I love that the Final Fantasy 1 run required two people, because the alternative was one person trying to keep all that shit in their head and do the inputs correctly.
I watched the FF run! Good shit. I was falling asleep at the end though and missed them beating Chaos....
Awwww. The Chaos fight was pretty down to the wire at points. Was lovely. Also grrrrr technical difficulties GRRRRR. I want to see what the fuck Hyper Light Drifter even is.
Well over two hours of play of Salt and Sanctuary now. God dammit gdqs. Informing my game getting decisions. It was a good decision. BUT THESE DECISIONS. gdqs: where aon finds new platformers that may suit her fancy
the ff1 run was really awesome, the rng manip really reminded me of pokemon r/b catch 'em all (you can manip for encounters in the grass based on frame count), but apparently you can't bonk against walls in ff1 to make it count, and since everything in ff1 is basically the equivalent of inside a cave, step count matters. i was seriously super impressed with the step counts and information about boss ai and stuff like that. god. the whole run was a lot of fun. also i was more nervous during warframe than chaos whoops. i've never played mega man but this block is a lot of fun to watch! especially the one that was "mega man but inside the internet" i was laughing the entire time because of the commentary. good stuff. upcoming that i'm looking forward to: halo 2. that game was my college experience, i played it co-op with my best friend and we kept getting lost because of awesOME LEVEL DESIGN JUST REALLY GREAT EXCELLENT. sanic block tomorrow, looks like, then block of blockbuster nimtemdo champs: kirby, mario, zelda. i cannot stay up until four in the morning my time to catch the minish cap run but i really wanna see what the big deal about the game is... i'll get the vod/youtube i guess once it goes up. how soon do vods go up? i know youtube can take a week or so for the gdqs...
Castlevania block was great. So good. Megaman was fun too thoygh i dont have the love for that as i do with castlevania. Especially 64 but tust wasnt played uere this time. Was last year thoguh. Lovely run thst.
i missed all of castlevania because i was sleeping last night off, plus i never played the castlevania games so it was hard for me to care unfortunately :') THAT HALO 2 LEGENDARY RUN THO. i was not expecting shenanagans to be on the couch/commentating. (his big thing is catch 'em all.) entertaining and Childhood Memories, plus that game had the best soundtrack of all of them (well... maybe ODST is some competition, but a distant second imo).
"To those of you who expected Dragonsland, I apologize. If you were expecting Dragonsland for the NES, I refuse to apologize." also, "three, two, what am I doing with my life, one, and go"
i ordered... the heather gray shirt from theyetee.com... because this is an event that i attended and i get shirts from events like concerts and such... SANIC IS THIS AFTERNOON
Honestly this is a better place to ask. So after the gdq speedrunslive holda an event called Get Yourself Speedrunninf to help get new runners into the hobby or older ones into new kinds of runs. This year theyre doing Final Fantasy 4, Portal, and Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland. Anyone interested in getting into this this may be a good chance. Theyve got materials up for people to learn the runs easily available. Anyone else gonna participate this year? I'm thinking of doing ff4 and been trying it out today. Been eanting to try a jrpg run so this seems like a good time. If youre worried abput length with ff4 its a paladin% run. So it ends after cecil turns into a paladin. Much shorter run than a full any% run.
i didn't know that was a thing, but i'm not interested in speedrunning myself, i just like watching people play my favorite games really fast. i cann't befuckinglieve there was a midrun donation incentive to make the ticking stop (and that, even though i don't have money, i would have fucking donated because do not do a tick when you could not do a tick)
Yeah they've been holding them for four years now. This makes the fifth such event. There's a tournament for the three games right after the race too. So new people can get into the whole tournament structure too if they want to try it out. Learned up to the waterhag fight in ff4. Went through and timed it just to see where it is. Got a 35:02 for the parts I already know. Apparently the tutorial I am learning from enables you go get from new game to the paladin screen in under an hour. Exciting. A lot of the shaving off of time is going to come from me getting better at the menuing. It's very hard to menu! Regarding chip's challenge...Here's the leaderboard for the game. There's a video of the current record holder. No guides and resources there sadly. There's some runs on youtube, as well. I wasn't able to find a thread about it on the SDA forums (speed demos archive) but someone did mention the CC Zone forums here. I'm not sure if there's any threads about running the game there but there is a competitions board and it does seem to be a place where people who play it congregate.
Pff. It's one of the nice things about the gdqs I think? They get people into doing it. Even if you're just super casual about it like I have been with the n64 Castlevanias.
this donkey kong country race! i think i have the first donkey kong country game ported to gameboy color, but i don't think i've played through maybe the first level. i don't remember it being this much fun, but i was never very good at it.
So someone grabbed the mic during the Super Metroid race and told the audience they should fight cancer by killing themselves because they weren't funny. That happened. link (content warning for suicide talk a little more graphic than what I said)
