I was actually quite unimpressed with the mod, I didn't like DS3 and this one feels a lot like DS3 2, I rather have something that feels like DS2 instead to be sincere, an impressive mod nonetheless but calling it DS4 undermines from soft works to me, by the way the mod is kinda better than DS3 😂
I ain't going to lie, the Aldricth fight was a fucking cool mechanic. The boss starts with low health, with his minions healing him, and once you kill them all he starts with whatever amount you were to slow to stop him from getting? Fucking outstanding.
Yeah, until you actually look at it. Any versions of Deacons is a bunch of non-threatening dudes in a big room. Not fun. And Aldritch is just the same fight but worse because it's more dark shit in an incredibly dark room.
As someone who has about 1000 hours in all the soulsborne franchise, seeing all the animations and enemies compiled into one game is the truest love letter to these games I could ever think of. The creators of Archthrones truly know what makes these games fun, and decided to add to the already great formula in a way that’s just genuinely fun. Love this mod!
Bro hasn't even been through the game 10 times to upgrade every weapon and finally have a melee/mage build that's legit, you haven't even got a slight mental illness either I bet. Childsplay
@@billywayne1007 Honestly I don't think it's his voice that makes it bad (though I admit hearing such a recognizable voice can break immersion), but the fact that the editor for his voice just didn't do anything to it. In Dark Souls, characters' voices have this weird echo-like effect, and ones with helmets or masks have it muffled slightly. While the editor has replicated these effects very well for every other character, they're absent for the Keeper. The only reason I can imagine they would do this is because they just REALLY wanted people to know it was Vaati.
@@seabass5892 Eh, I personally just don't like vaati. All he does is read Wikipedia pages of dark souls in his boring voice. I liked him when he was in crikens videos. But yea same thing can be said about yellowfinger. Chick's literally just reading the script. No emotion.
Seeing molders make a game with bosses who have unique mechanics that don't boil down to "hit glowing point" is absolutely amazing and really shows some of the love the devs put in the mod
"Mom, can we have Dark Souls IV?" "Little Timmy, the rapidly deteriorating state of the Canadian housing market since 2002 has created an atmosphere of unease and instability in new and aspiring tenants. Inefficient government reforms and high rates of inflation, coupled with an impossibly low living-wage amongst a rigid job market, have turned many Canadian citizens to unemployment and ultimately homelessness. Therefore, Timmy, even if we did have a home, we wouldn't have Dark Souls IV there."
@@ibragimowbekhan0987 No, these policies extend as far back as Reagan, honestly, further, depending on which racial/ethnic group or cohort of workers in a given industrial sector you are wanting to talk about. The dismantlement of unions and workers rights happened in the 80s, wherein we saw the landmark legislation passed during the 30s into the 50s get stripped away piece by piece to allow big business more "independence" to "self-regulate" according to the neoliberal zeitgeist that had possessed politicians the world over at the time, to the total evisceration of anti-trust legislation starting in the late 70s and standardized into the 80s, the removal of the gold standard and the priming for more open trade relations with China and southeast asia under Nixon paved the path that ultimately lead into the de-industrialization of the US and the pivot toward a consumer based economy where all the work that used to be done by well paid, well cared for union hands in this nation that were at least adequately compensated is now done by what are essentially slaves being paid pennies on the dollar. TL;DR, oligarchs did this to America to make themselves and their shareholders, and to a lesser extent, the politicians they bought out, which is most on the congressional level and above now, thanks to citizens united, rich, despite the global suffering it would cause to billions of people.
Yep, the Heide Phoenix is absolutely the coolest boss I've seen in any of the dark souls games. It flying off to the tower to attack is something so incredibly unique and just put it from being like "okay this looks pretty good" to top tier
Nice to see you playing Archthrones. A few people on the Convergence Team worked on it too, even the Elden Ring Convergence was being made. I am excited to see what they have cooking in the future. - Your friendly neighborhood Convergence Dev, Canada
Holy shit the amount of effort and work that went into making this mod is down right admirable. With that level of skill they could easily develop their own game and try to make money but chose to use their skill to gift us with a absolute S tier mod
I was watching your previous stream and you said: "I've got a vedio ready coming out in a few days, " so I came to check on UA-cam since it has been for days, and this was the first video on my recommended. From 1 hour ago. Poggers.
Wow, that is amazing, this is calamity level mod in a way less flexible game, seeing all the little details feels so good, i am amazed, it looks great already, even the demo is insane, this is what i wanted, take the best parts of every game and put them together
My favourite part was when you invaded Loony a second time and she thought you were friendly, then you stabbed her in the back, accidentally. Oh, wait, wrong game
honestly, amazing work, i think the modding here is probably some of the best in the entire souls history... they basically made an entire souls game, and they did it in a way that honors the series as well as calling back to each title independently. other modders would have made like one boss and maybe one level and been done with it... the sheer amount of work here is amazing.
I really hope “have at thee, foul spirit” becomes another Lenny meme. Made me actually laugh out loud, and was only made better when it was revealed to be Vaati lmao
Hi Lenny! This might sound a bit cheesy but your videos really make my day better, I usually watch them when I'm eating alone after work and I absolutely love your sense of humor and such, please never stop entertaining!
Anyone got the feeling that he played a different demo, at no point of the whole play through did I get anywhere close to that kind of health and damage
y'know lenny, having the add in the middle of the video with a "DON'T SKIP THIS" section for it, ended up making me not skip it. It did guilt me into not skipping it, but also most people do the ad at like, 3 seconds into the video, or 3 seconds before the end so
This mod looks like a brutal, ass kicking blast, I can't imagine how much more they have in store for the full release! Thanks for showing it off, Zanny!
Speaking of floating down.. I found a reccomended video where with like 15 views against the moonlight butterfly. I commented "It Floats Down!" .. They didn't get it
Honestly Lenny I can't thank you enough, your content style and editing never fails to make my day better (Please never stop putting cat reactions with your editing 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺)
23:58 This whole sequence of events is incredible - 23:59: For people who don't have English as their first language... 24:01: PANIC MACARENA 24:07: *Panic Macarena continues* 24:08: *Macarena stops* (tense) 24:09: i t w o r k e d 😳 24:11: Immediately Impaled by spear
To be totally honest I did not enjoy most of my time with this mod, it was so technically impressive and so much effort was put into a lot of details, but it’s very jarring having almost unchanged movesets from other games since they all have different styles
On the topic of reused animations and such, I will say I think it can actually be really cool, seeing how different certain enemies/bosses are when you don't have a given game's moveset. Like I've seen a bunch of enemies that were based on ones in sekiro (The carthus curved sword guy is an ashina general, the spear variant is seven spears, the fat one is a drunkard, the first boss of Eleum Loyce is the corrupted monk) and it's really interesting fighting them in an actual souls game, since my toolkit is so different from what I'm used to fighting them with. Even ones from different souls games can be interesting, especially ones from ER because suddenly you're facing them without the option to jump.
I’m glad you actually mention the Demon’s Souls inspiration. I’ve watched other people play this, and it’s like they have no clue the Archstones are straight out of that game. 😅 There are so many other things inspired from that game. Even the font they used is Demon’s Souls.
Btw. I've been in your Chat like twice. And the one time I stayed more than 5 mins, I was gifted a sub, _and_ it came floating down. So. Good stuff. Love your mum. ❤
This mod made my heart melt, like Lenny said, the amount of love and effort they put in there it's AMAZING and it shows how badly the game industry it's treating us and the people that love creating videogames. I got emotional fuck.
Wow if this is a mod I'm truly in awe. I'm very new to the whole PC MOD experience, though this is definitely one I'd love to play. My favorite games lately are Dark Souls and Bloodborne, and I can see both in this. Truly amazing
Pre patch Heide Phoenix was like a Elden Ring boss with a awfully designed fight because of the lack of cooldown 💀. But it was really great and I truly didn't expected this mod to be that great.
I feel like the Aldrich area being blood borne like might be a reference to in the lore where Aldrich dreamed of a world of deep seas which could have been a teaser for blood borne which has a deep sea rune as well as a few bosses that are clearly sea themed
"It's still his turn" is my main issue with the game. Necromancer was insane and there was just no way I was gonna be able to just keep trading blows with him and win...
39:48 I think it’s fine to end up raging at a boss when it’s a frustrating fight. It’s not like you sent an angry review or email, you just reacted to the game in the moment. It’s the demo/early access so they wanted feedback to adjust bosses anyway. Which is why they did adjust the boss.
This looks absolutely amazing. I've only got into Soul's games since Elden Ring, so I guess by the time I've gotten through DS2 and 3 this mod will be finished and take up a year of my life lol.
Since this game takes stuff from all of Fromsoftware's 4 games this is simultaneously Demon's Souls 2, DS4, Bloodborne 2 and Sekiro 2. We just need some robots and mechs now.
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I was actually quite unimpressed with the mod, I didn't like DS3 and this one feels a lot like DS3 2, I rather have something that feels like DS2 instead to be sincere, an impressive mod nonetheless but calling it DS4 undermines from soft works to me, by the way the mod is kinda better than DS3 😂
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@@woldemunster9244like that matters at all
I ain't going to lie, the Aldricth fight was a fucking cool mechanic. The boss starts with low health, with his minions healing him, and once you kill them all he starts with whatever amount you were to slow to stop him from getting? Fucking outstanding.
Prior to a recent update, the "Get off me" curse attack was BAD. It would instantly curse you if you didn't run away the instant he screamed.
The level of creativity in this mod is genuinely nuts
Yeah, until you actually look at it. Any versions of Deacons is a bunch of non-threatening dudes in a big room. Not fun. And Aldritch is just the same fight but worse because it's more dark shit in an incredibly dark room.
@@magila7802I enjoyed it quite a bit!
@@magila7802sounds like you just personally don’t enjoy it
As someone who has about 1000 hours in all the soulsborne franchise, seeing all the animations and enemies compiled into one game is the truest love letter to these games I could ever think of. The creators of Archthrones truly know what makes these games fun, and decided to add to the already great formula in a way that’s just genuinely fun. Love this mod!
As someone who has seen Tetris played from 3 rows back on the bus, I disagree.
1000 hours is beginner shit, rookie type shit
Bro hasn't even been through the game 10 times to upgrade every weapon and finally have a melee/mage build that's legit, you haven't even got a slight mental illness either I bet.
Childsplay
We're hitting levels of floating down that top scientists called "get out of my house"
Float out of my down
The Vaati cameo was pure gold.
I liked the part where all he did was just read the script in his normal voice. 👍
@@billywayne1007 Honestly I don't think it's his voice that makes it bad (though I admit hearing such a recognizable voice can break immersion), but the fact that the editor for his voice just didn't do anything to it. In Dark Souls, characters' voices have this weird echo-like effect, and ones with helmets or masks have it muffled slightly. While the editor has replicated these effects very well for every other character, they're absent for the Keeper. The only reason I can imagine they would do this is because they just REALLY wanted people to know it was Vaati.
@@seabass5892 Eh, I personally just don't like vaati. All he does is read Wikipedia pages of dark souls in his boring voice. I liked him when he was in crikens videos.
But yea same thing can be said about yellowfinger. Chick's literally just reading the script. No emotion.
@@seabass5892 his voice had zero inflection to it, he didn't voice act... he just narrated.
@@seabass5892 Dark Souls game engines add reverb automatically based on the environment
can't wait for bloodborne 2
Even getting Bloodborn one on pc would be nice
@@legacymse7095 Nightmare Creatures lol
we will get gta VI before bloodborne pc port
If modders would just port it, no more key jangling
I got bad news
Seeing molders make a game with bosses who have unique mechanics that don't boil down to "hit glowing point" is absolutely amazing and really shows some of the love the devs put in the mod
"Mom, can we have Dark Souls IV?"
"Little Timmy, the rapidly deteriorating state of the Canadian housing market since 2002 has created an atmosphere of unease and instability in new and aspiring tenants. Inefficient government reforms and high rates of inflation, coupled with an impossibly low living-wage amongst a rigid job market, have turned many Canadian citizens to unemployment and ultimately homelessness. Therefore, Timmy, even if we did have a home, we wouldn't have Dark Souls IV there."
Sad that you can replace canadian with so many other countries and it works fine.
@@Charlieandp"Thanks, Biden", i guess?
@@ibragimowbekhan0987 No, these policies extend as far back as Reagan, honestly, further, depending on which racial/ethnic group or cohort of workers in a given industrial sector you are wanting to talk about. The dismantlement of unions and workers rights happened in the 80s, wherein we saw the landmark legislation passed during the 30s into the 50s get stripped away piece by piece to allow big business more "independence" to "self-regulate" according to the neoliberal zeitgeist that had possessed politicians the world over at the time, to the total evisceration of anti-trust legislation starting in the late 70s and standardized into the 80s, the removal of the gold standard and the priming for more open trade relations with China and southeast asia under Nixon paved the path that ultimately lead into the de-industrialization of the US and the pivot toward a consumer based economy where all the work that used to be done by well paid, well cared for union hands in this nation that were at least adequately compensated is now done by what are essentially slaves being paid pennies on the dollar.
TL;DR, oligarchs did this to America to make themselves and their shareholders, and to a lesser extent, the politicians they bought out, which is most on the congressional level and above now, thanks to citizens united, rich, despite the global suffering it would cause to billions of people.
@@ibragimowbekhan0987 More like "Thanks, neoliberalism"
@@ibragimowbekhan0987Biden isn‘t canadian
4:37 "You have nothing to offer."
Man, I've heard that one before.
"The worst she can say is no"
22:10 naw man, it's not "Oh it's just the One Reborn." It's "Oh shit it's the fucking One Reborn!"
Yep, the Heide Phoenix is absolutely the coolest boss I've seen in any of the dark souls games. It flying off to the tower to attack is something so incredibly unique and just put it from being like "okay this looks pretty good" to top tier
(just ignore the part of the Heide Phoenix pretending to be the commander Niall or O'Neil in the snow area of elden ring)
42:49
Wait wtf they made a SECOND ONE?
Silly shenanigans
NOWAYING
HAVE AT THEE VILE KNAVE
this mod is going to be even more peak when its finished
keep cooking
Nice to see you playing Archthrones. A few people on the Convergence Team worked on it too, even the Elden Ring Convergence was being made. I am excited to see what they have cooking in the future. - Your friendly neighborhood Convergence Dev, Canada
Hype
The idea of trying to stop a ritual and the boss having that amount of HP once it finishes is honestly galaxy brain
John DarkSoul protagonist of the anime Soul the Dark
Ah yes, Mr. DarkSoul himself
Holy shit the amount of effort and work that went into making this mod is down right admirable. With that level of skill they could easily develop their own game and try to make money but chose to use their skill to gift us with a absolute S tier mod
The real floats down starts here !
Heysel, Scholar of the Pool of Livers
I was watching your previous stream and you said: "I've got a vedio ready coming out in a few days, " so I came to check on UA-cam since it has been for days, and this was the first video on my recommended. From 1 hour ago. Poggers.
Wow, that is amazing, this is calamity level mod in a way less flexible game, seeing all the little details feels so good, i am amazed, it looks great already, even the demo is insane, this is what i wanted, take the best parts of every game and put them together
Tbf calamity has been surpassed for some times. There are far Better and more complex mods rn.
This feels much Better then calamity
@@AndrewTheUltraBoss99are we all referring to terraria’s calamity mod, and what mod surpassed it
So does this mean that we are going to eventually get a proper Dark Souls 4 experience?
Pretty princess and do-you-want-a-slap
My favourite part was when you invaded Loony a second time and she thought you were friendly, then you stabbed her in the back, accidentally. Oh, wait, wrong game
Vaati speaking in a non monatone voice is so cursed
...That was non-monotone?
honestly, amazing work, i think the modding here is probably some of the best in the entire souls history... they basically made an entire souls game, and they did it in a way that honors the series as well as calling back to each title independently. other modders would have made like one boss and maybe one level and been done with it... the sheer amount of work here is amazing.
9:08 wow its like a real modern game!
Lenny in a suit looks drippy, he's a mogger
Thomas here. Im glad you've enjoyed the demo. You have a heart of gold dear spicy one.
I like the part where Lenny gets invaded and says “An invader? Have at thee”
I really hope “have at thee, foul spirit” becomes another Lenny meme. Made me actually laugh out loud, and was only made better when it was revealed to be Vaati lmao
Hi Lenny! This might sound a bit cheesy but your videos really make my day better, I usually watch them when I'm eating alone after work and I absolutely love your sense of humor and such, please never stop entertaining!
Please upload the Vods for this one Lenny, I love watching your reactions to all of this!
It's neat how they further prove Dark Souls can work when well-lit.
I didn’t even recognize that was you in NutBorne! I love that video!
Anyone got the feeling that he played a different demo, at no point of the whole play through did I get anywhere close to that kind of health and damage
Mom said drugs are bad, but just look what drugs have allowed DS3 modders to make.
y'know lenny, having the add in the middle of the video with a "DON'T SKIP THIS" section for it, ended up making me not skip it. It did guilt me into not skipping it, but also most people do the ad at like, 3 seconds into the video, or 3 seconds before the end so
This mod looks like a brutal, ass kicking blast, I can't imagine how much more they have in store for the full release! Thanks for showing it off, Zanny!
There were some legitimate laugh out loud moments here. I'm glad the entire meme of Dark Souls 2 is continuing.
Great to see Sekiro getting some love, especially when the movesets seem the hardest to fight!
Speaking of floating down.. I found a reccomended video where with like 15 views against the moonlight butterfly. I commented "It Floats Down!"
.. They didn't get it
Ion geddit
Brainrot
Drinking game: take a shot every time Lenny says "spooky"
Honestly Lenny I can't thank you enough, your content style and editing never fails to make my day better (Please never stop putting cat reactions with your editing 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺)
If I hadn't fallen in love with archthrones before, I defiantly would have now
Angel of Gertrude is literally just the crucible knights.
Too many people don't know the restrictions of modding...
23:58 This whole sequence of events is incredible
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23:59: For people who don't have English as their first language...
24:01: PANIC MACARENA
24:07: *Panic Macarena continues*
24:08: *Macarena stops* (tense)
24:09: i t w o r k e d 😳
24:11: Immediately Impaled by spear
The sound effects and meme’s dropped in are my favorite
Lmao imagine its the demo because they are adding the entire lands between but with dark souls aesthetics
Having a rough as fuck time at the moment, just wanted to say thanks for doing what you do it makes lots of people smile. Love you Lenny
HOW AM I JUST HEARING ABOUT THIS MOD NOW
I had a great time with this was so cool to see this didn’t even feel like a demo can’t wait to see more
I saved watching a playthrough of archthrones to watch you play it, love your stuff :)
Lenny playing this mod is something that I didn't know I needed.
Hilarious video, and super interesting besides. I had no idea this mod was even in the making, so I'm glad Lenny paid it some attention. 🙏
To be totally honest I did not enjoy most of my time with this mod, it was so technically impressive and so much effort was put into a lot of details, but it’s very jarring having almost unchanged movesets from other games since they all have different styles
You seem so excited, it's nice to watch you this hyped
Cant wait for bloodborne 2 2 to float down
Okay but that heide phoenix is genuinely insane
On the topic of reused animations and such, I will say I think it can actually be really cool, seeing how different certain enemies/bosses are when you don't have a given game's moveset. Like I've seen a bunch of enemies that were based on ones in sekiro (The carthus curved sword guy is an ashina general, the spear variant is seven spears, the fat one is a drunkard, the first boss of Eleum Loyce is the corrupted monk) and it's really interesting fighting them in an actual souls game, since my toolkit is so different from what I'm used to fighting them with. Even ones from different souls games can be interesting, especially ones from ER because suddenly you're facing them without the option to jump.
this is where the real dark souls 4 begins
Dude the heide phoenix was already perfect, the spawning range attacks was awesome, it actually made you rage which is the point of souls game
36:44 oh god! Youre really good at voice acting! I didnt feel it was Lenny saying those lines in a funny voice but an actual character of their own!
That's so cool! I can't wait to see what they have in store for us in the future.
I’m glad you actually mention the Demon’s Souls inspiration. I’ve watched other people play this, and it’s like they have no clue the Archstones are straight out of that game. 😅 There are so many other things inspired from that game. Even the font they used is Demon’s Souls.
no this is unironically peak holy hell every boss and area was genuinely stunning
I can't believe it finally floated down. Wow.
Amazing mod. Also, thanks for the criticism at 40:18, and big thanks to the modder who listened to the critisism and improved the boss.
This mod looks sick I guess the real dark souls starts here (also don’t forget to say hi to sweet shalquoire and then float down)
Btw. I've been in your Chat like twice. And the one time I stayed more than 5 mins, I was gifted a sub, _and_ it came floating down. So. Good stuff. Love your mum. ❤
I hope it one day releases as it's own game just like with Skyrim and Enderal
This mod made my heart melt, like Lenny said, the amount of love and effort they put in there it's AMAZING and it shows how badly the game industry it's treating us and the people that love creating videogames. I got emotional fuck.
Honestly, I’m impressed by the work they did on this mod. Can’t wait to see the full version out.
The levels of floating down on display are off the charts!
Wow if this is a mod I'm truly in awe. I'm very new to the whole PC MOD experience, though this is definitely one I'd love to play. My favorite games lately are Dark Souls and Bloodborne, and I can see both in this. Truly amazing
Pre patch Heide Phoenix was like a Elden Ring boss with a awfully designed fight because of the lack of cooldown 💀. But it was really great and I truly didn't expected this mod to be that great.
16:20 I died xD
I feel like the Aldrich area being blood borne like might be a reference to in the lore where Aldrich dreamed of a world of deep seas which could have been a teaser for blood borne which has a deep sea rune as well as a few bosses that are clearly sea themed
it's a sunday, I have to sit here and work from home, but I get a new ZeroLenny vid on my second screen so now everything is all right again
"It's still his turn" is my main issue with the game. Necromancer was insane and there was just no way I was gonna be able to just keep trading blows with him and win...
i love how they took a leaf from Dragon Quest 11's playbook by giving you a nice and girthy demo to get you hooked
I've seen you accomplish some crazy feats, but overcoming that War Thunder boss proves you're the GOAT.
39:48 I think it’s fine to end up raging at a boss when it’s a frustrating fight. It’s not like you sent an angry review or email, you just reacted to the game in the moment. It’s the demo/early access so they wanted feedback to adjust bosses anyway. Which is why they did adjust the boss.
This looks absolutely amazing. I've only got into Soul's games since Elden Ring, so I guess by the time I've gotten through DS2 and 3 this mod will be finished and take up a year of my life lol.
If only Lenny’s mom could get a voiced role in this, it’d be a level of peak like we never seen before
this looks so promising, i cant wait for the full release
also i fucking DIED at the end when he shouted "THEY MADE A SECOND ONE!?"
great video as always, keep doing your thing lenny
For real I thought it was click bait then I saw the (no srsly). Never seen that in a title.
Cant believe this exists and it's so so high quality.
Holy s@$t!!! I want to play this RIGHT NOW!!! I'm soon going to max ng dsIII and I could use new souls content and this looks prime 💯!!!
Very nice!
Patiently waiting for fromsoft to make Dark Souls 2
I really need to watch more of Lenny live so I can see how many kitty pictures he has mapped to his stream controller.
Since this game takes stuff from all of Fromsoftware's 4 games this is simultaneously Demon's Souls 2, DS4, Bloodborne 2 and Sekiro 2. We just need some robots and mechs now.
It’s weird seeing Lenny play a souls game normally
Please dont stop putting funny cats in your videos. Its 4 am and i have a cold, but your voice and the memes are really funny
I can’t believe they made a dark souls 2 three
Finally,they drop dark souls 2 2
Been looking forward to this one since the streams
When it’s finished, it would be perfect for a OG robolenny playthrough
What wouldve been cool is if you touched the chalice instead of fighting wolnir wouldve been teleported to this version of carthus
YOOO the parting gift is probably the coolest thing i've seen in a souls game ever
7:42 OMG LENNY YOU CAN'T JUST DROP THIS HEAT BRO!!!