After he finally managed to clinch that ultimate reward, he endeavored to push himself further, shaving minutes and then seconds off each run.Ĭarcinogen says that his self-described obsession with speedrunning comes largely from a desire to play the game as "efficiently" as possible.
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The Resident Evil series has a history of hiding weighty unlocks behind quick clear times, and Deadly Silence was no different, granting the much-coveted rocket launcher only to players that could beat the game in 3 hours or less. According to him, he whiled away dozens of hours waiting for rides after class at his high school with nothing but Resident Evil: Deadly Silence on his DS. | CapcomĬarcinogen began his career in the early days of speedrunning back in 2006, before the autoplaying video-walls of YouTube and Twitch helped catapult the hobby from basements and bedrooms to thousands of screens across the country. Carcinogen has focused his efforts on Resident Evil 2 runs as of late, an extra difficult game to take no hits in. He combines the encyclopedic knowledge and system mastery required of pure speed routes with deft reflexes and a near pacifistic-approach to avoiding as many enemies as he can at any cost, and the result is nothing less than fascinating.
Like the (arguably-stereotyped) literary monks found in works like Lost Horizon, he approaches these no-hit runs with a single-minded obsession that some might find strange. Instead, this "high-tech monk" aims for a hybrid challenge: attempting to beat his favorite games as quickly as possible without taking a single hit. While Carcinogen got his start as a runner for survival horror games, especially the Resident Evil series, he doesn't do many runs aimed at pure quickness alone nowadays. If you peer outside the usual crop of crowd favorites, you'll find runners like CarcinogenSDA, who are pushing themselves in ways you rarely see in the likes of Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.Īs the practice has proliferated thanks to the popularity of exhibitions like Awesome Games Done Quick, the number of categories for each game has kept pace, with runners devising new and exciting ways to challenge themselves. Perhaps the best-known example of this sort of alternative play is speedrunning, the art-meets-science of completing a game as quickly as possible, usually with the aim of vying for a world record. When we choose to engage with a game in a purposefully extreme or obscure way, the results can say as much about the player as they do about the game.
Like it or not, the act of playing a video game is a form of creative expression.
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