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Trojan Kaiju posted:It is only an episode in and it looks like the update schedule will be fairly slow, but this guy Josh Trevett is doing a critical Let's Play of Dark Souls in which he goes into detail about its Joseph Campbell influences. We need more people doing this poo poo. I'm all for people just having fun with an LP, and I certainly don't want to say that everyone should be thinking critically about games all the time, but it sure as gently caress doesn't hurt for people to give it a little more thought too. Especially when so many people are happy to just ape some swede screaming about rape.
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Unfunny Poster posted:The only Markiplier thing I ever saw was the clip Slowbeef lampooned. I watched his whole LP of Black Snow, because I couldn't play it myself (this was before I had regular income to just buy Half Life 2: Episode Two on a whim) and I wanted to at least experience it. Unfortunately, this was when the mod was fairly new and only the big name LPers had bothered with it. Markiplier seemed like the least offensive on initial appearance, so I powered through it. Personally, I found him tiresome before the first video was out. He could be funny, but he seemed to be trying to squeeze as much humor into gameplay as possible and was almost constantly dropping into silly voices and making crude jokes that appeal to middle schoolers but drive me away. And it's sad because he has a really great voice for commentary, but he just keeps doing stupid poo poo with it that appeals to the most basic crowd. It's the typical PewDiePie style of comedy, minus the rape and high-pitched screeching. The sad part is that he's actually gotten "wackier" since then. He's been steadily turning into almost a stereotype of himself the more his fame grows.
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Jun 12, 2015 06:02
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The future is now, everybody. You can finally buy action figures of (Minecraft) Let's Players.
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Jun 12, 2015 06:09
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I've never heard of any of those people.
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Jun 12, 2015 07:19
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dijon du jour posted:The future is now, everybody. You can finally buy action figures of (Minecraft) Let's Players.
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Jun 12, 2015 07:26
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Shamus Young, whose name has been thrown around a lot recently because he did some good pieces on Fallout 3's dumb story, has his thing Spoiler Warning (which I think I might actually have heard from in this thread, sorry!) and his group is fairly critical of games while seeming to have fun with them at the same time. For the most part, at least. I sort of wish they had better audio though.
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dijon du jour posted:The future is now, everybody. You can finally buy action figures of (Minecraft) Let's Players. Ughhhhhhhhhhhh
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dijon du jour posted:The future is now, everybody. You can finally buy action figures of (Minecraft) Let's Players. I wish I was dead.
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Jun 12, 2015 15:44
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dijon du jour posted:The future is now, everybody. You can finally buy action figures of (Minecraft) Let's Players. Oh good, if you accidentally mouse over one of the people, they shriek at you. Fitting.
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Jun 12, 2015 15:48
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"Hey guys..." "Oh hey..." "Hey everyone!" "Hey guys..." "Hey guys..." Wild openers here!!
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Jun 12, 2015 15:56
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sout posted:Shamus Young, whose name has been thrown around a lot recently because he did some good pieces on Fallout 3's dumb story, has his thing Spoiler Warning (which I think I might actually have heard from in this thread, sorry!) and his group is fairly critical of games while seeming to have fun with them at the same time. For the most part, at least. A mild caution for any goons, Shamus has displayed some lolbertarian tendencies on his blog but he's probably professional enough to keep that stuff from bleeding into his videos. He's also affiliated with the Escapist if that sort of thing turns you off.
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Jun 12, 2015 16:25
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was shamus the guy who got really mad about NASA's space program being cancelled because he got stuffed into lockers a lot?
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SirSamVimes posted:While I don't generally like Game Grumps, this is incredible. So Suzy quits by the beginning of Episode 4 and tags in Holly Conrad, who's been playing since WoW first came out. Holly then spends the entirety of episode 4 revealing that literally every problem the Grumps had was a direct result of Ross in some form or another. She shows off some of the prettiest areas in the game, takes Arin and Barry to the barber so they can customize their characters, teaches them what their abilities actually do, and just generally goofs off with them. Nihilarian fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Jun 12, 2015 |
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My theory is that it's actually Arin that's the main problem with the Grumps, since whenever Ross or even better Dan take the lead I find them much more palatable. Arin's personality reminds me of balsamic vinegar: it's good in moderate amounts and in the right places but too much of it devours any other flavor the meal might have had, and Arin seems incapable of containing himself. Of course, the likely thing is that a good chunk of their fanbase feels exactly the opposite. paradoxGentleman fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Jun 12, 2015 |
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judge reinhold posted:"Hey guys..." One time a long time ago I noticed that almost everybody opens their video with "Hey guys!" or "What's up guys!" or "What's up Youtube" and I am just loving livid that I cannot stop being annoyed by it. Like, it's seriously one of the most annoying things about these people.
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Jun 12, 2015 16:56
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Arin's reactions in that episode are hilarious and completely understandable.
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CJacobs posted:One time a long time ago I noticed that almost everybody opens their video with "Hey guys!" or "What's up guys!" or "What's up Youtube" and I am just loving livid that I cannot stop being annoyed by it. Like, it's seriously one of the most annoying things about these people. This is how I start my LP's & other videos 
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Jun 12, 2015 16:59
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Well how else are you supposed to open them? It opens the communication with your audience! It comes natural since you need to act like you are having conversation with them! It's a greeting for gently caress's sake
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paradoxGentleman posted:Well how else are you supposed to open them? It opens the communication with your audience! It comes natural since you need to act like you are having conversation with them! It's a greeting for gently caress's sake Opening your video that way is the equivalent of buying a stock greeting card and just writing your name in it. Unfunny Poster posted:This is how I start my LP's & other videos I'm sorry edit: But to be fair, paradoxGentleman is right, there's not really a super unique way to say hello to a large number of people at once, so it is a bit irrational on my part I suppose. CJacobs fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Jun 12, 2015 |
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Jun 12, 2015 17:05
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paradoxGentleman posted:My theory is that it's actually Arin that's the main problem with the Grumps, since whenever Ross or even better Dan take the lead I find them much more palatable. Arin's personality reminds me of balsamic vinegar: it's good in moderate amounts and in the right places but too much of it devours any other flavor the meal might have had, and Arin seems incapable of containing himself.
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paradoxGentleman posted:Well how else are you supposed to open them? It opens the communication with your audience! It comes natural since you need to act like you are having conversation with them! It's a greeting for gently caress's sake It's not too terrible, just a missed opportunity to be inventive a little. It stuck out to me since I presume everybody was told to record a video for this minecraft figurine website thing, and it looks like most of the people just did one take and said whatever, and it came out that 50% of the videos started out very nearly the same. quote:edit: But to be fair, paradoxGentleman is right, there's not really a super unique way to say hello to a large number of people at once, so it is a bit irrational on my part I suppose. I don't think it's irrational to find someone phoning it in to be irritating. If you notice it, other people do too.
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paradoxGentleman posted:Well how else are you supposed to open them? Open with a two minute long intro for your show.
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The only alternatives that come to mind are either starting with the commentary right away, which I'd find jarring, or switching "everyone" with the appropriate name for your fanbase which feels self-aggrandizing and tribalistic.
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sout posted:Shamus Young, whose name has been thrown around a lot recently because he did some good pieces on Fallout 3's dumb story, has his thing Spoiler Warning (which I think I might actually have heard from in this thread, sorry!) and his group is fairly critical of games while seeming to have fun with them at the same time. For the most part, at least. Spoiler Warning is good poo poo, for that, and how Josh (the one playing the games they LP) seems to attract glitches of all sorts no matter what game he plays.
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Sup motherfuckers welcome back to my let's loving play of Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise, part 376. Are you pieces of poo poo ready for this? *minute long 3D-rendered intro bearing my name several times with dubstep in the background*
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paradoxGentleman posted:The only alternatives that come to mind are either starting with the commentary right away, which I'd find jarring, or switching "everyone" with the appropriate name for your fanbase which feels self-aggrandizing and tribalistic. dscruffy1 here on SA took an approach to this that I quite like where he just tailors his greetings to the game he's LPing. So for example, he started his Monaco videos with "bonsoir, mes amis" and his Arkham Origin videos with "merry christmas, criminals". Gives things a unique touch without being gimmicky, I feel.
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Jim Sterling's openings for his Squirty Play series are pretty great since h makes up some new descriptor for the viewer each time. "Hello you Captain Birdseye hentai artists" "Hello you secret lemonade drinkers" "Hello you engorged ticks on a sexpests rear end in a top hat" "Hello you joyless little downers" "Hello you kangaroo's with breast implants"
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Sounds like he's using this: http://talklikewarrenellis.com/
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I used to say "Hello there and welcome back to game name here!" but then I started LPing games that had long names and it became a mouthful so I shortened it. Sometimes when I have guests it does not work out so well though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktLwCdI-YtI
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a cartoon duck posted:was shamus the guy who got really mad about NASA's space program being cancelled because he got stuffed into lockers a lot? I can't find anything about that but I did find this extraordinarily whiny article about New Vegas. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/columns/experienced-points/8241-Obsidian-Does-it-Again He seems like one of those  assholes that are a dime a dozen on the internet but again maybe I'm wrong here. 
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You should introduce yourself like you're trying to get your XBOX One to perform a task. 'Welcome back to Let's Play Assassin's Creed Unity, by Ubisoft on the XBOX One, powered by Microsoft.'
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CJacobs posted:One time a long time ago I noticed that almost everybody opens their video with "Hey guys!" or "What's up guys!" or "What's up Youtube" and I am just loving livid that I cannot stop being annoyed by it. Like, it's seriously one of the most annoying things about these people.
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Scream. Honestly, just scream into the mic for a solid 10-15 seconds. EDIT: Remember when Let's Plays were done by people who knew a poo poo-ton about the game they were playing, and it was perhaps a rare game that not many people got to play?
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I don't really care about how people open their videos. I don't even care how I open them. But somehow it always turns out to be "Greetings everybody welcome to game name here" That's not intentional, I'm just really boring. I also don't understand how other people can care about that. I do have my fair share of pet peeves, though. Don't you dare mention your lack of editing in a video claiming that if you have to suffer we have to too NO gently caress YOU GO TO HELL AND EAT poo poo FOR ETERNITY THIS IS NOT WHY I WATCH LETS PLAYS RAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH
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IGgy IGsen posted:I also don't understand how other people can care about that. I do have my fair share of pet peeves, though. Don't you dare mention your lack of editing in a video claiming that if you have to suffer we have to too NO gently caress YOU GO TO HELL AND EAT poo poo FOR ETERNITY THIS IS NOT WHY I WATCH LETS PLAYS RAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH I've done that one a couple times, but I went and edited one of them anyway, and for all the others it was specifically to highlight just how above and beyond terrible a particular section was. I would defintely be annoyed it happened more than like, once or twice in an LP if I was watching it. E: As an actual example, I have zero regrets about posting an unedited 45 minute Twinrova video for the Ocarina Chaos thread because that specific fight is a perfect example of how literally anything can gently caress you over in that fight. I think every other time I did some other kind of editing like speeding up footage instead of cutting it. Which is basically to say that I think not editing can actually be an effective tool for emphasis if you use it correctly and more importantly, sparingly. Artix fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Jun 12, 2015 |
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Artix posted:I've done that one a couple times, but I went and edited one of them anyway, and for all the others it was specifically to highlight just how above and beyond terrible a particular section was. I would defintely be annoyed it happened more than like, once or twice in an LP if I was watching it. Yeah, depending on your workflow I understand it happening once because it may be annoying to re-encode a video. But there are people who frequently do that and somehow think it's funny. I mean, I even enjoy the LPs its in aside from that but It just really annoys me because it's usually easily fixed. Even after recording commentary (if you do one continuous take instead of several shorter ones like myself, which allows you to correct stuff like that on the fly (solo at least))
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CJacobs posted:One time a long time ago I noticed that almost everybody opens their video with "Hey guys!" or "What's up guys!" or "What's up Youtube" and I am just loving livid that I cannot stop being annoyed by it. Like, it's seriously one of the most annoying things about these people. hey there cjacobs what is goin' on
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Let's play. https://twitter.com/YouTubeGaming
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https://twitter.com/YouTubeGaming/status/609421520084058113 Finally.
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a cartoon duck posted:was shamus the guy who got really mad about NASA's space program being cancelled because he got stuffed into lockers a lot? I think that was Bob Chipman (guy who did movie reviews for a while,) who asserted that NASA was a better use of money than programs aimed at feeding the needy and the like, because it represented some kind of "grand optimism." As if we should be proud of the fact that we were more concerned with winning a dick waving competition with the Soviet Union than making sure people didn't starve or freeze to death in the streets.  Don't get me wrong, I think NASA and the sciences and all the government programs funding them are great, but he explicitly pushed back against the idea that maybe we should put a higher priority on social welfare because he saw it as less important than shooting things into space.
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