@@lemonyboop2033 Ah, he lived too far away for cookies to make it. Also he disappeared right around the time I got his address and before I sent anything, so I wasn't sure if he was still there so all in all, no he did not. But I swear if he reappears the cookies are his! I make a mean chocolate chip butterscotch cookie.
Girl in the Tower blasting as Alexander just strolls off into the sky feels so triumphant, like the end to a film where Superman flies away after saving Metropolis.
Wow, one of the best speedrun videos I've ever seen. The interviews make it so much better than just narrating everything yourself. I know how much effort that must have taken, since I chose to use only narration from the speedruners themselves for my Barrier Skip video.
I think this is one of the best "niche hobby" documentaries I've ever seen, speedrunning or not. Extraordinarily well editted, directed, and told. Amazing interviews, great job telling a cohesive story that was easy to understand as someone who has never played any KQ games, yet still made me care about each runner's achievements (both within the game and outside of it) and each of the game's milestones. Absolutely masterful work. You and the KQ6 community should feel very proud of what you've done.
I hope you'll take the time to look up KQVI and maybe some of the others too. _King's Quest VI_ is really a beautiful game and was (and still is) one of my all-time favorites. I recommend finding a playthrough that isn't zooming through everything and really enjoy it. :)
Agreed-- I'm coming to it from the opposite angle, where KQVI is one of my favorite games of all time, but I never watch or pay attention to speedrunning. This documentary is so amazing. It made me care. :)
i do hope that wherever UrQuan is, that they are doing alright, its really incredible how someone can enter a community, flip it on its head, and change lives before vanishing just as quickly as they appeared
@@ProphetSD13 Said, the guy crying about language policing, while policing language himself. The irony, will be lost on his oversensitive pea sized brain.
OneShortEye has done it again. Not only is this man an extremely skilled, top-level speedrunner... he's also a master of of piecing together, editing, and sharing the world of speedrunning's greatest untold stories. A must-see documentary for fans of speedrunning, Sierra games, point-and-clicks, and retro gaming in general. Brilliant work as always my friend. Thank you for including me! Edit: hope you all enjoy my spazzy sub-18 freakout KEKW
44:48 - It's interesting that this is before "Let's GOOOOOOO!" became the default celebration when getting a new world record. It's like something is missing 😂
35:42 "It makes shaving off that second that much sweeter 'cause you know you're beating not just some other some other person, you're beating the best." Very nice
I'm just imagining Alexander power-sliding past the gnomes while reading the boring book, closing it and being like "Well that sure was boring . . . Woah, how'd I get to the forest?"
48:40 There are no words to describe how beautiful this is. Just the way he walks towards the forest and then ascends into the air combined with the song, it's just amazing.
I found this channel while looking for Sierra videos, and I can not stop binging this. The editing is fantastic... how you took the maze scene and broke individual parts into animated items on screen just for that few seconds.. wow. True dedication. WELL DESERVED subscription from me!!
Extraordinarily well made and does an excellent job of exploring the individual stories of the different runners (and gnome anthropologists!) to really effectively showcase the passion and love we all have for this great game. I can't reccomend this video enough! I also already can't wait for the next one! 😅
i like this recent trend of all these niche speedrunning communities doing these WR histories of their own games that they're really passionate about. there's something so special about all the people coming together to document their small part in it and just archiving it for the sake of it. i especially loved how this one doesn't have a singular narrator, everyone just kinda chirps in for their story, great job
Something I love about speedrunning is one that I also love about golf. Everyone is competing against each other, but... not really. They are really competing against the course. Or in this case, the game. And the field is always thrilled when one of their fellow players shatters the course record with a new low score, or a new WR time in a run.
The King's Quest series meant a lot to me growing up. The first time I played KQ3, I didn't even know the K in "knife" is silent. I sat with a Swedish-English dictionary and looked up words as I went along. I learned English to try to survive these games, and it fostered a lifelong love of studying languages. When I finally got my very own computer, KQ6 was the first PC game I ever owned. All that aside, this was such a great video. Your script is amazing, the interviews were great, and you pulled it all together fantastically. You rock, and you really painted this community as a bunch of loveable human beings. Keep up the good work! :)
Has anyone showed this to Roberta Williams or Jane Jenson? If the passion and community shown here can touch those of us who've never played these games? Even if we never attempted a single speedrun in our lives? Then I can only imagine what it would be like for a creator to know that the love of her work still brings so many people together, decades later. Even in the wilds of the internet.
I don't know about King's Quest, but I know that he has a video called... uh, something about a hero, can't remember the name, but the creators of the game watched one of the speedruns and spoke to the main runner.
I'm not into speed running but damn, this small documentary was really well made. KQ6 was one of the first sierra game i played and seeing it again brings me back. Thanks for the feels. Great work!
I'm guessing one of your videos came up on my suggested videos because I watch Summoning Salt so often. or maybe because I love anything KQ related. I'm SO GLAD that happened. I'm in the process of binging all your videos, and wow. I can't overstate the quality and enjoyment here I can feel the passion you have for this subject matter, and it's just as warm and inviting as it is exciting. thank you and everyone else in the community!!
This video is as good as The Quest to Beat Matt Turk, which I honestly consider the best speedrunning video ever made. Unreal amounts of effort and love put into this. I've barely ever cared for this series or looked into it, but damn if I'm not interested now.
This whole documentary is just brimming with good feelings. So happy to watch the amazing journey of all these runners. All the contributions from the runners added so much and were wonderfully done. Very excited to see where this goes next!
Just finished watching this video and let me tell you, this level of quality is something I expect from 100k+ subscribers channels, you are THE most underrated youtuber out there, I hope your channel gains the recognition it deserves
I know it's faster, but seeing how quickly Girl in the Tower was replaced with other methods for Gnome Skip is a little sad lol. There's nothing quite like breaking a game through the use of a 90s power ballad
You're too kind! I was lucky enough to meet my second/current husband on Twitch and at AGDQ. He runs Majora'a Mask. Speedrunning is best hobby for dating, clearly Kappa
I remember getting this game when it was brand new and playing it on my dad's 486. I was 10 years old and it was the most amazing game I had played up until that point. I installed it on my best friend's computer and we would play it while on the phone and talk about it. Since he didn't have the CD, he didn't have the recorded audio like I did but man, what great memories.
This was, by far, my favorite King's Quest game. We didn't have the CD either, but even with only the PC speaker sound, I loved the soundtrack. Somehow, everything about this game was just magical.
Y'all keep gushing about each other, it seems like such a pleasant non toxic community. Especially Jaki's obvious passion and ongoing excitement about getting other runners into the game, when she could presumably have had this as her own little domain if that was her preference
I was so disappointed I came in on the very end of this live streamed, but what an amazing job you did! I love me some SummoningSalt, but this takes his speedrunning history videos to the next level! Amazing interviews, the right level of technicality to be interesting but not lose the viewer... This is a masterpiece!
Amazing video ! Very compelling story, thanks. I won't lie, it's refreshing to see a women in speedrunning ! I'm definitely not an expert, but most (all ?) of the vids I see on the subject feature exclusively men...
Yeah, it's a very heavily male dominated hobby, but I do see more women speedrunners every year! 7 years ago it was only a small handful per big community, now I'd say its up to 10-15% or so. We're out there.
I love watching these history videos of games I never heard of or played and you conveyed these runners passion for the game so well that I felt like I grew up playing the game
Sir, I would like say that after less than 48 hours of finding your profile, I have watched all of your videos and found a passion to seek more of Sierra games speedrunning content. Incredibly well directed. Thank you for documenting the speedrunning progression and in general reminding of the good old games
That's extremely kind of you. I'm glad you're enjoying it! You also may enjoy LucasArts speedrunning if you're into that era of games. Check out FrozenSpade, thewoofs, leolitz, aWay0fLife to name a few. Runners will also post when they go live on the SpeedyAdventures discord: discordapp.com/invite/kWCfAPu
Had this video in my backlog for a while. Finally got around to watching it - loved the video, and I loved how much I fell in love with the community. Thanks for making it!
I love the vibes of this video! It makes me feel so proud of all the runners and their excitement really rubbed off on me :D I also love how much passion jaki has for the game and the community it made me smile every time
You’re really good at directing and editing these videos man. I just watched two of these speedrun history videos one being 30 min and this one being 59 min and time just flew by! That’s talent bro! You should definitely continue doing this and I think if you’ll pursue it you can one day direct and edit a mainstream documentary and make it really big.
This video is really awesome and the speedrunning community for Kings Quest VI seems really cool with a nice friendly competitiveness! I didn't know there were speedruns for adventure games! This sparked my interested in checking in some runs out, great stuff :)
9:02 I remember as a kid watching my mother find an easter egg on the first screen on the mountain. If you keep failing at the first few jumps repeatedly Arthur will yell something like, "Ouch! Quit making me fall!"
This just like epitomizes what is so awesome about the speedrunning community - everybody cheering on everybody else, everybody working together to workout new strats & tearing the game down to its foundational mechanical components, specifically to spread the knowledge of how the game's systems work for the express purpose of bettering the whole community's times. It does my filthy pinko heart good to see it lol
This was a great video. SummoningSalt introduced me to speedrunning vidoes, but it's so interesting to see everyone's perspective on them. Thanks for posting here and on reddit.
What a great community, what a great group, what a great video documenting it all. And what a great song _Girl In The Tower_ is, I definitely would have called my participating local radio station to request it prior to February 1, 1993
Just finished watching this and checked the boards only to realize two new runners have taken 1st and 2nd place since then, so I guess the community is still growing.
I greatly appreciate these documentaries and their explanations of the glitches and strats. And love to see prominent woman runners! You're doing a great job documenting the hobby you love for the sake of history and no doubt attracting new prospective runners.
Loved the interviews. Was so well done to focus on the game at first and then transition to the community and how they competed and progressed. "Girl in the tower" gnome skip had me crying, seems like such a meme edit but was legit!
Abdul Alhazred... Abdul... OH! It's an HP Lovecraft reference! I knew I heard that name somewhere before! (Abdul Alhazred, aka "the Mad Arab" in the Cthulhu Mythos is the apparent author of the Necronomicon)
This video is brilliant. What a wonderful community and I’m kicking myself that I’m only just discovering your channel. I was honestly on the edge of my seat with every new discovery regarding game strats 👀 I laughed, I cried-it changed my life. Thank you for sharing such a wicked cool story! 🌻✨
OneShortEye, great set of videos here! I never knew that speedrunning classic adventure games was even a thing until I discovered your channel. As someone who's more of a fan of point-and-click adventure games and CRPGs than fast-twitch console games, this is right up my alley. Keep up the good work!
One of my favorite games of all time! The Win 3.2 version blew me away. The richness of the story was fantastic. The little guidebook to the Green Isles added so much immersion! I would use the book for designing my own fantasy lore in table-top RPG games.
I know this is two years old, but I was feeling nostalgic and was watching videos about old games that I used to play. I thought I had forgotten everything about this game. Almost nothing looked familiar. UNTIL 'Girl in the tower' started playing, and I started singing along with the chorus without thinking about it at all. I don't ever remember listening to that song, but it's apparently been living rent free in my head for years. I must have sung along to it back in the day, because just the act of singing it felt familiar. Just crazy.
Such a cool video. I'd love to see a new one about all the stuff that's been discovered in the years since... considering the record is now 10:24, which is three minutes shorter than it is at the end of the video. In any case, very cool video, very well done, super interesting stuff!
While I'm not a speedrunner myself, I find them fascinating. This is such a great documentary of the history and methods used in this game. It's really heartwarming to see a tight-knit community working together to push the time as low as possible. =) I look forward to watching the rest of your videos!
I have no video, but this article about the series has a little history (Scroll down to the KQVI section): www.polygon.com/2015/7/28/9023667/kings-quest-history Essentially, Sierra wanted the game to feel more "movie-like," and this was their version of the song at the end of a movie. Like this video points out, they sent copies of the song to a bunch of radio stations, and encouraged people who bought to game to call in and request it. Sierra stopped this a year later when the CD version came out.
That was such a good video! I watched the original stream recording wr progression like half a year ago, so I was kinda confused when this popped up in my inbox, but it was so worth it to watch it ^^ All the interviews with the people are great and it gives it that really high-quality documentary vibe, everyone involved seemed super fun and sweet and also the editing is great!
I have been watching speed run videos since late 2019, and have only just discovered your channel. Opened up a brand new world to me. Probably my favorite speed run videos on this platform.
What an incredibly well done video. Must have been a crazy amount of work that was put into this. Also: Interesting how you guys handled 'dosbox' settings and emulation cycles. I'm also speedrunning a dos game called Warlords 2, and we decided that it's somewhat unfair that a person that can afford a faster computer is able to get a better time. Hence, we introduced a main category that limits DosBox to 50.000 CPU cycles. One can still run for MAX cycles, but that isn't the 'main' default category.
Emulation setup for these old games is really tricky. I think it comes down to how each particular game handles the amount of cycles, plus what the community agrees on. The Quest for Glory runners keep their games locked at 10K cycles, which seems to work for them. In the case of KQVI, max cycles with core=dynamic is the fairest we've found and results in the least amount of variation. Unfortunately, as some of us have gotten newer computers, we're starting to see WWAMs again on the cliffs. It's not nearly as bad as running UrQuan's ScummVM unthrottled, but you might get 1-4 wobbles on a given run. On the other hand, the zips are ever-so-slightly faster. I wish there were a good way to sort this out, but, as with most older PC games, it comes down to compromise. Setting the cycles to 50K, for example, is really slow and no one in the community wants to play it that way. Setting it to something higher but still not max, like 150K, results in sound errors, and the game doesn't run. Also bear in mind that cycles are not equivalent to a specific CPU clock speed, and 50K cycles on one machine may be faster than 50K cycles on another machine. (This also might depend on the game being run.) Ultimately, DOSBox is affected by your hardware in ways that are often inscrutable, and everyone's machine is going to run the game slightly differently (though in our case, the variation isn't enormous). We can either live with that or... just not run the game, and no one wants that.
@@OneShortEye Thanks for the elaborate answer! I agree that the decision definitely depends on the game. Anyways, DOSBOX and emulation in general are a difficult topic to address in speedrunning.
@@OneShortEye Would a ScummVM with a configurable speed throttle be useful? If the main issue with ScummVM is that it isn't consistent unthrottled, then that could be patched & upstreamed, ensuring it'll be available in the future.
This was a really well made mini-documentary I enjoyed watching this greatly and you've definitely got me interested in point-and-click speedrun games.
This is probably my favorite game of all time. I didn't think there was more to discover than I already had. This is amazing. Also glad to know why I got that glitch on the cliffs when replaying awhile back!
My favorite game tends to change a lot, but KQVI is definitely my favorite King's Quest. I'm so glad we were about to learn so much about it. Makes me appreciate the game even more.
Truly excellent work on this. It's pleasing to see the RUclips algorithm boost the Kings Quest III video into wider circulation, I for one wouldn't have seen this video otherwise. And given the sudden upcropping of other new comments, I can only hope that residual momentum gives the rest of these videos an equal amount of love.
He doesn't speedrun, no. As a ScummVM dev, though, he's fixed hundreds of bugs in Sierra SCI games and has a very deep knowledge of the code. So we benefit greatly from having in the community. But we also help him in diagnosing thing and tripping over bugs. For instance, we inadvertently helped him diagnose this rare and nasty bug that would softlock SCI games if a character started speaking exactly when the game's internal clock rollover happened (every 18 minutes and 12 seconds). github.com/scummvm/scummvm/commit/e2fc630fc4136fa378ed8cfb4a28af22dbe59a46
Ah so happy to see this! Super well done, Shorty. It's so freaky to think I've done something that's worth a mini documentary about.
I love the energy and excitement you have for everything! :D
@@MartinGiadrosich Yeah, she's a ray of sunshine for real
Did you send him the cookies? 😊
@@lemonyboop2033 Ah, he lived too far away for cookies to make it. Also he disappeared right around the time I got his address and before I sent anything, so I wasn't sure if he was still there so all in all, no he did not. But I swear if he reappears the cookies are his! I make a mean chocolate chip butterscotch cookie.
@@jakijo2026 Dude, I want you to know, I just think you're awesome.
Girl in the Tower blasting as Alexander just strolls off into the sky feels so triumphant, like the end to a film where Superman flies away after saving Metropolis.
Only superman hasn't saved metropolis and just flies away.
@@CyranofromBergerac Superman: "My work here is done,"
Metropolis: "But you didn't do anything,"
Superman: *flies away*
I wish that was the faster strat.
Wow, one of the best speedrun videos I've ever seen. The interviews make it so much better than just narrating everything yourself. I know how much effort that must have taken, since I chose to use only narration from the speedruners themselves for my Barrier Skip video.
Those are exceedingly kind words. Thank you!
Dude, I love all the interview footage! It's cool hearing about the history of the run from the perspectives of the runners themselves!
I think this is one of the best "niche hobby" documentaries I've ever seen, speedrunning or not. Extraordinarily well editted, directed, and told. Amazing interviews, great job telling a cohesive story that was easy to understand as someone who has never played any KQ games, yet still made me care about each runner's achievements (both within the game and outside of it) and each of the game's milestones.
Absolutely masterful work. You and the KQ6 community should feel very proud of what you've done.
I hope you'll take the time to look up KQVI and maybe some of the others too. _King's Quest VI_ is really a beautiful game and was (and still is) one of my all-time favorites. I recommend finding a playthrough that isn't zooming through everything and really enjoy it. :)
Well said. I've never played any of the KQ games and was still able to understand what was going on with no problems at all. Awesome stuff!
Agreed-- I'm coming to it from the opposite angle, where KQVI is one of my favorite games of all time, but I never watch or pay attention to speedrunning. This documentary is so amazing. It made me care. :)
A compilation of Sluicebox's many amazing titles:
ScummVM, SCI Engine Team
Tile Puzzle Enthusiast
Gnome Anthropologist
SCI Turning Expert
Catacombs Master
i do hope that wherever UrQuan is, that they are doing alright, its really incredible how someone can enter a community, flip it on its head, and change lives before vanishing just as quickly as they appeared
"They" virtue signal harder...
@@ProphetSD13 ok
@@ProphetSD13 lol what
are u ok
@@ProphetSD13 Said, the guy crying about language policing, while policing language himself. The irony, will be lost on his oversensitive pea sized brain.
Obliterated record
Takes out entire minute barrier
Refuses to elaborate
Leaves
GIRL IN THE TOWER IS SPEED TECH, LETS GO
edit: god damn it
Your username is like a narration of me trying to get a full night's sleep.
@@GenericInternetter have you been tested for diabetes?
OneShortEye has done it again. Not only is this man an extremely skilled, top-level speedrunner... he's also a master of of piecing together, editing, and sharing the world of speedrunning's greatest untold stories. A must-see documentary for fans of speedrunning, Sierra games, point-and-clicks, and retro gaming in general. Brilliant work as always my friend. Thank you for including me!
Edit: hope you all enjoy my spazzy sub-18 freakout KEKW
why do you torture yourself
@@jakijo2026 why do I tortu-- I KNOW! I said the same thing before I started the stream!
Yes, he does do these videos so we'll. It isn't perfect, but great to listen to. I also always enjoy watching your KQ, SQ and Laura Bow runs.
44:48 - It's interesting that this is before "Let's GOOOOOOO!" became the default celebration when getting a new world record. It's like something is missing 😂
Dude the added in interviews makes me feel like I was actually there, like a member of the community. What a wholesome video
35:42 "It makes shaving off that second that much sweeter 'cause you know you're beating not just some other some other person, you're beating the best."
Very nice
The Gnome Skip has got to be the funniest thing I've seen in a while, literally cried of laughter when I first saw it.
I'm just imagining Alexander power-sliding past the gnomes while reading the boring book, closing it and being like "Well that sure was boring . . . Woah, how'd I get to the forest?"
48:40 There are no words to describe how beautiful this is. Just the way he walks towards the forest and then ascends into the air combined with the song, it's just amazing.
I found this channel while looking for Sierra videos, and I can not stop binging this. The editing is fantastic... how you took the maze scene and broke individual parts into animated items on screen just for that few seconds.. wow. True dedication. WELL DESERVED subscription from me!!
20:00 figures that expanded memory was the problem - it was always a pain when DOS games wanted to use it!
ahh horrible memories are coming back to me trying to rig that shit to work!
LOL I remember we needed a boot disk to enable expanded memory if I wanted to play Wing Commander 2 with the speech pack back in the day.
@@mark6302 horrible memory memories
EMS still causing problems after all these years.
48:40 Something about Alexander majestically walking away while ‘Girl in the Tower’ plays always cracks me up. 😂😂😂
Extraordinarily well made and does an excellent job of exploring the individual stories of the different runners (and gnome anthropologists!) to really effectively showcase the passion and love we all have for this great game.
I can't reccomend this video enough! I also already can't wait for the next one! 😅
The extraordinary runners in this story made it easy. :)
Shamir loving mint so much he doesn't even care you're not supposed to have that item and takes it anyway is just so fitting.
Oh wow, that's alot of convention badges. Jackie is really a beacon of the community.
Right? holy crap lol
i like this recent trend of all these niche speedrunning communities doing these WR histories of their own games that they're really passionate about. there's something so special about all the people coming together to document their small part in it and just archiving it for the sake of it. i especially loved how this one doesn't have a singular narrator, everyone just kinda chirps in for their story, great job
Something I love about speedrunning is one that I also love about golf. Everyone is competing against each other, but... not really. They are really competing against the course. Or in this case, the game. And the field is always thrilled when one of their fellow players shatters the course record with a new low score, or a new WR time in a run.
The King's Quest series meant a lot to me growing up. The first time I played KQ3, I didn't even know the K in "knife" is silent. I sat with a Swedish-English dictionary and looked up words as I went along. I learned English to try to survive these games, and it fostered a lifelong love of studying languages. When I finally got my very own computer, KQ6 was the first PC game I ever owned.
All that aside, this was such a great video. Your script is amazing, the interviews were great, and you pulled it all together fantastically. You rock, and you really painted this community as a bunch of loveable human beings. Keep up the good work! :)
I love how Jaki bounces back after failing on the final input.
Has anyone showed this to Roberta Williams or Jane Jenson?
If the passion and community shown here can touch those of us who've never played these games? Even if we never attempted a single speedrun in our lives? Then I can only imagine what it would be like for a creator to know that the love of her work still brings so many people together, decades later.
Even in the wilds of the internet.
I don't know about King's Quest, but I know that he has a video called... uh, something about a hero, can't remember the name, but the creators of the game watched one of the speedruns and spoke to the main runner.
Players: [doing entire runs of King's Quest games without saving]
Roberta: [heavy breathing]
@@silas8772 That was Quest For Glory, BTW.
I'm not into speed running but damn, this small documentary was really well made. KQ6 was one of the first sierra game i played and seeing it again brings me back. Thanks for the feels. Great work!
I'm guessing one of your videos came up on my suggested videos because I watch Summoning Salt so often. or maybe because I love anything KQ related. I'm SO GLAD that happened. I'm in the process of binging all your videos, and wow. I can't overstate the quality and enjoyment here I can feel the passion you have for this subject matter, and it's just as warm and inviting as it is exciting. thank you and everyone else in the community!!
This video is as good as The Quest to Beat Matt Turk, which I honestly consider the best speedrunning video ever made. Unreal amounts of effort and love put into this. I've barely ever cared for this series or looked into it, but damn if I'm not interested now.
Multiple marriages failed while pursuing this dream and its just a footnote.
Modern women
@@austin33785you realize that in one of them, the woman was the speedrunner in question, right?
@ultimateninjaboi yeah, look at statistics, though.
There's something incredibly wholesome about seeing everyone's stream chat during all of the big runs. Love the videos keep up the great work!
More than anything, what I love is just how positive and friendly everyone is. The passion is infectious.
Nice, commenting for the algorithm
Same
This whole documentary is just brimming with good feelings. So happy to watch the amazing journey of all these runners. All the contributions from the runners added so much and were wonderfully done. Very excited to see where this goes next!
Just finished watching this video and let me tell you, this level of quality is something I expect from 100k+ subscribers channels, you are THE most underrated youtuber out there, I hope your channel gains the recognition it deserves
That's extremely kind of you. I'm just glad that you enjoyed it. :)
Theres something just so cool to me about seeing women speedrun games, its so rare to see them do it, always a treat.
I know it's faster, but seeing how quickly Girl in the Tower was replaced with other methods for Gnome Skip is a little sad lol. There's nothing quite like breaking a game through the use of a 90s power ballad
I wholeheartedly agree. It was a magical few days when Alex flew into the sky with Girl in the Tower to pump him up.
How can u get a divorce from Jaki? Dude must be crazy! What an awesome person she is!
You're too kind! I was lucky enough to meet my second/current husband on Twitch and at AGDQ. He runs Majora'a Mask. Speedrunning is best hobby for dating, clearly Kappa
Don’t become a speedrunner, you’ll get divorced.
The kind of people that do speedruns are just the kind of people that get left 🙃
What a great story of Community coming together.
I remember getting this game when it was brand new and playing it on my dad's 486. I was 10 years old and it was the most amazing game I had played up until that point. I installed it on my best friend's computer and we would play it while on the phone and talk about it. Since he didn't have the CD, he didn't have the recorded audio like I did but man, what great memories.
This was, by far, my favorite King's Quest game. We didn't have the CD either, but even with only the PC speaker sound, I loved the soundtrack. Somehow, everything about this game was just magical.
I'm calling my local radio stations immediately.
Ken Williams thanks you.
@@OneShortEye lol, I love Ken and Roberta. They made great games and weren't afraid to promote their product.
Hurry! It’s almost January 31, 1993!
Y'all keep gushing about each other, it seems like such a pleasant non toxic community. Especially Jaki's obvious passion and ongoing excitement about getting other runners into the game, when she could presumably have had this as her own little domain if that was her preference
I was so disappointed I came in on the very end of this live streamed, but what an amazing job you did! I love me some SummoningSalt, but this takes his speedrunning history videos to the next level! Amazing interviews, the right level of technicality to be interesting but not lose the viewer... This is a masterpiece!
Amazing video ! Very compelling story, thanks. I won't lie, it's refreshing to see a women in speedrunning ! I'm definitely not an expert, but most (all ?) of the vids I see on the subject feature exclusively men...
Yeah, it's a very heavily male dominated hobby, but I do see more women speedrunners every year! 7 years ago it was only a small handful per big community, now I'd say its up to 10-15% or so. We're out there.
This feels like a summoning salt video but with higher energy, I've been binging your content for hours.
This has to be, hands down, the best speed run history ever. Such a wonderful game and community!
Why do Sierra games always have runners called things like TopKekShrek or xX420BlazeItXx? lol
I love watching these history videos of games I never heard of or played and you conveyed these runners passion for the game so well that I felt like I grew up playing the game
Sir, I would like say that after less than 48 hours of finding your profile, I have watched all of your videos and found a passion to seek more of Sierra games speedrunning content. Incredibly well directed. Thank you for documenting the speedrunning progression and in general reminding of the good old games
That's extremely kind of you. I'm glad you're enjoying it! You also may enjoy LucasArts speedrunning if you're into that era of games. Check out FrozenSpade, thewoofs, leolitz, aWay0fLife to name a few. Runners will also post when they go live on the SpeedyAdventures discord: discordapp.com/invite/kWCfAPu
Had this video in my backlog for a while. Finally got around to watching it - loved the video, and I loved how much I fell in love with the community. Thanks for making it!
The runner interviews are amazing.
This is really well produced and deserves many times more views
do Peasant's Quest Speedrun History
Honestly dude this is probably the best speedrunning video i've ever watched
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love the vibes of this video! It makes me feel so proud of all the runners and their excitement really rubbed off on me :D
I also love how much passion jaki has for the game and the community it made me smile every time
You’re really good at directing and editing these videos man. I just watched two of these speedrun history videos one being 30 min and this one being 59 min and time just flew by! That’s talent bro! You should definitely continue doing this and I think if you’ll pursue it you can one day direct and edit a mainstream documentary and make it really big.
Girl in the Tower may not be the optimal gnome skip, but it's the winner of my heart.
This video is really awesome and the speedrunning community for Kings Quest VI seems really cool with a nice friendly competitiveness! I didn't know there were speedruns for adventure games! This sparked my interested in checking in some runs out, great stuff :)
9:02 I remember as a kid watching my mother find an easter egg on the first screen on the mountain. If you keep failing at the first few jumps repeatedly Arthur will yell something like, "Ouch! Quit making me fall!"
This just like epitomizes what is so awesome about the speedrunning community - everybody cheering on everybody else, everybody working together to workout new strats & tearing the game down to its foundational mechanical components, specifically to spread the knowledge of how the game's systems work for the express purpose of bettering the whole community's times.
It does my filthy pinko heart good to see it lol
This was a great video. SummoningSalt introduced me to speedrunning vidoes, but it's so interesting to see everyone's perspective on them. Thanks for posting here and on reddit.
The runner interviews really add a lot of heart to the doc. I felt so much more emotionally invested hearing the runner's perspectives and feelings
this run is now 4 seconds long and Shrek thinks a sub 2 is possible.
pffttt you mean sub 1, sub 2 is so 2021
So how long until sub 0?
sluicebox, Master of Titles
He's earned every one of them.
This was fascinating. Sluicebox getting his title changed every time he showed up was my personal highlight.
What a great community, what a great group, what a great video documenting it all. And what a great song _Girl In The Tower_ is, I definitely would have called my participating local radio station to request it prior to February 1, 1993
What an amazing little community btw when runners stop by and encourage eachother in eachother's streams. Fantastic.
never played or watched a kings quest game growing up, but i’ve loved going through these 3 history videos. thanks for the great work :)
Glad you enjoyed them! I appreciate the kind words.
Just finished watching this and checked the boards only to realize two new runners have taken 1st and 2nd place since then, so I guess the community is still growing.
One route: go to the underworld and defeat Death
The other route: dress up as a girl
If any video ever deserves a thumbs up and sub, this is it. Thanks for the video. Think everyone just collectively fell in love with JakiJo lol
I greatly appreciate these documentaries and their explanations of the glitches and strats. And love to see prominent woman runners! You're doing a great job documenting the hobby you love for the sake of history and no doubt attracting new prospective runners.
Loved the interviews. Was so well done to focus on the game at first and then transition to the community and how they competed and progressed. "Girl in the tower" gnome skip had me crying, seems like such a meme edit but was legit!
Couldn't help but notice one very important song missing from your music credits at the end~
Yeah I too was wondering where the Archaeologist Song from dagger of amon ra was, good point.
This is good content. Such a wholesome story, love the fact that it doesn't focus on one top runner at a time.
Abdul Alhazred... Abdul... OH! It's an HP Lovecraft reference! I knew I heard that name somewhere before! (Abdul Alhazred, aka "the Mad Arab" in the Cthulhu Mythos is the apparent author of the Necronomicon)
Always look forward to these
This video is brilliant. What a wonderful community and I’m kicking myself that I’m only just discovering your channel. I was honestly on the edge of my seat with every new discovery regarding game strats 👀 I laughed, I cried-it changed my life. Thank you for sharing such a wicked cool story! 🌻✨
This video narration and production was phenomenal! Thank you for putting this together. It was a fascinating story.
OneShortEye, great set of videos here! I never knew that speedrunning classic adventure games was even a thing until I discovered your channel. As someone who's more of a fan of point-and-click adventure games and CRPGs than fast-twitch console games, this is right up my alley. Keep up the good work!
never play those game probaly never will but boii you are a wholesome bunch jaiko and shrek look like so much fun to be aroud
This whole video's good fun, but I hafta say that 48:30 is the peak of comedy as an initial demonstration of the gnome-skip.
One of my favorite games of all time! The Win 3.2 version blew me away. The richness of the story was fantastic. The little guidebook to the Green Isles added so much immersion! I would use the book for designing my own fantasy lore in table-top RPG games.
I know this is two years old, but I was feeling nostalgic and was watching videos about old games that I used to play. I thought I had forgotten everything about this game. Almost nothing looked familiar. UNTIL 'Girl in the tower' started playing, and I started singing along with the chorus without thinking about it at all. I don't ever remember listening to that song, but it's apparently been living rent free in my head for years. I must have sung along to it back in the day, because just the act of singing it felt familiar. Just crazy.
2:10 I was not expecting an H.P. Lovecraft reference. Abdul Alhazred "The Mad Arab" is the man who wrote the Necronomicon.
Yes! Neat reference from Jane Jansen (writer). At least, I'm assuming it was her decision.
5:55 *OMGoodness*
This was quite wonderful, thank you :)
Such a cool video. I'd love to see a new one about all the stuff that's been discovered in the years since... considering the record is now 10:24, which is three minutes shorter than it is at the end of the video. In any case, very cool video, very well done, super interesting stuff!
While I'm not a speedrunner myself, I find them fascinating. This is such a great documentary of the history and methods used in this game. It's really heartwarming to see a tight-knit community working together to push the time as low as possible. =) I look forward to watching the rest of your videos!
Fantastic video! I will be honest though, this has wet my appetite for a video about that song. What the hell is with that song?
I have no video, but this article about the series has a little history (Scroll down to the KQVI section): www.polygon.com/2015/7/28/9023667/kings-quest-history
Essentially, Sierra wanted the game to feel more "movie-like," and this was their version of the song at the end of a movie. Like this video points out, they sent copies of the song to a bunch of radio stations, and encouraged people who bought to game to call in and request it.
Sierra stopped this a year later when the CD version came out.
That was such a good video! I watched the original stream recording wr progression like half a year ago, so I was kinda confused when this popped up in my inbox, but it was so worth it to watch it ^^ All the interviews with the people are great and it gives it that really high-quality documentary vibe, everyone involved seemed super fun and sweet and also the editing is great!
I have been watching speed run videos since late 2019, and have only just discovered your channel. Opened up a brand new world to me. Probably my favorite speed run videos on this platform.
What an incredibly well done video. Must have been a crazy amount of work that was put into this.
Also: Interesting how you guys handled 'dosbox' settings and emulation cycles.
I'm also speedrunning a dos game called Warlords 2, and we decided that it's somewhat unfair that a person that can afford a faster computer is able to get a better time.
Hence, we introduced a main category that limits DosBox to 50.000 CPU cycles. One can still run for MAX cycles, but that isn't the 'main' default category.
Emulation setup for these old games is really tricky. I think it comes down to how each particular game handles the amount of cycles, plus what the community agrees on. The Quest for Glory runners keep their games locked at 10K cycles, which seems to work for them. In the case of KQVI, max cycles with core=dynamic is the fairest we've found and results in the least amount of variation.
Unfortunately, as some of us have gotten newer computers, we're starting to see WWAMs again on the cliffs. It's not nearly as bad as running UrQuan's ScummVM unthrottled, but you might get 1-4 wobbles on a given run. On the other hand, the zips are ever-so-slightly faster.
I wish there were a good way to sort this out, but, as with most older PC games, it comes down to compromise. Setting the cycles to 50K, for example, is really slow and no one in the community wants to play it that way. Setting it to something higher but still not max, like 150K, results in sound errors, and the game doesn't run.
Also bear in mind that cycles are not equivalent to a specific CPU clock speed, and 50K cycles on one machine may be faster than 50K cycles on another machine. (This also might depend on the game being run.)
Ultimately, DOSBox is affected by your hardware in ways that are often inscrutable, and everyone's machine is going to run the game slightly differently (though in our case, the variation isn't enormous). We can either live with that or... just not run the game, and no one wants that.
@@OneShortEye Thanks for the elaborate answer! I agree that the decision definitely depends on the game. Anyways, DOSBOX and emulation in general are a difficult topic to address in speedrunning.
@@OneShortEye Would a ScummVM with a configurable speed throttle be useful? If the main issue with ScummVM is that it isn't consistent unthrottled, then that could be patched & upstreamed, ensuring it'll be available in the future.
This was a really well made mini-documentary
I enjoyed watching this greatly and you've definitely got me interested in point-and-click speedrun games.
This is probably my favorite game of all time. I didn't think there was more to discover than I already had. This is amazing. Also glad to know why I got that glitch on the cliffs when replaying awhile back!
My favorite game tends to change a lot, but KQVI is definitely my favorite King's Quest. I'm so glad we were about to learn so much about it. Makes me appreciate the game even more.
@@OneShortEye Yes! Same
be me
not even interested in speed running
"oh you can hold alt and skip this whole-ass puzzle"
...IVE GOTTA TRY IT
DO IT
Truly excellent work on this.
It's pleasing to see the RUclips algorithm boost the Kings Quest III video into wider circulation, I for one wouldn't have seen this video otherwise. And given the sudden upcropping of other new comments, I can only hope that residual momentum gives the rest of these videos an equal amount of love.
Never played this game, but this is such an amazing and well explained video. Kudos man, I really enjoyed it!
Mordack was a bad influence on Abdul.
Hell yes!!!
Does Sluicebox also speedrun or is he just like the speedrunner's Merlin? Finding new ways to help others succeed.
He doesn't speedrun, no. As a ScummVM dev, though, he's fixed hundreds of bugs in Sierra SCI games and has a very deep knowledge of the code. So we benefit greatly from having in the community. But we also help him in diagnosing thing and tripping over bugs.
For instance, we inadvertently helped him diagnose this rare and nasty bug that would softlock SCI games if a character started speaking exactly when the game's internal clock rollover happened (every 18 minutes and 12 seconds).
github.com/scummvm/scummvm/commit/e2fc630fc4136fa378ed8cfb4a28af22dbe59a46