Dark Souls 3 - Top 5 GENIUS Miyazaki Decisions

Wanna know why Dark Souls 3 won the RPG of the year award? This insightful video will peer into the soul of Hidetaka Miyazaki to provide the answer.
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DS2 clips from:
Illvmatic
Nikushimi_Zero
Oroboro
Music:
A Formidable Enemy Appears - Lost Odyssey OST
Warrior's Hideout - Final Fantasy Tactis OST
Hurry! Hurry! - Final Fantasy V OST
Companions That Surpassed Their Tribe - Final Fantasy TA2 OST
Temple of Kiltia - Vagrant Story OST

[@Otzdarva]

The trailer for the second DLC came out 10 minutes after I recorded the line at 0:44. *You're all welcome.*

[@1un4cy]

March 28 is NEVER coming!

[@thegayknight4556]

Otzdarva thanks to u, this time i won't spoil myself. I just watched that first trailer and i'm done with it haha

[@123eldest]

Yeh that confused me slightly.

[@Linkthesk8er]

Otzdarva I was gonna point the trailer out. XD

[@paulbalanean692]

Scrub

[@yungvidya]

we are unworthy of Miyazaki's love

[@MrHerbert1129]

digging the new profile pic

[@Kinda_Venty]

yung maestro hyper light drifter /o/

[@Courier-gq6ym]

yung maestro meh, I liked the old one, but I'll persevere.

[@murray821]

We are all his bitch 😂

[@IronPineapple]

these are my favorite videos from you

[@seskal8595]

Iron Pineapple i definitly agree!

[@Fuutor]

Yeah, same here. Sadly nothin can surpass the Dark Souls 2 one... That one just had me broken the whole time. Could have mentioned way more things like the weight to armor ratio which keeps decreasing the heavier your gear is and many, many other things.

[@imdorgat]

Otzdarva will tell you like it is.

[@guynamedalex7370]

PINEAPPLE-SAN

[@paleblood2664]

Iron Pineapple 30

[@Kurdent]

Top 5 WORST Miyazaki decisions #5: No common fruits #4: Pas de fruits communs #3: Keine gemeinsame Frucht #2: No hay fruta común #1: 共通の果物はありません

[@tancarasns5538]

Matante Kurdent #0: Niente frutti comuni

[@awaaawaa9768]

Tancara SnS #-1:لا ثمرة المشترك

[@dargons5145]

That german translation tho...

[@admyr2270]

Matante Kurdent nijedno zajednicko voce

[@admyr2270]

Dragonbasty was hast du gegen deutsch bitte??

[@olSidoca71]

The fact that dragon items suck is, in fact, a metaphor representing the defeat of the Everlasting Dragons during the Age of Ancients. People just can't seem to understand Miyazaki's greatness...

[@Otzdarva]

The lore is too deep, the plot too thick...

[@manuelredgrave8348]

@@Otzdarva as thicc as Smough's armor?

[@themitochondriaisthepowerh7789]

@@manuelredgrave8348 as thicc as Vordt's ass?

[@the_real_tay_loud2072]

Elden Ring fixed it!

[@pepelaugh1235]

still no common fruit...

[@thecoolbomberman4056]

Austin Medley xD

[@noice__]

It's no longer common... It's fruit.

[@kvjackal7980]

Fruits are common as intended.

[@ikillyou190]

probably the last item you get in the 2nd dlc

[@TitaniteHydra]

Literally unplayable.

[@ryankwak1811]

Argueably longest windup in the game 222 damage

[@OldManNutworth]

*balancing*

[@Teeny_Sanguini]

and it takes more stamina than an ultra greatsword

[@Yewzer_Wun]

Substitute_Hero Well you try summoning the spirit of an ancient dragon; it's tiresome!

[@commie4164]

nah a full charged r2 from an ultra weapon will take longer... but it will hit for 800-1100 damage after armor depending on build and weapon. totally comparable to the 200ish of the dragon form.... lol that being said though. dragon form has been kinda shit in all the souls games. you lose all defense and poise for a mediocre offense buff with stagger. i mean we have all seen the oneshot moonlight dragon builds but, that shit is mostly a gimmick.

[@heyhoojoe]

Right, Dragon Form was never a must-have, - and I think that is a good thing in any game where a variety of character set-ups or builds are a set goal - BUT: it used to have a niche for specialized max-dmg-output, quirky gameplay. Well, not anymore it doesn't. Gimmicky stuff, too, has to be at least somewhat viable, else noone will use it ever, and there is already far too much useless shit in DS3, which is precisely why pvp is so fucking boring.

[@izorsky]

You get to be a thrall? I usually feel like a crystal lizard.

[@Vanlens]

You are pretty much just a crystal lizard that gives estus upon death.

[@Zappy_C]

Yeah, at least thralls have that bullshit lunging attack that tracks way more than it should.

[@tolelexiter5376]

I feel like a dog. Diseased, dying, decaying, fighting with all I can but inevitably getting crushed by a greathammer

[@viktorreznov6425]

Zappy Caboose dudes chase you for a mile winding up those tracking attacks from hell

[@soundaholixx]

Or you mean winding up a flamberge attack for -4- seconds and then stabbing you after you already rolled 3 times for 450 damage?

[@dapperdan530]

I could literally hear Miyazaki banning Otz during the video.

[@Otzdarva]

He announced a DLC more than 2 months in advance just to spite me.

[@moonmops8758]

Still no DS2 dual wielding stance...

[@SpaceElvisInc]

I feel you man, DS3 hates left handed characters

[@raziel6304]

THIS, dual wielding was the one of the best, if not the best, improvement and they didn't implement it in ds3!?

[@Battleguild]

My biggest gripe about the dual wielding stance from DS2... was that you couldn't power stance catalysts. :D

[@jahrfuhlnehm]

[Dark Souls 2 shit-poster]: POWER-STANCING WAS SHIT BECAUSE [retarded reasoning] I'M GLAD THEY SIMPLIFIED IT BACK TO DA BASICS IN DANK SOLES 3

[@raimethefumeknight2062]

Aether Veilborne Found the magic scrub (What about the Blue Flame sword?)

[@afrogufo772]

Oh dammit ahahah ok, at 0:52 someone is summoned, and his name is "Scrotocottero", which in Italian roughly translates to "Helicopter of Ballsack". Brilliant.

[@sararedouane7740]

Hahhahahahahahahahahaah

[@returnofthechickentendies2844]

Scrotumcopter

[@Krystalmyth]

Scrotcopter~ lol

[@Talon323]

poise?? poise... poise!! POISE!!!!

[@chadgunner4403]

+A Seal With a Long Name I love you

[@PaleShine89]

"B-but hipa-armor, itz guuud, i dun want poese bekstubs agen as in stoopid DS1 becuz itz too hard to plei unlocked and turn atteks manually!" - every opponent of proper poise mechanic.

[@_tbg]

More like every lightweight dex build user that didn't really have any poise anyways.

[@Kapita_Lismus]

Imminent Troll But the hyper armor system is better though.

[@PaleShine89]

Got our first one here.

[@MalcolmReynoldsfromDarkSouls]

You forgot the best one, still allowing cheating to be as fucking ridiculous as it was before.

[@harrymason4300]

Throwing knives that get your enemies softbanned lol.

[@Lakanus]

0:43 *John Cena voice* "Are you sure about that?"

[@fredh1897]

my top 5 miyasaki décision: 1-making dark souls 3 2-making dark souls 2 3-making bloodborne 4-making dark souls 5-making demon's soul

[@frederichak7894]

Fredh18 my favourite miyasaki genius decision: -not making dark souls 4

[@CritsDoHappen]

Ds2 came before bloooooooooooodborne

[@magejag2977]

were making ds2 or 3 miyazaki decisions?

[@user-xy8xy7us2b]

I rate ds1 and demon souls above blood bourne and ds3 and way above ds2.

[@Bashbekersjiw]

Make elder ring

[@HavokGeometryDash]

we all saw that wood grain ring.

[@ShamarRapu]

Sciomancer you

[@matthewb-r488]

3:35

[@Nick-mp1zh]

Uh, the backflips? That's what happens if you kick with a curved sword

[@HavokGeometryDash]

I'm talking about when he displays the 3 (or 4 in this case actually) images of rings on screen, you can barely see the wood grain ring before the images cut out.

[@Nick-mp1zh]

When in the video is that? I actually don't remember it

[@KRIMZONMEKANISM]

*What about the genius behind infusing items?* DkS2 allowed you to infuse shields to give them increased resistance to a certain element, and though it didn't really matter it would do split damage. This was at the cost of all other elemental resistances getting cut. But that's the point, infusion is "specialization". In DkS3, shield infusions are pointless and obsolete. No reason whatsoever to waste stones on them, much less upgrade them. *What about the genius behind spell casting, spell damage, casting tools, and casting speed in general?* In DkS 2: -you could easily identify which catalysts dealt the most damage by simply comparing damage and scaling; -you had "casting height" which was an interesting trait to sorcery catalysts, since some allowed you to bypass potential obstacles at times, which was kinda hidden; -the casting speed stat was tied to your attunement, which meant you had to upgrade it to get more spell uses AND a better cast time; -catalysts had innate casting speeds, which meant you could further customize your builds by being able to more freely choose your equipment and decide to prioritize either cast speed or raw damage to your liking; -catalysts could be INFUSED! You could literally make them specialize in a certain type of element to cater to your prefered spell types! This means you could sacrifice dark spells damage for either miracles or sorceries. Miyazaki thought that this system that was near perfect could only be improved by completely disregarding it, and turning it into a complete fucking mess, that is still almost impossible to understand, and then he made spells do shit damage unless you use all damage boosting rings, and then he also made cast speed be tied to dexterity, because cleric builds and mage builds can never do without dexterity am I right fellas? *What about the genius behind special gear?* DkS2 had tons of gear, mostly headgear, that boosted your stats. Whether that meant boosted intelligence, faith, cast speed, fall damage resist, increased vitality, increased vigor, it was all there. There was even a shield that boosted many of your stats. In DkS3, however, it was decided that the best course of action was to create obsolete gear that has no differences from other equipments, except for their look. *Oh, and the cherry on top of the cake, the poise* In DkS1 poise was overpowered, plain and simple. DkS2 developed a system of poise that reacted to a stat present in weapons, called "poise damage". If you had a 3 times the value of poise than that of the weapons poise damage that you are being attacked with, then you resist it and do not stagger. Seems underpowered, but that's because you had weapons that granted hyper-armor, and allowed you to negate all incoming poise damage by half. This means that heavy armor and large weapons that grant hyper armor would go hand in hand, and you were rewarded by playing a certain playstyle that makes, sense without penalizing you if you didn't. Miyazaki's approach to poise in Dark Souls 3 was truly revolutionary, instead of taking advantage of the poise system in Dark Souls 2, he instead removed poise as we know it altogether. And then he made it so weapons that grant hyper armor would make a character unstaggereble so long as enough time between an attack had occurred, meaning that a naked man without poise could "poise-through" attacks, by attacking first yet striking last. Which led to many encounters of naked men wielding the Dragonslayer's Greataxe/Yhorm's Great Machete and killing players who used smaller weapons without effort.

[@samuelrobertson2903]

Don't forget about how heavy armor is useless in terms of physical defense! Wearing full havels and I am taking the same damage as the dude wearing the thief outfit.

[@remito7839]

@Dat Boi Sure it did. If you look at the negatives and don't consider the many things it did right and also enjoy having your opinion be based on others instead of thinking for yourself for once.

[@TheRandomshite123]

@Dat Boi Almost every single negative aspect with the exception of soul memory exists in all the other games, two gets singled out for them (ganks, janky hitboxes etc) due to groupthink and miyazaki dick riding

[@TheRandomshite123]

@Dat Boi Care to elaborate?

[@kingofcali6057]

Dat Boi uh Ds2 sotfs is 10x better than dark souls 3 in almost every aspect. Ds2 Sotfs did so many things right that ds 3 could live up to do

[@098Xzibit]

If this latest and final DLC will be less than 4h long I will personally find Miyazaki and point him down.

[@kurokagethescrub9627]

Nebula Ringed City is roughly 2.5 hours long. You know what to do.

[@rina5221]

Well, this makes it roughly two and a half times longer than AoA

[@Walamonga1313]

I doubt anyone completed Ringed City in less than 2 1/2 hours unless they were overleveled and just rushed everything

[@alalmalal]

Kurokage The Scrub naaaaw

[@Nagato6Senpai]

Miyazaki will Parry your point down

[@zazollo]

I don't think Miyazaki directed Dark Souls 3. I think they cloned him so whenever we complained they could go "well it's the same guy from Dark Souls 1 guys"

[@zazollo]

***** it makes complete sense, if you believe

[@Battleguild]

When you mean clone, do you mean a clone like the "Plastic" Santa from Santa Claus 2? So for DS3, we got a plastic Miyazaki that quotes "working as intended" when questioned...

[@zazollo]

Aether Veilborne kind of, it's like they made a clone that looked like Miyazaki but gave it the brain of an ice rapier user

[@omegaserpentis899]

Greasysweet1 damm that's some deep shit right there

[@Seifer_PT]

DS2 dragon form was the bomb. I love dragons and DS3 has no RESPEK. We get a malnourished immigrant who coughs pepper juice. I have high demands for the DLC. A badass muscular dragon form with wings and the Legend itself. Miyazaki: "Throw in Ulkmir of the Forlorn and Gus the Forsaken." Staff member: "Who are those?" Miyazaki: "I dunno. Just put them there." Staff memeber: "But this is the final chap-" Miyazaki: "ye, i kno lol"

[@wstxxu]

Ocelot there are no dragon form on ds3... just a goat form...

[@taculo3231]

Ocelot I have hope that the dlc will bring a greater, better, awesome Dragon form.. that works as intended...

[@Seifer_PT]

Ahahaha, never. :(

[@raimethefumeknight2062]

Ocelot Ds2 dragon form litterally made you a Dragon warrior and the Dragon weapons were not bad. the curved Dragon greatsword is undoubtedly the best weapon of ds2.

[@Battleguild]

Especially since you can break the dragon weapons that have no scaling and just troll the host/invaders by dealing 0 damage.

[@ArtekGeneral]

I actually agree with the reddit post at #5. That's exactly how i see invading right now. Become a mob. Be destined to die. But before that will happen: try to make the life of the host and his friends as miserable as possible. Waste their time, waste their estus, waste their EVERYTHING. What's that? Host just made it to the boss room with his buddy? I wonder how are they going to kill him when the phantom has 2 estus charges and the host has 5. I wish i could at least stay in their world as a ghost to see that

[@lincolt]

Just invade the boss room and fuck them up,

[@fieldoflettuce7091]

And then the host black crystals his buddies and resummons them before the boss fight and they all have full charges.

[@ArtekGeneral]

That is if they'll actually bother to kill you before going in there. Most of them just enter the fog right away as if denying me, without bothering to refill themselves or their phantoms

[@SpaceElvisInc]

makes it more fair

[@PillsHere69]

If you're destined to die why bother making PvP covenants? Just stick with Sunbros.

[@lastor9148]

i still wonder why they did all of this

[@ArtekGeneral]

Someone smoked a lot of weed when balancing this shit. That's the only explanation i believe in until Fromsoft will say otherwise

[@waking00one]

Last Sinister because Miyazaki can do no wrong and every dark souls 2 change was awful, obviously

[@Kutikyla]

Because dark souls 2 is the worst game in the decade, so they decaided to remove everything that slightly connected to WORST GAME THAT IS DARK SOULS 2

[@raimethefumeknight2062]

Kutikyla Sarcasm?

[@NightCat14]

Because DS2 is absolutely horrendous and any of your incoming arguments (no matter the viability) is INVALID, GOOD DAY SIR

[@GothicKin]

My favourite part is how every single boss has 2 phases, can dodge when you're about to punish them and has a ton of stupid quick jabs to just stop your rolls/attacks because of poise's absence. This makes fight very quick and fun, absolutely not artificially drawn out

[@Godskineater]

Boy, I bet you hate elden ring bosses

[@adradox]

The point is that dragon form is not complete yet, just look at how stupidly anorexic it looks, this guy obviously does not even lift! That's why his attacks are doing such shit damage. But don't worry, Miyazaki got your back, in second DLC you would be able to consume a super secret artifact known as "Dragon Swole" , this thing will turn you into ripped and handsome looking dragon and your attack gonna punch shit out of your enemies, just like your favorite JoJo stand. Or not.

[@robonerd125]

We shall go on a quest, for HUGE! (PlagueofGripes anyone? no? i'll see myself out...)

[@bossle6834]

Black Steel Kita I like plague, and THICC FURRY WOMEN

[@VoidAbaddon]

Remember fun? ...I miss fun.

[@lincolt]

bump

[@unknownmeme9020]

VoidAbaddon maybe it will come back ;w;?

[@Oku944]

yeah i remember fun and i still feel the fun on my silky skin

[@unknownmeme9020]

Ville Tullu silky :o?

[@hernandogaribaldi8627]

If you doesn't play Dwarf Fortress, then you don't know shit about fun, you pleb.

[@groovecrusader5770]

I just want Miyazaki to make Split-Damage good so the drakeblood greatsword can actually be great.

[@Blittsplitt5]

Groove Crusader or... make weapons that have pure magic fire or dark damage that scale with whatever combat stat... thus we don't even have to worry about split damage

[@iguanaostrava8001]

Why so much hate? Everything is working as intended. At least that's what we have been told.

[@JustAlio]

#6 - The Great Wooden Hammer doesn't one shot everything. #7 - You can roll FOREVER! #8 - Took out Common Fruit because it was the best consumable in DS2 #9 - No Kormit Lore. #10 - N O K O R M I T L O R E ! ! !

[@Evangelion543]

just no lore for the previous games at all?

[@krzypl5959]

Roll forever... What?

[@chuguvsme]

I know you are joking about the common fruit being the best consumable, but it was actually kind of useful in DS2 when fighting in the poison areas in the game because of how poison worked in DS2.

[@patokia]

6. No channelers trident so no cool Dark Souls 3 Music Videos

[@Otzdarva]

DS3 is like DS1 in all the ways except the ones that matter like this one.

[@kevgmei]

Well, the Lothric war banner is similar... but not as awesomely goofy.

[@kingvendrick4398]

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who really liked dark souls 2

[@jahrfuhlnehm]

Well it's mostly Alfred Joe and Kevin Gracey continuously shit-posting in the comments section here trying to make everyone believe Dark Souls 3 is an amazing game and Dark Souls 2 is the worst thing to happen to anything ever but if you erase their obnoxious spam posts (the clean-up work there would be a messier job than cleaning the set of an orgy/scat-themed porno) most people here seem to recognize Otzdarva for the person-who-makes-sense that he is.

[@TheFozze]

I really liked it. DS 1 is my favorite, but DS 2 is second in that list. DS 3 feels like it tried to be DS 1 again but with soooo many stupid decisions that actually makes me wish the b team took care of ds 3 as well. Im gonna get flamed for this (probably) but thats honestly how i feel.

[@zenithquasar9623]

No, I actually, genuinely love DS2!

[@tylerchenoweth5017]

I love DS2 as well

[@omnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnom3831]

Ds3 is Ds1 in a bloodborne dress

[@danielkiran8174]

But from the PvE players point of view, invaders ARE mobs, that can chug estus and r1 spam.

[@Otzdarva]

That's just plain sad.

[@MrCoolfuzzy18]

Otzdarva you're the one invading, it's worth considering that a lot of those invasions are against hosts who haven't played enough to get into pvp yet and all you're doing is standing in their way of progressing. The game isn't for you it's for them, be a host if you don't wanna be at a disadvantage or ya know keep complaining about everything and nothing at the same time.

[@remito7839]

@Grunt ELCAN Because not everyone that invades wants to have a fair fight or is good enough to compete with the sweaty tryhards that play arena. I enjoy sneaking around the level and trying to find ways to kill the host without having too fight much. On the other side I understand your point because whenever I get invaded I know that I will loose my souls and progress since I am terrible at actual pvp. You can't make everyone happy and the fight between invaders hating on hosts and vice versa will never find a satisfying answer. After all if you don't want to be invaded you could play offline or try to be embered as little as possible, which means of course sacrificing your summon ability and some max health.

[@jthomcres]

@@remito7839 This is the best solution, imo. Play the game offline and give up summoning help to keep the benefit of embered health without constant invasion, and then switch to online when you're interested in PvP and everything it entails. That's why there's an option to toggle between them right there in the main menu. Souls is all about struggle and opportunity cost.

[@aleshofastora440]

@@MrCoolfuzzy18 this one didn't age well, now all we have are experienced players, and only a few new players

[@grip4804]

Bonus genius decision : there won't be any other Dark souls games Oh wait... Thats an actual good thing too

[@kingtiger533]

Maybe there will be another Dark Souls, just that it will not have Miyazaki in it.

[@maxenfelter]

King Tiger Then it won't be a Dark Souls game any more than DS2 was.

[@dramamine755]

Are you saying you don't want more of some the best games ever offered?

[@grip4804]

Tyranno I 'd rather have a new from software ip, another sequel is really unnecessary

[@dramamine755]

Fair enough, but I hope for another Souls Like game

[@Niemandzockt]

you should try Salt and Sanctuary. with the salt of yours you can definitly get some levels at start

[@nomongosinthaworld]

GOOD ONE

[@Gensolink]

that's actually a good idea

[@CidGuerreiro1234]

That game is shit though.

[@all4onen442]

CidGuerreiro1234 just because it's 2D game? No.

[@CidGuerreiro1234]

KysymysMerkki No, because it's shit. I like 2D games, but S&S was a disappointing, steamy pile that doesn't even compare to Dark Souls. I can elaborate further if you care enough to hear it.

[@Orthane]

The worst part is this isn't even satire imo, all of these points are valid.

[@lincolt]

I can see that thanks to Cancer channels people have forgotten what "satire" is. It is meant to be valid.

[@DaiZRB]

Bro about the dragon transformation. After seeing BB's glorious transformations you'd think that they'd do the same in DS3, but of course my man big M... Still hoping to get a sick transformation upgrade in the DLC, we DID get BB's transformations with its' second DLC so we'll see how this one goes.

[@MelanchoIy.]

DaiZ of NB Uhh, BB had one DLC.

[@DaiZRB]

Oh yeah it slipped my mind that BB's DLC was released at once, it was supposed to be released as 2 separate DLCs but they put it all in one.

[@dr.hurculeezb.pussyfiend9377]

Miyazaki had really fucked DS3 up

[@dakarai47]

Dr. Hurculeez B. PussyFiend he didn't

[@DenzNoble]

He did boy

[@SpaceElvisInc]

The PvP is bad (compared to ds2) and to me the game is boring for multiple play thoughts, The bosses are fine but Yorm was one of most disappointing fight in the game I want to fight the boss with my build not a fucking shitty sword that is only used to kill him because REMEMBER THAT ONE FIGHT IN DEMON SOULS! and covenants might as well not even be in the game

[@dr.hurculeezb.pussyfiend9377]

Godly υиѕυиg Hero How did he not? PVP is worse of the three games (Sure the less laggy 'dedicated' servers of DS3 provide less labstabs, but invasions are pretty much useless unless your exploiting a glitch or arena), shit NG and NG+ even DS2 had different enemy placements and new enemies in locations to make it harder, the new game is literaly the same just with enemies having more HP and damage... The story of DS3 relies heavily on DS1 and goes to little effort to make it different, DS2 was even better in this regard, its story was very creative and new, it brought a breath of fresh air into the game. I fail to see how this game isn't a fuck up. Sure its fun at times and makes me come back for more, but it really sucks, even build diversity is punished heavily to some twat with a buffed darksword. Oh and covenants are completely useless...

[@raimethefumeknight2062]

That Guy So ds1's pvp was the best? All I got was poise monsters one shooting me. Oh and don't forget hackers. Bloodborne pvp was so lack luster. There was really no point in it because you don't get any rewards from killing the host. The covenants were also shitty like seriously. The Vileblood covenant could've had so many opportunities.

[@CrusaderLogan]

It's okay everyone, Nioh is coming. Tank builds will be back.

[@hollowempty6086]

Havel the Rock I saw you at another video about armor being useless.What i underdtand about you is that you are a poise fanboy and you don't really like DS3.

[@Blittsplitt5]

Havel the Rock umm... as far as I played in the last chance trial poise and hypeeeer armor don't exist in Nioh??? unless you can correct me..

[@matiastorres6326]

In Nioh, hyper armor and poise doesn't exist, normal enemies can still destroy you in 3 hits with the best armor

[@CrusaderLogan]

You can make a tanky build with lots of health and omnyo magic "protection talismans" and "steel talismans" and play in med/high stance. I wasn't able to test to much but you can also have all of the special effects on your weapons/armor benefit staying power. Also still not sure if leveling the magic stat would make the defense talismans more potent. You can hyper armor through attacks but i'm not quite sure how it works.

[@CrusaderLogan]

Hollow Empty I'm not a poise fanboy, just smart. What makes heavy armor good is utterly absent from DS3 except the formality of stacking poise to make greatsword builds or fashion. It's really just FROM pandering to casual players who don't like having to deal with hard to kill players. "From, plz nerf" "OP! From plz nerf"... that sort of crap. My armor isn't hewn from a boulder, rather pasted together paper mache'.

[@snipetysniper]

Yeah they made armour unupgradable, but they fixed this good decision by making it horseshit garbage that does almost nothing

[@thelordoffools8592]

But by doing that fashion souls was viable, because since all armor was the same u can wear ANYTHING.

[@217adaptiveperspective]

I tried to go as Havel for Halloween but I tripped and could not get up because of *THE FUCKING WEIGHT CAPACITY!!*

[@mateturu9203]

Gives me conniptions.

[@duhokstar1441]

Sander Virus me too

[@chadgunner4403]

"I only make High Quality shitposts."-Siivotzdarva

[@OfficialChrissums]

ds2 was way better than people say tbh. It had the best pvp imo too.

[@ShamarRapu]

OfficialChrissums I didn't like it because of animations thats it

[@Kapita_Lismus]

King Sharm That's legit because it looks and feels like shit. Phantom hits are the norm and you can't do spacing as well as dark souls 1 and 3. Dark Souls 2 is pretty shoddily made when it comes to that. Also no fucking red eye orb.

[@OfficialChrissums]

I enjoyed its pvp because A: the base game launched with an arena. B: Poise wasnt completely fucking worthless at launch. C: Good weapon variety without anything that was too OP in my opinion. 1 is a very close second for me and 3 is far behind in third.

[@waking00one]

Kevin Gracey yes soul memory was an issue, but 1 and 3 both had endless game breaking issues too so...

[@PaleShine89]

Gotta love those locked attack animations in DS2. And also every enemy being dark buffed katana/warped sword/ice rapier/pate spear/everything else with broken counter damage, robflynn combo and almost no armor backstepping everything and winning trades with heaviest weapons dude. So no, thanks.

[@XadePsyconic]

Miyazaki's specialties are world design, level design, and keeping storytelling to a minimum while sprinkling in just enough clues to keep players invested and able to continue playing at their own pace. Gameplay? Ehhh, he probably lets the other dudes and ladies of From handle that, lol. I personally love Souls gameplay, but there are some decisions that were made that make me raise all three of my eyebrows.

[@l.pietrobon3925]

Dark Souls 2 enemy: *Slightly glitches out* Community: Ah yes, this is clear evidence of the decadence of the Souls series without Miyazaki Dark Souls 3 enemy: *Attacks through walls, kills you in one hit with an untelegraphed move, and makes you lose all your souls* Community: This is proof of Miyazaki's genius, this "error" (Intended feature) really sells you into this world and it's opressive atmosphere. If you disagree with me you are casual and you deserve die

[@hannesc.9823]

I like the fact that there is a foot in the thumbnail xD

[@mr.reality3167]

I still like Ds2 over 1 and 3

[@dakarai47]

mr. reality idk why but ok

[@raimethefumeknight2062]

mr. reality THANK YOU

[@commie4164]

Hero. 2 had the best tuned pvp of the 3 games, and the pvp is the long term draw of the game once you have cleared the pve content in 20-40 hours. admittedly ds3 is still fairly new and likely to receive alot more balance changes, but at this point i think its unlikely they are going to significantly change the core mechanics which are the problem most people have. namely the effectiveness of the quality infusion, the speed and stamina costs of the rolls, the overall increased speed of the pvp in general, the result of this speed on spell casting, the speeds amplification of lag hits, the speed of estus use, the overtuned shitlord weapons like ccs and follower saber that gave rise to "reactive" play style that is the most boring and annoying thing in any souls game, the fact that the poise is dramatically differentm and lets be honest alot less effective than in previous games, that gives rise to weapons like ccs and follower saber being so effective since there are no real havel tanks to shit on them, and the disparity in the balance of power between hosts and invaders. dont get me wrong i still like ds3 a hell of alot. but i think if their pvp tuning was more in line with ds1 or 2 it would have been even better.

[@mr.reality3167]

Tristan the mechanics and pvp

[@cHeeeseEggs]

agreed. still my favorite PvP game of the series

[@sdsdfdu4437]

#6: in his infinite wisdom, Hideo Miyazaki decided to disable poise for players but leave it on for enemy npc's. The lore implications are astounding.

[@JohnnyBGoode1122]

For a second I got excited that someone finally agrees with me that upgrading armor was a good thing...

[@Otzdarva]

Sorry hahaha.

[@SnoidYT]

that reddit post gave me various ailments that will destroy my body in a few days, thanks.

[@HyperSouls]

Hope to play with you all on Porn Honor

[@Blittsplitt5]

HyperSouls Pioh as well

[@gigganigga9351]

HyperSouls I don't recall pornhub making a game.

[@chellinacell7450]

HyperSouls more like For Porn

[@x.arybdis502]

Otz this is a joke video but some idiots out there are taking what you said seriously pls be carefull.

[@Otzdarva]

Story of my life! Hahaha.

[@mewpsy1000]

He's obviously joking, but I don't get this video. Seems like actual complaints, and like he's actually is complaining on Miyazaki. WTF is he's point then.

[@user-zz7le5qc6x]

Yea, its a joke... but i cant laugh for some unknown reason.

[@Tamahowk]

Oh boy, good times when we had more than 3 weapons in PvP.

[@thecoolbomberman4056]

My invading life is now complete.... complete bullsh-

[@starch4410]

It's called dark souls 3 for a reason. DARK SOULS 3 out of 10!

[@x.arybdis502]

PotatoWielder 9001 then ds2 out of 10 and ds1 out of 10.

[@Battleguild]

It's a scale of 1 being great and 10 being horrible. ;)

[@Battleguild]

***** 1/10s obviously.

[@RickyVWorld]

PotatoWielder 9001 I found DS3 to be the best Dark Souls by far

[@w.s.7567]

@@RickyVWorld Im pretty sure they were joking.

[@fiatmcnuggets4876]

If Ds3 is treating invaders like regular mobs, is that why Fighter wears a thrall hood all the time? D E E P E S T L O R E

[@vaalence9043]

For Honor is not a "Souls-like" game, wtf Otz ? xD

[@SpaceElvisInc]

it's has souls like combat (pvp)

[@vaalence9043]

That Guy Huh no dude, the PvE and PvP fighting style is completely different. It looks more like Assassin's Creed than Dark Souls.

[@vaalence9043]

Steve Yeah So to you, Skyrim is a Souls-like game ?

[@vaalence9043]

Steve Yeah Oh sorry man, my bad :$.

[@pokiboki8339]

Hanthome He means the one on one style, stamina-centric and punishing combat. It's basically every pvper's wet dream, tbh.

[@Ukiya44]

The most brillant decision in game history is not synchronizing DS3 saves on Steam. Yesterday I lost my saves xDDD

[@failedabortion1894]

I like how you can actually access the save files and copy them, so whenever you fuck up in the game (even in PvP) losing a shit ton of souls you can just replace that save and carry on like nothing happened

[@Ukiya44]

lol xD I've never thought about it

[@danielabhner1212]

Aged like a Fine wine

[@technomage6736]

Poor decisions: getting rid of armor leveling, NO POWER STANCE, no infusion on the good weapons

[@MultiJade]

that reddit post triggered me to no end, like legit

[@JS-cq7ut]

**furious typing**

[@mrbabadok1376]

I say that we need Giantdad to return in the new DLC.

[@navis9802]

Mr Babadok plz

[@simenamundsen3166]

We don't need the return, we need the true successor to Giantdad.

[@robonerd125]

We need Tarkus, to come back and reclaim his armor from that asshat Tsorig. He shall be the new GiantDad. (edit: I actually forgot i had Tarkus as my youtube icon, happy accident)

[@217adaptiveperspective]

Miyazaki has forsaken us

[@jackmei2433]

So, Mitazaki watched your video and made Elden ring!

[@drago2210]

Otz with both regret and happiness I must tell you that I have defeated Akinator at his own game. All I had to do is try to make him find you LUL

[@drago2210]

his first answer was Harry Potter and second one Peeve btw

[@Otzdarva]

Oh shit the recipe for Otzdarva has been discovered.

[@KuroNoTenno]

The way you pronounced "Ni-Oh" gave me conniptions.

[@Otzdarva]

Ni-d'oh. :'(

[@badbadthingss]

Otz I just cant believe how big you have gotten in the last year... It feels like just yesterday I was watching your DKS2 Bastille one shot jump kill attempts... Much love from me to you man, huge respect.

[@Otzdarva]

Aww Waffle thanks! I do remember too! You guys have been there since the start and I appreciate it so much!

[@badbadthingss]

SEE! THIS IS WHY YOU ARE THE FUCKING BEST! YOU RESPOND TO EVERYONE AND ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT YOUR FANS! ♥♥

[@LogBucket]

The irony is they just realized the second dark souls 3 dlc trailer

[@KapitanPazur1]

>video published on 24 Jan 2017 >says that second DLC never gonna be released >Ringed City release 28 Mar, 2017

[@miss_bec]

"Poise exists" --Hidetaka Miyazaki

[@Shadow-jv8pd]

"That second dlc fpr ds3 is never never coming out" *invaders and dies to ring knight greatsword*

[@Pillarofcreation1]

Goddammit I fucking love your videos. You have the best sense of humor of any Dark Souls youtuber. And you're a wizard.

[@Otzdarva]

Thanks buddy.

[@trenixjetix]

xddddddddddddddddddddd he is indeed

[@Ravenoros]

"Ng+ to get the best versions of rings" laughs in ringed city

[@jennyg.4503]

Dark Souls 3 is literally: "Be Wary Of Darkwraith: The Game"

[@squidfestMods]

"All along, Miyazaki wanted us invaders to be THIS" *Thrall* I DIED

[@ImASillyName]

I run a drakesword build with all clutch rings to- I want to die.

[@BruttiF27]

Call vaati for the second decision.

[@dacrispytaco691]

I doubt you can even imagine it… That which commanded the stars, giving life its fullest brilliance. The Elden Ring.. Ohh Elden Ring. Shattered.. By someone or something… Don’t tell me you don’t see it. look up at the sky. It burns..

[@PantsuGod]

Even the work in progress demos of Nioh were gruelingly hard and fucking awesome

[@nitron5486]

Otz, why did you show that Image of the DLC at the start... i didn't want to spoil myself the area...

[@Otzdarva]

THERE'S GONNA BE A BONFIRE AT THE START TOO MWAHAHAH

[@nitron5486]

nooooooooo

[@sjoerdvanasseldonk502]

I AM SO HYPED FOR THE SURGE BTW. also first reply cause of early acces bby

[@Defileros]

The beauty of stagger meta, i am even punished by invading with ultragreatswords instead of just using my dark sword +10

[@xXDarkxIdealsXx]

Holy shit! We're all stuck in a time/space rift where nothing moves or advances so March 28th will NEVER come; thus NEVER getting the 2nd DLC that was announced!!! Thank god Otzdarva was here to warn us so we can spend all our souls to train our theoretical physicists in how to fix our impending doom!

[@Otzdarva]

No biggie. Wouldn't be the first time I've saved the world!

[@fallenclouds3281]

The only GENIUS decision Miyazaki made: He started his career (Fromsoftware) as planner : Game - Armored Core - Last Raven. Then he saw a few "young-guns" programming Demon's Souls. The Task was - that programmer should create a game, that programmer would play. They could do whatever they wanted - cause Fromsoftware intention was to motivate the most talented programmer. BUT ............... Miyazaki saw the project and was instantly hooked on all those Ideas and especially the setting. So he asked From if he may JOIN the "young-gun" group. Miyazaki statement: " I figured, if I could find a way to take control of the game, I could turn it into anything I wanted. Best of all, if my ideas failed, nobody would care - it was already a failure/experiment. Sony refused to publish this game (Demon's Souls) (stupid sony manager) and thats why Namco Bandai and Atlus took the opportunity. Actually he added a few Ideas to the game Demon's Souls. But the whole concept was already created by those young programmers. Miyazaki basically just took the concept from the programmers with a few own Ideas. From Software never imagined to publish this game outside of Japan. But the huge success - let them no choice. Dark Souls was a step forward AND a step backwards. The first AAA Title. This game made From Soft big - but this game wouldnt exist without Demon's Souls. Dark Souls 3...... Is great. But plz - it is so recyclet. Irithrill Dungeon? - Tower of Latria (Demon's Souls), Church Boss (gamer can play as boss) - Tower of Latria - last Boss - old Monk. Painted World of Ariandel... Painted World of Ariamis (Dark Souls) Firelink Shrine - combination of Nexus (Demon's) and Firlink (Dark). Conclusion. Dark Souls 1 and 3 (I don't talk about DKS 2 for some good reason) are recyclet games from Demon's Souls with a few new Ideas. Blightown, World 5-1, 5-2 Demon's Souls, going through Lava to collect precious item (Dark) - coming from Demon's Souls Stonefang (you need to go into the Lava to collect precious stones). Dark Souls 3 - Lava - to collect spells. Of Course there are new Ideas or Areas. But the main concept - even Level up - is from Demon's Souls. Now he is the president. Actually because of one brilliant question he made: "May I join the Demon's Souls Team"? Sure! ....

[@WerewolfLover6969]

Oh man I loved Lost Odysseys' music 10/10 Otzy

[@Otzdarva]

Thanks!

[@WerewolfLover6969]

You should stream it

[@Otzdarva]

I wish I had a 360 to play it!

[@WerewolfLover6969]

I'm kinda tempted to mail you mine for this

[@KOGWARFAREx]

I knew I recognised it!

[@ixiahj]

This made me want to visit my Silverblack Spear Hexer back in DS2.

[@Fuutor]

That thumbnail is amazing by the way. Great job !

[@Otzdarva]

thanks lol

[@Aurifex2698]

what about removing one od the best features from ds2, dual stanceing and replacing it with boring two hand weapons?

[@SergioSergio12345]

Miyazaki is a very intelligent person, and this is specially shown withtin Bloodborne, because of well designed and creative bosses like Rom, the Vaconous Spider. Right. Right?

[@SergioSergio12345]

(In all seriousness the bosses in BB are amazing but Rom was such a shitshow that it's fucking shameful)

[@jahrfuhlnehm]

Rom is his favorite boss from that game. No, I'm not kidding either. He actually thinks that.

[@welcometovalhalla2884]

I like Rom more than most bosses in Bloodborne. It's actually one of my favorites from the game, I mean I see why others would dislike it, but can you actually think it's worse than the Witches or The One Reborn? And let's not even talk about the Darkbeast, idk what they were thinking when they did that. Miyazaki: Let's put 4 tiny hitboxes on the fastest enemy of the game, which is also fucking huge. Boss Designer: Wait what? Miyazaki: Do it.

[@SergioSergio12345]

Welcome to Valhalla Ye ye sure sure great location great design great lore but it's so luck based it can choke on a fucking dick

[@welcometovalhalla2884]

sergiocast345 Why is it luck based? He has tells for every one of his attacks, so the only thing you have to do is keep an eye on him while killing the little spiders, you should know when to start running to avoid the rain attack and when to dodge to avoid the attack that comes from the floor (actually I try to avoid that attack by just luring the spiders far enough while killing them). The only way it becomes luck based is when you try to fight him without killing the spiders and you can't possibly have an eye on all of them, but we all know that's just not a good strategy. Honestly I thought people hated Rom because of how time consuming he is, but I only died once to him so I don't know the rage of having to do his fight several times, or how RNG heavy it can get.

[@funntidassi2159]

Fun video and I didn't expect to hear the Hurry! Hurry! song from Final Fantasy V.

[@Otzdarva]

I love that theme!

[@Modie]

To be fair, I agree with the comment on the invading. Invading was never supposed to be fair. Invading was supposed to be an extra challenge for the player, who wanted phantoms or more estus in DS1. As an invader your primary role was to weaken the host, who had a phantom with him. That's why there was never any consequences for invaders. You couldn't lose anything, because you weren't supposed to win all the time. But the community started to make characters just for the sake of invading. They started to progress through the game without levelling and only going for the weapon they need to be overpowered for the hosts they were invading. That's why From Software used the Soul Memory system in Dark Souls 2. Because they didn't want level 1 players with higher gear invading low level players. But because of trading and other stuff, this didn't work as well, which is why the invaders were drastically nerfed in Dark Souls 3. That's why you can't trade high level gear anymore. That's why your upgrade level is also considered when searching for a world to invade. In summary, the invaders are weaker because the people exploited the system to make unbeatable invading characters. Now From Software sees how the changes effected the invading and they will change it in the next game again. Or they won't use such a system anymore. And that's important, because if you want the invading to be part of the next game, then stop exploiting the system to win against low level players. It's not because From Software is evil, it's because the players want easy wins and if you don't stop this, the invading system will be cut out.

[@brog4037]

Top 5? What is this? ListenMojo?

[@McFlufferTits]

for honor isn't a souls game it pissed me off how many people say it is

[@giantotter319]

It's fairly meh game. Thankfully the hype is over now.

[@lightbrand_]

When he said "making armor unupgradable" I was like wtf that sounds like a great thing

[@Bitter-Wounds]

[Summoning another Phantom]

[@Otzdarva]

Those three words have caused me more despair than anything else in this game.

[@nix2939]

You should have added the Miyazaki voice again "SEVEN PERCENT"

[@Spazza42]

Arguably going to NG++ for the +2 version of a ring at least had an effort/reward system. The DLC completely broke the reward of NG++ as the 2 best rings in the game have +3 buffs in the Ringed City, which can be accessed in NG...

[@chip2508]

Definitely not to make money

[@_doop8257]

1. DS1's dragon form looks even worse then DS3's 2. You can respec as much as you want if you quit out after respecing 3. In DS2 you still need to go to NG+ to get a ton of weapons/ armour sets/ rings you couldnt in NG 4. "Suicide has consequences now" Umm aside from losing an ember theres nothing else? If you didnt remember in DS2 you lose 5% of your HP each time you die 5. "This was put in just to make invading even harder." In original DS1 and 2 (&SOFTS) you cant even heal as an invader

[@facundovera3227]

Also, in DSII hosts can summon people faster than you can kill them lmao kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKW7q5uMrrCre9E

[@legobatmanthevideogame3194]

1. No lmao 2. Lol 3. Bonfire exists 5. What? No bro

[@Gnurklesquimp]

I do really like invading with the mindset that comment described though, I love invading using only stupid gimmicks or tactics that make use of the map with the challenge it presents to the people I invade in mind. One of the first things that made me excited about Dark Souls was an action-rpg where players could invade each other, acting as sort of a mini-boss. The idea that invaders all had their own ''morals'' within the game world was really cool to me, including that some would be a real pain in the ass with their tricks. There's plenty of bs that comes with it from a game-design perspective since it's so sensitive to changes to encounters, but it really does make getting summoned exciting and novel for me. I like the idea of a host getting loads of summons, but I think the invader should still be a real threat. For me, that thrill of the message popping up, the suspense before you've found each other, trying to create an advantage and then finally the adrenaline of the fight are the main reasons invasions are such an amazing mechanic,

[@heresjohnny1941]

Top 5 GENIUS Tanimura Decisions 1 No full orbs because players would rather farm to be able to invade 2 SM 3 Jester chest, genius! If you cant keep your back safe the game does it for you! 4 No hornet ring because now that back stabs are mostly fixed there's no need for it, oh wait... 5 farming for mostly everything and farming for ascetics to be able to farm because people love farming 6- Iframes tied to a stat, genius! that way you can just invest in that stat If you suck at rolling! 7- Stamina increases to level cap, genius! that way you don't have to care about running out of stamina before your opponent does! 8- Making every weapon class have identical movesets because that way it's more fair in PvP and everything is viable off course! 9- Warping instead of shortcuts, genius! I'd rather stare at a loading screen than backtrack a little, loading screens are more immersive! 10-Enemies that play by different rules, genius! anything to make the game harder! 11- Life gems because If you suck(up all your estus) you can pop life gems to oblivion and back

[@Otzdarva]

That's actually a nice compilation of BS from DS2, well done dude.

[@magejag2977]

"9- Warping instead of shortcuts, genius! I'd rather stare at a loading screen than backtrack a little, loading screens are more immersive!" yes, i'd rather go from blighttown to valley of drakes to darkroot basin to undead parish to firelink shrine oh wait

[@TheMrAndyn0v2]

Personally, I prefer to go from blighttown, into an elevator in new londo, straight back to the firelink shrine that takes MUCH less time yet still has the added challenge of you actually being able to die and lose souls instead of just nopeing the fuck outta there straight to a blacksmith...but you know, you can take the unnecessarily convoluted path if you want.

[@arsenii_yavorskyi]

1 - sure. 2 - sure. 3 - git gud and stop relying on backstabs to win in PvP. 4 - as if backstabs need to be more overpowered and cheap than they already are. 5 - the problem of having a random chance to obtain gear was not invented by Tanimura, it permeates the series (especially DS1 with its Black Knight bullshit). ascetics are irrelevant. 6 - no, it's more like you have to invest in that stat to get the i-frames you had in DS1. 7 - that's a hilarious assertion, considering that DS2 features the most punishing stamina consumption in the series. 8 - factually incorrect. 9 - DS1's "shortcuts & loopbacks" level design was not genius, it was accidental (as proved by the lack of it in DS3). the fact that we even got multiple paths at the beginning of DS2 is a bloody miracle. 10 - the hell you're talking about? 11 - lifegems won't save you from an impossible combat situation. and it's not like DS1 didn't have other options for healing beside Estus.

[@ArizonaRangerPE]

I love "Nayoh"

[@Shtoops]

This is still one of the funniest videos on this channel.