Whenever I hear someone talk about the newer versions of Star Wars I always think of the South Park scene where George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg are about to do unspeakable things to Indiana Jones. Because that is what they have done to Star Wars
Been playing RDR2, because my character has been drinking a lot of whiskey I kinda wanted to drink it as well since it was a long time since I had it last time. Week ago bought a bottle, started up Red Dead and got drunk both in the game and in real life as well, talk about immersion.
I love this list so much. Video games don't get the praise they deserve. I met my husband because of video games. We met up at EGX 2012 and the rest is history. I have made incredible friendships through video games, FFX2 helped me escape an abusive relationship for a few hours a day, games like Minecraft have helped my godson become more creative and helped his anxiety.
This is the reason why Videogame is my favorite form of media. It's more engaging and more exciting, because you are the one who's doing the cool things. It makes you feel like a badass or the smartest person alive, if you solve a puzzle or trick the A.I. or something. It is the combination of so many other medias, music, video, animation, writing. It's just great.
Totally agree, I read too and enjoy it and listen to loads of music but I struggle watching films because I get lost with characters, their motivations, the subplots of a film, or I might figure some of it out later on in the film but I'm past the part where I got lost then, with a game you can go at your own pace and can soak the world in, one of the best games I've ever bought was Witcher 3 Wild Hunt for £20, total bargain! Currently on Spyro
Wait....wait, wait......you named your horse Naomi? And you took Her hunting? Naomi Hunter....? (Or is it Neigh-Omi? I’m never sure on the spelling) Yes, Rob, I see what you did there. 😉
@@PlayStationAccess Ah, understood. Well if you ever get back to it, I think it's platinum trophy would fit nicely next to your FF15 and Ni No Kuni 2 JRPG platinums. Hefty time investment, but nothing difficult.
PlayStation Access Same „problem“ for me at the moment. So many games and so little time. In additional 3 little children. Want to be 20 again for 2 or 3 months. 😬
@@PlayStationAccess ah it's both a gift and a curse to be a gamer. I'd wish these developers would slow down, damn them making all these great new games for us, don't they know I've got to finish all those other great games first!!! My rule now is to play only one game at a time, it's going well so far!!!
Page Turner that was funny. Video games are my escape as well. Brilliant video. Get so tired of people that don't play downing video games. The world would be so much better if everyone played. I laughed and enjoyed. You are so right about your list. Thanks Rob. ♥️♥️😁😁
For a few minutes I thought this would be an entire Friday feature without a single mention of final fantasy. I was worried. I was like "is Rob ok? Should someone go check on him?" Then he talks about FF14 and I was like "oh good. I was scared for a minute there."
You captured my Red Dead escapades perfectly, I'm just trying to live and breathe in the world, savouring every moment. Whilst hog tieing innocent strangers and throwing them on their own bonfire, watching their corpse, light up the night sky :|
A Friday without a feature is like a morning without the sun... sad, pitiful, dark, cold... just an all-around UNPLEASANT experience... Thank you, PSA for your digital rays of sunshine... God-rays and all!!!
I just thought i would add as a RPG fan that playing a game for 50-100+ and seeing the story unfold will never get old for me. I literally have trouble reading books now cause i want to actively be a part of the story instead of just reading someone else's story.
YES! I relax by playing horror games! Also thanks to those RE games with couch coop, I was able to convince my wife (who scares very easily and would never have played RE otherwise) to play with me and turn her into a RE fan.
I scrolled through the comments looking for this, if it wasn’t here I was going to write it. Six! I can’t believe it, genuinely thought he was going to mention it somewhere in the video. Lol, maybe we’ll get 8 next week.
Met two friends on Destiny one, another was added to our group on Rainbow Six Siege and our fifth on Battlefield 4. It's been almost two years later and we are all still good friends still playing games and texting funny memes to one another every day or so. Games are great ways to make friends around the world.
Chilling out in front of the fire eating venison and drinking ale, dressed only in my loin cloth in my little wooden shack on the waterfront, mulling over the hacking and slashing I'd done that day was one of my favourite bits of Oblivion.
One of my favorite trophies was for getting to Skyhold in DA:I at level 5 or lower. It changed the way i played the game. For the first time ever, i was actually having to avoid gaining XP. Whenever i killed an enemy it would make me wince as the XP went up by a fraction. It was cool.
Just the idea that you interact with what is on screen is amazing and games can be more than just being an interactive movie and at the same time it can be exactly that
I don't play video games that much but I always talk about what I did in a video game in 1st person. It's just more natural for me and my favorite way to relax in a video game is in Skyrim I love getting books and to just sit down and read through all of them. I'm obsessed with reading every book in Skyrim.
One of the two way's I know it's Friday is Robs ever returning Friday feature. Thank you sir for reminding me another week has past and all I have done is work and play games. Time well spend I might say. Also fishing in Final Fantasy 15, or any other RPG that has fishing in it, it is the most relaxing thing to me ever. And it never gets boring. I don't even like fish that much...
arkham knight is a good example of storytelling that can only ve done in games. in my gameplay, i'd come across the joker in the open world everywhere. grapple up to a building, hes there. turn around, hes there. i felt like there was an actual presence following me around that i couldn't escape. the disembodied laughter, the joker finally being in batmans psyche, his constant presence in the preset missions and the open world... it gave me a unique feeling i've never felt before from another piece of media.
FYI: Sam cried not just because his Tamigochi died, but more specifically because he begged his parents for weeks to get one, and like most school bullies, his parents disciplined through beatings, and having to explain this to them would surely bring a memorable one.
Videogames also help you with nightmares. It's a proven fact that gamers can alter their dreams to the point where we can fight back and survive in them
Another example I would like to add is games like the soul series allow you to have a different type of storytelling only possible with video games where you get to help tell the story and make your own story along the way, you get to interpret the world and in a word make your mark on that world. No other medium of entertainment can do this and it’s why I love video games, especially the Souls-borne games.
I liked point 6 - we often say, "I won the race." or "We killed that monster!" when describing video games. But it made me think of a type of visual media where people do this. I often hear football fans speak in first person, "We were a man down and you scored on the penalty but we scored twice in extra time!"
Maybe it’s a common thing but if I find a sword or a horse or a certain trinket or numerous other things, I’ll keep it. Nothing wrong with that, but as I use it more and more, I gain a fondness for this thing. For me it was my cattlemen revolvers in RD2. When I got the cash I fully upgraded it and customised it to how I wanted it. I would use it to hunt a few smaller animals, or fight off robbers, but as I used it more and more, it became less of a weapon and more of a partner. If I was ever caught in a tough spot I could pull out my trusty revolver and I knew it had my back. I would of course use my rifles or shotguns but I always defaulted back to that single revolver. Even the twin guns didn’t interest me.
When I was in the military 00-04, I use to always hit up my local arcade in Japan and play Silent Scope 2 to a point where i'd headshot every enemy up to stage 4.
Speed reading is absolutely a thing. I remember my brother and his friends competing to see who could read through the most Harry Potter books in a single day. (They stopped right around when Half-Blood Prince was released, though).
i forgot that i was a subscriber cause of school and i haven't been on youtube in a long time. when i get to i only watch videos for art for school and well i finally got the time to watch youtube for youtube and well i found this video and reminded of memories of being exited for watching and loving them and this video gave me so much memories from your voice and the music and omg i miss watching these videos.
#6 is my favorite part about games. Especially when you do something really cinematic (and preferably unscripted) like getting into a dogfight in space and flying through massive explosions in Everspace, or landing those perfect cumbersome but powerful strikes in Monster Hunter World, or pulling off the perfect series of stealth kills. It just makes you feel awesome as it's an experience unique to you, whereas other media simply don't have that.
A combination of a couple of the things mentioned - I am really attached to the people in my Switch and Pocket Camp friendlists, even though I know nothing about them, have never spoken to them, and most likely will never meet them; they are on my friendlist so they are my friends! I have so many stories about getting attached to things and people in video games, it happens constantly. For instance, I once spent an hour reloading saves in Skyrim in a desperate bid to save my horse from a dragon attack. Nothing I did prevented his death and I never could bring myself to buy another horse
I agree with this, and it is one of the reasons I tell people they should play the games instead of watching someone on RU-vid play a story-driven, deeply rich world game. It is such an immersive experience and you feel a part of what happens. Watching a video of someone playing it is like watching a *movie*. Think how Rob said we experience movies and the understanding will be more clear.
This is probably my favorite Friday Feature. So often I find myself ranting to anyone who will listen about the potential gaming has already realized and continue to exceeds, in regards to other forms of media. You, Rob, spoke to those rants and ideas perfectly. Cheers!
Most of these are things tabletop roleplaying game does as well. The story changes every time, you're the one acting, the game itself is the communal activity and they make you care about things that aren't real. They can also ask you to put in more to get more out of it, whether that's investing a lot more effort into the storytelling and characterization or trying to come up with a more powerful build to overcome the challenges the GM places before you. Arguably, they do most of these things more than video games sense you aren't limited to what the developers accounted for and added either cutscenes or systems to represent.
Making friends...spot on. I was a bit late to the online party but there was a PS3 gaming thread that I followed on Amazon. Real mix of gaming genres, but my game favourites at the time were Battlefield Bad Company 2, Uncharted 2 and COD MW2. People from that thread would talk games, game together and there was even an U2 night on Wednesdays (which is now simply called Wednesday Night Gaming). Anyhow the point I want to make is that someone came up with the idea of meeting in London for the games expo. Some actually went to the Expo but most of us skipped that and headed for a pub near the Strand. Well what a diverse bunch we were. Boys and girls, young and old (I'm in the latter grouping), hailing from the north/south/east/west. We introduced ourselves using our gaming tag, so it was definitely a bit surreal using tags in conversations. Gaming was much more satisfying after having put faces to names (of if not names then tags), and we made the meet up an annual event, at least for a few years.
The last point is very true... I used to tell my teacher that I went 'pirating' and 'hunting for deer'. She was very confused. I was playing Assassin's Creed IV.
My now husband and I played Destiny for “dates” because we were in a long distance relationship. Almost three years later we like to set up our TV’s side by side and play Destiny, get some take out, and have an at home date. I’ve met several great friends playing games too, along with some really awesome people.
You missed an incredibly huge thing. You aren't just watching a movie, you're experiencing a world. You kind of covered it, but what I mean is: You aren't just turning up watching the hero develop then do the thing we all hoped for, you get to go around that corner and see what was there, you get to see the world as you see fit. You can go do that side quest and potentially expand on the atory or a character. You aren't just there to witness a certain string of events, you get to see the hero fail (game over), decide a love interest and who to shun/kill, you can do the things that enable you to posses something that is either irrelevant or that you aren't meant to. It's a world to experience, not a story to witness what you're told to.
To expand on your last point, it’s even better when it’s a character you actually get to make. Case in point, GTAV online. The characters we make are, by design, projections of ourselves. So when you manage to evade a 5 Star wanted level, or pull off a heist, or buy a car, or whatever, there is literally only one barrier keeping the sentence “I just stole a cool million from a huge bank” from actually applying to us
I've heard so many stories about Rob's sister, now I think she is a legend, a myth. Will we have the pleasure to get to know her some day!??? Please, I don't think I am the only one here that is curious about it!!!
Re: relaxing within a game: There are actually some really good studies on the effect of realistic images (like water) in a game. Looking over realistic water, in visuals and sound, within a game has the same effect on the brain as if you're doing it IRL--similar hormone releases, etc. This is the same even when you actively know it's "not real". So, relaxing within a game has similar effects as doing so outside. (When I was severely depressed, I'd go fishing in WoW just to feel more normal). The caveat to this is, of course, stress within a game is *also* the same as if you're experiencing it in the outside world, so handle with care. :)
Rob you have reminded me of why I love and cherish video games with all my soul. I went through a rough patch last year and for the first time in my life I wasn’t enjoying any game I was playing. It was honestly one of the most heartbreaking things to happen to me in my life. The reason why it was so heartbreaking is because I have played them my whole life and they have shaped me into the person I am today. I even plan/dream to become a videogame graphic designer. I struggled with my happiness for what felt like ages and In the past when the world got me down I would play video games to escape this dark cold reality that preceded me. Since then, I still struggle with my mental health but Videogames will always resound in my heart! Watching your Friday Features during that period of my life helped me get out of the mucky feeling and mood I found myself consumed by. Thank you!! This Friday feature was terrific and brilliant as always. Love ya like a best friend Rob!! Please know that your hard work is changing lives. All the best friend!!
Iv legit being playing Red dead redemption 2 like its my actual life, waking up, fresh clothes, regular shave, hair pomade on, talk to a few of my fellow gang/camp members, give phantom (My horse) a good ol'brushing and feed him, go on a steady calm ride into town to buy items from the general store, then I go rabbit/deer/pronghorn/turkey hunting, sometimes ill go on an even longer adventure and go up into the mountains to hunt big game, sometimes I go fishing, I help out strangers. Iv put sooooo many hours into the game and Im only on chapter 2, its great!!!
#6 is pretty much the biggest thing which divides video games from other media. In a book, or film, you're a passive observer. In a video game, you're an active participant.
My god rob!!! I do the exact same in rdr2. It has become a second life practically. I eat and drink 3 times daily. My clothes are only those I've crafted at the trapper. Once every few days or so I travel to town to take a hot bath.... lovely
The problem with speed reading is not that it's possible but that it's hard to catch every word or line as you go through the book. So at the end of a speed reading challenge there should be a test challenging the speed reader to see how much of the book they were actually able to take in as they wen through it.
Suggestion: Video games allow/force you to earn the content. Books and music and movies allow for inspection and deep understanding. But if I’ve bought a book or tune or dvd there is nothing stopping me from skipping ahead to the end of this content to consume and experience it as I see fit. Cause, y’know, I bought the damn thing! Games are the only ones that completely block off vast swathes of your own property until the game has decided that you have narratively or skillfully earned it.
But...speed readers are an actual thing rob! I remember the first time i encountered them. On the news, when harry potter and the deathly hallows came out, they had 2 speed readers start reading the book at the start of the news, then one hour later at the end, they had finished. They then had to give their review of the book. Was impressive!
I almost lost it because I thought that somehow it slipped by me that the sixth ASOIAF book come out, but then I realized his books have book 3 in two parts.
Winding down is right, I remember several games (GTA Vice City was and at least 2 Need for Speeds, just off the top of my head) where I would find somewhere scenic to park up and just chill listening to the (in-game) radio. Awesome.
