Hazerd wrote: it just seems so boring and usually people who watch this crap or setup a channel to stream themselves are looking to be glorified as some gaming idol.
Thanks, I guess?
I'm a regular watcher of game streams on twitch, and I have my own channel which I used to use pretty regularly, although I haven't had much time to do so lately. I can tell you that both the people I watch and myself aren't trying to be glorified as gaming idols - I just want to watch (or play) a game (and learn new stuff about games I didn't know much about, or more about games I did, or see how people react to one of my favourites when they've never tried it before), chat with some friends and maybe make some progress on my backlog whilst I'm at it.
Really, to me it's just like combining gaming videos on Youtube with a chat function like Mibbit, only it's online friends who are playing. All of the streams I watch tend to be broadcast by my friends on The Backloggery (including the official Backloggery stream itself, which is a great way to foster a community on a site with less open conversations) and most of the people who tend to watch are friends from the site too. I certainly don't look to be an internet gaming celebrity - my peak viewers was about 23, and my average viewing number is probably about 5 or 6. When you get a big popular stream it loses the appeal for me - the chat moves too fast to read, and the broadcaster has too many people to talk to to make you feel involved.
It seems like most people here are down on it, or don't get it, but whatever. To me it's just a great way to socialise around games.
I'm under the impression that most streams done are just people playing games in a chatroom with a bunch of friends.
I don't get why people are so down on the idea either.
I don't get why 'let's play' videos are so popular now. A few of my friends are obsessed with Pewdiepie and Game Grumps. or whatever they are called. Honestly, if I am watching a game stream online I DO NOT want to hear these people talk, scream, try to make jokes, etc. I only look to online videos for a few things:
1. See if I think I would enjoy the game (rarely do this)
2. Watch super plays for shmups (rarely do this either). But very useful for learning patterns and what good players do.
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ZenErik wrote:I don't get why 'let's play' videos are so popular now. A few of my friends are obsessed with Pewdiepie and Game Grumps. or whatever they are called.
Same reason stuff like Mystery Science Theater 3000 are popular. With the right hosts it can be pretty funny.
ZenErik wrote:I don't get why 'let's play' videos are so popular now. A few of my friends are obsessed with Pewdiepie and Game Grumps. or whatever they are called.
Same reason stuff like Mystery Science Theater 3000 are popular. With the right hosts it can be pretty funny.
Haven't seen a funny 'let's play' yet. Just people screaming like little girls while playing indie horror games. Where is the humor in that? It seems very forced most of the time.
ZenErik wrote:I don't get why 'let's play' videos are so popular now. A few of my friends are obsessed with Pewdiepie and Game Grumps. or whatever they are called.
Same reason stuff like Mystery Science Theater 3000 are popular. With the right hosts it can be pretty funny.
Haven't seen a funny 'let's play' yet. Just people screaming like little girls while playing indie horror games. Where is the humor in that? It seems very forced most of the time.
That's because most people who do it are very bad at it.
You can go even deeper and find videos of people doing commentary over other people's let's plays.
Yeah unfortunately Let plays are a Dime a dozen right now, and for ever 10-20 you find maybe 1 good one with someone who knows how to do commentary well, or who is genuinely funny
There's a succinct difference between the popular streams, and those that most of you are mentioning, which is a few friends streaming games with chat functions. A wall of text from popular streams, that's not enjoyable. Hearing that some of these popular streams receive a few thousand dollars a day, just makes me feel like we're living in Ready Player One.
That being said, if we could tie Together Retro elements into a stream, that'd be fantastic. Everyone could get behind the idea of telling Noise how bad he is at whatever game he is playing.
Blu wrote:
That being said, if we could tie Together Retro elements into a stream, that'd be fantastic. Everyone could get behind the idea of telling Noise how bad he is at whatever game he is playing.
This would be a great way to involve people who might not be able to play whatever TR game is available that month. We could rotate members to host streams too.
I really really recently have started to hate speed runs/streams where people use glitches to beat a game, i was watching one of the charity speed runs and this dude "who will remain nameless", he ran Wind Waker and OoT and all he did was glitch his way through the game, and everyone in the room praised him for it.
It totally ruins the game for me as someone who likes to take his gaming as a Sacred thing of sorts, and people like that just shit all over taking the time to actually play through the game legitly.
I dont think Speed Runs should count in any form if glitches are used, fuck your world record glitch run!
Where is the humor in that? It seems very forced most of the time.
