Half-Life Speed Run

[Canon]

I don't know guys... I remember this game taking me DAYS when I first plated it.


OH, BTW, anyone see the newest HL speed run? 45 minutes! Valve ought to hire the dude who did it as a playtester since he found (and used) TONS of exploits... A couple level sections he skipped entirely.

If you remember playing the origional HL you will probably LOL for a good portion of the 45 minutes since the tricks he uses catch you completely by surprise and its all totally ridiculous.

http://www.planetquake.com/sda/other/halflife.html

[Uthor]

Man, I rememebr watching some Doom speed run and reading up on the history of doing each level the fastest. How people would search for years to cut off one second. How they would hack into their control setups so only one key is required to both strafe in a direction and run forward, how these guys would have to decide if wasting one second to pick up a gun is worth it so you can shave off two seconds on a later level. Insane. I'l have to check this out now.

[Uthor]

Okay, just watched the whole thing. I kept thinking "I wonder how he'll get passed 'X'" where X is an annoying jumping puzzle, or long, tedious portion of the game, or the entire tram ride (including fighting the large monster guarding the tram itself. Then I see he either skips the entire section, or uses tripmines/snarks to jump to some shortcut.

My compliments to the people who found all of these shortcuts. They are truly impressive (reading the txt file, this guy found a few himself, and improved on other people's work.)

[Canon]

It makes me want to play HL again.

[Uthor]

yeah, me too, except I won't do a speed run, and then I'll get to a long, annoying, part of the game and get pissed off, but since I played this far, I might as well finish.