Re: Games you prefer to watch others play

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