• Re: Games you prefer to watch others play

    From JAB@21:1/5 to Justisaur on Thu Feb 6 12:50:55 2025
    On 05/02/2025 21:55, Justisaur wrote:
    Do you have any games you'd rather watch than play, and if so what are
    they?

    Not the most useful answer I have but I don't see the attraction of it
    at all, each to their own of course.

    Probably the nearest I can get to it is I've watched the occasional
    session of tabletop RPG's but that's only when you're talking about the professional end of the scale.

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  • From Mike S.@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 6 08:57:23 2025
    On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 13:55:28 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    1) Untitled Goose Game - This is the first one. I only played the demo,
    but I could quite easily tell I didn't like actually playing it, too
    much puzzles without a clue type stuff. However shortly after playing
    the demo I came across a video of someone playing it and really enjoyed >watching that.

    I too enjoyed watching someone else play this one. I have no interest
    in playing it myself.

    Do you have any games you'd rather watch than play, and if so what are they?

    Other then the Goose Game, I can't think of any. I tend to watch
    gameplay of games that I am interested in. Either because doing so
    acts like a demo for me or because it is a game I already play and I
    am curious how someone else may play it differently from me.

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to JAB on Thu Feb 6 07:10:37 2025
    On 2/6/2025 4:50 AM, JAB wrote:
    On 05/02/2025 21:55, Justisaur wrote:
    Do you have any games you'd rather watch than play, and if so what are
    they?

    Not the most useful answer I have but I don't see the attraction of it
    at all, each to their own of course.

    Probably the nearest I can get to it is I've watched the occasional
    session of tabletop RPG's but that's only when you're talking about the professional end of the scale.

    Just reading you mention "the professional end of the scale of TTRPGs"
    is making me look for the way back to the real world. :P

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  • From Rin Stowleigh@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 6 10:31:10 2025
    On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 13:55:28 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    Do you have any games you'd rather watch than play, and if so what are they?

    Nah, screw that... seems conceptually like cuckolding to me :)

    I have been playing an excellent new release called EFXIL (squad based
    tactical MP game, from Microprose of all publishers!). With only one
    life per round, and the fact that as in real life death can come out
    of nowhere, at least while learning the game the player tends to spend
    more time spectating others. The game itself says "spectating is part
    of the game". It's a great game that returns to old school realism
    based tactical shooters and is long overdue, but I do wish they would
    find a way to increase play time and reduce spectator time. I've
    found ways to make sure I'm one of the last on my squad to die most of
    the time as a way to mitigate the problem, but the problem with that
    is it encourages an overly cautious form of self-preservation tactics
    that are not always in the best interest of the team goals, and
    teamwork is the entire point of these games.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to Dimensional Traveler on Fri Feb 7 09:24:29 2025
    On 06/02/2025 15:10, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
    On 2/6/2025 4:50 AM, JAB wrote:
    On 05/02/2025 21:55, Justisaur wrote:
    Do you have any games you'd rather watch than play, and if so what
    are they?

    Not the most useful answer I have but I don't see the attraction of it
    at all, each to their own of course.

    Probably the nearest I can get to it is I've watched the occasional
    session of tabletop RPG's but that's only when you're talking about
    the professional end of the scale.

    Just reading you mention "the professional end of the scale of TTRPGs"
    is making me look for the way back to the real world.  :P


    The big hitter in that space is Critical Role which has been hugely
    successful. I haven't watched any of their D&D output but did enjoy two sessions they had for Paranoia and Call of Cthulhu. Chaosium have
    recently also got in on the act but that was purely for promoting CoC
    and in particular a newly released sourcebook of theirs.

    The biggest downside I see is that is although they can be entertaining
    they just aren't TT RPG's as most people know them. That's why you have
    the Matt Mercer effect!

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  • From Zaghadka@21:1/5 to Justisaur on Fri Feb 7 09:41:39 2025
    On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 13:55:28 -0800, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
    Justisaur wrote:

    Do you have any games you'd rather watch than play, and if so what are they?

    I've been watching my daughter do a run through Danganronpa v3 for fun.
    (In case you're concerned, she's almost 23.) I would never *play* that
    game (well, never again, I tried once). Visual novels. Bleah.

    But the stories and anime kitsch are pretty fun. We could broadcast our adventures on YouTube.

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    Zag

    This is csipg.rpg - reality is off topic. ...G. Quinn ('08)

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Justisaur on Fri Feb 14 06:10:04 2025
    Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote at 21:55 this Wednesday (GMT):
    I've never been much of a spectator for games, sports included. I far
    prefer to play almost all of them. I do enjoy some funny clips of Souls games, occasionally watching vids of people who've never played them, or watch things for spoilers/guides (generally I prefer text for the info
    though it's getting harder to find.) But still played far more hours of those than I watched.

    I've now come across the second game I prefer watching to playing,
    actually enjoying watching it.

    1) Untitled Goose Game - This is the first one. I only played the demo,
    but I could quite easily tell I didn't like actually playing it, too
    much puzzles without a clue type stuff. However shortly after playing
    the demo I came across a video of someone playing it and really enjoyed watching that.

    2) Cuphead - I only played it briefly, I didn't like the old style
    controls and platformer stuff where you had to remember a multitude of buttons - jumping, dashing, slapping, firing and with 8-way controlled
    by the same as direction of movement, super attack and ultimate attack,
    as well as two different attacks to switch between.

    However after setting up a family steam account for my son, he tried
    this (his first game on that being Halo Infinite, which I didn't enjoy watching, and he quit after an hour or two.) I really enjoyed his
    commentary and helping him notice things and giving ideas of what to try
    when he was briefly stuck (not spoilers since I didn't play that far.) I didn't watch the entire time, but I watched most of it.

    Do you have any games you'd rather watch than play, and if so what are they?


    The Stanley Parable? (not just bc im already heavily spoiled on it :P)
    And agreed on Cuphead, I bought it twice but still haven't beaten the
    darn thing.
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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Sat Feb 15 23:50:02 2025
    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 15:19 this Friday (GMT):
    On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 06:10:04 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
    <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:



    The Stanley Parable? (not just bc im already heavily spoiled on it :P)

    Oh no, "Stanley" is a game you /have/ to play, just to see what you
    can get away with and what the game has anticipated. Just watching, it becomes nothing but a string of sometimes-funny jokes; the joy is in realizing that yes, the developers thought of THAT too is what makes
    the game so memorable.

    Right, I'm just not creative enough to test everything :P and seeing
    peoples reactions is funny

    And agreed on Cuphead, I bought it twice but still haven't beaten the
    darn thing.

    Here we can agree. "Cuphead" is amazingly fun... IF you're great at
    that sort of game. But if you're not (and I definitely am not) it's a
    painful slog and its impressive visuals become a hateful reminder of
    how bad you are.

    So I watched it instead. ;-)


    Yeah.. it's definitely not my kind of game.
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