This is why Dragon Ride R is my favorite anime... Watch the full livestreams here: ua-cam.com/play/PL7ZSS2SC_BLlYCqkfGXN0c7BcYn5JuXbP.html 0:00 Intro 2:29 Where Dragons Rule 3:19 1st Great Soul 20:23 2nd Great Soul 39:57 3rd Great Soul 50:00 4th Great Soul 55:32 Drangleic Castle 1:04:37 End-game Original intro song: ua-cam.com/video/tFHbfA88t3o/v-deo.html Outro Song: ua-cam.com/video/qwQngxcMIwA/v-deo.html Track: Monster Fight by Sinyells Music Provided by: Smokinkat www.smokinkat.net Join this channel to get access to perks: ua-cam.com/channels/TXq-6py1mnaAmVadMeY_Cg.htmljoin Discord: discord.com/invite/9wmc2AV6fJ
I never knew about the 8 dragon bones in brume tower, then again it's not surprising I don't know something about _this_ dark souls entry lol, great video!
Regarding the dragonriders not getting to ride dragons, From didn't really figure out mounts until Elden Ring. Concept art shows them riding some veliciraptor looking monsters.
Although I definitely can't say that I would drop the dragonrider equipment into the water like a turd plunging down into a toilet bowl, but there's definitely better stuff to ride into battle with, especially on NG+7. Like several other boss weapons they're simply... there. They exist. Just along for the ride.
UA-cam recap just came in and you were my most watched creator, I’m in the top 0.4%!! Keep it up man I’ve never watched somebody as entertaining on this platform than you!
To be fair, I would kind of consider last giant the first boss as well, but hey... gotta have a title, right. Also in almost any run I do, first order of business is to cheese the dragonrider and I'm not exactly alone in that. So practically speaking he almost always ends up being the first boss encounter
Usually mine is the pursuer when he drops from the bird. Sets up nicely to get a rather early boost, but I guess dragonrider would have a similar effect for less effort
@@kuraijosho3307 I too start with the pursuer I love the adrenaline you get when you fight him with low adp and no parry 😂 and all the soldiers waking up when he dies 😊
51:23 I think that they added some pyromancers in NG+ because the Lost Sinner is tied to the Bed of Chaos in the lore, both via her NG+ soul, and the chaos bug crawling into her eye. It doesn't make the pyromancers a great addition of course, but at least they werent added for no reason, in normal runs they drop like flies due to their low hp anyway
bloody good show good fellow. Also genuinely ecstatic that i guessed the song for the intro right this time. One of my favorite dragon force songs. Love your videos dude :)
One of these days I'm going to actually beat the dlc of this game. I've beaten the game twice, but each dlc attempt I just gave up. I wish I had your patience and abilities. Keep it up Press, you inspire us hollowed ones!
The best thing ever lemon did to me, is making me know u, I finished ds1 & ds2 at sl1 with ur videos, its a bit rusty and can be improved but still thank you very much , soon ds3
12:10 funny, because normally I would have said "THERE IS WHAT NOW???" and complained how I never found this when I could've needed it or whatever but literally a few days ago I was looking up how to get a sorcerer's staff for the current playthrough and found that there is this room so now I can smugly say "Hah, I already knew it~"
1:07:06 i also like the throne duo lol, mechanically i think it's one of the more interesting gank bosses in the series. neither of them is particularly bs on their own and their movesets play off of eachother nicely, so unlike other ganks there's very rarely a situation where you can't avoid damage. i think the reason why they're so hated is because they're poorly balanced, in a normal playthrough the fight is a joke but it either requires tanking or a lot of movement so in most challenges the whole dynamic gets ruined. i've never been interested in the ladle run but i imagine the throne duo would be really fun in that scenario
Woah, haven't heard in the land where dragons rule in like a decade... what a blast from the past! ...wait, if "dragons rule", shouldn't they be the ones doing the riding?! Maybe the reason we never saw a knight riding a dragon is that the dragon riders are actually the dragon ridden, as in they used their overly bulky bodies to piggyback dragons around, but they got embarrassed about it and never cleared the misconception...
22:04 : Yes, but no. It's less that they're dealing more stamina damage, and more that they deal more damage in general, and the amount of stamina lost is calculated with the damage of the attack blocked and the stability of the shield. Simply put, the harder the enemy hits, the more stamina is lost when blocking. As NG+ enemies hit harder, but the stability of the shield has remained the same, more stamina is lost with each attack blocked in the NG+ cycles.
Was curious about that because while medium shields got giga nerfed in DS2 in comparison to DS1 and Demon's, Greatshields trivialise a ton of situations, they're super stronk. This would make sense, tho
I did a run as a dragon rider once. Wasn't too bad, but I wasn't on NG +7. One thing I personally noticed was that the armor was a little lack luster for its weight, especially the weirdly low fire resist.
1:10:23 I heard someone else say something similar in a different video. Doesn't it just increase poison resistance? Where does this 'common fruit makes you invincible' meme from??
people getting hit by a cloud of smoke in ds2:"what are these hitboxes" people getting hit by a cloud of smoke in elden ring:"I should have dodged better" this *needs* to be *studied*
Still peculiar decision to make it a regular bow though. It's very clearly a greatbow using great arrows when the black dragonrider uses it in the castle.
this is why I'm so torn with the game, like it's bad, but it has so many great ideas, some fleshed out, many not, and it could've been the best souls game easily if it would have followed through with the good stuff and got rid of the bad
12:51 if you are wondering why he got hit here, its something all dark souls have but DS2 applies it very wrongly during the game. Its the EXPLOSION HITBOX, so if you are wondering, those particles that appear in that moment are causing that damage.
You sure you aren't making shit up again? Because that's what it sounds like. You people find every excuse to blame the game, I swear. It's a ground/stomp AoE, simple as that. You have seen it every damn game.
@@PressContinue You are correct on all of that, except it's a playthrough earlier/a Bonfire Ascetic less. I only mention this because it seemed like you wanted to inform others on how to get it, and in that case i imagine you'd want it to be accurate. :)
I hope you disable motion blur for your next runs Forlorn is a girl the lost sinner is kind of left handed like the ivory king, so dodging left is a bit more reliable imo Good video!
@PressContinue He did so only using guns, though. You can try doing it without guns as you can use normal weapons while using the monocular, but I don't know if you've got the perseverance to do it.
How did you make the game become NG+7? I ask because you mentioned the estus would be fully upgraded because you play on console, so is it like a cheat that moves the game into that state and it assumes you've got the upgrade items or smth?
It's simply an old save game that was already in NG+7. I simply got rid of all unrelated equipment before starting the next cycle. So that's why the estus was already upgraded. You can't de-upgrade it after all.
@PressContinue more than fair. It did take me roughly 8 years and three separate tries to 100% the base game, and there's still a LOT of it I choose to never see because it's THAT much of a struggle. But i appreciate your opinion! ^^
This is why Dragon Ride R is my favorite anime...
Watch the full livestreams here:
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0:00 Intro
2:29 Where Dragons Rule
3:19 1st Great Soul
20:23 2nd Great Soul
39:57 3rd Great Soul
50:00 4th Great Soul
55:32 Drangleic Castle
1:04:37 End-game
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You should do a run with of elden ring beast claw only and use Beast in Black's power of the beast song for it
Al-ride! He's dra-gone and done it again!
Given the absence of any actual dragonriding going on, I'd say that Dra-gone-rider would definitely be the more appropriate spelling
@PressContinue Also I totally forgot about the JK's corpse section 😂😂😂
@@JKLeeds Well this was from back in June, so that was quite a while back XD
Woe 30 deaths be on thee
i love u two
Congrats on being the first Dragonrider to ever count to 7.
Deserve a stadium full of laughter and applause.
underrated comment
I never knew about the 8 dragon bones in brume tower, then again it's not surprising I don't know something about _this_ dark souls entry lol, great video!
Regarding the dragonriders not getting to ride dragons, From didn't really figure out mounts until Elden Ring. Concept art shows them riding some veliciraptor looking monsters.
Although I definitely can't say that I would drop the dragonrider equipment into the water like a turd plunging down into a toilet bowl, but there's definitely better stuff to ride into battle with, especially on NG+7. Like several other boss weapons they're simply... there. They exist. Just along for the ride.
And what weapon was best?
Whenever I start a video and hear "alright", my thoughts melt away and I enter a state of bliss.
Kaas.
Some say Kaasm
UA-cam recap just came in and you were my most watched creator, I’m in the top 0.4%!! Keep it up man I’ve never watched somebody as entertaining on this platform than you!
🥰awww
I usually fight the last giant first but it is cool to see how other people start with dragon rider
To be fair, I would kind of consider last giant the first boss as well, but hey... gotta have a title, right. Also in almost any run I do, first order of business is to cheese the dragonrider and I'm not exactly alone in that. So practically speaking he almost always ends up being the first boss encounter
Usually mine is the pursuer when he drops from the bird. Sets up nicely to get a rather early boost, but I guess dragonrider would have a similar effect for less effort
@@kuraijosho3307 I too start with the pursuer I love the adrenaline you get when you fight him with low adp and no parry 😂 and all the soldiers waking up when he dies 😊
Your puns are so fucking good, please don't ever stop uploading, see you in 2040 with dark souls VI runs.
a tear in my eye evvery time i see a sweetspot miss, oh halberd class how i fear you
My favorite weapon in DS1 is the Gargoyle Halberd, but halberds in DS2 and DS3 kinda dissapointed me
@@ballisticthreat IMO halberds in DS1 are the strongest class overall in the entire game
51:23 I think that they added some pyromancers in NG+ because the Lost Sinner is tied to the Bed of Chaos in the lore, both via her NG+ soul, and the chaos bug crawling into her eye. It doesn't make the pyromancers a great addition of course, but at least they werent added for no reason, in normal runs they drop like flies due to their low hp anyway
Alright! I've missed my favourite Dutch comedian!
babza! :)
This is cool and all but my goodness, the amount of patience you most likely need for this is beyond insane, godspeed press
Best Souls 2, let's go
Dragonrider Knight of Castle StamiNot
bloody good show good fellow. Also genuinely ecstatic that i guessed the song for the intro right this time. One of my favorite dragon force songs. Love your videos dude :)
"Press 1 for butt fun"
I paused this vid for a bit and when I came back to it that was the first audio. I laughed way too hard.
Been attempting to watch this video maybe 5 times now, but i keep falling asleep. Its perfect. Infinite replayability for sleepy time! Thank you
Hope it's not because I'm so boring XD
Last Giant technically just a huge version of regular hollow, you should not expect some complex moveset from big hollow.
But he used to be the king of the giants. However, even in his glory days he did still did practically nothing
@@PressContinue How would you fight an ant?
@@asdergold1 use a revolver
@@asdergold1 Loudly howl and slowly step on him.
55:50 dark souls 2 haters be like: "I swear I didn't just run past every enemy aggroing them all to make this look worse than it is"
WHAT?! You can shield poke dragon rider's halberd?!
Nice touch using dragonforce for the intro
Time for 1 whole hour of press suffering, but i am here mostly to see what new puns you have come up with
Love the happy souls clip at 11:32
It's such a good reference lol
Bro i love when you release Dark souls 2 videos. I legit be watching them multiple times lol. Keep up the good work
I’m dying 😂! “Why is everyone backstabbing me?!” I started saying the thing, then you played the clip! 😂
One of these days I'm going to actually beat the dlc of this game. I've beaten the game twice, but each dlc attempt I just gave up. I wish I had your patience and abilities. Keep it up Press, you inspire us hollowed ones!
Hell yeah, a press continue DS2 day is the best kind of day. All the best, man
I love this channel so freaking much
The worst part of the pizza is when you eat the very last part of the pizza
The best thing ever lemon did to me, is making me know u, I finished ds1 & ds2 at sl1 with ur videos, its a bit rusty and can be improved but still thank you very much , soon ds3
Oh boy, those guide videos feel so ancient by now. I probably do a lot of things very different by now from how I did them back then
Your perseverance Continue to impress and inspire.
47:09 belfry sol is unique bc you can quit from there and reload and you spawn over the ledge, this consistently worked for me in every playthrough
Really? Never even seen that
2:05 ISEE WHAT YOU DID THERE
"Press 1 for bµtt funnnnn... See, that is only something you can do with a halberd!" Press, that is quite the combination of words you just said 😂
Intro music is peak, like always^^
hahaa I love the "cause it easy... and it does a lot of damage" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Best Souls cartoon ever
Damn you, bocaouse of you im instaling ds2 :P. Great run full of puns like always :P
12:10 funny, because normally I would have said "THERE IS WHAT NOW???" and complained how I never found this when I could've needed it or whatever but literally a few days ago I was looking up how to get a sorcerer's staff for the current playthrough and found that there is this room so now I can smugly say "Hah, I already knew it~"
02:11 When he took his hat off I thought "oh, I didn't realize Press was bald".
Then I realized how stupid that realization was.
That's just a matter of perspective because of the angle or something. I actually have lucious long hair
Time to take a plunge into this run;)
the titanite tight tonight joke was genius
1:07:06 i also like the throne duo lol, mechanically i think it's one of the more interesting gank bosses in the series. neither of them is particularly bs on their own and their movesets play off of eachother nicely, so unlike other ganks there's very rarely a situation where you can't avoid damage. i think the reason why they're so hated is because they're poorly balanced, in a normal playthrough the fight is a joke but it either requires tanking or a lot of movement so in most challenges the whole dynamic gets ruined. i've never been interested in the ladle run but i imagine the throne duo would be really fun in that scenario
no
@@PressContinue well said, i understand your position
Woah, haven't heard in the land where dragons rule in like a decade... what a blast from the past!
...wait, if "dragons rule", shouldn't they be the ones doing the riding?! Maybe the reason we never saw a knight riding a dragon is that the dragon riders are actually the dragon ridden, as in they used their overly bulky bodies to piggyback dragons around, but they got embarrassed about it and never cleared the misconception...
Ah the dragonriders. They ride them once and never call them again.
Another challenge run in Best Souls 2 🔥
"Please don't fuck up now"
And that's when he knew he fucked up
22:04 : Yes, but no. It's less that they're dealing more stamina damage, and more that they deal more damage in general, and the amount of stamina lost is calculated with the damage of the attack blocked and the stability of the shield.
Simply put, the harder the enemy hits, the more stamina is lost when blocking. As NG+ enemies hit harder, but the stability of the shield has remained the same, more stamina is lost with each attack blocked in the NG+ cycles.
Was curious about that because while medium shields got giga nerfed in DS2 in comparison to DS1 and Demon's, Greatshields trivialise a ton of situations, they're super stronk. This would make sense, tho
This is fire
Nooooo this is ds2 but coincidentally I think this video is definitely fire
@@joshhobbs4862yeah I really don’t like playing DS2 but I will watch videos about it.
Got a bunch of snacks to watch this one peacefully 🥰
I have been waiting, Press
All those Alonne knights in iron keep give me nightmares
I did a run as a dragon rider once. Wasn't too bad, but I wasn't on NG +7. One thing I personally noticed was that the armor was a little lack luster for its weight, especially the weirdly low fire resist.
All its elemental resistances are extremely low. No idea why
1:10:23 I heard someone else say something similar in a different video. Doesn't it just increase poison resistance? Where does this 'common fruit makes you invincible' meme from??
It's a very old Otzdarva meme
@PressContinue Oh cool! Thanks Press!
Edit: Otzdarva sounds familiar, but I can't remember where I heard it... Hmm... Hmmmm...
@@cyanspartan1757 Otz is the dark souls 2 all bosses no hit guy and he also plays a lot of day by daylight
@xboxconnect8827 Yeah I looked him up after Press filled me in. Pretty awesome.
lovely i did a dragonrider run for nothing
How so?
@ I could’ve just watched this instead
I think they got the name "Dragonrider" more from their off-duty activities 💎🚬
people getting hit by a cloud of smoke in ds2:"what are these hitboxes"
people getting hit by a cloud of smoke in elden ring:"I should have dodged better"
this *needs* to be *studied*
Despite suffering from Falling Down Syndrome, Dragonriders Weapons are suprisingly capable, especially the Bow.
Still peculiar decision to make it a regular bow though. It's very clearly a greatbow using great arrows when the black dragonrider uses it in the castle.
12:12 - this Amber definitely Heard that name drop
Always surreal hearing your own name, even when not intentional
Wake up babe, new press continue banger dropped
definitely some of the equipment of all time
1:07:15 the godskin duo before it was godskin
Norman Rockwell painting guy:
Shrine of Amana isn't hard, players just have low IQ.
I’ll never not be able to think of the rotten as DBZA Cell now…
I’m okay with this.
27:58 ds2 s are only
for the start of the roll
All souls game work that way. It's about the amount of frames
He swings, he misses, he drowns
I see press continue, I continue to press watch
bro i love ds2 ng+
It's the only souls game that actually tried to make NG+ different. Gotta commend the B-team on that
this is why I'm so torn with the game, like it's bad, but it has so many great ideas, some fleshed out, many not, and it could've been the best souls game easily if it would have followed through with the good stuff and got rid of the bad
12:51 if you are wondering why he got hit here, its something all dark souls have but DS2 applies it very wrongly during the game. Its the EXPLOSION HITBOX, so if you are wondering, those particles that appear in that moment are causing that damage.
Well that's kinda lame...
That attack has a small aoe
You got the goomba treatment@@PressContinue
You sure you aren't making shit up again? Because that's what it sounds like.
You people find every excuse to blame the game, I swear. It's a ground/stomp AoE, simple as that. You have seen it every damn game.
@asdergold1 so sorry that you're fanboying for the inferior game
2:30 YES GOT SOME DRAGONFORCE HERE!!!!
Finally more best souls 2
Here is an idea... Burnt ivory king great sword, 2 handed, only. NG+1 if you do it, I hope you love repair powder.
I think the whole Dragon Rider thing comes from a word play on old Dragoneers (a kind of horseback warrior)
Possibly
I find it unbelivable how you still can come up with motivation to play this game the 100+th time.
I'll probably never get tired of doing Souls, but in all honesty I do have to say that I am getting quite tired of doing souls exclusively.
@@PressContinue what would you like to play? somethint total different or still the same genre? im in love with carrier command 2 atm
Thumbnail looks cool
You can get the Dragonrider armor set a playthrough earlier than you stated.
Really? I thought you had to be in NG+2 (or use ascetics) and the twin dragonriders had to be defeated in that playthrough
@@PressContinue You are correct on all of that, except it's a playthrough earlier/a Bonfire Ascetic less.
I only mention this because it seemed like you wanted to inform others on how to get it, and in that case i imagine you'd want it to be accurate. :)
I hope you disable motion blur for your next runs
Forlorn is a girl
the lost sinner is kind of left handed like the ivory king, so dodging left is a bit more reliable imo
Good video!
There is no option for motion blur on console to begin with
@@PressContinue really? thats lame, cmon fromsoft
@Juni_0220 it's not just From Software it is a general issue with consoles
I can't believe the windows are still intact!
I have a question for you Mr. Press Continue. If all of FromSoftware’s DLC dragon bosses fought, who would win? Kalameet, Sihn, Midir, or Bayle.
Hmmm good question. Bayle is definitely the buffest, but when up against Midir he might feel a bit stumped.
@ I feel like Kalameet would die first. Sihn might last a while longer, but I think Midir takes the win. Bayle would be a formidable opponent though.
Donkey is the only real dragonrider
Shrek reference I assume?
What's the music playing in the background in the beginning?
Dark reality from the Kings field IV soundtrack
@PressContinue Thank you!
As an american i measure in cheeseburgers, i think 2 meters is about 18 cheeseburgers
Im not as familiar with DS2, but if you're in NG+7, shouldn't there be higher tier versions of rings available? Like the equip load and regen rings?
Yes. Ring of steel protection +2 from looking glass knight and Soldier ring +2 from Velstadt for example
@PressContinue ah, so all after you get the Castle. Doesn't help much for the first half then.
Cool! a new CBT run!
if cats could talk what tails they'd tell
😸
Throwing some DBZA clips in there, eh? Very nice.
Baby you know it
Adding algorithm fuel 🚀🚀🚀
Do a bloodborne challenge run where you constantly have the monocular activated pls
Baron's castle did that a while back. Bloodborne as a first person shooter
@PressContinue He did so only using guns, though. You can try doing it without guns as you can use normal weapons while using the monocular, but I don't know if you've got the perseverance to do it.
Also if you want to learn alot about dark souls 2 check out Yazmania as he does specific builds in ds2 all the time
I know him
How did you make the game become NG+7? I ask because you mentioned the estus would be fully upgraded because you play on console, so is it like a cheat that moves the game into that state and it assumes you've got the upgrade items or smth?
It's simply an old save game that was already in NG+7. I simply got rid of all unrelated equipment before starting the next cycle. So that's why the estus was already upgraded. You can't de-upgrade it after all.
ah right, makes sense. thanks :)
Hey Press, have tou ever heard of "Let It Die"?
Heard of it, yes
@PressContinue any interest in playing it? It's still got an active community, AND various regions of the world can fight each other every so often.
@@MrRikkles that game doesn't look that interesting to me I'm afraid
@PressContinue more than fair. It did take me roughly 8 years and three separate tries to 100% the base game, and there's still a LOT of it I choose to never see because it's THAT much of a struggle. But i appreciate your opinion! ^^
1 m = 3.28084 times better than a foot.
I was expecting The Last Giant 😊
I would tend to classify that as the first boss as well, but in practice nearly every run starts by cheesing the dragonrider, so...
I don't see how you can expect us to make comments when all the good dragon puns have been taken. It's just not Ride.
2:05 I see what you did here.
He is a good challenge that I dare you do it:
Complete the game bloodborne without getting any damage
Everyone raise up the comment so that he sees it
Already did that back in 2021: ua-cam.com/video/iu6_OvOF7Vc/v-deo.html
@PressContinue ok new challenge hiw about not using any items yet this one seems like a easy one
22:49 in french we say "cette arme est a chier" and not "en papier macher" also do you plan on doing more "boss cosplay run" on souls games?
Possibly
Curious how did you start level 1 on NG+7 on console?
Old save file. Specifically the one I used for the SL1 NG+7 broken sword run from back in the day
Impossible… everybody knows the dragon rider felled off and drowned. It is written in the lore
Well, I fell and/or died quite a few times more than once