Let's Plays!
 

Hey, guys. Recently, I've been really into the hobby of Let's Play videos. These videos are essentially people who record themselves playing a video game, and providing commentary as they play. They are really fun and interesting to watch, because you get some really funny people sometimes. Also, it's good for people who are poor or aren't really interested in a game, but want to see it, anyway.

So I decided to do one, myself. It was quite fun, and I intend on doing some more. Here are some links to my stuff.

Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/FatedBattle
GameAnyone Page: http://www.gameanyone.com/FatedBattle

My first game was Resident Evil 2, and now I'm working on MGS for PC. If you have some free time, please stop on by. Thanks!

tl;dr - I do Let's Play videos. :)

I always wanted to do some of these, but I haven't the slightest clue on what to do or what you need.

I'll be checking these out for sure, Ai. I love LP's. :D

Is playing to the very end a requirement?

I don't use that much to record. I simply use Camtasia, which records a part of the screen (or fullscreen if you want), and also records the audio. I use a desktop microphone and let the sound from the speakers and my voice catch in the microphone. Pretty easy setup. There's also tutorials on the GameAnyone forums if you are having problems.

Ninjinister, why would you not play to the end? No one wants to watch an LP with no end to it, you know?

Well, it's because the vids I do are of fighting games (especially the obscure s**t), and are just to let the viewer get a grasp on what the game is about. I don't know if that was considered a "Let's Play..." or not. 'Cause some of those, especially the arcade ones, are fscking hard.

I know plenty of people who do Let's Plays of the Arcade mode of fighting games. Those would be okay. I mean, there's no rules to these things because most of them are just on youtube. You can do whatever you want. I would just advise to look at other people's videos of fighting games and see what style is popular.

I very much enjoy these type of videos. I was watching a LP of Pokemon SoulSilver and the guy was hilarious. Almost better than playing myself.

I've been practicing doing these to Metroid and Ninja Gaiden. I'm sure they've been done to death, but I'd like to give it a shot.

They're meant to be for fun, not for ratings, my friend. Just play whatever you want, and make your videos unique like adding hilarious commentary. :)

That's the part I look forward to. I can normally finish NG In less than an hour with out a single death... Unless I record it. I keep choking. I'm determined to get it right though.

It's one thing to play a hard ass game.

It's another to play a hard ass game while talking. :lol:

What if you played the game and someone else did the commentary, or vice versa? Does that count? :P

Yeah, man. Plenty of people bring in other commentators while they play, and sometimes have a little fun between each other. I watched a Diablo II co-op Let's Play, and it was hilarious.

Actually, I like that idea a lot. I have a friend whose sense of humor is so close to mine that we can play off of each other with out needing to write anything. I wouldn't feel bad about dying a few times during a Ninja Gaiden run if I had another person pulling commentary with me.

I died to the f*cking plants in the laboratory in RE2 while recording, and decided to leave it in since it was at the end of the video. :cry:

If only you and me could do that. It would be f*cking epic.

Sorry about the planticides, Ai.:ohwell:

I've been told by a couple people that a friend of mine and I could do great video game commentary, but we never actually looked into it.

I always feel like there's so much of this stuff out there that it's almost not worth doing. I'd still do this kind of thing for fun, but a lot of other people won't.

I Usually never have too much of a problem talking and playing games at the same time, never really seems to mess me up much, lol.

As soon as I get my camera I will be doing Lp's of Pokemon White(in Sept) and maybe Soulsilver.

Ughh... if only I had a video camera. Doing a commentary while playing sounds like fun. Probably would take a huge chunk out of my internet though if I managed to somehow record a video though... :(

If you don't mind using emulators, you can do it without a camera. It's all done with software. :)