Does anyone watch LPs alot? (LP = "Let's Play")

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Yeah, that's the hard part...I have enjoyed "scottishduck17" and "kwife's gaming life" channel wise. Both are good at keeping the commentary interesting and occasionally helpful without getting annoying or trying too hard to be funny ( both are funny at times though ), they both have very pleasant voices to listen to and they're not the best players but they're not bad either. I discovered kwife while trying to find a FlingSmash playthrough...had to watch a poorly filmed non English vid to see the ending though as she couldn't beat the final boss....sadly, LPs are all the rage these days so a basic playthrough w/o commentary is a rarity ( aside from Longplays running 2-7 hours per vid ), let alone a 100% run ( which I prefer for games with lots of collectibles, upgrades and side missions ). Also hated the LPs I had to watch for a few Ratchet & Clank games...the guy wasn't bad at the game, but OMG was he annoying. Every 2 seconds he'd yell at enemies to "get out of the way", or he'd do the same stupid thing over & over....

Glad I don't try to do LPs...practically all you'd hear is an insane amount of swearing and threats against my own life...I do however post clips now via Mario Kart 8 or my Xbox One. I have a few MK8 highlight reels on my channel, and just yesterday posted a Sunset Overdrive clip. If anybody is interested, my Youtube channel is newageBoundhippie

That's all very good to know... especially the perfectionistic part. I'll certainly make sure to try emulation out once I've got something I'm prepared to record. I'm still working on learning a death-proof path through Ninja Gaiden III, and it's the first game I've set out to memorize.

It had occurred to me shortly after posting, that I am not playing the games on a proper setup as you mentioned, but I've been doing so for long enough that I'd forgotten. So yeah, RF directly into a flat screen. I had already read that that's far from ideal, but it's what I have for the moment. So, I can certainly believe that the emulations are a much more fair representation of what the game looks like than what I'm currently seeing.

On a side note, if you're comfortable with DIY repairs, and a solder gun... I believe the batteries can be replaced in the cartridges you have where the save batteries have died. Though, you'd need to get a special screw driver key if you don't already have one.

Watching a LP playlist for Sims 3 right now. I like watching people play as much as I like playing, always have, even with consoles.

I watch a few every now and then, and I find them quite entertaining sometimes. Especially if the person playing is focused on the game and knows a lot about the game. You can learn a lot about the game that way, secrets, bug / glitches, etc... As a game programmer, I find the glitches in the games very interesting, especially the really weird ones. I always try to figure out what programming error actually caused them.

Recently I have been watching a stream of a guy playing Zelda - Ocarina of Time blindfolded, 100%. Meaning he gets every single skultulla, heart piece, upgrade, etc... It's fun because he gets stuck and has to figure out what's going on. And the level of skill and knowledge you need in order to do that is quite immense.

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Emulators are used in most cases. There are even ways to use the original NES controlers.


But when it comes to speed running, it's often a requirement that the speedrun is done on a console in order to make everything exactly the same for everyone. All, or at least most, of the videos from AGDQ/SGDQ is done using the original platform the game was released on.

Even though emulators can be very good, there are often some minute differences that makes people want to use the console version. And I think nostalgia is a major reason for some people too.

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Not sure if it counts, but commented championships in games can also be entertaining. Like in high-level StarCraft II games, it's very helpful to have someone explain what's actually going on.

Yes! I watch quite a few Let's Players quite frequently (Some known and some not so known).
In no particular order, here's who I watch (also depends if you class them as LPers or not).

Kikoskia
BlackShadow993
OfficialNerd³
OfficialDad³ (Father of Nerd³ of course)
kurtjmac
VintageBeef
PewdiePie
Markiplier
jacksepticeye
Necroscope86
scottishduck17
ka6scope
RageGamingVideos
IntoTheBarrier
666theheartless666
TheRunawayGuys (consists of chuggaaconroy, Proton Jon and NintendoCapriSun)
SlimKirby
theRadBrad
pokecapnLP
Helloween4545
GoldGloveLetsPlay
PurpleRodri
LetsPlay (Rooster Teeth)
EBEZAplaysgames
MrSmartDonkey
KSI (not that keen but still okay at times)
DSPGaming
MysteriousJG
The Slothful Samurai
Only1Gam3r
Yogscast Martyn
Poet Plays
VanossGaming
FrozenFoxy
KaiserOdd
TheRPGMinx
Scoop of the Crispy
Datai
Deceased Crab
Blitzwinger
Rising Phoenix
donnabellez
Lucahjin
Super Jeenius
Lancun
AVGN/Cinemassacre (James Rolfe)

Depends for me what I like by each person. Most of the time, I go into a series they have done already. I haven't watched everything by one person but I do watch series that catch my interest in the first two videos. Quite a few times I have gone back to watch a series again either because my memory is vague or because it intrigued me so much to make me want to watch again.

I am also thinking about doing an LP but I kinda chicken out thinking it would sound awful when it probably isn't as bad as I make out along with other priorities that will take over those privileges, though if I could find the time and a better laptop for the job. I would totally want to try it out with annotations in the event of my voice becoming hard to hear if I could find the aforementioned. (I have a Mac laptop for music reasons and an XP PC which is slower than watching paint dry.)

Be interesting to see if you also like some of the ones I've mentioned considering you have said you subscribed to a lot of LPers.

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I'd avoid watching DSP, guy is a known ableist, sexist, racist, homphobe and whatever else you can throw under the sun. Not to mention he complains constantly about the game being at fault and never takes responsibility for anything (even in real life).

To be honest, I've only watched the WWE 13 series. More so I only really pay attention to the things like "only the 1" referring to how the wrestler seems to be okay after being slammed with three signatures followed by three finishers.
I'm not defending him, just that I haven't really picked up on this which is surprising.
Any of the ones I've mentioned other than ones that have been discussed ones you know of?

I like to watch LPs of old obscure games that would be too much of a hassle to actually play, especially stuff I wanted as a kid but could never acquire.

I didn't put on SSoHPKC. Whoops!

yep. used to watch lots of NCS a while ago but not so much anymore..i'm currently halfway through Lancun's playthrough of MP2. (Metroid Prime 2)

Wow, that's a long list!

Actually I only recognize a few of those:

Deceased Crab, one of my favorites of my own list. Doesnt swear alot OR make really crude jokes! It's so freaking hard to find anyone that has those qualities. Also hilarious.

Markiplier, found him recently due to Five Nights at Freddy's. He's hilarious.

AVGN, I used to follow his videos, but... ehh. I dunno, my interest kinda died. Doesnt help that a huge number of the games in his videos are all licensed games (games related to movies/TV and such)... those videos were never as interesting, because you go in KNOWING that they'll be terrible games, and knowing WHY they'll be terrible games (usually it's a result of godawful time constraints put on the devs by the publishers, as well as forced content that doesnt always make sense... usually also the publisher's doing), so they end up just not being as interesting as games that are bad simply because of bad design.


And a few on the list there that I recognize but dont follow:

Pewdiepie
Rooster Teeth
Yogscast

Another LP'er I watch sometimes is pcull44444.

Ah! I'd recommend Kikoskia in an odd way. Much like DeceasedCrab, Kiko very rarely swears, only really says "Bugger" when he's made a mistake which is mild compared to most. I think you'd enjoy some of them as he does play a few obscure games as well as a few better known games. Somehow he keeps me intrigued even if the game is horrible.
chuggaaconroy who I mentioned in brackets as part of TheRunawayGuys actually posted a video which he briefly mentioned that he has a form of autism. Very Nintendo heavy.
Yeah, I kinda watch AVGN but not like I used to... same with guys like AngryJoeShow and IrateGamer. Seems just too similar with the whole being angry at games gimmick.

Only know him because of his LP of Dead Rising 2, though rather annoyed that he put with ProtonJon when he played for like 2-3 videos and had to leave. Mislead me into thinking it was a full LP with ProtonJon and was somewhat disappointed.

I just remembered another LP channel I enjoy: LinandKo, a couple in Japan who do LPs of Japanese releases while explaining how the game works and what is going on in it. They're the reason I want Fantasy Life

The LP is much longer than that, though. They go back and play for several hours. It's a lot of fun. If it's not on protonjons channel, you can find it on pcull44444's channel. You can also check out the 4 player Battletoads race ( protonjon, pcull44444, NintendoCapriSun, SuperJeenious)