RE: "In Defense of Dark Souls 2" - A Measured Response - Part 1 

Wow, remind me never to piss you off. This was like watching a dude get whipped with a cat of nine-tails. Eventually I just wanted to step in and stop the carnage. Great video. Liked the Star Wars: Last Jedi series as well. You are good sir!

you seriously expect me to watch a 4 hour long review on this? This is a fucking miniseries. You start off missing the basic statement in the first 2 minutes of his video of what 'fun' means as a contrast to 'frustrating'. Waste a lot of time discussing a moot point, since he compares the healing system to each other, not just subjectively to 'fun' as you seem to fail to grasp the terminology, the rest would seem flawed from there.

10 hours of video as reply to someone stating his opinion in the effort to try and change peoples mind is just sad man. its really really sad

You missed the point yourself dude. The 10 hours of video replies only tells me that there is plenty of stuff to debunk, dissect and analyze to prove H is wrong on a lot of things and he don't seems to even have noticed it.

i didnt miss any point matey, an opinion on an object or entertainment cannot be debunked. its HIS opinion, wich he stated in the video and even a biased opinion. and you feel the need to debunk everything he says? thats just pointless.

this makes twice in a month for me

As am I. We are all they who maul

Amen

Join us brother

This is my second time, I am glad I am not alone 🙏

People die if they are killed.

That's the way its supposed to be.

I see your a man of culture as well

Well you see: on a game when you are dieing: you die. So enemies will have to force you to die wheb you are killed. They do this by killing you so hard, you die to death. Which is cool and smart.

@@TheOnlyObserver98 Just because you're correct doesn't mean you're right.

The highest I've ever grinded offline in blood-borne was 345 that was so I could break the Chalice dungeons by myself that I did a stream where I was fighting bosses at level 365 people were enjoying it I felt invincible despite dying easily because this was the 4th playthrough on the same file

Yes that's what ...dying means

But people die when they're killed!

@@DiZtheJedi But... are they killed when they die?

"The Archer class really is made up of Archers!"

Joseph Castella did bomberguy make a response?

@@DildoBraggins no op was talking about Matthewmatosis making his video which Harris replied to and then this video is a response to that video.

The rate of expansion does worry me. Soon enough we will have a response to this series that will be close to 2 weeks long.

uber goober Ikr. The most hbomberguy said was life gems, map design. Maybe there was other things but it feels like those two were the parts he was actually putting effort into yet mauler somehow made a 10 hour long series. Like wtf, how tf did he milk enough content to do so. Seriously, like mauler ignored quite a lot if not all of the reasons hbomberguy used when making the argument about life gems in particular so I still don't know how he's managed to stretch it so long while making it shorter by leaving out most of it

As the saying goes. It takes 3 seconds to throw dirt everywhere and 3 hours to clean it all up properly. It's one reason I tend to get very into long form content and analysis because not only is there discussion to be drawn out of the content at its center (Dark Souls 2), but there's a very thorough look into how presentation can also affect a message's reception.

That is literally what it was invented for. Originally, you were either alive or dead in old games. Then life bars became a thing to give you a chance even after you make a few mistakes

@@TheAssassin642 then moving into speed runs and such, it has been used as a buffer to make something that would be extremely difficult with a 1 hit kill to much easier with a buffer for the invincibility frames, and allow for skips and other shenanigans.

Coherent Ramblings haven’t even got to that yet but it hilarious 😂

health bar as mistake allowance is an idea hbomberguy alludes to at 7:57 in the video this is critiquing. It's not wrong, but this is also not an original observation. Not to say that Mauler intended it to be.

Paris Wood I don’t even play this game but the hours of arguments on it are hilarious the fact People still nitpicking things to gripe about is just funny and the hours upon hours I. Just this one series is a gauge of the compulsory nature behind these subjects it’s insane!

-Dark Souls 2 has the Frigid Outskirts -Dark Souls 3 has the Painted World of Ariandel

-In Offense of Dark Souls 2- In Defense of Dark Souls 3: ''Dark Souls 3 fixed a problem Dark Souls 2 presented with its Ancient Dragon bossfight. That boss was just a damage sponge which totally wasn't cool or smart, and DS3's response to it was brilliant: It created its own version of the Ancient Dragon called the Ancient Wyvern and made it an extremely similar fight, but in a genius twist it also gives the player the potential to traverse this epic and brilliantly designed pathway of majestic and unique enemies in order to take away all its health in a single blow by jumping at it and plunging into the dragon's head from above. I say that again; plunging into a dragon's head from above! Clearly the developers realised that DS2's way of handling this in comparison was just... a bit rubbish.'' This is basically how Harris would make In Defense of Dark Souls 3 if he had a boner for that game instead of Dark Souls 2.

Dark Souls 1 also fixed this issue, with some incredible foresight of over 3 years

git gud

@@SavageGreywolf git gud with some bitches man.

Interesting seeing you here.

touch grass

@@lvk6730 You first.

@@lvk6730 A wild stan in its natural habitat.

Amateur. I unironically use this as ASMR to fall asleep too almost every night. That or some giant StarCraft 2 RU-vidr.

@@bubbleboy2590 quit telling yourself hbomb is a character please, he is exactly like that across all social media and when he casually streams games.

@@gebill1885 character was the wrong word, more 'on-screen persona'

@@gebill1885 still, using hyperbole and then having someone explain that it's an exaggeration is pretty cringy.

This is far too well written to be a real youtube comment

Late Night Gaming yes his argument should have been that he can say that

A favorite saying of mine on that same line: It takes 10 seconds to throw mud at the wall and 10 minutes to properly clean it up. The response scales similarly huge in this instance

@@papershadow Love that saying.

You could easily use that logic to pull apart this video, the trick is to make it so long that no one who doesn’t already agree would bother watching it. Those already agree clearly being people who just want to hear Harris corrected or whatever. This shit is bizarre.

@@billiecruz4399 what did he get wrong?

@@richardslivingston He didn't say he got anything wrong, he's saying it's an echo chamber.

I love how honest he is. Rips it apart, but he does it with style and grace.

There are two options

Jonas Brock a)that’s a shit argument B) that’s not the argument Harris makes.

Nick Wow you sure showed him...

​@@littlemoth4956 Even if you disagree with the first proposition, the second one is undeniable.

@@patmos09 I kinda don't care lmao

Jackson Bowns in the DS universe, you don’t die for the Emperor, this sucks the fun out of attrition. (If you can even die, that is. Can you imagine not being able to die for the Emperor ? The horror...)

Did someone say 'Die for the Emperor'?

I am expendable A tool for his plans

@@BrainlessMonke *paints Black Templar insignia on body and grabs a sword* I do believe someone did...

@@xarshoon7157 To kill as is needed and die as He demands

January 1st 2022 here. This is still one of his best video series ever made.

@@ori.g4mi Yeah, but Hbomberguy's videos are just... better, tbh.

@@loturzelrestaurant that's just your opinion.

@@loturzelrestaurant yeah......no

@@stormcutter59 Compare Subs, honey. Compare Subs. He has more Likes and Subs thanks to his Dark Souls video, so yeah: OBJECTIVELY spokeaing (like adults sometimes do) one is better than the other.

arent we all afraid to admit it?

No shame, I have listened more then three times and still not bored

I’ve listened to some over 20 times lol, when I g to bee

It helps me sleep. I mean that in the best way possible though 😁

Like plenty of butter spread over warm soft bread

And he called hbomberguy narrow minded like 2 minutes before

@@mikehunt4023 r/woosh

Fr that killed me. I love this man

@@mikehunt4023 It's a joke

@@matarthegreat803 shut up redditor

I wonder how many more times will he pull the "I was only PRETENDING to be retarded!" shtick.

Big Boy Dan Cannon What's wrong with being a leftie? Being correct?

Salokin Funny

Big Boy Dan Cannon remember, he's an Sjew

Big Boy Dan Cannon, simply no. Hbomberguy has made many absolutely fantastic, entertaining, funny and well reasoned videos, as well as many lacking in all of those aspects. It is genuinelly somewhat puzzling to me how does he manage to be so utterly inconsistent in his reasoning, he can make a meticuous point, followed by an utter, unsubstantiated fallacy. Kinda like the difference between his video on Fallout 3 and DS2. One features all of his qualities, while the latter virtually none.

god damn, man never killed a firekeeper before huh

@@tolman4497 there are like 3 Firekeeper souls you can find before O&S. Blight town, New Londo, and Undead Perish. By then you'll be healing double the amount the base estus heals

he was also naked, and showed off having a +2 estus in another part of the video. It was probably a challenge run.

@I why the hostility, jesus

@I here i am speaking the truth, you can cope with it

How many times are you up to?

Only the 58th time

I feel like I can't like this comment because you have 178 likes and it feels wrong to ruin that. So I'll just do this: 👍 Edit: Also same Edit 2: It is about 9 months later and I found this while doom scrolling the newest comments. I have no idea how my obvious reply to a comment showed up down here. But I assume it means the original comment was taken down? Either way, I have no idea why I didn't want to press like and bump it up to 179 and it seems no one will know. Conclusion: RU-vid is dumb.

Amen I miss old mauler

After some quick math, counting the 10 or so runs before making this comment, and at an average of 2 to 3 times a month SINCE making this comment, and counting this new run, I'm at about 101 times... I am aware I have a problem and I am not getting help. @@bob1422

Literally what i said same thing with hbomber but I think he was joking mostly it wasn't a legit argument with 90% of every thing he said lol

@@MrRifleguy1 I'm not even sure if you replied to right comment (mine?), but let me say this: Harris is being hyperbolic, smug, inconsistent and is trying to appeal to emotion, among other things. Here's the problem tho: It could all be for comedic purpose alone, with him not really being convinced of the claims he's making, but it's also very possible that he is just using humor to make his side of the argument more appealing (this unfortunately happens a lot in debates, when one of the sides is arguing dishonestly). In any case, Mauler's argument stands either way, whether or not Harris was being sincere.

Your right different comment but, maulers videos (all of them lol) dissecting of hbomberguys in defence of dark souls 2 are really just something else truly, bringing light to what it is to be a critic I couldn't do it. But when you look at hbomberguy and some of his other videos there actually really good and when he has an argument it can be backed up fairly well. But in this video in defence of dark souls 2. It's different like his seriousness is gone in this video completely. like it's more for views or even to get someone else's to make a critique video off his video. Like he maid arguments that maid no sense they were one sided and when you watch it your like listin here dude your dumb what you just said makes no sense and its wrong dumb ass. You know? But I loved this measured response seires and think all of its valid lol I I didn't think it was id say but that wasn't my point any way brotherhave a good night or where ever you are

@@MrRifleguy1 Yeah, he (hbomberguy) can be more of a logical and rational thinker, as you and Mauler pointed out. This however, combined with the smug attitude and the misrepresentation of Matthews' (?) original video or argument, is what makes it so infuriating. We know he can do better, yet for whatever reason he doesn't here. So I agree completely with you. As to Mauler's critique, I very much welcome this long form exercise in critical thinking. It's something that doesn't get enough attention or doesn't seem to have the value it should have. So it's great that these videos exist so ppl that didn't learn or even had the chance to yet, can experience, evaluate and learn through a video series that probably was mostly envisioned as being entertainment from the viewers side. Everyone should study logical fallacies and argumentation; learn about straw-maning, emotional appeals, ad-hominums and cherry-picking! ... And it was more like a good morning for me ;)

5th time? I wish it were only the 5th 🥴

Why would you expect that? He's a smug lefty.

He has never been receptive to actual critique. Just like most arrogant reviews that got bloated from one hit where they actually tried for once.

Unfortunately a lot of people that like to frame themselves as intellectuals who like to critique and debate things do not have pure motives. They like to criticise because putting things down is fun, and having people listen to your opinion is fun. But he does not care about the truth.

@@someguywhocanfly like this comment section?

the irony of this comment

God yes

And fume knight greatsword.

LIGHTNING

Well that and the fist weapon that lets you kamehameha a force blast. That thing was fun to dick around with on the Iron Keep bridge back when PVP was fresh.

@Yogurt cuss sure...but have you *played the game?*

didn't think I see you here welcome fellow wakandan

Short King sneaking in!

Hello there SomeEwok

This is all the proof I need to know this video is a joke lol

@@marciamakesmusic "This video is bad because a certain person likes it."

Soye'kin The Hideaway idk why you wouldn’t expect a RU-vidr to attack a bigger RU-vidr in attempt of views and subs, and we fall for it.

@@bizzzzzzle I think it's a bit cynical and accusatory to assume this was done "in attempt of views and subs, and we fall for it" as if the video itself is disingenuous or in bad faith. The fact is, HBomb is a fairly large channel, lots of people view his content. Law of averages makes it inevitable that people would respond to it in various ways, especially in this case where MauLer both has a clear passion for the subject matter of Dark Souls and takes issue with the subpar argumentation/presentation by a content creator he tends to like. Obviously those factors contribute to its traction/traffic, but there's little to suggest this was an "attack" for the sake of quickly growing the channel, rather than the natural result of someone having a response to someone with a larger following that may be interested in similar aspects of the two's content. I'm not even sure how much I'd say this was made in pursuit of views (as if fitting to a formula over contributing to the discussion first) rather than content for an existing audience that grew because they liked it. The extremely long form presentation of the content going point by point is interesting if you dedicate time to watch, but it's also not something one can casually sit down and watch. People joke about "Long Man Bad" when critics deflect from discussion with the length, but I do think it fair to say the length might put people off from viewing the content if just casually looking for video essay content. The series would have probably been 1/5th of its current length if it was made for the purpose of clicks first and informing/presenting second.

papershadow69 papershadow69 You not including the timing of its release and its description calling him out. Also, I can be cynical and accusatory and be correct. I replied to someone who was surprised, and I dont understand why he would be. Smaller channels do this all the time. His was done well and blew up, but doesn’t change that it was riding on a bandwagon.

@@bizzzzzzle He blew up due to Star Wars, not these series of videos

@@papershadow this video was made not to long after Idubbz Content Cop brought down LeafyisHere, another RU-vid David vs Goliath story. I find Mauler’s 10 hour long a droll to be an attempt at replicating this while also attracting people who think bigger equals better.

a year or so late. If its about HBomberguys comment on the way DS1 and 2 handle healing the point he made was that DS2 healings takes long, but its just SHORT enough that you think you may get away with it, leading to a lot of "death during healing" situations(or Healed but get instantly hit loosing most of their health again) While DS2s Estus is so much slower(especialy at lower AGI) that it often is not even remotly realistic to heal using it in combat, and it also dosnt heal instantly but over a short period of time, making "heal trading" impossible in DS2(as in, you heal, get hit, and you still healed, even if you lost most health again) Its 2 different types of slow.

​​@@weberman173also, even though using gems takes about the same time to use as an estus flask, they don't root you in place while doing so, it's actually easier to heal in battle without dying, but they now require you to avoid damage in between the time the gem heals you

@@weberman173So basically DS1 has an intricate system wherein you have to plan your heals, while DS2 has a completely pointless feature that has no reason to exist and no viability

@@littlemoth4956 what? They are booth intricate systems, just in different aspects. in DS1 healing is instant, but the action takes time. in DS2 healing takes time but the Action is (oftentimes) faster itself. In booth systems you have to plan your heals, in DS1 however you only need to plan the action itself, while in DS2 you have to plan the action AND the time it takes for the heal to heal you away from lethal. Booth require you to do in moment decision making.

Yes, clout chasing is a wonderful thing and Mauler is good at it.

@@azraphon Painfully low effort criticism lol

@@uberdjura4003 that would require it actually being criticism and not a random baseless accusation lol

@@mechamahou8467 true

@@mechamahou8467 If we're being honest, calling somebody a clout-chaser has become the equivalent of calling somebody a meany doo-doo head, so I would lean towards calling it a low-effort criticism. Can you imagine how much better youtube would be if detailed breakdowns and refined argumentation were the best way to gain "clout"? Seriously.

I dunno, MauLer was very careful to only point out the faults in his arguments and fallacious manner in which he presents them.

Hbomb is criticizing people for wasting their time, even though he makes multi-hour-long movies about how he doesn't like a piece of media?

>hbomberguy makes a bad video about a game that's over an hour long >someone makes a great video about the same game and they're essentially a gamer nerd I can't stand that dude tbh, the more time I spend on RU-vid the more I start to hate egotistical people.

same as you Billy. It's not that I want to say his audience to stop watching him, but I can't honestly see what the people see in him.. he seems just so full of himself at times and it is really irritating to listen to him prattle on about how much he's right, even though he comes across as exactly the same kind of person as the strawman he's creating of other people, really, no different at all from any of his constructions, because he's no authority, I wouldn't even be surprised if he's read even a single book on game design from what he's saying because nothing he has said made any sense to me. predicative gameplay? the fuck does that mean? a developer made a game that is made to be experienced one way. Mate. Many game developers have done the complete opposite to that idea and it is an idea in a gamer's mind that is generally painted it as a lazy, hackneyed job, the kind that is most predominant in games that are adaptations of movies and even then not always, like in the case of one of my liked movie games Lotr Return of the King, or Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone, but just generally. So really, this is at best a non-argument painting itself as objective fact and being the best kind, according to HBomber. It's not that this sort of gameplay isn't viable, but painting it as the best is so disingenuous that I can't believe his audience isn't combating it, when gaming has come such a long way and done so many amazing things along the way. In fact, Dark Souls 1, like any previous generation of games before it is a great example of the contrary and how much people enjoyed that more, because you weren't hogtied to its predicative gameplay and the exact point to point same, was for Demon's Souls. Even Devil May Cry did that long before these ones. Note, being linear or non-linear has literally nothing to do with this, we're talking about gameplay and how the developers expect players to tackle situations/problems presented in the game, ie, enemies/bosses/precarious environment, etc. In a shorter sentence, there is a saying in game designing. You first create the toys, then the game. To me, DS 2 feels like it was too busy creating the game before the toys and that's the thing I don't get with it, because its toys feel clunky to control and for a game that came after the one that felt consistent and only constrained by design, that felt like a big step back. That's how HBomberGuy isn't wrong with what he's saying, but I'd argue it's the wrong way to create good games, because I first of all want a toy that feels and controls satisfyingly, way before I get wrapped up in its rules, because if I'm not convinced by the toy that I should play this game, why would I care about the game's rules? the same goes for people who didn't like DS1, but that's adhering to an argument of people who come from Real Time Strategy games, or Date simulators, or City building simulators, basically any gamer and walk of life, it's not the same as saying that people of the Souls' series came to one of its sequels and didn't find it satisfying to play. DS 1 has some form of what some would see as predicative gameplay too if one wants to look at it that way, in the sense of how the gameplay is designed to be slower and more methodical, which I would argue is more how the game was thought out to work and that being the way it is isn't so much predicative, because it can't be, it's just the only way it works. You can't for instance, make the game run faster like Devil May Cry does, because it's literally impossible, the game was built with that one speed. Where as the gameplay itself is concerned around how the toy functions, finding unique solutions to situations and problems is actively encouraged by the game's internal logic of allowing mistakes in player's choices, as well as the rolling mechanic avoiding almost all damage. basically, just one point that is a major point of contention in just that one sentence HBomberGuy talks about, but the way he talks about it is as if it's a mutually agreed principle that is uncontested. If he had something deeper to say, I think he would've defended his arguments further and better explained himself, but he hasn't so far and his only response to Mauler here seems to be, "Lol, TL:DR".. Yeah.. That's basically how you know I will not take him seriously, ever.

toxic Itzi Totally agree with you, solid points you raise! Yeah Hbomberguy is the quintessential example of someone who thinks they know everything because their ego and fame has got to them. None of his videos present any insterestung takes on debates, he just churns out easy strawmen, the completely obvious or uneducated waffle. He only gets away with it because of his delivery

thats in comparison to life gems or moongrass, which are comparably abundant; humanities are not finite, but farming them is slow and tedious

Imagine if you only had 25 estus flasks, that didn't recharge at a bonfire. At the very least you would play the game like they were rare.

​@@liamwebster6528 If humanities were the only healing item in the game then sure I'd consider that rare. Instead we have Estus which means any additional healing items are just extras to use in a pinch. Point is, just because a healing item is "rare" doesn't mean you're right to not consider it a healing item, especially when it fully heals you no matter what.

@@TalkingSandvich nah not in ds1. If you had SOA 10 humanity and gold serpent ring you could go to the depths and farm 30 in 20 mins

@@liamwebster6528 I pop humanities when I run out of Estus lol, they aren't rare.

And so shall I begin mine.

Inquisitor M *DRAMTIC MUSIC*

Inquisitor M Just like him and "SJews?" Nuh-uh!

I want to like your comment but it's at 555

@@Leotheleprachaun now you can

^ This dude gave up playing ds 2 since he got stuck on a boss Too bad

@@powwow1645 what?

@@powwow1645 If you're talking about Dank Music, it's just a bunch of music that I've liked over the years. I havent gone through and cleaned it up in awhile. The Stormlight Archive Soundtrack is not actually my playlist. I just transferred it over from Spotify, where Brandon Sanderson has it.

@@powwow1645 I tend to get into and out of various genres of music. Like right now, I am listening to the "Of Beauty and Rage" album by Christian Metal band 'Red'

I see Thats interesting I'll give it a try, thanks. : )

Huh?

@@littlemoth4956 It's a joke

Imagine my shock

Well, shock my imagine.

That’s not at all what they were tho

@Hi How Are You? no fuck off

Funny enough, that is everyone's argument that thinks consumables are an issue in general. They choose to use the items, then claim that said optional usage ruins the balance of a game, even though they could just choose not to use them.

Criticism should be short and concise, and certainly not multitudes longer than what you’re criticizing. It’s beyond pedantic, extremely anal, and makes it a hundred times more obtuse to counter any of his points.

@@Slender_Man_186 but it's a criticism of a criticism, conciseness when it's not a debate in real time is impossible. It requires even more context and thus substantiation. Most of the run time is dedicated to fully explaining the context of an argument, analyze what the argument most likely means and to what purpose it serves, and then finally refute it along with evidence. Saying it's pedantic is intellectually dishonest, he's giving a holistic view, which is as good faith and comprehensive as it gets.

@@Slender_Man_186 every single statement you stated is factually incorrect . Criticism can be concise, or it can be large. The rest of your statements are incoherent insulting, so I will leave it at this: your arguments are not valid.

@@Slender_Man_186 For somebody of your attention span, perhaps

Oh my goodness, they deleted their comment. You guys proved them wrong that hard.

CaptainThunderWolf based

It’s a basic ad-hominem attack, I know strawmen and ad homs are thrown around a lot on the internet but this really is an ad-hom in its purest form. Can’t refute the arguments MauLer makes? Longman bad

well... there is such thing as being a pedant

Anon Johnson Yeah, but it’s not a question of length then, but of unnecessary length, which Mauler doesn’t have.

@@nathanjora7627 that's exactly what being a pedant is, and something Mauler definitely does

You mean the covenant that is absolutely essential for anyone that actually wants the opportunity to mess up a few times and not be eternally punished for it when the game strips you of enemies to kill in order to gain exp?

@@scotcheggable Wait, what?! That's the benefit? Didn't fucking know that...

@@scotcheggable You have to kill enemies something like 10+ times before they stop re-spawning. You have to mess up A LOT OF TIMES if you run out of enemies to kill and can't collect any souls.

​@@scotcheggable Dark souls was never meant to be a game where you farm for hours and hours to get your character stronger to face the next boss. And even for the incredibly tiny portion of the player base who does that I don't think it's unreasonable for the enemies to be slightly stronger after you join the covenant as a result.

@@harrygarris6921 I actually enjoy my clear Drangleic runs. It's a meditative thing, it chills me out a lot to methodically erase every enemy from the game, while becoming extremely OP. I love this about DS2, the fact you can actually affect the world. Run around, making the world safe, lighting every sconce, disabling every trap, opening every shortcut. I find it very wholesome.

Same Let's take on the journey once more

@@uglypineapple03 I also decided to do the Mauler DS2 run. I've had 99 lifegems most of the game. It's been the EASIEST run I've ever done in DS2, and I have Scholar. Also with this series playing in the background

His argument was more that the addition of other healing items gave the act of healing a little more of a tactical edge to it

He fucking explains that whole point, did you even watch the video

To be fair, I think Hbomb has a reasonable premise in that adding another option for healing tactics with the Life Gems can make the game more fun, or at least add more ways to play which means more ways people can find fun in it. The problem is the conclusion that they are an objective improvement to the game's healing system that definitively makes the game "more fun" to play, rather than a neat idea clumsily used. In the case of life gems, the idea seems fair enough in that you have quicker but more gradual healing options with the regen, to the point they can function in ways Estus cannot, but they work too fast and are too plentiful to be an alternative with its own drawbacks as opposed to being an outright better option that makes the game easier when used for healing by the majority of playstyles. Like, say hypothetically they popped faster than Estus but regenerated at a slow enough rate (no stacking) that most hits would outpace it. Then compared to Estus, which can restore most of your health if you find one fairly long (in terms of a DS combat instance) gap to use it, Lifegems can be popped more easily but require you to know the enemy well enough to spread your mistakes out and give the regen time to work. Estus could undo 3-4 hits in succession as long as you find an opportunity (say 1.5s) to consume it safely after and return you to full/neutral; a Lifegem might only survive if you only take 1 hit every 5-10 seconds instead, but in exchange it only takes half a second to pop one and thus might be easier to get a chance at than Estus. The problem is that Hbomb is arguing in defense of DS2 as the game we got, rather than discussing good ideas it had with or without flaws in implementation. Lifegems are an idea that can indeed add options/depth to the healing system on paper, but in practice are too easily available and spammed to work as an equal option, which makes it a mechanical weakness in the DS2 we got.

Yes, it's true. This man has no dick.

Yes and that sorta thing is throughout his 80 minute video

@Vasyanka Are you seriously going around as many threads as you can, spewing unsubstantiated claims on comments poster several months ago? I mean Jesus dude, get a life.

@Vasyanka Got any sources on that? Lmfao He's never advocated for this.

@Vasyanka "Got any sources on that?" Well, do you? I don't really care otherwise. And thank you, I will. I happen to like weiners.

@Jordan Ghill You should go watch his video on virtue signaling, I'm sure you'd LOVE it

@Jordan Ghill I just find it funny he has a video addressing exactly what you're calling him. You'd actually probably hate it.

I Lost the count. I dont know how many times i run this and why. Iam hollowing...

As someone who likes DS2 a lot, I think hbomb's defense of DS2 is really shitty. Joseph Anderson's arguments had more weight to them. A lot of hbomb's arguments are very questionable. He chooses to ignore some of DS2's greatest strengths, like build diversity and balancing, in favor of arguing that dudes in armor x 1000 with 3-hit tracking swings is amazing design. He strikes me as being overly confrontational and unwilling to budge on anything. DS2 isn't a perfect game, any more than DS1 was. DS1 had a massively shit and unfinished back end.

I mean Mitch L made a video about it, but he backtracked some of his statements later.

And another subscriber.

No one bothered to reply to his 'argument' because it was clearly an opinion piece.

Balogna you seem mad, homie

You should watch jack saint.

@@atticuspappin2504 Why so?

@@VladDascaliuc I hope that man is trolling

What a surprise someone who's played a game alot knows how to stock up on some of the rare resource.

@@oliverp3545 It's not rare. Humanity is a resource whose scarcity is entirely based on whether the player is willing to go to the locations where it drops. The rats in the Depths drop them frequently, and using humanity increases your item discovery rate. Using 10 humanity (something that is easy to do since the game just gives you like 20 by the time you reach the Depths) gives you a 4.1 times increase to item discovery chance so long as you maintain that soft humanity counter, which applies to future humanity drops. There are literal trash items like "rubbish" that are harder to accumulate than humanity is.

are you dumb he has that many humanities because he didnt use any as they are very rare if he were to use them when he was low hp he wouldnt have any left

@@candanaci9258 yeah, they're SUPER rare. You only get at least one from every single area, start with 5, have several enemies that drop it frequently, have a few merchants that sell stacks, and earn some passively by killing enemies. Such a rare resource.

@@Punkandcannonballer The ones you get passively cannot be used to heal though. But nitpicking aside, I agree with you. They're not rare.

I love DS2. Ds1 is great for a first playthrough but the 2nd half is meh, and DS3 is boring. DS2 is the best mechanically and it has the most content.

Dark Souls 3 is Castles cathedrals and swamps: the game, and you call DS2 boring? The linearity of the world makes it a chore to play through the game more than 3 times, dual wielding is barely there outside of dual weapons, which isn't enough to replace the flexibility of powerstancing. Bonfire ascetics being gone mean you can't re-fight any boss you want without having to make a new character or go into NG+. Speaking of, NG+ in DS3 sucks compared to DS2s. There's barely any variations in weapon movesets, and before you say anything about weapon arts, they're as copy/paste as any other thing. Almost every SS has stance, almost every great hammer/mace has perseverance, etc. There's more i could sat but this argument has been going on for years and i'm kinda tired of it.

Development time doesn't determine the quality of a game. Look at fallout NV, it had like a fifth of the dev time of any 3d fallout and it ended up being the best one.+

Which, thank god for that.

Really? I haven't heard about that.

Some moments still make me very uncomfortable... or they would, if I still had much respect left for Hb... But that's just because I'm wildly overly empathetic... It makes me exceptional at knowing what's right and wrong (if I can say so myself) but ZERO idea how to explain why. But that's why I've watched this entire series an unprecedented amount of times, lol. It's honestly helped me SO MUCH in learning how to put my arguements into words. Just like you said... fair, but brutal. Respectful, but piercing. But no, the empathy thing is a curse. I feel cursed. lmao

@@meddle333 I don't think enough people actually have a good amount of empathy. It might make it difficult to be direct and pointing out people's flaws. But having a heart and actually trying to do the right thing will hopefully get you where you need to be in life. So whether it's a curse or a blessing it's all dependent on your perspective.

Hbomber shouldn't have a channel. He's garbage

This almost motivated me enough to make a video actually defending it properly. Almost, but mauler did a fantastic job. Harris's defense is abysmal and is clearly ego driven.

Anthony Bowden “make him look snobbish” have you even watched 3 minutes of maulers video? Being a pretentious snob is his quintessential character trait. He fucking reeks of it

FatalxWolfsgrin “is clearly ego driven” god the Level of tunnel vision. Again, HAVE YOU WATCHED MAULERS VIDOES!? The dude makes Harris look humble by how fucking narcissistic he is

@@znightowlz6585 How is MauLer a narcissist and a snob?

@@markhirsch6301 he isnt but when a person has no ground to stand on they end up taking every swing they can.

Im currently on my 8th or 9th go right now so few well made videos nowadays. Just have to come back and get the fix

This along with his SW critiques are among my favourite content on RU-vid. Also used it to fall asleep, which is nice. It is entertaining and relaxing at the same time, thanks to his voice and style of narration.

I'm here for you mate! :D

Will the 4th be in two days ?

@@SirBigWater it will be now 👌😤

@@Marines_Memelevolent Begin the fifth odyssey. The rift calls.

@@ColmanRetro The time has come. December 31st, 2022. May I see all of you at the end of this road once more.

y the pasta?

The showing, the burial, and the afterparty.

this video series has make me question my sexuality i never knew i could get so much pleasure from watching a guy destroy another guys ass and for 9 hour no less

@@marlonyo 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Mauler Ethering Him.

well hopefully he could actually get to the arguments. i'm still waiting.

same lol

Agreed.

Hey dude! So when i'm considering making a video (series) there are three big considerations; First, I need to be passionate about the subject. I need the fire to pursue all of the sources that will make the video strong, it will pretty much guarantee that I will create my best work. my videos will be so much better if I have a personal investment because I will be hell bent on creating the video I would want to see as a strong fan or detractor of the content. The video should then be better than it would be had I just made it randomly. Secondly, it needs to be relevant. This means that I need to have something to say, that (as far as I am aware) nobody else has said yet or at least not in the method of presenting it that I employ. That, combined with the idea that nobody has done the job better already, for example, Ahoy has created a Quake analysis that was fantastic and despite my love for Quake, I don't think I could make a better video, and so wont. Thirdly, I need to be able to create a strong plan. For example, I knew that I could tackle this video by playing the game several times with specific requirements that he laid out in his sections to get the information I needed. While doing that, I planned to collect every last criticism and praise I could find as a byproduct. I talked to those who loved the game, checked out positive reviews and videos, had 5 friend play through it so I could collect more and more and more information. So overall, look at Mass Effect. I don't care about it at all, I have never played it and I have no idea what the game offers. I have no idea if the most pressing things about Mass Effect have been said already, and it isn't something I could find out unless I pushed myself to go and look but I have literally no reference and on top of that, I don't know if there is third party content I would need to absorb and I don't have any reference for how long the games are and how much you should replay them, I simply wasn't there for Mass Effect in it's time. Basically, it would be a mess, and I know it would be. So, even if everyone wanted it, I would have to avoid the topic. With this series however; I am a rather big fan of Hbomberguy. Having seen all of his videos, I know and enjoy his content, I know how and why he makes it and I have a strong sense of how he slips up. I know the subject extremely well, I play Dark Souls for fun these days, it's a game I chill out with and I know a lot of the inside commentary about the game and how everything went down with it over time as a series. I know what people have as the biggest issues and what made people including myself so passionate about the games, and why everything went down the way it did with Dark Souls 2. On top of that, I could immediately see a long and productive plan to find all of the sources I would need for the project and the fire was absolutely there because this is someone I really enjoy, doing a poor job pushing something up that is down and pushing something down that is up (to be deliberately vague). So, I knew I could make this right, and that is the process for all of my series'. It doesn't mean I wont make mistakes, I absolutely will but hopefully, I will make less than the average content creator with the time that I take. Sorry for the super long comment but I wanted you to have a worth while response. o/

This is why I love your videos MauLer. You go in-depth to explain your points clearly even in the comments

MCFPapa has come in the

And now we see this exact thing done in Sekiro with Pellets and the Rice items. Miyazaki magic lol

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It is not "wrong", elitistic brits. Variation in language is a thing. That exists and that kind of statement is what many people who deal with the area dread and hate. You are saying something is right when it is just different. People say it differently officially somewhere else, does that make it wrong?

Asdercol For the part of the world HGuy is from, it is incorrect. I am saying using a different spelling is incorrect unless you are in a place that spells it like that. HGuy is not.

It's not incorrect. It's right. Get gud at regional dialects.

Sam Rhodes There is no region in Britain where that spelling is used though,

Nice

That is not an argument. The United States were originally the colonies of the United Kingdom. Mauler is from the UK, he is using terms from the history of his country. The fact that UK colonies eventually became independent does not stand in conflict with the fact that they were UK colonies in the past.

@@mq9demo dude it’s a joke

@@Frog_Wizard801 Right. A bad one as it roughly references a past event which doesn't change the fact that the US land was UK colonies before.

@@mq9demo Chill.

Gasp! A nuanced opinion on ds2?! I don't believe it

Holy shit a rational ds2 fan. That’s wild.

Harris has always been a pseud, I don't see why you're so dumbfounded

It restores you sanity after you've read a lot of stupid and dub comments in defence of DkSII

Australian reporting for duty and seconding your message.

"Be proud you made an American spit his drink laughing because my American spit is worth more than any other country's cuz America #1"

@@ChangeUrAtOnYT.comSlashHandle huh?!!!

@@terrarianangel8274 Rephrasing: I was quoting that person as if I was typing what he *really* meant to say. Like, who would say "be proud" as if it is this grand achievement to make him, an *American*, exaggeratedly do an involuntary spit-take. I only say this cuz there's a running joke on the internet that Americans think they shit diamonds and piss liquid gold. I guess irl they also think themselves superior to other countries cuz they are American citizens.

@@ChangeUrAtOnYT.comSlashHandle Ew. Go back to watching Hasan.

Almost a 3rd of hbg’s

Dude just looks and sounds like such a prick.

@@markanxrath1369 Among other things but I don't want to get banned.

@@charlie1234500 lmao yea

Watched his Fallout 3 Video...It's bad. It's just bad.

@@charlie1234500 what

I'm not so sure about the ng+ adding enemies being wholly good. I like it but when you go into the lost sinner fight and have two pyromancers that must be hit with ranged attacks, is that good? I never touched a bow in my first completion of the game and ignored casting entirely. Once I got there it was a huge issue for me. Plus, all the extra enemies do is remind me of the original enemy placement of ds2 and that they just added alot of those placements back in in some areas, such as the cardinal tower. Lazy.

When you say "objectively better", you actually mean "I liked it better", which is... wait for it... subjective.

The enemy placement is BULLSHIT, iron keep for example. Fuck that place I don't need 70 alonne knights on my ass at all times

Poise in dark souls 3 can still be an overpowering weapon. Pair some moderately heavy armor or heavier with a poise weapon art (i.e. black knights sword - incredibly unbalanced weapon by the way) and you can poise through and get two or three free hits on an enemy regardless of their weapon used. I helped a friend test that exact style of build with my strength build and he could easily poise through every single attack in the game.

austin winn fuckin heide knights that make getting to you old dragonslayer almost impossible after killing dragonrider

can you fucking spell!?

@Switch Stance im not much of a fan of neither mauler nor hbomb anymore, but yea my pfp is furry, you should make yours one too:)

Same

Amateur

@@SatoruwaFeng lmao

But; were you bored tho?

The sycophants of Hbomb's channel coping so hard with almost any comment that has any likes and here I am again watching this as a critique of Dark Souls 2, itself, rather than a critique of a shitty video and I'm learning even more why I don't like Dark Souls 2 as a game and why its systems either suck or is inferior to not just Souls games but video games in general.

That's uh... one of the things mentioned in the hbomberguy video. He talks about how DS2 more accurately conveys that in comparison to DS1 with even longer animations.

@@thebonelessboy7204 ... It was still taught in DS1, even more so with the lack of almost any other healing item, and that it's an animation attached. This isn't unique or better in any of the game, though I know personally it was frustrating that it was so slow in DS2 until I figured out the magical formula to fix it was higher adaptability.

@@thebonelessboy7204 Was the “uh…” necessary in conveying the message or are you just trying to come off like a smug prick?

​@@thebonelessboy7204 it also handicaps that thought process by giving you tons of effigies and lifegems. Down to the endgame I always carried over 50 lifegems and barely felt the same fear and tension ds 1 gave me since estus and humanity is all I had, the later of which was used in many mom combat moments.

By stating the truth?

@@Matt-km7yk don't get me wrong, Internet Historian is in the wrong for stealing that article for his script, thats not up for debate. but it was completely unnecessary for Herris to attack IH's character by pointing at IH's video history out of context, such as implying he was a tucker carlson fanboy, or that his dashcon video was about "attacking SJWs" and not about how a home-grown con was entertainingly destroyed by a perfect storm of bad actors. Herris has a tendency to poison the well whenever talking about other content creators, a trait he has not grown out of as this video series proves.

@@Matt-km7yk Just providing voice over and animating that article is already transformative btw. Obviously it would have been better if he credited immediately but he quickly did after the initial upload and then 6 months later hbomberguy brings up a completely resolved conflict and slanders IH from tenuous or false accusations.

@randomname9723 by that logic it's impossible to plagiarise provided you change the format? He copied someone's work, never provided credit or acknowledged he did it, and simply changed the video when pressured to do so.

@@Matt-km7yk that is an interesting topic that Harris didn't bring up in the video, the argument of fair use and transformative work. however i do agree with you that credit was one of the more important, damning aspects for IH. fair use is a very tricky subject that tends to be weighed in favor of the copyright holder, by definition its nearly impossible to have something be fully transformative, so you are almost always at the mercy of the holder if you use their work (using anime clips in a video reviewing it, for example). one of the biggest mysteries will be why the hell IH didn't site the article, because at this time we really still don't know enough from IH's side.