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Name for a "Let's Play"

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kaos_cracker

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I hate how I'm asking this on here as my friends don't really have any ideas so I'm just gonna put this here in off topic.

But does anyone have any ideas for a YouTube series that isn't "Let's Play." I think that is generally a bad name and most people that tend to do it I find super annoying and talk over the entire game. I'm just doing videos of me playing through my backlog of games and trying to think of a name for it.

Right now the ideas I have are "Backlog Quest," "Endurance Run," The Backlog," Flashback." Any suggestions would be nice and if this doesn't belong in these forums then sorry for wasting your time.

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Generally I've seen "Let's Plays" without commentary called "Long Plays" but it's just a name some dude came up with it's not like there's a council on such things. I kind of like "The Backlog".

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You should probably still use let's play branding in some way until you get some sort of following, it's just a good idea to use established terms to make it easy for people to find and understand the type of content you are making.

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I wouldn't go with Endurance Run, even if to you, you are using the name as a sort of tip of the hat towards Giant Bomb, other people may see it as you wanting to rip it off for views, plus it could be confusing later down the road for people who watch the ER's on YouTube.

I mean, the point of a Lets Play is to talk over the game, that's sort of its thing.
There is also of course Walkthrough, but then again that is probably not accurate if its you just going about it at your own pace.
I agree with @citizencoffeecake The Backlog is cool, it pinpoints what you are doing, and if it ever takes off its a pretty identifiable name and something many people can relate too.

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Thanks for the feedback guys, so far The Backlog is what I was going to use. It may take time to get recognized but oh well, I need an excuse to play these games.