Why Halo 3 is so creepy - The Liminal Space of Halo 3

[@LukeplaysTV]

I think part of it is because: you remember these maps being so populated and now you dont see any and everyone has moved on

[@AshSonnenDrache]

I play Halo 3 almost every day and I'm always getting matches on these maps, wdym?

[@fridayrandommedia117]

Dude this is exactly what I was looking for. I forgot the map name but the huge desert map with the "guardians"... That GIANT empty 3 level map had me creeped

[@riohtx7012]

Sand trap or sand box

[@Wabbledoble]

This is an actual damn good video which made me stop the game I was playing to watch. Please make more halo vids like this

[@117oddlink-9]

Honestly, I always found the map Stand-off to be more relaxing than creepy. The sun’s lighting gives this nice vibe equivalent to being done with work at the end of the day, now you spend the pre-evening going out for a nice walk, proud of today.

[@YamacKocovali7]

This video deserves way more views. That creepy liminal space feeling in Halo 3 is so memorable to me and would also feel it in some maps in Halo CE as well. Honestly feel like game devs should utilise this liminal space for some extra creepy easter eggs and stuff (without making it obvious and cliché).

[@TheOneAndOnlyFerroni]

I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Halo CE definitely ticks a lot of the same boxes for me as well. I think CE benefited greatly from the overall mystery a lot of players felt when playing Halo for the first time.

[@aa-jy5ep]

idk man halo ce is pretty liminal, but halo 3 is pretty detailed and doesnt give me those vibes. just bein real.

[@baplotnik]

@@aa-jy5ep liminal is the transitional space in between two things, like when you are breathing, you breath in and out, and the space in between that is the liminal space which makes the process of breathing possible at all. He's saying in the video that the transitional spaces between one section and another in halo 3 are creepy, but they are not.

[@WokeDEMOCRATShaveASPD]

It kinda did to me. It looked so real but still looked like a video game. A in between like Garry’s mod. The hand crafted animations and the CE canned death roll/sleep position is still in the game. The low poly animals that have been stripped to the bare basics of just going in circles. Getting out of the map on most maps. Valhalla looks fake from far out but has an atmosphere and space? Maybe there was something odd feeling being in such a lively map and looking out to a vast wasteland of almost nothing detailed or solid. I got out of reach maps and they’re so big. To watch the world degrade as you go further out. To see the skybox for what it is. Even causing your textures to get wobbly. Wow I could I forget to mention getting out in halo 3 and going to purgatory/mirror dimension. Like doing DMT for the first time…..I assume.

[@baplotnik]

@@WokeDEMOCRATShaveASPD wow I may have just found the most insane halo fan in the world

[@WokeDEMOCRATShaveASPD]

@@baplotnik what definition are you thinking of? I have the world/nature mapped out well in my mind….Maybe too well…..But I found balance/enlightenment/peace. Even when Halo “also the world”crumbles as I sit here for years knowing most of the answers. Down to the psychology of what it takes to make a game like that. I’m way past design philosophy. Especially when they seem to ignore it. 343’s run at halo taught me a bit about the world/business/psychology. As for politics….politics has become insane/confusing. Seems on purpose. A halo modder went down the political pipeline years ago but I don’t know how well he sorted through that mess. I heard it wasn’t well but these things take years and takes knowledge of the world/psychology/nature and possibly a suppressed ego. Maybe he figured out enough by now.

[@baplotnik]

@@WokeDEMOCRATShaveASPD I don't know what you are talking about but you need some sleep bro

[@snailshaman7948]

Great video, hope you recieve more views on this soon. I've been playing a ton of Halo lately, and, like you, been wandering around empty multiplayer maps. Initially it was just to scout out power weapon locations etc, but the atmosphere and mystery just draws me in and I can't help but explore these places. I know Epitaph has a reputation for being a boring map, but I personally love it. The haunting music, the sounds of the wind, the distant crackle of lightning in the cloudy skybox, it all works so well. Creepy as Halo 3 can be, it can't hold a candle to how deeply unsettling some CE maps feel. CE feels unintentionally creepy, a liminal nightmare of repeating grey corridors and dim lights. Longest and Gephyrophobia are particularly creepy.

[@TheOneAndOnlyFerroni]

Thank you, I am glad that you enjoyed the video. CE definitely exceeds the other games in terms of that uneasy feeling. I would hazard part of this is the less detailed environments giving the whole game this uneasy 'manufactured' vibe.

[@alejan-drolo]

You don’t have to do this to yourself. You’re choosing to scare yourself. Just join a match.

[@LateOnSaturdayStudios]

Getting the skulls on the MCC maps alone is creepy especially when I was on Longshore and Orbital I was expecting someone to just pop out crazy feeling glad I’m not alone

[@hand3and3]

I grew up playing halo CE and 2. I didnt have xbox live. I would play campaign, and multiplayer maps by myself. I thought nothing of it, never got that scary feeling.

[@elfrikicarlos]

I think Halo 2 has a bigger creepy feeling...

[@outlawdingo3020]

Swimming pools felt liminal to me as a kid Swimming by yourself.

[@notanarcher9280]

Some of my favorite liminal spaces in Halo are the ones from Mombasa Streets in Halo 3 ODST, like when you're in an empty building or one of those little courtyards behind a security door. The streets themselves could also be seen as liminal spaces when there aren't any covenant scouts shooting at you.

[@Starlesslemon]

I didn't get Xbox live until a year after H3 came out. I remember exploring all the maps from CE, 2, and 3 by myself as a kid.

[@meappeam6917]

When you throw a decoy for the first time and you feel like you're about to get slashed from any direction

[@DuhMythic]

I always go back to CE and halo 3 to just hang around in the maps alone and I always felt the creepy vibes and isolation that you described. I'm glad others like you have felt the same feelings I have when I need some time to kill alone in Halo.

[@adamngiraffe409]

This video made me think of another Halo 3 video where someone was playing customs/forge by themselves and a bubbleshield just randomly deploys from out of nowhere 😨

[@thedroid4681]

Imagine the power needed to keep every multiplayer map, every saved forge map running at all times

[@austinschmuck7814]

Great video. I always feel kinda weird when going through the old halo maps especially now that the 360 servers have been shut down. Sometimes I just like going through the maps thinking that these are almost abandoned. Which they kinda are, in a whole there's not going to be people there again. Like an abandoned battlefield, that has been filled with war for years, to be left alone for eternity.

[@random_me666]

Feels like Source maps. Very similar eerie vibes. The detail is very similar to Half-Life 2 and just creeps me out but in a nostalgic way.

[@TEZAFIM]

Please do a video on halo 2 being creepy

[@agDRAGONMAN001]

How did 343 make maps and animation that are less detailed than a 17 year old game

[@AlexInvader]

I always felt this way in Halo 2, that mix of ancient mistery, liminality and eerie feelings were so magic and now so nostalgic. In the other hand H3 always had that lack of mistery for me, it was so colorful and bright...

[@MasterJett1]

Lemme just say man... this deserves more views.

[@nintendonerdjoseph]

I feel like CE and 2 have a lot of "liminal space"-esque areas, but Halo 3 feels much too detailed and warm to give me those same vibes.

[@arcticdragon3565]

the Guardians are always watching, lol

[@keepwatch96]

who the fuck has ever called Halo 3 creepy. sad that this is what Halo content has boiled down to

[@eric6rock]

Halo CE and 2 were very off putting

[@halopotato7466]

On the map Ghost town I swear I used to hear someone else’s footsteps when in a custom game

[@natahndolar2142]

This video has the perfect amount of views… 777

[@SaeParsan]

It’s probably just the META

[@Tayeeb-u4i]

This video is soooo GOOD whenever i would play halo 3 i would always feel weird like someone was watching me.

[@alijafri8473]

Great video. Love the insights.

[@DerelictCountry]

it's actually not that creepy though, CE is way more liminal if you get a chance to play it. It's a great game, I think you'll love it.

[@tooturnt5465]

Halo 3 doesn’t have nearly as a creepy feeling of being watched like halo ce does

[@Powerof7even]

Never got that vibe ngl. maybe blackout back when the ghost of blackout was a thing but not really.

[@obscene-c1]

halo ce was much much creepier

[@baplotnik]

Halo 3 isnt creepy or liminal, even the flood level, cortana, is just straight up gross not really creepy

[@Espartanica]

To you, maybe Others think it is

[@baplotnik]

@@Espartanica do you know what liminal means? And creepy? Floodgate is the only creepy level in the whole game

[@baplotnik]

@@Espartanica I mean I can kinda see it if I pretend to be retarded

[@Espartanica]

@@baplotnik Do you know what an opinion is? An individual with their own feelings and experiences?

[@baplotnik]

@@Espartanica that's not what an opinion is, and opinions have no basis in objective reality. But everyone is entitled to personal opinions and if you are into that, more power to you. It does not however change what it actually is. You may like peanut butter. That does not mean it's good. It's just your opinion. So yeah sure, in your opinion halo 3 is creepy, but so what? That doesn't make it creepy. It's just creepy to you and like 4 other people

[@mythsqueuemusic]

yess thought I was the only one

[@TheOneAndOnlyFerroni]

Happens to the best of us.

[@dfshjb44]

What a ridiculous topic; literally no one says halo 3 is creepy. The graphical fidelity is way too high to imagine anything but what is presented in game and you're acting like ambient noises on a map are spooky. Truly bottom of the barrel content.

[@Beenyad]

Nah man I think h3 has some of the creepiest multi-player maps. Sandtrap, sandbox, foundry are all kind of eerie

[@TUGBOATMCMUFFIN]

Y'all really must be bored and be making a video about anything scary. You all be thinking any empty place is scary at this point which is very soft and yellow bellied of yall, its just video game with maps being empyt, it ain't that deep bro. XD

[@mitchie2267]

It isn't creepy. Grow up

[@arthurmorgan1177]

Finally, someone who is intelligent