*right before starting* "What's a sof..." "A SOFTLOCK IS WHERE YOU"

@leadsouls5134

7 жыл бұрын

LOL

@Joystick-96

7 жыл бұрын

Same.

@hydro5378

7 жыл бұрын

yea, i loved that part

@Wtahc

7 жыл бұрын

fitting profile pic

@SkyFeline

7 жыл бұрын

GET READY FUCKBOY WE'RE GONNA LEARN YA SOME VIDYA GAME TERMS.

2:27 "When you talk to NPCs, like this guy in front of the door, there's a softlock that can happen..." Game: Let me help you with that :)

@HullsColby

4 жыл бұрын

Game: oh I thought this was a speedrun not a tutorial

2:34 Proof that NPCs are not only fully sentient, but are actively looking for ways to mess with you.

@TopOfAllWorlds

7 жыл бұрын

Lorax lol

@EnchantedSmellyWolf

7 жыл бұрын

Lorax speaks for the dead.

@anonymoususer9837

7 жыл бұрын

Lorax and 4:54

@Wtahc

7 жыл бұрын

I am the Lorax, and I speak for the AIs.

@lpfan4491

6 жыл бұрын

Lorax log horison being real?

What I really like about your videos is that you explain to us what is going to happen so that we can understand what is going on.

@Medachod

4 жыл бұрын

And then there are people like Flariz who do not understand that the term "softlock" is not "self-explanatory" and just have to make people feel dumb.

@Medachod

4 жыл бұрын

@@olegtrushin6220 Okay, lawyer. I don't remember it being that serious, but okay.

@Medachod

4 жыл бұрын

@@olegtrushin6220 The guy I was being mean to was mean to others.

@j_a_.c3157

3 жыл бұрын

@@olegtrushin6220 bruh what are you talking about

@adispenser

2 жыл бұрын

no more of that though

the one that happened while he was explaining it was so fucking ironic, I love it so much haha

@cleetose

7 жыл бұрын

Cosmic Queen It's not ironic, it's just coincidental.

@Minchken

7 жыл бұрын

it's still ironic smart guy

@WM_46

7 жыл бұрын

Bender: "The use of words expressing something other than their literal intention; now that is irony."

@spootot

7 жыл бұрын

I'd say it was borderline irony but not quite. I agree with it being a funny coincidence though. 10/10 softlock

@TaeKyuKim

7 жыл бұрын

Situational irony is when something happens contradictory to what you thought would happen. It was ironic that the runner got softlocked while he was just educating the viewers about the potential softlock that could happen. There are different kinds of irony ._.

A lot of the guys in the videos surprisingly were cool about it and didn't rage despite having wasted their time by the softlock, at like 5:24 or 2:00 or 4:11 (who put up an entertaining poker face), or anyone really. Cool people.

@JohnSmith-ms9sh

7 жыл бұрын

Speedrunners lose emotion because of how many times they fail, no surprise there

@nexus3756

6 жыл бұрын

i mean its something so unordinary, so weird. that you cant help but be facinated. i softlocked hollow knight once. I ended up being stuck in a loop where my character would fall down into the next zone. only to jump up immediately after landing back up into the previous zone. then he would fall down again. i was so baffled i took a video of it.

@nulano

5 жыл бұрын

Well, soft locking is (usually) a lot more interesting than just resetting the game, so there is no reason to rage.

@Gamesfan34260

5 жыл бұрын

To be fair, the 2:00 one wasn't that far in so, not TOO painful.

@robertradford4707

4 жыл бұрын

i mean if you look at the split timers all of those runs were well behind pace, so probably were going to reset anyways

this must be so frustrating

@fanderesidentevil

7 жыл бұрын

Is frustrating as fuck, and is worse if you are with some friend/family becuase one tend to get mad at them

@TheSquareOnes

7 жыл бұрын

If you're on WR pace then yeah, it's probably frustrating. The rest of the time you should really just laugh it off and I'm relieved most of the runners here immediately went to that as their first reaction.

@ryancribbs3386

6 жыл бұрын

But hilarious to watch

@owensmart2514

5 жыл бұрын

fanderesidentevil Taking your anger out on others is not a consequence of soft locking, but a consequence of being a shitty person

The funiest one by far is the yak infinitely jumping on Spyro, and Spyro being forever flat as a pancake. RIP Spyro

FYI, it says "He's not actually missing" @ 8:56

@theSato

7 жыл бұрын

no, really? lol

@asra-5180

7 жыл бұрын

theturbolemming that was too fast for me. Thanks for telling me. I thought that person stopped speedrunning because of this.

@Drakkona123

7 жыл бұрын

I was actually afraid they had some serious issues and offed himself when that happened o_o

@Jopo1226

5 жыл бұрын

He posted a video 20 hours ago (from this post)

I don't speedrun, but I see Apollo Legend and I click.

@Hot18Shot

7 жыл бұрын

Surprisingly these guys were pretty good sports about fucking up their runs, haha.

@SirJoelsuf1

7 жыл бұрын

Most speedrunners are. Its like 2% that freak out. Contrary to what Apollo, HyruleGamer and to some extent, WhiteGoose believe, a good majority of speedrunners DON'T act like DSP whenever things go wrong.

@rancesuperking8731

7 жыл бұрын

Soul of Joelsuf Most speedrunners speedrun because they are devoid of life and social interaction, so that explains it

@SirJoelsuf1

7 жыл бұрын

Got any proof of that?

@Hot18Shot

7 жыл бұрын

I am way too sour when I have bad gaming days, I can't imagine being even an hour into a run and fucking up. I'd probably flip my shit. Maybe I should stay away from it in that case...

2:18 “When the game helped him out with a live demonstration.” Lmaooooo

I remember watching that cosmo soft lock live. Good times :'(

"Classic Cosmo" that's a nice way of putting it I guess.

what is a soft... oh oki :)

@Katerpillar

7 жыл бұрын

L4Bomb4 didn't expect to see you here, love your tm content

@L4Bomb4

7 жыл бұрын

haha thanks man

@LinOurSs

7 жыл бұрын

Wait, Bomba there? You doin' speedruns? :p Nah just looking forward for speedruns, I think...

@mooncake6146

7 жыл бұрын

L4Bomb4 du intresierst dich ach für speedruns ja fett XD

@FireFox2000000

7 жыл бұрын

Speedrunning Trackmania games is actually a thing though.

An inescapable state where you are no longer able to progress.. F

6:56 And so Kirby was forever trapped in the nightmare…

Christ I'm gonna miss Apollo...

I fucking love your content man, so glad i found your channel. history of speedruning is awesome for someone new to the community

@imcliche9962

7 жыл бұрын

Noah Price i agree

@wowza935

6 жыл бұрын

so glad u could jonas

5:30 all he needed to do is build up speed for 12 hours to get out

@PawelBenetkiewicz

6 жыл бұрын

and then half a press to qpu align

I'm surprised Dark Souls Moan% isn't on here...

Loved the selection of clips in this video. Especially last clip's edit was funny as hell lol

RIP Apollo.

My favourite part of some of these clips is how well they react. Mostly they just laugh, and it's so nice to see

Woah, where has this channel been all my life? Thank you so much for being an awesome outlet for speedrunning fans! Keep up the good work.

RINKU... RINKU... Noooooo

Fuck dude it must suck for this to happen after *countless* hours of practice

@Arcademan09

7 жыл бұрын

Electric Ninja imagine it happening while you're on the edge of a world record

@47Mortuus

7 жыл бұрын

Watch number one again please... see those green numbers? Yeah...

The wind waker soft lock is caused by the water being too high which does not allow link to do a certain animation in response to the rito since he is technically swimming instead of standing

I once softlocked Zelda Ocarina of Time (impressive I know). I was in Kakariko Village, and angered a cucoo, but I got trapped between the well and the wooden beam. a cucoo was on me, so I would get knocked down, but I had invincibility frames so I wouldn't get hurt either

@OHapybara

7 жыл бұрын

That's pretty cool. I softlocked it too by pressing A too much and too fast whilst I was talking to a scarecrow (I think as child Link?), and caused the game to think I was still in a conversation when I wasn't, trapping me there. It's happened on more than one occasion too, thankfully I've kinda learnt to be careful (and cautious) around scarecrows now

4:07 - 4:40, not sure if it was you or Narcissa who did the editing on that, but... perfection...

Apollo, your videos are great. Well put together and informative for people like me who aren’t in the speedrunning community and didn’t even know what a softlock was until now. You started the video, explained the concept, credited people, did your damn research, and got straight into the interesting shit unlike many other channels. Fucking A 10/10, keep it up.

7:03 "OOOOOHHHHH SHEEEEEIIIITE"

LOST it at the Cosmo/Narcissa one.

@bennifez9741

7 жыл бұрын

Soul of Joelsuf That face cam, gradual zoom in and their gradual getaway... priceless!

4:07 His smile and optimism: *Gone*

Dude I've been really enjoying these videos. lol Keep up the great work!

5:06 that yak is so happy that he stopped a speedrunner dead in his tracks lol

"If I soft lock in here, you'll never see me again." *fart*

thanks for another great video Apollo! glad to see that most of these softlocks occurred after only an hour or two in. i'm not a runner, but if i was my worst nightmare would be softlocking in the middle of an extremely long run. hope you're doing well!

@davendixon32323

7 жыл бұрын

dum dumm Imagine it happening during a 100% Baiten Kaitos (think that's how it's spelt) run. God that'd suck.

@dumdumm3299

7 жыл бұрын

davendixon32323 awful! that's why i prefer to watch speedruns instead of doing them. i can't imagine spending over 20 hours of my life on a run just to have it lock up. i would be crushed.

@theSato

7 жыл бұрын

at the end of an extremely long run* (try like a 20 hour final fantasy run, its happened lol)

@RandomGirl.RandamuOn-nanoko

Жыл бұрын

I saw Odme streaming the 1982 stars Mario run and he softlocked in Galaxy 2 (he had to lead a Goomba to the gold robot and as the cutscene began to play, one of the poles pushed the Goomba out of the containment area, freezing the game). He was at least 12 hours in, but Galaxy 2 autosaved so he just had to quickly reset the game. He ended up getting a new WR in the initial 602 before he continued with the other games. VL

new speed running category: Ruined% - quickest to a crash/softlock, would be a nice consolation to those WR pace runs which are screwed up by bad code.

i found a softlock in Binding of Isaac that was so bad the developer fixed it in the next patch, despite no one else experiencing it. I had given myself Flight by using the Bible. On a little island unreachable except by flight there was a gray chest (need bombs to open it.) I bombed it and it dropped a bunch of pickups. What I didn't know is that one of the other rocks opened up a trap door to a crawl space. while getting the itemsi went into the crawl space. I came out of it, I'd lost Flight and couldnt use the bible again. I wrote all this because I wanted to make sure lots of folks knew what a soft lock was. A soft lock is not simply that the game keeps running. That's a normal lock. A soft lock is when the game is running, you have full control over your character, the game is working fully as intended, but due to whatever circumstances you can no longer progress, in a way that was not intended by the developer.

that spyro run... oh boy. atleast it was early

@normiegyal4552

7 жыл бұрын

MadiCat247 it was 3 hours in

In the Wind Waker Softlock, Link was supposed to perform an animation in the cutscene that played, but since he was floating in the water instead of firmly standing on the ground, he couldn't do it.

Alundra. Such an underrated gem.

that cosmo windwaker-clip is a legend

If this ever happened to me, I’d literally cry tears of pain. Anything and everything can go wrong during a speedrun, and having the game suddenly screw you over due to circumstances entirely outside your control...just, migosh.

Just want to say I appreciate the research you put into the speedrunning community. I don't know if you have videos about this next topic or if you take requests, but I was interested in something along the lines of the biggest differences between world record times and the time that beat the previous record. For example, maybe some runner found some glitch that shaved off an hour or so, beating the previous record by that much. Just something I'd be interested in to chart the development of speedruns as a whole.

That had me at the edge of my seat. I thought a NarcissaWright screamer was gonna go off.

8:49 and its at this moment that he knew.. he fucked up

Great video! Initially, when you said that Alpha_Que_Up went missing, I got sad that this could cause us to lose a runner. If he's not truly gone, that's pretty happy news! Still, great video, great list, & here's looking forward to more interesting stuff!

I love the fact that you explain what something is, as you know that like 80% of your viewers are dead clueless on what it is. Cheers my dude.

*your deadpan "a softlock is" prepared me for what sadness would follow in this video* and I still love seeing it years later

Yeaahh, happy to see you again my friend. nice video

I love everybodys different reactions to softlocking

I love the guys who can just laugh at it or shrug it off

I had a horrendous Softlock in Fallout 4 recently, tried to interact with aa terminal in Power Armour and it softlocked, just completed the Nuka-World DLC without saving too :(

@TheBrutalSax

7 жыл бұрын

Welcome to Fallout 4

@k1ngmackdaddy447

5 жыл бұрын

Still a shitty game and a shitty thing to happen. Bane of my existence.

Great vid, thanks for your work

RIP Legend

king yemma: my patented softlock

3:21 "I really should be mashing x harder" oh trust me cosmo, you will.

@tgbplays658

4 жыл бұрын

Heyy, a fellow cuber.

Sometimes I feel like I've softlocked my life.

I like how this dude places text in a single frame. It's just so fitting.

Kudos to these guys for keeping it pretty cool. Every single one of these would have pissed me right the fack off.

TIL Alundra exists and now I need to go play it. Did not expect a SNES-like RPG (ala Secret of Mana) to be on playstation. Those games are timeless!

Rip Cosmo

@leadsouls5134

7 жыл бұрын

I hope he gets help someday. He was my favorite content creator on KZread/Twitch.

@TvShopOnTv

7 жыл бұрын

yeah cosmo was pretty awesome i watched his speedruns a lot, i dont mind transgender people but he really got fucked up..

@BloodPlusPwn

7 жыл бұрын

Cosmo isn't an actual transgender, he's a kid with some serious issues. He clearly went this route to try to cope with some broken shit in his head, not because he wanted to be a female. Which, by the way, is fine. I'm not going to judge anyone for anything if they aren't encroaching on my life or hurting anyone. Still, Cosmo is very much in need of help from someone somewhere. I fear his current route ends in suicide or a fatal OD.

@BloodPlusPwn

7 жыл бұрын

Maybe that's true, I can't say I've interacted with them much.

Holy shit, Puri's in this!! The bizarre thing about that NPC softlock is that it never happened for anybody since, and we still don't know what's causing it. We don't know when it will a run again... T_T Great video, man. The reactions were great.

great stuff

I remember softlocking in two games. The first was for a game called Monster Madness Battle for Suburbia. This one has a few ways to softlock the game. The first one is during the grim reaper battle if you get too far away from it when it goes underground. The softlock is that it goes out of bounds. The second one was during the first boss of the final chapter where when I died in a specific spot I didn't respawn. This was in the PS3 version of the game where in the Xbox version if you die it results in a game over. I think I was in a corner of the arena of the boss fight when it occurred which is on a massive drawbridge. Another one you can essentially softlock this game by simply heading into areas you're not supposed to like the lake in the PS3 version of the cemetery level or going into certain rooms of the high school interior level by jumping into them from above. The game is definitely buggy alright. The second game was the fifth and only entry to have an English version in the Legendary Starfy series. I softlocked there by dying during the transition into the second phase of the giant penguin boss battle. Normally it results in a game over when you die but this time the protagonist slowly fell off the screen as the boss continued it's attacks without the game over screen showing up.

fun little fact i encountered a soft lock in mass effect andromeda which i can only assume had to do with my map not registering the fact i had left the large sanctuary on havarl and acted like i was still in there resulting in the map being pitch black, wether or not thats the case whenever i hit an area that would cause the game to autosave in being youre going to a different part my character would be frozen in place and nothing but reloading the game would fix it

Even years afterwards, softlocks are the things that speedrunners wake up in a cold sweat over :)

why do almost all the speedrunners use the japanese versions of nintendo games? is it because they're the first version of the games, and therefore, have more glitches?

@amma322

7 жыл бұрын

AZuRe CMF Japanese versions sometimes have different glitches than USA or EU versions, and sometimes is because they have less textboxes...

@chungman6167

7 жыл бұрын

AZuRe CMF Sometimes but most of the time it's because they are faster.

@DaussPlays

7 жыл бұрын

Sometimes that, and Japanese text uses less characters than other languages and so it's faster dealing with Japanese text sections than English.

@LPLimbos

7 жыл бұрын

There's different reasons depending on the game but the most common is in text heavy games (Ocarina of Time for example) with no option to skip said text, the japanese version has faster text due to less characters. There's other reasons in some other games like for example in mario kart 64 there's a glitch exclusive to the japanese version and that's why they use it.

@SUFRTHRU

7 жыл бұрын

The text boxes in games where you have to skip through a million text boxes. Playing Japanese versions gives you less text boxes in most cases because japanese characters convey more meaning with less writing. This saves a ton of time in many old games where skipping text boxes was a game mechanic.

I know this is over a 2 years old but I'm still happy to see my boi Clint

That scream at the very end was fantastic

In GTA SA if you use the Destroy all cars cheat while on the roof during the Reuniting the Families mission, you'll put your game in Softlock when you get to the marker as Smoke and Ryder will never come

lovely how the argick dude just laughs at his softlock

i remember when my friend softlocked his phone while using hacks... he was pissed

"If you talk to NPCs, there's a softlock that can happen" as we will now demonstrate!

Bro your vids are great!

4:27 best reaction EVER

4:05 Cue "Curb Your Enthusiasm"'s theme.

That same Kirby's Adventure softlock happened to me when I was racing it with someone.

The laugh of the guy that is speedruning Sonic Adventure is so contagious 😂

The scream at the end scared the shit out of me

Some of these were too deliciously ironic to handle.

At least these guys seem to be having SOME fun with their speed runs ending...

"Happy Christmas" Look at this dood.

@digital.lake.enjoyer

6 жыл бұрын

merry new years

Good stuff.

My favorite is the one in Lego Star Wars. I hope you include it in a vid so others can see it. There's a part where you have to push a cart through an area. One of the doorways loads a transition scene. But if you accidentally drop the cart onto the doorway, then you can't get to it any more. Before you reach it, you'll transition to the next room. And if you come back, you'll load-in with the cart behind you (at the doorway).

should have been called the 10 most rage inducing moments in speed runs lol

Softlocks are complete shenanigans

4:30 brilliant reaction 😂

I found a softlock in lego lord of the rings on the wii where during the nazgul boss fight, when he becomes vulnerable, if you don't hit the helm of the nazgul with the very tip of the blade, and hit him with the center of the blade, he wont get back up, and you cannot hit him again. there is also another softlock in that same battle where the litch king can get permanently stuck walking into one of the spots where you are supposed to make him hit with his mace.

This dude has the most chill demeanor ever which is a weird contrast to all the hype that surrounds speedruns

I haven't seen anyone mention it, so if you're wondering what happens in windwaker: when Link gets to greatfish, he needs to be able to walk forward to talk to the bird postman. When the water is too high, since Link is in a swimming animation he can't physically walk and the cutscene can't play.

4:14 that bit with Cosmo haha.

Rip cosmo. You will live on in my heart

Clip one is such a typical English reaction. Bloody great.

Cliiiiiint!

I ran into a softlock in Majora's Mask 3D where I talked to a Goron when there were two standing right next to each other and I talked to both of them so when one conversation ended the other started and they looped into each other and I had to shut the game off

Classic

In Sonic Adventure that stage sky deck has a ton of soft locks all over it including one in the same place as shown in the video

Hey apollo, I saw you beat cosmo's any% speedrun of oot, congrats!!