I remember one of the first RUclips videos I watched when I got my first PC was a Los Santos speedrun in proper crappy 240p in either 2008 or 2009. Good times.
I hopped on RUclips right when it opened so I can watch Smosh since I knew them. I remember the day when my siblings and I spent all day on RUclips a few weeks after it opened then when they went to go eat I looked up “gta sa” and people were ALREADY uploading gameplay.
one small detail you forgot to mention is when resetting, people started closing and reopening the game instead of just going to the main menu because if you didn't restart the game you'd inadvertently have a new game+ situation
@@mp5-moI don't know the full extent, but one of the main reasons is the girlfriend perks are transfered to new games, so if you have Katie on one game and then start a new one you keep your weapons after being wasted.
I bought Josh’s GPU he was currently using (before upgrading his PC) when he smashed San Andreas at 1:08:19 during the height of lockdowns. He signed it with gold ink and I still display it in my room to this day! Josh is a legend in my book 👌
Great video, thanks for preserving this part of San Andreas history. Im always blown away by the level of theory crafting and reverse engineering that players go through to achieve these runs. The speedrun community in general seems awesome like that. I've got a lot of time for these speedrun history videos, not just by you but other creators also, theyre all fantastic. Guess it's time to watch the Vice City one now
Having watched Josh's Part 3 of collecting all vehicles and knowing about his origin story, it's still always a great listen, as it is pivotal to the game's history, if not even Speedrunning as a whole, thanks Ben (and LotsofS)
Watched the entirety of the video, glad to know about all the strategies developed by these amazing people. San Andreas truly was a game of its kind and time.
I used to Watch Josh’s speedruns doing my homework on Sundays back in 2014, its crazy. Sub 6 was a BIG thing back then Edit : Also for the memes, why did you blow up Ryders car?
josh's speedruns got me and my mate into sa speedrunning in 2015 we never completed a full run but holy shit we have some good rage memories from then. still love the sa speedruns today
Remastered that u mentioned earlier in vid got better time too, 13;51. It's kinda crazy that in the past I remember that I had to play for a week to finish GTA SA and nowdays ppl just need few hours, its crazy
Nice video , man.👍 The only thing I would add is a bit of music during the gameplay portions, where it's a bit quiet. Otherwise, keep up the great work!
Such a cool essay capturing all the changes and dynamics in the GTA SA speedrun community! Can't even imagine how many hours you've spent researching all of that, recording and making a video about it, great fucking job Also does anyone know where' are Reset's speedruns on the leaderboard? Did he quit speedrunning? Can't find his twitch account anymore too
@@numanmybro reset quit the community a long time ago, and good riddance honestly. There's clips around of him complaining that he's not allowed to say the n word on twitch anymore and things like that, gross behaviour
We’ve come a long way since the start of Gta SA speedruns, very good video to show how far the speedrun community have gotten to lower the time. And a lot have changed after the lockdown for the past 4 years. It made me realize how old I’ve gotten because I remembered when under 5 hours felt impossible before they found out about dupping. I must also say that I hate when you accidentally type in a cheat code by just using the WASD keys while you driving and you see the weather cheat activating. Very good Video English Ben🏴
This game game out when I was still in high school and I remember my friend telling me he was trying to complete it using the pistol only. He would be an OG if he kept it up
This is fine and all, but can we get Florida Ben's input on this world record progression? I feel as though we've heard from plenty of English Bens on various topics. Time to diversify a bit, nawmsayin'?
27:48 lol I remember that happened to me Also it's crazy how Joshimuz is one of the "first speedrunners" and first full gta sa speedrunner lol, I've been watching his vids and streams for like 10 years and didnt know that somehow ;_;
I think what is needed here is explanation of different Speedrun categories because of introducing game braking glitches Speedruns separated in different categories.
Halfway through the video I realised that I had watched the original already lol Am glad to have rewatched the whole thing tho, because otherwise I'd have missed the updated section at the end. Perhaps it would be a good idea to point out that this video is updated, for the people that have watched it the first time around.
@@lazerlord_lance I was considering it, but I couldn't find a decent way besides just plastering it on the screen somewhere at the start which kinda ruins the documentary vibe I was going for
@@englishben Yeah I see. Could maybe add it to the remaster disclaimer, that'd make sense to me. I did look there for information when I noticed the video seemed familiar
it was so hard explaining to people irl what SDA was and even harder explaining to them i was watching a six hour video of a guy from across the atlantic quote the mighty boosh and play san andreas
I don't want to run on anyone's parade, but a question came to me: what is amount of mission you can skip so it's still considered you're speedrunning? All of them? Will it still be something people can compare each other at? How fast can you skip a cutscene from start to finish the game?🤔
I think I understand what you mean. Generally, speed running has multiple categories for a single game: the most popular is the one where you finish the game as fast as possible using everything you have, while the other doesn't let you use glitches/bugs.
@OmegaIL nah man, why put an arbitrary limit to the whole thing? That's no fun 😒 , if you are looking for a traditional gameplay search for 100% NO GLITCHES.
@@OmegaIL By definition, there's no limit. The reason why we don't dupe all missions in GTA SA is because duping some specific misssions result in a crash or a softlock (for example because the next mission marker doesn't appear). Microsoft store version has some extra glitches that allows you to beat the game in 15 minutes, because there you can go from Ryder''s first mission to the last mission.
"so hey guys, I just found out about this dumb useless glitch, it skips one of the most time consuming parts of a speedrun, not sure what to do with it! cheers guys"
Dude you gotta have some background music, there’s too much loyalty free music now for this to be silent, skipped to random points in the video and heard nothing, earily quiet and not relaxing to listen to
Guy's a fking legend, posting the gang territory skip into the useless section...
Posting gang territory skip in the useless thread is wild
At least he posted it
I remember one of the first RUclips videos I watched when I got my first PC was a Los Santos speedrun in proper crappy 240p in either 2008 or 2009. Good times.
I hopped on RUclips right when it opened so I can watch Smosh since I knew them. I remember the day when my siblings and I spent all day on RUclips a few weeks after it opened then when they went to go eat I looked up “gta sa” and people were ALREADY uploading gameplay.
When did GTA Los Santos come out??
@@bobcoleman90452004
Remember, stay calm and be focused
Lmao 😂 so true 😭😅
And follow the damn train CJ
one small detail you forgot to mention is when resetting, people started closing and reopening the game instead of just going to the main menu because if you didn't restart the game you'd inadvertently have a new game+ situation
There's a million small details like that left out intentionally as the video is already so long
@@dubl33_27 how does that work
@@mp5-moI don't know the full extent, but one of the main reasons is the girlfriend perks are transfered to new games, so if you have Katie on one game and then start a new one you keep your weapons after being wasted.
@@mp5-mo ruclips.net/video/K7cR4U5KJ00/видео.html
@@mp5-mo tduva's "GTA:SA Skill/Stats Progress Explanation" is what you need
I bought Josh’s GPU he was currently using (before upgrading his PC) when he smashed San Andreas at 1:08:19 during the height of lockdowns. He signed it with gold ink and I still display it in my room to this day! Josh is a legend in my book 👌
Great video, thanks for preserving this part of San Andreas history. Im always blown away by the level of theory crafting and reverse engineering that players go through to achieve these runs. The speedrun community in general seems awesome like that. I've got a lot of time for these speedrun history videos, not just by you but other creators also, theyre all fantastic. Guess it's time to watch the Vice City one now
Having watched Josh's Part 3 of collecting all vehicles and knowing about his origin story, it's still always a great listen, as it is pivotal to the game's history, if not even Speedrunning as a whole, thanks Ben (and LotsofS)
This is some quality content
My first Super Thanks :O Thank you so much!
Watched the entirety of the video, glad to know about all the strategies developed by these amazing people. San Andreas truly was a game of its kind and time.
Reset was so fucking dominant, imagine him with current strats lol
He returned for like a week and already got sub 3. He has claimed he is coming back potentially in a couple months.
Cheats
Love it when my favorite Tony hawk streamer posts a long video essay. Keep it up man.
Holy based gigachad, listing "gang territories skip" as "useless".
I was born after GTA:SA came out, but it's still insane to see a video of it on VHS
Get off this app. You're too young 😂
@@bamamama-ws7kp nah brother, we old :(
@@bamamama-ws7kp I'm 18 😳
@@bamamama-ws7kp2005 is not that old
I used to Watch Josh’s speedruns doing my homework on Sundays back in 2014, its crazy. Sub 6 was a BIG thing back then
Edit : Also for the memes, why did you blow up Ryders car?
josh's speedruns got me and my mate into sa speedrunning in 2015 we never completed a full run but holy shit we have some good rage memories from then. still love the sa speedruns today
Because ryder is a busta
(serious answer: to skip cutscene)
Unless you fail the mission once before, you can't skip the cutscene after getting a haircut from Old Reese and before going into the pizza shop
I died when you said stealing a caddy turns out to be more attractive than turning up in a sports car
Awesome video, Ben! Keep up the great work, the documentary-style videos are really interesting...
That Joshimuz ESA 2015 run... damn that's nostalgic I remember watching that, I think it was how I foudn out about ESA in generally actually
same dude, this run was insane, i watched it probably 4 times since then, joshua is really best gta streamer fr
10:17 Maccer was right, it did look like a snake farm around here in the early 90's.
Please continue making these if you can, one on GTA5, GTA4 or GTA3 next would be great!
Remastered that u mentioned earlier in vid got better time too, 13;51. It's kinda crazy that in the past I remember that I had to play for a week to finish GTA SA and nowdays ppl just need few hours, its crazy
After listening to Josh's origin story on a recent video, this is a welcome addition to that. Thanks.
Which video would that be?
@@grrrr255 On Josh’s uncut channel the video about collecting every vehicle in singleplayer part 3 at approximately 1:53:52.
@@LaCorvette thank you mah man
Nice video , man.👍
The only thing I would add is a bit of music during the gameplay portions, where it's a bit quiet. Otherwise, keep up the great work!
Comparing the 2014 WR to the WR nowadays really is insane how much time was saved.
The music was the only thing the video needed.
Such a cool essay capturing all the changes and dynamics in the GTA SA speedrun community!
Can't even imagine how many hours you've spent researching all of that, recording and making a video about it, great fucking job
Also does anyone know where' are Reset's speedruns on the leaderboard? Did he quit speedrunning? Can't find his twitch account anymore too
@@numanmybro reset quit the community a long time ago, and good riddance honestly. There's clips around of him complaining that he's not allowed to say the n word on twitch anymore and things like that, gross behaviour
@@englishben oh wow, such a shame, i liked watching his speedruns, thank you for the answer
@@englishbennigga who cares????
I was long waiting for someone to do a deep dive into GTA SA speedrun history. You showed'em who's gangsta!
Finishing the game in under X time 😑🤚
Sending tenpenny flying off the bridge in under X hours 😎👍
I'm just assuming but is a video like this coming for Vice City? Stay up Ben!!!
It already exists :) ruclips.net/video/CGHgBcSidQw/видео.html
Incredible History from a beloved franchise, that VHS recording is so awesome to see 😮
Thank you so much for the updated video!
ah man this brings back nostalgia, I used to watch adam_AK and josh chew through these games on early twitch. good fun.
Question, why there are black boxes on the screen, smth like at 1:21:01
Explained at 1:16:53 :)
@@englishben Aaah true, I looked at smth else most likely at that time, thanks bro
We’ve come a long way since the start of Gta SA speedruns, very good video to show how far the speedrun community have gotten to lower the time.
And a lot have changed after the lockdown for the past 4 years.
It made me realize how old I’ve gotten because I remembered when under 5 hours felt impossible before they found out about dupping.
I must also say that I hate when you accidentally type in a cheat code by just using the WASD keys while you driving and you see the weather cheat activating.
Very good Video English Ben🏴
“…however, as my fellow gamers know, getting a girl friend is not easy…” 😂, subscribed.
How does he have no reaction to 3h55m in glitching that’s insane
loved the video so much bro it felt like a documentary
I appreciate how much work you put into this video! Great watch
Great analysis video! Appreciate a lot of effort put into it
wow this is a big one to look forward to, I have an 8 hour fligjt I'm putting this in watch later for then!!! get in !!
Thank you for the video! About to watch it to the very end)
Great video! Very entertaining and informative!
Did pape really sweep the records so fast that there is no mention of him here?
This game game out when I was still in high school and I remember my friend telling me he was trying to complete it using the pistol only. He would be an OG if he kept it up
This is fine and all, but can we get Florida Ben's input on this world record progression? I feel as though we've heard from plenty of English Bens on various topics. Time to diversify a bit, nawmsayin'?
Incredible work, this video will go down in history thanks Ben
1:12:27 The video mentioned, but there's no link in description to it. Could you please add the link?
added :)
27:48 lol I remember that happened to me
Also it's crazy how Joshimuz is one of the "first speedrunners" and first full gta sa speedrunner lol, I've been watching his vids and streams for like 10 years and didnt know that somehow ;_;
RIOT X3 was also in Gui93 run, you can see him with valet uniform at 1:26:03
Very fun to watch, thank you very much for this!
This goes well with Josh's story time from one of his recent videos
FINALLY VIDEO I WANT
It’s 11pm and now I have to watch this….fuck
I've been playing on mens race refuge on mta for a while now, cant wait for the next official fleischberg
25:52 almost did a spin take over that comment. So mean yet so funny 🤣
Big man, Big W
Any plans about VCS speedrun history?
Maybe!
VCS and LCS are so underrated
I think what is needed here is explanation of different Speedrun categories because of introducing game braking glitches Speedruns separated in different categories.
that josh segment seems oddly familiar have y'all done a similar skit in the past on josh's channel?
talkin specifically this shot location n how he's sittin... feels like somethin from 2018 era
aha i fuckin knew it! ruclips.net/video/F6344ubzpQo/видео.html
"Salford, which is in Manchester." Oh, you're going to get some flak for that.
Halfway through the video I realised that I had watched the original already lol
Am glad to have rewatched the whole thing tho, because otherwise I'd have missed the updated section at the end. Perhaps it would be a good idea to point out that this video is updated, for the people that have watched it the first time around.
@@lazerlord_lance I was considering it, but I couldn't find a decent way besides just plastering it on the screen somewhere at the start which kinda ruins the documentary vibe I was going for
@@englishben Yeah I see. Could maybe add it to the remaster disclaimer, that'd make sense to me. I did look there for information when I noticed the video seemed familiar
Did Josh only own 1 shirt for a few years, or is that a meme I missed out on while running Pokémon and not GTA?
been waiting for a video like this, the last couple of years seemed a bit rushed though. 👍
I can't believe it, my totally random "why did you blow up Ryder's car" is in this video! 19:18 LOL
3:13 man i watched this whole thing way back in like 2009
Am I bugging or did he copy and paste have the video at the end?
it was so hard explaining to people irl what SDA was and even harder explaining to them i was watching a six hour video of a guy from across the atlantic quote the mighty boosh and play san andreas
bro putting cj *inside* the boat at 58:50 was fucking insane
Everyone knows the best stealth is leaving no witnesses behind
Brilliant video, if you do one of these for GTA 4 that would be mega!
27:48 **only ever fixed in SA DE on mobile..... Great.....
only love, i was gonna fall asleep to this but there’s no background music ❤
why is reset not on the leaderboard anymore?
I think he had beef with admins and let him self get removed
The last 10 minutes is in fact about any% no ajs right, not any%
Great video! Are you from Bedfordshire? I reckon your accent but can't quite place it.
Yorkshire :)
My favourite part about English Ben is that he's not from Scotland. It'd be really off brand.
I don't want to run on anyone's parade, but a question came to me: what is amount of mission you can skip so it's still considered you're speedrunning? All of them? Will it still be something people can compare each other at? How fast can you skip a cutscene from start to finish the game?🤔
what the fuck are you talking about pls be more clear
I think I understand what you mean. Generally, speed running has multiple categories for a single game: the most popular is the one where you finish the game as fast as possible using everything you have, while the other doesn't let you use glitches/bugs.
@@YASIGURII yeah, I know those exist, I'm just curious at which point speedrun isn't speedrun anymore. I guess everyone has its own point for it.
@OmegaIL nah man, why put an arbitrary limit to the whole thing? That's no fun 😒 , if you are looking for a traditional gameplay search for 100% NO GLITCHES.
@@OmegaIL By definition, there's no limit. The reason why we don't dupe all missions in GTA SA is because duping some specific misssions result in a crash or a softlock (for example because the next mission marker doesn't appear).
Microsoft store version has some extra glitches that allows you to beat the game in 15 minutes, because there you can go from Ryder''s first mission to the last mission.
In my opinion seeing the cutscene of end of line over and over again with the runner barely reacting could have been shorter
Blowing Ryder is the goated strat
is this a reupload?
Description :)
25:22 there's a sniper on the container
"so hey guys, I just found out about this dumb useless glitch, it skips one of the most time consuming parts of a speedrun, not sure what to do with it! cheers guys"
Dude you gotta have some background music, there’s too much loyalty free music now for this to be silent, skipped to random points in the video and heard nothing, earily quiet and not relaxing to listen to
Beverly would be so proud of you, boy!
CALM DOWN SON
2005, "15 years later" I wish
Why did you blow up riders car?
1:11:08 What you all came for
Content alert
Still don't understand why Ryder's car gets blown up.
30:12 Berrating a helicopter for not wanting to be blown up into pieces and instead hiding in the safety of a rock
Ben for president
Wait, so you telling me, that you telling the story that joshimuz told on his car collecting stream?
Well Ben.... I did ask Josh why he blew up Ryder's car...
It didn't go well.
He banned my ass.
Great vid man
Can you do gta iv?
@@TheKicksBoy maybe :)
Why did he Blow off Ryder's Car?
This is the remaster the DE should have been
can you do a video for vice city gta 3 too plzz Ben?
@@muratthaqi6042 vice city is already on the channel, GTA3 coming soon :)
@englishben i saw it 3 minutes after a i did that comment hhahah, but hey thnx for the replay bro
what do you mean, 15 years, it's pretty much full 20 years now :)
god FUCK speedrunning this game lol
CALM DOWN SON
If you think this is nuts then check out the Yu-Gi-Oh Forbidden Memories run
I love videos like this
CALM DOWN SON