Live play such as YouTuber greatly contributes to preservation of game culture, the history
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' Live Play ', in which players play live video games and put them in movies, is one of YouTube's most popular genres, and its charisma YouTuber ' PewDiePie ', which has 95 million subscribers at the time of writing, is the most famous game It is known as one of live broadcasters. Such a live-play movie actually contributed significantly to the preservation of the culture and history of video games, said Chris Wallace, a writer for the game information media Rock, Paper, Shotgun .
How YouTube let's plays are preserving video game history | Rock Paper Shotgun
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/05/06/how-youtube-lets-plays-are-preserving-video-game-history/
◆ The play video has recorded the simple pleasure that people feel from video games
According to Wallace, live-play does not store video games themselves as software, but plays a role in preserving the culture and history created by video games.
Ken McAlister, founder of the international project ' Learning Games Initiative ', which archives video games, also supports Wallace's opinion, and 'Walkthrough' is an indispensable two for preserving cultural history. It says that it is worthy of the following materials . In particular, for movies that explain the game with the player's own voice and video, it is valuable to know 'what impression and influence the contents of the game have on people through the face and voice of the person playing the game'. It will be a good source of information.
The following movie is given by Wallace as an example. The movie, ' Soapy Warpig woman named' YouTuber is, the game 'of the PlayStation 4 (PS4) for PT to play' from the beginning to the end ' Playthrough has state is housed in (through play)'.
World first Silent Hills PT Demo reveal-Full playthrough from Twitch-YouTube
'PT' is a horror game that Konami delivered for PS4 for free, and it became a hot topic at the time of its release with its fear and novelty, but as of 2019 delivery has ended. For this reason, the only way to find out what kind of game PT is, is basically to watch the play video.
In addition, since the movie contains not only the game screen but also the player's voice and the comments of the viewer watching the live distribution, it is possible to know what kind of impression people have on the game etc. It is not.
There are not a few of the play videos posted on YouTube that were prepared in advance to be scripted and rehearsed to receive viewers, or edited only interesting parts, but in this movie It seems like it does not seem to take a particularly big reaction, it contains everything that is playing lightly. Among these seemingly sober movies, Wallace is paying particular attention to the end of the game.
The game takes on a different scene from the main game in the haunted house, and women will repeatedly mumble as 'Oh My God'.
Then, when the name of the world-renowned game designer
After that, the movie is over when the ending is reached while talking in quick succession with 'Crazy' and 'That was insane.'
According to Wallace, this simple joy and excitement is the most important source of video game culture.
Also, Jerome McDunner, Associate Professor of the University of Illinois Information Department, said, 'The reason why people are attracted to games such as' Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG) 'is often a game. There is a human pattern to be developed. ' What appears in the MMORPG is basically not a pre-programmed NPC , but a character manipulated by a real player. For this reason, even if you archive game source code and logs, it is not possible to completely reproduce the state of conversations and communications that occurred in the game later. However, if the state of the MMORPG actually played remains as a play video, the interactions developed in real time in the game can be recorded as it is.
◆ The play video is destined to be deleted without any notice
However, there are legally sensitive rights issues with YouTube play videos. Examples of video game rights owners who are tolerant of play video include ' Serious Sam 3: BFE ' and ' Devolver Digital ', a video game publisher known as ' Hotline Miami '. The 'Devolver Digital' site has an input form for registering Twitch and YouTube channels and obtaining permission to monetize the distribution of play videos using the company's games.
On the other hand, there have been cases where game makers have been confronted directly with YouTuber. In September 2017, the developer, Campo Santo, developed the above-mentioned 'PewDiePie' because it used racist language while distributing the play video of the adventure game ' Firewatch '. We have asked 'PewDiePie' to delete it under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), forcing us to delete the movie.
'This kid is very happy to make money with what we created,' said Mr. Banaman, a game designer at Campo Santo, on his Twitter.
I am sick of this child getting more and more chances to make money off of what we make.
— Sean Vanaman (@vanaman) September 10, 2017
Receiving this, 'PewDiePie' has released an apology movie entitled 'My Response' and deleted the requested movie from the YouTube channel.
My Response-YouTube
The turmoil evolved into a temporary fire on the comments section of the Firewatch Steam store page . If you look at the graph showing the progress of the review on the Steam store page, you can see that a large number of 'not-popular' have been concentrated as late as they were released in September 2017.
Wallace says, 'Even if it is a play video that has gained fan support, it will suddenly disappear due to some problems,' highlighting how difficult it is to leave the culture and history of video games in the future. doing.
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