It’s been years with 99% of sessions ending with a tantrum and an abrupt Alt+F4, you can stop telling me this now

  • Juice ( Juice@midwest.social ) 
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    2 months ago

    “You rage quit, again. Upon restart I’m going to tell you you rage quit in a way that doesn’t say you rage quit, but says everything except for that. Then when the game starts I’m going to make you watch a load screen, which loads yourself dying in the boss room with her busted ganky ass right in front of you, kind of staring off to the side like she didn’t just kill you, again reminding you that you rage quit. Then you will watch another load screen which will load the grace before the boss room. You will run into this room and she will kill you immediately. This was objectively goty, and one of the greatest games ever made. See you tomorrow.”

  • I just alt+f4 every time even if I am not getting frustrated just cuz it’s faster.

    Funny as hell seeing clips made on PC where the player falls off a cliff and knows if they can quit out fast enough, they won’t die (and sometimes this is also used to trigger wrong warps to skip shit, too) but they use the menus to do it and aren’t fast enough. Just hit alt+F4. Instant quit. No menus. Quick and easy.

    Unless that’s against the rules of the speedrun category you’re attemping? 🤔 It would make sense to disallow it just for parity with console players. Some categories also similarly disallow “zipping” just because it’s next to impossible to perform on a console, since it’s dependant on framerate being at or above 60fps.

    • M.int ( MissingInteger@lemmy.zip ) 
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      2 months ago

      It would make sense to disallow it just for parity with console players.

      Souls speedrunners aren’t really interested in parity with console players. Most (95%) don’t run on console. For some games “Console” is a different category like with Elden Ring or there are only 3 runs on console in place 100+ like with DS1.

      Also you can force close on console. For Playstation it’s PS-Button + “Close Application”.

      For most categories it’s disallowed (I think) because it’s an out of game action, it’s not using the game mechanics, but the operating system. That’s at least the reason stated for Elden Ring speedruns. I couldn’t quickly find a stated reason on the Souls speedrun wiki for the other games.