I wonder if they make test runs before doing the high speed runs. This is worse than Free Soloing a mountain. Not only would you fall to your death but you would also wreck a perfectly good and expensive bike! Not to mention the camera.

Edit: Don't know how they can ride like this with such big balls on such a small bike

I noticed how it kept looking for a better way even after it found the centre. When it went back to the start by heading clockwise, I noticed the maze wasn't a contiguous wall design.

Those speed runs after the learning pass were hilarious. The final one was a low battery charge issue I think.

That was silly. He could have just dropped the marble in the glass at the start. Speed run fail.

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You're just a different type of gamer than those of us who thrived during the early eras of gaming. My brother and I used to do speed runs through Full Throttle just for fun because we enjoyed adventure titles so much. It's like watching your favorite movie over and over again, except that you get to interact with the characters.

Especially Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max, most of the modern Tex Murphy adventures, and the Monkey Islands. Mostly Lucas Arts and Sierra, but companies like Access also provided hours and hours of the tedious adventure game shlock we enjoy. Hell, there were days where an entire 24 hours was spent playing text adventures, some of those hours spent replaying a game we had played through 100 times or more.

So it starts by saying he needs to go at 8.65mph, then he runs in a straight line at 17mph.

So what's the reason for all the failures straight after that? Is it nerves, lack of grip on the loop, huge loss of speed running up the steep edge?

Yes, but this is episode 3 of Speed Run.

In the day of tool assisted speed runs this is an amazing feat.

When Wings of Liberty came out, I was sincerely excited for the reignition of a series that had given me so much joy with the first game. I held off of buying it on the first day to make sure that I wasn't getting a polished turd. As someone that rarely gets to play something more than once all the way through these days, I have to make sure that I am getting my money's worth. I watched many of my friends purchase SC2 and play through it within a disapointing amount of time. I can assure you that they did not "speed run" through it. That is all I am saying. I will wait for the trifecta, the triumvirate of all three elements. Marines, Zerg, and Protoss. The game will be so much better when I can get through the complete story line without having to wait 2 years for the next chapter.

12 hours? Only if you blast through every mission on very easy, skip the entire story, and try to speed run your way through the campaign. Even then I doubt you'll make it on your first time.

If you actually play the game like a normal person, it'll easily take you 20 - 30 hours. Not to mention the high replay value due to mutually exclusive choices you have to make during the campaign, such as permanent unit upgrades, mercs you hire, and mutually exclusive missions.

So yeah, as a guy who rarely finishes games, and almost never replays, the WoL singleplayer alone got me a good ~60 hours of gameplay (once on hard, once on brutal), which is more than I can say about any single player game I've bought in the last decade other than Civ 4 and XCOM (and maybe Fallout NV).

And that's not counting the multiplayer.

>> ^Xax:

I wish more people who post regular (non-speed runs) gameplay videos. For whatever reason, I really enjoy watching people play my favorite games. If anyone wants any ideas, check out my avatar... Deus Ex or System Shock 2 are at the top of my list.


SS2 ruled.

If you get tired of the video skip to the end. The high speed run at the end is pure comedy gold.

If you want to see entertaining speed run videos I suggest http://tasvideos.org/Movies.html
They use tools to manipulate luck and run some games frame by frame to squeeze out every second. Mario and Mega Man games are spectacular.

>> ^jonny:

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Fixed and thanks.

Yeah, as part of the competition it is allowed a slower run to solve the maze. This is the second, speed run part where it attempts to reach the centre using the known route as fast as possible.

It's still amazing purely due to the sheer speed and accuracy of the movement.>> ^charliem:

If the first run was allowed to learn the entire maze, then this isnt really that amazing a feat. If however the first run was just an attempt to find the end, but not learn the entire maze...then thats rediculous. Id love to see their algorithm.