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Finland855 Posts
On January 08 2018 08:53 FaCE_1 wrote:SpeedDemoARchive was build on Quake. They did show this game ran a couple of time
Quake 2 just turned 20 years, so would've been a nice anniversary run.
e: This Contra run is awesome.
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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.
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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. Nice. Sounds like fun.
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Seriously no Super Metroid?
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On January 09 2018 02:06 arb wrote: Seriously no Super Metroid?
No Super Metroid/ save vs. kill animals donation competition, and the only N64 game is Ocarina of Time.
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On January 09 2018 02:36 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:No Super Metroid/ save vs. kill animals donation competition, and the only N64 game is Ocarina of Time. Plus the Nazi chat mod settings, seems like an AGDQ I won't watch anymore of
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So you guys just wanna watch Super Metroid and sm64? I would suggest checking out the speedrunning community folder on twitch.
As much as I dislike the GDQs, I'm quite happy that they're at least somewhat trying to switch it around a little bit.
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On January 09 2018 03:58 tyr wrote: So you guys just wanna watch Super Metroid and sm64?
No one said this.
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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.
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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.
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On January 09 2018 05:05 greenelve wrote:Show nested quote +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?
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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.
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On January 09 2018 06:28 greenelve wrote:Show nested quote +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.
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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.
Who knows...
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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.
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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)
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Germany3128 Posts
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?
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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!
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On January 09 2018 07:55 Cricketer12 wrote:Show nested quote +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.
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