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  • Watch These Guys Beat Half-Life In Under 21 Minutes

    Before 1998, first-person shooters were all about, well, shooting. Half-Life came along in ’98 and changed everything though. Sure, it played a lot like Quake, but it had a story. It wasn’t one of those in your face stories either. It was subtle and left most of the story up to the player to find. In that sense, Half-Life is not a short game as it wants players to take it all in. If you are aiming to beat it quickly, however, it can be done rather fast.

    YouTuber quadrazid and some other runners smashed the speedrun world record for Half-Life this week when he completed the game in 20 minutes and 14 seconds. Previously, speedrunners calculated that the fastest speedrun would take 27 minutes. Here’s how they were able to cut almost 6 minutes off the previous time:

    Starting back in the summer of 2010, the estimated time for this run was thought to be roughly 27 minutes. However, after almost four years of painstaking planning, theorycrafting and execution, we have arrived at our final time, smashing all of our wildest expectations.

    Not only do we owe this new world-record time to all the new tricks we’ve discovered, the new routes we’ve found and the new ways we’ve learned to manipulate the game. A lot of the improvement from the first estimation and the previous world record (29 minutes, 41 seconds) comes from the very hard work and countless hours put into perfecting each and every segment, no matter how short or trivial. This run has truly been an endurance test for everyone involved, and we’re extremely happy to finally be able to share it with you.

    If you want to learn more about how they were able to complete Half-Life in less than 21 minutes, this Google Doc explains everything. It will tell you which runners completed which sections and how much of the game each runner completed. It’s a pretty fascinating look at a communal speedrun.

    If you want to see more amazing speedruns, check out our coverage of the world record speedruns for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask and Portal.

    [h/t: Rock Paper Shotgun]
    Image via quadrazid/YouTube

  • Watch This Guy Beat Majora’s Mask In Under 2 Hours

    The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask is a deceptively lengthy title. The game may only have four dungeons, but its wide variety of side quests ensures that you’ll spend 20 to 30 hours finding everything in the game. What if you ignored those side quests though? Could you beat the game’s four dungeons in a quarter of the time? How about less than 2 hours?

    Kotaku reports that Swedish speedrunner EnNopp112 has been beating his own Majora’s Mask speedrun world records since the start of the year. His latest attempt saw him beat his own record again with a time of 1 hour, 28 minutes and 51 seconds. It should be noted that no cheats are allowed in this speedrun, but in-game exploits and glitches are. Speedrunners frequently exploit these glitches to skip large portions of the game and it’s entirely legitimate. It’s also incredibly impressive.

    If that’s not impressive enough for you, EnNopp112 also holds the world record for a 100 percent speedrun of Majora’s Mask. Typically, a complete playthrough of the game would take anywhere from 20 to 30 hours. EnNopp 112 managed to complete the entire game in a little under 5 hours and 30 minutes.

    Here’s his record breaking any completion speedrun:

    And here’s his 100 percent speedrun:

    Last year, famed Zelda speedrunner Cosmo Wright beat The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in less than 20 minutes. He still holds that record. As for Majora’s Mask, his only attempt resulted in a completion time of 3 hours and 11 minutes. This puts him at rank 97 on the Majora’s Mask speedrun leaderboards and it’s unknown if he’ll try to climb those ranks.

    Image via CountBleck2009/YouTube

  • Watch This Guy Beat Portal In 8 Minutes

    Speed runs are one of my most favorite things when it comes to gaming. Watching a grand master complete a game in the fraction of the time it took me to complete it fills me with awe. Granted, there are speed runs are less fun because they use scripts or cheats, but this is not one of them.

    YouTube user, SourceRuns, has posted his team’s run of Portal that completes the game in 8 minutes and 31 seconds. That beats the previous record of 9 minutes and 25 seconds. Here’s the description of the run from the YouTube channel:

    Portal Done Pro-er (this run) is our improvement of the current segmented Portal speedrun, Portal Done Pro (PDP). However, to be SDA legal we have done our run without using scripts/cheats/hacks for any portion of the run. This run first started after the discovery of a new glitch, which snowballed into a whirlwind of discoveries of new tricks, skips, and glitches. We started running chambers in April, took a brief hiatus, and then resumed work in late June. The bulk of the run was completed in about 2 weeks time. The final result cuts roughly 53 seconds of realtime off of PDP, bringing the total time to 8:31.93. This run is the second official run of a commercial title to be released by the Sourceruns team, and the second run to be submitted to SDA. However, it is the first Sourceruns project to be done without scripts

    Check out the impressive speed run below:

    As you may have guessed, this run uses liberal amounts of glitches to complete the speedrun. It almost makes sense that the portal gun would be able to create doors into alternate dimensions that allow players to skip entire sections.

    [h/t: PC Gamer]

  • Ocarina Of Time Completed In Less Than 25 Minutes Thanks To Exploit

    Exploits and bugs are sometimes a marvelous thing. They allow the player to access areas before they should be allowed to or just create all kinds of goofy problems with character animations or the geography. Sometimes an exploit is so rare or hard to find that it takes players over a decade to find – this is one of those exploits.

    A YouTube user by the name of ZeldaFreaksGlitcha has used a recently found exploit to complete the seminal Nintendo 64 classic Ocarina of Time in less than 25 minutes. Let’s put that into perspective here: It took me over 30 hours to beat Ocarina of Time when I first played it years ago. I have tried to do speed runs before and it still took me about 15 hours to get through the entire game.

    I’m sure many of you are wondering how a massive game like Ocarina of Time can even be completed in that time without the use of cheats. This is where the exploit comes in. If you fight the boss of the Deku Tree, Queen Gohma, in such a way that kills Link as soon as Queen Gohma dies, you can use an exploit that transports Child Link to the end of the game right as Ganondorf dies.

    It’s an impressive feat and made all the more impressive by the fact that it took gamers over a decade to find it. Just to clarify, this is a legitimate exploit with the player not using any kind of cheat. This means that you can go bust out that copy of Ocarina of Time and try it for yourself.

    If you don’t want to watch the entire 25-minute run, just skip to the end to watch the hilarious fight between Child Link and Ganon. Nothing is better than watching Link kill Ganon with a Deku Stick.

    [h/t: Kotaku]