Let's Sperg Skilled let's plays - No gaming journos allowed

[Moths]

PerungamingAu does some pretty good stuff with terra invicta and really digs into game mechanics and systems

 

[Mr.Miyagi]

PerungamingAu does some pretty good stuff with terra invicta and really digs into game mechanics and systems

I went from frustrated to loving the game after watching a bunch of his videos and learning what was going on. They need to hire him to do some scripted video tutorials they can put in-game for the full release.

 

[Preacher ✝]

Here's four good channels.

1. IzzyTotalWar or just Izzy for short. He's a an english speaking Belgian lad who plays almost nothing but a heavily modded version of Medieval II Total War thats Lord of the Rings themed. His currently ongoing campaign as Mordor is fantastic but I can also confidently recommend his Rohan and Llothlorien campaigns as well.

2. SorcererDave While its a bit more story focused, its still fairly clear he knows what he's doing, most of the time, and if nothing else is a skilled story teller. I highly recommend his recently concluded Morrowind LP, but if thats a bit too long and daunting for you then his Oblivion Arthur the Thief LP is excellent and for some more skill focused stuff any of his IL-2 campaigns or the Cold Waters campaign will work well for you.

3. OddBawZ less of a lets play per say and more high skill War Thunder gameplay. Watching OddBawZ made me better at the game.

4. Settled this guy makes RuneScape look epic and exciting. Definitely highly skilled at the game. His Swampletics series is a classic but I'm really enjoying the on going McTile series.

Hope at least one of these channels delivers what you're looking for.

 

[Spirelord: Downfall]

There's this person named Karin's Channel, sister of OmegaEvolution who does similar videos I guess. This channel does (or rather did, last video was 5 years ago) the Wii Trauma Center games, tending to get A or S ranks, sometimes B. No commentary, but I excuse these games because of how high your focus has to be on being fast. They also did Phoenix Wright but the Trauma Center playlists are
Second Opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjw65U9oM5A&list=PL68551536AA4D48C5
New Blood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CArNHdUSOI&list=PLmdrE90Hi2BQxzTJwhd3z_WDp9Tk7gW_V
Trauma Team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfr0VFa5bfQ&list=PLmdrE90Hi2BQCFOsFoeHlKOF3d-pndES_ (Not in canon order, each story is fully done left to right in the menu)

 

[Fag Albert]

First thing that comes to mind for me is Davaeorn, a youtuber (not sure if twitch streamer) who plays Baldur's Gate (as in the BG1/SoA/ToB trilogy).
That's whatever in and of itself cause the base game can be cheesed like crazy if you know what to expect ahead of time; however, this guy plays with SCS/Ascension mods, Insane difficulty, hardcore, no reloads, and still sometimes manages to clear the full game. The videos are really long and it's not all action, but he really knows what he's doing.

Dav is on twitch semi-regularly. Would definitely recommend giving him a peek to anyone that really liked the series. Seems like a personable guy. Usually pretty good about pointing out where his mod changes things and trying to put some numbers behind what he's talking about.

Stay well the fuck away from his mongoloid fanbase though.

 

[Involuntary Celebrity]

Yeah, like we're actually going to do any of that insane shit

Yes that's kind of the fucking joke. They're set up like how-to videos as a structural comedic device.

Michael Hendriks thoroughly explains his Factorio challenge runs, going as far as to use free mode to show probable scenarios, computations and risks he's taking.

I watched this whole playlist the other day, which was a mistake. It starts off fascinating for sure but I'd recommend dropping it once you can tell he's "won".
Because right now he's decided that to drive the biters extinct within the realm of generated chunks he needs to prevent new chunks generating by replacing his functional base with a zero-pollution base with fuck-all throughput, which is conceptually interesting but in entertainment terms is like watching fucking paint dry.
I salute the dedicated autism of a man who will babysit a hyper deathworld base where eight hours pass between anything worth commenting on happening instead of just admitting defeat (from a meme objective that seemed like a joke in the first place, after otherwise crushing it like 30 hours ago) but jesus dude, nobody would have minded if you moved on

 

[Wulfpack Legend]

Shadows of the Empire by Blind Sally and Nine Gear Crow
https://lparchive.org/Star-Wars-Shadows-of-the-Empire/
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKzZ1Vnyo9RnSU0SGBqrPWbETZifn4gAV

 

[Involuntary Celebrity]

Y'know my last post sounded kinda negative but these vids got me back into Factorio and I just finished doing a 150-hour Krastorio megafactory just for the fuck of it (I've used it before with Space Exploration, but I always seem to lose interest once I get to the actual space shit and this is the first time I've seen the lategame K2 stuff, so it was fun).

Also his last three videos have literally put me to sleep which was actually kind of nice, I'm not someone who can nap normally

 

[SpellforceFan]

Y'know my last post sounded kinda negative but these vids got me back into Factorio and I just finished doing a 150-hour Krastorio megafactory just for the fuck of it (I've used it before with Space Exploration, but I always seem to lose interest once I get to the actual space shit and this is the first time I've seen the lategame K2 stuff, so it was fun).

Also his last three videos have literally put me to sleep which was actually kind of nice, I'm not someone who can nap normally

DoshDoshington did a playthrough of Krastorio mod iirc, recently ended, also very interesting, but I don't like his reddit brand of humor. He does sound like a software engineer, so some brand of autism is expected. He does elaborate on a lot of mod's features.

 

[Involuntary Celebrity]

DoshDoshington did a playthrough of Krastorio mod iirc, recently ended, also very interesting, but I don't like his reddit brand of humor. He does sound like a software engineer, so some brand of autism is expected. He does elaborate on a lot of mod's features.

I think you mean Space Exploration, huge difference. The mods are compatible but Krastorio2 basically just adds some new recipes and lategame buildings/turrets/matter conversion/power systems (something I enjoyed from my run was how the Laser Artillery, which own but sneakily gives you sudden gigawatts of power demand like nothing previously, baited me into needing to set up circuit conditions for bootstrapping my fusion reactors with a fission plant so it wouldn't kill my power network every time they fired).
Space Exploration meanwhile turns the entire normal game into basically an early tutorial and adds an insanely elaborate 200-300 hours of fuckery in space on top with stations, starships and whole supplementary factories on other planets to build.

And yeah it's an interesting series, nobody else has had the sperg power to tackle it afaik. I don't mind his sense of humour but the gayass faux-deep voice he puts on makes him sound like a massive fucking dweeb trying to not sound like a massive dweeb.

Edit: I just checked and he did do a K2 playthrough but it was a one-off and months ago so I'm still pretty sure you meant his SE series that just concluded.

 

[DapperShark]

For Souls PVP stuff I recommend checking out Saint_Riot, unlike most pvp spergs he doesn't obsess over the meta and just does fun builds that he likes and he's extremely good, some of the shit he does in invasions is fucking hilarious too.
I also like Prod and FighterPL but if you're familiar with Chase you're probably already aware of them, there's also Jeenine I guess, who's obviously very skilled but is such a whiny little bitch I normally can't stand his videos

People have already mentioned Ymfah who I also recommend, for less crazy but not less autistic challenge runs there's also Challenger Andy, he's best known for doing a run of DS1 where he replaced every single enemy with Gwyn

He's currently doing a similar thing on DS3 but he replaced every enemy with Slave Knight Gael, the poor fuck has been stuck on it for like a year but he's still going

 

[Involuntary Celebrity]

I recall a Sekiro run that replaced every enemy with Isshin which I guess was memorable since I remember it but it seems like that was some other guy.

Edit: I just checked and he did do a K2 playthrough but it was a one-off and months ago

I just rewatched this and he pretty much skips all the cool shit to race to the end of the video (you can see in his research screen near the end that he didn't even unlock most of it) so don't take it as a good overview, unlike his SE series which is thorough as fuck.

I did enjoy seeing the heavy tank in action since that was about the one thing I skipped... except he didn't unlock three quarters of its weaponry. I didn't even bother with pollution filters in my base since all the added defence options own so much, but he skipped all that shit except the railgun turret. Why, dude?

Matter conversion also ain't really OP like he suggests; rather it's an intended way to streamline out certain processing steps with byproducts and optimise Singularity tech research in the endgame (which even with the awesome advanced factory buildings--which he also didn't use--ended up nearly as big as the rest of my base combined to keep the same science-per-minute rate, so I think he must have glossed over something there too).
Actually I think this half-assed video might have been partly why I didn't try Krastorio sooner, since all that cool late-game shit is the same stuff I never got to see in my SE+K2 attempt(s).

 

[SpellforceFan]

First thing that comes to mind for me is Davaeorn, a youtuber (not sure if twitch streamer) who plays Baldur's Gate (as in the BG1/SoA/ToB trilogy).
That's whatever in and of itself cause the base game can be cheesed like crazy if you know what to expect ahead of time; however, this guy plays with SCS/Ascension mods, Insane difficulty, hardcore, no reloads, and still sometimes manages to clear the full game. The videos are really long and it's not all action, but he really knows what he's doing.

If you want fast paced roguelike type stuff, Veedotme has a lot of Dead Cells playthroughs and makes that game look far easier than it is - cruising through it on the hardest difficulty nearly every time. Again, his understanding of the game's mechanics is really strong. He does other games too, but his Dead Cells videos are his best.

Maybe you'll find one of those two interesting.

I gave Davaeorn an honest watch. His guides and rankings always start off at low energy, but at some point something clicks in him and he switches to an entertaining personality and the rest of the hours long clip is a treat. I like how he explains thoroughly his reasoning and provides use cases.

His playthroughs are unfortunately absolute garbage. He is a streamer and it shows. He can't stay on topic, almost never talks about the game he's playing and instead talks like a frat bro nigger (every third word is "bro" or "dude" in that annoying accent) and always interrupts his train of thought when someone subs or donates with the same fucking "MUch love and GOD BLEss my duuuude MUCH APPreciated" bit with variable inflection that makes me want to wish him throat cancer, holy fuck I hate those kind of personalities. He also refuses to upload VODs to other hosts than kiketube, so half of them are fucking muted because he plays copyrighted music.

My overall recommendation is to watch his guides, ignore everything else on his channel.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

I recall a Sekiro run that replaced every enemy with Isshin which I guess was memorable since I remember it but it seems like that was some other guy.

That sounds like LilAggy

I haven't played Sekiro but he also did this. He then did the same with Dark Souls and failed repeatedly.

This one is also pretty fun.

 

[Backpack Knight]

Gellot does a lot of no hit boss runs of indie games.

Turin plays multiplayer Total War, he narrates tournaments also.

Ic0n Gaming plays simulator management and singleplayer RPGs.

ColorsFade Gaming does tutorial and let's plays for relatively complex RPG games. He almost got filtered by Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous though.

LegendofTotalWar plays... Mortal Ko Total War but he always calls out CA as lazy if he can though. Still remember his first Taurox the Brass Bull playthrough use the Rampage mechanic to have 40 something battles in row!


To a lesser extent:

ReformistTM does a lot of indie and Mount and Blade gameplay lets plays.

trmplays does a lot of Mount and Blade and Rimworld also but his videos are nicely edited.

Arumba does lots of Crusader Kings and Victoria playthroughs.

MasterofRolfness because:

My favorite country is Islam
So I realize upon uploading you people seeing the video that I wasn't being as slanderous as I had initially assumed. I thought I would get a lot of backlash from some of these entries in this video. But I didn't realize I wasn't going far enough. This video could have been more slanderous so I apologized for betraying the format and not insulting Islamic history enough. If I make a second part expect it to be the true Islamic History Slander.

Shoutout to Mortismal Gaming for 100% games before he reviews them. I wish he did more Let's Plays but he does guides from time to time. His Steampage.