For the average players...

2005-04-11 11:04:32 pm

Do you know the Muffin Man?

Why don't you guys have small contests for the average player that would love to do a speed run but just can't seem to get things done? They can be small things like doing a particular trick, doing a range run (completing the run between two certain times that are well within average but the player cannot be seen to dawdled at any point), or whatever. It'll be a good way to get more people active.

Also, can we have a few more spoiler runs? (Ones that include the stories) because I cannot afford every game out there and for most of them, I just want the story Cheesy

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Aquashark

2005-04-12 02:18:28 pm

omg! wtf?

..as in the special olympics? no thanks! Cheesy

addaman

2005-04-12 07:09:12 pm

details details people...

Cygnus

2005-04-22 03:25:35 am

Ben Goldberg

If your not good enough to do a run, that's your problem. You can do speed runs for fun, but don't expect a seperate section to pop up just because some people aren't as good at a game as other people are. I guess that's what TG is for though. You don't have to be first there to get into the site.

Mandel

2005-04-22 09:04:09 am

Mumma

Weeeeeeeee! Way to go to try and form a community! Tongue

Treat your eyes to the Quake part of SDA! We have contests where everybody can compete. Buckets of fun.

http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/contests/

Yoshi348

2005-04-28 07:25:42 pm

dinosaur from the past

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Also, can we have a few more spoiler runs? (Ones that include the stories) because I cannot afford every game out there and for most of them, I just want the story Cheesy

As for this part, unless the game has an in-game timer that A) works and B) doesn't include cutscenes, the "stories" would count for time and therefore be detremential to the run.

Ice Rabbit

2005-04-29 02:57:36 am

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Heh, I'd prefer to do things I haven't seen (100% OOT lol) or just compete with the top scores.

Mkt2015

2005-07-15 10:02:05 am

MGS for PS1 forever.

I don't speedrun Quake because I'm not that good at it. I speedrun games that I'm good at and if you don't like that then bite me.

Bp_

2005-07-15 02:37:51 pm

/bite Mkt2015

Face

2005-08-10 12:59:17 pm

I don't speedrun Quake because it's been done to death. ;(

MasterInsan0

2005-08-14 09:14:29 pm

I love default messages!

Ah, QdQ...I enjoyed the speedruns on the id levels, but when it expanded into user-made levels it kinda pushed it too far.

On the topic of average runs, I think it circumvents the idea of the site, which is to run through the game as fast as possible.

Still, though, you could just practice a lot and become better than average ;D. It seems to me that a lot of people who submit runs have played the game to death. I see a lot of "I'm never playing this game again" or "once I get sub-X I'm done."

The equation for a good speedrunner:

Time + Dedication + (Insanity^2) = Patience. For every minute of time you spend on the game, you lose one patience point. When you hit 0 patience, you start gaining insanity points ;D.

So there you go. Simply have a lot of time, a lot of dedication, or be completely insane and you too can be a pro speedrunner ;).

VorpalEdge

2005-08-14 09:21:53 pm

welcome to the machine

Actually, the formula is insanity^3 + luck^2 + skill^-1 - however much your recording equipment hates you.

InsaneB4st4rd

2005-08-14 09:30:37 pm

Still alive...

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So there you go. Simply have a lot of time, a lot of dedication, or be completely insane and you too can be a pro speedrunner ;).

so does my name qualifie (spelling?) me for a good speedrunner? Wink