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Lazyfire posted:The second lesson is that if people will gladly suffer through low effort poo poo once they'll probably keep coming back. I'm just guessing that those who are willing to watch low effort content are the type to put low effort into finding content. I think that they might just find the first thing that amuses them and keep watching because: "Same funny jokes, new part of the game." Also, I want to see the thread's opinions on things like: Geek and Sundry's Co-optitude. It's a blind one video playthrough of NES era games by an internet personality and her brother. There's facecam, and edits everywhere so that no one can fully see a game, but I'm guessing that it serves a different purpose than let's plays so I don't know what to think of this one. edit: vvvvv I understand from a let's play perspective that it is garbage, but as you said steinrokkan posted:Unless you are obsessed with the D-list celebrity Felicia Day and her confusion over basic video game mechanics, I guess. it fulfills its function because it's a different kind of video game playthrough video. But with that argument I guess you can say PewDiePie videos fulfill their function. Plus it's all pretty much: gameplay video + commentary + low effort. So yeah, I agree it's garbage. SleightSighted fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Oct 13, 2013 |
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Their facecam is more often than not larger than the postage-stamp sized video of the game they are playing. That's all you need to know in order to make a judgment. Hint: It's garbage. Unless you are obsessed with the D-list celebrity Felicia Day and her confusion over basic video game mechanics, I guess.
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Rocketlex posted: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).
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Slowbeef posted:Honestly, though, these are still nowhere near the LPs done by Malorie... maybe I should advertising those in them. That LP holds a special place in my heart, particularly for having this amazing bit of fanart: 
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Sundowner posted:It's a shame Spookin' With Scoops over on GiantBomb is premium-sub only content because it's doing a drat fine job of convincing me of purchasing the Oculus Rift where nothing else has convinced me thus far. There was one a while back that had the creator and like two I guess game reviewers or something. They did like a run of the prototype which was amazing. Made me happy Valve is pretty much running with the Oculus Rift stuff.
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Thanks to whoever pointed out the "Two Best Friends Play" guys have their own channel. I'm halfway trough their Indigo Prophecy LP and its really funny. I would like to add to the small discussion about SDA on the previous page: If you want funny commentary that's not from the __ Games Done Quick marathons, check out the recently added Lagoon and Drakkhen runs. You have to download them to get access to the 2nd audio track, but especially for the Lagoon run its worth it. It also happens to be the only deathless single-segment run of that game in existence (not counting TAS:es). Demicol fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Oct 13, 2013 |
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The first time I'd notice Let's Plays on Youtube I was watching The Auzzie Gamer play through Hitman: Blood Money which was around 2010. I'm not sure if anyone else here would like him and it's been years since I watched any of his stuff. In fact, I just watched a year old video to see if he still holds up. He's definitely more showcasing his personality than being thorough on his LP's but he does it in an interesting way. He walks you through the game and his videos are done with post-commentary, which allows him to insert failure clips or just gently caress around for a little bit before going on and to speed up unnecessary sneaking sections. He does ~goofy voices~, but I haven't heard him resorting to babbling incoherently yet. He's also good at the games he plays so he's not relying on the tried-and-true method of being a really lovely player and how frustrating it is to play for complete strangers on the internet. He made sure to show how to get Silent Assassin in every level in Blood Money while still having fun messing around with the game. He had a gimmick of setting off an explosive in each Blood Money level and follow it up with a musical sting. The latest video is five months old, so I'm not sure if he's still active or not. He also does custom images for his videos.  I like them, they show what game he's playing and whether it's an LP or a review or a multiplayer vid. The custom image trend with a scared face superimposed over everything are pretty useful for letting me know to not click on those videos. The first time I'd ever seen a scarecam was on 4 Player Podcast videos before they'd made their own site. I was looking through videos of Fatal Frame to see if Crimson Butterfly was worth a purchase and found this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb1nVP6RX7E I used to think that was funny.  Looking back on it now, the streaming quality is crap and Brad shrieking through his mic is worse than anything the game could throw at him. There's tons of these from 4PP where the whole "appeal" is a bunch of guys playing horror games blind while someone in the chat nudges them along until a jump scare happens and cue Brad flipping his poo poo and shrieking over everyone else.
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Dartigan posted:Didn't the Auzzie Gamer stop making vids though? He hasn't updated his channel or even his twitter in months. Take a look at the comments on the last vid he posted and you see his fans wondering if he died or was put in jail. I figured looking at the date of the latest video, but he was the only entertaining off-SA LP'er I could think of.
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I watch an awful lot of LP channels. Robbaz and birgirpall, Swedish and Icelandic Vikings. Robbaz plays an awful lot of Kerbal Space Program, and birgirpall keeps changing formats, and is now on "I Broke X." Both would play Battlefield 3 an awful lot and look for interesting ways to kill people that the developers might not have intended. KSIOlajideBT, mostly FIFA but then he has his other channel where he plays lots of other games. Screams a lot in his goofy British accent. Has absolutely loving crazy hits. Seriously, I think this is just a teenager living at home with his parents, but his user base is freakishly large. Joined at the hip are Jerma985 and STAR_, mostly TF2 but with funny commentary and flirtations with other games. Remarkably insightful for running commentary. GameSocietyPimps has an awful lot of material, but thus far my favorite is Fallout 3 For Pimps. They've got 41 episodes thus far. Really crude.
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SleightSighted posted:Also, I want to see the thread's opinions on things like: Geek and Sundry's Co-optitude. It's a blind one video playthrough of NES era games by an internet personality and her brother. There's facecam, and edits everywhere so that no one can fully see a game, but I'm guessing that it serves a different purpose than let's plays so I don't know what to think of this one. They're both pretty terrible at the games, but it seems like her brother generally shows a semblance of competency. At one point Felicia got Sonic stuck down a hole where you have to rock back and forth to get momentum, and couldn't get him out for what seemed like 5 minutes. Then proceeded to talk about how terrible the game was if I remember correctly. They've changed the show a bit lately to be more positive - probably in response to the backlash from that episode. Before that it was basically them playing old games very poorly (while mocking them) and then saying they sucked. It's actually kind of unfortunate because if you had a couple good gamers playing through retro games they weren't familiar with it might actually be interesting.
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steinrokkan posted:Hint: It's garbage. Unless you are obsessed with the D-list celebrity Felicia Day and her confusion over basic video game mechanics, I guess. Indeed. Personally, i like Felicia, but Co-optitude is pretty terrible.
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One of my guilty pleasures is Nika Harper, who I found through the Geek & Sundry writing vlog a while ago. She isn't exactly good at Spelunky, but her enthusiasm and effort tends to make it entertaining regardless. Occasionally she has a facecam, but most are just the game - though if you do check them out I'd recommend something other than the most recent since it's with other people and the sound quality is a bit crap consequently. While we're on the topic of Geek & Sundry, they also have a board game show which I'm sure some of you are familiar with called Tabletop. Hosted by Wil Wheaton it's informative, let's play-ish, and I'd highly recommend checking it out.
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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. Those are really helpful when watching a downloaded video, although Youtube's thumbnail browser is also handy because it lets you see when the game resumes. I think the pacing of the first Darkseed longplay makes it one of the most enjoyable ones you've done so far, because it's played pretty much like a speed run, but without skipping any of the text. Darkseed II almost felt like it was being played in-character as Mike Dawson, who bumbles around, talking to the same people over and over again, ponders his horrible decisions in life in the bathroom, acts completely disinterested during 'that moment' in the story, and wastes time during the only part of the game where he knows exactly where to go and what will happen if he doesn't get there in time. However, since so much of this depends on the player wasting our time, it gets really tedious outside of the moments where it really shines. Some of the videos did have cuts, where you note that absolutely nothing happened, so you did improve the pacing a lot near the end. I think Let's Plays need to stop trying to show the viewer absolutely everything about the game, unless that's the aim of the LP. The Deadly Premonition series by SuperGreatFriend was very well put together to show all of the game's content, but in the later videos I found myself skipping over driving sequences that didn't have any dialogue, and then pretty much all of the non-story sequences because of how long the videos went on for. I know that it might be too much to ask, but it could have been possible to edit together the LP so that only the main story and interesting gameplay is left. tiistai posted: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. I've been really enjoying the Speed Demos Archive charity marathons, because the games are played really skillfully and are commentated by people who really know what they're talking about. It also lets them explain a lot of the tricks and exploits they're performing, instead of having to read a document alongside the video which lists everything that they do. Probably the most entertaining one from the last marathon would be the Sonic the Hedgehog run by Naegleria. It's nothing like a serious speed run, but it should be really entertaining for someone who has never been interested in the game before. The only problem I have with these videos is finding where the run actually starts (it's usually easy to tell by seeing when the timer begins), and cropping it in VLC so that the game takes up the entire screen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UnQBfvmf0E&t=100s That Fucking Sned fucked around with this message at 11:24 on Oct 13, 2013 |
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unfair posted:While we're on the topic of Geek & Sundry, they also have a board game show which I'm sure some of you are familiar with called Tabletop. Hosted by Wil Wheaton it's informative, let's play-ish, and I'd highly recommend checking it out. Yeah, it doesn't really fit the thread (although I suppose we've had board games LPed here before) but Tabletop is pretty cool if you're interested in board games. It's always a full game edited down to the important parts, with nice production values, explanations about the rules and different guests each episode. It's worth checking it out, at least.
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Dias posted:Yeah, it doesn't really fit the thread (although I suppose we've had board games LPed here before) but Tabletop is pretty cool if you're interested in board games. It's always a full game edited down to the important parts, with nice production values, explanations about the rules and different guests each episode. It's worth checking it out, at least. I love Tabletop. They also occasionally, during off-season stuff, put out "full" episodes of the games that they played that season. There's still the helpful popups that come up, but there's no editing out footage. Occasionally it's interesting but it's never the games I REALLY want to see (put out full versions of munchkin and dragon age wheaton  )
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I watch a lot of speedrunners on Twitch. The general speedrun community is incredibly positive aside from Twitch chat stream monster phenomenon in the larger streams. Many Speedrunners also stream some casual, low speed attempts at games. You might even call them LPs. Many of them even claim that when their run fails that it's now an LP. There's even a sub community inside SRL's IRC called #blind that attempts to race games they've never played before. Blind Races are incredibly fun to watch, some serious pain when Megaman Unlimited came out. Some personal standouts: twitch.tv/Pjdicesare : Actraiser 2 WR holder, Super Ghouls and Ghosts WR holder, WORMS RELOADED. Just got sub recently. Runs amazing bad games like Mohawk and Headphone Jack, Lawnmower man, Battletoads and Double Dragon. Examples from a previous AGDQ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bcwOiesWF4 SGNG WR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGnZbgQFLjI twitch.tv/romscout : Runs Metroidvanias, SoTN esepcially. Plays a poo poo load of SMT on stream too. twitch.tv/omnigamer : Runs Nier, Suikoden and tons of obscure SNES titles (Hagane, Soul Blazer) and also badgames (Timecop, The Firemen, Kendo Rage.) twitch.tv/sinisterwon : Mike Tyson's Punchout wizard. Super Metroid, Ninja Gaiden, TMNTIV, amazingly cool dude. Will play MTPO blindfolded from time to time. Knows more about MTPO than the entire world minus one or two other guys. twitch.tv/feasel : Something of an NES specialist. FF1 WR holder, plays Technos games, Zelda 2 and other odd ducks. Best stream chat on twitch since the median age of the audience is probably 30. There's other incredibly popular speedrunners like Cosmowright, Siglemic, Werster, but their chats are often insufferable. There's quite a few goons involved in the scene too. Murphagator, UsedPizza, __Peaches (furry drum circle) Duckfist, SRK Funkdoc (been on hiatus a while), heeheex2 are all amazing. Shabadu fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Oct 13, 2013 |
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Shabadu posted:There's other incredibly popular speedrunners like Cosmowright, Siglemic, Werster, but their chats are often insufferable. Yeah, their chats are a mess but they're also the best. Siglemic has held the Mario 64 WR for ages and will probably never lose it, and Cosmo has Wind Waker, Ocarina of Time Any% (not entirely sure if this got taken back from him), and used to have several other WRs. I usually just watch Cosmo for him and ignore the chat.
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Cosmo is incredibly chill and kind hearted. His commentary while pulling off insane 1 frame tricks and setups is enthralling. "This trick requires you to do this this this and this on this pixel on this frame and it's really hard and I'll probably fail it" Gets it first try. Definitely turn off the chat once the viewers are 2k+ though.
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No kidding. I never suffer Cosmo's viewers, but anyone who fucks up a 4+ hour speed run and goes immediately right back into it with no visible frustration is a level of chill I'll never reach.
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If you use greasmonkey there's this script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/164542 "Twitch.TV Chat Cleanser". I rarely watch stuff on Twitch so I don't know how well it works but maybe it helps.
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Demicol posted:If you use greasmonkey there's this script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/164542 "Twitch.TV Chat Cleanser". I rarely watch stuff on Twitch so I don't know how well it works but maybe it helps. What is Twitch chat without all the Dongers, though? Not any kind of Twitch chat I care about.
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What're some good blind races? It sounds like a great concept, skilled gamers rushing blind playthroughs, but I imagine there's a lot of crap for every good one.
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Games that people are unlikely to have seen before that are good race candidates: Gimmick!, Trip World, hell half of the sunsoft library. Megaman Romhacks are good since almost everyone is intimate with the controls, Rockman4: Minus Infinity being the best example. There's a ton of good Flash games these days that people are unlikely to have encountered, stuff like Nimbus and Nightsky. There are tons of old 16 bit games that are obscure that can be fun.
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Sorites posted:What're some good blind races? It sounds like a great concept, skilled gamers rushing blind playthroughs, but I imagine there's a lot of crap for every good one. Cosmo did a highlight video of his 120 Mario 64 unpracticed (?) run which is pretty entertaining. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MJwgceMflI He has a lot of other good content on his channel, mostly speedruns and glitches and stuff.
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http://lanipwned.blogspot.com/ This guys name is Lanipator. Anyone who is familiar with the abridged series might recognize him, but he also makes LPs. I like him because he has mainly played horror games, but approaches it in the opposite way of Pewdiepie. He is also quick to think of jokes and commentary without it getting too boring. I would recommend his LP of Amnesia to start with, or his LP of Slender which is a condensed form of what he usually does. He also does a gimmick let's play where he pretends to be his abridged characters that should be avoided at all cost, but thankfully isn't found on his own site.
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Carlioo posted: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.    Joking aside, this guy is pretty good and informative (the narration he was doing at the start was kind of annoying, but it doesn't seem like there's going to be much more of it), and I'm a huge fan of Shenmue for some reason so I'll probably spend the rest of the day watching these videos. I've been waiting for someone to make a straight-up informative LP of the Shenmue games for a while now, and this seems like it'll do the job. DMorbid fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Oct 14, 2013 |
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Where are you guys finding some of these people? Everyone I've ever had recommended to me by YouTube has been a terrible mix of the worst LPer qualities instead of interesting or informative.
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Lazyfire posted:Where are you guys finding some of these people? Everyone I've ever had recommended to me by YouTube has been a terrible mix of the worst LPer qualities instead of interesting or informative. You may enjoy PewDiePie. SUBSCRIBE?
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BgRdMchne posted:You may enjoy PewDiePie. Everything I see is him, GamingLemon, Markplier and TobyGames now. It's like a list of pointless people every time I finish a video.
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Lazyfire posted:Where are you guys finding some of these people? Everyone I've ever had recommended to me by YouTube has been a terrible mix of the worst LPer qualities instead of interesting or informative. I used to find some decent LPers by using search strings like this, and I'm not exaggerating: quote:Let's Play -newrelease -newrelease -newrelease -pewdiepie -tobuscus -minecraft -commentary -slender -scarecam -facecam -reaction -scary -"Gameplay commentary" -"Let's Play Walkthrough" And any other common words used in terrible generic LPs with a - beside them usually cuts it out of the search. I stopped doing this a long time ago because it became useless as more and more people wanted to be like those I'd be trying to filter out, yet they'd be nobodies who's names I couldn't possible filter out. In short, it's really hard to find interesting non-SA LPers on YouTube because of how bloated it is with copycats of the guys at the top.
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Sundowner posted:I used to find some decent LPers by using search strings like this, and I'm not exaggerating: Yeah, that method is a great way to find about a million videos that you don't want to see ever at the same time. It reminds me of how people will simply spam their Tags section with poo poo like "-New Release-" (similar to the method above) even if the video is four hours of Minecraft just to get some people looking for video of a different game. Which reminds me of someone I think everyone should avoid at all costs: DJ Keemstar. It shouldn't be too hard because he constantly has his channels shut down. The guy basically bottom feeds on Call of Duty YouTube Superstars and "Trolls" them by posting YouTube comments and stirring up comment drama, then he makes videos documenting the drama he started with one of his other profiles. He does the same thing, just listing out tons of unrelated stuff with each video and getting hits by people confused on what he is doing.
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I have a bookmark on RZX Archive. It's a channel accumulating not let's plays, but rather uncommented longplays of ZX Spectrum games. Not just the good or well-known games. Anything goes, and is shown played to completion. Sometimes I just open the page and trawl for the nightmares the archive occasionally brings. Like Nicotine Nightmare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6dMdpXRZVY There's also a longplay of The Sentinel there: 6 12-hour videos, and the final one only 8 and a half hours long. Going by the level 1 (the first 8 minutes) that's a speedrun basically, because the player sucked all the energy out of the map and skipped 20 levels afterwards. Sundowner posted:I used to find some decent LPers by using search strings like this, and I'm not exaggerating:
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Sundowner posted:I used to find some decent LPers by using search strings like this, and I'm not exaggerating: Is YouTube's searching algorithm just that insistent on showing you people who tag their stuff "newrelease" that you have to exclude it from the search three times before it'll take?
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:Is YouTube's searching algorithm just that insistent on showing you people who tag their stuff "newrelease" that you have to exclude it from the search three times before it'll take? He said that he replaces "newrelease" with the title of a new release.
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djw175 posted:He said that he replaces "newrelease" with the title of a new release. I can't into reading comprehension apparently. 
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:Is YouTube's searching algorithm just that insistent on showing you people who tag their stuff "newrelease" that you have to exclude it from the search three times before it'll take? Yeah, it's bad. Part of that is because people absolutely spam their tags with poo poo. A Beyond: Two Souls LP may get tagged with "Beyond Two Souls, Beyond: 2 Souls, Beyond, B:2S, Beyond: TS, Beyond: Two Souls, Beyond: Two Souls (Video Game)" and so on. And then add "Let's Play, LP, Walkthrough, Playthrough, PewDiePie plays" in front of each of those.
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Shabadu posted:I watch a lot of speedrunners on Twitch. The general speedrun community is incredibly positive aside from Twitch chat stream monster phenomenon in the larger streams. Thanks for those recommendations Shabadu, always nice to find some new speedrunners to follow. On the subject of chill speedrunners I have to suggest that people take a look at Santzo84 (twitch.tv/santzo84/). He runs Dark Souls almost daily and is incredibly good at the game while at the same time commenting and being relaxed about it.
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