Speed Running

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?

family feud

This guy seems great. A polite, soft spoken cowboy with the world record in Ninja Gaiden.

https://www.twitch.tv/arcus87

otm - i love how he noted that the sunrise cutscene was his favorite

he's telling his origin story right now. this is awesome

"jumpin' and a spinnin'
spinning and a winnin'
flip flop drop
spin, jump, and boom - good boom!"

it's not completely different from bob ross

ha, love it. 'slice and dice...nice.'

speaking as someone who spent a lot of time playing NG it's cool to see how he handles all these little moments, especially with the 'booms' (intentionally taking a hit to get the rebound and invincibility).

Great find, love this game and the guy is pretty cool!

The most informative world record I've seen yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iTmRmx9fK8

what....

what, the Dr. Mario WR vid?

yeah, he's playing an audiobook? lol

p subtle treatment of the politics of the great war while playing dr mario

Ars did a piece on the logistics of GDQ

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/01/how-to-play-and-broadcast-video-games-non-stop-for-a-week-straight/

I watched quite a bit of it this year. Pretty fun!

Wow nice. The stream has been impeccably stable and seamless the last few events.

RE VII run from the just-concluded AGDQ is a good watch.

Watched some of the Super Mario Sunshine run, which was filled with crazy stuff

I was gushing about the Legend of Zelda ALTTP randomizer on another thread but no ilxors were interested. Anyone see that race at AGDQ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1AHCaokqhg

this is pretty cool. it is a history of figuring out the fastest way through 4-2 in Super Mario Bros. this is the famous underground level that has the warp pipe that zips the player to 8-1. there is a glitch where you can trigger the warp vine and then go down the pipe to skip the animation, jumping through various bricks along the way to offset Mario & the camera enough to trigger the glitch. the person to discover the final technique used for the fastest completion of 4-2 was someone named xx_420_blazit_xx.

i wonder if there's any crossover between these guys and the extreme couponing people

Oh hey there's a European Speedrunner Assembly marathon going on right now https://www.twitch.tv/esamarathon

was coming in to post that 4-2 mini-doc. it really is fascinating, just how much time and effort is spent breaking down the inner workings of Super Mario Bros. just to shave a third of a second off a world record time

decisive intervention of xx_420_blazit_xx was great to see

https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/25/17050500/super-mario-bros-speedrun-minus-world-kosmic

KM Celeste is on right now on AGDQ

on it, thanks!

i don't speed run, but i do speed reply

I love how he's dressed like he's about to do the Tour De France

i didn't realize that in the third stage the order that you choose to clean up the hotel affects how the remaining pathways play out! that's really neat, and especially impressive because it must have taken a good amount of extra work to implement and few people will even realize it's there.

xp lol yeah he's in full pro videogame gear

jeez, this guy is pretty good at celeste

so he's doing all the a-sides and b-sides...also the c-sides?

Some guy just did a super fast Hollow Knight run, too.

the sphincter muscles of these speedrunners must be incredibly developed

speed pooping - they probably can propel it from the stomach to the toilet nearly instantaneously

I actually don't know anything about this game, really! But yeah this guy is the best there is at Celeste.

And speed pooping is not about power... it's about control.

i appreciated the shout out for the amazing music in the chapter 4 b-side. i raved about it in the celeste thread, too. of course, a big part of the reason i love it is that it sounds amazing on a loop, developing in pleasing directions and repeating in a way that makes it difficult to determine where the loop restarts, which is really important when you hear it a million times while trying to beat a difficult level. whereas...i don't think the song even completed a single cycle during this speed run.

And speed pooping is not about power... it's about control.

well yeah, i mean if you're a control specialist. but some people, it's all about the power, the ability to generate intense squeezing bursts

it makes me happy that you're willing to engage with me on this, evan! lol

Always down to shoot the shit

in intense squeezing bursts of course

sometime i want to watch a version of this includes all the strawberries (even if its' just the regular chapters, or just the b-sides). the flow of the game when the person doesn't make many mistakes is so good, and the process of grabbing the strawberries just makes it even more mesmerizing imo