This topic is for the purpose of discussing #3121: NitroGenesis's GB Banishing Racer in 14:16.20

Voting meh. Game choice isn't good imo: the action varies between slow and even slower, and overall the run is just very dull to watch.

The camera moves at three seconds per screen. It's slow.

What about those who have actually played this game? I found this run more entertaining than either http://tasvideos.org/1436M.html or http://tasvideos.org/1403M.html (both also games I haven't played).

Had to vote meh, the game is pretty slow and bland, and I couldn't make it past the five minute mark.

The concept of a renegade anthropomorphic automobile driving around and running over everything is always interesting, and the game's poignant music, with moods ranging from sickly sweet to ominous, and with levels based on real-world locations, makes it seem like a memorable road trip... (great, I don't have to visit America now after seeing this run!) The platforming sections had some nice tricks in them, and mostly made up for the relative slowness of the auto-scroller sections. I think there was enough action here to warrant at least one watching of the run, so here's a small yes vote.

Sincerly, I don't know how you managed to use 6217 rerecords on this run. To my eyes, all you do is go right and jump. No other route, no glitch, no special technique... The action is slow. Very few of this run made it look tool-assisted. I wasn't entertained. No vote.

I found this fairly amusing, though nothing too special. I'm a bit concerned about the optimality of the boosts though. You mention that you used autofire to get the boosting right; did you manage to figure out how many frames of cooldown there are between boosts? Was there a memory address for this? Also, why did you get stuck in the corner in 5-1? It seemed like a speed-entertainment tradeoff to me, because it was sort of funny. At this point, I'd like to hear a little more about the technical aspects of this run before I vote. EDIT: Alright, I'll vote Yes. Thanks for the comments.

To mklip2001 The boost in this game operates on sort of a fuel mechanic. When you are standing still you have 100 boost fuel, when you boost, it decreases rapidly. If you autofire, the fuel will decrease slower and slower. The boost will last the same time, but you keep most of your speed from the last boost end time. Getting stuck in the corner? I had to wait for an enemy to move (One hit kills you), so I decided that that was the funniest way to wait.

What a quirky game. While it's a bit on the slow side, it still had enough in it for me to vote yes.

Unfortunately there is nothing particularly notable when watching this game. As far as I can tell, you are just optimizing boosts, moving to the right, and avoiding enemies. My first thought was to compare it with this rejected submission: http://tasvideos.org/2571S.html I have not watched the runs Lex posted for comparison though. My vote on this is Meh leaning towards No. I think the site has a precedent of rejecting submissions with no particularly notable TAS qualities, but some have slipped through in the past. This is the case where we question whether every game should have a run. Is there much worth watching for an average viewer? No not particularly. Is there much worth watching for someone who has played the game? Maybe to a small extent.

Now that I've gone back and watched both TASes back to back (well, for as long as I could stand; ~10 minutes for the Rayman TAS), I think the GBC Rayman TAS is much more interesting and entertaining than this. I think it's just the bad music and low visibility I didn't like in GBC Rayman. The TAS is quite technically sound. Some parts of this Banishing Racer TAS seemed unoptimized to my haven't-played-this-game eye. There were times when you delayed boosting for no apparent reason, like at 1:25. It seemed like you could have boosted much earlier and then jumped mid-boost. Boosting didn't seem to affect when you could jump anywhere else, so why delay there? Also, in the autoscrolling flying level with spikes, you played really lazily. Sometimes you just let the screen push you instead of doing anything, for example. It seemed like there was a lot more cool-timing and close-call stuff you could have done with the spikes. Actually, that seems to hold true throughout the whole run. You stayed in the same spot for a really long time in the first flying section and lazily killed the birds as they flew by instead of playing with them. That seemed really weak to me. I think if played with more fervor, a TAS of this game could look really cool.

at first I found it funny but then I noticed there really is nothing that tells me "TAS", it looks like a human could accomplish a very similar run… voted no, bad game choice

To Lex at 1:25, I could not boost or else I would have to jump and bounce of the enemy. This would kill me.

om, nom, nom... blech, bitter!

I promise my next one will be better ;)