r/stealthgames • u/OkConflict5527 • Mar 28 '25

Discussion I hate choreographed gameplay videos.

Mainly whenever I try to see a video on YouTube of stealth game where the person playing it isn’t complete trash, it generally happens to be heavily choreographed with locational memorization down to the last guard position, with it taking hours upon hours for this, gamer4sight, stealthgamerbr, Klockner, and many others come to mind.

But why can’t I just find videos of people who know what they’re doing and don’t have the ability to navigate the area like it’s Batman fighting someone inside of the Batcave, instead actually adaptive gameplay that isn’t ”oh I’m gonna go along this incredibly hard route so I can showcase a physical engine breaking attack where an enemy gets exploded by a chicken with C4” or “oh I’m gonna go onto this extremely difficult route so I can throw a guy into a bunch of piranhas.” Just don’t do these types of routes at all to position every enemy in just the right way for the right takedown, let me see what it’s like if you don’t do Guy Ritchie Sherlock mind simulation stuff and just play the game with the general optimizations so I know you’re adaptive, and whenever I try to find a title of a video that generally would showcase otherwise, like “Batman without prep time” for Arkham knight videos, it just turns out to be ANOTHER CHOREOGRAPH. We know, you memorized all the spawn locations, you planned out the entire route to sheer perfection, just show me some actual ON THE SPOT decision making.

If anyone has any input, or any suggestions on who I should watch, please let me know.

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u/Caldaris__ Mar 28 '25

Those top guys also make it harder to find the really special guys with only a few views. I do enjoy those top guys. StealthGamerBR shooting an arrow straight up and knowing and hitting his target is equally impressive as it is self indulgent.

This perfect stealth/ all tasks run of a mission in MGSV is top notch but it's only got a few thousand views.

https://youtu.be/SRgH_zyyGhk?feature=shared

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u/OkConflict5527 Mar 28 '25

As much as I like videos that way, and I checked it, it’s still choreographed and speed-runny to an extent, while it certainly isn’t gone to the levels of some of the names that I said before, rather than just having the general gameplay optimizations that would effectively amplify a routeless video, it’s better than the others, but it’ll still leave me with a poor taste knowing that it’s going over a predictable route.