Other Let's Players You Watch

[Raab]

So other than TTA, you fellas or fellettes(?) watch any other streamers or Let's Play channels? I tend to go for lesser known LPers to these big names like Game Grumps or Markiplier. A few channels I watch are:


Zetaplays: Dude's trying to go through the entire library of SNES, NES and Gen/MD games. Has been doing Let's Plays since 2008 aand streams just about every weekend. Sucks at games, but can be pretty funny at times. I'd skip over his early stuff and would probably look at anything from 2011 onwards. Occasionally does VR and indie games in between his main project.

Kikoskia: English guy with a really annoying sniffling problem, but plays a lot of old western PC RPGs, point and click adventures and some other obscure or esoteric stuff. I like his earlier stuff, especially his XCOM series personally, of which he's played the first game twice failing the first time on the hardest difficulty and sticking his base in Antartica. He managed to complete it the second time, not without casualties, though. He also did Terror from the Deep and got owned. His commentary these days is kind of weak, though.

Player 2: My buddy Mike (Not Snot) plays video games with his wife, Ashley with varying success. They're currently doing Breath of the Wild. Their commentary is very casual off-topic stuff. He's trying to get into streaming himself, but works a lot. They put out videos fairly regularly and enjoyable to catch if you really don't have anything going on.

Kazztawdal: Sadly hasn't been active in over a year. His videos are pretty insane in terms of dialogue. Plays a lot of weird shit, kind of a troll with his content, but it's hilariously good stuff. I'd recommend checking out his LPs of Facade, paticularly the bonus episodes.

[mcbain]

There aren't too many youtuber Let's Plays that I stick with other than TTA's -- even then I shy away from a lot of his content because I eventually want to play some of the games he's posted/streams. I find a lot of the popular LPers to be pretty grating personality-wise. There is only so much polished "wacky" loud voice I can stomach. Most of my video game Let's Play content has come from sites like Game Informer and Giantbomb.

No intention to be a shill for these sites: Game Informer is incredibly drab and conventional but for awhile there they were doing what they called Super Replays of old survival horror games like Blue Stinger, Illbleed, Overblood and whatnot that I found pretty funny in a MST3K way. Sometimes hearing the guy playing these terrible games and becoming frustrated was part of the appeal.

Giantbomb's content is what I usually go to get a quick (sometimes) informative look at what particular games are all about. Some of the editors are pretty casual, off the cuff funny. I've enjoyed their playthroughs of Deadly Premonition, Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, and Shenmue.

I think perhaps there is some common thread with both in that professionally paid writers who are in the video game industry and have a relatively deep pool of knowledge to draw from basically get broken a little bit by certain games and spontaneous shit happens.

All other LPs are usually just sporadic stuff I see and maybe stick with, maybe not.

[TimeTravelAstronaut]

I really just watch assorted speedrunners because their ability to pick apart a game and beat the shit out of it intrigues me.

[arcthelad500]

I've actually slowed down on watching LPs but that's mainly because they stop uploading, like brisulph and RTWroundthewheel.

[imba_mumrik]

I watched some guy I can't remember by name who played that aweful russian game "you are empty". The way i recall, he had a falling out with somethingawful and removed the videos to try and dissapear from the internet. I believe he called his youtube channel "the dinner dates" or that might have been some other dude.
Other than the ocassional revisit to Voidburger and her Silent Hill playthroughs, It's mainly just TTA in terms of let's plays. Oh, and my brother once did a playthrough of Clocktower that is pretty funny but in swedish that I revisit from time to time.