Of course you’re allowed to disagree, but the reason they use a mod to skip cutscenes is because as a community they decided the cutscenes aren’t interesting for a speedrun. They also inhibit entry into speedrunning the game. There’s no speed tech or skill required to watch a cutscene, the skill comes in routing and executing the rest of the game.
I don’t necessarily disagree, I just think if you use mods to make it go faster, where’s the line drawn? Though I suppose if certain mods are allowed and others are not, that makes sense.
The line is drawn by the community themselves. They decide what the rules for the category are.
This is how all speedrunning communities work. They make rules for each category. Mods aren’t the only thing that can skip large chunks of a game. Major glitches are as well. Many, many speedrun categories prohibit major glitches that skip large sections of the game.
As @chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world says, the community draws the line, and that’s the point of having a variety of categories. Plus, Speedrunning is not a hard-and-fast ruleset… only if you want to participate in the community leaderboards do you actually need to abide by the “rules,” otherwise speedrunning is whatever you want it to be. If you want to sit there and mash through the cutscenes each time, go ahead and you’ve just made your own category and can set the world record in it. ;)
I don’t know about Mass Effect 3, haven’t watched runs of it. If cutscenes are forced and maybe lengthy, I get why you’d allow mods to specifically skip them. They’re uninteresting (for the sake of the run) and everyone loses the same amount of time. If there were tech that allows you to skip cutscenes, say by routing around a trigger OOB, then I think the mod probably shouldn’t’ be allowed as it’s now skill based. But in the end, the community for a game decides. And they’re also free to allow a category with auto skipping cutscenes and another one with the full cutscenes. So then it’s the runners choice.
It’s similar to the first person Ghostbusters game. For that speedrun you actually go into the files and straight up delete the cutscenes so they don’t play lmao.
Of course you’re allowed to disagree, but the reason they use a mod to skip cutscenes is because as a community they decided the cutscenes aren’t interesting for a speedrun. They also inhibit entry into speedrunning the game. There’s no speed tech or skill required to watch a cutscene, the skill comes in routing and executing the rest of the game.
I don’t necessarily disagree, I just think if you use mods to make it go faster, where’s the line drawn? Though I suppose if certain mods are allowed and others are not, that makes sense.
The line is drawn by the community themselves. They decide what the rules for the category are.
This is how all speedrunning communities work. They make rules for each category. Mods aren’t the only thing that can skip large chunks of a game. Major glitches are as well. Many, many speedrun categories prohibit major glitches that skip large sections of the game.
As @chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world says, the community draws the line, and that’s the point of having a variety of categories. Plus, Speedrunning is not a hard-and-fast ruleset… only if you want to participate in the community leaderboards do you actually need to abide by the “rules,” otherwise speedrunning is whatever you want it to be. If you want to sit there and mash through the cutscenes each time, go ahead and you’ve just made your own category and can set the world record in it. ;)
I don’t know about Mass Effect 3, haven’t watched runs of it. If cutscenes are forced and maybe lengthy, I get why you’d allow mods to specifically skip them. They’re uninteresting (for the sake of the run) and everyone loses the same amount of time. If there were tech that allows you to skip cutscenes, say by routing around a trigger OOB, then I think the mod probably shouldn’t’ be allowed as it’s now skill based. But in the end, the community for a game decides. And they’re also free to allow a category with auto skipping cutscenes and another one with the full cutscenes. So then it’s the runners choice.
It’s similar to the first person Ghostbusters game. For that speedrun you actually go into the files and straight up delete the cutscenes so they don’t play lmao.