What do people do when they finish a game they love? They start a new one, or go outside to live their life or play it again? Well, what Speedrunning players do is the last option. The term speedrunning may sound mysterious to some, but it has become popular with players. So simply, the speedrunners are the ones who try to finish a game as quickly as possible. They can do this by playing the game a lot and knowing all its details and the location of each pixel and sometimes their knowledge goes beyond the developers themselves.
People who finish games quickly (spinners) always challenge each other and over the years have managed to create an entire community interested in this topic. This term has become more popular in the past few years but its origins date back to 1994 specifically with a site called COMPET-N for DOOM. DOOM was one of the first games that allowed players to register their speed points in the game without having to score them from a third party which made downloading and comparing times with people around the world easy.
Challenges differ when we talk about the Speedrunning, where some challenges require you to finish the game with the collection of all holdings or with the completion of all side missions, but usually, the main challenge is to complete the main story and see the names of the workers. The Metroid game, released in 1986, had an advantage that rewarded players for completing timed missions. This made way for the 1994 Super Metroid game to become one of the most popular Speedrunning games of its time. These games are designed in a way that rewards creative players in addition to multiple ways to complete the mission, some of these methods were faster than the other.
Stop talking about history, let's talk about modern games known as speedrun. Celeste has become very popular with players who finish games quickly, there are currently 189 players registered on Speedrun.com and the fastest record number is twenty-six minutes and fifty-seven seconds and six hundred and thirty-four seconds. If you think this number is still high, the regular players who only played the main story managed to finish the game in about eight hours, according to HowLongToBeat.
Many speedrunners rely on their skills from practice and repetition, but many use special tricks to finish games, the most famous of which is “Sequence Breaking” which refers to players who find ways to skip entire parts of the game. This means that they can skip entire stages, tasks, and classes that would have consumed a lot of their time, so in this challenge, every split second can make a difference. Usually, the trick to break the sequence is used by exploiting game errors that enable them to reach other places faster.
DOOM Eternal, which was released this year and which is considered one of the best releases this year, was also one of the games that have gained popularity among the community of players who finish games quickly.
Speedrunning started as a way for players to challenge themselves to the games they love but has since evolved into something much more. A community has been born that wants to end the games as quickly as possible and they benefit everyone. This community has created a competition twice a year called Games Done Quick which raises money and donates it to charities. This tournament, which started in 2010, has managed to donate more than twenty-five million dollars since its foundation, and recently a competition was created specifically for the Coronavirus and they were able to collect more than four hundred thousand dollars in just sixty hours.
Personally, I have never been one of those people, but I respect them greatly and enjoy watching them watch the stress and happiness they experience. This community is one of the most beautiful societies because they do what they love with great passion and professionalism. Now that you know a lot about them, will you join them?
People who finish games quickly (spinners) always challenge each other and over the years have managed to create an entire community interested in this topic. This term has become more popular in the past few years but its origins date back to 1994 specifically with a site called COMPET-N for DOOM. DOOM was one of the first games that allowed players to register their speed points in the game without having to score them from a third party which made downloading and comparing times with people around the world easy.
Challenges differ when we talk about the Speedrunning, where some challenges require you to finish the game with the collection of all holdings or with the completion of all side missions, but usually, the main challenge is to complete the main story and see the names of the workers. The Metroid game, released in 1986, had an advantage that rewarded players for completing timed missions. This made way for the 1994 Super Metroid game to become one of the most popular Speedrunning games of its time. These games are designed in a way that rewards creative players in addition to multiple ways to complete the mission, some of these methods were faster than the other.
Stop talking about history, let's talk about modern games known as speedrun. Celeste has become very popular with players who finish games quickly, there are currently 189 players registered on Speedrun.com and the fastest record number is twenty-six minutes and fifty-seven seconds and six hundred and thirty-four seconds. If you think this number is still high, the regular players who only played the main story managed to finish the game in about eight hours, according to HowLongToBeat.
Many speedrunners rely on their skills from practice and repetition, but many use special tricks to finish games, the most famous of which is “Sequence Breaking” which refers to players who find ways to skip entire parts of the game. This means that they can skip entire stages, tasks, and classes that would have consumed a lot of their time, so in this challenge, every split second can make a difference. Usually, the trick to break the sequence is used by exploiting game errors that enable them to reach other places faster.
DOOM Eternal, which was released this year and which is considered one of the best releases this year, was also one of the games that have gained popularity among the community of players who finish games quickly.
Speedrunning started as a way for players to challenge themselves to the games they love but has since evolved into something much more. A community has been born that wants to end the games as quickly as possible and they benefit everyone. This community has created a competition twice a year called Games Done Quick which raises money and donates it to charities. This tournament, which started in 2010, has managed to donate more than twenty-five million dollars since its foundation, and recently a competition was created specifically for the Coronavirus and they were able to collect more than four hundred thousand dollars in just sixty hours.
Personally, I have never been one of those people, but I respect them greatly and enjoy watching them watch the stress and happiness they experience. This community is one of the most beautiful societies because they do what they love with great passion and professionalism. Now that you know a lot about them, will you join them?
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