Dark Souls

... - I haven't had any time, no, but what little gaming time I've had is being stolen away by a game that, I mean, you know how it is when you're playing a Souls game, right? - Yeah, 'cause we're playing Dark Souls 3 over on Playthru. ...

... But there, I mean, I just think it's an awesome series of games, and John, we're all together. - Yeah, if you've tried Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1 through 3 and didn't care for them, or decided they just weren't for you, then I would say all of them in that series, Sekiro specifically, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring may not be for you. ...

... I was playing it at the same time, Joe, not just you. This is a Dark Souls D make. I only took the programmer a week to make that you can play. ...

dungeon to the other guy yeah it was just it was just too much specificity i started licking my lips yeah that's me locked in and now i'm union from software so do your worst motherfucker it's okay well um dave that i guess demons dark souls two or three which were you taking kingsfield three yeah that's not gonna happen i'll go with uh dark souls three yeah that's the right choice here it's uh yeah it's it's the it's the final sort of mainline souls game um they did i played this just before um my daughter was…

the gratification and the reward of finally defeating them was was unlike any other boss battle that I played before. And yes I spent too many hours attempting it and I will say some of that is I went off and I leveled up and then I came back again but that was a blocker for 30 hours of my game time in the first Dark Souls. And Analondo in general anyway is just one of the most beautiful and sort of haunting game locations in any game that I've ever played. And obviously Dark Souls really made its mark in terms…

... He's going to help. You know, you're going to help him pull all these dark souls out of the world. They're hidden. ...

... But this level of like, changing that up, I don't know, it's not it's a bummer to me. It seemed extreme, especially given that this is the same again, this is the same publisher that stands by all those Dark Souls games where it's like, no, we're not making an easy mode. That's the game we're making. So I guess they make code vein too, which is like, you know, yes, actually, that's a good point. ...

... So there's plenty of videos out there of people like two-shotting the end boss of the first Demon's Souls game in hyper mode and that's easily my favorite. There's some good videos of people doing it in Dark Souls 3 as well but essentially it's basically like taking items that stack that basically do the same thing. ...

once you achieve your goal, get somewhere, you unlock the network, and every player can leave you things, can leave, not hints, but like emotes, hints, ladders, bridges, trucks, cargo, and those likes, 'cause like Dark Souls has this too, right? And like, hey, don't monster up ahead. ...

... We didn't have Demon's Souls in here, because I think fundamentally, either I don't like Demon's Souls as much as I like the Advancements in Dark Souls, or I just don't like the Blue Point remake. ...

... I was very excited with just how the rest of the game rolls out, and again, in standard Metroidvania and even Dark Souls fashion. Once you get to these new areas, and you can open some of those doors, you can get to some of those ledges, there are now new elevators that are there, you can get to before, that will get you to these other areas. ...

And like, it's an interesting thing because like, you know, I've heard people like kind of badmouthed it and then I'm just like, well, you don't, you can't copyright a fighting system in a game like, like, it's not like, Oh, we got to pretend that Neo no longer exists because Dark Souls exists, right? You know, you can have games based on a very similar kind of system and have them be good. ...