although some of us are super completionists when we play our games
and don't rest until we've explored every crevice of every map and picked up
every single unnecessary item there's something pretty awesome about powering
your way through a game as fast as possible like when you did when you were
a kid and you use those Warp Zone pipes at the end of Mario levels or was that
yesterday I don't remember but anyway a
large community has sprung up around the practice of speed running which is a
pretty simple idea complete a video game in the shortest period of possible Time
speedrunning videos can be found all over the Internet and part of their
appeal is that it it's kind of mesmerizing to watch games get completed
at what seems like impossibly short periods of time so how is it that
speedrunners are consistently shattering World Records obviously being really
good at a game and having tons of practice does help but many speedrunners
commonly employ other tactics to push their times from being merely very good
to truly remarkable one fundamental
concept is route planning to ensure that a speedrunner doesn't get mired in some
timeconsuming part of a level this involves studying a level very very
closely or simply playing through it many many times to figure out which
route presents the fewest obstacles and
difficult uh timec consuming enemies or even the best shortcuts to time-saving
powerups to allow them to finish the level in the shortest possible time
since many competitive speedrunners are fighting for every last millisecond it's
not uncommon for them to even keep track of parts of the game that are prone to
lag and system slowdowns and avoid those as well although some speedruns are
indeed done cleanly and nothing but practice and route planning and loss of
practice are put into play it's more common to see faster runs that employ
some form of sequence breaking which entails doing something out of order in
the game sometimes this is done by executing precise moves to get to an
area that is not really meant to be reachable at that point in time but more
often speedrunners will take advantages of glitches in the game to skip ahead
and save huge amounts of time since it
can take a long time for The Gaming Community to discover and exploit these
kinds of glitches older games are often more popular for speedrunning the number
of well-developed emulators available for older games and platforms
has also made speeduns of retro titles enormously popular not only because
emulators allow people to try their hand
at speedrunning without the original console or without one that's still
working but also because emulators have opened up a different method called tool
assisted speedr running or Tas T takes
advantage of emulator tools like being able to save the game at any particular
instant called the Save State this allows the player to piece together a
near-perfect run even if they make a mistake another one is slowing down the
game to such a low speed that a speedrunner can execute complicated
Maneuvers that would be virtually impossible to do in real time this is in
order to shave off small little bits of time and this often involves executing
very hard to exploit glitches for reasons that should seem obvious task is
usually considered a separate discipline from regular speedr running to keep
things Fair tool assisted runs are often posted so others can enjoy watching the
sheer perfection of speeding through a game flawlessly but unassisted speedr
running is still popular for organized competitions and high-profile
speedrunning events such as things like Games Done Quick a series of twice
yearly gaming marathons that feature Live speedruns While raising money for
charity from the viewers which is awesome and while watching streams of
experienced speedrunners can be a little intimidating to those who have never
tried it you don't need any special skills or equipment to Dive Right In
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glitches as you go pretty soon you might
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