Yeah you guys can catch cosmo doing zelda OoT mst-j practice speedruns on twitch sometimes. And siglemic practices super mario 64 120-star, which is pretty spectacular as well. Can't wait for this year's AGDQ! Gotta see romscout and RaneofSotN do SotN race again... hell, I'm even oddly stoked for Carcinogen for some reason.

red_

United States8474 Posts

December 31 2011 17:25 GMT

#26

Some of the scheduled game times(which I assume means the planned time to do the run in) seem downright absurd, I must watch to see if they succeed(and then be incredibly impressed at the way they do it).

Pholon

Netherlands6142 Posts

December 31 2011 18:03 GMT

#27

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=299372

^^

RoninShogun

United States315 Posts

December 31 2011 18:12 GMT

#28

Last year was super sweet, had fun watching Metroid Prime run. This year Im looking forward to the 70 star Super Mario 64 attempt, as Siglemic has stated he's going after it next now that he has the 120 star record
Edit: Also, 3:05:00 for Cosmo to run through OoT? He's had two great runs in the past week sub 2:40:00, so I hope he gets to show one of those

Vortok

United States830 Posts

December 31 2011 18:54 GMT

#29

SDA is one of the most concentrated spots of awesome on the internet, and we get to glimpse in for a few days. It's mind boggling how far they've bent over some of these games.

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (I think) is one that stood out to me last year. Likely partly because the Castlevania before it in the Marathon wasn't quite as visually impressive (believe the line was "Awesome Games Done Quick, brought to you by Raaaaagggghhhhhh"). He was learning how to break magical seals 10 minutes after he'd already broken them. Granted many runs aren't much nicer to their respective games. I think Majora's Mask lasts about 10 minutes before it's stripped of all integrity and is left whimpering in a corner, wondering where continuity went. Ocarina lasts about 5 before the thread starts to unravel.

And then there's some games that aren't so much about breaking the game, as it is just jaw dropping execution (granted that's every speed run, but w/e). Come, together we shall have our fond, childhood memories ravaged and destroyed. For ESPORTS!

tyr

France1686 Posts

December 31 2011 19:03 GMT

#30

Damn, I've been waiting for this for a few months now.
I've watched SDA's marathon since the very first one. I'll definitely tune in to this one. A lot of great games this year.
Good luck to everyone involved. ^^

+ Show Spoiler +

I need to be careful, 999 ...

RoieTRS

United States2569 Posts

December 31 2011 19:55 GMT

#31

The pokemonyellow run that tribute posted on page1 was the reason I got into speedrunning in the first place.

Just some advice, if there is any one thing you should watch, it is trihex's yoshi's island run. The guy loves to show off how fucking good he is and definitely makes it entertaining.

Some things I personally am waiting for:
cosmo's ocarina of time mst
cygpher's smrpg and megaman2
tiki's megaman x

Flicky

England2669 Posts

December 31 2011 22:25 GMT

#32

On January 01 2012 03:12 RoninShogun wrote:
Last year was super sweet, had fun watching Metroid Prime run. This year Im looking forward to the 70 star Super Mario 64 attempt, as Siglemic has stated he's going after it next now that he has the 120 star record
Edit: Also, 3:05:00 for Cosmo to run through OoT? He's had two great runs in the past week sub 2:40:00, so I hope he gets to show one of those

All the time estimates have a lot of leeway put in to make up for setup time and just incase everything goes horribly. The actual run time will be lower.

See.Blue

United States2673 Posts

January 03 2012 17:44 GMT

#33

Love these. Some of my alltime fav charities, will def be donating again

Capped

United Kingdom7236 Posts

January 03 2012 18:02 GMT

#34

As much as i like cfox7's speedruns, he is no siglemic..

Cant wait for cosmo and the FF7 speedrun O.O i will be watching all of that xD

red_

United States8474 Posts

January 04 2012 13:05 GMT

#35

Stream starts today at 3 PM EST, bumping thread =]

TheKefka

Croatia11752 Posts

January 04 2012 18:27 GMT

#36

Cloud is.....a fucking pussy.

NationInArms

United States1553 Posts

January 04 2012 18:38 GMT

#37

Tifa: Esports <----Best name EVER!

Golgotha

Korea (South)8418 Posts

January 04 2012 18:56 GMT

#38

cloud is not a pussy! haters!

cool stuff will tune in.

Clow

Brazil880 Posts

January 04 2012 19:14 GMT

#39

I'll be donating to name Tifa ESPORTS, what time exactly is FFVII being streamed? Use the automatic time formating so I don't have to convert please! :}