I like Dan so far, he seems to be following up on Jon as the more excitable and childish of the duo, except his vibe is less "spoiled brat" and more "flighty manchild". On the one hand it means he's more likely to stay on topic and not complain for stupid reasons. On the other hand the mock tantrums were one of the funniest things about Jon both on GG and his own channel.

Ross on the other hand is pretty fucking insufferable. Although I'm not sure how much of it is specifically his fault and how much of it is other reasons like the format of Steam Train or the lack of chemistry between the two.

reposting previous link list (dunno why Tiki didn't copy it)

SA:
Forum
http://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=191
Archive
http://lparchive.org/
Master List
http://lparchive.org/lpmaster/

Other
Giant Bomb
http://www.giantbomb.com/
Two Best Friends
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSw1tcher
Yogscast
http://www.youtube.com/user/BlueXephos#p/u
Freelance Astronauts (broken up, but still good)
http://www.freelanceastronauts.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/SAMaxwellAdams
Tipping 40s (no more full LPs, streams still going)
http://www.youtube.com/user/kuvosa
http://www.twitch.tv/kuvosa
http://www.twitch.tv/topikal
Yahtzee Croshaw (Zero Punctuation guy) and friend Gabriel
http://fullyramblomatic-yahtzee.blogspot.com/
TotalBiscuit
http://www.youtube.com/user/TotalHalibut?feature=chclk

>>176939
https://www.youtube.com/user/OMFGcata
Jessie Cox (One Moderately Funny Gamer)

https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialNerdCubed
Nerd Cubed

https://www.youtube.com/user/farfromsubtle
Video Games Awesome

https://www.youtube.com/user/ChipCheezumLPs
Chip and Ironicus Let's Plays

>>176941
Chip and Ironicus have a website.
http://chipandironicus.com/

I suppose that the Yogscast and TB do too though, though I don't know of anyone that uses them.

>>176928
I've yet to watch the newer videos for Steam Train, but I'm predicting they're not nearly as bad as your opinion makes them out to be.

>>176945
I"m waiting to see how they approach Space Quest, since good LPs of Sierra games (outside of Paws stream stuff) are hard to find

>>176945
Castle Crashers is OK, just on the boring side. But Hotline Miami is indeed horrible beyond belief.

I agree with people on a few points on all this grump business.

Everything was WAY too sudden and too fast, just suddenly JONS GONE, HERES DAN! They should have had some kind of transition video or something.

They really should change the intro, its just... wrong...

>>176945
Ross is the most fucking insufferable cunt and after watching Castlecrashers I literally had a headache from his voice, I dig Dan though.

>>176964
Still sounds highly subjective. I won't avoid them on this word.
>>176956
I share these sentiments. Suddenly dropping an "I'm out" vid with so many loose thread series hanging and no foreword at all on the new format of multiple series wasn't the best move.

>>176967
It is and I don't want you to, I just think Ross is the worst.

To me, it's sort of like Jon & Arin were the UK Top Gear, while I'm worried Ross & Dan are becoming the American Top Gear.

The UK one is a car show, they both are, but a lot of the viewership comes from people who are completely disinterested in cars, who just like the chemistry from the three hosts, and how funny they all are, how they work off each other so well. Meanwhile, the American equivalent is a straightforward car show with three random guys who have no chemistry, and aren't funny as a result.

>>176968
I agree, Ross is fucking horrible and is basically Arin 2.0 but with zero charm and a grating-ass voice. Dan's alright but he's trying too hard to be Jon 2.0.

>>176969
Not funny and no chemistry sums up Dan and Ross pretty good.

Theme aside Arin and Dan are great and while the dynamic is different it is more on topic and pretty entertaining in a different way.

>>176976
The Game Grumps theme v.2.0 sounds awful with Dan trying to copy Jon's "Not so Grump", they should just make a new one altogether. I fear for how he's going to do the Game Grumps VS theme considering I doubt he has the same musical training history..

I remember the Game Grumps mentioning one of their friends being named Dan Avadan in one of their videos (can't remember which, anyone know?) Is this the same Dan?

>>176977
>>176981
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs7yDP7KWrh0wd_4qbDP32g
Dan is Danny Sexbang of Ninja Sex Party.

Dan's OK but I notice that Arin is still making most of the funnies and Dan's amusing comments usually fall on the heels of Arin's. He's not as good at starting jokes as Jon was so it feels like he's relying on Arin as a crutch.

>>176999
I think its the growth from fan to friend that cases a bit more of a wall than with Arin and Jon.

I'd commented on the first SMB2 video that Arin and Dan Grumps kinda reminded me of Mike Matei and James Rolfe playing a game but as more energetic and younger hosts. Anyone else get that kinda vibe?

>>176982
Dan "Sexbang" is not his name, get real. He's Dan Avidan and then yes, the one they had mentioned.

>>176999
>>177000
Are you two saying opposite things on purpose to trick people?
Jon was notorious for outright repeating what Arin had just said in a funny voice and for still having a fanboy crush on EgoRaptor.

>>176977
Dan's whole previous schtick is musical comedy, like Lonely Island.

It's weird because Dan is pretty OK with Egoraptor but while Ross was pretty awful in Hotline Miami Dan getting pretty annoying in Castle Crashers because he won't fucking shut up.

I feel so weird that I literally had no idea Egoraptor was one of the halves of Game Grumps until now.

STEAM TRAIN GAME GRUMPS FIRST REMIX

I don't know why people are complaining about Steam Train, specifically the hosts doing voices since all Jon ever really did was that kind of shit, he just put less effort into it and yelled more.

Scrublords - Star Wars: Master…
*fist-pumps the air* YES!
But they better do Warpath:JP next.

>Patrick left
>Ryan preparing for his wedding
>Brad too busy with fucking Dota
>nothing but Jeff and Vinny Quick Looks
You spoil us, Giant Bomb.

>>177050
The special Unprofessional Wednesday session was amazing. The Magrunner game looks great too.

>>177052
It was very amusing, but at the same I was about to rupture an artery. I swear Brad has got some kind of mental definciency.

>>177053
The others weren't doing so great either. To be fair, a puzzle game is not the greatest thing to have a bunch of people working on at once.

I thought it was pretty great how Jeff was struggling with having to force the others to stop playing Magrunner though, Vinny and Drew were just egging Brad forward.

http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/quick-look-motorbike/2300-7648/
I can't even breathe.
>Fuck you Motorbike, I love you Motorbike -Jeff
THEY LITERALLY SEND WAVE AFTER WAVE TO REACH A KILL LIMIT
http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/quick-look-ride-to-hell-retribution/2300-7649/
And then there's whatever happened here.

http://www.blisteredthumbs.net/2013/06/deadpool-is-awesome/
http://mtoaksjournal.tumblr.com/

>>177079
Motorbike might be the best Quick Look they've ever done. And that's saying something.

>Giant Bomb now releasing their videos at 60 FPS
This is so weird. This is gonna take a while to get used to.

>two best friends play xbox indy IV
Ah yeah this is going to be
>age gate, most log in to watch
FFFFFFFFFFffffffff...
But I dont want to...

http://www.yourepeat.com/watch?v=TaaSWZLC6yE
Ahahaha, thank you youtube comments!

>>177172
You can get around that if the video is set to allow it being embedded, since the age block for whatever reason is only enforced for the actual Youtube page.

>>177179
>>177172
Who the fuck does not have a youtube account in this day and age?

If you're doing an LP, don't put your mic 10x louder than the actual game. Thank you.

>>177181
This so much. I kinda wanna TBFP's Last of Us LP, but fuck me, that's not happening. They're one of the worst offenders when it comes to this. Really their style only lends itself to that highlight reel format they've been doing from the start.

>>177239
? The audio balancing is fine in Last of Us, Eternal Darkness, and all parts of DP except the first few episodes though. Those are the only ones I've watched all of though. Well, except Way of the Samurai 4 but that hardly counts.

>>177240
Their audio balancing is great in every video except Mario Party 9, I have no idea what the problem with muted game audio is. I don't want to hear both the game and the commentators at the same level.

>>177247
The commentators should always be slightly louder than the game.

>>177248
Which is what the TBF do. So what's the problem?

Key word being slightly.

Super Best Friends Play - No M…

I want Liam in more videos. The best part of this whole thing was them watching the fake anime trailer, with Matt and Liam totally losing their shit over Woolie's inability to take it.

>>177039

Arin is a talent voice actor and Jon's whole e-celebrity career is based on producing a goofy-yet-inoffensive voice.

These guys just don't know how to goofy voice acceptably.

>>177363
Pretty much this. While Dan's not as terrible as I was afraid he would be he stills sounds like he's trying too hard to be a second Jon. Jon can get away with it because he has just the right set of vocal cords and delivery that he can act like an idiot and still be funny at the same time. Dan on the other hand reminds me of this fluffy bunny Wiccan and Communist kid I used to go to high school with who liked to pretend to be a little girl and pull out this pretend-child voice or drag out her syllables whenever she wanted to sound "cute", only it was incredibly annoying instead of charming.

I have a feeling it's something he's consciously doing because it's not as noticeable in Steam Train, which thankfully isn't a Steaming Pile of Shit anymore, but between him not knowing when to shut up and Ross's general dryness I have little hope for it becoming actually interesting either anytime soon. Since Dan said that he does pay attention to fan reaction, hopefully he'll realize that so far what he does onscreen is a lot more interesting than what he has to say, and maybe try to be his own person more.

>>177365
As someone who apparently never really "got" Game Grumps, this whole drama is hilarious. People complaining about the loss of "valuable commentary" from a guy who did nothing but scream like a retard in those videos is just ridiculous.

>>177368
Well you're right. You didn't get it.

>>177368
>>177370
Jon's thing isn't just that he's a screaming retard, it's that he's actually doing emotional comedy similar to a lot of other youtube people (think Africanob0i). The humor is in the over-reaction. Egoraptor was always the strait guy but it kind of relied both on Jon's and Ego's charm and a certain amount of star power they both carried. I don't mind the new guy but he's less of a comedic foil the way Jon was for Arin. He isn't that much different from Arin in terms of where they're coming from or how they react to things.

TBF also seems to have a one up in that they all seem to be playtesters, and actually contribute some interesting knowledge about the game they're playing, even if it's amidst scads of bad jokes and personal insults. Jon and Arin lack that inside lowdown, being only outside commentators. One of my biggest gripes with Game Grumps originally was that neither Jon nor Arin could point out technical or design flaws in a game or talk about why something was really bad. TBF actually kind of do this, even if they're not really exhaustive for most of these games.

Okay so I watched all of Steam Train to try and give it a fair chance, Ross is so fucking forced in everything he says and does I can't stand it.

Dan is actually pretty great though now that he's feeling freer to talk about what he enjoys like Sports and put on less airs.

I think the directions they've tried to go have worked very hard against Ross and very hard for Danny though, for instance Grumps have been non-stop Danny's favorites since he jumped on the show, Ross meanwhile, due the very nature of Steam Train is working with games he's never played and...despite buying doesn't really give a shit about and really leeches through and adds to how fucking terrible I find him compared to Danny who is honestly eager to talk about his enthusiasm like Sports despite that clashing with Ross and Arin.

In short Dan found his footing, Grumps sans intro is great.

Steam Train feels like you put a gun to Ross and Dan's head and told them "BE GAME GRUMPS EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE TO FAKE THE SHIT OUT OF IT and their intro is actually great."

Two Best Friends Play The Walk…

The feels are still there. Not as strong as with Lee, but it's still there.

>>177382
Oh, they will definitely come in full force once they see the corpse of Matt's waifu.

http://www.twitch.tv/frailgesture/videos?kind=past_broadcasts
Matt Rorie from Giant Bomb streaming Dark Souls on his own time. It's pretty amusing. I can never catch him live though, because time zones are the devil.
Dark Soullllssss

Two Best Friends Play WWE '13 …

>>177393
I caught him live once when he was killing time before an E3 showing (or maybe that was the first night with the burglary, can't recall). I remember laughing my ass off when he, with not an ounce of shame, took a Steam screencap of Quelagg's tits.

http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/ryan-davis-1979-2013/1100-4685/
OH JESUS CHRIST! FUCK! NO! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!
I'm so fucking worried about Jeff now, too. You could tell he already was goddamn depressed, because he couldn't give a shit about the new console generation. I can't even imagine how he feels right now. Or Ryan's wife for that matter.

http://www.thanksryan.com/

Well, tbf convinced me to buy No More Heroes 2. Watching a play through of the first one so I can get some of the continuity jokes.

>>177508
Please let this be trolling. Please. A duder can't die at 34 right after he gets married. Especially when, at least to me, he WAS Giant Bomb. Jeff, Matt, Patrick, etc., they're all great, but he was kind of the centerpiece of the site. This isn't real. This can't be happening.

>>177374
Weirdly enough, I like Ross better. I don't think GG could be Ross and Arin, though, because they're too alike. Heck, I'm still testing the water to see if Danny and Arin are too alike. They're both really funny, don't get me wrong, but I find polar opposite extremes to be even funnier.

I always thought Jon's screaming was legit. I never understood why people thought LP'ers (including You-Know-Who) were fake-screaming. Why would someone even do that? I just figured they were masochists who intentionally picked games they either knew they'd hate or were terrible at, because raging is funnier. That's why I could never do LP's. I wouldn't spend money on games I knew were shit, or that weren't my cup of tea.

>>177511

>including You-Know-Who
...Lord Voldemort?

>>177513
Pewdiepie.

>>177508
>>177509
>Ryan's dead
WHAT THE FUCK? HOW? He wasn't sick or anything and he just married so he probably didn't kill himself. Did he get hit by a bus or something?

Also this apparently happened on the 3rd, so how did we not hear anything about this until now?

>Hey Everybody, it's tuesday july 9th twenty thirteen and you are listening to the Giant Bombcast. I'm your host...

>>177517
>He wasn't sick or anything
His obesity and general lack of exercise have been a cause of concern by many fans for a while. His heavy breathing was so loud it got picked up by the microphones of the other crew members. And he was completely out of breath every time he waddled only a few feet over to his chair for TNTs. Among all the "Ryan is fat" jokes there were many people who were genuinely worried. It's horrible and still way too soon, but not entirely unexpected.

>>177519

>Ryan's wife

Ryan Is A Narc
Best of Cards Against Humanity…
Giant Bomb: Ryan discovers a young Brad Muir
Ryan Deconstructs Avatar

NEVER.

>>177511
I kind of agree. Ross isn't great, nor is he all that funny, but Dan is kind of annoying on Steam Train in contrast to how he is on Game Grumps. He's doing the same things as Jon in talking too much to try to fill the silent gaps, but he isn't as good in cracking jokes on his own. Ross's humor is mostly him snarking at random stuff, which works sometimes and doesn't on others, so when it falls flat it's easier to ignore. The lack of chemistry isn't anyone's particular fault since it's usually reciprocal in nature and you either have it or you don't.

>>177544
We found the one thing ever that could make Brad ":D" Muir not smile.

>>177524
Apparently Ryan had sleep apnea, too. Might not have been obesity.

http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/quick-look-medieval-moves-deadmunds-quest/2300-5275/

At least Ryan will be spared the dark future of Kinect 2.0.

Not that it makes this any less shitty.

>Giant Bomb robbed at E3
>Patrick in selfimposed exile to Chicagoland
>Ryan struck down days after his wedding.

Gentlemen, I believe we may have entered the Dark Middle Chapter of the Giant Bomb trilogy.

>Ryan is dead
;_;7

I will say that. . .

If someone dies, and the news of that death spurs five thousand different people to post comments expressing a personal feeling of loss... marveling at how much of an amazing positive force that person was, at their honesty and integrity and humor... sharing how this person has been a positive presence in their life for over a decade? And all 5000+ are posting this within the first 24 hours?

Then the person in question has lived about as full and successful a life as I can possibly imagine.

Come to think of it, is this the first significant death of the game journalism/let's play community?

>>177583
It's a very young industry, that until very recently wasn't personality driven in the slightest. He died at 34. And even he was an old dog by community standards. He's been around since the 90's.

Man, it still doesn't even feel real when I can click a button and watch him play Harry Potter and Cards Against Humanity.

I suspect it'll take the Bombcast to change that (assuming they keep to schedule).

>>177575
I think the only naysayers have been people insisting that you're not allowed to be upset over the death of a person that isn't family or someone you know very well in person. But they say this about the death of every well-known person. And honestly, it's bullshit.

And suddenly, OP's pic became eerily fitting.

https://twitter.com/jeffgerstmann/status/354643594000338944

Not even ZodiacMF can take this.
http://i.imgur.com/rOCfEgr.png
http://i.imgur.com/rg8W4Eg.png

He may have just been some fat guy on the internet most of us never met, but he was OUR fat guy on the internet most of us never met.

Civilization V: Brave New Worl…

>>177602
>dat intro
Oh this is good

http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/

>>177630
I usually look forward to the bombcast. Fuck, I don't want to...

>>177630
That was horrible and awful and shitty and the thing that made his death all too real. There were some amazing, hilarious, sweet stories. I wish I could've heard them in any other context. I wish I could've laughed.

People (mostly people who didn't know him) who are insisting Ryan could only have possibly died of obesity are getting a little on my nerves. For me, I don't know, and don't care what happened, it's none of my business. I'll listen to the podcast a little later, I'm still not in the right frame of mind to do so.

>the last 3 minutes or so

Have single-player FPS gone backwards?

>>177630
>>Jeff: "We've all gathered around for a momentous occasion." [Beat] "Pilotwings 64 is out on Virtual Console."

Oh Jeff. Especially knowing how close Ryan and Jeff were, the fact that he can still crack jokes makes me glad. I'd rather him crack jokes than be miserable.

>>177630
I was quite surprised about how this podcast was, by and large, uplifting, with all these great stories and jokes that Ryan himself probably would have loved.

And then the last 10 minutes hit and it all got worse than ever.

I need to stop hanging out in /v/ threads, because it only makes it worse (aside of the edgy kids making fat jokes) to see how everyone else is just breaking from this.

Can't believe they're doing a TNT tonight. I guess that's the harsh reality of it. Can't really go a week without content. They're still a business and not just a bunch of good friends.

>>177714
I'm pretty sure they aren't, unless Patrick actually did SWS. Sometimes they leave things on the schedule even if they aren't actually going to do them simply because they can't be assed.

The greatest tribute

>>177858
Thank God for comas.