01-6-2014, 11:10 PM | #341 |
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Telling old school FPSers (And pretty much any PC game with quicksave option) to not use quicksaves is like... telling other runners to not save their game in case something bad happens.
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01-6-2014, 11:13 PM | #342 |
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What runners do this? To save in a Super Metroid run is lull-worthy and it only wastes a few seconds. Meanwhile there are a bunch of places where the entire run could be lost. It's the fact that saving and loading is so instantaneous that makes it 'ugly' imo. Also a death in Quake is not a huge deal since the longest levels are still less than a minute long...saves are just so unnecessary to me
Also I'm not saying quicksaves should be banned from runs...that's silly to say that since it's a function in the game after all. I'd say the games make for lousy no-reset runs though and aren't AGDQ material (at least in the way they are practiced and performed right now). Last edited by Dynam0; 01-6-2014 at 11:17 PM.. |
01-6-2014, 11:17 PM | #343 |
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I bet if those games had a quicksave button, runners would abuse it. I can see it happening anyways, lol.
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01-6-2014, 11:26 PM | #344 |
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Oh absolutely! It's beneficial for getting better times no doubt, but horribly unattractive to watch. I've been a member of the Elastomania community since 2004 or so and it's approached much on the same level as Quake is. Competition is almost 100% based off of IL times..hundreds of hours drilling a level that is at most 2 minutes long. In Elastomania's defense though, the physics are incredibly subtle and make no time flawless even if the level is 10 seconds long. Segmented runs are made out of these, exactly like the Quake Done Quick video that kick-started speedrunning in 1997. It makes for awesome entertainment, but it loses it's charm when placed in an all levels no-reset event imo. (unless some runners step up and practice specifically for no-reset runs and use more realistic and consistent strats)
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01-7-2014, 12:07 AM | #345 |
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All these doom games are so boring to watch x.x I wish MGS wasn't so damn late. I really want to watch that one.
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Yeah, I had to miss the Halo 2 run because holy crud they just kept on pushing the time for it back and back and back before I realized that it was just not possible for me to watch anymore unless I break my sleep schedule hardcore.
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01-7-2014, 01:10 PM | #347 |
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You missed the best sword lunges ever.
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01-7-2014, 02:57 PM | #348 |
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Super Mario Land 2 was my childhood so this is hype
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01-7-2014, 03:28 PM | #349 |
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sad i missed the katamari damacy run, but the halo 2 run last night was really fun to watch. i watched more of that than every other run combined so far.
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01-7-2014, 03:37 PM | #351 |
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01-7-2014, 04:05 PM | #353 |
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You mean that runner who did Kirby's Adventure?
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Just realized that Breakdown isn't doing 106% for Super Meat Boy and Siglemic's not doing 120 star either?
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I think quicksaving/loading shouldn't be allowed, but that's just me.
I mean, it makes sense if your goal is to show what's possible by a human in cumulative time, but at that point, I think it's not terribly interesting and you may as well just go full TAS. Last edited by Reincarnate; 01-7-2014 at 04:45 PM.. |
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Btw, who's controllerhead? Apparently he's not a good person from what I'm hearing and what game does he speedrun?
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He ran Kirby's Adventure I believe yesterday in the marathon.
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People donating $8,999 and $12,345 what the fuck. That's MAD money. All going to a good cause but holy shit.
Also Twilight Princess all dungeons so ready. Edit - $23,456 get the fuck out of here
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what. who the hell donated that much money? That's insane o.o
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