Here is a list of things you can do in ninety minutes: Watch a movie, go out to dinner, drive the entire length of New Jersey, listen to the Descendant’s Milo Goes to College four full times. Or if you’re a streamer named, uh, tomatoanus, you could complete a five-game Fallout speedrun.
Tomatoanus recently completed an “Any% Main Series” speedrun of the Fallout Anthology in just under an hour and a half. That means in less than ninety minutes, tomatoanus manages to complete Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, and Fallout 4. I can’t even sit still for that long.
It’s fascinating to see a master manipulate the Fallout games. Through a combination of glitches, optimizations, and practice, tomatoanus moves from title to title with relative ease. As single-player RPGs, Fallout games take hours to complete. But tomatoanus — and dozens of other Fallout speedrunners — beat each game in anywhere from five to forty minutes.
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The five-game Fallout speedrun is a blast to watch. Whether you understand minutiae or not, tomatoanus’ feat is impressive. He’s currently the only runner on the Anthology’s Any% Main Series leaderboard. But something tells me he’ll have some competition soon.
