You're coming to it from the wrong way. (Gaming)

by Funkmon , Friday, April 15, 2016, 15:31 (3148 days ago) @ Kermit

This is personality driven media.

Let's Players and the like are always adamant about that fact when fighting their videos being taken down, where people filing claims against them are adamant that the Let's Players are just playing someone's game and are effectively providing the game to others for free and making money off of it.

Giant Bomb is a great example of the fact that, I think, in most cases, people will just watch anything with the dudes they like, and the game is mostly irrelevant.

They're ostensibly a video game news and review and video site, but have just become about the people doing it and how much personality they can force into their articles or videos. It's extremely editorialized, and due to their ability to deliver humor, they can rely solely on that without preparation or effort much of the time, at the expense of alienating a viewer not in the know, or one who's seen the wrong video.

So, it's not about Mirror's Edge. It's about the guys playing it. Mirror's Edge is just a convenient excuse to make a video.

I, like you, would rather know about Mirror's Edge. Is there a better overview somewhere?