I wonder what the bosses are feeling Boss 1: "Did he beat you without getting hit?" Boss 2: "Yep, in his flip flop, and half-naked too" Boss 1: "Damn that was tough, have a seat here, let's talk about it"
@@GhostLink92 you are allowed to purposely take fall damage and poison yourself to lower your health. that doesn't count as getting "hit". the reason is to deal extra damage at low health as a result of the red tearstone ring
Ok, that "suffering from exhaustion, this happened..." GOT me. I was sitting there wincing with every swing of Cinder's sword, only to find they never landed. For that whole fight, I was tense and engaged. That fakeout made me feel just the tiniest bit of pressure the players must feel.
My heart was racing so fast. I would jump every time when Cinder would swing his sword, and that was just me fighting him normally. I couldnt imagine how he was feeling mentally and physically, honestly seeing him break down and cry after grinding for so long made me feel so happy for him.
The heart rate when you only need one hit but have no heals left is already stroke inducing qnd makes you suddenly go risk averse. I blazed through Bloodbourne, got all the stuff, the secret end etc and its a miracle i didn't have a heart attack/stroke. Pressure made me die too often. In fact the very last boss id died to so many times but then left gane for a fortnight...then did it first time (with a ludicrously clise to death moment)...this guy is a legend
SoC? yeah SoC is hard, but was the last boss he did Soul of Cinder or Gael? It's still impressive he got through the entire thing, and I'm in awe, but I'm still confused if Soul of Cinder was the last one, since the Ringed City and Ashes of Ariandel exist
When he started crying, I thought at first he and the boss had exchanged hits simultaneously on the last frame, thus breaking his run. I saw that happen once to TGH on a Zelda Link's Awakening run... world record fail on literally the last frame possible.
I think he pulled this before, but very sparingly which makes this an amazing tool. I just hoped for the love of all that this was a fake-out. ... really puts you in the shoes of the people right in that moment when you *can't* tell what's happening next.
I saw that there were still a few minutes left so I thought he wouldn't get it. The whole time I kept thinking "cmon dude, please do this. Please finish this for the sake of my weak heart, and for your sake!" And then he won. I swear I'm not crying, it's just those darn onion ninjas slicing onions everywhere I go.
It didn't used to, I saw this vid back in the day. My only guess is that TH-cam copy-flagged the final boss music and forced Karl to mute that chunk of the video
At least it does come back eventually, when the BGM ends. That song triggers TH-cam's copyright system. I know because I have streamed the game on here myself.
This man is just salting that dev's wounds. "I can't believe he beat my game without getting hit" "Now watch me beat EVERY game you've made without getting hit, in a row"
haha the ironic thing is Miyakazi's excellently designed games, 1/3/BB/sekiro are famous for having EXTREMELY good hitboxes, dodging hits by tiny windows which would make your skill apply way more but the one he DIDNT work on, the B-Teams game of DS2 has notoriously dogshit hitboxes where the entire game plays like pvp lag where youre clipped from 10 feet away, the bosses are terribly designed & the movement is restricted to 8 directions..its super clunky haha so ironically im more impressed someone beat DS2, the ugly bastard child, than any of the mainline good games
the way that the last streamer reacted to the end of his run shows how much effort he put onto mastering each little detail to make his run perfect. truly a legend.
@@itzdavid7714 I think it's possible, looking at the feats performed by ONGbal, but definitely very difficult. Elden Ring is by far the most difficult FromSoft game to date
Not only did Hob complete The God Run on the final day, but it was the very last attempt possible and a death would mean no more chances to beat it. After dying to one of the first enemies in Dark Souls (which iirc was the final game of the previous attempt) he restarted the run for a final attempt. Getting hit would now mean losing the bet to beat the run before Sekiro’s release, so Hob declared it the Destiny Run 😄
For those who don’t know: these games don’t cancel input actions if the player performs a different action before the first is finished. The first action will play out. This means that there were 0 misclicks during combat… for 16 hours.
@@stevenmack9948 your entitled to your opinion and all, but do you know what cheating is? cheating requires you to break a rule. there are no rules in dark souls
@@LilacMonarch The point still stands. No where in the rules of dark souls, nowhere in the terms and conditions, does it say I cannot defeat the lord of cinder with a WW2 Panzer. I rest my case.
The fact that nearly everyone who accomplishes any of these runs first reaction is to bawl instead of cheer goes to show a little of the monumental amount of torment this kind of thing entails...
@@unknownkingdom It's almost like the most important people in your life are the ones who give a shit about your hobbies and interests, and who care for who you actually are. Not what respect-worthy badass you attempt to be, to make up for 0 personality just to impress women. Besides, you act like he has nothing else to make up for it.
@@unknownkingdom "Cant "make up for it" when you play. a video game for 16 hours and cry over it." "Maybe she stays with him cause he makes bank in some geek tech office job " You answered your own question bro. Even then you assume that every women in the world wants what America thought was the ideal male like 30-40 years ago. Also I don't know what tangent you are going on about respect, he has a bunch of followers on a social media platform and he is extremely dedicated to his goal, that's enough to respect for some people. Obviously if he was not respect worthy then she wouldn't have stuck around with him, unless you are insinuating all women have high-standards and the ones who don't are exploiters. "There's no coming back from that dawg" Coming back from what? There are worse things to not come back from but you chose him crying for like 2 minutes for something he finally accomplished after months of hard-work? I think you severely misunderstand the difficulty of what he just did, and what's the difference between him and every toxic beergut fratboy who piss themselves when their favorite sports team loses or wins? Or do you just have a hatred for videogames and office jobs? Whether you like it or not he is making bank, has followers that watch him and a girlfriend that cares for him enough to hug him when he is crying. What part of you makes it sound like a negative thing? Your views are really outdated, general society doesn't have unrealistic expectations of relationships and identity anymore. Videogames are turning into actual sports and can even be a job for some. I know it's wild, but you will get used to it. Trust me.
@@unknownkingdom sounds like someones projecting need a hug or something? or are you too "manly" and such? anywho obvs bait is obvs and im gonna go eat my hands
My takeaway from this video: we need to prevent the release of Elden Ring at all costs or these people are going to hurt themselves soulsbornekiroringing competitively.
There is nothing genuinely better than seeing someone working hard for a goal, only to fail time and time again, then finally, they grasp their hard-earned win in their hands and cry. Everyone watching cries. It's just so beautiful.
@alan caprock if this is how you feel, then why are you even here? This entire channel is about speedrunning games. Edit: yes, this guy really came onto a speedrunning channel and shit all over the sport. Glad he deactivated or whatever.
@@TheDamnBeast dude from soft games are overrated. They were also never that hard and most games from the early 2000’s games were already doing what dark souls did
This is why souls games are amazing. They got actual difficulty, made by design and mechanic. Its also why SL1 run is possible. Its not artificial difficulty where instead you make every enemy one shot you or has unlimited HP, or simply by increasing the quantity of the enemies and then call it the "hardest difficulty".
@@curious_ember wasn't thought about at the time to make it fair. Some little thing will unfairly track you. I haven't heard anything of the sort in Doom bc the mechanics are not "fair."
The reward cycle in modern Doom require you take hits and push through. The top players play NM and UNM and nobody would care to no hit a game that was never designed to be no hit. They would have to take the difficulty down a lot, and then something would still unfairly track them.
@@penguinjay Im a NM player myself (every done except horde, haven't had a chance to play it yet). But, in D2016, because of the way the arena' are comparatively and the combat loop itself to Doom Eternal, it could possibly be done in 2016, no? Or would the Imp AI and sniper make that near impossible?
16:29 hey can we give a shout out to dobby who literally beat all 6 in a fucking row without getting anywhere close to the attention or love it seems? by all means anyone undertaking these as well as the previous dominance of the prior runner is legendary, but let’s give the love dobby deserves. they must’ve dedicated ridiculous amounts of time, heart, and soul. go off king 👑
I have a feeling it's because of the bow usage, I'm no souls player, and I'm sure as hell not a no hit souls player, but I feel like for people that care about that kind of thing a bow would be considered cheese, similar to summons, it doesn't prove you've mastered the game, it proves you can stay at range and side step a couple of mechanics rather than truly mastering all of them, just a feeling I have, as a humble observer (Other runs might use bows too, I have literally no idea, so if that is the case then idk why he didn't get much recognition lol)
@@RisingRevengeance the dog ususally hops in on his own terms now whenever hob celebrates, just he was a baby boy back then and not old enough to understand that hob was happy :)
@@anesthetized7053 I think he understood that he was happy. I meant that he obviously didnt understand why he was happy. Your dog will just naturally be happy when you're happy.
I just finished Dark Souls 1 and 2 for the first time in my life this month. Total it took me about 120 hours, with a good 80 of that being the first game. These games are far from impossible, but to someone like me finishing them without getting hit is. Mad respect to this guy.
Huge respect to Hob for saying "We did it" Acknowledging his audience and their support throughout his runs! Also, the guy has a great sense of humour and a no barrels hold approach to it! Mad respect for the lad all around!
Just so you guys know, The Happy Hob just won Soulsbornkiro NHR: complete DS1, DS2, DS3, Demon's Souls, Bloodborne and Sekiro without taking a hit. Truly incredible.
Another thing that I feel is worth mentioning. Having to use weaker weapons because of Soul Level 1 doesn't just make fights take longer because you do less damage. It also forces you to use weapons that are shorter, and therefore you have to get closer to enemies to be able to hit them, which is obviously more dangerous. You can see in the footage of the runs that a non-Soul level 1 speedrun uses a nice and long two-handed weapon, but the one that doesn't uses a weapon of unremarkable length. I know this sounds minor, but believe me, weapon range is important in Dark Souls and having a shorter weapon is a serious penalty. A long weapon can make certain enemies easy to fight if your attack range exceeds its, which is lost when a shorter weapon forces you to enter an enemy's attack range to hurt it.
in DkS1/DSR you also get longer recovery when you whiff an attack with weapons like the reinforced club so missing can be deadly despite being hard to avoid against agile enemies like Ornstein
Karl, your intros to the gameplay segments are getting ever more merciless: "Then, after 72 hours of of grueling struggle, the culmination of his life's work, and with the lives of a school bus of orphans at stake, this happens..."
After thirty sleepless days and nights with no food, little water, the fate of all humanity hanging in the balance, the alien overlords watching impatiently, the last bit of his sanity slipping away, and the entire scientific community in a violent uproar over the sheer physiological impossibility of what they were witnessing, AndrewG got 4:51.
I felt like a god when I completed the entirety of DS1 without dying back in the day. Little did I know I wasn't even close to being great at the game lol
It took me around 1000 hours just to achievement hint the Dark Souls Trilogy, and after attempting even a no-death run on any 1 of the games, it’s stupidly difficult. Props to all the people who even attempted a no-hit run, and especially to those who finished. Y’all are really built different
The only one I managed to complete no death was on DS2. I wanted those rings you get beating the game without a death and the other for not using a bonfire. It took me a month of just playing DS2 to complete it.
@@dylanhalll407 I believe they're talking about the Obscuring Rings (I think that's the name). Each of them make your right and left weapons invisible. One of them you get by havong 0 deaths and the other by not using any bonfire besides the primal ones.
@@saladfrog I really doubt 99% of humans are able to keep up their focus and timing for that long of a period when it comes to the lenght of the godruns. That and also the ability and brutal willpower to memorize and learn these mechanically complex sequences... I get your point, but telling "anyone" can do it is a little bit disrespectful for the fella, don't you think?
Probably Miyazaki is looking at those runs and decided that every new FromSoft game will have a completely unique title so that those runs get insanely long and weird names.
I have never in my life played dark souls and am not really an uber emotional person at all - but the end almost brought me to tears … one could feel how relived he was and what burden fell off of him … great content
You really had me at the end, because every time you said "and this happened" something bad happened during the run. I was glad to see that there wasn't a screw-up when the SL1 Soulsborne run was completed.
I have mad respect for no hit runners. Even in easier games, its still very hard to not get hit even once. It would just be too frustrating for me to do.
Well, streamers do depend on their audience for income. And considering the amount of time and effort you need to pour into this, we're talking about months of dedicated playtime. It's a full time job and like any full time job, you expect to get paid to do it. The only exception being that our bosses *have* to pay us, where as viewers of a streaming channel are under no such obligations and purely do it to support the streamer. I feel like 'we' is appropriate here, because his viewers likely provided him with the funds necessary to keep pursuing his goal, showing their loyal support. It warrants the use of the word 'we', imo. A lot of streamers couldn't do the things they do without the support (both emotional and financial) of their viewers.
What a legend. Don't blame him one bit for breaking down like that, amazing moment in gaming history. Also at 26:38 Cinder's look was just added flair and cinematic to the stream. So chilling.
I was just saying how he really needed a hug when he started breaking down and crying so when they showed up and gave him one it put a big smile on my face.
Man, imagine having so much pent up emotion and stress that when it's finally release the only way you can express it is to just cry. I have so much respect for that guy. Manly tears of victory.
I don't play any of the Dark Souls games, not really my thing, but watching the end of that no hit, no level run got my eyes swelling. Simply an incredible feat and a true outpouring of raw emotion. Gaming can do some amazing things.
I was so into this video, I gave an ovation to the final run. Outstanding. The buildup you did for it was incredible too. Throughout the entire video, anytime Karl says “...and then this happened.” You expect it to be a soul-crushing failure. And the last time he says it, your eyes are GLUED to the screen, feeling anxiety yourself as you wonder when he will take the hit... and it never came. Bravo again Karl. I watched this video in the past, but I entirely forgot its’ contents. Worth the rewatch. Now let’s see Elden Ring in The God Run 3 SL1 💀
it wasnt brought up but i think its so impressive and needs to be talked about. Faraaz was the first person to No Hit DS3 thats true, but it was Any% meaning there were a lot of bosses not killed and those bosses are widely considered the hardest in the game like Nameless King, Oceiros, and Champion Gundyr. at the time, Faraaz and Squilla were the closest at completing the All Bosses No Hit Run and Hob hadnt even completed the Any%. but that didnt stop him. when Hob got his first ever completion of the Any% run, he immediately took that run and started his attempts on the 100% run. little did we know, he would only need 1 attempt. he played perfectly the rest of that run and got the world first DS3 All Bosses No Hit Run.
It's partially true, they most likely would not have the motivation to do something like this without the community supporting them mentally and emotionally
Dude was so happy he started crying and instantly picked his dog up. That was so adorable I rested up. I’m a fully grown 26 yr old man but that was beautiful. I’m so thankful for my animals
I lose my mind when I lose to a boss more than three times or so and I got my first ever visual migraine from playing "overcooked". I don't think I would survive speedrunning.
And this is why I love Karl. I truly believe he's getting emotional when seeing this clip, but he's not getting emotional while recording his video. He doesn't leech of views by emotion, he's just purely professional in his work. Well, most of the time, but you could argue jokes are the kind of stuff you need as a professional entertainer
@@dynamicflashy Not even kidding, I literally use squilla videos to sleep, his voice is sooo monotone, a shame considering that some of his runs are very interesting in concept, like the "all achievements ds2"
@@dynamicflashy I guess it depends on your own personality. For me, the overexcited yelling and celebrating and unnecessary hyping is often a reason not to watch. On the other hand, the streamers who stay calm and collected and talk about what their plans are in even voices are much more appealing. I always feel like if you have to yell and scream about something, you're not in control of the situation or your own emotions anymore. I know it's an outlet like any other and some people just can't help it, but it's just not a quality that appeals to me in a streamer.
This is truly amazing, if you've never played a souls game you can't even contemplate how unbelievably significant these feats are. I'm actually surprised no one has died for real from a heart attack trying these runs.
I just started playing DS3(first souls game) so apologies if these are dumb questions but why/how is their HP bar not full in so many of these clips if they haven't been hit? And how is it even possible to beat the game at level 1 when you start the game off at higher than level 1?
@@JFred2 they started with the naked class which dosen't have any levels, and yeah that's probably from falls and they only use Estus in specific spots if at all the whole game.
@@JFred2 they set their hp low on purpose and don't refill because one of the best damage items you can use in the series is the red tearstone ring, which boosts your damage when at very low hp. They don't care about having more hp because the runs over if they get hit anyway. It's a very significant boost.
I cry everytime I see the video of Nico finishing his run, it's so nice to see that all of his hard work finally paid off. He's such a wholesome person and he absolutely deserved it. What a great accomplishment for all of them!
I had much the same thought myself. Unfortunate that he got no mention, DS2 All Bosses is likely the most challenging of all the individual categories, along with being the longest.
Otzdarva reclaiming his no-hit DS2 run deserves so much more attention than it gets, especially since TH-cam demonetised the video and it doesn't get recommended as much :(
Really upset to not see Otzdarva's DS2 no hit run, all 41 bosses including DLC, no hits. He tried it for years and finally beat it at the start of 2020
Yeah, I came here expecting to see mention of all of the work Otz put in (and the heartbreaking ivory king hit choke.) Otz' runs were insanity back years ago, further still because the community so rejected DS2 at the time and he was like the only one running it.
man i was there when hob did the god run..what a night. a few moments prior otzdarva succeeded with the ds2 all boss no hit run and a few hours after sekiro dropped.. good times
@@beanholder3634 Nah you miss the point. I had a stroke at age 24 while weightlifting due to a genetic condition. I still lift. Not doing what makes life enjoyable because "you might die" is beyond stupid. You could die in a car accident tomorrow at a far higher likelihood.
You can see the emotion come to his face when he sees his chance to nail that one final blow, and it all comes out when it lands. Fuck, I'm not crying.
this is what I came here to say -- the fact that he knew some five seconds ahead of actually doing it that he'd won just stands to prove the level of mastery it takes to pull something like this off
I watched this video before ever playing a souls game, and thought it was just another day at the office watching these guys play. I have recently started playing Elden ring and came back to watch again. My respect for these runners is beyond belief.
To be fair, that's classic "streamer engagement 101". Even though literally none of the viewers in almost every stream ever contributed to an achievement of a streamer, they always say "we". It's an extremely easy way to make the viewer feel as if they helped accomplish anything, and thus are more likely to say and/or donate. Edit: "It is caused by the conscious adoption of what is known as "the inclusive we". The "we" implies that you and the writer are friends and share similar views and experiences. Psychologically, it is used to minimise conflict and encourage agreement."
I think this is true in the general sense when people are having fun on stream or playing multiplayer games. When it comes to accomplishments like this... I'm not sure anyone pushes themselves for months in this way without the support from viewers making them think it's even possible. Not much of a viewer myself, but that's how it looks from the outside.
@@Dennis19901 Agreed. But to be fair, when you're putting yourself through such torture, even fucking up so far into it many times, the viewers support really carries your sanity.
Same for me, I was looking for Otzdarva in this video. But he competed in the all bosses not hit category, wich is even crazier than the "classic" no hit run, DS2 with the dlc's represent more bosses than Bloddborn and Demon souls together!
I get that it's a lot to put in the same video but I did expect at least an honorable mention. DS2 all bosses no hit is arguably the hardest single game no hit run of the series. EDIT: well, I guess I should have said it was considered to be the hardest single game hitless run at the time. It's been years since it happened and people keep raising the bar so yes, it seems less impressive by now. But at the time it was insane.
@@MatNightmare totally. I remember watching him all day while studying maths to enter uni. It was awesome when he killed the final boss, and a fucking tragedy when he got hit the first time
Take assassin and learn to parry, it makes gundyr really trivial. You'll only really have issues with vordt but proper item use can help there too. I recommend watching speedrunners they have the best strats and it's what helped me with my worst boss fight (fkn pontiff). Midir doesnt make sense even with speedrun strats and took me over a week to beat my first try. Gale was easier than midir, by leaps and bounds, midir also makes nameless king look like a little girl armed with a spork. I of course recommend sellsword build for that which just means you need all the stamina and +10 sellsword twin blades.
The way these speed runners celebrate beating every game in the series without getting hit once is literally the same way I celebrated after finally beating ornstein and smough for the first time😭😂
@@sudanemamimikiki1527 Ah yes, because blighttown lag is TOTALLY an intended difficulty bump, and the only reason I bring up skelly dogs is the fact that they are the only thing making that place remotely challenging, the other skeletons just annoy you. I'm honestly curious how you think the ghost murder house in new londo is fair as for skeleton wheels, I could see it being fine, for one thing they can be fought one-on-one with proper aggro and only appear twice in the game, and the ones in the painted world are part of an illusury wall puzzle that I honestly found fun. BUT if players go down the well route they can be grinded into paste very quickly for what anyone could consider a cheap kill. There is also NO defending the londo archers, while they can be cheesed with any shield it is still a d__k move to face one on a tiny ledge with no room to maneuver. It's one thing to make a more creative challenge, but completely different to make said challenge good. And it's no surprise most of these come from the later half of the game, almost everything other than the archives feels incomplete once you aquire the lord vessel. honorably mention to the hard-to-see pit of death during the hydra in the woods, or even that fight in general, it's just boring as hell and trivialized with a large shield, but kills you in such a stupid way after you spend a lot of time fighting it.
Me: "Dang that's beyond insane to beat all six games in a row no hit. Can't wait to see what they try next." Karl: "Let me tell you about SL1" Me: "oh my god there's more already..."
Now, I'm stuck with only playing ds1 as that's the one on Switch and my computer can't run these games, so I can't speak for all of them, but I actually think SL1 with magic would be easier than any run without magic. Basicly some of the most impactfull restrictions are actually the ones set right in the beginning.
That was such a touching moment you can tell he grinded his ass off to accomplish that God run. I'd be crying too lmfao. Amazing stuff. I could only imagine the amount of dedication required to hit that level of skill.
25:33 I love how you didn't make it obvious whether the clip was going to be of him failing or succeeding, kept me on the edge of my seat
After all those defeats, that victory made me popoff. Good lord, I think I need a smoke after that, I got the tingles all over XD
i was so ready to burst into tears when he failed here, and I burst into tears when he succeded instead
Yes because the title surely did not indicate succes. 😜
@@ThomasfromDenmark1 there was enough time later on in the video for him to say about someone else succeeding, also clickbait is a thing too
@@johnrobinson1481 lol sure whatever.
He beat 5 of the hardest games, without being touched, equipped with a stick and flip flops.
I wonder what the bosses are feeling
Boss 1: "Did he beat you without getting hit?"
Boss 2: "Yep, in his flip flop, and half-naked too"
Boss 1: "Damn that was tough, have a seat here, let's talk about it"
No wonder Gwyn was so terrified of hollows..
@@firstnamesurname2482 Bosse 3 emerging from the ruins of the castle: "Hey guys, you wouldn't believe what.....oh. You too?"
But he was clearly missing health. Can someone explain that to me? I've never played much of these games.
@@GhostLink92 you are allowed to purposely take fall damage and poison yourself to lower your health. that doesn't count as getting "hit". the reason is to deal extra damage at low health as a result of the red tearstone ring
Ok, that "suffering from exhaustion, this happened..." GOT me. I was sitting there wincing with every swing of Cinder's sword, only to find they never landed. For that whole fight, I was tense and engaged. That fakeout made me feel just the tiniest bit of pressure the players must feel.
That was so awesome the way he delivered that!!! Had me on the edge of my seat!
Same, my heart was pounding the entire time, like it was me playing or something :P Then the reaction, the hug... I may have welled up a little.
My heart was racing so fast. I would jump every time when Cinder would swing his sword, and that was just me fighting him normally. I couldnt imagine how he was feeling mentally and physically, honestly seeing him break down and cry after grinding for so long made me feel so happy for him.
saaaaame, I was so anxious
Same! I honestly thought he was gonna get hit, especially where he showed clips before of that happening. What a perfect delivery of an intense moment
The amount of pressure on that last boss must have been unimaginable.
I've played like 7 hours Dark Souls throughout the entire series and it was my heart rate was spiking
The heart rate when you only need one hit but have no heals left is already stroke inducing qnd makes you suddenly go risk averse. I blazed through Bloodbourne, got all the stuff, the secret end etc and its a miracle i didn't have a heart attack/stroke. Pressure made me die too often. In fact the very last boss id died to so many times but then left gane for a fortnight...then did it first time (with a ludicrously clise to death moment)...this guy is a legend
SoC? yeah SoC is hard, but was the last boss he did Soul of Cinder or Gael? It's still impressive he got through the entire thing, and I'm in awe, but I'm still confused if Soul of Cinder was the last one, since the Ringed City and Ashes of Ariandel exist
@@QuinoLisingDoesn't NG+ start when you kill Soul of Cinder so it has to be the final boss
@@QuinoLisingu can access Ringed city after beatint sister friede
Happy Hob's lesser known pursuit was his music career, which ended in failure because he had no hits.
You're my hero
When he started crying, I thought at first he and the boss had exchanged hits simultaneously on the last frame, thus breaking his run. I saw that happen once to TGH on a Zelda Link's Awakening run... world record fail on literally the last frame possible.
This comment should have way more likes.
Wow, just wow 😂
Christ🤣🤣🤣🤣
This entire video is just a continuous “this isn’t even my final form”
Next challenge: blindfolded
but wait.....there's more!!
@@JoshuaJacobs83 someone has already beaten it with a guitar but blindfolded I doubt will ever be done. That, I think would be impossible.
@@nicholasokeefe3632 Is the guitar challenge no hit as well? What's the link?
@@nicholasokeefe3632 I mean if people can beat super Mario blindfolded this should be easy enough. ;-;
edit:(sarcasm)
That last “And this happened” really had me for a minute, I thought my heart was gonna shatter
Same I was shook when he landed the killing blow
I think he pulled this before, but very sparingly which makes this an amazing tool. I just hoped for the love of all that this was a fake-out.
... really puts you in the shoes of the people right in that moment when you *can't* tell what's happening next.
i was so happy he did it
Me too. I was like “Not at the last second!!!” I’m so glad I got got.
I saw that there were still a few minutes left so I thought he wouldn't get it. The whole time I kept thinking "cmon dude, please do this. Please finish this for the sake of my weak heart, and for your sake!"
And then he won. I swear I'm not crying, it's just those darn onion ninjas slicing onions everywhere I go.
The sound abruptly cuts out at 25:32 and doesn't come back until 27:25.
It didn't used to, I saw this vid back in the day. My only guess is that TH-cam copy-flagged the final boss music and forced Karl to mute that chunk of the video
Dino usually plays other music At certain parts a lot of which is copyrighted
And that's a big shame, this part of the video used to play the menu music from Divinity 2 Original Sin, it was epic...
Rip the most impactful part of the video. Thanks, youtube. Much appreciated.
At least it does come back eventually, when the BGM ends. That song triggers TH-cam's copyright system. I know because I have streamed the game on here myself.
“how does one prove complete dominance over a game?”
*charlie playing mr krabs ODs on ketamine*
👌
My man owned that game
my thoughts exactly lol
@@gamemeister27 Yea, and because of all the hours wasted playing that game he didn't own anything else.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed that too.
This man is just salting that dev's wounds.
"I can't believe he beat my game without getting hit"
"Now watch me beat EVERY game you've made without getting hit, in a row"
"with a fucking pencil"
@@arhamsaa who the foukin can do that?
Miyazaki is carefully planning his revenge
haha the ironic thing is Miyakazi's excellently designed games, 1/3/BB/sekiro are famous for having EXTREMELY good hitboxes, dodging hits by tiny windows which would make your skill apply way more
but the one he DIDNT work on, the B-Teams game of DS2 has notoriously dogshit hitboxes where the entire game plays like pvp lag where youre clipped from 10 feet away, the bosses are terribly designed & the movement is restricted to 8 directions..its super clunky haha
so ironically im more impressed someone beat DS2, the ugly bastard child, than any of the mainline good games
I don't see King's Field or Armored Core anywhere in this list.
the way that the last streamer reacted to the end of his run shows how much effort he put onto mastering each little detail to make his run perfect. truly a legend.
He already started crying before the last hit coz he already knew that was his window. Shows you how much he knows all attack animations
Put*
I immediately had the feeling that he wouldn't be as happy even with having a kid.... 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@SaskDuder get comfortable with emotions or they’ll always control you
"putted onto" and you can't put 3 seconds of effort into a comment. That's why you're a failure
Now one thing I can't wait for is for him to include Elden Ring in his insane no-hit run.
Exactly what I was thinking
It's gonna be insane
Elden Ring alone will be an insane feat. Adding it to the other games is just ridiculous
I just don’t think it’s possible, in my opinion elden ring is arguably the hardest souls game when it comes to punishment.
@@itzdavid7714 I think it's possible, looking at the feats performed by ONGbal, but definitely very difficult. Elden Ring is by far the most difficult FromSoft game to date
Not only did Hob complete The God Run on the final day, but it was the very last attempt possible and a death would mean no more chances to beat it. After dying to one of the first enemies in Dark Souls (which iirc was the final game of the previous attempt) he restarted the run for a final attempt. Getting hit would now mean losing the bet to beat the run before Sekiro’s release, so Hob declared it the Destiny Run 😄
Wow that is amazing and he is so epic! What a legend!
Even more monumental, now that it has sealed it's own place in history
That day was something else, waiting for Sekiro to release watching Hob and Otz get their insane runs, what a moment in gaming history that was.
Didn't sekiro release 2019? I'm confused
@@vedaryan334 yes, did I say something that doesn't add up? Hob completed the god run in 2019 just before the launch of sekiro.
You can just feel his sense of relief after 16 hours of perfect play, he literally broke down in tears.
Well, what is it!
@@jmlagn2650 Shrug -_-
why are you everywhere
You write the most obvious comments possible on every video. Are you making a comment no bot world record too?
Every.Single.Time.
For those who don’t know: these games don’t cancel input actions if the player performs a different action before the first is finished. The first action will play out. This means that there were 0 misclicks during combat… for 16 hours.
I'm sitting here misclicking in pinball on win xp
No? You can cancel out parts of attacks with rolls and estus cancel exists
@@thatitalianlameguy2235 please don't. Lmao
@@marloncebo242 it's true tho, unless it's a big ass sword the lighter stuff can be rolled out of early
thiagos right. you can totally cancel attacks.
25:03 Arguably even more so. Bosses are designed to be completly dodgeable, but for normal enemies you are expected to tank a few hits.
Im not going to "tank" anything, using a tank in Dark Souls is cheating IMO.
@@stevenmack9948 your entitled to your opinion and all, but do you know what cheating is? cheating requires you to break a rule. there are no rules in dark souls
@@kionicxnm I think he was making a joke about using a literal tank, the armored war vehicle
@@LilacMonarch The point still stands. No where in the rules of dark souls, nowhere in the terms and conditions, does it say I cannot defeat the lord of cinder with a WW2 Panzer. I rest my case.
@@5stargrim no, but mods like that are not allowed in speedrun rules so you wouldn't be able to get a panzer
The fact that nearly everyone who accomplishes any of these runs first reaction is to bawl instead of cheer goes to show a little of the monumental amount of torment this kind of thing entails...
@Freekazoid they're not making any real profit chief
@@unknownkingdom the boomer is strong with this one
@@unknownkingdom It's almost like the most important people in your life are the ones who give a shit about your hobbies and interests, and who care for who you actually are. Not what respect-worthy badass you attempt to be, to make up for 0 personality just to impress women. Besides, you act like he has nothing else to make up for it.
@@unknownkingdom "Cant "make up for it" when you play. a video game for 16 hours and cry over it."
"Maybe she stays with him cause he makes bank in some geek tech office job "
You answered your own question bro. Even then you assume that every women in the world wants what America thought was the ideal male like 30-40 years ago. Also I don't know what tangent you are going on about respect, he has a bunch of followers on a social media platform and he is extremely dedicated to his goal, that's enough to respect for some people. Obviously if he was not respect worthy then she wouldn't have stuck around with him, unless you are insinuating all women have high-standards and the ones who don't are exploiters.
"There's no coming back from that dawg" Coming back from what? There are worse things to not come back from but you chose him crying for like 2 minutes for something he finally accomplished after months of hard-work? I think you severely misunderstand the difficulty of what he just did, and what's the difference between him and every toxic beergut fratboy who piss themselves when their favorite sports team loses or wins? Or do you just have a hatred for videogames and office jobs? Whether you like it or not he is making bank, has followers that watch him and a girlfriend that cares for him enough to hug him when he is crying. What part of you makes it sound like a negative thing?
Your views are really outdated, general society doesn't have unrealistic expectations of relationships and identity anymore. Videogames are turning into actual sports and can even be a job for some. I know it's wild, but you will get used to it. Trust me.
@@unknownkingdom sounds like someones projecting
need a hug or something? or are you too "manly" and such? anywho obvs bait is obvs and im gonna go eat my hands
My takeaway from this video: we need to prevent the release of Elden Ring at all costs or these people are going to hurt themselves soulsbornekiroringing competitively.
*please* I'm begging you, just call it Soulsborne Ring: Shadows Die Twice
@@juniperrodley9843 Call it the Masochism Tango.
I'd skin a kitten alive to play elden ring. No one's life can compare
@@marcobering3945 That's valid
I WILL NOT GO HOLLOW FROM WAITING ANY LONGER
There is nothing genuinely better than seeing someone working hard for a goal, only to fail time and time again, then finally, they grasp their hard-earned win in their hands and cry. Everyone watching cries. It's just so beautiful.
That's what FromSoft games are all about, even regular runs by new players. I love it.
@alan caprock if this is how you feel, then why are you even here? This entire channel is about speedrunning games.
Edit: yes, this guy really came onto a speedrunning channel and shit all over the sport. Glad he deactivated or whatever.
there is something better, probably. and thats doing it
It’s cringe
@@TheDamnBeast dude from soft games are overrated. They were also never that hard and most games from the early 2000’s games were already doing what dark souls did
These runs are borderline insanity. Obsession with perfection.
OCD taken to its limits
they're autistic
Definitely a stupid waste of time. It was foolish especially in these games where the mechanics are not precise.
Or a gambling addiction🎉 (wow the autocomplete suggested the confetti😅)
@@normalguycap hahahahahaha. Good one.
Only half-impressed. I mean, none of these guys was eating pizza and drinking coke when they achieved their runs.
omg, you're right. They must be cheating! 😅
They prolly spliced it :/
Right?! No way these fake gamers managed these feats!
/s
Those runs were as fake as his cheese pizza & shysta cola!
Spider-man didn't get to them in time
Imagine living next to Hob and every other year or so he starts randomly cheering his head off
like living next to any sport fan
Someone visits you: Whats with the screaming?
You: A guy just beat the impossible
*refuse to elaborate*
@@vlrginizer927 Start rapping the do the impossible part of Libera Me
Ok?
Also every few hours when he fails a run and you hear NOOOOOOOOOOO
The fact that these runs are even possible is a testament to the fairness of the games' mechanics.
This is why souls games are amazing. They got actual difficulty, made by design and mechanic. Its also why SL1 run is possible. Its not artificial difficulty where instead you make every enemy one shot you or has unlimited HP, or simply by increasing the quantity of the enemies and then call it the "hardest difficulty".
@@zarfo2667 is hitless runs around in any of the (modern) Doom games?
@@curious_ember wasn't thought about at the time to make it fair. Some little thing will unfairly track you. I haven't heard anything of the sort in Doom bc the mechanics are not "fair."
The reward cycle in modern Doom require you take hits and push through.
The top players play NM and UNM and nobody would care to no hit a game that was never designed to be no hit. They would have to take the difficulty down a lot, and then something would still unfairly track them.
@@penguinjay Im a NM player myself (every done except horde, haven't had a chance to play it yet).
But, in D2016, because of the way the arena' are comparatively and the combat loop itself to Doom Eternal, it could possibly be done in 2016, no? Or would the Imp AI and sniper make that near impossible?
16:29 hey can we give a shout out to dobby who literally beat all 6 in a fucking row without getting anywhere close to the attention or love it seems? by all means anyone undertaking these as well as the previous dominance of the prior runner is legendary, but let’s give the love dobby deserves. they must’ve dedicated ridiculous amounts of time, heart, and soul. go off king 👑
Yeah he gave a shout out to dobby in the timestamp you posted
BushidoYu beat all 7.
I have a feeling it's because of the bow usage, I'm no souls player, and I'm sure as hell not a no hit souls player, but I feel like for people that care about that kind of thing a bow would be considered cheese, similar to summons, it doesn't prove you've mastered the game, it proves you can stay at range and side step a couple of mechanics rather than truly mastering all of them, just a feeling I have, as a humble observer
(Other runs might use bows too, I have literally no idea, so if that is the case then idk why he didn't get much recognition lol)
The Happy Hob and his dog celebrating is the most legendary moment.
PETLINK
It was cute, dog had no idea what was going on but of course he/she was happy anyway
@@RisingRevengeance the dog ususally hops in on his own terms now whenever hob celebrates, just he was a baby boy back then and not old enough to understand that hob was happy :)
@@anesthetized7053 I think he understood that he was happy. I meant that he obviously didnt understand why he was happy. Your dog will just naturally be happy when you're happy.
That was so wholesome! I’d be worried the dog would randomly jump up and put me off the run though
You know you found a good video when it starts with "hello you absolute legends" and then theres charlie overdosing on ketamine in the background
"This honestly makes me emotional every time I watch it."
He says in the most stoic voice possible.
He's a very convincing AI
Literally Holt xD
I just finished Dark Souls 1 and 2 for the first time in my life this month. Total it took me about 120 hours, with a good 80 of that being the first game.
These games are far from impossible, but to someone like me finishing them without getting hit is. Mad respect to this guy.
"There was surely no where to go from here."
*15 minutes left on the video*
Amazing video, Karl. I, as well as the rest of the hitless community, are glad that more people can potentially discover a love for doing No Hit runs.
Very good comment CBC WoweeH
Very cool comment CBD
@@brellario1378 brell please dont get banned from the stream smh my head
this a lul dab moment
fancy seeing you here peepoShy
The next run with Elden Ring included should be called “Miyazaki’s Gauntlet”
This is a much better name suggestion than any cursed portmanteau people could come up with.
@@TheZerocrossings *SOULSBORNEKIRORING*
(DS2 wasn't made by Miyazaki)
In that case they should also add Armored Core 4 and For Answer lol
@@atijohn8135
close enough tho
Huge respect to Hob for saying "We did it" Acknowledging his audience and their support throughout his runs! Also, the guy has a great sense of humour and a no barrels hold approach to it! Mad respect for the lad all around!
I always enjoy Hob’s streams. He’s a killer Souls player and a good dude.
Just so you guys know, The Happy Hob just won Soulsbornkiro NHR: complete DS1, DS2, DS3, Demon's Souls, Bloodborne and Sekiro without taking a hit. Truly incredible.
Its not even about being built different anymore
It’s about hard work and perseverance. The man is a helluva worker
So did Dinosindgail
It's about drive it's about power
Oh God, I wonder if he will try it with Elden Ring too-
The no hit run of Dark Souls 2 was such an emotional roller-coaster. When he got hit so close to the end, that was heartbreaking.
When Otz finally got the run after failing twice to the burnt Ivory King I was I tears. The guy deserved the win.
Another thing that I feel is worth mentioning. Having to use weaker weapons because of Soul Level 1 doesn't just make fights take longer because you do less damage. It also forces you to use weapons that are shorter, and therefore you have to get closer to enemies to be able to hit them, which is obviously more dangerous. You can see in the footage of the runs that a non-Soul level 1 speedrun uses a nice and long two-handed weapon, but the one that doesn't uses a weapon of unremarkable length.
I know this sounds minor, but believe me, weapon range is important in Dark Souls and having a shorter weapon is a serious penalty. A long weapon can make certain enemies easy to fight if your attack range exceeds its, which is lost when a shorter weapon forces you to enter an enemy's attack range to hurt it.
in DkS1/DSR you also get longer recovery when you whiff an attack with weapons like the reinforced club so missing can be deadly despite being hard to avoid against agile enemies like Ornstein
That hug at the end though. Perfect way to celebrate such an achievement.
26:30 i like when his face changes before last hit, he knows the mechanic so much, he knew hes gonna land the last blow!
Absolute legend
Karl, your intros to the gameplay segments are getting ever more merciless: "Then, after 72 hours of of grueling struggle, the culmination of his life's work, and with the lives of a school bus of orphans at stake, this happens..."
😅😅😅😅😂😂
Cuts to some old guy getting a legitimate Pac Man high score
After thirty sleepless days and nights with no food, little water, the fate of all humanity hanging in the balance, the alien overlords watching impatiently, the last bit of his sanity slipping away, and the entire scientific community in a violent uproar over the sheer physiological impossibility of what they were witnessing, AndrewG got 4:51.
I felt like a god when I completed the entirety of DS1 without dying back in the day. Little did I know I wasn't even close to being great at the game lol
If you can beat DS1 without dying, you're great at the game, but just not the best in the world :3
I felt like a god when I first finished Dark Souls... And yeah, i died a shit ton of times too.
Don't sell yourself short, clearing dark souls without dying is proof of your skill. You don't have to be the best in order to be great.
Sure, talent has a huge role in this, but in games where dying is common, doing a deathless run makes you more than respectable.
Being able to defeat Bed of Chaos without dying alone is a massive accomplishment.
Audio is cutting out at ~26:00
It took me around 1000 hours just to achievement hint the Dark Souls Trilogy, and after attempting even a no-death run on any 1 of the games, it’s stupidly difficult. Props to all the people who even attempted a no-hit run, and especially to those who finished. Y’all are really built different
The only one I managed to complete no death was on DS2. I wanted those rings you get beating the game without a death and the other for not using a bonfire. It took me a month of just playing DS2 to complete it.
@@sakurya972 what did the rings do?
@@dylanhalll407 I believe they're talking about the Obscuring Rings (I think that's the name). Each of them make your right and left weapons invisible.
One of them you get by havong 0 deaths and the other by not using any bonfire besides the primal ones.
only he finished
@@saladfrog I really doubt 99% of humans are able to keep up their focus and timing for that long of a period when it comes to the lenght of the godruns. That and also the ability and brutal willpower to memorize and learn these mechanically complex sequences... I get your point, but telling "anyone" can do it is a little bit disrespectful for the fella, don't you think?
when elden ring comes out, people are gonna have to name the category soulsbornekiroring
Would be fucking hilarious if they involved the AC games that involved Miyazaki too, basically 3 and 4A.
Soulsborne Sekiring?
Eldensoulsbornekiro?
They need to include the King's Field series too
Probably Miyazaki is looking at those runs and decided that every new FromSoft game will have a completely unique title so that those runs get insanely long and weird names.
Todd Rogers just beat Elden Ring in 5.57 seconds, I'm pretty sure that's a record.
Todd Togers*
The trick is to switch into 2md gear as soon as you start
You mean Rod Todgers?
You mean Rot Dodgers?
You mean Rodd Todgers?
I have never in my life played dark souls and am not really an uber emotional person at all - but the end almost brought me to tears … one could feel how relived he was and what burden fell off of him … great content
You really had me at the end, because every time you said "and this happened" something bad happened during the run. I was glad to see that there wasn't a screw-up when the SL1 Soulsborne run was completed.
Just imagine getting hit when there is only one hit left to finish the run. I would literally quit gaming.
I have mad respect for no hit runners. Even in easier games, its still very hard to not get hit even once. It would just be too frustrating for me to do.
Then you’d be impressed by me. I’ve been doing a no hit run my whole life.
@@Wyllowisp 😭
I misread the comment as "I have no respect for mad hit runners"
@@River_StGrey this right the fuck here. That just brought back a fever dream wasn't he literally on like the last hit?
“we” did it. No dude. YOU did it, we just watched in awe.
Well, streamers do depend on their audience for income. And considering the amount of time and effort you need to pour into this, we're talking about months of dedicated playtime. It's a full time job and like any full time job, you expect to get paid to do it. The only exception being that our bosses *have* to pay us, where as viewers of a streaming channel are under no such obligations and purely do it to support the streamer.
I feel like 'we' is appropriate here, because his viewers likely provided him with the funds necessary to keep pursuing his goal, showing their loyal support. It warrants the use of the word 'we', imo. A lot of streamers couldn't do the things they do without the support (both emotional and financial) of their viewers.
Inclusive speech makes money
@@Xylarxcode Well said
If he wants to say "we did it" than why can't he. His viewers offer him a lot of support during these things and so that's why they say it.
@@Xylarxcode couldn’t have said it better.
Anyone else have the audio cut out entirely at 25:32 ?
I'm guessing either the owner claimed audio, but more likely to me the "pling pling plong" music got tagged
His face as soon as the Soul of Cinder backsteps for the lightning shower attack is priceless, he knew he'd done it
Nice catch.
What a legend. Don't blame him one bit for breaking down like that, amazing moment in gaming history. Also at 26:38 Cinder's look was just added flair and cinematic to the stream. So chilling.
Yes
plin plin plon...
Yeah definitely don't blame him for crying over video games
His girl coming in from the side to hug him when he started crying was really sweet
its a dude
LMFAO
@@moletrain8204 His dude coming in from the side to hug him when he started crying was really sweet
Whoopsy doodle
I was just saying how he really needed a hug when he started breaking down and crying so when they showed up and gave him one it put a big smile on my face.
15:00 that adorable pupper coming to support its owner 🥹
Man, imagine having so much pent up emotion and stress that when it's finally release the only way you can express it is to just cry. I have so much respect for that guy. Manly tears of victory.
Diasppointed by this "hitless" speedrun: The guy hit all the enemy mobs plenty!
What clickbait smh.
This reads like a literal Larry tweet lol
@@lumonetic1124 you're the clickbait mate. learn sarcasm
@@Pundae i think he was making a sarcastic joke about how the title of the video was sarcasm
@@Pundae I'm... *also* being sarcastic...
I don't play any of the Dark Souls games, not really my thing, but watching the end of that no hit, no level run got my eyes swelling. Simply an incredible feat and a true outpouring of raw emotion. Gaming can do some amazing things.
I was so into this video, I gave an ovation to the final run. Outstanding. The buildup you did for it was incredible too. Throughout the entire video, anytime Karl says “...and then this happened.” You expect it to be a soul-crushing failure. And the last time he says it, your eyes are GLUED to the screen, feeling anxiety yourself as you wonder when he will take the hit... and it never came.
Bravo again Karl. I watched this video in the past, but I entirely forgot its’ contents. Worth the rewatch.
Now let’s see Elden Ring in The God Run 3 SL1 💀
it wasnt brought up but i think its so impressive and needs to be talked about. Faraaz was the first person to No Hit DS3 thats true, but it was Any% meaning there were a lot of bosses not killed and those bosses are widely considered the hardest in the game like Nameless King, Oceiros, and Champion Gundyr. at the time, Faraaz and Squilla were the closest at completing the All Bosses No Hit Run and Hob hadnt even completed the Any%. but that didnt stop him.
when Hob got his first ever completion of the Any% run, he immediately took that run and started his attempts on the 100% run. little did we know, he would only need 1 attempt. he played perfectly the rest of that run and got the world first DS3 All Bosses No Hit Run.
That's aweeome
That mr krabs ketamine run was historic
Yeah but it got glossed over because Charlie's every breath is historic.
The way they say "we" when they finish the run. I feel like they bring in their community into their own achievement. Pretty wholesome.
It's partially true, they most likely would not have the motivation to do something like this without the community supporting them mentally and emotionally
9:39
Yeah also this community is toxic and narcissistic so you kinda have to be wholesome to take otherwise they’ll attack
End audio not working for me anyway
Doesn't work for me either.
Music copyright
Dude was so happy he started crying and instantly picked his dog up. That was so adorable I rested up. I’m a fully grown 26 yr old man but that was beautiful. I’m so thankful for my animals
So if you were younger, it would not have been a beautiful moment?
>implying emotions are either: A) childish, B) girlish, C) gayish
@@robert.- i didn't imply anything! I was just asking if he was younger, it would not have been as beautiful?
@@jalliboy I wasn't talking to you bud
@@robert.- okay😊
I just hope no one has a heart attack and dies from the extreme exertion. Seriously.
I lose my mind when I lose to a boss more than three times or so and I got my first ever visual migraine from playing "overcooked". I don't think I would survive speedrunning.
I disagree. We can all only hope to die doing what we love.
@@filipmode125 I dont think they want a fucking heart attack tho
@@Hetsu.. i dont think you can choose what kills you, unless you decide to speedrun your own life.
@@gradeyundery4939 the majority of speedrunners don't take "performance enhancing drugs"
"It makes me emotional everytime" *said completely in monotone*
As emotional as Captain Holt
@@DerDervish “you rolled over my foot. I am in incredible pain”
And this is why I love Karl. I truly believe he's getting emotional when seeing this clip, but he's not getting emotional while recording his video. He doesn't leech of views by emotion, he's just purely professional in his work. Well, most of the time, but you could argue jokes are the kind of stuff you need as a professional entertainer
This is insane O___O, 15 hours of non-stop play, and its perfectly executed, this guy is on another level.
I am 40 hours into in a single game I didn't come no where near beating it
I really love Skilla's stoicism...
Other streamers: Yelling, celebrating, breaking into tears.. Skilla: Oh, it's done, I think I'll have a sandwich.
TTS: Poggy woggy poggy woggy
I like his channel, but it borders on boring, at times.
@@dynamicflashy Not even kidding, I literally use squilla videos to sleep, his voice is sooo monotone, a shame considering that some of his runs are very interesting in concept, like the "all achievements ds2"
@@dynamicflashy I guess it depends on your own personality. For me, the overexcited yelling and celebrating and unnecessary hyping is often a reason not to watch. On the other hand, the streamers who stay calm and collected and talk about what their plans are in even voices are much more appealing.
I always feel like if you have to yell and scream about something, you're not in control of the situation or your own emotions anymore. I know it's an outlet like any other and some people just can't help it, but it's just not a quality that appeals to me in a streamer.
@@arkan_k4c582 i dont watch Squilla's videos but i watch alot of his streams and they're great to relax to because of his voice
This is truly amazing, if you've never played a souls game you can't even contemplate how unbelievably significant these feats are. I'm actually surprised no one has died for real from a heart attack trying these runs.
Oh yeah. I tried getting through only one boss at sl1 and it took me days. (Didn't achieve it) I would always get hit with the frostbite
I just started playing DS3(first souls game) so apologies if these are dumb questions but why/how is their HP bar not full in so many of these clips if they haven't been hit? And how is it even possible to beat the game at level 1 when you start the game off at higher than level 1?
I guess the former could be from falls but why not just use estus to refill...
@@JFred2 they started with the naked class which dosen't have any levels, and yeah that's probably from falls and they only use Estus in specific spots if at all the whole game.
@@JFred2 they set their hp low on purpose and don't refill because one of the best damage items you can use in the series is the red tearstone ring, which boosts your damage when at very low hp. They don't care about having more hp because the runs over if they get hit anyway. It's a very significant boost.
No-hit runs: the gaming equivalent of free solo climbing.
That's actually a good analogy. One mistake and you're fucked!
wait people actually do that?
@@oliviacole7427 ikr
@@oliviacole7427 watch Alex Honnald’s film, “free solo”
HCIM
Damn Mr. Karl, for some reason, at 25:32-27:25, the audio cuts out. Not really sure why
I'm guessing maybe there was a copyright thing due to some kind of audio/music that was in the original video? Idk though.
Absolutely losing it at Karl deadpanning "It still makes me emotional every time I see it" over the tears of joy and exhaustion at 27:20
I cry everytime I see the video of Nico finishing his run, it's so nice to see that all of his hard work finally paid off. He's such a wholesome person and he absolutely deserved it.
What a great accomplishment for all of them!
Where's the love for Otzdarva being the first to do a no hit run of all DS2 bosses?
Yeah, I clicked thinking I would see otz lol
Yeah this is what I was waiting for
I had much the same thought myself. Unfortunate that he got no mention, DS2 All Bosses is likely the most challenging of all the individual categories, along with being the longest.
Same, how can otz not be here? he has a relevant following and also known by his hitless run in ds2
yeah for sure I thought I would see this too... DS2 all boss is a incredible feat
Karl PLEASE I need this video back with full sound. Can we have a seperate upload? Please :(
Otzdarva reclaiming his no-hit DS2 run deserves so much more attention than it gets, especially since TH-cam demonetised the video and it doesn't get recommended as much :(
Yea no hit all bosses ds2
Pretty difficult too
otzdarva is a legend
I was surprised it wasn't mentioned at all towards the beginning. Maybe it's because I love his DBD content but I wish he got some attention.
yea, otz should have been mentioned
Otz's no-damage/no-hit DS2 run is just as legendary, and I'm sad it wasn't mentioned either.
Really upset to not see Otzdarva's DS2 no hit run, all 41 bosses including DLC, no hits. He tried it for years and finally beat it at the start of 2020
Yeah, I came here expecting to see mention of all of the work Otz put in (and the heartbreaking ivory king hit choke.) Otz' runs were insanity back years ago, further still because the community so rejected DS2 at the time and he was like the only one running it.
Divinity The Original Sin music was the perfect way to end that boss fight.
I was about to comment this, I'm glad someone else did first.
Keeping it together, Bree?
@@rol9834 I'm alright... As long as I don't think about it too much
@@Onebadterran You're safe among friends. Never forget it.
What song from divinity is it? I looked up boss theme but it wasn't that
man i was there when hob did the god run..what a night. a few moments prior otzdarva succeeded with the ds2 all boss no hit run and a few hours after sekiro dropped..
good times
His tears at the end really spoke volumes about just how intense the goal had actually become.
This is just insane. Dudes are gonna be dropping from heart attacks here soon.
Rather go out gaming than old and alone :)
@@filipmode125 why do some old men feel young then
@@filipmode125 Thats the saddest thing I've ever heard, for several reasons
@@ADUSN Just the thought that his two options are having a heart attack playing dark souls or dying old and alone.. Bleak to say the least
@@beanholder3634 Nah you miss the point. I had a stroke at age 24 while weightlifting due to a genetic condition. I still lift. Not doing what makes life enjoyable because "you might die" is beyond stupid. You could die in a car accident tomorrow at a far higher likelihood.
You can see the emotion come to his face when he sees his chance to nail that one final blow, and it all comes out when it lands. Fuck, I'm not crying.
Gosh it’s so true… something that’s eluded him for so long, so many grinding hours… to finally see it and know it can be true
this is what I came here to say -- the fact that he knew some five seconds ahead of actually doing it that he'd won just stands to prove the level of mastery it takes to pull something like this off
Audio cuts out 25:45
21:45
"Man, i'm gonna cry..."
Viewers: wonky ponky ponky wonky
Hahahaha
it was poggie woggie
poggie woggie poggie woggie poggie woggie
Lmao , anti climatic thing there
Poggy woggy
I watched this video before ever playing a souls game, and thought it was just another day at the office watching these guys play. I have recently started playing Elden ring and came back to watch again. My respect for these runners is beyond belief.
Yah demon souls was my first game and now I’m like fr these guys are insane
Literally same
i never played the other games but i think they're a lot harder than ER
now imagine
And elden ring is by far the easiest
AND Elden Ring is the easiest one (asides from Demons Souls), which makes it even more mind melting. Dude played the games like he invented it
Note that all of these people cried when they completed their runs. It meant a lot to them.
No they didn’t. I saw like 2 max that did.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 wtf is your name
@@phoenixjones7191
What’s your issue with my username?
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 just why ethnic cleansing
@@phoenixjones7191
I guess you don’t know how to read properly. Did you not catch the “anti-“ in the beginning?
at the 26 ish minute "and then THIS happened" I was SOOOOOOOO sad and terrified. Then he clutched it and broke down, and so did I.
I love how he says WE did it, it really shows the bond between the viewers and streamer
To be fair, that's classic "streamer engagement 101".
Even though literally none of the viewers in almost every stream ever contributed to an achievement of a streamer, they always say "we". It's an extremely easy way to make the viewer feel as if they helped accomplish anything, and thus are more likely to say and/or donate.
Edit: "It is caused by the conscious adoption of what is known as "the inclusive we". The "we" implies that you and the writer are friends and share similar views and experiences.
Psychologically, it is used to minimise conflict and encourage agreement."
@@Dennis19901 never thought of that
Nah he’s talking about ‘me, myself, and I’. Viewers are simple sheep.
I think this is true in the general sense when people are having fun on stream or playing multiplayer games. When it comes to accomplishments like this... I'm not sure anyone pushes themselves for months in this way without the support from viewers making them think it's even possible.
Not much of a viewer myself, but that's how it looks from the outside.
@@Dennis19901 Agreed. But to be fair, when you're putting yourself through such torture, even fucking up so far into it many times, the viewers support really carries your sanity.
Man, I was hoping to see Otz's DS2 no hit all bosses run
same
Was looking for this coment, I think he is the only one who killed ALL bosses of that game, or at least the first.
@@kundeorama Him first and then Hob followed in his footsteps
Same for me, I was looking for Otzdarva in this video. But he competed in the all bosses not hit category, wich is even crazier than the "classic" no hit run, DS2 with the dlc's represent more bosses than Bloddborn and Demon souls together!
Yeah, now that I know that he's not in here, I'm way less interested in the video. D:
really expected to see Otzdarva's no-hit all bosses run DS2, but fantastic video regardless.
Me too. Firstly I skipped throughout the video to see when he mentions it, but he never did. :(
My first thought as well actually
Same tbh. That was such a legendary video.
I get that it's a lot to put in the same video but I did expect at least an honorable mention. DS2 all bosses no hit is arguably the hardest single game no hit run of the series.
EDIT: well, I guess I should have said it was considered to be the hardest single game hitless run at the time. It's been years since it happened and people keep raising the bar so yes, it seems less impressive by now. But at the time it was insane.
@@MatNightmare totally. I remember watching him all day while studying maths to enter uni. It was awesome when he killed the final boss, and a fucking tragedy when he got hit the first time
27:25 probably worth reuploading this one with the audio fixed/redone?
Music copyright
My most favorite detail is that the SL1 God Run was completed while the Divinity Original Sin 2 main menu theme was playing. Absolutely beautiful.
Knew I recognised it from somewhere
The dog hug after the god run is too wholesome.
Me: Holy shit that's insane. I might give that a try.
Also me: *still dies to Gundyr*
Take assassin and learn to parry, it makes gundyr really trivial. You'll only really have issues with vordt but proper item use can help there too. I recommend watching speedrunners they have the best strats and it's what helped me with my worst boss fight (fkn pontiff). Midir doesnt make sense even with speedrun strats and took me over a week to beat my first try. Gale was easier than midir, by leaps and bounds, midir also makes nameless king look like a little girl armed with a spork. I of course recommend sellsword build for that which just means you need all the stamina and +10 sellsword twin blades.
@@ralcogaming7674 dude, chill
@@ryuk5673 what he just helpin man
@@Arnoldismouldy My dude it was joke. The guy didn't have to write a paragraph, lol.
25:22 Why does the sound cut out here?
Copyright
@@ProBotGamming Whose? The streamer's? Was Karl using the Star Wars theme song at that part?
Alex Hill I have no clue, but that’s the only reason it would get cut out
The way these speed runners celebrate beating every game in the series without getting hit once is literally the same way I celebrated after finally beating ornstein and smough for the first time😭😂
I'm there with you
"perfect in every way"
(remembers skeleton dogs, ghost murder house, blighttown lag, ALL of lost Izalyth, especially bed of chaos)
Say sike right now.
you forgot ... bonewheels *shivers*
Not even including those DS2 Reindeers
@@lawmanlawman2210 well I think they were talking about just Ds1 at that moment.
@@Sleepy_Kitsune There aren't enough hours in a day to list all of the sloppy design choices of souls 1, like the anor londo archers.
@@sudanemamimikiki1527 Ah yes, because blighttown lag is TOTALLY an intended difficulty bump, and the only reason I bring up skelly dogs is the fact that they are the only thing making that place remotely challenging, the other skeletons just annoy you.
I'm honestly curious how you think the ghost murder house in new londo is fair
as for skeleton wheels, I could see it being fine, for one thing they can be fought one-on-one with proper aggro and only appear twice in the game, and the ones in the painted world are part of an illusury wall puzzle that I honestly found fun. BUT if players go down the well route they can be grinded into paste very quickly for what anyone could consider a cheap kill.
There is also NO defending the londo archers, while they can be cheesed with any shield it is still a d__k move to face one on a tiny ledge with no room to maneuver.
It's one thing to make a more creative challenge, but completely different to make said challenge good. And it's no surprise most of these come from the later half of the game, almost everything other than the archives feels incomplete once you aquire the lord vessel.
honorably mention to the hard-to-see pit of death during the hydra in the woods, or even that fight in general, it's just boring as hell and trivialized with a large shield, but kills you in such a stupid way after you spend a lot of time fighting it.
Shoutout to Hob for getting married last week. Congrats, dude!
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Me: "Dang that's beyond insane to beat all six games in a row no hit. Can't wait to see what they try next."
Karl: "Let me tell you about SL1"
Me: "oh my god there's more already..."
Ah, yes
True Maidenless
Now, I'm stuck with only playing ds1 as that's the one on Switch and my computer can't run these games, so I can't speak for all of them, but I actually think SL1 with magic would be easier than any run without magic.
Basicly some of the most impactfull restrictions are actually the ones set right in the beginning.
That crying was so wholesome! I love him being able to show his emotions without constraint!
That was such a touching moment you can tell he grinded his ass off to accomplish that God run. I'd be crying too lmfao. Amazing stuff. I could only imagine the amount of dedication required to hit that level of skill.
Truly the hardest struggle I’ve ever seen in video game history BY A LANDSLIDE. Massive, MASSIVE respect to that man.