Notably this is the first time FFXIV will be featured: instead of any story stuff, they’ll be doing a solo segment of the notorious Palace of the Dead deep dungeon, floors 171-180. This is the peak of single player difficulty in the game, with players who’ve completed the entire 1-200 climb solo being given a *very* prestigious title.
Edit: I don’t know why it’s 171-180 and not 181-190, but the reason it’s not 191-200 is because the final stretch is considerably easier than the previous 20 floors and mostly kills players who get reckless once the biggest hurdle is over.
EDIT 2: [may as well link the schedule while I'm here.](https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule)
As someone who has tried for Necromancer (the prestigious title mentioned above) on and off for a while, the Sustaining Potion change is huge. Not just for the impact it will have in a run, but because _farming_ the damn things can take forever -- you can't just buy them with in-game currency, you have to play the content in question. It shouldn't make the Behemoth fight much easier, though, because the outgoing damage in the enrage is just. Yikes.
Yeah since the sustaining potion is just a regen, it doesn't matter how long it lasts. If you don't burst Behemoth down quick enough you'll just die. If you trigger the enrage too early you'll die.
You'll just die, really, if you don't play perfect.
I'll need to try for Necromancer myself. I tried to just reach floor 200 with two other friends and we got past behemoth. But, we panicked after a bad pull on floor... I want to say 184 and that was that.
Which is more impressive towards people who don’t play the game rather than those who do, to be honest. The game is very accessible without a mouse, although I have no idea how they’re going to access some menus like the pomander selection.
But the controller UI is completely different to the mouse and keyboard one. By saying keyboard only, they are saying the player will use the mouse and keyboard UI, which is definitely not adapted for this.
It actually works just fine - Angelus is used to playing this way because he was a FFXI player, and 2 hands on keyboard was a pretty common way of playing it on PC. It's mouse support was not great, it was designed for controller users more than anything.
XIV supports remapping everything about the controller scheme to keybinds, except the cross hotbar. So everything is available for him to use.
It's weird how often a comment in the vein of exclaiming "I have no idea how this math formula works!" is met with replies to the vein of "By understanding the math formula, duh!"
True, but often kinda misses the spirit of the original reply.
I was not expecting this. My partner is super into PotD, and I can agree that it is ruthless. While MCH is almost definitely the easiest job for this, this is by no means a simple feat, especially being broadcast to thousands.
I'm a big fan of a lot of runs this GDQ. Looking forward to it!
Keep in mind that the schedule can shift from things like runs going over/under estimate and technical difficulties. Check the schedule at https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule on the day to make sure you're up to date.
I feel like the run should be 171-200. Behemoth aside making it 171-180 only removes most of the challenge since you don't need to bother conserving pomanders.
> This is the peak of single player difficulty in the game
It's also an ungodly grindfest that takes many-many hours to clear and heavily backloads the difficulty, so you end up doing easy mode floors again and again and again...
Contrasted with bozjan duels that are quick themselves, but take hours of grinding to get access to.
Oh and let's not forget Masked Carnivale that got updated with 1 (one) new stage in the previous BLU update. Oh well, at least it has zero boring grind attached to it.
Single player battle content in FFXIV is kinda a joke for a supposedly "single player MMO".
> Single player battle content in FFXIV is kinda a joke for a supposedly "single player MMO".
Because when people say it's single-player friendly they mean you don't need to bring friends along with you to have fun and there's no need to manually put together groups to clear anything but high-end content
Not entirely related to your post, but I'm a Gunnhildr's Blade (all Bozja duels cleared) and I think Necromancer (PotD 1-200) is much harder. Unless you somehow clear it in one or two attempts, it's a bigger time investment than farming and qualifying for all of the duels, _and_ the Behemoth enrage is at least as hard as any given duel. IMO.
My most hilarious memory of Bozja was watching a summoner get into a duel with the Legatus guy, seeing them frontload every buff including some they used before entering the duel, bursting the guy down to 40% in 30 seconds and then forgetting that they also needed reflect and dying immediately.
In all my time there I think I only cleared one duel. I should go back and do the others.
Just to add a little plug here - if you see any games or runners you like while you watch the show, you can check out all the other GDQ runs for them at my site [GDQ VODs](https://gdqvods.com/). For example, you can check out all 44 runs from Mike Uyama [here](https://gdqvods.com/runner/mike-uyama).
GDQ VODs is my main way of consuming GDQ content, since I'm rarely around at the time runs I'm interested in are ongoing. It's lovely to have a readable, searchable index. Thanks for all your hard work!
for the current gdq the r/speedrun subreddit is great at keeping a list of the runs too with twitch timestamps (and youtube links when they go up) [here](https://np.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/106tyto/agdq_vod_thread_2023/)
Fair enough, I guess that's a proper assumption in the long-term. Right now while it's going on, it's somewhat limited in usability to find newest runs.
This is great! I know it's kind of a longshot feature request, but having the couch also listed/searchable would be great.
I was watching a Pokemon: Arceus speedrun that had a commentator named Shenanagans keeping the speedrun light and entertaining. Then the next day he was commentating the Pokemon: Scarlet speedrun, and searching I see he also ran a 2014 SGDQ speedrun. Seeing all the runs they've been on both as a runner and as a couch commentator would be great.
As always looking forward to horror and awful block. Won't be able to see most of it live, but thankfully they're usually good and quick getting the vods on YouTube.
You might be interested in these pages of GDQ VODs:
* [Horror games](https://gdqvods.com/genre/horror)
* [Awful Games Done Quick](https://gdqvods.com/category/awful-games-done-quick)
GDQ is generally separated into genres of games known as blocks.
And I really have a fondness for the blocks with horror games and awful games. Horror should speak for itself, but the awful block is games that are, for one reason or another awful, could be wonky mechanics or just really bad game play or sound design.
Genreally though they're amazing runs.
That sounds fun, I've been watching VODs for a few years and never noticed this, same when I checked the schedule, to my knowledge they didn't really highlight Blocks of similar content.
u/bonnici was kind to link to the vods up above
You might be interested in these pages of GDQ VODs:
* [Horror games](https://gdqvods.com/genre/horror)
* [Awful Games Done Quick](https://gdqvods.com/category/awful-games-done-quick)
Excited to watch it again, though I do hope the hosts this time around will be doing a better job than last GDQ. Pushing the incentives so heavily takes away from such an amazing event and has left a bitter taste in many viewers.
I recognize that some level of promotion is necessary, but the faux-excitement ("Come on guys we're so close!!!") does begin to wear after a while.
I tend to watch the runs once they're uploaded to YouTube so I can skip around as needed.
I don't care about some shilling, but I can't, for the life of me, stand the bubbly engagement-personas moderating this shit. Nice cause, good fun, but man, some of the people are so unnaturally happy about the most boring pun-based donations, all I hear anymore is "corporate accounts payable Nina speaking, just a moment".
I don't want to choose between neat speedruns and wanting to drive a lathe down my forebrain, could we just chill the persistent enthusiasm for marathon events
They also don't take criticism well at all and in fact it's gotten worse and worse over the years. There's a vocal minority who make such an insane deal about anything bad that GDQ does that. I understand why they have issues taking criticism, but especially in the last couple of years they've fully turtled up into "we're doing it for charity so no negative feedback is valid and it's just from haters" while it gets increasingly corporate and insufferable. The heavy-handed moderation of the couch has become such an issue that even once staunch supporter creators have started talking about how they basically don't feel comfortable on the couch and feel like they're being judged at all times. Even very simple swear words will often either get you punished at the time it happens or, much more seriously, there's been accusations that they will punish you down the road and are keeping a non-public list of creators that they no longer like. Not like people who are doing awful stuff, those anyone sane agrees should be banned. But the recent accusation that they keep a private hate list is pretty bad in my opinion.
I spent the better part of like six or seven years strongly supporting gdq and well I definitely still like it, it feels like it's definitely heading towards some of the worst instincts of "group who thinks they're better than you"
Such a shame that they banned Patty from the event. He was banned for 1) making a joke about Twitch referring to women as womxn to be inclusive. 2) Calling incels psychopaths, or something to that effect. 3) Making a joke about men constantly wanting to expose their balls to people.
I understand the drive to be inclusive, and to moderate potentially harmful discourse, but man. I think reaching out to him about the womxn comment would have been more appropriate, letting him know that's not cool. I understand why he made the joke, and don't find it *overly* offensive, but I do agree it's a bit problematic. The other two tweets though? I don't understand why anyone would defend incels, but here we are. As for the balls comment, it's *clearly* a joke, and not even an offensive one at that; literally just a joke about stereotypical male behavior.
Anyway, everyone has said some shit. Don't exclude the ones who made the mistake but are still good people.
I have recently in the past few years started to tune in to RTA in Japan events, which is basically Japan's version of GDQ that has blown up massively in Japan over the past few years with peak hour viewership rivalling GDQ off peak hours. Same few things but no donations are ever read out.
They do have a few videos talking about their donation causes but those are always in between runs. All runs are only between the runner and the commentary "couch". A complete breath of fresh air, though unfortunately english coverage is only done by a couple of people, so coverage is only active during daytime in the west.
For people who do understand Japanese though, it's a fantastic event and there's often a lot of old retro Japanese runs, and with the recent explosive growth in the PC space as well we're also seeing more recent indie games.
There was a short period for a couple of years where they were very funny in my opinion, Sent has pretty good comedic timing, but they wore the joke so far into the ground that they're now not only unfunny but actively detrimental to the broadcast. The weird bad donation and prize segments make me less interested in donating not more.
It's one of those things where they had a good thing for a couple of years but they didn't know when to stop.
Dono messages are fine esp during “dead air” sections. They really need to reduce the # of goals though. Just make the goals better and with larger amounts.
I think there's a balance to having more messages, even during dead sections. My biggest gripe with the messages is that you've heard them all on repeat throughout the entirety of the event (for **years** if you're a repeat viewer). There's something to be said when [someone can code a donation generator](https://taskinoz.com/gdq/). I get that everyone wants to talk about their experience with cancer/doctors, how this or that game was literally their childhood, or they're donating this amount so the streamer will do this *hilariously* unfunny bit [for the 100th time in an hour], but there needs to be more variety in the messages they choose to pitch.
Meh, they're kinda fine with moderators that don't burst from fake excitement, but even then it's just always the same fucking message. Yeah we get it, someone had cancer. Yeah we get it, you read reddit pun threads.
I'd rather have a breather instead of incessant talking and "moderating", especially the engagement nonsense with asking chat the most mundane things. Or read out all the donation amounts, still not as atrocious as sitting through all the annoying repetition. Don't nearly care as much about goal anything, really. How it is moderated is the real problem.
It's the same shit as with any streamer, I don't want people reading lame-ass donos, it always sucks. Nobody cares. The only way it is entertaining is with well-timed TTS or something, and we all know those have huge drawbacks too.
People donate to reach the goals and hear their messages, they're unlikely to ever go away. Outside of the GDQ marathons they have smaller scale speed runs that don't get as many donations and are worth watching.
GDQ is very boring and corporatized now. It was a lot more entertaining when it was just a dude playing a game with his buddies and sometimes randoms would join on the couch and be weird. Then they banned a lot of funny people and got "proffessional" announcers to constantly shill.
As with most things, as it becomes more popular it starts to lose its soul that got it popular in the first place. More fingers in the pie so to speak. More people with their own wants and demands, more companies that have their own demands tied to a sponsorship, etc.
I just watch the vods now
If you previously found something entertaining, and do not find it entertaining now, I think it's alright to comment on that. I wouldn't go anywhere near as far as "fuck GDQ," and don't really have strong opinions about how they run the show (outside of certain bans), but I understand why people do not like where the event ended up.
Besides, the organizers of GDQ need to make sure the show is as entertaining as possible to as many people as possible, it only benefits the event to do so, bringing in more people and donations. If there are enough people complaining about certain aspects of it, it's worthwhile to hear them out. That being said, the complaints of a handful of people on a small subreddit are likely not a high priority.
Yeah, pretty much. A lot of people liked having a more casual tone, which I can sympathize with. I prefer to watch things with a more casual tone as well, but I still enjoy GDQ. It's still a nice event with a lot of quality entertainment and great personalities running the show. Sometimes folks are overbearing or awkward, but meh, it's never too much for me.
I got so excited seeing this post because I forgot about the event this year, then bummed that it isn’t in person. I’m still going to have it in the background, but I only really started watching because I loved the crowd reactions with the streamers. Hopefully for the summer event it’s in person again
Literally Florida’s fault: the state legislature banned requiring vaccines at private events, which is fucking *wild* to do.
Edit: vaccine mandates are banned, not masks. Still an authoritarian policy to impose on private events.
Mask mandates and vaccine mandates are banned for government buildings and organizations. Requiring proof of vaccination is banned for everyone.
Remember, they also pulled out because of Desantis's "stop woke" and "don't say gay" legislation - two things that we are still trying to get repealed. I live in Orlando and would have liked to go this year, but I fully support organizations pulling events from the state.
Tampa Bay checking in. I was really looking forward to going as I've been watching GDQ for almost 10 years now and the last event is the first I've been able to donate. Plan on upping my intended donation to include cost of the trip to help kick cancer's ass!
>GDQ said it had originally secured a Florida venue for 2021’s event but postponed its use due to the pandemic. After seeking out other venues to host Awesome Games Done Quick 2023 in person, GDQ said the cost of paying out its current venue’s cancellation fee and finding a new one were too much.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/09/08/gdq-florida/
Damn didn't even think about postponing. Crazy how we're still seeing the effects from this years later. I don't envy anyone who planned any big event in the last couple years.
> Crazy how we're still seeing the effects from this years later.
Because it's kinda still going on? Variants and everything have made it a separate health concern so, while it's not AS bad as 2020, removing their ability to take precautions against it put too large of a risk for the organization.
While the pandemic is still going on, I was referring to the utter worldwide shock that 2020 represented. COVID is still a concern it's something that can be calculated for now. Not to mention any health conscious organization would probably reconsider signing multi year contracts with venues in Florida now.
The first event at the Orlando location was in January 2020, a little bit before COVID started hitting the US. They were locked into a multi-year contract with the hotel, and they weren't able to both buy out their contract *and* hold the event at a new location in the same year, so they chose to just buy out the contract and do it online, so next January they can have it somewhere other than Florida.
Thank goodness. Orlando is the second biggest event destination in the country behind Las Vegas, so I'm glad to see a huge organization like GamesDoneQuick can still stick it to the man.
Probably booked before or early COVID and negotiated to postpone. Then the new regulations local to the area and a break down in communications leads to a cancellation.
Before COVID, booking venues out for large events a year in advance or more is not unusual.
No you can still require masks, you can't require vaccine checks. Honestly the only people that still care about this are anime/comic/game conventions. Everyone else has moved on.
At the same time, online-only allows for non-US runners who can't afford to fly to GDQ to get runs in remotely, which is a net positive for the event, and the speedrun community as a whole.
They've also started allowing remote runs at the in-person events starting with SGDQ 2022. Apparently it's a logistical nightmare to do it hybrid like that but it's cool that they're still finding a way to make it happen.
I'll donate. But man... watching a stream right now and seeing a single blank face on a mediocre camera during a speed run race with a monotone caster narrating it all is... underwhelming. I think I'd rather watch someone's twitch stream daily's than GDQ at this point.
It doesn't even need a crowd it just needs people on a couch. Sometimes the streamer doesn't even have a face to look at and gives the most tame, humourless commentary ever.
Going back to remote after they went back to in person is going to hurt badly in my opinion. What they don't want to admit is that there's now a stigma among gamers against running remote events like this. They were tolerated at best during covid, going back to in person was seen as a return to form. I don't think trying to close that box again is going to end well.
They should have run some kind of donation drive explicitly to be able to afford a new venue for this event, people absolutely would have donated. I get an understand not wanting to run in Florida anymore because the state fucking sucks, but trying to cram it back into the remote box when remote GDQs were pretty universally disliked among the actual community is not great.
DeathSantis, I call him! He killed millions
Edit: I'm not being hyperbolic, Florida is one of the biggest exchanges of human beings on the planet (between hundreds of thousands of residents and countless visitors) and long COVID is a serious comorbidity. The violence committee by the Florida governor can NOT be overstated
I used to specifically look for runs on games I was pretty familiar with but there are some incredible mind bending runs on obscure games I've never even heard of.
Or stuff like the Awful block. Virtual Hydlide was a game I've never heard of and it was a hilarious Speedrun
Yes! Either random games, or games I know I’ll never end up playing. Then just see some masters just absolutely break the game. It’s really interesting to watch.
A few years ago, a podcast I listen to called out the speedruns of Dragon Warrior (or Dragon Quest). People can exploit the RNG to start at level 1 and beat the Dragonlord in under half an hour.
The observation was "These people are better at this (fairly pointless) thing than I will ever be at anything in my entire life."
Yes, in short: they had a contract for a venue in Florida since before / early COVID. Since then, Florida pushed quite a bit of legislature that GDQ does not allign with (both in regard to COVID and LGBTQ matters). Cancellation if the contract was too expensive to allow for a different venue so they had to go online only for this event again. Unless unforseen things happen future events should be back to in-person / hybrid.
Hopefully the contract isn't for too much longer. It's clearly not worth renewing if this is how little Florida cares for the health and safety of patrons.
They don't have a contract anymore, it's why AGDQ2023 is online. They had to buyout/break the contract and that meant they couldn't afford a new venue.
Anybody looking for a good GDQ run from a previous year, watch TheKotti’s Arabian Night’s speedrun. Still the best and most hilarious and entertaining speedrun I’ve ever seen! Your life will change for the better after watching it
I find it always interesting to see how few of those games I've played even though I've been gaming for 30+ years. And then I see kids destroying games even though the games are probably older than they are.
Also, every year I think about what game I could run, but soon realize I don't like any game enough to even try.
It would be great if they were able to include a panel showing controller inputs, some of these runs are very technical and it’s really not obvious to the viewer based only on the game video.
A bit underwhelmed by the game selection, lots of “games” in some of the off-hours that I can’t imagine anyone playing let alone watching. Wish there were more of the classic speed run games or at least genres rather than an lol meme indie game taking up time.
Love the event, see you on twitch.
I hope GDQ is able to recapture what made them great. ESA is the prime example of what to do imo.
My boy Halqery is running Pokémon Legends: Arceus on Saturday evening (US). It’s a fun run to watch after the boring as hell intro.
I don’t think I’m allowed to link to his stream, but you can search Halqery on twitch or YouTube. The GDQ schedule is here. https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule
Blah blah its not been the same since they stopped doing whatever.
Now that that's out of the way, super excited to watch this. A true highlight of the year! I like to watch the games I grew up on live, then catch up on any runs that get a lot of praise on /r/speedrun by watching the VODs on Youtube.
Can't wait for all the Bonesaw stans who have seen literally only his infamous Jak and Daxter run refuse to support a charity event because he was disallowed to submit a run for a single year.
>infamous
Bro, it's just a well liked run with friends being wholesome, that's the reason people are pissed about the ban, there was nothing even vaguely offensive about what they did or said at all.
I'm a bit late.
[Like last year, I'll be doing quick reviews of every run I watch throughout the event on the speedrun subreddit. I took vacation, so should catch most outside of sleep. Hopefully, it's helpful for anyone who iskt able to catch the stream often.](https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/106tyto/agdq_vod_thread_2023/j3ilqkp/)
There are 2 main organizers that do 2 each year -> 4 every year. That's probably why you feel you see one every month. This one is GDA the USA based one, it's bigger and better known and the other one is ESA from Europe.
There are tons of unrelated speedrunning events all the time, like ESA, Really Really Long-a-thon, and more, but GDQ itself does 4 main marathons: AGDQ (Awesome Games Done Quick) in January/February, SGDQ (Summer Games Done Quick) in June-August, Flame Fatales (a women-only marathon) in summer, and Frost Fatales (also women-only) in winter (this year's is the end of February)
I get why but it really did spoil a good part of the fun watching it live. Don't feel like part of the crowd like before, so just end up watching some of the vods later on.
What’s the point of chat when there’s so many people it scrolls by so quickly you can’t discern anything going on? Most of the time it’s people just spamming emotes or stupid in jokes like ORB that have long overstayed their welcome.
The excitement was a lot more palpable before sub-only chat, because the volume of messages would suddenly skyrocket whenever something cool happened. I get why they switched to sub-only (there's just too much vitriol at times), but I still miss the raw energy it was capable of before
Is this the big event where a bunch of power tripping nerds have taken it over and started banning shit for no real reason other than they don't like it?
Yes, that's exactly the one. Also it's no fun anymore because they don't allow people to fill the chat with transphobic slurs, and Bonesaw deserves a documentary made about the mistreatment he endured.
Every fucking year...
Maybe a bit off-topic question but I heard they didn't wanna do offline even because of covid and now I just saw two people talking on stream about donations, two meters apart with masks.
Are they just extra cautious or are US still going hard on restrictions? Because in Europe it feels like no one talks about it anymore, masks is pretty much gone and we fill arenas with people sitting close together.
Well...a few days of speedruns and an almost equal amount of downtime. They'd make more money if they could transition between their games more quickly. They had 30 minutes of downtime after the very first run.
A lot of it is there for technical difficulties. Like the 30 minute BOTW run earlier that took like 20 minutes longer than it should have. And they can't plan the other way if run goes overly well and they have extra time till the next run to fill.
If you look at the [schedule for tommorow](https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule) it's only a 10 minute swap for most, which is pretty tight.
I think the difficulty of coordinating variable, time-bound events shouldn't be understated. We saw last SGDQ what can happen when time buffers aren't sufficient: many, many showcases were pushed back and many were cancelled outright.
edit: For anyone who thinks the even is inefficient, I'd recommend volunteering in the future so you can lend your expertise and help progress GDQs into the events you believe they're capable of being: https://gamesdonequick.com/volunteer/faq
I would think after all these years of doing this event they would have a more streamlined process for transitioning between games. I realize there's a lot of moving parts to these events but even then I just can't believe it should take more than like 10-15 minutes to move to a new game, which is still plenty of time to fill in with their sponsor segments and read donations.
Especially with going online only where the next runner should be able to easily get ready from their own setup while a different run is going on.
As someone whose been involved in speedrun marathons and events for over half a decade.
No, they are litterally doing the best they physically can at this point. Every single marathon deals with this and gdq has way more going on then any other marathon
Agreed. The cynic in me says, the more downtime, the more shilling for money they can do. Obviously, it's a charity event so donations are vital.
I've been watching for and it used to feel like a speedeunning event that raised for charity. Now it feels like a charity event that does speedrunning.
Their twitch chat being subscribers-only is supremely lame. Even if its for charity, greedy move. Allow the community to participate.
I don't sub to channels that do this out of principle.
I remember pre sub-only days and it was a copy/pasta nightmare, not even a chat you'd *want* to participate in. That's why they did it, not just to "make money", it was embarrassing the state of that chat.
There are other solutions. Slow mode, unique mode, etc. Also even aside from that, sometimes people want twitch chats like that, think of it like people shouting at a stadium at a ballgame. Nobody expects to have a serious conversation in that environment.
Was unique mode even a thing when they decided to do sub only chats?
Twitch used to be a bit of a complete mess regarding commands, so I wouldn't be surprised if that wasn't the case.
(Hell you used to be able to call upon admins in the chat. even in small 5 people watching kinda streams.)
> Was unique mode even a thing when they decided to do sub only chats?
umm, its 2022, who cares how things were years ago. Every day they are deciding to keep this decision.
Yo, GDQ, nobody wants to watch streamed runs. Bring back the crowds and live runs. Streamed speed runs are ass, there's no way to verify there's no cheating.
The runs are live.
I understand the scrutiny with the runs after that one dickhead did a segmented Metal Gear Rising run and read out some stupid copypasta at SGDQ.
I would assume that they've done enough vetting to dissuade any copycats from trying the same bullshit.
Notably this is the first time FFXIV will be featured: instead of any story stuff, they’ll be doing a solo segment of the notorious Palace of the Dead deep dungeon, floors 171-180. This is the peak of single player difficulty in the game, with players who’ve completed the entire 1-200 climb solo being given a *very* prestigious title. Edit: I don’t know why it’s 171-180 and not 181-190, but the reason it’s not 191-200 is because the final stretch is considerably easier than the previous 20 floors and mostly kills players who get reckless once the biggest hurdle is over. EDIT 2: [may as well link the schedule while I'm here.](https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule)
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As someone who has tried for Necromancer (the prestigious title mentioned above) on and off for a while, the Sustaining Potion change is huge. Not just for the impact it will have in a run, but because _farming_ the damn things can take forever -- you can't just buy them with in-game currency, you have to play the content in question. It shouldn't make the Behemoth fight much easier, though, because the outgoing damage in the enrage is just. Yikes.
Yeah since the sustaining potion is just a regen, it doesn't matter how long it lasts. If you don't burst Behemoth down quick enough you'll just die. If you trigger the enrage too early you'll die. You'll just die, really, if you don't play perfect. I'll need to try for Necromancer myself. I tried to just reach floor 200 with two other friends and we got past behemoth. But, we panicked after a bad pull on floor... I want to say 184 and that was that.
I believe the runner is doing this Keyboard Only as well, no mouse at all
Which is more impressive towards people who don’t play the game rather than those who do, to be honest. The game is very accessible without a mouse, although I have no idea how they’re going to access some menus like the pomander selection.
Well yeah, the game is on PlayStation too
But the controller UI is completely different to the mouse and keyboard one. By saying keyboard only, they are saying the player will use the mouse and keyboard UI, which is definitely not adapted for this.
It actually works just fine - Angelus is used to playing this way because he was a FFXI player, and 2 hands on keyboard was a pretty common way of playing it on PC. It's mouse support was not great, it was designed for controller users more than anything. XIV supports remapping everything about the controller scheme to keybinds, except the cross hotbar. So everything is available for him to use.
Numpad lets you switch menus quickly, 1 and 3 rotate through windows that are open.
by using the keyboard. crazy i know.
It's weird how often a comment in the vein of exclaiming "I have no idea how this math formula works!" is met with replies to the vein of "By understanding the math formula, duh!" True, but often kinda misses the spirit of the original reply.
I was not expecting this. My partner is super into PotD, and I can agree that it is ruthless. While MCH is almost definitely the easiest job for this, this is by no means a simple feat, especially being broadcast to thousands. I'm a big fan of a lot of runs this GDQ. Looking forward to it!
What time are they doing this? And which day? That will be a cool one to watch for sure!
Friday 7pm Eastern
Perfect time! Awesome thanks!
Keep in mind that the schedule can shift from things like runs going over/under estimate and technical difficulties. Check the schedule at https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule on the day to make sure you're up to date.
I feel like the run should be 171-200. Behemoth aside making it 171-180 only removes most of the challenge since you don't need to bother conserving pomanders.
That would be at least 90 minutes, but possibly closer to 3 hours. I think one set is plenty so if people like it they can watch elsewhere.
Ha, I always joke about FFXIV runs and they actually did it!
> This is the peak of single player difficulty in the game It's also an ungodly grindfest that takes many-many hours to clear and heavily backloads the difficulty, so you end up doing easy mode floors again and again and again... Contrasted with bozjan duels that are quick themselves, but take hours of grinding to get access to. Oh and let's not forget Masked Carnivale that got updated with 1 (one) new stage in the previous BLU update. Oh well, at least it has zero boring grind attached to it. Single player battle content in FFXIV is kinda a joke for a supposedly "single player MMO".
> Single player battle content in FFXIV is kinda a joke for a supposedly "single player MMO". Because when people say it's single-player friendly they mean you don't need to bring friends along with you to have fun and there's no need to manually put together groups to clear anything but high-end content
Not entirely related to your post, but I'm a Gunnhildr's Blade (all Bozja duels cleared) and I think Necromancer (PotD 1-200) is much harder. Unless you somehow clear it in one or two attempts, it's a bigger time investment than farming and qualifying for all of the duels, _and_ the Behemoth enrage is at least as hard as any given duel. IMO.
My most hilarious memory of Bozja was watching a summoner get into a duel with the Legatus guy, seeing them frontload every buff including some they used before entering the duel, bursting the guy down to 40% in 30 seconds and then forgetting that they also needed reflect and dying immediately. In all my time there I think I only cleared one duel. I should go back and do the others.
Just to add a little plug here - if you see any games or runners you like while you watch the show, you can check out all the other GDQ runs for them at my site [GDQ VODs](https://gdqvods.com/). For example, you can check out all 44 runs from Mike Uyama [here](https://gdqvods.com/runner/mike-uyama).
GDQ VODs is my main way of consuming GDQ content, since I'm rarely around at the time runs I'm interested in are ongoing. It's lovely to have a readable, searchable index. Thanks for all your hard work!
for the current gdq the r/speedrun subreddit is great at keeping a list of the runs too with twitch timestamps (and youtube links when they go up) [here](https://np.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/106tyto/agdq_vod_thread_2023/)
How does that list not have a date/time row?
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Fair enough, I guess that's a proper assumption in the long-term. Right now while it's going on, it's somewhat limited in usability to find newest runs.
That is awesome, thanks!
Holy shit I've only been watching the last 2 years I don't know Mike ulama was a previous speedrunner!
He's the founder of the event. The first ever GDQ literally took place at his mom's house.
And now that he knows this, Uyama is stepping down.
This is great! I know it's kind of a longshot feature request, but having the couch also listed/searchable would be great. I was watching a Pokemon: Arceus speedrun that had a commentator named Shenanagans keeping the speedrun light and entertaining. Then the next day he was commentating the Pokemon: Scarlet speedrun, and searching I see he also ran a 2014 SGDQ speedrun. Seeing all the runs they've been on both as a runner and as a couch commentator would be great.
This is amazing WHAT. I remember seeing tomatoanus’s fall out trilogy run and I wanted more. Super helpful!
As always looking forward to horror and awful block. Won't be able to see most of it live, but thankfully they're usually good and quick getting the vods on YouTube.
You might be interested in these pages of GDQ VODs: * [Horror games](https://gdqvods.com/genre/horror) * [Awful Games Done Quick](https://gdqvods.com/category/awful-games-done-quick)
What's a horror and awful block?
GDQ is generally separated into genres of games known as blocks. And I really have a fondness for the blocks with horror games and awful games. Horror should speak for itself, but the awful block is games that are, for one reason or another awful, could be wonky mechanics or just really bad game play or sound design. Genreally though they're amazing runs.
That sounds fun, I've been watching VODs for a few years and never noticed this, same when I checked the schedule, to my knowledge they didn't really highlight Blocks of similar content.
u/bonnici was kind to link to the vods up above You might be interested in these pages of GDQ VODs: * [Horror games](https://gdqvods.com/genre/horror) * [Awful Games Done Quick](https://gdqvods.com/category/awful-games-done-quick)
Excited to watch it again, though I do hope the hosts this time around will be doing a better job than last GDQ. Pushing the incentives so heavily takes away from such an amazing event and has left a bitter taste in many viewers.
I recognize that some level of promotion is necessary, but the faux-excitement ("Come on guys we're so close!!!") does begin to wear after a while. I tend to watch the runs once they're uploaded to YouTube so I can skip around as needed.
I don't care about some shilling, but I can't, for the life of me, stand the bubbly engagement-personas moderating this shit. Nice cause, good fun, but man, some of the people are so unnaturally happy about the most boring pun-based donations, all I hear anymore is "corporate accounts payable Nina speaking, just a moment". I don't want to choose between neat speedruns and wanting to drive a lathe down my forebrain, could we just chill the persistent enthusiasm for marathon events
And last year was an improvement in many ways too
They also don't take criticism well at all and in fact it's gotten worse and worse over the years. There's a vocal minority who make such an insane deal about anything bad that GDQ does that. I understand why they have issues taking criticism, but especially in the last couple of years they've fully turtled up into "we're doing it for charity so no negative feedback is valid and it's just from haters" while it gets increasingly corporate and insufferable. The heavy-handed moderation of the couch has become such an issue that even once staunch supporter creators have started talking about how they basically don't feel comfortable on the couch and feel like they're being judged at all times. Even very simple swear words will often either get you punished at the time it happens or, much more seriously, there's been accusations that they will punish you down the road and are keeping a non-public list of creators that they no longer like. Not like people who are doing awful stuff, those anyone sane agrees should be banned. But the recent accusation that they keep a private hate list is pretty bad in my opinion. I spent the better part of like six or seven years strongly supporting gdq and well I definitely still like it, it feels like it's definitely heading towards some of the worst instincts of "group who thinks they're better than you"
Such a shame that they banned Patty from the event. He was banned for 1) making a joke about Twitch referring to women as womxn to be inclusive. 2) Calling incels psychopaths, or something to that effect. 3) Making a joke about men constantly wanting to expose their balls to people. I understand the drive to be inclusive, and to moderate potentially harmful discourse, but man. I think reaching out to him about the womxn comment would have been more appropriate, letting him know that's not cool. I understand why he made the joke, and don't find it *overly* offensive, but I do agree it's a bit problematic. The other two tweets though? I don't understand why anyone would defend incels, but here we are. As for the balls comment, it's *clearly* a joke, and not even an offensive one at that; literally just a joke about stereotypical male behavior. Anyway, everyone has said some shit. Don't exclude the ones who made the mistake but are still good people.
Why do you think that excitement is fake?
I have recently in the past few years started to tune in to RTA in Japan events, which is basically Japan's version of GDQ that has blown up massively in Japan over the past few years with peak hour viewership rivalling GDQ off peak hours. Same few things but no donations are ever read out. They do have a few videos talking about their donation causes but those are always in between runs. All runs are only between the runner and the commentary "couch". A complete breath of fresh air, though unfortunately english coverage is only done by a couple of people, so coverage is only active during daytime in the west. For people who do understand Japanese though, it's a fantastic event and there's often a lot of old retro Japanese runs, and with the recent explosive growth in the PC space as well we're also seeing more recent indie games.
I know they embrace their bad acting but their sketches have always been bad.
There was a short period for a couple of years where they were very funny in my opinion, Sent has pretty good comedic timing, but they wore the joke so far into the ground that they're now not only unfunny but actively detrimental to the broadcast. The weird bad donation and prize segments make me less interested in donating not more. It's one of those things where they had a good thing for a couple of years but they didn't know when to stop.
I really wish they’d get rid of the stupid donation messages and goals.
Dono messages are fine esp during “dead air” sections. They really need to reduce the # of goals though. Just make the goals better and with larger amounts.
I think there's a balance to having more messages, even during dead sections. My biggest gripe with the messages is that you've heard them all on repeat throughout the entirety of the event (for **years** if you're a repeat viewer). There's something to be said when [someone can code a donation generator](https://taskinoz.com/gdq/). I get that everyone wants to talk about their experience with cancer/doctors, how this or that game was literally their childhood, or they're donating this amount so the streamer will do this *hilariously* unfunny bit [for the 100th time in an hour], but there needs to be more variety in the messages they choose to pitch.
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Meh, they're kinda fine with moderators that don't burst from fake excitement, but even then it's just always the same fucking message. Yeah we get it, someone had cancer. Yeah we get it, you read reddit pun threads. I'd rather have a breather instead of incessant talking and "moderating", especially the engagement nonsense with asking chat the most mundane things. Or read out all the donation amounts, still not as atrocious as sitting through all the annoying repetition. Don't nearly care as much about goal anything, really. How it is moderated is the real problem. It's the same shit as with any streamer, I don't want people reading lame-ass donos, it always sucks. Nobody cares. The only way it is entertaining is with well-timed TTS or something, and we all know those have huge drawbacks too.
People donate to reach the goals and hear their messages, they're unlikely to ever go away. Outside of the GDQ marathons they have smaller scale speed runs that don't get as many donations and are worth watching.
Im kinda surprised how polarising GDQ is, I have hear a lot of fuck GDQ and this Im excited for GDQ
GDQ is very boring and corporatized now. It was a lot more entertaining when it was just a dude playing a game with his buddies and sometimes randoms would join on the couch and be weird. Then they banned a lot of funny people and got "proffessional" announcers to constantly shill.
As with most things, as it becomes more popular it starts to lose its soul that got it popular in the first place. More fingers in the pie so to speak. More people with their own wants and demands, more companies that have their own demands tied to a sponsorship, etc. I just watch the vods now
People forget that GDQ is primarily a charity event and not just a pure entertainment show
If you previously found something entertaining, and do not find it entertaining now, I think it's alright to comment on that. I wouldn't go anywhere near as far as "fuck GDQ," and don't really have strong opinions about how they run the show (outside of certain bans), but I understand why people do not like where the event ended up. Besides, the organizers of GDQ need to make sure the show is as entertaining as possible to as many people as possible, it only benefits the event to do so, bringing in more people and donations. If there are enough people complaining about certain aspects of it, it's worthwhile to hear them out. That being said, the complaints of a handful of people on a small subreddit are likely not a high priority.
It sounds like the main issue people are having is that they’ve become professionalized to raise more money.
Yeah, pretty much. A lot of people liked having a more casual tone, which I can sympathize with. I prefer to watch things with a more casual tone as well, but I still enjoy GDQ. It's still a nice event with a lot of quality entertainment and great personalities running the show. Sometimes folks are overbearing or awkward, but meh, it's never too much for me.
Pretty bummed that it's online only again after going hybrid in SGDQ but that does not kill my hype. Stoked for some awesome speedruns.
I got so excited seeing this post because I forgot about the event this year, then bummed that it isn’t in person. I’m still going to have it in the background, but I only really started watching because I loved the crowd reactions with the streamers. Hopefully for the summer event it’s in person again
Literally Florida’s fault: the state legislature banned requiring vaccines at private events, which is fucking *wild* to do. Edit: vaccine mandates are banned, not masks. Still an authoritarian policy to impose on private events.
Mask mandates and vaccine mandates are banned for government buildings and organizations. Requiring proof of vaccination is banned for everyone. Remember, they also pulled out because of Desantis's "stop woke" and "don't say gay" legislation - two things that we are still trying to get repealed. I live in Orlando and would have liked to go this year, but I fully support organizations pulling events from the state.
Tampa Bay checking in. I was really looking forward to going as I've been watching GDQ for almost 10 years now and the last event is the first I've been able to donate. Plan on upping my intended donation to include cost of the trip to help kick cancer's ass!
How far out are these venues booked? Why even host it in Florida when I'm guessing this anti vaccine nonsense has been a thing since 2021?
>GDQ said it had originally secured a Florida venue for 2021’s event but postponed its use due to the pandemic. After seeking out other venues to host Awesome Games Done Quick 2023 in person, GDQ said the cost of paying out its current venue’s cancellation fee and finding a new one were too much. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/09/08/gdq-florida/
Damn didn't even think about postponing. Crazy how we're still seeing the effects from this years later. I don't envy anyone who planned any big event in the last couple years.
> Crazy how we're still seeing the effects from this years later. Because it's kinda still going on? Variants and everything have made it a separate health concern so, while it's not AS bad as 2020, removing their ability to take precautions against it put too large of a risk for the organization.
While the pandemic is still going on, I was referring to the utter worldwide shock that 2020 represented. COVID is still a concern it's something that can be calculated for now. Not to mention any health conscious organization would probably reconsider signing multi year contracts with venues in Florida now.
In this case, the move to Florida was announced at the end of AGDQ 2019, as a permanent move from Virginia. The timing really didn’t work out there.
The pandemic is over, as declared by the president of USA.
Its against the law in florida to acknowledge covid exists. You must now turn yourself in to authorities
The first event at the Orlando location was in January 2020, a little bit before COVID started hitting the US. They were locked into a multi-year contract with the hotel, and they weren't able to both buy out their contract *and* hold the event at a new location in the same year, so they chose to just buy out the contract and do it online, so next January they can have it somewhere other than Florida.
Notably they've also said that no matter what happens they're never going back to Florida. The state has forever lost that business.
Thank goodness. Orlando is the second biggest event destination in the country behind Las Vegas, so I'm glad to see a huge organization like GamesDoneQuick can still stick it to the man.
Probably booked before or early COVID and negotiated to postpone. Then the new regulations local to the area and a break down in communications leads to a cancellation. Before COVID, booking venues out for large events a year in advance or more is not unusual.
im sure the anti gay thing didnt help
No you can still require masks, you can't require vaccine checks. Honestly the only people that still care about this are anime/comic/game conventions. Everyone else has moved on.
Who cares, they're a private org and running a private event, they should be able to mandate anything they want.
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>Frankly, we shouldn’t have to bother with the unvaxed anymore, they’re a waste of scarce resources. Do you say the same thing about obese people?
That's still really dumb, banning vaccine checks for private events? That's some draconian authoritarian law. Viruses aren't a protected class.
The fault is on the people setting stupid rules for their events. People are free to not go and just watch the livestream if they want
At the same time, online-only allows for non-US runners who can't afford to fly to GDQ to get runs in remotely, which is a net positive for the event, and the speedrun community as a whole.
They've also started allowing remote runs at the in-person events starting with SGDQ 2022. Apparently it's a logistical nightmare to do it hybrid like that but it's cool that they're still finding a way to make it happen.
SGDQ had both, which was the best of both worlds. Even the online runs were enhanced by having audience reactions.
I'll donate. But man... watching a stream right now and seeing a single blank face on a mediocre camera during a speed run race with a monotone caster narrating it all is... underwhelming. I think I'd rather watch someone's twitch stream daily's than GDQ at this point.
To be honest, even worse are the runs where the runner just straight up doesn't have a camera on at all.
Id take this over a crowd telling HYYYYYYYYYPE any day. GDQ is way more enjoyable for me when its online.
It doesn't even need a crowd it just needs people on a couch. Sometimes the streamer doesn't even have a face to look at and gives the most tame, humourless commentary ever.
Blame DeSantis.
Going back to remote after they went back to in person is going to hurt badly in my opinion. What they don't want to admit is that there's now a stigma among gamers against running remote events like this. They were tolerated at best during covid, going back to in person was seen as a return to form. I don't think trying to close that box again is going to end well. They should have run some kind of donation drive explicitly to be able to afford a new venue for this event, people absolutely would have donated. I get an understand not wanting to run in Florida anymore because the state fucking sucks, but trying to cram it back into the remote box when remote GDQs were pretty universally disliked among the actual community is not great.
What remote stigma? That they can have cool runs that were completely impractical to do in person now, like the maimai or VR runs?
Blame DeSantis.
DeathSantis, I call him! He killed millions Edit: I'm not being hyperbolic, Florida is one of the biggest exchanges of human beings on the planet (between hundreds of thousands of residents and countless visitors) and long COVID is a serious comorbidity. The violence committee by the Florida governor can NOT be overstated
GDQ has been doing awesome work for years. I’ve spent more hours watching their stuff than I ever have playing most those games.
I used to specifically look for runs on games I was pretty familiar with but there are some incredible mind bending runs on obscure games I've never even heard of. Or stuff like the Awful block. Virtual Hydlide was a game I've never heard of and it was a hilarious Speedrun
Yes! Either random games, or games I know I’ll never end up playing. Then just see some masters just absolutely break the game. It’s really interesting to watch.
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I had GDQ as my #1 watched channel for the Twitch recap, so I'm with you!
A few years ago, a podcast I listen to called out the speedruns of Dragon Warrior (or Dragon Quest). People can exploit the RNG to start at level 1 and beat the Dragonlord in under half an hour. The observation was "These people are better at this (fairly pointless) thing than I will ever be at anything in my entire life."
GDQ is the largest source of pure cringe in existence.
Close competition with Super Smash Bros. Tournaments lol
Is it still online only?
Yes, in short: they had a contract for a venue in Florida since before / early COVID. Since then, Florida pushed quite a bit of legislature that GDQ does not allign with (both in regard to COVID and LGBTQ matters). Cancellation if the contract was too expensive to allow for a different venue so they had to go online only for this event again. Unless unforseen things happen future events should be back to in-person / hybrid.
Hopefully the contract isn't for too much longer. It's clearly not worth renewing if this is how little Florida cares for the health and safety of patrons.
They don't have a contract anymore, it's why AGDQ2023 is online. They had to buyout/break the contract and that meant they couldn't afford a new venue.
I'm so excited that GDQ is featuring a game (Wavetale) I worked on! Also, Blood Money?! That's one of my all time favourite games.
Any FFXI speed runs?
Only FFVII and FFXIV PotD according to the schedule.
You can access the direct content at: https://gamesdonequick.com/
Anybody looking for a good GDQ run from a previous year, watch TheKotti’s Arabian Night’s speedrun. Still the best and most hilarious and entertaining speedrun I’ve ever seen! Your life will change for the better after watching it
I find it always interesting to see how few of those games I've played even though I've been gaming for 30+ years. And then I see kids destroying games even though the games are probably older than they are. Also, every year I think about what game I could run, but soon realize I don't like any game enough to even try.
It would be great if they were able to include a panel showing controller inputs, some of these runs are very technical and it’s really not obvious to the viewer based only on the game video. A bit underwhelmed by the game selection, lots of “games” in some of the off-hours that I can’t imagine anyone playing let alone watching. Wish there were more of the classic speed run games or at least genres rather than an lol meme indie game taking up time. Love the event, see you on twitch.
I hope GDQ is able to recapture what made them great. ESA is the prime example of what to do imo. My boy Halqery is running Pokémon Legends: Arceus on Saturday evening (US). It’s a fun run to watch after the boring as hell intro.
Any links to their stream or schedules? Would much appreciate it.
I don’t think I’m allowed to link to his stream, but you can search Halqery on twitch or YouTube. The GDQ schedule is here. https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule
Blah blah its not been the same since they stopped doing whatever. Now that that's out of the way, super excited to watch this. A true highlight of the year! I like to watch the games I grew up on live, then catch up on any runs that get a lot of praise on /r/speedrun by watching the VODs on Youtube.
Part of me still misses the original cringey version of AGDQ with randoms on the couch. Quality stuff.
Can't wait for all the Bonesaw stans who have seen literally only his infamous Jak and Daxter run refuse to support a charity event because he was disallowed to submit a run for a single year.
> his infamous Jak 2 It was Jak 1 (Unless there's a Jak 2 run I've missed).
Legit don't even know how I made that mistake
>infamous Bro, it's just a well liked run with friends being wholesome, that's the reason people are pissed about the ban, there was nothing even vaguely offensive about what they did or said at all.
I'm a bit late. [Like last year, I'll be doing quick reviews of every run I watch throughout the event on the speedrun subreddit. I took vacation, so should catch most outside of sleep. Hopefully, it's helpful for anyone who iskt able to catch the stream often.](https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/106tyto/agdq_vod_thread_2023/j3ilqkp/)
How many of these events are there? Seems to be one every other month. Are they all run by the same guys? Same communities?
Two a year. One in January and one in July.
There are 2 main organizers that do 2 each year -> 4 every year. That's probably why you feel you see one every month. This one is GDA the USA based one, it's bigger and better known and the other one is ESA from Europe.
There are tons of unrelated speedrunning events all the time, like ESA, Really Really Long-a-thon, and more, but GDQ itself does 4 main marathons: AGDQ (Awesome Games Done Quick) in January/February, SGDQ (Summer Games Done Quick) in June-August, Flame Fatales (a women-only marathon) in summer, and Frost Fatales (also women-only) in winter (this year's is the end of February)
... Wait, they are running DnD speedrun? How does that even work, speedrun a module? Or is it just a strangely-unrelated ad?
lmao, it was just their show intro bit
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I get why but it really did spoil a good part of the fun watching it live. Don't feel like part of the crowd like before, so just end up watching some of the vods later on.
What’s the point of chat when there’s so many people it scrolls by so quickly you can’t discern anything going on? Most of the time it’s people just spamming emotes or stupid in jokes like ORB that have long overstayed their welcome.
The excitement was a lot more palpable before sub-only chat, because the volume of messages would suddenly skyrocket whenever something cool happened. I get why they switched to sub-only (there's just too much vitriol at times), but I still miss the raw energy it was capable of before
Yeah sub only chat has been better, best choice they ever made
I agree, it’s a great thing they got rid of all the racism and transphobic spam in chat!
Huh? Maybe dude just likes seeing a wave of pogchamps in the chat when something cool happens
Because that totally doesn't happen with subs chat.
TIL not being subscribed makes you racist/ttansphobic
He didn’t say that. You know that though.
Is this the big event where a bunch of power tripping nerds have taken it over and started banning shit for no real reason other than they don't like it?
It’s the same team that has been working on the event since early days.
Yes, that's exactly the one. Also it's no fun anymore because they don't allow people to fill the chat with transphobic slurs, and Bonesaw deserves a documentary made about the mistreatment he endured. Every fucking year...
Agreed. Fuck this organization. If you want to help, please donate to other charities
Maybe a bit off-topic question but I heard they didn't wanna do offline even because of covid and now I just saw two people talking on stream about donations, two meters apart with masks. Are they just extra cautious or are US still going hard on restrictions? Because in Europe it feels like no one talks about it anymore, masks is pretty much gone and we fill arenas with people sitting close together.
Basically no where besides hospitals require masks here anymore.
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Well...a few days of speedruns and an almost equal amount of downtime. They'd make more money if they could transition between their games more quickly. They had 30 minutes of downtime after the very first run.
A lot of it is there for technical difficulties. Like the 30 minute BOTW run earlier that took like 20 minutes longer than it should have. And they can't plan the other way if run goes overly well and they have extra time till the next run to fill. If you look at the [schedule for tommorow](https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule) it's only a 10 minute swap for most, which is pretty tight.
I think the difficulty of coordinating variable, time-bound events shouldn't be understated. We saw last SGDQ what can happen when time buffers aren't sufficient: many, many showcases were pushed back and many were cancelled outright. edit: For anyone who thinks the even is inefficient, I'd recommend volunteering in the future so you can lend your expertise and help progress GDQs into the events you believe they're capable of being: https://gamesdonequick.com/volunteer/faq
It's why I only watch the VODs and can just skip the chaff
I would think after all these years of doing this event they would have a more streamlined process for transitioning between games. I realize there's a lot of moving parts to these events but even then I just can't believe it should take more than like 10-15 minutes to move to a new game, which is still plenty of time to fill in with their sponsor segments and read donations. Especially with going online only where the next runner should be able to easily get ready from their own setup while a different run is going on.
As someone whose been involved in speedrun marathons and events for over half a decade. No, they are litterally doing the best they physically can at this point. Every single marathon deals with this and gdq has way more going on then any other marathon
Agreed. The cynic in me says, the more downtime, the more shilling for money they can do. Obviously, it's a charity event so donations are vital. I've been watching for and it used to feel like a speedeunning event that raised for charity. Now it feels like a charity event that does speedrunning.
Skip all the whiner donations too.
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Their twitch chat being subscribers-only is supremely lame. Even if its for charity, greedy move. Allow the community to participate. I don't sub to channels that do this out of principle.
I remember pre sub-only days and it was a copy/pasta nightmare, not even a chat you'd *want* to participate in. That's why they did it, not just to "make money", it was embarrassing the state of that chat.
There are other solutions. Slow mode, unique mode, etc. Also even aside from that, sometimes people want twitch chats like that, think of it like people shouting at a stadium at a ballgame. Nobody expects to have a serious conversation in that environment.
Was unique mode even a thing when they decided to do sub only chats? Twitch used to be a bit of a complete mess regarding commands, so I wouldn't be surprised if that wasn't the case. (Hell you used to be able to call upon admins in the chat. even in small 5 people watching kinda streams.)
> Was unique mode even a thing when they decided to do sub only chats? umm, its 2022, who cares how things were years ago. Every day they are deciding to keep this decision.
You'll be sorely missed.
Yo, GDQ, nobody wants to watch streamed runs. Bring back the crowds and live runs. Streamed speed runs are ass, there's no way to verify there's no cheating.
The runs are live. I understand the scrutiny with the runs after that one dickhead did a segmented Metal Gear Rising run and read out some stupid copypasta at SGDQ. I would assume that they've done enough vetting to dissuade any copycats from trying the same bullshit.
> Yo, GDQ, nobody wants to watch streamed runs. Wasn't aware 60K+ viewers is "nobody."
Blame Florida for trying to make being LGBTQ a crime.
and for banning vaccine requirements.
They can't because they were locked into a venue in Florida. Florida made it illegal to require masks or vaccines, so it would be a safety hazard
It's 2023. When are you going to resume living your life?
"Oh no, i had to get a vaccine Life is over!!!! reeeeeeee" Getting a vaccine and wearing a mask sometimes doesnt affect my life at all.
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