Game Setup Tutorial videos for Streamers
Essentially, a lot of streamers playing games during Variety periods, and this applies a lot to old games, tend to improperly setup the respective games (due to their age or certain things that have to be worked out). Not only that, a lot of streamers don't approach older games correctly, resulting in frustrations, chat backseating and overall an incomplete experience.
For example, Max Payne 3 is a very fickle game:
- It features controls that aren't explained to the player directly (G to roll, Ctrl to sprint, 1 2 3 4 for gun controls, H to switch shoulder),
- The proper way to play the game isn't explained (aiming down the sights 24/7 is not the way to go, hipfiring while being mobile instead has a higher survivability rate due to better FOV aswell as the fact that it's not really inaccurate at all),
- Details like the fact that you have to EXPLORE to find things, instead of going directly into the next checkpoint missing funny optional scenes.
Thus... any big streamer that just boots up the game and goes along to figure it out will not have a complete, enjoyable experience.
My solution? Each game category should have a setup tutorial video, manually selected (NOT BY A BOT.). Essentially, these videos will be a guide for streamers to get the game setup and explain fundamentals of gameplay aswell as details that are important for a perfect experience. They should be SPOILER-FREE, shouldn't hold the streamers hand and obviously... short enough to be digested.
Obviously the issue with this would be introducing videos from the outside (non-twitch staff), but I believe it's worth it. I, for one, am available at all times and if this feature gets voted and accepted, I'd accept any contact from Twitch to set this up, I'll even make a video for Max Payne 3 as the first example. I'm not a good editor but I can make a concise video that explains that game, and it should be a good enough example for other tutorial videos.
I think everyone's encountered this issue with bigger streamers especially, where useful chat info is never read and therefore useful information is never gathered and suddenly, they hit a roadblock that could have been fixed by reading the chat. Obviously, big streamers can't read chat, but this idea should completely resolve that.
Even moreso, maybe include something that advertises this feature, like when a streamer selects a category to stream, a pop-up or atleast notification should appear about wanting to watch the tutorial or not.