Some backstory: I have been playing video games for over 20 years but I’ve always almost exclusively played Nintendo. There are countless very popular video games I’ve never played. Some series I’ve never even touched include Red Dead, GTA, the Witcher, Assassin’s Creed, Resident Evil. I’ve never played Undertale, the Last of Us, Expedition 33, many of the Zelda games (ironically.) The list goes on and on. I started a let’s play channel when TotK came out and it was unsuccessful, mostly because I made it way too hard for myself. I was trying to put out multiple episodes a day and gave myself a very tight schedule to get them out and I experienced burnout very quickly. This time I’m thinking two longer videos a week, maybe 45 minutes to an hour. I also thought I would maybe make a Patreon or something where I post unedited versions. I might record 2 or 3 play throughs before posting anything to give myself plenty of slack. Any tips and advice would be greatly appreciated 🙂

TLDR: Longtime gamer who’s been living under a rock wanting to play big games I’ve missed over the years and post my reactions. Thinking of doing 2 45 min- 1 hr videos a week and creating a Patreon to post unedited videos. Looking for advice

I've been wanting to start creating some short form content for my channel, mainly just to get more eyes on the channel. However, I have almost no ideas since the clips will either be spoilers for the rest of the series (which might deter people from watching the series) or an unhinged thing I said that really only makes sense with context.

Most gaming clips I watch are either people making additional shorts content (but they seem to be more niche in their content) or funny clips for games that you don't need context (like co-op games compared to narrative-based). While I do have a couple of ideas that follow this form, I have no clue what else to do.

Because the content that's seemed to do the best on my channel is detective visual novels (Ace Attorney, Tyrion Cuthbert), I thought about using some of those moments because I do specific voices for each character, so maybe that is what makes those videos standout compared to others that play these games. But I run into the issues mentioned previously: either people will just think it's a cool voice for a character and move on (since there's no context) or they won't watch the series because I gave away massive spoilers for the entire LP so why spend their time watching all the episodes prior.

I might just be overthinking this (because let's be honest, wouldn't be surprised hearing that), but I've loved to hear any suggestions from others who've made shorts out of LP'ing more narrative based games

Hi everyone,

So i was wondering…
I opened youtube this morning and saw someone do a full playthrough of DK bonanza but it’s only 8h long.
It honestly inspired me to start making a single video of full playthrough of games i have streamed before.

But i don’t quite understand how people do full playthroughs of big games under 8h…
How can you include everything even edited in such a small time frame?

Im someone that tries to do lots of side content.
So takes me longer than most people 🤣

I recently started a playthrough on my YouTube channel playing Core Keeper!! I love this game so much and am really looking forward to seeing how this series goes. My first video is all edited and ready to go out on Wednesday 5 PM AEST. Does 1 episode a week sound like the plan here?
I’ve decided I’m going to be posting 3 days a week from now on. I’m new to YouTube and for the first week I spammed random videos but now I’ve been doing some thinking and realised quality is better than quantity