The Gaming Historian

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I love Norm. Seems like a very nice guy and his content and delivery is top notch. Seems he's gone full time making Vids too so plenty more to come from him.

Roar wrote: »

The amount of research and work he puts into his videos is insane. Really enjoyable video.

Indeed, hard to not watch an entire episode when you start it playing

I'm legit impressed someone actually managed to bring new information to the Mario 2/Doki Doki shtick.

I really enjoy his work, found him very recently so I'm catching up with his videos. What I do find is that in some of his first videos, his pace was very slow, maybe too slow, but it does not look like that in the most recent ones.

Corholio wrote: »

The Tengen-Atari video is outstanding to be honest, didn't know about 90% of what he said before.

Is it just me, or does he have a hypnotically fantastic voice for narrating videos?

My wife says the same. And she hates watching these retro video game videos with me, but she likes Norm. She also loves Clint's voice on Lazy Game Reviews, she says it's unbelievably relaxing.

Looks like a very interesting episode, will watch it tonight for sure.

It's more of a cost / time thing really. I don't think most people realise how much work is required in researching and editing videos like these.

Research, writing script and footage acquisition is about 3 to 5 hours per minute of videos.
For editing alone, count 1:30 to 3 hours of editing per minute of final video.

So all in all, for a 10 min video you end up with 45 to 80 hours of work. that's between 6 and 10 full days 8 hours of work ... i'm actually being super conservative here because you need to add sound and color correction and final mastering. It's a TON of work, even for a simple videos.

Since it's his full time job now, he needs to make minimum wage per video and on longer videos he simply wouldn't be able to reach that. I think he's also got a researcher and someone making the drawings for him that he needs to pay.

LGR had the same issues a while back, that's why he's outputting a lot of shorter or far less researched videos nowadays. Same with Retromancave or the Nostalgia Nerd who slowly are moving away from those "history of " type of content to more casual, unscripted stuff. It's an inevitable consequence of going full time into youtube and realising you have to suddenly account for your minimum wage / hour salary

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I'd much rather the well researched videos than the utter garbage quick fix videos like Did You Know Gaming. Latest one about the Saturn is out with lots of incorrect facts such as Sega adding a second processor to try and compete with the Playstation which has been confirmed as complete nonsense.

You get what you pay for & youtube is free content. You should never take a single video at face value anyway.
If you like specific creators, you should support their work actively.

it was amazing yeah. watched it a few times at this point.
But I talked to him about it a while back and he essentially lost money making this one although he'd admit it brought and still is bringing a lot of subscribers to his channel

^^ watched it there, brilliant as always. Having never played any of the Spyro games, I kinda 'get' the hype around it now after the video put it in context for me