Awesome Games Done Quick 2013 - Speedrunnin' for Charity

@CitizenCoffeeCake said:

@Vonocourt: I see, thanks for the info duder. The chat is a cesspool.

Yeah, reddit turns anything it touches into absolute shit.

Awesome event, just happened across it because someone left a link in the seaserpent chat and now I've watched for something like 30 hours. Super meat boy 106% run was great, and the batman AC 100% run was nuts too.

Metroid Prime 2 just started a few min ago.

Crazy God of War 2 stuff right now.

They're a couple of hours into an EarthBound run right now!

http://www.twitch.tv/SpeedDemosArchiveSDA/new

Come on you fuckers! Super Monkey Balls 1 & 2 are up right about now!

Watching. So far I'm liking the games that are pure skill and minimal gliching, and the ones that are pretty much entirely glitch based. Games that are sort of in the middle of that seem to be a little more boring.

Super Meat Boy (skill) and Amnesia (crazy glitch mania) have been my favorites so far.

Monkey Ball got TENSE there for a bit as speed runner was down to no extra lives.

Just have to say, the stream is quite a lot better after hiding the chat.

So does anyone know if they'll upload the separate games sometime? Wouldn't mind watching a few that I missed.

The Awful Games Done Quick block is about to start. First up is Sonic the Hedgehog 2006.

The Awful Games Done Quick block is now up.

Starting off with Sonic 06.

Sonic 06 was pretty entertaining for its brokenness. Also can't believe how broken Shadow the Hedgehog is. The runner beat it in 18 min.

@Ryan@patrickklepek

Friday The 13th beaten in 8 minutes 21 seconds. Are you cool enough dudes to try a sub 1 hour 30 minute run?

http://www.giantbomb.com/spookin-with-scoops-friday-the-13th/17-6765/

This evening is must watch! Goldeneye followed by Super Metroid followed by Metroid Zero Mission. After that...

DARK SOULS!! o_o

Dark Souls is starting... god I love this stream. Been watching the archives on Twitch during games I don't really care about. So much entertainment in the last week.

@TyCobb said:

Dark Souls is starting... god I love this stream. Been watching the archives on Twitch during games I don't really care about. So much entertainment in the last week.

Agreed. This urn is going to be awesome.

Well... in 7 minutes he made it to where it took me several hours and another several to make it past. Makes the game look so easy!

Mass Effect is getting fucking worked over right about now!

LOL quicksaving and loading twice gets you out of bounds in the Citadel Tower during your very first visit to The Citadel. At about 15 minutes into the game.

Became a Spectre at 21 minutes.

Completed Feros in 7 minutes.

Completed Virmire in 13 minutes.

Completed Therum in 12 minutes.

Completed Ilos in 10 minutes.

Saren shoots himself at 1 hour, 34 minutes and 8 seconds.

Mass Effect completed in 1 hour, 37 minutes and 58 seconds.

God damn.

Final Fantasy IX up now!

Zelda 2 coming up.

Also ordered 3 of the AGDQ shirts.

Oh here's the thread-actual. Link to the Past just started!

http://sv.twitch.tv/speeddemosarchivesda

Ocarina of Time 100% up after Link to the Past. They'll also do the Ocarina of Time any percent, which is apparently a 35 minute run. :p

This run is going amazingly well.

1 hour 12 minutes and it's Turtle Rock Time!

Faaaantastic! /FrankWest

edit: 1 hour 17 minutes and Tuttle Rock is complete. lol wow.

I wonder if this marathon actually will hit the 400,000 usd dream goal..?

e2: Oh noooo ran out of magic in Ganon's Tower and was within shooting distance of a WR time

e3: $282,287.01 raised so far

A man dressed as Link is playing 100% Ocarina of Time.

"My favorite fact about runnerguy is that he was once in a OoT race, but his internet had gone down by the time he had finished his run. Not letting this beat him he grabbed his video camera, for proof, ran out of his apartment and sprinted for about 5 minutes to get to his library to upload his 'I finished the race' message. He got 2nd place in the race." -Paused

@Fattony12000 said:

Mass Effect is getting fucking worked over right about now!

LOL quicksaving and loading twice gets you out of bounds in the Citadel Tower during your very first visit to The Citadel. At about 15 minutes into the game.

Became a Spectre at 21 minutes.

Completed Feros in 7 minutes.

Completed Virmire in 13 minutes.

Completed Therum in 12 minutes.

Completed Ilos in 10 minutes.

Saren shoots himself at 1 hour, 34 minutes and 8 seconds.

Mass Effect completed in 1 hour, 37 minutes and 58 seconds.

God damn.

I ran through ME skipping all cutscenes/dialogue/combat/side-missions and it still took me 5 hours to do on Insanity with a level 50+ soldier. Damn that guy was good.

Giant Bomb was just mentioned, seems like we sent someone over to the stream from here. Let yourself be known to us, because you're awesome and donated to the cause!

Phantom Ganon was beaten at 1 hour, 12 minutes and 37 seconds into the run.

Reached Ganon's Castle at 1 hour, 25 minutes and 34 seconds in! He could complete the game right here if he wasn't doing a 100% run.

Right now we've got 33k watching and are just 3k away from reaching $300,000 raised!

1 hour 18 minutes

Got the slingshot. Man. What a slow run. hue hue hue.

e: Oh my god, he lifted up a slingshot to the camera while getting it. I am amazed and childishly happy over things.

@Fattony12000 said:

Giant Bomb was just mentioned, seems like we sent someone over to the stream from here. Let yourself be known to us, because you're awesome and donated to the cause!

Phantom Ganon was beaten at 1 hour, 12 minutes and 37 seconds into the run.

Reached Ganon's Castle at 1 hour, 25 minutes and 34 seconds in! He could complete the game right here if he wasn't doing a 100% run.

Right now we've got 33k watching and are just 3k away from reaching $300,000 raised!

If it was during the OoT 100%. then that was me, Mace. I saw this thread on the first day it started and been watching/leaving the stream on since the tail end of Mischief Makers. So excited to see the DMC3 run.

Did my ears lie to me? A 300k donation? I LOVE THE VIDEO GAME COMMUNITY!

Wait, nvm. They just hit 300k. I still love the video game community!

It had never occurred to me that Link and Peter Pan look similar.

This Any% OoT run is insane.

@TyCobb said:

This Any% OoT run is insane.

Yeah. OoT is super broken. Always fun to watch that run.

Ocarina of Time beat in almost 23 minutes (22:38).

Devil May Cry 3. Can't wait to see epic skills.

This has been a ton of fun to watch chunks of. I've seen OoT runs before but having someone describe the wrong warp insanity while pulling it off was awesome!

Did anyone else hear the donation announcement from one Patrick Klepek earlier today? Heard one from John Bain (TotalBiscuit) as well but I imagine that name is more common than Klepek.

Finally DMC3 is done. Jeeeeez that was painful to watch.

Snake Eater up next!

e: FANTASTIC. Very scary when he was fighting The Fury. He nearly died.

1:29:12 was the real time finish. European Extreme. Fox Hound rating!

@Vinny_Says: Yuuuuuuuuuuuuup! It's given me inspiration to try and rescue my Mass Effect trilogy 100% playthrough. You think Brad had issues when he was trying to deal with his save game fiasco? Oh boy. Imagine that situation, but with all combinations of male, female, paragon, renegade and hardest difficulty setting thrown into the mix.

@ESREVER: Yuuuuuuuuuuuuup! Thanks for giving to a good cause duder!

ON STREAM RIGHT NOW

POKEMON GOLD, TO BE COMPLETED IN LESS THAN TWO HOURS.

FUCKED THAT PIDGEOTTO UP WITH JUST ONE HP LEFT. SHIT MAN.

THAT GOLDEEN NEARLY SNATCHED THE LIFE RIGHT OUTTA HIM. BEATEN WITH ONE HP LEFT. AGAIN. SHIT MAN.

WIPED ON ONIX. SHIT MAN.

CLONING TOTODILES OH SHIT.

Werster is going insane.

Scratch that! He just hit the 1/60th of a second timing he needed to start doing this game rotten.

OH GOD.

HE HAS 28 POKEMONS ON HIS PERSON.

CLUTCH SAVING BEFORE THE FINAL FIGHT, WITH JUST 24 HP.

He's mucking around with some Yellow now.

POKE MANS IS DONEZO

Just heard a donation message read out with the word 'duders' in it. Yay!

45k people are watching siglemic tear up Super Mario 64 right now.

@Fattony12000: Yeah, notch tweeted...

I really like this run, but I've seen it before. If you haven't, you should watch it!

Pull up a chair, because Cosmo is giving a fucking master class in Wind Waker right now.

@mnzy: Get those Notch dollars!

You know something is right in the world when 46K people are watching Wind Waker.

So I fell asleep last night during the DMC 3 run. Was it really that bad? Dude looked like he was struggling early on even.

@Demoskinos said:

So I fell asleep last night during the DMC 3 run. Was it really that bad? Dude looked like he was struggling early on even.

The dude really didn't give a fuck.

This is a video of the any % Ocarina speed run posted this past May. Not the one from this marathon but same procedure with commentary. Pretty crazy:

So I fell asleep last night during the DMC 3 run. Was it really that bad? Dude looked like he was struggling early on even.

@Jack268 said:

@Demoskinos said:

So I fell asleep last night during the DMC 3 run. Was it really that bad? Dude looked like he was struggling early on even.

He was apparently really drunk. I hear he even trash talked Mirrored some. At least he didn't get banned from the event like a certain other dude

Ooo drama, who got banned?

They ought to allow controllers with turbo for some of these text heavy games. Mashing through text for hours and hours has to be tough on the fingers. :p

@HerbieBug said:

They ought to allow controllers with turbo for some of these text heavy games. Mashing through text for hours and hours has to be tough on the fingers. :p

The Japanese speed runners started using turbo controllers and the US speed runners frown upon it.

@Jack268 said:

@Pie: Peaches__, one of the cooler dudes. He got really drunk and didn't want to embarass the charity by going on stream in that state, so he let another guy take his spot where he was supposed to run some game. Uyama (The guy who hosts the marathon and I think the founder of SDA) got really pissed off and said Peaches wouldn't be allowed to run a game for the marathon ever again. I don't know if the ban also means he can't even come to the marathon though. Either way, Peaches isn't at the event any more.

Huh, seems kind of harsh but whatevs

@JJOR64 said:

@HerbieBug said:

They ought to allow controllers with turbo for some of these text heavy games. Mashing through text for hours and hours has to be tough on the fingers. :p

The Japanese speed runners started using turbo controllers and the US speed runners frown upon it.

Interesting. The whole speed running community is new to me.