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.
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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.
I've watched a few. They're impressive, although it's not something I would ever try.
I thought this thread was about sprinting.
I like to watch them from time to time, but I only like ones that aren't tool assisted.
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
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.
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.
I love watching speedruns, both tool and non-tool assisted. Like VeloZer0 says there's different things to learn from each.
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.
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.
I remember seeing a speedrun of the game Quackshot for Sega Genesis. I think the whole game was completed in under 30 minutes.
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.
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.
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TAS Mega Man X & X 2 SNES in 41:41 by DeHackEd - YouTube
Whoa that's crazy.
That was really smurfing impressive.
the smurf? that's wicked.
Yeah, that one was fun to watch. One of the few tool assisted ones that I enjoyed.
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.