I'm so split on this whole thing being a bamboozle or him being stupid, probably both
When they play games I'm familiar with, I notice that Chris has a pattern: find the basic attack button, and then don't look at or learn anything else until you die. I think the reason that this agitates people more than anything else is that, like... yeah, being bad at games isn't a huge deal, because people come to the channel for a laugh. But when you won't even look at the controls/mechanics and you have a playstyle that doesn't naturally experiment, it can lead to utterly uninteresting situations that banter can't even carry - it's just boring.
Especially since their best banter comes from them reacting spontaneously and organically to shit going on that they don't expect - compare Lyle's energy levels re-playing a game he's completely memorized to when he plays something new or that he doesn't remember - night and day. I remember in the Devotion series, they get stuck on the easiest puzzle in the world which they ultimately give up on - using the daughter's date of birth as the numbers on a lock or something. Instead of just looking it up, they wander around for 30 minutes and the jokes / footage get stale. Same exact situation when they're moving slowly in a platformer and nothing at all is happening to get them going.
I cannot watch him play the souls games because he
still has not even fucking experimented with putting the shield down to regen stamina when there's no chance of him getting hit. He sees an enemy, he pushes the block button. He runs out of stamina swinging, but the enemy is not dead, so he keeps holding the block button. He circlestrafes a basic enemy for 30 seconds and forces the bants to deal with something that isn't the game, because the game is boring. Compare that to when Dave's playing RE3 and he keeps digging himself into trouble and running into zombos - they can talk about NC's Wall Review, then talk about something wacky in the game, then talk about boobs; get some variety, some energy.
Which is part of why a good ol' David Kage """"""""""""game"""""""""""""" might be useful as a balm for their recent "games journalist plays cuphead tutorial"-level efforts. It keeps things going, Chris doesn't know the story or options, and even being retards and fucking up won't stop things from happening.
