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I understand why people love to make Minecraft creepy content in Alpha, but why not beta or release? I can see possibilities with those versions

Happy Holidays, Retro!

Yay you uploaded! Quality over quantity!!

fnaf got ruined so fucking much, honestly the smaller a creepypasta about some monster is, the scarier it is, atleast for me with the exception of few cases

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Dude it was more original than others,tf you talking about?

@@user-mn7dk2mt8j Yeah it was, but I miss old creepypasta-style stories, and this story started as one of those. Eventually, when multiple entities were introduced, it lost it's shine- in my opinion.

-casually plays minecraft -gets scared -gets his existence denied -refuses to elaborate further -leaves

Immersion for me was lost when they got into the moon arc

@@Horns897 for me it was at the end when the whole thing was denied existence

It literally went for scary sighting video to lore video

The J.A.F.F.A. would be proud

Yeah, pretty weird, It was creepy, then it just turned into a fucking “Hero Vs Villain”

but where else could this possibly go, you can't just perpetually sustain the eerie environment with no climax, if you think it could be done better why don't you do it yourself?

@@EmiWiwhat do you mean? The best horror stories are the ones who know where to end. They're the ones who have no clear ending. What we make up in our mind will always be more scary than reality, which often ends up underwhelming. You absolutely can sustain an eerie environment with no climax.

@@catscanhavelittleasalami I agree, but horror these days, especially mainstream, is about the narrative, the conclusion that it brings at the end. I also enjoy the horror with no clear conclusion as well, but that’s not what horror is about in recent times. Though, it does seem that people are starting to make vague horror stories like that again.

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Yea but the actual narrative is kinda goofy and poorly written.

This wouldn't be a problem if the actual narrative was good. However it's... Mediocre at best.

yeah because the orignal story was sooo scawwy. oh no there's a red dot on the moon im scared!!

​@xn6963 still better than a high stakes "Gotta save the world" thing.

​@@catscanhavelittleasalamistill better than most Minecraft creepypastas

Ever heard of ChatGPT?

@@MCAlexisYT no

@@MCAlexisYT yes lol

Accurate.

@@MCAlexisYT nah i remember AlongCameJosh tho

What’s an ARG?

@@swiftsword6489 "Alternate Reality Game"

I disagree. This is very strange and bizarre. Scary, even. Sure, Minecraft can be scary sometimes, but not it's not like this.

@@erickjoestar1561 it’s ‘augmented reality game.’ not sure why the ‘alternate’ misconception has caught on

@@rotisseriepossum No, augmented reality games and alternate reality games are two different things that happen to have the same acronym. Augmented reality is when a game adds something to a real-life image, like Pokemon Go. Alternate reality is when a game uses the real-world as a platform to tell the story.

happens when you abandon a good idea for child engagement

nuh uh FEAR 2 is my favorite game I will not accept any criticism of it

“Any FEAR game” implies that the series has any cohesion at all, which it doesn’t. What you’re describing sounds most like F3AR, the worst one. IMO the original fear was genuinely good at mixing action and horror, and managed to at times make you feel anxious in spite of the firepower you had.

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except FEAR’s combat is interesting and dynamic

Nice catch!

Unfortunately this is not true in this case as slime's spawn rate is only influenced by moon phase in swamps, and the slimes spawning in Markus' mine is the slime chunk method of spawning.

@@maqma_2118🤓🤓

@@maqma_2118 Still quite neat, either way!

@@maqma_2118 Yeah I'm not saying the exact method is the same but it's still linked to it

Trueee

Emeralds*

Yeah and you know what it is

You mean the most beliveable?

@@Waffle_enjoyer it's daimonds not emaralds

The author self-insert is what ruined it imo

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​@@SorryForBecomingHumanAgain9819I agree

​@@Vlumpty_Vontyfr fr

For me it stopped being scary after first two white rooms things with star and then the second player guy after that. Then I thought that they both maybe are trying to stop the anomalies that are spreading from some another world but even they are failing with their command server becoming destroyed too. Then the weird dimention travel began. And finally it kind of was confirmed to be not real inside it's own universe, making it less real than my imagined multiverse, where it's canonically real inside itself, while being a world below this one in hirerarchy No, they just made basically everything a story in it's lore, which was even worse that becoming a science fiction. And to add to it, I'm one of the people who liked backrooms more as another universe than a creepy place, so me not liking this story really shows that it wasn't a good plot twist

Yeah, and it even works 😂

That kinda concept of the frames dropping when something terrifying is near has been a thing in text creepypastas for over 10 years tho

haha legit

Before: oh yeah weird entities got it. After: a collective group of conscious ai working to either destroy their own world or save it whilst dealing with a random group of people who entered into their secret world then it turns out the secret of the arg was that the world is an arg. honestly i have no clue what i just said or if its even accurate

​@@koboldwizard You're mostly right on that. Though, what's even more confusing now is the identity of the author. Not sure if you've seen the latest videos on this series (they're on The Let's Play Archive channel), but The Author certainly isn't a human being. Not sure if they're a part of the "void beings" since there's some contraditions to that but at this point I am running with it for now lol.

Beginning: Oh a random minecraft alpha mystery.... that's *interesting* End: *WHAT THE FUCK* did I just watched

Genezion: Yeah a minecraft letsplay and seeying weird anomalies, also moon became redmarked Finalion: The moon houses teh adnuinspace console, destroctrion of void, arg knowing it being an arg

God I miss herobrine lol

@@Mentelgen-1337 i miss the monster school without the cringe 😔

roblox footage archieves are more scarier.

@@TheWhiteSpy No, not really. Roblox is a game where you are usually filled with other people in the game. Minecraft is empty. Nobody. "Single"player. The world is so incredibly vast, and you are the ONLY sentient being in the world. Are you sure? Is there something else out there? You can't know.

Still does. never playing Minecraft lol

Yo ill make the image for you

same

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John Madden. Football

He deadass told Star "I'm not afraid of your noodle friends" referring to the void entities, he's a badass

Heh. In a bedrock world a while ago, I had this weird glitch where a roughly 18 block tall, 12 wide, 1 thin wall of dirt, stone, or other blocks with some tall holes in it would appear out of the ground and occasionally would disappear after relogging. I called the “entity” that made it “Factoryman” because the wall kind of looked like an old factory wall. If I had seen this video I would have left the world and never returned, but nothing ever happened other than the walls.

well also because i doubt anything in a fictional game could really harm you in reality

@@firemayro The highest damage I think a fictional game can cause is mental trauma

Put the Hard Drive that has the affected world on it in the Microwave and turn the Microwave on

My friend sayed he saw like a doom boss in the void💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

Yeah but at this point its getting cheesy

Bro this is like the same exact thing for me! Lol

@@lucastheunfunnyguy They were probably lying btw. Man I remember saying lies similar to this to my friends during like elementary school and stuff and they believed me... Good times.. But I still feel like there is probably some entities that are in Minecraft that aren’t lies.

@@mikeobannion2129 except its a game so no there are not

Yeah, the more and more VoidExp became a major part, of this the more exhausting it got to keep up with it.

Ya

The voices

Facts

rgn or mark101?

@@thumbgoblin4716 pretty sure the comment meant rgn but honestly they're both incredible story tellers

OH MY GOD thank you, I was just playing Alpha 1.2.3 and had this EXACT bug happen to me while walking down my mine stairs, and I tried looking it up to no avail, but I still kept this video in my mind. Now I know what it is

now that i think of it, it still happens to me sometimes in multiplayer

@@redranjer that's just lag, not a bug

So it gets delayed when walking and touching each step. It just counts it and waits until you stand on a block.when you do, the step sounds plays at once.

"actually" - 🤓

Indeed. I think that such is often the unfortunate case for a lot of ARGs. They are made by story writers who get too caught up in plot development, and they often forget about what made them scary in the first place.

Yeah, i think people like psi and star mightve been needed but like markus’s friends, checkmark, void entities probably should have had more purpose, maybe these will have more of a purpose in act 2 but idk

I agree, it stopped being scary but it was still interesting nonetheless

It's the I need to overexplain my plot points syndrome, just like any creepypasta/backroom type shit it needs to get shit explained for no reason instead of leaving the unexplainable unexplained or vaguely explained just like the first 15 minutes of this video, giving characters emotions and thoughts is bad because the viewer can imagine something far beyond what the writer's comprehension is, at least FOR HIS OWN entertainment (which is actually the CORECT way to write stories like these if you want most positive feedback). It's exactly like the what's in the dark dillema. You and your friend are taken by force to an undisclosed location and put in 2 different rooms, in the corner of your rooms, total darkness. Your friend gets told that there is a person holding a knife there, he is distressed but you are being told that there is something there in the shadows waiting, no matter what, you will ALWAYS think that the unknown is scarier because your brain makes you the special monster that it knows it will scare you, it's the same with this, those characters could be anyone your brain thinks there is , the monsters could be coming from a lot of places, if it gets explained it stops being a creepypasta/horrorARG and it starts being a basic sci-fi horror-like story. I understand there are ARG fans that like this type of stuff where there are crossovers but I find them overused already.

@@ige_3599 The metafiction stuff is super cool but there needed to be a bunch of more intrigue and middle section between the two. You can have "spooky alternate reality invasion through minecraft" and "the whole thing is metafiction that technically IS affecting reality in a memetic way" at the same time... but not if you just brush off the first part and jump into a bunch of weird character narrative and skip to the end point. It weakens the metanarrative punch tons too, IMO.

that's actually becoming a new genre of horror, called digital horror

Digital Horror, to be exact (I’m a nerd🤓)

Now what is: 7 • 7 = ?

@@jasonthebeast1454 49.

Bruh really?

Very good outlook, but what if Marcus is being called the anomaly here? Since in the picture his house is there almost near the center, star had ability to make a void trojan in the script, which caused void beings to appear and then star helped these anomalies get past the bedrock, it could be that Markus was created by star to be a puppet of his, but he learnt a lot possibly due to star's mistakes behind the scenes, and Markus disobeyed star in the end, in my opinion Markus is an anomaly made by star (which explains why star didn't try to manipulate other players like how he did to Markus).

Same!! I couldn't even play in pacific

HAHAHAHA MY GUY SAME

Although only Herobrine convinced me, the others are cringe imo ever since i learned abt coding

Bro even me when i hear cave sound then i leave so fast when i was kid i think it was entity

As an ass this dosent scare me

Chaos.

Just incoherent screaming and chatting

​@@Amogusrath "I'm gonna put my cat on the mic"

@@isle-unto-thyself *MMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW*

"MARKUS WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING" "ima troll this star guy real quick, watch me"

True like i'm sad about how they changed the entity design like at first it looked TERRIFYING but then it just got turned into a "oooohhhh spooky horror mod"

@@bropels just once i'd like to see a realistic arg

@@tl1882 yeah but for me I would actually like to see an arg that actually makes me terrified for the night and the next day dude

​@@tl1882 I wouldn't say these ones are realistic but these ones are damn near perfect stories adult check out some Team Fortress 2 ARG the to that I recommend are bad water 2009 and Gunslinger Pro 2009 I don't want to spoil the story so I'm only going to give you the one gimmick that make sure you stories interesting, the rag doll characters with in the game of Gmod in these stories are alive and sentient

True

i cannot sleep anymore after this realization.

@@pentaawesome Same

This made me sleep in my moms bed 😳

@penta same sadly

It’s kinda scary because sound

Id actually be smashing the whole setup, nah you know what… demolish the whole house, wipe the ip, move countries, change names and live my life in the trees somewhere in vietnam alone.

@@andrewduncan6972 LOL i would actually do the same

@@andrewduncan6972 respectable

It's like these dreams where you have to run but struggle to move your legs.

@@tashkent561 or when you get kidnapped, and you can't scream

I killed them all

kinda kinky

It's Marking time

It’s Marking time

It's Markin time

The SCP Foundation Aint A Company Its A Foundation

Ämöng Üs

They “guarantee safety and peace” until they hear you say that, haha

This is all because of the damn 05-13 he nuked the entire site

theres an sco that is actually stuck in minecraft and is contained in minecraft

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I completely agree, a very well made ARG that manages to go meta in its unique way, kudos to THE author

man named himself an author💀💀💀💀

I find it an interesting parallel to the actual minecraft end poem, which touches on the nature of creating.

@@szeretemahansant226 Brian Griffin headass

"65Mystery"

"65Mystery"

"65Mystery" idk what this means, but continue the chain

“65Mystery” also no idea what this means, but continue the chain

"65Mystery" I in truth as well have no idea what this means but the chain must continue

Maybe if it didn't have that spooky face lookin thing on it, it would be less creepy.

Humanity is beginning to sense the sentience emanating from the moon

The moon has always been a symbol of mystery in many cultures. Not really strange to see its representation in this way in horror

Yeah it's a lazy horror cop-out imo

@@muddskipper So with that logic anything paranormal is also a cop-out? If it were lazy then they would all be the same. I admit they have similar themes but all twist it in their own way. It's all about how it's executed.

probably the void giving birth to void beings

Mate i see a man on a hill 🗣️👤🗣️🫁🫁🫁

Huh

yeah, i agree. i was seriously scared in the first part and was literally watching with my eyes closed

Same. Part 1 was absolutely horrifying, it reawakened my childhood terror of Herobrine I haven't felt since 2012 in a matter of seconds. The way Markus was fearfully looking out into the distance hit very close to home and the unexpected noises & weird changes to his world are the exact things I was scared of encountering back then. The presence of backrooms-like monstrosities only amplified the fear of the unknown. And then we see a bunch of guys shooting arrows at the Moon. What an extreme letdown.

There used to be lots of Minecraft clones on a Russian social network. I don't remember the name, but one of them had much more realistic graphics than the rest, with players having actual human models from Unity put into a blocky world. It also had a legend about a tall, black "observer" entity that stalked players from the mountains at night. Some people posted (obviously edited) screenshots that showed it looking at them from afar. Coupled with how uncanny the graphics were, it was probably even more creepy than Minecraft's legends. That's what Part 1 reminds me of. The legend is, of course, nothing original and it was probably just taken from Garry's Mod, but we had no idea. There was also the possibility of it being a real thing, since the game was so niche and there was basically no info you could possibly find about it.

I do like both parts, but the first definitely is better. I feel like part two would’ve worked pretty well as its own project/act that can go deeper into lore without ruining the wonderful and terrifying simplicity of part 1

I actually liked the admin stuff, Mark’s group exploring adminspace reminded me of those old multiplayer minecraft stories like Shadow of Israphel or Mianite. The Meta stuff in the recent act 2 kinda derails it though.

Like Local58?

Holy shit this would be scary

Yeah and star couldve either been one of the moon’s minions or some anomalous entity trying to warn Marcus into deleting the game or something to stop it

Dead space vibes

Isn’t that the dont look at the moon mc arg

"it all, returns, to bedrock, it all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down"

get on the game shinji

Oh my god, evangelicals mentioned

shinji, get on the skybox shinji

Get in the moon Shinji

I’m only now seeing it’s an hour long, at the end of the video. It felt like 20 minutes to me

@@Robert-mn1uw Same, that hour went by fast. 100% worth it.

@@MalcolmKeithGaming I liked the arg however the admin stuff and star ruined the mystery and the explaining stuff.

Seriously! It continued to surprise me as it went on, and it's only Act I!

You should watch “garfilled” ‘exploring abanded servers.’ It’s still one of my favorites to this day

It's a really interesting way to commentate on the nature of ARGs, their popularity, and the follow-ups. There have been many "creepy Minecraft entity" stories and ARGs but this one really stands out because of this, because it can imply that Markus could be Herobrine itself stuck in this loop of "inspired by" media, which like I said, is an interesting way to commentate on the nature of Internet legends and storytelling as a whole. Even if you see it as a "cop-out" then it's a damn good one.

That's what I thought too.

I hate creepy creatures

Analogue horror

Analog horror is what it is called

@@contraxius2956 analog horror is horror captured with analog technology, I'm talking specifically minecraft based horror

@@bluejay117 oh okay but the beggining of it was kind of in the analogue genre

Part way through I wondered how confused someone would be if they stumbled upon some of the videos, it’s something I find funny about these channels.

✺?

*founds a wild ARG* *wild battle music kicks in* "What will drag do?" *selects run* "Got away safely!"

@@brokenflyingcat4213 probably not, cause the moon was affected too

​@@NeverEndingFire13 ✺.

this fills me with pure sadness that it was never added My sadness is immeasurable and my day is ruined

Stop lying

​@@PILLOWKVLTits true squidward

@@Dark_Fox97652 Yeah, Notch talked about a feature on 4chan, a site where every user is anonymous and it's therefore impossible to determine who's posting, right

​@@PILLOWKVLTits not too far off, while i cant verify the validity of OPs claims, notch actually used 4chan to promote the game and update features on /v) a LOT

my dumb ass clicked on a timestamp while at high volume knowing damn well there is a jumpscare 💀💀💀💀

thanks!

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You should check out "how Minecraft is secretly a horror game" by RandomSageless. It does a good job of explaining why you're paranoid in singleplayer.

There was something in your world

It is this kind of insidious horror that is truly the scariest. Everything being normal except for one or two things you notice are off, like, you swear you closed the door behind you when you last left your house, or, you swear you never placed a torch over there, just little tiny things like that that give you chills up your spine.

playing minecraft PE back in the day was really something else in creative singleplayer. it always seemed so eerie and quiet and everything seemed so... unfinished

@@weedboyjjofficial6350 yeah I remember how I spooked by an enderman and start observing on distance, then try to capture it just for teleport in front of me.

8 Beings gaining Sentience? Kinda like HB and Null eh?

SCP FANS DO NOT SAY IT

What specific SCP?

@@EmbeddedWithin Here it is, SCP: 4335

@@cryo1195 Thanks!

@@maximumswag Say what, exactly?

Spot on. The story started well, but later it just became unbearable because of the metaphysical stuff. Just like you, I only finished the video because of RGN's top quality presentation.

For me it was the opposite, before that it was "scary thing does boo" ,but then the story became interesting.

Opposite for me.

My interest actually went through a rollercoaster. At first I was interested because it resembled the Alpha 16 ARG, then it dropped because it seemed to be "oooo spooky haunted minecrap oooo", then it went back up again when the story turned out to be about void creatures hopping through different universes' versions of Minecraft.

I was really into it at the beginning, thinking of star, etc being the "parents" of some kind of digital parasite

Like I guess Mario 64 BLJ but without the jumping or something?

Nice catch - I didn't remember that bug!

yeah! i still play old versions and that bug constantly freaks me out

Tbh I'm just happy it was a neat story that didn't just scream at me for no reason

@@ScrewdriverGaming like practically every analog horror ending

still interesting...

Because this catches the attention of people. An ARG that is regularly updated and has actually good horror will not blow up because people nowadays would rather watch the same mainstream arg knockoff than actually something interesting.

@@ame72813 i will deffinitely miss ARG's like Petscop

I think this is to this ARG's benefit. The void monsters were gonna become stale eventually, so it became a lot more adventurous is too it's benefit for my enjoyment, at least

@@scattergrunt With this kinda thing I believe it’s always good to maintain a level of “fear of the unknown” They have the strongest impact in the long run.

Back rooms be like

@@The-Random-fool1697 i think backrooms is a neat example of it actually working (keeping horror while also having indepth lore). This is not.

@@plantboy6249 Backrooms also explains the monster while also not explaining it at the same time. Everytime it explains something, it introduces a new thing that it DOESN'T explain, and I like that

The thing that makes a good horror is leaving the unknown making the viewer think they might of experienced it or it could happen and And make it realistic as if it happens or happened or could and last but not least the most scary It's based on a true story

Same with NES godzilla

I agree but I have to say I LOVE the adminspace environment. It looks so vast and dreamlike. Almost like something I'd actually see in a dream

@@MCTogs looks very similar to like liminal space I agree

@@shloobington ye the start wass intresting but then it got too much stuff and stuff

Which player

@@KaRssssss one of the players has a infinity gauntlet I don't remember which one it was but it's there it's like a very modern skin

i really think they just get a really old machine and record the footage on it lol

Unfortunately the Internet Explorer version is anachronistic: it looks like IE11, which was not released until 2013. This is basically unavoidable as I think most websites will refuse to connect a client running anything older than IE11.

they probably use some kind of virtual machine

@@Daemon4 They also could have used a virtual machine, which would be easier to set up as it doesn't require a whole 'nother PC.

Finally! I found someone who remembers.. although the music discs have been debunked by matpat… honestly adding them to herobrines arg was really dumb… it has like nothing to do with it, and the fact that people didn’t thought of putting them together next to each other when played is really hurting my brain by it’s stupidity but sure.. old civilisation of builders and stuff.

WHAT IN THE UNHOLY HELL IS THE DAYLIGHT OWL?!

@@MrDespair1983 really old youtube webseries from the beta days of minecraft. the first season is really neat, it's similar to herobrine but with a more fantasy twist. seasons 2 and 3 shifted the tone to a Shadow of Israphel knockoff sadly

imagine if this arg was published in 2010, jesus, it would make people go crazy

Old Minecraft before Microsoft took over and neutered it was really good.

It’s like a Backrooms type thing, or to a lesser extent, The Mandela Catalogue

Wait plz timestamp the IRL void being photos

​@@brovy953 11:33

​@@brovy953 the irl void being photos are on act 2 ep 2

@@darthdump5440The void guy looks like bacteria from backrooms, Tbh.