What game do you wish Phil would play? - AKA best future TIHYDP material?

[ChrisR2]

Soooo... with the ocean of solid indie games to play, he's playing... Bass Fishing? Are people actually going to pay this man money to play a fishing game?

 

[Sup3r]

Soooo... with the ocean of solid indie games to play, he's playing... Bass Fishing? Are people actually going to pay this man money to play a fishing game?

They were give him money while he was "driving his wife to work" on black Friday. Most don't care about what he plays, they pay for their own retarded reasons. He could leave the stream on while he lies on the sofa gambling away on "mobile games" and he's still be sent money.

And it should never be a surprise that he skips any and all indie games, he only ever cares about AAA games because all he can hope to do is coast on "hype". He only touches indie games put of spite (YT life 2 when he tried to start shit with PewDiePie) or because paypigs paid him to do so. That's not even counting the games from the big companies he's missed like Digimon survive, livealive, xenoblade 3, fire emblem three hopes, dnf duel and klonoa. Not even counting when he tried to trash dB the breakers using evil dead, which he also skipped.

 

[FaXmachine]

I don't think its even about hype with indies because he has actively skipped hyped ones on purpose, he had to be nagged into playing Hades as an example. I think he thinks he is above them, in his head he genuinely thinks AAA is the only valid experience, fancy graphic, high FPS (on console anyway).

Anyway I'm gonna go for Grandia 2 or any Onechanbara game. Maybe SK too and no turning off animations for clothes breakage. His prudishness pisses me off so I wanna beat him with it.

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

I don't think its even about hype with indies because he has actively skipped hyped ones on purpose, he had to be nagged into playing Hades as an example. I think he thinks he is above them, in his head he genuinely thinks AAA is the only valid experience, fancy graphic, high FPS (on console anyway).

It's always funny when he pretends he's this champion of indie games though, like with Stray. During his review of Stray he talked about how he's somehow the only guy talking about just how G R O U N D B R E A K I N G and amazing the game is... y'know the same game that's only been out for less than a month and already got over 60k reviews on Steam, 97% of which are positive. But only he's the one praising it. Okay. Another thing that killed me in that review is when he implied that peepol don't like it because not everyone owns a cat and the game really explores the special connection a cat and their owner has... the game called Stray, that's about a stray street cat... so it's not owned by anyone...

 

[UncleTusky]

That's the last UED one, To Chain the Beast. Not only that, but there are also huge amounts of Sunken Colonies that are invulnerable. And Torrasque and the colonies will keep fucking you up unless you kill the cerebrates. Which means that amassing marines is out of the question unless you dropship them (or you make 150 of them and you expect to lose more than half in the process), and even they they are vulnerable to scourges, spore colonies and swarms of mutalisks.

Slightly OT but a Starcraft streamer on YT did a challenge run of 1 + Brood War with marines only. Here is a link and let's just say you underestimate the body count on "To Chain the Beast".

Damn, thinking about all this makes me remember that the other campaigns in SC2 would be great for him. Lots of scripted events, hero unit that is inmortal, lots of help in many ways, the game tells you when the enemies are going to attack you... He couldn't expect more handholding than that, even the last missions in all campaigns are very easy.

Which is why I wish he'd play Diablo II (you know, the other franchise Blizzard ruined by stripping out all the difficulty and having the game play itself). No scripted events, no heroes, hirelings can die, and stat/skill points must be carefully managed because there are not enough to get everything and respecs are limited to one per difficulty. Phil might even fuck up his build so bad that he couldn't beat Normal.

Edit: I am a certified Starcraft sperg, so in addition to the 'marines only' run enjoy the same streamer doing a zerglings only run of 1+BW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaE3AOQWGqE

No he doesn't get to use hydralisks or mutalisks for anti-air, he just gets creative instead.

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

Which is why I wish he'd play Diablo II (you know, the other franchise Blizzard ruined by stripping out all the difficulty and having the game play itself). No scripted events, no heroes, hirelings can die, and stat/skill points must be carefully managed because there are not enough to get everything and respecs are limited to one per difficulty. Phil might even fuck up his build so bad that he couldn't beat Normal.

Damn, almost forgot. It's been ages since i played Diablo 2. 3 was a joke in terms of difficulty and even on the hardest difficulties i could steamroll most enemies without planning or min-maxing.

Diablo 2 is a bitch when it comes to make a build and you're right that Phil would fuck up very hard unless the streamchat spoonfeeds any pertinent information related to doing a viable build (something that will most likely happen). He will most likely to go Aura Paladin or Spear Amazon and every level up will be 10 minutes of "What do i level up, chat?"

Outside of that, i would also kinda hope he played the C&C series, specially 2 and Yuri's Revenge, which are tough as fuck. Last missions are balls to the torrents of fuck you to the degree that you need an extremely good economy in order to pump the best units possible since enemies will spam entire armies of Rhynos and Kirovs to flatten everything you have.

 

[Balr0g]

If you think Diablo 2 would be handholding imagine him playing Paths of Exiles. The game is F2P so no real cost for him but the skill tree is insane (at leadt it was like that the last time i played)

 

[llllIllIllIIIIllI]

Slightly OT but a Starcraft streamer on YT did a challenge run of 1 + Brood War with marines only. Here is a link and let's just say you underestimate the body count on "To Chain the Beast".


Which is why I wish he'd play Diablo II (you know, the other franchise Blizzard ruined by stripping out all the difficulty and having the game play itself). No scripted events, no heroes, hirelings can die, and stat/skill points must be carefully managed because there are not enough to get everything and respecs are limited to one per difficulty. Phil might even fuck up his build so bad that he couldn't beat Normal.

Damn, almost forgot. It's been ages since i played Diablo 2. 3 was a joke in terms of difficulty and even on the hardest difficulties i could steamroll most enemies without planning or min-maxing.

Diablo 2 is a bitch when it comes to make a build and you're right that Phil would fuck up very hard unless the streamchat spoonfeeds any pertinent information related to doing a viable build (something that will most likely happen). He will most likely to go Aura Paladin or Spear Amazon and every level up will be 10 minutes of "What do i level up, chat?"

Outside of that, i would also kinda hope he played the C&C series, specially 2 and Yuri's Revenge, which are tough as fuck. Last missions are balls to the torrents of fuck you to the degree that you need an extremely good economy in order to pump the best units possible since enemies will spam entire armies of Rhynos and Kirovs to flatten everything you have.

Diablo 2 and Brood War would be great considering they need a lot of planning and strategy but also have a ton of info online at this point about the best builds and pretty much solid strategies overall. Caesar 3, city building games, old 4X games would be another nomination. DSP's run of MGS2 is a favorite of mine because he is every single thing wrong with everyone that hates that game or any type of game where you have to think and not just run in blasting everything until it stops moving. He doesn't listen to the game when it tells him what to do and just spouts memes about the creators of the game or its community. Diablo 2 and Brood War all have communities that would laugh at him in-game after he shit talks and refuses to learn basic strategies, which would add another dimension of lulz to his streaming either.

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

Diablo 2 and Brood War would be great considering they need a lot of planning and strategy but also have a ton of info online at this point about the best builds and pretty much solid strategies overall. Caesar 3, city building games, old 4X games would be another nomination. DSP's run of MGS2 is a favorite of mine because he is every single thing wrong with everyone that hates that game or any type of game where you have to think and not just run in blasting everything until it stops moving. He doesn't listen to the game when it tells him what to do and just spouts memes about the creators of the game or its community. Diablo 2 and Brood War all have communities that would laugh at him in-game after he shit talks and refuses to learn basic strategies, which would add another dimension of lulz to his streaming either.

Yeah, he would be amazingly bad on Brood War and Diablo 2. How much you wanna bet he would scream at Stream Chat like a child wanting some candy when he has to find the tomb of Tal Rasha and he just doesn't want to go through all of the tombs? Or in Brood war in the UED mission on Tarsonis? I would already picture him sitting dumbfounded with Duran at the Disruptor and wondering why the mission isn't ending and asking why he has to destroy the zerg. It would be amazing but unless people pressure him hard to play Diablo 2 and/or Brood War, he will not do it. Much like he avoids racing games like the plague.

I also agree when it comes to city building games and management games. Rimworld would be his absolute nightmare and even more casual games like Banished would be a challenge to him.

 

[Kheapathic]

That's true. The first protoss mission would annoy him a lot since you have no bases, limited units and Zeratul has to be alive. Also, i expect him to throw a hissy fit when he has to assault Korhal with the UED and he waits for chat to tell him what the best option is and hopefully get constantly trolled by Ghosts and nukes in Emperor's Flight. The Zerg campaign would definetly fuck him over constantly, specially the first mission.

I would expect the same to happen if he played Warcraft 3 since after the Culling the game takes the kids gloves off and you better be ready for some action.

Before Broodwar there's that one Zerg Mission where you have to stop the Dark Templar from escaping the map; a single escape is also a loss. Phil's low attention span would have that mission be an early rager. If he was stupid enough to try WC3, even if he was to somehow make it past all of WC3 and into Frozen Throne; the first Undead mission would be the end of him. Arthas, Kel'Thuzad, and Sylvanas are all at different exit points; civilians are fleeing, and have escorts, too many civilians escape and it's game over.

Mission is to destroy 9 town (3 per hero), without letting others escape. Problem is all 3 lanes are active at once, and when you attack, Paladins from the middle warp in to defend. You can't have your heroes cross into other lanes without going through the heavily defended middle; and Sylvanas only has Banshees while Kel'Thuzad only has Ghouls and Necromancers.

If Phil was to somehow, by the grace of God make it that far. That's where the game ends, that mission is absolute hell.

Damn, thinking about all this makes me remember that the other campaigns in SC2 would be great for him. Lots of scripted events, hero unit that is inmortal, lots of help in many ways, the game tells you when the enemies are going to attack you... He couldn't expect more handholding than that, even the last missions in all campaigns are very easy.

As much as I love Heart of the Swarm, I wouldn't want Phil to play it. Outside of Brutal difficulty and a few missions, Kerrigan doesn't just carry, but can be told to attack move, and be left alone with the proper build.

 

[UncleTusky]

Diablo 2 is a bitch when it comes to make a build and you're right that Phil would fuck up very hard unless the streamchat spoonfeeds any pertinent information related to doing a viable build (something that will most likely happen). He will most likely to go Aura Paladin or Spear Amazon and every level up will be 10 minutes of "What do i level up, chat?"

Even with a guide he'd hate every second because they all think in terms of what works in late Normal and beyond, not the first couple acts. He'd get mad at the guide and call the author an elitist know-it-all moron by the end of Act II, especially if by dumb luck he picked a guide for a build that relies heavily on high level skills (just off the top of my head this would cover the Avenger Paladin, most Sorceress builds, the Wind Druid, and arguably the Bone Necromancer).

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

Caesar 3, city building games, old 4X games would be another nomination.

It'd be hilarious to see Phail try to figure out how walkers worked in Caesar 3, but sadly nuPhil wouldn't give us that satisfaction. Caesar 3 has a lot of guides, most importantly on the most efficient city and street layouts and it's just a simple grid system very similar to how the Romans historically planned and built their colonies. That's why expanding the city in the game isn't that difficult, you can just copy the same grid you used in the rest of the city and you're golden.

 

[Balr0g]

Or let him play The Settlers game where you have to set up prodfuction routes: miners refinery and so on. You also need enough walkers to transport the produced good. I want to see how he fucks that up

 

[Seth MacFartman]

I'm gonna say it anyway but, Yugioh Master Duel. Why? Easily he could fuck it up by spending money on it ofc.

 

[UsedUp]

 

[Level99Manchild]

Phil playing the worst Leisure Suit Larry game would be interesting because it would give him legit reasons to bash Box Office Bust. The whining from failing the missions might be funny. That or Daikatana.

Before Broodwar there's that one Zerg Mission where you have to stop the Dark Templar from escaping the map; a single escape is also a loss. Phil's low attention span would have that mission be an early rager. If he was stupid enough to try WC3, even if he was to somehow make it past all of WC3 and into Frozen Throne; the first Undead mission would be the end of him. Arthas, Kel'Thuzad, and Sylvanas are all at different exit points; civilians are fleeing, and have escorts, too many civilians escape and it's game over.

I can't even see him clear the Human campaign when Arthas slaughters Stratholme without one retry.

 

[Tears for T]

Something he can play with Kath, a weight gain fetish game!

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[Big Brown Schlub]

The lengthy-style RPG Age of Decadence would allow him to play as himself.
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I am now retracting this recommendation. For my 3rd playthrough I checked a guide because I wanted to get the ending where you become a god and it's apparently possible to not just get one, but multiple different possible endings without getting into combat once in the game, turning it into a walking simulator. Combat is a difficult part of this game and it would make piggy rage.

Of course, in usual circumstances this would speak to how good of an RPG it is because you can solve most, if not all of your problems with words, similar to Arcanum of Steamworks and Magick Obscura or Planescape Torment, but in this case it's a condemnation because you can bet that GuideReaderPhil would just "accidentally" do the exact things that the non-combat walkthrough tells you to do.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Has it been announced whether Phil will play the new Saints Row game coming out next week?

 

[capefear56]

Has anyone mentioned Barotrauma yet?

This fucking game would be the penultimate "wuh wudoIdo?" TIHYDP. The sheer amount of systems you need to memorize, crew order juggling, mission prep, using good judgement, etc required would overwhelm him pretty quickly. There's also very few in-depth guides for him to follow -- similar to Divinity 2, but way more complex and unforgiving. No save scumming, no exploits, nothing.