This is easily the most underrated run in a GDQ event. The run was executed phenomenally well, and the commentary was fantastic. Being able to commentate so well while performing precisely timed movements and actions is multitasking on another level.

I wish I could go back in time and do this for people in 1989 without explaining it.

@robertsides3626

4 жыл бұрын

I'm just imagining an unlabeled VHS tape mailed right to Enix's main office.

@CeeJayThe13th

3 жыл бұрын

I wish I could go back and just do a SMB1 Any% and freak people out.

@logans.7932

2 жыл бұрын

You don’t run into a single enemy until a random metal slime, jump to level 5 without weapons or armor, then dip

@va_duck2497

2 жыл бұрын

The bus gets here in 30 minutes. Finish your game.

@TheFlyingZulu

2 жыл бұрын

You would be accused of cheating somehow. Lol.

A lot of people don't seem to realize how impressive this is. I can't even try to imagine how much research had to be done to assemble this run. And to be able to pull it off in front of a crowd, while explaining most of it at the same time. I for one am in awe.

A well-earned standing ovation! That was an amazing, AMAZING run, more so when you consider that the runner himself was giving superb commentary while constantly manipulating RNG to perfection. Tough act to follow!

Ok, that was really amazing. It has everything. Novel and deep understanding of how the game works, routing, precise timing, precise execution, and excellent commentary. One of the best runs I have ever seen.

@jharvey62778

5 жыл бұрын

Excellent commentary can be mentioned again he did such a great job

Whenever an old tale says a hero succeeded with the help of a deity or destiny, imagine some guy on mount olympus is looking down at their journey and manipulating RNG so the hero wins.

@whorantheironhorse1680

5 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment

@tomasfong40

4 жыл бұрын

I mean the godess of luck is a thing

-The Dragonlord watching the hero depart on his journey. "Oh look, i guess he's going to his ancestor grave now ?" **Turns around** "How did you get here?"

@benjamorales2344

27 күн бұрын

😂😂😂

I didn't know Dragon Warrior was a rhythm game!

@necrobonesgaming2424

6 жыл бұрын

Dragon Warrior Hero: Legends Of Rock

@chaosmizuchi

5 жыл бұрын

@@necrobonesgaming2424 ** Dragon of the Rock

@MetalSmasherGaming

5 жыл бұрын

Dragonforce Warrior

@EidoEndy

2 жыл бұрын

With enough skill, every game is a rhythm game. Just hit the buttons at the right time.

@jacksawack6724

2 жыл бұрын

Dragon Dragon Revolution

By far, one of the best runs this year. He took control of the entire game without any outside tools.

@Nhusky

6 жыл бұрын

Actually, he used copious notes as outside help. Still amazing though and I agree it's one of the best runs in the marathon.

@NerfedFalcon

6 жыл бұрын

I agree with myself. It's always interesting to see turn-based RPGs get speedruns like this, especially the older ones where people have had plenty of time to learn all the TAS-level tricks.

@festerallday

6 жыл бұрын

I got this game free with a subscription to nintendo power. It came with a hint book that explains how to do this. It is not a new technique.

@NerfedFalcon

5 жыл бұрын

Then let's see you do it without them.

@MozillaVulpix

4 жыл бұрын

I guess you could say he became part of the game, right, Hajime?

This is seriously one of my favorite runs of *all time*, it's such a fun video to watch. It turns the original Dragon Warrior into a rhythm game, essentially. I still come back to watch it fairly regularly.

Here I am grinding scorpions for hours to afford a god damn broad sword.

This was probably my favorite run of the entire marathon just by the sheer amount of perfect execution. I used to grind every morning before school in 5th grade to try to beat this game!

There was an episode of Yu Yu Hakusho where there is this kid who has mastered a trivia video game to an insane extent. The game was a 10 question quiz, and every question was selected from a vast database of possible questions. The kid had memorized not only the answers to every question, but all of the possible quizzes that could occur. In other words, the quizzes weren't selected at random - there was a huge list (over 10,000 quizzes) from which the current quiz was selected from. The kid used the first 5 questions of the quiz to determine what the next 5 would be, and could then answer questions without allowing a single word (or letter) to be asked. Speedruns like this remind me of that kid, only this is somehow even more impressive.

@calsinclair

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds awesome. Is this episode available on KZread?

@giin97

5 жыл бұрын

I did that with the old "You Don't Know Jack" Trivia game. Amusingly, Dev thought they would be clever, if you interrupt the question before the narrator is done reading, the question vanishes off the screen, and instead of multiple choice, it's a typing field. I had that game down pat :P

@DecepticonLeader

5 жыл бұрын

@@calsinclair Yes, saw that ep a few weeks ago. Should still be available.

@SrChoppers

5 жыл бұрын

And you know whats even more amazing? Yoshihiro Togashi, Yu Yu Hakusho creator, is also a massive Dragon Quest fan.

@grizius4123

4 жыл бұрын

@@SrChoppers that why hxh is on hiatus

Wow, this guy is a really good commentator, doing fancy tricks WHILE explaining them

Showing this to my mom now. This was her FAVORITE videogame of all time. She is MIND BLOWN. 😁😁😁 THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!

Maybe one of the best marathon performances ever

20:11 getting applauded for dying is one of the reasons I like speedrunning.

@bredmond812

6 жыл бұрын

What did the guy shout in the background shortly after your time stamp?

@Zelapher

6 жыл бұрын

i think it was "DON'T LET HIM DIE"

@BuFFoTheArtClown

5 жыл бұрын

Well, then you'll LOVE GDQ events because a lot of people die from cancer. I wish more people clapped and cheered when donations are read.

The faith the Dragonlord and his minions had in the STOPSPELL was their undoing...

@bredmond812

6 жыл бұрын

"your faith in your friends is yours" ~Anonymous?

@Seydaschu

6 жыл бұрын

You might be joking, but Erdrick's Armor literally makes you immune to STOPSPELL, and enemies will randomly cast it as long as you aren't silenced. So when they choose to cast STOPSPELL, it is a guaranteed free turn! Late-game enemies that simply know how to cast STOPSPELL are much easier than those that can't.

@darkjanggo

6 жыл бұрын

Seydaschu wait seriously? damn i never knew that

@DecepticonLeader

5 жыл бұрын

@@bredmond812 That quote is from Darth Sidious (The Emperor) from Return of the Jedi. Also, yeah Erdrick's armor is so op. Not only stopping stopspell, but also makes you immune to damage tiles and give regeneration. Only wish the shield and weapon had special effects too. That would have been cool.

@bredmond812

5 жыл бұрын

@UCVFuy6c56TNj_hyTBBXQqUw i know. i cant remember exactly where i was going with except maybe making an oblique indication of where the OP derived his quote from.

He really is a descendent of Erdrick.

@ShosuCeladon

5 жыл бұрын

The Erdrick Family is real.... 0_0

"I AM ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL"-NESCardinality

Skill Level: _Groundhog Day_

@xXChipsAndGravyXx

5 жыл бұрын

underrated comment

Mind blowing run, the game knowledge of this dude is just insane he can even predict the npc movement by manipulating RNG. Amazing run.

@adameves5970

6 жыл бұрын

the npc movement that he "predicts" is used to confirm the proper frame. if he was wrong, his rng would be messed up. its like "predicting" that you'll see that first goomba in mario.

@knightrdrx

6 жыл бұрын

Not a normal play of the game so it doesn't count

@Jordan3DS

5 жыл бұрын

I agree, 38th Defender of Earth

@hotdogwater7037

5 жыл бұрын

@@knightrdrx it actually is a normal run. Thats on console

First RPG I ever played. I have some serious fond memories of this game, and even the Gameboy remake.

This guy might be my new favorite speed runner.

Games usually plays with your expectations and can surprise you on some level even after playing 10.000 hours this guy plays with the expectations of the game. You can´t know a game better than this.

@gengie8147

6 жыл бұрын

But u have to grind the game a couple hundred times to be at his level

Not going to lie... if I knew all the correct algorithms on how to manipulate RNG in this game, I would've choked and failed spectacularly.

It takes a lot of commitment to practice a run over and over again and be able to play it with that kind of precision, all while delivering explanations, in a marathon setting. One step too many or too few or one pause too long or too short, and the run would have gone to heck, and this guy is just chugging through while explaining the process in detail.

very extremely wild to see this dude think and talk at the same time. i cant even fold laundry and talk at the same time. sheesh

I just realized how many hours I wasted playing this as a child when I could have done the studder step and beaten it in under 30. Bravo!

@Ultracity6060

6 жыл бұрын

I got it second hand with a dead battery, and didn't even know you were _supposed_ to be able to save. At least you probably didn't waste as many hours on it as I did :p

@TheGreektrojan

6 жыл бұрын

I had the same thing with my SNES FF2 cart. I actually had to beat the whole game in one sitting. Took me all day.

@thegregors8484

6 жыл бұрын

TheGreektrojan whoa that blows

@OSYofRR

6 жыл бұрын

That is not entirely true though, they have software to do the RNG checks and map this all out and then practiced for a very long time to learn how to rig it. There is no way anyone was figuring this out without reading through and understanding the correlations of all of the games code and there was no way you were doing that as a child lol.

@TheMixedPlateFrequency

6 жыл бұрын

i actually discovered it a long time ago on accident lol

The dragon lord was up against NEO

Game is a huge grindfest where progress takes hours. Awesome to see it beaten in less than half an hour!

One of my favorite childhood games completely and utterly destroyed by this speedrunner. I never thought this classic could be completed quicker then several hours, and they have proved me wrong. Absolutely amazing, I loved every second.

@Figgy20000

6 жыл бұрын

You'd be shocked how fast the non-glitched TAS runs are, they beat the human world records by well over 5 minutes by abusing the shittt out of the RNG even harder.

@TheAsvarduilProject

5 жыл бұрын

My own poor runs of the GBC version, without glitches or any intentional RNG abuse, have clocked in at about 2:45:??ish. Dragon Warrior I isn't by any means a long game. Of course, I didn't RNG-manipulate Metal Slimes, so most of my run time is due to grinding. I'm going to have to try these techniques on the GBC version to see if I can trim the run down.

I love that they know so much about the inner workings that "we're gonna encounter a random enemy here, we're not gonna know which one it is until the fight starts" means one of two possible enemies. It's basically a rhythm game at this point.

2 minutes in and he's farther than I ever got as a kid.

@TekGriffon

4 жыл бұрын

Too real :D

I go back and play this game every couple of years. It's relaxing, and by that time, I usually forget what exactly has to be done in which order, so I find it rewarding to go back and rediscover the game. Through so many hours of level grinding, I like to have a show or movie on in the background. I never would have guessed this game could be beaten in under 30 minutes. Bravo to the runner and all those who did the research for this run.

The legends have proven true, NEScardinality art indeed of the line of Erdrick.

This is the single most impressive thing I've ever seen in AGDQ. This is insane.

command Command COMMAND C O M M A N D

@ChamplooMusashi

6 жыл бұрын

T H I C C O M M A N D

@retroboyo4238

4 жыл бұрын

c o m m a n d

@Tcj333

4 жыл бұрын

*C O M M A N D*

@user-mm5nc2nm5o

4 жыл бұрын

Приказ? *Приказ?* _Приказ?_ *_Приказ?_* *_П р и к а з?_*

@user-hq4js5xr8f

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-mm5nc2nm5o а зачем это он делал? Английского незнаю

I remember as a kid running into the Axe knight that guarded Edrick's armor for the first time. I got so lucky I was able to put him to sleep for so long that I beat him but I was at such an early level. It never happened for me like that again.

Erdrick Punches His Way Through Computer Science 101

@ShosuCeladon

5 жыл бұрын

Best Dragon Quest quote ever

this is hands-down one of the best and most entertaining speedruns i’ve ever seen. mindblowing execution and smooth & cleanly delivered commentary by a knowledgeable and likeable runner. NESCardinality earned himself a new fan.

Crazy, didn't know you could manipulate RNG like that. Of course this game deserves it for all the mandatory grinding it tries to make you do haha.

I've follwed NEScard for years now and I still come back and watch this like, once a month. It's such an absolutely great run from start to finish.

This is the best speedrun I've ever seen

I love this. King: go save the world! 20 minutes later Hero: Done!

Can we just appreciate how perfect that run was! It 100% went according to the plan. A delight to watch :D

Nescard is the best commentator/player GDQ has ever seen. He's so good at explaining things.

To this day this remains one of the most impressive and entertaining speed runs in the GDQ library; dude has a way of explaining his process that just appeals to my inner nerd in a huge way.

Legendary work Nes and to every single person who put time into this game to make it possible, cheers!

I've never played DW, but even so, I was amazed by the commentary and the RNG manipulation. Incredible!

Simply amazing. Best run I've seen for this year so far easily

Making RNG cry like a little child

@wokeupinapanic

6 жыл бұрын

"Making RNG cry like an anime fan on prom night" FTFY

@hope_and_love

6 жыл бұрын

very nice

@OniLordMiki

6 жыл бұрын

wokeupinapanic No

@OtakuD50

6 жыл бұрын

As an anime fan, I can safely say I enjoyed my prom night. Mostly by avoiding prom.

This was the best run of whole event! 💙

I've watched this two dozen times. It completely blows my mind every time.

That dragon lord is the most unlucky being ever.

@danpowell806

6 жыл бұрын

That metal slime that got punched to death by a naked guy is a close second.

@ShosuCeladon

5 жыл бұрын

Dragon Lord: THIS FIGHT IS RIGGED!!!

Not only is this guy a great Runner, he's phenomenal at commentary/oration. He needs a podcast or something. The way he smoothly transitions from explaining RNG manipulation, to prompting AGDQ announcers to shill and read donations, to introducing his couch crew...it's fantastic.

"A Wizard draws near!" But he's already playing the game!

How can u not love this guy! What a sweetheart. Best speed run ever! Thank you as a child i used to watch my brother grow through this game and now u .

Hard to stop watching. Getting this run down to a science, with excellent commentary while doing it.

Absolutely incredible. I never expected this level of RNG manipulation to be possible outside of a TAS, but here it is.

Amazing speedrun! The amount of time to set this up, practice and execute consistently is incredible in itself. But combine it with informational commentary throughout that could distract one "just" enough to mess it up but didn't takes it up another notch!

This was one of the most insightful and awesome speedruns I've ever seen.

I love this run! Such pure skill in execution!

NesCard is the best in the business. Living legend. Try to catch his livestreams, if you can.

@ryanallen2001

4 жыл бұрын

I second that.

This is a fantastic run! Fantastic gameplay and commentary from the runner! This is why I love watching the GDQ's, people like this man make it worth watching

This year had some epic runs, but this was the pinnacle. I genuinely thought he was going to beat his own WR. The only other game where I regularly see NESCard's level of perfection is SMB any%.

I was close. I beat it in 28 weeks.

Walking through the final dungeon WITHOUT a torch/spell is most impressive in itself.

Definitely one of the most impressive runs I have seen

NESCardinality is an amazing runner. I started playing the randomizer after watching him.

This dude is nuts. What a run. True genius.

I've seen a lot of awesome runs during the years, but this takes the cake, so massively impressive!

One of the first speedruns that I ever watched and a treat to come back to. GGs!

One of the best runs this year. This is mind-blowing. Awesome!!

This is one of the most amazing displays of complete game mastery and understanding that I’ve ever seen.

This was fun ❤️ see you guys in 6 months

This is a simply incredible run. Awesome commentary and explanation of the RNG. Fantastic!

This is insanely amazing. Never in all my years of playing video games did I think they could be tackled this way...... Still proud to say I own the game, got it with the Nintendo Power deal back in '89. Was a great day when I finally beat it, but....... this is awesome!

I loved this game dearly as a child, and I'm strangely proud of this guy's astonishing run.

Great run and absolutely incredible commentary. We need more runs like this.

I finally thought to look for this and watch it. WOW! As someone who has played this game since childhood and watches NEScard stream DWR on the regular, it was amazing to watch him systematically cleave through this game in record time, and to see his face doing it! I'm such a fan!!!

I watched this live and was completely blown away! This is by far one of my favorite runs at any GDQ.

Am I the only one who loves how he says "Command?"

That was friggin impressive! Fantastic play NESCARDINALITY.

This is like doing hundreds of card tricks in a row with the hidden values in an archaic NES game. Bravo.

A year and a half later, this is still my favorite solo speed run.

Just watching these videos, its amazing how much money they raise just by doing speedruns.

This game is one of my absolute favourites, amazing manipulation of the game and the RNG. Great job!

I am astonished. I don't know how many hours it took me as a kid to beat this game, but it was well over 10. I am stunned this kind of RNG manipulation is even possible, and the memorization needed to pull it off this seamlessly is incredible. Really excellent work!

This is one of my all-time favourite RPGs and it's *very* impressive to see it being played like this! Well done!

Excellent video, my all time most favorite franchise.

I've been casually enjoying speedruns of some of my favorite games, Old & New for a few years now. This is one of the most enjoyable runs I've ever watched. I could be a bit biased since DW1 is the Game that Started My Lifelong Love of RPGs overall and JRpgs especially. However , this is explained so well that a Layman like myself can understand all of it yet the actual process is so deep and amazing to see all the pixel perfect tactics. If you ever tried to tell me you could beat ANY DW game in 27 minutes I'd have laughed in you're face especially since I just spent over 100 hours playing DQ9 Love This Series.

Long time DQ fan. This is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.

This was my first RPG game. I was so young at the time that my Mom had to help me play it. Fun to see someone finish it.

The time put into this and the memory involved was absolutely crazy. You've literally broken the game wide open. Well done.

By far one of the best runs i've ever seen and i never played the game. It was super interesting, amazing runner. 11/10

Most magnificent thing I’ve seen in a long times

This was a 27 minute performance akin to a professional musician playing a concerto.

Does anyone remember getting Dragon Warrior free in the mail with a Nintendo Power subscription? I was equally confused and elated. That's what started it all.

@Neelo5000

2 жыл бұрын

Yep. My parents renewed my subscription to Nintendo Power just because it was such a good value proposition. I still own that cart to this day.

I remember my friend having this game on his NES. Whenever we would have a sleepover I would watch him play it. I remember a lot of this stuff. I'm not exactly sure what is happening in this video with the manipulation, but it was very fun to watch. This is impressive. Wow!