Trying Dark Souls For the First Time Makes Elden Ring Look Easy...
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2023
- An Elden Ring player tries Dark Souls for the first time! Today I am continuing to play through Dark Souls 1. Dark souls is considered one of the best souls games of all time and I have never seen gameplay of it or played it before making this a completely new experience for me! After playing through it this time I can already tell that the game is gonna be a lot more frustrating then Elden Ring ever was. Enjoy!
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The ringing bell is actually a network feature. It goes off whenever someone rings the bell in their world.
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Naw it rings when ur offline too so urban legend imo
@@RealMonkeyDKirbyit rings randomly when offline x
@eta2670 exactly and offline or online it rings all the time, ds1 isn't active enough for ppl to be killing the gargoyles every 30 seconds. I really think it's a lordran urban legend
@@RealMonkeyDKirbyit probably worked like that in the beginning. Id guess now its both, it plays randomly *and* when someone rings it, so the game feels more active
0:35 shows the real magic of DaS1, for the first half of the game you're always in pure shock when you've made your way through a huge chunk of a location and then there's a shortcut to where you've been like 3 hours ago. Then you realise it actually makes sense geometrically. And then the map starts to align in your head piece by piece and you realise how well done it is and it's just BOOM. Damn I wish they did this with their later games too.
Bro, YES. Still the best level design Ive ever experienced. You said it perfect.
Nowadays its just a useless horse to cover huge empty plains and ton of trash berrie bushes to craft items that were given you as is in a previous Souls games.
Yes, Im looking at you Elden Ring! 😄
another sin ds2 did. dont care no excuse for throwing such an important part of a games identity out, still fine game but my metroidvania itch 😭
been playing for 12 years now and the level design still impresses me every time
Dark souls 2 killed it all. Dark souls 3 tried to make up for it but failed map wise just like DS2
bro managed to find the rarest enemy in the game lmaoooo
You know people say they've never seen one before but I've seen them at least 3 or 4 separate times in my only hundred hours of gameplay
I'm on ng+7 and I've finished the game with multiple other saves and I've never encountered one, they are like my Bigfoot lol
@@ILoveMoms445 I’ve got about 80 hours and never seen one
just saw one two days in a row, weird.
What is it?
6:00 is a extremely rare enemy that only occurs when another player dies with over five humanities they are very uncommon to see
I have over 100 hours in DS and I have never seen it before! I was like wtf is that 😂 rare indeed
@@LeoStep93 they’re especially uncommon nowadays I was lucky enough to see one on my first play through but I’ve never seen one again there are actually like three or four different types of them. I would recommend seeing illusory walls video on it. It’s very interesting.
not dies ... loses those humanities , so he have to die and die again before picking up his blood stain
I've seen it once and I platinumed the game
Bro that explains it, I seen one of them on the ledges in anor londo where the knights shoot giant arrows at you, I died and when I came back it werent there
Weirdly enough I seen another in anor londo castle once id made it there and I thought it was the same one I was so confused
If you don't like poison, toxic is going to blow you mind
Oh no blight town is going to be true hell
Am I crazy or did the rats originally hit you with toxic and they changed it to poison
@TomBombadil89 not sure about the toxic but they definately where nerfed. Those 3 rats used ti be a serious issue -_-
@@TomBombadil89still toxic
That was the worst lol, especially when I couldn't find that one blowdart guy 😂
"Your poison is probably the worst thing I've experienced"
Toxic tapping it's fingers like Monty Burns
9:50 "THERE'S A SECOND ONE"
this is the sort of stuff that makes me happy watching blind first playtroughs lol, wish i could replay these games blind again
Just wait until you are 87 with Alzhiemers and you can relive it every 15 minutes
@@Saeloftwhat’s Alzheimer’s?
@@Saeloftwhat’s Alzheimer’s?
It’s easier to backstab the black knights if you lock onto them when you circle round them. I noticed you’re not locking on very often. Also, you have a shield. Use it😉
@@Outlaw013parry hard
Counterpoint: You have a shield, don't use it.
Nah, don't use the shield.
@@v1b3wAgree. Dual wield and dodge.
They probably do that because not locking on makes enemies not turn as much in DS3 and Elden Ring making backstabs easier. It's very noticeable in DS3 to the point that you almost always want to unlock for those run around quick backstabs. But yeah you don't need to do that in DS1.
I can't resist watching Dark Souls newbies.
I play Dark Souls to relax. Really.
Enjoy your playthrough. The game is a work of art.
it's a comfort game for me nowadays lol
Its fun to watch em die repeatedly, reminds me pf my first playthrough
@@ghoulsome9483 Too bad FromSoft didn't have more time to flesh out Lost Izalith.
The game that created a genre.
First half at least :)
I remember my first playthrough. The game is hard, harder than the other games in the series, but it is a difficulty that is manageable. It isn't unfair. Well no, it is unfair, but that unfairness can be countered by being careful, steady, and not rushing forward like it is your normal hack and slash. The game is based on making sure you learn where the enemies are, what kind of enemies they are, and learning how to fight them. Also, learn how to use the game's mechanics well and exploit them.
I haven't seen anyone else comment this so I think it's worth mentioning. You happened across an extremely rare enemy that many people don't see or know of called a Vagrant. He was the lil crystal crab guy that you saw behind the big knight with the shield and mace. That's super funny that you saw it and didn't realize how special it is
6:00 one of the most rare enemies in the game…
I was going to say, first time playing and he sees that
what is that thing?
@@bigteetus its called vagrant
i had never seen that in my own runs lol
i finished ds 1 5 times never see him dame
I never dreamed I would experience any kind of tension watching someone fight the Moonlight Butterfly, but that race to kill it before it charged up that last attack was surprisingly gripping!
A couple quick tips; 1- lighten your equip. you roll slower, faster. you want under 50% load to have any decent I-frames. 25% or less for quick-roll. 2- your shield will save you, you can pop it up and down in an instant compared to the animations of a roll. pop up to block a hit then release to regen stamina.
Shield is cheese
@@adtrajgaming4899yeah but this game has four directional rolling when locked on, it’s less fluid and flexible than the other games. a shield really keeps you from getting frustrated trying to dodge everything in the cramp environments. this is opposed to a game like Bb which is made for strictly movement based defense. plus, a shield won’t save you from everything.
Your videos are what i wanted Zanny to do with the soulsborne series. Actual video, series ,not cuts from streams with edited effects. Now I am relieved. Hope you wont stop with dark souls content. Keep up!
Zanny can make a million destiny videos but cant make a series out of the souls borne games lmao
@@quinntrbl Exacly! I was disappointed that his dark souls ,,series" was just 3 or 2 videos and half of it were a, once again , cuts from his streams. I love watching zanny but in that case i was angry that he ended it so quickly and poorly
@@quinntrbl I like Zanny and I've been watching him for around 3 years, but he's pretty much a one trick pony. I wouldn't really watch his FromSoft playthrough over the FromSoft playthrough of a guy like SeeReax.
Plus I just kinda grew out of him. I'm more of a chasethebro/prod kind of guy, and I was before too but I probably wouldn't watch anyone else over them for Soulsborne vids
then the very next video of ds1 he uploads is stream highlights lmao. i know how you feel though, i hate them too. i refuse to watch content that’s just repurposed stream footage
Absolutely loving these videos! Its so refreshing seeing someones first DS experience
Thats true. I remember so many things in the first few minutes.😂
I love the balance between being amazed and surprised by things but not being a noob that dies all the time and gets frustrated plus ur funny I wish you luck
we getting out of heavy equip load with this one 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Be sure to read item descriptions. One of the keys will have an especially useful description to help you figure out where to go next
This is one of those things that make this game such a masterpiece
The fact there isn't a bunch of cutscenes and you get the lore from the descriptions makes dark souls games s tier
If you parry mid swing during an enemy attack it'll be really easy. This game has the largest parry window so once you got it your set for the game. And for the Black Knights, you can either lock on and circle strafe them to get the back stab, or alternatively you can try to lock on and forward roll to their back while they heavy attack, and backstab them as they recover.
This will probably be a 30 part serious, and I am very excited
Makes my heart happy that more and more people are diving into DS1 after ERs success. I played this game on and off back in 2014 and just recently ran through Remastered and my God, it's still such an experience.
I love that each From Soft game is a contender for being the hardest for someone with different gameplay sensibilities.
I know people who plow through Sekiro only to stumble and get rolled by the original Dark Souls because they fall for every trap, underestimate every enemy, and overcomplicate all the bosses no matter how many times they play.
It's something I really appreciate about these games that makes them all age better than most other games.
Personally i found Elden Ring to be both the easiest and hardest one, most of the experience was easy, but with some huge difficult spikes, like Margitt at the begining and Malenia, both killed me way more than any other boss in these games, actually i'm pretty sure Malenia killed me more than all of my first playthrough of DS1 many years back
For consistently difficult though, uuuuh probably Sekiro for me, also my favorite
@@ghoulsome9483 elden ring difficulty comes from your build and pride, it's main bosses are more difficult/complicated than any souls boss but are made easier with ashes of war and spirit ashes.
@@Ghorda9 i definitely noticed a huge difference between my playtroughs using different builds. My first one i went blind, didn't go for bleed (was fresh off a bleed playthrough in ds3 and wanted something different), no summons or spirit ashes (missed the first encounter with Ranni so i thought spirit ashes were a miracle/faith thing lol), and for most of that playthrough i think i used the giant hunt ash of war on my twinblade and i got the experience i described there, mostly easy with spikes, Malenia stands out in particular for being absolutely miserable to fight no matter how hard i tried to like it, i love hard bosses but i will die on the hill of her being poorly designed overall despite having a lot of stuff i like
My second i decided to do all the meta things just to see what those player's experience was like and wow it's almost a night a day difference especially with the spirit ashes, mimic and oleg are pretty much this game's easy mode and can often win bosses on their own, and these summons are sold to you the same as any other mechanic rather than an easy mode and i wonder how many people's experience got compromised by not realizing this
@@ghoulsome9483 malenia is better designed than you give credit for, she has quite a few openings and her second phase aggression allows you to see those openings more often, her hyper armour isn't a problem if you don't get greedy.
@@Ghorda9 my biggest issue is waterfowl dance, for phase 1 if they were to remove that i would mostly just have minor nitpicks and a small tweak here and there, stuff like she shouldn't be able to heal when hitting a shield (didn't use a shield but i did see it online) and stuff like that. But waterfowl dance essentially turned the fight into an rng where sometimes i was able to roll through the first wave of slashes and sometimes wasn't, the last two i could consistently avoid but not the first one, the super fast windup for such a strong move is also super short and often made it impossible for me to deal with because an attack i started before the windup hadn't recovered yet and wouldn't finish recovering until after she started it, so pretty much gg when that happened, what also doesn't help is that she heals a shit ton when she hits you with waterfowl, undoing a lot of progress if you somehow survive it (not all slashes hit)
For phase 2, first of all waterfowl is still around and it's worse because of the higher aggression and has a higher chance of happening due to the more defensive playstyle phase 2 wants you to have, she constantly combos her moves and i didn't feel like there was enough of a sign of when the combo was over and when she was going to string something extra, pretty sure the one where she stabs the ground and does a rot beam is the only one that will 100% of time give an opening, particularly bad when i tested the fight with slow weapons like greatswords and colossal weapons, there's also a lot of moves that i could deal with (mostly) consistently, but didn't feel particularly fair, first example that comes to mind is the clone one, without seeing the move over and over again it's very unreasonable to dodge it all, for most of the clone's livespan it's hard to tell what he is going to do, on top of it being super fast and one coming right after the other in quick succession, and there isn't anything stopping her from chaining it with other combos, so it isn't even a hard to deal with move that rewards you with openings for properly dealing with it. Having to be super defensive also seems to go against what made phase 1 interesting, feels less like a duel and more like a test of patience as you wait for combo after combo after combo for the chance to hit her once, only for her to pull out waterfowl and having to start from the beginning for the 200th time. Also her wings get in the way of seeing what she is doing
I totally get people enjoying it and i really, really wanted to as well but i can't
Advice for getting to the black knights back: Use lock on, block with your shield, and move right so you circle around him to their back. Once you're at their back stop blocking so you can backstab. Also I SERIOUSLY recommend lowering your equip load until you can fast roll. Fast rolls are super important to have in Dark Souls 1 because unlike other Souls games, mid rolls are significantly worse than fast rolls.
Also another big difference to other games and reason to prioritize rolls over armor is cuz in DS1 any armor without poise is entirely cosmetic, the defense increase from armor is laughably insignificant unless you wear like +5 giants armor and the steel plate ring
Always fun watching a newb! It brings you back to those days when the Bell Gargoyles were a tough encounter and you spent countless deaths desperately trying to make it through the Undead Burg...ah the memories!
bros never used a shield before i guess....
this game aged better than honey
as a DS2 player i can say: DS1 is awfully hard in a certain way. i cleared the game and i didn't felt really like to play it again like i did with DS2. Elden Ring environment is pretty chill, to the point of being boring, and DS1 is extremely difficult, you feel like its a maze everywhere you go, the paths are confusing and the game asks 100% of you(as expected of a Dark Souls game). its very fun the fact that theres challenge in every corner, but its not something i liked, not with the mechanics and the controls, the character feels stuck in the animations. still good tho, i'd rather play it than some other games, it delivers very well the concept.
Oh, the classic "consuming the fire keeper soul without reading the warning on its description on your first playthrough" move. I never did it, but most let's players do for some reason! ^^"
It's ok, it will only matter until the late game when you catch up on fire keeper souls. lol
you made the gargoyle boss way harder by not upgrading your weapon and also not two handing your weapon
Most of the enemies in this game are so slow at striking they literally wait for you to parry them.
i didn't play souls like series but i started playing bloodborne and now i'm loving this type of game and your videos are so good and funny to watch, please continue with this series 👍
Hell yeah, stoked to see the rest of this series. DaS1 is my absolute favorite game of all time.
ah man, this is one of my absolute favorite things. To see someone experience my favorite game for the first time.
good to see elden ring players actually getting good
Lol, I have played all the souls games (besides demon souls) and I would say DS1 was the easiest by far, elden ring (when played not over leveled is the hardest
@minecrafthcs7821 the hardest, is by far, ds3 non over leveled, i beat elden ring at level 92 on my first playthrough... severely UNDERLEVELED
So happy to see you play this. Gold right here
love this hope you turn it into a series
Helpful tips that got me through my first time.
-You have a sheild use it!
-learn how to perry or else the final boss is going to suck.
-Make it a habit to lock onto enemies.
-Two hand your weapons when fighting big bosses.
-Strength weapons like claymores are op. (I recommend the Zweihander which is by firelink)
-Upgrade your weapons as much as you can with Andre.
-lower your equipment load for fast rolling so u have more invincibility frames.
-In the forest there's an enemy named Havel. Kill him for a useful ring that increases carry capacity.
-Kick the golden armor guy you saved off the cliff for his ring, and so the fire keeper dosen't die.
-You can use the Drake on the bridge for easy soul grinding
-For armored boars you need to back stab them.
-Use humanities so you can reverse your hollowing which allows you to summon npcs for boss fights, and you can kindle the bonfires for more flasks.
-Kindling only increases flask at the specific bonfire you kindled.
Those giant knights before the moonlight butterfly their effect that just stuns you is so out of left field and no other enemy seems to have it. So weird and a big middle finger to new players.
Agreed. Super annoying haha
Your videos are awesome! Keep doing what you're doing, I can't wait to see what you'll think of DS2
yippee!! more souls content from my favourite guy, can't wait for this to be a series!~
I find Elden Ring a lot harder because I haven't gotten used to the insanely delayed attacks. And too many of the bosses are going for a cinematic experience and end up being more style over substance
I just find that Elden Ring bosses are too fast/attack too frequently and have too many big AOEs. It feels like I'm playing a DS2 character in Sekiro. I can barely sneak in 1 attack before the boss starts going apeshit again. I have no idea why people think Elden Ring is the easiest (unless you use spirit ashes).
actually ds1's bosses are much easier than other souls game, and there are also some really op weapons like the black knight's weapons
Also,your shield is very useful, use it
Most of them are at least. That's for sure. The exception being the DLC, Ornstein and Smough, and the bullshit ones like all the lost izalith bosses, or the capra demon.
for me it s the four kings i hated them because i skipped the spider girl in blightown and thought he was garding the 2nd bell , also did all the tomb of giants without light just to be blocked by a giant yellow wall 😅
@@bmxgu2361 that's only true for dlc, the others not so much, capra demon is easy if you just focus on getting out of the corner immediately and the lost izzalith bosses are still easy.
@@Ghorda9 I'm not counting those guys as hard since they're more just badly designed bosses, than hard because of skill. The closest one to being hard due to skill was the centipede demon, and even that one was really janky and often camped in the lava or got stuck in the arena ceiling. And capra demon has 0 space to fight him, 2 dogs that will corner you with their model hitboxes, and capra does an unblockable jump attack that does half your health the second you enter, witch will most likely get you your first time or 2.
However, bosses like Ornstein and Smough (hardest in base game), Gwyn if you can't/don't want to parry, and on your first few playthroughs; the gargoyles, and quelaag, or even the stray demon, are quite hard for most players, if you don't get the blackknight halberd or something.
@@bmxgu2361 capra demon is really easy to dodge.
I really enjoyed this! You sir are highly entertaining to watch and you actually seem pretty decent at this game, despite never having played it before 👌❤️
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Real nostalgic, and this place will get even more nostalgi-er down the line XD
Hats off to you my man (and those that beat the Gargoyles without grinding stronger weapons), I only fought them after I had +5 weapons. As a strength main I relesh in beeg numbers.
It's a joy seeing someone realize the interconnectedness of the dark souls world for the first time. Elden ring was quite possibly one of the best games ever made, but I think it's scope affected this aspect a lot.
Best game ever played??? Okay bud maybe get off your knees for a second and breathe some air.
@@MK3504 What do you mean by this?
@@gary4689 you're being a fan of which is okay. But Elden Rings has major flaws for an open world RPG. The quest system is god awful and many of the easter eggs are not intuitive.a lifeless world to boot, it loses really heavily on second playthrough. The gimmick wears off and you just get an open world souls game. The environment design is absolutely unbelievable but that's really not a defining quality for an RPG.
@@MK3504 I understand your perspective. Elden ring is, in many ways, a departure from the formula the developers perfected, so there are bound to be flaws with the execution of certain new aspects. There are also massive technical and creative innovations that are the culmination of over a decade of refinement. It's really a matter of personal preference whether the triumphs outshine the flaws.
Remember: dark souls one is often credited as the best of the franchise, another 'one of the best games ever made', yet it has massive flaws in it's combat, late game pacing, and it just downright isn't finished in certain areas. Don't give me wrong, I've loved the game since it came out, but it's not perfect. I see elden ring being in a similar situation: not perfect, but a massive leap during which some risks had to be taken. I also think it's a jumping off point for a decades worth of new innovation.
This, as in my comment above, is just an opinion, though. You are free to disagree. I'd love to get another opinion.
Great video as usual, just one tip is I would definitely lower your equipment load so you can roll properly. Anything other than the fast/medium roll in this game kinda sucks
"EMBRACE THE CHONK" - Ser Johnny Poise
Finally started posting, you funny af I watched your last ds1 video many times, let's gooooo full series!!
Dude you are hilarious. I just did Dark Souls 3 after Elden Ring and now I’m starting Dark Souls Remastered and It’s hilarious how we have the same reactions
Interesting take. I genuinely feel like the souls-series games upped the difficulty with each subsequent iteration. DS1 feels like it's in slow motion compared to DS3, for example. You can also just pump equip load, toss on havel's set, and almost literally facetank anything in the game.
I tend to see DS1 as harder in the sense that it is more unforgiving than the later games due to you having far fewer options at the start and getting more is time consuming. It is also much more slowly and deliberate in its pacing due to the engine limitations of the time. This is a trend for the series as a whole, but DS1 was both harder and easier than the other games for me. DS2's difficulty was more based on a fake difficulty aspect than simple challenge like the first or third games. The third game was harder in the sense that it was much smoother in terms of animations and framerates, which will throw off a Souls veteran who cut his or her teeth on the first two games or Demon's Souls and hasn't done Bloodborne, which gets you used to that smoothness.
Funny enough, Bloodborne experience actually makes the challenge easier due to how that game conditions you with regards to Fromsoft games, unlike the Souls games.
Legit. Like... to the point where I kinda don't like Elden Ring because I just can't find an opening on half the bosses
@@chrisvisser-fee2631They are absolutely there, though they'll be small and relatively rare if you have shitty rng, or keep picking spots to stand where the enemy will activate a certain attack.
What helps is making good use of projectiles.
@@jankbunky4279 oh nah I know they are, I'm just...
Like Dark Souls is clunky enough you can bait out the same attack over and over that you can punish, BloodBorne enemies are fast and sporadic enough that it's hard to avoid everything but rally means taking damage isn't a "failure".
Elden Ring feels as fast as BloodBorne, but as punishing as Dark Souls. I haven't managed to wrap my head around it yet.
Ah the classique using of the fire keeper soul without understanding the item description... There's still enough to upgrade but not to max in NG.
I went back to my main on there, a scythe-wielding sorcerer.
I'm currently on Artorias, trying to beat him.
It was a sudden bad time, lol.
Word of advice use NPC summons during boss fights depending on the covenant you’re in you get extra rewards if you can manage to kill the boss while the summon is still alive (sunlight covenant gets you lightning spear miracles you offer them at the sunlight altar right underneath where that dragon is if you manage to lure the dragon down you have a very short period of time where you can run between his legs/right next to his legs and there’s a bonfire immediately run to the left towards the altar so the dragon doesn’t fry you yo death before you can rest at the bonfire)
"Always two there are, no more, no less."
~Master Yoda when encountering Gargoyles in any Souls game
always great watch someone new to the dark souls game suffer a lot with the fear of the unknown
watching someone play this for the first time is great, i had to struggle with no summons at the time due to not having internet, so no patches, no help nothing, i feel your pain
This is such an amazing game. Happy you are finally enjoying the misery it has to offer 😂 on a real level there is so much to this game. Between gravelording and becoming a darkwraith there are so many hidden mechanics and storylines. Proud to say I believe I have experienced it all back on 360. Got remastered on the Switch and its just as brutal haha
I honestly have so much respect, whilst also being confused about how you haven't been spoiled about pretty much everything this game has to offer since its release and re-release so many years ago.
some might say to not use the tail axe because of rare upgrade materials. but to hell with them! its too cool.
5:51 the monster behind the berenike knight is a vagrant and it’s so rare to see one of those, you’re really lucky!😅😅😅
Funny thing is I have found one in that area before. They were easier to find back in 2012
As someone who is about to platinum ds1 in about another 10 hours of gameplay I find these video’s hilarious since it reminds me of when I first played years ago
THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE LETS GOOOOO I CANT WAIT TO SEE U PLAY THIS AND HARD MALD
You’d be faster if you took off some armor to lighten your load. It would also help your dodging because you’ll get a faster dodge animation. The earlier souls games are slower paced, and it makes timing so much more crucial, so being faster helps a lot.
How you ever beat Elden Ring playing like this is beyond my understanding.
Fun series though 👌 always nice to see a fresh playthrough.
I haven't played Dark Souls 1 in a very long time. But I recently went through DS3's Ringed City DLC again and it's quite tough. That being said, the whole sequence of the swamp where Angels are constantly shooting you, it's reminiscence of a lot of DS1 areas, and while looking at this video I remembered how much trouble I had with DS1.
Great Game dude, keep going!
Love this, so entertaining 😄
Nice Video as Always. If you want a little basic tipp (no spoiler) read along: your roll seems very slow. Try not so much Armor and you will Run faster too.
Beautifull genuine ds 1 first playtrought experience. I will enjoy every episode
i’ve platinumed this game on ps3 & 4 both and have never seen one vagrant, and this man casually sees one his first time playing
also, agrume for the outro, good taste
i saw one on my second run through and was like wtf is that
FFXVI combat music GOATED. 5:10 lmao. Played and beat it for the first time this year so a lot of these thoughts and moments are very familiar. It’s always fun to watch someone go back to dark souls 1. Like the others it’s got it’s unique charm.
Btw, you can also parry those silver knights. Love your content, your my favorite ytber at the moment
You're doing good man, you got past the gargoyles, which is pretty much the first filter. I also accidentally consumed the fire keepers soul on my first playthrough - Undead Parish became my new homebase.
Some tips (if you want them):
- If you don't mind a little farming, you should farm some humanity. You will get more item drops, and they're good backup healing items. (Rats are the best for farming humanity)
- Abuse the circle strafe mechanic, especially for knights and similar enemies. You need a bit of space to do it, so lure them out and then get right up against them, then strafe around them as fast as possible. 99% of the time their swings will miss you by strafing alone, then you can backstab.
- Black knights drop really good stuff, but there is a finite amount of them for most of the game, so try to make sure your item discovery is high when you fight them.
- Try to avoid being cursed at all costs. I know that is easier said than done, especially on a first playthrough. But if you see an enemy that does curse damage, be extra careful. Getting cursed can definitely make things interesting, but mostly it just sucks lol. It can be brutal, especially if you're already getting your ass kicked or are exploring somewhere you're under-leveled for. So if you see a vendor selling an item that cures curses, buy at least one, even if you think it's expensive.
So the knights with the red cloak drop a really good sword, its worth it to farm the ones that are using a straight sword. The weapon is called Balder Side Sword and its one of the best straight swords in the game
I can't imagine discovering the New Londo Blacksmith before Andre. Excellent stuff.
Nice video bro I enjoyed it 🙈 dark souls ended it's hard , i will start play it again tonight
To consistently parry there is 1 golden advice that helped me. Watch their hand, as soon as U see the hand going down press parry, works on every enemy in DS1. While lock on ofc
Forward R1 kicks the shield blockers so they are stunned and opens them up for a front repost attack animation finisher on them
Ohhh tranquil walk of peace 😆 either get your shield up during its duration or get out of its area lol
This was cute to watch
Banger thumbnail and vid as always
I’ve recently been playing dark souls for the first time and once I’ve realized that locking on you can only roll forward, back, left, or right. You can also only sprint while not locked on as well.
my heart ! i feel the stab in my heart when i read you used the firekeeper souls like a normal item
Great video dude, hilarious 😄
Btw parry is different in this game, you have to be close enough so that your hand touch the enemy's hand, not weapon. You can also see the timing of the hitbox if you use parry again a wall, there'll be a flint indicating it hits.
Also hold weapon with both hands to deal more shield stamina damage and for attack to not bounce on shields and walls.
You parry the moment someone's weapon starts moving forward. As long as it's not 2 a handed attack. Has nothing to do with the hand.
I agree. You have to use the lock on more and develop an on/off/switch-taget dynamic. Once you get the and go through new game +3 or +4, it gets a bit easier. Once you get used to it though, you'll be trying all kinds of configurations. Poison will be a tiny inconvenience towards the end of regular new game.
I have a ng+4 vid of fighting Seath and the character can take Seath's entire cursed crystal breath, no blocking, and only have the curse build up go half way up the meter.
The intensity of new game for the first time is great though.
Be warned: play DS long enough... You may want to platinum it.
LFGGGG Spicy upload and it’s dark souls. Good luck with blight town o7
Ah yes, dark souls remastered. I'm currently on a platinum run for all the souls games, I have this one done and am working on 2. Great content as well, enjoy this game and the rest to come :)
i think DS3 has the worst achievements, get ready for a shitton of grind (less so if you manage to engage with MP a lot)
That yellow guy you freed from the parish, your first assumption about him was correct.
He is a fucking bastard, he straight up kills the fire keeper at fire link shrine, and you can't rest there anymore.
The NPCs in this game either hate you outright and betray you, or they're nice to you, go insane, and betray you.
And what the crestfallen warrior says about the two bells of awakening is the only hint you are ever going to get from anyone in this game.
Tip for parrying, parry as their strike starts coming down not at the wind up. Basically right before their hitbox makes co tact with you
That never worked for me. the parry animation is too slow most of the time. What did work, is just learning the timing.
This was hilarious 😂 10/10
I was typing it as you got it: About half of the Dragonic Bosses have a Tail Weapon that you can cut off before you kill them.
1:37 I could immediately tell you weren't lying about not playing this game until now. All of us had the same issues with the rat + fall damage combo 😭
It has probably been said multiple times before now but it’s crazy that you encountered that enemy at 5:58. They only spawn under a few conditions online. Even more so with this being your first play through
Wait till blight town that poison hits different
Love watching new people play my favorite games
If you know about the Drake Sword, it makes ringing the first 2 bells super easy to accomplish. It's located right under that bridge with the dragon, you just stand near where the undead warrior was under the bridge, and shoot the dragon's tail, and bring 50 arrows just in case. That weapon is vicious. If you can get your hands on a Black Knight Sword, use that.
they call the drake sword a noob trap for a reason
it's one of the worst weapons in the game for anything after capra
@@ESPmrBrough yeah, it's only usable at the beginning
That’s crazy good luck to have seen a vagrant on your first run through of Lordran. I think I was on my fifth run through before first encountering one
I only started getting into gaming around 2020, and was more of a casual gamer. What I mean by this is playing it with the intention to complete a game rather than just to pass the time, when I was younger I experienced different kinds of consoles like the N64, Game Cube, PS1, PS2, Xbox 360, Wii (my favourite because of Wii sport and resort) and 3DS XL but the only problem was I only ever played these if it was raining outside or if I was injured and couldn't play outside, because the issue was I loved sports. I've played basketball, soccer (true football), tennis and table tennis, AFL (Australian Football League), cricket and my main sports rugby. So when COVID hit and I found myself stuck inside, I started to get into PC gaming eventually leading to me getting my own gaming PC. I did want to build it myself but unfortunately I just didn't have the patience to wait for the right parts and wanted to jump into gaming. I started playing all story based games because it felt like I was watching a movie, which I than slowly overtime started playing various games before conlcuding that RPG games were my favourite.
Enter Dark Souls, alot of my experienced gamer friends mentioned this as a hard game and told me to avoid playing especially since I only started to get into the gaming scene...but honestly for me it was kind of a let down, I dunno if its because most games nowadays branched off from darks souls creating the "Soul-like" genre but the game was quite linear and not as hard. Maybe because I played safe by uterlising the bonfire to eliminate nearby respawned enemies over and over again to get lots of souls to level up that by the time I came to fighting the boss I was in a sense already to overpowered that it was easy. FYI I also hate watching videos of games prior to me playing it because to me it felt like movie spoiler's and felt it ruined the "noob" experience for me.
Besides that, the game was just so well designed, and how everything geogrpahically came together, the jumpscares were definitely no joke and going to dark areas made me even more wary of whether another flaming barrel was going to come flying my way.
None the less I enjoyed the game and it funny to watch Spicy go through somewhat similar experience as me, more so the jumpscares. I am defintiely keen to try Dark Souls 2 which I hear is apprently the worst of the 3 but thou shall judge with thine own eyes.
love the monster hunter reference, and the vids
I’m watching this, and hearing you say shadow wizzard money gang is crazy.. that group lives in my neighborhood!
I always run through the graveyard, grab the zweihander and pump all my stats into strength. The heavy attack basically plants foes into the ground...