DSP has been INFAMOUS for ignoring tutorials. If it's a text box he skips through it, if it's an NPC talking DSP will repeat "blah, blah, blah," not listening to the instructions, and if it's a level that he can run through he only focuses on checking if he's got donations. Then when DSP needs to start actually using the game mechanics, he flips out calling the game/devs shit because they didn't "explain" how the mechanics works.
Think what you will of Josh Strife Hayes, but I think what he once said is pretty much spot on with this, that you only get out of a game what you put into it. If you’re running around like a dope, not paying attention, talking to NPCs, etc. then you’re going to find the game boring
at this point i'm confident he knows what he's doing. he plays up not knowing what he's doing so that he can milk donations from people who are trying to help him
To be fair I do the same. I skip the long ass text, then get confused and annoyed I have to figure it out myself. They could make it more intuitive and fast to figure out. Mobile games. Mobile games do this pretty well. They give you an arrow "Click here to select this attack, now click here to use the attack there. Now you have a bunch more options... you'll figure it out. There's stat boxes if you wish to compare, but you could just try stuff out.". Once you have a grasp on baldurs gate, it's fine. However it did take me around an hour to get what everything was.
@@shimmyking4 Hahaha only speaking the truth man. Tutorials are hard to do right. Just look at runescape, they've tried various different tutorials, and they're gone back to the default one a bunch of times. There's a balance between time learning stuff and getting to play the game. There can't be an information dump like in pokemon games, where you have to sit through an hour of text explaining what a pokeball is.
Meanwhile, a Fromsoft fan boy experiences an RPG for the first time (also happens to be BG3) and enjoys it after beating it on tactician difficulty and attempts another run on honor difficulty at the expense of his sanity.
Oh, he didn't. Phil is the equivalent of playing like a monkey and the dice going his way every single time. Anyone else behaving how he does wouldn't survive with a RUclipsr/Streamer career.
*TL;DR at the bottom* Phil is *consistently* failing at life. Phil's nat 20 in luck is permanently damaged by his crit fails in self-control, self-improvement and self-awareness. He's so busy shielding his own ego, and checking in on his finger about how his latest ear expedition is going, that he's forever left clueless. He's that one player every TTRPG member hates. That one that gets great luck in general, yet: chooses to be a bard out of spite, and learns nothing about the character stats or abilities; consistently ignores and personally attacks the DM; only pays attention to his phone; hinders his team, then blames them for his shortcomings; and calls for a perception check when the whole party has just been downed in battle by the obvious cave troll - before then getting pissy when nobody in the TTRPG community wants to play with him anymore. TL;DR: Phil is an expert at pulling nat 20s, but only to get himself out of every trap, crit fail, and bad decision he forever blindly stumbles into.
Me at age of 10: playing neverwinter nights, having a blast, PC too weak to run the game without crashing every 30 minutes, still great game and I love how much I have to learn to play it through reading the manual. Phil at 40: WAAH THE GAME REQUIRES ME TO THINK, I NEED TO BE HANDHELD
@@mmanu6126Don't feel bad I'm 45... 4 years ago I was dropped on a concrete floor of a hospital when I was unconscious They put me in a coma for 3 months... When I woke up I literally had to learn how to play video games all over again. It wasn't frustrating as much as I thought it was going to be It was surreal knowing that you knew stuff but you had to relearn it.
I was WAY worse at video games. I used cheat codes and save scumming whenever possible. I don't think I actually "enjoyed" real game from start to finish until I was 12 or 13 when playing with cheats bored me.@@mmanu6126
The first time Gale died on me, I was absolutely AMAZED! A dead partymember unlocked a random, surprising sidequest that I have never seen before. And Phil? He hates it... Well, that's one way to not play Baldurs Gate.
He made faces and whined during the whole spiel from Gale about rezzing him, skipped Gale asking him to repeat the instructions back, then instead of following the directions, walked the whole party into the necrotic aura. LOL. He has the IQ of a foot.
I too absolutely despised Gale when he dies. He turns into a giant pool of goop and party wipes me for getting close to his corpse. Only the very recent time he died did I bother using a scroll of revivify on him. I personally dislike the character anyways. So I’m in no rush to go out of my way for him. (I know the games been out for a while but still people aren’t aware. You can just use a regular ass scroll on Gale and he just assumed you followed his little side quest anyways, shame)
No DSP. I was one of those who jumped into BG3 with no knowledge. No D&D... No Divinity... And this game jumped up to the number 2 spot in my favourite RPGs of all time. The tutorials work if you pay attention.
Ive only played a few sessions of dnd and i was super young.. my dad walked me through them. I also skipped alot of tutorials and still found out how to play for the most part
I think you've probably got a decent handle on how actual D&D will go if you were to play it now, with the exception that BG3 has a bunch of house rules, that i kind of hope make their way in to the next edition of D&D.
I'm 35, I have never in my life touched any original BGs, any DnD game ever irl or PC, any Larian game ever. I don't even play RPGs that much, mostly TBS, RTS, FPS and ARPGs. BG3 is amazing and extremely accessible.
"I didnt know that fire ignites oil" should be the only thing people take from this. He has no imagination, he just wants to auto win and get it over with. His spiel on graphics and plot is him pretending to care. Its probably even ripped directly from a review somewhere.
I died inside when he said that. Like how can you not know something that simple...? Like ignore the fact that it's a video game and that rule still applies to reality...
Like water insta killing you in alot of games is something people just understand some devs do. Oil+fire equals lots of fire is equally an incredibly common mechanic. Especially in rpgs. Especially + in top down rpgs. So Phil is either making up an excuse because his narcissism mental illness needs an excuse for just forgetting that (literally everyone forgets combinations like that sometimes) or he's telling us he's so stupid he thinks fire plus flammable thing equals more fire is purely game logic. Bonus if you pointed that contradiction out to him. He might have to stop himself from calling you a slur
Phil has been extremely negative considering he had everything kinda go right for him. He had great viewership, help from the viewers, good money coming in and the game was even donated to him. The fact that he's still forcing himself to be negative is a big tell that the negativity is what he's really about, no matter what he says.
He did unironically go by "The King of Hate" for the longest time which was a name given to him by the community for his attitude and not his pick so it's no surprise it's the only temperament he knows by heart. Guy hasn't changed a bit from his old Street Fighter days and it's sad to see.
He was hoping for the opposite of what you said so that he wouldn't have to continue playing it. I get the feeling he wanted to drop it after 1 stream.
It took him 3 hours because he drags his fucking heels for 2 hours wallering in the pig tips. Then spent 30 mins in the char creation screen talking about the different stats 🙄
You probably read all the options and at least vaguely understood them. Hell, I pre-gamed by prepping a build I wanted to go with and then just started fiddling around with all the fun options anyway! But DSP... His face only ever shows confusion or disgust. He's in that special category where he needs gameplay suitable for 5yos but dressed up in the textures of an adult-marketed game that takes itself waaay too seriously, to the point paint drying would be more lively.
@@conspiracypanda1200 lmao 😭. Honestly yeah, I’ve only played one sesh of DnD before all the way back in freshman year of high school because the DnD club was meeting in the room I was doing a make up test for. I literally had to read and figure out all the stuff in the menus while making my character.
Imagine spending 15 years of your life playing videogames daily, you have literally played pretty much any popular RPG release of the last decade, both western and japanese, yet the concept of a "party camp" is completely foreign to you still. I think DSP may be genuinely and clinically regarded.
I mean he ain’t a rpg gamer, he played them cuz they were popular at the time but I’ve tuned in over the years he played like complete shit and always ignored the rpg parts. The one and only game he has some competence in is SF2. He is a FGC gamer and the shame of the FGC sadly.
I know, man. I am the same age as DSP. It baffles me how he can be so incompetent at games.... I literally have thousands of hours on every genre imaginable.. And I don't even do this for a living.
I personally agree the man talks like a small child and he quite actually thinks on the level in terms of problem solving and comprehension, I just can’t buy an adult who’s in Phil’s position being anything other than at least a very basic understanding of widely common and used mechanics in the games he plays. Phil can play call of duty one year complain that the games completely changed and go on a tangent about how “x is being abused, x takes no skill” then play the next to repeat it like clockwork. All the entire time not even acknowledging just very obvious mistakes he makes or how just kinda obvious a lot of this stuff is to most people with a properly functioning brain and that while slow he figured it out, like that extremely low bar he fails to reach hundreds of thousands of times by now unofficially, clinically, medically,…..very very special let’s just say.
He hates the POPULARITY of the game. Don't forget; for a good chunk of Internet history, DSP WAS a drama channel. Every popular game, YTer, cultural phenomenon, music group, he has more than likely if not absolutely had a negative take bc he had no experience with them. He admits it especially for Minecraft but, back in the day it wasnt just "game bad", it was "if you like MineCraft you are a mental midget retard childish mouth drooling morahn who had no taste in games". About four years after that zenith, he tried and loved it, not bc it was good game, but bc his fans would pay him $25 to explore a cave or pay him to build structures or to name a pig and shit. Gimmicks he later brought back, charging people $25 he would use as a slot filler only to box them the next episode. He's such a fucking scumfuck bastard this guy
@@AtlustheBookkeeper I kinda understand why he likes Yakuza like a dragon. Its basically baby's first turn based RPG. I actually enjoy Like a Dragon but you can tell they never done a turn base RPG before. It's very basic in terms of combat. That explains why he hates Baldurs Gate 3
Not gonna lie but a drunken pig telling me BG3 is too complex and intricate at the same time trying to convince me he is a successful business pig and make good decisions yet he'd prefer a $10 stream of a yakuza game but will trash BG3 and the possibility of making good bank makes me angry
honestly I feel like many of DSP's criticisms would be solved by having a longer attention span than an infant, and actually reading tutorials, and using common sense (who could have guessed that fire ignites oil/grease?)
I think it was cuphead that did journalist mode as a joke but games may genuinely need to add a DSP MODE (invulnerability, all stats maxed out instantly, best armor, 1 hit kill on ALL enemies, game plays itself and pays Phil $60 one time)
It never seizes to amaze me how frustrating DSP can be. Way he acts, way he talks... everything about him makes me want to headbutt a brick wall to end the suffering. I have worked with children of all ages almost 10 years now and not a single child has been as childish, immature and unable to take responsibility for their action as DSP. He's grown ass man who acts like spoiled little brat, who never does anything wrong.
all that crap they pumped into us in the late 80's early 90's like self esteem and all that other feel good crap did nothing but create a legion of Daves.
He hates it, but he hates it because in his mind he HAS to hate it. Otherwise he will have to admit he was wrong and he would rather die than let that happen. This playthrough was doomed from the moment the games awards made him eat his words.
@@mookiess Thanks for the answer and link. I am at a loss of words at his stupidity and refusal to admit he is wrong. But then again, we are talking about DSP here. Anytime I hear about him it is always bad. Lol.
It gets even better. At the point he was in the game, there was no way for him to have access to the 'Fireball' spell. He's probably referring to the 'Fire Bolt' spell, which is a cantrip that Shadowheart has access to from the start. The visual does look something akin to a ball of fire, but it is most definitely just a single target spell.
Omg Atlus, in Snort Hogan's upload on DSP's Baldur's Gate 3 video yesterday he made another Sandwich Shop analogy, like he literally said "Lets say i have a sandwich shop" again LMFAOOOO
DSP bitching about aiming. Brings me right back to the good ol mgs3 days "why doesn't it auto aim at his head? It should aim at his head!" Dude just cannot be bothered to put in any effort in anything. Just wants to hit L2, R2 and win. Eh....Anyways! I hope ya pull a Hogan with this.
@@marcwilliams9824personification: a person, animal, or object regarded as representing or embodying a quality, concept, or thing. The concept of a game reviewer bad at video games is being personified by DSP. It was the correct usage
I am an EXTREMELY casual gamer, to the point where I have been playing dnd regularly for 10+ years and still am running my first playthrough of bg3 on Explorer bc I don't want to deal with the stress. And this dude somehow gives me confidence. Even I know how an aoe effect works, and how to look at my menu of options and determine what is there. They don't even rush you - it's turn based. You can spend hours reading through all of your companion's abilities on a single turn to decide how you want to use them. I can't believe he thinks this game is comparable to Souls. No offense to it, but I'm terrified to even attempt those games. Bg3 is a casual's dream, you can avoid so many combats just by sneaking past or getting lucky on rolls. (Or by playing a bard, but that one at least requires knowing your classes). Wild!
@@FoxyFoxlyn Same! I talked my way into every ally I could for each fight and talked a few bosses into taking care of themselves. Got the achievement for gaining 100 gold by playing my instrument before I even made it into the city proper 😂 I'm a halfling bard, I'm just here to play songs and chill!
@@bulletsandbracelets4140 I know the bosses you mean. I did that too. Mine was a Half Drow who romanced Astarion. I went with Swords Bard, but didn't like it, used Withers to respec to Valour, which I played in EA.
Atlus. DSP didn't play Divinity. His chat held his hand and told DSP what to do. So no wonder if DSP has no clue at all. Also DSP isn't playing BG3. His chat is playing that too! Also DSP played the Dragon Age games with a similar camp system! DSP seriously has no critical thinking skills or desire to learn things.
The beauty of BG3 is getting lost in the world, exploring and experiencing everything for yourself. Sometimes you have to explore and look around and trail around to figure out how things work. But it's part of the adventure. You may have one battle that goes to complete shit and you come back half dead, your party is crippled down but you learned something for the next battle. The game is all about growing and learning as your adventure continues on, every fight you might learn a new mechanic or something simple. Just thinking "Let me try this" Thinking outside of the box is a real strong point of this game. But DSP refuses to do that, but the funniest thing about that is BG3 even works wit that playstyle of just hitting everything, fighting your way unga bunga style. Somehow he STILL fails that.
and i prefer playing a sorcerer and using spell slots to quickly kill the enemies before they got the chance to even approach me. I really like this game for it's combat diversity. The combat is amazing and not many games have the same amount of depth as baldur's gate 3 @@mrthaimaster
I fail to understand this kind of gamer at all. When you drop me into a game like BG3 blind, it’s like a kid in a candy shop. “What’s this? What’s that? What does THAT do? Hey what happens if I do that- holy shit, that’s amazing” If I ever lost my curiosity and desire to learn and traded it in for just the braindead hand holding experience these guys clearly want, I think id spontaneously combust
DSP reminds me of someone I play D&D with. Constantly jumping down holes. But the fun thing about BG3 is.... there's no DM going "are you really sure you want to do that?"
He compared it to Dark Souls😂. I love that any challenge or common sense makes a game a Souls game. Also, I love he's lost by the concept of camp. I'm guessing daddy Burnell never took Jr. Camping.
"game doesn't explain everything to me!" *Pop Up explaining important stuff shows up "Nah, not reading that" *game over "Game doesn't explain everything to me!"
Arr-dew-us. Big word Burnell with another mispronunciation. He didn't utilize anything in the death fight. They're huddled in a room with an oil barrel, didn't hit it with fire. Didn't utilize angles. That's novice stuff. Then, a character is emitting a green aura, he walked into it and took damage, got downed. So what does he do now that 3/4 are down? Switched to #4 AND WALKED RIGHT BACK INTO THE GREEN STUFF, stood there as the damage ticked, and party wiped. Then complained there was no fire on the ground? Obviously it was the game's fault.
Haha my third character lockpicked the chapel door that leads into the section after the bandits in the ruin. I lost some xp but could finish the ruin part quicker.
12:26 shows how paranoid DSP is. It's "THE CAMP" DSP is out here thinking there's going to be RANDOM EENCOUNTERS in this game. LIke he's gonna sstep on a tile and battle music iss gonna sstart playing like it's a final fantasy game. LMAO.
"because that's what happens when I throw a fireball at someone in real life" Gee Phil, I don't know about you but I don't know anyone who can magic a fireball into existence
He's basically saying that an RPG is too much of an RPG. Complains about not knowing everything beforehand. Discovery is part of an RPG. He's just so used to having guides and walkthroughs for every little detail. He's not a gamer. He's just moving through a game with hand holding, making 100k a year.
Exactly, yesterdays Baldurs Gate 3 Stream literally was: "Chat plays Baldurs Gate 3", whoever will create the TIHYDP of Baldurs Gate 3 should add the "Looking at Chat" counter like in Dark Souls 1 lmfao, its pathetic how he plays this game, but it doesnt matter to him, he already stated indirectly that he will only play Baldurs Gate 3 till the end of the first January week of 2024 to make place for "new releases".
Remember his favourite game was Bugsnax, because the game was simple and held your hand throughout the game. Any game that requires a tiny amount of thinking or listening to conversations then it's absolute dogshit dood
I died from laughter when he said that. He starts rumbling on about "how things work in real life" yet earlier he was completely oblivious to the fact, that oil will ignite if you shoot it with fire... And then he complained that the game didn't explain this to him and expected him to already know that - and like, yeah because it's common knowledge even outside of video games...
What a shock. He is surprised that BG3 is like Divivity ... which is like BG2 & BG1 & Planescape Torment & Icewind Dale & Neverwinter Nights etc... What a great game historian this guy is.
One thing I’ve noticed with Phil is he always front loads his positive points before launching into his negative tirades like that covers his bases. Typically you’d want to do it the other way around otherwise people are only going to remember the negatives. And his description of the gameplay is absurd. He makes it sound awful but everyone I know who played it said it’s great. DSP just wants a combat system he can mash attack and heal every so often to advance without thinking even slightly. Also I’m laughing picturing DSP trying a DnD campaign. He’d take a week to make a character and would be confused constantly and just wouldn’t be creative which is the fun of a tabletop style game. He just wants to hit enemy and get loot. Nothing else. Studying the environment and coming up with creative strategies is part of the fun. Only Phil treats that aspect as a negative and will try to convince his dents why this is bad. Phil yet again proves he doesn’t understand good game design. Also it bothers me DSPs definition of interactive streamer is having a chat act as his strategy guide. That’s not interaction when it is one sided and his tips come attached to literal tips.
My favorite moment so far for me(granted I literally just got to the end of Act 1 in first playthrough) was when I turned a corner at level 4 in the selune temple, and ran into what I "thought" was a beholder, who murdered my entire team. I decided..I'mma try something funny next time. I can back at level 6, and used a combination of grease bottles, firebolts, and thunder wave, to knock the flaming pile of eyeballs off the cliff to death
I had never played any similar game before trying BG3. It's not difficult or a pain in the ass at all. It's easy to understand with a small learning curve and a high skill/knowledge ceiling. But Phil, the "professional gamer" just has gin brain and can't process any more than 3 pieces of information at any given time unless it involves sweaty men.
I wanna preface this saying that BG3 is my first dip into crpgs and turn based combat. I’m as inexperienced as one could get, more than this DSP guy. That said, I didn’t find it to be incredibly hard. It was confusing at first, and it’s easy to be overwhelmed with seeing the rows of spells and mechanics. BUT, the point of the game is for you to explore, learn and adapt. I can recall my fight at the grove and how terrible it was, so much so I didn’t want to fight at all. But just yesterday, I dashed in and obliterated the hell out to Gortash and his entire crew in one day. I had no prior knowledge, and often had to learn stuff on the fly. Act 1 gave me the chance to learn the mechanics, try out spells and prepare for the later battles. Sometimes I messed up so bad i had to reload, but instead of getting mad over my mistakes, I learned and got better. DSP lacks the patience and ability to simply *try*. He’s jumping into the game without any proper foresight or awareness of his surroundings. I mean his gameplay when running towards Gale is telling enough of how little he cares. He expects the game to just lay it flat that there’s a noxious cloud when the game shows that VISUALLY, and possibly in the dialogue as well (which he skips over). I hope he learns to enjoy the game, or leave with a more positive understanding but given his attitude it’s likely he’s just there for the cash flow and not for his own enjoyment. Which is sad. BG3 has become my comfort game and it’s definitely something everyone should try just once, even if it’s not your style. The world building, plot, and interactions are so interwoven and complex. But he skips over it like it’s nothing. A game is only good as the amount of effort you put into it, so if you’re treating it like crap, you’re bound to feel the exact same.
Seems like the game intimidates him. Asking for handholding defeats the whole purpose of playing it. The game gives you agency to solve problems in creative ways. That scares Phil because he has no imagination.
It makes no sense to me why he chose a spell caster. Yes they are incredibly powerful but he doesn't understand the game or mechanics. He should have chose fighter that's much simpler for newcomers.
I've been watching some of dsps BG3 sessions and I'm more certain than ever his valedictorian claim is bogus. I get that some things don't come quickly or naturally to people but his intellectual incuriosity is wild.
25:10 is he stupid?! BRO! Just because you miss doesn’t mean a fireball just splats to the ground! Like what the hell?! It’s a fireball! It misses and goes flying far away! OMG! 😂
camp?! what is camp?! idk, but when i figure out a really obscure, or new, or complex mechanic in a game, im usually pretty happy about it... he really doesnt like video games, does he?
Phil doesn't like learning how to play games. His DS2 and DS3 Playthrough was his dents coming in as Phantom and carrying him. His Bloodborne Playthrough was even worse. He would badger his dents to give him advice on fights against bosses he got stuck in. Bloodborne was an absolute atrocious Playthrough and the DLC was even harder, which is why he dropped it completely back then. He spent $20 on DLC for Bloodborne since it just came out and he got so platinum mad about dying over and over that he quit Bloodborne since "He wasn't having fun". He wasn't having fun since he couldn't just win immediately, he's not getting instant gratification, he's hit a brick wall and can't get around it. Him sitting there and acting like he did Bloodborne all by himself and completed it legitimately is revisioning history. Dude never beats any game on his own, not even Fallout 4.
Phil and BG3 is a perfect example of a lazy, entitled gamer struggling with a well-designed game because he would rather be spoon-fed and hand-held than learn anything for himself through exploration and experimentation. I remember struggling to clear the Undead Burg in Dark Souls for several hours because I was determined to defeat every enemy in the area. I'd never played a Souls game before, but the game-play was so compelling that I embraced the challenge it presented. Phil clearly has no passion for gaming and is the living embodiment of "skill issue".
Yeesh. I had never played a DnD game before BG3. My previous experience with similar games was also DOS1&2. Yeah, there was a little learning curve... but after three hours? I'd cracked it. This guy is just thick as a brick.
He complains Divinity 2 and BG3 are ”the same”, yet buys CoD Modern Warfare 3 which is literally the same game as the previous one. BG3 and Divinity 2 are in the same genre but still feel different to one another. I’ve never played DND before yet I learned the basics of BG3 eventually. It has a learning curve for sure and I know far, far from everything. Which is what I like about it. Trial and error.
DSP: I played Dark Souls and had no idea what it was about. All I did was die die die die die. Dark Souls slogan/sub-title: Prepare to die. Also, I'm getting the sense that he doesn't know Larian made D:OS2 as well? Imagine playing that and not understanding what a turn based, 3/4 isometric RPG plays like after the fact. The man seems like he's incapable of learning anything and demands his hand be held at all times. I feel bad for his wife.
30:18 - I have *never* seen someone - online or IRL - *that* bored and mentally checked out from a game. He's barely touched it and he's already detached. And the worst is that I know why that's the case: it's deliberate, intended hate. Both towards the game and towards his fans. It's too difficult for him to enjoy the game, because that'd be an outright admittance that he was wrong and his audience was right. And if he has to suffer, his audience has to suffer too. - BG3 makes you think, and Phil hates thinking, because it gives away how unimaginative and unattentive he is. TOTK says hi. - It's an unpleasant submission to his fanbase of whom he already hates. They basically had to push him into playing it, and the numbers on his stream reflect that his audience are better at judging decisions when compared to Mr. Business de Gree. - Most of all, BG3 is a good game! It's received near unanimous praise, and annihilates Phil's smug yet uneducated prediction that it'd be a mid-tier game that'd be long forgotten by now. To put it in a context Phil would understand: BG3 anally evacuated over his ego. (Also, it tells him to open the journal. I've not played BG3, but I'd bet the journal entry might contain a clue about the deadly gas. It's also called "Necrotic Aura", and his party member died getting near it - how many more context clues does he need?!) 🤦🏻
You noticed how when Shadowheart died at around 30:50 the game said that Gale had a "Necrotic Aura" effect with a skull icon. If he actually noticed that in time, I bet he would have been trying to figure out how to safely use the Scroll of Revivify on Gale. Maybe, he would even attempt to enter the turn based mode after noticing the pop ups about it, and realizing that he's not in it, due to him being able to move the characters normally. If he paid more attention he would have been able to survive the encounter.
That gas cloud thing is the type of shit that exposes your stupid friends when playing D&D. DM describes a green cloud of gas that burns your throat when you smell it. "I lOot ThE bOdY!!"
Omfg XD I’ve never played dnd never knew anything about it and I just finished my third honour mode playthrough… pre requisite knowledge is in no way required…
God of War Ragnarök warped his muppet brain even more than it already is. That game held your hand at every possible moment and told you exactly what to do, never let you think on your own, he wants every game to be like that now. No think, just push button and win
How dare the creators of BG3 not account for DSP's stream being about to end during important dialogue. They should have split it up into stream sections so hes instantly greeted with it when he starts his next one
I have literally blown up an oil barrel by hitting oil on the floor with a fire spell Also, I had no idea you could knock on that door and talk to the dude... I've played the game a ton of times over, but I've ALWAYS just jumped down the hole. But you know what? Even on my first run, I knew there would be enemies down there. Because in the dialogue with the halfling before the battle outside, you're told that they have friends inside trying to work their way through the place. If THIS guy is hostile, THOSE guys will be hostile.
@V2ULTRAKill yes, but not to the degree of let's say bloodborne with Ludwig holy blade. All souls games including sekiro have some outs, just sekiro has less
His biggest problem is his negativity towards everything... he is always comparing and never embracing it for what it is as a standalone game If I took a drink every time he mentioned Divinity: Original Sin, I'd be drunk off my ass
Guys, I think I know why Phil absolutely hates games that make you learn from your mistakes. That's because he absolutely HATES making mistakes and admitting he was wrong about something, his narcissistic ego is too fragile for that. He wants to play the game where he always wins, preferably by doing an absolute minimum effort. I guess Phil should start playing visual novels, it would fit him perfectly.
"You're just expected to understand how fire can ignite oil" Is this man fucking serious The attention to detail on mechanics like this is why BG3 is so great. I remember grinning from ear to ear during my first playthrough when I realized you could throw the goblins at each other with a barb, or make a puddle of water and freeze it to make enemies eat shit. What kind of combat does phil even want, Elmo's Letter Adventure????? With stuff like dark souls its easy to just say mad bcuz bad lul but malding this hard over BG3 makes me think he legitimately hates video games, why even play them if youre this opposed to engaging with them
DSP gets butthurt when people won’t throw him tons of cash for Mario games, yet can’t be appreciative of people tuning in and donating for a game that he doesn’t like. “You guys HAVE to like the games I want to play!!!1!” 🥺😭
26:38 I know that Gale (assuming that's how it's spelled) is just a videogame character but at the same time if I heard Phil being so flippant about my death I'd be pissed
I loved the bandit fight! I actually learned a lot of how mechanics from watching the enemies fight. I learned of throwing potions at my party members to heal them, and the oil/fire. “It was greyed out, IDK WHY” ….it LITERALLY tells you ON THE THROW COMMAND that it requires an action to use. This game requires you to be able to READ
Before I played BG3, I had never played a turn-based game, never played a BG game, and didn't really have any idea about D&D. I have 1000 hours in BG3 now, and I don't think I'll be slowing down anytime soon lol. His excuses are empty. Why is taking the time to learn something outside of your comfort zone ever a negative thing?
DSP has been INFAMOUS for ignoring tutorials. If it's a text box he skips through it, if it's an NPC talking DSP will repeat "blah, blah, blah," not listening to the instructions, and if it's a level that he can run through he only focuses on checking if he's got donations. Then when DSP needs to start actually using the game mechanics, he flips out calling the game/devs shit because they didn't "explain" how the mechanics works.
Think what you will of Josh Strife Hayes, but I think what he once said is pretty much spot on with this, that you only get out of a game what you put into it. If you’re running around like a dope, not paying attention, talking to NPCs, etc. then you’re going to find the game boring
at this point i'm confident he knows what he's doing. he plays up not knowing what he's doing so that he can milk donations from people who are trying to help him
To be fair I do the same. I skip the long ass text, then get confused and annoyed I have to figure it out myself. They could make it more intuitive and fast to figure out. Mobile games. Mobile games do this pretty well. They give you an arrow "Click here to select this attack, now click here to use the attack there. Now you have a bunch more options... you'll figure it out. There's stat boxes if you wish to compare, but you could just try stuff out.". Once you have a grasp on baldurs gate, it's fine. However it did take me around an hour to get what everything was.
@@MHGFTW hey look everyone, we found DSP's alt account
@@shimmyking4 Hahaha only speaking the truth man. Tutorials are hard to do right. Just look at runescape, they've tried various different tutorials, and they're gone back to the default one a bunch of times. There's a balance between time learning stuff and getting to play the game. There can't be an information dump like in pokemon games, where you have to sit through an hour of text explaining what a pokeball is.
Imagine playing games for decades, and not understanding what a camp/safe place is.
Imagine playing games that have the same mechanic but still wondering what it is!
Imagine caring what others opinions are 😅😅
Too be honest, when I first went to the camp, I was so confused, but once I left the camp, I knew just about everything about it
@@689shadows it's not an opinion
@@thatoneguy2816 ok guy bc when someone thinks something its not a opinion
Bethesda fanboy experiences an RPG for the first time
He believes BugSnax was game of the year. This is the level of thinking Piggy puts out
Meanwhile, a Fromsoft fan boy experiences an RPG for the first time (also happens to be BG3) and enjoys it after beating it on tactician difficulty and attempts another run on honor difficulty at the expense of his sanity.
@@judgeprime3730 tbf bugsnax was a really good game not game of the year but still really good.
@@JoeyCentraltrue
@@JoeyCentralfromsoft players think they’re so unique and awesome 😭 what fromsoft games have you even beaten?
This guy will never stop pretending he can count frames
He can only count TIPS! Anything else not so much.
Sixty frames!!
He can count his Hogans
*whistles* wow, your comment came through at a crisp 60fps
Jasper kiT-Teh can count frames, dood!
He rolled a critical fail on life.
Even with the friends spell, Phil is forever alone.
Oh, he didn't. Phil is the equivalent of playing like a monkey and the dice going his way every single time. Anyone else behaving how he does wouldn't survive with a RUclipsr/Streamer career.
Quite opposite hes a huge failure of a human who keeps rolling 20s for some reason
*TL;DR at the bottom*
Phil is *consistently* failing at life. Phil's nat 20 in luck is permanently damaged by his crit fails in self-control, self-improvement and self-awareness. He's so busy shielding his own ego, and checking in on his finger about how his latest ear expedition is going, that he's forever left clueless.
He's that one player every TTRPG member hates. That one that gets great luck in general, yet: chooses to be a bard out of spite, and learns nothing about the character stats or abilities; consistently ignores and personally attacks the DM; only pays attention to his phone; hinders his team, then blames them for his shortcomings; and calls for a perception check when the whole party has just been downed in battle by the obvious cave troll - before then getting pissy when nobody in the TTRPG community wants to play with him anymore.
TL;DR: Phil is an expert at pulling nat 20s, but only to get himself out of every trap, crit fail, and bad decision he forever blindly stumbles into.
@@kecukraftwork1988 Phil is *That Guy* Incarnate. He shouldn't be allowed to live honestly.
Me at age of 10: playing neverwinter nights, having a blast, PC too weak to run the game without crashing every 30 minutes, still great game and I love how much I have to learn to play it through reading the manual.
Phil at 40: WAAH THE GAME REQUIRES ME TO THINK, I NEED TO BE HANDHELD
To be fair I used to be way better at games when I was younger. Now I just feel braindead, but still having fun
Never winter nights was so much fun , my monk was unstoppable.
Lol did you have a gateway PC in the end of the 90's too😂
@@mmanu6126Don't feel bad I'm 45... 4 years ago I was dropped on a concrete floor of a hospital when I was unconscious They put me in a coma for 3 months... When I woke up I literally had to learn how to play video games all over again.
It wasn't frustrating as much as I thought it was going to be It was surreal knowing that you knew stuff but you had to relearn it.
I was WAY worse at video games. I used cheat codes and save scumming whenever possible. I don't think I actually "enjoyed" real game from start to finish until I was 12 or 13 when playing with cheats bored me.@@mmanu6126
The first time Gale died on me, I was absolutely AMAZED! A dead partymember unlocked a random, surprising sidequest that I have never seen before.
And Phil? He hates it... Well, that's one way to not play Baldurs Gate.
He made faces and whined during the whole spiel from Gale about rezzing him, skipped Gale asking him to repeat the instructions back, then instead of following the directions, walked the whole party into the necrotic aura. LOL. He has the IQ of a foot.
@@Hoscue Hey stop insulting feet! Mine at least know when not put themselves in my mouth, unlike this.....God, words fail me at this point!
Trash
I too absolutely despised Gale when he dies. He turns into a giant pool of goop and party wipes me for getting close to his corpse. Only the very recent time he died did I bother using a scroll of revivify on him. I personally dislike the character anyways. So I’m in no rush to go out of my way for him. (I know the games been out for a while but still people aren’t aware. You can just use a regular ass scroll on Gale and he just assumed you followed his little side quest anyways, shame)
Nah, DSP is awful but I don’t want a party member to die on me for a side quest. You bet your ass I’m reloading.
No DSP. I was one of those who jumped into BG3 with no knowledge. No D&D... No Divinity... And this game jumped up to the number 2 spot in my favourite RPGs of all time. The tutorials work if you pay attention.
Ive only played a few sessions of dnd and i was super young.. my dad walked me through them. I also skipped alot of tutorials and still found out how to play for the most part
I think you've probably got a decent handle on how actual D&D will go if you were to play it now, with the exception that BG3 has a bunch of house rules, that i kind of hope make their way in to the next edition of D&D.
I'm 35, I have never in my life touched any original BGs, any DnD game ever irl or PC, any Larian game ever. I don't even play RPGs that much, mostly TBS, RTS, FPS and ARPGs. BG3 is amazing and extremely accessible.
I'm curious, what is your favorite RPG of all time? BG3 is up there for me but I still think Fallout: New Vegas is my favorite.
@@sci7zo Good choice for your favourite. Mine is Persona 5 Royal. I'm a big JRPG fan.
"I didnt know that fire ignites oil" should be the only thing people take from this. He has no imagination, he just wants to auto win and get it over with. His spiel on graphics and plot is him pretending to care. Its probably even ripped directly from a review somewhere.
I died inside when he said that.
Like how can you not know something that simple...? Like ignore the fact that it's a video game and that rule still applies to reality...
Like water insta killing you in alot of games is something people just understand some devs do. Oil+fire equals lots of fire is equally an incredibly common mechanic. Especially in rpgs. Especially + in top down rpgs.
So Phil is either making up an excuse because his narcissism mental illness needs an excuse for just forgetting that (literally everyone forgets combinations like that sometimes) or he's telling us he's so stupid he thinks fire plus flammable thing equals more fire is purely game logic.
Bonus if you pointed that contradiction out to him. He might have to stop himself from calling you a slur
Phil has been extremely negative considering he had everything kinda go right for him. He had great viewership, help from the viewers, good money coming in and the game was even donated to him. The fact that he's still forcing himself to be negative is a big tell that the negativity is what he's really about, no matter what he says.
He did unironically go by "The King of Hate" for the longest time which was a name given to him by the community for his attitude and not his pick so it's no surprise it's the only temperament he knows by heart. Guy hasn't changed a bit from his old Street Fighter days and it's sad to see.
He was hoping for the opposite of what you said so that he wouldn't have to continue playing it. I get the feeling he wanted to drop it after 1 stream.
@@snoozefluHe really hates the game with his guts because it's a living sign he was wrong for not playing it
He wants this Game to Fail SO BADLY.
It took him 3 hours because he drags his fucking heels for 2 hours wallering in the pig tips. Then spent 30 mins in the char creation screen talking about the different stats 🙄
“How did it take him 3 hours to get there?” Me who spent 3 hours in character customization 😬
I mean, that is understandable
You probably read all the options and at least vaguely understood them. Hell, I pre-gamed by prepping a build I wanted to go with and then just started fiddling around with all the fun options anyway! But DSP... His face only ever shows confusion or disgust. He's in that special category where he needs gameplay suitable for 5yos but dressed up in the textures of an adult-marketed game that takes itself waaay too seriously, to the point paint drying would be more lively.
@@conspiracypanda1200 lmao 😭. Honestly yeah, I’ve only played one sesh of DnD before all the way back in freshman year of high school because the DnD club was meeting in the room I was doing a make up test for. I literally had to read and figure out all the stuff in the menus while making my character.
Three?….
(Stares at my 12)
@@malaizze You have my respect, gotta make sure our Tav looks perfect
Imagine spending 15 years of your life playing videogames daily, you have literally played pretty much any popular RPG release of the last decade, both western and japanese, yet the concept of a "party camp" is completely foreign to you still.
I think DSP may be genuinely and clinically regarded.
Imagine playing Dragon Quest XI and while crafting in camp you suddenly get a random encounter.
I mean he ain’t a rpg gamer, he played them cuz they were popular at the time but I’ve tuned in over the years he played like complete shit and always ignored the rpg parts. The one and only game he has some competence in is SF2. He is a FGC gamer and the shame of the FGC sadly.
I know, man. I am the same age as DSP. It baffles me how he can be so incompetent at games.... I literally have thousands of hours on every genre imaginable.. And I don't even do this for a living.
I personally agree the man talks like a small child and he quite actually thinks on the level in terms of problem solving and comprehension, I just can’t buy an adult who’s in Phil’s position being anything other than at least a very basic understanding of widely common and used mechanics in the games he plays. Phil can play call of duty one year complain that the games completely changed and go on a tangent about how “x is being abused, x takes no skill” then play the next to repeat it like clockwork. All the entire time not even acknowledging just very obvious mistakes he makes or how just kinda obvious a lot of this stuff is to most people with a properly functioning brain and that while slow he figured it out, like that extremely low bar he fails to reach hundreds of thousands of times by now unofficially, clinically, medically,…..very very special let’s just say.
Three hours? That's like nothing. Absolutely nothing and he already complains about the game? He really, REALLY, hates this game man
Remember that's Phil's three hours. Apparently he didn't finish the tutorial by the end of stream...
He hates the POPULARITY of the game. Don't forget; for a good chunk of Internet history, DSP WAS a drama channel. Every popular game, YTer, cultural phenomenon, music group, he has more than likely if not absolutely had a negative take bc he had no experience with them. He admits it especially for Minecraft but, back in the day it wasnt just "game bad", it was "if you like MineCraft you are a mental midget retard childish mouth drooling morahn who had no taste in games". About four years after that zenith, he tried and loved it, not bc it was good game, but bc his fans would pay him $25 to explore a cave or pay him to build structures or to name a pig and shit.
Gimmicks he later brought back, charging people $25 he would use as a slot filler only to box them the next episode. He's such a fucking scumfuck bastard this guy
Well he didnt make it to the grove and if you ask me thats where the "tutorial ends"
@@AtlustheBookkeeper I kinda understand why he likes Yakuza like a dragon. Its basically baby's first turn based RPG. I actually enjoy Like a Dragon but you can tell they never done a turn base RPG before. It's very basic in terms of combat. That explains why he hates Baldurs Gate 3
He has a Schedule ok? Do you think he can just not play the other games he play? he NEEDS to be a variety streamer ok?
Not gonna lie but a drunken pig telling me BG3 is too complex and intricate at the same time trying to convince me he is a successful business pig and make good decisions yet he'd prefer a $10 stream of a yakuza game but will trash BG3 and the possibility of making good bank makes me angry
honestly I feel like many of DSP's criticisms would be solved by having a longer attention span than an infant, and actually reading tutorials, and using common sense (who could have guessed that fire ignites oil/grease?)
Phil would maybe understand the mechanics if he didn’t talk through the entire tutorial and paid attention.
DipShitPhil has never in his entire life learned from a tutorial
I think it was cuphead that did journalist mode as a joke but games may genuinely need to add a DSP MODE (invulnerability, all stats maxed out instantly, best armor, 1 hit kill on ALL enemies, game plays itself and pays Phil $60 one time)
It never seizes to amaze me how frustrating DSP can be. Way he acts, way he talks... everything about him makes me want to headbutt a brick wall to end the suffering. I have worked with children of all ages almost 10 years now and not a single child has been as childish, immature and unable to take responsibility for their action as DSP. He's grown ass man who acts like spoiled little brat, who never does anything wrong.
all that crap they pumped into us in the late 80's early 90's like self esteem and all that other feel good crap did nothing but create a legion of Daves.
It's "ceases" "never ceases to amaze"
Sorry, I'll see myself out.
@@themudpit621 oh okay, I'm sorry. English is not my first language.
He hates it, but he hates it because in his mind he HAS to hate it.
Otherwise he will have to admit he was wrong and he would rather die than let that happen. This playthrough was doomed from the moment the games awards made him eat his words.
Wait. What is the story there?
@@mookiess Thanks for the answer and link. I am at a loss of words at his stupidity and refusal to admit he is wrong. But then again, we are talking about DSP here. Anytime I hear about him it is always bad. Lol.
@mookiess DSP was 100% right, he just got it backwards. Happens to the best of us.... hang on, that doesn't explain why it happened to Phil then.
It gets even better. At the point he was in the game, there was no way for him to have access to the 'Fireball' spell. He's probably referring to the 'Fire Bolt' spell, which is a cantrip that Shadowheart has access to from the start. The visual does look something akin to a ball of fire, but it is most definitely just a single target spell.
Omg Atlus, in Snort Hogan's upload on DSP's Baldur's Gate 3 video yesterday he made another Sandwich Shop analogy, like he literally said "Lets say i have a sandwich shop" again LMFAOOOO
Yeah thats the clip i will be doing today. The cliff hanger on this vid leads right into that. Dont you worry i didnt miss it
DSP bitching about aiming. Brings me right back to the good ol mgs3 days "why doesn't it auto aim at his head? It should aim at his head!" Dude just cannot be bothered to put in any effort in anything. Just wants to hit L2, R2 and win. Eh....Anyways! I hope ya pull a Hogan with this.
Complaining about aiming in a turn based system is crazy. Especially since it's very easy to do.
The guy never changes man. He just continues to prove it with every "new" situation. Thanks for the fiver friend 🙏
He's the personification of that one reviewer that couldn't get past the 3rd jump in the Cuphead tutorial, but for some reason still got paid. 😂
He's the personification of another person?
Maybe don't use "big" words you don't understand...
Hell, that's giving him too much credit. The Cuphead dude was at least humble about it and recognized that it was him who sucked and not the game.
@@marcwilliams9824personification: a person, animal, or object regarded as representing or embodying a quality, concept, or thing.
The concept of a game reviewer bad at video games is being personified by DSP. It was the correct usage
@@adonysus Where did you get that definition from?
@@marcwilliams9824 the dictionary, feel free to fact check it. Webster and i go way back
I am an EXTREMELY casual gamer, to the point where I have been playing dnd regularly for 10+ years and still am running my first playthrough of bg3 on Explorer bc I don't want to deal with the stress. And this dude somehow gives me confidence. Even I know how an aoe effect works, and how to look at my menu of options and determine what is there. They don't even rush you - it's turn based. You can spend hours reading through all of your companion's abilities on a single turn to decide how you want to use them.
I can't believe he thinks this game is comparable to Souls. No offense to it, but I'm terrified to even attempt those games. Bg3 is a casual's dream, you can avoid so many combats just by sneaking past or getting lucky on rolls. (Or by playing a bard, but that one at least requires knowing your classes). Wild!
My Bard for my first playthrough, talked her way out of any fight she could. 😂 She preferred playing her music, to fighting.
@@FoxyFoxlyn Same! I talked my way into every ally I could for each fight and talked a few bosses into taking care of themselves. Got the achievement for gaining 100 gold by playing my instrument before I even made it into the city proper 😂 I'm a halfling bard, I'm just here to play songs and chill!
@@bulletsandbracelets4140 I know the bosses you mean. I did that too. Mine was a Half Drow who romanced Astarion. I went with Swords Bard, but didn't like it, used Withers to respec to Valour, which I played in EA.
Well, Souls have a different difficulty type. You also have to be manually good.
Atlus. DSP didn't play Divinity. His chat held his hand and told DSP what to do. So no wonder if DSP has no clue at all.
Also DSP isn't playing BG3. His chat is playing that too!
Also DSP played the Dragon Age games with a similar camp system! DSP seriously has no critical thinking skills or desire to learn things.
The beauty of BG3 is getting lost in the world, exploring and experiencing everything for yourself. Sometimes you have to explore and look around and trail around to figure out how things work. But it's part of the adventure. You may have one battle that goes to complete shit and you come back half dead, your party is crippled down but you learned something for the next battle. The game is all about growing and learning as your adventure continues on, every fight you might learn a new mechanic or something simple. Just thinking "Let me try this" Thinking outside of the box is a real strong point of this game. But DSP refuses to do that, but the funniest thing about that is BG3 even works wit that playstyle of just hitting everything, fighting your way unga bunga style. Somehow he STILL fails that.
Yea love just walking around or in my case sneaking around so I get some kills before a combat encounter sets in.
and i prefer playing a sorcerer and using spell slots to quickly kill the enemies before they got the chance to even approach me. I really like this game for it's combat diversity. The combat is amazing and not many games have the same amount of depth as baldur's gate 3 @@mrthaimaster
"Nobody explained to me that fire will ignite oil"
My dude, if you don't understand that concept you should be in a care home.
my god 😂
Thanks man@@ericsbuds
I fail to understand this kind of gamer at all.
When you drop me into a game like BG3 blind, it’s like a kid in a candy shop. “What’s this? What’s that? What does THAT do? Hey what happens if I do that- holy shit, that’s amazing”
If I ever lost my curiosity and desire to learn and traded it in for just the braindead hand holding experience these guys clearly want, I think id spontaneously combust
DSP: {Skips all the tutorials, hints and character dialogue relevant to the plot.}
DSP: “what the fuck is even happening? This game is awful”
DSP reminds me of someone I play D&D with. Constantly jumping down holes. But the fun thing about BG3 is.... there's no DM going "are you really sure you want to do that?"
He compared it to Dark Souls😂. I love that any challenge or common sense makes a game a Souls game. Also, I love he's lost by the concept of camp. I'm guessing daddy Burnell never took Jr. Camping.
Dave Sr took him fishing once and DSP complained the entire time 😂 nothing he could do
Haha he probably heard a story of a neighbours kid getting jumped when camping just like the bike. So no camping.
@@mrthaimasterlol
"game doesn't explain everything to me!"
*Pop Up explaining important stuff shows up
"Nah, not reading that"
*game over
"Game doesn't explain everything to me!"
Every time he says “I’m gonna be honest” you know it’s about to be the most ignorant series of words you’ve ever heard
Arr-dew-us. Big word Burnell with another mispronunciation.
He didn't utilize anything in the death fight. They're huddled in a room with an oil barrel, didn't hit it with fire. Didn't utilize angles. That's novice stuff. Then, a character is emitting a green aura, he walked into it and took damage, got downed. So what does he do now that 3/4 are down? Switched to #4 AND WALKED RIGHT BACK INTO THE GREEN STUFF, stood there as the damage ticked, and party wiped. Then complained there was no fire on the ground?
Obviously it was the game's fault.
Haha my third character lockpicked the chapel door that leads into the section after the bandits in the ruin. I lost some xp but could finish the ruin part quicker.
12:26 shows how paranoid DSP is. It's "THE CAMP" DSP is out here thinking there's going to be RANDOM EENCOUNTERS in this game. LIke he's gonna sstep on a tile and battle music iss gonna sstart playing like it's a final fantasy game. LMAO.
"because that's what happens when I throw a fireball at someone in real life"
Gee Phil, I don't know about you but I don't know anyone who can magic a fireball into existence
He is the grand wizard of his own cult after all. Expert at pignosis magic
He's basically saying that an RPG is too much of an RPG.
Complains about not knowing everything beforehand. Discovery is part of an RPG. He's just so used to having guides and walkthroughs for every little detail. He's not a gamer. He's just moving through a game with hand holding, making 100k a year.
Exactly, yesterdays Baldurs Gate 3 Stream literally was: "Chat plays Baldurs Gate 3", whoever will create the TIHYDP of Baldurs Gate 3 should add the "Looking at Chat" counter like in Dark Souls 1 lmfao, its pathetic how he plays this game, but it doesnt matter to him, he already stated indirectly that he will only play Baldurs Gate 3 till the end of the first January week of 2024 to make place for "new releases".
“I didn’t have the strategy guide.” Wtf is this, 1995?? Phil needs to wake tf up. He lives in a fantasy world.
I feel like this is the same person who got upset because they didn’t know you could cut down the trees in Stardew Valley after hours of play.
Game makes Phil use any brain cells = OH ITS LIKE DARK SOULS
Remember his favourite game was Bugsnax, because the game was simple and held your hand throughout the game. Any game that requires a tiny amount of thinking or listening to conversations then it's absolute dogshit dood
"Because that is how it works in real life" You mean when you cast a magickal fireball at a person in real life?
He levitates and casts mf yoga fire.
I died from laughter when he said that.
He starts rumbling on about "how things work in real life" yet earlier he was completely oblivious to the fact, that oil will ignite if you shoot it with fire...
And then he complained that the game didn't explain this to him and expected him to already know that - and like, yeah because it's common knowledge even outside of video games...
What a shock. He is surprised that BG3 is like Divivity ... which is like BG2 & BG1 & Planescape Torment & Icewind Dale & Neverwinter Nights etc... What a great game historian this guy is.
One thing I’ve noticed with Phil is he always front loads his positive points before launching into his negative tirades like that covers his bases. Typically you’d want to do it the other way around otherwise people are only going to remember the negatives.
And his description of the gameplay is absurd. He makes it sound awful but everyone I know who played it said it’s great. DSP just wants a combat system he can mash attack and heal every so often to advance without thinking even slightly.
Also I’m laughing picturing DSP trying a DnD campaign. He’d take a week to make a character and would be confused constantly and just wouldn’t be creative which is the fun of a tabletop style game. He just wants to hit enemy and get loot. Nothing else. Studying the environment and coming up with creative strategies is part of the fun. Only Phil treats that aspect as a negative and will try to convince his dents why this is bad. Phil yet again proves he doesn’t understand good game design.
Also it bothers me DSPs definition of interactive streamer is having a chat act as his strategy guide. That’s not interaction when it is one sided and his tips come attached to literal tips.
It's like when someone says 'With all due respect," and then go to completely violate the person lol
Dsp would say his dice rolls just came up really well, he’s got a god character with great stats. He’d complain if the 20 became a 15 when it turns.
My favorite moment so far for me(granted I literally just got to the end of Act 1 in first playthrough) was when I turned a corner at level 4 in the selune temple, and ran into what I "thought" was a beholder, who murdered my entire team. I decided..I'mma try something funny next time.
I can back at level 6, and used a combination of grease bottles, firebolts, and thunder wave, to knock the flaming pile of eyeballs off the cliff to death
@@Demonlord4546that's an amazing strategy I didn't even think of. I'll have to try that next time. Lmao!
I had never played any similar game before trying BG3. It's not difficult or a pain in the ass at all. It's easy to understand with a small learning curve and a high skill/knowledge ceiling. But Phil, the "professional gamer" just has gin brain and can't process any more than 3 pieces of information at any given time unless it involves sweaty men.
You can’t expect dsp to understand how fire can ignite oil 😂
@@cb6667That killed me.
@@cb6667I mean, who would've thought oil would be flammable? 😂😂😂
I wanna preface this saying that BG3 is my first dip into crpgs and turn based combat. I’m as inexperienced as one could get, more than this DSP guy. That said, I didn’t find it to be incredibly hard. It was confusing at first, and it’s easy to be overwhelmed with seeing the rows of spells and mechanics. BUT, the point of the game is for you to explore, learn and adapt. I can recall my fight at the grove and how terrible it was, so much so I didn’t want to fight at all. But just yesterday, I dashed in and obliterated the hell out to Gortash and his entire crew in one day.
I had no prior knowledge, and often had to learn stuff on the fly. Act 1 gave me the chance to learn the mechanics, try out spells and prepare for the later battles. Sometimes I messed up so bad i had to reload, but instead of getting mad over my mistakes, I learned and got better.
DSP lacks the patience and ability to simply *try*. He’s jumping into the game without any proper foresight or awareness of his surroundings. I mean his gameplay when running towards Gale is telling enough of how little he cares. He expects the game to just lay it flat that there’s a noxious cloud when the game shows that VISUALLY, and possibly in the dialogue as well (which he skips over). I hope he learns to enjoy the game, or leave with a more positive understanding but given his attitude it’s likely he’s just there for the cash flow and not for his own enjoyment. Which is sad. BG3 has become my comfort game and it’s definitely something everyone should try just once, even if it’s not your style. The world building, plot, and interactions are so interwoven and complex. But he skips over it like it’s nothing. A game is only good as the amount of effort you put into it, so if you’re treating it like crap, you’re bound to feel the exact same.
@@aldmerian Maybe the oil barrels said inflammable and he didn't know that meant the same thing.
Seems like the game intimidates him. Asking for handholding defeats the whole purpose of playing it. The game gives you agency to solve problems in creative ways. That scares Phil because he has no imagination.
"You're expected to know that fire can ignite oil"
...yes and?
give him a break, not like hes spent the last 15 years playing vid... oh
Phill is the reason why "push the left stick to move" is in videogame tutorials
🤣🤣
complex? Imagine him playing Dwarf fortress or Project Zomboid. He wouldn't be able to figure out how to even eat a can of food in zomboid.
Thank god im a reader because when a game gives me a tutorial i can read it
It makes no sense to me why he chose a spell caster. Yes they are incredibly powerful but he doesn't understand the game or mechanics. He should have chose fighter that's much simpler for newcomers.
I've been watching some of dsps BG3 sessions and I'm more certain than ever his valedictorian claim is bogus. I get that some things don't come quickly or naturally to people but his intellectual incuriosity is wild.
Unfortunately the local newspaper article for his area was found stating that yes Phil Burnell was valedictorian
You don't even actually need to jump into the hole. If you tell your character to go there they will just climb down
25:10 is he stupid?! BRO! Just because you miss doesn’t mean a fireball just splats to the ground! Like what the hell?! It’s a fireball! It misses and goes flying far away! OMG! 😂
camp?! what is camp?!
idk, but when i figure out a really obscure, or new, or complex mechanic in a game, im usually pretty happy about it... he really doesnt like video games, does he?
Phil doesn't like learning how to play games. His DS2 and DS3 Playthrough was his dents coming in as Phantom and carrying him. His Bloodborne Playthrough was even worse.
He would badger his dents to give him advice on fights against bosses he got stuck in. Bloodborne was an absolute atrocious Playthrough and the DLC was even harder, which is why he dropped it completely back then. He spent $20 on DLC for Bloodborne since it just came out and he got so platinum mad about dying over and over that he quit Bloodborne since "He wasn't having fun". He wasn't having fun since he couldn't just win immediately, he's not getting instant gratification, he's hit a brick wall and can't get around it.
Him sitting there and acting like he did Bloodborne all by himself and completed it legitimately is revisioning history. Dude never beats any game on his own, not even Fallout 4.
"A mature adult with a business degree" everybody.
41 years and acts like playing a video game is working the coal mines
Phil and BG3 is a perfect example of a lazy, entitled gamer struggling with a well-designed game because he would rather be spoon-fed and hand-held than learn anything for himself through exploration and experimentation. I remember struggling to clear the Undead Burg in Dark Souls for several hours because I was determined to defeat every enemy in the area. I'd never played a Souls game before, but the game-play was so compelling that I embraced the challenge it presented. Phil clearly has no passion for gaming and is the living embodiment of "skill issue".
Yeesh. I had never played a DnD game before BG3. My previous experience with similar games was also DOS1&2. Yeah, there was a little learning curve... but after three hours? I'd cracked it. This guy is just thick as a brick.
Dsps delusions of grand door are absolutely hilarious
Dsp cant accept bg3 is straight heat
He complains Divinity 2 and BG3 are ”the same”, yet buys CoD Modern Warfare 3 which is literally the same game as the previous one.
BG3 and Divinity 2 are in the same genre but still feel different to one another.
I’ve never played DND before yet I learned the basics of BG3 eventually. It has a learning curve for sure and I know far, far from everything. Which is what I like about it. Trial and error.
This guy is from the timeline where Ben Shapiro just stayed a nerd instead of becoming a fascist
30:17 he stares at the screen like no one's home lol
DSP: I played Dark Souls and had no idea what it was about. All I did was die die die die die.
Dark Souls slogan/sub-title: Prepare to die.
Also, I'm getting the sense that he doesn't know Larian made D:OS2 as well? Imagine playing that and not understanding what a turn based, 3/4 isometric RPG plays like after the fact. The man seems like he's incapable of learning anything and demands his hand be held at all times. I feel bad for his wife.
30:18 - I have *never* seen someone - online or IRL - *that* bored and mentally checked out from a game. He's barely touched it and he's already detached. And the worst is that I know why that's the case: it's deliberate, intended hate. Both towards the game and towards his fans. It's too difficult for him to enjoy the game, because that'd be an outright admittance that he was wrong and his audience was right. And if he has to suffer, his audience has to suffer too.
- BG3 makes you think, and Phil hates thinking, because it gives away how unimaginative and unattentive he is. TOTK says hi.
- It's an unpleasant submission to his fanbase of whom he already hates. They basically had to push him into playing it, and the numbers on his stream reflect that his audience are better at judging decisions when compared to Mr. Business de Gree.
- Most of all, BG3 is a good game! It's received near unanimous praise, and annihilates Phil's smug yet uneducated prediction that it'd be a mid-tier game that'd be long forgotten by now.
To put it in a context Phil would understand: BG3 anally evacuated over his ego.
(Also, it tells him to open the journal. I've not played BG3, but I'd bet the journal entry might contain a clue about the deadly gas. It's also called "Necrotic Aura", and his party member died getting near it - how many more context clues does he need?!) 🤦🏻
You noticed how when Shadowheart died at around 30:50 the game said that Gale had a "Necrotic Aura" effect with a skull icon. If he actually noticed that in time, I bet he would have been trying to figure out how to safely use the Scroll of Revivify on Gale. Maybe, he would even attempt to enter the turn based mode after noticing the pop ups about it, and realizing that he's not in it, due to him being able to move the characters normally. If he paid more attention he would have been able to survive the encounter.
That gas cloud thing is the type of shit that exposes your stupid friends when playing D&D. DM describes a green cloud of gas that burns your throat when you smell it. "I lOot ThE bOdY!!"
Ive never seen a man so proud to proclaim his own mediocrity, its impressive really 😮
Omfg XD I’ve never played dnd never knew anything about it and I just finished my third honour mode playthrough… pre requisite knowledge is in no way required…
my god, can you imagine trying to run a D&D campaign with DSP as a party member?
Imagine BG3 using AD&D rules. He would have an aneurysm.
Phil waking up in the morning wondering where he is or if he's gonna be attacked by enemies
Hahaha atleast he has the bedroom axe so one good roll at the start of the battle
"I'm going to be honest"says the pathological liar.
Hahaha! My god this guy. Camp... that sounds sooo confusing 😂
God of War Ragnarök warped his muppet brain even more than it already is. That game held your hand at every possible moment and told you exactly what to do, never let you think on your own, he wants every game to be like that now. No think, just push button and win
True gameplay is matching gems and sweatly wrestlers.
"Three hours in character creator is absurd."
*Intense sweating.*
You need to have a modicum of imagination to enjoy this game, DSP has none.
How dare the creators of BG3 not account for DSP's stream being about to end during important dialogue. They should have split it up into stream sections so hes instantly greeted with it when he starts his next one
no coincidence that this guy sounds exactly like Ben Shapiro
They are both shitheads, so it makes sense.
I have literally blown up an oil barrel by hitting oil on the floor with a fire spell
Also, I had no idea you could knock on that door and talk to the dude... I've played the game a ton of times over, but I've ALWAYS just jumped down the hole.
But you know what? Even on my first run, I knew there would be enemies down there. Because in the dialogue with the halfling before the battle outside, you're told that they have friends inside trying to work their way through the place. If THIS guy is hostile, THOSE guys will be hostile.
Notice how he said sekiro once.... the only souls game you cannot cheese with weapons, or level grinding
You can cheese sekiro pretty hard with shinobi tools and ichimonji double
I didnt play it much wasnt for me
@V2ULTRAKill yes, but not to the degree of let's say bloodborne with Ludwig holy blade. All souls games including sekiro have some outs, just sekiro has less
Even then you can "cheese" Sekiro by using certain prosthetics and applying stealth when you can.
Phil's biggest issue is how he always compares to other games, he never lets games stand on it's own
I think the real issue is that he thinks his opinion on ANY game has any weight at all.
His biggest problem is his negativity towards everything... he is always comparing and never embracing it for what it is as a standalone game
If I took a drink every time he mentioned Divinity: Original Sin, I'd be drunk off my ass
26:07 Phil has no room to complain about somebody thinking that they're super important given his own narcissism
Guys, I think I know why Phil absolutely hates games that make you learn from your mistakes. That's because he absolutely HATES making mistakes and admitting he was wrong about something, his narcissistic ego is too fragile for that. He wants to play the game where he always wins, preferably by doing an absolute minimum effort.
I guess Phil should start playing visual novels, it would fit him perfectly.
Did he just say you just expected to understand how fire can ignite oil ? 😂
he's the gamer equivalent of ben shapero 💀
Damn only 3 hours played and already complaining. Bro hasnt even completed the tutorial
He never looked into the game because he never planned to play it. He's basically forced to play it, and he hates it.
Phil admitted he needs handholding. Scrub.
"You're just expected to understand how fire can ignite oil"
Is this man fucking serious
The attention to detail on mechanics like this is why BG3 is so great. I remember grinning from ear to ear during my first playthrough when I realized you could throw the goblins at each other with a barb, or make a puddle of water and freeze it to make enemies eat shit.
What kind of combat does phil even want, Elmo's Letter Adventure?????
With stuff like dark souls its easy to just say mad bcuz bad lul but malding this hard over BG3 makes me think he legitimately hates video games, why even play them if youre this opposed to engaging with them
DSP gets butthurt when people won’t throw him tons of cash for Mario games, yet can’t be appreciative of people tuning in and donating for a game that he doesn’t like. “You guys HAVE to like the games I want to play!!!1!” 🥺😭
He will realize how simple and easy bg3 is after he plays pathfinder
This is the equivalent of a fly complaining about the intricacies of a window pane.
26:38 I know that Gale (assuming that's how it's spelled) is just a videogame character but at the same time if I heard Phil being so flippant about my death I'd be pissed
Call DSP subzero not because he can kick your ass because the name reflects his IQ.
Bars 🥶
Boulders gate is the first time I’ve ever played a d+d, I was overwhelmed at first but now I’m in act 3 making mistakes and loving it.
"You're expected to know fire ignites oil," you don't say!?😂
I loved the bandit fight! I actually learned a lot of how mechanics from watching the enemies fight. I learned of throwing potions at my party members to heal them, and the oil/fire. “It was greyed out, IDK WHY” ….it LITERALLY tells you ON THE THROW COMMAND that it requires an action to use. This game requires you to be able to READ
Before I played BG3, I had never played a turn-based game, never played a BG game, and didn't really have any idea about D&D. I have 1000 hours in BG3 now, and I don't think I'll be slowing down anytime soon lol. His excuses are empty. Why is taking the time to learn something outside of your comfort zone ever a negative thing?