What are some interesting and insightful video game youtube channels? (Not let's plays, please...

oddheader is worth looking into but only for a few vids since they are basically all the same thing.

same idea with the boundary break series. cool concept, interesting content, but once youve seen one youve seen them all

I like nerrel’s videos

These videos fucking suck, it's some monotone autist droning on about "records" and numbers and putting (the same) overtly melodramatic music over the most meaningless and pathetic shit in the universe.

Ahoy is the only e-celeb worth a damn because he isn't an e-celeb
>full length videos on the history of video games
>no obnoxious bullshit
>no cult of personality
>no uneducated opinions like some dumb video essayist
>just video game history

pannenkoek

I dont know about channels, but there is a 2 part documentary about sega, the dreamcast and developers during that time. Look up: A Dream Cast.

Another one is the FF XIV documentary. Shows how they went from 1.0 to ARR. Such a great idea how they ended 1.0 and into ARR. I dont even like mmos and that was a really good watch. I forget the name though.

Personally, I like AccursedFarms, MandaloreGaming, and Nerrel

If you're looking for real time-wasters, there's that German guy who does autistic videos about beating Super Mario without touching any coins

Care to link a good video then?

summoningsalt's videos are really slow. the others are pretty good

>tfw OP posted the one good YouTuber I'm subbed to who doesn't shoehorn a cartoon caricature that pushes away anons.

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If you like looking at the development and history of games then the GVMER channel has plenty of videos on that sort of stuff. Their narrator is also bretty good.

Summoning Salt is a top tier Youtuber who's only real flaw is he uses like the same 5 background tracks in all his videos.

Digital Foundry's my personal favorite, especially if you have multiple platforms and you're trying to weigh which version of a game is the best one.

lol I've had this guy's channel blocked from searches and recommendations for a while because I got tired of looking at that fucking thumbnail of the majora's mask moon with the awful face that youtube keeps suggesting to me. Are his videos actually good?
Accursed Farms sounds great, I'll check him out. I'll look up the rest of the stuff in the thread as well. Thanks for all the suggestions, dudes. Pannen has always been one of my favorites for this type of content, but I've already gone through most of his videos.
I also find this guy's videos pretty interesting: youtu.be/RkKatd72PiQ

>Are his videos actually good?
Yes, one of the few "video essayists" on youtube who I would wholly recommend.

Just search for this guy's channel there's a lot of good ones. (Not OP)

coinless is such a shit gimmick. I prefer the more batshit insane ones like "beating mario 64 with a rock band drum controller"

>when I'm resting my hands
You need to chill while playing bro

TheZZAZGlitch
Strider7x
ignore EZscape, his videos are disguised to be like Summoning Salt's but in reality it is all E-celeb drama.

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Chuckled like Sonic.

>follow dozens of great youtubers that talk about shit I dont' care about in the slightest like collectable plushes, nascar, or lockpicking
>all of my actual interests have nobody making anything worth watching
>even when you go as broad as "video games" as a medium it's still an extremely small handful that make genuinely good content and upload more than once every two years

Ahoy hasn't updated in a long time though.

SummoningSalt is great.

This guy's thumbnails are really well-designed.
I found EZScape's stuff is just clickbait. Top 10 lists and caps in the titles is a huge red flag.

Gaming Historian. Tetris video was kino.

Ross is extremely obnoxious when it isn't a game dungeon. Half his content is crying about a topic with an emotional drive rather than proper research

EZScape
Apollo Legend
Pikasprey Yellow
Nick Robinson
Oddheader

>the blind Punch-Out video
shit gets me every time

Also not a channel but the 7 hours ORAS review is good if you've got time to kill

Most of these have been said but I'll reiterate anyway:
Crystal_
The ZZAZZ glitch
Pannenkoek
Stryder7x
Accursed Farms
LGR
I recently watched a few videos from Modern Vintage Gamer and he seems good so far.

noclip is pretty alright, they basically just interview game developers about how they went about making their games

some guy who goes by wavesplash produces basically professional-tier game documentaries on the making of games like star fox and sonic

Brutalmoose

Their Hitman documentary was really good

I miss Stanburdman. Just a dumb/dense dude talking about/reviewing games. He has lots of videos of shit games and good games. Also played a lot of retarded indie games. But he also has videos on great ones too, especially classics.
Karl Jobst has already been mentioned.
Zaric Zhakaron has plenty of videos on Elder Scrolls shit. His Daggerfall videos are enjoyable to watch when I’m trying to go to sleep.
I like Empty Hero’s playthroughs. I wish his Eternal Darkness playthrough was still up. Cool game.
Badassgamez has playthroughs of Tomb Raider Level Editor custom levels, and his walkthroughs of the mainline TR games are a nice nostalgia trip.

EZScape and WhiteGoose are the same breed of extremely petty people. It's actually a little pathetic

youtube.com/user/GrimbeardDiaries/videos

The greatest video game reviewer of all time. His sense of humor is AWFUL, his stylization of his videos is irritatingly unnecessary, but NO ONE does a better job of putting the experience of playing a video game into words. He is BY FAR the most talented video game reviewer that ever lived and no one else even comes remotely close. Only other issue is that he only reviews horror games and mostly adventure games on top of that. But if you can appreciate "media reviewing" as a craft then he is without peer.

youtube.com/user/MarphitimusBlackimus/videos

Weird breakdowns of the many subtle details of Half-Life. Most notably going over enemy AI.

youtube.com/channel/UCg15o2O5-_TmS2RrQL8a1dw/videos

youtube.com/user/choinate/videos

Some ultra, ultra obscure shit. You've likely never heard of 90% of these games no matter how expansive your knowledge of gaming is.

Whitegoose is a bit better than EZScape, if only because he has at least one good video.
youtube.com/watch?v=lbsJoWPt1to

What are you all referring to, all he ever does is lists and speedrunning news.

90% of those games on the second channel are just shovelware puzzle game knockoffs.

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his videos piss me off. he acts like he did some amazing high skilled hack of the game but all he did was open dolphin and hit the 'free camera' button

Yuriofwind

>i need to hear about random factoids in the background about inane subjects so i can survive my own consciousnesses

Seethe more, tranny

Good lord I'm so fucking sick of these motherfuckers forcing their shitty quirky self-insert caricatures into their videos. I literally avoid any channel that does it even if the content is interesting at this point.

>being interested in vidya subjects on the vidya board

I used to watch this guy a lot a handful of years back. I kinda just stopped one day. No idea what the dude is up to these days.

youtube.com/channel/UCT7njg__VOy3n-SvXemDHvg

Ceave Gaming if you're into Mario Maker
Stryder7x if you're into the many ways to blow Paper Mario up
Gaming Historian

It's not quite video games but also Fredrick Knudsen/Down the Rabbit Hole is a must. The Final Fantasy House is a fucking amazing video.

i REALLY love summoning salt's videos even though i have no real interest in speedrunning

youtube.com/watch?v=oudZMniib08

i also love this and the sequel. I just really love alot of the speedrun progression videos. Even though I'm never going to speedrun or contribute to speedruns

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KingK is good

>tfw Stryder is STILL finding ways to tear Paper Mario apart
Can't even believe this guy.

>my defense mechanism that's been built up for a large majority of my life doesn't allow the truth to push through

Reading shitty creepypastas and game betas
Also Twitch

youtube.com/watch?v=gH_51l--HxM
youtube.com/watch?v=gaEmIhiYof0
youtube.com/watch?v=rIUnq-AIhpk
youtube.com/watch?v=QIDixeavQL0&t=61s

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>not seethe more, BASED tranny

He also did voice acting in YIIK

Want to know about Cyberpunk 2077 and the lore of the setting it's based on?

youtube.com/channel/UC0G5rpOFcY6pOdtKsCE0p2A/videos

>those top 10 speedrunning list videos that are comprised solely of random flash games and assorted shovelware

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I see you're already familiar with summoning salt. Give Gaming Historian a go. Defunctland is great, too, but it's not vidya related.

Research Indicates
He had a deep understanding of all the goings on behind the scenes of the game, and while it does play in the background, his knowledge is clearly the focus of it, and it is a fascinating watch:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0058A651EB882B48

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Gaming Historian is pretty good, the quality of the videos are well done, informative and the guy doesn't try to be a damn comedian cracking jokes or creating skits.
Well other than his April Fool's videos, where he kind of mocks other video game channels that are that way.

I guess I'll throw Pikasprey Yellow in here, too. It's more hit and miss.

somewhat unrelated but NakeyJakey

Tomatoanus

Matt Mcmuscles has a really good series on videogame failures and why they happened.

youtube.com/watch?v=2FTLpEbYYVE&list=PLJdyZRNyk92o4AxWF2Yu_0t3NWib1v8yX

I love NakeyJakey. Dude very obviously speaks from the heart about everything and that seems strangely hard to come across.

Based oddheader

his first couple vids in the series suck tho, they get better
youtube.com/watch?v=DN-Hv3pnVz0&list=PLJdyZRNyk92o4AxWF2Yu_0t3NWib1v8yX&index=25

Stryder made a 40 minute video about a complex badge duplication glitch. What a madman.

He has some kino videos about weird accessories

>EZScape
Speedrun drama
>Apollo Legend
Speedrun drama
>Pikasprey Yellow
Only good videos are the ones are Gem Collecting, don't care about Pokemon challanges
>Nick Robinson
Used to work for Polygon -100 respect
>Oddheader
Truly based

People could tell me this nigga is the second coming of jesus and I'd still refuse to watch them because I'll always just think of this guy as Simpsons McFartgas the anti-fun killer of the kinda comfy lets play channel I liked back in 2011/2012.

>Ceave Gaming
Autistic German guy talking about Mario Maker, still impressive
>Stryder
Pannenkoek of Paper Mario
>Gaming Historian
Some kino videos
>Fredrick Knudsen
Based

>Yea Forums has tons of great channels ranging from speedruns, history of series, & technical breakdowns of design philosophy
>Yea Forums has zero good anime channels
Can't say I'm surprised, but it hurts.

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dumb frogposter

>Pannenkoek of Paper Mario
Is that supposed to be a insult?

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Why would you watch a retard talk about anime for 1 hour when you could just watch anime for 25 minutes?

Jakey is great he makes great nostalgic videos but I hate that hes trying to make music now. It's passable but it would suck to see another e-celeb leave for "muh music career"

Nobody wants to hear a fat neckbeard not named Demo talk about anime.

>Being called smart and ecudated on the game while constantly finding new ways to break the game
How is this an insult

I just wanted a retrospective on Dirty Pair.

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just gonna post my favorite youtubers in general with some basic descriptions for the non-vidya ones:

Defunctland (old theme park rides)
EmpLemon (older stuff is YTP's, newer stuff is more just either ranting about Youtube in general or eclectic documentaries)
Internet Historian (memes, mostly. also check out his secondary channel because that's where he puts the god tier retellings of shitty old fanfics)
NakeyJakey
OKI (just weird stories about weird people)
Pseudiom (mix of lost/obscure media and history both internet and ancient)
RANK10YGO (Yugioh)
Rhystic Studies (MTG, not really into the videos just about art retrospectives but the ones discussing the card game itself are kino)
Running Shine (dude only has like 1000 subs so I'll actually link a video: youtube.com/watch?v=JGGRq2AnHFM)
S1apShoes (NASCAR)
Sam O'Nella (mostly either weird history or weird nature stories)
Summoning Salt (already in OP)
UrinatingTree (sports)

>really long but well backed up content unlike Anderson
>stopped making Yea Forums content, started talking about starwars
>whatever, it's still pretty enjoyable to listen too
>undergoes a huge star wars project, likely not ever returning to video games
>that shit might as well be on hiatus while he hangs out with discord furries now.
Fuck.

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youtube.com/user/Fitzthistlewits/videos
Watch all, in order
You're welcome

The fuck ever happened to Fitz anyway?

>Hey hey people

I know he's basically Yea Forums posting in video format but his reviews are pretty entertaining. Doesn't make him any less of a nigger.

Dr. Lava lost pokemon is pretty based:
youtube.com/channel/UCtz0buhTk65A58V6E1uJvjA

Gamehut because the dude was a developer during the sega genesis days and programmed sonic 3d blast:
youtube.com/channel/UCfVFSjHQ57zyxajhhRc7i0g

Heeew has some nice smash videos and exploits:
youtube.com/channel/UC7a_SNxd34tycAfyAykhBng

MagicScrumpy and 8-bit music theory
youtube.com/channel/UCDoKh1xoqKDfUr3YxQBs_1w
youtube.com/channel/UCeZLO2VgbZHeDcongKzzfOw

Both do music theory analysis on music, I like 8bit more but scruffy does some great pikmin videos.

I'm surprised no one mentioned retropolis zone yet:
youtube.com/channel/UCqD0cS7348vy9atmJKt5w0g

Stop skeletons from fighting is the gaming historian of odds and ends, great host and insight in random gaming shit.

Came here to say this.
The visuals are amazing and the insight on the developing of games is appreciated.
Also, bonus points for being a Segafag

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He did an AMA on reddit a couple years ago, says he has a real job and had no material to keep the channel going, got tired of it or something

He's probably doing fine

>Only good videos are the ones are Gem Collecting, don't care about Pokemon challanges
What about Soft Lock Picking?

If you like technical minecraft stuff, ray works, gnembon and ilmango are great