History LetsPlay / LetsDrownOut

--> '''Yahtzee'''(upon seeing Cheryl running away): Get back here you little bitch! I'm not through smacking you about!

* TemptingFate: One of the reason why Gabriel picked the original Grand Theft Auto is because he thought it would be easy to acquire, set up and record. Turns out, it took a decent amount of work to do so.

* RubeGoldbergDevice: This is what Yahtzee was operating on during Night Shift in order to make StarWars toys for Industrial Might and Logic.

* ShoutOut: In Lucasarts' Night Shift, Yahtzee pointed out that the name of the company his player character is working for is named 'Industrial Might and Logic', which is a pun based on Lucasarts' other work, Industrial Light And Magic, and they were producing toys based on the ever profitable StarWars franchise.

* StockParodies: Gabriel likes to briefly sing "Yackety Sax" whenever characters are moving unnaturally quickly. Examples can be found in the 'Ghostship Aftermath,' 'Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers' and 'Rise of the Triad' videos.

* SenpaiKohai: Referenced in 'Let's Drown Out Agar.io' when a ball named "Senpai" eats Yahtzee's ball:
-->'''Gabriel''': You're being noticed by Senpai.
-->'''Yahtzee''': Senpai noticed me, hooray!
-->'''Gabriel''': He smothered you with his magnificence.

* DoingItForTheArt: Due to the nature of The Path, Yahtzee and Gabriel constantly invoked the trope for laughs for every vague imagery the game throws at them.

* SatireAndSwitch: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed.]] Yahtzee Croshaw cites ''Manga/OnePunchMan'' and ''Manga/Sumire16Sai'' as two examples of manga that started out satirizing their genres before evolving into the thing they were satirizing.

* SempaiKohai: Referenced in 'Let's Drown Out Agar.io' when a ball named "Senpai" eats Yahtzee's ball:

* AchievementsInIgnorance: Having never played ''VideoGame/OregonTrail'' and skipping the tutorial for the movement instructions for the hunting minigame (ironically remarking, "Don't patronize me, game,"), Yahtzee's character was stuck completely still and could only fire his gun at any animals that happened to cross his field of vision. Despite having to take several days to hunt due to often spawning with obstacles in the way, he still manages to accumulate enough food to proceed, and eventually ''win'' on his first playthrough (albeit with most of his family dead).

* BenevolentArchitecture: Lampshaded by Gabriel during 'Let's Drown Out Wonderboy III' when the boxes(which was somehow glued onto the ceiling, how and why) fall into a perfect 4 sets of stairs for Gabriel to hop on and escape the collapsing castle.

-->'''Gabriel''':(talking about Peter Molyneux admitting that Fable 3 was 'a trainwreck') Here's the problem: he's become self-aware but he's just going hyperbolically in the other direction-

--> '''Yahtzee''': I bet that they Phil Fish all the time!(beat) That was an innuendo.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: In ''Let's Drown Out VideoGame/SmashTV'', when Yahtzee sees the similarity between the revelation Gabriel has from his intense shroom trip(See GoMadFromTheRevelation entry above) and Yahtzee's epiphany from playing ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft,'' Gabriel burst out laughing at such comparisons. Then Yahtzee explained that when he looked up to a huge intimidating sky when he was dead in [=WoW=], he realized that he was a small thing in a mess that he could not understand and have realized of the enormity that was around him, similar to Gabriel's total perspective vortex.

** In ''Let's Drown Out Ghostbusters'', Yahtzee has mentioned that he had been told that calling someone 'colored' was racist, then he also heard that 'people of color' is the politically correct term, which baffled him. Gabriel told Yahtzee, and the viewers, that they should disregard political correctness and instead based the words on context to see if one is really racist or not. Then Yahtzee turned it up to eleven for laughs during his observation of the game, like when Egon turned into a mummy when he died(because that's racist) or when his glasses came off when he got hurt(because that's ableist).

* PyrrhicVictory: In 'Let's Drown Out Oregon Trail', after Yahtzee finally managed to get his first successful hunting expedition, he can only bring back 100 pounds out of 887 pounds of rabbit and bison meat(most of the weight he theorized that it may have come from the bison's left bollocks) and Gabriel have reminded him that it took him so long and wasted so much bullets to get to that point that it might not be worth it.

--> '''Gabriel''':(after Yahtzee booted an imp in pain out of its misery) Life's hard, imp, life's hard.
--> '''Yahtzee''': Certainly is if you piss me off, life gets hard pretty fucking quick...and so does my nob.

-->'''Yahtzee''': Oh hello, viewer, didn't see you there, because you're not in a room.

** The main stipulation in 'Let's Drown Out Assassin's Creed Brotherhood' is that Yahtzee have already finished the story and essentially has nothing else to do in the game except collecting the collectibles (which are mostly just random flags around the game which don't mean or do anything).

** The main stipulation in 'Let's Drown Out Assassin's Creed Brotherhood' is that Yahtzee have already finished the story and essentially has nothing else to do in the game except collecting the collectibles.

--> '''Gabriel''': Errgh, it has buttons, what the fuck? Gross.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Given some [[IdiotPlot bizarre choices]] that are made all through ''VideoGame/FutureWars'', Yahtzee always worked under the assumption that the nameless protagonist has some sort of mental disability. And that the female sidekick [[RoboSpeak is a robot]].
** Also Yahtzee himself, who Gabe refers to as a "vaguely-autistic shut-in nutbar."

* TheTetrisEffect: In 'Let's Drown Out Minecraft', after Yahtzee talked shop about how water spawn blocks works in Minecraft, Gabriel joked about how he is going to refer to real life clouds as 'water spawn blocks'.

* AwesomeMcCoolname:
** In 'Let's Drown Out Euro Truck Simulator', Yahtzee named his Roomba 'Sodbury' because it sounds like a good name for a butler, which is how Yahtzee treated his Roomba.
*** However, probably a subversion given that "sod" is a British swear (as in "sod off", or being a sod).
** As revealed in 'Let's Drown Out Ghostship Aftermath', the reason why Yahtzee picked his nickname solely because it sounds cool and has been his internet handle for a long while, he did not even play the game it was originally named after till recently.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: In 'Let's Drown Out Grand Theft Auto', Yahtzee explained the history of Rockstar, or DMA Design back when they made this game, at a time, its most famous game was Lemmings. Then the sequel have a huge amount of a type of lemmings one can use in the game, and Yahtzee list a few of them out in a rather droning tone.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad:

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Yahtzee and Gabe did a "Let's NOT Drown Out" for ''Literature/TheEyeOfArgon'', doing it against a black screen (since it was not a game but a novella.)

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Invoked by Gabriel in 'Let's Drown Out [=WWF=] No Mercy', in regards to the appearance of Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit in the game and their deaths, particularly the unsightly one of the latter, in real life.

* TVTropesWillRuinYourLife: In 'Let's Finish Drown Out with some Portal 2, Part 1', Yahtzee reflects on an occasion of reading through ''Videogame/{{Poacher}}'''s page and coming across a very bizarre comment:
--> '''Yahtzee:''' I think it went something like ''"Yahtzee, [[ViewersAreMorons being British]], [[CaptainObvious would know a thing or two about British accents]]"'' and I'm just like 'fuck you'.

* YouMakeMeSic:
** In 'Let's Drown Out [=WWF=] No Mercy', Yahtzee briefly criticized the lack of capitalize the letters in the 'no mercy' title.
** In 'Let's Drown Out Ghostship Aftermath', Yahtzee verbally correct the blood writing to 'There ARE no escape pods left', then complained about the writer not keeping their head together to form proper sentence, ignoring the fact that they might be missing a bit of plasma.