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Community => Entertainment and Television => Topic started by: Art Vandelay on April 01, 2012, 05:54:02 am
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This is a thread for posting and discussing your favourite and most hated Let's Plays. Pretty self-explanatory, so without further ado, let's begin.
One of the best screenshot narative Let's Play's I've ever read, A Scotsman in Egypt (http://lparchive.org/A-Scotsman-In-Egypt/). It's essentially a world conquest run of Medieval: Total War 2 as Scotland with an extremely well written story woven into it. It can drag on at times, but other than that, it's just epic.
Here we have an ongoing video let's play of Terraria (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89fW4MTJvRs) that while the players are borderline incompetent, their banter and frustration at their usual failings are quite amusing. In fact, watching this series is what made me decide to get Terraria in the first place.
Finally, we have a video let's play of Super Mario 64 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvPpygJG5Xw&feature=plcp&context=C49a736fVAvjVQa1PpcFNYX8lPwofltAgqds0zu6o6EfozjnqZYqU=) from what I imagine is the most English fellow in the world.
So yeah, have at it.
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I don't think anybody can mention Let's Plays without talkin' about Retsupurae (http://www.youtube.com/user/retsupurae)
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Fucking Boatmurdered. http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/ (http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/)
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I've...actually been thinking of doing an LP of Thief II, but I'd need better recording software...and probably a better mic.
Anybody got any suggestions for either, I'd be much obliged.
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I've...actually been thinking of doing an LP of Thief II, but I'd need better recording software...and probably a better mic.
I've been wanting to do some myself for quite a while, the only problem is my laptop struggles enough to play anything made later than 2004 as is, much less play and record at the same time. It's quite a shame really, as I'd have loved to do a blind Let's Play of Conker's Bad Fur Day.
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I've found AgentJR's Let's Plays on YouTube are quite good, IMO. Especially for Silent Hill 1-4 and the Resident Evil series.
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Spoony's Let's Plays are hilarious when it comes to creating memes.
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This is one of the best AARs I've ever read.
It is a HOI 3 (SF) AAR about the Soviet Union (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?490565-The-Great-Patriotic-War&p=11477372&posted=1#post11477372).
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This is one of the best AARs I've ever read.
It is a HOI 3 (SF) AAR about the Soviet Union (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?490565-The-Great-Patriotic-War&p=11477372&posted=1#post11477372).
Ahh, that brings back memories. Back in 2007-2010, a good 30% of my internet time was dedicated to reading AARs on Paradox Forums, and I spent a shitton of time on the internet.
I mostly read Hearts of Iron II AARs, and I still remember three absolute gems. Democracy's Last Legs (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?383880-Democracy-s-Last-Legs-A-US-UK-DAIM-AAR), a gameplay AAR in which AI Germany actually manages to fight off a human controlled UK and USA. Not only that, it's written well enough to feel like a desperate war of survival. The Setting Sun (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?338558-The-Setting-Sun-Gotterdammerung-Japan-1944.), not only does the writer manage to hold off the allies as Japan in the 1944 scenario, but actually manages to turn the war around and eventually annexes all of Asia and most of Europe (USSR included) and even launches an invasion of North America. Finally, there's Fatherland - Deutschland Uber Alles (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?248648-Fatherland-Deutschland-%FCber-alles). Basically, the author does a world conquest as Germany after giving all AI nations 200%+ bonuses to resource income and industry and a further 100% on top of that to members of the Allies and Comintern. Much like The Setting Sun, it's stupid amounts of Hearts of Iron II skill.
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Spoony's Let's Plays are hilarious when it comes to creating memes.
They are made less hilarious by his rabid fanbase that takes his jokes seriously.
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Spoony's Let's Plays are hilarious when it comes to creating memes.
They are made less hilarious by his rabid fanbase that takes his jokes seriously.
Hey...I heard that Zachski.
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Spoony's Let's Plays are hilarious when it comes to creating memes.
They are made less hilarious by his rabid fanbase that takes his jokes seriously.
Hey...I heard that Zachski.
I would hope you would, considering I replied to YOU O_o
Incidentally, you probably aren't a rabid fan that takes his jokes seriously. So I'm not sure why you even care :P
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Surprised no one's mentioned him yet, but about the only LPs I can stand to watch are those by the owner of the Epic No himself, ChuggaaConroy (http://www.youtube.com/user/chuggaaconroy).
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*adopts a voice other than his own*
"Hello, this is HCBailly (http://www.youtube.com/user/hcbailly), and welcome to Let's Play FINAL, FANTASY, NUMBERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. Also, welcome to my wide variety of side LPs that are as every bit as entertaining as my main LPs. And guess what? I do more stuff than Final Fantasy!"
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Surprised no one's mentioned him yet, but about the only LPs I can stand to watch are those by the owner of the Epic No himself, ChuggaaConroy (http://www.youtube.com/user/chuggaaconroy).
I'm currently watching his Let's Play of Super Luigi Galaxy and I must say it's quite good. Of course, I would expect no less, seeing as Chugga is equal to the likes of NintendoCapriSun and DeceasedCrab in terms of popularity.
I should also mention DiplexHeatedHD (http://www.youtube.com/user/DiplexHeatedHD). He pretty much exclusively Let's Plays the Total War series so I'd recommend it to any strategy fan. On that note, I should also mention BoardGamerGirl (http://www.youtube.com/user/boardgamergirl) for her Let's Play of Heroes of Might and Magic III. Though I'm not a big fan of her particular strategy, it does get results and her commentary is nice and detailed (something a lot of strategy Let's Plays are sadly lacking.
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My alltime favorite, actually, is Naka Teleeli (http://www.youtube.com/user/nakateleeli)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 (http://www.youtube.com/user/RoahmMythril), who's done Perfect Runs of most of the Original Series Mega Man games. He's quite entertaining. =3
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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 (http://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=191)
Old LPs from the subforum are archived here: http://lparchive.org/ (http://lparchive.org/) (SA deletes old threads to save bandwidth)
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I'll read the archived LPs, but I don't think I'll ever visit the forum itself >_>
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I'll read the archived LPs, but I don't think I'll ever visit the forum itself >_>
Why not?
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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.
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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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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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Let's see, ridiculously high standards,
Um, that's a good thing. High standards produce quality content and discussion.
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.
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.
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.
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I like supergreatfriend. He's funny, informative, and thorough.
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Let's see, ridiculously high standards,
Um, that's a good thing. High standards produce quality content and discussion.
OR it produces a bunch of snobs that think they're superior because they're SomethingAwful.
Bearing in mind, "standards" are highly subjective.
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.
And it also tends to make people follow a herd mentality because they don't want to risk pissing off a moderator or admin by disagreeing with them.
absolute snobbishness towards Youtube LPs,
And rightly so. The vast majority of YouTube LPs are shit, precisely because there is no quality control.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh, you're serious, let me laugh harder.
Let's Playing should be something that's free for anyone to do. It should not be the domain of a bunch of elitist assholes who enjoy their exclusive club, while whoever runs the damn site gets money for hosting a forum that most other people do for free.
They can take their quality control and shove it. I'll take the freedom to make crappy LPs over the anal-retentive elitism that is SomethingAwful ANYday.
For the record, when I mean snobbishness, I mean BECAUSE they're on Youtube, not because of their actual quality. I'm sorry that you missed that.
SA are the ones who popularized LPs in the first place. If anyone knows how to make a good one, it's them.
Being the originator of something does not mean make you the BEST maker of something.
and part of their history was rooted in making fun of other people for being different.
Huh?
You mean... you don't know?
BAHAHAHAHAAH! This is rich!
Let me inform you. Essentially, SomethingAwful had its origins in making fun of people on the internet for reasons such as
1. Being a furry
2. Being a foot fetishist
3. Being gay
4. Having gay friends
5. Talking about any of the above on a forum
And probably much more, I didn't hang around their site any longer.
That's actually why it's called Something Awful. Because it was meant to be a showcase of Something Awful on the internet.
They were essentially like a stupider version of Encyclopedia Dramatica.
Oh, and they would also review fetish fanfiction. Because nothing says "I hate this" than reading it and re-reading it and re-reading it to point out how absolutely disturbing something is.
I was on a forum that was targeted once by them, so I have personal experience with them! Can we say "Yaaaaaay"?
To be honest, I do credit SomethingAwful for producing Let's Plays. And that's about it. That's literally the only good thing that came out of SomethingAwful.
Oh, I'm not saying there aren't good people that post on SomethingAwful. I'm just saying that the site, as a whole, is pretty much a no-zone :3
So, in short, feel free to mention SomethingAwful. They deserve it. However, do not, under any circumstances, labor under the delusion that they are superior to everything ever. They're not.
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The Youtube snobbery on Something Awful pisses me off as well. If I find a video Let's Play in the archive that I would like to watch, it's usually only uploaded on Viddler, where videos always buffer slower than they play (unlike Youtube), thus making it an exercise in tedium trying to watch the bloody things.
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Sorry, but most of that post sounds like you just copied the Encyclopedia Dramatica article and edited out the profanity. You sound like you have no idea what you're talking about, judging by the fact that you think they "make fun of gay people" which couldn't be more hilariously inaccurate if it tried. Even 4chan doesn't make fun people for being gay anymore, and that's the site where -fag is used as a suffix.
It's like how people across the internet all regard the entirety of 4chan like it's some black hole of vileness because of some 3rd-hand rumor from someone who thinks the entire site is just like /b/.
As for the Let's Plays, Ill just quote Yahtzee of Zero Puncuation.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/8703-Lets-Talk-About-Lets-Play (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/8703-Lets-Talk-About-Lets-Play)
The origin and still best source of Let's Play is the Something Awful forums, which now has a dedicated subforum for it. The SA forums quite notoriously charge 10 dollars to register, which is about as effective a shithead filtration system as you could ask for, really. But after LPs are completed there, many of them get hosted offsite in an archive rather predictably named the Let's Play Archive. Just to throw out some recommendations, the Dead Rising LP was particularly good for filling in the blanks on an extremely unforgiving game my patience wouldn't let me hold out for. If you're in it just for the funny ones, though, there's the spectacle of two incredibly white guys playing 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand or the infamous Daikatana being tackled by a very angry chap and his easy-going friend. And on the subject of exposing hidden gems, there's a rather excellent thread currently still running in the subforum for Deadly Premonition, a game that word of mouth seemed to make out as incredibly polarizing, but which I now see has the kind of lovable Japanese quirkiness that strikes a chord with me (after all, I champion Suda51's utterly bizarre Killer7, which has also been LP'ed by the 50 Cent guys.
The quality of LPs on Something Awful tends to be high because the subforum has very strict rules for posting, and their insistence on good technical quality might seem a little restrictive, but it's a damn sight better than the alternative, which is the Let's Play community on YouTube. As is always the case with YouTube, and perhaps the internet in general, its biggest detriment is its complete lack of quality control and community of yes-men who are prepared to give mindless praise to anything that doesn't make their monitors explode and embed white-hot shards of plastic in their faces. So Youtube is quite infested with people recording their CRT TVs with their webcams, or droning monotonously over SNES emulator footage watermarked by unregistered screen capture software.
But I think the problem with YouTube LPs is that most of them seem to think LP should be about the person commentating rather than the game. They all seem to play the same titles (honestly, how many times can anyone watch Super Mario World being played), have little editing and effect desperate attempts at hilarious personas in order to attract more subscribers, the most valuable currency of YouTube. SA, I find, encourages its users to see LP more as a hobbyist's roundtable discussion about the games themselves.
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The Youtube snobbery on Something Awful pisses me off as well. If I find a video Let's Play in the archive that I would like to watch, it's usually only uploaded on Viddler, where videos always buffer slower than they play (unlike Youtube), thus making it an exercise in tedium trying to watch the bloody things.
It's because YouTube rolls over at the slightest prospect of a DMCA takedown request and is constantly removing Let's Play videos. Uploading to other places is a necessary precaution if you want your video to stay up.
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Back on topic: Here is an amazing Let's Play of KotOR II. (http://lparchive.org/Knights-of-the-Old-Republic-II/) It's informative, funny, and entertaining. It even includes all of the game's infamous cut content and pieces it together.
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It's because YouTube rolls over at the slightest prospect of a DMCA takedown request and is constantly removing Let's Play videos. Uploading to other places is a necessary precaution if you want your video to stay up.
If they're "constantly removing Let's Play videos", then how exactly to people like Chuggaaconroy or NintendoCapriSun actually make a living (as in not as a hobby, but as their source of income) making Let's Plays on Youtube?
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It's because YouTube rolls over at the slightest prospect of a DMCA takedown request and is constantly removing Let's Play videos. Uploading to other places is a necessary precaution if you want your video to stay up.
If they're "constantly removing Let's Play videos", then how exactly to people like Chuggaaconroy or NintendoCapriSun actually make a living (as in not as a hobby, but as their source of income) making Let's Plays on Youtube?
Because whoever owns the content in the videos hasn't seen fit to have them removed. YouTube only removes a video if a corporation complains about it. If the content owner wanted the video removed, YouTube would comply without a second thought and there would be nothing they could do about it. Some people would just rather not take the risk and decide to upload it somewhere else that doesn't get as much attention from the corporations.
A lot of the time, they don't get removed, but the possibility is still there, and other sites are safer.
Things are slightly different for big-name YouTube users, as they are a source of revenue for the site. YT will be more willing to keep them there.
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Sorry, but most of that post sounds like you just copied the Encyclopedia Dramatica article and edited out the profanity. You sound like you have no idea what you're talking about, judging by the fact that you think they "make fun of gay people" which couldn't be more hilariously inaccurate if it tried. Even 4chan doesn't make fun people for being gay anymore, and that's the site where -fag is used as a suffix.
Apparently, saying that a site had its roots in something means that it currently engages in that activity today.
WHO KNEW? HAHA.
No, no it doesn't do that NOW. It, however, once did. I saw the damn articles myself. They were making fun of coming out stories >_>
Either way, Something Awful does have a reputation, and for good reason. In fact, 4chan was spawned by members of Something Awful.
Though don't bring this up. 4chan hates to be compared to SomethingAwful, and vice versa.
Actually, as far as furry hate trend goes? Not that it matters today, but Something Awful actually started the damn trend. Ironically, they had some furry moderators at the time, and that shit got shut down, but they were the originator.
Also, I don't read ED. Aside from one article that I enjoyed the schadenfreude on, I pretty much stay the hell away from ED as well.
Either way, SomethingAwful isn't some bastion of internet intelligence or maturity. Fear of being banned does not make it a good forum. It just means that they tend to take their GIFT-antics to other forums.
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It's because YouTube rolls over at the slightest prospect of a DMCA takedown request and is constantly removing Let's Play videos. Uploading to other places is a necessary precaution if you want your video to stay up.
If they're "constantly removing Let's Play videos", then how exactly to people like Chuggaaconroy or NintendoCapriSun actually make a living (as in not as a hobby, but as their source of income) making Let's Plays on Youtube?
Because whoever owns the content in the videos hasn't seen fit to have them removed. YouTube only removes a video if a corporation complains about it. If the content owner wanted the video removed, YouTube would comply without a second thought and there would be nothing they could do about it. Some people would just rather not take the risk and decide to upload it somewhere else that doesn't get as much attention from the corporations.
A lot of the time, they don't get removed, but the possibility is still there, and other sites are safer.
Things are slightly different for big-name YouTube users, as they are a source of revenue for the site. YT will be more willing to keep them there.
The fact that these big-name let's players managed to get established in the first place makes me think that Youtube very rarely, if ever, removes let's plays for that reason.
Even if they did, it's still no reason why the video let's plays on Something Awful can't be uploaded to Youtube as well as the other video hosting sites they use. It's not uncommon for any given let's play to be uploaded to at least three different sites, so it's not like it would be a huge inconvenience to stick in on Youtube as well.
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It's because YouTube rolls over at the slightest prospect of a DMCA takedown request and is constantly removing Let's Play videos. Uploading to other places is a necessary precaution if you want your video to stay up.
If they're "constantly removing Let's Play videos", then how exactly to people like Chuggaaconroy or NintendoCapriSun actually make a living (as in not as a hobby, but as their source of income) making Let's Plays on Youtube?
Because whoever owns the content in the videos hasn't seen fit to have them removed. YouTube only removes a video if a corporation complains about it. If the content owner wanted the video removed, YouTube would comply without a second thought and there would be nothing they could do about it. Some people would just rather not take the risk and decide to upload it somewhere else that doesn't get as much attention from the corporations.
A lot of the time, they don't get removed, but the possibility is still there, and other sites are safer.
Things are slightly different for big-name YouTube users, as they are a source of revenue for the site. YT will be more willing to keep them there.
The fact that these big-name let's players managed to get established in the first place makes me think that Youtube very rarely, if ever, removes let's plays for that reason.
Even if they did, it's still no reason why the video let's plays on Something Awful can't be uploaded to Youtube as well as the other video hosting sites they use. It's not uncommon for any given let's play to be uploaded to at least three different sites, so it's not like it would be a huge inconvenience to stick in on Youtube as well.
I've been browsing the LP archive for a while, and from my experience, most of them are uploaded to YouTube as well.
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I've been browsing the LP archive for a while, and from my experience, most of them are uploaded to YouTube as well.
Quite of few of them are, but there are enough that aren't for it to become really annoying.
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Come on guys, 3 pages and no mention of DeceasedCrab (http://www.youtube.com/user/DeceasedCrab) yet?
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Come on guys, 3 pages and no mention of DeceasedCrab (http://www.youtube.com/user/DeceasedCrab) yet?
He has a gigantic ego, and unlike raocow, he's random without being that funny.
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I've been browsing the LP archive for a while, and from my experience, most of them are uploaded to YouTube as well.
Quite of few of them are, but there are enough that aren't for it to become really annoying.
Do the other video players really run that badly? I was just watching a LP on one of them (Viddler, to be specific) and it works perfectly fine. It's no worse than YouTube.
Some of them even provide direct download links, in which case there is pretty much no excuse for complaining about where the video is uploaded.
Come on guys, 3 pages and no mention of DeceasedCrab (http://www.youtube.com/user/DeceasedCrab) yet?
That's because he's terrible.
EDIT: I should say most of the time he's terrible. He's tolerable when he's guest commentating on someone else's LP.
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Come on guys, 3 pages and no mention of DeceasedCrab (http://www.youtube.com/user/DeceasedCrab) yet?
He has a gigantic ego, and unlike raocow, he's random without being that funny.
Actually, I find him humorous most of the time.
He's not one of my favorite LPers (and yes, admittedly, he isn't that great, but his brand of angrish is... entertaining, I guess), but he's worth a damn.
Also, Yogscast (http://www.youtube.com/user/bluexephos)
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Do the other video players really run that badly? I was just watching a LP on one of them (Viddler, to be specific) and it works perfectly fine. It's no worse than YouTube.
As I said already, yes they do. I'll grant that Blip.tv is fine but Viddler is ass, as they videos play faster than they buffer.
Some of them even provide direct download links, in which case there is pretty much no excuse for complaining about where the video is uploaded.
That's even worse. Downloading isn't exactly instantaneous, nor is bandwidth unlimited.
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Do the other video players really run that badly? I was just watching a LP on one of them (Viddler, to be specific) and it works perfectly fine. It's no worse than YouTube.
As I said already, yes they do. I'll grant that Blip.tv is fine but Viddler is ass, as they videos play faster than they buffer.
Some of them even provide direct download links, in which case there is pretty much no excuse for complaining about where the video is uploaded.
That's even worse. Downloading isn't exactly instantaneous, nor is bandwidth unlimited.
>Downloading
>Worse than streaming
(http://i.imgur.com/bk9ZX.jpg?1)
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^ It always amuses me when someone reacts to a perfectly reasonable statement with shock and horror as if it's an alien concept.
Streaming -> You watch the video as it loads, and then you're done and can move on.
Downloading -> You have to wait for the video to fully download, then you watch it, then you have to delete it or otherwise let it clog up your hard drive.
One is far easier than the other and more or less has the same quality if someone didn't do something ass-backwards.
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I just started watching Chuggaaconroy's Pokemon Crystal and Pokemon Emerald let's plays. While I'm annoyed that he off screens a lot of trainer battles, he otherwise manages something I've never seen before. A Pokemon let's play that's not boring as fuck.
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I just started watching Chuggaaconroy's Pokemon Crystal and Pokemon Emerald let's plays. While I'm annoyed that he off screens a lot of trainer battles, he otherwise manages something I've never seen before. A Pokemon let's play that's not boring as fuck.
I wonder if it being entertaining has anything to do with the fact that he off-screens the tedium of some of the trainer battles?
Incidentally, that reminds me.
If you like Scottish accents and temper flares that match the infamous Donald Duck, watch ScottishDuck's let's plays. However, be warned - he's pretty terrible at some games. Which is actually his draw - lots of people love to see him fail and get angry over it.
Whereas DeceasedCrab is more of a sarcastic venomous speech, ScottishDuck just unleashes fury upon the game he's playing and himself for playing it.
Just don't feel bad for skipping parts of his videos. I do >_>;
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I just started watching Chuggaaconroy's Pokemon Crystal and Pokemon Emerald let's plays. While I'm annoyed that he off screens a lot of trainer battles, he otherwise manages something I've never seen before. A Pokemon let's play that's not boring as fuck.
I wonder if it being entertaining has anything to do with the fact that he off-screens the tedium of some of the trainer battles?
I personally don't find the trainer battles to be quite boring enough to justify cutting from the videos. Of course, wild pokemon battles are boring as fuck, but at least trainer battles are varied enough to be at least mildly interesting.
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I personally don't find the trainer battles to be quite boring enough to justify cutting from the videos. Of course, wild pokemon battles are boring as fuck, but at least trainer battles are varied enough to be at least mildly interesting.
In general, it's just a matter of time investment, I'd think. When you look at the playlists, the LPs are already fairly long. Add in a couple hundred trainer battles that have nothing to do with story progression, and that bloats the count considerably. It would lead to quite a few videos being little more than staying in a single route fighting the trainers, with no actual progression made in the grand scheme of the game. It also becomes rather frustrating to commentate random trainer battles--many areas have you fighting the same Pokemon repeatedly, and you quickly run out of random BS to talk about.
It's kind of a mixed bag, I suppose. On one hand, it feels like a waste for him not to show the battles--and by skipping them to do later, he often faces challenges noticeably under-leveled. But at the same time, showing them all really wouldn't contribute a whole lot to the LP experience, and could even distract from it.
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In general, it's just a matter of time investment, I'd think. When you look at the playlists, the LPs are already fairly long. Add in a couple hundred trainer battles that have nothing to do with story progression, and that bloats the count considerably. It would lead to quite a few videos being little more than staying in a single route fighting the trainers, with no actual progression made in the grand scheme of the game. It also becomes rather frustrating to commentate random trainer battles--many areas have you fighting the same Pokemon repeatedly, and you quickly run out of random BS to talk about.
It's kind of a mixed bag, I suppose. On one hand, it feels like a waste for him not to show the battles--and by skipping them to do later, he often faces challenges noticeably under-leveled. But at the same time, showing them all really wouldn't contribute a whole lot to the LP experience, and could even distract from it.
I've always wondered though, why not just add an annotation to the start of any trainer battles that links to whatever time they're over, while at the same time commentating very little over them? That way, those who want to watch them can do so, while those who don't are easily able to skip them without really missing any commentary. Don't get me wrong, I do get that most people don't want to see much of anything grindy in a let's play, but it would be nice if those of us who're more anal about seeing everything that's going on at least had the option.
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I've always wondered though, why not just add an annotation to the start of any trainer battles that links to whatever time they're over, while at the same time commentating very little over them? That way, those who want to watch them can do so, while those who don't are easily able to skip them without really missing any commentary. Don't get me wrong, I do get that most people don't want to see much of anything grindy in a let's play, but it would be nice if those of us who're more anal about seeing everything that's going on at least had the option.
Well, there could be a number of issues with that, honestly. One is that with streaming video, linking to time skips could often disrupt the play of the video. There's also an issue that if you commentate at all during the battles that many will skip, it can cause a break in communication as you'll naturally continue on topics that you likely weren't even talking about before the skip happened.
At the end of the day, though, I suppose I just don't see the point of covering them. It's not like the trainers are hiding away and difficult to find when you go through and play the game yourself. Well, except for that bastard with the Riolu in B/W... he was pretty out of the way to complete the SinnohDex. For the sake of an LP, I just don't think it's important to know how many Magikarp Fisherman Tucker has.
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Well, there could be a number of issues with that, honestly. One is that with streaming video, linking to time skips could often disrupt the play of the video. There's also an issue that if you commentate at all during the battles that many will skip, it can cause a break in communication as you'll naturally continue on topics that you likely weren't even talking about before the skip happened.
Hence why I said keep the commentary to a minimum, meaning only talk if there's something about the current battle that needs to be said (and be sure to mention it again outside of a random trainer battle if need be), thus saving one's repertoire of fluff commentary for the parts everyone will be watching.
At the end of the day, though, I suppose I just don't see the point of covering them. It's not like the trainers are hiding away and difficult to find when you go through and play the game yourself. Well, except for that bastard with the Riolu in B/W... he was pretty out of the way to complete the SinnohDex. For the sake of an LP, I just don't think it's important to know how many Magikarp Fisherman Tucker has.
Of course, it's hardly vital to the let's play, it's just nice for those of us who really want to see it to have the option.
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The problem with Let's Plays is that you can't please everybody.
I'm sure there are people that hate it when HCBailly doesn't show every random battle or just flat-out runs away from them when they get too fierce, but the fact of the matter is, there are people who would complain if he DIDN'T do them.
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I was wondering if any of you know the name of a Minecraft let's play of a challenge map is called. The map is mostly an island of sand in a sea of lava with the goal being to "complete the victory monument". At one point the person playing got surrounded by 9 or so creepers while hiding on top of a couple blocks. The video is on YouTube and was rather long(about 90 minutes I think) and posted a one video when I watched. It was supposed to be the first part of a series. I've tried searching for it but can't seem to find it. Can anyone help?
Edit: Found it after searching "victory monument." (Doh!) The map is one of the "Super Hostile" series and the video was made by PaperBatVG. I was wrong about length, it's 2:46:36. Definitely worth watching if your a fan of Minecraft, and maybe even if your not. Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nl8OcTiMEw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nl8OcTiMEw)
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I was wondering if any of you know the name of a Minecraft let's play of a challenge map is called. The map is mostly an island of sand in a sea of lava with the goal being to "complete the victory monument". At one point the person playing got surrounded by 9 or so creepers while hiding on top of a couple blocks. The video is on YouTube and was rather long(about 90 minutes I think) and posted a one video when I watched. It was supposed to be the first part of a series. I've tried searching for it but can't seem to find it. Can anyone help?
Edit: Found it after searching "victory monument." (Doh!) The map is one of the "Super Hostile" series and the video was made by PaperBatVG. I was wrong about length, it's 2:46:36. Definitely worth watching if your a fan of Minecraft, and maybe even if your not. Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nl8OcTiMEw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nl8OcTiMEw)
I love those Minecraft survival Let's Plays. If you ask me, the best part by far of Shadow of Israfael was season 2, which was set on the Survival Island map.
If you like that sort of thing, I'd also highly recommend CaptainSparklez's Skyblock Survival let's play, and AntVenom's ongoing Ant Farm Survival Let's Play (this one especially, if only for the sheer amount of effort that's gone into just the background.
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^Skyblock is kinda overrated, IMO. Sure, it was fun when NakaTeleeli was doing it, but he could talk about paint drying and I'd be completely enamored.
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I'll admit CaptainSparklez's Skyblock play though is the first and only Skyblock series I watched, so to me it was quite original. Probably not worth it though if you have seen a bunch of Skyblock Let's Plays already.
In other news, I've realised that in eight years, I've never come close to finishing Myst: Uru. As such, I've decided: Fuck it, I'll just watch a damn Let's Play.
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Time for some shameless self-pimping! Ze intro to my (hopefully soon) upcoming LP of Thief II. Enjoy, bitches.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJooGGFuKWo
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A Sims 3 LP I just posted:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBUsg9vPZz4
I'm rather fond of MikeNnemonic and zXNoRegretzzXz on YouTube, the former for his LSD commentary, the latter for multiple games, including Sims and many entertaining versions of Minecraft.
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Sleepy's got a new sub. Wub wub.
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Yaaaay. Thanks, H-Dawg.
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Fucking son of a bitch! Not even Adobe Media Encoder will compress the video without making it almost completely fucking black. What the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck? If this shit doesn't fucking work, I can't fucking do my LP! Ugggggggggh.
The video in the Fraps folder is fine. Yes, its a bit dark, but you can still make out a good...90% of the important details and shit. Once encoded, though, all that's fucking gone, and all I'm left with is whatever happens to be highlighted at the time. I. Hate. Working with video.
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I've got a few new LP videos up. Right over here (http://rtgomer.wordpress.com/category/gomer-the-ranting-thespian/gomer-plays-gomer-the-ranting-thespian/). ^_^
A Sims 3 LP I just posted:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBUsg9vPZz4
I'm rather fond of MikeNnemonic and zXNoRegretzzXz on YouTube, the former for his LSD commentary, the latter for multiple games, including Sims and many entertaining versions of Minecraft.
Hooray! =D Another new subby for you, Sleepy! ^_^
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Hurray! Thank yous.
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Well I just started watching a Something Awful let's play of Sonic 2006. I know I've only seen part of the first cutscene thus far, but holy shit I couldn't come up with a worse idea for a sonic game if I tried. It's like the developers were all channeling Final Fantasy. Seriously, who thought making Sonic the Fucking Hedgehog into serious business would be a good idea?! It would make more sense for Adam Sandler to star in a holocaust movie.
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Necroing this thread to say that a certain Grimith is doing a livestream in a few minutes. If you like older DOS era games, and highly underrated LP-ers, then come on over.
Linkington (http://www.twitch.tv/grimith)