Hello,
   Not sure if this is the right place to discuss this, but being in
the social realm of video, perhaps this might interest some of you.

Being a fan of play-by-play videogame commentary, I've noticed Youtube
user "SeaNanners" doing something pretty fascinating:

TITLE: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2: Gameplay Videos / Modern
Warfare 2: SeaNanners - 3rd Person Demolition: Nuke Without
Killstreaks (MW2 Gameplay)
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHlUA022jOk

If you're a fan of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, what you see
on-screen are details you'd always want to know when watching someone
play a round. It's one of the more elaborate and clever ways of
showing highlighting key information outside of a player's HUD.

In the larger sense, I've been observing how videogames commentary
would mirror that of broadcast sporting events... complete with
on-screen templates showing scores and other vital statistics. While
such video game commentary tends to be taken more seriously in places
like South Korea and Germany, I'm intrigued to see America's take on
the adaptation from videogame participation (for a few players) to
spectatorship (for a mass of 'passive' viewers). There's room for
creativity here.

Have any of you seen interesting video game commentary formats such as
the one I showed above?

Perhaps more videogames should allow players to export their gameplay
as Youtube videos.
(Halo 3 did have built-in video replayer of sorts... but doesn't
output as video)


Kevin Lim
Cyberculturalist
http://theory.isthereason.com
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