The reason IGN stopped making the jokes isn't "being bullied" that completely misses what happened to the games journalism as a whole at the time. Games journalism as a whole come 2016 was dying, in large part because completely disconnected from many of the writers the corporate interest had been exchanging good reviews for early access and money for a long time and gamers had caught on. The change happens around 2013 with GamerGate, what was about the ethical issue by 2014 had become entirely cultural in nature (much to the distaste of those on the GG side who wanted to focus on ethics). So many games journalism businesses started to change culturally to take their side in this conflict, this means any funny "awooga awooga sexy character" jokes were effectively excised on ground of "being sexist". We even saw articles proclaiming that "Gamers don't have to be your audience" which flies in the direct face of the gaming industry because who else plays games if not gamers? The lack of jokes isn't because they were afraid of being bullied, it's because the culture in the industry had shifted and there was (still is) a fear of making a joke which can be perceived as being some kind of "-ist". The reason you don't see the soul of newer stuff is because it has been sucked out, anything someone can say which might be funny could just as easily find them blacklisted from the industry entirely so why ever risk making a joke?
It's so sweet of Lennys mum to act all oblivious when she's there, but afterwards, she goes home, boots up her IGN cheeseburger mage and carry her son through the game, top shelf parenting right there.
I had to look up the full song just to see how impressive this was... 8 minutes of button spam is insane. I totally thought he wasn't going to be able to do it
@@ThePod90either he was already good at it or man is super cracked. I've played clone hero specifically for years now and I'm not half bad at it, but I can't consistently hit some of the patterns he did. Like, actual, serious respect if he just learned that from scratch.
IGN Cheezburger returning home as soon as he saw the Sulyvahns beasts was actually fantastic. Wouldve been so easy to make the most of his moment getting to co op with Lenny and fight as much as possible, but he committed to the moment
Except it's not to just farm back 20k souls. It's so that literally every future enemy drops more souls. By far the most efficient way to play the game.
I think you guys failed to understand the Silver Covetus ring. When they say you get your 20K souls back quickly because of it, they don't mean you only get that many back. You get the 20K back and then continue to get 20% extra souls every time they drop. By the end of the game, you will have gotten millions of extra souls for that 20K investment early in the game.
That Dancer strat completely blew me out of the water. I played this game from day one and I have never seen that before. Crazy how the IGN guys found it
Ladies and gentlemen It was a ride full of it floats down , gamer ranks and cat memes, but everything comes to an end The dark souls IGN guide was a true masterpiece that shows how textbook guides can still have some soul in them
So, the DS3 guide involves a lot of the same stuff from DS1, but everything hits a bit weaker, you can see the light of the golden age fading in real time, and you just know it's not any one person's fault? Damn, that's powerful.
As a guides writer myself, not from IGN, but I miss the days when Google SEO didn't dictate what we write. This series has been a hoot to see what the old days were like.
@@silentkhaos1176 "Search Engine Optimization", also called "The Algorithm" by a lot of people, basically the internet's "meta" at the moment. Writing not necessarily in ways that satisfy your creativity but instead in ways that are more likely to pop up in someone's search bar or recommended or whatever they're using to find things online.
@@silentkhaos1176 Search engine optimization, ie. using specific keywords/phrases, backlinking, and other best practices to appear organically in google searches, presumably with the intent of increasing organic traffic and, therefore, ad revenue. In other words, the point of writing the guide is no longer to be helpful, funny, and wholesome. It's to get clicks and eyeballs.
Yes, everyone beats it on day one in nine hours and if you do not we the "ELITE MASTER GAMERS".. will make you look like trash. It so so funny that the ones making fun of others did NOT COMPLETE DARKS SOULS WITHOUT HELP OR CHEESE!!
I can't help but absolutely love this guide in particular, it is such a beautiful time capsule to what gaming and the culture around it was like in 2016, just before the edgy bubble burst and we were experiencing the last dying breath of "lol XD Randum = Funny"
I don't think Game culture was like this at all in 2016 outside of socially inept teens, back when DS1 released sure may have been but I just think the guide writer didn't get the memo, if it wasn't intentinally like this.
As far as I'm concerned "lol xD random" is still funny, and will always be funny, because the world is trying to forget it, but cringe never dies, and until I do, I will continue to use that fact to get my own personal kicks. In my opinion, cringe is the most wonderful humor in the world. For socially inept autistic f*ckers like myself, who ABSOLUTELY HATE the dynamic and never-lasting nature of what people in the world consider "funny" my ability to throw stupid sh!t people totally thought was funny 8 years ago in their faces and watch then die inside is literally one of the greatest pleasures in my life.
Lenny..... I have never seen any of your videos before, or heard your name. This is the first one I watched. I have not yet seen any others and I have no idea what's waiting for me there (i supposed more of similar or better quality stuff :D), but just this one earned you an instant sub and Twitch follow. It's a masterpiece. The amount of perfectly tuned humour, the amazing editing, the actual Fifa, Guitar hero and mom guest presence... Holy crap man, I have not seen any piece of content this great, polished and entertaining in a LONG while. I do realize a bit of that in this case comes just from how good of an idea doing the game along an IGN guide is, but you're an absolutely amazing content creator. Keep it up!
I love the video but I just want to point out how good of an entertainer Lenny is. It's really impressive how he can stay so energetic and it's really infectious.
31:30 If i had to guess, its BECAUSE of the Pestilent Mist that they didnt realize the Red Glow, to them they just saw hordes of Priests dying and every now and again the hp would go down
Pestilent Mist is one of the recommended strategies for Dark Eater Midir. He's actually the ideal target for it, because he's huge so he's more likely to stay in the cloud and he has a massive health bar. It's how I beat him the first time.
@@red_menace1829 pretty sure it's also the best damage/cost ratio (cost being both level requirements and focus cost as well as total casting time) in the game when fighting high health bosses. Because afaik it doesn't scale with your int. Just enemy HP. So you can just get the minimum stat requirements and put everything else in your survivability stats and focus bar. My only issue with it is that most people who can make effective use out of it are good enough at the game to use other strats. Especially since it's primarily good for either hords of small weak enemies or big chunky bosses. Single enemies that move are hard counters and it's probably almost worthless in PvP.
There’s something incredibly funny to me about IGN making a series of guides that offer you absolutely no transferable skills to any subsequent playthroughs you might want to try out later. Like yeah, you’ll see the end credits, but if you want to try any other build after this, you’ll have to learn it all again from scratch.
These IGN guide videos always make me laugh so much. Thanks for that! They also really remind me of when I used to actually buy guidebooks for games. The Pokemon ones had quite a bit of charm like this as well. A good balance of humor and helpful is what I usually prefer when I actually consult guides.
Haven't even watched it yet, but I know this is going to be an absolute banger, as per usual. Thank you for everything Lenny! Going to watch this with my little brother (another huge fan) once he gets out of school. Keep up the good work!
I’ve rewatched your videos at least 4 times each and it’s because you have an infectous sense of humor out of what the IGN guides do, your random bits with you mother and guitar hero, etc. and everything else has made me enjoy your work too much. When it all floats down you’re one of a kind content creator! P.S. Please make apparel or merch with your various jokes including the float down meme
I remember people going nuts over Pestilent Mist because it would destroy Midir. I tried it for fun only to see Midir simply jump away from it lol. Was still cool to beat the Ancient Wyvern with it though
Yeah I remember making a caster build and seeing people say pestilent mist is a cheese. Usually I would cast it once and he would stay within it to deal around 500 damage. Which is a lot, but it was the same amount as I would do with one cast of whatever lightning miracle I was using. If I was lucky, the mist would deal 1000 damage, but that's still just two casts. It really does not work well with midir.
honestly having the bow in guides like these make sense, as its easy to deal with enemies and vastly lowers mortality taking them out from a range, also bow generally easier to aim/more range than a lot of spells
It's absolutely the range. I doubt the guide writers are thinking it through analytically as opposed to trying a stupid number of things to figure out what works, but a running theme with bows in the Souls series in general (not just IGN guides) is that they are responsible for more boss exploits than any other weapon, many of which are things the average player never encounters, thinks about or even learns about. Case in point the Dancer exploit right at the start of this guide- I'm not sure spells would have the range to pull that off, iirc they move you forward slightly which would aggro the boss, and given the arrow stacks outside the wall, they may not even be able to achieve the same total damage pool. I think every game in the series has at least one boss you can kill from outside of its boss room with a bow, too.
Hey Lenny, when the dlc bananza happens, it might be fun to do them in reverse order since the guides (in my opinion) would become more and more unique
Love the music choice through all these videos, it really gives me my own sense of nostalgia looking back through these videos, masterfully crafted brother!
"The true Dark Souls starts here" was a meme from the og game that players would tag everywhere with the orange soap stone. Like "try fingers but, hole" or "fort night" in Elden Ring.
You can only appreciate IGN guides when you know the monetization scheme behind them. It is like a moment of enlightenment of why they are so surreal and it makes total sense.
Monetization: flat rate based on views mulplier based on word count Scheme: guide is designed to be convoluted and give the player a very slow progress. this guarantees an increased engagement with the guide and the possibility of double or triple dipping on the same viewer per section of the guide.
Another historic heroic Lenny does IGN Guide Video in the books! Loved the Chaos, The Cats, The Jokes and the wholesome Mom moments! Fr though those boss freeze strats they keep pulling never fail to amaze me, I'm always like "that can't possibly work" and it just works. scary good!
I think I see another speck of bingeable content in my feed; always glad to see these highly accurate and top-tier gaming guide videos from you Lenny :3 (props to the OG IGN guides too ofc) Also I didn't know the FEBREEZE SORCERER that RTGame used in his series actually originated here; truly amazing lore, as befits any true entry of the Dark Souls franchise ^w^
First time I've seen a video on this channel and while youre great fun, your mum is an absolute gem, bless her cotton socks. She is where the real Lenny Souls began.
So these like "I played X but with Y guide" is how I found your channel and I really love this type of content. I never really enjoyed DS2 myself but I watched that one and LOVED every second of it and now seeing you picked up one of my fav games of all time. I am really hyped to watch this one o3o Keep up the great work
Hey Lenny. I have been watching you since the Dark souls experience videos since before you face revealed. I just wanna say I've always loved your content and can tell how much you love doing it. I hope you know we love you and want you to take your time between releases and never feel pressured. We know when you release a video it'll be a banger. You should also do more guide videos on other games once you've done fromsoft !
The cheese in this is some stuff I didn't even know with couple of thousand hours in the game, such as the Dancer cheese and the infinite backpaddling. Not bad.
I genuinely love how positive and respectful you are to these writers, even when the writing took a turn for the not so great, you're still finding the best in them. As hilarious and as great an editor you are, I think your best quality is your kind heart.
Lenny's mom is one of the best parts of these. She's such a treasure, and im glad they have such a wholesome relationship. Also I totally agree this guide has less soul in it.
Lenny mate I love your soundboard in the edits. Every time I hear the Eric Andre show guy go YEAH, that's me, that's how I feel in real life. I love it.
Bro what the hell, mate is actually cracked at Guitar Hero. Biggest surprise of the video. Please continue the IGN guides stuff, it's so genuinely entertaining
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Try the planes. They float down
The reason IGN stopped making the jokes isn't "being bullied" that completely misses what happened to the games journalism as a whole at the time. Games journalism as a whole come 2016 was dying, in large part because completely disconnected from many of the writers the corporate interest had been exchanging good reviews for early access and money for a long time and gamers had caught on. The change happens around 2013 with GamerGate, what was about the ethical issue by 2014 had become entirely cultural in nature (much to the distaste of those on the GG side who wanted to focus on ethics). So many games journalism businesses started to change culturally to take their side in this conflict, this means any funny "awooga awooga sexy character" jokes were effectively excised on ground of "being sexist". We even saw articles proclaiming that "Gamers don't have to be your audience" which flies in the direct face of the gaming industry because who else plays games if not gamers?
The lack of jokes isn't because they were afraid of being bullied, it's because the culture in the industry had shifted and there was (still is) a fear of making a joke which can be perceived as being some kind of "-ist". The reason you don't see the soul of newer stuff is because it has been sucked out, anything someone can say which might be funny could just as easily find them blacklisted from the industry entirely so why ever risk making a joke?
Noo
as someone who has finished ds3 40 times this guide sure is a guide. also fuck the dancer.
It's so sweet of Lennys mum to act all oblivious when she's there, but afterwards, she goes home, boots up her IGN cheeseburger mage and carry her son through the game, top shelf parenting right there.
Respect to the guy who abandoned Lenny like the guide told him to.
That was so funny
Hey, when Lenny said “To the letter,” that goes for chat too
"Man learns Through the Fire and Flames on expert just to get through a Dark Souls 3 run," is not something I was ever expecting to see in my life
The intro made it seem like he just jumped on Guitar Hero as a bit.
Nah, man actually did it. Insane 😂
I had to look up the full song just to see how impressive this was... 8 minutes of button spam is insane. I totally thought he wasn't going to be able to do it
@@Syphael its more impressive than it appears, the only way somebody could do that is if they're very familiar with the song on expert
@@ThePod90either he was already good at it or man is super cracked. I've played clone hero specifically for years now and I'm not half bad at it, but I can't consistently hit some of the patterns he did.
Like, actual, serious respect if he just learned that from scratch.
IGN Cheezburger returning home as soon as he saw the Sulyvahns beasts was actually fantastic. Wouldve been so easy to make the most of his moment getting to co op with Lenny and fight as much as possible, but he committed to the moment
exactly, the roleplay was on point
Timestamp?
Honestly made the video for me, IGN Cheeseburger carried this guide
Farming 20,000 souls SOLELY for the sake of *farming back 20,000 souls* is maybe the single most IGN thing ever
props to IGN for knowing having souls do help
Except it's not to just farm back 20k souls. It's so that literally every future enemy drops more souls. By far the most efficient way to play the game.
@@mattandrews2594 which you can also get for free if they knew about the tree jump 😆
I think you guys failed to understand the Silver Covetus ring. When they say you get your 20K souls back quickly because of it, they don't mean you only get that many back. You get the 20K back and then continue to get 20% extra souls every time they drop. By the end of the game, you will have gotten millions of extra souls for that 20K investment early in the game.
@@Jeremy-ql1or still, it’s not worth spending nearly 5 HOURS from early enemies for it.
That Dancer strat completely blew me out of the water. I played this game from day one and I have never seen that before. Crazy how the IGN guys found it
Fucking with the fog door to either resupply items or hit enemies without retaliation has been a staple of twat strats since original Demon's Souls
@@thomasprice7893yeah but to get it to work with such a simple trick, so soon after release is impressive
@@thomasprice7893nah i think he's talking about the boss ai glitch, tbh i played this game for like 5 years and i never knew that you can do that tbh
@@Bsmv712 I mean it makes sense, but I rarely use consumables enough in Dark Souls for me to resupply anything.
It took them 68 hours for a reason lol
I'll be fully honest, if Lenny pivoted to start making videos based on IGN guides for other games (like the Pokémon guide) I'd be pretty darn excited
I’d actually be Down for this lol
Sing me up for that!
Fortnite Battle Pass Day One IGN Guide
I'm so for this idea
Same.
The commitment to the Guitar Hero bit was absolutely bonkers. That was legit insane. Well done lad
Ladies and gentlemen
It was a ride full of it floats down , gamer ranks and cat memes, but everything comes to an end
The dark souls IGN guide was a true masterpiece that shows how textbook guides can still have some soul in them
He’ll do the guides for the DLC’s as well
You could say; this whole series "Floated Down".
I did, and had everyone at the office LOLing.
Perhaps some.. Dark soul in them : ^)
bros forgetting about the dlc bananza
A Dark Soul that is...
So, the DS3 guide involves a lot of the same stuff from DS1, but everything hits a bit weaker, you can see the light of the golden age fading in real time, and you just know it's not any one person's fault? Damn, that's powerful.
You could say… the fire fades?
That one cuphead game journalist contributed a lot to the changes of video game guide
it's almost like they were written by the same youtuber that claims them to be ign guides, crazy right?
As a guides writer myself, not from IGN, but I miss the days when Google SEO didn't dictate what we write. This series has been a hoot to see what the old days were like.
What is the Google SEO?
@@silentkhaos1176 search engine optimization. do the things the way the algorithms want you to or don't make rent.
@@silentkhaos1176search engine optimisation. basically trying to optimise clicks and popularity.
@@silentkhaos1176 "Search Engine Optimization", also called "The Algorithm" by a lot of people, basically the internet's "meta" at the moment. Writing not necessarily in ways that satisfy your creativity but instead in ways that are more likely to pop up in someone's search bar or recommended or whatever they're using to find things online.
@@silentkhaos1176 Search engine optimization, ie. using specific keywords/phrases, backlinking, and other best practices to appear organically in google searches, presumably with the intent of increasing organic traffic and, therefore, ad revenue. In other words, the point of writing the guide is no longer to be helpful, funny, and wholesome. It's to get clicks and eyeballs.
“Did I beat the IGN challenge of 68 hours? Yeah I did it in 9.” XD I loved that line.
Yes, everyone beats it on day one in nine hours and if you do not we the "ELITE MASTER GAMERS".. will make you look like trash. It so so funny that the ones making fun of others did NOT COMPLETE DARKS SOULS WITHOUT HELP OR CHEESE!!
I can't help but absolutely love this guide in particular, it is such a beautiful time capsule to what gaming and the culture around it was like in 2016, just before the edgy bubble burst and we were experiencing the last dying breath of "lol XD Randum = Funny"
Very true! The edgy bubble burst is a very good way of putting it.
I don't think Game culture was like this at all in 2016 outside of socially inept teens, back when DS1 released sure may have been but I just think the guide writer didn't get the memo, if it wasn't intentinally like this.
That lines up well with dark souls 3 though. That which once reigned is now degraded and locked away to be forgotten
As far as I'm concerned "lol xD random" is still funny, and will always be funny, because the world is trying to forget it, but cringe never dies, and until I do, I will continue to use that fact to get my own personal kicks.
In my opinion, cringe is the most wonderful humor in the world. For socially inept autistic f*ckers like myself, who ABSOLUTELY HATE the dynamic and never-lasting nature of what people in the world consider "funny" my ability to throw stupid sh!t people totally thought was funny 8 years ago in their faces and watch then die inside is literally one of the greatest pleasures in my life.
Not the first, nor the last. Reunite brothers and sisters,as we bow down to the one and true king of comedy: Dank memes!
Lenny..... I have never seen any of your videos before, or heard your name. This is the first one I watched. I have not yet seen any others and I have no idea what's waiting for me there (i supposed more of similar or better quality stuff :D), but just this one earned you an instant sub and Twitch follow.
It's a masterpiece. The amount of perfectly tuned humour, the amazing editing, the actual Fifa, Guitar hero and mom guest presence... Holy crap man, I have not seen any piece of content this great, polished and entertaining in a LONG while.
I do realize a bit of that in this case comes just from how good of an idea doing the game along an IGN guide is, but you're an absolutely amazing content creator. Keep it up!
I love the video but I just want to point out how good of an entertainer Lenny is. It's really impressive how he can stay so energetic and it's really infectious.
That's really nice of you to say :---)
@@ZeroLenny I'm glad you saw it! I know positive comments can sometimes be a bit overshadowed by negative ones so I'm glad to big you up a bit.
He got it from his mom
I'll have what his having
25:50 love how the ad switched from "ARE GAMERS OKAY?" to "NO FUSS CREMATIONS" as soon as lenny lost.
Oh my god
31:30 If i had to guess, its BECAUSE of the Pestilent Mist that they didnt realize the Red Glow, to them they just saw hordes of Priests dying and every now and again the hp would go down
Mission failed successfully
Your dedication to follow the guides 100% amazes me.
Great video series, can't wait for the DLC Bonanza :D
Every single cat edit in these videos adds one year to my lifespan
Big man is gonna live till 3005 💀
Can we just talk about the insane 720 no scope killing shot by Lenny at 16:16
Like, that's pure skill right there
they made a dark souls 3??? that's UNBELIEVABLE i gotta try this out for myself!!!!! looks absolutely bonkers
be careful, only SERIOUS gamers allowed
@@grandmacrinkle8094 well gosh darn... i'm a bit of a silly gamer myself 😔😔
@@swag_tortoise Silly gamers ARE allowed but you have to be careful not to get TOO silly because the residents are not very fond of it
😂
Make sure to praise the sun at every opportunity.
ZeroLenny, floating down with another absolute BANGER of a video
The running full sprint to the store gag gets me everytime
You literally can't imagine the amount of happinness I get when I see a new ZeroLenny video AND it's IGN guide. It really makes my day. Thank you.
Pestilent Mist is one of the recommended strategies for Dark Eater Midir. He's actually the ideal target for it, because he's huge so he's more likely to stay in the cloud and he has a massive health bar. It's how I beat him the first time.
Same, most butt clenching time of my life tbh
@@red_menace1829 pretty sure it's also the best damage/cost ratio (cost being both level requirements and focus cost as well as total casting time) in the game when fighting high health bosses. Because afaik it doesn't scale with your int. Just enemy HP. So you can just get the minimum stat requirements and put everything else in your survivability stats and focus bar. My only issue with it is that most people who can make effective use out of it are good enough at the game to use other strats. Especially since it's primarily good for either hords of small weak enemies or big chunky bosses. Single enemies that move are hard counters and it's probably almost worthless in PvP.
RT moment
@@LycorisLilyP ?
@@RyugaruSenbi RTgame did a whole playthrough using only the mist, and ended up destroying Midir
What’s kinda funny is “The true dark souls starts here” IS in fact an in game message you can place and it WAS everywhere at the games launch.
The true Dark Souls were the friends we made along the way.
I guess it was always started, we just never realized it
Fromsoft meets Lenny: "This guy definitely floats down."
Much love, Lenny! Love the videos so much
when the first 3 seconds of the video starts with a "Warning to all gamers!" from an IGN guide... That's how you know it's gonna be good
Honestly, Pestilent Mist got me through a lot of bosses on my first playthrough as well! A nice journey through time to 7 years ago :)
The true dark souls starts here
That story about fromsoft PR rizz attempt killed me lmao. Great video, the IGN guide videos are always 10/10.
There’s something incredibly funny to me about IGN making a series of guides that offer you absolutely no transferable skills to any subsequent playthroughs you might want to try out later. Like yeah, you’ll see the end credits, but if you want to try any other build after this, you’ll have to learn it all again from scratch.
Games journalists will do anything other than get good
These IGN guide videos always make me laugh so much. Thanks for that!
They also really remind me of when I used to actually buy guidebooks for games. The Pokemon ones had quite a bit of charm like this as well. A good balance of humor and helpful is what I usually prefer when I actually consult guides.
You going off and practicing TTFATF and coming back next day and NAILING IT was the coolest thing I've ever seen on a stream. GG!
The music degree really paying off
Lenny's energy is what makes him such a pleasure to watch, outside his humor
Haven't even watched it yet, but I know this is going to be an absolute banger, as per usual. Thank you for everything Lenny! Going to watch this with my little brother (another huge fan) once he gets out of school. Keep up the good work!
I’ve rewatched your videos at least 4 times each and it’s because you have an infectous sense of humor out of what the IGN guides do, your random bits with you mother and guitar hero, etc. and everything else has made me enjoy your work too much. When it all floats down you’re one of a kind content creator!
P.S. Please make apparel or merch with your various jokes including the float down meme
I’ve been waiting for this day. Lenny finally floats down to bless us with another IGN video.
WHEN THE LENNY
THE
THE LENNY FLOATS DOWN!!
That got the whole office rolling
Your mom had me howling! I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. She needs to be a staple in videos like these. Fuckin' loving it mate.
I remember people going nuts over Pestilent Mist because it would destroy Midir. I tried it for fun only to see Midir simply jump away from it lol.
Was still cool to beat the Ancient Wyvern with it though
I shit you not , I re specd my character for just pestilent mist cheese for midir and its how I genuinely beat him
Yeah I remember making a caster build and seeing people say pestilent mist is a cheese. Usually I would cast it once and he would stay within it to deal around 500 damage. Which is a lot, but it was the same amount as I would do with one cast of whatever lightning miracle I was using. If I was lucky, the mist would deal 1000 damage, but that's still just two casts. It really does not work well with midir.
I kinda love how chaotic this guide is, but also that it does have some legit ideas for early, easy soul boosts and the like.
Lenny's mum just turning up and full on roasting him is great, just walks in, and just 100% him
A dose of Lenny is just what I needed on this shitty day!
Absolutely my pleasure man! Hope things turn round for you xx
@@ZeroLenny Thanks man, that means a lot to me actually. Much like with Dark Souls you gotta soldier on or go hollow, right? And nobody wants that.
Don't you dare go hollow🔥
@@marcusadams2557 Appreciate the concern, but don't worry. I simply need time to rest at the fire while I gather my strength.
U good??
These are so awesome man. I cannot understate how epic it is to see the IGN guide videos.
honestly having the bow in guides like these make sense, as its easy to deal with enemies and vastly lowers mortality taking them out from a range, also bow generally easier to aim/more range than a lot of spells
But bows suck
@@ficolas2 buddy just walked down two major bosses with the bow, i think theyre fine
@@LabilSex I beat dark souls 1 with the sword hilt. Sword hilt is a fine build by that logic.
@@ficolas2 if you use it right, then yes, just like the bow silly
It's absolutely the range. I doubt the guide writers are thinking it through analytically as opposed to trying a stupid number of things to figure out what works, but a running theme with bows in the Souls series in general (not just IGN guides) is that they are responsible for more boss exploits than any other weapon, many of which are things the average player never encounters, thinks about or even learns about. Case in point the Dancer exploit right at the start of this guide- I'm not sure spells would have the range to pull that off, iirc they move you forward slightly which would aggro the boss, and given the arrow stacks outside the wall, they may not even be able to achieve the same total damage pool. I think every game in the series has at least one boss you can kill from outside of its boss room with a bow, too.
These IGN guide videos really brighten my day, I like to rewatch them when I am bored at work or in a bad mood! Thanks for being entertaining Lenny!
Hey Lenny, when the dlc bananza happens, it might be fun to do them in reverse order since the guides (in my opinion) would become more and more unique
Lenny videos just make me so happy. The high energy, the funnies, the cat memes, all of it is so charming
Lets start a petition to get lennys mom to narrate the intro to from's next gane. Her final take was surprisingly good
really enjoying the usage of sfx, makes it feel like a live studio audience
Agreed
This video was incredible. The guide even referenced the offski AND the floating down. It all comes together.
Love the music choice through all these videos, it really gives me my own sense of nostalgia looking back through these videos, masterfully crafted brother!
I never expected a ds3 guide to give us fifa and guitar hero gameplay. I loved it :)
"The true Dark Souls starts here" was a meme from the og game that players would tag everywhere with the orange soap stone. Like "try fingers but, hole" or "fort night" in Elden Ring.
Always happy to see another Lenny video and of course lovely to see Lenny's Mum! Have a brilliant day both of you!
this dude is so wholesome
his mum is the cherry on top
I have waited ages for this, a quiet evening, a couple of cold ones and Lenny being an absolute madman
Only 2 minutes in but man watching this live was a damn blast and can't wait for more content to come out
A fine spooky Friday to you, good sir! Thank you for yet more Souls content!
You can only appreciate IGN guides when you know the monetization scheme behind them. It is like a moment of enlightenment of why they are so surreal and it makes total sense.
I'm curious now, what exactly is the deal
What do you mean?
Please explain
Elaborate further please, dont leave us 22 hanging!
Monetization:
flat rate based on views
mulplier based on word count
Scheme:
guide is designed to be convoluted and give the player a very slow progress.
this guarantees an increased engagement with the guide and the possibility of double or triple dipping on the same viewer per section of the guide.
Another historic heroic Lenny does IGN Guide Video in the books! Loved the Chaos, The Cats, The Jokes and the wholesome Mom moments! Fr though those boss freeze strats they keep pulling never fail to amaze me, I'm always like "that can't possibly work" and it just works. scary good!
Yooooooo finallyyyyyy! You have no idea how much I've been looking forward to this! The grand finale of the IGN Guide series!
I think I see another speck of bingeable content in my feed; always glad to see these highly accurate and top-tier gaming guide videos from you Lenny :3 (props to the OG IGN guides too ofc)
Also I didn't know the FEBREEZE SORCERER that RTGame used in his series actually originated here; truly amazing lore, as befits any true entry of the Dark Souls franchise ^w^
Watched the whole vod of this run and now the video and it was like two entirely different experiences. Lenny you are brilliant this was a blast
Been waiting so long for another one of these!
First time I've seen a video on this channel and while youre great fun, your mum is an absolute gem, bless her cotton socks. She is where the real Lenny Souls began.
I think the “The true dark souls starts here” being something every player says at the start of an area is actually in reference to demon souls😂
Man, this video was just so wholesome and fun. I can't wait for the DLC video!
Going back to watch the earlier ones now
So these like "I played X but with Y guide" is how I found your channel and I really love this type of content. I never really enjoyed DS2 myself but I watched that one and LOVED every second of it and now seeing you picked up one of my fav games of all time. I am really hyped to watch this one o3o
Keep up the great work
Mum rolls in, kicks you out your chair, kills your character, drops cake on desk, leaves
Fuckin love your mum xD
Lets go! Love the series Lenny, keep the awesome content coming!
I really respect that the writers of these guides will do damn near anything to win but learn how to play.
These videos are one of the only things on RUclips that make me vocally excited for an upload
Hey Lenny. I have been watching you since the Dark souls experience videos since before you face revealed. I just wanna say I've always loved your content and can tell how much you love doing it. I hope you know we love you and want you to take your time between releases and never feel pressured. We know when you release a video it'll be a banger. You should also do more guide videos on other games once you've done fromsoft !
Can't wait for the Lies of P version and Lords of the Fallen version
I also can’t wait for when I get passed the tutorial of those games, so I can say. “The true Dark souls starts here”
The original or the remake of lords of the fallen
Ohhh lies of p would be a fun one to watch
@@BlarghMeow the remake the original is fucking awful compared to the new one
41:23 I just noticed your mom actually drinking the goku water 😂 what a legend
The cheese in this is some stuff I didn't even know with couple of thousand hours in the game, such as the Dancer cheese and the infinite backpaddling. Not bad.
Lenny just never fails to deliver! Banger vid as usual!
This is the content RUclips was made for. Thanks for another rodeo of laughs Lenny.
I am continually amazed by this man's dedication to following the guide TO THE LETTER. Even if it means running to the store at midnight
The edits honestly kill me. The screams and yays are just top notch
Has he really never heard of”The true dark souls starts here”? I actually love that bit in the guide.
I've been on a Dark Souls 3 bender again so this video came out at the perfect time
the crowd noises are killing me LMAO
This is where the true zerolenny begins
I genuinely love how positive and respectful you are to these writers, even when the writing took a turn for the not so great, you're still finding the best in them.
As hilarious and as great an editor you are, I think your best quality is your kind heart.
I cheered so hard when Lenny's mom came in the room. So wholesome.
I loved this lenny, i didn't expect the build to actually work! looking forward to the next video
Lenny's mom is one of the best parts of these. She's such a treasure, and im glad they have such a wholesome relationship.
Also I totally agree this guide has less soul in it.
Havent laughed this much in a while, Lenny truly is the Dark Soul (all along)
The PR story reminds me of that time I told the bride at a wedding thanks for coming.
I love the whole feel of this video. It's like this was a preformed in front of a live studio or something.
Watching these DS IGN videos have really been a blast. Surprised about the humor on the guides, honestly.
This was so fun to watch on stream
i barely finish a 10 minute but these series were so good i didnt skip a single minuute, gg bro
These IGN guides aren't cringe, they're peak 2000's internet culture.
Lenny mate I love your soundboard in the edits. Every time I hear the Eric Andre show guy go YEAH, that's me, that's how I feel in real life. I love it.
Bro what the hell, mate is actually cracked at Guitar Hero. Biggest surprise of the video.
Please continue the IGN guides stuff, it's so genuinely entertaining