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Let's Speed Decision Thread
« on: July 31, 2009, 09:41:07 AM »

We need to decide on a game and/or game-level for Let's Play and then facilitate it's distribution.

Help me, paragons of good taste in retro gaming.
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Re: Let's Speed Decision Thread
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2009, 10:23:59 AM »

Progress Quest. Wait--maybe not.

Cave Story is the archetypical free indie game of highest profile. Similarly I Wanna Be The Guy.

There was, what, a speed-run competition in years past for Super Mario Bros., right? Maybe SMB3 for the modern approach?

Or, for the really retro approach, Zork or Adventure.
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Re: Let's Speed Decision Thread
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2009, 10:26:29 AM »

All good ideas.

For IWBTG, we'd probably have to settle for "From x savepoint to y savepoint", preferably ending/with a boss in-between.

SMB3 is a great go-to choice. I'm in favor of that the most. Especially some sort of archaic world 7 or world 8 level with a limited power-up lay-out.
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Re: Let's Speed Decision Thread
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2009, 06:51:18 PM »

World 6, then. Nobody ever goes to World 6.
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Re: Let's Speed Decision Thread
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2009, 10:07:04 PM »

World six's theme was... ... Ice?
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Re: Let's Speed Decision Thread
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2009, 10:22:33 PM »

If you decide to do SMW over SMB3, I'll do this.

Actually, I might do SMB3 anyway so long as I can use the All Stars version, but I really really prefer SMW.
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Re: Let's Speed Decision Thread
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2009, 03:43:14 AM »

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Re: Let's Speed Decision Thread
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2009, 10:35:40 AM »

I'm touched, but you should probably go for less of a "killed by random shit" run.

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Nah, something like SMB3 that's intimately familiar to pretty much everybody would actually be ideal.  On the flipside, the Sonic games were actually designed to be dashed through as quick as possible.  Just sayin'.
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Re: Let's Speed Decision Thread
« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2009, 06:13:17 AM »

Super Mario Brothers 3 is winning. At the moment.
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Re: Let's Speed Decision Thread
« Reply #9 on: August 04, 2009, 02:10:55 PM »

SMB3 gets my vote. Make sure the first post in the official thread has detailed instructions for making and posting the run. For the slow kids (me).
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Re: Let's Speed Decision Thread
« Reply #10 on: August 04, 2009, 06:10:56 PM »

SMB3 is fucking boring to speedrun, at least make it something cool
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Re: Let's Speed Decision Thread
« Reply #11 on: August 04, 2009, 06:27:26 PM »

Suggest some!

Fuck it! Unicycle Racers!
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Re: Let's Speed Decision Thread
« Reply #12 on: August 04, 2009, 06:33:09 PM »

Super Bomberman 2
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Re: Let's Speed Decision Thread
« Reply #13 on: August 04, 2009, 06:41:43 PM »

Enviro-Bear 2000.
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Re: Let's Speed Decision Thread
« Reply #14 on: August 04, 2009, 06:53:00 PM »

Alternate solution: pick a popular emulatable RPG.  Everyone starts at the beginning at a certain time.  First one to finish wins, no frameskip, save states, new game+, or cheating.  Game clock doesn't matter, the contest is in real time.  Go by the honor system.
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Re: Let's Speed Decision Thread
« Reply #15 on: August 04, 2009, 07:37:52 PM »

... That IS and idea.
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Re: Let's Speed Decision Thread
« Reply #16 on: August 04, 2009, 07:52:05 PM »

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Re: Let's Speed Decision Thread
« Reply #17 on: August 04, 2009, 09:06:21 PM »

Suggest some!

Fuck it! Unicycle Racers!

Super Metroid. Megaman 2. Quake. Guardian Legend. Magic John. Solomon's Key. Xexyz.
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Re: Let's Speed Decision Thread
« Reply #18 on: August 04, 2009, 09:20:19 PM »

Doom II. ::D:
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Re: Let's Speed Decision Thread
« Reply #19 on: August 04, 2009, 09:36:04 PM »

Probably Magic John is the best option here.
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