European Speedster Assembly 2014

2014-02-09 02:52:57 pm

Magical. Flying. Bathtub

Quote from mrhazuki:

1. Metal Gear Solid – any% Large skips Extreme
Estimate: 01:50:00
Personal best: 01:30:00
Console: PS3 (emulating PS)
Have been speedrunning since ESA2013. Would not be against doing a race with RoboSparkle (who played this category at ESA2013), or anyone else interested.

I wouldn't be opposed to a race; however as I can't stream my PS1 I've only really ran this a couple of times since ESA last year. I am also offering a LOT of other games that will demand my attention if they make cuts. If this gets in again and I'm not able to race then I will happily provide commentary though Smiley

WERY

2014-02-10 04:27:48 am

The Duce

Quote from badbrakes:

2. Kung Fu - Any%
Estimate: 00:05:00
Personal best: 0:03:44
Console: NES
Race vs. Frezy_man and Wery?

Yes, I want a race in Kung Fu

indieopium

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2014-02-10 05:37:19 pm

www.twitch.tv/indieopium

1. Muscle March - multiplayer%
Estimate: 50
Personal best: N/A
Console: Wii

This is strictly for the second stream as there can be up to four players flexing their muscles at a time.
This is one of the most craziest Japanese games I have ever witnessed.

The Plot of the Game: You play as a buff body builder in a thong chasing a golden man, who stole your weight gainer, on a rainbow through brick walls.
You play with a wiimote and nunchuck mimicking the Golden man's moves as he flexes and crashes through each wall.

I thought it would be a very random and funny input for ESA, as nothing like this has ever been displayed. And probably never will again.

As a donation incentive, I thought about playing this game in a banana suit to create more randomness.
And just to be clear, yes I am serious about all of this. This is not a troll.

This is basically what the gameplay will look like :

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWT-Tsr9ELM

www.twitch.tv/indieopium

[b] 1. [color="red"]Muscle March[/color][/b] - multiplayer%
[b]Estimate[/b]: 50
[b]Personal best: [/b] [size="14"][u]N/A[/u][/size]
[b]Console[/b]: Wii

[b]This is strictly for the second stream[/b] as there can be up to four players flexing their muscles at a time. 
This is one of the most craziest Japanese games I have ever witnessed.

[b]The Plot of the Game:[/b] You play as a buff body builder in a thong chasing a golden man, who stole your weight gainer, on a rainbow through brick walls.
 You play with a wiimote and nunchuck mimicking the Golden man's moves as he flexes and crashes through each wall.

I thought it would be a very random and funny input for ESA, as nothing like this has ever been displayed. And probably never will again.

As a donation incentive, I thought about playing this game in a banana suit to create more randomness. 
And just to be clear, yes I am serious about all of this. This is not a troll.

This is basically what the gameplay will look like :

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWT-Tsr9ELM

Joka

2014-02-11 04:56:32 am

Personal text

Quote from ESA:

Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4sTMpTUMhY (Do not embed videos!)

To not embed Youtube videos, remove the http:// part

DonTSC

2014-02-11 10:13:12 am

I would like to have my submissions deleted, as of recently there is basically a 0% chance of me getting to ESA.

ESA

2014-02-11 12:10:30 pm

We have had a second meeting to go over the remaining pages of the suggestions thread in order to cut out some titles that we don’t believe would be good for a marathon setting. We will be giving short reasons for these choices so that those who have made the effort to suggest them have some form of understanding as to why they were removed. We would like to one again take this opportunity to thank everyone for the great response and we are very grateful for all of your suggestions.

This round of cuts is focused purely on the game and/or category and is not related to the runner themselves - meaning it’s not to do with their skill level, commentary and other related factors.

If your game or category is not on this list, it's still in for now. We have listed the runner and category with the cut to make it easier for you to identify your runs.

If you have a question, comment or problem with a cut, please send a PM to this account and we will get back to you.
Do not fill this thread with non-game suggestion posts.

This is only round 1 of cuts. We will have to make (a lot) more cuts!
These are the games/categories that we decided didn’t make the round 1 cut:

Pages 5-9
Castlevania 5 - WERY
Gyromite – WERY
The Goonies – WERY
Realm – WERY
These are several older titles that can be taken out in favour of more popular games. WERY made a lot of submissions so we’d thought we’d cut some of them now to hopefully ease his preparation.

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep - Any% - RoryExtraLife
While it’s very likely that a Kingdom Hearts game will get into ESA, we’re going to go with either of the console titles.

Ultimate Flash Sonic - Any% - Batch
This was in the last cut too.

Octodad - Any% – S or Kotti
Octodad has had its day and with Dadliest Catch being released, we’re going to wait and see how that develops.

GTA: San Andreas - 100% - S
Again, there could end up being a lot of GTA at this marathon and we can’t slot in 18 hours for one game.

Mega Man X - 100% - Jinny
While this may come as a surprise, we believe we have some good reasons for cutting this title. Mega Man X has been in multiple marathons and I don’t think it’ll necessarily be missed. Secondly, there’s no way we can compete with a Tiki & Caleb race that will be at SGDQ. Mega Man X is America’s game, so we’d like to let them keep it.

Ninja Gaiden 2 - Any% - Jinny
Again, this is for similar reasons as Mega Man X. We don’t feel that we need to have all the Ninja Gaiden games just for the sake of it.

Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 - Any% - XSlicer
All Treasures shows a lot more of the game as is a lot more interesting.

GTA: Vice City - 100 Packages – Tyr/Jolzi
This is a partial category which we ruled out in the marathon. We’d like to show off some alternative categories for certain games, but we’re leaning towards Bingo right now.

Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis - All stages - Chucat
We should have enough Sonic Games without these two. As great as awful ports are, we’d like to stick to the good titles this year.

Link: The Faces of Evil - Cutscene% - Tompa
We can’t have both of the CD-I Zelda games so we’re going with the one people will recognise. People know these cutscenes and will want to see them for real.

Cookie Clicker - Cookies - Kynos
Not even sure this is actually a game.

The Maw - Any% - AMVX
While this is adorably cute, it’s adorably not broken. It’s an unknown title and it’s too solidly made to be interesting to those who don’t know it.

Resident Evil 4 – Separate Ways - Any% - Skullbot
We’d like to stick to the original game only for this.

Ninja Gaiden 3 - Any% – InfestedRiche
See Ninja Gaiden 2

Kick Master - Any% - InfestedRiche
There are more interesting and popular NES games for us to feature.

Those are all the cuts so far. Remember that suggestions stay open until the 9th of March 2014. We will start to ask for video and updates soon and will be keep a close eye on progress from then on. There are many runs that we’ve left in for now as we’re giving them a chance to develop first!

We have had a second meeting to go over the remaining pages of the suggestions thread in order to cut out some titles that we don’t believe would be good for a marathon setting. We will be giving short reasons for these choices so that those who have made the effort to suggest them have some form of understanding as to why they were removed. We would like to one again take this opportunity to thank everyone for the great response and we are very grateful for all of your suggestions.

This round of cuts is focused purely on the game and/or category and is not related to the runner themselves - meaning it’s not to do with their skill level, commentary and other related factors.

If your game or category is not on this list, it's still in for now. We have listed the runner and category with the cut to make it easier for you to identify your runs.

[b]If you have a question, comment or problem with a cut, please send a PM to this account[/b] and we will get back to you. 
[b]Do not fill this thread with non-game suggestion posts.[/b]

[b]This is only round 1 of cuts. [u]We will have to make (a lot) more cuts[/u]![/b]
These are the games/categories that we decided [b]didn’t make the round 1 cut[/b]:

[size=15][u][b]Pages 5-9[/b][/u][/size]
[b]Castlevania 5[/b] - WERY
[b]Gyromite[/b] – WERY
[b]The Goonies[/b] – WERY
[b]Realm[/b] – WERY
These are several older titles that can be taken out in favour of more popular games. WERY made a lot of submissions so we’d thought we’d cut some of them now to hopefully ease his preparation.

[b]Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep[/b] - [i]Any%[/i] - RoryExtraLife
While it’s very likely that a Kingdom Hearts game will get into ESA, we’re going to go with either of the console titles.

[b]Ultimate Flash Sonic[/b] - [i]Any%[/i] - Batch
This was in the last cut too.

[b]Octodad[/b] - [i]Any%[/i] – S or Kotti
Octodad has had its day and with Dadliest Catch being released, we’re going to wait and see how that develops.

[b]GTA: San Andreas[/b] - [i]100% [/i] - S
Again, there could end up being a lot of GTA at this marathon and we can’t slot in 18 hours for one game.

[b]Mega Man X[/b] - [i]100%[/i] - Jinny
While this may come as a surprise, we believe we have some good reasons for cutting this title. Mega Man X has been in multiple marathons and I don’t think it’ll necessarily be missed. Secondly, there’s no way we can compete with a Tiki & Caleb race that will be at SGDQ. Mega Man X is America’s game, so we’d like to let them keep it.

[b]Ninja Gaiden 2[/b] - [i]Any%[/i] - Jinny
Again, this is for similar reasons as Mega Man X. We don’t feel that we need to have all the Ninja Gaiden games just for the sake of it.

[b]Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3[/b] - [i]Any%[/i] - XSlicer
All Treasures shows a lot more of the game as is a lot more interesting.

[b]GTA: Vice City[/b] - [i]100 Packages[/i] – Tyr/Jolzi
This is a partial category which we ruled out in the marathon. We’d like to show off some alternative categories for certain games, but we’re leaning towards Bingo right now.

[b]Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis[/b] - [i]All stages[/i] - Chucat
We should have enough Sonic Games without these two. As great as awful ports are, we’d like to stick to the good titles this year.

[b]Link: The Faces of Evil[/b] - [i]Cutscene%[/i] - Tompa
We can’t have both of the CD-I Zelda games so we’re going with the one people will recognise. People know these cutscenes and will want to see them for real.

[b]Cookie Clicker[/b] - [i]Cookies[/i] - Kynos
Not even sure this is actually a game.

[b]The Maw[/b] - [i]Any%[/i] - AMVX
While this is adorably cute, it’s adorably not broken. It’s an unknown title and it’s too solidly made to be interesting to those who don’t know it.

[b]Resident Evil 4 – Separate Ways[/b] - [i]Any%[/i] - Skullbot
We’d like to stick to the original game only for this.

[b]Ninja Gaiden 3[/b] - [i]Any%[/i] – InfestedRiche
See Ninja Gaiden 2

[b]Kick Master[/b] - [i]Any% [/i] - InfestedRiche
There are more interesting and popular NES games for us to feature.

Those are all the cuts so far. Remember that suggestions stay open until the [b]9th of March 2014[/b]. We will start to ask for video and updates soon and will be keep a close eye on progress from then on. There are many runs that we’ve left in for now as we’re giving them a chance to develop first!

JustShanz

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2014-02-11 12:53:16 pm

FrankerZ

Twitch: www.twitch.tv/JustShanz

Since long GTA categories are out I will just not bother mentioning them (Maybe for bonus stream happy

)

1. Tomb Raider 2013: Any% Normal
Estimate: 1:50:00
PB: 2:14:43 (2nd run)
Console: PC

Tomb Raider was/is a popular game. It just so happens that there is a hell of a lot of tricks/glitches that you can abuse. You can go straight through locked doors, go out of bounds and even "skywalk" up an entire mountain to skip a good portion of the game. You don't even collect key items like fire arrows or the rope ascender. The best part is that Alex gets to live!

Going to get very serious about running this game once I fully master how to "skywalk" so my time will come down by a lot

2. Hitman Absolution: Any%
Estimate: 1:55:00
Personal best: N/A
WR: 1:36:xx
Console: PC

I'm planning on picking this up shortly, Kotti has the WR for this (I think). Not much else to say at this point. If you can only choose one I suggest Kotti doing blood money over this

I'd also be down for Vice City bingo, make it happen! Also for Rock Band I play expert guitar thumbsup

Twitch: www.twitch.tv/JustShanz

Since long GTA categories are out I will just not bother mentioning them (Maybe for bonus stream :happy: )

1. [color="red"]Tomb Raider 2013[/color]: Any% Normal
Estimate: 1:50:00
PB: 2:14:43 (2nd run)
Console: PC

Tomb Raider was/is a popular game. It just so happens that there is a hell of a lot of tricks/glitches that you can abuse. You can go straight through locked doors, go out of bounds and even "skywalk" up an entire mountain to skip a good portion of the game. You don't even collect key items like fire arrows or the rope ascender. The best part is that Alex gets to live!

Going to get very serious about running this game once I fully master how to "skywalk" so my time will come down by a lot

2. [color="red"]Hitman Absolution[/color]: Any%
Estimate: 1:55:00
Personal best: N/A
WR: 1:36:xx
Console: PC

I'm planning on picking this up shortly, Kotti has the WR for this (I think). Not much else to say at this point. If you can only choose one I suggest Kotti doing blood money over this

I'd also be down for Vice City bingo, make it happen! Also for Rock Band I play expert guitar :thumbsup:

Menno888

2014-02-11 01:19:18 pm

Twitch: www.twitch.tv/menno888

Although I probably don't feel like running a game on my own, I would really be in for:

1. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City: - Joining the Bingo

With the whole GTA crew joining ESA this year, this just has to happen.
If the amount of participants gets too high, might making duos be a good idea?

mitch13

2014-02-12 01:52:21 am

LG

twitch: www.twitch.tv/mitchflowerpower

1. smb3 any%
est: 17:00 (mins)
personal best 10:49.13, 10:44 (sda)
console: nes

2. smb3 any% warpless
est: 56:00
personal best 52:23
console: nes

3. smb3 100%
est 1:20:00
personal best 1:12:3x
console: nes

4. Metroid 100%
est 52:00
personal best 50:00 (will change)
console: nes

5. TMNT 2 (want a co-op with frezzy)
est 45:00
personal best 39:xx (i think, will change)
console: nes

6. Mega Man 10 Bass any%
est 36:00
personal best: 33:36
console wii

ESA

2014-02-12 03:27:28 am

Quote from mitch13:

Submissions...

Would you mind adding formatting to your submissions like specified in the first post?

Pastebin with formatting: http://pastebin.com/U2NLYA1C

guiren

2014-02-12 04:41:02 am

Just a note : I just updated my post page 8 to show new WR and new PB on CV64.

Shrimp

2014-02-12 05:00:34 am

I edited this into my old post, but have since learned we're supposed to make new posts for other additions, so here we go.

4. Toejam and Earl - Co-op (w/ Cruxit)
Estimate: 45:00
Personal Best: ~50mins
Console: SNES (NTSC-U)

We did this at last ESA during bonus and it was tons of fun. We're currently routing the game and will soon begin practice, so we'd love to give it another go this year. This is probably more suited for the secondary stream currently, though that might change by July.

JustShanz

2014-02-14 11:56:14 am

FrankerZ

3. GTA: Vice City: 100% or 97%
Estimate: 9:00:00 or 6:45:00
Personal best: 8:17:30 or 6:32:24
WR: See above
Console: PC

The difference between 100% and 97% is most of the "boring" stuff in the game. This includes Paramedic, Taxi fares, firefighter, Vigilante (aka all of the sub missions) Pizzaboy is left in because it starts when you hop on the bike and you don't have to start it manually (plus I do some collecting while on that mission) Imo 97% is more "marathon" friendly. Vigilante is pretty great in the hunter, I could throw it in and call it 98%, not a real category but it shows the best of VC 100% without most of the downtime

However, if you would like I would be up for doing the full 100% Smiley

TimpZ

2014-02-14 08:39:31 pm

I won a twitch namechange contest so my twitch is no longer twitch.tv/primat91, now it's twitch.tv/timpz

mitch13

2014-02-16 05:32:51 am

LG

i dont mind no, but i dont understand...lol

A-M

2014-02-17 08:56:34 am

Quote:

Resident Evil 4 – Separate Ways - Any% - Skullbot
We’d like to stick to the original game only for this.

I'm not sure to fully understand this answer, is this game completely removed or is there still a possibility to see it synchronized with the original game like we offered? Thank you.

mitch13

2014-02-17 01:26:44 pm

LG

Twitch account: www.twitch.tv/mitchflowerpower

1. Super Mario Bros. 3 - Any%
Estimate: 00:17:00
Personal best: 10:49.13 (WR)
Console: NES
this run i have put alot of time into, i ran it at agdq this year and i would like another shot at it to get no hands :p

2. Super Mario Bros. 3 - Any% Warpless
Estimate: 00:56:00
Personal best: 10:52:23 (WR)
Console: NES
I have put by far the most time into this run maintaining the wr has been the toughest so id really like to play this rng category to see what time i would get

3. Super Mario Bros. 3 - 100%
Estimate: 01:20:00
Personal best: 1:12.33 (WR)
Console: NES
100% i would also like to run to hopefully finish off with running each category of smb3 Smiley

4. Metroid - 100%
Estimate: 00:52:00
Personal best: 10:50:00 (WR)
Console: NES
this run will be a long shot and i have never done it for a marathon so i think it would be really cool to run

5. Turtles 2 (co-op with frezy) - Any%
Estimate: 00:45:00
Personal best: 0:39.XX (WR)
Console: NES
ME AND FREZZY!

6. Mega Man 10 - Bass%
Estimate: 00:36:00
Personal best: 00:33:36 (WR)
Console: Wii
i love running as bass and i dont think it has ever been in a marathon before and id love to show people how this game can be run as bass

Twitch account: www.twitch.tv/mitchflowerpower
 
1.[b] [color="red"]Super Mario Bros. 3[/color][/b] - Any%
[b]Estimate[/b]: 00:17:00
[b]Personal best:[/b] [size="14"][u]10:49.13[/u][/size] (WR)
[b]Console[/b]: NES
this run i have put alot of time into, i ran it at agdq this year and i would like another shot at it to get no hands :p

2.[b] [color="red"]Super Mario Bros. 3[/color][/b] - Any% Warpless
[b]Estimate[/b]: 00:56:00
[b]Personal best:[/b] [size="14"][u]10:52:23[/u][/size] (WR)
[b]Console[/b]: NES
I have put by far the most time into this run maintaining the wr has been the toughest so id really like to play this rng category to see what time i would get

3.[b] [color="red"]Super Mario Bros. 3[/color][/b] - 100%
[b]Estimate[/b]: 01:20:00
[b]Personal best:[/b] [size="14"][u] 1:12.33[/u][/size] (WR)
[b]Console[/b]: NES
100% i would also like to run to hopefully finish off with running each category of smb3 :)

4.[b] [color="red"]Metroid[/color][/b] - 100%
[b]Estimate[/b]: 00:52:00
[b]Personal best:[/b] [size="14"][u]10:50:00[/u][/size] (WR)
[b]Console[/b]: NES
this run will be a long shot and i have never done it for a marathon so i think it would be really cool to run

5.[b] [color="red"]Turtles 2 (co-op with frezy)[/color][/b] - Any%
[b]Estimate[/b]: 00:45:00
[b]Personal best:[/b] [size="14"][u] 0:39.XX[/u][/size] (WR)
[b]Console[/b]: NES
ME AND FREZZY!

6.[b] [color="red"]Mega Man 10[/color][/b] - Bass%
[b]Estimate[/b]: 00:36:00
[b]Personal best:[/b] [size="14"][u]00:33:36[/u][/size] (WR)
[b]Console[/b]: Wii
i love running as bass and i dont think it has ever been in a marathon before and id love to show people how this game can be run as bass

Kirua

2014-02-17 10:19:51 pm

Hello, I'm sorry but I'd like to withdraw my submissions for ESA (Quake 3, SMB3 and Mr. Nutz). Since my first post, the situation had changed quite a bit for me and i was debating on whether I should withdraw now or wait a bit more to see if there was any change.

The fact that Mitch submitted makes me glad because I can now remove my submissions knowing that SMB3 will have a strong showing regardless of my presence, which was a concern in the first place. I'm just sad to not be able to play Quake 3 in a marathon setting.

Sorry for the inconvenience and good luck for the rest of the selection!

armaa

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armaa: 2014-02-18 01:13:55 am

2014-02-18 01:11:12 am

Hello ESA, ive been noted a few days ago that during the ESA time i will have to do some other unavoidable tasks and jobs, so i would like to withdraw my game submission.

I will try again in a year and make sure i have the time then.

Im sorry for the inconvenience.

Slyzer

2014-02-18 02:31:53 pm

Twitch account: www.twitch.tv/slyzer

1. Kingdom Hearts Final Mix (Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD ReMIX) - Any%
Estimate: 3:10:00
Personal best: 3:07:36
Console: PS3
This has been suggested by RoryExtraLife as well. It would perhaps be possible to do a race against him.
I think it's pretty interesting to see the way the bosses easily get defeated even though back in the day I'm sure a lot of people were having problems with them.
I play the Japanese version myself mainly, but it is not a problem to play it in English, aside from being accustomed to the Japanese button layout. There's little to no difference with these 2 versions.
WR is: 2:54:40 and hard to beat. Run has been optimized as far as we know right now.

Alko

2014-02-18 03:18:12 pm

Caution: This user contains Kana ^_^

Now I'm neither part of the game selection nor of the scheduling crew, but I believe what was said in the Crystals for Life thread holds true:
RPG races are a very bad idea because they are a lot more RNG than skill (usually) and therefore the chances of massive (and boring) blowouts are pretty real.
Link to Mike's original post in case of interest

Hurblat

2014-02-19 01:29:06 am

Not sure yet if I can make it, but here goes.

Twitch account: http://www.twitch.tv/hurblat

1. Contra III - any%
Estimate: 00:20:00
Personal best: 00:14:42
Console: SNES
Link: http://speeddemosarchive.com/Contra3.html#hard
Acquire guns, blow stuff up, profit.

2. Contra III - low%
Estimate: 00:25:00
Personal best: 00:22:42
Console: SNES
Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_pJJOfHh18
Don't think I ever recorded any of my low% attempts, but the linked video shows something I guess?

3. Contra - any%
Estimate: 00:15:00
Personal best: 00:10:15
Console: NES
Link: http://www.twitch.tv/hurblat/c/2159652 PB run
Ready Freddy?

dxtr

2014-02-19 07:30:37 am

Speedrunner

Quote from Hurblat:

Twitch account: http://www.twitch.tv/hurblat

<3

Joka

2014-02-19 07:41:17 am

Personal text

Quote from Hurblat:

Contra

Got it

Cereth

2014-02-19 03:24:54 pm

I'd like to withdraw Dirge of Cerberus from my game suggestions, I just don't think I'll have it ready & up to standard in time.

Thanks.