You find and read what's important in a minute instead of wasting hours on watching vids.
Totally agree with reading vs videos…..I mean, who the heck wants to watch someone else play a game, lol. I swear it's the strangest thing…..I remember having to wait back in the 70's to play games with other kids, everyone taking turns and such, and watching someone else play or talk about a game makes me relive that all over again. I'll take reading every time.
Well, watching someone play does have its uses. Paradox strategy games are so complex that it's really beneficial for new players to watch someone play the first hour or so. I recently did with Victoria 2, and it helped a lot to get me on the way.
With a text you need to give it your full attention though. With a video you can have it on in the backgrund while doing something else, which is how I do most of my "watching". And I've found that doing this actually helps me focus on my main task, as it keeps my mind from wandering.Besides, text you can scan over, skip parts that are not interesting for you (like, say, a review with a section for multiplayer, which I couldn't care less about) and go to the meaty parts. In a video you don't know that, you have to watch the whole thing.
Yes, but that's viable only because they don't ship the games with printed handbooks, I assume ?
With big, printged handbooks it would be easier, because you clould do some research in the book for needed information meanwhile playing …
Sure, you can spend 20 hours reading a bible-sized manual of the game, or spend an hour watching a video.
How much information has been misinterpreted because of the written word?
A video is much easier to process - and the actual meaning much clearer because the buffer between man and the audience is not subject to the flawed nature of written language.
Then, please, tell me how you are going to play a video after WWIII (which hopefully will never be) ?