drauch wrote:I'm not super well-versed in CIII, but how often are extra lives granted?
ya that cut is definite evidence of cheating. if you beat a boss and get an extend b/c of its death you'll see it before the cut to the score tally. there's no magical 1ups in the twilight between the screen fade :B
god, it's so pathetic!!!
BIL wrote:As for
FALSIFICARE, I don't take James/Mike's ilk seriously enough to expect any less.
james seems upstanding enough to own up to something like that. he doesn't ever try to pass his stuff off as competent play and just enjoys his games. i genuinely don't understand why he keeps mike around as company - i'm not saying james is a "good person" or anything along those lines, but mike is
really obviously a liar and shifty scumbag who definitely tried hard to usurp his buddy's fame. i guess they were just good pals as kids or young adults?
BIL wrote:But I record not so much to demonstrate any ability of my own, but to give a preview of the game; the sort I'll seek out when trying to determine if something is for me or not.
one of my biggest motivations for starting to record was exactly this, and it's also why i use "longplay" in my titles. it's the most frequently used term for a full play of a game, and it's the easiest & quickest way to find a full play of something. i use it to get a quick grasp on how something plays quite frequently, and i've come across so many sleezebag liars attempting to pass their stuff of as legitimate that it's driven me bonkers. was lying in bed unable to sleep one night and went searching and
really stupidly got into a protracted argument with one of the really prolific ones where i tried desperately to get them to admit that a nomiss they'd done wasn't legitimate - they refused, offered the usual excuses, said they played it as a kid, etc. and then, a few months later, i was searching the game again and saw they uploaded a new play of the game that was still obviously cheated through and abysmally bad play. better than the previous run, but it was some shameful track-covering and it was funny to think that that was the only game that gave them away.
one of their only plays of a game where they couldn't use savestates (duck tales remastered on ps3) has them dying repeatedly against hilariously simple stuff, too. i feel like a total psychopath digging through all of someone's youtube videos like this, but it's because i start doubting my own perception and just want some conclusive evidence. less trying to damn them, more trying to prove to myself that i can trust my intuition. full disclosure: i was gaslighted/abused a lot as a kid, so i have some sort neurotic reaction to being lied to that upsets me and makes me feel like i have some onus to disprove on me.
i imagine there are others out there who would rather see how a game is actually played than watch some amateur bumble through it on the assumption it's legitimate! going back several posts - "i feel like one of the highest bars for entry for enjoying a wide berth of classic action games isn't the difficulty barrier but the lack of people who similarly understand them to relate to or read about, honestly!" i really stick by this sentiment - the popular pulls for perspective on classic games are:
1. emulator tourism
2. nostalgia
3. speedrunning
4. it's obsolete/"inaccessible"
all of which tend to not take the games for what they are, but via some twisted perspective. speedrunning sometimes hits a more genuine appreciation, and as i've been over before, i do respect some runners like funkdoc quite a bit. but for the most part, the whole speedrunning community is full of fame-seeking (problems within it w/r/t footage stitching have become tremendous, lately) and people who get serious tunnel-vision on the games. this is without mentioning that it puts competent play on a high pedestal and makes many of the viewers feel like improving themselves is obsolete b/c reaching that level is seen as superhuman. i feel like some sort of doddering old weirdo whenever i try to convince people to sit down and just enjoy some of this stuff without all the toxic influence.
so, so, so many of my friends and people orbiting my circle watch SGDQ and AGDQ
every single year but balk at me when i try to suggest they, too, could be doing one life clears with a little application. i start to feel like the conservative aunt at the thanksgiving table trying to sell everyone on picking themselves up by the bootstraps and loving jesus, or that i'm seen as showing off a purple heart and asking others to get one, too. it's just video games. they're fun! there's no politics, they're just entertainment. i see the term "inaccessible" used so often - weaponized terminology meant to pull on your heartstrings, like rockman making you start a level over is somehow in any way similar to a library without a wheelchair ramp. the idea a precise challenge
is the 'content' and that the visuals/music/story are secondary seems to baffle so many.
drauch wrote:Yeah, still honestly don't even know what TAS entails usually, besides incompetent play that miraculously beats the game without taking damage. Like, doesn't having assistance via a tool kinda, uh... defeat the purpose? Never understood why so many goobs are all about it, especially with speedrunning.
actual tool-assisted speedrunning (TAS) is sometimes technically interesting for seeing what lies just outside the realm of human possibility. it's neat to see a game torn apart. most tool-assisted play is more equivalent to tourism, where people just lazily savestate or use the rewind and slowdown functions to never have to experience/death failure. most of these people tend to think this explores all of the game's content and is the best way to appreciate a lot of older games, especially action stuff. some emulators save replays that don't show any of this stuff being used, so it is purely simple to be able to bang out an assisted play and just say it was legitimate.
schlauchi is actually one of the better persons about their save-stated play - they make a genuine attempt to kind of look like they actually know how to play, though it's often pretty obvious that they're abusing tools. their purpose in doing save-stated runs it to show off a bevy of games, too, so i'm not necessarily against that. many other people who contribute to world of longplays vids (they admit all their runs are tool-assisted in the channel bio, iirc) are way more overt and obvious and have play that is truly stupid or even frustrating to watch. really misleading as to how games are played and kind of against the channel's entire purpose of meaning to be instructive.
there's this one channel - shadowserg - that shows "no damage" runs of bosses that is quite popular. no mention of it being cheated, however. look them up and watch their play of TNWA if you want a serious laugh at how they don't even know most of the basic moveset and are blatantly cheating. iirc, they fight the last boss for like 2 solid minutes before realizing you have to throw enemies into him and were too lazy to rewind that footage. they also curiously host a lot of videos by the player who goes by arektheabsolute, who as far as i can tell is a genuine player and enthusiast. really threw me off for a little while, and i don't know why a genuine player would want their videos on a channel like that.
BIL wrote:Sumez wrote:I'm not sure why anyone here would suspect anyone else of cheating. No one has a reason to prove themselves about anything, and the only drive here is love and interest for the games we play.
Me neither, honestly. Totally out of character for this thread and this community in general. Then again kitten is relatively new here. (edit: I know you're not accusing anyone kitten - just saying, it's rare the subject even comes up
)
ah, yes! i want to make really clear i'm not accusing anyone. i just have an aura of immediate suspicion with everyone because of how rampant lying or seeking accolades is that i came into this thread with and
very gladly had dispelled.
everyone here seems quite trustworthy, open, and honest about their aptitude and application with games.
it's deeply refreshing!
also, hugely sorry for the giant post! i just have very little ground to ever vent about this with my friends/communities.
Many respectable players will decline the extra work. Only the militantly hardcore will finish. Only total fiends will attempt more. 
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(depending on mood and available time I might just tell you to fuck off, but I'll get back to it eventually... foolish pride 
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). But then he fucked off years ago.
