Maybe try a later souls game, dark souls 1 is usually harder for newcomers from my experience, even i quit it, but eventually decided to try dark souls 3, and i absolutely loved it, it's still my extremely close 2nd favourite game of all-time. I also actually ended up playing the series in reverse order but it was a still blast. DS1 does fall off quite hard in the second half, since it unfortunately had to be rushed to meat deadlines. Still better than a lot of games though.
Also i should add, dark souls 2 (the vanilla version which is also on steam, not scholar of the first sin edition which changes level design mostly for the worse) is also usually seen as easier, and while features like adaptability aren't great, levels are so cheap anyway that you can usually get it to level 25 pretty early while still focusing on other stats. And dark souls 3, while being more fast paced, is also much easier at least early on in my opinion, ramping up in difficulty at an extremely fair way as you progress imo, with the only spikes really being pontiff sulyvahn (who i didnt personally struggle with but a lot of people did) and the dlc.
And if you want to try elden ring, give it a go, now is a better time than ever to start it, and while i dont agree with it being the easiest, even if you can get to high levels early (people seem to not consider that new people often dont know every upgrade material and useful/cheesy item's location) but i tried it after finishing the dark souls series and had a great time with it.
The only thing that keeps you from becoming hollow is not giving up, if your character respawns it is for the sole purpose of making you try again, if you give up in the face of such insignificant adversities what will happen when you face bigger adversities throughout your life? at least for me Dark Souls changed my perspective on how to face problems and I hope this comment will encourage you to finish such an incredible game.
I like to do runs off camera so I can pop it in when needed, but people really enjoy the live challenges. I definitely want the video experience to be different than the live experience, so I'm glad it was enjoyable even with the stream content mixed in!
Something about the entire journey of 100%'ing Dark Souls at Level 1 including farming and 2.5 playthroughs being 41 hours when the average Elden Ring Playthrough before the newly added DLC is like 60.
Fun fact about the ending, you actually don’t need the lord vessel to fight the four kings so you didn’t need to fight ornstein and smough for the dark hand
The premise alone is pure insanity.... you truly are something else Morgan. Top tier gamer for sure and such good vibes in ur live streams. Never stop your godly quest for the unfathomable achievements the rest of us only dream of!
@@morgansbasement never left, just been watching from afar I hate to keep routinely spreading my F.E.A.R. propaganda lol I hope you are doing well boss, good work especially with smough smh I hate that guy
@@tylermitchell3621 I started playing FEAR casually before I got sick, that game is so god damn hard. I need to do a full playthrough of that before I do permadeath on extreme. That could easily take a month to do lool. But I'm doing well! And I hope you're doing just as good!
By far one of my favorite channels to watch. I wish you had like 100 other videos I could binge watch. I've already watched all of them multiple times. Keep up the good work!
Just came across your channel and Im glad that you are the first person who also does 100% on Xbox that ive found on youtube and not someone ps5 platinum trophy's. Keep up the amazing videos!❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
I'm glad you enjoyed! I do a mix of hard achievements/100%. Most of the games I want to do 100% on don't make good youtube content, so I'm more selective for those videos. I do have some unlisted ones if that's your poison! They're in the "Old achievement" playlist. But more 100%'s coming soon!
I've only played Elden Ring on PC, so I could do a challenge/achievement run on that game for sure! and I would love to do it. This is one of my favorite series!
That one is coming next haha. I was gunna scrap it so I started working on this. Then the E-Day trailer came out and I got fired up. That video will be next/maybe after outlast 1. But it will be 1 of the next 2 videos
29:48 Probably too late to inform of an alternative, but If you get there after getting the lord vessel, Solaire is there and lets you skip faith requirement At least that's how it worked in Prepare to Die Edition, but I see no reason for it to be removed
you skipped over a bunch of stuff in this, like getting a second red slab in the first playthrough which either means trading an ascended pyro glove or farming for it. Nevermind a second blue slab, I think there's only a second one in the DLC?
Both of those slabs are farmable btw. The drop chances are low, but they can be farmed. To avoid having to wait for the 2nd blue and 2nd red slab, I just dashboarded and used the same slab, it's all in the livestream vod if you'd like to watch. I just wanted to pop the achievements in NG so I could use the clips in a rapid fire montage, but realistically, it only saved about 10 minutes of running to the slab locations in NG+
@@morgansbasement fair enough, I did my achievements on PTDE and just frampt-duped the slabs in NG, but had already used my Red Slab when I did that AND managed to mess up getting a second pyro flame from Eingyi too lol
I didn't even know you could dupe things with Frampt in PTDE. I think 100% in 2012, so I can't remember if that was something I knew about back then. But losing the slap like you just said would be brutal 😂. I feel for you
Great video, how come some language is censored and some isn’t? Is there a limit to how many times you can swear before it becomes adult content or something?
TBH I swear way too much when I'm live streaming, and I just try to break up consecutive swears with bleeps every 5ish. It can help avoid the long arm of the youtube law. Some times it's for comedic effect, other times it's for getting too creative with my swears lol
I might have to do a different challenge for DS2 lol. I already have all the achievements in both versions (This is my way of saying I'm scared of doing a no adaptability run in DS2)
New challenge idea, get all achievements for dark souls without dying once, so basically have all achievements except the die for the first time. That would be a flex to show people that you have every achievement except the first one 99% of people get
Honestly, i would definitely suggest for anyone trying out ds1 sl1 runs, dont use the pyromancies unless really necessary. Learning the patterns and going through the game truly revitalises it after your first few normal runs, like the O&S fight is just genuinely beautiful when you get the hang of it, aswell as all the dlc bosses. But play the game as you will and most importantly have fun during it
I really enjoyed doing the SL1 runs, and I agree with you that it feels fantastic to get it done. If anyone is doing all the achievements I would definitely recommend using Pyro. It speeds up the process a ton, but definitely play the game in the way that maximizes fun. That's a great point
@@morgansbasement yeah, with all the achievements it’s completely understandable to use pyromancies, cus without it ng+ becomes wildly too difficult and it just expedites the process
@@morgansbasement I know it! Im generally a fan of fantasy but I rarely play RPGs. I think my most played RPG is GTAV and I mainly got into that through the cars. Halo also I guess but thats more FPS.
While it isnt 'easy', soul level one, and especially in the first game, actually isnt as hard as it sounds, the only hard part is being one or two-shot by a lot of things, he seems to have decided to handicap himself by not getting his axe upgraded to +5 before going to blighttown Also pyromancies in ds1 and 2 are extremely powerful
To be fair, every souls game is as simple as just don't get hit. The hardest part is planning out the route, and knowing when to sequence things for achievements
You've never heard of this game?? I'm actually surprised haha. The controls are actually really tight, and the difficulty is in learning boss patterns and timing invincibility rolls. The only bit of artificial difficulty was doing it at level 1 haha. Also, the game is close to 15 years old, so that would explain the graphics. I highly recommend the souls/bloodborne/elden ring games. I think you'd like them a ton
Uploading ds1 video while elden ring dlc just released it's dlc is wild! Mad respect
It was so hard to work on this instead of playing the DLC lmao. But I've started the DLC and I'm loving it!
So you’re telling me this man can 100% this game at level 1 and I quit after ringing the two bells (yes I'm bad) W Morgan, W Jeremey, W Video!
Something tells me you could dominate Elden Ring. Don't give up!
Maybe try a later souls game, dark souls 1 is usually harder for newcomers from my experience, even i quit it, but eventually decided to try dark souls 3, and i absolutely loved it, it's still my extremely close 2nd favourite game of all-time. I also actually ended up playing the series in reverse order but it was a still blast. DS1 does fall off quite hard in the second half, since it unfortunately had to be rushed to meat deadlines. Still better than a lot of games though.
Also i should add, dark souls 2 (the vanilla version which is also on steam, not scholar of the first sin edition which changes level design mostly for the worse) is also usually seen as easier, and while features like adaptability aren't great, levels are so cheap anyway that you can usually get it to level 25 pretty early while still focusing on other stats.
And dark souls 3, while being more fast paced, is also much easier at least early on in my opinion, ramping up in difficulty at an extremely fair way as you progress imo, with the only spikes really being pontiff sulyvahn (who i didnt personally struggle with but a lot of people did) and the dlc.
And if you want to try elden ring, give it a go, now is a better time than ever to start it, and while i dont agree with it being the easiest, even if you can get to high levels early (people seem to not consider that new people often dont know every upgrade material and useful/cheesy item's location) but i tried it after finishing the dark souls series and had a great time with it.
The only thing that keeps you from becoming hollow is not giving up, if your character respawns it is for the sole purpose of making you try again, if you give up in the face of such insignificant adversities what will happen when you face bigger adversities throughout your life? at least for me Dark Souls changed my perspective on how to face problems and I hope this comment will encourage you to finish such an incredible game.
Wow. A perfect blend of stream clips and post commentary. It actually makes the content watchable. Great video
I like to do runs off camera so I can pop it in when needed, but people really enjoy the live challenges. I definitely want the video experience to be different than the live experience, so I'm glad it was enjoyable even with the stream content mixed in!
omg lol the bed of chaos punish serves you right on that one hahah
This is what happens when I try to show boat lool
Was looking forward to this while watching the streams, the basement is back!!😎
Oh baby, I've been working away. I'll be on today playing the Elden Ring DLC
Nice Wolfenstein 2 collectors edition back there
Thanks! It's signed by the team at machine games, they sent it to me after the Wolf 2 video!
Something about the entire journey of 100%'ing Dark Souls at Level 1 including farming and 2.5 playthroughs being 41 hours when the average Elden Ring Playthrough before the newly added DLC is like 60.
Yeah, in total it's probably close 100 hours now.
It was a different time back then. They definitely changed the formula for the newer games
Fun fact about the ending, you actually don’t need the lord vessel to fight the four kings so you didn’t need to fight ornstein and smough for the dark hand
I thought I remembered needing the lord vessel to speak with Kaathe, but that's cool to know that I was wrong!
@@morgansbasement you just need to make sure you haven’t placed the vessel at the alter for him to appear 😊
Joining these streams was very fun and I love the vid well done Morgan you are amazing
Thanks, Nugget!
was a honor bro 🫡
GOAT JEREMY
Very interesting video idea i just found your channel and im probably gonna check out your other videos keep it up man
I hope the video hit the spot!
Lets go brother! Great video and good challenge!
Thank you, brother!
I HEARD MY NAMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
YOU MADE THE CUT!
W channel, you deserve way more subs
I'm glad you like the content!
Pants are off, time to enjoy the next 40 minutes
Buddy, you won't need your pants off for 40 minutes, who are you kidding. But I'll take 2 mins if that's what you can offer
@@morgansbasement I’m living on the EDGE
@@ItzSweetTrav EDGING
Hell yeah good luck playing the dark souls trilogy
I don't know if I'm doing the full trilogy at level 1 since I have all the achievements in DS2 already, but thanks!
The premise alone is pure insanity.... you truly are something else Morgan. Top tier gamer for sure and such good vibes in ur live streams. Never stop your godly quest for the unfathomable achievements the rest of us only dream of!
you really like suffering dont you morgan
It's the name of the game!
I require the
B A S E M E N T
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Welcome back, solider
@@morgansbasement never left, just been watching from afar
I hate to keep routinely spreading my F.E.A.R. propaganda lol
I hope you are doing well boss, good work especially with smough smh I hate that guy
@@tylermitchell3621 I started playing FEAR casually before I got sick, that game is so god damn hard. I need to do a full playthrough of that before I do permadeath on extreme. That could easily take a month to do lool. But I'm doing well! And I hope you're doing just as good!
@@morgansbasement abuse slow motion
It makes everything so cool
Fear Shotgun is also one of the best video games shotguns ever
By far one of my favorite channels to watch. I wish you had like 100 other videos I could binge watch. I've already watched all of them multiple times. Keep up the good work!
Love the premium gas, Sebastian! Thank you!
Bro, yes! it was so cool to see the live runs for this.
We made it through!
Awesome Stuff ! Looking forward to seeing you back in full swing !
I'm working on it!
Elden Ring Lvl 1 next?
If this one does well I will absolutely do Elden Ring Level 1!
36:40
Ah yes the MASTER strategy that I always employ 👍
Just came across your channel and Im glad that you are the first person who also does 100% on Xbox that ive found on youtube and not someone ps5 platinum trophy's. Keep up the amazing videos!❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
I'm glad you enjoyed! I do a mix of hard achievements/100%. Most of the games I want to do 100% on don't make good youtube content, so I'm more selective for those videos. I do have some unlisted ones if that's your poison! They're in the "Old achievement" playlist. But more 100%'s coming soon!
I’m surprised you didn’t use Power Within for Ornstein and Smough. Anyways, very entertaining video👍
I sometimes got hit and survived lol, and with power within I would have bled out 😂. I wasn't confident in my rolls lol
it was a great video, are you going to do Elden Ring or Dark Souls 3 next?
I've only played Elden Ring on PC, so I could do a challenge/achievement run on that game for sure! and I would love to do it. This is one of my favorite series!
I haven’t played a souls game in a while, wow 👏 inspirational
This is your sign
No offense but did anyone ever tell you that you are so similar to Otto Octavius from the Spider-man (toby maguire's) movie?
That is fucking hilarious LOL
"If this does well I'll do the same challenge in Elden Ring" ~ Ooop-- don't mind if I just: *leave a quick comment and a like* ;)
I like the way you think haha
an hes back lets go caught bits of the stream for this one couldn't catch them all so
The plan was always to combine it into a video for the people who missed the streams. SO I GOTCHU
atta boy, soul level 1 is always a blast
Besides the farming, this was my favorite challenge yet. Not as good as the reverse sweep that's happening rn, but damn close
Why does everyone have problem with those silver knights with bows ? I have never had problem with them
They got heatseeking qualities, IDK what to say 😂
Great video, thanks for suffering for us!
Anytime, Jason!
Can't believe you got the seriously 2.0 achievement is there video for this?
That one is coming next haha. I was gunna scrap it so I started working on this. Then the E-Day trailer came out and I got fired up. That video will be next/maybe after outlast 1. But it will be 1 of the next 2 videos
@@morgansbasement sick glad to see the content coming out
28:16 cod black ops main menu theme?! My favorite cod
YESSIR
I lost it when he said Hail Hydra 😂
skipping all the hard bosses in the game (the dlc)....
They are not hard gtfo 😂. And I did kill some of them on stream, but it didn't make the video
Was trying to decide if you were Canadian, then you said fuckin eh after o+s and I’m convinced 😂
I am definitely Canadian LOL
@@morgansbasement hell yeah man love to see it, fantastic video as well, made me want to 100% DS
Not all rare weapons, for example you don't need balder side sword or the skeleeweel shield
The description of the achievement says "All rare weapons", so it makes sense to classify it that way haha
Peak has drop
29:48
Probably too late to inform of an alternative, but
If you get there after getting the lord vessel, Solaire is there and lets you skip faith requirement
At least that's how it worked in Prepare to Die Edition, but I see no reason for it to be removed
I've played this game a ton of times and earned every achievement 3 times (now), and I never knew this. That's a great piece of info
@@morgansbasement Although now I'm having trouble finding that info, so I have so doubts if I may be misremembering
Probably worth double checking
I've never played dark souls before so I have no experience but this still seems like an INSANE challenge, huge man! great video!
There was definitely a good amount of prep that went into it ahah, but I'm out here looking for a challenge! I'm glad you like it!
you skipped over a bunch of stuff in this, like getting a second red slab in the first playthrough which either means trading an ascended pyro glove or farming for it. Nevermind a second blue slab, I think there's only a second one in the DLC?
Both of those slabs are farmable btw. The drop chances are low, but they can be farmed. To avoid having to wait for the 2nd blue and 2nd red slab, I just dashboarded and used the same slab, it's all in the livestream vod if you'd like to watch. I just wanted to pop the achievements in NG so I could use the clips in a rapid fire montage, but realistically, it only saved about 10 minutes of running to the slab locations in NG+
@@morgansbasement fair enough, I did my achievements on PTDE and just frampt-duped the slabs in NG, but had already used my Red Slab when I did that AND managed to mess up getting a second pyro flame from Eingyi too lol
I didn't even know you could dupe things with Frampt in PTDE. I think 100% in 2012, so I can't remember if that was something I knew about back then. But losing the slap like you just said would be brutal 😂. I feel for you
Great video, how come some language is censored and some isn’t? Is there a limit to how many times you can swear before it becomes adult content or something?
TBH I swear way too much when I'm live streaming, and I just try to break up consecutive swears with bleeps every 5ish. It can help avoid the long arm of the youtube law. Some times it's for comedic effect, other times it's for getting too creative with my swears lol
@@morgansbasement I don’t think anyone could blame you for some “out of pocket swearing” during a challenge like this mate 😂
The executive decision was the right decision
I'm glad the two of us executives can agree on this
ngl I think you'd probably cry doing this for DS2
I might have to do a different challenge for DS2 lol. I already have all the achievements in both versions (This is my way of saying I'm scared of doing a no adaptability run in DS2)
@@morgansbasement ah, interesting
love the rdr2 soundtracks🙏🙏🙏🙏
Hell yeah!
Lets Go Morgan !! Noti gang!!!
LETS RUN IT!
"IITTTTTTT'S TIIIIIIIMMMEEE!" ☠
I never said I was a good editor, but I'll do my best to insert a Bruce Buffer phrase anywhere I can
Will he do it?? I bet he does
You might be on to something haha
Fromsoftware games are already not easy to beat, yet you decided to restrict yourself at level 1 and get every achievement. You're a beast!
Thanks for the gas!
SHAW
Good Luck Have Fun
No lie I had a TON of fun with this one
Morgan DA GOAT UTUBER
LETS GO BIG DOG
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Great video bro. I’m glad I beat this before you put this out so I don’t get spoiled lol
Souls games are so much better blind, and if you're only through DS1 then you have so many good times ahead of you dude. I'm actually jealous
@@morgansbasement unfortunately not as many as you think. The only games I’m blind on are ds2 and 3. I’ve platinumd the others already 😭
Hardest bosses in fromsoft history:
1. The camera
2. A group of hollows
3. A group of torch hollows
I couldn't have said it any better myself 😂
4. Dogs
Always good, ty
I'm glad you're still kicking and not drunk on the floor of the inn!
You dont have to fight o&s to fight the four kings btw...
I thought you needed the lord vessel to get Kaathe to interact with you, but TBH it's been awhile so I don't remember
@@TeeV479 Yes, yes you do. You need the Lord Vessel to get the key to the seal. Without it you can't drain lower New Londo
New challenge idea, get all achievements for dark souls without dying once, so basically have all achievements except the die for the first time. That would be a flex to show people that you have every achievement except the first one 99% of people get
That would take so long lol
At 8:37 thats from Crypto of the NEcrodancer in the background right? Mind telling me how the song is called it slaps
great video btw
You got the game for sure! Here's the song (I'm pretty sure): Crypt of the NecroDancer OST - Crypteque (1-2)
Awesome video, Morgan
Thanks for coming out to the streams!
@@morgansbasement Thanks for having me.
Let’s go! 🔥
Happy to have you back!
My favorite achievement hunter playing my favorite franchise? Count me in!
Let's go, Jan!
7:44 bro held in a burp or something lol
What are you doing in my recommendation? What do you want from me? Who you work for?
I come from achievement land, and I want to welcome you to my basement. Enjoy your stay 😂
Bro keeps finding ways to level up the editing, letsgoo!
Let's go! BKS never again!
Honestly, i would definitely suggest for anyone trying out ds1 sl1 runs, dont use the pyromancies unless really necessary. Learning the patterns and going through the game truly revitalises it after your first few normal runs, like the O&S fight is just genuinely beautiful when you get the hang of it, aswell as all the dlc bosses. But play the game as you will and most importantly have fun during it
I really enjoyed doing the SL1 runs, and I agree with you that it feels fantastic to get it done. If anyone is doing all the achievements I would definitely recommend using Pyro. It speeds up the process a ton, but definitely play the game in the way that maximizes fun. That's a great point
@@morgansbasement yeah, with all the achievements it’s completely understandable to use pyromancies, cus without it ng+ becomes wildly too difficult and it just expedites the process
Glad to see another video up! I downloaded 3 of your videos for a flight and it really helped me get through it 😂
I love to hear it! I hope the flight went as smooth as possible!
I’ve never played this game and probably never will but I’ll watch anything this man is up to
I can't believe you've never heard of the Souls series?? EITHER WAY... I'm happy to have you here!
@@morgansbasement I know it! Im generally a fan of fantasy but I rarely play RPGs. I think my most played RPG is GTAV and I mainly got into that through the cars. Halo also I guess but thats more FPS.
Love the backround music! W video!
Thank you!
That was fun!
Great video Morgan! Made it look easy 🤣
While it isnt 'easy', soul level one, and especially in the first game, actually isnt as hard as it sounds, the only hard part is being one or two-shot by a lot of things, he seems to have decided to handicap himself by not getting his axe upgraded to +5 before going to blighttown
Also pyromancies in ds1 and 2 are extremely powerful
Thanks Rob!
To be fair, every souls game is as simple as just don't get hit. The hardest part is planning out the route, and knowing when to sequence things for achievements
great content, fun run. GG’s!
Lets go, Ryan!
GG, my dude, this was epic!
I'm glad you liked it!
tbh I'd never heard of this game before but looks okay. bad graphics, and controls seem janky, so the difficulty is kinda artificial.
You've never heard of this game?? I'm actually surprised haha. The controls are actually really tight, and the difficulty is in learning boss patterns and timing invincibility rolls. The only bit of artificial difficulty was doing it at level 1 haha. Also, the game is close to 15 years old, so that would explain the graphics. I highly recommend the souls/bloodborne/elden ring games. I think you'd like them a ton
You should play it man, it’s a master piece. Concerning the graphics, it’s a game that is a decade old…
@@lez9098 I haven't got time really, COD and Battlefield put out another masterpiece pretty much every year so I'm mainly playing those
@@hoagie911 If you play videogames in your free time then you have time lil bro
@@lez9098 why do you assume I'm a guy? And I don't have much free time anyway, I just put out my new album and I'm going on tour again.