It is my understanding, and that example supports it, that the average viewer, especially if a gamer, expects and wants games to be TASed on the hardest difficulty, precisely because of the challenge factor. Even the idea of a TAS on the easiest difficulty is boring, because there is no challenge. It's not a question of whether the run becomes longer, or whether some boss fights become longer and more repetitive. It's the challenge. It's the "superhuman god-like player" beating the computer at its best. I think this is what average casual fans expect. They don't care if something is more "boring" from our perspective, they don't care if "the only difference between difficulty levels is how long boss fights take". We are biased, and perhaps that obscures our perception of that.
I don't like equivocating to the "decide everything case by case" approach. That doesn't address anything at all. There will always be special cases, but that leans too far in the direction of "every game is special." It really seems to me like the current unstated policy is to accept everything that someone appears to have put a modicum of effort into, whether or not they and the audience actually have any understanding at all about what the changes in difficulty actually entail. I don't think that collectively throwing up our hands and giving up because of fringe cases. I think it'd be more productive to pin down what the acceptable reasons are for allowing a lower difficulty and say definitively that things like "lower difficulty = skips entire stages" will no longer be acceptable.
I have no problems starting on the last level if the game actually gives you that option. Several puzzle game runs at TASVideos currently use the last level possible: Tetris, Super Gussun Oyoyo, Dr. Mario, Tetrisphere (I think), Boulder Dash (for NES), and probably some others.
I have no problems starting on the last level if the game actually gives you that option. Several puzzle game runs at TASVideos currently use the last level possible: Tetris, Super Gussun Oyoyo, Dr. Mario, Tetrisphere (I think), Boulder Dash (for NES), and probably some others.
I'm not really certain how a question like "How high quality is it" is supposed to be answered objectively anyway.
the WAD itself seemed to have a bit too much of "let's put a ton of enemies because we can".
That music was absolutely hideous
This wad was absolutely atrocious! Weak maps, some overlittered with enemies with no real concern for gameplay [And I have played and watched numerous Slaughter maps that do it right... this was NOT one of them].
I do agree with a few peoples in here that the music was kinda of horrible,
The level design does not look to be anything special otherwise. In fact pretty bad in some places...
Ksutra is the 12th most popular WAD for speedrunning, including the four official IWADs (http://doomedsda.us/top20.html)
Nach rewrote the rule about hacks/homebrews relatively recently, lumping both together, but to me they've always been different. The high quality requirement belongs moreso to ROM hacks, because of the ease of cobbling a hack together on any decently popular game with a good hacking tool (e.g SMW), and a game engine that could make nearly any run on it decently entertaining at least. That rule is also exactly for hacks/level packs like this, where what makes it notable is not necessarily the quality of the content, but moreso the controversial aspect thereof. Unlicensed original games have been put into the Vault regardless of quality, as long as they qualified on notability. YHTBTR is one obvious example, although it was also published very early into the Vault's creation, when rules weren't as rigid yet. There are plenty of other examples of unlicensed movies in the Vault, including fan 'favorites' like Cheetahmen and Baby Moses.
Am I correct in understanding that this WAD is famous because of the nude geometry in the final level? The level design does not look to be anything special otherwise. In fact pretty bad in some places...
Its native resolution is 320x240. But it is not a standard VGA resolution (320x200 is for example).
Majora's Mask has one already, that's enough for N64 Zelda.
Burn the Rope just seemed like the best comparison, because that TAS is recieved insanely poorly and it's a homebrew too. (At least that one seems finished...)
I don't understand the negative response entertainment-wise. I found it short and interesting enough to vote yes.
One desirable feature of stars is variety. Giving multiple stars to the same game is dubious in this regard (unless the different TASes really are so different that they deserve it.)
World 1 ends with a credit roll and return to the title screen. http://tasvideos.org/3949S.html