[Event] Awesome Games Done Quick 2017 (Jan. 8-15) - Page 15

On January 15 2017 14:23 Vaelone wrote:
Just woke up, was Super Metroid run hype this year?

Also is Undertale run worth watching for someone that dislikes the game? Seems like a bizarre choise for last game of the event too when it's usually been some classic game beloved or at least appreciated by just about everyone.

On January 17 2017 21:33 Nesserev wrote:

Nope, as far as I know, there were only 2 bans:
1) the hat incident
- part of the couch of Ape Escape 2 was warned for wearing MAGA hats on stream
- PvtCb, who was also on the couch, was banned, even though he never wore a hat; he was warned that a "zero tolerance"-policy applied to him beforehand. Allegedly because of shittalking GDQ a lot in the past, and he made some bad twitter posts last year (quoted a mass murderer when saying not to go to AGDQ), but GDQ never gave an official reason. They first accused him of wearing one of the hats, which wasn't true, but then was kicked out anyway for what seems to be a cover of hard-to-check reasons. If the GDQ staff wants you out, you'll probably be out in no time.
(Because of association, Cyberdemon531 was also banned)

2) wahluigi
One of the couch sitters during the 4-way Metroid Prime race told a whole crowd of WAAAH-memers to go kill themselves, after the runners had asked them multiple times to stop being so annoying. Also in this case, the person who got banned, had critized GDQ many times before... but I doubt that a clean slate would've made any difference when someone tells a whole crowd to kill themselves in front of 250k viewers.

On January 18 2017 01:27 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:


??? The event still is tons of fun, both to go to and to watch, and speedrunning comes first 350+ days out of the year. It's definitely not boring, and there's no harm in raising millions of dollars for charity while spreading awareness of the awesome gamer/ speedrunner scene

Sometimes, drama is unavoidable... don't let the occasional jerk on stream ruin it for you! Millions of people watched and enjoyed the marathon, and GDQs are bigger than ever! That's great news for the scene, as well as for the charities.

On January 18 2017 02:20 KingDime wrote:
AGDQ always gets me in the mood to get a run prepped for SGDQ, thinking Doom 2 since it has been awhile since being in a GDQ but it's so damn hard. Better get practicing!

On January 18 2017 02:49 farvacola wrote:
I just miss the bonus stream

On January 18 2017 01:55 Logo wrote:
I'm surprised that they don't have an audio solution worked out for the runners; give the runners the option of noise canceling headphones that only feed in the necessary audio and let the crowd cheer as much as they want.

On January 18 2017 02:20 KingDime wrote:
AGDQ always gets me in the mood to get a run prepped for SGDQ, thinking Doom 2 since it has been awhile since being in a GDQ but it's so damn hard. Better get practicing!