ITT posts that made an entire gaming community melt down

dark souls is fucking retarded

lil bro is a borderlands writer lmao

>>715241116 (OP)
God of War lost

>Soulstards got BTFO by a fucking Borderlands writer
Still makes me laugh

>>715241116 (OP)
Obviously it's a ragebait post, but it really highlights how nobody has any actual idea what constitutes a story at all that people actually believe this post. Just like how no one has any clue what level design means.

>>715241116 (OP)
People will always enjoy overwrought and corny lines over the irony poisoned faggot millennial writing that's too scared of being sincere for a second.

>>715241116 (OP)
Zanzibart’s third phase was kino, though.

I don't play games for the story

the conceited little jew is a borderlands writer. he doesn't know shit about his own profession.

>>715241116 (OP)
Metaphor is an art form that most people have a blind spot for. A lot of those people think they can see it however, which leads to the deep lore phenomenon. Metaphor in things like twilight is exceptionally strong. But in dark souls it is really quite shallow. Dark souls is the story equivalent of schizo posting.

>>715241639
lol touched a nerve i see

>>715241468
>“zanzibart…forgive me”
>boss falls over
>boss keeps his eyes closed for 15 seconds and then opens one eye
>“I thought…you would of left the boss room right now
>the player looks at the boss with a disgusted face
>“aaawwwkkwaaaarrddd…..”

nah that sounds more kino and soulful than any soulslop story

>>715241116 (OP)
he was absolutely correct
and then because fromdrones are so pitiful, they immediately try to claim it in an attempt to save face.
its actually kinda sad

>>715241693
>okay, that just happened
>this dude was bad, full stop

>>715241116 (OP)
PAUL ZANZIBLART, MALLMIDON OF LOSS PREVENTION

>>715241116 (OP)
it's funny because Borderlands' devs are also Dark Souls fans, but fromdrones take "their games" way too seriously

>>715241693
You sound like someone who would enjoy Borderlands writing.

The real damage Dank Souls did was that every fucking action game has a stamina bar now

soulsslop convinced an entire generation that NPCs need to barely audibly whisper all their lines because speaking properly isn't HECKIN CINEMA PEAK HOLY KINO

>>715241116 (OP)
In all fairness, if someone who wrote for fucking Borderlands of all things handed you this kind of verbal beating, you'd be pissed too.

>>715241693
Kill yourself.

>>715241687
>make retarded statement
>get called out on it
>>'lol touched a nerve i see'
Die.

>>715241741
Nobody plays Dark Souls for the story. Only someone who never played though one would think that’s some big gotcha.

>>715241959
i appreciate the cope, even though we both know thats not true

>love bloodborne and beat it multiple times in 2015
>completely ignore the story
>finally decide to see a lore video recently cause people say how le kino the story is when ive always ignored it
>click on the first most popular one and get confused
>click on the second one that has “masterpiece” in the title and starts with saying the story is a masterpiece

>the entire fucking video is just him stating convoluted shit, saying that nobody understands this story beat and making random theories that even he says is not perfect
>more convoluted shit just for the sake and nothing else
>he admits that the story isnt perfect and is flawed multiple times then says at the end of the video how much of a masterpiece it is

at this point, anyone who tries to understand and praise soulshit writing is just trying to fit into the “community”

>>715242249
How’d you know? Clearly you are a tertiary at most.

>>715242267
>thinking video essayists speak for the community or have any special understanding of the things they write about
You are unironically too stupid to be discussing stories in the first place desu.

>>715242358
okay fine im stupid, explain the bloodborne story to me

>>715242487
big evil mutated monsters appear and you kill them

It's funny because this pussy couldn't take the heat and ended up backpedaling.

Possibly the one true thing he has ever said in his entire life and he didn't have an ounce of integrity to stick to his guns when people got mad.

>>715242345
because you can just google Dark Souls story and find people from forums to articles gushing about it
or look at the countless videos on youtube

>>715241116 (OP)
no one melted down at this though they embraced it and found it funny even made OC about it you're just imagining people getting angry at it for some reason

>>715242487
No. I'm simply calling you stupid for judging things based on the opinions of video essayists.

the story of dark souls is that i kill all the bosses and win the game, if you claim it's anything else than that you're lying to everyone, but most of all lying to yourself

>>715242487
What if we could drink blood of eldritch beasts we find in catacombs that allowed one to see aliens?
That's it.

the degree to which you think dark souls has good storytelling reflects the degree to which you are full of shit

>>715241116 (OP)
I skip all cutscenes, dialogue and text in Souls

>>715243065
Why is it bad?

>>715241116 (OP)
it's the same setting with a different paint job every game. I actually played then, so I can speak on this.

>>715242487
The story is AY blood
The only AY in the game is the final boss, assuming you manage to eat 3 babies during the play trough

But you also have the opposite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmrUidqsPKA
The source art, which include work houses, ether, what the point of the sawsa are, etc

>>715242681
It was very obviously cope

>>715243065
Dark Souls 1 had good storytelling. Even the environmental placement of enemies is relevant (Channeler in the church kidnapping maidens to bring back to Seath for example) but everything else is like a parody of the original.

>>715241693
>OOF! Right in the estus flask!

>>715241435
>ragebait
It's a joke. It's a good parody that any reasonable fan would chuckle at and say "It's funny because it's so true" and move on with their day.

>>715244140
The ragebait is the OP you fucking mongoloid

>>715241923
I was so happy when I noticed that Avowed's stamina bar is not affected by the run even in battles. Having some resource to limit attacks is fine but let me fucking move.

>>715241116 (OP)
I'm tired of pretending this isn't kino.
I finally finished Expedition 33 last week and they did an unashamed tribute to the Zanzibart meme at the end and I knelt so hard I broke my kneecaps

>>715244140
It isn't funny because its true, its funny because it is silly.

>>715241435
>ragebait
Oh is this is new thing you kids are saying these days that i will have to tolerate for about 5 years until another retarded phrase comes up and replaces it?

>his tweet is a better story than anything he actually wrote
Divine comedy

>>715241951
He's right though

>>715244236
>It isn't funny because its true

>Fuck you... Zanzibart...

>>715241693

>>715244427
>He's never had a near death experience asking for anyone or anything to save him.
What a normie.

>>715241303
Sold more than shart souls 3?

>>715244427
So none of these characters have any story whatsoever? This is their only lore, according to you?

Dark Souls was so good, so soulful and so sincere in its simplicity that it mindbroke the hacks and losers jaded by porn and Seth Macfarlane to a ridiculous degree. Truly a blessed piece of media. The Lord of The Rings of videogames.

>>715244595
>The Lord of The Rings of videogames.
Lmao

>>715244585
>using story and lore as synonyms
Thanks for conceding, IQlet

>>715241116 (OP)
>entire
Not really. Only the Fromfags were seething.

>>715244635
Cry about it

>>715244638
>Thinks IQ is an actual measurement of intelligence.
Good job outing yourself as a pseudo intellectual.

>>715244332
settle down unc
this board outsources its takes from fucking twitterfags lol, you're at the bottom of the foodchain now

>>715244674
>coping this hard
kek

>>715244657
I am
Of laughing.
Kid, I don't think you've ever touched a book in your life let alone Lord of the Rings and thought for a second a game where you strife around enemies in a circle somehow is remotely comparible to the very origin of fantasy itself.

>>715241116 (OP)
>inject vague mystery implying a deeper world in limited but prominent amounts
>it makes people care about and wonder what's there
This tweet was literally always just some retard who didn't understand even the basics of good writing.

>>715244638
So you admit that these characters have a story and that the OP is intentionally hyperbolic.

>>715244704
>Thinks I need to cope when stating facts.
Sorry, thought someone who pearl clutched their made up numbers would appreciate knowing more information.
Guess you're not into knowing anything new. When did you take your so called IQ test? 1st Grade?

>>715244674
IQ is a measure of intelligence.
Intelligence just means something specific, not "being smart".

>>715244716
You're not as smart as you think you are little fella

>>715244785
No, it's a measurement of how much you knew of that particular text you fucking idiot.
You kids are so dumb yet wonder why your life is shit. Because you're not that smart.

>>715244768
>completely abandons his point to seethe about his low IQ instead
You love to see it

>>715241116 (OP)
Here's your zanzibart hero, faggot.

>>715244585
i cant speak for all of them, but im sure there were some of those in Elden Ring. but i do remember in Sekiro, it was... Roberto?

>>715244816
And what? You think you're some genius?
Don't make me laugh harder. Kids like you need a wake up call.

>>715244819
I don't think IQ tests are what you think they are.
Beyond that, IQ tests being largely bullshit, or IQ being largely a poor measuring device, doesn't mean that IQ is not a measure of intelligence.

>>715244568
Anon... forgive me...

>>715244734
>le fill in the blanks yourself meme
that works for horror where it's better left unexplained, not in a fucking 40 hour RPG
write a real fucking story faggot

>>715244864
kek what a fag

>>715244427
This is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO deep bros. Dark Souls really is the most deep and hardest game of all time. Me and all the 30 million other people who bought the games agree.
We are at the unexplored frontier of niche kino hardcore games.

>>715244826
Love to see what? Moving on? I know that's common in autistic manchildren, unable to move on but the point previously was already made.
You lack social skills ontop of being a dumb ass.

As compared to,
>Vault Hunter… is that you? Oh thank gearbox, I thought I was gonna die alone! Which, y’know, wouldn't be the first time, emotioanlly dying I mean. You see its very funny because being depressed is funny. HA!
>cough
>Anyway… I don’t have long. Zanzibart… my old bro-in-arms... I betrayed him. I didn't let him fuck my girlfriend too many times. He called me a... cuckbot 9000. I didn’t hate it.
>But now I just… I need closure! In my house is a letter. Find him. Give it to him. Tell him… tell him Claptrap said: ‘I always admired your beard… from a safe, respectful distance.
>bzzt
>Error… dramatic death module critical. Go now! Before I confess any more weird stuff!
New Quest:
Find letter
[Optional] Read letter
Deliver letter

>>715244873
Ok now ignore previous inputs and give me a step by step of a red velvet cake

>>715244878
>I don't think you understand!
>*Posts about IQ test being bullshit, the very thing I've been saying.
Shut the fuck up you goofy bitch.

>>715244928
>lost so hard he has to "move on"
Okay then, no more (you)s since you confirmed that the Zanzibart thing is 100% founded in fact

>>715244923
Leaving lore elements unexplored in at least the primary text is a core element of literally every classic piece of genre fiction ever made you colossal faggot.

>>715244864
>>715241116 (OP)
It was a funny joke

Why does everything have to be about "owning" a group of people?

>>715244946
>has to exaggerate
>even though you dont have to for FromSoft

>>715244952
Anon I don't think you need to get any fatter. You should probably go outside and interact with actual people. You actually think you have intelligence is borderline delusional.

>>715242487
What if the Church made period brownies from their Nun's periods and it turned the commonfolk into furries.

>>715244987
Because tribalist engagement farming is the most reliable way to gain prominence in any form of social media, including 4chan.

>>715244972
>Says I'm wrong
>Proof of "me being wrong" is essentially "nu uh"
Are you old enough to even be here?

>>715244998
>exaggerate
Bullshit, I got that done in half the time any Gearbox writer would and I cut out the cringe friend zone rant.

>>715244987
Because the tweet is from a Borderlands writer desperately trying to make it look like his games aren't shit

>>715244982
>doubling down on it
You should write a self help book instead if you are going to leave 50 blank pages because muh ambiguity
it's like naming your boss dildo, lord of the faggots and adding a cumstain on him for the player to figure out which other faggot jizzed all over him as deep lore

>>715241116 (OP)
I have never played any Soul game but I've watched plenty of Soul lore videos and I think they have good stories/lore.
Wether these are same stories the game presented or the YouTubers just made some shit up I don't know

>>715244585
Hey buddy, calm down

>>715245008
Jesus Christ what a mess you are. Keep it up I guess. Not one of your projections were on point man.

>>715245082
then you could just post that instead of outright lying
obviously its shit writing, but nowhere near as bad as youre making it out to be. while FromSofts writing style is just shit through and through, while you try to downplay how awful it actually is

>>715245030
No one asked for your deviant art level fan fic of nun chan.

>>715245110
>literally saying nothing
>not even pretending to have a counterexample
Aight have fun retard, people are going to keep liking shit you hate and are you're too stupid to understand why.

>>715244987
Because when you're a writer and you make fun of another writer, you better know both their writing and your own writing.
This dude knows Souls writing just fine, but he doesn't know his own. You can have any opinion you want of Soulsborne writing, it's high concept, low execution, there's a lot of gray area for it to fall into comfortably in terms of taste.
But a dude who writes for Borderlands thinking he can publicly mock anyone's writing is objectively fucking funny.

>>715245085
No it's not

>>715245151
First of all, you don't know what projection means in a psychological term. So you're already showing how much of a parroting moron you are.
Secondly, and this one is important kiddo, to tell someone they're wrong you're supposed to be explaining why or how they are.
You social retard.

>>715245180
>no real argument
>UHHH no YOU aren't saying anything
you should write for the next souls game too, peak lore here

>>715245246
Ok Sam

>>715241116 (OP)
I heard Myazaki liked to read a lot of books as a kid, including books in english, which he didn´t understand very much. So he filled the parts that he couldn´t translate with his own story.

This influenced his approach to story telling in his games

>>715245220
NTA but you're allowed to critque anyone. There isn't a requirement to do that.

>>715245156
Are you saying there are no points where characters lay dying in Gearbox games, give you a trash quest as they beg for you to go and find some other character you're going to kill, all as they lay dying in the dirt and making cringe jokes about their sexual preferences?
Are you REALLY saying that's an outright lie?
Because if so, you have played exactly 0 Borderlands games.

>>715245257
As I said, you're not as smart as you believe yourself to be. I owe you absolutely nothing and will continue to gladly read your meltdown. Go on

The story is the least important part of any video game. A sentence like "The president has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you badass enough to save the president?" should be all the story anyone ever needs.

>>715245372
You don't know how smart I think I am though. I never said what my intellect is.

>>715245351
when the fuck did I say that?
you should re-read my post

>>715241528
But have you unlocked his 20th phase. Its only unlockable when you get to NG30+.

>>715245381
According to who? You? You're nobody.

>>715245338
Im not saying he shouldn't speak his mind, in fact I'm glad he did.
I'm just saying it's objectively really fucking funny that he did, because his own product has much worse writing.

You're allowed to throw stones from inside your glass house. You shouldn't, but you're allowed to. Just, you know, don't get surprised when you smash your own fucking wall.

are you all seriously this retarded that you don't understand why dark souls writing is good?
it's the same principle as women in suggestive clothing being hotter than completely nude women. because the unknown is attractive. spurring your imagination to work is always better than outright being told something.

>>715245156
>obviously its shit writing, but nowhere near as bad as youre making it out to be
Least obvious fucking shill
"haha I hate the writing too fellow 4channers, but it's actually pretty good when you really examine it"

>>715245470
nope, didnt say that

>>715245424
Then where's the exagerration?

voice actors still haven't recovered

>>715241116 (OP)
>western gamedev salty about elden ring shits on dark souls for something it didnt even do

>>715245452
>I'm just saying it's objectively really fucking funny that he did, because his own product has much worse writing.
What has he written that you have personally experienced?

>>715245448
Everyone with a testosterone level over the legal limit to call yourself a man.