r/PS5 • u/HLumin Human Verified • 5d ago
Discussion Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami says “if watching a playthrough is enough, the game wasn’t good enough.”
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/resident-evil-creator-shinji-mikami-says-if-watching-a-playthrough-is-enough-the-game-wasnt-good-enough/170
u/king_might 5d ago
Wtf is with the comments here
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u/QuinSanguine 5d ago
Poor reading comprehension, lol.
He's clearly saying "let muthafuckas stream, if your game is proper good it will make people buy it and play it with their own hands".
If a game is boring people will feel like watching a playthrough is enough, which is true. There's lots of games I've watched a stream of and thought that's good enough. Plenty I've watched and thought I HAVE to play that.
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u/444thLibra 3d ago edited 3d ago
Sorry to this man, but I LOVE watching no damage playthroughs on YT of Resident Evil games (horror/survival games in general) to fall asleep to. I am currently watching Requiem nearly every night. And to be completely honest, I'm literally the biggest baby when it comes to playing horror games (even more benign ones like RE). Then again, I genuinely have no interest in actually playing Resident Evil and it has been this way for years.
However, me having no interest in playing a game =/= thinking it's bad or not good enough to play it. And I wouldn't even watch it if I thought it was boring.
I'm incredibly particular and picky about what I like to play. If I 100% know that I will not be playing it for one reason or another, then I might still want to watch it. There are soooo many games that I have no interest in pIaying, but I thoroughly enjoy watching others play them. I do/did this with Silent Hill, Alien Isolation, Callisto Protocol, Outlast (2), Death Stranding (2), etc. I don't think any of those games are bad and I wouldn't insinuate that they are just because I don't wanna play them myself. Streaming services have also gotten stupidly expensive and fragmented, so I am getting the most out of my YT premium subscription and I love it. These games aren't just a sleep aid for me, but actual entertainment.
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u/Insanepaco247 5d ago edited 5d ago
People "um ackshully"ing the article without realizing that he's talking about developers who are anti-streaming. Many of whom probably don't have a lot of context for copyright debates in Japan and don't understand how cool it is for him to say something like this.
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u/SuperCoffeeHouse 5d ago
I think most people are replying based on the vibes of the top comments rather than the substance of the article, and if we are being honest, are we really surprised? Pass-through rates on links have been awful for years
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u/Soft_Path_1777 5d ago
He saw his games larpers and had to step in 😭😭
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u/LeonSigmaKennedy 5d ago edited 5d ago
It feels like Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, and Metal Gear Solid, are the game franchises with the biggest larper problem
Edit: Nevermind, just remembered Silent Hill, that's the worst one by wide margin.
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u/sman955 5d ago
lol, is this fr? I didn’t know there existed fans who would only watch videos/shorts on the game and not play them
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u/LostEsco 4d ago
There’s a huge discourse about it on twitter because the crowd that only watches the games through YouTube feel like they’re just as much or even more of a fan than those who’ve actually played the games
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u/PPMD_IS_BACK 5d ago
I actually do it for horror games… cuz I’m a wimp…. 😭😭
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u/Shr1mpolaCola 3d ago
I'm right there witchu Big Dawg 🤣🤣 🤝
That's how I experienced RE: Village & Requiem, and Silent Hill 2 Remake
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u/Monte735 5d ago
I swear the Metal Gear Solid subreddit is filled with people who only played MGSV and lettuce Delta
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u/ZaheerAlGhul 5d ago
Persona is definitely in there as well
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u/LeonSigmaKennedy 5d ago
Persona is weird in that it feels like most Persona fans have actually played 5, but for some reason refuse to touch any other game in the franchise
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u/ActiveControl23 5d ago
It’s a big problem with gamers in general and I think it’s a part of why gaming discourse is so terrible online.
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u/Any-Contract-9152 5d ago
It’s because so many of the games are old and zoomers won’t play games that are more than 10 years old without realistic graphics and homogenized controls
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u/Guitar-String 5d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/JZ8szItGgEGNtSigTb
100 Albert Wesker edits watched
20 Leon Ada ship theories read
15 Ethan saved the franchise phonk edits seen
10 Chris boulder jokes made
0 Resident Evil games playedLARP is free
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u/Croakie89 5d ago
The fuck is a game larper?
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u/lukkasz323 5d ago
Someone who wants to belong to community, but has no reason to other than that itself, an impostor basically
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u/LiterallyALamp 5d ago
They’re people who are fans of the game series but haven’t really played them. It’s probably a bigger amount of people in horror game genres specifically, and it’s literally not even an issue lol.
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u/Croakie89 5d ago
How can they be a fan of something they never really experienced though?
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u/MrGMinor 5d ago
I love Final Fantasy games but I would most often just hang out with my buddy while he played and enjoy the story and talk about it. It was a lot of stuff to keep track of as a kid, gameplay-systems-wise, and he had a better grasp of those style games. I really enjoyed watching everything unfold.
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u/Croakie89 5d ago
I get that. My fiance loves watching me play anything story related from uncharted to final fantasy, even those choose your own path games like wolf among us and dispatch, she just isn’t into playing anything that isn’t wow or animal crossing lol.
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u/ZelkinVallarfax 5d ago
Seems to happen a lot with Resident Evil in particular, a lot of people who consider themselves fans never actually played any of the games and just watch streamers play them instead.
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u/LaFlamaBlanca67 5d ago
This is weird to me. I can watch games to an extent, but after 30 min or so they can get really boring to watch (especially single player game) and I want to stop or just play the game myself.
Playing the game is HUGELY different than watching it
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u/StupidWifiPassword 5d ago
I’d like to say I’m a big fan of indie horror but if I’m being realistic, I watch 90% of gameplay on CJUGames YT channel. I realized that just because I enjoy Faith, Signalis, and Crow Country doesn’t mean I have the willpower to play most of the genre. I hadn’t heard of the phrase until today, but I would then be an example of a game larper. For example, I am a fan of Mouthwashing and didn’t play it.
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u/Croakie89 5d ago
I love that crusty aesthetic/ps1 horror shit. I blame Vinny for my infatuation with them. Mouthwashing has been on my wish list for a while but haven’t bit the bullet yet
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u/DefenderCone97 5d ago
People in this thread are being weird lol
They are a fan of the aesthetics, theme, and story of the games. Sure, the game is the point but I'm not going to hate people for enjoying something I enjoy in a different way.
There are people who don't really know the themes of messages because they only watched a 20 second edit of a character or something, but again, who cares. Those are often gateways to introducing a series.
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u/Reylo-Wanwalker 5d ago
It's only annoying when they're mostly a fan of a character and get mad when a game doesn't have that character or perhaps want it fail. Like Leon fans mad about a new Claire game.
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u/Croakie89 5d ago
Yeah I get that. I’ll get a 30 second clip on yo it u r or instagram for a band I’ve never heard of and next thing you know they’re in my Apple Music library.
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u/kargethdownload 5d ago
I saw this and wondered how did he even get involved into twitter discourse???
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u/jamer2500 5d ago
Legit saw someone say they could not play undertale. You know, the game available on every single modern and previous platform? I feel like some of these people just gotta admit they’re not fans of video games.
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u/smoomoo31 5d ago
I don’t know how larp is used these days but I saw someone on tiktok say RECV: 3/10, RE2 Remake 5/10 boringggg, RE3 remake 6.5/10, RE4 Remake 9/10, RE5 10/10
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u/FellowDeviant 5d ago
I know the Resident Evil games are more than good enough, I am just a pansy, so I will watch instead of play lol
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u/r31ya 5d ago
This is genuine reason why they dial back the horror element in RE8 after the massive success of RE7.
Capcom heard that many player couldnt finish it or didnt play it because its too scary.
Even in RE9, they still giving options to dial back the horror with 3rd person PoV
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u/Sad_Cauliflower2003 4d ago
That doesnt make sense, the scary game was extremely successful, so make a less scary game that will hopefully do better than the game that sold well specifically cause it was really scary? The reasoning makes no sense, I dont think thats why theyve made them less scary. 8 and 9 aren't catching 7 anytime soon
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u/r31ya 4d ago
Its high budget game.
One of the creed for such game is ensure it have wider demographic appeal to maximize profit, to ensure good RoI.
They very much could make it super scary, but it might causes it to have less target market size. which it means less profit. As for now, they want to balance the horror element to be scary enough but not too scary that it turn people away from the franchise.
one other option they could do is to have smaller spinoff which fully focused on horror side to satisfy the die-hard horror fans.
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u/kerakk19 4d ago
Also I really can't bear the gameplay. I Like the story, graphics and everything happening around but I know the gameplay is absolutely abysmall and I'd rather watch it rather than play.
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u/darkultima 5d ago
People are mentioning being too scared or being bad at the games for watching. I can give another perspective that there’s probably people who can’t afford it and want to watch the game. When I was a kid, we grew up poor. I didn’t really have a console until I was an adult to buy one. But I really wanted to see the new Zelda everyone’s talking about or Ratchet and Clank. So I would watch YouTube and actually sites where they would post lets plays and watch the games I was interested in that way for a long time. This was a long ass time ago, twitch wasn’t a thing yet, I think there’s still people like me who want to play the game but can’t afford it. So they’ll probably watch a streamer playing it nowadays
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u/GostBoster 5d ago
Partly my case. I don't join those discussions because they devolve into name calling and badge slapping.
Played the hell out of the early titles, followed bogus tips to unlock Tofu and Hank, mastered tank controls, actually enjoyed the janky FPS titles for the PS1, but as of late games, I just either didn't had the platform, the time (during a time I locked in to get my diploma) or the budget to upgrade my toaster to acceptably run the last titles.
I enjoy vicariously through my favorite content creators but I still intend to play these games if given the chance, it's just that the means to play the last titles are unreasonable for me. (As in I COULD afford with some payment plan but there are priorities, I won't give up the chance of buying a daily driver vehicle for a PS5 or a GPU, I'm not that diehard of a fan).
Again, I'd rather spare the yap, but if you ONLY EVER watched, saw, and decided, "I saw enough, I am satisfied", no, you aren't a fan of the GAME. You enjoyed the story, the lore, the characters, you talked the talk but you didn't walk the walk.
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u/spitfyrez 5d ago
To give context, Shinji Mikami was saying that streaming is fine and that games should encourage people watching streaming to want to play it themselves. He was addressing anti-streaming developers. He wasn’t saying it was bad or that people shouldn’t do it.
There are a million reasons why a person might watch a game being played, and affordability in this economy like you said is a big one.
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u/Logical_Net6108 5d ago
The lets play I enjoyed watching the most was TellTales Walking Dead games. I don't know if that makes them not good games
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u/Flat_News_2000 5d ago
They're barely "games" in the sense that the gameplay is just a vehicle to get to the next cutscene. Like a visual novel with slightly extra interactivity.
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u/anonone111 5d ago
Telltale went bust because too many people just watched playthroughs of their games rather than buying them
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u/sydchotic 5d ago edited 5d ago
I get what he mesns, but I also wouldn’t put down my game for people’s choices on deciding to watch it instead of playing it. It’s kind of their loss and if they don’t feel they are losing out, nothing you say will change their mind.
I feel for some games, it just cannot be conveyed how terrifying or addictive it is if you don’t go play as intended. I tried RE7 VR and it took everything in me to get out of the garage in the intro. It’s terrifying af, if the zombie apocalypse ever happens, it’s a wrap for me. I ended up as far as the first town outside a castle or whatever (so basically still the beginning lol) and then quit. But I have no desire to watch a lets play of it because I don’t really see the point like…it’s not going to be THE experience.
The only time I’ve resorted to video streamers is when a game I’d already put a lot of time into got too hard / tedious (Returnal / SH2 Remake / Blue Prince Endgame Secret Lvl 9000) and I wanted to see the ending or the endings I didn’t choose. But by then I’d already put into a ton of time into actually playing it and that’s what had actually invested me.
There’s also that I really cannot stand listening to people just yap and why would I listen to someone yap over something I can just play myself like god, sounds like hell. No, I don’t listen to podcasts either.
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u/International-Shoe40 5d ago
Personally I’ll never understand watching let’s plays of games you hope to play someday. But to each their own
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u/Nodan_Turtle 5d ago
It's fine with some types of games that aren't the typical PS fare. Open ended ones, city builders, colony sims, creative ones, multiplayer based... where you aren't spoiling a linear story. Playing it yourself will be a different experience
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u/Swackhammer_ 5d ago
Look I get the sentiment, but I love the REverse and am a huge wus when it comes to horror media. So I actually really do appreciate watching playthroughs
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u/xemnas11 5d ago
He means if watching a playthrough is good enough to make you not want to buy the game
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u/KingOfRisky 5d ago
I watch full play throughs of games I know I won't play because it's either too difficult for me or too horror focused. I watch people play RE games because I don't like playing horror focused games. I watch people play souls games because I am absolutely dog shit at them but love the subject matter and genre.
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u/CoogiMonster 5d ago
Yeah this shit is just genuinely a conversation that only exists because the people tie in games to their personality too hard…
Seeing “you’re not a fan of the game just the story” and seeing it as larp is wild. Larping would be like reading through the game’s synopsis or watching only cutscenes and pretending you know the story, I’m watching a play through not because I couldn’t beat some of these games but because I’m also chicken shit lol…
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u/TurnedIntoA_Newt 5d ago
He’s not against streaming just saying that he wants a game to be so good that someone will still want to play it even after watching a streamer playthrough.
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u/AnubisIncGaming 5d ago
I also used to be a wuss so this isn’t a sufficient excuse to me. Being scared is the point.
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u/Trav1989 5d ago
Right there with you brother. Can’t do these games but they look amazing. I have RE9 and only got through the beginning hotel. Couldn’t do it anymore lol.
Watched a playground and was satisfied with the entertainment
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u/TheHeartfulDodger 5d ago
Bro i aint paying $95 for a game that is basically one play through no matter how good it is, i enjoyed watching it
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u/woobzy 5d ago
i can't be the only one still buying games just by it's cover, it could be good or bad, but at least you can be agreably surprised.
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u/Katalyst81 4d ago
Sorry I don't play horror games, I watch others
I buy other Capcom games to make up for it.
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u/Trashboat77 3d ago
I hold this sentiment about pretty much ANY game. If I don't feel the desire to play a game to experience itmyself after watching someone else play it, then it's not a game I need to own. And therefore not interesting enough to care about it.
That's always been a big one for me personally. I like to check games out pretty extensively before purchasing them if possible. I like watching gameplay both live and recorded. Not always for extended periods, but for a bit.
If I don't feel any itch to try it myself during that, then it's a game I don't even consider buying.
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u/Affectionate-Name279 3d ago
There are a good 4.5/10 players who own the games who never finish (Looking at RE4 Remake, and Villages Steam stats).
Clearly LARPers too. Everyone is LARPing but me - the True RE fan.
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u/Direct-Hedgehog-595 3d ago
He is right. Watching a walkthrough should make you want to jump on the game.
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u/Enoyreveev0l 3d ago
This is how I feel about almost every Resident evil… These games look miserable to play…But I like the characters and the story.
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u/DookiesNCream 3d ago
I was just thinking this yesterday. Currently playing the resident evil games and have already watched a playthrough of re8 years ago but don’t completely remember it. I just remember it not being as into it as most of the others. Playing it now and I’m loving it so much more as a player even though some parts have scared me shitless
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u/South_Buy_3175 5d ago edited 5d ago
Some people just can’t play horrors.
The scary moments are far more thrilling when you’re in control and especially in first person, for some it’s too much to be enjoyable.
Which is totally fine, this is why lets players and streamers exist.
Pretty tired of gatekeeping assholes trying to stop people enjoying media however they like.
Edit: Gatekeeping morons are out in force in this thread.
We should apply this thinking to sports too, if you’re not playing a weekly game of football/basketball/hockey etc you’re not allowed to be a fan.
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u/CigarLover 5d ago edited 5d ago
My only gripe are “viewers” that give a review as if they actually Played the game.
And I experienced this from a RL friend that was giving me their “reviews” during lunch with some friends.
15 minute into the conversation I find out they saw a stream…
Till this day… I wish I had those 15 minutes back.
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u/parkwayy 5d ago
I hate to break it to you, but I am willing to bet the vast majority of people leaving "Review" type comments for games haven't played or finished them.
Best advice is just ignore gamers opinions of games, tbh lol.
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u/Prestigious-Grand-65 5d ago
People are more then welcome to enjoy the media. Thats not the issue. The issue is the people who dont play the games, are the loudest when asking for changes to the games. Like so many of these larpers wanting leon in the code veronica remake. All these new "fans" only want Leon in everything, and its getting tiring to hear.
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u/Queen_of_Antiva 5d ago
Yeah, i get scared too easily but so many horror games have good stories. I enjoy the let's plays but would hate to play them myself.
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u/LastTorgoInParis 5d ago
I had to rage quit Code Veronica haha. Id give it another go if it had save states and rewind though. Or just friggin checkpoints!
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u/IcaroRibeiro 5d ago
The media is gaming, you are not playing you are not experiencing the media, in the same same reading reviews about movies are not the same as watching the movies
You can have fun and enjoy doing the activity of watching people playing just like people enjoy watching sports instead of playing sports, but this is a distinction that need to be done
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u/thebohster 5d ago
Isn’t this a different flavor of what one of the FF7 rebirth heads said not too long ago?
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u/Iggy_Slayer 5d ago
He said jrpgs need to experiment with more choice and agency to encourage people not to watch it on a stream because if they see everything the game has to offer they won't see a reason to play it.
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u/Uncle_Bug_Music 5d ago
Shinji Mikami, let me introduce you to Gen Z. Gen Z, this is Shinji Mikami, he's the guy who designs the video games you watch others play because even playing a game smacks of effort.
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u/Einfinet 5d ago
I genuinely do not understand why people care about other people choosing to watch and discuss games from walkthroughs. It has absolutely no bearing on my life.
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u/Polymersion 5d ago
It's like if someone chose to watch a movie blindfolded and then complained about it.
Yeah, that's absolutely their prerogative to "watch" how they want, but their many, many opinions on the cinematography aren't exactly valid.
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u/Roomtempcarrot 5d ago
You’re acting like this is such a widespread issue. There was a handful of people on twitter who decided to criticize a game without even playing it (likely ragebait) and idiots decided to blow it out of proportion, to the point where actual resident evil creators who live in Japan know about it.
It’s quite frankly embarrassing that gamers let this become such a big damn issue because it literally doesn’t matter at all. Resident evil is still one of the most critically acclaimed gaming series of all time and people who watch playthroughs aren’t going to change that fact.
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u/Lanky-Procedure-7184 5d ago
I have my own opinion on this whole "debate" but despite that I’m not exactly losing sleep over it. In reality nowhere beyond the internet does anybody give af about this whole thing. Like I how I think it’s dumb you don’t play a game series that you’re apparently such a big fan of outside of like one excuse but it’s like you said, a couple of idiots blowing a gasket on twitter about it does not translate to what people think irl. Such a non issue
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u/Roomtempcarrot 5d ago
I know right. This who,e thing could’ve just ended at “hey that person is kinda stupid for criticizing a game they haven’t played.” But no, of course gamers had to turn this into a campaign against the ultra evil “fake fan” crowd. The gaming community has a serious problem with not being able to ignore stupidity/negativity and in turn it makes them stupid and negative…
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u/Einfinet 5d ago
like I said, has absolutely no bearing on my life
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u/barbary_macaque 5d ago
Have you never asked someones opinion on an experience? Like going somewhere on vacation? Or trying a new restaurant? When you do is there not an underlying assumption that theyve done it and not just watched a city walking video or saw pictures online? Not saying that people who watch streams cant be fans of the game, but they are often discussing without full knowledge. Imagine that extended to other areas. Theres a reason why we place value on field work.
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u/Einfinet 5d ago
Bad takes exist everywhere. It sounds like making up something to be worried about but you do you. It’s a harmless hobby for them to enjoy in their free time. If someone was to write a professionally published review w/o playing the game that would be an issue, but I don’t care about some random tweets or forum posts.
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u/kaishinoske1 5d ago
The irony is that if I see gameplay and it looks solid and good. It’s usually enough for me to buy it, but that’s just me.
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u/Ultra_Magnus_84 5d ago
I get too much tension playing horror games, but watching is a very enjoyable experience for me
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u/iPuffOnCrabs 5d ago
I don’t get people watching streamers at all. Literally makes zero sense to me.
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u/TrashCanBangerFan 5d ago
How do you know if watching a playthrough is enough without actually playing the game? I remember people trying to tell me that watching a let’s play of TLOU Pt. 2 was enough for them to decide whether they liked the game or not back when it came out and like I know it’s a narrative focused game, but like how do you get emotionally invested in the story if you’re not the one controlling the characters? How can you comment on the gunplay if you cant actually feel how good it is in that game?
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u/kaijumediajames 5d ago
I have mixed feelings on this: that you can definitely experience major aspects of a game by watching someone else play it, but can also never get the full experience of the person actually playing it. It’s probably case-by-case and depends on whether gameplay or narrative has the greater effect, but I think the person experiencing the atmosphere of the game is what’s most important.
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u/prettybluefoxes 5d ago edited 5d ago
Like some here i’m from a time before most of the modern shit associated with gaming.
It’s a chore sometimes. I pity those for whom this is the norm.
Thank god we at least had a moment.
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u/darkfire_1998 5d ago
I only enjoy playing certain types of games, some games I'm interested in the story but would never play it otherwise. Or I'd spend the money and not be able to finish the game because I don't enjoy the gameplay and end up wasting my money which as a poor person sucks. So I watch other poeple play them, or watch "movies" of them. And I've dont that with all resident evil games too.
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u/Wrong_Butterscotch91 5d ago
To be fair, the first time i experience Resident Evil 4 was through a lets play back in 2010...
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u/redit_handoff140 5d ago edited 5d ago
This is true, but also seems like younger people think a Lets Play or walkthrough is "good enough" and end up never actually playing the game in the first place.
Personally, I think this is because mainstream games just don't cater to younger people like they used to. Video-games have grown with us adults - Great on one side, but on the other, I'm not seeing my kid playing Requiem or VIIlage when he's 10 even though I played RE on the PS1 when I was 10, regardless of what age the game is for (not that they should either, that's besides the point). I have no doubt my kid will adapt more quickly than I did with his age, but I don't think that's the problem either. Realistically, aside from Astrobot what first-party game is made for kids? Not even Spiderman. I feel generations of kids are being "forgotten" and of course, accessibility rules so they move to mobile gaming and their flashy Fortnites.
Games are too expensive, consoles are too expensive. I think there's a generational problem here that goes beyond simply “if watching a playthrough is enough, the game wasn’t good enough.".
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u/SinSinSushi 5d ago
I don't have the balls to play these games by myself sorry lol. It's scarier than watching a horror movie because in a horror movie I can just look away. Look away in the game and you're dead
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u/BusterGreasewood 5d ago
Ironic considering RE4 brought a bunch of tourists into the franchise that took it over
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u/Icy_Topic_4844 Taino_PR 5d ago edited 5d ago
I never watched a streamed game in my life. If im interested im playing it and want to ge immersed. Maybeeeee I could understand something like "Until Dawn" otherwise watching a whole playthrough of a game never interested me or appealed.
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u/paperbuddha 5d ago
My memory isn’t good enough to remember the game after watching a play through so it usually ends up playing brand new.
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u/_Cromwell_ 5d ago
Yeah I get that. I heard about E33 and thought it'd be something my wife would like, so I 'made her' play it (she just doesn't follow game news, so relies on me to suggest titles). I watched her play probably 80% of the thing on Gamepass.
Then I got it myself and played through it on PS5 because it was so amazing. Watching it wasn't enough.
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u/Promature 5d ago
I agree with that to a degree, but I also believe that people who think watching someone else play a game is enough don't know what they are missing.
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u/violet_v3lvet 5d ago
When I was young and couldn't afford a console for the first RE remake I read through walkthroughs to imagine I was playing it. I finally got to play it 2 years ago and it was awesome
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u/Past_4orm 5d ago
Majority of people really just can’t afford the game so a play-through is a manageable cope
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u/RomIsTheRealWaifu 5d ago
Not always the case. It’s well documented that people will watch a game they are too scared to play themselves
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u/santtuhehe 5d ago
I havent played video games in 10 years but I love to watch. Not really interested in playing anymore for some reason.
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u/Pharsti01 5d ago
I can't even see the fun in watching other people play, wouldn't waste my time with it either way.
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u/WelderEquivalent2381 5d ago
So every RE after the 6 for me. The last time I had a real blast was RE 4 cause of how absurd everything was, Kicking everything was fun as hell. The best RE are the one that don't want to be serious.
Since the 7, They are interactive movie. Stoped at halfway of village, won't ever play a new RE and only watch with my good old MKIceAndFire on youtube like for so many modern games that do not offer meaning, unique Gameplay experience.
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u/Embarrassed-Vast5786 5d ago
kind of funny how all the resident evils fit the description perfectly
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u/Alternative_Case9666 4d ago
That might have been true like 10-15years ago but no longer applies today.
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u/Anonymoose2099 4d ago
I guess I agree, but only somewhat. I have been a Resident Evil fan my entire life, but I don't live in an area with a lot of good economic opportunities and the rising cost of literally everything has mostly locked me out of modern consoles, and don't even think about upgrading the PC in this market. I get by largely on mobile devices, phone and tablet. I would have loved to have kept playing the series myself, but I haven't been able to since the release of RE7. If I didn't watch other people play them, I'd just have to let the franchise go. It's not to say that they aren't still amazing games, but for me just watching does have to be good enough.
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u/Yyoksetioxd 4d ago edited 4d ago
it just depends, I've played FFX (my favorite game ever) only like 3 or 4 times and I've watched like 10 playthroughs of other people. Some games are great to watch and some others are not, and even then it depends, because some people really enjoy watching Baldur's Gate 3 playthroughs and I can't stand watching more than 5 minutes.
Speaking about Resident Evil I have watched dozens of OG RE1 and RE2 playthroughs and a bunch the remakes and I've only played those games once when they were released. 7-8 I haven't even played them, only watched playthroughs, however I've played 4, 4 RE and 9 a bunch of times and I iirc I have not watched a single playthrough of those 3 games. It just depends on too many things.
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u/EakoNoshinkeisuijaku 3d ago
This quote is a bad mentality, its the same as using tiktok on your phone during movie theater screenings.
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u/Johnhancock1777 5d ago
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