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For anyone who tuned in, what were your favourite moments?
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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.
Also as a side note I don’t know who the marketing team is for GDQ but man they need to hire a new one and have for a while now. It seems like a constant thing where people are like “oh I didn’t know it was on” they hardly advertise the thing even when you’re subscribed. the only reason I knew it started last weekend was because I sub to the youtube channel. that’s it. and even then there was no videos advertising the start of it just them showing up in my live feed, that’s it.
Also seriously peoples motivations for donating should not be just to have their donation read on stream. we don’t need to read EVERY SINGLE DONATION that comes in. I know most won’t agree with me on this but years and years of “greetings from Germany” is getting old. it was old 5 years ago.
The single worst couch instance I’ve ever seen was actually for one of my favorite childhood games. Tomba! (or Tombi! if you’re European) was the first game I ever owned on the PS1, and I still play it once or twice a year. It’s a cute little 2.5D side scrolling metroidvania. It wasn’t super popular when it launched, but it has a sort of cult classic following nowadays. I’ve gotten to the point that I can 100% the game in about a day. Not professional speed running levels, but decent enough for a casual like me.
The sequel (Tomba! 2) was released a little while later, and I still play through it occasionally as well.
I was excited to see Tomba! 2 on the lineup back in 2014. It was in a pretty bad timeslot (the bigger, more popular games always get the better prime time slots), but I made a point of waking up early to tune in. And I got to witness the most cringeworthy couch interaction in GDQ history live.
For some context, the dude in the striped hoodie (Chibi) basically invited himself there. Chibi just sort of showed up, and the rest were too nice to tell him to fuck off. What’s the worst that could happen, right? Turns out, he was pretty consistently annoying for the rest of the couch, didn’t really vibe with the runner, had a few social faux pas moments, (like calling his own hype, which is generally considered very cringe unless the announcer calls it for a donation announcement), and all of this was while everyone was sleep deprived from being awake at like 4AM for the awful timeslot.
It wasn’t even Chibi’s first time doing stunts like this. He also invited himself to several other couches that year, and annoyed several other runners before this run started. So by the time this run happened, lots of runners were already pretty annoyed with him.
yeah I remember that one. another great “cringe” moment was from a few years prior when someone was speed running one of the Zelda games and this woman who had been on stream in the audience the entire time knitting asked the runner to “pause the game” so she could tell her story about something regarding cancer or whatever.
Balatro was great with Roffle commentating. They randomly hit one of the worst seeds to try to naneinf.
for anyone that didn’t know GDQ was on…
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January!? That’s so far off, I’ll sign up later. Like in February, knowing me…
As someone who has for years only been aware of the events after they were done: thank you
Runs I enjoyed:
- American Idol
- Grandma, No!
- Balatro
- Super Mario 64
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.
They listed it in the race category and declared a winner at the end too, which muddied the waters a bit more than I’d like.
Still, glad you enjoyed it!
Oh, I didn’t catch that. Yeah it probably should have been categorized differently. Still was a lot of fun though.
That intense Balatro run & the Tetris finals were my highlights. Looking forward to AGDQ!
That Tetris sweep my meme was amazing. Both the players placing those blocks so quickly was amazing
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) very fun, and Hey You, Pikachu! was hilarious.
I think it’s the first time they’ve done pinball live like that? I was astounded at how good a player he was.
I own the same pinball machine, TNA, and it was awesome to have the creator Scott Danesi on the couch talking with the main couch host, the player’s wife.
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!
Only caught the Metroid Dread run live. Pretty cool.
I missed the live broadcast‽ Oh well. Gunna dive into the vods I guess.
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.
the Mario Maker run was awful yet i still watched it to the end
What was bad about it? Regardless, I’ll probably watch the recorded version…
the runners were funny, but spent quite a lot of time fooling around
Yeah, I was expecting a race and got a Let’s Play and quickly lost interest. Nothing wrong with that, but it wasn’t what I was interested in watching.
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 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.
It’s similar to the first person Ghostbusters game. For that speedrun you actually go into the files and straight up delete the cutscenes so they don’t play lmao.
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.
The line is drawn by the community themselves. They decide what the rules for the category are.
This is how all speedrunning communities work. They make rules for each category. Mods aren’t the only thing that can skip large chunks of a game. Major glitches are as well. Many, many speedrun categories prohibit major glitches that skip large sections of the game.
As @[email protected] says, the community draws the line, and that’s the point of having a variety of categories. Plus, Speedrunning is not a hard-and-fast ruleset… only if you want to participate in the community leaderboards do you actually need to abide by the “rules,” otherwise speedrunning is whatever you want it to be. If you want to sit there and mash through the cutscenes each time, go ahead and you’ve just made your own category and can set the world record in it. ;)
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
