History LetsPlay / TheDarkId

Took a long hiatus following the death of his daughter in 2019, eventually quitting LPing in 2022, after Square Enix issued several copyright strikes resulting in the deletion of his youtube channel.

---> '''Id''': Tossing the Creator/{{valve|Software}} in here automatically makes the machine Platform/{{steam}} up so we can get to the [[UsefulNotes/GameEngine source]] of this problem in [[VideoGame/HalfLife half the time. I do have a life]], you know. And if you do have anything to [[VideoGame/CounterStrike counter the way I'm operating, let me just be the first to strike]]. This will not be [[VideoGame/DayOfDefeat a day of which I'll face defeat]]. We've got to work as a [[VideoGame/TeamFortressClassic team to escape this icy fortress]] if we ever hope to see an [[VaporWare episode 3]].

---> '''Billy''': Check if the '''Platform/{{steam}}''' is hot or I'm going to shove the inevitable red '''Creator/{{valve|Software}}''' up your fucking '''[[UsefulNotes/GameEngine source]]'''!

Appears to have given up let's playing as of 2022. No word on why.

The Dark Id is a popular [[LetsPlay Let's Player]] on the Website/SomethingAwful forums. He has (as of this time of writing) completed 26 Let's Plays (although, strictly speaking, two pairs of those were combined in two joint threads). All but two of them are featured on the [[http://lparchive.org/search/The%20Dark%20Id#results LP Archive.]] Known for his [[DeadpanSnarker wit]], {{Alternative Character Interpretation}}s, and low tolerance for annoying things.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' initially ended this way as well after the death of Id's UsefulNotes/PlayStation2. As of September 30 2015, however, it's subverted as he picks up where he left off.

* BackToFront: The ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' series (starting with then-most-recent ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', and ignoring side games other than two of the ''Survivor'' games) was played by him in reverse order release- and timeline-wise, with the exception of ''Dead Aim'' and then ''Zero'' after ''2'' and ''3'', and the first's UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube remake instead of the original.

---> '''Id''': Tossing the Creator/{{valve|Software}} in here automatically makes the machine UsefulNotes/{{steam}} up so we can get to the [[UsefulNotes/GameEngine source]] of this problem in [[VideoGame/HalfLife half the time. I do have a life]], you know. And if you do have anything to [[VideoGame/CounterStrike counter the way I'm operating, let me just be the first to strike]]. This will not be a day of which I'll face defeat.[[note]]Day of Defeat[[/note]] We've got to work as a [[VideoGame/TeamFortressClassic team to escape this icy fortress]] if we ever hope to see an [[VaporWare episode 3]].

---> '''Billy''': Check if the '''UsefulNotes/{{steam}}''' is hot or I'm going to shove the inevitable red '''Creator/{{valve|Software}}''' up your fucking '''[[UsefulNotes/GameEngine source]]'''!

* SidetrackedByTheAnalogy: During Route B in ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'' after 9S gets smacked by the Engels in the beginning of the story, Id is confused when Pod 153 asks him to fix the access impairments to his memory blocks. He goes on to talk about memory storage since the UsefulNotes/PlayStation. By the time he's done, he forgot he was supposed to be playing the game and he ended up getting Ending F.

Yakuza: Like a Dragon 2's excuse for doing a Mega Man on Ichiban and him being Level 1 again is because he spent the last year going full hermit [[ArchiveBinge catching up on the entire Dragon Quest series]], slamming junk food he missed out on, and [[FormerlyFit just completely let himself go]].\\

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In March 2021, a deepfake app called Wombo came around that allowed people to make people sing all sorts of songs. It was only a matter of time until someone [[https://twitter.com/TheDarkId/status/1369816393638686720 combined]] Benjamin Spooner Briggs with [[VideoGame/{{Yakuza}} Bakamitai]].

*** ''Princess Anastasia Romanov remained in Japan with her true love Kurando Inugami. This would allow her to avoid the execution the rest of her family would suffer by [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Bolshevik revolutionaries in the following years]]. Kurando and Anastasia's descendant would go on to become a popular [[WebAnimation/{{Hololive}} VTuber]] over a century later.''

--->'''Id:''' I feel we as a people need to discuss Crash Bandicoot's disgusting neckless mutant physiology. His gaping maw is just connected to his torso. He is a fucking MONSTEROUS being.

* GenreSavvy: Pretty much the entire cast of ''VideoGame/MetalGearGhostBabel'', up to and including Snake. He still lets defeated bosses exposit their backstories, but shows mounting irritation as he does so, lighting up a cig- I mean FOGGER in anticipatory annoyance. Campbell points out how when it comes to Snake's type of adventures, world renowned special forces agents meet the same fate as helicopter pilots in the ''Resident Evil'' series. Snake even points out exactly how his adventure will go. However, none are more so than Ronard "Weasel" Lensenbrink, who commonly extolls the virtues of [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim just shooting the bad guy]] without even giving them a word in edgewise. This reaches a point when, at the very end, [[spoiler:when Brian [=McBride=] holds the entire support team hostage, having been working for Black Chamber all this time]], Weasel comes out of his bathroom break to find [=McBride=] waving a gun around and ranting about "revengeance" or some rot. Without even giving [=McBride=] another second, Weasel kills him instantly with a textbook [[DoubleTap Mozambique Drill]] (two shots in the chest then one in the head). He even not-so-sincerely apologizes to Snake for not letting [=McBride=] give his backstory.

* ''[[VideoGame/ShadowHearts Koudelka]] - Shadow Hearts 0'' (Alternate Title: [[StockJokes A thief, a psychic and a priest walk into a bar in Wales.]])

* ''Shadow Hearts Covenant - Reach Out and Punch Someone''

* AGoodNameForARockBand: While looking at the early character score in ''Shadow Hearts Covenant,'' he says this about his current stats.

** During his let's play of ''Shadow Hearts Covenant,'' someone posted a picture of Gepetto dressed as Lulu. Creepy crossdressing aside, it got to the discussion that all of Lulu's belts and jewelry are not only power limiters, but she would have to have some [[MurderousThighs muscular legs]] from constantly wearing a belt dress.

* AnythingButThat: In ''Shadow Hearts Covenant,'' he has this reaction to finding a Crest named [[VideoGame/{{Drakengard}} Seere]].

** After starting Disc 2 of ''Shadow Hearts Covenant''.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: In ''Shadow Hearts Covenant'', Yuri and Blanca meet Carven, a wooden wolf doll as part of the Wolf Bouts that speaks.

* BreatherLevel: He considers Purgatory in ''Shadow Hearts Covenant'' to be this after going through [[ThatOneLevel Hojo Laboratory]] due to there being a lot less random encounters and easier enemies to kill.

* CampGay: Defied. He utterly dislikes this trope in ''Shadow Hearts Covenant'' with the Magimel Brothers.

'''Id:''' Shadow Hearts: Covenant has starting giving so little of a fuck it is now giving anti-fucks and previously given fucks are being erased from the timeline.

* FauxHorrific: In ''Shadow Hearts Covenant,'' Yuri gets an Underground Film from the ChainOfDeals sidequest from trading someone a straw. It's when he reads the description about a cat-eared woman and clumsy maid does he realize what he has.

* IWasQuiteALooker: In ''Shadow Hearts Covenant'', the Ring Soul laments that this has happened to him.

* LateToTheRealization: Chapter 112 of ''Shadow Hearts Covenant'' has Yuri finally connect the dots that Joachim is Keith's brother from the last game.

** During ''Shadow Hearts Covenant'', he reveals that he doesn't like that his final achievement was the "What Are You Doing?" (Look up her skirt 10 times) achievement.

** In the opening post for an LP of ''[[VideoGame/ShadowHearts Koudelka]]'', after making mention of the greater ''Shadow Hearts'' series, one of the fake questions asks if this means he's going to LP the entire series in reverse-order, like he did with ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''. His response indicates that he's quite tired of people suggesting he has to do so:

** This comes up in Chapter 103 in ''Shadow Hearts Covenant'' when the party is using the Fountain of Sukune to look for Nicolai.

* NightmareFace: Id has this reaction to seeing Furiae have one of these in ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'' (SWEET ZOMBIE JESUS FUCKING H. CHRIST!!), Yunalesca's third form in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' (JESUS TAP-DANCING IN SPACE CHRIST!!) and Rasputin's Asmodeus form in ''[[VideoGame/ShadowHearts Shadow Hearts Covenant]]''. (Oh, WHAT THE FUCK?!)

** At the endgame of his ''Koudelka'' Let’s Play, this is the party’s reaction to [[HumanoidAbomination Elaine]] getting up even after Edward shot her and made her fall on her neck.

** In ''Shadow Hearts Covenant,'' Yuri brings up this trope when being directed to Katsuragi Village.

* TheNothingAfterDeath: In ''Shadow Hearts Covenant'', Raiden seems to have discovered this is what's there after he and Hien died in Shanghai the first time.

** For ''Koudelka'', Patrick Hayes is this for the fact that he had killed 200+ women within a year all to try and resurrect his dead wife Elaine.

** For ''Shadow Hearts Covenant,'' Lucia's Tarot deck is this, especially when during the Janus boss fight, she pulled the Reverse Hierophant, making everyone's [[SanityMeter SP]] drop to 0 and go Berserk, having no control of the party at all and leading to a wipe. On the humorous side, he did find out that when Berserk, Blanca does an attack where he [[UrineTrouble pees]] on a target. During Solomon's Trials when he's forced to take every [[RequiredPartyMember caster member]], including Lucia, he gives her one last shot with the Tarot cards to redeem herself. [[EpicFail She pulls the Reverse Lovers which makes everyone's HP, MP and MP drop by 50%!]]

** Another small one during his ''{{VideoGame/Fallout}}'' LP:

** In his ''Shadow Hearts Covenant'' LP, during Yuri and Kato's first meeting since the last game, there's this gem.

* ToiletHumor: In ''Shadow Hearts Covenant'' on unlocking Yuri's Level 1 Wind Fusion.

* VillainBall: In ''Shadow Hearts Covenant,'' once Rasputin's plan to assassinate Tsar Nicolas is foiled by Yuri and especially Anastasia, Id details how Rasputin clutched on tightly to this ball.

** A more minor one in the endgame of ''Shadow Hearts Covenant'' when the Blue Virgin Dress for Gepetto's doll, Cornelia is unlocked. Especially since it's modeled after Alice.

* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Discussed in Part 94 of ''Shadow Hearts Covenant'' when Soshi is attacking the city of Yokohama.

* WordSaladLyrics: In ''Shadow Hearts Covenant,'' any time he checks the in-game stats which have titles for each stat, he makes it sound like it's a PissTakeRap.

* WretchedHive: Id's [=LPs=] of ''Koudelka'' and ''Shadow Hearts'' paint the country of Wales as a bleak hellscape. InUniverse, it's probably why the boss Mammon, a botched resurrection from the Emigré Manuscript, has less HP than Elaine in the previous game because one was done in Wales. [[note]]For comparison, Mammon has 3500 HP while Elaine has 22,800.[[/note]]

* ''Film/{{Tekken}}''

---> '''Id''': It is time for the [[VideoGame/FinalFight final fight]] of this [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} king of the iron fist fighters tournament]] in the spirit of their [[VideoGame/FatalFury fatal fury]] in the [[VideoGame/ArtOfFighting art of fighting]]. Now for a real [[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown samurai showdown]] in this match of the gui...ah, forget it. Final match: Fei Fong Wong the Dragon Slaying Slacker vs. the Mysterious Stranger Wiseman!

* CreatorBreakdown: Took a long break from his Shadow Hearts: Covenant playthrough due to the sudden death of his daughter.

* ExactWords: Exploited by Aeterna to Endir when the latter asks [[spoiler: whether he'll be able to return to the present after defeating Dark Samsara in the past]]. Aeterna answers affirmatively... and then later confesses to the rest of the party [[spoiler: that she meant TheSlowPath, as Endir finds out the hard way]].

** [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3 Brad]] can be seen with pee photoshopped on his pants at one point.