@SparkleMuffin21@lilifying This is like not riding a roller coaster because it’ll make you sick but you still tell people you’re a fan of it because you listened to your brother screaming while he was on it
@mhmtmnnr@cressuhime@SNK_LRD Yo yeah I just read the script to this movie and understood the themes so I’m a fan now! Did I completely miss out on most of the experience and the way it was intended to be consumed? Yep! I honestly don’t understand why you couldn’t just think the game looked cool, like it’s ok
@mhmtmnnr@cressuhime@SNK_LRD Again, everything you’re describing here is thinking the game looked cool, you weren’t a fan of it because you hadn’t played it yet. That’s like watching a trailer and seeing cool mechanics so you call yourself a fan of the game, it just makes no sense.
@mhmtmnnr@cressuhime@SNK_LRD You keep throwing out petty semantics but what am I saying that’s petty or semantic? Also if you crave to play the game that doesn’t make you a fan of it?? That just means you want to play it bro what
@mhmtmnnr@cressuhime@SNK_LRD Yeah I think I just inherently disagree, no video game was made to be watched primarily they were all made to be played, and the BARE MINIMUM to be a fan is to engage with the art form, which you aren’t doing if you aren’t playing the game
@mhmtmnnr@cressuhime@SNK_LRD How is what I said petty semantic I said watching it doesn’t make you a fan? Also yeah if you acknowledge they aren’t the same, then how can’t you acknowledge that both don’t make you a fan
@mhmtmnnr@cressuhime@SNK_LRD See this is where this argument gets weird cause like, NO ONE is saying let’s plays are bad it’s just not playing the game, you though dead by daylight looked cool and were a fan of lets plays of it, but you weren’t a fan of the game until you played it
@mhmtmnnr@cressuhime@SNK_LRD The game of tag is both of those things, they’re both important to the game. Games have rules but they aren’t solely rules, just like they aren’t solely story or gameplay. Yet to be a fan of a game, you have to have played it or else you haven’t actually experienced it
@mhmtmnnr@cressuhime@SNK_LRD Also “gameplay informing narrative” is irrelevant when the argument is about being a fan of a game, which majorly includes gameplay
@mhmtmnnr@cressuhime@SNK_LRD Yo are we being serious? Every video game uses gameplay to deliver plot or else it’s a movie?? And yeah the shoot guy button is usually used to kill someone that moves the plot forward, or you have to shoot a lot of guys which is difficult so it makes reaching more plot feel good
@musey101@bluthundyr Listening to an audiobook as opposed to reading it is closer to playing on mouse and keyboard as opposed to controller, you’re still getting the same amount of content in the intended way. Games are made to be watched, they’re meant to be played
@cressuhime@SNK_LRD Why does me responding mean I give so much of a fuck? Why does my opinion affect you so much? I think you’re projecting about the superiority thing no one is implying or stating superiority. It’s just doesn’t make sense to be a fan of something you’ve never played or experienced
@cressuhime@SNK_LRD Funny how you started this by calling people on my side pretentious, and now disagreeing with you is “loser behavior” do what you want no one cares, but saying you’re a fan of something you don’t care enough about to actually play is just top tier performative.
@cressuhime@SNK_LRD Bro EVERY video game uses gameplay to deliver the plot, that’s why it’s a game and not a book. You’re just admitting you only care about the story of games, which makes up at best a third of a video game.
@cressuhime@SNK_LRD Yeah I’m not gonna agree that someone who read a Wikipedia plot breakdown is a fan of a film, so I’m not gonna say that someone who watched a gameplay walkthrough is a fan of the game. It’s not pretentious you’re just missing a huge part of the experience
@cressuhime@SNK_LRD I don’t think it’s pretentious to say you didn’t really experience a game if you didn’t play it, we wouldn’t call reading a plot synopsis watching a movie
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