>>189226 I was about to suggest slowbeef's, which is considered among the ones that kinda started this entire LP business. But fuck man, checked it out for a bit and you can tell that shit's from 2007. Video and audio quality are almost intolerable.
This is a real disappointing QL on a lot of levels. Dan wasn't the right guy to ride into Japan with Jeff and the game itself is a lot less amusingly zany than it seemed. It's also real weird that it's like, dubbed for example. This is the kind of thing you expect Xseed to put out digital only with all the Japanese audio left in untouched. I do sort of find it funny that it's SUPER ANIME Yakuza right down to the insane level of advertising though.
>>189326 There is no part of this statement that is true. >>189325 Oh stop being such a whiner and just look at the sick shades on the charmingly garrulous Dr. Tracksuit.
Did you know Dr. Tracksuit is the Big Show's odds on favorite for victory at the Royal Rumble? http://www.gamespot.com/videos/big-show-and-danny-talk-wwe-2k15/2300-6420835/
>>189329 Sure. I also remember that same community spews bile from every orifice every time a woman speaks or appears on screen. The GB community has always been a whole RAINBOW of awful.
>>189342 I absolutely hate the videos that dude makes, but shit's fucked, yo. He still deserves to get fucking paid. I hope the Best Friends Zaibatsu aren't as dependant on Machinima now that they have their site.
>>189348 I know they've mentioned it a couple of times but I've forgotten, what games have they said they wish to do but were unable to do due to the Youtube content match stuff.
>>189349 Their Metal Gear Solid 4 LP got struck. And fans constantly demanded Asura's Wrath, which they were unable to do on Youtube (but they still won't do it, because Matt fucking hates it).
So this pic has now gone viral, and Jon retweeted it. He also admitted that he broke up with Arin and quit over his League livestream, though he didn't tell why. (Though he did use the words "damn dirty")
>>189459 Heard it has something to do with some sort of legal mumbojumbo involving the Polaris company that they're both subsidiaries of. It's possible the dirty laundry they have to air isn't that big of a deal but because of all the redtape they aren't allowed to just deal with it outright and are forced to let it fester. There was another post of the same sort in the past that was allowed to slide by because it was a lot less in-your-face about it all.
>>189459 >>189462 >>189463 All this time I thought the only reason they weren't talking was it could potentially hurt those involved. But if it's Arin's fault, and it clearly is, Jon has no reason not to say what it is. Now you're telling me they can't LEGALLY do it?
I mean, it's a fucking Let's Play. Two friends sitting down and recording themselves playing a game. There was a contract? A non-disclosure agreement? REALLY?
>>189465 >I mean, it's a fucking Let's Play. Two friends sitting down and recording themselves playing a game. But it's not. It's a business. There's money involved. You'd do well to remember that. These people are entertainers. Not your friends.
>>189465 What makes you so sure it's Arin's fault and what specifically did Jon say about it? Other Polaris members' statements alluding to whatever's happened seem to be on Jon's side but he's kinda shown himsef to be pretty oversensitive and there's a chance he overreacted to whatever Arin did, even if there's no doubt douchebag SJWs have gone out of their way to provoke him and twist his words out of context now that he's on their bad side.
>>189465 >>189467 According to one of the old TGS podcasts you're not allowed to publically say anything that could be construed asz critical of or insulting towards a fellow member of the Polaris network (which both Jon and Arin are in). Based on the context TotalBiscuit or Jesse Cox or whoever it was that cited it was ready to impugn Arin specifically.
>>189465 Remember that whole episode where they were talking about how they became corporatized and signed up for some financial account and Jon put himself down as Arin's "fartner"? Wonder if that's gonna bite him in the ass
Rumor is Jon got fed up with Arin for turning into a social justice warrior type but I find it hard to believe Arin was the target of that comment of Jon's considering he's still been making a metric ton of offensive jokes even with Danny around and if anything he's ramped it up to the point it's a little cringeworthy.
>>189471 That popped up because Arin recently made a tweet alluding to defending Zoe Quinn.
Considering how many n bombs the guy drops (and surprisingly how Jon's actually been clearly against stuff like misogyny) I doubt that's the case. You could argue that's why they got Danny, though.
>>189472 I doubt Jon is actually a racist/sexist/ableist/whatever like Tumblr claims he is. His problem seems to be getting way too butthurt over stuff and that he'd sink to any level to avoid admitting he's wrong, but that's different from having actual hatred for any group and sadly Tumblr can't (or refuses to) understand that distinction.
I still think Jontron is funny, but A) I'm sick of this drama and B) he needs to learn how to use diplomacy in order to keep stuff like this from happening again.
>>189459 Does anyone know exactly what Jon actually said about it? As someone said earlier whatever happened might not have been a big deal at all, but the non-disclosure agreement rules mean he can't do jack about even the smallest mention of it unless a third party who was also there but not affiliated with Polaris can break the silence.
http://superbestfriendsplay.com/video/best-friends-play-dark-souls-2-part-23/ What is it about Souls games that makes them such amazing material for LPs? Also, fuck yeah! Berserk mode unlocked!
>>189504 >http://superbestfriendsplay.com/video/best-friends-play-dark-souls-2-part-23/ Well I'm finding the educational nature of it to be the best part.
>>189480 >but the non-disclosure agreement rules mean he can't do jack about even the smallest mention of it unless a third party who was also there but not affiliated with Polaris can break the silence.
Oh please, you people honestly think anything would happen to Jon if he spoke up about this? You think anything happened to Alfonso Ribeiro when he revealed how Janet Hubert was a total bitch when they were working on Fresh Prince, even though he was under an NDA too? If you have a shitload of fans, no company would dare do anything to your career. The amount of hate mail and bad publicity they'd get would hurt them more than telling people Arin is an asshole.
>>189509 I have a sneaking suspicion that Arin being pissed off is not because of something Jon did, and instead being reminded of something he did himself.
>>189510 >Another popular theory is that Arin tried to make sexual advances towards Jon's rl waifu (who remarkably looks like Arin himself) and when rejected slapped her. This caused Jon to sperg out and sperate all ties. Legally there is nothing Jon can do, because his slave-contract with polaris forbids him from criticising from fellow "polaris" members.
Thanks to PewDiePie, the four-year old Skate 3 has been in the Top 40 all year in the UK (currently at #20). The game had been out-of-print, but EA produced more at the request of retailer GAME.
rumor I read was that it was over mone. Arin brought in Danny and Ross and was taking a percentage of their revenue. Jon said as partners the two of them should split it or take none. Arin made fart noises with his mouth about it and Jon left.
>>189571 I'm confused why he's getting so much hate over the ZQ issue specifically when what he said about her isn't even that bad. It's known that he was never particularly fond of her for whatever reason (even then, if the stories about that guy are true when he tried to get him to start a fight with her it didn't work), but even if the allegations are most likely bullshit, what she's doing in response isn't so great either, and to not side with her is not the same as being a rape advocate (see: the overreaction to TotalBiscuit who said the same thing way nicer). The "retard" controversy I totally get, and it's fine to continue hating him for that, but here? Seems like a big SJW bandwagon.
>>189577 >>189576 The saddest thing about JonTron is he's pretty much how a lot of people I know, including myself would be if they became an internet celebrity.
stop caring about bad videogame man jontron and start caring about best videogame man supergreatfriend his deadly premonition LP is p fucking great and if youve already seen it check out the illbleed lp SGF basically does weird, usually old games that never really took off in the mainstream for whatever reason. he also used to do weekly features where hed play every free xbox live indie game released during a week.
>>189580 supergreatfriend is my favorite LPer, mostly because he doesn't pretend to be scared by horror games. Horror games either make him laugh or become snarky and sarcastic.
>>189598 >>189597 Obviously a ploy to repair his image after the whole Jon thing. Makes a rape joke, gets called out on it and makes himself look like the better man unlike Jon, that hate-speech spewing fuck. (note: not actually a hate-speech spewing fuck)
The thing that makes SGF's Deadly P run interesting compared to the Best Friends or the two GB runs is that SGF knows the game in and out so he does a 100% run and actually shows off a lot of weird side quests. He also does some extra shit like mini reviews of the weird movies York talks about.
>>189610 I know those feels. A few years back someone broke in, stole every single one of my games, systems, and DVDs... save my PS2. They stole its controllers and the HDMI cable I had in it, but not the system itself (and by proxy the memory cards). So that was nice in a way.
It’s a stupid bullshit thing called ‘swatting’ where some anonymous jackoff sics a SWAT team on a livestreamer by calling in a bogus emergency. It’s a prank where that one lone anonymous jackoff is the only one who gets a laugh, and it’s also highly fucking illegal (seriously, it’s a felony to do that shit).
>>189634 Anyone that thinks the MGS series has great story needs a slap. Maybe amusing in that its so silly and over the top in places, but its far from being "great" and nowhere close to being the "Greatest".
Eh, it's highly subjective. I also think the MGS' story is more dumb than clever, but to each their own. I doubt Dan would enjoy a more cerebral story like Planescape or Soul Sacrifice. He'd be bored three minutes in.
People who say Kojima just wants to make movies/that MGS is a movie have never played a Metal Gear game. Those games are what they are BECAUSE they are games and have all those weird little details you'd normally never have.
We return... to the buttlefield. http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/metal-gear-scanlon-part-05/2300-9420/ This feature honestly rivals the endurance runs (it kinda is one anyway).
>>189902 I feel like Dan is destroying Drew's mystique. Since his arrival, Drew has shown a whole new range of emotions, like fear, anger, and sadness, and has been revealed to in fact be Brad at games. Possibly moreso than Brad himself.
>>189917 It would've happened anyway with Drew's switch from quiet behind-the-scenes guy to on-camera personality. Dan is just the perfect guy to do so.
>>189952 >Yahtzee and Gabe can be pretty tone deaf at times And I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm still chuckling at "Rapelstiltzkin" from that Red Riding Hood episode.
After seeing some stuff of his posted on the Five Nights thread, I've been watching some of Markiplier's stuff and I gotta say, he might be silly but man he's cute. Than and he's got a wicked good voice.
>>190004 Dude yells way too much for no reason. He's basically UberHaxorNova but less annoying due to the voice, but that means he's still fucking annoying.
So I finished watching Jeff's Destiny stream over at //youtube.com/watch?v=ExyGQige8Mg and man, does he not have a single good thing to say about the game. I know Jeff is cynical and all, but he usually likes futuristic shootbangs. And he just fucking trashed it nonstop. I'm guessing it's just waking up at 5AM that made him extra cranky.
For quite some time I've been looking forward to the Superbestfriendcast way more than the Bombcast. Not anymore. Dan's tales of utter idiocy are just too goddamn entertaining.
>>190270 Oh it does, it gets much worse. But all on the road to making Clem a force of nature. She scares me a bit by the end, yet an odd sense of pride in it all.
http://superbestfriendsplay.com/video/friday-night-fisticuffs-nidhogg/ I love how they always start treating Matt like a little baby towards the latter parts of these, cheering him on like he's the sad little boy that still waddles on while everyone's long since crossed the finish line.
>>190475 I don't know how feasible it would be, but I'd like it if Youtube (and news sites) had commenting systems with a persistent karma (ala Slashdot) as part of the profile. That way if you want to have comments but not be overloaded in shit, you can allow only "high" karma users. The problem, of course, is if everyone tunes things to high karma there's no way for lower karma profiles to move up so there would need to be some incentive to use it selectively.
I guess the fact that people get so emotionally invested to in these characters to this extent says a lot about the quality of the writing in the Walking Dead games.
http://superbestfriendsplay.com/video/tbfp-walking-dead-s2-part-12/ If there's anything this playthrough has taught me is that you should never, ever do anything that Pat doesn't agree with, because he will hold an unreasonable grudge towards you for the rest of your fucking life.
urgh... I need to stop browsing through the comments sections on that site, all the whiny youtubers bitching about them getting Clem to cover when before that she just got her brains blown out, and the lpers were clearly planning to get Clem out of the line of fire so they could resolve the situation and save the baby better without her getting headshot again.
Hell I even saw someone accuse them of being just like DSP, and I saw that crop up in the DS2 videos too, there's some major goddamn drama queens on youtube who need little prodding to jump to extremes, have they even watche DSP's stuff?
I've only dipped into a few videos of this lp to see what all the fuss was about since I don't really like this franchise at all but you'd think if people disagreed with them so badly over favourite characters they'd just stop watching.
>>190534 >How does a character go through the same arc twice? By deliberately being driven to the brink out of spite. Don't ever be disliked by Pat is the lesson here.
>>190566 >>190569 Jon didn't have to apologize for anything. Because he didn't do anything. He's not a fucking public figure, no matter how much you want him to be.
I say "Phil Fish" all over again not because Phil Fish didn't do anything, but Jon has every right to remove himself from the internet and stop making JonTron if you keep treating him like you're fucking TMZ.
Jon made a social faux pas. This, in itself is not a big deal. If he had apologized, it would have gone away immediately. If he had ignored it, it would still have been forgotten within days. Instead, Jon went on a weeklong rampage against the very concept of an apology, casting himself as a victim of the 'pussification' of America, insulting a lot of people in the process. That is being a dick. And that's without even touching on his behavior during the Zoë Quinn conflagration, which was just disgraceful.
Also, yes, like Phil Fish he has the right to withdraw from the internet and stop producing content. I wouldn't want him to do that, because I do enjoy his videos even if I think someone needs to take his Twitter feed away before he hurts himself. But that doesn't change the fact that his behavior of late has been really dickish, nor that by making his living selling himself and his image, he does in fact qualify as a public figure and subject to public criticism.
No, that is not wanting to be a victim of this conception that because you're a "celebrity" you have to be nice to everyone. He doesn't want to change who he was before he became popular, just because he's popular now.
If Quentin Tarantino can act like a douchebag and nobody bats an eye, just accepting that's just how he rolls, why can't Jon?
What irritates me about the whole JonTron thing is that I've seen way more backlash on Tumblr over him being an anti-Semite for making a Schindler's List joke, or a transphobe and misogynist for Game Grumps jokes that weren't actually misogynist, or that a racist for using the N word even though Arin made those exact same kinds of jokes without apologizing for them either, and so on and on. And not nearly as much over the actual douchey thing he did with the tweets to Zoe Quinn. Something tells me Tumblr has their priorities way fucked.
He sold out to the man. The Coffee Man, or as he's known in his native tongue: El Hombre. Now John's peddling over-the-counter stimulants like the other cuppa pushers in the world, getting people hooked on momentary highs that won't get them past 2-3 hours and require expensive machines to make at home that are maintenance fee vampires in mechanical casings. On every corner, in every market, there's some sick dealer ready to make you feel like a supernova's going off in your brain that's gonna give you enlightenment, but all that you get when you inevitably come down is some funky aftertaste and the onset of heartburn. Mark my words, in a few decades, pumping this stuff through our veins will be mandatory. That's how they're going to control us! That's how they're going to win. I'm scared; I don't want another hit, BUT I NEED IT! And now Jon's a part of the problem.
Porky, Senor Jon Tron? POUR KAY?!
Also, he sung on livestream while playing Banjo Kazooie:
But what is your point? That he shouldn't be a dick? That he should put on a mask of professionalism just because he knows that you should know that he's not being serious?
>>190597 While I agree that some of the criticism is pretty fucking ridiculous (being mean to an individual woman =/= having a deepseated hatred of all women in general), he needs to learn to be less goddamn thin-skinned and learn to accept the more reasonable criticism (see: TotalBiscuit telling him not to be a buttmunch who insults people personally then gets mad when people call him out on it) while being able to ignore the extreme comments (SJW who say he's a white cishet tool of the patriarchy who wants all Jews, blacks, gays, and women raped or dead) if he wants to continue to be in the public eye.
>>198624 Because he's made the move to TV on the internet and both those things are very important in television, it's okay not to like what he's doing now but for all intents and purposes it's a TV show on the internet now so obviously things like that will be important.
>>198630 It's making his videos suffer though. They're nowhere near as funny as they used to be and the fact that he has a fucking stage set instead of filming in his house rubs me the wrong way. I can't relate to Jon or think of him as just a normal guy that reviews and plays games now that he's putting an unnecessarily large amount of production into his shit. I mean if that's where he wants to take his videos, fine. But I think most of his fans prefer the simpler, meme-worthy style of his older videos.
Stuff like pic related is going to be referenced for years, I can't say the same for this embarrassing TV shit.
>>198636 I know, didn't he get that memo you sent out about which things were okay to have opinions on and which ones weren't? He must feel like such a fool, going around, having opinions about everything he sees and enjoys without caring about how important those things are to you.
Oh we are talking about Jontron? Sweet I wanted an exsuce to link this for ages! http://www.fimfiction.net/story/244516/1/jontron-goes-to-equestria/youve-officially-become-that-chapter-you-know-the-one Its the funnies SHIT!
>>198640 He's strutting it up in New York. I'm impressed he scored some big connections with the StarCade and the incoming Holiday Holiday Special. The Special is gonna be fun. Grandpa Wookie watching Porn, Carrie Fisher high as a kite crooning, the acid trip circus. Miles of fun with that one.
>>198672 Arin doesn't really need makeup that kind of a makeup to look like he's dying... He's like the pastiest, unhealthiest looking nerd imaginable. He looks like he lives at the bottom of the sea and feeds on barnacles.
>>198672 Rewatching those clips of the Star Wars Holiday Special reminds me just how painful watching it was. At least the animated portion looked... unique.
If JonTron goes back to Game Grumps, even for a little while, I would resubscribe. It's not even Ross or Dan's fault, it's just that Arin really needed Jon for the right chemistry in my opinion.
>>198707 I agree. Well, maybe in Danny's case, Ross is not great even when he's paired with someone he does have better chemistry with. But Game Grumps without Jon and Arin as the team just doesn't work well for me.
It's amazing how Dan's days and days of scheming, puzzles, and tricks can be matched by Jeff fiddling around a bit and occasionally going, "oh yeah that'd be a fucked up thing to do to a person."
The MM segment on UPF of Dan playing Jeff's level only magnifies my wish for Pat to make a level for him after he beats the Armageddan.
>>198741 I think the difference is that Jeff also has fun playing through fucked up levels and getting inspiration. Dan on the other hand is a big ol' weenie.
>>198759 Then they most fucking HATE Spoony given that he riped that game a new one. http://spoonyexperiment.com/game-reviews/it-begins-again/ (if you forgot) Mostly because he of obvious zero tolerance for ANIME BULLSHIT(tm).
But Matt and Woolie loves making fun of that shit.
>>198845 Its been fuckin good. So fuckin good. SO good that I haven't gotten through half my to-play list of this year much less some of years past. MH4U, Splatoon and MGSV have completely dominated my game time. Not that I'm complaining.
>>198853 I had to choose priorities between Witcher 3 and MGSV. I chose Witcher 3, which was a poor decision. It's amazing and all, but Witcher 3 continues to get better with time, while MGSV is on the way to becoming virtually unplayable due to Konami's fuckery.
>TBFs letsplay of Naruto: The Broken Bond part 10 >They've seen the whole NaruSaku fanatics meltdown extravaganza and thought it was amazing That's just fantastic.
>>199120 What's the point of this? Watching the sub count for them drop down to zero? Because I don't think that's going to happen since a lot of their subscribers aren't even active anymore.
Man, the Telltale games really are absolutely terrible (outside of a few examples like their Monkey Island game and Tales from the Borderlands which were at least amusing)
>>199475 I am enjoying the wonderful sense of shadenfreude watching best friends play Telltale games, although this is because I've never felt any emotional attachment to Minecraft myself (and nobody enjoys seeing people they like shit on something else they like so I can understand how some people will not be happy).
>>199476 I think it's fair to say some people have gotten a bit burned out by the clunkers using the Telltale formula that it's tarnished whatever fond memories they had of their previous work.