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[Red Arremer]

Which games were in that block this year?

Lagoon, Lester the Unlikely, Low G Man, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Shinobi, King of Kings (Wise Men mode), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Hudson Hawk, Escape from Atlantis, Utsurun Desu: Kawauso Hawaii e Iku, Johnny Bazookatone, Alpha Zylon, Animorphs.

 

[Kalavaras]

i've never played a diablo game and this is only serving to strengthen my belief i never should

Why would you say that

This run has nothing to do with how you would play the game for the first time. The run has dumb goals like farming a couple of runes to get a certain runeword item. Ive had a lvl99 HC character in battle.net and its my most played game along with WoW and LoL and this run still manages to baffle me. The obvious part is him playing sorceress to get teleport for steamrolling the endgame. Still its odd he spends a huge chunk of the estimated time in farming the mid section of the first act just to gain some levels and hopefully finding a certain ring or pair of boots.

Are speedruns even supposed to get you excited about playing the game yourself? Id be super pissed after watching Dark Souls speedruns and booting it up myself after for the first time. Those speedruns are the biggest lie ever.

 

[bizzarewars]

Damn, looks like the Pokemon Blue glitch exhibition won't happen unless a boatload of donations come in for it soon

 

[Randam]

can someone explain the constant teleporting he is doing?

 

[Red Arremer]

can someone explain the constant teleporting he is doing?

What exactly would you like to get explained?

 

[Coonce]

can someone explain the constant teleporting he is doing?

It's a quick way to get around the map and avoid mobs

 

[painey]

I enjoy Diablo 2, but am finding this run to be INCREDIBLY dull to watch.

 

[Kalavaras]

I enjoy Diablo 2, but am finding this run to be INCREDIBLY dull to watch.

I think his commentary makes it worth it. I find it intriguing when he gets little bit excited of a shield with really low lightning resist% and when hes identifying three rings and disappoints when theres no faster cast rate one. Thats just stuff I wouldnt care about anymore cause I used to have the endgame on my mind and the early part of the game was just a tedious grind to reach the good stuff. But yeah, other than that theres not really anything flashy.

 

[Steejee]

Diablo 1 (which I've played) run was a lot more interesting to watch, just for how much it breaks the game and its brevity.

Diablo 2 (which I've not played) run was a lot duller. I think it's just the style of game doesn't work well for this sort of event, so having to basically play the whole game just with optimization can't work as well as an optimized platform or FPS for excitement level.

 

[Bane]

I enjoy Diablo 2, but am finding this run to be INCREDIBLY dull to watch.

Yeah that one didn't do much for me, mostly just had it on as background noise. No fault of the runner, I just didn't find it that interesting.

 

[Pancakes]

Stepmania was the highlight of this year imo. The double row inputs was crazy.

 

[Envelope]

Why would you say that

This run has nothing to do with how you would play the game for the first time. The run has dumb goals like farming a couple of runes to get a certain runeword item. Ive had a lvl99 HC character in battle.net and its my most played game along with WoW and LoL and this run still manages to baffle me. The obvious part is him playing sorceress to get teleport for steamrolling the endgame. Still its odd he spends a huge chunk of the estimated time in farming the mid section of the first act just to gain some levels and hopefully finding a certain ring or pair of boots.

Are speedruns even supposed to get you excited about playing the game yourself? Id be super pissed after watching Dark Souls speedruns and booting it up myself after for the first time. Those speedruns are the biggest lie ever.

more that the underlying mechanics basically look like a single player MOBA
also bad memories of shareware Diablo 1 resurfacing

 

[Heroman]

Zzzzzzz

 

[Nanashrew]

Mm-mm cow~

 

[Randam]

What exactly would you like to get explained?

It's a quick way to get around the map and avoid mobs

is it a ability you can learn?
how do you choose where you are going?

 

[Steejee]

To be fair to runner/game, I think any isometric ARPG would suffer the same issue when run this way. I love Titan Quest but I can't imagine finding a speedrun that interesting based on raw optimization being that exciting.

 

[Bane]

To be fair to runner/game, I think any isometric ARPG would suffer the same issue when run this way. I love Titan Quest but I can't imagine finding a speedrun that interesting based on raw optimization being that exciting.

Absolutely agree.

 

[PepsimanVsJoe]

is it a ability you can learn?
how do you choose where you are going?

You can learn the skill at level 18.
You choose where to go by clicking anywhere on the screen. I think the runner uses the character menu to influence the distance traveled.

 

[Heroman]

A Rebroadcast? Lame

 

[T.O.P]

Loved it, can't wait for pokemon

 

[painey]

A Rebroadcast? Lame

It's a sub-10 minute run I believe, which beats just showing the audience while they set up Pokemon Yellow

 

[Red Arremer]

is it a ability you can learn?
how do you choose where you are going?

It's a skill that the Sorceress character can learn. She teleports in the direction his mouse cursor is at, I don't remember exactly if it was a set distance or goes directly to the cursor's location.

 

[XenogearsX]

Loved it, can't wait for pokemon

me too. My favorite Pokemon game

 

[StarCreator]

A Rebroadcast? Lame

It's being rebroadcast because the Twitch stream died during the actual run so no one outside the room got to see it.

It was also a donated incentive run, so not providing a way for people to see it online would be really crappy.

 

[Pancakes]

A Rebroadcast? Lame

It's like 8 minutes. Better than a camera on the audience.

 

[Raist]

I missed the Secret of Mana run. Watching it now.
I have no idea what's going on. The dude is using insane glitches and playing with two controllers at the same time.

 

[Diablohead]

There's like an hour of setup time to balance out too, so a rebroadcast is a good option over nothing going on or downtime.

 

[Red Arremer]

There's like an hour of setup time to balance out too, so a rebroadcast is a good option over nothing going on or downtime.

Most of the setup time blocks in the schedule are for bonus games.

 

[dmr87]

A Rebroadcast? Lame

It's beacuse the stream bungled during the live run and when it came back up the run was already over.

 

[Gurrry]

They are doing a ton of races this year. I like them, dont get me wrong, but sometimes its hard to follow the action when theyre doing 4 different people at once.

It's like 8 minutes. Better than a camera on the audience.

You mean you dont wanna watch the drunk annoying dancing/pointing guy again??

 

[PepsimanVsJoe]

What in the world are these names?

 

[InfiniteNine]

Are these names references to something?

 

[Finalow]

just in time to see the run of the best pokemon game.

 

[Starwolf_UK]

I'd rather keep the GBP border rather than zoom in and crop the enemy names

 

[Envelope]

these names ????

checking the donations shows it's a big dump from some french company

 

[Shuggananas]

just in time to see the run of the best pokemon game.

but with a trash runner :/
bring back werster

 

[Steejee]

They are doing a ton of races this year. I like them, dont get me wrong, but sometimes its hard to follow the action when theyre doing 4 different people at once.

For the four ways, if it's not something like Mega Man X where it's a super tight race, then I'll just focus on one runner.

A big benefit to doing races in a Marathon is that if someone completely flubs a key part of the run it doesn't drag the whole game down as the other runners become the backups.

 

[Persona7]

these names ????

the names were chosen by donation incentive

 

[Envelope]

the names were chosen by donation incentive

no i know they just weren't an obvious reference like the donation chosen names are

 

[Envelope]

ugh i had forgotten about the ridiculous number manipulation and horribly broken code from the early pokemon games lol

 

[Shuggananas]

i liek shorts

 

[Deleted member 57681]

I could watch Pokemon runs all fucking week.

 

[Starwolf_UK]

So the real Bird Jesus was killed by accidental critical so Spearow is going to have to be a substitute.

 

[jokkir]

Fake bird jesus rip

 

[LucidMomentum]

ugh i had forgotten about the ridiculous number manipulation and horribly broken code from the early pokemon games lol

Even with good code, the Pokemon community will deconstruct it. I still remember running a shiny / IV check thread on Reddit for the couple of weeks it was unpatched in X and Y.

 

[Spirited]

oh god twitch chat went wild after that betrayal lol

 

[Wilsongt]

No helix? Boo this man.

 

[bizzarewars]

Man, I miss old Twitch Plays Pokemon. All the memes bringin' back memories :'(

 

[Shuggananas]

twitch plays pokémon was garbage and so are its memes, I'm glad he did that to piss people off

 

[lucebuce12]

and his name is JOHN CENA!!!