History Quotes / Speedrun

->I think, in a way, the role of the speedrunner is, like, the exact opposite of the role of the game designer. The game designer painstakingly carves a beautiful sculpture out of wood, first chiselling it out of a raw block, and then gradually rounding off any rough edges, making sure it works when it's viewed from any angle. The speedrunner takes that sculpture and they look it over, carefully, from top to bottom, from every angle, and deeply understand it, and they appreciate all the work that went into the design, all of the strengths, all of the weak points... and then, having understood it perfectly... they ''break it over their knee''.

->I think in a way, the role of the speedrunner is, like, the exact opposite of the role of the game designer. The game designer painstakingly carves a sculpture out of wood. First, chiseling it out of a raw block, and then gradually rounding off any raw edges, making sure it works when viewed from any angle. The speedrunner takes that sculpture and they look it over very carefully from top to bottom, from every angle, and deeply understand it... and then, having understood it perfectly, they break it over their knee.

->'''Step 1:''' [[BeyondTheImpossible Think beyond possible]].\\
'''Step 2:''' [[TrialAndErrorGameplay Familiarize with game]].\\
'''Step 3:''' [[EasyLevelTrick Find the easy way]].\\
'''Step 4:''' [[InsaneTrollLogic The game and its moves doesn't have to make sense]].\\
'''Step 5:''' [[{{Calvinball}} You make the rules]].\\
'''Step 6:''' [[GoodBadBugs Bend over the game]].\\
'''Step 7:''' [[ZeroEffortBoss Find the quick kill and never miss it]].\\
'''Step 8:''' [[SkippableBoss Don't fight the boss if you don't have to]].\\
'''Step 9:''' [[ILikeThoseOdds No risk, no speed]].\\
'''Step 10:''' [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Have fun]].

-->I think in a way, the role of the speedrunner is, like, the exact opposite of the role of the game designer. The game designer painstakingly carves a sculpture out of wood. First, chiseling it out of a raw block, and then gradually rounding off any raw edges, making sure it works when viewed from any angle. The speedrunner takes that sculpture and they look it over very carefully from top to bottom, from every angle, and deeply understand it... and then, having understood it perfectly, they break it over their knee.

-->-- the CatchPhrase of the Website/SomethingAwful forum's Let's Race threads

-->-- A post in a speedrunning thread on Website/FourChan's /vg/ board.

-->-- Narcissa, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq6pGJbd6Iw her commentary on her former world record speed run of Ocarina of Time]]

->"Stop skipping my dialogue. I'm trying to threaten you here but no all you do is mash that A button. I mean, a-are you speed running or something? Is that all this is to you? Bragging rights? You're ignoring what could be SIGNIFICANT character development just for some numbers on a website? I mean this entire scene took weeks to get JUST right with everything! Pay it some attention!"

-->--[[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Ganondorf]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol3Ljo40Bbc doesn't like to be skipped]]

-->-- Narcissa, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq6pGJbd6Iw her commentary on her former world record speed run of Ocarina of Time]]

->"I beat Super {{Metroid}} in under an hour and it was WorthIt."

-->-- Cosmo, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq6pGJbd6Iw his commentary on his former world record speed run of Ocarina of Time]]

-->-- the CatchPhrase of the SomethingAwful forum's Let's Race threads

-->-- Cosmo, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq6pGJbd6Iw his commentary on his world record speed run of Ocarina of Time]]

-->-- the CatchPhrase of the SomethingAwful forum's Let's Race threads

-->-- the CatchPhrase of the SomethingAwful forum's Lets Play race threads

-->--[[WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} Diabetus]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiZxFYNtyh8 Super Metroid INCREDIBLE FUN]]