Re:Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal
by bigstrat2003 on Saturday February 15, 2025 @04:56PM
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Honestly, I really can't stand speedrunning because it is so focused on glitches most of the time. No glitch categories exist, but are by far in the minority. I don't find it interesting to watch people exploit programming bugs, I want to watch people play the game as intended at a high level of skill.
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Re:Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal
by djur on Saturday February 15, 2025 @11:50PM
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This really isn't true. One of the most famous speedrunning games is Super Metroid, and its two glitchless categories are the most actively competitive ones. Ocarina of Time glitchless had a new world record a few months back. Glitched speedruns tend to get more coverage in gaming media (because "runner completely breaks game" is clickier than "runner plays game 0:01 faster than previous runner"), and they tend to show up a lot at marathons (because they're faster), but generally speaking if you don't like seeing glitches there is plenty of content out there for you.