I like to stream and make videos about interesting and challenging ideas in the SoulsBorne series, mainly Dark Souls 1. Hopefully that interests you too.
6:10 early pvp days as a snot nosed little elementary/middle school kid as a hornet ring, Havel flipping raiper buffing, poise tank try hard will never not be funny. the soul duplication combined with the bottomless box that you could have a Mule character let you duplicate basically everything in the game and made spooling up sl 120 builds for PVP super fun.....not to mention the low level ganking with high level gear.
I remember going into GameStop and browsing around. Skyrim was on all the screens in the store and I saw a game lined up along the wall. I asked them what sort of game it was and he said it was the hardest game he ever played. I really had no money at the time but was intrigued. He told me to get the key at the start and watch out for the dragon on the bridge, to which I did. I bought the game with the money I was saving for Skyrim and man I'm "glad" I did. Almost all my gaming buddy's hated it. It was very hard. I had no idea where to go, what I was doing, or anything really besides fighting shit and dying. I got to blight town and got cursed on the wooden scaffolding mid way down. I tried running but the poison and bug things killed me. I got fucking pissed off and quit. Maybe a month later and after MGS4 playthrough, I was so pissed off that I didn't beat this stupid game. Told myself I was going to beat it. Went back with the intent to not get cursed and played up to lvl 385 without glitching, to which I had no idea existed. I still know the game 90% today just off of memory cause just the shear amount of discovery I had to do to figure shit out. I got invited to the dark souls 2 beta and played almost all of them even the offshoots like nioh and lies of p. I bought the game on ps3 around mid October 2011 cause I remember Skyrim was a month off. Now I got the collectors edition for Elden ring dlc on order and looking for another adventure. Albeit less torture on the discovery side. Praise The Sun (first guild) and yes 50 faith was a bitch lol.
if they ever remaster this game they should add all this crazy shit in the game as optional difficulty setting...yeah yeah I know Souls Games don't need difficulty settings blablabla, but I feel like this would be an acceptable exception.
Hey, I played this game almost a dozen times unpatched because I had shitty Internet. 14:55 I wanted to clarify that you couldn't summon anyone, not even Alfred or Gascoigne. I tried so many times but to no avail. ALSO the Bloody Crow of Cainhurst DOES spawn, but I THINK he spawns with his Chikage transformed. My reasoning for this is because the moment you return from the Rom fight, you can turn around and run right back to him. But if you go through another loading screen and return, you'll find him dead. It could also be the other way around because I have a bad memory, meaning the first time he spawns right after Rom, you have to go through a loading screen right away before the Chikage drains his HP so he can reset with it being in its normal mode. I'm fairly sure I have recordings of the Doll humming and the Scourge Beast(s) spawning in the Celestial Emissary arena
game was hammered dogshit from day one, they spent the next two console cycles doing damage control. anyone who likes this game is mistaken and should be exiled
Loving the Earthbound and Mother 3 music! Im annoyed by how long it took me to play all the souls games but when i did i felt like i was in the correct time and place for it. The best state of mind to absorb them and get lost within them.
I was a big fan of Demon's Souls already and preordered Dark Souls. I got lost after the Bell Gargoyles and thought I needed to go through New Londo Ruins. Stopped playing for like 8 months because I couldn't kill the ghosts, then it came up in conversation with a friend who told me how to get to Blight Town. Glad I came back in the end, cause DS1 is probably my most played game of all time, aside from RuneScape and maybe League of Legends.
i played ds1 for the first time in 2021, and was really confused about why it was regarded as such an impossibly difficult game, because dark souls remastered is really easy. after watching this, it all makes sense now lmao
Can someone give me tips for doing the forbidden Woods skip as I do it but the wolf always grabs me back at the end of the animation and I cant get to the skip
This is the version of the game I played first, and beat. I remember when fighting the Four Kings, they would throw this unblockable projectile attack that comes slowly towards you and I'd get hit by it every time, and holding the shield up would do nothing, I'd still get hurt and fall to the ground. When I saw someone play the remaster of the game, they held their shield up and it blocked the projectile. So I assume that the patch changed the fight a bit. Four Kings was harder in the un-patched version of the game because of this. Will be interesting to see a video on Sekiro Day One Release. I heard that a patch/update of the game made the first Owl fight harder than the original un-patched Day One version of the game. Complete opposite of the Dark Souls patched version, which made the game easier than the Day One release.
I played on release, and always find myself going back to DS1 after every game comes out lol. I see a lot of people say how Blight Town wasn't as bad as people say, and I wish I could portray to all of them at once that, it wasn't the layout that was difficult, it was the terrible framerate ON TOP of the the layout that made it difficult, the low framerate made miss-inputs more common, so you could easily roll off the side, not to mention you barely got any souls so you were very low level by that point. On top of this, invaders who played the closed beta already had high level weapons, so without weapon matchmaking, any invasion was a guaranteed 1 to 2 shot, which made every invasion terrifying, and seeing someone in near full havels flipping around like a fucking ceiling fan was something else. All the issues it had though, I still wouldn't trade that experience for the fixes of the remaster, the imbalances gave me such a unique first experience, and completely changed my perspective on game design as a whole.
2:25 Actually I believe they did, in fact, change the text to Victory Achieved or some such in the original version, but people complained until they set it back to You Defeated. Then I guess in Remastered they decided that was enough humoring us.
I replayed this game recently and had no trouble with it. I thought wow maybe I got better as I got older. Then I saw this video and it clicked on me that they just updated the game taking off all the stuff mentioned here. I remembered the enemy aggro range being way harder and taking longer to level up, the multiple cappra demons underground all the dragon butts chasing me. I thought maybe I attacked them and didn't remember doing so. Thank you for this.
That Dark Cloud 2 OST at the beginning was a welcome surprise! Also, with that pause at the DS2 title screen, I thought I was gonna hear a ZeroLenny "They made another one?!?!?!?" Lol
Ahhhhh 2011, Where the games were built arround FUN! So did Dark SOuls 1,2 and 3. Now days these games with Over-Saturated Colors arent fun(exception for Read Dead Redenption and GTA), I cant Wait for Dark Souls 4 and it to be as fun as Dark Souls 3.
