Like many others here, "Let's Play" videos can, and personally should, discourage the sell of bad games. They also can encourage more unknown games to be brough

Like many others here, "Let's Play" videos can, and personally should, discourage the sell of bad games. They also can encourage more unknown games to be brought to light. I frequent Twitch.tv a few times a week and never click the top games, they are over-saturated and honestly over-hyped, though to be fair I was never into the competitive gaming realm. I prefer the caster to casually stream whatever retro/flavor-of-the-month/casual games and just enjoying it. A great example is Trauma Center for the Wii. I was busy working on my thesis late at night and would pop on a stream to pass time while my processes ran. Trauma Center was the type of game I would have never picked up, but during the stream, the caster was covering the forensics section of the game. For a mostly point and click game with cheesy graphics, the unraveling story behind a wife killing her family was completely unexpected. Literally, the story drew me in and I picked up the game to playthrough the entire thing. "Let's Play" videos are still a delicate thing, mostly because you can't just set up a stream and expect money. It requires community building and generally speaking, you're personality has to be engaging enough that someone is willing to stare at a little box of you while you game.