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How did you get started here? What/who lured you in? What's the most important thing in speedrunning? Whats the ultimate goal? Do you play or just watch? Why do you like it so much? With speedrunning, you have a clear goal, How has speedrunning and/or this community impacted your life? |
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How did you get started here? What/who lured you in? I first learned about speedrunning through youtube with a show called 88pmh then Speed Gaming. They were doing commentary on recorded tas and sr, and invinting runners to show their run. GDQ also peeked my interest at the time. I couldn't record much but I started doing The Binding of Isaac runs race style on my own. Then the guys from 88mph/SG presented a run of Steamworld Dig as an easy to pick, all around speedrun (some rng, a bit of routing, a few tricks, some sequence breaking). They started a small community around it so I gave it a try. They later developped the Ultime Decathlon (10 games to learn and race in a limited amount of time) which is still running, I didnt stick around. I got started on TBOI speedrun and it remains my main sr. What's the most important thing in speedrunning? Whats the ultimate goal? Go fast 🙂 Have fun, tackle a new challenge in a game you already completed. Do you play or just watch? Why do you like it so much? Both. It's a way of keeping playing a game when I exhausted the content but still want some more. It's very impressive to watch, satisfying to achieve. It's competitive without getting nasty. "Sane competition" I don't know if it translates well. It's also nice to be involved in a community with tournaments, recasting and so on. How has speedrunning and/or this community impacted your life? I guess it's mostly an extension of gaming as a hobby for me. |
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Quote this Quote have fun Quote play, and I don't Quote It's helped me deal with my ADD. To sit down for 12+ hours and just learn anything is unheard of for me. Met some great people but over all I'd say the experience has been negative. Games have stopped being about just having fun, and grinding until every little mistake is ironed out. It bleeds into everything else you do. Since Sekiro came out I'm just crawling through it and loving it. Cool hobby if you stick to it casually though. |
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How did you get started here? What/who lured you in? What's the most important thing in speedrunning? Whats the ultimate goal? Do you play or just watch? Why do you like it so much? How has speedrunning and/or this community impacted your life? |
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Here I go How did you get started here? What/who lured you in? What's the most important thing in speedrunning? Whats the ultimate goal? Do you play or just watch? Why do you like it so much? How has speedrunning and/or this community impacted your life? |
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How did you get started here? What/who lured you in? What's the most important thing in speedrunning? What’s the ultimate goal? Do you play or just watch? Why do you like it so much? How has speedrunning and/or this community impacted your life? |
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How did you get started here? What/who lured you in? That's a long and complicated question, but the gist of it is I always was "speedrunning" ever since an extended hospitalization when I was 8 years old. I'll try to be brief. I was recovering from Kawasaki's disease, and there wasn't much to do at the hospital, but some kind soul had donated an insane amount of NES consoles and a ton of the exact same games. Since there wasn't much variety, I and the other kids in the ward started to make a game of trying to beat things as fast as possible. We weren't very good (the best time I ever got in Super Mario Brothers was over 20 minutes), but it was fun, so it became something I tried to do with any game I really liked. In 2004 I became aware of Speed Demos Archive and watched everything there religiously. At the time I never thought I was good enough to submit anything. There's a lot of reasons for that. I have a heart condition that required surgery as a child. Among other things, the surgery, while absolutely necessary, damaged my coordination and motor skills in my early life, and (intentionally) left me with half a working heart. I grew up with some mild physical limitations, and ended up fearing anything remotely physically competitive. Despite being pretty good at certain games, I never felt like it was enough, so I just watched. In 2011 I'd by chance caught one of the first GDQs while I was out of work recovering from a revision to my original heart surgery. Watched the whole event in awe. Wow, folks are actually doing this for charity now I thought. Heck I knew doctors affiliated with MSF do my exact heart surgery in developing countries. I cried when it was over. Caught every single one since then. Still thought I could probably never submit stuff myself. Then, seven months ago, after years of sitting on the sidelines, I finally decided to try. I have an autoimmune condition now, probably at least somewhat related to my rather complex medical history, and it dawned on me one day that I literally have nothing to lose. If I'm terrible, it's the pain and twitching from the condition. If I'm not, it's in spite of it. That's what pushed me over the edge at least. The other more important side to it is the community. Early on, seeing folks like @halfcoordinated, @brossentia, and dozens of others from all walks of life, all across the world out there breaking games together convinced me I wanted to be a part of this. It's competitive, but also insanely collaborative, wildly inclusive, and endlessly creative. And then there's the obscure and zany community memes! ...whispers ORB... What's the most important thing in speedrunning? Whats the ultimate goal? FUN. Do you play or just watch? Why do you like it so much? I play and watch. I don't know why I like it really. I like optimizing things, breaking things, and finding creative and often rather dumb solutions to problems. I guess speedrunning encompasses all of these things. The community is a big factor for me as well, as I noted above. There's so many odd and quirky folks playing and running equally odd and quirky things in utterly bizarre ways. And that's a good thing. People seem to genuinely respect each other a lot more here than in other niches of competitive gaming as well. How has speedrunning and/or this community impacted your life? I find it's helped me get back into playing video games in general. Mostly because of my autoimmune silliness, I haven't really wanted to try playing anything long, taxing, or requiring twitchy reflexes, which for me was basically everything. I was more than a little depressed by the fact that something I used to love tended to cause me physical pain. I won't lie, it still hurts a decent portion of the time, but I find it's a good distraction to have goals and folks to help out and talk strats with. I've met some pretty cool people as well. |
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Quote This would have been my first exposure to speedrunning: Arkham City is my favourite game, and it was pretty cool to see someone demolish it live. From then I was aware of the scene but didn't follow anything or do runs myself. Eventually I got a decent PC and owned all the Arkham games on Steam, and for fun I decided to do a deathless race against my brother (him playing a completely different game, but with a comparable estimate). I won the race, and the time I ended up with wasn't too bad, so I started doing proper runs. Quote For me, it's all about self-improvement. If I'm making steady forward progress (whether that's in total run lengths, best segment times, general quality of play, etc), I'm doing something right. Everything else, like getting world records and being the best, is secondary. Another noteworthy thing for me is that I want to improve the leaderboard as a whole. Unfortunately Arkham City has more subcategories than it has competition (and due to the way the game works there's not a lot we can do about that). As a result, many of the top times on the leaderboards are laughably long by today's standards (either because they're very outdated, or somebody just went for a free world record in an otherwise empty category and nobody's bothered to contest it), so I'd like to update some of those times since I have a pretty good idea of how low they can go. Quote Lots of playing, lots of watching. I'm not sure what exactly about it clicks with me. I've never been a huge fan of competitive multiplayer games, but this form of competition that's more focused on yourself rather than directly competing with others just feels a lot better to me. Quote Can't honestly say it has. I definitely spend a lot more time in speedrunning related discussions, and watching/doing speedruns, when before I'd... spend lots of time in non-speedrunning related discussions and watching/playing games casually. So really I'm just doing the same things for different (probably better) reasons. |
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Cool thread! Quote I started with Banjo Tooie after watching Stivitybobo run Banjo Kazooie on GDQ a couple of years ago. I started taking speedrunning more competitively when I found Nemz38 on Twitch streaming Dark Souls III speedruns and switched over to that game for most of my time. Quote To have fun and keep having fun while creating friendly competition and grow speedrunning with the community as a whole. Quote I definitely used to grind more than I do now, unfortunately. Just due to lack of time and I like spending time managing leaderboards and communities rather than actually speedrunning myself.. I should really finish learning Sekiro Any%.. lol.. I love speedrunning because it grants games much more replayability and an additional goal rather than finishing it. I love how creative it can go by using glitches and skips as a way to improve finishing a game faster. Quote I made a lot of friends and changed my perspective a lot on gaming in general. I also love that speedrunning can be used as a way to raise money for charity and being able to contribute to that effort in some way. |
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ClintStevens 70 star runs got me lured in and I just started speedrunning games I like. The most important thing in speedrunning is a good mental space and not pushing for your goals too hard. Play and watch, I've never really understood the appeal of it and I still don't but I still get my eyes glued to live runs. I'm new and the community hasn't impacted me much, but whenever I reach out for help with improving my runs in discord there are always people answering instead of leaving me hanging. |
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