Etho plays Minecraft - season 2. 11 years and counting of wholesome fun.

Minecraft SMP/Survival Island/Shadow of Israphel - Yogscast

Additionally, their Tekkit series.

Actually all of their old Minecraft stuff is amazing. I loved their playthroughs of various adventure maps as well. There's a playlist full of those somewhere.

Side question: what are your favorite "non-obnoxious" ones?
No youtube-edits, no memes, no forced jokes, just good gameplay and game discussion.

I like Game Grumps. I don't even watch them for the games they play; Dan and Arin are just funny as hell. It's like watching RiffTrax/MST3K but for video games. Literally watching their Space Quest V play through right now.

Let's Game It Out is a gem to watch whenever he uploads.

I do yearly rewatches of Until Dawn - Scary Game Squad. It's five slightly drunk guys keeping teenagers in a horror movie alive. They played this at release so all their guesses and theories during the game aren't influenced by what they saw on the internet.

Chip and Ironicus did a whole series on the metal gear series which is worth a watch. I'd also recommend watching Tietuesday dunk on that awful Wii U PacMan game

If you mean of all time, then I'd say "How to survive the first night in Minecraft" by Lewis and Simon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UdEFmxRmNE

I like Many a True Nerd’s Tale of Two Wastelands series. It’s a mod that merges both Fallout 3 and New Vegas, but the host is a bit of a fallout super fan so he tours obscure areas of the map and explains a lot of weird little facts about the lore, easter eggs, and development of the games.

Trespasser by Research Indicates is honestly so well written that it feels like director's commentary rather than a let's play.

Bobbin Threadbare's Deus Ex. It's half let's play, half a series of lectures on various topics relating to the game.

For me a good let's play is about the game and representing it, not about about the personality doing it.

I really like watching ChristopherOdd and Gab Smolders. Odd plays a lot of tactical games and popular titles. Gab tends to do more indie and horror but also does some popular games on occasion.

I'm not really a fan of Let's Plays, so it makes sense my favourite is CowChop's Shadow of the Colossus Let's Play. After around five episodes they abruptly decide to rent an RV and road trip to the Grand Canyon, all while still "playing" the game.

It is surreal.

NitaZera's Mass Effect playthrough: one, two, three. No commentary, just cutscenes and dialog, works out like a good action scifi series.

I really enjoy the "Was it good?" series by Josh Strife! I guess technically they aren't long plays, he plays through older, fondly remembered games, trims the recordings, and adds great commentary. The videos are still quite long though. I especially enjoyed his commentary of Tomb Raider (the original).

https://m.youtube.com/@JoshStrifePlays

...I guess I'll also mention, I also do some let's plays with my friend 👀 but I don't think they're really anything special. We just enjoy retro video games and chatting!

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4Q1VsUyrfsnzhtRA3lUTmAlhbeVgsMUH

Let's Game It Out always has good vids. Basically all of his videos are bangers, even if it's about a game I wouldn't otherwise enjoy/watch something about.

Settled's Swampletics (OldSchool RuneScape) is wild, and popular among even people who have never played OSRS.

There's a couple that I really enjoyed. I haven't watched an LP in quite awhile.

(Mater)Welonz' "Judgment" LP is probably my favorite. She was thorough.

I also like Christopher Odd's (Mr. Odd) "Prey (2017)" LP.

i like spooky games so every so often i'll rewatch supergreatfriend's ILLBLEED let's play. audio quality is dubious but the game itself is ridiculous and sgf plays it very well.

Giantbomb did a frankly incredible series around Kerbal Space Program a few years ago. It starts off incredibly goofy and by the end it's still incredibly goofy, but also deadly serious.

https://invidious.io.lol/playlist?list=PL57hJfweW_2uqAdRACg-s5Siq_SBEwi2L

SBFP suffer through Omikron the nomad soul. This LP is definitively the best way to experience that game

Giant Bomb's Deadly Premonition Endurance Run series with Vinnie and Ryan. Also their Persona 4 Endurance Run.

https://youtu.be/W3197ohYfUI

Rycon's kenshi roleplay is by far one of the best, I watch a fair amount of these. It's not just a let's play, it's a full on roleplay with story

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxIQ9fpV90xOEkJrYv2RpsE95P_1-ZRNk

Personally, I really like watching Nilaus play factory games. I enjoy playing the games to a point but he puts forth an amount of effort that I can never bring myself to emulate and it's really satisfying even to just watch. Satisfactory, Tectonica, DSP, etc

This is a great thread, thanks everyone!

The Librarian's playthrough of Outer Wilds. The guy's super chill and makes good stuff, but that particular series is my absolute favorite.

If you like old school shooter games (sometimes called "boomer shooters"), check out Civvie11.

TeamFourStar's Pokémon nuzlocke was pretty hilarious.

I profoundly enjoyed UberDanger's "Journey from 1-60" . An adventure though WoW Classic full of insanity, grinding and virtual gambling. Nothing like it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dXLG-Wf93s

If you like Rimworld the Pete Completes series is pretty good. He puts a narrative focus on his playthroughs which makes them super watchable!

This one is great, and since it's a linear game with basically no actual gameplay in The Medium you get pretty much the whole experience.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj_Goi54wf0dho7jqDQkwG2wJ-n3RLE5L

Call Me Kevin's videos are golden. I've rewatched his Comedy Night series so many times. Iconic. His Sims videos are always a riot.

One of my favorite videos of his is this video he made in "The Movies." The final result is at the end of the video and it is a glorious experience.

I've also been watching a lot of short horror game playthroughs from Markiplier and Kubz Scouts, like the ones where they play 3 random scary games. They both have an episode where they play Bad Ben and it's so good. It's the first game in both episodes. The game is fucking hilarious, has a specific feature that I think all horror games should have now, and actually has a really cool ending. Apparently it's based on a film by Nigel Bach.

Markiplier's video

Kubz Scouts' video

I also enjoyed watching them react to analog horror based games, especially ones inspired by The Mandela Catalogue. The aforementioned Kubz Scouts video includes Maple County. There's also The Fear Assessment and the video Markiplier did on it is...chaotic. I couldn't stop laughing.

ProZD plays games is a standby for me. He's pretty funny and he's a real voice actor so he often narrates jokes in character voices.

"Pete Complete" is just amazing in everything he does. Very well planned and narrated let's plays with the goal of achieving 100% competition of a game in one playthrough.

I particularly enjoyed the Mass Effect series. Mass Effect 3 is almost complete now.

He also played Mutant Year Zero, XCOM, different RimWorld expansions and more.