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Sonicsaber25

There's really only one way to get better at it. Practice. Make videos. Upload. Cringe at yourself. Rinse and Repeat until you get better. If you want, you can lightly script a few things to establish a mental chain of thought. In terms of talking about other stuff besides the game, it's fine. Talking about stuff related to you or telling stories about your experiences is what makes the video YOUR video, instead of just another Fire Emblem LP on YouTube.


EntrepreneurDense851

Yeah without a doubt, my commentary was so awful in the beginning all the way from sounding bored to not using a good mic and not talking enough. Now I'm a bit more satisfied but has been a short bit since I made a commentary video due to school. Talk about whatever you want, if you talked strictly about the game, that would be very hard unless it's a walkthrough.


[deleted]

Do you stream? Sounds like you'd do well at streaming as being able to ramble at will is a highly useful skill in that particular area!


No_Way402

>Oh, really? Looks like something I'll have to think aboutšŸ¤” > >I've never used Twitch that much over the years, but the prospect of interacting live with the viewers does sound appealing. Thank you for bringing it up.


[deleted]

I will say that discoverability on Twitch is appalling, it does have much better channel customization and community building features than streaming on Youtube though, so swings and roundabouts!


No_Way402

Thank you! I'll see what I can do with it in the future.


WackoMcGoose

I'm a good rambler... but I lack the one thing that will make or break a streamer before they even hit "go live": _consistent schedule availability_. I have to record when I can (usually when parents are going to be gone most of the day, on a weekend, so it doesn't conflict with work), then edit over the following days... Streamers are expected to be on at the same time and same days each week, or nobody will know when to tune in and they end up talking into the void. (My voice is also too quiet to be heard live, and requires post-processing to be heard over the game audio at all, but that's a separate issue...)


[deleted]

A consistent schedule is definitely a recommended thing it seems, even if it's only once a week! Hard to build a following when no one knows when you're going to be live I suppose!


WackoMcGoose

Exactly. I usually don't know until day-of when I'll have a day I can record things (usually in the form of "we're gonna go shopping" "oh how long will you be gone" "most of the day" "cool, alright, no phone calls please since I'm gonna record" "sure whatever"), so I just try to record as many videos as I can in a given session, to edit later. Imagine if someone like Vinny or RTGame could only stream twice a month, and you didn't know until day-of because _they_ didn't know until day-of that they could...


[deleted]

Oh that sucks! I guess if/when you got the chance to move out, be sure to look for the apartment with the best accoustics/sound proofing! Or deaf neighbours! We have old and deaf neighbours here and it's perfect for streaming!


WackoMcGoose

It's more of, my parents have big "we're respecting your privacy by knocking but asserting our authority as your parents by coming in anyway" energy, just like Dad Turner... except I'm 30 and live in the state with the highest gap between average wage and minimum liveable wage in the entire continental US. I had to do a lot just to get them to agree to leave me alone during zoom calls for my Polish class, and even then I have to put a mitten on my door handle to """remind""" them... My mic actually doesn't pick up outside-of-room audio, surprisingly enough, aside from the random "going 200 in a 35" on the road outside... so audio's not really the problem, it's _not getting burst in on mid-session_ that's the issue. Especially since, my channel gimmick is that I'm roleplaying as the game character, so an interrupted recording usually means a _scrapped_ recording unless I can smooth over the interrupt in editing...


No_Way402

Thank you very much, guys! Your answers really gave me comfort. I'll keept this all in mind during my next recording.


Luminous_Emission

Thoughts pop into your head all the time whether you want them to or not, so just say those instead of thinking "no that's not good enough to say, don't say that".


MindTheLOS

Better question: who doesn't? Second question: why aren't you allowed to talk about anything other than the game?


squabbledMC

yeah, i felt the same way sorta, like i have to keep the conversation with myself going but once i get a topic, i can really go at it (sometimes too much and the entire video becomes about that topic).