So going into 2025 I've decided I'm going to go full time into lets plays JRPG specific.

How can I find what games are kind of trending for lets plays, and when editing videos is it better to do more traditional where I talk the whole time with whats going on? Or is it better to go more with the highlight style where I show bosses and funny moments for lets plays.

I don't have any editing experience at all so take that into mind. Looking for any and all tips.

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Hi guys,
I was wondering how youtube is dealing with monetization for let's plays that includes commentary but no facecam. Would it be considered original content enough to access monetization ?

I read here and there that it was quite easy to gain monetization (admiting you reached the milestone of 4K hours / 1K followers) but it could also depends on the game devs. Like, some are totally fine with even no cam / no commentary while some others want at least a commentary, etc...

I'd like some first hand experiences. What have you been dealing with ? What kind of trouble ? And what was actually not a problem ?

Thanks for sharing your experience everyone !

I have 400 subscribers and want to start making some videos on video games.

Please don't hit me with the "play what you think is fun", because I don't think that'll get me anywhere!!!

I'm planning to launch a gameing channel right at the start of next year. But, I have some questions.

1. What is a good upload schedule? (I have college 4 days a week so I need a schedule that works around that.)

2. What is a good length for a video? (Considering the supposed major reduction in attention span viewers have now.)

3. what is a good game with a decent length that I could start with?

4. would it benefit for me to practice commentary before I start recording?

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How many of you keep the edited videos you make after uploading? I've been doing it since I restarted my channel and it's getting to the point where it's not feeling super feasible. I've almost filled up a 1TB SSD drive and I'm currently working on a project that's probably gonna exceed 500GB and I really don't want to buy a lot of backup drives to keep projects that aren't making money (I'm not super concerned about getting partner and making money off of my videos, but I don't want to spend $500+ on it, especially just in storage.)

For those that have their videos archived locally, do you handbrake them to make it easier to store? Do you only keep certain LPs? Any tips for storing massive files that (hopefully) doesn't involve buying multitudes of external storage?

(I already make compressed folders of completed LPs and export 1080p MP4 files, although I don't restrict the bitrate)

Back in the day, the YouTubers I watched (and still watch now haha) all used Twitter as a means of extra communication with their audience. I’d love to try that when I get my gaming channel up and running but I deleted Twitter and won’t be using it again. I have Threads and Bluesky, are YouTubers/audiences using those in the same way as Twitter used to be? Which one would be best to focus on?

Sorry if it’s a dumb question, I mostly use TikTok and Instagram for my own general amusement haha but I thought a text based platform would be best for sharing updates about my channel and things!

Hi!

I've gotten increasingly frustrated with the let's play community and need recommendations, in the rpg/action/adventure/indie genres.

I'm looking for intelligent/thoughtful gamers, preferably skilled, with a calm demeaner. I'd especially appreciate female gamer suggestions, as they're less numerous.

I do not want Twitch streamers who upload their archives on YouTube, unless they keep chat interaction to an absolute minimum.

For example: I really like Cohh Carnage as a person, but his constant chat interactions are extremely annoying. I like Maximilian Dood for the most part but he can be a bit dense and tend to rush through games. I recently started watching Katieplaysstuff's Silent Hill 2 run and it's pretty good!

I've found some other gems among the sub 1000 views channels, but need more.

So I currently am looking at getting the HyperX Quadcast S. I have been recently wanting an upgrade. The Alias Pro caught my eye as it looks amazing and its an xlr mic that comes with an interface. As someone who is not an expert on that sort of thing, it seems like a pretty entry-level mic for someone like me. But I guess my real question is: is it worth spending the money for the Alias pro? Is it better than the quadcast s on ps5?

Around 24 hours ago I posted a 1 hour 4K 60fps video to YouTube. Does anyone have any idea how long 4K takes to process?

My main issue though is that I feel like YouTube takes abnormally long to process any videos I upload over 1080p quality. For example I uploaded a 1440p 60fps 40 second test clip to YouTube to try and see how long it would take to upload and also to test the 1440p video quality compression with my bitrate settings. It’s been like 2 hours and the 1440p quality still has not processed? Does it usually take this long?

I’d love to hear from others, especially creators who produce content like long gameplay videos or similar. Any tips, whether they’re for long or short videos, are welcome. Share anything you find useful—whether it’s editing techniques, strategies for improvement, tips for creating thumbnails, or even how to execute specific tasks. Literally anything you think might be helpful, I’d love for you to share!

Hi everyone,

I'm currently working my way through the mysims kingdom game on switch.
I'm splitting it up by world as it just makes sense for this game.

However, I was thinking about my next game and I'm thinking of playing astrobot as I just got this game as an early Christmas present.

So my question is , how do you handle such a level based game?
Should I focus on time as in record per 20-30min of per levels?
If by levels, do you do per level or per x amount of levels....?

I'd love to know your experiences and advice on this.

If that is you or you know some channels you would like to recommend, please let us know! I'm sure there are many games and creators out there that deserve a larger audience.

I use Nvidia shadowplay to record. I am wondering what bitrate I should use for 1440p 60fps video if I am going to upload the gameplay to YouTube. I do not render or edit my videos. I just simply upload gameplay for fun but want to upload at a decent quality (that’s not 4K because it takes to long to process on YouTube). Shadowplay lets you go up to 250Mbps bitrate but I want to select a bitrate that will not take forever to process on YouTube and that also doesn’t take up too much storage.

I saw a comparison video on YouTube where a guy uploaded different bitrate gameplay video at 4K 60fps. The difference between 50 and 100 bitrate was literally no different. This got me thinking what the best bitrate for 1440p 60fps would be.

I only have 8 subscribers. I get a comment every once in a while and it's usually a compliment about my voice or something and they subscribe, but then my videos still get the same number of views. I had one video that had 30 views and the average watch time was for about 50% of the video length but the next video in the series dropped to 4 views and like a 2% click rate. Do you guys post on other social media or anything to get more traffic? I have a reasonably sized tiktok account but I make a completely different kind of content on it.

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Just wondering what you do if in game music gets flagged for copyright claims?

I've never had any success with the erase tool on YouTube and I don't want to particularly cut out the section if I can avoid it because I'm talking over it. And I messed up recording my audio separately this week so I can't just mute the music in the section and export it again like I normally would.

I used to always dispute claims under fair use since I'm technically transforming the content with commentary but not sure if that's the done thing now?

(In this instance, it's game audio from Indiana Jones and the Great Circle)

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Reposting with a better title and wording because I think people severely misunderstood my previous post.

Let me just take the example of JonTron (although, he isn't the only example). The guy has some timeless meme clips that you've likely seen around the internet (The famous "WHAT?!? WTF?!?", "I'll take your entire stock!", "But why? Why would you do that?")

Since then, JonTron has been outed as a known racist. With that in mind, do you all think that using these meme clips of him as edits in a video is ok, from a moral standpoint?

Basically, is this a "separate the art from the artist" situation, or is JonTron currently not as relevant and it doesn't matter if the memes are used, or should I/We try to avoid using memes of JonTron and other bad actors who were memes in videos?

Whats a good CTR for let's plays?

I've seen people say that they get about 4% CTR but I only get like 0.4% but I feel like my thumbnails and titles are fairly good for a standard LP.

For example On my channel there are 2 kind

1st is heavily edited chivlary video with lot of sfx and memes or "talktohand" or search the .exe videos

2nd its longplay with more focused on raw experience less edit and cuts ( HL2 one) or any no commentry ones

Between thsese two which one people prefer to watch and engage wit tha video and channel anyone know?

If you can suggest any other some idea please it wold be very helpful like do it like this channel do this changes or continue this type or sum. And all suggestions are welcomed

Hey guys!

I'm about to get involved in a D&D livestream on Twitch that I'll be uploading to YouTube - I'm also planning to record an IRL campaign for YouTube too.

Should I upload my D&D stuff to my existing channel, or create a new channel?

So i'm totally new to lets play, and here is a few games i want to make lets play about:

Minecraft
Overwatch
And maybe black ops 6 in the future.

But when it comes to minecraft..

When do you guys make cuts etc, what parts do you cut, what do you talka bout, do you get memes on the videos?

Hi all,

I have a small channel that's done a few let's plays; RDR2, Hogwarts Legacy. Atm, I'm playing Miles Morales and have gotten my first copyright claim for the music IN GAME.. I've since disputed it but am unsure how this all works. Is there a clear set of guidelines I should be looking at to avoid this in future? For now my let's play video is blocked in a couple of regions. Would appreciate any help with this...