People Won't Watch Game play Videos Without Commentaries?

Jenelly

Jenelly

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Here's the thing, I like to play games when i get the chance. As a parent of a toddler we own a Wii U and Xbox 360 game systems.

I love the family friendly games Some classic Mario games that we bought on the Wii U and sonic the hedgehog games on Xbox 360.

Side note I also have a little one who's 5 months, So I have times where i'm able to play some video games on my free time during nap time, But have times where i cant record my commentaries while playing due to not wanting to wake my children up while talking. were renting a small studio so they can wake easily when i do commentaries and did decided to be all chatty.

My Question, Since it seems i'm able to play video games w/o mostly commentaries vs with, i'm debating if i should just upload my game play videos without my commentaries or not? hmm

I was thinking when i have the free time to play - example like right now: My kids are asleep. so if i were to play a video game i would only able to record w/o any commentaries and just game play only...

lets say when they wake up for lunch time and i get that free time, Then if i'm in the mood to play video games i will be able to capture my game play with commentaries.

Just wondering if people will even bother to watch game play videos with out commentaries or not?

or if i should just wait until i'm able to capture my game play with my children awake and only record game plays with commentaries only....

p.s. it seems i'm only able to play majority of my video games during their nap time so this is why i am asking,
now if you say to only record when their awake and to capture commentaries then that will be more of a challenge since i will be playing the parent role of taking care of them while their awake.

would appreciate any feedback on this :)
 
I have seen channels without commentary do alright. If you play interesting games some people don't really mind the lack of commentary. I would definitely say commentary would help but I have seen a few channels pull it off without it. If you do that maybe think about putting some music in the background? I have a mate who does Slither.io videos like that. No commentary but he makes his own music and puts it behind the gameplay.

By the way I love your intro
 
I have three kids, and when I do gameplay it's either after lights out, or record commentary over the gameplay in post, so i can record gameplay all throughout the day, then at night sit down and dub over it. its not as fun, but it's an option. personally I usually record everything at once and my video game videos are short or the recording process spans a few days.
 
Jake Fuller said:
I have three kids, and when I do gameplay it's either after lights out, or record commentary over the gameplay in post, so i can record gameplay all throughout the day, then at night sit down and dub over it. its not as fun, but it's an option. personally I usually record everything at once and my video game videos are short or the recording process spans a few days.
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Oh I forgot about doing that! I have seen a whole bunch of channels do dub overs and they work really well
 
Commentary has very big impact on your channel growth,but you can get away without commentary.Just have decent editing skills and i think you'll be allright. :D
 
If you ask me commentary is irrelevant, but keep in mind I watch gameplay videos for the game itself, not for other stuff. On the topic of commentary, I prefer informative over funny commentary especially if the humor sounds extremely forced or the person playing overreacts to everything. Also yes, post production commentary can work, so you can speed up the boring parts and keep the voiceover to the more interesting parts, avoiding the awkward mumbles when you don't have anything to say.
 
Video Game Knight said:
I have seen channels without commentary do alright. If you play interesting games some people don't really mind the lack of commentary. I would definitely say commentary would help but I have seen a few channels pull it off without it. If you do that maybe think about putting some music in the background? I have a mate who does Slither.io videos like that. No commentary but he makes his own music and puts it behind the gameplay.

By the way I love your intro
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"If you do that maybe think about putting some music in the background?"
yea i had tested that out on my daughters Minecraft world video that she had made in my signature video, wasn't sure if that was a good idea to do but i suppose the music perhaps made the video better eh?

"By the way I love your intro"
Aww, Thank you :)
 
Conso1727 said:
If you ask me commentary is irrelevant, but keep in mind I watch gameplay videos for the game itself, not for other stuff. On the topic of commentary, I prefer informative over funny commentary especially if the humor sounds extremely forced or the person playing overreacts to everything. Also yes, post production commentary can work, so you can speed up the boring parts and keep the voiceover to the more interesting parts, avoiding the awkward mumbles when you don't have anything to say.
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I had this argument with a guy the other day. He was slamming me that people watch lets plays for the people not for the game itself. I was like 'dude... maybe some people do but I sure as hell won't watch some idiot play a game I hate just because they are mildly amusing'.
 
Jake Fuller said:
I have three kids, and when I do gameplay it's either after lights out, or record commentary over the gameplay in post, so i can record gameplay all throughout the day, then at night sit down and dub over it. its not as fun, but it's an option. personally I usually record everything at once and my video game videos are short or the recording process spans a few days.
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"or record commentary over the gameplay " yea i suppose that's another idea, just record game play and perhaps dub over it for when my kids aren't asleep, Thanks for sharing the idea! =)
 
I've reviewed several youtube channels that don't have commentary and when watching them I got bored within seconds. In my opinion there are tons of youtube gaming channels all competing with each other. If you want to stand out, you have to do something unique. I think it would be interesting if you played games and had a camera on you but you couldn't talk so you were just showing your reactions to stuff without saying a word. Could be called, "the silent gamer". That could be an interesting angle I suppose.
 
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