Absolutely not. This kind of software has always been a scam, why the hell did you put that permanently in your video? Selling your computing power not only wastes electricity and damages your hard drives by constantly reading and writing the computing tasks intended for servers, it also makes you liable for any illegal activity that happens on your system and network through this service. You might as well start mining crypto; You will still get nothing out of wasting electricity, but at least you know what the hell your computer is being used for!
So not only did Snowy have a great voice for Robin...but also played him like a quick and accurate master!?! Is Snowy just a reincarnation of the Legendary Hood? He is also English as well...I mean cmon!
I like the idea of Robin Hood not even thinking about how spineless his character is on the any% speedrun and it's just "ayo, these skips and this speedrun community are so cool :D" lmaooo
Robin Hood story became a story about deppression and anxiety, with a dose of ptsd. The stress is getting to him and he just... doesn't want to deal with this shit anymore. 😂
Snowy is such a good VA for robin that for a moment at the beginning I was thinking "oh wow he brought on the VA for robin hood!" and then I remembered. He's seriously got the perfect voice for that kind of character.
Me, watching this video without any context: “man I love the cheesy voice acting these old games have. It’s so charming” Me later, seeing the text bumpers on the bottom now that I’m really paying attention: “WAIT THIS WAS JUST THE PEOPLE????” Like seriously y’all captured exactly the right energy
"...but that's just not the case" is a great bit, it's a rare kind of satisfaction when some "superstitious" trick like that turns out to be real. It's like pushing an elevator button several times (which works in Metal Gear Solid 1!).
Like when some random boomer just speedrunning Goldeneye for fun submitted a time for Streets that made no sense (was too quick, but he made several routing errors). In between getting dragged for being a troll/liar in the forum, he mentioned that he looked up at the sky because he felt it makes you run faster, and maybe that made the difference. Turns out he was right, and having things happen on screen makes the game run significantly slower without changing the internal clock speed (though looking at the floor is even faster).
@@ddshocktrooper5604 I distinctly remember this certain gentleman telling everyone to "Put your nose to the grindstone and haul ass!", and nobody knew what he was talking about til someone took it literally and found that trick. c:
"If you fail three times, you get turned into a tree. If you get it right, you earn the protection of the forest." What does that do? _Turns you into a tree._
It was rotoscoped, actually! The behind-the-scenes text in the hintbook from Christy Marx explains how "For the love scene between Robin and Marian... we opted for a pair of real-life lovers and used one of our own programmers and his fiancee. A merry time was had by all. She also performed all of the other actions for Marian, such as the dance which I choreographed on the spot. The videotapes of the actors were digitized and the artists turned them into the finished animations..."
It's so thematic that snowy's best run had him answer the Green Man's final riddle with "SNOW". It's the type of storytelling you wouldn't believe without video evidence lmao XD
Robin Hood was my favorite Disney movie as a kid. Hearing Sam playing some of those songs made my day. Props to his original lyrics too. I lol'd at the "I dreamed up this rock"
One thing not mentioned in the video is how Longbow very, very nearly has a credits warp that would reduce the run to nothingness. Each room in the game has its own script number used to load it; and some of the additional scripts that run within the rooms have their own numbers too. These numbers are more or less random. One of the rooms in the end sequence is script 9. There's a known way to wrong-warp to any script with a number lower than... 9. If they'd just kept the game exactly the same otherwise but numbered that single asset as script 8, the run would be less than a minute long.
2 months is one hell of an "immediately" but I do agree I'm glad we got the speedrun video. Unless you meant immediately as just the next video he did.
@In.New.York.I.Milly.Rock. I dont know, maybe you thought he worked on this video in conjunction with the other one to publish them close together and didn't realize how long ago the last one was published becuase you watched it in parts slowly over the course of a few weeks or something?
"I am Robin Hood, the fastest felon in all the lands!" "Oh, wow, you must be a deadly shot!" "No, not really." "Ah. Well, you must be fearsome with a blade?" "I'm not a fan of conflict, actually." "Well, what ARE you fast at, then?" "Running away and rotating my head like an owl! Hoot-hoot!"
Hearing the guy you got to voice Robin Hood talk about the game is wild to me. Logically, I know that he's just a fan who lent his voice to your video, but it still feels akin to hearing someone like Mark Hamill or Jackie Chan talk about their past projects.
It's really funny for me, because I obviously knew him as Snowy: the Speedrunner first. So I have the opposite experience of everyone else here who first heard him in the last video. Was (pleasantly!) shocked at how good he was as Robin. Great guy.
Dude, I literally rewatched the Quest of the Longbow video today. Your content is amazing, and very high quality. I hope someday you will get the subscribers you deserve. Keep up the good work❤🙌
No way, I rewatch "How Speedrunners Broke Quest for Glory III" yesterday and was thinking about rewatching Part One today xD And I 100% agree - way to go OneShortEye ❤
It's nice to see Shawluck not being content with beating the record by 1 second due to good RNG and then beating his own record with a larger margin before anyone else managed to overtake him. That's just nice sportsmanship, you love to see it.
I got hooked by your first Robin Hood video and quickly went through your library of speedrunning history, I really like the way you present these stories and they are super interesting to listen to, so I was very happy when I woke up to a new 1 hour+ video from you. Know that you are appreciated.
It’s so funny that me and my brother live across the country from each other but whenever we meet up we find out we’ve been watching the exact same thing on RU-vid. Both of us started watching you about a year ago completely separate from each other. When I brought you up he went “NO WAY” and showed me texts I missed where he sent me your vids. So funny how two brothers born 15 months apart can somehow find the exact same creators even back then when you were a much smaller channel
It's weird seeing the voices you used in your video, coming out of the actual people that did them! Honestly it's incredible how well they fit the game perfectly. Brought the characters to life, and I'll remember them! Robin Hood's voice specially, is legendary.
I do not know if you have some journalistic education, but the quality of this documentary is so high, I would not blink if you asked me to send it right after the news, prime time! Congratulation for having made an exceptional piece of edutainment!
OneShortEye striking gold once again! The level of optimization, the perseverance to grind for perfect RNG, and when a winning ticket presents itself, the fortitude to keep calm and perform while under pressure... top tier Sierra speedruns sure are a sight to see. As a side note: I've said it before, I'll say it again, Sierra re-used its game engines so often, any discovery made in one Sierra game can lead to a cascading effect over the entire Sierra catalog. At this point it might be better to regard the Sierra catalog, not as individual games, but as a big Mario Kart game, where each Sierra game represents a single track. Where am I going with all of this? I've watched you guys (Santa, Baato, Swimfan, and you!) going out of bound in Space Quest 4 lately. And there's a voice in the back of my head asking "What if going out of bound was the groundbreaking/controversial discovery that UrQuan was hinting about in your KQ5 video?" Thanks for all the work you've put into these Longbow videos, OneShortEye, and keep us updated!
Really, not going to let your audience know that Salad does crypto mining by default? (and by all accounts, will not earn you much if you don't have crypto mining enabled) Whether or not people are interested in crypto, you'd think they'd want to know what they're signing up for Edit: Months later I'm suddenly getting these hilarious replies that are somehow opposed to pointing out crypto-mining scams. Yall got paid to promote Salad too?
@@iclimbeverything2990yeaaa like those types of programs feel so sketchy. I’ve heard that some less trustworthy “hardware sharing” mining programs don’t actually get uninstalled fully when you try to uninstall it. Probably not the case with this one, but even then these things are just so sketchy.
Late to this but like, i agree its a bad sponsor. However the lights gotta stay on and with sponsors like this they tend to tell you what to say and if you veer off script that no money for you. Idk what kinda sponsors OSE is getting but theres a chance this one one of the only decent (if not only at all) he could use. Again youre 100% right and it is important information to disclose but its a bit too attacking towards the wrong person
I once came home very drunk and woke up at half 4 to a nine and a half hour long playthrough of this game on it's fastest speed. which culminated in a lot of the guy playing accidentally running over too many screens and then having to map back to the camp and trying again. It was very surreal to say the least
SamStokes is my favorite part of this story. I started speedrunning during a rough time in my life as well, and I can definitely relate. Good for him!!
if I had a nickel for every time an adventure game speedrunner made up lyrics to an instruemntal track and it ended up in a OneShortEye video, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?
I've never played this game, I completely missed it when I was growing up. I really need to try it. I can't tell you how much I love these videos. We don't deserve you
This is another very interesting and fun piece. Well done! I also really appreciate how you provide the list of music used in the video. I've found a lot of excellent music for my playlists and it's a standard I wish all RU-vidrs would follow!
Thanks for always making high quality vids like this, love learning about these old types of games. They're super interesting and put you up there with the likes of Summoning Salt (at least for me).
I've never heard of this game in my life, but holy fuck it looks gas as fuck. You can just tell when theres premium quality in an rpg, and this is one of those times.
your original Robin Hood video is propably my most favourite on your channel and its cool that you´re now doing the Speedrunning one, quite fitting aswell considering the prior video set us all up for the rules and chapters and objective of the game.
47:33 “…making sure that, once you do get that RNG, you’re doing everything you can to make sure you don’t goof it up.” I’m not a speedrunner, but as a Final Fantasy X enthusiast, I feel this. Painfully.
Honestly I prefer the style of the previous robin hood videos as to the speed run stuff but I understand some people like the speed run stuff but I'm just saying if you made a few videos with semi educational content like the 2 robin hood videos you made I would watch that so much. Please and thank you
are you serious? your sponsoring to utilize spare hardware efficiency thats not being used? so at the cost of intense energy outputs, the fact your 3060+ will be running at a constant 80ºC+, your fans will be on max speed and loud, and your cooling system(if you have one) will be forced to run. you can earn money? hope you bought that warranty.
I'm honestly a little surprised when I see speedrunners of Sierra games go to the trouble of clicking on the Options icon, clicking Save, and clicking OK, when you can just hit F5 and Enter to accomplish the same thing (and F7 to restore a game). Granted, we are talking mere seconds versus a single second, but isn't that what counts in speedruns?
I'm not sure if I knew about F5 and F7 when I first started running. Plus, I suck, so that's why you see that here, lol. Not sure if you've gotten to this part of the video yet, but Snowy certainly uses F5. I don't remember if you see anyone else in this video save at all, but the short answer is: yes, if they know about it, they do.
@@OneShortEye I just finished the video and indeed picked up on Snowy using F5 to save. I also noticed that some of the runners were using ScummVM's save system (the big grid with the thumbnails), whereas the originals, which you can enable in ScummVM with the "classic save/load screens" option, are a bit faster. You already knew all that, too; just wanted to throw this out to anyone who might not. 😅
