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miscellaneous14 posted:Also he wanted to move to New York to be with his girlfriend. Not a huge deal, and both him as well as the Game Grumps channel have been putting out good quality videos ever since. Oh okay, fair enough. I just haven't watched any of their videos for months so I was just a bit confused is all. e: For content, here's one of those Minecraft LPers. Calls himself Pausoaresjr. He's alright, pretty much the same as all the other ones except he has a series of tutorials for the game which I found pretty cool. Also, it helps that he doesn't (didn't? I haven't watched any of his videos in a while either) do the whole zany wacky random/a million offensive quips a second thing. The worst thing I ever did to my little brother was show him these videos (and other LPs). He used to go outside and play sports. 
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I didn't MIND Jon in Game Grumps, but I will admit that Danny Sexbang bounces off Egoraptor way better, and provokes less nostalgia boners than Jon did. And when you provoke a nostalgia boner from Egoraptor, he becomes INSUFFERABLE.
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I just wish Retsupurae still got hate mail like it used to. Let's Play: The Play was fun as hell.
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So whenever the subject of off-site LPs comes up, I always can't help but bring up "Video Games Awesome!" http://www.youtube.com/user/farfromsubtle?feature=g-high-u I'm going to imagine just the header image for their channel put some people off, but honestly, I love these guys' content. They have good chemistry and they do a surprisingly good job showing off the games they play. While the fact that they have themselves on screen the whole time might seem a little off-putting, the whole operation is a lot less ego-driven than it at first appears. Fraser (the one in the hat, who is the one playing the game 99% of the time) has gone on record saying he tries to make sure the games are the star of the show, and while they occasionally go off on weird tangents of their own, it's usually only to fill space during dull moments. Fraser even maintains his own bizarro version of the three-month rule. When a game comes out, they'll do a handful of videos as a "First Look," but then wait a month or so to allow people to play the games themselves before they continue. All their videos are recorded from live streams, and 95% of the time, the games are played blind. This actually creates an interesting dynamic where Fraser will get stuck and ask the stream chat (which is cleverly kept on-screen at all times) for help. It's an interesting system because it allows all the fun of first-time reactions while at the same time ensuring they're almost never stuck too long. The biggest complaint people (particularly from SA) tend to have about the show is that they find Fraser grating. While he does ham it up a bit on the show...I dunno, it grows on you is all I can say. His high energy serves the purpose of pulling his companions out of their shells and getting them talking, as one gets the sense they'd be pretty quiet without him around. And yeah, they wear costumes. They've done so ever since Fraser played a clip of another YouTube Let's Play show where the people where costumes and Becky latched onto the idea. Becky's actually really drat good at making costumes and a lot of effort goes into them. In fact, while we've never been given a full behind-the-scenes, it's clear Fraser puts a lot of effort into the video and audio mixing of the show, with a very complex system being used to pull off their multi-screen green-screen setup (which, remember, is being streamed live). I watch these guys as much (if not sometimes more than) I watch regular Let's Plays. For a YouTube channel of nothing but stream uploads, they're probably one of the highest-effort examples you'll find.
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Rocketlex posted:So whenever the subject of off-site LPs comes up, I always can't help but bring up "Video Games Awesome!" It should also be mentioned that people pay $50 to be in the on-screen chat.
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whitehelm posted:It should also be mentioned that people pay $50 to be in the on-screen chat. Eh. It's essentially a donation system for fans, created as a reaction to the very real concern that their ad revenue (which Fraser and Becky live on) could be pulled at any moment over copyright issues. To their credit, they don't push it at all, especially now that professional Game Video Making has become more of a "thing" on YouTube and the threat of it disappearing overnight is getting less and less likely.
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kalonZombie posted:I didn't MIND Jon in Game Grumps, but I will admit that Danny Sexbang bounces off Egoraptor way better, and provokes less nostalgia boners than Jon did. Yes, Egoraptor tell me again about how old games didn't need tutorials and how modern games suck because they do, while you gently caress around not knowing what to do for 20 minutes AGAIN. Tutorials were created for people like YOU Egoraptor! Egoraptor being a complete idiot about old games is why I stopped watching a while ago.
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:If you still have one of them lying around, this would be a great place to show it off. Looking at them again I suppose maybe they have missed the concept of an archive and think all of the authors live in a house together and all read these emails. drat english lacking a plural/singular 'you': quote:hey i have a question about wild arms 5 that i really hope you can answer. i want to know how to get to the final pillar boss in northwest filgaia, your lets play guide dont say how to get to the boss, it only says how to defeat it. quote:Hi there, quote:Subject: Questions regarding FF 3 glitch quote:Subject: About PE2 walkthrough.. quote:Hello, Side Note: I've actually had multiple requests for those broken pokemon games. Not particularly funny but there you go. Mostly I post the ones crazy enough to be amusing in the sandcastle, I could always repost them here.
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Rocketlex posted:So whenever the subject of off-site LPs comes up, I always can't help but bring up "Video Games Awesome!" I don't really watch them, though it's worth linking this amazing audio bug they ran into while livestreaming Ducktales Remastered. It's probably one of my new favorite game bugs.
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baldurk posted:Not particularly funny but there you go. Mostes I post the ones crazy enough to be amusing in the sandcastle, I could always repost them here. Please do. They can be easily missed in the sandcastle.
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Oct 12, 2013 09:44
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Guess it's time to fire up the ol' prewritten response and forward to a lot of people.
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Rocketlex posted:So whenever the subject of off-site LPs comes up, I always can't help but bring up "Video Games Awesome!" Another thing worth remembering about VGA is that they started as a sketch comedy based on video games, then transitioned to the live stream format, so there's probably a bit of holdover from those early days in their style. I still recommend checking out at least one of their streams - find something you'd watch a Something Awful LP of; they've done so many that there has to be one - and give it a video or two to draw you in. They're a really entertaining crew, and they give the games they're playing, as well as the audience, the respect they deserve. They've got a system (which sounds stupid but at least seems to work) for people in the chat to signal that they absolutely know what they're talking about and giving valid hints, so when they get stuck and need to turn to the chat for help, it gets them past the block most of the time and it's generally more amusing than watching them stumble around and fail constantly. If you're not completely tired of the game itself yet, their Rhythm Heaven Fever stream was pretty good until they hit Remix 10. They let each player have a turn at each game, and one of them (possibly because he always went last) managed to do really well in most of the games even without practice. The game itself is fun to watch, so I think it's a pretty fair showing of their general entertainment quality.
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Nidoking posted:Another thing worth remembering about VGA is that they started as a sketch comedy based on video games, then transitioned to the live stream format, so there's probably a bit of holdover from those early days in their style. I still recommend checking out at least one of their streams - find something you'd watch a Something Awful LP of; they've done so many that there has to be one - and give it a video or two to draw you in. They're a really entertaining crew, and they give the games they're playing, as well as the audience, the respect they deserve. They've got a system (which sounds stupid but at least seems to work) for people in the chat to signal that they absolutely know what they're talking about and giving valid hints, so when they get stuck and need to turn to the chat for help, it gets them past the block most of the time and it's generally more amusing than watching them stumble around and fail constantly. The only problem I have had with them recently is with longer more complicated games (i.e. Puzzle games or adventure games) It gets annoying to watch them stumble around for 20 mins ignoring what (at least seems to me) the obvious answer while Fraser gets pissed off and then spend another 10-20 mins trying to explain how ether it should be that "complicated" or how the game is somehow at fault. I do Like there Minecraft Awesome and some of there earlier streams.
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miscellaneous14 posted:I don't really watch them, though it's worth linking this amazing audio bug they ran into while livestreaming Ducktales Remastered. It's probably one of my new favorite game bugs. They did have a great ending for their Four Swords Adventures LP. After spending around 90 minutes on the last level, one of them accidently unplugs his GBA during the scoring causing the game to reset.
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Eulisker posted:Please do. They can be easily missed in the sandcastle. I get a lot of emails that are just some youtube guy wanting more publicity, or stuff like that. Interestingly of late I've had some people wanting like kickstarter publicity or something who are obviously just spamming any remotely gaming related website. I have a folder that's called "Dumb poo poo" where I keep anything from the predictable: hello, an L.P. hosting request posted:i would be indubitebly obliged if you would host the first part of my No More Heroes LP (I do not have a something awful forums account but I am savvy to the "scene", per say) to the insane: HELP! posted:ya can u help me with the death mark 2 boss its so hard each time I hit it it goes back to ful health ples HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( I deleted quite a lot of !s here) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to the confusing: Unsubscribe posted:Hi or this classic crazy-person-email: so many questions...archive logins? interaction? etc posted:does the archive really have to be only a passive archive? This is the "I invented LP" email referenced earlier in the thread. The Awesome Incarnate posted:Subject: Requesting Reply Regarding "First" Video Let's Player, Official Proof Herein Provided as Requested....
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quote:if you are chained to them, is it by need or by desire? Man, this is so awkwardly worded.
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quote:Hi This made me laugh so extremely hard but I still can't figure out what it means, it's confusing on so many levels.
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One LPer I really like is SupaGoGoMan or A Guy Named Kim Who Isn't Korean. He's puts a lot of effort into his let's plays and really tries to make his videos be interesting. His latest LPs were of Shenmue and Shenmue 2, where he manages to make both be very interesting, instead of the borefest that Shenmue sometimes end up being. He's done other LPs of Dino Crisis and Star Fox Assault as well. Overall, very good and informative.
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The young man walks up to the podium in his old suit. Looking over the audience, he says "My name is The Awesome Incarnate, formerly known as OwnageIncBFinch on YouTube."
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Lazyfire posted:A while back I did a Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter LP that shows some 1000 views on the first video and ended with less than 100 by the last video. Yeah I've had pretty much the same thing with all my LPs I've done so far, huge spike of like 1k viewers or something on my first Halo 1 video before it just dropping not to even half that from thereafter and then it has just repeated itself afterwards. I've just come to accept that as a thing really. ApeHawk posted:1 minute intros... ugh. A thing I am kinda guilty of doing.  Even if doing the intros for the HAWX 2 LP in particularly was probably some of the most fun I had with that since I did my utmost best to make them sync up somewhat with the music in line with the actual show intros I used.
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Slowbeef posted:But that said, yeah, there's some serious downtime in there. Maybe I should try editing that. I like the new Alone in the Dark videos, but I skipped past all of the books after the first one. There's also the segment with the woman at the beginning, showing off her opening sequence as well as the game over cutscene, and there's also the cutscenes of the characters walking all the way through the mansion to reach the attic before the player actually starts the game, which could have been cut out. The actual gameplay is really fun to watch, especially with the clunky animations and the goofy enemy designs, but these videos could be cut to half the length if they weren't meant to be showing off everything. I cut out loading screens as well as other parts that harm the pacing in the videos I've done, because I can't stand it when a video is wasting my time. I understand why a video game would have loading screens or backtracking, but it's not something the audience needs to see. E: Maybe it wouldn't work with the longplay format, since you'd either be editing the videos before both of you comment on them, or afterwards, and end up removing some of your commentary. Since I prefer post commentary, I can go through the video and change what I want before recording over it, but for live commentary or group commentary, that might not be practical. That Fucking Sned fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Oct 12, 2013 |
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LeafyOrb posted:Yes, Egoraptor tell me again about how old games didn't need tutorials and how modern games suck because they do, while you gently caress around not knowing what to do for 20 minutes AGAIN. It's not just that. It's that he goes "back in those days developers knew that..." while completely ignoring that there were just as many, if not MORE, bad games that did not explain themselves back then. Yes, Mega Man X was really good and it taught you all this poo poo you're supposed to do and that you can do and yadda yadda yadda. But let's take a game made around the same time... Mario's Time Machine. Both were made in 1993. Mario Is Missing is an awful game for many reasons, but least of which is that it doesn't explain itself very well. Like... at all. MechWarrior also fails to explain itself pretty well. And Shadowrun. Long story short, GAME DEVELOPERS DID NOT REALLY KNOW ABOUT TEACHING THROUGH DOING BACK THEN. The Mega Man games were an exception, as well as most well-known SNES/Genesis games back in the day. Yeah, games tend to hold your hand a little bit these days, but aside from a few gems, most games back in the NES/SNES/Genesis era were either simple platformers or "read the manual or lose, shitlord".
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That loving Sned posted:I like the new Alone in the Dark videos, but I skipped past all of the books after the first one. There's also the segment with the woman at the beginning, showing off her opening sequence as well as the game over cutscene, and there's also the cutscenes of the characters walking all the way through the mansion to reach the attic before the player actually starts the game, which could have been cut out. I stole a page from Chip Cheezum and did "Reading ends after" callouts to see how it works. AitD is actually a pretty short game it turns out. Honestly, though, these are still nowhere near the LPs done by Malorie... maybe I should advertising those in them. I never really gave a lot of thought to wrongpuraes outside of "they are fun to do" until now.
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One LPer I think is worth mentioning is OverTheGun. He does a bunch of games and is pretty calm, doesn't record his face (apart from on blip, which he promptly stopped if I recall rightly) and doesn't talk about anything personal during his videos - he keeps them focused on the game, which is a huge plus personally. He has videos like 'Indiegestion' where he'll play about half an hour of and indie game, or 'Retrospecs' where he'll play something older, and then just regular playthroughs. He has some negatives. Some people can't understand his accent very well (Yorkshire) and he has dropped a few LPs without explaining in the past. He doesn't really adhere to the three month rule, but then again I don't think he visits SA so I doubt he knows of it. Some videos can be hit or miss. I'm sure there are others but I just can't think of any off the top of my head. Still, I find him pretty funny and sometimes his reactions to things can be golden. When he messes up he doesn't blame it on the game, just admits to slipping up. He's pretty good at video games especially FPS' and really enjoys playing everything he does. All in all he's just a joy to watch for me, and I hope I'm not missing anything out. Here's an example picked at random if you fancy it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OduukuVSONI
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Slowbeef whatever happened to Kings Quest 7? I guess it was just too boring. I really liked the longplay commentary for KQ5 and 6, but 7 was just... not worth it. That's the best way I can describe it.
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Slowbeef posted:I stole a page from Chip Cheezum and did "Reading ends after" callouts to see how it works. AitD is actually a pretty short game it turns out. Actually it's a trend with a lot of old games I've noticed. Games are really short if you know exactly what you're doing. Probably why the Done-Quick (Not sure what that speed runner groups goes by) guys do what they do.
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That loving Sned posted:I like the new Alone in the Dark videos It might seem odd that the authors and publishers are narrated, but for the most part, they aren't just flavor text. The author names are mostly shout-outs to the developers -- like in today's video, Hubertus the Bald is Hubert Chardot, the game's writer; Yael is Yaél Barroz, one of the graphic designers. The publishers are sometimes more significant to the plot than the text itself -- the allusion to the Hesperides is a major clue about the mystery of Pregzt, for example. I do hope the longplayer includes more deaths than just the one, some of them are funny. He should at least the read the forbidden books. Edit: Also, any plans on doing the other AitD games? 2 is incredibly silly, what with its zombie gangster pirates with Tommy guns. Qotile Swirl fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Oct 12, 2013 |
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Zain posted:Actually it's a trend with a lot of old games I've noticed. Games are really short if you know exactly what you're doing. Probably why the Done-Quick (Not sure what that speed runner groups goes by) guys do what they do. There's two primary communities: Speed Demos Archive which hosts user-submitted world record videos (that can be really outdated in some cases like Zelda games where WRs are made several times a month and nobody bothers submitting them to SDA) and has the most prominent speedrunning-related forums; and SpeedRunsLive which is basically the frontpage for currently streaming speedrunners... oh, and they organize races too I guess. Awesome Games Done Quick is hosted by SDA and a lot of its runners are SRL-famous people. As for shortness being the reason people do speedruns, I kinda doubt it. I could find quite a few games both old and modern that have world records several hours long. edit: Granted, the old games being mainly by Squaresoft. tiistai fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Oct 12, 2013 |
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I will take this chance to link to the SDA's youtube channel. It holds a mix of footage from straight speedruns, no commentary or other fluff to videos from the charity events that have live commentary, an audience and someone reading off donations. You can find the 40 second glitch run of Harvest Moon or the 7 hour + run of Final Fantasy XII. Some runs are kind of lackluster in commentary but runs like Amnesia: Dark Descent are pretty amazing, not unlike SwordlessLinks videos, with the runner explaining how glitches work, why X glitch is fast but Y glitch is just showy fun. The dudes do speedruns partly as a contest and show of skill but also for the same reason folks here do LPs; they want to show off a game they're interested in.
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baldurk posted:Not particularly funny but there you go. Mostly I post the ones crazy enough to be amusing in the sandcastle, I could always repost them here. Have you ever considered taking the best of those letters and having other people do dramatic readings of them?
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Cangelosi posted:Have you ever considered taking the best of those letters and having other people do dramatic readings of them? I would do this.
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I'm curious to see if any other Goons get the same impression as me to this video. Is it just me or does Markiplier's commentary sound a whole lot like a homeless drunk ranting on a street corner in this vid? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIU6V8MvNS8
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More like somebody who's learned how to make their voice sound deeper and more "manly", but only if they speak really loudly. It's obnoxious and off-putting, and not nearly as cool as they think. The rambling comes from the fact that they are playing some sort of lovely content-less horror game, and using live commentary full of wacky "reaction shots". ALso, why would you use scarecam when wearing VR goggles that obscure your face anyway? Actually it reminds me a lot of slowbeef's BFF Total Biscuits' vocal mannerisms.
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Dartigan posted:I'm curious to see if any other Goons get the same impression as me to this video. Is it just me or does Markiplier's commentary sound a whole lot like a homeless drunk ranting on a street corner in this vid? I'm more surprised there's a loving FACE CAM FOR THIS! Like seriously why even do that at this point? It's like doing a face cam while wearing a mask. What's the loving point? Zain fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Oct 12, 2013 |
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Zain posted:I'm more surprised there's a loving FACE CAM FOR THIS! Like seriously why even do that at this point? It's like doing a face came while wearing a mask. What's the loving point? For the horror! Can't you see how terrified he is?!
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Dartigan posted:By the end of the vid he actually just starts incoherently moaning and making sounds and jibberish, and I was sitting there looking at his sub count thinking, "Really? Over 900K subs? Is that how you do it?" If there's one thing modern entertainment has taught me, it's to never underestimate the mass-market appeal of people acting out like annoying dumbasses. Seriously, I can't be surprised by this when things like Honey Boo Boo and Jersey Shore exist.
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The second lesson is that if people will gladly suffer through low effort poo poo once they'll probably keep coming back. Look for my celebratory 1000th episode of Happy Wheels tomorrow. It is subtitled "Rape the bitch's fat oval office!" and I'll tell you now, some crrraaazy stuff happens. Did you enjoy this post? Make sure to like and subscribe. Follow me on Twitter and like me on Facebook.
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