Liminal /vr/ spaces

[Anonymous No.8582095]

[Anonymous No.8582096]

Is is soulful or scary?
Can you zoomies make up your mind already

[Anonymous No.8582101]

[Anonymous No.8582104]

>>8582096
most zoomers don't even know what "liminal space" is and just use it as a catch all to mean anything a little bit unsettling

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[Anonymous No.8582170]

>>8582101
fuck I need to download HOVER right now.

[Anonymous No.8582174]

I hate zoomers so fucking much

[Anonymous No.8582969]

>>8582157
This taxi ride is getting crazy!

[Anonymous No.8582993]

>>8582157
Nobody asked for gore.

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[Anonymous No.8583286]

>>8582095
Is this from The Life Stage for the 3DO, or is it one of those home tour Sega Saturn games?

[Anonymous No.8583305]

the entirety of lsd dream emulator is about as accurate to the concept of "liminal space" as you can get

[Anonymous No.8583478]

>>8583305
>>8582095
Instead of not being retro, take a look of Davey Wreden game "The Beginner's Guide"
I think that Medal of Honor has sometimes that Liminal moments when you're alone in the game

[Anonymous No.8583483]

>>8583478
Wow, I remember playing that game for the first time and thinking the graphics were about as good as it was going to get.

[Anonymous No.8583493]

[Anonymous No.8583506]

What a shit thread

[Anonymous No.8583543]

>>8583305
Is this some retarded zoomer hack thing of sorts? I've never once seen this image of a chick and her booba in the game before, what the hell

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[Anonymous No.8583656]

Not really "liminal" but neither is anything else posted in this thread yet.

[Anonymous No.8583670]

>>8583656
Someone literally posted a fucking cliff, you cumrag neanderthal.

[Anonymous No.8583705]

>>8583543
>retarded oomerposter doesn't even know what's actually part of a game
A tale as old as time.

[Anonymous No.8584410]

limmynal spaces lol

[Anonymous No.8584495]

>>8582157
:(

[Anonymous No.8584508]

>>8584410
The passive aggressive Scotsman just stands there, judgingly. You don't dare ask him to repeat what he said in real English.

[Anonymous No.8585050]

>>8584508
you could ask him but he'd just get angry in scottish.

[Anonymous No.8585894]

>>8582095
The entire Fatum Iustum Stultorum level from Marathon 2: Durandal

[Anonymous No.8585970]

>>8582095
i don't even know if its a liminal space or not but some of the overworld maps from Spyro 2 makes me feel kind of unsettled
i guess i was used to Spyro 1 overworlds, which were full of enemies, npc, collectables, etc, just things to do baskcally, they were full of life.
on the other hand the overworlds on Spyro 2 are so empty
there's no enemies, no Npc, just some gems to collect and the portals
and even tho they are empty as fuck they still are pretty damn big
and that music man
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XJxAdd0sYZ8
it sounds so dream-like, it really gave me a weird feeling, specially playing really late at night almost falling asleep
it made me unsettled but also reaally comfy, so weird

[Anonymous No.8586131]

>>8582993
You know, the NAOMI can be saved as long as power wasn't on. Even if power was on it's possible it'll be alright.

[Anonymous No.8586141]

>>8582104
still not as obnoxious as boomers who use it as a catch all to disregard atmosphere cause their imaginations are stoned

[Anonymous No.8586148]

>>8583656
hitman games are full of interesting little areas. contracts is borderline horror sometimes

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>>8583042
highway 17 is the midwit filter zone

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[Anonymous No.8586180]

don't have one pic that sums it up perfectly but the lost city in thief TDP(completely fucked the ambiance with mages in gold). Honestly the one instance I can think of in a game where just the isolation creeped me out and made me jumpy.

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[Anonymous No.8586183]

>>8586180
Many of the levels in Thief 1 & 2 could qualify for this thread

[Anonymous No.8586190]

I don't really get that feeling from almost any of these. Most are just atmospheric.

[Anonymous No.8586196]

>>8582095
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>>8586183
Liminal
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>>8586181
Not liminal

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Unreal is the king of liminal spaces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhaAXvGG9Nk

[Anonymous No.8586286]

>>8586196
i don't get the liminal feel from those you said were liminal.
Then again is stupid to say what it is or isn't liminal because just the concept alone is already abstract and personal
For example i never felt it for mario 64 but it turns out that game is basically the poster boy for liminal space in videogames

[Anonymous No.8586373]

>>8582157
YA YA YA YA YA

[Anonymous No.8586418]

I played some PC game as a kid that would really fit this. I swear I got it with a telescope, but that could just be me combining memories. It was an FMV from what I recall, and it scared me. Eventually I came across an NPC guy and he yelled, "You think I'm stupid?!" and the museum blew up and I got a game over. I have NO idea what that was or if it's all made up.

I played it around the time I had "The Lost Island of Alanna" which was like a Cherry Coke Myst-like.

[Anonymous No.8586453]

>>8582157
Lollll

[Anonymous No.8586463]

The only "liminal space" feeling I get from retro videogames are the crappy 2.5d shooters like tekwar and the static background educational stuff. Brightly lit shiny and smooth pre-rendered CG really does it for me

[Anonymous No.8586532]

Are these images supposed to be unsettling?

[Anonymous No.8586542]

>>8586286
>For example i never felt it for mario 64 but it turns out that game is basically the poster boy for liminal space in videogames


Literally what is liminal even supposed to mean? The more I think about it the more it sounds like someone wanted a pretentious word for empty hallway.

Mario 64 is supposed to be a mysterious abandoned magicncastle so it does give people that feeling...but then you get those retarded youtube videos about how the floating islands made them shit their pants

[Anonymous No.8586615]

3D Amiga general?

[Anonymous No.8586642]

>>8586532
>>8586542
The term and the feeling is 100% an eye of the beholder kind of thing. For me personally its a nostalgic feeling without ever actually being there. A feeling of simplicity and emptiness with an added bit of "something happened here but no longer". I see lots of people associating it with fear and apprehension

[Anonymous No.8586702]

I'm too old to care about this liminal meme but loading multiplayer maps offline and walking alone inside them without other players or bots just to explore always game me this weird feeling of unnatural loneliness long before the meme so I get what it means. It's places that should be full of people but are empty. Like those Bermuda triangle stories about ships where the crew disappeared but the ship and habitable quarters were left behind untouched, sometimes with stuff like food on plates as if everybody left in a hurry.

[Anonymous No.8586728]

>>8586702
My first Counter-Strike experience was running around de_aztec offline. That happened because I was 9 and knew jackshit about multiplayer games, didn't know how to find and join servers and all that shit. It was at my brother's place. I was a consolefag kid and remember thinking to myself
>this thing is too complicated for me to enjoy, it's an adult thing

[Anonymous No.8586740]

>>8586542
The word 'liminal' originates from the Latin word 'limen,' which means threshold. In a literary sense, it's the time in a story after the beginning of the climax and before the end of the climax, usually characterized by a sense of ambiguity and inertia. Think of it as the moment of perfect bliss that you achieve at the top of an orgasm, when your mind is cleared of all thoughts. That's what liminal means.

[Anonymous No.8586743]

nothin but the sound of the rain and yourself, what a comfy idea for a final area. also tallon overworld, especially when you first step off the ship.

[Anonymous No.8586752]

>>8586740
So what does liminal space mean? It's a physical place that represents the middle point between the end of the beginning and the beginning of the end.

[Anonymous No.8586754]

>>8586740
>In a literary sense, it's the time in a story after the beginning of the climax and before the end of the climax, usually characterized by a sense of ambiguity and inertia. Think of it as the moment of perfect bliss that you achieve at the top of an orgasm, when your mind is cleared of all thoughts.
I love how your two examples contradict each other, and how neither fits the current usage of the term

[Anonymous No.8586757]

>>8586752
So what do ignorant people think liminal space means? They think it's any place that looks both aesthetically pleasing and creepy at the same time.

[Anonymous No.8586760]

>>8586754
Or maybe you cum differently than I do

[Anonymous No.8586763]

>>8586743
Are there any games with a similar atmosphere/color palette? Aside from SoTC which I'm a big fan of. TP is one of my favorite Zelda games solely for that reason

[Anonymous No.8586764]

>>8586760
>cumming is ambiguous

[Anonymous No.8586769]

>>8586764
Yes.

[Anonymous No.8586773]

>>8582096
>>8582104
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>>8583506
>>8583543
The concept of liminal spaces is over a decade old, you can find older threads on the 4plebs archive for /x/.

Just making it more fucking obvious that z-word posters are gen z trying to fit in. Might as well kill yourselves now faggots.

[Anonymous No.8586783]

>>8586773
>a couple people used the term broadly and correctly in the early 2010s
>this erases the fact that every zoomer today thinks that liminal spaces are just empty/abandoned urban areas

[Anonymous No.8586787]

>>8586783
>IT'S ZOOMER!!! IT'S ZOOMER!!! WAAAAAA WAAAAAA STOP LIKING THINGS!!!
Just give it up, kid. It's probably older than you.

[Anonymous No.8586879]

>>8582095
Throw a couple biblically accurate angels in there, maybe a quest to find a personalized haunted copy of a video game, and you got yourself the most creative scary awesome video game ever made.
Zoomers suck my fat millennial cock every day.

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[Anonymous No.8586925]

>this game would make zoomers piss their pants

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>>8585970
good post, spyro 2's hubs are really unique
you're wrong about them being totally empty though, they do have fodder enemies and NPCs (until you clear the hub and the NPCs disappear)

[Anonymous No.8586975]

>>8582157
feels bad

[Anonymous No.8587408]

>>8586642
Oh, I still don't really get it entirely (all the empty hallways posted here) but I feel what you described when I went and did that worlds.com exploration, and think of things like old abandoned MMORPGs, websites and how games will never have Mew under the truck tier rumours ever again.


>>8586740
My brain is an empty hallway now I still don't get it in the context of this thread. I almost can but not really. Is it supposed to be like the empty Megaman hallways before a boss?

[Anonymous No.8587413]

>>8586702
Oh is it like when someone dies and their room is still in your house?

[Anonymous No.8587468]

you coudl walk for hours without finding an NPC

[Anonymous No.8587478]

you niggermen ever played any multiplayer deathmatch fps games?

>abstract levels made out of corridors and big arenas
>tons of blind spots
>no dead ends (if well made)

nobody plays this shit anymore so of course sooner or later, you will find yourself alone screaming niggerman all over the place.

[Anonymous No.8587492]

>>8587468
This mission was extremely comfy.

[Anonymous No.8587521]

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[Anonymous No.8587612]

>>8587408
I think you could kinda simplify it as (usually images of) empty spaces, devoid of life, that give you the uncanny valley feel. I also think I understand this, but the term is not very well defined and I really need to be in a certain mood to really "get" these images.
This whole thing also came from a /x/ shitpost btw. I don't mean to say that you shouldn't examine this too seriously but it's just something to keep in mind.

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pmub

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worlds is the king of this

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[Anonymous No.8589979]

>>8586740
Liminal in this context means crossing a threshold into some place you're not supposed to be.

[Anonymous No.8589991]

4CHAN DIDN'T INVENT LIMINAL
THE CONCEPT IS OVER A CENTURY OLD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
LIMINAL SPACE DOESN"T MEAN CREEPY EMPTY PLACE
IT'S A PLACE THAT REPRESENTS BEING ON THE THRESHOLD OF A MAJOR TRANSITION
STOP BUTCHERING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
FUCKING AMERICANS!

[Anonymous No.8589994]

>>8589991
The concept of meme is also older than the internet
"viral" too
that's just how language works
Imagine the romans asking you to stop butchering latin

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>>8589991
Liminal post.

[Anonymous No.8590016]

There is absolutely some psychological importance to what the internet is calling liminal spaces that reflects some unconscious way we process the world.
Before my grandfather died, he was in a coma, and I had this dream where he was saying goodbye and saying he was better than ever and he was going to travel.
I arrived in his house to talk to him in the dream, he was there waiting for me, and the house was completely empty, no chairs, tables, TV, furniture, only the walls, floor and ceiling.
Pic related, a very conscious design choice, in a movie about loneliness and isolation and empty spaces that should be full of people, from before the internet.

[Anonymous No.8590031]

A staple of horror, the empty dining room table, as I said before, also a staple of Bermuda triangle stories about empty ships. A very simple way of letting you know that lots of people should be there, but the place is empty instead. Always empty, always used to build tension, instead of delivering the scares.

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[Anonymous No.8590045]

>>8589994
>The concept of meme is also older than the internet
And no replacement word has caught on yet to satisfy its original meaning. Change the meaning of simple words or invent new words. Stop dumbing down complex ideas.

[Anonymous No.8590051]

>>8590045
>Stop dumbing down complex ideas
That's not how humanity works anon

[Anonymous No.8590065]

>>8590045
It doesn't need to be dumbed down
It's only generally dumbed down because people in general are dumb

[Anonymous No.8590160]

>>8589991
>IT'S A PLACE THAT REPRESENTS BEING ON THE THRESHOLD OF A MAJOR TRANSITION


Kingdom Hearts has some great places that actually fit this definition. Although they tend to be creepy in and empty as well. Like End of the World is the transition to the end of the game and in universe well...the end of the world.

[Anonymous No.8590163]

>>8590160

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>>8590163
>>8590160

And the introduction of the game is a transition into Sora's heart through dreams and and transition to the beginning of the game. It's just empty stained glass in a void.

Later on in the series through sleep you end up in a very liminal place that's literally just sky and water where people transition into but it's not really retro.

Also the music adds to these places so much. The theme here is used in the End of the World.

[Anonymous No.8590173]

>>8590170
*into death. I forgot a word. I can actually post something retro though it looks exactly like this.

[Anonymous No.8590176]

>>8590173
And KH1s secret ending and KH2 and more have Dark City. Which as a secret ending transitions into KH2 and in KH2 transitions into the end of the game like >>8590160

There's trashed trucks and abandoned everything...

[Anonymous No.8590191]

>>8590170
This might be the best example because it evokes nostalgia due to the princesses.

Oh all of 0.2 is empty Disney worlds too.

[Anonymous No.8590473]

>>8589991
>>8590045
You are correct.
Calling liminal things that aren't liminal makes no sense. Just invent another word. The concept of liminal is well established and it's specific. Why change it? We need a word for real liminal spaces after all.

[Anonymous No.8590490]

>>8590016
Pink Floyd the wall also does that.

[Anonymous No.8590502]

I always found the Molag Mar waistworks in Morrowind strange. By the time you see them you've been to Vivec and seen many waistworks full of npcs. You arrive in Molag Mar and they are deserted. Tables set but no one around. The lighting is much darker and flickery. It really sets the mood for the kind of place Molag Mar is. An outpost on the edge of a rough land.

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>>8590473
Should probably be referred to as tension/apprehension inducing areas. That's what happens when you consume too much media that relies on transitive formulas to move from one state to another. There's always a moment in a movie when you know the characters are going to kiss, when the monster is going to pop out of the casket, or when a character is going to die because he said he would come back. We're good at identifying patterns and drawing conclusion. You recognize elements and you have a pretty good idea of what the outcome will be.
Empty spaces with faint noise? There's a jump scare waiting! Spooky.

[Anonymous No.8590546]

>>8589991
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP1QXKbhqr4&ab_channel=Ofo

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[Anonymous No.8590902]

>>8586879
Based

[Anonymous No.8590914]

>>8589994
>that's just how language works
Well, no.
If the Romans were around they 100% would go all Brutus on your ass for butchering their language and culture.
As long as I remember the original meaning of the word and can tell faggots off for misusing it, the meaning hasn't really changed.

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>>8590914
>that's just how language works
Whell, nho.
If Whoamans wound dey a hunnred pacen wol go all Bwutis on ur ass fo bwuterwin der wangage n cultwure.
Wong as wememba da wiginal mean ah da wor an can tel fagguts of fur missoozin it, da mean aasnt weally chane.

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>>8582096
its like both man lmao

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Links 386 Pro

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>>8591551
>Big Boss and Solid Snake in the same party
Nice.

[Anonymous No.8594148]

>>8582095
What game?

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>>8582095
>>8582141
>>8582142
only images in this thread that work for this

[Anonymous No.8596545]

>>8586787
Hush zoomie. The adults are speaking.

[Anonymous No.8596758]

>>8583493
This screensaver is very scary.

[Anonymous No.8597008]

>>8582095
Is that... an empty space? AAAAGH IM GOING INSANEE

[Anonymous No.8597010]

>>8596545
Is this a joke? Do you really think that this is how adults talk?

[Anonymous No.8597020]

>>8597010
Listen Timmy, we've told you this before.
When the adults are speaking you're to wait until we're done. If you can't follow that, you'll need to stay in your room and play, OK?

[Anonymous No.8597064]

Daedalus Tower always struck me as kind of backrooms-like, I think it's because of those decrepit stone looking walls combined with that bright red floor which seems somewhat out of place. My brain always interprets it as being carpeting, which doesn't really fit in a dungeon like this, but nonetheless every time I go through here I imagine I'm going through some dim underground stone dungeon with red carpeting.

[Anonymous No.8597261]

>>8582095
why is this so deeply unsettling

[Anonymous No.8597271]

>>8589907
I think what I'm most afraid of is all of the NPCs in this image turning and making eye contact with me.

[Anonymous No.8597321]

>>8582095

Source?

[Anonymous No.8597697]

>>8582157
why did you post this?