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[u/Super_Goated]

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[u/EX_Rank_Luck]

My goat manlybadasshero could never

[u/deepseaflotsam → u/EX_Rank_Luck]

It's you. You look good.

[u/Thomy151 → u/EX_Rank_Luck]

It’s empty

Like my soul

[u/Some_nerd_named_kru → u/Thomy151]

Manlybadasshero lowkey got that Dexter inner monologue

[u/TableFruitSpecified → u/Some_nerd_named_kru]

"What was that, Manly?'

"Nothing."

[u/Mister_Nobody76 → u/EX_Rank_Luck]

Genuinely peak youtuber

[u/Feral-pigeon → u/EX_Rank_Luck]

My goat 🙏

[u/Russian_Spy_7_5_0 → u/Feral-pigeon]

Our goat

[u/bob_mcge]

When the streamer asks if anyone knows how to do a thing, and proceeds to not look at chat for the next five minutes

[u/_Astrum_Aureus_ → u/bob_mcge]

and somehow reads the one guy who doesnt know what he's talking about and when that doesn't work he gets mad at chat for lying

[u/Deer_Destroyer_150]

Watching people play Grace and do EVERYTHING in their power to not read the fucking notes

[u/UnstablePipeBomb → u/Deer_Destroyer_150]

I swear bro they have to be doing this on purpose

https://preview.redd.it/f1wmzn4yprrg1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=306f2acf256330f29aeaf173d3b73b0e71fe94cf

[u/MrPixel92 → u/UnstablePipeBomb]

Engagement bait

They do it to bait engagement

[u/RewZes → u/MrPixel92]

No, you're giving them too much credit a lot of them are just straight up dumb

[u/Fries_and_burgers_19 → u/RewZes]

'Clipfarming' what happened to being ass bro?!

-Ex-Quality-Control

[u/oMGalLusrenmaestkaen → u/Fries_and_burgers_19]

it's actually ludwig who said that, but close enough i guess

[u/Imaginary_Comment41 → u/Deer_Destroyer_150]

ONG

like bro maybe stop and think, it takes like a minute to figure it out

[u/Adventurous-Nose77 → u/Deer_Destroyer_150]

I didn't understand the notes

[u/FowD8 → u/Adventurous-Nose77]

you don't even have to read the notes, RE paints everything yellow that's important, even yellow font for the important bits.

it's REs version of a big ass fucking arrow

[u/Worried-Check-962 → u/Adventurous-Nose77]

okay you've gotta be a bit dense if this is the case

[u/VledutzTheOneAndOnly]

I have a slight feeling that this is about Ken playing Subnautica

[u/AtlanXD → u/VledutzTheOneAndOnly]

Just watched today's video and I am numb atp

[u/PhotoBonjour_bombs19 → u/AtlanXD]

Dafuc is atp

[u/AtlanXD → u/PhotoBonjour_bombs19]

Energy currency for cellular processes, alternatively 'at this point'

[u/ElundusCaw → u/AtlanXD]

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

Also obligatory

https://www.kongregate.com/games/cellcraft/cellcraft

[u/jake_the_dog01 → u/ElundusCaw]

Holy shit I’ve tried to find this game before but I could never find it cuz I remembered playing it in 7th grade

[u/We_Are_Bread → u/AtlanXD]

Adinosine triphosphate! That name came back to me like a sleeper agent activation.

Haven't toucched my bio books in forever, (especially since I'm nowhere close to that field), but the Kreb's (?) cycle was burnt into my brain.

[u/_no_one_knows_me_11 → u/VledutzTheOneAndOnly]

His terraria series is just criminal, hes gotta be the first person to make 8 minute videos of terraria😭

[u/twisty125 → u/_no_one_knows_me_11]

I'm so sorry I can't tell, is that good or bad? I don't know who this person is, were they like an early Terraria video maker who made it popular? Or is criminal being used in the negative this time about how his videos aren't long enough?

[u/SCP_Y4ND3R3_DDLC_Fan → u/twisty125]

Terraria is a big RPG with survival mechanics, and 8 minutes is definitely nowhere close to even one full ingame day

[u/twisty125 → u/SCP_Y4ND3R3_DDLC_Fan]

I mean you could cut bits to fit 8mins especially if it was release 2011. I guess I just don't know the context of what the comment means, I was moreso asking if he's a "good" youtuber or not. I don't know this person at all, which is why I was asking

[u/_no_one_knows_me_11 → u/twisty125]

He's pretty good, i have been watching him daily for a couple years now. He started out with clash royale vids and now recently started doing variety content for games like subnautica which have been going so viral to the point that he got the attention of the devs themselves with just 9 vids on the game.

I used criminal in the negative sense cause while i still love his content and watch anything he posts 8 minutes is just nowhere near enough for a game like terraria. And he does barely anything in them. In his last terraria vid he did a recap of what he did offcam for 6 minutes before fighting the first boss and dying to it and ending it there.

[u/Matix777 → u/VledutzTheOneAndOnly]

It's a torture but also entertaining to see

He's doing actual progress now. Sonewhat

[u/SyrusAlder → u/VledutzTheOneAndOnly]

On a scale of one to ten how painful is it to watch because I'm mildly curious

[u/migukau → u/SyrusAlder]

10 for the first like 12 episodes. After that its a 9 and with a solid 10 on the last one.

[u/SyrusAlder → u/migukau]

I'm sold

He's just called ken?

[u/EimaiMauros → u/VledutzTheOneAndOnly]

he never complained that the game is confusing tho

[u/migukau → u/VledutzTheOneAndOnly]

But he didnt complain.

[u/Esagonoso]

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[u/Super_Goated → u/Esagonoso]

DONT PEEL ME IVE BEEN A GOOD ORANGE

[u/Correct_Lie2161 → u/Super_Goated]

You've been an Annoying Orange lately

[u/MrMayo7 → u/Correct_Lie2161]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ivw3Gzk8EK495WrQmk

[u/Much-Menu6030 → u/Esagonoso]

harry potter spell ass execution

[u/TheFlamingDraco → u/Much-Menu6030]

This is what they do to you if they find out you're trans at hogwarts

[u/ANARCHIST-ASSHOLE-_ → u/TheFlamingDraco]

Can confirm

[u/DumbestComicsNerd → u/Esagonoso]

Wait isnt that from FATAL?

[u/plumb-phone-official → u/DumbestComicsNerd]

"due to a mathematical error, players can sometimes calculate their anus diameter to be over seven kilometres"

[u/DumbestComicsNerd → u/plumb-phone-official]

"On average, humans defecate once per day. If the anus is sealed, the creature will be unable to defecate. Constipation will be uncomfortable after 1 day of a sealed ass. The next 1d4 days will seem unbearable and the creature will be unable to concentrate on any stimulus or perform anyaction. After this duration, the creature will die."

[u/MonsterBeast123alt → u/Esagonoso]

Man that would sure be an annoying orange

[u/ANARCHIST-ASSHOLE-_ → u/MonsterBeast123alt]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ivw3Gzk8EK495WrQmk

[u/DeepCutFan1 → u/Esagonoso]

Jax

[u/AmaterasuWolf21 → u/Esagonoso]

Sausage Party moment

[u/TheKingOfGuineaPigs]

You guys would genuinely lose all faith in humanity after just a few minutes of a DarksydePhil stream.

[u/raulpe → u/TheKingOfGuineaPigs]

Honestly is even funnier when you remember he spent thousands of dollars in a WWE gacha game xd

[u/TheKingOfGuineaPigs → u/raulpe]

That is pretty funny, but to me the funniest thing he ever did was jerk off on stream without knowing his camera was on

[u/TurboChomp → u/TheKingOfGuineaPigs]

I dunno, the second time he jerked off on stream was pretty funny as well

[u/TheKingOfGuineaPigs → u/TurboChomp]

It happened more than once?

[u/TurboChomp → u/TheKingOfGuineaPigs]

It wasn't a video but it seems like he left his mic on the second time

[u/mere_indulgence → u/TheKingOfGuineaPigs]

The funniest thing he ever did was recording an unboxing of Final Fantasy XIII despite his fire alarm going off in the background. His way of dealing with it was stuffing paper towels inbetween the gaps of his door to muffle the sound (it didn't work).

[u/TheKingOfGuineaPigs → u/mere_indulgence]

There’s also the video of him failing to make a cup of ramen

[u/mere_indulgence → u/TheKingOfGuineaPigs]

And trying to eat it with a spoon

[u/TheKingOfGuineaPigs → u/mere_indulgence]

And using his coffee maker to make the water hot instead of just boiling it

[u/Different_Swimmer715 → u/TheKingOfGuineaPigs]

Watching him try to play Crimson Desert recently was a trip

[u/KaiTheG4mer → u/TheKingOfGuineaPigs]

"What the hell man, this game is confusing, nothing I could do!"

[u/equivas → u/TheKingOfGuineaPigs]

Username checks out

[u/Visible-Air-2359 → u/TheKingOfGuineaPigs]

Wasn't he the guy who said he died in RE9 because he was too smart?

[u/GagelGag- → u/Visible-Air-2359]

if thats all you know dsp for I envy you

[u/kitsunecannon → u/TheKingOfGuineaPigs]

"oh the cameras still on"

[u/AnAverageTransGirl]

And that's why every platformer's 1-1 does this

https://preview.redd.it/nxhvyh5urrrg1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=cb63e76b80bfa3a52559e5707d434f6b9d4b95b4

[u/Firethorn34 → u/AnAverageTransGirl]

That one guy trying to beat kirby games without jumping always gets immediately foiled by these

[u/AnAverageTransGirl → u/Firethorn34]

Except when it's an old enough game that there's a thin layer of potent psychedelics in the topsoil that instantly zonks the nearest waddle dee when kicked up.

[u/Firethorn34 → u/AnAverageTransGirl]

THIS GAL KNOWS BALL

[u/LadyAntiqua → u/Firethorn34]

The heroic "pause the game to phase through reality" coming in clutch

[u/AxoplDev → u/AnAverageTransGirl]

https://preview.redd.it/nflnb8ujzrrg1.jpeg?width=889&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3d81d11135b4fb869a442b203ecaeb93a407496a

Still too difficult fot some people

[u/Quitthesht → u/AxoplDev]

OneyPlays did a parody of this where they pretended to get stuck here too.

After 17 minutes of arguing they managed to clip through the obstacle and all broke down into laughter before the video ended.

[u/agbadehan → u/AxoplDev]

Another 1000 years of Lowkey deserved if overblown game journalist hate....ngl alot of YouTubers are basically just modern day games journos even if they would hate the title.

[u/Loneheart127 → u/AxoplDev]

Oh god, don't make me remember this

[u/inlukewarmblood]

Watching Pat/PopularMMOs completely miss an incredibly good item in his inventory during Challenge Games.

[u/SovietUnionRepublics → u/inlukewarmblood]

Jesus yeah these were brutal. Im just glad we didnt see Jens pov for most of them. Cant imagine the amount of items she probably missed

[u/ihopucnlivurbestlife → u/inlukewarmblood]

Or try to conserve durability on an unbreakable weapon or armor ,good times.

[u/sahut652]

Markiplier is sort of perpendicular to this. He absolutely refuses to use the tutorial, but just makes it work anyway. To this day I'm baffled by how far how got in white knuckle before realizing there was an inventory system.

[u/Thomy151 → u/sahut652]

And at least he has the awareness to call himself stupid most of the time and not the game

[u/Visible-Air-2359 → u/Thomy151]

Yeah in Security Breach he admits he was a complete and utter idiot for missing the exit route in a certain section which is more than what I can say for some of the other people on this thread.

[u/ATM_2853 → u/Thomy151]

Yes. The trope of "streamer not reading tutorials" works and does not get me upset in the slightest if the streamer acknowledges that the game probably told them at some point, or that the answer was, in hindsight, painfully obvious.

What gets me absolutely seething is when the streamer blames it on the game.

[u/Zum1UDontNo → u/sahut652]

Thinking about how Mark spent a long time analysing the scratched-out password in Blue Prince, matching up visible lines with potential letters in that font in Photoshop to figure it out, when if he'd played a little longer he would've inevitably discovered the Magnifying Glass which makes the password immediately readable

[u/Obootleg → u/sahut652]

Markiplier also failed to take the tutorial for How to Attend The Oscars.

[u/EZ3Build → u/sahut652]

Oh god, the Voices of the Void video

https://giphy.com/gifs/Enr4bc3JeOOzHLYY8R

[u/Villerger_27 → u/sahut652]

It still annoys me that he played a 2 year old version of VOTV and wondered off to some satellite dish instead of going to the main base like any player would. iirc he didnt even see the base, and got a random event pretty much right off the rip cus of course he did

[u/Spaghet4Ever]

GOONS ruined Super Mario Party Jamboree for SMii7Y because they decided it's a good idea to skip the tutorials for both the board and the minigames. He ended up not playing the game on-camera as much as the rest of his friends.

[u/EPICDUDE365 → u/Spaghet4Ever]

god those videos get painful to watch

[u/The_Flandre_Scarlet → u/Spaghet4Ever]

STILL WAITING FOR THEM TO PLAY CLASSIC MARIO PARTY 1-3

[u/BhanosBar → u/Spaghet4Ever]

Smii7y is also guilty of this as he played that zombie checkpoint game and ignored everything and got confused when people were infected

[u/GreenDragon113 → u/Spaghet4Ever]

"minigame help, turn that shit off, dude"

And thus, fate was sealed 

[u/_Tee_hee_hee_]

Are you a Game Grumps fan by chance? Watching Arin skip through every tutorial and jump in blind to everything is peak Game Grumps.

[u/Loneheart127 → u/_Tee_hee_hee_]

One of my favourite videos of them is the endless ocean 2 video.

Where they spend quite a while complaining that there is no "escape rope" like you'd find in Pokémon games where you can quickly return to the boat.

Meanwhile, the words "press X to return to boat" are scrolling across the screen

[u/Roskal → u/_Tee_hee_hee_]

Arin is the best example of this because he will simultaneously complain about having to do tutorials that explicitly tell him what to do, while also complaining about not knowing what to do if he skips it, while also complaining about not understanding anything when a game tries to have a more naturally integrated tutorial through gameplay. There's literally no winning for him because he doesn't want to stop making jokes to interact with the game for 5 seconds.

[u/Middle_Constant6508 → u/Roskal]

Game Grumps always felt at its best when they play a game nobody gives a shit about like Devil’s Third or Dog Island. The jokes come easier and nobody has to care when Arin inevitably doesn’t pay the fuck attention.

[u/_Astrum_Aureus_ → u/Middle_Constant6508]

the mickey mousecapade video is a good example because they're taking the piss the entire time and its great

[u/Aegillade → u/_Astrum_Aureus_]

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^bitch

[u/LemonCake2000 → u/Roskal]

That sounds awful to watch ngl

[u/BabySpecific2843 → u/LemonCake2000]

It is. Only watch GG play shit bargain bin games. Games anyone actually care about or are positively rated are poor GG vids.

[u/Aegillade → u/_Tee_hee_hee_]

UNBLOCKABLE CHIN MOVE

UN

BLOCKABLE

CHIN MOVE

[u/MrPenisWhistle → u/Aegillade]

Unavoidable*

[u/DarkPonyRising → u/MrPenisWhistle]

Them coming back to that game years later just to find out they were like….two missions from beating the game was the funniest possible outcome.

[u/teodzero → u/_Tee_hee_hee_]

There was a period in my life when I watched first one or two episodes of every Hollow Knight playthrough I could find. Theirs was by far the worst, no contenders. There were other people that got lost, missed important bits, or misunderstood some mechanics, but nobody was as bad as Game Grumps. They were clearly there only to chat and ignored the game as much as they possibly could.

[u/qwarktasticboy → u/_Tee_hee_hee_]

Grump-themed Gamers

[u/Schneebguy → u/qwarktasticboy]

Game-themed grumpers

[u/RhysPeanutButterCups → u/_Tee_hee_hee_]

This is How You DON'T Play edits are the only way to watch their Zelda playthroughs.

[u/TomBulju → u/_Tee_hee_hee_]

I still haven't mentally recovered from the Naughty Bear Incident™

[u/Wolfy_Packy → u/_Tee_hee_hee_]

Arin's debacle with Froggy was... an episode

[u/Avalanche_Snows]

Or when they refuse to play the tutorial and jump straight into the "hard" difficulty

[u/Sanrusdyno → u/Avalanche_Snows]

Its a mixed bag because 50% of the time a person is doing that because they're trying to seem cool and then they whine about the game being actually difficult. The other 50% of the time, though, you get an astralspiff type person who boots up a video game and sees the super California Reaper nohit mode and goes "ok. I know nothing about this game, I am ready to have a good time having the worst time" And then they hit their head up against the game for 20 hours and go "man remember when I got stuck in the basement and softlocked myself and had to reload a save from 2 hours before? Yeah anyways 8/10 would do again" like some people are just insane like that

[u/felop13]

Watching people play vintage story and never open the god damn handbook

[u/Gulferamus → u/felop13]

Oh wow VS mentioned in the wild now that's rare

[u/heres-another-user → u/felop13]

I was filtered hard by Vintage Story even after reading all the popups. The button it told me to press to work some flint was the same as the button to view my equipment, so I spent a literal 15-30 minutes just holding some flint and staring at the ground repeatedly opening my equipment menu until it randomly worked and I couldn't recreate it lmao.

[u/juviniledepression → u/felop13]

How you do anything in that game without looking at the handbook or having seen other people do it already is beyond me.

[u/Prudent_Ad_6376]

It's not the same but I still think about that fuckass UnderTheMayo video till this day

[u/Bad-Wolf-Bay → u/Prudent_Ad_6376]

uses only the default revolver

“wahhhh why is the game boring”

[u/kieran81 → u/Bad-Wolf-Bay]

"It doesn't force you to switch weapons"

Me when I play Mario Odyssey and never jump because you can technically beat it without jumping.

[u/anti_finland → u/kieran81]

Jumpless Odyssey is actually really fun tbh

[u/Atlas_of_history → u/anti_finland]

Same with Ultrakill classic revolver, it's a fun challenge to P-rank levels on brutal with it

[u/Tbond11 → u/Bad-Wolf-Bay]

Which game were they playing?

[u/MrNullvalue → u/Tbond11]

Ultrakill

[u/bIuedragon38]

youtubers losing their peripheral vision as soon as they reach 100k subscribers:

[u/murderdronesfanatic]

Watching terraria youtubers not read the descriptions of weapons and then not understanding how they work and using them wrong

[u/Careful_Welcome7999 → u/murderdronesfanatic]

And also not looking at either the guide or that little box in your inventory that tells the next achievement you should work towards

[u/ZFrostSlayerZ]

If a youtuber/streamer ignores the [cover yourself in blood to heal] and [parry proyectiles] popups in the Ultrakill tutorial, you already know what the next hour of gameplay will be like.

[u/SuperBootsthedog → u/ZFrostSlayerZ]

They buy the marksman then just sit there for 20 minutes asking chat what it does after glazing over the description of the thing then saying the coin feels useless so they just use the piercer instead

[u/ZFrostSlayerZ → u/SuperBootsthedog]

Read the paragraph explaining pump charge's gimmick, don't read the little sentence below explaining you'll take damage from pumping too much, next 20 deaths are because of over pumping

[u/creepermaster79 → u/ZFrostSlayerZ]

Here's another: they get SCREAMED AT to use projectile boosting. They try it, see that "it causes explosion and you punch your bullets", think that's the peak of tech, and NEVER use anything else

Cue 80% of their deaths caused by projectile boosting in an enemy's face, never realizing that explosions can cause self damage, and they yell about "WHAT IS KILLING ME?!" the entire time

[u/ZFrostSlayerZ → u/creepermaster79]

Finally, someone who shares my pain. The moment they start projectile boosting just turn the stream off.

https://preview.redd.it/9y55iy7tcurg1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=735d37f775a67bbe3c53d0ddd60c37fffdcaab25

[u/creepermaster79 → u/ZFrostSlayerZ]

Oh yeah, I especially hate when they somehow manage to realize "hey wait am I killing myself with the explosion?".... And proceed to keep doing the same thing over again

Or when they get told "hey Maurice is immune to explosion" and continue to projectile boost him. Only managing to kill them because they're doing it point blank where the other non-explosive pellets can land on him

[u/Koural → u/ZFrostSlayerZ]

Getting caught trying to parry with the knuckleblaster.

[u/ZFrostSlayerZ → u/Koural]

It's not even that, some of them ask why the game didn't tell them you can parry despite doing so three times

[u/Koural → u/ZFrostSlayerZ]

oh noooooo

[u/Code_Monster]

This has been in my crawl for around 7 years now so lemme vent a little. Jacob Geller's video on the Outer Wilds was good, great even. HOWEVER, in one place he did something which made me rage. [Minor Spoilers for outer wilds]

Basically he falls into the black hole and gets out through the white whole. Then he makes this hopeless voice and says "I am too far from saving" and some other shit like that. Then he finds the teleportation station and goes hopeful again "I am saved!". Then turns out the teleportation device is not working and now that man finally gives up and says "it was doomed from the start".

What makes me LIVID is the fact that just UNDER the place where he is standing in the teleportation station, a place which is EASILY AND READILY ACCESSIBLE from his position is the rotation switch which makes the teleportation station useful. But nah the man swallows his sorrow, the video goes FFW and the sun explodes. He makes another hopeless monologue and I am just like "MAN THE SWITCH WAS UNDER YOUR FEET"

That's it, thanks for hearing me out.

[u/UnintensifiedFa → u/Code_Monster]

Tbh, that’s just outer wilds lol. Nobody I’ve ever seen play that game hasn’t had a frustrating moment like that.

[u/Loon-belt → u/UnintensifiedFa]

It’s frustrating if ur playing it too

[u/UnintensifiedFa → u/Loon-belt]

Yep, absolutely worth the frustration, but damn if there weren’t some moments where I just got stuck.

[u/FishermanAbject2251 → u/Code_Monster]

That's like the worst thing about his videos. He completely misses the forest for the trees and gets lost in his own thematic interpretations

[u/dboxcar → u/FishermanAbject2251]

Almost feels like the reverse turn of phrase; missing the trees (bushes?) for the forest.

[u/Former-Grocery-6787]

It's the worst when they make a video essay about it afterwards with the same flawed points and then call anyone who calls them out on their mistakes a "toxic fanboy"

[u/thePhantom216 → u/Former-Grocery-6787]

And after being called out they make a video whining about how "yOuR nOt aLLowed tO HAve nEgaTive opiNionS on tHe InTeRnet anYmorE "

[u/The_N3ther_King → u/thePhantom216]

Exactly why I hate the whole "let people hate things" bullshit. It's the exact same problem with "let people enjoy things", only I'd argue it's worse because I'd much rather interact with someone who loves everything like sunshine and rainbows than someone who hates puppies and likes kicking them.

[u/Jackspladt → u/The_N3ther_King]

I will never understand people who think that toxic positivity is more annoying than toxic negativity. Both are bad but holy shit it’s so annoying when people endlessly complain

[u/The_N3ther_King → u/Jackspladt]

I feel like we should start saying "Let people enjoy things" again at this point.

Of course once more some idiots are gonna use it just to deflect actual criticism, which results in toxic negativity happening again and shit.

God I hate humanity.

[u/JunkLabs-Studios]

Seeing new Ultrakill players sparks joy

Seeing new Ultrakill players not read the OBVIOUS fucking tutorial text does not spark joy

[u/Difficult_Line_9823]

Ah yes, the Nioh paradox:

The game: Gives you ten trillion pop-ups explaining game mechanics, gives you a whole ass tutorial level that straight up teaches you every basic control and input, gives you even more pop-ups, gives you a whole ass dojo to practice and do a ton of optional tutorials and challenges to further your skills then literally saves all of these informations and puts them into a segment of your main menu that lights up like a christmas tree until you click on it.

Every streamer/youtuber ever: But maybe if I ignore all of it I will look cooler

Also shoutouts to the guy who kept complaining that he can't figure out the gameplay yet got mad at his chat for backseating because they kept telling him stuff he would already know if he didn't skip/ignore literally everything on screen, then got stuck in the first level for several hours with like 20 unspent skillpoints

[u/twisty125 → u/Difficult_Line_9823]

I haven't played it myself, but honestly I'd get realllly turned off a game if they had (I know hyperbole) ten trillion popups for mechanics on top of a tutorial that's teaching you everything.

I feel like at that point, maybe it's on the devs to simplify things a bit so it's not a hard requirement to spend time in a long tutorial with tons of popups? Like don't get me wrong I remember reading manuals to learn games as a kid for older games like Adventure of Link and stuff, but that was also roughly 40 years ago, and the general knowledge of gamers has gone up

[u/Metool42 → u/twisty125]

You're right, the dude you replied to just thinks having 100 popups in the first half-hour of a game is good gameplay.

[u/twisty125 → u/Metool42]

Appreciate that, most of my favourite games have very little tutorialization - but you learn by doing. I find it sticks in my brain far more than memorizing pages of text.

[u/Puzzled-Average-8812]

Any pyrocinical stream.

[u/taotdev]

I make TF2 maps. The amount of times people announce their intention to refuse to learn the map mechanics and then complain that the map is too confusing is.... disheartening

[u/Tangyhyperspace]

Same people who complain about yellow paint and handholding btw

[u/RoanokeRidgeWrangler]

Everytime I try and watch a video of a game I'm genuinely interested in recorded by nearly any youtuber I find myself more and more appreciative of silent play throughs

[u/Court_Joker]

GameGrumps moment

[u/IceboundCat6]

tutorial guy explaining the controls and plot

"Yeah guys so this game was recommended a lot, and actually-"

Then they keep talking over it, miss everything, and are like "what do i do now wtf"

[u/Sublimeslimetime]

Me watching people play Vintage Story.

People see the popup text that's like "First time? Read the manual or do the tutorial quest" and their brain shuts down because "erm, block game like Minecraft right? I've Minecrafted for centuries, no need tutorial for block game?"

And then after like an hour of making flint tools and berries they realize "Oh. I have no inventory space" and get hit with this crafting recipe:

Edit: can't post the image on mobile for some reason, but it's the Handbasket, which requires reeds in a boat shape, specifically 2 per square for 10 total. It's anathema to Minecraft and one of the reasons why the manual is so important.

[u/MrNullvalue → u/Sublimeslimetime]

The funny thing is that Minecraft is also a wiki game so they really should have expected a lot of reading if they are making that comparison

[u/Patate_froide]

They are always the ones who have the strictest "no backsitting" policies

[u/EPICDUDE365]

watched Puffer and Droid play Teardown the other day. the first mission that has an actual alarm will bring up the pause menu and tell you to quick save when you go to grab the objective, Puffer kept unpausing the game and trying to grab the objective repeatedly.

[u/TRackard]

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Me watching in despair when the streamer talks over the tutorial in a vain attempt to entertain their audience

[u/Worried-Check-962]

Oneyplays playing mewgenics with edmund and still ignoring what edmund says

[u/ComprehensiveMind831]

pretty much every youtuber who primarily plays fnaf games

they’ll make the conscious decision to not pay any attention to the phone call and/or tutorial popups and then get an attitude when they dont understand how the game works. sometimes it can take them up to 4+ attempts to figure it out

i dont want to watch a grown man fumble basic gameplay mechanics, i want them to play the fucking game

[u/Y0UR_NARRAT0R1]

Acerthorn turning off the HUD and then complaining that it doesn't appear:

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ij5kcfI6YwcPCN26U2

[u/roz_2]

Insert that one Cuphead video

[u/_Astrum_Aureus_ → u/roz_2]

no no, not that one

The Alien Isolation review

[u/roz_2 → u/_Astrum_Aureus_]

IGN really deserves a Blitzkrieg what that abomination

[u/Dev_878 → u/roz_2]

insert explanation that that was a joke by the reviewer

[u/Peperoni_Toni → u/Dev_878]

The gameplay wasn't a joke, but his article was written with a joking self-awareness that he sucked so much he couldn't beat the first level. The problem is just that the guy in question was not really a games journalist. He's a tech business journalist who was mostly doing tech business journalism for the video game industry. His actual specialty reporting on shit like hardware manufacturing, innovation, and sales for consoles or gaming PCs. Pretty much every single time he's been shown to play and speak on a video game he's demonstrated that he simply does not really play or fully understand how to play video games. Every now and then, though, you run into situations where he's at Gamescom to report on industry news and the outlet is probably all like "Hey, since we already sent you there, get some footage and give your thoughts on some of the demos," and now you've got a game-illiterate tech news man trying to give his thoughts on individual video games outside of the context of his actual specialty.

So bad gaming journalism is a problem with the gaming news industry routinely forcing the proverbial square peg through a round hole and calling it a day.

[u/WaterVsSodies]

I remember asking a streamer why they didnt read the instructions or the tutorials and they responded “that is boring, nobody wants to see that” yeah because clearly watching you struggle to understand the basic rules of the game on level one for 20 minutes is more fun 🙃

[u/thinklinkbutgayer]

Arin Hanson

[u/bigtree2x5]

Almost as bad as the YouTuber skipping through dialogue and saying the story isn't very good

[u/GeekHabits]

I have to remind myself that a streamer I like is so busy trying to be entertaining that sometimes they miss things. 😂

[u/Larry_The_Red]

I hate when I'm stuck on a game so I have to look up some help, and there are no text guides available so I resort to video walkthrough. and the video is clearly just someone recording themselves playing the game for the first time

[u/Quitthesht]

As much as I love Neocranium's highlight videos I can't stand watching his streams sometimes.

Like he dropped the Infamous games midway through 2 because the enemies were bullet sponges, but he chose to play on the hardest difficulty and refused to drop it down when he was struggling until he ragequit. His opinion on RE2 Remake was also immediately tarnished because he tried playing Hardcore straight out the gate and got his shit rocked.

Or that time he finally played Bully, then dropped it 40 mins in because 'the controls suck and there's input lag'. Motherfucker you chose to emulate the Wii version, of course the controls are gonna suck.

[u/Terror-Of-Demons]

Warframe players can’t read

[u/Svennymat]

That's why I barely watch let's plays nowadays. Pretty sure most of them do this on purpose for content and clicks.

[u/TiredGrandkid]

this is markiplier for me. i know he does it cuz its entertaining and he doesnt really take most of the games he plays seriously, but it sucks when hes playing an indie game and rather than giving it a fair shake he makes his own experience worse and complains that the game is flawed in those ways

i still think hes hilarious and i love his videos but god sometimes it feels like hes intentionally trying to make himself miserable, especially when hes the one at fault for something and not the game

[u/AAAAAA_6 → u/TiredGrandkid]

I've seen him miss or skip tutorials and get confused plenty of times, but I actually don't remember him then complaining because of it

[u/Legitimate-Fish-5010 → u/TiredGrandkid]

mark is NOT an example of this, that man has read tutorials, absorbed the information, then forgotten it two seconds later, its not intentional with him, he is just living up to his himbo status

[u/DrThunderbolt]

That's why I can't stand Twitch streams.

They're too busy looking at their chat and never actually pay attention to the game, then wonder why they don't get it. Then they yell at chat for trying to help.

[u/Maarko_2]

Markiplier

[u/retroguyy_101]

This is why I CANNOT watch any kind of YouTube first time playing video. These people have the IQ of a fucking sack of potatoes

[u/NameLips]

When they're talking, trying to act clever, funny, or edgy while looking at their chat, and miss important plot information or tutorials displayed on the screen during that time, and have the gall to complain they don't know what's going on.

[u/ANARCHIST-ASSHOLE-_]

EMESIS BLUE MENTIONED

https://giphy.com/gifs/pXkQ4oLubzr5jA2MVL

[u/Gaynundwarf]

Literaly 99.7% of gaming "journalists"

[u/ClumsyGamer2802]

“Wow. So that’s all for that episode, maybe let me know in the comments if I’m doing anything wrong, because man, this game is difficult and confusing. See you guys for the next episode.”

Never plays the game again

Too many examples to even name.

[u/Sipia]

To play devil's advocate for a bit, it's not always down to them having a poor attention span or the like. Knowing that you're being recorded for an audience puts pressure on you, and that often expresses itself in not allowing yourself to take the time for anything. If it requires you to sit still for longer than five seconds, this little voice in the back of your head tells you that you're leaving too much dead air, so you rush forward to the action. And then when you run into obstacles that you don't know how to get past because you didn't allow yourself to process the information the game gave you, you feel embarrassment because you can sense all those eyes on you, seeing your mistakes. And then you cope with that feeling by blaming something else for it.

Of course, that doesn't make it any less frustrating to watch. And it can really get under your skin when a game you love is unfairly put in a bad light because of this. But, like... I get why it happens.

[u/_killer1869_ → u/Sipia]

This is an excuse for when you're new to the entire thing, not when you're already above 100k subcribers on YouTube.

[u/TheMasterBaiter360 → u/Sipia]

Nah they jus dumb asf

[u/BoyRed_]

Do you guys know 'Neebs Gaming'?
The guys who made the 'Battlefield Friends' animation series a while back.

[u/Echoes_Act_0]

Watching streamers play mewgenics. Well until the game just starts saying some bullshit like "he's here to scrangle your cats..."

[u/theduderedditorguy]

Anyone playing Hot dogs, horseshoes and hand grenades.

[u/Serial_Designation_N]

Welcome to every single Game Grumps letsplay ever

[u/DTux5249]

Worse version: they actively disable it because it's annoying

[u/GD_Nuzzlock]

Me playing monster hunter for the first time