On 06/02/2025 15:10, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 2/6/2025 4:50 AM, JAB wrote:

On 05/02/2025 21:55, Justisaur wrote:

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

Not the most useful answer I have but I don't see the attraction of it
at all, each to their own of course.

Probably the nearest I can get to it is I've watched the occasional
session of tabletop RPG's but that's only when you're talking about
the professional end of the scale.

Just reading you mention "the professional end of the scale of TTRPGs"
is making me look for the way back to the real world.  :P

The big hitter in that space is Critical Role which has been hugely
successful. I haven't watched any of their D&D output but did enjoy two sessions they had for Paranoia and Call of Cthulhu. Chaosium have
recently also got in on the act but that was purely for promoting CoC
and in particular a newly released sourcebook of theirs.

The biggest downside I see is that is although they can be entertaining
they just aren't TT RPG's as most people know them. That's why you have
the Matt Mercer effect!

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Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote at 21:55 this Wednesday (GMT):

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?

The Stanley Parable? (not just bc im already heavily spoiled on it :P)
And agreed on Cuphead, I bought it twice but still haven't beaten the
darn thing.
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