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Load Our Last Save

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

Vinny and crew hop into some Dark Souls DLC, and quickly regret that decision.

What happens when you return to a previous save from days, months, or a decade ago? Discover just how well we remember where we left in various games as explore our old save files.

Oct. 29 2013

Cast: Vinny, Ian, Matt

Posted by: Drew

In This Episode:

Dark Souls

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@tesla said:

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?

^

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I sort of miss phat roll Vinny but great sword Vinny is pretty damn funny as well. I get the urge to finish up Dark Souls with my sorcerer while watching this then I think why bother since I could watch Vinny do it and have a lot more fun. I'm a wizard and this looks fucked up. Thanks very much for this video feature.

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By far my favourite content of late. Please keep it up!

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The adventures of V Bomb continue!

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I don't get how Vinny easily beats some of the hardest bosses in the game, then gets his ass handed to him by pathetic enemies like the sanctuary guardian.

Because his strategy is always the same: be bad at dodging and hit it until it dies, while downing Estus Flasks at the worst times possible. It just works better with harder-hitting, slower bosses than it does fast ones like the Sanctuary Guardian.

Also, he always rolls just one time too many while dodging. Makes me laugh every time.

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The end game for that sort of thinking is the strident, mystery, exploration, and playing-disenfrachising info dumping that hinders most games this generation. It's that sort of thing I hope to avoid by this sort of thinking.

Ian's point about reloading was a MUCH better view of this, a technical issue, not sky-high expectations of immediate payoff.

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Don't worry Vinny, I accidentally killed an NPC today as well.... But man, that was some hilarious shit.

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I just beat ornstein and smough ! ! It took me 75 hrs worth of playing , upgrading etc to do it . . Omg that was b*stard hard.. These vids inspired me to go back to dark souls ,I'm glad I have ,now on with the rest of the game . . .

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This has inspired me to start playing on PC again and check out the DLC---Dark Souls is contagious!

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Are they going to hit up the painted world or did Vinny already finish it?

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"You gonna mash?! I'll mash!"

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Hoping Part 07 is around the corner. What else am I supposed to watch on my train ride into work?

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I was hoping that Vinny's encounter with a Guardian would result in death by AoE attack. I was not disappointed!

I hate those enemies.

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noice!

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Someone needs to tell Vinny how to tell if a chest is a Mimic.

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I don't know about you guys, but I think the Load Our Last Souls series is one of the greatest content Giant Bomb has ever produced, alongside the P4 Endurance Run. I don't even really like Dark Souls.

Can't wait for this week's episode. Please tell me there is one @rorie!

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I need moar LOLS! Fuck next gen consoles.

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@jellotek said:

I really wish Vinny started this from the start. Would've made a great endurance run, which seems to be what they're doing with this anyway.

From what I've kind of gathered since the last Endurance run, they really hate doing them. They hate it when anyone even brings it up or says the name "Endurance run". I haven't fully figured out why, but some of my guesses is because either the community badgers them and abuses them while they do it. Or because an endurance by design has to be done every work day and they don't seem to have the time to do that. Or both maybe?

Either way, I kind of get the feeling that endurance runs wont happen anymore unless things change.

until persona 5. then, everything changes.

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Thank's for doing this, it sparked my craving for Dark Souls since I beat it in late 2011. It was overwhelming to come back to every items and how it played, but got so into it after an hour or so, and now i'm hooked again. I just started this DLC for the first time on ng+ and I must say it's a bit funny how I struggled with that first boss and Vinny just overpowered him.

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@jellotek: Yeah, but can you blame him for not wanting to lose his (60?) hours of progress? For the record, I agree, though. Seeing his reaction to O&S or the Gaping Dragon would've been great.

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@kishinfoulux said:

I'm still stunned how easily he downed the Sanctuary Guardian. I was convinced he'd have more trouble then that. Myself and everyone in the chat are never not amazed at his absurd power.

@gravytrain said:

I don't get how Vinny easily beats some of the hardest bosses in the game, then gets his ass handed to him by pathetic enemies like the sanctuary guardian.

this made me lol

Yeah. The truth is: there are no hard enemies in the game. There is only your lack of knowledge or skill. Whenever someone says an enemy is hard, they just don't know how to deal with it properly yet.

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