The Slow Death of Let's Play Videos
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- Let’s plays used to be the cornerstone of UA-cam. During simpler times, when video titles just had the name of a game and an episode number, let’s plays paved the way for gaming as we know it on UA-cam today, and - in many ways, for commentary content in general. Alongside a few other forms of media, let’s plays are basically the reason I’m here today. So if you’re looking for someone to blame, look no further. For me, and for many others across the globe, let’s plays were our first foray into UA-cam videos, both from the perspective of a viewer, and for some of us, from the perspective of a creator.
Let’s plays scratch our goblin gamer brains in the perfect way, perfectly capturing that feeling of sitting on the couch, watching your friend play their favorite game - except that no friends are required, which is very convenient for me. They come in many shapes and forms, with different creators covering different types of content and presenting their content in different ways - with some being laid back, and some screaming so hard their headphones fall off.
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Chapters:
Intro - 0:00
The First Let’s Play - 2:43
The UA-cam Let’s Play - 6:10
The Calm Before the Storm - 11:53
The Death of the Let’s Play - 18:42
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Tbh I prefer watching a 10-20 minute long video of edited gameplay than watch the same game live. One of the main reasons why I used to watch so many gaming content but barely do nowadays
This. There are very few streams that I can watch and I usually do it on the background.
I have to agree with this. 10-20 minute edited videos will have the best parts of the recording/stream while leaving the quiet or less interesting parts out, but the videos are also enhanced by changed made with the edits
@@hatmanbuilder I love just put a live stream in the background while playing Minecraft or something
Same. Edited stream highlight videos are a middle ground I can enjoy sometimes, but it's a different dynamic. For one, it feels like you're always left on the sidelines, as the streamer's focus is (understandably) dominated by the interaction with chat.
yeah, i never really enjoyed the streaming format really, it doesn't scratch my brain the right way lets plays do.
Thanks for making actual quality content
:)
@@merakimerakimeraki yeah scott cawthon retired thanks to dicks on twiter just so you know when i heard it killed me tbh
This is the Greatest Lets Play Timeline of All Time
I've come ot dislike streaming as a medium.. Because most streams tend to devolve into a chaotic mess of subs, donation messages, raids, follow alerts, and all sorts of other distractions.. Watching a streamer for their reaction just doesn't work, because they stop playing every 5 seconds..
I like the curated format, where someone reacts to the game, talk about facts they know about it, or just telling us some random life stories.
This happens with streamers, you just have to pick the right ones, though overall I do agree that Let’s plays are better
love these vids man, i can see the effort put into this and it really shows with the super well made videos! Welcome back again and keep it up
thank you man!
I like rewatching the jon era of game grumps. Theres something really comfortable about just two people talking to each other being genuinely interested in what the other person says. Its also cool that they actually talk about the game design of the game which creates an interesting dynamic with the gameplay that isnt purely reactionary. Also theres some nostalgia to it and its wholesome to see someone enjoy something you like too. Hearing them talk about games that "just came out" in 2012 and speculating about the future also gives me a kick. they seemed less commercial and are less edited making them feel more natural. The low editing also gives you the feeling of being there with them, just hangin out.
Aaaanyway. Speaking of editing. I think your editing is really cool especially in this video. I especially appreciate the laid back vibe. It doesnt seem like you're trying hard and feels very natural, which as previously mentioned I greatly enjoy.
I have the tendency to post long comments sometimes sorry.
You are gonna grow exponentially mate. These videos are well crafted. More power to you.
hahah thank you man! i’d love to grow, but seeing you guys here appreciating my videos means the world to me
I don't know why youtube didn't recommend me after constantly checking your channel, but I'm glad I remembered. Excited to get into the video!
Back in 2008 I used to be a Let's Player.
Most underrated UA-camr rn
🥺
As someone who has a relatively new Let's Play channel, I'm fascinated by the larger narrative around Let's Plays on UA-cam. Thanks so much for this video!
I'm glad that you're back! That was a great video. Your background music choice was flawless btw
thank you! one of my favorite parts of editing :)
Even tho let's play aren't popular I'm still going to be making them I've been doing it for 7 years and I wont stop
I've had this for 3 years but I stopped 2 years ago and now started again
gotta love how self aware the first lets play was lmao. also all the content we started getting around 2017 is so good im glad you included it. epic gamer shit all around
I love how the 2 'categories' of let's play are; The Entire Horror Genre, and... Minecraft.
Just goes to show how universally amazing minecraft is.
Wow, you opened a treasure trove of memories I had long forgotten 🥲 Another great video Meraki, as always, love the subtle puns spread throughout. Already looking forward to the next piece of content!!
Let's plays are honestly a cornerstone of UA-cam for me. When I think of UA-cam, one of, if not the first thing I think about is let's plays and the many UA-camrs who make let's play content. While it may not be nearly as big as it once was, let's play content is still often fun to watch
Damn man with that Earthbound clip I thought you were going to mention who I desperately wanted you to mention but you broke my heart ;(.
Chuggaaconroy is arguably the most important LP’er in the platform’s history. He’s one of the first, maybe even the first, to do it with his Earthbound LP in 2007 when he was 17 years old. He influenced everyone on the platform to want to be a UA-camr a little more than a year after UA-cam came out years before LP’s hit their peak. He does not get the flowers he deserves while also still uploading constantly 15+ years later. Long leave Emile or “Chuggaaconroy”
Ye, long leave him lmao
You’re videos are the only ones I sit through and watch the whole thing. I love being able to connect with other people that have the same era of nostalgia. Videos like yours just allow me to sit down and feel like I’m a kid again in 2010 and living that life
thanks for the kind words man :) that warmed my heart
I always forget I'm subbed to you, then I'm delightfully surprised every time there's a new video.
10/10 Excellent video. Even though its a little long, it brought back so many memories, especially of Stampylongnose. And the transitions from gameplay to your face are very well done 👍
thank you king 👑
i’m glad you enjoyed Stampy’s feature
I agree!
(also is that the real hotslicer i watch1!?!?1.!? dude your content is amazing)
@@merakimerakimeraki let's play's still popular
Stampy, iBallisticSquid, plus Ash dub is a W trio for my childhood.
Its been a long time since i found such a good channel on yt. Chill, funny and the amount of effort you put into it.. i hope you wont give up, cause you easily have potential to blow up.
God damn! 2 videos already? For real though, you deserve so much more for the quality content you put out.
Shout-out to Ethoslab, over 400 episodes of consistent Let's Play content with unwavering quality on the same minecraft world.
man, you just brought back some memories
@@merakimerakimeraki Also man I love your content. I just found your channel through the commentaries on the Minecraft soundtracks and I'm consistently impressed by your quality. Keep it up!
Oh I think I stumbled across a hidden gem of a creator on UA-cam today. I’m subbing!
thank you for this incredible video, was great to watch
thank you :)
It's absolutely amazing to see you back with such a strong video.
hehe thanks luc!
all that stampy footage gave me so much nostalgia. His lets plays were basically my childhood :")
you deserve wayyyy more subs. youre videos are pefectly put together
Loved the depth of this video and seeing all the research you did!
thanks luke! i like how it turned out :)
Loving the vid so far! It’s always exciting when you upload cause I know the video is going to be top notch quality. That segment from 3:38-3:45 was hilarious too 😂
You are the hidden gem of youtube. Quality content, tough to find these days. Thank you, these videos keep me company.
Thank you for this video I absolutely loved watching Let’s Plays back in the day they were my go-to especially PopularMMOs he was my favorite, it’s sad that they’ve been faded out in favor of Streaming and whatnot but eventhough id still love to watch some Let’s Plays nowadays
i used to love his videos! sadly streaming is the new name of the game these days :(
Your content is a hidden gem on UA-cam you deserve so much more recognition for your work
thank you so much, you have no idea how much that means :)
I've been suddenly interested in this topic and looked up a handful of videos about it and yours was pretty accurately the best one.
I remember watching Let's Play videos on Google Video nearly two decades ago. The Freelance Astronauts made the best Let's Play videos, hands down, that I still occasionally rewatch to this day.
thanks so much :) glad you enjoyed, and thanks for sharing your memories
Bro the music you use is great. The music in the background is nostalgic/enjoyable to listen to. It won't be just plain Minecraft music, it'll be like a remix of it. Keep it up.
thanks so much jacob!! i put a ton of work into finding the songs i think work well while feeling nostalgic :) im glad some people appreciate it
2011 I used to try filming the TV of my pokemon Battle Revolution online matches but the video files were too large to do anything with on my computer. My potential let's play career was over before it began.
As a German who didn't speak much English at the time and therefore only watched German Lets Players, I can only write from this perspective. There were so many channels that made lets plays, but only a few are remaining. Like Gronkh, one of the biggest and most well-known German Lets Player. He shaped the German Lets Play scene like no other, e.g. with his Minecraft Lets Play, which lasted over 1000 episodes, and many others only started with UA-cam through him.
21:49 Like Josh Strife Hayes
that’s so interesting! thanks for watching. i have to watch Gronkh now.
@@merakimerakimeraki Have fun watching, even if you probably don't understand much. You can watch his Minecraft Lets Play or just look for a game that interests you, he will probably have made a LP about it. Otherwise he also streams every Friday at 6 p.m. (CET) on Twitch.
Your voice is very relaxing
thank you… sir!
Good stuff. Here is what has always been my head cannon for the history of LPs
SA Screenshot era
birth of video let’s plays - I credit to Slowbeef
1st LP boom, when let’s plays became more popular - I credit the game Kaizo Mario World, Proton Jon, and Psychedelic Eyeball. This was a precursor to both the full game playthroughs, as well as the funny viral moments video, such as Proton Jon’s Kaizo special stage 2 parter.
Inspired era- new lets players being inspired by LPs from LPers like Jon emerge, among the most popular being Chuggaaconroy and NintendoCaprisun. The more popular LPers maintained full game LPs or full match gameplay for online or multiplayer games for the most part.
Viral Era/2nd LP boom- more LPers emerge, the most popular move away from full game play throughs and go for more quick videos and series. Most popular of this group include UberhaxorNova, Markiplier, and the biggest name in LPer history, PewDiePie. Quick fire videos and topics included Amnesia levels and Happy wheel levels.
Collab groups era-Started around the same time as 2nd LP boom, took a little longer to catch on than the individual Lpers. More Lpers began to collab to make multiplayer content, or make commentary easier and more to jump off of. Retsupurae can take some credit for being one of the original collab efforts, and some of the true early decently popular collab channels include TheRunAwayGuys and WiiRiketoPray. However these truly caught on in 2012 in 2013 in my opinion with the emergence of the crew, lead by KYR Speedy, Game Grumps, and eventually the Vanoss Crew which passed them all. Also corporate let’s play groups, such as Achievement Hunter Let’s Plays and Smosh Games became bigger during this time.
Twitch era: The biggest creators of the 2nd boom and the collab era stayed relevant for the longest among the other Lpers, however the emergence of livestreaming, as well as UA-cam continuing to make stricter rules regarding monetization and copyright, and of course the emergence of professional esports has lead to twitch becoming the preferred platform for many past and current Lpers. As mentioned in the video, KYR speedy moved 99% of content creation to Twitch. This is also the case for even Let’s Play veteran Proton Jon. At this point most UA-cam full game playthrough lets players have lost relevance, with only a select few, such as Chuggaaconroy, maintaining a consistent audience from years past (of course personal issues may affect this if/when Chugga returns from hiatus). To me, this is the current state of Let’s Playing.
finally a new video by Meraki! I was waiting it from 1 year
The video, aswell as dr.keys backround music both slaps really hard! Keep up the work man, you will grow big in no time!
he’s the MAN
Don't worry everyone, I'm bringing let's plays back
Great summary man! The genre will stay alive just has shared competition now with twitch!
This is quality content man good stuff :D
thanks man :)
I dunno why, but I love being nostalgic, so great work ! Keep it that way !
it’s the best feeling
Love the videos!
Long scattered thoughts below, don’t really know where I was going with it
Something that I find interesting is that I prefer watching UA-cam videos rather than livestreams. I’m not sure why but I just do, and to see a die out of let’s play content on UA-cam is sad and yet I’m fine with it. The amount of lets play content on UA-cam is astronomical and still being produced. Mark as mentioned in the video still rides the lets play train while keeping it entertaining and I could watch hours of it. But having the option to watch other content is just as enjoyable as the lets play type content which is why I really like Jack. Overall it’s a really nice balance especially, when the UA-camrs who don’t do as many lets plays come back every once in a while.
Something else I wanna mention is how UA-camrs have grown with their audience where it sees fit. Like Jack went from being loud and, for lack of a better word, obnoxious to a more laidback and calm UA-camr. While some UA-camrs stayed the same like stampy, which isn’t exactly a bad thing. Stampy brings nostalgia and melancholy to the platform and it’s just as enjoyable as it used to be.
You're really underrated, Like you have:
Good Editing
And a Calming Voice
Great Let's Play, can't wait for part 2.
😳
You are EASILY the most underrated youtuber on the platform. Your videos never leave me disappointed, keep it up.
the castle crasher music at the end made me buss from nostalgia
I still can’t believe how underrated you are
I definitely recall the first few proto-Let's Plays I watched: Oblivion. Some of the ones I remember seem to have vanished, but around early 2007 there were a few prolific guys making content. It was a nice change of pace from the commentary-free walkthrough vids and 5-minute video reviews that made up the majority of video game coverage on demand.
I always watched your videos a couple years ago and I was wondering where you went, I just realized YT hasn’t given me any notifications :/. Great video! Can’t wait see whatever you put out next
i remember you! thanks for coming back :)
@@merakimerakimeraki I never would have left if I had been notified about your videos over the past year or so. I have some catching up to do haha
@@SirShadeyy I can respect a hardcore fan like you, fine gentleman.
Man, it's good to have you back
it’s good to be back!
Love your videos dude, they bring back so much nostalgia or as men of culture call it, chronic heart pain.
BRO that is a deep reference. thanks for watching :)
This video a certified hood classic.
Just a lil comment, around 2:43 you say it’s a lil hard to point to where the first lets play was… I believe it was from a channel called “Mac and Mesh” a few years ago and they began recording lets plays around 2003-2004 if I remember correctly. A few years before UA-cam was founded and 2 or so years before the first so called lets play was recorded. Mac has a review channel today called “Worth a buy” that’s been hovering around 300k subs for a year or so, I don’t know what Mesh is up to. Mac still claims he made the first ever lets play but I’ve never heard him elaborate much on it. In fact if you see Mac and Mesh’ most recent video on UA-cam from 10 or so years ago (yes that’s their last upload) in the very first 5 seconds it states it’s the very first lets play followed by the lets play footage. I’m surprised not many people have talked about it more considering it dominated gaming on UA-cam for a whole decade
glad you’re making videos again :)
me too :)
You deserve that explosive Piewdiepie growth man, keep up the videos!
4:05 UberHaxorNova. The OG. Who knows, knows.
Hey I've been seeing your content for a while now and it's surprisingly good. Also I'm Greek and appreciate that your channel is named Meraki.
them jokes though
u seem make them land so swell
stellar work
21:44 Spanish waltz from castlecrashers
Amazing content, keep it up!
Well done on 60k subs!
thank you! 😁
Your voice is so calming to me idk why
The research on this 🔥
Also, the jokes do be hittin
Yo good as video watched to the end keep it up
Markiplier is also an even rarer breed of let's player that STILL USES PART NUMBERS. Seriously why did people stop using those its stopped me from watching so many videos cause I don't want to keep trying to find which I was on before
23:53 “And tbh I don’t think a lot of you would be without let’s plays” is that a threat?
yes 😳
Amazing video! Really enjoyable and captivating. Though I wish you had mentioned chugaaconroy, who has been making Lets Plays almost daily, day in and day out for the past 14 or so years. He made a Super Mario Sunshine lets play that you’ve probably seen before and I think he’s a huge part of the Nintendo lets play scene.
Another great video! Any hints on what the next video will be about?
thanks man! still deciding which direction i’m going to take it in, i have a few scripts brewing
Another excellent video, Meraki! I personally don't think that those multiplayer Minecraft videos would be considered 'true' Let's Plays, especially when compared to not only other Minecraft series (like the Yogscast), but more structured series like anything made by Chuggaaconroy. However, I do still think that their role in the Let's Play sphere, possibly because of their ties to Minecraft, are incredibly important. I would put those MMVs as what Let's Plays have kind of evolved into now - things like Mianite, Hermitcraft, and the Dream SMP, the new wave of content.
i absolutely agree! thanks for the comment. and thanks for watching!
Let's be honest, apart from your great content you're just looking damn good. Sorry, someone had to say it
How does this only have 2k views? So high quality
this was so lovely - markiplier inspired my love for video games, for all that goes into them and their story and ability to make you feel transported. i got into his videos when i was in middle school and watched him well into my college years. i would fall asleep to his videos, cry with him, laugh with him and get scared with him. markiplier was such an important part of my life for so long - it’s been awhile since i’ve watched him but i always go back for a video or two and it’s like seeing a familiar friend after a long time. i’m always gonna love that man 💛
Awesome and interesting video :D
I really hope the algorithm stops messing around
i used to be one of the bigger let's players in my country from 2009/10 to 2012/13 during my college time and remember it being quite a taxing experience. i always enjoyed interacting with my community and in the beginning, up to like 500 subs, that was a fun experience and i enjoyed creating videos, but it changed pretty quickly when the subs reached 4 digits. i was uploading like 4-6 videos per day and people were still demanding more, i remember most comments under every video just being about wanting me to do more videos and upload them more quickly and i was already spending up to 8 hours a day just on creating, rendering and uploading videos - all that after school was done. for my own health i had to slow down, but comments got more and more aggressive, things like asking for me to kill myself and such. shit was intense. it later extended to my steam profile and even my facebook when i was only uploading 2 videos a day and a while later i just pulled the plug - made a new account, changed my entire internet identity and stepped away from producing content. i know i could've just ignored the comments, that's what everyone always says, but it's quite hard to do so when the most fun thing about creating content is to interact with your community. granted not everything was bad at all times. i learned a lot and pretty much all of my best friends nowadays are people who were once just viewers of my videos who left nice comments, but still. watching let's plays was always great, creating them yourself not so much.
I definitely have a lot of Nostalgia for a lot from several early Let's Play channels that focused heavily on a lot of retro video games - mostly NES-N64, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive and GB-GBA, at first. Around when I entered middle school, (in 2008) I would stumble upon HCBailly while search for a videos to help me through my first play through of Final Fantasy 2 (Dawn of Souls, Deist Cavern). I was intrigued.
Over the next couple years I'd also heavily follow both NintendoCapriSun(NCS) and Chuggaaconroy. sometime during the summer of 2009 I stumbled upon another Let's Play channel that introduced me the idea of live streamed video game (VG) marathons for "charity." In those days, during these first Charity VG marathons, it wasn't unusual to have a middle man from these early stream groups to hand off the money, on behalf of the people who donated, to their selected "charity". The first video Video game streams were streamed on, what was then called, Ustream (It was and several other sites were later bought out and overhauled/changed into IBM Cloud Video). On Ustream most VG streams were solely game play,. in 2009/2010 Technological limits, forced most people to either have multiple accounts, because each channel had a single video and audio channel, back then, people had to choose what each would feature. These charity events would often have 2-3 different streams, broadcasting simultaneously.
Ustream, at least from my perspective, was more known for political broadcasts, any opportunity to have a non-politically heavy alternative was very much welcome. Around 2012/2013 many people moved to - then Justin tv, now Twitch.tv, Another that benefit the people began to enjoy was the option to use software that could broadcast multiple channels while streaming. One of these charity marathons TheSpeedGamers (TSG) would also introduce me to Chuggaaconroy in 2010, and through Chugga I'd also be introduced to NCS, if memory serves. After marathoning a lot of NCS' content I also started doing Let's Players. There were several channels that NCS would collaborate with, sometimes in a racing format, sometimes as a guest commentator. I forget who, but, one of these people introduced a, now deleted forum, for Let's Play Collaboration, one of these were collaborative videos from a Minecraft server. I joined this server, and a corresponding Skype group, some of the members introduced me to Ethoslab and Direwolf20. eventually the demands of school/university demanded most of my attention, and I significantly slowed down on making Let's Plays, and eventually, had a fresh restart. Most of the footage from my old Let's Play attempts is currently gone. a multitude of factors currently discouraged me from making new UA-cam content.
I could give more details, but, what I hoped would be a quick comment nearly turned into an essay.
thats some quality content
I just discovered you. You deserve more
22:04 Spanish waltz from castle crashers, you should make a video on old 4 player multiplayer games like that cause I love those
Really hope you upload often :0
What a great discovery ! Loved the video and your editing style, thanks for sharing all of this on the subject !
By the way, can you tell me the name of the song playing at 22:06 ? I've heard it quite a few time in Ludwig's videos but never found the title even though I spent time looking for it ahah
No way! When the world needed him the most!
For me growing up coryxkenshin was Tyra best let’s player and to this day still my favorite UA-camr. Been watching him since 2013 and his vids are still the best
This needs more views!
Man looking back at like 50k subscriber pewds is wild. Its crazy to have been watching him and everything hes gone through to where he is today, it brings a year to my eye because in a way ive done the same thing as ive gotten older being 25 and finding a girl i loved and buying a house, even though i lost the girl ive grown up while also watching him grow up and it brings a tear to my eye 😂
i'm surprised you didn't mention theradbrad.
The guy is probably the only youtuber who stuck with his let's play and still gets millions of views.And is still entertaining!!
i actually love his videos! he’s definitely keeping the spirit of let’s plays alive
@@merakimerakimeraki same man, but regardless a great video nonetheless,and the fact you're here replying to comments still is really great. you earned a sub my guy
@@londonisforeverblue1022 thanks london 😄
Lets combine them!
man, your hair looks awesome
you have no idea how much that means 😭 thank you
I remember that my experience watching let's plays actually started with Retsupurae, a channel founded by the very Slowbeef who is commonly credited for "inventing" the video let's play. In that channel, he and his friends would make fun of LPs made by others, usually due to poor production quality like pointing a camcorder at your monitor, or due to some funny quirks.
Some of their earlier videos were pretty juvenile and mean-spirited, and I was actually afraid that if I started let's playing, they would pick on me for being bad at it, lol. Coincidentally, I didn't really start LPing until after the channel posted their last video, and long after they had moved on from riffing on other people's LPs (because that well had dried out) to commenting longplays of bad games.
Their "Adults React To PewDiePie" video is their most popular. Hard to believe it's been 11 years already. I remember Pewdie wrote a reply to it in the comments that started with "Pretty funny I'll admit!" before telling people to keep watching because that gives him money. It came across as petty. He deleted that reply instead of owning up to it, of course.
That video had a big impact on me and soured me on the popular let's play format, with face cam and exaggerated reactions. It made me consider every LP using that format to be "soulless" and made with money in mind. This extended to ads, sponsorships, making UA-cam into a full-time job, and later streamer overlays and chat interaction, etc. It made disregard the popular let's players and also made me set myself up for failure by deliberately going against all the most successful trends in my own creations. To be fair, I do dislike all these things I mentioned, particularly when someone puts their face on the screen when it's not necessary. So my own let's plays are something I would like to see more of, and still occasionally find something like that in the depths of the platform.
However, the best LPs out there are probably the ones on SomethingAwful's Let's Play Archive. Ones that feel less like watching a friend you never had play a video game, and are more on the informative side. I have to give Bobbin Threadbare's Let's Play Deus Ex a mention here. An absolutely brilliant LP and the peak of the format for me personally.
Something else I wanted to add is "modern" let's players starting from PewDiePie have felt to me more like entertainers rather than that ideal of a random dude playing games who you feel you could be friends with. The connection is no longer there. And I definitely don't feel that with live streamers - it's practically their job to read the stream chat and amuse people.
I'll admit that the main reason I even started making let's plays in the first place was to attract people who would be interested enough in them to write something insightful in the comments. I was never good at talking to people and I've figured that was one way I could make friends. Maybe I was way ahead of the curve on that terminally online parasocial trend, lol. I saw the old-style format as a means to connect. No wonder it fell out of favour and is now "dead" as you stated.
I will never tell people to like, subscribe, comment, etc. My channel will never get off the ground, and that's okay. Sure, it's demotivating to see your videos get no traction, but I'm where I want to be, having a day job and sometimes putting something out as a hobby. And once in a blue moon, someone will post a comment that they've clearly put effort into, and that makes it all worthwhile. It's a much better feeling than visiting the UA-cam Studio and thinking to myself: "oh God, I've wasted 15 hours of people's lives this month with this crap", lol.
Truth be told, I'm kinda terrified at the prospect of having playing video games be my day job. Like having to play them for 8 hours a day. I'm not cut out for that. I don't know how these people can do it and not get burnt out. They have my respect. I'd rather try other things with the time I have left.
The outro always gets me 😢 👍
your voice and tone is realy relaxing
thank you, that means a lot 😌
Great video! I was here before the video blew up!!
I would say gaming livestreams didn't replace Let's Plays but a new version of Let's play. Livestream VODs are basically traditional Let's Plays (more so when edited) with an extra commentary in the form of Chat. Livestream Let's Plays are more intimate in one way and less intimate in others. Less intimate in that it feels less of a one to one exchange due to being aware of the other viewers with the chat. More intimate in the fact you can be there reacting to what's happening in the game with the player live. The player is able to see your reaction and reply to you giving you something more like watching your friend play a game in person.
Amazing video
thanks macro!
Hey! i just found your channel after your minecraft music video. I was wondering your thoughts on the new c418 songs from vol. beta? aria math is my favorite
just uploaded one :)
@@merakimerakimeraki holy- you just did. Well time to watch it 😎