Guinness World Record holder breaks down his half-hour Dark Souls speedrun
GamesBeat discusses the Darks Souls world record speedrun with Fred "Thantaos" Vasquez. What are the elite tips and tricks used to beat one of the hardest games ever made in less than 30 minutes?
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You abuse glitches to skip around parts of the game, I'm only impressed with a 2 minutes or less speedrun.
"In Dark Souls, whenever the player rolls, the player becomes immortal for a set period of time, roughly 0.6 or 0.7 seconds. During this time, no damage nor conditions will be applied to the player, making it a better way to avoid damage than even the greatest of shields, assuming good reflexes and timing are used when rolling" - I just hate how some of the enemies have MUCH longer immortality from rolls/hops/etc.
shit... i haven't even managed to go past one of the big boss on top of the castle... i must be losing touch... never had to struggle so much in Demon's Souls. /:
He uses a glitch which cuts out half of the game... Some people don't count that as a complete run some do. There are some Japanese players who beat the full game un-glitched in 57 minutes which was very impressive.
a lot of the speed running culture believes that anything you can do to cut time out to get to the end screen is OK, as long as any other player can also use that glitch it doesn't actually change the mechanics of the speed run.
you'll see that many of the top speed runs for old school games involve a strange wall glitch to remove large parts of the game
Yeah, after obtaining the Lord Vessel he glitched the heck out of the game to by-pass collecting the souls to open the gate to the Kiln (final area). Basically cutting out some of the more bothersome areas and boss battles of the game.
Still crazy impressive the way he rushed through Sen's Fortress and later the dreaded Silver Knight Archers like it was nothing.
Heck, I was blown away the way he ran across and leapt off the beams in Arno Londo. I had to snipe those assassins and crawl along those high beams at a snails pace.
I totally agree. Only reason this is news is because it is KNOWN that we will bitch and complain that the speed run isn't legit because it just flat out isn't... Thus creating some element of typical N4G drama and bringing in hits. All part of the plan.
on second thought; upon finishing watching these videos, and seeing how he used a glitch to finish it, and how mean he is: I don't really respect the videos or him.
Me too, I just finally picked it up and wow, you will die doesnt even begin to describe it. I wanted to play demon souls before dark souls and now dark souls2 is coming, i feel so behind the times. That speedrun was amazing.
He enjoyed the game enough before the speed run that he learned how to do this. Speed runs aren't done on the very first attempt at playing the game. They require extensive playthroughs, learning the ins and outs of the game, and in short speed runs that aren't tool-assisted are done by hardcore fans of the games they speed run.
I've been replaying Dark Souls with new characters for fun. Each time I get more efficient and get to areas faster just by virtue of having played the game enough to know where to go.
They are just doing the same thing but with actual strategies and such. Whats with the hate on people who love the game and want to find new challenges for themselves?
Oh they have "no life" right? I'm sure we could take a look at a list of your save files and add up the playtime to make the same conclusions. Those in glass houses...
I could see that happening, i just started playing demon souls and have rage quit a bunch. I don't even want to know how many times he had to play through the game to get this good at it.
I was really impressed up to the point he used that glitch. I know that some people find this acceptable in speedrunning, but I don't. If you're going to use such a glitch, then what's the point? You might as well use a cheat device, cheat codes, or trainers to the same effect.
Using a glitch in order to bypass a closed door is roughly the equivalent to recording a Doom demo with no clipping enabled. It kind of defeats the purpose, don't you think? I never said he didn't have skill, hence why I was impressed prior to him using the glitch.
One of the reasons glitches shouldn't be allowed in the first place is the fact that they can be patched out, making the speedrun irrelevant after the fact.
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I will try it myself just to have the same feel of excitement.
"In Dark Souls, whenever the player rolls, the player becomes immortal for a set period of time, roughly 0.6 or 0.7 seconds. During this time, no damage nor conditions will be applied to the player, making it a better way to avoid damage than even the greatest of shields, assuming good reflexes and timing are used when rolling"
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I just hate how some of the enemies have MUCH longer immortality from rolls/hops/etc.
Same here, Finished Demon's Souls without too much problem, and I struggle as F in Dark Souls.
a lot of the speed running culture believes that anything you can do to cut time out to get to the end screen is OK, as long as any other player can also use that glitch it doesn't actually change the mechanics of the speed run.
you'll see that many of the top speed runs for old school games involve a strange wall glitch to remove large parts of the game
Still crazy impressive the way he rushed through Sen's Fortress and later the dreaded Silver Knight Archers like it was nothing.
Heck, I was blown away the way he ran across and leapt off the beams in Arno Londo. I had to snipe those assassins and crawl along those high beams at a snails pace.
"don't make a mistake, don't make a mistake, don't make a mistake, don't make a mistake.... "
Must have been both thrilling and infuriating at times.
They are just doing the same thing but with actual strategies and such. Whats with the hate on people who love the game and want to find new challenges for themselves?
Oh they have "no life" right? I'm sure we could take a look at a list of your save files and add up the playtime to make the same conclusions. Those in glass houses...
"Guinness World Record holder breaks down during half-hour Dark Souls speedrun"
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On topic, nice going :P
One of the reasons glitches shouldn't be allowed in the first place is the fact that they can be patched out, making the speedrun irrelevant after the fact.