Shadow of the Tomb Raider Developers React to 48 Minute Speedrun
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- Опубликовано: 10 янв 2025
- Every week, IGN invites the creators of the biggest and best video games to watch -- often in horror -- as the world's top players break their creations and finish their games at record speed. This is Devs React to Speedruns.
It takes most players between 12 and 35 hours to beat Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Watch as Eidos Montreal's Jason Dozois (Narrative Lead) and Matthew Thomas Labelle (Lead Dev QA) give their hilarious thoughts on what they think of speedrunner blancw's incredible run through their game.
Make sure to check out more from blancw here:
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#ign #gaming #speedrun
This series will single handedly save the channel
@George Gobin I think it's about IGN channel not the game series
@George Gobin George you're a dumb dumb😎
George Gobin
I think he meant the “Developers react to x min speedrun” series
@@jaimeduavit8558 he's probably not gonna understand your explanation either. Repeat it with cave man lingo and he'll get it.
you mean all of IGN.
It's nowhere near on par with "Worth it" saving buzzfeed since that one channel alone carries the entirety of buzzfeed on their backs.
But this is nice.
Alternatively: Tomb Raider Devs roast their own game for 48 minutes straight.
yeah im not too sure there boss would be too happy with the no care attitude lol
@@shredderorokusaki3013 no
This.
brookhaven86 if you can even call it that
@@joeblack363 why not?
It’s funny how the Dev’s point out things that we would’ve thought like “ that shipping container is right on time” or “there’s always a couple birds waiting for you to traverse a ledge” it’s great to see that they can laugh at their work
Nitr0 although in this case both of these guys weren’t responsible for scripting in levels (such as birds, lol) so they’re making fun of their coworkers’ work, not specifically theirs if that makes sense.
Kathulhu ok boomer
Nitr0 that doesn’t make any sense in this context but okay. Just sharing some knowledge my dude.
Kathulhu he’s probably just a kid trying to be cool on the internet
@@depthshade837 ok boomer
Me:(glitches through map)"oh, the game glitched. Better restart."
Speedrunner:"Its free realestate"
this joke killed me lol
Kz4tox you a zombie now?
@@Kzatox then how u type?
@ヅ hahaha I know right 😂 those people weird
@ヅ you just don’t understand them. R/woosh on you
I really hope the " Devs react to speedruns " series keeps going, these are amazing. :)
I've been often interested myself how would developers themselves react to using glitches like those in the video to win. They don't seem to be surprised anymore. I think most video game developers these days realize that gamers have tendency to experiment and figure out bizzare bugs just to make the game more fun in some way.
@@rico-fs1cr Theres still stuff that can catch them off guard and be like " How tf did they do that? " and those are the best moments
@@BoosterTheRooster1 That's not what I'm talking about. I mean the basic fact that they acknowledge this.
@@rico-fs1cr cool.
Especially its really helpful for some developers to see HOW broken some games really are...*wink at bethesda
beating the entire game without spoiling the plot is amazing
The devs poking fun on their own game was great
*at
Would have been if they mentioned the speedrun and not how shitty their scripting was
@@DamTheKid What are you talking about? They discuss what's happening in the run and what the speedrunner is doing numerous times. Did you even watch the video?
because they are scrippted
Lol how they keep asking how tf Jonah keeps up with Lara
"Shes going to a coastline, trying to get to a dig site that she hasn't heard about"
To find an object she doesn't know
Ok?
These devs actually know what's going on in the speedrun. This is amazing.
Ikr that's something I learned after watching all dev reactions so far
Usually QA testers pick up stuff like this, just in places that players would usually go. So it's easier for them to recognize what's happening when the game breaks bc they've probably already had to fix bugs like this.
Whenever you play a game and experience a bug and think "wow, how did they miss this?", they likely didn't. QA logged it and it was determined to be not high priority enough / game ship date was too soon to fix.
@@GoScience123 I do realize all of that it's just the other Dev react videos they sit there and are like "what the hell is going on" and they all have no idea what's happening and are just amazed at the speedrunners these devs specifically are able to sit here and explain what is going on in the video and this one by far is much better than the other Dev reacts because of it
@@RyanDavis-nr2gl From what they said it seemed like one of them has watched it before
"when the kid dies, you get exp" HAHAHAHHAHA
It sounds true. LOL. You have Experienced
Yeah, that trivia absolutely broke me :D
dark af and hilarious
"That took so long to tweek" as his soul leaves his body xDDD
*tweak
see my gameplays of shadow of tomb raider too
see my gameplays of shadow of tomb raider too
😂 *tweak
@@SiddharthSinghFiery69 you saw my videos?
Me - "47 minutes! I can't watch that whole thing"...20 mins in - "omg this is amazing!"
Same. I didn't even skip ahead through the video. What's wrong with me??
@@tiredlocke nothing is wrong! These guys are entertaining as hell
Most fascinating thing to be is that I completed this game twice and never ran into a single bug or glitch.
Most of these glitches can only be triggered with high fps and/or specific graphic settings such as version of directx. That's why speedrunners play it on PC. They can tweak the graphic settings or lower them to achieve the highest framerate. We don't get these glitches because we like playing games with the best graphic settings and normal fps 😁
@@argop4518 Not sure you saw it, but the speedrunner is playing at 60 fps (top left of the gameplay screen).
@@gidedin I saw that. You can set the fps counter to only show max 60 fps even when your actual fps is higher. I mean, look at that graphic. If that's not the case, 60 fps would still help to cancel some checkpoint triggers. I personally have experienced many games that are originally designed for consoles with 30 fps, having collision glitch when played on PC with 60 fps.
@MrWereverforever I second that. Shadow could've been much better if Crystal Dynamics was still on the project. But they were busy developing new Avengers game.
Only glitch I've had is in the eagle trial( got to second level, was about to jump off, got hit with one of the arms-didnt fall off didnt die,but no longer had the ability to move her in anyway
"Walking towards a dig site that she didn't hear about to find an artifact that we're not sure she knows what it is" yeah that sums up how sequence breaking fits into the narrative.
i love how they keep getting him credit for what he is able to pull off, and their humor is funny too. like.
Probably because they already watched it. If it was my game I would be so pissed off at the first impression xD
@@marvinmuller8913 imo speedrunners should be invited to do beta testing on games, this way you find the most bugs in your game.
@@Braindizruptor That's basically was QA does, its just that you don't tend to find the top tier speedrunners in studios.
@@Braindizruptor speed running glitches actually evolve over time
I wouldnt. Because i also know these people have actual played the way this game was intended first.
8:58 For a sec, the guy's laugh syncs with the Spacebar icon shining
“Shining”
LOL
ROFL
I love how genuine and joyful the devs were.
It’s dream.
This entire video just explains how my grandparents got to school everyday
🤣😂
Loved this
Well, except with them it was snowing the whole time. And uphill both ways.
Best dev reaction ever. Half of these videos consist of devs justifying glitches and bugs while beating themselves up. But these guys are just having fun.
I doubt any developer walking away from a speed run thinking we need to fix all of those. Many speedrun exploit bugs that player most player wouldn’t run into unless they intended it. So if it doesn’t affect player experience, no point in fixing.
@@MichikoHoshi watching the crash bandicoot run, the devs intentionally added back in the bugs for higher end gameplay
@
Trevor Olague and you actually believe they were having fun? it's pretty obvious that they were mad at the guy for skipping a lot of the stuff they personally worked on, thats why they were being sassy about it not because they were having fun.
those are not honest laughs
Well yeah this game is one big joke.
reminds me of the Rare devs playing through conkers bad furday where they are takin the piss out of everything insulting other Rare teams and showing off glitches
These speed runs are honestly love letters to the devs. The time and passion invested into learning something like this...I love seeing devs excited about this type of thing. Being able to crack jokes and enjoy it is the right attitude imo.
This video is sponsored by: Reload Checkpoint.
Our old friend.
rage Shadow legend
"Video is sponsored by R-"
Gave me flashbacks
The new plasmid from Ryan Industries
see my gameplays of shadow of tomb raider too! it is max settings 1440p 30+ fps
27:46 Brendan Fraser plays Robotman in DC's Doom Patrol. It's great. Also, he's been free of the 50k a month Alimony since last year. Just thought anyone who doesn't know would like to know.
That's great news! :D
I actually really really miss Brandon, childhood icon for me
thank you !
I like how they’re making fun of the writers. Like with the obvious dialogue.
-"Is the dialog broken?"
-"No."
Well, it's more like thinking out loud. Perfectly normal.
He wrote the dialogue hes making fun of lol.
"plane!"
see my gameplays of shadow of tomb raider too! it is max settings 1440p 30+ fps
"Is there no music there?" Pounding on a window underwater seems a lot more impactful without music.
Adam Brown agreed
Pounding on a window is usually impacting lol.
@@DirtPerson OK dad
@@Amixan0402 was that supposed to be funny?
I love these Devs nitpicking all the odd logics in the game.
It’s like the opposite of when runners complain about “broken” games
see my gameplays of shadow of tomb raider too! it is max settings 1440p 30+ fps
@@shredderorokusaki3013 I would much rather 1080p 60 fps
@@shredderorokusaki3013 nah 240p 10fps is better
@@Haydn3560 see my videos!
By far my favorite episode. These devs are so chill and know how to make a joke.
23:04 “that took us so long to tweak” and he just runs right through it
That burning sensation is real.
see my gameplays of shadow of tomb raider too! it is max settings 1440p 30+ fps
@@shredderorokusaki3013 go beg for views elsewhere
It may have been a speed run, but the amout of time it took him to get this route down-pat, and practice it a few times, I'd like to know how long _that_ took. This isn't as easy as it looks.. not even close. Great job. The devs should get this guy on as a tester.. seriously.
it was most likely collaborative. lots of speedrunners share strats and routes.
There would've been a bunch of practice leading up to doing full runs, but I can tell you the "20" in the very top-right means this was their 20th attempt at a run of the whole game. It's a feature the timer has.
Congrats you just described all speedruns
Speedruns generally take the entire speedrunning community the entire age of the game to reach their current point. There is a _lot_ of work that goes into picking apart a game, and any one speedrunner is not likely to be responsible for uncovering all of the exploits used, or even really _any_ of them.
It was the work of the community, not just this speedrunner alone.
The XP when the kid falls was a hilarious thing. Love this vid
that's a classic situation where rewarding the player is not always the best thing to do.
😂 "No eels were hurt in the making of this game, btw." "Correct."
only ones hurt are the game developers
Actually that was a
moraine
But is was. When she making knife from the plane
At the end of the second Ratchet and Clank game there is a message that says. "No sheep where harmed in the making of this game. Well except for that one, but he had it coming!"
This speedrun commentary thing is the first thing in a long time that's worth watching on your channel.
they destroyed that whole webpage. still dont know why lol
oh you dont know if you dont know the old site ;P
see my gameplays of shadow of tomb raider too! it is max settings 1440p 30+ fps
@@shredderorokusaki3013 imagine bragging that your videos are in 30fps in every top comment to try and get views on your video.. jesus christ kid..
@@thomascrawley99 I honestly took the time to report every single one of the comments. Maybe the YT report bot will jump and slap them.
I love how much they critique their own game, so genuine devs
"Originally the plane was underwater, but nobody saw it"
Wish they would release a stand alone Tomb Raider game based on this issue. No story. Open world. Full of hard AF secrets and puzzles. No hand holding.
Sounds like the classic tomb raider games.
@@TombRaiderSyd I still remember being stuck and going in circles on the tomb raider anniversary game puzzles.
Remember when you would get stuck in games. Now if you're expected to think for more than 5 seconds it's apparently "bad game development".
I really miss the hard puzzles that took days to figure
I'm sick of open world games. Keep linear.
"What ever happened to Brendan Frasier" THIS DEV ASKING THE REAL QUESTIONS
IGN I just want you to know, I love this series. Whoever idea it was, it was great. If it was a team's idea, great team effort.
Having played this game and struggled heavily with the combat/stealth sections, watching this amazing speedrunner just blaze through them with such grace and ease is making me so impressed that I'm mad. Truly amazing stuff.
To answer the question about the Airwalk at 20:49 you know you have the glitch activated when you see Lara holding the grapple hook. On the failed attempts, she isn't holding it, but on the successful attempt, she has it in her hand.
Also, to activate the glitch, you must grapple a ledge on the SAME FRAME you land from a jump.
@DeltroxTv I don't know EXACTLY what the game thinks is happening, but it does seem like it thinks you are definitely walking on the floor. If you listen during the Airwalk, it sounds like Lara is walking on whatever she activated the glitch on, so in most cases for this run, it would be grass, so listen for the grass sounds while she's running through the air.
Another example, which I don't think is shown in this run, but in Rise of the Tomb Raider, we use the same glitch. At one point, we activate the glitch standing on wooden planks, and when she is running though the air, you can hear the creaking of the wooden planks.
Yeah probably something along the lines of, the ledge grapple makes your 'box' stay in place, but your state changes/glitches (ie walking) so now the systems use the 'box' as a reference (eg sound and physics) for the glitched state.
Literally my favourite thing about speedruns is seeing a game ripped to shreds with glitches like that, especially when it's not at all obvious how they work!
i bet the devs are patching all the glitches after watching this lol
I don't think so - these are provoked glitches no player would run into by accident. Also they are not game breaking, so there is no _need_ to fix them ^^
Would be a waste of developer money and time to do so. The games been out for 2 years at the release of the video
Speed runners and devs have a special relationship, to find these glitches communities have played this game several if not hundreds of times to find these glitches, it's more or less an excepted fact that players will search every exploit there is to set a record
What a dumb statement lol, no they’re not smartass haha
@@chancegreyfur8794 people need to understand its impossible to find it out by yourself. they were hinted bh the devs before making the final videos. the commentary they doing is totally scripted
I love how they make fun of some of the stuff they made. Not taking themselves too seriously.
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I love how they are just having a blast watching this, not upset, no aggression, just laughing at how this guy did/found it all
Exactly. All the other reactions are annoying because they spend the whole time justifying everything
@@trevor3013 what
26:56
Dev : *talking about how hard it was to be able to get the feathers not clipping trough any NPC*
Horn of the mask : "Ha-Ha ! You forgot about ME !!!" > *Goes trough an arm*
Haha, when he said how the level developer shouldn’t see this.
“You’re not gonna make it”
“He gone”
I love this series. Finally something from IGN that I actually enjoy.
I second this! The reboot series is great! Love the mechanics and the new game really improved the gun/stealth play for the better!
Third this, great series, please IGN keep it up
this series and RKG/prepare to try the ultimate ign duo
5:36 Dev laugh
Also dev: next update, we will patch this bug
Lol reminds me of when The Outer Worlds developers reacted to a 12 minute speedrun.
Developers reacting to speedruns should be a new series if it isn't already !
It is. They also did Crash Bandicoot and Control.
It is a series.
Double fine also did this way before with psychonauts
The amount of thumbs up this has makes it clear IGN should clearly brand this series so people know it's a thing and not a one off video.
Otherworlds was hilarious "Wow he can just jump over the fence? " "oh yeah I did that in early testing, I just didn't mention it"
The way the speedrunner goes up the cliffs would make even a skyrim horse proud
ign finaly hit gold with this series, best thing in a long time from them
Nice seeing how wholesome and friendly the Devs are.
Gonna finally play this game series.
"Not everything is about you Lara!"
16:18 The homage to Indiana Jones was a nice touch by the devs. Glad to see it in the game.
proud to be the first person to upvote this underrated joke
@@kwombok and 2nd now 🙂
22:20 It's cool to see them say "How does that work?"
It amazes me how wonderfull it is to see dedicated speedrunners break games and perfect their runs
Speedrun length summary:
Title description: 48:00
Video length: 47:37
Speedrun: 48:49
Devs: laughing
Me: confused
Hotel: Trivago
No but jokes aside this series is amazing and this has to be my fav reaction so far. Such funny guys. They weren't butthurt, complimented blancw's skills, gave interesting details about the game and just all around made the whole run funny and interesting every second. Great job guys ~
These devs have the most hilarious commentary xD
22:50 "That took us so long to tweek..."
You can actually feel the pain in his voice....
I love this series! Keep it up IGN!
I stopped the video after 10:46, I don't want to see the rest of what seems to be a incredibly beautiful TOMB RAIDER.
Those graphics are gorgeous. I never played to Tomb Raider 1, I just saw the evolution of the franchise and played "Lara Croft and the Gardians of Light".
But this is stunning. What a return to the roots ! Wow !
16:19 - 17:15 Is like what the hell... I just can't stop laughing
The trick with speed running is there is almost ALWAYS some element of true mastery of key parts of the game the run requires. This means it is much harder to hold a record, because you will always have a possibility to shave off a few seconds from anywhere someone else has less than total mastery of unavoidable original parts of the game. This also requires people to iron out the gameplay and the sequence of events. No speedrunner is not a avid fan and player of the game they speedrun or exploit. It is a higher form of appreciation for your work, if anything. Devs should be honored when someone tries to break their game to be the best. ;)
Watching a speedrun is always so calming to me. Just someone breaking the boundaries and breaking the game. :3
Brandon Fraser? He's having a revival at the moment. Don't worry about it.
Tony is the type of guy who discover all these glitches on his own but still never finishes the game.
lol
how the hell tony ferguson's fan in this chanel
SEKIRO SHADOWS DIE TWICE PC Gameplay Part 1 - Not for Traditional players - ruclips.net/video/PaKPQpcWcqg/видео.html
When she tells you to come over because her parents are gone for the night
"Al pacino's dead" 😂 these have by far been some of the most entertaining devs in the whole series! Kudos to these guys!
"Level design cannot watch this walk"
Every level design nightmare 😂
I really don’t like how you show the best reaction points at the start. It ruins the surprises. I always skip it.
Me too, I always skip it :D
Indeed, this seems like particularly American thing to do I think. It also happens in (film)trailers and even TV series nowadays do a shitty action/drama bit then go "10 hours earlier..." and it's the most annoying thing.
That's not them. That's on the speedrun video. They kinda have to have that there.
DerekHartley What are you talking about? Lol
nah show me ALL of the best parts right away ign.
I like how they can poke fun at their own game and have a laugh. Great guys.
"Evening Ralph." "Evening Sam." You devs...I really appreciated that nod and had previously made a quick RUclips video about your nod to Looney Tunes.
FML, 48 minutes to beat the game. Meanwhile I spend 2 hours stealthing my way around the first jungle area to kill stuff for resources and XP :/
Side note; I had forgotten how tough those jaguar actually were. Multiple arrows to the face? I'm still trying to eat you!
I don't consider using glitches and bugs to skip most of the game as "beating the game".
@@SA80TAGE it is not about "beating the game" but gettin to the finish line ASAP.
@@WatchSchoolDays right so cheating and cutting corners.... wheres the achievement in that?
@@SA80TAGE you don't get the point in any% speed run are you. The only achievment in that is trying to get the WR in the fastest time possible of finishing the game.
If you are looking for more "honest" speed runs, try finding no-gliches runs
Samur/Aye you must be new here.. this speedrunners already finished the game the supposed way first and then find glitches and bugs along the way write/log them down
Just a little insight into "what happened to Brendan Fraser"!?
He is actually currently voicing Cliff Steele/Robotman and portrays him pre-accident as a guest star in Titans, and reprises the roles as a series regular in Doom Patrol.
Amazing title. Just reached 100% overall trophy completion a few days ago which includes the ones for the 7 DLCs. Hope they’re gonna make a new one in the near future, maybe for the nextgen.
Vylkeer I really hope they don’t just waste this fantastic Lara Croft with only a origin trilogy
Theme of the run: "Ahhh hes going to miss the sequence where..."
Best one yet! Really loved this... Thank you for making this happen, IGN!
There should be a playlist for this because i always struggle to find all the Devs react to speedrun
Maximilian your wish had been granted.
@@chachthagoat1629 YES!
Love this game, it's so cool to see devs watching someone so passionate about their games.!
The flood level through the town with all the destruction was so beautifully designed. They created an amazing level there. very immersive.
please keep this series going on
"Just heading out for a walk on the mountain air"
'Autocorrect got you, changed in to on!'
"Nope..."
The XP bug about the falling kid was too funny
i really appreciate the time developers take to watch and commentate about speedrunners. its a new huge wave of gameplay thats shaking up the gaming industry. its nice to see that effort acknowledged
That moment when you have almost finished the game and still get tutorial tips.
Jonah is the real person speed running. He does it legit and can still keep up
I really love this series.
It's hilarious to "see" the reactions of the devs to their game being broken to this extent.
...I just really want to see the OoT devs react to the sub-10 OoT ACE WR, even though I know it probably won't ever happen.
Damn, they're roasting their own game to the bones. Haha, love them guys. Would love to hang out with them and roast games together while getting drunk and high.
title: speed run in 48 minutes
video length: 47 minutes
actual speedrun: *starts a minute after the video starts*
Oh yea wtf
They explained at the beginning that they were watching an edited version of the speedrun without cinematics.
video: "Cinematics waste time"
Me: *You might be onto something*
"Whatever happened to Brendan Fraser?"
His ex-wife happened to him. And the US legal system.
born in hollywood, living in hollywood, taking a walk outside of hollywood to meet the love of your life leads you straight into the USA legal system!
Qq
Q
1. 05:36
2. 08:51
3. 09:47
4. 11:14
5. 11:56
6. 13:15
7. 14:24
8. 16:26
9. 19:51
10. 22:54
11. 26:14
12. 28:55
13. 31:37 watch a little further here
14. 44:27
15. 46:54
Watching the whole thing gives you some context and a few more interesting moments 😃
"That took so long to tweak" I feel you man
These Dev's do really love their game . You can tell that from the enthusiasm the way they are talking. It's nice to see Dev's actually care about game more than the profit ..
"Two words, Reload Checkpoint." 😂😂
really appreciate the devs spending 50 mins on this, and they really can remember most of the scenes!
they are not annoyed by this, but showing respect, and gratitude.
They have probably seen those scenes as many times as the speedrunner himself
"What ever happened to Brendan fraiser" how to instantly hook and audience
These guys were super cool. It was an awesome ideia to have the narrative director in such a story driven game, I hope they keep doing this.
Loved the whole flow of Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Perfect game. Great action. I still do enjoy it. I like speedrun videos but this game is a gem to skip everything.
I think those speedrunners did play normally at first to enjoy the content. And they at least have already finished the game several times in order to memorize the patterns and which glitch to exploit.
@@argop4518 if I did speedrun I would just watch attempts of people trying before me. Not playing the game. Just study it to make the fastest way possible to the end. To be max efficient.
JasonB54 well i think you’d need to like this game so much that you want to spend countless hours trying to improve on a run time.
So I guess you will have to finish it vanilla first for the very first impression.
insightful dev team, love the bit - "what is she walking on?"@16:48 they made it and don't know.
i would love to see if they could somehow get rockstar devs to react to the gta v speedrun
Rockstar is the second most secretive company behind CIA,so I doubt it
@@squidstone8399 yeah but it would be sweet tho
@@itsmehere1Certainly
Joking right?! Those two nerds would have every glitch fix. Can't have a game full of fun from Rockstar. How dare you!!
sabretooth1971 they wouldn’t bother patching a single player glitch, only money glitches because that means no shark cards
This is probably the best series I've seen posted on this channel. Keep them coming. They're super entertaining.