So, I've had this idea for a while now, kinda a combination of a normal run and a TAS. The idea is that the runner would fluidly execute a game so that it just looks amazing to watch. A good example is yoshi's island runs in general, or even supper meat boy. The idea is to take an execution heavy game and play with the fun of it.
One idea I had was to run Megaman Zero collection in easy mode and just wreck the game with x-skills and what not, but the caveat is say, you can't wall jump off of the same wall multiple times, [you have to bounce back and fourth] you have to do things like chain x-skills together, kill enemies as they come in new and interesting ways, things like that. Essentially, running the game as cinematically as possible, not neccessarily going for time, but all about swag. Another thing I'd say would be to use glitches that aren't all that noticeable, so no OOB, or other blatantly obvious glitches.
I feel this would be a fun way to get people look at routing in a new way, work on execution and be a fun kind of experience for those who do it, and those who watch.
This kind of run could be opened up to all kinds of things, like doing everything in time with the music, making the run last exactly as long as an average TV show episode, or a movie (depending on the game) it would show off the skill involved with running these kinds of games and could even potentially gather new people to the community who aren't exactly into it quite yet, but love games for what they are.
Now with a new kind of category so to speek, there'd be some interesting new ways to judge these runs, like no damage, how fluid were the movements, kill count, and I even think this would be a way for TAS'ers and regular people could have a more common ground, given that the level of execution would be just about the same and glitches would be lowered, however, TASers would have an RNG advantage [depending on the game] but that's to be expected.
The long story short, is this something that could actually be a thing in the community? How many people would want to do these kinds of runs? how many people would say it could be a legitamate category? I'd just like to see how the community would react to this sort of thing, sacrificing frames for the sake of awesome
One idea I had was to run Megaman Zero collection in easy mode and just wreck the game with x-skills and what not, but the caveat is say, you can't wall jump off of the same wall multiple times, [you have to bounce back and fourth] you have to do things like chain x-skills together, kill enemies as they come in new and interesting ways, things like that. Essentially, running the game as cinematically as possible, not neccessarily going for time, but all about swag. Another thing I'd say would be to use glitches that aren't all that noticeable, so no OOB, or other blatantly obvious glitches.
I feel this would be a fun way to get people look at routing in a new way, work on execution and be a fun kind of experience for those who do it, and those who watch.
This kind of run could be opened up to all kinds of things, like doing everything in time with the music, making the run last exactly as long as an average TV show episode, or a movie (depending on the game) it would show off the skill involved with running these kinds of games and could even potentially gather new people to the community who aren't exactly into it quite yet, but love games for what they are.
Now with a new kind of category so to speek, there'd be some interesting new ways to judge these runs, like no damage, how fluid were the movements, kill count, and I even think this would be a way for TAS'ers and regular people could have a more common ground, given that the level of execution would be just about the same and glitches would be lowered, however, TASers would have an RNG advantage [depending on the game] but that's to be expected.
The long story short, is this something that could actually be a thing in the community? How many people would want to do these kinds of runs? how many people would say it could be a legitamate category? I'd just like to see how the community would react to this sort of thing, sacrificing frames for the sake of awesome
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