{"id":2101,"date":"2016-01-07T16:59:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T16:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2016-01-07T16:59:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T16:59:32","slug":"im-just-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2016\/01\/im-just-watching\/","title":{"rendered":"I&rsquo;m just watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2016\/01\/03\/i-miss-watching-other-people-play-games\/\" target=\"_blank\">I Miss Watching Other People Play Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Me too. I have so many games on Steam, playing them alone. Online gaming? Nah. Latency drives me nuts and the all voice chat thing no thanks.<\/p>\n<p>I remember watching my cousin play that French RPG on my mom\u2019s brand new IBMs. Taking notes on paper. I was amazed. I couldn\u2019t understand shit but it was exciting, he was telling me what was going on. I remember learning the word \u201cto bribe\u201d (soudoyer en fran\u00e7ais) as you could do that with NPCs. I was like 7.<\/p>\n<p>Then the 16bit era was entirely a <em>bunch of dudes sitting on a bed\/couch passing the controller <\/em>experience. I didn\u2019t have any console at home so I sucked at most games and watched my friends play. Cheering them up <em>\u201cman you were so close next time you\u2019ll have it\u201d<\/em> following the story unfold together&#8230; During the boring parts I would grab a game magazine and talk about that next game page 43 with my dude while he was doing that boss again and again.<\/p>\n<p>I hate bosses in games. Fuck \u2018em.<\/p>\n<p>Consoles were awesome at that time. Switch on, boom. These days it\u2019s horrifying. I remember last year trying to play some MarvelVSCapcom on a PS3 with a friend\u2026 Controller issues, updates to discard, reboot. After 20 mn of shenanigans I was over playing.<\/p>\n<p>Watching people play ultimately led me to making games because seeing all those smiles and passion during all those years made me want to do that: make people happy through interactive stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Miss Watching Other People Play Games. Me too. I have so many games on Steam, playing them alone. Online gaming? Nah. Latency drives me nuts and the all voice chat thing no thanks. I remember watching my cousin play that French RPG on my mom\u2019s brand new IBMs. Taking notes on paper. I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}