Youtube Video Trend: Let's Plays.

[LordofSquirrels]

My little brother does Minecraft lets plays with his friends. He's 12, I think that says enough about the quality of them. If you think you have the stomach, I dare you to watch them without cringing or closing out within 10 seconds. Yes, that's my dad in the background on a work call throughout most of the video. I know he's just having fun, but... good God!

Got as far as 'extremely handsome Dovahkin humping this tree' and went 'ERP, TIME TO MOVE ON!'

Anyway, OT, or similar to it, I do sometimes run into a similar frustration, even though I don't do Let's Plays on my channel; rather, I do a sort of vlogging meets social commentary schtick, pull up news stories and discuss them, what have you, try to give them a funny twist and while there are a few other comment...ators... I quite enjoy, I occasionally stumble on others, very popular ones even, that just drive me entirely up the ****ing wall. All swearing and hollaring and chest puffing, acting like egotists, and still getting tens of thousands of views, and people all but throwing themselves at their feet, and my brain just goes 'WAT. DOES NOT COMPUTEZ.'

Don't get me wrong, it's not that I think my material is pure spun gold; my visual style is non-existent, given I use a black screen and white captions for jokes to run parallel to what I'm saying. (I'm camera shy, shut up.) But still, seeing some of these popular vloggers, who basically sit and chat at the camera without so much as a little skit or funny voice, I find myself in the unexpected position of thinking 'No matter how low-quality my video is... I still put MORE work into it than they did, damnit!' xD

Eh, be reeeeally convenient if all the other people in my video field could just vanish off the face of the planet, go to another dimension or get abducted by aliens. ._. Then I could be King. Kiiiing.

 

[DugMachine]

My little brother does Minecraft lets plays with his friends. He's 12, I think that says enough about the quality of them. If you think you have the stomach, I dare you to watch them without cringing or closing out within 10 seconds. Yes, that's my dad in the background on a work call throughout most of the video. I know he's just having fun, but... good God!

I actually found myself cringing and hovering over the exit button... christ that was not very good.

 

[LordofSquirrels]

Indeed. @.@

 

[FitScotGaymer]

I like let's plays.

I tend to stick to Screenshot LPs tho; Video LPs tend to not be very good. Or are just exercises in money making. It's horrific.

I watched an LP of Dead Space (not a fan of horror so it's not a game I would ordinarily play) because it apparently has a good story, and the LPer was apparently really good. And he was really good, I enjoyed watching his Dead Space LP. He had a good speaking manner, a nice voice, he was pretty amusing, and often explained what he was doing and why.
My gripe with it and with him is the fact that I would either have to watch a stupid long ass 5 minute add EACH video, or suffer through 2 shorter ads at the beginning and 2 ads at the end of each video just because the guy wanted to make a bit of cash from the LPing thing.
It was frustrating; and it put me off watching his other LPs.

I quite like Veriax however; he has a nice voice and a fun play manner. Plus he LPs games I actually like. Another LPer I REALLY want to like cos he plays games I like is GrimithR but he has a really grating voice, waffles a hell of a lot, doesn't really go into the "whys" of what he is doing, and is no where near as funny as he thinks he is.
So I find it really difficult to get into his LPs.

I also like a few of the more tolerant/funny LPers on the Something Awful forums.

EDIT:
Just watched that Game Grumps Emerald Lets Play video posted above... And that's precisely the kind of LP I don't like.

Excessive swearing, Childish humour, loud brash voices.

Basically all in all that video made me think that the guys were a pair of douchebags who LP for money. lol.

Not fun. Or funny.

 

[omega 616]

The only LPer I watch is Xcalizorz, who is mainly known for COD but I don't think anybody pushes out more videos than Xcal.

He has done or doing, DMC (not sure which one), saints row the third, god of war 3, god of war 2, MGS 1,2 and 3, puts out a lot of cod videos, dayZ, Diablo 3, assassins creed 2, resident evil 5, Arkham city, Bioshock, Deus Ex:HR, dead island, Borderlands, mass effect 2&3 (single and multi player), Arkam Asylum, New vagas and dabbled in a few others (such as perfect dark and killing floor)

They are all fairly recent videos as well.

He can go from shit talking and belittling his victims on COD to telling you the best builds and tactics on mass effect 3 multi player.

yogscast, pewdiepie and another fucker who does nothing but happy wheels, minecraft, slenderman and amneisa (although that has died off now) can go very far away! I am so sick of hearing or even seeing anything minecraft related ... any UK person will understand this reference, it's worse than the go compare advert when it was new.

 

[Artina89]

I enjoy LPer's, the first one I watched was Nintendocentral playing Resident Evil 4. Other favourite LPers are Odinspack33, Griffinlobster, Darkmindedsith and Vash12349. I also enjoy watching classic Cloud8745 like his "I want to be the guy", "Silent Hill 2", "Silent Hill 3" and "Castlevania: Symphony of the night" playthroughs.