Are you a back seat gamer?

[razu]

I'm the opposite, I love to watch people play games. I have sat through resi evil 3, watching someone else play. It's ace. It reduces the stress on yourself.

Of course, it helps if the player isn't a complete spanner.

[Bobontheway]

Nah i'm not and neither is my flatmate.
I actuall wish my flatmate was a back seat gamer sometimes as yesterday i was playing MGS3 and crawling through the undergrowth, as you do, towards an electric fence.
After a while he started laughing to himself but i thought nothing of it as i was trying to tranc a guard in the crotch and then...

*BANG*

Seems i'd crawled right into the most blatantly obvious landmine ever and he'd been sat there waiting for it to happen.... the swine.

[dug]

I have a mate who does it. It's irritating enough when it's one of his games but when it's one of mine, that I've been playing for a couple of weeks and he'd never even seen prior to about an hour ago, it gets incredibly annoying.

"Pick up the shotgun! Go Right!"

"Yes. I. Know."

[Spatial]

I've found that a well placed smack in the nose with the controller shuts any back seat gamers up lickety split

[Nijo]

I really like doing challenges in pairs. One person, then the next, then the next. It's competitive and you want to do well for the game and to beat the other person. That really got me through F-Zero GX. I can watch RPGs being played as like a story. That's cool by me.

But rather than being a 'back seat' person, I'm a co-op person. Defo my favourite way of playing. Online co-op is my holy grail. Team based games atm are pretty close, but online story mode co-op is where I want to be.

Great stuff.

Exactly. I used to play that way with my brothers (playing through DOTT or Monkey Island as a team is a blast) and now do so with my old flatmate. We alternate the front seat on games - currently Fable (him) and HL2 (me) but soon Kotor2.
Any story co-op games (Balders Gate, etc) get eaten up in no time.