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SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#7001: Jun 30th 2014 at 8:03:09 PM

Usually I prefer multi-person Lets Plays, 'cause I enjoy the humor in people interacting. Two Best Friends, Game Grumps, Nanners and Gassy Mexican and Markiplier Group videos, TFS Plays, and sundry.

edited 30th Jun '14 8:03:19 PM by SonOfSharknado

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wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#7003: Jun 30th 2014 at 9:54:03 PM

For Let's Plays: I prefer the Pokemon ones by Red Chocobo and associates, and The Dark Id Let's Plays. Only LP connected to Team Four Star was Vegeta's Surgeon Simulator and Krillin's Slender one. Never finished the Slender videos.

DarthBlitzer Since: Mar, 2011
#7004: Jun 30th 2014 at 11:34:08 PM

Mostly its about either 1) Someone showing you a game you didn't know about 2) Experiencing game you didn't know about with someone playing it first time 3) Seeing someone else's reaction to game you already knew about 4) Guy doing commentary is being really funny 5) Guy doing let's play(mostly in written or screenshot let's play form) is doing it in After Action Report format

It would be remiss to not mention that even if they're rarer and usually focused on strategy games, there are LP er's that seek to min/max or play by some ruleset. Folks like an Arumba who does Paradox Interactive games and usually tries to play to some standard of efficiency (Particularly in WC runs), or a Many A True Nerd, who did a fantastic no-kill run of Fallout:New Vegas where he tried to complete as many missions as possible without any accredited kills. Sometimes you just have to look a bit deeper than the most popular things, which usually attempt to appeal to LCD or just comedy in general and are often unedited.

Haven't watched any of the TFS plays though, so no idea how they stack up. Are they actually worth watching? I did remember watching the first episode of the BL 2 playthrough and thinking "Meh", I wasn't quite sold on the off the cuff nature of it.... but maybe I should give it a second chance.

edited 30th Jun '14 11:34:34 PM by DarthBlitzer

mrsunshinesprinkles Forever Gorgeous from Somewhere, crying Since: Jan, 2012
Forever Gorgeous
#7005: Jul 1st 2014 at 8:23:02 AM

@Geth Knight, two pages ago: Yeah, Kenshin is a kind, attentive father and Reflection never happened.

Reflection never happened.

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BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#7006: Jul 1st 2014 at 11:20:17 AM

I love this bit.

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wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#7007: Jul 1st 2014 at 6:22:32 PM

I was looking for the Mr. Sandman bit, which isn't as creepy now. I wonder if they'll cover that scene in those analysis videos. Then I found this...

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BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#7008: Jul 1st 2014 at 6:26:50 PM

Isn't that the last time Piccolo's a comparative badass in the series?

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Court Dragon
#7009: Jul 1st 2014 at 6:28:25 PM

Frickin' Super Saiyan deathbuff outclassing everyone else.

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TheSexyOne Since: Jun, 2014
#7010: Jul 1st 2014 at 6:29:52 PM

[up][up] Yep. Poor Piccolo gets Toriyama'd. The last of the non-Saiyans to fall.

BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#7011: Jul 1st 2014 at 6:32:21 PM

'Tis a shame, because he's one of my favorite characters.

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#7012: Jul 1st 2014 at 10:34:08 PM

Though he at least manages to maintain plot relevancy by becoming mentor to Goten and Trunks, which is more than we can say for... hell... everyone else who isn't Saiyan by the time the Buu Saga runs around.

BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#7013: Jul 1st 2014 at 10:36:18 PM

Krillin gets this early on.tongue

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#7014: Jul 1st 2014 at 11:55:18 PM

He still maintains a relative amount of relevance to the plot until Buu, though.

Dragon_Ranger Since: Jan, 2010
#7015: Jul 2nd 2014 at 1:15:58 AM

Tien gets point for being able to slow down second-stage Cell when Piccolo was getting trounced by his Imperfect form.

Watchtower Since: Jul, 2010
#7016: Jul 2nd 2014 at 2:33:17 AM

Yeah, between mentoring Goten and Trunks and later becoming the straight man in the Piccolo/Gotenks Comedy Show I'd say Piccolo does pretty good for a non-Saiyan in the Buu saga. Only ones who get close are Hercule and Videl, and the latter's whole character arc basically revolves around half-Saiyan Gohan anyway.

Frishman Sinful Saint from Baton Rouge, LA Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
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#7017: Jul 2nd 2014 at 6:04:34 AM

At least none of them are Yamcha...Yamcha lost coolness as early as Dragon Ball.

At least Krillin held his own in his first fight against Piccolo Jr. during that series. For a little while. Yamcha got beat up by Kami. In the first round.

As Super Kami Guru said, "I do not know what this Yamcha is, but it sounds horribly disappointing."

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#7018: Jul 2nd 2014 at 8:44:24 AM

Yo, man. At the time, Kami was still one of the stronger characters in the setting.

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#7019: Jul 2nd 2014 at 10:07:53 AM

Nothing shameful about being weaker than God.

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KBSL Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
#7021: Jul 2nd 2014 at 10:59:44 AM

Yeah, even at the beginning of Z Kami was still stronger than everyone except Goku and Piccolo. It's not really fair to bash Yamcha for losing to Kami at that tournament, all of them, save Piccolo and Goku would have lost to him.

Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#7022: Jul 2nd 2014 at 11:52:05 AM

Yamcha never really had coolness to lose. Well- he kinds of did, but not in the way that normally means. Like, he was a joke early on, but that was okay because it was a comedy series at that point. And then he disappeared for awhile until the series became slightly more serious, at which point he came back with badass looking scars and a bunch of offscreen training and proceeded to be more or less completely ineffectual, and stayed that way forever.

The only contribution he was every really able to make was playing Worf, and by the Z era he struggled even to manage that.

edited 2nd Jul '14 11:55:42 AM by Gilphon

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#7023: Jul 2nd 2014 at 11:59:26 AM

[up][up]Krillin and Tien would've been able to hold their own for a while...

Yamcha got literally ONE hit through out the entire match and it wasn't even effective.

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Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#7024: Jul 2nd 2014 at 12:12:21 PM

But he had that new move and ki manipulation of that sort was pretty impressive back then.

Frishman Sinful Saint from Baton Rouge, LA Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
Sinful Saint
#7025: Jul 2nd 2014 at 12:15:06 PM

Yeah, I would like to point out that the only person that Kami ever defeated other than Yamcha was Yajirobe, who, while strong, was always a bit of a coward and a joke character, and given he didn't train pretty much at all during the Time Skip and still managed to give Kami a decent showing...

And we all know that Kami would have lost to Mr. Popo.

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