Do you like speedrunning?

[thecrystalrook]

ye I'm a big fan of speed running Banjo-Kazooie and Ocarina of Time. I've got a 3 and a half hour record 100% glitchless on banjo-kazooie and about 1 and a half hours on the first 3 dungeons of Ocarina of Time

[OffBased]

I’m glad you can enjoy them even if you can’t do them yourself! I never tuned into that block specifically, but I’ve seen some phenomenal Tetris runs before. Just magical. The Sonic 06 runs are great too! I caught the one from AGDQ last year and that was hilarious

I’m not too familiar with Zelda runs outside of BoTW, but TP runs have caught my interest in the past. Especially low%, since Link clipping into anything at the speed of plate tectonics is the funniest thing in the world

I didn’t know that’s how they got those! That’s really cool. Heavily considering doing the same for a future event.

Always love seeing obscure games getting run! I might have to join and see what it’s all about

[OffBased]

That’s cool! They aren’t for everyone. I’m glad they’re enjoyable for you to watch anyway

[Rhonder]

Same boat as @DiegoPalacios , Speed running by nature isn't really my thing (I don't often replay games very much of have the want to, let alone practice a single game a whole bunch to get good at it like that xD) but I do like watching sometimes~ Over the last like 10 years I've probably watched like 3 or 4 GDQ's or something.

One fond memory I have is my friend and I watched the Zelda Ocarina of Time any % (I think that's right? with lots of glitches) one year, and so he came over to my house that evening and decided that he wanted to learn how to do some of the glitches like right then, so he spent some number of hours trying and falling to clip through the door at the temple of time until like 3 or 4 am lmao

[OffBased]

Retro runs are awesome!! I need to watch more of them. I’m a huge fan of Mario 3 runs (Mitch is one of my favorite runners too) and watching Ducktales records got me to buy the game for myself. Haven’t beaten a single level though lol
Also super big on Kirby Air Ride runs. 50% nostalgia, 49% watching everyone blaze through the modes, 1% being validated about maining Wheelie Scooter

I just started watching ZFG after he got sub 3:10:00 in OoT 100%. First it was just highlights from EZScape, but now I’m watching his attempts just to see how much more he improves upon it

Yessss I love RPG runs! From what I’ve seen Paper Mario is a fun game no matter the category. I love meme runs too, so I’ll look up Soap% because that sounds funny. I don’t know much about Lion King Genesis except that it’s stupid hard. Good luck on your runs as well!

[OffBased]

That’s great that you have those times! Must’ve taken a lot of practice

[OffBased]

XD At least you had fun! Sometimes you just get that urge after you see something crazy like all the OoT glitches.

[DiegoPalacios]

One friend showed me a speedrun of Mario 64 and my mind was blown, so ocassionally seeing pros breeze through games in epic and unusual ways is entertaining.....

Also, as a game designer is always interesting to see how players interact with games, even if a specific way to play was not thought by the developer

[DiegoPalacios]

Is the one where Link backdashes like Michael Jackson's ancestor?

[Rhonder]

I don't recall exactly, but that sounds correct haha

[AmysGames]

I do! My games of choice at the moment are Celeste and Final Fantasy VII, but I enjoy watching all kinds of speedruns. All the tech that goes into cutting times down is really fascinating to me, especially if it involves exploiting glitches in a creative way, haha.

Speaking of which, I may or may not be partially responsible for the crazy glitching in the FF7 PC scene currently.

[OffBased]

Dude I love watching those runs too! Celeste has such a flow to it and I’m mesmerized with all the glitches and menu-ing in FFVII no matter the version. Do tell about the PC glitches!

[CMYKat]

The crazy thing about ZFG's runs is that even with how often he PBs, his sum of best is always like.... :0 ....I haven't tuned in to his WR attempts in a few weeks due to life so I don't know if his sum of best has tightened up at all, but I'm sure he's going to get his hundo run under 3 hours eventually.

[CMYKat]

Yes it is :'D That's called a super-slide

[nostalgicroxas]

I'm only interested in kind of looking at speedruns of games I know fairly well. Ocarina of Time is a speedrun I'll watch off and on, but I've started to enjoy the 100% speedruns over the any% since they involve different kinds of glitching to progress. They're also longer so I am not watching the same content of the game re-run for an hour.

I actually just saw a Wind Waker speedrun, recent ish world record of just about an hour or so long? It was interesting watching the barrier glitch.

[AmysGames]

Dude I love watching those runs too! Celeste has such a flow to it and I’m mesmerized with all the glitches and menu-ing in FFVII no matter the version. Do tell about the PC glitches!

Well, if you've seen a PC any% run (there was one in the last AGDQ), you might have seen that there's a wrong warp glitch at the end that takes you to the debug room, which takes you to the end of the game. Previously you had to go to Rocket Town and get the Tiny Bronco in order to perform the glitch, but I was the nerd that found out you could carry the wrong warp glitch through multiple game overs (which I was using for NG+):

...So another runner took this knowledge and applied it to any%, so now you don't have to do Rocket Town in either category.

[OffBased]

Oh he definitely will sometime soon. His sum of best was like 2:56 something I think? Something wild :0

[OffBased]

That’s understandable! It’s cool to see the games you already like in a whole new light.
Barrier skip is great too, the Wind Waker community has put in so much time and effort to find out how to do that at all

[OffBased]

Wow that’s awesome. I didn’t know that’s how it worked, and it’s great when stuff like that is so applicable across multiple categories. Kudos to you for finding that out!

[CMYKat]

I feel this in regards to "not watching the same content of the game re-run for an hour", as someone who watches a lot of short retro games. What gets interesting for me is how tiiiiight getting a good time can get, and how saving 3-4 seconds starts becoming huge accomplishments because of how hard it is to pull off.