What do you think is the worst DSP playthrough?

[Crocketron]

I'm in the camp where the worst playthrough of his in my opinion is also my personal sacred cow - Nioh, and by extension Nioh 2 now, I guess, though he is doing better in that one I admit, but not by much. I don't think he ever even found out that you can't panic dodge after getting hit like in the From games, but you're allowed to panic block, otherwise you'll just be combo'd to death. The vast majority of his deaths I remember being from him not knowing how to keep himself from being combo'd to death.
Also one thing I noticed specifically here now that I'm talking about Nioh, when he first played Nioh, he always bitched about how the From Software games are better than Nioh, then every time he played a From game afterwards he kept saying how Nioh is better, especially when he played Sekiro, then again when he played Nioh 2 better he said that From games were better. I bet that when he'll inevitably play Elden Ring he'll go back to talking about how Nioh was better.

I agree with you there, the pigroach literally rage quit at Date, when Maria was worst but thats just the first DLC of the game, he would've quit when he goes up against Jin Hiyabusa... I had to watch his Nioh 2 play-through with a friend just to explain what he did wrong.

 

[GayestFurryTrash]

Mine hands down has to be his Resident Evil 2 remake playthrough, mostly because I do no damage and speed runs of that game so I'm like a super autist about it. It's definitely one of the most painful for me to watch just because of how well I know it.

 

[JimiHendrix]

his DMCV playthrough was pretty fucking bad. like, just the absolute epitome of awful gameplay. the DMC franchise is renowned for how complex the combat system is and the level of freedom of expression you can have in it.

phil spent the entire game button mashing attacked, never used Nero's breakages, never switched styles with Dante, didn't taunt a single time.

like I wasn't expectin' the man to be doing jump cancels, but he couldn't even style switch with Dante, preferring to play the entire game in Sword Master.

 

[Gramh]

I'm torn, because on a personal level I really hated his KOTOR playthrough because he was just bumbling through it to say he played it and trashed the game the entire time because the battle system was turn based. On the other hand, I can't forget the most arrogant I've witnessed DSP, when he dropped his controller and demanded that his paypigs tip him the method to win the boss fight because he was getting bodied hard in RE3 Remastered.

 

[GayestFurryTrash]

I'm torn, because on a personal level I really hated his KOTOR playthrough because he was just bumbling through it to say he played it and trashed the game the entire time because the battle system was turn based. On the other hand, I can't forget the most arrogant I've witnessed DSP, when he dropped his controller and demanded that his paypigs tip him the method to win the boss fight because he was getting bodied hard in RE3 Remastered.

One of my friends keeps trying to get me to watch his playthroughs of other Resident Evil games but I'm not sure I want to suffer through them.

 

[Gramh]

One of my friends keeps trying to get me to watch his playthroughs of other Resident Evil games but I'm not sure I want to suffer through them.

If you do, go through a detractor it's a lot less of a headache. I didn't want to spoil RE3 Remastered for myself (planning a straight playthrough of the series once I snag 3 remastered and 4 for ps4 and a couple of the obscure ps2 titles) and someone else's video is the only reason I know about the rage quitting.

 

[Crocketron]

I want to say DKC64, Nioh/Nioh 2 and probably his play-through of Crash Nitro Kart. To show a friend of mine, I compared his time when racing Pinstripe to mine (It took him two hours to beat, I beat him in about 5 minutes)

 

[DarkSoulsPhil]

Look at my name. What do you think?

The og ds1 run is the best. No chat, no summons and certainly no reading of hints or items...until he rq and gets carried the rest of the game. I know that game inside and out and that is the thing that makes his playthroughs bearable to watch, when you can pinpoint every fuck up

 

[Freshtodeath]

I didn't watch it but how did phil do in canary mary on banjo tooie? I'm assuming the tards tipped him off on how to do it?

 

[Full Race Replay]

Probably not my pick for worst playthrough but this video basically sums up Phil as a let's-player, he is completely incompetent and doesn't know what is going on.

Basic example: Anyone who played any tennis in their life knows that when the server hits the ball, basically put he has to hit it diagonally so the ball will be going wide every single time, but Phil moves his ass into the middle of the court and can't understand why he can't hit the ball.

 

[Funko Pops NFT collector]

Probably not my pick for worst playthrough but this video basically sums up Phil as a let's-player, he is completely incompetent and doesn't know what is going on.

Basic example: Anyone who played any tennis in their life knows that when the server hits the ball, basically put he has to hit it diagonally so the ball will be going wide every single time, but Phil moves his ass into the middle of the court and can't understand why he can't hit the ball.

At around 1:55 he says "Did you see that?? When it hit the deck it changed direction Huuuuu"No it didnt you fucking mong,an also as you said he moved to the middle of the court because he doesnt know how to play tennis. He is so retarded he cant even play games meant for children.

 

[Honzou]

Probably not my pick for worst playthrough but this video basically sums up Phil as a let's-player, he is completely incompetent and doesn't know what is going on.

Basic example: Anyone who played any tennis in their life knows that when the server hits the ball, basically put he has to hit it diagonally so the ball will be going wide every single time, but Phil moves his ass into the middle of the court and can't understand why he can't hit the ball.

I watched the tihydp for this and it might be up there as one of his worst. It's also fucking hilarious watching a man in his mid 30s get genuinely enraged by a Nintendo children's sportsball game. Even if you don't care about the game I recommend that tihydp for pure Phil rage.

 

[TheGoutburglar]

It says a lot about what Phil's ACTUAL 12 year legacy is the fact that so many of his playthroughs are legit candidates for "worst one ever., and that to truly pin it down, one has to come up with specific terms to define "worst" within the context of the Phil universe. For example, him streaming Morrowind could easily be the "worst" if we don't require that it's enjoyable to watch Phil at his "worst", but if we do require that it at least be unintentionally hilarious, then the "worst" would more than likely be something he did closer to the "still pointing a camera at the TV" era.

 

[Pargon]

It says a lot about what Phil's ACTUAL 12 year legacy is the fact that so many of his playthroughs are legit candidates for "worst one ever., and that to truly pin it down, one has to come up with specific terms to define "worst" within the context of the Phil universe. For example, him streaming Morrowind could easily be the "worst" if we don't require that it's enjoyable to watch Phil at his "worst", but if we do require that it at least be unintentionally hilarious, then the "worst" would more than likely be something he did closer to the "still pointing a camera at the TV" era.

It's because there's nothing redeeming whatsoever about his playthroughs.

He doesn't pick interesting games to play. He picks new-release AAA titles or ones that he thinks people will pay to walk him through

His commentary is one-note and childish.

He sucks at playing every single game in existence so you can't even count on watching someone play a game skillfully.

His streams are 100% about getting people to donate, except he's not at all charismatic, and so they turn into whining sausage-mode fests until his viewers bring him his bottle.

Apart from begging he only interacts with chat to degrade them.

He's not physically attractive.

His stream setup is no-effort, antiquated and actively detracts from the experience of watching him.

There is, in short, objectively no reason whatsoever to be watching DSP instead of literally any other streamer on any available platform except for pure inertia ("I've been watching Phil for years so why would I stop now?"), to watch him get trolled because you're burning with hatred for both Phil and yourself, or because you've deluded yourself into thinking Phil is still the Little Guy (when he hasn't been on a number of levels since Day One) and you want to see him win.

That's why this thread is seven pages long and growing. Every DSP playthrough is the worst playthrough.

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

It says a lot about what Phil's ACTUAL 12 year legacy is the fact that so many of his playthroughs are legit candidates for "worst one ever., and that to truly pin it down, one has to come up with specific terms to define "worst" within the context of the Phil universe. For example, him streaming Morrowind could easily be the "worst" if we don't require that it's enjoyable to watch Phil at his "worst", but if we do require that it at least be unintentionally hilarious, then the "worst" would more than likely be something he did closer to the "still pointing a camera at the TV" era.

That's why I went with the easy option of just picking one of my sacred cows that he desecrated with his shit playthrough, Nioh.
At first I tried thinking "objectively" what his most garbage playthrough would be and my mind was already flooded with about a dozen of them - Black Mesa, every Metal Gear Solids, he played Jak II, Crash Team Racing, any Need For Speed game he played, every GTA he played, nuDoom... and that's just all the games I thought of off the top of my head right now. It would be too much of a waste of time for me to go around thinking and measuring which one was truly the worst.

 

[TheGoutburglar]

That's why I went with the easy option of just picking one of my sacred cows that he desecrated with his shit playthrough, Nioh.
At first I tried thinking "objectively" what his most garbage playthrough would be and my mind was already flooded with about a dozen of them - Black Mesa, every Metal Gear Solids, he played Jak II, Crash Team Racing, any Need For Speed game he played, every GTA he played, nuDoom... and that's just all the games I thought of off the top of my head right now. It would be too much of a waste of time for me to go around thinking and measuring which one was truly the worst.

Good point.

My sacred cow is Morrowind, though his streams of that are bad not because of incompetence but because I don't get to watch the game kick his fat stupid ass constantly, which is the only selling point when someone like him streams it.

That's what gets me about Phil's insecurity about being laughed at for failing at video games. It still counts as failing if you drop all pretenses and literally call it a handholding playthrough, it just isn't as ironically entertaining. I guess he's willing to accept that as an alternative, though it basically equates to an admission that he knows he'll never be a skilled gamer, since apparently him doing well, ON HIS OWN, just isn't an option.

I suppose, then, that the most ironically entertaining ones will always be games that are impossible to be handheld through, like racing games (that don't have that stupid rewind feature).

 

[BScCollateral]

My sacred cow is Morrowind, ...

Mine is Kerbal Space Program, the manliest of games. I am safe.

 

[Pargon]

My sacred cow is Morrowind

Phil hasn't touched mine and even though he'd be hard-pressed to find a way to play it legally I'm still not going to tempt fate and reveal what it is.

Some sacred cows deserve to remain pure.

 

[Forbidden Math]

Good point.

My sacred cow is Morrowind, though his streams of that are bad not because of incompetence but because I don't get to watch the game kick his fat stupid ass constantly, which is the only selling point when someone like him streams it.

That's what gets me about Phil's insecurity about being laughed at for failing at video games. It still counts as failing if you drop all pretenses and literally call it a handholding playthrough, it just isn't as ironically entertaining. I guess he's willing to accept that as an alternative, though it basically equates to an admission that he knows he'll never be a skilled gamer, since apparently him doing well, ON HIS OWN, just isn't an option.

I suppose, then, that the most ironically entertaining ones will always be games that are impossible to be handheld through, like racing games (that don't have that stupid rewind feature).

If it helps he'll probably never finish Morrowind. It's on "hiatus" now, we'll see if he comes back, but I think the odds of him destroying the Heart of Lorkhan and actually beating the game are very low. Not because it's hard, just because he'll wage/boredquit first.

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

Good point.

My sacred cow is Morrowind, though his streams of that are bad not because of incompetence but because I don't get to watch the game kick his fat stupid ass constantly, which is the only selling point when someone like him streams it.

That's what gets me about Phil's insecurity about being laughed at for failing at video games. It still counts as failing if you drop all pretenses and literally call it a handholding playthrough, it just isn't as ironically entertaining. I guess he's willing to accept that as an alternative, though it basically equates to an admission that he knows he'll never be a skilled gamer, since apparently him doing well, ON HIS OWN, just isn't an option.

I suppose, then, that the most ironically entertaining ones will always be games that are impossible to be handheld through, like racing games (that don't have that stupid rewind feature).

He's not even really "playing" Morrowind, I watched the first two parts on YT and I fell asleep halfway through the second part because he just waits for his stream chat to tell him how to do even the smallest of things because Morrowind really is a game that's way out of Philburt's league. It's like watching those "Twitch plays Pokemon" streams but with a middleman.