What you do here on this channel is important, it is called art, and thank you so much for it.
@l0os176
10 ай бұрын
Cheers dude. It's funny, well into our adult years, seems like most of us wouldn't recommend spending time on video games like we used to. Every once in a while though, we get a reunion, a record, or simply a great playthrough that takes us back, if only for a little bit. I liked hearing this story about how you got yours.
@MelonInDisguise
10 ай бұрын
Honestly didn't know much about quake speedrunning before this channel. It's been very interesting learning the intricacies of it.
@Wobbothe3rd
10 ай бұрын
Doom and then Quake invented speedrunning.
@Jak_To_Mozliwe
10 ай бұрын
The way he speaks about it, makes it entertainment.
@anonymous-b6n
10 ай бұрын
Same stuff buddy, but it's sooo relaxing and satisfying to watch
@l-l
10 ай бұрын
Same boat
@SamTahbou
10 ай бұрын
welcome to the know
@mcbain257
10 ай бұрын
Great to see you back with another great video! It kinda surprised me to hear that people challenged your qualification on doing a channel such as this. Your track record and knowledge of the game is clear enough for people to see, if they want to... Either way, congrats on your new record!
@quakespeedrunsexplained
10 ай бұрын
Thanks! To be clear, almost no-one was rude about it. Just casual viewers who were curious :)
@SerathDarklands
10 ай бұрын
There's a difference between "self-indulgent" and "earned glory". You absolutely deserve to make a video like this when you establish a world record. Well done, dude, and congrats.
@jonaskoelker
Ай бұрын
I don't speedrun any games. When I watch runs, I enjoy them the most when there's commentary explaining the techniques, strategies, routing, i.e. commentary explaining the thinking. When the message is "here's what I did and how I did it"-and not just "I'm awesome"-there's nothing self-indulgent about it; it's exactly the speedrunning content I'm hoping for. [Other great examples: Ocarina of Time by (then) Cosmo Wright, in 22m38s; and blindfolded Mike Tyson's Punch-Out by Sinister1, explaining all the opponent patterns, sound cues and the like.]
@j0zz1e
10 ай бұрын
You definately left your mark in Quake speedrunning. Glad you gave it a shot. ❤
@trendkillsp
10 ай бұрын
Wow, I like your videos a lot, but knowing your history just added up a lot to the history. Keep us entertained, my friend!
@SaltyOctopus
10 ай бұрын
Thank you for the new video and sharing a bit of your history! You did it in a very humble way, and I think your fans are all happy to see content like this, despite you saying you never really wanted to talk about yourself. Keep up the great work!
@Ostinat0
10 ай бұрын
>"ok here's the most self-indulgent video I've ever made" >spends half the video talking about the shoulders he stood on >spends the second half of the video saying "I think I did alright" Blessed lad. Was fun to watch another old guy see if he's still got it :)
@MagnusDangerMagnus
10 ай бұрын
One of my favourite channels. I feel very lucky that something so perfectly tailored to my interests exists.
@-Kerstin
10 ай бұрын
This video was especially good. It's rare to find anything as well explained as this
@ilkkakurkela9609
10 ай бұрын
Wow what a great video and congrats for an excellent and well deserved record 😎 this was also a great personal nostalgy trip to the days of my quake speedrunning. Haven’t done a speedrun myself for 20 years and this map was one of my favorites. Glad to be featured in the video. Huge respect and keep up the great work! Perhaps I will try speedrunning myself one day again too…? Lets see 😉
@quakespeedrunsexplained
10 ай бұрын
Ilkka! Great to see you here. Thanks for the inspiration over the years :) Yes I think everyone would love to see a demo from you again!!
@d1sable
10 ай бұрын
We want more. Master story teller. So chilled. Congrats dude from a fellow oldy.
@richardmoore8614
10 ай бұрын
I stop everything when you upload a vid, my man! Looking forward to this one
@SDygP
10 ай бұрын
Absolutely love your videos, thanks for telling your own story and giving us a bit of your own story with this marvellous game!
@JoshGreenburg
10 ай бұрын
Beautiful run! Glad to see one of the OG legends still has it in him to compete at the highest level!
@perteks7639
10 ай бұрын
Speedruners are different kind of breed god damn you people are amazing, the dedication is always something insanely inspiring
@nickgovier
10 ай бұрын
I love your slomos, especially with multiple runs on screen at once. It really demonstrates the improvements visually.
@BLACKLOTUS46
10 ай бұрын
Are u not already qualified juste because u like the game ?
@kurzackd
7 ай бұрын
Everything alright, bro ? :O It's been *MONTHS* since you've done a vid... O_o .
@TaohRihze
10 ай бұрын
Is it possible to wait with the jump over the spike wall to get a smoother curve over the wall and land toward the teleporter instead of resetting speed on top?
@quakespeedrunsexplained
10 ай бұрын
you can jump a little bit before falling, which would saving a tiny fraction of a second (muty did it in his nightmare 100% run). Unfortunately the roof is too low to smoothly 'curve' over the trap
@xzimnut
10 ай бұрын
> Sets a record > Stops playing for 19 years > Comes back and set a new record > Refuses to el… Well actually no, you elaborated a lot, but that makes it even better. Thanks for this great video!
@evanbooth1441
10 ай бұрын
Man, I so enjoy these videos.
@c0wg0d
10 ай бұрын
Love your channel, and congrats on your new record!
@juanchol21
10 ай бұрын
really good video, you are helping the quake speedrunning community a lot!
@br2134
10 ай бұрын
Don’t feel nervous about featuring your own runs, holding the record for decades more than qualifies you and it’s an interesting map to explain
@neobrutalist5233
10 ай бұрын
An absolute vibe of a channel.
@trucid2
6 ай бұрын
Back in 2004 we had some of the early optical mice but they weren't as good as the laser mice are today. Keyboards, too, improved from membrane to mechanical ones optimized for gaming. While you didn't touch on this topic, it probably made a difference at least in the consistency of the execution.
@quakespeedrunsexplained
6 ай бұрын
yep, it's a different game with modern mice!
@reptongeek
10 ай бұрын
I always look forward to these. I don't mind that they take time to produce as it makes them more special One thing I would mention, you didn't state upfront which difficulty the run was on. Those of us in the know will understand you are talking about Easy 100% judging by the fact that there are only 14 enemies but I always wonder initially if you are talking about Easy 100% or Nightmare 100%. It might help to state this upfront to avoid confusion
@quakespeedrunsexplained
10 ай бұрын
thanks - true, that was an oversight on this video. Will keep that in mind!
@phil984
10 ай бұрын
Guys!!! The master is back with another video!!!
@Isabelleadshead6917
10 ай бұрын
This is my third rewatch of this video. I really really love the core message of this video so much i think we all get caught chasing goals in life and how much we value our time but theres something so potent about leaving your mark on something you loved and moving on with your life and that still holding a place in the history of it and being happy for those that come after. It makes me appreciate the process of it all, its not about being the best so to say and more about being apart of something and sharing your passions with others. I can't put into words how much i appreciate this channel and this video
@kutsumiru
10 ай бұрын
Your channel singlehanded got me playing quake Thank you for the videos!
@WhoLocke
10 ай бұрын
Watching your videos makes me want to try speed running as a fun lil hobby, not to get to the leaderboard but as a personal growth/achievement
@quakespeedrunsexplained
10 ай бұрын
Give it a try! :)
@Templarfreak
10 ай бұрын
dont ever think for a second that your own experience with the game isnt as valid as someone else's just because you arent as good, especially when you've held a record for _19 years._ it's something ive said on a few other speedrun history-related videos before, but it's always a really hype moment in a video on speedrunning history when the person talking in the video mentions *their own* accomplishments in said history that they are passionately talking about
@AcceleratedEvolution
3 ай бұрын
took you long enough. aka Grats bro
@danfg7215
10 ай бұрын
Then AI will come and beat all speedrunning records by playing levels over and over a million times per second.
@a.r.4822
2 ай бұрын
Basically TAS
@p1nke801
10 ай бұрын
About 18s into the run, wouldnt it be faster to jump just before the gap opens up? Love your videos man, keep it up
@quakespeedrunsexplained
10 ай бұрын
Yep there's definitely a tiny fraction of a second to save there!
@RetroGamesCouple
10 ай бұрын
It's nice to have the record explained by the owner himself! Thanks for sharing all this insight!
@MonochromeWench
10 ай бұрын
Your own record lasted for 19 years and the only one to beat it was yourself, that's some serious cred.
@ronindebeatrice
10 ай бұрын
When using savestates it could only be matched before... The steel on this man.
@MrMoustacheish
10 ай бұрын
This is now my favorite Quake video, period. The editing and stylistic direction is just top tier. The storytelling is amazing as well. Both style and substance. Not to mention, you get to brag about yourself.
@breadnaught3711
10 ай бұрын
The quality of your videos and the effort you put into them is contrasted by your number of subscribers.
@quakespeedrunsexplained
10 ай бұрын
thanks, but all good! It's a suuuuper niche thing :)
@osukarui
10 ай бұрын
Great stuff as always. I like the personal approach to this one
@piotao
10 ай бұрын
whoa it's like christmass! congratulations and thank you for supporting awesome speedrunnners community ! ::)
@arcanoid
10 ай бұрын
Dude's a fkn rockstar? but says "I did bunch of boring stuff in my life, but now I can finally return to quake speedrunning". Also I love how calm and melancholic his voice is even when talking about his best run. You can barely feel any emotions only around 15:21-16:00
@hellocyrax
8 ай бұрын
Love these videos
@dada78641
10 ай бұрын
Wow. I've been following this channel for a while, but I had absolutely no idea that you are Connor. That's wild. Absolute legend! All this talk about power bunny hopping makes me think a video on the history of bunnies would be interesting to do as well. I never could quite get the mechanics down even in the old days but now I guess it's even more technical.
@nobody3622
10 ай бұрын
wow! that kill at the end is crazy! I love the recam, looks great!
@Jim_Jimworth
29 күн бұрын
I liked it, regardless of any feared self-indulgence. Your video concept was interesting for a reason I find Karl Jobst's similar content interesting - beating one of your old WRs is historical, on top of the regular fun of seeing a run broken down into each fractional time-save. I like your speedrun analyses in general, and this one has that extra spice from its backstory.
@BrianM_3rd
10 ай бұрын
Another great video, absolutely adore this series. Those serene guitar chords of the intro/outro echo the glow of satisfaction that come with having poured your heart into a run that'll truly stand the test of time. Anyone who has ever speedrun anything can relate to that feeling, and it's hard to communicate that feeling and all the history behind it, but you nailed it as always.
@ciCCapROSTi
5 ай бұрын
Thanks for explaining, I don't understand shit when I watch these at full speed, and even with 0.5 it's shabby. So it's really useful. And congrats on keeping your throne! Also I was watching Muty's full game run the other day, and holy shit that guy is good. Even on a full run he hits most of the tricks (of course not the super hardcore ones you don't even try on those).
@XaFFaX
10 ай бұрын
Great story and great video, congratulations! This brings back memories... I was never into speedrunning, but Quake was my teenager game. The sheer amount of mods, maps and other stuff I had (in fact still have, I managed to keep it unchanged for about 20 years!) was enormous. The game if I remember correctly was about 50-60 MB back in the day, all stuff I had totalled at about 600+ MB (btw. as a perspective - 2-4GB HDD was standard back then). So for a today's AAA 100GB game, you would need about 500GB of addons. Obviously this is not tremendously hard to do, but mind you that was at the time when I had no internet connection and 56kbit dial-up was best-in-class and expensive as hell! Good times!!
@sirtymoo
10 ай бұрын
Very impressive, hardly self indulgent in the presentation. Congrats on the record 8)
@LukucProdigy
10 ай бұрын
congratulations! First speedrun video I saw was QDQ Movie 16:35 I don't know which year I saw it firstly, but yes this time still in my mind many years till today and it absolutely blowed my mind. When I saw it first time, it was absolutely insane. I've never been so good for this times. Get quite close at "easy" on some maps, but nightmare? Never :) great to see new records. Quake 1 is best game I ever played. First game which is fully 3D (except only 4 same sprits in last level of 4th episode). Amazing game which still so many years on my disk. Sometimes I install it and play from beginning to end, but "at quite normal speed" :D . Your videos take me back to my young years (I'll be 42 in few days). Thank you for take my old memories back in every video from you. Great to see that Quake scene still live
@AndreasLundin-l1y
8 ай бұрын
Beautiful run! I really love the old school runs since I find them so elegant, and some demos have like a rythm (like the player is dancing) with no shooting the shotgun for timing. The newer demos are impressive, but more raw and more chaotic to watch - but yes the perfomances are very impressive. Also, I've been thinking of if there is a slight difference playing the original GLQuake compared to JoeQuake? I did some attempts at speedrunning, but my records on each level never got any better than a total time of 25-30 min or so (don't remember exactly and the sheets are long gone). With that said, I really recommend to speedrun Quake for a better understanding of what skill is actually involved. Thank you for a great channel! (Is there any chance of hearing for mr Horvath?)
@andre-le-bone-aparte
6 ай бұрын
Love the Podcast Style narration explanation with the history of the speed-runs. Would watch more, beyond just Quake!
@EvilStreaks
10 ай бұрын
Youre allowed to be please with yourself and show people. God knows I'd be less humble about it. And FYI, the first time I ever played this map in the 90s I got 100% in 37 seconds on nightmare and I'd never even seen a computer before, so...
@wasdbee8404
8 ай бұрын
Amazing! Been following the channel for a while, (been a fan of Quake since 1996 but never really looked into speedrunning that much until relatively recently), so it's super fascinating to see your personal history with it. I found a lot of your videos really show the emotional aspects of speedrunning too, which is a huge deal. Also as a student and a musician, the "boring" stuff amused me a lot XD Brilliant video and awesome playing, a record well deserved 💖
@resetreboot
10 ай бұрын
Man, I never doubted your qualifications, with your ability to analyze, describe and explain the speedruns. Now this is epic, not only you know about it, you practice(d) it and you even hold a record yourself. Hats off!
@chrisstrebor
10 ай бұрын
Legendary man, absolutely legendary. The kids now aways are crazy with movements even over here in cod. I went to the world championships for Halo CE back in 2003 played halo 2/3 at MLGs til 2007 and I'm coming back to show I csn still hang by getting this very nuclear achievemt 20 yrs later lol trying to prove I can still hang with some old school style. Ur challenge to beat your old time is epic. This is prlly my favorite video of yours and I love the breakdown on still but ya this was personally epic this one.
@why_i_game
10 ай бұрын
Great original run, great work breaking your own record after two decades, and great video! I've played Quake since it came out, but I can't figure out bunny hopping. 😞 I'm quite decent without using that technique, but I would love to learn how to do it well. I've tried learning bunny hopping a few different times, but never managed to improve my accuracy (able to start a bunny hop about 1 out of 30 tries, and I usually mess up and lose speed instead of gain it... once in a while I can get a speed boost).
@LordOfCrabz
10 ай бұрын
Don't compare yourself to Muty - He's an FPS God LOL be happy that you're even good at this man! You do a great job and I wish I could even compete on your level. Keep it up and congrats on the 45 :D
@tsibren
10 ай бұрын
Fantastic video! Thanks for your time and effort into making it. The music fits perfectly as well. Congrats on the run! Grt, Quake player since 1996
@nervaaugustus7089
10 ай бұрын
"Self-indulgent" he says, and then proceeds to give an eminently-listenable yet technically-excellent summary of his run and the history behind it. I'm no speedrunner, never really have been (I'm a completionist, my gaming instincts are wired in the exact opposite direction), but I can respect the skill, execution, and technical knowledge on display here.
@kvernesdotten
3 ай бұрын
Does people really question your qualifications to run a youtube channel about speedrunning Quake? That sounds like some next level gatekeeping to me, just the fact that someone is genuinly interested enough to start and run a channel on a topic like this IS qualification enough imo. Noone needs to be a world record holder to talk about a topic they are interested in.
@YouCorny
7 ай бұрын
So I got about a 100+ hours of quake in so far and randomly thought I'd check out some speedruns, my jaw remains dropped. Wow.
@cryohellinc
10 ай бұрын
I don't Speedrun, but I love quake and simply enjoy your content. Please keep it up. :)
@smigbobvonsmelborp10
10 ай бұрын
I would argue that having a record then and making a record now is proof enough that you are definitely among the top speed runners, despite your humility stating otherwise. While other runners may tout superior movement skill, I think that having the mind to analyze a run and find/solve time sinks as you did is the skill that really creates WRs. No amount of fancy footwork is useful if you don't know where to use it. Great work!
@oskarp.3626
7 ай бұрын
to be totally honest, I never heard of qake before like one week later when i just put the fraze, watched one video about quake history and your video showed, I oppened it and i can say that your vids are great, i learned many things from them about quake which i never thought is so damn interesting, te music, the scenes and amount of informations which you easily put in my head is awesome, thank you for being here and making this content
@q3dqopb
10 ай бұрын
GG! And thank you for the great explanations! Absolutely fascinating!
@richardli4038
6 ай бұрын
i like your video style with the psychedelic guitar interludes and slow storytelling. one of the best of the summoning salt inspired speedrun channels
@khristov_quake
10 ай бұрын
You are a mad man, I really love this record. Nice video bro!
@ZeroCool98
10 ай бұрын
Awesome! Thank you for this content and also for sharing your life experiences with us.
@billcarson6954
10 ай бұрын
I really really like your content. But myself personally, I gotta play your videos at 1.5x 😅
@catethps
10 ай бұрын
amazing run and amazing video woww, you're one of my absolute favourite channels on here makes me wanna get back into rta runs ahahaha
@ogmog
10 ай бұрын
fps tricks arent actual gameplay so i honestly wouldnt care about those future records. tricking the engine is not impressive
@Buzz34
Ай бұрын
I absolutely agree that u are qualified to make this vid, and its a awesome vid aswell
@Riff.Wraith
10 ай бұрын
E1M6 was one of my favorite levels when I played thru this game casually.
@SquidwardAF
10 ай бұрын
great!
@bakanur
10 ай бұрын
another great video, seriously underrated channel, you should have 100x as many subs
@adamonline45
10 ай бұрын
I'm here for the speedruns, if one of them happens to be yours, I think that's actually pretty cool :P
@Aldar21
8 ай бұрын
Unreleated to the video, I have a serious question to ask: Did Raidbell cheat? And if he did, how did he do it?
@orionfire1947
10 ай бұрын
Something so immensely, viscerally satisfying about how smooth this game is to this day makes watching these videos as an outsider to the genre a treat every time. Always will have a great deal of respect for it.
@touka32able
10 ай бұрын
thank you very much, I really enjoy watching your videos :)
@clouder1337
10 ай бұрын
Was interesting learning more about your speedrunning history! Keep up the good work, Connor!
@foobar-9k
10 ай бұрын
Man... the intro music is SO good! Glad to see a new video uploaded!!!
@llSuperSnivyll
10 ай бұрын
You simply can't see the rocket that kills the Scrags without slow-motion.
@blairmillward8408
10 ай бұрын
Now it makes sense as to the music / band in the videos! Hi from Australia/home.
@mylittleparody2277
6 ай бұрын
As always, thank you for these awesome and informatives videos!
@Beholderost
3 ай бұрын
this is some good stuff, i just feel a bit sad that quake 2 don't seem to have this kind of scene
@quasiotter
10 ай бұрын
thank you for sharing yourself, i was hoping to see something like this someday!
@Samulisami
10 ай бұрын
Congrats on the run. Really impressive!
@3ombieautopilot
8 ай бұрын
Are you a musician in real life? Could you share the name of the band?
@berridgeab
10 ай бұрын
Much prefer this intro music 😀, another great vid and congrats on the record.
@doggo7078
10 ай бұрын
Wow the disposition of rooms is very convoluted, I had to look up a map lol
@rolmops883
10 ай бұрын
Criminally undervalued channel
@ADR69
10 ай бұрын
youre awesome and its definitely not bragging if you can back it up 😜. i love the breakdowns
@parashkevdraganov2395
10 ай бұрын
When I watch a video of yours I think to myself: yes
@nooneinparticular3370
10 ай бұрын
This was amazing dude, you're pretty rad!
@0mn1P4wn4g3
10 ай бұрын
I don't get the discrepancy you state about when power bunny hopping came about and when I learned about it. I would have learned about it somewhere between 2002-2006 from a guy who was apparently a speed runner though I didn't know that at the time. He also just referred to it as bunny hopping and told me that people who aren't strafing and hitting forward at the bottom of the jump were doing it wrong. So maybe when I learned about it, it wasn't considered a technique of its own yet but if you were active at that time I'd have to imagine someone would have mentioned it to you. I was mostly playing TF, CustomTF, and MegaTF at that point. I can't remember who it was that taught me about these things, but I think it was the guy I later assumed to be a pseudonym of Shaka, the customTF primary dev.
@quakespeedrunsexplained
10 ай бұрын
You're right, it did exist in an early form back around 2004/2005, but it didn't start to get widely known or utilised until much later. There weren't any youtube tutorials back then ;)
@janhofmann3499
Ай бұрын
9:08 may i ask what kind of career you made? I guess it got something to do with music and that would explain your excellent choice of music in your videos..
@quakespeedrunsexplained
Ай бұрын
haha thanks, yeah I'm a 'session' musician (touring, studio, etc for lots of different artists)
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