This is a thread to discuss all the cool games we would gather around and watch other people play and enjoy the experience. These are games that can get a crowd of people behind you. Games like Viewtiful Joe. Watch the action of uppercutting two enemies and killing them in fast motion before they hit the ground. And don't forget God Hand which proves everyone can get down watching fatties get stomped, store roofs collapsing, and launching punks out of sight with blazing kicks.

I am totally fascinated watching people play Resident Evil 4. Not through online videos but in-person. Watching one particular person play the village stage by constantly stopping and looking before approaching made me cognizant on the wise decision to remove the binoculars to prevent this kind-of boring 'land surveyor' play. Super Mario Brothers. was also amusing watching my parents play. I dubbed my dad's playing '1,0001 Ways to Die'. It's fascinating watching amateurs play these games -- I have even seen pure glee on the faces of people watching famous celebrities in Japan play Super Mario Bros. for the first time. Watching people play gives you a fresh look at the game.

Do you ever take interest in watching others play? Are you still fascinated to watch people play games at kiosks? What games out there have you seen audio/visual excitement from others recently?

UPDATE 1 - Discussing least favorite genre of games to watch versus most favorable to watch.

The onlooker effect to be brought up in another update.

UPDATE 2 - The Onlooker Effect section post added. Discuss below.

The next question which @am*d inspired is what genre of games are your absolute least favorite to watch. In my case that would easily be the sports genre (EA Games). The worst are games like soccer, baseball, and cricket; the best sports games being tennis and basketball -- the best sport game to watch ever is Super Mario Strikers. The golf games are really boring as well to watch but they always have phenomenal music to chill to as a spectator.

Which leads me to a theory that if you are painfully bored watching a game you won't enjoy controlling the avatars on the screen if you do get to put in inputs.

The onlooker effect is the impact of someone's presence on your game experience. Have you ever played a game with someone watching who made the experience notably worse or better?

My story of onlooker effect involves my first time playing WiiU at the mall. I finally got my hands on the controller and was navigating through some level in ZombiU. I told my dad to watch as I entered the sewer. Walking down a dark narrow path I encountered a female zombie. I gave her a good whack with my cricket bat. My dad let out "My God!! You're hitting that woman." I explained that she was a zombie and gave her another whack. I could feel a look of disgust behind me. Still she wasn't dead and I hit her again. It felt as if I was doing some real domestic violence -- as if I was actually doing something wrong in a virtual world. Each subsequent hit no longer felt like pleasurable domination but somehow like an excessive police brutality force. Well that zombie bitch ended up killing me anyway and I walked away disappointed but humored at the experience.