Cameron wrote:

JoshWoodzy wrote: Mr. Satire wrote: -Two Best Friends Play, because I also find them rather good and humorous LPers. Was introduced to them by this video. Jesus Christ, I couldn't take more than 30 seconds of those dudes yelling. Joshwoodzell halt. I don't know why people keep whining about them, I adore their videos (especially their let's play of SNES games).

I have a feeling that you just haven't seen better. They're literally no different from any other screechers playing SNES games. That, and you kind of have this attitude of "I like it, so it is perfect and has nothing worth criticizing" about anything you enjoy. You and I actually like a lot of the same things, but you just throw a shitfit if there's something in particular about it that I don't enjoy.

But yeah, Two Best Friends are bad. They could get away with the whole "oh we're just doing it as a comedy thing" when they start yelling over the cutscenes or game information, but then they're not really all that funny to pull it off. From what I've seen they just can't let something happen on the TV without yelling about it, and when nothing's happening they just yell about the first thing that comes into their mind without thinking about it.

I don't think everything's perfect. I kind of get that you don't want too muchconflict or negativity, and it's great that you're a genuinely nice guy like that, but there are pros and cons, and the whole "I like that!" "Me too!" "Me too!" style of conversation is uninteresting to me. I'll bring up a flaw or something to discuss it, not insult for the sake of feeding my evil scientist ego or something.I like debate and discussion. I quit baseball and hockey in high school because I enjoyed debate club and Model UN more.

I can literally say "Oh, I liked this game and some of its features, but I have some nitpicks," then you almost sound offended and either get very defensive, or just yell out "You're wrong" without any sort of extrapolation, either because you're such a fan that you view it as an insult to yourself, or more likely you're just the genuinely nice person that I think you are and view it as me being aggressive. Either way, I'm not trying to sound like an overly negative person, I just like my thoughts and ideas to be as complete as possible the first time around. If I sound overly negative, then I'm obviously not doing it right, then, and ever since a particular conversation with Alow, I've been trying to improve.

For what it's worth, the more low-key guy in Two Best Friends can be pretty funny, but the loud-ass guy who's almost constantly yelling about every little thing that shows up on the screen digs into a part of my brain that is only normally tapped by yappy dogs and that sound that comes out of a car with bad brake discs. They could be good, they just need to calm their asses down and show off the game a little more.

Getting back on topic, I finished off these two text ones recently, LPs of Skies of Arcadia and Suikoden. I played Arcadia to death, and this guy found stuff I didn't even know existed in the original, non-Legends version. I had always meant to try Suikoden, but just never found the time to, and from what I can tell, this LP for it is a pretty good playthrough with all possibilities and info he can share.

Skies of Arcadia: http://lparchive.org/Skies-of-Arcadia-Legends/
Suikoden: http://lparchive.org/Suikoden-%28by-The-White-Dragon%29/

I still keep trying these Two Best Friends, but no thanks. Though the more low-key guy is actually pretty funny, the guy who is constantly screaming about every little object that pops into screen just makes me turn off the videos 3 minutes in. That's the last I'll say.

I know I mentioned it in my mega-post that got drowned out a page back, but this Illbleed LP is probably the best example of a good LP for me. He took a game few people have ever heard of or played, recorded insane amounts of footage, and spliced them together into slick videos. It gets a little dull (100% due to the game being repetitive), but I think it nails it when it comes to why and how you should LP a game:

http://lparchive.org/Illbleed/