Not exactly a speedrun but a very long challenge is to get all characters to lvl 99 while still in the first reactor on original FF7; I think the guy that did it maxed out the game timer WELL before it was done and took months to do it.
good gosh, is there surviving footage or at least a place I can message the guy? Thanks, Hun. Not planning on watching all of it just wanner give a congrats, maybe see the very end.
Theoretically, an "all achievements" run of Stanley Parable would be the longest speedrun I can think of. You have to unlock every in-game achievement and then not play the game for ten years. AND part of the all achievements run would include playing Stanley Parable for an entire Tuesday.
@@totallynotatoucan7364 In The Longing it is possible to commit suicide in the first few hours of the game. You can read books and improve your cave to make time pass significantly faster. There is also a good ending which does not require waiting for the timer to end.
Hey! That's my 43 hour long speedrun of Xenogears 100% you mentioned! Thanks for giving the game recognition! Did that run for a 1 year anniversary of me running the game. Was a blast, but I'd never do it again though.
@30 Cents, it’s been years since I played that game, but if I remember right, it seemed difficult to learn every single attack for each character and I’m pretty sure I missed a few. How did you manage?
Though it wasn't allowed on the leaderboards due to the fact that nobody is likely to try to best it, the longest single-segment speedrun is actually Animal Crossing New Leaf 100% by Coldeggman, with a time of 638:27:29. Though a substantial part of that time was due to the fact that time spent sleeping was counted in the final time, it still took ~322 hours of actual gameplay to 100% the game. And Coldeggman pretty much played the game with as few breaks as is reasonably possible for something that takes a month IRL to complete, as he played roughly 12 hours on most days of the run. The only runs longer than that that I have seen, are ones that are like Baten Kaitos in which the run is only so long because it requires waiting a substantial amount of time IRL for things to happen, such as Animal Crossing New Horizons Golden Fishing Rod no time travel, which IMO that one really doesn't count since it's just essentially playing the game casually but with a timer running in the background for close to a year.
I tried 100%ing New Horizons when it came out - after a month of constant play and only having half of the items, I had to quit and haven't touched it since.
Idk there's some real gamers out there. Alfie an oldschoool runescape streamer played 2683 hours in 152 days to max first in a new gamemode. That's 17 hours 39 minutes on average for 5 months straight, most of it on stream.
What’s even crazier to me is that Coldeggman actually did two 100% speed runs of the game, the second entirely offline which used multiple 3DS systems and games simultaneously (in multiple languages!) to constantly refresh shop RNG etc while using other games to grind badge goals like visiting towns over and over. It’s a super impressive run!
Honorable mention to speedruns of 'Ring Fit Adventure' - Intended - Max Intensity - 100%, which are not only over 30 hours long, but require unthinkable human endurance.
i bet korone from hololive would be able to do it, she has insane energy and endurance, easily being able to do 24 hour streams, shes pretty fit too, i think it would be very entertaining
Wow, that section about Undertale True 100% was really cool! I bet the runner is a super cool guy. Thanks for including my run!! Very entertaining video by the way. I actually plan on doing True 100% again next month, so that should be... entertaining.
Cheers! I had fun taking a quick look at it, watched a couple minutes from every hour of the run. Been an undertale lurker for a while now, keep it up :D
@@Storster all textboxes is a theoretical undertale run thought to take at least 2 weeks of uninterrupted play. There is not a complete route for it yet
A different youtuber called Davey Gunface actually did a video on this! he recorded it like 2 weeks in advance so he could actually have the run for a bit lol
10 years now but it can be cheesed by setting your clock 10 years later. At least it works on Console. Can’t say about PC. So… Likely wouldn’t be too long. Edit: Except for the one where you play the game for the entire duration of a Tuesday. So minimum 24 hours but a lot of that could be AFK.
@@scottishboy112 I'd like to imagine if you just sat there idle for a couple hours the narrator would just boot you back to the title screen, return the bumpscocity down to -1 and tell you the bucket returned to its home world
He Box Jonge got it in under 1k hours and is currently the slowest 1st place speedrun time. He Box Jonge is currently doing it again with an Ultimate Iron Man, which is expected to take just under 2k hours. Coxie is speedrunning all pets as well, which could take over ten thousand hours.
Another extremely long Speedrun I remember was Shadow the Hedgehog True 100%, similar to the Undertale True 100%, the run consists of beating the game on every single route variation, as well as unlocking every Door with 5 Keys hidden in each level and also A Ranking every mission for every stage. The game consists of 326 unique route combinations for the splitting paths between the game's first stage and 10 diferent endings, which the game keeps track of to see which cutscenes to play and in which order in the game's Cutscene Library, 100% in this case would include unlocking every single route to watch in the Library. The only run to my knowledge that has been done was by *BlazinZzetti* , beating the game in 181 hours, 14 minutes and 47 seconds trought 53 days, this using an exploit to get unlimited Chaos Control gauge and basicly warp to the end of most stages, skipping "get to the goal" missions but risking crashes, which happened around 90 times, he mentions that he has no intentions to do a True 100% Glitchless as this was already too long, he also has no plans on doing this again any time soon, if ever. In order to not have to do a weeks long speedrun every time, the "100%" category ignores the Library for obvious reasons, still requiring the 10 endings at least once, all A Ranks and Doors, Expert Mode and the Final Story, reducing the run to around 7~ish hours, which is still long, but a huge far cry from 181. BlazinZzetti still ocationally runs (both glitchless and not) individual levels, endings and sometimes Expert Mode, also having some 100% No Library runs too btw
I was just about to mention this until I saw your comment the fact that even with that glitch the run so that long is insane I cannot imagine how long it would be without them.
small thing for GT4: there are two 100% runs. One is the regular 100% (reaching 100% on the games counter) and True 100% (collect every car, speed run shown in video)
I still think the most fascinating speedrun that we never got was the Final Fantasy XI 100% achievements discussion for the Xbox 360. The PC version doesn't have achievements, and the Xbox 360 version was shut down years ago. It was a 57 achievement run that had ludicrous requirements, such as getting every class to Level 75, achieving a Rank 100 in synthesis or fishing, completing all missions , and clearing various PVP challenges. People discovered ways to farm a few out, but speedrunners still figured the run would take months. Not weeks, months! Some wanted to try for it assuming they could just keep track of what they normally would be unlocking, but the task was far too daunting. Xbox360Achievements even listed the run would take anywhere from 6 months to over 2 years. Granted, speedrunners would be closer to the months category, but can you imagine said run actually existing?!
@@EresirThe1st They actually did still consider it, using a stream overlay to show any time one would have normally popped, but interest started to wane over time. I don't know what it's current status is, and it's a shame, as that would definitely be a record breaking run.
@@TheOnlyGhxst Not only do I not own the game, but contrary to popular belief, I lack the ability to stay awake for a month or two straight! In all seriousness, I don't know whether they decided that the best option would be to have a team that changed shifts to complete it, or allow a person to take intermittent breaks in order to rest. I never played FFXI, as MMO's always have a problem of holding my attention to keep playing, and I didn't want to spend on another monthly subscription. I only ever watched videos and let's plays of it, something on in the background while I work. This would take a team far more dedicated with much more free time than myself.
Wanted to give a shout out to the Shadow The Hedgehog True 100%. It was done once 5 years ago and isn't listed on the leaderboards, but took 53 days IRL and finished at 181:14:47. It requires that you beat the game over 300 times to complete every possible story path, get every secret collectible key, and get the best possible rank in every stage.
Definitely not as long as some of the entries here, but I'd like to give an honorable mention to wh0misds' Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Recruit 'Em All runs. This absolute champ has done Recruit 'Em Alls for Blue Rescue Team (58:03:39), Explorers of Sky (31:42:16), and a marathon REM of Blue Rescue Team, Explorers of Sky and Gates to Infinity totalling 132:11:24 !
I’m really surprised Tom Phantasy’s 301 hour nacht der untoten round 255 run on black ops 3 isn’t on here. Not only is it an immensely hard category but bo3 errors about a month after you initially start it due to entity overflow, so he had to average 12 hours a day straight gaming for a MONTH. Cruppz has a great video on this exact run, it definitely deserves more attention for the amount of effort that went into it.
I remember watching a Mario Party 4 100% run that lasted around 50 hours. The 2nd place runner had to take a break twice while the game was still running, and as time goes on in the run you can see the runner start to get really out of it, but still in it enough to finish the run. The longest run to a game that should not have taken so long is the last place run of Crash Twinsanity (I think Any%). The user's run clocked in at 24 hours for a category that takes like 13 minutes to run. This was because he left his timer on when he left for something I think. It's hard to say as the full stream I think is gone.
hearing you call 'final fantasy 10' 'final fantasy x' made me laugh super hard every time. i gotta imagine that a star ocean 4 100% run would be 100's of hours long.
You should check out maxing all skill in Old School RuneScape, even the fastest players take almost 2000 hours of in-game time. In addition, people going for fastest max are playing HYPER efficient while playing. And since to many people this is essentially “beating the game” I think it’s a reasonable thing to consider for a list like this :)
This was a great video! I love the 1862 and I've done one myself except I added bowsers fury to the end to make it a 1962 it took me around 62 hours and it was fun the whole time!
Toto is a unique case. About the RNG manipulation, when RNG manip was discovered, Toto was able to finish his historic 100% run that was incredibly unlucky. He was missing one card: Harpie's Pet Dragon - and had done over 2000 duels looking for it, at 2 minutes+ a duel. The RNG manip was for that last card.
Another interesting long speedrun would be loz Twilight Princess low%. This isn't crazy long, clocking in at only about 15 hours 43 minutes at the time of me writing this, but it is interesting in that a significant majority of the time is spent looking at an item in link's hands. This is because the animation for viewing an item you get from a chest is missing a frame, so you move slightly backwards every loop which lets you clip out of bounds. There is a really cool video that explains it on the Lowest% youtube channel made by Gymnast I believe.
Lowest% Celeste speedrun is over 400 hours, most of which is spent doing nothing waiting for an ingame timer to overflow in a way which despawns a bunch of enemies.
Something someone may have mentioned is the dude who levels up his Wow char solely by mining and picking herbs. Absolute madlad. Not really a Speedrun, but in that level of insanity that it takes to do these super long runs.
Fantastic video me thinks. BrianMp16's 344 hour 100% animal crossing run where he played every day within a year with minimal time travel and even found a way to get the exclusive and kinda technically unobtainable but also not really its complicated nook code items lives in my heart as the most honorable of honorable mentions :-]
Max cape speedruns have now been done in OSRS and more restricted versions of max cape runs are in progress. They clock in at like 760 hours on the low end or something and it is all active play time.
7:36 Since you said you've never played a Final Fantasy game, it's "Final Fantasy _10_", not literally "Final Fantasy 'X'". The main FF series uses Roman numerals.
I cannot imagine the dedication and real life planning that go into a 30h+ run. That's way beyond, I'm spending my entire weekend doing this. It must require at least a day either side of preparations and recovery. Insane.
Old School Runescape’s max cape run is longer, expected to be clocking in at around 35 days. Two people are speedrunning it right now, and they’re on the ass end of it. They’re planning on releasing the final play time at the same time, so we’ll see how long it actually is shortly.
100% runs of pretty much any RPG take a special breed for sure. Imagine being the best player on Earth, spending thousands of hours on practice alone, and still losing most runs to RNG. It's endless content if you're a streamer I suppose, but man I just don't think I could handle having so little control over such long runs.
Segmented runs are actually maybe more traditional than single segment runs, in the early 2000s the majority of speedruns you can find on speed demos archive are segmented
@@Lovuschka most top runners record locally as well. Meaning if need be they could submit the raw footage. Plus you don't even need the entire screen to know if someone cheated or not. Could you name a single instance in which chat has/could make it easier to cheat? In literally any game?
@@deeeenisttv There was some game where some stuff happened in the bottom right corner that was used to verify if someone cheated or not. So put the chat over that, voila.
Dragon Warrior VII on the North American PS1 release takes anywhere from 15 to about 20 hours just to complete the Any% category with JP only taking around 12-13 hours and on the 3DS remake there are 2 submitted runs which took 22 hours and 23 hours respectively.
One that's worth a look and that is taken seriously: Path of Exile's longer categories. Although it's hard to compare times from different patches. Best time I'm aware of for "The Feared" on a fresh start is about 16 hours. Fresh start to level 100 is taken much less seriously now (it was much more competitive in the past), but in 3.17 the solo version was won on day 6, with 2 people getting it that day, and 4 more on day 7. So that's around 132 hours.
Not really the time actually goes by faster the more you do in the game so like if you invest time in doing things like making your base comfy with like furniture or like taking up hobbies the in game timer will speed up a bit kinda like the whole idea of time flies by when your having fun so technically you could make a lot of time saves
I stumbled across this video since it was on the recommended list from Super Mario 64 blindfolded 100%. It "merely" took 11+ hours, so compared to this list it might seem small, but I can't imagine how intense it would be to play a game without seeing and with no breaks for that long.
The WR for Round 255 speedrun on Nacht der untoten on Black Ops 3 Zombies is over 300 hours! You only have 25 irl days to finish a game, and you have to start over if you die at any point.
TOTOzigemm's 201 hour forbidden memories manip run is that long because it was originally the run from the very first 100% race (where i did that 174h run). He couldn't get harpies pet dragon for many,many, MANY hours so it became a meme. At one point when RNG manip became a thing, he just finished it with manipulating the last drop. That's why it is that long
A 100% manip run would be much faster obviously, but nobody did that before. Routing takes a long time and you have ro start every duel at specific frames and duel it in specific ways to ensure a drop.
Was hoping you would talk a bit about Call of Duty: Zombies high rounds (specifically Black Ops 1-3) as through the years they have became 60-200+ hour speedruns due to round caps and resets. It's a very small community of runners who have spent the last decade or more hyper-optimizing high rounds into max round speedruns. Coop is especially impressive as players have gone 80hrs with only 4-8 hours of sleep and some have even died in the process. Some absolute legends that are unheard of but equally deserving of respect.
High round zombie speedruns are easily the most endurance based speedruns out there. Even though there isnt much tech involved having to blast your way thru hundreds of waves of zombies for days on end is not easy
CoD 'games' are not even Video games, they are products made with no love with the only purpose being wanting to make money. Calling them Video games implies there was passion behind their creation, when there is none. You don't deserve respect for feeding Activisions pockets.
@@lukasr1166 What you're on about doesn't apply we are talking about the passion dedication and achievements of players, knock the game all you want but don't let it take away from that.
GTA 5 Classic% is any% without using one game breaking mechanic and a few other rules, but almost everything is allowed. It takes 6 hours. The any% takes 2, the 100% 10
It's pretty crazy that the community puts themselves through hours of torture like this. But it's pretty impressive as well, especially when it comes to super difficult games
Watched it 'till the end. Now seeing long speedruns drive my mind NON COMPOS MENTIS!! I mean… WHAT THE HECK?! Incredulously looooonng! Don't worry, your videos are always one of my favorite content to watch. I really enjoy it.
The hate for "word%" speedrun categories is objectively false, because the "Nazeem%" Skyrim category is the best speedrunning category ever made full stop. Checkmate.
I passed by this video as I was looking up speedruns of several games I play on the regular. And then I looked up Old School RuneScape (mainly for its quest speedrunning server-based categories). Apparently there is a side category called "Max Cape" which requires runners to reach Lv99 on every skill and max an entire account. There are very few runs, yet they go by at least 700 hours.
Great video :D shame you didn't stumble upon Harry Potter Full Series runs though. The longest (essentially first) submitted run was 39:44:08, done in one sitting. 23 completely different games, each requiring hours upon hours of learning to get a decent run. But the even bigger behemoth of a run is also Full Series, but 100%. Record is about 84h RTA with ~70h of total playtime. That's 3.5 days long run with just TWO 7 hours long breaks for sleep. And these games aren't easy to 100%, one of them had to actually be replayed entirely due to a missed collectible. The run is brutal, required tones of prep and will of steel
I love long speedruns, I started to put them on the big screen as a background noise while I worked at home during the pandemic, and I become particulary fond of JRPG ones, like Persona 5 true ending that took something between 14 to 18 hours to complete, FFX Nemesis% and BOTW 100%
There's a guy who ran all 23 mainline harry potter games 100% speedrun, although he did take breaks in between, so in IGT took 70 hrs but rta took 84 hours crazy.
Not sure if I can give an exact start date haha. I've been gradually moving things up over the past couple weeks so that my final move in days will be less of a hassle. I'm the tortoise still trying to win the race!
Call of Duty Zombies high rounds are basically playing as fast as you can to get as high of a round before reaching an inevitable error making it a speedrun. Depending on map, the error can range from like 60-100+ hours, the longest error being 300 hours that has actually been reached.
Well this is all mind boggling but in the osrs community we have currently several speedrunners running "max cape%" which I don't follow closely but to my understanding takes about 800-1000 hours lol
Final Fantasy VII's 100% category may be on the shorter end of the length scale, clocking it at only 16:05:51 on the PC version and a somewhat outdated 17:47:45 on the PSX version, but it's a dense and heavily planned run for its length. My incomplete guide for the current best route is so far at about 130 pages with the current runner being somewhat annoyed at them not being detailed enough (Granted, some of that length is from a 8-9 page section duplicated 8 times with slight variations, but that's because the route splits into eight sub-routes at one point).
While I liked the video I find it funny that you put in GT4, but not even mentioned GT Sport Platinum %, which in itself is a 239h speedrun, but instead of 4 people, it was achieved by only one person in a span of 10 days, which is fully documented as well...
I don't know if it's actually been performed, but I'd imagine Any Animal Crossing 100% No Time Manipulation would probably be even longer than Spider... At over a YEAR for 100%
Agreed, since Old School released quest speedrunning. It's like trying to memorize and run through an entire game for each of the quests to speedrun. Not to mention two of them to speedrun are the two most difficult quests in the whole game.
Hey dude, you're my favorite speed runner and I've been inspired to start speed running myself. i'd really appreciate it if you could answer some of my questions. do u think that yoshi gets embarrassed when he poos out eggs in front of mario??? sorry if this ofends anyone but i thought it was a funny thing haha. and i would like to know if any of you have any pics of yoshi pooping an egg while he looks nervous or embarrassed i just want to see it for a few laughs haha. another thing i am wondering is what do you think the eggs smell like haha im just curious for laughs haha i would like to smell them
Some extra info about why the Gran Turismo 4 run is so long: there are actually several races in the game that last 24 real life hours. (Most famous of all being the 24hrs of Le Mans) Plus, Gran Turismo 4 is easily the most content-packed game in the series. There are TONS of race events, and it takes a very long time in order to do them all. Thankfully they don’t do the 24 hour races in GT anymore, because that’s a ridiculous ask of anyone. They replaced them with 24 MINUTE races in GT 5 and 6. 😅
Hollow Knight Low% run You have to beat the game with the lowest possible percent which means that you will have no sword upgrades, no mantis claw I think, and… no dream nail, iirc. You need a certain amount of dream-somethings which you would normally easily get with the dream nail, but instead you have to kill enemies. Every enemy has a low chance to drop a dream-thing, and you need a couple hundred… So you have to kill the same enemies (these 1 hit kill birds) and exit and renter the room over and over again until you get it.
I can imagine there will be a time sometime in the distant future where people speedrun an "All Characters, No Top Up" category in a Gacha game like Genshin Imapct or the like. Come to think of it, I think I know of a few people who might actually DO it. Boredom is a powerful motivator.
Theoretically the 1862 could be even longer. Add on the remaining 122 stars in Galaxy, as you’d have to do ‘Luigi Galaxy’s 121 stars and back to Mario to get his last one. Then, even though it’s on portable and not console like the rest, 150 stars in 64DS. Not to mention the 100 Cat Shines.
Woah I finally made a Part 2 of this, go check it out: ua-cam.com/video/9bRpuCZSvhQ/v-deo.html
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Not exactly a speedrun but a very long challenge is to get all characters to lvl 99 while still in the first reactor on original FF7; I think the guy that did it maxed out the game timer WELL before it was done and took months to do it.
good gosh, is there surviving footage or at least a place I can message the guy? Thanks, Hun.
Not planning on watching all of it just wanner give a congrats, maybe see the very end.
@@chlorophil545 I don't know if it's the first guy but very desrving of a congrats. TYSM!
@@Carni23 ua-cam.com/video/MBfnQcFNCp4/v-deo.html
This is a little breakdown of it by cybershell
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I´ve seen that video. Didn´t it even take years?
Theoretically, an "all achievements" run of Stanley Parable would be the longest speedrun I can think of. You have to unlock every in-game achievement and then not play the game for ten years. AND part of the all achievements run would include playing Stanley Parable for an entire Tuesday.
@ShoeUnited ten in ultra deluxe
Just like the Pokemon Channel one, clock changes can cheese most "play for X time" things
@@andypandy00 yeah but that’s not allowed in a no time manip category
I'd say that a the longing speedrun would *also* be very long, considering a normal playthrough of the game takes 400 days
@@totallynotatoucan7364 In The Longing it is possible to commit suicide in the first few hours of the game. You can read books and improve your cave to make time pass significantly faster. There is also a good ending which does not require waiting for the timer to end.
Hey! That's my 43 hour long speedrun of Xenogears 100% you mentioned! Thanks for giving the game recognition! Did that run for a 1 year anniversary of me running the game. Was a blast, but I'd never do it again though.
That was incredible dude, congrats!
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@30 Cents, it’s been years since I played that game, but if I remember right, it seemed difficult to learn every single attack for each character and I’m pretty sure I missed a few. How did you manage?
@@keithtorgersen9664 Not really no. We know the combinations already so it's easy, but it takes a loooong time to learn all of them in 100%
Though it wasn't allowed on the leaderboards due to the fact that nobody is likely to try to best it, the longest single-segment speedrun is actually Animal Crossing New Leaf 100% by Coldeggman, with a time of 638:27:29. Though a substantial part of that time was due to the fact that time spent sleeping was counted in the final time, it still took ~322 hours of actual gameplay to 100% the game. And Coldeggman pretty much played the game with as few breaks as is reasonably possible for something that takes a month IRL to complete, as he played roughly 12 hours on most days of the run.
The only runs longer than that that I have seen, are ones that are like Baten Kaitos in which the run is only so long because it requires waiting a substantial amount of time IRL for things to happen, such as Animal Crossing New Horizons Golden Fishing Rod no time travel, which IMO that one really doesn't count since it's just essentially playing the game casually but with a timer running in the background for close to a year.
I tried 100%ing New Horizons when it came out - after a month of constant play and only having half of the items, I had to quit and haven't touched it since.
Idk there's some real gamers out there. Alfie an oldschoool runescape streamer played 2683 hours in 152 days to max first in a new gamemode. That's 17 hours 39 minutes on average for 5 months straight, most of it on stream.
@@chrism45 Figures it'd be a RuneScape player lol!
What’s even crazier to me is that Coldeggman actually did two 100% speed runs of the game, the second entirely offline which used multiple 3DS systems and games simultaneously (in multiple languages!) to constantly refresh shop RNG etc while using other games to grind badge goals like visiting towns over and over. It’s a super impressive run!
An iconic run for sure
Honorable mention to speedruns of 'Ring Fit Adventure' - Intended - Max Intensity - 100%, which are not only over 30 hours long, but require unthinkable human endurance.
i bet korone from hololive would be able to do it, she has insane energy and endurance, easily being able to do 24 hour streams, shes pretty fit too, i think it would be very entertaining
@@rinnnnnnnnnnrinRinOnishi she's virtual tho
The only people capable of doing this are the same people who can complete the fitness gram pacer test
@@rinnnnnnnnnnrinRinOnishi 😐
@@blakeskit two super athletic kids managed to complete the test at my school. In case of wondering, the test stops at 54 laps.
Wow, that section about Undertale True 100% was really cool! I bet the runner is a super cool guy.
Thanks for including my run!! Very entertaining video by the way. I actually plan on doing True 100% again next month, so that should be... entertaining.
Cheers! I had fun taking a quick look at it, watched a couple minutes from every hour of the run. Been an undertale lurker for a while now, keep it up :D
hey man
@@Storster all textboxes is a theoretical undertale run thought to take at least 2 weeks of uninterrupted play. There is not a complete route for it yet
Cool, new background video for the next month
oh hi shay i was just watching one of your videos
An all achievements run(maybe excluding the impossible one) for The Stanley Parable would be 5 years, 1 day at the shortest.
A different youtuber called Davey Gunface actually did a video on this! he recorded it like 2 weeks in advance so he could actually have the run for a bit lol
If you want a real mindfuck, every All Achievements run of Stanley Parable ever is still on the clock, because no one can unlock the Test Achievement
An achievement on The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe has an achievement that requires 10 years.
10 years now but it can be cheesed by setting your clock 10 years later. At least it works on Console. Can’t say about PC.
So… Likely wouldn’t be too long.
Edit: Except for the one where you play the game for the entire duration of a Tuesday. So minimum 24 hours but a lot of that could be AFK.
@@scottishboy112 I'd like to imagine if you just sat there idle for a couple hours the narrator would just boot you back to the title screen, return the bumpscocity down to -1 and tell you the bucket returned to its home world
The max cape speedrun that JCW and He Box Jonge are running in Old School RuneScape right now is insane, they're going to end up being ~1000 hour runs
He Box Jonge got it in under 1k hours and is currently the slowest 1st place speedrun time.
He Box Jonge is currently doing it again with an Ultimate Iron Man, which is expected to take just under 2k hours. Coxie is speedrunning all pets as well, which could take over ten thousand hours.
Came here to comment this haha
Yeah clicked this video knowing I needed to share how insane the osrs categories are.
Another extremely long Speedrun I remember was Shadow the Hedgehog True 100%, similar to the Undertale True 100%, the run consists of beating the game on every single route variation, as well as unlocking every Door with 5 Keys hidden in each level and also A Ranking every mission for every stage. The game consists of 326 unique route combinations for the splitting paths between the game's first stage and 10 diferent endings, which the game keeps track of to see which cutscenes to play and in which order in the game's Cutscene Library, 100% in this case would include unlocking every single route to watch in the Library. The only run to my knowledge that has been done was by *BlazinZzetti* , beating the game in 181 hours, 14 minutes and 47 seconds trought 53 days, this using an exploit to get unlimited Chaos Control gauge and basicly warp to the end of most stages, skipping "get to the goal" missions but risking crashes, which happened around 90 times, he mentions that he has no intentions to do a True 100% Glitchless as this was already too long, he also has no plans on doing this again any time soon, if ever.
In order to not have to do a weeks long speedrun every time, the "100%" category ignores the Library for obvious reasons, still requiring the 10 endings at least once, all A Ranks and Doors, Expert Mode and the Final Story, reducing the run to around 7~ish hours, which is still long, but a huge far cry from 181.
BlazinZzetti still ocationally runs (both glitchless and not) individual levels, endings and sometimes Expert Mode, also having some 100% No Library runs too btw
I was just about to mention this until I saw your comment the fact that even with that glitch the run so that long is insane I cannot imagine how long it would be without them.
Imagine willingly playing shadow the hedgehog that much
@@zo6679 Damn, not here!
small thing for GT4: there are two 100% runs. One is the regular 100% (reaching 100% on the games counter) and True 100% (collect every car, speed run shown in video)
and to anyone who hasn't played the game, it includes real-time 24 hr endurance races.
I still think the most fascinating speedrun that we never got was the Final Fantasy XI 100% achievements discussion for the Xbox 360. The PC version doesn't have achievements, and the Xbox 360 version was shut down years ago.
It was a 57 achievement run that had ludicrous requirements, such as getting every class to Level 75, achieving a Rank 100 in synthesis or fishing, completing all missions , and clearing various PVP challenges. People discovered ways to farm a few out, but speedrunners still figured the run would take months. Not weeks, months! Some wanted to try for it assuming they could just keep track of what they normally would be unlocking, but the task was far too daunting. Xbox360Achievements even listed the run would take anywhere from 6 months to over 2 years. Granted, speedrunners would be closer to the months category, but can you imagine said run actually existing?!
This could be revived with private servers. The achievements wouldn’t actually pop but you could do the requirements.
@@EresirThe1st They actually did still consider it, using a stream overlay to show any time one would have normally popped, but interest started to wane over time. I don't know what it's current status is, and it's a shame, as that would definitely be a record breaking run.
@@Kirabetas Go do it yourself :P
@@TheOnlyGhxst Not only do I not own the game, but contrary to popular belief, I lack the ability to stay awake for a month or two straight!
In all seriousness, I don't know whether they decided that the best option would be to have a team that changed shifts to complete it, or allow a person to take intermittent breaks in order to rest.
I never played FFXI, as MMO's always have a problem of holding my attention to keep playing, and I didn't want to spend on another monthly subscription. I only ever watched videos and let's plays of it, something on in the background while I work. This would take a team far more dedicated with much more free time than myself.
Speedrunning MMORPGs is something no sane human would ever attempt.
Wanted to give a shout out to the Shadow The Hedgehog True 100%. It was done once 5 years ago and isn't listed on the leaderboards, but took 53 days IRL and finished at 181:14:47. It requires that you beat the game over 300 times to complete every possible story path, get every secret collectible key, and get the best possible rank in every stage.
Definitely not as long as some of the entries here, but I'd like to give an honorable mention to wh0misds' Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Recruit 'Em All runs. This absolute champ has done Recruit 'Em Alls for Blue Rescue Team (58:03:39), Explorers of Sky (31:42:16), and a marathon REM of Blue Rescue Team, Explorers of Sky and Gates to Infinity totalling 132:11:24 !
Was looking for a comment like this! I was hoping they'd mention him.
Imagine having to sync your speedrun to the moon cycle
I’m really surprised Tom Phantasy’s 301 hour nacht der untoten round 255 run on black ops 3 isn’t on here. Not only is it an immensely hard category but bo3 errors about a month after you initially start it due to entity overflow, so he had to average 12 hours a day straight gaming for a MONTH. Cruppz has a great video on this exact run, it definitely deserves more attention for the amount of effort that went into it.
true
He'll have zombies haunt his nightmares for months.
I remember watching a Mario Party 4 100% run that lasted around 50 hours. The 2nd place runner had to take a break twice while the game was still running, and as time goes on in the run you can see the runner start to get really out of it, but still in it enough to finish the run.
The longest run to a game that should not have taken so long is the last place run of Crash Twinsanity (I think Any%). The user's run clocked in at 24 hours for a category that takes like 13 minutes to run. This was because he left his timer on when he left for something I think. It's hard to say as the full stream I think is gone.
As someone who likes speedruns but wants to waste an entire day watching one. This helped.
hearing you call 'final fantasy 10' 'final fantasy x' made me laugh super hard every time.
i gotta imagine that a star ocean 4 100% run would be 100's of hours long.
One of my favourite Final Fantasy games. But not as good as Final Fantasy H, P or Y-2.
“I haven’t played an ounce of Final Fantasy.”
Yeah, it shows.
Star Ocean 3 all Battle Trophies
what a stupid thing to gatekeep
You should check out maxing all skill in Old School RuneScape, even the fastest players take almost 2000 hours of in-game time. In addition, people going for fastest max are playing HYPER efficient while playing. And since to many people this is essentially “beating the game” I think it’s a reasonable thing to consider for a list like this :)
beating the game? what do you mean, now you can finally start playing!
“Beating the game?” How can you say that when you have to collect every pet, complete the collection log, and finally 200m all skills?
Someone needs to submit a timed run or it's not a speedrun, it's just "how long does it take to". GL to anyone who wants to be the first.
@@mirko241 all 'runs' are timed just talk to hans.. or look in your character summary tab
@@mirko241 be maxed and check age is enough but you're right people should start to submit them.
This was a great video! I love the 1862 and I've done one myself except I added bowsers fury to the end to make it a 1962 it took me around 62 hours and it was fun the whole time!
Toto is a unique case. About the RNG manipulation, when RNG manip was discovered, Toto was able to finish his historic 100% run that was incredibly unlucky. He was missing one card: Harpie's Pet Dragon - and had done over 2000 duels looking for it, at 2 minutes+ a duel. The RNG manip was for that last card.
Another interesting long speedrun would be loz Twilight Princess low%. This isn't crazy long, clocking in at only about 15 hours 43 minutes at the time of me writing this, but it is interesting in that a significant majority of the time is spent looking at an item in link's hands. This is because the animation for viewing an item you get from a chest is missing a frame, so you move slightly backwards every loop which lets you clip out of bounds. There is a really cool video that explains it on the Lowest% youtube channel made by Gymnast I believe.
Lowest% Celeste speedrun is over 400 hours, most of which is spent doing nothing waiting for an ingame timer to overflow in a way which despawns a bunch of enemies.
You forgot about Breath of the Wild
100%?
Any% is like 30 minutes
Now it’s even under 24 minutes, which is crazy!
100% I think is like 40 something hours…yes actually.
You forgot about english class
@@arkofpolaris4646its 16 hours
Something someone may have mentioned is the dude who levels up his Wow char solely by mining and picking herbs. Absolute madlad. Not really a Speedrun, but in that level of insanity that it takes to do these super long runs.
Said player's character isn't Horde or Alliance, just a Pandarian chilling on the back of a giant turtle.
@@keiths5021 yes! I forgot about him being factionless as well.
It was such a flex that the devs put his character into the lore. Total badass
Also a troll that levelled up completely naked.
Ten, it's called Final Fantasy 10. It is the tenth in the main line series of Final Fantasy. They are using roman numerals.
right was about to say something about that too. ^^
Sorry which roman numeral is it?
@@eggs8021roman numeral "ecks"
so what
Fantastic video me thinks. BrianMp16's 344 hour 100% animal crossing run where he played every day within a year with minimal time travel and even found a way to get the exclusive and kinda technically unobtainable but also not really its complicated nook code items lives in my heart as the most honorable of honorable mentions :-]
Max cape speedruns have now been done in OSRS and more restricted versions of max cape runs are in progress. They clock in at like 760 hours on the low end or something and it is all active play time.
7:36 Since you said you've never played a Final Fantasy game, it's "Final Fantasy _10_", not literally "Final Fantasy 'X'". The main FF series uses Roman numerals.
I cannot imagine the dedication and real life planning that go into a 30h+ run. That's way beyond, I'm spending my entire weekend doing this. It must require at least a day either side of preparations and recovery. Insane.
My favorite is the Hollow Knight low% """Speedrun""" where you spend like 50 hours killing bees
This channel has VERY quickly shot to the top of speedrun content IMO
7:48 marvelous
Idk man summoning salt is the pinnacle still for. Still a great channel here though
@@genjishimada1063 salt is great but his videos drag for me lately. Plus the slow upload schedule
@@genjishimada1063 wirtual is my personal favorite, though thats all trackmania specific
Old School Runescape’s max cape run is longer, expected to be clocking in at around 35 days. Two people are speedrunning it right now, and they’re on the ass end of it. They’re planning on releasing the final play time at the same time, so we’ll see how long it actually is shortly.
How dare that Baiten Kaitos guy sleep during a 330 hour speedrun
100% runs of pretty much any RPG take a special breed for sure. Imagine being the best player on Earth, spending thousands of hours on practice alone, and still losing most runs to RNG. It's endless content if you're a streamer I suppose, but man I just don't think I could handle having so little control over such long runs.
YOU CUT OFF ZELDA. HOW DARE YOU?? Just kidding! That was pretty clever honestly.
What do you mean he did the not cut out Zelda The Warriors game send a is in the video definitive edition.
@@roaroflife8411 *they
@@JoSephGD it's only one guy
Segmented runs are actually maybe more traditional than single segment runs, in the early 2000s the majority of speedruns you can find on speed demos archive are segmented
They also had the additional benefit of not having chat overlays etc. over the actual gameplay (which should disqualify runs IMO).
@@Lovuschka why should that disqualify? dumb take
@@superfurfannyaa1864 Because it obstructs part of the screen, thus making it more difficult to verify if a run is cheated or not.
@@Lovuschka most top runners record locally as well. Meaning if need be they could submit the raw footage. Plus you don't even need the entire screen to know if someone cheated or not. Could you name a single instance in which chat has/could make it easier to cheat? In literally any game?
@@deeeenisttv There was some game where some stuff happened in the bottom right corner that was used to verify if someone cheated or not. So put the chat over that, voila.
Dragon Warrior VII on the North American PS1 release takes anywhere from 15 to about 20 hours just to complete the Any% category with JP only taking around 12-13 hours and on the 3DS remake there are 2 submitted runs which took 22 hours and 23 hours respectively.
Man, I am ready to hear more about these long Breath of the Wild runs.
One that's worth a look and that is taken seriously: Path of Exile's longer categories. Although it's hard to compare times from different patches.
Best time I'm aware of for "The Feared" on a fresh start is about 16 hours.
Fresh start to level 100 is taken much less seriously now (it was much more competitive in the past), but in 3.17 the solo version was won on day 6, with 2 people getting it that day, and 4 more on day 7. So that's around 132 hours.
there's a world record for The Henry Stickman Collection that's 42 days long
I believe something like a "no time manipulation" speedrun of "THE LONGING" would be interesting. Literally just 400 days of waiting if I'm not wrong.
Not really the time actually goes by faster the more you do in the game so like if you invest time in doing things like making your base comfy with like furniture or like taking up hobbies the in game timer will speed up a bit kinda like the whole idea of time flies by when your having fun so technically you could make a lot of time saves
you're wrong
I stumbled across this video since it was on the recommended list from Super Mario 64 blindfolded 100%. It "merely" took 11+ hours, so compared to this list it might seem small, but I can't imagine how intense it would be to play a game without seeing and with no breaks for that long.
A RNG based, 12 hour plus speedrun is definitely the recipe for a grueling time, in surprised people even run those type of games
There's a reason Digimon World 3 has no times submitted.
The WR for Round 255 speedrun on Nacht der untoten on Black Ops 3 Zombies is over 300 hours! You only have 25 irl days to finish a game, and you have to start over if you die at any point.
TOTOzigemm's 201 hour forbidden memories manip run is that long because it was originally the run from the very first 100% race (where i did that 174h run). He couldn't get harpies pet dragon for many,many, MANY hours so it became a meme. At one point when RNG manip became a thing, he just finished it with manipulating the last drop. That's why it is that long
A 100% manip run would be much faster obviously, but nobody did that before. Routing takes a long time and you have ro start every duel at specific frames and duel it in specific ways to ensure a drop.
Look ma, I’m on TV! Great video as always!
Although it's well under 100 hours, I feel Skurry's Hollow Knight Low% True Ending run should be mentioned
My favorite long speedrun is Twilight Princess low%, in which Link stares at rupees for several hours.
Was hoping you would talk a bit about Call of Duty: Zombies high rounds (specifically Black Ops 1-3) as through the years they have became 60-200+ hour speedruns due to round caps and resets. It's a very small community of runners who have spent the last decade or more hyper-optimizing high rounds into max round speedruns. Coop is especially impressive as players have gone 80hrs with only 4-8 hours of sleep and some have even died in the process. Some absolute legends that are unheard of but equally deserving of respect.
High round zombie speedruns are easily the most endurance based speedruns out there. Even though there isnt much tech involved having to blast your way thru hundreds of waves of zombies for days on end is not easy
CoD 'games' are not even Video games, they are products made with no love with the only purpose being wanting to make money. Calling them Video games implies there was passion behind their creation, when there is none. You don't deserve respect for feeding Activisions pockets.
@@lukasr1166 What you're on about doesn't apply we are talking about the passion dedication and achievements of players, knock the game all you want but don't let it take away from that.
@@lukasr1166 🤓
GTA 5 Classic% is any% without using one game breaking mechanic and a few other rules, but almost everything is allowed. It takes 6 hours. The any% takes 2, the 100% 10
"Longest Speedrun" sounds like an oxymoron.
There’s actually longer runs:
Old school runescape maxing
I’m a little sad you didn’t cover the 100% just cause 3 speed runs but overall a great video!
Just cause 2 is even more horrendous to run afaik
It's pretty crazy that the community puts themselves through hours of torture like this. But it's pretty impressive as well, especially when it comes to super difficult games
Watched it 'till the end. Now seeing long speedruns drive my mind NON COMPOS MENTIS!! I mean… WHAT THE HECK?! Incredulously looooonng! Don't worry, your videos are always one of my favorite content to watch. I really enjoy it.
7:16 perfect name.
The hate for "word%" speedrun categories is objectively false, because the "Nazeem%" Skyrim category is the best speedrunning category ever made full stop. Checkmate.
I passed by this video as I was looking up speedruns of several games I play on the regular. And then I looked up Old School RuneScape (mainly for its quest speedrunning server-based categories).
Apparently there is a side category called "Max Cape" which requires runners to reach Lv99 on every skill and max an entire account. There are very few runs, yet they go by at least 700 hours.
Great video :D shame you didn't stumble upon Harry Potter Full Series runs though. The longest (essentially first) submitted run was 39:44:08, done in one sitting. 23 completely different games, each requiring hours upon hours of learning to get a decent run.
But the even bigger behemoth of a run is also Full Series, but 100%. Record is about 84h RTA with ~70h of total playtime. That's 3.5 days long run with just TWO 7 hours long breaks for sleep. And these games aren't easy to 100%, one of them had to actually be replayed entirely due to a missed collectible. The run is brutal, required tones of prep and will of steel
You missed out the Old School Runescape Max Cape speedrun
"The Longing" has you beat. To complete the game a 400 DAY timer has to complete, which is roughly 9600 hours. Dont know why they made it that day.
You can speed up the longing up to 15x I think so it’s not that long compared to some of these other games
Unless you want a slow run
I love long speedruns, I started to put them on the big screen as a background noise while I worked at home during the pandemic, and I become particulary fond of JRPG ones, like Persona 5 true ending that took something between 14 to 18 hours to complete, FFX Nemesis% and BOTW 100%
There's a guy who ran all 23 mainline harry potter games 100% speedrun, although he did take breaks in between, so in IGT took 70 hrs but rta took 84 hours crazy.
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Sub 20 hour is the craziest thing I've hear about speedruns. This video is such a treat, thank you for making this man lol
500 hours for "Speedrun" i wonder how long "Normal Gameplay" is 😅
7:34 So this is the longest run without taking any breaks, all the others you can just go to sleep in the run
where botw
in all seriousness, great video as always! glad to see a great upload from a great channel
Someone's going for max in Oldschool Runescape in sub-1000 hours. Pretty much unheard of. Couple years ago, the WR was just under 2,200 hours
Awesome video idea! Your content keeps getting better! Here’s the question; Did you speedrun the move? If so what’s your PB and strats?
Not sure if I can give an exact start date haha. I've been gradually moving things up over the past couple weeks so that my final move in days will be less of a hassle. I'm the tortoise still trying to win the race!
@@Storster pro moving strats!
@@Storster Like daylight savings time abuse in SMO, you need to set things up for the speedrun, I getcha!
Shoutouts to carpaltunnel_of_love for having one of the funniest usernames I've heard in a while
Call of Duty Zombies high rounds are basically playing as fast as you can to get as high of a round before reaching an inevitable error making it a speedrun. Depending on map, the error can range from like 60-100+ hours, the longest error being 300 hours that has actually been reached.
Well this is all mind boggling but in the osrs community we have currently several speedrunners running "max cape%" which I don't follow closely but to my understanding takes about 800-1000 hours lol
Final Fantasy VII's 100% category may be on the shorter end of the length scale, clocking it at only 16:05:51 on the PC version and a somewhat outdated 17:47:45 on the PSX version, but it's a dense and heavily planned run for its length. My incomplete guide for the current best route is so far at about 130 pages with the current runner being somewhat annoyed at them not being detailed enough (Granted, some of that length is from a 8-9 page section duplicated 8 times with slight variations, but that's because the route splits into eight sub-routes at one point).
I remember hearing about a Minecraft speedrun that was just over 100 hours
Another game that kinda counts would be a longing low% run where you just wait for 400 real days
Celeste 100% minimum grabs (500h) and Hollow Knight low% dream no more ending(50h). I'm running Hollow knight low% dnm and it is suffering.
While I liked the video I find it funny that you put in GT4, but not even mentioned GT Sport Platinum %, which in itself is a 239h speedrun, but instead of 4 people, it was achieved by only one person in a span of 10 days, which is fully documented as well...
Aye thanks man, I was hoping to see it up here too 😄
Such a great video and even still that GT4 100% is absolutely legendary 🙌
@@WestRoadZ Hey! Nice seeing you here. A legend like you needs to be mentioned. 😁🙌
I’m a bit disappointed Shadow the Hedgehog wasn’t mentioned
Just found your channel. Would love these types of videos without the humor. Love them even more with the humor. You pull it off perfectly!
I don't know if it's actually been performed, but I'd imagine Any Animal Crossing 100% No Time Manipulation would probably be even longer than Spider... At over a YEAR for 100%
It's funny that you say segmented isn't traditional considering many runs in the early 2000s were segmented, especially stuff like Zelda hundo.
RuneScape might have some of the longest speed runs too I would assume
Agreed, since Old School released quest speedrunning.
It's like trying to memorize and run through an entire game for each of the quests to speedrun. Not to mention two of them to speedrun are the two most difficult quests in the whole game.
Hey dude, you're my favorite speed runner and I've been inspired to start speed running myself. i'd really appreciate it if you could answer some of my questions.
do u think that yoshi gets embarrassed when he poos out eggs in front of mario??? sorry if this ofends anyone but i thought it was a funny thing haha. and i would like to know if any of you have any pics of yoshi pooping an egg while he looks nervous or embarrassed i just want to see it for a few laughs haha. another thing i am wondering is what do you think the eggs smell like haha im just curious for laughs haha i would like to smell them
Don't forget just cause 2 speed runs, it'll take you about 25-30 hours.
When the longest Speedrun is longer than the amount of time it takes to beat 2 JRPGs back to back 💀
Well, that's a new oxymoron lol.
Everyone we must work together so we can make these runs shorter. Come on, make these runs better.
Some extra info about why the Gran Turismo 4 run is so long: there are actually several races in the game that last 24 real life hours. (Most famous of all being the 24hrs of Le Mans)
Plus, Gran Turismo 4 is easily the most content-packed game in the series. There are TONS of race events, and it takes a very long time in order to do them all.
Thankfully they don’t do the 24 hour races in GT anymore, because that’s a ridiculous ask of anyone. They replaced them with 24 MINUTE races in GT 5 and 6. 😅
I’m extremely disappointed that they didn’t go into any detail as to why it’s so long like they did with every other game.
The Longing takes 400 days to beat!
It’s actually much shorter if you collect the items for your room, they speed up time and the game can be beaten in under a day
@@C1yde902 oh
Unfortunately the run isn't very interesting, you just unlock the saxophone as quickly as possible, then spam that for the rest of the time.
Hollow Knight Low% run
You have to beat the game with the lowest possible percent which means that you will have no sword upgrades, no mantis claw I think, and… no dream nail, iirc. You need a certain amount of dream-somethings which you would normally easily get with the dream nail, but instead you have to kill enemies. Every enemy has a low chance to drop a dream-thing, and you need a couple hundred…
So you have to kill the same enemies (these 1 hit kill birds) and exit and renter the room over and over again until you get it.
That sounds like purposefully shooting yourself into the foot Lmao
I find it funny you say you don't know a lot about Xenogears, when a clip in your intro is literally from the game. :P
Great analysis video! Thanks for uploading! Good luck with the move, & here's looking forward to more content like this from you!
You're pretty funny
528 hours=22 days ain’t no way someone really spent almost a month speedrunning a game I swear these speedrunners love sleep deprivation
More interesting then actual speedrunners to be honest.
The Star Ocean series have some hefty investing, max levels are 255. There’s also the numerous endings based on character interactions.
There should be “No sleep” categories for sub 72 hour runs.
we don't want people dying on the stream lmao
I can imagine there will be a time sometime in the distant future where people speedrun an "All Characters, No Top Up" category in a Gacha game like Genshin Imapct or the like. Come to think of it, I think I know of a few people who might actually DO it. Boredom is a powerful motivator.
Theoretically the 1862 could be even longer. Add on the remaining 122 stars in Galaxy, as you’d have to do ‘Luigi Galaxy’s 121 stars and back to Mario to get his last one. Then, even though it’s on portable and not console like the rest, 150 stars in 64DS. Not to mention the 100 Cat Shines.