Looking back, how did we think watching other ppl play video games wasn't going to blow?

[jadillac]

Think about it.

Going back to the arcade days, if someone was wrecking shop on an arcade game, we all stood around and watched.

Same if it was 2 ppl going back and forth. And it's not bc we were all waiting for our turn to play. It was just cool seeing ppl who had mastered the game.

So it's amazing that for so many years ppl would crap on ppl watching others play games on the internet, now dudes are making millions of $ just posting videos of themselves playing games.

 

[JUSTIN HERBERT]

cuz it was gay af

then the big titty asian girls started playing and it was game over, man, game over.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

yeah, and also a lot of people just aren’t able to play a lot of games, either because they physically can’t or financially can’t. It makes sense

i like watching high skilled souls videos and fighting game videos.

 

[daze23]

the arcade was a different vibe. it's hard for me to compare that to watching someone on youtube/twitch

 

[The Mad Titan]

There was a point where I had been to enough tournaments and arcades that I knew it would blow.

But for a long time basically until like the start of the PS3 era, gaming was still consider "lame" it wasn't nerdy anymore but it was still "lame" and for kids.
But seeing the passionate of competitive gamers travel and literally live and breath competitive gaming if you stepped back and looked at the big picture you knew.

I think it's still has potential to grow with the right people behind it.
Until you can turn on the TV or whatever and see stat's and play by play breakdowns of gamers I don't think we've reached the peak.

 

[Pressure]

Y'all acting like the quake era didn't exist with thresh, rix and immortal.

Same with the Starfield era.

It's always been a thing just youtube and twitch lowered the barrier for entry.

 

[Mike809]

the only time I would watch someone play , is when I was waiting for the eventual loser to pass over the controller.

 

[The Pledge]

cuz it was gay af

then the big titty asian girls started playing and it was game over, man, game over.

 

[Grand Conde]

cuz it was gay af

then the big titty asian girls started playing and it was game over, man, game over.

Nah Justin TV/Twitch TV were getting bigger and bigger even before that.

 

[42 Monks]

cuz it was gay af

then the big titty asian girls started playing and it was game over, man, game over.

they're not even the ones taking over lol

dry humor white boys grinding mmos in the basement came up like crazy and everyone wonders how tho

 

[daze23]

Same with the Starfield era.

you mean "StarCraft"?

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

Watching someone wreck shop at an arcade is vastly different than watching someone beat a single player campaign imo.

 

[Pressure]

you mean "StarCraft"?

Yes, starcraft don't be a semantic fakkit because of autocomplete.

I was a professional q3 and Cs player. Revisionist history has somehow muddled the water so much that folks don't realize gaming journalism exists in its current form because of live events.

 

[Arris]

It just wasn't feasible for me and my brother to both sink 60 plus hours into rpgs

I watched him play final fantasy 7-10. Grandia, some of the tales games etc etc...

I loved rpgs growing up, but I only played them on whatever handheld I had otherwise I was "watching" someone else play them

 

[FlyRy]

I'll never understand that shyt