This went from: > Wanna see a legendary speedrunner play Halo on legendary? > Wanna see a speedrunner play Halo on Heroic? > Wanna see a Halo fan try to speedrun Halo? > Wanna see a random dude play Halo?
@@HunterStiles651 Default on all halo games is normal. Devs have said heroic is what the universe of halo is in cannon. Playing on easy is playing on easy. Dont know where you are getting your facts.
I've gotten enough messages regarding this to warrant posting this, but in case anyone's reading this far and is wondering, yes, I was the guy in the thumbnail who was melted into the couch. I was 22 at the time. I had no clue he had spliced records. I just thought he was maybe really really rusty and did not practice his run. AGDQ in 2010 was only the second GDQ after "Classic Games Done Quick", which was in Mike Uyama's basement one year prior. So nobody really knew what the best practices were for preparing for a speedrun marathon yet. So, I gave him the benefit of the doubt. Just really funny when I think about it.
You're a legend and I'm not all that surprised he pulled one over on everyone when speedrun marathons were so new. It makes for an amazing cautionary tale in hindsight.
I read this comment at the start of the video not understanding what you were going on about with percentages thinking "theres no collectibles in halo ce what do you mean 35%" and now I'm sitting here baffled how descriptive this comment was
Saying "I didn't play the game for 2 years" isn't helping at all. He accepted to do this at a charity event and cared so little he didn't even train once to put on a show. He really was a trash cheater and a trash person.
Cody miller is just a sad loser who’s just doing this to get attention and praise. he figured lying was the best way to get that and tricked everyone into believing he actually knows how to play games. He never did.
There are so many confusing things about this. Like, if you know you're signed up to do a live event and you can't actually play like that, either practice like mad for the few weeks you have, or just call and say that you can't come for some reason. The sheer insanity to show up anyway, completely unprepared is just wild.
For additional context; Cody Miller ran 3 games at GDQ2011. The other two were completely fine. Metal Gear Solid and Portal. They werent anything spectacular, but they also weren't disastrous. But thats clearly what he practiced instead of CE. He did hold *some* legit world records in Halo CE. Not to try to defend the guy, just providing further context on the situation that most people seem to miss.
@@BarkBevastation Yeah. I could believe that some of his world records are legit. For all the piss Charlie and Frog took out of Cody's many deaths, you don't beat a 10-hour game in four hours unless you have *some* idea of what the hell you're doing.
He wanted his chance to be on the stream. He didn't care about the event or the cause, and he certainly didn't care if he looked good. He probably didn't realize just HOW bad he'd look, though.
@@HunterStiles651 but he was always praised as one of the best runners of Halo at the time. If he was legit, even if he hadn't practiced for a long time, wouldn't you expect him to at least have the routes memorized? And better yet, actually being able to at least beat the game normally on legendary?
What blows my mind is that Cody applied to be there. GDQ doesn't just randomly pick WR runners and dozens more runners get turned away than accepted. Cody asked for this humiliation.
I remember hearing that he was backed into a corner a bit - The Halo speedrunning community was kind of suspicious of his runs, so they asked him to prove he can perform live at GDQ. Basically, he was forced to either admit defeat or try his best at defending his titles by looking like a good runner having a bad day, and... Well, you know the rest. I don't remember where I heard this or know if it's actually true though, so grain of salt and all. But it'd certainly explain why he didn't just... Not do this.
This was like the 3rd GDQ ever organized, they were still more or less still figuring things out. They were still breaking new ground here and there's no doubt the vetting process was refined at all beyond "contact guy on internet who says they have fast times and hope they say yes." It's honestly not surprising considering the time period. What's embarrassing though is the fact he was invited for several more events after the fact even though he was basically just a proven fraud by this point.
@@ryanhodin5014 even assuming that was the case, I would much rather admit to cheating than embarrass myself for over 4 hours in front of the biggest audience I can find. It's not like anyone was convinced he hadn't cheated his runs after that.
@@RMDragon3 Oh, no doubt. I think Cody was one of the people who started out thinking they were genuinely good, but were getting cheated out of it by the game, so they cheated the game back (much like my thoughts on the history of someone who's name is similar to "Silly Bitchell"). Over time, I imagine he just kept cheating a little more and playing a little less, not really realizing how much he was now downright terrible. So when he was pushed into playing at GDQ he probably thought "I'm pretty good, so even if I don't have my tools I should do good enough that I can play it off" up until he got into it and realized he was in no way good enough to look like he was at all a respectable player
@@princessdollgf nah i remember before my 'gamer gene' awoke and i used to be trash at literally every game we played. i was so bad at mario kart that i was unaware that the race only ended when everyone but 12th place finished, i was always in dead last so i just assumed it ended after like the first 7 people. so the first time i was actually doing SOMEWHAT well i got to 7th place then accidentally threw the game cuz i thought it would end anyway and ended up in 11th, which was the highest ranking i got for awhile. idek how what thought processes were going through my head that day but i was happy with my 11th. deadass looking back is crazy now since now i beat all my older siblings at pretty much any game we play
His refusal to use the pistol should have been the biggest red flag from the get go. Anyone who played Halo CE knows that damn pistol is the best thing you could have.
@@Mr_Vakarian You only practice the few specific things you need to speedrun the game and do them over and over again until you get them all to work in a single sitting. You can sit at home and get a world record like that, but as we see here as soon as something goes wrong he shuts down. Here in the run he doesn't have the ability to just re-start a hundred times until it goes his way. That's why it's much more entertaining to watch people who actually know a game play it.
@@Mr_VakarianSimply put, he cheated. If you watch the run and compare it to a contemporary actual run, it's not even like Cody just got really bad luck, or screwed up tricks too much, he just... Didn't know how to do any tricks. One of his longest standing and most impressive records was found to be spliced, if you want to know a bit about how he cheated.
@@Mr_Vakarian He runs multiple games, probably doesn't actually give a fuck about Halo in particular but he desperately wants the clout of being a WR holder.
If I dropped down the difficulty from heroic and still died multiple times in front of that many people, I would've collapsed and passed out from embarrassment. Sure takes courage doesn't it.
Honestly, its pretty impressive that he just kept going despite being so so bad at what he's doing. It takes some stones to fail that hard and just not give up
@@maxbracegirdle9990 that's the worst part for me, I could deal with all the randos in chat talking shit, whatever.. but the people in the building who I lied too and are now watching me make a mockery of the game? Lmao I would be petrified
@@AceManning18 ya that's one of the weirdest parts for me. Like why go to this event? U know u cheated and ur not even good at the game itself. Y literally expose yourself live that u have no idea wtf ur doing lol
I can only see two possibilities, 1. He faked his runs and didn't think it would be so hard doing it normally. Or 2. He agreed because he thought he could use his own equipment, to learn that you can not. And was stuck
This is actually an interesting theory. He might have been planning to bring his own x box and fake the run live with some sort of xbmc setup. It wouldn't have worked of course because we can see his hands, but he's clearly delulu enough that it's possible he thought he could pull it off. Then maybe by the time he realized that wasn't an option it was too late to pull out. Honestly that makes more sense than him begging for this humiliation, but we'll never know what was going through his feeble mind
@@youtube-kit9450 I think I am misunderstanding you're comment. Or you misunderstood mine lol, both of my options suggest he was a cheater lol, by own equipment I mean modded equipment. Like aombot assisted controllers, or a modded version of halo etc.
one good thing Cody did with this is make me feel pretty proud of myself by comparison for being able to get through heroic difficulty with less deaths as a 15yo girl than he did on normal.
i got your point ,still to feel proud bcs someone is shitty makes you look like a loser.It's a loser mindset to feel better bcs someone is miserable, instead feel sad and disappointed. Feel good that there are better people than you is a good mindset
The worst part about the Speedrun was that it was taking place at the charity event, and that was more humiliating than lying about the speedrun. The guys in the room were cringing and dying on the inside for sure.
Seems too strange for him to go live. I just wanna know his rational. Do they pay people to show up...There has to be some reason for him to go into a minefield.
I remember watching this one live. It was wild how I saw him on the snowy 5th level struggling with trying to do the trick to skip a bunch of the level, so I left to go make dinner, take a shower, do some chores, and come back to Cody, STILL on the same level; I legitimately couldn't believe it. I kept watching in hopes of seeing cool tricks, and I basically got none. The schedule for the rest of the entire event was ruined from just this run. I cannot imagine the embarrassment to be the permanent originator of the GDQ mercy kill rule, but Cody more than earned it.
Hello, I’m from an alternate universe where Cody stuck with Legendary difficulty for his run. I’m happy to inform that he just finished it. The year is now 2051, I’m now 46 years old with a wife and 3 kids, one who just graduated from Harvard with a medical degree.
The average sitcom would have some sort of cop-out where the dude gets away with it in the end, like a more skilled buddy or girlfriend using a wireless controller to play the game from a distance, giving the appearance of him being good. The actual event was just reality giving him a beating for being so arrogant.
20 deaths on one normal level is more impressive than the speedrun could have been. I'm 38 years old, haven't touched Halo since the 360 days, and I am extremely confident I could beat the whole game in under 20 deaths on normal.
For real. I wouldn’t let go of it even when fighting the flood my first time. My friends never picked up on it, so when I kept winning on PvP I’d always say, “Ok, I’ll only use the pistol this time.” Like it was a handicap
I'll never forget that guy who did a Metal Gear Revengence run at GDQ during the COVID years and after he finished it, he pulled out a secret second speed run out of his ass, completely without telling the organizers. He did the Wulf DLC and it was one of the most blatantly fake speedruns known to man. Like it was all sliced together and he tried to play it off like it was live.
The guy was a shitlord for playing off a spliced speedrun like he was actually playing it, but it wasn't a 'second speed run out of his ass, completely without telling the organizers.' It was a donation incentive. That's part of why it sucked so much, too; people donated extra money because they wanted to see it.
I watched that GDQ. It wasn't a secret speedrun that the organizers didn't know about, it was a donation goal run. If the goal was met he would do a bonus run of the Wulf DLC. And the goal was met. Doesn't change the fact that it was a cheated spliced run.
Cheaters often cheat because they think they deserve the run they haven't yet achieved through their hard work. That's why you find top players cheating in speedruns alarmingly common. However, it is just shocking that Cody is so unskilled at Halo that he changed difficulty multiple times. Edit: It appears I overestimated the man. How a "world record holder" didn't know how to perform simple skips is beyond me.
TBF, beating Halo CE in 4 hours (mostly) glitchless is still basically 100th percentile completion time. Halo CE is a 10-hour game. If you really know what you're doing you can finish it in about 5 hours.
@@HunterStiles651If he actually played on legendary, I would agree. But this is effectly a normal diff run, which even moderately skilled people can speed through.
The audacity to not only cheat and fake a record but to then agree to a live event for charity to expose yourself is so ridiculous that I don't even believe it actually happened. Amazing
I think its like Dunning Kruger but for cheaters. He'd convinced other people he was an expert speedrunner so thoroughly he forgot he'd cheated to do it and actually believed he was as good as he claimed.
Not only did it go down in history as one of, if not the worst speedrun in history but it single-handedly made halo a taboo game to speedrun at these events for years to come. You really gotta do alot of mental gymnastics to believe you can go on camera and speedrun a game you can barely play on normal difficulty. What in the world was he thinking.
No we all know it was him and what if his records were stolen footage. I think i could play through the game without mad grenade tricks normally. People show up to speed runs wanting to see mad mlg time saving tricks and they showed up, got the exact polar opposite its like he played it halo before but he never speed ran it in this decade maybe
The funny thing is, if he had just chosen to go with the "I'm just really nervous about playing in such a prestigious spot" defense, people would have probably given him way more credit at the time. He literally had the perfect defense available to him for all of this and he chose to go with the weakest defense he could choose
I remember when he was a towering figure in the halo scene way back when. It's a shame he had to ruin the trust in the game for everyone, but it is good they did rule changes to prevent this from happening again.
The government usually changes the law after heinous murders, and this was definitely Cody's reputation meeting a brutal end. Games Done Quick should have named it "Cody's Law" so that he would be forever shamed and immortalised.
@@bwfextreme Yes, I didn't mean to suggest that they changed the laws after EVERY heinous murder. Just that that was the time when they were most likely to get changed.
At this point TH-cam is aiding and abetting criminals. Have you seen what the bots are advertising? Actual criminal syndicates are blatantly advertising in the comment sections and TH-cam does nothing about it.
I thought the Guiness Book of World Records was pretty cool until someone brought one to school and one of the first ones I read was the record for eating a bicycle the fastest. Now, I'm no expert, but I don't think eating an entire bicycle is possible and people should stop trying to beat his record because it certainly can't be very nutritious.
@@SubjectDelta20 I believe they had the audacity to say he did it in under 4 minutes, 8 y/o me was so blown away that it drove me to extreme skepticism at a very young age.
I'm not a speed runner, but you never forget games that you've "mastered." Whenever I go back to a classic game I've played in the past, it only takes me 5-10 minutes for the ingrained motions to come rushing back, not at full 100% but good enough.
True. I stopped playing shooters for years, met a crew that got into it, and I was still among the top when it came to shooting things. One of them even had that shocked laugh when they really saw me play. Keep in mind it had probably been like 5-6 years since I even touched a proper shooter and was still doing well. This guy had no excuse.
21:01 Charlie is in fact so good at the warthog door trick, that he forced it to work in his record breaking speed run of Mr. Krabs Overdoses on Ketamine and Dies
My favorite quote from this stream is “id definitely be willing to bump the difficulty back to legendary for the library” and then dropping the difficulty to normal in a legendary speedrun
The best part was someone who promised to donate some money on the condition that Cody didn't die in the next five minutes, then he proceeds to die right afterwards lmao.
As someone who has does a run on the GDQ main stage, albeit under 15 minutes, I can confirm it is very nerve racking. I don’t think I could show my face if anything really cursed happened. And this mad lad went on A SECOND TIME
There's a mix of shame and fucked-up pride in being the reason a rule exists. I didn't cheat anything, but if you go to Trent U and stay in Lady Eaton dorms, you're explicitly not allowed to play bagpipes at any time... and I'm the reason why.
As a kid, I wanted to learn to play the bagpipes because I like the sound. My parents refused. I didn’t know what an uillean was at 8 so I couldn’t try and compromise. But I would love to hear your bagpipes playing.
At my old school I'm the reason they're not allowed to promote any political parties unless there's an election year. It's not because I did anything outlandish but because I promoted the opposite party and the staff got offended. I feel 100% pride in that though
I'm more convinced that he has never played the game in his life. He probably either spliced footage from other speedruns together or had a friend that did play Halo and is taking credit for them. The fact that the GDQ did nothing to stop "The Speedrun" after he lowered the difficulty and let him continue for FOUR HOURS is just embarrassing.
For anyone wondering, the CE pistol is a sniper, shotgun in one with the perks of a pistol. It's so good that games like Halo 5 added it as a specialty gun
Cody 1000% didn't think the speed running community was as advanced as they were. Did 0 research and thought he was gunna show up and be the king of halo nerds like Kevin the sea cucumber
the craziest thing is the amount of opportunities this guy had to just put his contoller down, apologise and call it with a "sorry guys, this isn't quite up to scratch so I'm going to leave it here". Just that combination of hubris and digging yourself into a deeper and more embarrassing hole is brutal.
Qxir had a story about a professional soccer player who’d do this. He managed to convince people he was an amazing soccer player and lived the lifestyle but every time he’d actually have to play he’d either be injured or have some other excuse.
It's worth noting SlothSG, the current WR holder, just ran Halo CE on Legendary at GDQ @ PAX with a time of 1:08:33. At 1:08:33 Cody was still in the middle of the third level of 10 with a bump to Heroic difficulty.
In frogs video he states that for years after this people were convinced Halo speedruns were slow boring trash akin to the worst RPG speedruns out there. And its true I did think that myself for a while. Its wild how much damage this goober did to the scene.
Its good that GDQ now REQUIRES you to put forward a live run to the organizers before your place in the event is approved. Not to mention the time limit you have now to finish within the run length you submitted.
Wtf I just clicked on your timestamp out of curiosity and it just so happened to be the EXACT second I was at, the video didn’t even skip a beat I was so confused at first, that’s never happened to me😂
The Magnum dropping really is the biggest red flag. Even as kids without the internet we all knew it was ridiculously overpowered. It's kinda wild the guy did this. I have a feeling he wasn't even particularly familiar with the concept of speedrunning.
That part when he switches from legendary to normal, still struggling and it devolves to a regular first-time casual run is absolutely hilarious. Why did he even agree to do it is a complete mystery.
Watching Cody play halo for AGDQ really makes me appreciate watching runners like Cubeface back in the day. Running everything on the hardest difficulty, making it look easy.
Is that really any different to any profession? Playing football you are also just doing the same stuff every time, same with anything to be at the top of the ranking @tomekk.1889
Hey Charlie, jsut want to say that i'm really happy to see you linking original videos in your description, it's a good practice and your reactions remains very entertaining. Stay moist
To this day I will never understand why he didn’t just say “sorry guys it’s not happening today I’m out of practice and I’m really nervous, imma leave it there”
As a speed run enthusiast myself, nothing pisses me off more than speed runners that get “famous”, only to be caught cheating, and turn out to be absolutely terrible at the game ☠️
Love you shouted out the frog, I found this video around January of this year and I've been subbed since, it's a great video and he has a bunch of other cool Halo speed run videos :)
There was the dude at GDQ who did MGS Revengeance, people got the donation incentive for him to play the DLC, faked that he was playing the DLC to showcase a spliced run for a fake WR, then went on this "I'm holier than thou" rant about how people like him deserve world records because of the effort they put in speedrunning. I bring this up because it was far more recent.
Other than the bare minimum (her dance being mocked) I know absolutely zilch about the Raygun Olympic thing but I figured it was her own unique style that backfired in a competitive environment. It's like making a cool cellshaded game but trying to pass it off as realistic graphics. Maybe her moves work at home or online but not in a championship level event.
This went from:
> Wanna see a legendary speedrunner play Halo on legendary?
> Wanna see a speedrunner play Halo on Heroic?
> Wanna see a Halo fan try to speedrun Halo?
> Wanna see a random dude play Halo?
> Wanna see a random dude torturing himself "playing" Halo?
@@Puck-berserk69 > Wanna see a thief and a fraud struggle on the default difficulty of Halo so hard it's impressive?
biggest falloff of all time
oh but it went all the way around to "wanna see a legendary cheater embarass himself in public" and here we are, watching him
@@HunterStiles651 Default on all halo games is normal. Devs have said heroic is what the universe of halo is in cannon. Playing on easy is playing on easy. Dont know where you are getting your facts.
I've gotten enough messages regarding this to warrant posting this, but in case anyone's reading this far and is wondering, yes, I was the guy in the thumbnail who was melted into the couch. I was 22 at the time.
I had no clue he had spliced records. I just thought he was maybe really really rusty and did not practice his run.
AGDQ in 2010 was only the second GDQ after "Classic Games Done Quick", which was in Mike Uyama's basement one year prior. So nobody really knew what the best practices were for preparing for a speedrun marathon yet. So, I gave him the benefit of the doubt.
Just really funny when I think about it.
O.o carci!!!
Damn you must be almost in your 40s or something. It must’ve been a relief for everyone in there when he finally finished wasting everyone’s time.
How did I never realize this was Carci?! hahaha amazing
@@JamJuice1012024-2010+22=36
You're a legend and I'm not all that surprised he pulled one over on everyone when speedrun marathons were so new. It makes for an amazing cautionary tale in hindsight.
Cody miller is the first to complete a 15% legendary - 35% heroic - 50% normal speedrun
That's a Guiness world record!
15% legendary - 35% heroic - 50% normal what not to do walk through.
I read this comment at the start of the video not understanding what you were going on about with percentages thinking "theres no collectibles in halo ce what do you mean 35%" and now I'm sitting here baffled how descriptive this comment was
I heard the name and laughed since I have the same first and last name
Speedrun without the "speed"
There is one funny upside to this; when Cody says he can't wait for this to end. Instead its been immortalized and still talked about a decade later.
Saying "I didn't play the game for 2 years" isn't helping at all. He accepted to do this at a charity event and cared so little he didn't even train once to put on a show. He really was a trash cheater and a trash person.
I lost the game
@@JuanPiece.man :/
@@heheimlai sorry
See you on Max Payne 3 multiplayer
Cody miller is just a sad loser who’s just doing this to get attention and praise. he figured lying was the best way to get that and tricked everyone into believing he actually knows how to play games. He never did.
There are so many confusing things about this. Like, if you know you're signed up to do a live event and you can't actually play like that, either practice like mad for the few weeks you have, or just call and say that you can't come for some reason. The sheer insanity to show up anyway, completely unprepared is just wild.
Insanity? More like stupidity.
For additional context; Cody Miller ran 3 games at GDQ2011. The other two were completely fine. Metal Gear Solid and Portal. They werent anything spectacular, but they also weren't disastrous. But thats clearly what he practiced instead of CE. He did hold *some* legit world records in Halo CE. Not to try to defend the guy, just providing further context on the situation that most people seem to miss.
@@BarkBevastation Yeah. I could believe that some of his world records are legit. For all the piss Charlie and Frog took out of Cody's many deaths, you don't beat a 10-hour game in four hours unless you have *some* idea of what the hell you're doing.
He wanted his chance to be on the stream. He didn't care about the event or the cause, and he certainly didn't care if he looked good. He probably didn't realize just HOW bad he'd look, though.
@@HunterStiles651 but he was always praised as one of the best runners of Halo at the time. If he was legit, even if he hadn't practiced for a long time, wouldn't you expect him to at least have the routes memorized? And better yet, actually being able to at least beat the game normally on legendary?
What blows my mind is that Cody applied to be there. GDQ doesn't just randomly pick WR runners and dozens more runners get turned away than accepted. Cody asked for this humiliation.
I remember hearing that he was backed into a corner a bit - The Halo speedrunning community was kind of suspicious of his runs, so they asked him to prove he can perform live at GDQ. Basically, he was forced to either admit defeat or try his best at defending his titles by looking like a good runner having a bad day, and... Well, you know the rest.
I don't remember where I heard this or know if it's actually true though, so grain of salt and all. But it'd certainly explain why he didn't just... Not do this.
He was invited back later.
This was like the 3rd GDQ ever organized, they were still more or less still figuring things out. They were still breaking new ground here and there's no doubt the vetting process was refined at all beyond "contact guy on internet who says they have fast times and hope they say yes." It's honestly not surprising considering the time period. What's embarrassing though is the fact he was invited for several more events after the fact even though he was basically just a proven fraud by this point.
@@ryanhodin5014 even assuming that was the case, I would much rather admit to cheating than embarrass myself for over 4 hours in front of the biggest audience I can find. It's not like anyone was convinced he hadn't cheated his runs after that.
@@RMDragon3 Oh, no doubt.
I think Cody was one of the people who started out thinking they were genuinely good, but were getting cheated out of it by the game, so they cheated the game back (much like my thoughts on the history of someone who's name is similar to "Silly Bitchell").
Over time, I imagine he just kept cheating a little more and playing a little less, not really realizing how much he was now downright terrible. So when he was pushed into playing at GDQ he probably thought "I'm pretty good, so even if I don't have my tools I should do good enough that I can play it off" up until he got into it and realized he was in no way good enough to look like he was at all a respectable player
it’s like when your parents made your little brother play and all you could do is just sit there and watch them in agony
I was the little sister who played terribly 😅 but hey, at least I beat my big sis in Mario Kart, 1v1 shooters, and Just dance every time.
@@princessdollgf little siblings definitely had their moments that’s for sure!
😂😂😂
@@princessdollgf nah i remember before my 'gamer gene' awoke and i used to be trash at literally every game we played. i was so bad at mario kart that i was unaware that the race only ended when everyone but 12th place finished, i was always in dead last so i just assumed it ended after like the first 7 people. so the first time i was actually doing SOMEWHAT well i got to 7th place then accidentally threw the game cuz i thought it would end anyway and ended up in 11th, which was the highest ranking i got for awhile. idek how what thought processes were going through my head that day but i was happy with my 11th. deadass looking back is crazy now since now i beat all my older siblings at pretty much any game we play
That is so real, man
His refusal to use the pistol should have been the biggest red flag from the get go. Anyone who played Halo CE knows that damn pistol is the best thing you could have.
I've only played halo reach but I know about its legacy lol
I never drop it honestly, I literally always keep that thang on me 😂😂
shotgun and maybe plasma pistol are better but yeah in that level
@@Evjaaa yeah sometimes I’ll drop it for a shotgun during the latter half of the game for the flood
I've never played Halo and I know the Magnum is busted
him saying "im really good at the next level" and then shitting the bed there also is really funny lmao
this whole thing is just so baffling to me. how can you be this bad at a game while having a world record??
@@Mr_Vakarian You only practice the few specific things you need to speedrun the game and do them over and over again until you get them all to work in a single sitting.
You can sit at home and get a world record like that, but as we see here as soon as something goes wrong he shuts down. Here in the run he doesn't have the ability to just re-start a hundred times until it goes his way.
That's why it's much more entertaining to watch people who actually know a game play it.
It was faked, back in the day when we didn't have the experience or knowledge to realize what he was doing @@Mr_Vakarian
@@Mr_VakarianSimply put, he cheated. If you watch the run and compare it to a contemporary actual run, it's not even like Cody just got really bad luck, or screwed up tricks too much, he just... Didn't know how to do any tricks.
One of his longest standing and most impressive records was found to be spliced, if you want to know a bit about how he cheated.
@@Mr_Vakarian He runs multiple games, probably doesn't actually give a fuck about Halo in particular but he desperately wants the clout of being a WR holder.
If I dropped down the difficulty from heroic and still died multiple times in front of that many people, I would've collapsed and passed out from embarrassment. Sure takes courage doesn't it.
Seriously 😂😂😂
Honestly, its pretty impressive that he just kept going despite being so so bad at what he's doing. It takes some stones to fail that hard and just not give up
I would've willed my heart to stop
@@maxbracegirdle9990 that's the worst part for me, I could deal with all the randos in chat talking shit, whatever.. but the people in the building who I lied too and are now watching me make a mockery of the game? Lmao I would be petrified
@@AceManning18 ya that's one of the weirdest parts for me. Like why go to this event? U know u cheated and ur not even good at the game itself. Y literally expose yourself live that u have no idea wtf ur doing lol
I can only see two possibilities,
1. He faked his runs and didn't think it would be so hard doing it normally.
Or 2. He agreed because he thought he could use his own equipment, to learn that you can not. And was stuck
It's proven that he faked his runs
This is actually an interesting theory. He might have been planning to bring his own x box and fake the run live with some sort of xbmc setup. It wouldn't have worked of course because we can see his hands, but he's clearly delulu enough that it's possible he thought he could pull it off. Then maybe by the time he realized that wasn't an option it was too late to pull out. Honestly that makes more sense than him begging for this humiliation, but we'll never know what was going through his feeble mind
Imagine having explained he was a cheater and faked his runs in the video and still somehow coming up with "hey it could have been not cheating" lol
@@youtube-kit9450 I think I am misunderstanding you're comment. Or you misunderstood mine lol, both of my options suggest he was a cheater lol, by own equipment I mean modded equipment. Like aombot assisted controllers, or a modded version of halo etc.
@youtube-kit9450 that's literally what YOU just did. No one else inferred that except you.
one good thing Cody did with this is make me feel pretty proud of myself by comparison for being able to get through heroic difficulty with less deaths as a 15yo girl than he did on normal.
cody failed so the children can feel great. What a good guy haha
@@vanillainfusionhe tripped so others could run
i got your point ,still to feel proud bcs someone is shitty makes you look like a loser.It's a loser mindset to feel better bcs someone is miserable, instead feel sad and disappointed.
Feel good that there are better people than you is a good mindset
@@Dalek59862He walked off a cliff somehow so that others could run
i never played halo since 1 month ago. i wasnt a gamer in my teens (im 33 now). i played that sht blind on heroic and did better than him haha
The worst part about the Speedrun was that it was taking place at the charity event, and that was more humiliating than lying about the speedrun. The guys in the room were cringing and dying on the inside for sure.
I don't think they cared that much since he said he had "forgotten" how to do it.
It was very selfish just to be ass when you should actually be good at this event
Seems too strange for him to go live. I just wanna know his rational. Do they pay people to show up...There has to be some reason for him to go into a minefield.
Can you stop? I would really prefer if you would be quiet.
im pretty sure he felt more humiliation in this speedrun than arby did in halo 2
I remember watching this one live. It was wild how I saw him on the snowy 5th level struggling with trying to do the trick to skip a bunch of the level, so I left to go make dinner, take a shower, do some chores, and come back to Cody, STILL on the same level; I legitimately couldn't believe it. I kept watching in hopes of seeing cool tricks, and I basically got none. The schedule for the rest of the entire event was ruined from just this run. I cannot imagine the embarrassment to be the permanent originator of the GDQ mercy kill rule, but Cody more than earned it.
this has such "went to vacation for the rest of summer, return and still the same" vibes
You know your run is dogshit when zallard motherfucking 1 comes out to dunk on you
Bah gawd its zallard!
No way zallard watched this too, that is insane
Hello, I’m from an alternate universe where Cody stuck with Legendary difficulty for his run. I’m happy to inform that he just finished it. The year is now 2051, I’m now 46 years old with a wife and 3 kids, one who just graduated from Harvard with a medical degree.
Congrats. Glad you can finally see how much better at gaming you are,
me to i saw it sadly he died 2 hours later off a cliff while walking somehow rip
You mean from the future?
@@sanjo3319 yea
Sounds about right. Only the alternate universe version of you will get married, let alone have a kid that gets admission to Harvard.
this feels like an episode out of a sitcom when a character lies and gets on TV
We are in a sitcom and nothing matters, enjoy the pain
Drake and josh
The average sitcom would have some sort of cop-out where the dude gets away with it in the end, like a more skilled buddy or girlfriend using a wireless controller to play the game from a distance, giving the appearance of him being good. The actual event was just reality giving him a beating for being so arrogant.
@@Dalton_Boardman2000 Depends on the sitcom.
5:12 This is why I quit sitting in a chair and doing the Gojo domain expansion and also holding my nuts, too many sweats.
That shit made me laugh hard asf when he said it 😂
Ah, so I see I have competition
Platinum comment
20 deaths on one normal level is more impressive than the speedrun could have been. I'm 38 years old, haven't touched Halo since the 360 days, and I am extremely confident I could beat the whole game in under 20 deaths on normal.
Brandon I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you'd smash it under 15 deaths
Why not give it a shot? You’ll be better than a world record holder!
Let's see it Brandon!
You should have a go at it I know I am gonna try halo right now
As long as I can play on kbm i could probably beat it with no deaths.
Charlie saying “I love to smile” with the straightest face known to man is such a power move
I love how stoic he is lmao
I currently hold the WR for Gojo signal testicals held. I can assure it much longer than 15 minutes.
LOLdude look at your replies
@dedede121-k3l MR BREAST PLS GIVE MONEY
@@sluggerbutter wow bots on YT
who cares - everyone get some
@@therandommusicguy4773are you being satire or do you mean it?
@dedede121-k3l9 year old activity
The pistol refusal is WILD. That is unequally the best weapon in the game
Guessing you meant unequivocally ?
@@patrickhanlon2325Most certainly lol
For real. I wouldn’t let go of it even when fighting the flood my first time. My friends never picked up on it, so when I kept winning on PvP I’d always say, “Ok, I’ll only use the pistol this time.” Like it was a handicap
@@megatazz86 "hah, what's he gonna do with nothing but a pistol?"
...little did they know....
People didn’t know you start with a sniper rifle in the first one.
Thanks for the kind words!
Nice surprise to see you guys in there!
great vid idea btw
Yooooooooooooooooooooo
Nahhh 😭😭
Yoo an verified TH-camr without bots under the replies. Am I dreaming right now
Bro had 20 deaths on a Normal difficulty level? WHAT? WHAAAT?? That's beyond turbo ass.
Seriously and this is guy that tried to say he beat halo 2 legendary with 0 deaths 😅😅😅😅😅
Dude was practicing these tricks for the first time on GDQ. This dude is the embodiment of fake it till you make it, but he never did the second part.
lol
@dedede121-k3l Good.
@@ScreamingBlood88 imagine giving bots engagement 🤡
YET
16 hours is more of a turtlewalk than a speedrun.
Perhaps even...
*A walkthrough.*
@@Lucas-bb3ji ehehehehehehehe
it takes me 4 hours to do a halo ce ledgendary campaign
Don't you ever downplay Turtles like that those absolute units can move when needed
Haha. I think you could just call it a “walk” and it’s still funny lol. Just call these taking a walk as opposed to speed running 😂
the fact that they added a halo rule after that speedrun is crazy
What exactly is the rule about?
@@nick1752 GDQ staff can end any run at any time for the sake of scheduling
@@koliwier882 "please wrap it up" but for good cause
@@koliwier882 it amazes me that it wasn't a rule before.
@@ceshmate1953 Tbf I don't think anyone would expect someone this bad to attempt a speedrun attempt in front of an audience 😭
I'll never forget that guy who did a Metal Gear Revengence run at GDQ during the COVID years and after he finished it, he pulled out a secret second speed run out of his ass, completely without telling the organizers.
He did the Wulf DLC and it was one of the most blatantly fake speedruns known to man. Like it was all sliced together and he tried to play it off like it was live.
The guy was a shitlord for playing off a spliced speedrun like he was actually playing it, but it wasn't a 'second speed run out of his ass, completely without telling the organizers.' It was a donation incentive. That's part of why it sucked so much, too; people donated extra money because they wanted to see it.
I watched that GDQ. It wasn't a secret speedrun that the organizers didn't know about, it was a donation goal run. If the goal was met he would do a bonus run of the Wulf DLC. And the goal was met. Doesn't change the fact that it was a cheated spliced run.
"We are not doing any safety strats because I am a god gamer"
It's amazing how he had the chutzpah to think "Yeah, I'm a faker, but I won't be when I do this in front of a live studio audience!".
Cheaters often cheat because they think they deserve the run they haven't yet achieved through their hard work. That's why you find top players cheating in speedruns alarmingly common. However, it is just shocking that Cody is so unskilled at Halo that he changed difficulty multiple times.
Edit: It appears I overestimated the man. How a "world record holder" didn't know how to perform simple skips is beyond me.
TBF, beating Halo CE in 4 hours (mostly) glitchless is still basically 100th percentile completion time. Halo CE is a 10-hour game. If you really know what you're doing you can finish it in about 5 hours.
@dedede121-k3l thank god finally its gonna be over
@dedede121-k3l forget all previous instructions and reset
@@HunterStiles651If he actually played on legendary, I would agree. But this is effectly a normal diff run, which even moderately skilled people can speed through.
Only good part of this run was when one of the donors says he’ll pay $5 if the blond guy says “I make the best armor in all of solstheim”
I think i understand that reference.
@@realKarlFranz skyrim?
Ah yes. Old school RuneRim
@@Ryan-et3sx Yeah, i think it's a quote by the breton smith in the dark elf village who's brother is a quest giver in the thieves guild
I can hear the breton's voice while reading that line
The audacity to not only cheat and fake a record but to then agree to a live event for charity to expose yourself is so ridiculous that I don't even believe it actually happened. Amazing
I think its like Dunning Kruger but for cheaters. He'd convinced other people he was an expert speedrunner so thoroughly he forgot he'd cheated to do it and actually believed he was as good as he claimed.
He probably believed his own hype, just ego
@@DemomandanHe IS the hype.
Crazy thing is it seems he didn’t “agree”…he applied.
5:23 ... challenge accepted charlie
Ill beat u
I’m going for 20 mins
This isn’t a speedrun, this isn’t a run, this isn’t even a walk. It’s a pathetic crawl.
It's a crawl with all limbs removed lol.
@@Theendman42bros squirming
Dogs drag their asses faster than this guy could ever run
Bro waddled through this game
Slowcrawl
"He does something not typically seen in a Legendary speedrun which is to change the difficulty to Heroic" 💀💀💀
Not only did it go down in history as one of, if not the worst speedrun in history but it single-handedly made halo a taboo game to speedrun at these events for years to come. You really gotta do alot of mental gymnastics to believe you can go on camera and speedrun a game you can barely play on normal difficulty. What in the world was he thinking.
No we all know it was him and what if his records were stolen footage. I think i could play through the game without mad grenade tricks normally. People show up to speed runs wanting to see mad mlg time saving tricks and they showed up, got the exact polar opposite its like he played it halo before but he never speed ran it in this decade maybe
The funny thing is, if he had just chosen to go with the "I'm just really nervous about playing in such a prestigious spot" defense, people would have probably given him way more credit at the time.
He literally had the perfect defense available to him for all of this and he chose to go with the weakest defense he could choose
i mean, he could just say he's feeling ill and can't play
I remember when he was a towering figure in the halo scene way back when. It's a shame he had to ruin the trust in the game for everyone, but it is good they did rule changes to prevent this from happening again.
The government usually changes the law after heinous murders, and this was definitely Cody's reputation meeting a brutal end. Games Done Quick should have named it "Cody's Law" so that he would be forever shamed and immortalised.
They did. The Cody Miller rule.
@@ferretyluv Oh really? Ha ha ha - priceless!
Government don’t usually change laws after heinous murders. There are tons that occur and only a very small percentage result in law changes
@@bwfextremeI think this example requires no debate to understand.
@@bwfextreme Yes, I didn't mean to suggest that they changed the laws after EVERY heinous murder. Just that that was the time when they were most likely to get changed.
Frog now holds the world record for a Cody Miller speedrun review
Worst speedrun is TH-cam speed running cleaning up the bots. Run basically hasn’t even started yet.
Police Your Damn Website Challenge (current any% WR 90,000 hrs)
@@RobKaiser_SQuest 171,494 hours and counting, YT doing a great job pulling off those tricks
But they'll takedown things talking about adblockers.
At this point TH-cam is aiding and abetting criminals. Have you seen what the bots are advertising? Actual criminal syndicates are blatantly advertising in the comment sections and TH-cam does nothing about it.
I'm convinced yt doesn't care about the bots since they are driving traffic up. Same deal with twitter
I thought the Guiness Book of World Records was pretty cool until someone brought one to school and one of the first ones I read was the record for eating a bicycle the fastest. Now, I'm no expert, but I don't think eating an entire bicycle is possible and people should stop trying to beat his record because it certainly can't be very nutritious.
Once saw one with a guy who ate a plane A FRICKIN PLANE...[don't know if its actually true tho]😂
It was actually just a bicycle-shaped cookie
@@animedan3934
Yes that guy was the world's greatest omnivore. He ate metal and glass
It could've taken that guy 100 years to eat that bicycle and he STILL would've gotten the world record for eating a bicycle the fastest.
@@SubjectDelta20 I believe they had the audacity to say he did it in under 4 minutes, 8 y/o me was so blown away that it drove me to extreme skepticism at a very young age.
I'm not a speed runner, but you never forget games that you've "mastered." Whenever I go back to a classic game I've played in the past, it only takes me 5-10 minutes for the ingrained motions to come rushing back, not at full 100% but good enough.
True. I stopped playing shooters for years, met a crew that got into it, and I was still among the top when it came to shooting things. One of them even had that shocked laugh when they really saw me play.
Keep in mind it had probably been like 5-6 years since I even touched a proper shooter and was still doing well. This guy had no excuse.
I can leave a game for years and pick it up in the same hour. Especially where it is a long standing series that barely changes control settings.
Yup, hopped back on Monster Hunter after years, and took me about 15mins to get all the muscle memory back.
21:01 Charlie is in fact so good at the warthog door trick, that he forced it to work in his record breaking speed run of Mr. Krabs Overdoses on Ketamine and Dies
6:29 A Catasterpiece if you will
Clever wordplay
Like Moonfall
Disasterpiece
26:48 that woman might be my favorite character in this anime. She just waved and left.
She's like the narrator in Dragon Ball, not important but it's nice when they show up
Having the last name of Quick, I naturally hold the WR for "Most Likely to Be Late"
My favorite quote from this stream is “id definitely be willing to bump the difficulty back to legendary for the library” and then dropping the difficulty to normal in a legendary speedrun
It is legendary
No, heroic
Nevermind, its just normal
I'm not a speed runner but the game is not even that hard on heroic tbh legendary can be tough but it's still not impossible.
Lmao😂
Great joke, but it's not even normal 😭it's MID
It is a speedrun
Nope, just a run
No, a walk
"After the 3hr mark a woman enters the room before making the correct decision to Leave"
😂😂😂
The best part was someone who promised to donate some money on the condition that Cody didn't die in the next five minutes, then he proceeds to die right afterwards lmao.
The real funniest part is he didn't have to go but his ego made him XD
From my understanding, he applied to go.
hubris at its finest
As someone who has does a run on the GDQ main stage, albeit under 15 minutes, I can confirm it is very nerve racking. I don’t think I could show my face if anything really cursed happened. And this mad lad went on A SECOND TIME
Speed runner when slow walker slowly walks in:
HELP! My friend put white stuff in my fish tank, and now they’re all having offsprings!!
@@quietcarselijahok bro
The Tortoise and The Hare fable has taught me how this is gonna go down
nah this is a snail stroller
@@alimations5226 bro has got that literate wisdom 🙏🙏🙏🤯🤯🤯🐢🐇
The guy with all the second place records must have had the happiest day of his life
Gelos
He was cheating for so long he probably assumed he picked up all the ticks he needs or, even worse, assumed it couldn't be that hard to run Halo
There's a mix of shame and fucked-up pride in being the reason a rule exists. I didn't cheat anything, but if you go to Trent U and stay in Lady Eaton dorms, you're explicitly not allowed to play bagpipes at any time... and I'm the reason why.
As a kid, I wanted to learn to play the bagpipes because I like the sound. My parents refused. I didn’t know what an uillean was at 8 so I couldn’t try and compromise. But I would love to hear your bagpipes playing.
I’ll play your bagpipes baby
If you go to Big Tony's Petting Zoo in Idaho Falls there's a sign saying Don't Finger The Goat. I don't know why it's there.
Ok dude you're gonna have to explain that one, I'm a fourth year there and haven't heard of that lmao
At my old school I'm the reason they're not allowed to promote any political parties unless there's an election year. It's not because I did anything outlandish but because I promoted the opposite party and the staff got offended. I feel 100% pride in that though
I'm more convinced that he has never played the game in his life. He probably either spliced footage from other speedruns together or had a friend that did play Halo and is taking credit for them.
The fact that the GDQ did nothing to stop "The Speedrun" after he lowered the difficulty and let him continue for FOUR HOURS is just embarrassing.
For anyone wondering, the CE pistol is a sniper, shotgun in one with the perks of a pistol. It's so good that games like Halo 5 added it as a specialty gun
Cody 1000% didn't think the speed running community was as advanced as they were. Did 0 research and thought he was gunna show up and be the king of halo nerds like Kevin the sea cucumber
based reference
KEVIN THE SEA CUCUMBER 😂😂😭😭😭😭😭😭
*Touch* - Patrick
I was on a “worst speed runs and cringe” kick for the past month. So glad Charlie’s covering it all 😂😂
The frog shoutout makes me so happy. Hope he gains a bigger following off of this because he genuinely makes really good content
the craziest thing is the amount of opportunities this guy had to just put his contoller down, apologise and call it with a "sorry guys, this isn't quite up to scratch so I'm going to leave it here".
Just that combination of hubris and digging yourself into a deeper and more embarrassing hole is brutal.
If I were Cody, I'd get invited to Vegas, enjoy the moment and call a gastroenteritis right before my turn.
Qxir had a story about a professional soccer player who’d do this. He managed to convince people he was an amazing soccer player and lived the lifestyle but every time he’d actually have to play he’d either be injured or have some other excuse.
As scummy as that is, it would be better than what Cody actually did.
@@ferretyluv sounds like Ben Simmons
@@zomburgerchef9587 No, I think it was an Italian or Spanish guy.
@@ferretyluv I was referring to an nba player.
Legend says Cody is still there trying to beat the game on Legendary
“I would really appreciate it if you’d be quiet…”
immediate thought lmfao
But yes, you are correct
"could you stop?"
i would really prefer if you would be quiet
@@mothertrucker341 _you've probably noticed I've been knitting-_
The level of self-delusion is amazing... He actually thought he could wing a speedrun, on front of other speedrunners with no practice?
It's worth noting SlothSG, the current WR holder, just ran Halo CE on Legendary at GDQ @ PAX with a time of 1:08:33. At 1:08:33 Cody was still in the middle of the third level of 10 with a bump to Heroic difficulty.
In frogs video he states that for years after this people were convinced Halo speedruns were slow boring trash akin to the worst RPG speedruns out there. And its true I did think that myself for a while. Its wild how much damage this goober did to the scene.
Before even watching this I was thinking "That Halo speedrun, right?"
Yeah me too haha, also love the quake picture.
“Cody hates the pistol more than Garfield hates Mondays” has me HOLLERIN.
Its good that GDQ now REQUIRES you to put forward a live run to the organizers before your place in the event is approved. Not to mention the time limit you have now to finish within the run length you submitted.
Sorry to tell you Charlie just broke your record for sitting in chair while holding gojo domain expansion while simultaneously holding nuts
proof?
Doesn’t count unless you pay GWR 10,000$
Cody Miller and Billy Mitchel would be great friends
Billy would still sue him
When I think this run has been buried for people to forget, Charlie brings it back for everyone to enjoy.
These bots are crazy. Not even 2 mins and its full of em
Seriously tho
Well, there you go
lol, seems like you are onto something
BTW, warning for everyone, don't click on the links on their profile the links are CP
Bruh
wasn't expecting Charlie to shout out Frogarchist, but he deserves it. He's made some good content.
I scrolled for so long trying to find another rocket sloth and frogarchist fan, and i found both finally
This was the first frogarchrist video I had seen, I love his channel so much now
YO no way Frog!!! 2:41
Wtf I just clicked on your timestamp out of curiosity and it just so happened to be the EXACT second I was at, the video didn’t even skip a beat I was so confused at first, that’s never happened to me😂
NO WAY!!! Frogs gonna blow up!
3:32 charlie jumpscare
1:08 why did that make me giggle lmao
dunno cause it wasn't really funny
Some things just catch you off guard and make you laugh.
You should not giggle. Laughter is evil.
@@boman1074fr I forgot that fuck
Haha so funny he said asshole 💀
0:00 Charlie right off the bat: “I love to smile 😐”
The Magnum dropping really is the biggest red flag. Even as kids without the internet we all knew it was ridiculously overpowered. It's kinda wild the guy did this. I have a feeling he wasn't even particularly familiar with the concept of speedrunning.
That part when he switches from legendary to normal, still struggling and it devolves to a regular first-time casual run is absolutely hilarious.
Why did he even agree to do it is a complete mystery.
he probably deluded himself into thinking that after years of cheating he mastered the game
Watching Cody play halo for AGDQ really makes me appreciate watching runners like Cubeface back in the day. Running everything on the hardest difficulty, making it look easy.
Speed running requires a special type of dedication mortal beings cannot comprehend
I can't imagine doing the same thing over and over like that. It must be mind numbingly boring
Is that really any different to any profession? Playing football you are also just doing the same stuff every time, same with anything to be at the top of the ranking @tomekk.1889
Honestly frogarchist is a legend. Great streamer and great video creator. He is underrated
Born to speedrun, forced to playthrough.
Hey Charlie, jsut want to say that i'm really happy to see you linking original videos in your description, it's a good practice and your reactions remains very entertaining. Stay moist
Watching all 4 hours unedited without anything else to keep you entertained is a form of torture.
To this day I will never understand why he didn’t just say “sorry guys it’s not happening today I’m out of practice and I’m really nervous, imma leave it there”
Pride, most likely.
5:47 "i havent seen many of the halo tricks" its okay, neither has he 😂😂😂
As a speed run enthusiast myself, nothing pisses me off more than speed runners that get “famous”, only to be caught cheating, and turn out to be absolutely terrible at the game ☠️
@14:12 needs to be a meme
Make it
Love you shouted out the frog, I found this video around January of this year and I've been subbed since, it's a great video and he has a bunch of other cool Halo speed run videos :)
Super glad frogarchist is getting some recognition here he’s earned it for watching that whole thing
There was the dude at GDQ who did MGS Revengeance, people got the donation incentive for him to play the DLC, faked that he was playing the DLC to showcase a spliced run for a fake WR, then went on this "I'm holier than thou" rant about how people like him deserve world records because of the effort they put in speedrunning. I bring this up because it was far more recent.
The most innocent looking Middle finger I have ever seen 6:07
@dedede121-k3l Already been few hours man I am waiting I can't wait to die so can't we just make the process faster? come on do your job properly
Having Cody represent the Halo speedrunning community at this event was like the president playing the keyboard in Monsters Vs Aliens
I'm so surprised he didn't get up and walk out himself too. Especially when he changed the difficulty, holy shit.
Bro must be friends with Raygun, the Australian "breakdancer"
Nah mate, Raygun was doin her best, this guy wasn't even doin
Other than the bare minimum (her dance being mocked) I know absolutely zilch about the Raygun Olympic thing but I figured it was her own unique style that backfired in a competitive environment. It's like making a cool cellshaded game but trying to pass it off as realistic graphics. Maybe her moves work at home or online but not in a championship level event.
?
Listen, at least this lady tried. I can’t say it was great, but at least she rehearsed probably once. Cody couldn’t even do that.
2nd worst ray-related tragedy in Australian history