People recommended i watch critical role and i could start with the latest campaign. I've gotten to Episode 19 and the last half of them have almost sent me to sleep.
It seemed mildly entertaining when it was a grouchy gnome werewolf bickering with a big gay elf but now it feels like some chosen one bullshit being set up for the woman with glasses and everyone are her beta orbiters bar That Guy playing the punk he wishes he was in high school or something. It just feels hyper scripted, like some faux tabletop version of those shows like modern doctor who and supernatural where certain scenes are written specifically "to be giffable" if that makes sense.
Am i missing something here? i think ive given it more than a fair shake but this just doesn't seem very good at all.
if half of them put you to sleep why did you leep watching them?
I was busy painting.
The same reason Big Bang Theory or Rick & Morty have appeal. Dumb "Hurr nerdy culture xd"
Half the Rick and Morty episodes are very good
The pilot episode was watchable and everything else is an AIDS-infested disaster.
High IQ post
Only the Japanese one.
Jashin Chan Dropkick?
Big bang never had appeal with the regular culture
Rick and Morty had appeal until the end of season 2
Big Bang Theory's target audience is your mom. I do not mean that as a mom joke either I am serious, everything about it is tailor made to appeal to bored mothers who want to "get" the next generation in easy to digest pieces.
>Whats the appeal?
>I've gotten to Episode 19
You tell us, you've spent an enormous amount of time watching it
I haven't seen past about mid-way in Season 1, and have seen various YouTube clips of the rest for 'this or that cool bit' where this character does something the person considers fun and interesting like some epic tactical decisions in big combats.
It has some interesting combats, and there ave been some times a cool npc or encounter may happen, same with the occasional GM tidbits, like I kind of like the 'How do you want to do it' bit that Matt uses when a player strikes a killing blow in a challenging fight to give the player a chance to be really cool and/or cinematic, sort of like describing stunts in Exalted for some bonus dice or the like.
But in the end, I find watching Live Plays of RPGs is boring, and thus mostly why I'll get my dose from clips for Critical Role or others like the Dimension 20 with Brennan Lee Mulligan (who is another GM that many people talk about some of the cool stuff he does a lot).
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Proud of all of you who have opened the thread and chose to let it die
What's your favorite episode?
I couldn't tell you.
my group has a couple of people that watches them every week. But i never could watch them. It requires you to pay too much attention, I cannot just leave it on in the background, i feel i just skip over anything meaningful and the inside jokes are gone over. That and watching DND isn't as fun imo. One off goof things like the Christmas special was fun, but it still had its problems.
It is popular because it was people having fun for the sake of fun. Now it is a job, don't get me wrong, fricking play a game once a week and make millions each month, fricking hell you do you, but damn if it feels like you have to trudge through 50 hrs of average for the 5 minutes of gold. To those that enjoy it, awesome! it just doesn't do it for me.
On the otherhand they popularized it to the point we have the frickins NuDND with cow firbolgs, the twink minotaurs now... and cannot deny had to have had a hand in the drama with dnd lore that wasn't "inclusive" or "diverse" enough and all that bs that results in retconning things that didn't need to be retconned, like drows, or orcs being racist, insert race changes for the worse here.
>be into roleplaying
>realize it's a coin toss on whether they get anything right
I understand they're running a show and it's not OVERTLY scripted like la by night, but come on. amount of rules bending and roll fudging is hilarious.
Prosthetic friends. They're prosthetic friends. They're what the lonely and poorly adapted use to simulate not being socially adrift.
It's a group of charismatic and attractive people well versed in acting (both as an exaggerated version of themselves and as their characters) presenting an experience with far more time, effort, and cash put into it than any actual group could realistically match. The fantasy being sold here isn't just the escapism of a world of magic and adventure, but also of a solid and dynamic group of friends.
>Prosthetic friends
>to simulate not being socially adrift.
Is that supposed to be a criticism specific to Critical Role? Because it feels like you could paint most, if not all, of streaming with that brush. I'm not even necessarily disagreeing, I just wanted to clarify the point.
>Because it feels like you could paint most, if not all, of streaming with that brush
Yes. Its almost like that, isn't it?
all I know is everyone simps for the sorta aight looking chick with glasses and simp behavior turns me off from things so I dont really watch it. didnt click and add that in and it just went to meh status. cool on those that enjoy it I guess
The appeal is the average critical role watcher doesn't actually play games, so it's their 4 hour social interaction substitute. I used to watch it during the middle of campaign 2 to laugh at it with anons while I ran my own games, When campaign 3 started, my girlfriend and I both watched the beginnings together so i can show her what NOT to do. her favorite character (Bertram) died, and other than that literally nothing was happening so we didn't give a shit anymore and bailed.
tldr is you watch it if you're a lonely nerd or you already don't like the cast and like making yourself angry with their weird rulings.
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>It just feels hyper scripted
Because it is. It's scripted entertainment.
Most of the people watching this shit watch it for the drama and performances. They don't have even tangential connection to roleplaying as a hobby. It's the latest geek thing to obsess over.
SLAMPIG
I have never seen it and won't. I don't believe in playing D&D online. I have no interest in watching paid actors play D&D or pontificate about it online. All of this is about turning D&D further way from being *your* game with your friends and into a Lifestyle Brand, that a company controls, for profit and the poltical agendas of their investors. Corporate D&D.
I tried to watch the first episode of this campaign after being recommended it and I just couldn't get past how the first half was all advertisements. people shouting and then jumping right in with no introductions to their characters. I just switched it off after a short while.
Its fun. No further reason required.
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>Whats the appeal?
None
NEXT!
>dude, remember Illidan?
>Yeah, he was so cool in Wc3 and BC. Those where the good days
>and remember Jaina?
>the blond mage with bare midriff? Yeah, she´s really hot
>bro, the voices of Illidan and Jaina have some fantasy game on Youtube. Its really good
>cool, i´ll check it out
You know this is how it went in at least a couple of thousand of cases.
Their first campaign is fun, especially after they clean up the act/the one crackhead leaves even if the character concept was solid. It includes nostalgia for all the typical "kid from late 90s early 2000s" tropes of 3e
Campaign 2 has some highlights due to Fjord and Jester
C3 is still getting started but seems even weaker than C2
Also this
>What's the appeal?
>I've watched 57 hours of it
Why don't you tell me, Anon
>not being riddled with chronic contrarianism
>not being buck broken by the culture war
>the ability of enjoy something for what it is
Im afraid you wouldn't get it.
>hyper scripted...scenes are written specifically "to be giffable"
You're right. They approach it as how it would appear to the observer/audience much like a video game or anime/cartoon (which they all work in). They are all bad at fundamentals of the game and RP, so it becomes melodrama instead (they are former theater kids). It is also the antithesis what DnD was intended to be because even the 'players' need to direct/script a "story" for their character. A phony campaign for them already plotted out. No character will be gone forever unless that player scripts it. (they are munchkins).
>Whats the appeal
They build and abuse a parasocial relationship with their already vulnerable/mentally ill community. -
See their kickstarter to Amazon bait and switch grift.
It hovers between improv comedy and longer-form serialized storytelling and seems to do both of them well enough for a lot of people to keep coming back.
The appeal is for the CIA to ruin everything I enjoy, so as to cause me to go insane and murder the universal mind.