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Coffeebeanz posted...

Watching people play games instead of playing them yourself is still a bizarre, new thing to me.

Like who wants to watch someone play a game? Play your own damn game.

Watching blind playthroughs of a game you love can be a great and frustrating experience at the same time. Seeing their reaction to discovering new things is great. Watching them miss something simple is infuriating. A way to relive your first experience vicariously.

Watching people destroy a game you struggle with can teach you a lot about a game, new techniques or things you didn't even know existed.

Or a game you enjoy, but just suck at. Like XCom. I love the game, have played through it a few times, but always on easy. Anything harder kind of stresses me out. But watching other people jump right into impossible difficulty and making it look easy is a thrill.

But the simplest can be those who don't spend much time talking about the game at all. You find them through a common interest in a certain game, but as they keep talking about random stuff, it becomes more like listening to talk radio while a game just happens to play in the background.

DoomSwell posted...

Plus it can be fun to see another perspective on your favorite games, or see the host suffer on a game so bad you don't want to play it yourself. Or maybe it's a genre you don't like playing but the storyline is interesting.

Forgot about this one. I had heard so much about the bioshock games, but FPS are not something I enjoy. So an LP was a way to ignore the gameplay but enjoy the worldbuilding.
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