Do speedruns impress you?

Do speedruns impress you?

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No. I'm only interested in TAS to see how far the technical limitations of a game can be pushed.

yeah but 99% of the time i would rather watch a longplay of a game i haven't seen yet than watch a speedrun of something i already know

Fucking based. I dont want to watch some retard grind the same game for years to shave off 2 seconds when its already been done at peak perfection before.

It's literally just memorization, and it's even worse when it uses out of bounds cheats or warps directly to the credits or some shit. It's not like a real competitive game where you have to adapt your strategies and tactics in real time to an opponent who is doing the same thing.

Not anymore

In the way that a deeply autistic person memorizing train arrival schedules does, yeah.

Yeah, WR videos are cool. Sitting theyre watching their streams is stupid. SM64 is such ludo, and you're bitrate video makes it kino.

It's amusing to see what you can do by breaking a game down with exploits but I don't consider it to be a legit run. It's honestly not any different than playing through a game with godmode on.

i've heard about carpetless but haven't seen it

There are people that speedrun in games with scoring systems. And speedruns typically have shit score because the player is trying to bypass as much of the game as they possibly can to get to the end unless timing offers an absurdly high multiplier the scores are all shit.

I guess if there's no scoring system, speedrunning can offer replayability for a game. Number chasing can take a game that normally people would only play through once into endless hours of replayability.

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Not anymore, but I still enjoy races, if you're aware of runkiller moments it's like watching a sports game

I like speedruns of games I like by players that love the game/series inside and out. CovertMuffin is a runner who does Jedi Academy, and he's a goober who laughs a lot but he clearly loves the game.

>It's literally just memorization
Why do people keep saying everything that isn't PVP is just memorization? There's tons of finger dexterity and on-the-fly thinking involved in actually playing a video game.

when and how did normalfags infest the community with their normalfag political opinions?

It's not something I'm capable of so for the most part yes.
However what really impresses me is speedruns of strategy games and other games where you control multiple units. Since on top of the usual mechanical executions you have for speedruns there's also just the fact they take hour+ missions and squeeze them down into 3 minute runs, usually without glitches. Watching people speedrun stuff like the commandos games makes me feel like a total brainlet because I sit there and take like 2 hours just puzzling that shit out slowly.

Yes, but only technical speedruns (and TAS)
Memory editing glitches are gay as fuck and ruined speedrunning

Not at all.

Because it fucking is? Speedrunners literally train muscle memory to get the most optimal routes for a game. I.E. memorization. Many of the best speedrunners have absolute garbage dexterity when it comes to learning new games, they only get good at the few they have autistic obsessions with and want to speedrun.

It's memorization when there is a single fastest route through a game (with maybe a few known variations due to unmanipulable RNG) which describes 99% of speedruns. You're not actually doing anything new with each attempt; you're literally just doing the same thing each time and resetting if you fumble a predetermined input or get fucked by RNG

>Do speedruns impress you?
Only when it isn't about Nintendo games. It's more entretaining to see the shit people come up to optimize something like NES Ninja Gaiden than someone doing the same bing bing wahoo BLJ's we've seen a thousand times 20 years ago.

That said, Mario Kart time trials tend to be pretty entretaining.

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TAS? Absolutely.
RTA? Nah.

>memory ending glitches ruined speedrunning
Thats why seperate categories exist.

>SPEEDRUNS HAVE NO REAL MERIT IT'S JUST MEMORIZATION
As usual Any Forumsirgins with not a single skill try to bring everyone down to feel better about themselves

>resetting
That's for excel simulators unsuitable for speedrunning like 8 hour RPGs or PC games balanced around abusing quicksaves. In actual games, people have to recover from their mistakes.

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