Just wanted to let you know that this has been a goated resource for working out my own rendition of the story. Just playing the game, terms like "kovac" and "project insight" get lost in the sauce fast. Thank you
Im so sad abt the alternate team :( Thank you for making this!! I've been watching Spiff's GTFO videos and I've been really confused about the lore, and your explanation is so clear! much love ❤
24:37 So the ALTERNATIVE Rundowns that are alternate versions of the original Rundowns from Pre-Alpha or Alpha are alternate dimensions of each other and the prisoners from two dimensions merged? The devs are such geniuses.
Mad respect to people like you Scaler to brain and compile these complex and extremely detailed lore for lazy people like me who is interested in the lore but doesn't have the willpower to dig too deep into it 👍 Nonetheless, thanks for this video, you are awesome!
Honestly I’m quite sure the head researcher of the expedition to the other dimension would most likely take every precaution necessary to make sure they weren’t infected, so hopefully we got our happy ending . And I loved the video, and I’m now subscribed.
16:20 That’s a terrifying concept. Gluons are the subatomic particle (or force) holding all the other ones together. Screwing with them, or somehow negating them. Means your matter just falls apart. Only thing that could stop such a beam would be… well either actually nothing or just enough matter till it’s negated. Half life has a gun based on this concept called the Gluon Gun. Not really done justice in game, but it’s rightfully the highest DPS weapon in it. (Black Mesa’s rendition also looks cool af)
Been around since rundown 2. Play very sporadically. But, DAMN! i love coming to Professor Scaler's lore vids. Your OG lore video got me back into the game after i had stopped playing for a while. Excited to see what comes next.
I still have a few questions. Why did both teams dimension merged?? If good Shafer was there, does that mean the aliens were there too? What if they had restored the cooling system, would the aliens have erraticated the virus? The new world they got to, there is also a dimension teleportor there, does that mean humans created that in this dimension? If so, where are they? This games truly screams for a sequel. They have so much awesome lore. I truly hope the developers make a sequel to this. Could make a sequel where the aliens manage to stop the nuclear meltdown.
(Spoilers if you haven't completed Rundown 8.) The level order (By events) in r8 when you finished it: A1 starts with A2 starting mid-level of A1, both finish in order. B1 starts and finishes. B2 starts with B3 starting mid-level and B2 finish mid-level of B3 then it finishes. B4 starts and finishes. C2 starts with C1 starting mid-level with both finishing close to each other. (Time wise) D1 and D2 start and finishes pretty much the same time. E2 starts with E1 starting during the boss fight in E2, (Or during the end of the reactor mission.) E2 finishes before E1 with the Original-team escaping then E1 ends with the deaths of the Alt-team. Alt-team's progression: Original-team's progression: A1 A2 B1 B3 B2 B4 C1 C2 D1 D2 E1 E2
Thank you for the lore summary and compilations! Been waiting for a while xD Perhaps a new jargon shall be sounded, something like “When guide on 100% Achievement?” Just kidding, or maybee....
Can anyone answer how we were supposed to know the original GTFO Schaefer. Im a recent GTFO player and have only been through OGR7 before all the missions became Alt. But with the shift into the alt missions and timeline. I never got to really realize what the duality of Schaefer which I feel is such an important piece to the story
I’ve been thinking for a while, have you compile what each of the rundown sequence purposes? Maybe that will be a new “Rundown Lore” videos xD. Just like how R8E1 purpose is giving all the necessary requirement items for the original squad on rundown R8E2, and how R8E2 purposes is to guide alternate squad to give their necessity and escape using those items.
Sorry for the wall of text, I just have so many questions and issues with GTFO's lore sadly. Honestly glad to finally have this lore video, I went through all the lore logs to fully understand the story, at least the alt logs and it took me over 7 hours to read it all and my brain was so fried I couldn't keep holding information. So many sub plots that have nothing to do with the story and so many vague answers that it was just terrible to try and understand. Thanks to this video however I now understand much more then I originally thought. One piece of lore sub plot that I found the most interesting was the lore about the team dispatched to garganta to try and find a patient zero to find a cure and when they arrived they said they found the main entrance shaft and heard mechanical noises from the hole like a pully system and after a while heard it start up again, we never had a log from them after they went down into the shaft if they ever did but one suggests they may have but died before making another report. This DOES however suggest that our story starts before this team arrives meaning the world outside was still sort of there, they mentioned cubas government helping them reach the site so some people were still alive outside while we were being sent on missions. The questions tho that I still have is why were the collectors collecting these samples? Trying to make a cure and somehow accidentally colliding with earth while teleporting? If they crashed 65 million years ago did they live dormant in the crash till humanity was able to thrive and help? If they did crash land into earth then they are the cause of allowing humanity to thrive and if so how did these other dimensions have humans in it too unless there were multiple collectors of either different teams or different dimensions and they messed up the same way as each other? which I guess is possible. If the warden program is alien then why did those who noticed it told others to ignore it because it was functioning as normal despite it clearly not since the warden was foreign unless the warden controlled them to say to ignore it somehow? If in the lore logs it is said that DR. Durants dimension he was in moved significantly faster then the one we were in how was he still alive when we finally arrived and not died long ago? Could the team that made it be from ANOTHER dimension one that moves even faster then durants? Also why did the collectors need the humans to look into the artifacts if they understood them enough to jump dimensions unless the collectors are not from another dimension? Evidence suggests they are from another dimension so like in the 65million years they somehow couldn't just warp to another dimension, one were they wouldn't be stuck inside a planet? Considering they somehow survived that long? Idk, so many questions and no answers just feels like a ton of plot holes, I know you said they wanted more story for the game but I feel all of this was just WAAAAY to blown out of proportion. IMO I wish they didn't do multiverse/dimension travel and just went with we were clones and made more use of the rise project and we were just trying to find a planet that could sustain life and move humanity to said planet to survive with the help of the aliens but I guess that would of been too simple lol.
Help me up with one subplot, since you've read the wiki. In the first missions of R8 there is an audio log of a woman, crying over a miscarriage and then presumably physically taking the fetus out. It's really disturbing and she also mentions her husband's name is John. Do you know what this is about and is it connected to Schaeffer? It was just so disturbing it lives in my head and I can't place it what to do with it.
@@Pdasniper I think there is another audio log with her in it else were, were she calls him schaeffer while she's locked in a room while he is banging on the door IIRC. But yes it is supposed to be john schaeffer and if it's not then there must be more then one john on the work force but if they didn't want people to think it was schaeffer they wouldn't have named him john or had her say another name. As for the reasoning behind it, other then telling the players john was supposed to be a father idk but assumptions made that his wife or partner who got pregnant ended up becoming infected or the baby in her womb did and she started to go crazy as some other audio files suggests people go insane while they are turning/infected. She could of just been having a mental breakdown becuase she seemed to flip between calling out to john for help to "Not wanting to carry that bastards child" and then possibly killing it herself before pulling it out on her own somehow, essentially performing an abortion on herself, it is unknown if this person was a doctor or not but considering she was in the complex with john at the time she must of had an education level worth hiring for some reason. Sadly tho the GTFO story was supposed to be longer but due to a few reasons they decided to wrap it up early leaving a lot of the subplots unfinished and I think this must of been one of them left unfinished, I think state of truth was the only subplot that had a proper ending but other then that I can't recall others that did. It would be neat if they used that website the have for secret lore logs to be found to complete all the unfinished sub plots since all the sub plots are terminal based so they could just make a few audio files or at the very least just write out some files and say the audio is corrupted so we can have an official ending to the subplots to read if anything.
I got curious about this particular subplot too and had done some research in the logs, as it was a long time ago I can be mistaken, but I'm fairly certain she's the psychologist that we see in some logs. I remember trying to figure if it was her or another woman that I don't remember right now, I'll need to double check to deepen this comment. Going to your original comment, from what I understood from the video, the collectors must not be present physically on Earth. We can see that they were collecting samples of the virus, and as it's highly infectious, they could've made the Warden as the AI controlling things, that can also explain why it needed humans to develop the whole complex and research teams to make the dimension thingy as it couldn't build things, just operate what it had available. I wouldn't say this is certainly what happened as I haven't read most of the logs, but it's what I figured watching the video. Ps: Remembered something just now, there are a few logs related to when Bishop got back on the Alt dimension if I'm not mistaken, there's that line that was like: the DNA was the same but it isn't his things (helmet or something like that), probably hitting that the original Bishop has gotten into the Alt dimension. (Gotta go through those logs again 😓 )
It’s possible the collectors or the warden may just want to infect everything and every dimension. So maybe they know the team is infect or know by sending them there it will infect the last remaining clean dimension.
felt bad for the Alt team, we worked together for freedom 🦅. but yeah, 2 of you cant exist in the save universe. though it'll be funny. 10C deserve more recognition for GTFO. this game is on a league of its own.
I honestly do like how ridiculous and complex the story is in GTFO. It reminds me a lot of the Dark Souls story in that it is actually pretty deep, just not very explicit, you have to look for it. And I like that. If only my friend group hadn't stopped playing around rundown 2 (alt) and make me go solo from there.. seriously [bot]Hackett just pick up and distribute the FUCKING AMMO!!
@@ProfessorScaler makes sense,apparently it might also be what happened to the "nightmare universe team" but I have no clue about that Thanks for awnsering though!
I hope the devs behind this game (10 chambers I think they are called) will work on another games, because tho this is successfull and has it's own audience, it would suck that they became a one trick wonder. It would suck eespecially because most of the team are Starbreeze/Overkill survivors
I'm glad this video exists. The lore of the game seems very interesting. However, I really have issues with how it's presented. I have 100 hours in the game (I know, not a lot by some standards) and I know next to nothing about it. The lore is just hidden away in computer terminals that you often forget to even check. I wish it was presented better, I wish objectives in game actually felt meaningful to the story. Or any story. They all feel arbitrary until rundown 8 I assume Okay after finishing this video, I'm left pretty disappointed. Up until the rundown 8 section I was liking the plot and worldbuilding. But as the two teams somehow converged into the same timeline (If I missed the explanation as to how two teams from alternate realities just mixed up do correct me) it started to lose me. If there's one thing I hate and I'm biased is characters going through hell and getting a shitty ending. That last arena is a boring gray ditch. The last enemies you see are the first enemies you encounter, the basic ass shooters and strikers. All of this for the other team to MAYBE make it out into some dark gloomy outside.
Is it weird that I don't really like the lore? The multiple dimensions thing is massively overused at this point, especially when they treat the different dimensions as distinct realities that have basically no interaction with each other. And the trope of having aliens secretly helping people diminishes the accomplishments of the characters in my opinion. With that said, it could have been a whole lot worse and the developers seem to have done a good job of explaining things, even if I don't care for the direction they took it.
Being overused isn't a bad thing because it's not always bad that everyone is doing the same thing. Samewise, the rundowns are alternate way before R8, since the two dimensions are merging, possibly because of the alien influence. Lastly, just because an alien enables our quartet to do their best, doesn't mean that their best doesn't matter. If the characters didn't matter at all or were diminished through being helped by an alien, then why would the alien help the characters at all, if it could just do their work alone? I hope you can understand what I'm saying.
ok this is a great video and all but why did you sound like an annoyed/defeated teenager in the intro? I don't mean to spread hate, it's just that I nearly clicked off thinking that it would continue through the whole video
Ah, that's definitely not the vibe I was trying to give off there. Was aiming more for a somber/mysterious tone with the intro. I suppose being constantly asked by the community for lore video after lore video after lore video for multiple years, and all the hours of research this video took, showed itself in my voice during the intro. I'm glad you stuck through and watched it to the end though.
So the finally is open ended, so if you want to think it's a happy ending for the OG folks, you can, or you could be cynical about it. Either way, nice wrap up of the lore!
Obviously a lot of effort has gone into this! On behalf of 10C and the GTFO community we thank you for all the educational content you've put out 🫡
Hope there could be a similar game made in the future that is improved from all the things the team learned from gtfo o7
You crushed it, what a banger of a finale for GTFO. Thanks
Are there ten chambers in the weird alien mass?
Is it all right thought?
A sequel where you are teleported into infected worlds to collect materials or save people would be interesting. Call it GTFB
We can only hope
they should make a game but its not a game theres jusrt a room and in the rtoom is a cat and you pet tthe cat and its call PTC
(pet the catt)
on the saving people idea
GTTFO
(Get Them The F*ck Out)
Warden has assembled the crack commando team to save the world (queue in the A Team theme)
@@RookieREXabsolutely genius.
Just wanted to let you know that this has been a goated resource for working out my own rendition of the story. Just playing the game, terms like "kovac" and "project insight" get lost in the sauce fast. Thank you
getting a prequel rundown of the expedition into the mass and the final stand off that we didn't see would be awesome
Im so sad abt the alternate team :( Thank you for making this!! I've been watching Spiff's GTFO videos and I've been really confused about the lore, and your explanation is so clear! much love ❤
Fellow plinker spotted, plink initiated
@@iliapachulia9012 plinK
not a spig enjoyer
Perfect timing! I’ve been dying for someone to explain the story of this game, not many lore videos on this game’s unique and complex story
respectfully, i had to put you at 1.25x playback speed. Keep up the great work!
24:37 So the ALTERNATIVE Rundowns that are alternate versions of the original Rundowns from Pre-Alpha or Alpha are alternate dimensions of each other and the prisoners from two dimensions merged? The devs are such geniuses.
Mad respect to people like you Scaler to brain and compile these complex and extremely detailed lore for lazy people like me who is interested in the lore but doesn't have the willpower to dig too deep into it 👍
Nonetheless, thanks for this video, you are awesome!
Seconded!! I'm in the same boat as you, interested in the lore but won't ever play the game
Honestly I’m quite sure the head researcher of the expedition to the other dimension would most likely take every precaution necessary to make sure they weren’t infected, so hopefully we got our happy ending . And I loved the video, and I’m now subscribed.
Let’s go, GTFO lore
Been waiting soooo long for this!
16:20 That’s a terrifying concept. Gluons are the subatomic particle (or force) holding all the other ones together. Screwing with them, or somehow negating them. Means your matter just falls apart. Only thing that could stop such a beam would be… well either actually nothing or just enough matter till it’s negated.
Half life has a gun based on this concept called the Gluon Gun. Not really done justice in game, but it’s rightfully the highest DPS weapon in it. (Black Mesa’s rendition also looks cool af)
Been around since rundown 2. Play very sporadically. But, DAMN! i love coming to Professor Scaler's lore vids. Your OG lore video got me back into the game after i had stopped playing for a while. Excited to see what comes next.
Id like to think somewhere in their storyline, that the crew that got left behind, found a way out and somehow made it home.
I still have a few questions. Why did both teams dimension merged?? If good Shafer was there, does that mean the aliens were there too? What if they had restored the cooling system, would the aliens have erraticated the virus? The new world they got to, there is also a dimension teleportor there, does that mean humans created that in this dimension? If so, where are they?
This games truly screams for a sequel. They have so much awesome lore. I truly hope the developers make a sequel to this. Could make a sequel where the aliens manage to stop the nuclear meltdown.
(Spoilers if you haven't completed Rundown 8.)
The level order (By events) in r8 when you finished it:
A1 starts with A2 starting mid-level of A1, both finish in order.
B1 starts and finishes.
B2 starts with B3 starting mid-level and B2 finish mid-level of B3 then it finishes.
B4 starts and finishes.
C2 starts with C1 starting mid-level with both finishing close to each other. (Time wise)
D1 and D2 start and finishes pretty much the same time.
E2 starts with E1 starting during the boss fight in E2, (Or during the end of the reactor mission.) E2 finishes before
E1 with the Original-team escaping then E1 ends with the deaths of the Alt-team.
Alt-team's progression: Original-team's progression:
A1 A2
B1 B3
B2 B4
C1 C2
D1 D2
E1 E2
3 min into the vid and I have to say that your voice is so melodic!! I love it :)
1:55 Massive? you know what else is Massive?
25:52 oohh that's why in the rundowns menu says: ALT//R1-6
But not in rundown 7 and 8
Thank you for the lore summary and compilations! Been waiting for a while xD
Perhaps a new jargon shall be sounded, something like “When guide on 100% Achievement?” Just kidding, or maybee....
Good job on the collection of the lore it’s been really nice to hear about the storyline since I don’t really get to recognise it in game
Can anyone answer how we were supposed to know the original GTFO Schaefer. Im a recent GTFO player and have only been through OGR7 before all the missions became Alt. But with the shift into the alt missions and timeline. I never got to really realize what the duality of Schaefer which I feel is such an important piece to the story
I’ve been thinking for a while, have you compile what each of the rundown sequence purposes? Maybe that will be a new “Rundown Lore” videos xD.
Just like how R8E1 purpose is giving all the necessary requirement items for the original squad on rundown R8E2, and how R8E2 purposes is to guide alternate squad to give their necessity and escape using those items.
Thank you for your time and dedication this story was freaking epic!
Awesome video, finally understand why i suffer so much in all this rundowns XDD. Thanks Scaler!
Sorry for the wall of text, I just have so many questions and issues with GTFO's lore sadly.
Honestly glad to finally have this lore video, I went through all the lore logs to fully understand the story, at least the alt logs and it took me over 7 hours to read it all and my brain was so fried I couldn't keep holding information. So many sub plots that have nothing to do with the story and so many vague answers that it was just terrible to try and understand. Thanks to this video however I now understand much more then I originally thought.
One piece of lore sub plot that I found the most interesting was the lore about the team dispatched to garganta to try and find a patient zero to find a cure and when they arrived they said they found the main entrance shaft and heard mechanical noises from the hole like a pully system and after a while heard it start up again, we never had a log from them after they went down into the shaft if they ever did but one suggests they may have but died before making another report. This DOES however suggest that our story starts before this team arrives meaning the world outside was still sort of there, they mentioned cubas government helping them reach the site so some people were still alive outside while we were being sent on missions.
The questions tho that I still have is why were the collectors collecting these samples? Trying to make a cure and somehow accidentally colliding with earth while teleporting? If they crashed 65 million years ago did they live dormant in the crash till humanity was able to thrive and help? If they did crash land into earth then they are the cause of allowing humanity to thrive and if so how did these other dimensions have humans in it too unless there were multiple collectors of either different teams or different dimensions and they messed up the same way as each other? which I guess is possible. If the warden program is alien then why did those who noticed it told others to ignore it because it was functioning as normal despite it clearly not since the warden was foreign unless the warden controlled them to say to ignore it somehow? If in the lore logs it is said that DR. Durants dimension he was in moved significantly faster then the one we were in how was he still alive when we finally arrived and not died long ago? Could the team that made it be from ANOTHER dimension one that moves even faster then durants? Also why did the collectors need the humans to look into the artifacts if they understood them enough to jump dimensions unless the collectors are not from another dimension? Evidence suggests they are from another dimension so like in the 65million years they somehow couldn't just warp to another dimension, one were they wouldn't be stuck inside a planet? Considering they somehow survived that long? Idk, so many questions and no answers just feels like a ton of plot holes, I know you said they wanted more story for the game but I feel all of this was just WAAAAY to blown out of proportion. IMO I wish they didn't do multiverse/dimension travel and just went with we were clones and made more use of the rise project and we were just trying to find a planet that could sustain life and move humanity to said planet to survive with the help of the aliens but I guess that would of been too simple lol.
Help me up with one subplot, since you've read the wiki. In the first missions of R8 there is an audio log of a woman, crying over a miscarriage and then presumably physically taking the fetus out. It's really disturbing and she also mentions her husband's name is John. Do you know what this is about and is it connected to Schaeffer?
It was just so disturbing it lives in my head and I can't place it what to do with it.
@@Pdasniper I think there is another audio log with her in it else were, were she calls him schaeffer while she's locked in a room while he is banging on the door IIRC. But yes it is supposed to be john schaeffer and if it's not then there must be more then one john on the work force but if they didn't want people to think it was schaeffer they wouldn't have named him john or had her say another name.
As for the reasoning behind it, other then telling the players john was supposed to be a father idk but assumptions made that his wife or partner who got pregnant ended up becoming infected or the baby in her womb did and she started to go crazy as some other audio files suggests people go insane while they are turning/infected. She could of just been having a mental breakdown becuase she seemed to flip between calling out to john for help to "Not wanting to carry that bastards child" and then possibly killing it herself before pulling it out on her own somehow, essentially performing an abortion on herself, it is unknown if this person was a doctor or not but considering she was in the complex with john at the time she must of had an education level worth hiring for some reason.
Sadly tho the GTFO story was supposed to be longer but due to a few reasons they decided to wrap it up early leaving a lot of the subplots unfinished and I think this must of been one of them left unfinished, I think state of truth was the only subplot that had a proper ending but other then that I can't recall others that did. It would be neat if they used that website the have for secret lore logs to be found to complete all the unfinished sub plots since all the sub plots are terminal based so they could just make a few audio files or at the very least just write out some files and say the audio is corrupted so we can have an official ending to the subplots to read if anything.
@@darkmagic1516 thanks for the reply, it was really insightful!
I got curious about this particular subplot too and had done some research in the logs, as it was a long time ago I can be mistaken, but I'm fairly certain she's the psychologist that we see in some logs.
I remember trying to figure if it was her or another woman that I don't remember right now, I'll need to double check to deepen this comment.
Going to your original comment, from what I understood from the video, the collectors must not be present physically on Earth. We can see that they were collecting samples of the virus, and as it's highly infectious, they could've made the Warden as the AI controlling things, that can also explain why it needed humans to develop the whole complex and research teams to make the dimension thingy as it couldn't build things, just operate what it had available. I wouldn't say this is certainly what happened as I haven't read most of the logs, but it's what I figured watching the video.
Ps: Remembered something just now, there are a few logs related to when Bishop got back on the Alt dimension if I'm not mistaken, there's that line that was like: the DNA was the same but it isn't his things (helmet or something like that), probably hitting that the original Bishop has gotten into the Alt dimension. (Gotta go through those logs again 😓 )
It was a jorney! been around since rundown03 and man this game is so unique , its always sad when you reach the last page
"Everything that has a beginning has an end, Neo."
It’s possible the collectors or the warden may just want to infect everything and every dimension. So maybe they know the team is infect or know by sending them there it will infect the last remaining clean dimension.
Outstanding work Scaler. Love your work.
Oh man I love me that video game lore, keep it up!!
So no more „when is the lore video coming?“ :( ?
don't worry the question will never die
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
When is the lore video coming tho?
Im just getting into GTFO and i really hope the servers are still alive for me to finish it one day.
hey! i believe that the game runs on local hosting, so as long as the game can be launched you should be able to play it with friends :)
amazing vid, love ur stuff!
I truly hope we get to SOMEHOW see an interaction between bishop and durant
Longlyyy awaited one!
felt bad for the Alt team, we worked together for freedom 🦅. but yeah, 2 of you cant exist in the save universe.
though it'll be funny.
10C deserve more recognition for GTFO. this game is on a league of its own.
Does this mean that the alternative team remained in the complex and died under the onslaught of the sleepers or exploded along with the Garganta? :(
I honestly do like how ridiculous and complex the story is in GTFO. It reminds me a lot of the Dark Souls story in that it is actually pretty deep, just not very explicit, you have to look for it. And I like that.
If only my friend group hadn't stopped playing around rundown 2 (alt) and make me go solo from there.. seriously [bot]Hackett just pick up and distribute the FUCKING AMMO!!
oh it's time boys
I wonder tho...what in your opinion is up with the R8A2 secoundary? That one is a tricky little thIng and Im curious what you think of it
R8A2 Secondary has no connection to the lore. It's purely an Easter Egg that some of the devs wanted to have fun with.
@@ProfessorScaler makes sense,apparently it might also be what happened to the "nightmare universe team" but I have no clue about that
Thanks for awnsering though!
How did both teams get into the same dimension? For rundown 8
Damn didnt know that game had such a deep lore behind it
Watch on 1.5 fixes his voice
I hope the devs behind this game (10 chambers I think they are called) will work on another games, because tho this is successfull and has it's own audience, it would suck that they became a one trick wonder. It would suck eespecially because most of the team are Starbreeze/Overkill survivors
This is giving me some CoD Zombies vibes in terms of story telling, and honestly I'm all for it if that is the case.
Really cool story. but i dont get how the two teams end up in same dimension at rundown 8. can someone tell?
I'm glad this video exists. The lore of the game seems very interesting. However, I really have issues with how it's presented. I have 100 hours in the game (I know, not a lot by some standards) and I know next to nothing about it. The lore is just hidden away in computer terminals that you often forget to even check.
I wish it was presented better, I wish objectives in game actually felt meaningful to the story. Or any story. They all feel arbitrary until rundown 8 I assume
Okay after finishing this video, I'm left pretty disappointed. Up until the rundown 8 section I was liking the plot and worldbuilding. But as the two teams somehow converged into the same timeline (If I missed the explanation as to how two teams from alternate realities just mixed up do correct me) it started to lose me. If there's one thing I hate and I'm biased is characters going through hell and getting a shitty ending. That last arena is a boring gray ditch. The last enemies you see are the first enemies you encounter, the basic ass shooters and strikers. All of this for the other team to MAYBE make it out into some dark gloomy outside.
Brilliant.
What if we... repeat cycle in GTFO?
Is it weird that I don't really like the lore? The multiple dimensions thing is massively overused at this point, especially when they treat the different dimensions as distinct realities that have basically no interaction with each other. And the trope of having aliens secretly helping people diminishes the accomplishments of the characters in my opinion. With that said, it could have been a whole lot worse and the developers seem to have done a good job of explaining things, even if I don't care for the direction they took it.
Ya, having multiple dimensions or multiverses in any story sucks. It leaves too much on the table. To many unanswered questions.
Being overused isn't a bad thing because it's not always bad that everyone is doing the same thing.
Samewise, the rundowns are alternate way before R8, since the two dimensions are merging, possibly because of the alien influence.
Lastly, just because an alien enables our quartet to do their best, doesn't mean that their best doesn't matter. If the characters didn't matter at all or were diminished through being helped by an alien, then why would the alien help the characters at all, if it could just do their work alone?
I hope you can understand what I'm saying.
but when is the next lore video going to release mr. scaler?
terminal
ok this is a great video and all but why did you sound like an annoyed/defeated teenager in the intro? I don't mean to spread hate, it's just that I nearly clicked off thinking that it would continue through the whole video
Ah, that's definitely not the vibe I was trying to give off there. Was aiming more for a somber/mysterious tone with the intro.
I suppose being constantly asked by the community for lore video after lore video after lore video for multiple years, and all the hours of research this video took, showed itself in my voice during the intro. I'm glad you stuck through and watched it to the end though.
inb4 scaler makes modded lore videos
So the finally is open ended, so if you want to think it's a happy ending for the OG folks, you can, or you could be cynical about it.
Either way, nice wrap up of the lore!
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your voice has a neat cadence.
hum
sad
I really wanted to watch your video, but the way you keep raising and lowering the pitch of your voice, like it's some sort of tale was too annoying
et-cet-er-a not egsedra