Though Sensibly...

I'm anti-emulator, but I figure that If I have the game personally, doing it on an emulator wouldn't be a bad thing at all.

Camcorders to do Let's Plays

There are many aspects I've discovered in making Let's Plays On Youtube. The #1 issue I have right now is the Social Norm. The Peer Pressure that involves "Having to do this" or "Having to do that".

Allow me to elaborate. The Idea is, In the Let's Play, to be presentable, you need three things:

1. An Adult Voice. I Have this.
2. A Good Cause: Basically anything besides Fame.
3. Outstanding Video Quality. In Other Words; The Best Screen Capture, No watermark, No lag. No Moving Camera, No Camcorder.

If one of them is missing, the Let's play is a lost cause to a lot of people. So here's the Camcorder Part. If you do one, Popularity and Criticism recieved will drop to an all time low, despite how good you can talk, a lot of people will stereotype your video by either a disregard or no-no nod. and refuse to watch it.

It Doesn't matter, even if the screen is crystal Clear to see.

Now, most of the time, you should NOT record with a Camcorder, in fact, even I would say to never record a video with a camcorder if Screen Capture is available. So exceptions are only good in these forms:

1. A one-off video of you Playing a game an unusual way that can only be described by taking a camera away from the Screen.
2. Showing the Emotions of many people playing LAM Style, or recording multiple Screens at once
3. You are Playing a Nintendo Dual Screen (NDS, NDS Lite, NDSi, 3DS) System

See that last one? Recording a DS game is tricky in the first place. and this is where I'm stuck. A lot of the games I love are NDS Games, and if I go to an emulator to try to record it, it lags, or the controls are too wonky to use at all! It's a lose-lose.

When You Complete a video for a let's play, before you upload it, many of us ask ourselves a simple Question: "Would I Watch this if I was in another person's Shoes?". My answer was yes, I would, because I imagine that someone somewhere isn't a little Mr. Prissy and can accept a drop in quality from one department, as long as it's under control (Camera's not moving, Voice is still Clear, etc). Apparently not, but that doesn't change my answer.

I Can see my Screen. You can see what I'm doing. Even if the screen whites out from brightness for a second, you wouldn't have missed much, as long as it doesn't stay that bright for longer than 7 seconds. So I'm continuing my let's play until I find (Or someone else finds) a person that can appreciate such videos, and sit and enjoy them.

And that's that.