Gaming frustration, dinosaurs, and.... anthros.
As I said, I hang out on a site that discusses and does fast playthroughs of video games. So I will bring up that a lot in my entries - probably more than anything else.
Anyway, the site is called Speed Demos Archive. In addition to regularly hanging out on their forums and IRC channel, I've actually contributed to the site (under the alias AquaTiger). Mostly obscure and semi-obscure stuff, but both Super Mario Land 2 and Mega Man X7 are games that people might recognize (and both runs need to be improved one of these days, thanks to information that has surfaced since I did those runs). The site itself is international (and they're currently working on translating important pages into languages other than English), and the runners run a large variety of games (FPSes, RPGs, action-adventure, real-time strategy - even puzzle games and old-school-style adventure games have some showing there. Turn-based strategy's yet to show but people have tried it).
But one well-known game that seems to have eluded these people is Star Fox Adventures. Let me point out that I am not really a fan of the game itself - it was, however, one of the first two Gamecube games I ever had (the other being Metroid Prime), so it definitely holds a place in my dreams. Anyway, for what's probably been three years now, people have discussed and discussed the game, and the only signs of anyone doing actual fast playthroughs are an in-progress segmented run with save warps (with its goal being under five hours) and a rejected run in the same category that very few people got to see. I speculate this has to do with the plethora of unskippable cutscenes in the game.
I can't take it anymore, and wish to put petty talk about the game to an end. The solution I have in mind is to take the game and beat it in one sitting, without saving - I'm no stranger to this kind of playthrough, having done it twice before with other games - and attempt to complete it below five and a half hours (the rough time estimate of the rejected run). And even if I don't meet that time goal, I am going to do my absolute best not to accept anything longer than six hours.
Any of you gamers who've played Star Fox Adventures before, wish me luck, as I will certainly need it.
Anyway, the site is called Speed Demos Archive. In addition to regularly hanging out on their forums and IRC channel, I've actually contributed to the site (under the alias AquaTiger). Mostly obscure and semi-obscure stuff, but both Super Mario Land 2 and Mega Man X7 are games that people might recognize (and both runs need to be improved one of these days, thanks to information that has surfaced since I did those runs). The site itself is international (and they're currently working on translating important pages into languages other than English), and the runners run a large variety of games (FPSes, RPGs, action-adventure, real-time strategy - even puzzle games and old-school-style adventure games have some showing there. Turn-based strategy's yet to show but people have tried it).
But one well-known game that seems to have eluded these people is Star Fox Adventures. Let me point out that I am not really a fan of the game itself - it was, however, one of the first two Gamecube games I ever had (the other being Metroid Prime), so it definitely holds a place in my dreams. Anyway, for what's probably been three years now, people have discussed and discussed the game, and the only signs of anyone doing actual fast playthroughs are an in-progress segmented run with save warps (with its goal being under five hours) and a rejected run in the same category that very few people got to see. I speculate this has to do with the plethora of unskippable cutscenes in the game.
I can't take it anymore, and wish to put petty talk about the game to an end. The solution I have in mind is to take the game and beat it in one sitting, without saving - I'm no stranger to this kind of playthrough, having done it twice before with other games - and attempt to complete it below five and a half hours (the rough time estimate of the rejected run). And even if I don't meet that time goal, I am going to do my absolute best not to accept anything longer than six hours.
Any of you gamers who've played Star Fox Adventures before, wish me luck, as I will certainly need it.
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