What LPs should I read/watch/care about? (Recommendation Thread)

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StrixNebulosa: Feb 14, 2012; You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

Fedule's latest LP has gotten me a hankerin' - I'd like to settle in and watch some VLPs about games with interesting (not necessarily good) stories where the LPer is polite and informative. It doesn't have to be on SA - in fact, hit me up with good youtubers - but, please, don't send me to anyone who reads the text on-screen.

I don't have a more broad genre request here - I'll watch FPSes if there's a good story, just, give me something I can think about and enjoy. Like Bobbin Threadbare's stuff, if you need another point of reference.

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# ? May 18, 2024 10:55

Level 1 Thief: Dec 17, 2007; I'm busy, and I'm having fun.

supergreatfriend on Deadly Premonition comes immediately to mind if you haven't seen it. That game is kind of the gold standard for "interesting but not necessarily good." It's downright captivating.

# ? Mar 9, 2018 02:08

ultrafilter: Aug 23, 2007; It's okay if you have any questions.

Level 1 Thief posted:

supergreatfriend on Deadly Premonition comes immediately to mind if you haven't seen it. That game is kind of the gold standard for "interesting but not necessarily good." It's downright captivating.

This is a high-quality LP.

# ? Mar 9, 2018 02:28

StrixNebulosa: Feb 14, 2012; You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

Level 1 Thief posted:

supergreatfriend on Deadly Premonition comes immediately to mind if you haven't seen it. That game is kind of the gold standard for "interesting but not necessarily good." It's downright captivating.

That's pretty much exactly what I'm looking for...except that I've seen it twice. Sorry!

# ? Mar 9, 2018 02:37

HerpicleOmnicron5: May 31, 2013; How did this smug dummkopf ever make general?

StrixNebulosa posted:

Fedule's latest LP has gotten me a hankerin' - I'd like to settle in and watch some VLPs about games with interesting (not necessarily good) stories where the LPer is polite and informative. It doesn't have to be on SA - in fact, hit me up with good youtubers - but, please, don't send me to anyone who reads the text on-screen.

I don't have a more broad genre request here - I'll watch FPSes if there's a good story, just, give me something I can think about and enjoy. Like Bobbin Threadbare's stuff, if you need another point of reference.

SGF's latest series, on Let's Catch is certainly interesting. I've been enjoying Tehsnakerer's content, which isn't really an LP but rather talking through the broadstrokes of full games. I particularly enjoyed his breakdown of the Xenus trilogy, the most fascinating trilogy of Eurojank games I've seen. Kinda like STALKER crossed with Far Cry 2, then it turns to STALKER with Far Cry 1, and then STALKER with uh... Star Trek. I also greatly enjoyed his look at Second Sight, a game about a psychic dude made by the Timesplitters devs.

# ? Mar 9, 2018 02:42

StrixNebulosa: Feb 14, 2012; You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:

SGF's latest series, on Let's Catch is certainly interesting. I've been enjoying Tehsnakerer's content, which isn't really an LP but rather talking through the broadstrokes of full games. I particularly enjoyed his breakdown of the Xenus trilogy, the most fascinating trilogy of Eurojank games I've seen. Kinda like STALKER crossed with Far Cry 2, then it turns to STALKER with Far Cry 1, and then STALKER with uh... Star Trek. I also greatly enjoyed his look at Second Sight, a game about a psychic dude made by the Timesplitters devs.

I've watched the first minute of the Xenus trilogy and can tell already: this is my jam, thank you! LPs, game design/reviews, good stuff I love to watch~

# ? Mar 9, 2018 02:46

Afriscipio: Jun 3, 2013

StrixNebulosa posted:

Fedule's latest LP has gotten me a hankerin' - I'd like to settle in and watch some VLPs about games with interesting (not necessarily good) stories where the LPer is polite and informative. It doesn't have to be on SA - in fact, hit me up with good youtubers - but, please, don't send me to anyone who reads the text on-screen.

I don't have a more broad genre request here - I'll watch FPSes if there's a good story, just, give me something I can think about and enjoy. Like Bobbin Threadbare's stuff, if you need another point of reference.

Your evil twin did a good Singularity LP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ok3mL3f68w

# ? Mar 9, 2018 09:43

Gildiss: Aug 24, 2010; Grimey Drawer

StrixNebulosa posted:

Fedule's latest LP has gotten me a hankerin' - I'd like to settle in and watch some VLPs about games with interesting (not necessarily good) stories where the LPer is polite and informative. It doesn't have to be on SA - in fact, hit me up with good youtubers - but, please, don't send me to anyone who reads the text on-screen.

I don't have a more broad genre request here - I'll watch FPSes if there's a good story, just, give me something I can think about and enjoy. Like Bobbin Threadbare's stuff, if you need another point of reference.

I would recommend the MODE lp by SGF, but I don't see it on the archive. Someone help!

Nm I got it. Goddamn this was 5 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaSPgE4K0SB3Vi6N13DtVRF-uJq0WLCC3

Gildiss fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Mar 9, 2018

# ? Mar 9, 2018 16:16

StrixNebulosa: Feb 14, 2012; You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

Gildiss posted:

I would recommend the MODE lp by SGF, but I don't see it on the archive. Someone help!

Nm I got it. Goddamn this was 5 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaSPgE4K0SB3Vi6N13DtVRF-uJq0WLCC3

I've also seen it and read the thread associated with it! Not sure why he didn't archive it, it's a brilliant LP.

# ? Mar 9, 2018 16:31

Fiendly: May 27, 2010; That's not right!

LPs of weird mediocre games with bizarre stories are pretty much my main interest, though not a ton come to mind. Limbo of the Lost is actually agonizingly bad but really fascinating, some cool ladies on another board covered odd adventure game The Orion Conspiracy, and Niggurath has done a few, chief among them being Michigan: Report From Hell.

# ? Mar 9, 2018 17:31

I brought my Drake: Jul 10, 2014; These high-G injections have some serious side effects after pulling so many jumps.

Are there any subtitled video LPs going on right now? I've watched all the extant ones in the archive.

# ? Mar 9, 2018 22:21

Ashsaber: Oct 24, 2010; Deploying Swordbreakers!; College Slice

queserasera posted:

Are there any subtitled video LPs going on right now? I've watched all the extant ones in the archive.

Little Nightmares by JohnOfOrdo3 is good, he does reall interesting things to make the character come to life and set the Narrator for the LP apart.

# ? Mar 9, 2018 22:45

StrixNebulosa: Feb 14, 2012; You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

Afriscipio posted:

Your evil twin did a good Singularity LP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ok3mL3f68w

Hey, thanks for this! I haven't seen it, gonna spin it up now and give it a go!

# ? Mar 10, 2018 18:45

sincx: Jul 13, 2012; furiously masturbating to anime titties

Is there a Stellaris LP (offsite is fine) in the vein of Jade Star's X-com LPs (extremely informative but doesn't take itself too seriously)?

# ? Mar 12, 2018 03:26

RoboChrist 9000: Dec 14, 2006; Mater Dolorosa

Are there any Goon streams or informal (or 'formal' for that matter, I just assume not since I haven't noticed any here on the forums) LPs of Kingdom Come yet? KInd of really interested in that game, but as my computer is a toaster, I will only be experiencing it vicariously through others for the foreseeable future.

# ? Mar 15, 2018 17:49

FluxFaun: Apr 7, 2010

Does anyone have a good LP of Bendy and the Ink machine that's not got a scarecam? This includes John Wolfe.

# ? Mar 17, 2018 05:51

The Vosgian Beast: Aug 13, 2011; Business is slow

Any good LPs of the Klonoa games?

# ? Mar 19, 2018 13:58

Dolash: Oct 23, 2008; aNYWAY,
tHAT'S REALLY ALL THERE IS,
tO REPORT ON THE SUBJECT,
oF ME GETTING HURT,

I apologize if this isn't the right thread for this question, but it seemed like the closest match: I remember a Let's Play someone was doing with an old board game, I think it was two-player, with one player as an empire and another as a rebellion against that empire. It might've been a participatory Let's Play where the readers were voting on strategies to win, and I think the Let's Player was playing as the Empire.

I was reminded of this game recently when a friend pitched me on a game idea of theirs that sounded very similar to this boardgame and I wanted to compare notes, but I can't remember anything more specific than the above to find it with. It was in the last couple years, I remember that much.

# ? Mar 20, 2018 19:53

HerpicleOmnicron5: May 31, 2013; How did this smug dummkopf ever make general?

Dolash posted:

I apologize if this isn't the right thread for this question, but it seemed like the closest match: I remember a Let's Play someone was doing with an old board game, I think it was two-player, with one player as an empire and another as a rebellion against that empire. It might've been a participatory Let's Play where the readers were voting on strategies to win, and I think the Let's Player was playing as the Empire.

I was reminded of this game recently when a friend pitched me on a game idea of theirs that sounded very similar to this boardgame and I wanted to compare notes, but I can't remember anything more specific than the above to find it with. It was in the last couple years, I remember that much.

I remember this thread, though if you want to compare notes it might be best to use the newly released Fantasy Flight boardgame Star Wars Rebellion.

# ? Mar 20, 2018 19:57

Dolash: Oct 23, 2008; aNYWAY,
tHAT'S REALLY ALL THERE IS,
tO REPORT ON THE SUBJECT,
oF ME GETTING HURT,

HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:

I remember this thread, though if you want to compare notes it might be best to use the newly released Fantasy Flight boardgame Star Wars Rebellion.

Thanks for the recommendation! Though if you do remember the other thread, do you mind letting me know the name of the game? It's been bugging me that I can't find it.

# ? Mar 20, 2018 20:17

HerpicleOmnicron5: May 31, 2013; How did this smug dummkopf ever make general?

Dolash posted:

Thanks for the recommendation! Though if you do remember the other thread, do you mind letting me know the name of the game? It's been bugging me that I can't find it.

I don't remember its name, the thread's name, not sure who ran it (For some reason I think Xenocides? They usually do the board games.) and I took it off my control panel a while ago. Very generic though, so I can't think of any search terms that would dredge it up.

# ? Mar 20, 2018 20:26

Yapping Eevee: Nov 12, 2011; STAND TOGETHER.
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Dolash posted:

I apologize if this isn't the right thread for this question, but it seemed like the closest match: I remember a Let's Play someone was doing with an old board game, I think it was two-player, with one player as an empire and another as a rebellion against that empire. It might've been a participatory Let's Play where the readers were voting on strategies to win, and I think the Let's Player was playing as the Empire.

I was reminded of this game recently when a friend pitched me on a game idea of theirs that sounded very similar to this boardgame and I wanted to compare notes, but I can't remember anything more specific than the above to find it with. It was in the last couple years, I remember that much.

I think this might be too old to be the thread you're thinking of, but perhaps check out Battlepod. It ran from 2011 to 2013.

I can definitely recommend it as a cool thread for anyone to read; it was a homebrew creation, so don't be daunted by the enormous stat block post.

# ? Mar 21, 2018 04:06

Dolash: Oct 23, 2008; aNYWAY,
tHAT'S REALLY ALL THERE IS,
tO REPORT ON THE SUBJECT,
oF ME GETTING HURT,

Yapping Eevee posted:

I think this might be too old to be the thread you're thinking of, but perhaps check out Battlepod. It ran from 2011 to 2013.

I can definitely recommend it as a cool thread for anyone to read; it was a homebrew creation, so don't be daunted by the enormous stat block post.

Ah right, I remember this thread, not the one I was looking for but I never got around to really reading it before and had meant to. Thanks for the recommendation!

# ? Mar 21, 2018 04:43

Billzasilver: Nov 8, 2016; I lift my drink and sing a song

for who knows if life is short or long?

Man's life is like the morning dew

past days many, future days few

Hi thread. Does anyone remember the Witness blind LP done by a husband and wife? Or maybe they were engaged. It was really fun to watch.

# ? Mar 21, 2018 05:26

Inadequately: Oct 9, 2012

Dolash posted:

I apologize if this isn't the right thread for this question, but it seemed like the closest match: I remember a Let's Play someone was doing with an old board game, I think it was two-player, with one player as an empire and another as a rebellion against that empire. It might've been a participatory Let's Play where the readers were voting on strategies to win, and I think the Let's Player was playing as the Empire.

I was reminded of this game recently when a friend pitched me on a game idea of theirs that sounded very similar to this boardgame and I wanted to compare notes, but I can't remember anything more specific than the above to find it with. It was in the last couple years, I remember that much.

I remember that one, it was an LP of Down With The Empire. While I can't quite locate the LP thread in question, if it's a comparison you want, the developer's site has a free rulebook available for download.

# ? Mar 21, 2018 05:37

ClothHat: Mar 2, 2005; ASK ME ABOUT MY LOVE OF THE LUMPEN-GOBLITARIAT
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Dolash posted:

I apologize if this isn't the right thread for this question, but it seemed like the closest match: I remember a Let's Play someone was doing with an old board game, I think it was two-player, with one player as an empire and another as a rebellion against that empire. It might've been a participatory Let's Play where the readers were voting on strategies to win, and I think the Let's Player was playing as the Empire.

I was reminded of this game recently when a friend pitched me on a game idea of theirs that sounded very similar to this boardgame and I wanted to compare notes, but I can't remember anything more specific than the above to find it with. It was in the last couple years, I remember that much.

Was it this?

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3733409

# ? Mar 21, 2018 07:38

Air Skwirl: May 13, 2007; Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Any decent Horizon: Zero Dawn playthroughs?

# ? Mar 21, 2018 08:06

fucking love Fiona Apple: Jun 19, 2013; samus comfy so what

Billzasilver posted:

Hi thread. Does anyone remember the Witness blind LP done by a husband and wife? Or maybe they were engaged. It was really fun to watch.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3763619

You need archives unfortunately.

# ? Mar 21, 2018 09:15

Billzasilver: Nov 8, 2016; I lift my drink and sing a song

for who knows if life is short or long?

Man's life is like the morning dew

past days many, future days few

loving love Fiona Apple posted:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3763619

You need archives unfortunately.

tyvm. I don�t have archive but I saw it fine. It�s all on YouTube anyways.

# ? Mar 21, 2018 11:14

Lotus Aura: Aug 16, 2009; KNEEL BEFORE THE WICKED KING!

loving love Fiona Apple posted:

You need archives unfortunately.

Fortunately, that's not true. The "Archive" lock in the corner of the thread means that it's too old to post in/reopen but that's all; it may require Archives sometime in the future, but since they've been broken for almost 4 years now I'm not expecting it to be fixed anytime soon. :v:

# ? Mar 21, 2018 12:09

Dolash: Oct 23, 2008; aNYWAY,
tHAT'S REALLY ALL THERE IS,
tO REPORT ON THE SUBJECT,
oF ME GETTING HURT,

Inadequately posted:

I remember that one, it was an LP of Down With The Empire. While I can't quite locate the LP thread in question, if it's a comparison you want, the developer's site has a free rulebook available for download.

ClothHat posted:

Was it this?

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3733409

That was it! Thanks, guys!

# ? Mar 21, 2018 16:12

malkav11: Aug 7, 2009

Skwirl posted:

Any decent Horizon: Zero Dawn playthroughs?

I found https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTcoRMwrX2Dihqq1gtbR_LcjDN7p4op90
sufferable. No facecam, grinding edited out, etc. I'd still like to see an in-depth take though, ideally an SA one, because he doesn't really dig into the collectible lore which is a big part of the game's story.

# ? Mar 23, 2018 01:03

IGgy IGsen: Apr 11, 2013; "If I lose I will set myself on fire."

Skwirl posted:

Any decent Horizon: Zero Dawn playthroughs?

You can go with this one if you can dig a subtitled LP of it.
https://www.lp.zone/t/theres-so-much-more-left-to-discover-before-the-world-ends-lets-play-horizon-zero-dawn/2150

# ? Mar 23, 2018 02:32

Philippe: Aug 9, 2013; (she/her)

Wottermelon abandoned the subtitles recently, because it takes too long to do. He's updating earlier videos to have voice commentary instead.

And yeah, it's a good LP.

# ? Mar 23, 2018 22:40

StrixNebulosa: Feb 14, 2012; You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

I can't remember which LP it was - which one had a guy playing through a car game where you were doing stunts for movies, which meant the tracks were full of some of the most precise, ridiculous stunts?

# ? Mar 24, 2018 00:07

Jobbo_Fett: Mar 7, 2014; Slava Ukrayini; Clapping Larry

StrixNebulosa posted:

I can't remember which LP it was - which one had a guy playing through a car game where you were doing stunts for movies, which meant the tracks were full of some of the most precise, ridiculous stunts?

https://lparchive.org/Stuntman/ ?

# ? Mar 24, 2018 00:12

Billzasilver: Nov 8, 2016; I lift my drink and sing a song

for who knows if life is short or long?

Man's life is like the morning dew

past days many, future days few

Finally finished the Witness LP, it was pretty dang good. Why aren�t any of the Pete and Amy LPs in the archives?

# ? Mar 24, 2018 07:44

Air Skwirl: May 13, 2007; Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Tasteful Dickpic posted:

Wottermelon abandoned the subtitles recently, because it takes too long to do. He's updating earlier videos to have voice commentary instead.

And yeah, it's a good LP.

That's good news because I prefer audio commentary to subtitles because I rarely watch LPs without doing something else at the same time so following the action on screen and the subtitled commentary is a bit hard.

# ? Mar 24, 2018 09:27

StrixNebulosa: Feb 14, 2012; You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

Jobbo_Fett posted:

https://lparchive.org/Stuntman/ ?

That's it, thank you!

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# ? May 18, 2024 10:55

green chicken feet: Nov 5, 2015; spray-paint the vegetables
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Skwirl posted:

Any decent Horizon: Zero Dawn playthroughs?

I really enjoyed Knight and Day's LP of Horizon: Zero Dawn. A blind play-through on hard difficulty - lots of fun, and with no face cam.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvjO_RhcFh77YzGx3n2MvXXcyrZs7vnZp

# ? Mar 24, 2018 19:36

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