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Summer Games Done Quick 2014
- Thread starter Outlaw
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Note that the estimate was 2 hours or something for his run, mostly because of that trick and the possibility of it taking a long time, he did take longer then usual because he's decently consistent at his stream, but it's to be expected with 60k something people watching here.
Same thing with the generous estimate for Metroid Prime 2 because of Grand Abyss.
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So I'm not the only one annoyed by the occasional ridiculously overly conservative time estimates? :] I know some concessions have to be made for scheduling purposes and that a marathon speedrun is rarely going to be WR pace, due to safe strats and RNG elements, but too conservative makes it look like the runner had no faith in their ability to speedrun. Incidentally, the FF6 run at the end was... I have no idea what's possible for the game at 100% but it seemed like it didn't go all that well. However, it was less than five minutes short of the estimate which made me a little giddy.
Conservative estimates generally include the time required to take down and set up the next game, as well as any bonuses that were reached for each game. I generally figure that 75% of the estimate is a good approximation of how long the game itself should take (For shorter games, not true for ~3h+ game).