I’ve been there, I don’t really watch streamers, but even when i enjoy watching someone play, I just have to switch to another video if I see them make too many obvious mistakes.
Lever’s and buttons in mazes / dungeons are so trivial, though. 99% of games, every time you see a single button / lever somewhere you want to press it / flip it once.
You really want to piss people off? Make a game where the door to continue is open from the start, but if you press a button somewhere it will flip shut.
I was actually thikning of something from the 8 bit era, but yeah, now you mention it, I’m pretty sure The Lost Vikings has something like that in it, too.
I once played an RPG where a lever in a maze teleported you to a room without an exit.
“Why did you pull that lever?”
“It is a lever in a maze. You just pull it.”
Watching streamers can have benefits. For examples:
1) Strategy games. Learn how to play through them.
2) Card games online. I still don’t get how a few decks are played.
3) Horror and “scary” games. Watching newbies in Shadow of the Colossus is delicious, and it’s nowhere near the levels of Until Dawn and others.
More of an older gamer, myself, but I can still relate.
There’s at least one tuber out there who ‘plays’ old games for, like, 5 minutes, and although they don’t do a commentary, you just know they’re getting really frustrated and apathetic about the games they’re playing.
Honestly, if you’re ‘reviewing’ a game, commentary or not, do the research, do some practice. Don’t just load the game and hope for the best.
Honestly it annoys me more that that same issue applies to fictional TV and Movie characters too, in a way (especially horror). “Come on, how’d you miss the killer, he’s right there!”, “How do you mess that up? You’re doing this relationship all wrong”, “Are you blind, how could you miss that” (also, my favourite “How did everybody working on this show miss the fact that they have a prop rolling around on stage?”).
It’s much easier to call out mistake when you are on the outside, than in the action, multitasking. Personally, I just find it best to enjoy the mistakes and hope it leads to something interesting, or that some fun topic comes up to alleviate any annoyance.
Most days I suspect anybody with a triple digit IQ should feel like that. I suspect that modern technology helps dumb people compensate for their lack of problem solving ability and general awareness, allowing them to do more and more spectacularly stupid crap with minimal consequences, reinforcing the Dunning-Krueger Effect. This is why I’m an advocate of removing warning labels for things that should be obvious, and allowing Darwinism to reassert itself a bit.
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I’ve been there, I don’t really watch streamers, but even when i enjoy watching someone play, I just have to switch to another video if I see them make too many obvious mistakes.
Lever’s and buttons in mazes / dungeons are so trivial, though. 99% of games, every time you see a single button / lever somewhere you want to press it / flip it once.
You really want to piss people off? Make a game where the door to continue is open from the start, but if you press a button somewhere it will flip shut.
I’ve played that game.
Me too. I can’t recall if it was in The Lost Vikings or several others.
I was actually thikning of something from the 8 bit era, but yeah, now you mention it, I’m pretty sure The Lost Vikings has something like that in it, too.
I remember the Lost Vikings certainly required some fairly complicated setups for some of their levers and buttons.
I once played an RPG where a lever in a maze teleported you to a room without an exit.
“Why did you pull that lever?”
“It is a lever in a maze. You just pull it.”
That reminds me of the best short comedy film of all times, Croissant.
“It’s right there! IT’S RIGHT THERE! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS!!!”
Watching streamers can have benefits. For examples:
1) Strategy games. Learn how to play through them.
2) Card games online. I still don’t get how a few decks are played.
3) Horror and “scary” games. Watching newbies in Shadow of the Colossus is delicious, and it’s nowhere near the levels of Until Dawn and others.
I watch them for strategies against strong bosses in Final Fantasy Record Keeper. I try several times before looking for that.
More of an older gamer, myself, but I can still relate.
There’s at least one tuber out there who ‘plays’ old games for, like, 5 minutes, and although they don’t do a commentary, you just know they’re getting really frustrated and apathetic about the games they’re playing.
Honestly, if you’re ‘reviewing’ a game, commentary or not, do the research, do some practice. Don’t just load the game and hope for the best.
Yeah, this is why I tend to avoid watching blind let’s plays of Zelda games. …It’s also why I don’t like watching the Game Grumps.
Sounds like one of those intentional time-wasters. THEY ARE THE BANE OF EVERYTHING LOGICAL AND SHOULD BURN.
Honestly it annoys me more that that same issue applies to fictional TV and Movie characters too, in a way (especially horror). “Come on, how’d you miss the killer, he’s right there!”, “How do you mess that up? You’re doing this relationship all wrong”, “Are you blind, how could you miss that” (also, my favourite “How did everybody working on this show miss the fact that they have a prop rolling around on stage?”).
It’s much easier to call out mistake when you are on the outside, than in the action, multitasking. Personally, I just find it best to enjoy the mistakes and hope it leads to something interesting, or that some fun topic comes up to alleviate any annoyance.
It would make the fiction seem totally unbelievable, if not for real people being just as oblivious at times. :D
Especially the relationship one. Most people do those wrong to varying degrees. Just ask my ex girlfriends, they’ll tell you all about it.
Makes me remember when Crazy Steve was watching “Dora the Explorer.”
Imagine living every day of your life where everyone else is like an incompetent streamer who keeps bumbling around and missing the totally obvious.
Now you have an inkling of what it’s like to be highly intelligent.
Most days I suspect anybody with a triple digit IQ should feel like that. I suspect that modern technology helps dumb people compensate for their lack of problem solving ability and general awareness, allowing them to do more and more spectacularly stupid crap with minimal consequences, reinforcing the Dunning-Krueger Effect. This is why I’m an advocate of removing warning labels for things that should be obvious, and allowing Darwinism to reassert itself a bit.
Good Girl is back to normal already? I was hoping to have a little more fun with that.
Well… this isn’t the same Good Girl that went to the fantasy land…