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What video games would you rather watch someone else play than play it yourself? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago by jonathanvmv8f@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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For me, it is any city/building construction game like City Skylines, Two Point Hospital, Planet Zoo etc.

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[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 58 points 4 months ago

Speed runs to games I know how to play.

[-] LouNeko@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

That's basically like watching sports. Sure I can play tennis, but watching professionals play is more entertaining.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

Do I really want to see how shit I am at a game? Lol

[-] androogee@midwest.social 9 points 4 months ago

Speed runners ain't even playing the same game, it's fascinating to watch.

Don't gotta bring your ego into it, it's a single player video game lmao

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

I'm from an Era when most games were single player and didn't hardly have any sort of story. The only reason you played those games was for the challenge of beating them. You didn't play Mike Tysons Punch Out for a story. You played it to try an beat Mike Tyson and win the game.

[-] androogee@midwest.social 3 points 4 months ago

I started playing games on MS-DOS. Lol.

I understand enjoying the challenge of a single player game.

Speed runners are doing an entirely different thing. It's an art form.

But you like what you like. If you don't like it, that's no business of mine.

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