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Video Blogging: The Death of the Hobby
Putting on a megagame requires tons of work, so if dozens of people across the world were inspired to do just that, unaided and without having ever experienced a megagame themselves, that testifies to me the power of video. I've written a dozen blog posts here and on my own blog trying to get the megagame experience across but I'm sure I never got anyone to organise one, or even go to one.
Of course, somebody could have done a video about megagames that sucked.
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(i've never been to Houston)
Houston is on the intersection of seafood, Cajun, barbeque, and Tex-Mex restaurants. If I lived there, I'd look like Jabba the Hutt, or be dead.
An added bonus: when I worked in the Galleria area, I think I saw more strip clubs than gas stations.
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Barnes lacks a paid gig, which is unfortunate and actually probably is in part due to him not doing video
Perhaps we should band together and spearhead a Kickstarter campaign to get Barnes on video. If Barnes could show them how it should be done and we could begin to disband the Dice Tower network perhaps the damage these current video bloggers are doing can be cut to a minimum.
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The one and only Ameritrash Sage, DW Tripp *motorcycle reving and applause*
Here are DW Trips thoughts on Video Bloggers just received live on Facebook:
The best is Wheaton, Wheaten(?)... most of the others are just painful. Will W is good because he understands video. The one that comes up when BGG goes down is just terrible, terribel, terribel. I probably haven't seen 90% of them because of the bad taste left by all but the one or two good ones.
It doesn't hurt the hobby for morons to do videos. If there were more awesome ones with humor and maybe a decent looking woman with tits that had a clue about how to dress, it'd be a boon. Chicks sell shit. That's just the way it is.
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The selfie generation has nothing to do with it. As much as I despise them, I'm not going to put blame where it doesn't belong. I don't think they're the ones buying games or watching reviews on them. They're still stuck on Munchkin, if anything. I think it's more of a reflection of our "on demand" culture, which really was inevitable. Why read a wall of text when I can have your thoughts on something essentially read to me, along with a much more solid idea of how everything in a game looks. It makes sense.
The execution of video reviews, on the other hand, still leave much to be desired. I hate the "Hands In Front of the Camera" approach, nor do I want nothing more than a shot of your face while you talk about a game. SUASD and Robert Florence's reviews are the only two video review series that I feel is a step in the right direction. The film student in me feels like most video reviewers and their approach is wasted on the medium. Yes, I'm saying there should be an art to it.
Not to come across as a doomsayer, but F:AT really does need to get on board with video reviews in order to survive. When the site went through its redesign a few years back, it was because the site was at an "evolve or die" crossroads. The site sure looks different, the dated Ameritrash word is gone, but the content remains the same. This isn't a knock against Barnes or Matt Thrower or Nate, who are all good writers for sure, but two of those weekly articles (and there used to be a third) are the "Here's everything I've been into" format, which I'm willing to take a guess and say is off-putting to anyone new. These guys are established personalities around these parts, but it's exclusive this crowd, and that crowd seems to be losing numbers faster than it gains them. We can sit here and bitch and moan about video reviews for any number of reasons, but that's not going to change the stone cold fact that we're already behind the curve. Video reviews are no longer the future of journalism in this hobby, it _IS_ journalism in this hobby. Like I said, it's long past due that we adapt because this site is a very, very small vacuum at this point.
Am I the one to do it? I'm not sure. And I understand that not everyone who wants to write can/wants/has time to do videos. And what is that elusive way to do something different? It seems to me that if F:AT were to do more video reviews, they should have a discernible style, something that fits in with the roots of the site, that our content, not being an open forum, means it's a cut above the rest. We have real writers, if we had videos, we should have people who know a thing or two about the medium doing them. And, I hate to say, they should be posted on BGG as well as here. We're not going to increase our audience (which needs to happen) just sitting here by ourselves.
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The film student in me feels like most video reviewers and their approach is wasted on the medium. Yes, I'm saying there should be an art to it.
If these videos have to be done in order to survive as you say in your post then I would feel better if someone who knew something about film would do them.
Maybe you should step up Josh! Are you talking about just directing the videos or are you talking about being the on camera personality as well?
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If this were to happen, I do think that a cohesive style and format would need to be nailed down if it were to have the F:AT name on it.
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Josh Look wrote: The execution of video reviews, on the other hand, still leave much to be desired. I hate the "Hands In Front of the Camera" approach, nor do I want nothing more than a shot of your face while you talk about a game. SUASD and Robert Florence's reviews are the only two video review series that I feel is a step in the right direction. The film student in me feels like most video reviewers and their approach is wasted on the medium. Yes, I'm saying there should be an art to it.
Personally I hated the SUASD videos. And Florence never did anything for me. They're all flash and lacking substance in my opinion.
And that's what keeps me here at this site, it doesn't distract with flash but has a lot more substance.
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If this were to happen, I do think that a cohesive style and format would need to be nailed down if it were to have the F:AT name on it.
Agreed. I propose we form a committee
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