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Blogs => Player Blogs => Topic started by: Ninglendo on August 14, 2014, 10:39:28 am
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Decided I would start a player blog on here and keep everyone updated with what I am playing/doing. I recently decided that I was going to get back into playing DK and go for that KS. I played it around a year ago for roughly about a week and a half. I ended up getting 301,100 then I stopped to play other games. I picked it back up last Friday and within a couple days passed my PB with 358,600. I am feeling that I am making good progress and it always helps having great people there to help you out when you have questions. Although, I feel that learning DK now days is much easier because of the massive amount of information and videos out there. My next goal is to reach 500k before the next DKO. That way I will stand a good shot at beating "The Allens" <Allen>
I have also decided to pick up Zoo Keeper while I am grinding out DK games. My progress is going much slower with that one than DK. I have managed to get a 1mil and a 2mil jump so far, but I am still learning the fundamentals and controls. So far my PB is 2.4 million and I hope to reach at least 10 before I put it down for a while. I have been having a ton of fun with ZK... well that is when it doesn't cheat <Sanders>
Friday nights I am also co-hosting Settle It On The Screen with my good friend Michael Sroka on TGL. This Friday our mate Stephen Wagner will be on to kick the shit outta EA and give us n00bs some tips. I can't wait because EA is a game that I love and played as a kid. I have never really been good at it, so it is going to be awesome to see someone destroy it. That will do it for my blog for now. I will try to update this as much as possible in the future. Hopefully, someday I will add some of my juicy NES strategies on here as well. Kreygasm
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love it! get em Kreygasm
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Lit.
Looking forward to reading the DK/ZK updates and checking out dem NES stratz as well. Kreygasm
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Get this guy a badge!
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Kreygasm lit!!!!
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Great stuff Glen LIT!
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Awesome, Glen. I missed watching you stream. I'm liking the facecam too. Good luck on your DK and ZK goals!
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Last night we did our 2nd Settle It On The Screen show for TGL.... I have to say I feel that the show turned out pretty good this time. Unlike the disaster we had for our first show. We covered topics from score submission guidelines to SEGA's 25th B-Day. Now that was a funny topic for me since I hate SEGA and Mike put me on the spot to pick my favorite SEGA game. I actually drew a blank on that one and eventually picked Shining Force. One of the few of games I enjoy on that system. Stephen Wagner was a great guest and showed us all his mad skills on Elevator Action. So a big thank you to him as well. I did play some DK yesterday as well and got 306,200. Hopefully I can play some more tonight after work and cycle in some ZK as well.
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You got a link to those shows budday? <Allen>
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Sroka is working on putting them up on YouTube and for download on ITunes. Should be available in a couple of days. :)
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Love it. Had a lot of fun on the show yesterday. Looking forward to catching the future broadcasts for sure.
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In case you guys missed the show.... here is the link!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_uq5-wOuO8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_uq5-wOuO8)
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Oh yer love it.
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Sorry I haven't gotten around to posting here as of late. Between work and moving into a new house things have been kind of hectic. Although, I am still finding time to play some games. As of right now Super Metroid has taken over all my free time it seems. I decided to do a 100% completion/best ending run at first because at the time I had never gotten all 100 items or the best ending. In order to achieve the best ending the player must beat the game in under 3 hours I do believe. My first 100% playthrough was roughly a little over 2 and 1/2 hours. Since then due to some serious practice and a wonderful speed running community that is more than willing to help out I have shaved off almost 50 minutes from my first playthrough. My PB is now 1:48 and some change and I have a feeling that I will be able to greatly improve that soon. I have been working on a ton of new strats and maneuvers that should shave off at least 10 more minutes if executed properly. I have also went ahead and ordered a game saver for my SNES so I will be able to practice using save states with actual hardware. I have a feeling that in order to be a top tier player eventually this is a must. My ultimate goal is to at least be in the top 20 in this title which is going to take some serious work due to the fact that this game is ultra competitive. Currently in order to get into the top 20 I must achieve a time quicker than 1:28:07 which is 20 minutes faster than my current PB. There is so much to learn and so much work to do in order to achieve that, but I am willing to put forth the effort. This game is so deep that Sweetnumb and Oats put together a 8 hour tutorial and that was just for an any% run which the current route is 24 outta 100 items you collect.
Things I need to improve:
First and foremost is wall jumping. I have gotten pretty decent at it, but nowhere near where I want to be. I need to work mostly on doing wall jumps for an extended period of time. I get to around 5 in a row and usually will miss the 6th. This is doing wall jumps as quick as possible too.
Second.... Machballs.... There is only one room that forces you to do this technique when speed running, but there is also a ton of rooms that you can optimize by doing this as well. I have gotten it down slightly... Meaning I can do it where it needs to be done in that one room consistently but am 50/50 on the other rooms. I don't believe this skill is as important as wall jumping because there is no major uses for it besides that one room.
Third is short charging and super short charging. I can do pretty well as of now without this technique, but if I am planning on getting a sub 1:30 eventually I WILL have to be able to pull this off. I believe it will shave minutes off of my current run since I am having to take time to set up my shinesparks. Also, it will help beating Draygon as quickly as possible and be able to get the "blue suit" at the end which will allow me to pretty much skip a tedious room afterwards.
Fourth is being able to pull off the Kraid Quick Kill and be able to pull off X-Factors for the Phantoon fight. Today I nailed my first Kraid Quick Kill, but I for sure need to practice this one a lot. Probably even more than that I am going to have to practice the Phantoon fight over and over hundreds of times so I get the patterns and timing down. This single boss fight and the rooms afterwards are probably the most annoying and dangerous part in the game.
So I am excited and eager to see what I can eventually do on this game. I have been trying to stream a run almost everyday so you can check that out at www.twitch.tv/ninglendo (http://www.twitch.tv/ninglendo) I usually stream around 11am CT and around 10PM CT. Next goal is sub 1:45 then I will have to drastically alter my play style and routes. Looking forward to it Kreygasm
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Oh, Nice! Super Metroid is one of the games other than DK I follow a lot of channels of on Twitch. I'll try to start swinging by your stream more often then. :)
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Glen, where do you find a list of the top 20 times?
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www.deertier.com (http://www.deertier.com) will have all the top times on all the different categories. The community kind of takes care of itself kind of like what the DK community does :)
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Looking forward to this! Please go, sir.
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www.deertier.com (http://www.deertier.com) will have all the top times on all the different categories. The community kind of takes care of itself kind of like what the DK community does :)
Thanks for that Glen. I'm a numbers guy, and it's always cool to get a hold of new stats.
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I drop in when I'm around and see the stream up to definitely check it out. I've never played it before so it's like zero to 60 mph for me but I dig it, looks like a great game. GL sir.
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So since my last post I have shaved my PB down to 1:46:03. I am able to do stuff now that I wasn't able to do since my last post thanks mostly to that game saver. I can do the Kraid Quick Kill (charge beam method), red tower climb (powerbomb method), and a variety of little stuff including machballs in certain rooms. So now that I can do the red tower climb I am officially doing the fastest known route for 100% which is skipping the Ice Beam on the way to Phantoon. This actually can shave off almost 2 minutes in a run which is huge. I would say at this time I can do most of the important strats I just have to work on consistency. I think soon I will be to the point of being able to do all the strats in practice and from there it is just being able to pull it all off in a run. One thing I really need to work on is my damage boosting and Phantoon X-Factors. I think collectively those two strats could shave off a couple of minutes from my current PB. I am also considering changing my controller layout late into the game. I will see though after a couple of practice attempts. One last thing... Yesterday I pulled off the Alcatraz Escape for my first time Kreygasm http://www.twitch.tv/ninglendo/c/5508566 (http://www.twitch.tv/ninglendo/c/5508566)
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Been working on speedrunning DuckTales when I'm not playing Super Metroid. So far my PB is 8:32 and I am hoping someday I will cut that down to a sub 8 minutes. Anyways, here is my PB run so far.
http://www.twitch.tv/ninglendo/c/5521013 (http://www.twitch.tv/ninglendo/c/5521013)