OpenGame, a new YouTube account which is blowing up at the moment, owes a lot of its success to the TheRelaxingEnd. The formula is very similar: a pair of gloved hands unseals old games with a fancy knife, but the account’s focus on entire franchises appears to be pleasing Google’s algorithm. Take, for example, this video on every Resident Evil game, which has amassed over 500k views in less than a week:
Of particular note here is the quality of the games the account is unboxing: most of them are sealed, although we’re guessing a lot have been re-sealed for the purposes of the video, and are not in their original packaging. Nevertheless, we’re talking complete sets here: unfrayed manuals, perfect retail quality discs, and just generally pristine condition. The videos also include footage of every game, so you can see how the franchise has evolved.
We suppose this goes down as a type of ASMR, and it is quite entrancing how the videos are edited and put together. Of particular interest for PlayStation fans are these God of War and Uncharted videos as well, but the account appears to be growing at an extraordinary rate, and is clearly raking in the YouTube ad revenue:
Do you like these kind of videos? Unseal the entire back catalogue of your favourite video game brand in the comments section below.
[source youtube.com]
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i dont get it.
dont see the appeal
White gloves, fancy
@stvevan I mean there's a whole community that's into... feet. I've stopped wondering what people see in x or z.
***** rip headphone users at the start.
@BlaizeV thank you for being the sacrificial lamb 🙏
God how boring.
@stvevan
500K views says there is a market for this
A yeah the unboxing experience n.n
@Netret0120 This! This account is growing at an insane rate! Whatever they're doing, the YouTube algorithm LOVES it.
Is there help for people out there that sit and watch this kinda thing ?
I bet there are going to be a lot of people in this thread that are going to be angry from someone unwrapping the seal out of the game case.
Well, get this collectors. Video games are meant to be played.
Seen this a few days ago on my YouTube recommends. None of those RE titles are genuine factory seals. Hate to brag but I have all these and multiple different versions like steelbooks and all the Gamecube and all the Dreamcast releases which he's missing. The PS1 version of 96RE1 isnt even the proper regular black label, also was missing the directors cut too. The only one that impressed me was RE Gaiden which maybe looked far to immaculate to be real but I dunno I've never owned Gaiden before. Much prefer The Relaxing End channel
Play em if ya got em!
Black label of 98RE2 missing the disc holder for the 2nd disc. Usually doesn't bother me this kinda stuff but my ocd upstairs hates it, especially on the stuff I adore. Yh never cared for sealed games either, all get played
I watched a YouTube video of Pixel Game Squad going into a warehouse filled with sealed games from NES to PS4. That was 3 years ago, 214k views.
Some guy opening re-sealed games, 500k in a couple of days.
I don't get it to be honest...
@Smiffy01 try ASMR vids, gets even more weird at times but there's a huge crowd for it. I do beer burps on my channel ha, mostly a channel created so I can sub to others more than anything
@Beerheadgamer82 haha nice 😀
I just look at my own collection
These aren't genuine seals. If ya look at the manuals when he opens them, some of them are creased lol
If the games are not rare/valuable and factory sealed, who cares? I don't get it. I don't care about sealed or graded games anyway.
Good to see Michael Jackson still finding work
I collect factory sealed games. Have all souls/uncharted/cod/motor storm and tons more in complete collections and all factory sealed. Some are worth a small fortune already. I plan to hand them down to my kids one day.
As someone that enjoys TheRelaxingEnd's videos, this guy has the right idea and I give him credit for mixing the formula up a bit to deviate from TRE's videos by including gameplay snippits after each game.
Thing is, he needs to balance his audio levels a bit more since the plastic sound is wayyyy too harsh on the ears compared to everything else lol.
I think it's relaxing 😌 ☺️
Verdana (TM) let’s all lay claim
@PegasusActual93 The king didn't die, he just went home. To open all his games
@Deadlyblack yeah but the gameplays aren't always accurate, I remember he did a video about the PS2 Harry Potter games and made the huge mistake of showing gameplay of the PC versions instead lmao which are totally different games.
There's a lot of 'cheating', as it's called in the industry, going on here. I'm not even sure the games have been re-sealed. It looks like clever editing and tearing off carefully placed plastic sheets to give the impression they're being opened. It's a bit misleading, but that's not the point I suppose. It's more about giving the feeling of opening a new game.
I honestly don't see the point in these videos, at least for games anyways.
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