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rebuffering
Canada2436 Posts
On June 30 2014 08:04 SigmaoctanusIV wrote: I liked this event but I feel the last one was a bit more epic hard to beat that million dollar Lucca power shot. + this year didn't have Yoshi's Island probably my favorite run. Weird considering Trihex was there, and he normally runs that game if im not mistaken? | ||
yamato77
11589 Posts
On June 30 2014 08:04 SigmaoctanusIV wrote: I liked this event but I feel the last one was a bit more epic hard to beat that million dollar Lucca power shot. + this year didn't have Yoshi's Island probably my favorite run. Don't forget TriHex setting off the fire alarm with the speed of his mashing in Yoshi's, rofl. | ||
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Emnjay808
United States10656 Posts
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Fleetfeet
Canada2556 Posts
On June 30 2014 07:09 rebuffering wrote: Also, gocnak has a 3 hour tutorial on twitch which ive been watching, alot to take in thats for sure. The thing is most people run HL2 with Source Engine (build 5135), whereas most of us are using the latest "Steampipe" version, which apparently has some issues for speedrunning, but is still doable. I actually made a small post on Reddit asking about the differences, here My post. Seems like it may be worth getting that Source Unpack version going, which as far as i know we can only get my messagin Yalter in Steam for a link, which to me is odd. But imma scour google for maybe another link somewhere. Anyways, GL! Lemme know if you get your hands on the source unpack. I haven't noticed any tricks not working, but I'm kinda hoping the stability issues are beacuse of steampipe. And yeah, that tutorial is sick. The only real new tech is this crouch clipping + save and quit, as far as I've noticed, so the fact that the tut is almost a year old doesn't matter that much. Half the fun for me is finding my own setups for ABH launches etc anyways, so the fact that a lot of those have changed doesn't really mean much to me :D | ||
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Tribute
United States146 Posts
On June 30 2014 08:22 rebuffering wrote: Weird considering Trihex was there, and he normally runs that game if im not mistaken? Trihex didn't even plan on going until like 2 months ago, and even then only because everyone else was going. Any% Yoshi's Island was offered by Crispy, which ended up getting rejected due to the fact that they wanted more variety and Yoshi's Island is more or less a lock in for AGDQ each year, plus the fact that Yoshi's Island has been in every *GDQ since the very first one. | ||
itsjustatank
Hong Kong9154 Posts
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rebuffering
Canada2436 Posts
On June 30 2014 09:41 Fleetfeet wrote: Lemme know if you get your hands on the source unpack. I haven't noticed any tricks not working, but I'm kinda hoping the stability issues are beacuse of steampipe. And yeah, that tutorial is sick. The only real new tech is this crouch clipping + save and quit, as far as I've noticed, so the fact that the tut is almost a year old doesn't matter that much. Half the fun for me is finding my own setups for ABH launches etc anyways, so the fact that a lot of those have changed doesn't really mean much to me :D Maybe its just me, but fucking ABHing seems so inconsistent for me, its like 30% of the time i can get it, the rest im just hopping like an idiot with not extra speed, guess more practice i suppose. | ||
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tyr
France1686 Posts
AGDQ 2014's lineup was actually very weak (that's of course a personal opinion, though it's shared by many more speedrun friends) and SGDQ was only slightly better. I hope 2015 will go back to the same hype levels I had when watching the previous years. | ||
GTR
51453 Posts
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LasTLiE
United States428 Posts
On June 30 2014 11:27 tyr wrote: The GDQs game selection has been questionable for the past 2-3 events now. Very few PC games and they claim to not want to have the sames games twice in a row but they keep having the same Mega Man and Metroid segments. AGDQ 2014's lineup was actually very weak (that's of course a personal opinion, though it's shared by many more speedrun friends) and SGDQ was only slightly better. I hope 2015 will go back to the same hype levels I had when watching the previous years. For PC games at least, they've always said they're hesitant to add them because of additional setup time that is usually required and the numerous other problems PC games can have. A pretty good example of this was the Super Meat Boy run. Something was running on the PC that was causing the physics of the game to behave differently and they didn't figure out what it was until halfway through the run (and up until they fixed it,the runner was having a lot of trouble with it). Also in Witwix's I Wanna Be The Boshy run he mentioned that the computer he was using was the only one he found at the event that could run the game properly (I assume he meant a high enough framerate). Considering that plus the risk of random crashes it's somewhat understandable that they don't add a whole lot of PC games to the schedule. | ||
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KingDime
Canada750 Posts
Super meat boy is unfortunate and I could see runners straying away from it for awhile. AGDQ meat boy race had massive tech issues there as well. | ||
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Chro
United States240 Posts
On June 30 2014 11:27 tyr wrote: The GDQs game selection has been questionable for the past 2-3 events now. Very few PC games and they claim to not want to have the sames games twice in a row but they keep having the same Mega Man and Metroid segments. AGDQ 2014's lineup was actually very weak (that's of course a personal opinion, though it's shared by many more speedrun friends) and SGDQ was only slightly better. I hope 2015 will go back to the same hype levels I had when watching the previous years. To be fair, megaman and metroid are some of the corner stones in gaming, period. Its the same if you complained about zelda or mario games. Its why doom/quake are on the list every time, you have to give respect where its due. I think PC games are ran less in general, check speedrunslive out and see how many PC games are being played compared to console games. Right now its at least 90% console games, or PC games that are trying to bring back the feelings of old console games. | ||
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ragz_gt
9172 Posts
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crate
United States2474 Posts
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SKC
Brazil18828 Posts
Add that to the technical issue with running early windows or even DOS games, or patching and PC specs for recent games, and it makes sense that there aren't that many people that run PC games. | ||
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red_
United States8474 Posts
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onlywonderboy
United States23745 Posts
On June 30 2014 17:18 red_ wrote: I can't decide if I think Naegleria is the best thing or the worst thing about GDQs/GDQ Bonus Stream specifically. Solidly on the fence. I haven't watched this bonus stream, but I had a pretty similar feeling after AGDQ. Have there been any Mario Party money matches yet? Those are the best. | ||
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TRAP[yoo]
Hungary6026 Posts
On June 30 2014 21:49 onlywonderboy wrote: I haven't watched this bonus stream, but I had a pretty similar feeling after AGDQ. Have there been any Mario Party money matches yet? Those are the best. mario party 2 was on earlier but i dont think that they are allowed to do money matches on stream anymore. at least thats how it was last agdq if i remember correctly | ||
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greenelve
Germany1392 Posts
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Drazerk
United Kingdom31255 Posts
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