People keep doing amazing things with technology. Last week, it was a chap playing Among Us on the Wii (sort of); this week it's Twitch Plays Pokémon Sword.
Reddit user DmitrievStan posted a video of his complicated setup that allows him to stream his Nintendo Switch to Twitch, and lets viewers control the game remotely for 60 seconds at a time. The game is streaming right now on the Surrogate Twitch channel as the first of their planned "We Play" series.
It does sound slightly less chaotic than the original TwitchPlaysPokémon, but luckily, the general tone hasn't changed - at the time of writing, the Pokémon team includes "Bunny", a Raboot, a Vulpix named "fire", and a Gossifleur named... "asshola".
If you want to give the game a go (and hopefully provide some better names) then you can just drop into the Twitch chat and queue up for your 60 seconds in the spotlight. The Twitch page notes that the top ten players at the end of the game will win a prize, presumably meaning the ten players with the most time logged.
[source reddit.com]
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It's certainly an interesting experiment.
Ha! This is actually very clever and interesting.
Nintendo takedown coming in 3, 2, 1...
Sounds like fun I hope they can make twitch player tornaments to.
These are still very interesting and oddly entertaining, but nothing will hold a candle to the epic saga of Bird Jesus and Lord Helix.
@nessisonett Why would they stop it? TwitchPlaysPokemon is still running, and they've played the game like a week after the game was released. (as well as both DLCs as they were released)
@KingMike Why would they shut down the livestream of the Splatoon 2 tournament? Why would they shut down the college Smash Ultimate tournaments when the high school ones are still being run? Who honestly knows anymore 😂
Since this isn't using an emulator, here's hoping it's safe from Nintendo's ridiculously worn-down gavel
@nessisonett They cancelled that livestream because half of the contestants were changing their names to a hashtag movement or literal twitter links, they halted sponsored college smash tournaments because allegedly they were planning something else for it. Playing an authentic video game with a software gimmick functioning outside of its code is an entirely different scenario. Otherwise they would’ve shut down the fish playing pokemon.
There’s also the fact that the closest thing they’ve had to interacting with any of the TPP community was to take down a romhack that was using the streams as advertisement for its release, but not the touching the streams themselves.
@nessisonett Your hands down from our non profit fan works Nintendo. It should be a campaign against those kind of companies which take down fan projects
@nessisonett @elias84631 This one is being played through official hardware, with the Pi just being at best a streamer/control overlay. Nintendo won't care.
@Narrator1 I thought Nintendo will take it down. I am wrong.
Anti-Nintendo comment. Am I cool yet?
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