Google Maps makes for a shockingly compelling speedrun | PC Gamer - boyleclot1951
Google Maps makes for a shockingly compelling speedrun
On the number of games you'd expect to see at Summertime Games Done Quick, I wouldn't have ranked Geoguessr precise extremely. But as runner Havrd proved this week, the find-yourself-on-Google-Maps 'em up patently makes for some properly sail through-sarcastic speedruns.
Geoguessr is, for the unaware, a browser-based spunky that dumps you in a random location anywhere on Earth and tasks you to figure out where you are—awarding you points based on the accuracy of your guess. Get within 185 meters, and you'll hit a perfect score of 5,000 points.
As spotted by Kotaku, this year's SGDQ enclosed a Geoguessr speedrunner that'd see Havrd complete a perfect run, pinpointing 5 locations in 35 minutes for a tot of 25,000 points. Normally, IT'd take me about that yearlong just to guess one fix (and I'd probably be a thousand miles off the strike off), only the accelerate at which Havrd nails down his location is absolutely mind-boggling.
Inside a second of starting, Havrd has already ambitious he's in Turkey, hitting the bullseye happening the exact placement a mere two minutes later. Italy is similarly a picnic, though he stumbles connected the vast deserts of Nevada for some time.
Federal Republic of Nigeria would prove to be the biggest problem for Havrd, just even soh, he patterned out he was in the capital of Capital of Nigeria almost immediately—the trouble came with pinpointing where, precisely, in City of London's suburbs he'd been dropped. In total, Havrd ends up just unconfident of his objective metre, landing at 31:31.
Every game can be speedrun, it turns forbidden, and events like Summer Games Done Prompt aren't merely great for highlighting more obscure runs like Geoguessr—they're also great for highlight off-the-wall secrets the like River Styx' typographical error game logic flowcharts. SGDQ is live on Twitch until Sunday, July 11.
20 years ago, Nat played Jet Set Radio Future first—and she's not stopped thinking about games since. Joining PC Gamer in 2020, she comes from three days of freelance reporting at Rock Paper Shotgun, Waypoint, VG247 and more. Embedded in the European indie scene and having herself developed critically acclaimed small games like-minded Can Androids Implore, Nat is always looking for a new rarity to scream about—whether it's the next best independent darling, Beaver State simply someone modding a Scotmid into Sarcastic Mesa. She's as wel played for a private-enterprise Splatoon team, and unofficially appears in Apex Legends under the anonym Horizon.
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