I love how he somehow manages to go to pretty much every single area except the Forest of Fallen Giants, the first area that you're actually supposed to explore.
He's Also not jumped into the pit yet, can access it early on since You just need the money for the cat ring and enough HP, but dan sure has a talent for never entering the first area in the Game
@@Hirohitorunguard No RT explicitly refused to go there during the entire first stream to spite the people telling him that was the first zone Then immediately went there during the second stream when he realized it wasn't an Elden Ring situation where you can pretty much go wherever and it'll work out fine
@@theessenceofawesome1 Is it at least like in DS1 where going out of order is still managable at low level to some extent? Like skipping Taurus Demon, entering Darkroot and going straight for the Gargoyles. You can break the order, but for the most part enemies don't scale too much.
@@leithaziz2716 for the most part, yeah. Enemy health values don't get that high in the first half of the game so you really could go for any of the Four Lords first. Trying to go for Old Iron King first might be a bit sketchy though.
I love how Dan’s previous characters were pretty well known Celebrities. but for This soulsgame, Dan has decided to go for a very specific,Niche, fellow English major, who-on top of that-looks like he’s been dipped in Glue I love this channel
Fisty McStronk appeared from the great beyond, spread death and destruction without even a single attack and returned from where he came, just like that. What a truly powerful entity to fear.
He was so strong his mere presence pushed Dan of the edge. Not only that, but he also chased RT into the water, showing that even in death he is never safe
“you need the adaptability to survive the ultra great sword attack from the boss of like the final dlc” RT already predicting that one slow swing attack from Fume Knight.
@@christianboi7690 It took me several hours of constant attempts until I got him. By the end I was actually summoning for him because I just wanted to be done with it.
For anyone who doesn’t know, the character named Dongle was using a ring called the Vanquisher’s Seal, which is a covenant ring that adds 300 AR to your bare fists, and adds 75% Strength scaling, making you an absolute killing machine.
Was that the Covenant of "make the enemies more bullshit tanky, but remove the bullshit respawn killing" Ring, or one of the no bonfire no dying rings?
@@ezekielbaskerville2710 Actually that covenant removed the weird mechanic where a specific enemy stops respawning if you kill them enough times. But yeah, it’s that ring, I believe it’s called the Vanquisher’s Seal.
@@kitt8132 That's what I mean. The covenant removes one mechanic that simply does not work in Dark Souls (the entire point is that everything keeps and keeps and _keeps_ rising from the dead, so why should they stop). Should've worded it a bit better, yeah
@@ezekielbaskerville2710 But it means you can *checks notes* wind up massively hollowed and stuck at half max health with literally no way to get any humanity.
After suffering on the second boss with no adaptability, then wrecking the entire game with 40 of it, I can indeed confirm that adaptability is very important
Adaptability is not important, Agility is. Attunement will raise Agility too, making casters' lives a bit easier. Inversely, you can make up for having bad Agility by having very good armor and high weight carry, or no armor at all and making use of the entire roll distance, a bit like you'd play any game where dodge rolling doesn't have s. Dark Souls 2 is just sort of made to break players who are too cocky and sure of themselves, and it shows lol
@@chickenheart3612 attunement barely raises it at all though. Agility is raised alot more by adaptability, so by extension that makes adaptability important.
Yeah, ADP is either feast or famine, whether you have basically none and life is misery, or you have enough and the game is trivial because it needs to be at least POSSIBLE for the no-agility tribe, it was a bad mechanic, when equip load and Dex-based cast-speed increase already fulfils a similar design role more elegantly, without undercutting fundamental core mechanics.
Doogle is actually using a ring to make his weapon invisible. You get the ring when you complete either a no bonfire run or a no death run (I forgot which one is which) EDIT: A couple people in the comments said he was doing a fist-build so I took a second look and they're probably right. It looks more like he's using his fists lol
Arachnophobia has to be the worst phobia for a gamer. Every game has to have that giant enemy spider. Luckily for me I have arachnophilia... no I mean-
I'm triggered by wrists... due to a catholic uncle showing me a graphic documentary about crucifixion when I was 6. I can't even play a first person game if the arms are uncovered. Everyone knows about arachnophobia.... but I NEVER get any warning before being subjected to sudden wrist shots that make me completely freak out.
Watching that first Dark Souls 2 stream was like seeing the perfect storm slowly form in the sky, that said, playing as Better Beckett has been some of the most fun Ive had in more than a thousand hours on this game.
Fun Fact: In Dark Souls 2, the Greatsword always aims for the exact direction your character is moving in. The only way for the lock-on function to work as intended with this weapon is to not move at all.
It doesn't aim in the direction you're moving in. Heavy weapons' attack direction can be manipulated even when locked on by holding down the movement input, but it starts out in the direction of your lock-on. This is very important for mixups and roll-catches in PvP, as otherwise you would be at an extreme disadvantage to lighter weapons.
There are three types of NPCs in Dark Souls 2: cryptic weirdos speaking nonsense, stuck up jerks talking down to you, and horribly confused dementia patients who wandered into the game on accident.
I dunno, there are some normal people like Rosabeth (the pyromancy girl you give clothes to), best boi Benhart of Jugo and the merchant guy chilling in the weeb zone. Maybe Lucatiel too, but her dumbass ai puts her straight into the third category for me
For some reason, DS2 makes you name your character _before_ you create them, so there was no way for Dan to know what he'd end up with. The name Beckett was chosen because Dan had made a couple jokes during the pre-game chat that DS2 had been inspired by the works of Irish author Samuel Beckett.
His short appearance and consequent disappearance set in stone the legend that is Fisty McStronk. They say he still spreads fear amongst the Dark Souls II servers.
he knows, he avoids the correct routes in these games cause of annoying backseating twitch viewers crying in the chat that he needs to go a certain direction to be optimal
Big blades like that swing slow so the game lets you input a direction during the swing so you can have more control over where it lands. It often makes you just turn around in the middle of battle more than anything.
Not really, if you're remotely observant you can find the first 2, then just run around until the door opens up on the way back. They don't follow you past the tiny stairs. Retreating and not going unga-bunga was always an option. Especially for the Iron Keep.
Can I just say majula has my favorite ambience theme of any soulsborne die-ring twice game. It’s the perfect level of calming and peaceful compared to the constant screaming in agony I had fighting for my life in the rest of the game.
So a little bit of mechanical trivia for you all. The physical defense of enemies will generally be about the same for all enemies in an area and will steadily rise the further into the game you go with some odd outliers. For instance: the Covetous Demon not only has unusually low defense for his area but he actually has the lowest defense in the game. But there's no outlier as extreme as those three little pigs in Majula, who have Final/DLC Boss defense.
Dark souls 2 is one of my favorites in the series, yeah it's VERY clunky and can be rough at times but at least give it a chance before writing it off. Looking forward to the series!
The level design and the PvP make it fun. Sure it's not the interconnected swiss cheese of 1 (which I also love) but on an individual zone basis, there's just a LOT of fun, cheeky stuff happening
Yes, Adaptability would help you with the ultra greatsword of the boss in the final DLC, the more I frames might make the difference between a grab connecting and not, or whether the end of your roll is invincible for long enough that when it flicks behind him you might or might not be invulnerable.
he knew it was there, its not his first attempt of the game, he avoided it cause of people whining at him that it was where he NEEDS to go and that he's playing wrong if he doesnt
@@JubioHDX Dan isn't a fan of backseat-gaming. It's what started what I've taken to call The Pants Conundrum back in Elden Ring (that, and he actually didn't know that game by virtue of it being new at the time)
For those who don't know, in DS2, the adaptability stat determines the amount of invincibility frames you get when you roll, meaning it is literally the most important stat in the game
So is the "stupid means" this time around gonna be summon spam? Or is it gonna be somehow getting into endgame areas before ever going to forest of the giants
Adaptability is genuinely super important in this game. During my first run of the game I never leveled it up and it seriously made Dark Souls 2 the hardest Souls game I've ever played, and I've done 1-3.
16:04 DS2 hitboxes in action, if you go frame by frame you can see how damage is dealt when he's not touching the blade at all. He intersects the spear in the instants leading up to death, but the moment when the damage registers is after he's clear of it. I suppose it could be bad animations instead of bad hitboxes, if it somehow stored and delayed dealing the damage from when he did connect with the spear until it no longer made sense to do so.
you have no clue how cathartic it is to watch someone who is normally gliding through games with the high strength builds, struggle the same ways I did with this game because man it is a lot more frustrating than the first
I went through this whole game without ever leveling Adaptability. It wasn't that bad and I never felt like I didn't have enough s. I only ever figured out what that stat did like 2 years ago mind you. People just suck that thing off too much with this game and it's obnoxious. You don't NEED it
I did the same on my first run through (non-SotFS) and the only part where I struggled was Fume Knight, since the timing on dodging the slow sweep attack in phase 2 has to be almost frame-perfect without ADP.
To be fair, without taking points in adp, rolling basically has zero i-frames, meaning Dan would have died way more. Unfortunately by taking it first he will never really know that.
Dark Souls 2 is like Dark Souls on steroids. I'm pretty sure after that game, the developers realized their fans wanted their future games to be easy because hard games were too scary and too hard (the irony is strong in that community).
With a wildly unpopular opinion, this is my favorite souls game. I don’t disagree that it’s not the best but DS2 is the most fun I’ve had playing a souls game period. It’s both incredibly easy and bullshit difficult with life gems and ADP and choosing to not use either of these. Depending on how you want to play this is either the hardest or the easiest souls game by far (sorta like Eldenring). The lore is meh, kinda just DS1 but again, nonetheless still intriguing. The music is wonderful and this is proved by the fact you’ve probably heard the majula theme at least once even if you’ve never played the game before. The bosses are great (most of the time) and are numerous providing cool weapons and difficult challenges. Anyways I should probably watch the video now 😅
This also doesn’t even mention the sheer amount of levels you can get which increase build variety greatly and the fact you can use most weapons pretty far into the game
Hehe you know your stuff. I think it's cool to see people share the knowledge of things they love :> Idk anything about this game, but I think it's cool. I can't play it though bc I don't have the patience to figure all that out rn. Oh and I'm broke
This one brought so many memories, and specially I reflect on how I didn't really like any of the areas throughout the game LOL! Looking at it with perspective, and after having played Sekiro, Dark Souls 3 and Elden Ring after it... Thinking about the areas on Dark Souls 2, it seems to me the whole game was made on the idea of making your life myserable with traps, all enemies strategically positioned to harass, take you by surprise, or flood you with numbers, cramped areas, more traps, etc. I believe I would hate playing this game right now after having played all the others... The only trully good things I recall are the bosses, A LOT and varied and almost all of them gave you their soul to change for equipment, some of the zones for the ambiance, tone and design like the lava castle, the underground waters were the giant SIren-toad sings, the tower of the mirror knight, the dragon mountaintops, or even that underground section on Majula's well that was pitch black (although, of course, the poison-spitting traps xD)... Then the DLCs were pretty decent too and added quite a bunch of new bosses, weapons and nifty things to collect, plus some new mechanics and nice developed areas.
Leave it to RT to run out of healing items in the only game in the Soulsborne series where you can have enough healing to literally outheal a dozen enemies ganking you, late game, without breaking a sweat.
If i was in Twitch Chat i would've told RT that ADP speeds ups item animations Edit. That dragon guy without the weapon beat the game without dying/using bonfires to get a special ring that makes your weapon invis
bro fought late game bosses with a +0 weapon and managed to miss both blacksmiths, witch is Impressive since he was so close to one at the last minutes of the episode
Jack Horner’s wish wasn’t just to take all the magic from world, but it was also to acquire the ungodly powers of Sexual Orientation East
So evil
Nobody expected dreamworks to give RT their villain origin story movie to create, but I’m here for it
The antithesis of Kanye West
Jack horner: "visable regret" shit
Glad to see you're still around StickMaster
I love how he somehow manages to go to pretty much every single area except the Forest of Fallen Giants, the first area that you're actually supposed to explore.
He's Also not jumped into the pit yet, can access it early on since You just need the money for the cat ring and enough HP, but dan sure has a talent for never entering the first area in the Game
I blame that on DS2's weird map design
@@Hirohitorunguard No RT explicitly refused to go there during the entire first stream to spite the people telling him that was the first zone
Then immediately went there during the second stream when he realized it wasn't an Elden Ring situation where you can pretty much go wherever and it'll work out fine
@@theessenceofawesome1 Is it at least like in DS1 where going out of order is still managable at low level to some extent? Like skipping Taurus Demon, entering Darkroot and going straight for the Gargoyles. You can break the order, but for the most part enemies don't scale too much.
@@leithaziz2716 for the most part, yeah. Enemy health values don't get that high in the first half of the game so you really could go for any of the Four Lords first. Trying to go for Old Iron King first might be a bit sketchy though.
I like how RT character is so bright he is literally a giant light bulb whenever he walks into a room
RT, The Bright Lord. Solaire would be proud.
No need for torches
The true Irish experience
Oh so is character is basically CallMeKevin
That reminds me of the character i made looked far freakyer alive with humanity than undeath
Well you know what they say, cant bake a pie without losing a dozen men
~Jack Horner after all his summons die
He must have been baking that famed dung pie in this universe.
Oh, that's horrible...
The mother of all omelettes.
I'm glad I finally watched that movie to get that reference.
@@Twinklethefox9022 it's such a good movie
It's nice to see the skin colour slider goes all the way to Irish in this.
i know truly amazing
I love how Dan’s previous characters were pretty well known Celebrities. but for This soulsgame, Dan has decided to go for a very specific,Niche, fellow English major, who-on top of that-looks like he’s been dipped in Glue
I love this channel
he also looks like an irredeemable monster!!
Nah that’s jack horner the main villain I. The new puss and boots
Children are crying, women are fainting and even strong men are quivering as Dabiel says:
"Beating Dark Souls II by completely stupid means"
*_DABIEL_*
Da🅱️iel
Dabiel
Dab(iel)
D🆎ℹ️📧🛴
Fisty McStronk appeared from the great beyond, spread death and destruction without even a single attack and returned from where he came, just like that.
What a truly powerful entity to fear.
I was LOSING my SHIT when that happened lmao. That was hilarious when he was slowly and menacingly approaching
Fisty McStronk, God Punching Menace
He was so strong his mere presence pushed Dan of the edge. Not only that, but he also chased RT into the water, showing that even in death he is never safe
Wait is fisty mcstronk the official name for this character rt made?
@@Twinklethefox9022 nope, Fisty McStronk is the invader at 8:38
“you need the adaptability to survive the ultra great sword attack from the boss of like the final dlc”
RT already predicting that one slow swing attack from Fume Knight.
And ivory king's lightsaber attacks
@@MrcreeperDXD777 No, those are too quick to make i-frames completely necessary
Just walk and you avoid that one
I didn't touch ADP and that was like the one boss in the whole game I had trouble with. It was awful.
@@christianboi7690 It took me several hours of constant attempts until I got him. By the end I was actually summoning for him because I just wanted to be done with it.
Fisty McStronk appeared from the depth of hell, intimidated Dan into accidentally game ending himself then went to bed. What a chad
For anyone who doesn’t know, the character named Dongle was using a ring called the Vanquisher’s Seal, which is a covenant ring that adds 300 AR to your bare fists, and adds 75% Strength scaling, making you an absolute killing machine.
Was that the Covenant of "make the enemies more bullshit tanky, but remove the bullshit respawn killing" Ring, or one of the no bonfire no dying rings?
@@ezekielbaskerville2710
Actually that covenant removed the weird mechanic where a specific enemy stops respawning if you kill them enough times. But yeah, it’s that ring, I believe it’s called the Vanquisher’s Seal.
@@kitt8132 That's what I mean. The covenant removes one mechanic that simply does not work in Dark Souls (the entire point is that everything keeps and keeps and _keeps_ rising from the dead, so why should they stop).
Should've worded it a bit better, yeah
@@ezekielbaskerville2710
You’re fine lol, but yeah, Vanquisher’s Seal.
@@ezekielbaskerville2710 But it means you can *checks notes* wind up massively hollowed and stuck at half max health with literally no way to get any humanity.
After suffering on the second boss with no adaptability, then wrecking the entire game with 40 of it, I can indeed confirm that adaptability is very important
Adaptability is not important, Agility is. Attunement will raise Agility too, making casters' lives a bit easier.
Inversely, you can make up for having bad Agility by having very good armor and high weight carry, or no armor at all and making use of the entire roll distance, a bit like you'd play any game where dodge rolling doesn't have s.
Dark Souls 2 is just sort of made to break players who are too cocky and sure of themselves, and it shows lol
@@chickenheart3612 attunement barely raises it at all though. Agility is raised alot more by adaptability, so by extension that makes adaptability important.
Yeah, ADP is either feast or famine, whether you have basically none and life is misery, or you have enough and the game is trivial because it needs to be at least POSSIBLE for the no-agility tribe, it was a bad mechanic, when equip load and Dex-based cast-speed increase already fulfils a similar design role more elegantly, without undercutting fundamental core mechanics.
I barely leveled at all, I had no idea that was a thing
@baabaa9000 I did too when I tried it the first time. I stopped playing because there was so much frustrating me
“Y-you’re not going to bludgeon an innocent NPC, are ya, Jack?“
“Yeah, in the face, why?”
Doogle is actually using a ring to make his weapon invisible. You get the ring when you complete either a no bonfire run or a no death run (I forgot which one is which)
EDIT: A couple people in the comments said he was doing a fist-build so I took a second look and they're probably right. It looks more like he's using his fists lol
I think left hand is no Bonfire and the right is no death. But idk
both its for diffrent hands each
The attack animation looked more like two handed fists, probably the champions seal
I did the no bonfire one, shrine of Amana was a nightmare
No he's not. He's using power stanced fists with dragon form and probably the champions seal for high unarmed damage.
15:22 - Old Dragonslayer's jaunty little jog up to him for the final hit is hilarious.
That feeling when you wake up and don’t know what day it is, that’s what this game is like
Alzheimer's: The Video Game!
Awe gee, that's already my life
Arachnophobia has to be the worst phobia for a gamer. Every game has to have that giant enemy spider. Luckily for me I have arachnophilia... no I mean-
Love of spiders?
Giant enemy spider
Quelaag I assume...
I'm triggered by wrists... due to a catholic uncle showing me a graphic documentary about crucifixion when I was 6. I can't even play a first person game if the arms are uncovered. Everyone knows about arachnophobia.... but I NEVER get any warning before being subjected to sudden wrist shots that make me completely freak out.
@@SotiCoto Oh shit that sucks and cause it aint common so not like devs would think of putting wrist warnings in games...
Watching that first Dark Souls 2 stream was like seeing the perfect storm slowly form in the sky, that said, playing as Better Beckett has been some of the most fun Ive had in more than a thousand hours on this game.
Better Beckett, you absolute legend
Fun Fact: In Dark Souls 2, the Greatsword always aims for the exact direction your character is moving in. The only way for the lock-on function to work as intended with this weapon is to not move at all.
This is intentional and a lot of people like this for roll catching!
Of course I despise it and can't use any big weapons in ds2 as a result -_-
It doesn't aim in the direction you're moving in. Heavy weapons' attack direction can be manipulated even when locked on by holding down the movement input, but it starts out in the direction of your lock-on. This is very important for mixups and roll-catches in PvP, as otherwise you would be at an extreme disadvantage to lighter weapons.
@@lefthandedscout9923 I can relate, it's hard to adapt to.
@@orbitalvagabond A feature you can also turn off if you really want to
same for thrusting swords genuinely the worst part of the game except maybe adp
There are three types of NPCs in Dark Souls 2: cryptic weirdos speaking nonsense, stuck up jerks talking down to you, and horribly confused dementia patients who wandered into the game on accident.
dementia waifus*
I dunno, there are some normal people like Rosabeth (the pyromancy girl you give clothes to), best boi Benhart of Jugo and the merchant guy chilling in the weeb zone. Maybe Lucatiel too, but her dumbass ai puts her straight into the third category for me
Pate, Craighton and Lucatiel
At least there's Vendrick
Truly one of Rtgame’s most UA-cam ideas!
Really puts the UA-cam in UA-cam
How can Dan disrespect Jack Horner by not naming his character after him
I think this may have been before he watched the movie
For some reason, DS2 makes you name your character _before_ you create them, so there was no way for Dan to know what he'd end up with. The name Beckett was chosen because Dan had made a couple jokes during the pre-game chat that DS2 had been inspired by the works of Irish author Samuel Beckett.
Dan's chat actually warning him about the spiders really shows respect
I ADORE that shot of Fisty McStronk just calmly walking through like three fights actively happening like he's the hero of a medieval epid
His short appearance and consequent disappearance set in stone the legend that is Fisty McStronk. They say he still spreads fear amongst the Dark Souls II servers.
RT is such a great streamer, not only does he interact with his audience, he literally needs them to beat games for him
I just can't wait for him to get to the areas with enemies that will shoot you literally the entire way from bonfire to boss fight
Just kill those guys. seriously it's not like its that hard
I feel like Dan's issue in this playthrough was not having enough ADP (Adaptability).
Finally someone said what we are all thinking.
what does that stat actually do
@@rigen97 more I frames on your roll(longer dodge window) which is given to you automatically in the other installments
@@silverwolf5547 it also increases the speed at which you use items like the flask or gems
somebody 100% should have told him what agility was and what number to get it to
The one time RT didn't name him something notable is the time where he looks like Jack Honer
He was, for reasons i forget, named after author Samuel Beckett
Rt trying to fight the pigs not knowing they're some of the hardest enemies in the game
I mean isn't that just a rite of passage for all new DS2 players?
They literally only exist as a skill check of whether or not you've discovered lock on yet.
@@davidmcgill1000 lock on doesnt help lol
Its actually much easier without lockon depending on your weapon
he knows, he avoids the correct routes in these games cause of annoying backseating twitch viewers crying in the chat that he needs to go a certain direction to be optimal
Watching this live was an absolute blast, seeing all the new characters people made was hillarious
I was Rumbly Tumbly. My life is complete.
Big blades like that swing slow so the game lets you input a direction during the swing so you can have more control over where it lands. It often makes you just turn around in the middle of battle more than anything.
17:16 ganked by 6 enemies. Truly a Scholar of the first sin moment.
Seeing how Heide is here is making me extremely glad to be playing vanila.
We haven't even gotten to Iron Keep yet.
You can pretty easily make this 4 if you look around first and deal with 2 individually
@@leithaziz2716 oh yeah, the iron keep is gonna be "fun".
Not really, if you're remotely observant you can find the first 2, then just run around until the door opens up on the way back. They don't follow you past the tiny stairs.
Retreating and not going unga-bunga was always an option. Especially for the Iron Keep.
0:35 Don't insult the man's choice to wear 70 layers of sunscreen Daniel! He's just being careful.
I can’t believe Jack Horner was in Dark souls II
Can I just say majula has my favorite ambience theme of any soulsborne die-ring twice game. It’s the perfect level of calming and peaceful compared to the constant screaming in agony I had fighting for my life in the rest of the game.
I love how I don’t even have to have watched the stream to know rt was avoiding the first area on purpose
His joke about needing ADP to dodge an ultra great sword from a dlc boss is actually spot on
Fume Knight my beloved
But dodging good old Raimes attack isnt hard. Yes he is a hard boss without ADP but every move is absolutely dodgable without
@@Naphielsthe AoE he does, the orbs can't be dodged through unless you have 90 agility.
This is truly a moment of all time
Jack(Horner) Moment
What makes you so certain of that?
absolutely youtube moment
March was shaping up to be the worst month I’ve had in long time… up until around 10 minutes ago.
Thank you RT, you are the best
I’m just amazed he managed to have nearly every bad experience possible while playing lol
mainly due to his own actions.
So a little bit of mechanical trivia for you all. The physical defense of enemies will generally be about the same for all enemies in an area and will steadily rise the further into the game you go with some odd outliers. For instance: the Covetous Demon not only has unusually low defense for his area but he actually has the lowest defense in the game. But there's no outlier as extreme as those three little pigs in Majula, who have Final/DLC Boss defense.
Dark souls 2 is one of my favorites in the series, yeah it's VERY clunky and can be rough at times but at least give it a chance before writing it off. Looking forward to the series!
The level design and the PvP make it fun. Sure it's not the interconnected swiss cheese of 1 (which I also love) but on an individual zone basis, there's just a LOT of fun, cheeky stuff happening
It's not great, but it's more fun than it has any right to be
It is easily my favorite one, I put more time into the base one than the other souls-likes combined :D (not a fan of scholar tho)
The first Dark souls game I played and while it has alot of *UA-cam* things that'll make you wanna quit I can't find myself hating it
I like it the least out of all the souls games, but I will say it's also oddly addicting to play.
Yes, Adaptability would help you with the ultra greatsword of the boss in the final DLC, the more I frames might make the difference between a grab connecting and not, or whether the end of your roll is invincible for long enough that when it flicks behind him you might or might not be invulnerable.
To be fair, the "first zone" is near impossible to find without a guide. Dan took basically the same route through the game I did the first time.
he knew it was there, its not his first attempt of the game, he avoided it cause of people whining at him that it was where he NEEDS to go and that he's playing wrong if he doesnt
@@JubioHDX Dan isn't a fan of backseat-gaming. It's what started what I've taken to call The Pants Conundrum back in Elden Ring (that, and he actually didn't know that game by virtue of it being new at the time)
7:45 the audacity of this man to call them npcs
There is something hilarious about RT going from "The worst game ever according to people who haven't played the game" to "I hate this game"
Am from the future and it's now near the top of the list for fromsoft games because the lore ties everything together
watching dan play this game after me playing it for the first time a month back is really making me realise how much pain i went through for it ahahah
For those who don't know, in DS2, the adaptability stat determines the amount of invincibility frames you get when you roll, meaning it is literally the most important stat in the game
Unless you're doing a "no rolling/backstepping" challenge. In which case you should level up Intelligence a lot, because you CLEARLY HAVE NONE!
Imagine not only needing half the s of DS1, git gud
You level it till your agility is 90+ and forget it for the rest of the game, my guy, it's like the least important thing to learn about DS2
it is in no way the most important stat. really overblowing it.
You don’t need that much Adaptability at all. If you are too unskilled you might as well level HP at that point.
So is the "stupid means" this time around gonna be summon spam? Or is it gonna be somehow getting into endgame areas before ever going to forest of the giants
I actually hope he goes to like shulva before he finds the forest.
Spoiler alert
He reached the start of tseldora before going to the forest of fallen giants and finally upgraded his weapon. Because spiders
@@LazloRTR .....How. How can the same man who perfectly optimized half of the games he played this year entirely turn his brain off for this?
@@grimms1916 because spiders
@@grimms1916 He avoided the Forest because people said it was the first area. Kept refusing until he hit a wall.
i just love how if you keep hitting the pigs and making them respawn a bunch they just get bigger and bigger until its a giant boar.
The DS summons remain one of my favorite RT fan engagement methods lol
2:35 Jeff Bezos looks suspiciously similar to Patches... wait! Is that the secret lore?!
Adaptability is genuinely super important in this game. During my first run of the game I never leveled it up and it seriously made Dark Souls 2 the hardest Souls game I've ever played, and I've done 1-3.
He really fought Orstein 2: Dark Boogaloo that many times and nobody told him to just dodge aggressively into the spear instead of away from it?
Yeah, why is he dodging backwards against a spear user
9:02 he's just walking towards me... Menacingly
You really bring light into my life
Hack Jorner: 💡
finally, the "completely stupid means" live up to their name. Properly scuffed order of progression
so we're gonna act like the ds1 run wasnt started in the same way?
he got the dragon greatsword immediately in ds1 and got the fire keeper killed without upping his estus once so its not the first time
16:04 DS2 hitboxes in action, if you go frame by frame you can see how damage is dealt when he's not touching the blade at all. He intersects the spear in the instants leading up to death, but the moment when the damage registers is after he's clear of it. I suppose it could be bad animations instead of bad hitboxes, if it somehow stored and delayed dealing the damage from when he did connect with the spear until it no longer made sense to do so.
Enjoying the slow descent of “surely it can’t be THAT bad?” to “I hate this game.”
the completely stupid means series is one of my top tier favourite series on all of UA-cam
Oh god he’s playing jack horner
"So I've gotta swing right..."
Immediately goes left.
This may be a real UA-cam game so far, but I’m glad that RT started having more fun with the second stream. Looking forward to the next one!
It's the best Dark souls game
@@rotationalshorts9104 extremely subjective
19:25 rt just grabbed the branch and whimpered looking downward. Classic cartoon. I love dark souls.
RT's being a real youtube character with all these summons I love it
They used to call him the ADP king back in college
The only dark souls game to give you a hormone slider
This is how to make soulsborne video if you aren't great at the games. Just complete fucking chaos. Love it.
These videos genuinely make my day when Im feeling down, thank you so much RT.
you have no clue how cathartic it is to watch someone who is normally gliding through games with the high strength builds, struggle the same ways I did with this game because man it is a lot more frustrating than the first
You remind me that I haven't finished Dark Souls 2. And now I want to go back and finish it. Thank you RT :)
I love that the dougdoug pizza bit transferred over to RT
I can't wait to see more of these highlights, dark souls 2 is my favorite of the series but it's jank as hell
So, it took me until the Pursuer showed up at the very end of the video that I realized Dan never went through the very first area of the game.
I’m glad that RT summoned an ally from the great past. From once a man called _Francis of the filth_
He walked towards me. Menacingly.
Dude really just made Jack Horner his character
I started with DS2 and seeing RT play it brings back some unwanted memories, thanks Dan
He really went to every single wrong place to go first lol
I went through this whole game without ever leveling Adaptability. It wasn't that bad and I never felt like I didn't have enough s. I only ever figured out what that stat did like 2 years ago mind you. People just suck that thing off too much with this game and it's obnoxious. You don't NEED it
I did the same on my first run through (non-SotFS) and the only part where I struggled was Fume Knight, since the timing on dodging the slow sweep attack in phase 2 has to be almost frame-perfect without ADP.
This is my most played game and thanks to RT I am seeing grab attacks I didn't even know existed
To be fair, without taking points in adp, rolling basically has zero i-frames, meaning Dan would have died way more. Unfortunately by taking it first he will never really know that.
RT’s character certainly brighter than my future
Dark Souls 2 is like Dark Souls on steroids. I'm pretty sure after that game, the developers realized their fans wanted their future games to be easy because hard games were too scary and too hard (the irony is strong in that community).
With a wildly unpopular opinion, this is my favorite souls game.
I don’t disagree that it’s not the best but DS2 is the most fun I’ve had playing a souls game period. It’s both incredibly easy and bullshit difficult with life gems and ADP and choosing to not use either of these. Depending on how you want to play this is either the hardest or the easiest souls game by far (sorta like Eldenring).
The lore is meh, kinda just DS1 but again, nonetheless still intriguing. The music is wonderful and this is proved by the fact you’ve probably heard the majula theme at least once even if you’ve never played the game before. The bosses are great (most of the time) and are numerous providing cool weapons and difficult challenges.
Anyways I should probably watch the video now 😅
This also doesn’t even mention the sheer amount of levels you can get which increase build variety greatly and the fact you can use most weapons pretty far into the game
Hehe you know your stuff. I think it's cool to see people share the knowledge of things they love :> Idk anything about this game, but I think it's cool. I can't play it though bc I don't have the patience to figure all that out rn. Oh and I'm broke
I have no desire to play the Souls series, but RT doing insane shit in them that somehow works is such a UA-cam move.
This one brought so many memories, and specially I reflect on how I didn't really like any of the areas throughout the game LOL! Looking at it with perspective, and after having played Sekiro, Dark Souls 3 and Elden Ring after it... Thinking about the areas on Dark Souls 2, it seems to me the whole game was made on the idea of making your life myserable with traps, all enemies strategically positioned to harass, take you by surprise, or flood you with numbers, cramped areas, more traps, etc. I believe I would hate playing this game right now after having played all the others... The only trully good things I recall are the bosses, A LOT and varied and almost all of them gave you their soul to change for equipment, some of the zones for the ambiance, tone and design like the lava castle, the underground waters were the giant SIren-toad sings, the tower of the mirror knight, the dragon mountaintops, or even that underground section on Majula's well that was pitch black (although, of course, the poison-spitting traps xD)... Then the DLCs were pretty decent too and added quite a bunch of new bosses, weapons and nifty things to collect, plus some new mechanics and nice developed areas.
Leave it to RT to run out of healing items in the only game in the Soulsborne series where you can have enough healing to literally outheal a dozen enemies ganking you, late game, without breaking a sweat.
I really hope you do DS3 at some point. Love love love the chaos you get into in these games RT
I sure hope he discovers dancer early
Nice to see a sequel (kinda) to my favorite RT video
Ah, the Dark Souls 2 of Dark Souls. The Dark Souls of all time
I love Dark Souls 2, and I'm going to enjoy these videos, especially with how the first couple minutes have been so far
If i was in Twitch Chat i would've told RT that ADP speeds ups item animations Edit. That dragon guy without the weapon beat the game without dying/using bonfires to get a special ring that makes your weapon invis
What kind of crazy person one-hands a weapon but doesn't even use the other hand for anything...?
Dan is a good lad because he's willing to give even Sark Douls Too a try. And probably some other stuff, too.
bro fought late game bosses with a +0 weapon and managed to miss both blacksmiths, witch is Impressive since he was so close to one at the last minutes of the episode
I was so excited to see the fisty mcstrong moment in the highlights and it did not disappoint lol
Fisty McStronk will fist his way into the 2023 Highlights as well. Mark my words
I saw you when you streamed it and I've been very excited to watch this series, your souls ones are my favourite
Jack Horner is my favorite character RT has made yet