Need Tips for Starting a Let's Play

please anyone?FableKey

Be patient. This is a forum, not a chat room.

Some people like myself don't have any experience with that sort of thing. If I were doing LPs, I would just be myself. I wouldn't care about getting views or that sort of thing. I would do it for fun. But again I have no experience with LPs, so my advice may not be that good.

Watch some of Totalbiscuit's videos to get a good idea.

Those "Let's play" videos are interesting if they are old games more so than new.

Doing it just for fun is a good way to do it, but it can still be discouraging if you get no response from your viewers. I started to do a LP of Portal with the developer commentary. It was a lot of work to make with all the encoding and large file size to upload (like 5 GB). It currently has no comments and about 15 views, and I did it back in November so I didn't even finish it. If you're doing a LP of a game that already has been LPed before, your LP may not get noticed. Still, though, doing LPs are fun and thats all that really matters.

I would advice ageanst using a camera to record your videos, instead use a capture device.

Doing it just for fun is a good way to do it, but it can still be discouraging if you get no response from your viewers. I started to do a LP of Portal with the developer commentary. It was a lot of work to make with all the encoding and large file size to upload (like 5 GB). It currently has no comments and about 15 views, and I did it back in November so I didn't even finish it. If you're doing a LP of a game that already has been LPed before, your LP may not get noticed. Still, though, doing LPs are fun and thats all that really matters.

dog64

5GB?

You're doing it wrong. No way on earth should a video ever be that large on YouTube.

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Doing it just for fun is a good way to do it, but it can still be discouraging if you get no response from your viewers. I started to do a LP of Portal with the developer commentary. It was a lot of work to make with all the encoding and large file size to upload (like 5 GB). It currently has no comments and about 15 views, and I did it back in November so I didn't even finish it. If you're doing a LP of a game that already has been LPed before, your LP may not get noticed. Still, though, doing LPs are fun and thats all that really matters.

Arthur96

5GB?

You're doing it wrong. No way on earth should a video ever be that large on YouTube.

It was very high quality and 54 minutes long. It looks great, but I agree that it was too large.

Watch some of Totalbiscuit's videos to get a good idea.

Those "Let's play" videos are interesting if they are old games more so than new.

gameofthering

I don't want a lot of "Let's Play," but I prefer when people go back and play old games that I loved. I watched Spoony's Let's Play SWAT 4 and I loved it. He wasn't very good, but that's what made it entertaining. :)

LoL I just watched Gamingclones LP and omg it made me laugh so hard idk if he was intoxicated or what but I'll definately be friending him on youtube. His LP made me laught thats why Ill watch his. HaHa

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2) Make sure you have a decent mic of some description, if you're doing voice commentary. And I'd personally recommend doing your commentary afterwards, live com can often devolve into meaningless, tedious blubbering. LPs should always be live. Why would anyone want to watch an LP of say Amnesia, or Dead Space 2, if the chap who's talking already knows everything?

4) Record your commentary separate from the game audio or it becomes a nightmare to edit - use Audacity. Make sure you have the commentary properly synced up with the video or it looks awful. Dxtory is similar to Fraps, except it has a bucketload of features, and it records the game audio separate from your voice.

7) NEVER LP A GAME WHICH HAS COME OUT IN THE LAST THREE MONTHS! It's lazy, uninspired and cash/sub grabbing to the utter extreme, and is almost always complete crap. See TotalBiscuit's comments about people LP'ing Skyrim for more details, but that's the basics of it.. Rubbish. That's exactly what people want to see. LPing a new game isn't lazy, I honestly don't see how it is. If anything, it's the more logical thing to do.

Thanks for all your help, I currently film with Fraps (I bought it legit), edit with Vegas Pro 10 (Got it as a birthday present), use a Gamescon Headset to Talk. I have two options. 1. Live Commentary (I never run out of stuff to say), but no Game Audio :( 2. Play, then commentate over, with game audio I would MUCH rather do number 1 but I dont know how much people want Game Audio? Plus if I was to live commentate, that is 2x the amount of time playing, putting into commentating, and I already spend hours rendering 20minute videos (2 hours each) I have a lot more fun in liveFableKey

Why can't you have game audio?

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2) Make sure you have a decent mic of some description, if you're doing voice commentary. And I'd personally recommend doing your commentary afterwards, live com can often devolve into meaningless, tedious blubbering. LPs should always be live. Why would anyone want to watch an LP of say Amnesia, or Dead Space 2, if the chap who's talking already knows everything?

4) Record your commentary separate from the game audio or it becomes a nightmare to edit - use Audacity. Make sure you have the commentary properly synced up with the video or it looks awful. Dxtory is similar to Fraps, except it has a bucketload of features, and it records the game audio separate from your voice.

7) NEVER LP A GAME WHICH HAS COME OUT IN THE LAST THREE MONTHS! It's lazy, uninspired and cash/sub grabbing to the utter extreme, and is almost always complete crap. See TotalBiscuit's comments about people LP'ing Skyrim for more details, but that's the basics of it.. Rubbish. That's exactly what people want to see. LPing a new game isn't lazy, I honestly don't see how it is. If anything, it's the more logical thing to do.

Arthur96