Would be interesting to see how fast someone could do at least a minimum full quest line completion of Skyrim though, without any mods, without any cheats, without using the console, and without utilizing any bugs that might be present in the game. I'm guessing it'd still take many dozens of hours if not hundreds. :) The video would be too long unless they edited it down, but then someone could cheat with video editing too so... :)

TR2 has quite some hardcore glitching speedruns out there... :D

And I love all of them :D

I'd love to see John Kilduff do some video game speedruns. He could do the entire main quest of Skyrim, knit a quilt, AND craft his own tribal hunting spear at the same time.

Now that's multi-tasking...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvbL_5rH1QQ

I've also done some for racing games. And Marble Madness.

One of these days I'll make a smell-the-roses run for my favorite FPS and RPG games, checking every nook and cranny and enjoying the scenery.

Bethesda's own speedrun of the main quest apparently clocked in at just over 2 1/4 hours. But then that's still 2 more hours than Oblivion.

Is that public anywhere? I'd love to see that (when i complete the game myself first of course). I just can't picture how it could be possible though. :)

Yeah it's fun to watch.
If you like disturbing things, look for the Spyro the Dragon world record speedrun. It leaves you with very much of a 'W-T-F did I just see'-feeling.

Once upon a time when I had NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis.

I don't think they published it. They did it before the game was released, so that would have spoiled it for the fans. But you can just run through dungeons and avoid most fight. There isn't much mandatory killing, and the NPC you occasionally need to escort are essential so can take of themselves while you run to your destination.

Those are the best kinds of speedruns :D

Yeah, what dksone said, unfortunately. Those were done for their own internal QA testing purposes. But I'm sure there are other speedruns available that are quicker. Example.

I'm rather the slowrun kind of guy. When I play a game I mostly care about a complete playthrough and even for a completionist I'm pretty slow. And with with the ridiculously long backlog I don't have the patience to spend so much time playing one game until I can achieve impressive times.

My buddy is totally into speedruns, though, particularly of Rayman (specifically the PSX version which is the original one and much harder than the PC version). He recently joined that little circle of the (apparently) best Rayman players out there, keeps chatting with them, streams his runs etc.. I can actually imagine that in a while he might take on the world champion.

Definitely! Because it's impressive to see what enormous amount of effort someone has put into it (imho).
Pandemonium is also one of those games.