Washington, USAIs it worth it? I've long considered community to be the very best thing about speedrunning and of the few small ones I've managed to find in my time, they've usually been quite nice to be a part of. There's another game I've been looking at learning one or more runs for, but as I interact with the community I find that the lot of them are a bunch of absolute d-bags I can't really stand to be around. Makes me a little tepid to run the game. Anyone have experience as a 'lone wolf' runner?
Who's going, who's submitting what, what does everybody think of current submissions, let's get a thread going.
I'll be there for the first half of the event, as that's when I was able to get a hotel room. An on-site hotel room, and no I'm not looking for a roommate :P I'll be submitting inFAMOUS First Light, Hue, Murdered Soul Suspect, and Escape Plan. I hope I'll get the chance to show one of them off.
Like we can follow them. Just, keep from seeing their updates on the main page. Not a huge huge huge deal but if there's some way of doing it that I'm overlooking I'd be glad to know.
I've been thinking about this one as a middle ground between any% and 100%. You would have to do all investigations, including the optional one in the story (in church-2) plus all the side cases (the girl murdered by the elderly couple, the suicide girl clinging to her boyfriend, the drunk driver guy, the shipwreck hero -- think that's all of them). But no requirement to get every clue or all collectibles in every zone (which I think personally is a bit nuts to do, but since the game tracks those, they have to be included in 100%).
Would anyone run this? I might, but I have a lot of other priorities.
Probably not speed games :D But if anyone has any good examples of games that just cheer you up, make you feel happy, let me know.
One for me is Banjo Kazooie (since I don't run it and never will). The music, the visuals, the fun platforming, it's just pure happiness.
I notice Steam doesn't allow an official downpatch. A pity how few games do allow this. Were vital skips/tricks patched out? I notice there's separate leaderboards for different patches.
I'm finding I'm a big sucker for these. Can anyone point me to any more? I'm getting towards the end of season 4 of The 100 and god it's so good. More examples of seasons like this - Star Trek Enterprise season 3 (the Xindi War), the only current season of Stranger Things, season 1 of 24 (which I still think is the greatest season of television ever created).
I generally find the shorter the better with stuff like this, but if it's a good American network TV series (which generally means 20+ episodes), then by all means, lay it on me too. I expect most of the series like this will either be from cable channels, online services, or overseas TV (typically shorter seasons).
What are some games where the shortest category, and the truest any% by common definitions, is just.....kind of dumb? That's subjective, of course, but this might give you an idea of what I'm thinking of.
Far Cry 4 - you literally do nothing for about 20 minutes (depending on load times), then enter a building, interact with 1 node, and exit it.
Two Worlds - you attack a seemingly random NPC and lure him into a town where the townspeople kill him. Said NPC is in fact the final boss of the game, so his death triggers the credits.
Legend of Zelda Link to the Past - I'm not quite sure how this one works exactly, but you can end up in the final room of the game in under 2 minutes, without doing much of anything.
Any more games like these?
There's a game I'm looking at running called Black Knight Sword (it's not on the site). It's a console exclusive, but it's console agnostic, existing for both the Sony and Microsoft machines. I have it for 360 but I feel I might rebuy it for PS3 if there's a possibility it might run faster. Is this a likely possibility? If it helps, I have both a "Slim" and "SuperSlim" PS3 (I'm less familiar with the different models of 360, or I'd say which of those I have as well). Is one generally faster than the other, or is this something you can't really say as a generalisation and you'd have to look case by case? I guess it mostly comes down to load times.
It's evident you're not very active in speedrunning anymore. That's ok! I'm asking if you would make me a mod for this game. The board is, to put it gently, not the way it should be. I don't mean to make it super visually fancy (wouldn't even know how, frankly), but it just needs all the information in it. Things like rules for any%, a 100% category with rules once agreed upon (a user has expressed interest in it, and I see no reason not to have the category even if you or I would never run it), proper list of platforms for the game, release date, all that jazz.
If ¤you¤ are willing to update all that, great! But it doesn't seem like you are, and as someone who wishes to remain active in speedrunning this game (and as someone who knows of other runners planning to submit runs too, who might like their runs verified sooner than the every few weeks you log on), I'd like to be able to take care of this myself.
I have sent you a twitch DM asking for this. It doesn't look like you're very active there either (in any case, I haven't gotten a response). I'm not angry, I completely understand if you're not terribly interested in all of this anymore. It happens. But if that's the case, I would like to respectfully submit that I can take care of the board while you're not around.
Kinda been thinking about this lately. You don't often hear about people 60 or 70 years old playing video games, but we'll probably all reach that age someday. I'm sure I'll be there before just about all of you (I'm 31, it would astonish me if the overwhelming majority of you guys weren't teens or college age at the absolute most).
Even though I'm closer to 40 than 20, I can't really picture the day when I won't be a gamer anymore. Maybe it's the thousands of dollars I've spent on it, but I think it's just become as much a part of who I am as anything else. I can't imagine giving it up completely, even if I do make it to 60, 70, 80 years old. Who even knows what gaming will be like in that future. I'll keep it retro on my PS4 :P
Or whatever wording. It's a little ridiculous that at least once a day (or so it feels) someone posts in the general Speedrunning section a question (oftentimes excruciatingly specific) about 1 game. All anyone says -- time and time and time and time again -- is "go ask on the game's forum/Discord."
It'd be better for the asker too. I don't think the people who do this are stupid, just ignorant of the existence of game-specific forums. So everybody wins, yeah?
http://www.speedrun.com/darkmaus
NO ONE is running it (I thought when I submitted it that it would be at least somewhat popular with Dark Souls players), and the one any% run I do have that established the board uses an old patch that's inaccessible anyway. On the off chance anyone does start this game up again, better to just the start board from zero.
Like we can enter our twitch and Youtube names, and about a thousand other things, but not Xbox, Playstation, or Nintendo? Too obvious an oversight to not be by design. What's the reason for this? It's all optional anyway, of course, so it shouldn't be about preventing griefing.
I got 3. Walking Dead season 1, ending. Nuff said.
But the other two were tears of joy. Next one was Mass Effect 3. I think the reason so many people despised the ending so much was because the rest of the game was of such sublime quality. First time playing, I achieved peace in the Quarian/Geth war, and between Legion's sacrifice and the Geth giants making friends with the Quarian generals, and Tali having a new home....yeah, I bawled pretty freely.
And then of all things, Tales from the Borderlands made the salty stuff come from my eyes too. Again it was the very ending -- because it was just ¤such¤ a perfect place to leave the story, to leave characters I'd grown very attached to. I could ask nothing more from the series and actually wanted nothing more. The entire last episode was unbelievable and they ended it perfectly. You never see that.
When a speedrunner is learning a new run. I find it an awkward thing to stream, personally. Do you enjoy them as viewers? I actually do, myself. Find it more chill/better chance of caster interaction. But I'm very noncommittal toward doing them myself.
