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

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Let's Play! > What LPs should I read/watch/care about? (Recommendation Thread)

«‹›4 »

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

AstroWhale posted:

Sadly the videos of the Pokemon LP are gone. And no, they are not on archives.org.

It looks like some are up on his youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/metroixer/featured

# ¿ Apr 17, 2015 22:30

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 14, 2024 12:57

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

my dog boyfriend!! posted:

I think the first horror VLP I ever watched was Penumbra a couple years ago and now I've been hooked since. I've run through Kamoc's streams and Voidburger's Silent Hill LPs and I'm hungry for more. I don't care if it's creeping-suspense horror or high-tension jumpy scares, subtitled or voice commentary, I love it all. Point me to your fave horror game LPs.

I always quite enjoyed Blister's LP of Cyrostasis: http://bd.baldurk.org/lp/20 , or even though it's a flawed game itself, davidpackage's LP of Amnesia 2: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmx3QdwtLxu20Nd_Xtm5xKfDA7VydUzWX

# ¿ Apr 28, 2015 18:11

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

anilEhilated posted:

For an entirely different brand of horror, you could try Khad's take on that.

You could say that about any of Khad's LP's

# ¿ Apr 28, 2015 18:35

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

TopherCStone posted:

On the topic of horror games, I really liked the Harvester and Sweet Home LPs. Is there anything more in that vein? Older, possibly forgotten horror games?

While not exactly forgotten, the Phantasmagoria 2 LP was pretty good and bizarre: http://lparchive.org/Phantasmagoria-2/

# ¿ Apr 28, 2015 22:57

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

TopherCStone posted:

I'm worried that it might be too cheesy for me to enjoy, but I'll give it a shot thanks

It's nowhere near as cheesy or goofy as the first Phantasmagoria; granted it's pretty dated, but it had a positive homosexual character, some pretty graphic violence, and some incredibly awkward sex scenes. If anything, the pacing of the game is a bit poo poo at times but davidspackage works well enough with it.

I'd want to recommend Ripper: http://lparchive.org/Ripper/ as well but that one ended up being pretty cheesy. I just saw Harvester and figured you might be fine with some level of cheese.

my dog boyfriend!! posted:

I haven't even clicked play on the first video and I'm already sold:

Blister was always a pretty weird guy; I still remember when he green screened himself in the nude for the L4D LP. But Cryostasis was him being as straight as I ever saw him, which also reminds me he did the Blair Witch Project games as well...but those were a train wreck.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2015 00:32

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

my dog boyfriend!! posted:

Finished Rule of Rose yesterday and idek what happened there but it was good. Niggurath's commentary on Michigan so far has much more editorializing/silliness than I'm used to in his horror LPs, rather than the usual straight narration or explanation, and it's a pretty fun change of pace with that relaxed NPR radio host tone. Plus I didn't realize this was a Suda51 game so it all goes well together.

I kinda misinterpreted it when I did the LP, but the ending is basically while the orphanage was a horrible experience in the end for Jennifer, she was the only person left who cared about the fact of all these poor children that died and if she had continued to block out the memory then all those lives would be forever lost to the abyss of time. I had thought originally it was about letting go, and letting the past rest but she was the only one left to remember. Everyone else only remembered the tragic balloon accident. I feel bad in retrospect having totally missed that being the meaning of the ending, but honestly that game depressed the poo poo out of me and I have no qualms with saying I was choking back tears with some of those updates.

And Michigan was a fun train wreck to do; it's nice to have a change of pace from having your soul destroyed sometimes.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2015 18:50

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

Lizard Wizard posted:

Since it doesn't seem to be on the LP Archive, does anyone have a link to that Diablo 2 LP someone did not too long ago as necromancer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6u9Ia33hRQ

# ¿ May 11, 2015 07:35

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

corn in the bible posted:

Only goon LPs are guaranteed quality.

I think the larger issue is that it's currently unfinished in Early Access; so at most you can probably do a general search on youtube if someone is looking for a pointers but a legit LP won't really happen till the game is in a more complete state.

# ¿ May 13, 2015 21:36

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

nine-gear crow posted:

Then maybe try phrasing it a little clearer so it doesn't look like you find the idea itself of a certain poster's threads actually being replied to contemptuously funny.

Also his response was in relation to someone asking for a Darkest Dungeon LP and yeah, it doesn't matter. Clearly stein was just making GBS threads on lizard.

discworld is all I read fucked around with this message at 00:41 on May 15, 2015

# ¿ May 15, 2015 00:35

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

Tobias Grant posted:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110304182825/http://lparchive.org/Silent-Hill-1/

https://web.archive.org/web/20120104231918/http://lparchive.org/Silent-Hill-2/

https://web.archive.org/web/20110123014837/http://lparchive.org/Silent-Hill-3/

https://web.archive.org/web/20110123014841/http://lparchive.org/Silent-Hill-4/

These seem to work, but I haven't checked beyond the first update. I'm surprised that they got purged though, I loved those LPs.

I can really tell why people want to retain this humor:

VVVVVV
Yes, homophobic slurs are slighty off-color.

discworld is all I read fucked around with this message at 02:04 on May 23, 2015

# ¿ May 23, 2015 01:59

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

Putty posted:

Are there any LPs where the LPer heroically dies at the end? I'm talking about like Bruce Willis in Armageddon or those two pilots from Prometheus.

imagine an LPer is LPing Sonic Adventure 2 during a gigantic flood or something, he is so close to finishing the let's play as his house floods with water. He slowly says goodbye to his co-commentators as he and shadow the hedgehog heroically meet their ends together

Nope, there are not. All LP'ers live forever.

# ¿ May 31, 2015 23:26

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

So if anyone is looking for a lot of good roguelike (or lite) content then I'd highly recommend the Roguelike megathread going on: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3720568

Agent355 is doing a pretty fun run of Necrodancer, a couple of guys are doing some insightful runs of DoomRL, anilEhilated just started showing off Ziggurat, and just a lot of other great stuff in there. Especially with the Steam sale going on, if you're not sure of stuff to buy then these LP's might just sell you on some of these games.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2015 04:51

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

Scaramouche posted:

That Kirby golf game by someone I've forgotten. I've always been on the lookout for the hata tomata since then, but it's not in the archive and I have no idea how to find it, sorry that probably wasn't very helpful.

That'd be psymonkey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl4gb5-nNlk

Qylvaran posted:

I'm on my phone and can't find it, but can someone post the Sonic 2 Easy Mode video? It's the chillest thing.

I was pretty certain that was DocFuture: http://lparchive.org/Sonic-2-Special-Edition/

# ¿ Jul 5, 2015 07:37

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

anydayhappyday posted:

Since this came up (even though it wasn't the Easy Mode video) I highly recommend DocFuture's Sonic 2 Special Edition LP. Incredibly creative take on a Sonic game, though the video imaging is a bit dated in terms of quality.

In fact, does anyone have recommendations of similar LPs? The only thing that comes to mind, in terms of creativity and scope, is Chewbot's Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing, though I imagine others are just slipping my mind right now. Anyway, I'd really appreciate some suggestions!

DocFuture is a national treasure and it's a shame we don't get things like his Tryrush Deppy LP anymore: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x53c11_tryrush-deppy-stage-one_videogames

The only thing that really comes to mind that's similar as of late is TieTuesday's LP of Godzilla: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3712857

# ¿ Jul 13, 2015 08:48

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

Dongattack posted:

I like it, long time since i watched a subtitle let's play. Cheers!

I would give a bit of warning in that he's playing on the hardest difficulty and thus things are a lot more erratic (and possibly more tense) than normal. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it was hard for me to watch a couple of the updates with just how fast and constantly he was moving around his camera.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2015 17:43

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

GMArcturus posted:

Is there a good (as in humorous) VLP of the Resident Evil series either here or on Youtube?

I quite enjoyed Ragny and Psych going through RE 1 REmake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Zv7ThceWg

# ¿ Jul 27, 2015 06:52

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

Ted_Haggard posted:

Are there any LPs done with the people who made the game commenting on it, talking about any of the behind the scenes stuff? I know the X-com: The Bureau LP had someone who worked on it doing commentary, I was wondering if there were any more.

The first one that comes to mind is nidoking's LP of Prince of Persia: Warrior Within- http://lparchive.org/Prince-of-Persia-Warrior-Within/

I'm also fairly certain that chewbot wrote a bit in the Banner Saga LP- http://lparchive.org/The-Banner-Saga/ and Yahtzee spoke a bit in the Cthos LP thread- http://lparchive.org/The-Chzo-Mythos/

# ¿ Jul 27, 2015 18:02

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

Fwoderwick posted:

There was a good LP of XCOM: The Bureau not too long ago that had one of the QA guys on board for most of the time. You might be aware of the fairly tortuous development that game had so it was interesting to hear just how much things changed and what assets survived the various revisions. Also turns out it's pretty good game and the story goes a few interesting places too, just doesn't have anything to do with XCOM.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be on the master list or the LP Archive and I can't remember the guys name, so this is not an informative post.

(someone make up for my ignorance please)

I think he knew about the Bureau LP cause he mentioned it specifically.

# ¿ Jul 27, 2015 18:36

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

What's especially good about his run is that he's showing off the few cinematics I missed and the poorly voice acted audio clips of Laura going back over what you already know. Also he probably doesn't loathe the game, which is always a plus.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2015 08:29

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

ally_1986 posted:

To be fair there is nothing inside that building!

The distant memories of a once great past that in the present day is nothing more than a bankrupt shell. Lots of parallels going on between Greece and LP'dom.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2015 22:28

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

dantheman650 posted:

I hugely enjoyed Squint's Demons' Souls LP a few years back. Did anyone every do a Dark Souls or Dark Souls 2 LP in the same fashion, that is, highly skilled play and super chill commentary? Not a blind run or gimmick run. Did Squint ever do any more?

I quite enjoyed DazzlingAddar's informative LP of Dark Souls 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrtVa1sidm0 or you could give Iggy's LP of DS 2 a try as well: http://lparchive.org/Dark-Souls-II/. Both were chill and informative, and covered pretty much everything in the game.

And Zain's LP of DS 1 is especially informative: http://lparchive.org/Dark-Souls-Prepare-to-Die-Edition/. Sadly I haven't seen squint around for quite some time.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2015 10:21

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

Aishlinn posted:

Does anyone remember the really comprehensive Castlevania let's play series of (almost) all the games that got posted a few years ago? it didnt seem to make it to the archives.

It was done by Zeratanis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTAGb6AGBco. Sadly he's a crumb bum who doesn't setup playlists on his youtube, but all the videos seem to be there.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2015 22:12

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

Zeratanis posted:

I'm honestly not too happy with the quality of those LPs(SOTN excluded) all things considered. But hey, if people enjoy them still, that's always nice! I should really set up a playlist though when I think about it.

I should really go about actually finishing that final video for SOTN when I think about it too... All that was keeping me from requesting archives at the time.

Well I thought they were great and people still remember them four years later; so you must have done something alright.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2015 23:15

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

Great Joe posted:

Forums Standby Niggurath excels at making pretty much any game boring.

Yup.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2015 17:42

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

EricFate posted:

And to try and drag things back on topic, is anyone else as fascinated by the Kororinpa thread as I am? It is a game I have never heard of, would never want to play, and would seem to be a horrible candidate for an LP thread.

Despite all this, the thread works, and I find that I am enjoying these videos a whole lot.

Yeah, frozentreasure always does a bang up job like his LP's of Fez (where he broke down everything in the game) or Mischief Makers.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2015 02:14

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

Redundant posted:

It does?

Yes, it's just drama that doesn't need to be brought up.

# ¿ Sep 23, 2015 17:44

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

Turtlicious posted:

A good lp of undertale?

Right on the front page since it's such a great game: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3742647

# ¿ Oct 5, 2015 22:31

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

Turtlicious posted:

Anybody know people good for:

Amnesia and
Alien Isolation

I quite enjoyed davidspackage's LP of the second Amnesia game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNFGm9FIEZ8

# ¿ Oct 11, 2015 08:11

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

Kurtofan posted:

Hey, seems like From Earth's Silent Hill lps are gone from the Archive?

Here ya go:

Tobias Grant posted:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110304182825/http://lparchive.org/Silent-Hill-1/

https://web.archive.org/web/20120104231918/http://lparchive.org/Silent-Hill-2/

https://web.archive.org/web/20110123014837/http://lparchive.org/Silent-Hill-3/

https://web.archive.org/web/20110123014841/http://lparchive.org/Silent-Hill-4/

These seem to work, but I haven't checked beyond the first update. I'm surprised that they got purged though, I loved those LPs.

# ¿ Oct 14, 2015 17:48

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

Kurtofan posted:

Thanks man. It's real weird these got removed.

Eh, people can request to have their LP's taken down or if they're rapists like Azure Horizon, then Baldurk can choose to take them down. Only fromearth knows for sure.

# ¿ Oct 14, 2015 22:54

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

RareAcumen posted:

Aside from ChorpSaway, who else was it that did LPs of the Naruto games? I feel like there were either three or four groups that were playing through them but I only see two in the master list.

I think Pins and friends did one.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2015 06:03

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

Sir Wilson posted:

Does anyone recommend any dungeon crawler video LPs? I've watched the Stonekeep LP by davidspackage and both Legend of Grimrock 1 & 2 from Agent 355, but I don't think i'm finding any other ones on the LP archive.

I find them oddly relaxing, where things are progressing forward but you don't have to focus too much on each individual action.

Links for anyone else if they would like to watch the above LPs too:
http://lparchive.org/Stonekeep-(by-davidspackage)/
http://lparchive.org/Legend-of-Grimrock/

Perhaps you could try: http://lparchive.org/Amulets-Armor/

# ¿ Oct 20, 2015 09:46

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

Turtlicious posted:

The internet archive is like 240p

What about 480; that's a little bit better, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2g4m6h-5wM (though I know it's still not HD)

# ¿ Nov 2, 2015 09:28

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

Galick posted:

So, is there a place I can watch the entire Parallel Worlds LP without having to download each file one by one from the LP archive? It doesn't have an internet archive link at the top, I looked.

It seems to be on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNo9dgYqFLA

# ¿ Nov 3, 2015 21:47

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

Raskolnikov posted:

Where can I find a good Let's Play for Journey?

http://lparchive.org/Journey/

# ¿ Nov 18, 2015 01:48

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

Fat Samurai posted:

Kind of a long shot, but does anyone know of a good (as in: no shouting at the camera, doing silly voices or reading every scrap of text, basic editing of boring parts, etc...) LP of Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter?

A VLP? Probably not. I've always had an interest in the game but I don't know how well I could carry it, especially being a standard RPG with some gimmicky mechanics.

# ¿ Dec 8, 2015 19:49

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

THF13 posted:

Is there a good LP of Gunpoint anywhere? I have played the game but wanted to see someone who was good at it do some of the harder challenges/show off interesting things.

I quite enjoyed Bacter's LP that he did for some thread....that I can't remember:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27XxBIOFW-Y

# ¿ Dec 12, 2015 05:41

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

Powerfrog posted:

One of my favorite unexpectedly chill LPs ever is MapleLeaf's Big Mutha Truckers. http://lparchive.org/Big-Mutha-Truckers/

Towards the other extreme, what are some LPs where the LPer is clearly better at the game than 99.99% of people and it shows? I feel like most of the more impressive LPs I've seen have been based on good planning and editing but not so much raw skill.

Also to be super annoying and specific, preferably not speedrunny kind of stuff, as I get enough of that from actual speedruns.

I always thought that AccountingNightmare did a great job of being exceptional at the Devil May Cry series: http://lparchive.org/author/accountingnightmare or to go with some more recent, mkob is breaking Godhand to pieces with his skill: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3720944

# ¿ Dec 19, 2015 03:42

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

FPzero posted:

Thanks. I didn't realize there was a new one. I'll definitely be checking it out later.

Is the older one you're thinking of from agent355? Cause I do remember it, but I sadly don't have a link to it. You could maybe try hitting him up for the link?

# ¿ Dec 31, 2015 07:58

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 14, 2024 12:57

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

pokie posted:

Is there a good LP for original Silent Hill?

Yup: http://lparchive.org/Silent-Hill/. Voidburger is great.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2016 04:54

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Let's Play! > What LPs should I read/watch/care about? (Recommendation Thread)

«‹›4 »