- Hemingway To Go!
- Nov 10, 2008
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im stupider then dog shit, i dont give a shit, and i dont give a fuck, and i will never shut the fuck up, and i'll always Respect my enemys.
- ernest hemingway
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LOL why would you WATCH/READ someone else play a video game?
- There are more video games that exist, even in your favorite genre, than you will ever play or even have in your steam library.
- You haven't finished all those, so when are you REALLY going to make time to download and play "Woodruff and the Amazing Schibbel of Azimuth" and finally satisfy your curiousity of what the gently caress that game was, yourself, with your own effort.
- You can't play a video game and grade a stack of papers or clean your apartment at the same time
- Some let's players are actually good at games and watching them lets you learn how to play better
- Some parts of games are bullshit and you want to see what 100% completion looks like without doing it yourself
- You want to re experience that one part of a game but games don't have fast forward or rewind buttons
- Many games are impossible to find, run on a modern computer, etc, and you can only experience as someone else playing it
- Sometimes you want to see how a game plays but don't want to play 70 hours of it
- Who cares, DAD, I do what I want
So you see there's a lot of reasons why people enjoy this modern form of entertainment. Though it's been around for a long rear end time now and now people have become millionaires off of it. How did that happen? Who knows, we can talk about it too. I've been seeing a lot of people outside the LP forum want to know the state of things, so I thought I'd make a place to talk about them.
I'm think anything you've heard of is reasonable for discussion. And you are allowed to like and talk about any let's plays ever, on or off site, even if it's Pewdiepie. But also, don't attack other people for liking Let's Players you think are tainted by drama. Even if it's Pewdiepie. I don't like him at all myself but it's "post YOUR favorite" not "post MY favorite". Besides, some of my favorite Let's Play circles have done poo poo I really wish they didn't. Basically Talking about drama is okay, bringing drama into the thread isn't.
Here are some of my favorites, to get the party started. Or at least the ones I remember at the moment. Again, this has been going on a loooong while.
There's a bunch of popular LPs I HAVEN'T viewed, like the Jurassic Park Trespasser game LP, Dectilon's romhack videos, or multiple Dark Souls games LPs (I liked Geops but I refuse to watch anymore until I actually can play that game and not get spoiled) (that's not going to happen) but again, it's "post YOUR favorite".
I prefer READING lps
- Dark Id's lets plays: His lp's of the Drakengard series (which include Nier) lets you experience a bizarre, edgy, unique and relatively unknown game series that hates YOU personally for trying to 100% complete it. Plus it's a great way to catch up on the lore for the next Yoko Taro offering, Neir: Automata (with gameplay by PLATINUM!) coming out, except who knows if things will follow directly there. Dark Id is unique in that he adds in his own dialog, and he gets better at it as time continues. It's a bit eye-rolling in the Resident Evil series, which were his first LPs, but I think there's good reasons to read his treatments of almost every other LP he's written, many of which are in the "What the hell is this poo poo" category.
- Orange Fluffy Sheep's lets plays are basically "let's break"'s. He does things with JRPGs no one thought possible. The Digimon World lp actually delves into the sourcecode to determine why it's such a horribly broken game. I recommend the Final Fantasy Tactics games and Final Fantasy V. Also The World Ends With You is good if you literally bought the game because of the LP but found you could not play a game with two screens at once
- Live A Live (or is it Live A Evil) is a lost chapter in the pantheon of SNES JRPG games, with a very unique battle system and storyline - it's not one hero's journey, it's 7 hero's journeys, one more gone horribly wrong, and a final chapter. It was also never released in the US. Worth experiencing one way or another. I think Yapping Evee's the better of the two on the archive for being one perspective all the way through and not having a bunch of failed attempts at added humor, though the thread did vote on the names.
- Final Fantasy VII by Elentor is a deep and thoughtful look at a familiar game that is misremembered a bit. And was not well translated - notes about what some of the more bizarre terms, lines, and plot points were meant to mean ("Sephiroth clones") are included. Also notable for having videos for the boss battles that show how to beat the ones you thought were impossible. And also one that people thought would never finish... some let's players actually do things besides play video games for you.
- The Chzo Mythos is a really funny look at a somewhat overcelebrated amateur work with commentary from the game's author - now known as Yahtzee - who takes it in stride (though if he didn't, he'd look a little hypocritical).
- Megaman Battle Network has a long bizarre lp history. Epee Em played through the games, lost the screenshots for 1-3, and then those had to be LP'd again. But they're some of my favorite in the jrpg genre to play myself and this series shows ALL of their secrets. Network Transmission isn't really part of the series but if you want to see a bad Megaman game with level design worse than some fangames, then have I got the LP for you.
I like WATCHING lps
- Illbleed! "Come on, let's go back to Hell!
 " Illbleed is my absolute favorite LP ever, it is a joy to watch this utterly surreal game. Supergreatfriend is also a great video let's player who has not changed how he lets plays to fit the times, and plays some really odd games. I recommend his LPS of the "D" series, Mode, and the Swery65 series (D4, Deadly Premonition) for more ambitious and bizarre games. Also does bad Xbox Horror games.
- WrongPuraes are a lot of fun. The DarkSeed games, Harvester, Shadow of the.... Comet, King's Quest 5, Alone in the Dark, and Phantasmagoria are some of my picks.
I like the Rom Pits by Smite and Tie tuesday. There's a lot of people who say the NES and SNES were the golden age of gaming and that their games were all the best things ever. These people are wrong.
- Dazzling Addar thought they liked Donkey Kong 64 as a child. Watch as this fondness crumbles into frustration and despair in REAL TIME. (There was a later Donkey Kong game megathread that had skilled playthroughs of the two wii games and the three snes games that I thought was good. They could not make it through DK64)
- In the same vein, the PokeCrew's LP of Sonic 2006, marathoned over one night and done before anyone else knew how terrible this game REALLY was... it's not a great LP but an unforgettable one. I've watched it more than once.
- Lowtax's Gaming Garbage of barely functional crap is a series you've probably heard of as well.
- SheshellsSeaShells crew streams of terrible horror games can be fun. I ended up actually buying DreadOut, but the bad unity games and their glitches (or high production value games bad glitches like the times when the Outlast enemies chased SSSS around a piece of furniture like a cartoon) are pretty fun.
- Monkey Island/Sam and Max Series by Rocket Baby Dolls is not of bad games OF COURSE, I just liked this series, I bought and played through the Telltale chapters of these adventure games because of them and thought it was a good way to experience the dos games.
- The Neverhood and its sequel Skullmonkeys[/url] by two day life was never actually archived for whatever reason but I think it's a game worth seeing, and it's worth appreciating the work that went into this LP. youtube channel doesn't put these into playlists either...
I watching people who can actually PLAY games play them
- Hideofbeast/Violen plays through Megaman X1-X6 without taking any damage or using anything other than the buster, and stacks more gimmicks on top of those. There are no illusions here, as when a level takes a hundred retries he WILL let you know. Also plays through bossfights of the notoriously ball-crushing Zero games and ZX
- LISA by voiceofdog looks at a bizarre tragedy of a rpgmaker game and puts a lot of effort into making it entertaining to watch, one of the few high-effort video lets plays these days.
- Rogue Legacy is a game I find almost impossible. Smite is a world record holder at this game and he is extremely good at this platformer.
- Psychedelic Eyeball's Super Meatboy's LP is just a sort of walkthrough, because what else could a meatboy LP BE... until he manages to playthrough the intense bullshit of the usermade levels.
a few others
Aavak and Splattercat do little Lp's of early access games, I don't usually watch their entire let's plays (except for Aavak's ferretcam) but they seem like alright guys and I like seeing these games demoed instead of feeling like I need to play them myself.
"What's up, this is Critical, and I'm pretty much the only good youtube LPer. I never use a facecam or show any emotion in my voice. I have three jokes and one of them is comparing things to cum. Let's do this poo poo."
Everyone has heard of Awesome Games Done Quick. I like the ones of the Kaizo Mario games.
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- Hemingway To Go!
- Nov 10, 2008
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im stupider then dog shit, i dont give a shit, and i dont give a fuck, and i will never shut the fuck up, and i'll always Respect my enemys.
- ernest hemingway
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I was shitposting in another thread and it reminded me of a screenshot LP I liked, END ME SCOOB's Sailor Moon RPG thrad
Not only is it a kind of nice looking rpg that's too grindy to be enjoyable yourself, there's a LOT OF discussion in the thread, from how mistranslated and off the game's story is to in depth sailor moon LORE discussions to people getting addicted to the phone game, it's pretty fun.... I had no idea what went on in Sailor Moon and it's fun to read people who grew up with it describe the crazy poo poo that makes up the story.
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- Hemingway To Go!
- Nov 10, 2008
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im stupider then dog shit, i dont give a shit, and i dont give a fuck, and i will never shut the fuck up, and i'll always Respect my enemys.
- ernest hemingway
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Orange fluffy sheep is currently lp'ing Pokemon Uranium, which tietuesday did a stream of. It's terrible. Of course the thread is full of Pokémon obsessive and there's five pages of talk for every update but ofs is still pretty fun.
I also recommend highwang's current Odin sphere thread for talking about food. The co commentators are pretty funny. I know the game's story already and like it but it's fun to see the unitiated react to them.
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- Hemingway To Go!
- Nov 10, 2008
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im stupider then dog shit, i dont give a shit, and i dont give a fuck, and i will never shut the fuck up, and i'll always Respect my enemys.
- ernest hemingway
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if you haven't watched Car Boys, then go watch Car Boys
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