![]() So now my friends you know what a real video game walkthrough is.Īnd now you know what MajorSlackVideos is all about.One of the best Tower defense games, hands down. And this exploitation is actually redefining the English language. Honestly, and once again, I really hate to be the one to blow the whistle on this (it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it), but this is straight-up exploitation. And the bottom line is only a tiny, tiny minority of those 'walkthroughs' are actual walkthroughs. This means that the typical Youtube gamer is more interested in calling his videos 'walkthroughs' than 'playthroughs'. Don't believe it? Do a comparative search on Youtube for " walkthrough" and " playthrough" and you'll always come up with MORE results for 'walkthrough' than you will for 'playthrough'. More people are likely to click through on a video entitled 'walkthrough' than they are on a video called a 'playthrough'. And those gamers who didn't want to spend the time or didn't have the smarts to create a real video game walkthrough started simply recording themselves doing blind playthroughs, i.e., their first experiences playing through a video game with no knowledge of what came next as they played and calling them 'walkthroughs'. Way back in the day, some gamers instinctively knew that what most gamers were looking for on Youtube was a genuine 'walkthrough' of the video games they were playing. That's how this whole incorrect definition of walkthrough began. Well I'll tell ya -and I'm really sorry but someone's got to blow the whistle on these guys- but the bottom line is this is just a good old fashioned BAIT-AND-SWITCH. Watch an actual and complete video demo of a game you're thinking of buying.īut back to our original example of somebody posting a complete written account of their first experience with a video game and calling it a walkthrough, why are all these blind playthroughs being touted as 'walkthroughs' on Youtube?. ![]() Hear candid girly-screams when they bump into scary parts.Watch someone get clobbered playing through parts of a video game you've already mastered.They provide solid entertainment value by allowing you to: Blind playthroughs (which is what the vast majority of 'walkthroughs' on Youtube are) do have their merit. Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? Blind Playthroughs Have Their Merit How ripped off do you think he'd feel as he began reading what was simply a written account of some noob's first experience with a video game? And then somebody was googling one day, circa 2002 once again, and found said web page while looking for a 'walkthrough' and began reading. And then he posted it as a web page on the internet and called it a 'walkthrough'. Now let's apply definition (A) of 'walkthrough' and imagine somebody took the trouble to write down in detail his every experience when playing through a video game for the first time. Just for kicks, let's go back in time ten years (circa 2002), a time before Youtube, yes a time when if a gamer wanted to figure out how to get past a tough spot in a video game he was currently enjoying, he'd have to (*gasp) google " walkthrough" and then if he was lucky enough to find something, he'd have to (*gasp) read, that's right, READ a detailed written explanation walking him through the tough spot in his video game. And (B) will have faded away and become some weird anomaly being plugged by that Major Slack guy who's still on a possibly hopeless crusade trying to redefine gaming videos. ![]() That's because five years from now, Youtube will be so inundated with blind playthroughs masquerading as walkthroughs (as if it's not already) that gamers the world over will have adopted (A) as the only definition they ever knew.
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