This is a beautiful writeup of my favorite gaming event of the year.
AGDQ was my gateway drug into watching speedrunning for all the reasons you laid out. It’s a really fun window into a wild world of super-skilled players doing things I can’t even begin to imagine. (The race to beat all of the uploaded levels in Super Mario Maker last year wasn’t exactly speedrunning, but was great for all of the same reasons, IMO!)
I am floored by the level of creativity and dexterity these players employ at AGDQ, not to mention their ability to not only play insanely hard games at breakneck speed but give a running commentary while they do it!
Very much same—which I guess is pretty obvious from all these words 😅 the explanations and infectious audience reactions cannot be overstated, it's such a great gateway drug. Even my partner (who did not grow up playing video games at all) now loves GDQ
This is a beautiful writeup of my favorite gaming event of the year.
AGDQ was my gateway drug into watching speedrunning for all the reasons you laid out. It’s a really fun window into a wild world of super-skilled players doing things I can’t even begin to imagine. (The race to beat all of the uploaded levels in Super Mario Maker last year wasn’t exactly speedrunning, but was great for all of the same reasons, IMO!)
I am floored by the level of creativity and dexterity these players employ at AGDQ, not to mention their ability to not only play insanely hard games at breakneck speed but give a running commentary while they do it!
Very much same—which I guess is pretty obvious from all these words 😅 the explanations and infectious audience reactions cannot be overstated, it's such a great gateway drug. Even my partner (who did not grow up playing video games at all) now loves GDQ