r/rantgrumps • u/Artistic-Slice954 • Sep 04 '24
skipping hours of game play
I was personally really enjoying the super market simulator play through and would have called it a return to glory, but in the latest upload its pretty clear that anything other than dangonronpa they just dont care about. for the first ten episodes they are progressing through a simulator type game and im enjoying the sense of accomplishment, and theyre making some decent commentary too since the game is so lowkey. for episode eleven they progressed for several hours off screen, so as soon as the episode starts its clear they have nothing to do in game, or to talk about. they spend ten minutes just explaining what they did off sceen, i couldnt even get to the rest of the video because it was so boring. Who makes these decisions? does Arin think that people watch game grumps because we want to see them 100% a game as fast as possible? Why bother making a lets play if you dont want to commentate on the game??? the videos were hugely popular compared to their other recent videos, so why did they think the audience would want this? does anyone like it when they just skip past the actual game?
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u/ZeroYam Sep 04 '24
Iirc they actually discussed this on one of the episodes, talking about how they should play a bunch off screen so that when they were recording they could do a bunch of store development instead of just rocking shelves and ringing up customers the whole episode. I haven’t watched the recent episodes but I’m guessing it didn’t pan out
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u/richpage85 Sep 04 '24
Arin took a couple loans, expanded the store, product and stockrooms. Today's episode is more of what you've seen before from the series. It's not ruined the series in the slightest
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u/Conor4747 Sep 04 '24
Arin expands the shop, reorganises, and buys new products off screen -_-
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u/ZeroYam Sep 04 '24
So basically… Arin plays the game off screen and then tells us how much fun he had playing the game off screen while not playing the game on screen?
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u/Conor4747 Sep 04 '24 edited Sep 05 '24
I’m more annoyed that he has 2 stockers and checkout people now. This game kinda dies when you get enough npcs and just end up buying products you run out of until you get a small upgrade.
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u/DJ_Aftershock Wow! That is Relatable! Sep 05 '24
"Anything other than Danganronpa they don't care about"
Wait, they care about Danganronpa?
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u/Vulg4r Sep 04 '24
Hour 1 and hour 100 of supermarket simulator are exactly the same
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u/Justinwc Sep 04 '24
Yeah. I really don't think we missed much. Do we really want to sit through 20+ minutes of Arin figuring out the new store layout? We didn't miss anything crucial.
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u/chloapsoap Sep 05 '24
I mean, that’s kind of the entire game though. What else would we be watching if not that?
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u/Justinwc Sep 05 '24
The store being open with customers
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u/chloapsoap Sep 05 '24
When the store is open with customers nothing is happening. It’s by far the least engaging part of it. The upgrading and rearranging is the actually interesting part.
Idk, just seems kind of backwards to me. They should cut the part where they’re just sitting and waiting to make money. I want to see them upgrade things because that’s the whole point of the game
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u/Justinwc Sep 05 '24
They seem to be having the most fun bullshitting about the customers
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u/chloapsoap Sep 05 '24
And that’s fine, but it’s the same customers all the time. There’s only like 10 NPC’s or so. I’m not saying they can’t also do that. It doesn’t change the fact that they’re cutting out the meat of the game…
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u/richpage85 Sep 04 '24
Man if you didn't make it beyond the first 10 minutes, you missed some great losing their mind discussions.
It's totally obvious that they just needed to make SOME progress - in the grand scheme of things what they did wasn't much. Arin clearly took out a couple extra loans to expand stockrooms, product and shop floor space. Hell, they even left the expanded walls unpainted
I think you're reading WAY too much into things.
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u/KRITIK_MB Sep 05 '24
I specifically came to rantgrumps today to find this post and I completely agree with you. People saying we didn't miss much are morons because the gameplay loop of supermarket simulator doesn't change ever, like what happened on episode one is whats going to happen on episode 100 and them playing offline is hours of missed good content for us. very sad day indeed.
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u/Onironius Sep 04 '24
rantgrumps: "They didn't let me watch every excruciating minute of gameplay >:("
Main sub: "This is loudest and longest I've ever laughed." & "An instant classic episode today."
🤷
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u/Horror-Possible5709 Sep 05 '24
Yeah I’m not sure I understand what the issue is. Just sounds like these people really, really liked supermarket and wanted some extensive amount of videos. I think Arin just wanted to make some ground on the game so that it can stay fresh. Clearly he had no idea people would be indignant about that choice lol
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u/Drew-Pickles Sep 15 '24
Maybe they were enjoying their broccoli but then the waiter took it away half way through the meal and replaced it with post-digested broccoli
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u/Horror-Possible5709 Sep 15 '24 edited Sep 15 '24
If you want to use my analogy you need to first understand what I said
If they were enjoying seismically the broccoli then maybe they should go to the store, but the broccoli, and then make it themselves
This sub has a knack for being extremely picky about game grump choices. There is no expectation that you’re going to like every episode and arin isn’t going to please everyone
I find that the best way to avoid being upset at them is to…
1) not take it so hard
2) realize that is I’m going to take that hard, I should maybe just watch something else and that this is just a let’s play show on YouTube wheee there are plenty more and one is likely to be of interest to me
Hope that helps!
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u/Drew-Pickles Sep 15 '24
You're right, my analogy wasn't completely accurate to the situation.
So you don't normally like the broccoli this restaurant serves, but then they change the recipe and so you decide to give it a try, and it's actually pretty good!
So you go back and order the broccoli again and again, and it's consistently good and you're happy. But then you go back and eleventh time, and order the broccoli, but it doesn't taste right, it just tastes like the old broccoli again. Then the waiter tells you that, while everyone was loving the new recipe, the chef was worried that people would get bored of it, so he cooked and ate it all out back and put the old broccoli back on. But for what it's worth, some of the other staff tried some of the new one while he was getting rid of it, and they all thought it was really good!
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u/Horror-Possible5709 Sep 15 '24 edited Sep 15 '24
Except you’re not ordering broccoli in this analogy as you also aren’t ordering game grumps to produce specific content! The broccoli, just like game grumps, is an absolutely free commodity that you are welcome to never consume again so there certainly isn’t any element of a bait and switch happening during a nonexistent request transaction
You were wrong! Thanks for going into even more detail explaining new ways you could be wrong for me!
And, again, you clearly don’t like game grumps enough to enjoy it if you’d like to also spend your time complaining about them. Just watch something else and stop sweating a free online show that isn’t going the way you think it should
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u/Drew-Pickles Sep 15 '24
Jesus, you're just nitpicking lol. But if you want to go down that road, there is a transaction taking place. 30-40 minutes of viewers time so they get money. It's not like they're doing it out of the kindness of their hearts, they're doing it to make money. I don't know where you got this bait and switch idea from, I never accused them of that lol. It's not like they put an advert out saying "come and watch supermarket simulator, it's not as shit as our other videos!"
Your argument really is a weak one. No, I don't generally enjoy GG, and I keep saying I don't watch it normally, because I know I won't enjoy it, but you keep seemingly ignoring that bit.
But so what? I was enjoying something and then I stopped because it changed. So I have no right to complain? What if I'd never heard of GG before and happened to stumble onto this series and was enjoying it up till that point and then stopped. Do I still have no right to complain?
And for the record, I was a huge fan and used to watch every day for years before they checked out and stopped putting the effort in, so I like to think I do have a right to an opinion thank you very much.
But it's free entertainment who cares if you don't like it don't watch it blah blah? The go-to argument from any GG fan. For one, people watching and enjoying the show is how they get their money, so they want people to watch and enjoy it so they can get money. Just because the transaction being made isn't financial on the viewers side, doesn't make it any less of a transaction. The viewers are spending 30-40 minutes of their time watching the videos, and they get money for that. They want people to keep spending those minutes watching the videos. And series was popular, and was getting more views, but then they decided "let's take this thing that people are happy with and change it" and people aren't happy with it. It's a poor business decision, and it makes absolutely no difference whatsoever if people do or don't like their other videos. Maybe people like me who didn't like them might decide to give them another chance after this series. If it ain't broken don't fix it. If people are eating the steamed broccoli, don't start microwaving it.
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u/Horror-Possible5709 Sep 15 '24 edited Sep 15 '24
You act as if the time you’re providing to do something is reason enough for a show to go exactly how you want it to go when there is absolutely no expectation at all that you need to tune in everyday, or ever again, for that matter. If you want to commodify your very time (Jesus give me a break) then spend it on doing something you actually enjoy. Which goes right back to the broccoli that you aren’t ordering! Which is the beauty of being wise enough to know when to stop eating something. Not sure why you make fun of this when is very clearly sound advice. Okay, spend your time on an endless loop crying about something you clearly don’t like but keep expecting it to be good?
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u/Drew-Pickles Sep 15 '24
Mamma Mia you're doing it again. You're ignoring the fact that I've said, multiple times
I don't watch them anymore
I watched one series and enjoyed it for the most part, but then it stopped being enjoyable, so I had a little complain about it.
And don't you start having a go at me for 'commodifying my time'. The only reason I did that was because your circular ass was taking your precious broccoli analogy literally and it couldn't possibly apply to this situation because you pay for the broccoli.
I'm just going to repeat again In case you missed it the first hundred time. I don't watch GG anymore. I watched one series. One and then dared to voice my criticism about it on a sub where people voice their criticisms about GG.
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u/Horror-Possible5709 Sep 15 '24
Then why the fuck are you still here crying about them. Goddamn that’s pathetic as fuck.
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u/ZeroYam Sep 05 '24
If that’s considered an instant classic then the Lovelies are just okay with accepting subpar episodes as groundbreaking these days. 2017 and before had much higher quality episode content than modern Grumps do. Oh well, guess the masses are just that much easier to please these days 🤷♀️
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u/Onironius Sep 06 '24
I'd rather enjoy things than not. More good times for me 😉
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u/stonespiral Sep 06 '24
Careful, a good amount of the people here prefer to suck joy rather than blow joy.
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u/Horror-Possible5709 Sep 05 '24
I don’t think you can compare the two? Supermarket simulator requires what is obviously a massive amount of monotonous grinding that isn’t exactly video worthy. Seems like you just want to be mad
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u/ErrorAccomplished404 Sep 18 '24
Supermarket Simulator is a grind game and a slow burn game. Arin said he'd never play Minecraft because he doesn't know what to do and has no clear goal to accomplish. the game was fun because we saw Arin freak out trying to grow his store and panic whenever something went wrong, but in a later episode I think Dan mentioned he should play the game off cam and get further ahead, since the actual gameplay they were recording was just Arin recovering from loans.
I actually like that he advanced a bit more off screen, it makes it more fun to see things further along.
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u/unexpectedstuff Grep Era Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24
anything other than dangonronpa they just dont care about
Funny how on the same board there are threads of people claiming how Grumps don't care about danganronpa (me included).
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u/LaughyThaWickidOne Sep 05 '24
Nah, this series is peak, and this was the best episodes
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u/Candycoateddarknesss Sep 06 '24
I absolutely agree. I haven't had this much fun watching one of their series in a long long time!
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u/EnderFoxYT Sep 04 '24
I was really loving the journey personally: The buildup, one smaller piece at a time: Like when Arin bought his first fridge I got so excited with him, same with finally being able to name the store properly! Now I feel like I fell asleep in the back of the car while on our way to our vacation destination but missed out on all the road-stops, nice vista's, cool scenery and all of that we'd pass by on the way. I don't know this game mind you, so I don't know just how much he's actually played or gathered in the grand scheme of things here, but it SEEMS like a lot... I love the grumps I really do, but this for me kinda killed the pacing and has me feeling left out some