The Speedrunning Thread

[Kibblre]

Are you not aware of the annual marathon that's been going on since the 5th?

http://www.twitch.tv/speeddemosarchivesda

[Reincarnate]

i am now

(where's this taking place?)

[Kibblre]

This year I think it's somewhere around DC. They do AGDQ along with Summer Games Done Quick marathons every year.

[awein999]

Washington DC
http://gamesdonequick.com/schedule
http://gamesdonequick.com/tracker/bids/9

[DarkbearX]

this year it's at Crowne Plaza Dulles in Herndon, VA.

[Reincarnate]

Haha, I am digging all this trivia/mechanics explanations along the way

[Wafles]

Some runners do a good job with explaining their run. Others just sit there and play their game awkwardly like they aren't even enjoying it. I think some runners need to understand that they're broadcasting to a much wider audience than normal and need to explain the basic mechanics of their game a little bit more, and most importantly make it entertaining.

Funny enough, the runs that are meant to add entertainment with a race between 2 players have actuallly been some of the worst runs of the marathon IMO. Super meat boy was awful and honestly Mirror'd Edge shouldve just had Ovendonkey...

[Charu]

Oh, they made it sub only?

lol

A lot of people are going to be pissed tomorrow. Tomorrow I consider the prime day of watching. They got a lot of games I very much want to watch tomorrow.

They're silly putting it in sub mode only. I really hate that option, truly.

[Charu]

lol...

[Reincarnate]

guy who owns at the game + dev of the game talking during speedrun = awesome

[hi19hi19]

Obvious major hiccup aside, the VVVVVV run was excellent and having the devs on the phone is always a great addition.

This year is really re-affirming my theory that the most enjoyable runs to watch are racing games and platformers, the more heavily glitched the better.
We'll have to see if Age of Empires 2 can change that opinion... that game was my childhood and I remember EVERYTHING about the campaigns, so I'm really excited to see this run.

EDIT- rofl getting through the seawall, A+
Not quite as crazy as some other pure mechanical skill runs, but definitely entertaining. For a game like AoE2 you have to know a lot more about why the strategy is so cool, whereas for something like F-Zero you can just watch and be like "damn he is quite clearly pressing those buttons very precisely and going very fast"

[DarkbearX]

viewercount peaked over 100k during Skyrim. That's pretty sick.

Also about sub only: how it came about is pretty annoying but at least there's quakenet chat which is generally more sophisticated anyway. I can only hope they turn off sub mode during D e e R F o r C e chant because that's always amazing.

[Wafles]

Fzero GX really was incredible. CGN got like 6k followers from doing that run during the marathon lol. Really intense and interesting run.

I looked away for like 2 minutes and missed all of AoE. Sad

[awein999]

This event is about playing games fast. That is the primary objective and any commentary is secondary. Some games take more concentration than others. With that said there is usually someone there to explain what is going on if the runner doesn't want to. IMO I wouldn't change a thing with how people do what they do. They are definitely aware they are playing for such a large audience and clearly it's entertaining because the viewership has been going up every day since the event started.

Finally they made it sub only. People can actually have conversations \o/

Fucking pumped for final 34 hours or so. it's gonna be amazing. Lets predict the viewer peak now. I guess 167,555.

[Dynam0]

Mad hype for Fri and Sat night's line-ups. I cleared my weekend for them ^_^

Viewer peak will be 140,000 during Windwaker HD but I would love to see more during Super Metroid race...I'm a bit iffy with how it'll look with 4-player split-screen and the live-feed altogether...hopefully it won't be hard to see what's going on.

Also let's predict results of the SM Any% race

1. Zoast - 44:59 (seriously he can do casual 44's now)
2. Ivan - 45:16
3. Krauser - 45:35
4. Garrison - 46:00

That's if nothing ridiculous happens like dying to Draygon or something...dbx please drop knowledge

[Wafles]

Saturday I would definitely not be surprised to see Cosmo break 150k even.

Can't get into watching Super Metroid, not sure if I'm going to watch the race. Idk what it is about that game I just can't stand watching it, feels like kind of a rigid experience to me but I never played it so what do I know

Originally Posted by awein999

This event is about playing games fast. That is the primary objective and any commentary is secondary. Some games take more concentration than others. With that said there is usually someone there to explain what is going on if the runner doesn't want to. IMO I wouldn't change a thing with how people do what they do. They are definitely aware they are playing for such a large audience and clearly it's entertaining because the viewership has been going up every day since the event started.

Just my opinion but I think that runners who can't be entertaining nor find someone entertaining to do commentary for them should not be doing runs.


Edit: Starcraft II: HotS is really disappointing. Commentary is probably the worst I've seen so far. Cringed so hard I had to turn it off :/

[Reincarnate]

I had to turn off SC too -- meh.

[m0de]

Originally Posted by Wafles

Edit: Starcraft II: HotS is really disappointing. Commentary is probably the worst I've seen so far. Cringed so hard I had to turn it off :/

It is disappointing. I really dislike this runner. Sucks that this is going to last atleast 2 hours+

[hi19hi19]

http://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/com...q_vods_thread/

If you don't like the SC2 run (I agree with the sentiments btw, I turned it off too) then you can occupy yourself with some of the runs you missed ^__^

[Reincarnate]

You guys have links to any of your favorite alltime runs?