It begins at last!
Zero|DPX' AGDQ 2015 Recommended Runs: Part 1 - Summary and Best Runs
If you were living under a rock in early January, you may have missed my copious posts about AGDQ, the video game speedrunning marathon held at the beginning of each year. You may have even missed Ozzie's article* recommending six runs, or Grumbeld's post** about his five favorite runs. Or maybe you didn't miss any of those, but you just didn't have 160 hours or so to watch the whole marathon yourself and see what else was good. Well, fear not! I have watched nearly the entire week's output***, and have a reasonably definitive list of runs worth watching, complete with summaries and official YouTube links! I'll be posting videos a few at a time, once a day for seven days, so as to not dump too much in your lap at once. In reply: post number one, my favorite runs overall from the whole event.
* http://www.shacknews.com/article/87685/awesome-games-done-quick-2015---the-weeks-best-speed-runs . The majority of these are on my list as well, though not all.
** http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=32967478 . Interestingly, not a single one of Grumbeld's runs makes my list. Clearly, one of us has bad taste. Cough.
*** I skipped a couple of games I knew I wouldn't like -- sorry, but four-hour "speedruns" of RPGs bore me -- and cut short a few runs when after twenty minutes it was clear I wouldn't be interested. Sorry!