Can you be a fan of a game if you’ve never played it?

To answer the OP's question Absolutely! I've been following Starcraft for over 10 years. I consider that to be a true E-sport over many others.
You have to be quick in hand and in mind to play the game as it reminds me of a futuristic style of timed Chess. I've played timed Chess. Not as easy as people think it is. Losira, PartinG, Polt were the old guard and the New guard, on top of my head are Neeb, Reynor, Clem. So yes every evening I grab a cup of coffee and get my 1 hour fix watching Starcraft players on Youtube.
 
TheRedChair said:
To answer the OP's question Absolutely! I've been following Starcraft for over 10 years. I consider that to be a true E-sport over many others.
You have to be quick in hand and in mind to play the game as it reminds me of a futuristic style of timed Chess. I've played timed Chess. Not as easy as people think it is. Losira, PartinG, Polt were the old guard and the New guard, on top of my head are Neeb, Reynor, Clem. So yes every evening I grab a cup of coffee and get my 1 hour fix watching Starcraft players on Youtube.
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You mean Broodwar right. Not the unbalanced clusterfuck that is SC2?
 
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I've watched playthroughs of Hollow Knight and love the art style and soundtrack, and some of the lore is interesting. I might try the sequel since it looks like it has a faster Pace.
 
I think it's fine to love a game just watching a playthrough (personally doesn't feel fun not having the controller in my hand) especially if you're living alone and spend most of your money on rent,bills,necessities etc and no time to enjoy actually playing it.
Like a VN or rpg is a perfect comfy watch.
 
TheRedChair said:
To answer the OP's question Absolutely! I've been following Starcraft for over 10 years. I consider that to be a true E-sport over many others.
You have to be quick in hand and in mind to play the game as it reminds me of a futuristic style of timed Chess. I've played timed Chess. Not as easy as people think it is. Losira, PartinG, Polt were the old guard and the New guard, on top of my head are Neeb, Reynor, Clem. So yes every evening I grab a cup of coffee and get my 1 hour fix watching Starcraft players on Youtube.
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Eh, I think exports are a bit of a different situation, because it’s as much about watching the game itself as it is about watching the people PLAYING the game and everything that revolves around it. It’s the one black-and-white area in this debate where I think a lot of people would agree that you CAN be a fan of a game (and be partially knowledgeable about its mechanics/strats) exclusively through watching pros, in the same way that you can be a fan of soccer without playing soccer.
 
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I'm unable to play Corpse Party due to not having a PSP (I just now learned there's a 3DS version), but I did fall in love with the story when I came across a silent playthrough then when Markiplier played through the first PC version (on accident lol). After further immersing myself into the lore, I did go out of my way to read the manga, and this was a few years before the anime OVA was made. So even though I'm unable to play a physical copy of any of the games, I consider myself a fan since I tried making up for it. I do still have a desire to play the game one day, though.

Same with Ib and The Witch's House, although no manga and anime exist.
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
I'm unable to play Corpse Party due to not having a PSP (I just now learned there's a 3DS version), but I did fall in love with the story when I came across a silent playthrough then when Markiplier played through the first PC version (on accident lol). After further immersing myself into the lore, I did go out of my way to read the manga, and this was a few years before the anime OVA was made. So even though I'm unable to play a physical copy of any of the games, I consider myself a fan since I tried making up for it. I do still have a desire to play the game one day, though.

Same with Ib and The Witch's House, although no manga and anime exist.
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Isn't corpse party on the PC?

Corpse Party on GOG.com

www.gog.com www.gog.com
 
Kari Kamiya said:
I'm unable to play Corpse Party due to not having a PSP (I just now learned there's a 3DS version), but I did fall in love with the story when I came across a silent playthrough then when Markiplier played through the first PC version (on accident lol). After further immersing myself into the lore, I did go out of my way to read the manga, and this was a few years before the anime OVA was made. So even though I'm unable to play a physical copy of any of the games, I consider myself a fan since I tried making up for it. I do still have a desire to play the game one day, though.

Same with Ib and The Witch's House, although no manga and anime exist.
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I hate LPs but corpse party is the only game I would watch a LP of, I've tried playing it on PSP nearly a decade ago and gave up because of hoe frustrating the gameplay was.
I do admit, the premise and the setting were great.
 
I'm a huge fan of CrookedB's written playthrough of Wizardry 4, the hardest RPG ever made. It's very informative, highlights nearly every cultural reference and joke written in and the SCA research for the good ending is impressive.

If you think I'm going to actually sit down and play/savescum Wizardry 4, you got another thing coming. But this guy did such a good job, I don't have to & neither do you. Big fan of the game and how it existed for its time.
 
definitely. i was a massive fan of tf2 before ever downloading steam, all because i found the "meet the team" videos, all the crazy gmod shit, and star_/jerma.
 
The Final Fantasy House crazies had never played FF7 but were obviously big fans. That's what happens if you don't play the game, the brain gets all unbalanced.
 
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I think there is huge difference between superficially liking the characters, setting or lore of a game, and being a fan of the game itself, to me, saying that you can be a fan of a game without actually having to play it, it's like saying that the people who cream themselves over "Ben Drowned" are just as fans of Majora's Mask as the people who played the game when it came out, and have beaten it dozens of times over the past two decades, there is simply not point of comparison between the two, like this guy said

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Can you be a fan of TV-series if you've never seen it and didn't learn the plot?

I guess no, since being the fan of something is meaning you have any experience interacting with it, am I right?
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Videogames are something you have to experience yourself, it is the very thing that defines the entire medium, you may like the characters, you might enjoy reading fanfiction etc., but to me, to be a fan of the game, you have to play the game
 
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Orkeosaurus said:
There are games out there that you can definitely appreciate existing and enjoy stories that come out of it. Games like Eve Online, Dwarf Fortress and Space Station 13 come to mind. Mostly because the experience isn't worth the amount of autism required to get into them.
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Dwarf Fort as a game is painful, and I've been playing text-based games up and into the late 2010s. As a base for goofy storytelling it's fantastic - but that's after all the events are condensed into an easily digestible format. I think it's less genuine to be a "fan" of DF when the journey is the experience, and wrangling everything into a haphazardly independent mess is supposed to be the fun.
Space Station 13 is definitely a relic, though, and I think it's better to be watched than played due to technical issues that make it frustrating to all but the most dedicated autists. It's slow and hates your internet connection, and on top of that you have to tangle with people who already know the quirks. The interface and the gameplay itself is fine, it's just the intermittent lag or stuttering that completely fucks the experience.

As for EVE, well, that's no game. It's a spreadsheet simulator that gets autists out of the house solely to sabotage competitors.
 
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I can appreciate some games I just don't enjoy playing because their music is great. These are probably too well known for the VG music thread, but the music makes me wish I enjoyed them.

All three of these are battle music from JRPGs:




(actually, most of Persona's music fits here)
 
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