there two types of horror with minecraft the idea that your alone and the idea that you arent alone

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

really well said

@eliiyarel650

10 күн бұрын

fr

@Teadon86

10 күн бұрын

Kenopsia.

@bam_marks

10 күн бұрын

@@Teadon86 I should’ve used that word, thanks for pointing it out

@Teadon86

10 күн бұрын

@@bam_marks You're welcome. I also suggest looking up The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.

i like bagels

@green_croissant929

11 күн бұрын

Me too

@mrstasi

11 күн бұрын

Me too

@abysswarrior

11 күн бұрын

Me too

@SpiritOfTheGalaxy143

11 күн бұрын

Me too

@tophatbecausehatiscool9566

10 күн бұрын

Me too! with salmon its top tier

How does such a long, high quality documentary have so few views? Less than a thousand views in 12 hours is crazy, I hope the algorithm picks up this video more.

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

Me too 😅 thanks for the support!

@eliiyarel650

5 күн бұрын

i hope the algorithm picks this video up aswell

"Wait, Minecraft is a horror game?" **BANG** "Always has been."

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

🗿

@lightx2

11 күн бұрын

*bam**

@eliiyarel650

11 күн бұрын

**insert cave noises**

Ever since I bought Minecraft back in 2010 it always felt like someone was watching me.

This video made me feel weird, like uncomfortable, but not really like i have so much stuff running through my head but also nothing at the same time

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

Huh

@eliiyarel650

10 күн бұрын

its quite the intresting video!

@NicholasJDi

10 күн бұрын

Every True Minecraft Player Feels The Same.

The exact reason I only revisit/play the game with friends Always thought I was the only one that felt like this, but you captured and explained it perfectly. Extremely well made video!!

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

Thank you! thats exactly what I was going for

6:12 - "there's really no wrong way to play Minecraft" - proceeds to show a very wrong way to play Minecraft - 🤣🤣

out of my years of playing Minecraft, I've noticed this in like 3 years of me playing. Another thing that I've also noticed while playing Minecraft is that you completed something, alr cool, but who are you going to share it with if you're alone? This video literally explains everything, now im starting to think about life choices on my Minecraft world.

I can wholeheartedly agree with this. I am 28 and only recently started playing mc a few months ago. I get kind of engrossed in games like this, and at first, an empty canvas was exhilarating. I enjoyed the learning, the building of farms and exploring. Eventually going to the end and beating the game, then exploring the end itself. There was a lot of fun with it all. But recently, I've kind of hit a wall. I am really alone in life and dont have any friends.. much less anyone to play with. After a while it kind of makes me more depressed and alone than not. Theres a few things I've yet to do, like explore an ancient city or ocean monument. So I can't say I've done *everything*, but.. Well. Once you have all the farms and all the this and that, eventually I'm just left afk, staring into space and listening to that sound track. Feeling so alone I cant help but want to stop playing. I read recently on how minecraft is, essentially, a base-building game. You build your base, add onto your base, make farms in your base, and make new bases. but at a certain point, after doing the few lines of progression in the game, you kind of run out of things to do, except for more base-building. I suppose this is different in groups with actual friends, but.. Well. I don't know. Some days this game just makes me feel more alone than anything.

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

Really smart comment, I can completely agree with all of this! I share the same experience even though i been playing Minecraft for most of my life, i remember first picking it up, being fascinated by its freedom, and then realizing how pointless it is. I'm glad there's more people that can relate to me with this.

@user-dj4xx6ve4p

6 күн бұрын

Why not play public Minecraft servers. Survival will get boring but servers take a lot more to get boring.

@bam_marks

6 күн бұрын

@@user-dj4xx6ve4p true

There Is One And Only One Way To Talk About Minecraft, And This Video Capture That Perfectly, All I Can Say, This Is Really Well Made.

Last time I played this game prior to summer of 2022 was July 2011. I got lost at sea, couldn't find my way back to base and just signed off with then intention of maybe coming back to it later. I've long lost my original account which a friend and I purchased back in 2010 and had a lot of fun with it. But I slowly forgot about the game until the trolling of "squeakers" was big around 2013-2014 and I got a kick out of those videos at the time. Never made me want to play again, until 2 summers ago, some buddies were playing and I got a bigly nostalgic urge to play again and have been playing on and off since then. So much had changed from when I originally started playing over a decade ago, but the core of the game is still there. That excitement to explore and expand, building bases all over the place, the excitement/addictiveness of spelunking, looking diamonds and other rare ores keeps you playing for far longer than you had planned to for the night. The combat still sucks imo and isn't all that fun, cheap deaths like when a creeper just spawns on top of you and blows you up, losing all your goods you've collected, leaving me cursing and ranting about how much I hate this fooking game! But still, I keep coming back to it. It really is a timeless classic and one of the best video games ever made. As for it being spooky, it sorta still is but back then it had more of an off putting vibe to it. Especially in the free browser version of the game. I still remember booting that up the first time and building a dirt cube house, in the middle of a lime green field with trees and dirt hills around me with that thick fog blocking out the further distance landscapes. It was creepy in a way, but the ability to create whatever I wanted was so much fun! Building has come such a long way from those day's too, it's wild that this game has lasted as long as it has and I am glad it stood the test of time and that people still enjoy it.

Please give me honest constructive feedback/criticism as I'm always trying to improve my videos.

@eliiyarel650

11 күн бұрын

that looks high quality!

@Vortex1x1x1x

11 күн бұрын

I think the video quality is amazing but at some points you talk a bit to fast and your mic sounds like it cuts out which could be problem with the actual mic or something that happened in post

@untrouble8191

11 күн бұрын

why his legs so long in the thumbnail 💀 (probably put the shadow at an angle and maybe make it a bit darker idk)

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

@@untrouble8191 ok, the long legs are the reflection- I should make that more obvious

@lakastusmanatus

11 күн бұрын

The mic still low quality

I think, at least for me, the best example of something evoking the feeling this video describes is revisiting a hardcore world in spectator after you die It really hits home just how empty the world really is, seeing mobs stand around aimlessly like puppets with no strings, seeing how time practically freezes without you to drive the action

@bam_marks

6 күн бұрын

That is a great example

Legit so underrated, great job!

super high quality video! *checks subscriber count* dies you deserve 100x more subs

You just made my day, the memories are coming back 😭😭

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

I’m glad this video could make someone’s day

@visaX6

11 күн бұрын

@@bam_marks its a shame minecraft didnt get the attention it deserved

The video is growing and slow and steadily as you edit, just the way I like it.

I hope your channel takes off, you really put a lot of effort into these

@thealmightymidget8198

11 күн бұрын

Though, I do have a question on what editing software you use

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

@@thealmightymidget8198 I use adobe premiere, thanks for the support ❤

@thealmightymidget8198

11 күн бұрын

@@bam_marks Thanks! I've been trying to get into editing

awsome vid. thank you ❤

this is just what regular life is like. unexplorable and empty

I am fucking hyped

Commenting for algorithm! This is a beautiful video!!

Never thought i'd sit through an entire video of a crazy man rambling about the simple block game about mining and crafting. But here I am, and definitely found it interesting. Cool video

@bam_marks

2 күн бұрын

😂

6,9k views is absolutely insane it should be over 300k by now

Just noting that your use of music at the start is very well-done. I find it tricky to get the right balance between narration and music and the fade under in a way that feels not-sudden. It really feels like a TV documentary. However, maybe have a slightly longer fade for later portions so that the music returns to full volume a bit slower.

@bam_marks

4 күн бұрын

I agree, the music should’ve blended together a little better

One thing you didn't really touch on with the sound design: the lack of ambient noise. Throughout the whole world, there's no ambient noise playing. No birds chirping, no wind blowing, no leaves rustling. The only sounds that don't come from you or the soundtrack come from other mobs. Playing with a mod that adds ambience will noticeably feel less lonely.

The insane quality of this video and you have only 2k? guys we need to change that

Hey bam its the redstone yt guy, I recently returned to mc. I'm 15, I think we're around the same age. Not important just thought I'd put that out. I remember your realm on Xbox. Good times.

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

Glad to see you back, yeah. The realm was fun

@Distorted_Pieces

11 күн бұрын

@@bam_marks yeah, I miss those days.

So well made

How is this not popular this is so good

@karlo-lol5935

11 күн бұрын

3 hours ago

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

@@karlo-lol5935 true

Nice video, good job 👍

I once accidentally left a village in a creative world overnight irl and there were creeper holes everywhere. I think skeletons shot the iron golems and hit creepers instead. The thing that surprised me though was that the villagers survived

Well time for my daily dose of existential horror I guess

bro dropped another banger

bud, minecrafts soundtrack isn't the best in video game history, its the best in ALL history

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

💯 scriptwriting error on my end

The other day I watched a video that argues the exact opposite of this. The game has an abundance of occupied villages, bastions, witch houses, ocean monuments, end cities, etc. It's sprawling with life, for better or worse. Ultimately, I think Minecraft is as lonely as you want it to be.

@bam_marks

Күн бұрын

Yeah, i agree. It really depends on how you interpret it.

I was just saying "Minecraft is a horror game in the same way the The Long Dark is considered a horror game" then I realized TLD soundtrack was playing behind that part

@bam_marks

8 күн бұрын

I’m glad someone noticed that I was playing TLD soundtrack, that game is very similar to Minecraft in some ways

i thought i was gonna get me pants pooped but i went to sleep instead. thx for the bedtime story

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

I also pooped me pants matey 🏴‍☠

@jevanfifkov7500

11 күн бұрын

@@bam_marks but i didnt 😔

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

@@jevanfifkov7500 in all seriousness, is the video boring for you? how so

@jevanfifkov7500

10 күн бұрын

@@bam_marks not sure how boring it is but everything in the video is information i already heard of somewhere else. but i had fun during the premier and thats an unique trait of smaller youtubers

@bam_marks

10 күн бұрын

@@jevanfifkov7500 ok, I understand not being interested in a video with already known info. I’m glad you liked the premiere

I would love to enjoy Minecraft again after 4 years since i last played myself, but i just can't. Something inside me is wrong, i feel like everything i do is meaningless and it's just waste of time. My poor building skills and lack of imagination not helping either. =(

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

I can relate to that. It just feels off these days

I'm recovering from the fever, man, this video is making me feel sick again (jk, great video, but you nailed the "nostalgia" thing)

Great video it’s very interesting

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

Thanks!

Minecraft used to be about earning what u get in creative mode, now u beat the game to turn survival INTO creative mode

I agree with the video and I love the aspect of loneliness in Minecraft. However with each update it feels like the feeling of loneliness and isolation is being taken away. There’s now signs of civilization everywhere, ship wrecks, ancient cities, trial chambers, trail ruins etc. There’s a safe village of friendly villagers every couple hundred blocks. There’s now goofy evil villains that populate the world in the illagers. The nether is filled with semi-friendly sentient piglins. Every update just adds structures or characters that make you feel more comfortable and less alone in the world. I get why people miss the old versions of Minecraft as the current direction they’re taking the game just feels wrong. If they ever added that hide and seek creature to the mineshafts it would take away more of isolation when underground. The game’s direction has definitely shifted to making the world feel less lonely and more inhabited like any other rpg game.

@bam_marks

2 күн бұрын

💯💯

You deserve so much more veiws bro

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

This video has only been out for a few hours, who knows what could happen🤷‍♂

So Minecraft is a infinite empty lonely hellscape that paradoxically needs the player yet due to its size what the player does is insignificant

@bam_marks

3 күн бұрын

Yep

@Lumberjack_king

3 күн бұрын

@@bam_marks it’s honestly more loving than the real universe because we know it was made for us unlike the real universe besides that fact they share a lot in common a infinite universe we will never see a minuscule fraction of. What we do and create is insignificant….im going to deep into nislisim here

To me the real fear is the "IF". What if when i turn a corner I'm going to see someone or something else. Well, of course that if never comes true, but that causes the tension to keep building. And since minecraft is not an horror game, there is no jumpscare to release the tension. It keeps building and building until you feel on edge and uneasy. This only happens to us old time players because we don't have that sense of discovery or curiosity that drives us to keep going. Well, of course different players have a different sense of exploration, but that is the difference: new players "discover" we instead "explore". A world bigger than our own, yet we feel like we have seen it all. To me its terrifying because every time i play minecraft i feel so damn empty and it doesn't make sense for such a vast and enjoyable game to make you feel like that. But that's only for some people. The vastness of the minecraft world for some people like me is a prison and a source of loneliness, yet for some people its a source of comfort and, in some kind of way, fulfillment. You don't have to try and make your mark on the world, there isn't someone else to judge you and how you play. Its just you and your imagination. And it sucks because i want to enjoy minecraft like that again but i cant anymore.

Good video, just a bit long. If you want better retention, shorten it up a bit. Other than that, great video!

Minecraft "actual" livable, interactable npc update when??

What’s the music at 11:34 ? Awesome video, by the way!

@bam_marks

3 күн бұрын

The song is "What does anybody know about anything" by chris zabriskie

you earned a sub and a like!

@bam_marks

4 күн бұрын

Thanks!

great video bam

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

thanks!

I’ve only been playing sense about 1.15 but if feel like playing since before the dark age

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

😂

this guy speaks fax

Now Im scared

its larger than earth and none of your friends ever play. thats why

is this gonna blow up

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

Who knows, hopefully 🤞

@SupersuMC

11 күн бұрын

"Kaboom?" "Yes, Rico, kaboom."

I am 14, and this is deep

>Why is Minecraft so Lonely? just play it with friends doofus (joking, great video)

no way u spent "hundreds of hours making this video" just to get under 1k views, I mean the video is still pretty new so hopefully it'll blow up soon but wow this is underrate lol

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

Its usually like that, I'm still hopeful though because I spent a similar amount of time on my last video, and by this point it had 28 views, so who knows what'll happen.

once i've decided to mod minecraft to the point where you don't feel alone, but both in negative and positive way by throwing in some AI that doesn't care about you, it's just a group of AI players that wants you dead and you don't even know why... but once you find a way to defeat them, you can make some "friends" also it could be considered cursed minecraft so is there a difference?

Does it sound weird that I can't compare minecraft with all other videogames out there?.... idk how to explain but I always saw "all videogames AND minecraft seperatly"...

a game that has truly made me feel scared and lonely: SUBNAUTICA! do a vid of that please!

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

Subnautica is a great game- good idea, i can see the correlation!

11:04 what the music is there?

@bam_marks

3 күн бұрын

its called "Atlantis" from the youtube audio library

What shader pack(s) do you use?

@bam_marks

9 күн бұрын

Kappa

NEVER LET BRO COOK AGAIN

@se4576

7 күн бұрын

TRUEEEEEE

@bam_marks

7 күн бұрын

Is this a compliment or an insult?

7:40 what song is that?

@bam_marks

8 күн бұрын

Excuse by c418

@lilskippydude

7 күн бұрын

@@bam_marks thanks

You didn't have to violate the sheep like that, did you?

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

oh yes i did

There is also the argumet that you are trapped, the world is 1600 to 5120 Blocks large. It gets more of a problem in the first one. But

@bam_marks

9 күн бұрын

True

The people of bagel love love this video it has bagel all over it bagel

@bam_marks

10 күн бұрын

Yes yes yes

Great video, but one critique to the end. It felt a bit forced to speak about the "haters" and critics of the game to basically simply come to the point of "Its here to stay". While the statement is correct and while a lot of critics are somewhat delusional in their critique (I can say that, I was a giant critic of the game for a few years now until I rekindled my love for the game), the critique itself still has merit. I have only quite recently stopped caring about the issues I saw and still see but that does not make the issues go away. And Mojang even agrees with the issues I have seen and others too. Its why Villager trading is once more being overhauled. Its why we got Caves and Cliffs as an update. Its why we got the Trial Chambers. A lot of good content as an update to keep players engaged. Before I rekindled my love for the game and just played I didnt care for it. I hated it. I didnt see the point. Now? Well I just beat the Enderdragon with friends on my self hosted server and I am making a fancy armor using the new armor trims in my cave base I am building up. None of it has any purpose but the purpose I personally give it. But that is something many critics also dont seem to understand. People like me sought out progress when progress was something Minecraft didnt want to deliver. But in turn it would go more indepth. So no, people dont forget its the most popular game for a reason. They understand the reason. They and me to an extend, just didnt understand the idea as to what made Minecraft, Minecraft. Seeking an experience that simply wasnt there but felt like was given to us.

@bam_marks

Күн бұрын

I included the comment about people criticizing Minecraft as a reference to my last video, I was very critical of Minecraft in my previous video.

Lonely

Nowadays, Minecraft and Fortnite kind of just co-exist which I honestly don't mind as both have their positives and negatives.

@bam_marks

3 күн бұрын

I agree

It's not anymore. 10 minutes can find you many varying types of structures and probably a village or two with all the humans and resources you could possibly want. Maybe 10 years ago you could make this claim but it's just not the case anymore.

@bam_marks

19 сағат бұрын

I l literally say that the world is littered with structures. My point is that there isn’t any intelligent life in a Minecraft world. What I mean by devoid of life is devoid of intelligent life.

I enjoyed this video essay its good and i understand the point youre making however i have to disagree with your reasoning somewhat , i think that endless possibilities and the whole do what you want is what leaves a mark, saying that because the world is so big youre but a tiny dot is insignificant considering the player is the one experiencing the world through their eyes the rest wouldnt matter what does matter is the things they do create and interact with creating memories spending days sometimes months or some even years on a certain project minecraft mimics being stranded on an island who's to say somebody wouldnt find happiness and enjoyment along the way sharing builds with friends visiting other peoples creations or just looking back at your world and thinking i did that and feeling proud a silly idea you had in your mind came into existence only restricted by the bounds of your own imagination minecraft is supposed to be a sandbox which is ... well empty , dont read too much into it its a positive thing at the end of the day a game shouldn't make someone feel lonely then maybe sandbox games arent for you or just try multiplayer i get your point but i think what youre seeing as a negative thing is actually very much a mirror of finding happiness in smaller things in real life and at the end of the day curiosity and creativity and meaning Also I'd like to add one thing I think over the course of several updates minecraft has become more rpg like than sandbox like which confuses the player somewhat and I admit myself as well so there are attempts of understanding game mechanics that I think are simply just there for the purpose of being 'there' like a lot of structures just exist to support the rpg playstyle while still being a sandbox and not explaining any lore or reason behind it this is the fault of the devs I don't hate the updates but the implementation are a bit lazy and well confusing you know adding stuff doesn't make something better sometimes it just confuses more

@bam_marks

2 сағат бұрын

I understand your point but I never directly said that the infinite nature of Minecraft is a negative thing- at the end of the video I briefly show a different perspective which is similar to yours. I never said I hate Minecraft because of this. I do know that these aspects of the game can be easily mitigated by using mods or just playing multiplayer, but I decided to focus on a more vanilla and traditional way of playing Minecraft, which is fundamentally lonely. Thanks for the feedback!

bro its not that deep jk. this was a great video with a lot of effort put into it, I know you will reach to the top soon

#VillagersDeserveTheirGreatTrial

Criticism:I feel like hapf of tge video was talking about subjects not in topic, and things that were on topic, were extremely short

@bam_marks

4 күн бұрын

I used different examples to relate back to set topic- I agree though, some of the things could seem a little off topic.

@SureaI.

3 күн бұрын

@@bam_marks good video quality all around, just stay on topic a little more

Avarage "loneless" minecraft vídeo 💀

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

can you at least agree that Minecraft feels sort of "off" in some way?

block game deep????

@bam_marks

10 күн бұрын

Yep, when you really think about it.

Answer: because I play alone

@bam_marks

4 күн бұрын

💯💯

no...

@bam_marks

10 күн бұрын

Yes

I like bread

@bam_marks

11 күн бұрын

i like toast

Wow bro yeah Minecraft is pretty lonely and scary and liminal haha yeah bro have you ever wondered what it would feel like to have an axe embedded in your skull

@bam_marks

4 күн бұрын

I wouldn’t be able to wonder if one was in my skull

I think this video is moderately too dramatic, after all, even though I agree, it IS just a game.

@bam_marks

6 күн бұрын

what would you expect to get more views? A boring, down to earth video with barley any hype. Or a dramatic video focused on storytelling and conveying a clear point. I personally chose the latter option, but who knows.

because ur playing in singleplayer

@bam_marks

7 күн бұрын

True

Get friends and it won’t be xD

@bam_marks

6 күн бұрын

Even with friends Minecraft can still feel extremely nostalgic.

@hariranormal5584

2 күн бұрын

@@bam_marks It does really, but I actually seem to have a bit fun with friends. I've given up playing alone because I was a very lonely kid and I used to do all sorts of things with Modded MC, creative, and all just being empty and alone in my corner of my home. Sometimes in even flat worlds (I've built so many things in flat world just because my laptop was weak) for whatever reason, it never felt that lonely back then. It was just my daily life. today thinking of it it feels like lonely and wow how did I manage that but yeh.

Fire 🔥💯🧏‍♂️

So, basically, the book of Ecclesiastes in a nutshell 🫠