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Gaming Retrospectives & Video Essays

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This community is for long-form video game analysis, especially retrospectives, though videos on any era of gaming are permitted.


Rules
  1. Content of posts

All top-level posts should be a link to a long-form gaming video essay that isn’t hosted behind a paywall. Videos at least 1-hour in length are preferred.

  1. Title format

Each post title should include the title of the video, its creator, and its duration in the format [MM:SS] or [HH:MM:SS].

  1. SWF

No pornographic images or videos.

  1. post decent content

Noticeably low-quality content and videos that stretch any reasonable definition of “video essay” will be removed. If you’re not trying to break this rule, you probably aren’t.

  1. No spam

Don’t post the same video multiple times in a short time frame. Don’t flood the community with many videos from a single creator at once.


Suggested Channels and Creators

MrEdders123
Always Retrospective,
A long-form reviewer that actually avoids spoilers!

PatricianTV
Longest-Form Content

Noah Caldwell-Gervais
Video Essays on Retro and modern Gaming Topics

Noclip
Gaming Documentaries. Rec'd by @Martineski

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hey, thanks for starting this discussion.

I want to check with you if there are formats that doesnt count as 'retrospection' or 'essay'. I would give some examples on creators/channels, please let me know if some of them doesnt count, so I wont bother posting a link to the videos of them later.

Game Developers Conference: game dev seminars

GMTK: game design commentary

Hbomberguy: gives game opinion and game recos sometimes

Mandaloregaming: weird russian game walkthroughs

Uberdanger: unhinged game walkthroughs

Killianexperience: creative exposition x walkthrough

Ssethtzeentach: high level shitposting walkthroughs

FoldableHuman: meta essays on WoW sometimes

Josh Strife Hayes: MMO critiques

IGN: poorly done game reviews lol

Morphologis: Star Citizen game showcase

Storymode: Video game retelling powered by photoshop

Penguinz0: personal takes on games on Moistmeter

Ahoy: video game documentaries sometimes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hi. Everything you mentioned that I already knew about seems great to me. Except IGN of course, but I guess if they have long-form stuff.. So I suspect you've got the right idea. As long as it is thoughtful and long-form I don't want to be especially picky. At least for now.