"Hey there guys, it's GeneralSecura with another episode of *insert game here*"
GeneralSecura
is a
Let's Player on
YouTube.GeneralSecura hails from a small European country known as
The Netherlands. But don't worry, all of his Let's Plays are in English (with the occasional
Bilingual Bonus thrown in). However, due to his location, he has not had any interaction with the larger
YouTube Let's Play community like
The Runaway Guys because the whopping price tag attached to flying to
the US of A for PAX or any other convention prevents him from doing so. But since he landed a partnership in December 2011 and his Let's Plays started making him money, he is slowly getting closer and closer to attending a convention and meeting his fanbase (as the majority of his fanbase is located in the US).
He originally started out as an uploader of
Pokémon Battle Revolution Wi-Fi Battles, but shifted his focus to Let's Plays in the beginning of 2010. He does not particularly favor any console over another (although he has not played a single game exclusive to the Xbox or Xbox 360), and you will find playthroughs of games going as far back as the Nintendo 64 on his channel. He doesn't limit himself to one particular genre or type of game either. Everything ranging from innocent and child-friendly games like
Poképark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure and
Wii Sports to games based on movies and cartoons (like
Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: Cosmic Destruction) to ultra-violent games like
God of War III and
Mortal Kombat can be found on GeneralSecura's channel. He's done racing games, fighting fames, first person shooters, third person shooters, strategy games, platformers, hack 'n slash games, RPG's, sports games, etcetera. A wide and diverse selection of playthroughs awaits you.
Canceled LP's (to be redone at a later stage):
- Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Original run: mid 2010, canceled after 4 episodes due to lack of Let's Play experience for a game like this)
- Heavenly Sword (Original run: late 2011, canceled after 6 episodes due to GeneralSecura buying an HD-PVR and wanting to do this game in HD)
- inFamous 2 (Original run: late 2011, canceled after 20 episodes due to GeneralSecura buying an HD-PVR and wanting to do this game in HD)
- Dead Rising 2: Off the Record (Original run: late 2011, canceled after 5 episodes due to GeneralSecura buying an HD-PVR and wanting to do this game in HD)
- Poképark 2: Wonders Beyond (Original run: early 2013, canceled after 8 episodes due to technical difficulties)
GeneralSecura's Let's Plays and other videos provide examples of:
- Berserk Button:
- Don't EVER post a FIRST comment on any of his videos. You will come to regret it.
- In Super Mario Galaxy: Luigi's stupidity, space bunnies and purple coin missions.
- Brief Accent Imitation: He's done Fake American and Fake Brit pretty often. He'll do an Australian Accent as well from time to time.
- Censor Box: Uses them to cover up nudity. He doesn't use them for statues and female monsters because, "If you're aroused by this, you need help."
- Has said that it is highly unlikely that he would do a Let's Play of Dantes Inferno, despite owning the game and loving the genre, because he would have to censor everything and people would complain.
- Starting with his Let's Play of God of War: Ghost of Sparta, he will only censor nudity done in a sexual context.
- Chekhov's Gun: Focus Punch in his Pokémon Ruby Let's Play. He spoke badly of it ever since Norman's strongest Slaking was defeated by his newly-caught Cacnea because it used nothing but Focus Punch. He said he wasn't going to bother with it when he found the TM that teaches Focus Punch. Guess what move his Heracross uses to great effect when fighting the Champion?
- Deadpan Snarker: Oh so much.
- Department of Redundancy Department: In episode 2 of God of War: Chains of Olympus, he calls an uneaten body a "dead corpse".
- Do a Barrel Roll: When playing Skyrim, his horse and wagon did this, resulting in the horse getting stuck on a house and forcing him to restart the game.
- The Faceless: Has not revealed his glorious appearance to his followers... yet.
- Five-Man Band: A four-man variation in his co-op LP of Left 4 Dead 2 with PrinceBoo21, KrystalPaigeSky and duffking56.
- 100% Completion: He won't do this on purpose, but he'll take any collectibles that he stumbles upon or he knows the location of.
- In Memoriam: Uploaded a video honoring his deceased dog, complete with sad music.
- Incredibly Lame Pun: After King Midas burned his hand in lava, allowing Kratos to cross, GeneralSecura makes one of the oldest puns in the book.
GeneralSecura: "He really gave me a hand there".
- It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: When he found the Earthquake TM in his Pokémon Ruby Let's Play, he used it on Hariyama because Swampert would learn it through leveling up later. Nothing but regret followed as Hariyama hardly ever used the move and Swampert wasn't knocking out as many opponents with Mud Shot as it could've done with Earthquake.
- Lampshade Hanging: Does this frequently.
- Large Ham: On occasion.
- Level Grinding: Spent a week or two beating up wild Pokémon off-screen to level up his team for the Pokémon League in his Pokémon Ruby Let's Play.
- Lost Forever: He cancelled several of his then-ongoing LP's (Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, Heavenly Sword and inFamous 2 when he bought an HD-PVR because he wanted to re-do those games in HD. He then promptly deleted all the videos of those games.
- Meat Grinder Surgery: When he played Surgeon Simulator 2013. He used a hammer to smash the patient's ribcage, accidentally dropped a spinning buzzsaw in the patient's open chest cavity and tried to extract the heart by pulling it really hard.
- Mister Exposition: He's pretty knowledgeable on a lot of the games he plays. He knows pretty much everything there is to know about the Pokémon games, and he explains a lot of the aliens' feats in his Ben 10 LP's because he's a fan of the show.
- No Hero Discount: Complains about this a lot. One example of this occurred in his Let's Play of Monster Hunter 3: Ultimate, after the blacksmith gave him a free pickaxe to go mine iron ore so the blacksmith could forge weapons and armor for him so that he could save the blacksmith's village from destruction.
GeneralSecura: Oh, there we go. We get a pickaxe. For free! Geez, he's actually helping me! How about you give me weapons and armor for free, that'd be a lot more helpful than a stupid pickaxe!
- Off Screen Moment Of Awesome: He mentioned sweeping Elite Four member Phoebe's team of Ghost-type Pokémon with Hariyama in an earlier attempt to defeat the Pokémon League, despite the Ghost-type's immunity to all but one of Hariyama's moves.
- Old Shame: His very first Let's Play of God of War III. He intends to re-do that one after he does God of War II.
- One of Us: Who do you think made this page in the first place?
- Opening Narration: "Hey there guys, and welcome back to (insert game here). In the last episode... (Summary of the last episode's events. Or him not remembering the last episode's events).
- Power Perversion Potential: In his Prototype LP, after Alex Mercer consumes a secret agent and says that his memories are now Alex's memories, GS explains the possibilities.
GeneralSecura: Well, I guess that eliminates the need for porn for Alex because then he can just summon a memory of that guy banging his wife. Best super power ever!
- Running Gag: In his Pokémon Ruby Let's Play, he returned to Dewford Town every once in a while to talk to the people in Dewford Hall, who would not stop talking about Your Mother.
- Schedule Slip: Has this occasionally. Usually whenever he has exams, he'll be gone for multiple weeks.
- Shout Out:
GeneralSecura: That still only counts as one!
- Suddenly Bilingual: He'll sometimes say some things in his native language (Dutch) or other languages he knows (German, French, Spanish).
- Take That:
- Mocked Darth Maul during his Let's Play of The Force Unleashed.
- Mocks Luigi a lot in his Super Mario Galaxy Let's Play because Luigi somehow manages to always get himself stuck in downright idiotic situations.
- That's What She Said: Does this A LOT.
- Tournament Arc: He once set up a big 64-game tournament through which his subscribers could decide what his next project was going to be. The winner ended up being inFamous 2.
- Up to Eleven: In the first Left 4 Dead 2 co-op video he uploaded, the game was completely normal. The four survivors fighting zombies. When the second video was uploaded a week later, Juliet Starling, Cortez and a Velociraptor were mowing down Stormtroopers, Lickers, Peter Griffin and the Hulk. Ghost Rider would've been in on it too, but the skin didn't work.
- Vocal Evolution: Go ahead, compare his first few Let's Plays with his recent work.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Gets rid of Dustox in his Pokémon Ruby Let's Play because it can't keep up with the rest of his team any more and replaces it with the far stronger Heracross.
- Also feels this way about Swellow near the end of the Let's Play, but keeps it around because it knows Fly.
- Your Mom: The people in Dewford Hall in his Pokémon Ruby Let's Play just can't stop talking about this.
GeneralSecura: DAAAAAMN son, yo mama ugly!
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