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Summer Games Done Quick starts tomorrowWith Dragon Age Inquisition to kick it off
With Dragon Age Inquisition to kick it off
Speedrun stream bonanza Summer Games Done Quick, or SGDQ, kicks off tomorrow. If you’ve not watched before, it’s a days-long livestream in which different people complete games as rapidly as possible to aid charity. There are always some gems among the runs, as players find ways to complete games that would normally take dozens of hours in just a few dozen minutes.
Among the promising games onthis year’s scheduleisblindfolded Trackmania, fabulous smash-and-grab simTeardown, and theHalf-LiferemakeBlack Mesa. I’m also particularly interested in the opening game,Dragon Age: Inquisition, because massive RPGs are always among the most fun to watch broken apart.
Last year’s SGDQ managed toraise $2.3 million for Doctors Without Borders. As a whole the event has raised over $31 million (around £22.4 million) for charity. This year’s summer event is set up to benefit Doctors Without Borders again.
The originalQuake Done Quickwas the first encounter I ever had with speedrunning, back in 1997. I probably watched it because it was included on a PC Gamer coverdisc or similar. The form has come a long way since, but completingQuakein under 20 minutes is still entertaining to watch now.
For exaxctly how for speedruns have come, here’s last year’s Half-Life Alyx VR speedrun:
