https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLAu1Cy9_SQ
As usual, Sumoning Salt has a massive video documentation about a games world record achievements. Its a long video, but very well narrated and put together. I personally recommend watching the video at 1.4x playback speed, if not at least 1.25 times. The video opens with Mark Cerny, the head of Playstation, being the first who did a speedrun on the game Spyro.
There are no timestamps at the moment. If they are added to the video, then I will update this post with the timestamps for listing purposes (if I notice them later).
100% agreed, it feels like Salt makes his videos and then slows it down by at least 25%. When playing at 1.25 times it feels totally natural. A higher speed is perfectly fine even, since the information density is very low.
I know a lot of people like to do some drugs and vibe out to Salt videos, but it kind of annoys me. The length of his videos have gotten longer and longer and I feel like the quality has went down some. Not bad, but not as good as it once was. And the low information density and slow speed definitely contributes to that.
But that’s my personal view, other people might feel differently. The vids are still good, so it doesn’t matter all that much.
I don’t know how far you compare, as I only know him since I saw the Tetris video (with the great reveal part). He is not the only one that speaks lot slow, there is at least one another YouTuber (in a different context, but still gaming). Initially I suspected they slowdown videos to get longer playtime. But maybe not.