Modeled on !videoessays@lemmy.world
This community is for long-form video game analysis, especially retrospectives, though videos on any era of gaming are permitted.
All top-level posts should be a link to a long-form gaming video essay that isn’t hosted behind a paywall. Videos at least 1-hour in length are preferred.
Each post title should include the title of the video, its creator, and its duration in the format [MM:SS] or [HH:MM:SS].
No pornographic images or videos.
Noticeably low-quality content and videos that stretch any reasonable definition of “video essay” will be removed. If you’re not trying to break this rule, you probably aren’t.
Don’t post the same video multiple times in a short time frame. Don’t flood the community with many videos from a single creator at once.
MrEdders123
Always Retrospective,
A long-form reviewer that actually avoids spoilers!
PatricianTV
Longest-Form Content
Noah Caldwell-Gervais
Video Essays on Retro and modern Gaming Topics
Noclip
Gaming Documentaries. Rec'd by @Martineski
The Golden Bolt: mostly PSX & PS2 era retrospectives. He has a complete and exhaustive Ratchet and Clank series covering both every mainline entry and all spin off titles (including the java phone game!).
His stuff is a bit shorter than a lot of creators in the genera. I'd say 45mins - 1 1/2 hours is standard for him.
I just discovered Tim Rogers (Action Button) the other day from another community. Every video I've seen has become an instant favorite.
Ross Scott (Accursed Farms) is like my comfort food in this genre.
I loved Joseph Anderson, but I think he might have gotten out of the game.
Finally, MandaloreGaming and MatthewMatosis are two other favorites that I've watched for a long time.
Just a heads up that Joe Anderson isn't out of the game! He's currently working on his white whale of a witcher 3 video and streams pretty regularly in the mean time. He has a great second channel with a lot of old vods on it if anyone wants to check it out (it's linked through his main). I recommend the danganronpa streams
oh thank you, that's great news!
These are all new to me! Looks great.
It must be a huge genre because I also didn't know any of the creators I saw posted here so far apart from Jacob Geller
Heck of a lot bigger than I thought. I was worried I was running out of content in a niche genera. Seems unlikely now.