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Summer Games Done Quick 2016 - Runners Without Chargers
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sweetroy posted:it's getting to the point where all these mario runs have been played so often that they're just not interesting to watch, kinda tough to get rid of though given that the community is all about them My favorite runs are the ones that either have a good pile of commentary attached to them (last year's Resident Evil 4 run, for example, was fantastic, despite the length), are relatively short (20-30 minutes) and feature interesting tech, are completely and totally ruined by glitches, or are games that are just mind-boggling awful like pj's runthrough of Lagoon. The two New Super Mario games were just kinda "eh." Given that this is for a charity, though, I'm fine if they keep these Mario runs if it helps to reel people in to donate. It does kinda make me a little miffed that otherwise fantastic commentators like CapnClever get shoved into poo poo-o'clock AM timeslots because their wheelhouse isn't Nintendo games or Squaresoft RPGs, but I understand why they do it.
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Kaboom Dragoon posted:What was good about it? I just figured one RE4 run was the same as another. A good mix of commentary (they go fairly in depth into why they're taking certain actions over others and pepper in humor here and there) and gameplay (the dude playing was clearly very skilled at the game and had a huge number of hours invested). I normally find hour+ speedruns to be somewhat unbearable, but that one worked for me.
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Jul 4, 2016 05:32
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This is so far my absolute favorite of the runs.
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Jul 5, 2016 04:01
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Rorus Raz posted:The thing I hated was the "Collectivism is bad too." story which, besides really convoluted in order to pull off, seems like the sort of thing a publisher would to placate the Rand acolytes the first game pissed off. Not that Bioshock 1 was CUTTING POLITICAL COMMENTARY, but Bioshock 2 had nothing to say. As the Errant Signal dude put it best: the fact that all three Bioshock games mention sociopolitical ideas does not mean that they necessarily commentate on them.
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Azazell0 posted:Best endorsement ever. I'd put that on the back of my controller box.
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Jul 5, 2016 20:37
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I thought the Bioshock run was pretty good but this is going to be the run to loving beat for the rest of the marathon.
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Jul 5, 2016 20:48
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Well, I just teared up a gosh darned little at this speedrunning marathon and I'm not afraid to admit it.
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Jul 6, 2016 03:54
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This has been a loving rollercoaster of a day for SGDQ. I didn't think anything could be more memorable than romscout's blindfolded SotN, but here we are.
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Jul 6, 2016 04:02
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All of these puns make me want to loving die.
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Jul 6, 2016 16:36
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RyokoTK posted:The big problem with the Sonic games is the same as the Megaman ones, there's always like five in a row lumped together and they're all the loving same game. The good news is that the Sonic 2006 run should be loving really good. It was run a few years ago and it's a broken, buggy mess, as one would expect.
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Jul 6, 2016 17:06
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Internet Kraken posted:I looked at the schedule and someone is running Sonic 2006??? Won't half the run be loving loading screens? Yes. Fortunately, you can also break the game in half like a twig, so it's worth a watch.
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Jul 6, 2016 17:48
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Equilibrium posted:Why do the loading screens have loading screens There was a tweet they displayed that explained it: whenever the game loads a level, it literally unloads and reloads every single asset. It's one of the most mind boggling programming decisions for a game made in 2006 that I've ever seen.
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Jul 6, 2016 20:12
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Sonic '06 is a hilarious game to see speedrun, or to watch Medibot et al. suffer through it, but it would be nothing but mounting frustration trying to actually play through it yourself.
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Jul 6, 2016 20:13
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I'm really glad that *GDQ ended up teaming up with MSF, as I have absolutely zero qualms about donating to them. They're legitimately the best medical charity out there.
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Jul 6, 2016 20:27
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Vakal posted:Just let CapnClever comment all the games. Poor bastard is stuck at some ungodly hour playing Monster Bash. Wish I could tune in to hear him, but I'll just have to watch the VOD later.
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Jul 7, 2016 02:34
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voltcatfish posted:this guy deserved to be on a bit earlier I'm glad he's on a bit later so that he can just swear up a storm and make jokes about pregnancy tests without anyone's feathers getting ruffled.
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Jul 7, 2016 06:17
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Azazell0 posted:Oh yeah, Deus Ex was awesome in a non-trainwreck way, definitely a must see as well. Deus Ex was loving hilarious and had some of the best commentary I've heard in quite a while. Just some German teen making bad jokes and belting out the occasional, "Oh, goddamn you!" while doing an impressively smooth run.
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Jul 7, 2016 16:17
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raditts posted:Did... Did they just cook and eat their pet pig on this game? Quintet, if nothing else, was never afraid of making their games pretty drat dark for a children's action RPG.
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Jul 7, 2016 16:29
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Vermain posted:Quintet, if nothing else, was never afraid of making their games pretty drat dark for a children's action RPG. For example, actually, since Wikipedia reminded me of it: quote:In keeping with Nintendo of America's censorship policies at the time of publication, numerous changes were made to the game to make certain story elements less dark. Most notably, the native tribe encountered near Angkor Wat were originally cannibals, with the skeletal remains lying around the village being the remnants of their own tribesmen, whom they had eaten to survive.
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Jul 7, 2016 16:39
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raditts posted:I remember my brother renting this game when we were kids and I never played it because it looked kinda lovely. It still kinda does, but now I want to play it just to experience this batshit story. The Blazer saga (SoulBlazer, Illusion of Gaia, Terranigma) are all pretty unexceptional action RPGs. I think most people remember them because they took much weirder, darker turns than other RPGs of their time, as well as being completely unapologetic about broadcasting their "nature vs. technology" theme load and clear.
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Jul 7, 2016 17:20
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Grizlor posted:The last day usually makes like $200k or something because people procrastinate and also super metroid really hypes up the kill/save bid war. Hell, Chrono Trigger from the first time they hit $1M made like 80k just during that run. I mean, we're also mere weeks removed from the start of an absolutely massive (and still ongoing) financial panic, so it's understandable if people are being a bit more skittish with their funds at the moment.
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Aces High posted:didn't they do a 0 door glitch race once? Yep.
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Internet Kraken posted:Bloody hell there's another megaman block? There's a lot of loving Megan Man games out there. The previous block was the classics, and this is the X block.
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stringball posted:The guy (tomato) that did work for that book did the mother 3 fan translation He also worked on fan translations of a bunch of old SNES games like Bahamut Lagoon. Dude's pretty legit.
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Cubey posted:This is the best GDQ event in years, maybe ever, what the hell Completely agreed. Just a whole ton of memorable runs and they've polished the tech to a fine shine this year.
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:Wait why did Bear Trap nuke the chat? It's the "trap" part, in specific, which (in Twitch chat, anyways) is occasionally used as a slur against transwomen.
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Jul 10, 2016 16:20
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ZenVulgarity posted:Any recommendations from AGDQ? I liked CapnClever's runthrough of Prince of Persia. He's a good commentator and it's a reasonably fast game with some interesting tech. PJ's runthrough of Lagoon was also loving hilarious; the game just sucks, and he has excellent commentary on it along with three really great co-commentators on the couch.
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I've had to watch Bonesaw's run in spurts because I'm legitimately hurting my mouth from smiling so much. Waow!
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Mikedawson posted:Wow! That's a great run! Whoever sent in that Jeb Bush donation should get a medal, man. (And then Bonesaw should get a second medal for sitting there completely stonefaced while the rest of the room cackles.)
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