A Review Of Bloodborne Based On 200 Hours Of Twitch And YouTube Videos

Forbes:
When I shut down my computer after more than 200 hundred hours of watching, it felt like an abandonment of something, releasing myself from those hundreds and thousands and millions who would all come along to watch in their own time, chattering mites chirping to each other through the veiny network wires. I felt profoundly alone in cutting the tie to it all, a pastime that has the peculiar effect of making all one’s time outside it seem newly impassable, a catalyst for imaging one’s life as a vessel waiting to be filled by the humming energy of other eyes. And when the lid closes on the portal to all those distant eyes, I feel for a few minutes like the outsider in the newly alien landscape of my apartment, appointed in a garish and excessive realism that makes the accumulated knowledge of lore and systems feel as useless as a corpse, which once seemed weightless when there were hundreds of us carrying it.

[Jimboms]

That's a really interesting way of doing a review, nice work!

[Nitrowolf2]

I wouldn't count this a review at all. Watching and playing are 2 completely different things. First off, this skews your opinion of the game in general because you are watching someone else play it, going based off how they feel. If I wanted to review this game based off watching someone, I could just search 'DSP Plays Bloodborne" and pretty much come to the conclusion that this game is utter trash because of that. Sure, you could say why not find a streamer who likes the game then, well that's just being bias at that point.

I never understood some of these guys who reviews games just from watching it, IMO it's a poor opinion when you have someone else playing and commentary on what they think, therfor making you think it

[Jimboms]

How about watching it playthroughs with no commentary? Then there's no bias, pure gameplay.

[_Knightmare_]

Going a bit off-topic: you obviously have the right to dislike DSP, but why did you make it look like he hated the game when he actually loved it? lol

[wsoutlaw87]

Why would you need someone's review of what they saw on twitch? Just watch it yourself. Who would watch 200 hours of someone else playing a game?

[ifistbrowni]

My thoughts exactly! Just go buy the damn game and play for yourself.

Spend 200 hours cutting neighbors lawns and you'll have enough money for a ps4 and bloodborne.

[Clogmaster]

Soon we will review restaurants by watching people eat.

The future is near.

[greenmiker]

I would prefer playing those 200 hours and not watching them.

[Timesplitter14]

something I noticed recently is that many people like watching games more than they like to play them. More and more games are made with streaming in mind (especially all the "survival/crafting" games that descend from Minecraft and DayZ). Basically, some games are made as a context in which people can give a good show.

I guess some people don't think it's worth playing a game if you don't have an audience, and if they can't get an audience, they'll choose to be part of the audience.

I think this is a reality that will heavily game design in the future

[ginsunuva]

That's what Twitch's business model counts on: celebrities only playing games and everyone else watching 24/7.

I can't believe people sit there for hundreds of hours watching.

[Timesplitter14]

Basically, games are becoming like sports. Millions of people watch them and are passionate about them, but never play them

[Magicite]

lol of course, what idiot would spend so much spoiling himself or maybe he never intended to play it in first place?

[spicelicka]

How in Chinese hell do you have time and patience to WATCH someone play a video game for 200 hours??

[die_fiend]

What is Chinese hell?

[rdgneoz3]

8 year olds in sweat shops? Then again, these shoes are pretty nice...

As for the "review", when did it become OK to not actually play the game you're suppose to be reviewing? Next we'll have people doing movie reviews based on their friends comments after seeing a movie...

[Chevalier]

There are 134 world's of hell, but, it's been simplified recently to basically 18 levels of hell. Each being a different type of torture.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/w...

[wsoutlaw87]

Plus, this game doesn't take that long to beat. I ran through my ng++ trophy run in 2.5 hours with a friend. He must have watched the same crap over and over.

[Clown_Syndr0me]

I get bored watching someone else after 10 mins. If I reviewed games this way my reviews would be very short and probably declare every game boring and sleep-inducing!

[theshredded]

Woah!this gen is pretty ret*rded,people would rather watch people play games than play themselves as proven by famous YouTubers.People would rather watch people eat,do sports...bunch of lazy lowlifes

[Two-Face]

You can do both. I like to play by myself, and sometimes I like to relax and watch people on twitch. There is nothing wrong with that. Protip to you: Stop being such a hateful human being, and respect others decisions and lifestyles.

[marlinfan10]

You'd rather spend 200 hours watching someone rather than just coughing up $60 and getting it yourself? Lol

[Summons75]

I don't think this really counts as a review. You can't analyze and review a game if you don't actually play it. That would be like me going into a cellphone store and going "Well I haven't actually touched an Iphone but I see a lot of people use them so it must be good" You don't know how it feels to play, how it controls, or the tests of patience that can come from a game being broken, unfair, or just absurd at the amount you have to go through to complete 1/10 the game.

[ginsunuva]

This is either really good satire on the new generation of people watching others play games, or it's serious and really sad.

[Rhomiel]

Alright It's a good read but this is not a review btw, it explains how Bloodborne brings people together in it's Universe. It explains how twitch and other videostreaming media has made us closer when we get in to those worlds and how it gives senses to our life when we are in it with millions of other and how alone we end up after leaving this universe because in the end, we are still alone and it is just a videogame.

[Rob_Ko]

Watching a game is like watching porn, it's just not the same thing as doing it yourself

[Ristul]

That tense and nerve wrecking feeling before a boss battle, how can that translate when simply watching someone else play the game. It's a game, not a movie...

[Germany7]

Someone said above that games are like sports now, lmao!
Making a review just watching someone playing it's not just pointless, but beyond ridiculous.

[OB1Biker]

No surprise from this site