tingling bone-shaking revolutionarily spooky game or if I too was a participant in the genre of cringy Roblox horror stories alright after spending a very spooky five minutes trying to figure out how to map this place out I've come to find that there are six stories here and this is the least scary one and the shortest so let's start slow and ramp it up first one is called addiction let's hope it's not offensive these are all too expensive don't you have anything cheaper hmm we do actually have one somebody dropped it off early this morning whoa how much is that it's free just one condition you have to use it every day okay wait no no you can't buddy you can't give this away for free it looks like it costs it what what is this Alienware it's got to be at least a thousand dollars you're you're gonna get fired you're you're losing major business done thank you so much anytime Gotta Love Microsoft's placement with uh no price tags whatsoever that's great that's great oh we got a hacker man sir the Prototype has been sold excellent now the experiment can begin day one the subject is all ready to spring significant attachment to the Prototype early signs of addiction visible time spent online at three hours you gotta up your numbers buddy I spend like 10 hours a day online I'm sad wow this is such a good PC you can tell it's good because it loads up the start menu really fast day two subject surveillance shows that subject is skipping certain activities such as chores and socialization to spend time online you and me both buddy time spent online six hours this is amazing I'm playing as a guest in 2019 I didn't know this was possible day three subjects food and water levels are at minimum subject is now spending almost every waking hour using the Prototype time spent online nine hours so much gay I mean yeah that's kind of me whenever I play a game oh look he's evolved to a different kind of guest from like 2010 or something the march of time is inevitable I guess day four subject is now sleeping later and failing to take any breaks from the Prototype even to use the restroom or eat the desire of links are beginning to form in the subject's brain the time 12 hours he's abandoned Roblox entirely he's playing fortnite now that's that's a little bit Blasphemous don't you think drools okay yeah that's just every gamer subjects ties to society have been severed a fake obituary has circulated the process is nearly complete time spent online 24 hours no one has entered his house at all to check to make sure he's actually dead they just circulated the obituary they sold all this stuff he's still in there they just thought it was like a statue in in the seat and he's just saying a bunch of dots I guess he knows Morse code which is pretty cool it has begun foreign [Music] what the heck is this place uh you are in my soul get it because my soul is black it's dark I got a twisted mind get it experiment complete subject is now in cyberspace return to physical world will commence shortly uh oh we got some danger going on okay this is the scary part guys me whenever I run Roblox on maximum Graphics prototype unresponsive return to physical world failed experiment terminated uh oh we're self-destructing now I think we already did though so um not sure why we're doing that and now we're getting hunted by the creepy cyber guy [Music] that wasn't really scary it was just kind of sad to see uh someone go through the chronically online gamer pipeline that inevitably happens every time someone buys a PC with lights on it like that but oh well what can you do it was it was bound to happen all right next up is the pencil this has a medium length and a low scare level so it's supposed to be about as scary as addiction let's see if it can measure up and somehow managed to be scarier hey man do you have a pencil nope but there's one on the floor oh God damn okay you are a bad friend right off the bat I don't really like you that much I kind of hope you die also you're not wearing any pants which is public indecency so I have half of mind to call the police on you right now wow you're such a great friend rolls eyes thanks you know you've been drawing a lot lately maybe you should Draw a poster for that poster right there because uh the school clearly forgot to put one in there yeah it's something my dad and I like to do together oh sorry for mentioning it it's cool now let's get to work okay what is he working on he doesn't have anything in front of him what do you mean let's get to work I I think he's gonna be the only one that's working maybe he's maybe he's his professional cheerleader he's getting paid like 15 bucks an hour to uh to cheer him on like Yay draw for your dead dad like that's probably it they're finished oh cool it's your dad hey guys can I use that pencil this girl takes Bluetooth to a whole new level yeah sure thanks now I can finish drawing monsters another day alone okay hang on a minute is this kid implying that he lives alone maybe he's doing commissions online for his drawing like for 15 bucks you get a picture of my dad that's that's probably it oh and it suddenly turns to almost night time and his dad is there with a Gucci tie and no sleeves awesome so I just opened up the door and boom he's there well they never found his body did they maybe he just came back yeah but what are the odds he comes back on the day I draw him it's like I drew him to life that's true Gwen's in trouble he gave the pencil to her and you've seen what she does yeah and I'm still not wearing any pants yeah I guess I am being silly anyway see you around and done I'm still at school at night for some reason I'm not gonna lie that kind of made me Flinch with the sound come on with the image that kind of hit and she is being attacked by something that looks nothing like the monster that she just drew awesome all right so yeah um if you didn't hear before that actually kind of scared me because of the jump scare at the end I'm kind of susceptible to jump scares so I'm surprised I I thought I would not get scared by any of these but here I am getting scared by the second one that does not bode well for my fate for the rest of these stories he didn't listen scare level medium length short okay so this is promising to be even scarier than the pencil if that's the case I'm probably gonna pee my pants but let's get started I can't believe I was able to make friends so fast at this school see I told you you'd fit right in everyone is wearing headphones or blowing bubble gum and not doing their experiment and I think they're probably gonna fail whatever class they're doing right now so I'm probably gonna cut a lot of this out but it is pretty hard for me to read this kid's dialogue because for some reason the dialogue shows up only half the time you have to turn your head to a really specific angle to see it which is pretty annoying and I don't really like it so you guys want to watch a movie later ooh sorry we actually have to stay after school for what uh mandolin Club yes yes that we have to go play our mandolins uh never mind that dialogue is is supposed to be read from left to right which makes it look like he just said out of nowhere we have to go play our mandolins whoops there's the Bell gotta go uh polish our mandolins okay and we got another case of public indecency on her hands please put on some pants seriously David seriously listen don't follow us I've gotta go put on some pants first don't follow you right we appear to be in some sort of basement dungeon or maybe it's just a Hot Topic whoa what is this place attention it seems a new student David hupper oh Lord has unwittingly joined our group Tony please enter David's name into the drawing and then bring out the box yes sir the box has spoken David step forward never mind that your name does not appear to be written anywhere on this paper I just it's spoken it spoke to me telepathically oh David I wish you would listen what are you doing he should have listened and yeah that's why you listen instead of having headphones on like two out of the four characters here do so yeah that might have been a little counter-intuitive okay that was not as scary as the pencil one honestly but there was this ominous ticking noise in the background I don't know if you guys picked up on that it was probably from that guy's clock headphones I honestly don't know how he listens to any music with them when that ticking noise is in his ears all the time but you know to each his own okay the Ginny we now have length medium scare level media so this is supposed to be about as scary as he didn't listen uh love me a good Jenny story love me a good Aladdin so let's see what the Ginny is all about hello young man what can I do for you today I need a ring for my GF but everywhere else is too expensive maybe you should have spent less money on your Fendi clothing if you were so broke and maybe you could have also afforded pants you're in luck we have have some very cheap rings in the back I'll go get them really thank you wait lady you dropped something uh yeah you dropped this extremely flat lamp that's actually the teapot mesh just kind of squooshed down you dropped that what the heck is this thing finally free what what are you I am a humble G for setting me free by crunching three wishes well I'm proposing to my GF tonight for my first wish I wanted to say yes yeah you know it's a serious horror novel when the guy says GF it is breaking news a local woman has been found dead inside her home wait what have you done I fulfilled your wish keep watching according to our home security system her last word was yes but I never asked you to kill word yes like you wish I think this guy should get the Mona Lisa over here as compensation all right then for my next wish I want you to bring her back to life never mind that I should probably be wishing for pants if you're sure [Music] help me she is alive but not for long you never asked me to change a bodily state right no it kind of is you did never ask him to change it by these I I'm kind of on the genie side now you're you're acting kind of dumb and she's dead sorry went in ground to wishes you maybe your wish Genie should be to not be comprised of several stretched pixelated JPEG files and two badly smooshed together wedges that's it for my final wish I want to be able to Grant my own wishes isn't that against the rules in like every Genie movie ever it is done maybe he did wish for no more jpegs wait wait what's happening you my friend are being engulfed by what we call the ghosts of SpongeBob what happened careful what you wish for well at least he still gets to keep his drip and he doesn't need to buy any more pants okay I actually kind of remember this one Sarah I remember this being a pretty good one I'm kind of excited for this one it is scare level high and length long so yeah get get ready for this one hey Sarah so are you coming on the camping trip with us or not um I'd rather not are you sure I still have this hanging over your head remember yeah I have this picture on my phone I have two totally different people than you unless she dyed her hair blonde at some point but I don't think she did this is an imposter she she has she has nothing on her Sarah don't don't believe her lies later on oh my God this uh we're already up to the scary stuff this fire is Raging I think they're all going to die Sarah go grab some firewood can one of you guys do that I've already done everything else just go grab some fire away to make it quick everyone on this trip has to pay their dues well I'm only on this trip because you blackmailed me with that pick that pick that didn't feature me at all in any way and that I could have just ignored why did I come on this stupid trip anyway those girls are so mean and footsteps right assuming that this is this girl's tent largest tent in the world I have no idea how she can afford something this big Brittany is that you more footsteps Danielle Sarah found some firewood oh hey Kitty ew you got blood all over your shirt uh no she does not just have blood she has a massive gaping hole in her chest I think you need to take her to the hospital or pronounce her dead on the scene just a scratch can you stoke the fire yeah I'll take care of it you go get yourself cleaned up okay by the way how did you whoa next day God is it morning already I didn't even hear Sarah come back hey guys did you um I think they found some firewood okay that explains how they were able to afford those giant attempts she's apparently got Ferrari money or something maybe she's a YouTuber driving driving driving that did not scare me as much as the other one did but uh wow that's uh that's a remarkably scuffed image and she drives off the bridge I'd love to be the person who's Scavenging the river and comes across that you can sell that for hella Parts too late for apologies okay that was not as good as I remember it uh it was basically just a classic mean girl bully story kind of like Roblox bullies except with scary elements I can only hope that the final story is less bad this is The Horseman scare level high length long judging by the fact that it has Horsemen in the title I'm guessing it's going to be about a robloxian who spends 30k Robux from his mom's credit card on Headless Horseman and then his family is forced to go on the streets and dies of starvation that's just my prediction let's see if I'm right hey man are you ready to go yep wait before we go what is that costume it makes mine look like garbage like it it's the Headless Horseman see oh cool thanks now let's go later on well here we are the 10th Annual graveyard party yeah and you're sure we won't get in trouble bro relax every parent in town thinks we're all that trick-or-treating right now okay then let's head on it party's great so far isn't it yeah I'm having an awesome time hey Zach we brought some fireworks you want to help us shoot him off yeah sure Jake you want to come no thanks that sounds kind of dangerous plus I'd rather not go with two furries and a guy with no parents that set that seems kind of like a situation way to happen okay I'll be back in a few minutes I'll be here later on Hey Jake you look a little lonely why is everyone here a furry well my best friend kind of abandoned me so why don't you talk to that girl you like Becky nah she said she wasn't coming well she must have been lying because I saw her a little while ago that means he should definitely ignore hints that she doesn't want to be associated with you and go flirt with her really where near that Big Oak Tree thank you for the very specific instructions I'll be sure to go find the large oak tree out of all of the equally big oak trees hey Becky can I talk to you you it'd be your own it really be your own later on Zach there's a guy in the road slow down no there isn't yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna side with Zach here there is no guy on the road okay now there is you're drunk just pull over and let me drive no not let me drive dude no I'm pretty sure they're just kind of resting on the hood of your car like it looks like they're kind of taking a nap we have to go back are you crazy we'll get in huge trouble we'll just have to come back tomorrow God damn his own friend kissing his girlfriend hitting him on the side of the road all in one night jeez okay I I think his best friend's about to die and when that happens yeah he's gonna deserve it against you yes yes I can help you [Music] we're just gonna get to know each other not the end okay yeah I remember there was gonna be a part two to this and I think it had something to do with like it was basically gonna be Jake killing his best friend which I I think would have definitely been deserved and a good ending but like I kind of gave up on this so didn't happen unfortunately but you know can't have everything but yeah that was not scary I did not get frightened by this one honestly I think the most frightening one of the night was pencil which is surprising because it's marked as an easy scare so like it's weird but yeah uh overall uh three out of ten so uh yeah that was kind of rough huh I can't say it was that surprising to me that my stories weren't all I thought they were but man that was disappointing now I'm not usually one to get scared by horror stories and these stories were not an exception I am pretty susceptible to jump scares so that pop-up image effect I threw in a couple of them did make me jump a bit but the actual stories themselves didn't do a lot for me however I will say that a good horror story for me is equal parts scary and sad yet the scares from the monsters scary actions but you also get the emotions of the monster's backstory and come to really understand why it does what it does I could definitely sense the attempts that emotion in each of these stories from the dead dad and pencil to the insecurity that David's friends might not actually care about him and he didn't listen to The Dead Girlfriend trauma and Jenny of the long-running traumatic bullying and Sarah to the abandonmented horsemen to addictions yeah I don't really know what I was doing with that one I probably should have left it out for the most part though not to toot my own horn but I could definitely tell that I put effort in to allow these stories to transcend the medium of a cringy Roblox Horror Story game and be legitimately entertaining it's just a shame that the execution was so bad where it gets interesting though is when we consider how it Stacks up to other games of the same genre my game may be pretty bad but it is by far not the worst of its kind out there let me introduce you to the old version of bam rules is a scary story one one of if not the most popular classic Horror Story games out there it's been updated and reworked many times since his Creation in 2011 but bam rules included an archive of its very first Incarnation and oh boy each of these stories is roughly four to five scenes long the English is god-awful the scene Decor is nothing but a gray void the only music is a weird random ticking noise and the stories are all basically the same person is going about their day creepy thing shows up creepy thing kills the person person is going about their day creepy thing shows up creepy thing kills the person person is going about their day creepy thing shows up creepy thing kills the person it gets old fast and something I didn't realize before playing a bunch of these games for this video is that the majority of these games follow that exact formula I actually count myself pretty lucky to have been a fan of joshy's scary story game because I realize now that that game despite how bad it is is actually a very original and good compared to its counterparts its stories don't add into killing every time sometimes there's a kidnapping sometimes it connects back to the weirdly deep-rooted lore that the game has sometimes the ending is left ambiguous and we're not sure what happens you can call this game a lot of things but you can't call it formulaic the same cannot be said for literally every other game in this genre there are simply no words in the English language strong enough to describe to you how mind-numbingly boring it is to be going through several of these games for hours and hours on end in order to make a video about them and have the story that you're on and with someone's bloody corpse on the floor or the wall for the Brazilian time in a row again all of these stories are the same we introduced the main character going about the day when all of a sudden a creepy character shows up and murders them that's literally it and even The Killers aren't original either if you're writing a story you have the power to create any character you want and yet all of these games mostly used overdone classic characters like unspecified knife murderer creepy Shadow Demon guy literally any Creepypasta character you can think of Bloody Mary okay I have to take a second to talk about Bloody Mary a little bit more because she had a story in No Lie literally every classic horror game I could find I'm being dead serious I did not find a single one of these God forsaken games that didn't include a Bloody Mary story I have no earthly idea what about her made all of these devs feel like they needed to include her but she just would not stop showing up everywhere I turned it was just Bloody Mary Bloody Mary Bloody Mary God damn it so not to toot my own horn again but I feel like my stories were actually decently original I definitely remember now certain other horror stories I read elsewhere that were pretty big Inspirations for these ones but I don't think they show that too much also my Lobby may be a ram full of free models but at least it's not Barren and undecorated like a lot of these other games are for a cringy Roblox horror game I actually think this could have been a hit if I knew what I was doing at least in terms of how it Stacks up to other horror games overall well which one would you rather play foreign [Music] so let's finally answer the question why were these games so popular because like believe it or not all of the games I've shown you in this video except my own one were pretty big hits this one whose Lobby is literally just a dark box has pulled over 6.3 million visits Joshi's scary stories game has garnered over 7.7 million visits Vision psyche 7 has made several of these and accumulated over 22 million visits from them and Bam rules has accumulated a total of 26 million visits from a scary story one and two even absolute lowest tier Bare Bones garbage games of this genre from around 2018 still have tens to hundreds of thousands of plays remember that Baron grass field with the free modeled abandoned buildings on it 204.6 K visits yeah even this game which isn't even a scary stories game it's just a scary girl NPC is standing in the middle of a grass field called scary stories ricked in a cool 80k plays if you so much has mentioned scary stories in your game's title back in 2018 you are basically guaranteed attention people were eating these games up so why were these games so popular well I think the simple answer to that is that we just didn't have anything better yet see kids love Creepypastas ever since characters like Jeff the Killer and Smile Dog entered the mainstream millions of children across the world have grown up with a phase in their lives that they're probably trying to repress right now of idolizing creepy killer characters millions of children across the world also play Roblox so I think the first of these games gain popularity simply because they combined two of the average child's favorite interests a fun block based online community and repulsive ungodly murderous demons what could be better as the genre grew more and more developers saw its growth and started to think of ways in which it could be improved dialogue was upgraded character animations were added the stories became more and more complex more interactive elements instant gameplay were introduced and pretty soon we started getting games like Hotel stories field trip Z break in and of course piggy as much as we older robloxians love to clown on it I feel like Piggy is pretty much the ultimate Roblox Horror Story game I personally haven't played it for anything other than RB battles but I've heard enough other people talk about it to know that that game is obscenely low impressive hours upon hours of content exists on YouTube of theorists dissecting all the fine aspects of it there's a ton of different characters many entirely separate storylines and of course gameplay to last you for days from both mini tune himself and fan made role players but I don't think this game ever would have existed without those initial cringy Roblox Horror Story games all the way back in 2018 they provided the initial boost needed to let Roblox developers know that these kinds of games were something that the public wanted and as the capabilities of the average Roblox developer improved so too did the marketability of these newer games unfortunately though this Evolution meant that cringy Roblox Horror Story games that couldn't keep up would be left in the Dust by the time bam rolls released a scary story too which included modern professional looking animation and actual gameplay it was too little too late the game only ended up amassing 3 million plays as opposed to The Originals 23 million and he along with his contemporaries was eventually forgot [Music] in summary even though cringy Roblox horror stories were in fact cringy that wasn't necessarily a problem at the time kids loved the spirit of these games they didn't care how poorly built they were to them it wasn't how well the story was told it was that the story was there at all they aren't a great part of our past but whether we like it or not they are a part of it so next time you're in a spooky mood why not try playing a few of them if nothing else you'll at least be able to laugh at how absurd they are but who knows maybe there's still a creepypasta loving part of you deep inside that can still appreciate a good old-fashioned cringy Roblox Horror Story before I let you guys go I just have a couple of quick updates on the updates I talked about in my last video firstly those of you who are returning viewers have probably noticed that I've got a new username now I now go by Nitro lord well technically Nitro yorde thanks a lot random 2010 user which was inspired by a lot of you guys commenting on the last video ideas that pretty much involved keeping the username almost the exact same but changing the nitrous part to Nitro that made me realize that you guys like this username which I really appreciate so I've decided not to change it too much also I finally got a Discord the link should be on the screen right now as well as the names of those of you I've selected to be moderators congrats to you guys thanks so much for 500 Subs it really does mean a lot to me and make sure to join the surf because it won't be fun if no one joins and that's pretty much it I've been Nitro Lord and I'll see you all next time bye [Music]

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Keywords: Roblox, Horror, Horror Stories, Scary, Scary Stories, Bloody Mary, 2017 Roblox, 2018 Roblox, joshie1122334455, BamRulez, Halloween, Christmas, Krampus, Stranger Things, Headless Horseman, Ghosts, Werewolves, Genies, Creepy, Classic Roblox, Old Roblox, Roblox History, Spooky, Pumpkins, Jack O' Lanterns, Piggy, Doors, Rainbow Friends, Roblox Horror

Id: -8oDHaikhwU

Length: 35min 13sec (2113 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 26 2022