World Record Progression - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - Any% 

~Get him boys, he never understood a thing~

i just discovered this genre of youtube videos. i can't have enough of them. i'm so glad that you covered GTA VC

Thank you for such a detailed dive through of this every evolving world of VC speedrun. Appreciate it!!

man this brings me back, i ran this game back in 2012-2013 and remember thinking if there was just a way to remove cone crazy from the run this would be the perfect speedgame, i never could have imagined that not only would that happen but we would also remove SSA, doing those annoying dock jumps in boatyard, getting busted on ice cream, just about everything that was super annoying about the run has been removed. crazy how far this game has come

Great Work! With all these "wr progression" videos coming up lately, this was the most waited for me. Thank you for doing it.

That feel when you didn't start speedrunning earlier so you didn't witness this real time. FeelsBadMan

holy shit, my reaction for sub 1 was soooo bad xD wtf is this noise KEKW good memories :) this sub 57:30 (old timing) was so clean like 5 sec of the best possible to get that wasn't worth to even try to grind for better time. Greetings to everyone who push themselfs to the limit and high five to all viewers that support us :)

Never finished this game but love speedrunning history like this. I follow tony hawk speedruns and was cool to see guywith on here

Every man and his dog jumping on the world record progression flex these days. I love these videos!!

damnn i remember coming across adam ak stream few years ago and have been following vc speedrun scene ever since, now trying to run it myself finally interesting to see how things have changed within that time, like doing cone crazy strat is gone, replay glitch etc interesting video, love it and learned much things, hope this gets lots of views and good feedback, cause you deserve it 💯

Very nice video Ben ! Really well done. It's nice to finally see this progression in a video. I've seen a lot of WR progressions lately, but this has been my most wanted one yet ! Keep up the great work as always !

Great job, Ben, felt nostalgic remembering all that stuff again :)

That was beautiful! Thanks for the video

Okay, this is amazing. Wonderful job, English_Ben!

Fantastic work! GTA VC will always be my favourite Speedrun and community.

pretty awesome video, man. always love to see vice city, hope you make more stuff like this. only thing i could recommend is that a little tighter vocal editing goes a long way c:

great vid! I love speedlore!

Thank you, great video! Keep them coming!

This video is so good I always come back to watch it after a few months

Nice vid, this type of stuff is always interesting to me.

Replay Skip: Community loves it SSU: Nooooo! Make a new category!

I really like this channel. You got a new sub!

Finally man, Great work

Great video, Ben! Thanks for making this

Lovely stuff!

Amazing documentation!

great video keep up the CONTENT

I started getting heavily invested in the gta community because of Josh, S, and Adam. It feels weird to think it's been 6+ years already. Back when me learning the game on ps3 was kinda reasonable, With all the replay tech now I don't think I could get into it the same way again

One of my favorite games of all time

"Oh come on, get the fuck out of my way!"

Great job English_Ben

Really good video, i like it

Amazing video man! Hope you get to 1000 subs soon.

Thanks for this Ben! Really informative for us speedrun fans and VC fans

Seeing those guns appear after he shot them from the bike. You know, when the enemy drops a weapon; Literally give me a nostalgic hit of dopamine!! Omg, like when I was 13 or some shit Haha. I'll never forget the feeling of them dropping a good gun before cheats where like everywhere and you had to get the magazine to get the cheats. Hashtag old man vibes at 27 🤣

Amazing Video :)

Nice. I love these.

nice man, I've probably missed your other scripted narrated videos if there were any, but this, this is class

Can't wait to see a documentary about vice city DE in 10 years I'm watching the community on twitch daily this time around

Nice video! One tip I could give if you ever make another wr progression video is to not show the texts from discord etc too long but try to find relevant footage for that improvement/skip. Loved the overall pacing! Keep making great vids

nice work :D

Played it as teen. Ah the good memories.

great video, great job, great you. I love you

I don't like that different languages are allowed, but still, this is awesome for sure

世界纪录！really good history

Voice of an angel

there needs to be a video like that but for San Andreas too

This is such an awesome video, thank you. I owe pretty much all of my interest in speedrunning to Adam and Narcissa, formerly Cosmo. Watching Vice City any%, all missions, 100%, chaos%, didn't matter, he always had such a good stream. Remember when everyone got pissed at twitch and he moved to hitbox for a night and the stream delay was around what we have today with low latency. This is in 2014, mind you! Cosmo with OoT, always loved watching the runs and I happened to get to see the famous 18:10 live :) Edit: Oh my gooood that reddit thread. I remember seeing that thread in the new section of /r/speedrun and going "wow I wonder how important this could be" Little did I know lol

Great video man! You should do another look this for the other GTAs

UPDATE: Marushko's run was finally beaten by guywith , with a time of 50:11!

Nice video, I really enjoyed it. :)

probably the only guy I'd accept this video from :D amazing video Ben :)

The Salt has been Summoned

17:17 RIP in peace, Bruh

great video, deserves more views!

You deserve an honorary master's degree from somewhere for all of this work. Awesome video!

that music in the backround at the beginning sounds like something I heard on someones elses channel. I know its free to use music but I'm curious what it is .... because I like it . peace and nice video

GG KZ Fruit

I just saw the vice city speedrun world record (no ssu) using international version which is 8 years old. Are there no instapasses found on international version which could benefit this category? Or that version was completely abandoned?

What's the name of the track in the background in the beginning? Smooth right there

are you gonna do other categories and games?

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What's the music playing at the beginning?

This video is great, and I would love to see the WR progression of the other GTA's too, mostly SA. Although I know its not easy to make these..

What was the reason for language change after the Pizza Boy dupe?

Wow

18:23 is that NeatMike? lol

Can i speedrun this game on Android? Or do some strats not work then?

Hey, great video! One thing I would really appreciate is if you actually wrote the names of the runners/their stream links on screen so that you support them more and I can find them without guessing on spelling and such. Thanks!

Vc forever

What car @9:45 please tell me. Is it like a hotted up version of the Blista Compact?

This video came in may 2019. What is discovered after it? I found that ctc snipe and dialog stealing is not mentioned. Are these discovered later?

Love this game so much. Still my favorite in the series.

Song Name around 25:00?

You plan on doing one of these for GTA 3?

I personally liked the speedruns without exploiting any glitch

i miss adam :(

Eyo just finished my gta sa remastered android badlands speedrun, well i did some fuck-ups, i will be last if they accpeted my run, im 56min but if i didnt fail bc the car coudnt stick to the ground in the second CV race i woyldve got like 50min

14:48

Damn 8:38 wtf 😂

How was ssu discovered? Wouldve been a more interesting watch than looking at frew lying on his bed.

man, frew was mad thicc back then

There were people before and during CannibalK9 who were involved. Giving all the credit to K9 would be unfair, although it is reasonable to assume he did the bulk.

Kuy

14:25 Thanks for doing the pronunciation research. SummoningSalt doesn't even bother trying.

isnt gate zip just the game not knowing where to put tommy, rather than him going oob? Same as with lamppost warping.

I turned 2 the same day this game had a recorded speedrun.

Summoning Salt feelings right now

Not once was Anti mentioned lol

Also fatzke not only beat adam within a day, but within an hour (shorter than the run's length)

You pronounced Faggio wrong.

Look at how they massacred my boy. The favorite game of my childhood. This is true for mosr speedruns but this glitchiness is next level!

GTA:VC True Any%+ Fists Only :D

It's a very well put together video, I only wish you had edited out your verbal stumbles (stuff like "When starting Cap the Collector, the mission will fail if they have no left... assets left to tax" at 26:16 and "as it is moch... much closer" at 26:25), as there's just a few too many, and it makes the video feel a little unprofessional to me.

I haven't even watched 30 seconds of this video yet, but you say VC was created in "under a year"? Not even close! It's GTAIII with different maps, a better storyline, and some different controls...but the same engine. It took muuuuuuch more than a year.

Good video. Mostly accurate 9/10. Voice over feels rushed towards the end. Overall rating 6/10, wouldn't watch again.

What's the point of this video if you don't explain traffic manipulation and some other glitches at all?

Speedruns stop being fun when major glitches get involved. It just seems very pointless. I also don't think praising people who use glitches for world records and other scoreboards. these kind of glitches have become easier for people to use in multiplayer games. People getting through walls where their opponents can't get them for example. But because they're called a discovery and praised it goes ignored and unpunished. plus seriously. what is the enjoyment is saying you completed vice city in 8 minutes. anyone they tell who's ever played a video game will know its not legitimate and is significantly less enjoyable than even using some kind of infinite ammo/health/money cheat. This kind of speed running is quickly devolving into who can find a way to glitch the ending credits as soon as the game begins, which maybe a record. it may be a game in itself. but its certainly no longer a speed run of playing the actual game. I don't see an issue with exploits that confuse the ai into taking the wrong car or using normal mechanics in none intended ways to speed things up. but glitching walls and skipping entire chunks of the game just devalues everything they set out to achieve.

Good old times! Where no one even knew made up pro nouns for made up genders. Back in the time when transvestites and homosexual wouldn't rule the speedrunning scene.