Media these days is all about watching what we want to, when we want to. Preferably for free. And in the gaming space, A lot of the “cover everything” outlets (from websites to TV to print) can’t compete with the level of depth of specialists on Youtube.
What specialists do you regularly go back to? Both in a gaming sense, and in general. Who makes you laugh, who provides insights, and who’s worth watching?
It’ll be no surprise I watch a bit of Dark Souls and Bloodborne content. For lore, VaatiVidya is king. EpicNameBro is great too, though has veered a little more towards the Let’s Play stuff for my liking. Vageta was great too, back in the day, with stuff like his one-shot boss challenge.
It’s just striking, and a little worrying for traditional media I think, that we just don’t have anywhere near the time to delve into these games at the same level. Not every gamer needs that level of depth in their content, but if I’m into a game at all, I want to go straight to the person who really knows what they’re talking about.
As for non-gaming stuff, La Liga has a Youtube channel now, and is thus one of my regulars. It’s finally easy to see some high quality highlights for Barca.
I’ve been doing some GameMaker stuff, and have found the tutorials of Rm2kdev (another Aussie) very useful.
Actually, going through my list I’ve realised how bare it is. How about you?
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92 responses to “Off Topic: What’s On Your Regular YouTube Watchlist?”
Scott Manly, KSP!
Flyyy Safe!
Sometimes i give my Kerbals Scottish accents as they do things, and say “Hullo!”
Did you guys notice how Mr Manley has been toning it down? In his recent trip back home, it’s like his accent thickened… and the Ayes certainly had it. He was about a kerbalwidth away from a good “Stitch this, Jimmy!”
Jackfrags
Been watching Frankieonpcin1080p for ages and JackFrags occasionally, but Jack releases videos more regularly than Frankie.
Jim Sterling
Yahtzee Croshaw
movie trailers
Cracked
Wisecrack
Team Coco
a bunch of random game & movie reviewers & some 90s anime channels that put up full movies, bad dubbing & all! 😀
I’m subscribed to stuff on youtube, but without an offline download option I can’t really keep up with it all.
That would be amazing!
They let you download Play movies/tv shows, so why not extend that to youtube videos and then just make them self delete after 48 hours like the rentals do.
you can do this with third party apps pretty easily. thats what i do with my Windows phone is just download a bunch of youtube videos over wifi so i can watch them on the train to work in the morning.
Look up “4K Video Downloader”
I know there are downloaders, but I want something in the Android youtube app itself.
You can do this somehow. My cousin downloads a few gigs every night to watch throughout the day. I know this because one time his dad left his smartphone hotspot active and got a big bill.
There are apps, programs and websites to download them.
Not in the youtube app, but there is an app, I think it’s called “tubemate”. I haven’t used it for a while, but from memory it’s pretty good.
The Gaming Lemon and TypicalGamer are the two gaming channels I follow. CVG is also alright sometimes.
Mighty Car Mods is the best channel on the Tube though.
Marques Brownlee
Mighty Car Mods
Steve-O
Bad Lip Reading
Honest Trailers (after I’ve seen the movie)
I’m not on YT that much
Vsauce, MentalFloss, Honest Trailers and sometimes Cinema Sins.
Super Best Friends Play, Jim Sterling and JonTron.
Buzzfeed
Cracked
Sexual lobster
Yahtzee
Game theory (not what it used to be)
Did you know gaming
Did you know anime
Blacklightattack (best streamer Eva!)
support Sexual Lobster, our crazy aussie superstar!
I swear to schmod, the day I signed up for game theory it went boring
Have a whole bunch of Battlefield subs though I don’t watch it anymore.
Lots of World of Tanks stuff but I only really watch Foch/Quickybaby and Jingles’ content
World of Warships I can’t go past iChase’s vids.
Racespot/Empty Box for my iRacing needs.
That’s about it
IGN
Acheivement Hunter
Funhaus
Pat the NES Punk
Cinemassacre
Gamespot
Machinma
I’m surprised I got this far down the comments list before seeing AH…pretty much all I watch on youtube apart from Fail Army. Not a heavy youtuber…I watch about 10-20 minutes a day max if I’m lucky.
Fail army is great for some mindless fun
Funhaus
Rooster Teeth
Achievement Hunter
The Know
Angry Joe
The Young Turks
Chris Stuckmann
Boogie2988
All I really watch nowadays is YouTube. And True Detective.
dashcams
Super Best Friends Play (their Bloodborne LP is amazing)
Total Biscuit – Gaming news and info
Jesse Cox – LP’s
Robbaz – Lets Plays
Smarter Everyday – Science
Vsauce – Science/Geek stuff
Vinesauce
Its Ok to be Smart – Science
Slomo Guys – Science?
Glove and Boots – Skits with puppets.
ASAP Science – Science
Mental Floss – Science
Minute Earth – Science
Minute Physics – Science
Tested – Science and Tech
PBS Idea Channel?
Cinemassacre (Angry Video Game Nerd)
Super Best Friends Play
JonTronShow
Angry Joe
Lazy Game Reviews
Good Game
Pat the NES Punk
outsidexbox
KindaFunny + KindaFunnyGames
SeeJayAre
Nintendo Collecting (Lithium017)
The Comedy Button
Matt Lees
roosterteeth/letsplay – good gaming videos.
TotalBiscuit, Jesse Cox, some Yogscast channels and Geek and Sundry are my current subscriptions.
magmaflower
JeremyJahns
Schmoesknow
Honest trailers
HISHE (How it should have ended)
Movie fights – but Andy Signor is starting to piss me off.
And anytime Neil DeGrasse Tyson does a video.
FailArmy
Well let’s see *opens subscription page*
Angry Joe
Anime Vice
Arm Chair Directors
Bad Lip Reading
Belated Media(Hasn’t released anything in a long time(
Bluedrake42
Boogie2988
BrandonJLa
ChipCheezumLPs
Chris Stuckmann
Cinemassacre
Cinephillia Anonymous
Continue?
Corridor Digital
Cox ‘n’ Crendor
Daym Drops
Dexbonus
Disco The Parakeet
DoubleFineProd
Dslyecxi
Elder-Geek.com
EMC Monkeys
Errant Signal
GameGrumps
Geek and Sundry
Giant Bomb
Glove and Boots
GoG.com
Happy Dragon Pictures
Harry Partridge
ItmeJP
JeremyJahns
Jesse Cox
Jim Sterling
JonTron Show
nKNIGHTWING01
Lazy Game Reviews
LORE
Markiplier
Node
PC GAMER
Polaris
PressHeartToContinue
pwnisher
Rocketjump
Simon’s Cat
Smarter Every Day
Smooth McGroove
Super Beard Bros
Super Bunnyhop
Tested
That One Video Gamer
The Slow Mo Guys
The Warp Zone
TheSw1tcher
TotalBiscuit
Watchmojo.com
yahtzee19
Pretty much my subs list too, if you ad Rooster Teeth and their Lets Play channel and Funhaus.
– Rooster Teeth/Achievement Hunter’s various shows incl. Slow Mo Guys
– Don Shipley’s Phony Navy Seal of the Week (at least up until recently when he started his own pay site to prevent false DMCA takedowns from people he’s exposed)
– GIFs with Sound
That’s about it. I used to watch a few other channels but I don’t really watch anything regularly anymore. In a lot of cases I remain subscribed in the hopes they might put up new content at some point.
did you know gaming
Oh yeah, me too.
They’re good for introducing other interesting channels too 🙂
TotalBiscuit – general games info and industry commentary.
Jim Sterling – a good counterbalance to TB’s political correctness.
Yahtzee Croshaw – just recently started watching his Zero Punctuation stuff… I have a lot to catch up on.
Riff Repeater – Rocksmith DLC previews, so I know what I’m getting into.
Andrew JRT – Clueless Guardians is usually pretty hilarious.
I mainlined Zero Punctuation when my wife & son were away.
all this free game time & I spent it listening to someone whine about games XD
I keep having to pause it every few minutes so I can recover enough to continue paying attention – I usually get about halfway through a video before I’m cacking myself too much to continue. XD
I liked him initially but these days he just seems so forced and like he’s trying too hard.
Gaming:
Caddicarus
Many A True Nerd
NerdCubed
Yahtzee19
Total Biscuit
Jim Sterling
Scott Manley
Movies:
CinemaSins
Screen Junkies
Love Caddicarus. So good.
Kinda Funny Games and Gameovergreggy
I’m subscribed to a few channels but the only one I watch religiously is Norm Macdonald Live. Always loved his humour since the SNL days. Still the best ever to do Weekend Update.
Neebs Gaming
Jack Frags
Level Cap
NCIX
LinusTechTips
warcroft gaming
I don’t really watch YouTube channels regularly and just watch whatever gets linked by people that sounds interesting or pertains to something I’m trying to learn that is better explained visually. I’m one of those people that can read things faster than it takes for a video to explain it so it irks me no end to have to sit through a video when I’m trying to obtain information.
Game Sack – The BEST retro game themed show on YouTube. Gorgeous, well captured footage, and loads of information. Joe and Dave know their banter can get corny, but they run with it, and it makes it a delight to watch.
Metal Jesus Rocks – Another retro game collecting channel. Does great lists of hidden gems for consoles and retro themed episodes. Needs more Sega Saturn though.
Adam Koralik – Retro game collector who can be slightly grating, but I found his series of videos on getting the best picture quality possible from retro consoles invaluable for my real-life efforts in doing the same thing. Great pick-up videos too.
Lord Karnage – Classic Game Room has been a thing with me for the longest time. NOt much into the comics side of it, but the game episodes are highly entertaining.
Fail Army, Gran Fail Videos & Dash Cam Owners Australia – My weekly pick-me-ups.
Game chasers!!!! best retro game hunters bar none!
this just 10000000x this! The Game Chasers are absolutely amazing!
Matt Chat: https://www.youtube.com/user/blacklily8
If you’re even a tiny bit interested in gaming history this guy has interviewed everyone; Brian Fargo, Tim Cain, John Romero, everyone.
Surprised Extra Credits hasn’t been mentioned. Really good dev side info and discussions, and while you might not agree with everything they say, they make good points and are always happy to be corrected. Plus Extra History is a really entertaining look at some major historical events.
On top of that, Vsauce, Death Battle (part of Screw Attack but one of their only segments I enjoy), ERB, League of Super Critics, Couch Tomato, Last Week Tonight (does that count? haha), Completionist and Game Theory can be pretty great at times.
Linus
NCIX
OC3D
Tasty PC
Stonefox
Athene
MelonieMac
Crendor
Tradechat
Boogie
CynicalBrit
FriendlyJordies
Occulus
Pauls Hardware
Russel Brand
PC Powerplay
loads of others and music ones as well
Big fan of The Rad Brad.
Also thoroughly enjoy the ludicrous adventures of VanossGaming, H2O Delirious, Daithi De Nogla, Mini Ladd, Lui Calibre. These guys are a bunch of friends who play random games together and have the best time doing it. I laugh the whole way through these videos. They are ridiculous and a great way to unwind.
Game Grumps
JonTron
Caddicarus
Escapist (Zero Punctuation)
GIFs With Sound
FailArmy
WatchMojo
And, because I’m on r/LetsPlay, a bunch of smaller channels:
BornLosersGaming
The D-Pad
GameFace Max
The Acquaintances (my own channel, which I monitor constantly)
Apart from that, I don’t watch much.
Screwattack (mainly for deathbattle)
Rkosmik
drhankeey
Littlevmills (dude does epic nintendo & killer instinct rock)
Gametal (2 of his tracks are epic & both involve singing, his take on the 1st part of dancing mad involving ominous english chanting & his redo of the zero two theme with edobean)
Glitchxcity (well, this is what you get when you put pokemon music through the nightclub scene)
Switcher (the zaibatsu are some people that are not to be messed with, just ask the dood)
Maximilian dood
total biscuit (us brits have to stick together)
Game theory (FOR SCIENCE AND NINTENDO & FNAF THEORIES)
m.productions (for metroid & legend of zelda)
gvgkid ( guilty gear and blaz blu music)
angryjoeshow
Etc
I won’t bother with a list, but my criteria for youtube subs is that I have to want to watch every video released. If a video is posted that I’m not interested in – unsub. A few that I have are Marques Brownlee, Vsauce’s, Smarter Every Day, and Mark Brown.
I’ve got 185 subscriptions so here’s a few of my favourites.
Accursed Farms – Home of Ross Scott’s creations, such as Freeman’s mind and Civil protection
David Firth – The legend himself, creator of Salad Fingers, Burnt face man and Not Stanley
DIYperks – Not particularly frequent uploads, but almost always quality, interesting projects
Drumeo – Partially advertising for their paid website, they upload hour long lessons with industry professional drummers every now and again, very helpful stuff and well produced to boot
EveryFrameAPainting – Film nerds nerding out about direction in films both recent and old (their piece on the film Drive is amazing, highly recommended for any film buffs)
eXtelevision – For all that competitive TF2 goodness, see also TFTV
FeministFrequency – Fight me, she makes well produced content with an interesting perspective and an eye for interesting subject matter, regardless of your view on her
FilmMakerIQ – More nerdy cinema/ film stuff
HardwareCanucks – Well produced reviews of PC cases, Headphones, Camera gear and other stuff
Jerma985 – TF2 stuff plus other silly stuff
Jim Sterling – FUCK KONAMI
JK Brickworks – A bloody genius with Lego
Lachlanlikesathing – Mostly Headphone reviews, some other audio and camera stuff as well. Also Aussie
LinusTechTips – Frequent, high quality uploads with PC related subject matter. Better than the name makes it sound
MKBHD – He’s been mentioned before, see other comments
Paul’s Hardware – Soothing voice plus PC hardware. Recommended PC building buddy.
PBS Game/Show – A quasi academic approach to videogame related questions, social issues and development trends, really good content
Peter Draws – Peter draws, pretty self-explanatory really
RemusLab – did the Paper Half-Life series among other things, quality flash animations
SexuaLobster – Animations and stuff, also Aussie
Star – TF2 stuff mostly, other games as of late
Tek Syndicate – Mostly PC and “audiophile” stuff
THE BIG LEZ SHOW OFFICIAL – Big Lez Show
Game Theory – Well, I for one still like MatPat’s stuff (can’t get much out of the other stuff though)
TheFlyingMuke – Not Wizards, Aussie, was in the year above me in High School as well
TheNeedleDrop – feeling a decent 8 to a light 9, tran… …sition
Valvetime – Valve news basically
Vsauce – Obligatory
Wisecrack – Thug Notes, Earthling Cinema and 8-bit Philosophy. Great stuff.
Edit: Formatting. Also I spend way too much time on Youtube.
Regulars are:
Robbaz
Neebs Gaming
Hank and Jed
Smitty
Hank and Jed
VaatiVidya
EpicNameBro
Assorted smash channels
331Erock
adlingtont
AH Community
Anton CrinkleCraft
AR12Gaming
Aureylian
AvidyaZEN
B1GnBr0wN
BdoubleO100
BevoLJ
Biffa2001: Minecraft, Mods & More
BlameTheController
BrenyBeast – Minecraft
Call Me Puddles
CallMeBunchies
catatonikC4T
ChristopherOdd
CinemaSins
Coestar
Dash Cam Owners Australia
davidangel64
DefendTheHouse
DidYouKnowGaming?
direwolf20
docm77
DulJuice
ESL
EthosLab
FalseSymmetry
FRANKIEonPCin1080p
Fred & Emily
Funhaus
FVDisco
Game Kids
GameFails
GameGrumps
gbay99
Generikb
Going Quantum
Graphoniac
Grohlvana
GuudeBoulderfist
Handmade Hero
HePlayCheat
HouseholdHacker
Hypnotizd
iJevin
ImAnderZEL
impulseSV
jackfrags
JL2579
Keralis
kurtjmac
LapisDemon
League of Legends – Oceania
LetsPlay
LoL Esports
Matt Lees
Mega64
Mental Floss
Mighty Car Mods
Millbeeful
MongooseCountry
Monkeyfarm
Monstercat
Mumbo Jumbo
nebris88
ngotie
Noisestorm
Numberphile
OlanRogers
ONS1AUGH7
Pahimar
pakratt13
Panda4994
paulsoaresjr
PauseUnpause
PC Gamer
Pcjunkie Mods
Phylol
proleterbeats
PsiSyndicate
PTXofficial
PureSalvation17
Pyropuncher
RaptrX
RocketJump
RockOn1m1 🙂
Rooster Teeth
Rooster Teeth Shorts
RT Labs
RyanTheAllmighty
sacriel42
Samalingus
SciShow
SethBling
SideStrafe
Sl1pg8r – Minecraft, Mods, and MOAR!
Snipergoo19
SolarFall Games
Solwolf
SpeedDemosArchiveSDA
Squirrel
Tango Tek
TC9700Gaming
TDKMinecraft
The Game Theorists
The Know
The Mighty Potato!
The Slow Mo Guys
TheAdiposeTV
TheJessassin
TheSLAPTrain1
TheSyndicateProject
Tobuscus
TobyGames
triple j
twiitchh
TwoAwesomeGamers
UKF Dubstep
Vechs
videogamedunkey
VintageBeef
W92Baj – Minecraft and games
xisumavoid
ZedaphPlays
ZiggyD Gaming
Zisteau
ZombieCleo
Zueljin Gaming – Minecraft, Indie, and More
My current 130 subscriptions.
I watch about 15 channels daily/weekly
Total Biscuit
Jim Sterling
Anglophenia (though she has left now 🙁
Gopher
Epic Name Bro
Arumba (when I have time)
Quill18
Hannah from Yogcast
I don’t actually subscribe to anything, ’cause I won’t use my Gmail account on YouTube, but I follow the following with some frequency:
GameXplain
Boogie2988
Brain Scratch Commentaries
Watchlist? What’s that?
Youtube’s just some thing I go to when people link me to things they’re talking about. Or when I need to find visual/audio of something I’m talking about.
your missing out :\ theres a huge amount of awesome original content creators on there making some great shows.
Exactly, too much effort to wade through it all 😛
Mostly though, I feel like watching things takes too much direct attention to bother with, when I’m in the middle of juggling skype conversations while also reading this that and the other in my browser. And/or sometimes doing those in the downtime of whatever game I’m playing instead. Maybe with a TV show on across the room that I’m half listening to, though not all that often.
barrydennen12 although the channel seems to be dying because one of them is depressed.
Funhaus!
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME GRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMPS
i havent watched them since Jon left. still decent?
AWE me – interest
badatvideogames net – friends VG channel
CalebElijah – music
CSGuitar89 – music
David Erick Ramos – music
Dr. Pez – VGM – music
DSC – music
FamilyJules7X – music
Guy Collins Animation – animations
League of Legends – …
Marc Papeghin – French Horn – music
Mental Floss – science
PlayerPiano – music
Screen Junkies – movies general
Smooth McGroove – music
Songe – music
TeamFourStar – DBZ Abridged
The Yak Conspiracies – Comedy/Australian
Veritasium – Science
only two i watch weekly are Extra credits, and for nintendo Gamnesia
Nerdcubed 4 life
Pretty much just the Super Best Friends, dudes like all the games i like and are super legit compared to other lets players.
FigaRo
Funhaus
Rooster Teeth + Lets Play
Totalbiscuit
Jesse Cox
PressHeartToContinue
AngryJoeShow
And about 100+ more channels, 90% gaming.
Lisa Freemont Street
A Vintage Vanity
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
Food Wishes
Threadbanger
Simon’s Cat
(not all of them but some of my favourites)
ORICA GreenEDGE
Good Game
AsapSCIENCE
Geek & Sundry
It’s Okay To Be Smart
minutephysics
The RSA – Mostly just for RSA animate
I normally just click on videos that have good cleavage in the thumbnail
My main ones are:
Vanossgaming,
Mr Sark,
Node,
itsmejp (Watching roleplay up to week 32).
Can’t believe I didn’t see maximillion dood up here. Most engaging fighting game youtuber I’ve seen
outsidexbox and Playstation Access primarily, but also other things like booktubers and such.
Okay here goes
cinemassacre (aka AVGN)
Jon Tron
Jim Sterling
reviewTechUSA
IGN Game Scoop
Classic Game Room
SunlightBlade (for his Dark Souls plays of the week!)
Honarable mention goes to Blitzwinger who my 4 yo watches for the Lego games.
A lot of the stuff I’m still subbed to has fallen by the wayside:
WiiViewr: since the WiiU came out he’s been doing a lot less.
TheRadBrad: I subbed to this guy because he was finding cool user tracks to play on Trials Evolution, but the rest if his channel is uninspired lets play garbage.
DSPGaming: watch his Dark Souls play through and know that there’s someone out there who sucks even worse than you!
Machinima: Remember when they were good? At one point Inside Gaming was the closest I got to regular television – and then theysackedeveryone.
BTW best YouTube vids ever on Dark Souls are by a dude called WildPie01
Filthy Frank
Big Lez Show
MIghty Car mods
Lore
Vehicle Virgins
Vsauce
Vice
The Waffle Wizards
Youtube has literally replaced TV networks for me.
* AlphaOmegaSin
* Ashens
* Bad Lip Reading
* Bdizz2012 (G4 tech TV)
* BEGIRAGONS (awesome home made japanese game shows)
* Boogie2988
* BrutalMoose
* Caddicarus
* Cartoon Hangover
* Cinemassacre (James Rolfe)
* Clan of the Grey Wolf
* Did You Know Gaming?
* Extraashens
* Filmmaker IQ
* Game Sack
* Gamester81
* Gaming Historian
* Heroes of the Storm
* How to Talk Australians
* Jontron Show
* JudgeJP
* LetsPlay
* Lord Karnage (Classic Game Room)
* Megwin TV (youtube Japan)
* Pat The NES Punk
* PeanutButterGamer
* ProJared
* Red Vs. Blue (official)
* Retroware
* Rooster Teeth
* RTlabs
* Sonic for Hire
* TamashiiHiroka
* The Game Chasers (I recommend you all check these guys out they are fucking amazing)
* The Shady Jay Show
* The Slow Mo Guys
* YuriOfWind
* Buzzfeed (dont judge me)
* Vsauce
* honest trailers
* Good Mythical Morning
and the list grows as i find more that i love.
The Tonight Show
ASAPScience
PrankvsPrank
BadLipReading
BarracksDubs
BlendTec
PostModernJukebox
FailArmy
You’re all missing Amove.tv: TAC!!! (The Angry Chicken)
ARRRGGGHHGHGHAHGAAGHGHHH 🙂
I also watch plenty of Man Vs Food, minuitephysics, Last Week Tonight and other such wonders.. I’ve always watched Yahtzee from the escapist itself not youtube.
I watch heaps of Borderlands 2 stuff. Mostly of farming bosses for legendaries and also finding out about legendary weapons I’ve just picked up.
Not really gaming related but https://www.youtube.com/user/331Erock is the only person I follow regularly on YouTube.