The Speedrunner Who Battled Machines in Devil May Cry 3

[@WaifuRuns]

I Got 3 Games into Summer Games Done Quick 2022, Ill Be Running Halo Infinite, Devil May Cry, and Left 4 Dead 2, Practicing those runs on my twitch live most days www.twitch.tv/waifu

[@gtvx03]

Yes!

[@estoylaroca]

Congratulations man

[@Grifball]

Awesome job, keep up the great work!

[@419]

Thanks man. You've done a ton for boosting this game's popularity in speedrunning and I hope you keep doing so because it's awesome. I dunno when I'll return, probably soonish, but I'm not done trying to beat the machines 🤖

[@dztuner3872]

yoooooooooooo,the legend himself,please continue existing

[@Tkokat]

The myth, the man, the legend

[@manifested2944]

the madlad ney MAD MAN bringing the game to its knees like the giga chad he is he could get a sub 2 min if he wanted but he does not want to break their spirit.

[@victoriousf.i.g.3311]

Machines: Frame-perfect play Speedrunners: I can beat that These in-depth looks at SR strats and the mechanics behind them will never cease to fascinate me.

[@lanceknightmare]

High level play of Monster Hunter revolves around manipulating the invincibility frames inside of the 2/10ths of a second which can be raised as high as 6/10ths of a second. The guard strategy in Devil May Cry requires 1/10th timing. I should mention that the perfect run of Ninja Gaiden as well as the walk on the bottom of the screen trick in Super Mario Bros. requires 1/15th. Tetris players have exceeded 1/20th and higher at this point.

[@victoriousf.i.g.3311]

@@lanceknightmare When the Earth is lost, speedrunners will be the only people to survive after they optimize the apocalypse

[@lanceknightmare]

@@victoriousf.i.g.3311 Well, optimizing the Apocalypse is a skill curve ahead of my level. Joseph Salee in Tetris, Werster in Pokemon/Sonic etc. will be the ones to optimize the Apocalypse. :D

[@neovssmith19]

I don't know how the developers made this game in under two years almost 2 decades ago and it's held up this long with more secrets being discovered. If developers cared this much nowadays games could be truly amazing 🤯🤯🤯

[@luxrias828]

Happens when you combine love and passion for what you do with freedom of expression and creativity, unbound by the chains of publishers and shareholders

[@BygoneT]

These were ps2 times. It's not even remotely in the same ballpark.

[@Casketkrusher_]

They had to after the disaster that DMC 2 was.

[@serioussaitama4071]

Well DmC 1 was one of, and still is, one of the best games of all time. Makes sense the sequels would hold up too.

[@jameswashere187]

They do care you just have to look

[@outwithayang7153]

Finally the Hies video Pog. Been waiting for this one for ages.

[@DrNero-ye8qu]

"But Hies was motivated by this." The summary of this video.

[@SaltedCrunchie]

Congratulations on getting 3 games into SGDQ and good luck on the runs when the day comes to run them

[@fobo3361]

We've all had that passing thought of "well it is POSSIBLE....wonder how long it'd take me to do it" but this guy actually tried it

[@Omnipotentpunch03]

Im so glad I discovered your channel cause honestly your where I get all my info about speedruns from and dmc is my favorite video game series so it's awesome to see someone speedrun it and talk about it.

[@Nekavandre]

Thank you for doing your videos. These lil history lessons in gaming always make me happy. It's always amazing what the gaming community comes up with. Keep it up and stay safe friend! Devil May Cry will always be a legendary series.

[@cryzz0n]

Thanks man. You've done a ton for boosting this game's popularity in speedrunning and I hope you keep doing so because it's awesome. I dunno when I'll return, probably soonish, but I'm not done trying to beat the machines

[@afibuffygirl]

Always loving these videos, we all appreciate it waifu

[@Revolthell]

I really love these history videos, I didn't know Hies was the one who discovered the Zip! Really amazing video. Fav DMC content creator for sure.

[@nanyabusiness4965]

Dude is nice in chat as well, helped me beat DMD for the first time :D

[@mitchsz]

It's always cool to see those statistics and explanations about runs, thank you for the work Waifu :)

[@kd5082]

I'm obsessed with the intro, waifu my man That fusion of machine girl and devil may cry it's beautiful, you always pull good videos dude I love it !

[@idValkyrie]

God I love your videos, so in dept that from your voice alone we already knew how much love you put in the game and making these videos!

[@Svorty]

This was one wild ride. I love that speedrunning communities can keep games alive long, long after they would fade into obscurity otherwise. Thank you for all your hard work and fun you provide for us plebs.

[@DarksteelHeart]

RG has always been my favorite style for Dante because it suits my playstyle. Stop them and counter. I love play like that. Same reason I love Dark Slayer. Except it replaces "block" with "dodge"

[@BygoneT]

You must have been a God, you have to do perfect parries in dmc3

[@AmazingChest]

Congrats on 100k!

[@WaifuRuns]

thaank you!

[@ButWhyWasTaken]

Tbh I I could never get into speedrunning, most games get dumb at some point or other, a long escort mission with an incredibly dumb noc that runs into death every 2 minutes, a part in the game where the devs tell you to grind some task or other for hours to proceed or at least to proceed without dying from every little mistake, new enemies that are incredibly trolly or downright cheating, etc. and that's when I usually put the game on hiatus until like feel like it again which sometimes can be years but often just means I entirely lose interest and drop the game entirely. Dedicating tens of thousand of hours to replay the same game, even one I love, hundreds or thousands of times as fast as possible with every mistake costing dearly and causing frustration is something that would be hell for me. On the other hand I *love* watching entertaining speedruns with cool tricks and glitches and watching videos about the history of a specific speedrun, etc.. So glad others like the stuff I'd absolutely hate so much speedrunning is getting ever more popular, when I first heard about it like 15 years ago it was still pretty niche but nowadays for most games youtube suggests speedrun as search term the moment you enter half the name.

[@arc-sd8sk]

hey I just dropped in to say that YOUR VIDEOS F*CKIN RULE and I get hella hype every time a new one drops

[@andreaverone9377]

Will you ever cover the legendary Dango? He wasn't a speedrunner, but pretty much every old top competitive stylish player knew him.

[@Astheniumn]

In hies we trust 🤖

[@sharpshooter9407]

holy shit Hies' Geryon fight was insane

[@scumlord4709]

Willingly Naming yourself "BlowHard" is alarming.

[@GarudaPSN]

If you know the man, then the name is the least alarming thing.

[@chari5165]

Hies is probably like terminator a machine but kinda human

[@Grimstroyer]

Love ur content, I still remember when u did a speedrun with dante ravioli, hope that happens again both stay safe.

[@mkzhero]

Speedrun or not, this game's absolutely amazing..

[@jbaum2711]

Machine girl goes perfect with this game

[@resonmon]

Amazing video as always

[@shadowofdakness]

What I find funny is the superhuman reaction speed, finger movement speed, and memorization ability gamers have. Think about it 1 tenth of a second and then there's the guitar hero pro players. Sounds like a comic book and I love it 😂

[@PackageCat]

nice analysis, liked the video.

[@kd5082]

Waifu is ma hero, fr the best speed run vídeos !

[@jinshootingstar]

Your channel is a gem that I feel so lucky to find. The

[@ManaPowerGames]

The time has come, and so have I

[@thenamesblond2348]

this is such a cool story, I can't believe all of this progress was so recent!

[@cursedcliff7562]

Waifu- the (soon to be) wirtual of DMC 3 speedrunning :D

[@arslanbali]

Great video but felt like the commentary and editing didn’t match up. For example you explaining “zips” while saying “and this happened” but the scene of the zip was shown on repeat, the commentary lacked the desired affect. Also at 10:53 “he was messing around and discovered zips” and then silence and you show the zip at 11:21 while my dumb ass thought I already saw the zip. These are very very minor critiques but amazing, informative and entertaining video. Kudos for explaining your set up for the sand blast zip, very easy to digest.

[@Timic83tc]

I came for the MVCi thumbnail

[@Haru-spicy]

Little wanderer, hie thee home

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

...welp. now I have a reference point for the future

[@nickwhright5848]

Title: Devil May Cry 3 Video Footage: Devil May Cry 3 Description: Devil May Cry 4

[@maxtiis2352]

Is there an archive with many of the strats used in both these runs and style videos anywhere readily available? I've been at the DMC 3 grind trying to get SS on all difficulties for 200 plus hours at least, with only DMD left, so it would be nice to see any information new to me. Mission 4 is the pits.

[@YurificationTrademark]

When the quality video is lengthy!!!!

[@FI3RY]

when he forgot to say Loner took Reccy from him first PepeHands

[@lukabrasi001]

you forgot to mention that the rage meter are the orbs, not the actual bar to the left

[@kameprod5000]

Does anyone hate the ADS, on the GDQ runs, they make the gamescreen so small, like I get sell out and make money but at least make the main product appealing.

[@neoyaku]

This stuff is tablestakes for fighting game players, however I can see how these mechanics give speed runners a run for their money

[@deidat9359]

Where can I find Hayate Ayasaki source videos? 7:50

[@heliax9924]

well machines lack something that humans have persevernence also never knew a gold release was 3 frames i had a feeling it was tigher than a normal guard glad i was right now watch as hias finds insane strats for dmc1 or any dmc game

[@EmoDKTsuchiya]

I'm too rubbish to speed run anything but man do I love these videos

[@1ook47]

I've been interested in giving dmc3 a shot again but i'm not really sure which version of dmc3 you guys use for speedruns, the only one I have is the steam port for pc

[@shark9311]

Respect

[@LW1773]

Matrix but with cool Japanese action games instead of world ending robots I can dig it

[@lilwill236]

Anybody know what the anime is that loner has as a gif at 18:40 could’ve sworn I’ve seen it before but a name escapes me.

[@lilwill236]

Was able to find it. Azur lane slow ahead episode 7 when they all sneak into the commander’s room.

[@bloomallcaps]

Thanks for reminding me of meth addict Dante from MVCI

[@traceyjones2242]

im so ass with royale guard and it feels like ill never be decent with the style😂😂😞

[@keatonlacretin9781]

Is that dmc2 costume a mod? Ive never seen that before

[@kagetsuki23]

I would like to see someone speedrun ninja gaiden 2 on xbox 360 on master ninja difficulty. Now that would be legendary.

[@ToushikaCuber]

DMC3 New Game SS speedrun please! I really would like to see how fast you can get an SS rank in all missions in new game. I had a 1h24min 7 years ago.

[@Alex-ee5pl]

It might just be me but this video seems *super* dark

[@mallaothman]

GG

[@deathgun2792]

im sure the balls in the left corner shows just the level of the style u choose edit: now i got it sorry

[@Ramsey276one]

T’As’O Vs seiH

[@kevin7242]

Has this guy been banned? His user and runs disappeared. Was he cheating?

[@Existential_Exit]

Hey cool shit man

[@MajorEmptySet]

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[@WilleWalla02]

Please get a haircut 😢😢

[@LuciferianStrings]

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