Naegleria, you're literally making me want to pull my hair out when I read these asinine comments and suggestions from you. The name is "Classic%" and it will forever be "Classic%". Any time you've ever seen someone title something "Any% (classic rules)", it's because they're poking fun at this exact type of crap going on in this thread. Tell me Naegleria, have you streamed nearly 2000 hours of a speedrun titled "Classic%"? Have you streamed nearly 2000 hours with a title including either "Classic%" or "(classic rules)"? No? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm? Well, I have, and I can come here with the "fucking wisdom" to back what I have to say.

After all these hours of streaming, I've seen "What is Classic%?" or "What is (classic rules)?" asked in chat probably around 300 times. Most times, I answered, vocally, stating the exactly what you'll see listed under Classic% on the GTA IV leaderboards. Eventually, I made a command which people caught on to and viewers would execute this command the moment they saw someone ask. Sometimes I, vocally, told the person asking the question that they could enter this command and get their answer, and they did. Guess how many times the person asking "What is "Classic%"?" became confused and felt the need to ask more or question the name? NEVER. LITERALLY, ZERO TIMES DID THIS HAPPEN. This is the honest to god truth and if you refuse to believe it, I'd understand, coming from you.

You might be wanting to say, "Well, don't you realize that if you had titled these 2000 hours of streaming "GTA IV speedrunning with these restrictions: Autosave disabled,Traffic density set to 33, No fast travel via taxi service, No video editor warp", you probably could have avoided most of the questions?" and my response to this would be, "Naegleria, you're a special kind of stupid, aren't you?"

The category was never about keeping the run in line with previous GTAs. If this had been the case, the use of vehicles brand new to the GTA series with GTA IV (Ex. Futo), would have been disallowed. This point has been beat to death many times over by now. Still, the word "classic" has other meaning. If you search for the definition of "classic", you'll find the definition of "classic" as an adjective which is: judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind.

or, one of the definitions of the noun, "classic": a major sports tournament or competition, as in golf or tennis ( or fuckin' speedrunning OpieOP )

Now, if you take a moment and actually use your brain, you'll be able to understand why the name "Classic%" actually makes sense. The category wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the type of person who has a somewhat rebellious attitude towards speedrunning. This person saw what Any% offered and came to the conclusion that they could come up with a "higher quality" speedrun, something which, at least to them, would be the better category to run. Once they created "Classic%", they took a step back and compared the two and felt that Classic% was the better category. At this point, there's only one person running this new category, shouldn't they be the one to name it whatever they want? Of course they should. They named it "Classic%" and from this point forward, the category sat waiting for others to run it. In time, others came along and judged the two categories, some chose Any%, others chose Classic%. But, wait......WHAT'S THIS??!?!?!?!? MORE PEOPLE CHOSE CLASSIC% WHEN IT ACTUALLY CAME TO SITTING THEIR ASS DOWN AND SPEEDRUNNING THE GAME?!?!?!

But see, the point is, the numbers don't actually matter. I couldn't care less if more people have ran Classic% as opposed to Any%. As it stands, the Classic% leaderboard for IV should have a total of 8 times (Kyle, Itsab, Dispersor, Greko, Jolzi, Slurry, Etholon, and Ryedawg) while the Any% LB, as far as I know, is complete with four times (Kyle, Nord, Ilias, schA_de). With GTA V, just compare, here: http://www.speedrun.com/gtav#Classic.

As I've said, the numbers don't matter because we come back to the point I made two paragraphs ago, which is -> the name actually does make sense, regardless of the numbers. Let's say I'm someone who despises "Classic%". I clearly wouldn't ever feel the category could be considered "classic". Yet, there are a group of people who do feel it's the category "of highest quality" and/or "outstanding of its kind". The rules exist not because of some nonsense regarding past GTA games, but because the person who put them in place felt they were creating a category which would be more enjoyable to speedrun. It's an offshoot category which gained a following. You don't have to agree that the category is "classic", but they do. Majority or minority, it doesn't matter. In a way, it's kind of like a cult classic. The name will remain, over the years, we'll see how the numbers change, but no matter how they change, the category will still exist and will likely always have existed. If there's to ever be a speedrunning history book, Classic% will at least go down as the offshoot category which ended up being more popular than Any% (series specific of course), at least for the first few years of it's existence. As other's have said, "...it's the name under which the category is known and there's no point changing it.", and now, with this post, I hope slowed this nonsense train down.

The name will forever be known as "Classic%", I guarantee it. You're welcome to title your streams or videos "GTA (ROMAN NUMERAL) SPEEDRUNNING UNDER THIS RESTRICTION AND THAT RESTRICTION AND THESE RESTRICTIONS AND THOSE RESTRICTIONS", but the category always be officially known as "Classic%". The rules of Classic% will differ between games because the games change and the rules have to be tweaked when the runners of the category feel they need to be. For instance, with the PC release of V, you can now video editor warp, just as you could do in IV. The runner's of V have already disallowed this in Classic% not because it wasn't available in previous GTAs, because....well, it was in a previous GTA game, GTA IV, but because they feel it makes the category better. I've heard them discuss this and never once did I hear:

"Hey guys, should we disallow video editor warps, it wasn't in any of the previous GTA releas.....oh wait yes it was and oh wait, so was the use of taxi warping at any time, and oh wait, so was autosave, oh shit, I guess Classic% is dead because GTA IV had all of these things, hmmmm, what should we add to help our classic%, oh I guess it'd be nice to disallow special abilities because they weren't in any of the previous GTA games, ok good guys, we've done a good job guys."

No, I didn't ever hear such a thing because this would be ridiculous. I was once brand new to GTA speedrunning. How is it that I instantly recognized why Classic% existed? How did I manage to read the rules and/or hear an brief explanation of the category and not become confused? I pity you, Naegleria, if you're serious about being confused. How did I manage to use common sense and come away making sense of the category. I've been in the driver's seat of around 2000 hours worth of potential questions and confusion and I have virtually never seen an ounce of confusion from viewers after they saw or heard that brief explanation that I once saw/heard for the first time. It's hilarious that the potentially legitimate confusion only has ever appeared on the GTA SPEEDRUNNING FORUMS. How did you manage to make it this far and still find yourself confused? Do you see where I'm going with this? I don't believe you when you say you're confused. All I see when I read your posts is a fool who has a completely worthless opinion when it comes to these issues. You've shown you lack intuition. So, please, carry on with your shit, because it's futile.