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Vicious_GSR
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So let's begin…
Love 'em or hate 'em, web series about video games are a big deal on YouTube. It seems like everyone and their distant European uncle who only visited that one Christmas is making a web series about games now. In my travels on the illustrious tube of the nets I have found many a cool and shockingly unwatched shows. There are plenty of 'Let's Play' people out there, but I hope to find shows who do full on entertaining/documentary/review/preview type content.
How does I tell people about something I sawed?
Present a show in a reply with the name and the site it can be watched on. Seriously, posting about a show and making us search Google just shows you are super lazy. The opposite sex strongly avoids people who don't post fresh links. If you don't know what I am talking about, try and post something like this young man who's identity I stole for demonstrational purposes.
Also, don't be afraid of posting a link or embedding a video directly if it's really worth it!
I'll post a criminally under watched series below in just a second!
Let's open this up!
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PortsCenter focuses on all the rare/interesting ports of games going from one platform to another.
Hosted by Ben Paddon, the show is equal parts funny, informative, and entertaining.
Their Official Homepage:
http://www.Portscenter.tv
Their YouTube Page:
http://www.youtube.com/user/PortsCenterTV?feature=watch
A link to an episode all about the Resident Evil 2 port on the Nintendo 64.
This applies to regulars, because it creates the impression to dimwits that it's cool for them to pimp their channel within 10 minutes of registering. I hate to do that, as I want to encourage the community to share neat stuff they made, but YouTube channel advertising is becoming a Thing these days. You may still link your channel in your signature, as always.
In fact the rarer and more unwatched the better!
I will be changing mine to not say "Click to watch" anyway.
This guy you mean? http://www.youtube.com/user/DeceasedCrab
Aside from the Grumps and Retsupurae, I watch a lot of the Yogscast videos. Mostly the Minecraft ones on the main BlueXephos channel but their Garry's Mod videos are pretty entertaining also, and I like a lot of the videos Duncan (Yogscastlalna) does as well. The Farming Simulator 2013 livestream was rather incredible.
I always loved that TV reflection thing you see on their episodes. It made the games feel more legitimate somehow.
Yogcast is strange, don't they have like 12 people who upload videos all on separate accounts?
http://www.youtube.com/user/AlChestBreach
Does a lot of Fallout New Vegas, Fallout 3 and Skyrim playthroughs. Mods in particular. Along with Two Best Friends Play, he's become part of my Youtube religion and has an odd sense of humor that I can't get enough of.
Two Best Friends Play:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSw1tcher
Matt and Patt! Most people that know them are probably familiar with their series on Machinima but they also have done some full lets play on their own channel like Chrono Trigger, Silent Hill Downpour and currently The Walking Dead.
I also dig Two Best Friends Play, even if they're just the best clips from a session instead of multiple videos of a full playthrough.
I immediately bought this game after watching this. It was just as fun as I'd hoped.
Yeah, they all work together in the same place but have different accounts and game types they focus on. I think it's 10 accounts officially. Each one usually uploading at least one video a day, so it's a ton of content if you like all of their personalities.
There's usually not much overlap though, so you aren't jumping from account to account to get the correct next episode in a series.
I believe they are going to start Metal Gear Rising soon which should be fun, they are huge Metal Gear nerds.
There is that one guy DSPgaming who released 23 videos in the last 24 hours of nothing but commentary and gameplay of Skyrim and the new Aliens game. Isn't that a bit much?
Most of the people I follow usually just release 3-5 or so videos a day.
Bro Team (link)
Cicebro (link)
I really enjoy some of their Scrublords videos.
Basically it boils shit down to what you covering as opposed to providing any kind of talent in regards to skill, humor, or insightful commentary.
Kings Quest series is good stuff and they've started a Let's Play of I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream that's good. Been pumping out a lot of videos lately too.
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Leftover Culture Review is a web series that tends to look at retro and rare titles for older systems.
The show is well produced, lots of great visuals, and is quite funny a lot of the time!
Their Official Homepage:
http://www.leftoverculturereview.com/
Their YouTube Page:
http://www.youtube.com/user/LeftoverCulturist?feature=watch
And here is a link to an episode about the Jaguar game 'Skyhammer'
This is the channel of a man who has Opinions about videogames (mostly Mass Effect 3 so far, but he's begun to branch out) and is not afraid to share them. He also has at least some interest in/knowledge of literature and literary genres and is not afraid to apply that knowledge to videogames.
Here's one of his latest efforts about Cyberpunk and Friedrich Nietzche.
That's a really informative video. I like a lot of the detail he put into his research and opinons. However, he really needs a bit of flair to spice the video up a little.
Clan of the Gray Wolf is a web series that tries to cover a lot of subjects.
He makes several shows about random topics and honestly reminds me a lot of a video game version of Bill Nye.
Their Official Homepage:
http://clanofthegraywolf.com/
Their YouTube Page:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ClanOfTheGrayWolf
And here is a link to a three part episode he made on 'Earthbound' really awesome video to watch if your into the 'Mother' series at all.
Gun Launched Space Missions
youtube.com/watch?v=Moo5nuLWtHs
Speed of Light in Kerbal Space Program
youtube.com/watch?v=FCXMpWMEc1w
http://www.youtube.com/user/Northernlion
Pretty fun guy. He looks at new releases, indie and mainstream and does playthroughs of games that have alot of replayability like the binding of Issac and FTL. I've always thought he was a nice mix of professional and funny.
I tend to like the videos and content creators that put more than just a simple 'Let's Play' video on their page. Makes for a more interesting collection of videos I think.
No gimmicks, no jokes (for the most part). Just a guy with a pretty encyclopedic knowledge of old school games who likes going back and showing off/talking about old school games. Some he used to play when he was young, some he is playing for the first time, and others he plays for their "historic significance". Like one time he played what probably amount to the first 4x, realtime, space empire management MMO that was actually created back in like the 60's or maybe early 70's. Very awesome stuff.
Sometimes he'll interview the people responsible for some old school classics.
I highly recommend the series if you grew up on games in the 70's/80's or if you are at all interested in gaming history.
Though he does sometimes play newer(ish) games too.
edit- To give you an idea of the content, his latest Matt Chat interviews Joel Billings (SSI founder) about the Gold Box series and Panzer General.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KyD8ayZq4k0
He's not obnoxiously screaming constantly, but he still manages to be pretty funny.
He also seems pretty down to Earth and genuinely nice, which is my main reason for liking him.
I have seen his stuff before, I watched his video on 'Sherlock Holmes and Dracula' with Dave Marsh.
He is pretty cool and does a lot of information into pretty much each video he makes.
Here is a pretty cool up and coming series, very few viewers but every episodes gets better in quality!
'Gameplay First' is brain child of Tyler Uslan, and after a Kickstart started producing lots of videos.
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Gameplayfirstreviews
I found out about his channel through a series I posted earlier called 'PortsCenter'
Here is a video done with the two hosts of both shows talking about Little Big Planet Karting.
What game is this? Which video?
I believe it was this one Matt Chat 15. That episode he shows off the PLATO computer system which had several different games for it including the space empire mmo type game (which he is surprised to find people still playing :P) and a proto-Elite game.
edit- The game itself is just called Empire, IIRC.
It's a group of (up to) 5 Canadians who have a pretty cool setup where you can see them, the game, and a live chat all at the same time (except with some Wii U games where the gamepad screen replaces the chat). They livestream a bunch and then upload the videos later for all to view.
Their production values are also pretty good for this. Generally really good green screening to get all the windows on screen, high quality cameras and equipment (they even rigged up a camera to attach to the Wii U gamepad and record it's screen), and usually some sort of themed costuming. I think I even remember the main host mentioning he had set up several back-up generators so that a power outage wouldn't disrupt the livestreaming part of the show (though I tend to just watch the recorded uploads so that wouldn't effect my viewing much).
They tend to not just play games, but also do trailer nights where they watch all the E3 or PAX or whatever trailers and react to them. They'll also do midnight release streams for some bigger games and such.
One flaw they have is that I sometimes disagree about their opinions on some games because they seem to value flash over substance in a lot of cases. However, I later realized that this is largely due to the format of their show (group of friends reacting to stuff during a livestream with tons of people watching and chatting at you...of course flashier is going to be much better for that) so I take things with a little more grains of salt.