A Let's Play Contest

[Halo Fanboy]

If you play something like contra is it okay if you die and have to restart the game?

 

[Mariena]

Also, a good source for LPs is SomethingAwful. They've got an entire section/subforum dedicated to it.

*nevermind, someone already mentioned it. Still, go check out SA for a great amount of LPs*

 

[Zakyrn]

(I'm using caps only because this is important)ATTENTION:
RULE 2 IS GOING TO BE CHANGED DUE TO YOUTUBE BEING UNRELIABLE. BUT I HAVEN'T FOUND A GOOD SITE YET. IF ANYONE CAN RECOMMEND A SITE IT WILL SPEED UP THIS PROCESS A BIT!

IT WOULD ALSO HELP IF PEOPLE COULD SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS IDEA I HAD.

THANK YOU AND HAVE A NICE DAY!

Personally I've never had any problems watching lp's on youtube.
But I still don't quite get the competition here, I mean you're trying to make the longest lp here, wouldn't the winner be the one who plays a long game while playing it badly with a lot of mistakes?

Personally I don't trust Youtube, but that's just my opinion. Second if you read the rules, then you'll remember I said that you can't be doing nothing even if you're utterly bad at the game. Mistakes happen of course, but unless it's horribly designed then the person isn't going to go through a hell of a time figuring everything out. They have to progress or else they are disqualified.

Just sucking at it enough without getting caught then instead of openly sucking and making the lp longer.
The problem is that you define the challenge by making the longest lp of a game of your choice which seems to be pretty much as challenging as holding your breath the shortest. You can't make a challenge of a game and do the opposite of what's hard, and then try to justify the challenge by adding a rule that you can't do what you're supposed to do so much you'll actually notice it.

 

[MintyFreshBreathGuy]

(I'm using caps only because this is important)ATTENTION:
RULE 2 IS GOING TO BE CHANGED DUE TO YOUTUBE BEING UNRELIABLE. BUT I HAVEN'T FOUND A GOOD SITE YET. IF ANYONE CAN RECOMMEND A SITE IT WILL SPEED UP THIS PROCESS A BIT!

IT WOULD ALSO HELP IF PEOPLE COULD SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS IDEA I HAD.

THANK YOU AND HAVE A NICE DAY!

Personally I've never had any problems watching lp's on youtube.
But I still don't quite get the competition here, I mean you're trying to make the longest lp here, wouldn't the winner be the one who plays a long game while playing it badly with a lot of mistakes?

Personally I don't trust Youtube, but that's just my opinion. Second if you read the rules, then you'll remember I said that you can't be doing nothing even if you're utterly bad at the game. Mistakes happen of course, but unless it's horribly designed then the person isn't going to go through a hell of a time figuring everything out. They have to progress or else they are disqualified.

Just sucking at it enough without getting caught then instead of openly sucking and making the lp longer.
The problem is that you define the challenge by making the longest lp of a game of your choice which seems to be pretty much as challenging as holding your breath the shortest. You can't make a challenge of a game and do the opposite of what's hard, and then try to justify the challenge by adding a rule that you can't do what you're supposed to do so much you'll actually notice it.

You make a good point, I did already think of a short lp but I just didn't like the idea as much, much less the fact I like to do things differently. This probably wasn't going to happen anyway I was just asking what people thought of the idea. I could have a rule saying that you need to play the game blind. Now anyone could make mistakes. But thanks anyway for pointing these things out nice insight... if that's the right word.

 

[MintyFreshBreathGuy]

If you play something like contra is it okay if you die and have to restart the game?

For Contra you'd probably use an emulator with savestates, so you just need to make a savestate at the beginning of a level.

 

[Unknower]

Elder Scrolls -series. With mods.

Even the thought frightens me!

 

[not a zaar]

This might not end well. Let's Play started off on the SA forums, and the concept got so annoying that they had to create a whole new subforum just to keep the posters away from the gaming discussion. Also most of them were horribly unfunny.

 

[MintyFreshBreathGuy]

This might not end well. Let's Play started off on the SA forums, and the concept got so annoying that they had to create a whole new subforum just to keep the posters away from the gaming discussion. Also most of them were horribly unfunny.

True I agree with the unfunny part and that it might not end well. But also note that I never said this would happen. I'm just asking for opinions. Though thank you for telling me where Lets Plays started. I know it sounds pathetic to being talking about this thing, when I don't even know where it came from. Either way I'm just asking for opinions.