Out of all the categories I watch on Twitch, Pools is up there as far as what I enjoy watching. That’s an IRL category, though. This post will be about video games and art style or art direction, which I don’t have an especially deep understanding of, and will not deeply analyze in this post.
Out of all video games, I enjoy watching Guilty Gear: Strive the most, and I think its art direction is special. I also like watching Tekken 7, though I’ve spent less time watching Tekken than GGST or Street Fighter. I like SF5 for the design of its female characters. I like watching SF6 less than SF5. I like watching Virtua Fighter because I think Virtua Fighter is a cool game and its gameplay is cool, though I like the art direction as much as I like Tekken 7’s art direction probably. I like watching Super Smash Bros. Ultimate too. I like watching Dragon Ball FighterZ about as much as I enjoy watching SF6. In terms of video games ranked by how much I enjoy the art direction, here is a tentative ranking: Guilty Gear: Strive > VF5:US = Tekken 7 = SFV = SSBU > SF6 = DBFZ
These are all fighting games. I mainly watch fighting games. There are probably a lot of single player games I’d enjoy watching out there, including many that I don’t know about. I’ve watched gameplay of SM64, TLOZ: OOT, and TLOZ: MM, and I enjoyed watching them. I also enjoyed watching Minecraft. Sometimes I enjoy watching Fortnite gameplay. Sometimes I enjoy watching Quake Live, Tribes, or Unreal Tournament gameplay for nostalgic purposes, but not really because I enjoy watching the graphics in people’s gameplay. Sometimes I enjoy watching THPS 1+2, but usually only a few minutes at a time. I enjoyed watching Stray and Journey.
In terms of which games I enjoy playing, the order is different, and in terms of games with a pleasant user experience, the order is different too.