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Posted: 2/8/2009 9:45 PM
Post subject: Innovative TAS
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Innovative TAS Vote on the Innovative TAS of 2008. The nominees are listed below; click on the name to be taken to a page with the relevant movies listed. 1148 Sega CD Sonic the Hedgehog CD in 18:04.75 by Nitsuja Upthorn 1123 GBC Pokémon Yellow in 02:06.28 by gia 1236 SNES StarFox 2 in 22:08.42 by YtterbiJum 1208 SNES Chrono Trigger in 06:42.77 by Inichi 1126 SNES Super Mario Kart in 21:27.02 by cstrakm
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Posted: 2/11/2009 11:54 PM
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I wasn't sure what to base my decision off of for this award, so I just voted for Star Fox 2 because it's the most entertaining.
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Posted: 2/12/2009 5:41 AM
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For the win I have to go with Pokemon Yellow. My reasoning is based off of this: For a run to be truly innovative (in my view anyway) it has to do something so drastic that is breaks the game almost completely and is completely unexpected. Starfox 2 for me doesn't cut it since it's just a fast playthrough of a beta rom. It is cool that the game is tas'd even though it was never released, but it's not truly innovative since it's just following the tried and true "beat as fast as possible" mentality. The same goes for Sonic CD. Again, it's cool to finally be able to tas sega cd games, but they don't necessarily destroy the game in any way that's different from the standard sonic runs (going through walls, forcing the camera to play catch-up, etc). Super Mario Kart is getting closer to innovative. The routes and the way the definition of a lap is broken is cool, but in my book doesn't really push the game hard enough to the breaking point. Breaking the lap definition is akin to abusing any other standard game glitch. That leaves Chrono Trigger and Pokemon. Both runs abuse the save features of the games to break the standards, but Chrono Trigger doesn't go far enough. Yes the game is broken, yes he equips items he's not supposed to, but he takes a standard route and the only real diff between that run and a normal run is that he deals max damage every hit. For me, Pokemon is the definition of an innovative run. The game is completely destroyed to the point where even the game is going "Uh, wtf is going on here? I can't even figure out what to draw on the screen!!!" It's confusing to watch, and leaves you scratching your head. Before you even figure out what he's done the game is over, which prompts you to watch it again and pick at it piece by piece. The game literally gets abused like a prison bitch on his first day. Too bad Family Feud didn't get done last year, that would've put up a good fight against Pokemon.
Posted: 2/12/2009 12:42 PM
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honorableJay wrote:
Too bad Family Feud didn't get done last year, that would've put up a good fight against Pokemon.
At least we know which run will get quite many nominations at the end of this year. :)
Posted: 2/14/2009 1:47 PM
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Warp wrote:
honorableJay wrote:
Too bad Family Feud didn't get done last year, that would've put up a good fight against Pokemon.
At least we know which run will get quite many nominations at the end of this year. :)
Yeah, Family Feud is pretty much guaranteed to win Funny TAS and possibly Innovative TAS.
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Posted: 2/14/2009 5:50 PM
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Now, now -- Heisanevilgenius is working on Jeopardy now, so who knows? :)
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