Kyle decided that the next step to take in Dark Souls challenge running was to take no steps at all. (well, not counting the million backsteps I suppose). Reminds me of when I was a kid and my brother would constantly slam the controller into the wall every time he lost, until I was forced to play with a broken controller out of necessity.
They're negative steps. ;3 Dang, that sucks about controller abuse though. The very few times I've hit my controller were if it's what failed me & I'd hope that if like, some wires were crossed, it would uncross them or something. Most times it'd be my fault & I wouldn't get mad, just frustrated... Or several games just plain cheated (THAT makes me mad). But I wouldn't take that frustration out on my only way to play.
GiantDad's cousin - a different kind of intimidating. He just stands there...with a giant sword. Great to have you back! Cool to see how Stray was a brick wall for the run. Kinda wonder if the IronSkin pyromancy would've helped at all.
Now that you mention it, that might be a first for Stray Demon. O wise Lemon of the Challenge Run, can you recall any other challenges where Stray ended up being the hardest boss?
Interesting note about the soft humanity from hollows: it's not a random chance. Killing certain enemies (usually humanoid ones) in an area, while the area boss is alive, accumulates "points". Once you reach specific thresholds, you gain a soft humanity point-but it's not infinite. Each humanity costs more "human points" than the last, and you can only get a maximum of *10* in a single area. You also stop gaining points once the area boss is dead. Not all areas have this mechanic, but generally, when you see hollows, you can gain humanity from them.
There's one instance where it's actually hijacked-in the Grand Archives. When you first face Seath and take the L, the *first humanoid enemy* that you kill (usually, a crystal hollow) immediately grants you 1 point of Humanity. It's meant to offset the fact it's an intended, forced death, which strips your Human form. @@IHMyself
@@LycanBlackpaw thanks to illusory wall we know this isn't intended and is just a result of glitchy spaghetti code, apparently the dark hand bugs it out, even if you've never used it or been invaded by someone using it
@@wk1552 i didnt say its a problem this video doesnt use glitches. just ymfah shelled out a grand to beat the hardest challenge. dont get antsy over nothing.
"Dark souls is a difficult game where you have to learn the boss's attacks and learn how to dodge them..." GamersWeekend: STANDING HERE I REALISE I CAN JUST HIT THEM WITH A GIANT SWORD
Gotta say, I find you, Ymfah, and The Backlogs to be my favorite challenge run RUclipsrs. You three always find ways to make your videos funny and interesting.
Just a correction, the hollows don't have a "chance" of dropping humanities, they drop after a certain amount of kills. Illusory Wall has a video on that mechanic.
This video was a joy to watch, 40 mins felt like 5 due to how interesting the problem solving was and all the unexpected obstacles you found and yet managed to overcome.
Welcome back bro dark souls will forever be a masterpiece and in my opinion and if it's possible, dark souls is the best game ever made, or one of the best games ever made, I love it,
"Standing there and hitting them with a giant sword" Is usually my method of choice in any game ever(or any giant weapon). Glad to see its effectiveness featured in this run :)
I dont know if Ymfah will ever do DS1 without walking if there is no glitch to skip that first ladder in Asylum (if it even exists). Thats only major obstacle for which determining if its possible (rest would be just following standard speedrun path with sens skip and wrong vorp to kiln)
I really love your videos long time follower, i probably watched almost all od your ds 1 and ds2 videos i don't comment much but congrats on the 100k Keep doing a great job all my love man!
Bro that farming spot in the forest where you stand near the clif and the NPCs fall off the cliff is an underrated farming spot. Haven't seen any other Dark souls RUclips's us that farming spot for some reason. Good to know someone's finally doing it. 15:31
I'm not sure how useful it would have been, but the Uchigatana's two handed strong attack tends to fling you forwards on slopes quite consistently. May have been useful to reach the Asylum revisit,
"We stood there, and hit them with a giant sword. We stood there and hit them with giant arrows" is my usual playstyle anyway. About the moving left and right, Ive played so many old games that dont allow you to anyway, so Ive never not known how powerful it is to have freedom of movement. This is one challenge I will never do if it causes literal headaches. I have chronic migraines, so that would be killer on me.
I figured the hardest part of this would be not accidentally walking when redirecting your backstep (by inputting the backstep, then buffering an analog input opposite of the direction you want to go before the backstep comes out), but the “no left analog stick” part removed any fear of that. Doing absurd challenges like these are such a great excuse to keep playing this game. Cheers, keep up the great work! It’s always very entertaining.
I just beat dark souls 1 for the first time yesterday so this is such a nice treat right after :D! Made myself some tea, got all cozy and about to watch this
I hear the Super Smash Bros music in these videos and I am immediately sent back several years (easily over a decade at times) to my childhood and it's like being on a crazy roller-coaster X3
Great video! I'm sure the bed of chaos cheese with firebombs was off the table when you didn't do it for capra, but I thought I remembered a _long_ time ago seeing a video of someone snipping the bed of chaos with the bow from the entry ramp? maybe the remaster fixed that (or maybe it was a dream who knows lol)
@@DoomWolfOfficial Damn right... I saw this and your no walk was in there, then i got remidned of a certain someoens armor of thorns challenge to. ..I watch a LOT of challenge running.
Did something similar to this about 5 years ago - slow walking only. Waaay easier than this, though, since I could actually move and aim mid-swing with my giant sword)) And yeah, Bed of BS was a nightmare. Managed to reach the center with Butcher's Knife strong attack, but it took forever. (Also, tanking Artorias with Havel's + Iron Flesh felt GOOD
Akshually 🤓 it's not random, illusory wall covered what there is a set amount of essence, needed to get a humanity from monsters when boss is alive. This amount increases with every humanity obtained on current location (up to 10)
Hey there! Just thought you'd like to know, the 'soft humanity' is not bound to the enemies being Hollow. There's a hidden counter running in the background counting up with kills, and when that counter reaches a certain threshold, you gain a soft humanity. Iirc not every enemy increases this counter, but most of them do so you can theoretically farm soft humanities everywhere.
Not everywhere, only certain areas. If I'm remembering right, Painted World, New Londo, Undead Asylum, and like, one to three more I can't remember don't build up the counter.
This is why this game stands as one of the greatest of all time, over a decade old and people still find ways (as crazy as they can get) to creatively complete the game again
For those who are struggling with Anor Londo archers at 28:31 mark ledge you can quit out to lose agro of both and upon returning to game only one on right will agro on you making it easier to deal with. After passing through those demons quickly quit out.
40:18 Ahh, I love how youtubers edit so they can end in a more humorous way, seeming they didn't struggle so much. But we can always see the signs. "Parrying each and every knight" *Preceeds to see estus quantity go from 20 to 13.
I hope you continue Dark Souls 3 playthrough since i want to see what challenge runs you going to make in that game and of course i want to see you play bloodborne and Sekiro as well
I remember when GamersWeekend first employed the generation defining strategy "Stood there and hit them with a giant sword". It cured my ovarian cancer, and I'm a guy. What a magical moment.
My first video im seeing from you. Very impressive run, slick editing and music choice, and very effective storytelling, though maybe feel free to add some one liners here and there or something. Overall, very good stuff, keep it up ^.^
Recently RUclips has been recommending me a lot of crazy Dark Souls challenges. I feel like one of these days I am going to see "beating Dark Souls without playing Dark Souls" jaja
A challenge I did really showed me the importance of dodging, strafing, and parrying. I wasn't in control of what I upgraded, I had a wheel. Whatever it landed on, I leveled. 4 levels in resistance in a row after the asylum btw... I know it's not related but loved it.
Dmg Optimizers : "Magic is the king of dark souls!" Strength Mains and god tier challenge runners: "Oh no... so anyway, I stood there, and hit them with a giant sword." Real talk, I need that on a t-shirt. Glad to have you back Kyle. I missed you.
"Don't get yourself killed. Neither of us wants to see you go hollow" *Proceeds to spam backstep away* "Good grief he's lost his mind"
Looks like that ship has sailed.
That's me with every NPC. My finger just instinctually spams B when talking to people when I don't want to interact with. I do this in real life too.
“He’s already gone hollow, god dammit”
*I am talking in this font*
And when we needed him the most:
He stood there, and hit them with a giant sword.
My usual playstyle anyway.
@@jaredcrabb boring ass
Kyle decided that the next step to take in Dark Souls challenge running was to take no steps at all. (well, not counting the million backsteps I suppose). Reminds me of when I was a kid and my brother would constantly slam the controller into the wall every time he lost, until I was forced to play with a broken controller out of necessity.
I'm honestly surprised you haven't gotten any comments press, anyway take my comment for the hours of enjoyment and sleep your videos have given me
It is backstepping, not backwalking, afterall
They're negative steps. ;3
Dang, that sucks about controller abuse though. The very few times I've hit my controller were if it's what failed me & I'd hope that if like, some wires were crossed, it would uncross them or something. Most times it'd be my fault & I wouldn't get mad, just frustrated... Or several games just plain cheated (THAT makes me mad). But I wouldn't take that frustration out on my only way to play.
GiantDad's cousin - a different kind of intimidating. He just stands there...with a giant sword.
Great to have you back! Cool to see how Stray was a brick wall for the run. Kinda wonder if the IronSkin pyromancy would've helped at all.
Now that you mention it, that might be a first for Stray Demon. O wise Lemon of the Challenge Run, can you recall any other challenges where Stray ended up being the hardest boss?
Real recognize real
He’s just standing there…with a sword…MENACINGLY
@@epic0koala Can't say that I can.
"It has a very limited amount of I-frames."
Yes, the limit of 0
It’s technically correct, the best kind of correct
Backsteps have 4 i-frames @ 30 fps, they are just very to hard notice. For comparison, human reaction time is 8 frames long.
This is possibly the only time ever the binoculars were a good starting gift...
What about the Gwynevere boob zoom speedrun
@@driesvanheeswijk1633SOOOO REALL
@@driesvanheeswijk1633 but you can find binoculars in the graveyard near the firelink shrine
@@driesvanheeswijk1633amazing chest ahead!
Non on onion cfffftfg
Interesting note about the soft humanity from hollows: it's not a random chance.
Killing certain enemies (usually humanoid ones) in an area, while the area boss is alive, accumulates "points". Once you reach specific thresholds, you gain a soft humanity point-but it's not infinite. Each humanity costs more "human points" than the last, and you can only get a maximum of *10* in a single area. You also stop gaining points once the area boss is dead.
Not all areas have this mechanic, but generally, when you see hollows, you can gain humanity from them.
thanks illusory wall
Huh, what a strange mechanic, lol.
There's one instance where it's actually hijacked-in the Grand Archives. When you first face Seath and take the L, the *first humanoid enemy* that you kill (usually, a crystal hollow) immediately grants you 1 point of Humanity. It's meant to offset the fact it's an intended, forced death, which strips your Human form. @@IHMyself
@@LycanBlackpaw thanks to illusory wall we know this isn't intended and is just a result of glitchy spaghetti code, apparently the dark hand bugs it out, even if you've never used it or been invaded by someone using it
Gotta love this guy. Breaking out Dark Souls content in 2023 like a champ 🎉
THANK YOU for not duping! Everyone comes up with challenges and then starts off with 6 million souls like it ain’t no thang
I liked the part where you stood there and hit them with a giant sword
i feel like this is a new level of masochism in terms of souls challenges
Reminds me of Lemon’s old runs!!:) (so it’s great)
There's a ymfah video that's the same thing in ds3 but he doesn't make exceptions for ladders.
@@funkymachine yeah he propably wouldnt either but guess what? He is doing a glitchless run unlike ymfah ffs
@@funkymachine funny enough datk souls 1 is the only game without a "walk on air" glitch
@@wk1552 i didnt say its a problem this video doesnt use glitches. just ymfah shelled out a grand to beat the hardest challenge. dont get antsy over nothing.
"Dark souls is a difficult game where you have to learn the boss's attacks and learn how to dodge them..."
GamersWeekend:
STANDING HERE
I REALISE
I CAN JUST HIT THEM
WITH A GIANT SWORD
😭😭😭😭😭😭
I’M FUCKING INVINCIBLE
@@jooot_6850KILL!!
I heard that in the tune of the song! That's amazing XD
Gotta say, I find you, Ymfah, and The Backlogs to be my favorite challenge run RUclipsrs. You three always find ways to make your videos funny and interesting.
Have you ever Watched press continue? He’s another fantastic challenge run RUclipsr
JK Leeds is also pretty cool
Baron's Castle too
Just a correction, the hollows don't have a "chance" of dropping humanities, they drop after a certain amount of kills.
Illusory Wall has a video on that mechanic.
Someone has to teach these runners that you don't WALK up a ladder, you CLIMB it.
This video was a joy to watch, 40 mins felt like 5 due to how interesting the problem solving was and all the unexpected obstacles you found and yet managed to overcome.
This challenge was by far the most painful challenge I've ever seen, I had a hard time watching it, thanks for that.
Welcome back bro dark souls will forever be a masterpiece and in my opinion and if it's possible, dark souls is the best game ever made, or one of the best games ever made, I love it,
"Standing there and hitting them with a giant sword" Is usually my method of choice in any game ever(or any giant weapon). Glad to see its effectiveness featured in this run :)
Same.
Shouldn't had laught so hard when I realised you named your character Lt Dan😅
Glad you're back
I’m happy you got the silver play button it’s weird to me how your channel isn’t so much bigger cause your content is great
"The game would be impossible without going up ladders"
*Meanwhile: Ymfah*
I dont know if Ymfah will ever do DS1 without walking if there is no glitch to skip that first ladder in Asylum (if it even exists). Thats only major obstacle for which determining if its possible (rest would be just following standard speedrun path with sens skip and wrong vorp to kiln)
I really love your videos long time follower, i probably watched almost all od your ds 1 and ds2 videos i don't comment much but congrats on the 100k Keep doing a great job all my love man!
I like to think that the undead is taking on all these challenges in order to not go hollow
Bro that farming spot in the forest where you stand near the clif and the NPCs fall off the cliff is an underrated farming spot. Haven't seen any other Dark souls RUclips's us that farming spot for some reason. Good to know someone's finally doing it. 15:31
I've seen a bunch use the Hellkite bridge. Only a couple use the forest.
Sens fortress bottom floor Titanite demons and all the Man-Serpent is good farm, or all of anor londo. Or the great Hollow mushroom enemies.
Was kind of expecting you to use tokhi bombs for Bed of Chaos. Seems like the perfect run for that strat.
This shows how good poise is in Dark Souls 1. Great video as always!
I wish you luck on the next 897k subscribers. You're one of the best challenge runners I know of on RUclips, so god knows you deserve such!
"How much do you want yourself to suffer?"
:
Just got here! already know that is going to be a great video!
I'm not sure how useful it would have been, but the Uchigatana's two handed strong attack tends to fling you forwards on slopes quite consistently. May have been useful to reach the Asylum revisit,
"We stood there, and hit them with a giant sword. We stood there and hit them with giant arrows" is my usual playstyle anyway.
About the moving left and right, Ive played so many old games that dont allow you to anyway, so Ive never not known how powerful it is to have freedom of movement. This is one challenge I will never do if it causes literal headaches. I have chronic migraines, so that would be killer on me.
I felt the same way now that Ive made it to Stray Demon, and I had movement.
"Can't move left stick" ok *uses WASD*
I figured the hardest part of this would be not accidentally walking when redirecting your backstep (by inputting the backstep, then buffering an analog input opposite of the direction you want to go before the backstep comes out), but the “no left analog stick” part removed any fear of that. Doing absurd challenges like these are such a great excuse to keep playing this game. Cheers, keep up the great work! It’s always very entertaining.
Solid music choices. Love the vid
LMFAO from only using magic to beating the game without walking. Ymfah's blessing clearly resonates within you
I just beat dark souls 1 for the first time yesterday so this is such a nice treat right after :D!
Made myself some tea, got all cozy and about to watch this
Congration, you done it!! :D
@@amberhernandez Aww, thank you! This is such a sweet reply! Hope you have a good day friend (✿^‿^).
I can think of a dozen challenge ideas but this is the last thing I thought about as a challenge. keep up the great work man
I hear the Super Smash Bros music in these videos and I am immediately sent back several years (easily over a decade at times) to my childhood and it's like being on a crazy roller-coaster X3
15:09 can't believe you skimmed over how it floats down
I get this amazing joke
OH YES! KYLE IS BACK \o/
Liked already, even if havent seen it. I know it will be that good.
He discovered the secret to unlock everything. Next time someone asks how to solve a problem. Just say "Stay there, and hit it with a giant sword"
I loved how he stood there and hit them with a giant sword.
Great video! I'm sure the bed of chaos cheese with firebombs was off the table when you didn't do it for capra, but I thought I remembered a _long_ time ago seeing a video of someone snipping the bed of chaos with the bow from the entry ramp? maybe the remaster fixed that (or maybe it was a dream who knows lol)
hey doom! was hoping to see ya in here!
@@DarkCT I wouldn't miss a gamers weekend video, especially not a no walk challenge ;) haha
@@DoomWolfOfficial Damn right... I saw this and your no walk was in there, then i got remidned of a certain someoens armor of thorns challenge to.
..I watch a LOT of challenge running.
Did something similar to this about 5 years ago - slow walking only. Waaay easier than this, though, since I could actually move and aim mid-swing with my giant sword))
And yeah, Bed of BS was a nightmare. Managed to reach the center with Butcher's Knife strong attack, but it took forever.
(Also, tanking Artorias with Havel's + Iron Flesh felt GOOD
Congrats on the 100k always s tier content. Curse of darkness music is a fine choice such an amazing soundtrack.
Got to respect the effort to put yourself through this hell.
I would have walked away hours ago.
You are crazy my friend, glad to see the channel js doing great!
Akshually 🤓 it's not random, illusory wall covered what there is a set amount of essence, needed to get a humanity from monsters when boss is alive. This amount increases with every humanity obtained on current location (up to 10)
mann i literally squirmed at ur photo with the yt button, u look soo happy ily!
Man, so happy to see another challenge run. Keep it up man :D
Love it.
Missed your content this last few months, such a good channel
Good to have you back man been missing your challenges ❤❤
Every journey begins with the first step... but little did they know.
"Stand there and hit him with a giant sword" is my preferred method of playing DS3, where enemy poise doesn't exist, and player poise is busted
Hey there! Just thought you'd like to know, the 'soft humanity' is not bound to the enemies being Hollow. There's a hidden counter running in the background counting up with kills, and when that counter reaches a certain threshold, you gain a soft humanity. Iirc not every enemy increases this counter, but most of them do so you can theoretically farm soft humanities everywhere.
Not everywhere, only certain areas. If I'm remembering right, Painted World, New Londo, Undead Asylum, and like, one to three more I can't remember don't build up the counter.
heeey ! glad to see you back ! also, congrats for the 100k ! well deserved :)
Congrats on the 100k subs, makes my day happier to see another video from this amazing channel 💜
The return of the king!
Congrats on 100k mate. You deserve it :)
"We stood there and hit them with the giant sword" - basically ds1 guide
Man I’m so glad to see you back on RUclips.
This is why this game stands as one of the greatest of all time, over a decade old and people still find ways (as crazy as they can get) to creatively complete the game again
missed the ds1 challenges welcome back
For those who are struggling with Anor Londo archers at 28:31 mark ledge you can quit out to lose agro of both and upon returning to game only one on right will agro on you making it easier to deal with. After passing through those demons quickly quit out.
In a game where movement's seen as king, tanking damage standing still and waving a massive sword around is surprisingly effective
really good demonstration of the power of tanking hits
I think I’m getting headache, THANKS KYLE
I had missed your vids in the time off but great vid man 💜
40:18 Ahh, I love how youtubers edit so they can end in a more humorous way, seeming they didn't struggle so much. But we can always see the signs. "Parrying each and every knight" *Preceeds to see estus quantity go from 20 to 13.
I hope you continue Dark Souls 3 playthrough since i want to see what challenge runs you going to make in that game and of course i want to see you play bloodborne and Sekiro as well
"He's just standing there.....WITH A GIANT SWORD"
I remember when GamersWeekend first employed the generation defining strategy "Stood there and hit them with a giant sword". It cured my ovarian cancer, and I'm a guy.
What a magical moment.
Drake Sword and Zweihander is some real first playthrough nostalgia lmao
"He's just standing there.... HITTING WITH A GIANT SWORD!"
"He's just standing there, menacingly"
Final words from Gwyn
My first video im seeing from you. Very impressive run, slick editing and music choice, and very effective storytelling, though maybe feel free to add some one liners here and there or something. Overall, very good stuff, keep it up ^.^
been having a rough time of it lately, thanks for making me smile today Kyle.
Now we need a challenge without using the right stick
That's just a pure melee run with the only difficulty is not being able to rotate the camera
Congratulations on 100k
Seems once you’re set up, dark souls really can boil down to simply “hit em with a giant sword”
Noobs: whats a back step
Vets: I only back step. I only role when I see the the whites of my enemy's eyes.
My god, Bed of Chaos like that seems a NIGHTMARE.
This run can be summed up in 10 words: "He sat there and hit them with a giant sword"
This reminds me a lot of when I played this game without using the right stick, thanks for reminding me that I made the right choice.
Talk about taking zero steps forward and a million steps back
i really like the part where he stood there and hit them with a giant sword. very inspiring 10/10
Recently RUclips has been recommending me a lot of crazy Dark Souls challenges. I feel like one of these days I am going to see "beating Dark Souls without playing Dark Souls" jaja
9:00 "Unfortunately, titanite shards went a little dry for us, which is a bit unfortunate"
A challenge I did really showed me the importance of dodging, strafing, and parrying. I wasn't in control of what I upgraded, I had a wheel. Whatever it landed on, I leveled. 4 levels in resistance in a row after the asylum btw...
I know it's not related but loved it.
Gives me conniptions.
I love elden ring and all the other souls games. But watching ds1 and ds2 challenges always hit something different
Dmg Optimizers : "Magic is the king of dark souls!"
Strength Mains and god tier challenge runners: "Oh no... so anyway, I stood there, and hit them with a giant sword."
Real talk, I need that on a t-shirt. Glad to have you back Kyle. I missed you.
You choose the Zweihander because it has good damage. I choose the Zweihnader because it makes me move quickly. We are not the same.
your videos are always amazing my guy
i like the "we could do this" bits. It's like when Olmec would explain the routes in Legends of the Hidden Temple
You should do great shield only next
Challenge: After Killing an Enemy you are not allowed to use that Weapon/Spell/etc ever again
Challenge idea: All hits! You can't dodge in any way, and you can't parry.
But maybe only on bosses, and not all enemies
Back to the classics