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No problem. I really enjoyed analyzing this game, but the playing itself is kind of repetitive. That is why I moved kind of fast. The audio on this video is honestly pretty bad. I was really new when I uploaded this. There was something wrong with my obs settings. I hope you enjoy the video anyway.

@TheObserver429 yeah it was a fun watch. Really did get repetitive there. Still a nice trip to see it played well. I never beat the game all those 20+ years ago lol.

Thank you. I hope you get around to watching the rest of the video and you enjoy it.

Thank you for writing this comment. You are as always right on point. My ideas on how to optimize each level obviously make sense for these individual runs, but what you did makes more sense for the whole hospital run that you did. It is very difficult to implement some of these strategies so it is risky to do them in a whole hospital run. Some of the placement of the objects in the rooms on some of these levels was indeed not optimal. I hope I didn't make you too angry. lol. I think I might have even mentioned the bad room designs in some of the levels in my commentary. I am pretty fast, but I am not professional speedrunner fast so I sometimes just placed the objects in there. I definitely did use your style after confirming what you already know. I did not make a video about my research on the effects of putting objects in each room vs. not doing it, but I did put up a crazy video on the research room and another one on the training room. While I was doing those videos I studied the effects of having more objects in rooms vs. no extra objects. I have seen you use the "send home" and "guess at cure" policy before. I agree that it can save some time, but I personally prefer to see them. Why? I want to know when one of my non consultants has walked into the GPs office. When I start receiving those I check the GPs office to see if I have to kick them out. If I have all consultants, then obviously I should turn it on. I agree that I should have done more planning on the rooms on some of these levels. Some of them were definitely pre-planned but definitely not all of them. Your hypothesis is correct for the most part. Hospital value is obviously important in driving patients into the hospital. It is a win condition, but some of the other win conditions have no effect. From my observations, the flow of patients is controlled by a complex algorithm that takes into effect alot of different things including things that you might not think of: hospital value, temperature, thirst level, reputation, the cost of treatment, how well your staff is trained, prestige, etc. In these old games these things are not laid out for us. Yeah. I don't know what happened to the audio on Battenburg. It is so weird. I watched the video before uploading it and the audio was fine. Audio is such a challenge. Once a video is released though, any boost that it will get in the algorithm is lost if you take it down and re-upload it. I kind of figure that most people aren't even going to watch it that far anyway. I wish it wasn't screwed up though because I used a pretty clever strategy there. It was a nod to my research room video. I have considered doing a full run in the back of my mind, but I don't think I will even make it. 5.5 - 6 hours of play with no breaks is not easy for me. I am glad you enjoyed it. It was inspired by your run and by the fact that you said it could be done in like 5 hours. That is why the total run time is approximately five hours.

Mine too. Every game I have played so far on this channel has been from my childhood. Making these videos has been kind of a nostalgia trip.

lol. There is a way to change the language, but I have never done it. In English she will definitely be British. The game was created by Bullfrog Productions which is in Guildford, England.

That is a fair point. It looks like I did not take that long looking to see if I could put them in a better position.

Yeah. The AI does scan you like that. To tell you the truth I do not even own the remastered version and from what I see I don't really need to. I am playing the game straight from the CD I bought when the game came out and it works just fine.

@@TheObserver429 no wonder the game felt much better, you made the right choice the remaster isint good. thank you for using the original, i also have the original discs and still play the game it hold up well

Yeah. Lords of the Realm 2 was definitely very well done. I actually never played Total War, but it would not surprise me if they did take some things. Lords of the Realm 2 was very popular when it came out.

lol. I used to make those too. I should have thought back to when I was a kid. My favorite was the nukes. For some reason I thought the prompt was hilarious because it was the ultimate "oh crap" moment if you did not know where the ghost was.

English is my native language and I still failed it at least once when I was kid because I destroyed a zerg structure. I guess I did not read the mission objectives and just decided to kill the zerg. I found out after I did it that you can't do that.

maybe you can comeback. any plans of speedrunning Wc2? Human Campaign in ToD and all Dark Portal have big potential for time improve..

@@loboq_ggpokd9893 I have considered speedrunning Wc2. That is why this video is up. I can do it for fun, but I will never beat the top players because they are just absolutely insane. The only reason I was able to get the record even for 3 hours is because of superior routing. Once I do the routing, someone faster is going to come along and take the record. The original holder of this record just posted his version and what he did there is just completely beyond me. He is so fast he doesn't even need to have optimal routing.The top 3 speed runners are like the John Wick of this game. They can kill everyone with a pencil.

@@loboq_ggpokd9893 I just posted what I would say is a 99% optimized version of the run so any speedrunners watching can give us the fastest version.

@@TheObserver429it looks like the video is private now? I was going to review it

@@jbca I am sorry about that. I just made it public so you can review at your leisure. I accidentally left the victory condition off of the optimized version so I went back and put on up with it.

Thank you. I had to do this so many times just to get it this good and it doesn't even look flawless. Those guys will easily be able to take at least a second or two off of this. lol.

Yes. It does. That is why I avoided commentary as much as possible on this quest based playthrough. I want people to be able to enjoy the music, the ambience, the memorable townsfolk, and plot. The creators of Diablo understood the importance of all of these elements. They created a masterpiece of a game that plays like a classic movie.

The simple answer is that I play in a more "hardcore" fashion for my playthroughs on this channel. I just roll with the punches and try to avoid reloading as much as possible. Sometimes reloading is unavoidable, but in this case I chose to gamble by clicking the goat shrine and I lost 10% of my mana pool and gained +2 levels to firebolt. This is not a good result, but I can live with it.

I like both games. I did a playthrough of Lords of the Realm and also made videos comparing the two games. Lotr 1 is definitely the harder game. I would not go as far as to say I want a straight lotr economy, but I do think the economy in Lotr 2 could have been more challenging than just buying wheat and forgetting about cows. Making weapons in Lotr 1 took way too long imo. It took years to make 50 weapons even when you had hundreds of people trying to do it. That is kind of absurd imo. I think Lotr 2 was right to make the game more fast paced especially since it came out in the RTS era that was dominated by Warcraft 2. Another feature that would be great would be if you could siege the custom made castles that people can design. Designing a castle in Lotr was a very unique feature of that game.

@TheObserver429 As a game, I also prefer lotr2. It is a shame however, that it was so dumbed down since lotr1, with awesome and unusual mechanics being removed (price system, battle morale). I remember the forum, where developers of lotr3 were also present, we players had a whish list, almost all wanted the sheep back! They decided to go in opposite direction, focusing on real time with pause, dumbing it down yet again, with unfortunate results for the franchise.

Watch more videos and you will hear more of my incredible voice through my cheap microphone. lol.

You might have already read my comment. I deleted it because it looked like it double posted. Well anyway. The tricks were the pot aggro, the battering ram blocking troops in the royal castle, and I moved the battering ram using the "1" on the keyboard instead of clicking on it. The game automatically assigned that hotkey to the ram. The ale definitely helped me get some extra troops out. The Rose optimization was only for that county and it isn't faster than if you spawn in the right or left side and do it normally. The bottom county gets the merchant later and you have to move from left to right or vice versa so I came up with that to avoid having to start over. You are right my run on Germany was pretty solid despite not getting a nice county there. My best time for Germany thus far has been about 12 minutes. This one was in about 14 minutes. Luckily it was fast enough to get me under an hour.

I agree with you that I saved time on The World, but I actually did not save any time in the US. I looked at my previous times in my other runs that I did not post and I got the same time. The time I gained was lost by the Bishop forcing me to go backwards. When I did it the other times it was much cleaner. I was actually thrown off guard when that happened. In the other runs I just went to the castle, took it, and raised an army from Florida. This was definitely an atypical run though. This was the first time I got Asia in Imperium and the first time I got Asia in The World. The "random" positions seem to almost always be the same. I almost always got Italia or Aegyptus in Imperium, I got Texarkana every time on the USA, and in The World I am usually in Egypt or South America. It doesn't really matter where I end up in Imperium or The World though. The strategy is the same and the times were roughly the same (maybe 30 seconds here or there). Yes. I did mean to take India. Sometimes it is better to take an adjoining county instead of waiting for a rebellion to happen provided it is a small county that can offer little resistance. It is also gave me more time to make sure I was in a good position to split the Bishop's empire. I am not going to say him losing his castle was pre-planned, but if they are stupid enough to draft an enormous army out to take another town that has higher population, then luck is on your side.