just bumping to recommend people watch the Super Monkey Ball race (great commentary/game is just fast and fun to watch in general) and the Pumpkin Jack run (newer indie game speedruns can be real hit or miss but this one had a lot of cool tricks and also the dude got a world record)
i feel weird to say but i’m actually going to miss those bird creatures that make up the fake audience whenever they resume in person. mostly because of the annoying couple people who would sit there in the intermissions and flap their stupid hats around.
Really? I find it really hard to get excited about these online-only GDQs. GDQ just doesn’t feel as special anymore. The GDQ channel is almost always streaming something, and the lack of an in-person audience and a sense of the vibe in the room just makes it feel no different than any other speed run stream I could be watching any day of the week. It doesn’t feel like an event to me, it feels like persistent background noise.
To be honest, as grumpy as I get about the too-loud nerds yelling HYPE, I do miss the feel of the real thing (particularly for late nights). This version makes me cringe less often though.
This Keep Talking and No One Explodes run that is just one person defusing the bomb with complete knowledge about the manual totally just kills the fun of this game. What a dumb run.
oh my god I thought that meguh men 2 run was gonna be obnoxious but it’s the next day and I’m STILL thinking about the runners awesome enthusiasm
the kazoos were annoying at first but I got used to them or just didn’t care since the runner was so great
he dragged the donation reader to co host since she’s never seen the game before, which made the run so much better because she just kept misidentifying characters as other NES game chars and pretending this was some kind of crossover game. I love runs like that. awful block not being primetime is just ignorant at this point