This guide will show you what you need to record high-quality Let's Play game videos and give you some step-by-step instructions for recording and editing them.
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Your first step in creating a Let's Play video is obvious: choosing the right game to record. If you make your gaming video for fun and to share with some others, you will probably choose your favorite games. But if you plan to monetize your videos, you'll want to think about what games will attract attention and draw an audience.
The games you record as you play should be visually interesting in some way — even if it's because of how terrible the graphics are, for example. You want to avoid games that are very repetitive as these can bore your viewers.
Extremely popular games have many videos dedicated to them on YouTube, to the point that YouTube is saturated with them. New gameplay videos of Minecraft, for example, will have a very hard time getting noticed for two reasons. First, your Minecraft video faces competition from thousands, if not tens of thousands (or even more) of other Minecraft videos out there. It is very difficult to get noticed in this sea of videos.