Worst MMO Ever? - Animyst
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Travel the endless desert and find the 8 pages of the book of lore.
While fighting boredom and madness in equal parts.
Animyst is a mystery, a cursed game, an experience you should not have, and yet, i kept playing.
Thank you the the supporters on Patreon, Twitch and KZread who keep the channel alive x
Пікірлер: 3 000
During the video premier, enough people logged on that we actually broke the player peak record: twitter.com/JoshStrifeHayes/status/1670156752170393600
@Blobby90
Жыл бұрын
I'm not surprised. I was already forming a battle-plan in my head to round up some trailblazers and explore this world in full
@undertyped1
Жыл бұрын
If U want a cursed mmo, try project gorgon. The developer is a diehard trump fan, and if u mention anything negative about trump in global chat, u get an instant permaban. It also has something like 90% upvotes, enjoy the curse.
@fappydabear1774
Жыл бұрын
@@undertyped1 I love Project Gorgon. It’s a surprisingly competent mmorpg for a husband and wife team.
@onekun5233
Жыл бұрын
@@undertyped1 To be fair, I don't think a developer's political opinions necessarily make a MMO or any game bad, but it's unfortunate if they let that influence their moderation decisions.
@undertyped1
Жыл бұрын
@@onekun5233 I don't think its a bad mmo, just cursed.
Hey! Tarpit here, one of two Animyst devs. This weekend has been surreal! We had moved on creatively years ago, taking a huge amount from the experience of making Animyst, and contentedly assuming that a very few people would ever go into the world. Our pre-Josh upper limit was 14 players on a PvP event (going back to 2018.) The game is designed and balanced for an average of 5-10 players constantly, a number that still ended up being overly ambitious for us to attain. Josh was absolutely right pointing out that a multiplayer game without a community literally never gets experienced, no matter how good (or scuffed.) All that to say, we are so thrilled that people are playing Animyst! We both adore the video. Writing this on the Monday after it dropped, we have patched 6 times since the video came out. (All of the glory for that goes to Ded; I made the game worlds but can't assist with programming labor) Lag, and other issues resulting from these hitherto unseen server loads are much better than they were feeling Saturday. The game is built for group PvP, and we will keep turning the screws on networking and optimizations to make that as possible as possible. Neither of us thought we would ever update again. We are still disoriented and need to think deeply about what the future holds. Josh, you made instant fans out of the both of us. The video is hilarious, awesomely done, and perhaps overly generous.
@Telepathic_Snail_Overlords
11 ай бұрын
The game looks awesome dude. If my pc wasn't dead I would cjeck it out!
@Tarpit_
11 ай бұрын
@@Telepathic_Snail_Overlords thanks a ton! It is not the most optimized game of all times so even people with good rigs aren't performing like they should
@leempo1
11 ай бұрын
All I could think while watching this video was how fucking awesome this game looked. You guys did a great job ❤
@Isacmartins1
11 ай бұрын
The tab thing really does make part of the text, doesn't it? Anyway, I will call some friends and try to play it, my morbid curiosity got the better of me
@allecio
11 ай бұрын
I cannot believe I am saying this about a game that shows up in this series, but I think this games has massive potential. It's creepy, intended or not, and honestly, I'd love to see more out of it.
We are making Animyst 2!
@Loki-
2 ай бұрын
Weird to now be seeing this video 9 months later, and 4 days ago this was posted. Good luck and glad to see it!
@cartoonishidealism582
2 ай бұрын
YOOOOOOOOO
@skyjack1
2 ай бұрын
For real? Just when I considered playing this in the future? Sweet.
@jimmyzimmer8118
Ай бұрын
Awesome
@Mr.Shepherd.
Ай бұрын
I'm already enjoying this game as it is and can't wait to see what the next game looks like.
Started playing the game right after the video was posted. Managed to gather all 8 pages in about 6-8 hours. Now the real grind begins! The 2 guys who made the game were actively in the game communicating to players, answering questions, replacing items lost by server resets, and just general being cool dudes. They’ve dropped at least 2 performance patches in the 48 hours since the population has boomed. Super awesome to be a part of!
@server1ok
Жыл бұрын
Patch 2.0. Grass is now green, instead of red. 😂
@kulbrez4884
Жыл бұрын
Even if this game doesn’t really go anywhere, the new players gave these 2 guys motivation and a spark. This game may not be it, but maybe the next attempt they will carry that spark with them to something amazing. They clearly have a passion!
@Earth2McKay
Жыл бұрын
Wholesome af
@parcol576
11 ай бұрын
What happened when you found all 8
@server1ok
11 ай бұрын
@@parcol576 Josh said that you unlock flying and the last boss.
Out of all MMOs he reviewed, this one is the anti-thesis of the usual aftermath. Instead of shutting down a dying game for good, he breathed life into it.
@sneakycactus8815
11 ай бұрын
@@LVZKV bozo
@JustATanneriteDummy
11 ай бұрын
I was gonna say I'm about to try this shit lmao
@Simplemalk
10 ай бұрын
There's something poetic about it given the concept and setting of the game.
@GrimFelArt
Ай бұрын
And it's so beautiful to see! I'm so happy for the devs, they made something special that deserves to be played and shared
I actually like the voicelines, it feels so wrong and raw exactly what you would expect from someone who has been dead for 10.000 years. It adds to the uncomfortable atmosphere
@wouju9600
Жыл бұрын
Agreed, it feels unnatural and forced. Which I guess is what would happen if a pair of reanimated bones tried speaking
@Hardworlder
Жыл бұрын
You expect dead people to sound like broken robot children?
@HorsesArePeople2
Жыл бұрын
Same, it's really fucking creepy and fits well
@taoofjester4113
Жыл бұрын
Samies. It was so damn weird it made me think of that one twisted MMO Josh did the series on. It definitely set the mood and made it so much more creepy than what an actual voice actor could have done.
@Archangelm127
Жыл бұрын
I concur. If that was a deliberate design decision, it was exactly on point.
90% sure this game's dev had glimpsed beyond the veil and was compelled to create it after witnessing the eldritch truth underneath and enveloping our reality
@vorpalkickass8825
Жыл бұрын
He has seen the far future. the realms beyond time that will overcome our earth after humans have gone. and that future is Animyst.
@luisernestochaconguerrero778
Жыл бұрын
They have seen beyond the veil, a horrific truth, they found it there and in that moment of brainblasting realization they ceased to be man.. and become a herald.. an avatar of the crawling chaos..
@taoofjester4113
11 ай бұрын
@@luisernestochaconguerrero778so...a typical Tuesday.
@agoogleuser8492
11 ай бұрын
That is a high degree of certainty. I'm with this man.
"This is the Afterlife, but it is not eternity... But then where does the soul go next?" Come on, this line alone has give this more character than all of Ubisoft's games over the last decade together.
@BrazilianAnarchy
11 ай бұрын
All of the weird cryptic musings of the npcs voiced in that horrible uncanny TTS threw me into a state of complete awe at just how atmospheric it all is. That's dark fantasy done right.
@PIKL_Creep
11 ай бұрын
@@BrazilianAnarchy What the developer was going for with the voices is actually pretty good but could've been executed a lot better.
@ctdaniels7049
11 ай бұрын
@@BrazilianAnarchy They put the Mork and the Borg together--
@davidrymwar5812
10 ай бұрын
as a professional writer, that is a bit of incredibly haunting writing given the setting
@AllfatherBlack
7 ай бұрын
tons of those lines were genuinely great writing imo (considering the overall theme and atmosphere). i would be proud to have come up with this weird stuff
"Made by 2 mortals" Keeping the server up for 5 years is an accomplishment in of itself and shows their dedication.
@perryborn2777
5 ай бұрын
I'm not sure how the game's servers worked, but it simply could have been a server hosted on the dev's own computer. They said themselves it was never supposed to have tons of players, so that would be a relatively low-cost method of keeping the server up
Josh... this needs a series... we need to form a group and find all pages.... there is no other way....
@richardfrederick6009
Жыл бұрын
I'm in
@JohnSmith-ox3gy
Жыл бұрын
@@richardfrederick6009 You have my femur for the expedition fund!
@thechugg4372
Жыл бұрын
Lets overload this guy's only server!
@eduardopena5893
Жыл бұрын
This is the way.
@ucantstoptheflopp4387
Жыл бұрын
I have a life mission now
Just so you know, this video almost singlehandedly brought this game back from the dead. After watching, I downloaded it and played and we had about 60 players on the server. It got enough attention that the two devs who made the game even pushed out a new update to help with the lag that having that many people on the server caused. This game is awesome and now that there are a few people playing, it's one I'd recommend people actually look at.
@professor0reo700
Жыл бұрын
The video was just released a day ago
@tianzhou1244
Жыл бұрын
@@professor0reo700thats how powerful this video is, it effects things retroactively...
@EJ_Red
Жыл бұрын
As of 7 PM/19:00 on June 18 2023, Steamcharts says it has 61 people. Because of the surreal and empty yet disturbingly interesting potential this game has, I hope this game actually is carried by these people.
@And-ur6ol
Жыл бұрын
@@EJ_Red there is a fair chance it will, since they are a lot more prepared for the game, after this video, than if they had stumbled upon it randomly on steam.
@Keurosaur
Жыл бұрын
It's all those homeless Tera Online players...
this game almost perfectly captures a genuine feeling of early gaming, something that is extremely rare to come by now due to how fast people take games apart to the last file and share their findings online. just look at how Mario 64, early Pokemon or Zelda used to have all these rumors, some innocent, some very creepy. and the endless gaming creepypastas back in the hayday. early Minecraft was the last game i really ever experienced this subtle horror in: the fog, the endlessness, the loneliness, the lack of online resources and your young self's inability to think very critically and so you soak up the scary rumors and try to figure this game out by yourself while you feel watched. i think Animyst channels this exact energy: there are no resources online, you can't apply some long standing gaming knowledge just like when you were young, the endless empty world, and this inability to really make sense of it paired with the low graphics and fog, the loneliness with structures made by someone but there's nobody there. this feels like a game i could've played in 2006 and share rumors with friends on the school yard as we collectively shit ourselves. and i think that's beautiful.
@EndertheDragon0922
11 ай бұрын
You captured it perfectly. I couldn’t put a finger on what this game made me feel, but I think that’s it. A sense of wonder and curiosity that can’t be answered as easily as games that have been picked apart.
@yaya_is_real
11 ай бұрын
The early Minecraft part is so true , thanks for putting into world I love u
@PlumingerNylon
3 ай бұрын
"try to figure this game out by yourself while you feel watched" this right here made me feel like I've felt this before without knowing, some early 2000 games really had that feeling of angst and I was never a brave child
A tiny interesting thing about all this: I love the subtle storytelling and worldbuilding that all the fancy magic you get pales in comparison to the weapon the first boss drops, which is just an ACTUAL WEAPON, made of steel and wood. The rest of Animyst deliberately makes very little sense, but that one detail speaks so clearly and loudly that I adore it.
@paulmahoney7619
11 ай бұрын
I don't even know if that's intentional, but it so much captures the feeling of being in a dying, fading world.
@oneoranota
11 ай бұрын
Fancy magic : - throw bouncy rock - sends flies bothering your foes - chute of flaming material Regular weapon : Big, deliberate, hammer strike to the face. It all makes senses.
@0neDoomedSpaceMarine
11 ай бұрын
Makes me think of what Conan The Barbarian was taught by his father.
@femthingevelyn
3 ай бұрын
it's kind of evocative of how in Dark Souls, it's heavily implied that miracles, or holy magic, used to be a lot stronger, but because you cast miracles by reciting certain legends basically, the legends are getting further and further from the original truth, and further and further from the divinity they draw from
The text to speech madness oddly fits in this game, sounds like a transmission from a hellish dimension or something.
@MononymousM
11 ай бұрын
My honest first thought about it was; this is so bad, it can't _not_ be deliberate. And I agree with you - it's fitting in an odd way.
@ThommyofThenn
11 ай бұрын
Yeah it has a definite "Black Lodge" vibe to it
@rbwbr
11 ай бұрын
Yea, and its definetely done on purpouse. Fits the game perfectly
@ThePhantom4516
11 ай бұрын
This is totally an indie horror trope, the archaic text to speech voices used for an unsettling effect. and it really does work
@EndertheDragon0922
11 ай бұрын
Yeah, it’s jarring but I dig it! Ofc I haven’t experienced it firsthand, maybe it gets old quick, but it’s kinda cool to me!
Josh Strife Hayes is officially not the MMO Grim Reaper, but the MMO Necromancer. He commands them to die and to raise from their graves in equal measure.
The consistently weird portrayal of the game, intentional or not, is one of its greatest strengths. It's like the player is experiencing the game in an actual state of undeath - you can't properly comprehend the world and its characters, you can't interact, everything is *wrong*, like a fever dream that never ends.
To be honest, if you're going to use text to speech, this is the way. With the characters, voice and speech patterns being quite detached from human, there's no space for the uncanny valley to set in. This works, unlike people making photorealistic human characters with realistic sounding text to speech.
Somehow this "worst mmo ever" turns into "forgotten world explorer" type of series and honestly, this is what I am here for!
@amixofgeekcontent
Жыл бұрын
You might be interested in Josh's "Otherland" series (it's in his playlist section).
@HighPriestFuneral
Жыл бұрын
@@amixofgeekcontent This is how I found Josh way back when. There was something about it that seemed similar to dot hack, an incredibly in-depth reviewer who outlined his time with the story, characters, and a legitimate enthusiasm that didn't feel forced or self-absorbed. I remember reading a comment at the time where some one was complaining "You should put these into 15 minute chunks. You don't have the charisma and the game isn't interesting enough to be given this much time. If you do fix your style I could recommend you to..." And so on and so forth. Oh, it was so nice to see how quickly Josh's channel grew, and how varied his wheelhouse really became.
@Urpuss
Жыл бұрын
@@amixofgeekcontent Thanks! Will check it out :)
@thegrayyernaut
Жыл бұрын
@@amixofgeekcontent That series is the stuff of legends.
@namebrandmason
Жыл бұрын
@@amixofgeekcontent I half expected this video to turn into "Otherland 2"
the idea of a character being formed from the reconstituted bits of a variety of people in a mass grave is horrifying and inspired.
@GrimSawyer52
11 ай бұрын
The idea is incredibly horrifying yet they are friendly(I think). I am going to use them as a basis for a type of undead.
@elvingearmasterirma7241
11 ай бұрын
I am frantically taking notes tbh
@2ley695
9 ай бұрын
So basically Espada from Bleach?
@straydogfreedom7795
9 ай бұрын
@@GrimSawyer52 I guess it would be hard not to be friendly when you're made up of other people
@ulture
8 ай бұрын
but that's just real life
Now I know in which type of evil Josh turned after playing this cursed game, cause now it has a hundred players peak and 50 playing right now, it was brought to live it had never seen before. Truly a work of Master Necromancer, hats down.
Gotta be honest, I’m diggin the text to speak. It has a detached eerie sound, perfect for reanimated beings. It’s just intriguing to me and I like it. Id love to see you do a small series on this 😅
@A_Stereotypical_Guy
10 ай бұрын
Yeah you gotta think that any voice they had would be surreal and detached being that they have no lungs or vocal chords. It would almost be a property of the landscape more than the character. So it does fit. It's like something that should never be able to speak struggling to do so.
@larrymantic2635
7 ай бұрын
At least it’s not as bad as AI voices.
As a partially blind person, this is amazing. That TTS is basically what we had in the 2000s and its pure nostalgia.
@golemgolden4670
Жыл бұрын
What do you mean partially blind? What is that like? sorry if this is rude
@LordOfMadness
Жыл бұрын
@@golemgolden4670 Tiss like a loooot of dioptries if I understand it correctly. Far too much to compensate with glasses. So you see basicaly just smudges of color
@jungtothehuimang
Жыл бұрын
@@golemgolden4670partially blind can mean only one eye is affected or they can see some things but not very well. Most people who have blindness don't actually see blackness. They have some amount of sight to varying degrees. Sorry if that was rambly.
@hogandromgool2062
Жыл бұрын
@@jungtothehuimang Yes most people that are blind can distinguish high contrast e.g. shadows on bright ground. Usually takes a lot of concentration to figure out what the shapes mean.
@belstar1128
Жыл бұрын
2000s more like 1970s
i have to say, with every passing minute this video became more entrancing, and looked like a 10/10 creepypasta. And after watching the video, i'm 100% sure that this game is a memetic agent.
@Tarpit_
Жыл бұрын
It could definitely be played as a skeletons war meme generator
@LiveLNXgaming
Жыл бұрын
It is absolutely an SCP
This cursed game has evoked something in me, the desire to tame the desert and venture through the tombs of the undead... What have you done to me, Josh? Why have you shown me this cursed piece of the internet? Why could you not stop, when there was a part of your humanity left?
@Jiub_SN
6 ай бұрын
Such a cringe comment
@b.w.s3165
6 ай бұрын
@@Jiub_SNAnd yet, your reply is somehow more cringe.
@kexaroni
6 ай бұрын
@@Jiub_SNI am begging you to read a single book.
@justwastingtimeonyt9952
6 ай бұрын
@@kexaronida book of lore
You can play as a skelly. Absolutely bone-rattling choice. 10/10
A little over a day of this gem being posted, Animyst playercounts skyrocketed to a staggering 94 player 24 hour peak at the time of writing, may those brave soldiers find all the pages
@the_Googie
11 ай бұрын
funny, for me it reads 86 all time peak
If anyone is curious, that jittery effect on the weapons is floating point error. Towards the end of the video you can see a lot of jittering. Basically the player character is so far from the center of the world that you start getting math-rounding errors in the vertex position of 3D models. Fun stuff! Modern engines (or modern systems) sometimes (not always) "re-center" the world coordinates periodically to avoid this when traveling very long distances.
@angiee33
Жыл бұрын
Wow, interesting
@Eta_Hoyimi
Жыл бұрын
This man speaks truth; If you play FF14 this is also why your furniture shifts slightly after modelling your apartment sometimes. The decimal points are rounded off to a certain position meaning it'll shift a few pixels randomly once in a while.
@oliver_twistor
Жыл бұрын
Floating point errors, the bane of every programmer. So incredibly hard to debug.
@Amir_404
Жыл бұрын
@@oliver_twistor Just make everything a double and pray nobody notices.
@flomojo2u
Жыл бұрын
Yep, I expect when the game engine devs created it they weren't expecting a continuous coordinate system across enormous distances. Eventually the number of bits in the mantissa gets stretched thin as numbers get very large. It's the same reason on your average scientific calculator if you add 1 to 10^99 you still only have 10^99.
Man, that skybox is _gorgeous._
Thanks to you the game is alive again. You can't imagine how much joy you bring to the creators with your work. You really did something great with this
Josh’s ability to find cursed gems is legitimately unmatched, these videos provide something invaluable, recording small forgotten pieces of gaming history that are more than worth preserving and for that im incredibly glad to have found his channel
@Tarpit_
Жыл бұрын
Seriously curious how he came across Animyst
@7Beanss
Жыл бұрын
@@Tarpit_I'm sure the community helps. He probably has a long list of emails with good suggestions
@Askanon
Жыл бұрын
Right? Think of how many projects never see the light of day. They either get shared in private only communities, are never shared period, or like Animyst they just get forgotten. Lost to the sands of time. The world of low budget, indie games is fascinating.
I think this game is deserving of a mini series. This has to be the most interesting MMO you’ve done as of late and it’s absolutely worthy of more attention
@flame4864
Жыл бұрын
Same actually. Having watched the video, I really want to see more of it. It's obscure enough that I can't find anything like it.
@Methdemon
11 ай бұрын
@@flame4864 cruelty squad
@TheNavigator4552
11 ай бұрын
@@Methdemonthat game is definitely not obscure
@donaldhysa4836
25 күн бұрын
@@TheNavigator4552 Well this is the first time I heard of it
Congratulations. You've officially transcended the format of the show and discovered a true piece of cryptic internet mystery.
The ending here was exactly what an MMO adventure should feel like. Hats off to your playing and writing
I just love how Josh becomes increasingly more intense in his tone throughout the video. It really makes it feel like there's an obsession with the game slowly building up and adds beautifully to the vibe of the video over all.
@Poldovico
Жыл бұрын
Man's an actor and it bloody well shows :P
@thatoneweirdbish6364
Жыл бұрын
@@Poldovico oh damn, I didn't even know that. Yeah that makes sense lmao
@AuricomSystems
Жыл бұрын
We listened in real time to a Lovecraft protagonist experiencing some Events
@thatoneweirdbish6364
Жыл бұрын
@@AuricomSystems Damn you're so right with this. Also Lovecraft is my favourite author so thanks for reminding me to read some of his stories again!
@Blisterdude123
Жыл бұрын
I adore how this one slowly shifted from 'review' to 'narrative descent into madness with uplifting if flawed finale'.
this is honestly a really cool setting, and if fleshed out as a single player game, could be really promising. I love this janky cursed aesthetic and the massive unsettling scale. There's an air of mystery about it. Totally untapped potential
@Ilaydra
Жыл бұрын
"fleshed out" good one
@spamuel98
Жыл бұрын
that game already exists, it's called Amnesia.
@SilimSavertin
Жыл бұрын
@@spamuel98 Amnesia wishes its aesthetic was actually this interesting, lol
@pinkorcyanbutlong5651
Жыл бұрын
Kinda reminds me a bit of Wrought Flesh vibes wise, big desert, gorey aesthetic, ominous places and undertone, weird but interesting jank both visually and gameplay wise (which is quite hard). Though of course that one is more of action sci-fi
@Beldarak
Жыл бұрын
Take a look at Lunacid. It got the same vibe but is a real game. It's like the King Field games.
It always amazes me how a KZread video can change the activity in a game, 94 players online at the same time after this video was released and 14 peak within last 24h with 4 playing while i type it. It's really interesting to see
This game is coming back, josh. Simply by creating this video, you have brought it back. The devs are patching things, fixing bugs, and i think they have plans down the road to finish it.
The idea of waking up with skeletal body parts not your own was fantastically creepy, the silhouettes of larger things across the plains looked great.
@_JellyWalker
Жыл бұрын
I love that the faction of mixed up skeletons killed in a mass execution are just called "Friends."
@server1ok
Жыл бұрын
@@_JellyWalker Comrades. The pleb.
This is genuinely breathtakingly mysterious. It's full in an empty sort of way, and empty in a strangely fulfilling way. It's wrong in all the right ways, and right in a few wrong ones, but that doesn't take away the atmosphere of stepping into something truly different from everything else. Much like Otherland, I think we've found something here, and I think a series could be something a lot of people could enjoy.
@AnthonyJClink
Жыл бұрын
Yeah it totally had some otherland vibes for sure. I really enjoyed the otherland series. This isn't as pretty but it does have the same kinda vibe.
@namebrandmason
Жыл бұрын
One cannot criticize the game for being unimaginative. It's a truly refreshing setting in a genre clogged with store brand vaguely medieval fantasy.
The way their bones creak and scrape against eachother as they talk makes my skin crawl... I love it.
Ok the skeletons being called "friends" and talking like aliens from 1940 had me dying
This series has been an adventure, thanks for taking us along on this quest of yours Josh.
@107olivier
Жыл бұрын
PLLEASE DO THE MMO FLY FOR FUN
@greed94
Жыл бұрын
@@107olivier Ask Josh, not Zed!
In the end Josh sounds like some Lovecraftian protagonist. Caught by the madness, going deeper to find and get to know something unknowable, leaving behind, shred by shred, their sanity.
This game looks so interesting, I like the idea of an ancient, decaying world where everyone in it is a corpse, the weird low-poly models, the way the sky is just billowing endless clouds, even the text-to-speech, it is really fascinating and weird looking. I really want to try this game now
@luiz8755
11 ай бұрын
the sky is great
The "fake ending" to the video is a very nice touch. Great storytelling, Josh
This series is like watching an explorer discover weird unfinished worlds forgotten by most. It's so strange to realize that although these games are only digital they are still "real" places in a strange way with their own history and people who where part of it no less real then any of us
@And-ur6ol
Жыл бұрын
There is a sadness, horror and loneliness to dead realms.
I found watching this video to be strangely compelling in an unsettling way, almost like a condensed version of the game itself. "Is he actually going to find a page?" "Why am I even watching this video?" Anyways, I made it to the end, and have now downloaded this cursed digital experience. Thank you, Josh.
I just found this channel a couple days ago and have been working my way through this series. Absolutely stellar work, I love that you've played all these obscure games and documented them for all to see. Great work
Baffling seeing this game on my recommended when I was asked to stream this game back in my twitch days by the devs. They held events and such and were very kind. Tarpit was a cool guy. I unfortunately, just didn't have the time and fell out of streaming then. Great video and happy to see Tarpit is still updating the game!
What a weird experience. This was cursed, disturbing and mesmerizing. I will be thinking about the concept of Friends for a long time.
@claytonreeves150
Жыл бұрын
"The One Where Ross Gets Mutilated By a Human-Chicken Hybrid"
@darkgn0ll587
Жыл бұрын
I thought the same- what a genius lore idea
@alexbrowne9566
Жыл бұрын
Me too, I think about stuff like that. There's something really dark with a lot of flavour here
@pseudonym8791
Жыл бұрын
Guys, I have a bad feeling that it’s actually an SCP and it’s already too late to OH GOD ITS BEHIND M
Josh played up the voiced dialogue like it was going to be unbearable but then it played it was the most genius thing the developer could have done
@bertoandon9681
Жыл бұрын
It's so unnerving, it's Perfect
@JK-gm6kk
Жыл бұрын
it kinda reminds me of twin peaks. In terms of unsettling on a budget, im inclined to agree
@Jollofmuncher2000
Жыл бұрын
Glad to see everyone agrees. The voices match the atmosphere extremely well. The game has a few good designs/ideas it just plays like an alpha. Got some potential
@Makrillo
Жыл бұрын
kzread.info/dash/bejne/o32o18mhXcmsl8o.html
@schnek8927
Жыл бұрын
Typical josh... I mean i'm enjoying the series, but there's a lot of "THIS IS THE MOST INSANE/ANNOYING/STUPID THING EVER GUYS, LOOK!!!" Thing: *Just below average or even somewhat good. (like in this case)*
The voice over is not a failure, it's a triumph.
PS. Props to whoever made the skybox. Those seemingly volumetric clouds look awesome when breaking to reveal atmosphere, especially when the sun is involved.
This felt surreal. Reminds me of "that one game you played decades ago when you were a kid, can remember only vague images of having played it and can't remember what it was called or any strong detail and can never find out what it was, or if it was just a fever dream".
@sodaspider130
Жыл бұрын
There was a crazy MMO i remember playing called Fung wan Online, it was a martial arts MMO where your class was based on what weapon skills/style you picked or trained with
@eroze1129
Жыл бұрын
This reminds me of an old game called sacrifice, same level of creepiness and similar art style.
@chaosgyro
Жыл бұрын
I have a couple of cartoons like that in my memory. Some early 80s anime stuff that managed to make it to US television and the like.
@hjalfi
Жыл бұрын
There's a bizarre space builder sim game I saw on KZread years ago which I've never been able to find since --- it's one of these resource gathering games where you collect the resources to build the machines to make the parts to create the harvesters to do the research to get the science to, etc. You start out on foot on an alien planet and eventually you build your own spacecraft and explore the solar system (and maybe nearby stars?). I remember it as a 3D first-person-view game, with terrible, amateurish graphics; blocky models, low-res textures, generally migraine-inducing. But I've never seen a trace of it. Now I have no idea whether I just imagined the whole thing.
@dakotamayer1820
Жыл бұрын
@@hjalfi sounds to me like you're describing no man's sky on release, not the version that it is today. I could be wrong though.
Feels like the most unique games with lots of potential always die due to ... lack of copying what is popular? Money? Patience of the developer(s)? One day.. I hope to make something like this. Something that people will find randomly while bored, and will feel captivated by. It doesnt have to be a success. It doesnt even need to be good. It just has to be there to be discovered and maybe intreague a few people. Mysteries aren't meant to be known by many people anyway.
@ariezon
Жыл бұрын
this game is unique but it's rough. all they need to do is to smooth the combat and button. let the rest be it, but the player should not be hindered by bad control first thing first.
@marinakrae5505
Жыл бұрын
I dream of making something like this one day too
@Tarpit_
Жыл бұрын
Genuine mysteries, in games like Mortal, were one of our very favorite experiences in gaming leading up to Animyst development. There are so many things we could have done better, trippy that it's delivering some mystery now in 2023, in some part due to its shortcomings.
@Noordledoordle
Жыл бұрын
@@Tarpit_ hello! Are you the developer?
@Tarpit_
Жыл бұрын
@@Noordledoordle I'm the artist who built the game worlds. The vast majority of development work was done by Ded
This was an interesting , hilarious and fascinating look into your descent into the afterlife in a Tim Burton and Morrowind love child of an afterlife without any answers , this definitely needs a series or even a live stream to collect the pages, I loved the video Josh , and i hope we get more .
I don't know why but your personality is so comforting. You make me feel like I'm sipping on a warm cup of hot chocolate while being hugged. It's like your videos take the edge off my depression somehow
@MononymousM
11 ай бұрын
I don't know why, because I see similar comments on various creator's videos all the time and usually don't perceive them as particularly sincere; but this one made me feel less like it's a bot farming likes, and more like a real human, a struggling one, saying something genuinely heartfelt. Iunno, maybe it's just my own MH falling off a cliff and a case of projection, but I feel for you. And if you're out there, I hope you're doing okay.
@kaizokuAUTO
11 ай бұрын
@@MononymousM I think it's a real human commenting. I hope so (:
@QuantumTelephone
11 ай бұрын
Please go see your friends and family. I know we all got homestuck since the pandemic, but go out and talk to some real people. Josh is just a youtuber
Im glad this series is still going
@wolfwing1
Жыл бұрын
well is it? it's not been 7 days since this video.
That text to speech really creeps me out, it's not spoken like it's even attempting to be human, it's just phonetically voicing the words it sees. I love it
Five months later that review rating is up to 86% positive with double the total number of reviews lmao the spike in concurrent activity dropped off pretty fast but there are more people on average playing than before the video released, at least for right now I've been sorta binging these Worst MMO Ever videos out of sheer boredom and curiosity, but this whole story in particular is honestly surreal maybe it resonates with me because I've been cursed my whole life with tons of neat ideas for things and absolutely none of the skills or commitment to do anything with them honestly aside from the lag and straight up incorrect movement the game seems to create an absolutely perfect and captivating atmosphere mostly by accident or out of necessity, with that horrifying and ominous text-to-speech voiceover, the vast emptiness coupled with the suffocating feeling of the darkness simple, rough, unpolished games like this feel just as immersive as the more professional, detailed, properly finished stuff sometimes, and when they do they also have this feeling of personality that I love
i think the TTS makes this game even more atmospheric and, in some places, spooky
This feels like a creepypasta/ARG come to live. A mysterious and disturbing game, long forgotten, in which lies a secret that no one knows about since most people weren't able to finish it, and those few who did were never seen again. Except now the game has a small player base, so happy ending.
You’ve been super busy lately, thanks for all the hard work.
@bowserbrowser6559
Жыл бұрын
Hes been posting so much on onlyfans too, guys busy
Idk if im emotionally unstable or what but this video made me sob - I absolutely love how wild and dark and personal this game is. I've never experienced anything like it and im really happy that it was found by someone that highlighted it objectively and showed it to so many people
@alkestos
11 ай бұрын
Maybe youre just a little unstable, sobbing and all, but I admit, it made me feel something. I can't really explain in language what it is. And I'm basically dead inside so it's not usual for something to actually move me.
@Portablesounds
9 ай бұрын
The video mad me teary, but seeing the outpouring of the support afterwards really got me. Especially the devs being so enthusiastic about it. I'm so used to narcissistic game devs who can't admit their game is bad that seeing them recognize their limits and shortcomings openly is heartwarming.
Best video of yours, period. Not for its content, per say. But for your diatribe against yourself and against quitting this one. And for what happened with the community afterwards. Good freiken job dude. Seriously. I won't forget this game I've never played.
That text to speech is actually AMAZING. It's so good that I almost think it being so awful was an intentional choice. It adds a very deep layer of unreality, is unsettling as hell and fits perfectly with the vibe of this world. Paired with that background ambiance, and I unironically think it was a great choice....what a game..the whole concept of the story, world and the friends/cursed one is so unique and fascinating. I would LOVE if this game could be given a full team, a decent budget, and turned into a higher quality single player horror game. It could be incredible.
@niceice6987
Жыл бұрын
I think an bigger budget and larger team would actually rob this game of its unique charm, a big part of what seems to make this game work as well as it does is that it looks off, like its not quite real.
@skyking4557
Жыл бұрын
The game should look unreal and otherworldly,heck this game gave more Cosmic horror than any official cthulhu game
@Poldovico
Жыл бұрын
With the objective being to find eight pages, the structure of the horror game creates itself.
@Jrock420blam
Жыл бұрын
Imagine dropping 100 mil to finish some random guys fever dream game that he finished 2% of lol you'd basically be making the whole game because there's essentially nothing here but the idea of 8 pages and 4 enemy types.
It's always fun when Josh plays dead games. You can check the steam charts and see just how impactful his videos are. As of writing this, there are now 45 players online in Animyst
@OmgBsitka
Жыл бұрын
😂 oh snap. I wonder if thr servers are okay
@nicolasreinaldet732
Жыл бұрын
@@OmgBsitka The dev droped a patch today to solve this.
@Laughablematter
Жыл бұрын
another thing I found amusing is you can basically see the days Josh played too with the random blips of 1 player online haha!
This game and your fascination with it reminded me of The Beginner's Guide. A meta-game where a narrator takes you through the strange games made by a mysterious "Coda", who he has grown obsessed with.
It may be a little rough but they managed some pretty great creepy ambiance and they definitely made you feel something lol!
You know what, if there's any MMO that deserves to be found on a random disc somewhere in the attic, it's this one.
@LiveLNXgaming
Жыл бұрын
I read that as "Arctic," not attic and honestly, still works.
I think the fact the world is so empty and was INTENDED to be filled with player creation between the POIs is part of the tragic solemn vibe too. It's a grim vibe with a grim setting that had the trappings of people making something from it but it never happened.
I opened the game's steam page and it started auto playing the video without me realising. When your video ended and i was still hearing groans and an ominous low music, i actually thought my computer was cursed lmao
Watching this video and reading the comments has been one of the most heartwarming experiences I've had in a while :)
There is something incredibly badass about finding -- as a random drop -- a magic staff that gives you the ability to summon a giant meteor. One that changes the ambient music while the spell is happening. Imagine if there was an item like that in Warcraft. People would spend hundreds of hours grinding to obtain it.
@InvadeNormandy
Жыл бұрын
It ALMOST did really- Until everything became generic numbers and values. Remember how it was supposed to have "One per server" rarity items that never happened?
@sirreznov7823
11 ай бұрын
@@InvadeNormandy Tbh when they didnt add them I stopped playing. The premise is cool af, even if only some massive orgs would be able to get one
@InvadeNormandy
11 ай бұрын
@@sirreznov7823 On top of that, remember advanced or side classes too? Like arch druid is one that sticks out. And all these other side features that simply never happened to keep chasing a new gimmick or invalidated bit of work in one expac that will become redundant in the next.
"my legbones are from Skyrim horses" You learn new things about Josh everyday
i actually really love the text-to-speech! i find it really charming and fitting for the vibe this game is going for.
Love this series so much ^^ Thanks for your stuff
This video made me feel very uncomfortable and I love it. There's just something very eerie about feeling like you're alone in such a big world when it's unintended to be so.
@TheHalogen131
Жыл бұрын
Yeah. I feel like this game is an example of liminality.
I honestly hope to create something as entrancing as this game. There's something really fascinating and genuine about it, like there's no withholding on the developer's part, and it proves that skill isn't required to make worthwhile art.
The fact that this video breathed new life into this game makes me feel so happy.
I drop down here, and you have sold me a game, Josh. I am also pleasantly surprised to see the devs are not just *here in the comments,* but have apparently returned to patch the game itself, and a community is now actually being built! This is wonderful! This is wholesome! This is EVERYTHING I could ever dream of a video like this doing. See you all in Animyst.
this is the most intrigued and mystified I've been by a game in a LONG time. I'm so glad you went deeper into it than the generic mmos, this really deserved it. I hope this video gets the game a mini revival and someone posts some playthroughs because wow there's so much here that's insanely interesting and unique, I love obscure games like this
On Josh's tombstone - "Here lies Josh Strife Hayes. He played Animyst, and then died (xx years later)"
Ok I gotta say, I love the lore of the Friends faction. That's so unique!
I played for 2 hours and met three "Friends". We began the tale of "The four Friends" and began to explore the starting towns. A portal opened up and led us to an arena with a fire boss. The four friends were victorious and soon went back home. This was the first 2 hours.
40:32 I've never really gotten the appeal of premieres before, but this moment? This made me understand. I was actually caught off guard by the genuine delight I felt, and it wouldn't have worked if I was watching it on demand. Really brings back that Otherland vibe.
The idea of having factions all be undead, and the death mechanic allowing you to swap factions freely seems like a very interesting approach to how you can try to balance factions in an MMO while still making sense thematically.
@Tarpit_
Жыл бұрын
And you can only really build full bases on one. So we were hoping you'd main one but be able to switch for the sake of group PVP.
@ShadowTasos
Жыл бұрын
Eh in reality it'd probably turn out like WoW, where nobody wants to be in the minority faction so 1 faction is essentially dead on most servers. Except this game doesn't have servers so that'd mean 1 faction would probably just be dead period, who'd want to be in the faction that actually gets killed out there
5:43 Well, that budget choice fits the vibe soo well.
The atmosphere and aesthetic has a ton of potential. Would love to see a game like this but fully featured and polished
this is like the guy you meet at a pub, and is the nicest person you have ever met, he says he likes to make games, you are friends for the next 30 years and you think you genuinely know everything about him. and then you finally see the game he was talking about
On top of the eerie atmosphere everyone has discussed, "Resource Mode" is positively psychedelic. Seeing those infinitely tall beams of multicoloured light stretch all the way into the distance across that bleak and barren landscape makes me think of 2001: A Space Odyssey, or maybe End Of Evangelion.
What a treat! Lol i love finding out about obscure games like this. Makes me wish i still had a pc. This game gives me a creepy, uncanny feeling. Kinda sad too. Id love to see this worked on again. The sky is really stunning!
Gotta say, this video is one of your best. imo your most fascinating content are the videos that showcase dead worlds full of bizarre things almost nobody will ever see. Thanks so much for putting in the time to strange janky games like this and otherland, to preserve these worlds in some way.
This is what happen when you got more ideas than talent, but still passionate enough to do it. That's worth some respect.
@toukoenriaze9870
Жыл бұрын
Saaame ... I don't want to build games ... I want to play them xD ... But I have some pretty great ideas (at least imo) for games I want to exist
@The_Joestar
Жыл бұрын
@@toukoenriaze9870Right? In my mind I have so many ideas to make the best games ever but in reality they'd probably be burned in piles because of how bad they are to play 😂
@balazsvarga1823
Жыл бұрын
I could make a great game, but it wouldn't be feasible in the monetary sense and would need insane specs. At least these guys did better than Star Citizen!
@aneffortlesssmile
Жыл бұрын
Honestly, I respect it. I, too, have such ideas and worlds full of stories I want to tell, but I lack the talent. I applaud the developers for being able to create as much as they did. It's not easy.
@thaurane
11 ай бұрын
I'm in that comment and I don't like it lol.
The voicelines are a purposefully-made-monotone version of the Votrax SC-01A Speech Synthesizer. Usually they had a bit of tone to them, but there's a lot floating around that don't. The ones that don't are usually used for that creepy effect. For the whisper, it's either still Votrax with whisper settings or it's the Whisper from a DecTalk, which you can get for free (and is the same voice of Moonbase Alpha, but not the Whisper setting). It sounds more like a Votrax whisper.
I naturally had to go look at the game, and I love that the very day after this video came out, this patch note came out on their log: "began addressing the server lag encountered under today's historic server populations" One video drew in more players than the game had ever had, well done
I'm convinced this is one of the circles of hell, along with Secondhand Lands.
The staircase at 34:08 is what I would call a sky base, essentially the player deleted his own stairs and made it impossible for anyone to get to their base, so basically they have base that is impossible to raid.
@thealmightyjack
Жыл бұрын
And the player has a home teleporter up there so they can teleport in there whenever they want.
@Tarpit_
11 ай бұрын
You could raid it by building up to it with root or by unlocking flight and just flying up to it.
@MononymousM
11 ай бұрын
@@Tarpit_ I think the point is that it's not possible to build on another player's site, thus the 'impossible' part of raiding it. edit: with that said, it's a good point about the flying. But that's also explained by the player _very likely having no clue_ that the game ends up involving flying if you get far enough. The idea is solid in theory.
@picardsolo2471
11 ай бұрын
@@MononymousM That's a dev
@MononymousM
11 ай бұрын
@@picardsolo2471 Hey, so it is - I obviously had no idea haha. That raises further questions!
after seeing this entire thing i want a full playthrough of josh playing Fear and Hunger, so I can see his impressions and the entire game since i didn't look for anyone else playing
@eiwhaz-tina6528
Жыл бұрын
F&H is amazing
I tend to watch these videos with zero intention on ever playing anything. But as the video went on, I slowly started finding it all quite interesting. Charming. Now I'm curious what the sky area looks like. Very fascinating