The Worst Dark Souls Review on YouTube
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I’m not into Dark Souls in any way, but I respect it for it’s mostly fair difficulty, interesting world, and interesting enemies and bosses. This guy clearly isn’t into Dark Souls, but instead of saying it’s not for him, he wants the game to conform to what he wants from it. Basically every game journalist today
I think a better term than “fair” would be conquerable. The game will absolutely kick you in the shin, but if you learn, you don’t need frame-perfect reaction timing or anything crazy to win
Souls games make you a fanboy. I played my first game and then suddenly I’m in comment sections telling casuals to get gudd 😂. Souls games have a way of making you love the franchise. The overarching theme is literally man’s ability to overcome any obstacle.
Dark soul or any of the souls series game is where i m a pathetic tiny human fighting a 100x scaled big creature, what's not to like about that.
Must be what it's like to be a fly in my house
tbh games like The Last of Us and other “movie games” have ruined actually trying in a video game. That’s why I think having so many people say Elden Ring deserves Game of the Year I was surprised since it’s more of a traditional souls game than Sekiro.
Last of us is a masterpiece.. And is just as difficult as dark souls on harder difficulty.. Sometimes harder
14:26... hold up, hold up. You liked running around Blight Town? Bro, you just built different.
idk if the og was just that horrendous, but yeah, I didn't mind blight town, it was confusing sure, but I didn't hate it, now the Tomb of the Giants, oh boy, yeah I'd take 15 blight towns before I step foot in that hell hole again
I liked it too. It's one of the better designed zones in the whole series. And the Blighttown meme, in case you didn't know before, was mostly due to how abysmal were the FPS drops in this area on consoles originally, and much less so because on top of that the area was also confusing and trying to toxic you all the time.
@@canadiangopnik7007blighttown was bad when the game first dropped because of fps drops
@@twoshu8940 Well don’t forget about the army of humanoid enemies & fire dogs coming towards you and little guys hiding up high on towers shooting toxic darts at you
I have to say, while I disagree with the actual review for the most part, I do find it annoying that co-op is so borked. A friend asked me for some help with Kalameet and we spent more time trying to get the summon sign to appear for them than actually fighting the boss. The password method from DS3 should have been added to the remaster.
it was, I vividly remember playing with my 2 friends fairly recently, we had zero issues with the multiplayer
The remastered was needed. Graphics are much better and performance issues were addressed. They didn’t overhaul the game and remove certain exploits which is what made some fans mad
They removed prepare to die edition from steam and pretty much everywhere else so now you have to pay 40e for over 10years old game. This made some fans mad
@@simolaine1099 yeah for the longest time it didn’t go on sale but it’s started going on sale recently.
@@simolaine1099 the original was broken though. Terrible performance and buggy. I’m not surprised they ripped it. People were mostly mad because modders fixed the game and all of that work is useless now.
@@davidalexander9240 People definitely were mostly mad because they removed other versions from shop. Also just talking for myself but I have noted zero problems playing Prepare To Die edition.
@@simolaine1099 maybe I’m thinking about earlier versions
I played Demons Souls on PS3, then Sekiro and then Demons Souls remake and while I enjoyed them I didn't find them too special then I played Elden Ring and it stole a year of my life. Elden Ring constantly draws me back into that stunning world. Maybe it's time to play Dark Souls.
Nice video,
The fat rolling is a little painful to watch though XD
Also, try to make a habit of 2 handing your weapon if you're not using your shield for some bosses;)
I'm guilty of unlearning fat rolling. I only found out about the stamina run mechanic when I was trying to get to the undead merchant in Sen's fortress.
You... Tanked ceaseless discharge?! I just ran to the other wall and then waited for the poor brother to hold onto the cliffside for dear life. XD
Happy birthday Joe
I guess people on this app who gain a follow just be saying anything and everything for clout like he is entitled to his own opinions and what not but people are allowed to hype a game up if they want to it shows how passionate they are about the series
You say you don't have enough negative things to say to do a proper review of Dark Souls, but honestly I'd totally be down for a video that is literally nothing but you gushing about it.
Watching bro fight ceaseless head on was painful
I got into DS through bloodbourne thinking these sort of games were not for me. That view has changed but my outlook on games needed to change for that to happen. I’m happy for that change in how I enjoy games but it would not be the games fault for any lack of change I was willing to make
His gameplay is mostly from the early areas... Except the part with 99 liquid humanity and 13 million souls...
It kinda looks like he might have played everything after the early game with cheats...
Also note that getting that many souls takes several hours and only if you are close to level 700 is the soul cost high enough for you to be unable to level up with that amount.
I have over 1k hours in Dark Souls and my main character is still under level 500...
Chances are it was the dupe exploit more than any actual cheat. Having beaten ds1 so many times, I've done that dupe more times than I can count when I'm casually just playing it to kill time anymore. Lol
You didn't pick up on this, but he says that if you own the original release then there's no reason to buy the remastered; 99% of the online community is active on remastered and the original release needed mods to work online on PC even when the community was there, so either this guy isn't aware of the significant online features or he really doesnt understand that different games use different servers 😫
I got into dark souls when DS3 got released. Up till then I haven’t played any games that were remotely as challenging. up until that point I realize that I was kind of getting swindled for my time just having my hand held through games constantly. I like the fact that FromSoft allows you to lose and allows you to get better. It’s up to you and your individual determination as a player to get better. Otherwise you just wind up being either an over powered build and then the game isn’t as fun, or are you just rage and leave the game. not to mention that the lore and themes are phenomenal, even though I wasn’t necessarily a fan of how it was distributed at first. overall to say that dark souls is overrated this chest either being willfully contrarian, or you just need to git gud
As a long standing fan of Monster Hunter I have no clue what this man is on about making Dark Souls seem like it's just Monster Hunter, but unfair. I do find most Monster Hunter games harder than basically all of the Soulsborne games... Not necessarily for good reasons though. Only recently have Monster Hunter games had good hitboxes, it took them a long time to hone them into what we have in World, and Rise. Anyone who has fought Plesioth in MHFU knows what I'm talking about. I feel Dark Souls does take inspiration from Monster Hunter, they also take a lot of inspiration from Zelda. None of this is a bad thing, they saw something fun and cool, and they made their own game with it's own unique gameplay and innovations. They're not ripping either of these series off. It's not like they named their game "Creature Slayer" with the exact same gameplay loop as Monster Hunter, or "Tales of Zelba" with the same dungeons and puzzles as one of the Zelda games.
"Dear god, thirteen thousand souls"
*shows 13 million souls*
god damn it
He sounds like one of those "Dark souls needs an EZ mode" types. I am registered blind (but not completely blind) and if I can beat them (eventually) anyone that desires to can as well.
Happy Birthday Joe
The community of Soulsbourne has always been willing to offer help to me and others if you ask for guidance. If you come in bitching about how hard something is, you'll get a "git gud"
For real. Like I don't deny that toxic Souls players exist but it's no coincidence to me that the people who cry about how toxic the fanbase is are the same people who just bitch about the game as a whole. If you actually engage with the Souls base, they're totally chill. The game is literally based around shared knowledge, if you're actually looking to enjoy the game then the community will welcome you openly
His other videos are full of half-baked ideas too. Cool to see a call out video, I love internet drama 🤣
Bojack outro as an intro, bro is based
Happy birthday Joe !🥳
Me and Papawrite will force you to play Kingdom Hearts
Joke's on you I like Kingdom Hearts. My love of Disney movies trump my hatred of RPG combat ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
14:18 I think you've always liked RPGs (DS just gave you a window into the genre) because practically all RPGs have a grindiness aspect to them. It just comes with the territory of "higher level mean you get stronger". A lot of people don't like the grind in an RPG and that's what makes people dislike them.
You don’t really have to grind in Dark Souls. I only kill a handful of monsters when I’m just little short of leveling or buying something expensive
I'm not very knowledgeable on the way DSR was put on steam and why it got so much negativity in regards to how Fromsoft took down the original DS game from steam when the remastered came out. I don't remember DSR coming out in a broken state other than server issues which while is deserving of criticism, doesn't negate the quality of the game.
I bought prepare to die in 2016 and I remember it being more expensive than 20 USD. The crashing has been non-existent in DSR for me so far unlike prepare to die and increased optimization and compressing the active community prior to DSR with new players who bought DSR into a single game makes more sense than leaving it split up.
Maybe it's because I love DS1 so much and is by far my favorite game, but I don't see much issue with taking down prepare to die edition. Only thing I can really think of is that for people who have owned the original version for a long enough period of time, say before the remaster was announced, it could have/should have been free, but even then the increased optimization and having an actually active online player base made it worth it for me. 20 dollars is nothing compared to the garbage that has been churned out by European/American companies for the better part of a decade now.
Criticism of the camera is fair. It’s a meme that the hardest enemies in Souls are the camera and gravity
Wrong...camera in sekiro...gravity in souls.
@@markredford84 no fucking lie
@@markredford84 have you ever been to upper blight town good sir 😂
Maybe I'm just a lizard person but I honestly haven't had a problem with the camera
@@JoeFromSeattle it can be a bit janky sometimes. It’s not often but you play enough souls you will get some bullshit camera deaths
I think it might be overrated in the sense that some people compare literally any and all hard games to it. The actual game itself might be slightly overrated. I need to play more of it to get a grounded opinion on it, but so far, it's looking like it's fully deserving of its status as a legendary game. I need to rebuy it on Steam so I won't have to play the whole game on Switch.
Agree with you but how is it intuitive that you can block melee attacks with a damn sword?
You know if he wanted to complain about Dark Souls 1 or 2 then he should have talked about poison swaps lol
I've put hundreds of hours into the demon soulsborne sekiro games... git gud is understandably frustrating. I cannot fault people for asking for help and then getting pissy when a large group of people just say that, and only that. If a newcomers asks for help, or a simple tip, give them something more. Or at the very least explain what "git gud" means to us as players.
You don’t have to have anything negative to say about something to review it. Now it is probably not a good idea to review something that you have a bias toward. I would never do a review of StarCraft or Gears of War. Because StarCraft got me into an entire genre. And Gears of War, there was a huge storm when the first one came out. And I had to wait a whole week before I could pick it up. GoW was the whole reason I waited outside of Toys R’ Us for 6 hours in November of 2005 to get one…
18:24
...Maybe close the containers.
iw was my favourite cod too. i quit after its season was over
I’ve beaten ds1 multiple times. Once you play it more than once you will know what things are bullshit. The models being a big one. Ceaseless discharge arms are twice as big than they look but you don’t notice that your first play through. Enemy weapons go through walls and bed of chaos sucks so much. Those are what I remember off the top of my head. Lastly the terrain makes you feel as if you are on marbles when you are near an edge cause you slip so easily.
Tbf, your weapons also go through walls lol
@@paulcasanova1909 Not all weapons go through walls. The biggest culprit for enemy weapons going through walls I can think of is in New Londo. The demon titinite can swing its weapon right through the walls and hit you even if you leave the room.
Elden Ring was my first Fromsoft game. I've played it every day since launch. I'm always making new characters to try a new play style. I'm obsessed with it, but I have no desire to play any of the older Souls games. I have new respect for them, but dungeon to dungeon just doesn't seem like fun to me.
Honestly I can’t recommend ds3 and bloodborne enough. The gameplay is so good and they have amazing bosses. Ds3 has the best bosses in the series imo and bloodborne is a close second.
@@nathanlockhart3876 sekiro and bloodborne are by far the best
DS3 was my first, and I recall feeling similarly, I thought I wouldn't have a good time with the older and less refined game, oh my god I've never been more wrong in my life, DS1 was incredible, bite the bullet, PLAY IT, if you haven't already since posting this, it is SO worth it, once I get my PS4 repaired I have Bloodborne to finish and DS2 to start and I can't wait
I will say the OG dark souls multiplayer is ass. Trying to go through the game as much as possible with a buddy and then having one of you have to farm to be near each others soul level is annoying as hell. That being said they got rid of all the annoyance in the remaster so its not something you HAVE to deal with.
I actually prefer the remaster as it actually has UWHD support and for some reason DS3 doesn’t and elden ring too. And seeing as Elden Ring has Easy Anti Cheat I can’t mod UWHD support without being kicked offline.
Hey I live in Seattle too.
Dark souls is the dark souls of dark souls
Happy birthday Joe in the comments.
Have to disagree with the game being fair all the time. The final third is some bullshit (due to them clearly running out of time and the lazy level design) and Bed of Chaos is just terrible on every level and the "downstairs" is actually pretty BS too. But I am nitpicking, it;s mostly just sublime.
You'd be surprised how buggy the remaster was.
I’m happy you enjoyed Dark Souls 1 man! It’s an absolute masterpiece. Might i recommend Bloodborne or Dark Souls 3 next.
Also I *highly* recommend Lies of P.
Do linkin park for recommendations on your music channel
Earned yourself a sub, doom really is the dark souls of shooters kek
i'm triggered by the fat rolling joe, but i mean i did it for most of my first run while fat rolling
also because i feel it's worth bringing up some other action rpgs, Dragon's Dogma slaps (need to go back to that, i haven't actually finished it) Surge 2 is a fantastic souls like, you can entirely ignore surge 1, the 2nd fixes most of the games biggest issues
those are the ones i could think of off the top of my head, i'll comment more another time if i think of good recommendations
Yeah this gameplay is like 3-4 gameplay hours old and watching it now is very triggering LOL i was still figuring out the best build
@@JoeFromSeattle to be fair, my friend played through the whole game with a fairly low star weapon and the tankiest stuff he could, he rarely rolled, he just poised through everything
It was frightening to watch, but it worked
Dark souls should be how video games should made
Im fair in my contempt because I fuckin hated botw and all souls games. And i despise witcher as well
I played all the ds games I’m order, and I don’t know why but I found ds1 the least compelling and fun, I had way more fun in 2 and 3
Dark souls are the best games around imo....I used to hate them, and tried to play them alot....always deleted and always came back and tried until one day it just clicked and now I love them
Here’s my games lists of games I love that people hate
DmC Devil May cry
Mass effect andromeda
Shadow of tomb raider
Gears judgment
Infinite warfare
CoD ghosts
You cannot blame FromSoft for the remaster because they didn't create it.
It was remastered by QLOC and published by Bandai-Namco.
Blame QLOC for the lazy remaster and blame Bandai for the price.
Git Gud is toxic AF, but man it makes sense once you finally git gud.
Its genuinely the best advice someone can get in a game like Dark Souls. When you die in soulsborne games, it's 99% of the time your fault. People get so mad when they hear "git gud" because they don't want to admit that they made a mistake
@@overdrivedrinker8284 Well I disagree that it's always your fault. There are a few BS areas (or most of DS2).
Why do these freaking Dark Souls haters always bring up the Souls community??? Seriously every horrible Souls "review" always attacks Souls/FromSoftware fans. As if the fans have any bearing or effect on the quality of the games. It's not even funny anymore. It's so aggravating everyone who doesn't like Dark Souls brings up the community when "criticizing From's games.
dark souls is a great game it needs a rameke like the demons souls remake
I havent heard anything you have to say about infinite warfare but I feel the need to say the game is a piece of dookie. An extremely fun piece of dookie. I shouldnt be able to run/boost from one end of a map to the other and successfully knife a person thats shooting at me the entire time!.. I secretly love that game
first, happy birthday joe.
second, i finished this game, which is surprising to me since i rarely finished let alone 100$ completion games nowadays.
that alone pointing how good the game is.
also i kinda tired with 'repetitive' point of a game is.
every game, hell, everything at some point will hit the repetitive ceiling.
and it's up to game itself to make you over it and to induce it player to keep playing it, hence the grinding.
maybe that's why i prefer sandbox game lol.
Every gameplay loop is (by definition) repetitive and obviously the more you repeat something, the better you're going to get at it. Like the gameplay loop of a game can totally be too simple and feel boring or monotonous but it's not a criticism to say a game gets easier with time or you're doing the same things over and over again. That's literally every video game lol
@@JoeFromSeattle "obviously the more you repeat something, the better you're going to get at it."
this, even a game which supposedly present you with more problem the longer you dive in, like, factorio, or rimworld at some point will become 'easy' once the player figure out how to handle said problem.
so yeah, it's not the game become easier, it's the player 'getting better' at it.
I wouldn't call DS "extremely" fair :D The first mimic had me uninstall the game
The mimic's chain is reversed and you can see the chest breathing. Its honestly your fault for not paying attention. Also it's a fantasy RPG, ofc theres gonna be mimics
@@paulcasanova1909 I've played dozens of fantasy RPGs. I'd say MOST of them don't have mimics lol. The chest moving is quite minimal you'd have to stop and observe it and why should I have insight to do that
@@simolaine1099 The first instance of a mimic in the game, and one you'll most likely encounter, is in Sen's Fortress. Which is a heavily booby trapped place meant to mess with you. So having the insight to question if the chest is a trick isn't non-existant
ok the guy who made the review made more valid points than you did
Honestly this video is just as bad as Davo's.
His video on Dark Souls is terrible, and I honestly expected you to point out that he points out the same criticisms the community makes, which contradicts his point about the series being overrated.
But no, twelve minutes in and you do nothing but interject every thirty seconds to make a stupid comment that either misinterprets what he was saying or is entirely irrelevant. Half the time when you can be bothered to actually make a point you can't be bothered to structure it correctly. I mean, for god's sake, the downstairs? It takes under a minute to look up "Dark Souls areas" and look at the different levels.
It's just sad, I was really looking forward to seeing someone actually cut Davo's contrarianism down to size, but this video might actually be worse. At the very least Davo structures his points, as bad as they are.
Are you going to give any examples of him misinterpreting it or are you just gonna say that and expect people to take your word for it?
I think both of you have good points but this video comes off as pretentious. Is Dark Souls a good game. Yeah absolutely. Is it overrated? Definitely. It has many many flaws and the community does like to ignore those and just say to you "get good" like you did many times in this video. The concept of the game is why its good. But the execution leaves alot to be desired and i think thats what this guy is pointing out. Everyone knows the multiplayer is absolute cancer to deal with and trying to excuse it with "but the lore" is ridiculous especially when learning anything about the lore is incredibly hard to do because the game barely makes sense and you have to go into menus and read alot of shit to understand.
You have immediately gone full fan boy 🤦♂️
It's not your fault, it happens, but most people don't make videos answering critiques when they haven't even completed the game themselves. How are you talking about the later part of the game when you haven't even got there yet fgs. For example not blocking ghosts. You cant. Not with out certain things an sometimes it's easier just to YOLO through. Things you would know if you have even got to the bit you're criticising FFS. I have played and completed every souls like, love the dark souls series, yet still agree with everything he's saying. Alot of the criticism like the camera and the later part of the game being weak, are commonly known in the community and widely agreed on. Even the footage of the camera issue you showed, shows the lock on not working and not locking on to the closest target. How do you make such a big deal about that an not realise you are showing evidence against your own argument. Jeez. I imagine you are gonna go full toxic.
The lock on bit, it's because his camera wasn't aimed towards the closest enemy. That was entirely his fault.
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