You can even see him using poison cogfly in the video
what a faggot
he's still doing this shtick?
>>722255029>do boomers reallyDo boomers really what? That dude was born in the 80s.
>>722255029Didn't this faggot get btfo by monster hunter world?
>>722255029Unless you are going for 100%, I don't really see what is filtering people so handily. What boss or level seems to give people the most trouble for just clearing Act 2?
>>722255029His videos took on a different angle when I grasped that he sucked at games.
>>722255029Okay so fucking explain why he shits on silk for it being too hard BUT he can't even beat elden ring and gives it his top 5 games of the year, the absolute fuck
>>722256271Because hes a shill & a faggot. You really need to ask?
He has to entertain retards every week with different games so he can't play a 60 hour game fully.Whether or not he lacks the skill is irrelevant. I think he doesn't finish at least half the stuff he reviews.
>>722255318it's not working out for them anymore, the views are dogshit compared to where zeropunc used to be they did make a video crying about how youtube was not showing their views and it helped get them 10k in patreon money then all of a sudden they removed the video.. how odd
It's always a soulsfag, is it
>>722255029who the fuck cares about this random faggot? off topic and kys
>>722256271He's always been a casual. He said MGS4 was too easy because they give you a tranq gun with unlimited ammo, unaware that you only get that if you're playing on Very Easy.
>>722256435Idk why boomers like it so much eventhough it released past their primes.
>>722256378https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpVnx4_yqToit's still there
Gay nigga outtee habbindem pinions boutta gane he ain done wit skullemoji
>>722256613God I'm so fucking sick of listening to Youtubers complain about how hard their "job" is
who?
>>722255318I mean he kinda has to. It's not like Czo Mythos is going to have a sudden resurgence.
>>722256571Lmao
>>722256613then that's my bad, had trouble seeing it amongst the same looking thumbnails
>filtered by the High Halls arenael em ayy oh
>>722255029I saw that he's splitting from the escapist and thought oh cool finally but instead of going solo he paired up with ANOTHER company of litterallywhos to hardcarry and then literally the first video they uploaded was with Jim fucking Sterling so I gave up on ever watching him
>5 hours on the high halls gank fightmfw you can one shot it by having shakra help you for doing her quest. game sucks anyway
>>722256571holy fuck really? I thought he was one of the only decent game journos
>>722256714Then stop watching them. No one is forcing you to watch their youtube meta/whining videos.
>>722257152imagine if he made it to coral tower jej
>>722255852Everybody over 20 is a boomer to zoomoids.
>>722257262https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3vPq047-8s>The sneaking works well, but they load you down with a toy box full of gimmicky stealth tools and techniques that you will never ever needs to use, because you start off with a silenced tranquilizer pistol that can knock out enemy soldiers in one shot and never runs out of ammo, breaking the stealth gameplay over its knee with a sickening crack.Made all the more hilarious by the fact that it's literally called the "EZ Gun"
>>722255029oh hi Randy. Is this your way of deflecting from how he shat all over BL4?
>>722257262There are no decent game journos.
NOOO DONT CRITICISE SHILLSONG NOOO
>>722258086It’s hilarious that people still try to use “he criticized a game you like” as a deflection for criticism of this moron. Truly the fromwdrone “filtered” of ecelebs. Slop eater dialogue tree is shallow
>>722257105>Jim fucking SterlingImagine fucking that
>>722258048>someone pointed that he's playing ez mode in the comments >the replies were defending Yahtzee Ahh things never change
>>722256271He shat all over Demon's Souls when it came out for being too hard and then said he loved Dark Souls when it came out to hop on the bandwagon when it blew up in popularity, he's just a trendchaser
>>722255318Why would he not?
>>722255029>Libtard cuckhold is bad at videogames yet someone he made a career out of playing videogames
>>722258680I believed his retarded friend forced him to like the series and he bent the knee to peer pressure.
>>722257262>thought he was one of the only decent game journosLol dude. The type of shit he complains about in games are problems only a complete moron would run into
>>722256271Because it's 3D with le modern graphics.
What happened to his podcast he did with his buddy?
>>7222562712D games aren't as worthwhile as 3D, everybody knows this, retard.
>>722256271Silksong wasnt even hard, just annoying at times. I seriously dont know wtf people are talking about when they complain that its too hard
>>722258680Just like all you zoomers who got filtered by Shadow tower in 1999
>>7222589323D dot game heroes is the best game of all time
>>722255029Silksong isn't even harder than Sekiro or Elden Ring. It's pretty easy overall.
>>722255029When did (You) stop watching?
>>722256271He was worried disliking Dark Souls/Elden Ring would show him for being a complete poser.He shat all over Demons' Souls, but completely flipped around and praised DS when it came out, because a huge part of his shtick in ye olde days was being "le real gamer" who hated how easy and simple so many games were.Same as how he'll rave about games like Painkiller while also hating games for not being cerebral enough for him, and then hate games that try tell interesting or difficult stories, because "I'm bored, I just want action."
>>722259025it's significantly harder than any fromslop game because it's almost impossible to cheese
>>722257262As soon as you actually know anything about the game he's talking about, you can usually tell that Yahtzee only played it for like 2-3hours max.Especially if it's a Nintendo game. I don't know if he's still like that, I haven't listened to him about anything Nintendo for years, but it used to be painfully clear he hadn't even played the games he was screaming and pissing himself over.
>>722259378When he said you don't need to finish a game to make a review of it. That really showed he is just another journo retard.
>>722257262people said the same about angry joe and look how that turned out
>>722259378few years ago, don't remember when or why
I remember his Monster Hunter Tri review; What he said about the game's camera was the most hyperbolic shit ever.
>gets paid to complain about video games he barely plays>meanwhile you do it for freeWhats your excuse /v/?
>>722255029He's been down on difficulty in games for a while now.He didn't like Dark Souls 3 (even though it's the easiest one) and never even finished Elden Ring.He said it's some sort of Souls Fatigue (a while before nigger fatigue managed to escape this site and the word became overused)The guy's just getting old and just not having fun with the struggle in games anymore.
>>722259865I do it for the love of the game
>>722256378they? is it more than one dude?
>Watch exactly one new review of his' (I can't even remember for which game)>In the video he literally says he regrets how he wore a fedora to his wedding>Never watch him again out of sheer second-hand embarrassment
>Play games for over 20 years>Still suck at themWhy
>>722256271He is generally a massive hypocrite>laments triple a games obsession with impressive graphics, constantly mocks older 3d games for have weird graphics>claims to be a master of narrative game design and writing, yet will get pissy when people correct him for missing obvious details and plot points like in kotor >got annoyed in this video when the get good crowd clowned on him for this despite being a card carrying member of that cohort for years once liking rollslop became the popular thing to likeHe's far past his prime at this point. The whole 'cynical, snarky British gamer who has a huge chip on his shoulder for liking roll slop and hating triple a games' is practically a cliche at this point.
>>722260073never forget that aidsmoby said they'd be fine without yahtzee
>>722257320Coral Tower is much easier than High Halls.
>>722259924Anyone who's a dad gamer should retire vidya. I think 30 is too old to like souls or any multi-player trash. No offense to dads since they have the most important job of raising kids.
>>722260223>That bit in the SH2 Remake where he claims SH1 deserved a Remake more because "the grafix are weird and the story sucks!!!!", when the entire point of the Remake was to leave the story untouched while sprucing up the grafix and gameplay>When SH4 is right there being an insufferable slog to play
>>722256271He's being a faggot about silksong but he dropped Elden Ring despite liking it because it was too long for his schedule, not because it was too hard. At the time of his review he hadn't even made it to Leyndell yet, and lamented not getting further.
Actually, I agree with him. Fuck high halls.
>>722260364They shouldn't retire from gaming. They should just find their own gaming retirement home in a sense. Replay old comfortable familiar games instead of forcing yourself to remain "with it" by playing what the kids are playing.
>>722259378Never watched him consistently. He is entertaining in dozes but his vidya opinions arn't that interesting. Chzo Mythos games were surprisingly fun tho.
>>722260223What did he miss in KotoR
>>722260364I completed Dark Souls for the first time this year an I'm in my 30s.But Dark Souls isn't actually a hard game, the menus are obtuse and the graphics/music create the illusory ambiance of difficulty, but once you know what your doing its not harder than Mario.
Everyone knew Yahtzee was a faggot with trash taste 15 years ago, why is this still a surprise?
>>722255029>4.7k views
>>722258609god dude I just finished jerking off and you hit me with this post while my dick is still out?jesus
>>722261135None of the fromsoft games are hard, they're not even tedious at worst. All they do is punish carelessness, and that's enough to make people seethe.
>>722256219Probably moorwing, last judge, and high halls gauntlet. Although two of those can be bypassed by guide fagging.
>>722260352completely delusional
>>722261493I literally first tried Coral Tower after completing everything I could in act 2.I struggled in High Halls after getting there relatively early.That may or may not have created a bias.
>>722259143I'm 35, faggot, I loved Demon's Souls when it came out and have fond memories of talking about it here before Dark Souls PTDE came out and the community completely went to shit
>>722256219Moorwing or Last Judge are probably the first real roadblocks most people will hit, but he apparently got past those to fight the Cogwork Dancersso maybe just the jumping section of Cogwork Core pissed him off because he didn't find double jump, I dunno
>>722255029Tell me how I’m supposed to feel about this information. I beat Silksong and watch Zero Punctuation weekly btw.
>>722261135now, we have these dipshits who thought they were good at them running their months about how to create a proper difficult game
>>722261751His reviews are worthless but his writing is funny I guess
>>722259354No, it's not. No matter how casual eceleb in op gets, elden shit is still easier than silkshit. Objectively at that. Because fucking vast variety of shit player can pull off in elden crap.
I don't understand. Silksong is not that hard. Its not even close to the DLC stuff in Hollow Knight in terms of difficulty. It offers a generous amount of shit to tackle problems with. Like I'm talking the default normal mode, not the permadie one. How the fuck is THIS game the hardest thing people ever played? Did people forget how to pogo jump in the last five years or something?
>>722261635I didn't get filtered by Moorwing but I got Garmond to assist. Last Judge was frustrating but I was able to beat it after a day of rest.The only challenge that made me want to quit was the High Halls gauntlet. And even then I just went somewhere else for like 2 days building strength. Improved my nail, found Eva, got used to the flea cocaine. The irony of it all is that I ended up beating the High Halls gauntlet... with the Beast Crest and the Barbed Bracelet
This guy seriously embodied the joke he made a while ago where he saw an animation of an elevator, threw his controller and yelled "BORED NOW!"
>eceleb goyslop>goyslop gamewhy is /v/ full of such slop consuming redditors?
>>722257262All game journos will eventually become shit over time as they run out of content they are experienced with to fall back on and the demands of consistent releases means they will never have the time to engage with anything new to a actually insightful level.
>>722255029This board is for ANONYMOUS opinions about VIDEO GAMES!If you want to advertise your internet boyfriend and his shitty “gaming channel”, you can crawl back to YouTube, Twitch, ,Xitter, Reddit or whatever shithole you came from.
>>722261983>shit shit shit shit shitGrow up
>>722256714They're not lamenting that making videos is hard, but rather that YT's algorithm and all sorts of other fuckery can upend your ability to understand what works and what doesn't , atop it being essentially a monopolistic platform. YT and Twitch, for different reasons, are primarily stacked against newer creators and the difference between who manages to break more than X views (and I don't mean a huge number either) and who doesn't can be the capriciousness of the algorithm. Its bad enough that you have to be basically a giant marketing behemoth and hope your viewers will introduce others, but lets say even if things go perfectly that way you can still be completely fucked because people who WOULD have liked your stuff may never get to see it 95% of the time because it doesn't pop up on a search for a given term or does so on page 10 and nobody goes that far. Now imagine that for once you're blessed by the algorithm and your video for one reason or another gets listed in a prominent place where it never did before - you need to figure out why because if you ever deviate from whatever got you there, it will drop you like a sack of bricks. This is why there was so much trend chasing and shit like >Soifacing in the thumbnail>Clickbait titles because someone figured out that a giant open mouthed.....we'll call it a smile... with a human head was something the algo liked, so now everyone did it. Of course YT doesn't tell people when they change the algo or why, and these are just a handful of the problems with trying to make money "creating content" on something like YT or Twitch. Its also why they all beg for Patreon because that's independent of how many views you get that month. These are just a couple of the issues with how things are run. >>722257105Second Wind was all the people who actually worked at Escapist and got fucked over by corpo forming their own company. Sterling seem stand-alone away from this.
>>722255029>play game>get rewarded with story and stuff for successfully overcoming the challengeIs this an outdate concept, or something?Why is everyone always complains about being bad at vidya nowadays.I hope TC add another lore significant ending or content behinds hard dlcs. Everyone watches all the content they've missed on youtube anyway.
>can permanently remove a class of enemies before the fight>Can get two different npcs to help you out>There are places in the arena where the only threatening enemies cannot touch youAnd that's without taking tools into accountThe game throws you bone after bone for thia fight. Anyone who gets filtered by the high halls fight should be banned from videogames
>>722262102The majority typically will find abusable strategies of methods of least resistance and run through games using those. Basically people prefer to go around the hard stuff rather than through it.The game doesn't provide your full toolkit till act 2 and so Act 1 is a massive filter because you are at your weakest with the least amount of options to get around the challenge.
>>722263301I didn't do any of that and it still didn't take me more than like an hour. Probably even less than that, I didn't count.I'm not even a god gamer or anything, I suck at this game.People are just giving up too fast and/or not actively learning from mistakes.
>>722255029I absolutely love seeing Soulstrannies get filtered by games that are sort of actually hard. Not even THAT hard, just more difficult than their favorite rollslop where you have a literal invincibility button. They get filtered by Monster Hunter too. And even other Fromslop games that aren't just "roll roll roll roll roll roll". All the bitching about Sekiro and AC6 came from Soulshitters who can't conceive of gameplay that requires you to press more than two buttons in a predetermined very simple rhythm. Which is FUCKING HILARIOUS because Sekiro is essentially a rhythm game.
>>722259378Around the time Let's drown out ended, he moved to california for a woman and got trump derangement syndrome.Hard to do the who irreverent caustic critic bit when you are trying to not offend the woke.He was entertaining, but his opinions about games were always kinda garbage. If you knew the thing he was reviewing you could tell he was playing most things wrong and he overrates shitty indies about depression probably because that's the sort of games he makes himself and he needs to build that up as real games or something.It's somewhat understandable he's favour shorter games that tickle his miwit sense of intellectualism considering the tight schedule but that still doesn't make for good show.
>>722262102>aiiiieeee, It's not hard!! only tediousOf course It's going to get tedious if they keep dying to the same boss 20 times>but the boss is easythen why did it take them 20 retries?I have soulsfag fatigue
>>722258680Anyone who shits on Demon's Souls doesn't actually like videogames. It can be too hard for someone and force them to give up, which is fine (LMAO though), but trying to claim it's a bad game is just wrong.
>>722262674cry faggot I'll make another post just to spite your bitchass
>>722262102I bet it's the platforming. Outside of white palace and and some challenge rooms for optional upgrades, HK didn't expect you to do much. You could be absolute dogshit at platformers and still easily make it to the credits. That's less true of Silksong.
>>722263075I'm not watching a show that brings in Jimina Sterling as the guest of honor on their debut videono way
>>722263672are you actually a nigger or just one those weird white people who type like them for some reason
>>722262102It's more so the difficulty curve. Silksong starts out harder than Hollow Knight and never slows down.
>>722263795Divekicks are sadly quite rare in vidya these days too. Modern audience has no experience with proper platformers besides couple of big hit indies.
>>722264092But it does slow down. Literally once you have all your tools you never touch the ground ever again if you want to.
>>722264140im convinced half of the faggots who got filtered by Silksong never use their tools. You can rape literally everything in the game with the Harpoon, Focus from the Hunter Crest + your tools. The game becomes a joke halfway through
>>722264092>act 2>as hard as HK dlcI've never even made it through pantheon 4, but I've 100%d Silksong.
>>722264129Which makes me very sad because I fucking love divekicks so much. I was under the rocks when this game was coming out and my pleasant surprise at how much I love the default crest is really funny to the insane ratio of how much people hate it (and how much I actually do not like the wanderer's crest in comparison)
>>722263370I guess that makes sense. I liked the fact I had to experiment with my tools to figure out particular strategies and then I fucking learn some people, for some reason, refuse to use said tools and I'm just baffled by that kind of decision making on a first run. I don't expect people to not use items in their VERY FIRST TIME through a DMC for example.
>>722259378This is the first time ive even heard of the dude and I don't intend to watch him either. I long ago declared a gamer fatwa against the infidel e celebs of the world. Inshallah
>>722264129I always hated divekicks all the way since castlevania games.
>>722255029>be Yahtzee>create internet review show called Zero Punctuation>it becomes most popular and successful show for company>spend years working with company and never once negotiate to keep the show title in the chance you go separate ways>go separate ways>create new show that is just the old show with a new name but it doesn't matter>set own career back by over a decade and still not able to pull close to the same numbers his old videos doit was fun seeing it revealed how fucking stupid this guy is and watching his new show flounder by comparison
>>722264226>Parry can't be as strong as I think it is, right?>It literally breaks every single enemy in half. They are incapable of being able to stop you from hitting them multiple times followed by a SURPRISINGLY long window of iframes.
>>722260505isn't it his job to play video games?!
>>722262102>Its not even close to the DLC stuff in Hollow Knight in terms of difficultyI found it significantly harder than anything in hollow knight's dlc bar the pantheon of hallownestbut this discussion is pointless because spergs will never understand that difficulty is pretty much entirely subjective
>>722262674please post this on the ass and tit threads
>>722255029There's nothing wrong with using the tools you're given. But if you use those tools and you still can't win, then you just suck at games.T. Used Poison Cogfly and Tacks to Cheese First Sinner
I find it ~interesting~ that games journalists talk about Silksong being too hard is an "accessibility issue".But turn around and say intentionally inaccessible games likes Baby Steps are great.
>>722264523You could literally elaborate on what you are doing that's getting you frustrated, because there is still an objectivity here which is fucking strategy and maybe your adherence to choices.
>>722264619I will never understand the appeal of this crap. Its funny for five minutes and then you realize you paid money for an entire campaign of this stupid shit.I guess to each their own. It has its audience. I just don't get the appeal.
>>722264619journos game on a deadline so any game that prevents them from finishing their reviews because it's too hard is the devil.
>>722257262If you actually play the games he reviews, you can usually pick up that he doesn't know what he's talking about
>>722264619They're mad they didn't get review copies.
>>722262102>How the fuck is THIS game the hardest thing people ever played?Gaming as a hobby is a more widespread and casual than ever and most hardcore gamers are pretty out of touch as to how difficult the games they play actually are. Silksong, Hotline Miami, and soulsborn games actually are hard for like 95% of people who play games A lot of /v/ doesn't give themselves enough credit that they're better than the vast majority of people at video games because we're stuck in a bubble where most of the people we interact with are also very good at video games
he's right though, the game is way too fucking hard
>>722256219He says it in the video, the high halls gauntlet.
>>722257630They even call themselves boomers and unc ironically at the age of 17-19It completely lost its meaning
>>722256891That shit has three ways to make it easier and the retard couldn’t be bothered to do them. Normally when you’re having trouble you come back and not spend hours on the same stuff
>>722264270Same. I remember getting hype seeing it in a trailer for the first time. Everything is tuned around it so well, the arc after hit feels great, comboing is fluid. A top tier divekick made by connoisseurs, love it. Using basic down attack with other crests feels so lame after it.
>>722262102People's idea of a hard game is Elden Ring where you can grind to outlevel things, summon people to kill bosses for you, make cheese builds, and use use things like mimic tear.A game that doesn't have so many variable difficulty sliders will filter players, Sekiro is a great example when you compare it to Elden Ring. Isshin is a much harder fight than anything in a Souls game.
A lot of console players had never played a hard game, which is why Dark Souls PREPARE TO DIE blew their minds.it was not, in fact, the hardest game ever made but it was the hardest game the Angry Pedro generation of Xbox360 nugamers had ever faced.in the same way Silksong is filtering people who haven't really played platformers and are finding out platformers are kind of bullshit. Until people who have played the way more bullshit platformers say "what why are you crying this shit ain't even hard"
>>722263592The thing with soulslop is that the games are mechanically really simple. You have limited ways to attack or defend. There aren't really any mechanics you need to master to beat them, they all just hit you and you hit them back.I feel like it's difficult to call it "hard" when it lacks complexity. It's just slow and punishing so it takes you a while to learn the parry windows. More so in older games but bosses some bosses also had ridiculous runbacks that can really be accurately described as just "tedious".
>>722259945>Implying you love the game
>>722265313I mean I play action games. I did notice that action RPGs just CONSUMED my favorite genre and I guess it never was once lost on me that the difficulty was addressable in terms of making numbers go up on the hit rather than whiff punishing a boss. But I'm just fucking astounded, man. People bitch about losing health to touching spikes. We're never getting another Megaman game, are we? Like, if people can't handle losing 2 hearts to a fucking spike, then how could they FATHOM instadying?I don't know. There's something very annoying about this that I can't correctly convey. I enjoyed Silksong a lot. Its not the greatest game I ever played but it was refreshing in a long sea of games with barely any resistance but it obviously still had reasonable compromises. It feels like people don't want to even engage fairly in that conversation without labeling people who support said difficulty as elitist. Maybe I'm being pretentious but I was enjoying the game and I want more devs to not be afraid to kill the player.
>>722264689? I never said anything about being frustrated, are you hearing voices?
>>722255029What's wrong with poison cogfly
>>722265313>People's idea of a hard game is Elden Ring where you can grind to outlevel thingsI think this is the core problem with Silksong's difficulty discourse. Even if you power up the Needle. Even if collect tools. At the end of the day, it doesn't fundamentally change Hornet. You still have to gitgud and the game will not allow you to progress until you do. And while Silksong has frustrated me many, many times. It was never so bad that I couldn't see where I fucked up, it was just a matter of executing. Which I genuinely think is difficulty done right
>>722265649Okay. Semantics aside. Elaborate on why you found it harder than Hollow Knight.
>>722265673It's a very effective but boring strategy. Free damage basically.
>>722265735I'd love to git gud if the game respected my time and didn't make me run back to a boss and beat a gauntlet for another try.
>>722264436This is the man who despite having the clot and wealth to go independent years ago has kept himself shackled to corporation because he refuses to do any paperwork or peroneal management.
What happened with Yahtzee?Was he fired because Sony black listed him?
>>722255029>he tried to brute force high halls and got filteredHow is he so fucking stupidI'm a complete fucking retard but even I managed to figure out the two key elemts of Silksong:1, you can pretty much always just stand back and watch your enemies without taking serious damage for long enough to pick up on their incredibly obvious attack patterns2, the game is designed so that if you're eating shit you can go take a walk somewhere in the worldYou're almost never forced into a single point of progression unless it's extremely late in the gameBut even besides potential upgrades, you're meant to go explore to get out of the miserable rutt of eating shit repeatedlyHe made the game miserable for himself and then complained that the experience was miserable
>>722265182You see, difficulty is a failure of the game designer.If a challenge can't be easily overcome the moment you encounter it's toxic game designs. That is mean to a person who payed hard earned 20$ btw. I deserve to get see the ending and it's rude if the game hides lore behind hard challenges.No, I won't turn around and explore, this is a waste of my valuable time, I'm 30yo working dad with 3 kids. You can't expect me to waste more than 40 minutes on my hobby. Developers are so entitled these days.
>>722255029My autistic brother with terrible reflexes and coordination beat Silksnog with no issues. It is a casual game.
>>722266130David Cage over here.
>>722266050his greedy jewish manager got too tired of working under someone else at Escapist to they all quit and made their own legally distinct thing
>>722257262He used to be but he became a basedguzzling liberal faggot.He used to openly say nigger. Now look at him.
>>722265637Its a combo of the second gen of gamers getting older and not having the will to put into games and that the broadening of gaming as a hobby has diluted the audiences taste for challenge.
>>722264476Yes. Video games plural. He makes weekly reviews and more videos on top of that. Too many games honestly, I'd hate to have to put time into 50 annual releases every year
>>722265182>Old man after duel>disable silk automatons (which I unironically just saw in a short for the first time, questioning how I didn't manage to find it despite fucking around with that wagon for five minutes on two different playthroughs)>....What is the third method?
>>722266050Escapist was bleeding talent last 5+ years, he was the last guy left by the time it was bought by unironic casino company. He and some buddies are independent for some time.
>>722259143No one gives a fuck about FromSoft's ancient janky dungeon crawlers. Armored Core and anything Miyazaki touches are what people care about from that company. Not Eternal Ring or whatever dregs people have dug up to play on Youtube.
>>722266515Shakra also helps
>>722266274He's a funny case because he's still a chud at heart but is forced to act all gay for his audience. He was visibly disgusted with Jim Sterling as the slob kept talking about his tranny delusions of his body>>>>>thinking it was pregnantYou can see him trying to hold his disgust back and completely ignoring the topic by just going>aight then
>>722255029The fact that he uses "rosaries dropped from bosses" mod makes his seething at difficulty even funnier.
>>722265735For Silksong in particular, I think people really dislike the run backs. The reason that the gauntlet fights are coming under fire is that they have the worst "run backs" to get back to the boss(High halls, Bilewater). If you have a ball busting boss but there's a save point right there so you can immediately go again, people don't seem to mind it as much.
>>722266130I did it with 6 masks and no tools first try during my 5 hour speedrun achievement run, second time ever beating it, you are all just shitters.
>>722266515Finish Shakra's quest and she can help you instead of Garmond (and she's much effective, she can solo the double clappers as you hide in the top corners).You can also just come back with double jump and more than 6 masks.
>>722264476Its to play a lot of games. Elden Ring is a 100 hour RPG, sans DLC (which can be another 50 hours or more). If your job is to review games on a weekly basis, that is too much of a commitment.
>>722259378A few years ago, when I realized his reviews are pure pandering and stealing opinions from the net. He is not funny enough to watch for yucks and not clever enough for his opinions to be interesting.
>>722266627https://youtu.be/r_uE4q4f-VI?t=3325And remember, not matter how bad your life gets at least you're not Jim Sterling
>>722266684high halls has no runback
Yahtzee is a casual and he even admits it. He hated Dark Souls initially and it only really "clicked" with him after he read a bunch of guides and learned how to cheese every aspect of it.He isn't the type of guy who actually throws his head against a boss 100 times until he breaks though. He loves the cheese and needs the cheese. And Silksong doesn't really have a whole lot of cheese. Sure - you can go with the noob poison cogfly build but even that takes a certain level of skill against the hardest bosses. Hornet also doesn't have the broken invincibility abilities/moves that the Knight in HK has.In Silksong there is really no option besides getting good.
>>722266684>High Halls runbacknigga what?
>>722263185>Hard modes, new contentI generally like when this is done well. I've not played Silksong mainly because i've not gotten to Hollow Knight and I should really do that first but I just finished >Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound and it offering a hard-mode that not only overhauled all of the gameplay, added new enemy variations and level designs, unlocks etc... but what was most enjoyable was there was an extra level only unlockable through Hard Mode that continued the story, and added another ending (though frankly even that ending looks like a cliffhanger for either DLC/expansion or a sequel). There were some tedious parts to the game (some qualifications for S-ranks were frustrating, like those where you needed to beat the boss without getting hit, but checkpoints didn't revert this the way that say 'finish kumori's section without getting hit' did. Thus you needed to try the whole damn level which you may have perfected, over and over again, just to get a shot at the boss. It was uneven considering some other things were properly reset by checkpoints if you were using them at all etc) but overall it felt damn good to play and Hard Mode added something new not just to individual level, enemy, and boss design but a new chapter and ending -one i hope they'll follow it up in DLC/expansion. After all, why call the secret level chapter 5-1 if there's no 5-2 etc..to come, when they made the prologue P-1; they could have made it just E-1 if it was the epilogue. Now to play>Abathor 's Epic mode, which also unlocks after finishing the Heroic difficulty and apparently, has new levels and a new ending.
>>722266826>>722266839The "run back" is going through the gauntlet itself. You have to reclear all the trash to get to the boss.
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>>722255029>Poisonfly ez modo>still filteredWhat an absolute shitter
>>722259354Silksong is way harder than Elden Ring.
>>722265141>He says it in the video, the high halls gauntlet.There are three NPC questlines that can give you an NPC helper for the gauntlet. This if anything leaves me wondering how so many people end up stuck at the high halls gauntlet. But even without them, I honestly fail to see what's so extraordinary about the high halls gauntlet. The Coral Tower is more intense. Hornet has a huge advantage versus regular enemies compared to versus bosses, since she is easily faster than all the enemies, have crowd control options that can both bait enemies towards you or make them retreat, alongside of plenty of abilities that can hit multiple enemies. You can even use the enemies to navigate the arena and escape from other enemy attacks.
>>722266906There is no boss, either. The gauntlet is the challenge, and it is different from a run back in the first place. Why the fuck are you talking about things you have no idea about?
I wonder if the gauntlets feel worse in part because you can measure your progress so directly
>>722266937I died way more often in Elden Ring outside bosses and bosses took way more retries than Silksong. Silksong you never die from the levels and even bosses you only ever die once or twice at most.
>>722255029>Silksong BROKE meEvery time. These pansies need to play more side-scrollers.
>>722255029Where the sus?
>>722263971Sterling used to be part of the Escapist, but he didn't come with them on this - it was a "guest" spot simply because he was on the Escapist. Even if I didn't like it, I really can't be continually pissed off about something they did 'wrong' as a guest spot literally years ago as if it has any bearing on their current shows or other content.
>>722267067None of them are worse than pushing lace into the 3rd phase several times honestly
>>722266274Yahtzee was always a leftoid r/atheism faggot. He just used to be funny enough to get away with it. Him being stale and having nothing to say for the last decade is the real problem.
>>722257152Shakra made High Halls worse. Without her, I could generally tell what was coming and react. When I did it with her in a new game, she turned the whole fight into a clusterfuck.
>>722266906A gauntlet cannot be its own "runback". Those two niggers at the end aren't a boss. They're just the last wave of the gauntlet.
>>722265890Most of the runbacks are pretty negligible. The worst offender for a required boss is Last Judge, and that can be bypassed with some exploration and a much easier optional boss fight with an easier runback, if you can survive the poison swamp to get to it The only really awful runback in the game is Groal the Great and that has a secret checkpoint halfway through that cuts the worst part of the route, and it's an optional boss that you don't even need to fight.
>>722266825Hahahahahahaha
>>722266927He also used mods to get more rosaries lmao
>>722265446Complexity and difficulty aren't connected like that. Europa Universalis is way more complex than any action game, more complex than Souls games, Ninja Gaiden, DMC, Monster Hunter, all of them. But it is a quite easy game to 'beat'. Souls games having only a few buttons to press means that the mechanical skill required from the player at executing those few buttons is fairly high.Hell, games like Osu! have almost no mechanical complexity, but higher levels of that are extremely challenging on a purely execution level.
>>722267232This but cock flies
>>722267047The 2 enemies at the end are the boss of that encounter. When people die to it and they have to do the first 9 waves again, that's what I'm referring to with the "run back". In order to get to that point of the fight again you have to wade through tons of pointless trash mobs and people dislike that sort of mechanic. You'll see people complain about dying in phase 3 of boss fights too because they have to "go through the boring parts to get to the hard part". Some games have catered to those players and made it so if you beat 1 phase of the boss, if you restart the fight because you die then you start at the following phase. Some games doing that leads to players getting upset when others don't, it's part of the casualization of gaming.
>>722267368>You'll see people complain about dying in phase 3 of boss fights tooPeople are retards, what can you do.>>722267274>it's an optional boss that you don't even need to fightYes you do, if you want act 3 and the real ending.
>>722267368Fair enough, though I found the double conductor wave to be the most annoying. Always lost a lot of masks against them.
>>722266825sterling legitimately looks like something out of a horror moviehow ghastly
>meanwhile scaly retard streamer blasts through all pantheons no problem and writes 2 hour essay about itJournos really need to step up their (vidya) game.
>>722267130It's funny because his own, probably 15 years old by now, 2D burglar game is antifun hard but zero reward and he was always a shitter as highlighted by EVERY SINGLE review of his
>>722267121I had a totally different experience. Elden Ring gives you way more flexibility for countering bosses than Silksong. Where your build and strategy can basically overtake your need to gitgud to a large extent. Silksong on the other hand requires you to gitgud, as the upgrades you can get are only slight boosts at best.
>>722266952There was only 1 other boss with an NPC helper, there isn't really a precedent for having help in a fight unlike something like Dark Souls, and when I first found the gauntlet I had no idea it was an option.
>>722256378>>722256613>>722256714RLM did it as well https://youtu.be/q5-b7v6EIzc and Midwest Bodycam was in the comments praising it for the same reasons. I am inclined to believe they'd fuck their own algorithm to push trans black diverse makeup gardening #girlboss artists to the front page.
>>722267121NTA, but on my Elden Ring save file with both main game + DLC I've got around 200-300 deaths total. I'm not sure if there is a tool for Silksong to check your death count, but I felt like it was much more, since most bosses took me around 5-10 tries.
>>722264226Its people who never bothered to learn to dance with bosses.They start off by not using tools. Then the first blockage causes them to depend on tool spam. And then they reach blockage where tool spam is not viable, at least with their setup.
>>722267724Yeah, spellcasting is always an easy mode in Souls games.
>>722267142>>722257105Did Jim cut his dick off yet?
Yahtzee has always been a filthy casual. It's not even a matter of reflexes, he struggles with basic problem solving. He couldn't figure out to use the stronger beam to kill the Grey sponge enemies or use the auto equip in Samus Returns.
>>722265405Yeah from what I've seen it isn't nearly as hard as MegaMan zero.
>>722267689If only he could condense his thoughts in a 10-minute review video
Silksong wasn't a very hard game desu. But the movement is finicky and the environments are bland after a while. I think people are too bored with the game to have sufficient patience with its finicky punishing aspects. The problem I have with both HK/Silksong is an overly stripped-down, minimalist design that is cute at first but quickly becomes dry & soulless – this carries over the combat mechanics which end up feeling basic & repetitive.
Thoughts on the Chzo Mythos games?
>>722255029typical cali pussy
>>722268001Well, he is kind of a failed writer.
>>722267726>and when I first found the gauntlet I had no idea it was an option.But if you get stuck on it, to the degree that it genuinely filters you and you can't appear to beat it. Wouldn't you first feel inclined to maybe, I don't know, explore your other game objectives first and maybe return later? Not to mention that you already need the clawline to enter, so it's already set up to not be your first act2 objective.
>>722255029Yahtzee's always been a gigacasual with dogshit opinions, does this surprise anybody? He made some alright games and Drown Out was comfy, but nonetheless.
>>722265446Souls games are infinitely harder than any hack and slash, the numbers of buttons has nothing to do with difficulty
>>722255029>Yahtzee "Dark Souls" CroshawYou mean the shitter who got filtered by Demon's Souls and Great Jaggi in MH Tri? >Yeah but later he became a fan of Dark Souls!Yeah but I'll never forget who he showed me he really was.
>>722267447Then you have the option to fight it. Groal does not block progression, you can literally go and do anything else while you learn to get good at the game. Groal isn't even that hard a boss, and you can bypass the entire vertical ascent sequence.of Bilewater by finding the second bench.Heaven help you if you want to meet Mister Mushroom.
>>722266683What a fucking putz
>>722267715Christ, I forgot about that game.
>>722258048>>722258646Easy modo or not, "tranq gun too stronk" has been a major complaint since at least 3. Shit, I don't recall varying my approach from the tried and true tranq strat during my last EE run of 3 pretty much at all. Maybe I did it for one or two rooms, total.
>>722268064Cute pulp fiction. Whatever as a point&click. There isn't much to them desu. Could have easily been a novel instead of a game with out loosing anything. Probably be better even.
>>722267941>>722268137He is a selfimportant faggot that is not too derived from his real person as the "edgy" persona he plays.His shitty works underline it, this is a mongoloid on par with your typical crying faggot on /v/, everything is wrong but him.
>>722268241>Mister MushroomYou just repeat the same move sequence (jump from wall, clawline as soon as you get below the wall you're jumping to, double jump back onto it) a few times and you're done. You even get infinite silk in a few spots like in PoP.
>>7222661305/10 bait
>mess up in hollow knight>now you have to survive whatever bullshit the boss has got in store for you until the boss finally reaches the rare part of its boss pattern that has an opportunity for you to finally heal>and if you can't survive until then and seize that opportunity then you're fucked>mess up in silksong>speed towards whatever point of the arena that's safe at the moment with your superior mobility>and heal for 3-4 in one moveThe only limitation for when you can heal in Silksong is your silk meter. Because there is never a moment the bosses don't allow you to heal. In Hollow Knight you are still limited by your soul meter, but if the boss doesn't allow you to heal then fuck you. And somehow people keep insisting that Silksong is the more difficult game. It genuinely confuses me.
>>722268393Then the Bilewater runback should pose no challenge.
>>722266515Our gf helps but have to do her questline which means getting all the maps and beating gaol
>>722266274This. He got soft as he aged, and he was already milquetoast to begin with. Marrying your stalker and moving to the shithole of California really destroys your soul it seems.
Since when did clockwork dancers drop roasries?
>>722268563>poison cogfly
>>722265141I beat that today, it's easy peasy with Shakra's help
>>722268202I haven't watched him since a bit after darksouls probably but it was really fun to see that faggot make a heelturn on Darksouls after his DeS review because it was popular as fuck
>>722268347You kind of need to know the game already to use all the gadgets effectively or experiment. I also want to progress and see the story first time through, but still kind of be sneaky and cool, so always ended up using the most effective thing, the tranq guns.
>>722268568It's not particularly hard (and neither is the boss), but it is undeniably ass. The worst run back in the game. Mostly because Bilewater is so shit in the first place between the really annoying enemies and the fucking maggots. AND you get a mini-gauntlet on top of it before the boss itself (who can summon adds as well of course).
>>722267689>2 hour essayThere is no way some loser faggot on Youtube has 2 hours of actually interesting shit to say, especially about a fucking indie game.
>>722266825damn, at first glance i was angry that they gave that thing more screenspace than the restbut it's just an illusion caused by it being so overbearingly horrifying
>>722268676I used poison boomerangs up until I got the cogfly. Are you telling me I shouldn't have swapped to the cogfly? I'm not going to handicap myself needlessly on my first playthrough. Granted that I'm not even pretending to be that good at the game. The game really does allow you to bash yourself into threats and come out ontop though. When you get hurt you can just run away and heal.
>>722255029I gave up on this guy when he jumped on the TLOU2 hating bandwagon to shill to the chud demographic. I even agree that the story had major problems but calling it the worst game of the year only because he didn't like the story was fucking rich coming from someone who called Bioshock Infinite the BEST game of the year when it also had a terrible story despite having solid gameplay.
>>722268668>makes a video bitching about difficulty while exposing yourself using easy mode modsKek
>>722267813it's hardly surprised. YouTube has rapidly become one of the most enshittified websites on the Internet.>try to use subscriptions page>subscriptions are flooded by channels that upload 15 videos at a time, making it effectively unusableThis is a significant issue if you follow ANY YouTube channel about fighting games or OSTs, for example.>try to use home page>hey anon, want to watch some shorts?!>no, stop showing me shorts>got it, we've listened to your feedback!>hey, want to watch some shorts yet?!>no>got it!>shorts?>no>okay, how about some playables? you come to youtube to play games, right? right?!>no, fuck off>got it, we've listened to your feedback!>maybe you're in the mood for some shorts now?>no>got it! hey, did you know that it's national pansexual transwoman's drag queenceañera awareness week? maybe you'd like to watch these DOPE videos about the world's most insufferable latinx individuals celebrating their 15th birthdays?>no, fuck off>got it! also, we couldn't help but notice that you watched one, singular 5-minute video about making your own cheese. here are 500 new videos about cheesepilled curdmaxxers like yourself!>not interested>not interested>not interested, my entire personality isn't cheese because i watched one video about cheese>got it!>shorts?>no>playables?>no>alright anon, we give up. you don't want to watch shorts, you don't want to play playables, you don't even want to watch 500 different videos about cheese. here's a blurry 360p video of someone playing the NFL theme song over a LEGO figures reenacting the american civil war from, like, 10 years ago>thank you, youtube, this is all i wantedIt would be the least surprising thing in the world to find out that YouTube is knowingly raping its own content creators to death.
>>722269046> here's a blurry 360p video of someone playing the NFL theme song over a LEGO figures reenacting the american civil war from, like, 10 years agoGod I wish the algorithm showed me shit like this
>>722255029This guy is still an unironic liberal fedora tipper in the year of 2025. lmfao
>>722268818Undeniably, but the point stands; you don't have to fight Groal at all, unless you specifically want to 100% the game, and at that point you are opting into a significantly greater challenge anyway.
>>722266683For real though why don't bosses fucking drop anything? They always dropped geo in HK.
>>722269046Your post is too longCan you make like a Youtube Short of it pls?Funny thing is, there are way more Shorts now that are like 2-3 minutes long and slowly getting back to the size of a basic youtube vid.
>>722269271>unless you specifically want to 100% the gameYou don't have to 100% if you just want the real ending.I would say ending the game on act 2 is an early bad end and doesn't count as actually finishing the game, too.
>>722268563>>722268858>cogfliesYou didn't beat the game.
>>722269273Why do you need bossed to drop anything?
>>722268828Personally, I find his essays nice when I have trouble sleeping. Although, Mandalore is a better option. His voice forces my body to generate melatonin in industrious capacity.
>>722268858I had no idea there were walls in that fight.
>>722268568>seen someone post a webm of them just fucking up gaol with poison cogflies and boomerangs in 8 seconds so I just did it myself and one shot the bossI laughed
>>722269441kinda gay, anon
>>722269046>here's a blurry 360p video of someone playing the NFL theme song over a LEGO figures reenacting the american civil war from, like, 10 years agoIf only Youtube was still like this, but you forgot the video would have been deleted years ago because some guy said nigger in it. Or otherwise been offensive
>>722269426>why do you need to be rewarded for beating a boss the way the first game didWhy do you have skin the color of mud?
>>722267047I don't really like these discussions where every bit of challenge except the boss fight is being write off as tedious for the players' inability to adapt to the challenge. I always feel this disconnection between Older (souls)games to Elden Ring where older ones seem to have more variations on how to approach each challenge than Elden Ring, although ER has harder bosses but It becomes diluted overtime (anything after Margit). It's weird me out so much that I actually liked Rykard, lake of rot and doing drop puzzles much more
How do I deal with lost lace pinning me between void attacks and then teleporting in to attack me while I can't see her or get out the way?
>>722269046>got itThis phrase is infuriating. I've resorted to having a bookmark folder for channels I like and avoiding the front page of youtube altogether
>>722269046Then disable notifications you worthless spastic
>>722269273Ludo-narrative reasons, probably.The poor bugs in underworks drop 1-5 rosaries for the same reason, despite being stronger than starting pilgrim enemies.
>>722269559Struck a nerve, eh?
>>722269726>still no argumentEvery fucking time with you stupid jeets.
>>722259440>hate games that try tell interesting or difficult storiesSuch as?
>>722268563>Because there is never a moment the bosses don't allow you to heal.This depends on the boss and is a deliberate part of their design. Karmelita and Lost Lace in particular are completely risk free to heal against to balance out the fact that they are harder bosses. But in most gauntlets or against bosses like Trobbio, especially Tormented, or Clover Dancers it's not as straightforward to get off an uncontested heal. But these fights are also easier.
>>722269809>J-JEETNta but you lost
>>722269726NTA but you think the bosses in the pharloom would drop beads and the beast bosses would drop beast shards. It just makes sense
>>722269426They almost always reward you with progress in form of passage or skills shortly after though, some even give you shit directly or indirectly via quests, go play Diablo if you want pinatas
>>722269941you lost samefag
>>722267904It's me. I did that.Except eventually I ran out of shards and took that as my sign to stop coping. Apparently everyone else who sucks moved on to claiming the game is "designed wrong".I still use tools a lot, I'm just more strategic about it. I'm halfway through act 3 and I think the game is good.
>>722269524If it makes me gay, so be it. I'd rather be considered a faggot by society than have trouble sleeping.Also, I don't think there are female (biological) youtubers with sleep inducing video essays about games.
>>722270019Anon I don’t even fucking type like him, I’m not debating you I just thought it makes logical sense
>>722270003>t. never played Hollow Knight
>>722269046Every passing month it gets worse.
Purple Trobbio is filtering me. Please help.
>>722267909it's not even spellcasting, the game rewards you constantly with summons and some of them can unironically solo endgame bossesthis is where fromtrannies>you didnt le beat le gaymecomes from, it's so cheesable they have to create all these arbitrary limitations to still larp as hardcore gaymers
>>722270084based healthy sleep prioritizer
>>722269526>>722269175https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InC1Bd_cnCMit wasn't an exaggeration
>>722270251Pick a corner, smack his balls back at him, pogo when he does the tornado.
>>722265446I think one of the big reasons Souls games have become more popular than traditional action games is that they have a higher skill floor and a lower skill ceiling. Traditionally people will claim that for games to be accessible they should have a low skill floor and a high skill ceiling but this is actually completely backwards if your goal is to make a popular game.In a traditional action game like DMC, sure there'll be totally crazy stuff you can do at the highest levels, but the game won't ever push you to learn any of it so if you're more casual you'll either be unaware it exists or vaguely aware, but with no idea how to access it. You'll just mash through the game and feel like it was easy but shallow or maybe just kind of confusing and awkward when it comes to certain enemy types. Playing through the campaigns of these games on lower difficulties is kind of like playing against the AI in a fighting game.In a Souls game on the other hand you'll figure out how everything works within a couple hours because there isn't that much to understand, but the relatively higher skill floor will push you to learn the ins and outs of the system, all the correct timing windows and everything. You'll quickly obtain a feeling of mastery, of a shallow skillset perhaps, but it will still feel good and keep you coming back.Anyway, this isn't ideal when it leads to oversaturation of Souls shit. It's unintuitive but I think if people want traditional action games to make a comeback, they need to stop trying to cater to casuals by making the normal modes really easy and instead raise the skill floor to the level of a Souls game. Casuals actually often respond better to difficulty than to a lack of it. It unironically makes games more accessible.
>>722257630>Everybody over 20 is a boomer to zoomoids.It's true. What do you expect from the dumbest generation of humans in hundreds of years?
>>722268828I really like Little Platoon's videos. The guy is a professional screenwriter/journalist/video game script writer who happens to have a good voice and flair for the dramatic so he writes up a novel worth of a script, spends 2-4 hours recording himself shitting on something pop culture related, and lets his editors/jannies/wage slaves make a meme video to go with his recording. The guy is a flaming fucking faggot, but he has some great snark and wit to match so it ends up being far more entertaining than the source material he is shitting on. I would rather watch 4 hours of Platoon shitting on the new Superman movie than the actual two hour movie tbdesu.Most video essayists are dogwater, the good ones are the types of people who are just natural entertainers and could make chicken salad out of chicken shit no matter the material they are riffing on. Platoon has that Oscar Wilde vibe quipy shitposting energy. His essay on the Dune films and the differences between Frank Herbert and Issac Asimov was really good.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yln5fsEXA2M
>>722270286Based
>>722270369i have nothing to add but this is a good post i largely agree with
>>722269273lore. If I remember correctly geo's made of fossilized shell and It's edible while rosary bead is just a bead. the narratives suggest that Pharloom is highly a jewish hellhole (see, underworks/bilewater at page 10)
>>722270420I should fuck you in the mouth for responding to me with this gay ass shit.
>>722265141The High Sneed gauntlet is a way for the developers to tell the player that it's been a while since they've been to older areas on the map and that they go back and explore more to power themselves up. I got to it and after getting to the final wave several times, I left and came back with a x3 upgraded nail, new crests, new tools, and the double jump.
>>722270583I actually prefer when Shakra doesn't help with these because she pushes the enemies around
>>722269441Try Noah Caldwell Gervais. I find his stuff very soothing, like a comfy audio book about vidya.
>>722270781I like this Fallout stuff
>>722270553I would prefer not to
>>722260364You should have sufficient reflexes to beat a souls game into your fucking 70s. A literal grandpa just did it on YouTube and his family filmed it. No mainstream or even niche single player game is so difficult a male of nearly any age can't eventually beat it. People act like they hit 30 and they had superhuman reflexes before then. There are professional athletes in their fucking 50s and 60s competing in many events and activities.
>>722270259 If you use tools the game gave to you then you didn’t beat the game is the dumbest shit ever
>>722270781Dude is a megafaggot, and not in a funny way
>>722270963well yeah, fromdrones are barely sentient
>>722267909Magic is not that good in Elden Ring. Most bosses have gap closers that are harder to avoid than their standard melee moveset. The strongest class is STR/ARC.
>>722267813funny enough I actually started to notice more smaller youtubers than bigger ones, not trans shit but like small hobbyists, you also have to considers the BIG players hate it when smaller creators are given a freebie, it makes them seethe
>>722269426Players are used to and expect a direct and measurable reward for completing something challenging.
>>722270920Based and Bartlebypilled
>>722271103It is if you use the right spells. Night spells causes the enemy AI to not recognize a spell is being cast at all, for example, and it hits hard. Just the standard magic weapon spell is very powerful on its own with very little stat investment and can carry a very weak player for more than half the game. Quicker spells can easily work around gap closers. Guys like Yahtzee want the game to work like DaS1, where INT builds really are what that anon said they are. You walk backwards and press the cast button and the game was simply not designed around it at all. They put the smallest road bumps for INT builds in ER and it caused a lot of people to opt out.
>>722269403>>722268676>whaaaa this game is LE hard.. so le hard >use the tools it gives you >FUCK NO WHAT AM I A CASUAL?!! YOU DIDN'T BEAT THE GAME!Souls mentality has damaged gaming beyond repair. no wonder people think every game is hard
>>722259378when he went on his arc where he pretended to hate Brawl and other Nintendo games for attention
>>722271103It's crazy, magic is for trash mobs outside a couple decent spells like greatsword
>>722271048>Play the best and hardest games>Barely sentientHave a pity (You).
>>722270583pochanka! a cute
Man, fuck the edge watcher. It's so simple but I keep getting greedy.
>>722271308I hate that if I didn't post a cover of the actual short story 99.9999% of /v/ would think I was talking about this guyAlso Tamers needs to stop doing that weird pony shit and continue his magna opus.
>>722255318He can't hack it as a writer so yeah.
>>722270674wait what's that fight and why is shakra helping
>>722271514HOW GREEDY CAN A MAN GET, dude is cool but he was really rusty I fear
>>722270369>Casuals actually often respond better to difficulty than to a lack of it. It unironically makes games more accessible.e33 is a good example of this in rpgs. that game blew up and it required more skill than the average rpg because of the dodging/parrying but if you mastered those simple systems it feels rewarding and it's easier than pure stat based rpgs.
>>722271405This is literally the last moment that Fromsoft made something good. You can actually see the exact picosecond that their creative well dried up and everything after would be gay, deriviative, and slop
>YouTube "video essayists"All terrible
>>722271103look, anon. I don't have the webm but I have a knowledge of a certain brotherman bill, decimated bosses with soul stream and mimic tear, I can't provide any proof whatsoever so, you just gotta have to believe my words on this one
>>722271405>h-have a p-pity (YoBAAAAWWWWWWyour tears and anal leakage are seeping through the screen
>>722271405I miss when darks souls was about slow and tactical combat with sword & board like this
>>722271405Bait used to be believable.
>>722271559>Couldn't hack it as a writer>Couldn't hack it as a game dev>Couldn't hack it as a barkeep>Couldn't hack it as a father>Couldn't hack it as a husband>Abject failure in every single thing he has tried to do in his lifeHe really is just a natural born games journalist.
>>722271332>Touching the controllerYou didn't beat the game.
>>722271679This, but unironically.And those I like are good, actually.
>>722255029For years at a time I forget this guy exists. Then something like this thread reminds me. Can't believe he's still doing the same thing.
>>722271153Honestly, I kinda love that Silksong goes against established conventions in that way. Feels like a breath of fresh air.Although, their attempt to go against the relatively new convention of "no runbacks on hard bosses" didn't work that well (I personally still enjoyed Last Judge runback)
>>722256463We were talking about yahtzee videos when you were in diapers
>>722268563>WandererYou did not beat the game.
>>722257630The oldest Zoomers are nearing 30. Gen ADHD is doing that. It's not 2017 anymore when zoomer became a popular term. That was 8 years ago. If a zoomer was just 15 then, he's 23 now.
Why did he write an essay crying about big boss?
>>722271896I look like this, and say exactly that. Except it is Thursday, and was raining, so I sat in the cafe's patio chainsmoking unfiltered cigarettes while drinking my macchiato while wearing a widebrimed oilskin hat to keep my cigarette from getting soaked by the rain.
>>722272053>If a zoomer was just 15 then, he's a boomer now.ftfy
>>722266825jesusI liked his videos once, remember digital homicide and the steam greenlight dives?I'd rather he got caught messaging 17year 11 month 30 day old girls or something, this is just depressing. I can't even laugh.
>>722270583You can also get rid of all of these silk-stealing enemies before the gauntlet.
>>722269483Doing this when I get home.
>>722272130where do you get unfiltered from?
>>722269861>Trobbio>Clover DancersI mean. Those bosses might be tricky in their own ways, but not in ways that makes it tricky to heal against them. Trobbio has the bouncy balls that'll spew fire vertically or horizontally. And the sparkly spheres in the background that'll explode. And then Trobbio himself will either tornado across the floorboards, or he'll tornado from the top and diagonally down. Like maybe one of the very first things a player should learn from fighting Trobbio is that the sides of Trobbio are very dangerous with how suddenly he can go into tornado and spin into you, or exit the tornado and hitting you with the tornado gusts that fly off. But if you need to heal, genuinely, all you need to do is look for any part of the arena that the balls aren't spewing fire on, and that doesn't sparkle from his exploding sparkles, while also not being in the trajectory of his extremely predictable tornado pathways. And you've got more than ample time to heal. Because Trobbio doesn't chase you, meaning that if you just jump towards a safe spot on the screen then you're genuinely safe. Can probably even double-heal with relative ease assuming you've got the silk for it. Similarly for the Clover Dancers. They downright telegraph the trajectory on-screen for the player to see before doing their attacks. All you need to make sure is to not heal in places that overlap with the lines, or is close to where either of them would land. And you're more than fine. Can do it whenever. Granted that the Clover Dancers in particular kind of stand out, because the rotating whirlwind attack that they do can genuinely deny healing for the duration of the attack since there is no part of the arena where you can just wait it out, since it forces you to play ball. But during any other segment of the entire fight, you can just heal whenever by avoiding the on-screen trajectories.
>>722269662?Nothing he described involves the notification function.
>This is the boss that is filtering people
>>722259556>wanderer's crest is literally journalist mode>lucky dice>fast heal>the one that makes you heal for 4 hearts>cogfly
>>722272372>beast crestyou didn't beat the game
>>722272460Beast Crest is considered the worst crest.
>>722255029One day I just stopped watching his videos after never missing one. No rhyme or reason just overnight poof. I think not being 13 anymore and having my own brain and opinions at that point helped. He stradles the like of being "le funny talking fast man" and "serious reviewer" that it's impossible to truly know where his head is at.
>>722272460>beat the gameYou didn't beat the game
>>722268858>The game really does allow you to bash yourself into threats and come out ontop thoughthat's mostly on wanderer crest, you don't get this stupid fast silk generation with others, but most of the bosses do have a lot of safe spaces to heal.
>>722257152>Dude just read the wikiWhy are soulsfags like this?>Dude the boss aint hard >…just use buttshit resin>…just equip the stinky doll and use it as an item it stuns the boss for 300 milliseconds>..just kill the mudcake merchant and steal his ring
>>722272460>non-beast crestyou didn't beast the game
>>722272679>use consumables >game is easierWoah.
>>722272301he just cuts the filters offactually, he bites them off
>>722272565nah, there was a distinct point where he went full faggot. for me it was him unironically recommending a night in the woods when i accepted it, but there were signs way before that.
>>722272276Probably have to make sure you have 3 tool powers
The game
>>722267920Don't know haven't followed s/him, but I'm assuming no? Its a pity, he/they/she/it used to have some decent criticisms of monetization in games and corporate garbage behavior, but decided to go so far off the edge with performative identity shit and trying to dunk on the chuds that any reasonable message about aforementioned shitty monetization or other behavior has gotten lost.
>>722272130It's a sort of thing you have to do when you are feeling Big, you know?And I'm feeling HUGE right now.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXr0IaDrp48
>>722267142>literally years agosecond wind split off from escapist like 6 months ago wdym
He is like 30 years oldYour reflexes fall apart starting age 20 Give him a break
>>722272543When I blindly finished the game, I was surprised that people though it was bad.I found it OP in some situations, especially in High Halls gauntlet, because of its range buff that lets you deal damage while parrying with normal attacks.
>>722272405if you think any of this is comparable to black knife tiche, pre nerf hoarfrost stomp, rivers of blood etc etc you're brain damaged (or in other words a fromtranny)
>>722272875TB was the one man keeping him sane
>>722272301The tobacconist. Lucky Strikes are still pretty common to find in most places and those are unfiltered standard. They make a filtered version of Lucky Strikes, but they aren't very common since Lucky Strikes' blend of tobacco is specifically mixed to taste best unfiltered and just tastes kinda weird if you take a drag through some cotton.Also you can just buy loose leaf tobacco and roll your own. You get style points for that unless you are smoking something like gas station TOP tobacco. If you are willing to go to a decent tobacconist and buy something like hand cured Dutch Shag tobacco you can roll cigarettes that are way better than anything you will find in pre rolled cigarettes. also Smoked Russian Caravan tobacco is very good. Actual Russian cigarettes sucks, but you can occasionally find tobacconists that age and cure the tobacco in the traditiional way the caravan caravans transporting it to Russia used to, where the merchants would dry their tea leaves and tobacco leaves at the same time over smokey peat fires gives the tobacco a bitter and rich flavor that is very deep and a nic buzz that is very strong.
>>722272931I'm almost 40 and have all cheevos in Silksong and pretty much every Fromsoft game and countless other shit.
>>722256271He probably played with Mimic Tear only
>>722270251Finally made it work with very aggressive use of harpooning. Very satisfying boss fight.>>722270323Thanks, I was retarded and assumed his tornadoes couldn't be pogoed.
>>722268858>Wanderer You did not beat the game
>>722272986No idea what any of that is. I only played Dark Souls 1 and never finished it.
>>722272931Anon I’m fucking 33 and beat it just fine
>>722273041Hope you played with your grandkids
Im a 35 year old boomer and I still beat silksong.why is he so bad?
>>722256601it's difficulty hearkens back to the era of "nintendo hard" NES games and it came out at a time when every AAA release was some handholdy shit that basically plays itself like assassin's creed or those batman arkham games, basically the ps3/360 era was in a rut of games that weren't actually challenging to play
>>722266627When people hear Jim Sterling, they think Jim Sterling. When people hear Digital Homicide, they think Jim Sterling. When people hear Stephanie Sterling, they think Jim Sterling.
I beat the game with reaver the first time and than wanderer. Reaver is something I still use against some bosses depending on how annoying they are. But I get people wanting to quit because several of the bosses made me want to quit. The thing that made me want to quit the most was bile water.
>>722272674>that's mostly on wanderer crestMostly? Maybe in the sense that it's the better face-tank crest. But you can really do it with any weapon that isn't Reaper. And even with Reaper you can do it if you just know how to get decent use out of the silk spheres that your strikes generate after healing, because those actually generate a lot of silk and compensate for the slow attack speed. You really can play like a stumbling fool even with Hunter and then still have enough Silk to just run away and heal even though you weren't using Wanderer. And Witch, Architect, and Shaman aren't really any worse at it. Well. The Witch is kind of fucked since it forces you to bind next to the boss/enemies, but otherwise the speed can just assist you getting back into the fight for more silk.
>>722259754What happened with angry joe? I only know of him from more than 10 years ago as random video recommendations
>>722272936Art like this makes me wish Hornet had more outfits in the game.
>>722267615>>722273193I know people say a lot but Jim looks better now mostly because of the makeup. I don't think anyone's ever paid attention to his face before the transition but the man was fucking ugly.
>>722272916Huh? I can easily find Second Wind content going back at LEAST into Nov 2023 (Alan Wake 2 Fully Ramblomatic) as far as videos.
>>722273319https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZqo4OZ0Pqs
>>722273332Soon...
>>722272916Bro, it was years ago.
>>722273343He is just fat. You cant objectively call a fat person ugly, because all fatties are uglyMaybe if he lost the weight, he’d look normal
>moi favorite boss howeverbeist, is the easiest boss you fight for how strong you are at that point the gameI liked the cogwork dancers too and the double hammer guys in that one gauntlet were annoying without shakra but cmon>>722267689perhaps I treated you too harshly hamsterman, but your books still suck
>>722267813YouTube frequently breaks their algorithm accidentally while fine tuning things. It's not always on purpose, but the algorithm is built on a machine learning model that nobody in the company really understands and that means it can be unpredictable when they tweak it.
>>722273471>>722273384no...
>>722257152tfw high halls double boss wasn't even hardnothing really filtered me in silksong, i'm not a god gamer that first tried any of the hardest bosses, but most of them were very doable without resorting to poison cogfly spam. The only one that pissed me off a lot was karmelita before I realized hunter crest diagonal pogos are perfect for her. hardest part of the game was the first 5 hours just trying to get over learned habits from hollow knight
>>722256378>>722256613>>722267813What actually happened with view numbers was that uBlock (and possibly some others) had a stealth update which for some reason blocked the algorithm which resulted in view being counted on Youtube.Bunch of Youtubers figured it was odd that metrics were suddenly very skewed, with amount of views dropping, but comments and likes staying the same. Turns out latter two were not affected.
>high halls fightHow the fuck does take multiple attempts? Are none of you using fucking tools? Have you all forgotten how to pogo or did the 45 degrees mindful everyone?
>>722272931Anon he’s 42.
>>722273684>ToolsYou did not beat the game.
>>722273578It was. Anon, as you get older time seems to move faster and faster. When you were 10 summer vacation seemed to last forever. As you near 40 a year passes by in an instant.
>>722273578Yes, I'm afraid so.
>>722273580I had to bash my head against everything before my second playthrough made it much much easier. There's a lot of things I could do in hollow knight that I can't do here.
>>722273031I've been to tabacco shops and never noticed unfiltered, where are you from, the states? I usually just bought American Spirit Black there, because we don't have them here. I'm from Poland and I do roll my own cigs most of the time, usually MacBaren.
>>722273343>but Jim looks better now mostly because of the makeupcome the fuck on
>>722273031>>722273841oh wait I misunderstood the latter part of the post lol how could americans get russian tobacco nowadays. so you still have unfiltered, huh.
>>722272460I wonder how we from people happily sharing the best broken setups for old games to people shitposting if you use any gear at all now.
>>722272936>good range means you won't accidentally bump into an enemy, cause range>easier to deal with flying, cause range>easy pogo, cause range>exploration is a breeze. can hit some mobs you shouldn't be able too, cause range>easier to find openings/learning movesets, cause range>more silk after binding allows more room for mistakes, cause rangeWhy is it bad?>muh dee pee easIt's a perfectly fine first playthrough crest
>>722274075>Used the jump buttonYou did not beat the game.
Reaper4life
>>722274197Reaper is the worst crest.
>>722274259so did I beat the game?
>>722274389Yes
>>722273841Spirit Blacks are very good. Perique tobacco is a really unique technique that involves fermenting the tobacco leaves before smoke curing them resulting in a completely unique taste. and yes, I live in the states. However all the best tobacco I smoke is grown in the mediterranian and cured/blended in Northwestern Europe or the near East.>>722273978Russian Caravan tobacco isn't made in Russia. I mean it might still be, but that isn't what I am buying. Russian Caravan Tobacco is a style of curing raw tobacco leaves that involves drying them over peat moss fires in alternating layers of tobacco leaves and tea leaves. It was a very old method of curing the leaves back in the day when they had to be transported overland from Turkey to Russia. Modern Russian Caravan tobacco is an expensive process that is done by specialty tobacconists since it requires large amounts of tea leaves and lots of peat moss that are just going to be wasted in the process of preparing the tobacco.
>>722274405nice couldn't have made it without more shards, bell recovery, map location, and the boomerang
>>722274389Did you use tools?
I haven't played the game.
>>722273684It took me days. Anytime I got to the last part with the two giants I died in seconds whenever they feel like using their attacks at the same time or cornering me. If it weren't for the Pollip Pouch + Flintslate + Flea Brew to kill one of them as fast as possible I'd have dropped the game
>>722259556Sometimes when I use tools like cogfly and tacks (for ground bosses) with pollip pouch I feel like I'm cheesing the game. Curveclaw also seems pretty good for big boys.
>>722274562usually just the flame thing at the start for few first hits, maybe I'd launch it midfight but not always
>>722274572Use Tacks and or Cogflies.
>>722255029Silksong isn't that bad once you accept that healing just isn't worth it, total trap, and focus on spamming damage spells to kill the boss/gauntlets much faster.Like what's it doing for you? Oh boy, 1 extra hit I can take if I can tap the enemy 10 times in a row. Or I can tap them 4, hit them with a spear and fucking kill them. You don't have to take extra hits if the enemy is fucking dead.
>>722274679You didn't beat the game
>>722256613I saw a bunch of channels whining that their numbers fell off a cliff for a week at the end of August. I figure youtube was just reminding anyone who makes money off of youtube videos that they are beholden to the whims of Google.
>>722272372>>722272543why does she say diarrhea every time you fight her
>>722255029This isn't a change for him. He's always had trouble with even moderately difficult games, go back and check what he initially said about Demon's Souls. He just sometimes pushes through if he thinks it'll be worth it- and to give him fair credit, he does often actually appreciate the value of gitting gud once he's done it (see his Dark Souls 1 review, or Nine Sols for a more recent example). But he's very much a casual story-first gamer at heart. I don't fault him too much for that, he knows what his priorities are.Anyway, I'm not watching his videos anymore myself since he basically declared that he doesn't want anyone who voted for Trump in his audience. Might as well give him what he asked for. If he walks that back I might give his stuff a look again, I did enjoy his insights sometimes.
>>722274483oh you're way more into it than I am. all I know is that packaged cigs went to shit years ago, so it's not just price, and that I stick to macbaren. virginia and halfzware. my local tobacco shop doesn't have much more in the rolling department, other than pueblos or shit like that, but for some reason they have a lot of pipe tobacco, never tried that.
Stop talking about smoking, your faggots.Quit 3 years ago and been a gym rat and a boxer for a year.Stop rustling my jimmies, life is stressful as it is.
I will concede I used tools in the High Halls gauntlet but I didn't have Shakra or Garmond and I only had +1 Pale Oil nail. Reaper crest.My tool strategy was to dump as many Sting Shards as I could against one conductor when the 2 conductors appeared simultaneously on either side of the arena. Once one died via sting shards I could deal with the other.My other tool was tacks and I saved them all until the double minotaur minibosses then dumped all my tacks on one side of the arena, killed one, then dealt with the other normally.
>>722274704I tried those but I didn't feel comfortable with the latter and hadn't understood yet how busted the former was until the Coral Tower Gauntlet.In the end, I think I'm just a Hunter Crest needle only guy.
>>722274881Good. They should be reminded at least once a year they're eternally vulnerable. You should not be allowed to sit there collecting millions from saying dumb bullshit. Ad revenue should be cut by 90% on all social media platforms.
>>722272372Good. Keep the journalists out of the citadel.
>>722261486Moorwing I wouldn't really call guidefagging. He's pretty easy to accidentally skip if you're diligent about checking for fleas everywhere.Last Judge I'll give you to a point. The alternate route is easily findable but a lot less likely unless you're like my friend who's been hard stuck on Last Judge for almost a month now and the other path is what we pushed him to just so he can do something.
>>722275009I've been using the Reaper crest the whole game because I like its pogo and it has an even tool distribution and the extra silk helps me heal. Am I a bad player?
>>722274983>my local tobacco shop doesn't have much more in the rolling departmentI mean Tobacco originates in my country and was specifically cultivated as a crop for the first time in my home state of Virginia, but Europeans long ago became the masters of aging, curing, drying, and blending it. You can't find top leaf in Europe obviously, but preparing smoking tobacco has always been something Europeans have excelled at. The Dutch, the Danes, the Norwegians, and the Russians have historically, produced the best tobacco in the world and, other than the Russians, have continued to do so to this day. Despite living in the birthplace of tobacco, if I go to my local farming town's tobacconist 90% of the stuff for sale is imported from Europe.Also, if you ever get a chance to smoke top leaf tobacco take it. Tobacco is a weird plant in that the top few leaves of each shrub contain a lot of naturally occuring DMT. Traditional Native American smoking ceremonies where they would pass the peace pipe at the end of wars and make brotherhood with their enemies involved smoking those top leaves. It is a hallucinigenic experience which involved a lot of chanting and spiritualism in order to end generational bloodshed. Modern tobacco specifically does not include those top leaves because of their psychoactive properties, but if you know someone that grows their own tobacco they will reserve those leaves for themselves.
>>722267121Insanity, high hauls gauntlet is harder than anything in any from software game including dlc.And if you say you can use Shakra, Garmond, cogflys, nail upgrades or whatever you were overpowered and not beaten the true intended way.
>>722271318Night Comet's FP/Damage ratio sucks. Sure you can build around it (in NG+ because you need 2 Staffs of Loss), but the effort and buff stacking necessary would be far easier to apply to even other magic builds. Its a fun novelty, however.
>>722275564>reaper whole gameSame. I didn't mind the diagonal pogo and was sort of getting into it but when the Greymoor chapel auto equipped Reaper the quality of life improvements were just too much to ignore. If I do a second play through I will do Hunter only but I'm too stuck in my ways on Reaper to change now on this one.
>>722273193I thought Jim Sterling was the NY Yankee's radio announcer but that's actually John Sterling
>silkshitter took over the thread like a cancer
>>722266952High Halls gauntlet took me multiple retries. Coral tower i literally did in a single pass without any struggle.In High Halls you get the dodgy projectile spammers, the flying parry knights and then you get the spider bots stealing your silk on top.The worst thing though is the miniboss which by itself is tanky but manageable with huge jump swings and large AOE attacks. If you learn him, he's quite manageable but double damage can quickly stack up if you just fuck up a little bit.But THEN you get TWO OF THEM as the final wave which fucks with a lot of positioning since their overlapping patterns can easily corner you and leave you with no room to dodge if you aren't very perculiar about your positioning.Meanwhile Coral Tower is just *long*. None of the enemies are really that threatening. The flying enemies just swing, the heavy enemies just rush from left to right... It's more a test of endurance and anyone who utilizes tools in any way at all will break no sweat. It being a "dream" sequence also means you don't waste any shards so you can use them liberally.
He impregnated Jim Sterling.
>>722275685>90% of the stuff for sale is imported from Europe.but is it a back and forth or grown in europe? last time I checked a local cig package it was from serbia, some years ago it was local. my rolling package says made in denmark, while spritis package I kept around says US grown tobacco. for local cigs i imagine it's grown here, but what you describe is probably brought back.>top leaf tobaccofirst time I heard of this but alright. you're either pulling my leg on the whole american indian stuff or not but I'll remember this.
>>722276276Main trick to High Halls is to get them both on one side of you, move backwards only when absolutely necessary, and then pass through them both when you get cornered. One of the only places in game where Shade Cloak at home might be useful, but you can get by just fine jumping off the wall and harpooning.
>>722270420Go shill your channel on /tv/ fag.
He's so right though
>>722268173It absolutely does, but specifically when people switch both up.Thats one of the core problems with Nu-MH. Monster Hunter was never *that* hard, yet new players keep struggling with it so the devs kept slapping on things to make it more accessible, but the core issue was never the difficulty but the complexity. So slapping more stuff on top actually worsens the problem.Then they go about it by slapping more tutorial boxes everywhere which also has the opposite effect where the tutorial fatigue makes people click all boxes away since there's no way to tell so they miss reading about critical core mechanics just because inconsequential side bullshit gets framed in the same way
>>722276276The diagonal drills alone are more of a threat than anything in the high halls. Also. All the non-conchfly enemies you face in the coral tower are enemies you face for the first time.
>>722266952You still need to KNOW that there are NPC helpers available and how to get them thoughI managed the High Halls gauntlet by myself just fine, but I did it way before the Quests to get an NPC helper and before I even got the double jump. Because that's just where I thought I had to go. The game does not point you in any direction which means lots of people are going to end up there without any knowledge of the ways they can make it easier.
>>722257262He also made it obvious in his Great Ace Attorney Chronicles review that he ONLY played the last case of the first game and based everything in his review off of it.
>>722259378About 12-15 years ago, not sure exactly.
>>722259378when I got banned from gametrailers
>>722276946howwhylolwhat the fuck
>>722255029the day where e-celebs become irrelevant can't come soon enough
>>722269046You can follow channels through RSS and watch videos in your media player through yt-dlp. NewPipe/PipePipe on phones. There's literally no reason to use YouTube itself unless you actually like commenting for some reason, or you're a creator yourself. Though Goggle has been cracking down on alternative ways to watch YouTube.
>>722276946That's terrible. Granted the first game fucking sucks but not actually finishing the story of an AA game to review is downright stupid.
>>722277212The new YouTube algorithm changes are explicitly designed to fuck over "production companies" like Second Wind from gaming the system by putting out slop
>>722262674Content creators who play vidya and have an amount of sway over the industry is vidya related. You can whine, bitch, moan and complain but it still is /v/ related.
>>722268173They arent, lol. I have beaten all souls game but I suck way too much at Bayonetta and Devil May Cry to the point that I don't ever want to play a hack and slash again.
>>722256271because he's a shill with an agenda. why the fuck do you think he became the face of PCMR for a while? he knows how to sell his shitty opinions as fact for retards that can't think for themselves
>>722277212Streamers are e-celebs
>>722277216>Though Goggle has been cracking down on alternative ways to watch YouTube.Yeah my main issue, especially since I use a VPN as well. Pipepipe keeps breaking half the time or tells me my IP has been banned (swapping countries doesn't instafix it), and yt-dlp sometimes just decides "yeah, we can't show you this one", either from age restriction or at times just for no fucking reason. I decided to make a burner youtube account and put it on revanced just to watch during these times, because well they've been going hard at anything that isn't youtube.
>>722273598Youtube FEARS the UblockerJewgle is MORTIFIED of the UblockerBreadtubers SHIT AND PISS because of UblockersTRILLIONS of KIKES, FAGGOTS, NIGGERS, AND TROONS kill themselves EVERY DAY because of the humble UblockerNever forget how much power you have.
>>722276903>The game does not point you in any direction which means lots of people are going to end up there without any knowledge of the ways they can make it easier.The game gives you three big markers on the map, and the high halls is just one of them. And then there are additional areas that you'll easily stumble across while exploring the citadel and the three markers on the map. Like yeah, as you say, the high halls is perfectly manageable without assistance. I just don't see, how, in the scenario where you do struggle with it immensely. Why you wouldn't even consider exploring the other objective markers, or adjacent game regions first. And then return later.
>>722276535>but is it a back and forth or grown in europe? Yeah, funnily enough. The laws and regulations here in the US are so fucked up that it is more economically feasible for American tobacco farmers to ship their raw tobacco to Europe, let the Europeans age and cure it, and then have it reimported to the US to make into domestic cigarettes than it is for local farmers to just cure their leaves and sell it directly to American smokers. Spirits are kind of unique in that because they are technically a native American owned co-operative they can bypass a lot of the legal hoops and taxes, so they can sell tobacco that is grown here organically with only a minor markup for state taxes. There was another tobacco company that existed in the 1990s that predated American spirits by like five years that tried to do the whole "organic tobacco grown, cured, and rolled in the US" thing called Dave's Tobacco. They went national and sold really delicious and strong cigarettes, but they went out of business in the late 90s or early 00s because the federal government taxfucked them into oblivion.The Export-Import thing big tobacco does here in the US now is the only way to really sell cigarettes without government over reach taxraping everything to death.>you're either pulling my leg on the whole american indian stuff or not but I'll remember this.I am not pulling your leg. There are still South American tribes that exclusively smoke top leaf for religious purposes. The difference is that the DMT in tobacco breaks down chemically pretty quickly, so transporting it from the Americas to Europe resulted in no DMT, but nicotine remaining. So Europeans thought that nicotine was the reason for smoking and completely missed out on the real reason the Natives smoked tobacco. If you ever get a chance go on vacation to Virgina sometime.
>>722259378Never started. He's genuinely worthless, unfunny, and has no useful input. He isn't even a journo or a critic.
>>722266683no fucking way this is real
>>722267689>blasts through pantheonsdoubt
The thing that drives me nuts is I had a really fucking hard time beating Silksong. Some of it was legitimate balance frustration but I'm able to recognize that my own skill is a big part of it. I've never been great at games and I feel like I've only gotten worse at them as I've been getting older. Despite that, I still pushed through the frustration I was having to beat Act 3 just for the sake of having a full breadth of the game so I could leave a Steam review and join the full conversation about the game. I'm not a person who critiques games for a living yet I somehow feel more inherently driven to get a comprehensive view on them than those that do.
>>722270420shut the fuck up anderson. buy an ad
>>722266825holy fuck hahaha
>>722277526Switching on Mullvad usually works for me. Age restriction is a bitch but it's such a small amount of what I watch I just deal. Mostly from age restricted game trailers, but alternate uploads are usually not restricted.
>>722255029the game is unbalancedyou ass kissing gitgud larpers can yap all you want about le perfectly balanced difficulty curve but fact remains you play the entirety of act 1 simply starving for useful difficulty mitigation equipment that get's dumped on you all together during act 2
>>722272543not for speed running I think
>>722277871>Switching on Mullvad usually works for me.Weird, I use mullvad as well, and still have issues. Are you talking about the PC or phone with pipepipe? Since run in issues with this on the latter, it still sees it as blocked even after I switch.
>>722255029>Team Cherry made this game more frustrating than hard!>No, don't tell me to explore and find upgrades and items that would make it less frustrating! Don't you know I have to churn out a Borderlands 4 review for next week?!People often clown on Yahtzee for not finishing a lot of the games he reviews, but in this case it actually matters because a lot of the frustration is clearly self-created by the time constraints imposed on his weekly review gig.And, of course, youtube comments are pissing themselves with relief for giving them cover to dismiss Silksong as "not even too hard, just too frustrating," as if the game didn't give you more than enough options if you bother to find them and use them.
Didn't this guy die of ass cancer, or was that another one?
>>722278089horrible twitter type bait. Yes, nigger, this guy died of ass cancer and is now making videos in hell
>>722278082He's literally using EZ mode Poison Cogflies in the video, but he is such a shitter he still got filtered by the most basic bitch shit imaginable.
>>722278089You are thinking of Total Assbiscuit and he died like 10 years ago.
>>722278082He only ever really liked a couple of genres, but this one is kind of weird. He used to like metroidvanias enough he'd talk about downloading mods for Aria of Sorrow. I can understand if this were some FPS or juggler action game, but it's not.
>>722268173lollmao even
>>722278185Do they even make a disclaimer on who's gameplay the footage is? It could be Yahtzee, or it could be someone else from Second Wind.
>>722277642>The laws and regulations here in the US are so fucked up that it is more economically feasible for American tobacco farmers to ship their raw tobacco to Europe, let the Europeans age and cure it, and then have it reimported to the US to make into domestic cigarettes than it is for local farmers to just cure their leaves and sell it directly to American smokerscrazy, and they say eu regs are bad. well they are, but this is just on the level.thanks for the lecture
>>722278082can you point to where these imaginary upgrades are? nothing seems to help much, its just 5x arena fights for some rosaries or a mask shard
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>>722278185Cogflies are, contrary to popular belief, not actually a cheatcode and they don't automatically win every encounter for you. And if they don't I hope you have no issue wasting more of your time to farm shards.
>>722278072On my phone. I usually keep it on US as it has the most points.
>>722277475I know. I hope they fuck off the internet
>>722264619Baby Steps isn't hard.
>>722268563Low IQ
why do people like this guy? i tried watching the 10 minutes and he says nothing insightful, he's unfunny and his voice is obnoxious and tiresome to listen to
>>722259378Post zp but honestly it hasn’t been the same since he moved to the US.
>>722277163>>722277293A link to a transcript to save looking up the video. Note that everything he's specific about is only from Unspeakable Story (your client confessing about lying before, Iris being your assistant at trial, searching someone at the witness stand) and everything else is vague. I'm not even sure he knew the second game was there.https://zeropunctuation.fandom.com/wiki/The_Great_Ace_Attorney_Chronicles
>>722274075Fromshit fanbase. Definitely one of the most brainrotten fandoms of all video games.
The only boss I've cheated is probably Groal, because I just poked at him at some run from the shitpile and won that way, but I was desperate and it worked.
>>722278308It would be less embarassing if it wasn't his footage, but that is the only thing that even indicates he was playing the game since his critique seems to ignore a bunch of actual game play mechanics.>>722278320It is what is is bro. Also much love from Virginia. I met my wife when I was stationed in Poznan, and your country is amazing. You are the only non-gay yuropoors, and the entire world is sleeping on how great Poles are. There is literally nothing better in the world that coming home from a long cold day at work and having your plump wife meet you at the door with a cold glass of beer telling you there will be a hot plate of pierogi ready at the table in ten minutes. JP2 was the best Pope and proof we need more Polish Popes and less kraut, spic, or amerimutt ones.
>>722279071ease up with that cowboy, it's all like that
>>722269046For me its when I scroll down and it gives me "people also watched" no matter how many fucking times I say don't show me that shit and its always either>Hyper coomer shit(No, I don't want to see a thirteen year old anime girl skirt around youtube guidelines, I'm fucking gay, why the fuck are you showing me this shit?)>Nothing to do with my interests(ie right now 'nagito edit', some guy from dingleronpa, a series I've never even fucking googled and only know about from here, with an anime art style when I don't watch anime)
>>722257262You watch Yahtzee for the jokes, not to take his opinions terribly seriously.
>>722270369I came to a very different conclusion a long time ago. Gameplay, specifically combat mechanics, has little to no bearing on popularity whatsoever. Hollow Knight was popular because it provided an experience people felt they wanted to talk about and share. Positive enough to convince others to try the game and resultingly obtain an experience they wanted to share as well. This is the plain truth with Souls games as well. They're not well liked because they're hard or the combat was well-designed. Frankly speaking it's always been jank since the start. It simply facilitated enough resistance that the journey became more meaningful to the average player.Silksong is fundamentally different being a sequel. People are heading into it with the expectation of a great experience. However, the resistance and difficulty are overwhelming it. People are remembering getting their balls busted rather than where they're exploring, what they're doing, and what's happening. The average difficulty is too consistently high so the difficulty overrides one's personal narrative in the game. There's exploration, but the routes you take and the enemies you fight all blend into the pool of generically hard which makes difficulty dominate the game's discourse. People shat on DaS2 for missing the point and FromSoft actually course corrected. The reality is difficulty was never the real point. Just an aspect of design. It was never supposed to be the focus. The focus was dark gothic fantasy adventure. Silksong has fundamentally made the same mistake being a sequel that misunderstood the original's strengths putting too much emphasis on difficulty and harshness to the point it overshadows its world.Silksong is still very much a good game, but the difficulty has gotten to the point it detracts from the fullest experience. There are many games where mechanical skill and improvement is the point, but metroidvanias at their core are about exploring a world and the journey doing so.
>>722267724The problem with comparing difficulty between the two games is that in one you can fundementally alter the principles by which you engage in combat to such an extreme extent that "you didn't beat the game" is a common catch phrase. You can only get better at mechanical execution in the other instance, poison cogflies won't save you from anything, just make it die quicker if you've already got it in the bag. t. straight pin & pimpilo user
>>722270369>>722279387Also it turns out I made a post on this 4 years ago too which I dug up. Essentially popularity is a measure of communication.
>>722259378I still watch him regularly. I just never had a parasocial breakup because I have my own opinions on video games and I don't look to youtubers to give me opinions. So when he shits on a game I like for the wrong reasons I say "lol" and move on with my life.
>>722256435The soulsfag creed, if they ever get filtered by a game it's not a personal failing it's because it's "the wrong kind of difficulty". I don't know how they turned into a community of such whiny faggots. Go in to the negative reviews of any somewhat difficult game and scroll until you find "I beat dark souls/elden ring but-" you won't have to go far trust me.
>>722278354Here's a clue: if you lurk in Silksong threads, be on the lookout for items offset by meme arrows followed by "You didn't beat the game." That's how Soulschud larpers indicate they think an item or weapon is good. Then go look that thing up on the wiki. Word to the wise: if you're a completionist, you can get 9 masks and full thread spool upgrades before the end of Act 2.
>>722266937>>722267121>>722267724Elden Ring by its very nature produces extremely drastic differences between individual playthroughs across different player. It is an open world RPG with vastly different possible builds, almost no forced exploration order, and very little that is actually mandatory.To try to use it as a benchmark is near meaningless.
>>722279641You didn't beat the game.
>>722270781He's too long winded.
>>722270781Nah, he's a faggot. Majuular, now that is a video essayist.
>>722271765It was never about that.The issue with early games was that your player always had this weird fucking mobility where they were like drag race car because you could run and attack really fast in one direction, but burning or moving laterally was gimped for no reason.>>722271405I hate that we didn't get a paired dagger/gs weapon like this in ER.
>>722264436as a longtime viewer it genuinely baffled me that he lost the rights to it
>>722266035Pretty sure they were giving him things like health insurance.>>722280221He signed onto Escapist in like 2007. It was a very different time. He probably never thought he'd be able to do better. I do not agree with him, but his career survived it, and he's arguably kept a lot of much less talented people surrounding him gainfully employed for years. That's definitely still true with Second Wind. I couldn't tell you another person that works there, but they collect a paycheck from being adjacent to Yahtzee. I'd argue that makes him very successful as a writer.
>>722268563>poison>cogfly
>>722259378when he sucked tranny cock in the hogwarts review
>>722271831I read Will Save the Galaxy for Cash and despite the incredibly fun premise it was completely bogged down by his bland character writing and marvel-esque quippy dialogue. What a fag, I want my money back
I'm doing a second playthrough and it's crazy how much easier the bosses are now. I felt the same way after replaying metroid dread.
>>722268601>Marrying your stalkerwat. someone please enlighten me
>>722266825AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>722263529He clearly just phones it in for the job, and otherwise would rather be playing games he likes and living the Californian dad life than try to maintain a cred he doesn't care much for anymore.There's big subset that will back him regardless of politics or shit takes, and that's all that matters for someone who has actually moved on but still makes money pretending he hasn't.
>>722280553pretty fair assessment of the situation. He gained a lot of my respect for standing up for the truly untalented among the escapist crowd
>>722255029Yahtzee has always been a massive faggot. He was the tip of the spear for the>oooo games are art and have to be both produced and treated as suchsentiment that eventually warped large parts of the game industry into narrative-focused movie games and walking sims, through both his overbearing demands for a massively increased focus on story while also shitting on gameplay focused games with Michael Bay plots for not being refined enough. Peak example of how Millennials got to experience the best of the gaming industry, ended up taking it for granted and shitting on things in hopes it would """mature""" with them as they themselves age, and we're only finally starting to make a comeback with more gameplay-focused games again--and it's FILTERING THEM
>>722281864>Peak example of how Millennials got to experience the best of the gaming industry, ended up taking it for granted and shitting on things in hopes it would """mature""" with them as they themselves age, and we're only finally starting to make a comeback with more gameplay-focused games again--and it's FILTERING THEMThis nails it.Anyway, the thread has reached the bump limit, oh yeah.
Is Matthewmatosis the only /v/ approved e-celeb?
>>722272821It worked!
>>722255029Spiteful game that has no respect for its audience.I'm glad people are getting fatigue at this completely stale gimmick.
>>722268173True.>>722265446>parry windowsEither didn't play or victim of crutch (ergo; didn't play).
>>722255318This isn't where he review games, it's his other show - Semi ramblomatic is where he discusses problems in the industry, and he does it at a normal pace/speed of speech and without constant dick/poo/political jokes.It's just him sitting down and discussing issues in depth - it's some of the only decent games journalism still being done on the planet.
>>722281995No. Stop reposting your garbage taste, retarded eceleb cunt.
>>722270781Just another fart-huffing TDS infected faggot
>>722272931Silksong is not a reflex intensive game
>>722282939>t. No natural reflexes
>>722255029did anyone actually noticed how safe his reviews are for the last 5 or so years? he used to be himself with shitting on loved games like dead space and mass effect, but nowadays, every review of his are to be expected - safe and barely offensive to the game or its fanbase... is it the money?
>>722255029I sort of agree with him... except that the game is 20 bucks.Credit where is due: Team Cherry had a vision and didn't overcharge for it.Though the game has a LOT of criticism that it rightfully deserve, it also has a lot of my respect for sticking to its guns and not being a bullshit expensive game.
>>722283493making shitty devs cry over it being so cheap was pretty great too
>>722255029>everything is a pain in the assenjoy your boss rush faggot.
