Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 01:28:33 +0000 From: ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) Subject: Re: Games you prefer to watch others (and yourself) play Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action References: User-Agent: tin/2.6.4-20241224 ("Helmsdale") (Linux/6.12.6-200.fc41.x86_64 (x86_64)) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 01:28:33 +0000 Lines: 48 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 47.180.143.226 X-Trace: sv3-kBx4QBgvwsrf9U27iaeUfCeUv4qFatbbpqoA0JsvVcEX2mXVzPy2zB15lNHhKjS+q3BeL/e6wJ4AvV8!2jwJYrggNvYR6qAHO8NMVOKzZzrXamSVTozMG54I/zQ8f9McWTNFGoGbpXSRdcPAb2XpKdJR/N8F!qN+mY59TkBs/bbJ83aVLZLzQsgjBusfk X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3587 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 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? -- "Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another." --1 John 4:11. Slammy humpy day esp. this mawny. Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://aqfl.net & http://antfarm.home.dhs.org. / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. | |o o| | \ _ / ( )