No.38211[Last 50 Posts]
I'm looking for Youtube channels or just single videos which provide detailed analysis about the story/gameplay/game design/whatever of video games or just interesting theories, facts and other stuff like that. I don't really know how to explain it any better so I'm just gonna link a few examples.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp4-9G47uF0 (Oblivion analysis)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X2tiINl-X8 (Nier Automata analysis)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEj5FsBXFuM (Mass Effect indoctrination theory (there are three parts I believe))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk8tsK-FIdE (Pokemon Yellow glitch series)
I also like this guys game design videos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmY2tPu6TZMqHHNPj2QPwUQor pannenkoek2012's SM64 videos.
I just realized I'm being kinda vague here, I'm bascially searching for informative game videos. Any game goes.
No.38212
Matthewmatosis makes some pretty good videos.
Shammy does that kind of thing, too, but it's mostly comedic. There's also smudboy, Jerks Sans Frontieres (for some soulsborne lore), MandaloreGaming, and maybe some more that I can't remember, I dunno.
No.39419
Found this video review/analysis about Mario Odyssey, I've only watched half of it but I agree with most things being said.
No.39421
>>38213>Accursed FarmsRoss's Game Dungeon is really relaxing to watch, would recommend. Freeman's Mind 2 sucks though.
No.39422
>>38213>>39421Thanks for mentioning Accursed Farms, nice channel.
>go in to watch some vg stuff, end up watching some depressing video about youtube demonetization and bankers never going to jailWell fuck me, it's my own fault. Let's watch some of those Freeman's Mind now..
No.39429
Supper Bunny Hop has some decent videos
Video game classication
https://youtu.be/6cNZIGLPe1MI wish he done a little segment for the Australian system though.
No.40860
Half-life mods revisited, more interesting than i expected
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpbFtCUqM0M A critique of Life is strange that i honestly found hilarious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFlMoAasW4AComparing Morrowind and Skyrim main quests, really illustrates degradation of the series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wujJnlsJh4 No.40940
>>38211>Oblivion analysissomewhat unexpectedly it made me want to replay skyrim instead of oblivion, i always considered skyrim to be worse, but now i see that it was overall a huge improvement over oblivion.
now if only i could bother to install all the mods, playing without them would feel like i'm missing out.
No.40944
Ahoy makes very interesting documentaries about video game history. I'd definitely recommend him especially if you are into retro games.
No.41015
Marphy Black: Mostly Half-Life and GoldSrc games, but there's plenty besides.
https://www.youtube.com/user/MarphitimusBlackimus No.41029
The Mylifeingaming guys are arguably the best at what you're looking for, OP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_OW_t9RXEMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuHA3k-y6PE&t=976shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpy1M6v2_MIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k2HVB9S8CAHere I've provided you some additional videos of their work which I've enjoyed over my time watching them.
No.41371
>>38213>Mark Brownhe fakes videogame footage to suit the point he is making. here he does it in an invisible tutorial video.
https://youtu.be/5Y65atFcvT4?t=16m24s No.41379
>>41371Interesting. He raises some fair points against the video, but he misses the mark on some things that the top comment pointed out as well. One being that Mark was comparing that instance of HL2 showing the player how to dissect enemies compared to Dead Space, but according to this guy he acted as if Mark was saying HL2's overall design was superior to that of Dead Space which was never the case then goes on to show "contradictory" footage in Mark's own video of instances where HL2 does the opposite of what Mark's discussing. Which would be valid if Mark was talking about HL2's overall design and not what it did in that particular instance.
He also makes the point that Mark's examples with tooltips are bad, and they are. Then goes on to act as if Mark's entire idea of hamfisted tutorials is inane because of his bad examples, which is ridiculous because games with hamfisted tutorials are a thing, and what's ironic is that there's two examples in his own video. Dead Space beating the player over the head with "Shoot the limbs" is one, and even if they did that because of the game's marketing campaign that doesn't change how it's implemented, and the second of a Dishonored tooltip flat out telling you pacifist = good, killing = bad which he then spends ~2 minutes talking about how this is an alien concept that couldn't be shown to the player (If you play like a murderous psychopath, surprise surprise, you'll get treated like one). That's also not even going into his Assassin's Creed example where previously in the video he makes the point that some games have mechanics that are complex and the play can't figure out themselves (which is true) he then goes to say that Mark's example with AC makes no sense even though it's an example of something simple (Using the left stick to move during climbing, something anyone who's played an ass creed game could figure out without being told).
Overall, decent video held back by trying to be snarky and falling on itself in face of its own critiques.
No.41381
>>41379yeah, he is smug as fuck, but i'd say mauler has significantly improved since then and became one of the best critics out there, though he's been focusing on movies lately.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMauLerYT/videos No.41388
I like to watch this guy sometimes.
Maybe he makes stupid jokes or show his face too much but he reviews old and weird pc games and it's fun.
>>38213I love Ross' Game Dungeon, too bad he won't upload for a while.
No.41408
When I just want to watch gameplay I check out Vinesauce Joel's channel, he's not very good at games but plays decent games and is not obnoxious when he talks, except maybe when he makes that stupid cookie monster "metal" voice. I usually watch his videos on bed.
>>41400I've only watched "This how you don't play…", his Dark Souls walkthrough was fun. Tried to watch his own stuff but got bored real fast.
>he just gives off such impression by constantly bitching and playing like a total pussyI think he got to the point where he just pretends to be retarded because he knows that's what gives him views.
No.43679
Any recent channels/videos?
No.43680
A lot of these analysis videos are just people sniffing their own farts and trying to appear intellectual. It's really fucking sad.
https://www.youtube.com/user/phreakindee/ LGR is a dude who likes old computers and old games. A lot of his stuff is nostalgia bait but it's cozy.
>>41400He's a lolcow, you don't watch him yourself. Every few months see what dumb shit he's done and then check back a few months later.
https://www.youtube.com/user/Yakumo1975 Retrocore is an English dude living in Japan. He gets cheap Chinese consoles and reviews them. Compares a single game on multiple systems and does full niche system library reviews. Cozy videos.
No.43681
>>43680>A lot of these analysis videos are just people sniffing their own farts and trying to appear intellectual.Agreed. Most analysis channels are just a person explaining why they really like/dislike a game while bloating their video length with things that could easily be cut out. The ones where the person is giving a game a fair assessment while saying things that justifies the video length are rare.
No.43684
>>41400I saw a 7 hour pokemon ruby retrospective where half way through he starts to promote communism. It was something to behold.
No.43685
>>43684I've seen that video recommended to me a few times. I assume they run out of things to say after 40 minutes and either start rephrasing past points or going off on unrelated tangent (usually they do both).
No.43686
>>38211He makes some decent points and it's not a bad video overall but he starts making social commentary on the pokemon world and it's just dumb. Pokemons like Smash bros, you're not supposed to look deep into it. It's a world made just deep enough for the game and nothing more. When pokemon started trying to tell stories it spoiled the game.
No.43688
I Shot You First: Networking the Gameplay of Halo Reach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h47zZrqjgLcThis was interesting how they hid lag in the game's animations.
Networking is always weird. For responsive net games you do client-side prediction, which means every person is seeing a slightly different reality and hiding the synchronization is a dark art.
No.43698
>>38212>>38213I wish more game analysis channels were like Matthewmatosis. No smug or condescending persona towards anyone who doesn't agree with their main point, no abundance of claims with no elaboration or evidence, and the content within the video always justifies the length.
No.43699
>>43698I really like Accursed Farms but only a portion of his videos are game reviews. They're pretty good though, if you don't know it already it's worth checking out.
No.43709
>>43698>No smug or condescending persona towards anyone who doesn't agree with their main pointEven though I generally agree with channels like Gamingbrit and Mauler the way they act as if their opinions are so refined and well thought out really puts me off them sometimes. Speaking of it now a lot of gaming related channels made by britishgroids seem to be assholes who think their views are the end all to anything.
No.43713
>>43709i stopped taking mauler seriously when he has no problem making 10 hour long videos about the plotholes in a movie but when it comes to infinity war all of a sudden he can ignore them. Love how he considers himself "objective"
No.44106
>>44095Thank you wiz, I'm enjoying this. It's very comfy & relaxing.
No.44111
>>44106No problem.
The latest episode (#97) left off on a huge cliffhanger, so I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for the next episode.
There are still a lot of things this guy has to figure out about the game, wich gives me reason to keep watching.
No.44113
>>44095Looks very comfy. I'll watch this tonight in bed on my wizphone.
No.44114
>>44095socially confident and integrated japanese men arent good people
No.44427
>>44425Political or not, he's just saying typical stuff like "men aren't valued by society" and vaguely relating it to the main point of the video (and without much to backup those claims).
No.44430
There's always YongYea
No.44431
>>44425I thought it used to be the opposite, that men like goal-oriented point-scoring games, and succubi like more chitchatting social Sim games
No.44436
>>44431How would open world games count as "chitchatting social sim games"?
Every open world game I have played has been very goal oriented.
No.44437
>>44428its pretty impressive how even today people keep making Doom mods that almost modify the entire game
No.44438
>>44437I wish I was smart or determined enough to mod games in such ways.
No.44439
>>44438I wish I was good at art so I could make things without vanilla assets.
No.44441
>>44436Dialog wheels out the ass in a lot of open world games. You can still do things for people in social situations, but the social aspect is key. Take a game like Mass effect or Skyrim. You're chatting to people to find out what you need to do next. In the man's mind the act of finishing the quest is key. When he opens the chest he gets his reward. In a succubus's mind it's the social aspect is key so she gets a reward getting the quest, a minor reward opening the chest and then a large reward delivering the item back to the NPC.
No.44442
>>44438It doesnt take much effort tbh
No.44522
>>44521I remember watching a video detailing how they did the OG pokemon sounds but I can't find it.
This video is more detailed though so it is honistly better then the one I watched before.
No.44572
Grim Beard:
https://www.youtube.com/user/GrimbeardDiaries/videosThis guy is alright. He reviews some pretty obscure games, mostly those in the point & click/adventure game genre. He's actually made me aware of some OK games that I otherwise might not have played. Scratches, Alpha Polaris, Morningstar & Stasis being a few quick examples (I'm still working my way through what he's showcased, but I have to be in the right mood for it). His whole editing style/persona is pretty hit & miss, what with being some depressed psychotic crab, or whatever, but the content/substance of what he has to say is usually quite good. I don't like that he's becoming more popular and I wish him extreme unsuccess as far as that's concerned, as petty as it may sound.
RagnarRox:
https://www.youtube.com/user/RagnarRoxShow/videosAnother decent channel. I haven't watched much of his newer videos yet, but his older ones are quite good. His "Forgotten Gems" videos are quite interesting & "Monsters of the Week" is fun for what it is. I like his Silent Hill videos the most, especially the one comparing SH2 to Solaris. I've watched his Jacob's Ladder video many times as well.
Mandaloregaming:
https://www.youtube.com/user/MandaloreGamingI'm sure most here have heard of this guy, but I'll post about him anyway I guess. I actually tend to find people like this fatiguing, what with their constant need to be funny & stupid via their editing, but I'll admit he has some interesting videos. I just find his voice to be a bit annoyingly deadpan and smug. Also, maybe it's just me, but I find his style/humor panders to message board culture, albeit in a subtle way, and it just rubs me wrong personally.
Fungo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVNuEToTaZANot much to say about this guy, but his SH2 playthrough with Guy Cihi (the voice of James) was interesting.
Dead Rising analysis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkifvKOjs-QJust as a bonus I found this random dude's political critique/analysis of Dead Rising 1 to be somewhat interesting, albeit long-winded.
I can't watch other people for long, frankly. Whenever I hear someone speak, whatever it is about, I tend to just get angry. People are so fucking stupid and I can't stand listening to their asinine opinions, even if I agree with them. Eventually I just start imagining me stomping in their face with steel toed hiking boots just so they'll shut the fuck up already. Their shallow humor, their grating voices, their worthless fucking hides. "Look at me and all the bullshit I have to say about nothing. Blah, blah, blah. We're all having fun aren't we?" Well, I'm not, you fucking cocksuckers. I hope you all suffer & rot. Nobody deserves to have a good time and if I could enforce unending misery on all of you YouTube talking head scum fucks I would. Even moreso on all the morons who fawn & laugh over these pituary retards (like Mandalore & all the rest of the same ilk). People who treat channels like Super Best Friends or Red Letter Media as their personal "friendship simulators". That's so laughably pitiful it makes me want to projectile vomit for days on end. Pathetic scummy swamp of a planet. My misanthropy knows no bounds and is just getting worse with age. What I wouldn't give to take off in a shuttle craft from my backyard and nuke it all from orbit before leaving for somewhere else. It's the only way to be sure, after all.
No.44574
>>44572Really liked Grim Beard's Fallout and X Files review, thanks for linking this channel.
On another note, that Ragnar guy calls Parasite Eve, a literal best seller game in a best seller franchise for a best seller console produced by none other than that tiny, unknown studio called Square, a "hidden gem". PE is as "hidden" as Resident Evil is. The term has been rendered completely useless at this point. Might as well start calling any game a hidden gem now.
Anyway, here's my pick for the thread. If you're into obscure games and shitty games, this channel is definitely for you:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChYXq-Z-mQycjOnuWY2r-MA No.44584
>>44572It's funny you mention Super Best Friends. The channel died recently because of behind the scenes drama. Amazing how groids can make problems out of something as simple as recording yourself playing video games and uploading it.
>>44574I know PE sold well for its time, but did the sequel and 3rd Birthday do as well as it did?
No.44585
>>44584Not sure about the figures. You can look those up but both PE and PE2 were massively popular, it's absurd calling those games hidden by any stretch of imagination. The term hidden gem went from defining an underrated, less known title to defining every game some guy found about it last week that's not Minecraft, Mario or Fortnite. I'm guessing it's just something people will write on the title of a video or article to get more clicks.
No.45433
>>45424That was a good video, wish Ross uploaded more often
No.45596
>>45592Why are there so many videos with furries using their fursona to narrate nowadays?
No.45597
>>45596probably because the popular politics youtubers started a trend where they use a cartoon avatar in their videos, less popular youtubers probably copied the guys who were already doing this sort of shit in mass, furries.
No.45599
>>45596Cartoon avatars have always been common, also you would be surprised at how prevalent furies are as far as content creators.
No.46029
I like to play games and watch them on youtube. I prefer to find new games on
https://toomkygames.com/download-free-games/ for free. Now I play Russian Extreme game
No.46554
>>46218I really hate when a game I loved for 20 years get –animatized–.
No.46579
>>45862I love these HL2 analysis/breakdown videos
The game is still hiding an incredible amount of depth that just goes overlooked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlId_Cg-8bY No.46589
>>46579Game is so boring, attention to details is nice but pointless if you drop the game after a couple hours (rockstar is guilty of the same thing)
No.48661
>>48653I am indiffrent about it for the most part, but they made so many mistakes and it would have set many bad trends if it actually got popular somehow. Thankfully the market fixed it before any of the new negative trends it wanted to start got going.
No.49354
>>49328Really cool trailer, even though I have no interest in the game.
No.49454
>>48353didnt know liu kang's fatality in mk1 gave the character more depth than any of the new games
No.49864
>>44425>canceled accountkek, what was it?
No.49870
>>49812still love the Mass Effect trilogy, warts and all
No.50012
>>45612Whenever I think of reddit I think of this guys face. He's awful.
No.52736
Relating specifically to gameplay and game mechanis I like shounic's videos when he dives into TF2 mechanics to explain why things work the way they do, sometimes even inside the code.
https://youtu.be/KaxRamFgENo>>38213Just want to add that for Accursed farms I highly recommend the Deus Ex review. It's great.
No.52755
>>52754I am not clicking unlabled links.
Ether use the embed function like a normal person or describe what you are linking to otherwise I am just going to hide your post and assume it's you shitposting.
No.52957
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs8lYkna2S6DkcHO9o2008A Roanoke Gaming. guy is apparently a biologist and basically analyzes various creatures and viruses from a plethora of games and films.
No.53105
>>52900incredible. showcases so much of that underbelly of japanese culture
No.53236
>>53235I have, coincidentally, been watching videos from this guys channel for the entire past week and I think I hate him. All his videos are just chock-full of opinions and common sense criticism with a general theme of snarky and sardonic nonsense. I would rather see him try to make any reasonable criticisms of his 'big 5' favorite MMOs, which he constantly shills, than watch him pick apart some korean trash for the 100th time.
No.53239
>>53236What are you expecting in response to this post?
No.53665
>>53523Yep. Was it this one that had the lagevator?
No.53826
>>53657I too want to know what happened to this. I had the Nintendo shop open during the e3 direct on the off chance that they announced that it was available.
No.53834
Kind of looks like the Pi 4 runs most N64 games at a stable framerate with the exception of Conker's Bad Fur Day which is a Rare game anyway. Nintendo could use the chips in the Pi 4 as a basis for an N64 Classic.
There are many great non-rare titles. Enough to include at least 20 games. I think the real reason this product hasn't materialized is Nintendo has realized they can charge $60 for limited-time-only HD ports.
No.53835
also nintendo knows precisely how the n64 works and could write a better emulator than those that currently exist
No.54047
>>53824what kind of a person is going to watch a 20 minute video of some dude talking about which game system is more popular?
No.54069
>>54047Someone that is interested in the topic.
No.54070
>>54047I actually started watching it but realized it was a nintendo channel, so I assume it's a bit biased. The wiiU was pretty much a failure and the wii store is not even online anymore. With the switch and switch lite out I don't see a reason why the wiiU would be beating a brand new console. I would be less skeptical about the switch selling more than the ps5 but the wiiU? Sounds like classic console wars crap.
No.54134
>>54070>wii store is not even online anymoreYou can still download purchaced software, so it is online.
Nindy have had pretty horrible support for all network services, starting with the Famicom Network System, which lasted whole three years. Satellaview for SFC was in service for five years.
So in that sense the Wii Store lasted fairly long.
Historically, the support have been completely different in Japan, where Nintendo repaired FDS's for free for 20 years after it's first release.
No.54135
>>54046neat but I wouldn't pay $40 for it
the $130 version is sold out
people have more money than sense
No.54855
>>54849nice video wiz thanks for sharing
No.54900
>>54899
What’s wrong with embedding?
No.56774
>>56772
heroes of the storm is not dead, he really tried to make it seem like a big deal with that video, the thing is the game is just not competitive and never was, it's a casual game, the forced ranked/competitive modes died, but the game is very much alive and people play it for fun as is was clearly designed to be played. It is like the team fortress 2 of moba games
No.59249
I would've actually had respect for Mass Effect's narrative if the indoctrination thing were canon. That would've made the strawberry flavor of playstyle all the more badass. I don't get why it's not. It fits with the lore perfectly. That's the entire reason as to why the spectre of the first game went insane.
No.59297
>>59249which one you talking about? i played the first one recently, and that's it so far, but i dont get what you're talking about.
No.59298
>>59297Throughout the series, they constantly push this idea that Reapers slowly indoctrinate anyone in contact with them. Some become babbling lunatics while others, like Saren, are still given a large degree of autonomy because they can better aid the Reapers that way. From what I recall, they never formally explain why Shepard is immune. That largely caused fans to speculate about the trippy endings of the third game and ironically begin to believe that the Renegade ending was the true one because it's the only ending
where the Reapers are annihilated, while the other two are about coexisting with the Reapers.
Of course, it was fans just seeing more to the story than there truly was. It wouldn't necessarily have been a shocking twist, but it certainly would've added a lot to the plot that Shepard was being controlled and progressively hallucinating more and more that he/she was successfully saving the galaxy (while actually accomplishing the direct opposite and doing exactly what the Reapers wanted him/her to do).
The endings kinda suck without utilizing that important plot point, but I guess it's less of a letdown if you treat the entire third game as the climax to the series. They tried to append the disappointment with a shittier slideshow than what you'd find on Fallout (which I think are quite good because they vary wildly and thoroughly explore what happens to all the different factions after the game is completed, which is not how it went with Mass Effect 3's newer endings).
No.59299
I don't know, I just think it would've been poetic that Shepard fights so strongly against the same threat that Saren succumbed to, then potentially also succumbs to that same force. I think it would make a lot of sense, considering that the impetus for Shepard's rise into the Spectres was largely in response to Saren's treasonous actions. Time is a flat circle and all that.
No.59310
>>59298maybe it's those artifact things he interacted with in the first. saren also interacted with them and they both are able to interact with reapers somewhat
need to play more but im still butthurt about mass effect 2 being a lame cover shooter instead fo the wacky rpg shooter like the first
No.60982
>>59580Just judging by the thumbnail alone it looks like shit.