GoldenEye's Most Iconic Level Is Changed Forever 

The GBA era website is pretty cool too

can't believe it, and I thought you were exaggerating in your video title... great video! 🙂

i use War Thunder to Leak Classified material whenever i get bored lol

bro I understand that those ads are part of content creation to actually earn some extra money, but I fucking hate them with all my power. I bought RU-vid premium just because I didn't want to watch ads and here it is.. ads again. In every single video.

​@@janetenuto6092embedded ads like Patreon, Kofi or sponsored content are obviously not removed by RU-vid Premium or Twitch Prime, so that's a non issue.

Todd Rogers did it in 25 by starting in second gear.

Billy Mitchell actually beat it in 24 seconds in 1995 on the SNES.

@@TexasAmericana That's the oldest record that's recorded. I was there 3000 years ago when Billy Mitchel did it in 15 seconds. He was in his prime then. It was fucking wild. ;)

@@Hellbane224 😂😆😂😆😂😆 the man is a true legend.

​@@superscatboyWho is Todd Rodgers, do you mean Todd Todgers?

He is probably busy suing other people.

He delayed the trial until January of next year, so yeah. He's squirming as much as possible because he knows he's fucked lmao

He’s most likely going to make up more bs and make more fake evidence to try and legitimise himself but we all know that’s not possible he’s dug himself in to deep a hole

That guy seems so silly that I've never even watched one of those videos.

😆😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

Yes...no...wait yes

🎉

Booooooo!

...Well played sir

That's no ordinary pun, that's a Gamer Dad Joke.

came to the comments looking for this and i'm so glad someone mentioned it

More than two 1.44MB floppies worth

It's even crazier. Nowadays, "56K" and "dialup" are basically synonymous to those who don't know, but in 1998 56k was brand new and almost nobody had it - and if you *did* have it, you almost certainly didn't get the full 56k. Most people would've still had 33.6 or 28.8 which was even slower, and there were even still some people with 14.4. Downloading a 3MB file at 14.4 would take almost an hour - ironic for a speedrun video.

I remember when everygame had a "Big head" mode. Woulda been great if you could just give that trait to oddjob.

The decision-making process is very shortsighted at the best of times. It needs to be thoroughly convinced (like by the results of others) before it will make leeway for giving up the investment in mastering a pattern. People are hardwired to be skeptic and resistant to change as we tend to prefer a mediocre status quo over a risky improvement.

Its always interesting when its a language barrier thing, like "Hey, this dude in posted a run with a barrier skip on billibilli 5 years ago and EVRYONE overlooked it because how would you even find it"

​@@dopaminecloud That is not what being a skeptic means but I get your point.

​@@RanEncounter Get a dictionary.

@@dopaminecloud Nice projection!

I think I got that one way too easily, because I never recalled that as being anywhere near the hardest... but I do realize how many times I must've done it by recalling all those spawn locations decades later. So many other ones I never unlocked in that game, and that one isn't in my mind as the tough one to beat. Funny how much luck comes into play, I guess.

It took a damn while to get this one.

Hardest cheat for me was the train level one.. until I found out you could shoot Natalia at the end and it would give you extra time..

I got paid to get this cheat back in high school. I charged $5 to get this cheat and $2 for any other ones. Fun times.

@@stevebirk6399 Nice anecdote. I had a couple of people give me their games to take it home to get all of their cheats. Fun times here too.

Lol medal of honor used to track where you bullets hit and show it at the end of the level. Once my cousin and I realized this we became determined to beat the levels with the highest number of crotch shots. The devs really knew their audience back then lol.

@@huuuuuumpy I did that too

I still remember getting 007 and mariokart with the N64 as a package deal for Christmas. Your story made me remember the first few moments playing. Good stuff

@@huuuuuumpy the original MoH on windows xp.. the good ol' days.. and LAN parties

I convinced my brother to rent Armorines instead of 007... he never let me forget how I ruined his life.

I really liked that little touch :)

It’s gonna be hilarious in 20 years when we look back at 80 gig game updates or whatever and think the same exact shit 🤣

During designers' decisions distracting.

Noticed that too. Honestly, the idea of a patron donating to one of Billy Mitchell’s most vocal critics in his name is a such a hilarious and great way to troll Silly Bitchell!

Invincibility and dk mode= you are now a god

Looks like a good punchline for a joke.

sounds like an annoying reddit meme, like "erm wholsome 100" typa shit

Questions to ask on your first date

Although a true statement to be fair 2 champions of the game looked closer into "why and what made that shooting lure more viable to be used in an actual speedrun" - It was discussed between myself and a few others Illu and David C Ryan Isran some through twitch messages / some discussion also on the forums - Ryan DID play out the SECOND Alternate shooting lure with a 53 however I think lost a potential high 51 - He did that on another shooting lure that WASNT this video above that Karl is showing - Illu made sense of the video shown and found out the best radius the guard can "hear" our shooting from which happened to be a "closer" area INSTEAD of another .5+ to the back corner of the labs - The lure back then in 2007 even later when talked about or found through speed lore didnt really dive into better strats per say - Better strat refinement made the lure not only better however enough time gain to make sense to do over the long OG mainline - Today speaking your average gamer is still better off doing the "OG mainline" we can call it now as the new shooting lure isnt for the faint of heart which everything requires to be done JUST right to save that .5-.8 seconds....its really tight however makes that 51 or 52 or 53 that youre going for that much easier if executed properly

even if he's monotone as all heck, yes.

I remember buying chapter books that had GameShark codes lol! Along with strategy guides were the only books I was interested in haha!

The 64 has some good times, but the controller ain't one of em.

It's a good controller. The centralised trigger and stick I appreciated for GoldenEye

​@@1stCallipostleI know it's a meme but I genuinely loved the N64 controller.

​@@1stCallipostleNintendo has quite the history of making awkward, yet comfortable, controllers

Pronounce extra this time

you absolute LEGEND

you are not a legend You are an **ABSOLUTE LEGEND**

Same

Yeah there are a few stages left I think like this in the game unfortunately - Theres a Bunker 2 Agent strat or B2AROG meaning reverse OG mainline - There was also a shooting lure at the time on the reverse route however others are saying its non beneficial...not sure its been tested though on the proper cut scenes even though some say they've "tested" it all with no avail...the reverse mainline on B2A was pretty close to the mainline now thats not reverse (time wise) - I dont think it would beat the WR the B2AROG line however it has high chances to tie in my opinion...

I got everything but invincibility so my friend did it for me and I was never the same 😂😂😂

That is the most 90s gamer way to make money.

@@JustWowNick Kinda.. the DODGY way was to have a CD Burner and Mod Chip service and pirate kents' Playstation games for them.

@@JustWowNick My story of money and video games from the 90s is getting to the end of the Gameboy Metroid II game and not being able to beat the final boss. I tried so many different strategies, and nothing was working. When my friend -- who had never played the game -- saw me struggling with it, he jokingly said he could beat the boss for me. I had tried so hard, that I said if he could beat the boss, I'd give him $5.00! I hand him the Gameboy and he proceeds to tap the missile button a whole lot... and the boss died. Wtf!? I gave him the $5. Throughout the game the bosses got steadily more and more difficult, requiring more precision jumping and shooting. So it was really unexpected that the strategy for the final boss is to literally to not jump or move, and just tap your missile button lots, let the boss to come to you...

lol never thought of making money that way but makes sense

Wow, this seems like a great strategy! Control is one of the few levels (along with Cradle and Aztec) I could never beat on 00 Agent. What does " the problem is getting to the balcony requires moving outside the radius she'll work on the satelite" mean, in effect?

​@@drunyon214 If I had to guess it means if Bond moves too far away from Natalia, her script will stop and she'll stop doing what she's supposed to until you get back close enough for it to resume. Probably something to do with hardware limitations built into the game that stop processes running further away from the player to spare system resources and allow the game to actually run. Likely the devs never intended for the player to leave Natalia in that section, so they didn't program an exception for her script to keep working while you're out of the usual range for NPCs. Remember the average mid-range smartphone today has several orders of magnitude more processing power than the strongest gaming console then, only powerful industrial computers even came close to a modern smartphone. Both The Matrix and The Phantom Menace were released in 1999, two years after Goldeneye, and that was the peak of CGI back then, taking weeks to months of processing for each scene to be spit out of custom-made computers.

Paragraphs, please, for the love of all that is holy.

I don't know how familiar you are with current Hitman WoA speedruns, but luring with shots is incredibly useful in many ways. There's the obvious usage of distraction shots. There's the implementation of firing at guards three times to either A) move them out of the way so you can get by, or B) having the guard NPC come towards you since they are your target. There's also a more recent strat found on Hokkaido. On that particular level, some doors can only be opened if you are wearing particular outfits. If you lure an NPC with such an outfit to a door, 47 will be able to open it.

@@danielyoungblood3931 Oh, I know of these. Way back into 2016 with HITMAN's release, I watched speedrunners like Frote, Mendi and GuLe or CJ perform these ones. Normally the ones of us in Hitman Forum would be of the first to watch their performances!

A real Parker Square method eh?

@@zeikjt idk I always assumed it was a clip on

Thanks to someone no one has heard of

@@DenkyManner if you've heard of streets 1:12, you've heard of ryan lockwood. and mark rutzou. because it was a mr / rl time.

Extra casual: L, R, up, down

This right here - Love it

Yeah, It's like that in every community and field pretty much.

*karl

I had the FIRST VIDEO World Record for goldeneye on THIS specific level Facility OOA @1:04 in 1998 - Was able to lower it using only the 1.1 control style to just about 1:00 before retiring from speedrunning - The game testers had 1:25 in 1998 who thought my video was fake and "IMPOSSIBLE" yet here we are in 2023 and were talking about possibly :50 which I think is possible on SA anyways

Check out the Speedlore series from Goose (another Goldeneye runner). It's exactly what you're looking for. He's been doing them for years and has covered every level on every difficulty at this point. He starts with the very first known world record for a level and then slowly works all the way up to the current world record, showing videos of the runs and explaining the different strategies and how they have evolved over the years. Most of his recent Speedlores have been about DLTK (a different category of speedrun) and other stuff, so you may have to go back a year or two to find the full level Speedlores. Some of them are getting a little outdated as new strats have been found since then, but it's a good place to start if you want to learn the history of Goldeneye's levels.

As you should be able to tell from a two-shill video, he's not here to give you his time, he's here to squeeze your wallet dry, you absolute legends...

@@Tormented22How is he here to squeeze our wallets dry? Wtf is two-shill? Are you a bot?

@@edwinhuang9244 Yeah, I'm a bot. Welcome to the future, my friend, where robots write the internet comments on two-shill videos such as this. Don't be dense. You know exactly what I'm talking about, orrrrr you're of such low IQ that you just think the shilling is part of the overall Goldeneye Speedrun experience. "Duh huh! Great video, especially the two bits about the tanks. Not sure what that was about but it sure made sense in my head because I'm an absolute legend." Tool.

​@@Tormented22 Whoah Billy Mitchell, sir, big fan

@@nekuro5548 There are really only two sides to life, for you, aren't there? Either you suck Jobst testicle or you suck Billy Mitchell's? How about I just observe things with my eyeballs and don't like greed?

Its clearly a level.

@@ericmcmullen6254 One of the levels of all time for sure

Brother it's been 4 minutes yo ass ain't even watched half

What kid?

I don't think it's a level. It's just a really long, playable cut scene.

Is it just me or does Karl sound really sarcastic when he calls us legends? 😂😭

I agree! Such amazing content, love the narration and effort put into these videos that essentially capture moments in history

Facility was definitely hard but I think Caverns 00A was also a hard cheat for me to unlock. The target time was like 9:30 but the level was very long and full of guards with AR-33s which meant that you could only get hit a few times before dying. Multiple times I missed it by a few seconds and finally squeaked by with only a few seconds to spare.