Videogame Speed Running Speeds Up A Notch

Radix37 writes "The PlanetQuake-hosted Speed Demos Archive, dedicated to 'trying to complete a videogame in the fastest time possible', has been updated with an improved speedrun of Half-Life in 0:45:45, over 5 minutes faster than the previous run - some more crazy level-skipping shortcuts were added to cut the time by so much, and there's very detailed commentary from the creator. The Metroid Prime record was recently dropped to 1 hour 4 minutes from 1:17 by a lot of new tricks and exploits, too. Also of note, recent improvements on Super Metroid, on Metroid Zero Mission, and, interestingly, on Super Mario 64 (including a glitch collecting 'only 16 stars' instead of 70) have been impressive."

Comments

Re:Impressive?

[Tyrdium]

On the other hand, if I had a spacecraft capable of traveling near the speed of light, I could easily beat all of these times.

Only if you were able to fit the entire universe besides you on that spacecraft...

Re:What's the point?

[supercytro]

I never understood the point of speed runs in driving games. Why can't we just gently coast and admire the scenary?

Re:Try actual running

[Pluvius]

Come on, I'm sure you can shave a few seconds off of that.

Rob