User blog:Ebon Shadowshot/Experiencing a campaign without experiencing it...

It's been annoying me. It's happened forever, but I can't understand people who watch entire campaigns of games they may buy or have pre-ordered or are definitely buying on release. I fail to see to point of finding out all of the story and the plot twists without even getting to know the characters.

Unless the game came out years ago so everyone already knows the ending and you have a grasp of it (example being previous instalments to series like Dead Rising or MW2 among others), I don't see the point in watching it on YouTube (or where the other 25% of online videos comes from).

I'll use an example. Recently I played Halo 4. I'll be honest it wasn't the best Halo campaign yet but I wasn't expecting much from 343 Industries, and it felt more like the ending of a trilogy instead of the opening of one (because "X" dies before the end), but if I had seen that campaign on YouTube before getting the game, I would have never played the campaign. The plot holes, the inclusion of the Didact and for some reason the Librarian (who has been said to be dead in both Bungie and 343 Lol Halo Canon), the ridiculous explanation of what the Prometheans are would have made me refuse to click on "Start Campaign" and outright not play the game because the multiplayer is too unplayable because of the worst hit detection known to man and the various shades of grey alongside there being barely any variety between maps, and Forge is just an extension of Reach's, not much of an improvement. I wouldn't have had the great experience I did have in the campaign which was that I actually liked it.

I have friends who have watched all of Black Ops II's campaign. I also have one who "only watches the first and last mission of the campaign" (which is the stupidest thing I have ever heard in my life), and it's actually annoying to think that they couldn't wait another couple of days and actually experienced it themselves. If you hate it, fine, if you like it, why spoil it by knowing exactly what's going to happen?

TL;DR version: Why the serious f*ck do people watch campaigns of upcoming games on YouTube instead of just playing the game and thus enjoying it more?