Speedruns

[Pike]

Do you like to watch them? What are some really impressive ones that you've seen?

I've seen some crazy tool-assisted Sonic ones where the guy skips entire levels and whatnot. But I think the non-tool-assisted ones are even more impressive.

[Alpha2099]

I've watched a few. They're impressive, although it's not something I would ever try.

[Jinx]

I thought this thread was about sprinting.

[Sephex]

I like to watch them from time to time, but I only like ones that aren't tool assisted.

[Pete for President]

Hate to bring up Dark Souls in every thread, but I had never seen anything like this:
Dark Souls RTA (Speed Run), 1:09:50 patch 1.05 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYISomhndnE)

The level of skill is equal to the level of game-design; it's phenomenal. Mind you, I beat the game on my first playthrough in 68 hours. Do the math.

[VeloZer0]

I love watching speedruns, tool assisted and non tool assisted. One gives you the "OMG I can't believe someone did that!" whereas the other gives you a lot more "OMG I had no idea that was even possible!".

I even use them on games I have already played thoroughly to get an idea of how to improve.

[Madame Adequate]

I love watching speedruns, both tool and non-tool assisted. Like VeloZer0 says there's different things to learn from each.

[Del Murder]

I once saw someone go through SMB3 in like 10 minutes and I was pretty impressed. Other than that I don't really care much for speed runs unless it is in a competition with you folks.

[NorthernChaosGod]

My favorite speed run has to be a tool assisted run of Mario 64 that I saw a while back. I shall have to find it again.

[Alpha2099]

I remember seeing a speedrun of the game Quackshot for Sega Genesis. I think the whole game was completed in under 30 minutes.

[Tigmafuzz]

I used to do speedruns of games, actually. I was pretty good at them until I saw a tool-assisted run of some games on youtube and thought "Oh hell. I'll never be that good."

Of course, this was before I knew what TAS was. I still try to do speedruns of certain games, but I have a lot less time on my hands these days.

[VeloZer0]

My favorite is the TAS of someone mapping a controller to two emulators and beating Mega Man X and X2 simultaneously with the same inputs. Not only that they finished them both at the identical time, and considerably faster than I could beat each individually.

[NorthernChaosGod]

My favorite is the TAS of someone mapping a controller to two emulators and beating Mega Man X and X2 simultaneously with the same inputs. Not only that they finished them both at the identical time, and considerably faster than I could beat each individually.

Well this I have to see.

[Sephex]

My favorite is the TAS of someone mapping a controller to two emulators and beating Mega Man X and X2 simultaneously with the same inputs. Not only that they finished them both at the identical time, and considerably faster than I could beat each individually.

Well this I have to see.

Okay.

TAS Mega Man X & X 2 SNES in 41:41 by DeHackEd - YouTube (http://youtu.be/9AHVSamD5WQ)

[Del Murder]

Whoa that's crazy.

[NorthernChaosGod]

That was really fucking impressive.

[Jiro]

the fuck? that's wicked.

[Sephex]

Yeah, that one was fun to watch. One of the few tool assisted ones that I enjoyed.

[Kaspian69]

I've watched a few Mega Man speed runs that were impressive. I don't watch a huge number of these though. Always neat to see the little tricks players do in these to shave a few seconds off their times. I think my favorite is still the 7 minute Elder Scrolls III speed run.