I tried to watch it but I don't understand. You film your face while you play video games?
In all due respect, and I am being completely honest.....why would anyone want to watch that?
Lol... I think I answered your question without answering it. I think a lot of people watch, well, the scary games because they get a kick out of watching someone lose it. I know when I watched another "Let's Play" channel that was the case. The guy behind the mic can make it funny or entertaining depending on whatever the game he/she is playing. I just started playing another game called "Octodad," where you play an octopus that has a wife and family and no one knows that he is actually a real octopus. Games like that are pretty silly and you can have fun with it while recording the video. Some of those games people want to play or at least experience but they don't have a powerful enough computer to run it or they don't own the exclusive system that the game is on, or... some people just want to know what the game is like before buying it.
I know a lot of people like watching "let's play" channels because there is always a lot of content. It's super easy to edit a video and put it on YouTube, very little editing is actually involved, so you can keep pumping out episodes pretty regularly. I myself try to get 5 videos out a week, with is more than your typical YouTube channel puts out. There is a certain familiarity that people like when watching different things too. The show "Friends" for example was researched and it was found out that shut-ins had the same endorphines released in the brain when the show came on that a typical person had when they saw people they were friends with. I suppose in that case, in essence they had a real relationship with the people on the TV, even though they won't ever meet those or have ever met those people before. Some people just watch those channels to have something playing in the background when they work, kind of like listening, but not really listening to someone like Glen Beck, or any other political/talk radio show. There are enough hours of footage, even on my channel to watch continuously for hours at a time, I just don't have many subscribers lol...
It's really difficult to start up as a "let's play-er", since there really is an over-saturation of the "market". A lot of people that try to start one up typically just end up quitting after starting. I am only 65+ videos into my channel, and some of the bigger known ones that have been at it for a year+ have over 1,000+ videos, so really I'm a newbie at it. I never really thought that anyone would ever watch another person play another video game, I mean, why watch someone when you can play it yourself. I started watching another YouTuber and got hooked to his channel, it was more about watching the guy than the game.
He turned into the show instead of the game. After watching him for a long time I just realized that doing those videos were simple, I can at times be entertaining, and I needed a new hobby lol.
I hoped that answered your question a little bit better than the other reply.
