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kain_kusanagi on 26 March 2013
richardhutnik said:
kain_kusanagi said:
If you feel that watching someone else play a video game is just as good as playing it yourself then you may want to reevaluate gaming as your hobby. The story is many games is important, but it's not the most important part of real games. That's why I don't consider The Walking Dead a real game. It has a great story and it's an amazing experience, but like Heavy Rain and the upcoming Beyond it's not really a video game. Anyone that prefers them to games like Halo, Final Fantasy, Portal, etc. may not even be gamers.

Watching a Youtube video play-through of Bioshock Infinite should make you want to play it yourself not satisfy your gamer half.

I do boardgaming every week an design tabletop games (tonight I am going out for poker for fun, and Wednesday, looking to get together to do some boardgames).  I will play these types of games over and over, and don't go out of my way to watch them on YouTube, unless it is to evaluate if they are worth picking up.  But, if it is heavily story driven, where the idea is to see the ending, and follow the plot, the amount of money saved by watching makes it worthwhile not to spend money.  Back in the day, I would of jumped on the Bioshock Infinite bandwagon.

In short I do gaming.  What is being reevaluated is a number of different forms of electronic entertainment, and whether I will pay for content in those areas.

There was a day when what is seen as adventure games today, were actually called "interactive fiction" or an adventure.  The former is pretty much fiction you influence over.  The later is like the holodeck on Star Trek: Next Generation.  Not sure anyone would call what they did on the holodeck a game, but the fact we have a "videogames industry", adventures and interactive fiction get lumped with other forms of play, including game games, that they are labelled as games.

Anyhow, if it is any consolation, I also end up going to themoviespoiler.com to go and look at how movies end up also, so I can get a feeling how things are.  Heck, I also don't bother to read any fiction either.  I do read non-fiction to get the information out, or philosophical/metaphysical pieces.

Top each his own I guess. If a movie or book gets spoiled I have little reason to watch or read it.



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bananaking21 on 26 March 2013
_crazy_man_ said:

Youtube is best console.

It can do 4k 3D at 30fps!

metacafe is better. it has more untapped potential



richardhutnik on 26 March 2013
kain_kusanagi said:
richardhutnik said:
kain_kusanagi said:
If you feel that watching someone else play a video game is just as good as playing it yourself then you may want to reevaluate gaming as your hobby. The story is many games is important, but it's not the most important part of real games. That's why I don't consider The Walking Dead a real game. It has a great story and it's an amazing experience, but like Heavy Rain and the upcoming Beyond it's not really a video game. Anyone that prefers them to games like Halo, Final Fantasy, Portal, etc. may not even be gamers.

Watching a Youtube video play-through of Bioshock Infinite should make you want to play it yourself not satisfy your gamer half.

I do boardgaming every week an design tabletop games (tonight I am going out for poker for fun, and Wednesday, looking to get together to do some boardgames).  I will play these types of games over and over, and don't go out of my way to watch them on YouTube, unless it is to evaluate if they are worth picking up.  But, if it is heavily story driven, where the idea is to see the ending, and follow the plot, the amount of money saved by watching makes it worthwhile not to spend money.  Back in the day, I would of jumped on the Bioshock Infinite bandwagon.

In short I do gaming.  What is being reevaluated is a number of different forms of electronic entertainment, and whether I will pay for content in those areas.

There was a day when what is seen as adventure games today, were actually called "interactive fiction" or an adventure.  The former is pretty much fiction you influence over.  The later is like the holodeck on Star Trek: Next Generation.  Not sure anyone would call what they did on the holodeck a game, but the fact we have a "videogames industry", adventures and interactive fiction get lumped with other forms of play, including game games, that they are labelled as games.

Anyhow, if it is any consolation, I also end up going to themoviespoiler.com to go and look at how movies end up also, so I can get a feeling how things are.  Heck, I also don't bother to read any fiction either.  I do read non-fiction to get the information out, or philosophical/metaphysical pieces.

Top each his own I guess. If a movie or book gets spoiled I have little reason to watch or read it.

I think that might be what I have found here.  Because of pressing stuff, I can get the point of a story driven game by ending up and seeing the ending an seeing other things.  Idea is to have little need to get into it, and save money.  I would contrast that with tabletop game stuff, where watching a good playthrough would end up increasing my interest in it.  Minecraft, on the videogame side, also fit into this.



kain_kusanagi on 26 March 2013
richardhutnik said:
kain_kusanagi said:
richardhutnik said:
kain_kusanagi said:
If you feel that watching someone else play a video game is just as good as playing it yourself then you may want to reevaluate gaming as your hobby. The story is many games is important, but it's not the most important part of real games. That's why I don't consider The Walking Dead a real game. It has a great story and it's an amazing experience, but like Heavy Rain and the upcoming Beyond it's not really a video game. Anyone that prefers them to games like Halo, Final Fantasy, Portal, etc. may not even be gamers.

Watching a Youtube video play-through of Bioshock Infinite should make you want to play it yourself not satisfy your gamer half.

I do boardgaming every week an design tabletop games (tonight I am going out for poker for fun, and Wednesday, looking to get together to do some boardgames).  I will play these types of games over and over, and don't go out of my way to watch them on YouTube, unless it is to evaluate if they are worth picking up.  But, if it is heavily story driven, where the idea is to see the ending, and follow the plot, the amount of money saved by watching makes it worthwhile not to spend money.  Back in the day, I would of jumped on the Bioshock Infinite bandwagon.

In short I do gaming.  What is being reevaluated is a number of different forms of electronic entertainment, and whether I will pay for content in those areas.

There was a day when what is seen as adventure games today, were actually called "interactive fiction" or an adventure.  The former is pretty much fiction you influence over.  The later is like the holodeck on Star Trek: Next Generation.  Not sure anyone would call what they did on the holodeck a game, but the fact we have a "videogames industry", adventures and interactive fiction get lumped with other forms of play, including game games, that they are labelled as games.

Anyhow, if it is any consolation, I also end up going to themoviespoiler.com to go and look at how movies end up also, so I can get a feeling how things are.  Heck, I also don't bother to read any fiction either.  I do read non-fiction to get the information out, or philosophical/metaphysical pieces.

Top each his own I guess. If a movie or book gets spoiled I have little reason to watch or read it.

I think that might be what I have found here.  Because of pressing stuff, I can get the point of a story driven game by ending up and seeing the ending an seeing other things.  Idea is to have little need to get into it, and save money.  I would contrast that with tabletop game stuff, where watching a good playthrough would end up increasing my interest in it.  Minecraft, on the videogame side, also fit into this.

For me the ending only matters because of the experience getting there. The journey as a whole is what's important not the last 10%. This is especially true for video games because they are meant to be actively experienced not passively observed. When I don't have the extra cash to get a new game I just write it down on my backlog list and get to it when I do eventually get it. Watching a youtube video of game is like reading sparknotes instead of the actual book. Or reading the synopsis of a movie instead of watching it.  I can tell you that Star Wars is a lot better as a movie than a Wikipedia article and playing Halo 4 is a lot more exciting than watching the cut-scenes on youtube.

With that said if you have so little interest in the game beyond seeing how it ends I can't fault you for not bothering to play it. But you should take personal note that you're interest in the game part of games may not be what it used to. If you're more interested in games than you're making it sound and you really just want to save a few bucks you should do what I do. Keep track of what you want to play and get it sometimes years later used for super cheap.



TheKoreanGuy on 26 March 2013

At least borrow it from someone if you are that cheap. =P It'll go down in price eventually too....



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VGKing on 26 March 2013

The best thing about Bioschock is the gameplay. Seeing a playthrough on Youtube is the worst thing you could do. It's boring as hell too.



Dahum on 26 March 2013

i can never spoil the the ending for a unique game like Bioshock.. i mean Cmon how could you since you'll miss on a great experience and the ending wouldn't be as effective as playin through the whole game man.

it's ur loss..



richardhutnik on 27 March 2013
Dahum said:
i can never spoil the the ending for a unique game like Bioshock.. i mean Cmon how could you since you'll miss on a great experience and the ending wouldn't be as effective as playin through the whole game man.

it's ur loss..

I only put in like 22 hours at work last week, and am now at 30 hours the next few weeks.  Money is really, really tight.  I also have a pile of other really good games I still have not finished.  Should I not get to Skyrim, for example?  I haven't even begun on that.

And I did see the ending to Bioshock Infinite on Youtube.  Yes it is up now.  Really, really good.  Interesting how they went.  Maybe I get the game some other time and play, but no way at $60 now.  Maybe I finish a few things when I get time first, perhaps?

And the ending was effective enough for me.  I understand where they went.  I am contented now.



zarx on 27 March 2013
richardhutnik said:
Dahum said:
i can never spoil the the ending for a unique game like Bioshock.. i mean Cmon how could you since you'll miss on a great experience and the ending wouldn't be as effective as playin through the whole game man.

it's ur loss..

I only put in like 22 hours at work last week, and am now at 30 hours the next few weeks.  Money is really, really tight.  I also have a pile of other really good games I still have not finished.  Should I not get to Skyrim, for example?  I haven't even begun on that.

And I did see the ending to Bioshock Infinite on Youtube.  Yes it is up now.  Really, really good.  Interesting how they went.  Maybe I get the game some other time and play, but no way at $60 now.  Maybe I finish a few things when I get time first, perhaps?

And the ending was effective enough for me.  I understand where they went.  I am contented now.

But now you spoilt it, the game is all about the buildup. You could have just waited until the game was cheap and then played it without seeing the ending and robing yourself of the buildup through the game. 



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walsufnir on 27 March 2013

finished uncharted 3 on youtube, was awesome! i never died and the puzzles were easily solved.