Speed Running

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?

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!

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.