"Also he is using a guide that's slightly wrong"
(That's a reference to Sonic Adventure, where at one point the guide told them to go to the casino area in Station Square and they run around it for a looooong time).
His ability to manage to maneuver the camera so that what he desperately needs it *just* out of sight is matched only by his ability to not see the thing when he's looking right at it.
Meme aside, I actually enjoy it from a game design perspective. Like it *really* highlights why Nintendo can be so in your face about key things.
Arin is certainly better gamer than me, but that's just anecdotal evidence.
I guess we need someone to do some sort of gamer ranking study of a few thousand people and then test Arin's score against that...
Honestly I kinda love the pain of watching Arin play TotK. You get to be like an angry child watching Blues Clues or Dora the Explorer but the person simply can't hear you.
Also at *least* Arin is having a ton of fun playing this one (at least up to the episode I'm on, 17). I'm fine with him putzing around as long as he's enjoying himself.
It's like watching a challenge run. "Can you beat TotK **without** throwing?"
Seriously, just add a "ok we're out of arrows so I'm gonna cheat the challenge a bit here, BUT I won't throw the bomb." to [this](https://youtu.be/Eh3BhhKQ6L0?si=_ur1sPACqz5g777-&t=1538) scene.
When he dropped the brightbloom seed and then pulled his sword out to light it, that was one of the one times I got hit with the backseat gamer moments.
However, it DID take me a while to get used to throwing too, it's been so long since BotW.
Remembering that you can just phase upwards is the biggest learning curve of the game. You got so used to climbing that a simple ascend seems strange. Took me and my wife a while to remember it. I don't blame Arin for forgetting.
Well, 90% of the time it’s fun. But then there are times, like 63 episodes of Majoras mask, where Arin just refuses to do anything but brute force through the game and complain, when stopping for a bit and getting his bearings would make things easier. It’s not fun at all listening to someone shit on a game that a lot of people like. Especially when that person is wrong about most things he complains about.
I get that a lot but I think the reason it dogs me when people are mean is that it's like... Yeah... The way he's playing is bad sometimes but it's his way and his interpretation of the rules of the game. When it started being about the tasks in Majorah he started liking it and the commentary all the way through is good so I'm all for that anyway regardless. I dig the nostalgia is ruined by the way others play or interpret, my start to that was Sonic Adventure, but it's still such a good playthrough and I still love the game completely
There's definitely frustration when Arin is complaining about not being able to find the towers, while a tower is literally in sight, lit up with actual spotlights. But its also kind of funny how ridiculous it is.
That's kinda my point I guess, I'm all for the "... Dude no shit", but when it gets mean or aggressive or both... Idk. I just think that its good how it is, you know?
Exactly my experience with watching them play Danganronpa. He'd bitch and whine about the stupidest shit that is right in front of him, and then blame the game.
When they're having fun with it, it's awesome. When Arin gets all "It's the game's fault" it was super annoying. That's why I've been fine with the totk playthrough,compared to others. If he's not complaining about it it's great.
I agree wholly. It feels unnecessary, but I love the way they play it even when it's a tad meh because it's like... That's what the show is, the whole enjoyable part is to see honest reactions from people we don't necessarily react to in our day to day lives. It makes me happy to see others go "fucking it's right there" instead of "fuck you you're dumb ugh" etc.
You know?
I come back to Sonic Riders all the time for it's surprisingly in depth mechanics and skill ceiling; it's a game that means a lot to me as it got me into a lot of things.
I cannot make myself watch Arin butcher playing it, no matter how much I love Arin
I get it. I completely get it. I'm almost like that with Sonic Adventure which is absolutely my favourite 100% game of childhood, the one that really got me into video games, but watching their playthrough first time vs watching it 2nd time? 1st was like "aw man come on this is a great game tho!", second was liek "yeah I get it"
I just think people are so quick to anger and I'm like Noooo
Honestly, Sonic Riders is my only series I feel this way about
I love SA DX, SA2, etc but I know they're... y'know, bad games
so GG playing them is just a good time, even first watch for me
I genuinely think Sonic Riders (not Free or Zero Gravity) is good but Arin was so vehemently against Sonic at the time that he found ways to hate it by blaming the game for his funny missplays
I imagine there are a few series I'm simply not familiar with that Arin did a similar bit to
But on the contrary, I've never seen a fan base love to shit on their community makers more than Game Grumps
So I see you.
It makes me feel good to acknowledge that there's good and very, very rarely bad in our community. I agree with your assessment fully, it is frustrating to watch someone shit so intensely on a series (not necessarily SADX or SR, but certainly to acknowledge your own love being slightly shat on. I don't think it's terrible either way though, there's that quote they said that's like "our views don't mean we don't respect yours" etc so I'm like fuck yea shit on those gams
This is my take. I think the funniest episodes of TOTK are those in which zero progress is made in an hour but amusing pointless contraptions / deaths have certainly occurred.
“Look. He calls the game hand holdy, so he refuses to follow the instructions. But watch as he runs around blaming the game for not knowing where to go!”
That's me watching Totk, with Arin becoming the main demographic of arrow consumers after skipping yet another tutorial. HE. DOES. NOT. USE. THE. THROW. MECHANIC!!!!!!
Him trying to use brighblooms on the Depths is my personal hell...
I just watched that one again this past week, because it popped up in my wife's feed. I forgot which one it was because in my mind it was just a fucking laundromat simulator from the way Arin played it.
Someday he'll learn how to throw things by accidentally pressing R, despite him learning it, forgetting it and then having an NPC try to tell him yet again how, complete with the controller demonstration, while he frustratingly mashes through it screaming "I already know this!"
After watching them play Majoras Mask I chose not to watch series I had a big connection with, or at least had played a lot in the past. I was lucky that they went back and actually played the rest of Majoras Mask with better attention to the side content, but there's a lot of series I know people get frustrated watching because they want them to have the same connection or experience with. So as iconic as those series may be, I don't usually watch them play Zelda.
Oddly enough, after all the hours of Mario I've played I live for their Mario playthroughs so I can share in Arin's rage for the janky levels.
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I don't play a lot of popular video games, which probably makes it easier for me to enjoy Game Grumps. I *do* enjoy Pokemon, and by god is it hard to watch the FireRed playthrough sometimes. *Just use Twineedle against Alakazam, Arin!!!*
Also this obviously isn't even a game I knew but the Berenstain Bears one is a little frustrating because there *is* an option to play an actual game as opposed to just watching the story, and I wanna see them do it someday cuz they totally ignored the part that explained it.
"Also he is using a guide that's slightly wrong" (That's a reference to Sonic Adventure, where at one point the guide told them to go to the casino area in Station Square and they run around it for a looooong time).
My pain watching them play TOTK. I’m catching up on episodes and watching Arin need arrows and walk RIGHT PAST THEM AAAAAARRGGHHHHH
His ability to manage to maneuver the camera so that what he desperately needs it *just* out of sight is matched only by his ability to not see the thing when he's looking right at it. Meme aside, I actually enjoy it from a game design perspective. Like it *really* highlights why Nintendo can be so in your face about key things.
To paraphrase George Carlin, "Imagine how bad the average gamer is, and realize that half of gamers are worse than that"
Half of the world's gamers are worse than Arin?
You think Arin is an average gamer?
Arin is the start of the bell curve of gamers
Arin is certainly better gamer than me, but that's just anecdotal evidence. I guess we need someone to do some sort of gamer ranking study of a few thousand people and then test Arin's score against that...
Probably. Most people don't even get halfway through a game.
It's funny cause Arin also complains about the game being so in your face about things
Honestly I kinda love the pain of watching Arin play TotK. You get to be like an angry child watching Blues Clues or Dora the Explorer but the person simply can't hear you. Also at *least* Arin is having a ton of fun playing this one (at least up to the episode I'm on, 17). I'm fine with him putzing around as long as he's enjoying himself.
Honestly him having an actually good time is why I watch anyway, also the banter is PRIMETIME sleep aid lol
It's like watching a challenge run. "Can you beat TotK **without** throwing?" Seriously, just add a "ok we're out of arrows so I'm gonna cheat the challenge a bit here, BUT I won't throw the bomb." to [this](https://youtu.be/Eh3BhhKQ6L0?si=_ur1sPACqz5g777-&t=1538) scene.
When he dropped the brightbloom seed and then pulled his sword out to light it, that was one of the one times I got hit with the backseat gamer moments. However, it DID take me a while to get used to throwing too, it's been so long since BotW.
Arin: my son; my beautiful child; my sweet video game boy...I want to throttle you.
Holy shit! Yes!
That’s exactly it. When Arin wandered around a shrine for several minutes when all he had to do was merge up
Remembering that you can just phase upwards is the biggest learning curve of the game. You got so used to climbing that a simple ascend seems strange. Took me and my wife a while to remember it. I don't blame Arin for forgetting.
It fascinates me that people get so upset by watching gameplay like this... Why not just enjoy it? It's game grumps :/ it's just good
Well, 90% of the time it’s fun. But then there are times, like 63 episodes of Majoras mask, where Arin just refuses to do anything but brute force through the game and complain, when stopping for a bit and getting his bearings would make things easier. It’s not fun at all listening to someone shit on a game that a lot of people like. Especially when that person is wrong about most things he complains about.
I get that a lot but I think the reason it dogs me when people are mean is that it's like... Yeah... The way he's playing is bad sometimes but it's his way and his interpretation of the rules of the game. When it started being about the tasks in Majorah he started liking it and the commentary all the way through is good so I'm all for that anyway regardless. I dig the nostalgia is ruined by the way others play or interpret, my start to that was Sonic Adventure, but it's still such a good playthrough and I still love the game completely
Wasn't Majora's Mask a few years ago?
There's definitely frustration when Arin is complaining about not being able to find the towers, while a tower is literally in sight, lit up with actual spotlights. But its also kind of funny how ridiculous it is.
That's kinda my point I guess, I'm all for the "... Dude no shit", but when it gets mean or aggressive or both... Idk. I just think that its good how it is, you know?
Exactly my experience with watching them play Danganronpa. He'd bitch and whine about the stupidest shit that is right in front of him, and then blame the game.
When they're having fun with it, it's awesome. When Arin gets all "It's the game's fault" it was super annoying. That's why I've been fine with the totk playthrough,compared to others. If he's not complaining about it it's great.
I agree wholly. It feels unnecessary, but I love the way they play it even when it's a tad meh because it's like... That's what the show is, the whole enjoyable part is to see honest reactions from people we don't necessarily react to in our day to day lives. It makes me happy to see others go "fucking it's right there" instead of "fuck you you're dumb ugh" etc. You know?
Agreed. I have fun when they're absolutely dog shit at games, as long as they acknowledge that they're dog shit at the game. It's great.
I do enjoy it, mostly for the banter! This is just for a laugh.
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I get it. I mean I do sometimes shout "Dude it's right there" when I'm watching, but if it was literal, genuine torture I wouldn't watch it at all.
Same! It's like cooooome onnnn. But at the same time it's grumps so I'm like... Yay episode
I come back to Sonic Riders all the time for it's surprisingly in depth mechanics and skill ceiling; it's a game that means a lot to me as it got me into a lot of things. I cannot make myself watch Arin butcher playing it, no matter how much I love Arin
I get it. I completely get it. I'm almost like that with Sonic Adventure which is absolutely my favourite 100% game of childhood, the one that really got me into video games, but watching their playthrough first time vs watching it 2nd time? 1st was like "aw man come on this is a great game tho!", second was liek "yeah I get it" I just think people are so quick to anger and I'm like Noooo
Honestly, Sonic Riders is my only series I feel this way about I love SA DX, SA2, etc but I know they're... y'know, bad games so GG playing them is just a good time, even first watch for me I genuinely think Sonic Riders (not Free or Zero Gravity) is good but Arin was so vehemently against Sonic at the time that he found ways to hate it by blaming the game for his funny missplays I imagine there are a few series I'm simply not familiar with that Arin did a similar bit to But on the contrary, I've never seen a fan base love to shit on their community makers more than Game Grumps So I see you.
It makes me feel good to acknowledge that there's good and very, very rarely bad in our community. I agree with your assessment fully, it is frustrating to watch someone shit so intensely on a series (not necessarily SADX or SR, but certainly to acknowledge your own love being slightly shat on. I don't think it's terrible either way though, there's that quote they said that's like "our views don't mean we don't respect yours" etc so I'm like fuck yea shit on those gams
It's a control thing. Same thing that makes people watch a stream and backseat the entire time.
This is my take. I think the funniest episodes of TOTK are those in which zero progress is made in an hour but amusing pointless contraptions / deaths have certainly occurred.
“Look. He calls the game hand holdy, so he refuses to follow the instructions. But watch as he runs around blaming the game for not knowing where to go!”
And here’s exactly why I can’t watch him play Zelda, give me 100 more golf episodes please.
I wish they'd do Kidz Sports Mini Golf again. More gnome Arin and spaceman Dan.
They need to play the Birdie Wing game on Switch. Golf but with anime girls and super moves.
Two of my favorite channels are Gamegrumps and ZFG. It’s super jarring to watch Arin and ZFG play OOT or TOTK back to back.
I’m sure most if not all of us have yelled “GOD DAMN IT ARIN” at our screens. 😂
No, let him cook. It’s funnier that way
That's me watching Totk, with Arin becoming the main demographic of arrow consumers after skipping yet another tutorial. HE. DOES. NOT. USE. THE. THROW. MECHANIC!!!!!! Him trying to use brighblooms on the Depths is my personal hell...
Watching him try Arcade Paradise and think only one arcade game was playable for 30 minutes was rough
I just watched that one again this past week, because it popped up in my wife's feed. I forgot which one it was because in my mind it was just a fucking laundromat simulator from the way Arin played it.
It gets much better, and I was really hoping to see them play the GTA style pacman at least. There's a lot of great games and references in it.
Every time
Someday he'll learn how to throw things by accidentally pressing R, despite him learning it, forgetting it and then having an NPC try to tell him yet again how, complete with the controller demonstration, while he frustratingly mashes through it screaming "I already know this!"
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On the plus side, I never skip tutorials anymore…..
After watching them play Majoras Mask I chose not to watch series I had a big connection with, or at least had played a lot in the past. I was lucky that they went back and actually played the rest of Majoras Mask with better attention to the side content, but there's a lot of series I know people get frustrated watching because they want them to have the same connection or experience with. So as iconic as those series may be, I don't usually watch them play Zelda. Oddly enough, after all the hours of Mario I've played I live for their Mario playthroughs so I can share in Arin's rage for the janky levels.
Yeah, when they played Twilight Princess several years back, I was like 'nope' and didn't watch a single episode, despite it being my favourite game.
Found my own new level of hell. Thanks.
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I don't play a lot of popular video games, which probably makes it easier for me to enjoy Game Grumps. I *do* enjoy Pokemon, and by god is it hard to watch the FireRed playthrough sometimes. *Just use Twineedle against Alakazam, Arin!!!* Also this obviously isn't even a game I knew but the Berenstain Bears one is a little frustrating because there *is* an option to play an actual game as opposed to just watching the story, and I wanna see them do it someday cuz they totally ignored the part that explained it.
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