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Awesome Games Done Quick 2015: Speedrunning For Charity - January 4th - 10th
- Thread starter TUSR
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mariachi507
Member
This is my first GDQ, after noticing the thread last night I've constantly been on my laptop watching the stream or watching runs that I missed. I had no idea that speed running could be so addicting to watch.
PsychoSoldier
Banned
May not be there yet. Will be doing Big Rigs at like 3am.
Damn 3 AM? Shit, I might have to say up for that.
PsychoSoldier
Banned
Red Arremer
Member
It's hard to run a game that wasn't offered.
And his donation incentive is going nuts, jumped something like $1000 since the Mega Man Unlimited run ended. I think the Infinite Speed glitch run is a go. (People can see a preview of the glitch/feature in the Gamespot video PsychoSoldier linked)
i don't get what you mean. wasn't offered?
Coonce
Member
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Tight race in the beginning.
Frecklestein
Banned
Red Arremer
Member
The schedule for the marathon is determined by what the runners offer.
So if you have nobody offering game X, then game X can't even be considered being in the schedule.
theSlacker
Member
This race is great. Waiting for someone to pull far ahead.
that makes me sad. it's a wonderful game and it's made for speedrunning :c
Red Arremer
Member
Frecklestein
Banned
He's really adopted this fighting for America role lol
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
Pick it up, get good at it, offer it for the next GDQ and go there.
It also helps if you're a well known runner or hold one of the top records of a well known speedrunning game.
PsychoSoldier
Banned
I am a bit surprised at no Mega Man 2 on the schedule despite how popular that game is in general.
Is it just bad for speedrunning or just super broken?
Is it just bad for speedrunning or just super broken?
Red Arremer
Member
Well, yeah, being known helps, but the GDQ people usually always try to pick some lesser known runners as well, not only the big names.
Mega Man 2 has been in a lot of GDQs, including AGDQ 2014. Granted, so has Mega Man 1, but I believe that in this case they picked it because it's a 3-way race between top players.
theSlacker
Member
Being an entire boss fight behind seems like a hard thing to recover from.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn so tight!
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
that end though
SeventhSon
Member
That was exciting!
Frecklestein
Banned
AMERICA!
SeventhSon
Member
So much salt in the chat. Literally.
theSlacker
Member
Was a great finish, and even the third guy finished pretty fast after.
Velcro Fly
Member
coolkid is like the Joe Montana of marathon races
Last year they rose over a million.
Last year was over $1 million, so I guess so. It's been getting bigger after each year
Bel_Air_Jeff
Banned
How can I go to bed when Mega Man speed runs are so good?
Need to raise like a billion dollars.
Then we need Johnny Gat to sign "Fuck Cancer" into law.
SeventhSon
Member
I'm in the same boat.
AGDQ tend to be the big event, then you have SGDQ in the middle of the year.
Really want to see Caleb race live but it's already super late.
AGDQ itself started in 2011 and raised about 50k in total. So its much bigger these days.
Though it started off as Classic Games Done Quick in 2010, raised like 10k I think.
SJRB
Gold Member
Track playing right now is awesome.
Yup. Dat Dream Land 2~
theSlacker
Member
Did they keep showing off the audience and doing fun stuff between runs today? That was great during the Mario block yesterday.