Yup. The ones that are just a blow by blow recap are not really offering anything valuable. If there are specific chapters with points to make then longer videos can be done but generally I find even then it could benefit from knowing when to cut content.
Warm take: Any video essay longer than 2 hours needs to learn to get to the fucking point
https://youtu.be/BCSeISYcoyI
I dare you to shorten this, never playd the game, never want to, but dam that was a good story
I knew what it was going to be before I clicked it. I’m glad I wasn’t disappointed
Dan Olson: hold my beer.
Some topics do genuinely require more time though. But those can and should be split into well-defined chapters.
I feel like the second video could likely have been condensed a bit
Yup. The ones that are just a blow by blow recap are not really offering anything valuable. If there are specific chapters with points to make then longer videos can be done but generally I find even then it could benefit from knowing when to cut content.
I find most are just 2 hours of takes wrapped around 30 minutes of content.
Behind the Bastards did a 6 part (~6 hr) block on Kissinger that I appreciated
MauLer’s 9h critique of Dark Souls 2