What (in your opinion) is the greatest speedrun of all time?
3 years ago
Scotland

I basically want to see some more awesome speedruns but have ran my YouTube watchlist dry!

Anything goes: races, world records, Bingo, anything as long as it's great

Kentucky, USA

My favorites

Overall Super Monkey Ball 1 , Tony Hawk's pro Skater 2, X-COM UFO Defense(1994) FPS Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom. Blood, Descent. Descent 2 , Quake, Quake 2, Star Wars: Jedi Academy Racing F-Zero GX / Crash Team Racing RPG Lufia 2 (Ancient Cave) Dragon Quest 3, Phantasy Star 4 Puzzle Super Monkey Ball 1, Super Monkey Ball 2, Pokemon Puzzle Leauge, Tetris the Grand Master 2D Platformer Mario 3, Super Mario World, Megaman X, Super Metroid, Castlevania 3 3D Platformer Super Mario Sunshine, Rocket:Robot on Wheels RTS I love almost all RTS speedrun, but I understand that they are very hard to follow from a viewer perspective Starcraft 1, Total Annihilation, Myth 2, Command and Conquer (Tiberian Dawn) Age of Empires 1, Homeworld 1

I would say overall my preference is for speedruns to be as raw as possible - Games with lots of glitches or zips can be fun to watch every once in a while, but they don't give enough adrenaline to really come back for repeat viewings. This is fairly obvious with me loving the NES block of any marathon(giving minor games a shot after the big guns is worthwhile). It also affects how I watch 3D speedruns, I used to like Ape Escape and Banjo 2nd after Mario, but with infinite jumping / Cutscene Warp and flying into the floor as a bee I don't find it as fun anymore. For RPGs, I prefer really brutal damage-race type speedruns over speedruns of games that have "stat underflow" glitches or overly complicated "combine XYZ job subclass/materia/etc to gain superpowers" Something like Final Fantasy 10 or Unlimited Saga Can still be impressively underleveled, but it isn't quite the same as "your healing will literally run out if you fight the boss longer than 8 turns" and I need practically need a guide in front of me while watching to follow it. Sticking with 8 and 16bit RPGs is also an easier time commitment. - Quake and Star Wars are a little bit of outliers in the FPS category as they are more fun for Rocket Jumping than the raw speed of the other old school FPS games.

ckellyspeedruns likes this
North Carolina, USA

Honestly i haven't seen this specific run yet, but i've seen this guy's past runs. BloodGodRage has seriously shocked me with how well he does speedrunning this game, The Getaway. It's a very difficult shooter type game