Just wanted to get some opinion on Let's Play videos that you can find on youtube and other video sites. Do you have any favorite Let's Play-ers?
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My favorite LPer is Evil Tim. He's by far the best. I also like Kung-Fu Jesus. He did a God Hand Let's Play. That alone gives him mad props. He's also pretty good at the game, too.
Personally I do like DeceasedCrab but I also like ProtonJon. Both of them are pretty funny. I have Valis77 friended but mainly just because of his Wanderers from Y's video.
I have a little different opinion on them.
I tend not to like the video LPs, mostly because I don't want to be talked at by someone who isn't much of a voice performer, and because they include all the less interesting bits of gameplay, whereas a screenshot based LP can skip around and just present the good bits.
Also, I find the best LP games tend to be of those games with either a high inherent variation, either through slightly randomized generation of content or through massive scale, because that means that the game experience that the person presenting the Let's Play shows in their game is not necessarily the same as the one I would have if I played the game myself. I tend to find that the best Let's Plays come from either turn based games, 4x/Management games, or grand strategy games. (Like X-Com games, shameless fucking plug [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/362.82574?page=1], but also Hearts of Iron, Civ, Dwarf Fortress, etc can make good stories which aren't the stories that my game would have told)
A game with low inherent variation (most action games, heavily story driven RPGs, etc) don't significantly vary between plays, so a Let's Play of, say, a Final Fantasy game would be very similar to the game experience I would have had if I'd played it myself, which is not so interesting.
I tend not to like the video LPs, mostly because I don't want to be talked at by someone who isn't much of a voice performer, and because they include all the less interesting bits of gameplay, whereas a screenshot based LP can skip around and just present the good bits.
Also, I find the best LP games tend to be of those games with either a high inherent variation, either through slightly randomized generation of content or through massive scale, because that means that the game experience that the person presenting the Let's Play shows in their game is not necessarily the same as the one I would have if I played the game myself. I tend to find that the best Let's Plays come from either turn based games, 4x/Management games, or grand strategy games. (Like X-Com games, shameless fucking plug [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/362.82574?page=1], but also Hearts of Iron, Civ, Dwarf Fortress, etc can make good stories which aren't the stories that my game would have told)
A game with low inherent variation (most action games, heavily story driven RPGs, etc) don't significantly vary between plays, so a Let's Play of, say, a Final Fantasy game would be very similar to the game experience I would have had if I'd played it myself, which is not so interesting.
xthemusic is my favourite, but that's probably cos his channel on youtube is shared with Charlie Brooker a bitter ball of TV cynicism. xthemusic is currently doing Tomb Raider: Underworld and Viva Piñata 2...
I can be a pretty passive gamer and I'm just as happy watching someone else do the work...I'm so weird...
I can be a pretty passive gamer and I'm just as happy watching someone else do the work...I'm so weird...
I like them because some of the LPer's make me laugh. Plus, if it's a game that I enjoy and I have a certain way of doing things in it, I like to see other peoples methods of playing the same game.
Bumping this back up to see if anyone has anyone new to add! My favorite LPer is raocow [http://www.youtube.com/user/raocow] right now, because he's just so random and funny to listen to.
I'm also fond of Xarph's Half-Life: Decay Let's Play. It's fun to watch people suffer through something truly awful.
