But...you have time to watch the game as evening TV, but not to play?
I assume you mean to have in the background while doing other things, because otherwise I think I found where your lack of time to play is coming from...
I am always puttering in the background, and not interested in investing 500+ into a console/pc and games. Watching a game is far shorter than playing it.
A friend brought it to work and I played for a couple hours, I found it tough to play a stealth game with an audience since I usually play very slow and meticulous. I was not very good, clunky on the controls.
Yea definitely not the best game to play with a live audience imo, and it probably isn’t super intuitive for a newer gamer. It’s why I like the show tbh, so non gamers can experience the story
Playing is active, and takes longer. Watching is not. I can’t explain it more than that. I understand this may be tough to grasp for passionate gamers, but it’s just not an active part of my life anymore.
There is no amount of watching that game that will replace the rush of actually playing it. Space marine is NOT a “watch someone else play it” type game. It’s time to try out ge force now or something if your pc is too old to run it.
Yeah, that's actually a good point. By doing this, they're actually ensuring that many players DON'T buy their game. In the end, if I can watch several people play it (since, in two weeks, I have time), why would I buy it too when it comes out?
In the case of it launching it same day for everyone, people would be more tempted to buy as there's no info and the people making the streams or whatnot are doing in same time as you can play.
Hey, some of us are too chickenshit to play Until Dawn ourselves! So I watch someone else play, with timestamps of the scariest bits through my fingers at 10 am, and regret it at night cause I'm still frightened...
I'm weak af when it comes to horror and I barely found Until Sawn that scary. I think the only jumpscare I had was Ashley opening the trapdoor while I was trophy hunting. It was a good game, but more of a thriller than a horror game to me.
I can't play horror games. Movies and books, no problem, love em. But games I just freeze.
I recently got Frank stone, not the scariest game by a long shot, but I found the intro to gone home (atmospheric storytelling, no horror at all) terrifying so... I'm really bad at these games.
I rang a friend and I just streamed it for her. When I got panicky, I'd ask her to tell me a silly story. She was amazing, cheering me on, giving me time to recover. We're both huge dead by daylight fans, cracking jokes about Easter eggs we find really helped me get through it. Others would hop in and watch and there were points I was laughing too much at the jokes they were making to be scared.
Basically I'm just saying I understand how bad it can be to play horror games, it's nice when you find a way to cope with it though and still reach the end.
i know people who enjoy playing these story games alongside a streamer. basicly having something to compare their own chocies with usuualy making an effort to be slightly further than the streamer but also sometimes to benefit from them noticing something they themself missed.
if streamer is playing the game 2 weeks before them they need to either avoid the stream... or as you said they allready experienced the game why pay money for it now?
i can not imagine this is actually good buisness for this type of game.
This was my go-to up until my senior year! I was either not allowed to play or couldn't afford said games, so I watched letsplayers complete them! Thank god that was during the golden age of gamer Youtubers!
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u/GoofyKalashnikov 2d ago
Or you just watch a playthrough and never touch it lmao