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[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

This is basically why I can't watch any "variety" streamers. They are, without exception, absolutely awful at learning new games or even just understanding what's happening on screen.

You'd think that would be antithetical to having your livelihood hinge on playing a wide swathe of games, but here we are.

Steamers that focus on a specific game/genre thankfully tend to have some idea what they're doing.

[-] tempest@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

Their livelihood doesn't hinge on playing the game. That's just incidental. They depend on interaction with the audience and stopping to read and understand something is dead air.

[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

That's a fair point. Which I guess changes my reasoning from "I don't watch them because they're bad at games" to "I don't watch them because they are insufferable clowns".

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

I played games all my life, and it always baffled me how some streamers can master one game over several years and then be completely unusable in another. Like bruh, it is still a game, it is not THAT different. Sure, they might suck because they didn't master the mechanics yet, but struggling with basic controls for an hour? They gotta be playing it...

Throw me into a game, and if the controls make sense it will probably be second nature to me in 15 minutes for me.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

Throw me into a game and if the controls make sense it will probably be second nature to me in 15 minutes for me.

That's how I feel with just about any platformer that don't have tank controls. Whether or not I'm good at said game is a whole different story...

[-] Redredme@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Dude. It's time you start playing flight and/or space sims.

(15 minutes hahahahaha)

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Realistic games do not quite count, because the controls are complicated by nature and learning them is the gameplay.

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