I'm really picky about my LP's. I can definitely agree that Cry is worth watching. I like the lack of facecam and his brand of humor. He makes really mundane segments of games worth watching and impresses me from time to time with his ability to not say anything super interesting, yet keep me entertained. His video descriptions are sometimes better than his playthroughs, just something about his presentation. Try his Vampire LP.
Jesse Cox has some pretty entertaining playthroughs if you can stand watching him grab every side quest and item along the way. He doesn't always play stuff I enjoy but I can pop in here and there and be satisfied with giving him time.
To a lesser degree I enjoy watching Dodger play stuff too. She picks on a lot of titles that aren't played as often and doesn't irritate the hell out of me with attention grabbing bs.
I'm not certain I would call them LPers, but I'm a fan of Emarrel. He's a Dark Souls players, and seems to be the best I'll ever have the pleasure of witnessing. He doesn't talk, as far as I can recall so it's annotations only. But man can that guy play. Mixing self discovered tech with stuff that's mostly know but hardly explored enough, he provides solid gameplay.
MartyrsBrigade and YamiTamashi are really excellent to watch too. Yami is another silent one, but the Brigade tends to have longer dialogues about what he learns and is pretty adamant about his opinions. Love or hate him, he helped me overcome some of my shortcomings when it came to the first games PvP. I fully admit that I was a more successful invader once I dropped the thought process that I had to play a certain way.
Does Gootecks and Mike Ross count as LPers? They do a show every month or so of them doing online Street Fighter 4 matches. It tends to be amazing simply because anyone that plays fighting games online knows that it's utter bs 90% of the time. The reactions are so genuine and the hype is hard to overlook for me. Maybe it's easier for me to get into since I still compete from time to time in fighters, it's still my favorite genre. I could never truly leave the scene, they are a fun way to accept that arcades are long gone and this is how it's going to be for the foreseeable future.
Jesse Cox has some pretty entertaining playthroughs if you can stand watching him grab every side quest and item along the way. He doesn't always play stuff I enjoy but I can pop in here and there and be satisfied with giving him time.
To a lesser degree I enjoy watching Dodger play stuff too. She picks on a lot of titles that aren't played as often and doesn't irritate the hell out of me with attention grabbing bs.
I'm not certain I would call them LPers, but I'm a fan of Emarrel. He's a Dark Souls players, and seems to be the best I'll ever have the pleasure of witnessing. He doesn't talk, as far as I can recall so it's annotations only. But man can that guy play. Mixing self discovered tech with stuff that's mostly know but hardly explored enough, he provides solid gameplay.
MartyrsBrigade and YamiTamashi are really excellent to watch too. Yami is another silent one, but the Brigade tends to have longer dialogues about what he learns and is pretty adamant about his opinions. Love or hate him, he helped me overcome some of my shortcomings when it came to the first games PvP. I fully admit that I was a more successful invader once I dropped the thought process that I had to play a certain way.
Does Gootecks and Mike Ross count as LPers? They do a show every month or so of them doing online Street Fighter 4 matches. It tends to be amazing simply because anyone that plays fighting games online knows that it's utter bs 90% of the time. The reactions are so genuine and the hype is hard to overlook for me. Maybe it's easier for me to get into since I still compete from time to time in fighters, it's still my favorite genre. I could never truly leave the scene, they are a fun way to accept that arcades are long gone and this is how it's going to be for the foreseeable future.