I kind of agree with what the article is trying to say. When you play video games, though the narrative is an important aspect, a lot of players don’t necessarily play particular attention to them. Unless the game itself revolves around the narrative and the information you get from it helps you progress in the game. But even in those cases, what’s most important is interaction.
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Speedrunning is a type of gaming where players try to beat a game as fast as possible. In the typical speedrun you might watch on YouTube or Twitch, the player will mash buttons to get past any plot-explaining text, causing the backstory to fly by too quickly for a human to comprehend. When possible, major cutscenes get skipped completely, making not only the plot but the characters and their motivations impossible for the viewer to understand.
Despite the irrelevance of story, speedrunning thrives—not just as the individual passion of runners striving to beat their favorite games as quickly as possible using whatever glitches, bugs, and exploits that speed things up, but also as spectated streaming performances that can draw hundreds of thousands of viewers.
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