DudeistBelieve said:
Anyway, have any of you heard of this guy? Is he actually a big deal?
Eh.
Tobuscus was good for a few laughs a couple years ago, now he's joined the PewDiePie Gestalt alongside Markiplier and Jackscepticeye and what I'm sure is a solid good ten or twelve other picture-in-picture LP gurus.
If I feel like watching a Let's Play, I'll watch someone who knows what he's doing - most of these guys barely even try because they don't need to. All they need is a string of silly deaths, a couple dozen brain-farts and a userbase in need of entertainment. Out of all of them, TearOfGrace is probably the least annoying. Even then, his "teetering on the verge of homicidal rage" act can sometimes get old.
At least none of 'em are DarkSydePhil; this guy's inept on all levels imaginable.
Honestly, the best LPs out there come out of the no-commentary clique or some of the older gents, like Gopher, Scott Manley or Checkers Prefect. Those three do talk over their footage, but their input actually provides something. In Gopher's case, you get to see a gamer's thought processes voiced aloud, or hear his in-character musings if he's playing any one of his current RPG titles. Manley started as a Kerbal Space Program player, and his background in Astrophysics makes his playthrough particularly interesting. If you ever need a detailed explanation for how the heck it is Hohmann transfers need to be planned in-game, he's got you covered.
Checkers, on the other hand, is the guy to go to if you're looking for a strangely Zen approach to occasionally hectic titles like Fallout 4. He's in his fifties and it somehow shows - he has a very methodical and cerebral approach to both active gameplay and LP commentary. His vids are a good way to zone out or relax, even if he's playing a more run-and-gun type of game.