Is there ever a case where watching a lets play, retrospective or analysis is a preferential way to experience a game compared to playing it yourself?
No
Last of Us. It's not even a real game anyway, so may as well save yourself the download and installation time watching the "full movie" on YouTube.
>>730697185Yes.
Fear and Hunger 1&2. The lore and everything about these games is great, but playing them straight up sucks ass. >inb4 hurr zoomerI'm almost 40 and I have no problem with horror games or punishing games, what pisses me of are all the bullshit RNG events that can kill your run.
>>730697185As a replacement for playing the game yourself at all? No. I watch gameplay videos before potentially purchasing something I’m interested in, to see if it plays like shit or isn’t what I thought it would be, but I don’t watch playthroughs of anything that I never have intent to play myself.
>>730697746Fuck off to your containment board, you zionist pedo golem.
The only games I ever watch over play are movie games with little to no gameplay. Telltale, David Cage, the Until Dawn guys, etc
Where did all the let's play channels go....
if you are gay and retarded
>>730697869based
>>730698119They're all still doing let's plays. You just grew out of them
>>730697185Yes. It is entertaining to watch Joov, CallMeKevin, and LetsGameItOut play shitty games in amusing ways with retarded restrictions. You would not ever want to play games like Skyrim, The Sims, or X Tycoon yourself of course. You listen to their shit while doing chores, because it's better than listening to music and there is something deeply disturbing about musicfags. People not washing their hands at a bar somehow remains less disturbing than "people" asking about your music taste in a bar. God I hate people talking about music in bars so much it's unreal.
>>730697185only let's plays i watch is Subanuticanever gets old
>>730698253i assure you i have never outgrown anything
I lost my hand in a car accident a few years ago so I watch lets plays of some games that need two hands.
>>730699473Man that sucks, hope you're doing alright.
>>730699473damn it must suck not being able to jerk off properly any more
>>730700070It's okay, your mom helps me out.
RPGs and VNs
>>730700070 I already jacked with my non-dominant hand for stupid reasons so that's the one thing I'm still fine at
>>730697185A huge amount of games now are just shitty 20 hour CGI movies with brief 'gameplay' interludes to sew the cutscenes together and distract you from how retarded the story is. In the rare instance I care about a game like that I'll watch someone I don't like stream it or maybe a cutscene compilation on youtube. Fuck if I'm paying for it though. Yes pic related.
>>730700070>current year+11>jerking off with your handssucks to be poor
>>730697185Pathologic has a lot of cool ideas but is also fucking boring and not fun to play.
>>730698119There's plenty of let's players creating small-moderate production value videos with a low view count.
>>730703783 Yeah, it's like a fascinating fever dream held together with duct tape and despair. The lore, the mood, the gross atmosphere-all top notch-but then you try to actually play and it's like being punished for trying to understand it. Makes way more sense to watch someone else suffer through it than to subject yourself directly.
>>730703534Have you gotten accustomed to writing with your non-dominant hand?
>>730697869>he says while spouting random /pol/ buzzwordsgo with him
>>730697185those hardcore survival games like Rust and DayZ.playing them myself is an absolute chore and i realize 90% of the time is walking, punching a tree, rifling through cupboards for a ball of string whilst starving to death, or just being killed by a screeching russian child as soon as i spawn in. so i absolutely hate playing them. but seeing it condensed into a narrative story by someone else is great. (Smoke, Welyn)
>>730698119Old school LPs were more or less what streams are now, just long comfy chunks of barely edited gameplay. If you want to make that kind of content and make money by farming simps you go to twitch. If you want to spend a week on a 10 minute scripted, choreographed video full of hyperactive zoomer editing to make pennies in ad revenue you go to youtube.
>>730703534If you were right handed, can you tell me any things that suck more as a lefty? I'm left handed and only just learned left handed scissors weren't a gag gift, I think I'd only ever seen them on the Simpsons and they were treated like a joke
>>7306971851. Story-driven games. You can skip the whatever gameplay and just get to the shit people are actually there for.2. Horror games. Feeling anxiety and panic sucks balls, but watching a cute girl go through it is fun.3. Sweaty games. I have no interest in climbing a ladder, but losing sucks and competitive games are a guaranteed 50-50. I could sweat 100% of the time and feel like shit 50% of the time, and feel nothing the other 50%. Or I could just watch someone else go through it; someone who can do things I can't do, like a professional; someone who eats shit and it just makes me laugh instead of making me feel like breaking something.
>>730697185I use them for background noise
>>730697325this
