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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:so am I the only one who thinks reviewing the runs and giving them a numerical score is kinda daft I think it's nice for people who want to watch old runs they missed and don't know which ones are worth their time.
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how do you know if a run is a 7 vs 7.5
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:so am I the only one who thinks reviewing the runs and giving them a numerical score is kinda daft In a vacuum sure. But it's just so people who want to know which ones they might be interested n if they are archive diving. Other wise you're presented with days of potential mediocre runs to sort though.
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Phendrana Drifts is one of the most chill zones in all of video games
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:so am I the only one who thinks reviewing the runs and giving them a numerical score is kinda daft "which runs are good" and "which vods do I watch" are pretty much the most common questions for the thread, for the next two weeks
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He's reaching sync speed!
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:so am I the only one who thinks reviewing the runs and giving them a numerical score is kinda daft Yes, it's actually pretty drat useful
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:so am I the only one who thinks reviewing the runs and giving them a numerical score is kinda daft I'm not paying attention to the actual numerical score, but hearing the pros and cons of each run (good/bad couch commentary, technical exploits, whether or not it shows off new tricks, etc) is pretty helpful.
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:so am I the only one who thinks reviewing the runs and giving them a numerical score is kinda daft this post gets a 2 out of 10
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I came in late to this run, is it a gimmick run, or is it a Contractually Obligated Metroid run?
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That DK race will probably end up being the best run of the marathon. I can't picture anything topping that.
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It's watch how bad we can break the poo poo out of a great game ^ Tetris?
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Kaboom Dragoon posted:I came in late to this run, is it a gimmick run, or is it a Contractually Obligated Metroid run? Obligate with a tiny gimmick, donation incentive for the suit. So if this is your first time seeing Metroid Prime it's your standard, decent run. If you've seen it before then it's pretty meh.
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Sage Grimm posted:Obligate with a tiny gimmick, donation incentive for the suit. So if this is your first time seeing Metroid Prime it's your standard, decent run. If you've seen it before then it's pretty meh. Basically what I figured. Even MP2 or 3 would be more interesting. Has the third even been featured on *GDQ?
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how nice is the suit, i can 't watch abd also accidently hit this thread but hey might as well ask
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mandatory lesbian posted:how nice is the suit, i can 't watch abd also accidently hit this thread but hey might as well ask It looks like a mustard spill and a ketchup spill went sour together.
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It's..uh, a very unflattering green. EDIT: V Probably the most succinct way of putting it. Sage Grimm fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Jul 4, 2016 |
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Remember those bottles of weird-coloured ketchup designed to appeal to kids back in the 90s? Basically that.
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i look forward to seeing this suit on the streets then
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Minrad posted:"which runs are good" and "which vods do I watch" are pretty much the most common questions for the thread, for the next two weeks I guess, but my point was more that the only really useful criteria for whether or not you'd like it is pretty much "are you interested in the game?". Everything else is subject to that. like this thread really liked the DK race and I just found it boring because I don't find the game very engaging or interesting as a run so I wouldn't recommend it much and if there's a real knockout of a run that you'd never expect like Tetris was a couple of GDQs back, people usually just recommend it on its own. a rating thing seems a bit dumb since it comes down to one's own personal taste in video games a lot like right now I am kinda snoozing through the metroid prime run as well, not because it's necessarily bad but because I just don't find the game interesting to watch
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Metroid runs as a whole are very much 'been there, done that', but they're expected. Save/Kill the Animals usually accounts for a good amount of the donation total by the end of the event.
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:I guess, but my point was more that the only really useful criteria for whether or not you'd like it is pretty much "are you interested in the game?". Everything else is subject to that. Personally speaking, there are plenty of runs of games I've never played or would be all that interested in playing that I ended up enjoying based on recommendations from the thread. For instance, last AGDQ's Animorphs.
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LethalGeek posted:It's watch how bad we can break the poo poo out of a great game You just reminded me of that insanely cringey Stepmania keyboard "skill showcase" AGDQ had as a substitute for Tetris. I hope they don't have anything like that this year
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Pakled posted:Personally speaking, there are plenty of runs of games I've never played or would be all that interested in playing that I ended up enjoying based on recommendations from the thread. For instance, last AGDQ's Animorphs. Animorphs is the sort of run I would define as knockout good and would have people talking about it anyway. Since that was a run so good it made me actually learn the speedrun myself (it's painful don't) anyway my point is that you really only need to state the really good runs or the really bad runs, everything else in the middle is kinda really subject to individual taste in video games
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:
Like Pakled said, if the commentator is really good, or if there's some amazing exploit they show off, I'll watch a run for a game I normally have no interest in. It's tough to figure out which runs those are without getting recommendations from a place like this thread.
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Internet Kraken posted:You just reminded me of that insanely cringey Stepmania keyboard "skill showcase" AGDQ had as a substitute for Tetris. I hope they don't have anything like that this year That poo poo was weird and dumb but apparently goons in the minority thinking so
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LethalGeek posted:That poo poo was weird and dumb but apparently goons in the minority thinking so Yeah, that run was actually well received across the internet in spite of the fact goons seem pretty undivided on it being poo poo. i don't really know why
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I don't think it was less impressive than Tetris but it kind of moves too fast to see so it wasn't as good considering most people have probably never played Stepmania. Everyone has played Tetris and most of us aren't amazing at it.
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the Stepmania poo poo was just some apm wankfest it doesn't help that stepmania music is weebstep poo poo and nightcore garbage oh also TAPTAPTAPTAPTAPTAPTAPTAPTAPTAPTAPTAPTAPTAP
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I have played stepmania for years, the Tetris guys are way more fun to watch. 20-30 buttons per second in a rhythm game is obviously insane but it's just not that much to watch imo even fully appreciating how hard it is.
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If I remember right, though, they eventually busted out the weird game modes and that went over a bit better.
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I can least say everyone the room I was with was all looking at each other going "wtf is this" Also yeah the "music" was a bunch of stupid noise that made the whole thing more dreadful
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Ironsoviet posted:I don't think it was less impressive than Tetris but it kind of moves too fast to see so it wasn't as good considering most people have probably never played Stepmania. Everyone has played Tetris and most of us aren't amazing at it. Yeah like, I know that the stepmania showcase guy was very skilled and coordinated, but it just wasn't visually interesting at all to watch a guy's hands go really fast while arrows move across a screen. Tetris showcases tend to be at least visually interesting as well as being more relatable. More subjectively, I thought the music they chose was garbage. Ironsoviet posted:If I remember right, though, they eventually busted out the weird game modes and that went over a bit better. I don't remember that, I watched the Stepmania showcase live and it was all just plain old black background, no gimmicks.
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The gimmicks were what the arrows were doing, it didn't change the background at all unfortunately. The showcase should have gone "This is how fast a high-end song is like in top-tier Stepmania (NIGHTCORE NIGHTCORE GODAWFUL NIGHTCORE)" "And here it is with modifiers.." "And here is what Stepmania can do with its scripting (Break out that Undertale song or something similar)" "And here is a comparison of someone doing their utmost on a pad!" If it's always balls to the wall then there's no comparison to make.
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Ironsoviet posted:If I remember right, though, they eventually busted out the weird game modes and that went over a bit better. they did one song with one single mod on it to make the notes wobble a bit while they played and that was it given the incredible depths of poo poo you can do with Stepmania, that was a really poor "showcase" of the game because some of the gimmick maps available for stepmania are loving sweet
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:they did one song with one single mod on it to make the notes wobble a bit while they played and that was it Isn't there a really great gimmick map that is Undertale theme?
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Yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kGi9LE21dU EDIT: V But that's the thing, that poo poo is no big deal for him but it looks visually impressive for amateurs to the scene which makes up the bulk of watchers. Sage Grimm fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Jul 4, 2016 |
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The stepmania guy was playing "serious" at cmod 1000 anyone that can do that barely needs to see the arrows to know what to do. wobbly arrows, weird scroll direction, spinning arrows, etc. are pretty trivial when you're that good.
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