Longplays/playthroughs/speedrunning - games to watch - The Bear and Badger

davyK

Watched a Mr. Bones playthrough. What a mindfuck that game is!!! A Saturn exclusive.

Almost makes me want to snag a copy.

mk64

Gdq seems to be really putting out some niche games this year which is great. I’ve also seen a lot more shorter runs which is nice as I like 20-30 min games often more than I have the patience for the 3hr slogs through some Japanese RPG I’ve barely heard of.

nick_md

Moot_Geeza wrote:

mk64 wrote:

My friend is playing through ever single SNES game to completion. His twitch is MeridianPrime. He did N64 last year. Thinks this will take him about three years. There’s plenty of content already up of his streams.

Quality.

QFPT because I missed this and yeah, quality.

I'm also on board with ~30min runs rather than hours long.

mk64

nick_md wrote:

Moot_Geeza wrote:

mk64 wrote:

My friend is playing through ever single SNES game to completion. His twitch is MeridianPrime. He did N64 last year. Thinks this will take him about three years. There’s plenty of content already up of his streams.

Quality.

QFPT because I missed this and yeah, quality. I'm also on board with ~30min runs rather than hours long.

Didn't give much back story but he is a hardcore gamer, he's played almost every game he's touched to a fairly high level so is generally very skilled. He's played most of the main games before but even i was surprised when he cruised through Ghouls n Goblins pretty much first go. So there's respect from me in watching someone pick up a game from scratch and beat it which differs from watching someone who has spent 500hrs + on a game and has honed every single element of it. Lends itself to some "do that" screaming at the screen every now and again but he's generally not stuck on anything for long.

nick_md

Will check his stream history out later, I'm not in the mood for films atm so something like this is perfect. Cheers for the rec, Tom.

davyK

Is he on YT too? Just watched someone with the same name beat SNES Dr. Mario. (beat lvls 1-20 with no top outs).

Next level skills on show. Impressive.

mk64

That will be him. He’s comparatively best at dr Mario. He’s a beast at that game but the scene is meh so he’s not famous despite being amazing at it.

Watched some cool GDQ today. Highlight was the halo3 run. Then the time splitters2 run which has just made me realise the community is getting a bit of a revival. And then Bear Saber which is a rhythm game in Hive. It looks like DDR with hands and was pretty amazing to watch. I’ve not done any VR stuff before but this has peaked my interest.

mk64

Beat saber not bear saber lol

mk64

interesting video by jobst on the theoretical best time you could get on a minecraft speedrun

nick_md

Saw that pop up, my evening viewing sorted tonight!

mk64

i've never played minecraft in my life but my daughter loves it so i like watching the videos, learning about it and then conversing with her and seeing her face when I namedrop items and stuff

nick_md

Some new WR Ninja Gaiden vid up from Jobst, will be checking that out tonight.

mk64

It’s pretty cool

mk64

New shortcuts in mk64 there’s a video doing the rounds which I don’t have the link to hand for but the new Luigi raceway shortcut has changed massively. How it’s taken someone so long to get this to work I’ve no idea. He makes it look easy

https://youtu.be/MYibDiE6ygQ

davyK

Enjoyed this one .... had me going back to the All Stars version. I completed SMB3 on NES way back but never really went back to it - so I fancy just trying for a warpless 1CC now.

I prefer glitch-free runs. This uses about three in World 7. What gets me is that he is jabbering the whole way through and gets a WR.

davyK

mk64 wrote:

New shortcuts in mk64 there’s a video doing the rounds which I don’t have the link to hand for but the new Luigi raceway shortcut has changed massively. How it’s taken someone so long to get this to work I’ve no idea. He makes it look easy https://youtu.be/MYibDiE6ygQ

He does make it look easy....I suspect it isn't though - at least not for the likes of me.

mk64

spent the last few days watching a full playthrough of GTAIV. It was really good. I didn't complete the game (not sure why) when I had it. But yea it is such an amazing game. The sheer beauty of the open world is astounding for it's time. I'm interested to see how it compares to GTAV which i'll watch next. I think the action is a bit samey by the end (chase, shoot, repeat) but i think that's in part because the playthrough doesn't go on dates or side stuff like the strip club which you might do on a normal play through etc. Obviously a tonne of content i didn't see. But the main stories are quite good!

Unlikely

You spent over thirteen hours watching that?

mk64

Yea I watched about an hour and a half a day

mk64

Summer games done quick was/is on last week. Just watched this. Fucking hell. Never seen skills on any game more than this.

https://youtu.be/X2ogX44s5Cs

davyK

Oh....didn't know that was on. Love a bit of GDQ.

davyK

Insane skill on show here.... This sort of thing isn't really GDQ compatible though. We really need GDB (games done brilliantly)....rhythm action and shmups are time fixed and its all about score - so they will always be a fringe thing on GDQ but maybe that's good enough?

davyK

TheMexicanRunner doing Battletoads....including the turbo tunnel blindfolded!!!!!!!!

Moot_Geeza

Brilliant game. Nice to see that the speedrunning community has got to grips with it. Not for everyone but comfortably the best autorunner in existence imo.

ShabbyMcCrabby

It's a fun series that.

Moot_Geeza

Nothing can touch the original but the sequel is legit too.

@acemuzzy

Moot_Geeza

Ah but you meant the Youtube series. Yep, watched a couple yesterday. Shovel Knight was a good one.

ShabbyMcCrabby

This is excellent.

Really cool to see a detailed breakdown of all the tech that went into the run

Moot_Geeza

50% off on Switch at the mo. I was briefly tempted but I think I'll just watch it nearly kill a few randoms instead.

mk64

are all of these games close enough to be called/deemed clones of eachother? These games which are one screen navigate using jumps/flying tech etc?

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