![]() ![]() Originally sold as a family activity, the video game crash of 1983 forced a reevaluation of video game marketing that targeted boys and sexualized women. Historically, video games have been marketed to a male audience. And with this increased popularity comes an increase in runner diversity. Recognition of speedrunning has picked up a lot of, well, speed in the past decade which is largely thanks to livestreamed charity marathons such as Awesome Games Done Quick and Summer Games Done Quick. And it isn’t just for your typical AAA titles many indie games have incredibly passionate and dedicated running communities where even the developers can get involved. Games will often have their own discord dedicated to speedrunning where people can share strategies and optimized routes. Since then, online leaderboards for every game imaginable have been created to track global records and test just how quickly players can complete a game.ĭespite the naturally competitive nature of speedrunning, the community as a whole is incredibly collaborative and diverse. With the ability to save gameplay demos, people could now upload and compare runs from all over the world. It wasn’t until the release of id Software’s Doom in 1993 that a formal competitive avenue for speedrunning arose. Both Nintendo Power and Activision even had sections of their publication dedicated to players submitting their fastest times or highest scores. ![]() Some of the earliest games that implemented in-game timers were Dragster, Metroid: Return of Samus, and Super Mario Kart. The concept of “going really fast” in video games obviously isn’t new. Runners for any game imaginable can submit their times to online leaderboards in an attempt to be the fastest in the world. If you’ve never experienced a speedrun, the premise is fairly self-explanatory: the goal is to complete a game or specific part of a game with the fastest time possible. It can be a wild ride to see someone beat your favorite game in the time it took you to finish the tutorial. Perhaps you’ve caught Nathan Drake walking on air in Uncharted 2 or marveled at Faith Connors phasing through walls in Mirror’s Edge. If you’ve ever had the pleasure of browsing the “Speedrun” tag on Twitch or stumbling upon a speedrunning video, you may have seen some…interesting gameplay. Distortion2 has indicated in his YouTube video description that he believes the game can be optimized to be beaten in under 40 minutes, so more improvements are yet to come.Five Women Who Slaughter Speedrun Records However, just hours later, another speedrunner, Distortion2 did an any percentage speedrun in 49:29, beating LilAggy by 10 whole minutes. LilAggy accomplished what he claims to be the first ever completion of Elden Ring in under an hour (59:38) in the “any percentage” category just 12 days after the game was released, on March the 9th, 2022. There are some gamers that live and breathe Soulsborne, however. Most people that have beaten at least one Soulsborne game will tell you the famous phrase “it’s hard, but fair”, when referring to these games. ![]() While FromSoftware games are regarded to be difficult games when compared to other successful franchises, it is also well-known that it is mainly a matter of learning the mechanics and changing your approach to enemies/bosses in order to beat it. SPEEDRUNNERS GAME CH SERIESThe world of speedrunning is a vertiginous one, and the fact that Elden Ring, the newest addition in FromSoftware Soulsborne series not only has been beaten already in under one hour by notorious Soulsborne speedrunner LilAggy, but that his record was also already beaten by Distortion2 with a 10 minutes improvement in the same category, speaks volumes. ![]()
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