Yeah, I watched it for the first three minutes and couldn't take anymore. All it does is re-inforce my notion that Youtube is a vast wasteland of mediocrity. If you think people making commentary about another person's commentary of him playing a game is worth your time, great. I could make this more meta and make comments about the commentary of the commentary but I find the source material to be too unusable to make any worthwhile comments.
And on that matter, when did it become such a big thing to watch people play video games? Oblivion posted about this Twitch TV being dead, which I'd never heard of, and, looking at the site, it just seems to be a whole bunch of videos of people playing games and giving commentary while playing it. Seriously? Why do I care what dumb schmuck number 7 thinks or reacts to while playing a game? If it is a game I'm never going to play, there's no reason for me to care or want to sit through someone else playing through it with piss-poor commentary. If it is a game I haven't played but want to, I'm not going to watch because I don't want it spoiled. And if it is a game I've played, I'd rather play it again then be passively watching it while moron number 10 makes inane chatter the whole time.
When I play games, I do it the proper way which is silently! Or in the case of Donkey Kong Country Returns, toss my controller in a state of disbelief onto the seat beside me and then swear at the TV that when the credits roll, I'm writing down the names of everyone involved in the game and hunting them all down to make them each pay for this display of programming sadism. Also allowed is standing up when completing a moment of great difficulty, chest puffed out like a victorious roman gladiator and taking a bow towards the window and world for showing such gaming perfection and not allowing it to beat you. Am I the only one who gets it in life these days? Yeesh.
Still, I'll take the route of Elliot Gould's Phillip Marlowe in The Long Goodbye and declare like him that it's ok with me. You want to watch this stuff and post it, it's ok with me.
Well Khush, like with all things, usually what's popular isn't what's good. I din't watch as much Youtube as I used to, but most of what it appeals to me is their playthrough and the the commentary they bring to it. Almost every single person that is "big" usually has a toxic personality that ruins it.
I've noticed that the smaller guys tend to be far more down to earth and provide interesting commentary. For example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw3TYQ-eEhEShe provides something interesting for fans of the game by playing it in a way that most cannot do any longer, while being competent at the game and showing me a side of it I've never seen before. And she doesn't let her "personality" get in the way of the gameplay.
With Twitch.tv, it's the same thing. Most of the popular stuff isn't that great, unless you like the game. With DOTA and LoL, these games are always different experiences, and they tend to be pros. People watch those livestreams for the community. Plus, the games tend not to be single-player experiences. Obviously, they would tend to get boring pretty quickly.
For me, I watch Dark Souls streamers. At most, they tend to have 100-2000 viewers when they stream. Which, relatively, isn't very much. I can say that I watch their streams because of the constant quality of gameplay, interesting challenges they do, and of course the different personalities that all come together at times. Something like this is why I watch them (it's youtube but its from an old twitch stream):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VrXUN9pSBQIt really is a different world from ten years ago, which is why non-gamers, "casuals", or older gamers don't usually understand it. *shrug*
I once wanted to get into stream but I realized I don't have what I love: I'm not good at video games, I'm not funny, and my personality is absolutely dreadful.
I blame the Angry Video Game Nerd.
Not even close.
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