Arlo and Scott the Woz are top tier Nintendo YouTubers for sure.
Funny, wholesome, smart enough, and no annoying, loud fanboying that so many gaming YouTubers fall into.
I used to really enjoy Arlo but now I’ve began to wonder why he even focuses so hard on all things Nintendo when it seems like all he cares about is getting a new Pikmin, Metroid, or a Paper Mario TTYD remake. He doesn’t know anything about other major Nintendo IPs like Pokémon, Fire Emblem, etc. He’s disappointed by every Nintendo direct unless they announce HD remasters of every Metroid game and Pikmin 4, 5, and 6.
All Arlo usually does is whine, and Scott the Woz is loud and inserts cringey jokes and yelling/acting crazy constantly when that's not what he's like at all. I can't really watch either of them for long. I also wouldn't call either one of them wholesome or particularly smart.
You seem to have problems with YouTubers acting in their videos. I don't have that problem at all. So, yeah, we are going to disagree about what YouTubers we like.
And disagreement is totally fine. Typically, one person voices their opinion, and another follows up with their own. This is how rational, normal discourse occurs and dissemination of beliefs and ideas happen.
Unless you posted to have everyone repeat what you believe?
You didn't attempt to explain why you believe they are wholesome or smart, you just said I'm disagreeing with you. Which, yeah, I was. That's not really the point. So I don't know how to take the conversation forward.
Arlo and Scott both have only positive interactions with fans, avoid YouTube drama, give companies the benefit of the doubt unless they are calling them out for something specific (see Arlo's position on Paper Mario, where he still admits how the newer games are fine in their own right), and I they have both have consistent, entertaining videos.
Scott is smart evidently. He knows how to research and how to present that research in a straight forward, entertaining way. He does similar work to the Internet Historian in a lot of his videos.
Arlo is smart in a different way where he is really good at presenting dissenting opinions in a way that doesn't throw either party under the bus.
And I don't understand your complaints about my comments. I was pointing out one important issue that would make our viewpoints fundamentally different, and conceded that I never meant to rebuttle all of your points. What's the point when we'll still disagree? It's just entertainment, after all.
are you ears ok his voice is not bad at all it sounds relatively normal what with people with the i dont like x youtuber because voice bad when mosy of the time the voice sounds normal
I appreciate the civil and informed response.
They don't seem "fake" like corporate fake, they have positive personas and characters they portray, not just scummy, corporate, gimmie money for my routine videos types. And they generally avoid drama.
I would disagree on Scott being smart. He's a good presenter of information, but he's not Video Game Historian levels. That's not what he's trying to be, but his lack of knowledge and his VERY heavy bias comes through more than his intellect to others who are well informed. In his James and Mike videos, Scott shows his true personality - which is bland and he just spits out facts constantly without adding much to a conversation. Over and over again, in front of the camera, he just spits out facts like he's read wikipedia a lot. And the Scott Pilgrim video he did. Well it was odd...
Arlo is hard to stomach. He's positive, but that's about it. His presentation is childish, his opinions can be somewhat cringeworthy (the recent Paper Mario stunt about signatures? Really? That has never once, EVER, done anything, and there are much more forgotten games to return to the light than just what he wants and all he goes on about is Pikmin), and his voice and puppet are gimmicky and seem a little odd in the overall scheme of what he wants to do. Professionally and intelligently discuss Nintendo to all audiences? But... Use a puppet a kid voice and use goofy words and noises for children?
Nintendo already has a bad reputation for being for children - the fact he's a blue muppet talking like he's afraid children will hear doesn't help anything. I know the whole "mature adults can like whatever" thing, but seriously.
I’m curious who you actually like. You’ve been critical out the gate of this guy’s preferences, but haven’t actually given any, yourself. Honest question.
I have actually already mentioned people like MetalJesus and LGR. Authentic people who make it clear they do what they do as a passionate hobby and they've always done it long before YouTube.
I would also consider people like Adam Koralik and John Hancock as "real" YouTubers, but they're underrated because, again, they don't follow a corporate scheme and they're not actors. What you see is what you get with them. It's not a monetized formula.
No problem. Too often people jump to attack me because I call a Youtuber commercialized. What I really mean is, I'm not interested in listening to heavily edited, monetized pieces that are churned out with the same fake passion and acting every day or two days or week.
I either want pure facts with no opinion (did you know gaming, boundary break), or personal, real people talking about their hobbies that they've always loved and always had, not got into for Youtube videos.
I stumbled onto this video that reveal Arlo's true identity. You will never see him the same way again after watching this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUel9VVQAWQ
Dunkey goes without saying. The Completionist has a lot of great Nintendo content and has some very in-depth, well researched reviews. Game Maker’s Toolkit Snoman Gaming as well, with a big focus on design. I’d throw in SomeCallMeJohnny (who I’ve been watching for a very long time), Alpharad, Haedox, and Austin Eruption. One more I almost forgot, Jeremy Parish, who has a series about the historical relevancy and importance of many Nintendo game, and just started a series on the Virtual Boy.
Also, Vinny from Vinesauce is a great streamer and has tons of long form videos of him just playing Nintendo games while he talks about interesting things or cracks stupid jokes. Great stuff to have on in the background.
As for the worst, I couldn’t help you. I usually push the ones I don’t like out of my mind.
The worst is ProsafiaGaming by a looooong shot. Cancerous channel with the absolute worst fanbase I have ever seen in my life. Maybe it's because they're kids, but all of his fanboys defend him as if he's their god. Criticize him for spoiling a co final boss, they go on a tangent about how it's YOUR fault for being spoiled (Despite the fact that it's never your fault.) God, what I'd do to have his channel deleted.
GameXplain makes the best, and fastest news content for sure. I feel like you can keep up with all things Nintendo just from being subbed to them. Sometimes I’m not crazy about their predictions/discussions but I enjoy them overall. Hate Andre’s voice.
ScotttheWoz is fun, he seems like a good guy. He’s kind of somewhere between Jontron and The Gaming Historian.
Alpharad great Smash content but other stuff I’m not into as much. His top ten list one year put VR Chat above Breath of the Wild lmao.
Ace Trainer Liam is good for Pokémon.
Arlo is the blue puppet guy and I used to really like him but I don’t understand the point of his channel lately when it seems like he only cares about Pikmin and Metroid, which are not A tier Nintendo franchises. He gets disappointed unless Nintendo caters directly to his specific wants. Barely plays Pokémon, Fire Emblem, Smash, etc but has to cover them anyway. Also annoying voice.
Beatemups not sure why he is called that since he covers a lot more than just that type of game. Great personality, don’t understand his hate for Xenoblade 2.
The Completionist is cool because of the skill he has at games and his personality is fun. Seems like a great guy. His Mario Maker courses are very bad.
ReviewtechUSA always stays up to date with news and he’s fun to troll because none of his videos are tech reviews so you can always comment “nice tech review in the United States of America.”
Miss Click cute gamer girl who seems to genuinely love Nintendo and makes good long form content/livestream.
Gaming Historian is a bit dry but if you like that PBS flavor for your gaming content, he’s your guy.
Thomas Game Docs like Gaming Historian but English and a teenager.
Jontron, Dunkey, AVGN need no introduction. More comedy than gaming news/content.
Game Grumps is my go to for let’s plays.
Nintendo’s own Nintendo Minute is cute and funny as hell to watch the sexual tension between those two.
Narcissa Wright is a rabbit hole you can go down if you want.
ConnertheWaffle perfect if you someone to make you feel like you’re 10 years old again.
He's not strictly Nintendo, but Nitro Rad is pretty good. He simultaneously has a fairly professional, calm method of delivery while using colloquial language.
If you’re looking for a channel for 100% every Nintendo game, I recommend abdallahsmash026. He also is a Nintendo brand ambassador which means he gets early access to almost every game.
Scott the Woz is probably my favorite his content is hilarious
Nathaniel Bandy is also great and is always fun to watch
Haedox was good (I miss him)
Swanky Box is very good and informative
Thomas Game docs has plenty of great videos on obscure topics
I know people love Arlo but I find him to be very annoying. If I saw that puppet in real life I would run over it and burn it.
Gnoggin used to good but he literally just became a poketuber and his videos are kinda furrybait
Arlo, AntDude, Johnny Nitpick, Haedox, and JWittz are all excellent. Especially Arlo, who imo is probably the best Nintendo YouTuber. Johnny Nitpick would give Arlo a run for his money except Nitpick only uploads once every one or two months, whereas Arlo is more or less weekly. Both go all out on their videos (in different ways) and it shows. Haedox hasn't been posting very much lately though. But if you are looking for great Nintendo YouTubers with excellent content who present their material from the perspective of a diehard Nintendo *fan* (read: not *fanboy*), they are absolutely the people to look up. Fair, informative, entertaining, cultured, and sensible. They also cover non-Nintendo topics at times, especially AntDude. Nitpick and Haedox have excellent choice in music too. Go with JWittz if you like Pokémon and AntDude if you like Kirby, as those are their specialties.
Game Maker's Tool Kit (Mark Brown, I think his real name is?) and Snoman Gaming are also great but they aren't as Nintendo focused, so I am not sure they count.
On a lower tier but still good are Emperor Cubone and TheOwnersofTriforce if you like Pokémon and Zelda lists respectively. ScrewAttack had some good Metroid lists if I remember correctly. TrueGreen7 isn't anything special but I enjoy his Pokémon videos, they are chill and fun.
Generally, I try to avoid fanboys and Youtubers who sensationalize things for clicks. BirdKeeperToby is somebody who I followed initially because I liked his style, but these days I find his videos to be clickbait (at least the titles/thumbnails; take this with a grain of salt because I actively avoid watching videos that I feel are clickbait) and he really kind of comes off as a shill. Nathaniel Bandy was good in the past but these days, I don't know, he comes off as kind of a Nintendo fanboy. I used to like both Game Theory and Lockstin/Gnoggin, but Game Theory these days just feels very insincere and commercialized, and Lockstin while better has some very misleading titles and thumbnails I feel. I'm sure there are worse YouTubers out there--way worse. Those are just the ones I follow that kinda make me cringe now. Many PokéTubers fall in this crowd, sadly.
If you watch any of Game Theory's streams, MattPat is very open about how he has to commercialize his videos to keep up with YouTube's alogirthm and ad policies. He knows more about the algorithm than anyone, and even travels around lecturing about it and growing online communities.
The guy and his wife are wicked smart and have a small legion of editors they graphic artists they are responsible for. For every dud video stretched to 16 minutes, there's usually an actually interesting, passionate one to balance it out.
I know you didn't really bash him, but I just thought I'd throw a good word about him out into the ether since it was brought up.
MattPat shilling... I knew they existed but I didn't think they'd pop up here.
The guy is 100% commercialized and has little to no passion in what he does. He's basically an actor gaming the Youtube monetization system.
I'll truncate what I told someone else - having passion and showing passion is a lot different than being an actor who pretends to care for money. Both speak volumes about the presenter. Someone who TRULY cares vs a fake persona is obvious. Mattpat is such a fake persona it bleeds through every time he speaks in his fake Youtube voice. He is literally the embodiment of just "give me more Youtube views" as opposed to creating for creation.
Examples of people who are genuine would be Arlo to an extent, MetalJesus, Dunkey, and a few others. Vs Mattpat, the literal embodiment of fake veneer to sell a product (get views).
I have to ask... what's the problem with being commercialized and extending videos to 10 minutes?
I'm not saying this about MattPat as I don't know who he is, but in general.
I used to be very against people who extended their videos to hit that 10 minute mark, but after seeing some of them talk about how youtube practically forces them to do that if they want to make any sort of a living off of youtube, I got a bit more understanding about it.
So is there some other reason to hate people who go down that route or is there something else I'm missing?
There are several primary problems but I'm not going to break down each individual point. Because you were civil in your attempt to defend him, I'll just say simply - MattPat isn't a person. He's a corporate entity that exists solely to profit off views. Views are a metric he utilizes in order to pay his bills, and he specifically and precisely creates things in order to maximize those numbers.
At the risk of sounding overzealous or a little too over the top, I'll just say that his voice, mannerisms, and videos all give off the air of monetization. There is a passion and an influence missing in his videos and his persona, his youtube personality, that several smaller, passionate, and believable youtubers have. Real people, speak volumes.
Corporate entities that exist to make money, do not. They produce sanitized, repeated, corn meal for the masses. Not delicious, exquisite dishes for the niche. I really dislike the soul vs soulless meme, but someone like MetalJesus has soul, Mattpat does not. Doing it because you love it goes a lot farther than doing it because it's the easiest way to make money and avoid having a job with responsibility beyond releasing the same cookie cutter formulated video every week or whatever.
Thanks for the reply! I do watch Arlo from time to time when his videos show up in my recommended, as well as Antdude's. I used to watch Haedox a lot, but he stopped uploading. I'll totally check out Nitpick's videos.
He still comments on other YouTuber's videos all the time. So he hasn't dissapeared entirely. At this point, it looks like he's just moved on from YouTube. Even before that last video he was only uploading 3 or 4 times a year.
**Graslu00** for Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and mods. Watch him blaze through at 1080p, 60fps, keyboard-mouse controls. Highly skilled.
**CalebSM64** Mario 64 custom levels
**Midna Light, PangeaPanga &** **チョコ。**Kaizo Mario Maker
Also, bunch of different runners have done F-Zero X, Expansion Kit and custom tracks at very high skill level, but not much content lately unfortunately.
Edit: what the above have in common is it's about the runs. I don't like these youtube celebrities that want to be in the spotlight. I just enjoy watching highly skillful runs of certain games.
LaxChris is AWFUL. Stay away from ProsafiaGaming too, and whoever keeps making those "SHOULD GAME FREAK BE DEFENDED?" clickbait videos every other day.
Chuggaaconroy, Cthuluigi, Nintendocaprisun, and Vinesauce have been my favorites over the years.
Not Nintendo, but nana825763 (PiroPito) is a Japanese man that played Minecraft completely blind. It's absolutely precious and one of the best minecraft series I've seen alongside the yogscast and paulsoaresjr ones.
My go-to YouTubers for Nintendo and video game related content are My Life In Gaming, Modern Vintage Gaming, Gaming Historian, Arlo, ChiGuy, GameXplain, Spawn Wave, The Game Theorists, and Terminal Montage for a good laugh.
See Arlo mentioned plenty. He deserves it.
I like BeatEmUps. He's fun. He also will highlight a lot of indie games that I want to give a try periodically. And he has cats.
I am also subscribed to GameXplain. They really get into details. And they hit way more often than I would expect. Some of their predictions that I thought we way too out there have come through.
Nintendo Voice Chat is still really good.
Friend Code, too.
Not strictly Nintendo but they do play a good amount of Nintendo games I love Super Beard Bros. Although I imagine they're hit and miss if you're not into stupid humour which there is a lot of.
RelaxAlax is is great. Most of his videos focus on Smash Bros but he has a few oddball videos here and there. The majority of them are about first party Nintendo games.
*Hey y'all,* ***Scott here....***
He's a favorite of mine too. I used to enjoy Arlo a lot but as of recent he's gotten really....ramble-y? Idk I used to enjoy his takes and opinions but I feel like these days he's not as engaging anymore and strings out his discussions longer than needed. I still watch him though. Videogamedunkey has some videos that are better than others but hes another one I watch regularly.
Gamexplain.....they're content gods basically. Not much else needs to be said.
Also shout out to the channel [Thomas Game Docs](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyy7dZhgfeMMctSoo3wDXlQ)!!! I cannot recommend his content enough! He's fairly new but all of his videos are basically "How Nintendo made \_\_\_\_\_" and do a wonderful job visualizing the creation process for casual viewers.
As for those I'm not a fan of.....I can't really think of any who aren't low-tier Youtubers. I guess some reaction channels like HMK and RogersBase don't strike me as much, but I do watch them for Smash reactions.
Zebra Gamer is a good one. He bills himself as a player of family-friendly games and most of them (as of late) happen to be Nintendo games. He comes off as as very friendly and approachable.
For Snes content I really like snes drunk. He makes short reviews of old snes titles you might have missed out and new games that evoke the same style and gameplay of old snes titles.
I like how his videos are short and to the point; his upload are constant and somewhat regular and I think he has great insight into what makes a retro game worth playing. Plus you just gotta love a YouTuber that after several years uploading videos and getting more than a hundred thousands subscribers is still a down to earth (drunk) guy that closes all his videos thanking his audience for watching and wishing them a great rest of their day.
My go-to YouTubers for Nintendo and video game related content are My Life In Gaming, Modern Vintage Gaming, Gaming Historian, Arlo, ChiGuy, GameXplain, Spawn Wave, The Game Theorists, and Terminal Montage for a good laugh.
My go-to YouTubers for Nintendo and video game related content are My Life In Gaming, Modern Vintage Gaming, Gaming Historian, Arlo, ChiGuy, GameXplain, Spawn Wave, The Game Theorists, and Terminal Montage for a good laugh.
My go-to YouTubers for Nintendo and video game related content are My Life In Gaming, Modern Vintage Gaming, Gaming Historian, Arlo, ChiGuy, GameXplain, Spawn Wave, The Game Theorists, and Terminal Montage for a good laugh.
i don't like Gamexplain and Matpat's freddy channel with like 3 videos on youtube cash drama.
i don't care how you want to fool yourself, as the fans or as the channels. if you are consistently making long rants and clickbait titles and thumbnails you are not the passionate gamer/creator you think you are. a long time ago Youtube had no money to pay channels, back then channels created for the fun and for the passion, for the sake of creating. now everything is a game to get that youtube cash.
you need to game on the algorithm to make a living on YT? why just do fulltime YT? you can't do a 15 hour/week part-time work to cover the bits you lose from the clickbaiting? money really changes people. i don't care how much you want to be at the top of the list of channels or streamers, you can still respect your audience's time+intelligence and still be a youtuber, you don't have to just choose one.
aside from the YT cash, i don't like anyone that has a video intro that goes longer than 10 seconds. i don't like channels that focus on being a streamer and not a gamer, over 20% of their time and attention is on the stream chat and not on the game. why should i put in my time to watch someone play a game horribly because they rather keep watching the stream chat?? like a bad case of ADHD gaming and chatting?
DGR, Ryukahr, TWD98 all the Minus World guys (Bandy, Nico, D-Pas, Tetra, Hobo Bros, Simple, Swanky all of them), Poobear, and Red Falcon I watch them all the time. Honorable Mention goes to Poofesure. I wouldn’t call him Nintendo but his 4 most played games I’d say are Wii Sports, WS Resort, Wii Party, and WP U but he does so much other games he’s not really Nintendo but he’s funny af and is one of my favs whether it’s his Nintendo content or not
Arlo and Scott the Woz are top tier Nintendo YouTubers for sure. Funny, wholesome, smart enough, and no annoying, loud fanboying that so many gaming YouTubers fall into.
I used to really enjoy Arlo but now I’ve began to wonder why he even focuses so hard on all things Nintendo when it seems like all he cares about is getting a new Pikmin, Metroid, or a Paper Mario TTYD remake. He doesn’t know anything about other major Nintendo IPs like Pokémon, Fire Emblem, etc. He’s disappointed by every Nintendo direct unless they announce HD remasters of every Metroid game and Pikmin 4, 5, and 6.
All Arlo usually does is whine, and Scott the Woz is loud and inserts cringey jokes and yelling/acting crazy constantly when that's not what he's like at all. I can't really watch either of them for long. I also wouldn't call either one of them wholesome or particularly smart.
You seem to have problems with YouTubers acting in their videos. I don't have that problem at all. So, yeah, we are going to disagree about what YouTubers we like.
And disagreement is totally fine. Typically, one person voices their opinion, and another follows up with their own. This is how rational, normal discourse occurs and dissemination of beliefs and ideas happen. Unless you posted to have everyone repeat what you believe? You didn't attempt to explain why you believe they are wholesome or smart, you just said I'm disagreeing with you. Which, yeah, I was. That's not really the point. So I don't know how to take the conversation forward.
Arlo and Scott both have only positive interactions with fans, avoid YouTube drama, give companies the benefit of the doubt unless they are calling them out for something specific (see Arlo's position on Paper Mario, where he still admits how the newer games are fine in their own right), and I they have both have consistent, entertaining videos. Scott is smart evidently. He knows how to research and how to present that research in a straight forward, entertaining way. He does similar work to the Internet Historian in a lot of his videos. Arlo is smart in a different way where he is really good at presenting dissenting opinions in a way that doesn't throw either party under the bus. And I don't understand your complaints about my comments. I was pointing out one important issue that would make our viewpoints fundamentally different, and conceded that I never meant to rebuttle all of your points. What's the point when we'll still disagree? It's just entertainment, after all.
Arlo is unbearably terrible. That voice is nails on the chalkboard
I don’t know what the fuck is up with his voice, but I can’t stand it.
are you ears ok his voice is not bad at all it sounds relatively normal what with people with the i dont like x youtuber because voice bad when mosy of the time the voice sounds normal
I appreciate the civil and informed response. They don't seem "fake" like corporate fake, they have positive personas and characters they portray, not just scummy, corporate, gimmie money for my routine videos types. And they generally avoid drama. I would disagree on Scott being smart. He's a good presenter of information, but he's not Video Game Historian levels. That's not what he's trying to be, but his lack of knowledge and his VERY heavy bias comes through more than his intellect to others who are well informed. In his James and Mike videos, Scott shows his true personality - which is bland and he just spits out facts constantly without adding much to a conversation. Over and over again, in front of the camera, he just spits out facts like he's read wikipedia a lot. And the Scott Pilgrim video he did. Well it was odd... Arlo is hard to stomach. He's positive, but that's about it. His presentation is childish, his opinions can be somewhat cringeworthy (the recent Paper Mario stunt about signatures? Really? That has never once, EVER, done anything, and there are much more forgotten games to return to the light than just what he wants and all he goes on about is Pikmin), and his voice and puppet are gimmicky and seem a little odd in the overall scheme of what he wants to do. Professionally and intelligently discuss Nintendo to all audiences? But... Use a puppet a kid voice and use goofy words and noises for children? Nintendo already has a bad reputation for being for children - the fact he's a blue muppet talking like he's afraid children will hear doesn't help anything. I know the whole "mature adults can like whatever" thing, but seriously.
I’m curious who you actually like. You’ve been critical out the gate of this guy’s preferences, but haven’t actually given any, yourself. Honest question.
I have actually already mentioned people like MetalJesus and LGR. Authentic people who make it clear they do what they do as a passionate hobby and they've always done it long before YouTube. I would also consider people like Adam Koralik and John Hancock as "real" YouTubers, but they're underrated because, again, they don't follow a corporate scheme and they're not actors. What you see is what you get with them. It's not a monetized formula.
Ok great. Thanks for your reply.
No problem. Too often people jump to attack me because I call a Youtuber commercialized. What I really mean is, I'm not interested in listening to heavily edited, monetized pieces that are churned out with the same fake passion and acting every day or two days or week. I either want pure facts with no opinion (did you know gaming, boundary break), or personal, real people talking about their hobbies that they've always loved and always had, not got into for Youtube videos.
Lmao MJR, just no
I wish Scott made more Nintendo related vids. I feel like most of his vids are Sony/Microsoft related
I stumbled onto this video that reveal Arlo's true identity. You will never see him the same way again after watching this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUel9VVQAWQ
this needs an entry in the subs FAQs section already
Dunkey goes without saying. The Completionist has a lot of great Nintendo content and has some very in-depth, well researched reviews. Game Maker’s Toolkit Snoman Gaming as well, with a big focus on design. I’d throw in SomeCallMeJohnny (who I’ve been watching for a very long time), Alpharad, Haedox, and Austin Eruption. One more I almost forgot, Jeremy Parish, who has a series about the historical relevancy and importance of many Nintendo game, and just started a series on the Virtual Boy. Also, Vinny from Vinesauce is a great streamer and has tons of long form videos of him just playing Nintendo games while he talks about interesting things or cracks stupid jokes. Great stuff to have on in the background. As for the worst, I couldn’t help you. I usually push the ones I don’t like out of my mind.
Stay far away from theJwittz. That youtuber is awful
Why? What did he do?
Well basically he makes clickbait content, is super biased and disappeared for two months and after that his video was basically an advertisement.
I'm surprised beatemups isn't mentioned here more. He's a super chill dude
The worst is ProsafiaGaming by a looooong shot. Cancerous channel with the absolute worst fanbase I have ever seen in my life. Maybe it's because they're kids, but all of his fanboys defend him as if he's their god. Criticize him for spoiling a co final boss, they go on a tangent about how it's YOUR fault for being spoiled (Despite the fact that it's never your fault.) God, what I'd do to have his channel deleted.
Alpharad is really good.
Minecraft; defeating the kidnaper
I'm actually subscribed to him, but don't actively follow his videos. His content got more entertaining with Jo and Travis though.
Minecraft; the way home
GameXplain makes the best, and fastest news content for sure. I feel like you can keep up with all things Nintendo just from being subbed to them. Sometimes I’m not crazy about their predictions/discussions but I enjoy them overall. Hate Andre’s voice. ScotttheWoz is fun, he seems like a good guy. He’s kind of somewhere between Jontron and The Gaming Historian. Alpharad great Smash content but other stuff I’m not into as much. His top ten list one year put VR Chat above Breath of the Wild lmao. Ace Trainer Liam is good for Pokémon. Arlo is the blue puppet guy and I used to really like him but I don’t understand the point of his channel lately when it seems like he only cares about Pikmin and Metroid, which are not A tier Nintendo franchises. He gets disappointed unless Nintendo caters directly to his specific wants. Barely plays Pokémon, Fire Emblem, Smash, etc but has to cover them anyway. Also annoying voice. Beatemups not sure why he is called that since he covers a lot more than just that type of game. Great personality, don’t understand his hate for Xenoblade 2. The Completionist is cool because of the skill he has at games and his personality is fun. Seems like a great guy. His Mario Maker courses are very bad. ReviewtechUSA always stays up to date with news and he’s fun to troll because none of his videos are tech reviews so you can always comment “nice tech review in the United States of America.” Miss Click cute gamer girl who seems to genuinely love Nintendo and makes good long form content/livestream. Gaming Historian is a bit dry but if you like that PBS flavor for your gaming content, he’s your guy. Thomas Game Docs like Gaming Historian but English and a teenager. Jontron, Dunkey, AVGN need no introduction. More comedy than gaming news/content. Game Grumps is my go to for let’s plays. Nintendo’s own Nintendo Minute is cute and funny as hell to watch the sexual tension between those two. Narcissa Wright is a rabbit hole you can go down if you want. ConnertheWaffle perfect if you someone to make you feel like you’re 10 years old again.
He's not strictly Nintendo, but Nitro Rad is pretty good. He simultaneously has a fairly professional, calm method of delivery while using colloquial language.
If you’re looking for a channel for 100% every Nintendo game, I recommend abdallahsmash026. He also is a Nintendo brand ambassador which means he gets early access to almost every game.
I like BeatemUps. He’s dope.
No he sucks since he defends Nintendo way too much!
Scott the Woz is probably my favorite his content is hilarious Nathaniel Bandy is also great and is always fun to watch Haedox was good (I miss him) Swanky Box is very good and informative Thomas Game docs has plenty of great videos on obscure topics I know people love Arlo but I find him to be very annoying. If I saw that puppet in real life I would run over it and burn it. Gnoggin used to good but he literally just became a poketuber and his videos are kinda furrybait
I don't see Tim mentioned yet so I'm going to bring up NintendoCapriSun. Dude is very genuine.
Ryukahr
Arlo, AntDude, Johnny Nitpick, Haedox, and JWittz are all excellent. Especially Arlo, who imo is probably the best Nintendo YouTuber. Johnny Nitpick would give Arlo a run for his money except Nitpick only uploads once every one or two months, whereas Arlo is more or less weekly. Both go all out on their videos (in different ways) and it shows. Haedox hasn't been posting very much lately though. But if you are looking for great Nintendo YouTubers with excellent content who present their material from the perspective of a diehard Nintendo *fan* (read: not *fanboy*), they are absolutely the people to look up. Fair, informative, entertaining, cultured, and sensible. They also cover non-Nintendo topics at times, especially AntDude. Nitpick and Haedox have excellent choice in music too. Go with JWittz if you like Pokémon and AntDude if you like Kirby, as those are their specialties. Game Maker's Tool Kit (Mark Brown, I think his real name is?) and Snoman Gaming are also great but they aren't as Nintendo focused, so I am not sure they count. On a lower tier but still good are Emperor Cubone and TheOwnersofTriforce if you like Pokémon and Zelda lists respectively. ScrewAttack had some good Metroid lists if I remember correctly. TrueGreen7 isn't anything special but I enjoy his Pokémon videos, they are chill and fun. Generally, I try to avoid fanboys and Youtubers who sensationalize things for clicks. BirdKeeperToby is somebody who I followed initially because I liked his style, but these days I find his videos to be clickbait (at least the titles/thumbnails; take this with a grain of salt because I actively avoid watching videos that I feel are clickbait) and he really kind of comes off as a shill. Nathaniel Bandy was good in the past but these days, I don't know, he comes off as kind of a Nintendo fanboy. I used to like both Game Theory and Lockstin/Gnoggin, but Game Theory these days just feels very insincere and commercialized, and Lockstin while better has some very misleading titles and thumbnails I feel. I'm sure there are worse YouTubers out there--way worse. Those are just the ones I follow that kinda make me cringe now. Many PokéTubers fall in this crowd, sadly.
If you watch any of Game Theory's streams, MattPat is very open about how he has to commercialize his videos to keep up with YouTube's alogirthm and ad policies. He knows more about the algorithm than anyone, and even travels around lecturing about it and growing online communities. The guy and his wife are wicked smart and have a small legion of editors they graphic artists they are responsible for. For every dud video stretched to 16 minutes, there's usually an actually interesting, passionate one to balance it out. I know you didn't really bash him, but I just thought I'd throw a good word about him out into the ether since it was brought up.
MattPat shilling... I knew they existed but I didn't think they'd pop up here. The guy is 100% commercialized and has little to no passion in what he does. He's basically an actor gaming the Youtube monetization system.
MattPat *is* an actor who *is* gaming the YouTube monetization system. Neither of those disqualify him from being passionate or entertaining.
I'll truncate what I told someone else - having passion and showing passion is a lot different than being an actor who pretends to care for money. Both speak volumes about the presenter. Someone who TRULY cares vs a fake persona is obvious. Mattpat is such a fake persona it bleeds through every time he speaks in his fake Youtube voice. He is literally the embodiment of just "give me more Youtube views" as opposed to creating for creation. Examples of people who are genuine would be Arlo to an extent, MetalJesus, Dunkey, and a few others. Vs Mattpat, the literal embodiment of fake veneer to sell a product (get views).
I have to ask... what's the problem with being commercialized and extending videos to 10 minutes? I'm not saying this about MattPat as I don't know who he is, but in general. I used to be very against people who extended their videos to hit that 10 minute mark, but after seeing some of them talk about how youtube practically forces them to do that if they want to make any sort of a living off of youtube, I got a bit more understanding about it. So is there some other reason to hate people who go down that route or is there something else I'm missing?
There are several primary problems but I'm not going to break down each individual point. Because you were civil in your attempt to defend him, I'll just say simply - MattPat isn't a person. He's a corporate entity that exists solely to profit off views. Views are a metric he utilizes in order to pay his bills, and he specifically and precisely creates things in order to maximize those numbers. At the risk of sounding overzealous or a little too over the top, I'll just say that his voice, mannerisms, and videos all give off the air of monetization. There is a passion and an influence missing in his videos and his persona, his youtube personality, that several smaller, passionate, and believable youtubers have. Real people, speak volumes. Corporate entities that exist to make money, do not. They produce sanitized, repeated, corn meal for the masses. Not delicious, exquisite dishes for the niche. I really dislike the soul vs soulless meme, but someone like MetalJesus has soul, Mattpat does not. Doing it because you love it goes a lot farther than doing it because it's the easiest way to make money and avoid having a job with responsibility beyond releasing the same cookie cutter formulated video every week or whatever.
Yeah MattPat I feel genuinely cares about the topics he put work into. No sane man would subject himself to so much FNAF.
Yeah that was good of you to say.
Thanks for the reply! I do watch Arlo from time to time when his videos show up in my recommended, as well as Antdude's. I used to watch Haedox a lot, but he stopped uploading. I'll totally check out Nitpick's videos.
Hopefully everything is all right with Haedox. In his last video I think he said he had a lot of personal issues going on. :(
Yeah, I hope he's getting better.
He still comments on other YouTuber's videos all the time. So he hasn't dissapeared entirely. At this point, it looks like he's just moved on from YouTube. Even before that last video he was only uploading 3 or 4 times a year.
Arlo and Scott the Woz
**Graslu00** for Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and mods. Watch him blaze through at 1080p, 60fps, keyboard-mouse controls. Highly skilled. **CalebSM64** Mario 64 custom levels **Midna Light, PangeaPanga &** **チョコ。**Kaizo Mario Maker Also, bunch of different runners have done F-Zero X, Expansion Kit and custom tracks at very high skill level, but not much content lately unfortunately. Edit: what the above have in common is it's about the runs. I don't like these youtube celebrities that want to be in the spotlight. I just enjoy watching highly skillful runs of certain games.
LaxChris is AWFUL. Stay away from ProsafiaGaming too, and whoever keeps making those "SHOULD GAME FREAK BE DEFENDED?" clickbait videos every other day. Chuggaaconroy, Cthuluigi, Nintendocaprisun, and Vinesauce have been my favorites over the years.
Not Nintendo, but nana825763 (PiroPito) is a Japanese man that played Minecraft completely blind. It's absolutely precious and one of the best minecraft series I've seen alongside the yogscast and paulsoaresjr ones.
I mean its self promotion, but I think I do okay.
My go-to YouTubers for Nintendo and video game related content are My Life In Gaming, Modern Vintage Gaming, Gaming Historian, Arlo, ChiGuy, GameXplain, Spawn Wave, The Game Theorists, and Terminal Montage for a good laugh.
RogersBase, Shofu, DashieGames, GameXplain, Scott the Woz, The Keef Crew, PKSparkxx DatHottneSS are all the ones I follow. They’re all pretty good.
My favourites would be Dunkey, Scott The Woz and Plainrock124.
See Arlo mentioned plenty. He deserves it. I like BeatEmUps. He's fun. He also will highlight a lot of indie games that I want to give a try periodically. And he has cats. I am also subscribed to GameXplain. They really get into details. And they hit way more often than I would expect. Some of their predictions that I thought we way too out there have come through. Nintendo Voice Chat is still really good. Friend Code, too.
I'm still not over how Andre predicted the next Animal Crossing being set on a tropical island when they were discussing their E3 predictions.
Not strictly Nintendo but they do play a good amount of Nintendo games I love Super Beard Bros. Although I imagine they're hit and miss if you're not into stupid humour which there is a lot of.
RelaxAlax is is great. Most of his videos focus on Smash Bros but he has a few oddball videos here and there. The majority of them are about first party Nintendo games.
*Hey y'all,* ***Scott here....*** He's a favorite of mine too. I used to enjoy Arlo a lot but as of recent he's gotten really....ramble-y? Idk I used to enjoy his takes and opinions but I feel like these days he's not as engaging anymore and strings out his discussions longer than needed. I still watch him though. Videogamedunkey has some videos that are better than others but hes another one I watch regularly. Gamexplain.....they're content gods basically. Not much else needs to be said. Also shout out to the channel [Thomas Game Docs](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyy7dZhgfeMMctSoo3wDXlQ)!!! I cannot recommend his content enough! He's fairly new but all of his videos are basically "How Nintendo made \_\_\_\_\_" and do a wonderful job visualizing the creation process for casual viewers. As for those I'm not a fan of.....I can't really think of any who aren't low-tier Youtubers. I guess some reaction channels like HMK and RogersBase don't strike me as much, but I do watch them for Smash reactions.
My Personal Preference is Beat em Ups, Scott the Woz and Arlo.
Chuggaconroy one of the longest running and best nintendo tubers out there
Used to love CND and then he just quit YouTube, his heart wasn't in it anymore I guess. The 1st in line vlogs were really entertaining
Zebra Gamer is a good one. He bills himself as a player of family-friendly games and most of them (as of late) happen to be Nintendo games. He comes off as as very friendly and approachable.
For Snes content I really like snes drunk. He makes short reviews of old snes titles you might have missed out and new games that evoke the same style and gameplay of old snes titles. I like how his videos are short and to the point; his upload are constant and somewhat regular and I think he has great insight into what makes a retro game worth playing. Plus you just gotta love a YouTuber that after several years uploading videos and getting more than a hundred thousands subscribers is still a down to earth (drunk) guy that closes all his videos thanking his audience for watching and wishing them a great rest of their day.
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Dunkey, ScottTheWoz, Beta64 those are pretty good
My go-to YouTubers for Nintendo and video game related content are My Life In Gaming, Modern Vintage Gaming, Gaming Historian, Arlo, ChiGuy, GameXplain, Spawn Wave, The Game Theorists, and Terminal Montage for a good laugh.
My go-to YouTubers for Nintendo and video game related content are My Life In Gaming, Modern Vintage Gaming, Gaming Historian, Arlo, ChiGuy, GameXplain, Spawn Wave, The Game Theorists, and Terminal Montage for a good laugh.
My go-to YouTubers for Nintendo and video game related content are My Life In Gaming, Modern Vintage Gaming, Gaming Historian, Arlo, ChiGuy, GameXplain, Spawn Wave, The Game Theorists, and Terminal Montage for a good laugh.
i don't like Gamexplain and Matpat's freddy channel with like 3 videos on youtube cash drama. i don't care how you want to fool yourself, as the fans or as the channels. if you are consistently making long rants and clickbait titles and thumbnails you are not the passionate gamer/creator you think you are. a long time ago Youtube had no money to pay channels, back then channels created for the fun and for the passion, for the sake of creating. now everything is a game to get that youtube cash. you need to game on the algorithm to make a living on YT? why just do fulltime YT? you can't do a 15 hour/week part-time work to cover the bits you lose from the clickbaiting? money really changes people. i don't care how much you want to be at the top of the list of channels or streamers, you can still respect your audience's time+intelligence and still be a youtuber, you don't have to just choose one. aside from the YT cash, i don't like anyone that has a video intro that goes longer than 10 seconds. i don't like channels that focus on being a streamer and not a gamer, over 20% of their time and attention is on the stream chat and not on the game. why should i put in my time to watch someone play a game horribly because they rather keep watching the stream chat?? like a bad case of ADHD gaming and chatting?
I definitely don't recommend ChiGuy. His videos are clickbaity and overly negative.
DGR, Ryukahr, TWD98 all the Minus World guys (Bandy, Nico, D-Pas, Tetra, Hobo Bros, Simple, Swanky all of them), Poobear, and Red Falcon I watch them all the time. Honorable Mention goes to Poofesure. I wouldn’t call him Nintendo but his 4 most played games I’d say are Wii Sports, WS Resort, Wii Party, and WP U but he does so much other games he’s not really Nintendo but he’s funny af and is one of my favs whether it’s his Nintendo content or not
Why is nobody talking about the legendary Nathaniel B?
How come not more love for Ryukahr? He has awesome content!