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algebra testes posted:The Let's Go Eevee run was great too. Onyx for the fans. PET THAT EEVEE!
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TeaJay posted:tbh I didn't particularly miss hundreds of pages of nothing but emptyquote. I enjoyed that I could catch up even when there was a high energy run in the US primetime.
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TeaJay posted:tbh I didn't particularly miss hundreds of pages of nothing but emptyquote. I enjoyed that I could catch up even when there was a high energy run in the US primetime. Yeah between that and no creepy fan art, I was content with this thread.
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Sindai posted:Same. I thought this was the chat thread and people had just chilled out lol I will never be chill!!!!
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Jul 1, 2019 16:27
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algebra testes posted:The Let's Go Eevee run was great too. Onyx for the fans. Let's Go is a no-brainer to book for AGDQ with all the goofy donation incentives they floated as possibilities during the run. Bid war for which Pokémon to ride. Bid war for Helix or Dome fossil. Bid war for what they use the Master Ball on. EDIT: I am going back through VODs of runs I missed and holy poo poo the crowd is horny for this Sonic Adventure DX Big the Cat run. Insane energy. JethroMcB fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Jul 1, 2019 |
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Here's my current list of recommended runs. It's pretty big, and it's not even complete yet. IMO this is one of the best GDQs in terms of quality runs. Portal 2 TMNT3 Zombies Ate My Neighbors Marble Madness Half-Minute Hero Contra Contra III Castlevania block Titanfall 2 Kirby Air Ride Kirby 64 Ape Escape Punch-Out block The entire Silly Games block (starts at Silent Hill 3 and ends at TRAG) Clustertruck C&C Red Alert 3 Mario Blind Relay SMB3 All Forts Race Grand Poo World 2 Minecraft Mega Man block Tetris Effect TAS block Dark Souls Zelda: Breath of the Wild (and then watch the silly Youtube animation if you haven't yet) LttP/SM Combo Randomizer Chrono Trigger I still recommended avoiding Split/Second due to an overly cringey runner. So far I haven't seen any other "avoids". DizzyBum fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Jul 1, 2019 |
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Jul 1, 2019 17:03
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Dumb Lowtax posted:I have to give my strongest recommendation to the Minecraft run. It was already going to be exciting no matter what to watch how the guy deals with a totally unprepared-for world, sans glitches. This run lived up to that and far more. I considered myself an expert in movement within this game with all my weird bucket climbing tricks, but then this blew my mind. He builds stuff FAST. There's one particular moment in a cave where he bridges his way up and around one room to another room and simultaneously obstructs the monsters from below from shooting at him. Throughout the run he also builds his way out of basically ever touching water, treating each river like the floor was lava, lest the water slow him down. He uses shears and spammed leaf blocks everywhere which was an interesting trick; I expected he'd have to whip out a calculator and solve a linear algebra system to minimize his eye of ender throws, but I had never thought of just drawing straight lines out of plentiful leaf blocks to graphically find where the lines intersect. He didn't quite need to do that all the way but demonstrated it and so many other tricks can be done in this game. yeah I'll second this, i was skeptical coming into the run but it ended up being alot more entertaining than i was expecting
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Brother Entropy posted:yeah I'll second this, i was skeptical coming into the run but it ended up being alot more entertaining than i was expecting  I would have to give Minecraft the "most unexpectedly entertaining run" award.
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Since it's a sandbox game there's endless possibilities for weird new categories too. Race to build a machine that processes 1000 creepers! Race to mine out or blow up an entire chunk! Race to beat a woodland mansion/jungle ruins/ocean monument! Race to dig up enough emeralds for a big trade! Race to acquire diamond armor! Race to build a machine that calculates PI!
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Jul 1, 2019 17:21
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Jobbo_Fett posted:PET THAT EEVEE! The amount of people that donated $500 just for petting the Eevee was amazing.
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Just watched the Starfox 64 run and god drat "Clam Kinison" was one hell of a reference.
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streets of rage was the most fun run, it was like a party
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kaleedity posted:streets of rage was the most fun run, it was like a party Thats like, every Dr. Fatbody couch
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The Star Fox 64 run owns
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Studio posted:Keep talking about t.r.a.g so I can be happy about being on couch thanks. I watched the VOD last night and it was definitely a fantastic run.
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Jul 1, 2019 18:19
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Suggesting the run I did commentary for because it was smooth as butter and a lot of people missed it because it was graveyard shift on Monday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n44iYOxM_dM
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DizzyBum posted:I still recommended avoiding Split/Second due to an overly cringey runner. So far I haven't seen any other "avoids". I recommend avoiding the Zelda: Link Between Worlds run not because the runner is bad or cringey, but because it's a terrible slog of a speedrun to sit through and the couch is unforgivably dull and boring. They also seem to think they're comedians, but their jokes only ever appeal to a crowd of one (themselves). Also, they nearly managed to kill hype.
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I did not miss the chat thread and would not give a poo poo if it never came back, if i wanted to see a bunch of emptyquotes or content-free trashposting I'd just go to byob or look at twitch chat. My absolute must-watch list for this GDQ: The Hobbit T.R.A.G. Chrono Trigger Silent Hill 3 Red Alert 3 Mort the Chicken Rip_Van_Winkle fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Jul 1, 2019 |
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LuiCypher posted:I recommend avoiding the Zelda: Link Between Worlds run not because the runner is bad or cringey, but because it's a terrible slog of a speedrun to sit through and the couch is unforgivably dull and boring. They also seem to think they're comedians, but their jokes only ever appeal to a crowd of one (themselves). Spin to win, LuiCypher.
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Oh yeah, re: the chat thread. Having been an active participant in the chat threads of the past couple years, I'm still fine with it no longer being a thing. I was not okay with all the inappropriate stuff that started getting posted; we went from Comfy Samus last year (cool and fun) to literal Inkling porn in January (loving gross and nobody should have to tell you that's inappropriate). The lack of a chat thread this time didn't affect my enjoyment of SGDQ; Discord was all I needed if I wanted live reactions. And that channel thankfully stayed appropriate at all times.
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LuiCypher posted:I recommend avoiding the Zelda: Link Between Worlds run not because the runner is bad or cringey, but because it's a terrible slog of a speedrun to sit through and the couch is unforgivably dull and boring. They also seem to think they're comedians, but their jokes only ever appeal to a crowd of one (themselves). Thankfully, the opposite can be claimed of the couch crew and announcer for the Majora's Mask run. Not only is everyone knowledgeable about the run, but the run itself is extremely optimized to make maximum use of each 3-day cycle and contains a number of extremely difficult techs. Also, the announcer goes to absurd lengths to entertain with even anonymous unsigned donations - to the point, in fact, that "anonymous donates $50 with no comment" briefly became a running gag.
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What killed me during the Link Between Worlds run was that they went through a 50 floor gauntlet twice.
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Jabor posted:you have a probation for posting horny fanart in the agdq chat thread, lmao Same, I wasn't much of a fan of how the chat threads gradually became 90% white noise and hornyposting, which made any attempt at actual "chat" pretty much impossible. If I wanted that I'd just keep the twitch chat open.
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LuiCypher posted:I recommend avoiding the Zelda: Link Between Worlds run not because the runner is bad or cringey, but because it's a terrible slog of a speedrun to sit through and the couch is unforgivably dull and boring. They also seem to think they're comedians, but their jokes only ever appeal to a crowd of one (themselves). Definitely agree. The Link Between Worlds run was pretty bad not because of the gameplay but because the commentary was just bad. Like you say, not cringey or anything, just ... bad. Un-energetic, not funny, forced, just bad. Rampant Dwickery posted:Thankfully, the opposite can be claimed of the couch crew and announcer for the Majora's Mask run. Not only is everyone knowledgeable about the run, but the run itself is extremely optimized to make maximum use of each 3-day cycle and contains a number of extremely difficult techs. Also, the announcer goes to absurd lengths to entertain with even anonymous unsigned donations - to the point, in fact, that "anonymous donates $50 with no comment" briefly became a running gag. Watch anything with Patty commentating or hosting. He was on the couch for the LttP/SM combo randomizer run and was almost as funny there.
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Zurai posted:Watch anything with Patty commentating or hosting. He was on the couch for the LttP/SM combo randomizer run and was almost as funny there. It definitely helped that Andy and Ivan were in on the joke and played it up to hell and back. The entire ending sequence is fantastic.
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TeaJay posted:tbh I didn't particularly miss hundreds of pages of nothing but emptyquote. I enjoyed that I could catch up even when there was a high energy run in the US primetime. FYI, this game was in the March 2019 Humble Monthly, so if you've been subscribed that long you should check to see if you have it, like I just did!
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SoftNum posted:Spin to win, LuiCypher. When you take the Hypesnails to the Hypecave back to the Hypesnail mom, if you listen to the Hypecave music you can hear them singing 'Hype, Hype, Hype Hype'...
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Rampant Dwickery posted:It definitely helped that Andy and Ivan were in on the joke and played it up to hell and back. The entire ending sequence is fantastic. Too bad Andy was full of crap 
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Hunt11 posted:What killed me during the Link Between Worlds run was that they went through a 50 floor gauntlet twice. yeah i love that game but a 100% run of it is a total loving snoozefest
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raditts posted:Same, I wasn't much of a fan of how the chat threads gradually became 90% white noise and hornyposting, which made any attempt at actual "chat" pretty much impossible. If I wanted that I'd just keep the twitch chat open. It was fun the first time because I never had the chance to live-react at that frequency before and there were some tender moments interspersed from all the white noise and (smaller) sections of fanart posting through the longer runs. It had a good if fragile balance to it. This year this was fine too, more of a have cup of tea/coffee in one hand and commenting with the other, more active when something really neat is going on stream. Going forward I'd say this is the safer way of maintaining a GDQ active thread.
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Rampant Dwickery posted:Thankfully, the opposite can be claimed of the couch crew and announcer for the Majora's Mask run. Not only is everyone knowledgeable about the run, but the run itself is extremely optimized to make maximum use of each 3-day cycle and contains a number of extremely difficult techs. Also, the announcer goes to absurd lengths to entertain with even anonymous unsigned donations - to the point, in fact, that "anonymous donates $50 with no comment" briefly became a running gag. This reminds me of the Burnout Paradise run from AGDQ 2018. The run itself was just okay, until the announcer accidentally misread "dollars" as "daughters" and this quickly spiraled into a running gag with a bunch of viewers donating various family members. And then the run itself ended up being a WR!  A great couch/host can really improve the mood.
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Thank you for recommending the Minecraft run. It's probably a run I would've never got around watching, haven't played the game myself (but I did watch Yoiko's Minecraft survival life series!) but it's a very entertaining run.
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Sage Grimm posted:It was fun the first time because I never had the chance to live-react at that frequency before and there were some tender moments interspersed from all the white noise and (smaller) sections of fanart posting through the longer runs. It had a good if fragile balance to it. This year this was fine too, more of a have cup of tea/coffee in one hand and commenting with the other, more active when something really neat is going on stream. Going forward I'd say this is the safer way of maintaining a GDQ active thread. Yeah, I would say this thread was fine as well. The hype does die down a bit until an excellent run comes up, but I'd rather the thread be slow than shut down due to things going too far again whenever a mod (or even appointed IK) isn't around to stop things fast enough.
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TeaJay posted:Thank you for recommending the Minecraft run. It's probably a run I would've never got around watching, haven't played the game myself (but I did watch Yoiko's Minecraft survival life series!) but it's a very entertaining run. the great thing about this sgdq is that there were only like 2 runs that were flat-out not good. every run i saw of games i like were all good runs and i have not heard anything bad about runs of games i don't care about or missed. i'd say this was maybe the most consistently good gdq ever.
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:the great thing about this sgdq is that there were only like 2 runs that were flat-out not good. every run i saw of games i like were all good runs and i have not heard anything bad about runs of games i don't care about or missed. i'd say this was maybe the most consistently good gdq ever. Yeah, honestly if I wanted I could've made my recommendations list twice as long with the descriptions "very good, solid run" for most. I just picked out the ones that stood out for me. I had a chance to watch Bawk's Resident Evil 2 run VOD and that was a lot of fun too.
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It's weird how the best run of the marathon was the first 6 minutes of Split/Second, yet it's also the worst run
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There's a moment in Split/Second where a donation comment asks him which racing game he prefers: Split/Second or Blur, and the runner literally opens his backpack mid-run and pulls out a copy of the latter and waves it around on stream. Totally surreal.
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Studio posted:It's weird how the best run of the marathon was the first 6 minutes of Split/Second, yet it's also the worst run I tried it when scrolling through stuff last night but half of that six minutes was loading screens so I quit
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Studio posted:It's weird how the best run of the marathon was the first 6 minutes of Split/Second, yet it's also the worst run You think even your couch with Punchy could've saved that run?
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