I am tired of hearing everything compared to Dark Souls

>>714823079 (OP)
Who says it anymore? It was for a time something you would hear often but not anymore.

BASED.

Literally the only fucking reviewer that matters on YouTube.

Reminder he loved Demon's Souls and consider it one of the best classics of all time.

every game is compared to dark souls because it was one of the earliest "le super brutal hard game" games that entered the normie mainstream

there, saved you 59 minutes

>>714823815
No, that's not why retard.

Also, he prefers Demon's Souls (as all high IQ chads do)

>>714823079 (OP)
I'm tired of hearing about this content creator, and I'm tired of hearing anons pretending they agree with him about everything.

This is a guy who has no concept of a game about exploring for its own sake, a puzzle game, or anything related to narrative. He's a mentally broken robot person who plays video games to keep himself from doing drugs. He probably can't visualize an apple.

oh shit he made a video on nintendo and iwata I've been all over that kind of stuff lately
thanks OP for reminding me of his existence

a youtuber shill thread?

The Electric "downloading saves for DMC 3"derground
The Electric "filtered by anything that isn't a memoshmup"derground
The Electric "Demons Souls is an arcade game"derground

>>714823938
>>714823268
What manner of autistic wanking is this? Nobody mentioned demon souls you obsessed sperg

>>714824993
All of those are true though

Also he has way more clears than anyone on /v/, seethe

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMDuVHl1iOH-h67muE61DUeHumoHcAP22

>>714825308
The Electric "zooming and enhancing like in Blade Runner to find out the parry move in DMC 3 does in fact parry"derground
The Electric "no video on Eternal despite he would really enjoy it but a seething video about dark ages"derground

>>714824993
>downloading saves for dmc3
So he can play hard mode.
>filtered by anything that isn't a memoshmup
False. See his clear playlist.
>demon souls is an arcade game
Metaphor

>>714825508
Why didn't he get a save of NG2?

>>714825675
because he already has his hundreds of hours chuddy

Who?

>>714825828
The greatest gamer ever known to mankind

>>714826023
see >>714825308

his clears absolutely rape yours

>>714826023
Is this NG schizo? The one anons parrot to shit all action games threads and souls threads?

>>714826217
No, the NG schizo is a Russian faggot that doesn't even play the games and avatarfags with webms of Itagaki

Electric Underground is our guy.
I liked his Devil's Third review. Many of your aren't able to handle this fact, but the game is kino.
Also liked his Switch 2 review. It's certainly a very unexciting product compared.

>>714826341
This, actually kusoge games like Star Fox Zero and Devils Turd are hidden epic kino like muh God Hand that EVERYONE EVER (literally one site) HATED (even though every other place gave it a varying score from 6-8)

>>714826436
Dunno about Star Fox Zero.
I'm sure many subhumans like you hated Devil's Third or God Hand.

>god hand and devils third are on the same level of quality
That's just insulting to God Hand

Go play fortnite mork

>>714826287
There is one eceleb who worship NG. I have seen anons made fun of him in NG threads. Can't remember his name.

You can make a flowchart of his pea sized brain
>i like arcade
>therefore anything i like must be good and arcade
>anything bad isn't arcade
>anything that isn't arcade that i like will be somehow molded into being arcade

>>714826562
Not same, but both are good.

>>714826745
This is just getting sad if it's legit
Next you Itagakifags will be telling me about how NFTs are actually awesome because he's behind the scam this time

Thanks for shilling my channel /v/tards.
Here's your pay:

Funny how Mork shifted away from shmup videos despite apparently adoring the genre
Weird how "passion" dies the second you can get more money from something else

>>714826827
Dilate me a river, tard.
You don't get to deny me playing and enjoying the game.
Dunno about NFTs, but those are shit no matter who does them.

>>714823079 (OP)
Not mentioning dark souls is the dark souls of vidya analogies.

>>714826745
You have not played Devils Third
And if you did it was emulated to make it not run like dogshit

>>714827182
Devils Turd is the greatest action game developed on the greatest hardware in the world, just like NG 2 which also had zero problems

>>714827206
Fucking subhuman, I got the Wii U right next to me. Go outside more so some black or hobo can stab you already.

>>714827326
Then you just have supremely shit taste and/or played it when you were quite young
Congrats

I look forward to his Dark Souls 2 review where he doesn't play the DLCs because they're not "essential" (even though they are the only areas made from scratch with full intent and cohesion) and never learns about attack animation linking even though that's one of the main reason the game is running on a different engine.

If he ever does a video on Dark then I guarantee those ones won't be le arcade like Demons is for whatever reason

>>714827115
IIIRC he left his job to make Youtube videos so now he needs to make videos about games more than half a dozen people play.

>>714827621
>left his job for a niche youtube community
OH NONONONO BROS

>>714823079 (OP)
Two words ..or a single concept, whatever. Golden Standard.

>>714823268
>Reminder he loved Demon's Souls and consider it one of the best classics of all time
thank you for letting me know, I will avoid this midwit youtuber like the plague

This guy is a literal retarded bot btw. Also he looks brown, why does /v/tarded worship him?

>>714829143
To Floyd your soul.

>>714826023
Billy Mitchell?

>>714827115
Let's be real, do modern gamers care about arcade styled games? No, they do not. Not only do they not care about them, they think they are fundamentally flawed in design. He isn't given a choice but to shift from arcade styled games when it comes to his content.

>>714823079 (OP)
Never heard of this eceleb. But Dark Souls 1 is the best Souls game and the best Soulslike.

>>714829625
>le all arcade games are always perfect and have no issues ever
LOL

He falls into the same trap as everyone else who played DS1. He doesn't like the player having access to "cheats" like poise and healing, but that line of thinking resulted in souls becoming a second rate character action clone that's at odds with its own legacy mechanics like the base movement, character stats or stamina which exist for the slower paced dungeon crawling mode of gameplay.

His approach suffers from the same narrow perspective that has been plaguing combat centric games since the 8 bit era, he can only imagine escalating the pace and intensity of the combat mainly through enemy behavior and giving the player less health and worse defensive options. In this mentality player tools that promote player agency and initiative can't ever be successfully balanced to create new styles of gameplay because everything must be pigeonholed into the same glass cannon reactive design. The inevitable outcome of that is that levels become strings of boss-like encounters in arena-like spaces, between the actual bossfights where that same design is presented more formally. All the other game world space loses its function and exists as travel padding. Souls specifically offered an alternative to that, which is why the series' regression is so fucking stupid.

He claims to appreciate the level design of these early souls games, but I can already tell that he'll prefer the switch in priorities that comes with the later games and he'll praise the shmup style boss sequences where the player can't attack and just has to iframe lasers for a minute.

>>714830317
Didn't say that, but that's that attitude of the modern gamer. Some games have flaws, some games are harder and demand more from the player. Modern gamers don't want games that demand so much from them. You can play reasonable arcade games that you can slowly earn a 1CC in from learning the games mechanics and the levels.

>>714830607
Modern gamers want games that respect their time, which arcade games absolutely do not

>>714830641
Arcade games do respect your time. They are designed to be beaten within a single sitting and are continually engaging with the player. The fat is often trimmed for a more condensed gameplay experience.

>>714823079 (OP)
Then don't make this thread twice, dumbass.

This guy makes some good points, but so many times I notice he'll rant about something, get btfo in the comments and mysteriously never responds to the ones with legit pushback against whatever thing he's autistically focusing on

>>714830641
30-45 minutes of attention is too much for you ADHD zoomers

>>714830795
>>714831479
This is why no one talks seriously to arcadefags
They're so dishonest and refuse to have a proper conversation

>>714831541
Okay.

BUY AN AD

>>714826112
Has he beaten a TRUE rage game like Boshy? Yeah thought so.

>>714830795
Truly it is more respectful to cut massive amounts of sawdust into flour to create a 60 hour bore fest than to craft a dense 30 minute experience that makes you want to keep coming back as you get better.

More dishonesty from the arcadefags

>>714832245
>that makes you want to keep coming back as you get better.
That must be why all those games hold up to the test of time, and are still played and discussed by a large segment of gamers to this day

>oh gee why is every game compared to the greatest game of all time

>>714832520
The ultimate game of all time is Please Rape My Wife 2 though?

>>714824332
He turns off the music when he plays a game.

>>714823079 (OP)
>gear simulator
I don't understand it the games are just
>I got item and then awesome happened

>>714823268
>remember I know everything about internet man IM SO LONELY
Kill yourself.

>>714823079 (OP)
Mork pls

>>714832520
>99.99999% of players it's a DPS rush game
The fact everyone jerks of a gear simulator is hilarious to me
>uh game hard then get sword
Wow compelling.

>>714832441
I mean, yeah. The best arcade games are a pure distillation of joy.

>The good thing about Souls is its high gameplay density and its similarity with classic arcade games.
I'm guessing that's the summary of the video?

>>714832882
This one is more so criticizing the parts that aren't like arcade games, and generally any design element that removes the focus from combat. His favorite part was the 4 Kings fight because trying to fight two or more of them at once tickled his autism the most.

>>714832882
>high gameplay density
That doesn't mean anything by itself.

>>714824332
With Matthewmatosis retired, he's the most intelligent/perceptive game reviewer remaining on the website. There are no other options.

>>714826023
>>714825725
Lol a fucking pajeet

>>714832245
Yeah, too bad the modern gamer thinks that not only must they always make progress, they can never lose progress. Even though the game is literally 30 minutes long. It's a shame. They should buckle down and play older games by their rules and maybe they'll gain an appreciation for their design. Being easy to pick up and play while offering a stiff challenge while being rewarding to beat. It extends to even arcade styled games of the 8 and 16 bit eras. They'll eventually derive satisfaction from learning and conquering these games rather than endlessly bemoan modern games.

Notice how the arcadefags are just jerking each other off instead of actually discussing design

>>714833157
He's dishonest in his own way. He did a great job explaining why arcade design is good and modern gamers should give it a second chance. Now he's making videos about Souls because no one wants to play shmups, but Souls isn't the type of game he's equipped to understand.
It made sense when he was reviewing action games like RE4R and Stellar Blade, because his specific tastes put him in a good position to criticize their mechanics.

>the best part of zachtronics games is that unlike bioshock infinite, I don't have to see any filthy fucking niggers
Did Matt go too far with this one?

>>714833393
>made sense
>he got completely filtered by any game that boghog didn't play for him
>he gets filtered by literally anything that isn't a shmup
He's a massive, MASSIVE poser, almost yahtzee tier casual

>>714833318
Most old arcade games have no replay value. They have static challenges, the player just needs to memorise a fixed layout instead of learning a system. The difference between knowing how to complete a specific challenge, and knowing how to improvise solutions based on the rules and mechanics you've internalised.

>>714833067
>His favorite part was the 4 Kings fight because trying to fight two or more of them at once tickled his autism the most.
fucking shmups players

>>714833689
Old arcade games are usually score chasing games like Donkey Kong, Defender, Robotron 2084, Frogger, and so on. They're built on replayability to beat other people's or your own scores. None the less you're discounting games that have a built in rank mechanic that may alter what enemies show up when and how aggressive enemies are, or other games that just have more random elements even if it's a linear game with a start and an end credits.

>conveniently "forgetting" that rank was there as a way to get players on the game and then quickly off so more customers could add coins

>>714834273
Ok and?
I don't care whatever the hell the original purpose was, it still makes the game more fun

>>714834273
Don't contradict your arguments then. Are the games static or do they have variables?

>>714823268
Kill yourself Mark

>>714834426
Are you sure it's the same guy?

>>714834426
>arcadefag literally cannot tell two anons apart
OH NONONO SISTERS REGROUP IN THE DISCORD

>>714823268
truly he is /ourguy/

>>714834273
>THESE GAMES ARE STATIC GARBAGE YOU STUPID FUCKING CHUD!!!
>uhh you're telling me that these games actually have dynamic variables? well uhh that was made to STEAL quarters from impressionable american retard credit feeding children like me so thats le BAD!!!
kill your self

>>714823079 (OP)
>Game from 15 years ago
>character can do a roll animation to evade quickly, no i-frames just a movement thing
>OH MY GOD THIS IS LIKE OLD SCHOOL DARK SOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLSSSSS
Fromsoft cultists are some of the biggest piece of shit cocksuckers in the video game community.

>game is the Dark Souls of x

>>714834567
>newfag can't tell two anons apart

>>714834538
Everyone can tell it's you, schizo

>>714834530
Regardless if you are or aren't the same person, what you bring up runs contrary to all arcade games just being pure memory games and requires developing other skills to triumph over curve balls the game might throw to the players way.

Wow you're right, arcade games are perfect as long as you dismiss all criticism with "ok and"

>>714834790
This didn't happen.

>>714834935
>>714834402

>Disengages with the discussion to strawman again
Lol.

>>714834973
The argument there isn't "ok and" retard

>>714834974
>>714835027
>point out directly what you said
>it's a strawman somehow
This is why you kept getting called dishonest

Why are anti-arcade schizos so mentally ill and disingenuous?

>>714827621
What a dumbass. If he kept his job, he would have probably had a better following by now ironically. He doesn't need to pose as a gaming conoisseur he just needs to focus on how arcade games are le gud and what to learn from them.

>>714823079 (OP)
It's gotten much better over the years, believe it or not.

>the dark souls of persona

>>714835123
>All arcade games are perfect
No one implied that.

>>714835419
It never gets old.

>>714823079 (OP)
I love dark souls, it’s a special game especially when it first came out. I remember seething it wasn’t in PC. Good times. Now the brand is TARNISHED.
People say popularity shouldn’t make you dislike something but dark souls really didn’t benefit getting all the attention it did. I’m glad Elden ring did as well as it did because From needed global recognition for their previous titles and never was really appreciated

>>714835149
Sorry no one is taking your rage bait bro

>>714823815
Battletoads?

>>714827115
Doesn't he still make SHMUP!!!!! content still?
It's just less often.

>>714835457
Does gamestop have it?

>>714838812
not that anon.

The average fortnite player has zero clue what Battletoads is.

>>714837837
Does gamestop have it?

>>714827426
It's THE souls game made for him. No bonfire run, covenant of champions, bonfire ascetics, NG+ that actually changes encounters, animation cancelling, etc and it will all go over his head.

>>714837837
see >>714838812
I am so fucking retarded

>>714827115
Doesn't he still make SHMUP!!!!! content still?
It's just less often.

>>714839178
>deleted and reposted
Shamefur dispray

>>714833689
>arcade
>no replay value
dude. you're retarded.

For me it's Morks weird little venture he's got going where he pretends to be a fighting game player

Why do modern gamers get so mad at arcade games? Is it because they can lose in them and that reminds them of real life?

>>714839659
More dishonesty

this thumbnail… erm…

>>714839735
He's really retarded with his thumbnails
A lot of them have random anime characters for no reason, like the Radiant Silvergun one having Asuka

>>714839490
he made a tekken guide with like half a million views so he must be at least decent at 3d fightan

>>714839990
>no locals showings
>no tourney placements
>never online
>no ones ever heard of him
Sure thing mork

>>714839731
you mad, lil bro?

>>714839804
I would never click on a thumbnail without a hot girl on it.
Mork gets me

>>714839226
Everything went terrible.
I was posting and responding to the wrong people over and over again.
My only choice was to burn it all down and start a new.

>>714840281
For a genre where its fans always go on about hardcore and skill intensive it is, anytime I ask about actual, specific advice, it's met with silence or "lmao just dodge lol" or "skill issue lol"
As if there's no substance

>>714833157
And EU is like a even more hyper specialized matt, but it to the point where instead of the mechanics autism just being the primary lens he engages with, it consumes all analysis of the work.

>>714839346
NTA but if one does not derive enjoyment from mastery of games for its own sake but instead of the experience of playing through to completion and the experienced engaged with along the way, then arcade games have little to offer.

>>714840494
Can't expect an expert of a game for every thread, especially with niche games.

>>714842004
Those aren't mutually exclusive though, when I got my first 1CC playing Eschatos I got enjoyment both from clearing the hurdle I'd set for myself, but also at every step of the way since the game was just enjoyable to play.

>>714823079 (OP)
I'm waiting for his Elden Ring review where he wants to shoot himself because of the open world meme.

I'm tired of youtube niggers advertising their videos.

>>714842503
"I'm tried of youtube niggers"

>>714842325
Playing through to completion was a bad term, my bad.
A better one would be experiential
They aren't mutually exclusive but they are generally different level of engaging with a work.
Like if your playing a shmup once you reach the end of the game, seek the sick ass sprite work on the final boss and rise the adrenaline rush to victory. Someone who goes into a game for an experience will stop there because nothing like 1cc or even replaying on a frequent basis appeals to them.
Likewise an experiential player would not just put up but enjoy a overly long cutscene if they remained emotionally engaged the entire time.
These are the same kind of people who never get far into fighting games because they will never lab.

>>714840494
Angel at Dusk and Gunvein have some tutorials that show you how some of the fundamentals of the genre work. But really you can get a lot done by just learning about tap-dodging, (dodging shots aimed directly at the player by doing tiny sidesteps) streaming (doing the former continuously for a long string of bullets) and cutbacks (when streaming, doing a quick maneuver up and to the side to create a gap so you can keep streaming to the other side before getting trapped on one side of the screen).
Aside from that, try to learn how to play by looking up at the screen away from your ship, you can often know where you are at least horizontally from your shot, look closer to your ship when dealing with slower bullets (the faster the bullets the higher up you should look).
Use bombs liberally, even for things you might be able to dodge, since usually losing a bomb is a way better trade than losing a life.
Lastly if any particular section is giving you hell, try finding a solution and applying memorization to it, since it's way easier to do well when sticking to a plan than just trying to play by heart all the time.
Hope this helped.

>>714823815
That's not even his thesis thoughever.
He says it's because Dark Souls brings together a bunch of various design aspects that attract many types of gamers while also not putting a specific emphasis on any of them, allowing different types of gamers to find a niche within the game that they connect with.
For example the speedrunners like the routing and navigation, the action gamers like the fundamentals of combat, the storyfags like the lore and worldbuilding, the roleplayers like the exploration and RPG stuff, etc.

>>714842817
Well yeah, it is obvious modern gamers just won't push their proficiency level to better their mastery of games. Hence why games changed they way they did from the 1980's till now. Not saying it's a good or bad development, but it is a development which much more heavily influenced what kind of games are developed to have a wider appeal.

>>714843087
Sounds true enough.

>>714840494
Cause it's just grinding out memo and routes.

>>714843087
Ironically that connect into another video I watched by a Dark Souls 1 autist.
Basically Dark Souls 1 is the vanilla Ice cream of the series in that it holds aspects from all the other games that came before and after it but doesn't focus on any of them in particular compared to its sequels, barring the interconnected world which is why so many people praise the elevator moment.

It makes me think of DaS as a litmus test where depending on what you liked out of it, or disliked, you can tune game recommendations from across the franchise.

>>714843147
If you think modern gamers won't push their limits, wait until you deal with arcadefags that literally shit, cry and break down when they can't memoshit their way in a game

>>714843407
Vanilla is the best ice cream flavor unironically. Cookies n Cream and Rocky Road are runners up.

>>714823079 (OP)
Pointless video essay #5,709,431. Why do people waste their time with this slop? I don't listen to random people on the street, why would I listen to a random person's opinion on the internet, especially for 1 hour holy shit. If anything, your opinion is worth less once you start making video essays. Creating video essays means you are pompous douchebag who can't get enough of the smell of your own farts.

>>714843407
The key part is that it doesn't over-emphasize anything.
RPG gamers can negate the combat with stats.
Action gamers can do NG+7 or SL1 and ignore the stats completely for maximum challenge.
Speedrunners can ignore everything including the lore and just bum rush the objectives.
Storyfags can uh... read.
But of course most people probably appreciate a mix of various aspects.

>>714823079 (OP)
Lol even actionfags accepted that soulsgods are the peak of vidya
Never ever compare your peasantslop to our masterpieces OK??

>>714844125
>fromsoftware
>no kings field
>no shadow tower
>no ac
etc

>>714823079 (OP)
Ninjeet gayden sister no no no nooooooo

>>714843994
To be fair this guy is one of the few who just presents a straight up review and not a "video essay" where he pretends to have a deep voice and says everything dramatically while summarizing every story beat in the game.

One hour is a bit long but not as bad as the literal 12 hour summary faggot believe me.

>>714844164
Those are just fillers retarded
Souls are the only games fromgods and us hardcore gamerchads care for

>>714844002
As someone who enjoys the story its more matter of it adding meaning to my actions and helping in defining characters for Roleplay purposes and themed builds.
Killing a boss can be fun, but getting the context about who I killed and what that means makes it feel better.

Also the game's story provides context from acting out the role for a variety of characters from a Darkmoon Agent who uses Stealth Sorceries , to a maddened Pyromancer Egg-Bearer who crawled out of the Demon Ruins to harass Sen's Fortress, to a Barbarian who just bashes things with a stick.
There is a reason why the story in a genre where is as minor as it is in card games is still called flavor after all.

>>714843475
Most games require memorization, from map layouts and often congested areas and weapon pick ups in competitive GPS games, to learning and memorizing enemies attacks. Memorization is inherent to games, and then adapting based upon past knowledge.

>>714844298
>AC
>filler
LR alone is harder than all souls combined

>>714844483
I know what you mean. I like having enticing objectives. But to me that's separate from diving into character backstories or roleplaying. Like when I play Doom my objective is "murder every demon" and that's enough for me. But if the game had no art direction or story element whatsoever, and was just a bunch of white lines, it would feel pointless.

>>714845145
>But to me that's separate from diving into character backstories or roleplaying.
Interesting, to me those are the same thing just on a spectrum of attention given and the more of that available is a value add.
But I respect your position, on the matter, I think we (and most gamers) overlap on the "Reasons I enjoy games" venn diagram in a decent few spots just not completely.

>>714823079 (OP)
>Dark souls is peak and eldenring is the peak of video games and no game will ever top this
There, saved your 59 minutes and 24 seconds

>>714844496
There's the dishonesty

>>714830541
>I can already tell that he'll prefer the switch in priorities that comes with the later games
If he praises Promised Consort Radahn I'll happily disregard anything says going forward.

>>714845904
Based, Elden Ring is pretty much peak.

>>714843994
Mark is /v/ culture, newfag.

>>714823815
>every game is compared to dark souls because it was one of the earliest "le super brutal hard game" games that entered the normie mainstream
Exactly. Bandai Namco's advertising for Dark Souls created the zeitgeist for gaming we live in right now. Also it doesn't help that prominent voices around Fromsoft games keep using the term 'Souls-Like' as they have effectively created a genre, when in reality all that Dark Souls has done is create a template on how to do Action Adventure Games.

>>714827115
Arcade style games (good ones) are literal needles in haystacks. Compare the amount of those releases to say RPG's and Metroidvanias. Eventually you're going to run out of content. I mean, the only shmups I want to play since R-Type Final II came out are ZPF and Earthion, with the latter still in development.

>>714824332
I'm tired of all "content creators" (more like parasites) but at least I don't have to see this guy's ugly face in the thumbnail.

>>714833689
>They have static challenges, the player just needs to memorize a fixed layout instead of learning a system.
That's not entirely true. You can see that with longplays as there are experts who experiment with different weapons, so they have to learn enemy behavior as well.

>>714839735
>this thumbnail… erm…

>>714843360
Name 3 game genres that are single player and not this

>>714826681
sounds based to me

>>714833526
>Can only engage with shmups
I think that's less casual and more autism

>>714830641
That's a fucking lie and a half given the proliferation of live service forever games and open world shit

>>714843087
>He says it's because Dark Souls brings together a bunch of various design aspects that attract many types of gamers while also not putting a specific emphasis on any of them, allowing different types of gamers to find a niche within the game that they connect with.

I played all the souls games to completion, including bloodborne and I'm just not seeing this. I'm not an expert but I hardly half assed them. I tried multiple builds, I explored every corner, I beat all the bosses and I had fun, but every time someone goes on about this franchise they act like it's almost this euphoric moment of clarity and brilliance or some shit. It's just a solid well pull together action rpg. I'm sick of seeing everyone act like everything it does even all its flaws being treated as some master class of game design genius. I swear there's not a thing this franchise does that someone's not writing a thesis on.

>>714847848
That's your problem. Final 2 was dogshit and there are very few good "metroidvanias"

>>714853076
Its because it came out on during the second half of the 7th gen when the FPS genre via MW2 had invoked a mass extinction event on the market.
In that Dark Souls is (in many ways literally) what if one of those PS2 action adventure games made it to the end of the 7th gen and benefited from the graphics and refinements like the online therein.
Add in some old school dungeon crawler level design and you have Dark Souls.

>>714853076
What you said has nothing to do with what you quoted.

>>714842004
>but if one is mentally ill then
Well that's a given.

>>714853709
It did though. There aren't really many "VARIOUS DESIGN ASPECTS." In fact that's kind of meaningless phrase to start with. Especially in an rpg sense.

>>714823079 (OP)
>shmup tranny

>>714853782
It didn't though.

>>714832245
Arcade games are autism coded tho

>>714853313
>Final 2 was dogshit
The first three levels suck, but after that all the levels are great.

>>714853076
Some art connects with some people more than others, are you so retarded you don't understand opinions vary?

>>714854985
>Opinions should be able to be backed with more tangible weight than just "Opinion." Opinion is what parents tell their kids to get them to stop arguing over who the best ninja turtle is. Opinions are meaningless.

>>714828910
you're the midwit
des is the most ludokino game ever made next to bloodborne

>>714856267
This isn't the thread for it but if you want substantive responses your better off making a new thread comparing Dark Souls to specific older Action RPGs and then using the games you mention as a jumping off point.
And you should probably hold off till prime American hours for the most discussion.

>>714824993
bro he literally put up the most embarassing review ive ever seen for rtype.. rtype the original memo shooter

>>714856757
He is held up because arcadefags are desperate for any prominent community voice.

>>714823079 (OP)
>59:24
This guy sucks at articulating his points and goes in circles all the time. Not gonna waste my time seeing him taking an hour to explain something that should take 20 minutes at most.

>>714823079 (OP)
I just pretend that this is game doesn't exist

>>714857131
its okay to be a casual, but you don't need to announce it

>>714823079 (OP)
this subhuman thinks wanted dead is a good game lmao, literally brain damaged

>>714853076
The level design, the interconnected nature of the world, the unforgiving gameplay, the atmosphere, the lore, and the different builds make DS 1 pretty much a perfect action RPG game. Particularly at the time it released, when no other action RPGs offered all of those (or even some of those). Even a decade after, there are very few games that do better. DS 3, ER and Lies of P have better (main) dungeon design in parts, ER has better build systems, Bloodborne has better atmosphere and a more energetic combat. DeS and Sekiro have better linear dungeons.

None quite manage being better at all at the same time.

It is a lightning in a bottle, especially given FROM could never quite manage to surpass it, and especially given when it released.

>>714856757
R-Type doesn't become memory dependent until stage 6.

>>714823268
Yeah fine but he also dicksucks elden shit on every opportunity despite it's fundamental quest, open world and combat design flaws.

Dark souls is the marvel of video games, no wonder browns are obsessed with this no substance shit. And no I'm not going to watch your 4 hours video essays.

>>714858808
filtered

>>714858426
Name a flaw

>>714858426
>he also dicksucks elden shit
But he didn't even play that one

>>714859716
look up videos, brainlet. if you somehow managed to miss 100% of the thousands of threads on this board.
>>714860138
He has, to some effect. Look up his 'elden ring debate/critique' video. I think it was partially.

>>714823268
DeS is a great game and the blueprint for what came next but DaS1 basically supersedes it in every meaningful way (outside of atmosphere and music).
You know this to be true, don't you?

>>714858426
He didn't like the open world though

>>714823079 (OP)
Just ignore weeaboos.
They also call 5/10 JRPGs 10/10 GOTY!

You are not supposed to take them seriously.

>>714861248
all those threads are shitposting, elden ring is utterly goated and you are a tranny faggot

>>714827276
I sense sarcasm. I could be wrong though.