The Unlikely Rise of Dark Souls | Past Mortem [SSFF]

[@valor992]

So much respect for Miyazaki's vision. he went against the grain of mainstream, hand holding, button mashers, full of tutorials, and proved to the gaming industry that there is still a market for difficult games that rely on game play and not 8 hrs of cut scenes to make its mark.

[@noahluke3152]

Hey MGS4 was pretty good.

[@A_Black_Sheep94]

Funny that Dark Souls and the Metal Gear series are my favorite series.

[@beniciosterling5043]

Sorry to be offtopic but does anybody know a method to log back into an Instagram account? I stupidly forgot my account password. I would appreciate any tricks you can offer me!

[@spencerkhalid4579]

@Benicio Sterling instablaster ;)

[@valor992]

@@noahluke3152 interesting that you say that, or said that 2 yrs ago. MGS4 was one of those games for me. I enjoyed what I played of it tho.

[@TheClaybones]

Shuhei Yoshida sounds like he was a bit upset. "I can't get past the first enemy after two hours, bad gaem!"

[@EarthboundX]

+Clay Bones That's sadly what most of the bad user reviews for the Souls series are. It's really shown me that a surprising large number of gamers, do not what to be challenged, they want easy games to breeze through with arrows pointing them along the way, telling them what to do and where to go.

[@Razhakful]

Who said he couldn't get pass the first enemy? He still sucked at the game for not being able to make it to the boss but later on he supposedly got the platinum out of bloodborne so maybe he had a bad day.

[@TheClaybones]

Antti Saavalainen What's "hyperbole"?

[@TenshiCat]

+Clay Bones He was the first person in a long line who needed to git gud

[@StopSkeletonsFromFighting]

+Clay Bones; yoshida is not alone! it's a miracle demon's souls found the audience it did and almost unbelievable the series blossomed into the franchise we have today. but leave it to fromsoftware to have the guts to make these games

[@rowanatkinson3594]

Pfft, git gud Yoshida-san.

[@Fafafohi]

Rowan Atkinson I'm not surprised by this type of comment but fuck it is so goddamned funny. Calling an older Japanese man a casul is fucking hilarious.

[@cklambo]

amazing chest ahead

[@bennemeth625]

Try wings

[@jeanpolpine]

+cklambo Try tongue but hole

[@eternal_napalm6442]

...therefore, Thrust Attack is effective

[@gutelaunetyp]

This....:THIS...is why I am so glad to have found your channel so many years ago. :)

[@kvltizt]

King's Field, Armored Core, Souls, Otogi From has been both jank and great for longer than people think.

[@GiordanDiodato]

and don't forget Enchanted Arms

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

And now its time for the Elden Ring hype! A continuation for this video could be nice.

[@HeWhoEnjoysTehVids]

Being there since Demon's Souls almost makes me feel vindicated lol Those of us who got a chance to play it on the PS3 back then knew it was something special, and I'm sure glad the series has finally gotten to be as big as it is.

[@Geneforson]

Im right there with you. I still remember getting Demon Souls for the first time and like NO ONE (at the game store or my friends or barely online) knew what the game was. The ONLY reason I even heard of the game (about a month after it launched) was I happened to see a random blog review somewhere praising the game for its difficulty ~ and as a avid old school gamer, hearing "great difficulty" (in that and still casual climate of games / media) was all I needed to get the game. As others have stated... I have never had an experience of going in BLIND to a game like this before or since. No hype, no (yet) cult following, no press, no nothing... it was basically an unknown game and those few that played it in the first few months of release were like explorers going into the COMPLETE unknown. And it was amazing. Souls games are probably one of the few things that makes me turn into a complete hipster... "I WAS THERE BEFORE IT WAS COOL!!!" hahaha

[@GiordanDiodato]

but it's not difficult because of bad design like Ghosts n Goblins and Battletoads. It's a game that's hard, yet rewarding to the player if he/she has the patience.

[@BonfirePlease]

Demon souls is one of my fav game

[@gregorysteffensen3279]

I heard about Demon's Souls in November '09 and bought it mostly because a friend of mine really loved the level design and exploration, basically saying it felt like a 2D Zelda - that got my attention more than the difficulty!

[@Youwouldknowmebtnow]

Cute.. I actually picked it up cause I was hammering on the kingfield series. And let me tell you, if you thought no one knew what demon souls was...wew. It was hard to get copies of kingsfield. Shit had to be shipped from out of state to my gamestore. The souls series is a total upgrade obviously, but you can still see so much of kingsfield's influence in the souls game. It still stands as its own and is still great fun, even though its primitive, even for ps1.

[@VCXZ883]

"Postmortem of past events." Well, I've yet to hear of a way to do a postmortem of future events.

[@StopSkeletonsFromFighting]

+VCXZ; you need to watch more 24-hour news

[@hariman7727]

24 hour news also tries its hand at mind reading. It's a smorgasbord of sensationalism for ratings and wild speculation!

[@Pewpewpew182]

brilliant episode! some of your best work ever sir. keep it up!!!!!

[@ThatRandomFastingGuy]

Yoshida Shuhei is now spearheading the remake. An incredible 180 :)

[@Silvergun_Raven]

Proud fan of From Software since 1997! I started with King's Field (KFII in Japan), and now I own just about all of their titles (even imported the first King's Field).

[@osurpless]

I've known about the virtues of the company since Otogi for Xbox in 2002, but more in the sense of being a Sega exclusive for a system with quite the eclectic lineup. Needless to say, I picked up both games after hearing of their lineage among From Software games. Being Xbox exclusives that aren't backward compatible also gives the system many reasons to be maintained in collections, along with Dino Crisis 3 and Gun Valkyrie among others. The big black behemoth looks delightfully out of place among my sleeker white version consoles, but it will always have a home.

[@Silvergun_Raven]

***** Ahh... Gun Valkyrie; that was a very challenging, yet, amazing adventure that's filled with atmosphere, a haunting soundtrack, and tons of replayability. It's insane that at one time, it was going to incorporate lightguns for playing the game (this was when it was in development for the Dreamcast).

[@GiordanDiodato]

I've tried Echo Night on PS1. That game is weird. but one game I want to try out would be Enchanted Arms. Yes, believe it or not, that is a From Software developed title. And I'd only get it for Makoto's glorious voice actor.

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

And now its time for the Elden Ring hype! A continuation for this video could be nice.

[@anonanonymous9670]

@@fernandozavaletabustos205 Did you really have to type this in every comment section

[@salokin3087]

Why does EVERYONE forget about Demon Souls when it comes to Dark Souls? I can't brag about surviving it to anyone... :'(

[@AudioXVNVXTheNightLife]

I will be glad when from software makes a new armored core...

[@gamerjk]

why do people forget it's actually named Demon's Souls.

[@parsnipmaster1874]

+Josh Kellander isnt it Demons' Souls?

[@argoth231]

why does everyone forget about shadow tower

[@chrishodgson3584]

+Seth Stevens Not according to the box.

[@Alucah]

That Miyazakit really makes good games :p

[@tollyboyer3707]

armored core has always been a good game

[@Diskhate]

This is why Miyazaki is my favorite figure of the whole gaming industry. A youtuber of my country (and one of the most sincere persons i know) had the luck of spending a couple of evenings dining/chatting/interviewing him, and he said nothing but excellent things about his personality. He truly is an underdog that managed to raise ONLY due to his talent, and was recognized for his genius later. That's enough to make a movie, seriously... I think that the whole Souls serie (yes, including Demon's and Bloodborne) is by far my favorite serie also because i really respect the story behind it's developement..to fully appreciate it i even went through the effort of playing all the king's field/shadow tower games.. stop...that's what happens when i talk about these games...i start to ramble

[@spiderjerusalem100]

Dark Souls is probably in my top 5 favourite games of the last 10 years. Such a brilliant series with epic, detailed fantasy worlds, brutal, strategic combat and unique online features. I'd be happy if the series continued up to Dark Souls 10.

[@darkenddragon_-7606]

I know right, I'm with you on that.

[@Feelin_DanDy]

I've been playing Dark Souls 1 a LOT recently, it's not perfect but I'm in love with it. It's dripping with atmosphere, the gameplay is great & the challenge is rewarding. I'm trying to get all the trophies then I will move on to Demon Souls...so excited!

[@mushroomman6864]

+Ness Kirby I got it a few months ago and have really given it a shot lately. This game is brilliant.

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

And now its time for the Elden Ring hype! A continuation for this video could be nice.

[@ThuribohsHQ]

This video was just ... beautiful. Interesting from beginning to end and it makes me excited for possibly more videos in the future about FromSoft and the Souls series maybe? Good luck either way, Derek :D

[@simzzoker123]

didnt realize how interesting these behind the scenes of the video game industry were. by far one of the most interesting channels, got me with mighty 9, sealed the deal with this one. great job on 360RRD and kojima's/konami too!

[@smoage]

there is so much great info here but holy moly you make 29 sound ancient!

[@zxb995511]

In japaneese culture to take in an employee of that age with NO experience is practically unheard of.

[@GiordanDiodato]

29 is pretty ancient in terms of Japan.

[@michaelschwartz8730]

The part where Miyazaki threw out anything to do with Oblivion explains everything I love about The From Game. "For there is only one." - Yahtzee

[@rickylovesyou]

And then..... *ELDEN RING HAS JOINED THE BATTLE*

[@Plasma3Music]

Can always count on you to take the most unique topics and create the most amazing videos about it. Can't wait to see Miyazaki's & From's next move.

[@GiordanDiodato]

Metal Wolf Chaos HD!

[@VolvagiasBlaze]

Derek, could you do a video on Team ICO? I´d be interesting to learn about where they came from and, most important of all, what happened in the years between Shadow of the Colossus and The last guardian

[@joemuis23]

Df retro is pretty cool

[@steel5897]

Demon's Souls rekindled my love for video games back in 2010, when seemingly everything was either turning into a shallow cover-based brown homogenized shooter, or "cinematic experiences" that existed to waste your time with cutscenes and hand-holdy gameplay. I was there in 2011 and Dark Souls was the game I was most excited for in my life, it took Demon's Souls foundations and opened it up into a pseudo-Metroidvania, it was everything I could ask for and basically felt like a game made for me. I remember another game launched with Dark Souls that week, called RAGE, a brown shooter, and people were hyping it up way more than Dark Souls that week... does anyone even remember RAGE today? Meanwhile Dark Souls is a juggernaut, it changed the entire industry.

[@ethanphilpot7643]

You know what I think would be interesting? A souls like game by From Software in a cyberpunk setting. I think it has really good potential not only for new environments, but for new cool looking enemies...or potentially even more horrifying ones. If anyone can I think it'd be cool to spread this idea around because there's so many ways one can play with a setting like that

[@GiordanDiodato]

there is a Souls Clone called The Surge from the devs of Lords of the Fallen that's completely scifi.

[@expendableindigo9639]

Kinda like Ninja Blade but without all the quicktime?

[@Slick_Tails]

I have a somewhat interesting story: Around the time of Demon's Souls Japanese release the publisher Ghostlight were working on bringing a niche SRPG called "Agarest: Generations of War" over to Europe. At the time I was looking forward to that game and went on the Ghostlight forums, where some members of the team would ask us questions on things. (eg which cover art we preferred, what we wanted for the Limited Edition etc) As the Japanese version of Demon's Souls was making waves several members of the forums, including myself, suggested to the publishers to bring it to Europe. They had already said that Agarest had been a massive pain, with an insane amount of text to translate, and Demon's Souls barely had any text at all, so it would be much easier. One of the Ghostlight staff responded and said that the company had decided it wouldn't be worth the effort because "everyone who wants it will just import it." We kept on and on, many of us saying we wanted to wait for a PAL edition, but they dismissed the idea completely as a waste of time, saying they wouldn't make any money. Cut to today and... Yeah... Ghostlight missed a huge opportunity there.

[@GiordanDiodato]

I'm sure they're still kicking themselves. It does make wonder who will be the new publisher for Atlus IPs in the PAL region since NISA Europe, Inc. has lost the rights to publish other Atlus games.

[@GiordanDiodato]

welp, looks like it was Deep Silver was the publisher for Persona 5, but Atlus has a Euro branch now.

[@CanjoRambo]

Still got my Day One copy of Demon's Souls- It's like watching your favorite indie band get hugely mainstream.

[@GIR177]

+Gregory Schwall "I died *before* it was cool."

[@markismiller6484]

Im subing because of the creativeness behind the title intro and past mortem.

[@jmarra07]

I just discovered your videos today, and they're really good! Keep up the hard work!

[@SwitchbackCh]

Great video, very inspiring. Miyazaki seemed to have had a hidden knack for game development.

[@djsquarewave]

One thread I was waiting for mention of was the Another Century's Episode series. FromSoft produced five of these games -- basically Armored Core meets Super Robot Wars -- between 2005 and 2011 for Banpresto (which is part of Bandai), so the company already had an existing relationship with Namco Bandai well before Dark Souls. Otherwise a great, well-researched video! Just discovered your channel and am loving it. :)

[@TAGMedia7]

I absolutely love your videos! You're making some of the best gaming content on KZbin right now...you're truly a bright spot in a sea of Let's Plays and Face Cam videos!

[@GamingPlus10]

I downloaded the demon's souls trailer on ps3 about a month before it released. A few days before it released I saw some more footage at my local game crazy and knew I needed to get it. The day after it launched every store was sold out. I probably went to 15 stores before I found my copy. I never looked back and have beat every souls game since. It's easily my favorite series of all time. Ah such sweet memories.

[@SlyBeast]

I could've watched 5 hours of this. From has quickly become one of my favorite devs of all time.

[@nosapian677]

3:12 Probably my favorite solitary moment I've ever seen related to video game creation.

[@retrofraction]

I think 2 things played really well to make this series possible: 1) King Field Series had a big fan basis. That were starved for more of From Software style of games. Which never really saw another title or re-release on the PS3. PS Store has some of their games available, but they never have released them in the US for some reason. But it was just enough strange/different that people that were tired of AAA games would poke at Demon Souls just to try something different. 2) All of the hand holding going on in 2006-2008 really left a lot of older gamer behind. Sure classic titles had newer versions but there were not that many new games with all of the new technology to scratch that itch that never really truly was filled after arcade style games were being let away for more of a friendly series.

[@lolidayo]

High quality content . Thank you so much !

[@SwordsmanOrion]

I loved the King's Field games. Those were some of my best early Playstation 1 memories.

[@hakobyanhakob81]

A beautifully done video. Thanks a bunch!

[@Swamplord]

Demon's Souls...I still get goosebumps from the music. Best souls game IMO

[@Mysterious0Bob]

Really good mini-documentary, this series has mostly past me by so its nice to learn more about the devs. After fumbling a bit with DS1 and Bloodborne, DS3 has finally clicked with me and I'm enjoying it a lot. I also appreciate you mentioning the PC versions even though consoles are your bread and butter.

[@StopSkeletonsFromFighting]

+Mysterious0Bob; if the series has clicked for you, i'd say go back and give bloodborne another shot. that's my personal favorite!

[@Mysterious0Bob]

+Stop Skeletons From Fighting I certainly will. I think the hype around DS3 resulted in it being sold out in my town! I'm curious if you have any affinity for board games at all and if so, what you think of that kickstarted Dark Souls board game. There's a demo of a boss fight and I'm really surprised/impressed how accurately it emulates the video games. I play board games on a weekly basis and I'm eager to play this one with its emphasis on combat.

[@coreytrevor1920]

One thing that also helped was dark souls 1 being released as a free "games with gold" game for xbox 360. It hooked me and got me to buy all the other games, im sure the same happened for many others

[@GrandeMOficial]

Praise the sun!

[@StopSkeletonsFromFighting]

+GrandeM; real demon's souls starts here

[@BonfirePlease]

\[T]/

[@Gojiro7]

I think "Crowns of the Dark" was a much better title btw Derek, this so far has been the best Post Mortem, I think its because this topic was something that wasn't already covered in almost every detail by numerous web news outlets like Kojima and Del-toro.

[@JCOdrjones]

*Past Mortem

[@rvbrexer]

I vote for "Brown People" ;)

[@witchfynder_finder]

Excellent piece. Very informational. I always wondered why Dark Souls was multi-platform while Demon's Souls and Bloodborne weren't and now I know~

[@iWillWakeYouUp]

Great video. Glad I found your channel a whole while ago.

[@StopSkeletonsFromFighting]

+iWillWakeYouUp; thanks for watching and thanks for sticking around!

[@Saicofake]

I've got a new found respect for this Miyazaki fella.

[@eternal_napalm6442]

Souls and Bloodborne are some of the best games of all-time. Boss fights in particular are LEGENDARY.

[@youmukonpaku916]

this was a stellar video. 10/10 learned a lot.

[@SFinerFACE]

Great episode! Thanks, Derek!!

[@tonic777]

Great stuff. You have been putting out some awesome content!

[@RIPhikennoace]

Funny, i was just reading his interview on the Guardian, which i recommend, very inspirational

[@BlackWingGenesis]

+That guy you may or may not know link?

[@RIPhikennoace]

Here you go www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/31/bloodborne-dark-souls-creator-hidetaka-miyazaki-interview

[@BlackWingGenesis]

+That guy you may or may not know Thank you!

[@yjzep9922]

This channel is great! Keep it up!

[@logbeatsasuke]

Truly inspirational.

[@Screwy]

I should add that Miyazaki didn't take the helm on DaS2. He assigned a "B-team" to that game while he worked on Bloodborne/Project Beast

[@videoki]

Great video bro, thanks

[@skytrot]

I think one important thing to note is that From holds publishing rights to the Dark Souls games in Japan. Namco are only responsible for publishing it internationally.

[@Cronoro]

Wow, this is so inspiring! Great video!

[@Snarlez]

Great work and great video... Funny how this all came to be and now the DS formula is groundwork.

[@elmoisred616]

I was really hoping you were going to mention Evergrace among the early FromSoft titles. It in some ways holds a similar vibe to Dark Souls to me. Careful management of stamina along with the grueling endurance Tower end game as well as the ability to acquire the Moon Blade which is a FromSoft staple.

[@tostin1980]

This got a thumbs up before I even watched it. LOVE these games.

[@StopSkeletonsFromFighting]

+Budgie TubeTV; hope you still liked it after you watched it!

[@GuyOnAChair]

This reminds me of the late great "All Your History Are Belong To Us" series!

[@greentokyo]

Awesome video!!! Great work!!

[@pinfarmer]

great unique content as always. Keep it up!

[@dracomundo1498]

Unending. If only we lived in that world

[@GiordanDiodato]

Ah, now I know why the Tales series lay dormant from 2008-2012. And also why Namco Tales Studio was absorbed into Bandai Namco

[@VideoGameTakeOut]

King's Field is underrated. I loved that game back in the day. It had atmosphere that few games match, even now.

[@randomguy6679]

VideoGameTakeOut even dark souls?

[@Revz8bit]

0:28 you explained the exact reason it became popular in the first comments of the video

[@yuurafredy]

Today it's the day of reviewing big successes that were expected to be failures. Yesterday Leicester's city football club got the Premier League. Almost every one of the squad are rejected football players that never got the confidence to really do what they really wanted. Here we can see something in common: two entities that never knew what they were creating. Both are heartwarming stories about never giving up, it's really inspiring thinking that not everything should remain a dream, and we are now grateful that Miyazakit took the series and made it what it is nowadays. As always, great review, these kind of stuff puts this channel away from standard gaming channels.

[@Eliel20117]

+Isabel Freederth yeah, no shit sherlock

[@yuurafredy]

the fuck dude...? are you even reading?

[@Eliel20117]

Isabel Freederth it`s easy to point out the obvious things that happens in real life

[@svicciarelli]

Great video. I bought Demon's Souls Deluxe Edition day one, mostly because of the game's dark look and Atlus publishing. I could not get very far in it. I was playing it like a hack-and-slash, and just could not make much progression. It wasn't until Dark Souls came out that I learned how to play the games, beat Dark Souls, and then went back and beat Demon's Souls.

[@agameoftheories3588]

Hey great video, really excellent work. I think you might see 2--5x as many views if you shorten your opening to 5 or less seconds. For some reason that's kind of a huge deal on youtube. Keep up the great work, you've earned a sub.

[@user-lt3op3uy1w]

Thank you for the video, I know Dark Souls 1 isn't perfect, but it's my favorite game of all time, and I have been wanting to know more about the history of FromSoftware for a while.

[@severedwings432]

I feel if it was necessary for a series with such deep but vague lore to begin development of each game within such a small time frame.

[@IRON1I7]

extremely well-done documentary

[@jaypond4368]

I bought a PS3 just for Demons Souls. It was worth it. Those of us who got to experience the first Souls game before PC and Xbox players did knew what an amazing , unique experience the game was. I stopped playing after I beat Dark souls because you can never get that ''first time playing a Souls game'' feeling ever again.

[@CoffeePotato]

As far as pumping out yearly titles, they were popping out Armored Core games dang near every year since they started. This is the longest dry spell for the series since it started, actually. FS even forgot about the 20th anniversary until a few weeks after the fact. It's quite a good series, and actually just as ripe for their weird exploration as their other games, almost every one was a unique experiment of some form or another.

[@k39bk]

King's Field II/ KFIII(JP) is such a great game! It never got the recognition it deserves. As good as Souls series is, I think it would have also fallen into obscurity if FROMSOFT haven't broken out of SONY exclusivity. Actually, I first heard about Dark Souls after they released Prepare to Die edition on PC.

[@Silvergun_Raven]

I've always loved the fact that From Software was pretty much an unknown company during the 90's-mid 00's. I remember playing Eternal Ring, King's Field IV, and Evergrace (awesome games) and most people never even spoke about them.

[@sirbalsac]

Stop Skeletons From Fighting, could you please cover the Lost Kingdoms series? It's a highly underrated series of games that I feel deserves more attention. It's also by From Software.

[@TheT3rr0rMask]

"The release of DS3" got it on launch.... so long ago.... friend and I beat it months later and was such a gratifying moment

[@Deepdarkbasement]

... this story makes me feel so good! I only ever played Demon's Souls and Blood-Borne (not so much finished) but From software Will always be one of my personal favorite development teams just based on their own personal story alone ^^

[@KingFossilFER]

There was also that incident where they cancelled the western release of Shadow Tower Abyss by sony's demand.

[@GiordanDiodato]

I thought it was because they couldn't find a publisher for the game since Agetec had declared bankruptcy by that time. i guess it might be more of the fact that the original Shadow Tower didn't sell that well.

[@EvilKris]

i see! I always wondered why Demons Souls wasn't popular outside of Japan. It was never released. I've been in Japan for 12 years, and bought the game on a whim. I'm not surprised it sold well, as at the time there were no decent games on the shelf for the PS3 at the time and it did have an attractive cover. The Paladin with ethereal mist coming off his armour, and some good shots on the back cover. I'm sure I wasn't the only one drawn in by the box alone. So I picked it up. My spoken Japanese is good, but the game was heavy on kanji so I couldn't get it at first, by some miracle I figured out about summoning and the red phantom invasions, and after I got that mechanism going I was hooked. It was weird seeing the names translated into English once I ordered the Chinese version. For example kezuritoru yari (scraping spear) translated as 'desharpening spear' - so for about a year prior to it I'd called it 'The Desharpener' in my head.

[@Ike_of_pyke]

sword of moonlight (aka King's Field maker) was an interesting twist

[@Razhakful]

I'm hoping that he would use KIng's Field as a base to build up a first person RPG but i wouldn't be surprised if he did something other than RPG.

[@niespeludo]

Great in-depth content Derek, few people look into the real world consecuences of our favorite games. I didn't know how much of a "Final Fantasy" Dark Souls pulled for Bandai Namco. I do remember however being really interested in the game in 2009, even considered importing when a lot of forums/youtubers/gamesites were covering the import version...I remember saying to myself "I MUST OWN THIS" and proceded to buy a Ps3 just for this one game. I'm still facing the same dilema over Bloodborne and the PS4, but I'm a PC gamer mostly now. Let's see what happens. I'd also like to add that Demon's is STILL my favorite Souls game (with DkS1 trailing up behind it).

[@isultansultangaliev5852]

I can't really advise anyone to get a whole console for a single game, but if there ever was a game worthy of that Bloodborne is it.

[@niespeludo]

iSultan Sultangaliev There's other games I'd like to try as well, but I believe this is a bad time to buy this current generation, especially considering all consoles are getting an upgrade soon.

[@GiordanDiodato]

there's now Gravity Rush 2 and Persona 5

[@Thixico]

get the upgraded ps4 if you haven't already, the framerate isn't 60 like it should be in bloodborne but its actually a constant 30fps instead of the jittery mess it was on the original ps4. Of course they did patch some of the bugs that made it have horrible frame pacing but it still has bad frame pacing. The pro is unfortunately 30fps locked but unlike the original its ALWAYS going to be 30fps not 27 or 12(when there's too much particles)

[@welon17]

Now we know that Miyazaki's next project had the name Ring to it.

[@thehumungus9066]

10:27 Oh God, that Tokyo Game Show poster.

[@gembocobo9484]

i wanted to see saga edition! complete compendium edition!

[@ShawnWeeded510]

Miyazaki is going on the Mt.Rushmore of Videogame creative's along with Hideo Kojima.

[@hariman7727]

So, Hidetaka Miyazaki actually already made the Demon's Souls sequels, as Dark Souls was very much a remake/refinement of the original Demon's Souls, just with a certian amount changed. That's why you can find massive amounts of "Dark Souls/Demon's Souls Similarities" videos. I wonder what From Software will make next.

[@Kara_Pabuc]

as far as I understand Miyazaki doesn't want to make a Dark Souls game in near future... but since Bandai Namco holds the rights they probably make a game Dark Souls game...

[@GiordanDiodato]

maybe another developer?

[@GiordanDiodato]

correction, they're making their own Soulslike game called Code Vein. It's being made by the God Eater people.

[@ianciti]

slight incorect fact there. they actually made FOUR kings field games but we only know of three of them because the game WE know as Kings Field 1 is actually kings field 2 as the True KF1 never made it outside of japan.

[@kabutops87]

You should check out Otogi on the orginal xbox. It's a pretty great game with an even better sequal. It was probably the best IP FromSoftware had before the Soul games.

[@57Rye]

I was listening to the Giantbomb podcast's around the time of the games release, and I seem to remember Vinny being the only one who actually 'got' the game and enjoyed it. Updating his progression every week or so on the bombcast. With Ryan constantly berating him for continuing to play it.

[@dino339]

actually most fromsoftware games yield uniqueness experience in each, they always try new stuff in their games, some of it not polished well, may contains other bad stuff ruins their game, or controller sux all together, but from all their previous experience someone finally came up to take hold of their old mess and start polishing their works.. it was miyazaki...

[@talonpop]

I'm glad Demon's Souls managed to get it's feet under it and start the series. My only complaint was that many of the bosses were way too easy and gimmicky (kek @ Dragon God) Between Demon's Souls, DS1, DS2, Bloodborne, and DS3 we have other companies taking what they love about the formula and making it their own. Lords of The Fallen, Nioh, and The Surge... From Software thank you so much.

[@GiordanDiodato]

and we're also getting Code Vein, from the developers of God Eater (a solid PSO clone)

[@Slaanash]

I'm probably the only person who can say this, but Lost Kingdoms 2 still might be my favorite From Software game.

[@rMeSclan]

And then there was Sekiro and Elden Ring.

[@Nitsua16]

I love your videos on From Software, having watched both this one and the one on Shadow Tower, but I keep wondering why you ignore the wonderful Otogi games for the Xbox that From put out. Either I'm missing it or these games haven't caught your interest. I really like your point of view in these videos and would enjoy seeing something on the two Otogi games that released in the early 2000's.

[@Diskhate]

1:10 i don't remember seeing this in any video..is that just gameplay with an e.n.b/light mod? Never seen it..but it is awesome, and i need an excuse to replay Dark Souls 1 for the 40th time...so if someone knows if it exists.... I mean: i know about the "overhaul project" that is currently in developement, but it is nowhere near that quality