Let's Players originating from Something Awful - ft. VoidBurger, General Ironicus, Bob Kamoc

CausticMinory said:
Tbh the last bad game I enjoyed watching slowbeef play was Sonic 06 and that was because beetus was there and it killed his ps3. DSB playing bad games with notifications every 10 seconds is rather annoying.
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If you have time, do yourself a favor and watch the pokecap'n crew's let's play of sonic 06. It's my favorite let's play of all time, bar none, and I watched a :autism: amount back in my Something Awful days. It's just a great game for a group of people to mock. The single best example of a mystery science theater equivalent for video games.
 
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If you have time, do yourself a favor and watch the pokecap'n crew's let's play of sonic 06. It's my favorite let's play of all time, bar none, and I watched a :autism: amount back in my Something Awful days. It's just a great game for a group of people to mock. The single best example of a mystery science theater equivalent for video games.
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Oh I watch that at least once a year. And watch beefs to compare the loss of sanity between the two.
 
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If you have time, do yourself a favor and watch the pokecap'n crew's let's play of sonic 06. It's my favorite let's play of all time, bar none, and I watched a :autism: amount back in my Something Awful days. It's just a great game for a group of people to mock. The single best example of a mystery science theater equivalent for video games.
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These guys have made some of my favourite LPs ever, beyond just '06.

I recommend their LP of Four Swords Adventures to anyone. It's easily the best 4-player LP of that game ever made thanks to the effort they put into recording four GBAs along with the main game using a nauseatingly complex hardware setup they called the Gigaquad. I remember how people were practically screaming at them to follow up with Crystal Chronicles (the only other game that could make use of that setup) but they never did.

Then there's the Mario Party mega-LP where they play through all eight Mario Party games (at the time) to see who can get the most stars/coins across all the games. There's a ton of Mario Party LPs out there, but I consider this one particularly good due to its epic scale, the bitter competition between the four of them and Pokecapn's stipulation that nobody was allowed to read the instructions to any of the minigames.

There's also KFJ's Final Fantasy XIII-2 LP, which I greatly enjoyed and remember largely because Square-Enix was DMCA'ing anyone who showed certain story cutscenes at the time so they had to mangle the recordings to avoid the bots. This LP included a legendary two hour update where KFJ and I want to say Kaz (?) are grinding for the very last item they need for 100% and it just won't fucking drop, so they start reading fanfiction to pass the time.

I'm still sad they gave up on the Lightning Returns LP. It was shaping up to be interesting.

Also, the Sonic Unleashed LP was almost as good as '06.
 
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Mario Party 5 was the best for that fact it was 50 turns and hearing KFJ get increasingly drunker as it goes on.
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What I loved about 5 is that they'd been doing 20 turn games for the entire LP and you can hear the fatigue and dread in their voices as the game ceases to end and they realize they've made a horrible mistake trapping themselves in a pirate-themed nightmare. They went back to 20 turn games after that.
 
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The Fatriarchy said:
All the good LPs belong to people who more or less quit the forums and never did another LP.
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Well, you have to realize also that a lot of people's favorite LPs come from 2007-2012 or so (I've never been sure if this is because of rose-colored glasses, or if LPs were inexplicably better for some reason back then). But given that was 6-11 years ago, I'm not surprised a lot of them have quit the forums since then. Even if SA wasn't a dead gay comedy forum, I'd still expect most of them to have moved on by now.
 
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proteus4994 said:
Well, you have to realize also that a lot of people's favorite LPs come from 2007-2012 or so (I've never been sure if this is because of rose-colored glasses, or if LPs were inexplicably better for some reason back then).
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Probably because 2007 - 2012 is when LPs were most popular, after which changing tastes and the massive growth of streaming started to render the traditional format obsolete.

Streaming in particular really changed the game, I feel. You can produce very similar (if not the same) content by streaming your gameplay and cutting the VODs up into YT-length videos with the added benefit of giving you a tip jar and a chat to interact with. Quite a few SA LPers of the past are on Twitch and do exactly this, or have at least experimented with streaming before.

The way I see it, the role LPs fill now is thoroughly edited content you can't get from a stream, although I have seen randoms on Twitch brand their stream as LPs.
 
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Probably because 2007 - 2012 is when LPs were most popular, after which changing tastes and the massive growth of streaming started to render the traditional format obsolete.

Streaming in particular really changed the game, I feel. You can produce very similar (if not the same) content by streaming your gameplay and cutting the VODs up into YT-length videos with the added benefit of giving you a tip jar and a chat to interact with. Quite a few SA LPers of the past are on Twitch and do exactly this, or have at least experimented with streaming before.

The way I see it, the role LPs fill now is thoroughly edited content you can't get from a stream, although I have seen randoms on Twitch brand their stream as LPs.
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I think the good LPs were always the latter though. The reason retsupurae existed in the first place was because this low effort content started getting pumped out by people, but with streaming, that's the standard. Most of the good LPs aren't video LPs though, it's honestly not as good a format for it in my book. Something like Ben Croshaw's let's play of his own game wouldn't have worked as well in video, and he makes a living making videos for the internet.

edit: it was Quovak's let's play, Yahtzee just provided commentary.
 
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RJ MacReady said:
These guys have made some of my favourite LPs ever, beyond just '06.

I recommend their LP of Four Swords Adventures to anyone. It's easily the best 4-player LP of that game ever made thanks to the effort they put into recording four GBAs along with the main game using a nauseatingly complex hardware setup they called the Gigaquad. I remember how people were practically screaming at them to follow up with Crystal Chronicles (the only other game that could make use of that setup) but they never did.

Then there's the Mario Party mega-LP where they play through all eight Mario Party games (at the time) to see who can get the most stars/coins across all the games. There's a ton of Mario Party LPs out there, but I consider this one particularly good due to its epic scale, the bitter competition between the four of them and Pokecapn's stipulation that nobody was allowed to read the instructions to any of the minigames.

There's also KFJ's Final Fantasy XIII-2 LP, which I greatly enjoyed and remember largely because Square-Enix was DMCA'ing anyone who showed certain story cutscenes at the time so they had to mangle the recordings to avoid the bots. This LP included a legendary two hour update where KFJ and I want to say Kaz (?) are grinding for the very last item they need for 100% and it just won't fucking drop, so they start reading fanfiction to pass the time.

I'm still sad they gave up on the Lightning Returns LP. It was shaping up to be interesting.

Also, the Sonic Unleashed LP was almost as good as '06.
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Don't forget about Mario or Luigi Superstar Saga.

Even with Medibot deciding to delete everything for whatever reason, this one merits a viewing, at least for its very last video, where the two discuss why the game was not as good an RPG as other options, such as having stupid and bad minigames, a misconception of how comedy works, and some of the duller elements.
 
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edit: it was Quovak's let's play
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Quovak's let's plays are some of my favourite content on the internet. For anyone interested (scroll down, his let's plays of Yahtzee's games are under "The Chzo Mythos"):
https://lparchive.org/author/Quovak

But anyway, time for an LP drama update. This time an update actually from SA itself, courtesy of the Casual LP Thread (a thread for people to post low-quality LPs).

Someone posts an LP of a PS2-era game created by the American National Rifle Association.

The videos are innocuous (and boring) with him just talking about game mechanics and how he prepped for the recording. He isn't promoting the organisation (and when questioned says that he actually hates them); but that doesn't stop the ridiculous liberal pearl-clutching from the LP mod nine-gear scarecrow:

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It's really gross and groady! And icky! Like, OMG, you can't just LP a game made by NRA fascists in CURRENT YEAR - eww! Yikes!

Apparently this NRA game where you shoot plates and plastic balls is worse than other shooting games where you kill actual people, because those games aren't funded by the NRA.

CJacobs, the goon who started the thread, throws the LPer a bone by saying that it would be OK to LP the game if they used it to badmouth the NRA (but it's in bad taste to play the game just because it's a curio, everything must be used to push liberal politics).

The LPer points out that it's dumb to hate a game that promotes gun safety and has you shooting inanimate objects but not hating games where you shoot people. He also panders to the shrieking libs by saying that the NRA is awful:

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Of course, this only makes the retards gibber even more.

The LPer is accused of supporting an organisation that is apparently responsible for mass shootings, he's then accused of only making the videos for the sweet Patreon and Youtube dollars (his videos have less than a hundred views).

Some other mongoloid says that him playing this shitty PS2 games is an affront to people "affected" (presumably negatively) by firearms.

nine-gear scarecrow, the mod that started the drama, then probates the LPer and one of the people bickering with him:

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Lackadaisy said:
GamesAreSuperNice is actually one of the last good LP content producers on SA, so it makes sense that they want to drive him off.
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Never heard of them before, but based on what he said, he's just a genuine dude who enjoys talking about weird/obscure games. The general sales pitch of his channel was enough to get me interested.
 
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