IncendiaryDevice
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So often commented upon here, this idea of a mainstream gamer, a gamer so devoid of taste they just blindly consume the latest offering that's marketed into their face, the popamole, the casual, the unprestigious.
But who is this person, what does their gaming year look like? How can we judge someone to be the things we talk about without really having any idea what that someone is actually playing?
To me, a casual popamoler always just meant they were CoD addicts (and all the associated copy-cat FPSs and TPSs) who has a side in FIFA 2032 etc. I suspect everyone has a slightly different personal image of Mr. Mainstream popamoler, so I thought about looking one up to see exactly what their gaming year looked like. To see if our codex imagined stereotype still stands up in this age of PC gaming resurgence that is post-2014.
I chose a Youtuber who plays Let's Plays, usually to completion, so not just a paid promo or critic guy doing impressions, someone who is making a living out of very long and boring Let's Plays of entire new games that are enough in the mass-attention to garner him a wage and suitably occupy his time for the entire year.
Is it possible to be a prestigious mass-market high-end new games only gamer in 2015-2016?
I've analysed their past 12 months of activity for our perusal (parts is video number, average 30mins):
Finished and on-going games:
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (parts 6-10)
Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (parts 111-124)
Witcher 3: Heart of Stone (parts 1-20)
Witcher 3: Blood & Wine (parts 1-41)
Until Dawn (parts 6-20)
X-Com: Enemy Within Impossible Ironman (parts 7-17 and parts 1-34)
X-Com 2 (parts 1-3, 1-14, 1-60, 1-12, 1-54)
Layers of Fear (Early Access) (parts 1-5)
Layers of Fear (Release) (parts 1-3)
Skyshine's Bedlam (parts 1-10)
SOMA (parts 1-18)
Uncharted (parts 1-11)
Uncharted 2 (parts 1-16)
Uncharted 3 (parts 1-16)
Uncharted 4 (parts 1-24)
The Beginner's Guide (parts 1-4)
Minecraft: Story Mode (parts 1-4)
Kingdom (parts 1-2, 1-7, 1-5)
Life is Strange: Polarized (1-4)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (parts 1-24)
Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition Co-op (parts 1-42)
Game of Thrones (parts 1-6)
Oxenfree (parts 1-11)
Firewatch (parts 1-7)
The Walking Dead: Michonne (parts 1-4)
Heavy Rain (parts 1-19)
Dark Souls 3 (parts 1-45)
Inside (parts 1-7)
We Happy Few (parts 1-12)
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (parts 1-18)
The Turing Test (parts 1-6)
Some other stuff:
Trying Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (3 vids)
Trying Shadowrun Hong Kong (sponsored) (3 vids)
Stasis (parts 1-5)
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (parts 1-11)
Trying Fallout 4 (parts 1-4)
Hard West (parts 1-9)
Bloodborne: The Old Hunters (parts 1-4)
The Witness (parts 1-2)
Superhot (1 vid)
Salt & Sanctuary (3 vids)
Quantum Break (parts 1-6)
Star Crusade (sponsored) (1 vid)
Mirror's Edge: Catalyst (3 vids)
Resident Evil 7: Demo (1 vid)
Trying Red Dead Redemption (1 vid)
No Man's Sky (parts 1-6)
So not a bad haul for the year he gained 100k subs (now 250k) and likely went full-time (speculative). But is he prestigious?
Rate him Prestigious out of 10.
Does this look like your playlist for the year?
Is this proof that 2015-2016 has seen some incline (even if it's all still shit) in the mass arena?
???
But who is this person, what does their gaming year look like? How can we judge someone to be the things we talk about without really having any idea what that someone is actually playing?
To me, a casual popamoler always just meant they were CoD addicts (and all the associated copy-cat FPSs and TPSs) who has a side in FIFA 2032 etc. I suspect everyone has a slightly different personal image of Mr. Mainstream popamoler, so I thought about looking one up to see exactly what their gaming year looked like. To see if our codex imagined stereotype still stands up in this age of PC gaming resurgence that is post-2014.
I chose a Youtuber who plays Let's Plays, usually to completion, so not just a paid promo or critic guy doing impressions, someone who is making a living out of very long and boring Let's Plays of entire new games that are enough in the mass-attention to garner him a wage and suitably occupy his time for the entire year.
Is it possible to be a prestigious mass-market high-end new games only gamer in 2015-2016?
I've analysed their past 12 months of activity for our perusal (parts is video number, average 30mins):
Finished and on-going games:
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (parts 6-10)
Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (parts 111-124)
Witcher 3: Heart of Stone (parts 1-20)
Witcher 3: Blood & Wine (parts 1-41)
Until Dawn (parts 6-20)
X-Com: Enemy Within Impossible Ironman (parts 7-17 and parts 1-34)
X-Com 2 (parts 1-3, 1-14, 1-60, 1-12, 1-54)
Layers of Fear (Early Access) (parts 1-5)
Layers of Fear (Release) (parts 1-3)
Skyshine's Bedlam (parts 1-10)
SOMA (parts 1-18)
Uncharted (parts 1-11)
Uncharted 2 (parts 1-16)
Uncharted 3 (parts 1-16)
Uncharted 4 (parts 1-24)
The Beginner's Guide (parts 1-4)
Minecraft: Story Mode (parts 1-4)
Kingdom (parts 1-2, 1-7, 1-5)
Life is Strange: Polarized (1-4)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (parts 1-24)
Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition Co-op (parts 1-42)
Game of Thrones (parts 1-6)
Oxenfree (parts 1-11)
Firewatch (parts 1-7)
The Walking Dead: Michonne (parts 1-4)
Heavy Rain (parts 1-19)
Dark Souls 3 (parts 1-45)
Inside (parts 1-7)
We Happy Few (parts 1-12)
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (parts 1-18)
The Turing Test (parts 1-6)
Some other stuff:
Trying Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (3 vids)
Trying Shadowrun Hong Kong (sponsored) (3 vids)
Stasis (parts 1-5)
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (parts 1-11)
Trying Fallout 4 (parts 1-4)
Hard West (parts 1-9)
Bloodborne: The Old Hunters (parts 1-4)
The Witness (parts 1-2)
Superhot (1 vid)
Salt & Sanctuary (3 vids)
Quantum Break (parts 1-6)
Star Crusade (sponsored) (1 vid)
Mirror's Edge: Catalyst (3 vids)
Resident Evil 7: Demo (1 vid)
Trying Red Dead Redemption (1 vid)
No Man's Sky (parts 1-6)
So not a bad haul for the year he gained 100k subs (now 250k) and likely went full-time (speculative). But is he prestigious?
Rate him Prestigious out of 10.
Does this look like your playlist for the year?
Is this proof that 2015-2016 has seen some incline (even if it's all still shit) in the mass arena?
???