Speed Running

tbh i have more interest in TASes now than real-time speedruns but that might be a different thread altogether

They're the only ones that can dedicate the time needed to actually be competitive if I were to guess.

Nah same thread! It's just a "category" of speedrunning as far as I understand.

it's a top-level category then, there's a pretty big difference between 'this is the best a real person can do' and 'this is what is theoretically possible within the game engine'

For sure. TAS runs aren't to be compared to human runs.

fuck going outside, fuck this white holiday, fuck britain, fuck isil.... & thank god for gdq

there is some really bad mega man clone happening right now and it's like whatever
but yesterday i caught a bunch of this sweet totally broken f-zero-ey game and now i want a wii

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGxa37IRqNA

<3 these nerds. y'all been watching?

Oh, yeah I've been checking it out periodically! The less popular games that probably have a "community" of what- 10 serious runners maybe(? wild guess), is it weird for them to have such a deep knowledge of something that almost nobody else is paying attention to? And the time and energy they'd have to spend to get to that level. It's a strange existence to me.

Watching someone speed run the Japanese version of the GameCube port of Resident Evil 2 (Leon B path?). What a weird game to watch

Watching Leon eurostep through this game is so oddly mesmerizing

Goddamnit, I'm gonna spend all week watching this shit, aren't I

I'm already thinking about waking up tomorrow early to catch a 100% Bionic Commando run

Disabled runner forced to play one-handed makes a sweet speech after his run: https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick/v/76453001?t=02h39m01s

I love that guy. Last GDQ he did a run of that recent Transformers game that looks like the cartoons and solicited donation comments with Transformers puns only. It was memorable.

having a great time watching this Mega Man 2 run:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mgZwf1lpLU

xp that was sweet

Useful to just check here to see the last day's archived videos:
http://www.youtube.com/user/gamesdonequick/videos
Just watched the Jet Set Radio speedrun which is amazing mostly considering (as much as I love that game!) how much you're fighting the camera controls and cut scenes themselves and this guy makes the insane building-to-building jumps and turns look like nothing

GDQ = hax with hands. I want to go to one eventually just to find out what makes them all tick

the tetris happening right now is a+ tetris

GDQ = hax with hands. I want to go to one eventually just to find out what makes them all tick

― El Tomboto

drama, mostly. :(

but yeah, speedrunning is basically what i watch when i want to watch something and not think about it. i really like watching "binding of isaac" because there's so much rng in it. i also have this strange fascination for watching people trying to 100% the ancient cave in lufia ii, just because it's such a completely ridiculous thing to do (and again, super rng dependent).

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/07/how-to-beat-super-mario-bros-3-in-less-than-a-second/

i enjoyed this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXggQm9EGLw

Damnnn GDQ has really upgraded their setup in just a few years

yeah they used to look like they were in someone's basement

I got to the point where he starts grinding for 10 minutes for money and was like "nooooooo i've watched a speedrun on this before"
this game is really terrible

this SGDQ's Bioshock run is pretty entertaining to watch because the runner is basically being an asshole about the whole thing - he loads from prior saves at multiple points, the couch commentators are just dumbfounded ("this is literally cheating") and despite the donations coming through for the bad ending, because he loads up from a previously saved game to finish it off, he gets the good ending and basically tells everybody to fuck off and watch the bad ending on youtube. I have to assume the organizers gave him a talking-to afterwards.

Like right around here he just basically says fuck it

https://youtu.be/2gnnweoN76Q?t=3414

Anyone else attempted/thought about attempting a speedrun besides ciderpress? I've been thinking about what game I might already be good enough at to be semi-competitive out of the gate, and I think for me it's GTA2. Seems the record is well under an hour too, so that's good.

I'm pretty fair at some RPGs too but those all seem to run into the multiple hours, even if you can find some kind of glitch/exploit, ain't got no time for that.

i had started running Nightsky towards the end of my last speed running phase, if I was gonna do it again i'd stick to that and other similar short lite games

Closest I probably ever came was this joke game on Steam called DLC Quest that lasts about 15 minutes long and (naturally) has an achievement for speedrunning it that I tried in vain to get. But I can dream...

Why?

https://www.twitch.tv/underscoretrix/v/87810660

To clarify it's a 300% run. So it's a 100% run in all 3 save slots done consecutively.

well, that's one way to kill eight hours anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mpHGZIgPaA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WilkndNIIfI

"Awesome Games Done Quick" happening now

https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick/

psyched for pacifist NG1 and 2 runs tonight

twitch has ruined speedruns

Because of how ubiquitous they are now?

seeing how the sausage is made?

Too many people are good at video games

1. you have to look at the gamers 2. you have to listen to them

like the twitch experience of watching someone play a video game and chatting is one thing its a facsimile of hanging out playing games but if you want to fire up a youtube of some world class gaming it tarnishes the zen

i only watch TAS now

if the guy is actually skilled at speedrunning i actually love listening to them jabber on about the ridiculous glitching that leads them to finish Blaster Master in an hour or something. but Twitch has just made it easier and more popular for idiots and bad presenters to get out there, hello internet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR1ZhWpi_dY

You been watching summoning salt's speedrun progression docs? Information heavy but really good.

https://youtu.be/p2etSAWJKTs

Certain speedrunners are less irritating to listen to. The first two videos I posted in this thread are very reasonable fellows.

speedrunners talking over their runs are exactly what the mute button is made for.

the worst are those japanese runners who have the robot voice reading chat aloud to them. i hate the way that robot voice sounds.

this isn't quite speedrun stuff, but has anybody watched any videos from themexicanrunner's recently completed attempt to beat every licensed ntsc and pal nes game? i like themexicanrunner okay.

I haven't. Heard about it though. Any memorable moments?

he's good!
what's the deal with that ROM hack, did he co-create it?

also one thing i keep wondering is how the runners are capturing the segment times during play. is it something in the PC or twitch software and they hit a physical button?

Super Ryu World 1 and 2 were made for him; both are loads of fun to watch.

xp it's a separate piece of software that lets them set up their splits and usually the streamers will either have it update when they hit a key like spacebar or if they're reeal fancy a footswitch

I made a big goofy post last year about some rom hacks i enjoyed (spectating!) if anyone's been getting into this stuff

which mario games are not easy?

I watched through the Punchout video then stumbled across this - apparently the only video footage of Matt Turk completing one of his many world records. Some nice comments from him about the speed run community in pre-streaming days

https://youtu.be/MZs4MCdVznw

Big same, my youtube diet is 98% Bon Appetit and Ryukahr at this point. It's just very satisfying to see him working through these levels (without having to sit through every full attempt).

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Well, I sure hope Ryukahr doesn't turn out to be a racist asshole.

oh god it would truly be the most milkshake'd of all ducks in my worlds

to be clear, there has been no suggestion whatsoever that he's problematic afaik

i know the feeling. any of these guys can be another pewdiepie at the flick of a switch...

the proverbial "heated gaming moment"

Heh, it only clicked with me right now that "speed running" is sort of redundant. I guess it needs the "speed" qualifier because "run" has so many definitions (top three number of definitions in English iirc).

Yeah in gaming a “run” really just means a repeat play through, so the qualifier is actually useful here.

"i'm going running now, talk to you later!"

*plays videogames for 12 hours straight without moving*

You know what's ironic is that despite how unhealthy the hobby of grinding video games for hours while being immobile can be, speedrunners seem very universally dedicated to the importance of staying hydrated. They all have bots that remind them to drink water and they fill up huge jugs/cups like they're doing intense workouts. So that's good, I guess!

in college I spent 2 days trying to speedrun Jaws for the NES before realizing that 1) someone already did it in half the time of my best run and 2) this guy understood the random encounter algorithm way better than I did

I spent a month learning Kid Kool. Maybe I'll try again some time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipVX6sctV3c
I found a Kirby Air Ride speedrunner on twitch. Having never seen this gamecube game before, I was surprised at how fast the powered up vehicles could move and how much the gameplay seemed like a more versatile version of Mario Kart battle mode. You're not just killing guys - mostly you're collecting things and performing obscure tasks to fill in checkboxes on a big grid (100/120 wins the game). I've watched his stream several times now. Learning the ins-n-outs is very compelling; but mostly, I enjoy the sleepy chill trance his streams put me in.

But you don't want to stay too hydrated, do you? Because it would stink to have to pee when you're on a record run.

OR WOULD IT

People on job interview panels should be required to hydrate heavily before each interview, and doubly so before the final selection decision.

kirby air ride looks fun

Boy, do I love SDQ. Watched a crazy super glitched backwards order run of Zelda II yesterday, as well as The Last of Us 1 on Grounded/HUDless mode.

There's an Ocarina of Time randomizer run tonight some of you may be interested in

The guy who streamed Alien:Isolation was a hoot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kDSVzyXhJw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_uRIyAgtpE
I love videos that go deep into game engine quirks.

Speedrun to eat a baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m19Py9K_yUI

I love the idea of making your own speedrun categories. That was a fun idea.

I liked this history of the high score for one specific Trackmania track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b67SC7Y4qA

weirdly compelling

Yeah that was a good one!

The end made me emotional for some reason lol

yikes stripes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSStfwaOies

This Andy Samberg youtuber guy has a knack for explaining geeky BOTW speedrunning techniques without coming off like that "bro explaining" meme

That's fun. Though when he declares someone in a clip "just blindly went for it" or whatever I more than suspect that person may have blindly went for it, like, 1000 times until they got it. A lot of speed running seems to me, a know-nothing, like the product of years of trial-and-error at a molecular level.