If you're making a gameplay vid:

[naymlis]

Some things I look for in gameplays:

1. The Quality. The best gameplays look better than my tv, use the best quality you can.. size really doesn't matter as long as its under 1gig imo. If its decent quality thats fine too, just don't make it 300x400 res or use widescreen on a fullscreen ratio.

2. Sounds. DO NOT USE MUSIC! I've seen a few gameplays where they put music over their gameplay sounds and it just ruins the whole gameplay.. use ingame sound along with VOICE THROUGH SPEAKERS. Almost all gameplays do not use this for some reason, I DO NOT KNOW WHY.. in some xbox live games the ingame sounds wash over the voice through speakers but halo2 DOES NOT.. you can hear what people say through your TV easily as long as your volume isn't all the way down and they're not whispering. So please, if you make a gameplay use voice through speaker, itll let us hear part of your teamwork (too bad we cant hear your voice too) and listen to the enemies (which can be entertaining).

3. Post Game Report. Scroll through the post game report so we can see all the stats of each player before you stop the video. It's nice to see the kills/death ratio of each player in the game and how well their accuracy was.

4. Do Very Little To NO Editting! I've seen a couple gameplays where they cut out the "boring" parts and they put text over the screen.. this is very annoying, when I watch gameplays I like to watch the WHOLE thing even the boring parts! and I like to watch it like I'm watching their TV screen at the time of the game. If you HAVE to edit it just to edit it, make a intro or something, plz dont touch the game itself, thanks.



That's all I think. I was bored and got tired of the shitty gameplays. Hope to see more gameplays (Halo1 and Halo2).

[fragger1191]

Yeah, I made like 3 of those mistakes for number 1 (ugh widescreen=painful.)

If you can't capture in-game audio, then I would put music over it. Other than that, I completely agree.

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