As you may well be aware, Games Done Quick is an event which runs twice every year with gamers taking on tricky speedruns to raise money and awareness for various charities. Growing in popularity year on year, these events are a great watch, and the full line-up of games set to appear at the next livestream has now been revealed.
2019's 'Summer Games Done Quick' will be taking place between 23rd and 30th June, following in the footsteps of the most recent event which took place this January. As always, there were some great Nintendo games on show during that event, which went on to raise an incredible $2.39 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. We're sure the Summer show will be just as gripping.
If you want to see the full line-up (which could see the odd change here and there before the start date) make sure to check that out here. In case you just want a taster, we've gathered a list of just some of the Nintendo games appearing down below.
- Banjo-Kazooie
- Bomberman 64: The Second Attack
- Castlevania
- Donkey Kong Country 2
- Fire Emblem Fates
- Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards
- Link to the Past + Super Metroid Combo Randomiser
- Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
- Metroid Prime
- Octopath Traveler
- Pokemon Crystal
- Star Fox 64
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- and a frankly ridiculous amount of Super Mario games
You can find more details at the event's website; as always, for those who can't attend, the show will be livestreamed so that you can keep up with the action at home.
Will you be tuning in? Do you enjoy the Games Done Quick streams? Tell us below.
[source gamesdonequick.com, via eurogamer.net]
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Ooh, Link to the Past + Super Metroid Combo Randomizer!
That's an awesome run, I love watching those.
I love playing them too.
Edit: And they're finally doing another Rockman 4 Minus Infinity run! That's my favourite Mega Man rom hack ever.
Seriously it's so damned good.
Yikes, are we getting near that already? Still haven't got through all the videos from January...
Fire Emblem Fates, that's something very interesting to speedrun.
Sadly they didn't approve the Xenoblade run. Would love to see that live.
Glad to see a Fire Emblem game! Haven't seen a Fates run through yet (mostly because it's my least favorite) but Fire Emblem games are always pretty interesting. Though, skipping enemy turns makes the post Radiant Dawn games a little harder to follow.
@Meei
I'm not sure how they could do a Xenoblade run.
The main story is very long, and if you're doing a new game+ run it's completely boring and trivial since you demolish everything, going from story event trigger to trigger.
KirbyMastah is an amazing speedrunner and entertainer, so the FE Fates run should be fun. Conquest is my favorite game in the series, but on Normal difficulty, Revelation probably makes for a more interesting speedrun.
@RupeeClock Nintendo needs to get behind randomizers for SP editions of SNES games once those come out. I hope the SMATTLP is a race.
GDQ is home to the worst rules and most butthurt people around. Ask anyone who speedruns, and they will tell you how bad it really is
@Smash_kirby
Judging on the submission info it's a co-op run.
So one player will be handling the SM side and another will be handling the LttP side.
@ReaderRagfish It raises over $4 million every year for charity - doesn't sound like a joke to me. I'm always baffled by negative comments towards GDQ, if people actually tried watching it they would find so much to enjoy. It really is a well run professional event these days with tonnes of variety. Sure you can find cringey bits in it but it broadcasts unscripted for 150 hours so of course it's not all going to be gold. I for one love it and will be watching and donating with a big old smile on my face.
@RupeeClock I've seen a co-op race done before and it is really neat when that happens, see who know which game better than the other game.
@RupeeClock
Yeah, I love watching (and playing) those combo randomizers too. Though in terms of playing, I was broken in pretty harshly. In only my second one ever, this was what I contended with: The morph ball was in the dark world, locked behind the moon pearl; and the moon pearl was locked behind the Gold Torizo fight (up in the ceiling above it). It was literally the last place left for me to check in either game, as I wasn't thrilled about doing that fight with two or three E-tanks. And that was only the beginning.
Although things seemed to go smoothly for a while, it also ended up being a ped seed. Mire was my last crystal, and Bombos was needed to enter. Bombos ended up being on its vanilla tablet; and the book ended up being on the pedestal. (TR was one of the pendants, so I'd been hoping I wouldn't have to do it.) So it was a forced blind pull, which meant I checked everything else along the way first. That was rough. (At least I got to read the always funny pedestal text afterward: "This is a paradox?!")
Even so, I did have fun playing it.
Banjo Kazooie ! So much nostalgia ! I'm also interested by the Castlevania speed run, been a long time since I watched one !
What does "Link to the Past + Super Metroid Combo Randomiser" means?
@Edu23XWiiU The game is hacked so that the upgrades and items are randomly mixed up.
Such is the Power of Nintendo!
The LttP/Super Metroid run from the GDQ it was in was amazing, if only for the unfortunate (and hilarious) placement of one item in Ganon's Tower, that required Andy and OatsNGoats go explore for an extra hour and a half when it looked like the run was actually going to wrap up quite quickly.
Definitely watching this one this time around.
"Invictus" for SNES?
What is that? Unless it's a ROM hack or something, the only thing I have seen with that label was a publishing label Toshiba used in Japan, with the games I remember being Thunder Spirits, Syvalion and Super Back to the Future II.
Syvalion in particular having one of the longest publisher logo animations I've seen. Seriously it's like 30 seconds long. Compare that to the PAL version published by JVC which just shows their logo for like a couple seconds and moves on with it.
When I order a Dominoes I select the option to donate 1p to charity.
@Salnax That sounds... stressful.
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