Darkest Dungeon Documentary - It Would Suck To Be A Hero 

@Articulated Thanks so much!

Just out of curiosity: how much time did the interviews lasted? It feels like an afternoon, but getting that much infos in an afternoon would be crazy

@@Sir_Bucket We filmed the entire thing over three days. Depends on the documentary, but the most we've ever done is a week and that was for the Divinity: Original Sin documentary which you can find back on the Gameumentary channel. We covered the entire series there and that took an entire week to do.

@@theescapist ok thanks for clarifying, very nice documentary btw. The musics are in the good place to set the atmosphere, the paste is really well done. And the visual is really complete and fit well with the audio

Bravo. Your best work to date.

Can relate

@@kevinjbonetguadalupe1729 It didn't stop me from playing it. I played the Hell out of it. I suck at FTL as well and I'm 300 hours into that game.

I rage quit the game 3 years ago & by chance I saw Quill18 do an LP a few months back. That ignited the completionist in in me to "git gud" and finally finish the damn thing. Try it again and you'll eventually get through it - there's copious material and strats out there on RU-vid & the Wiki - the key is just prioritizing the right classes & character synergies to move the RNG in your favor.

@@bilbo1778 The first time my crew died of asphyxiation while on fire I fell in love. It reminded me of getting killed by the floor on Ultima 3. I thought, "Now here's a game that doesn't care at all about my feelings. This game gets me." I can still only beat it on easy but I can't stop playing it.

@@bilbo1778 I just realized you were talking about Darkest Dungeon because I'm not that bright. I haven't quit the game at all. I'm just on a break for a minute while I repair my damaged feelings.

Maggots!!!! I loved your playthroughs of Darkest Dungeon Bear!

Heya Baer!

Here I was about to send you the link and ask if you knew that you had a line in it. My heart sunk with you when you got to that point. Thank you for beating the game, I bought it after watching you play it a couple episodes, but I get too attached to my characters Soo I could never have finished it. Watching you play it, going back and re watching, is one of those special things that can keep a guy going. I'll immediately pre order dd2, but I'll probably only experience it through you Baer. (No pressure though, I'm sure you've inspired hundreds of imitators that I can watch it from, but they won't have the same "je ne sais" Baer greed.

Baertaffy! I've watched so many of your DD videos! I'm such a big fan!

Baer, this is the game that Introduced me to you, and you were one who introduced me to Darkest Dungeon. It's great to know you loved the doc, and that even though, in my head, your voice ( and Wayne Junes, of course) ARE DD, your are still a guy who found a game to love too. Never stop being you, Baer. And long live the Darkest Dungeon 👹

They weren't overconfident. The documentary is strewn with comments about how they didn't think they'd be able to accomplish very much.

i was impressed how they handled the corpse update. definitely a pro move

Overconfidence? Their confidence was shaken! It was courage what they had to keep moving forward with their vision even though they feared shit could go wrong.

It's merely a trick of the light

It's just killing them *VERY* slowly.

On the old road, we found redemption

Ay a wild Indei? Are you as excited about making Waifu Dungeon 2 Electric Boogaloo as I am to watch it?

Ready for Darkest Waifus 2?

a wild indei among the people? we.love.you.

Another foundational voice of DD, to me, anyway! Thanks for making great DD Content, as well as all the other lovely work you do. Can't wait for the RE6-a-thon you got cookin'! May your waifus always be thicc!

Haha Kangaroo Jack haha. Point and laugh.

This game is awesome. can't wait for 2.

Amazing, right? I was never before so caught up by a game, to even think about watching a documentary about it :D and know, I just finished over a full hour of one

i made this comment have 666 likes feelsgoodman

+1

So glad you enjoyed! Thanks for watching!

Yeah this was really well made

@@theescapist thank you, this is one of my favourites

@@theescapist Seriously tho,hats off to your Editor!

You are watching a movie.

It's just an hour though I have time

What a fuckin dick that guy was. I'm glad an angry mob killed him. Shoulda done it sooner!

@@tomhill3248 If you are referring to the Ancestor - the mob didnt get him - he shot himself before they could. Like a coward.

@I SELL SALT The man is a thief, a liar, and a murderer who damned everyone and everything he ever knew for his ego. He deserves NOTHING! He is a villain through and through and shall be treated as such!

That's right, gulags were quite tragic.

Really good soundtrack! I find myself listening to the ruins battle music on loop sometimes

Thank you for your art.

Your music slaps my man, truly Darklest Dungeons OST is captivating

The music in this game is phenomenal.

They are to some degree ;) 58:05

That approachability element is what was foundational for so many of DD’s biggest critics as well. A lot of those ‘humorous’ early access posts got misinterpreted as arbitrary and sadistic. It was as much about the mechanics changes as it was players’ faith in the developers. The game has a knack for getting players emotionally invested with their characters, but that can backfire. DD had an “us vs. them” reputation going for a while and some people even today still conceptualize it that way. They didn’t see the ending sacrifice as an artistic decision they saw it as meaningless assholery. Community management/engagement is key, which RH learned.

Appropriately enough, when the game is based on eldritch horrors

based as hell

I lost multiple dudes last night playing. My reaction was “good riddance.” 😂

This game twists your perception of happiness quite considerably

*laughs in occultist*

*Laughs in plague doctor*

Laughs in front line hellion that can hit every position.

Unless you're a crusader, corpses are just an inconvenience if you have any idea what you're doing.

Laughs as bounty hunter with get over here

what was the corpse saga?

@@arandomperson8646 If im not it were corpses when monsters die

@@arandomperson8646 starts at 42:26 DD added a mechanic during Early access that cause dead enemies to leave behind a corpse when they die, thus obstructing the paths for the players to get to the range attackers and casters in the backrow. This essentially changed the "meta" of the game and many old tactics and team comp no longer work as players have to take into account how to clean up the corpses quickly or have more party members with range attacks that can hit the back rows right away. What happened was that when they released the patch, people got really, irrationally angry and started to review bomb the games. Many gaming journalist websites also jumped on the bandwagon with headlines like: "DD creators fall from grace" and all that bollocks The devs stuck to their visions but relented a little bit by adding in an option in the final build to turn off the corpse mechanic but to their surprise, less than 1% of the actual player turn off the corpse mechanic, so all's well that ends well and the people who sent them death threats over this change probably got gobbled up by the Old One or something

Yeah, no matter your project, you will always have a part of your fanbase that will be louder and angrier that everyone else, and they will take any change personnaly. It's mostly safe to not take those reviews as seriously as they want you to. But they always have a bit of truth. It's just always exagerated and ANGERY. If you hang around in the steam review section you know which one I'm talking about, but if you don't here are (in my opinion) the signs to help you see them: -using word like fucking, useless, shit and all of those synonyms. Basicly every word that looks like it's trying to insult the game -a style trying to play the "let's make fun of the bad game" card - using high caps to SHOW THE PART WHICH THE GUY IS ANGRY ABOUT like this -disabled reply section under the comment That said they are also negative constructed critics and those are the most interesting ones, because those show you what doesn't work in the project

@@woodhawk109 thanks

@@pointynoodle I checked on their DEV updates on steam and the Circus DLC isn't actually cutting into their development that much, so thats good.

@@negativeninja7465 I figure it's a way to test a feature for DD2 anyway

Jason Hunter in a recent dev update of Steam they said that they hired a whole seperate team to work on Butchers Circus, so it definitely could (and probably will) be a feature in DD2, it isn’t taking any time or effort from the dev team for DD2

Really well done, enjoyed top to bottom!

@PersonaX well they are making a secuel already

To be fair, his voice is perfection for DD.

His voice is perfection (end sentence). 😂 but yes. Particularly for DD

I just want to kms now... I really dindt want to get spoilered

too late :c

Just watch the kerb stomp scene in American History X. Same difference.

too late DDD:

Thanks for saving me. I got it in early access but I’m a weenie when I lose my favorites and never finished. Picking it back up tonight.

I think it's worth it you gave them a feedback which mean what they design is working

When I first fought the Swine Prince, I thought it would be a good idea to kill Wilbur at the start...

@@benl2140 Samee

You summed it up way better then i ever could. Agree fully.

If you enjou the gameplay you could play Iratus: Lord of the Dead while you wait. It's really good!

The narration makes me question my belief that perfection is impossibly bc holy shit did the voice actor do an absolutely phenomenal job

Combat in this game is very bad tho It's glass cannon vs glass cannone while most turn based game go for a more strategic and thoughtful approach. I think the closest thing is homm ahah

Don't care dad, you're an asshole and I'm getting through with 0 deaths. And if I see you in the stars imma slap the shit out of you.

@@tomhill3248 I have restarted so many files due to losing favourites. I know it's not in the spirit of the game per se but dammit, I'm keeping my faves!

@@1Thunderfire Then let me aid you brotha. What do you lose heroes too? I've made it into champion dungeons without losing anyone. I know a few tricks.

@@tomhill3248 Occasionally the spider stun/blight combo, sometimes unlucky critical hits, sometimes me making the wrong move, sometimes just plain bad luck.

@@1Thunderfire I've lost 1 party member in my entire D&D career and it was a antiquarian to spiders on a crit. An under leveled antiquarian, with a slow party. That was my mistake. You're doing something wrong, it's not bad luck, not on it's own. It's your party set-up. If you feel like it's bad luck, it's not, it's your party set up. What kinda trinkets do you usually run? What kind of skills? Synergy is very important. You're doing something specific wrong. Maybe you don't have anyone fast in your party(always have at least 1, unless you're team beef, the wall don't need a speedster, give your vestal prot by the way.). Maybe the trinkets you go after are just not that useful. Maybe you just don't understand how to use the occultist(front liner....yes really, first rank, or second with a leper, have a guard with him, man-at-arms or Doggomancer). I'd need more information to know exactly what's going wrong. The solution to spiders by the way is either team beef (even double crits can't bring them to deaths door) or said speedster. I like a highwayman personally. You can handle him a lot of ways, point blank shot in the front, 2nd rank, even 3rd can work. I like to give Dismas a feather trinket to almost guarantee he goes before 1 spider, and an accuracy trinket to guarantee he hits them. Go for the spitter when you run into spiders. That spitters already dead. Spitter "Nani?! *explodes into gore"

Owen Nagler we’re Canadian!! That’s how we say it!

Jeff Tangsoc He’s onto us! Abort the mission!

WHAT YOU MEAN, FELLOW HUMAN? IT IS HOW MAIR-YO KA-HART IS PRONUNCED.

Ughh as someone who actually carries this name, just don't, please! Doesnt matter what your voice sounds like all I hear is some nasally chain smoking grandma (weirdly specific, I know) every time I hear a long a in Mario amd it make me want to vomit. Hell, I dont think Italian even has a long A, Spanish doesnt either as far as I know.

That would fit the narrative. Cause i see/assume that this was made before corona hit. And the devs probably said that they have to release the interview when they say :)

I heard one of them say “Darkest Dungeon 1”

Ethan Walthorn same!!

One year latter and its finally out in early access on GoG

Damn, didn't expect to see you here

Here's to 6 more years of moving right into shit!

darkest dungeon: moving left (backwards): +10 stress

So who you did think has the kelptomania?

@@lkcdarzadix6216 reynauld obviously... because dismas is doing this entire thing AS redemption for literally killing his entire family(wife and child) thinking they were a rival bandit gang that took over the carriage he was trying to rob

Or worse: People that use crusaders without holy lance :p

@@couchpotatoe91 That's H E R E S Y

You ever see a youtube comment you wanna screenshot and send to people without context? This is one of them

Aaron Mitchell Do it.

@@couchpotatoe91 Why would you ever do that? What other abilities were they using that were so important they couldn't slot holy lance? ...Let's see, smite, scroll, pommel, hmm, I guess either inspiring cry of battle heal would be nice, but in that case that would do alright too. ....people use bulwark?

The game stresses me out so much I can’t play it very frequently for long periods of time. But I love it so much that every time a DLC comes out I buy it even if I never play it. Just to support Red Hook.

You ever get it out?

Thank you for your support of the game-we are very happy that you have gotten so much enjoyment out of it!

Emotions are the greatest bane to change.

@@tylersigman4643 Super glad you put this on the Switch. It has a strong hold on me even if I occasionally need to rage at DD! 😄

Next one is already planned! Best way to support is through memberships or donations that we can put towards our next project! :)

while I wasn't there for the corpses addition there were certainly a lot of abusive afflictions it seems when they added it. Though you got yourself a vigorous virtue.

Wait, does anyone actually play without enemy corpses?

@@orionphalynx6192 I didn't even know you could turn them off! To be fair, though, it's hard to judge what the system was like in implementation, as I assume a lot of character skills to clear corpses and what positions they can target got balanced after the fact. But their resolution to stick to their guns was absolutely the right call.

"This game is brilliant." There, that's the episode.

@@DannyMexen9 He does a very good job of not reviewing games where he has nothing interesting to say. His recent Call of Duty review is the perfect example of this.

I think it’s that he played the game but couldn’t come up with anything to say that was different or insightful when compared to what everyone else had already said. He has referred to the game many many times in other ZP episodes. So you know he played it, he just never made a video on it.

And in this case it was, since they released the option to turn corpses off as a lot of people seemed to be complaining about it, yet less than 1% of the entire playerbase actually did turn it off. Oh the hypocrisy

or make Leaper useless

It's a complete original soundtrack for the doc, you can support the artist here: jameselseymusic.bandcamp.com/album/darkest-dungeon-documentary-original-soundtrack

@@theescapist Cheers, hoping for your next documentary soon =)

@@curvion4312 Thanks for the kind words! Glad you liked the Music!

@@JamesElseyMusic Actually cool to see you the music creator respond, i honestly replayed that instrumental at least over 15 times after I finished the documentary. It really gave me some 'Darkest Dungeon Netflix Adaptation opening vibes.

@@curvion4312I'll always be appreciative of people enjoying my work, thanks again!

final boss section is one hell of a terrifying thing tbh...

read too late :\

Too late! Haha.

you cannot blame the common player who feels that he lost something, it's the media who was after the blood. first of all, steam let the players review the game and publish their thoughts, and this in a way builds up a scientific metric with which you can validate "the rise and fall" of expectations. once you have this, you can claim whatever you want, under a pretense that you know what you're talking about. the dev is right, it's about the 'fall from grace' myth that appeals to everyone. it basically confirms that people are subconsciously jealous of high success, and will gather around to lynch if they sense any sign of vulnerability or mortality. but ultimately, it's the popular journalism, basically a primal-instinct attention-seeking monetization-scheme*, that is working around the clock under this disguise of keeping people "informed," is largely appealing to this primitive urge, and supporting the herd behavior -- for no reason other than to gain material benefits of being consumed and talked about -- and for this I hope the journalists will all burn in a very specific ring of Dante's inferno. (* aka tabloid format, and today there are no exceptions, even youtube literally encourages tabloid behavior, popularly known as clickbait.)

I sadly see this A LOT in many Early Access Games... sometimes it IS justified, as we see fun features getting removed and replaced with nothing (looking at you, Starbound), but sometimes when the Devs just finally fix an old exploit or problem and people go "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! How dare you make change my playstyle!?" (seen this one a lot recently in Project Zomboid after the new Animations Build).

I've seen pettier, I've seen someone dive into a game's github to take and upload an old build because an update "ruined it". Said update basically just made both boss HP and player damage work with smaller digits.

@@IGreyKnightI that's not true. after the game was released, most of what they did should not be called patching, but considered as regular updates, and that's the part of a normal product service, until the company decides to move on. after having playing DD for years, not only it is feature complete, but also highly polished and expanded upon. I'm not sure if you understand what EA really is, what constitutes a released game (software is never bug-free, and games are never perfectly balanced), and what are the legit post-release responsibilities of a developer.

A lot of them were new(ish) hires that weren't there for the start of Darkest Dungeon, but we'd love to go back and tell their story with DD2 when the time is right!