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The AGDQ 2015 Battleblock Theatre run is really good. It's a co-op speedrun which is interesting enough, but also features two of the game devs (one being internet weirdo Will Stamper) guest commentating in the call. It's great when devs see their game speedrun'd and all these handy timesaving flaws exposed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrML9pOg92o
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# ? Oct 14, 2015 03:35 |
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Fister Roboto posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6-Hgi_KTnw 2 Guys 1 Controller Contra III just makes me wanna puke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMrULEAYqxs
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# ? Oct 23, 2015 02:09 |
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I like two players on one controller, but I've just now stumbled across a Goldeneye run from AGDQ 2014 that's two players on two controllers, using a 'co-op' control style that was likely added into the game as a joke. It's also pretty impressive how insanely quick this gets; apparently Goldeneye is just a ridiculously optimized game in speedruns, and you can tell because these guys never stop. Regardless of the setup, two people outdoing what most single-person runs can manage is insane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWDRtyq3Yhg There's also this Wind Waker run that's one player, two controllers, since the optimal run includes the Tingle Tuner. I can't find it in a skim-through right now, but this run includes the first time I've seen a speedrunner's nose incorporated into their playthrough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inuN3HtlHo8 Cleretic has a new favorite as of 12:00 on Oct 24, 2015 |
# ? Oct 24, 2015 11:51 |
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OFS beat me to the best examples I've seen of my favourite kinds with Super Mario World and Family Feud so instead I'll mention the TAS of Cave Story, because the dude wrote a program himself to make Windows TASing a thing that exists, and includes plenty of subtitled commentary to explain what's going on. Also Cave Story is a good game.
AlphaKretin has a new favorite as of 08:33 on Oct 25, 2015 |
# ? Oct 25, 2015 07:49 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x03FZxiSTH8 Blueglass running Ecco the Dolphin, that guy is so fun to watch and entertaining, and the run itself seems pretty hard on some parts.
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# ? Oct 25, 2015 10:26 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMq2xFb0juI Tony Hawk 3 in 3:55. I've always found this one pretty impressive.
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# ? Oct 25, 2015 11:29 |
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I'm still a huge fan of this Deus Ex speedrun. There's a more recent one that shaves of 7 minutes and looks far better, but it's mostly about using grenades to shift through locked doors, rather than using them to surf down buildings. I used to be a big fan of the main SDA gameslist because they were likely to have a detailed explanation of what the gently caress is going on, and the how's / why's of the run. At this point, apparently all the "Speedrun Demos Archive SDA" speedruns are posted directly to youtube with zero explanations - the giant "about section" contains nothing but donation info. Half the screen is taken up by the douchebag playing the game and audience behind him, and commentary consists of mumbling "I, uh, uhmm, swing. Uhm, ah, I am swinging my fists while, uhm, running. Ah, if you ah like I swing as you run, uh that makes you run along while you, uhm, swing your fists". What the hell happened.
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# ? Oct 25, 2015 17:28 |
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Cosmos's OoT and SoTN runs are my faves, mostly because he manages to calmly and simply explain exactly whats going on and why. Is there any other runs like that? Watching the world break around a speedrun and having nonsense pile up that suddenly results in a win state is cool an all, but its way more entertaining when someone is actually explaining why their inventory is suddenly entirely filled with shortswords.
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# ? Oct 25, 2015 22:40 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9qlm8olmn0
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# ? Oct 25, 2015 22:54 |
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Came for the blind link, stayed for the amazing description + comments.
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# ? Oct 25, 2015 23:56 |
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The Legend of Zelda on NES. New WR speed of 29m24s as of last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP0j2_vQPwI He makes the game look so simple and easy.
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# ? Oct 26, 2015 05:26 |
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This one is awkward and good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H50nqenYMDM
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# ? Oct 26, 2015 10:37 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz4ib8d59sg
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# ? Oct 26, 2015 12:47 |
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You've seen Super Metroid run many times forwards, how about a any% reverse boss order run TASed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tse9ytU3dA What sets this run apart is that Samus has to get to Ridley, fight him and then get out all without the suit that protects her from the lava.
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# ? Oct 26, 2015 13:17 |
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See, most people prefer Metroid Prime when you compare the games as intended to be played but amazing poo poo like this is what sets Super apart in my eyes. I could watch Super Metroid TASes all day.
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# ? Oct 26, 2015 13:47 |
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Sage Grimm posted:You've seen Super Metroid run many times forwards, how about a any% reverse boss order run TASed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tse9ytU3dA What sets this run apart is that Samus has to get to Ridley, fight him and then get out all without the suit that protects her from the lava. Well that was fun. I've never actually seen a speedrun where they use the reserve tank, so having never beaten Super Metroid myself, I'd never seen the auto use animation. I thought it was a glitch at first.
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# ? Oct 26, 2015 23:38 |
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mycot posted:I can appreciate speedruns that are incomprehensible to me and basically come off as wizard magic, but I also appreciate speedruns that are followable despite running on completely insane logic. Like this Two Worlds speedrun. You can watch it, it's only two and a half minutes. Holy poo poo Two Worlds, I loved that game. Favorites for me would have to be the MM1 speedrun that OFS posted on the first page, and this 0 Stars Mario 64 run that is probably obsolete but was my first exposure to the backwards rear end rocket trick, which I still love.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 00:29 |
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I think my favorite part of that Super Metroid run is that it's not necessarily doing anything inhuman, a human could probably pull off all this, but you still need to TAS it because of the sheer courage involved. I don't even think having nerves of loving steel would help you keep the calm required when you're in a superheated room on your last energy tank when fighting Ridley.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 00:31 |
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You'd probably want a couple more energy tanks if you're doing it by hand; the TAS gets down to 8 health at a couple points in that run while in Norfair. Especially after finishing off Ridley they use some of the health pickups to survive just enough to reach the energy tank afterward.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 01:55 |
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Just watched the Portal 2 speedrun. Guy beat it in an hour and twenty minutes, and the vast majority of the funny was left intact. What a game.
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# ? Oct 31, 2015 01:34 |
TheDon01 posted:Whats the point of a speedrun if you modify the game in such a major way that makes it so much faster? Because it's theoretically possible for the game to generate like that, and it's kinda funny. Nooner posted:my favorite speed run was the time i made it into the bathroom just in time to have diarrhea into the toilet and not my PANTS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69N5QAjcDxw ? Cuntellectual has a new favorite as of 07:02 on Oct 31, 2015 |
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# ? Oct 31, 2015 06:55 |
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mycot posted:I can appreciate speedruns that are incomprehensible to me and basically come off as wizard magic, but I also appreciate speedruns that are followable despite running on completely insane logic. Like this Two Worlds speedrun. You can watch it, it's only two and a half minutes. So practically the first character you meet is the final boss, and instead of making him invulnerable until the actual boss fight, they made him super hard to kill? Am I following that right? That seems a completely bonkers way to build your game.
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# ? Oct 31, 2015 09:43 |
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Dark Souls all bosses WR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzkfYy8oTBY For people who don't know Dark Souls is a pretty hard game. This guy makes it look easy. The insane damage is mostly a product of the Red Tearstone Ring that he picks up in the Valley of Drakes in the beginning. The huge damage boost it gives comes with the trade off of only working while the wearer is below 20% hp. This means that he would die from 1 hit of all the bosses. Also notice all the clever ways the below 20% hp is achieved on the way to a boss losing as little time as possible. A few skips and glitches are used but mostly it's just a clever route and a lot of skill. You get get a few invincibility frames in the middle of a roll which is how a lot of stuff is dodged. You get a few more frames if your equipment load is low which is why he barely wears any armor. This run is probably as close to perfect as it is going to get until a new and faster route is discovered.
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# ? Oct 31, 2015 14:22 |
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This is one of my favorite Tool Assisted Speedruns just because it's so loving batshit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDUcVAAGB88 Sonic's gotta go so fast he breaks time and space.
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# ? Oct 31, 2015 19:36 |
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Strom Cuzewon posted:So practically the first character you meet is the final boss, and instead of making him invulnerable until the actual boss fight, they made him super hard to kill? I think he's actually invincible to the player, but very specifically the player. So when the townspeople aggro on him he's doomed.
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# ? Oct 31, 2015 20:52 |
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I wish the speedrun comments weren't so insular. I'm curious about how and why the glitches they abuse occur, but after someone's discovered the trick, they never explain it again. They just go "oh, I used the Tails glitch at the start of level 5". Sometimes the game resources page has info, but sometimes it doesn't. Or the comments are "I did what X person did in Y run at Z place". I really don't want to have to go to that run and figure out where in the video that exact movement is.
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# ? Oct 31, 2015 21:24 |
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Domus posted:I wish the speedrun comments weren't so insular. I'm curious about how and why the glitches they abuse occur, but after someone's discovered the trick, they never explain it again. They just go "oh, I used the Tails glitch at the start of level 5". Sometimes the game resources page has info, but sometimes it doesn't. Or the comments are "I did what X person did in Y run at Z place". I really don't want to have to go to that run and figure out where in the video that exact movement is. That's a strength of GDQ, I think. With co-commentators and a fair amount of time to fill, they can usually get to explaining any tricks, skips and glitches that come up.
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# ? Nov 1, 2015 00:26 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g30RtkoByw Super Mario Lost Levels by GameJ06, super fun to watch, dude is entertaining, couch is having a fun time Also, just to blow your mind and ruin your childhood, some serious Tetris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViwDUiCzPVU&t=4650s Zanael has a new favorite as of 02:56 on Nov 1, 2015 |
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RagnarokAngel posted:This is one of my favorite Tool Assisted Speedruns just because it's so loving batshit. How does he just completely skip past the Act 1 minibosses on some levels? I'm guessing it's because all the assets are preloaded onto one huge map and if you glitch to the end you'll just trigger the Act 2 boss? Either way,
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# ? Nov 1, 2015 11:48 |
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Zanael posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g30RtkoByw Because they mentioned the game, it reminded me: that same GDQ had a Kaizo Mario World run. I suppose it's technically a speedrun, but really a marathon run of Kaizo Mario without savestates is remarkable no matter what speed you do it at. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1QFrRlLt0Y
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# ? Nov 2, 2015 09:45 |
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mycot posted:I think he's actually invincible to the player, but very specifically the player. So when the townspeople aggro on him he's doomed. I looted their entire town and spent the next five hours searching for the beginning of that subplot...no dice.
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# ? Nov 2, 2015 17:51 |
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RickVoid posted:That bit where Freeman's health shot up over 4000, yeah. There was a moment, when he was sitting around 500 health that I was like "better watch out, your health is getting low". At 5 times max HP. And then he winds up with exactly 1 HP at the end.
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# ? Nov 3, 2015 00:00 |
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Xander77 posted:I'm still a huge fan of this Deus Ex speedrun. There's a more recent one that shaves of 7 minutes and looks far better, but it's mostly about using grenades to shift through locked doors, rather than using them to surf down buildings. Oh hey, glad you enjoyed it friend The new runs don't use the opportunity to be an anti-smoking PSA so I think I've won the moral victory here I've also done a bunch of Quake runs, and from that world, the sickest level ever played, by one Peter Horvath, all kills all secrets: https://youtu.be/LXUX0rRU5y8 . This took 3 months, 6 hours a day, every day.
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# ? Nov 4, 2015 10:43 |
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Zanael posted:Also, just to blow your mind and ruin your childhood, some serious Tetris
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# ? Nov 4, 2015 23:52 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU9O7iqTsBM I wanna Kill the Kamilia 3, a super hard game similar to I wanna be the guy The run itself gets somewhat repetitive but it's interesting for being probably one of the hardest games in existence
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# ? Nov 5, 2015 10:09 |
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exquisite tea posted:How does he just completely skip past the Act 1 minibosses on some levels? I'm guessing it's because all the assets are preloaded onto one huge map and if you glitch to the end you'll just trigger the Act 2 boss? Either way, Some levels have their act transitions take place before the second act actually begins, like when Angel Island is set on fire, or in Ice Cap when the background changes to the sheets of ice floating on water. If you enter a special stage in Act 2, the barrier preventing you from revisiting Act 1 is gone, but you can't go back to a place that still used assets from Act 1. My favourite TAS is the one where they use Knuckles to collect nearly every ring in the game. https://youtu.be/nQRI4I3jebM
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# ? Nov 5, 2015 10:33 |
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This Street Fighter Alpha 3 play around TAS is hilarious. Highlights include Cody countering the Shungoku Satsu by throwing Akuma dick first into Kens flying kick and Sagat and Honda batting Balrog to each other like a ping pong ball.
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# ? Nov 18, 2015 22:59 |
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Zanael posted:Also, just to blow your mind and ruin your childhood, some serious Tetris Jesus christ you have got to be loving making GBS threads me That's not real, is it? Like, those guys are just talking over a sped-up video of someone playing at normal speed? Right? right?
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# ? Nov 19, 2015 15:58 |
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The Legend of Zelda on NES. Thirteen seconds shaved off the old WR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcjNrzY9TIE He should get under 29 *minutes soon. Zogo has a new favorite as of 04:36 on Nov 29, 2015 |
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Zogo posted:He should get under 29 seconds soon. Do you mean 29 minutes? Because while the fact it's half an hour long means I haven't watched the video yet, AlphaKretin posted:it's half an hour long
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# ? Nov 29, 2015 04:11 |