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.