How do you prepare to do a run that lasts longer than four or five hours?
3 years ago
Lancashire, England

I wanted to practice the Final Fantasy VII Remake runs, starting with easy difficulty. The game is amazing, I love it so much and I feel like I'd quite enjoy running it. But I'm wondering how I should go about doing such a long run while managing to take a piss and not starve. I also experience quite a bit of loneliness sometimes and wouldn't want this to contribute.

Should I practice this in small chunks first, like one chapter at a time?

Valhalla

Get you a diaper and plenty of snacks.

Alternatively you could not drink or eat at all. No in, no out (or less of it anyways). Though depending on the game, cutscenes or any other unskippable section that requires no inputs are a good time to take a piss.

As for the loneliness, welcome to speedrunning. Your best option is to stream and hope someone chats with you, or hangout in a voip channel somewhere so you can shoot the shit with someone else.

In my experience it's better to get a broader feel for beating the game fast first, then go back and practice individual sections to perfect them.

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Lancashire, England

What does VOIP stand for?

Aberdeen, Scotland

Voice Over IP, think of stuff like Teamspeak or Discord

Canada

It's just a fancy term for Voice Chat.

Edited by the author 3 years ago
Valhalla

I guess no one says voip anymore :P

Arkansas, USA

I kinda needed this. My run may take anywhere from 2-5 hours

Vatican City

Snacks, water, piss jug, night mode monitor [or blue filter glasses], comfy seating, tight butthole. Any discord in case you a feeling lonely.

Edited by the author 3 years ago
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

piss jug.........

Vatican City

yeah, so I don't have to go to the bathroom, adding time. Piss jug

Canada

Just pause the game and go to the bathroom, no time save in a speedrun is worth that.

Vatican City

It is for a 50+ hr speedrun. The spout of a milk jug isnt that small or hard to operate. Just zip, fling, release, recap, unfling. Simple clap. @ShikenNuggets

Canada

I stand by my statement. No time save is worth doing that to yourself, especially in a run that's that insanely long in the first place.

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North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

I'm not the only one here who thinks this is disgusting af, right?

Israel

Can we please move away from this specific direction of dialogue?

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North Carolina, USA

@Jono I have the same fear as you. When I first started speedrunning, I couldn't do speedruns that took ME longer than 2 hours to complete. But overtime I kept speedrunning games that took me a little over my limit, slowly but surely I got used to it. My limit has increased up to 4 and half hours now. So maybe you should try speedrunning games that's shorter than 5 hours for awhile and then try to go for speedruns that takes that long