Best products from r/gamegrumps

We found 28 comments on r/gamegrumps discussing the most recommended products. We ran sentiment analysis on each of these comments to determine how redditors feel about different products. We found 115 products and ranked them based on the amount of positive reactions they received. Here are the top 20.

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Top comments mentioning products on r/gamegrumps:

u/Guitardude7 · 1 pointr/gamegrumps

What I use is the AT2020. It plugs straight into your laptop and has great quality. I also recommend a standard pop filter as well. If you want to get even better audio, get a stand and a shockmount though since getting everything is expensive, your AT2020 and standard pop filter will work just fine. Also, keep in mind that the environment is also important to keep in mind. If you can, try recording in a room that bounces sound around well. Try to stay away from cement walls for those give you dead sounding audio with no reverb. I personally have to deal with the limitations of cement walls since I live in a dorm. It's not terrible though, the audio still comes out clear and has good quality to it so if you can't help this at all, it won't kill you. Also another thing I should mention is to keep the volume on the TV as low as you can. You can have it to where you can hear the game, but don't have it at a volume that you'd be at if you were simply playing to relax. If your volume is too high, the mic will pick it up and you'll have to be VERY specific with your audio and video syncing when you go to edit.

As for recording audio, just use Audacity. It's free, and suits all your needs. It's a bit limited I guess but it has enough for a Let's Play channel and besides, you can also edit your audio in your editing software if you need to get really technical.

If you want more detail, feel free to check out this blog post I made. It pretty much details everything that I use and what you need to know.

I hope this all helps! If you need anything else or any other advice, feel free to ask! I'd be more than happy to help!

EDIT: Also, best of luck to you!

u/charliemadman · 1 pointr/gamegrumps

On the subject of introverts and extroverts, Susan Cain wrote an interesting book called "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking". I'm only about a chapter in, but it's really interesting.

In the introduction, she talks about something she calls the Extrovert Ideal. This is the idea that society has dictated that the thing that everyone should strive for, the ideal self, is to be comfortable in the spotlight, outgoing and have a colourful personality. However, she also talks about Closet Introverts, that many people act as extroverts to suit society, but really are introverted.

Also in the introduction, there was an informal personality test (link here to the same test online). Particularly interesting and relevant questions to the 'coat' conversation (bloody hilarious, if I may say so) are questions 5 (I dislike small talk, but I enjoy talking in depth about topics that matter to me.) and question 15 (I feel drained after being out and about, even if I’ve enjoyed myself.).

Finally, Dan thought he was a mixture of the two. If you take the test and get a generally balanced score, that means you'd probably be an ambivert, a mixture of introvert and extrovert.

I'm not expert on this, just thought it was an interesting book with an interesting topic and it came to mind when they were talking about it.

(Amazon book links in case your interested: US UK ISBN: 978-0-141-02919-1)

u/donutsalad · 7 pointsr/gamegrumps

He did mention the bit about the S-video which does make SD look a little bit better on HDTVs but still not that great. Most HDTVs won't even recognize SNES video signal since it is 240p. If you want to play on an HDTV then you're better off trying to upscale it by converting it. Look up a good composite video to VGA adapter. This will, in most cases, make it go from 240p to 480i but results may vary.

The best option would be to just try to play on a CRT or 'tube tv.' CRTs actually are a lot better when it comes to low resolution. My 27" CRT display SNES, N64, PS1/2 etc. a lot better than my 24" HDTV. You would figure that low resolution would look better on a smaller TV but I'm sure a 52" CRT would still display 240p better than a 24" HDTV.

Here's a converter but I never used it. Just giving you an example. I'm sure there are other options.

u/CaptainSouthbird · 3 pointsr/gamegrumps

Well, first of all, you probably want to scope what you're going to do, and also figure out how much money you want to spend to do it. I mean it's kind of vague to just want to match their equipment and it might be extreme overkill for you to do so. Like you don't need "breakaway cables" to switch your consoles (per the GrumpOut vid)... in fact, I highly recommend switchboxes as a much saner thing to do there. :P

But to the question:

> I don't know where I could order or purchase them

... this may or may not be a simple answer. Depending where you live, Amazon sells just about everything you could possibly want. Not saying you should necessarily buy it from them, but you'll probably find everything you need there.

But getting back to cost, definitely consider what you can spend, because even just one Sennheiser MKH 416 microphone (as they have just stated they use) costs about $1000.

/u/FabbrizioCalamitous already answered adequately about capture cards of course, so no need to repeat that.

Honestly I think getting good audio equipment and a good environment to make your voice sound excellent is one of the most difficult aspects of the setup. There are just so many factors when it comes to audio; reflections in the room, how your mic is mounted, quality/type of the mic, vibrations from the street, etc. Few of us have a real "studio" type acoustically-sealed room to get really good voice recording, and it seems anything and everything easily gets in there and makes a mess of it. But of course unless you're really well off you probably can't afford to set up a room like that or afford Sennheiser MKH 416 mics. (Or at least can't justify the cost for something extravagant before your YouTube channel has taken off.)

Most likely what you ought to do is Google around a bit and try to find a more modest starter kit. If you start to earn a decent viewerbase you might start considering upgrading incrementally. I mean, even the Grumps started out with just a mic on a table in the living room. They graduated to much grander setups over years of time.

u/Pogotross · 3 pointsr/gamegrumps

I think Arin likes The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, Second Edition and either he or Jon liked Game Feel: A Game Designer's Guide to Virtual Sensation.

Personally my favorite game design resource is either Mark Rosewater's design articles or his podcast. I prefer his podcast but both covers most of the same information. MaRo is the lead designer for Magic: The Gathering so a lot of the articles are about MtG specifically or about tabletop games but nearly all the general design podcasts are worthwhile. Most importantly, he has around twenty years of successful (and unsuccessful) design under his belt, so he isn't just talking in vague generalities or theories. He has examples backing up pretty much everything he talks about including, and maybe most importantly, times he thought he was doing the right then and messed up. I think anyone interested in game design should listen to the "Ten Things Every Game Needs" and "20 Lessons" series. You can hear his GDC version of the 20 Lessons here.

*: But the absolute best thing you can read on game design is a gamemaker tutorial. Theory is useless without execution.

u/RubberNinja · 15 pointsr/gamegrumps

Haha! Good start! Funny stuff.


If you want advice, the best I can give you is this:

Be mindful of the brush size and the zoom % you're doing line art in. If you're working in 3 size brush and you're zooming in and out to different % to do your line art, you'll find the line art becomes very inconsistent. Brush size is entirely relative to the zoom percentage you decide to use. So what I recommend is, rough out your animation with whatever zoom or brush works for you, it doesn't particularly matter at this stage.. Then once you're done with your rough, go back over it on another layer entirely on 200% or 300% zoom (you'll see the amount of zoom in the top right of the stage). I recommend 3 size brush, pressure sensitivity and 40 smoothing. If you're mindful of this your line art will look awesome! You'll find the imperfections on lines will be lost the closer zoomed in you decide to do the line art.

Also this book will change your life.

GOOD LUCK DUDE!!

u/seburoh · 3 pointsr/gamegrumps

It's nuts yeah. We can see reused assets, especially early on, but by the end that's all a bunch of new stuff, and on top of that the level design and story hooks had to all be made, and that's some effort.

The closest we have to a documentary on the development processes are actually the Design Works books. Two exist, one for Dark Souls, one for Dark Souls 2, and they are full of interviews about the development of those games. The DkS1 book is awesome, full of a bunch of information which is fantastic as well as some really insightful concept art. I look over my copy every couple weeks it seems, just because it's really cool and I always learn something new while poking at it. Covers a lot, including Izalith's development problems, the swap of the tutorial boss, etc. The book for DkS2 comes out Feb 9 in English, and I'll be picking it up day one. Through translations and stuff it's already known that had gigantic development problems (swapping directors like, halfway through), so it should be a really interesting read. I don't know of one for Bloodborne, though I know the FuturePress guides should have had interviews and the like in them (The Old Hunters one also has a 'lore bible' of sorts, a primer basically for the fundamentals which should be pretty cool), so that may be the closest we get. I intend to pick those up at the same time I pick up the DkS2 Design Works, and do some binge reading afterward.

u/underenemyfire · 3 pointsr/gamegrumps

Really good animation is going to take alot of time and a lot of determination, not only to learn but to just simple execute. If you can draw well and you have good fundementals in drawing you'll probably have a bit of a head start but it's still going to be alot work. Don't fret however because animating is both fun and rewarding once you have the skills down! Really if you're serious I highly reccommend buying The Animator's Survival Kit: .http://www.amazon.com/The-Animators-Survival-Richard-Williams/dp/0571202284 Also watching these: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjX9SJKrPnPROi_Bc3LOBWaXi0uz61Bom
My advice is that if you want to animate, just go for it. Also buy Adobe CC because there is no decent alternative to Flash. (I have wasted too many days searching for one). Anyways good luck to you sir.

u/midir4000 · 1 pointr/gamegrumps

While I won't be able to keep up with your level of geeking out here, you have my respect completely. I love lore in general, and the polytheistic pantheon are really fascinating. Did a few presentations on Greek/Roman deities way back in the day for school.

If you like that mythos and urban fantasy, I highly recommend giving the Olympus Bound series a read.

u/SerialTimeKiller · 1 pointr/gamegrumps

After further looking, try looking here on Amazon. Then I'd go look through more recent NSP videos, and make sure it's the same one. I don't have the time to go looking myself right now. Good luck.

Edit: Okay, watched Party of Three, and I'm pretty sure it's the same kigurumi as Barry's on the Amazon link here. That should do it.

u/TheLibertarianThomas · 2 pointsr/gamegrumps

Not to stray away from Jon, but there is a great book that gives a nice unbiased approach on the whole Israeli-Palestinian conflict called The Lemon Tree. If you have the chance, give it a read.

u/GSXP · 3 pointsr/gamegrumps

Rice will work just fine, but it may not be a bad idea to keep Sillica Gel somewhere around the house. Throw that in a ziplock bag with whatever you want dry; works great on watery phones and Famicoms. Plus, you can reuse these by drying the gel in an oven.

u/writermacox · 8 pointsr/gamegrumps

Okay, pulling it up since I haven't read it in years. First off, it was a Marine manual, not Army. I misquoted it anyway - it says you are "foolish" to drink urine, but the reasoning was correct.

The manual said that this is bad because your body will just need more water to get rid of the junk you just drank. It also ruled out blood, since your body treats that like "food" and will need water to digest it. This part stuck with me, for some reason.

It said you HAVE to prepare water, since everything else will dehydrate. This is a winter guide, so the obvious is snow/ice (melted snow is safer than ice), and you have to boil or use a halogen (chlorine, iodine, etc.) to disinfect it. Animals can help you find a source. If you're dying of thirst, doing the Bear Grylls thing doesn't sound right.

Then again, this manual is significantly older and possibly outdated, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

u/thekey147 · 1 pointr/gamegrumps

I've been told this one here works well.

And yeah, a surface tablet is far more convenient, I just enjoy having a second monitor, and having a 1:1 translation when drawing.

u/gds15 · 2 pointsr/gamegrumps

Amazon

 

CD Baby

 

Take your pick! I'm pretty sure both are offering MP3 downloads with the CD, Amazon through their AutoRip thing and CD Baby sends a code.

u/flameabel · 1 pointr/gamegrumps

I don't know the video you're looking for -
But usually when animators refer to animation books it's the:
"Animators Survival Kit" - Richard Williams
"Illusion of Life" - Ollie Johnston & Frank Thomas
These cover the basics, and are helpful for understanding principles in animation.
But online tutorials and blogposts can teach just as much. Epsecially just experimenting on your own.

Of course, Ross could have mentioned completely different books, and I'm sorry, but I hope this helps atleast a little.

u/xnamkcor · 1 pointr/gamegrumps

http://www.amazon.com/Player-Select-Starbomb/dp/B00PT6A6L8/

Amazon.com

Click on the search box(looks like a rectangle near the top with "All" on

the left and "Go" on the right).

When you see the vertical line blinking, type in:

Starbomb CD

Then Press "Return", "Enter", or click the "Go" button on the right.

Look for the image that looks like the current album art.

Read the Description.

If it says MP3, that is the wrong one.

If it says CD, that is the correct one.

Click on the Album Art and you will be taken to the product page.

There will be an option to view the MP3 page instead, do not click that.

Click "Pre-Order And Add To Cart"

u/1upforever · 44 pointsr/gamegrumps

"Huh, expensive microphone? My Blue Yeti is kind of showing its age, I wonder if I could afford it"

>One google search later

...Welp.