
Posted by Hotshot at 12:04 28/4/2004.
Many moons ago, when Quake was the sauce of choice for the gaming equivalent of bacon sandwiches, a clever young chap produced Quake Done Quick. This was a video based entirely around the essence of completing the game as quickly as possible. From digging around, the record appears to be 33 minutes, killing all monsters and taking all secrets from every level on Easy skill. Its a quite breathtaking feat.
It's been done in Half-Life now, with the entire game being done in a little over an hour. When I first played Half-Life it took me the best part of 4 and a bit days to complete, with the pitiful Blue-Shift addon taking about an hour and a half. A quick word from the man himself :
Still I did NOT record the run in one part. I actually made 42 small parts. It took me almost two weeks to record it. Some tricks took many many tries to do flawlessly. For example after reaching the alien world "Xen" I do a great jump across the level. Getting this one recorded took me certainly over 100 tries :)
The movie can be had in 3 different flavours:
For more info on the project click here. For any of you wanting to indulge in a bit of nostalgia, information and demos of the Quake Done Quick series can be found here.
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Choke
12:11 28/4/2004
Infinity-eSports
12:11 28/4/2004
2seXeh 2perfoRm
12:13 28/4/2004
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2seXeh 2perfoRm
12:14 28/4/2004
Head Arse
UKTerrorist
12:17 28/4/2004
theb0g
12:20 28/4/2004
It's a nice movie, a bit big and I kind of wish he'd done it more like QRDQ because at least that had music and entertaining bits (plus a cool voice over!). Anyway, nice job. Might even get me playing HL single player again to see if I can do some of that stuff any quicker. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
contact!
12:23 28/4/2004
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Black Death Warriors
12:39 28/4/2004
that aint that quick [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
theb0g
12:39 28/4/2004
Beaucoup fish! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
12:44 28/4/2004
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Rush!
13:04 28/4/2004
twisted Reality
13:08 28/4/2004
13:18 28/4/2004
really awesome considering the game it was done in was quake and not quakeworld (quake has slower movement). [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
13:26 28/4/2004
There is a non-filefront link (high speed) on UKCT. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
theb0g
13:27 28/4/2004
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13:47 28/4/2004
instead he cheated [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
13:47 28/4/2004
Unless he cheated (EG warping past entire worlds) it would be impossible to complete it in 11 minutes. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
13:48 28/4/2004
Sorry. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
contact!
13:55 28/4/2004
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Rush!
14:39 28/4/2004
euthanasia
14:42 28/4/2004
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ForsakeN
14:59 28/4/2004
15:03 28/4/2004
I was so excited i dropped the controler in my ribena:o) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Rush!
15:10 28/4/2004
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15:28 28/4/2004
According to GBA Advance its called #3.
"Yoshi's Island : Super Mario Advance 3" [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Missing In Action
15:51 28/4/2004
*downloads* [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
theb0g
15:55 28/4/2004
Geeks! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Rush!
16:01 28/4/2004
16:04 28/4/2004
*Sniffle* Who you calling a geek? [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
16:06 28/4/2004
16:14 28/4/2004
he could do this game quickers with his eyes shut than i could open!
he knows all the secret crannys etc amazign s*** a gd watch ! :D [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Specster
16:24 28/4/2004
16:28 28/4/2004
^^ HAHAHAHA who else thinks this guy is a little retarded :o [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Clan ONE
16:47 28/4/2004
i never did HL i got stuck which i thought was far.. but the game is fooking huge!!
wish i knew wot the story was ;'( [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
16:53 28/4/2004
every1 else is a wanab [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
16:59 28/4/2004
Head Arse
UKTerrorist
17:01 28/4/2004
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Viva la!
17:11 28/4/2004
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17:42 28/4/2004
I suggest you take a look at "Why Can't We Be Colour Blind?" [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
17:51 28/4/2004
It's incredibly think really isn't it... [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
17:51 28/4/2004
Can we have an edit button please? [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
18:02 28/4/2004
18:06 28/4/2004
link to load of nes games pld quick
needs bit torrent [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
fightclubclan
18:18 28/4/2004
yeah i didnt think this hl thing was that great, it showcased how much he plays half life rather than how good his technique is. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
18:24 28/4/2004
I havent played a game that dragged me in like half life since I first completed it. Amazing game, wouldnt beleive you could complete it that quickly (yeah he did it over 2 weeks, but its still only an hour long and I remember the level Surface Tension lasting longer than that). [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
18:36 28/4/2004
Perhaps the UKT readership, on balance, might not subscribe to that way of doing things though... [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Clan ONE
19:04 28/4/2004
fightclubclan
19:12 28/4/2004
euthanasia
20:39 28/4/2004
20:41 28/4/2004
On the topic of skill videos, I recommend people go look for Ikaruga vids. That game is so immensely hard, and the guys in the vids take the p***, royally.
Oh, and Deus Ex > HL. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
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02:05 29/4/2004
SO HOW DOES DORK, GEEK, DWEEB OR POINTDEXTER SOUND. IS THAT POLITICALLY CORRECT YOU PACK OF ASSHOLES!!?!?!? [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
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10:59 29/4/2004
Well Said
Nerd_hater do us all a favour
f*** off. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
theb0g
12:54 29/4/2004
Would love to see an oldskool Quaker do HL. I bet it would be a LOT faster/more extravagant. In some parts of the HLDQ I was thinking "Why aren't you bunnyhopping? Could have taken off a few seconds there..."
Still a pretty cool movie if a little dull with no music. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
theb0g
13:03 29/4/2004