Submitted 12 hours ago by iamthetot@piefed.ca to games@lemmy.world
For anyone who tuned in, what were your favourite moments?
Balatro and Manual Samuel were my favourites. had to mute the Pizza Tower run because it was a shame the guy sitting on the couch kept insisting on talking over everyone, even the dev of the damn game.
Balatro was great with Roffle commentating. They randomly hit one of the worst seeds to try to naneinf.
Runs I enjoyed:
Not as much stuff as I’d usually enjoy. I still need to watch a couple of runs but my biggest disappointment was the Super Mario Maker 2 troll “race”. Felt more like a Let’s Play. Normally Mario Maker is the highlight of the marathon for my wife and me, so perhaps our expectations were too high.
Was also mildly disappointed by the SMM2 run, but I dunno that it was an “expectations” thing. Didn’t feel like a “race” when the two runners had to co-op through the levels, you know?
Still fun to see ‘em laugh, though.
I kinda disagree as it wasn’t a race. What made it interesting was that it was the coop troll levels. We don’t get too many of those. At someone whose watched uncountable hours of that nonsense it was super fun to see something a bit different.
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That intense Balatro run & the Tetris finals were my highlights. Looking forward to AGDQ!
some highlights for me: Donkey Kong Country 2, System Shock 2, SABOR, Tetris, Resident Evil Requiem, Mario 64 TAS, Link to the Past, and Super Dram World 3
Balatro was also hype. Total Nuclear Annihilation (physical pinball), and Hey You, Pikachu! Was hilarious.
I miss tasbot on stag, I think I read it was being reported from gdq, still the Mario 64 run was sweet. I logged on exactly when super dram world ended and I got the watch the shell level. Awesome stuff.
I love that they schedule all the games based on cartoons on Saturday morning. DIG A HOLE!
I enjoyed the *Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Any%," but I started watching the Mass Effect 3 run and it allows mods (“Mod%”) and half these mods just allow them to skip stuff. So why call it a speed run if you can just use mods to skip stuff? It makes no sense. Why not just use a mod to warp you right to the three choices and then just run toward the… shit, why not just spawn the cutscene of one of the endings? Make it make sense. Love the game and the commentary about it though. But I put way more energy into balancing the personalities of my companions than worrying about their perks. I play on Easy and I just shoot whatever’s not me and mine. Save the krogan, romance the asari. FemShep every damn time. Paragon every damn time.
Make it make sense.
Of course you’re allowed to disagree, but the reason they use a mod to skip cutscenes is because as a community they decided the cutscenes aren’t interesting for a speedrun. They also inhibit entry into speedrunning the game. There’s no speed tech or skill required to watch a cutscene, the skill comes in routing and executing the rest of the game.
I don’t necessarily disagree, I just think if you use mods to make it go faster, where’s the line drawn? Though I suppose if certain mods are allowed and others are not, that makes sense.
I don’t know about Mass Effect 3, haven’t watched runs of it. If cutscenes are forced and maybe lengthy, I get why you’d allow mods to specifically skip them. They’re uninteresting (for the sake of the run) and everyone loses the same amount of time. If there were tech that allows you to skip cutscenes, say by routing around a trigger OOB, then I think the mod probably shouldn’t’ be allowed as it’s now skill based. But in the end, the community for a game decides. And they’re also free to allow a category with auto skipping cutscenes and another one with the full cutscenes. So then it’s the runners choice.
Didn’t stream live but watch some run on their yt, so far watched Castlevania SOTN and DS1. I have no idea what the speedrunner is doing in DS1 but i’m amazed by it every second. By the time he finished the game i would’ve only arrived in Undead Burg. SOTN is also amazing.
I missed the live broadcast‽ Oh well. Gunna dive into the vods I guess.
Incredible runs on kingdom hearts 2, castlevania and gauntlet! Plenty more in there I’ll be checking out over the coming weeks.
My favorite moment right now is the Castlevania run and the incredible couch cast they had
toxicbubble@lemmy.world 30 minutes ago
the Mario Maker run was awful yet i still watched it to the end