Hello, I found out about speedrunning through SGDQ 2015, and I've been going back and watching a lot of speedrun videos, both from GDQs and not.

I want to start running, but the game I'm interested in - XCOM:Enemy Within - has no runs, and Enemy Unknown only has 2 any% runs that are over a year old. I actually wanted to do a 100% run of it, but I wanted to know if it was worth it for a game there seems to be little to no interest in speedrunning. One of the things I like about speedrunning is the competition, and I don't know if there would be any.

I guess my question is, do you think I should start running, submit a run, and see if interest follows, or just start looking for a game that already has a community of runners?

What would count as 100% in either game? AFAIK, neither Enemy Unknown nor Enemy Within has a completion %.

Also run whatever you want man. The only benefit of running a game with a larger community is that you have more resources to use to learn and run the game. With a game that barely has any runs or no runs at all, you have to do much more work on figuring things out yourself.

running anything thats not constantly on the frontpage for the sake of competition is a waste and wont work.

run it for fun, if its fun, interest ¤might¤ follow. but probably not.

Run what you want. If you want something to pick up steam, try and promote it, see if you can get people specifically interested in it, and see if it grows. If at any time you have the thought "Man, this just isn't fun anymore", don't sweat it and move on. It happens to a lot of folks. At the end of the day with streaming, do what is making it fun for you. It may be hard to resurrect a "dead game" or category, but if you have fun doing it and trying to raise interest, go for it.