Around 4 months ago, I was trading wrs a lot with @jackzfiml in Peppa Pig Gets Grounded Racing. It ended up being 7 wrs in 4 days in the same category. The wr dropped from 1:57 to 1:51. A lot of the wrs were by less than a second.
[quote=jackzfiml]Also, I remember a thread for posting these specific screenshots, but I can't find it for some reason[/quote] Probably thinking of the Who is your friendly speedrunning rival thread, which hasn't been bumped this year.
Don't really have anything interesting to tell but your stories are interesting
I once spent 2 hours and a half on a single run. (except it was 500 level runs) It has been months since I did that but I never finished submitting them all. (I'm probably going to do that today)
(Update: Just finished submitting the last 100 runs)
One time I beat a 3 hour world record held by @Comrade_S while doing a 5 hour speedrun. Got record by 42 minutes, category is now under 2.5 hours, and I'm still scratching my head about how the run was over 3 hours and 10 minutes.
yeah I am. I meant that how was your run so much longer than mine?
I remember playing a game called
Need For Speed: Underground
And, I was doing some Speed Runs. And, I was in 1st Place in all the Drag Races.
I also did a few Sprint Races as well. Which made me super happy.
But, since I got a new copy of the game, I have to do it all over again. But, I am happy to do it all over again. So, WR's in Need For Speed: Underground, I am coming for those WR's once again like I did back 2 years ago.
I think I'd like to share a few stories of mine. Gonna break it in several parts as the site didn't let me send the whole text in a single reply.
The first story will be about how I got into speedrunning. It was back in January when I got back to Grayland. Not a popular game, but pretty good for a mobile game. At that time I believe I was quite into the speedrunning content. Like watching speedrun-related videos on YT. I knew about src and I thought it'd be a good idea to check out if the game was there. Indeed, it was. After getting a timer I decided to go for my first run. I didn't record it, but at that time I wasn't sure whether it was allowed to skip the cutscenes, so I didn't do that. After finding out it was allowed, I decided to go for another run, but this time I was skipping cutscenes and the run was recorded too. Later on, I kept practising the speedruns in that game and I was also speedrunning another game I liked: Angry Birds Stella.
As I'm currently writing it, I actually returned to these games and got the runs clocked in in the categories I hadn't tried before. Which no one else had tried before. And I'm also preparing to eventually speedrun full game in Angry Birds Stella.
Unfortunately, the second story isn't really cool as it explains why I'm trying not to speedrun as much as I used to. I'd say the problem began once I started speedrunning Xbox 360 games. There are just 2 of them that I speedran. Though primarily I'd been thinking about speedrunning 4. Apart from the games I've spedrun the intended ones were also Need For Speed: ProStreet and Kinect Sports. Really beloved games for me. So what went wrong? Skill issue. In Kinect Sports, apart from the fact I don't know how to enable controller mode, I absolutely sucked at boxing. What you have to do there to keep your run after boxing is to make sure that you win by KO just after 2 knockdowns in round 1. And you have to punch really fast. I'm doing well in all other sports but boxing. And in Need For Speed: ProStreet I just can't seem to match the times good speedrunners can get there on the early stages. Drag races are crucial as sometimes you may just need drag races to win or dominate race days.
But I'd like to focus on the X360 games I've spedrun. I'll begin with Kinect Adventures. It took me some time to find an optimal route for the Any% run, but I don't regret that. Neither do I regret going for a 100% run once. Even if that meant almost 2 hours and 50 minutes of moving all around without taking breaks. I believe I could go for one more run in that category if I ever go for it again.
But it's probably Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole that kinda broke me. I bought the game as I was a fan of Guardians of Ga'Hoole. It may be related more to the movie, but still it's a bit different. And I liked the plot. And I started grinding once I got a hang of it. Testing out all the variations. All the owl species. A Great Horned Owl was an optimal owl species for the Any% speedruns, but due to the Great Grey's combat stats it was the Great Grey Owl that matched my playstyle. With almost each run I was able to improve my PB and effectively the WR. But there were 2 things that started to concern me: RNG and my mistakes. I was usually losing time on tutorial and on Desert of Kuneer to later on gain so much time in Forest Kingdom of Tyto, Glauxian Brothers' Retreat and The Beaks. In tutorial it was usually the game that wasn't well-optimised. Then there is Desert of Kuneer with its mission 3 called Thieves In The Night. In the first phase you have to retrieve the owlets snatched by the bats and bring the owlets back to Streak's nest. It is crucial to get early grabs as each missed early grab can cost you up to 40 seconds. Still up to date I don't really know if I just suck at that mission or if it somewhat relies on RNG. But out of all my attempts I guess it was just once or twice I managed to pull off all 3 early grabs. Then, there is Resistance Evacuation (Tyto mission 2) where after defeating 6 Pure Ones you get 3 waves of the carriers. In the first wave you keep the carrier safe whereas in 2 other waves you let the carriers be defeated. How fast they're going to be defeated depends on the enemy's accuracy and on the wingmen defeating the enemies. To save time, you have to hope that the carriers are defeated as fast as possible. And that can kill a run. But that wasn't much of an issue for me. Not as a big of a concern as my mistakes in further attempts. Yes, I was making mistakes. And considering a single Any% run could last for almost 1,5 hours, a mistake could be even more frustrating when you're really pushing yourself to the limit. And unfortunately, that affected my mental health badly. It could even affect my speedruns in other games. That's why I decided I had to put a limit on how much I could speedrun.
It's not that I'm giving up on all the games I've spedrun, but now I'm not speedrunning as much as I used to. Perhaps I could return once to LOTG or any other game I gave up on. But that can be tough due to my studies and to me wanting to finally get back to writing fan-fics and a series of the fantasy novels. I can't let myself force to speedrunning if it's going to ruin the fun I had when playing the games.
Hereby, I'm sorry if it's filled with negativity. I'd really want to speedrun once I actually feel like doing so. But I also want to have fun while speedrunning. It shouldn't really be about the competition. It should be about fun.
