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Is that Donkey Kong Country music playing when you’re talking about environment in the end?

I do feel the game "went woke". Midgets aren't midgets anymore... theres no edgy, potentially offensive, humor. Its all by the book, cookie-cutter humor. The type of jokes I crack to my co-workers who aren't exactly my friend. Then there is the whole, males can't do it, females can aspect. If that doesn't bother, good on you. It doesn't bother me either, but that doesn't change the fact that it exists and rubs people in the wrong way. Not a good strategy.

Pretty good retrospec. I'm playin through 3 again after a couple of years away and absolutely enjoying it. Being a fellow nerd growing up playing these games in succession, yeah the story is straight crap in 3 but my god the gameplay, visuals, and sound design carry it very very far.

11k views on the video. there's interest. we should all pick a day and just go Q. see what happens.

this is the equivalent of being a Gen 1er in the pokemon fandom

Sekiro taught me more than anything that a challenge can seem impossible at first but with enough tenacity, the experience of learning and trying again can overcome anything.

i wisj i could finish clearing the hard content with my fl4k stealth backstab hellwalker shotgun build, but everytime i pull the trigger at the back of the head in a crowd, my game crashes due to damage splash overflow.

Everyone is an NPC. None of them are humans

So you’re saying to play and better oneself or to better the play style in dark souls is to believe you can do more hence creating the essence you become a faith build

i gotta say i am proud of myself that i beat this game. I tried it once thru going the melee route cause i thought that was the best way to experience dark souls. i ended up giving up before i even reached the gargoyles. I came back as a mage and tore thru a lot of the game. it made me feel much more powerful playing as a mage and my friend Liam (sunbroing it) helped me get through the hard parts as well as helping me find the strongest gear for my char. I almost never beat hard games but this one i actually did! i even killed both of the sanctuary guardians in the DLC section

I keep trying to replay bl3 but i get so bored just waiting around for dialogue to finish on sanctuary. Edit: bl3 is definitely a victim of woke writing and pandering. Ava is a mary sue and everything done in this game is more based in emotions than logic. Male characters are neurotic, quirky, and aren't taken seriously. It was cringe.

I read a lot of inspirational crap on the internet and none of it ever gets to me but this genuinely made me happy and gave me hope thank you so much ❤

Maybe Pomini was an intern

I thought logan went hollow because he achieved everything he wanted and there was nothing left to accomplish anymore...

They shat on almost every character they brought back or just waved them in the air for you shortly to promptly forget about them the rest of the game. Maya got unceremoniously killed (which i didn’t care for too much, never played a siren and after this game I certainly never will) and Krieg, in his own DLC, doesn’t even mention it..????? My vault hunter is existent in 0 cutscenes and is treated like that. The story COMPLETELY forgets about the player in EVERY SINGLE important story event. On top of that, one of the new vault hunters is one of the 6 sirens. Never even FUCKING MENTIONED. I don’t need to talk about Ava. Anyone with eyes, ears and a brain hates her.

Nah she just played Skyrim, that buggy mes of spaghetti code will give anyone the ability to get out of glitches.

I don't have to worry about going hollow. I have a Dark Hand

Agree with you about the writting. But on the up, I did find many side quests to be creative and fun (not just fetch/kill). That being said there are too few out-of-the-way, long, storied sidequest. Most of the bosses were epic and memorable. Played the whole game split screen with my son and we had a real blast.

It think it ends up as a metaphor for depression on accident to some extent. The whole game, really, is a metaphor for life itself: it’s hard, sometimes beautiful, but usually not, and above all else, it’s entirely ambivalent to your existence. Life, the world, doesn’t inherently care about you, it neither likes you nor dislikes you. It simply is, as do you. The game is a constant struggle, trying to achieve your goals in an uncaring and unfeeling world. It is, in the end, our dedication to our own purpose that gives our lives meaning, and it is through that we find the will to continue. In spite of frustration and despair, so long as we can find a reason, any reason, to continue, we can persevere. That has major implications for depression, if course, but it’s far from limited to it. This game actually helped me confront some major anger issues. It’s frustrating, much like life is, and things often don’t go your way. I realized as I was playing that my frustration, which would often give way to rage, not only never helped me, it hindered me. Letting my frustration at my mistakes or at the unfairness of situations get the better of me always made things worse. So I learned, so that I might continue to progress, to cope with my mistakes, and with the harsher parts of reality, in a much healthier way. That, for me, is the true beauty of Dark Souls. It’s that, in creating a rather functional metaphor for life, they have given some a window through which to view themselves and how they make their way through the world. But it’s worth stating, I think, that not everyone will see that. Some will be faced with its challenge and refuse to reevaluate themselves. Many won’t need to, I suspect, but there will be those among us who do that just won’t make that connection, for their own reasons. I think it’s the convergence of things in your life that makes it work. We’re not always ready to change, and that’s ok. Everyone makes their way through life in their own time.

I have a hard time respecting this outlook. I don't want to be mean about it, but are some people's lives so depressingly empty and worthless that they need a "video game" of all things to give them a reason worth living for? Worth striving and bettering oneself for? I heard about a kid who survived cancer because of these games.... literally.... he claimed that he survived because playing these games gave him the strength and inspiration to not give up.... Really? You survived because of a game and not the family that loves you? Not for your dog? Not for your mom or dad? Brothers, sister? Gammy, Pah-pah, auntie? Best friend? Girl/boyfriend? Your future? Just for the reason that being dead is simply not as good as being alive? No? Ok. I have an extremely difficult time understanding this mentality.

This video is about ds1 but I’m applying it to the smelter demon in ds2, I spent 2 and a half hours today trying to kill him, failing all along, that is how long I took to beat Isshin, the Sword Saint. I uninstalled the game so imma reinstall tomorrow and I’m gonna beat that smelter demon

As I've never played as DS games I am hollow. Can confirm.

Can we have this on android, it looks cool 😊

Being a hacker could benefit you in a situation such as this. That is if you know what to do and where to look.

honestly the line on furier is the main reason why this game is categorized as bullet hell, old man has just wayy too many balls

Maybe it's for this that i love so much the dark souls univers... i feel it like something familiar...

really great short dude super well narrated !! definitely checkin out more stuff from you :)

Prithee be careful! Neither of us wants to see you go hollow. Going hollow is just another term for giving up.

30:21 fun fact she won’t even deal damage when she hits you in that phase

28:35 this is a clear inspiration from myamoto musashis duel vs sasaki kojirou (I hope I spelled it right) when he defeated him by a sword that he made from an oar

I found most people who recoil from dark souls, either by not being interested or by trying and be frustrated/bored in a very short time, think they are good at dealing with difficult situations irl, but prove themselves wrong when they just tolerate them without being able to defend themselves or getting away from it.

Dark Souls series is an ode to human perseverance. And it rewards you for fucking around because you always eventually find out!)

I never thought about it like this till now. And I have 800 hours in this game

There’s something about Dark Souls that is fantastic when your life is a complete disaster and you can’t stop thinking about the bad going on around you. That’s where im at right now and even though I’ve played a lot of FromSoft games Bloodborne is the only one I’ve actually beaten(as of right this second) but I just randomly decided to start a new game in DS Remastered(probably the FS game I’ve played the least out of the ones I’ve played) and realized really quickly how much it helps. Idk if it’ll continue to help with the shit I have going on but if it does I’ll probably be a master of it by time I don’t need it anymore lol.

Bl3 disrespected maya and that’s why it’s the worst

Are these terms not common knowledge

Aaaaand then you have a poop filled swamp with parkour and ranged enemies that apply the most dangerous DOT status effect in any souls game ever, period. (Toxic lasts 10 minutes)

Dark Souls kinda killed my interest in games overall for a while. Something about the constant struggle against ever escalating challenges made me take a step back and just think. Why do I even play games if I just overcome them out of spite? Why bother facing unfair challenges one after another if the only reward I get is a brief moment of satisfaction? Isn’t the point of a game to have fun? So I just stopped. Eventually I got back, but the spark has yet to return. If it doesn’t I guess I have to find another hobby. Maybe knitting or something.

10:26 that’s not how it works. Write a book right now. It doesn’t matter if it sucks. All that matters is that you learn. Your never gonna get better unless you do. You don’t have to make anything public. It’s okay to self criticize and critique until your comfortable with something you’ve made enough to get outside perspectives, but if you want to write a good book you’ll probably have to write some bad books before it.

Bloodborne helped me not go hollow. Doing something hard and succeeding, over and over again helped me reframe how I saw challenges in my own life.

I increasingly find the real "hollow" people I meet are those that don't examine their lives & just believe what media tells them to, because the media makes everyone depressed and angry.

I think there's a slight misunderstanding with the Souls games. The games aren't just about overcoming hardship, they're specifically about overcoming a world that _does not give a single shit about you._ Gameplay-altering options of _any_ kind would be completely antithetical to that. Don't get me wrong, accessible art is important to have. A lot of games would certainly benefit from having more accessibility features. Dark Souls just is not one of them. Because not all art can be accessible to everyone, nor should that be required of them.

They have to remake borderlands 1 or 3 on the engine of the 3rs one

In borderlands 2 they were telling jokes In borderlands 3 they are commiting jokes.

not gonna lie as a huge fan of b1, b2 and pre-sequel Borderlands 3 was the biggest disappointment of my life. I had so high expectations and received over invested shooter that was nothing like Borderlands. Main characters were literally humiliated and story was retarded. They tried to fix this with DLCs which were kinda decent but overall series died to me. I wanna try Tiny Tina Wonderlands but I have a feeling im not gonna like that. I tried also Tales from the Borderlands and I have to say it's amazing. Now im playing Borderlands 1 again which imo has the best atmosphere out of all in the series

Thank you frog man

Dark souls helped me through a lot of dark times back when i was just a boy thrown into the harsh reality of the world. I wanted things to be easy because i was soft my buddy helped me through the game and the game helped me cope with reality. Now as a man before making choices i always think back to the fire keeper in ds2, "seek misery for misery will lead you to greater strength" now i make stuff harder on my self for the sake of the grind and gaining strength in mind, soul and body.

Goddamn dark souls really did change my life

Sending this to a friend that I care about a lot. He’s never played a souls game and he’s gonna buy Elden Ring sometime in the near future. I hope you read this message boi! 👁️👄👁️

Fascinating..