and you are powerless in front of an RE3 Taiwan copy
let's not add arbitrary shit for no reason
damn you reminded me i still had my old avi, thanks.
my other statement still stands, no real point in making another category
there is no need to add another category. if you want to run shotgun% by all means do but i do not think it will be added onto the leaderboards as a category. ng+ has so few runners as is
i would like to point out that koma actually tried to bring forth something serious and people bashed on him and im severely disappointed.
Shotgun is kinda pointless because there's no difference between Shotgun and GL.
Damage-per-shot is different, and possibly inclusion of more ammo pickups, that is it. All strats would probably be the same, fights would simply take longer.
Knife is different in the fact, and its own thing, because you can't easily dismiss standard enemies with the knife (any ranged weapon besides the knife, in this case the GL and Shotgun can easily dispense any standard mob) and the Nemesis fight strategy for both encounters is far different. It's pretty much for the sake of added challenge.
Even if you spent the extra 20 seconds grabbing the weapon you desire from the fuse, you'd still save time over Shotgun.
Category wise though, I still would say No Damage or something to that degree is more deserving than anything else because strats and approaches to almost all rooms would change and it'd be like routing the game all over again, but that's just my thought.
shotgun, shotgun, shotgun, shotgun, shotgun, shotgun, shotgun, shotgun
Would make a good category!
Well if you want to ignore GL/mag RNG just play knife or NG+
¯_(ツ)_/¯
You know, Shotgun is strong with some normal enemies but with bosses sucks. You don't need to kill the zombies btw because you have to avoid them. So it's a pointless category actually as a Speedrun but there's other kinds of plays like challenges and some people try only handgun for example. If you want that just try it as a challenge game but not as a category here.
If something has true merit I will get behind it.
It's fitting you would bring up the trophy system, because people should play games and challenge themselves because they enjoy the game, and not because of a digital icon / number.
Not everything needs to be ranked though, because oversaturating the boards with everything possible in the game will simply pull attention away from the actually interesting stuff. Such as Nemesis%.
You want a game to stay focused on something, because that's when the game as a run actually evolves. Letting people thin their performance to a thousand different things will produce the opposite effect, because then a lot won't dedicate their time to improving... they'll just hit the point where progress gets harder and move to the next easiest thing to set a time on.
