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Crain posted:They seem to have more "official" sponsors this year than past years. Correct me if I'm wrong but this year they got some serious starting funds from various sponsors instead of just large donations over the course of the event. That start up money comes with riders and stipulations. Add into that the new Twitch rules (which really haven't come up but whatever) it seems that the organizers are playing it really safe in case they run into something that could cost them. Yeah all of those disgusting corporate fat cats from The Yetee and Humble Bundle. Fuckin' relax a little, dude. e: Sage Grimm posted:I imagine having the donation reader sometimes rattling off the sponsors more than the donations at times. Few, far between and definitely not happening right now. Yeah they did that a fair bit last night, but that's during down time when not many people are donating so I'm okay with it. I just wish all of the commentators would do reps on the sponsorship soundbites because they keep stumbling over them.
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Cutting mics during set-up, constant banner ads, once an hour to sponsors on a specific line given to them in a monotone voice. Donations are read less and the commentators have been silent with no mics on for minutes at a time. Sure it's more professional, but the feel makes this another LoL game feed instead of highlighting the event. It just seems stale and no directionless, with dead air killing it.
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RyokoTK posted:Yeah all of those disgusting corporate fat cats from The Yetee and Humble Bundle. Fuckin' relax a little, dude. You're not wrong. It's probably mainly just the string of boring runs and me trying to think of ways to avoid that. But without a crew of professional entertainers that's impossible. The main problem is they took away the entertaining idiots and left the boring idiots.
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beep by grandpa posted:You guys have taken into consideration that it's barely been over 24 hours since it started though, right Nope. NO METAL WOLF CHAOS? NO PACMAN 2?! THIS AGDQ SUCKS!
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for the love of god someone just do something about the dead air segments and it would go a long way
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they don't need professional entertainers they need BLACK PEOPLE and WERSTER
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The event hasn't even been running for 24 hours, folks; it's Monday morning of a seven-day marathon. Give it some time to respond to feedback and tweak things and find their stride. It'll probably get better as it goes, and it's still reasonably entertaining now. (GX is actually getting some decent couch commentary.) I agree that we could probably use more of an audience view and less of the strictly limited couch -- just gotta find a balance between goofy and professional. A tiny reduction in goofiness does not exactly turn it into Non-Objectionable Speed Runs For Charity Presented By Allstate And Microsoft. fakeedit: Also, they just broke $250K -- a quarter of the way there, and we aren't even done with the first day, or into the big draw games.
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theultimo posted:Cutting mics during set-up, constant banner ads, once an hour to sponsors on a specific line given to them in a monotone voice. Donations are read less and the commentators have been silent with no mics on for minutes at a time. Sure it's more professional, but the feel makes this another LoL game feed instead of highlighting the event. It just seems stale and no directionless, with dead air killing it. There was little going on at those times in other marathons, so I'm not sure how it matters; who cares, they're off to the side and it's more charity money; there's been a lot of donation reading (replaced by sponsors when they don't have comments) and the second point is poo poo commentators, not "corporate blandness". As I said, we're just getting some boring runners front-loaded. Those were ALWAYS in marathons.
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Bholder posted:Nope. Pacman 2 was definitely one of my favorite runs from last year, but a lot of that was Murphgator and Portaxx.
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I think it's like the movie UHF . There is no Stanley to boost ratings.
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I'm a little tired of F-Zero stuff now, but Jedi Knight and Quake II are two of my favorite FPSes and they're up next so I'm sticking around.
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RyokoTK posted:Pacman 2 was definitely one of my favorite runs from last year, but a lot of that was Murphgator and Portaxx. Maybe they should try getting more people like Murph and Portaxx to be on the couch then! e: out of the ones i've seen, the current announcer's the guy who's best tried to keep the room hyped, even if he's cringeworthy at times.
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"Take my money good sirs."
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*GDQ events always start kinda slow and build up as time goes on and everyone gets more tired. Plus the schedule is often kinda backheavy with many of the super popular games coming in the last couple days.
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RyokoTK posted:Pacman 2 was definitely one of my favorite runs from last year, but a lot of that was Murphgator and Portaxx. She's gonna try to appear during the Awful Games block again this year.
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KoldPT posted:Maybe they should try getting more people like Murph and Portaxx to be on the couch then! You do realize that they aren't exactly hiring professional Cool People for this event, right? They're video game nerds volunteering their own time and dime for the event. The subset of super-skilled speed runners that are also really personable and charismatic is really, really slim and they're all already there.
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Cubey posted:*GDQ events always start kinda slow and build up as time goes on and everyone gets more tired. Plus the schedule is often kinda backheavy with many of the super popular games coming in the last couple days.
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KoldPT posted:Maybe they should try getting more people like Murph and Portaxx to be on the couch then! It's all done by volunteers, though? If Murph and Portaxx aren't volunteering for couch times/runs/whatever-the-gently caress then that part of the run will be less exciting or whatever. It's not like they're deliberately going NO HUMOR ALLOWED  and tying up everyone who both volunteered and is funny in a closet somewhere.
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Crain posted:The main problem is they took away the entertaining idiots and left the boring idiots. PJ should just be breaking games for a week straight.
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Sir Tonk posted:PJ should just be breaking games for a week straight. PJGD? is an endeavor worth supporting.
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so ive heard rumors that blueglass has been segregated to his own little area is this just people inventing drama or is it true-ish
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Dias posted:PJGD? is an endeavor worth supporting. His charisma leaks all over the room and the whole world benefits. I miss cosmo and Mike though, it might be why it feels directionless when the main person isnt there :/
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I think I built this F-Zero GX run up too much in my head after the awesome run at last AGDQ. I don't know, it's just not quite as entertaining, and I miss the crowd exploring with cheers and applause in the background. Well, that and ghost races seem kind of boring in comparison, and there's 1h30m of them instead of a quick 30m of constant crazy single frame tricks and flying all over the place. Anyone else feel the same way? I just have no interest in it this year.
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Eonwe posted:so ive heard rumors that blueglass has been segregated to his own little area Nobody puts Blueglass in the corner 
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Well I guess F-Zero time trials are as loving boring as any other time trial.
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BloodWulfe posted:I think I built this F-Zero GX run up too much in my head after the awesome run at last AGDQ. I don't know, it's just not quite as entertaining, and I miss the crowd exploring with cheers and applause in the background. Staff ghosts are less impressive if you haven't played the game I suppose, but CGN kinda killed story mode dead. They can't do it again this year after he so thoroughly made it his bitch last year.
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Eonwe posted:so ive heard rumors that blueglass has been segregated to his own little area  ?
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kater posted:Well I guess F-Zero time trials are as loving boring as any other time trial. Yeah, story mode last year was better since it had races other than "go fast and beat time" that you still needed to be fast on. Like bomb runs and death races.
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BloodWulfe posted:I think I built this F-Zero GX run up too much in my head after the awesome run at last AGDQ. I don't know, it's just not quite as entertaining, and I miss the crowd exploring with cheers and applause in the background. I pretty much said that a while ago, GX was cool last marathon because it was story mode. Time attack runs are...eh. They're not bad, but there's a lot of dead air because many tracks are "do this line perfect" and how do you comment on that?
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Eonwe posted:so ive heard rumors that blueglass has been segregated to his own little area I saw him sitting a couple rows behind the couch yesterday.
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E: ^^^^^^There's my answer. Has blueglass even shown up on camera yet? I've yet to see him.
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Jmcrofts posted:I saw him sitting a couple rows behind the couch yesterday. ok good, i'd be sad if that were true
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hcreight posted:E: ^^^^^^There's my answer. He has, just for one game. I'm sure many people prefer sitting off camera in front of the projectors, otherwise you're stuck behind the couch trying to crank your neck to see a small TV behind several people. edit: VVVVV huh well okay then
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Eonwe posted:so ive heard rumors that blueglass has been segregated to his own little area  He has enough food and water for a week, don't worry.
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This GX run is pretty cool, but it's just nowhere near as exciting as last year's was. It would be like if they did a regular Super Punch-out run after the blindfolded run from last year.
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Swan Curry posted:This GX run is pretty cool, but it's just nowhere near as exciting as last year's was. It would be like if they did a regular Super Punch-out run after the blindfolded run from last year. Well I mean it'd be hard to top and it's not like doing the exact same thing as last year would be nearly as exciting.
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Sir Tonk posted:PJ should just be breaking games for a week straight. This is gonna happen anyway, they really should figure out a way to monetize it though. Hatcam or something.
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