We Raced in the BEST Dark Souls Game...It didn't go so well

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Жыл бұрын

I was "challenged" by Bri to a race outside of Elden Ring, so I hope you guys enjoy this more relaxed style of race :)
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@star0chris Жыл бұрын

I was "challenged" by Bri to a race outside of Elden Ring, so I hope you guys enjoy this more relaxed style of race :) Here is the VOD of the run: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iKqKd8aCvdW6Y5s.html Here is all of Bri's links and link to her perspective of the run, be nice to Bri everyone thanks :) www.youtube.com/@blueberrybrioche www.twitch.tv/blueberrybrioche Her perspective of the race: www.twitch.tv/videos/1814200854

@BRS_Stella Жыл бұрын

souls 2 is cool sadly retards are constandly attacking the ds2 servers and often shut them down

@inciaradible7144 Жыл бұрын

‘Oh, you went through Smelter Demon, interesting.’ Chris: 👁👄👁

@ITanmanI 6 ай бұрын

32:41 *gets asked to dinner by a woman* "No, I'm gaming." 🗿 Pro gamer moves

@sorensouthard927 Жыл бұрын

It's strange seeing someone both have tons of game knowledge and the execution of a first playthrough. Still faster than me though.

@romanbruh9727 Жыл бұрын

From time to time everyone should replay ds2 to really appreciate the quality of life in their other games. I mean ds2 it's a good game but they really added some tedious and kinda unnecessary mechanics here and there.

@tomasstargamer6308 Жыл бұрын

@@romanbruh9727 I mean, DS2 itself adding a bunch of QoL over DS1, and even DS3 removed some of that QoL.

@DanielFerreira-ez8qd Жыл бұрын

@@tomasstargamer6308There's only so much quality of life you can have before it becomes power creep.

@bahencio Жыл бұрын

@@romanbruh9727 ds2 has better quality of life than bloodborne. I don't think that's the thing you should be pointing out

@romanbruh9727 Жыл бұрын

@@bahencio i mean i had no major problems with bloodbornes mechanics compared to ds2,i could easily dodge atacks without getting hit mid animation cause ny adp was low and the combat had a really and i mean really good feel to it. Bloodbornes biggest issue were some runbacks that were basically entire areas to reach the boss door and a minor one was having bullets and healing as farmables even tho i personally never had issue with not having enough of them early game and late game you have so much echoes it isn't a big deal.

@tomasstargamer6308 Жыл бұрын

Elden Ring players when you fall from a few dozen feets and your ankles actually hurt like hell: Surprised Pika.

@purplefloyd1513 Жыл бұрын

I love DS2 but the fall damage is like you are a arthritic great great grandfather, I could drop a baby off the same height you die and youd be fine

@purplefloyd1513 Жыл бұрын

@@blakesimmons5130 Hey man all Im saying is I want whatever magical bunghole the dude in Elden has

@reliuscb2905 Жыл бұрын

Seeing Chris simply destroy any ER run and then seeing Chris... trying his best in DS2 are two completely amazing experiences. Thanks for this one man. Hope to see more content like this one.

@invictus_1245 Жыл бұрын

Damn done in by the prowling magus. As someone who loves and plays Ds2 pretty often highly enjoyable watching this one and watching someone not too familiar with ds2's quirks.

@alkramer7436 Жыл бұрын

Seeing you not just totally own at the game is a new experience

@romanbruh9727 Жыл бұрын

The biggest problem with ds2 that i personally had wasn't the clunky movement or not knowing that you need adp but the absence of i-frames on boss gates. Not the first playthrough while exploring and killing most enemies but on repeat ones or on bosses which moves I'm still learning. Getting stunlocked by 3 normal enemies at some boss that i keep dying to is the most tilting thing in all fromsoft games for me.

@DanielFerreira-ez8qd Жыл бұрын

It honestly helped me to know the fog gates worked like that in advance. Every boss run I did in the game would be methodical - actually routing a path where I could kill off the problem enemies and get to the fog gate easily.

@romanbruh9727 Жыл бұрын

@@DanielFerreira-ez8qd it makes you have a different approach but honestly if i die even 2 times to a boss idgaf about the area or enemies i just wanna get to him as soon as possible to learn his moves. That was my favorite thing about ER honestly, being able to retry a boss basically instantly made even the "hard" ones bearable and enjoyable in the end.

@tomasstargamer6308 Жыл бұрын

@Bill Clinton Enjoyer The "B team" memes are so stupid, there is no "B team", and even then, the geniuses of the "A team" gave us Izalith, both Demon Ruins, Tomb of the Giants, New Londo and Ariandel.

@omegashinra7672 Жыл бұрын

@Bill Clinton Enjoyer It's all From Software, any shortcomings are studio-wide faults.

@DanielFerreira-ez8qd Жыл бұрын

@@tomasstargamer6308 well, literally speaking there is a "B team", but in general, yeah. Any ideas will get scuffed if you're under poor direction, which is what happened in Dark Souls 2. An easy mistake that a lot of developers do, and it still came out to critical and financial success.

@finnh7542 Жыл бұрын

I know that the rapier is the best weapon "technically", but most bosses are weak to strike damage and lightning damage, so a Lightning Mace can shred almost all the bosses.

@star0chris Жыл бұрын

Yeah I just know some speedruns use the rapier for most of the run, so I just went with that lol

@MorizonPlays Жыл бұрын

Tbh i find the rapier pretty bad for a casual playthrough. It's great for killing bosses quickly but traversing the levels is usually more difficult than the bosses anyways in this game, so imo heavy weapons that stagger basic enemies are better

@SirGigster Жыл бұрын

Each Souls game has its own jank and DS2 may have some of the weirdest of it but I still love this game regardless, also powerstancing in this game is way cooler than ER's

@star0chris Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@DanielFerreira-ez8qd Жыл бұрын

As a halberd user I more than disagree with your statement on powerstancing.

@kaiderhai86 Жыл бұрын

@Bill Clinton Enjoyer reality? Dark Souls 1 and 3 fanboys are just funny

@PressinPickle Жыл бұрын

Ds2 power stance is dog shit compared to elden ring lmao. Seems like someone’s mad elden ring makes ds2 look like shit

@genesisosuna 5 ай бұрын

@awhellnah__ I'm not a big ds2 fan, I do like it tho, but saying that only ds2 has a lot of jank and isn't comparable is laughable and being purposefully obtuse.

@pacolibre5411 Жыл бұрын

For a run that seemed to have a pretty unrehearsed route, this was super close. I’m curious how different the strategies were.

@gladnox Жыл бұрын

Happy to see I'm not the only one struggling with hitting the Persuer with the ballista. He's so good at dodging OML!

@zantku Жыл бұрын

Ah yes Dark Souls 2 Scholar of the Giga Chad

@Laevaryl Жыл бұрын

Souls 2 (pre-SOTFS version) is unironically my favourite souls game. Had such a blast going through each of the DLCs blind as they launched. I do like the new content added in Scholar, but they did screw up some of the enemy placements compared to vanilla imo.

@Laevaryl Жыл бұрын

@Bill Clinton Enjoyer I couldn't pick a best souls game if I tried lol. They all have their own unique gameplay twists and gimmicks, for better and for worse.

@TheAfroWombat Жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed the older darksouls games its alot of fun watching you play them after a while

@AnotherSkeletor Жыл бұрын

The run to the bosses is harder than the bosses themselves

@riddarhyttan Жыл бұрын

Ah, the joys of de-rusting. (And infinite hitstun, mid-swing tracking, ADP, soul memory, Monster Hunter hitboxes, fog gates sans i-frames, gank spawns, etc. etc. ) Fun to see an unoptimized race, hope you can dream up some more unconventional runs.

@dragonviper7925 Жыл бұрын

yay best souls 2 content, honestly wish there were more videos on it since i enjoy playing/watching it a tonne, this video really scratched an itch and was super well made :)

@DarkSouls2_Enjoyer 27 күн бұрын

always fun watching someone figure out how to play this game :) you get used to it in the end

@dunsky02 Жыл бұрын

12:05 nice save

@123Yandan Жыл бұрын

Finally, a new video of my fav content creator. Luvv ya pal.

@mohalaidd Жыл бұрын

12:05 yeah, yeah, the one with the... your face man after that is so funny, no words needed lol.

@Laevaryl Жыл бұрын

Based take on Looking Glass Knight actually. Such a beautiful arena, and the fight is honestly pretty great (if a little easy).

@tde5318 Жыл бұрын

that title is going to cause a riot

@star0chris Жыл бұрын

Haters gonna hate

@123Yandan Жыл бұрын

@@star0chris like if you don't quite hate yourself why even play fromsoft games?

@quasarone3083 Жыл бұрын

They hate him because he tells the truth

@123Yandan Жыл бұрын

@QuasarOne it's like master baiting with hands vs sandpaper.

@DanielFerreira-ez8qd Жыл бұрын

@@123Yandanevery dark souls game hurts a bit.

@jonathanschmidt7874 9 ай бұрын

6:13 I fought this dude so many times and have never seen that move before, wow.

@vassillios16 Жыл бұрын

That gank squad at 1:40 is what made me quit the game for a couple months before coming back lol

@puokki6225 Жыл бұрын

It's very odd to watch a star0chris video that actually makes me feel good about my own gameplay, but then again I'm a weirdo whose most played Fromsoft game is DS2

@tomschlaiss5735 Жыл бұрын

Great video as always, cheers

@bananajacob6182 Жыл бұрын

Less goo, always a great night when chris posts 😎

@Bubloi Жыл бұрын

My boi got slapped into oblivion by the Semon of Dong

@RandomRedPhantom3958 Жыл бұрын

I would love to see a ds2 all boss run. Awesome video by the way❤️

@NotCptCrunch Жыл бұрын

Best Souls 2 videos are always super enjoyable

@LW1773 Жыл бұрын

Suffering AND Dark Souls 2? Perfection

@genesisosuna 5 ай бұрын

People may say a lot of things a lot about ds2, but imo majula is the best hub out of all the games. The nexus being a close second, especially if you have patches to sell you infinite grass.

@geminiproject704 Жыл бұрын

A tip. Pursuer is a strafe right boss fight

@loocsihaon Жыл бұрын

Still playing through DS1 for the plat. Definitely so hyped to play this amazing ass game!

@genesisosuna 5 ай бұрын

Good luck with that, it's so hard to get platinum in every ds game because 1-3 all have online covenant related stuff, and ds1 is pretty dead when it comes to that kinda stuff. I got plat ds3 and ds2 only because I found looking for group posts on Xbox that were willing to help. All 4 of them lol

@loocsihaon 5 ай бұрын

@@genesisosuna haha nice, never platted DS1. Platted DS2, Bloodborne and Elden Ring tho :)

@Celatra Жыл бұрын

starochris try to kill pursuer with ballista challenge (IMPOSSIBLE) the way you do it is you bait the lunge attack, roll forward over that pile of boxes and then immediately run to the ballista and fire without thinking, dont even bother aiming

@TrueBlueNeXus Жыл бұрын

DS2 Is truly a masterpiece. I Just miss more active multiplayer

@jankogo Жыл бұрын

Van Halen says Jump!, Chris... 🤣

@alexandere9368 Жыл бұрын

Everybody love Emerald Herald

@tysonclark8209 Жыл бұрын

True Sigma move to deny dinner for the grind.

@jupiterho11ow Жыл бұрын

6:06 I have never seen this attack in my entire life.

@ZoeBateman Жыл бұрын

It really is the best souls game, common chris W. Also congrats on being the only youtuber/streamer I've ever seen die to Magus + Congregation!

@star0chris Жыл бұрын

Thank you, it's an honor o7

@kaiderhai86 Жыл бұрын

Damn. I love this game.

@AbyssionQC Жыл бұрын

This game is nothing but pain from start to finish and yet it's still my favorite.

@Mandasai12 Жыл бұрын

Lol this was fun. I love ds2 but i also acknowledge that it has its fair share of issues

@HouseFootwork Жыл бұрын

Did you know that the B Team WHO worked on this wanted you to Always drain the 15 respawns so your lvl is high enough and you have a Clean path to the Boss. That's why you have no i frames on the fog wall. I hated that🤣

@m.h.4907 Жыл бұрын

The B Team who worked on DS2 also made Sekiro btw because the main team was into ER already

@Celatra Жыл бұрын

@@m.h.4907 untrue, the director of ds2 is also the executive producer of ER

@m.h.4907 Жыл бұрын

@@Celatra director yes, the Devs clearly not. Fromsoftware stated that in an Interview that the DS2 team worked on Sekiro, because Elden Ring development started in the same time and they needed the bigger and better team for it

@BrilliantBouncingBall Жыл бұрын

great video

@bara3526 Жыл бұрын

“How ? I Dodged!” My man the dodge animation have 3 in a slow ass game with lingering hit box and input reading , good luck (For reference ER have 13 on dodge) my advice for you is to level EDP .. i m-mean ADP

@broccolin Жыл бұрын

I was told ER had 26 s on dodge

@bara3526 Жыл бұрын

@@broccolin hah? I didn’t know that !, I thought it’s the same as Ds3 , damn

@DanielFerreira-ez8qd Жыл бұрын

It's the same, the 13 frames are with the 30fps logic, so 60fps is 26.

@christophercollins3632 Жыл бұрын

DS2 rolls can have more roll I frames than any other souls. It just starts low, like an RPG should.

@bara3526 Жыл бұрын

@@christophercollins3632 yes, any normal RPG game should have that , not fromsoft games because they are not normal RPG

@kampasco1877 Жыл бұрын

Did you by any chance ever finish Sekiro? I would have loved to see you play through the rest of the game.

@star0chris Жыл бұрын

Yeah links to the rest of the first playthrough are in the description of the first, I just had the videos as unlisted instead of public

@soulsofwar8985 Жыл бұрын

I don't wanna be that guy, but you didn't get the "old lord souls," you just got the normal lord souls. The old lord souls are granted on NG+ (or with a bonfire aesthetic, which is what I assumed was gonna happen) and are the lord souls you obtained in DS1

@star0chris Жыл бұрын

ah okay, well the speedrun category for it is "old souls" so I just went off of that lol

@soulsofwar8985 Жыл бұрын

@@star0chris You're good, it was a really good and fun video! I was just confused when I noticed you weren't getting any of the old lord souls lol

@Exld2241 Жыл бұрын

You should race ymfah next. :)

@OfficialMilk Жыл бұрын

Nice video, I’m a little confused on the rules though. At the beginning you said you had to get the 4 OLD souls, and showed them on screen, but getting the old versions of the souls requires you beat the great ones in NG+, or using a bonfire ascetic on the bonfire, so you would’ve fought them twice but that isn’t shown in the video

@star0chris Жыл бұрын

Yeah I just went off the speedrun category "old souls" which is what we did in the race, idk why they call it that lol

@OfficialMilk Жыл бұрын

@@star0chris fair enough lmao

@apukami3643 Жыл бұрын

Best Souls 2 babyyyyyy

@Oakshield2 Жыл бұрын

Mobs or "adds" ftw

@CoreDump07 Жыл бұрын

i love DS2

@randomshortsguy4108 Жыл бұрын

I realy enjoyed a non Elden ring video thanks man

@Piklzzz Жыл бұрын

Am I the only one who is screaming right now that you can get Old Lords souls only on ng+? I thought that you'd have to find 4 bonfire aesthetics and kill main bosses twice. Still fun run tho

@star0chris Жыл бұрын

Nah you're the third person to point it out lol I was just going off of what the speedrun category is called (Old Souls), which is like the same route in terms of requirements

@user-zh4ux7kd8p Жыл бұрын

Finally ds2 video🔥

@jasetheface14 25 күн бұрын

Good video, ty

@bengamincopper6508 Жыл бұрын

Hot take, I like ds2 more than ds1, but just slightly, the DLC makes it for me for ds2

@BrilliantBouncingBall Жыл бұрын

without ds2’s dlc would you like ds1 better?

@bengamincopper6508 Жыл бұрын

@@BrilliantBouncingBall, thinking about it, I probably would still like ds2 better, but I do love how broken you can become in ds1

@DarkSouls2_Enjoyer 27 күн бұрын

@@bengamincopper6508one, not really a hot take, I'm sure many others would agree. Two, you can get far more broken in DS2 than DS1/R. Even Broken Straight Swords are viable with a decent setup

@SunBro_Drysnuix Жыл бұрын

As a Level 838 in DS2 I enjoy seeing the pain of others *smurks*

@FAKE1234RS Жыл бұрын

Finally DS2

@bloonhuntergaming8653 Жыл бұрын

Greeting from Deutschland/Germany

@snizza5350 Жыл бұрын

It's greetings

@danielvykysaly1708 Жыл бұрын

Dark Souls II Bingo Brawlers when?

@kuunibyou7642 4 ай бұрын

DS2 is not the most fun souls to play, but surely the most fun to watch lol

@OhhSimify Жыл бұрын

POG NEW VIDEO POG POG POG

@Mars.TN_ 7 ай бұрын

Chris I love you man but this was physically painful to watch XD

@flabbajabba9527 Жыл бұрын

I read "BEST dark souls game" but then I saw you were just playing DS2. That's gotta be some kind of false advertising!

@adbucks1570 Жыл бұрын

wait until you find out ds3 came out

@hohohoupufuru Жыл бұрын

I'm going to ask the question asked on every ds2 video Is this Scholar or vanilla?

@R1R1R2 Жыл бұрын

Aldia + enemy placements imply Scholar of the First Sin edition.

@star0chris Жыл бұрын

Scholar

@christophercollins3632 Жыл бұрын

Aldia is a DLC addition, and was in Vanilla.

@IceBen4444 Жыл бұрын

Which one is the earthen peak lady?

@star0chris Жыл бұрын

The one that sells rocks.

@yahyaj4845 Жыл бұрын

This has reminded me why I don't play Dark Souls 2

@srovypupper5600 Жыл бұрын

Ds2 lightmode

@burningtime7746 Жыл бұрын

I love dark souls 2 and personally think other than adp that it is better than dark souls 3

@HouseFootwork Жыл бұрын

Cool Video tho

@amirmehr151 Жыл бұрын

Do more videos from dark souls1/2/3

@omegashinra7672 Жыл бұрын

I was new to FromSoft when Sekiro released and I became obsessed with it. I got the 100% on that, then did the same for Elden Ring, then went to Bloodborne, then just finished up Dark Souls. I bought Dark Souls 2, played it for around 3 hours and put it back down, this game is awful. It makes the #1 sin a game can make to me, it just isn't fun at all. I had fun learning the other games in the trial by fire stuff, but this one just doesn't have it for me. I know that isn't a new take, and I know there's people who like it which is awesome, but I personally think it's pretty bad and they enhanced all the bad parts of DS1 and took out most of the good stuff. I'll be skipping it and going straight onto DS3 instead.

@piszanshid1953 Жыл бұрын

Dark souls 2

@bara3526 Жыл бұрын

My humor is broken that just a guy with the albinoric profile and saying something without explaining or elaborate on anything, it make laugh

@zenixrl_ Жыл бұрын

i did not enjoy this more relaxed style of race (i havent even begun the video)

@thisistheescapeplan Жыл бұрын

See I straight up despise this game. I have like 40 hours in... I know I made it through iron keep... I know I made it to giant dragon in that godforsaken place... I know I made it to a snowy place and then said "yeah no seriously fuck this game." To this day, it's the only souls game I've not finished, and I never will. At least it makes for interesting content XD

@star0chris Жыл бұрын

Yeah not every game is for everyone, nothing wrong with disliking a game; can totally understand the flaws lol

@DanielFerreira-ez8qd Жыл бұрын

Is that not the DLC area?

@star0chris Жыл бұрын

@@DanielFerreira-ez8qd yeah, which is why I can understand quitting the game there, especially from the horses that chase you down lol

@Enddox Жыл бұрын

First

@HouseFootwork Жыл бұрын

Oh god i Beat that Shit Game too😅 ITS Not slow but rather restrictiv, Long potion, high Fall DMG, slow attacks and movement. IT IS clunky af😅 yeah i Had some fun with IT but is the worst from Software Game in my opinion😅