What do you think is the worst DSP playthrough?

[Mr Clark]

Any retro game.

Even more so now if it comes as part of a collection with a save state feature to exploit.

Tihydp will have to keep a save state counter in the corner of the screen

 

[TheGuntinator]

Blackout. And not just for recency bias. He runs through a dozen identical houses staring at the floor, then stands in a bathroom without holding the controller for 5 minutes at a time reading chat bait. Then he dies and the usual dozen excuses pour out of his gob in a random order. Then he stares at his phone for 90 seconds.

Repeat for 2-5 hours.

Fuck, the ones where DSPs chat is basically backseating Phil for half of the game are the ones that frustrate me the most. It's literally the reason I've stopped watching most livestreamers. Gameplay comes to a complete stop while they're spoonfed the answers for a puzzle they made a halfassed attempt at. I'd say any game that requires problem solving but that's every game he plays and it's noticeable. He's most obnoxious playing Metal Gear games. The clownish thirst he has any time anything slightly... revealing, i guess? Its so mild i don't think sexual applies. He literally cannot handle romance without saying something disgusting to try and get cheap laughs.

 

[Shirō Ishii]

He's most obnoxious playing Metal Gear games. The clownish thirst he has any time anything slightly... revealing, i guess? Its so mild i don't think sexual applies. He literally cannot handle romance without saying something disgusting to try and get cheap laughs.

That was OLD Phil! New Phil is a married man and whenever romance or anything sexual involving a woman comes on the screen, New Phil closes his eyes, bitches about having to play through it, says he's married and is a mature adult, and berates anyone who likes that sort of stuff

Yes, he's become a fucking puritan ever since marrying Khet. A complete 180 from what he once was

 

[Flavius Anthemius]

Any retro game.

Even more so now if it comes as part of a collection with a save state feature to exploit.

We have a couple releasing around the corner (not super old but I guess most gaymers these days would consider these retro) the Megaman Battle Network Legacy collection, these games are kinda hard ish in some areas especially early on in the first few games, but they're designed for kids so they're easy to beat over for the most part (but Phil sucks balls at games aimed at kids, like Kirby for instance or some of the Mario sports games that he played and/or pussied out on).

Then we have Pacman World Re-pac, never played any of the newer pacman games so not sure how Phil would go with this one, but we all know how bad he can be at 2D and 3D platformers some times.

 

[TheGuntinator]

That was OLD Phil! New Phil is a married man and whenever romance or anything sexual involving a woman comes on the screen, New Phil closes his eyes, bitches about having to play through it, says he's married and is a mature adult, and berates anyone who likes that sort of stuff

Yes, he's become a fucking puritan ever since marrying Khet. A complete 180 from what he once was

Oh jesus christ i just remembered his fucking Sly Cooper playthroughs. Murray dresses up as a Geisha and Phil is fucking screaming the entire scene like an ape. Those were the worst I'll say it right now i lock in this answer.

Also tbh i stopped watching Phil roughly around Firewatch because he became genuinely boring, and his gameplay around that time wasn't the worst he's ever been. How has Phil been since? Please recommend a good old fashioned TIHYDP to check out of modern Phil.

 

[Shirō Ishii]

Oh jesus christ i just remembered his fucking Sly Cooper playthroughs. Murray dresses up as a Geisha and Phil is fucking screaming the entire scene like an ape. Those were the worst I'll say it right now i lock in this answer.

Also tbh i stopped watching Phil roughly around Firewatch because he became genuinely boring, and his gameplay around that time wasn't the worst he's ever been. How has Phil been since? Please recommend a good old fashioned TIHYDP to check out of modern Phil.

Most modern TIHYDP's are over 5+ hours long because there's like only 1 guy making it now. Resident Evil 2 and 3 Remake, DK64, Mario Sunshine, and especially Crash Team Racing are ones which I'd recommend

Phil mostly plays games where he can cheese through it or a lot of walking sims and avoids almost anything which gives him a challenge. He fucking rage-quit the newest Kirby game and this current play through of Zelda 2 might end up being one of the most entertaining ones in a while. Sure he's save-scumming, but he save-scummed into a corner because of how much he's been doing it

 

[games bugged dood]

I think the most recent Skyrim playthrough that spanned for half a year has to be one of his worst. A boring game mixed with a neutered "I'm a married family man" Phil. Completely devoid of fun.

 

[ChrisR2]

Has Phil ever played a videogame where he doesn't use the word "glitch"? It blows my mind how he describes every little thing as a glitch. When I play a new videogame, I don't ever think something is a "glitch" unless I get soft locked or the game is actually broken in some way. That's not to say there are no glitches because all forms of software has them, but I just don't think of using the term so liberally.

It's just one of the little things that DSP does that annoys the hell out of me.

 

[UncleTusky]

Jak II. Phil is at his most insufferable when he thinks he's being clever and that's his Jak II LP in a nutshell - excessive singing, jokes that made zero sense, mistakes making him replay the same minigame for an hour, getting mad at the programmers for his own mistakes, peak DSP basically. It's the single least entertaining thing of his I've seen and I couldn't even get through the TIHYDP in one sitting - that's not a dig at whoever made it, the source material was just hot garbage even by DSP standards.

 

[Traian007]

Sekiro for me personally is the worst playthrough. Never takes time to learn any mechanics like mikiri counter. Tries to grug mode through everything. The handholding was off the charts for this one. Also some of the dents were revolting a bit against piggler.

 

[The Tractor]

I remember his play through of Assassins Creed III many years ago. It was awful not necessarily because of the gameplay but because of Phil and Leanna being as unlikable as possible.

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

Jak II. Phil is at his most insufferable when he thinks he's being clever and that's his Jak II LP in a nutshell - excessive singing, jokes that made zero sense, mistakes making him replay the same minigame for an hour, getting mad at the programmers for his own mistakes, peak DSP basically. It's the single least entertaining thing of his I've seen and I couldn't even get through the TIHYDP in one sitting - that's not a dig at whoever made it, the source material was just hot garbage even by DSP standards.

Jak II Is probably my favourite due to uncontrollable amount of salt Phil drops on certain parts of the game, like the racing parts or when he has to drop the bombs on the Echo Towers. Pure, golden and tasty salt like you won't get these days unless Phil is playing a racing game.

He fucking rage-quit the newest Kirby game and this current play through of Zelda 2 might end up being one of the most entertaining ones in a while. Sure he's save-scumming, but he save-scummed into a corner because of how much he's been doing it

The Zelda 2 TIHYDP was very fun. A pity he savescummed constantly to brute force his way through most of the dungeons because he constantly got lost and ended up runnin into enemies. If he couldn't make savestates like in both his DK playthroughs, he would most likely have ragequitted the game.

Sekiro for me personally is the worst playthrough. Never takes time to learn any mechanics like mikiri counter. Tries to grug mode through everything. The handholding was off the charts for this one. Also some of the dents were revolting a bit against piggler.

No joke on this, i aced most of Sekiro a year later it came out just by seeing Phil fail nearly constantly, beating it with very low deaths. It was my favourite TIHYDP for quite some time and i watched it constantly. I'm particularly fond of the second monkey fight and the mibu village section where he has to deal with a mod uprising and him saying that it's the game's/dev's fault that he's not good at the game because they cannot do games that are not shit and he's a master of every game he plays.

As well, i've been watching the vids of Elden Ring and... Well, i was not amazing when i first played the game but Phil takes it to new lows. He died more than 70 times to the first Crucible Knight and more than 100 to Malenia, only managing to beat her by spamming Taker's Flames on second phase, managing to stunlock Malenia. Other honorable mentions are Mogh Lord of Blood, Rykhard lord of Blasphemy and the Black Blade Kindred.

And he was lucky to have fought Radhan after the nerf hit or he would have anhialated Phil.

 

[Iron Father]

Most modern TIHYDP's are over 5+ hours long because there's like only 1 guy making it now.

KingDDDuke makes pretty good TIHYDP's at (mostly) reasonable lengths.
He deserves more love than he gets. He even does smaller videos like this:

 

[Beverly Sutphin]

This is another one that I wanted to just go "Jesus, Phil! Why do you have to stick your gouty foot into something that means this much to me?" Those two? The classic RE trilogy and the original Doom.

I've played Doom on everything: PC, SNES, Jaguar, 32X, Mac OS, etc...and know every inch of Doom. Him save scumming a game that I hold DEAR to my heart, it was like seeing a dead loved dying all over again. I mean, my God! Besides him not being able to circle straff properly, but also going a few feet, saving. Kill a few imps, save. Not saying you have to an expert or spend hundreds of THOUSANDS of hours in deathmatches - pretty sure I did run into John Romero during that time and getting my young mentally ill self killed by him - I literally spent a whole summer on deathmatch on Doom as a kid in 1993 and it has a special place in my heart.

The original RE trilogy. Okay, the dogs fucking him up in the hallway is kinda funny in the first one and the salt that comes from that is perfect. That and the fact that he refused to kill them makes it even funnier. I'm not going to lie, the original trilogy is fucking tough, especially for newbies to the series. It's why it's recommend to have a guide for your first playthrough of the originals. RE3 was his WORST one! We all know that - his RE2 one, while not as bad as 3, you don't get the ink ribbon bitching, there's plenty of salt to be had. He gets lost, uses items that he was supposed to save for a boss at the wrong time, and basically stomps his gouty foot all over a series that I spent more on than I care to admit.

I know other people have other game series that mean the world to them, but those are two where I can say "Yeah, these are one of my personal worst."

 

[Johnny Eastwood cash]

All of them

 

[curbside2]

As someone who has sat through a lot of them the worst is his FFX playthrough. His capture card fails every 3-10 minutes, he grinds a bunch off screen, and good portion of his playtime is spent describing how he’s going to stroke his dick to various women in the game.

 

[Devil's Advocate]

If Comcast guy simply throttled 0utsyder's download speeds or restricted his plan to 10GB monthly, that would put an end to the menace for good. Painters create the beautifulist works of art with a limited palette. Big fat people lose weight if you remove the automatic light from the fridge. If you snatch crack from an addict, they rage for some time, but later thank you. Man cannot create good tihydp videos without suffering for he is both marble and sculptor.

If I was banished to a desert island and could only bring ten DSP tihydp vids, these would be my picks:
- Indigo Prophecy, for the drunk racism
- Danganronpa 2, for the hyperdrive lusting
- Yoshi's Island, for ruining a beloved childhood favorite
- Pokemon Moon, for the clownmode and stupidity
- Shadow of the Colossus, for the nonstop whining
- SSX World Tour, for the ineptitude and rage
- Tokyo Hosto, for the Cheng quadrangle
- Jak II, for the baffling gameplay decisions
- The Talos Principle, for the extreme boredom
- Sea of Thieves, for the awkward online co-op chemistry

 

[Corpun]

Not really the worst, but the Fallout New Vegas one is just annoying to watch, especially since he played it twice before the most recent one. He retained absolutely nothing from the past two playthroughs, bumbled around ignoring everything, and just ran with the funkiller Boone the entire time.

It's peak current year DSP in ineptitude and laziness. There are a few times in that game where Boone gets insta'd by Deathclaws and Phil just freezes because he now doesn't have a immortal aimbot to do all the work for him. I don't say this as a New Vegas sperg because I don't actually think New Vegas is as great a game as people like to say it is, but as phil would say, the kahmahn gamer.

If he ever does play Fallout 3 as a dedicated stream again it will be far worse because 3 does not have any aimbot companions you can get relatively early on, the early game is far more difficult with resource managment and lack of stimpacks, and 3 overall is actually more of a challenge than New Vegas. If Phil was constantly running out of stimpacks in New Vegas, he won't ever have any in 3, and it will be great to see him go from fake-fanning Fallout 3 to bitching and moaning about how terrible it is.

 

[Green Man]

Late as fuck to this thread, but I watched his Resident Evil: Code Veronica playthrough recently because I was curious whether being shit at videogames was an act on his part to set himself apart from everyone else who streams/records gameplay and commentary. Nah, he legit is that terrible at videogames. He got killed by the same trap like eight fucking times, blamed the game for not telegraphing a character switch enough so he ended up sofltocked because he didn't put shit in the item box, died a countless number of times to most bosses because after ten tries he still couldn't figure out the mechanics behind it [and it's not like this is fucking Dark Souls or something] and complained the entire time about shit that was decidedly HIS fault. Every single puzzle in that game was like if you asked a Down's syndrome guy to learn trigonometry, and these are just typical RE puzzles. Sure some of them are a little tricky at first but with enough time a first grader could figure most of them out. I think he also died like a hundred fucking times at the part where Steve transforms and chases you down a hallway failing to understand that there is no way to do any damage to him and you just have to tank it and have enough health items to slip away. He uses all of his ink ribbons up and then bitches that the mechanic even exists, uses his healing items and ammunition so liberally that Claire/Chris limps through 3/4 of the game, etc.

His GTA 3 playthrough was also bad. He failed to understand basic mechanics and concepts throughout the entire game. He blames the game being "cheap" or buggy for his lack of ability. Now that I know he genuinely is that bad at bing bing wahoo, it's kind of fascinating like a zoo exhibit. New hobby is watching the This Is How You Don't Play compilations. I don't think most people could even pretend to be that shitty at videogames as a gimmick. In some cases it is extremely noticeable but in other cases you might have to actually be familiar with the game to see just how retardedly he's playing it.

 

[Snake of Diamond]

Jak II. Phil is at his most insufferable when he thinks he's being clever and that's his Jak II LP in a nutshell - excessive singing, jokes that made zero sense, mistakes making him replay the same minigame for an hour, getting mad at the programmers for his own mistakes, peak DSP basically. It's the single least entertaining thing of his I've seen and I couldn't even get through the TIHYDP in one sitting - that's not a dig at whoever made it, the source material was just hot garbage even by DSP standards.

Jak 2 can be difficult but he struggles on the easiest missions since the game is sort of structured like a baby's first GTA game and with that it means he is susceptible to not understanding the game isn't going to hold his hand. The game also to me is one of the many that show off his inability to understand the mechanics of specific games like the Dark Jak ability, how the aiming works with game specifically, alternate combat moves, etc. I'll actually put GTA games in general on that list since Phil is incapable of understanding how open world games work and constantly calls things out for being "random" when that is part of the nature of the genre you're supposed to find ways to complete certain missions that aren't going to streamline themselves for you.