PlagueOfGripes | Dark Souls to Elden Ring: What is everyone getting wrong? @PlagueOfGripes | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 19 hours ago.
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0:00 A Video about Dark Souls 1
1:29 Personal Tastes Split Creative Directions
4:39 Miyazaki's Personal Tastes
6:50 The Tastes of "Souls-like" Imitators
10:37 "Fan Fixing," Projection and Participation
14:47 Current "Identities" of the FromSoftware Games
19:58 Dark Souls 1's Current "Identity"
22:57 What I Love about Dark Souls 1
29:29 Two Types of Players: Creatives vs Survivalists
34:40 What I Hate about the Other FromSoftware Games
42:48 Dark Souls 1 Gripes: THE LIST
43:22 The "Halfway" Problem
46:11 Estus, Weapons
46:47 Havel's Ring
48:25 Strength and Dexterity
49:40 "Engendering" Dodging and Shielding
51:51 Following the "Script" of Combat
53:35 Obtuse Upgrading
54:43 Obtuse Quest Stages
55:26 Magic/Range is Lame
55:45 Statuses aren't Robust
56:00 Obtuse Humanity and Co-op System
57:33 Invasions and Entitled Narcissists, Toxicity and Bullies
1:00:50 Bloated UI, Bloated Items
1:01:30 "Rolodex" Commands
1:02:03 Griping is Fun!
1:03:35 What Would I Make?
1:04:04 Core Goals: Fairness and Unpanicked Exploration
1:04:42 More Health, Less Healing - Fighting Levels and not Bosses
1:05:36 Confronting Enemies, Contempt for Action
1:06:44 No "Artoriases" - Bosses as Finales, not Challenges
1:08:00 Reducing Item Bloat, Cosmetic Focus
1:08:35 "Closed World" Interconnected Map Design
1:10:30 The Unreachable Magic of Incomplete, Liminal Spaces
1:12:08 Human Stories, Differences of Love
1:13:59 Miyazaki's Admission: Dishes it Out, Can't Take It
1:16:02 Modern FromSoftware has Flanderized Itself
1:17:43 The Painful Comedy of the Genre's Future
1:19:13 Outro: the Search for Completion, as Creation