Speedrun Plans for the near Future.

Yo it's Monday so I thought I'd write a pastebin.

So the month of mushrooms and masterswords has been a blast so far, but it's got me thinking about two things.

1. I really like being able to casual games without any pressure to win. It's way easier to chat with people and take my time with a game.

2. I really miss grinding for speedruns.

I've been thinking about what I want to do with speedrunning once I get past March and can start getting back to my normal schedule. I took a really long break from speedrunning because I was starting to get burned out on the games I played. I knew that I would eventually come back, I just needed some casual time. I'm happy to say that I'm finally getting to the point where I think I'm ready to get back on the grind. Here's what I want to do in 2016.


1. Get a respectable time in LA:DX

I picked this game up for 12 hour challenge, and I really enjoy practicing it. I don't think I have the drive to get a really good time in this game, but I think somewhere around a Sub 1 would be cool. I picked it up as a fun race game with buds, and anything close to a Sub 1 in S+Q would be good enough for me. I'd consider this something to hold me over till my main project.

2. 2:51/2:52 in SMRPG Any%

This is the main goal that I'm really shooting for. I was incredibly happy with my 2:56 at the time when I got it, but it's been almost a year since I last PB'd in this game, and a lot of people have passed me up. I really want to leave my mark on this game, and I feel like a 2:51 would an incredibly respectable run, and one that I could point to when people ask me of a speedtime I'm super proud of. If/When I hit this goal, and I still have the drive to continue to grind, I might go for WR, but I know how easy it is to get worn out with this game. Will hopefully start before SGDQ so I can do couch commentary.

3. Low Level SMRPG Sub 8

This is one that people will prob laugh at, but I really want to improve this. I understand this category is completely luck to some degree, but it's a run that I completely rerouted in order to cut hours off the category. My "WR" run has incredibly good luck, but horrible execution. I'd love to actually memorize menus in this category and get decent luck. I think Sub 8 is a decent goal. This will prob turn into a month of me grinding out runs till I get decent runs past Bundt.

2017

Alright so this is the big one for me. One I've been thinking about for years. For a long time, a lot of people have considered me a "bad" gamer. I never thought of myself as a great gamer, but just someone whose an okay gamer who a bit more of a personality than anything. I felt like I proved a lot of people wrong with getting a 34 in X2, and cutting cyghfer's time in SMRPG. Obviously you should never speedrun just to prove people wrong, but I won't deny that I had a chip on my shoulder with these games.

Going into 2017, the plan is to have an amazing time in SMRPG Any% so I can kind of put the "bad gamer" mentality behind me and focus on a huge project in speedrunning. Obviously things can change, but I want to learn Super Mario 64 120 star seriously. I've toyed around with the game for a while, but kind of gave up learning it because other games distracted me. SM64 is a game that's completely out of my comfort zone, and I will prob struggle early on with getting a good grasp of moving mario around. But it's a game that I'd love to get a Sub 2:00:00. I think it would also be a great showing of how you don't have to be amazing at video games to get a solid time if you put the time and effort into something.

Obviously speedpromises sometimes don't work out, and I could definitely have the desire to do other things, but this has been on my mind a lot lately, and I felt like I'd put this out there.

Paper Mario is pretty much over for me. I'll prob do a 2-3 runs a year for fun just to remember the good old days for my viewers, but i don't think ill ever get back into the game. The game's in great hands, and I just don't get the satisfaction I want from a PB in that game.

Casual life won't change once I get back into speedrunning. One of the reasons I'm getting back into speedrunning is now I can stream whatever I want whenever I feel like it. In the past, I felt I could only speedrun, and so I did runs when I wasn't feeling it on certain days. Now I can just casual on those days and not get burned out. I'm looking forward to returning to the speedrun life. Thanks for reading. Happy Pi(e) da!