it is nice to see how someone else played the games :)
Totally! It was so helpful for me to see how people were playing the game. I was very fortunate to watch a few streamers play my game. It helped me improve them.
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It's helpful to watch someone playing your own game, but live play-throughs are downright boring and they give too many spoilers. Of the ones I've seen, they tend to make the player look like an idiot. More importantly, they make the game look bad. For anyone not familiar with text adventures, these videos would really put them off. We should be promoting the genre and making people want to play the games, not making them look bad.
This are the types of games that I play on my stream most days, that is adventure games, from the graphical text based ones to the modern ones. I thought all of the games were great efforts and some certainly had difficult puzzle and others had less difficult ones. I like to think that by playing them that I highlighted that they existed and let everyone know that they could also play them. As far as spoilers are concerned, I know that some people don't like to play these types of games (because they are bad at puzzles or get easily frustrated), but like to watch other stumble through them and to see the story.
Ha ha, it may be a generational thing. Twitch and Let's Plays are HUGELY popular. My wife doesn't understand at all why anyone wants to watch people play games.
The ones I watch tend to be for humour purposes, and games I've already played.
I'm still impressed TacoAdventure was able to commit to five hours of our games. ^_^
I like let's play streams.
If I really like the look of a game that I haven't yet played, and spoilers are coming thick and fast, I'll bow out, but quite often I'd rather have a social experience (like playing with my brothers when I was younger) than flounder on a game all by myself. "Single player" games are always my preference but I so rarely used to play single player games alone. Streams kind of recreate that atmosphere, but with someone else at the helm.
I enjoy streams live, so I can chat in the window, and make suggestions, I don't very much enjoy just watching a saved stream as it's not social any more.
Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I don't think I'd like watching me as I'd rather play the games than watch others play them. I do enjoy watching games that I have played and seeing other people stumble around the puzzles or get lost and see how they think differently from me. I play adventure games from across the spectrum from Mystery House on the Apple II, to Zork I, to classic Sierra and Lucas Arts, to modern adventure games such as Tacoma. Usually people pick the games that I play and sometimes people come and say hi and leave because they don't want me to spoil a game that they want to play themselves.