Hi. I have known about the community for several years, but never really had much interest in it until I stumbled across some of the older GDQ videos on youtube a few months ago. I have been lurking ever since. Watching AGDQ live for the first time made me decide to finally create an account. I currently only have the hardware to run PC games (in a SDA acceptable capacity at least), as I no longer own any functional consoles or handhelds.
I think what had kept me away for so long was the idea that everything must be sacrificed for time, and for a vast majority of games, completing them as fast as possible is rarely the goal, so that kept me away for such a long time, but with my interest spiked by the youtube GDQ videos I learned that there is more to speed running than just how quickly you complete the game. Though I enjoy watching good Any% runs, I am not really interested in learning or running them myself. However, I am interested in other categories, such as: glitchless, no warps, 100% etc especially if the game is actually designed to be completed as quickly as possible.
I think what had kept me away for so long was the idea that everything must be sacrificed for time, and for a vast majority of games, completing them as fast as possible is rarely the goal, so that kept me away for such a long time, but with my interest spiked by the youtube GDQ videos I learned that there is more to speed running than just how quickly you complete the game. Though I enjoy watching good Any% runs, I am not really interested in learning or running them myself. However, I am interested in other categories, such as: glitchless, no warps, 100% etc especially if the game is actually designed to be completed as quickly as possible.