this took waaaay too long and I have no clue if this is any good, my bad. But anyways! I'm thinking I want to try mixing up gaming challenges and more food videos going forward (maybe alternate back and forth?), so let me know if you have any thoughts!

"Please stop improving my spoon." One of my new favorite out-of-context quotes.

"Ganon Ramsay" I love you so much.

"You hardly have any arrows in botw" Me: **laughs in 999 arrows**

I tried stealth approach in rdr2, I was hidden in the bushes and enemy spot me from meters away, Dutch really forces you to use the damn spoon

Arthur: "I don't wanna cook steak tacos no more Dutch." Dutch: "ARTHUR.... ARTHUR! HAVE YOU COMPLETELY LOST FAITH IN MY STEAK?"

"Yes Zelda is trapped in a hundred year hells-kitchen cook off with Ganon Ramsay but she'll be *fine*

I contend that most of Breath of the Wild’s storytelling happens in the game world itself as you look upon the ruins, and the towns that have somehow managed to survive and flourish despite the Calamity.

The Narrative department at Rockstar I honestly think is the best in the industry. They don't produce new titles or new games often, but when they do they're some of the best characters and stories the entire video gaming industry has to offer. The narratives for GTA V and RDR2 were honestly on-par with emmy winning dramas like Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones, made even more immersive by the fact that a video game can completely immerse you in the world that story is taking place in. The length and format of the narrative is too different to be compared to most traditional types of storytelling, but when it comes to the overall impact of the characters and the overarching theme of narrative overall, I'd happily put RDR2's campaign against any western story every written. Its just that good.

"The music isn't overpowering like some games" *laughs in doom*

"Yeah, this river looks cool, but it could use a LENS FLARE."

Doug's modern content is great, but part of me misses this series. Oh well. Good Doug content is still good Doug content.

I agree with everything you said here except that the random surprises you find in RDR2 are more like appetizers. I'll agree that most of them aren't as elaborate as the main missions but there are a lot of secrets in the game that aren't marked on the map but are super memorable to me and surprised me a lot (ie the Aberdeen pig farm which has an entire cutscene).

I just realized the Dutch is a mango because he wants to go to Tahiti and be a mango farmer

I need you to explain LIFE but with food

The Yiga just being bananas at 8:19 is pure gold.

The whole element of surprise for me in Zelda BOTW actually worked twice with the same thing: the dragons. When I first saw Farosh I was like "Holy shit! Is that a freakin Dragon?!" And then I saw it again with Dinraal. I was like "Ok, there's obviously also an ice dragon somewhere, I'll probably find it eventually, these things are huge after all, not that big a deal." But I couldn't find Naydra, and then I used my camera on the mountain where Naydra was in the first game (which is surrounded by clouds until you cleanse Naydra) and I saw that Naydra was on top of that mountain, and I was like "but why isn't she moving?" so I went to the top and found her corrupted, and I was like "Well....I was not expecting that!" And then it happened again in Tears of the Kingdom. I looked up into the night sky, saw a dragon, aimed my camera at it, and it was called...Light Dragon? And I was like "that thing is so high up in the sky, how am I ever gonna reach it?!" I won't say any more than that, since the Light Dragon is a major part of the story and talking to much about it is basically just spoilering everything

400 hours later in Zelda's kitchen. "Hmm I've seen this cupboard like a million times already, there's probably nothing else to find- wait this toblerone was hidden in here this whole time!?! Oh my god I love Zelda's kitchen!"

“You’re forced to use those weaker tactics-“ *Shows image of Link nuking a small camp of Bokoblins*

“You sir, are a fish.” -Arthur Morgan “HYAAAAH!” -Link

I kinda like they took the idea that you are thrown into this open world though because to take it from links perspective, you woke up and found out you have been asleep for 100 years, and you keep hearing these voices from someone you don't even remember and instantly told you have go and rescue a land that has been lost in your memory's, so while link needs to save the land it also comes back to him trying to remember his place and who everyone was which is where memory's come into play, it definitely isn't as pointed out and we'll told as some stuff in red dead is but its neat to think about

Hey, stop improving my spoon! ... *Here's a durian*

It's weird how a broke outlaw has a fridge full of food but the literal king of Hyrule barely has anything in his.

Your issue with red dead is solved if you do it kinda backwards. If you chose to first use all the more fun but less deadly weapons you die more and money ends up being scarce making buying ammo harder to justify which also makes the ammo enemies drop your main source of bullets. It is having to nerf yourself to fix something that already should be like that but it does make the moment to moment combat more fun.

10:21 Rockstar: You got it fam. **releases GTA trilogy definitive edition**

*"W O A H ! Your **_Spoon_** is in poor condition-"*

"A taco inspired combatsystem" -DougDoug 2019

Breath of the wild’s ending is like drinking expired milk after eating the best pizza of your life.

I love that when Doug is rummaging around in his cupboard, the Toblerone is just barley visible in the corner, disappears when he grabs the whopper and materializes in his hand again when he grabs it

Okay,I have to admit.....when I play Zelda,I really just look at the map and say "wonder what that is..." one trip later I'm f***ing naked and stranded on an island being chased by a giant,hungry cyclops Edit:In all honesty,Eventide is one of my favorite trials in Breath of the Wild

I had been playing breath of the wild for 4 hours straight and hopped on to read dead 2. I jumped off a cliff thinking I could pull out the paraglider.

To me, Zelda just seems way too chill sometimes, and I know red dead has those moments too, but like you said, with those moments in red dead, you really start to appreciate life, and can relate to a lot of different characters.

The explained with food series is so fun and easy to watch and rewatch i have watched them so many times that some times i put them on when im going to bed and i can close my eyes and just play it in my head while i fall asleep and it helps a lot and thats why im writing this at 4:30 am because this was my last resort that i know will work so i just wanted to say thanks Doug when it comes down to it you are without a doubt my favorite KZfaqr

Doug: arrows are super rare Me: laughs in 999 ancient arrows

Arthur: "This taco sounds amazing Dutch but I've eaten it all before. I insist that you let us eat something different!" Ditch: "You insist?"

13:12 this is what AC: Odyssey did so well. You get to choose whether you want a BIG FUCKING LABEL or just want to find everything yourself. I love that about it.

8:09 “here’s a durian”

Dude did you stock your fridge with nothing but Taco materials for a 10 minute video about BotW and RDD2? That's dedication man.

I just wanna forget BOTW and play it again

Bro i remember watching this when it came out and took a liking to Doug. Never watched him actively but when I saw that this guy has grown so much. Feels like a proud mom💀

I come back to this video so often it is so well-made! The actual DougDoug is right, he has good ideas

When Doug says that the combat is like making a taco: 🤨 Me five minutes later: yeah, that makes sense

Player: *Attempts to be somewhat creative* RDR2: I HAD A GODDAMN PLAN

Everything you said about unexpectedly finding food and how stuff gets boring after awhile actually makes a lot of sense good job man

This is my favorite dougdoug video by far because it was the 1st one of his videos I saw and I really love it so I subed and than I realized that he's not as serious as I thought he is really goofy and loveable and has twitch chat buy a anime body pillow for a friend who is staying at his place for 2 months. But again I really live dougdougs videos that are really the best and they always bring me joy to watch

*WW2 explained with food*

Every time I watch a video with Zelda in it I find something in it and go “WHEN DID THAT EXIST!?”

I keep coming back to watch this video once every 3 weeks and I’m forever stuck in this endless cycle cause I keep seeing it in my recommended

I still come back and revisit these often to revel in I think the golden Doug age

“What’s for dessert, Dutch?” “I have a FLAN!”

"Zelda is trapped in a 100 year hell's kitchen cookoff with *Gannon Ramsay* " IM DYING LMAO

I like Zelda’s story and that it’s not emphasized. It gives players a choice to explore the world and they make their own story in the world. While it’s not emphasized and not focused upon, it still holds some beautiful moments and really fun stories within like Urbosa, Kass, and the Gerudo. It’s the freedom to create your story that makes it so much more fun.

this is the first appearance of olive oil on the Doug Doug channel, a legend is born

"so both of these games has a taco inspired combat system" this is fucking amazing

"Maintain your spoon with spoon oil" "Have a double-barreled spoon!" "Spoon eye!" "Please stop improving my spoon!!!"

On RDR2s part, when you find an easter egg or a secret something its even more surprising as you would expect everything to be shown on the map

I found that same chase sequence while looking for shrines, and I was blown away

I mean I wandered into a cabin in Red Dead and aliens appeared above the cabin soooo... that was pretty unexpected.

"Real life looks last gen compared to Red Dead." im literally dying xD

I come back to this video every 6 months or so because it’s so good

He is like you have barely any resources like cooking with what you have in your fridge but then you use amibo and that is just ordering from like hello fresh or Uber eats

“I forgot how beautiful nature is” Me: *flashbacks to me drowning my friend in online mode*

So while I won't act like BotW's story is a masterpiece, I do really love that the open-world and main story support each other. After leaving the starting area, there is really only one mandatory quest and that is to defeat Ganon, so Link sets out to get stronger in order to do it. Almost everything the player does builds toward that goal whether it be working on the main quest, looking for shrines and koroks, stockpiling strong weapons, or even gathering the choicest bugs and fruits in order to make so many health and strength elixirs that you can take on Ganon without doing anything else. In a lot of games, I feel like the urgency of a strong story makes dicking around in the open-world feel weird at times. BotW's main story is definitely nothing to write home about content wise, but that allows it to pair with the open-world better than any other game I've played.

A cheat code in red dead describes it combat's problem: abundance is the dullest desire.

I remember DougDoug used to lean really hard into food metaphors, but I didn't know there were videos where they actually made complete sense!

Ganon Ramsey is my fav cook

"Yeah this river is pretty cool, but it could really use a lens flare" When I tell you I CACKLED

these videos are so well made and fucking hilarious 💀

12:14 Yes I remember I talked to a random npc and he said, i believe a tresure is in the mountain. No misión, no path, no dot in the map. So I just try to go up there and I was amazed of how I finded by causualty. In any other game it would only be a random dialog, but here it had meaning

"Arrows are very rare" My 278 arrow stash i got from harassing shopkeepers:

“My god’ that is uncivilized” “Well their civilization was literally destroyed” Someone give this man an Oscar

10:50 ah! a fellow tobleronian!

I kinda miss these videos, they were really fun, even if Doug's current output is also pretty great.

DougDoug: there’s not really a story in botw. The memories: *Allow me to introduce myself.*

Arthur: "How should we make these tacos?" Dutch: "I have a plan!"

This is not a dumb video, This was the best way to explain it all! Ceep on doing what you do!

in botw there was a time i went through faron, trying to find the dragon (after seeing *almost* every shrine) and suddenly... i spot a shrine in the distance. after 25 hours worth of gameplay from the last shrine, i found another one. that was a goddamn amazing moment, one of my favourite in gaming.

I don´t have any clue, how or why, but this comparison between several different ways to make tacos is by far the most adequate excplanation of my feelings on these two games. In my opinion, an absolute masterpiece of a review. 12/10 , would watch again.

Ganon Ramsay needs the Triforce of lamb sauce

My biggest gripe with botw was that towards the end your taco would boil down to the same 4-5 ingredients every time because your other options for ingredients are just not as good. IE - just running through enemies with your highest tier weapons or shooting 45 bomb arrows in 5 seconds flat.

The chase scene he was talking about was soooo fun when I found it. And I never would've found it if he didn't talk about the snowy mountain.

“Why is that parrot here” -avocado link 2019

9:22 "But then you go and actually buy one in real life, and it looks like a deflated testicle" I have a new insult

this videos make me hungry and make me want to play one of the game you talk about

I honestly love the open world in scarlet and violet. Once you get koraidon or Miraidon and beat a few titans for upgrades, I’d say the best points are A: randomly seeing a titan or B: discovering new Pokémon (either returning or brand spanking new). There are points, but thanks to the map, there’s only a small icon on the map, but nothing related to the game itself. You have to try and go in the direction you think is right, and I LOVE it.

"Please stop improving my spoon" Never thought I'd hear that sentence in my life

11:00 He just made a food analogy for his food analogy. I'm so done

In rdr2 when I started playing as john, I tried doing hector's coach mission with no gun and I got caught trying to rob them so I was chased and I fled and the only weapon I had was a lasso and a knife so I had to use my horse and a lasso to kill them until I found a gun on one of them

5:04 The moral of the story take care of your spoons

Ganon-Ramsey..... i died. HAHAHHAHAAAAAAaaaaaa amazing video 11/10

The supermario oddysey whip cream part was my favorite

Ganon Ramsey got me straight *DYIN’*

I'm never watching another food news while I'm hungry.

Legend of Morgan: Breath of the Wild West

Who else misses these masterpieces if literally anything described with food? Food is the key to A glorious video 👌

3:14 So this is why we need "more money" Dutch blew all of our heist savings on Pearson's Camp Ingredients

I really love how Dutch is a mango.

“Yea my daughter is trapped in a castle with Gannon Ramsey but just MAKE SOME TACOS” Best line ever

Ganon. Ramsey.

i miss these