BotW Any % speedruns are only 59.5% gameplay, the rest is cutscenes.

>Watching other people play games

I'll never understand this trend. I mean, maybe when you're in the room next to a friend playing.

yea, because nintendo really designed botw around 40 minute speedruns

the fact that half of a speedrun are cutscenes completely invalidates the entire game

And the majority of SM64 is spent in cutscenes too if you play optimally. What's your point, OP?

>>383490047
Kek, this.

This would be like only eating the outer edge of a pizza and then bitching that it's all crust.

>>383490047
Anon, never forget that speedrunners and their fans fall into three categories: Autistic, Retarded, or Both.

>>383489932
>40% of the intro and ending is cinematic.
What's wrong with that?

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>>383490209
>food analogies

>>383489932
>no speedrun with 100% shrines

Who cares?

>>383490209
Nice food analogy retard

>>383490276
>>383490334
I guess I'm not down with the latest memes. Are food analogies bad?

Dunno why people acting like I'm upset that people break the game.

I'm pointing out that for speedrunning, usually the most-played categories are ones that feature a lot of room for optimisation with perfect execution required hundreds of times.

BotW any % is literally run around, cutscenes, run around, cutscenes, boss battle. Its fucking awful when theres so much of the game that can be speedrun, yet this category is chosen.

Yes SM64 is mostly cutscenes when done any%, but 120 star is the main category. BotW main category is any % and its the worst thing ever conceived in speedrunning. Besides speedrunning itself, of course.

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>>383490276
>frogposting

>>383490296
All main quests only need 24 shrines.

>>383490296
There totally is one though.
http://www.speedrun.com/botw#All_Shrines

>>383490479
kill yourself autist

>>383490636
>8hours

holy moly

>>383490027
>I'll never understand this trend

TAS runs are interesting, at least with 2D platformers or action-adventure games. It's amusing to see the player pull off so many different tricks and exploits. Metroid TAS videos are probably the most entertaining of all:
http://tasvideos.org/Search.html?key=super+metroid
http://speeddemosarchive.com/SuperMetroid.html
(none of these videos are commentated, as that's not a typical practice with TAS)

>>383489932
>24:22 of cutscenes

That will change when people discover ways to abuse memory corruption, or skip, cancel or bypass cutscenes. BotW is still a relatively new game.

OoT's memory has been so thoroughly corrupted that speedrunners can literally skip straight to the final boss fight. While that may not make for an entertaining demonstration, it just goes to show that speedrunners will eventually find ways to get around cutscenes or other time-consuming obstacles.

>>383490664
Don't try too hard to fit in here.

>>383490220
why did ryder's car caused autism?

>>383490990
Don't they generally already play in whatever language is spoken the fastest?

>>383490220
There is also the tranny category tho.

>>383490409
Food analogies are a way of comparing apples to oranges and how neither can ever compare to a bowl of spaghetti

>>383490409
I guess the idea is
>Haha, the first thought that came to your mind was food! What a fatty!
It is a good analogy though.

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>see couple of neat webms showing speed tricks in shrines
>botw run at sgdq happens
>look forward to seeing more tricks
>it's just "fly a tree to hyrule castle and nail the ganon fight"

>>383491407
That is fucking retarded, do you not understand what an analogy is? That can literally apply to every analogy in existence.

>>383489932
I know this is bait but i don't even know what to say this thread is fucking retarded.
There is very little cutscene in Botw beside the beginning and the end of the game.

>>383491407
Retard detected

>>383491406
That's just a special blend of retarded and autistic

i think they made cutscenes unstoppable just to fuck with the speedruning community.

>>383490409
They are not when well thought, it's just a meme over amerifats instantly thinking of food.
this retard is just new >>383491407

>>383491538
How is this bait?

The numbers are real.

I had a stopwatch which I stopped and started at each cutscene and loading animation. For example as soon as you get to the end of the shrines its 48 seconds, mashing through the text, before the game is playable again. It adds up really fast.

>>383492702
Are speedrunners not allowed to skip cutscenes or something?

>>383492960
> its 48 seconds, mashing through the text, before the game is playable again.
they are but i´s not always possible

>>383493039
>>383493039
I mean actually skip them. Cutscenes can be skipped in BotW.

>>383493176
Watch a speedrun of it and see how long it takes to enter the shrine, receive the upgrade to the slate, receive the orb and leave the shrine. All of those combined is over 90 seconds per shrine and you can't skip those.

I legitimately watched a world record speedrun and timed it. You can't skip those sorts of scenes.

>>383490027
>watching other people play games
>watching other people play sports
>watching other people act
>watching other people do stunts
>watching other people fuck

>>383489932
BOTW is a bad game

>>383489932
>caring about speedruns

Youre 59.5% idiot and 40% retard

>>383493345
MAN YOU KNOW WHAT IS ZELDA

SO
MUCH
WAITING

>>383494376
Impressive connection

>>383493735
There's no barrier of entry or quality control to play video games. All you need is money. If you're watching people play sports or act, they've met some standard of qualification to be there.

>>383490409
you are not down to last decade memes. My guess is you are fresh off the boat

>>383489932
Congrats OP, you realized what everyone else figured out in April: Any% is a bad category.
All Dungeons is the good one

i've heard that now hearts gained from food count towards getting master sword, is that true?

>>383489932
acfag is that you?

>>383490746
TAS runs are literally the worst category of speedruns. They aren't doable at home with real hardware. You aren't watching someone play a real game, you are watching them run their fingers along the stitching of their frankenstein monster.

>>383494948
No idea, i tried looking it up but I couldn't find anything. I don't have the DLC so I can't test it out either.

>>383491407
But that's true

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>>383489932
What did she mean by this?

>>383494698
That only makes sense if we're talking about MLG

Anyone can play sports and act and play video games but of course not on a professional level

>>383494948
I just tried it. It didn't work for me.

>>383491809
Wait huh? Everyone is saying cutscenes aren't skippable, but I've just been pressing x and then + to skip them?

>>383491407
Your analogy is half-baked anon

>>383497147
And there's the fact that video games aren't social by nature. It's a player and a screen. The only reason you wouldn't just play the game yourself is if you're underage with no cash so you watch someone else do it. No one goes over to their friends place to watch them play a game. You want a turn. It's purely money based.

Well no shit most any% runs are garbage depending on how much you skip. What did you expect from a game that literally tells you that you can feel free to go to Ganon from the start?

>game is shit because autistic speedrunners have to watch cutscenes

>>383497242
Some can be, some can't.

Is OP complaining that he didn't like the way he chose to play this game? I'm not even sure who he's railing against. Nintendo? Speedrunners? God?

>pathetic that a game with such a wide array of possibilities is reduced to almost being a majority cutscenes.

But it was OP who personally reduced it. Speedrunning is all about reducing any game to as fine a science as possible. I don't think speedrunners have shit to say about game design. Because as far as I can tell, they aren't playing the game when they are speedrunning, they are playing a metagame whose rules are whatever the base game is. This is further borne out by the fact that any one of them can tell you that they are deliberately not playing the game as it was designed to be played.

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>>383497751
>God

OoT any% is something like 65% too.

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>>383493735
The difference is I can play the game right now. Most people cant do those things or catch 10/10 women.

>>383491407
This post is kino.

>>383491407
Most of the people who replied to this post are literally brain dead.
Holy shit read it again.

>>383497751
FFS why can't people read

I said that any% should not be the MAIN category featured at big events.

Countless other speedrun games can be glitched to the end within minutes but no one does it because theres almost no room to optimise it and its boring, OoT being the perfect example.

On the big stage like GamesDoneQuick, no one wants to see that shit. Thats why there was 120 star Mario 64, all secrets Doom, majoras mask all masks etc.

>>383491505
No, they cant. An analogy of poor terms is one of the most commonly used logical fallacies.

>>383501320
Okay, I can live with that, and I'd more or less agree. A game that distinguishes between beaten and complete should probably be completed, because that's more impressive...athletic, if you will.

But I also think that when it comes to games people should do whatever they want. If people want to see BotW beaten as fast as it possibly can, then just step outside for 40 mins. I think there should always be a way a to skip cutscenes anyway. Problem is they are used more and more to hide loading times.