Hello Neighbor Was NEVER Good

[@edzoner-chocolate]

My favorite part was when you tortured him so much that he just fell asleep and didn't react.

[@randomuser8806]

I legit had trouble breathing during that part cause I was laughing too much

[@teamchaos5101]

He's too weak for the sisyphean task

[@ron9174]

Well try to do that again!

[@lwaysDrawing]

We'll try to do that again!

[@thatnicyolo]

I'm ngl I feel like the initial concept of "Super Advanced AI Man hunting you in his house while you try to find his secret and solve puzzle" is what lured everyone in and then they were like "Like make it funny and silly".

[@anti-oblivion2707]

fr like if they made it serious and less cartoony as well as making the AI better and wasn't just trying to put a mountain of lore inserts it could have potentially been a good and playable game but instead we got... this

[@45hAsh]

Yeah, couldve actually had a pretty dark storyline, but thats not really what happened, i know he killed his child or something but it couldve been better than that.

[@blakelandry9313]

Well, what happened? Was they stopped caring about making the game and instead of wanting to just focus on the lore instead of you know development

[@thatnicyolo]

@@blakelandry9313 that too

[@danang5]

they could be the F.E.A.R. of the mascot horror genre,but instead they choose to not be one

[@ConceptsCool4993]

Even Markiplier straight up stopped his playthrough, that alone says enough.

[@Explorerofshadows]

The worst condemnation there is

[@cristianserrano6582]

For real, he even liked garten of banban better GARTEN OF MOTHERFUCKIN BANBAN

[@Gamerguy-ud1zo]

He put more effort into Garten of BanBan.

[@waffler-yz3gw]

@@Gamerguy-ud1zothats because it gets him money

[@waffler-yz3gw]

most of the games he plays now are super boring too so its a huge achievement to suck that much

[@Welrd_name]

They had to nerf Neighbor's advanced AI for the main game because Theodore became more and more depressed with each alpha

[@ona512]

AI lobotomy

[@weewoo5486]

@@ona512 real

[@ARStudios2000]

Phil, what are you doing? You already broke into Pastra's house once to prove it was never good to begin with

[@NicoTheCinderace]

He has to break into his house *again.*

[@Sniff86245]

it genuinely baffles me how a game can be so overdeveloped and underdeveloped at the same time

[@blakelandry9313]

Well, that’s because the vision changed and why the alphas are better than the full release is because the vision changed they decided was lore and wacky giant map was important than game development

[@goofy-ahh101.]

WATCH TV

[@Huge_M]

It was never about being *"GOOD"* in first alpha devs had idea of trainable ai neighbour in front while some secret of his was put behind. But after game theory and other theories they strayed further from original idea and more into symbolism and theories, to the point every theory guy abandoned them. First game had intresting idea and (relatively) easy to understand puzzles, but with each alpha and house expansion they strayed further from it. Even ai performs better in smaller houses compared to bigger ones

[@lordfreerealestate8302]

It's a great example about how being so obsessed with how social media will react to your work (ie theories, lore, etc) than the actual product can sabotage you.

[@neoqwerty]

@@lordfreerealestate8302 I can't believe that they Voltron'd Hello Neighbor.

[@DoctorTheo]

I feel like this is one if those things where people were attached to the idea than the actual game. They saw this and thought "Hey this seems like it has a lot of potential for a good game"

[@blakelandry9313]

Well, that’s because it did Devs actually really cared about the game during its pre-alpha and alpha days until we got to Alpha three where they got so obsessed with lore that vision changed which caused development to be rushed

[@theonlyshinyumbreon]

In retrospect, yeah. The game was _never_ good, but I think the pre alphas are so beloved because it was when the game seemed promising. The initial concept of trying to outsmart an adaptive AI really could've been fun, but then they just _had_ to steer it into an incredibly mediocre puzzle platformer

[@DimoB8]

18:59 My favorite part of Hello Neighbor is when the Neighbor Hello'd all over the place and drop kicked Phil from the third floor

[@straferthesluggo3096]

I guarantee you that the silly Hoarding Bugs from Lethal Company scared more people then every version of Hello Neighbor

[@elskieuwu]

i almost got startled by a lootbug one time so that’s already more scary than this game

[@jadeparelius]

real, one came over to me, hugged me a little and started to murder me

[@straferthesluggo3096]

@@elskieuwu fitting pfp lol Also just based Madeline pfp

[@autism-overlord]

Lootbugs make me really jumpy if there are brackens about because I swear they have a symbiotic relationship with them as distractions.

[@thesea-bass]

What a mess this series is. I still remember the absolute anger Phil and Pastra felt at the end of Hello Neighbour 2.

[@goofy-ahh101.]

Alpha 4 is garbage while Hello Neighbor 2 is my favorite Game of the Franchise.

[@impetuoso4622]

​@@goofy-ahh101.Which is not that much of a accomplishment to be honest

[@JRexTheKing]

“We are going to find out if Hello Neighbor was ever ACTUALLY GOOD!!!” *it was not*

[@blakelandry9313]

Yes it was but around alpha 3 the games quality started to drop

[@Faiths123]

@@blakelandry9313it was NEVER a good… fgtv just made it seem good back then

[@antonberkbigler5759]

Personally I think alpha 2 is the best, and not (just) out of nostalgia but because Neighbor legit just randomly steals your house.

[@bsheepdestroyermakesstuff7222]

allpha 3 was where it really lost all potential because they started making it about platforming and stuff instead of the neighbor. especially weird since they didnt have good physics

[@ona512]

No good physics for bad physics puzzles and also a Tim Burton style and its unorthodox polygons

[@ravenwolf1244]

A moment of silence for the amount of time Phil wasted trying to get that key, only for it to clip out of existence

[@The_Radical_Spider-Kevin1502]

7:37 Drinking milk out of the milk jug is the worst crime in humanity.

[@StarChargerStudios]

Don’t worry, you can punish him by filling it with sleeping pills

[@yourlocalsleepparalysisdemon.]

I still love how he throws bear traps at you and the fact you also just trapped him in your house , god this game was never good

[@GamerJamesBacon]

I remember playing the alphas as a kid and loving them. Until I was so disappointed with the actual game that I then played the original alphas and realize that this game series was always crap

[@DeathAngel-ft8oz]

Honestly the more I think about it, I think everyone liked the idea, the potential Hello Neighbor had back then. Janky, not really good, but it had so much potential. Looking back though, yeah uh... They had no idea what the fuck to do or where the fuck to really go with the story or anything. They stopped focusing on the Neighbor, and focused on the fucking house so much they stopped concerning themselves with making sure the Neighbor could keep chasing you.

[@manzanito3652]

The alphas being crap was forgivable at the time because they were testing the waters and ... it was an alpha. Too bad they got too impatient and tried to ride on the hype train the moment they gained popularity before they had a solid... anything.

[@trollz0r-97]

i loved the part where the neighbor said "it's pre-alpha time" and deleted his whole basement....

[@decimalheckery5737]

markiplier liked garten of banban more then hello neighbor and i think this is a pretty good visualization of why

[@Shythalia]

cuz Banban is actually playable

[@Faiths123]

@@Shythaliato an extent

[@sickeny]

Caco's little "Yeh" at 07:04 is so cute ngl.

[@TheKaijuKing54]

Phil has such a bubbly personality. I can’t watch any of his playthroughs without a stupid smile on my face. 💚

[@ink_buddy]

9:17 Bendy story in a nutshell lol

[@SecondBestArtMuseum]

“It’s a different intro now,” I honestly feel like the devs could’ve had a better plot if they just made a short 3D film with the game’s assets.

[@JaxxMCC]

if there's one thing that's decent about the final game it's the cutscene animation work and the music that they made themselves (the guitar tracks that play in cutscenes) so I absolutely agree, everything about this game screams "they only had artists on board for this". Especially if you look at their concept art you'll see that the artists behind it are actually really talented and did an amazing job designing props, character designs, environments, ect. for the game that got poorly translated into 3D. even the neighbor's design which phil loves to meme on is extremely recognizable and, in the right context and lighting engine, could have been an eerie presence. shame that the rest of the dev team along with the publisher are a bunch of hacks who ruined a good foundation for a game by trying to make it "deep" with abhorrent puzzle design

[@jesseburgener442]

>Neighbor shows up to front door >throws a bear trap at you >refuses to elaborate further >leaves

[@BlueJourney2719]

"Hello Neighbor Was NEVER Good" Everyone: We know!

[@blakelandry9313]

Well, the pre-alpha and alpha one are pretty good a lot better than what we got mainly because the developers got thirsty after Matt Pat started playing and wanted to make it the game focused on lore when the game started dipping in quality

[@Kogum.]

I don't think so but ok

[@creaturetapped]

It's like they treated the "alphas" as separate games with an attempt at a continuous story? With one ending being that the main character gets buried alive, and the new opening cutscenes with different 'lore', like new people are moving in and the house is being built upon every time. Or they just cannot plan one story for a game to save their lives and just restarted every time - neither option is how alphas are meant to work so it's bad either way. Also that Bendy filter is awful lmao, like one of the draws of Bendy is its unique art style - why would you release a version of your game and set up a comparison when you know it looks that much worse than the game you're trying to emulate?

[@manzanito3652]

1:46 Tbh, if my neighbour throwed a beartrap to my window from his house, I would shit my pants.

[@Scribbelzz]

9:15, his voice devolving from intelligible to gibberish was so funny.

[@alienbonez]

phil having a stroke 4k

[@omarmatouq3855]

As a chemistry student in uni, this is certainly a neighbour Konstant(Kn), one of many.

[@capri_co]

Phil, the master of bugging shit out and Hello Neighbor, the buggiest game to ever buggy. A receipt for a disaster. An extremely entertaining disaster.

[@redtailarts101]

Hello Neighbor's alphas were seen as good because they were alphas. They looked like the foundation of a good game. At that point the glitches and bugs were expected, the look being goofy was expected, and everyone's expectations were low of the alphas themselves

[@artsyhoodies]

At least the first Alpha has a tiny semblance of what people were hoping for.

[@ZachOnCrack135]

Hello Neighbor is not good but is fun to mess around in

[@TheEmeraldSword04]

You can tell Glitch had some fun with one, really enjoying the edits!

[@glitchkrown]

Thank you!

[@Pudding404]

I remember when Hello Neighbor had a very short period where content farm channels were all over it, did not last long. That says enough.

[@alienbonez]

you know your game is terrible when even content farms dont wanna touch it

[@DanteKrystal]

Oh that Goomba Stomp bit with the sound effects is sending me XD

[@genericname2747]

I think people just fell in love with the idea of Hello Neighbor. Like, we convinced ourselves that the alpha builds were good because we wanted to believe that we could get the idealized version of the game we imagined existing.

[@justinr.507]

woe, beartrap apon thee 2:28

[@AwesomeDrawer2017]

7:44 for context, they are referring to the Alpha 1.5 footage that was made before the pre alpha released that featured a more realistic artstyle, but in later builds they went with a more cartoony look, which was shit

[@Alyssa-sn5dv]

Hello Neighbor is a broken mess that slowly gets less enjoyable.

[@Wizardjones69]

i think matpat will cover this video frame by frame

[@Cheez_Doodlezz]

👀

[@T-E-A-04]

9:18: Dude the faces the Neighbour makes while catching almost made me shit myself of laughter

[@TappyHere]

I have a game suggestion. Can you play hello neighbor alternative reality by nate emg? It’s a better hello neighbor game and it resets your progress when the neighbor catches you.

[@SigmaGuardian66]

The premise had potential, but it was never properly realized.

[@angrypicture6155]

Love how the games, that tinybuild publishes, either don't take themselves seriously at all and are amazing, or try to be deep and turn out some of the worst shit ever.

[@alexblurphy5800]

"Hello neighbor was NEVER good!!!" Proceeds to skip past the entire pre-alpha which is unarguably the best version

[@DahHourglass]

This is just highlights

[@Shythalia]

"The A.I. is more A than I." - Internet Historian

[@BananaBoi_]

The neighbor was really neighboring

[@chiruno6322]

10:32 Phil's biology knowledge shines once again.

[@HyperDashYT]

Pre-Alpha Hello Neighbor is actual nostalgia material, the fect that this version is significantly better than the actual full release is honestly insane

[@blakelandry9313]

I agree I think it it’s around Alpha three with the vision changed and they were more focused on other things than actually developing the game they wanted

[@TheFazzyDude]

Saying this since I've seen nearly nobody say it: There was LITERALLY NO LORE in the first alpha-or-so, in fact, the devs were actively putting some red herrings to make the game more confusing! (That's all confirmed stuff, by the way)

[@dxality]

10:21 A is for Fruit B is for Fly C is for Automobile D is for Canine E is for Planet F is for Rose G is for Zebra H is for Cap I is for Milk J is for Invertebrate K is for Dart L is for Insect M is for Rock N is for Acorn O is for Bird P is for Halloween Q is for Crown R is for Bunny S is for Ball T is for Autumn U is for Rain V is for Instrument W is for Mammal X is for Bars Y is for Ship Z is for Giraffe

[@bababoie6886]

i wanna meet the neighbors real-estate agent

[@Ralsiefan]

9:20 do you know the definition of insanity

[@moy6134]

This made my evening- The editing was well done

[@PlatinumComet]

The funniest thing to me is thinking back to when JT Music make "Video Game Legends" raps, and Hello Neighbor was featured in one of them. _This man actually thought he was on the team._

[@tukip]

6:06 The PHILK

[@tailzgimer1726]

They had a thing in pre alpha But then they decided to do a big shit on the concept and make a promising concept go into the incinerator so that you could have “deep lore”

[@ImYourCherryBomb]

I do wanna see Phil watch the show. I want to see the horror Pastra had to go through, through the lens of the sliiiime.

[@Qwen215]

Funny how the best thing to come out of this franchise was the show they made for the hit video game "Hello Neighbor" (The show is actually quite good, they managed to make God-damned Theodore Peterson a threatening antagonist)

[@freeze_zane0691]

If you thought he was threatening in the show, wait until you read the books. They made the Neighbor an absolute MENACE (also, the books feel much less rushed than the cartoon)

[@TheSpeedyBoi]

for alpha 1 I still cant believe you never bothered to look at the options menu where an actually functional fullscreen mode exists.

[@comixproviderftw_02]

That’s not an opinion, that’s a fact

[@alifuat4815]

Yo, you are the newlegacyinc clips guy. Didn't know you also watched Phil.

[@comixproviderftw_02]

@@alifuat4815Phil’s a funny guy

[@alifuat4815]

@@comixproviderftw_02 agreed!

[@patron_only]

The series itself had such promise with the first versions, the company did as much as they could but the latest products could have been just a bit more modified to a more stable standard overall! Not sure if we will get more content on the game series in the future, but it would be sad if it just ends in the way that it already is!

[@Looona_fan]

Phisnom: Purposely tries to break the alpha, which was already flawed, because it's an alpha. Also phisnom: THe gaMe wAS NevER gOOd.

[@Fazkrueger]

I died at 15:43! Like, ain't naur way that blue key pulled a Houdini on Phil like that! 🤣🤣

[@emeraldkoala2]

I get such a weird feeling from watching videos of the old pre-alphas. There's nostalgia there too, for back when I thought this game had at least the *potential* to be good, but this is something else I can't quite describe.

[@indiefan99]

Now everyone say it with me. 17:21 Phil: That low-resolution chest hair. Caco: Low-resolution chest hair.

[@Zelose_Kitsune]

i have a fucking cramp from laughing so much at this! (tbf I'm probably delierius but still)

[@wyrdcyko]

Even these versions are bad, there was an even older version that had no cutscenes and had fictional gameplay.

[@milkandfrogs]

The editing style is even better this time around

[@deoxysandmew2162]

I always say, the good concept was there. But never took the right direction. You've got "horror-games for toddlers" to blame for that. I pictured Hello Neighbor like this: Since this was meant to be a "horror-stealth" game, this is what they should have focused on. Min-maxing your limited inventory and making Neighbor an actual threat that you must AVOID at ALL COST. I would get rid of jumping as a whole and slow down the player so they cant run, and just walk. The only way to escape the neighbor, (should you encounter him) is by using items in your inventory that you can find in your house and especially HIS house. Those specific items you will be able to throw them backwards without facing the neighbor. Imagine it like in Mario Kart and placing a banana peel. This creates the decision making on the players part, what should they equip. Another aspect that would build up the supense is "rummaging-through-drawers" or even wardobes. Looking through them, also will be slow to build the suspense. You gotta put yourself in shoes of someone in real life, lets say trying to steal without getting caught. The adrenaline rush is always high in situations like this. And if you get caught, you better believe it you will get a special jumpscare from the neighbor. That would be my starting point on using this concept "correctly". I've seen people trying to fix this mess with older version of graphics/art style and create heavy atmosphere like "Hello Neighbor: Alternate Reality". Even if this doesnt change the mechanics from the original, it tries to perfect whats already there and it "mostly" works. But cant deny, I would love to see "my dream version" of this mess. Like Pastra said, "Mountain Of Mispotential".

[@drrockstar4040]

I mainly kept up with this franchise because I thought the puzzles would actually become good in the final version

[@Archbishopofcheeseburger]

Why does NASA feel the need to build all that complicated bullcrap, when they could just sit in a trash can?

[@justinspreen9283]

Im so happy the neighbor came out after all of us calling him out

[@ShidaSkunker]

The "C is for sutomobile" segment felt like the David Winkle SML joke where he read this real life weirdly-inaccurate school alphabet thing.

[@jaynecoleman3359]

The transitions from game to game in this are peak.

[@KonroMan]

“Wait, it was never good?” *“Never was.”* In all seriousness, I remember seeing the first alphas and betas and whatever versions of the game, and my first thought was “yep, that sure is a game” and proceeded to forget about it until Pastra’s video on the game… which is coincidentally the video that made me a fan of you and your channel… talk about coming full circle.

[@snipergames15theinhuman97]

I never knew that Hello Neighbor had a Bendy version and holy shit, it looks so god damn awful and an eye sore!

[@taskmanager_1021]

I don't think I've ever seen a game that got WORSE with each alpha's release.

[@CooISkeleton96]

When the show is better than the game, you know you’ve done something wrong

[@N3oncrow]

Phill the master of gaslighting

[@Mattriix]

Bro got teleported to Pississippi

[@Frigorito3975]

Lol never seen an upload literally seconds after release, also that Hello Neighbor subscribe GIF is SO FREAKING GOOD

[@Phant0m76]

It's peak horror

[@Frigorito3975]

@@Phant0m76 it's THAT peak

[@Vex_TheJester]

2:45 homosexual courtship

[@syweb2]

Oh boy, time to watch the angry slime man break a game!

[@reneiscrumbling]

The only good thing it had going for it was the original concept from pre-alpha

[@The_silly_buffoon.]

The reason I love hello neighbour is that it’s so bad that it’s good. I beat act 2 in the first game by running over a bucket, flying, then going over the big fence lol.

[@sammartino392]

18:31 this looks like when my home state turned into venus thanks to fires in canda, i can almost feel the burning air and ash from that day

[@richi3035]

1:39 Walter White when Hank calls him out on doing something illegal (giving alcohol to his underaged son) in a country where that thing is illegal

[@CocoanutVA]

Ok who made Phil's new avi a femboy- I love it

[@JustCallMeEevee]

(10:39) Children trying to correct their parents:

[@SubjectZero05YT]

The first builds of the game were actually pretty good. The later builds and final game are truly awful.

[@nevaehhamilton3493]

Not everyone is destined for greatness no matter how hard you try.

[@TIME-DEV]

Hello neighbor had a rough transition to 3D imo

[@goofy-ahh101.]

alpha 1 and pre was basically peak for ogs

[@edimultivers]

A tip for not losig your hearing: Never watch Phisnom's videos with headphones. There's no reason to do so.

[@3hizuka]

Есть кто от киперса?

[@morozk8944]

Da

[@StarChargerStudios]

I feel like first couple alphas had the potential. Alpha 1 in particular had some good ideas I think. For people who just wanted to play the game, you would find the lock pick and the crowbar and break in properly, and then for people who wanted to find dumbfuck confusing lore there was the series of bullshit you had to do to get the actual key. Obviously it still needed a lot of work that never got put in, especially on the ai for the neighbor.