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What games have impressive/crazy speedruns?

Gentleman Jack said:
Tool Assisted Speedrun

Means the use of programmable game pads, emulators and save states to cram every possible trick in the book into a particular speedrun. Usually things that are too risky to attempt in live speedruns are attempted (often hundreds of times) until they work, then snap a save state and continue through the next segment, then editing all the inputs together to record a single, continuous run.
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Dont they use a slow motion function too?
 
Dantard said:
Watch these, seriously, you'll shit your pants!

Non-TAS, no glitch and done LIVE on the last AGDQ! PURE skill! Fast and precise! Insanely amazing and I think many people skipped it 'cause they didn't realise how incredible it is to watch these games being sped run!

Super Monkey Ball:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLbv49fjBeM

Super Monkey Ball 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG8023T6h48
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The Ninja Gaiden Pacifist run from that same event was a work of goddamn art.
 
BroBuzz said:
Yoshi's Island Speedruns have always been a favorite of mine. No RNG, just pure skill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-LrpZlQ9Gs
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Isn't the roulette thing at the end random?

Anyways, this Donkey Kong Jungle Beat 100% speedrun is very fun to watch. Just look at how high he keeps up the combo while still blazing through the levels!

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Gentleman Jack said:
The Ninja Gaiden Pacifist run from that same event was a work of goddamn art.
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Along with the Ape Escape speed run, which kicked off the event fantastically.
 
I find all world record level speed runs impressive. It takes a tremendous amount of skill and dedication to be at the level of a Siglemic, Cosmo or Adam_ak.

But if I had to name some "crazy" speedruns:

-Mario 64 70 or 120 star
-Yoshi's Island 100%

Easily the craziest of them all, and mostly skill based.

-Ocarina of Time Any %
-Majora's Mask Any %
-Wind Waker Any %

The Zelda games have been torn apart. All three of these games have some absolutely CRAZY exploits that make them very fun games to watch.
 
Metal Gear Solid 2 European Extreme Big Boss in 1 hour 29 minutes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYzP4-hed7w

Metal Gear Solid 3 European Extreme Foxhound in 1 hour 23 minutes

http://speeddemosarchive.com/MetalGearSolid3.html#EEFH

European Extreme is the hardest difficulty in either game. It's called that because the European version of both original games were tougher on Extreme.

Big Boss and Foxhound mean you're not spotted, you don't kill anybody, and you don't use healing items. Extremely limited saving too.
 
Mario 64 has always been my favorite game, but siglemic turned that game into a work of art with his control of Mario.

Cosmo's ocarina run is also insane
 
I always wondered how people discover those glitches

Not only talking about dedication, but there must be something else to dominate to that level a game, for example that OoT speedrun, it looked really specific
 
I love to play and watch a lot of speedruns of classic Nintendo games, but the one that blows my mind the most consistently are Mario 64 runs, especially Siglemic's. It's just unbelievable how finely crafted the controls and platforming are in a game that essentially created the entire 3D genre. It was a great introduction into manipulation of a character in a 3D world, but at the same time it holds up incredibly well even by modern standards when compared to recent 3D (Mario) games.
 
I think Siglemic's stuff is more, I don't know, 'skilled.' Some of the jumps he lands are just insane. But like seeing Cosmo break games is a thousand times more fascinating.

They're both amazing at what they do.
 
KYGB said:
Dark Souls - all bosses (including DLC bosses) in 1:37. so good.
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I like how crazy his damage output gets over the course of the speedrun. By the end he does so much damage he kills bosses in an instant.

A speedrun that I found really impressive was the Max Payne 1 Dead on Arrival single segment speedrun on SDA. The guy playing it only uses a handful of skips, but he's just so insanely good at the game that it's impressive nonetheless.
 
Pokémon Yellow beaten in 0:00 with 152 Pokémon in the Pokédex
by resetting the game during a save

I love how the Pokédex has exactly one more Pokémon in it than it's supposed to.
 
From what I've seen by watching people's stream on twitch, I found out both Donkey Kong Country and Donkey Kong Country 2 have impressive plus crazy speedruns. I was surprised and wondered on how they discovered something so unique that I haven't figured out.
 
Siglemic's SM64 runs are unreal. I also like Cosmowright's Wind Waker runs, Werster's Pokemon runs, and Adam_ak's GTA runs. There's a ton of other Zelda speedrunners that are also awesome. It's really fun watching them live on Twitch.
 
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