so i loled preety hard xD

thats real sweet

@@MattTheMan2708 mik

so i loled preety hard xD

So i loled preety hard XD

13:03 - So I used to have to record these videos on the floor and basically surrounded by people doing other work. So they would laugh at the totally random things I'd be saying.

30:30 aww thanks. I'm still a big dork. Going to revive the "float down" joke and see if I get a few lols.

31:20 Yeah so... I'm pretty sure I'm the one who discovered this. This video would go on to be a huge hit for us. Probably one of my first very large view hits on the site. I remember it happening and thinking "wait... this is huge." And I was really excited to share it with everyone.

33:25 Hey I really appreciate that! Yeah I made these a decade ago? Still at IGN. Still a nerd. Put off watching this because I thought it would be another "dunk on IGN" style thing but it's totally not. Happy to laugh at my own dorkieness and really had a laugh here. Thank you

That's actually really cool tbh, I'm glad you're such a good sport about it

😂😂😂

Everyone in the IGN office pissing their pants

i loled pretty hard XD

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

So I loled pretty hard xD

And before everything is data mined out the day the game releases 🤣. They gotta find a way to encrypt some secrets in the game like noita did

Data mining in games is a double edged sword. Some sections suck ass without it, and are endlessly convoluted and if you get lost you may not ever be able to continue without asking a friend. On the other hand, some sections get ruined by a very fun feeling of exploration getting turned into "Grab item, turn left, run past these 2, kill this one, jump down and you win" and it removes the exploration fun. Skyrim is a great example, some parts are just boring so it's nice having a good way to skip the boring trash parts, but other parts are fun to explore on your own.

It reminds me of the Prima guide for the first Animal Crossing game. It was mostly an an encyclopedia, but there was this one section that was just about how the guild builder spent his first month in game. There were so many jokes and self-jabs. I remember you, Stinky.

​@@daifuku75I definitely agree, I think many people, myself included, are too quick to turn to a guide these days, but at the same time there's many games, especially older ones where I'll look up a guide and be utterly dumbfounded at how I was supposed to figure out what to do.

​@@TheWrathAboveSometimes it'll be "There's a ladder in a dark area of the room you didn't spot" and sometimes it'll be the most confusing, obscure shit with a single line on a 200 page in game book hinting at it

This was so perfectly worded. So glad about your recent career takeoff too!

Nah it's just cringe lol

​@@RitzStarrEh, it can be both

​@@RitzStarrThe true cringe is caring about and judging what other people like and enjoy.

​@@RitzStarrit's more cringe to judge those who are trying to have fun,n especially during an older time.

XD

Got the whole office laughing with that one

lmfao

what is the fucking timestamp for this i genuinely do not remember despite watching the whole video

i have learned the error of my ways. i loled pretty hard

I loled pretty hard XD

So I loled pretty hard XD

I love how excited the chat was when she showed up.

I XD'd pretty hard lol

If Lenny hasn’t told her recently, I hope he lets her know that she’s an absolute treasure of a woman. His dad’s a treasure too, even if we’ve only heard from him the one time so far.

Yeah it really floats down you know what I'm sayin'?

@@drphalanges1520I LOL’d pretty hard ya feel

Same, I loled preety hard xD

@@ItsKevin183 The whole office did

@@tigrovica8417 floats down😂😂 ROFL!!

Floating on 1K likes now.

I'm too out of the loop

Yea haha I remember doing that awhile ago thinking it wouldn't make a difference, I was pretty pissed lmao.

Well you don't need the shortcut really. Grinding out the humanities needed to give to her to open that shortcut is not something the majority of players will actually do anyway. It takes 30 humanities to open that shortcut, that's a decent chunk of time rat kill grinding. Most players aren't going to do that I feel. I mean I did, but I also like going for all achievements in games if I can. Most games don't do that.

​​@@EarthboundX and it might be that he just suggested, but never did it himself, so he didnt knew the truth)

Besides saving solair is opening the shortcut worth it most of the time?

@@anthonyortiz350 If you hate Lost Izalith's gauntlet, and don't mind a bit of humanity farming, then probably. If you're going for an all bosses run, then no.

IT FLOATS DOWN

Too easy?

I remember seeing the keyboard controls once. Made my fingers ache just looking at the absurd layout.

I play on keyboard and mouse normally 💀

​@@JohnMcFallumthelordof Are you okay bro

NGL - my first time through Dark Souls, I went with a bow build too. Didn't do any outside the bossroom cheese, but I did snipe my way through the game taking out any foes I could from afar. It worked really well in certain areas, no so well in others, but distance kills are a surprisingly solid strat in Dark Souls 1.

I'm a dung pie enjoyer myself 🧐💩

@@NBmad The loathsome dung eater

my fav boss room cheese is throwing firebombs over the capra demon wall

​@@R0w4nH0pk1nsbest cheese by far. I can't remember the last time i properly fought the capra

I thought everyone knew that. Yeah you got to be cursed to fight the ghosts. Transient curse, basilisk curse. One permanently cursed you but halves your health the other temporarily but doesn't half it. Huh.

​@@lividsphincter4098 It probably doesn't help that I jumped on the Dark Souls wagon pretty late.

Well at least you can also kill them uncursed and without a transient curse with artorias's cursed greatsword if you want to stay healthy. (That is the sif soul weapon if you don't use the broken sword hilt or broken straight sword as material) though the true artorias greatsword isn't too shabby either overall

It actually comes up in the game with dialogue somewhere, iirc. If you buy something from him and then talk, Domhnall will straight up tell you: "The cursed Ghosts of New Londo are formidable foes. To face them, you will require special arms… Or a cursed body. The quickest way to be cursed? Try the bug-eyed lizards in the sewer. Desperate measures, to be sure…" There's honestly a LOT of little tips and tidbits hidden away in NPC dialogue throughout the game. Heck, Crestfallen back at Firelink is practically a sitting talking tutorial RPG with how many things he'll mention from equipment repair to what direction the bells are in.

​@@tuberobsessor FYI, using a cursed weapon also works. There's only three of them: Artorias' greatsword (the one you can make with any non-broken +10 sword) and the two ghost blades. Using any of these doesn't require being cursed in any sort of fashion.

Agreed. Only reason I come back now, other then Robo Lenny. Anyone remember when Robo Lenny was "Real Lenny" and our boy was "Fake Lenny"? Good times.

​@@FrankByDaylight oh yeah, Robo Lenny

@@FrankByDaylight sadly he’s gotten kids commenting about the “TikTok voice” and that kinda ruined Robo Lenny’s self esteem

Nah they should just make it a duo channel

Nah. It belongs to robo Lennie.

Same, genuinely look fun.

I tried it with some optimisation and it's incredibly fun, 10/10 would recommend thanks IGN

I just realized why I like the idea of that build so much IT'S A LITERAL TANK BUILD

The KZfaq comment section loved that one

Everyone round the office loved that one!

Been 4 months, I rewatched this video like 2 times since then. Still got no idea what that joke is about.

@@cfilorvyls457I’m out of the loop as well sadly

Myself I floated pretty hard when lenny loled down xD

so I loled pretty hard xD

Part of the souls games is that a lot is hidden, and early on everyone is pretty much trying to figure it out. We all had incorrect assumptions I think.

@@rustyjones7908 The game was also INCREDBILY jank at release, like wayyyyyyyyyyy more than the definitive edition.

Why the F do people do that though, I don’t get it

Ive been playing DS from 2014 and only now i discovered Sif and Quileg cheese. Bow always was out of meta imo. Turns out, i was a fucking idiot. Lmao.

@@ibragimowbekhan0987 dont you mean QueeQuee

Awful comment

​@@tylerlackey1175 you're awful, murray

@@tylerlackey1175 🤓🤓🤓🤓

Water temple?

Right?? I still remember a guide advising me to go make a sandwich in Majora's Mask because of how long the windmill cutscene is. Just something about the "time to go make a sandwich" that makes me nose exhale even after years.

They have their own charm with bits like: "I don't want to write the answer to this bit. Just fiddle around." Seriously I saw that in one guide.

​@@tiacat11if I made a sandwich at every Yakuza cutscene I could start a bakery. Yakuza and ghost of Tsushima are the only games I've played that warrant making a sandwich in between lmao if that's why I've never finished them

Bro what ghost of tschumia is litterly the best game ever made The cutscene aren't even long like bro what Yakuza games are boring

Same here

It really does float down like that, yeah

jesus fuck this little comment section alone makes me spastic wtf is wrong with us

Peak comedy

I loled pretty hard xD

WAIT YOU'RE RIGHT I could hear something laughing in the background! I'm losing my mind at this lmao

@@elitebelt It Floats Down!

bro listening with his headset on 100

He lol'd pretty hard.

It's so bizarre

I keep seeing a guy saying the guide is edited but i believe Lenny that it’s real

ngl the sif cheese was a new one for me

in this regard these guides are absolutely terrible. They really basically troll the pkayer making them go back and forth and farm billions of souls for no reason.

@@nathankelly5976 You can literally go check any time. This "guide" doesn't exist and none of the ones from the other videos do either. Does it matter? Nah, not really.

​@@DragonatrixGuide's definitely real. It's made by Destin Legarie and the video even shows original IGN guide clips so Idk how you could say it's fake. My guess is he went to the wayback machine and found it on their old site after a while since it's gone now. Hell, Destin responded to him and his video about the guide.

Where’s your pfp from??

like a quee quee queen

Nice username

That's the old one, now it's just trasshyy

We see you IGN employee, nice try...

@@Apple_Beshy Nah. Whenever anybody tries to put any amount of personality into their work at IGN, youtube comments just call them cringe, with the only exception being the guy who wrote the Hot Wheels review who talks about playing games with his kid.

They literally get paid to pretend like they’re having fun. That’s the whole point of IGN

@@SnailHatanyeah nowadays, I think people forget how it was actual gamers who worked in companies like these now gaming has blown up and has turned into a corporation like every other media form, like seriously you had mostly nerdy gamer guys and girls working at places like IGN

i learned about it after being terrible at dealing with basilisks. even today on elden ring i still shudder whenever i have to face the bastards

I had no idea either lol. In hindsight it makes sense. Like it's called a transient CURSE

If you talk and buy enough to merchant Domhnall of Zena he will say "to damage ghost you need curse weapon or have curse body" follow by "the easy way to get cursed? there are basilisk in the depth"

Its not something most people would know because as soon as you get cursed you want it gone haha

I always preferred the cursed great sword method originally but the transient curse is so much easier as long as you remember to top it up lol

Those were different guides as said in the video. He mixed that one in.

that was actually a different guide writer

He makes up most of what you see here.

@@Site17 Does he? I feel like that'd be pretty easy to prove by just checking the guides.

@@Site17 lol

@@omegashinra7672 wdym

​@@thedarkroom6416he means that it could be easily proven or disproven whether or not he makes stuff up by reading the ign guide yourself

I would pay top dollar to be a fly on the wall in the IGN office while this was going down. Must've been such a fun time.

​@@ZeroLenny​and just like that, Lenny never came back to KZfaq. Not gonna lie though, I loled pretty hard XD

​@@ZeroLenny When you're a fly and you And you float down!!

> so increasingly rare > XD Child, you have no idea what you're talking about.

​​@@barneybetsington7501 the "XD" is a reference to the video.

Considering you're profile pic is the Izzet League symbol I surmise you love chaos

It was the Heide Knight, not Fume Knight, but I agree with the sentiment.

Yeah but then it floats down

I wish my mom loved me like lenny's does

@@gigagogagagio same bro

Now if only dumbshit guide to dark souls series would be completed

If wildpie101 aint gonna do it, then imma trust lenny to do it

@@andreisova773 now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time

@@Djerun7787 elden ring dlc is about to come out, and still no lost izalith tutorial...

@@andreisova773 yikes, I assume they didn’t want to do ds1 anymore

I loled preeety hard xD

I don't even feel like it's that cringe tbh. It's clear they're going for "plaything with a friend sat next to you" vibe. So they're gonna say some pretty kooky wacky stuff.

DAUBENY! DAUBENY SHOW YOURSELF!

@@HandIeDeezNuts calm down Holden cross

@@nathankelly5976 but... but... but trial by combat, right now

Congratulations, you got the whole offfice laughing.

@@mergenocide it floats down! I loled pretty hard XD!

They always have to have that “ _in the dangerous world of DarkSouls, everything is a challenge_ “

​@primepaladin9757 it floats down

Me and the boys desperately trying to get through Cortana on Legendary on a school night.

Lenny's mum: plays along, funny as funk, comes visit her boy, beloved by the chat Lenny's dad: Called him "Steve" live on stream, edited a photo of him holding BK Balloon to read 'loser king', hid the yoshi's island cartridge from our boy on christmas, still proud of him for beating the Heide Knight

@@discipleofdagon8195 "i don't know what you're saying." that was so funny, i loled pretty hard.

Just get a friend to talk to then. Guides are meant to actually help. Most of these old ones were just a stream of consciousness of some dude playing the game and writing down exactly how awkwardly they beat it. I also find it odd that cringe is now considered a good thing. Back when those guides actually came out this second hand embarrassment would have been mocked to hell. Nostalgia is one hell of a drug.

@@yoursonisold8743 I never considered these cringe and if anything cringe culture is something I lowkey hate because it's just shaming people for being themselves. And no, when these came out people found it funny but mocked to hell? Nah, these were day 1 guides, everyone knew they weren't going to be in any way optimal. Again that type of cancel culture wasn't really a common thing back then. Yes a guide is meant to actually help but I also like when guides have a bit of personality to them. Yes I could just get a friend to talk to and having a guide that's awkwardly trying to have a conversation with us is somewhat endearing.

@@daddyespressodepresso2207 If someone at your workplace constantly made really embarrassing jokes that gave you second-hand embarrrassment, would you not try to avoid them or tell them to tone it down? No? Then you are maybe not genuine either. "cancel culture wasnt common back then" Again, nostalgia is one hell of a drug. This isn't cancel culture, this is how the internet has always worked. IGN was always the punchline everywhere since its inception. Mocking IGN was so common that every meme about them is how bad they are at everything. Be it their bizarre game scores or messy guides. The internet of the past was actually far more vile and unrestrained. These days you got too many rules and moderation, so people can't even properly harrass people on public platforms. Back then they could and did. You just find cringe entertaining. That's all it is. You are not alone, there are thousands who watch cringe videos every day, for fun. But that's the counter-culture. The majority mocks cringe. Because it is what the word suggests.

@@yoursonisold8743 My point was that I don't find these type of jokes "Really Embarrassing" nor do I get second-hand embarrassment from them. The entire concept of feeling second-hand embarrassment from what someone else does feels weird to me. I don't find it entertaining I just don't understand the need to mock someone for something that, while embarrassing to them, is mostly harmless. Sure, if it's something really egregious I might tell my coworker something about it, but I'm not going to shame them and mock them for it. IGN's scoring system was always a joke, but the only people that were constantly shitting on them were the "Elite Gamer" crowd that think they are better than everyone else. The Guides were corny and unprofessional, but rarely downright misinformative and malicious, and, at least in the forums I used to hang out in back then, they were still referential for players looking for information on whatever game they were playing. I couldn't tell you how many games me and my friends wouldn't have beaten without them. I wholeheartedly disagree with the internet being worse back then. It was more unhinged, sure, but much more disjointed. Most communities stayed in their little pockets without bothering anyone else most of the time. You had some groups that trolled the shit out of everyone but they were a loud minority, and their harassment rarely splashed into other communities besides their target. Nowadays it seems that as soon as anyone calls to cancel someone, EVERYONE jumps on the bandwagon. Everyone has an opinion on whatever content creator did a harmless thing that everyone is taking out of context. You weren't constantly hearing about X person getting Death Threats sent to their house. It happened, but nowhere near as often as I hear about it now. If you think you can't properly harass people on public platforms anymore then you clearly haven't spent a lot of time on Twitter or IG/TikTok because my god have I seen genuinely good people bullied of those platforms over the most trivial shit. Imagine back in the day if the forum I hung out at suddenly got swarmed with 100+ new users spamming Hardcore Gore Porn in every thread. Absolutely unheard of back then. In the past 3 years I've seen that exact scenario happen 5 times in different discord servers. The internet was more trolly back then, but the level of downright hatred and hateful rage is way worse nowadays and I will die on that hill.

​@@yoursonisold8743 you're sad

That's half true. The problem with modern game journos is that not enough journos with game background to write stuff while demand is high, so they resort to employ freelance journos or journos with no game backhround. This problem become worse because experienced journos with game background usually just leave to pursue their own stuff because they realize they do much better writing independently than for mainstream media, this resulted in mainstream media employing dumb editor with experience for mainstream stuff but no game background. So even if you got a good writer, it will become soulles bs because of that editor. This situation will probably never change for the better

@@blushingralseiuwu2222 but that wasnt a modern game journo

you watch the whole cuphead thing, and yeah I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't actually play many games. I know it's just one person, but he was able to get through the cracks, what else can get through.

He writes most of the guide. The video is fake.

@@Site17 do you have a single fact to back that up

ah yes, *_immersion._*

Rumour has it everyone at the office loled pretty hard.

And this man figured this stuff out before the game even came out!!