Two Best Friends Play:

Honestly, that's all on you.

Yeah, if you don't want to be spoiled, don't go reading Wikis beforehand

Especially with V, who is framed as a mysterious character with a secret in all the trailers and promotional material. He is so obviously a Walking Spoiler character, I don't know what you were expecting.

Yes, they did. They confirmed that on Twitter weeks ago. It was mentioned and discussed in this thread at the time.

@fredhot16 - yeah, I caved, predictably. That intro of them just giggling...

Edited by GoldenKaos on Mar 8th 2019 at 9:59:51 AM

People were bugging Woolie to put out DMCV episodes more quickly. So in response, he and Billy are giving people exactly what they asked for, and hoping they choke on it:

Here's the DMC 5 playlist.

Ah, that explains the surge of videos today. Well, I can wait for Woolie's blind experiences no problem. Meanwhile I can enjoy Pat's streams of the game as well.

Further evidence that Woolie has No Sense of Direction. He mistook the L3 button for the R3 button, activated Auto-Assist by mistake, and lost points in the post-mission ranking because of it. Ironically, this was while he was trying to use the feature that keeps you from getting lost in the middle of a mission.

Slight update: Woolie clarified that he isn't uploading the DMC videos en masse solely to shut up the complainers. He's also doing it as an experiment to see if Netflix-style release schedules are viable on youtube.

Edited by MetaFour on Mar 10th 2019 at 5:16:58 AM

As of this post there are 19 videos of his playthrough on Youtube, 17 of which were posted today. If every new video is an average of 20 minutes long, then he's posted about 5 and a half hours of content today. That's about as much as one of Pat's longer streams, and his archives on Youtube average at least 10,000 views a video, so hopefully Woolie's experiment proves fruitful.

I'm curious as well, but personally I think the old style was more effective for me. When it's dripfed on a day-to-day basis or every other day, I would sometimes rewatch the same episode multiple times that day. But with the whole thing dropped like that, I just skip onto the next one, and I'm much less likely to rewatch the whole sequence again. I'm curious how others might, though.

At least this way, with marathoning made easy like that, every video does get at least one watch, whereas if it was every other day I might've decided to let it accumulate first, only to forget about it and not watch any of it which has happened with some of their other L Ps.

I find it weird that I've only gotten into the guys' content after they split. I started with Paige's stream of her beating Dark Souls, and am now subbed to Matt's channel and am almost done watching Pat's playthrough of Hollow Knight.

Part 20 seems to be the last part he's uploading today. This probably means it'll be a while before we get part 21, but I'm fine with a long wait if part 20 ends on a satisfying note.

Edited by WillKeaton on Mar 10th 2019 at 7:53:44 AM

Yeah, Minh posted below episode 20 that it's the last part, until Woolie and Pat record more.

As for how it ends... Well, it's a logical stopping point, right after a big boss fight and the following cutscene, rather than the middle of a mission. But it also happens to be a big Wham moment, so it makes quite a cliffhanger to stop here.

Woolie ended right where Pat's first stream of V ended as well.

Which mission was it?

Nero's rematch with Urizen. And then the flashback to V hiring Dante for this job in the first place.

They even specifically note what a huge tease that cutscene ends on.

Ah, so they're around 40% through. Man, Woolie must be strong to be dodging all the spoilers for this LP...

Edited by GoldenKaos on Mar 11th 2019 at 1:48:39 PM

Do you think there's a chance Pat and Woolie will play Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice? It comes out on the 22nd. I know they said they'd probably never do another Souls-style game, but I'm not sure if this fits that definition. Apparently it's more story-focused than the Souls series.

I expect Pat to stream it since Soulsborne games are popular on his channel.

Pat has HARD ruled out doing Sekiro with Woolie. His wording was somewhere along the lines of "like FUCK I'm putting myself through that again" - and that sheperding Woolie through 4 Souls games and DMC 5 had been bad enough. I couldn't tell you exactly where he said it, it was a chat question during one of his recent streams, probably the DMC 5 one.

Edited by GoldenKaos on Mar 13th 2019 at 9:48:10 AM

So I've recently started binging the series now that it's over. I've already gone through a few like the Omikron Nomad Soul one, the God of War IV one, the A Way Out one, and am currently going through The Cat Lady and Night In the Woods. Planning on going through the I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream one next.

Any other recommendations? And no, I'm not going through the Detroit: Become Human one. After going through the Omikron Nomad Soul one, I've had enough of David Cage. Forever.

Edited by M84 on Mar 13th 2019 at 5:50:47 PM

I mean Omikron is leagues and leagues worse than anything else Cage did. Detroit is highly amusing for the clumsy attempts at race analogies if nothing else. Maybe watch one of Solidus's highlight videos to dilute the Cage I'm not certainly not trying to push you into it though, I just seriously enjoy them ripping into Cage's stupid plots and Unfortunate Implications, but that's just my jam.

I personally have a preference for Pat/Woolie L Ps, so the Souls games and the DMC games are obvious picks there, the God Hand LP was great, the KOTOR LP that brought us Pockets...

I think it was Matt and Woolie that did the FFX LP which had a lot of great bits about Wakka being racist against Al Bhed.

And then the Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance LP, which is an early Matt/Pat one which has an unrivalled amount of HYPE.

Oh yeah, I watched the God Hand one too. It was pretty good.

I'm also making a point of avoiding L Ps for games I've already personally played or for which I've already watched an LP. Fortunately, not many of the games qualify. That does mean I won't be going through any of their Dark Souls L Ps or the FFX LP.

And watching the Omikron LP made me realize that I hate David Cage both as a game developer and as a human being. As for Detroit, the brief glimpse of it I got in the Jimquisition vid about it convinced me I don't want to sit through an entire LP of it.

Edited by M84 on Mar 13th 2019 at 6:09:57 PM

Huh. That's interesting. I guess you don't want to waste time on video games you've already experienced?

I'm the opposite, I'll watch several L Ps of the games I do own to see how everyone reacted to my favourite bits.

I tend to go for L Ps of games I'll likely never actually play myself. Or L Ps of really shitty games since those tend to get amusing reactions. Though Omikron was admittedly too shitty even for that. Seriously, Cage is a fucking pretentious hack.

100% spot on. He likes to act like he's the cutting edge of storytelling in games, when he's kinda lagging 10 years behind everyone else, AT BEST. And he's very creepy. One of Detroit's redeeming features is that there's no weird objectification of a main female character, and they don't get almost raped/cut up to pieces.

It's been said that Cage really wants to be a movie director rather than a game developer, which explains a lot. It's also been said that he'd probably be a really shitty movie director.

Omikron also put the Cage creepiness front and center. That optional sex scene at the beginning was just...I don't even.

Edited by M84 on Mar 13th 2019 at 6:31:44 PM

I don't remember which game it was now, but one of them had the tutorial area, where you learn how to look with the right analogue stick and so on, be a literal movie/tv studio with a director's chair in it. He's not subtle.

He's different from Kojima, who also wants to be a movie director to a certain extent, in that Kojima is fully a game developer as well, and so you get very cinematic experiences with great gameplay, while Cage's games are essentially choose your own adventure movies. And I'm not going to dimiss the entire genre of Tell-tale style choose your own adventure games, I'm just going to say that Cage is bad at even that.

Kojima is also quite humble, while Cage very clearly wants everyone to see him as an artist, an auteur, a visionary, and he obviously believes his own hype. It's quite funny that most of the best bits in Detroit got in in spite of Cage, rather than because of him.

Edited by GoldenKaos on Mar 13th 2019 at 10:45:03 AM