Are there any speedruns of sports games I can watch?
Sports games are great. They're the most easily translatable genre to video games outside of tabletop/card games. Sports games are vital for selling a console and getting the older audience that isn't so interested in immersive fiction. In order for speedrunning to become more popular, it needs more spectators, not just more runners, and a way to do that will be to run more sports games. For one thing, sports games are everywhere, especially on popular consoles, and they're usually pretty cheap as well. And some of them can have some really interesting routing strategies. So you have speedgames that are cheap and could potentially reach a huge audience. A win-win. Who knows, maybe a sports game could lead to the next big day-long 100% run?
Heck, some golf games are already popular speedgames. Wii Sports Golf and Mario Golf, just to name a couple. Maybe getting sports games into GDQs and having multiplayer battles in them could make GDQs more popular?
Bottom line is, it's widely unexplored territory. Think about it.
Sports games are great. They're the most easily translatable genre to video games outside of tabletop/card games. Sports games are vital for selling a console and getting the older audience that isn't so interested in immersive fiction. In order for speedrunning to become more popular, it needs more spectators, not just more runners, and a way to do that will be to run more sports games. For one thing, sports games are everywhere, especially on popular consoles, and they're usually pretty cheap as well. And some of them can have some really interesting routing strategies. So you have speedgames that are cheap and could potentially reach a huge audience. A win-win. Who knows, maybe a sports game could lead to the next big day-long 100% run?
Heck, some golf games are already popular speedgames. Wii Sports Golf and Mario Golf, just to name a couple. Maybe getting sports games into GDQs and having multiplayer battles in them could make GDQs more popular?
Bottom line is, it's widely unexplored territory. Think about it.
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