Bethesda – or more like their owners Zenimax – are now swimming in cash like Dagobert McScrooge due to the release of Fallout 4. However, we’re not talking about this game but instead the one that came out before it. Fallout New Vegas. The game can be completed in a little more than twenty minutes. Considering how it can take that much time just to create our character, we’re rather shocked by this extraordinary speed.
20 minutes and 47.6 seconds. This is exactly how much time was needed. How? Glitches, complete skip of dialogues and also the abuse of a bug that can make our character even faster. The bug is related to the crippling of the limbs – we can make our hero/heroine have 160% speed. The speedrunner chose a female character, allowing her to have more Charisma (oh hi, Black Widow!) and the language was set to Italian to skip through the smaller amount of dialogues faster. Weird, but it makes sense.
This video might even make you sober if you sit through it tonight!
It’s not that shocking, speedrunners are generally gods when it comes to knowledge and expertise of games.