Dark Souls 2 but it's the DAY ONE Release Version 

Next up: Bloodborne

RIP faith builds 2014 - 2014

Pre nerf miracles are worth putting up with any bad performance. I'll never forgive them

"a loading screen fort he loading screen" getting sonic 06 flashbacks

17:28 Don't know if anyone mentioned it already, this is one of the death sounds of those dagger-wielding enemies in the Ivory King DLC who are normally docile until you kill Aava. It was probably in the files because they were in the middle of developing the DLCs when the game just released.

18:24 BRAZIL MENTIONED LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO COÉ MENÓ OS GURI É EMBAÇADO

The crystal weapon buffed moonlight great sword, omg. Op.

Shrine of Amana PTSDs here . Fighting for every inches of progress in this god forsaken land.

mr meta uploding may be rare but it is SO worth it

I was preparing for a jumpscare scream but its literally an already ingame sound for that screamer anti piracy, I listened to my character scream so much after dying I wouldn't even be phased

Something not mentioned in the video but was a thing on the day 1 version of the game was the Looking Glass Knight bug. Not sure if that was only on PC or not (I only played on PC). For some reason, the Looking Glass Knight fight would ignore volume settings (both in-game and in your system), so whenever he used a spell or ability, it was as loud as possible for your sound system's volume. The only way to counter this was to change the volume on your speakers/headphones (if your headphones have a volume setting, anyway). I was a little surprised when you didn't mention LGKs sound glitch. "Loud Knight" is a video which demonstrates the bug for those who never experienced it.

Can i give you a hug for placing Animal Crossing music during the mage build showcase? You tugged on my heart strings!

Like a baby it took 9 months to grow this miracle.

Can't wait for Dark Souls 3 Fun fact, the spell Pestilent Mist wast named Pestilent Mercury before it was patched

I remember this well, what a release. The preorder bonus was also humorous.

For the idea of "things hitting harder in my head," a lot of the time numbers are misremembered due to the fact that you take additional damage from being damaged during a mistimed roll. Because of Adaptability, a lot of people tend to get punished through rolling in DS2, so damage may just seem way higher than it actually is for newer players.

One boss that was changed was The Ancient Dragon whose fire breath used to cover way more of the platform AND did more damage. It was bullshit.

Great to see you back my guy !🎉

maan, i was watching the dark souls 1 video after 2 months and seeing this just uploaded is a blessing. Thank you

17:28 bro that is NOT a screamer 😂

So happy to see your upload, hope things are going great!

We run and we explode! Excellent.

I like how they re-used the screamer sound for the Retainers death scream. Neat.

I know it's a good day when Mr Meta drops a video

I killed so many gamers on day one soon i was getting invaded by blues who were 200 levels above mine. It was amazing while it lasted.

Eyyy runescape music. Nice

Great vid keep up the good work 🤙

It's been 10,000 years! Nice to see you back.

I thought you quit or died or something lol. A new video is such a pleasant surprise! This has made my day

As a Brazilian person, i almost died laughing when you made that joke about Portuguese people talking Brazilian Genius

First time watcher of your channel, I really enjoyed this, great music, great details and info, awesome - new sub

Excited for dark souls 3 day one. These videos are fun

No way, Star field gameplay in darksouls 2 1.0

Man, this is nostalgic. Unlike Dark Souls 1, which I got to only after the Prepare to Die edition launched on Pc, I was there very shortly after day 1 with Dark Souls 2 and man oh man do I still remember a lot of this stuff. Especially how broken the spells were. Just recently I returned to Dark Souls 2 with a mage build, specifically a hex mage, and was surprised how little damage Climax did. I thought I just misremembered from almost 10 years ago at this point but this just confirmed my memories. Feels good to see these adventures into the past. Keep it up

The GOAT is back let's go

i remember almost all of this. i definitely remember soul geyser carrying me and my friend through the gargoyles fight. i remember moonlight greatsword could be buffed to do ridiculous damage. i also remember people using monastery scimitar as a parry tool in pvp, which was apparently broken for reasons i cant remember

Pre-nerf Climax was one or the coolest spells in the entire series. No 5k Souls + Scaling cap while still draining all, you could literally hit for millions of damage, but only once.

Fantastic video man! Love this series but I just have one thing to say.... ........Tyranitar > Metagross

Also dear god I had pushed the Havelasselyns (Havel armor + Smelter Head + Dual Avelyns) with thier old, actuall wrist-breaking-animation tracking in PvP. That's some deeeeep PTSD.

7:50 - I'm glad we had the same thoughts when it came to Andy's Ring Only run, lol.

The Thumbnail being the Shrine of Ammana is so real. Those guys were using magic missile, that shit TRACKED.

The first time i beat DS2 it was a blind playthrough of the unpatched version, without leveling ADP, lighting up the gutter, beat sinner in the dark, it was just an awful time. I had accidentally skipped every boss past Najka, including her. I didnt have any of the DLCs either. However, if still say that blind playthroigh was my most fun playthrough. (Except amana)

During the pandemic my brother and I roomed together, and he had our old 360, with a physical disk of Dark Souls 2, so my first complete play through was this version with no patches or updates

Oh my goodness the Moonlight Greatsword totally changes color when it was buffable? Could you please post a gallery of the different buff colors?

One of my fondest memories of the dark souls 2 launch was when we put the bell keeper ring on for the first time. There were so many players online that we'd be summoned for a fight then summoned to another one so fast that we couldn't get the ring off for some time. I was so happy.

I really like your understated sense of humour

speaking of brazillian portuguese, the old faded text behind the majula monolith used to have a text related to the giant invasion, it was patched out later

You left out how insanely strong the Ancient Dragon was before it got nerfed.

yeah I distinctly remember getting one show with forbidden sun pre patch move was insane

Vanilla miracles were so hilariously broken hahaha

I missed you man :)

I lightning speared/hexed my way through this version on xbox 360 and this made it my favorite souls game. I played SOTFS much later and never had as much fun as my initial play throughs

Excellent videos bro. I would like to see the original demon's souls day 1 🔥🔥

Thank you SO much for this video. I was just playing through vanilla the other day on PC and was wondering what the game was like on 1.0 since I really liked your Dark Souls 1 video. Any chance for a Demon's Souls video down the line?

One thing i am still curious about is. Was there ever anything on the back of the globsl death piller in majuala? All i have ever seen is that it is unreadable.

I liked the video. You asked if I did at the end so thought I'd tell you lol

Yazmania would LOVE to try the day one version with all the alternative builds he could try lol

hell yeah new meta content

after bloodborne, is ds3, I'm really excited to see how ds3 has changed

05:22 One thing I discovered against this boss is by looking up there are objects that can be destroyed, now I didn't try to destroy them all but I only destroyed one and an undead fell, doing so distracts the boss, I think it's a nice idea, too bad it's never exploited because you don't think about it, you don't stand there with the bow equipped or for who knows what reason

As a happy soul once said, "YEAH LIGHTNING"

17:29 I don't think the "lore" behind that sound bite is accurate but I could be wrong lol. That's the death sound of the Retainer sorcerers in the Ivory King DLC.

I recently played through the "vanilla" version on 360 (although it was updated) and the Firekeeper's spoken lines usually wouldn't play so I would just see the subtitles. Load times were also painfully long

That happy souls reference was not lost on me

Smooth sweeping camera movements during cutscenes would've been a great way for showing off the frame pacing issue. Or slow camera movements with the analogue stick.

A big change I remember is 1.0 not having any rumble effects and them having to be patched in.

Immolation Damage was bound to the Pyromancy-Flame Upgradelevel it means that a higher Pyro-Flame increased the Immolation Damage (That´s what i know from the PS3 Version of DS2)

What's the song from 6:01 to 7:13? I've searched through the tracks given in the description and I can't find it

All I Know is lightning bolt go BZZZZT

Diablo 2's 1.0 is brutal and a whole different game compared to what people know of now. Also super fun and broken.

we has shit like this but people nowdays are saying studios keep bumping out unfinished games

Dark souls 2’s history of patch notes is one of the best examples on how to make your game not fun.

CONGRATULATIONS for this content my man! totally worth the time, DS2 did not appear to be a clusterfuck at release if we compare it to DS1, at least in terms of difficulty. Many of us agree that they really screwed the game big time with SOFTS, like they force you to follow a path or you're gonna bite the dust, I still prefer the vanilla version. Funny story, I played DS1 on Xbox 360 offline from a physical copy I got, then got the chance to update it mid-game, and boy was that not a huge difference, it was jaw-dropping to realize how little amount of souls I was getting from enemies, like The bell gargoyles in 1.0 only give you 1,000 souls in comparison to the 10,000 you get with the last update. It's always interesting to see these minor changes that can impact your experience so much, now I look forward to the DS3 video. P.S.: I F*CKING LOVE DS2, so much replayability.

On day one, more or less month one, i remember that i could put crystal magic weapon on the moonlight greatsword.... that was fking insane

Saying you won't put a jumpscare is way scarier than an actual jumpscare. lol (Nice video. :D)

here comes 10 years for Souls 2!

One funny glitch is that poison wouldn't stop hurting you in cutscenes, so in the Black Gulch, you could easily die while watching the Rotten cutscene

18:26 probably the funniest shit I've heard all week

I really liked the silence after the brazilian portuguese joke, like, giving us time to process lol

Sad to see a distinct lack of Great Resonant Soul, Lightning Spear, and Santier's being showed off here

Dark Souls 2 at launch soured me on the game. I came back to it occasionally because Majula was enchanting, but I would get my fill of it and decide id rather play the first Dark Souls.

day 1 shrine of amana without patches was a nightmare

Strange to see you do the shrine skip without that bird shield, idr what it was

Fun fact still last year at 2023 around November and December I play this game on PS3 there's still people playing the game somehow and ironically I play most of it again and a lot of the issues you just mentioned are still present even on their latest patch. A lot of frame rate issues input issues sitting at bonfire issues menu issues there's always like a weird slight delay but is so so so slight but you can still feel it. I think the worst frame rate enemy I ever face were boxes If there's a place with many boxes and you break them all at the same time the game just goes weird. I'm a bit sad that I don't remember much of the 1.0 patch release back when I played it. I got this game day one and I played it straight away. The one thing I do remember was that vendrick was just broken as fuck. I remember my game nearly crashed because the spot that he was walking on had so many blood stains My framerate just went downhill and he was far more aggressive and faster I felt always. After a couple of patches he never felt the same as that one time I literally the same day the game came out I was able to get to him I played that psychotically. I did not slept nor went to school this was far more important 😂

Yeah i had a whole save file to be corrupted because of the rage quit thing on my xbox 360 copy, to this day i miss my dear poison build :(

I remember following bluelizardjello’s everything possible before a boss playthrough of dark souls 2 and he did the shrine skip in it, but it was patched out so I had to grind for hours if I wanted to get enough souls to open it and still not beat a single boss. It was painful, but I did it. Now it looks like I could have just downgraded since I was playing on the ps3 version at the time.

That scream is used by an enemy when it’s dying

Thx for avoiding the jumpscare

This was actually the first way I played the game. As I didn't have internet when I first got the game.

Happy 10 years to this amazing game. DS2 is amazing.

Shrine of Amana is one of those areas that even on my 3rd playthrough, I still died a lot and lost soooo many souls haha

Whats the song in 6:13??

Be me, playing day 1 ds2. Get to drangleic castle. Golem door glitch happens. RIP Deez Nuts, my first ever ds2 character

Hey Bro idk if u remember me, but man when are u starting streaming again?

Maybe the only version where magic might not have been useless in the DLCs.

I tell what it was: THE HITBOXES, it was a nightmare! Ogre grab attacks where imposssible to dodge. Adaptability, what was that? 60 fps weapon degradation... I'm getting PTSD!

Something you didn’t mention was the enemies with infinite stamina in the Dragon Shrine.

18:24 as a brazilian myself, I can confirm that many portuguese speaks brazilian

18:29 please tell me you where taunting us with that comment lmao

I played this version, still have the PS3 disc.