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Looks like I gotta brew me some coffee and start this sunday by clearing my backlog, I'll start with Darkwing Duck and Turok.
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definitely check out all the runs being mentioned so far but i'm gonna be the one guy throwing my hat in for Final Fantasy 1. it's four hours so you're in it for the long haul and the game isn't much of a looker nor requires much technical skill, but it is an extremely chill and pleasant run. the runners have an encyclopedic knowledge of the game and even hold little trivia questions for people to answer through donations and it's all very well paced and is just a super smooth run all around at least the first half is, i had to go to bed after that, but i heard they keep up that general level of commentary quality throughout the run and i can definitely vouch for how ace that first half was
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My Good Runs list for AGDQ 2017: Hitman: Blood Money - Cute glitches, good commentary. Pokémon Emerald - Fantastic commentary, entertaining runners. Tetris with Cardcaptor Sakura: Eternal Heart - It's KevinDDR, so of course it's good as always. Jazz Jackrabbit - Chill runner, good commentary. Jumping Flash! 2 - A weird PSX game that was fun to watch. Fallout: New Vegas - Crazy glitches, as typical with Bethesda games. Bishi Bashi Special - Very bizarre game with an entertaining runner. Crowtel - Adorable game, quick run. Awful Games block - Terrible games, and all of them were fun. Turok: Dinosaur Hunter - I was surprised, but this is a really entertaining run with a very passionate runner. Left 4 Dead 1 - Lots of neat tricks and a cool duo. Bleed - Run by our very own Studio, and actually had the developer live, on the couch. SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Surprisingly entertaining run with great commentary. TASBot block - of course. Undertale - Probably my favorite run of the marathon. Incredible crowd participation, really, really charismatic runner who made the last run really magical. AbrahamLincolnLog fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Jan 15, 2017 |
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Jan 15, 2017 09:05
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Luna Was Here posted:can someone link me a worst of gdq list? I can see all the great runs in the thread op, but now i want the baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad runs. you know the kind im talkin about and I've definitely seen some stinkers in previous events, the Binding of Isaac run and some of the Halo runs come to mind immediately
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AbrahamLincolnLog posted:
i really enjoyed this one because i knew nothing about the tetris community and so i learned that: a) kevinddr is a tetris god and b) kevinddr did not win this race those two facts alone made me look up other tetris runs and they are super legit and cool. you all should watch this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViwDUiCzPVU also please, please add all the recommended runs to the OP or some kind of master AGDQ/SGDQ list so i can watch all the cool poo poo i missed. CrashCat posted:didn't really see any painfully bad runs this week, so I think the selection process is working. a few kinda boring ones but even those did have technically sound elements, just lacked in enthusiasm or commentary or such dark souls 3 is the closest i can think of to a stinker run and that was entirely because of bad luck and the runner took it like a champ. hard to cheer against a guy when he's trying his best and the pc just shits its pants. axeil fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Jan 15, 2017 |
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Jan 15, 2017 09:09
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Kaubocks posted:definitely check out all the runs being mentioned so far but i'm gonna be the one guy throwing my hat in for Final Fantasy 1. it's four hours so you're in it for the long haul and the game isn't much of a looker nor requires much technical skill, but it is an extremely chill and pleasant run. the runners have an encyclopedic knowledge of the game and even hold little trivia questions for people to answer through donations and it's all very well paced and is just a super smooth run all around I actually was the opposite and only caught the latter half and I can vouch that it was really good as well. Gyre, Feasel and Puwexil. Perfect for running on the background on my TV.
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Jan 15, 2017 09:10
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Yeah I also only caught like the first hour of the Final Fantasy run but I enjoyed it. Feasel and Puwexil provided great commentary.
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Jan 15, 2017 09:13
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1-800-DOCTORB posted:Yeah I also only caught like the first hour of the Final Fantasy run but I enjoyed it. Feasel and Puwexil provided great commentary. Highly recommending it as well. Put it on when you need some background listening; they go extremely in-depth into everything they're doing.
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Jan 15, 2017 09:16
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2.2 million holy poo poo Gonna catch up on Super Metroid and Undertale, then collect recommendations from the last couple pages and update the list. Seriously, holy poo poo.
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Jan 15, 2017 09:23
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I think Undertale was the best finale since the "Wonder Shot" Chrono Trigger run.
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Jan 15, 2017 09:29
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Another recommendation: Snailiad. It's Metroid with snails.
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Jan 15, 2017 10:01
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AGDQ Donation Totals 2011: $52,519.83 2012: $149,044.99 (+183.7%) 2013: $448,423.27 (+200.9%) 2014: $1,031,665.50 (+130.1%) 2015: $1,576,085.00 (+52.8%) 2016: $1,216,304.02 (-22.8%) 2017: ~$2,300,000.00+ (+~89%) that is just absurd. everyone who donated should feel real good about that.
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Jan 15, 2017 10:02
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It seems like they ran a pretty tight ship drama-wise this year. There was a bit of commotion with the MAGA hats, but that seemed to get solved pretty quickly. There was that chair thing that turned out to be a guy picking up a can or something, but other than that there really wasn't much of note. Then the Metroid race had to happen. The run was already pretty shaky with the pretty boring, though technically competent, commentary, but when that guy told the wah guys to kill themselves you could just feel every drop of energy vanish from the room and it never really recovered. That and the rather strict quiet time rules killed all the hype for the animals. This is probably the first time I've been really disappointed with the Metroid race. Thank God for the Undertale run and hitting the 2 million and 10 million total marks completely salvaging the mood.
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Jan 15, 2017 10:20
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I love the fact that there was a community effort to fund Suzuribaco and zzzhonki coming to a GDQ. From what I saw they performed really well, I'd love to know what they thought about their time on the event, if they have a Twitter or if anyone can translate it. It's great that the japanese and western speedrunning community is brought a bit closer. Another example was the english restream of RTA Japan. I wonder if they have a similar thing going for GDQ's?
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Jan 15, 2017 10:27
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tweet my meat posted:It seems like they ran a pretty tight ship drama-wise this year. There was a bit of commotion with the MAGA hats, but that seemed to get solved pretty quickly. There was that chair thing that turned out to be a guy picking up a can or something, but other than that there really wasn't much of note. Then the Metroid race had to happen. The run was already pretty shaky with the pretty boring, though technically competent, commentary, but when that guy told the wah guys to kill themselves you could just feel every drop of energy vanish from the room and it never really recovered. That and the rather strict quiet time rules killed all the hype for the animals. This is probably the first time I've been really disappointed with the Metroid race. From watching it the mood definitely picked back up later in the run when the announcer read another Waluigi donation. Also helped that the guy was escorted out of the room. But yeah, the ending of the Super Metroid and the amazing rate of donations helped pick things back up. Also the Hug The Goat chant is the best GDQ chant to ever happen. EDIT: Oh wow they are fast on uploading the unedited runs this year. The Super Metroid race is already up. http://www.youtube.com/user/gamesdonequick Black Mage Knight fucked around with this message at 10:43 on Jan 15, 2017 |
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Jan 15, 2017 10:37
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Luna Was Here posted:can someone link me a worst of gdq list? I can see all the great runs in the thread op, but now i want the baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad runs. you know the kind im talkin about The bad and boring ones i saw were: batman Arkham city, Pokemon emerald (unless you're really into pokemon i guess), intelligent qube, mega man network transmission, and paper Mario ttyd. I didn't see all of dark souls 3 but what i did see was a lot like the Arkham city run so i probably would put that on the list too
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Jan 15, 2017 10:39
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Everyone was kind of zoning out during Wind Waker but I was impressed by that as well. Like he nailed so many tough moves and he explained everything he was doing pretty drat well. It's just those longer runs it's harder to keep attention. Emerald kind of suffered from the same thing from what I saw, but they had much worse luck so it felt way worse. And the guy running Arkham City was outright getting sick so even though he could still do the run and didn't gently caress it up too bad it felt worse. I didn't watch most of Paper Mario but I expect it's the same length issue.
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Jan 15, 2017 11:09
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Zelda was definitely a great loving run. Don't let the apparent drama scare you off, it's a lot less awful than people make it sound like, just a guy accidentally calling one of the tricks the Cosmo Hop then correcting himself and I think there might have been a pretty tame triggered joke that wasn't really a dig at any specific group or anything. The commentary in general was actually pretty great. It was entertaining and did a good job of explaining the tricks, which the runner absolutely nailed most of the time. He also went for a lot of small tricks that weren't really necessary in a marathon run, but looked cool, which is always nice.
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Jan 15, 2017 11:25
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Saving / Killing the animals raised just short of $800,000. And Turok was the best run.
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Jan 15, 2017 12:46
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axeil posted:AGDQ Donation Totals
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Jan 15, 2017 13:04
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The huge prizes definitely helped. When the big anime bundle was first announced there was an absolutely insane amount of donations coming in for it, and that was a $125 minimum. Just a constant stream of +$125 appearing on the donation total. And then, a few hours later, when they showed off that same bundle again, same thing happened. The Undertale runner was right. Anime is real. And it makes money.
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Jan 15, 2017 13:09
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This was such a solid year. So many good and entertaining runs. Some stuff I liked not already mentioned: The whole Contra block (and the immediately preceeding Metal Slug 3, which is basically Contra by another mother). The games are just demolished by plain skill, and there's the wild ralley to get the Contra 3 run in--which I not only contributed to, but got my donation read on air just before Super C starts! The Turing Test--this game is very much in the vein of Portal, and the runner is chill while being very informative and sometimes funny. Also one of the funnier "bad" moments happen at the end. There was a bidding war on whether he play the good or bad endings. With that part coming up he asks the crew which won, and is met with complete radio silence. Eventually one of the couch crew pulls out his phone and looks it up for him Finally, I enjoyed the fast paced banter of the players during the Ratchet and Clank race. The two guys are obvious friends irl and spent the whole time goofing with each other. They afterwards had a pretty good interview too.
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AbrahamLincolnLog posted:The huge prizes definitely helped. When the big anime bundle was first announced there was an absolutely insane amount of donations coming in for it, and that was a $125 minimum. Just a constant stream of +$125 appearing on the donation total. i didnt catch the full undertale run, planning on watching it later. was there a specific reason anime is/n't real wasn't a donation incentive because holy gently caress that would've brought in a million on its own
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No idea! Multiple people mentioned that in the "casual" discussion thread and we all had the same question.
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there were already two donation incentives for the game, they probably didn't think they needed a third
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The choice between anime is/isn't real only affects a little bit of text that gets skipped by so fast in a speedrun that you can't even read it. The other bid wars for Undertale (file name, which appears a lot in the final Pacifist boss, comfort/shun, and the kill/spare sans they added later) all have effects that are a lot easier to see in a speedrun.
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No-one's recommended Descent II in a bit, so I will. He just charges through everything like it's not even remotely a problem, while he's moving at an angle (not even looking where he's going) around maze rooms - the few things that do go wrong are the game's fault and he dealt with it no problem, so overall it was a really smooth run too. He also probably had some of the best informative commentary of the whole event, explained everything he was doing really clearly, despite not having any couch help. I'm always really impressed when a runner can do good commentary and play at the same time and not have either affect the other.
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TeaJay posted:All right, here's my updated list of recommendations - there's still a lot of good ones I haven't seen though. This is a great list but I must also throw in for Vice City (excellent commentary on top of an excellent run) and DOOM (funny tricks, it's DOOM). Pac-Man World and Crash Bandicoot 2 were really solidly executed runs too. And Turok was great as well because of the runner 
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Jan 15, 2017 15:28
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Yeah the Vice City run actually got me to follow the runner of Twitch, it was really good.
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RyokoTK posted:This is a great list but I must also throw in for Vice City (excellent commentary on top of an excellent run) and DOOM (funny tricks, it's DOOM). Pac-Man World and Crash Bandicoot 2 were really solidly executed runs too. And Turok was great as well because of the runner Yup, I don't think I've seen any of those yet, lots of people have recommended Turok and Vice City.
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Jan 15, 2017 15:46
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Bubbles Batman run was one of my favorites. Even with a soar throat his dry humor was hilarious to me.
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So I just looked this up, and the Prevent Cancer Foundation only had revenue totaling around $6 million in their 2015 annual year. We just gave them around a third of that in a week. http://preventcancer.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Financial-Statement-June-30-2016-2015-Prevent-Cancer-Foundation.pdf That's a huge thing for a small charity. I bet they were projecting around $1 million or so and to get double that means they're going to be able to do a lot more of the stuff that helps prevent cancer. I can guarantee there will be more grants and studies funded, early detection programs started and other methods to fight cancer sponsored than they had planned for a week ago. That's awesome. I had no idea PCF was such a small charity, and it makes me even happier about the marathon because that money is going to have a much more massive impact on PCF's ongoing operations than it would have had it been say the Red Cross or MSF.
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Two recommendations that I haven't seen anyone mention before: Psychonauts: A really colourful game that lends itself well to speedrunning thanks to a couple of nifty tricks. The commentary wasn't outstanding, but they did a decent job explaining everything and there were a few highlights (particularly since the Milkman incentive was met). System Shock 2: The runner was obviously nervous and messes up an important trick about a quarter into the run, but otherwise plays very skillfully and explains his strategies well enough that you should be able to follow along even if you've never seen the game before. On top of that, SS2 is very fast-paced with some precise movement, and the run is short enough that it doesn't overstay its welcome. Regarding the Super Metroid race, I think it was also hurt by being a 100% run. That category is almost twice as long as any% but doesn't show all that many unique tricks, so you have a similar amount of content stretched over a much longer period of time. The fact that almost 10% of the run is spent watching the item pickup screen certainly doesn't help either. Samuel Clemens fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Jan 15, 2017 |
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I just went and watched New Super Hook Girl... holy poo poo  You can just tell by looking at it how hard and technical that run must be.
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Okay, I just went and watched Turok, and it was just as amazing as you said. Bawkbasoup is a real fun and classy guy (albeit a bit nervous) and that was real fun to watch. Let's-a-friggin'-go.
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TeaJay posted:Okay, I just went and watched Turok, and it was just as amazing as you said. Bawkbasoup is a real fun and classy guy (albeit a bit nervous) and that was real fun to watch. Oh man, is that the same guy who ran SH2 and RE0 last year?
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Aurora posted:Oh man, is that the same guy who ran SH2 and RE0 last year? You betch-a-go. It was funny that he said here he swore in his stream he wouldn't say let's-a-go once, but got really into it with all the donations and repeated it everytime the announcer did, lol TeaJay fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Jan 15, 2017 |
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Jan 15, 2017 16:48
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bawkbasoup is the right mix of nerdy and funny and his runs/commentary are very charming. Turok has a lot of fast movement and cool tech, definitely watch it.
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Jan 15, 2017 16:50
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axeil posted:undertale run is possibly the best finale for any games done quick event ever. it was amazing. i cried. you all should watch it. The crowd the last couple of hours was out of control, what a great moment.
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Mario 3D Land is a pretty good run too. The commentary isn't the best, but it is Mario so you don't need a ton of commentary, and the game is actually really fast and technical and has a lot of super scary jumps. I kind of wish 3D World would make another appearance at a GDQ but this is a solid run.
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