Anyway. Inspired by Rax, I figured I'd bust out the ol "vidya youtube channels you are subscribed to" on this early saturday morning of which I will not go to sleep due to my busted sleep schedule. Hopefully I power through the day and pass out at 11PM tomorrow. Without further ado (in no specific order):
Capcom Fighters - Do you like watching competitive Street Fighter 5? Me neither... except like maybe 4 times a year for no particular reason. I haven't even played 5 for real. Been a long time since I even played 4. Some people watch Dota2, Counter-Strike, CoD, Starcraft 2 competitions. I dig the Street Fighter competitions.
Computerphile - This is actually mainly about computer tech. Frankly not much that I can actually use or comprehend. I'm sure others here will comprehend it though.
DidYouKnowGaming? - Factoids.
Electric Playground Network - Nostalgic in some ways. I like Vic. Honestly I don't get much from him in terms of reviews (movies or games. Especially movies), but I love his interviews.
Kim Justice - Kim is damn good. Extra focus on the British side of gaming. Some of her documentaries would be nicely paired with a budget from Netflix. Very informative.
Mega 64 - I'm just here for the comedy. Sometimes it hits, sometimes it misses. Dug the hell out of their EVA sweded editions.
My Life in Gaming - Lots of retro focus. What hardware to play on, what are the differences. Getting extra anal and nitty gritty about it. In a useful way though lol. There's other stuff too. You'll quickly grasp the general idea if you click on the hyperlink.
PtoPOnline - I love this little channel. Weird shit that got canned or lost or eventually turned into something else. Demos of stuff. This is cool in a preservation kind of way.
CuteFloor - Somewhat similar to the above.
Klagmar - Vidya game music uploads. I love people like this. Very straightforward. For the love of the tunes. I'm all for it.
NeverKnowsBest - Video essays. Or essentially just long reviews / analysis / retrospectives for the most part. Can be a bit dry at times. Sometimes feel like he gets hung up on proving specific objective points that don't necessarily blend with the subjective feeling behind things. You don't have to be so literal at times, but hey, everyone's got a style or things that seem to throw em into a light frenzy haha.
8-bit Music Theory - A cross section of vidya tunes and, you guessed it, music theory. Again, very much up my alley.
Ahoy - The guy who would do short video essays about specific weapons among other other themes. Always dug his production.Wonder what he has up his sleeves in terms of one of those longer docs.
Archipel - Do you like vidya? Are you a weeb? Interviews with Japanese people in the entertainment arts. That's what this channel provides for the most part. Their 2 part Dreamcast doc was awesome. I like that lots of their videos also feature the guest taking us around spots that they like or inspire them or whatever else. The flavor of life is part of these videos. And that's something you don't necessarily get very often.
Censored Gaming - I'm here only for the objective parts of the videos. The crowd of this channel is kinda
. What are you gonna do though? An intersection of shitty gamer kultcha type of guys and actual facts. Kinda reminds me of the good old days of browsing various massage boards where I would sift through the trash to get to the key info and avoid the community as that is the weak part.
Dave2D - Tech. Mostly mobile on the go tech. Dave seems like a likeable guy. Though sometimes I wish he would review some lower end material and give more context between the value and performance.
Errant Signal - Video essays. Various topics. I do like that half of the time I'm bumping into games I wouldn't know about or only heard about in passing and never really knew about them.
Game Score Fanfare - Vids under 15 minutes usually about music in videogames. 75% of the time I'd say.
Foxcade - video essays. He likes Devil May Cry quite a bit as you can tell by skimming the thumbnails of his videos. It also occurs to me now that I've watched very little of his output.
Game Makers Toolkit - Popular channel. Takes looks at various topics or gameplay mechanics. The Boss Keys series is neat.
Gaming Historian - Exactly as it sounds.
GilvaSunner - Channel dead? Maybe not. I don't know. Maybe just in limbo. Either way a source for vidya music that has at times been hit with channel strikes by videogame companies that are sometimes stuck back in 1988 with their way of thinking about music sharing thinking.
GmanLives - If it shoots and bangs, he's probably gonna review it. First and third person shooters all day erryday (erry week or so). It's funny clicking on a review that's like 5 years old from him. You can see how his presence and way of speaking is eventually find it's groove, but hey it took a while to develop his way of speaking to be smooth and confidant as it is now. He is really horny for polygonal women...
GVMERS - Docs about games or game series. Nice narrator voice.
KingK - Reviews, retrospectives and the odd thematic video.
LGR - Computer tech and games. Likeable host.
Major Third - About videogame music. The videos that interested me have sort of stopped it seems. But the channel is alive. Just different uploads than what turned me on to it originally.
Matthematosis - Reviews mostly. Damn. Didn't know I probably ran into his channel around 7 years ago judging by some uploads that I remember being new when I saw them.
Noah Caldwell-Gervais - Longform reviews mostly. I'd like share a cup of coffee with him in a small town by a forest and ask him about what traveling book from an older decade he is in the midst of reading.
Obscure OSTs - Exactly as it sounds.
Raycevick - Known for retrospectives. Other musings as well.
Smooth McGroove - Hope he's doing alright. Seems like he's kinda lost his motivation for the simple but effective idea of doing videogame music a cappellas.
Summoning Salt - Speed running docs.
Super Bunnyhop - Various topics.
The 8-Bit Guy - Mostly old tech stuff. Sometimes mixed with modern retro stuff. I love the spirit of the host. He got hit hard by the shitstorm that hit Texas. Hope he recovers soon. As in his home. He's physically fine (except for his posture, lol).
The Easter Egg Hunter - Videos about easter eggs. Nothing more nothing less.
Whitelight- Retrospectives, critiques.
Writing on Games - Various topics.
Strafefox - Making ofs
Austin Wintory - Awesome resource for music fans. Breakdowns and interviews with various composers.
Danimally VGM - Uploads random videogame tracks. I'm all for it.
Thinreaper - Various topics. Sounds like he's going to be able to do more videos than before. I wish him best of luck.
Jacob Geller - Various topics.
Video Game Animation Study - As it sounds.
Noclip - Various stuff. Docs and interviews aplenty.
GDC - Game Developers Conference videos
Supradarky - My man. Videogame music uploads. Demolished by Nintendo. He rises from his grave soon. Reuploaded all his old stuff and will be continuing. If you go to "Playlists" you will find all the old material.