A longplay is a play-through of a video game, created with the intent of completing it as fully as possible, mainly for the purposes of nostalgia, preservation, and possibly as a walkthrough. Also, for people who are unable or unwilling to play a certain game, yet wish to know and experience its story, a longplay can be viewed simply as a long digitally animated movie. Unlike speedruns, there is no time constraint aside from those imposed by bandwidth/filesize concerns.[1] Likewise, a longplay is distinct from a Let's Play, in that there tends to be little to no commentary on the game from the player.
The defining characteristic of a longplay is that few shortcuts, if any, are taken to finish the game. Dull moments may be ultimately edited out of the final video, and sidequests may be ignored, but in general every task necessary to reach the end is to be recorded, including cutscenes.[2]
Games may be recorded in several ways: using screencast software, a feature built into an emulator, or via a video capture device connected to a console or another computer. Some games (for example, Doom) have a demo recording feature built into the game.
Neologism statusedit
"Speedrun" and "game replay" emerged in recent years[when?] as a subset of "play-through" and gained popularity by being entertaining and competitive while needing only minutes of video. Video sharing websites accelerated their acceptance. Advances in consumer recording equipment, codecs, hard drive space, and internet services were necessary before complete games could reasonably be saved and shared.
Outside of the communities specializing in the practice, "longplay" is relatively unknown, though understood from context. The ambiguous umbrella term "play-through" is widely used instead.[3]
Historyedit
The term "Longplay" was first introduced by the German computer magazine "64’er – Das Magazin für Computerfans" in the late 1980s. Each issue from 4/89 to 10/94 had a section in which a walkthrough of a more complex or difficult video game was described in detail.[4] These so-called "Longplays" can be considered early printed versions of let's plays, a later form of live commenting while videorecording a video game. In 2002 – before the rise of online video platforms – the German video game documentarist Reinhard Klinksiek started a project in which he wanted to preserve videos of classical video games (mainly for the C64) and make them accessible on the internet.[5] In search for a simple name he adopted the neologistic term "Longplay" from the "64’er" magazines, which he had read as a teenager.[6][7] After the release of more than 600 "longplay"-recordings of classical video games, the term was adopted by the gaming community internationally and is occasionally used by Online-Videogame-Magazines.[8]
^. Recorded Amiga Games. Archived from the original on July 24, 2011. Retrieved March 3, 2008.
^. C64-Longplays. Archived from the original on October 26, 2007. Retrieved February 13, 2008.
^"Google Video-Play-throughs". Retrieved March 3, 2008.
^Matthias Fichtner: »Uridium II« komplett durchgespielt. 64'er-Longplay. in: 64’er – Das Magazin für Computerfans. Heft 4/89, pp. 166-171.
^. Archived from the original on February 15, 2004. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
^Heinrich Lenhardt: "RETRO REPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND". In: CHIP – COMMODORE 64. EIN KULT-COMPUTER WIRD 30. München 2012. pp. 127-128.
^"Interview of Reinhard Klinksiek on kultboy.com". Retrieved January 18, 2017.
^"Revisit all your old gaming favorites with YouTube longplays". TechGenMag.com. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
External linksedit
World of Longplays (main website)
LongplayArchive (YouTube)
April 27, 2024
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