Exploring Abandoned Game Servers

[@graystripe2821]

Thank you agian for visiting our community and world in VP! Loved watching this video too, you did a very good job explaining and taking footage of everything you saw.

[@AJ-zi6ry]

So cool to see you find his video! VP looked really interesting!

[@elbarto578]

This interaction is why I’m in love with MMOs and their online communities.

[@graystripe2821]

@@AJ-zi6ry Oh yes, myself and others from the VP community are pretty impressed with the video and how it came out!

[@paperwormscat9760]

Can anyone join VP and build stuff there? What tools are being used to build?

[@jonatgan8546]

question!! are you named after graystripe from warriors? :0

[@Alstanbery]

Thanks for stopping by VP. I haven't been active on the game for a hot minute but I'm the creator of Chimerock. I didn't think anybody outside the tiny VP community would ever see it, so it was really cool seeing it here lol. That house you walked through with the luminol on the walls was originally my OC's house before i decided to rebuild it in another part of the city. (he's actually the 2D sprite laying his head on the table at the Waffle House lol) The drawing on the walls are of nearby buildings in and around the CR area. There was a story i was trying to hint at but i never finiMAYWOOD NEVER EXISTEDshed it Also that grid texture room under the house isn't anything interesting. that's just an artifact of me trying to figure out the layout of the actual house above. that house was the first thing i built in VP so i was still learning the ropes. However there is something you might like in the basement of version 2 of the house. Its south of spawn, across the highway. And no i don't mean the plants lol

[@KingC89]

What's in the basement?

[@cgimichaelmyers2806]

We need more games like VP, being able to explore other people's buildings, and being able to create your own buildings sounds really nice.

[@iimoonytoony7879]

the littlebigplanet series on playstation was kinda like this, unfortunately the servers were recently shut down. but yeah, i love games like that

[@muggrootbeer]

@@iimoonytoony7879 That game seemed fun, never played it myself (game didn't really interest me lol) but from the videos that popped up time to time that I watched made the game look cool.

[@angryyoutuber8013]

12:00 Car gamers are another breed, some of them play only to tune and watch their cars drive, you'll find them in GTA V too usually just driving around like normal pedestrians.

[@jewjewsbizarreadventure]

Abandoned games are infinitely more creepy purely for the fact that people one day just decided to stop playing. One day the servers dipped in numbers until the final person logged off for good, never to return. Its eerily to abandoned irl properties and feels almost like you're exploring another world untouched by man- or in the game's case- untouched by the sands of cyberware.

[@luziferj2789]

It's so sad that the Crew stopped, I've never played it much but I loved the +1 hour long races. I only played those.

[@Hypercube2017]

The... empty feeling and the fact that it's dying does provide an somber, but also oddly beautiful experience; somehow, despite not being made for the experience, the game manages to do what games like The Long Drive seek to accomplish: immerse someone into a solemn wonder. Perhaps it's because we know that it used to be lively, that it was _not_ meant to be this. Maybe it's the fact that it will soon no longer be available that does it. But regardless, I both agree that it's sad that the game is being shut down, and yet find a kind of beauty in the days it has left.

[@EmmaKathleen7]

VP looks like my kind of place 😮, also I like your work, these types of topics that you cover are always fascinating to look at 😊

[@DemonDogAW]

hello i am also a vp weirdo I did pine county and all that stuff. Always nice when folk drop by our corner of the internet. If anyone is interested I have a few videos that show off what it can do.

[@youtubeletmeintoyoutube4580]

Yeah buddy, love the liminal old internet stuff

[@calypso6200]

virtual archeology and the preservation of games and websites like this sounds so cool! i want to explore abandoned worlds too! love the vibe they give me

[@kristoferprovencal3608]

That first game is a great example of some of what’s wrong with modern gaming. Taking down the servers for a game people already bought so they can rerelease it with some graphical updates and less content so they can try to make more money off of it.

[@megamanmegamanmegamanmegam8725]

This is honestly one of the reasons why I'm never a fan of online only games since they can never last forever since they can die by having the servers shut down And makes them dead and not playable anymore.

[@adamsadventurelens9640]

VP sounds like one of those old towns that people used to visit with a fondness of yesteryear, but realise that it's a time that will never come again.

[@Pystoria]

I love videos like this, I need to start exploring them myself sometime soon!

[@praisedaura]

I adore these kinds of vids and find it fascinating to look back at once in a while, great upload.

[@genesisknight9948]

Based on this video alone, I have downloaded VP to check it out for myself. The way you presented it made it too interesting that I couldn't not download it.

[@nonconnahordeath]

35:56 that sign with the sphere and pointy things seems to be modeled after a famous sign we have here in Memphis, the sign outside of Joe's Wines And Liquor.

[@graystripe2821]

I actually modeled that myself, even directly basing it off photos of the one from that liquor store, its called a Rotosphere! Not many of them are left in the world.

[@nonconnahordeath]

oh that's rad!

[@a.thiago3842]

@@graystripe2821 And what's the point of this game? I say that because i alreays dreamed of a roleplay game where you could live your life just like SAMP or some old Arma 3 mods. But here there's isn't anyone sadly.

[@graystripe2821]

​@@a.thiago3842 The point of Virtual Paradise really is that it's primarily a creative platform to let others build or make things within it, and everything Sacrow showed in his video was made by someone at some point either as a small project, or a larger scale one. To put it in perspective, VP itself as a platform is the hobby of a single guy who develops it in his free time, and it just so happens that a small handful of other people are interested in using it too, albiet not on a consistent basis, which has always been the case. Something else to keep in mind when viewing VP is that it has, and always has had a very small community since it's start too, as it's a pretty niche thing in my eyes. Sure, role playing could be possible in some aspects within VP, which would be interesting to see, but its not the main focus of what the developer is aiming for, so the platform itself doesn't have exclusive features that facilitate that sort of gameplay, as RP is a rather broad scope for something thats being developed as a hobby.

[@dreampillet]

While I'm not personally into any virtual-worlds, Virtual Paradise sounds super interesting! We hear a lot of these old virtual worlds getting abandoned, on the brink of shutdown and only some dedicated users keeping them alive, so a game like that maintained by its community, keeping that old-school vibe makes perfect sense! Definitely sounds like it'd be more flexible and sustainable in the long run.

[@themodernfrontiersmen]

I love videos like this. This was great, and I can tell this channel is going somewhere

[@Featherogue]

I really like the aesthetic/color choices of the mall in VP!

[@redwiltshire1816]

Nice I just finished watching your other videos on this topic yesterday

[@teirusureynard9279]

34:20 -- malls are one of my favorite places to explore period. 35:45 - absolute same.

[@arconisthewolf4430]

You forgot a game,its called Dino D-day,it was a very popular and active steam game way back in the day that nobody plays anymore,lucky to find 1 or 2 people on the servers but mostly dead,could you please cover this game? it had a unique twist on the fps genre and made it into something great!

[@violentbeing333]

YAY A NEW SACROW VIDEO!

[@sirawesomenessi1796]

The water barrel physics were beautiful 😂 sent that one to space

[@TheOneGuy1111]

26:13 Oh hey, that's the store from Night in the Woods!

[@pinky_pepper]

nitw spotted!!!!!!

[@mizzar4929]

I miss playing the crew and exploring :/ it was a nice feeling, i was younger and loved to explore and chill. Btw you can find BigFoot on the game, its an easter egg too

[@waffleman2211]

One of my favorite activities when I was younger was finding recycled minecraft servers. See, back in the day, if you went to a server renting business and bought a server for a time, they would just change the spawn location of an old one, and give you admin access. This meant you could find old structures, tunnels, and even functional shops and such that used the sane plugins as the current version of the server

[@calypso6200]

why did the VP section make me emotional? Just to see all this effort and love put into that and thats just so cool to me idk

[@joshslaughter8343]

One of the main devs who worked on C9 actually created BDO, that's why it feels so similar

[@G.reviewz]

If you wanted to crash your car should have called Richard hammond 😂😂

[@Xeemix]

C9 had an amazing soundtrack in the crafting area that I still listen to today.

[@dkingsland967]

I know this video is a few months old, and I'm not sure if anyone has commented on this yet, but the Palmcourt Mall in VP definitely looks like it is intended to mimic the Starcourt Mall from Stranger Things.

[@foxyfoxxo2737]

Vp actually seems like a pretty cool world o.o

[@753studios6]

I wish the first game was. Updated for 2 player, you could get out, walking around and voice chat

[@BirdFungus]

VP is genuinely so gorgeous

[@TheOtherGuys2]

Is it possible to un-regret never getting to play a game? I thought the idea of The Crew was so cool when I first heard it, and was sad I never got to play it. But it seems like there's nothing in it, and ...as I've always worried about with online-only games, it seems that a major corporation has decided that the thing you bought from them is no longer yours now.

[@HelicopterDown]

I absolutely LOVED the crew. it was such a unique and fun game when it came out.

[@jayde6613]

your videos always are so comforting and interesting to watch. been one of my favorite youtubers since i found you. you always cover topics so well and never bore me like other videos do ♥️

[@toto3777]

VP was definitely cool, the scenes really are reminiscent of American towns.

[@shadilvic]

22:59 not sure if it’s a coincidence or not but Graystripe is a character from Warrior cats

[@chim-chimney]

I’ll definitely have to check out Virtual Paradise! Me and my friend like to world hop and explore places like this on VRChat, and this looks right up our alley!

[@Vekkimaxx]

It’s so wild Gran Turismo Sport seems to be the only online-only racing game that handled shutting down servers properly as of recent

[@colesephhh9546]

We need more kind and inviting players like greystripe

[@TheMegatonBomb]

31:50 To be fair maybe it's better that some games have a smaller community base. You could probably get small projects done and more easily organized. You can have people who are all on the same page about what they want the levels to look like. If you have people who aren't on the same page they can ruin the projects and create discourse.

[@Weirdo_Studios206]

Hoping none of my games ever show up on this

[@billblaski9523]

Lol yo that Crew game looks insane, it actually tries to recreate driving in the USA? I dont live in America, is it accurate?

[@ZalYagunRyai]

To be fair, most open world car only driving games have the same vibe. You can only do so much as a car

[@forestings]

more pls!!

[@RamyeonHead]

So interesting seeing Korean games on here. usually NA servers are abandoned but the Korean servers thrive since their isolated. It's basically impossible to play on Korean servers in other languages, so when you change the language you're forced to play on a NA server. It's pretty annoying if you ask me

[@gordonfreeman2634]

It's hilarious that continent of the ninth seal has a place called Vimpeli and there's a real small town called Vimpeli in Finland 😂

[@TheMegatonBomb]

3:00 It's a semi-descent way to always get a player base by having games online only. The problem is if you buy the game for $70.00 dollars and the servers get shutdown and you can't play the game any more then your out the money. What if you pre-purchase a game like this and never end up playing it? You lost your money and never got anything out of it. Also, what dictates a dead game exactly? A game could go from having 1,000,000 - 10,000 and no one would say a game with ten thousand players is dead. Or would if it's online be the number of servers that have been cut down. It would probably be the amount of active players, but there could still be thousands of people who play a game that no longer being updated and is released.

[@calypso6200]

i would love to play vp tbh

[@Practitioner_of_Diogenes]

As I was born in El Paso, I can tell you that El Paso in The Crew looks nothing like the actual city. Plus, thinking the oil fields are the only thing worth visiting in Texas oddly fits for a European developer thinking there's nothing in Texas.

[@squirq]

hey, how do you get VP Blizzard to get into night mode? i found the wiki but the guide won't work since the file they mention is gone

[@123123boobies]

Companies should be forced to refund games when they decide to shut down servers. Expecially when there is no reason to not allow it to run offline. Its such a scummy move.

[@user-gj7lp5iz6k]

Slop will be made as long as the piggies continue to eat it.

[@Infindox]

Nah, if a game shuts down, they need to release the full source code or let someone else run it (kinda like how City of Heroes is). Let fans keep it online.

[@pooppyybuhhole]

I love how silent hill tracks have become a staple in these creepy/dark style videos. Huge fan of Akira Yamaoka’s work.

[@unlisted8025]

Can't wait to see black desert on this list 😂

[@TheCrabActivist4525]

Always looking forward to these kinds of uploads! How's it going?

[@Rhuaridhheats]

Is this part 3 to the abandoned internet

[@datemasamune2904]

The fact that these servers remains alive is amazing.

[@scrunkore]

probably have really low server costs and whoever is in charge of them either forgot about them or don't mind keeping them up

[@randomannoyance]

not surprising if its p2p connection

[@TheOtherGuys2]

34:45 Hey, that other vending machine is selling some Tittles! Also, I'd like to point out... "ELTAING! CLON! PBEDIIE XAN Cola! IT'S DELTA-RIIFFFY! Jo' '"Jana Cəlou! !!" I smell an AI image generator~ Pretty cool result from it though, and almost all the letters are real!

[@lucaswallo8127]

This is cool

[@bradye21playsIndieHorror]

I didn't know the Crew was online only. I played it years ago and rarely saw people. I too mostly enjoyed exploring although I think I did play the story? Totally forgettable if so. My major issue with the sequel is they somehow made the already bad physics much worse. So I won't be playing it.

[@lilmommasothick]

How do you storyboard a video project like this?

[@michelewang6983]

Thank you so much 😅💋

[@ΟΤΙΝΙΚ]

Good for liminal spaces and feelings 👌

[@gtfokthxbyecya]

Anyone else think Sacrow sounds like Creetosis?

[@mxtrashtm]

I need to play VP so bad omg

[@curtisnelson62]

we'll show ya around

bro finna play JJK cursed clash next episode 😭😭🙏

[@NovaFynchwyre-dz3do]

HAIL SACROW

[@Gadlight]

I played C9 when it launched, it was kinda fun ngl, but nowdays that style of mmo is really outdated.

[@Clementinewoofwoof]

VP seems…fascinating…a world chalked full of lore and love Like a movie universe of furry and human people in the 90s

[@joshua7680]

age of conan is close

[@powpow115]

Great video so far, but quality is being limited at 360p?

[@MrZilvis78]

I played C9 for like 10 levels like I have every mmo its mid like 88% of them lol

[@shamblingabby]

SMH Mira is a she, fake Silent Hill fan. Just kidding of course, this was a great video and I really loved VP I kind of wanna play it now.

[@ShapesWithoutColors]

Instant space mmo? What's that mean?

[@raw8814]

that was 100% just some ppl playing with their friends, why would they stop for some random person? its rly not that deep man

[@shadilvic]

Bro chill out why you actin so offended

[@raw8814]

@@shadilvic close but no dice, ironically thats what i was saying about the dude who made this lmao

[@robertjrmatt1223]

Have you played eso

[@nancyvalle1316]

9:39 el paso looks nothing like this

[@phenomenalfreeflowlobo1939]

☝🏽First!☝🏽

[@humanharddrive1]

holy shit the crew looks like an ass game. i'd rather play something smaller and more hand-crafted

[@jackbolstad1936]

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[@NightmareEyez88]

Why does this guy sound so monotone and depressed and bored all at once?

[@scrunkore]

horror youtuber voice, I don't really mind it

[@Zevis48]

Zzzzz voice

[@J03yX1]

Having played a lot of mmo's at least once i naturally love these types of videos exploring defunct/empty online spaces and games and their history. But I was kind of hoping for better commentary than the blatantly obvious stuff like "generic, sexualized and outdated". Also, spending 15 minutes on a game that still exists in a different format was a choice....

[@macardor899]

The crew sucks

[@SlidesHandler13]

💪🗿🤌-best content 🦵🦵

[@arachnid6929]

W video fr, u should pin me

[@Zachthebabex__]

Love your content! Keep this style of videos coming! Can anyone recommend more people that do similar content?

[@sinpourmoi2765]

Was it literally hours of driving from state to state in the game?

[@rossknowles5608]

the crew game became post apocalyptic "i am legend" game