Jibba, do you plan on doing any more Let's Reads? The GameFan one was awesome, though I recall you saying it was a lot of work.
I'm really not sure. The problem is that there is a small percentage of my subs that really enjoy them, so I would hate to stop doing them and let some people down, but there are other people who see them as filler. The Game Fan vid has been up for over 4 months and has about 4,500 views, while the SNES launch vid has been up for a little over 2 days and has over 16k already. And the way I did the Game Fan video made it a lot of work, because I did that whole intro deal and then added in all of that gameplay footage. So that's time that I could be spending making one of my other videos. Someone wants to mail me some UK mags, so if that ends up happening then I might do one of those.
I've experimented with different types of videos over the years, but I think that at this point it's pretty clear to me what my channel is "about". That's why I turned the Game Fan vid into a brief historical retrospective with a read-through attached.
Weren't Sim City and Gradius 3 also launch titles?
Most places you look on the web will say that they were launch titles, but they actually came out the following week. If you bought your SNES on day 1, then it was just the three games that I covered. As Black Tiger mentioned, there is this belief that Gradius III (or even both Gradius III and SimCity) were on store shelves before the console itself arrived, but I've never read anything to back that up.
While I agree that Game Sack's style is great, CGR comes with a totally different, documentar-ish vibe, and I completely disagree with you that the video was too long. It's well paced, informative, while still relaying a great deal of enthusiasm for the topic at hand.
I'm kind of replying to Clodbuster and you, here. One style isn't any better than the other, but as nopepper rightly observed, the shows have a different flow. I think that the Sack's "quick hits" style of going through the games is probably more conducive to keeping the audience tuned-in. Watch time and viewer retention are important metrics on YouTube, and when YT is your livelihood you have to pay attention to that stuff. They have developed a very successful and consistent formula.
I on the other hand pay very little attention to that stuff because YT is not, and never will be my job. That's not any kind of swipe at people for whom it is a job, but just a statement of fact. I therefore don't really have to care about making my videos watchable to large swaths of people, and have the creative freedom to just do whatever I think is cool for any given video. Yes my channel is monetized, but I have actually never linked a bank account to my YouTube deal, meaning that every cent that the channel has ever earned is just sitting in an AdSense account.
I don't know Jibbajaba, besides him seemingly being a bit of a douche in these boards, but his videos are getting better and better with each iteration, and I would personally want him to continue with his current style, instead of crossing over to the more casual approach that shows like GS bring to the table.
To be fair, I'm a much bigger douche on the Neo-Geo forums. I appreciate you saying that I am getting better, as that's certainly my goal. Continuing to refine my current style is absolutely the game plan.
