Gaming Retrospectives & Video Essays
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This community is for long-form video game analysis, especially retrospectives, though videos on any era of gaming are permitted.
Rules
- Content of posts
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.
- Title format
Each post title should include the title of the video, its creator, and its duration in the format [MM:SS] or [HH:MM:SS].
- SWF
No pornographic images or videos.
- post decent content
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.
- No spam
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.
Suggested Channels and Creators
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
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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.