I hope you didn’t have something deliberate this week, as a result of speedrunning extravaganza Awesome Games Done Quick begins in the present day at 4:30pm GMT.
If you’ve by no means tuned in earlier than, AGDQ is a weeklong, 24/7 marathon of games, all performed as quick as attainable, whereas streaming on Twitch and elevating an entire shedload of money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. What’s to not like?
If you’re not a GMT consumer and (like me) are all the time confused by pesky timezones, you’re in luck – the schedule will adapt to fit your wants, and to mirror any lateness or earliness attributable to particularly lengthy or brief runs. It’s additionally the place you possibly can browse the total record of games which might be being performed, and don’t fear, when you miss one thing live on Twitch due to needing human issues like “sleep,” the runs are archived on YouTube later.
This 12 months issues kick off with Hollow Knight, the place you possibly can anticipate about an hour and a half of extremely expert bug-bashing. Then, in a while tonight, tune in to catch two runners race Portal in simply 15 minutes. And on Wednesday, you’ll want to catch runner Halfcoordinated breeze by fairly platformer Semblance utilizing only one hand.
I’m personally additionally very excited to see Celeste, although it’s going down within the wee hours, round 2 o’clock on Friday morning. Curse timezones, bless VODs. Still, I’d catch the tail finish of the following showcase, a 100% completion run of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD, by advantage of it being six splendidly glitchy hours lengthy. (Listen, all games are PC games when you’re watching them out of your PC.)
These schedule estimates are normally fairly broad, however the Dark Souls III run is right down to final exactly one hour, fifty-seven minutes, and thirty seconds, so now I need to watch that simply to see how precisely the runner managed to foretell it.
Finally, it’s all the time price catching the final run (and the finale afterwards). This is normally the place there’s an absolute flood of last-minute donations, which is all the time good to see – final 12 months AGDQ ended up raising over $2.25 million (£1.77 million) for PCF.
If you simply can’t anticipate the enjoyable to start out, the GDQ Twitch is presently enjoying a rerun of final years’ ultimate day, so go get hype!
