This guy was crazy when I started as the knight with my fat rolls. I thought armour would mean more. I come back as the thief (and with more experience) and wreck him.
I picked the master key as my gift and when I encountered this guy, I was still a noob. It felt so awesome dodging all his attacks and finally killing him by doing a measly 11 to 20 damage per hit. I didn't know that the pine resin would've made it easier :p
I discovered a quick and dirty general rule that will usually get you a successful parry: hit the button just as they begin to make their attack go towards you, so hit it right after they stop their windup and begin moving to actually hit you.
i understand this video is old i doubt you will see this but i feel the need to say it still. a long while ago in my early days of dark souls the one thing i wanted to do was figure out how to parry. that is when i came across your video here. you explained this so well and i today still play the first dark souls and i still can parry 90% of the time due to this video. you made my first dark souls play through so amazing and memorable and all the others to follow as well and i never thanked you for it. so i would like to say it now. thank you.
I've been playing games for over 25 years and the Souls series since Demon Souls came out in 09, I've played and beaten all 4. Never could I ever get the parry right. I platinum'd Bloodborne, I can parry anything and everything all day in that game, no problem; but parrying in Dark Souls, might as well critical attack my own character for all the good it will do. Then I watched your video. The slow mo was especially some real help. Afterwards, I applied what you taught me in the video and within my first encounter to test the skill in Dark Souls 1 (and after eating the first two strikes) I was able to get my first ever parry. I continued to practice and within 20 minutes I was parrying at a rate I was comfortable with to effectively use the skill. Now I can parry anything in all 3 games with ease and its all thanks to your video. I cannot thank you enough, as all it took for me to finally get it after all these years was how you showed and explained it to me. I'm no noob and have no issues getting through any game really, but the parry in the Souls series has always been a annoyance of mine, something that I had to give up on in a series that is about perseverance against all odds, something I had to watch other do put couldn't participate in, something I could never get right despite my best efforts and other trying to teach me. Your one video changed all that and has opened up a whole new gameplay experience to me, so thank you. Thank you and million more thanks yous as I could never thank you enough.
Being someone who just picked up the game last month, knowing that you have to be really close no matter the size of the enemy's weapon is incredibly helpful.
That comment is more radiant than the Sun lmao.....as I saw that gate crush him like a scene off Beserk or Ninja Scroll, that sneaky-evilish grin hit my face along wit a loop 🤣
The definition of "riposte" is generally a quick reply or answer. The definition of parry is to ward off an attack. So you parry(ward off) an attempted attack and then riposte(quick reply) with your own attack.
@@CumAss I'm surprise that I'm actually pretty go at parrying a beginner. I think that because I love playing Lance in Monster Hunter World! One of the weapons that has a parry and riposte mechanic. Although it's thr second least played weapon in the game.
5:10 good sir this clip helped me alot with parrying and with timing, i know its 2016 but this video is never too late for the game because its always gonna be good, great work on the video and thanks.
The first few bits of this video gave me the most precious knowledge on parrying. Seeing that you parried on when they cocked their arm back helped me with my timing so much. I used to stare at the tip of the weapon and use that for timing. It always resulted in getting hit or a partial. Thank you so much for that slow-mo and the follow up advice
I was seriously about to hang this game up for good....until I watched this. I can actually enjoy the game now. I know it's been years ..but thank you. Really
70 hours put into DkS2 and I still can't parry for the life of me. Just loaded up DkS out of nostalgia and I parried all the Firelink hollows in one try, even getting no sound ripostes on a few of them. Oh how times have changed..
Marvelous Chester Funnily enough, I found scimitars/falchions the most reliable way to actually get a parry in DkS2. Still not good enough to actually use it over a shield though..
I most commonly parry with the parrying dagger or rapier in dark souls 2. But I don't really play online so hell what do I know about those being useful outside of pve.
***** Dark Hand. You get it as either a rare drop from Darkwraiths or you get it by joining the Darkwraith covenant by speaking with Darkseeker Kaathe after you've obtained the Lordvessel, but before you talk to Frampt.
Wow. I have played this game for months, yet I still learn more! Like last week I learned to parry longswords, curved swords, and all other fast attack weapons. I never knew you could parry the berenike knight at 1:30. Thanks so much!
"DS runs at 30fps. Each frame is 300ms, the human eye can blink at approx 3-400ms"..... I think I'm in love with you. This was divinely well crafted to suit any adventurer. Ty!
Late praise, but extremely impressed with the quality of this video (and presumably the series - about to find out). Articulate gaming webcasts are hard to come by.
Just got Dark Souls 1 and 2 at a great discount, and noticed that parrying is one of the hardest things to do. i want to learn as most as I can before purchasing Dark Soul 3 and thi video was a great help.
awesome video! I love the fact that you took the time to make some actual measurments of the parry-windows and recovery time. Every other comment or video I've seen regarding this has all been based on mere speculation. great job, man :)
thanks for this. I am 10 hours into the game and I am starting to get into how things work. The first 5 hours were painful I must say, now it is getting somewhat playable.
DARK SOULS LOGIC: The giant geeatsword of Gwyn got push away by your tiny arm BONUS LOGIC: Do you see the metal balls that the giant used to throw in Sen's Fortress?Try punch it to see what happens
Amazing. On this day, July 3, 2013, I, a semi-experienced player, have learned that a partial parry can prevent stagger effects. Thank you sooo very much... O and S are screwed now lol
Bro, I'm a dark souls (III) veteran, but I've never tried parrying until today because it's so frustrating. I decided to try again now that I've started DSPTD, and was struggling for about an hour to get more than like, 2-3 parries. Total. Not in a row, I got about... actually maybe 5 in an hour. Then I decide to google it, find this video, and I haven't missed a parry yet (out of 7, I got excited and wanted to comment immediately, haha). Just knowing it's the beginning of the animation that does it, and you have to be close enough, made all the difference. Thank you so very much for helping a parrying newb start their journey of satisfying animations and combat!
Just watched this video today and you helped me realise my mistake. Trying to parry from too far away! Then being confused why I hardly ever get it to work. Shortened the distance and wouldn’t you know it - it works a lot better now! Thank you so much dude, really appreciated 👍🏻
I cannot thank you enough for this video. Until I watched your video I never understood how parrying actually worked. Which is sad because I’ve played through all the dark souls and Bloodborne multiple times. 😅
jesus... you are so damn good at this game man. you just have fun, I've played them over and over again scared miserable, while using all my health potions. I dont get it, but props!
vermonster I think you're having more fun than he is, this game is meant to be tough and unforgiving. so yeah you have to survive with that 0.5% HP and use up all ur pots. when a game gets easy is when it gets boring. maybe it's just me
wael sayed its sopposed to be hard like The witcher 2, where pre planing is key or you dead, but this is some next level sh*t, im still on that castle at the begining getting my a** handed to me by those skeletons. This is frustrating. I'm pausing the game and comming on youtube to understand some sht. but its hard.
indrit9 Dude listen to Wael he is right, you're going the wrong way. Don't head towards the skeletons! I did the same thing for hours until a friend told me to turn around. Look behind the Bonfire and a little to the left and you will find a ramp that leads up the side of the mountain. Not the ramps in the ruins.
I played through ds 2 & 3 without understanding why my parry barely ever worked (so I never really bothered). Now I'm playing ds and decided to look this up only to realise all I was doing wrong was not standing close enough to the enemy! Thanks so much for the upload 💪
Just looking back on some of my favorite DS videos as DS2 fast approaches. Vageta311 - this was one of the classics for me along with EWFG's videos and a few others. Hope you do some of this in DS2. Cheers.
I just reached Anor Londo and by this point, i have all but forgotten that my controller had a left trigger, hence why i am watching your video. 5 minutes later, and i understand parrying. With just your statement about those 4 conditions, im starting to git gud at parrying finally ahhh THANK YOU
Very nice Video man. as a very new player, but also somebody who has delved into frame animations of other games, I really appreciated the effort you put into this.
I need this information so I can kill Gwyn. He is my nightmare. From what I understand here, the best window to parry is as soon as the attacker has finished their attack wind up animation and begins the actual attack itself.
lonemexio His name is "vageta." Obviously, there's a correlation between his name being a play on "Vegeta" and his female character having turquoise hair.
I've played all three, and I'm on my second run through all of them, currently on game three... and I've never really figured out how to parry. I'm a dirty casual. Watching this though, has made me seriously want to dive back and and try it again, armed with this new knowledge! Great video, man!
Holy shit, thank you dude. I couldn't parry for life, watched your video and was able to parry the first silver knight I saw. That's so awesome, thank you so much haha.
This was an incredible video; The information was great as well as the presentation. I really enjoyed the editing of the first intro minutes as well. Great video
there was no need to use that system of counting frames, if you have Sony Vegas then you can change the timecode to count frames rather then seconds anyway.
I went through the trouble for the audience's sake, not everyone understands these things without explanation. You may realize that 10 frames = 333.3ms at 30fps, but many others won't. Plus by converting it to time it helps some people to grasp how small these actual windows, or the difference between them, really are. I could have just went with frames and not even mentioned time, but it was less work for me to explain it then get a flood off messages asking the same questions. Also it was to give validity to my method so I didn't just spew off a bunch of data and expect everyone to take it as gospel.
Hey, just started Dark Souls 2 days ago and I've been struggling to parry the Black Knight in Undead Burg. Right after watching your vid, I demolished him :) and since you seem to be knowledgeable about the game, you just gained a sub
clicking on an 8year old video and having this kind of quality was unexpected and i appreciate it. even the audio is nice compared to some other 8 yo videos that sound like it was recorded in a bathtub
FluThre3X One thing he forgot to mention or maybe didn't state correctly is that the hidden modifier doesn't JUST apply to the rapier, its ALL RAPIER CLASS WEAPONS. So estoc, ricards rapier, mail breaker, etc.
ElDrHouse2010 no sir, Your ranking is only considerate of criticals, and not of general purpose. The standard rapier has a higher crit, (marginal), but the estoc has a higher base damage (marginal) AND range. Ricard's rapier may start out worse than the estoc and rapier, but as levels progress, it quickly becomes better than both. The one that is often forgotten is velkas rapier, but I lack the resources to accurately determine its true value, though I suspect all levels figured, it is better than all of them.
i have been playing this game for a while and i had noticed the partial parry but never really looked into it. with this video everything is clear. thanks for the info bro, oh and the magic parry, damn you just took it to another level!!!
Absolutely brilliant guide, thank you! Being new (like less than two weeks) I am still unaware of many of the finer--yet essential--moves and whatnot; but, this guide gives me hope :-)
Indeed. I always marvel at people commited and skilled enough to be that good at any game, let alone something like dark souls. Thanks for the guide! I was really struggling to get the timing right. Won't be surprised if I still do for a while, but at least now I'll know whether I messed up the timing or if I simply wasn't close enough.
Because of this video I actually dropped the Shield/Weapon type of gameplay in the Souls games and focuses on playing with different weapons in both hands to time parries and attacks from both hands. It was really informative. :D and helped me utilize dual wield playstyle in these games too. (my favorite in fantasy genre in general)
I think all this frame counting is like EVs in Pokemon, it ruins the spirit of the game. That being said Dark Souls is one of the meanest games I've ever played so fuck the spirit of the game I'm taking all the help I can get.
I just got this game for Switch and can't get past the first Black Knight. This upload is 9 years old as of this comment, and still relevant to raging players such as myself. Thank you! (now to search your channel for 'back stab' and other Dark Souls meta game info!)
Jagdpanther I tried to play DSR on K+M and I believe there’s something really wrong with the space key, try blocking or getting your hands on a simple gamepad, I sweat it will save yourself from a bunch of stress
Thank you Vegeta for this informative video. I've beaten the game and the DLC and I find myself continuing to learn about DS thanks to helpful people like yourself. Much appreciated and subscribed.
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This was by far the most satisfying video of Havel getting tortured for his crimes against fun ever.
Havel does provide fun. Fun for people watching blind Let's plays who pick the master key as their gift.
SuperLotus Their reaction to geting one-shotted by a dildo is hysterical.
DovahSpy Hehe, Tin-Plated called Havel "Lord Iron Scrotum" due to his weapon :D
This guy was crazy when I started as the knight with my fat rolls. I thought armour would mean more. I come back as the thief (and with more experience) and wreck him.
I picked the master key as my gift and when I encountered this guy, I was still a noob. It felt so awesome dodging all his attacks and finally killing him by doing a measly 11 to 20 damage per hit. I didn't know that the pine resin would've made it easier :p
I discovered a quick and dirty general rule that will usually get you a successful parry: hit the button just as they begin to make their attack go towards you, so hit it right after they stop their windup and begin moving to actually hit you.
In PvP, that's more or less true when trying to do a psychic-read parry
WTF this makes parrying really easy, than you dude
mouhamed belhoula
No problem. :) Just be careful with PVP -- lag issues mess with timing ever so slightly...
Brian Mead i started to learn parrying with bear hands... after a few hours i tried a shield. And it was 10 times easyer.
Brian Mead that's not a trick, that is how you parry lol
i understand this video is old i doubt you will see this but i feel the need to say it still. a long while ago in my early days of dark souls the one thing i wanted to do was figure out how to parry. that is when i came across your video here. you explained this so well and i today still play the first dark souls and i still can parry 90% of the time due to this video. you made my first dark souls play through so amazing and memorable and all the others to follow as well and i never thanked you for it. so i would like to say it now. thank you.
Wow, that's some amazing comment you made there
Damn this comment is old as well
I doubt you will see this aswell but well said
People reading this in 2021....
Wholesome
I just realized this came out 10 years ago, holy crap! So well made and detailed.
3:54
Most brutal circumcision ever
thats gotta hurt
That's called a colonoscobotomy.
I've been playing games for over 25 years and the Souls series since Demon Souls came out in 09, I've played and beaten all 4. Never could I ever get the parry right. I platinum'd Bloodborne, I can parry anything and everything all day in that game, no problem; but parrying in Dark Souls, might as well critical attack my own character for all the good it will do. Then I watched your video. The slow mo was especially some real help. Afterwards, I applied what you taught me in the video and within my first encounter to test the skill in Dark Souls 1 (and after eating the first two strikes) I was able to get my first ever parry. I continued to practice and within 20 minutes I was parrying at a rate I was comfortable with to effectively use the skill. Now I can parry anything in all 3 games with ease and its all thanks to your video. I cannot thank you enough, as all it took for me to finally get it after all these years was how you showed and explained it to me. I'm no noob and have no issues getting through any game really, but the parry in the Souls series has always been a annoyance of mine, something that I had to give up on in a series that is about perseverance against all odds, something I had to watch other do put couldn't participate in, something I could never get right despite my best efforts and other trying to teach me. Your one video changed all that and has opened up a whole new gameplay experience to me, so thank you. Thank you and million more thanks yous as I could never thank you enough.
So.... You've become a boss..........
I got 90% of the way through Dark Souls before learning that parry was even a thing. Also didn't know about kindling the bonfire lol
Being someone who just picked up the game last month, knowing that you have to be really close no matter the size of the enemy's weapon is incredibly helpful.
Sorry, but after seeing the guy get wrecked by the falling gate at 4:21, I stopped listing to what you were saying and just watched that on loop.
That comment is more radiant than the Sun lmao.....as I saw that gate crush him like a scene off Beserk or Ninja Scroll, that sneaky-evilish grin hit my face along wit a loop 🤣
@devonbeahan 2 Damn your mature.
@@slayerdylk but... he has a point
@@terrythomas1248 I haven't seen that happen in either
That guard missed the parry and the gate crushed him
"I feel sorry for Havel" - said no one ever
Jonathan Scott I felt sorry for him ....for 3 seconds then I couldnt stop laughing XD
Lol I killed him after seeming this
I feel sorry for Havel being locked in that tower AND for his armor being used by bloodthirsty players for bullying other people.
Havel is my favorite
Havel trolling .. you made me cry man ..
The definition of "riposte" is generally a quick reply or answer. The definition of parry is to ward off an attack.
So you parry(ward off) an attempted attack and then riposte(quick reply) with your own attack.
Thank you now i can parry in dark sous
@@CumAss I'm surprise that I'm actually pretty go at parrying a beginner. I think that because I love playing Lance in Monster Hunter World! One of the weapons that has a parry and riposte mechanic. Although it's thr second least played weapon in the game.
5:10 good sir this clip helped me alot with parrying and with timing, i know its 2016 but this video is never too late for the game because its always gonna be good, great work on the video and thanks.
Short version: When their hand is moving forward, parry
I try I try but.....
In the end...
@@ivanyekimov1470 it doesn't even matters
@@cooklich I had to fall... to lose it all...
@@nogarashi In the end...
10 years later and this video is still relevant. Helped me immensly in learning how to perry/reposte. Thanks a bunch!!!
The first few bits of this video gave me the most precious knowledge on parrying. Seeing that you parried on when they cocked their arm back helped me with my timing so much. I used to stare at the tip of the weapon and use that for timing. It always resulted in getting hit or a partial. Thank you so much for that slow-mo and the follow up advice
I was seriously about to hang this game up for good....until I watched this. I can actually enjoy the game now. I know it's been years ..but thank you. Really
His Channel helped me alot
70 hours put into DkS2 and I still can't parry for the life of me.
Just loaded up DkS out of nostalgia and I parried all the Firelink hollows in one try, even getting no sound ripostes on a few of them.
Oh how times have changed..
Do you even Monastery Scimitar?
Marvelous Chester Funnily enough, I found scimitars/falchions the most reliable way to actually get a parry in DkS2. Still not good enough to actually use it over a shield though..
***** Well for a while the Monastery Scimitar had instant parry frames, thats why I said that.
I most commonly parry with the parrying dagger or rapier in dark souls 2. But I don't really play online so hell what do I know about those being useful outside of pve.
Michael pirro
Parrying dagger is actually worse than a medium shield in DS2 for some reason.
That's one extremely brutal way to kill Havel (and embarrassing for him).
***** Dark Hand. You get it as either a rare drop from Darkwraiths or you get it by joining the Darkwraith covenant by speaking with Darkseeker Kaathe after you've obtained the Lordvessel, but before you talk to Frampt.
Disrespect level OVER 9000
***** What?
what about mage havel?
lol Yep... Poor Havel
Just picked up the remaster today. This video is still helpful in 2023.
Wow. I have played this game for months, yet I still learn more! Like last week I learned to parry longswords, curved swords, and all other fast attack weapons. I never knew you could parry the berenike knight at 1:30. Thanks so much!
just bought this game for my switch, never played dark souls or the others. Great video!
After playing for a while, I realized that parrying is all about knowing the different attack animations and patterns.
I find it helpful to look at your attackers body and not the weapon. As soon as their body move toward you, parry.
You saying that they gotta be close for it to work is exactly what made it click for me. Thank you
"DS runs at 30fps. Each frame is 300ms, the human eye can blink at approx 3-400ms"..... I think I'm in love with you. This was divinely well crafted to suit any adventurer. Ty!
I love how those reposites while you're "havel trolling" looks like your motorboating him. Adds insult to injury to insult.
Late praise, but extremely impressed with the quality of this video (and presumably the series - about to find out). Articulate gaming webcasts are hard to come by.
this is parry useful!
Adrian A this comment needs more likes 👍
🙄🙄🙄🙄
No... just no.
BOOOOOO
Get out.
Just got Dark Souls 1 and 2 at a great discount, and noticed that parrying is one of the hardest things to do. i want to learn as most as I can before purchasing Dark Soul 3 and thi video was a great help.
awesome video! I love the fact that you took the time to make some actual measurments of the parry-windows and recovery time. Every other comment or video I've seen regarding this has all been based on mere speculation. great job, man :)
thanks for this. I am 10 hours into the game and I am starting to get into how things work. The first 5 hours were painful I must say, now it is getting somewhat playable.
DARK SOULS LOGIC: The giant geeatsword of Gwyn got push away by your tiny arm
BONUS LOGIC: Do you see the metal balls that the giant used to throw in Sen's Fortress?Try punch it to see what happens
What will happen?
@@madlinursah5604 they will broke
Amazing. On this day, July 3, 2013, I, a semi-experienced player, have learned that a partial parry can prevent stagger effects. Thank you sooo very much... O and S are screwed now lol
Bro, I'm a dark souls (III) veteran, but I've never tried parrying until today because it's so frustrating. I decided to try again now that I've started DSPTD, and was struggling for about an hour to get more than like, 2-3 parries. Total. Not in a row, I got about... actually maybe 5 in an hour. Then I decide to google it, find this video, and I haven't missed a parry yet (out of 7, I got excited and wanted to comment immediately, haha).
Just knowing it's the beginning of the animation that does it, and you have to be close enough, made all the difference. Thank you so very much for helping a parrying newb start their journey of satisfying animations and combat!
That moment you parry giant arrows in Anor Londo blew my mind.
Great tutorial, and holy shit that dude got annihilated 4:21
thats be u in bed and im the man of thbe relationshoop not girlk hte girl with the hole ohpphphphphm
@@richrich9740 WHAT THE FUCK
tf
you just snapped the rock's neck with one hand. My god. That was beautiful.
2020 and still the best parry tutorial ever
Just watched this video today and you helped me realise my mistake. Trying to parry from too far away! Then being confused why I hardly ever get it to work. Shortened the distance and wouldn’t you know it - it works a lot better now! Thank you so much dude, really appreciated 👍🏻
Incredibly professional and well composed. Great video, great advice. If only there were more channels like this one. Bravo.
You're doing the Lord's work
I cannot thank you enough for this video. Until I watched your video I never understood how parrying actually worked. Which is sad because I’ve played through all the dark souls and Bloodborne multiple times. 😅
Very useful, thank you sir.
Not only is the information in this video excellent, it is also very well made and that is something you don't see very often
Dude you put more work into calculating the parries on an xbox game then I have in any venture in life! Respect
jesus... you are so damn good at this game man. you just have fun, I've played them over and over again scared miserable, while using all my health potions. I dont get it, but props!
vermonster I think you're having more fun than he is, this game is meant to be tough and unforgiving. so yeah you have to survive with that 0.5% HP and use up all ur pots. when a game gets easy is when it gets boring. maybe it's just me
wael sayed its sopposed to be hard like The witcher 2, where pre planing is key or you dead, but this is some next level sh*t, im still on that castle at the begining getting my a** handed to me by those skeletons.
This is frustrating. I'm pausing the game and comming on youtube to understand some sht. but its hard.
dude don't fight the skeletons :D you're going the wrong way.. I spent 5 hours fighting them before i realize that
Quick update. Yup, I played this game with one hand as I was too busy clenching my middle finger at the monitor. 'F**k this game'
indrit9 Dude listen to Wael he is right, you're going the wrong way. Don't head towards the skeletons! I did the same thing for hours until a friend told me to turn around. Look behind the Bonfire and a little to the left and you will find a ramp that leads up the side of the mountain. Not the ramps in the ruins.
this video makes it look so easy! I've died a good 20 times trying to parry the black knight
Every few years I come back to brush up my skills
Same
Professional quality with presentation, content, and delivery. Fantastic
I played through ds 2 & 3 without understanding why my parry barely ever worked (so I never really bothered). Now I'm playing ds and decided to look this up only to realise all I was doing wrong was not standing close enough to the enemy! Thanks so much for the upload 💪
Just looking back on some of my favorite DS videos as DS2 fast approaches. Vageta311 - this was one of the classics for me along with EWFG's videos and a few others. Hope you do some of this in DS2. Cheers.
Miss ya man
I watched the beginning of the video with my jaw to the ground. Seriously man, you do it like a machine (or asian).
I just reached Anor Londo and by this point, i have all but forgotten that my controller had a left trigger, hence why i am watching your video. 5 minutes later, and i understand parrying. With just your statement about those 4 conditions, im starting to git gud at parrying finally ahhh THANK YOU
Very nice Video man. as a very new player, but also somebody who has delved into frame animations of other games, I really appreciated the effort you put into this.
I need this information so I can kill Gwyn. He is my nightmare. From what I understand here, the best window to parry is as soon as the attacker has finished their attack wind up animation and begins the actual attack itself.
best to also develop a habit of hoverering your finger over the parry-trigger button rather than the block
Playing as Bulma?
Are you fucking kidding -.- just cause someone has blue hair doesn't make them bulma. Damn anime freak
lonemexio His name is "vageta." Obviously, there's a correlation between his name being a play on "Vegeta" and his female character having turquoise hair.
lonemexio Anime freak....what? Please explain.
Lol ur an anime freak too lonemexio, how come u know Burma, hypocrite
Its not casual that your name is Vegeta! Awesome work, congrats from Brazil!
Can I just say that the little transitional frames are a really, really nice touch? Super classy, nice homage, 10/10 will steal for use later.
Really handed Havel the Rock his ass at the end. Didn't even need a shield for it. I think practicing parries will be my next goal.
Hey, you're really good at parrying. You should do a video.
Analysis of the animation is nice, but what we need to know is when to press the button. Has anyone found a video with a "press button now" icon?
As they start swinging their weapon at you after the wind up.
Wish the video would've told you this
I've played all three, and I'm on my second run through all of them, currently on game three... and I've never really figured out how to parry. I'm a dirty casual. Watching this though, has made me seriously want to dive back and and try it again, armed with this new knowledge! Great video, man!
i watched this for 30 seconds then i started parrying EVERYTHING literally i love you now.
Thanks to your guide here I went up to that black knight above the Hellkite Dragon, and whooped that ass.
1. Thanks for the guide.
2. Havel got rekt
4:21 demon's souls fat minister flashbacks 😂😂😂
Holy shit, thank you dude. I couldn't parry for life, watched your video and was able to parry the first silver knight I saw. That's so awesome, thank you so much haha.
This was an incredible video; The information was great as well as the presentation. I really enjoyed the editing of the first intro minutes as well.
Great video
13:19 why are you motor-boating havel?
there was no need to use that system of counting frames, if you have Sony Vegas then you can change the timecode to count frames rather then seconds anyway.
Only if the recording is at the same framerate as the game, 22fps recording = wrong frame count.
If he's using Sony Vegas to review the frames then surely that means he's only counting the frames in the recording anyway.
I went through the trouble for the audience's sake, not everyone understands these things without explanation. You may realize that 10 frames = 333.3ms at 30fps, but many others won't. Plus by converting it to time it helps some people to grasp how small these actual windows, or the difference between them, really are. I could have just went with frames and not even mentioned time, but it was less work for me to explain it then get a flood off messages asking the same questions.
Also it was to give validity to my method so I didn't just spew off a bunch of data and expect everyone to take it as gospel.
vageta311
Awesome work. Very highly appreciated.
+vageta311 atta boy thanks for the video, this helped a lot.
I stopped listening when he got to the Havel trolling and just watched
XD I know, I had to keep rewinding it back to hear what he said.
Thank you for this wonderful in depth guide. From the footage I see that your parry skills are god like. Kudos.
Hey, just started Dark Souls 2 days ago and I've been struggling to parry the Black Knight in Undead Burg. Right after watching your vid, I demolished him :) and since you seem to be knowledgeable about the game, you just gained a sub
lol if the hornte's ring was in the game in the first plase and you can equip it during pvp then fuck them, everything is valid in war.
3:55 feminism at work.
-_-
This was just so random and funny. IDK why
''EQUALITY!''
Patriarchy!!
qsqua SODOMY!
Ah just kidding I have no idea whats going on
4:17 Dude.
clicking on an 8year old video and having this kind of quality was unexpected and i appreciate it. even the audio is nice compared to some other 8 yo videos that sound like it was recorded in a bathtub
It was amazing to see you parry arrows and magic attacks. You're awesome!
Im not your pal
I'm not your pal, chief.
You'd be a video standard then - Phase Alternative Line, PAL.
+vageta311 He's not your chief, buddy!
+Tony Ookami He's not you buddy, brother
Shawn Lazurith I'm not your brother, dude!
So how much crit modifier has rapier then? it's written 110 on wiki.
its actually more like 160 with the hidden modifier
but I tested it and it's seemed to have like 110... the difference wasn't as big as I expected actually.
FluThre3X One thing he forgot to mention or maybe didn't state correctly is that the hidden modifier doesn't JUST apply to the rapier, its ALL RAPIER CLASS WEAPONS. So estoc, ricards rapier, mail breaker, etc.
Rapier > Estoc > Richard's Rapier > Mail Breaker
It goes kinda like that. Don't trust the numbers the game tells you, I already tested it.
ElDrHouse2010 no sir, Your ranking is only considerate of criticals, and not of general purpose. The standard rapier has a higher crit, (marginal), but the estoc has a higher base damage (marginal) AND range. Ricard's rapier may start out worse than the estoc and rapier, but as levels progress, it quickly becomes better than both. The one that is often forgotten is velkas rapier, but I lack the resources to accurately determine its true value, though I suspect all levels figured, it is better than all of them.
Come back vageta :(
i have been playing this game for a while and i had noticed the partial parry but never really looked into it. with this video everything is clear. thanks for the info bro, oh and the magic parry, damn you just took it to another level!!!
Absolutely brilliant guide, thank you! Being new (like less than two weeks) I am still unaware of many of the finer--yet essential--moves and whatnot; but, this guide gives me hope :-)
You sound like Rust Cohle off True Detective
havel getting owned that hard made my day xD
"Dark souls runs at 30 frames per second."
That is not a constant. Look down on blight town and tell me it always runs at 30fps >.>
He meant that ds is programmed to run at 30fps. It can't get more fps
Indeed. I always marvel at people commited and skilled enough to be that good at any game, let alone something like dark souls.
Thanks for the guide! I was really struggling to get the timing right. Won't be surprised if I still do for a while, but at least now I'll know whether I messed up the timing or if I simply wasn't close enough.
Because of this video I actually dropped the Shield/Weapon type of gameplay in the Souls games and focuses on playing with different weapons in both hands to time parries and attacks from both hands. It was really informative. :D and helped me utilize dual wield playstyle in these games too. (my favorite in fantasy genre in general)
do all of these apply to darksouls 3?
They have almost the same mechanics, but dark souls was basically a cakewalk to parry
+Sir Catteus makes gwyn a walk in the park.
Yes but ds3 is much more dynamic so the parry window is smaller therefor making it harder
You kinda sound like Matthew McConaughey.
omg I can never unhear that
the weird thing is he only started sounding like Matthew mconghay (fuck the spelling) after I read your comment
I think all this frame counting is like EVs in Pokemon, it ruins the spirit of the game. That being said Dark Souls is one of the meanest games I've ever played so fuck the spirit of the game I'm taking all the help I can get.
My God... I never expect anything this thorough on RUclips. you just blew my mind sir.
I just got this game for Switch and can't get past the first Black Knight. This upload is 9 years old as of this comment, and still relevant to raging players such as myself. Thank you! (now to search your channel for 'back stab' and other Dark Souls meta game info!)
This video seems too good for 2012.
"Parrying Basics" - Doesn't tell you which button to press.
the game fucking does...........
if you don't know how to actually play the game, you shouldn't be watching this
Jagdpanther I tried to play DSR on K+M and I believe there’s something really wrong with the space key, try blocking or getting your hands on a simple gamepad, I sweat it will save yourself from a bunch of stress
How bout you talk less and actually tell us how to parry. Bud.
I'm not your bud, pal.
vageta311 I'm not your buddy, guy!
I'm not your pal, guy
Everyone's screwing this up. It goes likes this:
I'm not your buddy, guy!
I'm not your guy, pal!
I'm not your pal, buddy!
Etc.
DelishVids locate your L2 button
Just started my Dark Souls journey and this video is a lifesaver. Thank you for putting in all the time!
Thank you Vegeta for this informative video. I've beaten the game and the DLC and I find myself continuing to learn about DS thanks to helpful people like yourself. Much appreciated and subscribed.