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I specifically didn't say my experience, I said the experience. I find it rather depressing that so many people first experience amnesia through watching LPers, who really just are there to entertain the audience with a very base style of humor; it's hard to appreciate amnesia for what it is (specifically it's story, which is one of my favorite aspects) if you're too busy mindlessly laughing at the harried predicament the LPer is getting him/herself into.

Which is what I was saying. The point LPs isn't to give people the chance to experience the game (the game itself is capable of that on its own). You are there to see whoever is playing it. It can be as intelligent or as stupefying as whoever is playing it makes it. And I happen to enjoy lowbrow humor when it's executed properly. "Base" is not necessarily synonymous with "vacuous". It's visceral and relies completely on the performance.

I suppose if you enjoy family guy bits you'd find these specific types of LPers amusing, but LP humor clashes way too much with atmospheric horror in my humble opinion.

I don't, and I resent most of what PDP has done, but as I've said before it doesn't matter how much it compromises the atmosphere.

Really? You mean like when you play games normally? You have to have annoying background noise when you play games? Depending on the game's genre (and imho especially with atmospheric horror games) silence can be pretty damn golden.

So play the game yourself. You seem to not realize the reason why LPs exist in the first place (and if you do I apologize, but in that case your opinions deceive you). Watching someone fully immersed in a video game is literally watching somebody else play a video game. If it doesn't provide me with any enjoyment I have no reason to watch it. If I want to experience the game unfiltered I'm going to play it myself, or if I must watch a video I will watch a video walkthrough of it.

Exactly. They entertain people. Not in a way just playing the game achieves, they throw in their own humor, and in the case of far too many, this humor clashes with any sort of atmosphere games offer.

And watching rifftrax also detracts from the experience of watching the movie. But the entire point of the rifftrax is the commentary, not the movie. The only difference is that with rifftrax the movie is generally "so bad it's good" and with horror games LPs specifically it's the fact that they evoke such a strong emotional response.

You make it sound like I'm making sweeping generalizations about all LPers on youtube, and if came across that way, that really wasn't my point. My point was that the type of LPing that the OP was referring to, PDP-esque game casting, detracts from the overall value of the game since the focus isn't on the game and it's marvelous story, atmosphere, and narrative, but rather on the LPer himself. I like a good handful of LPers, just not those who detract from the quality of the game. I think some LPers can greatly add to the experience of a game, but only certain LPers, and certain games. Atmospheric horror games really don't mix well with LPers, imho.

Well I'm sorry but you did, and continue to do so. I don't disagree that the specific style that PDP spearheads so to speak is annoying, but even PDP has done some decent stuff and I do not think your demonization of horror game LPs in general is warranted at all. As concerns the last statement, I refer you again to Day[9]'s Let's play of the game. He takes the game completely seriously and yet due to his boundless charisma and knack for humor he manages to make the LP simultaneously terrifying and hilarious to watch, without trivializing the game whatsoever. If you can't respect that, let's just agree to disagree.