Speedruns thread

[Cacti]

Finally had a look through the schedule for this year's AGDQ and noticed one of my friends will be running one of the first games! She's the one running inFAMOUS First Light. Will be interesting seeing someone who was a regular viewer when I still streamed do a run at the event!

Another run I'm looking forward to will be CovertMuffin's run of Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy. His run at the last event was my favorite. Can't wait for this year's run. Fuhahaha

 

[Cacti]

I'm posting this ahead of time as these threads are always incredibly useful every gear for the GDQ events: https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/7oljmp/agdq_vod_thread_2018/

Links to VODs for every single run at the event will be available here as soon as they finish the run, give or take an hour or two depending on Twitch. If you missed any runs after or during the event you can easily catch up from here!

 

[aaad]

I remember when I first bought FFVII, the back of the instruction booklet had an advert for the PS1 memory card, and I distinctly remember seeing the phrase "Try beating Final Fantasy VII without it!".

Yeah, no. That would be a great speedrun idea though....if not already done (which it probably has.....)

 

[Flintlock]

It definitely has. There are even ODINS (One Day In No Saves) and HDINS (Half Day In No Saves) challenges. I might do the former sometime on stream.

 

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The sub-3-hour Super Mario Sunshine run has been achieved: https://kotaku.com/a-super-mario-sunshine-world-record-years-in-the-making-1822488004





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https://kotaku.com/super-mario-bros-speedruns-are-one-step-closer-to-best-1823077489





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[Cthulhu]

I like how it uses a minimal amount of weird glitches / hacks / etc, I was expecting there to be more of those.

 

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[Cthulhu]

I dig short speedruns, cba to watch a 30 minute or 2 hour wotsit

 

[Fangu]

I know it's not live, but dude Metako did a speedrun of FFV through FFXII.

Yes. Kidding you I am not. He finished in 56:19:04.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/266869523
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/267644642

 

[Geostigma]

... He got to sleep at some point right o.o? I'm definitely going to be tuning into this through out the week lol.

 

[Fangu]

Nope, no sleep. He probably got some rest during X because of cutscenes, maybe a 2 minute nap? Not sure, naturally I didn't watch the whole thing

 

[Geostigma]

Impressive. This might be the longest continuous run i can think of.

There is the old baten kaitos 100% run at 341 hours but that dude factors in sleep into the run haha.

 

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Really awesome video I found via: https://kotaku.com/the-secret-glitch-players-used-to-break-mario-kart-64s-1826610918





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Cuphead & Celeste: https://kotaku.com/speedrunners-destroyed-cuphead-and-celeste-last-night-1827212792





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Via: https://kotaku.com/speedrunner-beats-battletoads-infamous-turbo-tunnel-whi-1827835792




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The very first fully legit 100% run of Doom 2 has now been completed, thanks to discovering that the impossible secret was actually legitimately attainable, ONLY on the original MS-DOS version of the game:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1035625146458025984

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[Cthulhu]

I hope Romero / Carmack built that thing in like that on purpose,

 

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Given their response, it seems like they did.




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The 4:55 run has finally happened!

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Untitled Goose Game:

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There're links to all the runs in the video, but I really wanted to just show this summary. Also, between Karl Jobst & Summoning Salt, there's some really great content focusing on covering, explaining, and highlighting speedrunners if you dig this.




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[Shademp]

An absolutely beautiful video, well worth the full hour.

 

[Fangu]

Ohai this thread!
So, remember the guy Metako I was talking about that finished a I - XII run then did several attempts at I - XIII? Well apparently in August he actually finished I through XV. In one sitting. It took 92 hours something.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1163449915487531010

He says he did take 1 hour naps about every 24 hours and that it made a major difference from his previous attempts. But still.

Madman!