Let's Plays, Audience Engagement, and What to play

[Fox]

Yeah the thing with videos is that's not what I come onto this site for really. I'm here very much with a 'text' mindset. I'll watch a little thing embedded into a post but I'm less inclined to watch a LP series. I do like video LPs, but I have so many regular things I watch on youtube anyway it's very difficult for a new long form video series to find a slot of my time. When I'm here I can have EoFF open in a tab and I can dip in and out in bitesized moments, watching something requires a certain level of commitment. An episode of your video series may be 40 minutes long, whereas I can read an 'episode' of Bubba's Mass Effect 10 times quicker.

That brings me neatly onto the next point, which is that the video LP's are largely unedited. Which means there's a lot of walking from A to B, fighting trash mobs, navigating menus, sitting through loading screens etc. The written LPs are heavily edited to include only the highlights of play, which again makes them much easier to digest.

EDIT: Another thing I thought of. I'm much less likely to watch a LP of a new game on here. I'm probably only gonna follow one LP of any given game at a time. If it's a new game that I haven't played (like BoTW) and I wanna watch a LP, it'll probably be one of the big Youtubers covering it like Yogscast Martyn. If it's not a new game, I like LPs either of super niche games which might be interesting, or games that I have played (like ME or FFIX) that I can relate to and feel a bit of nostalgia about. Bubba's Mass Effect LP is appealing to me in part because I've played it and can laugh at all the places I see him screw up.