All I can say really! Not going to SGDQ2015, but I'd love to attend AGDQ2016, and I don't have a monopoly on shmups or anything, so I'd love to see if any of you come with your own games 
Solunas wrote:How to Takumi your scoring system
1) Create Scoring System
2) Make it a multiplier for your actual score
I missed this (never been much of a viewer in terms of live streaming), but great work, and well played. And as Smraedis says, fantastic service in exposing the genre, and by all accounts, with a great, captivating performance.Smraedis wrote:Watched it live earlier, congrats, and congrats of giving the game and genre a bit more exposure!
It was planned, I wanted to do this since about 4 months ago. Though on the day I actually did the run I was dead tired and awful in practice, and was utterly convinced I could no longer pull it off, LOL. But adrenalin pulled through and saved the day!Cagar wrote: Anyways, excellent job Patashu. Was this planned btw, or was it just quick "hey how about this"?
It's going to be really tough to find a western player of a matching level with the other content. As far as I understand, a lot of the speedrunners are among the top of the world in their games, while pretty much the entire western shmup playerbase is relatively low level.Patashu wrote:FYI, I talked to romscout in passing today and he said he was considering the idea of letting shmups be on the main schedule if the runner is good enough.
It depends on the game. The most popular speedrun (and in general) games will typically only have world class players running them, but a ton of games had speed runs for them that were merely weeks or months of practice. Plus, world class means a different thing in speedrunning than for Shmups. Most speedruns are a recent, western only phenomenon, while Shmups are obsessively score attacked and analysed since they come out until the present day, so the former is a lot easier to achieve than the latter.Erppo wrote:It's going to be really tough to find a western player of a matching level with the other content. As far as I understand, a lot of the speedrunners are among the top of the world in their games, while pretty much the entire western shmup playerbase is relatively low level.Patashu wrote:FYI, I talked to romscout in passing today and he said he was considering the idea of letting shmups be on the main schedule if the runner is good enough.
plus shmups aren't mistake friendly, if you screw up a bit in a speedrun you lose a bit of time so the average speedrun completes the game with something acceptable below the WRErppo wrote:It's going to be really tough to find a western player of a matching level with the other content. As far as I understand, a lot of the speedrunners are among the top of the world in their games, while pretty much the entire western shmup playerbase is relatively low level.Patashu wrote:FYI, I talked to romscout in passing today and he said he was considering the idea of letting shmups be on the main schedule if the runner is good enough.
Keep in mind that you are coming from the perspective of someone who is already deep into Shmup culture and only impressed by high scores and super hard clears. For the average viewer, being able to clear the game at all on the spot live is an amazing performance to see. I am sure romscout would agree.Erppo wrote:To me, simply clearing a game that has some kind of a scoring system wouldn't really seem suitable to the main stream. At the very least it should be something relatively well scoring.
E: As in scoring is actually rather close to the spirit of speedrunning, while clearing a game is just a more casual kind of demonstration.
That would be really cool!Erppo wrote:For Ketsui, someone like MrMonkeyMan would probably be able to clear Omote (or at least get pretty far into it) fairly consistently. He might be a great pick.
