Game suggestions

2013-05-09 05:51:26 pm

Don't know what to speedrun :(

I'm trying to think of what I might want to play/speedrun next and I'm drawing a blank. Looking for some suggestions.

Some parameters/notes:
-- I have the following consoles: PS2, Xbox360, Wii. So any game on those systems is an option.
-- I had a lot of fun running Muramasa. So a game like Muramasa would be good; i.e. a beat-em-up with a little depth where the fights have some complexity and strategy involved.
-- I'm definitely not interested in running an FPS game on a console.
-- Along the same vein action adventure style platformer games would be good too.
-- Shinobi (PS2) or Ninja Gaiden (360) might be good candidates but I'm not going to open either of those can of worms.
-- I don't know if "The shorter the better" is right but it would be nice to run a sub 1 hour game at least once.
-- Does not need to be a game that is currently has runs but ideally the game should be/have been popular enough in its time (if not a current game) that I won't feel like I'm the only one that gives a crap if I decide to run it.
-- I've played Dust which is kind of like Muramasa but for whatever reason I'm just not that interested in that game from a speedruning perspective.

Hopefully those parameters can help constrain the list to stuff I might be interested in. Thanks for your suggestions and feel free to suggest something that doesn't fit my list if you think it really deserves it.

Thread title:

I'm trying to think of what I might want to play/speedrun next and I'm drawing a blank. Looking for some suggestions.

Some parameters/notes: 
-- I have the following consoles: PS2, Xbox360, Wii. So any game on those systems is an option. 
-- I had a lot of fun running Muramasa. So a game like Muramasa would be good; i.e. a beat-em-up with a little depth where the fights have some complexity and strategy involved.
-- I'm definitely not interested in running an FPS game on a console.
-- Along the same vein action adventure style platformer games would be good too.
-- Shinobi (PS2) or Ninja Gaiden (360) might be good candidates but I'm not going to open either of those can of worms.
-- I don't know if "The shorter the better" is right but it would be nice to run a sub 1 hour game at least once.
-- Does not need to be a game that is currently has runs but ideally the game should be/have been popular enough in its time (if not a current game) that I won't feel like I'm the only one that gives a crap if I decide to run it.
-- I've played Dust which is kind of like Muramasa but for whatever reason I'm just not that interested in that game from a speedruning perspective.

Hopefully those parameters can help constrain the list to stuff I might be interested in. Thanks for your suggestions and feel free to suggest something that doesn't fit my list if you think it really deserves it.

Stormknight

2013-05-09 06:05:39 pm

Now Reap The Whirlwind!

Metal Gear Rising Revengence? Dante's Inferno? DmC: Devil May Cry? I also personally like the Prototype games.

ShadowWraith

Edit history:

ShadowWraith: 2013-05-10 03:07:21 am

ShadowWraith: 2013-05-10 03:07:07 am

2013-05-10 03:06:56 am

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Odin Sphere!

It's basically Muramasa. It's definitely longer than an hour though.

Warepire

2013-05-10 03:40:08 am

Heavy Metal Powered

Epic Mickey, the first one (the second one is pretty much only speedrunnable as a co-op thanks to awful AI of Oswald)
Gonna be way over an hour though.

Youkai

2013-05-10 09:29:47 am

Don't know what to speedrun :(

Hmm I suppose odin sphere is a possibility but from what I remember of when I played it casually I got tired of it because I don't like farmville. Is a speedrun of it different?

SMK

2013-05-10 10:21:04 am

I'm going to go on record saying that running Odin Sphere is probably not what you're looking for if you liked running murasama. The game is _really_ long and _really_ repetitive (not to mention laggy and unresponsive), and you're going to need to develop some really good damage-dealing strategies for the bosses (since you can't actually last against them for more than a hit or two without powerleveling HP, which would take way too long for a speedrun as far as I can tell). The actual action isn't really all that interesting, the entire run would come down to routing out the best path through each chapter, and good item/psypher-level/hp-level management, and just dealing with the general bullshit of enemies that can't be stunlocked or avoided effectively.

RaneofSOTN

2013-05-10 11:05:35 am

I want off the ride....

Quote from SMK:

I'm going to go on record saying that running Odin Sphere is probably not what you're looking for if you liked running murasama. The game is _really_ long and _really_ repetitive (not to mention laggy and unresponsive), and you're going to need to develop some really good damage-dealing strategies for the bosses (since you can't actually last against them for more than a hit or two without powerleveling HP, which would take way too long for a speedrun as far as I can tell). The actual action isn't really all that interesting, the entire run would come down to routing out the best path through each chapter, and good item/psypher-level/hp-level management, and just dealing with the general bullshit of enemies that can't be stunlocked or avoided effectively.

^ You can also include that it would take a few detours to get really good/strong recipes to help out with the bosses. As the P recipe is godlike, but i think thats on the way, but there are power boosting ones and such.

Also you'd probably have to manage your psypher to a much higher degree to the point of even purposefully releasing to just get that little bit more exp at points.

[quote="SMK"]I'm going to go on record saying that running Odin Sphere is probably not what you're looking for if you liked running murasama.  The game is _really_ long and _really_ repetitive (not to mention laggy and unresponsive), and you're going to need to develop some really good damage-dealing strategies for the bosses (since you can't actually last against them for more than a hit or two without powerleveling HP, which would take way too long for a speedrun as far as I can tell).  The actual action isn't really all that interesting, the entire run would come down to routing out the best path through each chapter, and good item/psypher-level/hp-level management, and just dealing with the general bullshit of enemies that can't be stunlocked or avoided effectively.[/quote]
^ You can also include that it would take a few detours to get really good/strong recipes to help out with the bosses. As the P recipe is godlike, but i think thats on the way, but there are power boosting ones and such.

Also you'd probably have to manage your psypher to a much higher degree to the point of even purposefully releasing to just get that little bit more exp at points.

The Sid

2013-06-08 09:02:29 pm

raising the stakes on being bad!

hmm, the only thing that comes to mind on the ps2 is dynasty warriors, but every time I think of that in a speed running format it scares me ( and it also devolves into hit and run when your under-leveled and under-equipped).
on the Wii No More Heroes is a good one, but I'm not sure how long/short it would be....
and for the 360 Bayonetta or Devil May Cry 1-4 might worth a look.
sorry I could help more, but I mainly play RPG's so this is a little out of my field of games
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