What's a game you got because you watched some youtuber play it?

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I feel that this sort of thing has increased exponentially in the last decade or so, right after the demise of MCNs (Multi-Channel Networks) and the sudden possibility of making money off gaming content on the platform... People can now make a living out of playing videogames and, in turn, make them very interesting to watch to keep the dough rolling.

The first game I personally bought because of watching someone else play it was Life Is Strange -- the person going through it did such a good job making it look awesome that I just followed suit and got the whole thing.

I didn't finish it, but that was because of me personally not connecting with the story after the halfway point.

What about you?

 

[Spike's iconSpike]

Because FrankieOnPCin1080p played Dayz I created a blog to post a guide to play on private servers.
In that same blog I later uploaded a file for a game called Black Rock Shooter.
So if this site exists is because of Frankie. I didn't plan any of it.

 

[Cardboardtubeknight Cardboardtubeknight]

Every game my little brother had interest in I watched YouTubers play before purchasing just to check if it was any good. It's a big list. He was spoiled

 

[Volt712]

Vanquish is one that immediately comes to mind. Pewdiepie played it 8 years ago, excellent game, highly recommend!

 

[PhrawzT]

I got the 2016 Hitman game becasuse of Outside Xbox.

 

[Fateman 2006]

Dying light

 

[Danieru-Emanyueru]

Among Us, Stardew Valley, Fall Guys and Minecraft these four games convinced me on YouTube.

 

[Jellyjamlu]

I owe alot to this Youtuber, this exact, now 15 yr old playthrough of Silent Hill 2 got me into the franchise, SH2 now my favourite game ever, period. Everything about the symbolism, theories, i obsessed over.
My comment left on one of the parts is still there, somewhere... buried 15 years later. crazy!

 

[Jangiku]

I don't think i could ever find the video again but a while back, I had watched a random playthrough of True Crime: Streets of LA and thought the game looked interesting enough to make me want to play it. Found a copy on Ebay a couple days later and picked it up for myself.

 

[Cu-Neo]

Devil May Cry. I watched the youtuber Dross talking about the trilogy and I got interested later that day I discovered the HD collection for Xbox 360 and the rest is history.

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

TwoBestFriends convinced me to check out a lot of games, same for Retsupurae when they started doing wrongpuraes.

 

[diet_orange]

UFO 50, Megabonk, and Cloverpit, all because of that funny Italian man Vinnie Vinesauce who refuses to play DEE M CEE TOO, THA BEST GAEM THAT SHOOT GOOD

 

[Samatonic Samatonic]

Watching Theradbrad gave me a few games I wanted to play, like syndicate for the Xbox 360

 

[bjork]

House Flipper is the last one I can think of, but I watched them play it on giant bomb, not YT. A lot of times the trailer and word of mouth is enough for me, and I don't click with a lot of YT personalities.

 

[Kamomedan]

Deadly Premonition. I forget who it was off the top of my head, but I remember watching someone talk about it and then I fell in love with it not too long after I played it.

 

[Zerpina]

Cyberpunk 2077.

I believe it was The Spiffing Brit who got an early copy of it. And well, with all the glorious glitches and fuckups the game had, I absolutely pre-ordered it solely because it was a total mess.

I Regret nothing!

 

[TinRattler]

MentalJesusRocks got my son onto Snoopy vs the Red Baron (PS2)

 

[skramz]

in the period of 2012-2015 i used to watch this guy called forklauncher do let's plays on different games. he got me HOOKED on dark souls and pokemon, then disappeared without a trace and hasn't uploaded in 10 years... odd.

 

[Rocket2049]

the Tower of guns because of this :

the first minute of the video is hilarious and became a meme with my friends
had online multi and was crazy tough.

 

[Guinea]

I watched Pewdiepie play Tropico and Minecraft and it was funny so I bought them.

 

[Rocket2049]

i see a lot of games because of Noisy pixel on youtube and it's almost always something i enjoy (JRPGs mostly)

 

[King Torro]

I remember learning about Killer 7 (originally on ps2) from a Chip & Ironicus Let's Play. Got it from a Steam sale a while back.
Another that I wouldn't have probably heard of without the youtuber is the twin-stick-ish isometric shooter game "Brigador". But when MandaloreGaming made a video on it, I was like "I really want to play this game".

 

[evercaptor]

Theree isn't one for me, to my knowledge, unless you count "first heard of a game through some kind fo youtube coerage. but thats mostly because I don't watch lets plays. the closest I can get to this is Devil Daggers, via thee Giant Bombcast.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Guacamelee (I thought it was a normal platformer lol), Doom II (as I mostly knew the original) and Ballance comes to mind first.

 

[Sorion]

I saw some gameplay of fallout 3 circa 2012 and I was really impressed with it but I couldn't play it at the time, years later I bought an xbox 360 at a discount and finally I was able to play... fallout new vegas!, and a year later I borrowed fallout 3 from a friend