where are the runs?
6 years ago
Antarctica

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United States

Why's it matter if it's on console? If someone records themself playing a game, it should count.

Hesse, Germany

afaik it's not yet settled how the categories are going to be set up as well

Texas, USA

there still isnt enough known about the game to set up a good set of rules or categories. It has been decided to hold off any proper runs for about 2 weeks or so from what I have heard. Though I have seen some vids on glitches and boss skips. So it shouldn't take too long to get some glitch runs and glitchless runs going.

California, USA

I say this as a neutral party with no involvement in the leaderboard itself, but it sounds like they'll be up soon, just give it some time. The leaderboard positions right now really don't matter considering this game is a week old.

One issue with this game in its current state is the PC version has yet to be released yet, so version differences (e.g. load times) remain to be determined. While the game doesn't have the same issues with real-time that other Sonic games (e.g. Sonic 2) have that lead them to use in-game time, from what I've gathered there isn't exactly a clear answer to how the game should be timed yet due to things like load times being potential concerns.

Furthermore, this game is also going to likely be patched and runs will become obsolete or end up in their own silly "patch 1.0.1" type categories in the current state with as many glitches as have been found, so it would probably be best to figure out how to sort those (having dealt with a game that got patched myself, it becomes an annoyance really quickly). Retroactively handling it ends up becoming messier.

Not to mention people have a tendency to try to do things their own way, especially upon the release of a new game, so with a game like this it's probably better to actually come to a consensus on how to handle this game so that they don't have to keep changing things.

I'd say just hang tight, they'll be there eventually. Those early day WRs dont mean much, as proven by the # of IL and full game runs already on Youtube with "Former/Old WR" in the title (or ones which don't yet but still have been beaten).

Nothing is stopping anyone from running the game (and IMO if you need a leaderboard to start running a game you got the wrong idea about this hobby), get good now and your time on the LB will reflect it anyways.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
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