What's your Let's Play?

[Wolfram23]

I made a thread not too long ago asking if people watched Let's Play videos. I was absolutely astounded by how many do. For reference, the post is HERE [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.262294-Poll-Do-you-watch-Lets-Play-type-videos?page=1].

So I figured maybe I should get my feet wet. I have a good PC and headset so no problems recording. I fired up my newest game, Two Worlds II, and hit record.

I would like this thread to be for those who make their own let's play videos, a place to post them. Either post a couple videos and/or a link to your series if there's multiple videos/games. I think this could be a decent way to get some exposure as, apparently, Escapists loves them some LP!

I would just like to ask people refrain from linking other people's LPs (like, say, linking your favorite). If you want to do that, you can head to the other thread which I linked above.


Now, I'll start. I'm totally new to this and I have a few ideas how to make future episodes better but for now, here's my Two Worlds II LP:

(comments are welcome, of course!)
I'll have part 3 up tonight.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I don't have any gear for it but when I get a capture card I will more than likely do a Fallout 3 let's play as I know that game like the back of my controller-clawed little geek hand.

 

[hazabaza1]

These are my Let's Plays [http://www.youtube.com/user/MrHaza2?feature=mhum]
Enter a world of Interactive Dragon Age, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, Republic Commando, Fable, Vice city, Left 4 Dead, Trine, Dark Messiah of Might and magic, and soon to be many more.

 

[Wolfram23]

These are my Let's Plays [http://www.youtube.com/user/MrHaza2?feature=mhum]
Enter a world of Interactive Dragon Age, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, Republic Commando, Fable, Vice city, Left 4 Dead, Trine, Dark Messiah of Might and magic, and soon to be many more.

Wow that's quite a few! How long have you been doing them?

 

[Austin Howe]

It's more appropriate to have individual threads for individual Let's Plays so that the topic of each thread is consistently based around, or an offshoot of, something that hapened in the one game, or one LP commentary track.

Speaking of which, I guess I might be blowing my load a bit early here, but I WILL be starting a Metroid: Redesign thread here on The Escapist soon enough. The first 3 videos (3rd one will be on youtube later today) all have good commentary, but the commentary is all the way on the left, and I lost game audio, so I had to replace the music with non-game stuff. In other words, I'm not starting the thread until the videos have higher quality, though that could be as early as Tommorow, or Saturday.

 

[CleverNickname]

I have recently finished my, I think, 11th LP

http://www.youtube.com/user/RaithGuy

IMO, 2nd Encounter and both SW games (esp if you're a fan) are my best ones.

 

[hazabaza1]

These are my Let's Plays [http://www.youtube.com/user/MrHaza2?feature=mhum]
Enter a world of Interactive Dragon Age, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, Republic Commando, Fable, Vice city, Left 4 Dead, Trine, Dark Messiah of Might and magic, and soon to be many more.

Wow that's quite a few! How long have you been doing them?

It'll be a year in... April, I think. Some of them have been postponed for a while now though, but I'll be finishing them off some time soon.

 

[Drakmeire]

I'd love to do a scott pilgrim lets play with my friends or one for costume quest. with no voice acting it's just begging for use to add completely unfitting voices.

 

[Wolfram23]

It's more appropriate to have individual threads for individual Let's Plays so that the topic of each thread is consistently based around, or an offshoot of, something that hapened in the one game, or one LP commentary track.

Speaking of which, I guess I might be blowing my load a bit early here, but I WILL be starting a Metroid: Redesign thread here on The Escapist soon enough. The first 3 videos (3rd one will be on youtube later today) all have good commentary, but the commentary is all the way on the left, and I lost game audio, so I had to replace the music with non-game stuff. In other words, I'm not starting the thread until the videos have higher quality, though that could be as early as Tommorow, or Saturday.

I think it's great to make your own LP thread in the review section, and I'm going to do that myself soon. This thread's purpose is just to have kind of an Escapist Index, if you will, of various LP projects the community has worked on.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I wish I could, but a problem with my computer is that no matter what video capturer I use (FRAPS, Hypercam, etc.), it will not record sound. I know the solution to the problem, but I can't do it due to lack of equipment or will to do it.

 

[Austin Howe]

Here is everything from my thread entitled "More Creative Title Coming Soon! Let's Play 'Metroid: Redesign'! (B-sided w/ 'Terranigma')"

Tuesday, 2-8-11: It has been a long time objective of mine that I make an LP. At least one. Now, I am proud to announce that with friend SMexycandoanything (Julio) we have started to record (with very low quality. . .or pride) Metroid Redesign, the ROM hack done by Drewseph in 2005 which totally redoes the level design and physics of Super Metroid, as well as adds many features from Metroid: Prime.

There are, yes, some extremely notable technical problems, all of which will be fixed in due time. I've tried to compensate with humility.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7rtiwJGYnU
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWdiN6Xqmxg
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3M7uEIYtLg

Friday, 2-11-11:

Sorry guys, we were trying to get in guests Slice Matthews (Jaccob) and Spamlord (Julian). We got game audio, and our commentary was pretty good, but we ran into massive technical problems with emulator lag and de-sync.

In general, better videos, but it would be outright embarassing to post them with the problems. Meanwhile, we ended up writing over our save states, so I have to play back up to where we were.

I probably won't have anything new until Tuesday, sorry, and even that will only be with SMexycan, new posts with Slice Matthews won't be around until at least two weeks from now, as next weekend I am visiting my Aunt and cousins in Texas.

Meanwhile, I'll start a solo LP in this thread tonight to make up for it, and it'll have the kind of video quality you can expect from future Redesign videos.

2-11-11: Here's Terranigma.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNKp2giKAHQ

Here is the link to the thread in User Reviews. At the risk of advertising, go give it some love, please: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.264225-More-Creative-Title-Coming-Soon-Lets-Play-Metroid-Redesign-B-Sided-w-Terranigma

 

[WildSeraph]

I've started doing Let's Play of some games from our very own Cleril. You can see them here: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheWildSeraph

The first episode of Duel, I don't sound very enthusiastic, but I'm getting a better "recording" voice now.

I can't seem to get sound from my computer recorded, only sound from my microphone. So that kind of sucks. If anyone knows how to get Camtasia to record sound on WinXP, I'd appreciate it if I was informed.

 

[darth.pixie]

Currently writing a Divine Divinity one which I'm not sure where/if I should post.

I made one for Sacrifice and Icewind Dale 2(not in English though). They are all written LPs since I prefer them.

 

[Corven]

I've got one in the works at the moment, although I'm having trouble with finding a good video editing program that can compress the footage to a manageable size.

 

[XzarTheMad]

I'm in a few of my friend's L4D2 videos, and I've been trying to make vids for Alien Swarm, Trine, Legends of Kyrandia, UFO: Enemy Unknown (the last 2 with a mate of mine). Every time I have been plagued with a shitty soundcard that doesn't allow me to record stereo sound, thus I get game footage without sound. Which blows.

Hopefully I'll get a new sound card soon. Then I will be a LP making machine.

L4D2 vid I'm in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy1DXlcM-HY

I'm the new player, Übermensch. I play Ellis.

EDIT:
I'd also like to direct your attention to the escapist Let's Play group:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Let-s-Players-of-the-Escapist

A great bunch of people, and a great way to get a bit of attention to your new vids if you don't have a devoted fanbase yet.

 

[SlothOnWeed]

I'm totally new to LPs also, having watched many, I really wanted to try it out for myself. I've uploaded parts 1-9 so far and 6 and 7 are probably my top 2, here you are:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob0QBhXu4aY Part 6



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW4H9WV8P40 Part 7




enjoy and tell me what you think, advice is always welcome (so are subs!)

 

[MuppeTeN]

Getting my ass handed to me in MvsC3, and every fighting game ever made.


Also some CoD:B.O. lucky kills... wait, i have one in my youtube channel 6kills with a Napalm, lucky as hell to kill the whole enemy team in 1 strike

Thanks to CoD able to link with youtube, sadly, only for online gameplay.

 

[Decum]

I've been watching a lot of random lets play series, oblivion, minecraft, magicka, it inspired me to make my own videos. So far i've only done minecraft and magicka videos though, i'm too poor to buy good games.

Gotta say loving your voice, i hope mine is that soothing when i'm your age, only 6 years to go!

Link - http://www.youtube.com/user/Declum?feature=mhum

You sir have gained a sub.

 

[JohanGasMask]

Ive been doing a Super Punch-out lets play on youtube. I currently have it on hold, but feel free to check it out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCpkpUgVJm4&feature=channel_video_title

 

[Notere]

Looking to Let's Play? Required reading follows

Many examples of how it's done: http://lparchive.org/

How NOT to do it: http://www.youtube.com/user/retsupurae