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thread: Speedrunning
Arizona, USAwatchmesuffer3 years ago

https://www.cnet.com/news/playstation-store-will-reportedly-stop-selling-ps3-psp-and-vita-games-this-month/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20report%2C%20Sony,the%20PS5%20launch%20in%20November.

It seems that they are going to be systematically moving forward with a slow removal of PS3 content.

Nintendo took down the Wii store. Microsoft took down the OG Xbox store. These things just happen...

thread: Speedrunning
Arizona, USAwatchmesuffer3 years ago

With the release of the PS5 it might actually be only a short while until Sony decides to close the PS3 store for good.

While this is merely conjecture, I am curious what games, especially ps1 and ps2 classics, that have better load time when downloaded using an HDD on the PS3.

I got this idea from the Ratchet and Clank series and wondered if there were any other games in this same vein I should be aware of.

Arizona, USAwatchmesuffer3 years ago

yeah it's ur disk, gonna need to just buy a new one :(

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thread: Speedrunning
Arizona, USAwatchmesuffer3 years ago

Hey, that's totally fair. I play PokeGO fairly casually. If by the time I hit level 40 (currently level 35, so still a LONG ways away) people haven't looked into this more I'll personally work on a comprehensive set of rules either for the site or for my own discord group.

Quick question since we're discussing it: What is the moderation's stance on AR games in general? The confusion being that they are a mix of video game (what this site is all about) and "non videogame activity" which is clearly disallowed in the submission rules.

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thread: Speedrunning
Arizona, USAwatchmesuffer3 years ago

All I was saying is that the city I live in has Facebook groups and discord servers thousands strong just for coordinating raids which are active every day. On top of that there are hundreds of level 40 players who still play daily despite having hit the progression wall and now are raiding competitively versus members of their own team to see who can catch more/better pokemon. You don't have to care about speedrunning to become interested in it if it provides you with another form of progression or goal that the game lacks.

Also most of the top players and dataminers know enough about the game to create a consistent ruleset.

Ultimately if the SRC mods don't want leaderboards of PokeGO then at the end of the day I'm sure no one is really going to care since the game is already really rewarding to play for its own sake. But, it would be completely denying reality to pretend it couldn't be done.

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thread: Speedrunning
Arizona, USAwatchmesuffer3 years ago

As far as the issue for categories goes, at the current moment it may be unfeasible (due to the pandemic), but I think a lot of people are underestimating the active playerbase of this game that would be able to fill out the leaderboards. There definitely are enough competitive ~lvl40 players who might be interested in doing raids enough to fill out leaderboards for a TON of different categories, and this is coming from someone who lives in a medium sized American city of ~half a million people.

I think if you could come up with a robust enough ruleset then it would be fine.

Also there already are co-op games on the leaderboard, part of the problem here is that if you were running something co-operatively you would want all players to be registered on the site, decreasing your ability to run with randos.

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thread: The Site
Arizona, USAwatchmesuffer3 years ago

Hi, dumb request, but, can we add the city Tucson under city in profile info. It's like the 33rd largest city in the USA despite being the second largest in AZ.

Thanks.

Arizona, USAwatchmesuffer4 years ago

This is a game I'm particularly interested in. Has it ever been showcased at a marathon? I think if people saw it many would be eager to jump on a retro platformer like this.

Arizona, USAwatchmesuffer4 years ago

First of all, I'd just like to state that I might be interested in running this game. And, since this is a Japanese language only game, yes they should be allowed. Especially, since an English translated romhack was released in october 2019.

I'd also like to point out that since this post and website are in English it's obvious why changing the rules to allow playing the game in English should be a thing.

Personally I don't know why emulators shouldn't be allowed but I think that conversation can be had once people are running this game.

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