Angry Joe Nintendo Angry Rant - Very Funny

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UltimateUnknown said:

This point has been argued a lot of times before, especially the "story-driven" games perspective and whether developers should strike those videos down. I think this only truly applies to a very small minority of games though, such as ones from Telltale games and maybe from David Cage such as Beyond. In other words games that are barely games.

Conventional games are different though. Even if a game has a good amount of story behind it, and I like to think of JRPGs here (because those are what I play a lot), the gameplay is still ultimately what makes you play and brings it all together. Both of the above games I mentioned have really lengthy stories, but I want to play the games and do the missions to see it unfold. MP shooters such as COD and Destiny have HUGE communities on Youtube which only gets bigger as more and more people buy the games simply due to the presence of such a large community. Bungie actively post Youtube videos of others doing awesome things in their game on a regular basis. It just makes people want to play the game even more. If they thought people would be put off from buying their game by watching it, they wouldn't post such videos. I'm sure playing Mario and watching Mario are two different things, even if everyone inthe game is getting the same experience by jumping over Goombas and capping flags. Even you would agree. If you like what you watch, it only makes you want to play it even more. At least that's how it is for me.

The other point is if you watch a game and feel like you don't want to buy it, that's a good thing because you just saved yourself some cash by not buying a game you wouldn't have enjoyed or didn't like enough to warrant a purchase. There's no need to feel bad about it. If videos of a game makes you feel like not buying it rather than making you want to run to the store and get it even more, then it is very likely you probably wouldn't have enjoyed that game in the first place. A game shouldn't be sold as a "mistake" because you went in blind, following a hype train or whatever only to hate yourself for it later.

Well, the reason I didn't buy it isn't cause I hated the game or I didn't like it that much but the reason I didn't buy it is cause if I did, I would waste my money cause I knew what to expect which is another point that can be highly argued. Watching a "Lets Play" deminishes the overall game experience imo because if you watched most of the "Lets Plays" (gonna call it LP from now on) from the beginning to the end or almost the end, you will have relatively a good idea on what to expect. You will know most of the level design, where to go, what to do, what surprises may await you that the developers intended as well as boss battles and how to beat them. Something like that affects a wide varity of games that doesn't nessessarily have to rely on Story alone. Zelda has many puzzles as well killer boss fights and dungeons but depending on which zelda you play, it is ment do be done in a "linersh" fashion and once you see all that the game has to offer, you may not want to bother purchasing it not because its a bad game but your experience will relatively be the same. You may do somethings differently but the overall experience will be close enough to it and the reason for actually buying the game will be a lot less because you know exactly what is going to happen and since its a single player game, that is hardly going to change hence why it you can just save the money and spend it on something that will give you more of a "newer" experience.

And I also don't count "online/esports" centric games like Cod cause online games are more or less a "social experience" that can't really be replicated through "LPs" cause even though its the same map with the same weapons, you will be having a different experience everytime just due to the fact that you are playing with people with different skillsets and you are also interacting with different kinds of people that will play drastically different than NPCs.