Zelda: BotW SGDQ thoughts.

Thoughts on Zelda: BotW getting accepted into SGDQ 2017:

So to be clear up front, I would say MORE THEN LIKELY, BotW will just not be in a solid enough place as a route and as a speedgame by the time midnight of March 11th rolls around. That being the deadline for submissions. So in that regard, I don't think you can really be critical of GDQ Games Committee if they end up not accepting it.

However, my question was dealing with theoretical's. "If it's a decent speedgame". That being if you had a video, and the runner could give a reasonable estimate that would likely adjust slightly over the 4 months building up to SGDQ, and it was a solid all around watch. Now I understand, that's A LOT to ask for from a likely huge game that will be available to the community for only 8 days once submissions are closed, but again if it DID have all those things, why should we pass up the opportunity to have it at the next huge speedrunning event?

So this whole question for me is less based on BotW, and more-so that I've just never liked the concept of "It's new, don't do it, let it develop, let it get optimized". Why? Caveman mentioned it, but the average viewer sadly could care less about all of our little optimizations, and they are just watching to see their favorite games get beaten. If you show it at SGDQ, and it gets better later on, which it will, show it again. Zelda is probably big enough to double dip right? OOT and LTTP are only at every GDQ ever almost.

Every speedgame ever goes through an endless cycle of development. "Optimize/d" is an empty word that represents something the game will always go through as long as people care about it. At AGDQ 2018 it will probably be far less developed then it would be come SGDQ 2018 and so on, so why arbitrarily say, no not now. Again, LIKELY won't be presentable enough by the 11th of March, but I can say without a doubt it would be presentable by July 2nd. Or maybe it won't, but my point is that I hope people can look at new speedgames with an open mind and not reject them before submissions are even seen, which for at least this game, I'm already seeing a lot of that.

This is all a little scatter-brained, I apologize, but my thoughts at the end of the day is if it's a bad watch, don't take it. But if it IS a good watch, why not? Just keep an open mind and see what the speed running community can do in 8 days.