(upbeat music) - Some gamers out there can't
stop when given a challenge. And that's really why they do it. Not necessarily for recognition but that's exactly what
we're gonna give them today. Hi folks, it's Falcon
and today on Gameranx, "10 More Gamers Who Did the Impossible". And before we get going, we
actually did a previous video of these in case you're looking for some other equally impressive feats like beating every "Dark Souls"
game without getting hit, "Resident Evil 2" remake,
no damage, no save, not pressing the A button in "Mario 64". I mean, there's a lot of good
ones, some pretty crazy stuff. But without any further ado,
let's get into this one. Starting out with number 10, somebody actually beat every main line "Assassin's
Creed" game without getting hit. And you're probably thinking
like, "That's a lot of games." It's a ton, it's 12 games. It took him nine months. The player goes by the name Hayete. And it just, this is one
that he started in 2021 and finished in April 2022. And it took 950 hours. So again, 950 hours,
nine months, zero hits. Did not get hit a single time. Like that's absurd. I'm assuming that if he got
hit that he documented it on his YouTube channel, which I don't know exactly
how much of it he showed, but that's just such an absurd, long, laborious, difficult challenge. He also offered some
notes saying his favorite of all of the games, the most balanced
between story, mechanics, and just coming together
well, it's "Odyssey". And although he thought
probably the least good game was "Assassin's Creed", it
probably had the best story in terms of explaining the assassins. And then also the game
with the worst story, "Assassin's Creed: Unity", was also the one with the best stealth. He actually detailed a pretty long post about this kind of stuff. And it's, I think, pretty good insights. It makes sense when you don't get hit to have seen a few of the
extra little third rail things about the games. But that's an incredibly
dedicated challenge. Well done, Hayete. Moving on to number nine. In the last video, we covered a guy who beat
every "Dark Souls" game without getting hit. And today we're gonna cover somebody who just did "Dark Souls 3"
without taking a single hit with a "Guitar Hero" controller. So, there's a lot of instances
(laughs) of people attempting "Dark Souls" with a lot of strange controllers. And like, it's impressive when
people win the game, period. It's not even kind of easy
to take on "Dark Souls" with a non-standard controller. But the "Guitar Hero" controller
is kind of a special beast. It's really, really specific
in what it's set up for, the "Guitar Hero" games
specifically. (laughs) And on top of that, this guy, MezzPlays, didn't just beat it like with
a "Guitar Hero" controller. He did it fast. It was incredibly impressive the speed that he takes this game down with. He did like skip all the optional bosses and did anything he could to
make the story run shorter but that's like a lot faster
than an average story-only run. Just to have done it without taking a hit on a weird controller. It's impressive. At number eight, a challenge that YouTuber
Cr1tikal actually put a huge bounty out on. He said, if you could beat "Halo 2" on the highest difficulty setting with every skull activated without dying, he would give you $20,000. Now, of course, that is an absolutely, totally absurd challenge known as the "Laso Deathless Challenge". So, here's the trick. Cr1tikal, whose real name
is Charles White, Jr, said you have to stream the whole thing because obviously there
can't be any cheating. If anybody finds any evidence of cheating that stuff has got to be
taken care of, figured out. Just understand what's going on, you know? Now, originally his bounty
was only $5,000, though. And it took a couple of
months of nobody doing it for him to go, all right,
I'm adding 15,000 to that. So, this streamer by the name of JerValiN, who is actually not like a
big streamer or anything, just somebody who had set a
few world records in Halo, actually did it. In Cr1tikal's opinion, and this was actually
the hardest challenge in all of gaming. JerValiN didn't like freak out or anything when he managed it, either. He just kind of said, "You know, I would've
thought this was impossible. And it wasn't." I mean, I don't know
what's more impressive, that he was that chill
about getting $20,000 or the challenge itself. At number seven, a YouTuber by the name of Minthical kind of did something like really, really impressive in "Minecraft". Which to be clear, isn't
really the same thing as a lot of other games. Like you don't have the same
kind of accomplishments or, I mean, you have achievements and stuff but they're not set forward
with really finite goals. Minthical decided he was gonna
mine like all of the blocks which it's just an insane goal. And over the course of about five years, he mined away about 45 million blocks. And it's easily one of the
most insane looking things of all time. The map itself with him
basically at bedrock and there's like barely
anything left looks insane. It looks totally insane. In the live stream he
did near the end of it, he talks about like how
he had to store blocks and how he had to prepare
the diamond pickaxes. And I mean, this is somebody who mined away 45 million
blocks just 'cause. That's nuts. And really frankly sounds impossible. But clearly where there
is a will there is a way. At number six, a gentleman
by the name of Luke Steelman obtained the impossible arrow in "Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild". So, let's talk about what
that is before we get into it. So, when you're making any game there's little things that
get placed or forgotten or end up somewhere that you don't expect. And when you make an open-world game, the likelihood of this
stuff being overlooked later and just left in the game is a lot higher. Now, "Breath of the Wild" is probably one of the coolest, most
impressive open-worlds ever built just in terms of not
necessarily density but design. And despite all of the deliberate
time put into the world, it still has some impossible stuff. For instance, in April of 2021, somebody discovered
that there was an arrow above Gerudo town just like up in the air, something that you could
never expect to get to unless you use glitches. Now, the main glitch that
people tried to utilize was a glitch involving a horse
that allowed you to moon jump which supposedly works kind
of like an infinite jump. However, it was too
inaccurate to get there. So, a YouTuber by the name of Steelman combined it with a glitch that allows you to use the guardian kind of as a air ship and combined it with a
couple of other glitches. Like it's really complex you can see. Like, the whole thing's totally insane. And he managed to get the arrow, which was thought to be just something that wasn't going to happen. At number five, a guy did a pacifist run in "World of Warcraft"
and reached max level by only picking flowers. So, this one requires just
a little bit of explanation. The guy's name's Double Agent and he's actually done this before. Back in 2016, he had spent
like 8,000 in game hours picking flowers to reach the max level which was capped at 110
for the "Legion" expansion. Basically, he had just
gone on and on and on and then did the same thing again in 2018, when the "Battle for
Azeroth" expansion launched and the cap was raised to 120. He said that was an additional 240 hours. Now so, "Shadowlands"
launched back in 2020 and had a level cap down at 60. He started completely
over and hit that cap without leaving the "Wandering
Isle", like the intro place. The thing that you don't stay in if you want to reach max level, period. But Double Agent did it. And again, it's totally insane. Blizzard was so impressed by this they made an NPC of his character. And I think he deserves that
sort of recognition, you know? He came up with a totally different way of playing the game and reached max level. It's really impressive, actually. Also took an incredible
amount of dedication. Frankly, wandering around picking flowers is not the most fun thing
you can do in that game. At number four, speaking
of going to the max level without leaving the
first area of the game. Somebody did it in a
game that doesn't have that same kind of introductory area. "Final Fantasy VII" is a
game that kind of places you right in the middle of the action. Although it still kind of uses that action to tell you about the game. A guy by the name of Circlemaster grinded both Cloud and Barret to
level 99 in the first area before facing the first boss. And probably the best thing
about it is it took him years. And did it literally to spite somebody by the name of Dick Tree on a forum. Not an open forum, a private forum. He said he decided to do this because this guy on this
private forum named Dick Tree claimed that he would
be able to hit level 99 in "Final Fantasy VII" without leaving the Sector One Reactor. Well, he couldn't. Either that or he stopped tracking it. Probably means that he couldn't. And in 2015, Circlemaster
decided to, and I quote, "Express my hatred, and more importantly, my disdain, for Dick
Tree," began the task. This took about 500 hours. And not like on the PC or using emulation. He did it on an actual PS1. He posted a message about this being a
meaningless accomplishment but that life is meaningless. And that we do these
things to give meaning. He said he wanted to prove to himself and others on the forum that he can persevere and
wanted to express camaraderie for those who followed
Dick Tree for several years and were ultimately disappointed by his not following through. At number three, in
old-school "RuneScape", not standard "RuneScape" might
I add, the less advanced one, a guy by the name of Lynx Titan
got 200,000,000 experience on every single skill in the game. Which various people have done the math would take at least 30,000 hours. In old-school, not standard,
old-school "RuneScape". The well, I'm not saying
that standard "RuneScape" is the least clunky thing ever made. But old-school "RuneScape"? Wow. There's not really a lot
else to say about this. It's incredible that somebody
would take that much time in old-school "RuneScape" doing this. At number two, "Asheron's Call" had this event called "Shard of the Herald". And if we're going to be completely frank, there's too much here
to completely explain. It's not often covered in a way that really fills out the context. I'm gonna go ahead and cop to
the fact that I was not there. I was not playing "Asheron's
Call" at the time. And therefore I do not
understand the lore. I did a large amount of research hoping that I was going to
be able to condense it down into a short period of time. That's not possible. But I can recommend you an
absolutely fantastic video that does explain it
from the point of view of an actual person who took part in it. It's narrated by somebody
named Andrew Ross who goes into all of these things that I don't have a
frame of reference for. Gonna be completely honest. I played "Asheron's Call" a little bit. And what ended up happening
was one of the servers called Thistledown managed to
essentially create a situation where they were the ones
that created the lore. Whereas in an MMORPG typically,
the developers do it. And I don't, there's so much information. It is totally insane. And it's really cool. It definitely set a
template for future MMORPGs to bring in players as
part of the storytelling. And finally, at number one,
this one, in my opinion, is one of the most impressive
things I've ever seen in my life. And it's less about like an accomplishment that you can actually achieve in-game and more about breaking the game. So, using a standard "Super
Mario World" piece of software, doing no memory hacking
with like a Game Genie or any of that, somebody used just regular button inputs into a Super Nintendo and
reprogrammed "Super Mario World" to play "Pong" and "Snake". And like, this needs to just be said, it's one of the most insane
things you will ever see in your life. If you're unfamiliar, it is tool assisted. So, it's not like somebody
put in all of these inputs on a controller, 'cause it's literally at the level of like the frame rate, like 1/30 of a second you
have to input something. And then they dump a ton of
code into the game itself after they just totally break the way that it manages memory. Now what's cool though, is they didn't just run it on an emulator. They ran it on an actual Super Nintendo. And they did this back in 2014. So, it was a while back but still that Super Nintendo was probably nice and
yellow by that point. You know how that plastic just ages to this fine pea yellow color. It's just impossible that people even come up with this stuff for me. I'm so impressed by it. Like this was a game that
I played when I was a kid and somebody was able to totally
break it on real hardware and program their own
game into the console without like a Game Genie
or modifying the code, just like button inputs. A machine did the inputs to be clear but it's still just so impressive to even figure any of this crap out. A quick bonus for you. In an elaborate marketing
stunt that some people did to market a mod for "Nier: Automata", they kind of hoaxed
everybody into thinking that somebody found a
new area in the game. But apparently they came up with these incredible new modding tools that integrate with Blender. And frankly, it's really
cool that they were able to add something totally new to the game that nobody thought was possible. Because mods for "Nier:
Automata" never were that extensive prior. So, it was just something that everybody got incredibly excited
about because it basically meant people were going
to be able to do a lot of new cool stuff with the game. And that's all for today. Leave us a comment, let
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