New format idea for Scary/Punishingly difficult game playthroughs

Hey all, I was kinda inspired by the Game of Death article and someone saying in the comments how great a 'Spook Look' style quicklook would be and an idea for a format came immediately to mind and I think it would be really entertaining and fun (more for the viewers probably :D ). Imagine if you will...

A single GB staffer playing a scary game alone in a dark room, the stream/video shows the game screen as well as a small webcam style shot of the staff member's face lit only by the light of the monitor (or IRNV for an even cooler effect) at the bottom of the screen. This way not only would we be able to watch along with the game we could enjoy the reactions to jump scares or the cries of anguish when the game crushes them (Dark Souls anyone?). Setting this up with the multicast stuff shouldn't be too difficult for console and could easily be reproduced with software on the PC.

What do people think?

Amazing! Love it love it love it.

Seems like a cool idea. I would definitely watch that.

Sounds like it would be a pretty fun video to watch.

itd be reeeeeeeeeaallllly boring... Sorry dude. think about it, 3 hrs of watching someones face and then at best you get a funny reaction from a jump scarE?

Sounds like a cool idea, maybe you could get a heartrate monitor going too?

@SamFo: I'm sure you'd see the game screen as well as the player's face in a split screen :).

I'd do this to myself just to have a laugh xD. When I played Dead Space, I'd have a weird "Whoa whoa whoa!" laugh-scream-like reaction at all the jump scares.

But there's already a feature called Breaking Brad.

Great idea. They should get Brad to play Amnesia.

I think given the fear gauntlet and breaking bad this niche is sort of covered by content they already provide. We got to hear Brad's mental degradation, and the interns have had their fare share of genuine frights. The resident evil 2 playthrough, in particular towards the beginning, had them scared in a way that would ultimately be a similar payoff to your idea, just with far less wasted video time.

Isn't that what Bodega and Lemon have been doing for the past two months?

@ReaganStein said:

I think given the fear gauntlet and breaking bad this niche is sort of covered by content they already provide. We got to hear Brad's mental degradation, and the interns have had their fare share of genuine frights. The resident evil 2 playthrough, in particular towards the beginning, had them scared in a way that would ultimately be a similar payoff to your idea, just with far less wasted video time.

I'm only suggesting it as a format for these style of videos and I don't really get what you mean by 'wasted video time'. I'm not suggesting this as a whole new type of video, just a particular way to do the existing types of video.

I would love it.