{"id":47409,"date":"2019-06-24T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=47409"},"modified":"2019-06-23T16:38:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T20:38:08","slug":"diecast-262","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=47409","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #262: Rebel Galaxy, Astroneer, Rime, Sunset Overdrive"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of you who don’t listen to the show: My daughter Bay is visiting from Texas this week. I’m also behind on my writing for the Escapist. Also, GDQ<\/a> is this week. I’m going to be distracted. Please try not to burn the place down while I’m out.<\/p>\n


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Show notes:
\n00:00 Busy Week<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Summer Games Done Quick is this week. Here are a few of the runs I’m looking forward to:<\/p>\n

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  • Sunday – Portal 2<\/strong>: Speedruns of Portal are often hard to follow because the runner spends so much time out of bounds and instantly blinking from one location to the next. This one promises to be an in-bounds run, so I’m hoping this will be more aerial acrobatics and less strobing skybox.<\/li>\n
  • Monday – Prey:<\/strong> The fastest possible run of Prey takes just a couple of minutes and is really boring because the runner spends most of the run out of bounds, slowly climbing a tower. This run will be about doing all main quests, so it will probably be more interesting to watch.<\/li>\n
  • Monday – Titanfall 2:<\/strong> Really? You can speedrun this? I always got the impression that modern shooters were pretty locked down and didn’t leave a lot of room for crazy shortcuts and exploits. I guess we’ll see.<\/li>\n
  • Wednesday – Dark Souls II:<\/strong> It’s always fun to see a speedrun of a Dark Souls game, particularly if you know what the game looks like when played by mortals.<\/li>\n
  • Friday – 90s Shooters:<\/strong> We’re going to see Quake, Half-Life, and Half-Life 2 run back-to-back. That should be fun.<\/li>\n
  • Friday – Minecraft:<\/strong> They had a Minecraft run last year, but that was based on a fixed seed where the runner had memorized the key locations of everything. This run will be based on a random seed, and I’m very curious how they’re going to make that work.<\/li>\n
  • Friday: Dark Souls:<\/strong> Another all bosses run.<\/li>\n
  • Saturday – Skyrim:<\/strong> Most Skyrim runs have the runner clip through a wall somewhere and skip 90% of the game. This run will tackle the entire main quest in just 45 minutes. I’m looking forward to seeing how that works.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    These aren’t the only runs I want to watch, but these are my favorites. Are you planning on watching? What runs are you looking forward to?<\/p>\n

    03:39 Rebel Galaxy<\/strong><\/p>\n