History WebVideo / OutsideXbox

* OopNorth: Ellen is tasked with coming up with voices for normally unvoiced animal characters in video games. When she reaches [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins Senu, the hawk]], Andy immediately interrupts and gives her this kind of accent. [[{{Corpsing}} Ellen and Luke can barely control themselves]].

* LethalJokeItem: The topic of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL2jL_ZMuqU 7 Joke Weapons That Were Surprisingly Effective.]] The list includes a water pistol being in VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV to take down a literal fiery boss battle with ease, VideoGame/DeadRising2 and its toy ping pong ball shooter and its unique gamecode quirk of the shots counting as a throwable object, not a bullet (making a particular helicopter boss hilariously easy), and the Money Bundle from VideoGame/PAYDAY2, which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ...a money bundle. It's effectiveness is mentioned because of it's StunLock properties, which are among the highest in the game, meaning the police can't fire back so long as you keep hitting them.

** [[VideoGame/{{SilentHills}} P.T]], which was removed from online stores due to the infamous kerfuffle with Hideo Kojima and Konami

** Videogame/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorldTheGame got removed due to the Films's associated studios' licenses running out.
** The Nintendo eshop ports of Videogame/{{Tetris}} got removed due to (allegedly) Ubisoft acquiring the rights to the franchise

* NinetiesHair: During COVID-19 quarantine, Luke could not go to the hairdresser and therefore grew his hair out, swapping his short-back-and-sides hairdo for a longer set of shaggy curtains that would not have looked amiss on a [[Music/BackstreetBoys Backstreet Boy]]. It was generally considered to be a good look, and remained until mid-2021, at which point [[https://www.instagram.com/p/COAIPW6nWPd/ he returned to his former quiff]].

* AscendedExtra: Having gained attention for creating the artwork for the team's ''TabletopGame/{{Dungeons And Dragons}}'' adventures, which have been used on the channel since A Spot of Bother, Bendix later appeared alongside Mike & Luke in the July 27th 2018 livestreams.

*** Jane's favourite is ''VideoGame/MassEffect''. She did several Let's Play about ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' and ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'', did a whole video about ArtisticLicenseSpace to talk about ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' and another to talk about her Andromeda's space training.

*** Luke's favourite is ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda''. While not exactly a favourite, it's also a bit of a running gag that he is apparently the only member of the Outside X-team that likes ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine''. He's also a huge fan of [=FromSoft=] games along with Mike, in particular ''VideoGame/EldenRing'' having trained novice Ellen in the titles.

*** Producer Jon is also fond of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda''. Specifically, ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening''

-->'''Luke''': I'm not sure I would say 'for every occasion.' I really feel like there's one occasion that's catered to here, and it's the murder of me. By Ellen.

* BadBoss: Played for laugh, as with everything else. The Oxbox team in general and Jane in particular. So far, Luke and Ellen have mentioned that they had to work over Easter or Jane would feed them to the Mimics from ''VideoGame/Prey2017''; Jane's SuspiciouslySpecificDenial of doing something to Luke; Mike and Andy are mind-controlling Luke with a mirror Videogame/TheLastGuardian's style; Jane has inflicted "productivity scorpions" on the Xtra team. Both Luke and Ellen also live in terror of being sent "back to the video game mines" if their channel doesn't perform up to snuff. Luke is also contractually obligated to carry the Oxbox team around on piggy-back on demand.

** [[https://youtu.be/L3Fhed3MtVw "7 Tricks by Game Developers You Won’t Be Able to Unsee"]] is based around developer techniques to save on time, or are otherwise too complex to implement such as [[spoiler:animating the exchange of items by showing movements implying a handoff (as it's really tedious to animate), letting shoot people off ledges by making "ragdoll magnets" so they alway do this ([[RuleOfCool because it's cool to the player)]]]], and [[spoiler:don't animate getting people dressed (as that's ''also'' really hard and tedius to animate. Jane quotes Creator/BradBird; director of ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', as a source for how hard it is to do cloth simulations, so it's no wonder game developers don't want to try their luck either)]], among other things.

** Before being "revealed" in the 2M subscribers video, James Hill had a couple of appearances in some comedic bits. In one, Andy demonstrated his nodding-through-interview technique with him, and in another, he's a VideoGame/PokemonGO player who wandered in the studio. He also had an entire series to himself in 2013 in which he played ''VideoGame/{{State of Decay}}''.

** Johnny Chiodini, formerly of Eurogamer and Dicebreaker, served as Dungeon Master for almost all of the various ''TabletopGame/{{Dungeons And Dragons}}'' adventures, as well as being a player character in the ''TabletopGame/BladesInTheDark'' spinoff.

--> '''Mike''': Yeah, I've got no excuse for that one.

--> '''Andy''': I think we've established that Mike isn't very good at this game.

** In the episode "[[https://youtu.be/Z0poyvgouD4 7 Games Too Ambitious For Their Own Good]]", Jane says that she liked all three VideoGame/{{Fable}} games. And that there were only three games.

--> '''Andy''': ...and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky—seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness. And then they all went for ice-cream sundaes.

-->'''Luke''': This is what I put up with everyday.

-->'''Luke''': You can't shake hands in a gentlemanly way and then [[UnsportsmanlikeGloating just keep dancing!]]\\

* HowIsThatEvenPossible: Ellen's response to the ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'' version of [[{{HellHound}} Cerberus]] somehow being able to catch Dante in its mouth in mid-air right before he could stick his scythe into its head.

* HyperCompetentSidekick: During their VideoGame/{{Grand Theft Auto V}} heists, the team would often be joined by a player named Nerascus whom they've dubbed as their "intern". More often than not, the intern would perform better than the team, getting them out of tricky situations, and receiving a higher score.

** For the streams of ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'', Luke's island is "Knot Atoll", Andy's is "Creator/{{MichaelBay}}", Jane's is ''[[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Isle Bebac]]", and Ellen's is "Den Isle".

-->'''Andy''': I'll die before I turn on my Space Buddy.

-->'''Mike:''' We've been [making videos] for bloody ages. Let me just take a sip of water while Jane tells you exactly how long.\\

** ''VideoGame/{{Stray}}'' also has Ellen gush over the cat about a thousand times over 8 hours of play.

** Ellen reched new heights with the release of ''VideoGame/{{Stray}}'', and the channel released the videos [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MciHGrUrgMY Grown Woman Cries At Video Game Cat]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzm68AsFKKg 124 Times Ellen Lost it Playing Stray (The First 2 Hours)]]
* CutenessOverload: Ellen, who is well known by long-time fans to be a sucker for all "fuzzy wittle animals", [[https://youtu.be/RV_riADnRio?list=PL306AM2iTJ4ZA3XL6k2X6KmptYMgTVA98&t=312 was literally brought to tears]] by the game ''VideoGame/{{Stray}}'', in which the player controls an admittedly very adorable cat:

** Ellen and the stream chat name the cat from ''VideoGame/{{Stray}}'' "Jonesy" after the cat from ''Film/{{Alien}}''. Given that the main character of the film is also called Ellen, and both cats are ginger, it works very well.

*** Ellen's favourite is frequently presented as being ''VideoGame/KingdomsOfAmalurReckoning''. It is revealed in one video that there is apparently a protocol banning Ellen from mentioning it simply because she'd take every opportunity she could to gush about it.[[note]]Although her devotion to the game may be exaggerated a little for the show, as Ellen has stated a few times that ''Kingdoms of Amalur'' is not her favorite game as much as it's her favorite ''underrated'' game.[[/note]] She's also very fond of the ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' and ''Franchise/TombRaider'' games. Also, due to her fondness for cats, she is rendered completely insensate by ''VideoGame/{{Stray}}'', that included a video of her gushing over the protagonist cat over a hundred times in two hours.

* GilliganCut: Luke shows John the memetic "''Film/DetectivePikachu'' dance," and wonders why Ellen didn't reply when he sent her the clip. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_x9XwgsIco Meanwhile, across town...]]

* AscendedMeme: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzBUf7r9c78 "7 Videogame Memes So Good They Made it Into the Game"]].

* BorderPatrol: Subject of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pYWHzqPvYA "7 Genius Ways Games Stopped You From Escaping Them"]] and the [[https://youtu.be/C3AoT-KJqrg first]] and [[https://youtu.be/ucWK7hvTGF0 second]] "commenter editions", which all deal with games that stop you from levaing the playable area, be it with In-universe reasoning, or by using sharks or deadly, deadly fish. As Ellen mentions, they didn't realise how many examples there were, how creative they could be, and how fun they were to record and play. This is also one of the few topics to get more than one "commenter edition" sequel video.

* CreatorKiller: [[invoked]]Explored in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ-PaehXJ_s 7 Disastrous Games That Sank the Company]]. Either due to [[DevelopmentHell delays]], the games being [[CriticalBacklash overhyped before launch]] or, in the case of ''VideoGame/KingdomsOfAmalurReckoning'', having the misfortune of coming out just months after ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' that completely overshadowed it, resulting in fewer sales than expected (and the game would have been needed to ''massively'' sell to save the studio from the extremely poor gestion of its budget, even if it didn't have the competition).

* AnimalMotifs: Luke is associated with birds: he has a particular expression that Ellen calls his "angry owl face," and has made a RunningGag out of flamingos. Ellen herself is often associated with cats (and occasionally [[VideoGame/UntitledGooseGame geese]]).

* ArtifactTitle: From the channel's website:

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The subject of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUks-1cXWCM "7 Times You Thought You Were Helping, But Doomed Everyone"]]. They also remark that the subtitle of ''VideoGame/TheWitcher2AssassinsOfKings'' was actually the title of their video, given how many times Geralt does precisely that.

* MetaGuy: The subject of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAIiEwd5by8 7 Times a Game Was So Meta It Freaked You Out]], examples include Spyro and Hunter from ''VideoGame/SpyroAHerosTail'', ''VideoGame/{{Deadpool}}'' just being Deadpool, and Spiderman from ''VideoGame/UltimateSpiderman'' explaining double jumps that he himself breaks the laws of physics. It also received a 2nd edition; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seW3rHrKlHo "7 Times a Game Was So Meta It Freaked You Out: The Return"]].

* TheOner: Mike in "7 Surprising Ways Games Were Changed for Other Countries" has Mike go on a near-one-take rant to camera about the ''[[VideoGame/TheBugsBunnyCrazyCastle Crazy Castle]]'' series of games. [[https://youtu.be/S8mLWT4aujE?t=786 The segment]] is notable for only have two breaks (both times it's foootage interrupting Mike), but the great majority of the segment is Mike doing one long take to camera, and getting increasingly irritated at the name changes, confusing decisions of Creator/{{Kemco}} when localising the games and what licensed properties they were using in each region (at one point substituting Bugs Bunny for GhostBusters of all things). As of writing, it holds the record for longest talking heads segment in an Outside Xbox list video (it lasts just under '''3 and a half minutes!'''). For most of it, he also wears a pair of NerdGlasses, to [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness prove how serious he's being]], and to make the audience aware of the wild ride of confusing information Mike is about to throw their way.

* TheOner: Mike in "7 Surprising Ways Games Were Changed for Other Countries" has Mike go on a near-one-take rant to camera about the ''[[VideoGame/TheBugsBunnyCrazyCastle Crazy Castle]]'' series of games. [[https://youtu.be/S8mLWT4aujE?t=786 The segment]] is notable for only have two breaks (both times interrupting Mike just to show footage of the games in the series), but the great majority of the segment is Mike getting increasingly irritated at the name changes and confusing decisions of Creator/{{Kemco}} when localising the games and what licensed properties they use in each region. As such, it is very likely to hold the record for longest segment in an Outside Xbox video (it lasts just under '''4 minutes!'''). For most of it, he also wears a pair of NerdGlasses, to [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness prove how serious he's being]].

* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Andy in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAapI9zwWsU "8 Achievements That Took Serious Planning: Commenter Edition"]] admits that the username of commenter [=DJomnific3nt=] is "a wicked cool password if you're looking for one."

* TheOner: Mike in "7 Surprising Ways Games Were Changed for Other Countries" has Mike go on a near-one-take rant about the ''[[VideoGame/TheBugsBunnyCrazyCastle Crazy Castle]]'' series of games. [[https://youtu.be/S8mLWT4aujE?t=786 The segment]] is notable for only have two breaks (both times interrupting Mike just to show footage of the games in the series), but the great majority of the segment is Mike getting increasingly irritated at the name changes and confusing decisions of Creator/Kemco when localising the games and what licensed properties they use in each region. As such, it is very likely to hold the record for longest segment in an Outside Xbox video (it lasts just under 4 minutes!). For most of it, he also wears a pair of NerdGlasses, to [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness prove how serious he's being]].

* SayingTooMuch: Luke admits that he and Mike [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous celebrate Christmas starting in November.]] This leads Ellen to remark that she got their admission on tape, causing Andy and Cameraman John to haul them off to Christmas Jail until December, when one can finally start celebrating Christmas.

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: During a trivia livestream where the goal is to guess who drew a picture, Mike immediately guesses that Andy drew a chainsaw, because the person wielding screamed "Groovy!" as a ShoutOut to [[Franchise/EvilDead]]'s Ash Williams. [[spoiler:And he was right]].