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Nobody wants to watch my LPs or Streams
I advertise like fuck on places I go to, but I have gotten like, two people to watch.
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I keep meaning to watch but I keep getting sidetracked![:\](/forums/resources/emoji/confused.png ":\")
I'm internet-busy. Does anyone else ever get internet-busy? It's like being busy except for people who have no life.
t. Something Awful LP expert
Out of curiosity, what are you LPing? It's a relatively small subset of games that are both popular and recent enough to get a decent amount of people even consciously looking for an LP, much less stumble on a relatively new LPer.
I didn't know you had LPs or streams.
Stormtroper,
A link is here in case you are interested. If Myrmidon would rather plug them himself for whatever reason, I can edit that link out though.
well, you're LPing an adventure game I've never heard of.
I mean, if you were doing something I had an interest in I'd probably be more inclined to watch.
I've recently set up an IJBM streaming thread; you should post there, preferably a day or more before the stream and then the time of, including a link to your stream. I'd check it out sometime.
Typically you find LPers you like in one of two ways. Either it's through SA and/or their archive, or you say "Hey, I want to watch an LP of" and Youtube it.
The latter isn't going to happen because you've probably already found everyone on the Internet who woke up one day and wanted to look up a Lets Play of Nightmare Ned. All both of them.
I mean it's sad, but you might have to do a more mainstream game or two to get views and subscriptions before you can dive into more obscure ones.
Precisely. Do you think Nerd³ would have half a million subscribers if he only ever did Three Free Games Friday?
You make a good point.
Although I don't really see the point of covering triple AAA games everyone has played.
play Antechamber doe
Go to some of the more entrenched LPers' channels and look at their early playlists. For instance, this guy does a lot of obscure Turbografx stuff, but the games at the beginning are mostly decently well known A or B-list SNES nostalgia titles.
What about Actraiser.
Or Illbleed.
I'd watch an LP of Actraiser. Saw a bit of it and I found it pretty curious.
By the way, specify whether you're doing a normal LP (where you should know the game well enough to finish it with no problems) or a blind LP (where it's your first time and the point is watching your initial experience with it).
Is Illbleed the one that has Killerman?
(I only know about this from the Dangan Ronpa thread.)
And for the record, blind LPs still need some amount of post-processing. In the event of an obnoxiously long epic fail (happens to all of us), it's best to edit out the worst of it and condense it to the most relevant bits. Failure is funny at first, but can get tedious quickly if you're stuck in the same segment.
Like, there's an LP of Highly Responsive to Prayers floating around somewhere. The guy goes through the main game in two videos, then spends seven beating his head against Sariel. I mean I don't want to downplay how hard she is (took me that long the first time too), but we really don't need to see it for over two hours.
And that's why I get mighty embarrassed to be failing something for even ten minutes in a livestream.
That's about the point where you a) just start schmoozing with people on the stream, or b) tell them to go get a sandwich until you stop sucking.
Personally though, I wouldn't livestream anything I'm not really good at and very prepared with.
Well I wouldn't livestream anything period because lol small town bandwidth, but yeah.
Clever editing counts for a lot, especially in some genres. You might be able to use all your footage from, say, Devil May Cry, but not everyone is going to be interested in the trivialities of you acquiring the best equipment in Monster Hunter.
If I had the equipment, I'd look into doing a Monster Hunter Ultimate LP, probably. It's good for LPs because the action takes place in separate missions rather than the cohesive whole of most other action games and RPGs. So you can pretty much ignore the less interesting ones in your LP and use footage predominantly from the actual monster hunts. If absolutely necessary, you can have secondary videos for the gear trivialities and whatnot.
That said
> uploading more than you strictly need to to YouTube
Yeah most prep-work in RPGs is best done as a summary. HCBailly, for instance, will usually look at shops once while exploring a town, then offscreen his actual shopping and/or material gathering and give a 5-10 second breakdown of his final loadout.
He's usually pretty good about keeping the camera running during it though, in case something interesting happens in the middle of the boring, so he can edit that in.
Since I do livestreams I don't think I'm going to ever stream certain types of games, namely, those that are really boring to watch. Because I have to do it all in real-time.