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Awesome Games Done Quick 2016: January 3rd - 10th.
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Quite something to watch isn't it
theSlacker
Member
Well that was interesting.
But he didn't do anything that would get him banned.
Whatchoo mean. There's been plenty of explanation.
Also no commentary is preferred to bad commentary.
balladofwindfishes
Member
They should lower the game volume a bit, these guys are having to compete with Glados' dialog, and she's winning.
Necromanti
Member
There were many times in the beginning when they were lauging or reacting negatively to what was happening and I had no idea why.
I was barely hearing anything from them as well. No commentary is certainly better than bad commentary, but this broadcast was just begging for some personality.
Nose Master
Member
And you guys were complaining about HL2. That run was pretty great. This run is mind-numbing.
Red Arremer
Member
How dull.
balladofwindfishes
Member
This night certainly isn't the best night AGDQ has had...
Once Metroid ended all the momentum kind of halted completely.
Once Metroid ended all the momentum kind of halted completely.
StarCreator
Member
Just got to the venue tonight. Had fun walking around on camera in sight of the stream. I should make a joke sign to hold up or something.
I caught Metroid Fusion on stream before I left for the venue but missed Super Metroid because I was busy pulling the guts out of a DDR machine to bring to the arcade (who had suffered a hardware failure and needed a loaner) at the time it was going. Will have to catch it on VOD later.
I caught Metroid Fusion on stream before I left for the venue but missed Super Metroid because I was busy pulling the guts out of a DDR machine to bring to the arcade (who had suffered a hardware failure and needed a loaner) at the time it was going. Will have to catch it on VOD later.
theSlacker
Member
Now just imagine if the end of the Metroid run is when you finally got to start watching for today. :c
Coonce
Member
pretty sure he has it at the lowest settings/ lower resolution on purpose?
Yup, it mostly shows how goddamn good croteam is at customizability.
The game can go from lookiing like a game that looks like it's from 2005 to a game that looks almost AAA good at time of release.
Yeah just heard that, i saw 2014 and this honestly reminds me of games I played 15 or so years ago, I googled some high res shots and its actually quite nice, still in the state he is playing at its really really unpleasant to look at. Reminds me a bit of playing l4d back in the day on custom lower than low settings so it could run on my laptop.
15fps l4d with next to no textures
Suzushiiro
Banned
Apparently Noire was warned about the more off-color jokes during the middle of the HL2 run, which is why he toned it down later on. He's not banned from future events, though, which is great because overall I felt like it was a pretty entertaining run.
I liked the HL2 run, but yeah, I think the problem with the "block" style that GDQ does is that it sucks when the block you care about is going on when you're asleep/at work/etc and when you can watch it's a block you don't care about. Fewer blocks and more alternating between "bigger" games like Metroid and "smaller" games like Half-Life would probably be a better idea going forward. Or at least time the "bigger" games/blocks a little better- both coasts were at work/school from Metroid Fusion to Super Metroid 2p1c. Wasn't a problem for me because I have a desk job with a three-monitor setup that doesn't care if one of them is a video game stream, but not everyone is that lucky.
I liked the HL2 run, but yeah, I think the problem with the "block" style that GDQ does is that it sucks when the block you care about is going on when you're asleep/at work/etc and when you can watch it's a block you don't care about. Fewer blocks and more alternating between "bigger" games like Metroid and "smaller" games like Half-Life would probably be a better idea going forward. Or at least time the "bigger" games/blocks a little better- both coasts were at work/school from Metroid Fusion to Super Metroid 2p1c. Wasn't a problem for me because I have a desk job with a three-monitor setup that doesn't care if one of them is a video game stream, but not everyone is that lucky.
As someone who has seen very little of this game it all kind of looks like nonsense to me. I don't think this stream will have spoiled any solutions for me should I play it down the line.
Coonce
Member
I haven't played it either, everything is happening so fast I can't really process it
Death Metalist
Member
Same here, all I know is that apparently number 6 is important and tetris blocks lol.
Japanmanx3
Member
So lost with this.
I speel my dreenk
Member
Definitely makes sense if you know the game, and was super impressive - otherwise, understandably, just looks like lots of fast jumping and loading.
Red Arremer
Member
It's a puzzle game, like Portal.
Frozenprince
Banned
Not that impressed with this one. TBH.
Red Arremer
Member
Did he just say "completely break the game" or "completely rape the game"?
ATOMICJORGE
Member
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood run is coming up, good
Frozenprince
Banned
This guy is really jarring to me. "I don't know the story I never paid attention"
ATOMICJORGE
Member
This game is like a Marvel comic
Death Metalist
Member
Looks like a nice game, reminds me alot of Borderlands in the way it looks.
hipsterpants
Member
I kind of miss the comfy smaller rooms from the earlier ones. Seeing the big empty conference room is kind of depressing lol
Did they overestimate the number of attendees or something? They rarely even filled up the smaller rooms.
Did they overestimate the number of attendees or something? They rarely even filled up the smaller rooms.
Death Metalist
Member
I think summer is always where it's at so I think it's understandable that it gets kind of empty really late at night.
It is filled for bigger games.
It's absolutely not filled at the moment because it's late night with less popular speedrunning games.
Also there's a lot of other things you can do there, it's not only the speedruns in that room for a week and also everyone isn't staying there for the whoel week.
Red Arremer
Member
Most GDQs burst with attendees. If you look at the crowd for "big" games like Super Metroid, it's filled to the brim with people.
This is just graveyard shift (it's like what, 1:30 AM over there?), so most people are asleep. Many people also are practicing or just hanging out at a pub or whatnot.
AGDQ always was bigger than SGDQ.
Death Metalist
Member
Hmm, I actually never compared between the two when they transitioned to a hotel. I just always thought summer was bigger because long holidays and shit for those in schools/collages.etc