Let's Plays
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 19:52
So, I've been hunting down good Let's Play videos of the Keen series from YouTube because they can be much fun and helpful. Both of the official games as well as fan-made mods. And I mean Let's Plays that actually play the game through.
Who are your favourite LPers? Would you make recommendations?
So far I personally have enjoyed TheRealZ3ro's LPs the most, as he goes into the games "blind", his reactions are sometimes hilarious and he isn't too good but not too bad either when it comes to skills. He's so far played Keen 4, 5 and 6 and he may be some day playing The Universe Is Toast trilogy too.
And roundthewheelrtw I like too, although he doesn't go into the games "blind" and he's very good at them and knows even the secrets very well. But that means he can offer a lot of useful tips, and he's sense of humour is fine too. I think he's at the moment played on The Universe is Toast trilogy.
ReedWulf is kind of something in between the two above. I think he's played the whole official trilogy.
Some LPer links to Raccow's channel, saying he's very entertaining and gamed through the entire official series but I can't find any Keen games from that channel. Does anyone know anything about that?
I've found some that would otherwise be enjoyable but in Keen 4 and up they don't use the Save feature at all in mid-levels therefor ending up repeating the levels over and over and over again and don't even cut the repeative runs out...It just gets frustrating no matter how fun the commentray might be. I personally don't understand why anyone anyway would not use the mid-level saving possibility, I mean how does anyone have the interest, patience and energy to repeat the same points of a level over and over and over when you wouldn't need to?
(When I played these as a kid, I don't think I saved in mid-levels as much as I do these days but I'm sure I did save at least once in long levels...)
I would like to try and make a Let's Play myself too, but I can't get the softwares to function well if at all. They just won't record but a few seconds if at all. (I've tried D3DGear and Fraps, the free trial versions.)
Can anyone recommend a good one to make an LP from PC games?
And then just generally...It's fun to find out what all made-up names people call the various enemies in Keen games if they don't know or bother to check their official names. In how many different ways people see the same enemy.
I'm one of those who never bother to look up the enemies or what they're called and then they burn into my mind as whatever I originally called them.
Who are your favourite LPers? Would you make recommendations?
So far I personally have enjoyed TheRealZ3ro's LPs the most, as he goes into the games "blind", his reactions are sometimes hilarious and he isn't too good but not too bad either when it comes to skills. He's so far played Keen 4, 5 and 6 and he may be some day playing The Universe Is Toast trilogy too.
And roundthewheelrtw I like too, although he doesn't go into the games "blind" and he's very good at them and knows even the secrets very well. But that means he can offer a lot of useful tips, and he's sense of humour is fine too. I think he's at the moment played on The Universe is Toast trilogy.
ReedWulf is kind of something in between the two above. I think he's played the whole official trilogy.
Some LPer links to Raccow's channel, saying he's very entertaining and gamed through the entire official series but I can't find any Keen games from that channel. Does anyone know anything about that?
I've found some that would otherwise be enjoyable but in Keen 4 and up they don't use the Save feature at all in mid-levels therefor ending up repeating the levels over and over and over again and don't even cut the repeative runs out...It just gets frustrating no matter how fun the commentray might be. I personally don't understand why anyone anyway would not use the mid-level saving possibility, I mean how does anyone have the interest, patience and energy to repeat the same points of a level over and over and over when you wouldn't need to?
(When I played these as a kid, I don't think I saved in mid-levels as much as I do these days but I'm sure I did save at least once in long levels...)
I would like to try and make a Let's Play myself too, but I can't get the softwares to function well if at all. They just won't record but a few seconds if at all. (I've tried D3DGear and Fraps, the free trial versions.)
Can anyone recommend a good one to make an LP from PC games?
And then just generally...It's fun to find out what all made-up names people call the various enemies in Keen games if they don't know or bother to check their official names. In how many different ways people see the same enemy.
I'm one of those who never bother to look up the enemies or what they're called and then they burn into my mind as whatever I originally called them.
