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How do gameplay youtuber develop interesting commentary? (leminal.space)
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Ive wanted to be a gaming youtuber sense i was a kid but i realized im pretty boring and i dont have anything interesting to say, im also not sure if ill stick with it like most do, but i want to try anyways. Ive condierd playing without voice but that would be even more boring and im not a pro gamer to say.

What would you advise?

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[-] Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 hours ago

I never got super info their videos, but I think the DreamSMP would count as the roleplayer category. Honestly, when I think about my childhood Minecraft YT channels, Aphmau was the main creator of RPG-like "tell's a story though Minecraft" content (MC Diaries, MyStreet, Dreams of Estorra [RIP 😭], etc ).

Anyway yeah, there's a subcategory of people who I think like to roleplay in their games and make a creative, original story out of it. I think another modern example would be the Your Average Hylian, a channel that makes silly content focusing around LoZ, like "What Hyrulean ads would be like" or "Hyrule Cooking Show Parody"

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Hey here we go!

I am not super familiar with the actual content and nature of these streams, but if your descriptions are generally accurate, then yeah, these all sound like good examples:

You throw yourself into a gameworld by genuinely treating it as reality, more than as a game, like TTRPGs where the RP is more than 'murder hobo' or 'i am an extremely obvious joke/gimmick/reference character'.

I remember randomly stumbling upon, at one point, a Japanese youtuber who did / is doing a playthrough of Kenshi, and then goes back and sort of invents dialogue between her party of characters, to try to build an interesting storyline and do character development, out of what is basically a reactive sandbox... they'd voice the characters with an AI gen, or perhaps more old school voice generator, have the dialogue in english and japanese subtitles, kind of uh... ren py story based game or like fire emblem style cut scenes, interspersed between clips of gameplay footage, sometimes superimposed on top of it.

Now, this was very niche and isn't really representative of what is popular or hugely succesful, but it is an example of another way that you can approach some kind of video game rp content to... more or less try to make something like an anime out of it.

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