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Why Watching a Full Game Playthrough Beats Playing It Yourself
The Appeal of the Pure Spectator Experience I have been playing video games since the mid-90s, and for most of that time I assumed the only valid way to experience a game was with a controller in my hands. But somewhere around my third playthrough of Dark Souls, I started watching other players run through areas I knew by heart. At first it was just curiosity, I wanted to see if someone else struggled with the same boss or found a shortcut I had missed. Then I stumbled onto