Best Let's Plays and Let's Players

[Arion]

Thread byKwigo

As I got older and got less and less time to play, there are a lot of games I wish I could experience, but I simply don't have the time for it.
Since I'm more of a story > gameplay type of guy, I don't mind watching some games while working/doing chores/whatever instead of playing them myself. I'm guessing there are other people here who are in the same situation, so why not share the best games that can be watched while doing something else and the best let's players.

Here are my picks, from the last year of watching games instead of playing them:
Best games:
All of Resident Evil
Chrono Trigger (If the player reads the text)
Final Fantasy (if the player reads the text)
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Dead Space 1-3
Alien Isolation

Best Let's Players:
(I personnally don't have any favorites)

I'll update post #4 with Era favorites, so don't hesitate to contribute!

 

[stryke]

The only let's players I like are Team Four Star and Kizuna AI

 

[Deleted member 198]

Best let's player:
Northernlion

The man manages to have the most mundane yet interesting conversations with himself after probably like 2000 hours of recorded content.

 

[Kwigo]

Well I didn't have time to pick up post #2, so I guess I'll make the list in this post :)

Best Games:

• All of Resident Evil
• Chrono Trigger (If the player reads the text)
• Final Fantasy (if the player reads the text)
• Wolfenstein: The New Order
• Dead Space 1-3
• Alien Isolation
• XCOM
• Total War series

Best Let's Players:

• Team Four Star
• Kizuna AI (JP channel it seems)
• Northernlion
• ChristopherOdd
• SeriousGaming
• OverTheGun Link
• GameGrumps Link
• NarcolepticNugget Link (R6 Siege)
• Rhykker Link (Diablo III)
• Helloween4545 Link (Horror Games)
• Kikoskia Link
• Epicnamebro Link
• TehNevs Link
• Adults Only Minecraft Link
• AvoidingThePuddle Link
• Allisonbyproxy
• Jesse Cox Link
• The Super Beard Bros Link
• LobosJR
• Super Best Friends Play
• German Spy
• LaFave Bros Link

 

[Ebenezer]

My favs right now are ChristopherOdd and a guy named Costin whose YouTube channel is named SeriousGaming. Both are real even keeled, no shilling, non obscene, non vulgar, generally intelligent people.

Favorite games to watch.... I guess strategy games like XCOM and the Total War series. I like to hear the decision making and rationale behind the moves.

 

[n00bp]

OverTheGun!!!

My all time favorite Let's Player, I've been watching him fail at games for 10 years now (wow! time flies!)

He has a charming dialect, a laid back attitude and a penchant for completely failing (hence the name of his seires, How To Successfully Fail, or HTSF)

This is one of his best moments, trying to use the Nikita in MGS :D



Other good ones:

GameGrumps - Arin and Dan, two all around fun guys, and probably the most famous Let's Players.

NarcolepticNugget - for some funny R6: Siege gameplay

Rhykker - Diablo 3 streamer, nice and chill guy with a great community

as for specific games: it doesn't really matter to me, as long as the LPer has a voice I like and has a "hook" (funny, skilled etc)

 

[PhantomKakarot]

Don't really watch let's play personally. But I do watch streams on Twitch, favorite streamer being AvoidingThePuddle, dude is hilarious.

Best game in my opinion are racing games, horror games and fighing games. But can honestly watch any game as long as streamer is entertaining.

 

[Klyka]

Helloween4545 if you want mostly horror themed LPs (no screaming/facecam) or things like Dark Souls
Kikoskia if you want to see retro/more obscure games from the past

 

[Scarface]

Don't really watch let's play personally. But I do watch streams on Twitch, favorite streamer being AvoidingThePuddle, dude is hilarious.

Best game in my opinion are racing games, horror games and fighing games. But can honestly watch any game as long as streamer is entertaining.

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Aris is awesome. I really dig his horror playthroughs.

 

[Deleted member 22651]

Epicnamebro's take on the Souls series.

 

[Starfighter]

I only watch let's plays to get advice when I'm stuck in a particular game. I don't watch them just to watch them. That said, two of my favorite finds during this is TehNevs (extremely thorough and relaxed walkthroughs) and Adults Only Minecraft(everything Minecraft by adults for adults - this is a matter of taste I guess and I'm personally not very fond of the "HEYEYYYYYY-GUYS-WAZZUP-ITS-YOUR-BOI-COOLDICKKILLER97-TIMEFORMOREMINECRAFTLOLLLL" type of youtubers).

 

[PhantomKakarot]

Aris is awesome. I really dig his horror playthroughs.

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Can't stop grinning ear to ear watching his stuff

https://www.youtube.com/user/AvoidingthePuddle
Great place to watch highlights as I can't catch all streams

 

[Alessandro]

Epicnamebro's take on the Souls series.

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A German spy, jerks sans frontiers and aegon of Astora are good too for Demon's and Bloodborne.

I'm currently enjoying Allisonbyproxy LP of Shadow Tower Abyss.

 

[Datajoy]

Epicnamebro's take on the Souls series.

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I also came in here to mention ENB's playthrough of Bloodborne.

 

[Krypton115]

I'm not big into Let's Plays myself, only channels that do Let's Plays I really follow are Jesse Cox and The Super Beard Bros and even from them I don't watch every single second of ever single video. I enjoy playing video games myself way more than watching other folks play them I guess.

Sidenote: I do love me some Funhausvideos. Favorite YouTube channel for sure.

 

[RoarOfTheEarth]

I personally love watching LobosJR for his dark souls challenge runs and also Super Best Friends Play for the obscure games they play. My favorite Let's Play is Deadly Premonition that Super Best Friends played through. Introduced me to the game and I love it.

 

[gigaslash]

Super Beard Bros' playthrough of Kaizo Mario is GODLY.
German Spy was mentioned for Souls, but I think his LP of Persona 5 is also super entertaining

 

[Spamlynguist]

LaFave Bros Let's Play of Oblivion

 

[ara]

I dunno about games or let's players in general that are good, but supergreatfriend's LP of Deadly Premonition is fucking amazing and I will never stop linking it to these kinds of threads

Gonna check that Oblivion let's play, could be interesting. Never really got into the game but I've always been very interested in it.

 

[Kwigo]

I've updated my post with all your recommendations, will update further and add missing links as soon as I got a moment :)

 

[Ravelle]

Not really "the best" but I'll list a couple which I really enjoy watching.

CohhCarnage - Variety streamer that plays the big games, franchise playthroughs and MMO's. Really chill dude with a fantastic community. Mainly on Twitch but uploads everything to YouTube as well.
Scary Game Squad - jirard khalil's and Jessy Cox's group of friends play Horror games, their banter is fantastic. The videos can be found on the channel of Jessy
Bikeman - Twitch streamer with a great sense of humor, usually plays whatever he likes, whenever he likes but his sessions are usually 13 hours long when he comes on.
Jessy Cox himself's also very enjoyable to watch.

 

[Nemesis_]

Does DFactor count? He plays but he doesn't commentate them at all. I find his stuff best when I want to revisit a game for nostalgic purposes but can't be bothered playing myself. He mainly focuses on PS One stuff.

His stuff is highly curated to be perfect runs but I just really like his style - in that there really isn't any.

https://www.youtube.com/user/dfactorxx

 

[Berserker976]

Anyone interested in a Morrowind Let's Play should try out A Wandering Orc Plays Morrowind.

It doesn't have a ton of views, which is a real shame, because it's a blind LP that's funny, well edited, and goes pretty deep into the lore. I highly recommend checking it out, it's my favorite ongoing LP right now.

 

[Deleted member 20287]

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[Reven Wolf]

My favourite is the SuperBestFreinds (just type best friends play and you'll find them).

The reason is because they're genuinely just friends having fun playing games, and they have worked in the industry and can provide some great insight.

 

[hotcyder]

Super Best Friends Play (Heartily reccomend either their Resident Evil 4, Until Dawn or Deadly Premonition Playthroughs)
Good ol' ChipCheezum (I don't think there's a better advertisement for Metal Gear Solid 3 - let alone a better LP)

 

[SprachBrooks]

FightinCowboy is a pretty excellent let's player.

 

[Rmagnus]

Hmm I find watching pallytime play hots more enjoyable than playing it myself

 

[Creamium]

Kay Plays was always my favorite, especially for her playthroughs of the Souls games. She's very attentive and methodic going through them, I'd def. recommend watching her run of Dark Souls 1. She's not active anymore though, last update was a year ago.

 

[Stuart]

Not likely to be a popular opinion, but I enjoy watching DarksydePhil. He's not the greatest player, but he provides a good commentary and I find him amusing (especially when he gets stuck).

Also his reviews (on separate channel KO Gaming) are surprisingly good.

 

[Samaritan]

I adore Video Games Awesome. It's a decidedly casual style of let's play, and some people might find their setup off-putting at first, but they're a really warm, funny show to just throw on in the background. Also a big fan of the Super Best Friends.

 

[Clowns]

Super Best Friends are the only ones I consistently watch.

 

[air jordans for dogs]

Best let's player:
Northernlion

The man manages to have the most mundane yet interesting conversations with himself after probably like 2000 hours of recorded content.

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I really like their pubg show, Dan Gheesling is a treasure.

 

[ActWan]

Vash is such a funny and awesome dude that really knows his shit.
ChristopherOdd is great for story and immersion.

 

[enkaisu]

Super Best Friends are the only ones I consistently watch.

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Same here, love those guys.

Not sure if streamers count but I also enjoy Vinny from Vinesauce. Funny dude with a good personality and great voice. I always put his stream archives on while doing other stuff.

 

[Jimnymebob]

I can't find the link to it now, but the let's play of Sonic 2 Special Edition for the SEGA 32X is the best one.

 

[Deathman]

No achievement Hunter love in here? I admit their content has dipped in the past year but they still put out some solid videos

 

[Turnabout Sisters]

For lesser known Souls runs, check out TheUrbanOrb's Dark Souls NG+7 with restrictions run. More than just how impressive the run itself is, the guy has some truly unique insights about the game you won't hear from Franz/ENB and has some very inspirational life philosophy. Criminally low view counts.

 

[BassForever]

The Runaway Guys
Chuggaconroy
ProtonJon (mostly a streamer now)
Nintendocaprisun

All of them deserve a lot more love then they get here. TRG is a great channel for seeing 3-4 player multiplayer of games that its normally hard to see the multiplayer modes of, and Chugga and Jon do a crazy level of detail in their lets plays with lots of guides and info in the videos.

 

[Lusamine]

Lets see what Kay Plays is up to...... :(

 

[kaospilot]

Two best friends/Super best friends are the only LPers/Streamers that I watch. I find it real hard to not get annoyed by anyone else.

 

[Cripterion]

That's an easy one for me, Christopher Odd.

Discovered his channel with X-com 2 but I dug into his let's plays, he has a lot of good content. I enjoyed more his Divinity OS 2 vids than playing the game myself.

 

[Evilisk]

Some LP/LPer recommendations:

• supergreatfriend (not to be confused with SBFP) has some good LP's. I enjoyed their Illbleed and Siren LP's, still have to catch up on the Killer7 one but that's very in-depth.
  
  
• batman9502's Legend of Legaia was an LP I enjoyed watching. The LPer does make the effort to read out the text, they're fairly familiar with the game and they even edit out grinding.
  
  
• BrainScratch Commentaries' playthrough of the Crash 1 remake was also good, since they had a good knowledge of the old game too.
  
  
• HellFire Commentaries' LP of Simpsons Hit and Run was also enjoyable enough to watch.
  
  
• The Ratchet and Clank 3 Developer Commentary playthrough is also really, really good if you're a fan of UYA.
  
  
• I also recently got into TheSeraphim17's channel. They seems to do a lot of self-imposed challenge runs.

If you're taking streamer suggestions (all of the following upload streams to YT afterwards):

• lordbbh is pretty great for his Mame Roulette streams. He has a background in arcade and fighting games, so it's always worthwhile when a game he's familiar with comes up.
  
  
• DDRJake, I don't watch as often, but I still enjoy. He seems to do mostly strategy games but I like their Weekly One-Shot and Two Hours of Hell videos.
  
  
• Shooting Game Weekly is also fairly good. They mostly cover STG's but have done other genres (see their Awesome Game Replays playlist. I'd recommend the Time Crisis and Die Hard Arcade replays). They usually get someone knowledgeable about a game on stream, and then they go over and explain what happens in the replays. I find their videos to be very informative.

 

[Ginger Hail]

They've been mentioned quite a few times already, but Super Best Friends are definitely a favorite of mine. Dunno if I have a specific favorite LP, but their Friday Night Fisticuffs/Saturday Morning Scrublords series is definitely recommended for fighting game fans.

Though he mostly streams now, ProtonJon is one I've been following for a long time. In particular, his (currently unfinished) Superman 64 LP is a good combo of insight into the game's production and laughing at all the glitches he encounters. He also has a collaborative channel, TheRunawayGuys with Chuggaaconroy and NCS.

OneyPlays sometimes make some bad Newgrounds-level edgy jokes, but outside of those moments I think they make me laugh the hardest. Crash 2 is kind of the series for them, but I'd also recommend the video of Simpsons Hit & Run they did on the Game Grumps channel.

 

[Clowns]

Lets see what Kay Plays is up to...... :(

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Whatever happened to her?

 

[ItsBobbyDarin]

Jackfrags and Funhaus, simple as that. They even had Johny Depp on their show.

 

[thenexus6]

No achievement Hunter love in here? I admit their content has dipped in the past year but they still put out some solid videos

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I used to, but had to stop. They upload way too much, videos are too long and they got unfunny. So much over the top screaming and shouting.

 

[viral]

Best let's player:
Northernlion

The man manages to have the most mundane yet interesting conversations with himself after probably like 2000 hours of recorded content.

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Yeah, it's unbelievable how he can just go on and on about absolutely mundane things and make them really interesting at the same time. Easily my favorite.

I also like the Super Best Friends, but I don't watch them as much as I used to, mainly because I have no interest in most of the games they played lately. One other LP'er that I really like is EpicNameBro, although he turned into a streamer lately, his Dark Souls 1 lp is still the best Dark Souls LP ever made. His streams are also really entertaining, and he archives most of them on YouTube.

 

[Deleted member 13250]

Super Best Friends Play no doubt.

They promise nothing... And deliver less

 

[Vesves]

Aside from some of the ones I know that have already been mentioned, I really like Mr. Fruit on Youtube. He just seems like a really cool guy who isn't full of himself and just wants to have fun and entertain people. He does a lot of Destiny and Overwatch but I also really like when he just hangs out with a chill game like Slime Rancher.