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Awesome Games Done Quick 2017 | January 8th - January 15th | Speedrunning for Charity
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AndrewG choking harder than Hilldawg
Ultimadrago
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"Have Y'all Played This Game Before?" - Big Jon 2017
RIP
RIP
Smiles and Cries
Member
Andrew had this win why did he do that last thing tho?
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SmackAttack
Member
Awesome race and the redemption finish.
Smiles and Cries
Member
glad they peer pressured him to finish lol
Did the princess put Mario in the friendzone at the end?
Also, looking to donate. Not sure what to put it to. Any suggestions anyone?
SuperChoco
Member
I'm guessing this upcoming Final Fantasy run isn't going to be all stairs right?
was hoping the commentator would give it a try lol
One that needs some help if it interests you is the Castlevania: SotN All Bosses run by Mecha Richter. It's like $7k short of its goal and is like 15 hours away from now.
Otherwise all the incentives are here if you want to take a look.
Smiles and Cries
Member
I wonder how much it costs to put these events together?
they do a great job but does some of the donations cover the costs to pay staff?
Hope they have some good Sponsors.
they do a great job but does some of the donations cover the costs to pay staff?
Hope they have some good Sponsors.
Smiles and Cries
Member
what animals?
slightconfuse
Banned
What is with the save the animals ?
During the Super Metroid game you can either save the animals (slower but "right") or kill them (faster). People donate toward one of the other
No, sponsors and registration fees cover the costs. All donations go to the charities (PCF for AGDQ and MSF for SGDQ).
Also most of the work (during the event itself) is done by volunteers.
You are actually the only one who feels this way. We don't hear this constantly every year.
The biggest run of the event is always Super Metroid near the end of the event. At the end of the game, the runners have a chance to save some animals that guide Samus through a tutorial or some crap that the runners never even do. Saving them means losing time (frames) and killing them means saving time (frames).
It's a tradition at this point that there's a bidding war between Saving the animals/Killing frames or Saving the Frames/Killing the Animals. That bid war is actually the biggest one in the event and raises a LOT of money so it's never going away. And it gets intense at the end with single donators spending $10k at times just to save/kill the animals or frames.
StormyTheRabbit
Member
Couldn't disagree more.
The scope of it has allowed tons of new games to be ran, having communities vying to have their game showcased each year drives competition all for a good cause.
The production value has only gone up and the quality of runs/content has only increased as well.
Don't understand your viewpoint at all to be honest.
OniBarubary
Banned
Yeah, the quality of AGDQs has not gotten even remotely worse.
I do miss the post stream stuff they used to have like melee tournaments and other non-speedrun specific things.
edit: Fuck whoever at Nintendo thought it was a good idea to have a Mario game start with a billion cutscenes. How do you fuck it up so bad after the near-perfect intro that is Super Mario 64.
edit: Fuck whoever at Nintendo thought it was a good idea to have a Mario game start with a billion cutscenes. How do you fuck it up so bad after the near-perfect intro that is Super Mario 64.
Smiles and Cries
Member
I do not remember Mario Sunshine well at all lol
did not know it had this many cutscenes
did not know it had this many cutscenes
Done! Thanks for the suggestion. Really liked romscout's blind run last summer.
Yeah, the bonus streams were super fun, but it's just too expensive to rent a room for 1 or 2 days when barely anyone (comparatively) tunes in or donates.
No problem! That blind run was so insane. The part where his controller stopped working (or whatever actually happened) was nuts, but I'm glad he was able to recover.
pirateluigi
Member
Sunshine is my favorite game to watch runs for. So much great movement tech.
I felt that way a few years ago when they did the "approved audience" thing. Now I think it's not all that bad.
I mean, the big things we lost are the Bonus Stream and the old closeness we had with the audience/donors but we got a whole lot of things in return.
Death Metalist
Member
The runs have been fantastic so far from Super Metroid Rotation till now. Final run for me though now before heading to bed.
Mario Sunshine is the absolute worst.
Of all the mainline Mario games out there, it's the only one that desperately needs a reworked version.
Dio Brando
Banned
goddamn, the commentary on this run is excellent.
StormyTheRabbit
Member
This commentary is fantastic hahah. Entertaining, informative, but fun and unintrusive.
