Your favourite games: broken. The Tool-Assisted/Speed-Run Thread
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I like speed runs but TAS not so much.Holding the wrong end of the stick since 2009. -
I don't care as long as it looks great
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this is amazing -
SMW Hack SpeedrunHe could've just said they came from another planet but seems keen to convince people with his bullshit pseudoscience that he knows stuff. I wouldn't trust him with my lunch. - SG -
Progress on the BotW Any% has stalled for a month now at just under 40 minutes. I am disappointed. -
Get on the Prey speedrun, less than 8 minutes of your time. -
Speedruns are great. However I find TAS incredibly boring.Holding the wrong end of the stick since 2009.
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It's not just boring, it's utterly pointless. It's just... nothing.
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I imagine they are fun to make - but I find them, as you say, pretty pointless.
Have just noticed I first made my TAS point back in Jan '15. Seems my stance has hardened somewhat.Holding the wrong end of the stick since 2009. -
The ones where they code something inside the games code via gameplay are good. The rest are shite, although the half life 2 one is good fun.
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I can run a marathon in five minutes if I miss most of it out.
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Bravo. I won't bite as you're not that thick.
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No, I get it. There's skill in clearing the garden fences, and knowing that her at number 47 never locks her doors, so you can cut clean through her house. It wouldn't be a waste of everyone's time to watch me doing that.
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It's an age old tedious argument but if you like the mechanics of techniques discovered within the game engine, such as sequence breaks, glitches, out of bounds, impossibly tough techniques and such, then speedruns are great. Ocarina of time any% is a perfect example, that speedrun as it stands now, was believed to be TAS only about 18 months ago.
If you like a game played close to how you would do, with minor skips and glitches, then there's hours long 100% speedruns. -
I find both fairly tedious, but the former is even more pointless than the latter.
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Different strokes then. If I've completed a game normally, I don't want to watch others do it near identical as what is point.
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But you'll sit and watch someone repeat the same pointless exercise to shave milliseconds off a glitch? That's just the same time wasted in a different but more pointless way.
Whatever. Have fun, but let's not pretend it's worth applauding. -
Not to you, no. It's just as much a use of time as browsing YouTube, Facebook, twitter or any other pointless exercise we all undertake.
If we're heading down that route, everything we do is meaningless. What is point. -
the point is to blow our heads up?
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I'm legit wanting a meaning of life now.
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Succinct, honest, strong and stable. I like you tripmans.
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the point of tas is mainly to see how close humans are to the theoretical limits of the game.
People have tas'd mk64 tracks and the aim in the time trials is to get as close to perfection as possible which is in theory the tas. It's a good indicator of the quality of the run.
Tassing can also help discover new techniques so there is value in it.
Cheese just got back the 120 star mario run. 24hrs after losing it. It's incredible really.He could've just said they came from another planet but seems keen to convince people with his bullshit pseudoscience that he knows stuff. I wouldn't trust him with my lunch. - SG -
I can see how useful a TAS can be in seeing what the theoretical limits are, but as something to watch it's of no interest to me.
I find AGDQ runs highly entertaining. The "live" element of them adds to the interest.Holding the wrong end of the stick since 2009. -
It's why I watch Speedruns on Twitch, they're live in front of an audience, adds to the pressure.
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Missed most of this year's Games Done Quick, but plenty to re-watch on Twitch. Here's the Halo 2 Legendary speedrun, starts at 8:25.
Getting out of the maps, finding the easter eggs, sword flying, and generally finding glitches and messing around in that game is one of my very fondest memories in gaming. Halo 3 was a massive disappointment in that regard, much more closed off and invisible walls everywhere. -
I never really got TAS runs, but I watched this video last week and I kind of love the lengths people will go to do ridiculous things like 0.5x A press runs of a level. I actually did a little yelp of joy when I correctly figured out how you get past the syncing speed issue, which is more down to how well the guy explained it than anything else.
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