You're a legend, this has fulfilled my 20 years of wondering how the game ends. May the gods bless you.

@CommonSimpleton

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! :) The game has an adorable credits sequence, so I made sure to include everything.

@CallMeMimi27

Жыл бұрын

loooooool same. never managed to play beyond land 3. for a 2001 game its so complex and its hard to grasp its concepts

This pedestal is a miracle dispenser

@RealBradMiller

3 жыл бұрын

There's no way to know.

@ghfellan94

2 жыл бұрын

What does it do?

@rancidrandis

2 жыл бұрын

@@ghfellan94 in truth I have no clue, but i would like to believe it makes various types of hoagies and strombolis

@vulpixsi

Жыл бұрын

It charges up and generates one-shot miracles

@rancidrandis

Жыл бұрын

Bam!!!! Bet you didn't expect a response! Imma turn into that of a cabbage!!!!

so glad theres a speedrun of this game, you're doing gods work

@rancidrandis

3 жыл бұрын

Ahagaga I get it

@Mistpirit

3 жыл бұрын

@@rancidrandis :^)

@rancidrandis

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mistpirit mama say mama sa mama kusa

@RealBradMiller

3 жыл бұрын

Literally.

@xDrTomx

2 жыл бұрын

A heavenly pun

BEST opening scene of any game, ever. A god being born!

Khazar: WAIT! This is MY territory. You: OUR territory

@CommonSimpleton

3 жыл бұрын

RIP, khaz. Peter should've let us save his turtle.

I hate how this game was so underrated, an awesome game such as this deserves more

@CallMeMimi27

Жыл бұрын

it held a Guinness record for like a decade for best game AI or something i think. EA ruined it

@skipjack02

Жыл бұрын

This game was in no way underrated. everybody loved it

@Aggravath

Жыл бұрын

Ofcourse EA ruined it, that's what they are famous for!

@zalxder

Жыл бұрын

6:50 don't get in the way of gods plan

@boringman5293

8 ай бұрын

metacritic 90 not underated, people just to either to young or stupid to not know this game

I used the trick of placing a town center to get the ability to act outside my zone, but I had no idea you could recycle it by breaking it and picking up the scaffold again. I also had no idea you could use the pause function to basically grab anything anywhere. You, Tionic#2, are a glitch pioneer. If a bit evil for slaughtering so many people. But hey: it's hard to argue with success.

what a game! can't believe it's 21 years old. Better times

@CallMeMimi27

Жыл бұрын

Matt_ Damon_Aging.jpg fucking 20 years??? god my knees hurt...

@bilboriches7216

10 ай бұрын

Still hoping they will make a third series.

This pedestal is a miracle dispenser. It charges up and generates one-shot miracles.

Leader, let's start impressing- So then I started blasting.

Loved the game. Life was so much simpler back then.

The game aged like fine wine. The AI of the creature is still lightyears ahead anything else ever done in gaming. Especially if you look into it and find out how in depth it actually is.

@Freedom21stCenturi

2 жыл бұрын

It's just too bad it wasn't really explained that well. I bet most users did not even utilize more than 20% of the AI's true potential.

@bronzeshield6382

2 жыл бұрын

@@Freedom21stCenturi I certainly didn't. still dont understand this game 🤣

@CallMeMimi27

Жыл бұрын

i read somewhere that it held a Guinness record for best AI in a game for a decade

@everythingpony

11 ай бұрын

They are braindead

Wow, suddenly remembered this game I played so many years ago! Funny timing you basically just uploaded it. Gonna enjoy this, thank you!

@Ellyphant450

4 жыл бұрын

You picked the tiger!! This is gonna be great

@CommonSimpleton

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ellyphant450 Thanks! Yup, it is supposed to be the fastest creature out of the starting three according to the wikis.

@SarahAltezia

3 жыл бұрын

@@CommonSimpleton That's true, however, you could swap to the Leopard using the silver scroll to the west of the sailor silver scroll. Now I'm not sure if the time lost would be made up in some way, but the Leopard is a fair bit faster than the Tiger. Soo.. maybe the time lost for the swap could be made up in the long run?

@CommonSimpleton

3 жыл бұрын

@@SarahAltezia I believe Leopard is part of the "dlc" content whose use in speedruns would be questionable. There are also not that many places where the extra speed would make a difference due to some mandatory objectives keeping you busy during the downtime. Tiger is supposed to have the speed of value of 9.5 vs 10 on Wolf / Leopard. Lethys' creature did seem quite fast on several occasions that I can recall, but faster vs fast does not translate to time save all that well - visually it does, and you would be impressed looking at Wolf's speedy jog. But compared to an already quick Tiger, the difference probably wouldn't be more than a measly 10 seconds across the whole run.

Great work! Learned a lot by watching this run!

Nicely done. Didn't expect to see this one childhood game getting its own speedrun one day. :) Finished it this year for the first time. It's interesting to see it being done quick.

@CommonSimpleton

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! It's an oldie, but goodie. Definitely aged very well.

Wow boy, your creature battles are on point

@CommonSimpleton

4 жыл бұрын

Well, at least Sleg wasn't overly aggressive. That last hit against Nems was lucky, but not lucky enough for a sub 49, haha.

Came for pokemon, found something suprisingly entertaining

@user-vw4xq5lw5l

3 жыл бұрын

Lol me too

@RealBradMiller

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to my early teen years. This game is amazing, look up 'Age of Mythology' and 'Impossible Creatures', I was hooked on those as an awkward white boy living in Hawaii during the early 2000's.

I’ve never progressed further than the 17 minute mark. After that I just play around. Thanks for uploading this, I missed out on so much

such a funny game to speedrun. glad i've found my people

I have wanted to speedrun this for a while, never found a game I've quite enjoyed as much as this one when I was a kid. Did a playthrough a year or so ago and still loved it

Wow, I remember playing Black and White when I was young. I never made it past the 4th level.

the only winning move is not to pray. I was wondering how it was going to go when the first level took half of the video's time but then the sound of thunder announced that god does drive bys on rival villages. always great to see videos of this unique game.

So many memories. I would love a new black and white… maybe for VR?

@RandomDude-bo1lg

2 жыл бұрын

Or a remaster of this. I wish i knew where I could find a functional version to download...

Nice run

There was an easter egg in this game where if you made a square wave gesture (up-right-down-right-up-right) on land 1 a red London public phone box appears, and text on the screen says "sorry, the boss made us take this cheat out". But if you listen to the audio files, you can still hear the phone call that was removed from the game: A creepy guy answers the phone and says "Hello, how are you? Don't put your hands down the pants, call me, George!". After that you hear the creators discussing parts of the game's development.

Thoroughly enjoyed this game back in the day. What’s not to like about being god too a race of potato-people?!

7:33 ''You can screw'' Sounds like we became a Disciple Breeder.

I tried to get this game to work on newer versions of Windows with no luck. I suspect it's due to the Secure Rom mumbo jumbo they infected games with back then. Ended up being bypassed almost instantly with the net result being inconveniencing people who bought the game then and now. IIRC, some setups wouldn't work with the antipiracy measure, and they could only play the game by finding a crack.

@CommonSimpleton

Жыл бұрын

Go on the PCGamingWiki and ctrl+F the 1.42 fan patch. It removes the DRM and makes the game playable on modern systems.

My buddy showed me this game like 20 years ago, he had me rolling, and crying on the floor for like 20min as he constantly kept petting and then smacking the large creatures over and over again.

Wow, very impressive run! I'm curious how you can reach things so far away from your zone and still pick up items such as here at 40:12 when you grab the women and bring her to the husband. Cool and very fast pace in each land, didn't know this was possible

@thanger2

4 жыл бұрын

OH you pause the game...that's how wow! LOL

@CommonSimpleton

4 жыл бұрын

@@thanger2 That and the slow down option if reaching the whole land is the goal. Thank you!

Speed runnin' is evil work

I wish I could edit scripts on windows 7. I'm having some issues getting through the first monologue in land 4, it crashes midway, and I want to shut off the fireballs or the lightning to ease the stress on the PC.

it charges up and generates one-shot miracles

I loved this game as a kid, wonder if we ever will be granted a B&W3 or maybe a remastered version

I remember the monkey being the most stubborn to train. Kept throwing or eating my people.

I think you could save about 25 seconds with the golden scroll to land 2. Instead of waiting there for the villager to come out, throw something in. I think anything works, even poop. It should trigger the villager to come out earlier instead of having to waiting for him.

@CommonSimpleton

3 жыл бұрын

Ouch. Pretty sloppy of me. I've also realized I was already aware of this from casual play. Thanks for pointing it out.

@13luechocobo

3 жыл бұрын

@@CommonSimpleton No worries. Looking forward to seeing your next attempt.

@thiagodicarlo1829

Жыл бұрын

go get some fresh air bro

Is there any way I can play this now on PC (Windows 11) there's nothing close to similar these days 😭

Funfact: Nemesis gave away his old ultra creature for this one. Was your creature even 2 years old at the end.

Why does throwing a rock at the enemy temple alter advance the story? How does affect his dominion? Nice playthrough btw. I remember I needed to play this game several times to actually beat it long time ago. Also it took me ages to do it ^^

Can I still play this game on windows 10? Any ideas where to access it? Great run btw!

@CommonSimpleton

3 жыл бұрын

Why, thank you. As far as I'm aware the game wasn't officially made playable on modern systems by any company. Look up patch 1.41 to make the game work on Windows 10. You will have to obtain a copy by other means, be it old CDs or through the morally questionable methods.

@SarahAltezia

3 жыл бұрын

@@CommonSimpleton Actually, 1.41 is obsolete by now, 1.42 has been released by HandsomeMatt, the creator of the 1.41 fan patch, some months ago. However, it seems like he only made it available on the BWFiles Discord.

Aggghhh This game! Random crashes but till now just reload no problem but now. Was on land 2 and game crashed. On restart it started as if I had not played yet, ie asked if I wanted to skip tutorial, asked if I wanted to start with my last(?) creature. Started a 'new' game skipping tutorial and using my last creature. Went straight into temple and tried to load the latest autosave or even my latest manual save but they cause a crash to desktop. Got a previous save from about 2 hours before crash to load but the creature is back to its starting level i.e. is small and hasn't learnt anything, miracles etc! Help!

Hey guys, could anyone please tell me, where can i download this game? mine has some bugs, does not save games..

@Tarakashka2008

3 жыл бұрын

@Jonny Croxville thank you for reply? maybe you could suggest some patches? I am afraid to install something wrong

@Tarakashka2008

3 жыл бұрын

@Jonny Croxville thank you so much for the answer! I played this game like 10 years ago and absolutely loved it, but now with changing pc it does not work properly. I really hope that will figure it out :)

cool !

is there any chance of you speedrunning the second game anytime in the future may i ask?

@CommonSimpleton

4 жыл бұрын

I actually installed it recently, having never played before. Definitely not my kind of game, I absolutely despise the mediocre RTS direction they took it in, haha. But that's just the thing - you don't necessarily need to like the games you want to speedrun. I do have an interest in the "All Silver Scrolls" category for BW1 for now so it'll take a while before I make up my mind on the sequel.

@pixelqiwi

4 жыл бұрын

@@CommonSimpleton yeah i can understand why the second game isn't quite the charmer for the most people, myself included pretty cool to hear about the all silver scrolls though, kind of excited to see how you'll do it

@MajorProblem42

3 жыл бұрын

@@pixelqiwi llll

i finally the saw the end.

I've been messing around on skirmish maps and trying to make my wonders bigger using artifacts - doesnt seem to work.. had 3 of them next to my scaffold and it was still small :( Any hints on that?

@CommonSimpleton

Жыл бұрын

I don't think artifacts should affect Wonder size... it should be governed by the sum of belief from a given village, IIRC. They aren't useful in the speedrun, so I don't have much information on that. Edit: Now that I think about it, I'm pretty positive it was the villager count. It's been too long since I played. Sorry.

@isai3602

Жыл бұрын

Hola... Los artefactos si funcionan solo deves esperar a que se carguen y deves hacer la maravilla en un lugar despejado sino no crecerá... Pero de verdad funciona y con una sola maravilla puede hacer lo que harías con 10 de tamaño normal

@jordanlilley6126

2 ай бұрын

@@CommonSimpleton Artifacts do affect wonder size depending on how charged they are.

That is fast omg

I can remember training my monkey to only eat its own poop

Thanks to you I found it ..Peter molynux the creator …

Now imagine this in 2021... wait...

I miss this game BAD. Why oh why cant we play this today?

@fonesrphunny7242

3 ай бұрын

You can, if you spend 10 minutes finding and installing the fan patch

@fonesrphunny7242

3 ай бұрын

You can, if you spend 10 minutes finding and installing the fan patch

I wonder what that pedestal does

The tutorial for this game is one of the most frustrating tutorials ever.

is there an explantation of all the tricks used somewhere?

@CommonSimpleton

Жыл бұрын

Sadly, no. I don't particularly enjoy commentating over videos, so making a write up would take too long. The run should be largely self-explanatory, though. There's some information in the description regarding the timer on the third land and such.

ich habe Tage mit diesem Spiel verbracht, so einfach wäre es gewesen

how do i play this in 2024? anyone knows?

When it says “speed up time” is this an option in the game or are you simply editing for this video?

@CommonSimpleton

Жыл бұрын

Option in the game.

@V081WLBlue

4 ай бұрын

@@CommonSimpleton Where? Can't find it!

Black and White 2 Speedrun?

It hurts my heart seeing that you have to kill all people for speedrunning :(

@Prebound_

Жыл бұрын

I love the option to be evil in games, but I always play as good.

51:04 what was he trying to do??

@CommonSimpleton

3 ай бұрын

Good question. Throughout the story, you are informed the three pieces of Creed grant the power to kill any god, and the plot ordains (without telling the player) it can only be achieved by combining them inside the volcano fires Nemesis' main temple is sitting right by. If I were to wager a guess, I'd say this is a Tolkien reference, but who really knows what mythologies the designers were pulling from.

Watching this in 2023 remember all the memories playing this as a kid. Wish this game was available on steam.

Why is the beginning bit sped up?

@CommonSimpleton

Жыл бұрын

The game features an option to speed up both interactible gameplay and the cutscenes. I try to do so as soon as there's control. This has to be done repeatedly, as the game resets the speed upon each cutscene sequence triggering.

At 2x the video play speed the speedrun is only 24 min 30 seconds

so basically you had finished land 3 before you finished your temple

I really wanted to love this game when I was younger but I never got past where you were at about 25:00. My creature, despite me feeding him constantly, kept eating villagers and I couldn't figure out what the hell I was meant to actually do. Combined with the fact that the save file would corrupt constantly, I ended up giving up.

@MrSmellymonkeyman

2 жыл бұрын

Gotta slap them when they eat a villager. They learn from discipline.

@charchadonto

Жыл бұрын

@@MrSmellymonkeyman my ape sure as hell didnt back in the day.., tried everything from one to a few slaps up until complete beatdowns and the bastard kept snacking on villagers on my good god run. Pretty sure i got some evil points for the asskicking i eventually did in sorta desperate efforts to get him to stop eating villagers.

@MrSmellymonkeyman

Жыл бұрын

@@charchadonto maybe he was King Kong.

Casual holocaust were not authorized they were mandatory & highly encouraged even accidentaly lmao crazy strat influence abuse i remember using throwing the lonely dude when i realized i could do stuff around him

@CommonSimpleton

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, another runner would move him around before I found a better strat. His cutscene would slow things to a crawl if you made a mistake. Loved how the developers would include these secret crutches to help out.

Why in the world would you do a speed run of this game? I was doing everything in my power to make it last longer so I could enjoy more of it.

@CommonSimpleton

2 жыл бұрын

It's a common misconception to think speedrunners only want to beat games as quickly as possible. Some people do because the way they play games changed, and all the power to them, but in most cases a casual playthrough is still warranted. Me, I played this game to death in my formative years, and also wanted to make it last as long as possible during that time. These days, I couldn't be bothered to actually train my creature anything, so when playing casually I just expanded my villages as fast as possible, which quickly crashed the game - or at least you couldn't load that saved game anymore due excess villagers, buildings or who knows what. In this manner, many people find they can't commit to old games in the same way they had done when they were younger. Hence, speedrunning. There are very few games I'd commit to doing actual speedruns of, and most of the time I don't even entertain the idea because I'd grow sick of it. Like it or hate it, but it is what it is, and it's best to accept it as such.

What percentage of this speedrun is tutorials and cutscenes? Lol

@CommonSimpleton

2 жыл бұрын

Around 20 minutes of tutorial fluff, and then some more tutorial on the second land, yup. Terrible, _terrible_ speedgame. If you're going to see speedruns of these old games, it's because we're driven by nostalgia. It is not easy to find motivation otherwise. Definitely not itching to get back to speedrunning this one again!

You choose the Tiger? A very poor choice indeed. Can you speed run as White instead of Black?

@CommonSimpleton

2 жыл бұрын

It has the highest speed statistic out of the selection that doesn't have to be unlocked.

@CommonSimpleton

2 жыл бұрын

A category could be made where it is stipulated only "good" actions have to be performed. Unfortunately it is outside my interests for the foreseeable future.

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this pedestal is a miracle dispenser