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Load Our Last Save

Load Our Last Save: Load Our Last Souls: Part 10

YOU DEFEATED.

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.

Jan. 8 2014

Cast: Vinny, Ian, Matt

Posted by: Drew

In This Episode:

Dark Souls

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Hope they make a port of DS2 for Vita as it's prob. the only chance I'll get to play, even Demon Souls would be good.

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@ptys said:

Hope they make a port of DS2 for Vita as it's prob. the only chance I'll get to play, even Demon Souls would be good.

What's the point? Just use Playstation Now.

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I'm gonna miss this series, congrats on the defeated Vinny!

@gyoru Thanks for the lore video, was thinking of looking this up myself but didn't know where to start.

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@hassun:

@hassun said:

@development: Pinwheel is the easiest boss in the game.

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Yea... Gwyn's nowhere near this easy

Okay, guys, say it with me: "Gwyndolin." There we go. One more time: "Gwyndolin." Fuck whoever it was that called him Gwyn in this comment tree.

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I laughed so hard when Power within killed him, how they didn't even notice his health going down. So good. I really hoped that he'd have to fight Gwyn again.

Congrats Vinny and co.

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Congratulations Vinny. I expected Gwyn would be a lot easier for this build. It was kind of a pain for me as a sorcerer mostly because I hadn't invested a lot in vitality. It only took 4 or 5 spell casts to beat him but he was one and two-shotting me most of the time. I had to angle him into getting caught on geometry just to stand a chance.

I chose the fire ending and it's indeed a disappointing one even if you have context to the story. Ultimately it comes across like a fairly generic all-story in the vain of Dragon's Dogma or Afro Samurai where the dude on top needs to be defeated, he is dethroned and replaced by you, and then the cycle repeats for someone to come and kill you. Meh. The art design makes this universe a lot more interesting than it actually is.

To be honest this was kind of boring for a final episode to this feature partially because of Dark Souls' underwhelming final sequence. It's a lot funnier when Vinny kills NPCs on a whim rather than Rorie and Ian egging him on to go on a murder spree. Thanks for the video duders. Looking forward to seeing what crazy features you guys come up with next.

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Maybe it's time to start the Load Our Last (Demon's) Souls Part 01 as we wait for Dark Souls 2.

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Riposte, Dodge, Riposte

also: power corrupts absolutely

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"Im roleplaying" Vinny says as two voices on either side of him tell him to kill everyone he passes

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Better than any gift I received for Christmas.

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Damn it Vinny... I couldn't Beat Gwyn by myself and you do it like nothing...

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Congrats Vinny now if you want to platinum it just beat it 3 more times and you will be the Lord of our Last Souls!! :P I hope they do something similar with DSII.

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I still have no idea what the story of this game is.

Good show, Vinny.

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@professork said:

@hassun:

@hassun said:

@development: Pinwheel is the easiest boss in the game.

Loading Video...

Yea... Gwyn's nowhere near this easy

Okay, guys, say it with me: "Gwyndolin." There we go. One more time: "Gwyndolin." Fuck whoever it was that called him Gwyn in this comment tree.

Nitpicking, but whatever I'm bored. Gwen/Gwyn is short of Gwyndolin/Gwendolin there is nothing wrong with it.

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GREAT series, thank you Vinny and GB

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A fitting end to this saga, thanks for a great series Vinny and Co!

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@shovat said:

@development said:

@professork said:

@hassun:

@hassun said:

@development: Pinwheel is the easiest boss in the game.

Loading Video...

Yea... Gwyn's nowhere near this easy

Okay, guys, say it with me: "Gwyndolin." There we go. One more time: "Gwyndolin." Fuck whoever it was that called him Gwyn in this comment tree.

Nitpicking, but whatever I'm bored. Gwen/Gwyn is short of Gwyndolin/Gwendolin there is nothing wrong with it.

...Except GWYN is the last boss of the game, Gwyndolin is his son and a completely different entity. You cannot shorten Gwyndolin to Gwyn because that makes NO SENSE.

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Wow, that death after killing Gwyn. I was watching his health bar tick down the entire time, wondering when they'll finally realize he should probably heal (or end the game). I'm so glad they just didn't. XD

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@xbob42: Thank you. Peace and balance is restored.

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@development:

Yup, I played Dark Souls at launch and hated it because it seemed the devs got way too up their own ass about Demon's undeserved "IT'S SO HARD" hype, at the expense of good game design. I quit around Sen's Fortress.

I played it recently on PC all the way through, and after that patch, along with better framerates, found it to be hilariously easy, beating most bosses in one try. I was actually inspired to play it because of this series, and seeing Vin succeed despite being obviously bad at the game. I just figured he did some weird farming or something to pump his stats, but nope! That patch doubled the amount of souls you get, and massively increased drops of Humanity, for Hot Kindling Action. I think that alone would have been enough, but it also clearly reduced aggro range and other stuff.

Don't be crazy. The game was never impenetrable. You also should know that the patch nerfed several things, it didn't just buff everything.

Either way, some people may have needed some farming before and they (probably) do not now, but that's pretty much it. Saying it's gone from 'super hard' to 'extremely easy' is crazy. I can still finish NG+ without leveling upon starting it, which is harder than the game was unpatched.

Also, how is Vinny 'obviously bad'? It's just a common misconception that Dark Souls is extremely difficult. You do not have to be some sort of master to finish the game when you are not doing a specific self-imposed run. Vinny is more than good enough to finish the game. He would have been able to do it in unpatched game or NG+. The game is just not that hard once you're experienced and know what to expect.

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More Vinny and Dark Souls II please!

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The crow is thought to be somehow related to Velka, the goddess of sin. She brings you, the undead, to Lordran to kill Gwyn for linking the first flame, which is thought to be the "First Sin."

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One thing I've taken from this series is that from the lack of confidence Ian has in any answer he gives, no matter how simple the question, you could ask him his name and he'd take a couple minutes to get to the conclusion that his name is probably Ian, maybe.

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@captaincaptane: Whenever people talk about this series, they never want to say anything definitively for fear of the community jumping them.