Have you ever been discouraged from playing a game because of YouTube?

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Look, I love stories about people finding games through YouTube and falling in love with them.

There's something beautiful about them.

But I feel that the opposite is just as fascinating.

Have you ever been discouraged from playing a game because of YouTube? It doesn't necessarily have to be because of the YouTuber's opinion, but because the game had game-breaking bugs you learned about there, or because a longplay showed you it wasn't going to be your thing... whatever works, as long as it actively stopped you from playing something.

I was going to get "Fallout Shelter" until a couple of brutal videos made me think better of it — dodged a bullet there, too.

You?

 

[Burzuru Burzuru]

i guess some games if they're just a little too popular, i don't want to play them at all.

 

[ArchienineZXAdventArchienineZXAdvent's icon]

I guess the top best games of systems

 

[Tsukishima]

It convinced me games like Repo, Among Us and Lethal Company are a waste of my time. I strongly dislike games like these where they are just hinged on the concept of cheap multiplayer waste.

 

[Metroid_Hybrid]

More than I can count in the past couple of years..
After I jail-broke my PS3, I started downloading all kinds of games. But I tempered this by looking up reviews of various game to see if they were worth downloading in the first place.. Classic Game Room in particular was really handy for this because they were on the shorter side, while also showing a fair amount of actual gameplay footage without the fluff..

 

[ArchienineZXAdventArchienineZXAdvent's icon]

Girl, i misread "discouraged" as "encouraged" lol

 

[DjQuick2008]

Depends whos doing it IGN tend to balls up game reviews.

 

[4C374552A1CA2638]

I came close when researching a game brought up on this forum. I found a video (in the spoiler on this post) that was running at 10 frames per second and almost immediately lost all interest, but looking at a video from another user thankfully proved the game didn't actually run that poorly.

A second opinion can't hurt.

 

[Tenshishi]

There's no doubt that my childhood enthusiasm for Nintendo has waned largely as a result of seeing the endless praise for everything they've done.

I had an NES, N64, and GBA as a kid, and I love lots of games on all those systems... But I barely ever see NES get talked about anymore, GBA seems to only get attention for the mainline titles, and N64 gets praised like a haven of glorious perfection.

I've in particular developed a distaste for Nintendo's "endless casual" games - I thought Animal Crossing and Tomodachi Life were reasonably fun as a kid, but I really want no part of them now. Seeing stuff like "Vinny - Animal Crossing New Horizons (Part 36)" turns my indifference into vitriol.

For the more positive side of this situation, though, review videos have saved me no small amount of money and time. It's always nice to have a better idea of what I'm getting into before I commit.

Then there's the weird one... Diddy Kong Racing. I never had it as a kid and never really went looking for it. Videos I've seen on it since have simultaneously made me more interested - cool looking mechanics, neat tracks, decent music - and less interested - the colors and sounds make it seem like a game for infants, and everyone I've seen talk about it has that know-it-all adorkable voice that I hate (which just makes me associate it with the game since no videos I've seen sound like a normal human being, street urchin, urbane Frasier clone, etc.). The end result? A continuing indifference.

 

[Megarockman _1987 Megarockman _1987]

With First metal gear (NES)
I watched some videos about it and I thought it would be fun or a good point to start in the franchise,
Dude what a mistake, the long play made see it easy but when I played I hated, one of the worst afternoon in my life

 

[lestagio]

Yes. I heard of Cuphead from Youtube when it came out and watched a few videos on "Oh it's too hard!!!!!" There were videos of people talking bad about the game because they were bad at the game. That said, I saw enough good stuff about the game that I bought it... it is one of my favorite games ever, lol.

On the other hand, Tomb Raider (2013) was encouraged by a few people I sometimes watch so I bought the game, only to find that it was (in my opinion) shitty Uncharted.