Ok, well there are some people who like to watch these things believe it or not, but if you were to search on YouTube you would find videos of many RPGs like FF5 with a lot of views and subscribers.

I read that already, but thanks for making such a hilarious joke, I'm sure your commentary on games must be fantastic.

Not only was I talking about Lets Plays in general, but there are way more boring bits than just random battles.  The problem is that you have 20-something ten minute videos--you have several, several hours of just gameplay footage.  The GameCenter CX SPECIALS (not even regular length episodes) were at most an hour (I feel like they were shorter than this), featured only the important moments of the gameplay, and had things inbetween the gameplay to break it up some.  It's really, really tedious to watch someone play video games that long, whether they have snappy commentary or not.  They still tell the story of playing through a game, with everything interesting left in, and do a damn good job because they edit it in a way that you're not missing out on anything while still avoiding sitting through tons and tons of footage.  Instead of showing someone losing a level over and over by showing the entire level playthrough each and every time, they just show a few clips of the actual losing moment with a bit of a voice over about it.  The problem is that Lets Plays almost always end up being closer to raw footage than a finished product, and it makes them really boring to watch.

Aren't they all on youtube?

Also, the fact they're "all bad" on youtube is that since there's SO MANY and the lame : cool ratio is of 300 : 1, you have more chances of finding antisocial obese 13 year olds playing ff8 while commenting with their mic inside their fat chunky mouths than finding a decent playthrough of a fun/unusual/fuckhard game.

Where else do you watch these things anyway?

Theres quite a few vid sites that they are on, mostly youtube, but some people use Viddler and other ones like that.
I usually go to the SomethingAwful forums to check out the LP threads there, when it's not denying visitors and forcing people to make accounts >.>

but like 60% of them are made by antisocial shut-ins

attention workers it has been approx 192 days since our last most insanely optimistic statistic.

seriously I've never seen a lets play video that was actually entertaining in terms of commentary. at best they are competent in describing what is going on.

attention workers it has been approx 192 days since our last most insanely optimistic statistic.

seriously I've never seen a lets play video that was actually entertaining in terms of commentary. at best they are competent in describing what is going on.

some of deceasedcrab's ones are pretty funny

but, then, that relies on what you find funny, so yeah.

edit: and this one i saw of some guy with a really weird accent playing an insane mario 1 hack was hilarious

I guess u mena the Super Mario Frustration one? With a Blooper at the start of the game? HEh that one is actually quite hilarious'Jump, on the block, What the fuck is a blooper doing there!?!?'

I recommened doing LP's of short games. Like Megaman, Sonic, Super Mario etc. Long RPG let's plays with commentary can get incredibly tiring. X_X;

@CociCookie - do you watch Azureblade49's romhacks or all of his videos. :P

I'd maybe like to do one where I ramble on about something totally unrelated to what is happening onscreen but probably more interesting, except every now and I would shout "Level up! Nice."

Haha Jaymonius, I do watch some of the other ones. I enjoyed watchng the SSBB ones on ProtonJon's channel, god they are hilarious, especially GENECOLOGY STAB!

I wish I had the ability to record on my laptop with commentary, unfortunately some dicks thought it would be music-friendly to start removing stereo mix, unfortunately they failed and forgot that there are programs that can replace it. Unfortunately I haven't worked out how to use VAC and the normal Mic at the same time, it's probably really simple lol.

EDIT: Shining Soul then? ANd I don't mean the second, that one doesn't seem to do quick leveling, but the first does. However I guess u'd get bored after a while, like I am getting annoyed at the 4th dungeon, it's tooooo long >.<

LPs are only good if they have any combination of hilarious commentary, a hilarious game or a ridiculously difficult game. you fail on all counts + nerdvoice.

I just got this cool idea of collaborative let's play! It'd be kinda like a chain gaming but instead everyone gets 10 minutes (youtube maximum?) to play from where the previous player ended and do LP commentary throughout that 10mins... that'd be pretty awesome, imo.

sorry then