I’m always impressed by these speed runs, I don’t want to do it myself but I’ve watched a few streamers like elajjaz do dark souls speed runs and it’s something for sure
Gale disapproves
ITT people who have no idea what speedruns are about.
There really is no point doing this other than for its own sake. The whole game is about the journey, and a short sprint doesn’t really qualify.
I am of both sides. I play for the story and the choices and such, and take a long time to play… But then after I’ve seen everything, I like to dick around and see all the ways I can lose, and how fast I can get certain things or how early I can complete the game. For example, beating Chrono Trigger the normal way is cool and all; but have you ever defeated lavos the very first instance you can attempt it? It finishes the game super early, but it’s also the hardest challenge the game offers.
Figuring out the fastest route through a game is one kind of a journey. There’s often big collaborative efforts involved in finding and perfecting the tricks necessary for the run. The actual journey is far longer than the resulting 10 minutes, and some people love being part of that journey.
Read it so you don’t have to - someone found a choice you can make in the second act that counts as an ending. So, they basically ran through act one and made that decision immediately.
They did not play through to what anyone would actually consider the end of the game.
Side question - Can someone try and define the line between the acts without spoiling? I just hit level 8 and found the nightsong last night. I think I’m in Act 2? Was kinda expecting major cutscenes or narration like DOS and BG2 to define them.
Didn’t you get a prompt saying you are leaving act 1 tie up your loose ends?
All the prompts I’ve seen saying to tie up my loose ends were misleading considering I could still go back and finish things. Going to the mountains or the gith creche, entering the under dark and the shadow cursed land… The only one with slightly different verbiage was when I entered the prism, and that was the only one that actually made it where I couldn’t come back from shit.
It was a bit annoying, because up to that point I’d been told the same thing with different words and it didn’t mean jack, so I figured this time wouldn’t be different and it ended up killing a ton of people I know I can save. 😩
It didn’t mention the act at any time, and from what other players have been talking about I am pretty fucking sure I got the ending this speedrunner did because the game basically ended at Ketheric my first run.
You get an achievement when you complete an act. That’s how I was able to tell I was in act 2 and eventually act 3.
You are in the later part of act 2. The end of act 2 is now pretty straight forward. The City is Act 3, and everything before entering the shadowlands is act 1.
Entering act 3 removes the ability to go back, finding the nightsong locks out most of act 1 and 2.
finding the nightsong locks out most of act 1 and 2.
Well, look who’s giving up all that exploration I was doing yesterday specifically to see if I could find things pertaining to this. Just gonna mind my business, I guess, since I have every side quest ever to do and that was merely the one that interests me most.
I get it’s probably for story reasons but I hate being locked out of places and knowing that happens for any reason is saddening.
How do you even get past act 1 in 10 minutes? I feel like even the time for dialogue to show up would take more than that
