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I do rarely if I'm not going to play them. Does anyone else record their 
own gaming and watch the recordings like I do like in recent/last year's 
onlne Pulsar Lost Colony games 
(https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiTODPVxHAd8yRxOz9Iq-Bq4_O5-RJCWn)? 
I also did the same for old computer games like classic Doom and its 
mods (https://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/doom2/j2doom/j2doom.html as 

examples). :D

Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've never been much of a spectator for games, sports included.  I far 
> prefer to play almost all of them.  I do enjoy some funny clips of Souls 
> games, occasionally watching vids of people who've never played them, or 
> watch things for spoilers/guides (generally I prefer text for the info 
> though it's getting harder to find.)  But still played far more hours of 
> those than I watched.

> I've now come across the second game I prefer watching to playing, 
> actually enjoying watching it.

> 1) Untitled Goose Game - This is the first one.  I only played the demo, 
> but I could quite easily tell I didn't like actually playing it, too 
> much puzzles without a clue type stuff.  However shortly after playing 
> the demo I came across a video of someone playing it and really enjoyed 
> watching that.

> 2) Cuphead - I only played it briefly, I didn't like the old style 
> controls and platformer stuff where you had to remember a multitude of 
> buttons - jumping, dashing, slapping, firing and with 8-way controlled 
> by the same as direction of movement, super attack and ultimate attack, 
> as well as two different attacks to switch between.

> However after setting up a family steam account for my son, he tried 
> this (his first game on that being Halo Infinite, which I didn't enjoy 
> watching, and he quit after an hour or two.)  I really enjoyed his 
> commentary and helping him notice things and giving ideas of what to try 
> when he was briefly stuck (not spoilers since I didn't play that far.) I 
> didn't watch the entire time, but I watched most of it.

> Do you have any games you'd rather watch than play, and if so what are they?
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