AGDQ 2024 has concluded, raising over $2.5 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation!
AGDQ 2024 has concluded, raising over $2.5 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation!
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/21500969
This year was honestly one of the better years. Lots of great runs all around. You can find the VODs here: https://www.youtube.com/@gamesdonequick/videos
I haven't seen many runs yet, but my personal highlights were Peanut Butter the Dog speedrunning Gyromite and Elden Ring finished in 18 minutes.
What other great runs were there I might've missed?
This was one of the best GDQs in recent memory. So glad that they're back in person because that energy from the crowd was sorely missed.
Granny 1/2/3 (the Granthology) was the best set I saw all week. Speedrunning a horror game can still be scary. The couch was killing it.
Mario 64 Drum% was the best gimmick, even compared to Gyromite Dog%. Though I did get a laugh out of realizing, if Peanut Butter stopped cooperating because he was full, GDQ would have to ban a dog.
Jet Set Radio Future was a good choice for an early run. High-energy, high-speed, broken in some silly-looking ways. Shame about the game's weird blur effects. The spiritual successor Bomb Rush Cyberfunk was good as well.
30XX is absolute chaos with a suitably motormouth runner. The lead dev calls in and doesn't get to say much. (Contrast Doom 2016, where Hugo Martin is just casually chatting, and asks about the background noise like 'are you guys at some kind of party?')
Halo co-op is good fun. Same tier as Aragami: not a must-watch, but definitely a highlight.
Whiplash is a completely bonkers game, in a way that only 2003 could deliver, and it has glitches and sequence breaks that could make Metroid Prime blush. Unfortunately the final boss drags on for being a gimmicky damage sponge. It's twenty minutes of nonstop movement ending with six minutes of waiting.
Some absolute maniac attempted a no-damage run of Resident Evil 2 Remake at a live marathon. You should watch it.
My husband and I watched a bunch of it this year and there was some great stuff on it. Was really impressed by the doom run and the BL2 coop run was easily our favorite with a ton of crazy tricks that made us want to do a new playthrough. The TAS run of super metroid was really cool too. My husband really liked the ocotpath travelr 2 run and I liked the super Mario 2 run.
Would you look at that, a gaming charity that actually donates the money! Turns out it's possible!
Don't look too deep into it because there was a bit of a scandal around it when people realized the salaries involved...
Also, the foundation AGDQ is associated with is crap, SGDQ is much better on that front.
Yeah, don't look past the veneer of the Prevent Cancer Foundation (and GDQ's founders are pretty cozy with them). Sure they're saints compared to The Completionist (& co.), but they mostly just do education/outreach which, while important, is completely US based and no doubt doubles as soliciting/fundraising, and don't really fund research nearly as much as you would probably guess (their 2022 financial statements indicate 4.6m spent on education, 800k spent on outreach, 1.44m on fundraising and only 1.1m on research). If you're outside the US you're unlikely to ever be impacted by their work. Their salaries are also way higher than DWB USA.
They went and became a non-profit and are disclosing their financials now?
GDQ is still a for-profit company, it just actually donates the money raised to the partner charity.
Their donation links go straight to the charity, PayPal clearly tells you who you're sending money to
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Peanut Butter the Dog speedrunning Gyromite
Elden Ring finished in 18 minutes
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Lot's of fantastic runs and runners this year!