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CommissarMega posted:Anyway, for me practically anything from The Men Drinkin' Coffee are top-notch. Special mention goes to LPs of Raven's Cry and Ride to Hell: Retribution, the latter of which is... NWS? I think? I also like CJacobs' work, especially his Bubsy LP. I particularly love the Raven's Cry LP, because that version of the game doesn't exist any more. Also that cutscene near the end where the QA team hosed up and there's a pretty long expository conversation entirely in German.
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Ein cooler Typ posted:slowbeef's Metal Gear 2 was hilarious and one of the only I've ever read Oh man I really hope it hasn't gone, I loved that 
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Popped into this thread and saw that the Freelance Astronauts have been recommended a few times already. Their rapport, as others have mentioned, is really, really great. For me, their only contender was Giant Bomb back when Ryan Davis was still kicking around. Of the Astronauts, I love/hate pipes! the most. His antics get the biggest laughs out of me but his tendency to shout can get grating at times. The group covers a really wide variety of games. All their videos are great, but here's a selection of my favorites:
At this point I realize that I'm going to end up listing every video they have that are still up so really you should just go and watch all their videos, especially the older ones where only the core 4-member crew are present. Their whole run as Lunk/Lonk through the Zelda series is awesome.
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I loved when they did Mass Effect and spawned a tank in the elevator at the Citadel. Maxwell: Hang on, I can fix it... *Spawns more tanks on top of the original tank trying to knock them out like a penny falls arcade game - game crashes*
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Oh, I almost forgot. Mrs. Spackage, Davidspackage's mum, did a really touching thing and released the LP that was found with his body to the forums.
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Feb 8, 2017 23:38
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Literally the LP that convinced me to do an LP.
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BioEnchanted posted:I loved when they did Mass Effect and spawned a tank in the elevator at the Citadel. No, the best part was when they confused Shepard so much the character model pretended to be a plane.
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bitterandtwisted posted:Definitely the best one I've ever seen. My roommate's 8 year old brother was over last weekend and when I walked into the living room he was watching this on my xbox youtube and I was like "oh poo poo you know what this is??" And he looked at me like I was an idiot and said "no but it looks dumb" and that's not the only time I've been owned by a child but it's the most recent
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huhwhat posted:Popped into this thread and saw that the Freelance Astronauts have been recommended a few times already. Tossing a couple unmentioned favs of my own on the pile (and phone posting so search on your own folks): - The Kickboat Saga, in which a Half-Life physics engine is taken to powerful extremes via kicking. - We Love Katamari: Maxwell states they need to set ground rules for the music, to which pipes! (I think) responds "AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE FOR THE ENITRE GAME" and they proceed to botch the theme - Adventure for Atari. "I only have one foot." - OoT Master Quest *was* mentioned, but of note they played this along to Lord of the Rings special edition. They riff on "nobody tosses a dwarf" and it escalates into one of the funniest exhaustion/inappropriate laughter breakdowns I've heard in an LP to this day
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Lt. Danger's Neverwinter Nights 2 LP, and more importantly, the LP of the expansion, which is a fascinating jaunt into Campbellian monomyth theory, storytelling in an inherently interactive medium, and the implementation of moral choice in a context far beyond "feeds orphans/drowns puppies". If you enjoyed actually listening to what Kreia is talking about in KOTOR2, this is extremely your poo poo.
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Escobarbarian posted:Oh man I really hope it hasn't gone, I loved that he did a new LP on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1moR8p5f62U and he says he lost a lot of the original images from the first LP but is working on restoring it. so a lost piece of history is saved 
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Blind LPs are usually bad, but Voidburgers LP of Undertake was pretty great. Helloitsdan did one as well, but it wasn't as good. His LP of Mercenaries 2 + Lost Planet with Lithuanian Dad were great. Shame that Lost Planet 1 LP was lost to the aether. I'll never be able to listen to the 'Floral Dance' without thinking of minigunning aliens to shreds with Terry Wogan's dulcet tones. On a non-S.A. front, Laurentheflute does some... endearing LPs. She's not a good player by any means, but her earnestness carries her through. Sorry about no links, also on phone.
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Another classic I forgot about : The Super Best Friends' "Sadness Quadrilogy". Two guys play Heavy Rain, Indigo Prophecy, Beyond Two Souls and Omikron: The Nomad Soul back-to-back and realize just how much of a complete hack David Cage is. It's a BIG watch but it's worth it just to see how their current despair can be topped. Gyro Zeppeli has a new favorite as of 13:31 on Feb 10, 2017 |
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Hemingway To Go! posted:[*]Dazzling Addar thought they liked Donkey Kong 64 as a child. Watch as this fondness crumbles into frustration and despair in REAL TIME. Speaking of Vicas, his Super Mario 64 LP with his feet was an amazing work of gameplay. That Koopa the Quick star in Tiny/Huge Island was filled with deaths. TieTuesday's Sonic Boom LP is listed as "abandoned" in the LP Archive master list, but it was finished. It's similar to the pokecapn crew's playthrough of Sonic 2006, in that he played it the whole way through- unpatched, no less- in one sitting while other commenters chimed in on how much it sucked. By the end of it all, Vicas was incredibly drunk. Psychedelic Eyeball's Prince of Persia 3D LP was one of my first favorite LPs. He can now pronounce words like "sword" and "lower" correctly. Maple Leaf did a valuable service by suffering through Metroid: Other M. Watch this so you don't have to play through. Yes, it is that bad. Bonus: he's currently going through the similarly panned Metroid Prime Federation Force. I like everything FutureFriend does, he and his crew are always funny. Here's his Kingdom Hearts LP. Diabeetus did a good, face pun-filled LP of Super Mario Galaxy 2. Slowbeef was the most frequent guest but he had others join in.
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I miss the days of screenshot LPs. They worked great for jrpgs I never got around to playing and I just can't get into watching someone play a jrpg.
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You're in luck. Those days are now. People still do screenshot LPs of RPGs.
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Blind Sally posted:You're in luck. Those days are now. People still do screenshot LPs of RPGs. I normally go through the archive where it feels like vlps have overtaken ss.
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get that OUT of my face posted:Got my favorite one right off the bat. It didn't help that Vicas and Brother Entropy kept egging on Addar about how much the game sucks and is poorly designed. Whatever happened to them anyway? I liked their LPs and I think their two Yoshi game LPs kind of sank under a whole bunch of goony drama bullshit. Did Vicas just vanish or something after that? Anyway, to contribute with something not already posted; The old Monster Rancher LP and its sequel are some of my favorites. The humor in them can be a bit dated like a lot of old LPs but they're games I love and I often get a chuckle out of them. As dumb as it is, the doodle section of the first one never fails to make me laugh like a moron. Len posted:I normally go through the archive where it feels like vlps have overtaken ss. Screenshot LPs can take a lot of time and effort to put together and being able to be funny over text is sometimes harder than being able to say funny things with other people.
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Nuebot posted:Whatever happened to them anyway? I liked their LPs and I think their two Yoshi game LPs kind of sank under a whole bunch of goony drama bullshit. Did Vicas just vanish or something after that? Vicas is part of Geop's group now. He's the first co-comentator on Dark Souls and sticks with the run as it builds out and joins in on Dark Souls 2 and Wind Waker as well. I know Adder was doing an LP of Dark Souls 3 a few months ago, but it looks discontinued.
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Zore posted:Vicas is part of Geop's group now. He's the first co-comentator on Dark Souls and sticks with the run as it builds out and joins in on Dark Souls 2 and Wind Waker as well. Oh, I never watched Geop's stuff so maybe I'll check that out one day. But I'm pretty uninterested in Dark Souls LPs so I dunno.
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I vaguely remember a lot of people being lovely to Addar for having a weird voice, and later for coming out as trans? It'd be nice to know how she was doing honestly
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Nuebot posted:Screenshot LPs can take a lot of time and effort to put together and being able to be funny over text is sometimes harder than being able to say funny things with other people. Pretty much, sadly. The amount of effort it takes to put up a Screenshot LP should not be understated. And there's no good platform for it (you're essentially limited to the LP forum in terms of readers with a few outliers), no real possibility of monetization over what amounts to be an enormous effort. The end result to a reader looks like it took a lot less effort than it actually did.
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someone awful. posted:I vaguely remember a lot of people being lovely to Addar for having a weird voice, and later for coming out as trans? It'd be nice to know how she was doing honestly Yeah I'm pretty sure that's what killed the Yoshi's Story LP. People were just being weird and stupid about it non-stop. Anyway, Boatmurdered is the only Dwarf Fortress LP I've ever liked. It's pretty worth it if just for the elephant war.
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someone awful. posted:I vaguely remember a lot of people being lovely to Addar for having a weird voice, and later for coming out as trans? It'd be nice to know how she was doing honestly That wouldn't surprise me, unfortunately. Addar did do a good Dark Souls 2 LP.
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Elentor posted:Pretty much, sadly. The amount of effort it takes to put up a Screenshot LP should not be understated. And there's no good platform for it (you're essentially limited to the LP forum in terms of readers with a few outliers), no real possibility of monetization over what amounts to be an enormous effort. The end result to a reader looks like it took a lot less effort than it actually did. At the same time, people are probably less interested in a screenshot LP, because it's something you have to actively pay attention to, while you can put on a video LP in the background and do something else or just zone out.
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Nuebot posted:Yeah I'm pretty sure that's what killed the Yoshi's Story LP. People were just being weird and stupid about it non-stop. Seconding Boatmurdered. A good example of a screenshot LP done right.
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I said this exact thing in the original recommendations thread and I'll say it again now six or whatever years later- I think RChimpCola and his friends were probably most naturally funny people in LP. RE5 bro-op Luigi's Mansion MGS: Twin Snakes I recommend starting with the RE5 videos even though they don't have Ladderface.
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Nuebot posted:Yeah I'm pretty sure that's what killed the Yoshi's Story LP. People were just being weird and stupid about it non-stop. Happily, with the ongoing "Let's Play all of Final Fantasy" megathread, one of the commentators, Claire is a transwoman who transitioned during the LP (When it first started in FF1 she was still going by her deadname Cody, came out I believe towards the end/middle of the first game) and noone gave her poo poo about it. She actually had a lot of interesting things to say about the process too, like how the voice wouldn't be changing because when puberty hits the larynx it's irreversible, and she'd need a bunch of speech therapy to do anything about it. People have generally been nothing but supportive, so it's good we've come that far since the DazzlingAddar debacle..
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BioEnchanted posted:I loved when they did Mass Effect and spawned a tank in the elevator at the Citadel. Ferr as a Citadel maintenance man: "Yep... there's your problem..."
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Slowbeef and Diabeetus'sd playthrough of Sonic 2006 is amazing. It stops being a Let's Play partway through and turns into something close to a long-form psychological horror film. My favorite LP's back in the day were Spoony's LPs of SWAT 4 and Phantasmagoria 2 which still hold up despite the horrible trainwreck that Spoony became As for screen grab LP's who did that Civ V as MSF? That was really fun to read and loved how Metal Gear that story line got.
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Elentor posted:Pretty much, sadly. The amount of effort it takes to put up a Screenshot LP should not be understated. And there's no good platform for it (you're essentially limited to the LP forum in terms of readers with a few outliers), no real possibility of monetization over what amounts to be an enormous effort. The end result to a reader looks like it took a lot less effort than it actually did. Flip side is for things like Ff13, which I couldn't be bothered to play because it was boring and I couldn't get into, why would I watch someone play it when I could read a page of a sslp during a poop break? I want the world to cater to me drat it 
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Len posted:I normally go through the archive where it feels like vlps have overtaken ss. The archive only gets updated when (and if) they finish and only if they are submitted to Baldurk. The Master List is a bit better, but they only get updated as long as there's a random goon out there who feels it's worth their time to update it. The New LP thread is pretty good for keeping track of current LPs. In the last month alone, the following SSLPs have started up (and most of them are JRPGS too):
So, yeah. You are in luck, those times are now.
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Len posted:Flip side is for things like Ff13, which I couldn't be bothered to play because it was boring and I couldn't get into, why would I watch someone play it when I could read a page of a sslp during a poop break? Don't get me wrong, I love SSLPs. I'm just explaining why there aren't more of them. Honestly, there are more ongoing LPs than I would expect even.
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Escobarbarian posted:I was always a huge fan of the Steampunk Abortionists stuff back when LPs were still just seeping out of SA. Only username I remember is CherryDoom. Are those still around anywhere? A whole bunch of that poo poo is still on the internet, weirdly enough. The GTA 3 and GTA SA videos are still up on the internet archive, and Rirse has a bunch of their LPs archived on his playlists. I haven't really watched them recently, but I remember them all being pretty good. Unfortunately I think all their Harry Potter LPs are just gone forever, which is a shame because those were some of my favorites.
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achillesforever6 posted:As for screen grab LP's who did that Civ V as MSF? That was really fun to read and loved how Metal Gear that story line got. That would be Speedball's Civ5: Peace Walker LP.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Tossing a couple unmentioned favs of my own on the pile (and phone posting so search on your own folks): - Syrg skyping in to Oblivion while extremely high and flipping out about MOTHERFUCKING SPIKES - Maxwell getting killed so hardcore in RE4 it broke his console (I caught that one live) - "another success for the soviet space program" - All of North vs South Neb777's TIE Fighter was an early classic, from before the subforum. Zoolooman's Civilization 4 LP written as a series of history lectures from the modern era of his civ is excellent. Nakar's LPs, particularly Ultima, are still pretty much the gold standard for screenshot LPs. Mercs 2 by helloitsdan and lithuanian dad and also their sadly gone-from-the-internet Lost Planet stuff. I'm sure the proteus and suspicious Daikatana LP has been mentioned--slowbeef's tribute parody vlp of the Daikata gameboy adaption was also solid gold. And the best Sonic 06 LP will always be the original-flavor 20 hour slow boat to hell with pokecapn, medibot, and kung fu jesus. Support esports. HookedOnChthonics has a new favorite as of 06:21 on Feb 17, 2017 |
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Trick Question posted:Unfortunately I think all their Harry Potter LPs are just gone forever, which is a shame because those were some of my favorites. *sigh* Flipendo...
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:*sigh* Flipendo... I was about to ask if it was those ones and now know without a doubt. It's a shame to have lost them. The Tipping Forties had some really good LPs. My personal favourites are the Goldeneye one (with bizarre drinking conditions pulled out of a hat before each level) and Tales Of Symphonia (where drinking every time someone says World, Regeneration or Mana visibly takes its toll).
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Brofessor Slayton posted:I was about to ask if it was those ones and now know without a doubt. It's a shame to have lost them. Their FFX LP is probably the only video LP of a JRPG I can stand because it's just hours of them pissing on a game that's dumb. Their grab bag videos are pretty great too, I like that there's just one guy in the group who always gets really mad about mario party.
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BioEnchanted posted:Happily, with the ongoing "Let's Play all of Final Fantasy" megathread, one of the commentators, Claire is a transwoman who transitioned during the LP And I'm gonna recommend that LP in general because it's great to see Claire and Ryan's sheer enthusiasm for the games, especially as they see the graphic and quality of life improvements from beginning to end. It's an excellent background LP because, you know, video of RPGs, but their off-topic and on-topic conversation is great. (Also their voice acting is hilarious, but fair warning if you would not enjoy the adventures of the Most Italian Paladin!)
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