Josh Strife Hayes Plays: Dungeons & Dragons Online

[@UchihaKat]

"I understand that it's terrible and it hurts me, BUT... [I like it and I'm gonna keep playing it.]" That's it, that's DDO.

[@casteanpreswyn7528]

Josh not realizing that the D&D movie was actually using 3.5 and Doric was actually a Master of Many Forms.

[@Vyktym76]

The fun part is a buncha people now wanting to play DnD just so they can wildshape into an owlbear... and finding out they can't with 5e or OneDnD.

[@casteanpreswyn7528]

@Vyktym76 good thing 3.5 still exists and wasn't wiped from the fabric of reality when 5E came out...and is still the superior version of the game, huh?

[@camraid9]

My biggest problem was CR and not straight XP. It was annoying to get 0 xp and as a DM it was annoying to figure out the rating. @@casteanpreswyn7528

[@shinon748]

​@@casteanpreswyn7528 Pathfinder 1st Edtion is better than 3.5e. Helps that Pathfinder 1e is just an updated 3.5e with some of the clunk fixed and other stuff added even to the base classes that are now core features. Like sorcerer bloodlines.

[@ponyote]

Le Chonk was not a Druid. Just Saiyan. :D

[@Newvirtues]

Love your speech about how difficult it actually is to speak with any entertainment value while effectively playing

[@philliplockhart2324]

22 minutes into watching this I realized that I need to watch more of this guy. Lol

[@HollowGolem]

"Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people" is my favorite thing I've heard today, thanks.

[@squattingheads]

What a dumb and childish take

[@HollowGolem]

@@squattingheads Cool story, bro. You keep taking advice from people who thought slavery, phrenology, and bloodletting were a good idea, and that witches could make cows' milk curdle.

[@ahvideplaneet]

@@HollowGolem Because taking advice from people who think that men can give birth or gauze can stop airborne viruses is so much better.

[@HollowGolem]

@@ahvideplaneet I see that you're one of thoe stupid people who doesn't actually know what your ideological opponents believe, so you have to invent strawmen of them to make yourself feel smarter.

[@BeepSmile]

Suggestion: 'Was it any good? NWN 2: MOTB" I love that game's story.

[@wizards307]

YES PLEASE !!!

[@astrithaurelia]

re one of the older D&D film, i love that Jeremy irons just owns that he knows that's a bad film, and the best he can do is ham it up 200% because nothing less will work.

[@drandana3661]

This was my first mmo. I love this game. Its so old and clunky and limiting but i love it

[@Tronnus]

If someone tells me he has an hotmail account I naturally think he is older than me. That does not happen when someone uses yahoo!

[@stevenclark1662]

I'm of the opposite mind. Are you in your 20s or 30s?

[@vertoviaflaneuse]

this is one of the main games that helped me learn english

[@aleistererikalupano7386]

The druid in the movie was using 3.5e as rulset. Level 8 druid with the Exalted wildshape feat.😂

[@Adamthegeek70]

Wait is that a cat cam? LOL Best ideas for view fishing I have ever seen, love it.

[@coronato7988]

loved the part where josh talks about the monarchy

[@vxicepickxv]

I remember when D&D Online was new and cost money. Their plan was to have their initial play group after release just fix everything because they figured the fans were better at coding.

[@Rilosilo2]

I will standby saying Scourge of Worlds DND was the best movie about DND that ever released.

[@TheLordvarek]

The writers were using 3.5 because that's what they grew up with. In 3.5 druids can wild shape into anything.

[@carlhannah1884]

I usually watch your worst MMO series and don't catch streams or stream replays. So I haven't seen the pet cam before. It is vitally important that you tell that cat I love them.

[@AdminAbuse]

Cats are a them now?

[@MrWezlfc]

Liked purely for rant on the Royals. I already loved your videos, but you sir, are a legend!

[@sumoslamer180]

Didn't baldur's gate 3 allow druids to shape into owlbears?

[@TheForgeofManyThings]

Didn't expect a royal rant when I put on background Hayes, but I'm very much here for it.

[@Nitidus]

Why is the stream overlay so messed up 🤔

[@spudhenry8461]

I said the same thing about the wild shapes as the dm of our group all the pcs was just like wow and I’m over like nooooo it’s all wrong ! Lol

[@Jibcutter]

DDO, My most favorite MMO over the last 23 years starting with Meridian 59. Star Wars Galaxies was a close 2nd. Everything else since has not been as fun to play (and that’s with logging a lot of hours into all those other MMOs).

[@smrthodanje]

Ddo is the king. I still pay annual. Even if I don't log in often

[@tailmonkey]

Next he's gonna tell us about his IRC handle.

[@swillcivic]

The good old days.

[@PerN1660]

As a dane I absolutely love that oppinion about the royal family... could you do like a tag team thing with the boxing....

[@FettTheWatcher]

The wildshapes and the human looking teifling really killed it for me

[@stast1255]

I am a member of huse of lords in uk. However charles only got throne because of sovern act. Which require charles pay taxes.

[@Awakened2001]

In modern DnD isn't there a druid circle that let's them shapeshift as a bonus action? i do believe there is. And they can choose higher challenge beasts they are able to transform into.

[@duelist301]

Yes, Circle of the Moon.

[@Adamthegeek70]

I like the game, but it does have issues.

[@Alittlefruitgoesalongway]

My parents have hotmail addresses and they are in their 60's. It's a little old, at least.

[@BrokenSoul79x]

There's a THIRD D&D movie?!?!? Might have to go find that right now.. lol

[@TheWoodlandFellowship]

Just here to join the Cult of Moderate Chaos...

[@gmhchaos]

Apparently he doesn't know he can just hold the attack and keep attacking.

[@ivangreengaming2395]

"Cake is cake"

[@rynnightshade]

His % are off, it is 10 for DND, 5 bc twitch, 30 for how many buttons, 30 for the pet, and 25 for the voices

[@lukeskywalker1653]

What server is this on? I am thrilled every time you play DDO.

[@throgmortonartstudio2402]

I have a cat that looks just like that! on a less important note, I wish DnD online actually looked and felt better. I guess back to my WoW streams! lol

[@ImotekhtheStormlord-tx2it]

josh's video about LOTRO convinced me to play LOTRO. its funny bcuz im tolkien fanboy but i missed LOTRO bcuz of WOW and other mmo games who had better marketing . SWTOR for example

[@Blodyqueef]

Rule of cool, Limey!!!

[@barnabuskey3956]

The foot clips channel is going to be getting heavy.

[@euldrima8227]

I think you should fight spiffing Brit whoever loses can’t drink tea for a year … balls in your court

[@khitteh]

Just want to clear it up that I came here for the gameplay which popped up while I was bored and checking youtube AND because I happened to be subbed to you AND because I don't use twitch as I cba clicking all the way over there. The catcam was a bonus. TL;DR: not here to watch you unbutton your blousy peasant shirt.

[@TheMidnightCafeAU]

Rule of Cool instead of Rules as Written... the Director/DM can do and allow what they want. Always Rule #0 first.

[@8Smoker8]

I really hope you kept playing DDO at least until your first reincarnation 😉 you've only just scratched the surface so far. Quests get so much more creative later on.

[@loneronin6813]

I don't even like Power Rangers in any sense, but I would watch the bad movie Josh was talking about because he seems like someone who would be awesome to hang out with in general.

[@ponyote]

Still better than the Zelda rap from Japan. By 100,909%

[@Lady-norune]

big pet cam gets a like

[@aaroncov]

The globe about 2000.

[@ponyote]

This earned my sub. Not sure what that says about me.

[@nikkfrostt]

I feel like this game would be amazing if they made a DDO2 with a modern graphics engine and interface. The way it plays it unique and is still fun to this day. However the engine is beyond old. For whatever reason they seem to have no interest in updating the game to the modern era.

[@Dulkh4n]

$$$

[@Demonrifts]

Its both cost and resource prohibitive to update an old, failing engine beyond the visual updates that they've already made over the years. SSG is a pretty small studio that is still maintaining and producing content for two separate MMOs. Dulkh4n saying "$$$" isn't necessarily wrong, but its laughable to think that it's being done out of greed. They just can't afford that kind of investment, nor can they afford downtime that prevents them from producing content for their primary cashflow. Its also important to realize that DDO is based off of 3.5e rules, which made the game fairly niche to begin with, and has lost most of its cultural relevance by this point. The only way that a DDO 2 would be popular enough to be worth investing in, is if it were updated to use 5e rules. Realistically, acquiring the licensing to use the official D&D branding and D&D copyrighted materials in a new game that uses the 5e rules (or the One D&D rules that are slated to release later this year) would be difficult considering the state of the company. I've played DDO off and on over the last 12 years or so. I absolutely adore the game for so many reasons. A new engine, with modern graphics, a stable foundation, and reliable servers sounds like a dream, but there are so many reasons that it wouldn't be feasible, even if some rich investors swooped in with a blank check and WoTC signed an agreement to let them make a new game. Bare minimum, a modern day DDO remake, even one made by the same team, would inherently be a drastically different game.

[@recognizerarcade]

"too many wild shapes." It's called Rule of Cool, Josh. XD

[@jermainerucker2027]

“Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people” -JSH Circa-2023

[@camraid9]

DnD let the kids and crazies in, and now we have fire breathing, horned furry creatures everywhere. Pretty gay now.

[@killings7761]

first ghihiihi

[@funkdunken8738]

Yes, show me a movie that strictly follows D&D rules and I’ll show you a boring mess that no one likes and bombs at the box office. People say this all the time about books, games, and cartoons adapted to movies. This is obviously not why producers and directors make movies.

[@GrimJRS]

Wish the game was better but it falls short of my standards on in every aspect of MMO design.

[@Gamer23-s6n]

Thats game looks so wonky and old, compared to like GW2

[@markopalosuo4293]

Well it's 20 years old game

[@AdamDaviesSussex]

This game is soo bad its good.