Anime Videogame skill thread -- hidden grandmasters

[Gilius Thunderhead]

Post videos (or other evidence) of people being very good at playing videogames. Not necessarily related to speedrunning, as they already get enough praise from their cringe communities. I'm more interested in outsiders who play in original ways. People who have neither discords nor a big following. It doesn't matter which game or genre.

Project Zomboid

https://www.twitch.tv/bonzai0/videos
This guy plays with sprinting zombies on Insane population settings. Pretty amazing to see him dodge bites while surrounded by 20 zeds.

https://www.youtube.com/@nothingg8157
Another Insane pop. sprinters guy. He seems to have reduced their awareness somewhat, so not quite as impressive, but he also uses guns a lot and he's firing them indoors, which I find pretty cool.

Here you can see him surviving in the beginning, then occupying the Police station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qqTymQx6m0 ​

Carmageddon

https://www.youtube.com/@C2S07
Lots of Carmageddon series videos. Also check out his NSF Porsche Unleashed stuff.

Watch him style on every ped in the first map of C1:​

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm7j2V0zwHI&list=PLA88FA57F45DD2FCA&index=7​

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I'd have a lot more stuff if I kept track of it, which is what this thread is for.

 

[Gilius Thunderhead]

Fallout 1 and 2

Our own Pope Amole II's Fallout 2 Ironman LP in the Codex is a masterclass of Fallout metagaming. He destroys some common assumptions and his thread inspired me to use the flamethrower in subsequent F1 and F2 playthroughs. Too bad we're missing the pictures now.

https://www.youtube.com/@wfwedsc/streams
This guy's channel helped me a lot when making my own F1 solo ironman runs. He plays a lot of unorthodox builds. Only a handful of subscribers.

 

[Chanel Oberlin]

Playing Ikaruga almost perfectly in 2 player mode... all by one guy:

 

[Lokiamis]

 

[HansDampf]

When I played Bubble Bobble a few years ago, I tried to do a 1cc. From level 40 onward, the difficulty increases dramatically. You can get to 40 by just playing well. But after that, it's pure survival. I didn't expect that kind of challenge.
You have to have a consistent strategy for every single room, or you are dead. And 1cc basically means deathless, because when you die, you lose all your upgrades like faster running speed, rapid bubbles, etc. But you absolutely need those upgrades later on. No chance surviving with slow movement and slow bubbles.

Anyway, I didn't feel like memorizing 100 rooms, so I watched this guy do it instead.

 

[Gilius Thunderhead]

Playing Ikaruga almost perfectly in 2 player mode... all by one guy:

The DoD should clone this guy to pilot the next generation fighter drones.