I'm not sure exactly how to title this but I'm curious if anyone has a resource to find different game records in a sortable-by-length format. Not many runs within a single game, but record runs in many different games in a sortable format. I'm somebody who doesn't love games that are super short to run. For me, 1-2 hours per run is great. The problem is that I don't know how long runs are for all my favorite games that I might want to try and looking through each game page is slow and often fruitless. If I found a list of all games record time and just scrolled to the ones from 1-2 hours I could quickly find games that seem interesting on the list.

A list like this could help as a resource for people (myself at this time) find games at their ideal length. I'm willing to put forth the work to do this, but I was wondering if it existed anywhere already.

Hello! I'm actually not sure if I'm "new" in the sense that I apparently made this account some time ago, but I'm definitely newly finding a motivation to actually start running games. I've wanted to for awhile, and now have the income and, with finals ending, the time, to really delve into it.

And perhaps unsurprisingly, I feel entirely overwhelmed. I love watching runs and I've been streaming since 2016 so I know I can do it and I already have some of the equipment. I mostly have been a competitive Pokemon player, so I also know memorization of tricks, timings, and runs won't be too difficult (memorizing metas in 3 different generations of pokemon trains your mind in what I imagine is a similar way).

The thing about speedrunning, though, is that I don't know how to mod hardware, and I certainly have nothing non-US for hardware or software right now. I don't have a CRT tv or anything...the more I look the more shocked I am that people run games at all!

So...where do I start? How do I find myself playing a game for hundreds of hours instead of staring at movepools for hundreds of hours? I like strategy games and RPGs, but don't want a run that's 100% menu optimization (love you, Fire Emblem, but that's a commitment) or overly RNG-laden (looking at you Pokemon). Is there something people recommend that can be played at a high level on an English version and isn't overly long? I'm fine with the idea of 1-2 hour runs, longer seems like something for down the road.

Anyway, any guidance is appreciated! I just need a little direction to get my feet wet and I'll go from there!