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Awesome Games Done Quick 2015: Speedrunning For Charity - January 4th - 10th
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TheMoon
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Twilight Princess all dungeons category is run in German because you can skip certain item texts there which other languages don't have. Also, TP runs at 29.97(?) frames in NTSC and a flat 30 in PAL so it's faster. Italian is generally the fastest European language so yea, WWHD uses that since JP apparently isn't any faster in that game.
TheMoon
Member
No, he called in for a few minutes.
clifftrapremover
Member
Never thought watching Diddy Kong Racing could be so compelling but here I am watching the stream. Can't wait for F-Zero GX.
I guess it was bound to happen since the Prevent Cancer Foundation are now contracting the "volunteers" in order to run it.
Fotheringay
Member
It's a shame AGDQ doesn't have a more worthwhile charity. I end up just donating to SGDQ for Doctors without Borders.
Gentleman Jack
Member
why is anybody donating for funky kong
redhairedking
Junior Member
Why do you say this isn't a worthwhile charity?
My only issue with the stream so far this year is the audio. I'm having to turn my TV up pretty loud to hear donations and stuff, but if they start yelling or clapping it's insanely loud. It won't keep me from watching by any means, but I have to keep a remote handy the whole time.
They seem pretty alright to me - they're even considered more transparent than Doctors Without Borders.
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=5435
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=3628
Katzenjammer
Member
Could someone invite me to the chat? Lmnt12 at twitch. Thanks in advance.
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
He's the fastest character
Skyball Paint
Member
I'd like an invite to chat, I'm JayEarly.
Also I've totally forgotten about the awesome hub music in DKR.
Also he's funky, which should be reason enough.
Also I've totally forgotten about the awesome hub music in DKR.
Also he's funky, which should be reason enough.
Fotheringay
Member
Don't mean to imply they're not transparent, just I find the allocation of their money to be underwhelming. Only 22% to research, and the rest is simple awareness campaigns (in the USA only) such as conducting self examinations.
Fair enough. Still, early detection is one of the most important parts of cancer prevention and treatment.
I agree that more money could go to cancer research though.
A race of 3 100% speedruns of a racing game.
I agree. Like, I know what their goals are, but I don't understand who's winning, who's doing good tricks... commentator's curse - by which I mean, no commentators make the run hard to appreciate
Fotheringay
Member
TT's the fastest character in the game, so the DKR community allows starting a new game with him already unlocked. But yeah, they need to re-assess the donation comments to couch commentary ratio.
What they should really think about implementing is a worm graph showing how far along certain people are depending on valuable checkpoints in-game. It might be a little hard to work out, but I'm sure something whipped up in Excel could be used without too much issues.
I was thinking MK wii would be fun, but after 2 hours of this im a little burned out. I could go for some sort of castlevania run or something as a palette cleanser, lol.
Hopefully MK wii and MK 64 arent too terribly long!
(no offense meant here, just not big on racer speed runs)
Hopefully MK wii and MK 64 arent too terribly long!
(no offense meant here, just not big on racer speed runs)
Gentleman Jack
Member
That and the fact that Toufool is running away with this and the others have little hope of catching up.
GiantEnemyGoomba
Member
I agree about the MK Wii thing, but the MK64 is actually really entertaining since it's a computer playing the game. There's some wild tricks they can do with it.
Nappuccino
Member
That's part of the game's structure. To 100% the game, you have to beat the tracks, beat them again to collect coins, and I think even a third time to get keys? Maybe a fourth time . . .
I don't know . . . it's mostly fun when you're playing the game; the difficulty ramps up a bit and you're forced to take some alternate routes to pick up all the coins. That said, I'm not a big fan of watching the speedruns.
TheUnknownForce
Member
They mentioned that Banjo was the usual racer, but at some point, they decided that since you can't un-unlock TT after getting him, it was okay to use him in the run.
Also, they reset after beating a boss a second time because it is faster to start over in the overworld than go through each cutscene and leave the world.
Furthermore, they abuse a glitch in order to get the Trophies by playing the first (faster) world for each and warping out, keeping the data in check until it is flagged as complete in-game.
Simply Sarah
Member
The ridiculously long 2 game Rare block sure is ridiculously long. Not gonna lie, DKR is great and all but it becomes very samey after the first 20 or whatever races.
I'm guessing most of these runners use timers and checkpoints when streaming regularly... Obviously it's not trivial to set up, but I'd wager it wouldn't be prohibitively difficult to at least have cutesy heads along a bar showing how far ahead the runners were. Would need someone external paying almost as much attention as the runners to keep the checks up though.
Yeah, that too. There's no tension in this race.
If only it was the Wii U version! Im all about that death stare.
Ooooo i didnt know that! Fuck it, im back in.
Captainbojanglesiii
Banned
Can someone add me to the chat?
Twitch name: Captainbojanglesiii
Twitch name: Captainbojanglesiii
Yeah it's the TASBot from last year that did the SMW thing except it's doing MK64 instead. Should be crazy hype.
Simply Sarah
Member
This all wouldn't quite be so bad if Toufool wasn't just utterly crushing the other two, but he is so it's basically a solo run with two slower replays a bit later.
F-Zero runs are like an altered state of consciousness though. Those runs are freakish.
Very true. If you're after a frankly phenomenal AGDQ race, I recommend rewatching the incredible Super Metroid race from last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmfV8IhsHq0
Simply Sarah
Member
Haha, yeah. Now that was a race. Felt bad for Gari though with that death.