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[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 63 points 1 year ago

I can't wait to see speed runners cheese it and completely miss its point :/

[-] Malix@sopuli.xyz 66 points 1 year ago

TBF, generally speedrunners start speedrunning games because they love it to death (ie. have played it through several times already) and want to start challenging themselves in new ways.

[-] alessandro@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

...or the videogame is known to make views on youtube.

Anyway, this don't undermine the intention of the developer.

[-] GreyCat@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Speedrunning isn't THAT popular. If you want to chase trends there are much easier ways other than spending thousands of hours on a single game to have low chances of make a record.

[-] Sas@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

A videogame making views on YouTube is only incentive for first playthroughs as views on YouTube are usually for people's reactions to stuff. Speedrunning really usually is a passion project.

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I get that, but on the more aggressively short cut games, you could argue its not the same game anymore if all the story is now skipped. Still entertaining to watch, and I do occasionally, but it can get a bit silly.

I'm still looking forward to the first:

"Hi guys, today I'm going to show you how the locker skip works, you just run at this locker while tapping crouch, annddddd we are clipped through the ground, and can now run to the exit. Easy game"

:D

[-] Malix@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

any% with glitches is pretty much always a wild ride to watch.

on that note; man I need to get back on the IGN's playlist of "devs react to speedruns", most devs are such good sport when it comes to breaking their game :D

[-] Djehngo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

? Why come up with a hypothetical outcome just to make yourself mad? Is there some trend of speedrunners ruining educational games I am missing?

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Its a joke, relax. Almost all games get speed run, no reason to expect this to be different. And any% speed runs often skip huge portions of the story, no reason to expect this to be any different either. There is nothing to be mad at, it'll likely happen, it'll likely be silly/funny to watch.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

The :/ face doesn't help it seem like a joke. It reads like you're genuinely upset about people misunderstanding art.

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Text is a bad medium for conveying emotion.

To me, :/ has always been a fairly neutral expression, like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ or 😐, I would have used :( to convey upset, but its certainly reasonable that others would read it differently.

I kinda hoped my other comments would have made it clearer, but again, text is a bad medium :( oh well

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