Good gaming channels on Youtube?

[[UCHIHA]XxDarkSasuke420xX]

people were calling skyrim 'a mile wide and inch deep' literally before the game released
and this clown thinks 10 years later that's somehow an interesting original perspective deserving of an hour long video

 

[[UCHIHA]XxDarkSasuke420xX]

I haven't watched any of this dude's videos but the first 3 minutes of this vid is probably the most based rant about open worlds I've ever heard from a youtuber

 

[aweigh]

1. GAME SACK

2. SuperGreatFriend

3. ROSS'S GAME DUNGEON

4. Grimbeard Diaries

5. Matthewmatosis

6. MyLifeInGaming

7. DigitalFoundry

8. Civvie11

9. BacklogBattle

10.

 

[Ol' Willy]

Grimbeard is a good chap, actually, but his humour, or better say - attempts at humour - is beyond bad.

 

[d1r]

It's really just

supergreatfriend, Ross's Game Dungeon, and if I am feeling super nostalgic

Spoiler

retsupurae

 

[Archibald]

Grimbeard is a good chap, actually, but his humour, or better say - attempts at humour - is beyond bad.

Thats the joke.

 

[Fedora Master]

1. GAME SACK

2. SuperGreatFriend

3. ROSS'S GAME DUNGEON

4. Grimbeard Diaries

5. Matthewmatosis

6. MyLifeInGaming

7. DigitalFoundry

8. Civvie11

9. BacklogBattle

10. EMPTYHERO

 

[Silverfish]

10. EMPTYHERO

I haven't felt the same way about his channel ever since that run-in we had at a Fuddruckers in 1994.

 

[CryptRat]

1-6 > 1D6.

Bullshit.

The variance information can sometimes be important (targetting a group of 20 enemies with 5 hit points each with a 2D10 damage grenade instead of a 1D20 one) and people without an RPG background are the most penalized ones because they can't even assume this information based on 2-20 instead of 1-20.

 

[Bad Sector]

The variance information can sometimes be important (targetting a group of 20 enemies with 5 hit points each with a 2D10 damage grenade instead of a 1D20 one)

Please explain because i do not understand your example... what is the variance of information you speak of in your example? 2D10 is 2..20 and 1D20 is 1..20, so it is a difference between these two? What does the number of enemies and their hitpoints have to do? What is lost if the comparison was "targeting a group of 20 enemies with 5 hit points each with a 2..20 damage grenade instead of a 1..20 one"?

 

[Butter]

Any time you roll more than one die, you normalize the outcome around the mean. For example, 1d12 is 1-12 with each outcome having the same probability, but 2d6 is 2-12 with 7 being 6 times more probable than 2 or 12.

 

[Tacgnol]

Any time you roll more than one die, you normalize the outcome around the mean. For example, 1d12 is 1-12 with each outcome having the same probability, but 2d6 is 2-12 with 7 being 6 times more probable than 2 or 12.

Yep, always been the tradeoff with double dice weapons.

Consistency vs higher rolls.

Myself I've always been a falchion guy. Though more for the crit range than the 2d4 dice.

 

[CryptRat]

Yes, if I see 1-20, 2-20, 2-21 then I'll assume, probably more often right that wrong if the game uses a very traditional system and maybe only in that case, that we're talking about 1D20, 2D10 and 1D20+1.

It could totally be something else with another probability distribution (typically all uniform, 1D20, 1D19+1, 1D20+1) but in the case where my assumption is right (2-20 is not uniform) then someone who's not at all into RPGs won't make the assumption anyway and have less information than I do.

And since this information is not completely anodyne, for example the probability to kill an enemy with 5 remaining hps with 2D10 damage is higher than with 1D20 damages while the probability to kill an enemy with 19 hps is higher with 1D20 damages than with 2D10 damages then he's the one who's penalized the most by the supposedly simpler "2-20" notation because he has no idea what's behind it, more than the old-schooler who simply prefers the notation with dices but understands what "2-20" means here.

 

[Bad Sector]

Interesting, thanks for explaining, i never considered that. I wrote a small program to draw the histogram for 1 million hits in a 2..12 table using a random 2..12 range and then random 1..6 + 1..6 ranges, which helped me understand the case:

(though FWIW if a game displays a range or a percentage, i'd expect the distribution to be uniform unless otherwise mentioned)

 

[Baron Dupek]

not sure what's the consensus but whatever

 

[Jarpie]

not sure what's the consensus but whatever

Strat-Edgy is a so fucking retarded dumbfuck that he bitched Pathfinder: Kingmaker having elemental damage, like electrical damage from wisps, and hadn't figured out that there's protection spells against those. I think he also complained about poison, and hadn't figured out that there's delay poison spell. Just based on that he should be ignored completely. He's the same caliber of dumbfuck as that Chris Davis guy.

 

[Venser]

This was a really cool video about finding some rare McDonald's DS game and streaming it's gameplay for the first time in history. I can't believe how invested I became in some shitty McDonald's employee training game but this video was a rollercoaster ride. Well worth a watch.

 

[deuxhero]

Guy explains all the parts of armor, what it is, how it works and why its done that way with citations to period art, surviving artifacts and documents to show everything is accurate. Really makes you appreciate good video game armor and hate bad armor more. Don't be offput by the initial low quality, as he quickly improves in the series both visually (the weird lighting is only for that first video) and in "public" speaking.

 

[Rahdulan]

not sure what's the consensus but whatever

Jesus, that's a lot of whining. At least he sees the light by the end of it.

 

[Ghulgothas]

He tends to pivot wildly from subject to subject in the rest of his videos, but TheGamingBritShow fits a good niche when he's talking about obscure rezzy-style survival horrors and early-2000s mascot platformers.

 

[samuraigaiden]

 

[otteaux]

I just finished listening to the dfortae interview with Matt Barton, and - as an oldfag - it almost hurt to listen to. Especially the last hour or so.

Really made me miss the old days of mapping dungeons on graph paper, and hanging with my friends during summer break trying to figure out puzzles and strategies to the latest RPG... when I wasn't chasing skirts and hanging out by the liquor store trying to get someone to buy us beer.

Those two guys are really doing a service with keeping the flame alive. Matt's channel especially is a great document for the legacy of 80's gaming. We'd never have all the "deep lore" behind the development of the classics without him. Dude's a fucking national treasure.

 

[karoliner]

Australian shitposting.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

A good breakdown of Zelda's "clockwork" dungeons:




Actually made me wanna try out Skyward Sword just to see those 2 dungeons.
From the 9 minute mark on he explains why we can't have good things anymore...

 

[Wunderbar]

A good breakdown of Zelda's "clockwork" dungeons:




Actually made me wanna try out Skyward Sword just to see those 2 dungeons.
From the 9 minute mark on he explains why we can't have good things anymore...

i'm in the middle of Skyward sword playthough and i just finished those two dungeons (haven't watched the video, i assume he talks about ancient cistern and the sandship). The moving statue and a time shenanigans are interesting ideas, but the game utterly fails to capitalize on them.

You only required to move the Ancient Cistern statue two times - first to open the way into the basement, then to raise statue back and get the boss key. It's a far cry from lowering/raising water levels in the Water temple, or changing the waterflow direction in Great bay temple, or rotating staircases in the Lakebed temple. Even if you ignore that stone tablet, Ancient cistern doesn't require any real thought or effort, it's very easy and straightforward.

Same with the timeshift stones, which were only used in three dungeons - the first one introduces the mechanic (the dungeon is very easy and the stones are only used to change the layout of the room), the second one adds one portable stone that you can carry around (the dungeon is very easy and is also like 10 minutes long), and the third one - the sandship - is again very easy, doesn't have a portable stone (what was the point of introducing this mechanic if you're not expanding on it later?) and also spoils the only decent puzzle. I heard about the Sandship before playing the game and expected some miracle of level design like "a crack in the slab" mission from Dishonored 2, but alas.