speed! speed! faster, pussycat!

[AdamW]

plus there's speedrunning modes which aren't just getting from A to B. like maxkills. speedrunning is really about replayability - playing the game in different ways to extend the amount of time you can enjoy it. there's only so many times you can play through the same map without trying to do something special and not get bored  

[The Romero]

quote:Originally posted by Tygrinn:
Don't think me an asshole, but i find this speed-running quite an offense to the designers of the game. It takes hours (doom) to days (quake) to months (who knows) to make an interesting level, filled with balanced enemies, weapons and powerups and stuffed with traps and so on and all you guys do is try to get as quickly as possible from A to B ?!?!

For me, the fun has always been in getting killed in a level on every single way provided by the level designer    

Well, at least you guys have found your roots    

TG

Speedrunning rules!  I came up with the idea of Speedrunning back when we were developing Wolfenstein 3D -- that's why we included the par times in all our games.

 

[Adam Hegyi]

quote:Originally posted by The Rome.ro:
Speedrunning rules!  I came up with the idea of Speedrunning back when we were developing Wolfenstein 3D -- that's why we included the par times in all our games.

   

A related question: I guess it was your idea to include demo recording and playback?

[AdamW]

and why no par times for ep4?

[The Romero]

quote:Originally posted by Adam Williamson:
and why no par times for ep4?

We got episode 4 out in a hurry, so we weren't doing speedruns to calculate low par times.

Here's an interesting fact: when I was doing the par times for our games, I would always add 30 seconds to it and round it to the nearest 30 seconds, just so people could see it was somehow possible.  I definitely made the pars in a faster time than that at the end of the map.

 

[AdamW]

Ooh. Now we can figure out Romero's times for all the maps. To within 15 seconds or so, anyway. Hehe  

(Fun fact about Henning's 30NM runs - at least the last two, I don't remember exactly how many, complete every level in under the par time...)

[Adam Hegyi]

That's rather interesting, John. Actually, makes me wonder about your time on DOOM2's MAP02 (par 1:30)    

It was not until early 1996 that the speed record of the map reached the 1 minute mark    

Interesting tidbit: every DOOM and DOOM2 map has been now done under half par.