X (davidr64yt) is definitely my favourite, very enjoyable let's plays. However not certain he counts as one of the really big ones with 180k subs, so out of the more well known ones I would have to say TotalBiscuit.
The Best Big YouTubers.
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Gopher is pretty good, really enjoyed his Vampire: the Masquerade Let's Play.BathorysGraveland2 said:
Mine would be Game Grumps [http://www.youtube.com/user/GameGrumps?feature=g-subs-u], Hutch [http://www.youtube.com/user/shaun0728?feature=g-subs-u], Seananners [http://www.youtube.com/user/SeaNanners?feature=g-subs-u] and Star_ [http://www.youtube.com/user/Niichts?feature=g-subs-u], though I'm sub'd to more than them.
Mr ScooterMagruder. He's not THAT big but he deserves to be. I would shake his hand if we happen to run into each other on a street.
FrankieonPCin1080p puts out pretty good videos.
He mainly does DayZ and BF3 videos so he might not be everyone's cup of tea but his DayZ videos are amazing. No trolling, no "look at me, I can camp on a hill in a bush", just great editing and great role playing. And his BF3 videos are good as well, although he mainly uses the gameplay as a background to talk about other stuff.
I'd also say CriousGamers (Or ChilledChaos), EatMyDiction and GassyMexican also put out some pretty funny stuff, although they're not "big". They do a good mix of games between, from big name titles to Source Mods.
He mainly does DayZ and BF3 videos so he might not be everyone's cup of tea but his DayZ videos are amazing. No trolling, no "look at me, I can camp on a hill in a bush", just great editing and great role playing. And his BF3 videos are good as well, although he mainly uses the gameplay as a background to talk about other stuff.
I'd also say CriousGamers (Or ChilledChaos), EatMyDiction and GassyMexican also put out some pretty funny stuff, although they're not "big". They do a good mix of games between, from big name titles to Source Mods.
I've actually met both Chilled Chaos and Gassy Mexican. They're pretty cool guys, though they kinda fell off of my map when I left the machinima scene. I met Chilled when I was co-hosting for a friend's podcast, and I met Gassy on some old machinima-centered website before it fell apart because of piss-poor management. Hell, I think I remember something about an admin war and one of the admins was demonized and turned into a quickmeme or something. Only other people from that site would get the joke though.Sassafrass said:
Yup, he was like this for much of the LP. The first 30 mins or so he acts so confident, by the end of his first session that façade was utterly shattered.Aussie502 said:
I highly recommend watching the whole thing, unless you haven't played the game yourself yet and plan to some day.
ERB - I dont think I need to Give a reason
Totalhalibut - Probably one of the best gaming figures on Youtube, because he more or less takes it seriously
OMFGCata (Well, if you consider 416k subs big enough) - Funny and plays alot of RPGs
Jefmajor (once again, not huge, but pretty big) - Hilarious, and, despite claiming to be incompetent, pretty informative during his lets play's
Vsauce - Seriously awesome
Freddie Wong - Great Special Effects (MORE GUNS!)
Totalhalibut - Probably one of the best gaming figures on Youtube, because he more or less takes it seriously
OMFGCata (Well, if you consider 416k subs big enough) - Funny and plays alot of RPGs
Jefmajor (once again, not huge, but pretty big) - Hilarious, and, despite claiming to be incompetent, pretty informative during his lets play's
Vsauce - Seriously awesome
Freddie Wong - Great Special Effects (MORE GUNS!)
Not sure if all of these would classify as BigYouTubers, in no perticular order :
PewDiePie - Yeah, most of the time he's annoying and seems as he's trying too hard, but some of his LP's are awesome, especially when he genuinely enjoys the game he's playing (Fahrenheit, for the best recent example)
Ashens - The man's just so naturaly funny and could probably do reviews of anything in the world and make it funny.
The Amazing Atheist - TJ sometimes rants on about stuff he's ranted about for a million times, but more often than not he's very interesting and thought provoking
A Dose Of Buckley - although he can be a bit douchey and elitist (without realizing it, apparently), runs a very fun show to watch
TheRadBrad - He sucks at most games I've seen him play, but is such a positive character that I stick to his LP's and get frustrated and yell at the screen, and ultimately get enjoyment out of it - it's very weird...
Kikoskia - One of the best and most dedicated LPers out there, while being naturaly funny and making even the boring grinding and leveling in old-school RPG's fun to watch.
TotalBiscuit - WTF is... ? series are awesome, but I like the commentary given in Content Patch even more.
NonStampCollector - a very cool and funny atheist cartoonist
potholer54 - the best dismantler of YEC's nonsense in the world
jonlajoie - although not as active on the channel in the last months, the man's a bloody genious
Retsuprae - well, the true LP celebrities, what can I say more ?
lophatjello - aka Happy Video Game Nerd, very cool retro reviews
Also should mention the guys I originally saw on YT, but then went on to watch on their sites :
AVGN, Spoony, SideScrollers, AngryJoe, Pat the NES Punk, The Cinema Snob...
PewDiePie - Yeah, most of the time he's annoying and seems as he's trying too hard, but some of his LP's are awesome, especially when he genuinely enjoys the game he's playing (Fahrenheit, for the best recent example)
Ashens - The man's just so naturaly funny and could probably do reviews of anything in the world and make it funny.
The Amazing Atheist - TJ sometimes rants on about stuff he's ranted about for a million times, but more often than not he's very interesting and thought provoking
A Dose Of Buckley - although he can be a bit douchey and elitist (without realizing it, apparently), runs a very fun show to watch
TheRadBrad - He sucks at most games I've seen him play, but is such a positive character that I stick to his LP's and get frustrated and yell at the screen, and ultimately get enjoyment out of it - it's very weird...
Kikoskia - One of the best and most dedicated LPers out there, while being naturaly funny and making even the boring grinding and leveling in old-school RPG's fun to watch.
TotalBiscuit - WTF is... ? series are awesome, but I like the commentary given in Content Patch even more.
NonStampCollector - a very cool and funny atheist cartoonist
potholer54 - the best dismantler of YEC's nonsense in the world
jonlajoie - although not as active on the channel in the last months, the man's a bloody genious
Retsuprae - well, the true LP celebrities, what can I say more ?
lophatjello - aka Happy Video Game Nerd, very cool retro reviews
Also should mention the guys I originally saw on YT, but then went on to watch on their sites :
AVGN, Spoony, SideScrollers, AngryJoe, Pat the NES Punk, The Cinema Snob...
Give me them Creatures man! SSoHPKC, Kootra, ZeRoyalViking, Sp00n, Nova, Sly, but fuck Danz. Also good old Gassy Mexican, Chilled Chaos, EatMyDiction1, Hutch, Seananners, Vash, WoodysGamertag, TeamFourStar, and Achievement Hunter. Everyone of these guys are awesome.
I'm mostly subscribed to LP channels, I like them as background noise while I work:
Yogscast - I'm subscribed to most of their channels; my personal faves are Nilesy and Zoey.
Tobuscus - Sometimes it's good to be reminded that some people are worse at video games than I am. Plus he can be really funny, especially when he sings or does silly voices.
Captain Sparklez - Again, background noise mostly, and a good way to keep up with recent Minecraft mods and snapshots.
Game Grumps - Probably the only LP channel I actually devote my full attention to when I watch. Pure comedy, I love it.
HuskyStarcraft - I just love this guy's voice and his enthusiasm, his Starcraft 2 commentaries are fun to listen to. I also love his LPs, he's hilariously bad at games that aren't Starcraft. (Just watch his Scribblenauts Unlimited playthrough)
Other than that I like JonTron, Peanut Butter Gamer, Egoraptor, Freddy Wong and Corridor Digital, and Tobuscus' main channel has some great stuff (his Literal Trailers are gold).
Yogscast - I'm subscribed to most of their channels; my personal faves are Nilesy and Zoey.
Tobuscus - Sometimes it's good to be reminded that some people are worse at video games than I am. Plus he can be really funny, especially when he sings or does silly voices.
Captain Sparklez - Again, background noise mostly, and a good way to keep up with recent Minecraft mods and snapshots.
Game Grumps - Probably the only LP channel I actually devote my full attention to when I watch. Pure comedy, I love it.
HuskyStarcraft - I just love this guy's voice and his enthusiasm, his Starcraft 2 commentaries are fun to listen to. I also love his LPs, he's hilariously bad at games that aren't Starcraft. (Just watch his Scribblenauts Unlimited playthrough)
Other than that I like JonTron, Peanut Butter Gamer, Egoraptor, Freddy Wong and Corridor Digital, and Tobuscus' main channel has some great stuff (his Literal Trailers are gold).
While he's not particularly big, Epic Name Bro deserves a special mention. His channel is like a glorious encyclopaedia of Dark Souls lore and his speculations about the things that FromSoft left ambiguous are always very insightful and interesting to listen to.
Mine are-
Mattthewpatrick13
TheSw1tcher
Dodger (presshearttocontinue & DexterityBonus)
Spoony
Team Four Star
331ERock
and AVGN
Mattthewpatrick13
TheSw1tcher
Dodger (presshearttocontinue & DexterityBonus)
Spoony
Team Four Star
331ERock
and AVGN
I don't know about big ones, the biggest ones I watch a lot recently would probably be vlogbrothers and their channel scishow, they're really good.
But I usually watch more of TheoreticalBullshit and SysiphusRedeemed of late. He doesn't upload to YT anymore, but Foldable Human (He's got his own site somewhere) is really good.
But I usually watch more of TheoreticalBullshit and SysiphusRedeemed of late. He doesn't upload to YT anymore, but Foldable Human (He's got his own site somewhere) is really good.
RoosterTeeth/ Achievement Hunter - I my esteemed opinion, everything they do is gold.
ERB - Pretty self-explanatory.
Dexter Manning - Does some good stuff, kinda rambles a bit in his LPs, but I enjoy him. The guy he used to do Sanity Not Included with, Lyle, is awesome too, but he rarely updates, so...
LittleKuriboh - YGOTAS, 'nuff said. Matter of fact, he's coming to a con at my college, I may have to go check it out...
ERB - Pretty self-explanatory.
Dexter Manning - Does some good stuff, kinda rambles a bit in his LPs, but I enjoy him. The guy he used to do Sanity Not Included with, Lyle, is awesome too, but he rarely updates, so...
LittleKuriboh - YGOTAS, 'nuff said. Matter of fact, he's coming to a con at my college, I may have to go check it out...
Well since no one's said anything about them yet (I think), I'll contribute with the Green brother's stuff.
Scishow, Crash Course and Vlog brothers are all pretty awesome. Combined together they have around two million subs, so I'd say that's a pretty big group of channels.
Also:
Total Biscuit
Husky
Nerd Cubed
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Oh and EmceeProphIt (who I found on the Escapist). He's not a big channel at all and his videos are incredibly infrequent, but his game analysis(es?) are awesome.
Edit: Damn ninja'd by only two posts...
Scishow, Crash Course and Vlog brothers are all pretty awesome. Combined together they have around two million subs, so I'd say that's a pretty big group of channels.
Also:
Total Biscuit
Husky
Nerd Cubed
Day[9]
Oh and EmceeProphIt (who I found on the Escapist). He's not a big channel at all and his videos are incredibly infrequent, but his game analysis(es?) are awesome.
Edit: Damn ninja'd by only two posts...
Two immediately spring to mind.
1. LittleKuriboh. Yeah I know he also puts his stuff on Blip, but he still uploads his stuff to Youtube so it counts. He's the guy Youtube bans can't keep down, the voice of Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged. Most of what I love about his stuff, though, is his Let's Play of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. His take on it, though, is that he does it...as Marik Ishtar!! Oh and Bakura's farting around in the background somewhere.
2. Team Four Star. You may say I'm repeating myself, since TFS also uploads to Blip, are responsible for a hilarious Abridged Series (Dragon Ball Z Abridged) and do hilarious Let's Plays as characters from the series (Two Saiyans Play, AKA "Nappa Annoys Vegeta While Playing Video Games", not even counting the TFS Let's Plays). True, but come on, if you watched Dragon Ball Z in the 90s (as I did), worship of TFS is manditory. Plus, Ghost Nappa.
However, I just thought of a third.
Emer "Hellsing920" Prevost. I started watching Emer when he was doing his Fanboy Chronicles videos way back when, I really enjoyed his Longbox Chronicles videos (my personal favorite being the WWE comics he's reviewed), but his best idea has to be Reaction and Review. He basically records himself watching a movie, reacting to certain parts of it that either really catch his eye or are worth going into detail on why the moment is really freaking stupid/offensive/unnessecary/whatever, then after the credits come up he gives a review about wether he liked the movie or not.
1. LittleKuriboh. Yeah I know he also puts his stuff on Blip, but he still uploads his stuff to Youtube so it counts. He's the guy Youtube bans can't keep down, the voice of Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged. Most of what I love about his stuff, though, is his Let's Play of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. His take on it, though, is that he does it...as Marik Ishtar!! Oh and Bakura's farting around in the background somewhere.
2. Team Four Star. You may say I'm repeating myself, since TFS also uploads to Blip, are responsible for a hilarious Abridged Series (Dragon Ball Z Abridged) and do hilarious Let's Plays as characters from the series (Two Saiyans Play, AKA "Nappa Annoys Vegeta While Playing Video Games", not even counting the TFS Let's Plays). True, but come on, if you watched Dragon Ball Z in the 90s (as I did), worship of TFS is manditory. Plus, Ghost Nappa.
However, I just thought of a third.
Emer "Hellsing920" Prevost. I started watching Emer when he was doing his Fanboy Chronicles videos way back when, I really enjoyed his Longbox Chronicles videos (my personal favorite being the WWE comics he's reviewed), but his best idea has to be Reaction and Review. He basically records himself watching a movie, reacting to certain parts of it that either really catch his eye or are worth going into detail on why the moment is really freaking stupid/offensive/unnessecary/whatever, then after the credits come up he gives a review about wether he liked the movie or not.