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love Vampire Survivors

she refuses to even roll lmao

please make her play the whole game.

"I let my Girlfriend play Dark Souls with no weapons"

Great video! It was a very interesting perspective to see. Dark Souls 1 changed how I view and play video games, and even how I view life. It's a tough and sometimes depressing game, but it seems Ellie made quite some progress in the first 5 hours. Pretty sure this amount of progress took me much longer.

I think some more context about what Ellie's played would have helped. At the start it almost sounds like she's only played Minesweeper, but then at the end you say that she's mainly played linear action games and show footage from Uncharted. To me that sounds like a #realgamer, but maybe the standards have been raised since my day.

She drank estus on full hp I can relate. It should be coded in to not heal when hp is full (optional) since sometimes people want to waste estus for example in pvp people show they used all healing down. It is really interesting to see people not used to gaming play games.

Seems like you are stuck in the mentality that the only legitimate way of playing a game is blind and without outside help. A relatively recent and unfortunate innovation. Just tell her.

At which hour thee loveth someone v'ry dearly, thee maketh those folk playeth dark souls! loveth truly hurts!

Dark Souls isn't made for "players." It's made for gamers.

Like some other guy said, if she is willingly, make a part 2 where she can ask within reason, to feel more the experience of "someone who plays a game first/second time, now with someone who knows the game", i guess we can conclude interesting things from the interaction, perceptions, etc

What was your hypothesis for this experiment? Have you thought about repeating it with Elden Ring?

Disappointed, thought this was a lore analysis between dark souls and your girlfriend

"played methodically" until you get frustrated at a boss later on and learn the secret art of running past everything

You owe her a ludicrously expensive dinner for putting her through this experiment with no help.

She’s just like me fr

I would love to see a sequel to this where she was simply allowed to ask questions. You wouldn’t be forcing her to do anything, but something like that could make it a lot easier on her end

I really like this video and format, but think it would really benefit from a conclusion where you explain the mechanics and other elements that she missed, describe her reaction to learning them, and have her try another hour or so to get her thoughts on the game with this newfound knowledge. It would be very interesting to compare the before and after and possibly leave Ellie with a more positive impression of this and other games she's stuggled with.

The thing you mentioned about new players feeling the need to fight and kill everything is so interesting. I started watching this UA-camr BassPlays playthrough ds1 and ds2 and after a bit noticed he took on every single enemy he came across. I feel like I tend to see how many enemies I can get past without combat in order to preserve estus because i never know how far away i am from a bonfire. Also the ending where you talk about Ellies change in mood is actually so upsetting

I recently started doing my backlog think i started in September but had like over 40 games i think, went through and got rid of the games I just dont want to play then them kept some games that still peak my interest I brought it down to like maybe 30 games and now I am on 18 games to go, some of the games I removed I may play on a later date because I do have some other games I want to check out that I have not bought but I dont plan on buying anymore games till my backlog is complete unless its a new game I want to play such as Stalker 2 But what I have do is I will play like 2 or 3 games at a time decently I started Dying Light 2 , but I also then started Devil May Cry 1 and Dead Island Riptide i Finished Devil May Cry 1 then moved onto Devil May Cry 3 and finished that and Dying Island Riptide yesterday tomorrow I will be Starting Devil May Cry 4 and Stalker Shadows of Chernobyl to get ready for Stalker 2.

Ellie's run shows an impressive amount of skill! In only 5 hours, with no previous knowledge of the game, she managed to make it to Taurus Demon, without leveling up or locking on, with a solid chunk of time being just learning how the game works in the first place, and only having 75 deaths? She's been essentially challenge running as her first playthrough, and has been doing above average for a first souls experience, it's awe inspiring!

Interesting channel, this vid just popped up and looking around your other videos i wanna watch em all. Keep the content coming mate

Dude just made his own girlfriend go hollow irl lmao

Follow up video where she has to play another 5 hours with you helping her.

Ellie went hollow and you just watched.

Despite being pretty used to games it took me a few tries to get through Dark Souls, and I think this run kind of backs up a lot of my issues, albeit to a greater extent as I am a #gamer. Some things just aren't well explained, and the repetition of the runback gets ANNOYING, not hard, just annoying to the point you don't want to do it any more. I know fans hate hearing this but I'll say it, an optional tutorial, where like you have like 10 minutes of doing menu and navigation challenges, 5 minutes of an endgame Strength build against some mobs, then 5 minutes of an endgame dex build against a boss, it'd help a ton. So much of the issues are from not know what to do, even if you level and explore knowing HOW to level and how to spot environmental clues, even if Ellie could have gotten past the Taurus demon I can't see her having much fun later if she builds a bad character not knowing how to do it. Still she's a great sport to go through this so much without help.

I remember my first beer.

This was really well narrated. I hope you get Elli, err, Ellie to play other souls games. I'm currently on my first playthrough of DS3 so that would be my selfish pick but elden ring would be cool too.

Booooo

Wack

if she somehow defeated Tartarus demon then would have loved ds1 (thats when i loved ds1 for the first time)

I love "experiments" like these. Game design etiquette is something we take as natural law, and it is always interesting to see how people outside of our bubble interact with a game's mechanics.

Part 2?

my very first ds run was soooo similar as hers. Exept my souls fan friend was next to me reminding me the basic mechanics, taught me how to navigate the menu, reminded me to lock my cam, even had to tell me there was a secret way out of the asylum demon to find your weapons, or to not go straight to the dragon and go under the bridge to the undead parish instead, etc. The game was still frustrating because at the time i was a total noob who wasnt even used to the xbox controls (as i was a nintendo only player from my childhood untill the age of 21 - when i played DS for the first time at my friends place). My partner was a bit sad because they would ve liked me to experience the game like them, when the game came out and there wasnt any help on the internet. But i know i would ve missed this masterpiece that way and just quit by frustration if someone hadnt been there reminding meall these tips and handed me the right path when stuck for an hour on the wame way. Sometimes, for someone unfamiliar with challenging videogames in general like this one, you need someone to backseat you a little. I'm not saying they should do all the work for you, but old players often forget that what they find 'basic' is hugely challenging for someone who has never played any game like this before. And this gaming experience is as valid as going blindfolded and just discovering all by yourself. Remember that the purpose of a game is to HAVE FUN. Now DS remastered is one of my favourite games of all times with like 100+ hours total and like 75 total hours on elden ring and i wanna play more games like these because i just fell completely in love with the whole formula. And that afternoon at my friend's house became a really sweet memory. Anyways, an interesting video, thanks for the lil experiment !

I think we just got a look into the mind of those that went hollow in Lordran.

I don't think DS games are for Ellie; how on Earth did you get her to agree to this experiment?

I know you had your own vision for how this experiment should be performed, but i think you should have helped her a LITTLE bit. Dont tell her where to go, obviously. But just explaining that she has an equipment menu, or reminding her she can level up since she hasn't played many RPGs, could have saved her tremendous, unnecessary frustration, and made her feel much better about playing the game. We all probably had someone explain little things like this to us in games when we were younger, and Dark Souls is not a game intended for someone with minimal video game experience to play blindly.

At first I was not using targeting too but later on I learned to use it

3:47 I knew what to do with illusory walls when I first played dark souls

Will she continue? If she’s willing to I’d love to see.

I bet if you sat down with Ellie, and walked her through the games concepts little by little, she would do a lot better, and have more fun. A lot of Souls players end up looking up info about the game, its equipment, bosses, and areas out of necessity, especially first timers. Hell, I had to do that a little bit with Elden Ring, and that's an easier game mechanically than Dark Souls 1.

Part of Dark Souls' inscrutability owes to its status as a community driven game. Secrets, jargon, and even the intricacies of rudimentary mechanics are shared through the experience of the community at large and passed down to newer players through wikis and comment sections. This video does provide some excellent insight into what happens when that community is taken away and an absolute novice is left to their own devices.

How to make your girlfriend depressed: speedrun. :D

Good attempt, Ellie! I have introduced a lot of people to the souls series, and this video is why I have always made a point to try and be there when people start. There are a lot of tips and tricks that are freely available from community members that help with the frustration and overcoming the challenges. Hope you go back and try again, or even try out one of the newer games with quality of life improvements. Don't you go Hollow on us!

Getting to Taurus Demon without using lock on is impressive on its own imo.

I'd love to have some audio feed at the end of each hour. Maybe a summary of how she felt afterwards. Nonetheless, love this content

you have to play dark souls with open mind, open eyes and also critical thinking. You need to understand the mechanics before you use them, or you just die again and again. dark souls is the easiest game ever for those who pay attention to the game and understand it.