7 ms·
I won't even look at a youtube video essay about an obscure vintage RPG (my preferred form of guilty pleasure viewing) if it's under 20 minutes long.
by quxbar 1y ago
I won't even look at a youtube video essay about an obscure vintage RPG (my preferred form of guilty pleasure viewing) if it's under 20 minutes long.
- malignblade 1y agoGoing to need some recommendations
- aspenmayer 1y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQVdR8mJrds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQVdR8mJrds The Making of Vampire Survivors by noclip. Vintage inspired with the game choice, not straight vintage, but noclip is one of the best doing game documentaries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZmcbShMFNY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZmcbShMFNY The Story of Thief & Looking Glass Studios, also by noclip. As vintage as they come.
- Hovertruck 1y agoCheck out Majuular
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- p1necone 1y agoSeconding Majuular - if you like old PC rpgs (and new ones) he does great long form deep dives.
- bigyabai 1y agoSecond Wind is up and running with (2012's favorite) Yahtzee Crowshaw running the ship. An episode of Fully Ramblomatic runs a chipper >10min with barely a second to spare.
- trenchpilgrim 1y agoJwlar Mandaloregaming Josh Strife Plays The Sphere Hunter
- jmcgough 1y agoHighly recommend Dungeon Chill and KBash as well
- tmtvl 1y agoBobbin Threadbare.
- Night_Thastus 1y agoFor gaming: Joseph Anderson, NeverKnowsBest, SuperBunnyHop and MandaloreGaming are the ones that come to mind. They've uncovered so much about games that I never knew was there! :) I think some would recommend Matthewmatosis, Hbomberguy and Raycevick as well, I'm just less familiar with their work personally.
- coldpie 1y agoA fellow Basement Brothers viewer??
- xhrpost 1y agoI watched a 2 hour video on the history of computer RPGs, I think it was specific to DND, and found it captivating. Would also like to hear your recs.
- brokencode 1y agoWhat was it? I would also like a rec in this genre.
- xhrpost 1y agoThink I found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcGDQZjVfd4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcGDQZjVfd4
- echelon 1y agoI hate this bifurcation. I almost never want 2-hour documentary style videos, yet 1-minute teasers leave me even more dissatisfied. I want 5-minute to 15-minute videos. They can be either overviews or summaries that cover broad stretches or super focused essays that go deeply in depth on just a singular hyper-focused point. Long-form typically means opinionated and written for a lay audience. Filled with unnecessary pregnant pauses, fluff, and breathing room. Historians trying to craft a narrative. Stop wasting your viewer's precious time on b-roll or building a case. Smart audiences will trust you if you're succinct and factual. So take the heinously verbose documentary format, trim it down to just 10 to 15 minutes, and you're left with a fast-paced, frenetic, fully dehydrated, factual blow-by-blow. That's the sweet spot. Maximum information density.
- RankingMember 1y agoSome channels do both since people have different tastes/levels of free time. I think it's a good strategy, though I don't know how it plays out on the money side. For example, a YouTube channel about automotive fabrication and tuning ("Gingium" in this case) will release high-detail build videos in series, then when the project is over, add a "Building a [x, e.g. Supercharged Off-road Miata] in 10 Minutes" condensed video with all the key moments.
- Analemma_ 1y agoI understand the motivation but this mindset has failure modes of its own: I'm noticing an increasing number of longform YouTube essay channels adding tons of unnecessary padding to increase the runtime. They don't all do this-- to pick a random example, I think Defunctland videos are exactly as long as they need to be-- but a bunch of the smaller ones do. Ultimately there's no metric shortcut for actual quality.
- cogman10 1y agoThe other failure is that youtube wants quantity over quality. That incentivizes some bad behaviors. The hbomber video about plagerism is ultimately about that. Taking shortcuts, using 3rd parties (or now AI) to write scripts. It's all really negatively impacted the medium. AI in particular is like coke to lazy content makers. I've had to drop a few because it became clear that AI took the lead in writing.
- moduspol 1y agoI prefer my movie reviews to be longer in duration than the movies themselves.
- mystifyingpoi 1y agoMe too, but then it's no longer a review honestly. More like a breakdown or analysis.
- bitwize 1y agoHow many pizza rolls have you sent to that guy's webzone?
- deepfriedchokes 1y agoAre you an English Lit teacher?
- giancarlostoro 1y agoIn my case, YouTube has figured out that I love Pokemon videos where the streamer does really silly things with old Pokemon games (like resetting the emulator 9001 times to find a shiny in order to have a full on Shiny only pokedex, including the starter pokemon. In my case I don't care how long the videos are though.
- bo-tao 1y agoLol that sounds interesting, can you share the video?
- giancarlostoro 1y agoSure thing! I enjoy random Pokemon videos, watching the story of how the game was birthed by hobbyists is also fascinating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcUUbGb77tY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcUUbGb77tY
- fennecbutt 1y agoEasier than soft resetting for real I guess. An ex used to be into that, it always seemed mind numbing to me but perhaps it's almost therapeutic for others.
- mid-kid 1y agoMost of the 20+ minute long videos are bound to be filled to the brim with filler and bullshit. I'm not asking for much, but please stop pretending your video game review is worth an hour of introductions, personal anecdotes, comedy sketches and 3 sponsor ads.