What are the best Let’s Play series that you have seen? Looking for something to watch while I’m exercising.
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Etho plays Minecraft - season 2. 11 years and counting of wholesome fun.
Side question: what are your favorite “non-obnoxious” ones?
No youtube-edits, no memes, no forced jokes, just good gameplay and game discussion.
If I might be so bold as to self promote my solo VR-only let’s play channel has long form gameplay with (almost) no edits or cuts and I discuss in depth the mechanics and art of the games I play. So far I’ve covered The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, Half Life: Alyx, Hello Puppets, Cosmodread, After the Fall, Into the Radius, Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted, Wanderer, and most recently Half Life 2 VR.
I haven’t uploaded anything recently as my partner and I just got married but there’s a decent backlog of games and I plan on continuing my run of Half Life 2 once it gets back up and running.
Thanks, yeah that’s the sort of thing I had in mind. To clarify sensible edits that improve the flow are totally fine as long as they are not the popular-youtuber types with flashy transitions, cutting to memes, screaming or making a face etc.
Ethos MC vids in general. I also have a fair bit of nolstalgia for some of the old Chuggaconroy series (might have forced jokes, but tbh I can’t remember).
Not really a Let’s Play, but more of an “I’m Playing“, but I recently discovered SourSweet’s DayZ series. He only edits for time and to add film score type music to heighten the drama, as well as narration. He’s calm and collected, very skilled at the game, and there are no memes.
I like Game Grumps. I don’t even watch them for the games they play; Dan and Arin are just funny as hell. It’s like watching RiffTrax/MST3K but for video games. Literally watching their Space Quest V play through right now.
Minecraft SMP/Survival Island/Shadow of Israphel - Yogscast
Additionally, their Tekkit series.
Actually all of their old Minecraft stuff is amazing. I loved their playthroughs of various adventure maps as well. There’s a playlist full of those somewhere.
Was checking if anyone had mentioned this. You gotta pay respect to the classics. The whole moon series was great.
Oh man, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a bit. The Tekkit series was so funny
If you mean of all time, then I’d say “How to survive the first night in Minecraft” by Lewis and Simon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UdEFmxRmNE
I do yearly rewatches of Until Dawn - Scary Game Squad. It’s five slightly drunk guys keeping teenagers in a horror movie alive. They played this at release so all their guesses and theories during the game aren’t influenced by what they saw on the internet.
The Scary Game Squad is fantastic, and Until Dawn is their finest work. It’s a perfect marriage of a group of guys who know all the horror story tropes and clichés and a game that is deliberately built around them.
Let’s Game It Out is a gem to watch whenever he uploads.
His early ones with Anthony are definitely my favorite. The Messenger series is amazing, and I can’t see the game without hearing “I’m Ninja Bobbyyyy!”
Their horns of fear playthrough is hilarious: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPEtoJ9ZA8
I really like watching ChristopherOdd and Gab Smolders. Odd plays a lot of tactical games and popular titles. Gab tends to do more indie and horror but also does some popular games on occasion.
Let’s Game It Out always has good vids. Basically all of his videos are bangers, even if it’s about a game I wouldn’t otherwise enjoy/watch something about.
There’s a couple that I really enjoyed. I haven’t watched an LP in quite awhile.
(Mater)Welonz’ “Judgment” LP is probably my favorite. She was thorough.
I also like Christopher Odd’s (Mr. Odd) “Prey (2017)” LP.
Welonz is fantastic in general. Always thoughtful and thorough and seems to approach whatever game she’s playing with great respect. She even did a watchable LP of Return of the Obra Dinn, which is extremely rare.
I haven’t checked her channel in a few months because for a while she was doing mono-Dragon Age, but at a cursory glance it looks like she has a moved to a more varied upload schedule these days, which is good.
Trespasser by Research Indicates is honestly so well written that it feels like director’s commentary rather than a let’s play.
Bobbin Threadbare’s Deus Ex. It’s half let’s play, half a series of lectures on various topics relating to the game.
For me a good let’s play is about the game and representing it, not about about the personality doing it.
That Trespasser LP is what motivated me to play through the game myself, and I have no regrets. That game is insane. It’s awful, don’t get me wrong, but crazy ahead of its time. They basically tried to make a VR game two decades before VR gaming became a thing. Without Trespasser, we wouldn’t have Half-Life: Alyx. Research Indicates’ LP is a fantastic way to experience this obscure but fascinating title.
Settled’s Swampletics (OldSchool RuneScape) is wild, and popular among even people who have never played OSRS.
Giantbomb did a frankly incredible series around Kerbal Space Program a few years ago. It starts off incredibly goofy and by the end it’s still incredibly goofy, but also deadly serious.
https://invidious.io.lol/playlist?list=PL57hJfweW_2uqAdRACg-s5Siq_SBEwi2L
SBFP suffer through Omikron the nomad soul. This LP is definitively the best way to experience that game
The editing of the LP also really helps the vibe of !Sanity at Risk!
All the David Cage sbfp let’s plays are fuckin gold. I don’t watch playthroughs anymore but I will go back and watch those every now and then
NitaZera’s Mass Effect playthrough: one, two, three. No commentary, just cutscenes and dialog, works out like a good action scifi series.