How about the 3.75 hours essay of the causes of Mario 64 invisible walls?
I have that exact video paused right now. So detailed and fascinating. I love that he added moments of speedrunners hitting many of them.
The funniest speedrunner clip was definitely the one where they accidentally clipped out of bounds and died in Snowman’s Land
This comic came to mind when I was watching that video the other day. But it’s not full 4 hours, it’s about Mario 64 not Mario Kart and it’s only tangentially related to speedrunning, so in your face, last place comics!
Wait what video? I would legit watch this, very fond memories as a kid playing Deus Ex after finding it at a thrift shop for $1 the year after it came out.
Hbomberguy has a 3,5 hours one about why Deus ex human revolution is okish and the original great. So spoiler for human revolution, but if you played both it will definitely scratch that itch:
I do also love YourFavoriteSon’s 3hr20 retrospective on the whole series, Gingy’s 2h18 story breakdown of the series as well as NeverKnowBest’s 2h10 retrospective on the whole series!
(Love a good long-form video essay on videogames lol)
Warlockracy has a 2.5 hour video on the original game, and another hour long video on a fan made sequel using the original engine.
Is this a real video?
Hbomberguy did a 3h+ video on Deus ex a couple of years ago, I think I remember it being pretty good
Not exactly 3.5 hours, but I very much recommend Ross Scott’s take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxOKEsBx4NU
No i have to watch ever youtube review of death stranding.
Y’all need to get your priorities straight.
When did YouTube rambles become essays? I’ve seen this a few times now. Dont call them essays! Its just people talking endlessly about things they often know very little about but make it sound convincing.
Its like AI really!
A 3 hour video on a subject is, in fact, an essay. The presenter, presumably, wrote the essay, and is now reading it out to you and offering it in video or audio format.
IMO many of the longer videos, could have been way shorter, but are made longer just to make them longer
Then…don’t watch long format videos?
I dont but i expect its ok to express my opinion about them nonetheless
No one is stopping you.
to talk about something for even an hour requires much more than just “i like this thing”, and an analysis of why you like the thing does make the script of a video an essay. It could be a critical essay, it could be an opinion essay, but it’s an essay nonetheless
IMO YouTubers are great at spending hours explaining something that should and could have taken 10 minutes
