I haven't found any GDQ charity events for Resident Evil 5 and was wondering why this is. Are there no willing players to do it? Is it too complicated with having two people do co-op? Is the game just not popular enough? Was curious if anybody had more insight into this, cause I'd personally love to see one.
It's a pretty bad speedrun for a GDQ to be honest. If you do NG+ you just blow everything away with infinite weapons and everyone complains that there is no challenge just like they did for the RE4 NG+ run. Even if you do NG the run is 90% running past everything with no glitches to speak of and buying rocket launchers to one-shot every boss. The most exciting things about it are a couple boss quick kills at the very end and the fact that it's co-op. On top of that it's a violent game with a >1:30:00 estimate, which is becoming increasingly rare at GDQ.
In my opinion it does not have a popularity problem, I've run it co-op at several online marathons and it always gets a great reaction from people who remember it fondly for its co-op experience. But I can't see it displacing a REmake run or a PS1 run because it's not seen as a "real" RE, and none of the active runners are GDQ royalty. There are already a sizeable number of people submitting RE runs to GDQ who would get three runs into the marathon before an RE5 runner got one, if you know what I mean.
