The Minecraft Player Trapped In A Loop

[@RetroGamingNow]

EDIT: Part 2 is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmPFg5akjKisr7c So uh...apparently this series concluded while I was finishing up production. If you would like me to make a sequel to cover the remaining videos, let me know!

[@rubystarling605]

Thats depressing.

[@thebestkoala3786]

oof

[@doorstep1889]

You should

[@Im-hungry884]

Pleaseeeeeeee

[@tobyfalling4153]

Yuh

[@Krishdylan]

Minecraft Arg starter pack - A main character named Andrew - Takes place in the past - A best friend who plays with them or used to - generic name with numbers - Dark shadow figure stalker

[@CaliforniaHater]

dont forget the halfway point in where they enter a some kind of secret corridor of the matrix that the scary!!!! administrators use to spy on players

[@Kiya.fun-hl9tk]

The fact that most of them are all andrew and a lost friend and a shadow Player 😂

[@Krishdylan]

@@Kiya.fun-hl9tk yea and most of them take place in 2010 - 2021 Lol

[@GodlyMouse]

also devolves into the same generic stupid scifi and the shadow stalkers are employees at some goofy corporation and the worlds are titled "experiments" or sum other stupid stuff

[@justethan23]

call of the well potentially mentioned?

[@25bitgamerx36]

Feels less like a Minecraft ARG and more like a story told via Minecraft tbh Love it tho

[@userlaiss1409]

Yeah those are creepypasta, there's no game in this alternate reality game me think

[@yunaaeris7523]

Yeah, a lot of "ARGs" are actually closer to being unfiction (Night Mind has an explanation) than ARGs.

[@-mako-6018]

welcome to ARG's in general basically, not even half of them connect to the spectators in any way, these are just 2023/2024 creepypastas

[@KoDi82]

@@yunaaeris7523would the interloper series be an example of an ARG? Since you can go through the files yourself should you choose and “help in the investigation”

[@blablabla798]

I mean yeah that's most "ARGs" nowadays

[@wumbojet]

I say this not as an insult, but this screams something made by a very technically proficient 16 year old. The game shenanigans look like someone who loves to take apart the game having fun making weird scenarios, but the writing has a lot of specific elements that reminded me a lot of things I've seen teens write. Not only the themes in play, but the specific choice of words in certain lines, the clunky use of complicated words and the "deranged" poem of the guy losing his mind. I hope whoever made them had a lot of fun because they genuinely show a lot of promise.

[@DerpyMudKip-gr5xg]

Also the large amount of exposition/explaining. Its nice that at least the explaining is done to characters who need it and not just talking to the audience, but more showing than telling is needed.

[@baconheadhair6938]

@@DerpyMudKip-gr5xgSad that mc arg has began to come fundamentally minecraft movies with expositions more than they are actually args i miss the old lore i would find here

[@baconheadhair6938]

⁠​⁠@@DerpyMudKip-gr5xgI know args are technically story telling but it’s dumb when this shit is just people trying to make a disturbinh horror movie or something. The idea that a arg should have an exposition and “characters” doesn’t sit right with me

[@raven-starcatcher]

@@baconheadhair6938 Well I might be wrong but based on the channel description this story might be a critique of capital, so I give it an ok to be pretty wordy lol I mean 1984 (a similar thing) literally has massive sections in it specifically to explain why things are the way they are in the book. Also I agree with the person I am subcommenting under right now, the person making this has some real ability!

[@nixglaceon5798]

you put it into words way better than i could've - an insane amount of technical prowess was put behind it but it's really bogged down by the constant exposition that makes the player character (and by extension the entire story) feel less like a *person* and more like a narrator - especially since this is a story i've seen, like, three times over by now this is a problem i see a LOT in newer args, and like. i get people want to make something deep and mysterious with some detailed backstory but god so many of these would be like 10 times better without dialogue LOL

[@applebapple7781]

this entire ARG is literally just "free my bro he ain't do nun"

[@Ibrahim-kd2sm]

And random for me cuz it was 2w ago-

[@mj19isawsome]

wasted 30 minutes of my life so i skipped 20 mins and the ending is just really dissapointing. 4/10

[@AnasGames-A]

There is par5 2​@@mj19isawsome

[@ZayxSt]

Tf is an ARG? Argentina?

[@mj19isawsome]

@@ZayxSt alternate game reality

[@NevadaMostWanted658]

Wow, a minecraft arg that doesn't take place in 2011. What a surprise.

[@frenchlegs]

according to my calculations, this arg is at 2017-2018, since this version is im pretty sure 1.12

[@ChrizMMV]

​@frenchlegs you can change editions.

[@raziel88]

Lowkey arg's that take place after 2011 feel fake for some reason. (Yeah obviously they're all just stories, but idk. The old versions still give that feeling of "what's out there"

[@braydenmyers1]

That is so funny

[@ayoutubeuser6369]

@@ChrizMMV its called a "story." i know you lack reading comprehension and media literacy, but this is what it's called

[@the_openers_of_eyes8]

"Minecraft Steve! You have hit metal 17 times. Your reward is picture of motorcar."

[@marsman01_]

i feel happy.

[@gunnerbodie]

@@marsman01_but owning property is illegal so your under arrest

[@nargacugalover]

​@@gunnerbodie fair enough

[@PhelanRichardson]

​@@gunnerbodieFair enough.

[@ermtosis]

Steve is lowkey dissing Drake 😂

[@teslacoil5378]

Maybe some people are getting tired of Minecraft ARGs, but I never grow tired of them. They're fascinating to me. Maybe nostalgia ties into it a bit.

[@admiralrng6506]

its also interesting how people make stories with Minecraft

[@hakai1014]

To me, its get boring like another FNF or Undertale AU mod for the 1000th time for another Minecraft ARG Especially when RGN’s content has the majority of minecraft args

[@trippy_silk1353]

same here! i like to imagine also how these stories would look animated… the characters look very cool in my mind 😁

[@coppensmail3374]

​@@admiralrng6506 it's mainly used because it's a sandbox, making it easy to set stuff up like this

[@YourCommonPlease]

im sorry but i don't like fake videos they script and plan ahead why stop watching Minecraft videos

[@Frying-the-snow]

34:32 so, here's a little detail that i noticed. Looking at the left and right sides of the room, we can see 2 raised stone platforms with a potted flower placed on each. Relative to the sides of the room used by each player in the original house, sandY's side has a blue orchid while kargo's has an oxeye daisy. Blue orchids are able to represent rarity and uniqueness, which could possibly relate to sandY's anomalous nature as a sentient player. Oxeye daises, meanwhile, can represent purity and childlike innocence, alluding towards the fact that kargo never moved beyond vessel status and remained unaware of the loop. Could be something of a stretch, but i thought i could be pretty significant with lilacs being a frequent symbol.

[@Ckonsh]

I cannot make a fully fledged ARG cuz im shit at editing and stuff so imma just share an idea using some ideas and mashing em together... here we go. *First video* We meet a group of friends named Iris, Ginsher, Faol and Kryztal (ingame ofc). They load up a new world and get straight to getting wood before gathering back at spawn and build a massive house there. Ginsher suggests that they should split up and start mining, so they agree and start looking for caves. It changes to Ginsher's perspective as he's strip mining casually. He continues on and on before finding a weird looking block, all black woth no textures. He mines the block and picks it up, but once he hovers over it, it says nothing. Ginsher would then quickly sprint out of the cave to show his friends what he had found, but is shocked when suddenly the world resets and he is back at spawn with all of his friends. Ginsher, confused, asks about what is happening, getting even more confused when his friends start repeating sentences. He runs back to the cave he went in, finding the hole still open. He goes in it hesitantly before the screen cuts, showing his friends asking where Ginsher is. They scramble around trying to look for him in a desperate attempt. It then once again cut back to Ginsher, as he exits the cave once again, finding himself back in the world he was once in. He gets confused, saying about what had just happend, as his friends respond, saying that they were worried thinking he died to a creeper and quit. He tries to explain what happend in furthur details, and saying how he encountered a weird looking block, as he tries to place it down for his friends to see, realising it has gone missing somehow. His friends respond, saying that hes going insane and that he needs to take a break. The video then cuts, showing the other world as the "other them" as they finish building their house before going inside. The video then ends. *_IF YALL WANT PART TWO GIMME 100 LIKES GRAHHH_*

[@septcoco]

i could help you to make this maybe?

[@vainglorias]

im ngl when they punch him into the abyss i laughed, like despite the horrors we stay silly

[@rooodis456]

Fr that was cute😭

[@hitablazed]

🤭😏😏​@@rooodis456

[@mohamedchafi1248]

@@rooodis456 i mean i would have done it if i was there

[@DASEALOFDAWEST]

“really” “LOL” Was mad crazy 😭

[@katcana1]

I love that it shows people still have a Sense of humor

[@ArminEshkoob]

"RGN DROPPED A NEW VID!!!" Seeing the title "I already know this"

[@seandorama5932]

Fr, still entertaining tho lol

[@LavenderMoon36]

real but i love RGN and this ARG lol

[@Venkullix]

yeahhhh but that just means its time to watch this and then go rewatch some older rgn videos

[@cerealexperimentsuboa]

my exact reaction LOL but i eat it up

[@Legendary_Doge_Gaming]

Hey, at least we get some fresh opinions from someone who has not covered this ARG yet to make the video more engaging.

[@Xypthian]

"that's it for now" the two other videos in question in the screenshot:

[@liminalityy_]

"for now"

[@guliverjham8148]

Mfs be like: *funni cat pfp But really horrible human beings.

[@Ifx-]

@@guliverjham8148?

[@Applestripe]

​@@guliverjham8148 I'm not even human anymore

[@atomictransfusion]

​@@guliverjham8148?

[@UltraCenterHQ]

I absolutely love timeloop movies. groundhog day type shit. I just like theorizing how they got there and how they can escape. I also kinda love how it starts off with a simple premise of timeloops and then into souls trapped in a simulation

[@Rensenware]

I would've liked the time loop part where sandy's unaware or slightly aware to last way longer, it was a really cool concept

[@zachattack1279]

@@Rensenware yeah that’s my main problem with this story none the concepts stay long enough to really make an impact.

[@uninable]

6:54 stanley parable confusion ending!!!

[@PurPur134]

This is real because he says "standy" at 11:49 which sounds like Stanley

[@Bananappleboy]

This ARG is the Sandy Parable.

[@dorcusss3693]

This is a story about a man named Sandy.

[@KingDogeTheIIII]

@@dorcusss3693 or is it

[@dorcusss3693]

@@KingDogeTheIIII great now I have the vsauce moon men song in my head.

[@probablydeadlock]

its insane on how all the minecraft ARG protagonists are called Andrew

[@el_gatoNegro]

We have Andrewgaming67 which has its own interesting story, AndrewGames722 which is an ARG that is a part of a bigger cinematic universe (the Palladium Cinematic Universe or PCU in short), and then this ARG where the protagonist's name is also Andrew for some reason lol.

[@jinxiehavoc2648]

@@el_gatoNegro Into the Andrewverse

[@user-is7xs1mr9y]

What if they are all the same Andrew? What if this is something like the multiple Neo's in The Matrix?

[@el_gatoNegro]

@@user-is7xs1mr9y There is literally zero connection between those ARGs, it is actually not that deep bro.

[@Romit12]

Andrew, into the Andrew-verse

[@XTRgames2024]

2:02 This is one of those moments where you do not look back under *_ANY_* circumstances.

[@smileyface81mc77]

Right??? I muted the volume for a bit expecting a jumpscare lmao

[@Equalizer2922]

Nah that’s freaking scary how silent everything went

[@SnufflySpy]

I was actually very glad when you explained what a spectrogram was and how it worked at 32:05, because ive seen so many other ARGS but never really saw an explanation

[@Romashka_Sov]

Normal people: make an IRL call to check their friend ARG people: i'll save you by playing this game!

[@willeodsson]

Totally should've ended with a flash picture of a house.

[@TheStarshipGarage]

Ooooh another spooky organization using a hub world and black figures to spy on players and has somehow trapped them inside of Minecraft! Though, I will give it this, the idea of a time loop is interesting. But I thought that the plot was that these players were apart of some project to develop AI by taking snapshots of actual players gameplay and running them over and over again to gather date for their AI, and this AI went haywire and gained sentience.

[@user-is7xs1mr9y]

This sounds a thousand times better.

[@zachattack1279]

@@user-is7xs1mr9y agreed I like this story at the end of the day but this is just better

[@kelsey-pp5ew]

ur plot sucks

[@BullerPerson]

This arg is definitly about how it feels when your friend dies and you had a minecraft world

[@user-is7xs1mr9y]

I don't even want to think about how it would be if either me or my brother died and one of us entered our Minecraft world.

[@veronicaben6009]

watch ' a minecraft player being followed' trust me

[@savalaner2086]

41:10 that was great

[@ActualCMaj7chord]

Same

[@zaviyargul]

Same

[@Claas-ty1se]

Architect: "Stop watching" RGN: "No."

[@KeenanFr]

how did args go from horror to basically just the matrix

[@RainbowGod666]

To be fair, the matrix is a cool movie

[@KeenanFr]

@@RainbowGod666 yeah it is but they aren't spooky now because we already know the game is a simulation

[@user-is7xs1mr9y]

Dollar store The Matrix. The first Matrix movie is awesome, the rest are meh, and that's how these args feel.

[@RainbowGod666]

@@KeenanFr i mean yea thats Th H- Have you ever _played_ minecraft???

[@KeenanFr]

@@RainbowGod666 yeah why?

[@LittleMushroomGuy]

I suffer from mild schizophrenia, the first 3 minutes destroyed me, I have this nauseous gut feeling and strange headache. I can't continue watching, the video feels too real for me Sometimes I feel like that too

[@Flow-Fi-]

I haven't finished watching it but so far (11 minutes in) I do partially wonder if the series is meant to represent the kind of paranoia and delusions seen in psychosis

[@lorrainehatton1235]

So THATS why your videos look strange, a mild schizophrenic

[@ArdysLoreLibrary]

I inherited strong schizophrenia, so I can imagine how you feel. Luckily, my symptoms are extremely mild. Doesn't mean it's easy because the essential core of this illness, the singular contradicting personality, is strong as heck, but I can watch this video without problems. Though I have to admit, I am able to control it (most of the time) and sometimes even use it for my benefit these days. However, I know what you mean. This uneasy feeling and the part of your personality that asks the question: "What if it's real? What if something like this happens to me?"

[@ArdysLoreLibrary]

Me again, do not watch this video. If this, let's call it "fictional reality symptom," is as strong as you said. If the first three minutes made you uncomfortable, you would probably drown in anxiety a bit later because (spoiler alert) headaches are mentioned.

[@user-is7xs1mr9y]

❤🫂

[@user-is7xs1mr9y]

It had such a strong start, I was instantly hooked with the premise, I hadn't seen anything like it in these Minecraft ARGs/Stories... and then of course it had to be about goofy experiments and "them" watching you from the shadows. Yawn. I'm still halfway through, so it still could improve. Anyways, I really like how you cover these, RGN. You're my favorite youtuber for the Minecraft misteries and stuff.

[@user-is7xs1mr9y]

@@WhenIBlip Exactly. I got actual goosebumps when he realized his friend wasn't replying to him in real time, but was instead repeating his side of the conversation from moments before. Man it was awesome, and they ruined it. Should've stayed simple, sometimes less is more. Info dumps are not interesting.

[@ivorminecraftstorymode]

It could've used less of that, and more of the eldritch ideas in the first half, a minecraft player, for whatever reason, who is being trapped in a loop of time, by something far beyond them, something they'll never understand, and the entire series chronicles their attempts to escape this alternate reality they are trapped in, haunted by past versions of themself, future versions of themself, past people they know, future people they know, and everything else, the loop not just affecting minecraft, but also the real world, the same day repeating over and over, in and out of minecraft.

[@vencedor1774]

No, it's just bad, it has nothing going on.

[@Banoffeetea]

Although I like the later half of the story I agree. The beginning had a completely different feel to it than the rest of the series. And the story deviated from Minecraft too much. It got too complex and too unrealistic to have the same creepiness factor to it

[@big_brein4]

41:00 this joke caught me off guard

[@user-vu9ug4vb3u]

When i was a kid, i went with my mother to camping site, and i met there a kid about my age, who knew alot of internet horror stories of that time (it was ≈2013, i think). He was telling me stories about SCP and creepypasta that he knew, and i replied with horror stories i knew. But he soon overwhelmed me with his knowledge, and to not fall back, i made up Minecraft horror story. It said that deep under the world there is horrible monster locked up by Notch and his team. They made it as the final boss for the game, but thing became so powerful, that they failed to defeat it with their whole dev team. Because of that, monster became even stronger, and was threatening to escape from the Minecraft and break into our world, so devs had to stop it at any cost. They used their powers to craft the most powerful items they could, and fought the thing once again... and failed. When situation became desperate, they came up with the plan to lock the monster forever. Thousands of blocks below the world, devs build gaint bedrock prison, each wall was over 100 blocks thick, with ability to almost instantly regenerate destroyed blocks. And even if this monster would escape, it still would neet to travel thousands of blocks in the instakill field untill it can reach surface. Devs successfully lured the monster into prison, but Herobrine, Notch's brother, was not able to escape from it in time, and other devs had to lock him in there with the monster, trapping him forever to save our world. And since then, nobody in Mojang speaks about this accident, trying to hide monster and sacrifice they made to stop it. But players can still find weapons and armor from that day, scattered around the world. And they better do so, because with each year in custody monster grow stronger and stronger, digging deeper and deeper into bedrock walls, getting closer to its inevitable escape.... I remember this story because after watching all this Minecraft ARGs it looks like 11yo me was not that far from what i see now

[@Syedamomina51214]

Thats actually really interesting

[@Ibrahim-kd2sm]

I'm anit reading that dude

[@santinosalamanca4378]

​@@Ibrahim-kd2sm goldfish

[@shanedog5059]

​@@Ibrahim-kd2sm overdone, uncreative, do better

[@sissybeamz]

Bro had a lot of potential in his story😭

[@themindboggler8055]

When you bought up the journels of Andrew being unwell, it reminded me of the official Minecraft Novel “The Crash”, which follows the story of a girl getting admitted to hospital after her boyfriend crashed the car they were in. The hospital has a Minecraft server that patients can play through virtual reality. It is left unclear whether the boyfriend died during the crash until the very end. Throughout the story, the main character joins 3-4 other players in the hospital, during this time she keeps seeing a figure using the Minecraft skin her boyfriend’s Minecraft account used, and this makes her think he’s alive. Its a pretty wild story but its been a while since I’ve read it.

[@MawdyDev]

13:26 "The fact you can even talk to me right now fathoms me." This sentence does not make sense at all. To fathom means to understand, so "unfathomable" means "not understandable." So... exec_03 is understood by the fact that SandY can talk? How can the concept of a fact understand anything? Concepts can't be sapient. A sentence that would have made more sense would have been "I can't fathom how you can even talk to me right now."

[@tunisiangoldfarmer1508]

Yeah there are many situations in this arg where it just feels extremely cliché or corny ngl. The dialogue is so unnatural for any minecraft player or person really, even the diary entries are. Liked it in some parts but overall its meh.

[@Error-hx9ze]

he was the one who could fathom the soundless depths

[@Architector_4]

on the other hand, imperfect speech with incorrect usage of a word that sounds fancy is kind of realistic lol

[@acidicbarkbeast]

i just assumed they meant "baffles me"

[@MawdyDev]

@@acidicbarkbeast that's why stuff like this upsets me, when people use a word incorrectly then people also learn the word incorrectly if it's their first time reading/hearing it, and un-learning is way harder than learning

[@poisonstree]

51:27 NOOO I WANT MOREEE

[@RetroGamingNow]

I have a follow up video

[@poisonstree]

@@RetroGamingNow WHOOPEE

[@matesurmava2705]

Me to

[@matesurmava2705]

Moreeeeee

[@ApenasJust]

1:55 "then a sudden cut" *gets an ad* ,-, fuck this timing

[@richardmcdonald4741]

I got Domino's, what did yall get?

[@st1ffmttwo674]

​@@richardmcdonald4741beer

[@austinthoens7118]

X-men 97​@@richardmcdonald4741

[@burnttoast441]

​@@richardmcdonald4741 Harris walzs for president lol

[@Froog13]

True also had it

[@scrunglodubus1701]

I really like this idea, I haven’t seen a lot of args on a type of time loop, especially in Minecraft, and that’s a shame since my favorite trope is time looping

[@RustyNova]

Damn. The bingo goes hard with this one. So many tropes checked

[@Yop99999]

The idea of a Minecraft player that’s stuck in a loop where changes ranges from small or major happen is a unique idea of Minecraft Arg series ngl wish it stayed that and didn’t used the same tiring tropes we seen time and time again

[@thrill127]

Ai comment

[@Yop99999]

@@thrill127 I didn’t use ai

[@liminalityy_]

It's a cool concept, but that doesn't mean you can make something longer than like 20 minutes out of it. If you want to make a story, you need a reason for what's happening and you need to tie it all in at the end. A concept simply doesn't do that

[@ChocoRainbowCorn]

@@thrill127 Even if it was, what about it?

[@ChocoRainbowCorn]

Nah, I kinda enjoy it actually.

[@Mongkol.12]

7:25 gd reference?

[@Miaucraft25]

Lol

[@Chuck_NoRisk]

😂😂

[@Chuck_NoRisk]

The game with the black kid?

[@williamfielding9423]

lmao

[@JustaRandomDunce]

This series is insane for too many reasons and very much pushes the boundary of "haha scary arg" and actually makes it kind of like a dramatic movie

[@Koenna99]

The loop idea sounded so interesting....aaaaaand then it turned into another developers doing experiments on players one -_- Some reason no matter how different the details of these kind of Minecraft ARGs are they all *feel* the same. I like the ones about corrupted mobs more, they at least vary in looks.

[@SlendHQ]

Agreed. There's now a bunch of this plot type and admittedly I haven't found it interesting or logical in their cases for it to be a Minecraft thing. Some of them gotta branch out from MC and just have the MC part as a sideshow. Too many eldritch things. Much rather things like that one with the sentient mob which reacts with emotion to the player. Forgot the name. But even simple "ghost in the machine" stories can be cool -- just not if it starts being the catalyst for a world changing event.

[@Yop99999]

@@Koenna99 if it stayed at the loop idea it would been peak psychological horror

[@Theguywhowanders]

@@SlendHQwhat if there was a story about an alien virus who corrupts a pc with Minecraft on it and then a player logs into a world only to find out weird things happen on it without explanation ? Wouldn’t that be a great idea ?

[@RainbowGod666]

Honestly i dont mind really But then again i snort SCP Content like the methè from breaking good so thats probably me :D

[@dronyazka]

I think it *is* written like that from the start and it's not an ARG, moreso a story.

[@LevBC10]

I love how these people were running an experiment on the vessels and instead of using a properly created environment just for the experiment they use Minecraft

[@chrisheartman9263]

"Voyeur" is also a person who watches people sexually without entering in the act. It could be a sort of joke name for the person having a hand in the loop but only watching for their entertainment.

[@danielamihalcea8950]

The ACTUAL Truman show in Minecraft

[@a_shy_bi6732]

fucking awesome video dude. normally i have such a short attention span but this kept me so intrigued with how you navigate the lore.

[@RetroGamingNow]

Thank you!

[@_i_c_]

Missing chunks is a genius way to represent the concept of reality being only what you currently see exists. In the instance of the loop, that quite literally being which chunks were rendered. I like the direction this is going!

[@user-ym3cw3dx6k]

good. yes. even though ive seen a billion of these I still like watching them. not saying this one isn't unique which it is, i want a arg where it actually tackles the question "why are so many creepy-things taking place in old Minecraft versions in so many ways?". ALSO, one more thing. i swear if this series ends where the ARG does the classic, "but then once he presses that button, everything restarted. looping the same events and failures" i will die.

[@_SMoody]

50 MINUTES? we eating good tonight

[@HMX.01]

Take some ships is tea because it's time for SOME LOREEEE

[@Quantum_Nebula]

you're pretty young, huh?

[@CutWat]

​@@Quantum_Nebula ???

[@CutWat]

​@@Quantum_Nebula Jeez I saw your other comments, if you're not interested in this video just don't watch it. Minecraft is for all ages so it's just your personal preference, instead of hating on others just get out and be an adult that you so claim to be.

[@HMX.01]

@@CutWat yeah , it's not like he say this game is not for kids , bruh , when I has 7 I saw Minecraft like a bomb 💣

[@dashgbx7829]

this is so good it even has other perspectives and it gives me the feeling where the exec people are the gods and sandY is just a little ant being controlled 48:55 is so good and i wonder how much bloopers were there when making this arg

[@AnthonyDeMay-Gres]

2:02 DONT. TURN. AROUND.

[@warfare1101]

Its kinda funny how the finale to The Decayed dropped as he was making this video

[@sammich1009]

The timing of this video could not be more perfect lol. JUST finished rewatching a bunch of other Minecraft ARGs!

[@HS-mn6jc]

That intro has big Outer Wilds vibes… good work with that haha

[@generalcrab0009]

Yeah and 8:50 gives me huge Eye of the Universe vibes

[@falconsfeather6970]

I think I recognize the style of skins in the exec players, including the names and the whole facility thing. I can’t put my finger on the channel name, but I remember an old series that ended with a lot of people disappointed in the ending of the story. People said it went away from what they thought the original plot was, I remember one comment saying “they fnaf’ed it” I think it was a video on your channel titled “strange sightings on alpha Minecraft channel” but I’m not sure. I think the creators are trying to make a comeback, and I think they’re doing better if that’s the case! Even if not, they’re still doing good! A little bit more specific on why I think this: if I’m remembering right, the black on white and white on black skins with patterns on the faces, cryptic names, and the crosshairs designs are quite similar from these exec characters to the higher-being-esk characters from the series I’m thinking of are VERY similar. I even think one of them is exactly the same as one of the higher beings, a star looking white pattern on the face of one, and the crosshair being the same star. The facility as I call it, with all the experiment rooms and whatnot, as well as the terminals, remind me of the series I’m thinking of. In the series I t was some type of moon base related facility, a battle between entities and higher beings over something to do with the moon and the world I think. People were upset that it kind of just descended into madness and they felt the storyline was lost, as if they stopped going by a script, and just rushed it.

[@Schro701]

Update me if you ever remember!

[@aze2795]

Is it mark101

[@aze2795]

Or TBOTV

[@Schro701]

@@aze2795 It looks to be consistent in style with mark101

[@crystalgaming1185]

What is also interesting with the loop is that is called false awaking basically when you think you are waking up, you think it's reality but it's a dream this can go on for minutes, and usually happens when you have sleep paralysis, when you see a black creatures and shadows, but to always know you are in a false awaking is seeing something change in your area, Sound familiar?

[@Shell37904]

If I had a nickel for every time some evil organization conducts evil experiments that results in their vessels becoming sentient in a block game

[@stevedaz7937]

Shell37904 shows signs of self-awareness; please investigate this sample.

[@Lucaill]

bro got swooped in

[@xxGreenRoblox]

you'd have at least three million dollars

[@HOURHAK]

you'd have uhh like 3 nickels

[@desaturatedair]

youd have a private jet

[@dontforgetyoursunscreen]

It's always interesting to find a video so young nobody has watched the entire thing yet

[@Lostt-King]

I can’t wait for someone to make a Man trapped making arg, RetroGaming showing the proof of how your stuck in ur own arg making videos of others

[@koink8348]

imagine if the writing for this is better than the mincraft movie

[@FlourMinttouu]

As of the trailer, yeah

[@bear-26]

Minecraft arg these days seems to change, Like i noticed in this ARG there is like less puzzle because arg's are supposed to be puzzling but this, its like more onto the story but overall, im intrigued in the arg

[@undeadreader23]

I realise this is a nitpick, but the increasingly common 'Evil scientists using kids block game for experiments' trope is a little... Silly.

[@user-is7xs1mr9y]

I don't think it's a nitpick, it's honestly nonsensical, annoying, and unoriginal.

[@saltypineapple8371]

@@user-is7xs1mr9ydo u like... have a life? i mean dude... just avoid content like this if it makes you mad enough to make multiple comments on multiple videos about this subject..

[@LetterSUN]

I would do that though. I am an evil scientist. Your kids block game? Very science. Very mind.

[@Alpha-zb8sp]

It’s a good medium for amateur creators

[@nasura312]

@@LetterSUNvery demure

[@ianorr1388]

He covered it. It's time for this series to become popular.

[@seandorama5932]

It already was kinda

[@connorconnor1631]

kunai's video got 1.7 million views, this one currently has 263 thousand

[@Arahura2011]

Ty i didn't know why I remember knowing something about this video "story" / "arg" but yeah that kunai video is the 1 I watched before this. I was having some weird kinda deja vu

[@Forest24132]

​@@connorconnor1631 This video was uploaded 4 days ago with about 300k views and kunai's part 2 was uploaded 3 weeks ago with 300k views too

[@1986DarkStalker]

Oh no, another mysterious group of entities using silly block game to conduct their eeevil experiments

[@Scigam243]

Why can't they just choose another game like roblos or uhhh

[@BaphometGaming69]

@@Scigam243 like Fornite

[@waddledeegaming3242]

@@Scigam243 Or Terraia

[@halfblood_drag0n]

its a pyschological horror, yea they get repetitive after a while but some of em are still a little interesting

[@lorrainehatton1235]

@@halfblood_drag0nyeah but not unique for the entities, they are just black shadows with weird symbols and dumb names trying to be scary

[@minecraftmuslim]

"Then theres a sudden cut" *gets an ad

[@TeaMaster420]

This Arg just seems much deeper, thought-through and meaningful than other ones out there. It's not just "mysterious scary shit". The story is well built. Off to watch the second part!

[@LeaningHigh]

That‘s cool but when do we see another deepdive? they were so good

[@RetroGamingNow]

There is one planned on the Trial Chambers!

[@XVIIthKez]

Thanks man! ​@@RetroGamingNow

[@CrocoN1nja]

​@@RetroGamingNow niceeee

[@kingstonlovely7404]

not hitting him with the "that's cool, but" bit rude, dontcha think?

[@Somethinghelloidkmay]

Yesssss!!! Lesssssss goooooooo!!

[@Lost_Phoenix360]

And it's not finished? Come ooonnn! The cliffhanger!

[@crazychicken8290]

its done

[@maybeja]

Finale is on their channel

[@Punky_Cash]

Its finished now

[@majamystic256]

@@Punky_Cash I don't think its quite finished yet

[@YelloFelloMC]

idk man, how good can this arg be if it doesn't take place in 2011 and have a bandicam watermark

[@creatorglitch]

this, unlike other mc args that suddenly become sci-fi is unique. infact in my opinion one of the most comphrensive ones i have seen yet

[@Omega-AlexGt]

Yeah I don't get the excessive hate

[@Thph793]

I love that the production level of this videos is so high that this could litteraly be a netflix documentary, same goes for so many more channels on yt by now and not only documentarys. Loving this trend...

[@Getfixedrepairguru]

0:36 naw this comment isn’t related to the video but thanks for reading it

[@cordzMIX]

Keep yourself safe now! 🙏 😅

[@SaltyPanda-z2b]

@@cordzMIX😂😅

[@BengelBaer79]

"Near a tree by a river, there's a hole in the ground. Where an old man of Aran goes around and around. And his mind is a beacon in the veil of the night, for a strange kind of fashion, there's a wrong and a right.", kind of vibes. The most know the song.

[@N1NJ0J]

That's what I call a lucky reload!

[@Nico745]

That what she said

[@gamingwithhui4707]

i absolutely love this content! im in love with minecraft creepy pasta. something about it just takes me back to the old days of minecaft adventure series. before we knew how everything was made and before all behind the scenes stuff was explaied. a simpler time. a more exciting time :3

[@This_trench]

Idk if he said this in the vid (idk im bad with memory) but I think the exp is equal to the level of “Sentience” or superiority 1 : Vessel 2 :Thinking mind 3 : Sentient In the video after the last one after this you can see how one executive 5 is level 5 meaning the level for the executives might be connected to how important they are.But hey I don’t know much about Edit : I don’t know much and this whole comment is was just made for fun so you can argue against it if you want

[@Romit12]

Why the fuck does 99 per cent of every single fucking Minecraft ARG has to have some goofy modded-looking shit and need to have an all-seeing being or shadow watcher's shit.

[@commander3494]

Modded looking? It's just a texturepack

[@hgmd3284]

jesus.

[@StalkerX426]

that comment was pretty funny for no reason. thanks for giving me laught, good man.

[@user-is7xs1mr9y]

Fr, I'm so tired of that, and the worst thing is that they become popular. At least should be so bad that it's good, but it's just boring.

[@theairaccumulator7144]

@@user-is7xs1mr9y the mark101/let's play archive one had good story at least

[@NorthStarMN1858]

I’m happy now! I was just watching some of your videos early today!

[@user-GuyWhoLikesGames_he_him]

2:46 - 2:52 I haven't finished the video yet but I'm going to assume that was just for pacing and not something with deeper implications.

[@veroco7395]

When sandY pulled the emergency lever at 36:11 I got an ad right after 😂😂

[@FallGuysFugitive]

I love how when andrew got pushed he said really and kargo said LOL humanity regenerating

[@SupersuMC]

Oh, cool, RGN uploaded.

[@HereticYoshi]

RGN does a pretty good job of keeping things interesting, even when I found that some of the later plot beats really didn't interest me. Wasn't all too interested in the vessel stuff and being put into a Minecraft simulation because of some unspecified disease. And yet, RGN keeps me engaged.

[@murilo_no]

i miss when minecraft ARGs were way more subtle and funnier than this kind of thing

[@Anomali1112]

12:27 "anyways, do you mind if i stay here to 'explode' a bit? "

[@ItsDVG]

This feels like an expanded version of that popular minecraft meme where they basically make it out to be the Truman Show

[@TheRealSuperman69]

Idk how i stumbled into this video i have no idea whats happening i completely lost track of the story but i loved every part of it

[@Cheato64]

I'm a big fan of this webseries. It took a lot of concepts and tropes from big webseries like mark101 (and The Lets Play Archive) and really did a nice job at executing on those ideas. I watched all of the videos (including the 3 latest ones that were uploaded during this video's editing phase), and I was a big fan the whole way through. While some of the videos may feel drawn out, I highly recommend anyone here to watch the main series directly after this video. It holds up quite nicely. Maybe you will come to a conclusion that is different as this is all story fairly ambiguous.

[@xxadder114xx]

Mentions of gaining sentience within the first ten minutes. Instantly gives the game away. Couple that with the character typing every single thought that comes to mind in the chat even when there's nobody there to read it just makes no sense. Those are your thinks buddy, you don't need to write them out. Anyway the jig is up pretty much from the get go. In my opinion, not a very good Unfiction.

[@liminalityy_]

Not everything needs to be 100% grounded in reality. Fiction like this has and always will exist

[@xxadder114xx]

@@liminalityy_ Well obviously not but this is an unfiction and my suspension of disbelief can only be stretched so thin. The idea of a character having shocking realizations and saying them out loud is one thing, taking the time to type out those realizations to nobody is just laughable and frankly I found it cringy. As for the sentience plot, I don't think that's a bad plot idea, I just think it gives the game away far too quickly. Instead of building up intreague of what this time loop is and then dropping a bombshell about the nature of this world and the people in it, it tries to tease us with something but that tease is way too large that it just kinda spoils the whole plot. In my opinion at least.

[@liminalityy_]

@@xxadder114xx fair

[@zachattack1279]

@@xxadder114xx I still like this story mainly the visuals, characters, and message but I’m still going to criticize the aspects in which it falls flat like the wordy dialogue or how fast it jumps from concept to concept.

[@Norm-is-normal]

@@xxadder114xxI agree, wishing the first 10 minutes I lost interest. It got obvious it was gonna go the route of “evil shadow people run experiment at normal People” like where have u seen that before…

[@marblenotfriendly]

7:22 geometry dash

[@Yoctube-l5s]

JJT lol

[@t7p2z]

🔑 🔑 🔑 🔑 🔑 🔑 🔑 🔑

[@rgdp896]

🔑 🔑 🔐 🔑 🔑 🔑 🔑 🔑

[@NotGlove]

FOCUS

[@Can_wars]

Theory: the worlds represent theyre mental state Something that could prove this theory is you notice how the more self aware sandy gets the more distorted his map becomes?

[@SpiralshapeDev]

I love this ARG because I get to hear Americans mess up saying words in french lol

[@axl256gamesx7]

...suprisingly simple concept, a time loop I mean, sadly people usually screw it up, which bothers me, as it's a...

[@Omega-AlexGt]

...So brilliant... good phrasing dude, I've came to the conclusion you are...

[@awesomeishu]

24:30 I think the creator tried to make the "September" book in python and accidentally left a ''', which if you don't already know, is part of a multi-line comment.

[@LayTooPlant]

they should call you mr krabs the way you ARG ARG ARG ARG ARG ARG

[@Niaz-m9t]

this is probably my favorite sentence

[@Niaz-m9t]

like this needs to be framed

[@Zedetir]

Retro, I adore all of your content so much! Never stop making it, it's seriously so awesome. I found you on a live stream awhile back while I was finding something to watch while eating, you've never disappointed!

[@Whyyoulookingatmyhandle-hx2jt]

Achievement unlocked: Pop Goes The Weasel.

[@Whyyoulookingatmyhandle-hx2jt]

I don't think anyone gets it.

[@zarrg5611]

I really like the central premise, but there are a few silly cliches in there. I guess most stuff of this type can be easy to judge poorly against something like Interloper.

[@kremstoin]

That fakeout at 41:00 thooooo 😂

[@space1212]

it's literally funny lol

[@Arca-hc6sh]

retrogamingnow covering args is so entertaining need more

[@hugovanwanghe7645]

slight correction from a french person, while "voyeur" can be translated as "one who sees", it more commonly used to talk about someone that spies creepily

[@CAGEtheGEGEG]

45:49 this moment killed me LMAOOOO