do you like speedruns?

[Silver_kas]

I like to see some events as Games done quick or ESA speedruns, and I follow some speedrunners that play some games that I like, I know there are some controversy like "if you do speedruns you do not enjoy the game, whats the point?" but I think also it takes a lot to masterize a game so you know how every system works and you know how to break it.

what's your opinion on this? :D

 

[Psychonara]

I think it really depends. I'm someone who really likes to soak in a game's atmosphere or learn all its nooks and crannies but I'm not the biggest fan of are speedruns that rely too heavily just glitching or breaking the game or on speedruns of games that were purposely designed to be these long 40 some odd hour RPG experiences you're meant to play in several sessions and so the only way to speed run it is to just mash the a button to skip all the dialogue and phase through a wall. Just seems a waste of time (ironically) to learn to speedrun games where time attacking was never a part of its overall design. But for games where it was (Super Metroid, Resident Evil, etc.), I think it can be cool to see all the strategies and tactics I may never have known about, but even there you will inevitably reach a certain point where there's almost no way to get a better time playing it as the devs intended and at that point you're just glitch hunting, not so much speed running, if that makes sense, which is cool in its own way, but the "speed run" at that point feels more superficial.

 

[Bakuma1997]

I Don't mind them, i won't do one anytime soon, but i appreciate people doing them

 

[Dyne]

I like to watch them sometimes. Especially if they include difficult-to-perform tricks.

I wouldnt try my hand at it personally though.
Except that one time in like 1999 when my buddy and I took turns trying to outdo each other's time in Super Mario Bros (the first one) I had like 7.5 minutes which is faaaar from some kind of record but I beat my friend and thats all that matters

 

[Swagmata]

I don’t really do them myself but I watch them just to try to pick up tricks for own gameplay it’s been useful for like the Megaman zero games

 

[Jeff]

I don't like them. It kind of ruins the fun for players who want to enjoy the game normaly by showing off.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

I like watching them, but I would never attempt one myself — there's something about skipping the whole game that seems incompatible with having fun.

 

[Silver_kas]

I don't like them. It kind of ruins the fun for players who want to enjoy the game normaly by showing off.

i totally understand the point, but I have seen many speedrunners that for the love of that game have learned many things, I don't think they ruin the fun, even I have seen many of my games get speedran but i keep playing they the way intended

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I like watching them, but I would never attempt one myself — there's something about skipping the whole game that seems incompatible with having fun.

maybe is another way to enjoy the games, it's okey to not do it, everyone play the way the like the most. but i get the point of what you say

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

Yeah I like watching games get obliterated (as in a good way)

 

[extermist]

wait.. wasn't there already a thread about this?

Anyway, I personally don't enjoy speedruns, either watching or doing it myself.
But I do appreciate people finding ways to break the game and finding exploits and glitches.

 

[Silver_kas]

wait.. wasn't there already a thread about this?

Anyway, I personally don't enjoy speedruns, either watching or doing it myself.
But I do appreciate people finding ways to break the game and finding exploits and glitches.

oh I'm pretty new around here, so maybe there was a thread. sorry
but is good to know :D

 

[GundamJehutyKai]

I like glitchless 100% speedruns, which are basically when the runner plays the game as intended with no glitches or OOB tricks.

But many speedrun exhibitions now are more focused on glitches and tricks to skip huge parts of the game and finish incredibly quickly, which I don't really enjoy all that much.

 

[Deean]

Depends on the game really,like i have fun watching people speedruns Shinobi(2002) while speedrun of musou games felt very boring to watch.

 

[BigTony]

The idea of doing the same thing over and over again the exact same way sounds like hell

 

[Vexicrypt]

I think for most people speedrunning comes as a result of liking the game in the first place, so I've never understood comments about them not enjoying the games. Sure, there are some who speedrun meme games or a butt load of games back to back, but I think even that requires at least some interest. Because why would you dedicate so much time and effort to something you don't even care about?

When I was in my speedrunning phaze, I chose games that I really cared about as a kid. My first was Soul of the Samurai since its pretty short and it was too hard for me back in the day, so I wanted to master it in spite of that. But in the end I stopped running it due to a very inconsistent enemy AI, which could make or break a run. Though at least I came up with a new strat for one of the bosses, which I'm still kinda proud of.

Eventually I learned to speedrun Silent Hill 1, which is one of my favorite games of all time. Even though, again, I couldn't play it as a kid because it scared the crap out of me. It was fun memorizing routs, learning the famous "romper skip" and actually finish runs without messing up. But, once my muscle memory was trained and I could do most of the process on autopilot, I started losing interest. I guess I like learning and using my knowledge in practice much more than chasing numbers and leaderboards.

Overall it was a cool moment in my life, where I wondered if I can do something like that, learned to do it and discovered some new things about myself. And yeah, I watch GDQ here and there if our schedules line up. Which rarely happens due to different time zones.