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itachi4492
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Firstly, if this is not the correct place to post this, I apologize and will gladly move this if needed.
I have an assignment in my English class on communities of practice and I was hoping to get someone's attention to answer a few questions about the Let's Play community.
1. How may other users influence what you chose to Let's Play?
2. How did you start Let's Playing (what made you want to do it)?
3. What would be considered a successful Let's Player and a failed one (if possible)?
4. What factors do you consider when deciding to LP a game?
Thank you for your time and I appreciate every answer!
I have an assignment in my English class on communities of practice and I was hoping to get someone's attention to answer a few questions about the Let's Play community.
1. How may other users influence what you chose to Let's Play?
2. How did you start Let's Playing (what made you want to do it)?
3. What would be considered a successful Let's Player and a failed one (if possible)?
4. What factors do you consider when deciding to LP a game?
Thank you for your time and I appreciate every answer!
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1. Uh not many. I've never LPed a game just because someone wanted me to, if that's what you're asking. Though a friend of mine did comment on wanting to see me do the gnome achievement from HL2 Episode 2 and I eventually did it out of boredom, then deleted it after he had seen it. I LPed GTA4 because I really enjoyed the GTA LPs on Somethingawful, so I guess that was an influence.
2. Well the FF8 LP on the LP archive inspired me to do my first one of FFVII. I surprisingly hadn't seen a LP of FFVII done and it was a game I was very familiar with so I figured it was something I'd be able to do. I felt like giving one a shot myself after watching/reading so many, I suppose.
3. That's not really an easy question cause it really depends on what your definition of success is. I'd say you're "successful" if you enjoyed making your LP and at least one other person enjoyed watching/reading it. Granted sometimes LPs are hours and hours of work so you may not feel it worth your time if only a couple people are watching.
In more subjective terms, you're successful if you show off a game in an interesting, informative and/or funny way. You're unsuccessful if your aim is merely to get Internet famous and your goal shifts from showing off a game to trying to get popular. However, a lot of people do that and still get tons of viewers and people who enjoy watching the videos so it kind of contradicts my earlier statement. It's more my personal opinion.
If you have terrible audio/video issues that make it nearly impossible to watch your LP, that's a pretty clear sign of failure.
4. How much I know about the game. How confident I feel in my ability to play it. How much I enjoy playing the game. How enjoyable the game would be for other people to watch. How easy it is to do commentary about said game.
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