I'm in a bad mood

The entire point of Let's Play videos is the commentary. I watch channels like Markiplier for their reactions and thoughts on certain games (mostly horror), and Two Best Friends Play for their humor and to hear trivia about games/movies/comics I enjoy (like Mortal Kombat recently)

 

Back when I was still on The Middle Ground, Let's Plays were a budding concept. I believe they originated from SomethingAwful, but the internet tends to think everything comes from there. I was first acquainted with them on the MG forums, where someone would post several screenshots from the game and narrate, making fun of the characters or remarking on something odd, as well as offer any choices the game posed up to the other posters. It was sort of like playing the game communally. Pokemon was a popular one, since the forum could pick the player's team and name any newly caught Pokemon.

Variations existed, of course; one guy, Creepy, elected to post a naked run of Castlevania SotN ("naked" meaning no equipment or weapons), only in lieu of screenshots, he related his progress in the game as if it were some twisted story of a nude beautiful man storming through Dracula's castle and beating all of his minions to death with his bare, bloody hands. Tell you what, that guy was a crazy fucker, but he was one in a billion, and his run was a better read than anyone else's in that hellhole.

Wouldn't be a year or two after that until I started seeing videos cropping up on Youtube with Let's Play in the title. At this point, it seems to be a catch-all term for gamers with a capture card. So yes, a lot of people see it as game play with a commentary, and the point is the commentator is supposed to make the run more entertaining, but if you ask me that's just the blandest form of it. Totally unedited footage? Goes on for chunks of 30 minutes to an hour? Dude makes a half-hearted attempt at humor every minute or so? Few can be entertaining for that long. After a while it just becomes game footage with some idiot talking over it. Chrissakes guys, throw in some jump cuts or something.

The only exception I know of is PhantomSavage. That man can make his videos however the fuck long he wants, he is Phantom Motherfucking Savage.

 

I'm a fan of trivia oriented Let's Plays and the more comedic ones.

But if you're yelling/screaming in my fucking ear then pls leave.

 

Spoiler

I heard you like yelling unfunny things and a rabid fanbase

 

Ok listen

I feel the way about PewDie that I feel about Rise Against

When you first start listening it's great!

But then you sit down with it for too long and you start to realize

it's

all

the same

and then you can never go back

(Like him in collabs tho)

 

But . . . If I wanted trivia, I could just look up trivia . . . Instead of listening to someone else talk and play a game . . . and wasting valuable HP I could use against the final boss of the dungeon.

 

DID SOMEONE SAY LET'S PLAY TRIVIA?!?!?!??!?!?!!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!!

 

But you can't find ALL the trivia. And there are opinions or just the fact that the trivia is said orally, as opposed to a wall of text or something

 

^Name that movie.
/trivia

 

Woah woah woah woah

I love Rise Against

Yeah almost all of their stuff

...I'm just going to do this

 

I'm not saying they're bad

They're just so fucking samey

Like I can't even get through a full album

 

Oh that I can kinda agree with

Then again I kinda prefer that to them becoming another band that attempts to "evolve" or whatever and just sounds completely different (and lame)

Not the only two courses of action but they're becoming the most common for bands I like :\

 

Whoa whoa whoa

SoaD has always been great ok

#Nova nobody was talking about System of a Down shut up

 

The Sufferer & the Witness and Appeal to Reason are great, everything else by them is meh.

 

Overall: Endgame > Appeal to Reason > The Sufferer & The Witness
Number of my favorites: The Sufferer & The Witness > Endgame > Appeal to Reason

 

Rise Against is and has always been great. /endofstory

 

what are you people talking about

HOW HAVE YOU NOT MENTIONED REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE OR THE UNRAVELINGGGGGGGG

 

Your avatar captures your emotion right now perfectly.

 

Maybe, but it looks like it unintentionally cheered him up.