Board 8 > Think of a game you're really good at.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Make sure you pick a game you've seen a speed run for before.

How long would it take someone to tell you're not the #1 speed runner of this game in the world? Like if you and #1 were in a race and your screens were being compared side by side.



For me: as casually good as I think I once was in Super Mario 64, it would take like eight seconds since I never worked on the Lakitu skip.
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I chose Connect 4 so I'm not sure what to do here
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I can't mash nearly as well as the Contra speedrunners so Area 2 would instantly expose me. I can do the first boss quick kill though so I'd be good up to that point.
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I'm definitely not good enough at any game to speedrun it because I don't ever concern myself with the fastest way to beat things.
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FTL does have a speedrun community, believe it or not

It basically boils down to picking the ship that starts with the super long charge time weapon that one-shots most ships, resetting until you get a Weapon Pre-Igniter (Which, as the name implies, lets you skip the first charge on your weapons) in your first or second jump and then one-shotting everything

So maybe deceptively long!

If we're playing no resets allowed, still probably deceptively long because of how RNG-heavy the game is, unless the observer were particularly skilled.
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I'm not sure how you can speedrun most rhythm games
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I'd fall like thirty seconds behind in Super Metroid just trying to get down the very first passage on Ceres
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LeonhartFour posted...

I'm definitely not good enough at any game to speedrun it because I don't ever concern myself with the fastest way to beat things.

Braid's the only time I seriously tried to speed run, and even then I was roughly five minutes behind the record at a time when it could be beaten in twenty-nine minutes. I probably should have led with that instead of SM64 since Braid takes longer to see who rocks the most at running it.
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How do I speed run checkers?
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I'm pretty good at Metroid fusion but I could never compete with speedrunners
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RE4, and probably when i didn't do that shotgun trick to make you run really fast.

I don't like that thing
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Probably the games I was best at my peak (certainly not now) were Super Mario 64 and MGS2, and I'm sure I wouldn't last 2 minutes in either.
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Arti posted...

I'm not sure how you can speedrun most rhythm games

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FIFA 11 was the game I was best at, and I probably could've hung with the top players in the world considering I was ranked number 2 in the USA for a good while.
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I'm probably the best here at Mai-Mai

god I miss Mai-Mai
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Uh... like 5-13 seconds
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Actually, hasn't Lucid Faia owned some speedrun records at some point?

Or maybe he still does...?
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LeonhartFour posted...

Actually, hasn't Lucid Faia owned some speedrun records at some point?

Or maybe he still does...?

He got a mention in one of the Summoning Salt videos where it goes over the history of a particular games speedrun records.

I think it was in the Super Metroid one but im not 100% certain. Maybe it was SMW?
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I've never considered doing a speed run.

Not sure if I have any remote amount of mastery of any game one would require to do so
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Um, I picked Crypt of the NecroDancer, on my best days I'm not clearly not the best player in the world at all

I was thinking it was Super Metroid, yeah.
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I remember there was a problem where people were falsely claiming THEY were Lucid and were taking credit for his work.

I don't know if we got a follow up to what happened with that


but yea, I wonder if he still has those records
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But on topic with regard to speedruns i used to be pretty familiar with the pokemon blue route. But that is pretty reset heavy based on what stats your starter rolls so i could probably get away with it for awhile.
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It would be obvious after I take the lead because I accepted using a bad starter Pokemon while my opponent kept soft resetting.
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https://speedrunwiki.com/Adam_Sweeny

Some of that info might be outdated though, but I found that with a quick Google search.
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Punnyz posted...

I remember there was a problem where people were falsely claiming THEY were Lucid and were taking credit for his work.

I don't know if we got a follow up to what happened with that


but yea, I wonder if he still has those records

Unless he is still actively running a game (and to the best of my knowledge he is not) then none of the records from back then have held up.

Its still pretty cool that he had earned a place in the books for his work at the time to improve records.
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I actually tied the world record on the first level of SMW (along with hundreds of other people)

so the second level
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I don't know if there's a speedrunning community, but I used to be able to beat the original Duke Nukem in like 10 minutes. I haven't played it in ages, though, so I suspect it wouldn't take more than a second or two.
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I always think of Lucid Faia for C:SotN.
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pretty much immediately

I mean I'm good at Bloodborne but nowhere near the #1 person in the entire world. to even think I'd be close would be insane hubris.
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I very distinctly remember Lucid Faia being super bitter over losing the SotN record because of the shield dash trick
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KH1

Would really depend on the category. I could probably do a pretty competent Beginner run up to or including Deep Jungle. Level 1 Proud, though, I imagine I wouldn't get much further than Traverse Town.
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Good thing that I picked a game that I have speedrun already (We Love Katamari).

I'm #2 and I know who the #1 person is, so it would just take a little question asking to confirm that he's who he claimed to be. If we were racing without knowing each other, I'd probably keep it respectable looking, but I'd bleed time on every level and fall further behind each time.
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im really good at selecting the kerbal x or putting lots of rockets on other rockets and pressing the period key a bunch of times, so probably a while
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heh, not very long with zero mission now

give me a week though and I'd be competitive
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Well I thought of Devil May Cry 3

My style of play in that game isn't really speed runny as that would be far too efficient in a game about styling on dudes so probably almost immediately. I guess if I was trying to go fast, the first part of the game is straightforward enough that I could maybe get through the first level at something close enough that you could maybe think these feeds are both the speed runner and my screen was just him having a bad day, but I'm fairly out of practice so I kinda doubt even that.

In any case no chance in hell past that as the wraith boss in the second level would no doubt thoroughly expose me if I somehow got even that far.
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Street Fighter IV speedruns are not really uh... something anyone would care about. The title of the topic puts my brain in a complete opposite direction than I think you intended.
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I bet it takes a completely different set of skills to speed run Street Fighter IV than be good at it, at that. Much less footsies much more exploiting weaknesses in the AI.
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I don't even know the current routes any more. But circa Wrong Warp discovery (both right before and right after) I could, on a good day, maybe keep up on OoT for about five minutes.

Which is to say I could keep up through the rupee route at Kokiri and Kokiri escape and then probably fail the HESS/Castle Before Dark. >_>

With WW the breakpoint probably happens on B1 Skip in Deku Tree.

Or maybe I'm overestimating myself and it becomes obvious earlier. >_>
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The only speedrun I've ever watched is SNES Family Feud
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Immediately thought of League of Legends (at my peak was in the top 1% of North America) but that doesn't really apply to the whole 'speedrunning' thing.

Lopen posted...

Well I thought of Devil May Cry 3

My style of play in that game isn't really speed runny as that would be far too efficient in a game about styling on dudes so probably almost immediately. I guess if I was trying to go fast, the first part of the game is straightforward enough that I could maybe get through the first level at something close enough that you could maybe think these feeds are both the speed runner and my screen was just him having a bad day, but I'm fairly out of practice so I kinda doubt even that.

In any case no chance in hell past that as the wraith boss in the second level would no doubt thoroughly expose me if I somehow got even that far.

This is essentially what I thought of next.
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I picked Rocket League.
Uhh

But I can beat SotN pretty fast. Doubt i can learn it like the runners do tho.

I think my beat chance at a speed run game is RC de GO!! For the PS1
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Dragon quest V.

Honestly? My thought was I should speedrun to find out.
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Well, I picked a game a first with no speed runs. Then on instructions of "must be speed runnable" I switched to super metroid.

I actually did hold the #1 speed run record for that game years ago. Modern speed runners completely blow me out of the water, though. If I even remember how to do early platforms right (haven't played in over a decade) I would absolutely expose myself at the first mach ball passage. I was never good at that, I just reset until I got it.

Actually, I'd probably expose myself earlier, cause I think speed runners these days get hit deliberately to get knocked a certain direction, cause it's faster than running, and I never practiced that.
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Dark Souls, you could tell as soon as I take fifteen minutes thinking of a name in the character creation.

I used to have some high scores in Hotline Miami but that's more combo-chaining than speed-running

DoomTheGyarados posted...

Dragon quest V.

Honestly? My thought was I should speedrun to find out.

Please watch the PS2 version speedrun with glitches allowed
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I don't consider myself "really good" at any game, nor have I watched speedruns for any games at which I'm only a notch or two below that >_>
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