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 Two Best Friends Play started out as a series of videos, quickly picked up by Machinima, featuring a pair of guys by the names of Matt and Pat yelling at each other a whole lot. The series was somewhat shtick ridden and of middling quality, or in other words it was a Machinima video series. Where things started to get interesting was when they suddenly decided they were just going to trying and do some full length Let's Play series, starting off with Silent Hill Downpour and Resident Evil 2. These dropped the shtick and revealed that both the hosts were actually pretty god drat entertaining, and it just kind of exploded from there. They now produce daily video content in the form of full LPs, one off episodes, vlogs, and even a bizarre arts and crafts thing on their main channel. Meanwhile the Machinima series has dramatically improved now that they're mostly just doing things naturally, and there were also two additional members of the cast in the form of Woolie and Liam. Where this intersects with RGD is their fairly new podcast, which I at least think is pretty excellent, and in fact on par with the Giant Bombcast as far as game stuff goes. Their primary focus tends to be fighting game community news, although they talk about gaming news in general. As of July 2014, they've at last got a web site all their own! ORDER NOW! The Machinima series (updated Sundays when active) is here. Their main channel (updated daily) is here. And the actual podcast (updated Tuesdays) is here. Dramatis Personae Matt  One of the two original headliners, Matt is is half-American, obsessed with all things Predator, and the group's sole defender of the Tales series. Pat  The other half of the original team, Pat is a man of simple tastes: he likes to buy fight sticks which he doesn't end up using, has a shrine to JRPG company Atlus, and wishes for the entire staff of Quantic Dream to be launched into the sun. Commonly known as "angry Pat" for reasons that quickly become obvious. Woolie  From the second wave of Best Friends comes Woolie. At once respected as the best fighting game player of the group, he is also constantly insulted for losing to Daigo in a tournament, choosing MVC3 over sex, disliking Deadly Premonition, and also a series of crimes the others just make up for him every new playthrough, such as a tendency to steal pies. Acts as the host of the Podcast. Liam  Originally brought in to save Woolie and Matt from being awful at Metroid Fusion, Liam has wormed his way into the main cast and aids Woolie in the task of taking poo poo, in Liam's case for his love of all the most kawaii animes in the universe and also Madoka Magica. Plague of Gripes  While not an official best friend, Youtube animator Plague of Gripes rose to honorary member when he decided to start providing visual representation of Matt and Pat's insane ramblings from the Machinima episodes. The Best Friends hold him in both adoration and fear for his talent at drawing military canines and his bottomless reserve of knowledge on duck reproduction. His channel is here. Zach  The secret lord of the Zaibatsu, likes 80s punk music, old monster movies, Richard Donner, coffee, and police ladies. Hates primary colored trees. 2 Snacks  Animator, makes the intro for the Machinima episodes and the cartoon Two Best Friends adventures. Likes those ponies all the cool goons are into. Youtube here Rody One Half fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Jul 17, 2014 |
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Ximum posted:Even if you don't like their videos, the podcast is well worth listening to. I linked it to a friend who was looking for more gaming podcasts and his response was "These guys are video games." He didn't realize until he was a couple episodes in that they were the Two Best Friends that he hated on YouTube. Is it those old machinima videos he hates? Because they are quite terrible, but if he likes the podcast and hasn't seen their more recent stuff he might want to look into it.
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Nov 16, 2013 09:28
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Genetic Toaster posted:OP, you need to add Woolie's greatest crime: He's an Other M apologist.
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Nov 19, 2013 18:56
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hoobajoo posted:Québécois Top Gym Pumper posted:Nah, the Giant Bomb thread gets away with it.
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Nov 21, 2013 04:47
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 I don't go on /co/ much, but apparently Plague does. The results, as you can see, are terrifying.
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Nov 23, 2013 07:33
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Al-Saqr posted:uh, what's going on here? what's this got to do with best friends? Haven't you seen PlagueOfGripe's Predator College video?
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Nov 23, 2013 18:44
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Marlamaid Swordhand posted:Also Rodyle omitted 2snacks for a very good reason despite the latter being responsible for the Two Best friends machinima intros/Super Funtime Adventures. That reason is actually that I forgot about 2Snacks. I don't watch Funtime Adventures. Is there something I should know? I'll add Zach to to the OP this week, I swear! Rody One Half fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Nov 29, 2013 |
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Nov 26, 2013 22:34
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I'll never get tired of them just making poo poo up about Woolie.
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Dec 10, 2013 16:16
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I've only played Yakuza 3 and ended up setting it aside due to being busy. Does Yakuza 4 still have those weird photo op things where you get new moves which are invariably totally loving insane?
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Dec 18, 2013 17:11
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Ab2xw7hVE Uh, tis the season I guess!
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Dec 24, 2013 21:45
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Gorefiend posted:I really like this podcast for the most part, but I really hate Liam. Why?
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Dec 29, 2013 05:44
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Woolie's deep seated rage against Gundamn Seed Destiny is truly great and terrible to behold.
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Jan 1, 2014 00:11
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WYZVmdw9gw This is some lovingly rendered nonsense.
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Jan 3, 2014 15:05
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Once, I thought watching people open boxes on the internet was stupid. I curse Giant Bomb for changing my mind on this. That Joseph figure 
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Jan 16, 2014 21:24
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If you can't handle Liam's love of the animes and SoR, I just don't know what to say. It seems like Matt's hatred for Shadow grows with each successive Spindash Quicklook.
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Jan 31, 2014 16:46
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Tatum Girlparts posted:That part in one of the brawlers (Dragon's Crown I think) when some fat goblin lady comes on screen and Matt goes "WOW PAT HOW'D YOUR MOM GET HERE" and there's this pause before he goes "She's always so nice to you" is legit one of the funniest things they've done. One time they were talking about herand Pat said something like "the worst part is sometimes she'll be talking to me and say something like 'that joke Matt made about me last night was GOLD' and then I don't know how to respond." Al-Saqr posted:In today's video intro, Pat goes against his true personality by revealing that he actually is capable of loving his mom. I... I think Disaster is really boring and it's the first full LP I've dropped in ages. I'm sorry. I'm the rear end in a top hat  Is this what it's like to be a Deadly Premonition hater?
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Feb 1, 2014 03:22
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I am torn between enjoying the ever-present fear and incredulity it prompts and the fact that most Gal Gun videos are pretty much the same (granting that I've only seen Giant Bomb, Best Friends, and Kuvo's stream of it).
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Feb 4, 2014 12:36
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Smash and EVO destroy best friendships.
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Feb 12, 2014 05:47
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When Gacha Gacha showed up I thought that'd be the weirdest thing in the mailbag. Boy. I was wrong.
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Feb 12, 2014 18:30
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Why did someone send them eight pounds of cereal marshmallows? What are they even going to do with all that, add them to Cheerios?
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Feb 13, 2014 14:05
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I think Seth is secretly Santa Claus or something.
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Feb 24, 2014 05:16
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I am sorry for not believing you, guy who said that Y4's revelation's were way weirder than 3's. I was unimpressed by Akiyama's for the most part, but Saejima loving brings the thunder.
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Feb 24, 2014 19:14
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I hope someone actually sends them an arcade cabinet now.
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Mar 7, 2014 15:55
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I've only seen the first DKS2 video but I'm kind of annoyed at Liam basically leading Matt around in such a way as to guarantee he'll hate the game compared to Pat actually coaching.
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Mar 17, 2014 20:48
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That was what I meant yes, Pat was doing a real good job, and Woolie was consequently getting super into it. Liam just gave Matt rope and watched as he hung himself with it, though admittedly this is slightly less terrible with the revelation in the second video that Liam didn't know how to level up either as opposed to just messing with Matt.
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Mar 18, 2014 02:16
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItjiPSW-8Sg I don't understand how the most entertaining thing I watch every week someone became "four Canadians open boxes." is this the future
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Mar 20, 2014 02:52
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Yeah you can disagree or dislike someone without being a loving psycho about it. Not that the internet is ever so properly restrained, but hey, the Best Friends seem to be! I kind of hope that once they've all beaten Dark Souls 2 they consider doing a special spoilercast for it because I want to hear them all really dig into it.
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Mar 23, 2014 19:25
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drat it, I've had a package I wanted to send but the cross-border postage was too expensive for my broke student rear end 
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Apr 5, 2014 03:56
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quakster posted:Take a good step back and look at what you just posted. It wasn't anything crazy, just two books for Woolie and Pat.
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Apr 5, 2014 13:43
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A good poster posted:Since this latest podcast was dated April 1st, did they put in the segment talking about this article as a joke, or did they not realize that p4rgaming is The Onion of videogames? They have known and have been in love with p4rgaming for awhile so yes that's a joke.
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Apr 6, 2014 14:40
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Pat and Liam are breaking my heart with the Log Horizon hate
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Apr 23, 2014 01:28
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmdbB2rqMMw Woolie is just dying this entire video and it's amazing.
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Apr 26, 2014 04:10
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Stop the loving presses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNc9R1zfwM0
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May 11, 2014 07:01
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Podcast is on fire this week. Pat: "I have this image of someone looking at a Berserk soundtrack and seeing 'Theme of Rape Horse' Matt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xD1FAOJI84
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May 13, 2014 18:59
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Al-Saqr posted:It's such a goddamn shame they missed the XBOX 180 news by a hairs breadth and werent able to discuss it on the podcast on time. What's this?
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May 13, 2014 20:54
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Veotax posted:They're going to start selling a Kinectless SKU for $100 less next month. That's... beautiful.
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May 13, 2014 21:44
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hoobajoo posted:Well, it's normal, it's just that you've been looking at a grizzly train wreck for so long normal looks really great. Oh no, not in the sense of "wow, I totally want an Xbone now," just that it's hilarious how hard they've had to back down.
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May 13, 2014 21:56
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Woolie and Liam vie for the worst spot, generally speaking (not that either are bad). Liam causes some dumb arguments on the cast but Woolie regularly has to be bailed out in videos, often by Liam himself. Like, Liam's trolling is what keeps the Nuzlocke afloat.
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May 15, 2014 04:39
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On the other hand, Woolie steadfastly defending his claim about muskets in World War 1 was the worst thing.
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May 15, 2014 15:30
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Yea it was purely a 'hey, godzilla nerds GET IT?!' thing, no random Motrha bullshit. That awful MC and his family should have been cut, Cranston and Watanabe doing science poo poo would have been fine enough for the human framework story, but aside of MCfamily the human stuff was fine and god you guys when the monsters come out it's the coolest poo poo ever.
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