Sinovera, You Should NOT LP.

I've actually never had anyone tell me that. I've had people remark that my LPs suck or my gaming skills suck (which btw, I will wholeheartedly agree with) but not an absolute "NO!" The closest I guess is that funny troll on Kevin's page who blathered on about anything and anyone. Anyways, I find it so odd that I LP because there are so many reasons why my LPs suck ass.

To have an LP you must have a game. An LP usually is a series of videos that allows people to see your playTHROUGH of the game. Note the capitalized "THROUGH." I am SO bad about finishing games. I take forever to finish playing a game and the number of games I bought that I finished can be concluded on one hand. I get all excited and pick up a game start playing it like mad... then forget about it. It's bad I know, I'm sorry. My god damned Chrono Trigger LP probably will take forever to get finished. It's a miracle that I'm even so far in Psychonauts (I do have more videos right now btw, I just haven't gotten around to posting them). I post up my videos so slow that I'm amazed anyone really bothers to watch each one as they come out. Seriously, I'd have forgotten all about what was happening in the game or that person's progress if I watched someone upload as slow as I do.

One thing that can make me watch an LP from beginning to end is commentary. First off, not even going into the words spoken but let's talk about voice. I generally like male LPers better because for some reason I find female LPers to lack that certain spark of enthusiasm. You know, the kind of energy that comes through when the LPer shouts with joy and you can HEAR the real feeling behind it. I don't know.. I just haven't found any female LPer who FEELS the games like a lot of the male LPers I have found. I'm not trying to be sexist, I'm sorry ladies, but that's just how things have been going. Turning this criticism to myself, I.. don't know. I don't think I react to things as... erm, genuinely (?) as other LPers. The only situations where you'll hear me scream with real feeling is either I'm REALLY frustrated at the game (see psychonauts when game crashes repeatedly) or I get startled by something (which, being a fuck faced coward, I'm prone to). 

Then there's the words themselves. Raocow.. Oh Raocow, what can you say about HIS commentary? His blathering nonsensical commentary that some how still make some sort of sense has brought endless entertainment to me. NintendoCapriSun: I find his commentary sometimes a little immature. Some of the jokes he makes are kinda.. eh. You know? But one thing I do like about his commentary is his willingness to share his life with the audience. I love to hear about people's lives, what they feel as they go through it, their thoughts about their past, what they thought then, what they think now... etc. etc. It wouldn't work with anyone really young like myself but for someone his age (34 or 35 now?) it works because he actually DOES have a past to talk about.

I find in my own commentary... erm, I don't know.. Nothing? Random babbling at best? And here's the thing: I've lived my whole life as the shy person who doesn't say much. On the internet I've had some liberties with text chat which slowly moved into voice chat 4 years ago. Since then I've gotten a lot better with voice chat (though I still pretty much suck at real life talking). My point is that I'm not accustomed to talking nor talking fast. Therefore when I try to commentate I have a tendency to not have the words come to me as fast as I want them to. It comes to me in my head just fine. It's just that I'm a thinker, not a talker. Somewhere in the translation of thought to speech something goes amiss and sometimes it comes out in non-sense. I have to admit though, LPing is a great was to practice such speaking lol. And my final issue about my own commentary... mumbling. I have such a bad habit of mumbling. I don't enunciate the words precisely or sharply. I say them softly and jumbled together. I got told when in a French Speech Competition that I don't follow through my sentences to the end. Meaning I will start out pronouncing alright and progressively start mumbling or jumbling the syllables together. I do a little better when commentating because I try to be more aware of enunciating but I hate hearing my own voice through echo on Skype. My mumbling even makes ME cringe.

Now let's get to actual game play. I know, I know. You guys don't even NEED a paragraph on this. You all know it already. I suck. Puzzle solving, platforming, general directions... lolzwutizdis? Some people are just naturally good at all this. Well good for you. I'm not. Stop watching, gtfo. lol. It really is interesting though, I watch Toegoff's LPs and damn near scream at him at the obvious things he misses or his misinterpretations of things. They're SO obvious you moron, why you missing them?! But then I go play my own games and fail at them too so what dah fuck man, what can I say? Even Raocow sometimes fails so much it makes me sigh (If anyone watches him.. example: Megaman Rocks - Repoman). Sometimes I'm blind to the game too but the solution is obvious watching others play. But some times it's the prior knowledge that you have of the game that makes someone else not being able to figure stuff out really frustrating. Kind of like telling someone to go make an overlay glow on Photoshop when they have never even used Photoshop before. It's so simple and basic but if you don't know it then you don't know it. It really doesn't excuse a lot of my bad playing though. I suck at games and I know it. But I play them anyways and some people watch me, god knows why.

So summary: I take too long to post videos or finish LPs, my commentary is lacking, I mumble, I suck at games. So why do I LP? Because it's just something to do that's fun. It's interesting to see what kind of comments you get too heh. It's something I CAN do (no matter the quality of it :P) so *shrug* why the hell not. If you LP, why do you do it? Or why do you watch LPs (not just mine, I mean in general)? I expect answers to be mostly "for fun" or such like mine but idk maybe some people have other reasons? Le gasp!