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For example in Minecraft, Let's Plays can give you ideas for things to build, maybe even outright copy, in your own world. This works because it's a huge open-e
by aristidb 14y ago
For example in Minecraft, Let's Plays can give you ideas for things to build, maybe even outright copy, in your own world. This works because it's a huge open-ended game with rich game mechanics.
Maybe if your game is a linear pseudo-Movie that can be fully substituted by a few LP videos, you have something to worry. But that's not LPs damaging the game industry, that's the game industry churning out unoriginal and, frankly, lame games.
- olsn 14y agoTrue! So maybe one can hope, that LPs are kind of forcing the industrie to rethink their strategies just repackaging old types of game(ofc not every company is doing that, but a lot games are basically the same).
- pyre 14y agoEven linear pseudo-movies aren't necessarily damaged by Let's Play videos. I watched an entire walkthrough of Batman Arkham City, but the combat system was so awesome/fun-looking that I'll eventually buy the game myself and play it (probably even go back and buy Arkham Asylum too, as it has the same combat system -- though an earlier version). That said, I also watched through the entirety of Max Payne 3, and it didn't make me all that excited to run out and buy it. It mostly made me remember how the bullet time became less fun after hours of using it in actual game play (in the first 2 Max Payne games). In reality, it was just the story that would have driven that game for me (and in the end, I didn't really like the story that much anyways).