World Of Goo Tool-Assisted Speedrun Is Absolutely Mental To Watch

4 responses to “World Of Goo Tool-Assisted Speedrun Is Absolutely Mental To Watch”

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   Jake

   August 19, 2012 at 1:39 pm

   This sucks. I love watching a cool speedrun like that mario 64 guy the other week, but there’s a big difference between exploiting glitches and plain out cheating.

   It’s cool to watch, but not a particularly impressive feat.

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      Smashing!

      August 19, 2012 at 2:03 pm

      And it utterly devalues leaderboards.

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   Coltzer

   August 19, 2012 at 7:36 pm

   so they basically used something to record their mouse as they played each level and then sped that program up?

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   Vapor

   August 20, 2012 at 8:38 am

   http://tasvideos.org/WelcomeToTASVideos.html

   For anyone wondering about TAS runs. The TAS guys don’t ever make claims that this is how good they are. This is purely to show what could happen to games if someone could play pixel perfect. It’s all about entertainment value, not ruining leaderboards or beating other people with hacks.

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   fredo

   January 2, 2013 at 2:30 pm

   A TAS is in no way a personal achievement, its more of an act. You complete the game in the most entertaining way possible. Aimbotting in call of duty is not a TAS, for example.

   For those of you unwilling or unable to research, tool assisted speed runs are done by slowing down the game to a crawl. With the game slowed down as such the performer does what seems like pixel perfect movements. The performer records the inputs, replaying the entire game every time s/he fails. If you watch other TAS videos you will notice a “re-record” count. That is how many times s/he had to “replay” the game using the recorded inputs from scratch.

   It is harder and more tedious than it looks, and its all done to entertain you, or show you “what if”. Mostly it’s done to push the game to its limits, ultimately breaking it or overachieving in it, all for laughs.

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