Lets plays on Youtube

Agricola

Starting to watch the odd one now for games Id probably never buy.

Can anyone recommend a youtuber who isnt a babbling ego-maniac because I find them thin on the ground! Some of the heavy hitters that pop up due to their subscriber numbers are hard to listen to for any length of time. Its really all about THEM!

Suggestions?

Wossack

Be interested to hear of some too. Quite often they all start going a bit ego-maniac, and I get annoyed with them all at one point or another. Snippet of the current subs list (dont judge me!). I chop and change very often though- for reasons above

gamegrumps
yogscast sips
husky/huskystarcraft
halbystarcraft
frankieonpcin1080p
robbaz

robtron hasnt done anything in a while, but enjoy his stuff too. Gamegrumps have good shows, steamtrain in particular I like. The fact its multiple people, and theres a bit of back and forth is good - the constant blab single-train-of-thought of a soloist can get a bit grating I find.

kaimera

I like the AuzzieGamer - does some pretty good Assassins Creed mp videos

Shane.C

GoldGloveTV

JaffOs

I watched Cryaotic Lets Play of The Last of Us and enjoyed it

Amirani

I mostly play strategy. Currently subscribed to:

quill18
Sean Beag (poster on here)
(the real) MadDjinn

Taylor365

CrotaGaming - Hearthstone
Trick0850 - League of Legends
frankieonpcin1080p - A Great series of Day Z vids.

Darkglasses

I love Rooster Teeth, they do lets plays of minecraft and gta iv.

RoyalMarine

Just stay away from Athene and your probably good to go.

Shane.C

DevilDogGamer

Dcully

Some not mentioned already, also remember most do livestreaming too which can be enjoyable viewing.

Sidestrafe
Levelcapgaming
Force strategy gaming [no its not just strategy games]
Kripparrian [probably the best theorycrafer out there,the guy is a genius]
Sambonz
ImAnderZEL
Mikepreachwow [for when im playing wow]
Then you have Towellie and Total Biscuit, who seem to get a lot of games very early but can be at times hard to listen to.

pedatron

Darkglasses wrote: »

I love Rooster Teeth, they do lets plays of minecraft and gta iv.

They seam to be the craic alright. Gavin the English fella does theslomoguys on youtube as well which is class. He's the best cos he's always making jokes they don't get about only fools and horses or faulty towers for example!

Ri_Nollaig

I really like jefmajor.

Doesn't have an annoying voice/sound like a 12 year or attempt to include some annoying "acting" (check out spoony for everything you don't want to see). Doesn't have an obnoxious intro or anything, its just him playing games doing commentary.

Also does some great random games that you really just have to laugh at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5qDNcvqFSU

Btw Spoony used to do some great videos, but for some reason when these guys get enough subscribers they feel the need to include more of themselves then the games... and suddenly they become very cringy.

Can't stand Total Biscuit as well and I know he is a reviewer but Angry Joe is also really annoying. What he says is right 99% of the time but his reviews are just ...childish.

Creamy Goodness

Agricola wrote: »

Can anyone recommend a youtuber who isnt a babbling ego-maniac...

No such thing :pac:

Darkglasses

pedatron wrote: »

They seam to be the craic alright. Gavin the English fella does theslomoguys on youtube as well which is class. He's the best cos he's always making jokes they don't get about only fools and horses or faulty towers for example!

Yeah I think Gavin and Ray are everyone's favourite! Michael was more fun when he didn't know how to play Minecraft, like in the first few Let's Play Minecrafts.

Something a bit more left-field...Diabetus and Slowbeef do a series called Retsupurae (Let's play in a weird accent). They mostly just play terrible flash games. Kinda reminds me of Mystery Science Theater 3k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IjCBU0daGE

Love the Lets Plays that Achievement Hunter do. Some of my favourites have been their GTA IV ones, Trouble in Terrorist Town (Part Two, when they discover they can possess objects when dead, is an absolute charm), Slender, The Hidden (love when random people join in the servers they happen to be playing on).

mewso

I like me some good old school rpg Let's Plays and Veriax is a good 'un.

Not Let's Play but this guy does some great analysis of gaming.

Actually are there any other good youtubers analysing gaming in general out there?

nesf

NiallSparky wrote: »

I mostly play strategy. Currently subscribed to:

quill18
Sean Beag (poster on here)
(the real) MadDjinn

The first and third I've been following for a fair while.

Darkglasses

I know he's not exclusively a gaming Youtuber, but what is the deal with Pewdiepie? I really can't see the appeal at all. 13 Million subs is ridiculous. That's more than Rooster Teeth and the whole KYR Speedy crew put together.

Agricola

Darkglasses wrote: »

I know he's not exclusively a gaming Youtuber, but what is the deal with Pewdiepie? I really can't see the appeal at all. 13 Million subs is ridiculous. That's more than Rooster Teeth and the whole KYR Speedy crew put together.

I think the guy is unhinged (in the useful money making sort of way!)

Dont know if they get marketing training from youtube or they are just natural self advertisers but they all have these tedious/downright nutty introductions, trademark sayings and sign offs. Its all about hammering home the brand. Pewdiepie is great at it. It obviously works.

nesf

Agricola wrote: »

I think the guy is unhinged (in the useful money making sort of way!)

Dont know if they get marketing training from youtube or they are just natural self advertisers but they all have these tedious/downright nutty introductions, trademark sayings and sign offs. Its all about hammering home the brand. Pewdiepie is great at it. It obviously works.

I think you have to amass a fair number of subs before Youtube will invite you to courses and such. Usually anyway.

ScumLord

I like nerdcubed when he plays the sim games.

ancapailldorcha

I read on Wikipedia that PewDiePie's channel is the most viewed on Youtube.
To answer the OP's question, the only Let's Players I've really followed would be EpicNameBro, AGermanSpy and Olizandri.

jaxdasher

TwoBestfriendsPlay. hilarious guys.
Full letsplay of Resident Evil 2, Silent hill downpour homecoming, Deadly Premonition, MGS Revengeance, and lots of more shenanigans.

bizmark

+1 for jefmayor easily the funnest letsplayer on youtube has a very natural easy presence very unlike the mostly squeaky voiced Americans, mumbling terrified types or 40 year old man children putting on a very annoying show.....Or pretentious pricks like TotalBiscuit "youtubes number 1 critic" ya dont let that go to your head to much there buddy.

Thewinterowl is good for kerbal space program and flight sims hes a chill guy but sterotypical "nerd" type of personality his sense of humor is more about how somethings climb rate isnt quite right and tbh id put jef's IL2 and kerbal series above anything hes done still good for a watch though.
On the same note Scott manley does the same sorta thing but is a real world rocket scientist or some ****.

Spoony did one really good lets play of swat 4 thats worth a look back when he wasnt a manic depressant who dresses up like girls and makes rape threats on twitter the good old days

nesf

bizmark wrote: »

Spoony did one really good lets play of swat 4 thats worth a look back when he wasnt a manic depressant who dresses up like girls and makes rape threats on twitter the good old days

What?

ancapailldorcha

nesf wrote: »

What?

I agree. Please elaborate.

deathrider

I never really saw the point in Let's Plays. I've been involved in a handful myself, but they were all short arcade-style games, and we were more playing it for laughs than taking things seriously. I never quite understood someone watching their way through huge full games from start to finish though. I've seen that there are Let's Plays for the likes of Pokémon on youtube. Why would someone watch a game that's that long?

bizmark

nesf wrote: »

What?

This was a few months ago now so my recollection isnt 100% but he had a complete melt down on twitter tweeting to a female contribute to "thatguywiththeglasses"that he also worked for that he was going to "tie her up in his basement and love her till she likes it" or something to that effect which was all dragged up over twitter while spoony was going ballistic at anything and everyone due to an undefined mental issue he himself admitted to suffer from not sure if he ever stated what it for sure but to me it seemed bi-polar

Edit the tweet -
@TheSpoonyOne
@JesuOtaku Y'know, if things don't work out with you and @Nash076, I'd be happy to chain you to a pipe in my basement and love you. My way.

Seems pritty classless but harmless if he wasnt haveing a bit of an episode that made it look and read a whole lot worse and he ended up getting fired for it

Agricola

deathrider wrote: »

I never really saw the point in Let's Plays. I've been involved in a handful myself, but they were all short arcade-style games, and we were more playing it for laughs than taking things seriously. I never quite understood someone watching their way through huge full games from start to finish though. I've seen that there are Let's Plays for the likes of Pokémon on youtube. Why would someone watch a game that's that long?

Wouldnt follow them religiously but Ive realized they are a great way to experience games that you probably wont buy. Im interested in seeing Outlast and the new Amnesia but because I already have a huge backlog to play AND Im a bit soft when it comes to horror, Lets Plays get around these predicaments.

But if you look at some channels you can clearly see a massive following of people who now just experience almost all their gaming vicariously though these youtubers. Very strange.

ShadowHearth

Research indicates did an amazing lets play of Trespasser. He did a freaking amazing job, its a shame he does not do it anymore . Its a must watch for anyone. In my opinion thats how lets play should be done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6A3SaRr26M

jaxdasher

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Research indicates did an amazing lets play of Trespasser. He did a freaking amazing job, its a shame he does not do it anymore . Its a must watch for anyone. In my opinion thats how lets play should be done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6A3SaRr26M

I watched this after reading about it here. Good LP nice change of pace to most LPs. Does he do more?

ShadowHearth

jaxdasher wrote: »

I watched this after reading about it here. Good LP nice change of pace to most LPs. Does he do more?

He did one more, but he is not doing them anymore. He is just freaking genius though. His voice, knowladge, preparation, humour is just top class. In fact I am watching it from episode 1 again, while playing warframe. Already watched it twice from start...

nesf

bizmark wrote: »

This was a few months ago now so my recollection isnt 100% but he had a complete melt down on twitter tweeting to a female contribute to "thatguywiththeglasses"that he also worked for that he was going to "tie her up in his basement and love her till she likes it" or something to that effect which was all dragged up over twitter while spoony was going ballistic at anything and everyone due to an undefined mental issue he himself admitted to suffer from not sure if he ever stated what it for sure but to me it seemed bi-polar

Edit the tweet -
@TheSpoonyOne
@JesuOtaku Y'know, if things don't work out with you and @Nash076, I'd be happy to chain you to a pipe in my basement and love you. My way.

Seems pritty classless but harmless if he wasnt haveing a bit of an episode that made it look and read a whole lot worse and he ended up getting fired for it

My what was aimed at you saying manic depressive as if it was a bad thing.

TheChrisD

Am I allowed to say I watch myself?

nesf wrote: »

The first and third I've been following for a fair while.

Ditto. I even know MD quite a fair bit, do the odd Minecraft collab stream when he remembers to stream his playing on the server :rolleyes:

nesf

TheChrisD wrote: »

Ditto. I even know MD quite a fair bit, do the odd Minecraft collab stream when he remembers to stream his playing on the server :rolleyes:

I mostly watch MD's Civ stuff.

bizmark

nesf wrote: »

My what was aimed at you saying manic depressive as if it was a bad thing.

No course not im awear of how these things can just effect people just seemed manic depressive to me no offense intended nesf

TheGoldenAges

I love Chris Smooves lets plays, awesome voice and a very capable gamer.
Watching his The Last of Us lets play was like watching a movie, the best lets play I've ever watched.

I also like Tmartn's lets plays although his gaming skill outside of Call of Duty can be sometimes lacking

Darkglasses

TheGoldenAges wrote: »

I love Chris Smooves lets plays, awesome voice and a very capable gamer.
Watching his The Last of Us lets play was like watching a movie, the best lets play I've ever watched.

I also like Tmartn's lets plays although his gaming skill outside of Call of Duty can be sometimes lacking

Ooooohh man I can't stand Chris Smoove. Ahahaaaaaaa.

Speaks like he's in a hip hop video all the time. Ahahaaaaaa.

Ri_Nollaig

bizmark wrote: »

+1 for jefmayor easily the funnest letsplayer on youtube has a very natural easy presence very unlike the mostly squeaky voiced Americans, mumbling terrified types or 40 year old man children putting on a very annoying show.....Or pretentious pricks like TotalBiscuit "youtubes number 1 critic" ya dont let that go to your head to much there buddy.

Thewinterowl is good for kerbal space program and flight sims hes a chill guy but sterotypical "nerd" type of personality his sense of humor is more about how somethings climb rate isnt quite right and tbh id put jef's IL2 and kerbal series above anything hes done still good for a watch though.
On the same note Scott manley does the same sorta thing but is a real world rocket scientist or some ****.

Spoony did one really good lets play of swat 4 thats worth a look back when he wasnt a manic depressant who dresses up like girls and makes rape threats on twitter the good old days

I loved his IL2 and kerbal space program lets play.
He admits to "not being great" at those games ... lies!!!! He is really good at both.

Forgot about Scott Manley actually, love his Kerbal videos. Looks like he is gearing up to do a X-Rebirth one too once its released.

bizmark

Ya i bought il2 1946 after watching him play it "badly" .....er ya i tryed for hours to learn that game i never even worked out how to trim a aircraft properly never mind do complex combat maneuvers.

Hes bloody terrible at xcom though made me feel better

deathrider

Agricola wrote: »

Wouldnt follow them religiously but Ive realized they are a great way to experience games that you probably wont buy. Im interested in seeing Outlast and the new Amnesia but because I already have a huge backlog to play AND Im a bit soft when it comes to horror, Lets Plays get around these predicaments.

But if you look at some channels you can clearly see a massive following of people who now just experience almost all their gaming vicariously though these youtubers. Very strange.

yeah, these guys certainly have no shortage of subscribers. It's quite a big gig on youtube at the moment. Personally though, they're just not my thing. No matter how much I wanted to play a game that was unavailable to me, I couldn't see myself watching through it on youtube as a sunstitute. In fact, I'd imagine it would just bug me more that I couldn't actually play it for myself.

bizmark

I think of it like a travel show in the sense that just cause you see someone going to rome and seeing the sites doesnt mean you dont wish to experience it yourself or find an interest in it.

Plus you kinda watch them for the entertainment value of the player

Kotha Hirano

i found these guys a few days ago, there called youtube, must be a starter channel, they have some very weird but funny commentary, atm they are playing pokemon, seems little boring and well i only realy watch for the commentary but ah well there irish anyway i wanna see where they go =]

Cheat Code they are playing pokemon fire red with a twist atm,

since i can't put in urls yet

key word search

Cheat Code Moemon i think lol

Sephiroth_dude

I like to watch quill18

Hank Scorpio

nintendocaprisun if you're into 16/8-bit stuff. He does alot of modern stuff too

Gonzovision

I'd watch a lot of strategy games, Quill18 for the likes of Civ/EU4 and Heir of Carthage for Total War.

Digital Solitude

I watch penguinz0 the odd time if I've nothing better to be at, its incredibly stupid but I love his channel.

Other than him, I don't watch any Let's Plays, wouldn't have a big interest in them

Not a NSA agent

The only ones I watch are Robbaz as previously mentioned and Funhaus made up of the guys who did Inside Gaming with Machinima and joined Rooster Teeth.

jaxdasher

Digital Solitude wrote: »

I watch penguinz0 the odd time if I've nothing better to be at, its incredibly stupid but I love his channel.

Other than him, I don't watch any Let's Plays, wouldn't have a big interest in them

I actually just found him today and about to recommend him. His video are good timewaster and for a few laughs.

Digital Solitude

jaxdasher wrote: »

I actually just found him today and about to recommend him. His video are good timewaster and for a few laughs.

" Heavens....to ****ters!"

He's a bit childish but he's a good guy, I can't get enough. Watch his Captain Pronin Series!