Reply With QuoteYou're missing Jerma.
This was made in Windows 3D Movie Maker and has a score of 9.4 on IMDB.
I'll describe my favorite Youtube gaming channels here, and solicit recommendations. I've only found a handful of channels to watch long-term, characterized by fewer, better-edited videos than most. I have no onus against Let's Plays, but I'm not willing to spend time on them. I also have no onus against topical channels, but I prefer to read people's opinions rather than watch them. Here's my list.
Video Game Dunkey
These videos are tiny, almost fragmentary looks at specific games. If you watched the wrong Dunkey video, or watched any Dunkey video in the wrong mood, you would think he's an idiot. However, the simplicity of his words belies a thoughtful critical stance, a broad passion for gaming, a natural sense of comedic timing, and a delightful whimsy.
Soviet Womble
There are many tightly-knit online communities, but few with their own bard. Like many other channels, Soviet composes videos from funny moments of communal gameplay. Unlike other examples of this style, the videos have a coherent emotional arc, and a sense of comedic timing not just within excerpts but between them as well. In addition, Soviet puts a great deal of craftsmanship into each video, particularly evident in his captioning.
The Kilian Experience
The most polished videos of this list. Each video forms a coherent story, and the topics range into areas other than gaming, like cooking, anime, movies and travel. The best word to describe him is "perverse." His gaming videos approach a videogame in exactly the wrong way, form a deliberately obtuse reading of its plot, and thereby poke fun at the game's self-importance and fanbase.
Iron Pineapple
IronPineapple was one Dark Souls Youtuber among many, his sense of humor good but not good enough to keep my attention. However, he's started a series called "Souls-likes you've never heard of," which is fantastic. Most of these are student projects or glorified tech demos, but IP has a deft hand at summarizing them humorously. More recently, game development has given up entirely on hiding its debt to Dark Souls, so now there are high-budget games interspersed with the rest.
Civvie 11
The closest thing to a contemporary Spoony One. Civvie 11 does comedic, abridged playthroughs of shooters, ranging from obscure 90s-era Wolf3D clones to the current genre renaissance. He quickly endeared himself to this genre's developers, and gets a callout or easter egg in every new shooter as of late. His videos have an overarching MST3K-style narrative, but with a much lighter touch than either MST3K or The Spoony One... brief appearances by recurring characters, rather than painful, extended skits.
Ambiguous Amphibian
He does challenge runs of simulation games. This, for example, is a Kenshi playthrough using only quadruple amputees, led by "Torsolo." Has a solid sense of humor and whimsy, but some of the series are duds, due to the self-imposed condition not always leading to interesting gameplay.
In Memoriam -- The Spoony Experiment
The best of the pre-Youtube video creators, by a large margin, and a classic of the medium. Many of Spoony's videos are available on Youtube. The Ultima Retrospective is particularly strong work. Sadly, his struggles with mental illness left him unable to continue producing videos.
Recommendations are welcome! I'll also keep editing this post with my top recommendations.
Last edited by Anarchic Fox; 23rd Mar 2022 at 23:41. Reason: Removed a channel.
You're missing Jerma.
This was made in Windows 3D Movie Maker and has a score of 9.4 on IMDB.
The Spiffing BritOriginally Posted by Anarchic Fox
A British guy showcasing various exploits in a large variety of games, but lots of Paradox grand strategy games are featured as are Bethseda games. He mostly keeps the mood leaning towards silly fun while trying to be as stereotypically British as possible (Tea, The Queen and Colonialism almost always get mentioned).
Maximilian Dood (and YoVideogames)
If you're into fighting games at all, it is hard not to mention this guy. He is vastly more skilled than the majority of players even if he doesn't reach the pro players of any individual game. He's also well articulated and good at describing what he likes and doesn't like about any given game. His personal channel is about 90% fighting games and 10% "currently hot mainstream game" while YoVideogames is him and several friends doing more general gaming stuff.
Yeah man dunkey is da good shit.
Accursed Farms - Mostly known for his "Freeman's Mind" series, but the Ross's Game Dungeon series where he reviews mostly obscure games is quality stuff as well.
Super Bunnyhop - Rarely releases anything, but when he does it's good stuff.
Grim Beard - Mostly reviews of horror games. Excellent production quality and great original music.
minimme - Makes videos about a lot of old oddities, like every Pixar's Cars game and the most graphically impressive GBA games.
Gamedev focused:
Game Maker's Toolkit - You all know about this one but what am I gonna do, not mention it?
New Frame Plus - picks apart and analyses animations in games and what makes them work/not work.
Digital Foundry - Deep dives into the graphics-systems of various games.
Forgot to mention this one, Clint (the host of LGR) is really chill to listen to even when something annoys him.
That's a large number of new channels to check out, thanks very much!
Civvie11, a mainly retro FPS focused guy. Most of it is full game walkthrough highlights mixed with criticism.
Gmanlives, Aussie videogame reviewer. Also mostly into FPSes.
Vinesauce, comedy game streamer. This channel is highlights from streams. It's better than it sounds.
Tarks Gauntlet, very weeb-oriented game reviewer. Pretty reasonable takes, but more tolerant of the more indulgent side of Japanese games than I am.
Girlfriend Reviews - Not your traditional review format but by and far one of the most humorous.
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Ross's Game Dungeon is pretty good, although he generally does oddball games. He also did what I consider the best critiques of the first 3 Deus Ex games.
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The guy who explains game mechanics as if he's talking to infants? Righto.
https://youtu.be/gesNWgxuv8I?t=5378
Further on the topic of Mark Brown, he's a fedora-tipping white knight who got assblasted over fictional women dying.
https://archive.fo/Ia7UR
He fedora tipped so hard that Square Enix censored away the blood in Shadow of the Tomb Raider through a patch.
It's good that even these days some things are still certain. It lends a sense of stability to things.
Oh no, a youtuber can explain things clearly and concisely and developers are making changes to their game out of their own free will because someone wrote a well-reasoned article where they voiced their opinion about something! Much evil! Very censorship! Eva, you should run as fast as you can to the "What are you making?" thread where innocent young devs are being censored so hard right now with all the suggestions they are getting to change their games -- maybe you can still save them.
Unit 2 blathered on one of my threads! This is a personal milestone of my writing here at TTLG. <3
Just discovered Bed Bananas thanks to one of the RPS Alyx vids, and this Hitman 2 video's great:
The only one I can stand is ZeroPunctuation. Even that's a bit old but at least if I watch a video I know it will be about the actual game and not him trying to start beef with other Youtubers as is the case dissapointingly often. The world is a negative enough place without content creators trying to start fights with each other.
Watch literally any of the channels linked here. The only person out of them starting beef constantly is Boogie2988, who I also don't like.
They seem to have their receipts in order. What's fake about it?
Feels like the onus is on you there, bud.
He definitely isn't, and this isn't how this works. If you're going to claim something's fake, it's not the burden of the person asking 'how?' to provide the evidence.
Society hasn't flipped; and that's a pretty big strawman. If there's direct evidence on reddit that contradicts what you're saying, you're essentially washing your hands of the matter and saying, 'yeah, whatever'. Which makes me wonder what was even the point of bringing it up.
I used to think like you on this. But think about what you're saying. Say Person X has somehow been a complete monster to you. So you go public with chatlogs and corroborating evidence from his own public videos. But that's not good enough, because Person X makes a video in reply where he blatantly lies and deflects what he can't lie about.
Now there's me, the third party, looking at all this. Who do I believe? Am I forbidden from believing the person who has documented evidence of Person X being a shit? Why?
If Boogie is documented to be a manipulator of people, then it sounds pretty likely to me that his counter-video was full of shit too, and that's why he removed it.
Group harassment of people happens, but if multiple independent people come forward without a shared nefarious goal, that's a lot of smoke for there to purportedly be no fire.
So his words from YouTube mean everything but other people's words on reddit mean nothing.
It's up to you to just say, as you did at the end, that you enjoy his videos and that's enough for you. But then perhaps don't do that spiel first about society having flipped, when you've made your mind up beforehand as to who is right and who is wrong.
You do realize there are things that are bad but not illegal to do?
Mental illness can explain (episodes of) treating others poorly, but does not excuse it. If someone has a punches-you-in-the-face disease they'd damn well better apologize every time and work on bettering themselves, or find themselves friendless pretty soon.
How about screenshots and archived tweets/comments? Have you seen these at all, or are you just dismissing them sight unseen?
Your standards for proof are extremely forgiving towards those you like. You seem to think that a court of law is the only standard by which anyone can be proven guilty of anything, and even then I'm not sure you wouldn't say it was a witch hunt.
Enjoying his videos is fair, but exculpating someone over how much you like their work is weird.
THAT IS YOU DISMISSING IT WITHOUT SEEING IT. THAT MIGHT BE HOW YOU DO THINGS BUT THAT IS VERY MUCH YOU DISMISSING IT WITHOUT SEEING IT. HELLO? Do you regularly actively avoid information on a topic to then declare yourself staunchly in favor of a specific side after hearing only that side's argument?
Jontron sure did say some racist anti-immigrant stuff. It's absolutely fine if you still like his work. But this is somehow distinct from Boogie in that you're not declaring him innocent without having seen anything of the incident.
Your opinion can be divorced from legal outcomes! You don't have to believe that OJ Simpson is innocent, or that Issei Sagawa deserves to be free, or that Harvey Weinstein or Kevin Spacey deserve the benefit of your doubt. You can make up your own mind about these things. If you always choose to side with the accused, so be it.
Okay I give up, there's no getting through
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