The Most Embarrassing Speedrun in Halo History 

Wasn’t “I’d really prefer if you’d be quiet” in response to a random kid who sat down on the couch uninvited during an early morning tonba run and wouldnt shut up

As a huge Halo fan and also a speedrunning fan separately, I have enjoyed this video 4 times this month. Well done, Frog 🐸

boiii

you're the real mess and embarrassment. This Guy Did Games the right way at the right time. You however are a disgusting moderner from the dark ages. you cannot prove you ever did anything right.

lmfao yikes

This run was bad, but after seeing this it went from bad to abysmal.

@@dstreetz91 honestly the thing that baffles me the most about this. He isn't a frustrated top-level runner who couldn't be arsed anymore to grind. He isn't a high-level runner who faked being a top-level runner, he just seems to genuinely be bad at the game.

Bro that's nothing I've have dentist appointments faster than this run

@@youtube-kit9450 Exactly - even before I started running the game, I didn't even die that much on Heroic, let alone Normal

Its suboptimal due to the menuing :D

Big brain. Huge.

Why don't other speedrunners use this strat? Such a time save :)

​@PvtSn1pe considering he ended up with a +4 hour run, it appears that changing difficulty is a major time loss.

@@LordEcang True, stats don't lie

This comment right here. Underrated. This hits the nail on the head - spending all night watching said friend play a game that you lost interest for in the first 15 minutes.

This just unlocked a core memory of me lmao

that’s lame i always shared and took turns if it was one player

Then gets offened when you ask for a turn and is like "its my game and console!!!!"

White people things

Bless his heart. He tried to make the run less painful to watch by providing some informative commentary.

Imagine the smell of Cody's nervous sweat.

Yeah that serious guy next to cody is serious about serious speed running

Which is why he made a serious decision to exit after the 2 hour mark.

The fact they brought him back the next year makes it worse.

Right you don't feed in their delusion that they're good should have just nixed'em

This is just the perfect display of how delusional cheaters are.

The ultimate post-irony chad

@@TheRealLittleBIGheadthey start believing their own bullcrap

Idiots, the lot of them

So good he did it again halfway through

Thanks for joining me on my legendary run, I'm gonna do a pro strat called lowering the difficulty to easy.

​@@planescapedyeah a lot of speed runs are on either lowest or highest difficulty Lower difficulty can have fewer enemies, higher difficulty is sometimes more prestigious, lower difficulty can have enemies with lower health which means they die more quickly, etc

@@planescaped I can't believe more speedrunners don't know about this cheat engine strat. I just made myself invincible, skipped to the last boss now I'm gonna do a console command maneuver and delete him!

dead

@@samurai-butterfly7393 just like Cody, over and over

That could actually be cool, any whatever-is-the-best-difficulty speedrun, IF there are levels with skips and tricks only on harder difficulties that make some levels faster that Easy. I wouldn't know, I know about as much regarding Halo CE speedrunning as Cody.

😂🐸

me when game lets you adjust difficulty and ive died a handful of times in same spot - "its time to put this sucka on Easy"

that's why they added the mercy kill rule afterwards, there wasn't a rule, although honestly, at 3 hours they should've just said, "sorry Cody, we got more runs to do and you're already an hour over estimate, this is where it ends" Can't remember which run, but there was a run where the runner literally couldn't finish the run, can't remember why, so GDQ after like 30-45 minutes over estimate, nowhere close to finishing just mercy killed the run.

​@@DarkDyllonno clue why they didn't interrupt this run, seems like common sense

They didn't mercy kill the run Narcissist because at this point GDQ was a really new thing and as with basically every new thing rules had yet to be introduced. It isn't like now where they have the whole 7 day lineup with timeslots for each game to try to stay on schedule since they have a venue rented out at a hotel and a bunch of volunteers and staff to keep the show going. It really was just some guys in a room on some couches.

@@DarkDyllon "sorry Cody, we got more runs to do and you're already an hour over estimate, this is where it ends" sounds like something a dark souls boss would tell you before fighting you

Old GDQs were wild. At this point you can find the highlight stuff pretty easily (the runs mentioned in this video along with Werster's "chat interactions" and the like) but theres a lot of intagible stuff you could only see by watching the raw archives. It was just hours and hours of people not knowing what run was coming up, weird rambling dead time between runs, "bonus games" that would just go forever aimlessly (Quest 64 grinding stands out in my memory). It was really something.

I dunno, the one where the crash 2 runner just talks about suicide for an hour has to be number 1.

​@@TooneySAthat was perhaps the most cringe one of all time, but it's a different feeling from watching someone who is obviously out of their depth, attempting something great and failing spectacularly in front of an audience. I will say that Crash one is made sooo much worse if you don't know the game mechanics 😂. First time I saw it I literally asked myself what is this guy's problem? I realized later it becomes easier if you die, but the constant jokes were just cringe asf.

Let alone for nearly four and a half hours

Bruh this is really embarrassing but you should see the fake mario speedrun from badabum it one of the worst I’ve seen

i mean you saw that MGR:R one last year right

At that point i would’ve just asked him to play it on easy just to get it over with

Cody: (Chuckles) “I’m in danger”

@@MajorOctofuss no you wouldn't have.

​@@SpaceMissilewhat? 😂

@@TimothyGod I don't remember making that comment ahaha

Gives me the same vibes as that .gif of Donald Duck tossing Daisy a dime as he passes her on the street.

@@Nepter8248 What?

@@vilelive You heard him.

That's how it went with most things. Look at airliners before 2001

@@LeeAndersonMusic Yeah. I remember during those times you have to pay to use a screenrecorder or have a VCR recorder which was expensive or inconvient for everyone at the time. Not to mention, recording on the PC takes FPS off the gameplay unlike nowadays. I remember Nintendo Power had a contest on getting a high score on a game and they tell you how to take a clear screenshot of your TV even though most camera were crap.

"You Really Think Someone Would Do That? Just Go On the Internet and Tell Lies?"

The need for speed world record site required a replay file. That was in the 90s.

@@michaelwhite278 Oh yeah! The same goes for DOOM. Some games have those features.

That got the whole room going in a way that can make just about anyone laugh. Every time I come back to this video it's a struggle not to bust out laughing.

6:34

@@thebig_steel i love you

He probably makes better armor than the kid playing.

That's the energy I like to see in a speedrunning, not the player stumbling over themselves nonstop

It's safe to say he didn't feel embarrassed at all. He KNEW he had absolutely no clue, yet STILL accepted the invite. This guy literally knows no shame.

Probably not that bad for Cody but for the audience it must have felt like 4 days.

​@@smaller_cathedralsit's oddly inspiring in a way. If he isn't embarrassed by this why should any of us be embarrassed about anything less severe?

The fact that this guy showed up for an another speedrun event blows my mind.

I remember when I was really little I foolishly entered the schools talent show audition and just winged a beatboxing routine cuz I wanted to feel involved (Was pretty isolated, I was like 6). Assuming this guy isn't a narcissist I think he's in reality just a socially unaware dumbass who has no foresight

Relatable

Yeah this dude is some sort of mentally off. Like he's just gonna play on normal at a speed run event and do almost none of the shortcuts, even with people asking him about it? I'm so glad I'm better at reading people now.

Same here. My mom had a boyfriend like that and was so hard to deal with a sucker like him. That kind of person have a real talent to get in trouble. Fortunately he run from our house some years ago.

He that is faithful in the least is faithful also in much

@@howiebeats9588he is using apathy to not die from shame

Most if not all of you can't read people because you spent your whole life speed running video games 😂😂😂 like no sh!t really 😂

What a MadLad…

As someone who’s played halo for about 30 collective minutes, this hurt. Poor goat probably has spine injuries after watching this

There should be a "Cody" award. Complete Halo on normal in over 15 hours.

@@colinmerritt7645 Give him some credit, it was only 4 hours.

It's impressive honestly considering plenty of people probably have that achievement if they made attempts to get good enough at CE, but cody in this run wouldn't get it and isn't even close to getting it.

I grew up with Halo 1-Reach, and even after 10 years of not playing a single FPS game, I still beat Halo 1 in under 15 hours LOL granted that was Normal with MANY deaths, but god I could beat Cody with a month of practice or less

I mean, no one's gonna check me on this, so, there's that, but... I haven't played the game in more than a decade and I think I could take the game deathless on normal in less time than this run. As a totally casual, but Halo obsessed, gamer.

@@kruksog i havent played CE campaign in about 20 years and i kno for a fact i could do it in 4 hours deathless lol.

@kruksog Yeah, I could do deathless normal runs on CE - and on Halo 3 multi-player my KD was below 1, to give you an idea of my sub par Halo skills.

I never played HALO and Im sure I can die a lot ✊🏻💅✌🏻 more than this guy lol

@@subzero308 ya I never played this game ever but I know I could beat it deathless on ultra legendary nightmare mode in 4 seconds .. like I cant prove it but trust me bro

No where near as awkward as now where everytime they shove trans rights agenda down your throat and everyone in the crowd and the runners are forced (yes quite literally forced) to repeat it or else they will be banned from the event and any future event.

i can only hope everyone in that room wasnt a halo player

@@greghuffman3061 although they witness him dying so many times they likely realized something was up

At least you never claimed to be a pro speed runner, but then missed several jumps, forgot which way to go, and failed miserably while dropping the magnum every possible chance you got! We all can be a bit cringe sometimes, but nobody is as bad as Cringe Lord Cody Miller! LOL

​@@blinkdarkmello8067 Hes embarrassing himself the fact that this guy thinks hes such hot shit or that video games are just so easy that he can outright lie about something he cant do and has not done before. He's undermined the true skill required for such tasks. And he live-streamed it. Didnt just try it out for a video or someone made him take a bet or something. Its a combination of too much confidence and a whole lotta idiocy.

@@blinkdarkmello8067I don’t even think it’s that cringe honestly. Like if I was there I wouldn’t be cringing cause he did this. I would just think gamer ego got him and that’s perfectly fine everyone has ego. More funny then cringe

@@Mythowars He is a cheater that should have never gone on stage in the 1st place. Someone else could have been playing instead of him. He claimed to have a world record but when it came time to preform, he couldn't even beat the game on Legendary, or even Heroic! Seems cringe to me!

Dude was chilling and didn't care. He's there for charity not to get paid. This was early gdq hes just having fun. Why should he care. He's doing it outta charity 😅😅😅😅😅

damn bro youre that guy with the cute smile

The Achievement Champ has spoken

The real question is, “When are you doing a Halo 2 Legendary video?”

When speedrunners have skill issue

It’s my boy Snams!

I never understood second hand embarrassment 😂... I don't get embarrassed easily at all so if someone else is doing something embarrassing just gotta laugh and embrace it.. I would have called him out on it tho idk y nobody did that live in that room.

Why would you be embarrassed though. It's not like you can change anything

@@toxic_narcissist I know I cant change anything I just can't wrap my head around how people lie saying they are awesome then go do this and sit there with a straight face like no one can see you lied like that's humiliation and It just makes me feel horrible

Ikr. I’m only 3 minutes into the video and I don’t want to watch it anymore lol

@@wilfred5820 I somehow forced myself to the 13 minutes mark. It's so painful. Should my wife ever bring up how painful it was to give birth to our daughter, I'll refer to this video and tell her I watched half of it!

Yeah it took me several days to finish this

the most blatant liars believe their own lies. A part of him wants to believe he actually is a great speedrunner.

I dont think its because he's delusional, at all. My guess has always been that he's an attention seeker and couldn't pass up the chance at some nerd fame for performing a speedrun at this nerd event.

​@@six-stringphantom1402 I think he's delusional at least insofar as he convinced himself even if it went badly, it wouldn't go *that* badly.

​@@six-stringphantom1402Obviously Nerd fame is the greatest Fame! 😂 Look at this run! 😍 😂😂

Didn't even study it leading up to it to at least pull of the tricks. You could say nerves or whatever stopped you from getting a record time if you at least knew the tricks. My face would've melted off from embarrassment after the first few mistakes; for sure when I hit the allotted time I'm calling it. The fact that he sat there for 4 hours not even being entertaining is baffling.

And still loses, lemme remind you.

I am fluent in sanghelli, He was indeed laughing at him along with telling him he that was mid.

He straight up laughed at his goofy ass suicide lmfao

@@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778it sounded more like he said something way worse than mid

@@silvertoddler8326 N

"You suck and your Jordans are fake, demon!"

Only losers cheat.

I've been called garbage because I haven't been able to beat CE and 2 LASO, but at least I'm honest about only being able to have done Legendary for those two. I have beaten CE solo Legendary, but 2 I did with a friend because 2 is brutal and unforgiving.

@@agentmaryland1239 I'm a Halo veteran and have been playing it since the late 2000s, and even I can't beat Halo 2 on LASO because of how fucking hard it is. I beat it on legendary, and that was hard enough, I couldn't imagine that on LASO now. And you shouldn't have been called that, stats show about 0.03% of Halo players have completed LASO, it's not common at all. Whoever called you trash is a complete dingus and probably never even beat any Halo game on LASO, lmao.

@@agentmaryland1239 Yeah, reiterating what S113Productions said... Literally next to no one completes LASO. I think ive personally only done one mission total and it took me days. No one in my friend group even understood what laso was when i asked them what their best is, then laughed when i told them what it entails. It takes a different breed of person to complete that. If any of your friends are saying that they could beat any halo game on laso, id challenge them to stream it through discord or something, or it didnt happen type shit.

@@agentmaryland1239 just wanted to say that in halo 3 there are some genuinely luck based stuff or in 2 you gotta MEMORIZE the fucking jackal spawns, so yeah whoever is calling you trash hasn't played halo never

I honestly think Cody is the only one with confidence in the room, so nobody was gonna say anything until he was out of the room 😂

You should look up the old GDQ days of Nagleria (Naglerian?) abusing SpikeVegeta on mic for hours at a time. There was one GDQ where they played Mario Party as a bonus game and after anything happened Nagleria would just shout at SpikeVegeta and swear at him.

​@@LotteBlueJayshave a link or something? I can't seem to find it

11:38 the guy leaving fed up is my spirit animal

It's still a comical event..

It’s still very goofy to be around or see in person 😂

it looks like nothing has changed bro i didn't even realise this was a 10+ year old video until like 5 minutes in

Honestly, felt a lot more personal and homely back then. Like a group of friends hanging out or watching someone at an arcade having a good run on the cabinet. Now it's more of an auditorium of people interested to vaguely interested. Less of a focus on like minded individuals and more of advertising the crowd for one and all to join; banning any and all who don't fit their new mindset.

​@TheDewaltBoy I mean, they try to be funny, I guess. But its also less amusing because they have guard rails to prevent dumb funny stuff like this too.

He's either one of the biggest delusional narcissists I've ever seen or one of the biggest chads. He either deluded himself into thinking he still looked good, or he knows how badly he fucked up but just is capable of levels of not giving a fuck previously thought impossible.

its a talent. and he won by getting more fame. his confidence is insane

that was in 2010 when streams were still for complete nerds. it's just a game

I can relate to this, but I would've ended it at 2 hours just for courtesy

I mean, screwing up in front of 100 random nerds shouldn't be that embarrassing

It served as a learning experience for why runs needed to be vetted and verified, especially before you invite someone to perform live. It ended up being Halo, but it could have well happened to any game with lax verification protocols.

@@SethAbercrombyexcellent point. And bad runs have still happened several times even since verifications have been required, which goes to show how important extensive practice and safety saves are for marathon runs

Cope

"warmth by the dumpster fire," is an amazing way to put it

😂

Right? My soul is withering from the cringe just listening to the video.

Fuck it! We'll do it live!

Reminds me of the time an ordinary woman competed in a world championship sprinting race, because her best friend happened to be the coordinator for the event. It was not only cringe, but she robbed a qualified runner from being able to compete.

@@planescaped Fuckin' thing sucks!

I mean have you seen Billy Mitchell lately? Balls is not something conmen lack.

This. It's not just that he played it badly compared to the top-level runnners or even high-level runners, it's that his performance was bad by casual standards.

​@@youtube-kit9450anyone that says "This" needs to neck themselves.

​@@youtube-kit9450literally, im pretty sure i can beat halo 1 on legendary in just under 2 and half hours. Using some speedrun tricks but not all. Cody's run was just pathetic to every halo runner and player.

What happened after you did that? You don’t have to share if you don’t want, I was just curious lol

At least he actually legitimately did a speedrun the second time. It still wasn't very good but it was a speedrun lol

That's why donations should come from the bottom of our hearts and souls, not based on the quality of the entertainment received.

Which shows that GDQ is just circle jerk of scrubs. Remember it’s who you know.

@@JesusProtects Fair enough, but there is a socio-chemical element no matter how virtuous you are. If the runs are bad more people stop watching. They stop thinking about the event and how important it is. When runs are good it makes people have a good time. When people are happy they tend to be more generous (ask casinos)

GDQ is honestly so unique in that I don't think its core viewership could ever genuinely be harmed by one bad run. They have an enormous amount of community support & goodwill, which gives people the freedom to do a bad job sometimes. You'd probably have fewer people attempting live runs if they thought "worst case scenario, i am defrauding charity with how bad i am"; it is a community event after all, not a business sponsorship. It does look like it was quite painful for the Halo community specifically for a while though

yours honestly wasn't that bad

“Grandpa’s the best at killin’.”

It's a spam article site, it's probably not owned by him anymore

Cody Mitchell, Billy Miller...

Again with the obsession over Billy Mitchell, get over it. It's not like he was the first cheater in history or the worst for that matter.

@@SuperTigter Alright there billy calm down dont go suing this guy now

​@@SuperTigter tell Billy Mitchell to get over it first. Not only will he still not admit it, he's actively litigious against people still. As long as he's still going he'll still be mocked, because he hasn't stopped being a twit

Lmao

its so hard when its the basic stuff like the first jump to skip that trigger, like it hurts my soul to see him do it again haha like aaa

I think the first time I played through on legendary was back when I was 13 and the game just came out (played on someone else's Xbox I borrowed, I didn't have any new consoles back then). Took like 16 hours, and ~5 of that was the warthog driving section at the end of The Maw lmao

5 hours on your first run in heroic? 😂

@@alanwatts8239 is it funny cause it's fast or slow?

Either you're lying or halo was a joke then

@@forwardmoving8252 on heroic? It took me way longer in legendary but it took 5.6 hours on heroic

apparently 4 hours wasn't enough, they brought him back the following year and he accepted

Yeah that was the best part hahaha. Love the quote on the other video about this run after he fails the cliff jump over and over. "After 15 minutes of work and 2 minutes of progress, he's decided to skip it". lmao

You and me both

@@kada0420 would you be willing to embark on this Halo journey with me, stranger from a youtube comment section?

​@@thehandsomestman666Halo is so dope dude everyone should experience the story Halo Reach is my personal favorite

I really don't get why GDQ did what they did with Bonesaw.

That run pure gold. Actually funny the whole time. The Owen Wilsons were too good

That run was hysterical.

I played nier automata on the hardest difficulty then the last few hours, I just change to easy cause life wasnt great during that time

I play dishonored on very hard but I take my stress out by murdering everyone and then resetting

The hosts didn't care I guess