My Top Five Favorite Types of YouTube Game Content

4. Cheesing

Ah cheesing, it comes in all forms, from camping in a shooter to the apply-named zerg rush of the Starcraft universe. Every game has some form of generally distasteful play that gamers love to label as cheesing. If it’s cheap, easy and effective, it’s most likely considered cheese. In the world of cheese gameplay, no game has a more varied selection that Starcraft. Besides being the only way I know how to win on the ladder, cheesing has become the wildcard of online Starcraft II. Every player must always be ready for some sort of early rush or all-in. Below is a video from the series When Cheese Fails, hosted by SirMaximusblack and Novawar, which focuses on the failures of those who don’t cheese properly.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-3ZrXOrz_0&feature=plcp

This video is a year old and yet still one of my favorites, and to be honest, it would be incredibly boring without their commentary. Still, this is one of the only types of videos that require just as much talent from the commentator as the player, if not more so in this case. With quick wit based in Starcraft knowledge, these two were able to take a really bad and boring cheese failure and turn it into a five minute comedy routine.

5. Fan Fiction

I’ve saved my personal favorite for last and in my opinion the most imaginative use of YouTube as a service for gamers; fan fiction. Gamers have been creating fan fiction for about as long as games have been around, but now thanks to YouTube, anyone with a solid idea can share their fiction with other fans and gamers. Below is Fallout: Nuka Break a fan film created in the Fallout universe that follows Twig in his quest for some Nuka Cola. They received so much support from their first video they adapted it into a series, with a second now being funded through Kickstarter.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9UwlAAnlmg

I would like to note that it was a toss-up between this video or Skyrim 2012 as an example of good fan fiction, but picked Nuka Break because I’m partial to the Fallout universe. Both are well written, well produced pieces of fiction that honestly rival the production quality of any game-to-film translations I’ve seen, not that there was much competition. Maybe the next time some big company wants to turn a game into a movie, they should look to YouTube first.