Here's the link to my playlists:
-- Longshot Luigi's Let's Plays --
Let's Play #0 - Portal
For those of you who don't know, I had originally started my YouTube channel in February 2011. I didn't get around to recording or uploading anything until the middle of March, and this was the project I did. It was a playthrough of Portal. The reason that I chose Portal as my first project was because of the upcoming release of Portal 2.
This was a test of my recording software and a test to see if I could come up with interesting commentary. The truth about it is, that while I did do a decent job with the gameplay, the commentary was so excruciatingly boring and dull that I ended up deleting this project almost a week after I had finished it. I was so embarrassed about it, but no one seemed to care anyway (I had zero subscribers at the time).
The timing of this project is interesting for another reason, I had just recently quit my job in the sales industry and had tons of free time to record things. I did get a job late March, but by that time I had already planned out my next two projects and I figured that having this as a hobby wouldn't take up too much time from my schedule. I was right and so I moved on to my first official Let's Play...
This was a test of my recording software and a test to see if I could come up with interesting commentary. The truth about it is, that while I did do a decent job with the gameplay, the commentary was so excruciatingly boring and dull that I ended up deleting this project almost a week after I had finished it. I was so embarrassed about it, but no one seemed to care anyway (I had zero subscribers at the time).
The timing of this project is interesting for another reason, I had just recently quit my job in the sales industry and had tons of free time to record things. I did get a job late March, but by that time I had already planned out my next two projects and I figured that having this as a hobby wouldn't take up too much time from my schedule. I was right and so I moved on to my first official Let's Play...
Let's Play #1 - Mario Kart Wii
My first official Let's Play upload was on April 16th 2011. It was Mario Kart Wii. I had started recording this project late March. As a matter of fact, I mention in it that I was unemployed, but by the time I had finished this Let's Play I was already working again.
An important thing to note about this project is that it was the very first time I had ever used a video capture card to record anything from a game console. I had purchased the Elgato Video Capture for around $100 at the time and to this day, it has worked really well at capturing from the Wii and PS2. This project also marks the first time that I used a headset microphone and Garageband to record my voice and iMovie to edit my videos.
The commentary of this Let's Play was sort of weird. I wasn't trying to emulate anybody or use other people's taglines or catchphrases, I was trying a bit too hard to be myself. When I go back and watch the first episodes of this I notice tons of things about the way I talk that bug me, but at the same time I know that everyone starts out lousy and the only way to improve is with experience.
One last fact about this project is that I took almost a year away from it to do the mirror mode of the Grand Prix races. I didn't plan to do the mirror mode at all, but I had some problems with my YouTube channel and content ID matching that my time limit extension was revoked. I had to make a huge adjustment to one of my later projects and terminate one altogether. But, I managed to keep on making videos and used Mario Kart Wii to fill in the gaps while I got back on my feet.
An important thing to note about this project is that it was the very first time I had ever used a video capture card to record anything from a game console. I had purchased the Elgato Video Capture for around $100 at the time and to this day, it has worked really well at capturing from the Wii and PS2. This project also marks the first time that I used a headset microphone and Garageband to record my voice and iMovie to edit my videos.
The commentary of this Let's Play was sort of weird. I wasn't trying to emulate anybody or use other people's taglines or catchphrases, I was trying a bit too hard to be myself. When I go back and watch the first episodes of this I notice tons of things about the way I talk that bug me, but at the same time I know that everyone starts out lousy and the only way to improve is with experience.
One last fact about this project is that I took almost a year away from it to do the mirror mode of the Grand Prix races. I didn't plan to do the mirror mode at all, but I had some problems with my YouTube channel and content ID matching that my time limit extension was revoked. I had to make a huge adjustment to one of my later projects and terminate one altogether. But, I managed to keep on making videos and used Mario Kart Wii to fill in the gaps while I got back on my feet.
Let's Play #2 - Portal 2
I'm fairly certain that I started recording this immediately after I had beaten the game for the first time. It was quite the noobish error to do a newly released game as a Let's Play, but I did it anyway. I was somehow hoping that by doing a brand new game I would attract people to my channel, but since plenty of the big names were doing the same thing, my playthrough remained in obscurity.
This was the second time I had done a screen recording LP. I put into practice what I had learned from doing Portal 1 into this project and the practice paid off. My commentary in this one was pretty relaxed, most of the time I was talking like this was some sort of walkthrough and explaining all the puzzles.
I know that during these first two Let's Play's I had actually gained two or three subscribers and that got me over the hump of being a new Let's Player. Those first few people that subscribed really meant a lot to me because it gave me encouragement to keep going. I figured that if anyone out there was willing to watch my videos and enjoy them, then I would just keep making them because they are so much fun to record anyway.
Portal 2 is one of the few games that I had many technical issues with. The game sounds not recording was a huge problem that I had to replay certain areas of the game multiple times to get the sound working. I didn't want to make any excuses as to why my videos were missing sound, they were missing it because the software was very picky about what to record.
This is also the only Let's Play where I had a television on in the background, I didn't think the microphone would pick it up, but at many points in the game you can hear talking in the background of my commentary track. It bugs the hell out of me that I would allow that, but I guess that's why we make mistakes, to learn from them and not do that crap again in the future.
This was the second time I had done a screen recording LP. I put into practice what I had learned from doing Portal 1 into this project and the practice paid off. My commentary in this one was pretty relaxed, most of the time I was talking like this was some sort of walkthrough and explaining all the puzzles.
I know that during these first two Let's Play's I had actually gained two or three subscribers and that got me over the hump of being a new Let's Player. Those first few people that subscribed really meant a lot to me because it gave me encouragement to keep going. I figured that if anyone out there was willing to watch my videos and enjoy them, then I would just keep making them because they are so much fun to record anyway.
Portal 2 is one of the few games that I had many technical issues with. The game sounds not recording was a huge problem that I had to replay certain areas of the game multiple times to get the sound working. I didn't want to make any excuses as to why my videos were missing sound, they were missing it because the software was very picky about what to record.
This is also the only Let's Play where I had a television on in the background, I didn't think the microphone would pick it up, but at many points in the game you can hear talking in the background of my commentary track. It bugs the hell out of me that I would allow that, but I guess that's why we make mistakes, to learn from them and not do that crap again in the future.
Let's Play #3 - Star Fox 64
This is one of those game that is hard to Let's Play simply because everyone has seen it already. That being said, it is one of my favorite early works. My commentary on this one was very relaxed because it was in fact post-commentary. I know that it doesn't sound like it, but trust me it was. The reason for this is because I played through all the worlds and you can't do that by playing through the game normally. So what I did was play through it 3 times and then selectively commentated each individual world. I had so much fun doing this one. This is also one of the few games that has appeared twice on my channel. First the Let's Play and then again over a year later in a Versus.
---- I haven't finished writing this section yet, I've done 30+ projects by now... this project page will continue as soon as I have time to write it up.
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