Summer Games Done Quick is a weeklong 24-hour speedrunning marathon for charity, benefitting the Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). Quick links: Twitch stream Schedule...
I'm going to use this thread to say that ESA Summer 2024, a European Speedrunner Assembly event that's very similar to GDQ, starts 2 weeks after this one ends, on the 20th of July. Personally I...
I'm going to use this thread to say that ESA Summer 2024, a European Speedrunner Assembly event that's very similar to GDQ, starts 2 weeks after this one ends, on the 20th of July.
Personally I like the ESA events more than GDQ because they tend to have a more casual and chill vibe, somewhat similar to what GDQ used to have 10 years ago. And I usually slightly prefer their selection of games. If you like GDQ, be sure to at least try this one.
Seconding the ESA recommendation! They deserve so many more viewers. Their marathons match GDQ in quality and often surpass GDQ in vibes (IMO), but they have a much smaller audience and pull in...
Seconding the ESA recommendation! They deserve so many more viewers. Their marathons match GDQ in quality and often surpass GDQ in vibes (IMO), but they have a much smaller audience and pull in far less in donations.
I love GDQ, but if you're someone that doesn't love what it's grown to be and miss the feeling of "old GDQ," then definitely check out ESA Summer.
Bumping this to let people know that there’s an upcoming run with an actual IRL dog named Peanut Butter coming up soon. He ran Gyromite remotely at the last GDQ, and he’s running Ken Griffey Jr....
Bumping this to let people know that there’s an upcoming run with an actual IRL dog named Peanut Butter coming up soon. He ran Gyromite remotely at the last GDQ, and he’s running Neil deGrasse Tyson Ken Griffey Jr. Presents MLB LIVE at the event.
Recommended Run: Ken Griffey Jr. Presents MLB by Peanut Butter and JSR_ (Twitch, YouTube) The VODs are now up. This was SO much fun to watch live. Peanut Butter is a treasure. My husband and I...
Ended up watching it, first time watching any GDQ streams! Never been so invested in a baseball game, was actually tense with anticipation. I wonder if this will spawn a new category of speed...
Ended up watching it, first time watching any GDQ streams! Never been so invested in a baseball game, was actually tense with anticipation.
I wonder if this will spawn a new category of speed running. Would certainly be an entertaining one xD
My husband and I had the same response! Neither of us care about sports, but you wouldn’t know that if you saw us watching this game. We were nervous and cheering and so very into it.
My husband and I had the same response! Neither of us care about sports, but you wouldn’t know that if you saw us watching this game. We were nervous and cheering and so very into it.
Recommended Run: Super “Sonic Saves the World” World by Shoujo (Twitch, YouTube) This is a Super Mario World romhack, and the run’s got everything: Incredibly skilled runner? Check....
Recommended Run: Super “Sonic Saves the World” World by Shoujo (Twitch, YouTube)
This is a Super Mario World romhack, and the run’s got everything:
Incredibly skilled runner? Check.
Brilliant-yet-sadistic levels? Check.
Entertaining banter? Check.
Maddy Thorson (creator of Celeste) as a commentator? Check.
“Trans rights” being the much needed replacement for “ORB”? CHECK.
I was absolutely right in my expectations for the kaizo mario runs being one of the highlights of this GDQ. Everyone who liked this should go watch the Super Mario World Kaizo Relay Race, which I...
I was absolutely right in my expectations for the kaizo mario runs being one of the highlights of this GDQ.
Everyone who liked this should go watch the Super Mario World Kaizo Relay Race, which I had the pleasure of watching live. Two teams of top kaizo runners (including Shoujo) competed through a gauntlet created by top kaizo level designers. Excellent vibe and banter and a packed room. Also, Dan Salvato sneaked in a level that's more of a Just Shapes & Beats bullet hell than SMW, which caught me entirely by surprise.
MrMightyMouse ran Grand Poo World 3 with an incredible pace and skill. His couch was Barb (the creator of the game) and GrandPooBear himself. I'd seen GrandPooBear play parts of the game before, but it was new at the time and there was a lot of dying and sometimes confusion, so this was definitely worth watching. Also, Barb's satisfied sadistic little chuckles whenever the game's many kaizo blocks and other devious mechanics are discussed were a delight!
The relay and grand poo world were near the top of my favorites this gdq (barely being beat by halo 3 and peanut butter), absolutely fantastic runs! Kaizo is the spirit of GDQ and it’s always...
The relay and grand poo world were near the top of my favorites this gdq (barely being beat by halo 3 and peanut butter), absolutely fantastic runs! Kaizo is the spirit of GDQ and it’s always special to watch some SMW bullshittery.
For anyone watching right now, I didn’t understand the Doki Doki Literature Club references during this Yoshi Story run. I just assumed they were in-jokes from the streamer’s community. Nope!...
For anyone watching right now, I didn’t understand the Doki Doki Literature Club references during this Yoshi Story run. I just assumed they were in-jokes from the streamer’s community.
Doki Doki Literature Club! is Visual Novel Dating Sim game with an insane twist, for those who somehow haven't heard of it before. It went super viral in 2017 after a bunch of major YouTubers and...
Doki Doki Literature Club! is Visual Novel Dating Sim game with an insane twist, for those who somehow haven't heard of it before. It went super viral in 2017 after a bunch of major YouTubers and Twitch streamers started playing it (e.g. Markiplier, PewDiePie, etc). But by far the best/funniest Let's Play I've seen of it is from The Game Grumps, which I recommend checking out: Doki Doki Literature Club: THE MOVIE (2017 Game Grumps Playthrough)
(Twist comes at 4h07m48s, for those who just want to see that part)
Dan Salvato is second only to Neil Cicierega in my mind for "wait, that's the same guy?" factor. You could know him from his speedrunning (and his decade-long effort to get All Melons to a GDQ),...
Dan Salvato is second only to Neil Cicierega in my mind for "wait, that's the same guy?" factor. You could know him from his speedrunning (and his decade-long effort to get All Melons to a GDQ), you could know from his work modding Super Smash Bros Melee for the tournament scene, or you could know him for DDLC - and have no idea about the other things he did.
Copying this from a comment I made a few years ago: My favorite is that he released a mod fixing a popular Stepmania-style simulator for the bemani game SDVX, K-shootmania, because K-shoot was...
Copying this from a comment I made a few years ago: My favorite is that he released a mod fixing a popular Stepmania-style simulator for the bemani game SDVX, K-shootmania, because K-shoot was really poorly optimized and ran like crap. His mod made it way more playable.
... And then the creator, not one day later, released a patch fixing everything anyway. But he's still a hero to me. <3
Recommended Run: Celeste Custom Maps: Monika’s D-Sides (Dny%) by carrarium (Twitch, YouTube) In the spirit of Celeste's B- and C-Sides, this map pack follows the same progression as the base game,...
In the spirit of Celeste's B- and C-Sides, this map pack follows the same progression as the base game, only more difficult. Much more difficult.
The movement is mesmerizing; the levels are brilliantly designed; the skill on display is unmatched. It was simply an excellent run all around. carrarium absolutely crushed it.
Additional news: GDQ events have now raised a cumulative $50 million dollars for charity. I was just talking with my husband about how we’ve been watching GDQ for over a decade now. We treat it...
I was just talking with my husband about how we’ve been watching GDQ for over a decade now. We treat it the way other people treat the Super Bowl. It’s amazing to see how far they’ve come and how much speedrunning has grown as a hobby since then. It also warms my heart every year to see such kindness and generosity on display from the gaming community. Gamers get associations with toxicity online (and, unfortunately, they’re often deserved), so having an event like this that showcases us at our best instead of our worst goes a long way toward putting a good face forward.
I’m extremely excited for this one! Unfortunately I couldn’t justify going in person this year even though I live right there, but the schedule seems tailor made for me! I’m particularly looking...
I’m extremely excited for this one! Unfortunately I couldn’t justify going in person this year even though I live right there, but the schedule seems tailor made for me! I’m particularly looking forward to both Halo runs (TWO HALO RUNS!!), Mass Effect 2, Half Life 2, any Metroid games, THPS 1-4, Destiny, MGS4, Morrowind, Twilight Princess, Elden Ring, and the Star Wars and Star Trek games!
I made a list of all the runs that seem interesting to me in advance - others may come up - and there are 30 so far! Many are probably not the ones most people would expect, since I have unusual...
I made a list of all the runs that seem interesting to me in advance - others may come up - and there are 30 so far! Many are probably not the ones most people would expect, since I have unusual tastes. But can we agree Outer Wilds 100% shipless sounds super interesting? There's also the hollow knight true ending no major glitches race, a sonic block and a lot of kaizo mario and kaizo adjacent stuff, including Levelhead, which I previously whined about here on Tildes for being too difficult. Hooray for platformers!
Talos Principle 2 is also super interesting to me and it's unfortunate that it's in the middle of the night...
Here's a link to The Talos Principle 2. It was interesting! If you've played the game... This isn't like that. It's a glitch heavy speedrun which skips every puzzle!
Here's a link to The Talos Principle 2. It was interesting! If you've played the game... This isn't like that. It's a glitch heavy speedrun which skips every puzzle!
Exciting, I love tuning in all week, although being in the UK I tend to miss the big hitters but I do generally catch the awful block, which is always great fun.
Exciting, I love tuning in all week, although being in the UK I tend to miss the big hitters but I do generally catch the awful block, which is always great fun.
The "silly" games block this year was a lot of fun (it usually is). I didn't get to watch all of it (yet)? but here are some links: Leaf Blower Man: This Game Blows! - No one likes you, Leaf...
The "silly" games block this year was a lot of fun (it usually is). I didn't get to watch all of it (yet)? but here are some links:
Leaf Blower Man: This Game Blows! - No one likes you, Leaf Blower Person! This game has the best ad breaks of any game I've ever seen!
Mad Panic Coaster - There's some serious skill in evidence in this run. A cool but patently unfair game with (as mentioned by the runners) straight out impossible to react to cues, you just have to know they're coming up!
Sushi Soul Universe - The sequel to I'm Going To Die If I Don't Eat Sushi. I love these games. NANI!?
The worst part of being older now is that I’m incapable of staying up until 7 am to watch silly block. I’ll just have to watch the vods Sunday or Monday!
The worst part of being older now is that I’m incapable of staying up until 7 am to watch silly block. I’ll just have to watch the vods Sunday or Monday!
One downside of moving to Europe is that a lot of the big name games are scheduled too late for me to watch now that I'm a grown-up with a job. One upside is that the silly games block is very...
One downside of moving to Europe is that a lot of the big name games are scheduled too late for me to watch now that I'm a grown-up with a job.
One upside is that the silly games block is very convenient!
Yeah, unfortunately most of the runs I ended up liking the most happened while I was asleep (I only caught Stuart Little 2 live from the silly block). But I did manage to stay up all night for...
Yeah, unfortunately most of the runs I ended up liking the most happened while I was asleep (I only caught Stuart Little 2 live from the silly block). But I did manage to stay up all night for Grand Poo World 3 live so there's that.
Summer Games Done Quick is a weeklong 24-hour speedrunning marathon for charity, benefitting the Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).
Quick links:
Obligatory link to /r/speedrun's [SGDQ] VoD Thread 2024
I thought about including it myself this time, but at this point, you adding it separately is a lovely little Tildes tradition. 😁❤️
LOL, yep. I figured as much. Plus, it's a nice way to bump the topic once the event actually starts. ;)
I'm going to use this thread to say that ESA Summer 2024, a European Speedrunner Assembly event that's very similar to GDQ, starts 2 weeks after this one ends, on the 20th of July.
Personally I like the ESA events more than GDQ because they tend to have a more casual and chill vibe, somewhat similar to what GDQ used to have 10 years ago. And I usually slightly prefer their selection of games. If you like GDQ, be sure to at least try this one.
Seconding the ESA recommendation! They deserve so many more viewers. Their marathons match GDQ in quality and often surpass GDQ in vibes (IMO), but they have a much smaller audience and pull in far less in donations.
I love GDQ, but if you're someone that doesn't love what it's grown to be and miss the feeling of "old GDQ," then definitely check out ESA Summer.
The last ESA was incredible, everyone there was really into it.
Bumping this to let people know that there’s an upcoming run with an actual IRL dog named Peanut Butter coming up soon. He ran Gyromite remotely at the last GDQ, and he’s running
Neil deGrasse TysonKen Griffey Jr. Presents MLB LIVE at the event.Recommended Run: Ken Griffey Jr. Presents MLB by Peanut Butter and JSR_ (Twitch, YouTube)
The VODs are now up. This was SO much fun to watch live. Peanut Butter is a treasure. My husband and I watched it with our dog.
Ended up watching it, first time watching any GDQ streams! Never been so invested in a baseball game, was actually tense with anticipation.
I wonder if this will spawn a new category of speed running. Would certainly be an entertaining one xD
My husband and I had the same response! Neither of us care about sports, but you wouldn’t know that if you saw us watching this game. We were nervous and cheering and so very into it.
PB is the bestest boy.
Recommended Run: Super “Sonic Saves the World” World by Shoujo (Twitch, YouTube)
This is a Super Mario World romhack, and the run’s got everything:
Incredibly skilled runner? Check.
Brilliant-yet-sadistic levels? Check.
Entertaining banter? Check.
Maddy Thorson (creator of Celeste) as a commentator? Check.
“Trans rights” being the much needed replacement for “ORB”? CHECK.
I was absolutely right in my expectations for the kaizo mario runs being one of the highlights of this GDQ.
Everyone who liked this should go watch the Super Mario World Kaizo Relay Race, which I had the pleasure of watching live. Two teams of top kaizo runners (including Shoujo) competed through a gauntlet created by top kaizo level designers. Excellent vibe and banter and a packed room. Also, Dan Salvato sneaked in a level that's more of a Just Shapes & Beats bullet hell than SMW, which caught me entirely by surprise.
MrMightyMouse ran Grand Poo World 3 with an incredible pace and skill. His couch was Barb (the creator of the game) and GrandPooBear himself. I'd seen GrandPooBear play parts of the game before, but it was new at the time and there was a lot of dying and sometimes confusion, so this was definitely worth watching. Also, Barb's satisfied sadistic little chuckles whenever the game's many kaizo blocks and other devious mechanics are discussed were a delight!
The relay and grand poo world were near the top of my favorites this gdq (barely being beat by halo 3 and peanut butter), absolutely fantastic runs! Kaizo is the spirit of GDQ and it’s always special to watch some SMW bullshittery.
For anyone watching right now, I didn’t understand the Doki Doki Literature Club references during this Yoshi Story run. I just assumed they were in-jokes from the streamer’s community.
Nope! After some searching I learned that the current runner is the creator of Doki Doki Literature Club.
Doki Doki Literature Club! is Visual Novel Dating Sim game with an insane twist, for those who somehow haven't heard of it before. It went super viral in 2017 after a bunch of major YouTubers and Twitch streamers started playing it (e.g. Markiplier, PewDiePie, etc). But by far the best/funniest Let's Play I've seen of it is from The Game Grumps, which I recommend checking out:
Doki Doki Literature Club: THE MOVIE (2017 Game Grumps Playthrough)
(Twist comes at 4h07m48s, for those who just want to see that part)
Dan Salvato is second only to Neil Cicierega in my mind for "wait, that's the same guy?" factor. You could know him from his speedrunning (and his decade-long effort to get All Melons to a GDQ), you could know from his work modding Super Smash Bros Melee for the tournament scene, or you could know him for DDLC - and have no idea about the other things he did.
Copying this from a comment I made a few years ago: My favorite is that he released a mod fixing a popular Stepmania-style simulator for the bemani game SDVX, K-shootmania, because K-shoot was really poorly optimized and ran like crap. His mod made it way more playable.
... And then the creator, not one day later, released a patch fixing everything anyway. But he's still a hero to me. <3
I haven't been able to watch it yet, but he was trying to get that run in for years, too, even after DDLC blew him up.
Recommended Run: Celeste Custom Maps: Monika’s D-Sides (Dny%) by carrarium (Twitch, YouTube)
In the spirit of Celeste's B- and C-Sides, this map pack follows the same progression as the base game, only more difficult. Much more difficult.
The movement is mesmerizing; the levels are brilliantly designed; the skill on display is unmatched. It was simply an excellent run all around. carrarium absolutely crushed it.
Additional news: GDQ events have now raised a cumulative $50 million dollars for charity.
I was just talking with my husband about how we’ve been watching GDQ for over a decade now. We treat it the way other people treat the Super Bowl. It’s amazing to see how far they’ve come and how much speedrunning has grown as a hobby since then. It also warms my heart every year to see such kindness and generosity on display from the gaming community. Gamers get associations with toxicity online (and, unfortunately, they’re often deserved), so having an event like this that showcases us at our best instead of our worst goes a long way toward putting a good face forward.
I’m extremely excited for this one! Unfortunately I couldn’t justify going in person this year even though I live right there, but the schedule seems tailor made for me! I’m particularly looking forward to both Halo runs (TWO HALO RUNS!!), Mass Effect 2, Half Life 2, any Metroid games, THPS 1-4, Destiny, MGS4, Morrowind, Twilight Princess, Elden Ring, and the Star Wars and Star Trek games!
I made a list of all the runs that seem interesting to me in advance - others may come up - and there are 30 so far! Many are probably not the ones most people would expect, since I have unusual tastes. But can we agree Outer Wilds 100% shipless sounds super interesting? There's also the hollow knight true ending no major glitches race, a sonic block and a lot of kaizo mario and kaizo adjacent stuff, including Levelhead, which I previously whined about here on Tildes for being too difficult. Hooray for platformers!
Talos Principle 2 is also super interesting to me and it's unfortunate that it's in the middle of the night...
I've watched an Any% shipless before and that was wild, but I assume 100% means filling out the whole ship's log? Which... if so, damn.
I highly recommend that 100% shipless run. Very impressive movement and routing.
Do you know if the 100% includes the DLC? I haven't finished playing the DLC so I don't want to spoil myself if it's in there 😅
It's just the base game, no DLC or even spoilers for it. I haven't played the DLC at all, so I was very happy about that.
Ooh hype I'll definitely watch it then!
Here's a link to The Talos Principle 2. It was interesting! If you've played the game... This isn't like that. It's a glitch heavy speedrun which skips every puzzle!
Exciting, I love tuning in all week, although being in the UK I tend to miss the big hitters but I do generally catch the awful block, which is always great fun.
This comes up fast! I look forward to this every year. Something wholesome, fun with impressive gameplay is great to relax to.
The "silly" games block this year was a lot of fun (it usually is). I didn't get to watch all of it (yet)? but here are some links:
Leaf Blower Man: This Game Blows! - No one likes you, Leaf Blower Person! This game has the best ad breaks of any game I've ever seen!
Mad Panic Coaster - There's some serious skill in evidence in this run. A cool but patently unfair game with (as mentioned by the runners) straight out impossible to react to cues, you just have to know they're coming up!
Sushi Soul Universe - The sequel to I'm Going To Die If I Don't Eat Sushi. I love these games. NANI!?
The worst part of being older now is that I’m incapable of staying up until 7 am to watch silly block. I’ll just have to watch the vods Sunday or Monday!
One downside of moving to Europe is that a lot of the big name games are scheduled too late for me to watch now that I'm a grown-up with a job.
One upside is that the silly games block is very convenient!
Yeah, unfortunately most of the runs I ended up liking the most happened while I was asleep (I only caught Stuart Little 2 live from the silly block). But I did manage to stay up all night for Grand Poo World 3 live so there's that.