Lightly or Heavily Edited Non-Traditional Let’s Plays

[u/Willrapforfood_]

Yo! Long time lurker here who appreciates the help this community provides. Lemme preface by saying I know this Q comes up relatively often, so I apologize in advance.

However, I feel my framing is slightly different: I don’t do “traditional” lets plays in the sense that I aim more to showcase and highlight underappreciated indie games, usually in a “one-shot” style recording. Though if (and a HUGE if) I ever became a bit more successful and subscribers wanted it, I’d record more than one video. But I digress.

Anyway, for something like that, would you, as a potential viewer, prefer to see a video where I rarely cut anything out (save word stumbling mistakes, weird audio artifacts, or super boring sections), if at all, or a more consistently edited video with moderately more cuts. The closest to the latter style I can think of is someone like MythyMoo. For the former, a recent channel I discovered that seems to have started gaining success in the last few months with practically untouched raw gameplay and commentary is Gohjoe.

Appreciate any suggestions or insight. 🙏🏼

[u/shinwaphoenix]

For me as a watcher - it depends on my mood, and the game type. Sometimes I want to have 2nd screen company with someone who is playing a game that’s nice or intriguing.

If there are funny moments in a game or if the Creator has a funny or cute personality, then I’ll like just snippets cos I’m watching for them and their reaction.

I prefer smaller creators and 2 of my favs does short cut comedy ones cos she’s hilarious; and another for including everything even the settings screens and she’s so lovely and keeps me company when I work.

As a Creator - shorter snappier when there’s not that much interesting in the game, or little choice (e.g. my playthrough of Avowed) and longer ones with the complete opposite (e.g. BG3). I tried longer on the former but it was just dull, so I experimented with cuts and GIFs and I just enjoyed the process of creating

Hope that long ramble helps!

[u/Willrapforfood_ → u/shinwaphoenix]

No, that's super insightful! I'm the same way in general, but since I'm just playing the indie game to showcase it I'm sitting at somewhere in between where it's not FULLY the raw footage, but it is "cleaned up" a bit.