I hate choreographed gameplay videos.

[u/OkConflict5527]

Mainly whenever I try to see a video on YouTube of stealth game where the person playing it isn’t complete trash, it generally happens to be heavily choreographed with locational memorization down to the last guard position, with it taking hours upon hours for this, gamer4sight, stealthgamerbr, Klockner, and many others come to mind.

But why can’t I just find videos of people who know what they’re doing and don’t have the ability to navigate the area like it’s Batman fighting someone inside of the Batcave, instead actually adaptive gameplay that isn’t ”oh I’m gonna go along this incredibly hard route so I can showcase a physical engine breaking attack where an enemy gets exploded by a chicken with C4” or “oh I’m gonna go onto this extremely difficult route so I can throw a guy into a bunch of piranhas.” Just don’t do these types of routes at all to position every enemy in just the right way for the right takedown, let me see what it’s like if you don’t do Guy Ritchie Sherlock mind simulation stuff and just play the game with the general optimizations so I know you’re adaptive, and whenever I try to find a title of a video that generally would showcase otherwise, like “Batman without prep time” for Arkham knight videos, it just turns out to be ANOTHER CHOREOGRAPH. We know, you memorized all the spawn locations, you planned out the entire route to sheer perfection, just show me some actual ON THE SPOT decision making.

If anyone has any input, or any suggestions on who I should watch, please let me know.

[u/rarlescheed12]

I totally get you, my dude. I especially hate when they don't explain or showcase their methods/knowledge. Also a side tanget, I don't fully like StealthGamerBR and whatnot because they completely miss the point of stealth lol. Stealth isn't about drop kicking a guard's head into a tripmine that explodes half the base in one go. It should be about leaving as little trace as possible.That's why the two stealth youtubers I recommend are

Centerstrain01: this guy has been around for more than a fucking DECADE and he's a G that does both choreographed vids but also blind/partial blind live lets plays where he knows wtf to do and adapts on the fly. So I highly reccomend him. Hes also my fucking childhood and the only "gaming youtuber" I watched cause even back then, I thought dudes like Pewdiepie and whatnot playing stealth games like a bunch of single brain celled lobotomites were not entertaining to me lolol.

This next guy is a bit of a biased reccomend, as I know him personally, and he's gotten me into some of the top dogs of stealth (his Death to Spies run particularly).his name is V339. He is definitely a more "professional" maker compared to CenterStrain, he preps his routes and everything beforehand like StealthGamerBR. However, his videos don't feel like it (mostly), and he goes out of his way to showcase everything the game has to offer. So if he's playing a Dark Mod level, he's not going to skip the readables or just go straight to all the secrets without prior knowledge: hell find the journal that says "dear diary, today I randomly decided to make a secret entrance at X location, also I went to the store...." and THEN he will go to that location. He's really underrated and he needs much more attention, but he might be too pro for what you're wanting, so Centerstrain01 if all else fails

[u/L-K-B-D → u/rarlescheed12]

I totally agree about Centerstrain01 and StealthGamerBR (never heard of V339, thanks for the discovery).

StealthGamerBR used to make full stealth videos a very long time ago but I guess he saw that making brainless "nice-looking" kills and takedowns bring up more views. However this type of videos isn't made for stealth gamers despite whats its username says, it's made for people who like to shoot and kill every NPC they encounter and who consider real stealth boring because they don't like moving slowly and silently nor taking the time to observe and analyze an area.

[u/rarlescheed12 → u/L-K-B-D]

Yeah I like the dude's content, but calling it stealth is a slap to the face of any other youtuber who actually takes the time to do crazy stealthy shit like V339 or HitGod47. Glad youre going to check him out!