/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7992925
scoring sucks and those who defend it are aspies

>>7441778
Scoring sucks and those who defend it are aspies

>>7410694
Scoring sucks and those who defend it are aspies

>>7394294
I think the reason speedrunning produces so much more sickness than any other scoring method is because the score is measured by how much it erases the original game. With this scoring system the less of the game that is actually played the better. The community finds all sorts of bugs, glitches, and tricks that skip or shorten the game. Not only does the community actively work to find these methods of erasing the game but they also measure a game's worth by its potential to be annihilated.

If you want to get on the scoreboard why would you play something like Contra where the difference in time between one no-death run and another is only a few seconds? It would be very difficult to defeat an old record since there is going to be very little room for improvement. Plus being just a few seconds faster doesn't look very impressive on the charts anyway.

If you play Ocarina of Time you could be hours ahead of other players if you discover a new glitch! Which is exactly what happened to that particular game, more and more glitches were found which kept the scoreboard competitive. With each glitch added more of Link's adventure got erased until he was just teleporting through walls to skip the whole thing. I'm told he doesn't even fight Gannon anymore, he just does a glitch that makes the credits roll. That counts as winning. I think Ocarina is the most popular game in speedrunning, by a very large margin too. In general it seems the more of the game that gets erased in the speedrun the more popular it is, not only for the player but for the spectators.

I can't find the video but I remember there was one with an arch-autist theorizing that in Paper Mario it might be possible to trick the game into going into the credits right at the title screen, so that he could 'beat' the game without even having to play it. So this would be the final conclusion of speedrunning: erasing the game entirety and leaving only the scoreboard.

>>7392660
scoring sucks and those who defend it are aspies

>>7387205
scoring sucks and those who defend it are aspies

>>7358019
Scoring sucks and those who defend it are aspies

>>7357329
Scoring sucks and those who defend it are aspies

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>>7344612
Scoring sucks and those who defend it are aspies

>>7331018
scoring sucks and those who defend it are aspies

scoring sucks and those who defend it are aspies

>>5296202
I do agree with you but I just have to say this:
Fuck Icycalm

We came in contact with this topic on another thread. Whay do you guys think about Icycalm's perspective on video games? The way he, for example, values /vr/ arcade stuff a lot compared to most post-/vr/ stuff.

(Please, this is not a thread about the person in particular; if possible, avoid speaking about his personal stuff. Focus on refuting his statements if you disagree with him, avoid ad hominems. If you don't know him don't derail the thread with stuff like "literally who". Thanks in advance.)

>tfw you know who this is

I miss this faggot, you guys. I genuinely do. Anybody else feel this way?

>inb4 hi alex

>>3642374
bro do you even icycalm

>>2808846
>That really sounds like someone who struggles to effectively socialize trying to justify his situation by shifting the blame onto other people for being inferior.
You perfectly described Icy's entire worldview in a nutshell.

>>2808869
He's not that bad looking from the few photos of himself that are online, but he does look a bit autistic.