Edit history:
hesto: 2017-06-06 08:51:35 am
hesto: 2013-07-14 05:14:14 am
hesto: 2013-06-08 06:02:13 am
hesto: 2013-06-08 06:01:59 am
hesto: 2012-12-26 09:02:47 pm
hesto: 2012-09-15 06:37:08 pm
hesto: 2012-05-24 05:17:00 am
hesto: 2012-03-29 03:34:33 pm
hesto: 2012-03-23 06:38:13 am
hesto: 2012-02-25 08:35:41 am
hesto: 2012-02-24 05:34:15 pm
hesto: 2012-02-11 02:00:43 pm
hesto: 2012-01-29 11:23:18 am
hesto: 2012-01-21 03:16:47 pm
hesto: 2012-01-19 05:09:38 pm
hesto: 2012-01-17 11:44:12 am
hesto: 2012-01-14 10:50:33 am
hesto: 2011-12-22 11:50:25 am
hesto: 2011-12-22 06:40:17 am
EDIT: Sadly I abandoned this game quite a while ago :[
Well, hello there.
I've been a SDA fan for quite some time now but all I really did was watching a few speedruns. So with this being my first appearance on the forums, I might not be familiar with what kind of games are allowed to speedrun here.
This is my plan: I want to speedrun "Driver: San Francisco" on PC, (a pretty new game tbh, released in october) to support this awesome site/project. But as i read through the forum and checked the speedrun lists I noticed that there aren't hardly ANY racing games. Maybe that's because SDA started with FPS games and pro-racers never ran across this site so far. On the other hand the first Driver game got a run - and as Driver SF is pretty similar to that one (as far as I know), I'm hoping to get somewhat positive feedback.
I guess I should start with describing the game a little. The story mode mainly consists of driving missions and dares (stunt stuff), many of them being not relevant to progress in the game. I'm not sure yet, if it's possible to split the game into these missions, because you only need to complete a certain amount of them, so finding the shortest path in the "mission tree" could be part of a speedrun. Furthermore it seems that alot of missions start from different positions on the map, depending on when exactly you start them (but I'm not sure). Glitches that might save time have been found, but patched shortly after. Right now it seems this game will have to be played the way it's meant to be. I can't predict how long a run's going to be, yet, I'm simply guessing it's about 2 hours, not much longer.
So, what are your thoughts about running this game? It seems racing games in general aren't welcome on SDA, because basically they're about to be completed as fast as possible anyways, so it's not very special. I, however, would like to see more racing games on this site - and probably racing fans in general, too. I'm missing NFS games on here, although the NFS series is way more linear than the Driver series.
Let me know if training this game and planning routes through the city would pay off for me... or if I'd waste my time, in case there'd be no way for this game to be accepted ever (which would be SAD ).
Thanks in advance for some feedback
Well, hello there.
I've been a SDA fan for quite some time now but all I really did was watching a few speedruns. So with this being my first appearance on the forums, I might not be familiar with what kind of games are allowed to speedrun here.
This is my plan: I want to speedrun "Driver: San Francisco" on PC, (a pretty new game tbh, released in october) to support this awesome site/project. But as i read through the forum and checked the speedrun lists I noticed that there aren't hardly ANY racing games. Maybe that's because SDA started with FPS games and pro-racers never ran across this site so far. On the other hand the first Driver game got a run - and as Driver SF is pretty similar to that one (as far as I know), I'm hoping to get somewhat positive feedback.
I guess I should start with describing the game a little. The story mode mainly consists of driving missions and dares (stunt stuff), many of them being not relevant to progress in the game. I'm not sure yet, if it's possible to split the game into these missions, because you only need to complete a certain amount of them, so finding the shortest path in the "mission tree" could be part of a speedrun. Furthermore it seems that alot of missions start from different positions on the map, depending on when exactly you start them (but I'm not sure). Glitches that might save time have been found, but patched shortly after. Right now it seems this game will have to be played the way it's meant to be. I can't predict how long a run's going to be, yet, I'm simply guessing it's about 2 hours, not much longer.
So, what are your thoughts about running this game? It seems racing games in general aren't welcome on SDA, because basically they're about to be completed as fast as possible anyways, so it's not very special. I, however, would like to see more racing games on this site - and probably racing fans in general, too. I'm missing NFS games on here, although the NFS series is way more linear than the Driver series.
Let me know if training this game and planning routes through the city would pay off for me... or if I'd waste my time, in case there'd be no way for this game to be accepted ever (which would be SAD ).
Thanks in advance for some feedback
Thread title: