God I can't imagine being a RaC runner when silence's run was first discovered. And I can't imagine how much time he put into this game to find all of these skips and exploits. Cutting that hour from Xem's time is something that takes entire communities *years* to pull off.
It must have been shocking. The western community was probably like, "yeah, we're pretty good" and then Silence was discovered and everyone was like "Oh. Well, nevermind."
I friggin love the fact that the R&C speedrunning community just had absolutely no idea of this monster of a runner in Japan. That is just such an awesome and just kinda funny lol. It must have felt like such a massive wall for runners to overcome.
"The man who broke-" That was enough to stop whatever I was doing and watch this. Superb video, the first montage of silence's skill truly sent shivers down my spine.
Nowhere is safe from you. I’m so used to seeing your comments everywhere that I basically expect it, yet somehow you still find a way to surprise me. I barely even remember the days of ‘Just Some Guy With A Mustache’. The disciple has far overshadowed the master…
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Insane video that I waited for a really long time on a topic I was afraid no one would make in the end because of how much of an obscure figure silence is in general, I dont feel like i have to go into detail about how good the execution of the video is because I feel like at this point it should be a given from a new ricky upload.
I legit dropped everything I was doing to watch this video. And it was worth it. Silence is literally the fantasy I've had in my head since I found my first glitch. Thanks for the sick vid Ricky. I enjoyed it all of it. Have a good one.
The editing from 5:08 is so sweet. You really push the mythology of speedrunning more than anyone in this community. I can't wait to binge a bunch of Silence runs now.
Love the documentary-style videos. You're up there with the greats like Summoning salt IMO, while also carving out your own identity with a different editing style and focusing on specific runners and their accomplishments in a particular game.
Amazing video Ricky, this type of video really shows how deep the speedrunning community's influence goes and how anyone in the world can engage with this hobby! Loved it as per usual.
Fantastic video. As an on-an-off UYA runner I was already somewhat familiar with Silence's story, but it's really cool to see it all laid out like this. I had no idea so many strats we still use today were discovered by them.
I hope silence is at least watching the speedruns in the shadows. Even if he doesn’t come back to UA-cam, we gotta thank him for RaC 3 speedruns being this insane and hyped, and I hope he knows that
That montage at 5:11 with the Tekken 5 OST in the back? Fucking KING move right there! Amazing visual story telling with editing and everything. And the music choices are so on point holy shit!
That whole sequence made Ratchet, and by extension Silence, look like some kind of assassin in a warzone, flipping around and scything through chaos to zero in on a target!
Man, your YT is really killing it! It’s crazy to see how far you’ve come, and I hope your videos and channel keeps doing so well! Dope video, again! :)
I can't imagine Nuka's reaction when he found Silence's video ahaha. Btw, your editing is insane Ricky, it's so clean and it has so much personality. One could watch a video of yours with no audio and it would still be really recognizable. This was just to say that in my opinion you have something special that makes you stand out from many others!
Can we just stop and appreciate how Rixer's music selection makes his videos x10000000000000 times better? As if they weren't great enoughalready. Excellent choices and excellent video. Just excellent! Keep it up, we love you ;)
saw this video in my recommended and RAN to watch. i know very little about speedrunning in terms of actually participating, but i absolutely adore the production of these videos. they make concepts that may seem hard to understand just easy enough to flow well with the video. some of these games ive never even played, but still go out of my way to watch these even. loving everything so far, can't wait for more uploads
An extremely interesting idea I've kinda been thinking about for a long time: Set up two parallel communities for the same game, but isolated from eachother. Anyone can join one or the other, but not both. Then watch what optimizations, glitches, etc. are found between each isolated community, see if they come up with the same/similar optimizations, glitches, etc. Let each community go for about a year, each isolated to their own discord servers, where all streams, glitch hunting/theorizing is done in each. I guess at some point it might get hard to keep from contaminating things, but it'd be interesting to try to let it run for a year or so.
Love how you used Massive Stunner from Tekken 5 for the speedrun montage, i always thought it would fit in a speedrunning video, truly a man of culture.
Entire Speedrunning Community: Amazing! You beat the world record and your segmented run! Silence: Wanna see me do it again? Entire Speedrunning Community: Okay...please...we need something that feels achievable by others. Please leave your record as is... Silence: I'll fuckin do it again.
When I think of 3D games that are absolutely torn apart, I usually think of N64 games (as I'm sure most people do). But WOW, R&C is on another level. The movement tech just looks so beautiful in motion. Some games are broken and just look horrid (personally early OOT side hopping just looks ugly) but IG somehow made both Spyro and R&C wonderful for speedrunners to destroy.
when I casually played this game back as a child, I found it fun just moving about, while in the starship I somehow (could never replicate it) charged through the corner of the starship, somewhere near the elevator, from where I suddenly noticed the glowings of some hookshots, I wasn't able to get there and could never get out again, but as a child I thought it was some super secret thing. Interesting to know that ended up becoming something for speedrunners.
*He's still active!* On his record run video he liked a comment from 6 months ago (4 months after this video was uploaded) so he's definitely still aware of the attention surrounding his run. He just doesn't upload anymore 🤷
Why in the UNRELENTING FUCK has it taken my entire adult life for UA-cam to recommend me the Insomniac/Naughty Dog/PS speed running channel?? Christ. You are supposed to KNOW me, UA-cam.
I hear the "Legend of Dragoon" music around 14:47 :-D Excellent analysis as usual. I'm late, but I have tapped the bell so next time you upload I'll be informed.
Silence, wherever and whoever you are, the speedrunning and Rachet & Clank communities thank you for showing everyone some of the biggest contributions to glitch runs and speedruns. Be safe and well, friend.
This video was a trip down memory lane. I remember in the summer of 2014 I was into RaC 2 speedrunning, as the first and third games hadn't really interested me much, and one day I found silence's 37:46 run of UYA and it blew my mind. I had never seen anything like that before! It inspired me to give UYA a try and I had a lot of fun learning all that movement. Had an absolute blast playing through the game that way. silence's a legend, I hope he returns some day.
I'm so early yet I'm super happy. Ratchet was a major part of my childhood. I'm now used to like the video before watching it, because I'm already sure it will be majestic. Thanks Ricky!
I love these types of videos, as a glitch hunter myself. It actually inspires me to look for glitches. Its still one of my faviroute parts about speedrunning.
Great to hear Worms Armageddon's majestic soundtrack in this! I know it's off-topic but that game really deserves some love. The online scene is still alive since '99, still receiving official patches and content, as well as copious amounts of mods, gamemodes, maps and what not from dedicated players. The speedrunning community is just flourishing on that, too. It's amazing how no matter how beautiful the moves of the veterans are, we still find out new stuff about the game from time to time. Truly an outstanding experience, that title.
@@ThaRixer That's a nice surprise. What schemes do you play? If I'll ever spot you in lobby I might share with you some nasty tricks so you can demolish your friends lol.
This is for my money your best work yet. I've been watching your youtube content since 2014 or 2015, so it's weird to compare the quality of these videos to the speedruns I watched back then. Can't wait to see what you do next!
R&C:UYA was a fundamental part of my childhood; not only did I love the zany characters, locations, weaponry and story, but the local multiplayer was also damn good - even if it did often devolve to "who can get the OP hovercraft first"! Ah, UYA...how I wish you were rereleased on the PS4 or got a remaster. That would've been glorious.
I just realized this man has 25 vids, 50k subs , and his video quality / production quality is magnificent , cant wait to see more💯 speedrunning is truly intriguing and i love its history
This might be my all time favourite speedrun story, just the idea that someone sat alone and found ways to break the game in ways a whole community didn't think of is amazing to me, and went unnoticed for so long. An incredible story, he's a genius in his own right, but only a handful of people will ever appreciate just how incredible it is.
Even though I haven't played any of the games in the series, I love watching it get destroyed! Thus i subscribed, some time ago, and I am not disappointed...
I cannot explain how much I enjoy your videos! It feels like I found a family in this niche of the speedrunning community! Watching your videos on speed running history just feels so fulfilling! Like seeing the origins of civilisation itself
imagine being a western speedrunner think you're the best in the world and suddenly see this random japanese dude having a WR 50% faster then yours lmao
RaC speedrun community really have an awesome background and story, imagine you feel insane at a game and one day you discover an unknown alien that play a complete different game than you but inside the exact same game, splitting your best time by almost 2, and even exploding a segmented run, this is madness. This is a very unique story.
I really like your new videos Ricky, your editing is great. Being a PlayStation runner would you consider covering Crash bandicoot 2. It's a very pure speedrun that has come a very long way over the years. Keep up the great work!
With all that running and jumping no wonder how Ratchet got broken in half. Im no where close as good as any runner on UYA, but when I casually replay the games I might just try a few tricks for fun.
There was a guy called "The Silence" on R&C3 online, with 4 bolts in every game mode. Pretty rad dude, but I doubt it's the same guy considering we were on American servers.
@@danuzz_ when the ps3 remaster was launched, it actually had a multiplayer and servers you could play online at the time. I think they shut down around 2018.
@@bigcraudio3066 Maybe he played it then 🤷 could explain that he was first doing the runs on ps3 because that was the version he played multiplayer and later switched to ps2 because it was optimal for speedruns at the time. just speculation though.
Jesus, I can't even imagine the dedication and smarts required to find all these glitches and tricks, and much less perfecting them like this in a single-segment run. Also, big props to Xem and the other runners for actually beating that time holy moly
I Just love this Channel, these stories are incredibile in their own regard and these runner deserve their efforts to be shared with the world! Great job! P.S: also, the editing on your videos Is so good as well!
man, this video takes me back to around when word of Silence's runs/glitches started to spread publicly, so this brought back a LOT of nostalgia. I'll never forget how revolutionary his findings were. I'm not a runner but I have watched speedruns for these games for a good while and I can further confirm that this was 100% when things got quite interesting! Thanks Ricky for creating a video on this legend, and providing the quality work you do as always :)
i have to give it to you. showing your friends' profile photos is extremely brave. constantly reminding yourselves the plastic lives you live. and the fact that you will ALWAYS be virgins. very impressive.
![[TAS] Ratchet & Clank "All Gold Bolts" in 34:19.94 by AleMusa](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Vdn1j-iNZgA/mqdefault.jpg)
>breaks the western wr before it is even set
>completely revolutionises every part of the run
>refuses to elaborate further
>leaves
planned to make this comment but you beat me to it man XD
FUCKING CHAD ENERGY
chad
What a fucking Mad Chad Lad.
Alpha moves
I don't even follow speedrunning but here I am 25 minutes later
Based
@@ThaRixer damn nice viewership
Wth how
Obligatory wtf are you doing here comment.
He's a legend tho
God I can't imagine being a RaC runner when silence's run was first discovered.
And I can't imagine how much time he put into this game to find all of these skips and exploits. Cutting that hour from Xem's time is something that takes entire communities *years* to pull off.
he'd be the guy who has "300000 hours on record"
"It's alright"
-Silence
It must have been shocking. The western community was probably like, "yeah, we're pretty good" and then Silence was discovered and everyone was like "Oh. Well, nevermind."
I mean he didnt cut an hour, the hour comparison was between a ng+ run and an any percent
would be like if someone dropped a sub 1 hour for Rift Apart NG+ just casually rn
Qq
ratchet after being broken in half: ow
fuck you for making me laugh so hard
Oouf! (ratchet hurt sound)
@@temothy6963 hehe, capitain Qw- OUF!
Ded
Looks like Bane travelled all the way to break his back.
I hope he’s alright, I heard breaking in half is rather uncomfortable
hah!
If you exercise enough you won't feel a thing
Maybe he should ask Batman for any remedies for that.
It's not so bad really. He would only walk a little funny the next morning with a little ache down there.
Speaking from experience.
@@MezzoForte4 The Backbreaker Repellent. The *Bane* of back-pains and handy for any spinal situations, just ask Lieutenant Wolf.
I friggin love the fact that the R&C speedrunning community just had absolutely no idea of this monster of a runner in Japan. That is just such an awesome and just kinda funny lol. It must have felt like such a massive wall for runners to overcome.
Initial D type shit
You mean… it felt like a *massive stunner*
40000 hours on record.
"It's alright"
-Silence
Sounds about right lmao
@@Tsukimi-chan how the fuck did you find this?!
@@HopeEnstine I'm a fan of rixer too. EZscape's bash video got me hooked
@@Tsukimi-chan I cannot argue that I love his videos and the effor he puts it! it's insane!!
@@HopeEnstine for real for real top quality stuff, those two in general got me hooked on speedrunning bash.
"The man who broke-"
That was enough to stop whatever I was doing and watch this.
Superb video, the first montage of silence's skill truly sent shivers down my spine.
"To show you the power of neutral. I sawed UYA speedrunning in half!" Silence (probably)
Now that's a lotta damage!
I'm speed
"NOW THATS A LOTTA DAMAGE!" Silence to all other speed runs
It truly amazes me how much ingenuity people have, and how clever people are at speedrunning games
yooo its you on a ricky vid youre fucking based
Nowhere is safe from you. I’m so used to seeing your comments everywhere that I basically expect it, yet somehow you still find a way to surprise me. I barely even remember the days of ‘Just Some Guy With A Mustache’. The disciple has far overshadowed the master…
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God damn you are everywhere
Can't say you have bad taste for videos...but damn man you are everywhere 🤣
Insane video that I waited for a really long time on a topic I was afraid no one would make in the end because of how much of an obscure figure silence is in general, I dont feel like i have to go into detail about how good the execution of the video is because I feel like at this point it should be a given from a new ricky upload.
Thanks tarna, congrats on snagging the record too. Always nice to have you around in the community
I legit dropped everything I was doing to watch this video. And it was worth it. Silence is literally the fantasy I've had in my head since I found my first glitch. Thanks for the sick vid Ricky. I enjoyed it all of it. Have a good one.
same lol
dude he's a real life Sora from No Game No Life
I've watched rac3 runs on and off but had never heard of silence, thanks for this epic showcase of his incredible work!
The editing from 5:08 is so sweet. You really push the mythology of speedrunning more than anyone in this community. I can't wait to binge a bunch of Silence runs now.
Love the documentary-style videos. You're up there with the greats like Summoning salt IMO, while also carving out your own identity with a different editing style and focusing on specific runners and their accomplishments in a particular game.
Truly ahead of his time. He is still 37th on the NG+ ranking with his submission from 7 years ago O_O
Amazing video Ricky, this type of video really shows how deep the speedrunning community's influence goes and how anyone in the world can engage with this hobby! Loved it as per usual.
This was the most informative video I have ever watched on RaC speedrunning: well done!
Fantastic video. As an on-an-off UYA runner I was already somewhat familiar with Silence's story, but it's really cool to see it all laid out like this. I had no idea so many strats we still use today were discovered by them.
It's been great to see you run UYA every now and then Shiken!
Shikennnnnnnn I love your videos bro
I was so happy hearing Legend of the Dragoons, then you continued with Serious Sam in this RaC video.. my hears and nostalgia are overjoyed
i stoped the video to scroll threw the comments to see if anyone else noticed the legend of dragoon music to
Great video covering one of the most under represented glitch hunters of all time. Love to see it
I hope silence is at least watching the speedruns in the shadows. Even if he doesn’t come back to UA-cam, we gotta thank him for RaC 3 speedruns being this insane and hyped, and I hope he knows that
That montage at 5:11 with the Tekken 5 OST in the back? Fucking KING move right there! Amazing visual story telling with editing and everything. And the music choices are so on point holy shit!
5:22 is one of the hardest edits in a montage ever
That whole sequence made Ratchet, and by extension Silence, look like some kind of assassin in a warzone, flipping around and scything through chaos to zero in on a target!
I KNEW I RECOGNISED IT thank you ahaha
@@GrimFelArt no need to thank me xD
Great video. Silence pretty much got me into speedrunning and it’s pretty hard to describe just how influential he was back then. What a legend.
You're a legend in your own right Sqank!
You’re so kind, thanks.
you know it's going to be a banger when ricky uploads
Isnt it great
These video's are insane. The narritive, the detail, the music, the story, everything. Awesome man. Congrats. Keep up the good work.
Man, your YT is really killing it! It’s crazy to see how far you’ve come, and I hope your videos and channel keeps doing so well! Dope video, again! :)
This just proves the fact that no matter how good you are at something, there's always an asian somewhere who's way better than you.
I can't imagine Nuka's reaction when he found Silence's video ahaha.
Btw, your editing is insane Ricky, it's so clean and it has so much personality.
One could watch a video of yours with no audio and it would still be really recognizable.
This was just to say that in my opinion you have something special that makes you stand out from many others!
Thank you!
* shocked pikachu face *
Then going on the skype group and being like "you will never believe what i just found" lol
Can we just stop and appreciate how Rixer's music selection makes his videos x10000000000000 times better? As if they weren't great enoughalready. Excellent choices and excellent video. Just excellent! Keep it up, we love you ;)
saw this video in my recommended and RAN to watch. i know very little about speedrunning in terms of actually participating, but i absolutely adore the production of these videos. they make concepts that may seem hard to understand just easy enough to flow well with the video. some of these games ive never even played, but still go out of my way to watch these even. loving everything so far, can't wait for more uploads
Great to hear, hope it was easy enough to understand as a new viewer!
The Men Who Broke God of War and Spyro in half have cracked 1M views. Now to get this one there.
An extremely interesting idea I've kinda been thinking about for a long time:
Set up two parallel communities for the same game, but isolated from eachother. Anyone can join one or the other, but not both. Then watch what optimizations, glitches, etc. are found between each isolated community, see if they come up with the same/similar optimizations, glitches, etc. Let each community go for about a year, each isolated to their own discord servers, where all streams, glitch hunting/theorizing is done in each. I guess at some point it might get hard to keep from contaminating things, but it'd be interesting to try to let it run for a year or so.
Love how you used Massive Stunner from Tekken 5 for the speedrun montage, i always thought it would fit in a speedrunning video, truly a man of culture.
I could feel the chills when Silence was getting PBs that was such a sick video!
Entire Speedrunning Community: Amazing! You beat the world record and your segmented run!
Silence: Wanna see me do it again?
Entire Speedrunning Community: Okay...please...we need something that feels achievable by others. Please leave your record as is...
Silence: I'll fuckin do it again.
singlehandedly carried this game throughout years. Kinda insane how ahead he was. Thanks for highlighting him
When I think of 3D games that are absolutely torn apart, I usually think of N64 games (as I'm sure most people do). But WOW, R&C is on another level. The movement tech just looks so beautiful in motion. Some games are broken and just look horrid (personally early OOT side hopping just looks ugly) but IG somehow made both Spyro and R&C wonderful for speedrunners to destroy.
Its insane he did things alone what usually takes an entire community years
>shows up
>destroys everyone’s time and holds a record for months
>minimally elaborates
>leaves
when I casually played this game back as a child, I found it fun just moving about, while in the starship I somehow (could never replicate it) charged through the corner of the starship, somewhere near the elevator, from where I suddenly noticed the glowings of some hookshots, I wasn't able to get there and could never get out again, but as a child I thought it was some super secret thing. Interesting to know that ended up becoming something for speedrunners.
*He's still active!*
On his record run video he liked a comment from 6 months ago (4 months after this video was uploaded) so he's definitely still aware of the attention surrounding his run. He just doesn't upload anymore 🤷
Xem just got a new RaC2 100% WR, too. Love this community.
I love that his name is SILENCE.
As the speedrunners found it…
THEY LITERALLY FOUND A SPEEDRUN.
In SILENCE.
That is some prophetic shוt
For those who are looking for the song on 5:11 it's from Tekken 5 - Massive Stunner
4:43 Everyone's gangster untill Massive Stunner comes on
damn these games were awesome back in the day, glad they are still played today
Dude that sheep raider music took me back. Awesome hidden gem.
Why in the UNRELENTING FUCK has it taken my entire adult life for UA-cam to recommend me the Insomniac/Naughty Dog/PS speed running channel?? Christ. You are supposed to KNOW me, UA-cam.
welcome lmao
I hear the "Legend of Dragoon" music around 14:47 :-D
Excellent analysis as usual. I'm late, but I have tapped the bell so next time you upload I'll be informed.
I normally don't give a shit about speed running, but the way he moves in this game that I've been playing since I was a kid is genuinely mesmerizing
Silence, wherever and whoever you are, the speedrunning and Rachet & Clank communities thank you for showing everyone some of the biggest contributions to glitch runs and speedruns.
Be safe and well, friend.
5:06 felt really flattered for a second before realizing it wasn't actually me lol
your videos are just getting better and better, and they're always interesting!
"Hasn't uploaded in 3 years"
I guess you could say he went into... Silence
This video was a trip down memory lane. I remember in the summer of 2014 I was into RaC 2 speedrunning, as the first and third games hadn't really interested me much, and one day I found silence's 37:46 run of UYA and it blew my mind. I had never seen anything like that before! It inspired me to give UYA a try and I had a lot of fun learning all that movement. Had an absolute blast playing through the game that way. silence's a legend, I hope he returns some day.
I'm so early yet I'm super happy. Ratchet was a major part of my childhood.
I'm now used to like the video before watching it, because I'm already sure it will be majestic. Thanks Ricky!
bruhhhh 5:23 gave me the CHILLS. Amazing video Ricky, you deserve all the love you're getting rn!
Thanks josh!!!
Silence: does anything
Uya Speedrunners: He's begining to believe.
I love these types of videos, as a glitch hunter myself. It actually inspires me to look for glitches. Its still one of my faviroute parts about speedrunning.
"The entire community was *literally* floored." RIP the entire community,
Great to hear Worms Armageddon's majestic soundtrack in this! I know it's off-topic but that game really deserves some love. The online scene is still alive since '99, still receiving official patches and content, as well as copious amounts of mods, gamemodes, maps and what not from dedicated players. The speedrunning community is just flourishing on that, too. It's amazing how no matter how beautiful the moves of the veterans are, we still find out new stuff about the game from time to time. Truly an outstanding experience, that title.
I actually still play Worms: Armageddon online with some of the people you see at 0:55. It's a super sick game with some nice ambient music
@@ThaRixer That's a nice surprise. What schemes do you play? If I'll ever spot you in lobby I might share with you some nasty tricks so you can demolish your friends lol.
@@MemoxWasHere Just regular deathmatch but i used to play shopper back in the day
The Legend of Dragoon music brought me back 20 years. Thanks for the odd nostalgia.
I was looking for someone who noticed the same thing.
I've been waiting for this video. I felt it in my bones that this would happen sometime soon!! Fantastic work as always!!!
This is for my money your best work yet. I've been watching your youtube content since 2014 or 2015, so it's weird to compare the quality of these videos to the speedruns I watched back then. Can't wait to see what you do next!
I love so much your videos about glitchunters and legendary runners it's unreal. Keep it up man, you're dope af
this game was my childhood
S A M E O_ʖO
Same, it's also my adulthood.
same!!!!!
@@danuzz_ dude same
Same I played it a lot until my brother scratched my disc and sent it to brazil btw is this on ps2 or ps3
R&C:UYA was a fundamental part of my childhood; not only did I love the zany characters, locations, weaponry and story, but the local multiplayer was also damn good - even if it did often devolve to "who can get the OP hovercraft first"!
Ah, UYA...how I wish you were rereleased on the PS4 or got a remaster. That would've been glorious.
0:38: The Twitch Era
1:23: Xem and InsomniacNintendo
4:12: Nuka
4:37: Nuka Discovers Silence
6:42: Charge Boots
7:38: Hyperswing Hover
8:07: The Whip Jump
9:12: VR Early
12:13: Aridia Skip
13:33: Refractor Skip
17:21: Silences Single Segment Run
20:08: InsomniacNintendo and Xem Catches Up
21:40: Tarna beats Xem
22:39: Silence Disappears For 3 Years
(4 years now)
23:04: Theories About Silence
23:39: Silences Inspiration
24:11: Conclusion
Hello, I'm the timestamp guy 😊
Thanks!!
5:07 bro dropped hardest ratchet and clank 3 speedrun edit and thought we wouldnt notice
Dude, Tekken's Massive Stunner goes SO well with R&C.
Props to you for taking the time for these types of videos. So sick to see them done out like this
-Impresses everyone
-Beats everyone
-Refuses to elaborate further
Classic Japanese
I just realized this man has 25 vids, 50k subs , and his video quality / production quality is magnificent , cant wait to see more💯 speedrunning is truly intriguing and i love its history
Ratchet & Clank online was best thing ever, still remember those years!
This might be my all time favourite speedrun story, just the idea that someone sat alone and found ways to break the game in ways a whole community didn't think of is amazing to me, and went unnoticed for so long. An incredible story, he's a genius in his own right, but only a handful of people will ever appreciate just how incredible it is.
"There's always an Asain better than you" - Video Games
Just proves how many different forms of "badass" there is. And Silence is definitely one of them
Even though I haven't played any of the games in the series, I love watching it get destroyed! Thus i subscribed, some time ago, and I am not disappointed...
I cannot explain how much I enjoy your videos! It feels like I found a family in this niche of the speedrunning community! Watching your videos on speed running history just feels so fulfilling! Like seeing the origins of civilisation itself
imagine being a western speedrunner think you're the best in the world and suddenly see this random japanese dude having a WR 50% faster then yours lmao
The AE86 of the speed runner world
The speed run is 200% faster, but only 50% of the duration, you got the math grammar wrong
Unreal video man, those montages were unbelievable
RaC speedrun community really have an awesome background and story, imagine you feel insane at a game and one day you discover an unknown alien that play a complete different game than you but inside the exact same game, splitting your best time by almost 2, and even exploding a segmented run, this is madness.
This is a very unique story.
Such a great video, Silence’s intro gives goosebumps, like I don’t even do speedrunning the first time I saw this video, yet I’m here again
Epic Montage time baby #MyChildhoodGame
I really like your new videos Ricky, your editing is great. Being a PlayStation runner would you consider covering Crash bandicoot 2. It's a very pure speedrun that has come a very long way over the years. Keep up the great work!
I love the Shadow of Colossus music used, really gives character to silence's skill.
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You mean at the 12:39 part? I’m high key looking for the name of that sound bruh 😩!!
With all that running and jumping no wonder how Ratchet got broken in half.
Im no where close as good as any runner on UYA, but when I casually replay the games I might just try a few tricks for fun.
your video essays are the best and your channel is super important to the community thank you for your research and passion
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There was a guy called "The Silence" on R&C3 online, with 4 bolts in every game mode. Pretty rad dude, but I doubt it's the same guy considering we were on American servers.
Maybe he was in the american servers because r&c is more popular in america, so he could find more players more easily?
Just a guess tho
@@bigcraudio3066 He ran on a japanese PS2 and PS3 copy of the game which as far as i know don't have online multiplayer :(
@@danuzz_ when the ps3 remaster was launched, it actually had a multiplayer and servers you could play online at the time. I think they shut down around 2018.
@@bigcraudio3066 Maybe he played it then 🤷 could explain that he was first doing the runs on ps3 because that was the version he played multiplayer and later switched to ps2 because it was optimal for speedruns at the time. just speculation though.
@@bigcraudio3066 japanese ps3 didnt have multiplayer still
Hearing Massive Stunner slowly creep up gave me the chills haha, love that song
Great video as always :)
Jesus, I can't even imagine the dedication and smarts required to find all these glitches and tricks, and much less perfecting them like this in a single-segment run.
Also, big props to Xem and the other runners for actually beating that time holy moly
I Just love this Channel, these stories are incredibile in their own regard and these runner deserve their efforts to be shared with the world! Great job!
P.S: also, the editing on your videos Is so good as well!
such a good video
I loved ratchet and clank 3, I played through it so much, never thought I’d see such game breaking content
I remember being 10 years old when this game came out and I found all of these tricks. Cool to see someone else found all of these tricks as well.
man, this video takes me back to around when word of Silence's runs/glitches started to spread publicly, so this brought back a LOT of nostalgia. I'll never forget how revolutionary his findings were. I'm not a runner but I have watched speedruns for these games for a good while and I can further confirm that this was 100% when things got quite interesting!
Thanks Ricky for creating a video on this legend, and providing the quality work you do as always :)
i have to give it to you. showing your friends' profile photos is extremely brave. constantly reminding yourselves the plastic lives you live. and the fact that you will ALWAYS be virgins. very impressive.