Awesome Games Done Quick 2015

eddhorse

Starts January 5th @ 5PM until January 11th @ 5am.

What is Games Done Quick?
Games Done Quick is a bi-annual charity gaming marathon. Volunteers play games at incredible speed ("Speedrunning") for entertianment. The event is streamed live online, non-stop, and all donations go directly to the
charity. This is the winter evenT.

Schedule :
https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule

Streaming on http://www.twitch.tv

Video on Demand Links to completed runs in case you missed them :

Youtube GDQArchive 2015 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOWDU-iokgQTudah5-4kAIQ

Reddit VOD Paused http://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/2ra5rw/agdq_vods_thread_2015/

Twitch Past Broadcasts http://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick/profile/past_broadcasts

Mr.Saturn

These are generally savage. Watched one where they 100%-ed Super Meat Boy in a few hours (yes, including The Kid's levels); kinda talent that should be professionalized.

eddhorse

All proceeds going to Prevent Cancer Foundation!

27 mins in on Donkey Kong Country : Tropical Freeze,

$10,152 raised already.

Shiminay

I watch these speed-running mega marathons all the time, there's something extraordinarily compelling about them. It's like the perfect way to show off nerds at their finest doing what they love for a great cause It's always the worst time of year for my wallet though.

Monotype

I watched a few of them last time. I was particularly interested in some of the C64 ones that they did - some extraordinarily difficult games that they flew through. I suppose they had the most of 30 years to practice.

What was most impressive was the guy who did the Lost Vikings controlling the three characters with two controllers. Some of those levels are very difficult to get right and he flew through them.

Retr0gamer

I'd never watch these streams until one poster on here pointed me towards the F-Zero GX stream from a while ago and I saw what I was missing. I'll definitely be tuning in.

eddhorse

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I'd never watch these streams until one poster on here pointed me towards the F-Zero GX stream from a while ago and I saw what I was missing. I'll definitely be tuning in.

I was the same, even with Twitch people say "but you watch games, why not play them". Im an average gamer, i enjoy seeing people ace the games.

5 January 2015 19:50:00 F-Zero GX

J_E

THIS RIGHT HERE :eek::eek::eek:

20mins onwards

Shiminay

Yea, the TASBot stuff was amazing!

Generic Dreadhead

I don't get it

No Signal
Dies on 1st Gomba
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Glitch Texy

Shiminay

Keep watching... It's when Pokemon Red on Super Gameboy comes out that you'll go "OK, that's impressive" (as if rewriting one flavour of Mario to play a completely different Mario wasn't impressive enough)

eddhorse

Crazy tasbot stuff alright !

I find myself watching games i wouldn't normally know about.

Donations at $141,000

J_E

Cormac... wrote: »

I don't get it

No Signal
Dies on 1st Gomba
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Glitch Texy

You didn't watch it! They reprogrammed the Super Mario Bros NES code - into Super Mario World SNES - in realtime with just controller input! The whole process before is to trick the game into accessing certain memory values and moving them into places they shouldn't be.

The Pokemon Plays Twitch exploit was a whole other ballgame. Jaw dropped seeing it live.

eddhorse

$14,000 donation :O

F-Zero-a-thon is on now.

That pokemon thing was mind boggling

eddhorse

How come it says $171k in fundraising total but they announced $250k as the total?

Retr0gamer

Watching this makes me realise I'd suck for F-zero WiiU.

J_E

eddhorse wrote: »

How come it says $171k in fundraising total but they announced $250k as the total?

They get a portion from Humble Bundle sales too - the current bundle is supporting PFC.

eddhorse

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Watching this makes me realise I'd suck for F-zero WiiU.

I see why you like F-Zero, havent played it that much, but its interesting to watch, my eyes are bleeding.

Retr0gamer

eddhorse wrote: »

I see why you like F-Zero, havent played it that much, but its interesting to watch, my eyes are bleeding.

With no hyperbole I can pretty much say it's the greatest racing game ever made. And yes better than F-zero X you N64 fanboys!

The controls are just perfect and the feeling of nailing a turn a stupid speeds has never been better. Also when people wonder what the love child of Nintendo and Sega would be we already have the answer: F-Zero GX!

eddhorse

Video on Demand Links in original post for videos you missed.

Retr0gamer

eddhorse wrote: »

Video on Demand Links in original post for videos you missed.

Thanks, want to check out the Gunstar Heroes and Rocket Knight Adventures runs. I think I'm pretty damn good at those games so want to see how far I really have to go

J_E

Retr0gamer wrote: »

With no hyperbole I can pretty much say it's the greatest racing game ever made. And yes better than F-zero X you N64 fanboys!

The controls are just perfect and the feeling of nailing a turn a stupid speeds has never been better. Also when people wonder what the love child of Nintendo and Sega would be we already have the answer: F-Zero GX!

Agreed on F-Zero and Maximum Velocity - the turning in that game is just beautiful, no game matches that gliding feeling while keeping a super sharp edge.

Generic Dreadhead

J_E wrote: »

You didn't watch it! They reprogrammed the Super Mario Bros NES code - into Super Mario World SNES - in realtime with just controller input! The whole process before is to trick the game into accessing certain memory values and moving them into places they shouldn't be.

The Pokemon Plays Twitch exploit was a whole other ballgame. Jaw dropped seeing it live.

Sooooooooooo..... It's more Awesome Coding/Hacks done fast, I saw very little gamplay.... gameplay to me means playing a game, not doing some hacking/coding, but each to their own.

I was expecting speed runs, what I got was a wall of 8+16 bit text

eddhorse

Cormac... wrote: »

Sooooooooooo..... It's more Awesome Coding/Hacks done fast, I saw very little gamplay.... gameplay to me means playing a game, not doing some hacking/coding, but each to their own.

I was expecting speed runs, what I got was a wall of 8+16 bit text

There are speed runs, watched Quake II last night, Duke Nukem 3D and Blood.

DKC Tropical Freeze was the best speed run so far, the mario ones are generally the best to watch for accuracy i find.

eddhorse

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Thanks, want to check out the Gunstar Heroes and Rocket Knight Adventures runs. I think I'm pretty damn good at those games so want to see how far I really have to go

I watched Rocket Knight Adventures, looks like another good game that i missed from my youth.

One WR so far with inFamous.

Retr0gamer

eddhorse wrote: »

I watched Rocket Knight Adventures, looks like another good game that i missed from my youth.

It's the second best Megadrive game ever made (according to me and behind Gunstar Heroes). It's a great game but the charming art style hides a rock hard game, it's made by the team that usually makes Contra games for Konami. Definitely worth trying though just for the sheer variety of gameplay the developers put into each section and boss, no two sections play the same despite the mechanics remaining the same throughout.

Retr0gamer

Damn missed all the 8bit stuff since I was in work. Would love to have seen the Gimmick! run since even beating that game is an achievement (and the music is awesome).

eddhorse

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Damn missed all the 8bit stuff since I was in work. Would love to have seen the Gimmick! run since even beating that game is an achievement (and the music is awesome).

Just saw the "N" run, 19:38 or something. Love that game.

I remember playing commander keen years ago, pretty hard as i remember.

Least you can look back at the 8bit stuff at your leisure.

Shiminay

Wow, witwix just got through I Wanna Be The Boshy in 1:02 (I think - it was only just over an hour) and only 101 deaths. That was impressive.

Zelda fans, the first and second games are about to start, so enjoy: http://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick

J_E

Cormac... wrote: »

Sooooooooooo..... It's more Awesome Coding/Hacks done fast, I saw very little gamplay.... gameplay to me means playing a game, not doing some hacking/coding, but each to their own.

I was expecting speed runs, what I got was a wall of 8+16 bit text

Unappreciative much! That segment is always more to show off achievements than complete the game .

Retr0gamer

The DKC2 and Mario stuff last night was very impressive.

SeantheMan

They're gonna do FF7 in 3 hours, Dark souls in 1hr 40 ?

I'll have to have a look at that

Retr0gamer

Hope I'm home in time for it.

The Mario 3 glitch run in about 3 and a half minutes was something else.

2smiggy

SeantheMan wrote: »

They're gonna do FF7 in 3 hours, Dark souls in 1hr 40 ?

I'll have to have a look at that

lads on twitch can do dark souls all bosses in about 1 hr 24 mins , santzo84 and elajjaz . they are on a few evenings of the week. it's insane stuff watching them

SeantheMan

2smiggy wrote: »

lads on twitch can do dark souls all bosses in about 1 hr 24 mins , santzo84 and elajjaz . they are on a few evenings of the week. it's insane stuff watching them

I watched the Battletoads earlier.
It's nice how they've uploaded each as their own video to youtube so you can easily browse the ones you want.

Why is it only Dark Souls 2 they're taking on and not Dark Souls ?

Retr0gamer

Everyone needs to check out Umihara Kawase speed run tonight. The game is just insane for speed runs and requires a crazy amount of skill. It's pretty much built from the ground up for speed runs.

2smiggy

SeantheMan wrote: »

I watched the Battletoads earlier.
It's nice how they've uploaded each as their own video to youtube so you can easily browse the ones you want.

Why is it only Dark Souls 2 they're taking on and not Dark Souls ?

it should be dark souls they do, all the good lads at speed running dark souls, have gone back to dark souls 1. many an evening i have watched a speed run of it !

eddhorse

2smiggy wrote: »

it should be dark souls they do, all the good lads at speed running dark souls, have gone back to dark souls 1. many an evening i have watched a speed run of it !

Well they cant do the same speed run at every AGDQ twice a year, they are trying to cater for everybody.

Wossack

Watching the They Bleed Pixels speed run, and theyve the dev's on speakerphone watching the stream too - very cool

Shiminay

They had Terry Cavanagh on for their VVVVVVV run last year and they had one of the Banjo and Kazooie guys on this year and last for their runs, always great when the devs are on the call to offer insights to a particular level or something and then to hear how blown away they are in their voices when they see a crazy glitch or stunt.

eddhorse

Shiminay wrote: »

They had Terry Cavanagh on for their VVVVVVV run last year and they had one of the Banjo and Kazooie guys on this year and last for their runs, always great when the devs are on the call to offer insights to a particular level or something and then to hear how blown away they are in their voices when they see a crazy glitch or stunt.

That Terry Kavanagh one was brilliant. The player was amazed listening to him too. Terry wasn't aware of lots of glitches either haha.

Retr0gamer

Nothing worse than slaving away on a game and having some snotty nosed kid break it with a glitch (or in my case crash the whole system by accident)

eddhorse

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Nothing worse than slaving away on a game and having some snotty nosed kid break it with a glitch (or in my case crash the whole system by accident)

Ah your game couldnt be that bad, just takes one glitchy wall or platform.

eddhorse

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Everyone needs to check out Umihara Kawase speed run tonight. The game is just insane for speed runs and requires a crazy amount of skill. It's pretty much built from the ground up for speed runs.

Umihara Kawase AGDQ 2013 http://youtu.be/wa8tFbRDzqI

eddhorse

Damn Tetris grand master is on at 1am.

http://youtu.be/jwC544Z37qo
Skip to 5:10 for invisible bricks :O

Then shovel knight, god dammit, stupid time zones.

Shiminay

Wow, they just had a live on-air proposal (and thankfully an acceptance ) from the guy who just went through a Mischief Makers run to his girlfriend who was on the couch with him

eddhorse

Shiminay wrote: »

Wow, they just had a live on-air proposal (and thankfully an acceptance ) from the guy who just went through a Mischief Makers run to his girlfriend who was on the couch with him

Well that was slightly awkward, romance aint dead

Shiminay

The awkwardness levels were painful, I genuinely feel bad for the young lady, he mostly ignored her after she said yes so he could talk to his buddies about how cool he was for proposing on air... It was just shocking.

eddhorse

Shiminay wrote: »

The awkwardness levels were painful, I genuinely feel bad for the young lady, he mostly ignored her after she said yes so he could talk to his buddies about how cool he was for proposing on air... It was just shocking.

"I totally said i was gonna do it remember" jasuz cringe.
Best twitch comment was "i hope he doesnt come as quickly as he speed runs"

eddhorse

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Everyone needs to check out Umihara Kawase speed run tonight. The game is just insane for speed runs and requires a crazy amount of skill. It's pretty much built from the ground up for speed runs.

4 minutes 6 seconds and that was slow apparently

Shiminay

Holy fking sht! That Grandmaster Tetris run :eek: MIND BLOWN!