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Can we please stop adding “After 28 years” to every article and video about this game?
“After 28 years” received a 6-minute standing ovation at Cannes
not to worry, it won’t be long until “after almost 29 years…”
And then 30 years…
On and on until…
Jokes aside, a lot of devs love watching stuff like speedrunning. It means someone loved their creation enough to minutely analyze it and spend countless hours with it.
eg check out the devs watching a guy beat Psychonauts https://youtu.be/lsDc1YVxHA0?t=517
(I’m pretty sure there was similar version of this where they guy wasn’t in the room and they were just watching the earlier recording of the speedrun but I can’t find it now)
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a lot of devs love watching stuff like speedrunning
True, but some of them hate it. But with the growing presence of speedrunning friendly features in new titles (looking at you, Supergiant), I think that’s becoming less of a problem.
Either way, these “devs watch” reaction videos are fantastic.
I would have conflicted feelings about it if I were the devs, often speed runners even forget or don’t even know the story of the game they run lol I imagine it’s like spending all day cooking something really nice and your serve it to someone who absolutely loves the dish but mainly because of the plate you served it on, they come back every day to order it only to throw the food away and stare at the plate
Yeah, I haven’t ever met a speedrunner that hadn’t played the game casually at least a few times. Just because its a running joke that speedrunners don’t care about the story because of the effort taken to skip it to save time doesn’t mean speedrunners literally don’t care about it. Kingdom Hearts speedrunners are the only ones I have met that can hash out the entirety of that convoluted mess.
Your experience doesn’t invalidate mine. I watch speedrun events very often and and runners will say stuff “Im not really sure why he wants to kill us but skips the entire fight with clever use of game mechanics that was the boss fight!”. Many of them did play the entire game without speedrunning at first, but many dont.
You’re correct. I’ve watched many live speed runners mention that they only know how to speed run the game because they started playing the game with the intention of speed running it to begin with.
Thanks for confirming, I know it’s true but it’s funny seeing people downvote my comment as if there was an unspoken rule for speedrunners to experience the game in full before speedrunning
Social media people are petty
For anyone wondering, this was done on the virtual console version, so the floating point glitch that lets you skip the climbing pole from Bowser in the fire Sea is available.
The A Button Challenge still stands for the console versions.
Oh boy, is the A Button Challenge still ongoing. There is quite a hunt to further reduce the approx. 18 presses to get 120 stars in a full-game TAS, or to find faster and human-viable strategies to avoid these A presses.
“Still stands” means is impossible. Is there also a “no thumbstick” challenge? Or a “no controller plugged in” challenge?
“Still stands” means that there is no known way to achieve it. Not that it’s known to be impossible.
Until the discovery of the virtual console glitch for BitFS a few years ago, the A button challenge “still stood” for all cases.
“Still stands” means is impossible.
New to speedrunning?
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Has no one really done an RTA 70 star ABC before now?
I love the concept of this challenge, good on this lad for doing this, I thought most strats were TAS only.
Clip of the moment it was beaten: https://clips.twitch.tv/ZanyIntelligentSwanAMPTropPunch-7MB14zIDcRvO0X-a
Video documentary on the history of this challenge (2022) [5h22m]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXbJe-rUNP8
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The jump button. Saved you a click.
More than that, it does all sorts of things that also had to be worked around.
Cool we’re done we completed games, delete your steams everyone we’re doing crossstich now!
H h h , th t’s re lly wesome. Congr tz to the pl yers.
Wow, this success is truly something to be proud of. I extend the most unreserved compliments to the whole group involved. Nintendo’s most well known title is thoroughly deconstructed now. I, for one, find myself delighted by the outcome.
B sed.
It hasn’t though
Well now I don’t know what to believe