Something I forgot to mention: I didn't do Wings of Liberty because workers don't auto-mine in that campaign, making macro basically impossible, and I don't do Heart of the Swarm because there is a mission involving picking up quillgor meat that requires clicking accuracy that isn't possible. If these problems didn't exist, Zerg would be by far the easiest faction to play. Less building problems, no power fields to manage and Kerrigan is OP.
Not a direct reply to the OP, but as to being blind without the Khala: >Being so advanced you can recall your forces through time and space with the press of a button >cant figure out the incredibly complex concept of social media I'm not sure how many pylons it'd take to solve this problem.
Kerrigan isn't much of an ally is she, sure her base is dying, so why isn't she personally going out and killing the problem? Or at least building large attack groups safely outside of the danger zone to maximize effectiveness
Some people can, if an ally quits, play as both heroes on brutal and win anyways because one hero provides the funds the other the guns. Unless you are low level then you need to actually make army with both and its trickier, but possible.
I love that to follow the "No outside programs, just Starcraft" rule, he uses a separate instance of Brood War to recenter the cursor. Just imagine Starcraft 1, thinking it's finally going to get a GGG challenge run, only to be used to center the cursor for a different challenge run, hah.
The last scene when the screen turned black and all you hear was the game sound, the anxiety and urge to win that you wanted to see what is happening but you need to finish it blindfolded. You showed us what you feel right there. The dedication you have there to do this 2 hours straight. It is already an achievement. Well done.
@@depressedflower3326 GiantGrantGames be like: everyone else is too preoccupied thinking about whether they should, and not thinking enough about whether they could
The most mindblowing thing was when I realised you were gonna do the whole campaign in a single run. I thought completing each map with lots of practice beforehand might be doable. Extremely hard, yet doable. But memorising the whole game, including the menu, and playing for hours completely blindfolded, that is just insane...
@@antongerasin3871 What do you asking? "How?" is a normal question if you being able to do or make something. How do I suppose to answer a question how I can't able something? How you can't beat Mario? How you can't jump 10 feet high? I just can't, hadn't have enough patience I suppose, after 5-6 failures in some mission I just give up. That was the same for SC1, broodwar, and all 3 campaigns for SC2. (missions 3 to 7 for different races for SC1 for example). So... I have a slow reaction time I suppose. I take 10-12 lessons from SC2 teacher and streamer, and he said "ok you doing well you understand build order and units, now repeat everything you do but faster". And I can't. That's it. I making everything with 15-20 apm and it works only at really basic missons. Like, this blindfolded guy having limit of 100 near 8 minute; I will reach it probably after 20 minutes.
@@justindowning3845 8-years? It's perfect, children has great reaction. I can't react before my army dead and I can't build army fast enough. I don't think I know all the reasons, maybe something else matters too. But as far as I was guided by teacher (masterleague sc2 protoss player) a bit, I don't think I do something completely stupid in the game.
@@hungcuong606 I don't want discuss it any further. I guess not. That's not the first time I discuss I bad at something, and the first thing is always "you just dumb/have a disorder/my grandma can do this so it's impossible you can't do this to". I'm not claim it's physically impossibly for me, right? I already said that I get tired fast and giving up (maybe normal player don't do that after 5 losses). Maybe if I do 100 tries for every mission I finished that. I just don't enjoy the game THAT much - I enjoy it while exploring, not while dying hard. So it's combination of my abilities + patience.
That closing sequence really freaked me out. If that is but a fraction of the anxiety you felt, that takes this run to a whole different level of impressive. Faith before fear!
Doctor: "Mr. Grant, I'm sorry, but the tests show you will fully lose your eyesight in three months..." Grant: "Pfft, save me your pity, I have a galaxy to conquer..."
That final section was kinda anxiety inducing knowing he was doing that the whole time, listening for failure, never knowing what's happening, god dang stressful over 30 seconds, how did he do all those missions
What I find most interesting is how much pressure he puts on himself though. No one is going to physically hurt him. A failure along the way won't cost him real money either. He's so strict about the challenge, he even keeps the mission in betweens blindfolded for no reason, like in the other runs units dying in-between mission for cutscenes didn't count either, right? Keeping it together as the entire run is what hurts him more than just (re)playing the missions until he completes it. It's his choice to make though, and good stuff either way.
I love how far Grants come, from a deathless run in WoL to Alt tabbing into a brood wars to centre his mouse because he cant do it normally because he's blindfolded
I'm not sure what I was expecting, but at 4 minutes it's slowly starting to dawn on me that he's really going to play through a campaign blindfolded and how much time he probably sank into this. This is both incredibly cool and somewhat terrifying. This is like some Ender Wiggin shit.
I think this is my favorite comment on this video, it encapsulates my feelings entirely when I clicked on this. "Blind folded, that's a weird euphemism I wonder what he means by that?" ... "Oh. Oh wow. That's some serious commitment".
So to recap, the protoss have to be very confused as to the commander they follow. "So he managed to lead us to victory without losing anyone, then he did it in under 2 hours, now he's doing it with his eyes literally closed?"
Grant is one damn good commander "This Terran commander of ours is really something Hierarch, Grant must be powered by pure Solerite, it is the only possible solution!"
The very fact that you went through the menus blindfolded as well is so extra and even more respect towards you. Whether there is a part 2 or not, this is so impressive. Top notch effort 10/10
Well except if you count the bitter taste of defeat and the smell of my sh*tty computer frying because I'm running the game on too high settings for him to handle
Holy crap. That POV sequence at the end is... awful, but like... it's really good. It's a powerful moment, a glimpse into how it all feels on your end. The mounting pressure, the drive to succeed, and the ever-growing anxiety that doing it live brings. I'm amazed and impressed by your skill, and I'm sorry that that's how the run had to end.
Besides the obvious task that is playing SC blindfolded, I really love the small edits. "I have mastered the human art of twerking, would you like to see?" Or "Boys at the mineral line arent gonna believe this" in the Wings of liberts video
Honestly, that last bit was super interesting in both the way you presented it, leaving the viewers effectively blind and disoriented as you were, the words flashing up on the screen, your anxiety feeding into your self doubt and panic. It's a great example of how all it takes is one sudden, unexpected twist to flip the switch from "in control" to "out of control". You mentioned feeling mentally wiped out at the time, and I'm sure that you'd probably not suffer any permanent side effects, but you did basically subject yourself to torture.
Something grant didn't mention in this video: He was able to do the rest of the LotV campaign missions individually, but none of them were reliable enough for his sanity. He described them as equally anxious as harbinger of oblivion for 6/8 of the remaining missions. "Unsealing the Past" makes you follow and escort a COMPLETELY SILENT megalith "Purification" has 12 objectives, with no audio cue for when you kill one, and also no cue for which are still alive. "Steps of the Rite" is doable "Rak shir" makes you follow Alarak and malash's fight, which is very quiet unless you're looking exactly at it. The path isn't a straight line, either. "Templar's Charge" wants you to move a platform to get more resources so you can actually make an army. But you need to click on the mineral fields to mine them. "Templar's return" forces you to keep Alarak and vorazun (very squishy heroes) alive, as well as mind control specific mechanical units. (Obviously mouse accuracy isn't great) "The host" is doable but you're intended to grab at least 1 expansion in order to afford a large army. Again, clicking on mineral fields and building a nexus in the correct spot is difficult. "Salvation" requires you memorize the timing and direction of approximately 20 attack waves. Miss one or two and you're screwed
WOAH THAT ESCALATED AT THE END TOO MUCH. Don't stress up, it is always for joy! Those texts and doubts at the end made me feel sick, and I just realized how horrific it may be to be blind. I am one-eyed, and that hits me up so hard. I wish you all to have both eyes seeing, fellas
I have to say, you know you're completely exhausted and spent when you can complete such a difficult task as this, and yet, when you're done, there's no celebration, no exaltations. Just a calm removing of the blindfold, and walking away.
Reminds me a bit of The Badab War when the Lamenters faced against The Unhallowed Heart, a continent sized derelict ship that had an aura that would drive everyone in a huge range insane. Mortals would go berserk, or fall dead with blood pouring from their eyes or be possesed be demonic entities or commit suicide unable to bear the horror no more. Even the super human space marines were falli g prey to its baleful aura. The Lamenters were more resistant and in desperation threw everything they could imagine: poitblank barrages of cannons, lasers and torpedoes; boarding parties of terminators and battle brothers to find, rig and detonate any reactor or weapon they came across until the abomination fell apart and its aura dissipated. Aboard the flagship of the Lamenters nobody had strength left to celebrate the victory.
Everytime i finish watching one of GGG video, I tell myself that there is nothing left to do with starcraft campaign and everytime a new video goes out, i realise how creative GGG is
@@celestrius9197 haha, I've successfully cannon rushed you, you're defenceless against me, as the casters are like why's he cannon rushing the 3rd base spot nothing's there
Hya, I just started to rewatch some of the old amazing runs and content ( cant get enough of GGG! :D ) , and tumbled upon this gem, the blindfold run. I remembered having been amazed at the planning and the creative beauty of solutions you found for certain problems. ( You never cease to amaze! ) Rewatching now I felt even more heartbroken at the end, allow me to explain: - First off I didn't remember you even proceeded to go blindfold into intermission parts on the the Spear of Adun. While admirable, totally useless, I mean it does not really add to the completion, playing all the missions ingame is hard enough, I would not expect you to memorize ingame menus to find the planet on the starmap, or select the unit variants, or upgrade the Spear of Adun. ( although one might argue picking certain units, and upgrades adds greatly to the strategic feasablity of each map, while I would agree, I would not request it to be done blindfoled since it is a conciencious choice of strategy and it has nothing to do with finding the correct position of choosing them in a graphic menu.) - Second off it truly did baffle me that you attempted to do this run in one go, ( loved the editing in the end to show us, the audience how you must have felt for hours by then, it is indeed very hard, depressing, and unsatisfying. Unfortunately It kept me wondering if you would have managed to do it if segmented it for multiple runs or keeping pauses to remove the blindfold between some missions ( have food breaks etc) Funny how much my soul wants you to succeed. ( also curiousity is at work how you mapped out the rest of the missions) At any rate, hats off yet again amazing run, love to see it end with a success, despite the darkness overwhelming eventually. You are an absolute Hero! and I keep hoping you revisit this challenge... maybe just maybe... with some sanity safety measures included! Cheers!
I assumed this would be like any other blindfolded run, boy was I wrong. Controlling a whole army and economy with no slight seems monumentally harder than a single character.
He didn't fail the challenge though. He beat the final mission. The fade to black was basically him displaying the anxieties he felt during the mission and feeling like a failure, but he ultimately completed it.
@@NoodleKeeper Can't blame you lol. I could barely get through 1 playthrough of it. The mission design just... What happened? It makes more more sad than mad
not gonna lie that blackcreens at the end i almost got depressed. playing this far with blind folded you did the impossible even tho you didnt finish it in my heart you already achieved the impossible that no even dared to try
In watching in my phone in bed in pitch black, that ending changed the entire feel of the video giving a very small taste of what you managed to do. A+ on the editing man!
Dude. Ive been playing Starcraft since the very first release. The fact that you did everything for this ans achieved so much. You are amazing. Take a break. You deserve it. Thank You so much for these vids.
sensory deprivation can be a form of torture so dont feel bad about letting it get to you. instead its impressive you got as far as you did despite having to fight your own brain
I love them opening skit and closing sequence. Both were well-done and gave me a laugh and a slight panic attack respectively. Keep up the good work, GGG.
This video was just amazing! and to show us the end and the stress everything by give us your PoV was genius! This is by far my fav video on your channel. and it makes you Human and real in a good way! Thanks for trustig us and give us you PoV. You are a legend!
You could probably actually do this in a roundabout way, by doing a “Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes” style of game where you tell another person commands and they perform the command, without you seeing the screen
@@genericalias6307 Imagine if he finds someone who has never played Starcraft before, and he has to talk them through beating the game... ...on Brutal.
F2 and A move, ah yes the casual experience of Protoss xD Well the Protoss are blind because they cut their hair to be free from Amon's influence, so this is quite accurate lol
Hey man, the content's great, but don't do something that is physically painful. I don't know if you do these missions consecutively or not, but take breaks if you need to. If it delays later episodes, so be it. You have to look out for yourself first. And if there is no part two, so be it, we all understand.
Don't let it break you buddy! You're doing great! And the content is absolute gold! Intro skit was awesome, ending conveyed your feelings mastefully. And the middle was a joy to watch. Keep up the good work!
Sc1 is a jank game in difficulty, some missions have prevalent potentially devastating attack waves and some don't have any attack waves whatsoever and you can often enough just go mass capital ships if you aren't zerg :P and just a click to victory
This is honestly on of the the best (if not the best) and the most dedicate starcraft II content i have ever seen. You're actually really talented in storytelling somehow. Great job man !
Incredible video! Reminds me when I was playing Co-op and my GPU messed up. The game on screen was totally frozen, but I could still hear sound cues for when I was battling. Spamming F2 and A Moving everywhere, I watched the replay. By the end of the game I was at the bottom right hand corner of the train map and my ally left saying "WTF???" :D
This is absolutely crazy good that you did this! Dont feel bad about setting this challenge aside for now. Some day you might want to attempt it again, or maybe you never want to see it again. Either way this is still an accomplishment to brag about, and an entertaining video to boot!
Honestly? I'm counting this one as a win. Doing it all in a single sitting, with no breaks, was never specified in the challenge. So long as you are blindfolded the entire time you are playing, it counts. And i am reasonably confident you had consistent routing for the final missions. That and your still great APM.
Grant, these are some of my favorite videos that exist. You do such cool challenges and then an incredible job editing and especially narrating them. Really brilliant.
There are race-swapped mission that made by players such as protoss version of wol, terrran version of hots. Try make a no-death run out of those mission !
It was just... awesome. I really enjoyed this video, and the last part (black screen) is just, in my opinion, so much powerfull. English is not my native langage so it's really hard to translate what I mean, but that last part, with your doubts and all, really it... resonate with me. So just, thank you for this and I look forward to see your next videos.
I love how you keep escalating these challenges. Next you'll tell us you just finished SC2 on Brutal, blindfolded, with only basic tier 1 units, with your feet.
I've watched all your other wc3 and sc challenge runs and they are damn impressive but this one takes the cake. Damn, the dedication to be able to do this in a RTS game is mind blowing.
For one, Blizz was very generous with their unit pathing code in SC2, the exact opposite of SCBW where your units were drunk morons that would happily jump off the map had it been possible. QoL came a long way since 1998.
@@NightKev Yeah,yeah, blizzard made all this look supa dupa easy, blah, balh. Then I trying to pass through campaign on Casual difficulty with both eyes, both hands and can't get through Shakuras defend mission. You still need fast reaction and reflexes. My army dies after 2 seconds of attack move, pathfind helps nothing at all in it (not saying it's not great, it definitely is)
@@mapron1 For the Shakuras defense mission, just send your Dark Templar to destroy the three keystones. The enemy doesn't have any detectors, so they should have no trouble. For the rest of the mission, get 8-10 probes mining minerals, then build photon cannons. Once you've done that, build more photon cannons, and after that, build more photon cannons. If you cover every bit of open space with cannons, you should be fine.
@@scienceviking4490 Thanks for details, really, but I'm not going to return to SC2 in the near future (I last played more that 2 years ago), so, even I try hard to remember your advice I'd probably forget it. I did watch walk-throughs ofc, when I failed campaign ( - any - and I did that for orig SC1 ofc), did not remember any of "Whoa! I should try THAT instead!" moments. I suppose I can do something wrong but hope not completely miss major choices (like static defense, unit match-ups, etc)
Holy crap, that was amazing! I fevered with you and my heart was beating fast on the last bit of your run. Thanks a lot for sharing and making a video out of this 💗😊
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Something I forgot to mention: I didn't do Wings of Liberty because workers don't auto-mine in that campaign, making macro basically impossible, and I don't do Heart of the Swarm because there is a mission involving picking up quillgor meat that requires clicking accuracy that isn't possible. If these problems didn't exist, Zerg would be by far the easiest faction to play. Less building problems, no power fields to manage and Kerrigan is OP.
infinite free zerglings are helpful too
You could do a video of a almost completely blindfolded run for zerg.
Mainly possible because of LOTV's super unique objectives
Heart of the swarm also doesn’t have all army though, seems like that would be a bigger problem
@@callumfinlayson-palmer8393 agreed. Almost blind fold is good enough. Or just skip that particular mission.
"We are blind without the Kaala"
"It's alright fam we just have to temporarily tab out back to the past so it can locate our base in the present"
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future, conquers the past.
Not a direct reply to the OP, but as to being blind without the Khala:
>Being so advanced you can recall your forces through time and space with the press of a button
>cant figure out the incredibly complex concept of social media
I'm not sure how many pylons it'd take to solve this problem.
@@MrRulet550 Kane lives!
So this is what my co-op teammates are doing this entire time
Only the Raynors
throwin some shade lmao
Kerrigan isn't much of an ally is she, sure her base is dying, so why isn't she personally going out and killing the problem? Or at least building large attack groups safely outside of the danger zone to maximize effectiveness
I played 5 coop games thus far... In three my alles quit or didnt do shit the remaining Was them being as scrubby as I am
Some people can, if an ally quits, play as both heroes on brutal and win anyways because one hero provides the funds the other the guns. Unless you are low level then you need to actually make army with both and its trickier, but possible.
You managing a single mission blindfolded is more impressive than the vast majority of us can manage so take the breaks you need to
best part is, this *was* him taking a break, from the warcraft deathless missions XD
I love that to follow the "No outside programs, just Starcraft" rule, he uses a separate instance of Brood War to recenter the cursor. Just imagine Starcraft 1, thinking it's finally going to get a GGG challenge run, only to be used to center the cursor for a different challenge run, hah.
it still was the MVP
hahaha that's a genius idea from him damn
The last scene when the screen turned black and all you hear was the game sound, the anxiety and urge to win that you wanted to see what is happening but you need to finish it blindfolded. You showed us what you feel right there. The dedication you have there to do this 2 hours straight. It is already an achievement. Well done.
No kidding i was feeling my heart pounding along with it, it was very intense. And A huge relief when he did it.
Christ yeah. It went from "haha funnee no see space game" to "holy shit how the fuck does one willingly do this"
Thanks was great post editing, agreed. Really puts you into the moment with the tension.
GiantGrantGames is basically the embodiment of the saying : Don’t ask why, but why not
Also: we were too preocupied with whether we could, to think about whether we should
I mean...why tho
3 months that's why not
@@depressedflower3326 GiantGrantGames be like: everyone else is too preoccupied thinking about whether they should, and not thinking enough about whether they could
wrgg
The most mindblowing thing was when I realised you were gonna do the whole campaign in a single run. I thought completing each map with lots of practice beforehand might be doable. Extremely hard, yet doable. But memorising the whole game, including the menu, and playing for hours completely blindfolded, that is just insane...
Intro: “Haha funny photoshopped masks”
Outro: “Why can’t I breathe? Why am I so afraid?”
Yea damn that ending felt dark
@@Sleet-Sdf93 Pun intended?
There's a joke to be made of Protoss and A-moving here.
It would be funny if only it wasn’t so true
@@bigchum3984 You still need to be good in RTS. I can't beat a campaign even on Casual.
@@antongerasin3871 What do you asking? "How?" is a normal question if you being able to do or make something. How do I suppose to answer a question how I can't able something? How you can't beat Mario? How you can't jump 10 feet high?
I just can't, hadn't have enough patience I suppose, after 5-6 failures in some mission I just give up. That was the same for SC1, broodwar, and all 3 campaigns for SC2. (missions 3 to 7 for different races for SC1 for example).
So... I have a slow reaction time I suppose.
I take 10-12 lessons from SC2 teacher and streamer, and he said "ok you doing well you understand build order and units, now repeat everything you do but faster".
And I can't. That's it. I making everything with 15-20 apm and it works only at really basic missons.
Like, this blindfolded guy having limit of 100 near 8 minute; I will reach it probably after 20 minutes.
@@justindowning3845 8-years? It's perfect, children has great reaction. I can't react before my army dead and I can't build army fast enough. I don't think I know all the reasons, maybe something else matters too. But as far as I was guided by teacher (masterleague sc2 protoss player) a bit, I don't think I do something completely stupid in the game.
@@hungcuong606 I don't want discuss it any further. I guess not. That's not the first time I discuss I bad at something, and the first thing is always "you just dumb/have a disorder/my grandma can do this so it's impossible you can't do this to".
I'm not claim it's physically impossibly for me, right? I already said that I get tired fast and giving up (maybe normal player don't do that after 5 losses). Maybe if I do 100 tries for every mission I finished that. I just don't enjoy the game THAT much - I enjoy it while exploring, not while dying hard. So it's combination of my abilities + patience.
That closing sequence really freaked me out. If that is but a fraction of the anxiety you felt, that takes this run to a whole different level of impressive. Faith before fear!
That gives a whole diffrent perspective for the mission he needed to just sit there waiting for 13 min
Dawn will come.
This is like the first man on Pluto saying "I failed to leave the solar system"
Doctor: "Mr. Grant, I'm sorry, but the tests show you will fully lose your eyesight in three months..."
Grant: "Pfft, save me your pity, I have a galaxy to conquer..."
in your eyes you may think you have failed to run a marathon,
but everyone cheering for you is just amazed at how you sprint
That final section was kinda anxiety inducing knowing he was doing that the whole time, listening for failure, never knowing what's happening, god dang stressful over 30 seconds, how did he do all those missions
What I find most interesting is how much pressure he puts on himself though. No one is going to physically hurt him. A failure along the way won't cost him real money either.
He's so strict about the challenge, he even keeps the mission in betweens blindfolded for no reason, like in the other runs units dying in-between mission for cutscenes didn't count either, right? Keeping it together as the entire run is what hurts him more than just (re)playing the missions until he completes it. It's his choice to make though, and good stuff either way.
"The objective of Harbinger of Oblivion is super unique" - He said it! He said the thing!
All jokes aside, holy shit man you're insane. Great work
I love how far Grants come, from a deathless run in WoL to Alt tabbing into a brood wars to centre his mouse because he cant do it normally because he's blindfolded
“It is as if I’m blind”
Maybe you are phase smith, maybe you are...
I'm not sure what I was expecting, but at 4 minutes it's slowly starting to dawn on me that he's really going to play through a campaign blindfolded and how much time he probably sank into this. This is both incredibly cool and somewhat terrifying. This is like some Ender Wiggin shit.
I feel like ender would have devised some crazy strategy to solve this, like blowing up his own computer or something
I think this is my favorite comment on this video, it encapsulates my feelings entirely when I clicked on this.
"Blind folded, that's a weird euphemism I wonder what he means by that?" ... "Oh. Oh wow. That's some serious commitment".
the opening skit on a whole nother level
This is a good skit ruclips.net/video/96cx97GTONI/видео.html
I wouldn't think an RTS campaign would be possible blindfolded
yet here we are
I've seen blind people play RTS, not campaign tho.
I would say it depends on the campaing/game.
It doesn't mean that it's any less impressive tho.
@@AmberMuffin good luck with that, do you just lose if they do a weird corner base or something?
@@andrewgreeb916 or if they counter tour units and then start avoiding your army
Genuinely one of the most impressive feats I've seen in any SC2 challenge run. Great job! Also, this is my favorite intro skit to date.
En Taro John!
Couldn't agree more.
En Taro John!
I agree. I wasn't aware RTS games were possible to play blindfolded. This was. A surprise, to say the least.
En Taro John!
En Taro John.
Wait. His name isn't Grant?
Eh, who knows. Maybe OP wrote a protoss name that got autocorrected or it's a joke from the old stream, but now John's a Protoss hero nonetheless.
So to recap, the protoss have to be very confused as to the commander they follow. "So he managed to lead us to victory without losing anyone, then he did it in under 2 hours, now he's doing it with his eyes literally closed?"
Grant is one damn good commander
"This Terran commander of ours is really something Hierarch, Grant must be powered by pure Solerite, it is the only possible solution!"
Solarite cereals
may the khala guide us...
The very fact that you went through the menus blindfolded as well is so extra and even more respect towards you. Whether there is a part 2 or not, this is so impressive. Top notch effort 10/10
Plays better blindfolded than me with all my senses focused on the game
All of them?
Maybe not all of them
@@ghostpants4081 Good. I mean, if you played using tastes and smells, I’d be pretty scared. And awed.
are you saying you don't obsessively lick your computer while gaming?
Well except if you count the bitter taste of defeat and the smell of my sh*tty computer frying because I'm running the game on too high settings for him to handle
Holy crap. That POV sequence at the end is... awful, but like... it's really good. It's a powerful moment, a glimpse into how it all feels on your end. The mounting pressure, the drive to succeed, and the ever-growing anxiety that doing it live brings. I'm amazed and impressed by your skill, and I'm sorry that that's how the run had to end.
I like that you decided Protoss is the race you can play Blindfolded lol
Well Protoss units are pound for pound stronger than Terran or Zerg for the most part, so it makes sense. You can get more out of less.
there are issues regarding terran automining and a specific HotS mission that make both unfeasible blindfolded
It's like orcs in WC3. Bulky.
@@frozenfeet4534 Did Grant say that on stream? I'm curious if you can elaborate.
@@Slaanash His pinned comment explains
Besides the obvious task that is playing SC blindfolded, I really love the small edits.
"I have mastered the human art of twerking, would you like to see?"
Or
"Boys at the mineral line arent gonna believe this" in the Wings of liberts video
The fact that he does some missions blindfolded and plays them better than I did without being blindfolded is mindboggling, what an amazing video.
Honestly, that last bit was super interesting in both the way you presented it, leaving the viewers effectively blind and disoriented as you were, the words flashing up on the screen, your anxiety feeding into your self doubt and panic.
It's a great example of how all it takes is one sudden, unexpected twist to flip the switch from "in control" to "out of control".
You mentioned feeling mentally wiped out at the time, and I'm sure that you'd probably not suffer any permanent side effects, but you did basically subject yourself to torture.
Something grant didn't mention in this video:
He was able to do the rest of the LotV campaign missions individually, but none of them were reliable enough for his sanity. He described them as equally anxious as harbinger of oblivion for 6/8 of the remaining missions.
"Unsealing the Past" makes you follow and escort a COMPLETELY SILENT megalith
"Purification" has 12 objectives, with no audio cue for when you kill one, and also no cue for which are still alive.
"Steps of the Rite" is doable
"Rak shir" makes you follow Alarak and malash's fight, which is very quiet unless you're looking exactly at it. The path isn't a straight line, either.
"Templar's Charge" wants you to move a platform to get more resources so you can actually make an army. But you need to click on the mineral fields to mine them.
"Templar's return" forces you to keep Alarak and vorazun (very squishy heroes) alive, as well as mind control specific mechanical units. (Obviously mouse accuracy isn't great)
"The host" is doable but you're intended to grab at least 1 expansion in order to afford a large army. Again, clicking on mineral fields and building a nexus in the correct spot is difficult.
"Salvation" requires you memorize the timing and direction of approximately 20 attack waves. Miss one or two and you're screwed
Jesus that heartbeat anxiety scene hit a little close to home.
That ending was tense! Great editing Grant!
I have a challenge for you: Can you beat Starcraft 2 without completing a single mission. After watching this I believe you can somehow find a way.
Pretty sure that's just watching the cutscenes
Well, if you print a StarCraft logo on the punching bag and slam it s good number of times, I'm pretty sure that counts as beating
WOAH THAT ESCALATED AT THE END TOO MUCH. Don't stress up, it is always for joy! Those texts and doubts at the end made me feel sick, and I just realized how horrific it may be to be blind. I am one-eyed, and that hits me up so hard. I wish you all to have both eyes seeing, fellas
I have to say, you know you're completely exhausted and spent when you can complete such a difficult task as this, and yet, when you're done, there's no celebration, no exaltations. Just a calm removing of the blindfold, and walking away.
And what do you expect? A medal for wasting time?
a stark realisation of reality
Reminds me a bit of The Badab War when the Lamenters faced against The Unhallowed Heart, a continent sized derelict ship that had an aura that would drive everyone in a huge range insane. Mortals would go berserk, or fall dead with blood pouring from their eyes or be possesed be demonic entities or commit suicide unable to bear the horror no more. Even the super human space marines were falli g prey to its baleful aura.
The Lamenters were more resistant and in desperation threw everything they could imagine: poitblank barrages of cannons, lasers and torpedoes; boarding parties of terminators and battle brothers to find, rig and detonate any reactor or weapon they came across until the abomination fell apart and its aura dissipated. Aboard the flagship of the Lamenters nobody had strength left to celebrate the victory.
the editing for harbringer of oblivion is golden.
well done
Man I thought "I can beat this game with my eyes closed" was just an expression
the intro is so creative lmao
Everytime i finish watching one of GGG video, I tell myself that there is nothing left to do with starcraft campaign and everytime a new video goes out, i realise how creative GGG is
Now imagine Dark or Maru playing like this aginst each other in the grand Master league
Honestly, with my skill in 1v1, I think I would do better if I play like this.
"If I don't know where my proxy barracks is, you don't either"
Imagine it turns out to be an epic match and you watch it blindfolded.
That actually sounds amazing. I wanna see cannon rush with blindfolds lmfao
@@celestrius9197 haha, I've successfully cannon rushed you, you're defenceless against me, as the casters are like why's he cannon rushing the 3rd base spot nothing's there
That outro sequence really nailed the anxiety, i can't imagine being trapped like that for 2 hours.
Very glad this has been mentioned a few times recently, missed it when it first came out, but is a very good video
Okay I just read what your challenge was this time and I was like "... wait what?"
Hya, I just started to rewatch some of the old amazing runs and content ( cant get enough of GGG! :D ) , and tumbled upon this gem, the blindfold run.
I remembered having been amazed at the planning and the creative beauty of solutions you found for certain problems. ( You never cease to amaze! )
Rewatching now I felt even more heartbroken at the end, allow me to explain:
- First off I didn't remember you even proceeded to go blindfold into intermission parts on the the Spear of Adun. While admirable, totally useless, I mean it does not really add to the completion, playing all the missions ingame is hard enough, I would not expect you to memorize ingame menus to find the planet on the starmap, or select the unit variants, or upgrade the Spear of Adun. ( although one might argue picking certain units, and upgrades adds greatly to the strategic feasablity of each map, while I would agree, I would not request it to be done blindfoled since it is a conciencious choice of strategy and it has nothing to do with finding the correct position of choosing them in a graphic menu.)
- Second off it truly did baffle me that you attempted to do this run in one go, ( loved the editing in the end to show us, the audience how you must have felt for hours by then, it is indeed very hard, depressing, and unsatisfying.
Unfortunately It kept me wondering if you would have managed to do it if segmented it for multiple runs or keeping pauses to remove the blindfold between some missions ( have food breaks etc) Funny how much my soul wants you to succeed. ( also curiousity is at work how you mapped out the rest of the missions)
At any rate, hats off yet again amazing run, love to see it end with a success, despite the darkness overwhelming eventually. You are an absolute Hero! and I keep hoping you revisit this challenge... maybe just maybe... with some sanity safety measures included!
Cheers!
"my great vision left in ruins" ffs haha
That intro had me in stitches. xD Great job Grant!
I assumed this would be like any other blindfolded run, boy was I wrong.
Controlling a whole army and economy with no slight seems monumentally harder than a single character.
Wow. Even incomplete, this was amazing to watch. The editing on the final mission to show your perspective was gut wrenching. Bravo sir, bravo.
You may have failed the challenge, but you haven't failed us. In our hearts we are all proud of you
He didn't fail the challenge though. He beat the final mission. The fade to black was basically him displaying the anxieties he felt during the mission and feeling like a failure, but he ultimately completed it.
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Umm... Harbinger of Oblivion is not the final mission. He didn't finish the run (yet...?)
@@jacobskarda oh. Huh. It's been a long while since I played LoTV. You're right.
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Can't blame you lol. I could barely get through 1 playthrough of it. The mission design just... What happened? It makes more more sad than mad
What confuses me more is that Nova: Covert Ops has incredible missions, and it came out after LOTV
not gonna lie that blackcreens at the end i almost got depressed. playing this far with blind folded you did the impossible even tho you didnt finish it in my heart you already achieved the impossible that no even dared to try
You should use more clips directly from the stream. It's nice to tell us how anxious you are, but it'd be better to see and hear it.
He’s actually really calm during the stream. That’s the only way to do it; panicking just means you miss audio cues and fail harder
Dear god this run sounds like hell
You’re a braver man than I’ll ever be with Starcraft 2
Keep up the awesome work and great content
When your eyes are tired, but you still want to play
In watching in my phone in bed in pitch black, that ending changed the entire feel of the video giving a very small taste of what you managed to do. A+ on the editing man!
"You think you're good at Starcraft? Yeah, I could play that game blindfolded!"
-GiantGrantGames
Dude. Ive been playing Starcraft since the very first release. The fact that you did everything for this ans achieved so much. You are amazing. Take a break. You deserve it. Thank You so much for these vids.
sensory deprivation can be a form of torture so dont feel bad about letting it get to you. instead its impressive you got as far as you did despite having to fight your own brain
I love them opening skit and closing sequence. Both were well-done and gave me a laugh and a slight panic attack respectively.
Keep up the good work, GGG.
The dedication this man has to making quality content is amazing.
This is phenomenally impressive, kudos to you to make it even this far with something that by all means shouldn't be feasible
That beginning skit was pure gold.
This video was just amazing! and to show us the end and the stress everything by give us your PoV was genius! This is by far my fav video on your channel. and it makes you Human and real in a good way! Thanks for trustig us and give us you PoV. You are a legend!
The fact you even got that far is mindblowing
Giving some love to this under appreciated run and vid grant.
The next one is gonna be, "Can you play Starcraft 2 without playing Starcraft 2?"
You could probably actually do this in a roundabout way, by doing a “Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes” style of game where you tell another person commands and they perform the command, without you seeing the screen
@@genericalias6307 Imagine if he finds someone who has never played Starcraft before, and he has to talk them through beating the game...
...on Brutal.
@@genericalias6307 Bro, this is actually a very interesting challenge
@@scienceviking4490 or, how to destroy a relationship
There's a few workarounds:
One, you fail in the definition of play being to derive enjoyment from the game
Two: you have someone else beat it
It's really a shame that this video wasn't very successful, the writing and editing was top notch here and the run was really impressive.
F2 and A move, ah yes the casual experience of Protoss xD
Well the Protoss are blind because they cut their hair to be free from Amon's influence, so this is quite accurate lol
the end segment for Harbinger of Oblivion is a work of art, incredibly well done GGG
Blind eyes,shine bright.
-Zorl-Stissa.(Divinity Original Sin 2)
Damn this is amazing! I never could have gotten close to where you are.
Hey man, the content's great, but don't do something that is physically painful. I don't know if you do these missions consecutively or not, but take breaks if you need to. If it delays later episodes, so be it. You have to look out for yourself first. And if there is no part two, so be it, we all understand.
Don't let it break you buddy! You're doing great! And the content is absolute gold!
Intro skit was awesome, ending conveyed your feelings mastefully. And the middle was a joy to watch. Keep up the good work!
Idea for next challenge: play Starcraft 1 and 2 at the same time (if a mission fails in either one, you have to restart both missions).
Sc1 is a jank game in difficulty, some missions have prevalent potentially devastating attack waves and some don't have any attack waves whatsoever and you can often enough just go mass capital ships if you aren't zerg :P and just a click to victory
This is honestly on of the the best (if not the best) and the most dedicate starcraft II content i have ever seen. You're actually really talented in storytelling somehow. Great job man !
This is insane... You literally use BW to beat SC2 blindfolded. A thing of beauty
Congrats on how far you got! That was impressive! Also, blinding us for the last mission was genius and super well done.
Next video:
"Can you beat Starcraft 2: Legacy of the Void without losing a unit, blindfolded?"
no
no
Incredible video! Reminds me when I was playing Co-op and my GPU messed up. The game on screen was totally frozen, but I could still hear sound cues for when I was battling. Spamming F2 and A Moving everywhere, I watched the replay. By the end of the game I was at the bottom right hand corner of the train map and my ally left saying "WTF???" :D
the absolute madman.
You did a great job going that far into campaign blindfolded. And Evangelion reference at the end is hilarious!
Who else is here rewatching after it being mentioned in mindhawks challenege gauntlet?
Me brother
This is absolutely crazy good that you did this! Dont feel bad about setting this challenge aside for now. Some day you might want to attempt it again, or maybe you never want to see it again. Either way this is still an accomplishment to brag about, and an entertaining video to boot!
Honestly? I'm counting this one as a win. Doing it all in a single sitting, with no breaks, was never specified in the challenge. So long as you are blindfolded the entire time you are playing, it counts. And i am reasonably confident you had consistent routing for the final missions. That and your still great APM.
Grant, these are some of my favorite videos that exist. You do such cool challenges and then an incredible job editing and especially narrating them. Really brilliant.
There are race-swapped mission that made by players such as protoss version of wol, terrran version of hots. Try make a no-death run out of those mission !
I quite like that idea, hope I'm not alone
The last part of this video is incredibly anxiety inducing jesus christ LOL. Well done
This just makes me feel bad about myself, you're better at the game than me blindfolded 😂
It was just... awesome. I really enjoyed this video, and the last part (black screen) is just, in my opinion, so much powerfull. English is not my native langage so it's really hard to translate what I mean, but that last part, with your doubts and all, really it... resonate with me. So just, thank you for this and I look forward to see your next videos.
At every point of this challenge I expected him to give up, because playing a RTS blindfolded is pure insanity.
Youre the most close to a roll model in SC2 mastery I can have. Amazing video Grant, I wouldnt have believe it if I didnt saw it myself
The opening skits was gold
Jeez, that was intense, I do not blame you for stopping there. Great work on this, your prep work was amazing! Thank you for the video.
Plot Twist: In the time every Mission is done, John ranks all the way up to Hierarch and names himself ,,Artanis".
That's pretty damn amazing. I look forward to your blindfolded no-casualties first place challenge run of GSL.
I love how you keep escalating these challenges. Next you'll tell us you just finished SC2 on Brutal, blindfolded, with only basic tier 1 units, with your feet.
Dont give him ideas!
AND with 0 losses
I know you had been hyping this run for a while, and it is very impressive! I appreciate how much effort went into this project!
Any plan to continue Deathless Wc3 run? :/
I've watched all your other wc3 and sc challenge runs and they are damn impressive but this one takes the cake. Damn, the dedication to be able to do this in a RTS game is mind blowing.
OH god how did you even passed a mission with this?? And how you even managed to do eco? Well, i have something to watch.
For one, Blizz was very generous with their unit pathing code in SC2, the exact opposite of SCBW where your units were drunk morons that would happily jump off the map had it been possible. QoL came a long way since 1998.
@@NightKev Yeah,yeah, blizzard made all this look supa dupa easy, blah, balh. Then I trying to pass through campaign on Casual difficulty with both eyes, both hands and can't get through Shakuras defend mission. You still need fast reaction and reflexes. My army dies after 2 seconds of attack move, pathfind helps nothing at all in it (not saying it's not great, it definitely is)
@@mapron1 For the Shakuras defense mission, just send your Dark Templar to destroy the three keystones. The enemy doesn't have any detectors, so they should have no trouble.
For the rest of the mission, get 8-10 probes mining minerals, then build photon cannons. Once you've done that, build more photon cannons, and after that, build more photon cannons. If you cover every bit of open space with cannons, you should be fine.
@@scienceviking4490 Thanks for details, really, but I'm not going to return to SC2 in the near future (I last played more that 2 years ago), so, even I try hard to remember your advice I'd probably forget it. I did watch walk-throughs ofc, when I failed campaign ( - any - and I did that for orig SC1 ofc), did not remember any of "Whoa! I should try THAT instead!" moments. I suppose I can do something wrong but hope not completely miss major choices (like static defense, unit match-ups, etc)
Holy crap, that was amazing! I fevered with you and my heart was beating fast on the last bit of your run. Thanks a lot for sharing and making a video out of this 💗😊