Yeah that gave me that same freaky/disturbing feeling you get when you see footage of an actual person about to commit a shooting or some other fucked up shit.
I had the same thought at that point of the video - literally like a homicidal criminal caught in the very edge of CCTV footage moments before their most heinous crime 😂
I was one of the people killed during this bug. I had all of my valuable items on me and all of my cash as I was booted from the House. I lost everything. I cried my eyes out then quit RS for several years. It's such a throwback watching this whole event unfold.
God Ash really hopped into the whip and rode into the office at 2 am to crank out massacre ending code in less than 2 hours so that his night shift homies could finally get some sleep
I have never played a single minute of runescape, nor have I ever heard of this incident, yet you kept me hooked for an entire hour. I love watching deep dives about things I know nothing about simply because the person explaining it is doing it in an intriguing and entertaining way. Great job, thank you for being my Saturday night entertainment!
If you're interested in these types infamous gaming moments, you should look up the world of warcraft disease spread back in vanilla wow. Basically a boss had a mechanic that put a disease on the player, but the disease could also be placed on hunter pets. A hunter left the raid and spread the disease killing thousands of players. It was actually used in studies to show how people react to a plague being spread as players were avoiding people and major cities because major cities were a death sentence to enter due to the disease.
I have watched a bunch of similar documentaries and videos to this and other videos like Minecraft bases and worlds getting blasted to oblivion, glitches and bugs taking place, wars taking place all sorts of things. I even watch documentaries of games that I don't play. Games are fascinating, even if you don't play that particular game.
This was really well made. Rare to find hour long gaming documentaries about a single topic that can be entertaining and worthwhile to understand the history of a game we all love
It goes beyond that tbh. If he had gotten really greedy or desperate to do what he did and teleported he would have lost his chance. If he had literally anything that could have reset his character's layer state this couldn't have happened. In truth this only happened because of dumb luck and coding without foresight that you can only find in classic MMOs during this era and time period.
Man. Middle school (04-05) was such a shit time in my life but being able to look forward to playing RS when I got home made it so much better. This game will always have a special place in my heart.
I know I’m like 4 months late lol but saaaame. I think that’s why I return to it still, especially during shitty/stressful times. The nostalgia is comforting
It’s good that Jagex embraced this event. It’s a gaming legend and one of many examples of how MMO players can take the game beyond what the devs ever imagined.
Not to mention there was already a monumental event taking place when the Falador Massacre took place. I mean back then in 06 with the cost of resources and much less ease of access, getting 99 construction and being the first to do so was massive and there was even a party to showcase it, then it was just as quickly overshadowed......I mean what a day that was.
The craziest part for me was that Durial tried to join Reign Of Terror. That's actually crazy because that clan is STILL active in OSRS. Like, damn, I feel like that clan needs its own documentary as well, considering it looks like its been around since the very start of RuneScape as a whole and as I remember its also done a load of shady stuff.
Yeah they aren't the most respectable clan that's for sure lmao. the most NH (no honor) clan in the game. Clan rivalry's going too far into IRL. Mod Jed. list goes on...
@@Alex-sc9qc there is a video on it somewhere. Probably a few. A moderator was giving them information about upcoming events and insider information how to win them. Like those big PVP events, they'd get information helping them with those.
This was absolutely fantastic! I started playing shortly after this event, and I honestly didn’t know the majority of this information! The real reason it happened was pretty fascinating to learn about too, along with the route Durial took that day. Really solid investigating!
Do you still play Runescape at all? I know it's been many years since you've uploaded it but I'm curious as to if you ever play it in your free time these days.
I’m 31, crazy to think this happened half my life ago. I wasn’t there for the house party, but friends were messaging me to come to world 111 and I did. Came just as the carnage ended in edgeville. Who would have thought at the time I had just witnessed the end of the most iconic RuneScape moment in history.
I'm about to be 34, and by 06, my days of playing runescape at the local library after school were far behind me. By 03/04 we all had high speed internet in our homes and were pioneering the multiplayer shooter craze. Before call of duty became what it is today, it was Socom on Playstation. Halo on Xbox. Ah, nostalgia
The thought of durial plotting and being tactical with his friends to turn into an infamous RuneScape “serial killer” is a fucking hilarious thought 😂😂
Even after all these years, hearing them talk about the Falador Massacre in the first 30 seconds gave me goosebumps. I don't care what anyone says, this was my favorite video gaming moment of all time
i was a victim in the massacre, i didn't lose much and was killed near the house portal early on. lost maybe 300k. it was enough to make me log straight out and stop playing for a month until "whatever was going on" had stopped. i was completly clueless as to the scale of the event until videos started showing up over the next few months. Such an amazing doco and it will never be forgotten.
I remember dying to a bug with elvarg losing my full rune at draynor bank when a fireball ko'd me out of nowhere, that 200-300k feels like 200-300m nowadays lol
I am Polmerbat, the one who recorded some of these clips literally 16 years ago. Crazy how you dug these clips up when I don’t even have them anymore! I remember posting it to RuneScape Community back then, must have surfaced from there!
Had to catch my jaw from slowly making its way to the floor when you started getting into the nitty-gritty of all of the mechanics involved in making this event actually occur. It's insane how such a precise and niche chain of events lined up like that.
"It had been a night of terror, a night of dread; a night of murder, with countless bloodshed..." This whole piece was incredible. From the footage, to the narration, to the facts.. just wow. This has renewed my faith in rs yt. Nominating you for all the golden gnomes.
This is something I can proudly say I was at by complete accident. I was in West Falador heading to the back and forth from the Rimmington portal for player homes as I was working on my humble little home that day. Literally didn't dawn on me until probably YEARS later the actual scope of infamy this incident would go on to hold haha.
I started playing RS in 2004 and consider myself lucky I was able to play during the Golden Age. Having my closest friends "sleep over" so we could do pk trips on our mini-pures while playing together in the same vicinity will always be my favorite memory. The nostalgia from watching this video is honestly bitter-sweet, but Runescape will always hold a special place in my heart even though I haven't played in years.
this is really an ode to how raw runescape really was. being a young kid on this game exposed you to armor trimming scams, players emoting as female characters for gp in varrock square, and losing everything you worked so hard for to a boss or if you were unlucky enough... this bug. the golden era was really the trenches and im sure most of us can agree that we learned a lot of life lessons early on due to the nature of this game. thank you for all the research you put in this video could not be any better!
on the other hand, it was a way better community. People just hanging out, having drop parties for no reason, playing the game as intended. Asking to see qpc or rc emotes because they were so cool and it was a BIG deal to have them. Nowadays you can be maxed and worth 11 digits and still be nobody. One of my fondest memories from way back was somebody giving me a guthix skirt out of the blue. It was no small gift (at least on a free world), worth way more than anything I had. I think I lost it in the wilderness and was devastated. Simpler times
Inflation of expectations. Back in the years you really didn't care, you just wanted to have fun. Now first what you do is most likely checking for most efficient build and A-Z walkthrough guide.
I was one of those boys who made a female character for free stuff. What's insane is just how profitable it actually was. I got full rune once for doing the bow emote a bunch and that was back when rune was amazing.
i was convinced into account switching with a random as an innocent 8 year old had to head to school and he wouldn’t get off my account. came back in the afternoon and all my stuff was gone i learnt a valuable lesson that day😂
This and WoW's plague is so interesting. I first wanted to get a degree in game making but hated it and changed degrees. I have so much respect for coders in times of absolute chaos.
@@miccrhaafetl5101 wow actual wow that such a intense shift in the opposite direction I assume, from coding to sports management. So I assume you had feelings of wanting to be in sports mangement before? Or did you find that love by trial and error?
@@chloewinnaa1515 I used to play until I got injured and had to stop playing. While looking for another degree, I came across sports management and realized I missed being part of a team.
I love how you've added in Osrs characters in the current Rs3 world but kind of faded.. it just screams history and brings back so many memories from childhood. Absolute masterpiece of a video!
I vividly remember being at my cousins on that fateful day... thankfully, i was enjoying some quality time with family but I remember getting home and logging on and EVERYONE was talking about this on EVERY world you went to... insane memories and still one of the fondest I have even without being there!
This was literally one of the most enjoyable RS video's I have ever seen. I love how you pieced together the branching storylines that run parallel to one another.
The use of the Extinction music when discussing 2006 events was beautiful, truly something only Will seems to do. Absolutely epic. Decades from now this will still be incredible to look back on. Thank you.
Thank you for noticing! The music in this game is so extremely magical. Thousands of tracks, and so many of them are pieces of art. It feels right to use them in these videos, where they truly belong
So glad you commented this. I was scrolling thru the comments looking to figure out what music was playing during the clips of the actual massacre. I don't play RS3 so I didn't recognize it but it was epic. I've found it now thanks to your comment.
I'm hyped the event's history will forever be preserved in this time capsule of a video. To anyone else watching this on 6/6 with me, happy anniversary!
I quit rs a long time ago, but this was suddenly in my feed. I had to click it for old times sakes, and when I saw how long the documentary was, I immediately knew I wouldn't watch the whole thing. Boy was I wrong. This was extremely well made, and kept me engaged all way through. I wasn't there on world 111, I was probably somewhere murdering goblins with my brother, but this is still nostalgic, and a childhood memory i'll never forget. Thank you!
Already the opening of the video gives me absolute goosebumps, that was one of the most violent incidents back then. Already 16 years ago, man how time flies...
Moment of silence for the lost souls still wandering Faladors gates... amazing video. Truly a work of art. You have my sword for golden gnomes best video. The editing was TOP TIER.
I wasn't going to watch ANOTHER video on this, but I just started mid-way through and ended up watching through the end. Best researched and recreated video I've ever seen on it.
This was such a great and easy insight into this small part of gaming history. What was actually heartbreaking was the friendship ending moment with Voodoo.
This is incredible, all the little details make this legend so much better... the fact that Durial picked up his green phat from a slain victim... my god.
This was a well done documentary. Great job on the audio and visual editing, as well as the extensive research required to gather all the material you provided. 9.5/10
No matter how many times I see videos like this about Runescape, it never gets old. I was 16 when the massacre happened, and I'll probably remember it when I'm 90. Thank you Runescape, for all the great memories.
Such a great documentary. I m so glad to have been a part of the runescape community for about 19 years. I have not been playing constantly, more on and off s I was never a serious "super grinder". However I have seen alot in the game. I was introduced to the game when I was only 9, by my friend who was 2 years older, he helped me with quests and stuff as I did not know english at the time. This has truly been my all time favorite game that seem to not let me go, I always come back to the game even after a 1-3 year break from it. I have had the pleasure to have spoken to Zezima once in RS2 and in OSRS the true legend of the game. I hope this game lives on forever.
This video was put together in such a phenomenal way, no matter how many videos I've watched of this, yours is just that next level. Thank you for this upload!
Bro I don't understand how you don't have millions of subscribers. The effort that you must have put into this. The amount of time and energy that was spent. I hope this doesn't come across wrong but dude what an amazing job you did and I hope that you keep going because I love all your videos. The music is awesome and the research that you've done is outstanding. Thank you for everything you do!
I've never played RuneScape and I never will. But this is a captivating documentary. I'm convinced that I could be entertained by anything of good quality, regardless of the content. Thanks for this great video. I didn't learn anything useful, but it was none the less entertaining and enjoyable.
Incredibly well done. You captured the reasons why Runescape was such an amazing game for many of us, while also doing a fantastic job of telling the story of the Falador glitch. This was very well researched as well, thank you for the great watch.
Wow.. just wow. You have outdone yourself with this one, Will. A huge shoutout to you and everyone involved in making this detailed video about a dark day in Runescape. You have gained my respect.
I love the editing with Old School players and environments layered onto modern RuneScape locations. Great video! Edit: Absolutely incredible that the final player Durial321 attacked, Ghjjf, was the leader of Cursed You's clan. What are the odds.
32:02 it's so creepy to see Durial321 run into the bank, when at that moment he wasn't the centre of attention. It's like one of those "eerie things captured on cctv"
Hi there, I was really impressed with the detail and way this documentary was made. I haven't played runescape for 5 or 6 years but after I saw this, I brought a runescape bond and renewed membership for 14 days. This video definitely had the old skool feels.
This was the most beautiful, epic, inspiring, and gorgeous video ever made about a video game bug. You are the JRR Tolkien of ‘Video Game Retrospective UA-camrs’.
Fuck. It’s wild how we have such deep memories because of this game. I think it’s because it was our first experience of being a part of change. Having a voice. Thank you Jagex.
This was the best video I’ve seen covering this event. I still remember when this happened since I’m Australian and world 111 was my clans home world. I almost lost my Halloween mask set when my friends told me to come to Fally sq to check it out, luckily I banked everything since I’d always walk around with them in my inventory for the fashionscape and everything used to protect over them. Thank you for the nostalgia ❤️
I just want to say, the storytelling in this video is up with there and even surpasses some of the journalistic content on UA-cam right now. Great work.
Great Documentary WillMissIt! I remember signing on and being told to go to Fally because crazy shit was going down. Amazing how monumental the Fally Massacre is to this very day!
Likely one of the best documentaries that has ever been done on any event this game has ever seen. Extremely well done and it's not hard to tell that a lot of time and effort went into this.
It's crazy how significant an event this was. I never played Runescape back in the day, but I was playing Star Wars Galaxies at the time, I would occasionally see ppl say "hey you hear what happen in Runescape?". Even years later, I started playing Clone Wars Adventures and I met this guy I played with for a while, he told me how he stopped playing Runescape after that cuz he was scared of losing his hard work just in case something like that ever happened again
So glad I was a player during this monumental day and they're still keeping it alive. Been playing osrs 17 years and still enjoy it. Great documentary man!
BRO THIS IS EASILY THE BEST DOCUMENTARY ON THE FALLY MASACRE THANK YOU I WASNT AROUND FOR THIS, I GOT TO RELIVE IT IN THE PASSENGER SEAT. SUBBED AND LIKED
This was genuinely an amazing video to watch. Watching Durial do things like trade things to his friend before he even started killing people felt like an actual crime investigation surveillance video. So cool to see!
The dude straight dipped out with his homie and made it look like they were in a fight to cover the trail. Fucking savage. Huge power struggle must have happened in the underground market
I cannot start explaining the goosebumps I get watching the whole documentary. To get to the point of editting this all, recording the seperate characters running, placing them in, greenscreen, orb of oculus, so much more... this is a masterpiece and a well-crafted artwork that brings tears in the eyes of every nostalgic RuneScape player, be them active or gone. Thank you for all your work documenting this!
i just started playing osrs a couple months ago. 20 years old, so i would've been 3 when all this happened. the size and age of this community and all of the history surrounding it astounds me and is why i put so many hours in as i do.
I was online during this on another world and news traveled fast! By the time I arrived it was all over. Now as an oldie I no longer play and have not for many years, but this memory will never be forgotten, along with so many others from these days, times where different back then, unless you was around you’d probably never understand rushing home telling all your school friends to log into same world and meet at a certain location. Time flys guys, it really does! Remember that. RIP
When you found the clip of Durial returning to the Falador bank and highlighted it like a real crime episode... LOVED IT
The fact that someone managed to capture Durial running into the bank at 32:00 essentially gearing up for the massacre is insane!
I rewatched both scenes of him entering and exiting the bank and while he stood 3 squares away while durial traded his friend. Couldn't believe it
Yo that shit looked like a CCTV recording of a suspect at large lmfao!
its like watching a school shooter going to get his weapons and ammo
ban assault whips
Yeah that gave me that same freaky/disturbing feeling you get when you see footage of an actual person about to commit a shooting or some other fucked up shit.
The fact that it happened on 6/6/6 by pure chance is like poetry.
I thought so too, until I found out that it was technically 6/7 😔
@@TheSanityX the video says it really was 6 6 6
Because nobody else said it....
its like poetry... it rhymes.
@@jfkdidntlos791 different time zones?
@@TheSanityX try watching the video next time
The grainy CCTV of Durial walking into the bank to gear up alone deserves some kind of award
I love the style of this video how it merged all the versions of the game and with the re-enacting makes it so good
I had the same thought at that point of the video - literally like a homicidal criminal caught in the very edge of CCTV footage moments before their most heinous crime 😂
I'm so happy somebody made a documentary on this day
It was such a highlight of my childhood
timestamp please god damn bruh
@@mattheww9763 32:00
I was one of the people killed during this bug. I had all of my valuable items on me and all of my cash as I was booted from the House. I lost everything. I cried my eyes out then quit RS for several years. It's such a throwback watching this whole event unfold.
Rip
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I went as a noob cause i was and still am one
I call cap
Cap
God Ash really hopped into the whip and rode into the office at 2 am to crank out massacre ending code in less than 2 hours so that his night shift homies could finally get some sleep
He is truly a God amongst men.
@@SaintLumbridge God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals, you might say.
Haha wow
Andrew is a bum
ghost ridin the whip
I have never played a single minute of runescape, nor have I ever heard of this incident, yet you kept me hooked for an entire hour. I love watching deep dives about things I know nothing about simply because the person explaining it is doing it in an intriguing and entertaining way. Great job, thank you for being my Saturday night entertainment!
Thank you for watching! Glad it was enjoyable despite never playing the game :D
Same!
If you're interested in these types infamous gaming moments, you should look up the world of warcraft disease spread back in vanilla wow. Basically a boss had a mechanic that put a disease on the player, but the disease could also be placed on hunter pets. A hunter left the raid and spread the disease killing thousands of players. It was actually used in studies to show how people react to a plague being spread as players were avoiding people and major cities because major cities were a death sentence to enter due to the disease.
I have watched a bunch of similar documentaries and videos to this and other videos like Minecraft bases and worlds getting blasted to oblivion, glitches and bugs taking place, wars taking place all sorts of things. I even watch documentaries of games that I don't play. Games are fascinating, even if you don't play that particular game.
Thanks bro. Great game. Was a dream come true for dev and gamers alike. Greatest videogame ever made.
This was really well made. Rare to find hour long gaming documentaries about a single topic that can be entertaining and worthwhile to understand the history of a game we all love
*SummoningSalt would like to know your location*
That’s cuz most of those clips come from an actual documentary someone made
@@Joshualovespeople Someone else made a documentary and he just stole teh clips? 🤔
This is amazing I'm so proud of you and I don't even know you man great work you deserve a job at Jagex.
*Used to love*
Durial321 is proof that you can be at the right place at the right time and have your namesake etched on the wall of history as a result
It goes beyond that tbh. If he had gotten really greedy or desperate to do what he did and teleported he would have lost his chance. If he had literally anything that could have reset his character's layer state this couldn't have happened. In truth this only happened because of dumb luck and coding without foresight that you can only find in classic MMOs during this era and time period.
He also chose to kill @@mee091000
4 hours from the start of the house party to removing the glitch is pretty damn impressive honestly
Man. Middle school (04-05) was such a shit time in my life but being able to look forward to playing RS when I got home made it so much better. This game will always have a special place in my heart.
Same
@@dmk2632 I hope things are better for you now :)
I know I’m like 4 months late lol but saaaame. I think that’s why I return to it still, especially during shitty/stressful times. The nostalgia is comforting
Do you play osrs?
@@pizzastack45 not really, I’ve played it some here and there but haven’t gotten all the way back into it
This isn't a documentary. This is art.
When upload again :(
Will is hands down the best non pvp RuneScape UA-camr to me. His videos are as wholesome as they get.
Actually it’s just basic chemistry but thank you, Jesse
I know you mean well, but documentary film IS a form of art, and it's good to recognize it distinctly as such
No, its a documentary. Documetaries fall under the category of entertainment
Huge amount of respect for the PvP guy trying to protect people right as duriel was banking his items
Was going to add, he attacked someone and noticed it and stopped! what a hero!
.. sadly hero's don't live a massacre ....
the only way to stop a bad guy with a PvP glitch is a good guy with a PvP glitch
@@xionkuriyama5697 thats hilarious ! So good
My friend was apparently part of those people
@@maverick2827 :|
It’s good that Jagex embraced this event. It’s a gaming legend and one of many examples of how MMO players can take the game beyond what the devs ever imagined.
Not to mention there was already a monumental event taking place when the Falador Massacre took place. I mean back then in 06 with the cost of resources and much less ease of access, getting 99 construction and being the first to do so was massive and there was even a party to showcase it, then it was just as quickly overshadowed......I mean what a day that was.
The craziest part for me was that Durial tried to join Reign Of Terror. That's actually crazy because that clan is STILL active in OSRS. Like, damn, I feel like that clan needs its own documentary as well, considering it looks like its been around since the very start of RuneScape as a whole and as I remember its also done a load of shady stuff.
Yeah they aren't the most respectable clan that's for sure lmao.
the most NH (no honor) clan in the game. Clan rivalry's going too far into IRL. Mod Jed. list goes on...
Omg RoT?! WowWwW such great times! RoT Vs Di used to be insane! I miss these days…
Lmao literally had a mod helping them cheat. Truly wild.
@@thegatorhator6822I haven't played rs for years but curious to know, how was a mod helping them cheat? Sounds interesting!
@@Alex-sc9qc there is a video on it somewhere. Probably a few. A moderator was giving them information about upcoming events and insider information how to win them.
Like those big PVP events, they'd get information helping them with those.
This was absolutely fantastic! I started playing shortly after this event, and I honestly didn’t know the majority of this information! The real reason it happened was pretty fascinating to learn about too, along with the route Durial took that day. Really solid investigating!
OMG, Antvenom. Man, I remember watching your Rs/Minecraft vids back in the early 2010's ^^
Do you still play Runescape at all? I know it's been many years since you've uploaded it but I'm curious as to if you ever play it in your free time these days.
@@Alex-bx6cm Very rarely, but a few times a year I hop on, and maybe once a year do I grind any skills.
@@AntVenom Ah, yes... "You never quit RuneScape, you just take long breaks."
Fucking hell AntVenom you're a throwback to my childhood
When you pointed out Durial running into east Falador bank, I verbally gasped and said "oh shiT"
I’m 31, crazy to think this happened half my life ago. I wasn’t there for the house party, but friends were messaging me to come to world 111 and I did. Came just as the carnage ended in edgeville. Who would have thought at the time I had just witnessed the end of the most iconic RuneScape moment in history.
You didn't know no one knew. I wasn't even playing that day but heard stories about it.
This is exactly how the night went for me! Same age also 😂. Crazy!
lucky! when my friends msged me to come to world 111 it was full lmao so i just kept on rcing
I'm about to be 34, and by 06, my days of playing runescape at the local library after school were far behind me. By 03/04 we all had high speed internet in our homes and were pioneering the multiplayer shooter craze. Before call of duty became what it is today, it was Socom on Playstation. Halo on Xbox. Ah, nostalgia
I was hiding in lumby castle. Couldn’t believe what I was hearing, I thought I was gonna die with my 100k worth items
The thought of durial plotting and being tactical with his friends to turn into an infamous RuneScape “serial killer” is a fucking hilarious thought 😂😂
Yes😂😂😂
Even after all these years, hearing them talk about the Falador Massacre in the first 30 seconds gave me goosebumps. I don't care what anyone says, this was my favorite video gaming moment of all time
i was a victim in the massacre, i didn't lose much and was killed near the house portal early on. lost maybe 300k. it was enough to make me log straight out and stop playing for a month until "whatever was going on" had stopped. i was completly clueless as to the scale of the event until videos started showing up over the next few months.
Such an amazing doco and it will never be forgotten.
I remember dying to a bug with elvarg losing my full rune at draynor bank when a fireball ko'd me out of nowhere, that 200-300k feels like 200-300m nowadays lol
I'm so sorry you went through such a traumatic event.
@@DB-cx6uc which is chumps gp anyways
Y
i had to kill like 1k hill giants for 300k
I am Polmerbat, the one who recorded some of these clips literally 16 years ago. Crazy how you dug these clips up when I don’t even have them anymore! I remember posting it to RuneScape Community back then, must have surfaced from there!
legendd
Props to you sir, you are a legend.
Any idea where Half Life xx is?
Can i have a party hat
26:40 The player near the house portal "Runescape ruined my life."
Truly a tragic day.
LMAO
Me when I got scammed out of my mith
me when i traded 5 staff of lights for 27 lobsters
LMFAOOOO bought gold tiaras with 250k
we've all been there at one point sadly lmao
Had to catch my jaw from slowly making its way to the floor when you started getting into the nitty-gritty of all of the mechanics involved in making this event actually occur. It's insane how such a precise and niche chain of events lined up like that.
Yeah it’s almost like slamming your fist on your table and your arm passing through it. Truly an odd and perplexing situation.
amazing video with incredible editing! Thanks for putting this together!
the man of act himself
Ah the act man
We love ya act man!
I'm just taking a moment to say I appreciate how cool the whole "RS2 ghosts/memories of the past" effect in an RS3 world is. Amazing editing ^-^
Luv u -- cute emoticon
"It had been a night of terror,
a night of dread;
a night of murder,
with countless bloodshed..."
This whole piece was incredible. From the footage, to the narration, to the facts.. just wow.
This has renewed my faith in rs yt. Nominating you for all the golden gnomes.
THE EDITING ON THIS IS INSANE YOU KILLED IT WELL WORTH THE WAIT TOP TOP TIER VIDEO MY GOODNESS
I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE YELLING ABOUT!!.. LOUD NOISES!!
I agree! This gives me hope for Rs UA-cam lol
This is something I can proudly say I was at by complete accident. I was in West Falador heading to the back and forth from the Rimmington portal for player homes as I was working on my humble little home that day.
Literally didn't dawn on me until probably YEARS later the actual scope of infamy this incident would go on to hold haha.
Close to the same thing here lol. I thought it was just some rude cheater.
Dude for real I just happened by and it was insane everyone chasing him trying to kill him but couldn't do it
I started playing RS in 2004 and consider myself lucky I was able to play during the Golden Age. Having my closest friends "sleep over" so we could do pk trips on our mini-pures while playing together in the same vicinity will always be my favorite memory. The nostalgia from watching this video is honestly bitter-sweet, but Runescape will always hold a special place in my heart even though I haven't played in years.
Same bro.
this is really an ode to how raw runescape really was. being a young kid on this game exposed you to armor trimming scams, players emoting as female characters for gp in varrock square, and losing everything you worked so hard for to a boss or if you were unlucky enough... this bug. the golden era was really the trenches and im sure most of us can agree that we learned a lot of life lessons early on due to the nature of this game. thank you for all the research you put in this video could not be any better!
on the other hand, it was a way better community. People just hanging out, having drop parties for no reason, playing the game as intended. Asking to see qpc or rc emotes because they were so cool and it was a BIG deal to have them. Nowadays you can be maxed and worth 11 digits and still be nobody.
One of my fondest memories from way back was somebody giving me a guthix skirt out of the blue. It was no small gift (at least on a free world), worth way more than anything I had. I think I lost it in the wilderness and was devastated. Simpler times
@@Coco-oy5sm this is why I wont play osrs, its just not the same
Inflation of expectations. Back in the years you really didn't care, you just wanted to have fun. Now first what you do is most likely checking for most efficient build and A-Z walkthrough guide.
I was one of those boys who made a female character for free stuff. What's insane is just how profitable it actually was. I got full rune once for doing the bow emote a bunch and that was back when rune was amazing.
i was convinced into account switching with a random as an innocent 8 year old
had to head to school and he wouldn’t get off my account. came back in the afternoon and all my stuff was gone
i learnt a valuable lesson that day😂
This and WoW's plague is so interesting. I first wanted to get a degree in game making but hated it and changed degrees. I have so much respect for coders in times of absolute chaos.
Why did you hate it and what do you study now?
@@chloewinnaa1515 Didn't like the coding part of it. Switch to Sports Management and now I help run a small university hockey program.
@@miccrhaafetl5101 wow actual wow that such a intense shift in the opposite direction I assume, from coding to sports management. So I assume you had feelings of wanting to be in sports mangement before? Or did you find that love by trial and error?
@@chloewinnaa1515 I used to play until I got injured and had to stop playing. While looking for another degree, I came across sports management and realized I missed being part of a team.
@@miccrhaafetl5101respect men
I love how you've added in Osrs characters in the current Rs3 world but kind of faded.. it just screams history and brings back so many memories from childhood. Absolute masterpiece of a video!
I vividly remember being at my cousins on that fateful day... thankfully, i was enjoying some quality time with family but I remember getting home and logging on and EVERYONE was talking about this on EVERY world you went to... insane memories and still one of the fondest I have even without being there!
Coming back again to say this is a world class documentary. You did so well on this
Thank you!
OMG THIS IS SUCH A MASTERPIECE. THE EXPLANATION, THE EDITS, THE STORYLINE, THE THE THE... WOW!
This was literally one of the most enjoyable RS video's I have ever seen. I love how you pieced together the branching storylines that run parallel to one another.
The use of the Extinction music when discussing 2006 events was beautiful, truly something only Will seems to do. Absolutely epic. Decades from now this will still be incredible to look back on. Thank you.
Thank you for noticing! The music in this game is so extremely magical. Thousands of tracks, and so many of them are pieces of art. It feels right to use them in these videos, where they truly belong
@@rswillmissit so many great rs3 tracks and extinction so fitting. Definitely noticed it including the raids music used earlier in the video!
So glad you commented this. I was scrolling thru the comments looking to figure out what music was playing during the clips of the actual massacre. I don't play RS3 so I didn't recognize it but it was epic. I've found it now thanks to your comment.
@@pacman_ Glad the music is of interest!
@@pacman_ did you find what music is played at 16:40? thanks in advance!
ive never been so SATISFIED with such a documentary literally had goose bumps the way this was told luv it.
I'm hyped the event's history will forever be preserved in this time capsule of a video.
To anyone else watching this on 6/6 with me, happy anniversary!
I quit rs a long time ago, but this was suddenly in my feed. I had to click it for old times sakes, and when I saw how long the documentary was, I immediately knew I wouldn't watch the whole thing. Boy was I wrong. This was extremely well made, and kept me engaged all way through. I wasn't there on world 111, I was probably somewhere murdering goblins with my brother, but this is still nostalgic, and a childhood memory i'll never forget. Thank you!
Got literaly chills when silence dropped and you showed Durial's name. The editing and story telling on this was amazing.
Already the opening of the video gives me absolute goosebumps, that was one of the most violent incidents back then. Already 16 years ago, man how time flies...
It was awesome :)
The intro not the massacre.
@@kylefer The “massacre” was pretty awesome too.
Moment of silence for the lost souls still wandering Faladors gates...
amazing video. Truly a work of art. You have my sword for golden gnomes best video. The editing was TOP TIER.
Cringe
@@caesarion4596 you just said what you are😂
I wasn't going to watch ANOTHER video on this, but I just started mid-way through and ended up watching through the end. Best researched and recreated video I've ever seen on it.
This was such a great and easy insight into this small part of gaming history. What was actually heartbreaking was the friendship ending moment with Voodoo.
This is incredible, all the little details make this legend so much better... the fact that Durial picked up his green phat from a slain victim... my god.
It makes me physically sick.
“It had been a night of terror, a night of dread.
A night of murder with countless bloodshed” bars
This was a well done documentary. Great job on the audio and visual editing, as well as the extensive research required to gather all the material you provided.
9.5/10
This is an amazing video. Extremely well made, well paced, I was glued to my screen the whole time.
Absolute masterpiece of a video. Never have I been so glued to an hour long video. Congratulations on the hard work.
Never forget all the lives lost on this tragic day
The fact this has stayed on 111 likes can’t be an accident
@@roshi3063 the fact u have 3 likes is no accident
@@kimhornhem5399🤦♂️
This is definitely the best video so far (next to the Zezima = Mod Mark one)! Thanks for putting in the time and effort to create this, Will!
No matter how many times I see videos like this about Runescape, it never gets old. I was 16 when the massacre happened, and I'll probably remember it when I'm 90. Thank you Runescape, for all the great memories.
Such a great documentary. I m so glad to have been a part of the runescape community for about 19 years. I have not been playing constantly, more on and off s I was never a serious "super grinder". However I have seen alot in the game. I was introduced to the game when I was only 9, by my friend who was 2 years older, he helped me with quests and stuff as I did not know english at the time. This has truly been my all time favorite game that seem to not let me go, I always come back to the game even after a 1-3 year break from it.
I have had the pleasure to have spoken to Zezima once in RS2 and in OSRS the true legend of the game. I hope this game lives on forever.
This video was put together in such a phenomenal way, no matter how many videos I've watched of this, yours is just that next level. Thank you for this upload!
Bro I don't understand how you don't have millions of subscribers. The effort that you must have put into this. The amount of time and energy that was spent. I hope this doesn't come across wrong but dude what an amazing job you did and I hope that you keep going because I love all your videos. The music is awesome and the research that you've done is outstanding. Thank you for everything you do!
I had no idea there were clips of players other than Duriel PKing in safezones. This is some deeper lore than I thought
I've never played RuneScape and I never will. But this is a captivating documentary.
I'm convinced that I could be entertained by anything of good quality, regardless of the content.
Thanks for this great video. I didn't learn anything useful, but it was none the less entertaining and enjoyable.
Incredibly well done. You captured the reasons why Runescape was such an amazing game for many of us, while also doing a fantastic job of telling the story of the Falador glitch. This was very well researched as well, thank you for the great watch.
Wow.. just wow. You have outdone yourself with this one, Will. A huge shoutout to you and everyone involved in making this detailed video about a dark day in Runescape. You have gained my respect.
Your ability for storytelling always brings me such a burst of nostalgia and happiness. Keep it coming!
I love the editing with Old School players and environments layered onto modern RuneScape locations. Great video!
Edit: Absolutely incredible that the final player Durial321 attacked, Ghjjf, was the leader of Cursed You's clan. What are the odds.
This was really well made man, I love the RuneScape community ❤️
Incredible work man. I was glued to the screen for the entire video. Can't believe it's been just about 20 years since all of these events transpired
32:02 it's so creepy to see Durial321 run into the bank, when at that moment he wasn't the centre of attention.
It's like one of those "eerie things captured on cctv"
For real it's like the whole moments before disaster stuff that's everywhere.
2 minutes in and this is legendary. Thank you for the effort you give to the community. Excellent music and transitions btw.
I'm so glad WillMissIt goes into actual detail with his videos and not just skimming a wiki article like most rs video makers.
Hi there, I was really impressed with the detail and way this documentary was made. I haven't played runescape for 5 or 6 years but after I saw this, I brought a runescape bond and renewed membership for 14 days. This video definitely had the old skool feels.
This was the most beautiful, epic, inspiring, and gorgeous video ever made about a video game bug. You are the JRR Tolkien of ‘Video Game Retrospective UA-camrs’.
It's always amazing to think how much this has echoed though the years. You'd think something like this would fade, but here we are.
never forget
Fuck. It’s wild how we have such deep memories because of this game. I think it’s because it was our first experience of being a part of change. Having a voice.
Thank you Jagex.
This was the best video I’ve seen covering this event. I still remember when this happened since I’m Australian and world 111 was my clans home world. I almost lost my Halloween mask set when my friends told me to come to Fally sq to check it out, luckily I banked everything since I’d always walk around with them in my inventory for the fashionscape and everything used to protect over them. Thank you for the nostalgia ❤️
Me too I almost lost my party hat
I just want to say, the storytelling in this video is up with there and even surpasses some of the journalistic content on UA-cam right now. Great work.
Never would I think that 1 hour of runescape video would be this entertaining! Good job!
Thank you for keeping RuneScape alive people like you are why we love the game.
Great Documentary WillMissIt!
I remember signing on and being told to go to Fally because crazy shit was going down. Amazing how monumental the Fally Massacre is to this very day!
Crazy that this historical moment in gaming history happened when I was 9 months old.
That's insane
Haha that’s cute.
crazy to think a 20 year old game still pulls in new players too, i was almost convinced we were all pushing 30 playing this game at this point.
Zoomer
ANEX I didn’t decide when I was born
Never played RuneScape but was absolutely glued to this video. Good storytelling friend
Likely one of the best documentaries that has ever been done on any event this game has ever seen. Extremely well done and it's not hard to tell that a lot of time and effort went into this.
I don't even play RS but I sat through the whole thing and enjoyed every single minute of it. Well done!
It's crazy how significant an event this was. I never played Runescape back in the day, but I was playing Star Wars Galaxies at the time, I would occasionally see ppl say "hey you hear what happen in Runescape?". Even years later, I started playing Clone Wars Adventures and I met this guy I played with for a while, he told me how he stopped playing Runescape after that cuz he was scared of losing his hard work just in case something like that ever happened again
So glad I was a player during this monumental day and they're still keeping it alive. Been playing osrs 17 years and still enjoy it. Great documentary man!
BRO THIS IS EASILY THE BEST DOCUMENTARY ON THE FALLY MASACRE THANK YOU I WASNT AROUND FOR THIS, I GOT TO RELIVE IT IN THE PASSENGER SEAT. SUBBED AND LIKED
This was genuinely an amazing video to watch. Watching Durial do things like trade things to his friend before he even started killing people felt like an actual crime investigation surveillance video. So cool to see!
I really enjoyed "stalking" his journey, to be honest! It's really interesting that we can track him in that way
What an amazing deep dive. Thank you for the amount of work you put into your videos
"With their silver crowns piercing through the chatbox like a sword of light, dispelling the dark..." Priceless!
The intro alone is golden, love what you did there
man this is so cool, I don't play runescape but i've heard of the event. The detailed descriptions of what happened were a joy to watch
The dude straight dipped out with his homie and made it look like they were in a fight to cover the trail. Fucking savage. Huge power struggle must have happened in the underground market
I cannot start explaining the goosebumps I get watching the whole documentary. To get to the point of editting this all, recording the seperate characters running, placing them in, greenscreen, orb of oculus, so much more... this is a masterpiece and a well-crafted artwork that brings tears in the eyes of every nostalgic RuneScape player, be them active or gone. Thank you for all your work documenting this!
Aw yeah, I love your historical archive videos, liked just entering the video because I know I will watch a good content, hug from Colombia
I'm colombian too lol saludos
@@rxtten nice I'm from Medellín, add to play together
@@juju-kz3ud Bogotá, rsn? el mio es bad clickz, tengo el private on
i just started playing osrs a couple months ago. 20 years old, so i would've been 3 when all this happened. the size and age of this community and all of the history surrounding it astounds me and is why i put so many hours in as i do.
Such a legendary event. You did a great job with this video.
Duriel is a man after my own heart.
It's not about the loot, it's about the legend.
haven't played RuneScape in over 14 years but still remember this event crazy how time flys
I was online during this on another world and news traveled fast! By the time I arrived it was all over. Now as an oldie I no longer play and have not for many years, but this memory will never be forgotten, along with so many others from these days, times where different back then, unless you was around you’d probably never understand rushing home telling all your school friends to log into same world and meet at a certain location. Time flys guys, it really does! Remember that. RIP
I know man. Me and my boy hells venom. We rode the same buss. Trained with dragon hallys. Best of times man
The fact the bug was activated via CURSED You's home is crazy. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that synchronicity
me realizing i'm only 47 minutes in yet still deeply enthralled- fantastic work on this miniature film
I was thinking, god not ANOTHER documentary on this.
But as always, WillMissIt smashes it out the park, you absolute legend what a video!