I have a huge favor everyone. If any of you have any speedruns where you had a serious close call during your run, I'd really appreciate it if y'all could reply with links to those runs and with what time in the video your close call was. I want to make a "Close Calls In Speedrunning" video. I'll also have your speedrun name in the video along with your clip. This video will also help get your names out there more. Please???
I had a close call in my Swordigo any% ( https://www.speedrun.com/Swordigo/run/z5o266jy @57m52s ) where I had been grinding for months to get sub-60 and was finally on track. The first phase of the final boss is the toughest part of the run and I got some bad luck. I got beaten down to half a heart twice before killing him by the skin of my teeth. The final phase of the boss involves glitching him to clip into the ground and die and can randomly take anywhere up to 4-5 minutes to get, but I got lucky and he did it first try, securing the sub-60.
Problem is that it was just a recorded (not-streamed) no commentary run so a bit boring from that perspective. Also, the game is relatively inactive so if you were looking for something popular then this wouldn't suit.
No Komrade, it WOULD count if something happened during your run in the process like almost getting killed
I've had a few pokemon fights where I knew the damage ranges, so I knew the worst case scenario (which did sometimes even happend) would leave me with 1HP.
The other close call I had yesterday during a practice run for the game I'm starting with today: ICEY. Basically the main damageing move used for most of the game uses HP, but gives you a ton of iframes. What happend was that I killed the final boss at what seemed like 1HP. Would be rather unimpressive, but he was doing an attack that could've easily staggered me before I could press the B prompt to finish him off. Sadly don't have any video recording of that as I was supposed to be making the layout instead of playing for fun :'3
I've got black out drunk a couple times during runs. A couple of those times very well could have killed me, (especiallylivingonthethirdfloorofmybuilding)
That count?
@Komrade it's probably a close call that you're not yet banned for posting complete garbage literally 95% of the time that both completely misses the point of the thread and is worth nothing more than the cringe of reading it, half of the time it's probably offensive to someone while you're at it.
Banned for shitposting? Sick. At least I'm not the one begging for content.
Well you could probably assume that every good segment of a segmented run is a "close call". Some segments can be easier than others but you are probably looking at dozens of attempts per segment for a quality segmented run.