Questions from Patreon Part 48 - Minecraft, Audience Sponsored Content and Parasocial Relationships
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28:40 Raf: So I consider you to be my parasocial friend when it comes to gaming.
I'm fairly old (35) with a stable career, my own house, a 3 y.o. kid etc, I just don't have any friends that are into video games, since it doesn't seem to be super popular among my contemporaries.
And I'm OK with that, I don't really have time nor desire to make new friends at this point of my life (I'm fairly anti-social anyway). This one way relationship we have works great for me.
I do enjoy very much to experience my favorite games vicariously through your eyes. It's the closest I have to playing them blind again. Similarly, I like listening to your post-credits mini-reviews, rants and opinions. I'm always interested to hear those. I particularly like it when you dismantle bad titles like your 3 hour rant on ME:Andromeda.
You have already covered a lot of my all-time favorites (like SoulsBorne series, Talos Principle, The Witness, Obra Dinn, Subnautica, ) but there are a few of what I consider an absolute must-plays that you haven't played (like latest God of War or Outer Wilds) and it always saddens me whenever another ancient NES game wins the patreon poll.
I just feel the medium has moved forward a lot in the last decade and modern indie/AA titles have so much more to offer than these nostalgia trips. Also, I never had NES some maybe that has something to do with it as well (I've had a PC since age 6. Prehistorik, Another World, Flashback, Prince of Persia, Doom - those were the games)
So my question is this: would you ever consider allowing someone from your audience pick a game for you to give an honest go, if not play to completion, in exchange for a one-time donation? And how large of a donation would it have to be? 100$, 200$, 500$? I'd feel like a patron of the arts if I could sponsor a whole let's play series of my choice. Perhaps there are others like me?