SlurpeeNinja, really cool dude =p
Other guy is IrisJoker, underapreciated and very nice streamer.
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Awesome Games Done Quick 2017 | January 8th - January 15th | Speedrunning for Charity
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SlurpeeNinja, really cool dude =p
Other guy is IrisJoker, underapreciated and very nice streamer.
Counterpoint: The Shovel Knight Race and Super Mario Sunshine Race were the two best things I've watched so far this year.
Like goddamn.
7DollarHagane
Banned
It's being watched internationally so putting the best games in prime time for the USA or any one country doesn't make sense. They get donations and views from all over the world.
petethepanda
Member
I always love it when runners dress up like this.
bizzarewars
Banned
This is wild.
Edit: WR? Woah.
Edit: WR? Woah.
Aren't the guys behind Payday doing a Walking Dead game? I feel it'd be similar.Watching L4D and just remembering all the good times I had with it on XBL back in the day. With The Walking Deads popularity, it's really mindblowing to me we haven't seen another installment or even a copy cat.
That Dude John
Member
The water counter is too good.
Dragonslayer_023
Banned
The dead parents skip in Arkham City. I'm dying.
This whole run is really great.
This whole run is really great.
Paltheos
Member
I caught up on the Metroid Prime 2 run in the archive. I felt bad seeing all the shittalking in the chat, but I can kinda understand it because the game is old and it's difficult to appreciate how much harder everything Miles was doing there is than it looks. The aether (the area outside the maps) is not an easy skip around rooms. It's its own geography, with ceilings, floors, outer limits, smooth surfaces, crags, invisible ceilings and walls, the works. You need to know them all to not die or force a reset because you screw attacked and landed on not a smooth surface (most things) or you missed your positioning and dropped to a floor you can't climb up from or, worse, hit terminal fall in a room without a floor. Or you just fall to oblivion because you misjudged your bomb jump or rolled off a surface when you have 2 energy, no suit to protect from Dark Aether, and can't unmorph because cannon state is the only thing protecting you from death - That Quadraxis skip was incredible to watch, all the more when you consider that you can't control the camera directly at all and Miles was definitely piloting blind there on a few occasions. Completing a single-segment, 6% run, in a marathon, is crazy. I don't know if anyone but Miles could have done it.
Unrelated, but I do feel a little sad about the route change from Item Loss Skip. The old route used Infinite Speed to skip the trigger, and it's such a cool trick that rarely gets featured in MP speed runs. It's cool though that they found a room we could leap out the ceiling of but kinda surprising considering people were supposed to have scoured those first few rooms for any chance of skipping the item loss trigger, and only 12 years later such a simple escape was found.
The AVGN review of the NES version is one of my favorite videos of his! Really looks awful to play.
Unrelated, but I do feel a little sad about the route change from Item Loss Skip. The old route used Infinite Speed to skip the trigger, and it's such a cool trick that rarely gets featured in MP speed runs. It's cool though that they found a room we could leap out the ceiling of but kinda surprising considering people were supposed to have scoured those first few rooms for any chance of skipping the item loss trigger, and only 12 years later such a simple escape was found.
The AVGN review of the NES version is one of my favorite videos of his! Really looks awful to play.
Runner should have played Legend of Korra in NG, NG+ is...well, I'm just going to let the items he had equipped speak for themselves.
That low health may have looked intimidating, but the truth is that you're an unstoppable killing machine in NG+. New game on Normal is like 10x harder than New Game+ on Extreme. Probably biased as someone who's played it myself, but knowing that there's almost no real difficulty in the run besides screwing up a Jump and Run section kinda ruined it for me. The Autoscroller boss and the Final Boss are actually difficult, that's it.
That low health may have looked intimidating, but the truth is that you're an unstoppable killing machine in NG+. New game on Normal is like 10x harder than New Game+ on Extreme. Probably biased as someone who's played it myself, but knowing that there's almost no real difficulty in the run besides screwing up a Jump and Run section kinda ruined it for me. The Autoscroller boss and the Final Boss are actually difficult, that's it.
Ryo Hazuki
Member
Damn, couldn't spare one minute to show a glitch. I feel like they've been really strict this year. Forgot which game it was but they were experiencing tech difficulties and they had to pause, the runner asked if they could pause the timer and they refused, lol.
Starwolf_UK
Member
The tech side is scared to do anything with the timer because it might break the overlay. At least the person on the button when Moon Crystal was run (game crashed so restart) said something like that to the speedrun subreddit.
Ginger Hail
Member
It's a guilty pleasure for sure.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Decently entertaining run even though I personally don't give a fuck about the Sonic franchise outside of Sonic Colours and Generations.
EDIT: Btw, did they do that some weird Kirby run with DDR controller or something? Have had some lengthy periods of not watching this AGDQ so I probably missed it?
EDIT: Btw, did they do that some weird Kirby run with DDR controller or something? Have had some lengthy periods of not watching this AGDQ so I probably missed it?
StormyTheRabbit
Member
Hahaha this crowd is awesome right now.
Nothing brings the hype like big the cat
Starwolf_UK
Member
They really like fishing games it seems.
StormyTheRabbit
Member
Yeah it was Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble, there's gotta be a VOD up for it by now. They needed to capture it from a Gamecube GBA player, so the dude had to hold the entire system to use the tilt controls built into the cart. Then he had a dance pad hooked up for other buttons that were needed. It was absolutely ridiculous. I am cracking up here just explaining it, lol.
Sonic block crowd is the best.
They did Kirby Tilt and Tumble, which uses gyro, but the runner was playing on the Gamecube's gameboy player, meaning he had to twist around the entire gamecube to control the game.
They did Kirby Tilt and Tumble, which uses gyro, but the runner was playing on the Gamecube's gameboy player, meaning he had to twist around the entire gamecube to control the game.
StormyTheRabbit
Member
VOD's for all runs here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/5mq821/agdq_vod_thread_2017/
Still being updated as the event continues!
JHoNNy1OoO
Member
Didn't realize James Chen was at this event!
Wolfgunblood Garopa
Member
James Chen, what a cool surprise.
BumblebeeCody
Member
That is James Chen! No way!
SmackAttack
Member
Woke myself up just so I could watch that run this morning. It's like you read my mind when you posted this. L4D is one of my favorite experiences online and I can't believe the DLC never carried on for that or that we STILL never got a L4D3. I miss that game.Watching L4D and just remembering all the good times I had with it on XBL back in the day. With The Walking Deads popularity, it's really mindblowing to me we haven't seen another installment or even a copy cat.
You know, all Valve could do is release L4D Remastered with mod support and I bet they'd sell tons.