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I just want to belatedly and not-exactly-on-topic-now explain that there are more than enough excellent English-language LPs on SA for me, and I can't speak for the average English-language Youtuber quality beyond the occasional Retsupurae. But for foreign-language LPs some extra things are a priority. The audio quality (mic) is important, as well as speaking clearly. Dumb jokes seem to come through regardless of my proficiency in the language. A facecam is pretty annoying, especially if you're trying to concentrate on speech. A modicum of editing and/or LPing not completely blind come about last, but are appreciated, because watching someone bumbling like an idiot in puzzles can get pretty drat irritating. So far I have had little success in my search with these parameters, although things can sometimes change from one LP to the next with the same Youtuber, depending on the genre of the game, or whether it's is co-op or not. (Not in the terms of audio or facecam, though.) I'd probably enjoy Valkhorn's LPs a lot if they were in Spanish.
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Feb 8, 2015 08:54
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Blind Sally posted:Actually, he persevered through the Kairo LP, despite no one really watching it. It looks like until a couple months ago he was continuing on without any viewers. I remember a while back after his exit from the forums he showed up in the offsite LP thread and started claiming his subscriber numbers and views only got better after he stopped having to try and please the forums, a quick check of his page reveals that to be false as the vast majority of his NES era Mario and Zelda videos have views in the double digits. He was also running a ton of giveaways and contests in the videos to draw in views and likes and such at that point, so he was basically doing the exact things you would expect of someone desperately trying to grow their channel. I'll always remember Valkhorn as the guy who LP'd Symphony of the Night but struggled to get the thread past seven pages despite it being a well loved game that would normally generate a ton of discussion in the thread. Valkhorn's videos were so bland that people couldn't even be bothered to tell him in which ways he was playing the game wrong.
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The valk-man may have been referring to how he paid money to get his introduction video on some kind of advertising thing, and it seemed to get him a few thousand views. None of which transferred to his videos, but hey, he's tryin'.
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Lazyfire posted:He was also running a ton of giveaways and contests in the videos to draw in views and likes and such at that point, so he was basically doing the exact things you would expect of someone desperately trying to grow their channel. That is legitimately really sad, that people won't watch him even if they get stuff in exchange.
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Danaru posted:That is legitimately really sad, that people won't watch him even if they get stuff in exchange.
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Blind Sally posted:Actually, he persevered through the Kairo LP, despite no one really watching it. Hey, I watched the first video of his Kairo LP. I blacked out about 5 minutes into it and woke up on my front lawn 4 hours later, but I watched it.
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Really, the man is better than a cushioned hammer soaked in chloroform. I mean, I love Unreal, I played it as a kid, it's so atmospheric, I'm capable of watching the thing without commentary. Valkhorn's take got me snoozing before he got out of the prison ship. edit: Actually, is there a decent LP of Unreal? anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 12:16 on Feb 9, 2015 |
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Feb 9, 2015 12:13
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Any good city builder LPs out there where the player knows the game inside out and builds a totally sweet city? There are a lot of blind LPs out there, and a whole host of lovely players who takes ages making the worst possible decisions. I'm so sick of watching those, I want to see somebody who rocks, not: "So, I'll just go and place the woodcutters hut riiiight...here. In this bare rocky area. And now I think I'll pop up a few houses, a good 30 or 40 seems like a nice round number, and to feed these guys I'll place a farm here where the mini map is obviously displaying poor fertility..."
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nine-gear crow posted:Hey, I watched the first video of his Kairo LP. I feel like this is how some people react to my videos.
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Dr Scoofles posted:Any good city builder LPs out there where the player knows the game inside out and builds a totally sweet city? There are a lot of blind LPs out there, and a whole host of lovely players who takes ages making the worst possible decisions. I'm so sick of watching those, I want to see somebody who rocks, not: It's a screen shot LP, but probably one of my favourite LPs I've ever read. http://lparchive.org/SimCity-3000/
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Dr Scoofles posted:Any good city builder LPs out there where the player knows the game inside out and builds a totally sweet city? There are a lot of blind LPs out there, and a whole host of lovely players who takes ages making the worst possible decisions. I'm so sick of watching those, I want to see somebody who rocks, not: I'm quite partial to the ongoing simcity 4 lp where grand fromage is trying to recreate real-life cities. though it updates at a snail's pace http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3410697
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Speaking of city builders, are there any good Open Transport Tycon Deluxe let's plays that you can recommend? I really like this game, but I am not very good at it, and the wiki is rather dry. I would prefer watching/reading a good informative let's play.
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Does anyone know of a good way to watch video LPs that aren't on Archive.org? I've been trying to watch b00n's Doom 3 LP, but the links are dead. 
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Violet_Sky posted:Does anyone know of a good way to watch video LPs that aren't on Archive.org? I've been trying to watch b00n's Doom 3 LP, but the links are dead. You do know that the "Download AVI" links still work, right?
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Whenever I click on Download AVI links, I just get an eternally loading white screen. I'm using a Mac, if that helps.
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Violet_Sky posted:Whenever I click on Download AVI links, I just get an eternally loading white screen. I'm using a Mac, if that helps. Right-click (I think it's control-click or maybe command-click if you don't have a two-button mouse) -> save link as, or something along those lines.
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:It's a screen shot LP, but probably one of my favourite LPs I've ever read. http://lparchive.org/SimCity-3000/ Mico posted:I'm quite partial to the ongoing simcity 4 lp where grand fromage is trying to recreate real-life cities. though it updates at a snail's pace http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3410697 These look fantastic, I'll be interested to see where GF goes with his. I forgot to mention, but I was hoping for a VLP, I work from home and often I'm making stuff with my hands but need something playing in the background to keep me sane. City builders would be great for this as they are pretty slow moving so I can keep one eye on my work without missing much.
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Dr Scoofles posted:These look fantastic, I'll be interested to see where GF goes with his. I forgot to mention, but I was hoping for a VLP, I work from home and often I'm making stuff with my hands but need something playing in the background to keep me sane. City builders would be great for this as they are pretty slow moving so I can keep one eye on my work without missing much. I wanted to second both of these suggestions. The SC3K one is amazing in its own right, but GF's SC4 shows just how much work modders have put into developing additions for the game. The cities he's created are deeply, deeply impressive.
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This is an off-SA LP, but thenyanmaster is doing one of the most impressive Civilization runs I've ever seen. It's a 42 nation AI-only rumble in Civ5 using real life starting locations on the largest and most accurate Earth map. Domination is the only win condition, so the winner will have to control 41 other capitals. As of update 7 Firaxis actually contacted him about getting a copy of the savegame and I believe have since offered to help him keep the game going when his machine started crashing while trying to run turns. It starts here. There's 15 updates thus far, taking the game through turn 350. A few countries look extremely strong, and a few are on the brink of extinction, but roughly half of the remaining 32 nations could pull off a victory if things go their way. The remaining nations are reaching the information age, and Gandhi just got nukes.
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Head Hit Keyboard posted:Are there any good LPs of the original Half-Life around? Don't seem to be any on the archive. I intend to LP original Half-Life - and all of the expansions by Gearbox Software - after I've finished my current LPs of Singularity and Darkest of Days. I used to write for Planet Half-Life and I was known on various Half-Life forums as "the official Half-Life guru".  I must warn you, though, I update at a rate of about a video a month. (Sometimes slower!) So... don't get too excited too soon. your evil twin fucked around with this message at 13:25 on Feb 10, 2015 |
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your evil twin posted:I intend to LP original Half-Life - and all of the expansions by Gearbox Software - after I've finished my current LPs of Singularity and Darkest of Days. I now have a serious case of LP blue balls.
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your evil twin posted:I intend to LP original Half-Life - and all of the expansions by Gearbox Software - after I've finished my current LPs of Singularity and Darkest of Days. Oh man, now I'm all stoked. I'm excited far too soon.
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I adored Grimwit's LP of Cryptworlds: Your Darkest Desires Come True, which ended a bit ago. His calm, methodical explanations of the surreal world of an strange ugly alien's adventure to pee on everything (and also save the world from a Russian NES knockoff mascot and eat burgs) was Well you should watch it. It's great.
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So, I want some LPs of awful games, ideally with solo commentary, MassRafTer's Superman 64 LP being a great example. If the person actually gets angry or frustrated that's a bonus, as long as it doesn't get to Pewdiepie levels. LPs of awful games where the person/people try to be positive (Supergreatfriend being an example) are also good.
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Turtlicious posted:Has anything good ended recently that would be worth binging through? I really enjoyed Bacter's Discworld Noir LP. Good game, good (and also very chill) commentary, resulting in a highly atmospheric LP. I was sad when it ended.
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Thoughtless posted:So, I want some LPs of awful games, ideally with solo commentary, MassRafTer's Superman 64 LP being a great example. If the person actually gets angry or frustrated that's a bonus, as long as it doesn't get to Pewdiepie levels. If you don't mind it being a screenshot LP, Quovak's LPs of the first two Golden Sun games do a great job ripping apart everything that's wrong with those two games, while also offering ways they could have been improved. Great read. As for positive spins on bad games, the Men Drinkin' Coffee generally do just that, with my favorite in particular being Ride to Hell: Retribution.
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Is there any good Final Fantasy XIV LP's anywhere? I know MMO's are probably not the best type of game to LP but it seems like an interesting game that I have no intention of actually playing so I want to see what it's like.
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Can anyone recommend a good XCOM: Long War LP? I like having something on in the background while I'm doing other stuff.
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Kaboom Dragoon posted:Can anyone recommend a good XCOM: Long War LP? I like having something on in the background while I'm doing other stuff. I only find Beagle bearable out of the ones that fill that niche due to sultry australian tones. He does zero editing tho so videos can be something absurd like 3 hours in length. He explains very well tho and can be funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6zQwHEUK9I That should be the playlist.
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SyntheticPolygon posted:Is there any good Final Fantasy XIV LP's anywhere? I know MMO's are probably not the best type of game to LP but it seems like an interesting game that I have no intention of actually playing so I want to see what it's like. CrashScreen was doing one but it hasn't been updated since the end of last year. Only covers the first ten or so levels so it doesn't really get into the cool stuff, but it shows off a good amount and has some interesting comparisons to XIV 1.0.
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What's the Grey Hunter LP where he accidentally blows up a planet? (If you follow Grey Hunter LPs you can probably guess what's in the spoiler tag since it's joked about constantly, but I'm spoilering just in case)
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Looking for some Sims LPs. I've read eating only apple's Sims 3 LP and I'm caught up with Theta Zero's current one. Are there any other good ones I can find?
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Chuu posted:What's the Grey Hunter LP where he accidentally blows up a planet? http://lparchive.org/Distant-Worlds-Legends/ (You can search the LP archive by author)
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IGgy IGsen posted:What's up with Valkhorn anyway?  "and yeah, his lps were really bland. I tried to watch his heretic lp because I like that game, but he's really really boring.
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I want to read LPs of 4x games, strategy games in general, preferably ones already on the archive, content in the vein of Distant Worlds and Star Wars: Rebellion. What are some good recommendations?
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Lunethex posted:I want to read LPs of 4x games, strategy games in general, preferably ones already on the archive, content in the vein of Distant Worlds and Star Wars: Rebellion. Bobbin Threadbare did a fantastic Galactic Civilizations II LP. I really can't recommend it enough.
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