Dark Souls 3 ► Early-game Review

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Based off my first 5 hours of gameplay in the full game. Opinions subject to change. [HEAVY SPOILER WARNING]
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Комментарии : 2,7 тыс.

@wotwott2319 8 лет назад

"the bosses are turned down to allow journalist to go through the game" meanwhile, IGN "journalists" are still struggling with the first boss

@morgansheepman2403 8 лет назад

casuals

@constantinecas8803 8 лет назад

+Harith Azmi filthy casuls! XD

@lunar1745 8 лет назад

lewl casuwal peesants

@Valkyryshadow 8 лет назад

+Harith Azmi casuls everywhere.

@johnfarleyjohnfarley9466 8 лет назад

ign hipster politically correct dated corrupt filthy casuals

@soulkutu 8 лет назад

Makes you feel like a sniper. *proceeds to miss an enemy moving slower than a paraplegic melon* I lost my shit at that lol

@lettuceprime4922 8 лет назад

"Paraplegic melon." You win the things.

@jijonbreaker 8 лет назад

+soulkutu the "nice aim" caption that shows up is a nice touch.

@VaatiVidya 8 лет назад

+soulkutu lol

@jeremiaha5167 8 лет назад

LOL! That was poetic :) :)

@VaatiVidya 8 лет назад

So many comments already, thanks guys. Remember to stop watching if you're afraid of spoilers! I don't hold back.

@segartner1 8 лет назад

+VaatiVidya i won't watch, but i will surely listen to your wonderful voice.

@ArcaeusArc 8 лет назад

+VaatiVidya The hype is unreal. Can't wait to get my hands on this for PC.

@MrFANCYPANTS10 8 лет назад

+Andreas Nielsen same!

@JordanSmith-yi3ji 8 лет назад

One thing I like about these videos of yours Vaati is the little texts that pop up, they always manage to get a giggle out of me.

@Slit08 8 лет назад

+VaatiVidya Sure thing. Will you show post Undead Settlement content on March 22nd throughout next week as well? Like introducing new areas and new bosses? Also if you do so could you also show the enemies in these new areas. I love bosses but one thing that is as itneresting and as important as the bosses to me are the other enemies in that area. It's important that they're both innovative but also fitting to the environment.

@abdul398614 8 лет назад

gamespot gave lords of the Fallen 8/10 and dark souls 3 same score. please don't do anymore reviews gamespot.

@ebinsprolo7844 8 лет назад

+Abdul Almasri At least lords of the fallen is a new IP with fresh ideas, Dark souls 3 has too much fan pandering.

@abdul398614 8 лет назад

+ebin sprolo I played LOF and it is shit. not only they tired to copy DS, they fail at it

@HeilerDerWelten 8 лет назад

+ebin sprolo lords has more fresh ideas than dark 3? are you insane?

@abdul398614 8 лет назад

+Heiler Der Welten some people should not be able to post comments

@ErikHansenDrums 8 лет назад

+Abdul Almasri Yeah that's messed up as hell. DS3 is a better game in every way imaginable.... Like not even fucking close.

@vitaliykolner3593 8 лет назад

Vaati's voice would be perfect for DS character voiceover lol.

@Dickstick 8 лет назад

+Vitaliy Kolner Yes, his voice is impressive but keep in mind that he would fool you in DS and laugh about it.

@vitaliykolner3593 8 лет назад

+iTzKiosh lewl

@user-ns4zm8qe9p 4 года назад

Dark souls 4 must happen now

@zukuu 8 лет назад

Do you plan on a Dark Souls 1 + 2 summary lore "catch up" video to get old and new players alike into the setting of the game? Nothing too specific, but the general over arching gist.

@SupernaturalFTW94 8 лет назад

+zukuu I hope so, Bloodborne was my first Souls game. Havent played DS1 or DS2

@TheShadowTron56 8 лет назад

Bump

@harpskid 8 лет назад

+SupernaturalFTW94 Bloodborne isn't a souls game

@kefkapalazzo1092 8 лет назад

For you lol,but for many peoples bb is a souls game.

@comeonandslamandwelcometot4107 8 лет назад

lol he did do a recap of ds1 and 2. they're called "his other videos". you should check them out.

@SunlightBlade 8 лет назад

Totally agree about the spells thing, I really think the variations of spells need a complete re-work - for example when people saw all the early game frost enemies (frost knight etc) there was speculation that they might add Cryomancy into the game, and honestly why not? It'd be great. You could freeze people, cast blizzards maybe to restrict enemy views. There is literally so much potential to make casting classes more viable and it is a bit of a shame that so far we haven't seen many new spell types, but maybe there'll be better ones in the later game. Nice review btw!

@elignationsva5895 8 лет назад

From my play of Dark Souls 2, I noticed that they really are backup weapons. Use them to stun a enemy, or heal. Use them to take out a mob. They're situational, at best. I hope Dark Souls 3 makes a class that you really can use just spells. I have hope that they will.

@fintan9218 2 года назад

Described snap frost before the DLC

@Jeenine 8 лет назад

"They wanted journalist to get through the demo" lmao

@ZZeeman 8 лет назад

+JeeNiNe Media They need to just have an available game mode that just says "I need this submitted for Monday" .

@billyrayjoebob2 8 лет назад

"Drop rates" *kicks guy off cliff*

@Tropical_Depression. 8 лет назад

"doing a bunch to my equipment" *proceeds to beat the living shit out the blacksmith* niceeee

@cyndaquilgaming 8 лет назад

SAME

@WillMaXchannel 8 лет назад

Russian subtitles are ready and available in the player! Приятного просмотра!

@nortavowel9234 8 лет назад

+Will MaX thanx!

@nikitaslatvitsky111 8 лет назад

Пасип, бро)

@lafaet1987 8 лет назад

+Will MaX спасибо

@khairi8901 8 лет назад

YA NE GOVORY PO RUSKY

@cezarydudkiewicz2990 8 лет назад

" bosses tuned down for journalists" and the reviews still say it's the hardest Souls game U wot m8

@kkyyee 8 лет назад

His voice sounds like an NPC from any of the Souls games.

@relaxingdownunder7122 8 лет назад

+Kye Riehl All he needs is the "menacing" laugh/cackle

@Promethium666 8 лет назад

+RelaxingDownUnder He could be the new Straid ;)

@duhsvolt4835 8 лет назад

+Promethium666 Feeble cursed one!

@TeamkillTom 8 лет назад

After playing Salt and Sanctuary I realized how much I missed major, warpable bonfires/sanctuaries and smaller, checkpoint bonfires/checkpoints. It really helped keep the world feeling connected and not just menu of bonfires to spawn at.

@easterislehead 8 лет назад

Thumbs up if you bought this shit weeks ago

@anibalalvarado3rd 8 лет назад

(•-^)b

@Thaibiohazard123 8 лет назад

+easterislehead What the hell ? Which part of the world do you live in, sir ?

@TheMMObro 8 лет назад

one of the very few franchises where preordering is pretty much 100% safe

@Studio.graves 8 лет назад

+easterislehead Collector's Edition waiting at Gamestop

@brunomunemassa8266 8 лет назад

+easterislehead Dark Soul 2 and Dark Souls 3 are the only pre-orders i ever payed for. THIS is a good type of pre-order, you know the game is AT MINIMUM good, before it's even out. I would've pre-ordered Bloodborne, but i didn't and still don't own a PS4.

@HexStickman 8 лет назад

Bloodborne never got enough credit for the revolutionary things it shook up with the souls formula.

@Eldaino999 8 лет назад

+Xeppeli really? game journalists ate that shit up. (and rightly so). you referring to youtubers?

@edolasvermilion4565 8 лет назад

+Xeppeli well yeah the new things it did where pretty good, the problem for me was it just felt like a demo to a other game, you can finish bloodborne in no time and theres not much left to explore or much secrets after that, even messing around with builds and weapons... well you probably already tried all of them in your first playthrough, great game... just not enough of it, too much of a demo

@HexStickman 8 лет назад

Edolas Vermilion get the dlc, that really fleshes out the game. And in it's defense, you could beat ds1 in no time at all as well, a lot of the game was completely optional. There's plenty to do with experimentation of builds as well.

@HexStickman 8 лет назад

***** I didn't delete your comment, youtube automatically has an algorithm to mark comments as spam, and other people can flag your comment. I restored it.

@CallumMyers1995 8 лет назад

So tempting but I'll hit the like button and resist for now :-)

@VaatiVidya 8 лет назад

+Callum Myers stay strong almost there ty for likin

@CallumMyers1995 8 лет назад

+VaatiVidya I will :-D

@MIKKEtheMIDGET 8 лет назад

+VaatiVidya Vaati. Where do you read those dark souls articles. I would like to know some place where to read them

@MrWolf-ln1gi 8 лет назад

Really

@Soulllesss 8 лет назад

You could just type Dark Souls 3 in to Google and filter it by news.

@ricardoalmeida4719 8 лет назад

I'm resisting to watch your DS3 videos... It's pretty hard. But I'm leaving a like and I'll watch them after playing the game. You're the best DS content creator on YT.

@CommanderScarin 8 лет назад

I'm not sure....... Wait, Scabbards are back?!?! 10/10

@stevedavesteve4224 8 лет назад

This game just looks amazing. It's everything I want in a Souls game... with a little Bloodborne thrown in..... and that's not a bad thing. Thanks for the review kind sir.

@thenthapple 8 лет назад

"I was going a bunch to my equipment at the blacksmith" Yes, testing it out on him XD

@MrWolf-ln1gi 8 лет назад

Hey I watch your fallout vids. It's funny to find you here

@thenthapple 8 лет назад

TheOneYapper love his vids

@Insane200sx 8 лет назад

really can't wait to play this game, loved Souls 2 and bloodborne even more, so a mix of both is perfect for me.

@KentzHodiono 8 лет назад

ikr

@MusicMcMania 8 лет назад

they are using very little inspiration from DS2 and more from BloodBrone and DS1

@Insane200sx 8 лет назад

Which is OK with me as I never played DS1.

@Daniel_C_Griffin 8 лет назад

+Dave Passmore I'd recommend picking up Dark Souls 1, it's dirt cheap nowadays. Make sure you get the Artorias of the Abyss version too, that DLC is incredible.

@ibrahimshamsi4845 8 лет назад

+Kentz Hodiono I feel who's will be the best souls game.

@Chakeis 8 лет назад

I would sell part of my soul to get another Bloodborne. Felt so innovative.

@GhastlyWarcon 8 лет назад

10:35 I gotta say I like how fluid the running seems when locked on. I don't know how to describe it but it really feels as if the character is trying so damn hard to get that backstab in time.

@danyfox7431 8 лет назад

You are the born story teller. Your voice is so calm yet appealing and inviting that it is is really hard to not listen to you speaking. That's a huge gift and I hope you will be pleasing us with those videos for a long time. Thank for everything and keep up the good work.

@Oroboro 8 лет назад

longest 3 days of my life

@Castorcato 8 лет назад

Just a little longer mate.

@HSVPedro 8 лет назад

What happens in 3 days? (Sorry if thats a stupid question)

@Castorcato 8 лет назад

+HSVPedro Oroboro and myself are caving in and getting the Japanese version. this releases in 3 days.

@carlosgranado846 8 лет назад

+HSVPedro Dark Souls 3 comes out in Japan

@Xemnas1211 8 лет назад

+Oroboro I'll be watching almost every second of your playthrough, Obobo!

@1ButtonDash 8 лет назад

i wasn't totally feeling this game just cuz i love bloodborne so much until you mentioned the weapon arts and bows... now i'm pumped

@xAndrewWolf 8 лет назад

Wut

@kefkapalazzo1092 8 лет назад

I loove bloodborne too more than the souls game :-), guess i am mentaly challenged too uh?

@ActaNonVerbaUnrated 8 лет назад

+Jef Drouin ya same here! bloodborne was great!

@kefkapalazzo1092 8 лет назад

There is nothing weird about loving bb more than souls lol.

@edolasvermilion4565 8 лет назад

+Jef Drouin Its weird if you dont look forward to dark souls 3 tho when its a straight up mix of dark souls 2 and bloodborne

@MuseChick 8 лет назад

I was really hoping they'd done away with the warping at every bonfire and gone back to how they did DS1. That aspect forced me to learn the map and when you learnt how every place was connected it was amazing. Warping made 2 feel completely different, like a set of levels instead of one world. I guess it's to keep the new, possibly more casual crowd happy and I can totally understand that but it does make me sad.

@izak7485 8 лет назад

This so much, bloodborne had great level design but it never got a chance to shine bacause of the warping.

@MuseChick 8 лет назад

+izak7485 Totally. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely loved Bloodborne and enjoyed DS2 but I still slightly struggle to remember what is where in both games but I could run DS1 with my eyes closed

@TheNewFakk28 8 лет назад

+MuseChick I personally wish they would go back to the way Demons Souls was, and just make it stage based instead of open world based. I mean, I loved how Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition felt, and the way the game was made, with everything connected, was very well done. But, at the same time, I felt like there is a wrong way to do this as well as I experienced in Souls 2. When I played Dark Souls 2 Scholar of the First Sin on PS4, I felt confused many times on where I was at, where to go next, and just how everything is connected. Even after 40 hours of playing I am still sometimes trying to figure out what goes where, and finding where to use certain keys etc.. I can't find certain doors, and I have never been this damn confused in any Soul game yet. It's like a bad design of levels all interconnecting and intertwining, and instead of a normal tree it ends up like a giant bush of too many paths to take, yet in Bloodborne the world layout was so much more simplified, and easier to remember where to go, and how it all connects right from the start of the game, so I hope Souls III gets it right like Bloodborne and Dark Souls 1 did. If not, then I would rather have them make the game like Demons Souls entirely, than dealing with another strangely connected world that Dark Souls 2 brought to the table.

@zombiekingpat5126 8 лет назад

+MuseChick they should give you a choise at the start imo play standard with all bonfires or play ´´original´´ lie you said to please everyone

@yasserosama3405 8 лет назад

+MuseChick yes it definitely made alot of bonfires meaningless and so easy to forget and the whole dlc thing kindda makes me furious cause of from played the dlc card like some other shitty games i would be very disappointed in this game :/

@jelly42 8 лет назад

"I was doing a bunch to my equipment at the blacksmith" *slashes the ever-living fuck out of Andre*

@riskingeuphoria 8 лет назад

I missed going through this guys videos during the hype for dark souls 2, ahh the soothing voice xD its like what you want to hear in a respectfully analytic way gently soothing you into a relaxed happy state :)

@aldrichdevourerofgods1950 8 лет назад

dark souls 2 had awesome spells. There were a lot of them too. You could be a standalone mage in ds 2 as well.

@noobkaka567 8 лет назад

I prefer dark souls 3 way of bonefires, as checkpoints, is so much easier for the heart and really cools down me when I have been raging for a while due to "bullshit" deaths on my way in progression.

@BrainBurnStudios 8 лет назад

+noobkaka567 Idk man, it feels like there are too many of them... I feel like the game is giving me a timeout before I even get close to needing one...

@noobkaka567 8 лет назад

+MelonHoly some only play 3hours per session

@BrainBurnStudios 8 лет назад

noobkaka567 But when you quit the game, it still saves your progress

@TheKevlar4 8 лет назад

+noobkaka567 Even in DS1 it never took more then an hour to get to the next bonfire

@fieth336 8 лет назад

I enjoyed it aswell, though the game should have cut about 40% of the Bonfires. I.e there are 2 right next the the abyss watchers. There is also 1 aswell as a shortcut at the deacons. I think it would be cool to keep the Checkpoint bonfires

@talasattila6401 8 лет назад

I don't know, it's weird... watching this makes me want to play Bloodborne. Even if I'm a huge Souls fan... I still didn't buy a PS4, because I'm still busy upgrading slowly my PC... Dark Souls was HUGE! DS2 was... fun while it lasted. And soon comes Dark Souls 3... I can't wait but... I feel like I'm a bit emotionally exhausted of the Dark Souls cursed Undead way of doing things and game mechanics, and I sure could use a change of scenery that Bloodborne presents. Just for a change of pace, you know?

@TrunksXsayajin 8 лет назад

It would be so nice to see Vaati's first playthrough in a Twitch style, no cuts, maybe a facecam and impressions of the bosses, enemies, areas, songs, weapons and npcs. Another Souls uploader view of the game is always great!

@alexven92 8 лет назад

With all the classes and styles of combat so far it looks like to have a good replay value, which I love.

@areujokingme 8 лет назад

I think that immediately being able to warp between every bonfire, as we could in DS2, made for LAZY level design. In DS, we couldn't warp, so we NEEDED clever shortcuts between bonfires. There was nothing like that in DS2. I'd be cool with being able to warp between every bonfire, so long as the level design isn't compromised.

@PhinneyFitness 8 лет назад

+TINY_TIGERS I still prefer it. The slow speed of DS1 and having to walk inbetween locations became really tedious.

@jeremiaha5167 8 лет назад

Dark Souls system was best. Spend a lot of time travelling until you get rewarded with the Lordvessel. Casually warping between bonfires is anti climatic in my opinion.

@AllTheNamesIPickedWereTaken 8 лет назад

+Jeremiah Smith yh when you earned the lordvessel you felt like at this point you deserved to warp, plus it was limited to the main bonfire of the area. I'm ok with warping so long as the level design is awesome. Think like bloodborne, you could warp but the level design was still amazing and shortcuts were great, plus the levels were all interconnected

@jeremiaha5167 8 лет назад

Christopher Agha I felt I deserved to warp because I succeded in reaching Anor Londo and after many deaths I reached Smough and Ornstein, and after many more deaths I killed them. And then I reached the chamber of the princess who in her sweet voice referred to me as 'chosen undead' and granted me the Lordvessel and thus the power to warp. That my son, is the story of why I deserved to warp.

@ChibiNinjax002 8 лет назад

+TINY_TIGERS Also having the ability to just early warp whatever never made sense to the story. In DS1 you could warp after obtaining an item which made sense.

@dragonmaster7462 8 лет назад

what about a dragon covinent ill be really bumd if there isnt a dragon convinent

@MisterArmaniX 8 лет назад

This game looks incredible, it looks like a true sequel to DS1

@Raiyuden 8 лет назад

You're the sole reason why I'll be getting DS3. I became so spoiled with Bloodborne and how much attention to detail there was on the weapons. There wasn't a wide variety of weapons but the trick weapons were so unique compared to one another. I was worried the overwhelming amount of weapons in DS3 would mean they were all basic and had no depth to them. I won't be using a shield for sure and the music looks terrific. Thanks for the proper playthrough, I'm definitely gonna subscribe now.

@BlackXSunlight 8 лет назад

I'm really happy to hear about the density of the game's start. One complaint I've heard often of previous games is that if you want to make a build focused in one area (sorcery build, hex build, etc.), you don't get the pay-off of dedicating points to certain stats until you get through 5-6 bosses.

@epicman13ful 8 лет назад

I can't get dark souls 3 but I also don't want it spoiled :(

@epicman13ful 8 лет назад

TheDeathKillerx It's only ps4, xbone, and pc. I can't afford a new pc or any of the new consoles.

@icresp4263 8 лет назад

+Anduin Wrynn if you have a pretty shit pc it might still run it :) but idk, most games are pretty optimized nowadays

@bennemeth625 8 лет назад

+Anduin Wrynn If you can run ds2, you might be able to run ds3.

@marvelouschester3018 8 лет назад

You'll never get it, right? Just spoil yourself.

@bennemeth625 8 лет назад

Marvelous Chester DAMMIT CHESTER DON'T TEMPT HIM

@sc850408 8 лет назад

My mind is telling me no .…… But my body , my body telling me YES ! (click play

@D-Havoc 8 лет назад

There were good debuff spells in Dark Souls 2, but they were hexes and thus doubly hated for being a new and hard thing and a not very well appreciated game. Whispers of Despair, Promised Walk of Peace, and Profound Still were very strong debuff spells. As for traps, Dead Again was that trap, you'd lure enemies near corpses and transform them into high damaging blasts. Hexes tried to be different than the typical spells but were just unappreciated and got ignored by the fact it was in Dark Souls 2 by the community so most never came to light. I hope the same isn't gonna be in Dark Souls 3.

@DiffusionRaptt 8 лет назад

I would much prefer for certain key bonfires to be warpable. That way the interplaced bonfires would be stepping stones down a larger path that would need to be completed before you could truly say you had beat the section. (preferably the next warpable bonfire would be after a boss at the beginning of the next section) Instead we probably get the individual sections that are sectioned off by the next, and as Vatti says, become potentially redundant.

@Diskhate 8 лет назад

I agree on the fact that being able to teleport from the beginning makes the bonfires look like checkpoints.. for me the best memories i have of Dark Souls 1 are from the first half of my first playthrough, where i was allways on my toes, constantly asking to myself if it was a good idea to sit at the next bonfire, since it meant that i would have been stuck with it.. i also still remember when i managed to break my weapon against ornstein and smough and had to backtrack to Andrei of Astora to repair it,without being able to fight (didn't know about the giant blacksmith at the time, ahahah) some of my best memories of Dark souls 1 are just that...walking around Lordran, feeling desperate, small and powerless.

@Synpathetix 8 лет назад

+Diskhate Can relate so much to this

@yasserosama3405 8 лет назад

+Diskhate tell that to dark souls 2 fanboys :/

@Diskhate 8 лет назад

I'd love to..but you can't talk to fanboys : \ For example: dark souls 1 is my favourite game of all time...and i started play videogames when i was 3 years old (23 years ago) therefore i've played A LOT of games. Dark souls 1 managed to dethrone from my top 5 games of all time titles such as Suikoden 2, Zelda a link to the past, Chronotrigger, Oblivion, Deus ex...you know...some of the best games ever! I've completed it 100% both on PC and PS3...i've finished it AT LEAST 40 times... and still to this day i play it from start to finish at least once a month, since at this point i know it so well that i can finish it in 2-3 hours (not that impressive since the world record is 50 minutes :P ) But even after that i can't call myself a Dark souls fanboy, because i accept the fact that even this masterpiece has flaws (a lot) While fanboyism practically involves not being able to be critic...which is definitely something that hurts videogames..because if DS2 didn't receive so many negative reports they would have probably screwed up DS3 too, leaving it's development to Yui tanimura and the rest of fromsoftware's "B-Team" thank god the majority of the comunity of the souls game can be mature : )

@aldrichdevourerofgods1950 8 лет назад

+Diskhate I agree with you that ds 1 is the best game of all time but the annoying backtracking is something I didn´t enjoy that much. My favourite part of the game was actually the progress after you finally conquered an area and defeated the boss. I wanted to explore new secrets and find new gear. The extremely high amount of backtracking was fun the first few times but after some time it felt quite annoying. I wanted to know what I will find next.

@mechadragon931 8 лет назад

I wish Fromsoftware would put this much effort into a Armored Core game.

@insectboy100 8 лет назад

"buying this game" ha...hahaha...hahahahaha, already pre ordered on xbox one 😂

@willasksenpaifornudes7263 8 лет назад

Same

@KMFlivin 8 лет назад

Same

@triads1840 8 лет назад

Same

@thefinickyfox3591 8 лет назад

+Fahad Al-ramian i preordered it the first day it was available to on steam XD

@RickwoopGaming 8 лет назад

Darth prod has a video about how to get the Japanese version on xbone

@lorhus8439 8 лет назад

"they wanted journalists to get through the demos" I laughed uncontrollably

@sundragonbro2080 8 лет назад

Damn it Vaati, when you put the Gwyn Lord of Cinder boss fight theme near the end of the video i got teary eye'd Q_Q, too much nostalgia man I CANT TAKE IT

@sundragonbro2080 8 лет назад

***** Mine was Dark Souls 1, waiting for Demon Souls to get remade for PS4. May just be a rumor though but i still praise the sun. What about you?

@warwickknight3247 8 лет назад

Spells have been this way for a reason: As a melee build you have to dodge,block,and pick your attacks wisely. Mages dont have to do that. They can have distance. Plus now there's no number limit. So if you level that up enough there will be some pretty OP mages.

@MorroWolf 8 лет назад

200% agree with you about the bonfire/warping issue with ds2 and now ds3.

@ZalvadorZali 8 лет назад

Dont need a review to know this game is worth buying! However the content of your videos are always great and thank you for taking the time to make this review for us :)

@yugiohguy 8 лет назад

April isn't close enough.

@Synpathetix 8 лет назад

10 FUCKING DAYS TILL APRIL GET KEEN

@Tuck752 8 лет назад

"Run while you cast" fair point, that's annoying that you can't do that "lay down traps to bait enemies into" Dead again...? "Freeze enemies to slow them down" I refuse to believe that nobody knows what Tranquil Walk of Peace is. "Cast Debuffs on your enemies" That would be interesting.

@Gorb2TheGorbening 8 лет назад

+Henry Narukami I have a whole hexer build that I named "procrastination" he has the hex that makes you move slow the hex that disables magic the hex that makes nobody take damage and the hex that deflects all spells Basically, invaders can't do anything, and its hilarious

@harley720 8 лет назад

Will you review or do a playthrough of Salt and Sanctuary?

@JernauMoratGurgeh 8 лет назад

siegward =/= siegmeyer though right?

@nazaz9437 8 лет назад

yes

@JernauMoratGurgeh 8 лет назад

+Nazima Azeem it made me raise an eyebrow every time Vaati said 'he's back' despite Siegward being a different character.

@alanturner9201 8 лет назад

+iMcCartan He is an inversion of the ds1 character which also seems to be a big theme of the game. Then again Andre is about the same from what we've seen.

@JetBalrog 8 лет назад

+Alan Turner We do have a premise for more than one individual that looks exactly like Andre, though. All the way back in Dark Souls 1, after you kill the Moonlight Butterfly, there happens to be an ember in the arms of a petrified blacksmith that looks identical to Andre.

@leeviheinonen 8 лет назад

+JetBalrog i just played ds again and noticed same thing. Confidence...i dont think so

@adil11223344 8 лет назад

Vaati, I love your voice man

@VaatiVidya 8 лет назад

+adil11223344 Thanks, still working on my narration though! It's tough sounding natural when I have a script

@adil11223344 8 лет назад

+VaatiVidya Haha well you still always manage :)

@aig_moon7855 8 лет назад

Do you VaatiVidya Praise the sun?

@WhatTheAlva 8 лет назад

I honestly don't think bosses should have too much health. If you are having trouble with a boss, then it doesn't matter if he dies in 2 minutes or 5 minutes. One of my biggest complaints with Bloodborne bosses was that I was barely making any damage to them. Wet Nurse had me looking for a pause button because I wanted to take a nap because she was so easy, yet it took forever to kill. Cleric Beast in NG+ was ridiculous too.

@fasgamboa 8 лет назад

DS1 level design and the NON WARP till you get far was amazing better. Helped to understand the levels, to explore, to fell tiny, and then get bigger. DS2 , as you said, bonfires are left behind, as useless, you pass thru the levels and they are gone. Like levels on a old NES game.

@MrThreeTake 8 лет назад

they overdid it a bit on the references.

@kroyatful 8 лет назад

+MrThreeTake See I love how they added so many weapons and armour sets from the previous games, but I have to admit, I felt the referencing was a little overdone with the NPC's. *Spoiler* For instance, one red phantom I fought was named Creighton and had the exact same armour as Creighton from Dark Souls 2. Things like that are definitely stretching it a bit much imo.

@mohammadhussien1536 8 лет назад

man it looks alot like Demon Souls Which is fucking awesome i cant wait :D

@Vanlens 8 лет назад

Can't wait to play Dark souls 3 :D Bur for some reason my heart just needs a Bloodborne 2....

@joshuaarndt8371 8 лет назад

Sadly, I don't think Bloodborne 2 will happen.

@Vanlens 8 лет назад

J Four :'(

@brycehutcheson8462 8 лет назад

+J Four They said this would be the last Souls game, but Bloodborne is technically a spinoff,they could make a sequel of that.

@brycehutcheson8462 8 лет назад

+Timofey Stepanov Oh well,it's always hopeful speculation on my part,I don't mind them branching off to new projects. They're really talented developers,and as long as Miyazaki is at the helm, I'll always have faith in their ventures.

@jeanschyso 8 лет назад

+Yaxion I think the reason Bloodborne feels so good is the trick weapons. I see a rapier, or a longsword, and I think "oh, it's this or that weapon", while I see any weapon in bloodborne and think oh, it's a rapier... with a GUN ATTACHED TO IT?!?!

@Killjoyed95 8 лет назад

The aesthetics of Bloodborne and now Dark Souls 3 have been absolutely unreal in terms of environments. It was a weak point in certain parts of the first three games, with boxy stages that stand out from a "fake", painted-on background (looking at parts of forest of fallen giants, undead burg, darkroot garden), but they've completely nailed blending the stage with the overall environment now, and avoided rigid and linear interiors like in Dark Souls 2 and the worst parts of Demon's and Dark Souls 1. Best fantasy landscapes in the history of videogames, by far.

@spaffyhalfling4083 8 лет назад

Bonfires have always served as pretty much only as checkpoints. Only when you add in extra merchants do they become something necessary. Ever since Dark 1, it's been a checkpoint system since you no longer need to beat a boss to progress to each new section. It's either cut back on the bonfires and have it more like Demon's or have all the bonfires in their own hub like locations.

@SirS3mt3x 8 лет назад

I'm scared to watch this, the spoiler-probability is too damn high!

@Guysean1234 8 лет назад

I wish the warping was unlocked again like in DS1 where you have to get to a certain point to get it. It's as you said, they don't feel as good to get in DS2.

@aromardu 8 лет назад

+Sean Snyder Maybe that's why Miyazaki added a lot of stuff to each location, to give players a reason to revisit and not just jump past certain bonfires.

@anasaziz1356 8 лет назад

+Sean Snyder I agree , every time i play DkS1 i find it so hard till i get the warp ability ... and absolutely it was funny and hard walking to the blacksmith and you have alot of souls then you die xD

@gilgamesh310 8 лет назад

Quite disappointing to hear that about the bonfires and level design.

@Technodook93 8 лет назад

This is a great review with plenty of detail. Thanks! Looking forward to getting stuck into DS3. The only game I've played in the series has been Dark Souls, missed 2, and never got to play Bloodborne

@rakdoss8455 8 лет назад

Subscribed. I love your editing and narrating style. Your prerelease playthrough was great. Like you were showcasing DS3 as a story teller, not as a player.

@Rigel_6 8 лет назад

Alright, this is the last DkS3 video I watch before April 12th. Time to black out. See you on the High Wall, Vaati.

@Nomans_Nomen 8 лет назад

The reason that magic has been hamstrung for three games in a row is because anything more than it is would break pvp. Not that PVP hasn't been broken in every souls game anyway. This is coming from someone that could kill three gankers by himself on a regular basis, and go from 0 to 99 humanity in four hours or so from PVP alone. Skill and punish mechanics compensate for the lack of balance, but things like freezing and debuffs would throw it off a cliff. I do agree with you though. Magic could be so much more if people didn't think of this like some sort of E-sports game. This isn't League of Legends, or Starcraft. I don't think miyazaki has ever designed with competitive PVP as his focus. As someone who has been a hardcore PVP'er since Demon's Souls, I'd say that the souls series could have been so much more if it didn't have to worry about upsetting the PVP community. We could have had so many more creative playstyles and much more in depth PVE. Bloodborne showed me what a totally PVE focused souls experience is like, and I wound up having more fun with that than I thought possible.

@UnifiedEntity 8 лет назад

+Absolutely Heretical So basically Bloodborne made you feel like a full fleshed out warrior with a variety of moves and flexibility inbetween whereas DS makes you feel like a static waving stick guy casting hoocus poocus

@drizzt7dourden7 8 лет назад

+Absolutely Heretical sooo add some (actually working) utilety spells? like lure (i think it was called... the one were you can attrakt the atantion of anemys to a certain point... in theory) or a "buff" that aggros enemys more towards the buffing player (and away from summons) or a low lvl repair spell (*glares ar DS2*) or a shielding bubble that blocks the next hit (within a certain timeframe of course) or "thermo/arcane vision" allowing you to see living enemys (maybe more of a pyro spell...) for combat magic: a AOE blast around you or energy balls swirling around you for x amount of time dealing low dmg to everything they hit (but not vanishing after the first hit...) or a beam that you can ceap up for a longer amount of time (constant mana cost and VERY little stagering if any) or runes that you place on the ground and that explode when going near them Edit: also i REALY hope that mages finaly get a covenant... and i REALY hope they have a working usable bufficon-bar (what buffs do i have active and optimaly how long are they going to last... [not a timer just SOME indication])

@Rachis01 8 лет назад

+Absolutely Heretical Bloodborne is hardly a "Souls" experience.

@Nomans_Nomen 8 лет назад

Rachis01 If you can't see how bloodborne is pretty much the exact same genre as a the souls series, then you are blind. The only reason it didn't wind up being called Soulborne was to keep Sony away from the rights.

@Rachis01 8 лет назад

Absolutely Heretical I never said it wasn't in the same genre and neither did you. You said it was a souls experience which is hardly the case when you consider your contradictions with bloodborne being a solely pve game when the game's combat was clearly designed around how people were trying to play pvp in previous games. So instead of slinging insults, how about you simply ask why I mad my statement instead of just assuming you're right.

@kennethquintero5356 8 лет назад

Who else thinks Patches will come back? I can't be the only one!

@ukguy 8 лет назад

+kenneth quintero He has to... he is in DeS, DaS1 and Bloodborne... and sort of (Pate) in DaS2.

@Brandon-B1995 8 лет назад

+kenneth quintero We can dream brother... We can dream...

@MrDibara 8 лет назад

"Good day! I'm Trusty Patches. You look reasonably sane. What are you doing in the Catacombs? *Are you a cleric or something?*"

@Molybdan42 8 лет назад

Good vid, especially the part where you talk about the spell casting. You nailed it!

@Takuthecheese 8 лет назад

regarding the bonfire teleporting, i personally believe there should be an item that you can burn that enables teleporting to that specific bonfire. like an ascetic from 2, but less common

@DiegoTube85 8 лет назад

+Takuta I like your idea man

@theangryinch8816 8 лет назад

If the bonfire system is like bloodborne's lamp system, then I don't think we need to worry about warping. What made DS2's bonfires feel checkpointy was the linear level design.

@wotwott2319 8 лет назад

+John Sanderson also the abundancy of bonfires in one map. seriously, the Lost Bastille has 5 bonfires in it and it's not even a huge map. hell, Dark Souls 2 also has one of the worst bonfire placements in the game. like they put one in a jail cell next to suicidal mummies that could damage the npc that's sitting right next to them and one in a room next to the shortcut you were supposed to go through to progress the game, making the first bonfire of the map impractical (unless if you wanna buy hexes from felken)

@truenorth365 8 лет назад

OMG I will soon be playing the living sh#%t out of this game! I feel like a little kid again, bringing home a copy of Sonic the Hedgehog...

@jeremiaha5167 8 лет назад

Yes, brother. Let's live the Dark Souls life once more :)

@DarkCrowI 8 лет назад

Bloodborne has less weapon choices but no two weapons feel the same and they were far more versatile, a lot of weapons in Dark Souls feel very similar and don't do nearly as much as the trick weapons.

@zombiekingpat5126 8 лет назад

+Decus Extinctum well yhea cause thats pretty much the only one that are alike all the others are completly differnt and mostly act like 2 different weapons

@aledg25 8 лет назад

Exactly. 1 giant pizza cutter > 100 longswords. Anyday.

@TheMMObro 8 лет назад

+Ale DG lol. agree. tho I also agree that some bloodborne weapons were similar, they still had their own flavor and functioned kinda diff

@aledg25 8 лет назад

+TheMMObro Only weapons in bb you can actually call similar, are the cleaver type weapons, and there's only like 3 of them (saw cleaver, saw spear, saif), but even those have movesets that completely differ from each other, so in the end, they still feel absolutely distinct

@hianerawr81 8 лет назад

+Dark Crow I I never play'd bloodborne but i watched a crapton of playthroughs of it my biggest issue with the game besides the fact that there is only 1 critical animation for backstab/parry is the fact that the weapons felt very limiting you HAD to have a gun(or a useless shield) and a weapon the guns only felt mildly different with only 3 different types that were noticeably different Cannon Bullet gun Spray gun Bloodbornes weapons were too into their own gimmick and about a 3rd of the weapons felt similar to other weapons there were not very many weapons in bloodborne and the best thing about them was the Transformation attacks While in dark souls 2 you could Normal/heavy/2hand normal/2hand heavy/power normal/power heavy/left hand all forms of attack you could mix and match all of the weapons and there were ALOT of weapons heck if you wanted to you could use a shield as your main weapon bloodborne lacked freedom in you the player and your choices on how you want to play i fear dark souls 3 will take a step back but i find hope that the increased speed of gameplay and sword arts might make up for anything lost

@jonkerrmusic 8 лет назад

Your passion for this series is an inspiration to all Souls fans. Great work, keep it coming!

@joshuakim5240 8 лет назад

HOLY SHIT! Vaati has the same opinion on Sorceries as PlagueofGripes! YES!

@planesrift 8 лет назад

does that mean your channel is coming to an end?

@TheLKStar 8 лет назад

+planesrift The fuck

@bama8509 8 лет назад

dufaq

@khairi8901 8 лет назад

Wtf?

@OttoPussner 8 лет назад

+planesrift ¿Qué coño

@ScaredHippojr 8 лет назад

+planesrift quelle the fuck

@yesman1231 8 лет назад

anyone else hear that quiet gwyn piano?

@spinyslasher6586 8 лет назад

everyone did.

@xeeme 8 лет назад

Nope...i cant i wont click it....maybe just a peak

@Jay19699 8 лет назад

You ended up watching the whole video didn't you? Don't worry I think everyone did lol

@HArrowsmith 8 лет назад

I completely agree with your thoughts on spells. A lot of people make arguments that it's because you're "supposed" to use melee weapons and magic is a supplement. If that is the case it makes me really sad, cause I would love to do a sorcery only run, but that's hardly possible...

@trasor65 8 лет назад

+Hunter Arrowsmith i understand about miracle but ... sorcery ? i often did only sorcery run both in ds1 and ds2 it was fun and not hard at all

@TyroneDeMarcusWilliams3rd 8 лет назад

Only dirty skrubs use magic exclusively

@dingusmcpringus7460 8 лет назад

Sorcery only runs are totally viable my dude, in fact most people consider them EZ mode

@happytouch2671 8 лет назад

its very easy

@HArrowsmith 8 лет назад

360ZAllDAY13 Thank you for your quality response. You can do sorcery only run, but when you get to the dlc in DS2, it becomes hell. I just wish you could play in a better way than just stand back or use SGS

@PlanterSanSama 8 лет назад

So long as enemies keep respawning and pvp is based on soul level, I'm in! I would love luck as a stat if it also affected damage in some way, such as a way to randomly take less damage or do more damage via crit.

@LordGwynn 8 лет назад

Man I was really hoping the world would be connected like dark souls 1... Also not a fan of the hub thing :/

@KingseekerCamargo 8 лет назад

+LordGwynn I'm worried about that too, but I *think* Bloodborne is kind of a combination of both things: There is a hub you teleport to and from for levelling/upgrading purposes, but the world itself is completely interconnected (with the exception of a couple of dream-like areas you need to teleport to, similar to the Painted World or Oolacile in DkS1). If I'm correct, I guess we could expect something just like that in DkS3 as well.

@narius_jaden215 8 лет назад

I disagree with the bonfire part. Tedium is what makes me quit games, not difficulty xD.

@CzarVentus 8 лет назад

well... I'm gonna like the video and turn it off again :D

@BRSanguine 8 лет назад

+CzarVentus I feel your pain

@VaatiVidya 8 лет назад

+CzarVentus aw ty

@SirS3mt3x 8 лет назад

Same. Cant take the spoiler-risk! :3

@nd5Ip3p0Mu 8 лет назад

Just subbed. I cannot wait for your lore videos; I'm sure you won't be able to resist the temptation of exploring the lore, so I think you'll make some. Keep up the great work.

@kroyatful 8 лет назад

Good review man, I definitely agree with most of what you said. Especially the Firelink Shrine and item drops. If you think a certain enemy you fight looks cool, there is a good chance you can farm it for it's armour, or at least it's weapon. Though some of the weapons are quite rare like the Pontiff Knight Scythe.

@assassinscreed00 8 лет назад

Watch this game be the flop of the decade, that would be fucking incredible.

@korosensei9337 8 лет назад

lmaoo

@TheMMObro 8 лет назад

doubtful honestly. from never really lets down. they don't shit yearly games out, and even tho bloodborne and the sotfs version of ds2 came out near each other, they're both fantastic

@Suekru3 8 лет назад

+Don'tLetYourMemesBeSteelDreams So far the only game that did poorly was dark souls 2 and even that did well. Plus this is made by Miyazaki so it'll be amazing.

@Suekru3 8 лет назад

nickreilly72 It had less lore/items and stuff. But as far as bosses and world size it was pretty decent

@dabbo4205 8 лет назад

Bloodborne had the best detail and bosses of any Souls games. Weapons too for that matter. I mean there's a fucking circular saw that spins and destroys bosses.

@thevincebros545 8 лет назад

bloodborne is better than dark souls.

@yeahhbuddy3932 8 лет назад

+TheVinceBros sony fanboy alert

@thevincebros545 8 лет назад

yeahh buddy I actually prefer Xbox i just think Bloodborne is better, that may all change with DS3 though.

@leeson865 8 лет назад

Thanks Vaati! I'm too wary of spoilers to watch the video so I can't find out.. Was this on PC? If so, I have some important questions if you could answer please: 1. Do the menus show keyboard prompts instead of xbox ones? 2. Is there any mouse lag? 3. Is there any input lag for double clicking like the issues in dark souls 2? 4. Can you map parry keys to addition mouse buttons like mouse 5, mouse 6? 5. Can you map heavy attacks to shift click?

@ironreeve9370 8 лет назад

Vaati, I have a request for you for when you do play through the game in the near future. Take the Siegbreu consumable given by Siegward and drop it in the crow's nest in the Firelink Shrine. It supposedly drops an armor of an old friend that I would relish having back. If you could, do that multiple times and see the results I would greatly appreciate it, but you do as you like, and if you don't then I can just wait. Good luck in the playthrough, and may the sun shine long!

@Kavonage 8 лет назад

I'm with you on the bonfires and warping. Exploring between bonfires was vital to my Dark Souls 1 experience!

@zackmash851 Год назад

exploring from one bonfire to the next was wonderful in every game. it was the backtracking that made ds1 so tedious compared to 2 and 3

@gabriel_moulin 8 лет назад

People love to bash DS2 just for the sake of it, you have 6 npcs that come back to Majula as you explore the game, and the default ones.

@runstygge 8 лет назад

Man do i look forward for lore vids about this! I love this channel!

@rafaelribeiro99 8 лет назад

I like the travel between bonfires in DS1, but i think warping is a good feature. The bad thing is that in DS2 and 3 you can warp between EVERY SINGLE bonfire, its a bit overkill. The perfect warping for me wouldve be a mis of DS1 and 2 warping, keep the Warping from the start, but dont make possible warping to all the bonfires, only 1 per area. If the area has 3 bonfires, only make one of them 'warpable'. I think that works great in DS1, buy the need of the lordvessel to use it is kinda too late in the game.

@dio4296 8 лет назад

good idea, the warping bonfire should be the first bonfire in each area, it should look different and it's off unless you beat a boss or something.

@rozza1903 8 лет назад

I feel the reason for the warp to every bonfire feature is to decrease the tedium of warping to the nearest bonfire and then reaching your current bonfire after levelling up. I like to play safe and backtrack to the nearest bonfire and level up whenever I get enough souls so I would get easily frustrated having to warp back to firelink shrine after getting enough souls, warp to the nearest bonfire and then trek through all of the enemies you've already faced. I don't mind it unless they hide important npc's in really hard to find areas between 2 bonfires that would become redundant. (looking at you gilligan)

@MHFUfan 8 лет назад

Just pre-ordered my Collector's Edition this morning, can't wait. My thoughts on some things. The level design sounds great to me. One of my favorite things to do in these games is get lost, find my way, then get lost again. The sense of discovery I get when exploring is fantastic. I especially enjoyed this in Bloodborne because of how beautiful the art style is, despite it being more linear than previous games. And Dark Souls III seems just as gorgeous. The weapon variety is good to hear, even if they don't possess the depth that Trick Weapons do. tl;dr Can't wait play.