This was easily my favorite video you've ever made man. The selection in games you chose to talk about was really nice and it felt like there was something for everyone. It was really cool to learn about some of the games I didn't know about, Like Outlast and Tools of Destruction. Just a phenomenal job! Thanks for putting me and Kara in the video briefly too :3 To answer your final words at the end, I think its difficult to come up with a "best speedrunner" without at least creating some kind of categories. When I think of the best speedrunner at a single game my mind first goes to Perfect Ace in GoldenEye & Perfect Dark. It is one of the games that has been run the most throughout time, and Ace has always been a step above the competition for nearly 15 years now. His records are some of the greatest ever set, and barely anyone can stand up to him when he decides to grind a certain stage. For speedrunners who excel at multiple games I think coolkid is a very good contender. He was extremely skilled at Quake and Half-Life back in his early career and has now moved onto disintegrate essentially every NES game he touches. I have a lot more names to mention in both categories if you ever wanna chat about it in DMs but those two names stick out to me. If you do decide to tackle such a video, I think covering multiple runners gives credit to the larger speedrunning community as a whole, kinda like how you did with this video! In any case I was hooked for the full duration of this, great work man and keep it up ❤
A friend mentioned that my stream footage was used in this video for Frontiers 16:03 don't worry I'm not mad or nothing if anything I'm happy my suffering in pinball was used for something productive. I've been a big fan of yours for years now so if anything I'm honored :)
I make sure my team and I credit every source we use in our videos. I've been the victim of people stealing my content w/o credit in the past, so I don't ever wanna do that to someone else. Thank you for understanding, and if you ever have any comments/questions/concerns in the future about this sort of thing, you can always hit me up on discord: xemmypoo I'm so sorry you had to suffer through pinball like this 😂
It's interesting just how prevalent the "Back in my days" or "uphill both ways" mentality can be, in regards to the Borderlands 2 example with a vocal part of the playerbase being against the solution.
Ayy Dayoman got in! Dude's reactions are the best. Got to say, this is probably one of your best edited videos thus far. Wonderful work, Xem. A great video to see after my birthday. The Tools of Destruction segment was a surprise to me since I didn't know you could even skip that section. Also shoutout to Karl Jobst, I hope in his victory against Billy and for further speedrunning feats. I hope you've been well man.
Hey Xem92 it seems my comment disappeared so im reposting. To answer your question you posed, you are, in my opinion the greatest speedrunner. The reason is that: 1) You are incredible at setting your mind to something and reaching that goal. 2) You are the greatest Rac runner of all time as you keep setting the standard for Rac runs in so nany different categories. 3) Yoy take soeedrunning and make it so immersive and incredible to watch. Thanks for everything you do and incredible video as always.
Yo I fucks with the vibe of this. For people to follow, I would recommend Klooger or Whose for modern-FPS titles. Klooger is almost entirely COD based, and is likely someone you have seen if you have ever been recommended a COD training run WR. Whose library spans across more franchises, and has been the person to route or optimise most of the Battlefield and MOH franchise. For a curveball, a good friend of mine WestRoadZ has just had the 4 year anniversary of his marathon Platinum% run of Gran Turismo Sport. A 9 and a half day endurance test that is sadly no longer replicable due to the server closure at the start of the year. That record is still the fastest completion on psnprofiles by just under a week RTA.
56:56 I would say either Xelna for having insane achievements in link to the past and the literal 20 year streak of dominance in marble blast gold, niftski for obvious reasons, or sidious for his takeover and obliteration of portal speedrunning
Without wanting to sound too cheesy, I think you would be a good contender for the best speedrunner of all time. You absolutely dominated the OG RaC Trilogy for YEARS. If we were to add up all the different record you held/hold the result could legally make an Onlyfans account, maybe even its children could. Anyways, great video, as always! I didn't know Outlast had such an active speedrunning community. Great game selection!
The greatest speedrunner of all time is a big thing, especially with so many games and so many different places, but ZeroMaster has to be up there. Impossible world records in the original Doom 1 and 2, and continuing to do records in the modern Doom 2016 and Eternal.
seeing ToD made me happy: I am teaching myself to speedrun it (it's the first video game I played, beat, and 100%) And my biggest problem was how terrible ASS was. I'm actually quite decent at a lot of the skips, but ASS just wasn't one of them. And then I learned about GASS. I went from willingly doing the autoscrolls because I didn't want to suffer through ASS, to being a bit more willing to attempt skipping the damn autoscrollers
Great content again Xem, everything about your recent videos improves each time from editing to scripts to narration and beyond. Keep it up! Also bless the Spyro 1 WR pop offs, no one else goes harder than them
This was really well done and bringing light to these communities and their relentless spirit is great for everyone. As someone who tracks Spyro speedrunning, you did great. I also had not tracked Frontiers speedruns at all and had no idea they'd skipped pinball! Wow! As for your question: It's really tough, but I think Matthias Rustemeyer from MK64 would be pretty good. Absolutely dominant for an eternity.
Banger video! Greatest speedrunner of all time? Now that's a tough one... the immediate first thought that comes to mind is whoever it was that took every single IL record in Mario Kart 64, then whoever it was that was fighting for the record in Super Mario Bros., but then again I don't closely follow those scenes so I'm not super familiar with them. So for the scenes I do follow, I'm thinking about some of the people who run multiple games and are masters at them so my mind goes to either Dayoman or OutrageousJosh, but I feel like I haven't actually watched Dayo run Spyro 2, so the only person I can think of is OutrageousJosh. Like he is a fantastic runner at all of the Jak games, which is impressive because Jak 1 is a very different genre from Jak 2 and 3 which is yet another different genre from Jak X and I'm pretty sure he's held world records in literally all of those games, some of them in multiple categories at the same time so I've honestly gotta give it up for him.
Fantastic video, definitely your best get. Shorter (10ish min?) speed running videos on a varied games or tricks would work really well, especially with your current style.
Great video! I actually learnt a fair amount here - there's this notion that speedrunning, from a glance, is just old nintendo games and mario 64 and stuff, but actually learning about quake and even some out there picks like outlast and borderlands was really insightful! fantastic as ever~ also, you're not bald! insert melon emote :D
The greatest speedrunner is hard to say, because it's hard to categorize. You could go with someone who has had the longest domination in a game or category, someone that's run many games, a face of the community, someone that brought many people into speedrunning, etc. I keep going back and forth between like 25 people.
greatest speedrunner of all time: look into Rayan Isran aka PerfectAce, a goldeneye and perfect dark prodigy. I think back when he joined in the mid 2000s he was around 11 years old, he is still dominating to this day (rank 1 in both games aka Dual Champion)
great video Xem, some of the games covered in here are among my absolute favorites so it almost felt tailor made for me to watch! i don't really have an answer for best Speedrunner of all time, but i like Hypnoshark! well, and you as well, Xem. so y'all have my vote!
Its hilarious to me that borderlands 2 players are mad about rng in the first second of the game while Minecraft rsg runners just suck it up with rng in every part of the game
Great video Xem! Also, in response to your question, I think that a lot of the 2D Mario speedrunners like MitchFlowerPower and A lot of the SM64 runners like cheese. Maybe even shift for his insane dominance in BfBB (and you know you touched on him in the ruined speedruns video, but still.) That’s my awnser to your question!
I know he's been talked about by summoningsalt, but i personally think Arcus should be talked about more. Its a meme answer because burrito speedruns but its a serious answer because ninja gaiden speedruns. Love the content xem❤
About your end question, I personally don't really have a singular answer but it'd be interesting if you created distinct categories of speedrunner and who's the best in each one, kinda like the speedrunning OSCARs. so youd have like, the longest current wr holder, most wrs, most concurrent wrs at one time, most amount of different games with a wr, best glitch hunter. Just some ideas for it, you could easily like make updated videos on it too as things change or you get new info. Yes, this is a bit of an expansion of the scope you asked for but I don't really think theres any videos that'd be like this on youtube.
Last month Dayoman just got sub 37! He just recently started back again doing 120% Also tbh I think sinister / zallard1 for their blindfolded punch out influences really put speed running on the map. Thank you Xem, love the new content
Bewildebeest. Man runs one of the longest Zelda games ever, Twilight Princess, holy grail or not. He also has a good sense of humor. Makes several hours feel like a sit down with an old friend.
@@Xem92 imagine how hard it would be when you'd have to look a cashier in the idea scanning your singular can of cheap cola with 5 kg of cheese stuffed in your pockets
don’t understand why the BL2 runners didn’t just create two categories for runs. preset load, or random load. happiness for both sides but i guess people like to be mad.
In answer to your outro question I’m pretty sure the best runner of all time is either dream or this one guy called xem92, not sure if you’ve heard of him
This was easily my favorite video you've ever made man. The selection in games you chose to talk about was really nice and it felt like there was something for everyone. It was really cool to learn about some of the games I didn't know about, Like Outlast and Tools of Destruction. Just a phenomenal job! Thanks for putting me and Kara in the video briefly too :3
To answer your final words at the end, I think its difficult to come up with a "best speedrunner" without at least creating some kind of categories. When I think of the best speedrunner at a single game my mind first goes to Perfect Ace in GoldenEye & Perfect Dark. It is one of the games that has been run the most throughout time, and Ace has always been a step above the competition for nearly 15 years now. His records are some of the greatest ever set, and barely anyone can stand up to him when he decides to grind a certain stage. For speedrunners who excel at multiple games I think coolkid is a very good contender. He was extremely skilled at Quake and Half-Life back in his early career and has now moved onto disintegrate essentially every NES game he touches. I have a lot more names to mention in both categories if you ever wanna chat about it in DMs but those two names stick out to me. If you do decide to tackle such a video, I think covering multiple runners gives credit to the larger speedrunning community as a whole, kinda like how you did with this video!
In any case I was hooked for the full duration of this, great work man and keep it up ❤
Thank you for the love my man
No mention of distortion 2 is criminal
actually, i've decided that long backrat isn't RTA viable anymore, and my opinion is fact
classic spyro runner 🙄
I read the first part as "Um, ackshually ☝🤓"
"however, just like in real life, you're not supposed to die during pinball" i laughed WAY too hard at this LMAO (18:20)
A friend mentioned that my stream footage was used in this video for Frontiers 16:03
don't worry I'm not mad or nothing if anything I'm happy my suffering in pinball was used for something productive. I've been a big fan of yours for years now so if anything I'm honored :)
I make sure my team and I credit every source we use in our videos. I've been the victim of people stealing my content w/o credit in the past, so I don't ever wanna do that to someone else. Thank you for understanding, and if you ever have any comments/questions/concerns in the future about this sort of thing, you can always hit me up on discord: xemmypoo
I'm so sorry you had to suffer through pinball like this 😂
I've been waiting for this sequel
Congrats on the checkmark big dog
It's interesting just how prevalent the "Back in my days" or "uphill both ways" mentality can be, in regards to the Borderlands 2 example with a vocal part of the playerbase being against the solution.
36:20 "thats right, the square hole!" awesome video xem!
I laughed way too hard at the sentence "her morbid curiosity compelled her to look into ass"
I too love stacking autosaves and Kerwanizing
Ayy Dayoman got in! Dude's reactions are the best. Got to say, this is probably one of your best edited videos thus far. Wonderful work, Xem. A great video to see after my birthday. The Tools of Destruction segment was a surprise to me since I didn't know you could even skip that section. Also shoutout to Karl Jobst, I hope in his victory against Billy and for further speedrunning feats. I hope you've been well man.
this truly borders my lands
Rats, still no Qwark warp section
Eventually…
hm did that really save uya though
Hey Xem92 it seems my comment disappeared so im reposting.
To answer your question you posed, you are, in my opinion the greatest speedrunner.
The reason is that:
1) You are incredible at setting your mind to something and reaching that goal.
2) You are the greatest Rac runner of all time as you keep setting the standard for Rac runs in so nany different categories.
3) Yoy take soeedrunning and make it so immersive and incredible to watch.
Thanks for everything you do and incredible video as always.
Best speed runner is Todd Rogers. That man holds so many untied wr
Yo I fucks with the vibe of this.
For people to follow, I would recommend Klooger or Whose for modern-FPS titles. Klooger is almost entirely COD based, and is likely someone you have seen if you have ever been recommended a COD training run WR. Whose library spans across more franchises, and has been the person to route or optimise most of the Battlefield and MOH franchise. For a curveball, a good friend of mine WestRoadZ has just had the 4 year anniversary of his marathon Platinum% run of Gran Turismo Sport. A 9 and a half day endurance test that is sadly no longer replicable due to the server closure at the start of the year. That record is still the fastest completion on psnprofiles by just under a week RTA.
56:56 I would say either Xelna for having insane achievements in link to the past and the literal 20 year streak of dominance in marble blast gold, niftski for obvious reasons, or sidious for his takeover and obliteration of portal speedrunning
Yoo 60min video nice, love that edit style! *Greatest speedrunner of all time: I really like your speedruns but DarkViperAU is my second place*
Without wanting to sound too cheesy, I think you would be a good contender for the best speedrunner of all time. You absolutely dominated the OG RaC Trilogy for YEARS. If we were to add up all the different record you held/hold the result could legally make an Onlyfans account, maybe even its children could. Anyways, great video, as always! I didn't know Outlast had such an active speedrunning community. Great game selection!
The greatest speedrunner of all time is a big thing, especially with so many games and so many different places, but ZeroMaster has to be up there. Impossible world records in the original Doom 1 and 2, and continuing to do records in the modern Doom 2016 and Eternal.
seeing ToD made me happy: I am teaching myself to speedrun it (it's the first video game I played, beat, and 100%) And my biggest problem was how terrible ASS was. I'm actually quite decent at a lot of the skips, but ASS just wasn't one of them. And then I learned about GASS. I went from willingly doing the autoscrolls because I didn't want to suffer through ASS, to being a bit more willing to attempt skipping the damn autoscrollers
Great content again Xem, everything about your recent videos improves each time from editing to scripts to narration and beyond.
Keep it up!
Also bless the Spyro 1 WR pop offs, no one else goes harder than them
This was really well done and bringing light to these communities and their relentless spirit is great for everyone. As someone who tracks Spyro speedrunning, you did great.
I also had not tracked Frontiers speedruns at all and had no idea they'd skipped pinball! Wow!
As for your question: It's really tough, but I think Matthias Rustemeyer from MK64 would be pretty good. Absolutely dominant for an eternity.
Banger video!
Greatest speedrunner of all time? Now that's a tough one... the immediate first thought that comes to mind is whoever it was that took every single IL record in Mario Kart 64, then whoever it was that was fighting for the record in Super Mario Bros., but then again I don't closely follow those scenes so I'm not super familiar with them. So for the scenes I do follow, I'm thinking about some of the people who run multiple games and are masters at them so my mind goes to either Dayoman or OutrageousJosh, but I feel like I haven't actually watched Dayo run Spyro 2, so the only person I can think of is OutrageousJosh. Like he is a fantastic runner at all of the Jak games, which is impressive because Jak 1 is a very different genre from Jak 2 and 3 which is yet another different genre from Jak X and I'm pretty sure he's held world records in literally all of those games, some of them in multiple categories at the same time so I've honestly gotta give it up for him.
Was not expecting a sequel so soon, what a trip.
It's me. I'm the greatest runner (of the Captain Planet game series at least).
Great video dude!!
Fantastic video, definitely your best get. Shorter (10ish min?) speed running videos on a varied games or tricks would work really well, especially with your current style.
The best part about Speedrunning are the stupid yet appropriate names people come up for the strats.
Great video! I actually learnt a fair amount here - there's this notion that speedrunning, from a glance, is just old nintendo games and mario 64 and stuff, but actually learning about quake and even some out there picks like outlast and borderlands was really insightful! fantastic as ever~
also, you're not bald! insert melon emote :D
ZFG legend OOT runner. Love his content and such a chill voice!
This is a really interesting and well-researched video! Thanks for making it!
Amazing video bro! I love the inclusion of newer games since the classics sometimes get old yk
The greatest speedrunner is hard to say, because it's hard to categorize. You could go with someone who has had the longest domination in a game or category, someone that's run many games, a face of the community, someone that brought many people into speedrunning, etc.
I keep going back and forth between like 25 people.
greatest speedrunner of all time: look into Rayan Isran aka PerfectAce, a goldeneye and perfect dark prodigy. I think back when he joined in the mid 2000s he was around 11 years old, he is still dominating to this day (rank 1 in both games aka Dual Champion)
great video Xem, some of the games covered in here are among my absolute favorites so it almost felt tailor made for me to watch!
i don't really have an answer for best Speedrunner of all time, but i like Hypnoshark! well, and you as well, Xem. so y'all have my vote!
LUMILAURA AND BUNBARONESS MENTION (great vid Xem)
We need to study this guy. How he can post a banger after banger without missing
Its hilarious to me that borderlands 2 players are mad about rng in the first second of the game while Minecraft rsg runners just suck it up with rng in every part of the game
I fucking love these speedrun history videos. What a banger!
This video deserves way more views - well made😊
R&C runners: trying desperately to skip the auto-scrollers
Kingdom Hearts runners who just mod it out of the game: 🗿
16:40 true Shakespeare
Great video Xem! Also, in response to your question, I think that a lot of the 2D Mario speedrunners like MitchFlowerPower and A lot of the SM64 runners like cheese. Maybe even shift for his insane dominance in BfBB (and you know you touched on him in the ruined speedruns video, but still.) That’s my awnser to your question!
That was a GREAT video ! I know it took you a while. But, I really like this kind of content
I know he's been talked about by summoningsalt, but i personally think Arcus should be talked about more. Its a meme answer because burrito speedruns but its a serious answer because ninja gaiden speedruns. Love the content xem❤
Hype- amazing Stuff as always Xem true research goat
TGH is arguably the greatest speedrunner of all time (second to me of course)
Sick video homie, really enjoyed this one
I'm sure you'll be doing the rounds with this video, Xem, brilliant quality and detail
Finaly the new vid ! Been wanting to watch this for the last two weeks
Instant classic
Goated video, found it cool to learn about speedruns id probably never even think about looking up!
this video was insanely ambitious
About your end question, I personally don't really have a singular answer but it'd be interesting if you created distinct categories of speedrunner and who's the best in each one, kinda like the speedrunning OSCARs. so youd have like, the longest current wr holder, most wrs, most concurrent wrs at one time, most amount of different games with a wr, best glitch hunter. Just some ideas for it, you could easily like make updated videos on it too as things change or you get new info. Yes, this is a bit of an expansion of the scope you asked for but I don't really think theres any videos that'd be like this on youtube.
Xemmy boy is hitting his content stride 😍 great video!
Enjoyed this one, I certainly learned a good deal with this.
Last month Dayoman just got sub 37! He just recently started back again doing 120%
Also tbh I think sinister / zallard1 for their blindfolded punch out influences really put speed running on the map.
Thank you Xem, love the new content
Love seeing xem shoutout other speed games. 💙
NUT SKIP MENTIONED 🗣🗣🗣🗣
great vid, as for your question at the end: saboom or jeremy thompson gets my vote for most legendary runner
Bewildebeest. Man runs one of the longest Zelda games ever, Twilight Princess, holy grail or not. He also has a good sense of humor. Makes several hours feel like a sit down with an old friend.
Xem got the fresh cut and the freshest fits
My toilet was saved from death 💀
Zeromaster, doom speedrunner comes to mind
Definitely the best doom player right now, broken through many challenge barriers for the game.
great documentary
Babe wake up xem just dropped a banger
can’t wait for when doing carpetless with the setup is too slow and they have to start rawdogging the starting angle like cannonless in WF
Im subscribing to this timeline
"her morbid curiosity compeled her to look into ASS"
Xem, 2024.
Fantastic video dude!!!
Really should have to add the stealing% of the albert heijn speedrun being saved when the self-checkout update was launched
Bro it's so hard to steal from Appie these days
@@Xem92 imagine how hard it would be when you'd have to look a cashier in the idea scanning your singular can of cheap cola with 5 kg of cheese stuffed in your pockets
New Xem video essay what a great day
for part 2 you should add the wrong warp from spider man shattered dimensions ds that cuts the run in half
best speedrunner overall: distortion2 probably
Very nice video! Keep it up Xem!
Great video, honestly barely noticed i spent a full hour watching it. keep it up, bald man
Very cool video Xem !
In addition to these, how many speedruns or speedrun categories were resurrected through mods and hacks, in cases where arbitrary rules won't cut it?
incredible vid man. keep it up
thanks for spinning the salad xem. u never miss boxxy. shoulda used bake instead of convect
And this was the moment Chuck became [Chuckles]
The boys will say hell yeah
hell yeah
Woke up and knew it was going to be a good day 🙏🏽🙏🏽
As for a suggestion, maybe bubzia getting blinfolded super mario64 16 stars blindfolded below 20 mins a few days ago.
Bubzia's such a goat
To make the Pinball of Frontiers even worse, SOMETIMES the red ring will actually spawn in the gutter path itself.
That's diabolical
I almost forgot I promised to watch this
"Precise timing of ASS" just rolls off of the tongue.
don’t understand why the BL2 runners didn’t just create two categories for runs. preset load, or random load. happiness for both sides but i guess people like to be mad.
In answer to your outro question I’m pretty sure the best runner of all time is either dream or this one guy called xem92, not sure if you’ve heard of him
very good content
This is a badass video Xem
We eating good tonight boys
Small ant is my greatest speed runner pick
I love me some smant
Like and comment for the algorithm for my boy Xem.
I am not super knowledgeable but for me some goats are ZFG, Siglemic and Green suigi
I'm half surprised Mario Sunshine speedrun file isn't here.
good vidoe but i think you forgot to talk about how sac was saved by fish skip!
Don’t tell Sneepy this at 2am
Penguinz0, famous for Mr. Krabs Overdoses on Ketamine and Dies and House of Caravan
Immediate banger, that's the comment
The like button glowed! It was just begging to be smashed
Awesome video :D
long distance rat
Goated
source?
you guys cooked
outlast was the best part