weird feeling when being in an empty map in a source game

[The Wok]

Am i the only one?
It's kinda weird and a little bit creepy, go on garry's mod, tf2, or css and you will see.

[Electric Cupcake]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvGNjzHCJh8

[Your_White_Knight]

Originally posted by office shotgun dude:

weird feeling when being in an empty map in a source game

Am i the only one?
It's kinda weird and a little bit creepy, go on garry's mod, tf2, or css and you will see.

Meh... not really.

I never was a fan nor bought into the "muh immersion" part of gaming where I feel or feel the need to "be there"... empty maps in a source game doesn't affect me any more then a empty screen in a graphic editor software or a blank piece of paper does...

[Catnip]

Yes, I can hear my heart beating in Valve's games.

[painainus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAw1isoV8ic

[agu]

you probably saw it on the internet first and it gave you the same feeling like "yea i kinda feel it too"

[Et tu, B?]

I personally like the idea of there being an enemy around the corner in a presumably empty environment, but that might bee a me thing.

[The Wok]

Originally posted by Aguker:

you probably saw it on the internet first and it gave you the same feeling like "yea i kinda feel it too"

nah man i used to train rocket jumping on empty maps in tf2, or just roaming and it feels weird, then i went on the internet to see if i was the only one and i wasn't....
https://youtu.be/03yL_JCeQBI

[WhispersOfTheWind]

I always compare these sort of experiences to real world or reality itself, and usually in whatever game come to the conclusion, mostly when I'm thinking of outside that it resembles each other in a sort of non-involved way although both do resemble each other at face value when you think about it, and I guess that's because one's a representation of the other and they are both based in mathematics. Rules of reality, so to speak which everything is based on, in and around.

Weird feeling? Yeah. I get that when I'm outside sometimes.

Sometimes I imagine this giant scale where everything's so much bigger than in our world. This has to do with me having visited mountains as a kid and being in 'their' open field.

Thinking of this, I find it almost comical how one almost never imagines the smaller scale, opposite to something opposite and larger.

[adz]

are you talking about being in a empty server? because its not all bad i used to find glitches and bugs my self and i used to play on a mod server called wc3ft, planting the bomb or rescue a hostage grants you xp for your character so i used to farm xp.

[도빈쥐즈]

Oh, that's a well-known phenomenon. maybe it's a kind of liminal space. search 'Liminity' on Wikipedia

also: https://twitter.com/gameauras

[Ash]

No.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03yL_JCeQBI

[gugnihr]

Virtual liminal spaces

[Vince ✟]

You live in games. Stop playing a wbile