When I was a kid I was playing with my cousins one night, we were running and jumping around the living room and at one point my cousin jumped on my hyper extended leg and broke my femur like a branch.Breaking my leg that day was half as painful as watching the first 2 hours of this playthrough.
A couple of years ago I was in a nasty car wreck where I died a few times, lost most of my blood, torn aorta, collapsed lung, ruptured spleen, two spinal fractures, 8 broken ribs, shattered pelvis, dislocated right leg, broken left femur, knee replacement, broken left foot, and watching this playthrough has been more painful for me. I legitimately think Asmond is mildly retarded and I'm not even joking, not talking shit, I truly think he's mentally challenged. Definitely got some autism of some sort.
Anytime he says something that might indicate he has prior experience or knowledge, you see him fascniate himself with something - a distractor. "ohhh a morning star. oohh. ohh nice" mcconell "wdym rui--oh nvm i said nothing" lol Asmon's a smart guy, a smart guy. "these controllersa re too complicateD" nah no shot. he knows whats he's doing - the man grew up with halo, and am illion ot her things lol. He's just entertaining and doing a good job at it
@@Nem_FFXIVgood point. He played Halo, one of the most popular game franchises of all time that literally ruled that era of gaming, surely he played Dark Souls. You know, that niche series that was even more niche then than it is now.
the year is 2021, you're watching asmon miss every single thing that could help him with the game. He learns nearly nothing and never listens to chat. More pain than a mortal man can handle.
It’s truly painful I learned how to play this game so easily and got to the Taurus demon in an hour. I’m still not great at the game or anything but man just the fact this man spent an hour on the first boss is like a stab in my heart😭
panic rolls every mob, didn't read tutorials written on the ground so he doesn't know how to run or block, tried to fight the demon forever, has a shield but doesn't block and dodge....all the wasted souls....not leveling... up .... oh my....it hurts to watch... but i can't stop watching....
Reading the stream chat and here in yt makes me rly sad. Ppl dont even know waht it means to find out stuff by it own and not watch 10 guides and 2 gameplay and after they play the game by itself and mean they are good
@@lutziify my first playthrough was blind, can confirm some of this stuff takes working out. I am pro keeping him blind during the playthrough, but i consider not telling him the controls to be kinda bad sportsmanship
The reason he doesn’t press E and didn’t read the pop up that told him to level up when he first got to firelink is because he’s a wow player. He’s used to having his screen COVERED in bullshit so he’s blind to pop ups in other games lmao.
Its strangely common among streamers and youtubers to just straight up miss obvious shit. Its almost as if taking a second to read something is against the rules when recording. Asmon is not special in that regard.
Dark Souls is a magical experience when you're trash at it and need to keep learning at every corner. I don't understand why people seem to be pissed off that he's not good at it, it's WAY better like this. It's the purest way to play the game, and none of us can do it like this again, and I for one think it's great that I can relive the way the game seems to a new player through Asmon's eyes here.
Your point is 110% correct for any person, except Asmongold. It's been three full steams of Dark Souls so far and he has yet to actually play Dark Souls. he take learns nothing of what the game is trying to teach him. half is deaths are blamed on the game while literally anyone that has actually played Dark Souls will tell you that no dude, that was as your fault as it can possibly get.
@@SondreGrneng that's okay. As long as he plays through the game he will have to learn at least a bit. I don't think you can really play this game through and not understand it at all in the end. It's fine, it's his experience, and for someone who's been playing almost nothing but wow for years the transition will be difficult.
@@UnwrittenNoise I hope so, I really enjoy watching his streams and I honestly want him to enjoy this. I admit I have been pretty bad at basing my criticism on the fact he has played almost only World of warcraft for so long and is now moving into Dark Souls which is as fundamentally different from the current design philosophy of WoW as you can get. He IS improving, though so I expect him to fully embrace it soon. Edit: Oh, and if you haven't watched the rest of his streams and don't mind being spoiled slightly for the future, I suggest watching the clip he added in his tweet after the last stream
@@SondreGrneng I've been watching vods of his streams on twitch and he's improving slowly. I think one thing that's making it harder for him is that he feels pressure from streaming the game, he is embarrassed by being bad and he thinks that if he would stop and take time to read about and practice the mechanics of the game that would be boring to watch. Still I think he's getting better, and like sen's fortress was a wall that forced him to learn a bit etc. It's good, and he seems real happy whenever he beats a part that's giving him a lot of trouble, which is how the game sucks you in.
oh man asmon realizing the ladder was a shortcut to earlier in the stage was so funny, you can literally just see him processing all the information in his eyes
I love seeing people reactions to the undead parish to burg bonfire kicking down the ladder and realizing where they are. The world design is so good and those moments when you piece together the layout are so magical
@@khalilrahme5227 first half of dark souls 1 just perfect man... I could go back and enjoy every second of it... 2nd half aren't bad but it's just not enjoyable for me i guess fuck demon ruin man holy shit that make me so miserable
Not me I was fucking sick of that bonfire by the time I got to it from the other side. When I saw it I was like fuck it feels like I made no progress at all.
@@veritas8598 Lol a small percentage of people saying the wrong things in a sea of people giving him the right directions. It’s not hard to see what’s true and what isn’t in a chat full of 40,000+
Reading the stream chat and here in yt makes me rly sad. Ppl dont even know waht it means to find out stuff by it own and not watch 10 guides and 2 gameplay and after they play the game by itself and mean they are good
@@lutziify When i played this game i dont have any info or guide and i still managed to git gud just fine on my own, he is not reading any guidance the game offering, dont discover anything on his own, he tried to kill the skeletons over and over again like a madman because he is not realising he is not supposed to go there and dont even look the other way and then crying about not know how to play the game, he is a moran simply. Dont defend him, he is just garbage at every game, he is even saying this. He is fun to watch, but garbage at every game simple is that.
It has to just be an act Asmongold puts on. I understand what "being new to a game" looks like. This is not that. Okay. Since he finds the Longsword, we know he understands the blue glows are items. But he walks right by the one that would give him a shield multiple times. I get he's doing a blind playthrough, but I think he exaggerated his lack of understanding for the bit. Like, I've seen in other comments that around the time of this stream he'd pretty much only played WoW. An MMORPG. Being able to identify the difference between "Using" a consumable and "Equipping" an item is a skill mutual between the games, right? Also, not identifying a boss health bar as... A boss health bar? If you've played any 3D RPG (WoW included) a boss health bar appearing large and proud at the top or bottom of the screen is a staple. So I just... Legit cannot in good faith believed absolutely ZERO connections were made in his head between the two games. It's like growing up playing Pokemon on your GameBoy and then playing Final Fantasy 7 on a friend's PlayStation. You'd still at least be able to identify how a MENU operates, right? Item pickups? Regardless of these streams happening a year ago... I refuse to believe that this guy didn't exaggerate his lack of knowledge, and it's been bugging me for the whole 2 hours of this stream I've watched so far. If he's trying to emphasize he's "new" to the game, that'll become obvious as you play in front of people who have played. There's nothing wrong with being a newbie at a game. There IS something wrong with dumbing yourself down to the point you hide previous experience you've gained and act like it doesn't remotely apply to be tasks.
handholdthrough ,guidethrough , gaythrough certainly no playthrough with everysingle step being dictated by chat this "playthrough " died the moment mcconnell dipped shits cringe af
I always come back to this vod to cheer me up. McConnell is basically a patches that’s commenting over the game. It’s awesome. And this makes I appreciate asmon and how much he does to cheer up his community. This is why this man is so successful on twitch even playing wow and 75% of his viewers don’t even play
Everyone is talking about their first experience with Dark Souls so I'm going to add mine too. When I first started playing the game, I was legitimately afraid of everything so I spent more time hiding like a little bitch than actually progressing. After like 2 hours of being in the Asylum, the first place I actually tried to go to was New Londo Ruins and I got molested by ghosts.
Reading the stream chat and here in yt makes me rly sad. Ppl dont even know waht it means to find out stuff by it own and not watch 10 guides and 2 gameplay and after they play the game by itself and mean they are good
Nai Meow I played dark souls a couple years ago because My brother had it on his xbox 360, I had no idea what this game was about. The TUTORIAL boss took me 2 tries
I don’t know why, but I felt the need to watch some of this stream again after the apology video. It’s not that long ago, but it still feels like such a simpler time. This playthrough is classic lol
yeah, I understand telling chat to not tell him anything to not spoil the experience of a blind run but him constantly talking shit isn't helpin either
He’s literally just being a cringe lord the whole time. He’s relishing in Asmon being bad and then legitimately getting angry at chat because they’re letting him know how cringe he’s being. 1:55:13 was a straight up unhinged weirdo moment.
@@TylerG13 I disagree, asmon basically did skip the entire tutorial which would’ve told him how to actually play the game, it also showed him how bonfires work too. Now chat helping him isn’t bad, but it’s not good. At least his first 20 deaths taught him a smidge of how to actually fight in this game which is karma from not learning the tutorial. So McConnell saying all this stuff doesn’t really make him cringe he’s just telling the truth. (I do know that this is 8 months later but I’m just voicing my opinion)
@@thirdeyi0074 McConnell was right, but it was ridiculously uncomfortable how he kept mocking and getting butthurt over asmon not reading the tutorial as if he made the game or some shit.
"You shouldn't listen to chat. Play this game as your hear desires, go in completely blind!" 1 minute passes "Nah nah nah, receding hairline. They made it for you"
He would have been pissed had he picked the healing item for his gift to start the game...seeing as it's a single use item lol...he would have used it and then been confused why he couldn't reuse it
@@erickchristensen746 nope, this is real, hes really that dumb, dont justify his dumbness by saying "its just an act", another why all he plays is WOW for like 2 decades and im not even exaggerating.
It's 2023, I've recently also picked up Dark Souls and let me just say, watching this was very painful. I refuse to believe that he could have been som blind, with severe tunel vision and not remember anything about the environment even after almost 6 hours whatsoever. Any sane person would also at least try to read descriptions and at least inspect weapons they get. Someone tell me otherwise please cuz its just the first video an im already going nuts. It's still fun. Onto the next one.
You mean to tell me you JUST NOW learned of this truth? Activision Blizzard trash in general kills your brain cells, but at the same time you'd have to already be a pretty big fucking idiot to give them any money in the first place, so it's a matter of the dumb getting dumber.
not just wow, it's all these games with arrows showing you exactly where to go so you never have to think for yourself. just look at what game "designers" from companies like ubisoft and activision are saying about elden ring for example, they are literally asking people how we can like a game that has such "bad" UX and UI because they think we want the screen filled with all that bs. meanwhile the players are a bit annoyed that they added in the compass to a souls game in elden ring
"we need to LURE the boar" - he says while "Alluring skull" is written right on screen. Surely those two things are not connected, right? surely, this alLURING skull is not relevant in any way! XD
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Personally, I'm not sure I can handle it. He's still in the Asylum, and I've had to pause the video for a breather. The fact that he's ignoring tutorial messages, whilst asking chat how to do the things they say. *sigh* I'm going back in boys. I'm not sure I'll see you on the other side. *edit* Writing this not even 5 minutes later and I'm done. He spent most of that time attacking the archer for '3 damage'... And then ran back to get a shield, but missed it. He's walked past that shield 3 times in total . Sorry everyone, but I've gone hollow.
You can literally see how immersed he is in this game watch how he tries to look over the edge in real life as if hes in the game at 1:14:46. Its like the first game in 10+ years that hes enjoyed since playing WoW religiously and end up being one of the best games he could have liked.
The ability for this guy to miss almost every shortcut, useful item, and half of the bonfires is astounding. Fat rolled the entire time, and didn't even use lock on for the majority of the video. It reminds me of my first playthrough.
I think people were way too harsh on him lol, it was his first souls game and first game of that kind, I'm pretty sure. Must be hard to do something like learn dark souls with a bunch of toxic chatters all saying a million different things. I feel like we were all this way at first and anyone that says they weren't are lying lol. Also poor mccool
@@theimp6731 "anyone that says they weren't are lying lol" There's literally hundreds of streams and videos of people playing DS for the first time and they did just fine. You'd have to be BEYOND trash at video games if your playthrough looked anywhere near as bad as Asmon's
@johnhighway7399 oh no for sure. Asmons ds1 run is an exception and everyone can agree that he was unnaturally bad at the game. I wasnt talking about skill, i was referring to how he didnt understand anything. Because nobody really do when their playing a game of a genre they havent ever touched before. All I was saying is that most people who aren't streaming to an audience that whine if you "cheat" by googling anything, probably use Google a lot. More so for elden ring because of how huge and open it is
Yeah that guy was a prick, there’s a difference between not spoiling stuff and actively working against a player. Plus he told everyone to shut up because…they were telling him to read messages, fuck him lol
Haha great stuff, however I did get annoyed with one thing: its one thing to not tell him anything to keep up the pressure and the first time experience, but its completely another to troll and lie about gameplay mechanics etc xD
Yeah, like, McFatshit made this so much harder for him, I actually felt bad watching this. If he kept from saying things, it's fine, but he intentionally made the game harder for him. Dark Souls teaches you what you need to know slowly, and organically. McFuckface literally led him into demise like 10x in the first ten minutes.
@@lerchomat maby with a ultra GreatSword, but theres still plenty of dodge rolling and strafing. If you go in just spamming r1 on enemies darksouls will clap your ass real fuckin quick
First time I played DS I never made it past the Undead Burg. I quit before ever seeing the Taurus Demon. I'm a pretty avid gamer that's completed many hardmode challenges in the past. I always beat most of my games on the hardest difficulties, and had many rare and difficult achievements under my belt. And I spent fucking hours and hours wiping on the undead burg. I legit thought the game was broken and would simply tank once the piss poor reviews started pouring in. To my amazement, the game received critical acclaim. Then one day I walked into the living room and my brother was playing some new game, and as I stopped and watched, the Gaping Dragon cinematic unfolds and my brother starts hacking at this thing, rolling around and blocking. I didn't recognize the game; I legit asked him what badass game he's playing. When he told me it was DS (a game left collecting dust for months at this point), I couldn't believe it. I asked him how he got past the Undead Burg and he just laughed. Then, he showed me how to ACTUALLY play. It's not a hack and slash action game like I thought at first. Not even close. My scond playthrough was a mess. I was blind and specced so horribly, that by the time I got to Gwen finally, I found him impossible. I turned my Grass shield into Crystal and it broke. I accidentally unequipped my Ring of Favor and Protection, and it broke. My spec was a mess. My gear, shambles. I made it this far, I'd kill this last boss if it's the last thing I do. So I did the only sensible thing; I deleted my toon and started all over again, SL1. I watched hints, tips and tricks. I read up on proper builds. Dove into the lore. And I had a fucking BLAST, finding secrets I completely missed in my first runs, hidden items, and more. Since then, Souls series has been one of my favorite series of all time, having done multiple completionist and challenge runs with tons of different styles and builds across the 3 games. This game, is a fucking masterpiece. One that I very nearly missed out on.
Damn dude I had a similar experience to you honestly, I didn't think the game was broken, I simply compared it to Ninja Gaiden as a game that was too big of a challenge for me; after years of not playing DS I tried it again and just like you I had a blast on my second try
The only "tips and tricks" you need are given to you by the game itself Its just a matter of learning how the game works from the menus and enemy movesets instead of autopiloting throuhh it All cristal weapons state in their description they have extremely low durability and can be found relatively early in anor londo and later through the dukes archives (in abundance) You were just a victim of voluntary ignorance, just like baldergold
Asmon, u should come back to this video after 5y and record your reactions to how u played it. It was the most brutal clash between a new player and a souls series I have ever seen.
thats the beauty of dark souls games. turning pure innocent souls into dark gritty souls who understands and accepts the struggle against suffering if they are willing to endure.
I feel that way anytime I see him play a Souls game, it blows my mind he’s able to get through any of the games with his severe tunnel vision and molasses thought processing ability.
I'm about halfway through I was wondering if he'd ever do it.. When he got the alluring skull and was like "ok we gotta lure the boar over and..." (I was thinking yes..yes he'll think to use an item!..Nope :( And before that when McConnel said about the black firebombs I thought he'd at least check em out)
@@blindey I'm like that little bit because I'm a hoarder in heart. I ignore all extra stuff that isn't a health potion in such games. Because why use that frost thing or a bomb before I learn boss moves? It seems like I will throw the bomb and I just have limited amount of bombs, and then die anyway. And then when I learn boss moves then I don't have bombs anymore because I used them like an idiot and I don't need them since I learned how to fight the boss.
I feel you. Ive played DS3, ER and DS1 basicall without consumables. In BB I finally saw that theyre really useful and I constantly use consumables now. Also using rare stuff like Iosefkas Blood Vial etc@@hyro3292
I really, REALLY, enjoy blind playthroughs of games, especially Dark Souls, and I do love to see ppl get rekt at first, BUT(!) holy fuck, trying to constantly BRUTE FORCE EVERYTHING made it hard to watch. Seeing someone admitting to not knowing stuff, but then almost going out of their way to AVOID that knowledge is making my brain hurt. It's almost as if he would die from just reading the menus or get brain damage from wondering what that green bar is for... AAARRGGHHH DS can be very cryptic and I wouldn't expect him to figure out what stuff like humanity does or even how weapon scaling works... but FOR FUCKS SAKE is it really that hard to look at the different menus, read button prompts and numbers, so you know what i.e. endurance is or what the fuck that item is that you just got...? Rant over. 11/10. Would frustrate me again.
@@se7enhaender it was feeling a bit DSPish watching this for the first couple hours haha All asmon had to do was pull his rooster out on stream and you wouldn't have been able to tell difference lmfao
The map connectivity in this game still amazes me.. totally brilliant.. Never saw such complex map interconnected in any other game so far.. Best game ever.. the first time I came across Firelink Shrine (with that music) and seeing Anor Londo is something that's difficult to explain.. No game ever comes close to that feeling..
1:58:00 before he actually found his first bonfire that's actually fking incredible. About as long as it took him to press the block button for the first time too
famous last words: that's not a bonfire is that a real lion? I feel like I lose iq every time I watch it, but it's so damn entertaining for some reason I can't stop
@@Sylentmana The dragons you see in the game are mostly VERY distant descendants of the original dragons that were there before fire existed, they just started utilizing fire for themselves some time down the line.
@@Sylentmana Yeah Kalameet is definitely an odd case, could just be that whatever magic he's using simply functions similarly to fire, seeing as the attacks only have a small bit of fire damage in them iirc. But I'm not knowledgeable enough about the lore to make any very solid theories to begin with, so who knows in the end, it's definitely an interesting mystery.
guys guys this is a crazy idea but what if theyre just dragons and the team just kinda forgot that dragons arent supposed to breath fire lore wise i know right, shocking :o
DSP being bad at games isn't even the issue. Pretty much every big name youtuber and twitch streamer is awful at most games, especially if they're like Asmon who has spent his entire career playing a MMO which is leagues different than every other genre of game. That's not the point and why DSP is such dogshit. The issue is his attitude. He's bad at games on top of being extremely toxic, narcissistic, and disgusting. I've never heard a man belch and snort as much as he does. Worst of all however, is he is BORING. He has the personality and charisma of a dead fish. He uses a facecam but he just sits there with a permanent scowl on his face looking like the sad depressed piece of shit that he is. It's worthless, just like him.
Incredible. He's trying to brute force everything. Feel kind of bad for him though, McConnell trying to troll the hell out of him. The game got to him in the end too. But then again, almost 6 hours of Dark Souls is tough for any new player. He could have saved himself a lot of frustration if he only read some of the messages in the beginning and tried to figure out the controls a bit more. Instead the frustration kept rising and he became even more reckless and impatient once he switched to mouse and keyboard. Hope he picks it up again though, he'll probably enjoy it if he gets comfortable with the basics.
@@doctorgears9358 Yeah it literally ruined the game. McConnell was the issue with this, not Dark Souls. Literally telling him to kill Patches after refusing to give him advice? Like, you're literally just fucking his run up for no reason.
He didn't even realized he cut the Gargoyl's tail and got the axe and I love how he even checked to see after the fight if he got a new weapon and the axe was just there and he completely ignored it. The best!
Here in 2024: Ya know this entire video is a hallmark - prime example of the souls experience in a good way. I think the dude who is also talking on his stream is actually right and is a huge contributor to this feat^ I’ve watched so many new streamers “try their first souls game” on elden ring to try and rack in the money bc of its popularity.. they don’t even get a good experience or understand what they’re doing at the end of the game because their chat just tells them everything. Of course we all have to look up things here and there just to make sense of it all, but for the most part, asmons friend did him a huge favor letting him struggle in confusion. I find it just as hilarious as he did when asmond continually messed up / died. Watching the shear dumbfounded look on his face appear when something so simple became apparent to him, is what this is all about. Shout out to organic experiences.
I was about to complain about how sloppy he plays but then I realized that in 5 hours he got to Lower Undead Burg. In my first playthrough, after 5 hours, I was still getting my ass kicked by Taurus Demon.
I spent two hours on that boss and still haven’t beat him. I’m not going back till I have OP stuff cuz dear God that enemy is so hard for literally nothing
just seeing this today in 2022, and my god, this is literally a try not to enrage DS1 vets unintentionally , but really, it's actually very fun to see someone's first experience to Dark Souls, i'm actually very glad that this particular full VOD exists. Thanks Asmongold for posting a full series of this rage inducing masterpiece
@@ezbayt8723 This shit is so cringe. Like I get not telling him where to go or not spoiling him but chat and mcconnell absolutely shouldve at least explained to him how the controls work or point him at the fucking bonfire that he skipped so many times, its actually infuriating to watch lmao
@@ezbayt8723 then i guess you'd get entertained seeing a 5 year old play against a professional basketball player who isn't holding back and has people telling him he needs to kick the ball into the hoop
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When I was a kid I was playing with my cousins one night, we were running and jumping around the living room and at one point my cousin jumped on my hyper extended leg and broke my femur like a branch.Breaking my leg that day was half as painful as watching the first 2 hours of this playthrough.
Lmaooo
Oh God I hope that means its a good watch
You don't know what hyper-extended means lol
A couple of years ago I was in a nasty car wreck where I died a few times, lost most of my blood, torn aorta, collapsed lung, ruptured spleen, two spinal fractures, 8 broken ribs, shattered pelvis, dislocated right leg, broken left femur, knee replacement, broken left foot, and watching this playthrough has been more painful for me. I legitimately think Asmond is mildly retarded and I'm not even joking, not talking shit, I truly think he's mentally challenged. Definitely got some autism of some sort.
Femur?
My man turned the first 5 minutes of the game into almost an hour of content.
Literal GOD.
Anytime he says something that might indicate he has prior experience or knowledge, you see him fascniate himself with something - a distractor. "ohhh a morning star. oohh. ohh nice"
mcconell "wdym rui--oh nvm i said nothing" lol
Asmon's a smart guy, a smart guy. "these controllersa re too complicateD" nah no shot. he knows whats he's doing - the man grew up with halo, and am illion ot her things lol. He's just entertaining and doing a good job at it
@@Nem_FFXIVI mean that doesn’t say anything lol. Even new released games like elden ring he played the same
@@ttop9445 ur right u got it figured out :)
@@Nem_FFXIVgood point. He played Halo, one of the most popular game franchises of all time that literally ruled that era of gaming, surely he played Dark Souls. You know, that niche series that was even more niche then than it is now.
@TheGameVerse I mean my logic wasn't saying that at all but thats fine if that's all you're capable of understanding.
I'm not sure he ever got aware that stamina exists during the whole VOD.
Holy Shit you're right 🤣
It's funny how he thinks the equip load stat is attack speed
It's not just stamina that he's completely fucking clueless about either.
Chat such dicks for letting him fatroll for hrs on end -.-
surely he had to be trolling, he found out about the Levelling Up then just forgot all about it ? wtf
His gameplay reminds me of what a game critic's would look like
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this is an insane comment
Perfect description
true look at angry joe, he make a living of reviewing games but when he streams its like he is playing while his brain is turned off.
Except he actually finished the game, lol
the year is 2021, you're watching asmon miss every single thing that could help him with the game. He learns nearly nothing and never listens to chat. More pain than a mortal man can handle.
It’s truly painful I learned how to play this game so easily and got to the Taurus demon in an hour. I’m still not great at the game or anything but man just the fact this man spent an hour on the first boss is like a stab in my heart😭
@@CreamySenpai31 ya he didn't even realize that he had a stamina meter...and the R2 spam was craziness
He is no mere mortal. He is a literal God. Just kinda stupid also
To be fair, the entire time there’s another dude screaming at the chat to not help him.😂 Like after a while throw him a bone, man.
He played WoW exclusively his whole life. He has no clue how to play games that don't have quest markers on the screen.
panic rolls every mob, didn't read tutorials written on the ground so he doesn't know how to run or block, tried to fight the demon forever, has a shield but doesn't block and dodge....all the wasted souls....not leveling... up .... oh my....it hurts to watch... but i can't stop watching....
Yeah, I am screaming at my computer all the time: "Use your shield for gods sake!", "Use your soul items!", etc.
Reading the stream chat and here in yt makes me rly sad. Ppl dont even know waht it means to find out stuff by it own and not watch 10 guides and 2 gameplay and after they play the game by itself and mean they are good
@@lutziify stop defending this moran in every comment lol
People begged him to play this. He didn't want to.
@@lutziify my first playthrough was blind, can confirm some of this stuff takes working out. I am pro keeping him blind during the playthrough, but i consider not telling him the controls to be kinda bad sportsmanship
The reason he doesn’t press E and didn’t read the pop up that told him to level up when he first got to firelink is because he’s a wow player. He’s used to having his screen COVERED in bullshit so he’s blind to pop ups in other games lmao.
All that means is that the dumb fuck should be playing better games instead of wasting his entire life on cringy Activision Blizzard garbage.
That actually makes a lot of sense I was wondering why he left it
His brain just works differently 😂😂
Its strangely common among streamers and youtubers to just straight up miss obvious shit. Its almost as if taking a second to read something is against the rules when recording. Asmon is not special in that regard.
Everything makes sense now lol
Dark Souls is a magical experience when you're trash at it and need to keep learning at every corner. I don't understand why people seem to be pissed off that he's not good at it, it's WAY better like this. It's the purest way to play the game, and none of us can do it like this again, and I for one think it's great that I can relive the way the game seems to a new player through Asmon's eyes here.
Your point is 110% correct for any person, except Asmongold. It's been three full steams of Dark Souls so far and he has yet to actually play Dark Souls. he take learns nothing of what the game is trying to teach him. half is deaths are blamed on the game while literally anyone that has actually played Dark Souls will tell you that no dude, that was as your fault as it can possibly get.
@@SondreGrneng that's okay. As long as he plays through the game he will have to learn at least a bit. I don't think you can really play this game through and not understand it at all in the end. It's fine, it's his experience, and for someone who's been playing almost nothing but wow for years the transition will be difficult.
@@UnwrittenNoise I hope so, I really enjoy watching his streams and I honestly want him to enjoy this. I admit I have been pretty bad at basing my criticism on the fact he has played almost only World of warcraft for so long and is now moving into Dark Souls which is as fundamentally different from the current design philosophy of WoW as you can get. He IS improving, though so I expect him to fully embrace it soon.
Edit: Oh, and if you haven't watched the rest of his streams and don't mind being spoiled slightly for the future, I suggest watching the clip he added in his tweet after the last stream
@@SondreGrneng I've been watching vods of his streams on twitch and he's improving slowly. I think one thing that's making it harder for him is that he feels pressure from streaming the game, he is embarrassed by being bad and he thinks that if he would stop and take time to read about and practice the mechanics of the game that would be boring to watch. Still I think he's getting better, and like sen's fortress was a wall that forced him to learn a bit etc. It's good, and he seems real happy whenever he beats a part that's giving him a lot of trouble, which is how the game sucks you in.
@@SondreGrneng i wonder how u were when u first played the game stop being so patronizing we all have been at thst point
oh man asmon realizing the ladder was a shortcut to earlier in the stage was so funny, you can literally just see him processing all the information in his eyes
I love seeing people reactions to the undead parish to burg bonfire kicking down the ladder and realizing where they are. The world design is so good and those moments when you piece together the layout are so magical
Mann thisssss
This, and also the tunnel that takes you back to firelink after opening the door, and the elevator before gargoyles. I love this game too much man
@@khalilrahme5227 first half of dark souls 1 just perfect man... I could go back and enjoy every second of it... 2nd half aren't bad but it's just not enjoyable for me i guess fuck demon ruin man holy shit that make me so miserable
Not me I was fucking sick of that bonfire by the time I got to it from the other side. When I saw it I was like fuck it feels like I made no progress at all.
I mean, the first half yeah. Really falls off after Anor Londo to be honest.
"I don't know how to do that."
Doesn't try to learn how to do it.
*tells people to not give him advice*
*threatens to ragequit because he wants to know where to go*
@@veritas8598 Lol a small percentage of people saying the wrong things in a sea of people giving him the right directions. It’s not hard to see what’s true and what isn’t in a chat full of 40,000+
@@veritas8598 he never read the f*ing signs
And doesn't even explore not even look his surrounding
sounds like your talking about dsp
@@fuzzy8889 dsp? Dark souls portable * Seinfeld intensifies * Edit: A stands for 1:31:37
1:34:40 don't tell me your heart didn't sink when he looked right at the bonfire and walked away
everything hurts
He is a professional actor.
It’s all an act to seem dumb
@@erickchristensen746 incorrect
@@fuku512 nope
This guy has the worst case of tunnel vision I've ever seen in a human being ever.
Reading the stream chat and here in yt makes me rly sad. Ppl dont even know waht it means to find out stuff by it own and not watch 10 guides and 2 gameplay and after they play the game by itself and mean they are good
@@lutziify When i played this game i dont have any info or guide and i still managed to git gud just fine on my own, he is not reading any guidance the game offering, dont discover anything on his own, he tried to kill the skeletons over and over again like a madman because he is not realising he is not supposed to go there and dont even look the other way and then crying about not know how to play the game, he is a moran simply. Dont defend him, he is just garbage at every game, he is even saying this. He is fun to watch, but garbage at every game simple is that.
@@eddyke93 i meant taht ppl mean to help him and want him to rush through it without explore by himself or find out.
@@lutziify he doesn't even explore without people telling him to
It has to just be an act Asmongold puts on. I understand what "being new to a game" looks like. This is not that. Okay. Since he finds the Longsword, we know he understands the blue glows are items. But he walks right by the one that would give him a shield multiple times. I get he's doing a blind playthrough, but I think he exaggerated his lack of understanding for the bit. Like, I've seen in other comments that around the time of this stream he'd pretty much only played WoW. An MMORPG. Being able to identify the difference between "Using" a consumable and "Equipping" an item is a skill mutual between the games, right? Also, not identifying a boss health bar as... A boss health bar? If you've played any 3D RPG (WoW included) a boss health bar appearing large and proud at the top or bottom of the screen is a staple. So I just... Legit cannot in good faith believed absolutely ZERO connections were made in his head between the two games. It's like growing up playing Pokemon on your GameBoy and then playing Final Fantasy 7 on a friend's PlayStation. You'd still at least be able to identify how a MENU operates, right? Item pickups? Regardless of these streams happening a year ago... I refuse to believe that this guy didn't exaggerate his lack of knowledge, and it's been bugging me for the whole 2 hours of this stream I've watched so far. If he's trying to emphasize he's "new" to the game, that'll become obvious as you play in front of people who have played. There's nothing wrong with being a newbie at a game. There IS something wrong with dumbing yourself down to the point you hide previous experience you've gained and act like it doesn't remotely apply to be tasks.
This Dark Souls playthrough is without doubt the greatest thing that ever graced the internet
Guess you’ve never heard of ray narvaez
@@evergreen3623 Jr.
handholdthrough ,guidethrough , gaythrough certainly no playthrough with everysingle step being dictated by chat this "playthrough " died the moment mcconnell dipped shits cringe af
I always come back to this vod to cheer me up. McConnell is basically a patches that’s commenting over the game. It’s awesome. And this makes I appreciate asmon and how much he does to cheer up his community. This is why this man is so successful on twitch even playing wow and 75% of his viewers don’t even play
Yeah man... You must have never heard of Asmon layer new friend.
That guy was fucking annoying lol
Coming to videos like this feels like resting a bonfire before venturing into the fray
dude i cried literally multiple times with real laughter....
@fazu 44 2-4 #glorygang #moneygang #OooO ;)
Glo
same
couldnt breathe when he was like "whats a fire link?" then he checks his inventory for it
Everyone is talking about their first experience with Dark Souls so I'm going to add mine too.
When I first started playing the game, I was legitimately afraid of everything so I spent more time hiding like a little bitch than actually progressing. After like 2 hours of being in the Asylum, the first place I actually tried to go to was New Londo Ruins and I got molested by ghosts.
I spent an hour trying to kill the asylum demon with the broken sword before i realised there was a side passage lol
Same story as you except I went to the catacombs lol
Same here, plus I was fat rolling as hell+ full havel but no ring. Managed to finish the game like this :D
Omg hahahhahaha you picked the worst friggin area if you were scared hahahahahhaahhaha
I died fighting the Taurus Demon on the bridge about 50 times on my 1st playthrough.
*Stands over shield*
"There's nothing here."
well to his defense, it didn't show the message to pick up the item
bloodborne players would agree with asmongold.
Seeing his first time struggling through the game is great knowing that the series became one of his all time favorites
I come back to this playthrough every year. It should be put in a museum. Art in it's highest form.
Me too. It also makes me proud how good he became in the time Elden Ring released.
Well good for someone like Asmongold lol
Currently my 2nd time back now, flipping love it lmao
Just started watching this. Making the workday fly by. I understand not helping him but telling him to hit NPCs is just plain shitty.
Im about to watch it for the first time
@@kaldorei0160 enjoy it’s so good
I’ve never seen anyone get spanked so hard by Asylum Demon before
I died to him once cause i had no estus flasks and like no hp to taurus demon i died 8 times i think
Reading the stream chat and here in yt makes me rly sad. Ppl dont even know waht it means to find out stuff by it own and not watch 10 guides and 2 gameplay and after they play the game by itself and mean they are good
Nai Meow I played dark souls a couple years ago because My brother had it on his xbox 360, I had no idea what this game was about. The TUTORIAL boss took me 2 tries
I never saw someone miss the shield in the game.
@@jacob.5033 damn you're a real badass boy
2 hours and he found bonfire that he missed for 5+ times while looking at it.
Ooh, You start off in jail in Oblivion too! * Yes Indeed! * Lmao the timing
I don’t know why, but I felt the need to watch some of this stream again after the apology video. It’s not that long ago, but it still feels like such a simpler time. This playthrough is classic lol
"We need to lure him into the fire..."
-half the screen taken up by ALLURING SKULLS.
That grin after the asylum demon goes down is what keeps us all coming back to these games
and then he just roll off the cliff right after that.
curse of knowledge hitting hard on everyone watching
this is a classic i couldn't imagine beginning a ds1 fan watching this live the most frustrating stream ever recorded
Now that I'm playing Dark Souls myself, I can finally come back and watch this entire thing again, from a new viewpoint.
McConnell: No advice!
McConnell: Gives bad advice
Me: But you said no advice
yeah, I understand telling chat to not tell him anything to not spoil the experience of a blind run but him constantly talking shit isn't helpin either
@@Elmis66 The both of them can, but Asmo mostly fakes being a dick anyway for views. McConnel just feels like one for real lol.
He’s literally just being a cringe lord the whole time. He’s relishing in Asmon being bad and then legitimately getting angry at chat because they’re letting him know how cringe he’s being. 1:55:13 was a straight up unhinged weirdo moment.
@@TylerG13 I disagree, asmon basically did skip the entire tutorial which would’ve told him how to actually play the game, it also showed him how bonfires work too. Now chat helping him isn’t bad, but it’s not good. At least his first 20 deaths taught him a smidge of how to actually fight in this game which is karma from not learning the tutorial. So McConnell saying all this stuff doesn’t really make him cringe he’s just telling the truth. (I do know that this is 8 months later but I’m just voicing my opinion)
@@thirdeyi0074 McConnell was right, but it was ridiculously uncomfortable how he kept mocking and getting butthurt over asmon not reading the tutorial as if he made the game or some shit.
"You shouldn't listen to chat. Play this game as your hear desires, go in completely blind!"
1 minute passes
"Nah nah nah, receding hairline. They made it for you"
He would have been pissed had he picked the healing item for his gift to start the game...seeing as it's a single use item lol...he would have used it and then been confused why he couldn't reuse it
I was out of mine before I figured out I’m not supposed to fight those regenerating skeletons lol
I feel like when ever i get frustrated in dark souls i can just come and watch this, makes me feel a lot better
The way he plays this is like a challange mode. No shield only heavy attack speed run lol
Because that’s how he plays wow
With this mans intuition god knows how the hell he even learned how to exit his mothers womb
Failed abortion
You don’t know how much pain I was in when he didn’t use light attack
30:57
I absolutely screamed when he said “OOO waste of time”
I was screaming too lol
It’s an act, he plays dumb for views.
Not saying it’s bad but it’s what he do xD
@@erickchristensen746 really? I don't think
@@erickchristensen746 nope, this is real, hes really that dumb, dont justify his dumbness by saying "its just an act", another why all he plays is WOW for like 2 decades and im not even exaggerating.
I still regularly come back and rewatch these vods. Truly a timeless classic.
It's 2023, I've recently also picked up Dark Souls and let me just say, watching this was very painful. I refuse to believe that he could have been som blind, with severe tunel vision and not remember anything about the environment even after almost 6 hours whatsoever. Any sane person would also at least try to read descriptions and at least inspect weapons they get. Someone tell me otherwise please cuz its just the first video an im already going nuts. It's still fun. Onto the next one.
I was so relieved when he finally saw the bonfire. Couldnt bear watching that a minute longer
in this video Asmon get's the "plug in a USB cable" achievement.
get is
Dont think dark souls was the type of game to start playing if its been centuries since youve held a controller lmfao...
Eh, you get used to it after some time if you just persists.
Trial by fire.
@Nathaniel Watkins I wish people ate chickens
i cleared the game with mouse and keyboard i have no problem with it
Thts just an excuse he uses for sucking
"The fuck is humanity?"
I feel with the proper old-English wording, that could be mistaken for an actual quote from a philosopher.
1:31:37 that scream of sorrowful rage reminded me of Father Ariandel's scream from Dark Souls III
i though i was shit at this game until i saw this guy play, im very happy with myself now
@Znatix well im a dota 2 player, u would except i would be worse
You KNOW things are bad when asmongold isn’t playing WoW
Well unlike WoW, Dark Souls...is actually challenging.
David LMAOOO
🤔
Or you know that Dark Souls is too good that Asmongold starts playing it
fucking jump king is harder than this shit
Dark souls is a pretty hard game as it is, yet somehow, he made it even harder, amazing.......
Successful boss fights:
44:28 Asylum Demon
2:36:43 Taurus Demon
4:15:57 Bell Gargoyles
Successful spoiler comment..right here
I'm convinced now that WoW actually makes you lose braincells.
You mean to tell me you JUST NOW learned of this truth? Activision Blizzard trash in general kills your brain cells, but at the same time you'd have to already be a pretty big fucking idiot to give them any money in the first place, so it's a matter of the dumb getting dumber.
not just wow, it's all these games with arrows showing you exactly where to go so you never have to think for yourself. just look at what game "designers" from companies like ubisoft and activision are saying about elden ring for example, they are literally asking people how we can like a game that has such "bad" UX and UI because they think we want the screen filled with all that bs.
meanwhile the players are a bit annoyed that they added in the compass to a souls game in elden ring
@@mithshudeyou speak truth
All boomer clickers do
"we need to LURE the boar" - he says while "Alluring skull" is written right on screen. Surely those two things are not connected, right? surely, this alLURING skull is not relevant in any way! XD
-Proceed to complain about the axe being slow
-Proceed to fall in love with a Zweihander later
Its the best weapon so you can't blame him for that
@@lerchomat Black Knight Greatsword is better imo
@@ukguy zweihander can be buffed, bk greatsword cannot, but its effective against demons
Claymore is better but that’s just my opinion. Love the Claymore in all Souls-Games
@@Nicolas-dl6fz i just beat it with max claymore, so i can vouch
First time Asmon sees a real Lion.
I so love the start of Dark Souls. Such memories of it feeling barren and menacing and having to strive your way through
Hands down best blind Dark Souls play through I've ever seen.
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Personally, I'm not sure I can handle it. He's still in the Asylum, and I've had to pause the video for a breather. The fact that he's ignoring tutorial messages, whilst asking chat how to do the things they say.
*sigh*
I'm going back in boys. I'm not sure I'll see you on the other side.
*edit*
Writing this not even 5 minutes later and I'm done. He spent most of that time attacking the archer for '3 damage'... And then ran back to get a shield, but missed it. He's walked past that shield 3 times in total . Sorry everyone, but I've gone hollow.
@@MattPuxtywatch a little more it gets better. Promise.
You can literally see how immersed he is in this game watch how he tries to look over the edge in real life as if hes in the game at 1:14:46. Its like the first game in 10+ years that hes enjoyed since playing WoW religiously and end up being one of the best games he could have liked.
He asks all the right questions too. Shame he never tries to answer them.
I almost had an aneurysm watching this
The ability for this guy to miss almost every shortcut, useful item, and half of the bonfires is astounding. Fat rolled the entire time, and didn't even use lock on for the majority of the video. It reminds me of my first playthrough.
Even worse imagine being asmon trying to be good at a video game
I think people were way too harsh on him lol, it was his first souls game and first game of that kind, I'm pretty sure. Must be hard to do something like learn dark souls with a bunch of toxic chatters all saying a million different things. I feel like we were all this way at first and anyone that says they weren't are lying lol.
Also poor mccool
@@theimp6731
"anyone that says they weren't are lying lol"
There's literally hundreds of streams and videos of people playing DS for the first time and they did just fine. You'd have to be BEYOND trash at video games if your playthrough looked anywhere near as bad as Asmon's
@johnhighway7399 oh no for sure. Asmons ds1 run is an exception and everyone can agree that he was unnaturally bad at the game. I wasnt talking about skill, i was referring to how he didnt understand anything. Because nobody really do when their playing a game of a genre they havent ever touched before. All I was saying is that most people who aren't streaming to an audience that whine if you "cheat" by googling anything, probably use Google a lot. More so for elden ring because of how huge and open it is
This video is literally classic. Every frame of this video shows how great this game is.
As if Dark Souls wasn't difficult enough, imagine also having Mcconnell tricking you into making every wrong decision
Yeah that guy was a prick, there’s a difference between not spoiling stuff and actively working against a player. Plus he told everyone to shut up because…they were telling him to read messages, fuck him lol
He barely did anything what do you mean 😂 it’s all act though btw haha
that guy ruins the stream, i hate him
it was what made asmon's playthru bearable, without mcconell having a good time at asmongold's expense would asmon's playthru been a DSP playthru 2.0
Yeah, he's so annoying.
Watching this for the first time and it’s old. I know it’s a VOD but I can’t stop yelling “LOCK ON!!!”
To be fair, DS1 is so much easier if you play unlock because of the four-direction roll.
@@kayqueelson1761 It's only easier if you actually roll
Haha great stuff, however I did get annoyed with one thing: its one thing to not tell him anything to keep up the pressure and the first time experience, but its completely another to troll and lie about gameplay mechanics etc xD
Yeah, like, McFatshit made this so much harder for him, I actually felt bad watching this. If he kept from saying things, it's fine, but he intentionally made the game harder for him. Dark Souls teaches you what you need to know slowly, and organically. McFuckface literally led him into demise like 10x in the first ten minutes.
@@sidh196 well but spamming a single button gets you trough the game...
@@lerchomat maby with a ultra GreatSword, but theres still plenty of dodge rolling and strafing. If you go in just spamming r1 on enemies darksouls will clap your ass real fuckin quick
Lol i agree to a degree but at the same time this playthrough just wouldn't be entertaining to watch at all without homeboy on Discord.
@@ghost-mn9ui 2 buttons whatever
First time I played DS I never made it past the Undead Burg. I quit before ever seeing the Taurus Demon. I'm a pretty avid gamer that's completed many hardmode challenges in the past. I always beat most of my games on the hardest difficulties, and had many rare and difficult achievements under my belt. And I spent fucking hours and hours wiping on the undead burg. I legit thought the game was broken and would simply tank once the piss poor reviews started pouring in. To my amazement, the game received critical acclaim. Then one day I walked into the living room and my brother was playing some new game, and as I stopped and watched, the Gaping Dragon cinematic unfolds and my brother starts hacking at this thing, rolling around and blocking. I didn't recognize the game; I legit asked him what badass game he's playing. When he told me it was DS (a game left collecting dust for months at this point), I couldn't believe it. I asked him how he got past the Undead Burg and he just laughed. Then, he showed me how to ACTUALLY play. It's not a hack and slash action game like I thought at first. Not even close. My scond playthrough was a mess. I was blind and specced so horribly, that by the time I got to Gwen finally, I found him impossible. I turned my Grass shield into Crystal and it broke. I accidentally unequipped my Ring of Favor and Protection, and it broke. My spec was a mess. My gear, shambles. I made it this far, I'd kill this last boss if it's the last thing I do. So I did the only sensible thing; I deleted my toon and started all over again, SL1. I watched hints, tips and tricks. I read up on proper builds. Dove into the lore. And I had a fucking BLAST, finding secrets I completely missed in my first runs, hidden items, and more. Since then, Souls series has been one of my favorite series of all time, having done multiple completionist and challenge runs with tons of different styles and builds across the 3 games. This game, is a fucking masterpiece. One that I very nearly missed out on.
Damn dude I had a similar experience to you honestly, I didn't think the game was broken, I simply compared it to Ninja Gaiden as a game that was too big of a challenge for me; after years of not playing DS I tried it again and just like you I had a blast on my second try
you say you completed many hardmore challenges but found ds1 too difficult?
hardmore what? monopoly? fuck
The only "tips and tricks" you need are given to you by the game itself
Its just a matter of learning how the game works from the menus and enemy movesets instead of autopiloting throuhh it
All cristal weapons state in their description they have extremely low durability and can be found relatively early in anor londo and later through the dukes archives (in abundance)
You were just a victim of voluntary ignorance, just like baldergold
Facts
@@bevanmcnicholl2525 dude fucking chill its not that serious.
Is there anyone in 2024?
I'm in 2025! I don't know how I got here! Send help plz!
No
How are things there? inflation come down at all?😂😂@@Indian_Ross
@@SolRosenberg-os5eb 😅😅😅😅
Asmon, u should come back to this video after 5y and record your reactions to how u played it. It was the most brutal clash between a new player and a souls series I have ever seen.
5:06:44 He got parried by a rogue, but the dog saved him from the riposte
As someone whose poured 300+ hours into this game, and 2 days into wow classic, watching asmon struggle through DS1 is glorious
300 hours lmao fucking casual
From the first hour of this video - I find it astounding that you managed to beat this game xD
thats the beauty of dark souls games. turning pure innocent souls into dark gritty souls who understands and accepts the struggle against suffering if they are willing to endure.
I feel that way anytime I see him play a Souls game, it blows my mind he’s able to get through any of the games with his severe tunnel vision and molasses thought processing ability.
"Messages? Who cares about that?"
5 mins later
"Wtf am I supposed to do?!"
Never seen a shortcut turn into a longcut in my whole life
4:22:00 he uses his first consumable item in the run. The look on his face is priceless.
I'm about halfway through I was wondering if he'd ever do it.. When he got the alluring skull and was like "ok we gotta lure the boar over and..." (I was thinking yes..yes he'll think to use an item!..Nope :( And before that when McConnel said about the black firebombs I thought he'd at least check em out)
@@blindey I'm like that little bit because I'm a hoarder in heart. I ignore all extra stuff that isn't a health potion in such games. Because why use that frost thing or a bomb before I learn boss moves? It seems like I will throw the bomb and I just have limited amount of bombs, and then die anyway. And then when I learn boss moves then I don't have bombs anymore because I used them like an idiot and I don't need them since I learned how to fight the boss.
I feel you. Ive played DS3, ER and DS1 basicall without consumables. In BB I finally saw that theyre really useful and I constantly use consumables now. Also using rare stuff like Iosefkas Blood Vial etc@@hyro3292
1:58:00 OH WOW look at that you can find stuff, if youre using your eyes, look right and left and stuff like that. its crazy!
I really, REALLY, enjoy blind playthroughs of games, especially Dark Souls, and I do love to see ppl get rekt at first, BUT(!) holy fuck, trying to constantly BRUTE FORCE EVERYTHING made it hard to watch. Seeing someone admitting to not knowing stuff, but then almost going out of their way to AVOID that knowledge is making my brain hurt.
It's almost as if he would die from just reading the menus or get brain damage from wondering what that green bar is for... AAARRGGHHH
DS can be very cryptic and I wouldn't expect him to figure out what stuff like humanity does or even how weapon scaling works... but FOR FUCKS SAKE is it really that hard to look at the different menus, read button prompts and numbers, so you know what i.e. endurance is or what the fuck that item is that you just got...?
Rant over.
11/10. Would frustrate me again.
if u think this is bad try watching xqc
DSP is worse lmfao oh man is that guy hard to watch
@@globaled1694 only for the memes lol
@@commie5.0 Nah thanks, I can't watch someone that constantly blames the game for absolutely everything and then jerks off on stream... 🤣
@@se7enhaender it was feeling a bit DSPish watching this for the first couple hours haha
All asmon had to do was pull his rooster out on stream and you wouldn't have been able to tell difference lmfao
The map connectivity in this game still amazes me.. totally brilliant.. Never saw such complex map interconnected in any other game so far.. Best game ever.. the first time I came across Firelink Shrine (with that music) and seeing Anor Londo is something that's difficult to explain.. No game ever comes close to that feeling..
1:58:00 before he actually found his first bonfire that's actually fking incredible. About as long as it took him to press the block button for the first time too
famous last words:
that's not a bonfire
is that a real lion?
I feel like I lose iq every time I watch it, but it's so damn entertaining for some reason I can't stop
How could you have a dragon without fire? This man just broke the lore.
That is a good question. If dragons existed before the advent of fire, how is it they breath fire?
@@Sylentmana The dragons you see in the game are mostly VERY distant descendants of the original dragons that were there before fire existed, they just started utilizing fire for themselves some time down the line.
@@Hater900 Kalameet is one of the everlasting dragons from the war and he breaths fire. Dark fire but fire all the same.
@@Sylentmana Yeah Kalameet is definitely an odd case, could just be that whatever magic he's using simply functions similarly to fire, seeing as the attacks only have a small bit of fire damage in them iirc. But I'm not knowledgeable enough about the lore to make any very solid theories to begin with, so who knows in the end, it's definitely an interesting mystery.
guys guys this is a crazy idea but what if theyre just dragons and the team just kinda forgot that dragons arent supposed to breath fire lore wise
i know right, shocking :o
This is some DSP-tier incompetency.
DSP being bad at games isn't even the issue. Pretty much every big name youtuber and twitch streamer is awful at most games, especially if they're like Asmon who has spent his entire career playing a MMO which is leagues different than every other genre of game. That's not the point and why DSP is such dogshit. The issue is his attitude. He's bad at games on top of being extremely toxic, narcissistic, and disgusting. I've never heard a man belch and snort as much as he does. Worst of all however, is he is BORING. He has the personality and charisma of a dead fish. He uses a facecam but he just sits there with a permanent scowl on his face looking like the sad depressed piece of shit that he is. It's worthless, just like him.
damn son
I just started playing this and it is honestly so therapeutic to see him making all of the same mistakes as me
It took you 2 hours to find the first bonfire? Most people would already be at undead church by then
"Guys what am I supposed to do? Where do I go?"
"Okay, let me just ignore you completely.*
watching this makes more sense how he was so bewildered by a speedrun of the game
Incredible. He's trying to brute force everything. Feel kind of bad for him though, McConnell trying to troll the hell out of him. The game got to him in the end too. But then again, almost 6 hours of Dark Souls is tough for any new player. He could have saved himself a lot of frustration if he only read some of the messages in the beginning and tried to figure out the controls a bit more. Instead the frustration kept rising and he became even more reckless and impatient once he switched to mouse and keyboard. Hope he picks it up again though, he'll probably enjoy it if he gets comfortable with the basics.
It didnt help that every time he looked in chat for help all he saw was AnTi AdViCe SpAm
McConnell was triggered more than he should be
@@qtanhall4384 McConnell telling them to spam that while he actively gave Asmon bad advice honestly baffled me.
@@doctorgears9358 Yeah it literally ruined the game. McConnell was the issue with this, not Dark Souls. Literally telling him to kill Patches after refusing to give him advice? Like, you're literally just fucking his run up for no reason.
Having your character sound like he's bustin' every time he gets hit is fucking hilarious
He didn't even realized he cut the Gargoyl's tail and got the axe and I love how he even checked to see after the fight if he got a new weapon and the axe was just there and he completely ignored it. The best!
Here in 2024:
Ya know this entire video is a hallmark - prime example of the souls experience in a good way. I think the dude who is also talking on his stream is actually right and is a huge contributor to this feat^
I’ve watched so many new streamers “try their first souls game” on elden ring to try and rack in the money bc of its popularity.. they don’t even get a good experience or understand what they’re doing at the end of the game because their chat just tells them everything.
Of course we all have to look up things here and there just to make sense of it all, but for the most part, asmons friend did him a huge favor letting him struggle in confusion. I find it just as hilarious as he did when asmond continually messed up / died.
Watching the shear dumbfounded look on his face appear when something so simple became apparent to him, is what this is all about.
Shout out to organic experiences.
You're right that McConnell helped Asmon have an organic experience, but he also lied to him and trolled him like an asshole.
@@CaptJackAubreyOfTheRoyalNavy ye theres definitely a difference
I was about to complain about how sloppy he plays but then I realized that in 5 hours he got to Lower Undead Burg. In my first playthrough, after 5 hours, I was still getting my ass kicked by Taurus Demon.
This is the most hilarious first run I've ever seen.
Asmongold: No mistakes
Capra Demon: I’m going to ruin this man’s whole career
I spent two hours on that boss and still haven’t beat him. I’m not going back till I have OP stuff cuz dear God that enemy is so hard for literally nothing
@@CreamySenpai31 You can kill him without entering the fog by throwing bombs over the wall
here i am once again on my yearly pilgrimage
I've watched these vods so many times, probably my favorite playthrough of dark souls
I have so much respect... He played legit 6 hours without any real Break and didnt rage quit
The second the Asylum Demon fight started I knew it was going to be a long one..
In wow he had a army to defeat opponents, now he faces an army alone!
This video made me feel like I was a call center scammer on the phone with Kitboga. DO NOT REDEEM RESISTENCE! SIIIIIIIR! NOOOOOOOOOOO!
This whole play through can be described with one question “whats a firelink”
5:06:45 Possibly the only time parry was ever used, unintentionally that is.
The real first boss: plugging in the controller
Props to him for not rage quitting though. I wouldn't last having that kind of friend lowering morale even more 😂
“How are these so easy and the skeletons so hard though?!” I think we all said that at first lmao
just seeing this today in 2022, and my god, this is literally a try not to enrage DS1 vets unintentionally , but really, it's actually very fun to see someone's first experience to Dark Souls, i'm actually very glad that this particular full VOD exists. Thanks Asmongold for posting a full series of this rage inducing masterpiece
This VOD is absolute gold. He is having the true Dark souls experience something I wish I could do all over again.
@@ezbayt8723 This shit is so cringe. Like I get not telling him where to go or not spoiling him but chat and mcconnell absolutely shouldve at least explained to him how the controls work or point him at the fucking bonfire that he skipped so many times, its actually infuriating to watch lmao
@@DevillForce Nahh its brilliant. Him being clueless made it way more entertaining.
@@ezbayt8723 then i guess you'd get entertained seeing a 5 year old play against a professional basketball player who isn't holding back and has people telling him he needs to kick the ball into the hoop
@@DevillForce Cringe.
Who else is here to relive the magic after he rage quit DS2?
Yh