preferring to watch let's plays over playing games

[axlryder]

This is honestly a depressing thread to make, but I'll try and get it over with. So I recently bought a PS3 and quite a few games for it. For about a year prior I had opted to watching let's plays over gaming, as I had exhausted my library and didn't have the spare scratch to shell out for more games. Anyway, after playing my ps3 for a few weeks, I've found myself gravitating back towards watching let's plays in the time I would normally spend playing. I don't really even know why.

Anybody else feel this way or have this happen? I'd prefer just to go back to gaming in my spare time as opposed to watching other people game, but when I go to actually do it I find myself heading to youtube instead.

 

[Aerosteam]

I only watch let's plays if they're short, funny or on a game that is on the boundary of whether to purchase it or not.

Choosing to watch rather than play is okay, since you know, they're free.

However the problem with RPG let's plays is that the choices the let's player does won't be what you will do.

 

[BlueberryMUNCH]

Anybody else feel this way or have this happen?

Not in the same way, no.

However, if I start watching a good LP on youtube, I know I find it very difficult to stop.
I load the next video ...
[sub]Then the next video ...[/sub]
[sub][sub]And then the next one ...[/sub][/sub]

I'm doing the exact thing right now.

'Yeah just one more video then I'll go ahead and play some PS3
...oh...okay whatever one more...'

UGH THE STRESS.
But nah I see where you're coming from OP. I do love LP's. I've been watching more than actually playing games in the past week or so. Hah.

 

[Fappy]

I rarely ever watch them as I prefer to play games as opposed to watching them. You might just be one of the people that really enjoys watching others play. Nothing wrong with that.

 

[Stormz]

Can't say I have ever felt like that. I watch LP only for the humour, I like watching people go through really bad games and make jokes about it or good games but ones I never intend to play. I'm a big fan of Retsupurae for this reason.

 

[StriderShinryu]

There are some games that I have some level of interest in, but not enough to actually invest the time or money in, where I will watch a Let's Play as opposed to actually playing. There's also cases where I like the LPer enough that I may watch a LP even if I don't have much interest in the game itself at all. For the most part though, if I really like a game I'll both play it and watch a Let's Play of it too. I can't think of any cases where I've chosen a LP over an actual play if I had interest in playing the game.