I like what I like and don’t like what I don’t like. This is the same for most people, but I do not like anything that is popular. Or very few things. TV-wise, I hate Friends (though I did watch it for several years out of ennui, I think), Seinfeld (the people are awful), Game of Thrones (only saw The Red Wedding episode and was horrified. Read the first several pages of the first book, and the prose, it is so purple), Breaking Bad (only saw the penultimate episode and hated Walter White), and The Sopranos (saw a bit of an episode with the psychologist, and ughhhhhhhhhh).
I’m watching a video of one person who has never played Final Fantasy VII playing it for the first time with someone whose played it before and loved it guiding him (video included below). He’s made a few comments about feeling pressured about his choices and that he feels like he has to like the game, but he’s not really joking. It’s hard enough to stream a game beacuse there will always be backseat gamers in the chat.
I watched Ian play Dark Souls on stream and there was always someone who wanted to give him tips or spoil things. I once told him where a bonfire was, but he couldn’t find it and got really stressed. I think bonfires are acceptable to point out, but in general, I don’t want to spoil a game for someone.
I also remember watching someone stream Bloodborne when it came out and he had to flat-out say that he did not want backseat gaming or spoilers. There were people in his chat trying to argue with him about his rules for his own damn stream. As in why backsseat gaming and spoilers should be OK. Seriously.
If I ever stearmed a From game, I would be very firm about this. Then again, at this point, I would want spoilers from the games because I would be thrilled to find something different about the games that I hadn’t already known. I recently found out something about Dark Souls II….can’t remember what it was…anyway, I like to learn new things.
I don’t care that I like different things than most people, but it gets annoying real quick to have to say, “Yeah, no, I did not like X, Y, or Z.” I have talked more than once about how I got dumped once because I hated Pulp Fiction. Eevn though I told the guy I would not like it, he inisted on taking me to see it and that I would love it. Once it was done, he asked me what I thought. I naively told him what I thought and afterwards, he said that he could not be with someone who had that world view.