The fact the game's very first speedrun is archived, with video footage no less, is honestly a miracle based what i've seen in other speedrun videos where footage of early runs are lost to time.

12:40 "You think you've seen bad quality before, brace yourself" (Plays Ad) Well played!

It's funny, you play these games so much when you're young that you honestly don't think there is anything more to know about them. But watching your videos is like finding a secret draw in an old antique desk you've had for 20 years.

'And that player...was me.' i loved that part lol

Realised halfway through that I watched this when it came out. Decided to watch it again because it’s so well put together

When I was a kid, I would have sworn to high heaven that shooting the turrets on the planet buster dealt extra damage to it. I don't know how I figured that out exactly, it was just a sense I got. Glad to finally be vindicated after all these years.

Ratchet did not take kindly to being broken in half, the galaxy now quakes in fear as he looms over them all...

I still find it mind boggling that PS3 R&C didn't get it's own leaderboard when the difference was immediately so clear. I'd spent so much time on practicing it, but gave up because I wasn't going to buy a new console just for the sake of speedrunning.

22:48 Years ago I thought you had to shoot those turrets to deal any damage at all. Glad to learn something new about this pretty average section of an old game much later.

"I love it when after doing a lots of ridiculously hard tricks, there's that one particular section of the run is heavily RNG reliant and I can't do anything about it"

Always great to see videos on individual sections of runs like these, most tend to focus on a full run but I really like seeing how a split evolves over time!

You know what I love about these videos, the fact that occasionally you pop up as a character in the history and it's not like some overhyped description of your involvement.

"and that player was me" was the most humble flex in the world. I mean really, that's so cool you got into it. Nice work!

No matter how much you think you know about or how good you think you are at your favourite game, you never measure up to the speedrunners. The amount of time speedrunners put into understanding every single invisible frame and the amount of skill necessary to use those tricks to their fullest is simply mind boggling.

How does one discover “oh I’m just gonna pull the Rhino out then play a movie just before going into the turret” to keep access to the gun? Completely bonkers

I loved your 18 min video on Ratchet & Clank, as well as The Man Who Broke Ratchet in Half, glad to see another Ratchet & Clank vid!

I absolutely love when these record videos go into first person mode. Great work with editing and pacing as always, and especially in presenting your own runs in a cool manner. This planet sucks!!! But it makes for a great video.

I never really thought that much of Hoven. But that Sneepy clip of the ship going to the moon was insane

This look through old strategies is a great watch

Very nice video! It's really cool to see all of the strats from before I started playing. If anyone's wondering why the times Ricky mentions people getting on Hoven don't match up with the segment time displayed on screen, it's because he's disregarding the planet load time in this video (about 15 seconds).

Fantastic video. It's so interesting how in speedrunning, sometimes strats are found that optimize times and make tricks easier...but then paradoxically, as new things are discovered that further lower times, it can swing back and become hard again.

You know, I love thinking about how speed running looks in universe, Like those terminal montage videos. Imagine Drek setting up this massive, Heavily militarised ship hanger. Fully confident that there's no chance that Ratchet would be albe to get past the army he's put there... Then Ratchet just fucking *SCALES THE SIDE OF THE SHEER CLIFF FACE, BYPASSING THE ARMY, BLOWING UP THE CARRIER SHIP AND LEAVING IN LESS THAN 2 MINUTES!*

Great video as always Ricky! Really well researched and that Gran Turismo 4 music is appreciated

There must be a "critical" hitbox inside each of the turrets that gets tickled by splash damage if you're dead-on, either that or it's the glowing red barrels which sometimes rotate away from the player.

This is top quality content. What a fantastic storyteller you are. I just watched a 30 minute video on a topic I don't engage in at all. That was a really cool journey. I'm not that into speed running I think somethings are cool and I wasn't sure I'd make it through the video I was just trying to tap some nostalgia but at the ISF part I knew why I was watching still. You peel layers off while adding more layers to the story. It's a wonderful historical journey on something that's not very important but enjoyable none the less. Great work.

17:17 Loving the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Special sound effect. Made me smile

Awesome video this game was really my childhood I remember dying on that Turret fight on the ice planet a lot haha. Didnt know about the Rhino strategy but thats so cool I'm gonna use that in my next playthrough of the game. So cool that you can just skip the entire map on like 5 secounds.

Great video, as always. I love the detail in which you explain all of this and that you give credit to all the runners. Keep up the good work :)

Thought this was just a documentary by you and started laughing when you mentioned that you are one of the main speedrunners lmfao

Great stuff as always. I first joined the community in 2015 and back then, while Hoven SI was routed out of the run, the stigma it left was still very much there. Even though it was no longer apart from the run, people were still telling horror stories about how awful Hoven SI was.

Ever since i found your channel, i can't stop watching your videos and content related to speedrunning. Thanks for that and keep up the good work!

For me that started watching speedruns perhaps just a year ago, these videos are extremely interesting since I only know the current, optimal strats, without being aware of the huge amount of strats that were used previously. Nice video ^^

Man, I didn't know this iteration had a speedrunning community, loved this game so much when I was a kid. This was real fun to watch, and first video of yours I've seen, subbed. Gonna binge some more.

It's awesome watching these videos, I always did try finding something different in each playthrough, the planets felt so big as a kid and even grown up now, that they were begging to be explored. That's what I always liked about the classic games and the future games too.

Such great writing on this one! It felt like 10 minutes long instead of 30. I have nothing but praise to give!

At break at work glad I have enough time to watch this in full. Absolutely love your content Ricky glad I found you when I did

Great job on the video! Love all that you do for the RAC speedrunning community.

Of all the creators on this website that makes this kind of content (I’m thinking of Karl, Goose, Abyssoft), you are hands down my favourite. Can’t get enough man. Absolutely love every video ❤️

man i love these videos, never been interested in speedrunning before i found this channel and now i find myself waiting for new uploads every week!

1:17: The Very First R&C Speedrun 3:54: Hoven Jump Skip & Slope Intersept 5:46: Hoven SI 7:30: Cyprys's New Hoven SI 9:13: Nukas 33:34 10:26: The PS3 Era 11:03: The PDA 11:55: Orch's Faster Hoven Strat 12:32: Vortex 15:07: Infinite Long Jump 16:17: Infinite Side Flips 17:51: ThaRixer 19:16: Scaff 20:14: Early Turret Fight 22:05: Scaff Leaves The Game And ThaRixer Takes The Baton 27:49: Where We Are Now

I’ve just found your channel but every video I’ve watched I’ve loved. You do a great job documenting and explaining everything in all your videos. Keep it up. I still have many more videos to get through but they’re a treat🙏🏼

How you manage to keep improving on your overall quality despite already being THE most entertaining speedrunner is unreal.

This is a really awesome compilation of info! Thanks for making this!

You just gave me goosebumps, dopamine rushes, and excitement at the same time as I was progressing through the video... and I got emotional to be honest, because Ratchet & Clank was my childhood. I don't know You, but I hope that You have a wonderful day Sir! Thank you very, very much!

Another banger, thanks for the content Ricky!

I'm so glad you put out another vid Ricky! Another banger as always!

I love the fact that you're in this video now, love it. "That player was...me" Let's goo!

Been waiting forever for a video ! Master piece as usual!

Glad to see you take part in this one! Man, the MGS ost always hit me unprepared.

I love these Ratchet and Clank speedrun videos. You are doing great job! Thank you Rixer.

As soon as I heard the Gran Turismo 4 music in the background I knew this video was going to be great. Amazing sound track selections man!!!

I played this game back in the day and this kind of speed-run history is fascinating. Your Orxon video was great too.

This channel is a delight, I'd heard about you from CrystalFissure and his Spyro content, but only recently started checking out your videos. I'm not a speedrunner, but I do love to watch speedruns of games that I enjoy and I do at least incorporate speedrunning tricks in my own casual playthroughs if I can. But seeing the history and breakdown of how tech and routes were discovered is just absolutely fascinating! I wish every game that I've watched a speedrun for had a guy like you to compile all the history and research for them. You're amazing man

We need more videos like these Rixer! ♥ Me as a HARDCORE RAC FAN who even listens to RAC Soundtrack in his car everything bout RAC is just so gorgreous to watch. GJ Mate

I'm loving the trip down memory lane, showing the oldest speedrun as well as clips of at the time, newly found tricks/skips/shortcuts, it's a shame that so many videos of both interesting speedruns and tactics get deleted so often these days.

Love your videos man, keep em up!

Amazing video as always TheRixer, super glad for your overall success and quality content, well done!

crazy that i know almost every single background themes ThaRixer uses on his videos, maybe i'm not the only person that listens more to video game OST than 'regular' music lol.

Very informative and fun! Thanks for the in-depth look at a game I enjoy but whose speedruns I know nothing about

Hoven moment

I absolutely love your content man, got here by accident and now I need more!!!

Groovy stuff dude. Keep it up

These videos always brighten up my day

Feels hella good listening to mgs2 and tekken soundtracks whilst you talk in depth about speed run lore. Cheers

I'm so here for a series of R&C Speedlore videos!! Great video brother man

I found your channel back when you did the Jak3 speedrun at GDQ as it was one of the best-commentated things I'd seen outta that event. I've been addicted to your videos ever since

It's that same video, that got me into your videos on Speedruns on ratchet and clank, Sly and Jak. I'm a sub now, and I'm really enjoying this

Ricky's videos are always a treat

well, like every time i watch one of your videos i'm going to rewatch all of them and break open my night XD. Thanks for such great speerun content :) (sorry for bad the english btw)

thoroughly enjoyed this one, great quality

I love it every time you make a video, and you're an actual part of it since you ran the game xD

It's so cool to see how much it changed!

Man I just cant get enough of these Ratchet and Clank videos 🔥

Always happy when Ricky drops

Imma comment here cause it's the latest video but this is general to your content, I like how you talk about your own achievements you sound so proud and not cocky it's quite wholesome. It's cool to have the history narrated by a guy who was part of it, maybe because it gives a feel of continuity like it's not in the past you're still there even if obviously none of the other histories are about dead people lol it's just a slight feel it gives. I've listened to a ton of WR histories or progression and none do it like you, I mean including their stuff like you do for what it's worth. Addin to the overall noticable quality of your narrating / editing / sound mix or whatever "the video sounds good" it ends up being really good content. It gets a bit dull if you're talking for a really long time about the same thing but you do manage your structure quite decently and mix up what you're talking about (short stories, strategies, level walkthrough etc). tldr good shit dude.

Not sure why they just wouldn't make two subcategories for the game, PS2 vs PS3 remaster, when it's clear that the differences between them warrants a separation.

Another banger like always man. Keep up the good work.

I never completed Ratchet & Clank because of this level, because my CD had a scratch on it that made the game crash every time I was about to get to the turret section...Sad times, but happy to see this game is still getting the love it deserves

Never did I think I would be watching a Speedrun of ratchet and clank but this s*** was fun

9:12 the Tekken 5 Dragon's Nest ost unlocked a memory from my childhood... thank you ❤

0:48 Thanks for the Grand Turismo 4 Music, that stuff Is a classical nostalgic trip.

Its sick that so many people manages to find new ways to complete planets in different ways in the first ratchet and clank game, I love the speedruns of R&C 1 more than 2 and 3 since the movement is different that on the other games and you can do some moves that are impossible in the other games.

Needed this after hearing about the queen dying. Now I get to have two good days back to back. Thanks Ricky

Very good video, and really well done as always !

Getting a story told by the hero is crazy 💀

Sick video, I remember when you got back to rac 1 to get wr back from franz. This planet felt like the biggest roadblock of the run, if you don't see how many times runners throw a good pace here you just can't understand lol

Hearing that Tekken 5 OST come in on this video makes me happy. But, the moment I heard the Yugioh FM Library Menu track, I had to give you props. Your videos always has great content and the music choices just also matches.

I'm not a huge speedrun fan, I've only ever done one speedrun of a game and that was sub one hour RE3 Remake on NG+ and it was just for the challenge to complete the game quickly and I only did it once. But I do really love these videos, years of tech and discoveries and rivalries condensed nicely into a well-edited and commentated format is fantastic

Man, speedrunners are something else. Finding these random areas where you can jump off of that look absolutely no different to anywhere else just makes me speechless. How much time did it take for them to find this stuff? It boggles the mind! Also wow, I didn't expect hearing the Tarmac Trouble music from Toy Story 2 at 22:05. That's a nostalgia trip. And yet it oddly fits Ratchet and Clank XD

Speedrunning (as much as I love to watch runs) is so beyond me, I admire runners greatly. Aside from that, your posture is IMMACULATE. I could only hope to attain such posture. 😂🥺🙏

Me: plays it normally Speedrunners: completes it in 70 nanoseconds

Love your videos keep up the great work you do!

SNEEPY @ 25:27 🤣 This is Hoven in a nutshell 💀

Well I have something to watch after school I hope its a banger

I get such a dopamine rush whenever I see you've uploaded a video, double that for ratchet and clank content

What a way to start the day. Thanks for the video fam sandwich.

I hear you with that Toy Story 2 airport music 🔥

Let's goooo another ThaRixer vid!!

Hoven gets the Snowbeast award for speedrunning.

All I can say is man I freaking love the R&C games. There's just nothing like them and I played through all of the PS2 games tens of times because as a kid I obviously didn't get to buy a new game whenever I wanted unlike today. Glad to know the series has a proper speedrunning scene cause that's going to give me a lot of footage to watch