Sure, there are plenty of mind-bending, crazy antics that TASBot has been getting into at recent Games Done Quick events. Note: Actual run starts around the 13-minute mark It’s good to know that even in the modern era and with the Source engine, you can still find glitches and exploits to get through the adventures of Gordon Freeman that much faster. This specific run highlights another aspect of speedrunning: perfecting minor ways to trick the game, or glitch in certain areas, like hopping up a wall using a barrel, abusing the back-hop to fly across the map, deleting saves to gain health and using a monitor to launch yourself up the entire length of the citadel. While many classic speedruns focus on similarly “classic” games, it’s always fun to see modern games run, and Half-Life 2 has some incredible tricks that allow for a great Any% run. This is a “purist” run that’s a joy to watch if you grew up anywhere near a Super Nintendo. Still, the runner manages an incredible 96-minute runtime, without using any glitches. This particular run is a spin on the 96 Exit run, where the runner has to get every Dragon Coin, every Moon, and go through every exit door in the game. It’s also a really easy game to get into speedrunning, especially if you were a World fan when you were younger. One of the most seminal Mario games, Super Mario World has a huge variety of categories that speedrunners compete in. The above Any% race (where four runners rush to complete the game at any percent of completion) highlights the different kinds of tricks runners employ, while also showcasing the popularity of the series among speedrunners. Super Metroid has become a hallmark of the Games Done Quick marathons, with the top donation incentive every year being a vote on whether to save or kill the animals at the end (killing them is immoral, but saves precious seconds on the run). Metroid-style games are often ripe for speedrunning, as you have many different methods of getting from the beginning to the end thanks to the games’ ambiguous critical path. It’s hard to talk speedrunning without mentioning this classic. So to honor this tradition and the spirit of running for charity, let’s run through some favorite speedruns that show the best games to beat as fast as you can. With the advent of the biannual Games Done Quick events, though, speedrunning has become much more prominent within games culture, with many games even including speedrunning modes that clock your times. It used to be a niche community, relegated to forum posts and BBS boards. Runners have perfected glitches, special routes, mechanics and series of inputs, all in the name of running through an entire game faster than anyone else. MacOS 10.9+, Ubuntu 12.04+, other distros may work but require 32-bit system librariesĢ006+ Gaming PC.Sunday marks the start of Summer Games Done Quick 2016, an annual event where runners of all kinds of different games come together to raise money for charity by doing what they do best: beat games at breakneck speed. Microsoft® Windows XP SP3/Vista/7/8/10 with DirectX® 9.0c, Minimum System Requirements Operating System: Experience Dadliest Catch’s unique control scheme with various control inputs, including X360, DualShock4, Mouse + Keyboard, Mac multitouch trackpad, Windows 8 touchscreens, DirectInput, and XInput controllers which all can be remapped to any configuration a player may want.Gather family members and/or friends to control Octodad's limbs in co-op mode with 2 to 4 players.Complete Octodad’s sartorial style by collecting and wearing a variety of hidden neckties.An all-new adventure that explores Octodad’s world, relationships and backstory.Be surprised by the randomness of Octodad’s flailing or express your own sense of humor by making Octodad do silly things. Octodad’s wacky physics create hilarious moments that are different every time.Octodad's existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodan nature a secret from his human family. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about his life. Octodad: Dadliest Catch is a game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood.
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