For me, it is any city/building construction game like City Skylines, Two Point Hospital, Planet Zoo etc.
Speed runs to games I know how to play.
That’s basically like watching sports. Sure I can play tennis, but watching professionals play is more entertaining.
Do I really want to see how shit I am at a game? Lol
Speed runners ain’t even playing the same game, it’s fascinating to watch.
Don’t gotta bring your ego into it, it’s a single player video game lmao
I’m from an Era when most games were single player and didn’t hardly have any sort of story. The only reason you played those games was for the challenge of beating them. You didn’t play Mike Tysons Punch Out for a story. You played it to try an beat Mike Tyson and win the game.
I started playing games on MS-DOS. Lol.
I understand enjoying the challenge of a single player game.
Speed runners are doing an entirely different thing. It’s an art form.
But you like what you like. If you don’t like it, that’s no business of mine.
Most horror games. My startle threshold is through the floor, even when I know a jumpscare is coming it still gets me a lot of the time. I also hate feeling panicked and chased.
I’m the same way. I think it has to do with being the one who has to make the decision to keep moving forward as opposed to just passively observing
Imo horror games are best enjoyed in a group anyway. Get the ballsy yolo friend to stream for everyone else
Hot potato couch co-op is the best, because you can jumpscare your friends irl before the game does it and laugh about it, then everyone laughs harder when the game scares the crap out of you…
Same. I love watching people play games like Amnesia or the SCP ones, but I could never play them myself.
ManlyBadassHero anyone?
None.
I have absolutely no interest in watching someone else play a video game, excluding short clips of gameplay to get a feel for the mechanics.
I watched some gameplay of Shattered Pixel Dungeon, just to help me not suck at it. It’s a roguelike with a damned steep learning curve. 25 short dungeon levels to get through and it took me like 42 attempts before the first time I beat it.
I was talking to a friend about a parallel topic yesterday, regarding movies/TV shows about video games. I argued that it’s like watching porn when you can be having sex - I’d much rather be in control than watching an idiot fuck it all up.
In porn, don’t you WANT them to fuck it all up???
“oh no baby, I’m cumming so hard I just sharted on the dog” as the dog starts to bite the guys sack, the camera falls over, she’s screaming and he’s losing a heavy amount of blood, the emergency services arrive and the video ends with their OnlyFans link
And I’m like “…and I paid pornhub for THIS?”
You know for a god dang fact that’s someone’s kink.
Anything with a mechanic where every choice matters and will affect the next 50 hours of gameplay, and where it’s possible to choose wrong. That’s a lot of pressure, and I’d rather someone else deal with that.
Also, anything that’s 100 hours of gameplay and 10 hours of story.
Singleplayer vanilla minecraft
I dont like playing alone
Jump scare games, definitely. And survival horror, like that Alien game where you walk around and hide. Yeesh. Stuff like that. Also racing sims.
Horror games
Tetris
Any point & click adventure game, especially old Sierra series like King’s Quest. They have so many bullshit mechanics designed to trip the player up and cause an immediate Game Over.
Competitive games and broken games (in the se se that there are glitches that can be expolited for fun)
I’ll never be on that level, So i prefer to watch them.
imo you don’t have to be good at those games to still enjoy them. I loved playing counter strike, and I never made it out of the lowest possible rank.
Yeah, i agree. I fact i play Rocket League casually with friend. But seeing people playing in another level it’s like seeing another dimension of the game that always surprises me and i never expect what may happen.
that’s fair and understandable
Horror games
Dragon’s Lair (old school). Too difficult and frustrating for a casual like me, but I want to see the later stages of the game!
Walking sims/narrative games. I’m a sucker for gameplay, so games with non-complex gameplay bore the hell out of me
Dave the diver was one for me. I watched Francis John play it and it was fun to watch, but I had no interest in playing.
for a bit a few years ago i watched a ton of minecraft experts create very advanced things that i never would’ve been able to. eventually i had seen enough.
You know what I did in minecraft? I dug a hole. Then I dug it downwards. It was like 60x60. Just a square hole. And next to it was a tall tower. I’d get that cobblestone from diging, and used it to build a tower. Then at the top of the tower I built a sky highway using cobblestone roads, and track.
I want actual trains in minecraft. Old timey steam trains. But a minecart and redstone is all I have.
You know what I did in minecraft?
Yes, I actually knew that.
I read the first two sentences and diggy diggy hole started playing in my head. Thank you for that. I haven’t decided if I’m being sarcastic yet.
Dig a tunnell, dig dig a tunnel.
Dig a tunnell, dig dig a tunnel.
Dig a tunnell, dig dig a tunnel.
Quick before the hyeenas cum!!!
