Summer Games Done Quick 2021 (SPOILER ZONE)

[Flea The Magician]

Brief intro for those who don't know about it.
The Speedrunning Communities come together a couple times a year to showcase their best runs, show games off, set world records, show off glitches and generally make you regret ever picking up a controller in the name of charity. For example, the estimate on Resident Evil 7 is 1 hour, 37 minutes. If a game has a condition that can be run, it will be run. (Mario Odessey has a Nipples% category - get mario naked. Factorio, Minecraft, all have runs.)
GDQ is one of the bigger events doing this, on a worldwide scale and their summer events are dedicated to Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders).

Their schedule is at https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule

I'm well annoyed I missed Psychonauts, for he is the milkman, and his milk is delicious.

TASBlock is always a favourite of mine. Looks like the Castlevania block is making a return this year too

What's people looking forward to? Anything good peeps might have missed? C'mon I know I'm not the only speedrunner here, even if I am bad at it

[MURDERCAT]

I used to be more into it but now I just watch whatever the internet tells me the good ones were after it ends.

[Flea The Magician]

Was getting worried TheMexicanRunner was about to get Mercy killed on his GnG:R run o.o 6 mins over estimate.
It really wasn't in his favour though, got rekt early on

[Flea The Magician]

metroid prime 2 run :3

hyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyype!

[CaptainMeme]

The Gone Golfing run was incredible

[Flea The Magician]

I missed that one, blast Corps blew my mind earlier today. I hated that game as a kid so seeing all the tech they used.
Looking forward to the Castlevania block, and I can't believe just how much tech there is in Bloodstained

[chamber]

The Gone Golfing run was incredible

The commentary was a funny gimmick.

[Flea The Magician]

For those who missed it... Battle Toads Turbo Tunnel was beaten, blindfolded. TheMexicanRunner is a genuine legend.

[Flea The Magician]

Annoyingly LoZ:MM no source req was at 330am for me for thats one I'll be catching later, thankfully I managed to catch most of Jazzpunk and that is a game I might look at learning to run...

[Gammagooey]

There's a blindfolded Super Mario 64 run on now, seems p. neat

[Flea The Magician]

This runner has more talent and skill thatn i can ever dream.

the Turbo Tunnel blindfold was hard enough to watch, this is rediculous o.o

[Flea The Magician]

The swag strats were uncalled for. Damned show off <3

[Gamma Emerald]

Mildly sad I missed this thread before

[Flea The Magician]

Can discuss the runs, they're all up on youtube ^_^


Side note, that golf game is horrifying o.o

[Gamma Emerald]

which one?

[Something_Smart]

This was great. I enjoyed watching Majora's Mask, Breath of the Wild, both Pokemon runs (Emerald and Black/White), Lego Star Wars, Untitled Goose Game, Super Mario Bros 2, and Mario Kart 64.

The ones that make heavy use of glitches are especially interesting to me; as a programmer, I love hearing the explanations and can generally follow them. Probably my favorites were Lego Star Wars, MK64, and MM, for this reason. (Paper Mario also deserves a shout-out for being a 26-minute run where 10 minutes were spent playing a different game in order to set up a glitch.)

The golf game in question is Gone Golfing-- I can confirm both that the game is horrifying, and that the run was hilarious.

[Gamma Emerald]

ooooh UGG appeared again
I presume many honks were had

[Flea The Magician]

which one?

Gone golfing. I knew it was going to be weird from the prize they had, but ye gods I was not prepared.


Pokémon runs are always my favourite, I am a big pokénerd (who has a bit of a blind spot where BWB2W2 are concerned, cant get into them) and I would love to be able to run Gen1 or Gen2 some day

UGG definitely made a few honks, not helped by the interactive audience responding to honks in chat by turning into geese

[Flea The Magician]

Watching the bonus stream on YouTube...

I absolutely did not know Bioshock was beatable without using plasmids at all o.o

[Gammagooey]

(Paper Mario also deserves a shout-out for being a 26-minute run where 10 minutes were spent playing a different game in order to set up a glitch.)

I am intrigued and literally looked that up to watch right now

[Gamma Emerald]

I’ve seen a few videos about Paper Mario glitches, it is a “well designed game”

[Flea The Magician]

so is every game where you can run ACE

Mario 3 currently holding the title for best designed game ever

[theelkspeaks]

I love 100% runs on games like SM64, SMW, or the OG DKCs when I watch speedruns, but there's plenty of other cool runs out there too! I tried my hand at speedrunning for a brief while but I was not very good at it at all (I was trying to learn SMB2 and SMB3).