Demon's Souls - What Happened? 

The New Intro is really nice😎✌

your great at honoring people who work with you .great credit job

oi where's that Metroid video I can't find it

do mars war logs lol its a messed up game

Which version of that Castlevania theme was that? I remember a version of it on Circle of the Moon

That's what happens when you listen to patches

Vaati: I guess I’m leaving then. Is still here

Oof

Turns out Matt was a Cleric this whole time

did a double take when the video started thinking I clicked another one in my suggested :)

Well thier is such a thing called failing upwards. I'm not saying this series is a failure.

He got them parries right

@@ressljs "I understand that Sony has made a decision. But given that it's a stupid ass decision, I have elected to ignore it."

​@@TheTrueRandomGamer it's fine, it's alright, i'm gonna casually make it into a million dollar franchise by the end anyways, I mean i'm pretty sure the world is filled with masochists right?, they're gonna love me after i whip this out.

When you put it that way it almost sounds as an anime plot... I'd honestly watch it though...

"_Success is the best revenge" _Someone

What irony lol. XD

The way Yoshida announced it as "a game very near and dear to me" has a whole lot of meaning now.

He probably does genuinely love the game now, he fully came around on the concept. He's actually a total Bloodborne fanboy now.

Seems like it was, I regret what I said about the game. But now there’s a chance to apologize and do the game justice.

I really don't mind I'll finally get to play demons' souls

It's also a very important PS5 launch title too, which should show Miyazaki that he won this battle and came out looking like a fucking genius.

People should remember how the PS3/X360 era were littered with games designed to be as easy as possible. It was certainly a risk for Sony to publish a game that went against the norm at the time.

@@spiidey1 Yeah, the Ps 3 era was a time where the focus was on simple easy to access games that are very cinematic. This gen was a return to a more gameplay focused times in my opinion.

@@The_Fat_Turtle Of course he won, he got that apology check when he was hired to direct Bloodborne lol.

It just works

No, no, no, no, no...... There's a fuck ton less bugs.

Imagine Bethesda making a janky American Demon/Dark Souls game.

And somehow, less janky than Elder Scrolls

@@WhaleManMan Bethesda has been bad since like 2010. The streamlining of the RPG for casual audiences has been a large part their fault. I want another Morrowind GODDAMNIT.

How can one man be so based?

@@knightornstein5902 True balls of steels.

Wasnt it sony who messed up dark souls 2 by wanting fromsoft to crank out another dark souls to capitalize on the success and were super pushy during its development?

@@aaronbozack830 Bandai Namco, not Sony

​@@aaronbozack830 What actually happened is Namco made a contract with From Software for 3 Dark Souls. But, From Software were too busy making the new engine for Bloodborne and the Dark Souls sequel that Namco bring up the idea of they itself do the Dark Souls 2 with a Team B when the Team A was busy with the real Dark Souls 2 and Bloodborne. That is why when you play Dark Souls 3 the events from the second game are rarely mentioned.

Fellow Matthewmatosis fan, cheers!

I can imagine Yoshida like: -"I'm a genius!" -"OH NO!"

@@Lihkhan Sony's failure became Bandai's success Guess which company Miyazaki chose to be the publisher of Elden Ring

Shame they stuck with Sony after Sony screwed them. Bloodborne should not have been a PS exclusive, no clue why it is tbh.

@@addictedtoRS Typical for 3rd-party exclusives, Sony funded the development, marketing, and publishing. While exclusivity does limit the potential sales, having Sony fund everything nearly eliminated all risk for FromSoft.

phew, I was worried for a sec when i saw this game on WHU HAPPUN?

The unlikely success stories are probably some of my favourite videos on this channel.

Here's to more success stories in these trying times.

I love underdog stories.

Demon's Souls is a prime example of a dark horse/underdog video game story. Literally no one expected it to sell, and now 11 years later, it has spawned its own subgenre and multi million dollar remake.

@@urdnal hah! man i love dark souls, there's actually so little I remember from other games, but this series is nothing if not memorable, probably more so than most other games i've played throughout my life combined. It's quirkiness is way beyond something people love just to seem cool and everything about it is this weird and painful fun. It's not complete, perfect or even a game that's always fun, but damn is it an experience, and for what it accomplishes, it just seems even better than perfect when you remember back to it, not getting your ass beat probably helps with that too. and after watching the video i feel like that's somehow exactly what i'd expected of the creation of darksouls,and i wouldn't want it any other way.

"The true Demon's Souls starts here" on the From Soft studio doors

​@@rud5101 in his darkest moments, miyazaki looked to the internet for advice, and there he saw the holy saying "git gud" and he did

Miyazaki: “our players should have permadeath, just like we the developers only get one shot at making this game!”

And then there'll be Demon"'s Soul.

Well, at least that makes it two for two, right?

The maus is in the house.!

We need more waifus, Indei.

lul

Top 10 RE7 waifus when

Immortalised as like #69

@hi there uses"twat" Does your mother know you're on the internet? Gtfo and go to bed.

Jack Richardson you know if you check England twat is a favourite word of theirs

Not really, since Sony owns Demon Souls and the ones making the remake arent FromSoft, but BluePoint.

Funny enough. That sentence summarizes the SoulsBorne genre so bloody well.

Miyazaki's humanity grew three sizes that day.

I imagine he struggled to keep the shit-eating grin off his face during that Bloodborne meeting.

It’s funny because he refused at first.

@@ominousmist960 To be honest I would be like that as well if Sony screwed me over and didn't have faith in publishing my game.

Please someone draw that

How Gloriously Incandescent indeed.

Can't forget the no-hit run streamers/aliens

we were playing on Easy mode this whole time

Oh yeah! Also: Sieglinde of Catarina went through Lordran without even being an undead so I guess that also counts as a no death run.

If you think the Souls series was hard enough, imagine what Demon's Souls would have been like if they kept that mechanic in.

I will!

Agreed! I found this video (and Doom 2016) to be fascinating. A real underdog story.

@@MattMcMuscles Perhaps do a video on Psychonaughts? It had a very rough development cycle after all.

He should do a video about the first Nier. It's a really unique story about a game that initially totally bombed but managed to get a far more successful sequel.

@@nullmoon3058 I'd like to see a What Happun on Yoko Taro himself. He seems to be a very... divisive director.

*2022 after elden ring sold 12 million copies* : miyazaki please come back, we're sorry

What a gigachad. Truly a god among men.

@@nuvreau1902 Namdai Bamco can only laugh at them

and now in 2022: Were making armored core again. we didn't forget you fans!

Same with LA Noire.....but man that development was extremely bad 🤣

It's always funny to see when some Japanese guy just decide to go to gaming

Dragon Age Inquisition was like that and many of the developers can be quoted as they wish it flopped because they knew it would set a precedent if that development cycle ended with success

It feels good when a game that's trying something new actually succeeds and comes out great.

It makes me wonder though, how many great games or series of games could have existed if one random game had succeded or didn't end up in development hell, or simply had a little bit more luck? It's crazy to think that the entire soulsborne series only exist because of a shitload of luck.

Just like those games Shadow Field and King’s Tower

Bamco!

*shocked Pikachu face *

I really like Namcai Bando's fighting, Kentek Tour tagnament.

Nope, it was me, DIO!

Weirdly enough God of War did already have light attacks, heavy attacks, rolls and many other maneuvers present in Souls-games and Bloodborne. So there was more taking already invented things and mixing them together in a new wau and some invention to support it.

@Steven Murphy really? That's a shame, my experience with the game was great, excluding the rpg systems, there are some crazy combos you can perform, if you have enough experience you become a time stopping, particle effect inducing God of War!

Soulsborne, I think, took the controls from Zelda Ocarina of Time... because in this Zelda you can lock target the enemies, dodge by rolling to the side, defend by holding a shield while holding a button and attack with a sword in another button. But Demons Souls perfected it by SIMPLY adding a stamina bar to this formula, the simple implementation of a stamina bar made this kind of gameplay jumps from a generic kind of gameplay to a adventure game to a kind of gameplay with a curve of learning compared to the one of a fighting game. Also adding RPG elements, personalization of the character, backstab and parry as the last thing someone can learn of a combat (and parrying is also the last and more difficult thing to learn on a fighting game).

Err... so now people just forgetting Monster Hunter then?

@@snailthelostcow63 Monster Hunter is great too. But Demon's Souls kicked this type of difficult game off right. 6 of the 7 games they have released over the past 13 years can be debated as some of the best games ever. And the only one many wouldn't say so, Dark Souls 2, is just pretty good. I think Dark Souls 2 should get an Re2 style remake or a Demon's Souls remake that keeps in line with it's original vision and game, but gets rid if all of the annoying bullshit. That way we can say all seven games are right next to each other. Because I have heard enough of the discourse around Dark Souls 2 and the issues it has. Maybe have Bluepoint do it. Or do an Ontogi remake. But they might be doing a new Armored Core, which is fantastic.

It's the sliders man... I don't know how to beat my own face :'(

@@Akechi_The_Phantom_Detective apperently game journalist was just as bad back then as they are now

I think the point isn't that it was too difficult, they just didn't like the look of the character they were creating.

@@IdentityChristok, but to not even give the rest of the game play a chance? That's dumb

Now I’m just imagining an edit that shows “You Died” overlayed on the character creation screen.

The release was pretty interesting to say the least. I had to call a dozen video game stores before finding one that had it in stock at all. Some of the people I asked about it hadn't even heard of the game and others were unsure if it's going to be released in Europe, even though it was release day. Finally getting my copy felt like I was let in some exclusive club or something, I was half surprised I didn't need to know the secret handshake at the store. Reminded me of the 90s and finally finding an obscure music CD that nobody ever had in stock. Nobody in my social circle played it either, in fact it wasn't until Dark Souls was released that I actually heard people talk about DeS outside of the internet. It's a shame so many people completely missed the release, but at least the series really blew up with Dark Souls. Even if it gave birth to the stupid elitist mentality that was largely absent in the DeS community.

​@@silkyfi6652 seriously what kinds of idiots mess up the community of such a special game, I was too young and barred from going online in the ds days but luckily the community i personally interacted with in the ds3 era was one of the coolest and definitely the nicest and most helpful community that i've ever had the pleasure interacting with, at least when it came to people who played the game well and actively took part in the community. I'm sorry to hear that you had to deal with such a frustrating experience on your end though. I have seen glimpses of elitists here and there though, it's kinda funny how polarized the communities of these difficult games can become though, it's either pricks or just some super nice and thoughtful people.

I remember picking up Demon's Souls from Gamestop and the cashier was basically like, "You sure you want this? It's pretty haaarrrd." Yes bitch. Still my favorite game in the series

@@RottenMuLoT Worked @ Gamestop in the early to mid 2000's. At that time, just about every EA Sports game was massively over-ordered for the number that actually sold.

I got my copy used from gamestop for like 30€ (it was the black phantom ce as well). I vaguely heard of the game but didn't know if I remembered the title correctly. Boy that was one of the best buys I ever did in my life since its such a great game.

This is why the moral of souls games is SHEER FUCKING WILL POWER WILL SEE THE TASK DONE

At 144 likes this comment is under-appreciated.

@@bluekeys7661 ty

Y u dont text him

@@sorlakvader155 nah

Bro hit him up and go play it again on ps5!

​@@EddiXP ps5 demake sucks tho

That is a brilliant way of looking at it.

This could be one major reason why Demon's Souls became a success whole hugely anticipated title like Duke Nukem Forever failed...

Similar thing happened to God Hand. As the studio was planned to be shut down, Shinji Mikami just went LEEEROOOOYYY JENNNKINNSSS when creating it lmao

Same 😄

I legit screamed his name, this is the collab I didn’t know I desperately needed

It also caught me off guard hahaha great intro

Same here

SAME LMAO

I don't know if it's because I'm on mobile, or maybe it's because it's been almost three years since I heard that wonderful intro song, but I didn't catch that at all. Thank you for pointing it out so that I may get a chance to relive such a powerful song.

As in invented and what followed perfected it. What follows are various clones until genre creator comes along which makes it completely distinct. In FPS Wolfenstein 3D invented it, Doom codified it and Half-Life made it a distinct genre with traits of its own.

I should have scrolled down the comments a bit more. I just responded to someone wishing they could relive the experience of playing Demon Souls for the first time and it being the birth of a genre with a comparison to playing Wolfenstein 3D back in '92 or '93. I left out the part about Doom cementing the genre, but I was thinking it.

Thats what I thought, I respect Miyazaki even more now

it's a pretty wonderful story of both a brilliant guy and a passionate nerd totally owning the world by going full throttle on the stuff they love, this is the guy who made dark souls alright.

What a power move!

@@unculturedswine5583 Yeah it's great. Stories like this are too few and far between in any industry. Kudos to Miyazaki for having such gigantic balls which led FromSoft to create an entire genre.

I thought I couldn't love this guy more, but what an absolute unit of a chad! He literally delivers one masterpiece after another and he wouldn't do this right now without the immense balls and the beautiful mastermind he combines in himself... What. An. Absolute. Legend.

@@Never_Ending_Dulf that's why he's called a legendary Big M

And i'm so happy there was at least one higher up who could support him. As Miyazaki himself said, "Light looks more beatiful in darkness".

Namkai Bando

I feel a bit the same way about Wolfenstein 3D. It's hard these days to appreciate what it was like to play that game when it first came out. There were games that used a first-person 3D perspective, but nothing that moved at it's pace or had controls anywhere near as responsive. It was the foundation on which the whole FPS genre was built. It's also a case of developers doing their own thing on their bosses' dime, albeit for much smaller stakes.

Snake eaterrrrr

Tree frog

And now it will be molded into commitee-approved, American-made generic garbage billed as the "definitive edition" available only on Playstation 5!

@@peenywallie So I take it you aren't a fan of the Remake?

@@peenywallie You are jumping to conclusion. Tech and graphics are provided by Bluepoint Games who remade Shadow of the Colossus with same janky animation from PS2. However, game design, art and sound wise it's done by a team at Japan Studio. Puppeteer's creator is creative director on this project with having Japanese staff. He was interviewed on the PS blog. Lead 3D graphic designer on original Demon's Souls, Nozomi Shiba, is involved. As is original character designer. Your American-made garbage doesn't make sense after a trailer without gameplay.

Honestly, Demon's Souls still wasn't that big until Dark Souls landed.

@@islandboy9381 Very true! But it was an important first stepping zone, got an audience accustomed to its unusual conventions.

This sentence could be used for any Soulsborn game, tbh

What do you think of the remaster trailer? The first thing I thought was "maaaaan this looks way too inviting and pretty" xD Im super super curious how the final game will turn out though, weve obviously only seen a sliver as of yet.

@@ApenBaard Yeah, i agree. It's the lighting changes in the new trailer. Everything looks too bright and 'cleaner'. Also the music's changed slightly. I watched a side by side of the original opening compared to the new trailer and the original just looks fucking miserable and incredibly forboding and stark. The remake is far brighter and looks more like any other dark fantasy world. More akin to Dark Souls 3 than Demon's Souls.

I would say Bloodborne is the one that doesn't want you there. I mean Yharnamites are literally calling you a beast and are blaming you for everything.

@@Noobie2k7 I disagree. I think they added a wider variety of lighting fitting different places. If you look at shot where gargoyles come in tower of Latria it looks very grim. If you see shot with King of storms you can see that weather is much stormier. The only instance where lighting is clearly brighter is in a Tower Knight scene. I think the lighting is going to be much more dynamic than in original. Now only complaint I have is that some enemy designs are now looking a little bit generic.

Thats how the usual PR talk goes yes

@@themangastand8475 he wasn't admitting he was wrong though, he just changed his mind acting like his last statement never happened since Demon's Souls made a lot of money

I finished the original on the PS3, and it was in a pretty horrible technical state. Framerate was terrible and very inconsistent, physics would often glitch out leaving you with a cartwheel, or a piece of wood, stuck in your belly for an hour, for instance. AI was glitchy and suicidal, mantas would shoot (and kill) you through the walls from the other side of the map, since their shots had apparently no collision programmed in. Lock-on was straight up broken and you were better off playing the game without it, UI was clunky af and required a lot of constant micro-management every few steps of the way. The game was cryptic and obtuse af, too - I don't know how world tendencies exactly work to this day, for instance. The difficulty wasn't that much of an issue, since you could just grind for an hour or two in 4-2 and raise your strength and health to the point that the game wasn't even that challenging. Did I mention you could cheese bosses through mist barriers with a bow, and since you saw their health bar through the mist, everyone could figure it out by themselves on their 1st playthrough (like I did) ? The game succeeded thanks to its dark atmosphere, innovative multiplayer, and its rewarding nature - without this, the game would be just another janky ARPG (the fact that there were next to no other action RPGs at the time on the PS3 probably didn't hurt). I still did like the game ultimately, but I can't blame Shuhei for not seeing the potential of DS.

The game is good because it contains a soul, contrary to the cash grabs the industry have become.

@@mohandasjung or what the original game was supposed to be. I mean what was Sony thinking of making a cash grab to capitalize on Elder Scolls success. The only good thing Sony did was allowing Miyazaki do his thing for the entire Soulsborne genre to flourish.

@Ali Hadi Babar Demons souls was an attempt to capitalize in the Elder Scrolls hype in Japan. It's amazing how souls games have flourish while Bethesda games went downhill.

Yeah it does!

As Dee Reynolds would put it, “it’s got a real ass on it!”

Fun fact: in the Japanese release of Battletoads, the turbo tunnel was actually slower. Kinda weird how it was actually easier in Japan for once

It all depends on the frame of mind going into it. The souls games play just like the hard as balls games from the 80’s, so by 2008-9, no one was mentally prepared for that. But once it found its audience, and they learned how to sell it to newcomers, it was finally able to blow up.

Doesn't Mechwarrior still exist though?

Titan Fall 2 was so good it still enrages me when I look at its failure

I have so much fun in tf2 haha only in my dreams can i wish respawn may announce 3 in the next decade

@@97Fenrir welp titanfall 3 is being worked on soooooo

I'd freaking love a remaster collection of the PS2 AC games.

Dragon's Dogma is way better than it gets credit for

Every game is good in its own way

The dark souls series has ruined me. I crave the balanced and fair challenge the game presents and it is tough to find this elsewhere.

Basically what I said too. Not that games were trash per se but after playing Demon's Souls no longer could I play Uncharted or God of War the same way. After I tried Souls games, the only other game I played religiously on PS3 was Battlefield 3.

Souls fans are insufferable lol

In my opinion it has to do with what aesthetic certain countries feel more comfortable/distinct with. For the West its fantasy and Japan its mecha.

I imagine this is why FromSoft is supposedly making a new Armored Core game now: they're leveraging their Soulsborne rep to introduce it to a wider audience.

Well BOY do I have news for you!

Miyazaki play dark souls in real life

And he use a luck build

That's so sweet. :)

Don't forget to lie to your bosses!

I think that “Work hard every day and believe in what you are working on” is a good moral (ignore the “lie to you boss” part, that doesn’t count, it’s more so a “don’t make what you don’t want to” moral)

@@S-Fan2006 If an investor gave you several million dollars to make 'x', you tell him you're making 'x' while making 'y' because you 'don't make what you don't want to'. Unless it turns out being a mega success because you are a misunderstood genius, you are in serious shit. The moral thing is to either tell the investor you're making 'y' causing the investor stop funding the project because they wanted 'x', or just make 'x'. This video isn't about an average man working hard to achieve his goals, its about a misunderstood genius who needed to use trickery to make a product the world didn't know they wanted.

John Smith, Indeed it is.

@@S-Fan2006 I was also being very cynical with my 'don't forget to lie to your bosses' comment. almost everyone has 'the perfect game idea' in their head. most people aren't geniuses. Especially people who THINK they are geniuses. The John Romero Dai Katana story is the story about someone who thought they were a genius sparing no expense chasing after his dream video game...

" Probably did help that it felt like devs were making games easier for the wider market so having a game that wants to kill you was refreshing." There were so many good memes and comics about it. www.deviantart.com/wozz13/art/Demon-s-Souls-169310207 i.imgur.com/4hFar.png i.imgur.com/Z4Oif.jpg i.imgur.com/JS1XK.jpg

Eh, honestly Bloodborne is the worst of the Souls games to me. It's the farthest away from what made me fall in love with DeS.

"janky glitchy mess"?? I don't think we played the same Demon's Souls. I always felt Dark Souls got more bugs and issues. Demon's Souls felt very solid from the very first moments I played it.

@John Smith What do you mean "no"? I was exposing my opinion, it's not a yes or no question.

@John Smith What incorrect? It's my personal feelings on the game mate, it's not a yes or no question.

I come from the future, bethesda killed elder scrolls themselves

@Zack Smith Yeah, but the story behind its development is definitely worth discussing

Just do a wha happun metal Gear series

Ih happuned

In that reality, there is a high chance that Demon’s Souls would never exist and FromSoft likely went bankrupt or went into liquidation.

Thankfully, that is NOT the reality that we are in.

@@S-Fan2006 scary shit, my dude.

Someone else would have invented it. There already were prototypes and pieces were there.

@@vksasdgaming9472 but it didn't have the same drive, creativity and commitment that fromsoft and Miyazaki had. Miyazaki for his love of dark fantasy games and fromsoft's past experience in their experimental games that created the soulsborne games we know of today. No other company had a history quite like fromaoft and I am happy they went on to become successful.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Happy Birthday, Dude! ^^

I am also surprised finding out the ebtire soulsborne genre was born out of the original game wanting to be an elder scrolls clone. Like holy cow, this entire project was one hexk of a development that led Miyazaki to success with him becoming president and From Software becoming one of the best well known and successful game developers.

If you think about it, both King’s Field and Elder Scrolls were Ultima Underworld clones. Even Souls games are similat to Ultima Underworld in some sense.

me too

Same, but my experience was more with Dark Souls 2, got to the giant and kept dying and I said "this is just so dumb, there is hard for the sake of hard and hard and fair, this aint fair" I didn't play the game for a while and then gave it another go and actually ended up being one of my favorite franchise ever.

Yes.

I thought I was going crazy for a second.