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<blockquote data-quote="Gradine" data-source="post: 7847190" data-attributes="member: 57112"><p>Oftentimes it's the personalities involved as well.</p><p></p><p>My partner always thought it was weird how much I watched Let's Plays until I sat her down to watch Griffin McElroy's Nuzlocke run of Pokemon Y, which combined two of her favorite things (pokemon and Griffin McElroy yelling at things). She also got me into The Adventure Zone for similar reasons, even though neither of us had had any luck actually watching live plays of tabletop games (with the rare previous exceptions being Wil Wheaton's Tabletop [and even then Dragon Age was the only TTRPG episode we actually enjoyed] and Titansgrave).</p><p></p><p>Of course, the thing everything I mentioned above has in common is that they are all heavily edited in some way (except for TAZ, which generally comes in small enough chunks to be digestible without editing). Most of the LP's I watch are fairly well-edited too, but again, it boils down to the personalities more than anything. There are LPers I watch who play games I have no interest in but which I still enjoy watching, and LPs of games I love that I can't stand because the LPers are awful or just obnoxious.</p><p></p><p>Critical Role's assortment of players have at least some measure of popularity outside their TTRPG endeavours (the same of course is true of Wil Wheaton and the McElroys) which I think is what is really necessary to build the kind of crossover audience that then gets into the games themselves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gradine, post: 7847190, member: 57112"] Oftentimes it's the personalities involved as well. My partner always thought it was weird how much I watched Let's Plays until I sat her down to watch Griffin McElroy's Nuzlocke run of Pokemon Y, which combined two of her favorite things (pokemon and Griffin McElroy yelling at things). She also got me into The Adventure Zone for similar reasons, even though neither of us had had any luck actually watching live plays of tabletop games (with the rare previous exceptions being Wil Wheaton's Tabletop [and even then Dragon Age was the only TTRPG episode we actually enjoyed] and Titansgrave). Of course, the thing everything I mentioned above has in common is that they are all heavily edited in some way (except for TAZ, which generally comes in small enough chunks to be digestible without editing). Most of the LP's I watch are fairly well-edited too, but again, it boils down to the personalities more than anything. There are LPers I watch who play games I have no interest in but which I still enjoy watching, and LPs of games I love that I can't stand because the LPers are awful or just obnoxious. Critical Role's assortment of players have at least some measure of popularity outside their TTRPG endeavours (the same of course is true of Wil Wheaton and the McElroys) which I think is what is really necessary to build the kind of crossover audience that then gets into the games themselves. [/QUOTE]
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