Dark Souls III Day One Edition (PS4)
- 1x 15.5" Lord of Cinders Statue (~$400)
- Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 (PS4)
- God Eater 2: Rage Burst Day One Edition (PS4)
- God Eater 2 Fleece-Lined Hoodie (Event Promo Only); x1 each; sizes L and XL
- God Eater 2 Leather Jacket (Promo only; only 10 in existence, ~$1,400); size L
- Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Collector's Edition (~$120; PS4)
- One Piece: Burning Blood Collector's Edition (~$100; PS4)
- Tales of Xillia Collector's Edition (~$120; PS4)
- Tales of Zestiria Limited Edition Retro Keychain Set
- Tales of Zestiria (PS4)
- Tales of Zestiria Artbook
- Teepo Plushie
- Rollo Plushie
- Ni No Kuni Wizard's Companion
To no one's surprise, there were A LOT of $125 donations.
Another contributing factor always involves the most popular bid war for opting to either save or kill the trapped animals of Super Metroid. That typically earns well over $200,000 ($793,706 for this particular night), as many will throw several $1000 - $10,000 bids all within the run itself. This speaks nothing of the numerous smaller donations that are read aloud all week long towards that bid war. If you're ever curious to check out one of these two events each year, that's likely to become the one confusing aspect of it, so here's your explanation now.
The other factor for this year's AGDQ is that Undertale is the main event, and people have donated shit-tons of money towards bid wars involving whether or not to spare the true pacifist and genocide bosses. I can't remember a single game having this sort of positive effect on the audience, and the only reason it was never showcased before now involved Toby Fox's direct refusal to allow for spoilers. For those who still lump this game together with the fanbase and label it all as cancer, this sort of generosity not only proves otherwise, but considering where the money goes, and the continued reaction of the Twitch chat as the speedrun progresses, the label is about as wrong as wrong can be. Hell, Everdraed, the programmer who specifically assisted Toby Fox with the Photoshop Flowey battle actually called in during the run to express how amazed he was at the response towards the inclusion of this game.
As things have finally slowed down (I'm actually flipping between this and watching the run itself), the tracker has managed to reach $2,100,000. The most GDQ had ever brought in prior to tonight was under $1,600,000. The runner, TGH, is actually a replacement for Kaizen, who recently learned that he, too, has cancer and felt it was important to step down from participating. He, did, however, called in during the run to express his gratitude for the love and support shown tonight.
By the way, everyone in the crowd and on the Twitch chat is chanting "Hug the goat!" as I type this, and at that very moment when he did, the tracker surpassed $2.2 million. If that wasn't enough, another $13,000+ in donations accumulated as things wrapped up with the final boss of the genocide run being allowed to peacefully rest, as I really need to do now, considering I have work in a mere three hours.
Overally, yeah, I'm trying to sell you on the game again. If you haven't played Undertale by now, then what the ever-loving fuck is wrong with you? More importantly, however, is that this is my little part in trying to encourage you all to participate in future GDQ events. They are typically held on January and July, last all week long, and are further supported with deals on shirts, baubles, and video games from an assortment of sponsors. It's amazing to see somebody fly through a game of Donkey Kong Country in under an hour or Super Mario Galaxy in under three. I highly recommend it, so, if possible, take the week off, donate what little you can afford, and help spread the word about all the good video games can do. ...or call me an emotional little bitch. I'm fine with that.
Either way, have a good night, unless you're reading this during the day. Then, uh, accept a generic "thank you" from me, instead. I don't know. I'm tired.
2 comments:
Hmm, I get the feeling that I should really clear out some time to play Undertale. That Steam backlog is pretty intimidating.
If you're appreciative of story and character development, then that would be a excellent choice for one of your Four in February. Visually stunted for much of the experience, though my assumptions are that Fox went with something intended to have a Mother/Earthbound look to it, and because the drastic bump in quality at key points in the game help to leave a much stronger impact upon the player.
More importantly, you should save up some free time to participate in the Summer Games Done Quick later this year. It'll most likely happen on the first or two full week of July, but they won't have a specific date available until a few months prior, so... I'd guess late April or May. Buy yourself a shirt, have your donation comment read on the air, help those in need, and watch a challenging game from your childhood get ridiculously crushed. I saw a guy clobber Karnov in less than fifteen minutes. I had so much trouble with that game as a kid. It was bittersweet, but mostly sweet.
Thank you, Sir Barnes the Noble. Figured you'd have read and commented on the previous post, rather than this one. This was a nice surprise.
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