World Record Progression - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

World Record Progression - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - Any%

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3 жыл бұрын

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is one of the most fascinating speedruns in history, and today we will be taking a look at its 15 year long history. Join me in experiencing the early days of San Andreas, and how it matches up to modern day speedruns.
== Vice City World Record Progression ==
• World Record Progressi...
== AJS glitch explained in full ==
/ grand_theft_auto_san_a...
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== Resources ==
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GTA Speedrunning Discord - / discord
Leaderboards and resources - www.speedrun.com/gtasa
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@InternetRob Жыл бұрын

I love this piece of history, from the ancient VHS footage of 2005 all the way to modern livestreaming. Really enjoy this corner of the internet. Great video mate 👍

@englishben Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@aSnugglyDuckling 10 ай бұрын

Ben would you consider doing an update eventually? How many years do you think it would be worth waiting before an update is worth doing? I see we just hit sub 3 hours on any%

@englishben Ай бұрын

@@aSnugglyDuckling apologies for the wait, but an update is in the works :)

@BACKSHOTDEALER 3 жыл бұрын

this is the only piece of GTA content i'll sit down for a full hour to watch just to watch it, probably the best video about GTA i've ever watched, didn't even know this was coming out but this still exceeded my expectations.

@noahpatton9276 2 жыл бұрын

This comment made me put popcorn in the microwave.

@noahvantrease3496 2 жыл бұрын

B. I. N

@SiljCBcnr 9 ай бұрын

and now you (?) got the iconic sub 3h wr. What a time to be alive

@BACKSHOTDEALER 9 ай бұрын

@@SiljCBcnr HOOOOLY true! Based award for you, kind stranger!

@tendstofortytwo 3 жыл бұрын

12:04 thanking TAS-ers and speedrunners who helped you discover glitches and start running should absolutely come back

@RandomMachine 3 жыл бұрын

Very nice, watched the whole thing! Glad that I was a part of this.

@eroticspartan9600 9 ай бұрын

Re-watching this less than 3 years later feels almost a bit weird. Now with a sub-3-hour run, duping even in LS, and frame limiter rules being changed, it'd be great to see an addendum of this video.

@LotsOfS 3 жыл бұрын

Cant wait for gtaa wr progression

@Booskop. 3 жыл бұрын

lmao

@Mememan9076. 3 жыл бұрын

What is gtaa

@derpeth2101 3 жыл бұрын

@@Mememan9076. GTA Advance

@creativeself7147 3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, this content is absolutely amazing! I've never speedrun anything myself but I really enjoy watching and following the GTA speedrunning scene. There are a lot of personalities I've really grown to like over the last two years... Josh, KZ, Omega, Eidgod, CK9, yourself, and quite a few more. Especially for 'casual' fans like myself, these kinds of videos are absolutely fantastic! It's really interesting to see, how these things began all those years ago and how some of the well-known speedrunners started off all those years back. I really want to thank you for all the work and effort you put into the GTA-speedrunning-scene and speedrunning overall, recently. The Vice City and SA videos are among the best GTA content I've ever seen. Not to mention the recent Gaming Tuesday United, which was an absolute blast to watch!!! I really hope that your channel will pick up a lot more following soon because you truly deserve it! Thank you for all the great content!

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

I'm really glad you enjoy my videos, it means a lot. Thank you for supporting them :)

@Shimmy8 2 жыл бұрын

I just need

@dhwwiiexpert 3 жыл бұрын

59:43 Failing a speedrun due to accidentally spawning a helicopter is one of the funniest things I've seen! Hell, that entire montage is!

@MrMixtape 2 жыл бұрын

Even funnier when you imagine CJ having to explain why an assault helicopter suddenly appeared in front of them lol

@NFKTN 3 ай бұрын

Reset was insane during those times, it seems that he returned but not speedrunning GTA which is kinda sad

@The123robot 3 жыл бұрын

Very well put together! Fascinating to see the full history of how everything came together in one comprehensive package start to finish - what a journey. Good work friend 🐒 🐒 🐒

@bigfanofdarkviperau762 3 жыл бұрын

the coke of can legend! 🤠

@thirdhandlv4231 2 ай бұрын

Im a sucker for history stuff, the way things evolve from scratch to what we know today, it is an interesting journey to witness, great video man!

@hossel_ 3 жыл бұрын

I watched this video in one sitting. That is really rare. Been waiting for this video since you told me about it on your stream, and goddaaang did it not disappoint. Amazing work, Ben.

@Rocker21344 3 жыл бұрын

Let's goooooo! This is gonna be such a blast to watch Wasn't disappointed. Actually such a well done video

@truthwooph4083 2 жыл бұрын

This video is amazing 😍 thank you ! The o.g footage is insane ! I'm so glad it still exists 🥳

@ghjklkop7868 3 жыл бұрын

Can't believe its actually out, well done man! But I must say that, what made your VC WR progression great was the music, and the lack of it is kinda shame for me, but still, can't believe it's done, I know it took you a very long time, and also thanks for everyone who contributed

@bfguy12345 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! This brought back a lot of memories. I used to read the SDA thread daily lol.

@TheRealNici 3 жыл бұрын

I'm mostly surprised by how many of the past video recordings have survived, because god damn does stuff just disappear quickly these days.

@jnpowl 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for making this and the vc world record history. Keep up the great work

@alenn9411 3 жыл бұрын

Perfect video to watch after long hard day, great job Ben

@Pape31337 3 жыл бұрын

was comfy to watch ☕

@root-9672 3 жыл бұрын

Great video as always. Love it.

@Haddcore 3 жыл бұрын

Well paced, well edited. Watched an entire 1 hour+ youtube video. That is rare for me. Thank you and keep up the good work

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words :)

@ToriksLV 3 жыл бұрын

Good indept history, didnt know the few early bits.

@TheAckeePlant 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing video! Deserves so much more views, thanks for doing this game’s history justice :) Definitely watching your Vice City video next!

@RammasunW 3 жыл бұрын

me: *open and watch this video* also me: *realized i have not done any SA thing yet*

@almostfamous2008 2 жыл бұрын

lol that first one on VHS. I remember doing that to show my brother cool things I did in some of the games I use to play.

@Watts-mt1ek 2 жыл бұрын

LOL @ the: >skips gang territories >useless bit! Thanks for the video.

@thekaon. 3 жыл бұрын

Really good video actual great job on editing and commentating this well done Ben.

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@GEEBERTOS 2 жыл бұрын

Really awesome vid loved the whole watch :D

@karlmarx4405 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing video, watched from start to finish! You sir have earned a new subscriber!

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

@beincheekym8 3 жыл бұрын

amazing video, really nicely executed, just the right level of explaining, not getting caught in minute details. thank you for this piece of history.

@pongopea 2 жыл бұрын

absolutely loved the video, man

@DonDadda45 2 жыл бұрын

great video. I'm new to speedrunning SA and this is very informative.

@maxifisch3230 3 жыл бұрын

This is one of the best videos I've ever watched. Thank you so much for this amazing content. This is underrated as heck!

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

@Serenity19247 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this very interesting World Record Progression! I loved your Vice City Edition as well and it's crazy which routings and technical imperfections in the game speedrunners can use to shave so much time off a run. Furthermore, I'd really like to point out that I appreciate the fact that you did not ask people to like, subscribe and comment. Therefore I wholeheartedly enjoyed liking your video, subscribing to your channel and writing this comment :) All the very best to you and I'm looking forward to your future videos!

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

@zebracherub 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video, I’d watch 15 of those

@martymcfly88mph35 3 жыл бұрын

A summoning Salt style video? I'm in!

@orpheus2883 3 жыл бұрын

Great video, Ben. I watched with atention. Thank you.

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

No, thank you:)

@chiefguide 3 жыл бұрын

Great video as usual, it always amazes me that a modern trick would be theorized many years before! Would like to see the a GTA III version!

@tyriounet 3 жыл бұрын

Good stuff mate.

@steryyyy 3 жыл бұрын

Glad to see the old dogs still stick around to help in the community. Very informative video Ben with well placed gags, great work!

@maxim2337 3 жыл бұрын

What a man. He's just played for 10 hours per day while having work & family errands and simple tiredness of all this sh*t. Insanely to believe it's the blatant truth. Thanks for the great work, Ben!

@kachow5830 2 жыл бұрын

Hes like the matt Turk of san andreas

@leon_salad1700 3 жыл бұрын

well done going over every important bit of information including tearing gamers a new one i thought a couple things were given more screen time than needed but nitpicking aside, great job on this gargantuan video

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you baby

@brxyann 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video, Ben 👏

@englishben 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@MythSkull 6 ай бұрын

shout out to world record speedrun progression videos gotta be one of my favorite genres

@RiekeLt 3 жыл бұрын

Good job mister Ben! I wanted to ask something stupid too, but I actually read the comments.

@plat1n_ 2 жыл бұрын

Damn this brings back memories of older times, ty

@jarodburger 3 жыл бұрын

needs more views. liked, subbed, commented :)

@trebenjamin 3 жыл бұрын

BROOOOO SO WANTED TO SEE THIS!!!!

@lunatrap1504 2 жыл бұрын

I LOVE THIS!! THANKS!

@aalex100 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your work

@derpeth2101 3 жыл бұрын

Very epic and good video.

@SebastianRico Жыл бұрын

You could do a update of this video with al the insanity that happen this last two years, nonetheless great video.

@adriank8792 2 жыл бұрын

8 months? For me it started the day i got the game. I didn't have a memory card so i couldn't save my progress. Additionally, my PS2 tended to freeze after more than 6 hours of continuous play. So i started speedrunning it just so i could actually finish it

@anotheryoutubeaccount5259 Жыл бұрын

Interesting

@narrowpath9491 5 ай бұрын

It’s funny how speedruns make apparent how broken a game actually is. Played this thousands of hours and liked it so much

@michaelmcgee2026 3 жыл бұрын

It's crazy what summoning salt started. I type in world record progression and theres endless vids now

@l1chkar 3 жыл бұрын

good video. keep it up!

@connorpearson7513 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video, love this sort of content

@AlexTsekot 3 жыл бұрын

I'm strapping it, I know for sure this is going to be good.

@lilpeepmk 3 жыл бұрын

I really want to thank you for this video. AN HOUR LONG NOT BORING VIDEO! I really really REALLY enjoyed it. I didn't think an hour long video would "pass" in 10 minutes. I want to start speedrunning and I have a lot of confidence in myself that I can be with near big names but I'm doubting myself too much

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

We all start somewhere, give it a try!

@rockyx_x 2 жыл бұрын

what a well made video... damn!

@yenixz6260 3 жыл бұрын

love your videos

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

Love you

@NateHotshot 3 жыл бұрын

PogU great content!

@SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim 10 ай бұрын

last run made the first VHS run look like casual gameplay 😂

@djt1034 2 жыл бұрын

this is really interesting!

@aSnugglyDuckling 10 ай бұрын

I literally search for this video to rewatch it every six months or so

@gui93speedruns 3 жыл бұрын

Well done!

@LotsOfS 3 жыл бұрын

50:20 no mention of the fourth way to reset the wanted level? Good video

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

It wasn't known at the time, I was just going off of Patrick's discovery at the time. In hindsight I could have added an extra section in somewhere though yeah

@LotsOfS 3 жыл бұрын

@@englishben nah, the video is long enough and its too minor.

@ghjklkop7868 3 жыл бұрын

Sauce?

@pogboy537 3 жыл бұрын

Quality content

@klatchklad 3 жыл бұрын

Great video king. Only feedback I can give is either raise the volume on the narration a bit or speak a bit louder.

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah this video is a little quiet, it's tough to balance it because I'm using footage from 100 different people some of which are super quiet or super loud. I'd rather be too quiet than risk giving someone a heart attack. Thanks though king

@escape209 3 жыл бұрын

Not a Summoning Salt rip-off, you already have my like. Only a couple minutes in and the editing is great!

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

@DECHEFKING1 Жыл бұрын

48:16 that dude rocking the ROTMG priest avatar a real gigachad playing a hardcore bullethell game

@lucass430 3 жыл бұрын

This was really enjoyable to watch! Out of all the gta games, san andreas was always the one that fascinated me the most, both from a casual view and for speedrunning. From what i'm seeing, with the new (idk if they're actually new) strats we might see Reset's run be beaten this year, which is absolutely crazy. In another words, i'm looking forward for this video to be outdated hahaha. Also, nice touch with the reset fail clips lol

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed :)

@agustingiacomelli 3 жыл бұрын

awesome video dude, loved it! question, did reset stop speedrunning/streaming? because his speedrun profile is not available anymore

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he went to bully for a while and then GTAV before stopping entirely. He's still active on twitter I think

@patrickb.4749 3 жыл бұрын

@@englishben He has tweeted that he wants to do something else in life now. Now he apparently only tweets about politics. ^^

@professionalfangster1510 3 жыл бұрын

Nice job, man. I don't even care about GTA but you've captured my interest throughout the video. Although I think shortening the clips just to the point where they do the thing would be better. Like just cutting the clips down to the point where the runner does something of interest. I also recommend putting music in the background, although this video is 2 months old so you might've already done it.

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words, the reason I didn't put music in is simply because I find copyright free stuff to be pretty stale so I just didn't bother

@TheMcLei 3 жыл бұрын

This is awesome

@Vedant9710 3 ай бұрын

But you forgot to answer why we blow up Ryder's car in the speedruns (sarcasm)

@SM-yr3nt 3 жыл бұрын

Here before 300 and even more views! ;-D

@r.w.9631 2 жыл бұрын

If I were to attempt a speed run it should probably be a game I've been playing for years. I should really attempt one one day.

@nanika2566 3 жыл бұрын

This was awesome! Thank you ^^

@KinzyKenzie 3 жыл бұрын

While some parts drag on a bit, it's very well done! Props to ya. I do wanna ask though, did you fire your graphics person? The thumbnail looks kinda wack.

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

I was too excited to release the video :(

@Temlei101 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant work man

@Booskop. 3 жыл бұрын

Very nice video. I didn't know many things you told in this video, especially from back in the day. I have one small note though: EDIT: I should watch the entire thing before commenting LUL Thanks for putting in the time to make this video. I really enjoyed it. Will you make a video about SA 100% next? *wink*

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

The video does end on the Any% WR lol, are you sure you watched the entire thing?

@Booskop. 3 жыл бұрын

@@englishben You are absolutely right. When typing the comment I was 30 minutes in, and I used the searchbar to hover over the end and saw Reset, so I thought you ended on him and not on the Any%. My bad 😅 I edited my comment.

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

@@Booskop. No worries lad

@onlysleeper6632 3 жыл бұрын

Fock mate, glad to finally see it uploaded!!!

@blakdfje Жыл бұрын

Great video, could use an update though!

@mab_8731 3 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed the video, but I think you have a lot of space for improvement. For example: The Video seems a bit like there isn't enough happening, I mean that in like there could be some background music, fitting to the current part, or that you shorten some of the Clips of the Runners, talking about something, so it's not that stretched out and stuff. Greetings from Germany

@karlteine Жыл бұрын

need an update on this

@patrickb.4749 3 жыл бұрын

Ah, now I see what you meant by "video is long enough, already". :)

@patrickb.4749 3 жыл бұрын

Impressive video, EBen! Very little to nitpick about it given the insane length. :D That the 4:20 or whatever run was hard to beat because it had little mistakes I cannot agree with, given by how much it has been beaten (ofc I am accounting for new strats). Just a gut feeling, though. IIRC, K9 credited GTARunner for the Freddy chase skip. It would take a little research to see what role Snuvvs had in it. 4:24 The GS bridge drop has been timed to be slower, so it is not about consistency. Even if that is Fake News (might be), do you even have enough speed to kill Sweet with this strat (which avoids an animation)? That would need testing. I wrote 47000 messages? :D The LAB dance skip had been shown earlier. gtaforums.com/topic/455492-pass-lifes-a-beach-without-dancing/?do=findComment&comment=1060137310 July 2010 There, a guy comments that he had already read about such a skip before. The minigun strat to turn Pulasky's car is hilarious, I would have liked the video footage of it in: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ec5igtyb3c3Vn4U.html Not talking about the 555 D.A. respawn was a deliberate decision, I suppose. It saves 30s or so, IIRC. More importantly for me, it is a fascinating strat for code monkeys. :D

@southweststrangla9591 3 жыл бұрын

Great video but missing two things. One would be old WSotT setup and who made it, and second post Reset strats such as fade skips. Also breaking audio through pause buffering could've been mentioned.

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

Breaking audio has nothing to do with the world record so idk it would have a place in the video. I have no idea who found the old WSoTT setup and it isn't documented anywhere to my knowledge. As for the fade skips they are extremely minor, if I included every minor strat the video would be 6 hours long lol

@nosquidsid4680 3 жыл бұрын

God Damn AndyNelson the prophecy

@Iris_and_or_George 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video thank you! Do have 1 comment. Why did you block the game footage with those massive non transparent texts? Maybe you had your reasons (copyright or whatever) but I think adding them as subtitles would be much better.

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

It's to show that they were from archive.org back in '05, if i wrote them as subtitles I could write anything I wanted to try and create fake narratives etc.

@christianvandegraaf9844 3 жыл бұрын

Great stuff. And you managed to avoid demonitization by not mentioning Reset's original username.

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

This video isn't monetised because of the intro, but I don't mind. I didn't make this for the money lol

@TokyoXtreme Жыл бұрын

Am loving this channel. How could I watch an hour of this straight through? Very well done 👍

@StrangeIndeed 3 жыл бұрын

great video, but there are some things that you could improve. E.g. Add some music and remove those black bars in game footage (e.g. at 3:26). You should be able to crop the footage and scale it up fairly easily. Also, e.g. at 3:02 you could've blur out the background to make the comment more prominent. Regardless of that, I still enjoyed the video c:

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback, I don't do too much scripted/edited content so I'm definitely not at a professional level. The blurring idea is a good one, I'll keep it in mind :)

@kaiserruhsam 6 ай бұрын

who else is asking why josh blows up ryder's car in 2023?

@D_Winds 3 жыл бұрын

Swag Caddy.

@CodeineAbdulJabbar 3 жыл бұрын

Can't believe this only has 34k views mate. You deserve way more subs with content like this you'll get there im sure of it

@englishben 3 жыл бұрын

Strangely enough, it only had a few thousand until last week. I guess it's either being recommended or perhaps a big personality has linked it somewhere because usually my videos don't get nearly this much traffic. Thanks for the kind words though :)

@megapro1725 3 жыл бұрын

@@englishben Recommended it was