Load Our Last Save: Load Our Last Souls: Part 06

Dude... don't lie. Porn.

I was definitely referring to NG2. I mean, NG1 had a camera that they had to try and fix in Sigma, and then they put out NG2 which somehow had an even worse camera than NG1 did at launch. A lot of that was from putting whats his face in a bunch of narrow corridors, though.

I honestly don't mind the camera in Dark Souls, though.

Love this, thanks Vinny!

Really happy he decided on the Manserpent Greatsword. Fantastic weapon for strength based characters.

This was easily my favorite installment of LOLS, but I really hope Vinny actually uses his shield in the future. So many of those deaths could've been prevented by just blocking.

If he's going to two-hand with a shield always on his back, though, he could at least throw a shield on his back with a permanent effect, such as Sanctus' permanent health regen, or the Grass shield's stamina buff.

Don't even try to justify this crap. I love Dark Souls but this is such a stupid thing to do to get to some dlc.

Yep. Especially the mantrain of gardeners he pulled across the bridge. Perfect setup to mow them down if he just used his shield between swings, instead of a mad dash to (barely) safety.

USE YOUR SHIELD, VINNY! (or use one that gives a buff)

Was a bit bored by this instalment but I cant complain considering how good the last 5 were.

get rid of the shielddddd !!!

Yeah, I was never super hardcore into Dark Souls despite finishing it, but Vinny has been at a much higher level than I was during some of these battles.

Which is totally fine. He doesn't have the finesse (he kind of just goes in head-on, which looks like the reason he has trouble with regular enemies sometimes), but he makes up for it in brute strength.

Can't wait until he gets to the end!

I love love love these videos ..but oh my god Ian winds me up something wicked ..arrgghh !!

I must have missed something. Can someone please tell me why he's switched out all of his equipment to start using stuff that was worse, like that golden armour?

@deegee: Vinny wanted to be more nimble and faster, and to have a less clumsy roll.

Rorie.... "engineering wise this game could be better put together"

Is akin to me saying "artistically, the Mona Lisa could have been better put together". I would sound like an ass saying that, right? Right? Because I am not an artist.

How would you feel if someone criticized your Chat Poll making abilities?

@freedomtown: rorie has worked on games...

coming to someone knowing almost inch of the game. watching Vinny following all these "ehh maybe this and that, not sure" information is driving me nuts.

And c'om guys. Vinny wanted to try lighter gears and faster attack speed. And you guys still recommended him a slightly lighted Heavy plate armor and some of the slowest 2handers weapon to him. He never even got to swing a sword that was meant to be used 1handed

@bearpawb: as a PR guy

Vinny, get used to the Zweihander and upgrade it...it's probably among the top 10 weapons in this game...especially since you can get it right at start

And V-Bomb learned the most important lesson in video games: MASH HARDER!!! Man, these are so funny. Just watching these makes me want to play DS. Man, whats gonna happen when "suddenly Artorias", can't wait.

@dudeglove: THE LEGEND NEVER DIES!

Love this series. It's like a new genre with 2 unreliable narrators who argue with each other while the hero clobbers everything in sight. Cant wait for the Artorias fight.

I was just about to get to sleep too, damn you Vinny!!!!
I'll wait for tomorrow to watch, this part for me was tough bc I was running this DLC on NG+3 so I was stuck on the first boss for around 2 hours.
It's a beast of a DLC, I love it.

I mean this in a lighthearted, ribbing way, but it is adorable that Vinny decides to change his armour and weapon, as if he's not already BARELY scraping by with the (quite good) Black Knight Halberd that he is accustomed to, plus he has really gotten used to just tanking damage while wearing Havel's.

It's just really funny that he keeps overestimating his own ability to adapt/be amazing at the game, and thinks he can just switch weapons no problem when he's already out of practice and kinda devil-may-care when it comes to avoiding hits (for example, even with a bad weapon, there's no reason Vinny had to die to those skeletons at the start of the Duke's Archives).

It just seems like he's gotten used to being crazy over-leveled with a good weapon that just one-shots everything, so he has no idea when it's safe to attack. He'll attack when he knows he has enough time to deal damage, but doesn't really worry about whether he'll get counterattacked. Once he changed weapons, he seemed at a constant loss every time he would hit an enemy with a strong attack and the fight wasn't immediately over.

Matt always being a douche.

Homeward Bone: The Unremarkable Journey

He didn't make the chat but he has worked on games.

Pretty much. I said this on the stream but I'll just say it again, "Vinny's play style has started to catch up with him in the last few videos."

To be fair, I copied Vinny's stats for my character and I haven't had many problems. Vinny's issues (the non bad sense of direction thing) mainly lie in him hesitating to attack or constantly thinking every enemy can be backstabbed (which causes him to always move to the enemy's back which allows other enemies to F him up). I wonder if he knows about dealing more damage to staggered enemies and that them bouncing off his shields counts as them being staggered.

@rockman10: I try my best! And usually succeed.

I'd feel fine about it. Heck, I'd appreciate the feedback.

Edit: by the way, use the @reply feature in the future to ensure that I'm more timely in my responses to your feedback.

I actually also managed a team of programmers, animators, and artists, but hey, keep saying what I did like you were there, because that's fun.

@rorie Your chat-polling abilities are bloody inspirational and don't let anybody tell you otherwise.

I lost it at I PAID FOR THIS!

This pseudo endurance run and the pathfinder thing are the entertainment highlights of my week.

It looked like he was barely handling that Zweihander though.

Everyone keeps saying that Vinnie should have taken the claymore or Zweihander, without considering that his stats are 40 strength and 18 dex, which means that the strength based man serpant is by far the better choice, and scales at A.

I play far to much Dark Souls and so whilst I love seeing this is being played, the often false 'advice' by Ian and Rorie drive me nutty.

Rorie please note, whilst you've updated the weapons, you have never updated any armour (in your own and Vinny's play through). There are far better armours available that are better than havels, gold hemmed, Vinny's current set etc once they are upgraded.

I'm largely joking around :P

Watching Vinny use weapons other then the ones I personally appreciate is actually more fun then if he used the stuff I myself used.

I think this would be better if the co-pilots either didn't know anything about Dark Souls or knew more about Dark Souls. Its a strange dance that alternates between giving Vinny half baked advice, and weird passive aggression between Rorie and Ian regarding whether or not they should tell him this thing or that.

Great feature, I just wish it was less play-by-committee. I know Vinny needs the guidance, but maybe just save it for when he actually asks for it?

I enjoy the series too, but their stance from the start has been no help unless Vinny asks for it. But then pretty much every episode they either hint at stuff Vinny should do or just straight up suggest what he should do. Even little things like reminding Vinny to heal, rest, or other suggestions kind of ruin the spontaneity and Vinny learning from mistakes that this series should be.

It's simple. On a normal playthrough, the area around the hydra would have been cleared and Dusk would have been freed hours ago. You get the amulet with a hint to dusk, so you probably wan to ask dusk about it. So scout "her" area.

A reload isn't required. A simple rest between freeing dusk and aquiring the amulet is sufficent. (which you basically do automatically).

It just requires the will to explore and some thinking. It might not be a good solution for those "quick, quick where is the content?" gamers nowadays, but I like it.

this made me lol

I'm not buying it. How would you know where to find the amulet if you already cleared Duke's Archives? Even if you went back there randomly not everyone would kill the golem again.

So funny. And so close to the best fight in the game. Great show guys.

So after I beat dark souls last week I started playing dragons dogma. Now that's a game with a learning curve... And MASSIVE difficulty spikes. I'd like to see them try that next.

VBomb faces one of his greatest challenges! Getting to the point were you can finally access the DLC!

@rorie: No need to be a dick when all I did was recite what the wiki on your website says and what I've heard from the content you've been in on said website

Well, sorry if I sounded like a dick; I was a little tipsy last night. Keep in mind that I don't edit my own page nor am I responsible for what people say about me on here. In the end there was a reason I was credited as a producer on both AP and FNV, so saying that I was just doing PR sounded pretty dismissive. If you're ever curious about what I did at Obsidian feel free to ask.

Fun fact.

The Undead Parish Church is it's own object, it's not actually part of the world geometry. Some smart alec with the Cheat Engine on PC made Chameleon disguise him AS THE CHURCH.

It crashed the game shortly thereafter.

I think my time playing a raid tank in WoW really helped me with handling rooms of enemies. My first time through the Duke's Archives I instinctively pulled the crystal guys one at a time and got out of the line of sight of the archer.

My combination of Tanking in MMO's and Solo hunting in Monster Hunter really prepared me for Dark Souls to the point that I felt the game was a natural fit to my play style, unlike someone like Jeff who wants to mash X/Square as fast as he can until the thingy dies.

Vinny handles large groups of enemies pretty well though. I would have loved to see Vinny on some of the earlier parts of Dark Souls like Smough or Sen's Fortress.