Let's go on a GHOST HUNT! - Dark Fall: Ghost Vigil [1]

[@datatheandroid4195]

"Something guiding you" "Yes, a brain" Best answer ever

[@nothefabio]

My right ear is very well informed about the history of the house.

[@madisonfaria9767]

@Harvey Sussex this is a scam

[@madisonfaria9767]

@Rafael Kace this is a scam

[@ItsEphora]

Am I the only one having a laughing fit at the guy calling on the radio over and over? I just imagine it happening in real life

[@SamAth21]

Imagine being ghost hunters, and going ghost hunting, and a random individual with a black profile picture somehow enters your private chat and says ominous things.. and you say "what a creep" and dismiss that as if it's not a relevant incident... FAIL.

[@DeathnoteBB]

Not to mention the ghost ball and ghostly woman and child in the cameras.... Like are we ghost hunting or not??

[@BigGrabowski]

Well, with real ghost hunters, the good ones at least try to find real-world applications for things they see. I've heard someone say "the best ghost hunters are skeptics", because what you can't explain is far better evidence than what you can. Certainly, seeing a ghost woman and child should have been a good clue, assuming they didn't tell anyone they were visiting the site.

[@rkbrillant5265]

"are you guys ready??" Me with my chips and juice and an assload of work to be done: Yep. Edit: "Dude I'm recording right now! You're interrupting my work!" I totally thought you were arguing with Sean or somebody at your room. Lol

[@schulermarka]

I would love to see you and Sean do a haunted house exploration

[@eldaroses.g.r.7945]

I’d pay money for that! I mean, I can’t afford much more than five bucks, but that’s still money. Right? 😂

[@CJUGames]

Welcome to the wonderful world of Darkling Room.

[@lovetobecolouring2]

I personally think it's a brilliant game by a very talented indie team. If you haven't known of or played any of the Darkfall series, especially the Last Crown, you might be at a disadvantage . Yes there's lots of info, especially at the beginning but soon one is left to utilize what one has learned. The game is rather linear and the task list is there for a reason. Plus yes there's tons of reading so it might not be everyone's cup of tea. I LOVED it...😎🙂

[@rask004]

Enjoying the playthrough. And that voice is whispering "HERE", indicating you should check all your ghost equipment. The only disappointment is you haven't been offered ghost chips lol.

[@SallyCat84]

You made me laugh when you said "someone dropped a bunch of quarters".

[@ValosiTiamata]

There are quite a few callbacks to the other games in this universe, not just Dark Fall. This is the only game from this universe I don't own yet and it's by far the most complicated when it comes to the ghost hunting equipment. In fact, several puzzles revolving around Nigel rely heavily on knowledge of The Last Crown (the only game where you actually meet the bloke). CJU's had a bit of an easier time simply because he's played every game from this universe, but even he was tripped up by the Saxton map puzzle. One of the fatal flaws with Dark Fall is how different each game is, breaking the narrative flow. Jumping from the basic mystery of The Journal to time travel in Lights Out, then the sloppy return in Lost Souls, each game sort of ties together but also alters history so you never know exactly what really happened. In this one, Steve's attempt to stage a haunting means the first phase of the game is incredibly annoying. During this portion, he and Jen are constantly bugging the Newbie with questions they already know the answer to so they can see if he's paying attention (and they don't even hide this fact in their comments). However, Bear (the straight-lace of the group who actually CARES about investigating) puts an end to this phase when he calls Steve out. Soon after, the farce ends and the nightmare finally begins. It reminds me so much of the bumbling of Ghost Patrol from Mystery Case Files: Shadow Lake (although I'm not sure whether Steve or Jack is worse to work with). Dark Fall 1 is still the best of this series, but once the whole experiment section is over, this one does get pretty good. The Nigel references give us a nice chunk of background for the famous ghost hunter. The fact that the other hunters (except for Ben) spend all their time just watching you on the cameras instead of doing any work is rather annoying, but then this is the first time you aren't the only living person present in Dark Fall. As for people wanting to see you and Sean do an actual ghost hunt, I think it would make for a cool video if carefully edited to cut for time but keep the experience. However, a lot of this fancy equipment is unnecessary, and it pays to use more mundane equipment such as spirit levels and commonm sense early on to debunk a lot of perceived phenomena. My wife used to be part of a ghost hunting group, and there are quite a lot of hauntings around here (some legit, some for the tourists), so if you're ever in the US near the Pittsburgh area, you could easily get set up with one of the local groups for a stakeout. They generally won't allow Steve's type along, so you won't have to keep telling your walkie to shut up.

[@Revixy]

7:50 Steve: "Are you inside?" Me: "No." Steve: "Excellent." Me: *grin*

[@maddiegrl26]

Got my 8 month old in my arms and we are both watching this as we lay in bed and be lazy. 💕

[@LnPPersonified]

I was literally trying to find the name of the game this reminded me of when you said "This reminds me of Sylvio, do you remember that game?" I loved Sylvio, it was creepy yet so chill. It's also the first LP of yours I watched!

[@eldaroses.g.r.7945]

I have to say it. I’ve seen documentation of altered photos practically since photography began, although early on double exposures and movements regularly made creepy stuff. Time exposure like that gets weird very easily. But if you’ve seen early motion pictures, they were already using overlays and effects, even before they had ‘talkies’. They absolutely could’ve falsified photos in the 1980s. How exactly, I don’t know, as I’m not a photographer, but they did it. It’s a very interesting topic to look at, if you’ve got time! Not relevant to the game, but Gab is one of those people who would look great in literally any hair color, I swear! Blonde looks natural, brown looks natural, I’d bet red and black, too. She could probably make blue or pink or other wild colors look like they grew that way! That’s a rare gift!

[@AncientG]

Look into Victorian ghost photography it’s really fun and there’s a few videos that explain how they got different effects with the equipment they had!

[@wadsworthboy]

I hope you play their first game, "Dark Fall". It's on steam if you are interested. I watched my brother play it when I was a wee boy, and it still creeps me out.

[@DeathnoteBB]

Does this game make more sense if you played that one first?

[@wadsworthboy]

@@DeathnoteBB in some cases yes, but I don't think the stories connect at all. Just a few nods to the first game.

[@irismoon8435]

Here from the Incubus stream and is Redfern a reference to a dev or something?? It appears in both games o.o

[@zerobarge718]

Hears ringing bell and turns around, Sean is just standing there saying “ ding ding ding, top of morning!”

[@Gabwabby]

Aww it's like baby's first observation duty haha 24:30

[@quirkyviper]

That's what I came to say. I wonder if Phasmophobia and Observation Duty took any inspiration from this.

[@sweepingtime]

Oh yeah the OPG didn't notice that their newest recruit is some kind of wraith struggling to enter our world.

[@ermreading]

I knew this game style seemed familiar when I kept hearing the 'here' whisper, I played the dev's 2008 game The Lost Crown: A Ghost Hunting Adventure a DOZEN times

[@RosieCheeks78]

"It's almost always in my right ear" OMG thank goodness! I thought there was something wrong with my earphones/laptop T.T

[@chroniclesoflaura]

Oh wow, Oxford lol, I live in Oxfordshire, Oxford is less than 30 mins away 😂

[@callmeak21]

I don’t know how many times I’ve come back to watch this

[@dazzycommander3256]

I would love to see gab and Sean do this in a haunted building. it would make a good video.

[@dancingghostgirl2291]

I LOVE paranormal activity

[@ladyknightmare4953]

lady harwood is only seen by male visitors, perhaps she's seeking love... but the matron saw her, so that's contradictory... Me: ...not if the matron was a lesbian...

[@Itsrainingsimmies]

Super late of a reply.....my exact thoughts when she read that though!

[@clair232]

Love the Dark Fall series! So glad you are playing one of them.

[@Luzvelito]

I love these paranormal games, great video Gab, greetings😙👋.

[@kelseaangela]

I love every video you upload. Last month I was diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder that makes it really hard to get around and walk. But you always cheer me up every day! It's like hanging out with a buddy every day. Thanks for being you, because you are awesome!!!

[@pimimi2159]

I chose to watch this to relax with her voice before I sleep but It’s really interesting game and i spent whole night watching those👀

[@NicNico]

The writers for this game never heard of pacing and the cardinal rule for script writing: always avoid infodump. The sheer amount of talking over and text and contextually based information is just overbearing. The boss or whatever also seems totally insufferable. That's what I'm taking away from this so far.

[@azadalamiq]

think it mainly because the game is meant to be linear and gabs played it . i tried looking the game up, it been it 10 days and actually had no metacritic ratings yet just steam posts most of which are ppl asking for hints.

[@forcesinbalance5685]

If their objective was to portray "ghost hunters" as stupid and annoying, they succeeded.

[@azadalamiq]

@@forcesinbalance5685 ya, ive seen several shows and none of are this annoying to each other. they are akso smart enough to leave a location if deemed not safe.

[@DeathnoteBB]

Azazura-daro If it’s both a problem and possible to play it out of order, that’s on the game design

[@sire011886]

I really thought Gabs would've reacted to the movement. It's so similar to the Google Maps movement of that Nancy Drew game.

[@azadalamiq]

its a point and click game akin to Myst, movement is more fluid. Nacy drew was very sluggish due to how the world was vs movement.

[@SuperSlash3]

So glad you played this. It was made by 2 people and their games often go unnoticed. You should check out their other games. Darkling room

[@SuperSlash3]

also Steve is Jonathan Boakes, and bear is Matt the devs of the game :)

[@TessaxMusic95]

This game brings me back to the days when I used to watch this show with my family “Ghost Hunters” 😂 that’s how I know all about EMPs and all that ghost jargon/vocabulary/words haha *~xoxDori14*

[@weirdral]

I love how he talks about them not being able to fake ghost pictures, but they've been faking ghosts pictures since cameras were invented.

[@danielp2448]

I rotated my headphones so my left ear doesn't feel left out

[@ninjapuppy1257]

Radio dude is like navi. “Hey, listen!” “Hello, come in”

[@as_cole_as_a_cucumber8106]

I'm watching this while I 'study' I think I might be doing more watching than studying

[@mrs7195]

Those cards are called Zener cards, and you can buy a set of them easily online.

[@GregDaniel78]

"Three Crowns... A link..........to the legend?"

[@amyatthedisco6225]

I really enjoy watching your videos! No matter what game you play, you are so entertaining! You are amazing :)

[@WerewolfSk8er]

it sounded like the kid was saying "marco" to me, like marco polo

[@mushinbujin]

This is great and I enjoyed seeing your reaction to it.

[@LunaLightbringer]

Omg Quattro, 80s flashbacks 😄

[@gemdragon2574]

I’m so ready. I love your glasses btw they really suit you

[@lawthings2024]

I've just started to watch your channel and it's great!

[@justina.6769]

Right when you said it sounds like it's coming out of your right ear only I notice that too! It wasn't just you.

[@Gatz22]

Same here, I did the same thing as Gab, I was checking my headphones

[@NIXSI]

My right ear happens to know a lot about that house fam.

[@NIXSI]

And I get the heart lets goooooooi

[@Pikuninpizza]

Great video it was fun to just curl up under my blanket and watch

[@KunneHoe]

Aw heck yea the perfect chill horror-ish game to watch while doing some work and injecting coffee into my blood stream~ Man I wish I could actually catch you streaming but y'know, timezones :c hello from the Philippines tho!! :)

[@stephanynoguera4723]

The wallpaper in the attic has the same design as the carpet pattern in The Shinning.

[@BigGrabowski]

Steve's actor is either the best actor for natural speech, he's doing improve around a bland script, or he's garbage at line-reading without stuttering. Either way, he was the best actor in this, I think.

[@hazeeqrazak]

Ghost adventures in a nutshell:

[@aru_snickerdoodle]

I love it when Gab laughs haha music

[@artzyyl]

I'm so late to watch this xD This has been in my watch later for ages

[@tiffanyo8792]

Lol I was definitely thinking something might be wrong with my left earbud for a minute.

[@yoteawhirl1987]

I love this but wonder if maybe there was a more natural way of doing the quiz system.

[@laurenbrennan3720]

Yea same I don't like it when music or game talk in only one ear it really annoying. My favorite part out of this video is where the ghost is sing along with the piano then stops and screams its at 1:39:49 it's made me laugh

I know she played this roughly six months before ND and the curse of blackmoor manor, yet when I read the title all I can hear is "So who's ready to go on a ghost hunt?"

[@Greenwood4727]

You may not believe in ghosts.. but they believe in you.. muhahhhhhhhaaaaa LOL

[@dimondtrilogy66games73]

There’s an old house like that near me called Harewood... coincidence I think not!!!

[@archienoyce2453]

Omg I live in Oxfordshire that’s so creepy lol

[@i_glenn_i2048]

I just watched 8Bites play a similar game to this and loved it so I’m hyped for this

[@bklynbrawler7964]

If you listen real close to the magic flute you'll hear a doot sound. It very feint but you'll have to listen very, very closely.

[@sted8125]

It’s an old meme sir but it checks out

[@jolinar.setesh]

please try The Room and The Room VR games !

[@legalizehomicide7262]

This looks good expectations are high

[@githane]

This game was pretty darn good! Any thoughts on playing the additional games during spooktober?

[@brittanybecker170]

"Wasn't black and white photos from the 60s, 70s?" Oh, my dear, dear child....

[@GabSmolders]

So I looked it up and colored photos didn’t become mainstream until the 70s! So I was right? Haha

[@Para2normal]

To be fair I was using black and white film till about ten years ago, I enjoyed the contrast and the feel of B+W photos much more than colour. Somehow B+W has more atmosphere while colour smacks of holiday snaps to me .

[@Dr.Fluffles]

@@GabSmolders Also, the guy saying they couldn't fake that stuff back that is completely false, lol. Double exposures have been a thing from waaay back, and can make ghostly layers like that. In fact, that is exactly how many early "ghost" photos were made.

[@noonyx33]

im just skimming and ill be back but this looks like observation duty so far and I hope it isssss

[@Dani_carameru]

gab + ghost games ohyeaaaaa

[@dustinlim1926]

Hi,Gab. Just curious... where do you find these games?

[@GabSmolders]

Normally I just check the horror tag on steam but I had missed this one! I saw CJU play it and was like oh this looks cool!

[@xdeadexistence1386]

If the supernatural was real it would amazing but terrifying at the same time

[@maddycorrasa]

I wonder if this game is also playable in the VR version

[@BellaNZai]

I love your videos gab :)

[@heather23131]

I'm not gonna finish watching this, because I'm in the process of playing it, but I want to say that I'm excited that you're making videos for it because I spent FOREVER trying to figure out what I needed to do.. which apparently was play the card game more than twice. I've already passed that part but hopefully if i get stuck again I can reference these :D Also the change dropping and moaning when there's nothing actually happening is very annoying.

[@GabSmolders]

It’s a very hard game! Let’s do this!!

[@cathrinebutler9114]

Yeeeeee puzzles for the dang win

[@hiddenmimic5243]

Not gonna lie, but I would stay on the creepy playground cause you can actually go down the slide xD

[@KittyKatReacts]

Same here I can hear it more in my right ear also. Odd. Maybe it’s a bug? 🤷‍♀️

[@StealthyGamerGirl2020]

It's only in my right ear too 😕

[@crazyworldcreativepassions7754]

Editing this is gonna be a fucking bitch🤣🤣🤣 this is why I love these videos 😂😂

[@deheavon6670]

Interesting game

[@janicemcgee2337]

It'd be great to go on hunts with a skeptic, such as yourself. Or maybe terrifying. Hopefully, the ladder...so it's not too intense or disappointing

[@janicemcgee2337]

Since spirits supposedly like to try and change skeptics' minds...

[@MsTumppi89]

You're surely playing Resi 3 remake when it comes out, right? :)

[@GacMan47]

Are the esp cards a real thing with searching paranormal? That's weird...

[@oliviasayshi7517]

Are there jump scares in this game?

[@nonononothere]

You know that little whisper that Gab kept mimicking as "yeah"? It sounded a lot like "-iya". And my name is Nia. First time i've heard it i got really spooped. But then i kept thinking that someone is calling for me and was like "huh? Oh right it's in the game" @_@

[@TheAstronautSoap]

What type of game is this?

[@AdamsGemu]

OMG Finally ❤💛

[@SamAth21]

Is it saying "bonita"?? Rofl, I keep hearing Guten Tag! Can't unhear it now...

[@db_rowan3701]

So sorry I had to leave the stream early :( I wasn’t feeling good after a bad panic attack, but glad I got to watch the first bit of the game 💕

[@jariufo]

So this is a new game? Will it come to xbox?

[@Darkshade_01]

Yay puzzles

[@Tank_Girl]

wow! i love that shit

[@mutableguy]

I love your laugh 🤗

[@rizkiramadhan9266]

1:41:25 Congratulations, Gab, you just broke space and time

[@Comic3247]

How are you today Gab?

[@zackthewolf8898]

Ghost Vigil? More like, Ghost Virgin Ha, got 'em

[@louiseblackshaw9676]

Louise blackshaw

[@carmenmarcano987]

Hey gabs why haven't you tried playing copy cat please give bibi lot's of hugs from me thanks