Board 8 > Awesome Games Done Quick. January 7-14 2018 [AGDQ]

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Two-way LttP randomizer races are much more enjoyable to watch than 4-way by the way. Much easier to follow, especially when both runners are good.
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Like I said I've only seen the one, but I'm inclined to think I'd prefer 4 over 2. I get that it's easier to follow, but I'd prefer to see more variety of paths and find out which one is best over just this vs that. Or like if one person makes a costly decision it seems like it could be effectively over much sooner than a 4-way.

I mean...if you prefer a 2-way race, can't you just pick 2 from a 4-way race to focus on and ignore the others? >_>

Gatarix posted...

I'm probably missing something obvious, but how do I watch past runs?

if you go to the gamesdonequick twitch channel click on "video's." there you can watch all the past stuff.

also, eventually they put all the runs on their youtube channel. that's how i always watch them.
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What's the record for most missed single trick in a row at one of these. Cause this guy is taking one hell of a run at it. I believe we are up to 23 screw ups so far.

Believe it took 29 tries

LOLIAmAnAlt posted...

Are they putting all the long games on during primetime this year and letting the short ones go in the middle of the night/morning

Popular games appear during primetime and accepted longer runs tend to be of popular games.
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UInstinctVegeta posted...

What's the record for most missed single trick in a row at one of these. Cause this guy is taking one hell of a run at it. I believe we are up to 23 screw ups so far.

UInstinctVegeta posted...

Believe it took 29 tries

Which run/trick was this?

turbopuns2 posted...

UInstinctVegeta posted...

What's the record for most missed single trick in a row at one of these. Cause this guy is taking one hell of a run at it. I believe we are up to 23 screw ups so far.

UInstinctVegeta posted...

Believe it took 29 tries

Which run/trick was this?

The flying mirror robot skip in Metroid Prime 3

Since some people are wondering on the potential effects of no kill/save the animals donation incentive we are currently about 65k and 50k behind 2016 and 2017 AGDQ respectively at this time.

Of course there are other factors for less donations (people being upset about the organization in general) plus it could be random fluctuation.

2018 could catch-up (2017 easily caught and surpassed 2016). Though it would take quite the prize pack to surpass 2017 (that last day brought in over a million dollars).
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Half Life: Opposing Force runner literally ending the run with a 360 no-scope lol
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Metroid Prime 3 was a difficult watch. They had a joke about how the motion controls created "immersion" but they beat all the immersion jokes to death, and then beyond death for good measure.

I dozed off and didn't even see the trick being failed 20+ times.
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If there are 4 people running this why are there only 2 screens
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that's what I've been saying on discord. kinda lame.
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Forceful_Dragon posted...

Metroid Prime 3 was a difficult watch. They had a joke about how the motion controls created "immersion" but they beat all the immersion jokes to death, and then beyond death for good measure.

I dozed off and didn't even see the trick being failed 20+ times.

It reminded me of the mirrors edge run a couple of years ago. The runner and the guy on the couch had a running gag where couch guy would pretend to not know what glitchless was and would complain every time the runner did a minor glitch that was still allowed. It wasnt funny the first time they did it, and he literally did it like thirty times through the course of the run.

This one was worse though because the actual run was kinda bad too.

Strong marathon so far though imo. Theres only been two runs I didnt like that Ive seen so the ratio of good to bad has been very solid.
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I was very confused because the music they are playing now is Slay the Spire and I was like "Im not playingthat why is it open?"

Good choice music team!
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Crowd Cam
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I'd enjoy seeing the RE7 VR speed run at another GDQ.
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RE7 speedrun was fantastic, highly recommended.

I'm kinda surprised they got a game with that much swearing in.

Not complaining though, run was great.
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Paratroopa1 posted...

RE7 speedrun was fantastic, highly recommended.

i've never played nor been interested in silent hill, but this guy is very fun to watch. in the same kind of way werster is fun to watch. he's just extremely well prepared and can explain things well while playing.

This whole horror block has been fantastic. RE7 was great, the race was a lot of fun even if they both almost died at the exact same spot, and this Silent Hill run is very solid as well. I missed L4D2 and whatever game was before RE7, so I'll have to go back and check those out.
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the announcer politely asked if he could read off a donation. good job! it always triggers me when the announcer just starts rattling off donations without knowing if the runner has to concentrate on a super difficult trick or whatever.
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Totally disagree with Whitman Price about who the best Final Fantasy is. Though I suppose many people don't know about Michelangelo since he was only released overseas and we got Raphael here in the states instead.
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aww yeah battletoads time!

man TMR keeps failing the turbo tunnel glitch :-(
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and now he died in arctic caverns.

what a terrible run. guess he's just nervous.
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oh dtysonator donated and got a shoutout from TMR. he's actually a gamefaqs user!
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i'll actually put my disdain for the event on hold to watch the re7 vod at some point

only because it's carcinogen though
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ok still under estimate. it wasn't as bad as i thought it was.
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It wasn't bad at all

That trick causes regular resets when he's doing real attempts all the time, it's really that unpredictable/precise. The only reason the death in arctic caverns cost so much time is because he used the warp to quickly get back to where he was instead of collecting lives and so he didn't have any extras when he messed up
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Had a headache last night and had to miss the horror block, just go through watching the RE7 run. Super fun.
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WazzupGenius00 posted...

That trick causes regular resets when he's doing real attempts all the time, it's really that unpredictable/precise.

uh i've watched tons of TMR battletoads attempts (both any% and warpless) and this is bullshit. "regular resets all the time"? he resets there sometimes, sure, but 90% of the time he gets it.

other than failing the glitch several times and the arctic caverns death it was a fine run, though, i agree.
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and TMR succeeded at blindfolded turbo tunnel!
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Damn, I missed the first 5 minutes of Metroid. Gotta come back to see the intro.
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Don't overlook the Dragon Quest speedrun, the precision required there is amazing
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Coming up next: Wario Land 4
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so
this totally slipped my mind
any runs that were particularly cool this time around?
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crazygamer999 posted...

any runs that were particularly cool this time around?

- battletoads. i'm biased because i love seeing TMR run this game but yeah. terrible start but other than that it was a good run. unfortunately no big jon on the couch this time but PJ is great too. also, it ends with TMR finally succeeding at doing turbo tunnel blindfolded at a GDQ.
- dragon warrior. very impressive run and i love nescardinality.
- hollow knight. was a pretty cool run with good commentary from the runner.

not much else sticks out to me so far. haven't seen too many runs though.
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how was the MMX4 run?
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MMX4 run was really fun. I'd recommend it.
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Not sure on how well-executed the gameplay was but RE7 was a fun watch at the very least
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RE7 was really good. And seems like he had to adapt on the fly often so that was cool too

Superstar saga is up now for whoever was waiting for that
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That setup block 7 looks to be the perfect length for Super Mario Odyssey any%. *thinking face emoji*
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It's not. Game submissions closed before Odyssey was released.
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Suprak the Stud posted...

That setup block 7 looks to be the perfect length for Super Mario Odyssey any%. *thinking face emoji*

It's probably Super Metroid tbh
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It also lists SNES as the console

Obviously it's a reverse boss order of Super Metroid

>_>
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Didn't they do Super Metroid RBO not that long ago?
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Super Metroid could also make a good deal of sense. If they were hoping to capture the fire in a bottle from last year when they did BotW, there are really only a couple of games they could put in there that could hope to draw anything close to the insanity of the final day.
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Actually the setup blocks should be...

SB3: I Wanna Be the Boshy (100%)
SB4: TASbot plays Super Monkey Ball
SB5: Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! + Super Punch-Out!! (2 Games, 1 Controller)
SB6: Dark Souls III (Any% NTD)
SB7: Super Dram World 2 (100%)
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ScareChan posted...

Superstar saga is up now for whoever was waiting for that

it is just as wild as I was expecting

"the big skip" lol