ShadowSwordmaster
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Awesome Games Done Quick 2017 | January 8th - January 15th | Speedrunning for Charity
- Thread starter orichalcos
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Edobean, the one people were complaining about announcing for some reason
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
July 2nd here we come.
Never seen one before, I was expecting the commentary to ruin it not gonna lie. Glad to be wrong though.
Death Metalist
Member
JULY 2ND LETS GOO
jasminlovesyoux
Banned
Great agdq yet again!
Admiral Snackbar
Member
But what's the raid target? 
Permanently A
Junior Member
That might be one of my favorite moments in a GDQ period.
serenewarfare
Banned
Part of me thinks it might be time to expand to three events a year given the money they are pulling in, but maybe it'd be too logistically tough.
Death Metalist
Member
My favorite thing is when we get dropped into a random stream.
idk i wouldn't want to risk the fatigue
serenewarfare
Banned
It's a possible issue, but I think they could do with one more event and still be fine on that regard.
KojiKnight
Member
Make it too often and it'll lose it's audience. There are other events (like ega) to fill in the gaps.
Technical issues aside, it was a pretty good year... They need to have someone manning the audio controls every run though... The mixing was all over the place.
Permanently A
Junior Member
The Furi audio being so low really sucked.
Do not google this.
OdinDemonZero
Member
Twitch Host?
Holy crap the guys only has 53,000 channel views suddenly has 70k viewers.
KojiKnight
Member
It's crazy that the last day made more money then the rest of the week combined... I thought it was only on par to beat the record, not shatter it.
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TheUnknownForce
Member
Well, that was a fun week, all. Thanks for everyone on the chat!
[ThirdRateMinion here]
[ThirdRateMinion here]
KojiKnight
Member
Best place will be their YouTube channel which shady has most of the last 6 days. Just don't subscribe because they'll flood your in box the next week as they replace the stream virus captures with higher quality ones.
That felt a bit anti-climatic but hey they broke the record. I have a bunch of runs I missed that I want to see. I have a huge amount of respect for the speed running community and got curious about looking up the world records of a bunch of games I enjoyed. I was surprised by I what saw since many of the runners were ranked number one or close to it.
And talk about diversity! It's amazing how people come from different backgrounds and walks of life. It's a passionate community. TheMexicanRunner looks like a pretty cool guy so I'll look out for his stuff in the future. It was great to see some Latino speed runners on a big event.
And talk about diversity! It's amazing how people come from different backgrounds and walks of life. It's a passionate community. TheMexicanRunner looks like a pretty cool guy so I'll look out for his stuff in the future. It was great to see some Latino speed runners on a big event.
Death Metalist
Member
Time to sleep. What an end. Withdrawals already...until next time dudes. It's been so much fun.
RecRoulette
Member
Was planning to go to bed but I'm still hyped from that last run so I'm gonna watch the Vice City run.
56 MINUTES!? HOW!?
Rickenslacker
Banned
I miss being able to look forward to a bonus stream.
Velcro Fly
Member
Post GDQ depression begins
petethepanda
Member
2.2 million! And man, I figured Undertale would be a fun finale but I didn't expect it to be that awesome.
Looking forward to July!
(and still hoping they have one of these near Chicago someday)
Looking forward to July!
(and still hoping they have one of these near Chicago someday)
you're in for a real treat
I missed that. Left right after they went offline and was saddened by the fact that they didn't host anyone. Glad they did eventually.
There's a lot of issues with that. It requires people to volunteer, runners to do their thing as well as an endless stream of speed tech to keep some runs fresh every year. It getting stale is a huge issue and can't be stated enough though. As is, they're already digging deep for runs/runners/commentators as well as rotating categories/series/games to keep things fresh and some people ARE starting to find some runs to be boring and/or repetitive.
I miss it so very much. Every time someone mentions it, I'm reminded of: Warning: Very Loud Near End
Pretty sure I mention it last SGDQ too.
This GDQ was great. There's the standard hate spitle and LE DANK STREAMER MAYH MAYHS in the chat, plus the previously mentioned shiftiness with the charity, but by now it's to be expected. It's a big streaming event that isn't an traditional eSport, it's bound to be this way.
I prefer the summer versions more, mostly because the charity involved has a less shaky reputation. But the runs themselves are great either way.
I prefer the summer versions more, mostly because the charity involved has a less shaky reputation. But the runs themselves are great either way.