Games Done Quick is a series of charity video game marathons. These events feature high-level play by speedrunners raising money for charity. Games Done Quick has teamed up with several charities throughout its history, such as Doctors Without Borders and the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Millions of dollars have been donated to great charities, thanks to the GDQ speedrunning marathons, and many prizes have been awarded to those who donate! Here is the main website for Games Done Quick: https://gamesdonequick.com/
Awesome Games Done Quick is the annual GDQ marathon performed in the winter, while Summer Games Done Quick is the annual GDQ marathon performed in the summer. This year, AGDQ is from Sunday, Jan. 7th to Sunday, Jan. 14th. Here is the schedule of all the AGDQ'18 games that will have speedruns, along with the names of the runners, expected run times, the category/ type of speedrun, and donation incentives (prizes you can win by donating during a specific speedrun, additional caveats you can create for the speedrunners, etc.): https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule
On January 04 2018 04:20 GoloSC2 wrote: looking forward to ori and the altp randomizer
also did i miss it or is there neither super metroid nor undertale this year?
You're correct, and the schedule is light on N64 games this year too (although ZFG is still running OoT). Very interesting change of pace this time around; hopefully the week stays hyped with as many viewers and donors as usual!
Looks good to me, I'm happy there's more newer stuff than usual.
All Zelda should be good (especially BotW), Warcraft 3, Diablo, Baulder's gate, Pokemon B/W, Mario Sunshine, Mario Galaxy, Super Mario 3D world, Rayman, Burnout Paradise, Littlebigplanet, Skyrim, Splatoon, Ratchet & Clank, and Crash Bandicoot.
I tried to watch some FE speedruns at RPGlimitbreak, some of them are just so blisteringly fast I literally cannot parse what is happening. It doesn't help that they're generally RNG-manipped so that it's pure execution
On January 05 2018 06:24 TheTenthDoc wrote: I tried to watch some FE speedruns at RPGlimitbreak, some of them are just so blisteringly fast I literally cannot parse what is happening. It doesn't help that they're generally RNG-manipped so that it's pure execution
One of my favorite aspects of the GDQ marathons is the commentator couch; some of the best televised runs in these marathons are complimented by great commentary and analysis and "This is what's going on right now" explanations by the fellow speedrunners, so that the speedrun is already parsed and explained to the layman
On January 05 2018 06:24 TheTenthDoc wrote: I tried to watch some FE speedruns at RPGlimitbreak, some of them are just so blisteringly fast I literally cannot parse what is happening. It doesn't help that they're generally RNG-manipped so that it's pure execution
One of my favorite aspects of the GDQ marathons is the commentator couch; some of the best televised runs in these marathons are complimented by great commentary and analysis and "This is what's going on right now" explanations by the fellow speedrunners, so that the speedrun is already parsed and explained to the layman
I highly recommend watching the PoR and RD speedruns a few years back. It's really smooth and Gwimpage did a great job on both. They are basically 2-3 hours of really strong menuing/execution.
Kurby's runs are also good, but he mainly does the GBA ones where RNG manip is required (although he hits it on every map really quickly)
meh... since 2-3 years I'm not that hyped anymore about the GDQ. My favorite marathon is RPGlimitbreak (and Desert Bus For Hope, but you can't speedrun that )
probably tune in for a few games and VODs. Also probably will enjoy some "crazy underground" games more than big titles! Athena race for example
Looking forward to ZFG 100% and Classic Mega Man trilogy relay the most. Looks like the latter will be postponed due to flight issues but here are the teams: + Show Spoiler +
Same here, but GDQ has changed so much at this point that I don't care. I come for the runs/runners I want to see and that's about it. Chat used to be a big part of the event being awesome, although it's been so bad the past few years I can understand them not wanting to moderate it.
I remember when I used to watch close to the entire week. Man this event used to be so awesome. I mean it's still good, it's just not what it used to be.
agree. I I think a big part of it is that, in the early day, you could run any game that everyone wanted to see. Now, they start to remove all this game with other that are less interesting (imo).
Like, "everyone" want to see Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Pokemon, etc... but they give less space to those game each year.
As much as i like to see Mario, Zelda and so on, a bit more diversity is nice. It also means more diversity at runners and the gaming community as a whole.
...ok i just noticed there is no Super Metroid this agdq??????????????????
On January 08 2018 08:17 micronesia wrote: So I just tuned in for the first time this year, and I see them turning on god mode in Skyrim lol.... something is wrong here.
That was when I turned it off, but the run was dead if he didn't do it. Still shit.
So, the skyrim run seems to be worth checking out! These "events" are exactly the fun things I want to watch! Just a good speedrun with nice commentary is not gonna cut it!
And I'm still searching for this really old speedrun of ~10min where the commentator on the couch was just speedreading an essay the runner provided...
So we can only see half room from this view, and we can literally only see one guy in the audience. Could be more off camera I guess but I'm guessing it's just as quiet.
I mean it's usually quiet at night but this is on another level
Noticed the sub mode chat on a screen at the event and knew it would cause controversy.
Me and a couple other pc runners joined up with a console guy to enter a video game quiz bowl hosted by golden last night. 7 other teams of 4 entered with a number of big name runners like blechy, spikevegeta, cypher, caveman etc. Notable questions the console teams did not catch was the main planet of arcturus mingsk (korhal) and the main city of diablo 1evenn after the final obvious clue mentioning gris, the cathedral and diablo himself. We tore through our first matches but fell to caveman and the playstation nation.
On January 09 2018 01:42 KingDime wrote: Noticed the sub mode chat on a screen at the event and knew it would cause controversy.
Me and a couple other pc runners joined up with a console guy to enter a video game quiz bowl hosted by golden last night. 7 other teams of 4 entered with a number of big name runners like blechy, spikevegeta, cypher, caveman etc. Notable questions the console teams did not catch was the main planet of arcturus mingsk (korhal) and the main city of diablo 1evenn after the final obvious clue mentioning gris, the cathedral and diablo himself. We tore through our first matches but fell to caveman and the playstation nation.
On January 09 2018 03:58 tyr wrote: So you guys just wanna watch Super Metroid and sm64?
Not really. Its more...about Super Metroid...that game feels like an icon to the speedrun community. The way it was handled and treated all the years...
...screaming Deerforce feels like....showing passion and gratitude for all the games and the joy they bring. A ritual, coming from the speedrun community itself, as symbol to bring gamers together with all their passion, for a good cause.
This reading along from the runners/crowds is possibly the most cringe inducing thing I’ve ever seen at a GDQ. Turned the stream off in kirbymasta’s run only to come back for SA2:B and see it’s still going on, so now I have it muted.
On January 09 2018 03:58 tyr wrote: So you guys just wanna watch Super Metroid and sm64?
Not really. Its more...about Super Metroid...that game feels like an icon to the speedrun community. The way it was handled and treated all the years...
...screaming Deerforce feels like....showing passion and gratitude for all the games and the joy they bring. A ritual, coming from the speedrun community itself, as symbol to bring gamers together with all their passion, for a good cause.
Super Metroid's also kind of been a shit show the last several GDQs. Sub 50% completion rate I think?
On January 09 2018 06:24 WolfintheSheep wrote: Super Metroid's also kind of been a shit show the last several GDQs. Sub 50% completion rate I think?
Yes, pressure of races, cutting corners and mistakes have ended some runs. Could be seen as not marathon safe enough for now.
So maybe step back from races and back to single races or this coop item run someone tried to submit to agdq.
I wonder if they considered keeping Super Metroid for the kill vs. save animals donation popularity, but thought about other things they could do with Super Metroid to make it an interesting speed run besides the race volatility, instead of just completely removing the game for the year.
Also the stuff happening with commentators and runners, screaming things like "shut up" and "go outside and throw yourself infront of a bus", which killed most of the mood, as the audience has made noise during the Super Metroid run.
I don't like how they choose the runs each year. Yes there are a lot of speed games, but if a game is so popular it should just have a spot, maybe with a different runner some years or a race.
no one is bored of seeing sm64 runs, haha.
Just switch between 70 star and 120 star each year.
Like who really turns on agdq to watch inFAMOUS First Light. lmao.
On January 09 2018 05:41 phyre112 wrote: This reading along from the runners/crowds is possibly the most cringe inducing thing I’ve ever seen at a GDQ. Turned the stream off in kirbymasta’s run only to come back for SA2:B and see it’s still going on, so now I have it muted.
GDQs are infamous at least to me for cringe, and pretty poor commentary for anyone whp has never seen the game run. There have been notable exceptions like Goatrope's Halo 1 and Witwix's Boshy (which isnt even amazing by any means)
Does anyone know how the twitch viewer numbers are accumulated? The current stream of GDQ says there are 119k viewers. But when I go to trihex' channel (who is hosting gdq because of the chat) I can't see his numbers. Do hosting streams accumulate to the official number?
On January 09 2018 07:29 youngjiddle wrote: I don't like how they choose the runs each year. Yes there are a lot of speed games, but if a game is so popular it should just have a spot, maybe with a different runner some years or a race.
no one is bored of seeing sm64 runs, haha.
Just switch between 70 star and 120 star each year.
Like who really turns on agdq to watch inFAMOUS First Light. lmao.
A few streamers/ speedrunners have said recently that the schedule is also based on submissions; in other words, if people aren't submitting videos of games they want to play at GDQs, those games won't be featured. Apparently, many speedrunners can't afford/ don't have the time to make the trip or don't want to play in front of a big audience. I'm not sure how much of the decision-making is based on the GDQ managers/ creators, how much is based on feedback/ community popularity, and how much is based on the actual interest from speedrunners, but I'd imagine they all play a role. I watch ZFG (Ocarina of Time) stream frequently, and he specifically mentioned that the lack of N64 games is probably due to other N64 streamers simply not submitting their runs and showing interest in running the game during AGDQ this year... which is an entirely different problem as well!
On January 09 2018 05:41 phyre112 wrote: This reading along from the runners/crowds is possibly the most cringe inducing thing I’ve ever seen at a GDQ. Turned the stream off in kirbymasta’s run only to come back for SA2:B and see it’s still going on, so now I have it muted.
GDQs are infamous at least to me for cringe, and pretty poor commentary for anyone whp has never seen the game run. There have been notable exceptions like Goatrope's Halo 1 and Witwix's Boshy (which isnt even amazing by any means)
The best commentary ever was FF 7 not long ago and 100% Majora's Mask ran by 3 guys.
On January 09 2018 05:41 phyre112 wrote: This reading along from the runners/crowds is possibly the most cringe inducing thing I’ve ever seen at a GDQ. Turned the stream off in kirbymasta’s run only to come back for SA2:B and see it’s still going on, so now I have it muted.
GDQs are infamous at least to me for cringe, and pretty poor commentary for anyone whp has never seen the game run. There have been notable exceptions like Goatrope's Halo 1 and Witwix's Boshy (which isnt even amazing by any means)
The best commentary ever was FF 7 not long ago and 100% Majora's Mask ran by 3 guys.
The FF7 run was honestly incredible. They had the entire runs commentary planned out for sure. Think they even had an ipad on the couch with notes on their talking points?
On January 09 2018 05:41 phyre112 wrote: This reading along from the runners/crowds is possibly the most cringe inducing thing I’ve ever seen at a GDQ. Turned the stream off in kirbymasta’s run only to come back for SA2:B and see it’s still going on, so now I have it muted.
GDQs are infamous at least to me for cringe, and pretty poor commentary for anyone whp has never seen the game run. There have been notable exceptions like Goatrope's Halo 1 and Witwix's Boshy (which isnt even amazing by any means)
The best commentary ever was FF 7 not long ago and 100% Majora's Mask ran by 3 guys.
That MM run was the best. My boy Phil killed it. Finishing it with a 4 players blindfolded 1 controller boss fight was unreal
Edit: Love to see Big Jon commentating. After seeing him banned from submitting games and his health scare I'm so happy to see him there
One of my favorite Zelda runs was the blind (literally blind) OoT run. Also the OoT any% runs from early GDQs were amazing to me because I had never seen them before. Those runs basically got me interested in watching speed running streams along with half life 1 + 2.
On January 09 2018 05:41 phyre112 wrote: This reading along from the runners/crowds is possibly the most cringe inducing thing I’ve ever seen at a GDQ. Turned the stream off in kirbymasta’s run only to come back for SA2:B and see it’s still going on, so now I have it muted.
GDQs are infamous at least to me for cringe, and pretty poor commentary for anyone whp has never seen the game run. There have been notable exceptions like Goatrope's Halo 1 and Witwix's Boshy (which isnt even amazing by any means)
The best commentary ever was FF 7 not long ago and 100% Majora's Mask ran by 3 guys.
That MM run was the best. My boy Phil killed it. Finishing it with a 4 players blindfolded 1 controller boss fight was unreal
Edit: Love to see Big Jon commentating. After seeing him banned from submitting games and his health scare I'm so happy to see him there
Wait I never learned about this. Why was Big Jon banned from submitting games? :O
On January 09 2018 09:25 TheEmulator wrote: One of my favorite Zelda runs was the blind (literally blind) OoT run. Also the OoT any% runs from early GDQs were amazing to me because I had never seen them before. Those runs basically got me interested in watching speed running streams along with half life 1 + 2.
All the blindfolded runs leave me in awe, especially Super Punch Out
On January 09 2018 05:41 phyre112 wrote: This reading along from the runners/crowds is possibly the most cringe inducing thing I’ve ever seen at a GDQ. Turned the stream off in kirbymasta’s run only to come back for SA2:B and see it’s still going on, so now I have it muted.
GDQs are infamous at least to me for cringe, and pretty poor commentary for anyone whp has never seen the game run. There have been notable exceptions like Goatrope's Halo 1 and Witwix's Boshy (which isnt even amazing by any means)
The best commentary ever was FF 7 not long ago and 100% Majora's Mask ran by 3 guys.
That MM run was the best. My boy Phil killed it. Finishing it with a 4 players blindfolded 1 controller boss fight was unreal
Edit: Love to see Big Jon commentating. After seeing him banned from submitting games and his health scare I'm so happy to see him there
Wait I never learned about this. Why was Big Jon banned from submitting games? :O
On January 09 2018 09:25 TheEmulator wrote: One of my favorite Zelda runs was the blind (literally blind) OoT run. Also the OoT any% runs from early GDQs were amazing to me because I had never seen them before. Those runs basically got me interested in watching speed running streams along with half life 1 + 2.
All the blindfolded runs leave me in awe, especially Super Punch Out
On January 09 2018 05:41 phyre112 wrote: This reading along from the runners/crowds is possibly the most cringe inducing thing I’ve ever seen at a GDQ. Turned the stream off in kirbymasta’s run only to come back for SA2:B and see it’s still going on, so now I have it muted.
GDQs are infamous at least to me for cringe, and pretty poor commentary for anyone whp has never seen the game run. There have been notable exceptions like Goatrope's Halo 1 and Witwix's Boshy (which isnt even amazing by any means)
The best commentary ever was FF 7 not long ago and 100% Majora's Mask ran by 3 guys.
That MM run was the best. My boy Phil killed it. Finishing it with a 4 players blindfolded 1 controller boss fight was unreal
Edit: Love to see Big Jon commentating. After seeing him banned from submitting games and his health scare I'm so happy to see him there
Wait I never learned about this. Why was Big Jon banned from submitting games? :O
I don't know exactly what happened and that thread doesn't give any details and sounds biased af o.O but yeah, there's been plenty of drama over the years.
Yea my bad the thread is terrible, but it was the only one explaining the game waving thing that I found in my two second search (which is what most people believe was what he got banned for). I'm not actually sure if it was ever confirmed as the reason although I think most people have basically confirmed that he was definitely banned for one year due to something he said during his run.
On January 09 2018 11:31 chipmonklord17 wrote: I feel bad for this MGS3 runner. He's hard core choking
I remember he was struggling at times with his MGS2 speed run last year too.
On January 09 2018 12:10 TheEmulator wrote: I'd guess he has a bit of nerves going on? I haven't been watching this run, but he sounded nervous commentating the run before his own. Or was it just bad RNG in the run or something?
Seems like nerves because his game overs and restarts were caused by bad movements.
I'd guess he has a bit of nerves going on? I haven't been watching this run, but he sounded nervous commentating the run before his own. Or was it just bad RNG in the run or something?
On January 09 2018 05:41 phyre112 wrote: This reading along from the runners/crowds is possibly the most cringe inducing thing I’ve ever seen at a GDQ. Turned the stream off in kirbymasta’s run only to come back for SA2:B and see it’s still going on, so now I have it muted.
GDQs are infamous at least to me for cringe, and pretty poor commentary for anyone whp has never seen the game run. There have been notable exceptions like Goatrope's Halo 1 and Witwix's Boshy (which isnt even amazing by any means)
The best commentary ever was FF 7 not long ago and 100% Majora's Mask ran by 3 guys.
The FF7 run was honestly incredible. They had the entire runs commentary planned out for sure. Think they even had an ipad on the couch with notes on their talking points?
FF7 with great commentary? Sounds like puwexil for me The pad could also be for the runner! Most RPG-speedruns are quite long and not trivial in item and weapon setup; so I know quite a few runners, that have a binder next to them to check their notes! Maybe they got digitial
Also good commentary should happen, when PJ is running Battletoads tomorrow!
On January 09 2018 09:25 TheEmulator wrote: One of my favorite Zelda runs was the blind (literally blind) OoT run. Also the OoT any% runs from early GDQs were amazing to me because I had never seen them before. Those runs basically got me interested in watching speed running streams along with half life 1 + 2.
All the blindfolded runs leave me in awe, especially Super Punch Out
Forgot about that one. That was so fun to watch.
Oh, Battletoads: TMR is after PJ; will there be an incentive to do the blind "hovercar" stage? Also because we are talking about Super Metroid: There is actually a blind version of that!
Glad to see me waiting for this Re7 run was worth it. Fun commentary, good mix of things going wrong to add a dash of tension with skilled preparation.
So far my favourite has been Opposing Force, a perfect mix of performance, commentary and nostalgia.
Yep, 90s PC FPS are king when it comes to going fast, and many of them have some really cool runners as well... Kind of disappointed that Cubeface will only be running a single game, and it's Blood 2 at that, but oh well.
I'm so excited to see the Link to the Past Randomizer Race, it's quickly becoming my favorite speedrun to watch, it adds so much variety to one of my favorite games to see.
On January 11 2018 02:38 tantalus wrote: I'm so excited to see the Link to the Past Randomizer Race, it's quickly becoming my favorite speedrun to watch, it adds so much variety to one of my favorite games to see.
What is the Randomizer? The speedrunning route is randomized? Is each speedrunner being given a different, random route?
As I understand it, every (major) item is randomized! "you thought you get the bow in this chest? Nope, its the power glove!" Also different routes would be unfair. everyone gets the same randomness!
Link to the Past Randomizer is great, and yes it changes all of the locations of the major items. I think it was made by the same person who hacked the Super Metroid Randomizer, or they were part of the team. There used to be monthy (?) LttP Randomizer competitions too, not sure if they're still a thing or not.
Secret of Evermore looks so good. Classic SNES graphics. But the runner, and with him the mood on the couch, feels so.... aggressive serious in an exaggerating way. :/
...though it gets funny in a werster way when he becomes angry.
On January 12 2018 00:44 greenelve wrote: Secret of Evermore looks so good. Classic SNES graphics. But the runner, and with him the mood on the couch, feels so.... aggressive serious in an exaggerating way. :/
...though it gets funny in a werster way when he becomes angry.
On January 12 2018 09:11 valium wrote: yeah, they just coincidentally dont have their submissions accepted for a few years
Like who? Plenty of runners have sworn on stream in the past. Many, if not most, were back on stream in some capacity. Punchy, Carcinogen, Keizaron for example. Mike Uyama was on Keizaron's couch this morning. Pretty sure CovertMuffin, the guy we're talking about, swore in the past as well.
As I said, contrary to reddits whining, runners cursing a bit doesn't get them banned.
its a joke, but it seems to me only fan favorites get a free pass. too many threads on speed running sites of people who feel slighted because their submissions are ignored for long periods of time, of course the lack of popularity in the first place is also a possibility.
I watched some of the awful game VODs. Best part of the marathon IMHO! Arabian Nights... oh man, what a hell of a game! But I admit the best part was outside the run, when Brossentia "won" the Enviro-Bear play! Oh, THAT game! I have to play this shit!
Wc3 human campaign atleast lets you save some time on the 30 minute defend mission. Sc1 human campaign would be less clunky if it ended after exterminating all the zerg. Shame blizz did not add a completion trigger for it.
On January 04 2018 20:40 Alabasern wrote: Has the over-payout of funds to mikeuyama and to executives been an issue ever since this benefit went viral?
Nope the top dogs are still raking in the big dollars
OK... because I don't like Kingdom Hearts (yeah, hate me ) I watched a few VODs; and I checked out The End is Nigh ... and DAMN! Not the gameplay or anything about it. But I beat the game with all tumors and all future levels ... and NEVER realized that those are lives in the endgame o.O crazy shit!
On January 04 2018 20:40 Alabasern wrote: Has the over-payout of funds to mikeuyama and to executives been an issue ever since this benefit went viral?
Nope the top dogs are still raking in the big dollars
GDQ posts budget breakdowns every event on the speed demos forums.
It's about a $250k budget, with about 20 staff who get salaries totalling about $170k, the rest going to transportation, venue, internet, etc.
On January 04 2018 20:40 Alabasern wrote: Has the over-payout of funds to mikeuyama and to executives been an issue ever since this benefit went viral?
Nope the top dogs are still raking in the big dollars
GDQ posts budget breakdowns every event on the speed demos forums.
It's about a $250k budget, with about 20 staff who get salaries totalling about $170k, the rest going to transportation, venue, internet, etc.
That's budget, so maximum amount.
The problem is not how GDQ spends the money, rather how PCF (since Mike Uyama apparently signed a contract in 2014 as an employee with PCF) spends the money; they pay a rather high amout of salaries and less than you think actually goes to research. If you're interested in that, there's a rather long reddit post which does a breakdown of PCF's spendings, it's from 2 years ago, so if something changed since then, my apology.
On January 04 2018 20:40 Alabasern wrote: Has the over-payout of funds to mikeuyama and to executives been an issue ever since this benefit went viral?
Nope the top dogs are still raking in the big dollars
GDQ posts budget breakdowns every event on the speed demos forums.
It's about a $250k budget, with about 20 staff who get salaries totalling about $170k, the rest going to transportation, venue, internet, etc.
That's budget, so maximum amount.
The problem is not how GDQ spends the money, rather how PCF (since Mike Uyama apparently signed a contract in 2014 as an employee with PCF) spends the money; they pay a rather high amout of salaries and less than you think actually goes to research. If you're interested in that, there's a rather long reddit post which does a breakdown of PCF's spendings, it's from 2 years ago, so if something changed since then, my apology.
Reddit is Reddit, lol... that link says things like "PCF is in the bottom 30% of charities", whereas if you look at actual charity websites and ratings sources, such as https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=5435 , you'll see it has 4 out of 4 stars, a 90% rating out of 100%, 75.4% of funds are spent on relevant programs and service (research, education, outreach, etc.), and everything seems to be above board, transparent, and pretty solid overall. PCF is far from a fraudulent charity, although no charity is perfect. I'm quite happy with the way that GDQs and PCF present themselves and are run, overall.
On January 04 2018 20:40 Alabasern wrote: Has the over-payout of funds to mikeuyama and to executives been an issue ever since this benefit went viral?
Nope the top dogs are still raking in the big dollars
GDQ posts budget breakdowns every event on the speed demos forums.
It's about a $250k budget, with about 20 staff who get salaries totalling about $170k, the rest going to transportation, venue, internet, etc.
That's budget, so maximum amount.
The problem is not how GDQ spends the money, rather how PCF (since Mike Uyama apparently signed a contract in 2014 as an employee with PCF) spends the money; they pay a rather high amout of salaries and less than you think actually goes to research. If you're interested in that, there's a rather long reddit post which does a breakdown of PCF's spendings, it's from 2 years ago, so if something changed since then, my apology.
It's the Prevent Cancer Foundation? Yes, it's not solely a cancer cure research charity, that's what the "prevent" stands for.
There is not, and will not be a magic pill to fix cancer, and awareness and early detection are by far the most effective ways of dealing with it while it's still possible.
Their financial statements are also on their website, so you don't need some Redditor breaking it down for you. $2mil goes to salaries in 2016 and 2017, which yes is a lot and always sucks to hear when it comes to charities, but not proportionally out of whack.
most legit cancer charities spend more contributions on awareness for early detection, and rightly so. trying to form a criticism on a charity for so little of their contributions for direct research is misleading at best.
On January 13 2018 13:23 TheEmulator wrote: OoT 100% is such an impressive run to watch imo. I think it would be so much more competitive if it wasn't for Dampe
zfg has a 7 minute lead currently over 2nd place and 1st try dampe vs 15th try dampe is only about ~4 minutes. his current record has 7th try dampe too, so there's about 2 minutes of timesave left purely just from that RNG. (2nd place has a 3rd try dampe, so zfg's run is relatively -1 minute from rng)
if he had remembered to save at gohma and had better dampe rng that run could have been a 4:12-4:13
How do you one-up your previous blindfolded speedrun of Super Punch Out? Apparently, by speedrunning both Super Punch Out and Punch Out *at the exact same time with one controller*. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/217614881?t=28h33m51s
I didn't think too much of the BG2 speedrun but tuned in anyways, and enjoyed it quite a bit. Good commentary and explanations of what was going on, and the couch knew how to be funny but not obnoxious about it.
On January 14 2018 02:50 KingDime wrote: Sajiki or covert? Coverts been at multiple and sajiki has gone to ESAs but first time gdq.
Sorry didn't quote right. I was referring to Sajiki prior to him starting the speedrun.
Seeing as they have just topped $1.2MM.....what's the all time fundraising record?
Sajiki's WC3 run at ESA this summer went sideways so he was probably a bit nervous. He was definitely relieved to get past human 5 that smoothly.
The run went well though, I enjoyed it
btw Dime you should totally run sc2 again so it can return to GDQ. I found a viable strat for the drill mission to kill the protoss on brutal so there's only 3 autoscrollers
I hava few rts games in mind zzzapper. Starcraft 1 campaign, command and conquer tiberian sun or sc2. My current problem isnt a lack of games but that ive developed some rsi and mild carpal tunnel from competitive wings of liberty and doom speedrunning.
If I can get a handle on it ill submit for sgdq. It is discouraging to play rts games for an hour and start to feel pain in the finger joints/Knuckles. Gotten more common as ive aged
bloodborne run is really entertaining, times fllew by pretty fast.
On January 14 2018 06:34 KingDime wrote: My current problem isnt a lack of games but that ive developed some rsi and mild carpal tunnel from competitive wings of liberty and doom speedrunning.
Dont overdo it, your health is important. ...do not rip and tear your own body. ^^x
This is the second time I remember a Bloodborne runner going over time.
On January 14 2018 07:09 greenelve wrote: Wasnt this the second time Bloodborne was shown at GDQ? Though i dont get the estimate either, he didnt really had that much time consuming mistakes.
Runner was entertaining and.... loading times were fast...remember the first Bloodborne run....?
I've read he put his personal best as the estimate, which might have been somewhat overconfident.
On January 14 2018 07:09 greenelve wrote: Wasnt this the second time Bloodborne was shown at GDQ? Though i dont get the estimate either, he didnt really had that much time consuming mistakes.
Runner was entertaining and.... loading times were fast...remember the first Bloodborne run....?
I feel like this is the third Bloodborne run but I could be wrong (edit: actually think I'm wrong). The first one was so bad, that I do remember
The estimate was really pushing it imo. His PB in real world time is around 1:20 (1:13 or something in game). A couple of the boss deaths in this run wasted like a minute of running time and overall he was taking things a lot slower for safety.
$1.8M mark Could break $2M or possibly even beat the record of ?$2.2M? if there's a surge at the end.
Seems like the Save/ Kill The Animals donation incentive is a fun incentive for people to send their donations to, but people will still donate anyway for other incentives.
On January 14 2018 13:56 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: $1.8M mark Could break $2M or possibly even beat the record of ?$2.2M? if there's a surge at the end.
Seems like the Save/ Kill The Animals donation incentive is a fun incentive for people to send their donations to, but people will still donate anyway for other incentives.
Really? If they don't surpass the prior year total I'd consider that a failure. I think it was a gamble they needed to make to see what the total impact of save/kill is, but clearly it matters.
They're going to break the $2.2mil easily. Tons of money always comes in during the last couple hours, and a lot of money trickles in after the event as well.
On January 14 2018 13:56 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: $1.8M mark Could break $2M or possibly even beat the record of ?$2.2M? if there's a surge at the end.
Seems like the Save/ Kill The Animals donation incentive is a fun incentive for people to send their donations to, but people will still donate anyway for other incentives.
Really? If they don't surpass the prior year total I'd consider that a failure. I think it was a gamble they needed to make to see what the total impact of save/kill is, but clearly it matters.
I don't think you should consider raising over 2 millions dollars for charity a failure because it could have been 2.2 million.
The final day tallies are a struggle to predict with the surge in donations.
I finished off agdq doing wc3 custom matches with sajiki the wc3 runner. Have not played in years so my build orders and creep decision making was underwhelming. Nonetheless some fun and tight matches. Held up to the midgame until my low tier 2 unit count of raiders and spirit walkers bit me in the ass.
For those of us who didn't get to watch the entire week of speedrunning, what are everyone's recommendations? What are your favorite moments/ games/ runs that you recommend we go back and see?
Personally, I really enjoyed the Punch-Out + Super Punch-Out combo speedrun by Zallard, as well as Diablo, Super Monkey Ball, and all the Zelda games. Titenic was pretty hilarious too
Dont forget Athena. And really, really, really watch the strider speedrun tutorial. Battletoads with blindfolded hypertunnel. Also Battletoads with PJ. El Matador had absurd glitches in it, looks very weird. Secret of Evermore, if the runner is your type of taste, it is very entertaining i wanne be the boshy / run the marathon for skill and humor ori and the blind forest race - great race with+ Show Spoiler +
a touching ending
Densha de D: Lightning Stage has train racing with multi track drifting. also runner and couch are...you have to see. its kinda weird for speedrun but it fits in. super monkey ball is always nice to watch - and after that with TAS
Superman 64 and Animophs, but aweful games are mostly funny.
On January 15 2018 01:18 KingDime wrote: Jedi academy / warcraft / skyrim / mmx race / super dram world / arabian knights / baldurs gate 2 / ori race.
The level with the moving column of little bullet bills and the level with all the flying shell throws and the auto-scroller level with the flying shells... omg.
There were many great runs. Stand-Outs for me: The awful block was just great Arabian Nights was brilliant. Followed by a short but fun Enviro-bear. Titenic was crazy. and the Athena race was really close and exciting.
The Punch-Out double was incredible.
The Diablo 1 run was very entertaining and crazy and i don't know shit what happened there
I also was very surprised by El Matador and the entertainment value here!
Yeah, that was short and sweet! I also checked out the Bloodborne run. Yeah, quite a few mistakes and deaths (it IS a hard game!) but quite enjoyable! Probably because of this great commentary and voice! But on the other hand, he had some people on the couch ... that had a nice view and sat comfortably, but basically didn't add ANYTHING to the run...