GTFO is a Hole in the Ground I Cannot Leave

[@ThaneBishop]

Hey guys, small addendum; there's a small spoken error in the Viklund quote at around 13:43. What you see on the screen is correct, I somehow just said the wrong word during my take, and didn't notice until way too late.

[@The_MisterHands]

Bishop? The guy from GTFO?

[@Radi0inactivity]

I am really glad YT algorithm was kind and suggested your video about Dishonored. You have a great speaking voice and a wonderful thoughtfulness about the games you play that I vibe with 💖

[@LadyGameshine]

Yesssss! I'm very happy to have found that video too! It was a fantastic introduction, and I'm very happy to watch all of this now!

[@ValhallaRae]

Indeed. The young man is exceptionally well-spoken to boot! Cheers to him! 👏👏👊

[@R4yj4ck]

Speaking as someone who doesn't have any gaming friends to play this with, leaving us on that hook was BRUTAL (I get why, but still)

[@boinqity4621]

the discord and game have died down a bit in anticipation for the next game from the studio but if you look hard enough in discord servers for youtubers and elsewhere there will always be people willing to play this game

[@BlueAura]

@@boinqity4621 You don't need to look hard at all on the game's official discord server, dozens upon dozens of LFG (Looking for game) posts are made daily and most lobbies fill very quickly during peak hours. GTFO is at it's best when you play with friends since spoilers aren't an issue but the discord is a great alternative.

[@Delojos]

You can mod it to be scaled for solo duo or trio play if youd like. They dont discourage it as long as you dont join non modded lobbys with mods lol. I prefer this game solo or with 1 buddy.

[@Delojos]

I suggest R2 modmanager through thunderstore, after that you just download anything else through R2

[@goldenhorde6944]

It's so interesting how the cooperation and loadouts basically lead your friend group to recreate a class-based shooter from first principles, the way you described the mob attacks sound almost beat for beat like Mann versus Machine from TF2.

[@slendimano]

it's interesting cause it's technically roles, but one is never 'imprisoned' in the usual limitations of roles. u don't run faster or slower from taking a rifle or a sentry, you just kill the enemies better it's very funk :] it gives a lot of freedom for a game that is all about not having freedom

[@imblu6144]

Love the "Foreshadowing is a literary device" bit

[@magistrileges3417]

Me when GTFO video plays: "Welp... now I got to go back" Awesome video and you hit everything on the head. Especially everyone having different names for the enemies back in early access

[@PovKetz]

GTFO is such a fantastically unique game. stopped short of a couple rundowns about a year ago, but I get the feeling one day I'll be pulled back in to finish what I've started. Hard to find a comparable co-op game, which only furthers my excitement to see what 10 Chambers does with Den of Wolves.

[@AndreVBr]

Den of Wolves has a lot of potential for sure!

[@jonathanrobinson319]

Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

[@FPoP1911]

Tobias Fünke's "the man inside me" lost chapters as read by Thane in the first minute.

[@Ritley]

GTFO is the greatest Coop shooter I have ever played and I say that with full confidence. I found the game randomly while looking through Steam and tried it with 3 of my highschool buddies back in 2021. All 3 of them bounced off after a few hours, but I never did. I instead researched and looked for videos or forum posts about the game because I was that enthralled by it. Then once I returned to it after the release of Rundown 7 with a new group of friends I truly fell in love. The game is so unique and different from everything else in its genre, but that is what makes it great. You cannot find anything like this and the brutal, unforgiving nature of the game makes every victory feel like a true accomplishment and the highs are unlike any other game I've played. Just like you, I also cannot leave the hole, but I don't really want to either. The complex always yearns for more.

[@slendimano]

gtfo just truly hit the niche of stealth but also fun gunplay and along the way casually nailed every aspect of it involving sound, ambient, feel, story and just kept and kept going and im so happy it did :] i love this game it is just truly above and beyond what it looks

[@AndreVBr]

​@@slendimanoI always say gtfo is a stealth game as long as you don't know what you are doing. If you do, there are no consequences to waking up a room and being aggressive with your melee

[@slendimano]

@@AndreVBr still forces stealth sometimes, and depending on the room it can take a very long time to do that

[@Trailminer]

Been playing since 2021, and GTFO really does get its hooks into you. I'm approaching 600 hours in the game and have only finished about 2/3rds of the levels. It's one of my favorites to get the squad together and suffer for a few hours. My only complaint about the game is 10 Chambers' approach to weapon balance. GTFO is probably one of the best examples of poor weapon balance in a game that I've ever seen, just nerf the popular weapons, buff the unpopular ones, then nerf the now-popular weapons when the next rundown rolls around. Sniper went from the best giant killer in the game to a distant third behind scattergun and burst cannon, for basically no reason. It's unfortunate that 10 Chambers is moving on to Den of Wolves, I wish they'd go back and hit GTFO with another balancing pass before leaving the game forever.

[@GoToLate]

Glad someone shares my love for this game. It's not so much the difficulty that attracts me, but the design, atmosphere, sound, picture, story. Months later, when I'm not playing GTFO, I turn on the soundtrack from the game and experience the true emotion of immersion. Games can rarely do that.

[@Donovan-sy2sk]

Evil West?

[@ethanclark8600]

Thats what I was thinking. Played it with a friend and it was so broken and amazing

[@KyleB_95]

That looks like Evil West! If it is I'm pumped!

[@zovcy]

I am once again reminded that GTFO exists, and I still have no idea where to even start finding teammates, much less move on to having good ones, for such a game. And all that so I can justify getting it at all, because the level of cooperation and trust at play in what I've seen so far is awesome

[@Batsquid_]

The GTFO Discord remains a pretty solid place to look for teammates

[@Delojos]

​@@Batsquid_Or if you want to play solo or duo you can always mod in scaling and disable bots, evens the odds slightly

[@snadicavian]

17:35 The most sadistic, terror-inducing fade to black I've seen since SOMA. Well played.

[@Donovan-sy2sk]

I’ll make sure to give this game a try. Thank you making a video on it.

[@grimeyreaperz2794]

Super glad to see another youtuber i like talking about this game. Ive been watching Astralspiff's playthrough and its nice to see a more analytical approach to the game. Your videos are always a wonderful watch, keep up the amazing work!

[@TheLyricalCleric]

9:00 I’m getting serious Aliens vibes! Game over man, game over! (RIP Bill Paxton)

[@appalachiangaming]

Ah, dang, a GTFO vid from my favorite channel. If only my friends would listen to me recommending they get the game

[@elektra81516]

Their next game, Den of Wolves is going to be incredible considering how good GTFO is

[@squeethemog213]

I absolutely love GTFO. Unfortunately haven't been able to play it again due to one of my friends having to do hospice care for a loved one. Hopefully one day we'll be able ti play again and make it thru the hell of the Fog!

[@teemomcnuggets9513]

I havent tried to check GTFO out for myself... but even after the first 5 minutes of the video I'll definetly choose it once i can afford it or if its on sale! I heard of it back then when the Payday Dev decided to make his own game, but never got back to it, great video btw!

[@caustic_Crow]

if I wasn't fond of your content before, hearing one of my favourite hbomb lines sold me completely

[@RandomKenny]

Friend recommended this video to me. Super well put together! I hope you can find the answers down in the complex, and eventually get out of the hole.

[@MythBoy64]

Got to the Lock Melter section- Fun Fact! They don't wake sleepers! At least they didn't when we used one to open a box we knew had the keycard we needed and a TITAN WAS RIGHT NEXT TO IT. Most nervous I'd ever been sneaking up behind that thing.

[@MrJack556]

No one loves this game more than me.

[@W4nT4n]

Now I feel challenged :b

[@MrJack556]

I'm always looking for replacements.

[@wingnoot048]

Evil West is a beaut of a game. Throwing hands with Vampires remains my favourite near-modern fantasy element.

[@inthemiddleofsomecalibrations]

Great video! I've never heard of this game before, so this essay was quite informative. Also, your next video will be about Evil West, I'm sure of it! If that's actually the case, that'd make me really happy, by the way, I love Evil West, it's such a fun, grossly underappreciated action game.

[@hannahs.7297]

ive always wanted to play gtfo. all the screenshots i've seen of the game are grossly beautiful. unfortunately, i am a teenage girl who is bad at video games, terrible at horror, and even worse at making friends. the thought of hopping on call with a bunch of strangers to go into the death hole and shoot at monster makes me want to throw up. so i'm here. at the edge of the hole.

[@fersv4806]

Don’t worry I’m bad at horror and also Spanish speaker yet I love this game and even if there are assholes sometimes in the discord some people are willing to teach you, after all this game is work together or die together

[@thebastard890]

Being bad at stuff is the first step to being good at stuff. Go out and jump feet first into the hole and have fun

[@elios7623]

next video is evil west isn't it? let gooo also amazing analysis, I might bite the hook and play this game

[@rigbycarter2157]

I love your videos. You’re one of my favorite KZbinrs to periodically return too and rebinge. I’m happy to see another upload

[@izzy1221]

I hope the devs see this video! This is a great love letter to the game!

[@gumbusmcbumbus2087]

Thank you algorithm for showing me more amazing content. And man can’t wait to see someone finally talk about Evil West. It wasn’t perfect but it was easily one of my favorite niche games in recent years.

[@aclaymushroomwithaberet7084]

FINE I'LL PLAY THE GAME

[@TheVekuRommel]

But fr, GTFO is an incredible game.

[@nasutoe]

Loved this game when I first started playing it. After a few updates I hated it. I'm back to really liking it.

[@pedroscoponi4905]

Oooh. So it's like DRG, but without the warm comfort of Molly, or the silly hats, or the ROCK AND STONE! button. And also no option to stay forever on the easier difficulties fucking around with my friends... That sounds pretty cool, not gonna lie...

[@slendimano]

i've seen a lot of people compare it to DRG [and i played it a bit teehee], but i think it's comparisons are only rlly up on difficulty- on how it can break ur bones if it wants otherwise i think both feel vastly different in all ways, but maybe i need to play more drg to see it [i played enough gtfo already to be sure ksks]

[@KB-fk3jj]

Really liked the hbomberguy reference and you have pretty strong vibes as well. Going to be watching all your other essays now probably

[@DavidSmith-ox7xr]

That glowstick comment hit hard

[@Gman12453]

I still remember the Joey freak out on the scanner. Btw I'm creeping on all your videos at work today

[@aquaisuseful682]

GTFO is the one game where any random people you meet will Always try to work well and are so friendly.

[@thentil]

Man i love when people make a long format video about their love of a particular game. Neverknowsbest did several too; thank you for sharing your passion for this game ❤

[@magoshighlands4074]

Evil West? Interesting choice, I'm a sucker for a good old fashion Gear's 'Em Up

[@skylarkermott6210]

"As if this hole was made for me" *sweats in junji ito*

[@somewhereelse1235]

The scout clause is particularly funny to me, as another Getfo player, because my group found it really difficult to coordinate double kills on scouts with ranged weapons. As someone who always runs spear, I've been designated pokey boi when hunting down "twinks" (my group is very weird)

[@TheSpacemanSal]

Thanks, I wonder if Hardspace Shipbreaker ever came across your radar. You love the cyberpunk genre as much as I do, and it's yet another unique perspective in that type of world. It's very chill, and maybe not for everyone, but you may get a lot out of it as well 💜

[@emdeo]

This isn't my type of game but wow the vibes! I'm in love, I think I might need to go find some playthroughs of this to watch.

[@slendimano]

Funnily a sentry outside a door is bad too. All this in the context that you have 4 people, solo runs don't count. If one leaves a sentry or two outside the room, u might kill a few but once the door breaks, like the video shows, all the enemies will attack at once. The better play is just leaving the door opened, enemies trickle in instead of shoving the whole wave and the sentry has time to stall it as well as your teammates that or u just close the door, put a mine on it, maybe foam it and then just see the whole wave die without even needing to put a sentry up

[@Armorion]

Another great video, I'm not sure why the notifications for your channel were turned off, I swear I turned them on after the dishonored video but I'm glad the algorithm still showed the video to me this soon after the upload.

[@Nathan-b4o7y]

Fun fact you can look over your friend's shoulder and see their bio scanner screen

[@slendimano]

yeah but sadly it's just a png of the bios screen, it doesn't show any enemies ksks same for the thermals for example, they are just like the png of the sight but don't show any enemies or heat signatures

[@cybernetic2787]

Haven't even played the game and I need to buy it asap

[@TheDeepSeaCreature]

This hole in the ground is my medical debt

[@D-N-0]

Oh, your gonna do a video about evil west? Wouldn't expect that in any reality. Well, cant wait to see how much our expiriences are different with that game

[@Tattic1]

I started this game wanting to refund it in 2020 because it was so hard and didn't have many people to play with, then I found a group of people I clicked with. 900+ hrs in, we still playing because we want to plat the game by finding all backstory logs dislocated in terminals. It's mental 😆

[@Pdasniper]

I think you are this close to blowing up. Just have to work on your thumbnails. You have everything going for you, the only thing missing is the initial interest that makes people want to click on the video. This title is perfect, I had to click because I recognized the reference. But most other videos have sameish thumbnails with great titles.

[@basic2528]

Light is to GTFO how Sound is to a game like Hunt: Showdown. It is too important, too unique.

[@MyKingoflol]

Great video. To bad I’m not that into playing shooters. Lucky for me, I am a lore head and the algorithm knows this very well so the very first video in the recommended is an hour long dive into the story of GTFO.

[@TheDeepSeaCreature]

Criminally underrated game

[@DespereauxHarvey]

The end looks like what I imagine Remnant 2 is, though I havent had a chance to play it yet. Just has that Remnant feel to it. The cultist maybe

[@chrisheartman9263]

Love the Junji Ito reference in the thumbnail.

[@anthonyancel]

Excellent video!

[@theeviloverlord7168]

Great video!

[@tyrant351]

hell yeah Evil West

[@benjaminduperreault4447]

Comments for the algorithm gods

[@themilkman770]

I FUCKING LOVE EVIL WEST

[@nickjohnson398]

I have to fucking play this with my boys

[@kaewierdoni4640]

Can't wait to see evil west, recognized it immediately but have never played it, curious what I'll learn

[@michaeljcaboose1152]

Man I would love to play this game with you.

[@caesiumtable-baron7314]

Bro cannot G.T.F.O. of the hole.

[@ThatReplyGuy]

Evil West.

[@gregmcmill1798]

I bought gtfo without realizing there was NO matchmaking on launch, and they didn't add it until over a year later. Playing it solo was a no go ajd my friends weren't interested

[@D-N-0]

Its funny to listen to this when being a number nerd. Also quite frustrating. Sometimes i wonder - are we from different worlds?

[@RollMeAFat1]

“Play the game yourself” hahahaha no sir, I refuse to play that as I am a big scaredy cat, I eagerly await your follow up and will enjoy it greatly

[@AquaMidget]

Junji Ito reference?

[@victoresnox7832]

Holy shit, evil west is upcoming?

[@obkworld1]

Damn Evil West next?

[@TheVekuRommel]

Comment for the algorithim!

[@cottonmouth3912]

FOR THE ALGORITHM!

[@Rayalot72]

7:59 It would be nice if this were true, but it's really not. Of all of the Mains and Specials in the game, 7 of them greatly overshadow everything else, and only 6-7 more offer much else (either in specific contexts, or as support for the better 7 weapons). Everything else isn't worth using unless you're slotting it for fun.

[@michimatsch5862]

Wtf do you mean Evil West or GTFO are niche? Am I that out of touch with what is normal? All my friends know those two games.

[@BasementMinions]

OK. Glad enough the only one who feels crazy seeing that xD I'm in way too deep to the gaming news and release ecosystem

[@slendimano]

GTFO is niche in its gameplay and difficulty, not in its exposure to many people i mean it appeared in the TGA 3 different times, so people know, they just don't play or don't stick to it

[@masterofthelyokianmonsters2886]

20:58 Isn’t that the newish cowboy vampire hunter game?

[@TheRyderShotgunn]

well, i know the game at the end is evil west, but not much else

[@Halak014]

With the run down of items and gear, I'm just thinking "why not night-vision googles?" I get its a horror game, but like why send a team in without specific gear? Taking Sam Fisher as an inspiration... then again, those hordes would kill him too. That story hook sounds like mix of 'cake is a lie' and 'Would you kindly'....

[@michimatsch5862]

@@Halak014 ... Honestly yeah. Maybe they could just throw in a line or two for why night vision gear doesn't work in those environments because it seems like a massive help.

[@fersv4806]

You are prisoners and death row inmates, the weapons are basically the worst they could give you, basically your purpose is to be a rat experiment of how to create soldiers without memories

[@slendimano]

fun fact for all of you, there is thermal sights on two guns

[@ZeninToji97]

4:40 Tupacs

[@theratpotato6083]

Evil West?!?

[@welcometothehouse]

I've been wanting to play GTFO but I don't have friends to play with and dislike playing with randoms. Anyone who's played, how viable do you think starting this game solo would be? I love punishing games that force perfection and I beat COD Ghosts extinction mode solo many times. Let me know how possible a solo start would be!

[@slendimano]

well you have the options for bots, which are serviceable and work well for most missions [although naturally they make them a bit harder in some ways, like for example they don't wake enemies up but they cannot kill sleeping enemies either so the weight it's on you] and consequently, the very bottom of the barrel missions are impossible or extremely difficult with bots full solo it's a challenge more than a feasible way to play, but still possible although only with a lot more experience and knowledge

[@AndreVBr]

It all depends on how much effort you want to put into the game. It's's one of those cases where knowledge is power. Solo is possible, as long as you know REALLY well what you are doing.

[@slendimano]

@@AndreVBr u still never play solo just cuz it exists- it's challenge still

[@Cernunn0s90]

Is GTFO finished? Does the story actually have an ending?

[@slendimano]

it does! rundown 8 is the ending

[@michimatsch5862]

Gtfo is Amigara Falls to some people, yeah.

[@willywallyb2379]

Evil west it looks like :)

[@Brenntron]

Is that ending screenshot Evil West?

[@raysaunderson7829]

Hello Mr Bishop, Have you heard of a new release called nobody wants to die? I think you might like it.

[@HewlettSean]

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[@UnabridgedGamer]

So the next one’s gonna be Evil West?

[@supermrmainman]

I watch videos on games I’m not interested in just go hear what you think about them. In case you were curious about how good your content is.

[@LisaWoods-x8i]

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[@kailutz4901]

Dude. Did you take writing classes or something?

[@metametang7628]

nexy games remnant then?

[@FreelanceCarmine]

Oh. That's 'Evil West' but you know what? I think the video will begin with Evil West and then pivot to 'Darkwatch.' Don't really know why. Just call it a hunch.

[@Vicky-ps3ir]

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