The Backrooms (+ Wiki) - Level 80085: The Kiwi Farms

The entities wouldn't be as bad if they weren't scattered throughout every level. I don't mind deathmoths and deathrats being everywhere because it makes perfect sense. Their real-life counterparts can be found in abandoned buildings. But hounds, smilers, and skin-stealers being everywhere? They're all described as powerful monsters that can instantly kill you. This is the equivalent to a pack of mountain lions infesting some abandoned office complex. It's dumb.

The SCP-level autism was unnecessary, but if you're going to do it at least give people incentives to actually explore the levels. Apart from the possibility of escaping back into reality, I don't see why anyone would explore the Backrooms beyond level 1 when the risks far outweigh the benefits.
 
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Why do they even have a logo? Are they really trying to make this into another SCP (with all of it's problems) just because of Kane's lore attempts?
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Why there is a logo, a militaristic science team investigating the backrooms and why they are cataloguing entities and anomalies like the SCP foundation?

I'll tell you why: autism and creative deficiency.

If basically the SCP foundation 2.0.
 
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Here's an interesting article I found that I thought you guys might "enjoy"... Level 2020 is a level that's a not-so subtle metaphor for the COVID-19 pandemic, including antimask/anti-vaxx entities known as "Familiarities" that play outside all day and should they touch you, they infect you with super covid. No, I'm not making any of that up.
 
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Lapis Lazuli said:
Here's an interesting article I found that I thought you guys might "enjoy"... Level 2020 is a level that's a not-so subtle metaphor for the COVID-19 pandemic, including antimask/anti-vaxx entities known as "Familiarities" that play outside all day and should they touch you, they infect you with super covid. No, I'm not making any of that up.
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Finally, the Current Year level.
 
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New Backrooms video
Honestly the fact that the gateway to the Backrooms is located in California is hilarious. :story:
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Even though there's pretty much no scares throughout the whole video, I felt a weird feeling of dread through the entire thing...
..and don't get me started on the callback to Informational Video at the very end.
 
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Even though there's pretty much no scares throughout the whole video, I felt a weird feeling of dread through the entire thing...
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And that's the kind of Backrooms videos that I want to see. No jumpscares, just pure environmental dread. This is good horror, not this cheap jumpscare bullshit for kids.
 
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The backrooms and liminal space in general isn't supposed to be horror so terrifying it makes you cry, it's supposed to simply unsettle you just like any uncanny valley media. This goes both to the fags trying to one up each other with "my monster is bigger and scarrier!!1!1!!!!" attempts at "worldbuilding" and the Kiwis who don't understand what's so scary about it. That's exactly the problem lol, because of previously mentioned retards the concept is ruined and oversaturated to the point it gives the second previously mentioned individuals the wrong impression

Anyway, I don't think we have a thread for just liminal space, do we? Perhaps it's the little autist in me but I think it'd be pretty neat. Backrooms feels too limited, liminal space photos being so inherently tied to that concept is what's ruining it to begin with. It should be a spooky artform that stands on its own
 
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Apparently a massive overhaul is happening in the Wikidot, most notable changes being rewrites for Level Fun and The End.
They're still readable on the Wikia, but the Wikidot versions have not been archived to my knowledge.
 

If there were two videos that have given me a newfound appreciation for the OG concept of the Backrooms, it would be these. The Kane Pixels interpretation of it is alright, and I get the need for variety of liminal spaces that the Wikidot and Fandom provides. Smilers? Hounds? Partygoers? Skinstealers? Facelings? Get that shit off the Backrooms and to where it actually belongs - the realm of creepypasta.
 
DoodooForGoogol said:

If there were two videos that have given me a newfound appreciation for the OG concept of the Backrooms, it would be these. The Kane Pixels interpretation of it is alright, and I get the need for variety of liminal spaces that the Wikidot and Fandom provides. Smilers? Hounds? Partygoers? Skinstealers? Facelings? Get that shit off the Backrooms and to where it actually belongs - the realm of creepypasta.
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I could see someone making a Backrooms game with two modes that disable or enable entities depending on preference. One mode allows for you to have the purest Backrooms experience possible, which is traveling the endless halls at your leisure without having to deal with entity bullshit. One glaring issue is that it would just be a walking simulator with nothing else to do other than look at different scenery, but maybe you'd have to unlock each level by accessing them at least once in the main campaign.

The other gives people what they would expect from nu-Backrooms, fight entities and survive for as long as you can. Basically a horror survival MMORPG, maybe throw in some roguelike elements with the whole "travel from one level to the next" concept since travel in the backrooms is almost completely random. Which, come to think of it, doesn't sound that terrible of an idea.
 
I still can't stand what some have called the "wikification" of horror concepts like the Backrooms. The amount of cool horror concepts out there that have been ruined because uncreative, talentless people who can only make boring, sloppy pastiches of what's popular got their hands on it and turned it into budget SCP without understanding what made the original good is surprisingly high.

It's so annoying because Backrooms was something unique and interesting, but then a bunch of people wanted to make it into SCP. SCP already exists. We don't need a second or third one with worse writing and set up.

What if the mundane banality of a series of backrooms like you'd find in some depressing office located in a industrial park or a suburban business plaza went on and on stretching into infinity? Then what if a bunch of people went "YES AND WHAT IF THERE WAS A WHOLE BUNCH OF DANGEROUS "ENTITIES" THAT HUNT PEOPLE THERE?" The Wikified Backrooms is too much like a poorly designed videogame, complete with "oh, there's safe, healing water here in bottles" or crap like that. Not really a strange, hostile alien environment then, is it?

It's like people want to remake SCP but don't understand SCP. Not even the people contributing to SCP for the past several years understand what made the old concept work. SCP used a coldly scientific depiction of horror leaving what's scary up to your imagination because it's shrouded in bureaucratic innuendo. It isn't just "here's spooky creatures to read descriptions of".

Store brand SCP-ified Backrooms doesn't work. “Endless maze that is a corruption of something your see daily like an office or a store ?” is a neat concept. “Now there’s 48,637 levels and each one has different monsters!” Zzzzzz.

Even SCP has become less about it's original concept and become thinly veiled showcases for fanfiction instead of summaries of enigmatic entities and artefacts.
 
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is a neat concept. “Now there’s 48,637 levels and each one has different monsters!”
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The Backrooms turned into a haunted house.

"There is this abadoned amusement park and it has a haunted house called The Backrooms. Once it was an ordinary office building but then it got cursed by a witch and now it has endless levels full of scaaary* monsters!"

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*scary for boring autists
 
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