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Hot new interview with thread favorite DarksydePhil. And before people ask, it's fake.
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The guy has a lot of talent, it's just where he channeled that talent... That said, that Pokemon LP is still one of my favorite retsupuraes just because of how weird it is and how much effort went into it. I think he's got great potential to make some great stuff, and at least he seems to have some self-awareness. I'm hoping he'll move on to better and less-creepy things as I can't help but admire what he's accomplished, as hosed up as a lot of it is.
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Oct 22, 2013 12:02
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You can never have enough DarksydePhil bashing.
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Jan 5, 2014 21:35
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Sorry, should've clarified this isn't real. Play4Real is The Onion of gaming journalism, in that they post "parody" news that can and at some point probably will come true. Not that it's that hard to imagine DarksydePhil literally losing to a monkey at video games.
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Jan 5, 2014 21:44
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DoctorWhat posted:wait wait wait his fans LIKED the camcorder? For the same reason they'd watch an unboxing video without any actual unboxing. His fans are just as incompetent at watching better videos apparently, so he's a role model for people too dumb to do basic stuff without loving it up.
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Feb 18, 2014 12:48
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If people didn't want to discuss LP, then there wouldn't be so much chat in this thread and the Sandcastle about various LP topics, and we wouldn't have threads like the Experimental LP thread. Besides, this discussion on whether we should discuss Let's Play is us discussing Let's Play.  People just say they don't want to discuss Let's Plays in general to preemptively show they're not taking it too seriously, and even then they'll still discuss them. I don't know, it's fun to learn and try new things in the hobby, finding ways to make my updates better and more efficient, seeing what crazy awesome stuff people come up with. If Let's Plays weren't fun to discuss, then what would make this forum different from Games?
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Feb 26, 2014 15:32
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Post it on GBS and let it evolve into a general thread mocking lovely LPers, like how the CAD thread evolved into lovely webcomics in general. It'll help clear this thread up a bit and put DSP bashing in a more appropriate place.
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Feb 26, 2014 22:07
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I guess the question there is whether there's any cases where a game's sales were hurt by the exposure of a big-name LP. I'm pretty sure even terrible games like Sonic 2006 and Ride to Hell: Retribution actually got some sales just from people wanting to experience the terribleness themselves.
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Jun 21, 2014 02:13
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valkhorn posted:I prefer to keep private issues between you and me private. A little birdie told me you insulted me, in public, again, and so I checked it out. I thought maybe if you had some issue with me we could handle it like people instead of behind each other's backs. I'm not going to forget that you personally insulted me here as well as passed along gossip about me that wasn't true - but that matter again is between you and me, and has nothing to do with everyone else on this forum. You know where to find me if you want to discuss the matter further but I won't discuss it further here. I've already tried to contact you, and this is what you chose to do. Serious talk, you're taking this poo poo too seriously, which is funny since you never took seriously any actual advice people gave you in the Sandcastle. You need to develop a thicker skin if you're going to do something like Let's Plays where you put your effort out there for people to criticize, since you just overreacted to a small offhand comment that would've been overlooked otherwise. Actually, to move things back into focus for a bit, what are people's experiences with Youtube LPers in terms of taking criticism? Because it really seems like most people just ignore it or shout back in anger, but it'd be cool to hear of examples where people listened and changed stuff for the better.
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Jul 21, 2014 01:29
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slowbeef posted:Someone once posted in here that they wanted to be rich and famous on YouTube. If that person's around, mind if I ask: you sure? Well, I do now.
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Jul 22, 2014 20:46
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Leovinus attempted remaking his FF8 LP since he wasn't satisfied with the old one, but that fizzled out for reasons. He did it pretty similar to his last run, though a bit more fleshed out, and people still liked it. And there are some LPs that do multiple runs through a game, like ddegenha's three runs through Seiken Densetsu 3. It depends what game is being redone, why the LPer is redoing it, and whether the LPer has enough new things to offer, or are trying a completely different approach (narrative vs. informative, screenshot vs. video, new forum, et cetera). Usually the newer one will be better quality since the LPer can incorporate things they learned since the last LP, or know the game better to better pull off which approach they want, but it comes down to whether the time spent redoing a LP is really worth it. And it probably is since the LPer would rather remake it than do another LP or whatever the hell else, so I have no problem with LP remakes.
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Aug 2, 2014 11:25
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Jsor posted:This is kind of random, but I really don't get LPers who enable game modes where you can only have one save file. It seems like you're just begging to lose 3 hours of footage and be unable to rerecord it. Sometimes games only have one save file and there's no easy way to back up. I've seen LPs where the LPer lost a save file, but the LPs usually recover whether from someone else taking over or the LPer simply replaying all the way back. I always back up many of my saves, since there's been times I went to an earlier save to show something off I missed or just learned about.
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Aug 17, 2014 12:36
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Of course a guy who'd think swatting was a good idea would (likely unironically) use the name BadAssDwg69. I can't stop laughing at his reaction. e: djw175 posted:That's from National Report, a satirical news site. It didn't actually happen. Well that's disappointing. Mega64 fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Aug 30, 2014 |
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Aug 30, 2014 16:30
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Angrymog posted:I thought about doing an april the 1st stream with a facecam and wearing my fencing mask for the entire stream - it would be about as expressive as a normal facecam. This, except I'd be wearing a Horse Mask instead.
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Oct 4, 2014 11:26
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TheModernAmerican posted:In streaming, on the other hand, I'd say a facecam is pretty important for chat interaction and such. And a lot of them don't obscure the game at all by putting a stream of their chat below the cam and have the full game taking up 75% of the screen, but unobstructed. Maybe it's just me, but I don't really see how seeing someone's face helps communication where one side is a bunch of people without faces communicating in text on a time delay. If anything, I'd guess not showing one's face would put the streamer on more equal footing with their watchers, where sans-facecam the streamer is talking more with their watchers. That's probably just me, though.
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Oct 4, 2014 14:33
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TheModernAmerican posted:I implied habitually watching them, I gave Markiplier a few views and thought he wasn't that funny. Acheivement Hunter was way too far in and had too many in jokes. There were others, but in general there aren't too many good youtube LPs. Please relax. The point was that this thread doesn't even consider the opposing view, they threw it out of hand about four years ago, to the point that you were not allowed to post an LP with a facecam. They're allowed, it's just that general opinion here is facecams generally add little to the games being played so you never really see facecams except as jokes or from people unfamiliar with the forum. You'd probably see face/bodycams here if the games were suited for them, like some Wii games, or extra video to show stuff off like Vicas playing SM64 with his feet or if someone wants to show their finger placement for Guitar Hero or something.
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Oct 4, 2014 15:08
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judge reinhold posted:And, lo, the debate was finally settled. Everyone agreed to their opinion about face cams and vowed never to talk about it ever again on SA. Now that that's settled, let me tell everyone my opinions on the Sandcastle:
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Oct 4, 2014 17:07
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Mr DJB posted:Y'all are fuckin nerds. I'd like facecams more if all LPs were done by animals.
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Oct 6, 2014 09:52
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Believe it or not, you can both put actual effort into your LPs and discuss methodology and the ongoing trends and all that kind of stuff, and also not take LP that seriously and treat it as a hobby that doesn't consume your life. It doesn't have to be an "either-or" thing, much like how it isn't in every other hobby you can think of. It's not a bad thing to be really into Let's Plays until it starts affecting your life in a negative way, other than it being a nerdier and more awkward hobby to talk about in public than most others of course. Also, between this thread and the Sandcastle, I don't know if we really need another Blasting Zone. It was fine for what it was, but I don't really see what purpose it'd serve now.
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Oct 17, 2014 09:54
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IGgy IGsen posted:DSPs real reaction would be "What the gently caress? It turned off? Oh right, I was just supposed to know that. Thanks a lot for this piece of poo poo Kojima!" I'm curious to see the view counts of the people saying, "Yeah, four videos a day sound about right." Though they probably still get more views than most of the people on SA.
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Nov 15, 2014 17:01
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judge reinhold posted:I don't think so. You look at the people who post their garbage introductory threads here and their views are usually below 50 and they upload at least one video per day. I don't know if that advice is worth following anyway since I doubt someone who is starting out and just making GBS threads out videos as quickly as they can will really outshine the thousands of other people doing the exact same thing. Oh, the advice is definitely bad, but there's definitely a balance between "Crank out a bunch of poo poo" and "Put in a lot of time to make something great" that you have to strike to get views. The best advice is to have a personality that attracts certain types of people and pair it with a game that is unique and interesting enough that tons of people want to see it played. I'm mainly curious to see how many of the people on the LP subreddit actually have a decent audience.
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Nov 15, 2014 17:24
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Trash Ops posted:Something that isn't funny can't be funnier than something that is funny. It can with integer overflow.
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Nov 30, 2014 13:59
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steinrokkan posted:"If you don't want to spend your life playing video games, you hate yourself." - Iggy Igsen, tyool 2014 Reviews, movies/TV shows based on books, MST3K/Rifftrax, artists clearly inspired by other artists, and a bunch more. The spin done by the LPer(s) definitely has some intrinsic value, or else people wouldn't follow specific people like Pewdiepie and instead just watch solely for whatever games they're interested in. I don't see how it's different from MST3k, except instead of riffing the LPer can instead/also be informative on various aspects of the game (and even stuff beyond the game), encouraging the audience to contribute/affect the LP, and even add their own narrative twist to the game. Besides, if companies don't want you making money from their work, they could just block the LPs from Youtube or go the Nintendo route and take the ad money for themselves. Of course, that means depending on game footage as your revenue source is very risky unless you're the top few guys or can stretch out into something different.
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Dec 15, 2014 20:57
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I'm so going to steal the "Let's Play on Twitter" idea at some point.
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May 3, 2015 13:15
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gently caress if I remember the first video LP I've seen. Probably something like Sonic 2 Special Edition or Jurassic Park Trespasser or something that was big at the time. Don't really remember the first SSLP I've read either, though I remember following one or two before there even was a LP forum. Maybe the Oregon Trail one?
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May 22, 2015 22:08
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Unfunny Poster posted:Twitch updated its Rules of Conduct and "banned games" list to more or less nip the Hatred thing in the bud, but also say that any game rated as Adults Only by the ESRB isn't permitted on Twitch (M rated versions of a game, eg. Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy are fine but the AO "Director's Cut" isn't). poo poo, now where will I stream my Mario ROM hacks where Mario is replaced by a giant dong?
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May 28, 2015 10:09
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The Vosgian Beast posted:If they did that, Gamergate would piss themselves in anger and then try to takedown Twitch. I'd like to think it's that same guy who used to repeatedly try to LP hentai games here and Twitch is trying to get him to stop already.
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May 28, 2015 18:39
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sout posted:I'm sort of surprised how many people add _____SA to the end (or start sometimes) or their usernames on other platforms, to the point that I think I even saw somebody do it for an SA account. To be fair, I kinda have to do that since "Mega64" is already taken at a surprising amount of places these days.
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Jun 3, 2015 13:30
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I prefer to think it'll be an extended episode of It's Always Sunny. I'd watch "The Gang Plays Minecraft" myself.
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Jul 21, 2015 22:59
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Suspicious Dish posted:i'm a giant pussy who got really tense and scared for like ten minutes thinking i was going to die from a pot randomly falling of a shelf earlier, and i will never play a fnaf game in my life, so people like us do exist Why aren't you making the big bucks on Youtube showing off your fear skills then?
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Aug 4, 2015 10:10
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I'm just saying there's people far more worthy of getting $4 million a year, like RichardGamingo.
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Sep 7, 2015 20:40
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Yardbomb posted:Did Rich Evans do some scummy poo poo I missed You know how they splice the actual review content with "Plinkett is a serial killer who rapes and murders women" gags? It's probably that.
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Sep 7, 2015 20:56
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Danaru posted:I still get angry YouTube messages about a Sonic Adventure 2 LP I did like a year ago now. There are a lot of really salty people that get angry at any criticism of SA1 or 2. Golden Goat posted:The Bayonetta 2 LP's another good example of the comments section going mental because they didn't shower the game with constant praise. What I get from this is that inevitably I'm going to get death threats for my SimAnt LP.
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Sep 9, 2015 20:26
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Deceased Crab
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Sep 16, 2015 22:24
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BMS posted:Welp, that settles it. My task is clear. Where do you think slowbeef got the idea of talking over video games? George Wood, the original Let's Player.
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Nov 13, 2015 05:53
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CJacobs posted:Bill Clinton, right? george's not the only wood here baby
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Nov 13, 2015 13:41
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Didn't he have a game show where he'd ask a kid video game trivia and if they "won" he'd show them his rear end? George Wood is really loving weird. e: quote:Themes quote:YouTube Series Really loving weird. Mega64 fucked around with this message at 13:28 on Nov 15, 2015 |
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Nov 15, 2015 12:56
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Golden Goat posted:Having seen some similar poo poo before I can totally see him trying this. I find it hard to believe a person who makes their livelihood as an internet personality would be unstable.
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Apr 12, 2016 20:01
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HGH posted:Sorry but I just feel a need to post these: gently caress that, where's my loving cheap piece-of-poo poo action figure?
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Scaramouche posted:So..... Since he has a background in music, it might be interesting for him to tackle rhythm games and other music-focused games like Electroplankton or whatever and offer his perspective as a musician. That could be a good starting point as far as finding games to talk about.
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