History LetsPlay / TheDarkId

* ''Film/MortalKombat''

The Dark Id is a popular [[LetsPlay Let's Player]] on the Website/SomethingAwful forums. He has (as of this time of writing) completed 26 Let's Plays (although, strictly speaking, two pairs of those were combined in two joint threads). All but two of them are featured on the [[http://lparchive.org/search/The%20Dark%20Id#results LP Archive.]] Known for his [[DeadpanSnarker wit]], {{Alternative Character Interpretation}}s, and [[RantInducingSlight low tolerance for annoying things]].

** In the ''Xenogears'' LP, Fei gives one to the Queen of Shevat, describing [[HeadInTheSandManagement her]] (and by extension, Shevat's) [[BystanderSyndrome many]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder unhelpful]] [[WhatAnIdiot actions]] [[RantInducingSlight after she gives]] a [[ComplimentBackfire rather lame]] [[DudeWheresMyRespect vote of confidence.]]

'''Leon''': [[RantInducingSlight Shut up! Shut up! I hate essays!]] I cheated on my final exam at the academy! No... I never even went to an academy. I got my certification on some website I Googled. I put down I had 20 years of law enforcement experience I was on a Counter-Terrorist team on my application... That was a fucking ''VideoGame/CounterStrike'' clan... How was I to know they'd actually hire me?!\\

* ''VideoGame/GeminiRue - [[RecycledInSpace Noir...in...SPAAAAAAAAACE!!!]]''

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Drakengard 3}} Drakengard! 3!]]'' (Includes all of the DLC as well as Character Stories)

* ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan''

* [[AbortedArc Aborted Lets Play]]: At the end of his ''VideoGame/ClockTower3'' LP, Id showed off what appeared to be an LP of ''Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven''. As of 2013 though, nothing has come of it.

*** And two updates later:
----> '''Id''': Err... alright... I take back what I said about Rico and the absurdity of him being able to fit in the air vents. With a little more head room I think we could stuff [[HumongousMecha Weltall]] down these things. Good grief.

* AllThereInTheManual: Id doesn't like that much of the backstory of The 3rd Birthday is hidden in the main console.

** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'': Leon's just getting into his [=RE4=] action hero groove and won't stop shouting Ada's name no matter how annoying she finds it, Claire doesn't seem to mind showing Sherry all sorts of traumatizing things they can find within the RPD and making her feel even more unwanted, and William Birkin makes eye puns, divorces his wife Annette monster-style (and muttered that he should have gotten one before he injected himself with the G-Virus), and is most likely into incest. Also, Mr. X is now Señor X, is mostly [[{{Spexico}} Spexican]] and, courtesy of Leon throwing it out a window after their first encounter, is constantly looking for his hat. At the end, he finally gets a new sombrero, loses it, and gets another one made of fire... and speaks English, much to Leon's surprise.

*** In the ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard 3}}'' LP, so much has been written up about Four's personality as she tries to justify herself as a pure, chaste woman while really being a mental trainwreck -- though, again, it isn't far off from her actual character. Just slightly more subtextual. Slightly.

** ''Resident Evil 4'': ''Music/BohemianRhapsody'' by Music/{{Queen}}
** ''Resident Evil Code Veronica'': ''It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)'' by Music/{{REM}}
** ''Resident Evil [=REmake=]'': ''Paint It Black'' by Music/TheRollingStones.

* ARareSentence: Comes up fairly often in ''VideoGame/LimboOfTheLost''.
--> '''Id''': I wonder if Jesus had alcoholic snot...? I can't believe I just typed that sentence.

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-->'''Anastasia:''' ''Yuri, have you ever punched a ghost baby?''\\

-->'''Id:''' Ultimately the ghost of the biblical first king of Israel was defeated by the fursuit-clad founder of the Boy Scouts of America summoned by a wolf's ghost horde. That's a sentence I can type about a video game.

* BagOfSpilling: Id has a chain of [[https://twitter.com/thedarkid/status/1397769658653155330?s=21 tweets]] showing that [[VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon Ichiban Kasuga]] blows his money catching up on Franchise/DragonQuest.

[[RichesToRags Your funds are at 0]] because Ichiban got all the authentic cartridges, [=CDs=], [=DVDs=], consoles, handhelds, CRT TVs, and the works to play them all authentically.\\

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Id has this reaction during Route C of Nier Automata when Pascal stops being pacifistic and goes PapaWolf on the Machine Lifeforms attacking.

* BigNo: When, at the ending of ''Limbo of the Lost'', a character suggests [[spoiler:they sing]].
** Near the end of VideoGame/IAmSetsuna, Id gets very upset that [[spoiler:the Time Judge brings Reaper/Fides back to life.]]

* BigWhat: Not only Id, but the entire ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard 3}}'' LP thread had this as a response to ''Nier 2'' being revealed at E3 2015.
** In his Xenogears LP, he has this reaction to Chu-Chu growing to Gear size.

* BigYes: He has this reaction after finally getting everyone's ultimate weapons in Final Fantasy X, especially all the lunacy involved in getting them to begin with.
** He also had this reaction after finally getting to properly play in Disc 2 of Xenogears after spending so much time in the [[ExpositionBreak Narration Zone]].
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: In The 3rd Birthday, Id points out how Club Sacrifice is so much bigger than any nightclub in New York City ought to be to the point it's taking up at least two city blocks. One example is that the fire escape is so big that he could do a three point turn with a car on just the landing.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: For his Let's Play of Shadow Hearts, while he'll let certain things like deciding how monster names are translated slide, what really stymies him is that the London section of the game falls into this compared to the rest of the game before that section or after.

* BreatherEpisode: After suffering through The 3rd Birthday, Id's Livestream of Metal Slug was this to him.

* BrownNote: During Branch D of the Drakengard 3 LP, one of the links is a video where the cover is from Drakengard 1's Branch D. Subverted when the note in question is actually Mikhail singing a cute song about Zero.

* CainAndAbel: [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 Leon]] and [[spoiler:Todd]]. Years ago, [[spoiler:Todd]] convinces Leon to try to audition for the main character part of the next Resident Evil game. Leon gets the part and goes to tell [[spoiler:Todd... only to find him making out with Leon's ex-girlfriend, [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 Claire Redfield.]]]] Leon, angered, lays a trap for [[spoiler:Todd, using a liquid nitrogen canister to freeze him and then lobbing him off the Golden Gate Bridge]]. 6 years later, [[spoiler:Todd's now working for Ramon Salazar as his "right hand."]]

* TheCameo: When Weasel suggests that Snake play a Link Battle with a friend in the Ghost Babel LP, [[VideoGame/{{Drakengard}} Seere]] chimes in with:
--> '''Seere''': No, Weasel. My mom wouldn't put out for a link cable to play Pokémon. She's certainly not doing it for Metal Gear Solid.

--> '''Id''': As we venture further into the area, we're stopped by these two... colorful gentlemen. I hope you're ready for some cringey dated gay stereotypes! I'd like to say this is the product of being from the mid-aughts and all. But VideoGame/Persona5 only came out two years ago and had something exactly like this pair. It was probably actually way worse there.

---> '''Id''': Fuck this game. Fuck everyone behind the making of this game. Fuck Tetsuya Nomura. Fuck Square-Enix. Fuck Vincent Valentine. Fuck Final Fantasy VII. Fuck [=J-RPGs=]. Fuck Japan. Fuck you for enjoying my suffering. And fuck me for going 'hey, Dirge of Cerberus...there's a good game to LP' nearly 11 months ago.\\

---> '''Id''': Hey kid, stay away from strange giant flowers. I've seen this go REAL bad for this one [[VideoGame/{{Drakengard3}} temperamental chick over in Notspain]].

* CrazyPrepared: He has a series of [[https://twitter.com/TheDarkId/status/1385105661797847042 tweets]] about Barry Burton being this in the Resident Evil world.
--> '''Id:''' You ever think about how Resident Evil is a world that is about [[CrapsackWorld 20 years deep into biological monster outbreak disasters happening every few years]]. And the Ur-Dad Barry Burton is the only one who ever showed up to one of these things with an automatic-rifle, sidearm and a magnum?[] Chris and Jill have been to twenty of these hoedowns and show up [[WithThisHerring with the cheapest pistol]] in the budget this fiscal quarter. Barry shows up armed to the teeth and immediately adopts an orphan and teaches her to throw bricks at monsters.

--> '''Id:''' Anyone kind of freaked out their muscle memory of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater is still intact after not playing one of these for more than 20 minutes in over a decade [[{{Sequelitis}} since they've been bad]]?\\

-->'''Id:''' Who laid out this mansion? Who puts couches and other furniture at that kind of angles? It's like your dead grandpa's fucked up bed placement at the beginning of VideoGame/StardewValley up in here. This place was destined to be cursed. By the way, mentioning the earlier amount of detail this place gets? All those boarded-up windows have animated wind knocking around the crudely nailed in boards and they've not repeated windows either. A bizarre amount of craft put into this place after the copypasta hellholes the last few bonus dungeon sessions have put forward.

--> '''Id:''' Make another fucking Onimusha, Capcom. You cowards! ''VideoGame/{{Nioh}}'' isn't the same. I want it to be stupid. I want Creator/JeanReno.

** [[VideoGame/{{FinalFantasyX}} Solid/Punished "Venom" Chocobo, one of the few survivors from Operation Mi'ihen]]

** [[VideoGame/{{Drakengard 3}} Mikhail, Gabriella]]

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: After getting the Fahrenheit in FFX, Tidus is now able to at least understand Al Bhed due to all the Primers he's been picking up.

But, keep in mind that this is all FMV Land Blitzball. Later in Final Fantasy X we will actually be able to play the game ourselves. And it is '''BORING. AS. FUUUUUCK!'''

--> '''Id''': Having the game auto-solve the bridge puzzle results in that Hit Area Expand evaporating. No rewards for puzzle skipping Yuri. You'll never get ahead in life doing that. Look up a FAQ with a solution like a respectable adult. This game is old enough you can still easily do that. Meanwhile, I want to know where one goddamn Blue Orb is in [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry5 Devil May Cry V]] and I have to float through a fifteen minute long Youtube video and now my recommendations have all decided I need 18 lore analysis videos or basement dwelling British goblins telling me why the game I am playing is actually bad. God DAMMIT, I just need to know an obscure spot to jump up to. ''::angry fist shake::''

** During the final exchange between Snake and Black Arts Viper from Ghost Babel, Snake calls out Viper's use of the word "Revengeance[[note]]ironically a real but archaic word[[/note]]" with:

* LongGame: Id goes into detail about how much of a long con VideoGame/NierAutomata was by not just showing off the [=YoRHa=] play, but also that it's been hidden in the soundtrack of Drakengard 3.

* MaliciousMisnaming: Near the end of I Am Setsuna as Fides joins the party, Id/Endir names him "Dingus" instead.

--> '''Id:''' Following that Hojo Laboratory fiasco, and a subsequent complete waste of time dungeon, we find ourselves back at Mukyo-An with Yuri impatiently pacing back and forth while Karin flashes the camera for the umpteenth time in any given 20 minute stretch of the game. Seriously, it's been a trial to get shots of assort battles and avoid Karin upskirts. The default character action select camera is at a low angle facing a set of possible random directions and half the time for Karin it's oh hey. Could we not? It's bad enough the last achievement I have in [=NieR=]: Automata and the one always staring me in the face if I hit that game on Steam is the 2B upskirt achievement. You're making me feel skeevy, video games. :angryfistshake:
* MeaningfulName: The title of his The 3rd Birthday LP makes so much more sense [[spoiler:when Eve has to kill Aya to keep the Twisted from happening]].

** Yes, he'd well and fully heard of ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard 3}}''!

** In Two's Prologue in ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard 3}}'', Id is very upset at Cent for the reason Two went into a catatonic state.

* NightmareFace: Id has this reaction to seeing Furiae have one of these in VideoGame/{{Drakengard}} (SWEET ZOMBIE JESUS FUCKING H. CHRIST!!), Yunalesca's third form in VideoGame/FinalFantasyX (JESUS TAP-DANCING IN SPACE CHRIST!!) and Rasputin's Asmodeus form in [[VideoGame/ShadowHearts Shadow Hearts Covenant]]. (Oh, WHAT THE FUCK?!)

--> '''Id:''' Yep... Yep, that sure is a dick with an eyeball growing out of it... That sure is exactly what we're all looking at right now in Shadow Hearts: Covenant for the Sony [=PlayStation=] 2 home video game entertainment console. Yep.

* OnlySaneMan: Id's version of Endir in VideoGame/IAmSetsuna is this.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: In his LP of ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'', while there is dialogue depending on who you take to face Emil for the BonusBoss battle against him in the desert, he uses 9S since he feels he had the most interraction with him than 2B or A2.

** He normally takes the piss out of the Resident Evil games he plays. Come Resident Evil 2, Brian is played as dead assed serious terrifying as a corrupt ax-crazy rapist cop could possibly be.

* PlotHole: During the Bevelle Cloister of Trials in FFX, Id considers it this since for all the talk about the Church of Yevon being anti-machina, the Bevelle temple is full of machina.

* SandInMyEyes: In Part 4 of FFX when the Ghost Kid appears before him.

* ScheduleSlip: [[invoked]] Played for laughs in his FFX LP when he jokes that him not finishing the game is what caused VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV to be stuck in DevelopmentHell.

** [[VideoGame/{{Drakengard3}} Cent]] is on this list for not only acting like he's smarter than he is, but [[spoiler:for using a bit of Two's song magic to [[WellIntentionedExtremist make her soldiers stronger]], which resulted not only in them turning into zombies, but all of [[NiceJobBreakingItHero her orphans becoming a congealed...]] [[BodyHorror mess of whatever it is]], enough to break her mind as she puts it down.]]

** He really doesn't like using the chakrams in ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard 3}}''.

* SerialNumbersFiledOff: [[invoked]] Id points out that even for ''I Am Setsuna'' using VideoGame/ChronoTrigger's combat system and overworld map, the plot in general is pretty much like ''Final Fantasy X''.

* SidetrackedByTheAnalogy: During Route B in VideoGame/NierAutomata after 9S gets smacked by the Engels in the beginning of the story, Id is confused when Pod 153 asks him to fix the access impairments to his memory blocks. He goes on to talk about memory storage since the UsefulNotes/PlayStation. By the time he's done, he forgot he was supposed to be playing the game and he ended up getting Ending F.

--> '''Id''': I'm just picturing a Manga/{{Berserk}} style hyper violent town [[KillEmAll massacre]] of the villagers by mascot character penguins, cutesy beach ball seals, and derpy walruses. Someone with some art talent get on illustrating that.

-> "Being married to someone from Philadelphia, it is a little known fact they're all capable of summoning [[{{Mascot}} Gritty]] to their location once per year and having him go shithouse on a target.\\

** Another small one during his {{VideoGame/Fallout}} LP:

'''Shady Sands resident''': I know about the Potato kind. I hear they still eat ‘em [[{{VideoGame/Fallout 3}} way out east]]. Pre-war bags. Decades old. They just shove ‘em into their mouths.\\

--> '''Id:''' Hey, remember when Final Fantasy X had a plot and wasn't an eternal spiral of poorly designed mini-games and tedious diversions? Maybe we ought to get back to that sometime... It's a good thing Sin has waited patiently out at sea for the party to get their shit together and progress with the plot. It wouldn't look too great if the protagonists allowed a village or two to get razed while they were out catching butterflies and watching home movies.

* ToThePain: In VideoGame/IAmSetsuna, during the Fridging Caves, the party catches up to a weakened Reaper. Endir has all sorts of ideas about how to deal with the annoying jerk who's been trying to kill them all game long.

** To say nothing of [[VideoGame/{{Drakengard3}} Decadus']] masochistic groans of pleasure. Unngh...

* WelcomeToCorneria: In the FFX LP, Dona can't get past the Crusader checkpoint with the guard only able to say "Sorry ma'am! No exceptions!"
* WhamEpisode: TheReveal in The 3rd Birthday [[spoiler:that you're actually playing as Eve, a 12-year old girl in Aya's older body]] did '''not''' sit well with the thread.

--> '''Id:''' Yuri, did you remember that Alice was Gepetto's niece and dressing his magic doll up as a dead family member is a little fucked up and in poor taste? Just saying, my guy.

-->'''Id:''': James Bond did you really have to kill the villain of Tomorrow Never Dies by forcing him into an [[ThisIsADrill industrial drill]]?

->'''Anastasia:''' It'll destroy the city!\\

* PressHat: QuoteSource. While playing ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3'', he makes fun of the AntiquatedLinguistics by assuming the reporter wore a hat with his press credentials.

In Progress

* ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve'' - The Worst Foe Lies Within the Self

** Near the climax of his ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'', Ada mentions to Leon she's HIV positive. In the LP of the ''Remake'', Jill finds John's letter where he mentions he got his test results back which told him he had "full blown AIDS." He then recommends Ada go for a test too.

* FanNickname: [[invoked]]
** After the point when [[VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica Alfred Ashford]] starts talking in his imitation of his sister Alexia's voice, Id begins referring to him as Alfrexia. And photoshops makeup onto his face.
** And when Id decides to do [[VideoGame/ResidentEvilGunSurvivor Survivor]] as an MST gag, Claire and Steve decide to refer to Ark Thompson as "Hernando" until further notice. Once he is called Vincent, they switch to that whilst putting in surnames like [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon McMahon]], [[Film/PulpFiction Vega]], [[Creator/VincentPrice Price]], and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Valentine]].
** Early in ''VideoGame/OnimushaWarlords'', Id attaches the nickname of "Sam" to Samanosuke, primarily because he's tired of typing out "Samanosuke". Also, due to the game's decision to translate "oni" as "ogres", he refers to their soul-absorbing gauntlet as the "Franchise/{{Shrek}} Gauntlet".

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'': Elma treats Solid Chocobo like a vengeful beast whose blood lust cannot be sated.

** In ''VideoGame/IAmSetsuna,'' Endir is a rude and callous jerk whom everyone tends to ignore when he speaks (thus justifying his HeroicMime status), and has encountered every one of the JRPG stories the game takes elements from in his time as a mercenary.

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: In his LP of ''I Am Setsuna'', Id's version of Endir is very reluctant to kill Pengys in the tutorial level.

'''Yuri:'' ''So they'll have a character portrait?''\\

* ''Film/ResidentEvil''

** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'': The eponymous Nemesis is a mutant who thinks he's a {{Blaxploitation}} character who thinks he's a [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Californian]] [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger governor]] who thinks he's a [[Anime/DragonBallZ Super Saiyan]]. [[spoiler:And then he becomes a freakish amalgamation of all three ([[Series/SesameStreet plus Bert]]) at the end.]] And Nicholai is nigh-on indestructible to the point where when Jill blows up the chopper he's riding out on, Nicholai is instead sent [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} blasting off again]].

** And during said final act, when Jill blows up his chopper after negotiations fall through, Id instead decides to conclude said skirmish not with Nicholai getting fried with the chopper, but with Nicholai [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} blasting off again]].

** ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}''[='=]s follow TheOneWhere for the five different "loops" (i.e. the separate playthroughs for [[MultipleEndings all five endings]], such as "The One With The Canon Ending" for the first loop and "The One Where Cavia Hates You" for the last), and InWhichATropeIsDescribed for the individual chapters (e.g. "In Which Caim Goes All [[HeroicMime Silent Protagonist]] On Us", "In Which Inuart is a Fuckstick", etc).

In Progress:

* ''Shadow Hearts Covenant: Reach Out and Punch Someone''

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: This comes up in Chapter 103 in ''Shadow Hearts Covenant'' when the party is using the Fountain of Sukune to look for Nicolai.

** It's a given, thanks to the [=LPer=]'s smart-aleck sense of humor, but ''Shadow Hearts: Covenant'' is a special case in that [[DownplayedTrope most of TDI's added dialogue would blend in seamlessly]] were it not for his frequent use of {{Call Back}}s and insulting jabs. It's just that weird of a game.
** He also wants Capcom to make another ''VideoGame/{{Onimusha}} for this reason.

* NotCompletelyUseless: In ''Shadow Hearts Covenant'' while going through the Creator level of Solomon's Trials, Id brings up how while the fights in the level are a cakewalks since by then you'll have to have gone through each character's BrutalBonusLevel (minus Joachim's), the Tin Lion only has 10 HP, is invincible to everything you can throw at it and will utterly obliterate you even if everyone has their InfinityPlusOneSword and Armor. The only thing that kills it... is Joachim's Drain Touch, which does ScratchDamage, is the only spell able to kill this thing.

* WhyWontYouDie: His ''Nier'' LP has this to the DiscOneFinalBoss of the game, Jack of Hearts.

** For ''Shadow Hearts Covenant,'' Lucia's Tarot deck is this, especially when during the Janus boss fight, she pulled the Reverse Hierophant, making everyone's [[SanityMeter SP]] drop to 0 and go Berserk, having no control of the party at all and leading to a wipe. On the humorous side, he did find out that when Berserk, Blanca does an attack where he [[UrineTrouble pees]] on a target.