Do you guys watch other people’s YT videos to find games to play? I feel like everything I’m interested in is played out and so I’m looking for fresh things to play that give me the same feeling

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Hello, I am Ne0politin I small streamer with big dreams.

My goals are to stream "retro" titles and creat Youtube videos on them rating them if I think they are a good game or if it's just blinded by nostalgia.

for this goal I am asking for the help of other lets players to give me Ideas on other games that I can't think of off the top of my head.

My saying of retro is just the games that I grew up with sooo the Ps1-Gamecube eras

I mostly like RPG games but with how long they typically take to complete they aren't viable now until I get some videos and a bigger audience underneath my belt.

thank you for taking your time in reading this

I just got an NZXT Signal HD60. seems fine, but I bought a longer USB-A to C cable for power, and it doesn't work. it only works with the included cable.

I figured out that this is probably because the cable I bought doesn't support USB 3.2

my question is, since the included cable is USB-A 3.2 GEN 1, will it work if I buy a GEN 2 cable or do I need to make sure it's GEN 1. it's slightly harder to get the GEN 1 so I'm just curious if it matters.

thanks in advance!

Not Recording Firewatch.

Fire watch is by far the best story game I've ever played, and I cannot believe that I didn't record my play through of it.

If you have not played this game, MAKE A VIDEO ON IT. It is a beautiful game with an amazing story, you will not regret it!

After several months of just not being in the mood to make content, finally decided to get back into it. And one of my videos just randomly did a lot better than everything else? The rest of the analytics aren't anything pretty, I was just surprised by the sudden boost. The only video on the series that performed "similarly" so far was the premiere, which has about double the views, but has also been out for a year.

Wassup yall ! I'm just curious to know what games you guys are playing right now or making content for

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Sorry for the stupid question, But I have way too much space taken from the videos (Over 400 GB. I know I put off editing too much because of irl stuff) I've recorded with friends. recently my friend has been wanting to play something else that would require a 100 GB download on Steam

I know it will ruin the quality when I redownload them but in your opinion would you think it would be a bad idea to save some space by uploading at least half like 200 GB worth of videos on private and when I eventually get more storage or edit some down. Redownload them

Hello friends! I am pretty green as far as let's plays go, and I have only recently been able to set up my Mic. However, whenever I speak into it, I'm able to hear a hum in the background. It doesn't happen unless I'm actively speaking into the microphone. What troubleshooting options would y'all recommend? Also, apologies if this isn't the best sub to ask!

So I basically have a setup where I play games on my PC, using a capture card that is plugged to my Mac. I want to be able to stream the audio of the Xbox party chat using game bar, and the audio itself from the games. How can I do so? What makes it complicated is that I want to be able to hear both the party and game audio through my headset too, while also being able to hear it on stream. Any help ?

The title should be self-explanatory. I don't wanna use the YT's built-in music library cause its often not fitting to the scene that's being shown. So is there any free and SAFE (as I found someone got copyright claimed from a website that claims to offer "Free copyright-free musics") music library that holds no copyright material?

I’m looking to buy a good mic around £100 for my friend who streams & records LPs. What are some recommendations?

I might be completely out of the loop, but I used to watch a streamer about ten years ago and they would stream and review Zelda, Pokémon, Animal Crossing, Mario, Earthbound, Kirby, etc, and after a few weeks, almost every single one of their videos were taken down or demonetized because of Nintendo putting claims on their music tracks or dialogue lines. It got to a point with them and a few other channels I watched that they just stopped making Nintendo content entirely.

It's ten years later so a lot could have changed, but how does Nintendo treat streamers/reviews in 2024? Are they more lenient now? Are they just as harsh? Or is it better to pretend that they're not a company?

I am 16 and I want to have a group(pc and xbox) where we can give advice to each other and mess around in games or have a play through together.

Im looking for people who enjoy making videos and are motivated to grind.

My channel is on my profile

Lately I've been basing my (non-youtube related) design work off of book covers and physical page layouts, and that's been bleeding into my thumbnail designs. For this I went for something a lil comic booky.

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Recently, I moved back to making gaming videos. Each of my videos gets around 30-80 views. The past couple have gone normal and as expected based on the quality of the actual videos, 35 on the first one, 65 on the next. Again, around where i normally land anyways.

I also have been trying out posting 2 shorts a day after the main video that will lead people BACK to the video. Just some clips from the funniest parts of the video to hopefully boost it a little more. They usually do around 400-1000 views.

everyone of the shorts got around 600 views until last night and today. My videos haven't broken 5 views and my shorts haven't broken 30. Is this normal? Is it just a bad day or am I uploading too often? The newest video that got 5 views is a 31 minute video (my longest ever) that I was pretty proud of. I'm not upset that the video did bad, I'm pretty good at understanding not everything can do good and just because it didn't get views doesn't mean my work went to waste or that the video is bad. Just wondering WHY this happened so i can prevent it in the future.

Thanks for reading!

Hi,

My brother and I make "Let's Play" type videos, which jump perspectives from mine and his - which is sort of our USP for our channel. I need some assistance on what the most time-efficient way to continue doing these types of videos would be without compromising quality.

In the past, we've both recorded our gameplay and audio separately in its entirety. This made the quality high as our audio streams were our own. However, editing like this was an absolute nightmare and required me to sit through tens of hours of footage (split screen) to find the good clips that I needed.

Our solution to this was OBS' replay buffer, we would then clip the last 60-90 seconds of gameplay when something important or funny happened. This made editing so much easier as they were all in chronological order and it was much quicker to pick out the best bits, with less footage to watch through. However, the sacrifice here is that we had to start recording each other's audio via Discord to ensure we had both perspective's audio. The discord audio is much lower quality than recording directly from the microphones.

Can I get the best of both worlds? My current thought is to record audio in its entirety on top of the clips and then cut out the parts I need - but this could be finicky.

Does anyone else have any similar experiences? What's the best way to go about this?

I do have like 1k followers count.

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The main idea that keeps floating around in my head is would it be better to continue putting subtitles even if it is just a video of myself or should they be reserved for mostly videos with multiple people in it.

I find that, oftentimes, I don't have anything to say while I play. But, I do prefer to do "classic" style let's plays, where basically the entire experience is captured on camera instead of just essentially a highlight reel. It just feels more authentic to me.

What do you guys think? Are there folks who still watch this type of content, and enjoy it? I'd be open to hear your stories as well, specifically from people who started out this way but later went on to do more curated content.

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I have a channel which all about story-driven gaming. One of the cozy games I'm playing in my "free time" (not for the channel) has a lot of cute text-based cutscenes and I thought about uploading them to my channel, especially considering I haven't seen many creators (even those focused on that game) do that

My question is - should I voice those texts? or just leave it as they are in the game? which would you prefer to watch if you were just searching for nice moments from the game?

Been making videos for a little over a year now and I’ve slowly climbed to around 268 subscribers. I upload 4-5 times a week, mixing in Nintendo games and horror games, but my videos just don’t seem to be gaining any significant traction beyond my couple of loyal viewers who have stuck with me.

I’ve switched up my thumbnails, titles, and upload windows a few times but nothing seems to be helping.

I’ve noticed that I’ll gain a few subscribers when I upload a short or when I live stream, but I want to be successful making videos too.

What are some other changes I can make that I could improve on? Are there other ways to get my videos out there so that more people see them? Is horror + Nintendo too much of a spectrum? Should I mix in some top 10/ranking or discussion videos?

I’d love to hear all your thoughts on what kinds of changes you’ve made that showed promising results on your channels

I have a cheap capture card that I use to record nintendo switch gameplay but the latency is REALLY bad. It's so bad that I can't play any games that require fast reflexes. Is it possible to get an HDMI splitter and split the switch input, one leading to a monitor for playing and one leading to a PC for recording?

EDIT: Thank you all for the great advice and encouraging words. I enjoy what I do so I'll keep at it, make minor tweaks based on your suggestions, and keep my expectations realistic.

Hello!

I started a Let's Play channel/series in 2008 (!) which got collectively hundreds of thousands of views. I stopped for a long time and veered off topic, which obviously stopped the channel's growth. I'm trying to get back into it again, but the landscape has dramatically changed, and anything I upload today just dies on arrival. I was wondering if people could offer tips for an old timer trying to get back in the game.

Here's more about where I'm at:

• I have a dry, laid-back sense of humor. I'm not into the shouting and "What's up, guys?" style.
• By far my most popular videos were of the original Resident Evil games on PlayStation.
• Anything involving the modern psychology of hooking a user to your video—i.e., manipulating titles/thumbnails or forced preamble—makes me cringe.
• My strengths are my unique humor, my voice (both in the literal audible and literary sense), and memorable running gags. I also have a fairly deep understanding and knowledge of games, so my gameplay is not embarrassing.

Essentially, I know my content stands out when people see it, but I have a hard time getting people to give it a chance. Those that do see it love it, but without the in-your-face style, I can't seem to draw anyone in.

I really don't want to resort to shocked face thumbnails and titles with too much punctuation, as it's against what people like and is unique about me. Does anyone have any advice in either leveraging my (very old) former popularity, or how to "market" a more subtle style?

I am fully prepared for a raft of responses telling me what I want is impossible, but any help is appreciated. Thanks!

TL;DR: I had a popular-ish Let's Play channel in 2008 with laid-back humor and want to start it up again. Need advice for the modern landscape.