I watched the Shooters and Indies video to give this a chance and within a minute it became super clear to me that these are not good videos. To be quick about what doesn't work: the hosts and the voiceover script don't add anything because most of what they're saying is just reading the premise of the game, and the audio isn't very good and it was clearly done in one take (lots of uhs and pauses). The times they weren't reading the premise they largely just mentioned that someone on their staff had played the game at some point. There doesn't seem to be any quality control in terms of the games they covered. Several of the games don't seem like they're actually 2016 releases, just games that got listed on some list somewhere as being 2016 with no connection to reality. Most of the video clips seemed to just be spliced together from trailer footage kinda willy-nilly (so the voiceover doesn't really have anything to do with what we're looking at)--the most notable example was Mafia III, where they were very clearly discussing the CG teaser for the game while we watched gameplay footage which had nothing to do with what they were saying. It seems like the approach a bad GAF poster who was crunked up on hype juice would take.
Kinda seems like the epitome of the YouTube generation of gaming content: just producing crap for the sake of producing crap, no effort into curating or coming up with something interesting to say.
I know this is old man screams at cloud stuff because everyone loves this personality-driven gaming coverage, but that's my honest take on it.
They usually do exactly what you're talking about with their reviews, previews, and lists. The overarching banner of "Ultimate Game Preview" can be misleading, I guess. It's more an inverse of that "games that might suck" list, as in these are the games that they're looking forward to and expect to cover, not detailed previews into the games within. If you watch the first one (racing and fighting), the first thing they do is talk about how they did the sort of thing that you're talking about last year and it was 'dry', as you would expect with a scripted video of this length hitting as many games as they cover.
To each his own, but if I'm going to watch video content about games, I'd rather hear a naturalistic conversation with all that entails than a dispassionate book report masquerading as a video. I'm with you about 98% of the time on personality-based video content, but Gametrailers is my one exception because they do a mix of the kind of content that you're talking about with the stuff like this where they don't pretend that what they're covering demands some incredible degree of sanctity.
But yeah, they're not their most finely honed videos, and you certainly picked the worst one to start with as someone who isn't familiar with them. 'Racing and Fighting' sounds closer to what you're looking for.
*ducks under flaming Mafia 3 car spinning into a mid-air explosion after being t-boned*
