Comments on: Playing the “No Spoilers” Game /2015/07/02/playing-the-no-spoilers-game/ Play, Share, Unite! Thu, 10 Sep 2015 02:58:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.com/ By: cary /2015/07/02/playing-the-no-spoilers-game/comment-page-1/#comment-13951 Sun, 05 Jul 2015 13:20:36 +0000 /?p=4669#comment-13951 Yeah, YouTube. It can be the best thing and the worst thing when it comes to getting help with games. I also consult videos when I get really stuck. But rather than getting spoilers from other videos, I find that the worst offenders are commentary videos. As fun they can be, and no offense to the creators, sometimes folks reveal spoilers without even realizing it in their commentary. I’ve started seeking out more commentary-free videos as a result. (Or, I try to remember to turn off the sound when watching.) There is a ton of joy in discovering a game all by yourself, but when to going gets rough, even the best of us need help sometimes, even if we have to approach getting that help with some caution!

]]> By: duckofindeed /2015/07/02/playing-the-no-spoilers-game/comment-page-1/#comment-13935 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 20:43:09 +0000 /?p=4669#comment-13935 Spoilers really bother me. Like you, I pretty much consider anything that happens in a game to be a spoiler. I don’t want to see any location early or any boss. I don’t want to know any plot point. I don’t want to know that “this game” continues even after “this final boss” is defeated. That’s great, but I want the joy to be a surprise.

I’m usually pretty good at avoiding spoilers, as I avoid looking at fan art, fan fiction, or wiki articles for a game I have yet to beat (I once revealed major spoilers for Super Paper Mario thanks to fan art, which received lots of comments complaining about said spoilers). The problem is Youtube. Sometimes I need to cheat because I’m stuck, and then I notice a bunch of videos on the right about all kinds of crazy stuff in the game I have yet to reach. Sigh, now I know all kinds of things I didn’t want to know…. It’s a problem.

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