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Re: The Let's Plays Thread.
« Reply #15 on: April 04, 2012, 03:17:45 am »
My alltime favorite, actually, is Naka Teleeli

A guy who is working at indie game designing himself, there's several reasons I like his LPing.

1. Laid back.  He says everything so deliberately and smoothly and with such emotion that it's so interesting.

2. Informative.  He does his research, as is shown with his Okami let's play.  It's not just an entertaining watch, it's also educational!

3. ElementalOgre.  A real life friend of his that, when he's around, brings out Naka's more humorous side, as they make several riffs at each other.

4. He is a fan of excellent anime, such as Fist of the North Star, is a bit of a Japanophile (self-admitted, I do believe) and yet doesn't shove it down your throat except with a few of the references he makes.  (WA-TAAAAAAAH!).  He is also a lover of everything MANLY.   In a totally non-gay way.

5. His main character for his video game that he's developing is female, and when given the opportunity to, he will play as a female.  Many of his favorite video game characters are female.  Have I mentioned his definition of MANLY is actually gender-neutral?

6. He's not arrogant.  He's, in fact, very supportive of upcoming LPers.  And he's willing to admit when he's wrong about a game.
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Re: The Let's Plays Thread.
« Reply #16 on: April 04, 2012, 03:40:38 am »
6. He's not arrogant.  He's, in fact, very supportive of upcoming LPers.  And he's willing to admit when he's wrong about a game.
I always find this quality is pretty much a given in any good Let's Player. The ones who are arrogant assholes rarely get a subscriber count outside of the single digits.

Of course, there is Retsupurae, but that's kind of their thing.

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Re: The Let's Plays Thread.
« Reply #17 on: April 04, 2012, 02:28:08 pm »
I don't like Retsupurae, actually, and so I'm not inclined to watch them, but I'm not going to bash them.
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Re: The Let's Plays Thread.
« Reply #18 on: April 04, 2012, 04:11:26 pm »
Would Armake21 (now TheWaste0Time) count?  They're not LPs in name, but many of his videos are LPs in style and delivery.  If so, then fuck yes, because he is awesome.  Also, angry.
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Re: The Let's Plays Thread.
« Reply #19 on: April 04, 2012, 08:30:01 pm »
I don't like Retsupurae, actually, and so I'm not inclined to watch them, but I'm not going to bash them.
I don't care for them either, just saying they have a decent number of subscribers while still acting like bellends.

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Re: The Let's Plays Thread.
« Reply #20 on: April 04, 2012, 08:48:03 pm »
I don't like Retsupurae, actually, and so I'm not inclined to watch them, but I'm not going to bash them.
I don't care for them either, just saying they have a decent number of subscribers while still acting like bellends.

People are drawn to popular assholes because it makes them feel superior to somebody - the people the assholes are being assholes to.

Like a good deal of Spoony's vocal fanbase.  "Oh, we love him, that makes us better than the FF8 fans, because they're all fanboys for even enjoying the game!"

...And the egg ends up on their face because Spoony was joking, and his ire was directed at the haters that didn't like him riffing their game.  Not the entire FF8 fanbase.
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Re: The Let's Plays Thread.
« Reply #21 on: April 04, 2012, 09:39:53 pm »
I get the feeling that Spoony's just awesome in general.  Then again, I've had that feeling since his vlog about Breaking Dawn, where he said (referring to the then-unborn Reneseme): "If its, like, 99% chance of killing you...let's just have an abortion, okay?"
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Re: The Let's Plays Thread.
« Reply #22 on: April 22, 2012, 08:46:23 am »
I have my own series of Let's Plays over here: http://rtgomer.wordpress.com/category/gomer-the-ranting-thespian/gomer-plays-gomer-the-ranting-thespian/

Incidentally, my site also hosts a LP series by Spazfox: http://rtgomer.wordpress.com/category/spazfox/lets-get-pissed-and-play/

Besides pimping my site, I'm also a fan of a guy named Roahm Mythril, who's done Perfect Runs of most of the Original Series Mega Man games.  He's quite entertaining. =3
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Re: The Let's Plays Thread.
« Reply #23 on: April 24, 2012, 08:23:33 pm »
The Something Awful forums are one of the best place to find Let's Plays. Which is probably due to the fact that if you make a bad Let's Play on SA, your thread will be deleted and you'll probably be banned.

LP subforum is here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=191

Old LPs from the subforum are archived here: http://lparchive.org/ (SA deletes old threads to save bandwidth)
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Re: The Let's Plays Thread.
« Reply #24 on: April 24, 2012, 08:55:59 pm »
I'll read the archived LPs, but I don't think I'll ever visit the forum itself >_>
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Re: The Let's Plays Thread.
« Reply #25 on: April 24, 2012, 09:04:06 pm »
I'll read the archived LPs, but I don't think I'll ever visit the forum itself >_>

Why not?

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Re: The Let's Plays Thread.
« Reply #26 on: April 24, 2012, 09:06:47 pm »
I'll read the archived LPs, but I don't think I'll ever visit the forum itself >_>

Why not?

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Re: The Let's Plays Thread.
« Reply #27 on: April 24, 2012, 09:12:47 pm »
I'll read the archived LPs, but I don't think I'll ever visit the forum itself >_>
Why not?
Something Awful is something awful.
How? SA is one of the most civil, intelligent, and progressive large forums on the internet. They have less flame wars than we do.

Although their wordfilter for non-members is annoying.
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Re: The Let's Plays Thread.
« Reply #28 on: April 24, 2012, 09:27:55 pm »
Let's see, ridiculously high standards, a fee to join the community, absolute snobbishness towards Youtube LPs, and part of their history was rooted in making fun of other people for being different.

Shall I go on?
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Re: The Let's Plays Thread.
« Reply #29 on: April 24, 2012, 10:01:09 pm »
Let's see, ridiculously high standards,
Um, that's a good thing. High standards produce quality content and discussion.

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a fee to join the community,
This is true. It's pretty much the only reason I haven't joined yet. The fee is supposed to keep the shitheads out. It ensures that people only join if they are interested in positively contributing to the community. When you have actually paid to be a member, being banned is a much more serious threat, and it tends to keep people on their best behavior.

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absolute snobbishness towards Youtube LPs,
And rightly so. The vast majority of YouTube LPs are shit, precisely because there is no quality control.

SA are the ones who popularized LPs in the first place. If anyone knows how to make a good one, it's them.

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and part of their history was rooted in making fun of other people for being different.
Huh?


But now I'm getting off-topic. This thread is supposed to be about Let's Plays.