History LetsPlay / Slowbeef

** When Slowbeef finally took the time to play ''MetroidPrime 2'' and [[http://bd.baldurk.org/1776 got to Quadraxis]], the very first thing to spring to his mind was [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt2uyDqbA-Q SNES9X]].

** In ''MetroidFusion'', Adam is a GiverOfLameNames.

-->'''Slowbeef''': ''[[spoiler:(Playing SuperMarioGalaxy2)]]'' [[SarcasmMode You know what? I just realized,]] [[CaptainObvious this isn't Metroid Prime: Echoes after all.]] You know how you can tell the difference? '''''[[TakeThat THIS IS FUCKING FUN!]]'''''
** One of the earliest [=LPs=] he did was SuperMetroid. Before fighting Ridley (before he developed [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Ridley]]), he mentions that [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8_-eH9dBT4&t=40m44s he's scared of Ridley.]] This [=LP=] was done about three years before MetroidOtherM. Surely, ''someone'' was inspired...

* CompanionCube: Mr. Sunabouzu becomes very attached to "The Dynamo" in MetroidPrime Echoes, which makes it all the more saddening when slowbeef destroys it in the next video. All for a Power Bomb expansion.

* {{Dissimile}}: In Prime 3, Slowbeef attempts to compare Admiral Dane and [[OtherM Adam]] before guest Baldurk points out he's not like Adam at all.

* EnsembleDarkHorse: [[invoked]] From ''MetroidPrime 2: Echoes'', Galactic Federation Marine Corps specialist M. Angseth, communications officer, Samus fangirl and late-to-the-party victim. Slowbeef holds her in high regard and continues to reference her many videos later.

* FailedASpotCheck: Occasionally in his MetroidPrime [=LPs=], he'll spend most of a video blundering around blindly due to missing something extremely obvious like a grapple point.

** He also seems to be quite fond of philosophy. He brings up a small instance of Voltaire in Diabetus' ''MetroidFusion'' LP. He also countered the frustratingly terrible LPing of one Quadraxis14 by reading "On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill.

*** "Aqua reaper that's what people call me. Why?" said during the MetroidPrime LP is a reference to a line from [[NoMoreHeroes2 Margaret Moonlight's Theme]].

* HypocrisyNod: In 2008, Slowbeef and Diabetus posted a {{Retsupurae}} video mocking [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T-jFZbbXJU a Youtube LP]] of {{Snatcher}}, commenting on what a terrible idea it was to LP Snatcher in video form. One year later, the duo [[http://lparchive.org/Snatcher-%28Video%29/ made their own video LP of the game]], and one of the very first things they comment on is the apparent hypocrisy.

* InsultBackfire: During the ''MetroidPrime'' LP, slowbeef's playstyle is compared against the speedruns [=ScurvyKip=] has watched.

* MoodWhiplash: In ''MetroidPrime'', slowbeef goes from marveling at the scenery in the crashed pirate frigate to raging at the Aqua Pirates abruptly.

* NostalgiaFilter: Slowbeef admits that this may be one reason he's so fond of ''{{Snatcher}}'', toward the end of his video LP of the game.

* OhCrap: His reaction to finding a scan in ''MetroidPrime 2: Echoes'' that said he had to find ''ten keys'' to enter the final area (one of which was already found for him, at least).

** During the {{Snatcher}} LP he did with Diabetus, the two liked to shout "SNATCHER" every time it appeared on screen, since the game capitalized every important key word.

---> '''Diabetus:''' "Is this like MetalGearSolid 2 when you think Snake is the main character and after the first level it' turns out to be a stripper?"
** ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption'' manages to be the subject of its own LP only by barely edging out the mass quantity of harsh criticism of ''MetroidOtherM''.

-->''It's weird to think of yourself as "the old guard" in something that's like 3-4 years old, but shit's changed for the better and worse. What will Let's Play be like in 2011? You can read all about it in my upcoming book - "Let's Read" subtitled: "2007 - the Year of the VLP" and sub-subtitled: "This is as meta as it gets." Ghost written by Creator/StephenKing and ProtonJon. On the back of the book jacket you will see a picture of me holding up a bunch of controllers while a camera is on me, and the wires are all tangled and I'm sorta shrugging as if to say "I think I'm in over my head here!!!"''

-->''It's weird to think of yourself as "the old guard" in something that's like 3-4 years old, but shit's changed for the better and worse. What will Let's Play be like in 2011? You can read all about it in my upcoming book - "Let's Read" subtitled: "2007 - the Year of the VLP" and sub-subtitled: "This is as meta as it gets." Ghost written by StephenKing and ProtonJon. On the back of the book jacket you will see a picture of me holding up a bunch of controllers while a camera is on me, and the wires are all tangled and I'm sorta shrugging as if to say "I think I'm in over my head here!!!"''

In 2007, SomethingAwful user slowbeef (Michael Sawyer) posted a [[http://www.slowbeef.com/immortal/index.html video]] of him playing TheImmortal with commentary over it. Numerous others followed him, thus creating the video LetsPlay. In 2008, he along with fellow Something Awful user Diabetus created {{Retsupurae}}, a [[YouTube YouTube]] account in which the two [[MSTing make fun of the worst LPs out there,]] for which he has gained an even bigger following than his Let's Plays, which he still continues to do. Retsupurae also spawned a spinoff called Webcam Ward, in which the same principle is applied to non-gaming YouTube videos.

*** Similarly, Diabetus also named Part 15 of his ''Metroid Fusion'' LP ''[[http://bd.baldurk.org/1734#title DIFFUSION AQAired]].''
** In [[http://bd.baldurk.org/1974#title this video]] guest Toffile asks slowbeef if he [[TheTrappedTrilogy combined the banana, knife, and rope.]]

--->'''Diabetus''': A 7/10 rating usually means the game is fucking awful.

** [[http://bd.baldurk.org/1494 When discussing]] Let's Players becoming popular through websites other than {{SomethingAwful}}, Slowbeef mentions LetsPlay/{{BillyMC}}.com.

-->'''Vicas:''' Remember how there were those one-meter tunnels that you didn't understand?

* BriefAccentImitation: In the Metroid Prime series alone, they come up with voices for Ridley, Amorbis, the Rezbits, and the Lava Clam.

* CatchPhrase: Their [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation alternate Ridley]]'s catchphrase is "It's a livin'!"

* EnsembleDarkhorse: [[invoked]] From ''MetroidPrime 2: Echoes'', Galactic Federation Marine Corps specialist M. Angseth, communications officer, Samus fangirl and late-to-the-party victim. Slowbeef holds her in high regard and continues to reference her many videos later.

* FakeOutOpening: The beginning of [[http://bd.baldurk.org/1707#title this video.]]

*** "Aqua reaper that's what people call me. Why?" said during the {{Metroid Prime}} LP is a reference to a line from [[NoMoreHeroes2 Margaret Moonlight's Theme]].

* [[LetsPlay Let's Play]]: The almighty TropeMaker and TropeCodifier.

* OffscreenInertia: [[{{In-universe}} Slowbeef and Diabetus use]], as a [[RunningJoke running joke]], the idea that Ridley is still falling down the hole in which Samus fought him. Over a month later, when Samus fights Ridley again near the end of the game, they immediately conclude that Ridley ''just'' stopped falling, and the arena where she fights him just happens to be the end of the very, very long chute that Ridley's been falling down the entire game.

-->'''Random Hajile''': Have you considered the possibility that you're a [[{{Scanners}} Scanner]]? Not my style, either way. I'll stick to Snatchers.

* ThatCameOutWrong:

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Upon discovering he could bounce projectiles between two doors in Sanctuary Fortress, slowbeef spent several minutes doing so.
** And in his old screenshot [=LPs=], Slowbeef and Dave_O consider the pause screen for the {{Manga/Golgo13}} video game as the coolest thing ever. Pausing said game brings up a splash screen of Duke Togo's eyes complete with the game's title "Golgo 13: The Man with the Custom M16."

-->'''Diabetus:''' This certainly is a ''tool''-assisted speedrun.
-->'''slowbeef:''' Oh, yeah, thanks for assisting me with this Lets Play, Diabetus.

** StealthPun: "That wasn't very ''granite'' of you... no, lavaish... oh, wait, what was it?" Odds are he deliberately avoided saying "magmanimous".

* EnsembleDarkhorse: [[invoked]] From ''MetroidPrime 2: Echoes'', Galactic Federation Marine Corps specialist M. Angseth, communications officer, Samus fangirl and LateToTheParty victim. Slowbeef holds her in high regard and continues to reference her many videos later.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Diabetus, at least, in his LPs. He lives in Jersey, Diabetus lives in Alabama.

** And in his old screenshot LPs, Slowbeef and Dave_O consider the pause screen for the {{Manga/Golgo13}} video game as the coolest thing ever. Pausing said game brings up a splash screen of Duke Togo's eyes complete with the game's title "Golgo 13: The Man with the Custom M16."

In 2007, SomethingAwful user Slowbeef (Michael Sawyer) posted a [[http://www.slowbeef.com/immortal/index.html video]] of him playing TheImmortal with commentary over it. Numerous others followed him, thus creating the video LetsPlay. In 2008, he along with fellow Something Awful user Diabetus created {{Retsupurae}}, a [[YouTube YouTube]] account in which the two [[MSTing make fun of the worst LPs out there,]] for which he has gained an even bigger following than his Let's Plays, which he still continues to do. Retsupurae also spawned a spinoff called Webcam Ward, in which the same principle is applied to non-gaming YouTube videos.

Slowbeef's {{Lets Play}}s can be found [[http://bd.baldurk.org/all/default/A/slowbeef here]] and [[http://lparchive.org/search/slowbeef#results here.]]

* OffscxreenInertia: [[{{In-universe}} Slowbeef and Diabetus use]], as a [[RunningJoke running joke]], the idea that Ridley is still falling down the hole in which Samus fought him. Over a month later, when Samus fights Ridley again near the end of the game, they immediately conclude that Ridley ''just'' stopped falling, and the arena where she fights him just happens to be the end of the very, very long chute that Ridley's been falling down the entire game.

** In Prime 3 it became "[[TethercatPrinciple Still fallin'.]]"

* TethercatPrinciple: [[{{In-universe}} Slowbeef and Diabetus use]], as a [[RunningJoke running joke]], the idea that Ridley is still falling down the hole in which Samus fought him. Over a month later, when Samus fights Ridley again near the end of the game, they immediately conclude that Ridley ''just'' stopped falling, and the arena where she fights him just happens to be the end of the very, very long chute that Ridley's been falling down the entire game.

** StealthPun: "That wasn't very ''granite'' of you... no, lavaish... oh, wait, what was it?" Odds are he deliberately avoided saying "gneiss".

** [[http://bd.baldurk.org/1494 When discussing]] Let's Players becoming popular through websites other than {{SomethingAwful}}, Slowbeef mentions BillyMC.com.
** In the DeadToRights LetsPlay, when trying to think of British phrases, Diabetus mentions [[ElectricalBeast "Teleport!"]]

* {{Squee}}: [[InUniverse His reaction]] to [[BestLevelEver Santuary Fortress]] in ''Echoes'', even going so far as to say that if the whole game was nothing but Sanctuary, it would be the best game ever.

* Squee: His reaction to [[BestLevelEver Santuary Fortress]] in ''Echoes'', even going so far as to say that if the whole game was nothing but Sanctuary, it would be the best game ever.

** Another HopeSpot comes once he reaches the [[BestLevelEver Sanctuary Fortress]], which slowbeef calls his favorite part of the game and admits is good enough to have him like ''Echoes'' again. In fact, once he gets to the Watch Station there (which even includes his favorite enemies of the game), he starts marveling about how awesome the place is to a point he says if ''Echoes'' was composed of only this stage, it would be the best game ever.

* CompanionCube: Mr. Sunabouzu becomes very attached to "The Dynamo" in MetroidPrime Echoes.

** Another HopeSpot comes once he reaches the [[BestLevelEver Sanctuary Fortress]], which slowbeef calls his favorite part of the game and admits is good enough to have him like ''Echoes'' again. In fact, once he gets to the Watch Station there (which even includes his favorite enemies of the game), he starts marveling about how awesome the place is to a point he says if ''Echoes'' was composed of only this stage, he'd say it would be the best game ever.

** Another HopeSpot comes once he reaches the [[BestLevelEver Sanctuary Fortress]], which slowbeef calls his favorite part of the game and admits is good enough to have him like the game again (but not enough to make up for everything previously).

* HopeSpot: After he gets the Dark Suit in Metroid Prime 2, which greatly reduces the [[ScrappyMechanic life-draining mechanic]] that was his biggest complaint about the game, Slowbeef actually starts enjoying the game for a few videos...then comes [[ThatOneLevel Torvus Bog...]]and then [[GoddamnedBoss the Grapple Guardian...]]and then [[ThatOneBoss Chykka...]] all of which totally cement his hatred of the game.

* DeadpanSnarker: As with {{Retsupurae}}, Diabetus fills this role in contrast to slowbeef's {{HotBlooded}} nature. But guest commentator Mr. Sunabouzu outshines him on that aspect, who ''always'' sounds deadpan. Even when excited.