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Dark Souls Is The Demon's Souls Of Dark Souls
Level your browser’s STR/DEX by maining Opera at operagx.gg/Manley Here is another Dark Souls Video essay by a white guy with a checkmark. From Elden Ring to Demon's Souls, Dark Souls is legendary, but the franchise almost never made it out of blightotwn between Sony almost shutting the whole series down with the release of Demon's Souls, to the troubled launch of the first Dark Souls altogether. It took five years for the majority of creators to start even looking in this games direction to start writing video essays and retrospectives on what is one of the greatest, impactful games of all time. I hope you enjoy :) Hoping Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree DLC gives us more of that classic formula.
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Dishonored: czcams.com/video/A-x1pnYIS10/video.html
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www.gamesindustry.biz/dark-souls-sells-over-a-million-to-push-namco-bandai-financials-forward
www.famitsu.com/news/201506/30082036.html
Timestamps:
0:00 Dark Souls
1:49 Gxit Gxud
3:50 Dark Souls was not an instant hood classic
5:12 2011 and Growing Discomfort
7:27 Sony's Secret Deal to Beat Xbox (demon's souls)
10:21 Miyazaki takes over a failed project.
13:20 Farm To Table Game Development
15:44 How do you Sell Satisfaction
18:50 DS1 Day 1
20:52 Getting Lost
23:44 thE iNtRrcoNnEcted WorLd of Dark Souls
26:32 "The Dark Souls Gameplay Difference" TM
29:17 Someone's First Time Playing Dark Souls in 2024
30:47 Tongue butt whole
Embark on an epic journey through the twisted corridors of Lordran as we delve into the Untold story behind the development of one of the most influential games of all time. In this video we explore the challenges faced by From Software during development and the visionary genius of Hidetaka Miyazaki that brought this dark fantasy world to life all while giving a modern retrospective analysis on the game itself. How does it hold up to modern standards? What made this game explode in popularity almost five years after its lukewarm release? What made this game so inspiring that it created a genre? All this and more and answered deep within the depths of Lordran, where danger lurks around every corner and death is a constant companion. ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree | Story Trailer
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Komentáře

  • @tyler-xo3rb
    @tyler-xo3rb Před hodinou

    the weapon degradation is a real retardation test, i know everything about you if you don't like it

  • @cashpina5286
    @cashpina5286 Před hodinou

    Goggins shirt said souls lol

  • @tyler-xo3rb
    @tyler-xo3rb Před hodinou

    dark souls sold almost 3 million copies in a little over a year but yeah it didn't get popular until bloodborne i guess? the popularity and sales of demon's/dark souls is the equivalent of the "budget cuts" myth in the development of evangelion, ironic given the thumbnail for this video

  • @Triads297
    @Triads297 Před 3 hodinami

    what is the music at 18:51??

  • @harshvardhanjha4611
    @harshvardhanjha4611 Před 6 hodinami

    I think its like perfecting a formula over time. Just like anyother media, building upon the previous one by establishing the prior for money or credits. You cant just have a great game being developed for decades. And am sure the next one in the series would be even more near perfect gaming experience and have even better new improved mechanics, they only have couple of years in between to try nee things and work them around or remove them

  • @DjZephy
    @DjZephy Před 6 hodinami

    the opera ad was dope

  • @Whateveridc257
    @Whateveridc257 Před 7 hodinami

    You missed a lot of good things about the game just to have bad takes about things that aren’t even an issue. Shame I wasted time watching this

  • @_ThisIsAGodDream
    @_ThisIsAGodDream Před 10 hodinami

    Happy world daddy

  • @Taintedmind
    @Taintedmind Před 12 hodinami

    Those Staples chairs that're red/blue/black/gray are literally the ones I use, now lol I get them w/the $20 warranty, then get a new one just before the 3yrs is up, since it covers normal wear/tear, which'll def. happen w/pleather

  • @kickingbackpunchingcones4099

    demons and dark souls came out in an era where all the games we were playing allowed us to heal our hp by just sitting behind a rock for a few seconds which is why we thought it was hard

  • @SiphonRayzar
    @SiphonRayzar Před 15 hodinami

    Love the casual Hbomberguy appearance there in the corner at 19:28 Hbomb's plagarism video slowly getting into the zeitgeist of youtube...

  • @paul-jp1rb
    @paul-jp1rb Před 16 hodinami

    Got 6 ads before I made it 10 minutes trying to listen while showering. Not subbing dude

    • @ManleyReviews
      @ManleyReviews Před 14 hodinami

      how is that even possible i set 4 over the course of the entire run time. thanks yt

  • @Nackols
    @Nackols Před 16 hodinami

    well I'm glad they made it it's my second favorite zelda game

  • @joefromfinance7818
    @joefromfinance7818 Před 16 hodinami

    I seem to watch this video on a weekly basis and every time I do, I wanna go and play Most Wanted again.

  • @janito799
    @janito799 Před 16 hodinami

    cringe

  • @n0way07
    @n0way07 Před 17 hodinami

    I. Fucking. Love. This video review lmfao

  • @dr.papersalt4753
    @dr.papersalt4753 Před 18 hodinami

    So sad hearing how they overcame the power struggle in the industry just for the same industry to come back ten fold and shut them down without warning. All that effort to be without job security after getting forced to make a game they didn’t want to. Hope the employees move on to better games and companies

  • @jmwmusic
    @jmwmusic Před 18 hodinami

    My biggest problem is it takes the tone of breath of the wild and makes it worse. It improves in so many ways but it’s just the same layout of breath of the wild but worse.

  • @benzo3032
    @benzo3032 Před 20 hodinami

    Bro what’s the song you covered at 26:10, it’s on the tip of my tounge and it drives me crazy

  • @jatt7109
    @jatt7109 Před 21 hodinou

    What a dumb shit title

  • @OwnyOne
    @OwnyOne Před 22 hodinami

    Am I the only person in the world that likes BotW a thousand times better than TotK??

  • @haden636
    @haden636 Před 23 hodinami

    I enjoyed twilight princess and a handful of gamecube games the only downside was the memory being corrupted every once in a blue. 6:49 will always live rent-free in my mind 😂

  • @NokandFen
    @NokandFen Před 23 hodinami

    "Corrective measure" you mean absolutely ruining the series, making wind waker the last zelda game I played in its entirety, because the rest have zero charm.

  • @MirOmran
    @MirOmran Před 23 hodinami

    Almost snorted this spicy chicken soup watching the bit where Goggins goes "Fat" risk to my life bruh

  • @dominikkis1428
    @dominikkis1428 Před dnem

    What's the song at 1:45?

  • @Nigel222
    @Nigel222 Před dnem

    Shame we will never get a 3rd game.

  • @c-rose666
    @c-rose666 Před dnem

    pretty cool this guy listens to music i do

  • @56ty_
    @56ty_ Před dnem

    Eh, the whole totk takedown trend appears to be the easiest way zeldatubers have to not acknowledge they made things up for years of content. It’s extremely sad but that’s what you get when you follow influencers blindly. Reality is, the trade-off between good design and flaws is much more favorable than in any other entry in the series. It’s as simple as that. Sweeping this under the rug is the real “trying to silence people” stuff Zelda haters complain about. Very ironic

  • @squigglymilton1312

    Nah Demons souls is an armored core 5 scrap engine you can tell because they still ended up using it 🤣

  • @nrudy
    @nrudy Před dnem

    Was I going to sit through yet another Dark Souls video? Oh no. But then David Goggins fat rolled through a graveyard and I thought, no, this is for me.

  • @jimoreod
    @jimoreod Před dnem

    24:00 you are actually the best CZcamsr/video guy for sliding this truth in ❤️🙏. #whenyouknowyouknow

  • @recycledMilk
    @recycledMilk Před dnem

    bruh really, the R slur? in 2024?😭 23:09

  • @maniliom.2685
    @maniliom.2685 Před dnem

    Followed for the burp

  • @SirSogMuffins
    @SirSogMuffins Před dnem

    there's a reason high end office chairs are so expensive and so widely used by upper management. I'm glad I never fell for the meme of gaming chairZ

  • @hoodsquigga1168
    @hoodsquigga1168 Před dnem

    I understand what you meant with the Vigor but you happened to have the Soreseal on.

  • @andrewbreazna
    @andrewbreazna Před dnem

    you sir have mastered the cut-to joke lol. the catalytic converter bit and spotify add got me exhaling *sharply*

  • @elrifle24
    @elrifle24 Před dnem

    i remember the division at the time the game came out. i honestly hated and still hate that they make you play as a wolf. it's the biggest reason why i never cared to play it

  • @craigslisp8904
    @craigslisp8904 Před dnem

    I don't think that history really checks out at all. Dark Souls might have been a slow burn but it was already very much iconic before Bloodbourne. Looking at Google Trends backs it up with spikes when it came out, even more when DS2 came out, and hardly any spikes when Bloodbourne came out. DS3 is the next major spike.

    • @ManleyReviews
      @ManleyReviews Před dnem

      dark souls was talked about quite a bit, but actual player numbers/sales were a different story.

  • @sintreasy
    @sintreasy Před dnem

    Song at 14:10????

  • @reggieisnotadog4841

    'Came out of nowhere'. What? IGN had a huge article on why you should buy Dark Souls instead of Skyrim. It even created a mini meme because the article was based around them comparing something about the two and declaring 'Winner: Dark Souls' repeatedly. Every major gaming site did a preview live stream in the run up to the release hour on their front pages. The game was hyped to shit. (nice video though was a fun watch!)

    • @ManleyReviews
      @ManleyReviews Před dnem

      that is what coming out of nowhere kinda means? general audiences who never heard of this franchise before all the sudden were like "tf is this" and it spread online as this amorphous hard game with a cult following. i wouldn't say hyped to shit though. It had a tinnny marketing push behind it comparatively to other released that year. Based of IGN and other outlets to actually see it through though!

  • @smisoshezi1441
    @smisoshezi1441 Před dnem

    Urine 😂

  • @perloid
    @perloid Před dnem

    If you put your ads to the end of your vids nobody needs to watch it. Think about it!

  • @Jombo1
    @Jombo1 Před dnem

    I love me some Dark Souls/FromSoft history lessons.

  • @haydenmitchell9260

    unpopular opinion, thunderblight ganon was an amazingly fun fight

  • @SommersetStriker
    @SommersetStriker Před dnem

    BotW owes almost everything to Skyrim.

  • @arkaq1
    @arkaq1 Před dnem

    Man what are those pants called?? They look so good on you! Excellent video and audio editing by the way, the little touches like the echoing are chef's kiss

  • @MagalliLordofCinder

    8:58 *Ciccio Merrino mentioned*

  • @nightgoat99
    @nightgoat99 Před dnem

    Demon's Souls PS3 is still my fave since Release day in the USA. Saw the trailer for it (probably on gamespot) and had to buy it. The ink was coming off the guidebook when I sold my collectors edition.

  • @MooseEatsBears
    @MooseEatsBears Před dnem

    20:38 - can't believe there are still people using gay as a pejorative. Shameful.

  • @parkeriles4767
    @parkeriles4767 Před dnem

    Maaaan put some respect on Kings Field. The Souls series was directly inspired by Kings Field and probably wouldn't exist without it today. Also The Anciety City is lowkey an amazing game once you get past the dated feeling controls.