Your Favorite Let's Player

[MyNameIsNowNotMyName]

Now, I may get a bit of flak for this, but my favourite LPer is DSP. Some people say he's a bit obnoxious, yes, he may be... Some may say he's a bit hotheaded, and this may be... That is why he's my favourite LPer. Also, his Heavy Rain and Phoenix Wright playthroughs are fantastic.

 

[ManimalR]

SpiffySquee (squee913), criana, infernocanuck, lukusridley and mangaminx

I really like their mass effect(s), squee's oblivion and skyrim, and criana and inferno's saints row 3, amnesia, tomb raider.......

I like them because they're funny and they entertain me

Lukusridley is hilarious, fascinating but unfortunately doesn't post allot

 

[DSK-]

Novawar and MaximusBlack on Life's A Glitch TV. I don't play SC2, it's mostly commentary but it's entertaining as hell.

 

[Joseph Harrison]

AlChestBreach does cool Fallout New Vegas/Skyrim mods, and he lets me bring out my spontaneous and immature side, without being annoying and childish.

I love you so much right now!

ALchestbreach is probably my favorite Let's Player, his montages are hilarious and he also does great spontaneous humor in his videos.

Aside from him I like Game Grumps, Hutch and Sea Nanners and the occasional Two Best Friends play, although I prefer GG to TBFP.

 

[thesilentman]

SuperSkarmory and Chuggaconroy were my first forays into the LP world and I like them quite a bit. It's just that I watch YouTube a lot less than back in the old days.

Cue [/stay off my lawn] jokes about YT being bought out by Google.

 

[Leemaster777]

I'll jump on the Two Best Friends Play boat. Those guys are great, especially their Spiderman video.

On that note, as much as I like those two, I think I like Two Best Sisters Play even more. There's something just inheritly hilarious about Matt and Pat's voices coming out of ponies.


Also, as a runner-up, I'll nominate ProtonJon. He's pretty great. I especially like his four-player Battletoads videos.


And while I don't really consider them Lets Players, I'll also throw LifesAGlitchTV out there too.

 

[Ljs1121]

I've recently seen a few discussions on how annoying let's players are, or how annoying and terrible let's plays are in general, so the question here is,

1. What are some of Your favorite Let's players?
2. Why?
3. Favorite style of let's play?

Personally i would have to say Nerd3 (Nerd Cubed) I find most of his jokes genuinely funny, and while i personally am not usually a fan of people that edit their videos, i find that he does so in a very compelling manner.

Personally my favorite style of let's plays are almost always blind, because a good let's player can turn a blind run into the most hilarious viewing, however i am aware that the exact opposite can happen with bad let's players.

So what about you?

My favorite Let's Player of all time is Tenjinmoop, a hilarious British person. Sadly, he's no longer active but he had some amazing videos. They perfectly blended informativeness with humor. Also, he mainly played Nintendo games and I absolutely adore Nintendo.

My current favorite Let's Player is Nerdcubed (Brofist, OP). He does have funny jokes and plus he's incredibly silly and has a short attention span, just like me.

I also quite like the former Gameanyone group (DavetheUsher, skorch82, Volvagia, Shadowzack, PitchingAce88, Batman9502). Their group videos are amazing.

It wouldn't be right to not mention Chuggaaconroy. While I don't watch his videos anymore, they were the first Let's Plays I ever saw and as such introduced me to the world of Let's Playing.

I also do watch quite a bit of TobyGames and Two Best Friends Play.

As for my favorite style, I like somebody who can maturely inform me of the good and bad things about a game and provide fair judgment as to whether or not I should play it while also simultaneously entertaining me with immature humor.

I also don't like Let's Players who yell or swear excessively.

 

[ATRAYA]

Jesse Cox of OMFGcata.

 

[luccadeas]

Really? Not a SINGLE Pokecapn, Kungfujeesus, mynameiskaz, or medibot? Wowwy. Well yeah, go to pokecapn's youtube channel. Watch the sonic '06 let's play. Laugh your ass off. It's a bunch of guys, playing a horrible game. It my favorite let's play to this day.

 

[lithiumvocals]

I completely forgot, GPLP, Graham And Pauls Lets Play. Why has that not got love yet with the Escapist crowd? Why is it good? Well it's Graham and Paul. Duh. It's updating really really slowly at the moment though.

I also like that they choose the less popular games, so it's a new experience all the time. Dante's Inferno was probably the best. (I guess that games more common than the others though)

THEY DID MORE LET'S PLAYS? I absolutely adored their Legaia 2 one, almost enough to actually buy the game when I found it.

As for the question...

Two Best Friends Play/TheSw1tcher: I find them to be incredibly funny and surprisingly informative. Also, I use the word "hype" regularly and unironically now.

Achievement Hunter: A bunch of funny guys fucking around in video games.

Special mention goes out to Pokecapn and the Posse's LP of Sonic 2006. Watching the entire thing from start to finish is an experience like no other. If you haven't watched it yet, give it a try.

Fuckin' medibot...

 

[Reven]

I've recently seen a few discussions on how annoying let's players are, or how annoying and terrible let's plays are in general, so the question here is,

1. What are some of Your favorite Let's players?
2. Why?
3. Favorite style of let's play?

Personally i would have to say Nerd3 (Nerd Cubed) I find most of his jokes genuinely funny, and while i personally am not usually a fan of people that edit their videos, i find that he does so in a very compelling manner.

Personally my favorite style of let's plays are almost always blind, because a good let's player can turn a blind run into the most hilarious viewing, however i am aware that the exact opposite can happen with bad let's players.

So what about you?

My favorite Let's Player of all time is Tenjinmoop, a hilarious British person. Sadly, he's no longer active but he had some amazing videos. They perfectly blended informativeness with humor. Also, he mainly played Nintendo games and I absolutely adore Nintendo.

My current favorite Let's Player is Nerdcubed (Brofist, OP). He does have funny jokes and plus he's incredibly silly and has a short attention span, just like me.

I also quite like the former Gameanyone group (DavetheUsher, skorch82, Volvagia, Shadowzack, PitchingAce88, Batman9502). Their group videos are amazing.

It wouldn't be right to not mention Chuggaaconroy. While I don't watch his videos anymore, they were the first Let's Plays I ever saw and as such introduced me to the world of Let's Playing.

I also do watch quite a bit of TobyGames and Two Best Friends Play.

As for my favorite style, I like somebody who can maturely inform me of the good and bad things about a game and provide fair judgment as to whether or not I should play it while also simultaneously entertaining me with immature humor.

I also don't like Let's Players who yell or swear excessively.

*BRO FIST!!!*

If you're looking for sensible pro/con of game i would recommend checking out angry joe (he doesn't really do let's plays, he reviews) but i often find that he always zeros in on features that you are likely to like and stuff that you probably wont like. He also does a few sketches with each review that range from very funny, to pretty painful to watch , but whenever he gives reasons for liking/disliking a game he tends to be pretty fair imo.

To everyone else keep the names coming, filling up my what to watch list for the next year or so XD

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

I don't watch many LP's, but I absolutely love Game Grumps, Sw1tcher, and Chuggaconroy. I usually don't care much about the game when I'm watching an LP; I prefer to focus on the banter, or interesting game lore/trivia they might be talking about.

 

[MPerce]

The two I watch the most are Two Best Friends and Achievement Hunter. They both do blind playthroughs, get off topic constantly and suck at video games. I find that ridiculously entertaining.

 

[PinotEnvy]

Big fan of Toegoff and Vash12349 myself.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Haydunn, yogcast, and of course Rob Moran (I think thats his last name).

they all add some kinda humour and personality to their LPs.

oh,a nd rage. hes pretty good too.

 

[juyunseen]

Well, I have a certain fondness for SildierHawke (love me some blind LPs where the LPer actually thinks about things)
But, on the other end of the spectrum I enjoy Chuggaconroy for his really, really thorough LPs

 

[Silvianoshei]

Two Best Friends Play has crept up the list after their playthrough of Heavy Rain. Love how they rip the piss out of that game, it's very much my style of humour.

JASON! I'm in tears right now.

OT: I like shofu

 

[thejackyl]

My favorite HAS to be Kikoskia. While he does a LOT of long LPs (Quite a few are over 100 videos long, but are mainly older DOS RPGs.) He does have some interesting ones on there.

On top of that, he'll randomly do some really short/stupid/hack games, just to make fun of them. Such as the Barbie games, the Barney game, "Mortal Kombat 5". My favorite LP of his is his X-Com one, which he has 3: Terror from the Deep Pacific Challenge (Single base, in the WORST possible location), X-Com Superhuman Antarctic Challenge (Same thing, but with the original and on the hardest difficulty. And Let's Play X-Com again, without any specific challenges. He also taught me how to play those games (not personally, but I learned by watching the LP.)

I also like Necroscope86, though not as much. His LPs seem to be really hit or miss. I liked his Toonstruck and I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream LPs, but that might have something to do with those both being games I've wanted to play, but haven't been able to play.

Deceasedcrab also has his moments. I like his "Do an LP while still high on the effects of dental surgery." Every time he gets a filling or something, he does a short LP while he's still feeling it... while having a mouth full of Gauze. It makes him sound a bit like Brak from Space Ghost. He also does some indie games which can be interesting. He doesn't update regularly though. He will do an LP, with and episode every other day, than drop off the Earth for a few months before doing another one.

 

[Redworld13]

There are a few. Mynameisnotlily, Grimith, Plumphelmetpunk and jefmajor (onefjef) excellent lpers(?) and depending on what you like, you will enjoy at least one of them.

Crap, i forgot kikoskia, mentioned above ^