Now I have watched and laughed at all of your faces. ;) So now I can post my own face so you all may laugh back. http://133an.sytes.net/~highness/Highness_2005-08-09.jpg
All this talk is doing is making people think twice before being honest in their submissions. 1) Old run is Famtasia 2) This run in an improvement of 3:26, which is an extremely significant improvement If we waited for absolute perfection at all times, nothing would get published. I'm personally surprised at Adelikat's opinion, as he is fronting the Famtasia improvement, and this is exactly the type of run that is fit for it. For me this is a no-brainer publish ASAP.
I'm sure it's a nice movie, and without question better than the existing one, but I don't know... 10-30 seconds is quite significant. If I were the author, I would want to improve this before someone else does.
I hope this isn't discouraging, but I think this would get very old, very fast. However, many others seem to think this would be a great game to TAS, so perhaps I should be ignored. On the plus side, you did optimize the races well, but I personally would enjoy this game more as a playaround, shooting the computer opponents and such instead of just demolishing them every race.
adelikat: If you want I can make the video for you. Just tell me how you want it done/what scenes you want in it.
The game was kinda funny to make just because it's that of a boring nature and the collision check is horrid. :)
Creativity in general would have made a difference, since this game isn't very entertaining on it's own, as others have noted. Pacifist style autoscroll (the astaroid area?) areas, shooting the jetpack guy only in the crotch, and shooting in time to the music, just to give you an idea of what I mean by creativity.
I think this run should get Mega Man 1's star, although I'm probably in the minority thinking that, simply because this run is much more suited for a beginner to watch than MM1 is.
It works really well with the Street Fighter movies. Bubble Bobble could be cut down to ten minutes just by cutting out the waits. Final Fantasy could be *really* short by playing just the battles. Punch-Out (both of them). Earthworm Jim (without the Andy Asteroids levels). Those are the ones that would really benefit just by cutting out the waits, anyway.
Are you going to remove entries from the list after they are published? That way we could visually work toward a smaller list, yay for motivation :) Bucky O’Hare & Hudson's Adventure Island 3 are both published as of this post.
