My GBCER7 Plans are Varied and Dumb
By thatpinguino 1 Comments
Hello everyone,
As you've no doubt seen, the seventh Giantbomb Community Endurance Run is a scant two weeks away and our events and prizes are being announced fairly regularly. With that in mind, I thought I'd put up a quick blog post to let people know what I'm up to for the event and since @zombiepie's announcement went so well.
On Friday after UPF I'm going to be competing with my friend Billy in our second Blindfolded Brouhaha (it's the name until we come up with a better one. This is a gaming contest wherein we are both blindfolded, an unknown competitive game is put in front of us on the versus screen, and then we remove our blindfolds and compete in a best 2 out of 3 in whatever game it is. Last year we unfortunately skewed way too far towards Street Fighter and Billy picked Ryu like a coward every single time. By violating the spirit of randomness this event is supposed to capture, Billy was able to eek out a victory in the overall contest. This year will be different. The games will be weirder. The controllers will be odder. And the languages may not be English. All I know is that I'm going to be ready for game time.
On Saturday at 10 AM Billy and I will be competing in a video game race unlike any other. Billy will be completing Bastion as quickly as possible; however, he will randomly select his weapons throughout the game via a weapon wheel. He will also be forced to turn on difficulty modifiers based on how much money he raises.
If you could do me a solid and crap up his game, that would be really great.
Now given that he's playing a fairly short game, you might think that I'm also soft. That I want to play some short game with a dumb gimmick built around it. No. I'm going to be playing a long game with a dumb gimmick built around it.
For my half of the race, I will be playing Final Fantasy V. However, I will be completing a Four Job Fiesta run. This means that of the 20+ character classes in FFV, I will be restricted to four. And since I am participating in a fiesta, I thought the only appropriate way to pick those jobs would be via piñatas. Each of the four crystals in FFV represent an element: Wind, Water, Fire, and Earth. Likewise, each piñata represents an elemental crystal. The Buzz Lightyear piñata represents the wind crystal since Buzz Lightyear can fly. Also he's in a space ship and that has to fly through the air until it reaches space. The Jake and the Neverland Pirates piñata represents the water crystal since pirate ships float on water. I was contemplating getting a Spongebob or a Little Mermaid piñata, but the pirate ship looked cooler. The Red Hot Chili Pepper represents the fire crystal since it is spicy. Fire was a real tough piñata to find. It was between a chili pepper and a hot rod. I went against my instincts and avoided the pun. That just leaves the earth crystal, which is represented by The Rock. Because of course it is.
Each of these piñatas will be filled with thematically appropriate candy (green Airheads for wind, blue chocolate coins doubloons for water, Atomic Fireballs for fire, and Pop Rocks for earth) labeled with the jobs that I can unlock at each crystal. When the crystal shatters during my run, I will jump to a second camera that will be pointed at a tree outside. At that point, I will put on a blindfold, spin a few times, then drunkenly swing a stick until I cave in whatever hapless piñata is in my path. Once it's broken, the first candy I pick up shall be the job I'm allowed to use going forward. Barring any major mishaps this should be fun and safe for all.
Now, you can help me out on my journey a little bit. For every $250 I raise, I will be allowed one re-roll on a job. This is an attempt to mitigate some of the absolutely heinous jobs like Berzerker and Thief that can really mess up my run. They aren't terrible jobs in general, just in a Four Job Fiesta when you're trying to go fast.
So if you want to help me out, You can send your donations here.
On Sunday morning at 7AM, I will be playing Kirby's Nightmare in Dreamland because I deserve nice things in my life.
Then at 2PM on Sunday I'll be playing Super Smash Bros. with some friends, with a catch. One of my friends is a retired SSB4 semi-pro who goes by the name of Tohfoo. Some friends and I are going to be testing his might in something I like to call the Super Smash Bros Kumite. Tohfoo will take on challengers of increasing skill in increasingly daunting matches until he is finally defeated. This means that we will likely start in 1-1 matches on relatively normal maps. By the end it might be an items on, 3-1 battle on Poke' Floats. We can only hope.
I'm likely going to do something else on Sunday, but I'm not sure what as of yet. I'm also trying to figure out how to incorporate Gen 1 Digimon into the event.
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