>a deep dive into [game]
>it's actually just a basic plot summary

>>713551525 (OP)
>a brief summary of [franchise]
>it's 40 hours long

>>713551525 (OP)
>how i learned to love [game]
>all he did was play the fucking game

>>713551525 (OP)
>12 hour analysis
>look inside
>plot summary

>The Best [Genre] Game You've Never Heard Of
>it's a very well known game from before 2013

>>713551525 (OP)
>don't recommend channel
>report for copyright violation
I feel like it makes up for all the games I pirate

>>713552324
Doing God's work anon! May all video essayists' (hacks) careers rot.

>>713552324
>nothing happens
>a month later the channel is recommended again
>hes got another dogshit video about one of your favorite games

Can we beat these motherfuckers with baseball bats already? How did they get so powerful?

>can you beat [GAME] with this arbitrary self imposed limitation?

>>713553182
Background noise for zoomers.

YouTube is shit and has been shit for 10 years. It barely resembles its golden age circa 2008-2010. It was so fucking good. So much great soulful authentic content. God take me back

>>713551525 (OP)
>a deep dive into [game]
>it's some fag narrating his first playthrough step by step

>>713553601
search before:2010 or whatever year
won't show you all the shit that's deleted though
remember when any kid could false DMCA by just making up a fake company

>>713553182
Literally dark souls 2

Dark souls 2 was the progenitor of the video essay*

*in the non Nintendo video game space

>>713551525 (OP)
>I play and review EVERY [Series] game
>just plays each game for 10 minutes and gives a completely ignorant take then moves on to the next

>a deep dive into Deep Rock Galactic

>>713552673
>he knows

>>713554081
hate this one a lot. they are very obvious about it too since all the footage is just the first level of each game.

>>713553601
Clickbait has always been a problem. But nowadays you gotta pray you find actual good uploaders. Theyre hidden beneath the mountain of shit.

>>713554081
This is even worse with TV or movie series where clearly the dipshit had it on in the background at 2x speed or some random shit while gooning

>>713553182
>How did they get so powerful?
YouTube literally removed the dislike bar and auto-deletes negative comments. They can’t risk other users warning you about slop.

>Here's my advice to you for this boss fight if you ever decide to play this incredibly obscure untranslated Japanese RPG Maker game that can't be downloaded without getting a direct link from some dude on usenet

>>713551525 (OP)
>video about why a horror game is scary
>Uh, the music it uses and the graphics just give off such a spooky vibe, it just looks so scary
Zoomers were a fucking mistake.

>>713551525 (OP)
> How I BROKE (fotm) game
>follows the intended strategy

>>713554512
What else would you say?

>>713554732
One of my favorite YouTube videos is a video discussing the long stairway from Silent Hill 2. It's short, it's sweet, it examines why and how such a short section is so effective, it gave me a new appreciation for a segment I had generally blasted through before.

If you have nothing to say, or you don't know how to say it, don't fucking say anything. This modern idea that everyone has to be talking all the fucking time is so stupid and tiring. There's often more value in knowing when to shut the fuck up.

>>713554920
I agree with you but your theoretical YouTuber was just giving a basic opinion, not being overlong or pretentious.

>>713553798
that's still the case, there's a sega troon that goes around constantly DMCAing videos pointing out how shit PSO2 has gotten due to the troon pandering

>>713553257
>the challenge is proven impossible 5 minutes in but they keep going anyway

>>713553257
>CAN YOU BEAT [Game] USING [Obviously viable strat]

>>713553601
I miss old YouTube so much. It was for videos. Not videos by content creators, just plain fucking videos. Every fucking video is by some personality now, instead of just being random videos by random people.

>What happens if you cheat to get to [Place] when you're not supposed to?
NOTHING
>What happens if you force a win in [Fight you cannot win]?
NOTHING
>What happens if you get [Item] much earlier than intended?
NOTHING

>>713556687
The Japanese do everything better
https://youtu.be/3eVOR1yDXsY

What kind of videos does anon like anyway?

>>713557532
The ones where they speak in a normal voice and don't waste my time.

>>713557532
Software tutorials (that don't waste time and aren't bullshit) and YouTube Poops

>>713557532
animal documentaries

>>713551525 (OP)
The average gamer looks at their phone during cutscenes, and a basic summary of the onscreen events is a deep dive to them.

>>713557532
historical cooking

>>713556687
>>What happens if you force a win in [Fight you cannot win]?
>NOTHING
Nah, I like this one. It's a failure of the devs if it's really nothing.

>>713558580
>NOOOO THE DEVS DIDN'T PROGRAM AN ENTIRE SECOND GAME WORLD IF I USE HACKS TO CLIP THROUGH THE WALLS

>game analysis
>guy has never made a game in his life

>>713557532
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWCtyneyEcE

>>713551525 (OP)
I like those
good for games I don't care enough to play myself if I like the channel but want to watch the equivalent of TV while playing a game that doesn't need sound
now seethe ;)

>>713557532
A video like this should be the gold standard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfl1dvu5gBo

If you're talking about any game that's been released more than ten years ago, chances are the people watching your video are already very familiar with the game. Talking about mechanics or down to programming is a depth that even seasoned players may not know about and it can be fun to see how programmers needed creative problem solving skills to get around hardware limitations, for better or worse. Of course most people that make these videos don't have programming knowledge, so in my mind the next best thing they could do to make a video worth watching is to analyze a game's mechanics. What works? What doesn't? Why? Any games that tried something similar and failed? Or succeeded? Why? Compare and contrast.

It can be insightful to hear from someone go into exactly why they think a certain level or boss or mechanic works, and this can easily be made in a format that's five minutes or less. Shit, Masahiro Sakurai, a man with three decades of experience and could likely speak with substance for hours on end, still made his videos all under ten minutes save for a few special cases.

>>713557532
Women with huge breasts in non-sexual settings.

>>713556687
Sometimes the devs do think ahead
>in RE7 if you run out of ammo mid fight with Jack he’ll shittalk you, if you switch to a loaded gun and aim at his face he’ll gasp or stutter
>in Bully if you’re wearing the Mascot outfit and flirt with girls they’ll give it a peck on the nose
>every single human NPC is named and traceable in Prey 2017 using the employee tracker
>The Buff Banner in TF2 actually sounds different depending the team color of the soldier playing it
>Rune Factory 4 has unique easily missable dialogue if your first time in a dungeon is with your own child
>in Splinter Cell Conviction if a guards body slams into a light switch on the way down it’ll actually turn the lights on/off

>>713559924
In Armoured Core 6, In the mission to assassinate V.VII Swinburne if you accept his deal to let him go for money, there’s a small gap when you can still kill him before Rokumonsen arrives, he’ll call you a massive pussy for backstabbing two different people in the same mission

>>713551525 (OP)
Deserved. Thanks for the view.

>>713551525 (OP)
>video about an interesting topic
>some faggot constantly clipping away to his face cam to deliver needless commentary
>cant find the original video anywhere else

>>713559924
I think it's pretty well known but in DMC5 there are 2 missions where you can beat the villain early and it actually counts as beating the game and unlocks the next difficulty level

>buy niche indie game
>have game on backburner while busy playing popular game with frens
>faggot popular essayist suddenly covers niche game
>niche game becomes popular
>now have to speed run your first playthrough of game or else be spoiled by normies and fandom trannies on social media
I WANT THESE FAGGOTS DEAD

>>713557532
Food related because if they are gonna waste time to milk retards without adblocker at least I can stare at food
Besides that using youtube for anything except music or a 120 view video answering a very specific scenario you have is a waste of time

>[Vidya song] WITH LYRICS

>>713558559
You have the exact same taste in YouTube as my grandma

>>713562370
Why are you on social media?

>>713554920
Jacob gellar?

>>713555513
I still miss mitten squad

Just the other day YouTube recommended me an almost 6 hour "narrative critique" of Assassin's Creed II. He starts it off by apologizing for the length but saying that Assassin's Creed II "demands" that much time.
It's a fucking basic "muh revenge" plot that literally ends with the "if I kill you I'll be just like you" joke cliche

>>713563116
>[vidya song] EPIC METAL COVER

>>713553257
I've seen a few of these that were actually creative enough to be good, like Mitten Squad beating Fallout 3 using only eye tracking to control it

>>713551525 (OP)
Remember when 20:01 long videos were seen as the pinnacle of slop from greedy youtubers looking to make money with shitty videos? How did hour long videos become the norm?

>>713563468
That guy is so fucking insufferable. He acts like every game is some deeply moving piece of art. He could do a video on Meet'n'Fuck Kingdom and find some way to be moved to tears by it

>>713564396
Because of people like me who work boring monotonous desk jobs and need 7 hours of fresh stuff to listen to every day so we don't blow our brains out

>[Game/Series[ analysis
>After 15 minutes of mundane blabber gets to a part that has uncommon trivia which could snowball into an interesting discussion about the inspiration for its writing/music/mechanics
>Glosses over or completely misses any mention of it
BITCH, fuck you specifically.

Any other warnings like this?

>>713564984
>a JK Rowling tweet
Lmao

>>713554081
I remember a "I played every kart racer" video where the guy didn't even know about the drift mechanic when he played CTR.

>>713564396
Because zoomer brainrot has gotten out of hand to the point they will watch youtube videos that summarize a movie instead of just watching the movie
They love this slop because you don't really have to pay any attention to it and it makes them feel "involved" with without actually committing to anything

>>713564396
>20:01
I remember when 10 minutes was considered artificially extending the video for ad revenue.

yeah had a good laugh at Josh's 3hour recap for Clair Obscur. worthless content

>>713564984
>Flashing Imagery
>Violence/Blood
>Sexual Assault/Rape
>Violence Against Women
>Forced Pregnancy
>A J.K. Rowling Tweet
Stop, I'm getting hard.

>>713564298
>EPIC ORCHESTRA COVER
>it barely matches the tempo or mood
>let’s throw 30 violins at this 8 bit track

>>713564396
Remember when YouTube videos could only be 10 minutes?

>>713564298
>all it does is replace all the instruments with electric guitars

>>713563116
brentalfloss is kino tho https://youtu.be/bRGxbQcunnU

Why do americans care so much about accent? I follow slav channels (they mostly cover eurojank RPGs) and I see comments bitching about accents all the time

>>713565950
i'm bulgarian and i would rather kill myself than hear fellow slavoids try to narrate in english

>>713565950
Americans get angry at mexicans speaking spanish to their family across the table at burger king
What do you expect from these retards

>>713566115
why?
There is also a german youtuber that I casually follow that always seems to be having a meltdown about people pointing his accent and pronunciation

>>713556161
The
>random guy with a shitty videocamera ranting about some old game/movie
era was so fucking good.

>IT TOOK ME 20 YEARS TO FINISH THIS GAME
>he started playing it as a kid, didn't beat it at the time then returned to it as an adult

>>713565950
If you can't speak a language fluently enough to where you've picked up one of the native accents then I don't want to listen to you.

>>713565950
Why do you assume a few comments are representative of a whole group of people? Also it's because you sound fucking stupid lmao

>60 minute """""""retrospective"""""""""
>90% of the vid is just a plot summary with almost no input from the creator
This made me appreciate my high school teachers even more, it seems being able to wirte a 500 essay was a big deal

>>713563116
>the melody of the lyrics doesn't compliment the song, they just overlay some lyrics onto the existing melody
>they have to come up with some awful ESL sounding bullshit to get the right number of syllables

>>713566542
It's funny because in high school they teach you to condense your words, like if you can't summarize what you are talking about briefly, then you are a shit writer
Now we all know that was horseshit because spewing verbal diarrhea with no structure brings in money appealing to these retards who failed these classes

>>713566782
Don't know what school you went to or when, but they force you to write more than you need to for literally everything. That's what trained these cunts to think longer=better.

>>713565950
I don't hate accents, nor people using their interests as a means to practice speaking English while connecting with other fans who speak it.

But as a result of anime I prefer someone speak however they're most confident carries across their thoughts, then have subtitles handle the rest.
Especially if there are Blink And You'll Miss It gags added in they couldn't do with speech, or even better if there are subtitles in various other languages submitted by viewers so I can see how certain phrases might be conveyed in those languages.

>>713566986
This. Some cunt teachers will ask questions like "What color was Gatsby's car? Your answer must be at least 300 words or no credit will be given.

>>713566986
This. They wanted you to write about a subject with a word count twice the size of said subjects fucking wiki page.

>>713564747
>reviewer goes on tangent spun from a plot point that turns into a sudo mini documentary about some obscure IRL thing
fucking love that shit, will I ever think about Kowloon the abandoned city ran by gangsters and the homeless for nearly 50 years only for the entirety of it to get bulldozed outside of niche moments like this? Probably not, was it cool to learn? Yea

Are there any actually good video essays?

>>713551525 (OP)
>"(series): a retrospective"
>its literally just describing the game as it is with 0 input for 4+ hours
Who watches this? If you played the game you already know all this, if you havent then youre better off playing it yourself or even watching a lets play

>>713566986
Guess I had quality teachers then, yes sometimes there were word limits but she didn't even care if they weren't exactly hit as long as it made sense
I wish I appreciated more back then holy shit I hate being an adult

>>713563130
Your grandma is based
Tell her I'm sorry her grandson turned out a faggot

>>713557532
This >>713567375
Any attempt to talk with viewers and fans is better than talking at them for quick views while a game is trending.

>X situation is insane!!
>20 minute + video to ‘explain’ the situation
>only 1 minute actually covers the ‘situation’

>youtubers get early access ($$$)
>(Game) IS LOOKING INSANE
>I can't wait to play (Game)
>rest of the population gets access (no $$$)
>(Game) looks terrible
>this ain't it chef - (Game) early impressons
Laughed my ass with the killing floor 3 beta