But it isn’t simple, it takes a lot of time and effort to figure out the exact points in an environment where you can slip through walls that you’re not supposed to slip through. By doing this, they can bypass entire sections of a game that could take minutes to hours to normally complete. So how does that factor into speedrunning? Speedrunners will find a way to access this empty space and then “swim” through it. This works because normally the game would have to load all the buildings and people that usually populate the environment. When doing a speedrun, players can cut time off their run by simply looking at the ground as they run through the monastery. For example, Fire Emblem: Three Houses runs on the Nintendo Switch, which is not the most powerful piece of hardware. Speedrunning can also look at the limitations of the hardware games are played on. Much of speedrunning is all about learning these triggers and exploiting them to get a faster run time. All games will have sets of pre-programmed actions that trigger whenever the player does something. You can often do this by simple observation-testing how the game’s AI works is a big part of it. You have to study how the game is programmed. So how do speedrunners get these kinds of times? They push the game to the absolute limit.Īny speedrunner will know a game by heart, but it's not simply playing the game over and over. Most save files for Fire Emblem: Three Houses will be somewhere around 40+ hours for a complete game. Or last year’s Fire Emblem: Three Houses in 1 hour 16 minutes and 37 seconds. I think it took me that long just to get through one of Kaepora Gaebora's speeches. Imagine beating The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in a mere 7 minutes 34 seconds and 806 milliseconds. If you pick a game that has both a solo/story mode and competitive scene (like Overwatch will have in the future with Overwatch 2), you may also learn some new tricks that will help you climb. I guarantee that if you attempt to speedrun a game you will be learning a lot about the game, your own skills, and some of your own weaknesses when it comes to video games. It's also an amazing way to practice critical thinking, patience, and mastery of skills. Sounds simple, right? But it takes a lot of time, patience, and learning more about a single game than you probably ever thought possible. Players will play a game and try to complete it as fast as possible. If you’re not familiar with what speedrunning is, it’s pretty simple. But if you find yourself getting a little bored with an old game, or even a new one, then perhaps it's time to check out speedrunning. Gaming, both solo and with friends, can be one of the most engaging and rewarding things to do.
There's no question that people are playing video games more than ever right now during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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