Metal Gear Rising Speedrun Removed After Runner Played Pre-Recorded Video for SGDQ
The Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance DLC World Record Speedrun video was deleted by GDQ after it was revealed that Speedrunners misrepresented their run.
Summer Games Done Quick is an annual video game speedrunning event where participants speed up the game while raising funds for charity. One of the games on display was the Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance DLC.
Speedrunner Mekarazium set a new world record for BladeWolf DLC during the event. However, the video playback of the run was later removed from the official GDQ YouTube channel, Confirmed It’s due to counterfeiting.
“Yesterday I learned that Mekarzarium played a segmented video for DLC execution in Summer Games Done Quick 2022. Since then, Mekazarium has been to both some members of the community and GDQ staff. I admit. “
SGDQ is usually a face-to-face event in Minneapolis. However, since the COVID-19 pandemic, the event has switched to remote format. This year there was a hybrid format where the event came back directly, but played a remote run from a player who couldn’t jump out.
Mekazarium was one such runner who participated remotely. However, while runners are expected to play live, Mekazarium instead runs a pre-recorded gameplay video of Metal Gear Rising and plays the game in the stream as if it were real-time. I pretended to do it.
According to the GDQ, Mekazarium “contacted staff with a document detailing that they planned this for more than a month and showed that this was planned and intentional. This was a marathon. This is possible because of the remoteness of this particular run. “
GDQ has announced that Mekazarium will not be allowed to participate in this event in the future.
This is an unfortunate event that undermines the talent commonly introduced at SGDQ, but the organization once again hosted a fairly successful event, raising $ 3 million for Doctors Without Borders.
Matt TM Kim is a news editor at IGN.You can reach him @lawoftd..
