Reading Some Bad Reviews Of The Dark Souls Games
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- The Dark Souls series isn't for everyone. Reading through the one-star reviews of the games on Google and Amazon is testament to the fact. So I tortured myself by spending literally minutes trawling through them to find the worst ones so I could make this video, which I very unimaginatively titled Reading Some Bad Reviews Of The Dark Souls Games. That's it, why are you still here?
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"Being staggered by a naked man punching you while in Havel's"
Not gonna lie, I can really see what made him salty right there
What even happened there? Did the naked man have an invisible weapon?
Edit: thank you everyone. I understand when idle you get staggered by anything
@@fuzzyllama451 no he just punches really really good
@@fuzzyllama451 the naked man was probably mike tyson
@@fuzzyllama451 he's referring to ds3 poise system.
@@hellacash126 i get that. But was that just for a meme or is there any way possible to stagger havels armor with no weapon like in the clip. Or was that just modded?
Honestly, if a naked dude punching me unarmed, out-poises me in full havels with a heavy weapon, then I too would be pretty pissed.
But thts the thing
Good and flashy gear is crap in reality according to dark souls
Using weak and fast weapons or light armour is true method of playing dark souls
@@rahulverma8774 What a very ignorant and stupid thing to say. Cya.
@@prawngravy18 So u r trying to say slow and high damaging gear is better
Maybe it is better for u but in a game like dark souls ,speed is more necessary
@@rahulverma8774 nah heavier weapons are ten times better.
In Dark Souls 3 poise works exactly as intended.
OK that guy who said he couldn't fuck frampt has the same energy as "yea it's pretty good" 20,000 hours played
What is that review from?
Can't seduce Midir, -3/10, firebombing FromSoft offices
@@Bendanna93 2 months late, so I have no idea if you found the answer by now, but just in case, its a review for Europa Universalis IV by FlorryWorry, a popular EU4 player.
@@Seapion I did not, so thank you.
@@Seapion damn wasn’t expecting EU4
As someone with the motor skills of a jenga tower in an earthquake i will say i love the souls series
And your opinion is still more valid than most games journalists.
Me too, i played ds and bloodborne twice and still suck at it
Man you creased me
As someone with the reaction time of a concussed deer, I understand. Even if you can't finish the game yourself, doesn't mean you can't enjoy it yeah. I just watch others play and I enjoyed everything
"the motor skills of a jenga tower in an earthquake" that's either inexistent or physics-defying lol
The "Friggid outskirts" review was the fairest one.
I only died more than once there on my first playthrough.
I like it. Just take the 3 NPCs with you and run.
Every souls game has that one area that makes us question why we play these games lol.
Aka Reindeer Fuckland.
This makes me glad I was never summoned while waiting in the summoning circle for that area. (I didn’t have the DLC.)
@@kaiderhai86 it’s not even about being hard. It’s genuinely just a bad zone
I like how the second review at the beginning said it took 2 seconds to get up from rolling. He was fat rolling lmao
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Omg I totally forgot about the heavy load roll FML
He could have been using the knight class, which doesn't have enough starting endurance to get something below fat rolls while having the starting equipment... well... equipped, I can understand his frustration, imagine getting this brand new game, choosing your favorite class, and it is immediately weaker than every other class, and dark souls can be very misleading with some descriptions, "not easily toppled" could be misunderstood by thinking knights have a passive while the game is actually referring to the poise the armor gives you
"Frigid Outskirts"
Man, I thought this was about *bad* Dark Souls reviews. That was a very legit problem with the game.
The moment I got there the first time and got attacked by a horse, I was like 'nope', boned back and never returned again.
Imho the worst area of the game
I still get nightmares from when I did an all bosses SL1 playthrough and got to that point
Worst Souls area period. Farron Keep can be shortened with a simple route, Blighttown is tough but (somewhat) fair and can be mostly skipped, but Frigid Outskirts…
@@littlemoth4956 lost izaleth?
Ds3: 0/10 can't seduce Midir
I feel u bro, I also can't seem to get it to work, he just ignores all my attempts and tries to kill me very persistently. I guess he doesn't like me back :'(
cant have sexy times with nameless,
real dissapointment 0/10
0/10 can't lick sister friede's toes. Don't buy ringed city either. Drunk vampire Santa ahead.
That’s a fair criticism mhm
Of course that's coming from a furry
I've literally killed the first boss of ds3 with touchscreen controls.
Parrying doesn’t count!
@@Pastel_F84 Sure it does. You still need to get through phase 2.
@@someretard7030 Not if you select black firebomb. It's the only one worth getting in DS3 anyway. Not like bonfire ascetics are a thing. and Life Ring is trash.
@@Xeno455 Forgot about that. Last time I did Iudex Gundyr was fists only. So I couldn't have used black firebombs. Besides, fire gem is the best starting gift anyway.
Are we gonna ignore the implication that you cant parry iudex second phase?
I mean he has less moves to parry sure, but every bardiche attack can still be parried…
A lot of the steam reviews are actually pretty funny, and tend to be more on the meme side.
Especially when you see a medium review going "it's okay"
_500+ hours on record_
And these guys have probably another 4-7 hundred hours on offline. I have around 300 hpurs on record for vanilla ds2, but easily over 900 more in offline due to being too bored to turn on wifi for laptop
And thats only on current characters, I have made and deleted over 12 characters by now, with some ranging from 30 minutes to 20 hours. Well, I still keep my 300 hour OG ones tho.
Through all the souls games i probably have 6k hours
"Dark Souls isn't for everyone"
also Dark Souls: *one of the most popular game franchises of the past decade*
Popular means fuck all. Iudex Gundyr was beaten by 83% of all ds3 players on steam. A safe assumption of 10m copies sold on steam as per steamdb, that makes approx 1.7m people gave up on the first hurdle on the noob friendliest souls game. Clearly it isnt for everyone.
@@MrGhostTheBigRoast or just means those people haven't played the game yet.
@@MrGhostTheBigRoast you mean 83% of all ds3 players gave up on ludex? Thats straight up bs
@@generalmikalie2739 opposite, 83% made past iudex, but 13% is still a hefty amount for not even reaching the point where you can level up
the seventeen percent of players who couldn't beat gundyr
I need that Frampt bussy
I need you to shut up you can have an a opinion but not that one.
I call next.
There are 26 letters in the alphabet and endless ways to combine them...yet you chose to write _this._
@@errortryagainlater4240 that’s the beauty of the internet
Framptussy 😩😩😩
"0/10 barely any high ground against bosses"
-Obi wan Kenobi
oh man, Obi Wan would've LOVED the Ancient Wyvern fight
So obi wan never finished the tutorial??
This is the Dark Souls of comment reading videos.
the dark souls of comments about the dark souls of comment reading videos
Pro gamer: AM PRO
Dark souls: "IMMA END THIS MANS ENTIRE CAREER"
@@BaronsCastle ratio
The hardest part of dark souls was the guilt killing Sif gives you
She was the best girl.
Siegmeyer dying made me fucking cry
she doesnt even want to fight...she just knows she has to. she cant just give you her masters sword
Sif is my favorite boss lol
My wife literally refused to beat the game because she wouldn’t kill sif and even went out of her way to save sif in the dlc and then never play the first game again
I couldnt stand the pain of frigid outskirt so i dropped it. Its the only location in FromSoft games i have dropped. Its just so f******* bullshit.
definitely the worst area in any of their games
@@BaronsCastle and its paid content outside the main game which makes it even worse. And after finally getting to the boss you realize its just a shitty gank reskin of the king's pet. I died to the boss and then i quit playing that area xD
@@BaronsCastle
What about bed of chaos ??? That automatically worsens lost izalith
@@user-ut4tk4ph5z At least we can see and run past those dragon butts. Reindeer don't give a shit.
@@user-ut4tk4ph5z I'm not going to say something like "lol just get good it's not that hard" cuz on my first playthrough bed of chaos bodied me. But if u wanna make the fight a walk in the park (to be specific, easier cuz u can still get pushed off by bs swipes) u can use a shield with high stability. If u want a (sort of) light weight high stability shield, try a maxed silver knight shield cuz it has the highest stability of all shields. Otherwise, try great shield of artorias (what I used) or havels shield if ur desperate enough or don't wanna grind silver knights (1% chance) for the shield. U can also quit and reload to make the holes in the ground appear earlier to make it easier not to fall in them. Those 2 things helped me first try the fight on my second playthroufh extremely easily. Oh and btw, I'm 99.9% sure u already done that if u got ds 1, but just incase someone needs it. (Get havels ring and ring of favour and protection for if ur equipment makes u slow)
0:10 I expected you to say "Some people don't enjoy broken hitboxes", I'm still salty about the Fume guy.
lol, I think Fume has some of the better hitboxes from that game, don't even get me started on DS2 mimics
Its just his movements that are very fast. Movement speed and reaction in ds2 isnt exactly great...
I realized only after my first run of DS2 that Adaptibility increases the amount of i-frames you get from rolling. Not leveling Adaptibility makes it the hardest game in the Souls series by far.
@@DainHunter I usually skip first phase with Veldstadt's helm. Easier to read, easier to dodge, easier to punish.
@@rustyjones7908 After playing DS1 and DS3 you realise that the movement in DS2 is weird, you dont have the same rolling or dodging capabilities
Wait... this is not Kirbys Epic Yarn gameplay? Unsubscribed.
Ds1 had me ready to quit after spending half a day trying to get through undead burg. Once I learned the timing of dodge rolls and realizing I could use consumables, projectiles, and other methods I had a blast. I have now gone to +7 on every dark souls game and im an avid PVP player on ds3
1. was the best game ever made, just buff kick and remove I frames for the perfect game.
2. sucked.
3. sucked.
didn't even finish the DLC for 2 and 3, sure they were hard, but they weren't satisfying or fun.
@@chadpunte1731 while I enjoyed the lore, the map, and the world building of the first game the most, trying to go back to that shit ass combat system after playing 2 and 3 is harder than pulling teeth, the different roll speeds and I frame differences, the slow yet unsatisfying swordplay, the bed of chaos. It's all just not as fun to play as the later games in my personal opinion
@@gungunk1464 I agree. I enjoy the speed of 3 the most.
@@chadpunte1731 ds2 was my favorite, actually. I just don't like the PVP on it. Ds3 has the best PVP
you are all wrong. Three had the worst PVP. followed by 2, and then 1 had good PVP.
roll spam is stupid and ugly and should be punished.
Dark souls sux. I saw a mushroom enemy so i did the obvious thing and tried to jump on its head. I couldnt even jump high enough to bop it on the head, and then it punched me. How am i supposed to kill enemies if i cant jump on their head?
Do better fromsoft. Its not me, its you
Glad they rectified this in Sekiro w/Goomba stomp mechanic
When my sister, who's pretty new to gaming, beat Jak II, I recommended DS1 next. If she manaeged to get through naughty dog's "no checkpoints, bullshit driving mechanics, that-fucking-water-slum-mission" -experience, she's ready for Dark Souls.
I need to bite my tongue to not constantly backseat game. Because I feel that the newbie hell is an essential part of the DS experience.
I almost had a stroke when I saw Jak 2 in your comment I love that game series but boy Jak 2 was so hard I cried as a kid lol.
My little brother has been getting into the souls games a while ago. He has only played ds3 and bb. He got to abyss watchers and then quit, or technically he quit at crystal sage :/, and he's playing bb now but i think he quit that game too, he didn't even make it to cleric beast
i feel like giving important fundamental info is fine for complex games.
for example, i think fighting and RTS games are fun once you understand some things.
but i bet if you were trying to learn them purely through trial and error against an experienced player who didn't hold back or with an ultra hard AI, you'd probably hate it.
Shit dude, went back to play some PS2 classics for the first time a few years back and Jak 2 kicked my ass. Went from the masterpiece that was the Precursor Legacy to GTA 3’s angsty little brother. There was hardly any checkpoints in that damn game! Props to your sister for pulling that off, she definitely has the patience for DS1.
Okay the frampt sex thing was pretty funny
😳
Gotta say, anyone who plays a game from beginning to end, even if it's 40 hours long has every right to dislike a game if they wish. I only have problems with people who never played/watch something and still to argue its not good
Honestly if I pay for something like a game I am going to finish it otherwise my money was wasted and pride shattered
Im suprised bro beat ds2 in 40 hours is suprising it took me 100+ but i was like 11
This is not how it works. Why should they waste their time playing a game that they don't like start to finish?
@@markuskopter so every game you play from start to finish you have to like? How would you know you don't like a game if you give up on the beginning, it might get better? Most games have a slow start bc of tutorials. I've played a lot of games from start to finish, loved some, liked some, hated others but can't fairly review a game if you haven't completed it, just like a movie or show.
@@wierd227 If I was a press reviewer that would be a totally different thing.
But when I play for my own enjoyment, of course I'd quit a game if it does not catch my interest after a couple of hours, maybe earlier if I even get frustrated.
I don't have to eat all the cake to know it does not taste good, I'd know it right away from the first bite. ;)
Fromsoft will be very happy with the last review at least. Staggered by naked man while wearing Havels just proves poise is working as intended
Demon souls was the first souls but let’s be honest Dark souls is what brought the series into the mainstream
@@colbyboucher6391 yet I miss when unique bosses weren’t just gimmicky Zelda fights and actually had a unique thing about them.
@@colbyboucher6391 Bosses that have a unique strategy but still feel like an actual fight like the gaping dragon and the four king aren’t your usual boss fight against a big guy with a sword and are a lot better than the run to do one attack boss fight that is the ancient wyvern and the snooze fest that is having to wait for the cursed rotted to stop releasing his snap so you can hit his eggs.
@@hatefulgaming1800 so your saying you wanted more fights like the dancer or champion gundyr?
@@adam-ft2ny eh more bosses like Nito and dancer would be dope
See they are “bad” but holy shit when you finally beat a boss you feel so powerful and you feel like you just did something remarkable
People say that and I'm trying so hard to understand it.
I've played most souls games and Bloodborne but the only bosses that made me feel anything good was the last ones, because I knew there was no further anxiety to come.
@@Bee-zr5pb you get that feeling when you are stuck on a particular boss and then finally beat it, or if a boss has a fat health bar and takes like 10 minutes to kill or longer. At least i got those feelings from said examples
@@Maliketh_Montdore I definitely felt that after orphan of kos and some others but usually the anxiety outweighs it for me.
Maybe it's just not my thing, I want to like these games more than I actually do I guess.
But killing the last bosses in ds1 and bb were some of the most satisfying ever. Just too much stress on the way there. I've never been so happy for a game to end lol
@@Bee-zr5pb It's true, negative overweights positive. These feelings of power after winning are delusional, you are made to believe that, but he killed you 50 times, you kill him ONCE, how is it supposed to make you feel powerful? Only in a delusion. I've felt something like it, but it's just happiness that it's over and no more, not to mention that i'm a souls fan, but these games SUCKS, they could have been so much better, and fanboyinm not letting that happen. Best what happened was DS2, and game is hated by the community, figures.
Bosses are worst part of these games, levels and world and combat is the opposite, boss doesn't let you do hald the things you do (stagger, backstab, etc.) and your world or level is stuck on an arena for REAL LIFE actual hours of your lifetime, in wich you decided to "spend time with fun, playing favourite videogame", game just does shit to you, it's objective, DS1 is most of them all combined, worst of all. People are too fanatic and emotional to understand this.
i just scream `''finally'' and want to kick the developer, its fricking torture
Gundyr took me like 5 tries on my first playthrough, 3 of which where with the deprived and using my terrible shield. I understand why people get frustrated.
Unironically hardest boss in the main game imo.
@@rustyjones7908 just parry him a bunch at the start then do as much damage as you can during the transformation
@@CAMSLAYER13 oh sure, I know that NOW. At my first attempt I didn't know that. From the perspective of going in blind and having the wrong muscle memory he's a nightmare.
@@rustyjones7908 Champion, Nameless king, SoC, and Oceiros had to be harder than Ludex, no?
@@trevorrovert3103 you will have levels, enhanced gear, and practice by then.
EDIT: Again, this is from the perspective of your first playthrough.
Extremely hot take: I liked the change in the poise system, it sucks to punch someone and have your attacks not cause any sort of reaction.
What really sucks is having a stat specifical for carry weight limit. I liked it better in DS1 where it was related to stamina, that way you didnt have to waste levels in a useless stat just for fashion.
I think Elden Ring ties it to strength!
@@stefanwalicord2512 And you have no idea how happy that makes me.
I 100% agree, stamina and weight just steal your levels in ds3. 1 level for 2 stamina points; oh, you want to use that ring? well You will have to farm 2 vitality levels.
@@stefanwalicord2512 My strength build might be viable?!
EDIT: It wasn't viable
@@williamgeorge3111 :(
It's Dark Souls,
you love it
you hate it
you hate to love it
you love to hate it
but in the end
you'll keep replaying it anyway
I'd never say that I hate Dark Souls, I definitely get way too mad at certain enemies every once in awhile, but I never find myself saying "I hate this game" when I get mad, there are some exceptions, but DS is not one of them for me...
NOW PONTIFF SULYVAHN ON THE OTHER HAND CAN GO DIE IN THAT PROFANED FLAME HE LOVES OH SO MUCH STUPID FUCKING BASTARD
@@FlammableRadishUsed to be the same for WoW fans too from what I have heard
I’m insulted by the lack of mobility options in Dark Soul 2 base edition. I never got to play SotFS and it took me 110+ hours to get to Nashandra. Had a good time though.
Lol
I played both. There's no difference other than additional content
@@AbdulB 60fps from 30fps, 1080p from 720i, new lighting engine, 8 way snap-point from 360°, enemy placements changed, the DLC items being in the world to find instead of being put in your inventory when you start new a character....they patched in an ending that, in the lore, should have been in the game from the start due to how the world works.
@@Leotheleprachaun Well I personally don’t really notice the difference in frame rates and pixels. True a few enemies were placed differently. But other than the scholar I really didn’t notice much difference
@@AbdulB stop the cap. Go play ps3 Dark Souls and go to blighttown, then play DSRemastered on ps4 and do the same. There is a reason DSFIX is the most popular mod for original pc dark souls, and that's for it's 60fps over 30. Go play the original CoD on pc then go play it on GameCube.(although it's a great port and arguably the best version of the game)
I notice you ignored 8 way movement instead of 360° taking away full control over the character, making general movement and platforming far less controlable. Or how you get to the DLCs, which is indeed an improvement over vanilla. Or how they forgot the universe they made their game in and patched in an ending to suit it.
Punching havels armor should do damage to you lmao
Dark Souls and the entire From Soft Miyazaki franchise have been haphazardly labelled "too difficult" "difficult for the sake of being difficult", and these assertions became memes. They are not games that hold your hand, yes for sure. But there are so many ways to lower the game's difficulty. Finding out about those ways are part of the fun. I can easily name a few games that are "difficult for the sake of being difficult". Celeste, Super Meat Boy, Ghouls 'n Goblins, Getting Over it with Bennet Foddy. Not to mention the difficult arcade games that were designed to drink coins like water.
My description of Dark Souls/Demon's Souls/Bloodborne/Sekiro would be "modern immersive action RPG experience where you have to account for your vulnerability, which forces you to fight smart in all the possible ways". By the end of 2009, I was seriously considering stop playing games altogether, as most of the AAA titles only demanded you to be half-awake to beat them. Then came Demon's Souls which demands your 100% concentration.
But again, there are toxic fan bases for every popular game. I apologize if I have ever made others uncomfortable by urging them to play Souls games, but I've learned my manners.
honestly, those games does have their moments.
some enemies, especially bosses; can throw very strong mix-ups at you, can have ridiculous attack properties, can have a powerful okizeme, and/or can have a very good counter-hit/punish tool(s).
no amount of smart can pull through some of the BS that gets you sometimes.
@@joshuaxiong8377 I have to admit certain bosses did destroy my confidence (Guardian Ape in Sekiro took me an entire afternoon to beat, and after I finally beat him I felt like a piece of crap). Soul of Cinder in DS3 also kicked my butt dozens of times. Then again these games never forced me to fight the difficult bosses in a specific way. It's usually my own stubbornness that drives me into a pickle.
Celeste isn't difficult just to be difficult. It has an assist mode that can make it a bit easier, but doesn't take away the fun.
“Dark Souls, the one that started it all. If you don’t count King’s Field.”
nothing wrong with being a scrub....... trust me i know..... i play like i dont have fingers, but doesnt stop me
Thanks for sticking with it, scrub. I hope that someday it'll click and you'll become a casul.
Love your attitude son!
Bravo, another classic.
I always thought the covers of these games have a rating of age 16 on them, why were toddlers allowed to purchase them?
probably mostly "game journalists"
Sekiro reviews and the outrage have been particularly horrible lmao
I personally didn't like sekiro but it's still good, I should mention that I suck at stealth games and parrying
@@guyman9655 Its not a stealth game)
If you will play this game as a stealth game, you will suffer. You need to stand up for yourself and start play aggressively and put pressure on enemies.
@@Edgariki Either way. I don't intend to play the game much more. I'll stick to DS and Bloodborne
@@guyman9655 sad!
@@Edgariki U hv to play against bosses aggresively
But almost all areas in sekiro can be completed by using stealth kills
So i think its a mix of both
According to elden ring trailer ,it looks like FromSoft will include stealth in that game too
"A diseased pigeon, with raisins instead of eyes, could beat the first boss.."
LMAO
I beated the game with my hands nailed on a cross surrounded by roman soldiers. And I think it is pretty good.
Did you beat it using Miracles only?
@@ValeTheOwl Yes
@@ribbit5633 gotta have Faith and intelligence. Praise the Sun and Jesus.
@@eddieb1995 You are right my child. Heretics away!
"I can kill the first boss while literally being dead!" LMAO I heard this in instantly busted out laughing 😂
I’ve been reading ds3 reviews on Xbox and it’s hilarious I can’t believe I only thought to look now
I’ve beaten the game twice now and I’m on my 3rd time but with a new character because it got too easy on my first character
I had just beat ds1 a week before buying ds3 so I started as deprived since it had the highest stats but still level 1 so I could level up fast at the start and I realized I was pretty good at ds1 thanks to my devil may cry skill
I beat the crystal lizard and the boss and the katana guy all with the deprived class starting CLUB
That’s not that hard man
Why didn’t you play 2?
@@illusion8457 haha
Henry Kraas well apparently it’s the devil may cry 2 of dark souls so I skipped it
Also it wasn’t made by the people who made dark souls 1 and 3
Also Also I saw a bunch of those hitbox videos where you dodge and then get grabbed out of thin air and teleported back into the hit or grab
Plus weight doesn’t have hard limits so you have to chose yourself how fast you want to roll and move
And adaptability
Just adaptability
What kind of shit is leveling up how fast you do actions
And I heard instead of putting effort into a handful of bosses they just added a bunch of bosses with minimal effort
But I liked DMC which everyone hates because it wasn’t made by the people who made Devil may cry plus I think it’s 60fps so that’s a huge plus (dmc and ds2)
So considering how much I liked ds1 and ds3 maybe I should get it one day since ds3 has some lore referencing ds2 so I guess it’s not completely disowned
But the only reason I got the other games is because they were on huge sales
Ds1 remaster was $11 and ds3 deluxe edition was $21 regular $80 so it was a no brainer
So I’ll wait till sales again
Probably soon before elden ring they’ll be on discount again
BaconMikeyo but I beat all 3 of those in one go without dying
The katana guy pushed my shit in the first playthrough so for me that’s pretty impressive to just casually throw him in there on top of the crystal lizard and the boss
I only played Drak Souls 3. I have never expirenced anything like dark souls when I fought a boss my hands shake sweat and my heart beat increases I have never had a game make me feel that way.
Damn, what games you've been playing? Cuz DS3 was disappointingly easy and fast for me. I kept hearing people say how hard they were, but most bosses can be cheased by mashing the parry button.
@@elk3407 Bit insulting and ignorant to not know people struggle with these games, but well done you showed you're talented, naïve and condescending all in that message. :)
Also you know mashing the parry button doesn't work btw, you got to time it, maybe poor choice of words on your part there. Sorry to hear it was disappointingly easy though, maybe next time challenge yourself and do it without levelling or 'mashing the parry button'.
@@ChoaticCrater Play other games from around the same time like Bayonetta, and you'll find Dark Souls to be the easier one. If you struggle with Dark Souls, you must not play action games.
@@elk3407 not easy
@@elk3407 Fortnite or any fighting game would give these people heart attacks.
Thats a good challenge video: "Beating Dark Souls with only one hand while jumping"
I used to like dark souls one, but after the third review, I realest it was the even poorest game ever made.
I'm glad I helped you to finally see the light my friend
@FatalPies bloodborne>ds3>sekiro>ds1>demons>ds2
@@toooydoeur Based list.
@@Winasaurus thanks man
The first time I killed Gundyr I was super drunk like unable to walk, but did it without dying. It was also the first ds game I've played.
I have the motor skills of a banana and I managed to platinum DS1, and finish DS2 (would've plat'd, but fuuuuuuuuck collecting all of the pyromancies, hexes, sorceries, and miracles). I'm hooked!
It took me entirely too long to castrate that mutant tree in the Undead Settlement last night though...
I was once like the “you cant kill the first boss” . I felt so proud when i did.
Now i did 2 sl1 runs
To be fair, when Ludex Gundyr goes phase 2 and becomes a pus of man, it is a bit jarring for a first boss. Still very killable though.
I personally think Dark Souls II is the best. The features like power stancing that weren't added to DS3 were bomb. Also the armor looked so much cooler.
Elden Ring has power stancing :D
@@utisti4976this is abt dark souls lol
2:26 I want this updated after all these years stand up against fromsoft
dark souls 2 isnt even that bad, the level design and hitboxes could do with a little work tho
The bosses are pretty bad. The Dlc's have some cool ones with Sir Alonne, Fume Knight and the Ivory King, and i kinda like the base games Dark Lurker who is cool if you manage to find him. But overall the Bosses are a big problem in Ds 2. The problem is that they are either to easy or very janky, or just not fun. Or all of the above i guess.
It's pretty bad in almost all regards and many mechanics are fundamentally broken starting by basic movement.
@@night1952 havent played it in a while so u may be right, I just stated what I remember from the game
@@zaifir8119 fuck it I'm gonna say it
Darklurker is overrated. Heard everyone hype him up, went through 3 areas to get to fight him and then he ends up being some magic shooter.
@@Sharkamfss Still the best base game boss.
I purchased and sold Dark Souls twice because I did not understand how to play it, but the 3rd time I purchased it I fell in love with the game and have played and loved every SoulsBorne game sense. I think that even though you can die easily in Dark Souls once you learn the mechanics of the game and learn how different enemies and bosses fight the game is relatively easy! I believe that a lot of people's complaints stem from the fact that they don't understand how to play the game.
4:28 that one is perfectly fine, what do you mean by putting it in this video? It's helpful to know you don't even get the game when you make the purchase.
Please man, you gotta make another one of these.
Never played dark souls but I did play Bloodborne all the way through twice and it was a fun but sometimes it gets really dumb when half of the bosses and in the game spam the same overpowered attack 12 times in a row with my only chance for survival is repeatedly rolling in a random direction.
Shit kinda gets old really fast
My friend who has never played a Souls game before beat Gundyr on a fucking keyboard and mouse. I was so god damn proud of him.
This is a good channel. Subbed.
1. No story - You never find out why your character is doing anything he's doing, and you can only learn about the lore from outside sources (if the lore isn't in the game, it doesn't count).
2. No characters - They are all distant and shallow, usually only there to serve a mechanical purpose in the game.
3. Gameplay is stale - Its nice at first, but it becomes repetitive and you end up just running past most NPCs that you don't need to kill.
4. Gameplay is clunky - Your actions are delayed and clunky, whereas NPC attacks are quick and precise.
5. No theme/message - The game isn't thought provoking, its just regular castles and dragons fantasy with no underlying themes.
The game isn't an RPG, its a medieval action game.
Dark souls games have hella lore and underlying themes and stories, you just have to search for it and piece it together yourself. The npcs arent really the focus of the game, but many of them have really intriguing/tragic stories, that you can have an effect on with your own actions.
The gameplay really isnt that clunky, maybe a bit in ds1/2 but in ds3 its extremely polished, obviously some weapons, especially heavy ones are slow, but dex weapons for example hit almost immediately, and even then learning those timings is a part of what makes the gameplay so captivating.
And gameplay wise, thats really up to the person, what someone else finds boring and stale might be really fun for other people.
You do realize action rpgs are thing right?. Also, no message? Are you dense or just moronic?
6:11
This one actually has a valid point, although not communicated well.
Dark souls 1's asylum was a fully-featured tutorial, that not only taught the controls, but the PHILOSOPHY of the game as well. It's biggest lesson is taught with the asylum demon - that stepping back for the moment to re-organize and become stronger, will allow you to succeed against the odds. The Asylum demon, is also designed to teach the player the basics - his attacks are all very telegraphed, slow, and readable.
DS1 was designed to be a game where you didn't need to have fast reaction time or godly execution to beat - success is based on learned skill, rather than talent or prowess.
DS3 does not have a tutorial, it has a gatekeeper. Gundyr is a fast, agressive opponent that feints certain attacks and changes entirely midway through the fight. You are also given much less estus at the start, 3 compared to DS1's 5 estus. Not a staggering number, but one that has a significant effect nontheless.
You and I may very well be able to beat Gundyr easily, but anyone who is not talented with games or experienced with dark souls will not be, and they would not have been hooked by anything up to Gundyr. In DS1, beating the Asylum was the hook that kept players engaged.
(doesn't mean i don't like 3, though.)
I think that was intentional though, Gundyr was getting people ready for a fight, more alert than the first, its why its more satisfying to beat him, and it scares off those who aren't looking for a challenge. Gundyr was a tutorial for what to expect in the rest of the game, that you have to adapt to win and the reward is satisfying.
I also think DS3 start gives enough enemies at the start to understand the game so therefore is still a worthwhile tutorial, considering I believe DS3 has more enemies before the boss compared to DS1 and they are on different levels and flanks, so still has a philosophy to me anyhow. I do like your input though, it was smart how they did asylum demon in DS1 and the area was better to understand the mechanics to come.
That "Frigid Outskirts" guy, he does have a point
I was with you until you started defending dark souls 2
I respected you as a human being until you said 2 is a bad game
The comment and the reply above are the souls community's stance on DS2 summed up
@@illusion8457 it is
@@Sharkamfssyup. The virgin angry ds2 haters vs the chad also angry ds2 supporters
how did he keep a straight face with the controller demonstration xD
if the frampt one wasn’t satire…
Did he stutter?
I love Dark Souls for those moments when you first go in to an area or boss fight and think its absolutely impossible... hours, days, weeks later you emerge victorious knowing you fully earned that win with blood sweat and tears. Best gaming experience since Jet Set Willy 2 on the ZX Spectrum.
Your sarcasm shows how angry you are that people actually have a healthy preference in terms on difficulty of a game and don't love it blindy.
god yeah i'm so angry, i literally smashed 5 keyboards just writing the script for this, its not like i'm just naturally sarcastic because I'm British or anything
Kirby’s epic yarn is really just Dark Souls II 2
I love how defensive dark souls fans get when someone doesn't like the gameplay, even though their criticism is absolutely inconsequential
This goes for almost every game with devote fans though, it's not exclusive to Souls. Probably you have been doing it subconsciously aswell, I know I have.
Why is it worse for someone to respond to something inconsequential than for someone to say something inconsequential? Are they not both meaningless acts?
When he said "frigid outskirts" I felt that
Kinda sad, that you didnt show Valid Criticism that some people have (i played all souls games and really like them, but i am not blind to the massive flaws that the community just learns to swallow at that point).
Didnt find it that entertaining, it was like watching you punch a child and then say "ha see? Im stronger" yeah no shit XD.
The guy who just said "Frigid Outskirts" had 384 hours on the game, he's just like every DS2 enjoyer, likes the game but the Frigid Outskirts blinds us with rage
I cant be the only one that doesn't enjoy the gameplay of dark souls 1, like lore and story is great, but the gameplay just feels clunky, i love dark souls 3s gameplay, and ik its unfair to compare a game thats that much older, but its just hard to revisit ds 1 after loving 3s combat, and its not even a difficulty thing, its combat just isn't as "fun" to me, maybe im spoiled by the weapon arts and shit i dunno
Same I wish I enjoyed ds1 combat more because everything else about the game is great but for some reason it is not fun at all to me.
I actually gave up on ds3, the first FromSoft title I'd played, at the Twin Princes (hadn't played any DLC). Also bailed on Bloodborne at Micolash. Years later, picked up the remaster of ds1, and its relative simplicity got me further acclimated to the combat mechanics. Got gud, beat it, went back and beat ds3, then just recently beat Sekiro! Gonna try Bloodborne again soon enough...
@@Dumbstuffwatcher bloodborne best one
Ornstein and Smough's theme chillin in the background
The Souls series is an acquired tasted definitely. Yet I love it. I was think about it the other day actually. How I absolutely love Bloodborne with no doubt in my mind, yet every time I play it nearly EVERY new area I reach I go, “ugh!!! This place again!?” You would think I hated the game how certain areas make me feel. Yet, it’s one of my favorite games of all time.
You say that when entering a new place because you know what's ahead. Game's spooky even after 300 playthroughs.
I started out with dark souls 3 - it took me 2 hours to beat gundyr… and then i got good 🥳 - now i can slap all of them as a deprived char. People have to honestly give it a good chance… this has become my favorite game series to date (i am sorry elder scrolls)
This made me haha muchness
thank you kind internet enjoyer!
You’re hilarious man , great vibes 🤘🏽
I had a really hard time getting into souls until some friendly guy who knows how to duplicate stuff came in and dropped me everything and a ton of XP, I got into it once I was finally able to make the build I was interested in
Oh hi! Ps4 or pc? I do that all the time on ps4 at High Wall of Lothric so it could'a been me😂
@@Leotheleprachaun PS4
@@FalloutUrMum was it at the very first bonfire at High Wall....and buddy dressed like Solaire 2 handing the shield? Because if it was, I'm glad you got into the series because of me.😜
Couldn't get into the game without cheating? Damn
@@MyWhiteAbode it's not cheating, it's getting your build right away like literally ALL Dark Souls 3 streamers using the build boost mod.
Now, me duping items, THAT'S cheating.
4:08 Dark Souls 2 by EA - 10 bucks extra for a dodge roll, Estus is just found randomly in loot boxes
The cheaters and the bad controls with mouse and keyboard make the game series a 5/10 for me.
Also, people act like the story is so good, but so much of the lore is never explicitly stated it is just a bunch of conclusions the community made. Idk, it is a rather lazy way to tell a story
This game cost me many2 keyboard and make me see 'you died' screen for 168 times. Like abusive wife but you love her so much you can't leave
There's your problem.
You used KB/M.
Alreet Bazza!
SHUT UP RIGHT IM TRYNA SLEEP
If you give up on the game, your character has become hollow.
I personally like the Souls games, but I'm won't lie to myself and say they were good. They had tons of great elements that many games lack, but I like to look at both the Perks AND Flaws of a game, and despite my bias for Souls series, having played every single one since Demon's Souls in 2009, I'm still going to admit the games are pretty bad, honestly.
And yes, I am still going to keep playing and replaying them. I'm okay with liking bad games.
Why is it bad? Like it has one of the best plots mechanics like what you don’t like lol
@@skkoradboy
Oh, I already said I liked it. It just has a lot wrong with it. Or saying things are wrong with it is wrong. I think uninspired and unpleasant is more accurate.
The guy who said thank God it's over for DS2 I felt that I love the soul series but when I played it I was happy I never have to play it again after finishing everything dlc included
I have question: If DS3 1st boss Index Gundyr is so easy, then why DS1 and DS2 1st bosses were so much easier to beat?
Doesn't make sense and do have to agree with reviewer. Just because one has mastered the game and flex their skills is bias to say Gundyr is very easy. When I still have issues with this boss, despite beating all 3 souls games and I clearly confirm that index Gundyr is hardest 1st boss in dark souls series. Especially when you face Champion Gundyr for second time, where he really beat the crap out of you with his powerful combos, high poise / stamina and shoulder bash, sumo foot kicks
He literally has like 3 attacks. Just git gud
Judge Ghandi so ez lol
Do you perhaps find him hard because you can't summon people?
The “its not kirby epic yarn” killed me hard
Dark Souls II is the best.
1v1mebro
Frigid Outskirts
@@loganmitchell9254 he has a point. I love ds2. But man that area sucks
@@xaga8794 I love it too, but holy shit who looked at that area and thought, yeah this will be a good area.
@@loganmitchell9254 I think the designer had a really bad day. Someone kill his dog pretty sure. And he bring all his hate in this area. So every player that plays in it will feel the same
Dark souls 2 is the worst soulsborne. Sucks to suck but its objective truth. Everything about it is worse than the original. It looks and feels like a bad knockoff. How do you have worse graphics in a sequal made by the same damn company.
The only reason I started playing ds3 was because my brother and I had an agreement that if I beat the game he would need to start a new round in RE8 on village of shadows difficulty
Ive played every souls game. I actually felt unhappy playing ds2 sotfs. Ive played it twice and my second playthrough i pushed through the dlc. The dlcs qherw kind of cool but i just dont get the satisfaction from it that others do
I couldn't force myself to finish it, life is too short to play a game I don't enjoy.
@@gruforevs i had to do a second playthrough tk see kf tbeir was something about it i missed
@@goreman7160 yeah...you missed out on things that coulda been done instead of playing ds2😂
@@gruforevs How I feel about DS1
In the amazon guys defence some of the enemies in Dark Souls 2 have horrible hit boxes getting grabbed by enemies when im well out range is annoying
Alonne......lookin at you...
The game sucks
its garbage
I’m honestly shocked that I didn’t see any “needs easy mode” reviews
Most of these feel like monster hunter fanboys. The kind that think no other difficult games besides monster hunter should exsist.
Which, as a huge monster hunter fan who’s starting out in DSR, is ironic, since Monster Hunter isn’t *that* hard. There’s some difficulty curve and some hard monsters, but it’s all doable in some way. Most of the monsters won’t take more than four or five tries at the most. Dark Souls is on a completely different level.
@@songbird6414 personally, i don't like monster hunter because the tutorials are super long and boring. Like do i seriously need a tutorial to learn how to pick flowers and it lasts 30 minutes? So i cant personally attest to the real difficulty, but i do appreciate your reply confirming what i suspected about the series.
@@cloudchaser8650 it’s… yeah. It can be a very long winded game, but, if nothing else, the tutorials are important, especially in earlier games where preparation is key. If you want one without super long tutorials then MHW tries to keep its short. Honestly, I still think they’re great games. For someone starting out, the difficulty curve definitely got me, and there have been multiple monsters that have taken me upwards of weeks to figure out how to slay. My most satisfying game moment was killing Alatreon in 3U, after a tense forty eight minute battle and days, and days, and days of preparation and practice. If you can wade through the early game, it’s definitely worth it.
@@songbird6414 eh, i've tried both 3 and 4ult and i cant get into them because i dont want to spend 10 years on a single tutorial when i could spend that same amount of time labbing and learning to play fighting games, or grinding away in another game i already know how to play. But at least there are non toxic people who enjoy it.
@@cloudchaser8650 I understand. It isn’t for everybody. Hell, it took me three whole years to even bother to try it long enough to stick with it.
Honestly, though, the community for the most part is actually quite healthy. There will always be the “git gud” assholes, but a lot more will be happy to hop on a hunt and help out. I’ve had a group of people stick with me for about five hours so I could rank up in 3U, and it was one of the most positive and fun interactions ive ever had in a game before.
As much as people could reem on dark souls, it is absolutely undeniable that the souls series has incredible designs and doesn't give af if you hate it, because the whole thrill of the game is overcoming unbelievable odds, making you feel like a god, but only if you spend the time to learn the game and become skilled enough to progress
the idea that everyone who doesn't like these games is just bad at them is such cope
Literally bro these people sit in their beds arguing with people who hate on this shit series of games. Biggest dickriding community on the internet
I do agree with Frigid Outskirts and DS3 poise system critiques
Never understood the criticisms.
Dark Souls games have an easy mode. It's called summoning, sorcery, a shield, stamina management, etc.
There are so many techniques in the game that can make the game more manageable while still providing a challenge.
Exactly.
Ayo glad to see a content creator being a DS2 enjoyer. It’s so easy to hate on something because you lack the patience to gain skill. Like you said, these games aren’t for everyone. 🤷🏻♂️
Dark Souls is one of my favorite games. That being said, there are legitimate reasons to not like Dark Souls, such as the camera, or the deceptively simple combat loop. For me though, the positives outweigh it and it’s a type of game I had been looking for that I didn’t know existed for a while.
lol casuls