He Makes Me Play
Hey Marius, I played this game where you are a really bad detective. I tried to grab my tie from a ceiling fan to get dressed and died of a heart attack. That made me think I really need to play this with you.
— Vincent, circa 2020
HeMakesMePlay is a streaming/let's play project where I play video games as a blind person and have my friends, who are very kind and patient, describe them to me. With the right games, this makes for a fun and collaborative gaming experience for us, and is a pretty unique watching and listening experience for our viewers.
We focus on RPGs. This is partly because narrative and dialogue based games work well with the format, but also because we just plain like the genre. For example, you can still find our Disco Elysium playthrough on the youtube channel, which is an amazing RPG. Be warned though: It is also the first game we recorded, and it shows.
In 2023 we started streaming on twitch. We had a pretty intense run, where me and my friend Vincent would sit down weekly to play Baldur's Gate 3. This was, to me, a completely unparalelled gaming experience. Partly because of the loveletter to my childhood that is BG3, but also and foremost because I got to share the experience with Vincent and our very intelligent and funny viewers. The entire playthrough is still in our stream archive. I think the playthrough is comfortably beyond 300 hours, so grab some popcorn I guess.
Currently, HeMakesMePlay is on indefinite hiatus. At least until the bat signal lights up the sky again and calls us forth to play video games — and, well, someone points it out to me, since I can't actually see the bat signal.
- Twitch: https://twitch.tv/hemakesmeplay_live
- Youtube Channel: https://youtube.com/hemakesmeplay
- Youtube Archive: https://youtube.com/hemakesmeplay_uncut
- Twitter: Defunct due to elmo. Right now, announcements will be made on my blue sky.
