We all have that one game we’ve played for longer than we’d like to admit – whether that’s thousands of hours racking up kills in Fortnite, or countless days exploring every nook and cranny of the gargantuan Red Dead Redemption 2.
At some point, most gamers become heavily attached to one single experience, but the sad thing is that, eventually, the fun will start to dissipate, and it gets hard to find reasons to keep going, even with a game that you genuinely adore.
To combat that feeling of things getting stale, one way that people continue to find a fresh sense of challenge in games they’ve mastered is by speedrunning them.
When you’ve completed everything and collected everything, the next step is to break the game apart and humiliate it, raising a firm middle finger to the way that you’re supposed to play by sprinting to the finish line using any means necessary.
From iconic platformers to open-world giants, some of the most famous games of all time have been completely destroyed by the speedrunning community in a matter of minutes – whether by using glitches, exploiting mechanics, or just simply being awesome at the game.
Stopwatches at the ready!
