For me, it is any city/building construction game like City Skylines, Two Point Hospital, Planet Zoo etc.
Any shooter or other twitch game.
Sandbox games, back in the day I would be creative and have fun playing these but now I prefer watching someone else do that.
Pvp/story games I enjoy playing though.
There are a couple of occasions where I watch someone else playing: when deciding if the game is worth buying (gameplay vs cutscenes) and when I’m stuck in a part of a game I can’t really google.
Walking sims/narrative games. I’m a sucker for gameplay, so games with non-complex gameplay bore the hell out of me
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Any point & click adventure game, especially old Sierra series like King’s Quest. They have so many bullshit mechanics designed to trip the player up and cause an immediate Game Over.
Football Manager for sure, although I do enjoy playing it equally.
Anything with a mechanic where every choice matters and will affect the next 50 hours of gameplay, and where it’s possible to choose wrong. That’s a lot of pressure, and I’d rather someone else deal with that.
Also, anything that’s 100 hours of gameplay and 10 hours of story.
Cities Skylines - because ain’t no way am I getting enough memory for the fluid huge city I want to be flying through. Also, it’s fun to watch design nerds make some really pretty cities.
Competitive games and broken games (in the se se that there are glitches that can be expolited for fun)
I’ll never be on that level, So i prefer to watch them.
imo you don’t have to be good at those games to still enjoy them. I loved playing counter strike, and I never made it out of the lowest possible rank.
Yeah, i agree. I fact i play Rocket League casually with friend. But seeing people playing in another level it’s like seeing another dimension of the game that always surprises me and i never expect what may happen.
that’s fair and understandable
Dwarf fortress, I love to see how and what people build and the emergent chaotic stories when a giant or vampire or whatever shows up.
Any metal gear solid game, and I say that because it’s the best of both worlds! I play for 2 minutes and then watch a movie!
I had a friend that recorded deathless runs for the first three games on vhs back in the day
Oh wow. Dang real life difficulty lolol
That’s awesome!
Counterstrike and Tarkov because I’m too bad at them to have any fun playing myself, but I really enjoy watching competitive matches or streamers raids here and there.
Also, Dark Souls 1-3 and Skyrim. I’ve played them all so much and still play through here and there, but I like to watch challenge runs and see all the modded or otherwise ridiculous playthroughs that I don’t have the patience to commit to myself.
Have you ever got a friend to play Dark Souls? It’s a fun game to watch someone new play it. My late best friend did that with me during the first lockdown, and I got the sense that he was vicariously enjoying the game through me.
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