Speedrunning thread 3.6: Oh my god ball block

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iPodschun: Dec 29, 2004; Sherlock House

exquisite tea posted:

Any good recommendations for entertaining speedruns of games that were never really intended to be played quickly, or that have some crazy sequence-breaking flaw that makes them an unlikely favorite of streamers?

I don't know if you're looking for a game where the developers were anti-speedrun but one of my favorite "What the gently caress is happening" sequence breaks is Final Fantasy 4's stairs glitch, though it takes nearly two hours to get to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J53S2sNwI4k

Run starts at 16:28 and has solid commentary (Brossentia, Netara, puwexil from left to right on the couch) if you want to watch it all the way through. The sequence break stuff starts around 2:02:00 in the video (1:45:00 on the run timer)

# ? Mar 6, 2018 15:34

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 17:57

DACK FAYDEN: Feb 25, 2013; Bear Witness

Renegret posted:

It's not a real roundabout run unless it includes all the cutscenes.

Let's go, Giorgio!

# ? Mar 6, 2018 16:05

timp: Sep 19, 2007; Everything is in my control; Lipstick Apathy

exquisite tea posted:

Any good recommendations for entertaining speedruns of games that were never really intended to be played quickly, or that have some crazy sequence-breaking flaw that makes them an unlikely favorite of streamers?

In a lot of ways you could say that racing games make for pretty boring speedruns because they're sort of just "play the game good" and while that's certainly impressive and sometimes fun to watch, it's not a very interesting speedrun. That being said, I've enjoyed watching both Mario Kart 64 and F-Zero 64 due to the insane wall clips and tiny ways to optimize time here and there. Beat em ups sort of fall into this category too imo because they're somewhat on rails. TMNT: Turtles In Time on SNES is an interesting run to watch for small, enemy management-type optimizations to watch.

Oh and it's not quite what you asked for, but get a load of this loving DK64 vid

# ? Mar 7, 2018 01:02

cage-free egghead: Mar 8, 2004

Watching TMR speedrun Battletoads is really cool. He makes it look much easier...

# ? Mar 7, 2018 02:14

Moatman: Mar 21, 2014; Because the goof is all mine.

timp posted:

In a lot of ways you could say that racing games make for pretty boring speedruns because they're sort of just "play the game good" and while that's certainly impressive and sometimes fun to watch, it's not a very interesting speedrun. That being said, I've enjoyed watching both Mario Kart 64 and F-Zero 64 due to the insane wall clips and tiny ways to optimize time here and there. Beat em ups sort of fall into this category too imo because they're somewhat on rails. TMNT: Turtles In Time on SNES is an interesting run to watch for small, enemy management-type optimizations to watch.

Oh and it's not quite what you asked for, but get a load of this loving DK64 vid

There's also some F-Zero clone for Wii or WiiU that has a fairly entertaining speedrun, at least for a while (I don't remember if it just turns into doing the same ridiculous thing over and over again or not)

# ? Mar 7, 2018 02:20

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

timp posted:

In a lot of ways you could say that racing games make for pretty boring speedruns because they're sort of just "play the game good" and while that's certainly impressive and sometimes fun to watch, it's not a very interesting speedrun. That being said, I've enjoyed watching both Mario Kart 64 and F-Zero 64 due to the insane wall clips and tiny ways to optimize time here and there. Beat em ups sort of fall into this category too imo because they're somewhat on rails. TMNT: Turtles In Time on SNES is an interesting run to watch for small, enemy management-type optimizations to watch.

Oh and it's not quite what you asked for, but get a load of this loving DK64 vid

I guess what I meant are games that you'd never expect to become popular targets for speedruns, like adventures or very long RPGs, but have some sequence-breaking event or glitch that make them doable in a very short amount of time. Kind of like that infamous Morrowind run where the dude dupes a whole bunch of alchemy potions and then flies across the entire world right to the final boss cave.

# ? Mar 7, 2018 02:25

Renegret: May 26, 2007; THANK YOU FOR CALLING HELP DOG, INC.

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cage-free egghead posted:

Watching TMR speedrun Battletoads is really cool. He makes it look much easier...

I feel this way with any Dark Souls/Bloodbourne speedrun. On video it looks like the runner is just running through the levels and mashing their face up against a boss and attacking, but there's so much more going on than it looks.

# ? Mar 7, 2018 02:33

Pneub: Mar 12, 2007; I'M THE DEVIL, AND I WILL WASH OVER THE EARTH AND THE SEAS WILL RUN RED WITH THE BLOOD OF ALL THE SINNERS

I AM REBORN

exquisite tea posted:

Any good recommendations for entertaining speedruns of games that were never really intended to be played quickly, or that have some crazy sequence-breaking flaw that makes them an unlikely favorite of streamers?

The TAS for Super R-Type is like 2/3 the length of an average playthrough basically just from lag reduction.

# ? Mar 7, 2018 02:54

eonwe: Aug 11, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

still up in the air whether I can afford but I got a gdq spot

# ? Mar 10, 2018 16:41

SeXReX: Jan 9, 2009; I drink, mostly.
And get mad at people on the internet

eonwe posted:

still up in the air whether I can afford but I got a gdq spot

all in favor for a goon 'thon to get money to let eonwe come say "punchy sux"

# ? Mar 10, 2018 18:00

ArfJason: Sep 5, 2011

Moatman posted:

There's also some F-Zero clone for Wii or WiiU that has a fairly entertaining speedrun, at least for a while (I don't remember if it just turns into doing the same ridiculous thing over and over again or not)

Fast Racing Neo?

# ? Mar 10, 2018 18:34

Groovelord Neato: Dec 6, 2014

SeXReX posted:

all in favor for a goon 'thon to get money to let eonwe come say "punchy sux"

punchy was great on the re7 couch tho.

# ? Mar 10, 2018 18:43

eonwe: Aug 11, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

punchy good. so what.

# ? Mar 10, 2018 18:50

eonwe: Aug 11, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

also nah yall don't gotta raise anything for me

if there is a goon running a game that needs help getting there yall should donate to them

# ? Mar 10, 2018 19:16

Moatman: Mar 21, 2014; Because the goof is all mine.

ArfJason posted:

Fast Racing Neo?

Yeah that's the one

# ? Mar 10, 2018 19:30

SeXReX: Jan 9, 2009; I drink, mostly.
And get mad at people on the internet

eonwe posted:

also nah yall don't gotta raise anything for me

if there is a goon running a game that needs help getting there yall should donate to them

I need 4 bucks for the bus give me the money

# ? Mar 10, 2018 20:02

UraniumAnchor: May 21, 2006; Not a walrus.

SeXReX posted:

I need 4 bucks for the bus give me the money

https://twitter.com/YayMarsha/status/972530744659767297

# ? Mar 10, 2018 20:27

eonwe: Aug 11, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

i think we can all agree, gently caress a capitalism

# ? Mar 10, 2018 20:32

fadam: Apr 23, 2008

This is probably old news but I've been watching the criminally underrated Nirvanna The Band The Show and there's a whole episode where the boys try to win a Goldeneye Speed Run tournament. RWhiteGoose appears in it and they even talk about that guy who got cucked during the after credits sequence.

# ? Mar 10, 2018 22:05

Verranicus: Aug 18, 2009; by VideoGames

Suggestions on speedruns for longer games with entertaining but not overbearing runners? Looking for stuff to put on in the background while I work, so the more suggestions the better.

EDIT: Should say Youtube or Twitch are fine, so lay them on me.

Verranicus fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Mar 11, 2018

# ? Mar 11, 2018 02:11

fool of sound: Oct 10, 2012

Verranicus posted:

Suggestions on speedruns for longer games with entertaining but not overbearing runners? Looking for stuff to put on in the background while I work, so the more suggestions the better.

Gyre does final fantasy and occasionally other stuff. He�s playtesting the randomized most nights atm

# ? Mar 11, 2018 02:14

Verranicus: Aug 18, 2009; by VideoGames

fool_of_sound posted:

Gyre does final fantasy and occasionally other stuff. He�s playtesting the randomized most nights atm

Thanks!

I should add that I love 100% runs above all else, but I know they're harder to track down online. Anything Puwexil does is a good example.

Verranicus fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Mar 11, 2018

# ? Mar 11, 2018 02:26

Beve Stuscemi: Jun 6, 2001

Darbian does interesting runs like Super Marihour (SMB1/2/3, SMW and M64) in under an hour on real hardware)

# ? Mar 11, 2018 15:11

iPodschun: Dec 29, 2004; Sherlock House

Verranicus posted:

Suggestions on speedruns for longer games with entertaining but not overbearing runners? Looking for stuff to put on in the background while I work, so the more suggestions the better.

EDIT: Should say Youtube or Twitch are fine, so lay them on me.

RPGs are going to be your best bet. You mentioned puwexil; not sure if RPG Limit Break's channels are on your radar:
https://www.twitch.tv/rpglimitbreak
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJn8IWyQmWEIfpVjX7o2VnQ/videos

It's a charity marathon that puwexil helps to run. It focuses on RPG speedruns but they also run various tournaments and marathons throughout the year. On that note, you could also search through GDQ's youtube channel for RPGs/other long games and then also follow the runner's twitch channel.

# ? Mar 11, 2018 15:34

Gilg: Oct 10, 2002

Shoot! I was hoping to go to SGDQ but it looks like registration came and went (reached the cap) without me noticing! It looks like the only way to go now is to try to get a volunteering spot?

# ? Mar 11, 2018 16:43

KennyMan666: May 27, 2010; The Saga

iPodschun posted:

On that note, you could also search through GDQ's youtube channel for RPGs/other long games and then also follow the runner's twitch channel.

Probably easier to use the RPG category on GDQ VODs for that.

So I got my five submissions in for ESA, submissions for that closed yesterday.

Also, I would like to present to you the dumbest submission (so far) for SGDQ 2018:

# ? Mar 11, 2018 17:11

Rubellavator: Aug 16, 2007

KennyMan666 posted:

Probably easier to use the RPG category on GDQ VODs for that.

So I got my five submissions in for ESA, submissions for that closed yesterday.

Also, I would like to present to you the dumbest submission (so far) for SGDQ 2018:

You have to see this in action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ0PxA2YAgI

# ? Mar 11, 2018 19:45

Groovelord Neato: Dec 6, 2014

lol that rules.

# ? Mar 11, 2018 20:03

DACK FAYDEN: Feb 25, 2013; Bear Witness

Rubellavator posted:

You have to see this in action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ0PxA2YAgI

is that his normal gold split noise

because if so I better follow this dude

# ? Mar 11, 2018 20:20

absolutely anything: Dec 28, 2006; ~As for dreams, she has enough and more to spare~

KennyMan666 posted:

Probably easier to use the RPG category on GDQ VODs for that.

So I got my five submissions in for ESA, submissions for that closed yesterday.

Also, I would like to present to you the dumbest submission (so far) for SGDQ 2018: