Post by ┌༼ຈل͜ຈ༽┘ on Oct 1, 2013 3:18:06 GMT -8
A Let’s Play thread, or LP, is a thread in which a person or group plays through a video game and chronicles their progress by posting videos, screenshots with accompanying text, or a mixture of both. Let’s Plays are usually accompanied by the player’s commentary, though sometimes the accompanying commentary can be a narrative from the main character’s perspective or the like. Unlike a game walkthrough, which explains how to complete a video game, a Let’s Play’s commentary usually is more for comedic purposes, though many Let’s Plays are highly informative despite (or in addition to) this.
Let’s Plays as they are known now began on the Something Awful forums in 2006, when some goons (what SA members refer to themselves as) created threads about Oregon Trail in the Games subforum. These threads acted as the template for the screenshot Let’s Plays that followed, these being screenshots of the playthroughs accompanied by text. On January 19th 2007, the first video LP was created by slowbeef, a playthrough of Super Metroid for the SNES. Its formula proved popular and ended up changing the face of Let’s Play forever. In 2007, Something Awful gave the Let’s Players their own sub-forum. On the 2nd of Febuary, 2007, the LP Archive was created by Something Awful goons to preserve older Let’s Plays from Something Awful.
The purpose of this thread is to not only have list of LPs created by our own members readily available for others to read but also to suggest LPs from elsewhere that you liked and want others to know about.
The LP Archive is your place to go for LPs done by Something Awful members. It can be found here.
Index of LPs by Advancers:
Screenshot LPs:
┌༼ຈل͜ຈ༽┘
-Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon
-Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem - Heroes of Light and Shadow
Video LPs
@thatwiseguy
-Super Mario Galaxy (The thread contains a link to the user's Youtube channel where the actual LP can be found.)
More to be added. If you start your own LP in these forums, notify me and I'll be sure to add them here.
And now, suggest some of your favourite LPs!
Let’s Plays as they are known now began on the Something Awful forums in 2006, when some goons (what SA members refer to themselves as) created threads about Oregon Trail in the Games subforum. These threads acted as the template for the screenshot Let’s Plays that followed, these being screenshots of the playthroughs accompanied by text. On January 19th 2007, the first video LP was created by slowbeef, a playthrough of Super Metroid for the SNES. Its formula proved popular and ended up changing the face of Let’s Play forever. In 2007, Something Awful gave the Let’s Players their own sub-forum. On the 2nd of Febuary, 2007, the LP Archive was created by Something Awful goons to preserve older Let’s Plays from Something Awful.
The purpose of this thread is to not only have list of LPs created by our own members readily available for others to read but also to suggest LPs from elsewhere that you liked and want others to know about.
The LP Archive is your place to go for LPs done by Something Awful members. It can be found here.
Index of LPs by Advancers:
Screenshot LPs:
┌༼ຈل͜ຈ༽┘
-Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon
-Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem - Heroes of Light and Shadow
Video LPs
@thatwiseguy
-Super Mario Galaxy (The thread contains a link to the user's Youtube channel where the actual LP can be found.)
More to be added. If you start your own LP in these forums, notify me and I'll be sure to add them here.
And now, suggest some of your favourite LPs!
