Thanks for this video. My dad downloaded the original Quake Done Quick on his work computer back when I was a kid, when all my friends/family and I were all playing a lot of Quake. It was the first time we'd ever heard of speedrunning and the most mind blowing thing we'd ever seen. It will always be one of my favourite moments in the history of gaming ❤️

there's a special place in my heart for qdq because when i was in high school, with 28.8k internet, no cable, and no way to stream videos, they were something i could watch while eating snacks when i got home from school. they blew my mind every time i watched them, and it felt so cozy, like watching an older sibling play games

I tried so hard to get on the QdQ team back in the day. Every time I submitted a run it was immediately demolished by one of the better players. I wish I had the dedication to get better at speedrunning. At least they gave me a "participation" award and put me in the credits for Scourge done Slick, lol. Quake speedrunning has and will always be incredibly satisfying to watch. Thanks for your detailed breakdowns. Your channel is awesome.

Great video! The movement from these runners is just beautiful. Hard to keep up with QDQ projects when a lot of us that watched the first releases when they came out are in our 40s now. =)

Cool video, 100% runs are so complex; so easy to miss some of the insane shots or off screen kills you highlighted.

I always love seeing the E4M3 optimisations. I spent months in this map back in the day teaching myself to bunny hop and rocket boost, and I remember watching your demo back in 2006 and revisiting the map to try and copy some of your movements. A speedrunner I will never be, but it's always mindblowing to see these talented and dedicated people shaving little bits of time off!

In my world, speed running started with Quake (QuakeDoneQuick). I played console fighting games and some side scrollers but min/maxing games never made sense to me until I played Quake and saw the speed running that came out of that.

Thanks mate, for helping me appreciate the depth of that beautiful series of demos. You even answered a question I didn't know: that they carry over stats from levels.

Wow, this was very insightful. Great video showing how criminally underrated this segmented run is!

Love your narration style and enjoyment of the sport. Thanks!

I had not heard about that project. Going to search for it right now! Thanks for yet another amazing and video and insightful comments.

As a viewer, for me, it would be nice to always have the runner's name, time, and year somewhere on their footage

I could watch videos like this all day

Awesome vid ~

Thank you for making these vids 🙏

I suspect that the more recent QDQ videos are underrated simply because they are so hard for a newcomer to follow. So I massively appreciate these videos that replay the runs in slow motion and explan what is happening.

I used to love watching Quake Done Quick/Quicker/Quickest, and completely missed that video dropping in 2020! Happy to find it via you now, and love hearing your insights as always, makes me appreciate the skill displayed even more than I otherwise would have, as someone who has never tried speedrunning Quake myself.

Amazing video and showcase of skill from these players! I really enjoyed the way you broke things down and explained the nuances of the run :)

Incredible to see how far the community has come.

I appreciate the amount of work and dedication. Thx for making it accessible for me. But now I wanna know more, hear some live commentary of the runners or something 😀

Great video!

Very cool commentary, and the breaking down and illustrating those things eg the narrow window things are super cool. I remember once encountering the lightning bug on END at the conclusion of a NH all of quake personal best attempt. I think I panicked and alerted a vore which moved off its spawner. I had a moan and Stubby listened and ending up winning a Nolan for it later :)

There are Q1 maps that I still take longer than this entire run to bumble my way through and I've been into it since I got the demo as soon as it was available.

Well done!

Thanks for all your videos! Can’t wait to see more. How about details on every secret level run? Or maybe expansion Speedruns?

I'was q3a player, i just played the 1st version like a noob, one time to have a look on the origine of what i liked so much to play. I just watched few of your video, and it's a real plaisure to discover this 1st game i missed, and see how far players push the limit still. Even 20years later. Your video are very well made, the narration is damn good. It's a good video to discover & enjoy a game never played. Great job dude, you seem to be the Wirtual of quake ! (without music :p)

Man, 22:13 they should edit it so all the players are there.

I prefer any percent runs. Any way man you are doing a great job by making this videos. Hope to see a new one soon.

Thanks for the video.

I remember getting one QDQ or another in video format on a magazine cover disk, and that would have been reasonably near to the original game's release. Amazing to hear people kept chipping away at and renewing the project.

The Quakest, Speedest, Runnest, Everest Donnest Of All Speedruns Ever.

Amazing.

Get those people to work of flying cars right now

Great GG, Thanks

I wonder where those legends are now. Do they still speedrun? Do they know they've created something timeless, and important not only for Quake, but speedrunning as a whole?

So good

What a nice guy.

Thanks Connor, I would had liked if you listed time saved per demo on the introduciton of each map

Watching and having no idea what's going on. Ah yes well done

So cool :0

When you play quake to time an egg.

I was like number 666. Yaaaaay. :) Great video as usual.

Nice videos! One thing I didn't understand: if the demos are recorded separately, how does health, ammo, etc gets carried over?

While quite a different kind of achievement, I would enjoy a video covering Jukspa's Tool Assisted Speedrun of Quake and whether, perhaps, there is some potential for a new and improved TAS.

It would be tempting to alter the entities for the intermission cams.

love these videos.. if you have time for it.. make the slow-mo video's with host_framerate.... then you really see the details :)

I should watch Quake demos slowed down. I like watching Doom as well but I can see what is going on much easier at full speed. With Quake it's much harder!

I'd like to see that video on the LG bug to understand how that works.

Hardware evolved as well. These new records are not being played on Pentium 233mhz computers with standard 2 button ball mouse with a 14inch crt monitor.

Engagement 4 u

I wonder what the monsters think. "Im a badass dude with a grenade launcher in one hand and a chainsaw in the other, nothing will get past me!" Ten seconds later 30 of his friends are dead, his enemy has gone through the portal and then he gets a bunch of nails to the face in the intermission.

❤

8:21 Possibly to QRJ over the stairs?

6:04 -- he didn't even *GRAB* the Mega Health wtf... :/

And to think they recently discovered an exploit with thunderbolt that allows them to kill some enemies out of bounds or out of reach, literally saving aprox 23 seconds on final boss, so i wonder if anyone will try to use that bug on an actual run, considerig how incredibly difficult it is to use, but also, the benefits it brings, at least on specific levels. Edit: and few minutes later they actually used such bug on this run. Cool!

Is there a complete 100% nightmare single run record? No saves. Just a straight playthrough?

Oh wow … just watching this after all this time! A couple of times I had DREAMS set it E1M4 and E1M8 … fix bug, must fix bug. Why bug not there? Bug was there … bug is back, must fix bug … 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 Never did find the cause for E1M8. Adding some magic value padding to a few key structures to detect corruption ultimately made the corruption no longer happen without fixing it. Some weird structure alignment issue? Probably, but … Intel architecture doesn't have data alignment. Unless it does? Huh-I now have an idea where … huh. I now know why, not that anybody cares.

"Quickest" more like "quick-ish"

wtf @ 13.13

Just for my understanding: These are being done in God mode so the player wouldn't die?

As a gamer I feel so much inferior compared to these guys. Also 3/4 into the video and I am gonna puke from the motion sickness.

Wouldn't mind a run where it has unnecessary tricks. Quake done Cool, or whatever.

Disappointed you don't show the entire runs :|