Episode 2 is the best single player FPS ever AFAIC.
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Half-Life 2 World Record Speedrun Will Make Your Head Spin
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Episode 2 is the best single player FPS ever AFAIC.
Snobbery over "playing a video game really fast" is always funny.
Kadin
Member
I'll never wrap my head around how people can effectively navigate in such a manner while going backwards. I just don't see how, even doing it hundreds of times, players can do it so efficiently and make it look so seemless - to the point that the game has to literally almost break to keep up.
Very, very impressive.
Very, very impressive.
sixteen-bit
Member
This is skillful stuff.
An assisted run is skillful?
Jex
Member
You honestly think that doesn't take skill?
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
Holy crap, I just watched the ending of the game on YouTube, to see what it looks like not glitched.
Are they serious? That's how the game ends. That's F-ed up... there's no resolution! That's depressing. Jeeesh damn. I'm glad I never played that game because I think I would be pissed.
Are they serious? That's how the game ends. That's F-ed up... there's no resolution! That's depressing. Jeeesh damn. I'm glad I never played that game because I think I would be pissed.
Now you know why people are so worked up about HL3.
RipperGrim
Member
Lol now imagine actually playing the game and getting invested in the story and the characters. People get worked up about HL3 for a reason.
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
Good grief. Fuck that whole series. I wouldn't recommend anyone play it and then get invested in the story. That is DUMB.
that part cracked me up.
stan423321
Member
Remember kids, when woman walks too slowly, SMASH HER HEAD WITH A METAL SCRAP WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE.
After watching some weirder TASes, this isn't anything nauseous in particular. Though it's still funny as hell.
After watching some weirder TASes, this isn't anything nauseous in particular. Though it's still funny as hell.
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Deleted member 80556
Unconfirmed Member
God damn, the way he made the rocket launch. LMAO.
It's not dumb. It's just painful. The games are awesome but Valve can't be bothered these days. At this point people don't care. When it gets announced we will all lose our minds, but not before.
It's not dumb. It's just painful. The games are awesome but Valve can't be bothered these days. At this point people don't care. When it gets announced we will all lose our minds, but not before.
OnionPowder
Member
You do it then
Absolutely
PetriP-TNT
Member
djplaeskool
Member
Half-Life and Viewtiful Joe speedruns are just dizzying as hell.
"In order to make this work, some parts of the run werent done consecutively, so that particular strategies could be employed:"
I'm not even watching this.
"To make this marathon work, some parts of the run wasn't done consecutively, so that particular strategies could be employed"
Have some pride boys. What happened?
If you want to show what could happen for fun, sure. Just don't try to sell it as a world record.
I'm not even watching this.
"To make this marathon work, some parts of the run wasn't done consecutively, so that particular strategies could be employed"
Have some pride boys. What happened?
If you want to show what could happen for fun, sure. Just don't try to sell it as a world record.
stan423321
Member
It's sort of interesting how TASes and segment speedruns have a hatedom on GAF, yet I don't remember anybody doing regular speedrun of Source games. I wonder whether that has something to do with built-in savestate functionality.
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
lol I watched Viewitful Joe run the other day, yeah that'll make you sick.
Obviously they just launched the HL2 Speedrun Utility and typed "33:52" in the Record Time field.
/s
Tool assisted runs aren't meant as a showcase of individual skill anyway, they're mostly to show all the weird stuff you can do by taking a game in it's released state and exploiting the fuck out of any and all coding oddities you can find.
No where on the video does it say world record, only OP wrote that and I don't know why seeing as the video doesn't say it. It's just a fun speed run video.
Oh you didn't even bother to open the video before commenting, that explains a lot.
great image.
was just in awe watching the vid, the amount of knowledge blows my mind.
ashecitism
Member
It's so long (this speedrun that is) because of the scenes where you're locked into a room and the NPCs give you exposition. It took them 7-8 mins to get to White Forest, and there's a cutscene which is almost as long. Then after the big battle there's another long one again.
It explains what exactly? I've already seen clean HL2 runs.
" guy who is not part of the speedrunning community argues that speedrunning should always follow arbitrary guidelines defined by him only. You won't believe what happens next!"
IcyRhythms
Member
Speedruns that don't involve playing the game the way it was meant to be played don't really impress me.
It explains why you thought it was a claim to being a world record. If you'd opened the video you'd have noticed that no where does it say that.
Anyway lol, funny to see people get bent out of shape over speedruns as usual.
The Shadow Knight
Member
TASs and segmented runs have never competed with single segment real time runs, they are separate categories. I figure keeping this in mind would keep some of the silly comments at bay, but I could be wrong.
This run is a solid 10/10 on the entertainment scale.
This run is a solid 10/10 on the entertainment scale.
human onion
Banned
So no speedruns impress you?
It often takes a lot of skill to play a game in an unintended way, tool assisted or not.
So... No speedruns Impress you...
Dr. Black Jack
Member
It was acceptable back then since everyone assumed it'll be just a year or two until Episode 3 is released.
Really got you pumped for the conclusion.
Well, the thing is back then we all thought they would follow up with Episode 3 soon after which is why I think the backlash on the ending was pretty low or even non-existant, from what I could tell at least.