Board 8 > Summer Games Done Quick 2017 July 2-9 @ 1pm EST #sgdq

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https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule
http://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick

handful of things i wanna watch and most of them are in the middle of the night/early morning :/

mario warpless relay sounds good
might check out that ff7 run after its on youtube since thatll take a few days
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I'll watch this whenever TheMexicanRunner isn't streaming Battletoads WR attempts.
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already?

I'm not even done watching all the runs I want from agdq
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I nearly forgot this started today
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My body is READY
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

I'll watch this whenever TheMexicanRunner isn't streaming Battletoads WR attempts.

oh he just got the WR.

SGDQ it is then!
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I am ready. I guess there isn't much I want to watch today outside of Battle Kid, DKR and ASG2, but later days have a whole lot.

Mr Lasastryke posted...

oh he just got the WR.

Very awesome. I'll have to catch that later.
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Holy shit this snuck up on me. RIP sleep
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Also, I'm missing most of it because I'll be out for the next two days. That sucks.
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didn't know Nier was a scrolling shooter


Also, Mexican Runner shows that the WR is still not his, unless this is a different category now
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LOLIAmAnAlt posted...

didn't know Nier was a scrolling shooter


Also, Mexican Runner shows that the WR is still not his, unless this is a different category now

Neir is everything.
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Bleed 2 at 4am let's go

they should have done Nier Automata straight so that one handed could be a cool twist in later years. this game's been out like 3 months
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I agree with that one handed idea

I also find it nuts that someone already is going for 1 handed runs when its only been out 3 months
like bro, why
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I think people just get good at playing games one handed after all this time
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LOLIAmAnAlt posted...

Also, Mexican Runner shows that the WR is still not his, unless this is a different category now

he doesn't have the WR in warpless but he does have it in any%. he got a 12:45 today. former WR was 12:47.
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Pretty good Battle Kid run. I remember Riche getting hosted after SGDQ 2015 when (I think) he was in the early stages of running that game. Nice to see that come around for a great GDQ run.
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Short runs if interesting games I've never seen are some of my favorite

I liked that battle kid run
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The Nier Automata guy played it one handed because he has hemiparesis. He plays everything one handed because of it.
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http://taskinoz.com/gdq/


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woodman posted...

http://taskinoz.com/gdq/

First time watching SGDQ, third time viewer. My animal passed away from donation. Money goes to kill the viewer, save the donation. Hype!!!!

This was funnier to me than it should have been.
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woodman posted...

http://taskinoz.com/gdq/

preform
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battle kid looks like a legit fun game. it has a reputation of being a iwbtg type of game but runs make it look more like a nonlinear mega man.
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2+ hour stream should be a free space this year with the 8h FF7 run
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As much hate the 8 hour FF7 run is getting, I have no problem with it as it is in the graveyard shift.

Only people watching are going to REALLY want to see it
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Long runs are great

masterplum posted...

I have no problem with it as it is in the graveyard shift.

This is exactly why it should be a free space on the bingo card though

The graveyard shifts that really want to watch it will do so, and it will put everybody else to sleep
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masterplum posted...

As much hate the 8 hour FF7 run is getting, I have no problem with it as it is in the graveyard shift.

Only people watching are going to REALLY want to see it

I watch most of GDQ at night after midnight normally. It's not something I wanna see <_<
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Metroid Prime's run is bringing back nostalgia, aw yeah.

FF7's run will be long and I won't be paying tons of attention to it, but I think placing it on a Friday night after the Super Metroid race is smart. If it doesn't work, they don't have to take a risk like this again.
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hey, speedrunning people, i'd like some advice

i have anxiety and part of that is having issues watching other people -- non-professionals, namely -- talk in non-professional situations. anything that can be defined as cringe , really. so for me, watching video of people playing on the internet can occasionally make me uncomfortable. in addition to that, i've never really been that interested in speedrunning

but so many people are, and so many people love it, and so i decided i'd look at the schedule and pick out a couple segments i'd try to watch this year. anybody with knowledge of this stuff know if these look like fun runs to watch? like would these illustrate how neat speedrunning can be for a first timer?

Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2
1001 Spikes
SUPERHOT
Clustertruck

Those are just games I like and that are interesting to me. I'm open to suggestions for something that might be definitively cool.
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oh don't worry, you're definitely not alone there. i can't stand to watch more than 5-10 seconds of any video of a person on the internet playing a video game and commenting on it. it's unbearably cringey for me. I have to close out.

the speed running community is awful for a lot of that stuff. I put up with the marathons but they're not great. anything let's playish I have to turn off almost immediately.

there are bright spots but you have to look for it. there are definitely games that don't need voices to be great, but a lot of those are the simpler, 2dish stuff and you seem a little more modern.
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Did I just hear right that was a new world record for C:SotN?
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Yes. That was a Any% Glitchless WR for SotN.
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"The way I do it is all one-handed. It's an up-and-down motion, and you get tired after a while."
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SOTN run was great. glitchless is way more interesting
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digiiiiiiiii posted...

hey, speedrunning people, i'd like some advice

i have anxiety and part of that is having issues watching other people -- non-professionals, namely -- talk in non-professional situations. anything that can be defined as cringe , really. so for me, watching video of people playing on the internet can occasionally make me uncomfortable. in addition to that, i've never really been that interested in speedrunning

but so many people are, and so many people love it, and so i decided i'd look at the schedule and pick out a couple segments i'd try to watch this year. anybody with knowledge of this stuff know if these look like fun runs to watch? like would these illustrate how neat speedrunning can be for a first timer?

Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2
1001 Spikes
SUPERHOT
Clustertruck

Those are just games I like and that are interesting to me. I'm open to suggestions for something that might be definitively cool.

I'm not really into speedrunning either but my favorite runs are of games that I think I know really well.
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A lot of GDQ is extremely cringy, from social awkwardness of the runners to bad jokes from everybody to mistakes made in game. Honestly, you should look for good, old runs to see if you can bear them. You run a good risk of stumbling into a horrowshow if you go in blind (though some runners are probably pretty safe).

I'm not sure if you'd like the greatest run in GDQ history; Bonesaw messed up Jak and Daxter and GDQ standards in pretty much every conceivable way, and every second was glorious.

May he live on forever in our hearts.
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tag
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Hey guys, long time viewer, fourth time viewer. It gives me great joy to save to a great cause. Greetings from cancer. PS: kill the viewer, view the donation.

That was mine from the auto gen. Pretty funny!


Guacamelee has been good so far.
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digiiiiiiiii posted...

hey, speedrunning people, i'd like some advice

i have anxiety and part of that is having issues watching other people -- non-professionals, namely -- talk in non-professional situations. anything that can be defined as cringe , really. so for me, watching video of people playing on the internet can occasionally make me uncomfortable.

Lol wtf
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Aecioo posted...

digiiiiiiiii posted...

hey, speedrunning people, i'd like some advice

i have anxiety and part of that is having issues watching other people -- non-professionals, namely -- talk in non-professional situations. anything that can be defined as cringe , really. so for me, watching video of people playing on the internet can occasionally make me uncomfortable.

Lol wtf

Judging by his post, I'm assuming he already has you on ignore.
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It depends because even if you like agame some of the runners and commentators just arent great

Like I love fire emblem but Gwimpage is a bit hard to listen to

SpikeVegeta is great with whatever he involved in though

Guacamelle was pretty good, good commentary, explained the tech pretty well, some humor that wasnt inside jokes or anything, pretty good run I would say
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I wish the schedule included who was going to be on the couch commentating for the run, because when it comes to reduce the potential cringe (as digi said he'd like to avoid) it really comes down to having a good couch that is familiar with talking through game play.

Spike Vegeta has already been mentioned, and he is really good at this. In addition to being gifted at being the guy doing the most talking without being boring when he's on the couch, he also studies and runs a LOT of different games so his knowledge of the games he's talking about is often very good.

Blechy is another frequent commentator who can take what would otherwise be a mediocre run and make it humorous and informative. He also knows intricate details about a ridiculous number of games.

The time you have the most issues is when you get the couch where they all really only know the one game and they are novices when it comes to having an audience. Sometimes that can make for a really skillful run, but other times you'd want to trade the best runner of a game, for the 2nd or 3rd best runner who also has some social skills.
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I think that most of the communities tend not to foster people who have really good speaking skills because usually most speedruns don't have people talking really clearly and professionally over the runs. One of the nice things about Necrodancer is that because we do so many casts of races, we have a ton of players who can do really credible commentary at GDQ - I've had a ton of practice myself talking about a game and I think I could commentate a GDQ run a lot better as a result. People generally just aren't that practiced at doing it though, so they kind of get let's-playish with it (which is extremely hit or miss) instead of really describing the game to a captive audience.

Anyway if you want to avoid cringy commentary the best bet is to watch the most mainstream runs, since those tend to have the best of the best. I would place my bets on the Mario relay for instance - the relay runs have had very good commentary in the past and there are like hundreds of people who could talk about Mario, so whoever commentates it will definitely know what they're doing. Super Metroid is another good bet although it was... uh, bad at last gdq. I echo the sentiment about Blechy's commentary being really anti-cringe too. But yeah it's hard to say without knowing who's going to commentate everything. I'm not tapped in enough to know. I would just bet on the big names as your best bets for avoiding awkward commentary if that really ruins it for you. Generally speaking GDQ has gotten better about this each year - feels like people take commentary more and more seriously

Wonder what's playing right now..

MDK?!?

Holy crap nostalgia
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as far as couch people go, big jon is great. not sure if he's present at this SGDQ, though.
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for the Mario relay, which games are they playing exactly? 1, 2US, 2J, 3, World?
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Xuxon posted...

for the Mario relay, which games are they playing exactly? 1, 2US, 2J, 3, World?

Based on the time estimate and the people running it, I think that's probably it yeah.

that evo run was neat. cant believe that was the first time ive actually seen that game be played lol
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