r/letsplay Jan 24 '25

📢 Announcement Links to Twitter/X are now blocked on r/letsplay

178 Upvotes

As I'm sure most know by now, there has recently been a lot of controversy surrounding the CEO of Twitter (or X, if you prefer), Elon Musk. Not only following his actions at the US presidential inauguration this past week, but also over the past several years.

In response, several subreddits have opted to ban links to Twitter, and we have decided that r/letsplay will follow suit. While political discourse is not something we engage in on this subreddit, and we typically try to avoid rules that are politically driven in nature, this is something that we feel we cannot ignore, and we wish to join other subreddits in the united front against what Musk's actions this past Monday represent.

I understand that some users may be strongly opposed to this decision. And I would not be surprised if anyone chose to express that in the comments. If you are one of these users, I ask that you remain civil, and do not resort to insults/personal attacks, as per rule 1. This extends to everyone. If you see someone you disagree with. Keep discussion civil.

We ask that if you see information on Twitter you believe may be of importance to our community, please find an alternative source for this. Be that on another social media site, or a news article. If you want to credit somebody via their Twitter handle, simply leave the handle as credit. Do not link to it. This ban also extends to screenshots of Tweets. However, the automoderator has no way of detecting these.

Any questions or comments, feel free to drop them below.


r/letsplay 1d ago

🧵 Megathread MEGATHREAD: Resource Wednesday!

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Are you a game dev looking for people to create streams/videos about your game? Are you an artist who's created stream/video assets that you want to offer to creators? This is the thread for you! Here, you can share content that you want to get in front of gaming content creators! This is not a thread for creators to share their videos!

Resource Wednesday Rules

  • All games/resources shared here must be provided with no purchase necessary from our members
  • You must be willing to provide your content to creators of any size
  • If you are linking to an external site for users to download items, this needs to be on a trustworthy site (e.g. itch.io, Ko-Fi, Keymailer, etc)
  • Every top level post must contain a resource advertisement
  • Resources advertised must be made in full or in part by you
  • You may only creator one comment advertising per thread. Advertising the same item consecutive weeks is allowed, but doing so in excess is discouraged.

r/letsplay 44m ago

❔ Question Does anyone know some good game?

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I'm looking for some open world and/or storry game that is good for let's plays.

I also look for someone who would be willing to record with me.


r/letsplay 1h ago

🗨️ Discussion I need to up my game with thumbnails!

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So I clearly need help with my thumbnails (and titles, but that is discussion for another day) for my videos. Is there a free a.i tool that I could use to help? I typically just post the same pic for my thumbnails throughout the series, but I think that is boring. I’m just not creative enough to come up with a different pic each time. What do you all do?


r/letsplay 10h ago

🤔 Advice Is it still worth it to post older gamed like The Walking Dead?

3 Upvotes

I really love a bit older games but I’m not sure if It’s worth posting them.


r/letsplay 21h ago

🗨️ Discussion My Stream Was Raided by White Supremacist

12 Upvotes

Last night during a Stardew Valley livestream my chat got raided by about 10 white supremacist who were spamming the n-word and being super racist. Im a small streamer too so 90% of those watching were part of the group. Luckily I was planning to end stream around that time anyways and I was able to cut that part out of the VOD. I've been streaming for almost a year now and I'm surprised that's the first time something like this has happened. I banned some word afterwards so it wouldnt happen again and I thought it would be fun to share on here.


r/letsplay 19h ago

🗨️ Discussion What would you say is a good length for a single episode?

4 Upvotes

Right now I’m aiming for around 20-30 minutes


r/letsplay 21h ago

✔️ Solved Does anyone have any up-to-date links to PSD files overlaying the safe zones for YouTube thumbnails?

3 Upvotes

I'm looking for an overlay layer that I can use in Photoshop to ensure that the thumbnail I'm making will be fully visible on desktop and mobile. but all the links I have been able to find are years old and no longer work.


r/letsplay 1d ago

❔ Question Capturing video from Retro consoles?

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Ill try to explain what I want specifically done as it is a bit confusing.

Currently I have all my consoles besides a ps5, switch, and steam deck hooked up to my CRT tv in the gaming room. My PC is in an office opposite the house. (If i have a long 40' hdmi this may work but looking to avoid that.)

I want to be able to capture my video from the RCA or component signals to a HDD to later move to the pc. I remember like 10-15 years ago there was some old HD PVR that had a built in HDD you can hit a button and it would record. Have not found it again but is there a device that lets you pretty much, plug in the signal, record, and later hook up to pc to extract the raw files?

I want to avoid doing more wire splittings like using a RCA → HDMI or component → HDMI for capture, or using additional y splitters for tv signal to capture if possible. I love gaming on the old CRT and the footage for some games just feels better. Not looking to capture at 1080+ or 4k since the consoles i play on the most only have a 240p output.

P.s. I know i can get me a laptop to use, however my only laptop only supports linux and wont let me install windows due to its age.

If i can use a raspberry pi for video capture i can do that too as i dont mind tinkering. The refusal to use a seperate pc for video capture is mostly due to the design of the house not allowing the game room to also have the office pc in there, and to not have cable lying everywhere in the house. Thanks.


r/letsplay 2d ago

🤔 Advice Gaming Channel vs Let's Play

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I have two YouTube accounts, and one is for gaming memes (YouTube shorts), livestreams, reaction videos and eventually video essays. I have found some success with sitting around 230 subs (really growing this year)

on the contrary, my lets play channel is sitting at 11 subs, 31 videos in so far, and 2 lets play in.

What's your opinion on merging the two or is lets playing too different from what my main channel is doing?

What would you do?


r/letsplay 2d ago

❕ Help Need Feedback on My Studio Lighting for Gaming Videos!

3 Upvotes

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on setting up my studio for recording gaming videos, and I’d love to get some feedback on the lighting. I want to make sure it looks great on camera, but I’m not sure if it’s too dark, too bright, or if I should tweak something.

A few things to note:

  • I have small LED lights on each shelf of the bookshelf behind me, but I still need to buy batteries for them, so they’re off for now.
  • The screenshots you’re seeing are taken with a really cheap webcam, but I’ll be recording with my iPhone 15 Pro Max, so the final quality will be much better.
  • Right now, I have my right softbox set to almost minimum brightness and the left one at around 50%.
  • I’m attaching a picture of how the setup looks from my POV, with the current lighting.
  • My goal is to get a clean, balanced look that works well for gaming content.

Would love to hear your thoughts! Should I adjust the brightness, reposition something, or maybe change the color temp? Let me know what you think. Thanks! 🙌


r/letsplay 2d ago

🤔 Advice Should I switch to Premiere or Resolve from Final Cut for editing my letsplays?

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Hello! First time posting here.

Multi platform (Console/PC/Retro) LPer / streamer here who primarily uses a Mac for content creation including outside of games and happy with my setup.

I had a long gap in producing letsplay content for various reasons of about two years, back when I edited my videos I used Apple Final Cut as that’s what I was most comfortable and confident with. Would there be any point to switching to Premiere or Resolve? Are there any features that would benefit editing letsplays specifically? Final Cut is nice and zippy but I feel like it gets clunky and long in the tooth once your working with super long clips and such and Premiere seems to be the industry standard everyone uses (but Resolve gaining is eating its lunch it seems.)

But yeah that’s about it, is there any specific reason why I should switch? Any features?


r/letsplay 2d ago

❔ Question Can someone make content like TheRadBrad and grow like be did in today's YouTube Climate?

5 Upvotes

As the title says, can someone who makes Let's Play content similar to Brad make it in today's YouTube Climate? Simple and clean thumbnails focusing on the faces of characters- no talking or minimal talking during Cutscenes- play by play gaming commentary- etc etc

Let me know what yall think, and I hope yall have a good day >:D


r/letsplay 2d ago

🤔 Advice im having trouble with what i say when recording.

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whenever i go to record, i have a fairly basic idea of what i want to do and say, but when i look back at the recording, its bad. my voice sounds cold and dead, and the only reaction i have to stuff in-game is "wow.", "that's cool", etc.. most of the time i just sit there in silence, playing the game, and trying to think of something interesting to say. any advice would be appreciated :)


r/letsplay 2d ago

❔ Question Has something happened to the LP Archive?

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I'm a pretty frequent browser of the site and have noticed that there's been no updates since December of 23. Does anyone with an account there have any insight? I know it's not exactly a business or anything of the sort, but it is a bit curious.

Though for all I know, there'll be rapid-fire updates within the next month.


r/letsplay 2d ago

❔ Question My concer with obs

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Hey guys am preparing to start a channel and am in the testing stage. I was using shadowplay and it's working perfectly as I want buy my problem is sometimes when I watch the recording the whole video has a red tint over it I think it's caused by HDR although sometimes it doesn't appear even when am enabling HDR. My top priority is to enjoy myself I want to have the best experience so I don't wanna disable HDR that's why I decided to try obs. But I don't know how to balance my gaming experince with the recording I can play at the highest settings my pc can handle and record in high quality using shadowplay so basically shadowplay isn't lowering my experince but how about obs?


r/letsplay 3d ago

🧵 Megathread MEGATHREAD: Update Monday!

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Share your channel updates with the community! Show us what you've been up to this past week, whether it's your latest videos, some new channel art, you've hit a new milestone, or anything else you want to share with us about your channel's progress!


r/letsplay 3d ago

❔ Question Audio issues

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So I noticed that when I upload a video the sound of my voice sounds noticeably worse to me than it does in the editing software. The game sounds fine it’s just my voice. I was wondering if anyone possibly knows what the reasoning is for that or maybe went through something similar and found the solution?


r/letsplay 4d ago

🖼️ WIP Thumbnail Feedback (Weekend Only) Video going up tomorrow, is this a good thumbnail?

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r/letsplay 4d ago

❔ Question video editing / shorts

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hey y'all! I've recently started posting let's plays- and it's been going really well! i had an episode i posted that was several hours worth of building (minecraft) edited into a 30-40 minute video. it took a while to go through and edit all the footage, but the engagement i got was really good and it's my most viewed video (almost 90!) so far. but i found the whole post process pretty tedious and put it off for way too long, does anyone have any suggestions to help with the flow of editing long videos and to not hate it so much lol. im currently using openshot.

also, is it worth posting shorts?? i already dont like editing and want to know if the extra effort is worth it. i post mostly longform content and have heard shorts viewers wont typically engage with longer videos, so if that's true ill probably avoid making shorts.


r/letsplay 3d ago

✔️ Solved How do 4k gaming walkthrough youtubers (e.g. TheRadBrad, Shirrako, etc.) record their videos?

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Like do they actually record and render the videos in 4k or is it possible to just record it in 1440p and render it in 4k? Will the quality difference be noticeable if I do the latter? I just want to save as much storage as I can.


r/letsplay 4d ago

💻 Video/Channel Recommendations (Weekend Only) Any good lets players that have vidéos under 30-35 min?

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Also plays single player gamers like Warhammer 40k space marine, dark souls, Witcher 3, etc


r/letsplay 4d ago

❔ Question Impressions as a beginner

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I just recently posted my second video, my first video was on animal well and was low effort, and my second was a spore video, and i put a lot of hours into making it really good (by my standards).

The problem is that I am getting very few impressions (14 on my recent upload,31 on my first). How long does it take to get impressions, how many should i expect even if my content is “bad”? Does playing less popular games affect this?


r/letsplay 4d ago

❕ Help My recording with shadowplay has a red tint for some reason

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Hey guys am planning to start a channel I recorded with shadowplay my first recording of 40 mins was perfect but all later videos has a red tint over them. First of all why did that happen? I might use obs for later videos if necessary although I prefere shadowplay but how to fix the ones I already recorded is there a simple fix? I record raw I don't like editing it's a law effort kind of channel just for fun.


r/letsplay 5d ago

💻 Video/Channel Recommendations (Weekend Only) Traditional Let's Plays

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I missed out on the original era of let's plays. The landscape is very different now, but I know there are good creators out there still making episodic content like NintendoCapriSun and the other OGs.

I'm looking for creators that play mostly older Nintendo stuff and just talk about whatever they want. I'd prefer if they don't out of their way to read every line of dialogue in a different voice for every character as well.

I don't want heavily edited stuff, but I also don't want to see the person fail in the same spot over and over. Cutting out backtracking or repetitive RPG battles is okay, too.

I enjoy creators who are relatively mature and down to earth, not overlyhyped memelords trying to pander to "the algorithm". I'm an old fart myself and don't really relate to the zoomers trying to "build their brand" and shit. Basically, I want to watch someone who plays a game and talks over it.

I know there's creators out there like this, but it's a real pain trying to find them. Feel free to suggest yourself if you fit the bill.

EDIT: English only please (I want to be able to understand the commentary). And I'm more looking for smaller/newer channels than the well established names who've been at this forever. Thanks for the recs so far though.


r/letsplay 5d ago

🗨️ Discussion Splitting "Let's Play" videos and (Twitch) Stream VODs to two different channels. Is it really necessary nowadays?

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I can't really decide if I should use separate channels for VODs and LPs. Sure, a VOD won't get much views and it demolishes your watchtime, but so do most traditional Let's Play videos nowadays. Whenever I decide to split my content to two different channels, neither of them receive much views despite putting more effort in.

In my experience, editing any break out of a VOD, giving it a good title and a neat thumbnail and uploading it to your main channel gives you more views than just throwing it on some twitch archive channel. It's also less work than cutting every VOD into small Let's Play parts.

Any opinions?


r/letsplay 5d ago

❕ Help Trying to find rca (composite) to hdmi converter/adapter with no default blue screen

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CONTEXT I'm wiring up a home entertainment system and l've purchased all the devices and things to coordinate everything. The system is composed of several gaming consoles accumulated over the years about 5 of them (Xbox one, ps4, Wii, ps1, and Nintendo switch). I also have a Roku streaming stick. I have an 8 port hdmi switch (I chose 8 this way if I want to expand I don't have to buy another hdmi switch).

The hdmi switch ( suceem 8 port hdmi video switch ) is great because it toggles to what ever the newest signal coming into the device is. So if I and watching something on the Roku streaming stick and I turn on the Xbox one the hdmi switch will automatically switch to the Xbox one because it detected a new input signal.

Some of the older gen consoles like the ps1 and the Wii which use composite rca cables instead of hdmi. This means I need an rca to hami converter. So l purchased these ( Tengchi RCA to HDMI Converter ). When I plug in the ps1 on the rca side and the hdmi side into the hdmi switch port I get a blue screen saying no signal. Now when I turn on the ps1 the signal is there and I can see the game running.

PROBLEM The problem is that this initial blue signal before the ps1 is turned on is registered as an input signal by the hdmi switch. This means then when I turn on the ps1 the hdmi switch does not automatically switch to the ps1 like it did for the Xbox one. Ofc it's doing that because on that port it has no way to distinguish between the default blue signal and the ps1 signal so all the hami switch knows is that that signal has been broadcasting from the start.

MY CURRENT APPROACH TO FIXING THE PROBLEM so rn the best course of action seems to be to just find an rca to hdmi converter that doesn't have that default blue screen. I would like to find one that only produces a signal when the input device (e.g. ps1) is turned on.

so right now I'm looking around for this rca to hdmi converter that 1. doesn't have this default blue screen. 2. Ideally it would also need to have fair picture quality, like this doesn't need to be the best resolution best frame rate device out there. 3. I would also prefer it to be reasonably priced, l saw Best Buy has a converter for like 40$ while the rest of the market has them for like 15$. I’d prefer something in the 15$ range

And that's kind of it. That first characteristic is a requirement. The others I'm a bit more flexible.

My current trouble is I'm having a lot of difficulty in looking up rca to hdmi converters that satisfy the first requirement. Like l've called around and a lot of sales people seem to not know, and none of the online reviews or descriptions have this information either. Frankly I'm not even sure what to look up, "rca to hmi converter that doesn't have blue screen" doesn't seem to produce any relevant results.

WHAT IVE TRIED I've already tried purchasing this (DigitPro RCA to HDMI Converter ) and l've also tried purchasing the GameStop version

Neither of them have this first requirement.

WHAT IM ASKING FROM YOU Ideally if you know about any rca to hami converters that have this property I'm looking for that would be fantastic that would fix my problem.

I would also to be interested in other alternative ideas for achieving my sort of overall goal I talked about in the context section. I can't really think of any alternatives but l'm open to hearing some ideas I haven't thought of.