United States"I think you missed the entire point of everything I said so ¯_(ツ)_/¯" @Timmiluvs
I don't think I missed your other points. I agree with you on everything I didn't touch upon. I'm not sure why you decided to be so dismissive; is this not a forum to discuss ideas? I'll just assume you can't defend/expand on your opinions, or don't care to. If you don't care though, why are you here?
Maybe it'd be less ambiguous if games currently on the site that wouldn't be accepted as new games were relegated to a different area, possibly frozen, or removed from the site. Part of the confusion for this game was that similar games of similar quality exist here. The existence of those leaderboards will perpetuate the issue. I'd start with those games that don't have any runs lingering now for years that would fail to meet the current quality standards.
@Timmiluvs: Every game boils down to who can do something the fastest. That's a poor argument. I think the actual argument against VNs is that there's no accuracy or timing necessary for the inputs. Obscurity is a bad argument against creating a leader board, and most games will start off with a single runner. The creation of a leader board could encourage people that don't want to mod a game to finally submit their times or start running in the first place. How short is too short? I think there's another poor measurement for acceptable speedrunning leader boards. As a modern game example, Gone Home's any% category's top 70 runs are under a minute.
This looks like any other children's point and click game, like Putt-Putt or Pajama Sam. I don't see a problem with speedrunning it if you want to. I'm with The_A_Drain, it's unclear now if those types of games are no longer acceptable, or just this one. Maybe update the line about quality to "short/trivial flash/mobile/PC games."
I don't think it's fair to use Flash game as a derogatory term. There are plenty of reasonable Flash games that allow for competitive speedrunning. Also, this Blue's Birthday Adventure is not a Flash game.
This site operates under Administrators that decide which games get accepted, and they've decided not to include every game under the sun that any two-bit programmer managed to piece together in an afternoon. Where that line is drawn is hard to define once you start drawing in the details, but it seems to boil down to:
- video games only
- trivial games banned (seems a lot like the SDA rule that to be accepted as a speedrun, it must be objectively faster than normal play or a run a new player might match within a day)
The blanket ban on VNs reminds me of the ban on rhythm and full auto-scrollers SDA has. Whether that's good for the community, or just easier on the mods, it's difficult to say. What quality are these rules here to protect? I agree most VNs are simply path/choice simulators you would click through as fast as possible, but if a VN also had boss/mini-games every once in a while, I wonder if that would be different enough to warrant a leaderboard here.
Just a quick note for any future runners interested in trying this game out: my IL routes were optimized for step count without tools. This means some levels might have time savings by taking extra steps to avoid pieces turning into walls, or step savings I over looked.
OBS Studio can record PC games for you quite easily and it's free. WiiU requires some form of capture, which for HDMI is a bit of an investment.
This video is not on SRC. It doesn't claim to be anything. Why should we care?
Games are added by members, so feel free to add the ones you're interested in running: https://www.speedrun.com/requestgame
The data is there on game pages: run date is part of submitted runs, and you can compare that with other runs. Obsoleted runs for a full history so you can get a better sense about how records evolved.
Note: that filter option only appears if there's a stream with a game you follow.
With a library larger than Xbox and GC combined, I find that first statement hard to believe, but I haven't checked. Half the games I mentioned are PlayStation exclusive.
As for faster loading times, it'll save you time overall, but if all you have is a PS2 don't be dissuaded from speedrunning on the PS2. Also, beware fast disc speed, in at least one game (Vandal Hearts) it causes sound effects to play before animations.
Truly if you're just looking for the fastest times you should play all games on PC. ;P
Not sure how easy any of these are, but check them out:
Simpsons Hit and Run - https://www.speedrun.com/shar SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - https://www.speedrun.com/bfbb
Jak & Daxter series, Ratchet & Clank series, Sly Cooper series, Hitman series, Shinobi, Shadow of the Colossus
Have fun.
There was a channel that played the latest TAS's, no one ever watched it. Aside from rights issues, I don't see the appeal of watching vods or streams where there's no streamer interaction.
You could record the video playing with a timer in the capture, but I don't think there's a point in adding a timer to the video unless you really want to. Usually the timer runs live in a stream so frame drops are easily detected. I would suggest submitting the video as is.
Depends on your computer's video capability, TV inputs, and how susceptible it is to input delay.
[quote]I already played SM64 16 Star and when I achieve a time sub 20 minutes, then I'll probably switch to 70 Star. I like games that are not as glitch-heavy, because why run the game, when you don't see most of it. [/quote] The contradiction here is wonderful.
I recommend checking out Jak & Daxter, Legend of Kay, and Shinobi, all on PS2. There are actually a lot of good options on that system if you have access to it.
As an example, I feel like this is the wrong way to do it:
If it bothers you, do a run? Over 600 free WRs.
Edit: Looking through the list, most of them were added because a game in a series was added. I suppose a mod thought, "why not just add the whole series." The remaining... probably a case like emeraldaly's: intending to run, but other things are taking priority.
