I agree, the only thing it should be is a race category if the racers don't have time for a full run.
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Who is grinding it anymore? If you recall from when I first started running, I said "I will never do trevor%, I think the idea of the category is stupid". The ONLY reason I ended up running it is because I didn't have the time for a full run. I don't really think it matters either way, but I don't think the existence of the category is causing people to not run the full game. If anything, most people would come here say "What?!? 8 hours to finish a run...fuck that" and not run. In over a year, you only have 12 (13 if you include me) who have actually bothered to run classic%.I think it is a problem with the run itself, not the categories.
I have said it before, coincidentally, the most interesting parts of the game are actually in trevor%. There are no long drives for no reason, no long exposition, no pointless mini-games... I find it to be actually a fun run. It is fast paced, you don't have all the weapons and such. The drives are short yet intense. I wish the entire game was trevor % lol.
I really don't want to see it go. It's a major part of GTA V speedrunning history and therefore shouldn't be deleted. I regret deleting Roman's Sorrow from the IV leaderboard. If the times are still stored in the database, I'd like to see it added back under Misc. as long as it wouldn't cause non-opinion related issues. I think the same should be done with all other equivalent categories that were deleted. Deleting history and changing extremely established names does absolutely no good. It's funny to me that these changes come when the game is nearly dead. What good does this do? GTA V hit it's peak and is quickly coming to a close, so now it's time to wipe part of its history? It's quite ridiculous.